The Occult Anatomy of Man (Manly P. Hall, 1929)

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.