Manly P. Hall's 1929 primary text reading the human body, and Christian scripture, through a shared symbolic anatomy: the skull as the seat of divine contents, the spinal column of thirty three vertebrae as Jacob's Ladder connecting heaven and earth, its number read against both the thirty three degrees of the Scottish Rite and the traditional thirty three years of the life of Christ, and Golgotha, the place of the skull, read as a location within the skull itself rather than as a historical site. Its authority here is as the primary source of this specific correspondence; the claims are the tradition's own and are not independently verified anatomy, history or exegesis.
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Assessment
Reliability Tier3
Manly P. Hall's 1929 text, self-published through his own Hall Publishing Company, is the lower tier reflecting a primary esoteric text asserting its own symbolic correspondences rather than independently verified anatomy, history or exegesis, cited here for that correspondence as the tradition's own claim. NotesFull text checked directly on the Internet Archive, including the specific sentences on the thirty three vertebrae, Jacob's Ladder and Golgotha quoted in this atlas's own facts. Reliable as evidence of what Hall himself wrote; not reliable as anatomy, history or biblical exegesis, all three of which this atlas records as a twentieth century construction joining facts with no historical relation to one another.
Citation
AuthorManly P. Hall
PublisherManly P. Hall / Hall Publishing Company, Los Angeles
Publication Year1929
URLhttps://archive.org/details/ManlyPHallTheOccultAnatomyOfMan
Source TypeBook (primary)
Cross-Tradition Connections
Associated With
Its biochemic-salt and Christ-in-the-body reading is echoed, usually without attribution, in Manly P. Hall's separately authored Occult Anatomy of Man (1929).
Claims Backed By This Source (15 claims)
This source backs 15 claims across the atlas. As facts: 10 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Historical Figures, 4 claims: 1 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Esoteric Texts, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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