POLARIAN EPOCH
There are two forces in nature which man recognizes and which he acknowledges as existing in every atom–the positive force (male), and the negative force (female). We find them in the metals which man is utilizing to generate his electricity, the copper, zinc, etc. In the plant we also find the same elements. The very tiniest atom in man’s body is charged with these two forces. They are playing through his body, without the blending of which he could not hold the particles together. Although man, with a male body, may express the positive physical, yet his negative vital body helps to hold the positive physical particles together. Likewise, the woman expressing in the negative female body is balanced by a positive vital body.
The various forms and developments of man’s body during antenatal life are recapitulations of his development during involution. In the Polarian Epoch his body was globular similar to the ovum, and also of a gelatinous substance. There was at the beginning but one organ which protruded from the top of his bag-like form. This organ was eyes, ears, in fact it was the nucleus through which the rest of the body was built, also the medium through which man received his life from the Father. This organ is today called the pineal gland–epiphysis. Man’s energies at that time were, like those of the fetus, directed inward to build future organs, and as the prenatal life of the physical body of today is directed and helped by the mother, so was man assisted during his involutionary period by the Divine Hierarchies. He was in direct touch with the higher realms and not yet conscious of his physical environment. In the meantime, eyes, ears, and various organs were taking shape within this ovoid body, while the pineal gland, which is at present such a mystery to medical science, was its only means of communication with the outer world. This organ was much larger than it is today, and from its cone-shaped top there protruded a long, transparent, flexible tentacle which aided in locomotion and in feeling, and this appendage may yet be seen on the small end of the pineal gland. It has the appearance of a small piece of skin, the function of which will be taken up in another chapter.