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This work is really only conceivable if the following principle is accepted: "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts." And a corollary is accepted: that any aspect of a whole is an image of the whole. This is the principle underlying Ehrenfried Pfeiffer's "sensitive crystallization" which takes any tissue sample from a living organism and results in the same crystallization pattern -- something only possible if there is a unifying principle (wholeness) governing that organism.
This work presumes a working familiarity with some of the basic ideas of Sophia Perennis, namely the threefold division of the human being into: Thought (Head), Will (Hand), and Feeling (Heart). On the face, the forehead appears as an indication of the development of the nervous system, the jaw as the development of the metabolic/limb system, and the nose as the development of the feeling system. An ideal face is a balance between all three systems. This is the same position unearthed by Aldous Huxley in "The Perennial Philosophy" and is a moderated version of Sheldon's threefold division of human physiognomy: http://www.johnderbyshire.com/Opinions/HumanSciences/hereslookinatyoukid.html
But key elements of nutritional deficiencies such as crooked teeth, pinched nostrils, and other signs of degeneration are only comprehensible with familiarity with Weston Price's "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration." Where Price indicates symptoms of nutritional deficiencies, Glas does not seek out nutritional causes but elaborates how the symptoms that arise on the face correlate to organ systems inside the body. For example: crowded teeth in the jaw is an indication of a problem with metabolic processes... and the entire point of metabolism is energy -- energy to execute our Will. A compromised digestive system is also compromised Willpower.
It gets more complicated. Because as each section of the face is an image of the whole, each third can be divided yet again into thirds! One thing this book is NOT is dogmatic.
The work is not easy, and it requires much reflection.
This work presumes a working familiarity with some of the basic ideas of Sophia Perennis, namely the threefold division of the human being into: Thought (Head), Will (Hand), and Feeling (Heart). On the face, the forehead appears as an indication of the development of the nervous system, the jaw as the development of the metabolic/limb system, and the nose as the development of the feeling system. An ideal face is a balance between all three systems. This is the same position unearthed by Aldous Huxley in "The Perennial Philosophy" and is a moderated version of Sheldon's threefold division of human physiognomy: http://www.johnderbyshire.com/Opinions/HumanSciences/hereslookinatyoukid.html
But key elements of nutritional deficiencies such as crooked teeth, pinched nostrils, and other signs of degeneration are only comprehensible with familiarity with Weston Price's "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration." Where Price indicates symptoms of nutritional deficiencies, Glas does not seek out nutritional causes but elaborates how the symptoms that arise on the face correlate to organ systems inside the body. For example: crowded teeth in the jaw is an indication of a problem with metabolic processes... and the entire point of metabolism is energy -- energy to execute our Will. A compromised digestive system is also compromised Willpower.
It gets more complicated. Because as each section of the face is an image of the whole, each third can be divided yet again into thirds! One thing this book is NOT is dogmatic.
The work is not easy, and it requires much reflection.
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