This work lists itself as a brochure and so by it's nature, is not very in depth. It touches on a variety of subjects and beliefs from modern and ancient times. The primary purpose is to show the relationship to the human body and to some degree nature. There is also a chapter on the relationship to Masonry. I found some points to be well explained but others are mentioned so quickly they are difficult to understand, even though there is often mention of several different examples from various cultures, if you are not very familiar with those topics already, it is easy to miss the reference. Overall, it presents some interesting topics and ideas, but the reader must do extensive external research to really understand the depth of this book ( )

ANATOMIA OCULTA DEL HOMBRE

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Para llevar a cabo la obra de construir y reconstruir las sustancias naturales , se nos dice que al final de la evolución del cuerpo humano éste se irá disolviendo , lentamente, retornando al cerebro (que fue su origen) perfectos , hasta que no queden más que siete centros globulares que irradien siete
sentidos que son los espiritus ante el trono y los salvadores que son enviados al mundo para redimirlos por medio de los siete períodos de su desarrollo.
El hombre es una planta invertida ; se nutre del sol como el vegetal :Así como la vida de la planta asciende para nutrir ramas y hojas , la vida del hombre (arraigada en el cerebro) desciende para producir el mismo resultado .Esta vida descendente se simboliza por el mundo de los salvadores que se encarnan para morir por los hombres :Más tarde estas vidas retornan al cerebro , en donde ellas glorifican al hombre ante todos los mundos de la creación .Es suficiente ya como relato sobre el cerebo .Ahora consideraremos la otra parte maravillosa del hombre , es decir, la espina dorsal...

The first chapter of this "brochure" (as it calls itself) is a curious text, offering a soundly skeptical, mythicist take on Christian origins, while simultaneously asserting Lemurian and Atlantean sources for esoteric traditions! The next three chapters are organized according to the book's pattern: brain/spirit, heart/emotions, and generative organs/physical sensation. In the chapter on "The Spinal Column" corresponding to the heart, there is also a discussion of clairvoyance and mediumship, and in the chapter on "The Infernal Worlds" Hall additionally provides an exposition of color symbolism. The final chapter of Occult Anatomy is on "embryology," which offers readings of religious texts as perinatal allegories. It then continues with a thumbnail description of the seven-year cyclical climacteric pattern of individual human development.

Appended to The Occult Anatomy of Man is an essay on "Occult Masonry," included with the intention to illustrate an application of the principles of occult anatomy. This "treatise" was written by Hall when he was himself not a Masonic initiate, and it contains some perceptive and inspiring items, alongside howlers about the grip of the lion's paw, and perverse attempts to rehabilitate references to "riding the goat" and "the greased pole."

Hall's style is mostly a scattershot dumping of unsourced data along topical lines. His conclusions are not uniformly worthwhile, but the implicit questions to which they respond are ones that mystical aspirants and true initiates should ask themselves in order to advance their understanding.