im a dreamer and sleep is the cousin of death

by Lawrence Alma-Tadema

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Charles Fillmore -  The Twelve Powers of Man, 1930. 1. Faith - Center of Brain 2. Strength - Loins 3. Judgment - Pit of Stomach 4. Love - Back of Heart 5. Power - Root of Tongue 6. Imagination - Between the Eyes 7. Understanding - Front Brain 8. Will - Center Brain 9. Order -Navel 10. Zeal - Back Head, Medulla 11. Elimination - Abdominal Region 12. Life Conserver - Generative Functions In this model, Fillmore follows a universal, cosmic principle: As within, so without; as above, so below. He postulates that as a child of universe, we have 12 spiritual powers, each of which manifests and functions in and through a particular part of the body. However, he does not include all body organs and systems in this initial model. We can see that his model is a beginning exposition of the correlation of the powers throughout the whole body temple, and not a complete explanation. Apparently, he understood this, since he wrote: “The physiological designations of these faculties are not arbitrary - the names can be expanded or changed to suit a broader understanding of their full nature.” Fillmore gives no explanation of how he developed his model. Furthermore, he was not a scientist or a physician. Even if he had been, when he developed this treatise, many parts of the body, especially the brain, were understood only marginally. For example, no one knew the function of the pineal gland, thalamus or hypothalamus. Therefore, it would have been impossible for him to arrive at a full explanation of how the powers correlate with various organs and systems. In retrospect, it is amazing that he did locate most of the powers in the right general area, even though his explanations were incomplete or partly inaccurate.

july 27, 2018

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