The Aryan Path September 1937

When von Soemmerring (175183(?) held the view that the soul permeated the fluids of the cerebral ventricle he quoted from the Bible " And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." Henry More (16116871 one of the many writers of the Renaisance period visualised the soul as residing in the purer spirits of the fourth ventricle of the hind-brain while strange to say three ce [...] In times far more remote 3 000 B. C. the Babylonians pratised divination according to the state of the liver in sacrificed animals for the state of that organ reflected the tempers of the gods ! For a long time the liver was the seat of the soul the heart and other organs superseding it at a later era notably throughout the Middle Ages. [...] Sinel in his well-thought-out little book The Sixth Sense (1927) draws an analogy between the Pineal Eye the fenestra2 in the head of the cockroach and the ocelli in the head of the bee and in other insects. [...] How the family and caste were used to preserve political peace is shown in the article.—Ens.] One of the most interesting poliical organizations in the history of man was that of the federal league of the Five Nations of Iroquois Indian stock which when the Europeans first came to America occupied practically all of the present State of New York from the Hudson River to the Great Lakes. [...] The next questions are what was the exact work of these missions and what were their teachings ? According to Rock Edict II theirs was a humanitarian mission the organisation of measures for the relief of the suffering of all sentient beings men and animal by means of medical treatment (chiki) on the basis of the supply of all the requisites for such treatment and the materials for the manufa