The Magician At present your subconscious vastly outweighs your self-conscious, though you think it is just the other way around. You think your subconscious is a slave to you, but your subconscious is a slave to your self-conscious at present. Let’s look at that more closely. The center, BETH, stands for the thinking lobe of the brain, and that part of it which is its greatest part, THE PINEAL GLAND. The Pineal Gland is shaped like a pinecone, which is why it is called Pineal. In dreams and in myths the pine tree is constantly used as a symbol of intuition for the same reason. INTUITION COMES FROM THE PINEAL GLAND. The PITUITARY GLAND is sometimes called the “master gland” and the glands it controls are called “target glands.” The Pituitary was once believed to be of little or no importance. It is now known to be extremely important in releasing hormones and some of these control the activity of the other endocrine glands. It was to these glands that the Master Jesus had reference when He said, “Blessed are the eyes that see.” As its name signifies, the Pineal Gland is the sacred pine cone in man—the eye single, which cannot be opened until (the Spirit Fire) is raised through the sacred seals which are called: in orthodox religion the Seven Churches in Asia, the Seven Golden Candlesticks, and which are called in Eastern teachings, Chakras. The Pineal Gland is about the size of a pea and it is located in the top part of the center of the brain. It possesses a very peculiar body almost like a hive. It is full of little pigeon holes filled with a granular substance which is called “brain sand.” When you read in scripture that a person goes up into the Mount to pray, it means he sends his consciousness into his Pineal Gland. You might recall that Moses went into Mt. Sinai to receive the Law and that Jesus was always going up onto the Mount to pray? Why did they not receive the Law and pray on the plain? That is what is meant by these sayings. Prayer, then, is for “High Places” in the occult reading of the Scriptures. BLACK in the cards have two meanings: a lower meaning and a higher one. The lower is IGNORANCE and the higher is MYSTICAL KNOWLEDGE. STONE AND STONE COLOR in all the cards have two meanings. The lower meaning of Stone signifies that the natural body, the physical body, which the Bible says is made out of the dust, a mineral. Remember that dirt is powdered stone. The higher meaning signifies the union of the Son (dust) with the Father (stone). That is to say, the union of the personality with the Higher Self. This union is brought about when the brain sand, in the Pineal Gland, is fused into the crystal stone. When it is fused we become, in the occult use of the
