There are 33 vertebrae in total, 7 cervical vertebrae, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar in the lower back, 5 vertebrae fused together forming one solid bone, the sacrum (coccyx). It looks like an inverted pyramid and was also called "the seat of immortality." At the coccyx, at the bottom of the sacrum 4 bones are fused together. If you were to multiply the number of vertebrae, 33 by 2, counting both sides of the vertebrae of the spine we will find the number 66 (33 x 2 = 66) 6 is the number of man, because he was created on the sixth day, there are also 66 books of the Bible given to man (66 + 6 = 72).
As for the human skull, it has 22 bones, it is located at the top of the spine. The Hebrew alphabet has 22 letters, the 22nd letter, Tav, means Light. There is much to be said about this. At the top of Jacob's Ladder was Yahweh, the Light of the world. The light of the body is the eye (mind-brain), Jesus says 22 is the Number of Light.
If we raise or elevate the oil in the spinal cord, by the power of the seed, storing it, it must be a physiological and chemical operation within the body of each of us. Such is the case. There is no mystery, no wonder in the entire universe that is greater than man himself. “Man know thyself” confronts us, down through the ages, but only a few have heeded the voice of the Delphic oracle, only a few have looked within.
There is a wonderful “Narrow and Narrow Way,” an actual strait, not a straight one, that runs from the top of the brain, to the end of the spinal cord, also called the Jordan, in the Bible. We find the meaning of this in Hebrew to be, descending or “River of God.” The "Narrow and Narrow Way is, indeed, the River of God, for it leads to the Father Most High, the upper part of the brain.
The same is true of the manna that came down to feed the Children of Israel in the wilderness, for this manna is a substance that descends down the spinal cord from the brain. The Hindus symbolized the spinal column as the stem of the sacred lotus; therefore the skull and its contents are symbolized by the flower. The spinal column is Jacob's ladder connecting heaven and earth, while its 33 segments are the 33 degrees of Freemasonry and the 33 numbers of years in the life of Christ. By these segments the candidate ascends in consciousness to reach the temple of initiation located on the top of the mountain. It is in this vaulted room with a hole in the floor (Foramen Magnum) that the great mysterious initiations are given, Manly P. Hall, "The Occult Anatomy of Man."
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