Glándula Pituitaria

La Glándula Pituitaria, o Hipófisis en la anatomía vertebrada es una glándula endocrina (conocida como la "maestra" de la glándula endocrina). En los humanos es del tamaño de un guisante y pesa 0.5 g (0.02 oz.). Es una protuberancia en la parte inferior del hipotálamos een la base del cráneo, y descansa en una pequeña cavidad ósea. Esta glándula secreta nueve hormonas que regulan la homeostasis.

La glándula pituitaria, o hipófisis cerebral, es un cuerpo pequeño y duro de unas seis líneas de ancho, tres de largo y tres de alto. Siempre está formada por un lóbulo anterior en forma de frijol y un lóbulo posterior y más redondeado, que están uniformemente unidos. Sus partes componentes, se nos dice, son casi idénticas a las de la glándula pineal; sin embargo, no se puede rastrear la más mínima conexión entre las dos. Sin embargo, los ocultistas se oponen a esto; saben que existe una conexión, y esto incluso anatómica y físicamente. Los disectores, por otra parte, tienen que tratar con cadáveres; y, como ellos mismos admiten, la materia cerebral, de todos los tejidos y órganos, se colapsa y cambia de forma más pronto; de hecho, unos minutos después de la muerte. Entonces, cuando la vida pulsante que expandió la masa del cerebro, llenó todas sus cavidades y energizó todos sus órganos, desaparece, la masa cerebral se encoge hasta una especie de estado pastoso, y los pasajes que antes estaban abiertos se cierran. Pero la contracción e incluso la fusión de las partes en este proceso de encogimiento, y el subsiguiente estado pastoso del cerebro muerto, no implican que no haya conexión entre estas dos glándulas antes de la muerte.

Según la Sra. Blavatsky, esta glándula tiene un papel importante desde un punto de vista esotérico:

H. P. Blavatsky described it in the following way:

The Pituitary Gland, or Hypophysis Cerebri, is a small and hard body about six lines broad, three long and three high. It is always formed of an anterior bean-shape, and a posterior and more rounded lobe, which are uniformly united. Its component parts, we are told, are almost identical with those of the Pineal Gland; yet not the slightest connection can be traced between the two. To this, however, Occultists take exception; they know that there is a connection, and this even anatomically and physically. Dissectors, on the other hand, have to deal with corpses; and, as they themselves admit, brain-matter, of all tissues and organs, collapses and changes form the soonest––in fact, a few minutes after death. When, then, the pulsating life which expanded the mass of the brain, filled all its cavities and energized all its organs, vanishes, the cerebral mass shrinks into a sort of pasty condition, and once open passages become closed. But the contraction and even interblending of parts in this process of shrinking, and the subsequent pasty state of the dead brain, do not imply that there is no connection between these two glands before death.

According to Mme. Blavatsky this gland has an important role from an esoteric point of view:

There are seven cavities in the Brain . . . These cavities are called in Occultism the “Seven Harmonies,” the scale of the Divine Harmonies, and it is in these that visions must be reflected, if they are to remain in the Brain-memory. These are the parts of the Brain which receive impressions from the Heart, and enable the memory of the Heart to be impressed on the memory of the Brain.
The fourth of these cavities is the Pituitary Body, which corresponds with Manas-Antaskarana, the bridge to the Higher Intelligence; it contains various essences.

The seven physical Nâdîs extend up the vertebral column from the sacrum to the atlas. The superphysical are within the head, and of these the fourth is the Pituitary Body.

The Pituitary Body is the organ per se of the psychic plane. Pure psychic vision is caused by the molecular motion of this body, which is directly connected with the optic nerve, and thus affects the sight, and gives rise to hallucinations. Its motion may readily cause flashes of light, seen within the head, similar to those that may be obtained on pressing the eyeballs, and so causing molecular motion in the optic nerve. When molecular action is set up in the Pituitary Body these flashes are seen, and further action gives psychic vision, as similar motion in the Pineal Gland gives Spiritual Clairvoyance. Drunkenness and fever cause disorderly motion in the Pituitary Body, and so produce illusions of sight, visions, hallucinations. This body is sometimes so affected by drunkenness that it is paralyzed, and the strict forbiddance of alcoholic liquids to all students of Occultism turns on this effect which alcohol produces on the Pituitary Body and Pineal Gland.

The Pituitary Body is only the servant of the Pineal Gland, its torch-bearer, like the servants carrying torches that run before the carriage of a princess.

We begin with the mastery of that organ which is situated at the base of the brain, in the pharynx, and called by Western anatomists the Pituitary Body. In the series of the objective cranial organs, corresponding to the subjective Tattvic principles, it stands to the “Third Eye” (Pineal Gland) as Manas stands to Buddhi; the arousing and awakening of the Third Eye must be performed by that vascular organ, that insignificant little body, of which, once again, physiology knows nothing at all. The one is the Energizer of WILL, the other that of Clairvoyant Perception.</bl