The seven glands -- ductless and otherwise -- with which occultism is primarily concerned, are the pineal gland, the pituitary body, the thymus, the liver, the spleen, and the suprarenal capsules, or adrenals. These little understood bodies, at least some of which were given consideration in ancient times but were more or less ignored during the Dark Ages, have now come to be recognized as the "dictators of destiny". Enthusiastic endocrinologists are now of the opinion that not only the harmony of the "bodily league" but also the higher aspects of man's functioning -- his morals, emotions, and thoughts, his personality, individuality, and temperament -- are to a great degree a matter of endocrines. Not Dr. Johnson's drop of green bile but the glands are what put empires at hazard. Napoleon's own pituitary -- and not the Duke of Wellington -- brought down the eagle of the First Empire. Apropos of this, ponder the words of Samuel Wyllis Bandler: "If the world, in the future, administers to its diplomats, to its highest officials, to its legislators, to its people the proper endocrines, especially anterior pituitary, and inhibit the adrenal cortex a little bit, there may be no more wars." (See "The Endocrines")
Manly P Hall, Man, Grand Symbol of the Mysteries
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