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Man began drinking alcohol very early on this planet, certainly before Atlantis. Thus ,

in Lemuria, it was used mainly as a device for stimulating the body's mechanisms

for adjusting to changes in outside temperature. Earliest man's homeo-static devices

were immature. His skin was very thin and had not yet developed that richness of

organelles by which it is now characterised. Its insulatory de-devices (e.g.

subcutaneous fat) and its blood capillary shunts were poorly established and had toawait the sympathetic nervous system and its coordination with the fast maturing

central nervous system. Sensory organs for deferring and adjusting to heat and cold

were disseminated very late in the skin and this need was met in earliest men by the

pineal gland acting on the hypothalamic regions of the brain. The thickening of the

skin, and its keratinisation to prevent water loss, its incorporation of tactile, and

other organs of sensation came very late. Yeast cells had always flourished, deriving

as they do from the plant kingdom and aiven a spirit , as they were by the advent of

the angiosperms and their fruit-bearing trees about eighty million years ago. About

that time, Man, ( mainly those elements individualising on the Moon ChainJ began to

materialise the first elements of his physical structures.

The ecstatic and etheric states of consciousness

experienced during man's habitation of the Hyperborean

Continent* were progressivly lost during his transition

from a purely etheric being into one with an etherico-

physical vehicle. He fed, at first on juices and fruits, and

these, when accumulated and allowed to ferment gave

him an exhilaratory beverage which, in addition provided

him with semblances of his long lost, but instinctual

memories of ecstatic states in Hyperborea where spiritual

beings were almost as common as primitive ones. They

associated the two and our present word "spirits" for

alcohol is testimony of this, the "gift of the gods." This

has an important bearing on what follows herein later. It

is perhaps too much to suppose, that in addition to the

ordinary interpretation of the derivation of the word

"alcohol" (of Arabic origin), "hoi" once referred to the

drinker being made "whole" - hence "holism", or one

with the gods, imbued with . his lost nature, i.e. spirit.

Nevertheless, to the primitive men, this is what drinking

the beverage implied.

Much later, as Man began to develop his Solar Plexus

Chakra, and, with it, his emotional nature - a spiritual

event for him at that stage of his development, emotional

growth was stimulated by alcohol, reinforcing the concept

of the beverage's spiritual qualities. Today, for Man on

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the Path, orientation away from emotional license, into

mental polarity, is theorder of spiritual things and alco-

hol, though it may bring vague surfacing of archetypal

memories of past-spiritual glories, is not, in any way an

adjunct to or a passport for spiritual advance.

*Anthropogeny, Vol. VI, S.P.A.W., pp. 138, 141

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