262 ROSICRUCIANCOSMO-CONCEPTION
dense body drew more closely together and condensed. If it
came t oo clos e t o places of gr eater heat than it could endure,
it disintegrated. In time the organ grew sensitive to the
condition that threatened destruction and the dense body
automatically moved to a safer place.
This organ has now degenerated into what is called the
pineal gland. Sometimes it is called “the third eye,” but that
is a misnomer, because it never was an eye, but rather the
localized organ for the sensing of heat and cold, which
faculty is now distributed over the entire dense body. During
the Polarian Epoch this sense was thus localized, as the
sense of sight is now in the eye, and that of hearing in the
ear. The extension of the sense of feeling since that time
indicates the manner in which the entire body will be
improved, so that at some future time any part of it will be
able to perceive all things. The senses of sight and hearing
will be extended over the entire body, as the sense of feeling
is now. Then man will be all eyes and ears. Specialized
sense organs indicate limitation. Sense perception by the
whole is comparative perfection.
At the early stage of which we are now speaking there
was a kind of propagation. These immense baggy creatures
divided in halves in a manner similar to the division of cells
by fission, but the separated portions would not grow, each
remaining only half as large as the original form.
THE HYPERBOREAN EPOCH
At different points on the fiery globe there began in the
cours e of time t he for mation of crust-islands in a s ea of fire.
The Lords of Form appeared, with the Angels (humanity
of the Moon Period), and clothed man's dense form with a
vital body. Those baggy bodies then began to increase in