The Role of the Thymus Gland

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Lo! I tell you a mystery of healing, a mystery of recovery: We shall all be changed! The perishable must put on the imperishable, the mortal must put on immortality; then shall come to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory.

Now let us analyze this mystery. The true pupil is able, in his broken and mortal microcosm, to construct amidst this perishable world, something Imperishable and immortal, namely: the mental conception of the Immortal, Heavenly Being. This conception must be formed in a manner entirely different from that of the ordinary mental phantoms outlined above. Such a mental conception can only be accomplished by a person who still possesses the Spirit-spark atom in the right heart-ventricle. If this Spirit-spark atom can be touched by the infrared light of the Gnosis, a wonderful effect begins in the thymus, an endocrine gland situated under the sternum (and over the heart). For, in this state, the Spirit-spark atom begins to vibrate vigorously and touches the thymus with its Light impulses, which then starts to secrete a hormone into the stream of the lesser blood circulation.

The thymus is active in childhood, then shrinks and lapses into a state of latency. Through the vibration of the Spirit-spark atom touched by the Gnostic Light, the thymus is re-animated. As soon as the blood, loaded with this particular hormone, reaches the head and consequently touches the brain, the most wondrous thoughts, namely those characteristic of the True Seeker, arise due to the effects of the blood in the brain centers. One can say that, due to these wonderful effects, the image of Immortal Man in its embryonic state has already been conceived, entirely beyond the influence of the desire-being, the blood-I.

As we have observed, however, this mental image is of a quite different nature, vibration and composition from any other mental being of which we have spoken. This image radiates quietly as an extraordinary light in the respiration field, generally remaining in front of the candidate, eye-to-eye with him. Now and then it retreats from the microcosmic system, from the auric being, attracted by the infrared light of the Gnosis, and returns invigorated.

The thymus hormone, however, which caused all this is of course led downwards again through the blood circulation, and the agency of the desire body then causes this inimical substance to be removed from the blood by means of the kidneys. In the liver and the kidneys, the blood is cleansed of all substances alien to the I-nature. If, however, the Spirit-spark atom continues to vibrate, with all the associated consequences just described, a strange state of cleavage, a situation well-known to many seekers, develops in our existence, a state of living two lives.

"The Nature of Human Imprisonment" - The Coming New Man - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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Modern science is baffled by the thymus gland. Scientists agree that it is active in children and latent in adults. They have no further clue as to its function.

You now know.

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