Alexander the Great captured most of the ancient world, yet the waters of immortality remained narrowly beyond his grasp. Both the thirty-third year and the "thirty-third degree" escaped him, however closely he stormed the gates of this mystery.

The vertebrae are appurtenances of the trunk of the Tree of Life in the microcosm - the image of God - that man is, and the rungs of Jacob's ladder. These shields and conduits of spinal nerve and fluid channels give us backbone and correspond to the "thirty-two most wondrous paths" through which the divine forms, directs, and sustains all creation, symbolized by the Ten Numbers and the three mother, seven double, and twelve single letters that comprise the Hebrew alphabet. The thirty-second is the "Atlas" vertebra, one more step up from it to enter the "Heaven World" represented by the head that it supports.

From Golgotha, the "Place of the Skull", release your spirit and embrace the four planes of existence, traverse the nine dimensions of space , minister to those most bound, and drink freely of the four rivers that pour forth out of Eden!

"It is Completion", the greatest of inner conquests; yet you with the knowledge offered here can so prepare for that terrible purification by the cherubs' flaming sword that the treasure denied Alexander becomes within your reach. "Is it not written that 'you are gods', and if that be true, for him to whom the word comes, the scriptures cannot be broken."