PHYSIOGNOMY AND PHRENOLOGY

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PHYSIOGNOMY AND PHRENOLOGY

 

The brothers and the sisters were interested in an entire palette of sciences concerning the development of man as a living Monad, and they would enter into conversations on those matters. During one such conversation, the Master touched upon the following thought from the area of physiognomy and phrenology:
 
In every single life, man has to bring something in from the Invisible world, in order to have a better body made from that material. With his thoughts, feelings, and deeds, he brings in capital above, and on that his future body will depend. He will wear whatever he knits and weaves.
 
The face can be divided into three parts, which have to be equal to one third: the forehead represents the Rational world, the nose - the Sensual world, and the part below it - down to the end of the chin - the physical world. Or the eyebrows are a boundary between the Divine and the Spiritual world, and the moustaches are the boundary between the Spiritual and the physical world.
 
Through work, man can stimulate certain abilities - some centers of the brain. Let us say that you do not have a regular skull and a regular face. But we can change them by altering our thoughts, feelings, and deeds. You say, "The conditions are bad!" That the conditions are bad, it is true, but we have to overcome them. That is one task. You cannot break a thick rope at once, but if you have a needle, you will break it in four-five hours - thread by thread. If you have an infirmity, you cannot free yourself from it at once, but by working constantly, for a certain amount of time liberation can occur. There is no thought that does not influence the organs. The thoughts influence even the ear, but more lightly, but they can influence the nose more quickly.
 
Sometimes you are stubborn, but you have no idea, and on top of it all you are resentful as well; look closer and you will see that certain animal features appear over your face. If you study the human and the animal form, in the human you will notice certain animal lines. Man is sometimes beautiful, sometimes ugly. There are these little movements in the muscles of the face. Even photography cannot capture the details, cannot capture the human soul. With self-education you can make you face whatever you want.
 
If man starts getting nervous, greedy, or impatient, all this alters the face. The deeds reflect upon the chin, the feelings - upon the cheek-bones, the middle part of the face, and the thoughts - upon the brow. One person has a high brow, but it is narrow at the sides; so he has many ideas, but narrow apprehensions. Someone has a brow low, but sidewards broad; he has broad apprehensions. The physical capabilities, for instance, the keen observation, are developed along the lowest part of the brow. The spiritual capabilities are along the middle part of the brow, and the mental and Divine ones are at the top. When the center of time is developed in someone, he is not tactical.
 
For each mistake there is a sign. There are thousands of signs. And each good feature, as well as each talent, has its sign. If on the brow between the eyebrows there are vertical lines, that man has two rails and on them drives the car and his work goes well for him, he is honest. Another one has one vertical line and is smarter. I am not saying what it means when a person has three or four vertical lines on the brow.
 
Man is the most interesting book that has been written. In it there is a lot to be studied - you can read many things. Venus makes the face something between round and oval. The Moon makes it the roundest. People with a round face walk on the path of the littlest resistance. Mars makes the face broad.
 
The Camper angle has to be more than 90 degrees in order for a person to be a genius. At the current development it is about 80 degrees. Our brow needs to be parallel to the backbone, and now it is inclined by 10 degrees. Man has traveled 180 degrees in his evolution. The fish's face is parallel to the backbone, only it is at the back. The frog's is at 45 degrees, and the human's - at 180 degrees.

 

Figure 4

 
The eyebrows are connected with the Astral world, with the feelings of man. The eyebrows can have one of these three forms (see Figure 4). The eyebrows' hairs are antennae. The hairs of the right eyebrow are negative, and those of the left one - positive. People who have thinner eyebrows are more resourceful, they apprehend the outer world better, and those who have thicker eyebrows are more receptive to the physical world.

 

When you study the human, the animals, the plants, the crystals, the precious stones, then you will see what a thing the Divine Wisdom is. What mind, what understanding, what prudence, what depth! There are deep things. There is a lot to learn. Unachievable things. Rejoice that there is what to learn.
 

The nose physiologically shows how healthy the lungs are, whether the nervous system is normal. The orifices show whether the gastric system is normal. The normal nose is inside the person. When he frees himself from the unnecessary accumulations, the normal nose in man will manifest. The Greek nose is regular, and shows that the Greeks have had very good conditions. The broad nose is a nose of the pleasure. A person with such a nose desires like the animals - when they eat their fill, they lie down to sleep. Study what nose you want to have. If the nose is crooked towards the left side, it shows that in the feelings of the person there is a deficiency, and if it is crooked to the right, it shows that there is a deficiency in his will, in his strength. If the nose is very thin at the tip, it is not good, it is not healthy. If the nose is very sharp at the tip, not a little round, it shows a nervous state. The nose should not be too sharp at the tip, but there has to be a curve there instead. The length of the nose shows the electricity and the mind, and its breadth shows the magnetism and the heart. The mind has worked on the length of the nose, the heart - on the base of the nose, and the will - on the massiveness of the nose (see Figure 5).

 

Figure 5

 

In breadth, the nose has to be developed, and if it is very narrow, then it is not good. The musical nose has a particular form (A). There is the religious nose then there is the scientific nose ©. Each nose has its own special quality. If the nose is straight, the mind dominates, if it is concave - the taste dominates, and if it is protuberant, the feelings dominate.

 

Where is the first man, where is the original? We now see a copy. When we see a person, which God has created, it is as if a spring flows, as if something comes from the Heavens. And because we see the things not the way God has created them, contradictions are before us.

 

Once you see that in a person the two wings of the side of nose begin to fan, he is not of the temperate ones. The same thing is if his two lips are moving. If the brow is very inclined backwards, the nose is very protruding forwards. And if the brow ^ is straightening, then the nose, too, gains a lesser incline and gets closer to a vertical position.

 

In that is the tendency of development.

 

Figure 6

 
With a regular mouth, there have to be two protuberant surfaces and one concave (see figure 6). If the lower lip is thicker than the upper one, it shows that the person apprehends much and gives little (A). Such a person is more passive. And if the upper lip is more developed, the person is more active, he gives more ©. In Nature there are no arbitrary things.
 
A sister inquired, "Why do some people lick their lips?" The lips have to be damp. When man licks his lips, it is in order to moisten them, so that they can be good conduits of electricity and magnetism. The tightened lips or the too opened lips are a bad sign, but if they hardly touch each other, it is good. Thin lips are a bad sign. When the lips get very thin, it is an abnormal condition. The lips perceive the most delicate waves, which cannot be perceived by anything else. So we always have to take care of our lips. In some people the sense has become very weak and then the lips are very thin. If the lips become very thin, the mind has to develop, but if it is not developed, then one walks the wrong way. The ear has three main parts: upper, middle, and lower. Next, it is important how the ear is structured on the inside and how it is placed - whether it is up high above the eyebrows, whether it is against the eyebrows, or under them. When the upper end of the ear is under the eyebrows, it is a good sign and shows a higher spiritual development. When the upper part of the ear is against the eyebrows, it is again somewhat good, and when it is above the eyebrows, it is not such a good sign.
 
Small ears are more awake, more intellectual. Small ears have little capital, and big ears are with a big capital. With the big ears, a person has plenty of verve and is more generous. With the small ears, a person does not have too many expenses, but they, too, have certain defects and one has to know how many centimeters their length is. There is a certain measure. Five centimeters are not small ears. Above all things, the ear has to be big. Then, it is not good for the ear to be stuck onto the head - it has to be loose at the back.

 

 

Figure 7

 

 

Look at Figure 7. The upper part AB is the Mental and Divine world, the middle part BC is the Spiritual world, and the lower part CD - the physical one. And the tip of the ear A is Nirvana. The lower part CD has to be big and meaty, and not thin; this shows a healthy body. CD represents the entire body, and in this way: the entire middle meaty part is the chest and the lungs, the lower part CD is the stomach and the abdominal cavity, and the outer edge MN is the cerebrum and the spinal cord. The part of the Divine world AB has to have round contours, with no refractions; and that is a good sign. The ear fold along the edge has to be broader; that is a good sign. When it is too thin, the person has grown poor. The part XY has to have an outer curve, parallel to the outer contour, which shows a developed person. In the middle area the outer edge PQ has to have another parallel inner edge next to it; some do not have it. In the lower part CD if there are irregularities, etc, then one inevitably goes through a catastrophe. It depends whether it is in the left or in the right ear, and whether it is in its outer or its inner side, and it can be estimated when it will happen or has happened. When a person starts becoming smart, a change in the ear occurs. The upper third of the ear shows the stage of the mind and the wisdom in man. If it is quite broad and correctly outlined, with no creases and irregularities, it shows that a person is more advanced in spiritual respect.
 
In the ear canal there are hairs, which, apart from its physiological service, represent antennae, which perceive the waves. Those antennae serve as transformers, but present-day physiologists do not take that into consideration. They take into consideration only the simple sounds that hit the ear-drums. Those antennae in the ear perceive all kinds of waves from the visible and the Invisible world - close and distant, short and long.
 
If you want to know how a person acts by mind, study his nose. If you want to know what his feelings are, study his mouth. If you want to know what his scope is, look at his ears. You shall give a person what his ear talks about.
 
I have often told the people's teachers that their children have become humdrum, because they do not read them, they do not study their ears, eyes, mouth, nose, hairs, etc.
 
The ear is a ledger; when you open it, you can tell how much capital you have at your disposal. The nose is a capital in currency, and the mind is an inner capital that is invested. Some people think more and accomplish less; so the nose is big. Some people think less and accomplish more; so the ears are bigger. The ears have certain emanations - during a certain time of the year they emanate particular kinds of rays. The nose also emanates a particular kind of rays. Now is the time for you to study elementary things and not to weave yourselves into details. And so, when the nose is bigger than the ear, the person is developed mentally - thinks a lot, but performs little. And when the ear is bigger than the nose, the person performs more, he is more active, and thinks less. And it is best when the nose and the ear are equally developed; then the person both thinks, and performs simultaneously, and that is magnificent. The nose is a projection, a surface from the Mental world, but as I said, the heart and the will are also expressed in it.

 

The eyes are projections of the Causal world and are an expression of the Truth. In man there are projections, surfaces, lines from the various worlds. The form В of the head is a projection of the entire

 

 

Figure 8

 

The will of man can be recognized by the structure of the body. The strong-willed person's chin and thumb are well developed. The thumb is the will, the rational in man. If the chin has a crease, it is firm (A), and it is not firm when the will cannot be contained and everything flows out (see Figure 8). A person's actions are expressed from the nose downwards - to the end of the chin. The mind is expressed in the brow.
 
Someone says, "I am ugly". You will put your mind, your heart, and your will to work, and you will have a regular face, a regular head, you will have proportionality.
 
Often one side of the face does not look like the other. Then the face is asymmetrical. In some, one of the eyes is softer, and the other has a firmer look.