Three Cubits of the Ear, Four of the Stalk

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Constitution of Man Series · 24 pages

An unusual study built on a botanical fact: that wheat is not a product of the earth, having never been found in the wild state. From that the argument runs that fruits and grain unknown to earth were brought by divine men and women from other worlds for the benefit of those they ruled — the first-born Lords of Wisdom, regents over the seasons and cosmic cycles, revealing to nascent mankind the arts of agriculture. Isis, the Virgin-Mother of Horus, was the first to reveal the mysteries of wheat and corn to mortals, and her priests placed the sacred grain on the breast of their venerable dead.

The interpretation the title asks for comes in the second half. The Wheat Fields of Egypt are identified with the Elysian Fields of Greece and the Homeric Tartaros; Aaru is the subjective state of post-mortem existence where the soul of the departed receives wheat and corn growing seven cubits high. The reading offered of that measurement is the key to the whole file: the ear of three cubits is the immortal upper triad of man and the aroma of Manas, represented by the triangle, while the four cubits of stalk or straw are the mortal lower tetrad, represented by the square — three and four making the seven of the septenary constitution the section is built on, and connecting the Egyptian figure to the scheme set out in the Overview.

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