The Opening of the Third Eye
The Eye as the central motif, with the Heavens in a secondary part. From The Secret Teachings of All Ages.
Key · 2 motifs
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The picture
The head of a woman in profile in a winged helmet, the skull shown as if transparent, the brain and the glands in blue, red and yellow, a beam of light passing to the brow; a five-pointed star drawn over the head and a serpent above it, all within a pale oval on violet; the Eye as the central motif by Hall's title, the Heavens by eye. By eye
Readings quoted
Hall, 1928 “This painting of the head of Minerva shows, in part, the activities of the pineal gland and the pituitary body at the time of the phenomenon commonly termed the opening of the Third Eye.”
Hall, 1928 “In the human brain there is a tiny gland called the pineal body, which is the sacred eye of the ancients, and corresponds to the third eye of the Cyclops.”
Hall, 1928 “As its name signifies, the pineal gland is the sacred pine cone in man - the eye single, which cannot be opened until CHiram (the Spirit Fire) is raised through the sacred seals which are called the Seven Churches in Asia.”
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By eye The central motif, the pineal gland at the centre of the brain.
Hall, 1928 “This painting of the head of Minerva shows, in part, the activities of the pineal gland and the pituitary body at the time of the phenomenon commonly termed the opening of the Third Eye.”
Hall, 1928 “In the human brain there is a tiny gland called the pineal body, which is the sacred eye of the ancients, and corresponds to the third eye of the Cyclops.”
Hall, 1928 “As its name signifies, the pineal gland is the sacred pine cone in man - the eye single, which cannot be opened until CHiram (the Spirit Fire) is raised through the sacred seals which are called the Seven Churches in Asia.”
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By eye A secondary motif, the five-pointed star drawn over the head.
Symbolica The star drawn over the head, and the serpent above it, are on the plate; Hall's caption reads the glands and does not name either. Observed on the plate, and left unread rather than guessed.
Also carrying the Eye
4 works, 2 with it as the central motif. The symbol.
Also carrying the Heavens
14 works. The symbol.
By the same hand
In the same series
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