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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/29855-0.txt b/29855-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b3863ee --- /dev/null +++ b/29855-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5735 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Rosicrucian Mysteries by Max Heindel + + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no +restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under +the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or +online at http://www.gutenberg.org/license + + + +Title: The Rosicrucian Mysteries + +Author: Max Heindel + +Release Date: August 30, 2009 [Ebook #29855] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ROSICRUCIAN MYSTERIES*** + + + + + + The + + Rosicrucian Mysteries + + An Elementary Exposition of + + Their Secret Teachings + + By + + Max Heindel + +Author of: The Rosicrucian Cosmo Conception, The Rosicrucian Philosophy in + Questions and Answers, The Rosicrucian Interpretation of Christianity, + Rays from the Rose Cross, etc. + + Third Edition + + Rosicrucian Fellowship + + Oceanside, California + + London + + L. N. Fowler, 7 Imperial Arcade + + Ludgate Circus. E. C. + + + + + +CONTENTS + + +Chapter I. The Order of Rosicrucians and the Rosicrucian Fellowship +Chapter II. The Problem of Life and Its Solution +Chapter III. The Visible and the Invisible World +Chapter IV. The Constitution of Man +Chapter V. Life and Death +Mt. Ecclesia +Index + + + + + + +CHAPTER I. THE ORDER OF ROSICRUCIANS AND THE ROSICRUCIAN FELLOWSHIP + + +Our Message And Mission + +_A Sane Mind_ + +_A Soft Heart_ + +_A Sound Body_ + +Before entering upon an explanation of the teachings of the Rosicrucians, +it may be well to say a word about them and about the place they hold in +the evolution of humanity. + +For reasons to be given later these teachings advocate the dualistic view; +they hold that man is a spirit enfolding all the powers of God as the seed +enfolds the plant, and that these powers are being slowly unfolded by a +series of existences in a gradually improving earthy body; also that this +process of development has been performed under the guidance of exalted +beings who are yet ordering our steps, though in a decreasing measure, as +we gradually acquire intellect and will. These exalted Beings, though +unseen to the physical eyes, are nevertheless potent factors in all +affairs of life, and give to the various groups of humanity lessons which +will most efficiently promote the growth of their spiritual powers. In +fact, the earth may be likened to a vast training school in which there +are pupils of varying age and ability as we find it in one of our own +schools. There are the savages, living and worshipping under most +primitive conditions, seeing in stick or stone a God. Then, as man +progresses onwards and upwards in the scale of civilization, we find a +higher and higher conception of Deity, which has flowered here in our +Western World in the beautiful Christian religion that now furnishes our +spiritual inspiration and incentive to improve. + +These various religions have been given to each group of humanity by the +exalted beings whom we know in the Christian religion as the Recording +Angels, whose wonderful prevision enable them to view the trend of even so +unstable a quantity as the human mind, and thus they are enabled to +determine what steps are necessary to lead our enfoldment along the lines +congruous to the highest universal good. + +When we study the history of the ancient nations we shall find that at +about six hundred years B. C. a great spiritual wave had its inception on +the Eastern shores of the Pacific Ocean where the great Confucian Religion +accelerated the progress of the Chinese nation, then also the Religion of +the Buddha commenced to win its millions of adherents in India, and still +further West we have the lofty philosophy of Pythagoras. Each system was +suited to the needs of the particular people to whom it was sent. Then +came the period of the Sceptics, in Greece, and later, traveling westward +the same spiritual wave is manifested as the Christian religion of the +so-called “Dark Ages” when the dogma of a dominant church compelled belief +from the whole of Western Europe. + +It is a law in the universe that a wave of spiritual awakening is always +followed by a period of doubting materialism, each phase is necessary in +order that the spirit may receive equal development of heart and intellect +without being carried too far in either direction. The Great Beings +aforementioned, Who care for our progress, always take steps to safeguard +humanity against that danger, and when they foresaw the wave of +materialism which commenced in the sixteenth century with the birth of our +modern Science, they took steps to protect the West as they had formerly +safeguarded the East against the Sceptics who were held in check by the +Mystery schools. + +In the thirteenth century there appeared in central Europe a great +spiritual teacher whose symbolical name was + +Christian Rosenkreuz. +or +Christian Rose Cross. + +who founded the mysterious Order of the Rosy Cross, concerning which so +many speculations have been made and so little has become known to the +world at large, for it is the Mystery school of the West and is only open +to those who have attained the stage of spiritual unfoldment necessary to +be initiated in its secrets concerning the Science of Life and Being. + +If we are so far developed that we are able to leave our dense physical +body and take a soul flight into interplanetary space we shall find that +the ultimate physical atom is spherical in shape like our earth; it is a +ball. When we take a number of balls of even size and group them around +one, it will take just twelve balls to hide a thirteenth within. Thus the +twelve visible and the one hidden are numbers revealing a cosmic +relationship and as all Mystery Orders are based upon cosmic lines, they +are composed of twelve members gathered around a thirteenth who is the +invisible _head_. + +There are seven colors in the spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, +indigo and violet. But between the violet and the red there are still +other five colors which are invisible to the physical eye but reveal +themselves to the spiritual sight. In every Mystery Order there are also +seven brothers who at times go out into the world and there perform +whatever work may be necessary to advance the people among whom they +serve, but five are never seen outside the temple. They work with and +teach those alone who have passed through certain stages of spiritual +unfoldment and are able to visit the temple in their spiritual bodies; a +feat taught in the first initiation which usually takes place outside the +temple as it is not convenient for all to visit that place physically. + +Let not the reader imagine that this initiation makes the pupil a +Rosicrucian, it does not, any more than admission to a High School makes a +boy a member of the faculty. Nor does he become a Rosicrucian even after +having passed through all the nine degrees of this or any other Mystery +School. The Rosicrucians are Hierophants of the lesser Mysteries, and +beyond them there are still schools wherein Greater Mysteries are taught. +Those who have advanced through the lesser Mysteries and have become +pupils of the Greater Mysteries are called Adepts, but even they have not +reached the exalted standpoint of the twelve Brothers of the Rosicrucian +Order or the Hierophants of any other lesser Mystery School any more than +the freshman at college has attained to the knowledge and position of a +teacher in the High school from which he has just graduated. + +A later work will deal with initiation, but we may say here that the door +of a genuine Mystery School is not unlocked by a golden key, but is only +opened as a reward for meritorious service to humanity and any one who +advertises himself as a Rosicrucian or makes a charge for tuition, by +either of those acts shows himself to be a charlatan. The true pupil of +any Mystery School is far too modest to advertise the fact, he will scorn +all titles or honors from men, he will have no regard for riches save the +riches of love given to him by those whom it becomes his privilege to help +and teach. + +In the centuries that have gone by since the Rosicrucian Order was first +formed they have worked quietly and secretly, aiming to mould the thought +of Western Europe through the works of Paracelsus, Boehme, Bacon, +Shakespeare, Fludd and others. Each night at midnight when the physical +activities of the day are at their lowest ebb, and the spiritual impulse +at its highest flood tide, they have sent out from their temple +soul-stirring vibrations to counteract materialism and to further the +development of soul powers. To their activities we owe the gradual +spiritualization of our once so materialistic science. + +With the commencement of the twentieth century a further step was taken. +It was realized that something must be done to make religion scientific as +well as to make science religious, in order that they may ultimately +blend; for at the present time heart and intellect are divorced. The heart +instinctively feels the truth of religious teachings concerning such +wonderful mysteries as the Immaculate Conception (the Mystic Birth), the +Crucifixion (the Mystic Death), the cleansing blood, the atonement, and +other doctrines of the Church, which the intellect refuses to believe, as +they are incapable of demonstration, and seemingly at war with natural +law. Material advancement may be furthered when intellect is dominant and +the longings of the heart unsatisfied, but soul growth will be retarded +until the heart also receives satisfaction. + +In order to give the world a teaching so blended that it will satisfy both +the mind and heart, a messenger must be found and instructed. Certain +unusual qualifications were necessary, and the first one chosen failed to +pass a certain test after several years had been spent to prepare him for +the work to be done. + +It is well said that there is a time to sow, and a time to reap, and that +there are certain times for all the works of life, and in accordance with +this law of periodicity each impulse in spiritual uplift must also be +undertaken at an appropriate time to be successful. The first and sixth +decades of each century are particularly propitious to commence the +promulgation of new spiritual teachings. Therefore the Rosicrucians were +much concerned at this failure, for only five years were left of the first +decade of the twentieth century. + +Their second choice of a messenger fell upon the present writer, though he +knew it not at the time, and by shaping circumstances about him they made +it possible for him to begin a period of preparation for the work they +desired him to do. Three years later, when he had gone to Germany, also +because of circumstances shaped by the invisible Brotherhood, and was on +the verge of despair at the discovery that the light which was the object +of his quest, was only a jack-o-lantern, the Brothers of the Rosicrucian +Order applied the test to see whether he would be a faithful messenger and +give the teachings they desired to entrust to him, to the world. And when +he had passed the trial they gave him the monumental solution of the +problem of existence first published in “_The Rosicrucian Cosmo +Conception_” in November, 1909, more than a year before the expiration of +the first decade of the twentieth century. This book marked a new era in +so-called “occult” literature, and the many editions which have since been +published, as well as the thousands of letters which continue to come to +the author, are speaking testimonies to the fact that people are finding +in this teaching a satisfaction they have long sought elsewhere in vain. + +The Rosicrucians teach that all great religions have been given to the +people among whom they are found, by Divine Intelligences who designed +each system of worship to suit the needs of the race or nation to whom it +was given. A primitive people cannot respond to a lofty and sublime +religion, and _vice versa_. What helps one race would hinder another, and +in pursuance of the same policy there has been devised a system of +soul-unfoldment suited specially to the Western people, who are racially +and temperamentally unfit to undergo the discipline of the Eastern school, +which was designed for the more backward Hindoos. + +THE ROSICRUCIAN FELLOWSHIP + +For the purpose of promulgating the Rosicrucian teachings in the Western +World, the Rosicrucian Fellowship was founded in 1909. It is the herald of +the Aquarian Age, when the Sun by its precessional passage through the +constellation Aquarius will bring out all the intellectual and spiritual +potencies in man which are symbolized by that sign. As heat from a fire +warms all objects within the sphere of its radiations, so also the +Aquarian ray will raise the earth’s vibrations to a pitch we are as yet +unable to comprehend, though we have demonstrations of the _material_ +workings of this force in the inventions which have revolutionized life +within the memory of the present generation. We have wondered at the +X-ray, which sees through the human body, but each one has a sense latent +which when evolved will enable him to see through any number of bodies or +to any distance. We marvel at the telephone conversations across the +continent of America, but each has within a latent sense of speech and +hearing that is far more acute; we are surprised at the exploits of ships +under sea and in the sky, but we are all capable of passage under water or +through the sky; nay, more, we may pass unscathed through the solid rock +and the raging fire, if we know how, and lightning itself is slow compared +to the speed with which we may travel. This sounds like a fairy tale +today, as did Jules Verne’s stories a generation ago, but the Aquarian Age +will witness the realization of these dreams, and ever so much more that +we still do not even dream of. Such faculties will then be the possessions +of large numbers of people who will have gradually evolved them as +previously the ability to walk, speak, hear, and see, were developed. + +Therein lies a great danger, for, obviously, anyone endowed with such +faculties may use them to the greatest detriment of the world at large, +unless restrained by a spirit of unselfishness and an all-embracing +altruism. Therefore religion is needed today as never before, to foster +love and fellow-feeling among humanity so that it may be prepared to use +the great gifts in store for it wisely and well. This need of religion is +specially felt in a certain class where the ether is more loosely knit to +the physical atoms than in the majority, and on that account they are now +beginning to sense the Aquarian vibrations. + +This class is again divided in two groups. In one the intellect is +dominant, and the people in that class therefore seek to grasp the +spiritual mysteries out of curiosity from the viewpoint of cold reason. +They pursue the path of knowledge for the sake of knowledge, considering +that an end in itself. The idea that knowledge is of value only when put +to practical constructive use does not seem to have presented itself to +them. This class we may call _occultists_. + +The other group does not care for knowledge, but feels an inner urge +God-ward, and pursues the path of devotion to the high ideal set before +them in Christ, doing the deeds that He did as far their flesh will +permit, and this in time results in an interior illumination which brings +with it all the knowledge obtained by the other class, and much more. This +class we may describe as _mystics_. + +Certain dangers confront each of the two groups. If the occultist obtains +illumination and evolves within himself the latent spiritual faculties, he +may use them for the furtherance of his personal objects, to the great +detriment of his fellow-men. That is black magic, and the punishment which +it _automatically_ calls down upon the head of the perpetrator is so awful +that it is best to draw the veil over it. The mystic may also err because +of ignorance, and fall into the meshes of nature’s law, but being actuated +by love, his mistakes will never be very serious, and as he grows in grace +the soundless voice within his heart will speak more distinctly to teach +him the way. + +The Rosicrucian Fellowship endeavors to prepare the world in general, and +the sensitives of the two groups in particular, for the awakening of the +latent powers in man, so that all may be guided safely through the +danger-zone and be as well fitted as possible to use these new faculties. +Effort is made to blend the love without which Paul declared a knowledge +of all mysteries worthless, with a mystic knowledge rooted and grounded in +love, so that the pupils of this school may become _living_ exponents of +this blended soul-science of the Western Wisdom School, and gradually +educate humanity at large in the virtues necessary to make the possession +of higher powers safe. + +_Note_:— + +_Pages 19 to 26 inclusive, describing Mt. Ecclesia, have been transferred +to the back of the book._ (Transcriber’s Note: They are pages 191 through +200.) + + + + + +CHAPTER II. THE PROBLEM OF LIFE AND ITS SOLUTION + + +THE PROBLEM OF LIFE. + +Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual’s +experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to +everyone—Death! No matter what our station in life, whether the life lived +has been a laudable one or the reverse, whether great achievements have +marked our path among men, whether health or sickness have been our lot, +whether we have been famous and surrounded by a host of admiring friends +or have wandered unknown through the years of our life, at some time there +comes a moment when we stand alone before the portal of death and are +forced to take the leap into the dark. + +The thought of this leap and of what lies beyond must inevitably force +itself upon every thinking person. In the years of youth and health, when +the bark of our life sails upon seas of prosperity, when all appears +beautiful and bright, we may put the thought behind us, but there will +surely come a time in the life of every thinking person when the problem +of life and death forces itself upon his consciousness and refuses to be +set aside. Neither will it help him to accept the ready made solution of +anyone else without thought and in blind belief, for this is a basic +problem which every one must solve for himself or herself in order to +obtain satisfaction. + +Upon the Eastern edge of the Desert of Sahara there stands the +world-famous Sphinx with its inscrutable face turned toward the East, ever +greeting the sun as its rising rays herald the newborn day. It was said in +the Greek myth that it was the wont of this monster to ask a riddle of +each traveler. She devoured those who could not answer, but when Oedipus +solved the riddle she destroyed herself. + +The riddle which she asked of men was the riddle of life and death, a +query which is as relevant today as ever, and which each one must answer +or be devoured in the jaws of death. But when once a person has found the +solution to the problem, it will appear that in reality there is no death, +that what appears so, is but a change from one state of _existence_ to +another. Thus, for the man who finds the true solution to the riddle of +life, the sphinx of death has ceased to exist, and he can lift his voice +in the triumphant cry “Oh death where is thy sting, oh grave where is thy +victory.” + +Various theories of life have been advocated to solve this problem of +life. We may divide them into two classes, namely _the monistic theory_, +which holds that all the facts of life can be explained by reference to +this visible world wherein we live, and _the dualistic theory_, which +refers part of the phenomenon of life to another world which is now +invisible to us. + +Raphael in his famous painting “the School of Athens” has most aptly +pictured to us the attitude of these two schools of thought. We see upon +that marvelous painting a Greek Court such as those wherein philosophers +were once wont to congregate. Upon the various steps which lead into the +building a large number of men are engaged in deep conversation, but in +the center at the top of the steps stand two figures, supposedly of Plato +and Aristotle, one pointing upwards, the other towards the earth, each +looking the other in the face, mutely, but with deeply concentrated will. +Each seeking to convince the other that his attitude is right for each +bears the conviction in his heart. One holds that he is of the earth +earthy, that he has come from the dust and that thereto he will return, +the other firmly advocates the position that there is a higher something +which has always existed and will continue regardless of whether the body +wherein it now dwells holds together or not. + +The question who is right is still an open one with the majority of +mankind. Millions of tons of paper and printer’s ink have been used in +futile attempts to settle it by argument, but it will always remain open +to all who have not solved the riddle themselves, for it is a basic +problem, a part of the life experience of every human being to settle that +question, and therefore no one can give us the solution ready made for our +acceptance. All that can be done by those who have really solved the +problem, is to show to others the line along which they have found the +solution, and thus direct the inquirer how he also may arrive at a +conclusion. + +That is the aim of this little book; not to offer a solution to the +problem of life to be taken blindly, on faith in the author’s ability of +investigation. The teachings herein set forth are those handed down by the +Great Western Mystery School of the Rosicrucian Order and are the result +of the concurrent testimony of a long line of trained Seers given to the +author and supplemented by his own independent investigation of the realms +traversed by the spirit in its cyclic path from the invisible world to +this plane of existence and back again. + +Nevertheless, the student is warned that the writer may have misunderstood +some of the teachings and that despite the greatest care he may have taken +a wrong view of that which he believes to have seen in the invisible world +where the possibilities of making a mistake are legion. Here in the world +which we view about us the forms are stable and do not easily change, but +in the world around us which is perceptible only by the spiritual sight, +we may say that there is in reality no form, but that all is life. At +least the forms are so changeable that the metamorphosis recounted in +fairy stories is discounted there to an amazing degree, and therefore we +have the surprising revelations of mediums and other untrained +clairvoyants who, though they may be perfectly honest, are deceived by +illusions of _form_ which is evanescent, because they are incapable of +viewing the _life_ that is the permanent basis of that form. + +We must learn to see in this world. The new-born babe has no conception of +distance and will reach for things far, far beyond its grasp until it has +learned to gauge its capacity. A blind man who acquires the faculty of +sight, or has it restored by an operation, will at first be inclined to +close his eyes when moving from place to place, and declare that it is +easier to walk by feeling than by sight; that is because he has not +learned to use his newly acquired faculty. Similarly the man whose +spiritual vision has been newly opened requires to be trained, in fact he +is in much greater need thereof than the babe and the blind man already +mentioned. Denied that training he would be like a new-born babe placed in +a nursery where the walls are lined with mirrors of different convex and +concave curvatures, which would distort its own shape and the forms of its +attendants. If allowed to grow up in such surroundings and unable to see +the real shapes of itself and its nurses it would naturally believe that +it saw many different and distorted shapes where in reality the mirrors +were responsible for the illusion. Were the persons concerned in such an +experiment and the child taken out of the illusory surroundings, it would +be incapable of recognizing them until the matter had been properly +explained. There are similar dangers of illusion to those who have +developed spiritual sight, until they have been trained to discount the +refraction and to view the _life_ which is permanent and stable, +disregarding the _form_ which is evanescent and changeable. The danger of +getting things out of focus always remains however and is so subtle that +the writer feels an imperative duty to warn his readers to take all +statements concerning the unseen world with the proverbial grain of salt, +for he has no intention to deceive. He is therefore inclined rather to +magnify than to minimize his limitations and would advise the student to +accept nothing from the author’s pen without reasoning it out for himself. +Thus, if he is deceived, he will be self-deceived and the author is +blameless. + +_Three Theories of Life._ + +Only three noteworthy theories have been offered as solutions to the +riddle of existence and in order that the reader may be able to make the +important choice between them, we will state briefly what they are and +give some of the arguments which lead us to advocate the doctrine of +Rebirth as the method which favors soul-growth and the ultimate attainment +of perfection, thus offering the best solution to the problem of life. + +1) THE MATERIALISTIC THEORY _teaches that life is but a short journey from +the cradle to the grave, that there is no higher intelligence in the +universe than man; that his mind is produced by certain correlations of +matter and that therefore death, and dissolution of the body terminate +existence._ + +There was a day when the arguments of Materialistic philosophers seemed +convincing, but as science advances it discovers more and more that there +is a spiritual side to the universe. That life and consciousness may exist +without being able to give us a sign, has been amply proven in the cases +where a person who was entranced and thought dead for days has suddenly +awakened and told all that had taken place around the body. Such eminent +scientists as Sir Oliver Lodge, Camille Flammarion, Lombroso and other men +of highest intelligence and scientific training, have unequivocally stated +as the result of their investigations, that the intelligence which we call +man survives death of the body and lives on in our midst as independently +of whether we see them or not as light and color exist all about the blind +man regardless of the fact that he does not perceive them. These +scientists have reached their conclusion after years of careful +investigation. They have found that the so-called dead can, and under +certain circumstances do, communicate with us in such a manner that +mistake is out of the question. We maintain that their testimony is worth +more than the argument of materialism to the contrary, for it is based +upon years of careful investigation, it is in harmony with such well +established laws as _the law of conservation of matter_ and _the law of +conservation of energy_. Mind is a form of energy, and immune from +destruction as claimed by the materialist. Therefore we disbar the +materialistic theory as unsound, because out of harmony with the laws of +nature and with well established facts. + +2) THE THEORY OF THEOLOGY _claims that just prior to each birth a soul is +created by God and enters into the world where it lives for a time varying +from a few minutes to a few score of years; that at the end of this short +span of life it returns through the portal of death to the invisible +beyond, where it remains forever in a condition of happiness or misery +according to the deeds done in the body during the few years it lived +here_. + +Plato insisted upon the necessity of a clear definition of terms as a +basis of argument and we contend that that is as necessary in discussing +the problem of life from the Bible point of view as in arguments from the +platonic standpoint. According to the Bible man is a composite being +consisting of body, soul and spirit. The two latter are usually taken to +be synonymous, but we insist that they are not interchangeable and present +the following to support our dictum. + +All things are in a state of vibration. Vibrations from objects in our +surroundings are constantly impinging upon us and carry to our senses a +cognition of the external world. The vibrations in the ether act upon our +eyes so that we see, and vibrations in the air transmit sounds to the ear. + +We also breathe the ether which is charged with pictures of our +surroundings and the sounds in our environment, so that by means of the +breath we receive at each moment of our life, _internally_ an accurate +picture of our external surroundings. + +That is a scientific proposition. Science does not explain what becomes of +these vibrations however, but according to the Rosicrucian Mystery +teaching they are transmitted to the blood, and then etched upon a little +atom in the heart as automatically as a moving picture is imprinted upon +the sensitized film, and a record of sounds is engraven upon the +phonographic disc. This breath-record starts with the first breath of the +newborn babe and ends only with the last gasp of the dying man, and “soul” +is a product of the breath. Genesis also shows the connection between +breath and soul in the words: “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of +the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man +became a living soul” (The same word: _nephesh_, is translated breath and +soul in the above quotation.) + +In the post mortem existence the breath-record is disposed of. The good +acts of life produce feelings of pleasure and the intensity of attraction +incorporates them into the spirit as soul-power. _Thus the breath-records +of our good acts are the soul which is saved_, for by the union with the +spirit they become immortal. As they accumulate life after life, we become +more soulful and they are thus also the basis of soulgrowth. + +The record of our evil acts is also derived from our breath in the moments +when they were committed. The pain and suffering they bring cause the +spirit to expel the breath-record from its being in Purgatory. As that +cannot exist independently of the life-giving spirit, the breath-record of +our sins disintegrates upon expurgation, and thus we see that “the soul +that sinneth, it shall die.” The memory of the suffering incidental to +expurgation however, remains with the spirit as _conscience_, to deter +from repetition of the same evil in later lives. + +Thus both our good and evil acts are recorded through the agency of the +breath, which is therefore the basis of the soul, but while the +breath-record of good acts amalgamates with the spirit and lives on +forever as an immortal soul, the breath-record of evil deeds is +disintegrated; it is the soul that sinneth and dies. + +While the Bible teaches that immortality of the soul is conditional upon +well-doing, it makes no distinction in respect of the spirit. The +statement is clear and emphatic that when ... “The silver cord be loosed +... then shall the dust return to the earth as it was and the spirit shall +return to God who gave it.” + +Thus the Bible teaches that the body is made of dust and returns thereto, +that a part of the soul generated in the breath is perishable, but that +the spirit survives bodily death and persists forever. Therefore a “lost +soul” in the common acceptance of that term is not a Bible teaching, for +the spirit is uncreate and eternal as God Himself, and therefore the +orthodox theory cannot be true. + +3) THE THEORY OF REBIRTHS _which teaches that each spirit is an integral +part of God, that it enfolds all divine possibilities as the acorn enfolds +the oak; that by means of many existences in an earthy body of gradually +__ improving texture its latent powers are being slowly unfolded and +become available as dynamic energy; that none can be lost but that all +will ultimately attain to perfection and reunion with God, each bringing +with it the accumulated experience which is the fruitage of its pilgrimage +through matter._ + +Or, as we may poetically express it: + +WE ARE ETERNAL. + + + On whistling stormcloud; on Zephyrus wing, + The Spirit-choir loud the World-anthems sing + Hark! Lis’t to their voice “we have passed through death’s door + There’s no Death; rejoice! life lives evermore.” + + We are, have always been, will ever be. + We are a portion of Eternity + Older than Creation, a part of One Great Whole, + Is each Individual and immortal Soul. + + On Time’s whirring loom our garments we’ve wrought + Eternally weave we on network of Thought, + Our kin and our country, by Mind brought to birth, + Were patterned in heaven ere molded on earth. + + We have shone in the Jewel and danced on the Wave, + We have sparkled in Fire defying the grave; + Through shapes everchanging, in size, kind and name + Our individual essence still is the same. + + And when we have reached to the highest of all, + The gradations of growth our minds shall recall + So that link by link we may join them together + And trace step by step the way we reached thither. + + Thus in time we shall know, if only we do + What lifts, ennobles, is right and true. + With kindness to all; with malice to none, + That in and through us God’s will may be done. + + +We venture to make the assertion that there is but one sin: _Ignorance_ +and but one salvation: _Applied Knowledge_. Even the wisest among us know +but little of what may be learned, however, and no one has attained to +perfection, or can attain in one single short life, but we note that +everywhere in nature slow persistent unfoldment makes for higher and +higher development of every thing and we call this process evolution. + +One of the chief characteristics of evolution lies in the fact that it +manifests in alternating periods of activity and rest. The busy summer, +when all things upon earth are exerting themselves to bring forth, is +followed by the rest and inactivity of winter. The busy day alternates +with the quiet of night. The ebb of the ocean is succeeded by the +flood-tide. Thus, as all other things move in cycles, the life that +expresses itself here upon earth for a few years is not to be thought of +as ended when death has been reached, but as surely as the sun rises in +the morning after having set at night, will the life that was ended by the +death of one body be taken up again in a new vehicle and in a different +environment. + +This earth may in fact be likened to a school to which we return life +after life to learn new lessons, as our children go to school day after +day to increase their knowledge. The child sleeps through the night which +intervenes between two days at school and the spirit also has its rest +from active life between death and a new birth. There are also different +classes in this world-school which correspond to the various grades from +kindergarten to college. In the lower classes we find spirits who have +gone to the school of life but a few times, they are savages now, but in +time they will become wiser and better than we are, and we ourselves shall +progress in future lives to spiritual heights of which we cannot even +conceive at the present. If we apply ourselves to learn the lessons of +life, we shall of course advance much faster in the school of life than if +we dilly-dally and idle our time away. This, on the same principle which +governs in one of our own institutions of learning. + +We are not here then, by the caprice of God. He has not placed one in +clover and another in a desert nor has He given one a healthy body so that +he may live at ease from pain and sickness, while He placed another in +poor circumstances with never a rest from pain. But what we are, we are, +on account of our own diligence or negligence, and what we shall be in the +future depends upon what we will to be and not upon Divine caprice or upon +inexorable fate. No matter what the circumstances, it lies with us to +master them, or to be mastered, as we will. Sir Edwin Arnold puts the +teaching most beautifully in his “Light of Asia.” + + + “The Books say well, my Brothers! each man’s life + The outcome of his former living is; + The bygone wrongs bring forth sorrows and woes + The bygone right breeds bliss. + + Each has such lordship as the loftiest ones + Nay for with powers around, above, below + As with all flesh and whatsoever lives + _Act_ maketh joy or woe. + + Who toiled a slave may come anew a prince + For gentle worthiness and merit won; + Who ruled a king may wander earth in rags + For things done or undone.” + + +Or, as an unknown poet says: + + + “One ship sails East and another sails West + With the self same winds that blow. + ’Tis the set of the sail, and not the gale, + Which determines the way they go. + + As the winds of the sea are the ways of fate + As we voyage along through life. + ’Tis the act of the soul, which determines the goal + And not the calm or the strife.” + + +When we wish to engage someone to undertake a certain mission we choose +some one whom we think particularly fitted to fulfill the requirements and +we must suppose that a Divine Being would use at least as much common +sense, and not choose anyone to go his errand who was not fitted therefor. +So when we read in the Bible that Samson was foreordained to be the slayer +of the Philistines and that Jeremiah was predestined to be a prophet, it +is but logical to suppose that they must have been particularly suited to +such occupation. John the Baptist also, was born to be a herald of the +coming Savior and to preach the kingdom of God which is to take the place +of the kingdom of men. + +Had these people had no previous training, how could they have developed +such a fitness to fulfill their various missions, and if they had been +fitted, how else could they have received their training if not in earlier +lives? + +The Jews believed in the Doctrine of Rebirth or they would not have asked +John the Baptist if he were Elijah, as recorded in the first chapter of +John. The Apostles of Christ also held the belief as we may see from the +incident recorded in the sixteenth chapter of Matthew where the Christ +asked them the question: “Whom do men say that I the Son of Man am?” The +Apostles replied: “Some say that Thou art John the Baptist; some, Elias; +and others Jeremias or one of the Prophets.” Upon this occasion the Christ +tacitly assented to the teaching of Rebirth because He did not correct the +disciples as would have been His plain duty in His capacity as teacher, +when the pupils entertained a mistaken idea. + +But to Nicodemus He said unequivocally: “Except a man be born again, he +cannot see the kingdom of God” and in the eleventh chapter of Matthew, the +fourteenth verse, He said, speaking of John the Baptist: “_this __ is +Elijah_,” in the seventeenth chapter of Matthew, the twelfth verse, He +said: “Elijah has come already and they knew him not, but have done to him +whatsoever they listed, ... then the disciples understood that he spoke to +them of John the Baptist.” + +Thus we maintain that the Doctrine of Rebirth offers the only solution to +the problem of life which is in harmony with the laws of nature, which +answers the ethical requirements of the case and permits us to love God +without blinding our reason to the inequalities of life and the varying +circumstances which give to a few the ease and comfort, the health and +wealth, which are denied to the many. + +The theory of Heredity advanced by Materialists applies only to the +_form_, for as a carpenter uses material from a certain pile of lumber to +build a house in which he afterwards lives, so does the spirit take the +substance wherewith to build its house from the parents. The carpenter +cannot build a house of hard wood from spruce lumber and the spirit also +must build a body which is like those from which the material was taken, +but the theory of Heredity does not apply upon the moral plane, for it is +a notorious fact, that in the rogues galleries of America and Europe there +is no case where both father and son are represented. Thus the sons of +criminals, though they have the tendencies to crime, keep out of the +clutches of the law. Neither will Heredity hold good upon the plane of the +intellect, for many cases may be cited where a genius and an idiot spring +from the same stock. The great Cuvier, whose brain was of about the same +weight, as Daniel Webster’s, and whose intellect was as great, had five +children who all died of paresis, the brother of Alexander the Great was +an idiot, and thus we hold that another solution must be found to account +for the facts of life. + +The law of Rebirth coupled with its companion law, the law of Causation +does that. When we die after one life, we return to earth later, under +circumstances determined by the manner in which we lived before. The +gambler is drawn to pool parlors and race tracks to associate with others +of like taste, the musician is attracted to the concert halls and music +studios, by congenial spirits, and the returning Ego also carries with it +its likes and dislikes which cause it to seek parents among the class to +which it belongs. + +But then someone will point to cases where we find people of entirely +opposite tastes living lives of torture, because grouped in the same +family, and forced by circumstances to stay there contrary to their wills. +But that does not vitiate the law in the slightest, in each life we +contract certain obligations which cannot then be fulfilled. Perhaps we +have run away from a duty such as the care of an invalid relative and have +met death without coming to a realization of our mistake. That relative +upon the other hand may have suffered severely from our neglect, and have +stored up a bitterness against us before death terminates the suffering. +Death and the subsequent removal to another environment does not pay our +debts in this life, any more than the removal from the city where we now +live to another place will pay the debts we have contracted prior to our +removal. It is therefore quite possible that the two who have injured each +other as described, may find themselves members of the same family. Then, +whether they remember the past grudge or not, the old enmity will assert +itself and cause them to hate anew until the consequent discomfort forces +them to tolerate each other, and perhaps later they may learn to love +where they hated. + +The question also arises in the mind of inquirers: If we have been here +before why do we not remember? And the answer is, that while most people +are not aware of how their previous existences were spent, there are +others who have a very distinct recollection of previous lives. A friend +of the writer’s for instance, when living in France, one day started to +read to her son about a certain city where they were then going upon a +bicycle tour, and the boy exclaimed: you do not need to tell me about that +mother. I know that city, I lived there and was killed! He then commenced +to describe the city and also a certain bridge. Later he took his mother +to that bridge and showed her the spot where he had met death centuries +before. Another friend travelling in Ireland saw a scene which she +recognized and she also described to the party the scene around the bend +of the road which she had never seen in this life, so it must have been a +memory from a previous life. Numerous other instances could be given where +such minor flashes of memory reveal to us glimpses from a past life. The +verified case in which a little three year old girl in Santa Barbara +described her life and death has been given in the Rosicrucian Cosmo +Conception. It is perhaps the most conclusive evidence as it hinges on the +veracity of a child too young to have learned deception. + +This theory of life does not rest upon speculation however, it is one of +the first facts of life demonstrated to the pupil of a Mystery school. He +is taught to watch a child in the act of dying, also, to watch it in the +invisible world from day to day, until it comes to a new birth a year or +two later. Then he knows with absolute certainty that we return to earth +to reap in a future life what we now sow. + +The reason for taking a child to watch in preference to an adult, is, that +the child is reborn very quickly, for its short life on earth has borne +but few fruits and these are soon assimilated, while the adult who has +lived a long life, and had much experience remains in the invisible worlds +for centuries, so that the pupil could not watch him from death to +rebirth. The cause of infant mortality will be explained later, here we +merely desire to emphasize the fact that it is within the range of +possibilities of every one without exception to become able to know at +first hand that which is here taught. + +The average interval between two earth-lives is about a thousand years. It +is determined by the movement of the sun known to astronomers as +_precession of the equinox_, by which the sun moves through one of the +signs of the Zodiac in about 2100 years. During that time the conditions +upon earth have changed so much that the spirit will find entirely new +experiences here, and therefore it returns. + +The Great Leaders of evolution always obtain the maximum benefit from each +condition designed by them, and as the experiences in the same social +conditions are very different in the case of a man from what they are for +a woman, the human spirit takes birth twice during the 2100 years measured +by the precession of the equinox as already explained, it is born once as +a man and another time as a woman. Such is the rule, but it is subject to +whatever modifications may be necessary to facilitate reaping what the +spirit has sown, as required under the law of Causation which works hand +in hand with the law of Rebirth. Thus, at times a spirit may be brought to +birth long ere the thousand years have expired, in order to fulfill a +certain mission, or it may be detained in the invisible worlds after the +time when it should have come to birth according to the strict +requirements of a blind law. The laws of nature are not that however. They +are Great Intelligences who always subordinate minor considerations to +higher ends, and under their beneficent guidance we are constantly +progressing from life to life under conditions exactly suited to each +individual, until in time we shall attain to a higher evolution and become +Supermen. + +Oliver Wendell Holmes has so beautifully voiced that aspiration and its +consummation in the lines: + + + “Build thee more stately mansions Oh! my soul, + As the swift seasons roll, + Leave thy low-vaulted past; + Let each new temple, nobler than the last, + Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast. + Till thou at length art free, + Leaving thy outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea.” + + + + + +CHAPTER III. THE VISIBLE AND THE INVISIBLE WORLD + + +_The Chemical Region._ + +If one who is capable of consciously using his spiritual body with the +same facility that we now use our physical vehicles should glide away from +the earth into interplanetary space, the earth and the various other +planets of our solar system would appear to him to be composed of three +kinds of matter, roughly speaking. The densest matter, which is our +visible earth, would appear to him as being the center of the ball as the +yolk is in the center of an egg. Around that nucleus he would observe a +finer grade of matter similarly disposed in relation to the central mass, +as the white of the egg is disposed outside the yolk. Upon a little closer +investigation he would also discover that this second kind of substance +permeates the solid earth to the very center, even as the blood percolates +through the more solid parts of our flesh. Outside both of these mingling +layers of matter he would observe a still finer, third layer corresponding +to the shell of the egg, except that this third layer is the finest most +subtile of the three grades of matter, and that it inter-penetrates both +of the two inner layers. + +As already said, the central mass, spiritually seen, is our visible world, +composed of solids, liquids and gases. They constitute the earth, its +atmosphere, and also the ether, of which physical science speaks +hypothetically as permeating the atomic substance of all chemical +elements. The second layer of matter is called the Desire World and the +outermost layer is called the World of Thought. + +A little reflection upon the subject will make clear that just such a +constitution is necessary to account for facts of life as we see them. All +forms in the world about us are built from chemical substances: solids, +liquids and gases, but in so far that they do move, these forms obey a +separate and distinct impulse, and when this impelling energy leaves, the +form becomes inert. The steam engine rotates under the impetus of an +invisible gas called steam. Before steam filled its cylinder, the engine +stood still, and when the impelling force is shut off its motion again +ceases. The dynamo rotates under the still more subtile influence of an +electric current which may also cause the click of a telegraph instrument +or the ring of an electric bell, but the dynamo ceases its swift whirl and +the persistent ring of the electric bell becomes mute when the invisible +electricity is switched off. The form of the bird, the animal and the +human being also cease their motion when the inner force which we call +_life_ has winged its invisible way. + +All forms are impelled into motion by desire:—the bird and the animal roam +land and air in their desire to secure food and shelter, or for the +purpose of breeding, man is also moved by these desires, but has in +addition other and higher incentives to spur him to effort, among them is +desire for rapidity of motion which led him to construct the steam engine +and other devices that move in obedience to _his_ desire. + +If there were no iron in the mountains man could not build machines. If +there were no clay in the soil, the bony structure of the skeleton would +be an impossibility, and if there were no Physical World at all, with its +solids, liquids and gases, this dense body of ours could never have come +into existence. Reasoning along similar lines it must be at once apparent +that if there were no Desire World composed of desire-stuff, we should +have no way of forming feelings, emotions and desires. A planet composed +of the materials we perceive with our _physical_ eyes and of no other +substances, might be the home of plants which grow unconsciously, but have +no desires to cause them to move. The human and animal kingdoms however, +would be impossibilities. + +Furthermore, there is in the world a vast number of things, from the +simplest and most crude instruments, to the most intricate and cunning +devices which have been constructed by the hand of man. These reveal the +fact of man’s thought and ingenuity. Thought must have a source as well as +_form_ and _feeling_. We saw that it was necessary to have the requisite +material in order to build a steam engine or a body and we reasoned from +the fact that in order to obtain material to express _desire_ there must +also be a world composed of desire stuff. Carrying our argument to its +logical conclusion, we also hold that unless a World of Thought provides a +reservoir of mind stuff upon which we may draw, it would be impossible for +us to think and invent the things which we see in even the lowest +civilization. + +Thus it will be clear that the division of a planet into worlds is not +based on fanciful metaphysical speculation, but is logically necessary in +the economy of nature. Therefore it must be taken into consideration by +any one who would study and aim to understand the inner nature of things. +When we see the street cars moving along our streets, it does not explain +to say that the motor is driven by electricity of so many amperes at so +many volts. These names only add to our confusion until we have thoroughly +studied the science of electricity and then we shall find that the mystery +deepens, for while the street car belongs to the world of _inert form_ +perceptible to our vision, the electric current which moves it is +indigenous to the realm of _force_, the invisible Desire World, and the +thought which created and guides it, comes from the still more subtile +World of Thought which is the home world of the human spirit, the Ego. + +It may be objected that this line of argument makes a simple matter +exceedingly intricate, but a little reflection will soon show the fallacy +of such a contention. Viewed superficially any of the sciences seem +extremely simple; anatomically we may divide the body into flesh and bone, +chemically we may make the simple divisions between solid, liquid and gas, +but to thoroughly master the science of anatomy it is necessary to spend +years in close application and learn to know all the little nerves, the +ligaments which bind articulations between various parts of the bony +structure, to study the several kinds of tissue and their disposition in +our system where they form the bones, muscles, glands, etc., which in the +aggregate we know as the human body. To properly understand the science of +chemistry we must study the valence of the atom which determines the power +of combination of the various elements, together with other niceties, such +as atomic weight, density, etc. New wonders are constantly opening up to +the most experienced chemist, who understands best the immensity of his +chosen science. + +The youngest lawyer, fresh from law school knows more about the most +intricate cases, in his own estimation, than the judges upon the Supreme +Court bench who spend long hours, weeks and months, seriously deliberating +over their decisions. But those who, without having studied, think they +understand and are fitted to discourse upon the greatest of all sciences, +the science of Life and Being, make a greater mistake. After years of +patient study, of holy life spent in close application, a man is +oftentimes perplexed at the immensity of the subject he studies. He finds +it to be so vast in both the direction of the great and small that it +baffles description, that language fails, and that the tongue must remain +mute. Therefore we hold, (and we speak from knowledge gained through years +of close study and investigation), that the finer distinctions which we +have made, and shall make, are not at all arbitrary, but absolutely +necessary as are divisions and distinctions made in anatomy or chemistry. + +No form in the physical world has feeling in the true sense of that word. +It is the indwelling life which feels, as we may readily see from the fact +that a body which responded to the slightest touch while instinct with +life, exhibits no sensation whatever even when cut to pieces after the +life has fled. Demonstrations have been made by scientists, particularly +by Professor Bose of Calcutta, to show that there is feeling in dead +animal tissue and even in tin and other metal, but we maintain that the +diagrams which seem to support his contentions in reality demonstrate only +a response to impacts similar to the rebound of a rubber ball, and that +must not be confused with such feelings as _love_, _hate_, _sympathy_ and +_aversion_. Goethe also, in his novel “Elective Affinities,” +(Wahlverwandtschaft), brings out some beautiful illustrations wherein he +makes it seem as if atoms loved and hated, from the fact that some +elements combine readily while other substances refuse to amalgamate, a +phenomenon produced by the different rates of speed at which various +elements vibrate and an unequal inclination of their axes. Only where +there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow +or joy. + +_The Etheric Region._ + +In addition to the solids, liquids and gases which compose the _Chemical +Region_ of the Physical World there is also a finer grade of matter called +Ether, which permeates the atomic structure of the earth and its +atmosphere substantially as science teaches. Scientists have never seen, +nor have they weighed, measured or analyzed this substance, but they infer +that it must exist in order to account for transmission of light and +various other phenomena. If it were possible for us to live in a room from +which the air had been exhausted we might speak at the top of our voices, +we might ring the largest bell or we might even discharge a cannon close +to our ear and we should hear no sound, for air is the medium which +transmits sound vibrations to the tympanum of our ear, and that would be +lacking. But if an electric light were lighted, we should at once perceive +its rays; it would illumine the room despite the lack of air. Hence there +must be a substance, capable of being set into vibration, between the +electric light and our eyes. That medium scientists call ether, but it is +so subtile that no instrument has been devised whereby it may be measured +or analyzed and therefore the scientists are without much information +concerning it, though forced to postulate its existence. + +We do not seek to belittle the achievements of modern scientists, we have +the greatest admiration for them and we entertain high expectations of +what ambitions they may yet realize, but we perceive a limitation in the +fact, that all discoveries of the past have been made by the invention of +wonderful instruments applied in a most ingenious manner to solve +seemingly insoluble and baffling problems. The strength of science lies +vested in its instruments, for the scientist may say to anyone: Go, +procure a number of glasses ground in a certain manner, insert them in a +tube, direct that tube toward a certain point in the sky where now nothing +appears to your naked eye. You will then see a beautiful star called +Uranus. If his directions are followed, anyone is _quickly and without +preparation_, able to demonstrate for himself the truth of the scientist’s +assertion. But while the instruments of science are its tower of strength +they also mark the end of its field of investigation, for it is impossible +to contact the spirit world with _physical_ instruments, so the research +of occultists begins where the physical scientist finds his limit and are +carried on by _spiritual_ means. + +These investigations are as thorough and as reliable as researches by +material scientists, but not as easily demonstrable to the general public. +Spiritual powers lie dormant within every human being, and when awakened, +they compensate for both telescope and microscope, they enable their +possessor to investigate, _instanter_, things beyond the veil of matter, +but they are only developed by a patient application and continuance in +well doing extended over years, and few are they who have faith to start +upon the path to attainment or perseverance to go through with the ordeal. +Therefore the occultist’s assertions are not generally credited. + +We can readily see that long probation must precede attainment, for a +person equipped with spiritual sight is able to penetrate walls of houses +as easily as we walk through the atmosphere, able to read at will the +innermost thoughts of those about him; if not actuated by the most pure +and unselfish motives, he would be a scourge to humanity. Therefore that +power is safeguarded as we would withhold the dynamite bomb from an +anarchist and from the well-intentioned but ignorant person, or, as we +withhold match and powder barrel from a child. + +In the hands of an experienced engineer the dynamite bomb may be used to +open a highway of commerce, and an intelligent farmer may use gunpowder to +good account in clearing his field of tree-stumps, but in the hands of an +ill-intentioned criminal or ignorant child an explosive may wreck much +property and end many lives. The force is the same, but used differently, +according to the ability or intention of the user, it may produce results +of a diametrically opposite nature. So it is also with spiritual powers, +there is a time-lock upon them, as upon a bank safe, which keeps out all +until they have earned the privilege and the time is ripe for its +exercise. + +As already said, the ether is physical matter and responsive to the same +laws which govern other physical substances upon this plane of existence. +Therefore it requires but a slight extension of _physical_ sight to see +ether, (which is disposed in four grades of density), the blue haze seen +in mountain canyons is in fact ether of the kind known to occult +investigators as “_chemical ether_.” Many people who see this ether, are +unaware that they are possessed of a faculty not enjoyed by all. Others, +who have developed spiritual sight are not endowed with etheric vision, a +fact which seems an anomaly until the subject of clairvoyance is +thoroughly understood. + +The reason is, that as ether is physical matter, etheric sight depends +upon the sensitiveness of the optic nerve while spiritual sight is +acquired by developing latent vibratory powers in two little organs +situated in the brain: the Pituitary body and the Pineal gland. +Nearsighted people even, may have etheric vision. Though unable to read +the print in a book, they may be able to “see through a wall,” owing to +the fact that their optic nerve responds more rapidly to fine than to +coarse vibrations. + +When anyone views an object with etheric sight he sees _through_ that +object in a manner similar to the way an x-ray penetrates opaque +substances. If he looks at a sewing machine, he will perceive, first an +outer casing; then, the works within, and behind both, the casing furthest +away from him. + +If he has developed the grade of spiritual vision which opens the Desire +World to him and he looks at the same object, he will see it both inside +and out. If he looks closely, he will perceive every little atom spinning +upon its axis and no part or particle will be excluded from his +perception. + +But if his spiritual sight has been developed in such a measure that he is +capable of viewing the sewing machine with the vision peculiar to the +World of Thought, he will behold a cavity where he had previously seen the +form. + +Things seen with etheric vision are very much alike in color, they are +nearly reddish-blue, purple or violet, according to the density of the +ether, but when we view any object with the spiritual sight pertaining to +the Desire World, it scintillates and coruscates in a thousand ever +changing colors so indescribably beautiful that they can only be compared +to living fire, and the writer therefore calls this grade of vision _color +sight_, but when the spiritual vision of the World of Thought is the +medium of perception, the seer finds that in addition to still more +beautiful colors, there issues from the cavity described a constant flow +of a certain harmonious _tone_. Thus this world wherein we now consciously +live and which we perceive by means of our physical senses is preeminently +the world of _form_, the Desire World is particularly the world of _color_ +and the World of Thought is the realm of _tone_. + +Because of the relative proximity or distance of these worlds, a statue, a +_form_, withstands the ravages of time for millenniums, but the _colors_ +upon a painting fade in far shorter time, for they come from the Desire +World, and _music_ which is native to the World furthest removed from us, +the World of Thought, is like a will-o-the-wisp which none may catch or +hold, it is gone again as soon as it has made its appearance. But there is +in color and music a compensation for this increasing evanescence. + +The statue is cold and dead as the mineral of which it is composed and has +attractions for but few though its _form is_ a tangible reality. + +The forms upon a painting are illusory yet they express _life_, on account +of the _color_ which has come from a region where nothing is inert and +lifeless. Therefore the painting is enjoyed by many. + +Music is intangible and ephemeral, but it comes from the home world of the +spirit and though so fleeting it is recognized by the spirit as a +_soul-speech_ fresh from the celestial realms, an echo from the home +whence we are now exiled, and therefore it touches a cord in our being, +regardless of whether we realize the true cause or not. + +Thus we see that there are various grades of spiritual sight, each suited +to the superphysical realm which it opens to our perception: Etheric +vision, color vision and tonal vision. + +The occult investigator finds that ether is of four kinds, or grades of +density: + +The Chemical Ether, +The Life Ether, +The Light Ether, +The Reflecting Ether. + +_The Chemical Ether_ is the avenue of expression for forces promoting +assimilation, growth and the maintenance of form. + +_The Life Ether_ is the vantage ground of forces active in propagation, or +the building of new forms. + +_The Light Ether_ transmits the motive power of the sun along the various +nerves of _living_ bodies and makes motion possible. + +_The Reflecting Ether_ receives an impression of all that is, lives and +moves. It also records each change, in a similar manner as the film upon a +moving picture machine. In this record mediums and psychometrists may read +the past, upon the same principle as, under proper conditions, moving +pictures are reproduced time and again. + +We have been speaking of ether as an avenue of _forces_, a word which +conveys no meaning to the average mind, because force is invisible. But to +an occult investigator the forces are not merely names such as steam, +electricity, etc. He finds them to be intelligent beings of varying +grades, both sub and superhuman. What we call “laws of nature,” are great +intelligences which guide more elemental beings in accordance with certain +rules designed to further their evolution. + +In the Middle Ages, when many people were still endowed with a remnant of +_negative_ clairvoyance, they spoke of Gnomes and Elves or Fairies, which +roamed about the mountains and forests. These were the _earth_ spirits. +They also told of the Undine or _water_-sprite, which inhabited rivers and +streams, of Sylphs which were said to dwell in the mists above moat and +moor, as air spirits, but not much was said of the Salamanders, as they +are, fire spirits, and therefore not so easily detected, or so readily +accessible to the majority of people. + +The old folk stories are now regarded as superstitions, but as a matter of +fact, one endowed with etheric vision may yet perceive the little gnomes +building green chlorophyll into the leaves of plants and giving to flowers +the multiplicity of delicate tints which delight our eyes. + +Scientists have attempted time and again to offer an adequate explanation +of the phenomenon of wind and storm but have failed signally, nor can they +succeed while they seek a mechanical solution to what is really a +manifestation of life. Could they see the hosts of sylphs winging their +way hither and thither, they would _know_ who and what is responsible for +the fickleness of the wind; could they watch a storm at sea from the +etheric view-point they would perceive that the saying “the war of the +elements” is not an empty phrase, for the heaving sea is truly then a +battlefield of sylphs and undines and the howling tempest is the war cry +of spirits in the air. + +Also the salamanders are found everywhere and no fire is lighted without +their help, but they are mostly active underground. They are responsible +for explosions and volcanic eruptions. + +The classes of beings which we have mentioned are still sub-human, but +will all at some time reach a stage in evolution corresponding to the +human, though under different circumstances from those under which we +evolve. But at present the wonderful intelligences we speak of as the laws +of nature, marshall the armies of less evolved entities mentioned. + +To arrive at a better understanding of what these various beings are, and +their relation to us, we may take an illustration: Let us suppose that a +mechanic is making an engine, and meanwhile a dog is watching him. It +_sees_ the man at his labor, and how he uses various tools to shape his +materials, also how, from the crude iron, steel, brass and other metals +the engine slowly takes shape. The dog is a being from a lower evolution +and does not comprehend the purpose of the mechanic but it _sees_ both the +workman, his labor and the result thereof, which manifests as an engine. + +Let us now suppose that the dog were able to see the materials which +slowly change their shape, assemble and become an engine but that it is +unable to perceive the workman and to see the work he does. The dog would +then be in the same relation to the mechanic as we are to the great +intelligences we call laws of nature, and their assistants, the nature +spirits, for we behold the manifestations of their work as _force_ moving +matter in various ways but always under immutable conditions. + +In the ether we may also observe the angels, whose densest body is made of +that material, as our dense body is formed of gases, liquids and solids. +These beings are one step beyond the human stage, as we are a degree in +advance of the animal evolution. We have never been animals like our +present fauna, however, but at a previous stage in the development of our +planet we had an animal-like constitution. Then the angels were human, +though they have never possessed a dense body such as ours, nor ever +functioned in any material denser than ether. At some time, in a future +condition, the earth will again become ethereal. Then man will be _like_ +the angels. Therefore the Bible tells us that man was made _a little +while_ lower than the angels (Paul’s letter to the Hebrews, second +chapter, seventh verse; _see marginal reading_.) + +As ether is the avenue of vital, creative forces, and as angels are such +expert builders of ether, we may readily understand that they are +eminently fitted to be warders of the propagative forces in plant, animal +and man. All through the Bible we find them thus engaged: Two _angels_ +came to Abraham and announced the birth of Isaac, they _promised_ a child +to the man who had obeyed God. Later _these same angels_ destroyed Sodom +for _abuse of the creative force_. _Angels_ foretold _to the parents_ of +Samuel and Samson, the birth of these giants of brain and brawn. To +Elizabeth came the _angel_ (not archangel) Gabriel and announced the birth +of John, later he appeared also to Mary with the message that she was +chosen to bear Jesus. + +_The Desire World._ + +When spiritual sight is developed so that it becomes possible to behold +the Desire World, many wonders confront the newcomer, for conditions are +so widely different from what they are here, that a description must sound +quite as incredible as a fairy tale to anyone who has not himself seen +them. Many cannot even believe that such a world exists, and that other +people can see that which is invisible to them, yet some people are blind +to the beauties of this world which we see. A man who was born blind, may +say to us: I know that this world exists, I can hear, I can smell, I can +taste and above all I can feel but when you speak of light and of color, +they are nonexistent to me. You say that you _see_ these things, I cannot +believe it for I cannot _see_ myself. You say that light and color are all +about me, but none of the senses at my command reveal them to me and I do +not believe that the sense you call _sight_ exists. I think you suffer +from hallucinations. We might sympathize very sincerely with the poor man +who is thus afflicted, but his scepticism, reasonings and objections and +sneers notwithstanding we would be obliged to maintain that we perceive +light and color. + +The man whose spiritual sight has been awakened is in a similar position +with respect to those who do not perceive the Desire World of which he +speaks. If the blind man acquires the faculty of sight by an operation, +his eyes are opened and he will be compelled to assert the existence of +light and color which he formerly denied, and when spiritual sight is +acquired by anyone, he also perceives for himself the facts related by +others. Neither is it an argument against the existence of spiritual +realms that seers are at variance in their descriptions of conditions in +the invisible world. We need but to look into books on travel, and compare +stories brought home by explorers of China, India or Africa and we shall +find them differing widely and often contradictory, because each traveler +saw things from his own standpoint, under other conditions than those met +by his brother authors, and we maintain that the man who has read most +widely these varying tales concerning a certain Country _and wrestled with +the contradictions of narrators_, will have a more comprehensive idea of +the country or people of whom he has read, than the man who has only read +one story assented to by all the authors. Similarly, the varying stories +of visitors to the Desire World are of value, because giving a fuller +view, and more rounded, than if all had seen things from the same angle. + +In this world matter and force are widely different. The chief +characteristic of matter here is _inertia_: the tendency to remain at rest +until acted upon by a force which sets it in motion. In the Desire World, +on the contrary, force and matter are almost indistinguishable one from +the other. We might almost describe desire-stuff as force-matter, for it +is in incessant motion, responsive to the slightest _feeling_ of a vast +multitude of beings which populate this wonderful world in nature. We +often speak of the “teeming millions” of China and India, even of our vast +cities, London, New York, Paris or Chicago, we consider them overcrowded +in the extreme, yet even the densest population of any spot upon earth is +sparsely inhabited compared with the crowded conditions of the Desire +World. No inconvenience is felt by any of the denizens of that realm, +however, for, while in this world two things cannot occupy the same space +at the same time, it is different there. A number of people and things may +exist _in the same place at the same time_ and be engaged in most diverse +activities, regardless of what others are doing, such is the wonderful +elasticity of desire stuff. As an illustration we may mention a case where +the writer while attending religious service, plainly perceived at the +altar certain beings interested in furthering that service and working to +achieve that end. At the same time there drifted through the room and the +altar, a table at which four persons were engaged in playing cards. They +were as oblivious to the existence of the beings engaged in furthering our +religious service, as though these did not exist. + +The Desire World is the abode of those who have died, for some time +subsequent to that event, and we may mention in the above connection that +the so-called “dead” very often stay for a long while among their still +living friends. Unseen by their relatives they go about the familiar +rooms. At first they are often unaware of the condition mentioned: “that +two persons may be in the same place at the same time,” and when they seat +themselves in a chair or at the table, a living relative may take the +supposedly vacant seat. The man we mistakenly call dead will at first +hurry out of his seat to escape being sat upon, but he soon learns that +being sat upon does not hurt him in his altered condition, and that he may +remain in his chair regardless of the fact that his living relative is +also sitting there. + +In the lower regions of the Desire World the whole body of each being may +be seen, but in the highest regions only the head seems to remain. +Raphael, who like many other people in the middle ages was gifted with a +so-called _second sight_, pictured that condition for us in his Sistine +Madonna, now in the Dresden Art Gallery, where Madonna and the +Christ-child are represented as floating in a golden atmosphere and +surrounded by a host of genie-heads: conditions which the occult +investigator knows to be in harmony with actual facts. + +Among the entities who are, so to speak, “_native_” to that realm of +nature, none are perhaps better known to the Christian world than the +Archangels. These exalted Beings were human at a time in the earth’s +history when we were yet plant-like. Since then we have advanced two +steps: through the animal and to the human stage of development. The +present Archangels have also made two steps in progression; one, in which +they were similar to what the angels are now, and another step which made +them what we call Archangels. + +Their densest body, though differing from ours in shape, and made of +desire stuff, is used by them as a vehicle of consciousness in the same +manner that we use our body. They are expert manipulators of forces in the +Desire World, and these forces, as we shall see, move all the world to +action. Therefore the Archangels work with humanity _industrially_ and +_politically_ as arbitrators of the destiny of peoples and nations. The +Angels may be said to be _family_-spirits whose mission is to unite a few +spirits as members of a family, and cement them with ties of blood and +love of kin, while the Archangels may be called race and national spirits, +as they unite whole nations by patriotism or love of home and country. +They are responsible for the rise and fall of nations, they give war or +peace, victory or defeat as it serves the best interests of the people +they rule. This we may see, for instance, from the book of Daniel, where +the Archangel Michael (not to be confounded with the Michael, who is +ambassador from the sun to the earth), is called the prince of the +children of Israel. Another Archangel tells Daniel, (in the tenth chapter) +that he intends to fight the prince of Persia by means of the Greeks. + +There are varying grades of intelligence among human beings, some are +qualified to hold high and lofty positions entirely beyond the ability of +others. So it is also among higher beings, not all Archangels are fitted +to govern a nation and rule the destiny of a race, people or tribe, some +are not fitted to rule human beings at all, but as the animals also have a +desire nature these lower grades of Archangels govern the animals as +group-spirits and evolve to higher capacity thereby. + +The work of the race spirits is readily observable in the people it +governs. The lower in the scale of evolution the people, the more they +show a certain racial likeness. That is due to the work of the race +spirit. One national spirit is responsible for the swarthy complexion +common to Italians, for instance, while another causes the Scandinavians +to be blond. In the more advanced types of humanity there is a wider +divergence from the common type, due to the individualized Ego, which thus +expresses in form and feature its own particular idiosyncrasies. Among the +lower types of humanity such as Mongolians, native African Negroes and +South Sea Islanders, the resemblance of individuals in each tribe makes it +almost impossible for civilized Westerners to distinguish between them. +Among animals, where the separate spirit is not individualized and +self-conscious, the resemblance is not only much more marked physically +but extends even to traits and characteristics. We may write the biography +of a man, for the experiences of each varies from that of others and his +acts are different, but we cannot write the biography of an animal for +members of each tribe all act alike under similar circumstances. If we +desire to know the facts about Edward VII, it would profit us nothing to +study the life of the Prince-Consort, his father, or of George V, his son, +as both would be entirely different from Edward. In order to find out what +manner of man he was, we must study his own individual life. If, on the +other hand, we wish to know the characteristics of beavers, we may observe +any individual of the tribe, and when we have studied its idiosyncrasies, +we shall know the traits of the whole tribe of beavers. What we call +“instinct,” is in reality the dictates of group-spirits which govern +separate individuals of its tribe telepathically, as it were. + +The ancient Egyptians knew of these animal group spirits and sketched many +of them, in a crude way, upon their temples and tombs. Such figures with a +human body and an animal head actually live in the desire world. They may +be spoken to, and will be found much more intelligent than the average +human being. + +That statement brings up another peculiarity of conditions in the Desire +World in respect of language. Here in this World human speech is so +diversified that there are countries where people who live only a few +miles apart speak a dialect so different that they understand each other +with great difficulty, and each nation has its own language that varies +altogether from the speech of other peoples. + +In the lower Regions of the Desire World, there is the same diversity of +tongues as on earth, and the so-called “dead” of one nation find it +impossible to converse with those who lived in another country. Hence +linguistic accomplishments are of great value to the “Invisible Helpers”, +of whom we shall hear later, as their sphere of usefulness is enormously +extended by that ability. + +Even apart from difference of language our mode of speech is exceedingly +productive of misunderstandings. The same words often convey most opposite +ideas to different minds. If we speak of a “body of water”, one person may +think we mean a lake of small dimensions, the thoughts of another may be +directed to the great American Lakes and a third person’s thoughts may be +turned towards the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans. If we speak of a “light”, +one may think of a gas-light, another of an electric Arc-lamp, or if we +say “red”, one person may think we mean a delicate shade of pink and +another gets the idea of crimson. The misunderstandings of what words mean +goes even farther, as illustrated in the following. + +The writer once opened a reading room in a large city where he lectured, +and invited his audience to make use thereof. Among those who availed +themselves of the opportunity was a gentleman who had for many years been +a veritable “metaphysical tramp,” roaming from lecture to lecture, hearing +the teachings of everybody and practicing nothing. Like the Athenians on +Mars’ Hill, he was always looking for something “new,” particularly in the +line of phenomena, and his mind was in that seething chaotic state which +is one of the most prominent symptoms of “mental indigestion.” + +Having attended a number of our lectures he knew from the program that: +“The lecturer does not give readings, or cast horoscopes _for pay_.” But +seeing on the door of the newly opened reading room, the legend: “Free +Reading Room,” his erratic mind at once jumped to the conclusion that +although we were opposed to telling fortunes for pay, we were now going to +give free readings of the future in the Free Reading Room. He was much +disappointed that we did not intend to tell fortunes, either gratis or for +a consideration, and we changed our sign to “Free Library” in order to +obviate a repetition of the error. + +In the higher Regions of the Desire World the confusion of tongues gives +place to a universal mode of expression which absolutely prevents +misunderstandings of our meaning. There each of our thoughts takes a +definite form and color perceptible to all, and this thought-symbol emits +a certain tone, which is not a word, but it conveys our meaning to the one +we address no matter what language he spoke on earth. + +To arrive at an understanding of how such a universal language becomes +possible and is at once comprehended by all, without preparation, we may +take as an illustration the manner in which a musician reads music. A +German or a Polish composer may write an opera. Each has his own peculiar +terminology and expresses it in his own language. When that opera is to be +played by an Italian band master, or by a Spanish or American musician, it +need not be translated, the notes and symbols upon the page are a +universally understood language of symbols which is intelligible to +musicians of no matter what nationality. Similarly with figures, the +German counts: ein, zwei, drei; the Frenchman says: un, deux, trois, and +in English we use the words: one, two, three, but the figures: 1, 2, 3, +though differently spoken, are intelligible to all and mean the same. +There is no possibility of misunderstanding in the cases of either music +or figures. Thus it is also with the universal language peculiar to the +higher Regions of the Desire World and the still more subtile realms in +nature, it is intelligible to all, an exact mode of expression. + +Returning to our description of the entities commonly met with in the +lower Desire World, we may note that other systems of religion than the +Egyptian, already mentioned, have spoken of various classes of beings +native to these realms. The Zoroastrian Religion, for instance, mentions +_Seven Ameshaspends_ and the Izzards as having dominion over certain days +in the month and certain months in the year. The Christian religion speaks +of Seven Spirits before the Throne, which are the same beings the Persians +called Ameshaspends. Each of them rules over two months in the year while +the seventh: Michael, the highest, is their leader, for he is ambassador +from the sun to the earth, the others are ambassadors from the planets. +The Catholic religion with its abundant occult information takes most +notice of these “_star-angels_” and knows considerable about their +influence upon the affairs of the earth. + +The Ameshaspends, however, do not inhabit the lower Regions of the Desire +World but influence the Izzards. According to the old Persian legend these +beings are divisible into one group of twenty-eight classes, and another +group of three classes. Each of these classes has dominion over, or takes +the lead of all the other classes on one certain day of the month. They +regulate the weather conditions on that day and work with animal and man +in particular. At least the twenty-eight classes do that, the other group +of three classes has nothing to do with animals, because they have only +twenty-eight pair of spinal nerves, while human beings have thirty-one. +Thus animals are attuned to the lunar month of twenty-eight days, while +man is correlated to the solar month of thirty or thirty-one days. The +ancient Persians were astronomers but not physiologists, they had no means +of knowing the different nervous constitution of animal and man, but they +saw clairvoyantly these superphysical beings, they noted and recorded +their work with animal and men and our own anatomical investigations may +show us the reason for these divisions of the classes of Izzards recorded +in that ancient system of philosophy. + +Still another class of beings should be mentioned: those who have entered +the Desire World through the gate of death and are now hidden from our +physical vision. These so-called “dead” are in fact much more alive than +any of us, who are tied to a dense body and subject to all its +limitations, who are forced to slowly drag this clog along with us at the +rate of a few miles an hour, who must expend such an enormous amount of +energy upon propelling that vehicle that we are easily and quickly tired, +even when in the best of health and who are often confined to a bed, +sometimes for years, by the indisposition of this heavy mortal coil. But +when that is once shed and the freed spirit can again function in its +spiritual body, sickness is an unknown condition and distance is +annihilated, or at least practically so, for though it was necessary for +the Savior to liken the freed spirit to the wind which blows where it +listeth, that simile gives but a poor description of what actually takes +place in soul flights. Time is nonexistent there, as we shall presently +explain, so the writer has never been able to time himself, but has on +several occasions timed others when he was in the physical body and they +speeding through space upon a certain errand. Distances such as from the +Pacific Coast to Europe, the delivery of a short message there and the +return to the body has been accomplished in slightly less than one minute. +Therefore our assertion, that those whom we call dead are in reality much +more alive than we, is well founded in facts. + +We spoke of the dense body in which we now live, as a “clog” and a +“fetter.” It must not be inferred, however, that we sympathize with the +attitude of certain people who, when they have learned with what ease +soul-flights are accomplished, go about bemoaning the fact that they are +now imprisoned. They are constantly thinking of, and longing for, the day +when they shall be able to leave this mortal coil behind and fly away in +their spiritual body. Such an attitude of mind is decidedly mistaken, the +great and wise beings who are invisible leaders of our evolution have not +placed us here to no purpose. Valuable lessons are to be learned in this +visible world wherein we dwell, that cannot be learned in any other realm +of nature, and the very conditions of density and inertia whereof such +people complain, are factors which make it possible to acquire the +knowledge this world is designed to give. This fact was so amply +illustrated in a recent experience of the writer:—A friend had been +studying occultism for a number of years but had not studied astrology. + +Last year she became aroused to the importance of this branch of study as +a key to self knowledge and a means of understanding the natures of +others, also of developing the compassion for their errors, so necessary +in the cultivation of love of one’s neighbor. Love of our neighbor the +Savior enjoined upon us as the Supreme Commandment which is the +fulfillment of all laws, and as Astrology teaches us to _bear_ and +_forbear_, it helps as nothing else can in the development of the supreme +virtue. She therefore joined one of the classes started in Los Angeles by +the writer, but a sudden illness quickly ended in death and thus +terminated her study of the subject in the physical body, ere it was well +begun. + +Upon one of many occasions when she visited the writer subsequent to her +release from the body, she deplored the fact that it seemed so difficult +to make headway in her study of astrology. The writer advised continued +attendance at the classes, and suggested that she could surely get someone +“on the other side” to help her study. + +At this she exclaimed impatiently: “Oh yes! of course I attend the +classes, I have done so right along; I have also found a friend who helps +me here. But you cannot imagine how difficult it is to concentrate here +upon mathematical calculations and the judgment of a horoscope or in fact +upon any subject here, where every little thought-current takes you miles +away from your study. I used to think it difficult to concentrate when I +had a physical body, but it is not a circumstance to the obstacles which +face the student here.” + +The physical body was an anchor to her, and it is that to all of us. Being +dense, it is also to a great extent impervious to disturbing influences +from which the more subtle spiritual bodies do not shield us. It enables +us to bring our ideas to a logical conclusion with far less effort at +concentration than is necessary in that realm where all is in such +incessant and turbulent motion. Thus we are gradually developing the +faculty of holding our thoughts to a center by existence in this world, +and we should value our opportunities here, rather than deplore the +limitations which help in one direction more than they fetter in another. +In fact, we should never deplore any condition, each has its lesson. If we +try to learn what that lesson is and to assimilate the experience which +may be extracted therefrom, we are wiser than those who waste time in vain +regrets. + +We said there is no time in the Desire World, and the reader will readily +understand that such must be the case from the fact, already mentioned, +that nothing there is opaque. + +In this world the rotation of the opaque earth upon its axis is +responsible for the alternating conditions of day and night. We call it +Day—when the spot where we live is turned towards the sun and its rays +illumine our environment, but when our home is turned away from the sun +and its rays obstructed by the opaque earth we term the resulting +darkness: Night. The passage of the earth in its orbit around the sun +produces the seasons and the year, which are our divisions of time. But in +the Desire World where all is light there is but one long day. The spirit +is not there fettered by a heavy physical body, so it does not need sleep +and existence is unbroken. Spiritual substances are not subject to +contraction and expansion such as arise here from heat and cold, hence +summer and winter are also non-existent. Thus there is nothing to +differentiate one moment from another in respect of the conditions of +light and darkness, summer and winter, which mark time for us. Therefore, +while the so-called “dead” may have a very accurate memory of time as +regards the life they lived here in the body, they are usually unable to +tell anything about the chronological relation of events which have +happened to them in the Desire World, and it is a very common thing to +find that they do not even know how many years have elapsed since they +passed out from this plane of existence. Only students of the Stellar +Science are able to calculate the passage of time after their demise. + +When the occult investigator wishes to study an event in the past history +of man, he may most readily call up the picture from _the memory of +nature_, but if he desires to fix the time of the incident, he will be +obliged to count backwards by the motion of the heavenly bodies. For that +purpose he generally uses the measure provided by the sun’s precession: +Each year the sun crosses the earth’s equator about the twenty-first of +March. Then day and night are of even length, therefore this is called the +Vernal equinox. But on account of a certain wabbling motion of the earth’s +axis, the sun does not cross over at the same place in the Zodiac, it +reaches the equator a little too early, it _precedes_, year by year it +moves _backwards_ a little. At the time of the birth of Christ, for +instance, the Vernal Equinox was in about seven degrees of the Zodiacal +sign Aries. During the two thousand years which intervene between that +event and the present time, the sun has moved _backwards_ about +twenty-seven degrees, so that it is now in about ten degrees of the sign +Pisces. It moves around the whole circle of the Zodiac in about 25,868 +years. The occult investigator may therefore count back the number of +signs, or whole circles, which the sun has _preceded_ between the present +day and the time of the event he is investigating. Thus he has by the use +of the heavenly time keepers a very approximately correct measure of time +even though he is in the Desire World and that is another reason for +studying the Stellar Science. + +_The World of Thought._ + +When we have attained the spiritual development necessary to consciously +enter the World of Thought and leave the Desire World, which is the realm +of light and color, we pass through a condition which the occult +investigator calls The Great Silence. + +As previously stated, the higher Regions of the Desire World exhibit the +marked peculiarity of blending form and sound, but when one passes through +the Great Silence, all the world seems to disappear and the spirit has the +feeling of floating in an ocean of intense light, utterly alone, yet +absolutely fearless, since unimbued with a sense of its form or sound, nor +past or future, but all is one eternal NOW. There seems to be neither +pleasure nor pain and yet there is no absence of feeling but it all seems +to center in the one idea:—“_I am_”! The human Ego stands face to face +with itself as it were, and for the time being all else is shut out. This +is the experience of anyone who passes that breach between the Desire +World and the World of Thought, whether involuntarily, in the course of an +ordinary cyclic pilgrimage of the soul, which we shall later elucidate +when speaking of the post-mortem existence, or by an act of the will, as +in the case of the trained occult investigator, all have the same +experience in transition. + + ------------------------------------- + +There are two main divisions in the Physical World: the Chemical Region +and the Etheric Region. The World of Thought also has two great +subdivisions: The Region of concrete Thought and the Region of abstract +Thought. + +As we specialize the material of the Physical World and shape into a dense +body, and as we form the force-matter of the Desire World into a desire +body, so do we appropriate a certain amount of mindstuff from the Region +of concrete Thought; but we, as spirits, clothe ourselves in +spirit-substance from the Region of abstract Thought and thereby we become +individual, separate Egos. + +_The Region of Concrete Thought._ + +The Region of concrete Thought is neither shadowy nor illusory. It is the +acme of reality and this world which we mistakenly regard as the only +verity, is but an evanescent replica of that Region. + +A little reflection will show the reasonableness of this statement and +prove our contention that all we see here is really crystallized thought. +Our houses, our machinery, our chairs and tables, all that has been made +by the hand of man is the embodiment of a thought. As the juices in the +soft body of the snail gradually crystallize into the hard and flinty +shell which it carries upon its back and which hides it, so everything +used in our civilization is a concretion of invisible, intangible +mind-stuff. The thought of James Watt in time congealed into a steam +engine and revolutionized the world. Edison’s thought was condensed into +an electric generator which has turned night to day, and had it not been +for the thought of Morse and Marconi, the telegraph would not have +annihilated distance as it does today. An earthquake may wreck a city and +demolish the lighting plant and telegraph station, but the thoughts of +Watt, Edison and Morse remain, and upon the basis of their indestructible +ideas new machinery may be constructed and operations resumed. Thus +thoughts are more permanent than things. + +The sensitive ear of the musician detects a certain musical note in every +city which is different from that of another city. He hears in each little +brook a new melody, and to him the sound of wind in the treetops of +different forests give a varying sound. In the Desire World we noted the +existence of forms similar to the shapes of things here, also that +seemingly _sound proceeds from form_, but in the Region of concrete +Thought it is different, for while each form occupies and obscures a +certain space here, form is nonexistent when viewed from the standpoint of +the Region of concrete Thought. Where the form was, a transparent, vacuous +space is observable. _From that empty void comes a sound_ which is the +“keynote” that _creates_ and maintains the _form_ whence it _appears_ to +come, as the almost invisible core of a gas-flame is the source of the +light we perceive. + +Sound from a vacuum cannot be heard in the Physical World, but the harmony +which proceeds from the vacuous cavity of a celestial _archetype_ is “the +voice of the silence,” and it becomes audible when all earthly sounds have +ceased. Elijah heard it not while the storm was raging; nor was it in +evidence during the turbulence of the earthquake, nor in the crackling and +roaring fire, but when the destructive and inharmonious sounds of this +world had melted into silence, “the still small voice” issued its commands +to save Elijah’s life. + +That “keynote” is a direct manifestation of the Higher Self which uses it +to impress and govern the Personality it has created. But alas, part of +its life has been infused into the material side of its being, which has +thus obtained a certain will of its own and only too often are the two +sides of our nature at war. + +At last there comes a time when the spirit is too weary to strive with the +recalcitrant flesh, when “the voice of the silence” ceases. + +The earthly nourishment we may seek to give, will not avail to sustain a +form when this harmonious sound, this “word from heaven” no longer +reverberates through the empty void of the celestial archetype, for “man +lives not by bread alone,” but by the WORD, and the last sound-vibration +of the “keynote” is the death-knell of the physical body. + +In this world we are compelled to investigate and to study a thing before +we know about it, and although the facilities for gaining information are +in some respects much greater in the Desire World, a certain amount of +investigation is necessary nevertheless to acquire knowledge. In the World +of Thought, on the contrary, it is different. When we wish to know about +any certain thing there, and we turn our attention thereto, then that +thing speaks to us, as it were. The sound it emits at once gives us a most +luminous comprehension of every phase of its nature. We attain to a +realization of its past history; the whole story of its unfoldment is laid +bare and we seem to have lived through all of those experiences together +with the thing we are investigating. + +Were it not for one enormous difficulty, the story thus obtained would be +exceedingly valuable. But all this information, this life-picture, flows +in upon us with an enormous rapidity in a moment, in the twinkling of an +eye, so that it has neither beginning nor end, for, as said, in the World +of Thought, all is one great NOW, Time does not exist. + +Therefore, when we want to use the archetypal information in the Physical +World, we must disentangle and arrange it in chronological order with +beginning and ending before it becomes intelligible to beings living in a +realm where Time is a prime factor. That rearrangement is a most difficult +task as all words are coined with relation to the three dimensions of +space and the evanescent unit of time, the fleeting moment, hence much of +that information remains unavailable. + +Among the denizens of this Region of concrete Thought we may note +particularly two classes. One is called the powers of darkness by Paul and +the mystic investigator of the Western World knows them as Lords of Mind. +They were human at the time when the earth was in a condition of darkness +such as worlds in the making go through before they become luminous and +reach the firemist-stage. At that time we were in our mineral evolution. +That is to say: The Human Spirit which has now awakened was encrusted in +the ball of mindstuff, which was then the earth. At that time the present +Human Spirits were as much asleep as is the life which ensouls our +minerals of today, and as we are working with the mineral chemical +constituents of the earth, molding them into houses, railways, +steam-boats, chairs, etc, etc., so those beings, who are now Lords of +Mind, worked with us when we were mineral-like. They have since advanced +three steps, through stages similar to that of the Angels and Archangels, +before they attained their present position and became creative +intelligences. They are expert builders of mind stuff, as we are builders +of the present mineral substances and therefore they have given us +necessary help to acquire a mind which is the highest development of the +human being. + +According to the foregoing explanation it seems to be an anomaly when Paul +speaks of them as evil and exhorts us to withstand them. The difficulty +disappears, however, when we understand that good and evil are but +relative qualities. An illustration will make the point clear:—Let us +suppose that an expert organ builder has constructed a wonderful organ, a +masterpiece. Then he has followed his vocation in the proper manner, and +is therefore to be commended for the good which he has done. But if he is +not satisfied to leave well enough alone, if he refuses to give up his +product to the musician who understands how to play upon the instrument; +if he intrudes his presence into the concert hall, he is out of place and +to be censured as evil. Similarly the Lords of Mind did the greatest +possible service to humanity when they helped us to acquire our mind, but +many subtle thought influences come from them, and are to be resisted, as +Paul very properly emphasizes. + +The other class of beings which must be mentioned are called Archetypal +Forces by the Western School of occultism. They direct the energies of the +creative Archetypes native to this realm. They are a composite class of +beings of many different grades of intelligences, and there is one stage +in the cyclic journey of the Human Spirit when that also labors in, and is +part of, that great host of beings. For the Human Spirit is also destined +to become a great creative intelligence at some future time, and if there +were no school wherein it could gradually learn to create, it would not be +able to advance, for nothing in nature is done suddenly. An acorn planted +in the soil does not become a majestic oak over night, but many years of +slow, persistent growth are required before it attains to the stature of a +giant of the forest. A man does not become an Angel by the mere fact of +dying and entering a new world any more than an animal advances to be a +man by the same process. But in time all that lives, mounts the ladder of +Being from the clod to the God. There is no limitation possible to the +spirit, and so at various stages in its unfoldment the Human Spirit works +with the other nature forces, according to the stage of intelligence which +it has attained. It creates, changes and remodels the earth upon which it +is to live. Thus, under the great law of cause and effect, which we +observe in every realm of nature, it reaps upon earth what it has sown in +heaven, and vice versa. It grows slowly but persistently and advances +continually. + +_The Region of Abstract Thought._ + +Various religious systems have been given to humanity at different times, +each suited to meet the spiritual needs of the people among whom it was +promulgated, and, coming from the same divine source:—God, all religions +exhibit similar fundamentals or first principles. + +All systems teach that there was a time when _darkness_ reigned supreme. +Everything which we now perceive was then non-existent. Earth, sky and the +heavenly bodies were uncreate, so were the multitudinous forms which live +and move upon the various planets.—All, all, was yet in a fluidic +condition and the Universal Spirit brooded _quiescent_ in limitless Space +as the One Existence. + +The Greeks called that condition of homogeneity _Chaos_, and the state of +orderly segregation which we now see; the marching orbs which illumine the +vaulted canopy of heaven, the stately procession of planets around a +central light, the majestic sun; the unbroken sequence of the seasons and +the unvarying alternation of tidal ebb and flow;—all this aggregate of +systematic order, was called _Cosmos_, and was supposed to have proceeded +from Chaos. + +The Christian Mystic obtains a deeper comprehension when he opens his +Bible and ponders the first five verses of that brightest gem of all +spiritual lore: the Gospel of St. John. + +As he reverently opens his aspiring heart to acquire understanding of +those sublime mystical teachings he transcends the form-side of nature, +comprising various realms of which we have been speaking, and finds +himself “in the spirit,” as did the prophets in olden times. He is then in +the Region of abstract Thought and sees the eternal verities which also +Paul beheld in this, the third, heaven. + +For those among us who are unable to obtain knowledge save by reasoning +upon the matter, however, it will be necessary to examine the fundamental +meaning of words used by St. John to clothe his wonderful teaching, which +was originally given in the Greek language, a much simpler matter than is +commonly supposed, for Greek words have been freely introduced into our +modern languages, particularly in scientific terms, and we shall show how +this ancient teaching is supported by the latest discoveries of modern +science. + +The opening verse of the gospel of St. John is as follows: “In the +_beginning_ was the _Word_, and the _Word_ was with _God_, and the _Word_ +was _God_.” We will examine the words: “beginning,” “Word” and “God.” We +may also note that in the Greek version the concluding sentence reads: +“and God was the Word,” a difference which makes a great distinction. + +It is an axiomatic truth that “out of nothing, nothing comes,” and it has +often been asserted by scoffers that the Bible teaches generation “from +nothing.” We readily agree that _translations_ into the modern languages +promulgate this erroneous doctrine, but we have shown in _The Rosicrucian +Cosmo Conception_ (chapter on “the Occult Analysis of Genesis”), that the +Hebrew text speaks of an _ever-existing essence_, as the basis whence all +forms, the earth and the heavenly lights included, were first created, and +John also gives the same teaching. + +The Greek word _arche_, in the opening sentence of the gospel of St. John +has been translated _the beginning_, and it may be said to have that +meaning, but it also has other valid interpretations, vastly more +significant of the idea John wished to convey. It means:—an elementary +condition,—a chief source,—a first principle,—primordial matter. + +There was a time when science insisted that the elements were immutable, +that is to say, that an atom of iron had been an atom of iron since the +earth was formed and would so remain to the end of time. The Alchemists +were sneered at as fanciful dreamers or madmen, but since Professor J. J. +Thomson’s discovery of the electron, the atomic theory of matter, is no +longer tenable. The principle of radio-activity has later vindicated the +Alchemists. Science and the Bible agree in teaching, that all that is, has +been formed from one homogeneous substance. + +It is that basic principle which John called _arche_:—primordial +matter,—and the dictionary defines Archeology as: “the science of the +origin (_arche_) of things.” Masons style God the “Grand Architect,” for +the Greek word tektos means builder, and God is the Chief Builder +(_tektos_) of _arche_: the primordial virgin matter which is also the +chief source of all things. + +Thus we see that when the opening sentence of St. John’s gospel is +properly translated, our Christian Religion teaches that once a virgin +substance enfolded the divine Thinker:—God. + +That is the identical condition which the earlier Greeks called Chaos. A +little thought will make it evident that we are not arbitrary in finding +fault with the translation of the gospel, for it is self-evident that a +word cannot be the beginning, a thought must precede the word, and a +thinker must originate thought before it can be expressed as a word. + +When properly translated the teaching of John fully embodies that idea, +for the Greek term _logos_ means both the reasonable thought,—(we also say +Logic),—and the word which expresses this (logical) thought. + + + 1) _In the primordial substance was thought, and the thought was + with God And God was the word_, + + 2) THAT, [The Word], _also was with God in the primal state_. + + +Later the divine WORD; the Creative Fiat, reverberates through space and +segregates the homogeneous virgin substance into separate forms. + + + 3) _Every thing has come into existence because of that prime + fact_, [The Word of God], _and no thing exists apart from that + fact._ + + 4) _In that was Life._ + + +In the alphabet we have a few elementary sounds from which words may be +constructed. They are basic elements of expression, as bricks, iron and +lumber are raw materials of architecture, or as a few notes are component +parts of music. + +But a heap of bricks, iron and lumber, is not a house, neither is a +jumbled mass of notes music, nor can we call a haphazard arrangement of +alphabetical sounds a word. + +These raw materials are prime necessities in construction of architecture, +music, literature or poetry, but the contour of the finished product and +the purpose it will serve depends upon the arrangement of the raw +materials, which is subject to the constructor’s design. Building +materials may be formed to prison or palace; notes may be arranged as +fanfare or funeral dirge; words may be indited to inspire passion or +peace, all according to the will of the designer. So also the majestic +rhythm of the Word of God has wrought the primal substance: _arche_, into +the multitudinous forms which comprise the phenomenal world, according to +His will. + +Did the reader ever stop to consider the wonderful power of a human word. +Coming to us in the sweet accents of love, it may lure us from paths of +rectitude to shameful ignominy and wreck our life with sorrow and remorse, +or it may spur us on in noblest efforts to acquire glory and honor, here +or hereafter. According to the inflection of the voice a word may strike +terror into the bravest heart or lull a timid child to peaceful slumber. +The word of an agitator may rouse the passions of a mob and impel it to +awful bloodshed, as in the French Revolution, where dictatorial mandates +of mob-rule killed and exiled at pleasure, or, the strain of “Home, Sweet +Home” may cement the setting of a family-circle beyond possibility of +rupture. + +Right words are true and therefore free, they are never bound or fettered +by time or space, they go to the farthest corners of the earth, and when +the lips that spoke them first have long since mouldered in the grave, +other voices take up with unwearying enthusiasm their message of life and +love, as for instance the mystical “Come unto me” which has sounded from +unnumbered tongues and brought oceans of balm to troubled hearts. + +Words of Peace have been victorious, where war would have meant defeat, +and no talent is more to be desired than ability to always say the right +word at the auspicious time. + +Considering thus the immense power and potency of the human word, we may +perhaps dimly apprehend the potential magnitude of the Word of God, the +Creative Fiat, when as a mighty dynamic force it first reverberated +through space and commenced to form primordial matter into worlds, as +sound from a violin bow moulds sand into geometrical figures. Moreover, +_the Word of God still sounds_ to sustain the marching orbs and impel them +onwards in their circle paths, the Creative Word continues to produce +forms of gradually increasing efficiency, as media expressing life and +consciousness. The harmonious enunciation of consecutive syllables in the +Divine Creative Word mark successive stages in evolution of the world and +man. When the last syllable has been spoken and the complete word has +sounded, we shall have reached perfection as human beings. Then Time will +be at an end, and with the last vibration of the Word of God, the worlds +will be resolved into their original elements. Our life will then be “hid +with Christ in God,” till the Cosmic Night:—Chaos,—is over, and we wake to +do “greater things” in a “new heaven and a new earth.” + +According to the general idea Chaos and Cosmos are superlative antitheses +of each other. Chaos being regarded as a past condition of confusion and +disorder which has long since been entirely superseded by cosmic order +which now prevails. + +As a matter of fact, Chaos is the seed-ground of Cosmos, the basis of all +progress, for thence come all IDEAS which later materialize as Railways, +Steamboats, Telephones, etc. + +We speak of “thoughts as being conceived by the mind,” but as both father +and mother are necessary in the generation of a child, so also there must +be both _idea_ and _mind_ before a _thought_ can be conceived. As semen +germinated in the positive male organ is projected into the negative +uterus at conception, so ideas are generated by a positive Human Ego in +the spirit-substance of the Region of abstract Thought. This idea is +projected upon the receptive mind, and a conception takes place. Then, as +the spermatozoic nucleus draws upon the maternal body for material to +shape a body appropriate to its individual expression, so does each idea +clothe itself in a peculiar form of mindstuff. It is then a thought, as +visible to the inner vision of composite man, as a child is to its parent. + +Thus we see that ideas are embryonic thoughts, nuclei of spirit-substance +from the Region of abstract Thought. Improperly conceived in a diseased +mind they become vagaries and delusions, but when gestated in a sound mind +and formed into rational thoughts they are the basis of all material, +moral and mental progress, and the closer our touch with Chaos, the better +will be our Cosmos, for in that realm of abstract realities truth is not +obscured by matter, it is self-evident. + +Pilate was asked “what is Truth,” but no answer is recorded. We are +incapable of cognizing truth in the abstract while we live in the +phenomenal world, for the inherent nature of matter is illusion and +delusion, and we are constantly making allowances and corrections whether +we are conscious of the fact or not. The sunbeam which proceeds for 90 +millions of miles in a straight line, is refracted or bent as soon as it +strikes our dense atmosphere, and according to the angle of its +refraction, it _appears_ to have one color or another. The straightest +stick appears crooked when partly immersed in water, and the truths which +are so self-evident in the Higher worlds are likewise obscured, refracted +or twisted out of all semblance under the illusory conditions of this +material world. + +“The truth shall set you free,” said Christ, and the more we turn our +aspirations from material acquisitiveness and seek to lay up treasure +above, the more we aim to rise, the oftener we “get in the spirit,” the +more readily we “shall know truth” and reach liberation from the fetter of +flesh which binds us to a limited environment, and attain to a sphere of +greater usefulness. + +Study of philosophy and science has a tendency to further perception of +truth, and as science has progressed it has gradually receded from its +erstwhile crude materialism. The day is not far off when it will be more +reverently religious than the church itself. Mathematics is said to be +“dry,” for it doesn’t stir the emotions. When it is taught that “the sum +of the angles of a triangle is 180 degrees,” the dictum is at once +accepted, because its truth is self-evident and no feeling is involved in +the matter. But when a doctrine such as the Immaculate Conception is +promulgated and our emotions are stirred, bloody war, or heated argument, +may result, and still leave the matter in doubt. Pythagoras demanded that +his pupils study mathematics, because he knew the elevating effect of +raising their minds above the sphere of feeling, where it is subject to +delusion, and elevating it towards the Region of abstract Thought which is +the prime reality. + +In this place we are dealing with worlds in particular, and will therefore +defer comment upon the remainder of the first 5 verses of St. John’s +gospel: + + + “_And Life became Light in man,_ + 5) _and Light shines in Darkness._” + + +We have now seen that the earth is composed of three worlds which +interpenetrate one another so that it is perfectly true when Christ said +that “heaven is within you” or, the translation should rather have been +_among you_. We have also seen that of these three realms two are +subdivided. It has also been explained that each division serves a great +purpose in the unfoldment of various forms of life which dwell in each of +these worlds, and we may note in conclusion, that the lower regions of the +Desire World constitute what the Catholic religion calls _Purgatory_, a +place where the evil of a past life is transmuted to good, usable by the +spirit as conscience in later lives. The higher regions of the Desire +World are the _first Heaven_ where all the good a man has done is +assimilated by the spirit as _soul_ power. The Region of concrete Thought +is the _second Heaven_, where, as already said, the spirit prepares its +future environment on earth, and the Region of abstract Thought is the +_third Heaven_, but as Paul said, it is scarcely lawful to speak about +that. + +Some will ask: is there then no hell?—No! _The mercy of God_ tends as +greatly towards the principle of GOOD as “_the inhumanity of man_” towards +cruelty, so that he would consign his brother men to flames of hell during +eternity for the puerile mistakes committed during a few years, or perhaps +for a slight difference in belief. The writer has heard of a minister who +wished to impress his “flock” with the reality of an eternity of hell +flames, and to demonstrate the fallacy of a heretical notion entertained +by some of his parishioners that when sinners come to hell they burn to +ashes and that is the end. + +He took with him an alcohol lamp and some asbestos into the pulpit and +told his audience that God would turn their souls into a substance +resembling asbestos. He showed them that though the asbestos were heated +red hot it did not decompose into ashes. Fortunately the day of the hell +preacher has gone by, and if we believe the Bible which says that “in God +we live and move and have our being,” we can readily understand that _a +lost soul would be an impossibility_, for were one single soul lost, then +logically a part of God Himself would be lost. No matter what our color, +our race or our creed, we are all equally the children of God and in our +various ways we shall obtain satisfaction. Let us therefore rather look to +Christ and forget Creed. + + + _Creed or Christ?_ + + No man loves God who hates his kind, + Who tramples on his Brother’s heart and soul. + Who seeks to shackle, cloud or fog the mind + By fears of Hell has not perceived our goal. + + God-sent are all religions blest; + And Christ, the Way, the Truth and Life, + To give the heavy-laden rest, + And peace from Sorrow, Sin and Strife. + + At his request the Universal Spirit came + _To all the churches_, not to one alone. + On Pentecostal morn a tongue of flame + Round _each_ apostle as a halo shone. + + Since then, as vultures ravenous with greed, + We oft have battled for an empty name, + And sought by Dogma, Edict, Creed, + To send each other to the flame. + + Is Christ then divided? Was Cephas or Paul + Nailed to the deathly tree? + If not—then why these divisions at all? + Christ’s love doth embrace you and me. + + His pure sweet love is not confined + By creeds which segregate and raise a wall; + His love enfolds, embraces _Humankind_ + No matter what ourselves or Him we call. + + Then why not take Him at His word? + Why hold to creeds which tear apart? + But one thing matters, be it heard, + That brother-love fill every heart. + + There is but one thing that the world has need to know; + There is but one balm for all our human woe + There is but one way that leads to heaven above; + That way is human sympathy and love. + + + + + +CHAPTER IV. THE CONSTITUTION OF MAN + + +Our chapter head, “the constitution of man,” may surprise a reader who has +not previously studied the Mystery teachings, or he may imagine that we +intend to give an anatomical dissertation, but such is not our intention. +We have spoken of the earth upon which we live as being composed of +several invisible realms in addition to the world we perceive by means of +our senses. We have also spoken of man as being correlated to these +various divisions in nature, and a little thought upon the subject will +quickly convince us that in order to function upon the various planes of +existence described, it is necessary that a man should have a body +composed of their substance, or at least have specialized for his own use, +some of the material of each of these worlds. + +We have said that finer matter, called desire stuff and mind stuff, +permeates our atmosphere and the solid earth, even as blood percolates +through all parts of our flesh. But that is not a sufficient explanation +to account for all facts of life. If that were all, then minerals, which +are interpenetrated by the world of thought and the world of desire, would +have thoughts and desires as well as man. This is not the case, so +something more than mere interpenetration must be requisite to acquire the +faculties of thought and feeling. + +We know that in order to function in this world, to live as a physical +being among other like beings, we must have a physical body all our own, +built of the chemical constituents of this visible world. When we lose it +at death, it profits us nothing that the world is full of just the very +chemicals needed to build such a body. We cannot then specialize them, and +therefore we are invisible to all others. Similarly, if we did not possess +a special body made of ether, we should be unable to grow and to +propagate. That is the case with the mineral. Had we no separate +individual desire body, we should be unable to feel desires and emotions, +there would be no incentive to move from one place to another. We should +then be stationary as plants, and did we not possess a mind, we should be +incapable of thought, and act upon impulse and instinct as animals. + +Some one may of course object to this last statement, and contend that +animals do think. So far as our domesticated animals are concerned that is +partially true, but it is not quite in the same way that we think and +reason. The difference may perhaps best be understood if we take an +illustration from the electrical field. When an electric current _of high +voltage_ is passed through a coiled copper wire, and another wire is +placed in the center of the coils, that wire will become charged with +electricity _of a lower voltage_. So also the animal, when brought within +the sphere of human thoughts, evolves a mental activity of a lower order. + +Paul, in his writings, also mentions _the natural body_ and the _spiritual +body_ while the man himself is a spirit inhabiting those vehicles. We will +briefly note the constitution of the various bodies of man invisible to +the physical sight but as objective to spiritual sight as the dense body +to ordinary vision. + +_The Vital Body._ + +That body of ours which is composed of ether is called the “_vital body_” +in Western Mystery Schools, for, as we have already seen, ether is the +avenue of ingress for vital force from the sun and the field of agencies +in nature which promote such vital activities as assimilation, growth and +propagation. + +This vehicle is an exact counterpart of our visible body, molecule for +molecule, and organ for organ, with one exception, which we shall note +later. But it is slightly larger, extending about one and one-half inches +beyond the periphery of our dense vehicle. + +The spleen is the entrance gate of forces which vitalize the body. In the +etheric counterpart of that organ solar energy is transmuted to vital +fluid of a pale rose color. From thence it spreads all over the nervous +system, and after having been used in the body it radiates in streams, +much as bristles protrude from a porcupine. + +The rays of the sun are transmitted either directly, or reflected by way +of the planets and the moon. The rays directly from the sun give spiritual +illumination, the rays received by way of the planets produce +intelligence, morality, and soul growth, but the rays reflected by way of +the moon make for physical growth, as seen in the case of plants which +grow differently when planted in the light of the moon from what is the +case when they are planted when the moon is dark. There is also a +difference in plants sown when the moon is in barren and fruitful signs of +the Zodiac. + +The solar ray is absorbed by the human spirit which has its seat in the +center of the forehead, the stellar ray is absorbed by the brain and +spinal cord, and the lunar ray enters our system through the spleen. + +The solar, stellar and lunar rays are three-colored, and in the lunar ray +which supplies our vital force, the blue beam is the life of The Father, +which causes germination, the yellow beam is the life of The Son, which is +the active principle in nutrition and growth, and the red beam is the life +of the Holy Spirit, which stimulates to action, dissipating the energy +stored by the yellow force. This principle is particularly active in +generation. + +The various kingdoms absorb this life-force differently, according to +their constitution. Animals have only 28 pairs of spinal nerves. They are +keyed to the lunar month of 28 days and therefore dependent upon a +Groupspirit for an infusion of stellar rays necessary to produce +consciousness. They are altogether incapable of absorbing the direct ray +of the sun. + +Man is in a transition stage, he has 31 pairs of spinal nerves which keys +him to the solar month, but the nerves in the so-called +cauda-equina—literally horse-tail—, at the end of our spinal cord, are +still too undeveloped to act as avenues for the spiritual ray of the sun. +In proportion as we draw our creative force upward by spiritual thought we +develop these nerves and awaken dormant faculties of the spirit. But it is +dangerous to attempt that development except under guidance of a qualified +teacher, and the reader is earnestly warned not to use any method +published in books, or sold, for their practice usually leads to dementia. +The safe method is never sold for money or any earthly consideration +however large or small; it is always freely given as a reward of merit. +“Ask and ye shall receive, seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be +opened”, said the Christ. If our life is a prayer for illumination, the +search will not be uncertain, nor the knock without response. + +When solar energy has been transmuted in the spleen it traverses the whole +nervous system of the body glowing with a most beautiful color of a +delicate rosy hue. It answers the same purpose as electricity in a +telegraph system. We may string wires between cities, erect telegraph +stations, install receivers and transmitters. We may even have operators +ready at the keys, but until electric fluid is turned into our wires, the +telegraph keys will refuse to click. So also in the body, the human spirit +is operator, and from the central station of the brain, nerves ramify, go +through the whole body to all the different muscles. When this vitalizing +fluid of which we are speaking traverses the nervous system, the Ego may +send his commands to the muscles and cause them to move but if the vital +fluid for any reason does not flow into a certain part of the body such as +an arm or a limb, then the spirit is powerless to move that part of the +body and we say that it is paralyzed. + +When we are in health, we specialize solar energy in such great quantities +that we cannot use it all in the body and therefore it radiates through +the pores of our skin in straight streams and serves a similar purpose as +an exhaust fan. That machine drives the foul air out of a room or building +and keeps the atmosphere within pure and sweet. The excessive vital force +which radiates from the body drives out poisonous gases, deleterious +microbes and effete matter thus tending to preserve a healthy condition. +It also prevents armies of disease germs, which swarm about in the +atmosphere, from entering; upon the same principle that a fly cannot wing +its way into a building through the exhaust fan. Thus it serves a most +beneficent purpose even after it has been utilized in our body and is +returning to the free state. + +It is a curious and most astounding sight when one first observes how, +from exposed parts of the body such as hands and face, there suddenly +commences to flow a stream of stars, cubes, pyramids and a variety of +other geometrical forms. The writer has more than once rubbed his eyes +when he first perceived the phenomenon, for it seemed that he must be +suffering from hallucinations. The forms observed are chemical atoms +however, which have served their purpose in the body and are expelled +through the pores. + +When one has eaten a meal, vital fluid is consumed by the body in great +quantities, for it is the cement whereby nature’s forces build our food +into the body. Therefore the radiations are weakest during the period of +digestion. If the meal has been heavy, the outflow is very perceptibly +diminished, and does not then cleanse our body as thoroughly as when the +food has been digested, nor is it as potent in keeping out inimical germs. +Therefore one is most liable to catch cold or other disease by overeating, +a fault which should be avoided by all who wish to keep in good health. + +During ill health the vital body specializes but little solar energy. +Then, for a time, the visible body seems to feed upon the vital body as it +were, so that the vehicle becomes more transparent and attenuated at the +same rate as the visible body exhibits a state of emaciation. The +cleansing odic radiations are almost entirely absent during sickness, +therefore complications set in so easily. + +Though science has not directly observed this vital body of man, it has +upon several occasions postulated the existence of such a vehicle as +necessary to account for facts in life and the radiations have been +observed by a number of scientists at different times and under varying +conditions. Blondlot and Charpentier have called them N-rays after the +city of Nantes where the radiations were observed by these scientists, +others have named them “The Odic fluid”. Scientific investigators who have +conducted researches into psychic phenomena have even photographed it when +it has been extracted through the spleen by materializing spirits. Dr. +Hotz for instance obtained two photographs of a materialization through +the German medium, Minna-Demmler. On one a cloud of ether is seen oozing +out through the left side of the medium, shapeless and without form. The +second picture, taken a few moments later, shows the materialized spirit +standing at the medium’s side. Other photographs obtained by scientists +from the Italian medium Eusapio Palladino show a luminous cloud +over-hanging her left side. + +We said in the beginning of this description that the vital body is an +exact counterpart of the dense body with one exception: it is of the +opposite sex or perhaps we should rather say polarity. As the vital body +nourishes the dense vehicle, we may readily understand that blood is its +highest visible expression, and also that a positively polarized vital +body would generate more blood than a negative one. Woman who is +physically negative has a positive vital body, hence she generates a +surplus of blood which is relieved by the periodical flow. She is also +more prone to tears, which are white bleeding, than man, whose negative +vital body does not generate more blood than he can comfortably take care +of. Therefore it is not necessary for him to have the outlets which +relieve excess of blood in woman. + +_The Desire Body._ + +In addition to the visible body and the vital body we also have a body +made of desire stuff from which we form our feelings and emotions. This +vehicle also impels us to seek sense gratification. But while the two +instruments of which we have already spoken, are well organized, the +desire body appears to spiritual sight as an ovoid cloud extending from +sixteen to twenty inches beyond the physical body. It is above the head +and below the feet so that our dense body sits in the center of this +egg-shaped cloud as the yolk is in the center of an egg. + +The reason for the rudimentary state of this vehicle is, that it has been +added to the human constitution more recently than the bodies previously +mentioned. Evolution of form may be likened to the manner in which the +juices in the snail first condense into flesh and later become a hard +shell. When our present visible body first germinated in the spirit, it +was a thought-form, but gradually it has become denser and more concrete +until it is now a chemical crystallization. The vital body was next +emanated by the spirit as a thought-form and is in the third stage of +concretion which is etheric. The desire body is a still later acquisition. +That also was a thought form at its inception, but has now condensed to +desire stuff, and the mind, which we have only recently received, is still +but a mere cloudy thought form. + +Arms and limbs, ears and eyes are not necessary to use the desire body, +for it can glide through space more swiftly than wind without such means +of locomotion as we require in this visible world. + +When viewed by spiritual sight, it appears that there are in this desire +body a number of whirling vortices. We have already explained that it is a +characteristic of desire stuff to be in constant motion, and from the main +vortex in the region of the liver there is a constant outwelling flow +which radiates towards the periphery of this egg-shaped body and returns +to the center through a number of other vortices. The desire body exhibits +all the colors and shades which we know and a vast number of others which +are indescribable in earthly language. Those colors vary in every person +according to his characteristics and temperament and they also vary from +moment to moment as passing moods, fancies or emotions are experienced by +him. There is however in each one a certain basic color dependent upon the +ruling star at the moment of his birth. The man in whose horoscope Mars is +peculiarly strong usually has a crimson tint in his aura, where Jupiter is +the strongest planet the prevailing tint seems to be a bluish tone, and so +on with the other planets. + +There was a time in the earth’s past history when incrustation was not yet +complete, and human beings of that time lived upon islands here and there, +amid boiling seas. They had not yet evolved eyes or ears, but a little +organ: the pineal gland, which anatomists have called _the third eye_, +protruded through the back of the head and was a _localised organ of +feeling_, which warned the man when he came too near a volcanic crater and +thus enabled him to escape destruction. Since then the cerebral +hemispheres have covered the pineal gland, and instead of a single organ +of feeling, the whole body inside and out is sensitive to impacts, which +of course is a much higher state of development. + +In the desire body every particle is sensitive to vibrations similar to +those which we call sight, sounds and feelings and every particle is in +incessant motion rapidly swirling about so that in the same instant it may +be at the top and bottom of the desire body and impart at all points to +all the other particles a sensation of that which it has experienced thus +every particle of desire stuff in this vehicle of ours will instantly feel +any sensation experienced by any single particle. Therefore the desire +body is of an exceedingly sensitive nature, capable of most intense +feelings and emotions. + +_The Mind._ + +This is the latest acquisition of the human spirit, and in most people who +have not yet accustomed themselves to orderly, consecutive thought, it is +a mere inchoate cloud disposed particularly in the region of the head. +When looking at a person clairvoyantly there appears to be an empty space +in the center of the forehead just above and between the eyebrows. It +looks like the blue part of a gas flame. That is mind stuff which veils +the human spirit, or Ego, and the writer has been told that not even the +most gifted seer can penetrate that veil which is said to have been spoken +of in ancient Egypt as “_the veil of Isis_” which none may lift and live, +for behind that veil is the Holy of Holies, the temple of our body, where +the spirit is to be left secure from all intrusion. + +To those who have not previously studied the deeper philosophies the +question may occur: But why all these divisions; even the Bible speaks +only of soul and body, for most people believe soul and spirit to be +synonymous terms. We can only answer that this division is not arbitrary +but necessary, and founded upon facts in nature. Neither is it correct to +regard the soul and the spirit as synonymous. Paul himself speaks of _the +natural body_ which is composed of physical substances: solids, liquids, +gases and ethers; he mentions _a spiritual body_, which is the vehicle of +the spirit composed of the mind and desire body, and _the spirit itself_, +which is called Ego in Latin or “I” in English. + +That term “I” is an appelation which can only be made by the human spirit +of itself. We may all call a dog, dog; or we may call a table, table, and +any one else may apply the same name to the dog and to the table, but only +a human being can be called “I” and only he himself can apply that most +exclusive of all words, I, for this is the badge of self-consciousness, +the recognition by the human spirit of _itself_ as an entity, separate and +apart from all others. + +Thus we see that the constitution of man is more complex than appears upon +the surface, and we will now proceed to note the effect upon this +multiplex being of various conditions of life. + + + + + +CHAPTER V. LIFE AND DEATH + + +_Invisible Helpers and Mediums._ + +There are two classes of people in the world. In one class the vital and +dense bodies are so firmly cemented that the ethers cannot be extracted +under any circumstances but remain with the dense body at all times and +under all conditions from birth to death. Those people are insensible to +any supersensuous sights or sounds. They are therefore usually exceedingly +sceptic, and believe nothing exists but what _they_ can see. + +There is another class of people in whom the connection between the dense +and the vital bodies is more or less loose, so that the ether of their +vital bodies vibrates at a higher rate than in the first class mentioned. +These people are therefore more or less sensitive to the spiritual world. + +This class of sensitives may again be divided. Some are weak characters, +dominated by the will of others in a _negative_ manner, as mediums, who +are the prey of disembodied spirits desirous of obtaining a physical body +when they have lost their own by death. + +The other class of sensitives are strong _positive_ characters, who act +only from within, according to their own will. They may develop into +trained clairvoyants, and be their own masters instead of slaves of a +disembodied spirit. In some sensitives of both classes it is possible to +extract part of the ether which forms the vital body. When a disembodied +spirit obtains a subject of that nature, it develops the sensitive as _a +materializing medium_. The man who is capable of extracting his own vital +body by an act of will, becomes a citizen of two worlds, independent and +free. Such are usually known as _Invisible Helpers_. There are certain +other abnormal conditions where the vital body and the dense body are +separated totally or in part, for instance if we place our limb in an +uncomfortable position so that circulation of the blood ceases. Then we +may see the etheric limb hanging down below the visible limb as a +stocking. When we restore circulation and the etheric limb seeks to enter +into place, an intense prickly sensation is felt, due to the fact that the +little streams of force, which radiate all through the ether, seek to +permeate the molecules of the limb and stir them into renewed vibration. +When a person is drowning, the vital body also separates from the dense +vehicle and the intense prickly pain incident to resuscitation is also due +to the cause mentioned. + +While we are awake and going about our work in the Physical World, the +desire body and mind both permeate the dense and the vital bodies, and +there is a constant war between the desire nature and the vital body. The +vital body is continually engaged in building up the human organism, while +the impulses of the desire body tend to tire and to break down tissue. +Gradually, in the course of the day, the vital body loses ground before +the onslaughts of the desire body, poisons of decay slowly accumulate and +the flow of vital fluid becomes more and more sluggish, until at length it +is incapable of moving the muscles. The body then feels heavy and drowsy. +At last the vital body collapses, as it were, the little streams of force +which permeate each atom seem to shrivel up, and the Ego is forced to +abandon its body to the restorative powers of sleep. + +When a building has become dilapidated and is to be _restored_ and put in +thorough repair, the tenants must move out to let the workmen have a free +field. So also when the building of a spirit has become unfit for further +use, it must withdraw therefrom. As the desire body caused the damage, it +is a logical conclusion that that also must be removed. Every night when +our body has become tired, the higher vehicles are withdrawn, only the +dense and vital bodies are left upon the bed. + +Then the process of restoration commences and lasts for a longer or a +shorter time according to circumstances. + +At times however, the grip of the desire body upon our denser vehicles is +so strong that it refuses to let go. When it has become so interested in +the proceedings of the day, it continues to ruminate over them after the +collapse of the physical body, and is perhaps only half extracted from +that vehicle. Then it may transmit sights and sounds of the desire world +to the brain. But as the connections are necessarily askew under such +conditions, the most confused dreams result. Furthermore, as the desire +body compels motion, the body is very apt to toss about when the desire +body is not fully extracted, hence the restless sleep which usually +accompanies dreams of a confused nature. + +There are times of course when dreams are prophetic and come true, but +such dreams result only _after_ complete extraction of the desire body, +under circumstances where the spirit has seen some danger perhaps, which +may befall, and then impresses the fact upon the brain _at the moment of +awakening_. + +It also happens that the spirit goes upon a soul flight and omits to +perform its part of the work of restoration, then the body will not be fit +to re-enter in the morning, so it sleeps on. The spirit may thus roam +afield for a number of days, or even weeks, before it again enters its +physical body and assumes the normal routine of alternating waking and +sleep. This condition is called _trance_, and the spirit may remember upon +its return what it has seen and heard in the super-physical realm, or it +may have forgotten, according to the stage of its development and the +depth of the trance condition. When the trance is very light, the spirit +is usually present in the room where its body lies all the time, and upon +its return to the body it will be able to recount to relatives all they +said and did while its body lay unconscious. Where the trance is deeper, +the returning spirit will usually be unconscious of what happened around +its body, but may recount experiences from the invisible world. + +A few years ago a little girl by the name of Florence Bennett in Kankakee, +Illinois, fell into such a trance. She returned to the body every few +days, but stayed within only a few hours each time, and the whole trance +lasted three weeks, more or less. During the returns to her body she told +relatives that in her absence she seemed to be in a place inhabited by all +the people who died. But she stated that none of them spoke about dying +and no one among them seemed to realize that they were dead. Among those +she had seen was a locomotive engineer who had been accidentally killed. +His body was mangled in the accident which caused death. The little girl +perceived him there walking about minus arms, and with lesions upon his +head, all of which is in line with facts usually seen by mystic +investigators. Persons who have been hurt in accidents go about thus, +until they learn that a mere wish to have their body made whole will +supply a new arm or limb, for desire stuff is most quickly and readily +molded by thought. + +_Death._ + +After a longer or shorter time there comes in each life a point where the +experiences which a spirit can gain from its present environment have been +exhausted, and life terminates in death. + +Death may be sudden and seemingly unexpected, as for instance by +earthquake, upon the battle-field, or by accident, as we call it, but in +reality, death is never accidental or unforeseen by Higher Powers. Not a +sparrow falls to the ground without divine Will. There are along life’s +path partings of the way, as it were; on one side the main line of life +continues onward, the other path leads into what we might call a blind +alley. If the man takes that path, it soon ends in death. We are here in +life for the sake of gaining experience and each life has a certain +harvest to reap. If we order our life in such a manner that we gain the +knowledge it is intended we should acquire, we continue in life, and +opportunities of different kinds constantly come our way. But if we +neglect them, and the life goes into paths which are not congruous to our +individual development it would be a waste of time to let us stay in such +environment. Therefore the Great and Wise Beings, Who are behind the scene +of evolution, terminate our life, that we may have a fresh start in a +different sphere of influence. The law of conservation of energy is not +confined to the Physical World, but operates in the spiritual realms also. +There is nothing in life that has not its purpose. We do wrong to rail +against circumstances, no matter how disagreeable, we should rather +endeavor to learn the lessons which are contained therein, that we may +live a long and useful life. Some one may object, and say: You are +inconsistent in your teachings. You say there is really no death, that we +go into a brighter existence, and that we have to learn other lessons +there in a different sphere of usefulness! Why then aim to live a long +life here? + +It is very true that we make these claims, and they are perfectly +consistent with the other assertions just mentioned, but there are lessons +to be learned _here_ which cannot be learned in the other worlds, and we +have to bring up this physical body through the useless years of +childhood, through hot and impulsive youth, to the ripeness of manhood or +womanhood, before it becomes of true spiritual use. The longer we live +after maturity has been attained, when we have commenced to look upon the +serious side of life and started to truly learn lessons which make for +soulgrowth, the more experience we shall gather and the richer our harvest +will be. Then, in a later existence, we shall be so much more advanced, +and capable of taking up tasks that would be impossible with less length +of life and breadth of activity. Besides, it is hard to die for the man in +the prime of life with a wife and growing family whom he loves; with +ambitions of greatness unfulfilled; with hosts of friends about him, and +with interests all centered upon the material plane of existence. It is +sad for the woman whose heart is bound up in home and the little ones she +has reared, to leave them, perhaps without anyone to care for them; to +know that they have to fight their way alone through the early years when +her tender care is needed, and perhaps to see those little ones abused, +and she unable to lift a hand, though her heart may bleed as freely as it +would in earth life. All these things are sad, and _they bind the spirit +to earth_ for a much longer time than ordinarily, they hinder it from +reaping the experiences it should reap upon the other side of death, and +they make it desirable along with other reasons already mentioned to live +a long life before passing onwards. + +The difference between those who pass out at a ripe old age, and one who +leaves this earth in the prime of life, may be illustrated by the manner +in which the seed clings to a fruit in an unripe state. A great deal of +force is necessary to tear the stone from a green peach; it has such a +tenacious hold upon the fruit that shreds of pulp adhere to it when +forcibly removed, so also the spirit clings to the flesh in middle life +and a certain part of its material interest remain and bind it to earth +after death. On the other hand, when a life has been lived to the full, +when the spirit has had time to realize its ambitions or to find out their +futility, when the duties of life have been performed and satisfaction +rests upon the brow of an aged man or woman; or when the life has been +misspent and the pangs of conscience have worked upon the man and shown +him his mistakes; when, in fact, the spirit has learned the lessons of +life, as it must have to come to old age; then it may be likened to the +seed of the ripe fruit which falls out clean, without a vestige of flesh +clinging thereto, at the moment the encasing pulp is opened. Therefore we +say, as before, that though there is a brighter existence in store for +those who have lived well, it is nevertheless best to live a long life and +to live it to the fullest extent possible. + +We also maintain, that no matter what may be the circumstances of a man’s +death, it is not accidental; it has either been brought about by his own +neglect to embrace opportunities of growth, or else life has been lived to +the ultimate possible. There is one exception to that rule, and that is +due to man’s exercise of his divine prerogative of interference. If we +lived according to schedule, if we all assimilated the experiences +designed for our growth by the Creative Powers, we should live to the +ultimate length, but _we ourselves_ usually shorten our lives by not +taking advantage of opportunities, and it also happens that _other men_ +may shorten our lives and cut them off as suddenly as the so-called +accident whereby the divine rulers terminate our life here. In other +words, murder, or fatal accidents brought about _by human __ +carelessness_, are in reality the only termination to life not planned by +invisible leaders of humanity. No one is ever compelled to do murder or +other evil, or there could not come to them a just retribution for their +acts. The Christ said that evil must come but _woe unto him by whom it +cometh_, and to harmonize that with the law of divine justice: “as a man +soweth, so shall he also reap,” _there must at least be absolute free will +in respect to evil acts_. + +There are also cases where a person lives such a full and good life of +such vast benefit to humanity and to himself, that his days are lengthened +beyond the ultimate, as they are shortened by neglect, but such cases are +of course too few to allow of their being dwelt upon at length. + +Where death is not sudden as in the case of accidents, but occurs at home +after an illness, quietly and peacefully, dying persons usually experience +a falling upon them as of a pall of great darkness shortly before +termination of life. Many pass out from the body under that condition, and +do not see the light again until they have entered the super-physical +realms. There are many other cases however, where the darkness lifts +before the final release from the body. Then the dying person views both +worlds at once, and is cognizant of the presence of both dead and living +friends. Under such circumstances it very often happens that a mother sees +some of her children who have gone before, and she will exclaim joyously: +Oh, there is Johnny standing at the foot of my bed; my but hasn’t he +grown! The living relatives may feel shocked and uneasy, thinking the +mother suffering from hallucinations, while in reality she is more +clear-sighted than they; she perceives those who have passed beyond the +veil who have come to greet and help her to make herself at home in the +new world she is entering. + +Each human being is an individual, separate and apart from all others, and +as experiences in the life of each differ from those of all others in the +interval from the cradle to the grave, so we may also reasonably infer +that the experiences of each spirit vary from those of every other spirit +when it passes through the gates of birth and death. We print what +purports to be a _spirit message_ communicated by the late Professor James +of Harvard at the Boston spirit temple, and in which he describes +sensations which he felt when passing through the gate of death. We do not +vouch for its authenticity as we have not investigated the matter +personally. + +Professor James had promised to communicate after death with his friends +in this life, and the whole world of psychic research was and still is on +watch for a word from him. Several mediums have claimed that Professor +James has communicated through them, but the most remarkable are those +given through the Boston spirit temple as follows: + + + “And this is death, only to fall asleep, only to awaken in the + morning and to know that all is well. I am not dead, only arisen. + + ------------------------------------- + + “I only know that I experienced a great shock through my entire + system, as if some mighty bond had been rent asunder. For a moment + I was dazed and lost consciousness. When I awakened I found myself + standing beside the old body which had served me faithfully and + well. To say that I was surprised would only inadequately express + the sensation that thrilled my very being, and I realized that + some wonderful change had taken place. Suddenly I became conscious + that my body was surrounded by many of my friends, and an + uncontrollable desire took possession of me to speak and touch + them that they might know that I still lived. Drawing a little + nearer to that which was so like and yet unlike myself, I + stretched forth my hand and touched them, but they heeded me not.” + + ------------------------------------- + + “Then it was that the full significance of the great change that + had taken place flashed upon my newly awakened senses; then it was + that I realized that an impenetrable barrier separated me from my + loved ones on earth, and that this great change which had taken + place was indeed death. A sense of weariness and longing for rest + took possession of me. I seemed to be transported through space, + and I lost consciousness, to awaken in a land so different and yet + so similar to the one which I had lately left. It was not possible + for me to describe my sensations when I again regained + consciousness and realized that, though dead, I was still alive. + + “When I first became conscious of my new environment I was resting + in a beautiful grove, and was realizing as never before what it + was to be at peace with myself and all the world.” + + ------------------------------------- + + “I know that only with the greatest difficulty shall I be enabled + to express to you my sensations when I fully realized that I had + awakened to a new life. All was still, no sound broke the silence. + Darkness had surrounded me. In fact, I seemed to be enveloped in a + heavy mist, beyond which my gaze could not penetrate. Soon in the + distance I discerned a faint glimmer of light, which slowly + approached me, and then, to my wonder and joy, I beheld the face + of her who had been my guiding star in the early days of my earth + life.” + + +One of the saddest sights witnessed by the seer at a death-bed is the +tortures to which we often subject our dying friends on account of +ignorance of how to care for them in that condition. We have a science of +birth; obstetricians who have been trained for years in their profession +and have developed a wonderful skill, assist the little stranger into this +world. We have also trained nurses attendant upon mother and child, the +ingenuity of brilliant minds is focused upon the problem of how to make +maternity easier, neither pains nor money are spared in these beneficent +efforts for one whom we have never seen, but when the friend of a +lifetime, the man who has served his kind well and nobly in profession, +state, or church, is to leave the scene of his labors for a new field of +activity, when the woman—who has labored to no less good purpose in +bringing up a family to take its part in the world’s work—has to leave +that home and family, when one whom we have loved all our lives is about +to bid us the final farewell, we stand by utterly at a loss how to help; +perhaps we even do the very things most detrimental to the comfort and +welfare of the departing one. + +Probably there is no form of torture more commonly inflicted upon the +dying than that which is caused by administering stimulants. Such potions +have the effect of drawing a departing spirit into its body with the force +of a catapult, to remain and to suffer for sometime longer. Investigators +of conditions beyond have heard many complaints of such treatment. When it +is seen that death must inevitably ensue, let not selfish desire to keep a +departing spirit a little longer prompt us to inflict such tortures upon +it. The death chamber should be a place of the utmost quiet, a place of +peace and of prayer, for at that time, and _for three and one-half days +after the last breath_, the spirit is passing through a Gethsemane and +needs all the assistance that can be given. The value of the life that has +just been passed depends greatly upon conditions which then prevail about +the body; yes even the conditions of its future life are influenced by our +attitude during that time, so that if ever we were our brother’s keeper in +life, we are a thousand times more so at death. + +Post-mortem examinations, embalming and cremation during the period +mentioned, not only disturb the passing spirit mentally, but are +productive of a certain amount of pain, for there is still a slight +connection with the discarded vehicle. If sanitary laws require us to +prevent decomposition while thus keeping the body for cremation, it may be +packed in ice till the three and one-half days have passed. After that +time the spirit will not suffer, no matter what happens to the body. + +_The Panorama of a Past Life._ + +No matter how long we may keep the spirit from passing out however, at +last there will come a time when no stimulant can hold it and the last +breath is drawn. Then the silver cord, of which the Bible speaks, and +which holds the higher and the lower vehicles together, snaps in the heart +and causes that organ to stop. That rupture releases the vital body, and +that with the desire body and mind float above the visible body for from +one to three and one-half days while the spirit is engaged in reviewing +the past life, an exceedingly important part of its post-mortem +experience. Upon that review depends its whole existence from death to a +new birth. + +The question may arise in the student’s mind: How can we review our past +life from the cradle to the grave when we do not even remember what we did +a month ago, and to form a proper basis for our future life, this record +ought to be very accurate, but even the best memory is faulty? When we +understand the difference between the conscious and sub-conscious memory +and the manner in which the latter operates, the difficulty vanishes. This +difference and the manner in which the sub-conscious memory keeps an +accurate record of our life experiences may be best understood by an +illustration, as follows: When we go into a field and view the surrounding +landscape, vibrations in the ether carry to us a picture of everything +within the range of our vision. It is as sad as it is true however, that +“we have eyes and see not,” as the Savior said. These vibrations impinge +upon the retina of our eyes, even to the very smallest details, but they +usually do not penetrate to our consciousness, and therefore are not +remembered. Even the most powerful impressions fade in course of time so +that we cannot call them back at will when they are stored in our +conscious memory. + +When a photographer goes afield _with his camera_ the results which he +obtains are different. The ether vibrations emanating from all things upon +which his camera is focused, transmit to the sensitive plate an impression +of the landscape true to the minutest detail, and, mark this well, this +true and accurate picture is in no wise dependent upon whether the +photographer is observant or not. It will remain upon the plate and may be +reproduced under proper conditions. Such is the subconscious memory, and +it is generated automatically by each of us during every moment of time, +independently of our volition, in the following manner. + +From the first breath which we draw after birth to our last dying gasp, we +inspire air which is charged with pictures of our surroundings, and the +same ether which carries that picture to the retina of our eye, is inhaled +into our lungs where it enters the blood. Thus it reaches the heart in due +time. In the left ventricle of that organ, near the apex, there is one +little atom which is particularly sensitized, and which remains in the +body all through life. It differs in this respect from all other atoms +which come and go, for it is the particular property of God, and of a +certain spirit. This atom may be called the book of the Recording Angel, +for as the blood passes through the heart, cycle after cycle, the pictures +of our good and evil acts are inscribed thereon to the minutest detail. +This record may be called the sub-conscious memory. It forms the basis of +our future life when reproduced as a panorama just subsequent to death. By +removal of the seed atom—which corresponds to the sensitized plate in a +camera,—the reflecting ether of the vital body serves as a focus, and as +the life unrolls slowly backwards from death to birth the pictures thereof +are etched into the desire body which will be our vehicle during our +sojourn in purgatory and the first heaven where evil is eradicated and +good assimilated, so that in a future life the former may serve as +_conscience_ to withhold the man from repeating mistakes of the past, and +the latter will spur us to greater good. + +A phenomenon similar to the panorama of life usually takes place when a +person is drowning. People who have been resuscitated speak of having seen +their whole life _in a flash_. That is because under such conditions the +vital body also leaves the dense body. Of course there is no rupture of +the silver cord, or life could not be restored. Unconsciousness follows +quickly in drowning, while in the usual post-mortem review the +consciousness continues until the vital body collapses in the same manner +that it does when we go to sleep. Then consciousness ceases for a while +and the panorama is terminated. Therefore also the time occupied by the +panorama varies with different persons, according to whether the vital +body was strong and healthy, or had become thin and emaciated by +protracted illness. The longer the time spent in review, and the more +quiet and peaceful the surroundings, the deeper will be the etching which +is made in the desire body. As already said, that has a most important and +far reaching effect, for then the sufferings which the spirit will realize +in purgatory on account of bad habits and misdeeds will be much more keen +than if there is only a slight impression, and in a future life the still +small voice of conscience will warn so much more insistently against +mistakes which caused sufferings in the past. + +When conditions are such at the time of death that the spirit is disturbed +by outside conditions, for instance the din and turmoil of a battle, the +harrowing conditions of an accident or the hysterical wailings of +relatives, the distraction prevents it from realizing an appropriate depth +in the etching upon the desire body. Consequently its post-mortem +existence becomes vague and insipid, the spirit does not harvest fruits of +experience as it should have done had it passed out of the body in peace +and under normal conditions. It would therefore lack incentive to good in +a future life, and miss the warning against evil which a deep etching of +the panorama of life would have given. Thus its growth would be retarded +in a very marked degree, but the beneficent powers in charge of evolution +take certain steps to compensate for our ignorant treatment of the dying +and other untoward circumstances mentioned. What these steps are, we shall +discuss when considering the life of children in heaven, for the present +let it be sufficient to say that in God’s kingdom every evil is always +transmuted to a greater good though the process may not be at once +apparent. + +_Purgatory._ + +During life the collapse of the vital body at night terminates our view of +the world about us, and causes us to lose ourselves in unconsciousness of +sleep. When the vital body collapses just subsequent to death, and the +panorama of life is terminated, we also lose consciousness for a time +which varies according to the individual. A darkness seems to fall upon +the spirit, then after a while it wakes up and begins dimly to perceive +the light of the other world, but is only gradually accustomed to the +altered conditions. It is an experience similar to that which we have when +coming out of a darkened room into sunlight, which blinds us by its +brilliancy, until the pupils of our eyes have contracted so that they +admit a quantity of light bearable to our organism. + +If under such a condition we turn momentarily from the bright sunlight and +look back into the darkened room, objects there will be much more plain to +our vision than things outside which are illumined by the powerful rays of +the sun. So it is also with the spirit, when it has first been released +from the body it perceives sights, scenes and sounds of the material +world, which it has just left, much more readily than it observes the +sights of the world it is entering. Wordsworth in his Ode to Immortality +noted a similar condition in the case of new-born children, who are all +clairvoyant and much more awake to the spiritual world than to this +present plane of existence. Some lose the spiritual sight very early, +others retain it for a number of years and a few keep it all through life, +but as the birth of a child is a death in the spiritual world and it +retains the spiritual sight for a time, so also death here is a birth upon +the spiritual plane, and the newly dead retain a consciousness of this +world for some time subsequent to demise. + +When one awakes in the Desire World after having passed through +aforementioned experiences, the general feeling seems to be one of relief +from a heavy burden, a feeling perhaps akin to that of a diver encased in +a heavy rubber suit, a weighty brass helmet upon his head, leaden soles +under his feet and heavy weights of lead upon his breast and back, +confined in his operations on the bottom of the ocean by a short length of +air tube, and able only to move clumsily with difficulty. When after the +day’s work such a man is hauled to the surface, and divests himself of his +heavy garments and he moves about with the facility we enjoy here, he must +surely experience a feeling of great relief. Something like that is felt +by the spirit when it has been divested of the mortal coil, and is able to +roam all over the globe instead of being confined to the narrow +environment which bound it upon earth. + +There is also a feeling of relief for those who have been ill. Sickness, +such as we know it, does not exist there. Neither is it necessary to seek +food and shelter, for in that world there is neither heat nor cold. +Nevertheless, there are many in the purgatorial regions who go to all +bothers of housekeeping, eating and drinking just as we do here. George Du +Maurier in his novel “Peter Ibbetson” gives a very good idea of this +condition in the life lived between the hero and the Countess of Towers. +This novel also illustrates splendidly what has been said of the +sub-conscious memory, for Geo. Du Maurier has somewhere, somehow +discovered an easy method which anyone may apply to do what he calls +“dreaming true.” By taking a certain position in going to sleep, it is +possible, after a little practice, to compel the appearance, in a dream, +of any scene _in our past life_ which we desire to live over again. The +book is well worth reading on that account. + +When a fiery nebula has been formed in the sky and commences to revolve, a +little matter in the center where motion is slowest commences to +crystallize. When it has reached a certain density it is caught in the +swirl, and whirled nearer and nearer to the outward extremity of what has, +by that time, become the equator of a revolving globe. Then it is hurled +into space and discarded from the economy of the revolving sun. + +This process is not accomplished automatically as scientists would have us +believe,—an assertion which has been proven in _The Rosicrucian Cosmo +Conception_ and other places in our literature. Herbert Spencer also +rejected the nebular theory because it required a First Cause, which he +denied, though unable to form a better hypothesis of the formation of +solar systems,—but it is accomplished through the activity of a Great +Spirit, which we may call God or by any other name we choose. As above, so +below, says the Hermetic axiom. Man, who is a lesser spirit, also gathers +about himself spirit-substance, which crystallizes into matter and becomes +the visible body which the spiritual sight reveals as placed inside an +aura of finer vehicles. The latter are in constant motion. When the dense +body is born as a child it is extremely soft and flexible. + +Childhood, youth, maturity and old age are but so many different stages of +crystallization, which goes on until at last a point is reached where the +spirit can no longer move the hardened body and it is thrown out from the +spirit as the planet is expelled from the sun. That is death!—the +commencement of a disrobing process which continues in purgatory. The low +evil passions and desires we cultivated during life have crystallized the +desire stuff in such a manner that that also must be expelled. Thus the +spirit is purged of evil under the same law that a sun is purged of the +matter which later forms a planet. If the life lived has been a reasonably +decent one, the process of purgation will not be very strenuous nor will +the evil desires thus expurgated persist for a long time after having been +freed, but they quickly disintegrate. If, on the other hand, an extremely +vile life has been led, the part of the expurgated desire nature may +persist even to the time when the spirit returns to a new birth for +further experience. It will then be attracted to him and haunt him as a +demon, inciting him to evil deeds which he himself abhors. The story of +Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is not a mere fanciful idea of Robert Louis +Stevenson, but is founded upon facts well known to spiritual +investigators. Such cases are extremes of course, but they are +nevertheless possible and we have unfortunately laws which convert such +possibilities to probabilities in the case of a certain class of so-called +criminals. We refer to laws which decree capital punishment as penalty of +murder. + +When a man is dangerous he should of course be restrained, but even apart +from the question of the moral right of a community to take the life of +anyone—which we deny—society by its very act of retaliatory murder defeats +the very end it would serve, for if the vicious murderer is restrained +under whatever discipline is necessary in a prison for a number of years +until his natural death, he will have forgotten his bitterness against his +victim and against society, and when he stands as a free spirit in the +Desire World, he may even by prayer have obtained forgiveness and have +become a good Christian. He will then go on his way rejoicing, and will in +the future life seek to help those whom he hurt here. + +When society retaliates and puts him to a violent death shortly after he +has committed the crime, he is most likely to feel himself as having been +greatly injured, and not without cause. Then such a character will usually +seek to “get even” as he calls it, he will go about for a long time +inciting others to commit murder and other crimes. Then we have an +epidemic of murders in a community, a condition not infrequent. + +The regicide in Servia shocked the Western World by wiping out an entire +royal house in a most shockingly bloody manner, and the Minister of the +Interior was one of the chief conspirators. Later he wrote his memoirs, +and therein he writes that whenever the conspirators had tried to win +anyone as a recruit, they always succeeded when they burned incense. He +did not know why, but simply mentioned it as a curious coincidence. To the +mystic investigator the matter is perfectly clear. We have shown the +necessity of having a vehicle made of the materials of any world wherein +we wish to function. We usually obtain a physical vehicle by going through +the womb, or perhaps in a few special cases from a particularly good +materializing medium, but where it is only necessary to work upon the +brain and influence someone else to act, we need but a vehicle made of +such ether as may be obtained from fumes of many different substances. +Each kind attracts different classes of spirits, and there is no doubt +that the incense burned at meetings where the conspirators were successful +was of a low and sensual order and attracted spirits who had a grudge +against humanity in general and the King of Servia in particular. These +malcontents were unable to injure the King himself, but used a subtle +influence which helped the conspirators in their work. The released +murderer who has a grudge against society on account of his execution, may +enter low gambling saloons where the fumes of liquor and tobacco furnish +ample opportunity for working upon the class of people who congregate in +such places, and the man whose spiritual sight has been developed is often +sadly impressed when he sees the subtle influences to which those who +frequent such places are exposed. It is a fact of course that a man must +be of a low caliber to be influenced by low thoughts, and that it is as +impossible to incite a person of benevolent character to do murder—unless +we put him into a hypnotic sleep—as to make a tuning fork which vibrates +to C sing by striking another attuned to the key of G, but the thoughts of +both living and dead constantly surround us, and no man ever thought out a +high spiritual philosophy under the influence of tobacco fumes or while +imbibing alcoholic stimulants. Were capital punishment, newspaper +notoriety of criminals, the _manufacture_ of liquor and tobacco eliminated +from society, the gun factories would soon cease to advertise and go out +of business along with most of the locksmiths. The police force would +decrease, so would jails and taxes would be correspondingly minimized. + +When a person enters purgatory he is exactly the same person as before he +died. He has just the same appetites, likes and dislikes, sympathies and +antipathies, as before. There is one important difference, however, +namely, that _he has no dense body wherewith to gratify his appetites_. +The drunkard craves drink, in fact, far more than he did in this life, but +has no stomach which can contain liquor and cause chemical combustion +necessary to bring about the state of intoxication in which he delights. +He may and does enter saloons, where he interpolates his body into the +body of a physical drunkard, so that he may obtain his desires at second +hand as it were, he will incite his victim to drink more and more. Yet +there is no true satisfaction. He sees the full glass upon the counter but +his spirit hand is unable to lift it. He suffers tortures of Tantalus +until in time he realizes the impossibility of gratifying his base desire. +Then he is free to go on so far as that vice is concerned. He has been +purged from that evil without intervention of an angry deity or a +conventional devil with hell’s flames and pitchfork to administer +punishment, but under the immutable law that as we sow so shall we reap, +he has suffered exactly according to his vice. If his craving for drink +was of a mild nature, he would scarcely miss the liquor which he cannot +there obtain. If his desires were strong and he simply lived for drink, he +would suffer veritable tortures of hell without need of actual flames. +Thus the pain experienced in eradication of his vice would be exactly +commensurate with the energy he had expended upon contracting the habit, +as the force wherewith a falling stone strikes the earth is proportionate +to the energy expended in hurling it upwards into the air. + +Yet it is not the aim of God to “get even;” _love_ is higher than _law_ +and in His wonderful mercy and solicitude for our welfare He has opened +the way of repentance and reform whereby we may obtain forgiveness of sin, +as taught by the Lord of Love: the Christ. Not indeed contrary to law, for +His laws are immutable, but by application of a higher law, whereby we +accomplish here that which would otherwise be delayed until death had +forced the day of reckoning. The method is as follows: + +In our explanation concerning the sub-conscious memory we noted that a +record of every act, thought and word is transmitted by air and ether into +our lungs, thence to the blood, and finally inscribed upon the tablet of +the heart:—a certain little _seedatom_, which is thus the book of +Recording Angels. It was later explained how this panorama of life is +etched into the desire body and forms the basis of retribution after +death. When we have committed a wrong and our conscience accuses us in +consequence, and this accusation is productive of sincere repentance +_accompanied by reform_, the picture of that wrong act will gradually fade +from the record of our life, so that when we pass out at death it will not +stand accusingly against us. We noted that the panorama of life unwinds +backwards just after death. Later, in the purgatorial life it again passes +before the spiritual vision of the man, who then experiences the exact +feeling of those whom he has wronged. He seems to lose his own identity +for the time being, and assumes the condition of his one time victim, he +experiences all the mental and physical suffering himself which he +inflicted upon others. Thus he learns to be merciful instead of cruel, and +to do right instead of wrong in a future life. But if he awakens to a +thorough realization of a wrong previous to his death, then, as said, the +feeling of sorrow for his victim and the restitution or redress which he +gives of his own free will, make the suffering after death unnecessary, +hence—“his sin is forgiven.” + +The Rosicrucian Mystery teaching gives a scientific method whereby an +aspirant to higher life may purge himself continually, and thus be able to +entirely avoid existence in purgatory. Each night after retiring the pupil +reviews his life during the past day _in reverse order_. He starts to +visualize as clearly as possible the scene which took place just before +retiring. He then endeavors to impartially view his actions in that scene +examining them to see whether he did right or wrong. If the latter, he +endeavors to _feel and realize as __ vividly as possible_ that wrong. For +instance, if he spoke harshly to someone, and upon later consideration +finds it was not merited, he will endeavor to _feel_ exactly as that one +felt whom he wronged and at the very earliest opportunity to apologize for +the hasty expression. Then he will call up the next scene in backward +succession which may perhaps be the supper table. In respect of that scene +he will examine himself as to whether he ate to live, sparingly and of +foods prepared without suffering to other creatures of God, (such as flesh +foods that cannot be obtained without taking life). If he finds that he +allowed his appetite to run away with him and that he ate gluttonously, he +will endeavor to overcome these habits, for to live a clean life we must +have a clean body and no one can live to his highest possibilities while +making his stomach a graveyard for the decaying corpses of murdered +animals. In this respect there occurs to the writer a little poem by Ella +Wheeler Wilcox: + + + “I am the voice of the voiceless; + Through me the dumb shall speak, + Till a deaf world’s ear + Shall be made to hear + The wrongs of the wordless weak. + + The same force formed the sparrow + That fashioned man the king; + The God of the whole + Gave a spark of soul + To furred and feathered thing. + + And I am my brother’s keeper + And I will fight his fight, + And speak the word + For beast and bird + Till the world shall set things right. + + +Thus the pupil will continue to review each scene _in reverse order_ from +night till morning, and to _feel really sorry_ for whatever he has done +amiss. He will not neglect to _feel glad_ either when he comes to a scene +where he has done well, and _the more intensely he can feel, the more +thoroughly he will eradicate the record upon the tablet of the heart and +sharpen his conscience_, so that as time goes on from year to year, he +will find less cause for blame and enhance his soul power enormously. Thus +he will grow in a measure impossible by any less systematic method, and +there will be no necessity for his stay in purgatory after death. + +This evening exercise and another, for the morning, if persistently +performed day by day, will in time awaken the spiritual vision as they +improve life. This matter has, however, been so thoroughly treated in +number 11 of the lecture series: “_Spiritual Sight and Insight; its safe +culture and control_,” that it is unnecessary to dwell upon the matter +further in this place. + +_The First Heaven._ + +In the first heaven, which is located in the higher regions of the Desire +World, the panorama of life again unrolls and reveals every scene where we +aimed to help or benefit others. They were not felt at the time the spirit +was in the lower regions, for higher desires cannot express themselves in +the coarse matter composing the lower regions of the Desire World, but +when the spirit ascends to the first heaven it reaps from each scene all +the good which it expressed in life. It will feel the gratitude poured out +by those whom it helped; if it comes to a scene where itself received a +favor from others _and was grateful_, it will experience the gratitude +anew. The sum of all these feelings is there amalgamated into the spirit +to serve in a future life as incentives to good. + +Thus, the soul is purged from evil in purgatory, and strengthened in good +in the first heaven. In one region the extract of sufferings become +_conscience_ to deter us from doing wrong, in the other region the +quintessence of good is transmuted to _benevolence_ and altruism which are +the basis of all true progress. Moreover, purgatory is far from being a +place of _punishment_, it is perhaps the most beneficent realm in nature, +for _because of purgation we are born innocent_ life after life. The +tendencies to commit the same evil for which we suffered remain with us +and temptations to commit the same wrongs will be placed in our path until +we have consciously overcome the evil here; temptation is not sin, +however, the sin is in yielding. + +Among the inhabitants of the invisible world there is one class which +lives a particularly painful life, sometimes for a great many years, +namely, the suicide who tried to play truant from the school of life. Yet +it is not an angry God or a malevolent devil who administers punishment, +but an immutable law which proportions the sufferings differently to each +individual suicide. + +We learned previously, when considering the World of Thought, that each +form in this visible world has its archetype there,—a vibrating hollow +mold which emits a certain harmonious sound; that sound attracts and forms +physical matter into the shape we behold, much in the same manner as when +we place a little sand upon a glass plate and rub the edge with a violin +bow, the sand is shaped into different geometrical figures which change as +the sound changes. + +The little atom in the heart is the sample and the center around which the +atoms in our body gather. When that is removed at death, the center is +lacking, and although the archetype keeps on vibrating until the limit of +the life has been reached—as also previously explained,—no matter can be +drawn into the hollow shape of the archetype and therefore the suicide +feels a dreadful gnawing pain as if he were hollowed out, a torture which +can only be likened to the pangs of hunger. In his case, the intense +suffering will continue for exactly as many years as he should have lived +in the body. At the expiration of that time, the archetype collapses as it +does when death comes naturally. Then the pain of the suicide ceases, and +he commences his period of purgation as do those who die a natural death. +But the memory of sufferings experienced in consequence of the act of +suicide will remain with him in future lives and deter him from a similar +mistake. + +In the first heaven there is a class who have not had any purgatorial +existence and who lead a particularly joyous life: the children. Our homes +may be saddened almost beyond endurance when the little flower is broken +and the sunshine it brought has gone. But could we see the beautiful +existence which these little ones lead, and did we understand the great +benefits which accrue to a child from its limited stay there, our sorrow +would be at least ameliorated in a great measure, and the wound upon our +heart would heal more quickly. Besides, as nothing else in the world +happens without a cause, so there is also a much deeper cause for infant +mortality than we are usually aware of, and as we awake to the facts of +the case, we shall be able to avoid in future the sorrow incident to loss +of our little ones. + +To understand the case properly we must revert to the experiences of the +dying in the death hour. We remember that the panorama of the past life is +etched upon the desire body during a period varying from a few hours to +three and one-half days, just subsequent to demise. We recall also, that +upon the depth of this etching depends the clearness of the picture, and +that the more vivid this panorama of life, the more intensely will the +spirit suffer in purgatory and feel the joys of heaven; also, that the +greater the suffering in purgatory the stronger the conscience in the next +life. + +It was explained how the horrors of death upon the battlefield, in an +accident or other untoward circumstances would prevent the spirit from +giving all its attention to the panorama of life with the result that +there would be a light etching in the desire body, followed by a vague and +insipid existence in purgatory and the first heaven. It was also stated +that hysterical lamentations in the death chamber would produce the same +effect. + +A spirit which had thus escaped suffering proportionate to its misdeeds, +and which had not experienced the pleasure commensurate with the good it +had done, would not in a future life have as well developed a conscience +as it ought to have, nor would it be as benevolent as it ought to be, and +therefore the life, terminated under conditions over which the spirit had +no control, would be partly wasted. The Great Leaders of humanity +therefore take steps to counteract such a calamity and prevent an +injustice. The spirit is brought to birth, caused to die in childhood, it +re-enters the Desire World and in the first heaven it is taught the +lessons of which it was deprived previously. + +As the first heaven is located in the Desire World,—which is the realm of +light and color,—where matter is shaped most readily by thought, the +little ones are given wonderful toys impossible of construction here. They +are taught to play with _colors which work upon their moral character_ in +exactly the manner each child requires. Anyone who is at all sensitive is +affected by the color of his clothing and surroundings. Some colors have a +depressing effect, while others inspire us with energy, and others again +soothe and comfort us. In the Desire World the effect of colors is much +more intense, they are much more potent factors of good and evil there +than here, and in this color play, the child imbibes unconsciously the +qualities which it did not acquire on account of accident or lamentations +of relatives. Often it also falls to the lot of such relatives to care for +a child in the invisible world, or perhaps to give it birth and see it +die. Thus they receive just retribution for the wrong committed. As wars +cease, and man learns to be more careful of life, and also how to care for +the dying, infant mortality, which now is so appalling, will decrease. + +_The Second Heaven._ + +When both the good and evil of a life has been extracted, the spirit +discards its desire body and ascends to the second heaven. The desire body +then commences to disintegrate as the physical body and the vital body +have done, but it is a peculiarity of desire stuff, that once it has been +formed and inspired with life, it persists for a considerable time. Even +after that life has fled it lives a semi-conscious, independent life. +Sometimes it is drawn by magnetic attraction to relatives of the spirit +whose clothing it was, and at spiritualistic seances these _shells_ +generally impersonate the departed spirit and deceive its relatives. As +the panorama of the past life is etched into the shells they have a memory +of incidents in connection with these relatives, which facilitates the +deception. But as the intelligence has fled, they are of course unable to +give any true counsel, and that accounts for the inane, goody-goody +nonsense of which these things deliver themselves. + +When passing from the first to the second heaven, the spirit experiences +the condition known and described previously as “The Great Silence,” where +it stands utterly alone conscious only of its divinity. When that silence +is broken there floats in upon the spirit celestial harmonies of _the +world of tone_ where the second heaven is located. It seems then to lave +in an ocean of sound and to experience a joy beyond all description and +words, as it nears its heavenly home—for this is the first of the truly +spiritual realms from which the spirit has been exiled during its earth +life and the subsequent post-mortem existence. In the Desire World its +work was _corrective_, but in the World of Thought the human spirit +becomes one with the nature forces and its _creative_ activity begins. + +Under the law of causation we reap exactly what we sow, and it would be +wrong to place one spirit in an environment where there is a scarcity of +the necessities of life, where a scorching sun burns the crop and millions +die from famine, or where the raging flood sweeps away primitive +habitations not built to withstand its ravages, and to bring another +spirit to birth in a land of plenty, with a fertile soil which yields a +maximum of increase with a minimum of labor, where the earth is rich in +minerals that may be used in industry to facilitate transportation of +products of the soil from one point to another. If we were thus placed +without action or acquiescence upon our part, there would be no justice, +but as our post-mortem existence in purgatory and the first heaven is +based upon our moral attitude in this life so our activities in the second +heaven are determined by our mental aspirations and they produce our +future physical environment, for in the second heaven, the spirit becomes +part of the nature forces which work upon the earth and change its +climate, flora and fauna. A spirit of an indolent nature, who indulges in +day dreams and metaphysical speculations _here_, is not transformed by +death respecting its mental attitude any more than regarding its moral +propensities. It will dream away time in heaven, glorying in its sights +and sounds. Thus it will neglect to work upon its future country and +return to a barren and arid land. Spirits, on the other hand, whose +material aspirations lead them to desire so-called solid comforts of +hearth and home, who aim to promote great industries and whose mind is +concerned in trade and commerce, will build in heaven a land that will +suit their purpose: fertile, immineralized, with navigable rivers and +sheltered harbors. They will return in time to enjoy upon earth the fruits +of their labors in the second heaven, as they reap the result of their +life upon earth in purgatory and the first heaven. + +_The Third Heaven._ + +In the third heaven most people have very little consciousness for reasons +explained in connection with the Region of Abstract Thought, for there the +third heaven is located. It is therefore more of a place of waiting where +the spirit rests between the time when its labors in the second heaven +have been completed and the time when it again experiences the desire for +rebirth. But from this realm inventors bring down their original ideas; +there the philanthropist obtains the clearest vision of how to realize his +utopian dreams and the spiritual aspirations of the saintly minded are +given renewed impetus. + +In time the desires of the spirit for further experiences draws it back to +rebirth, and the Great Celestial Beings who are known in the Christian +Religion as Recording Angels, assist the spirit to come to birth in the +place best suited to give it the experience necessary to further unfold +its powers and possibilities. + +We have all been here many times and in different families, we have had +relations of varying nature with many different people and usually there +are several families among whom we may seek re-embodiment to work out our +self-generated destiny and reap what we have sown in former life. If there +are no special reasons why we should take birth in any particular family +among certain friends or foes, the spirit is allowed to choose its own +place of birth. Thus it may be said that most of us are in our present +places by our own prenatal choice. + +In order to assist us in making that choice the Recording Angels call up +before the spirit’s vision a panorama in general outlines of each of the +offered lives. This panorama will show what part of our past debts we are +to pay, and what fruits we may be expected to reap in the coming life. + +The spirit is left free to choose between the several lives offered. But +once a choice has been made no evasion is possible during life. We have +free will with regard to the future, but the past “_mature_” destiny we +cannot escape, as shown by the incident recorded in _The Rosicrucian Cosmo +Conception_, where the writer warned a well known Los Angeles lecturer +that if he left his home upon a certain day, he would be injured by a +conveyance, in head, neck, breast and shoulders. The gentleman believed +and intended to heed our warning. Nevertheless he went to Sierra Madre to +lecture upon the fateful day. He was injured in the places stated by a +collision and later explained: “I thought the twenty-eighth was the +twenty-ninth.” + +When the spirit has made its choice, it descends into the second heaven +where it is instructed by the Angels and Archangels how to build an +archetype of the body which it will later inhabit upon earth. Also here we +note the operation of the great law of justice which decrees that we reap +what we sow. If our tastes are coarse and sensual, we shall build an +archetype which will express these qualities; if we are refined and of +aesthetic taste, we shall build an archetype correspondingly refined, but +no one can obtain a better body than he can build. Then, as the architect +who builds a house in which he afterwards lives, will suffer discomfort if +he neglects to properly ventilate it, so also the spirit feels disease in +a poorly constructed body, and as the architect learns to avoid mistakes +and remedy the short-comings of one house when building another, so also +the spirit which suffers from defects in its body, learns in time to build +better and better vehicles. + +In the Region of Concrete Thought, the spirit also draws to itself +materials for a new mind. As a magnet draws iron filings but leaves other +substances alone, so also each spirit draws only the kind of mind-stuff +which it used in its former life, plus that which it has learned to use in +its present post-mortem state. Then it descends into the Desire World +where it gathers material for a new desire body such as will express +appropriately its moral characteristics, and later it attracts a certain +amount of ether which is built into the mold of the archetype constructed +in the second heaven and acts as cement between the solids, liquids and +gaseous material from the bodies of parents which forms the dense physical +body of a child, and in due time the latter is brought to birth. + +_Birth and Child Life._ + +It must not be imagined, however, that when the little body of a child has +been born, the process of birth is completed. The dense physical body has +had the longest evolution, and as a shoemaker who has worked at his trade +for a number of years is more expert than an apprentice and can make +better shoes and _quicker_, so also the spirit which has built many +physical bodies produces them quickly, but the vital body is a later +acquisition of the human being. Therefore we are not so expert in building +that vehicle. Consequently it takes longer to construct that from the +materials not used up in making the lining of the archetype, and the vital +body is not born until the seventh year. Then the period of rapid growth +commences. The desire body is a still later addition of composite man, and +is not brought to birth until the fourteenth year when the desire nature +expresses itself most strongly during so-called “hot” youth, and the mind, +which makes man man, does not come to birth until the twenty-first year. +In law that age is recognized as the earliest time he is fitted to +exercise a franchise. + +This knowledge is of the utmost importance to parents, as a proper +understanding of the development which should take place in each of the +septenary epochs enables the educator to work intelligently with nature +and thus fulfill more thoroughly the trust of a parent than those who are +ignorant of the Rosicrucian Mystery Teaching. We shall therefore devote +the remaining pages to an elucidation of this matter and of the importance +of the knowledge of astrology upon the part of the parent. + +_The Mystery of Light, Color and Consciousness._ + +“God is Light,” says the Bible, and we are unable to conceive of a grander +simile of His Omnipresence, or the mode of His manifestation. Even the +greatest telescopes have failed to reach the boundaries of light, though +they reveal to us stars millions of miles from the earth, and we may well +ask ourselves, as did the Psalmist of old: Whither shall I flee from Thy +Presence? If I ascend into heaven Thou art there, If I make my bed in the +grave (the Hebrew word _sheol_ means _grave_ and not hell), Thou art +there, If I take the wings of morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of +the sea, even there shall thy hand lead me. + +When, in the dawn of Being, _God the Father_ enunciated _The Word_, and +_The Holy Spirit_ moved upon the sea of homogeneous _Virgin Matter_, +primeval _Darkness_ was turned to _Light_. That is therefore the prime +manifestation of Deity, and a study of the principles of Light will reveal +to the mystic intuition a wonderful source of spiritual inspiration. As it +would take us too far afield from our subject we shall not enter into an +elucidation of that theme here, except so far as to give an elementary +idea of how divine Life energizes the human frame and stimulates to +action. + +Truly, God is ONE and undivided, He enfolds within His Being all that is, +as the white light embraces all colors. But He appears three-fold in +manifestation, as the white light is refracted in three primary colors: +Blue, Yellow and Red. Wherever we see these colors they are emblematical +of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. These three primary rays of divine +Life are diffused or radiated through the sun and produce _Life_, +_Consciousness_ and _Form_ upon each of the seven light-bearers, the +planets, which are called “the Seven Spirits before the Throne.” Their +names are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. Bode’s +law proves that Neptune does not belong to our solar system and the reader +is referred to “Simplified Scientific Astrology” by the present writer, +for mathematical demonstration of this contention. + +Each of the seven planets receives the light of the sun in a different +measure, according to its proximity to the central orb and the +constitution of its atmosphere, and the beings upon each, according to +their stage of development, have affinity for some of the solar rays. They +absorb the color or colors congruous to them, and reflect the remainder +upon the other planets. This reflected ray bears with it an impulse of the +nature of the beings with which it has been in contact. + +Thus the divine Light and Life comes to each planet, either directly from +the sun, or reflected from its six sister planets, and as the summer +breeze which has been wafted over blooming fields carries upon its silent +invisible wings the blended fragrance of a multitude of flowers, so also +the subtle influences from the garden of God bring to us the commingled +impulses of all the Spirits and in that varicolored light we live and move +and have our being. + +The rays which come directly from the sun are productive of spiritual +illumination, the reflected rays from other planets make for added +consciousness and moral development and the rays reflected by way of the +moon give physical growth. + +But as each planet can only absorb a certain quantity of one or more +colors according to the general stage of evolution there, so each being +upon earth: mineral, plant, animal and man can only absorb and thrive upon +a certain quantity of the various rays projected upon the earth. The +remainder do not affect it or produce sensation, any more than the blind +are conscious of light and color which exist everywhere around them. +Therefore each being is differently affected by the stellar rays and the +science of Astrology a fundamental truth in nature, of enormous benefit in +the attainment of spiritual growth. + +From a horoscopic figure in mystic script we may learn our own strength +and weakness, with the path best suited to our development, or we may see +the tendencies of those friends who come to us as children, and what +traits are dormant in them. Thus we shall know clearly how to discharge +our duty as parents, by repressing evil before it comes to birth and +fostering good, so that it may bring forth most abundantly the spiritual +potencies of the soul committed to our care. + +As we have already said, man returns to earth to reap that which he has +sown in previous lives and to sow anew the seeds which make for future +experience. The stars are the heavenly time keepers which measure the +year, the moon indicates the month when time will be propitious to harvest +or to sow. + +The child is a mystery to us all, we can only know its propensities as +they slowly develop into characteristics, but it is usually too late to +check when evil habits have been formed and the youth is upon the downward +grade. A horoscope cast for the time of birth in a scientific manner shows +the tendencies to good or evil in the child, and if a parent will take +time and trouble necessary to study the science of the stars, he or she +may do the child intrusted to his or her care an inestimable service by +fostering tendencies to good and repressing the evil bent of a child ere +it has crystallized into habit. Do not imagine that a superior +mathematical knowledge is necessary to erect a horoscope. Many construct a +horoscope in such an involved manner, so “fearfully and wonderfully made” +that it is unreadable to themselves or others, while a simple figure easy +of reading may be constructed by anyone who knows how to add and subtract. +This method has been thoroughly elucidated in Simplified Scientific +Astrology which is a complete text book, though small and inexpensive, and +parents who have the welfare of their children thoroughly at heart should +endeavor to learn for themselves, for even though their ability may not +compare with that of a professional astrologer, their intimate knowledge +of the child and their deep interest will more than compensate for such +lack and enable them to see most deeply into the child’s character by +means of its horoscope. + +_Education of Children._ + +Respecting the birth of the various vehicles and the influence which that +has upon life, we may say that during the time from birth to the seventh +year the lines of growth of the physical body are determined, and as it +has been noted that sound is builder both in the great and small, we may +well imagine that rhythm must have an enormous influence upon the growing +and sensitive little child’s organism. The apostle John in the first +chapter of his gospel expresses this idea mystically in the beautiful +words: “In the beginning was the WORD ... and without it was not anything +made that was made ... and the word became flesh;” the word is a rhythmic +sound, which issued from the Creator, reverberated through the universe +and marshaled countless millions of atoms into the multiplex variety of +shapes and forms which we see about us. The mountain, the mayflower, the +mouse and the man are all embodiments of that great Cosmic Word which is +still sounding through the universe and which is still building and ever +building though unheard by our insensitive ears. But though we do not hear +that wonderful celestial sound, we may work upon the little child’s body +by terrestrial music, and though the nursery rhymes are without sense, +they are nevertheless bearers of a wonderful rhythm, and the more a child +is taught to say, sing and repeat them, to dance and to march to them, the +more music is incorporated into a child’s daily life, the stronger and +healthier will be its body in future years. + +There are two mottoes which apply during this period, one to the child and +the other to the parent: _Example_ and _Imitation_. No creature under +heaven is more imitative than a little child, and its conduct in after +years will depend largely upon the example set by its parents during its +early life. It is no use to tell the child “not to mind,” it has no mind +wherewith to discriminate, but follows its natural tendency, as water +flows down a hill, when it imitates. Therefore it behooves every parent to +remember from morning till night that watchful eyes are upon him all the +time waiting but for him to act in order to follow his example. + +It is of the utmost importance that the child’s clothing should be very +loose, particularly the clothing of little boys, as chafing garments often +produce vices which follow a man through life. + +If anyone should attempt to forcibly extract a babe from the protecting +womb of its mother, the outrage would result in death, because the babe +has not yet arrived at a maturity sufficient to endure impacts of the +Physical World. In the three septenary periods which follow birth, the +invisible vehicles are still in the womb of mother nature. If we teach a +child of tender years to memorize, or to think, or if we arouse its +feelings and emotions, we are in fact opening the protecting womb of +nature and the results are equally as disastrous in other respects as a +forced premature birth. Child prodigies usually become men and women of +less than ordinary intelligence. We should not hinder the child from +learning or thinking of _his own volition_, but we should not goad them on +as parents often do to nourish their own pride. + +When the vital body is born at the age of seven a period of growth begins +and a new motto, or relation rather, is established between parent and +child. This may be expressed in the two words _Authority_ and +_Discipleship_. In this period the child is taught certain lessons which +it takes upon faith in the authority of its teachers, whether at home or +at school, and as memory is a faculty of the vital body it can now +memorize what is learned. It is therefore eminently teachable; +particularly because it is unbiased by pre-conceived opinions which +prevent most of us from accepting new views. At the end of this second +period: from about twelve to fourteen, the vital body has been so far +developed that puberty is reached. At the age of fourteen we have the +birth of the desire body, which marks the commencement of self-assertion. +In earlier years the child regards itself more as belonging to a family +and subordinate to the wishes of its parents than after the fourteenth +year. The reason is this: In the throat of the fœtus and the young child +there is a gland called the thymus gland, which is largest before birth, +then gradually diminishes through the years of childhood and finally +disappears at ages which vary according to the characteristics of the +child. Anatomists have been puzzled as to the function of this organ and +have not yet come to any settled conclusion, but it has been suggested +that before development of the red marrow bones, the child is not able to +manufacture its own blood, and that therefore the thymus gland contains an +essence, supplied by the parents, upon which the child may draw during +infancy and childhood, till able to manufacture its own blood. That theory +is approximately true, and as the family blood flows in the child, it +looks upon itself as part of the family and not as an Ego. But the moment +it commences to manufacture its own blood, the Ego asserts itself, it is +no longer Papa’s girl or Mamma’s boy, it has an “I”-dentity of its own. +Then comes the critical age when parents reap what they have sown. The +mind has not yet been born, nothing holds the desire nature in check, and +much, very much, depends upon how the child has been taught in earlier +years and what example the parents have set. At this point in life +self-assertion, the feeling “_I am myself_”, is stronger than at any other +time and therefore authority should give place to _Advice_; the parent +should practice the utmost tolerance, for at no time in life is a human +being as much in need of sympathy as during the seven years from fourteen +to twenty-one when the desire nature is rampant and unchecked. + +It is a crime to inflict corporal punishment upon a child at any age. +Might is never right, and as the stronger, parents should always have +compassion for the weaker. But there is one feature of corporal punishment +which makes it particularly dangerous to apply it to the youth: namely, +that it wakens the passional nature which is already perhaps beyond the +control of a growing boy. + +If we whip a dog, we shall soon break its spirit and transform it into a +cringing cur, and it is deplorable that some parents seem to regard it as +their mission in life to break the spirit of their children with the rule +of the rod. If there is one universal lack among the human race which is +more apparent than any other, it is lack of will, and as parents we may +remedy the evil in a large measure by guiding the wills of our children +along such lines as dictated by our own more mature reason, so that we +help them to grow a backbone instead of a wishbone with which +unfortunately most of us are afflicted. Therefore, never whip a child; +when punishment is necessary, correct by withholding favors or withdrawing +privileges. + +At the twenty-first year the birth of the mind transforms the youth into a +man or a woman fully equipped to commence his own life in the school of +experience. + +Thus we have followed the human spirit around a life cycle from death to +birth and maturity, we have seen how immutable law governs his every step +and how he is ever encompassed by the loving care of the Great and +Glorious Beings who are the ministers of God. The method of his future +development will be explained in a later work which will deal with “The +Christian Mystic Initiation.” + + + + + +MT. ECCLESIA + + +(Transcriber’s Note: This chapter is the series of pages which, earlier, +the author said “had been transferred” to the back of the book.) + +A DESCRIPTION OF THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE ROSICRUCIAN FELLOWSHIP + +Work in the physical world requires physical means of accomplishment; +therefore a tract of land was bought in 1911 in the town of Oceanside, +ninety miles south of Los Angeles, California. _Southern California was +selected because of the abundance of ether in the atmosphere there, and +this spot was found to be particularly favored in that respect._ + +On this commanding site having a wide view of the great Pacific Ocean, of +snow capped mountains and smiling valleys, we began to establish our +headquarters in the latter part of 1911. Soon after this we erected a +sanctuary, the Pro-Ecclesia, where the Rosicrucian Temple Service is held +at appropriate times. The Rose Cross Healing Circle holds its meetings +there to help sufferers, and it is the place appointed for the united +morning and evening devotions of the workers. In the latter half of 1920 +we built an Ecclesia, which is designed to be a Temple of Healing. The +building, a beautiful domed structure, is of steel and reinforced +concrete. It is twelve sided in shape, corresponding to the twelve signs +of the zodiac. At the present writing, January, 1921, the final work upon +it is just being completed. The esoteric work of the Fellowship will be +carried on here. + +We have also built a two-story Administration Building to house the +general office, the book department, the correspondence school in +Christian Mysticism which links Headquarters with students all over the +world, and the editorial offices of our monthly publications, notably the +“_Rosicrucian Fellowship Magazine—Rays from the Rose Cross_.” We have also +an astrological department which conducts a correspondence school. Its +offices are located on the second floor. + +The whole first floor is occupied by a modern printing plant and book +bindery required to furnish the immense amount of literature needed in +this work. In the book department we publish all the standard works and +text books of the Rosicrucian Philosophy written by Max Heindel. We are +now in process of publishing in book form his former lessons to students. + +In October, 1920, a Training School was established for the preparation of +candidates for the lecture field. It is our intention to thereby maintain +a Lecture Bureau, from which we will send our lecturers throughout the +country to disseminate the teachings and carry the message of our +philosophy to the people to a greater extent than has before been +possible. + +A Dining Hall with seating capacity for over one hundred people affords +ample accommodation for workers, students, and patients. The scientific +meatless diet served there preserves or restores health, as required in +each case. Furthermore, it improves the vitality and mentality in an +astonishing degree. A large dormitory, and a number of cottages and tents +provide living quarters for all. + +By the liberal use of water and the expenditure of much labor, Mount +Ecclesia is gradually being transformed into a luxuriant tropical park. +There is a deep spiritual purpose in this attempt to make the visible +centre of the new world movement beautiful, for it fosters in the workers +a poise and peace which are absolutely essential to the proper performance +of their work. Without that they cannot escape being disturbed by the +flood of sorrow and trouble which flows into Headquarters from members all +over the world; without that they cannot continue to put heart into the +letters of help, hope and cheer which continually go out to souls who are +groaning under the burden of sickness, but by bathing their souls in the +beauty of the surroundings, whether consciously or not, they gain in +strength and grow in grace, they become better and better fitted for the +Great Work in the Master’s Vineyard. + +In order to aid those who feel the upward urge, to prepare intelligently +and reverently for the unfoldment of their inner latent spiritual powers, +the Rosicrucian Fellowship maintains two correspondence courses which +furnish instruction to students all over the world. One deals with +_Astrology_, the other with _Christian Mysticism_. + +The Astrology to which we refer is not to be confounded with +fortune-telling; it is a phase of the Mystic Religion, as sublime as the +stars with which it deals, and to the Mystic they are not dead bodies +moving in space in obedience to so-called blind natural law, but they are +the embodiments of “_The Seven Spirits before the Throne_,” mighty +Star-Angels who use their benevolent influences to guide other less +exalted beings, humanity included, upon the path of evolution. + +There is a side of the moon which we never see, but that hidden half is as +potent a factor in creating the ebb and flow, as the part of the moon +which is visible. Similarly, there is an invisible part of man which +exerts a powerful influence in life, and as the tides are measured by the +motion of sun and moon, so also the eventualities of existence are +measured by the circling stars, which may therefore be called “the Clock +of Destiny,” and knowledge of their import is an immense power, for to the +competent Astrologer a horoscope reveals every secret of life. + +Thus, when you have given an astrologer the data of your birth, you have +given him the key to your innermost soul, and there is no secret that he +may not ferret out. This knowledge may be used for good or ill, to help or +hurt, according to the nature of the man. Only a friend should be trusted +with this key to your soul, and it should never be given to anyone base +enough to prostitute a spiritual science for material gain. + +To the medical man Astrology is invaluable in diagnosing diseases and +prescribing a remedy, for it reveals the hidden cause of all ailments, in +a manner that has often perplexed the skeptic and dumbfounded the scoffer. + +The opinion of thousands is of great value, but it does not prove +anything, for thousands may hold an opposite view; occasionally a single +man may be right and the rest of the world wrong, as when Galileo +maintained that the earth moves. Today the whole world has been converted +to the opinion for which he suffered torture, and we assert that, _as man +is a composite being, cures are successful only in proportion as they +remedy defects on the physical, moral and mental planes of Being_. We also +maintain that results may be obtained more easily at certain times when +stellar rays are propitious to healing of a particular disease, or by +treatment with remedies previously prepared under auspicious conditions. + +If you are a parent the horoscope will aid you to detect the evil latent +in your child and teach you how to apply the ounce of prevention. It will +show you the good points also, that you may make a better man or woman of +the soul entrusted to your care. It will reveal systemic weakness and +enable you to guard the health of your child; it will show what talents +are there, and how the life may be lived to a maximum of usefulness. +Therefore, the message of the marching orbs is so important that you +cannot afford to remain ignorant thereof. + +In order to aid those who are willing to help themselves we maintain a +Correspondence Class in Astrology, but make no mistake, we do not teach +fortune-telling; if that is what you are looking for, we have nothing for +you. + +OUR LESSONS ARE SERMONS + +They embody the highest moral and spiritual principles, together with the +loftiest system of ethics, for Astrology is, to us, a phase of religion; +we never look at a horoscope without feeling that we are in a holy +presence, face to face with an immortal soul, and our attitude is one of +prayer for light to guide that soul aright. + +WE DO NOT CAST HOROSCOPES + +Despite all we can say, many people write enclosing money for horoscopes, +forcing us to spend valuable time writing letters of refusal and giving us +the trouble of returning their money. Please do not thus annoy us; it will +avail you nothing. + +THE COURSE IN CHRISTIAN MYSTICISM + +_Christ_ taught the multitude in _parables_, but explained the _mysteries_ +to His disciples. _Paul gave milk_ to the babes, but _meat_ to the strong. + +Max Heindel, the founder and leader of the Rosicrucian Fellowship, +endeavored to follow in their steps and give to interested and devoted +students a _deeper teaching_ than that promulgated in public. + +For that purpose we conduct a correspondence course in _Christian +Mysticism_. The General Secretary may admit applicants to the preliminary +course, but _advancement_ in the deeper degrees depends upon merit. It is +for those alone who have been _tried_, and found true. + +HOW TO APPLY FOR ADMISSION + +Anyone who is not engaged in fortune-telling or similar methods of +commercializing spiritual knowledge will, upon request, receive an +application blank from the General Secretary, Rosicrucian Fellowship. When +this blank is returned properly filled, he may admit the applicant to +instruction in either or both correspondence courses. + +THE COST OF THE COURSE + +There are no fixed fees; no esoteric instruction is ever put in the +balance against coin. At the same time, it cannot be given “_free_,” “_for +nothing_,” for those who work to promulgate it must have the necessities +of life. Type, paper, machinery and postage also cost money, and _unless +you pay your part someone else must pay for you_. + +There are a few who cannot contribute, and who need these teachings as +much or more than those who may take comfort from financial ease or +affluence. If they make their condition known, they will receive as much +attention as the largest contributors, but others are expected to +contribute for their own good as well as for the good of the work. +Remember, _a closed hand that does not give cannot receive_. + + + + + +INDEX + + +Abstract Thought, _see_ Thought, World of, Region of Abstract Thought. + +Action, incentive to, 158. + +Adepts, pupils of schools of the Greater Mysteries, 10. + +Air, charged with pictures of surroundings, 37, 155. + +Alchemy, proved by radio-activity, 108. + +Alcohol, results of using, 166. + +Ambassador from sun, 87. + +Ameshaspends, Seven Spirits before the Throne, 87. + +Angels, densest body of, composed of ether, 73; + expert builders in ether, 74; + family spirits, 80; + guardians of propagative force, 74; + instruct ego in building archetype, 184; + one step beyond human stage, 73. + +Angels, Recording, _see_ Recording angels. + +Animals, dependent upon group spirit for infusion of stellar rays, 124; + keyed to lunar month, 124; + thought processes of, 122. + +Aquarian Age, intellect of, 15. + +Archangels, densest vehicle of, 79; + instruct ego in building archetype, 184; + less evolved become group spirits, 81; + native of Desire World, 79; + race and national spirits, 80; + various grades of, 80; + work with humanity politically and industrially, 80. + +Arche, primordial matter of, 108. + +Archetypal forces direct archetypes, 103. + +Archetype, duration of, 175; + vibratory mold, 175. + +Assimilation, through ether, 123. + +Astrology, estimation of time by, in Desire World, 94; + value of, 190. + +Atom, physical, spherical shape of, 9. + +Atom, seed, _see_ Seed atom. + +Atoms, chemical, expelled through skin, 127. + +Attitude, mental, results of, 181. + +Benevolence, acquired in First Heaven, 174. + +Bennett, Florence, trance of, 141. + +Black magic, punishment of, 17. + +Blood, charged with pictures of surroundings, 155; + relation of, to vital body, 129. + +Blue, in stellar ray, life of the Father, 124, 188. + +Bode’s law and Neptune, 189. + +Body, dense, _see_ Dense body. + desire, _see_ Desire body. + vital, _see_ Vital body. + +Brain, absorption of stellar rays through, 124. + +Breath, record of, 37, 38. + +Capital punishment, menace of, 164. + +Carelessness, power of, to shorten life, 147. + +Causation, law of, attraction of like to like, 48; + determines environment, 48, 180; + flexibility of law of, 52. + +Chaos, (Cosmic night) seed ground of Cosmos, 112; + state of orderly segregation, 105. + +Chemical atoms, expelled through skin, 127. + +Chemical ether, assimilation and growth by, 69; + seen as blue haze, 65. + +Child, post-mortem experiences of, easily investigated, 51; + prodigies, 195. + +Children, clairvoyance of, 160; + danger of mental forcing, 195; + discipline of, 195; + individual blood developed in, 196; + imitativeness of, 194; + proper clothing of, 194; + life of, in First Heaven, 176; + understanding of, through astrology, 192. + +Christ, higher laws taught by, 169; + rebirth taught by, 46. + +Christianity, the flowering of previous religions, 6. + +Clairvoyance of children, 160; + of the dying, 148; + varieties of, 136. + +Clairvoyants, separation of vital body of, 137. + +Clairvoyants, trained, positive powers of, 137. + +Colors, emotional effect produced by, 178. + +Colors, primary, symbolize God, 188. + +Community affected by executions, 165. + +Concentration in Desire World, 91. + +Concrete Thought, _see_ Thought, World of, Region of Concrete Thought. + +Conditions of life related to past action, 43. + +Conscience, assimilated pictures of past experience, 38, 156. + +Consequence, law of, _see_ Causation, law of. + +Conservation, law of, and survival of spirit, 35. + +Cord, Silver, _see_ Silver Cord. + +Corporal punishment, inadvisability of, 197. + +Cosmic night, _see_ Chaos. + +Cosmos, aggregate of systematic order, 105. + +Countries, egos work upon, 180. + +Creation of Cosmos, 188. + +Creative force, develops spinal nerves, 125. + +Creative Hierarchies, aid humanity, 6; + guide man’s evolution, 5, 52; + safeguard man from materialism, 8. + +Criminals, care of, 164; + execution of, a menace, 164. + +Crucifixion, the Mystic Death, 12. + +Crystallization in man’s evolution, 163. + +Dead, care of, 152; + inhabit Desire World, 88; + intense activity of, 89. + +Death, disrobing process of ego, 163; + foreseen by higher powers, 142; + peaceful, helpfulness of, 147; + premature, ill effects of, 145; + problem of, 27; + provides fresh start, 143. + +Debts, binding nature of, 49. + +Demmler, Minna, materializations by, 129. + +Dense body, chemical constituents of, 57; + crystallized spirit substance, 162; + disease of, due to imperfect archetype, 185; + energized by divine life, 188; + improves as spirit progresses, 5; + quality of, dependent upon ego, 184; + most evolved of man’s vehicles, 186. + +Desire, created and guided by thought, 58; + forms impelled into action by, 56. + +Desire body, basic individual color of, 132; + born at fourteenth year, 186; + capable of sense perception, 133; + cause dreams, 139; + circulation in currents, 133; + colors of, 132; + destructive action of, 138; + extends beyond dense body, 130; + gives ability to experience desire and emotion 121, 130, 133; + impels motion, 56, 139; + impels to sense gratification, 130; + main vortex, in the liver, 131; + rapid locomotion of, 131; + recent acquisition of, 130; + shape of, ovoid, 130; + shell of, persists after death, 163, 179; + vortices of, 131; + war of, with vital body, 138; + withdrawal of, in sleep, 138. + +Desire stuff, constant motion of, 77, 131; + elasticity of, 77; + force combined with matter, 77; + modeled by thought, 142; + permeates atmosphere, 120; + persistence of, 179; + responsiveness to feeling, 77. + +Desire World, archangels native to, 79; + dead remain in, varying lengths of time, 78; + difficulty of concentration in, 91; + diversity of tongues in, 83; + effect of colors in, 178; + ego’s corrective work in, 168-170; + estimation of time in, 93; + existence of, makes man’s desires possible, 57; + force and matter closely related in, 77; + form blends into sound in, 95; + head only perceptible in some regions of, 79; + large population of, 77; + seasons non-existent in, 93; + second vehicle of earth, 55; + time non-existent in, 92; + universal mode of expression in, 85; + vision pertaining to, 66; + world of color, 68. + +Earth composed of three interpenetrating worlds, 55, 116; + structure of dense body, obtained from, 57; + training school of, 6, 43; + worked upon, by the disembodied, 104. + +Earth lives, intervals between, 52. + +Earth spirits, fairies and elves, 70. + +Eastern Wisdom, unsuited to Western peoples, 14. + +Ego, _see_ Spirit, threefold. + +Egyptians painted group spirits, 82. + +Electron, discovery of, 107. + +Elves, spirits of mountains, 70. + +Emotions, relation of, to desire body, 186. + +Enmity overcome by its own discomforts, 49. + +Environment, suffering caused by, 49. + +Ether, avenue for solar forces, 70, 74, 123; + nature of, 62; + permeates atomic structure of dense matter, 62. + +Ether, chemical, _see_ Chemical ether. + +Ether, life, _see_ Life ether. + +Ether light, _see_ Light ether. + +Ether, reflecting _see_ Reflecting ether. + +Etheric sight, distinguished from spiritual, 66; + extension of physical, 65; + penetrates opaque substances, 66; + shows all objects same color, 67. + +Ethers, separation of, 136. + +Ever-existing essence, 107. + +Evil and good acts recorded by breath, 38; + destruction of, 39; + transmutation of, to good, 158. + +Evolution, from life to life, 53; + manifests in rest and activity, 42; + of vehicles, manner of, 185; + persistent unfoldment in, 42. + +Fairies, spirits of the mountains, 70. + +Fate, ripe, unavoidability of, 184. + +Faults, correction of, 169. + +Feeling, right, increases conscience, 172. + +First cause, necessity for, 162. + +First hand knowledge, possible to all, 52. + +First Heaven, good of past life reaped in, 173; + good strengthened in, 174; + panorama of life in, 173; + upper regions of Desire World, 173. + +Fluid, vital, cessation of flow of, 138. + +Forgiveness of sin, 164, 169. + +Form, archetypes of, 175; + incapable of feeling, 60. + +Forms, impelled into action by desire, 56. + +Forms, physical, built from chemical substance, 55. + +Free will, existence of, 147; + pertaining to future, 184. + +Generation caused by red ray of Holy Spirit, 124. + +Germination caused by blue ray of Father, 124. + +Gnomes, earth spirits, 70. + +God, immanence of, 187. + +Good amalgamates with spirit, 39; + and evil acts recorded by breath, 38. + +Great Silence between Desire World and World of Thought, 95, 180; + may be entered by acts of will, 96. + +Group spirit, brings stellar influence to animals, 124; + less evolved archangels, 81; + painted by Egyptians, 82. + +Growth, physical, carried on through ether, 123; + caused by yellow rays of Son, 124; + relation of, to moon, 124; + relation of, to vital body, 186. + +Growth, spiritual, must be slow, 103. + +Heaven, among you, 116. + +Heaven, First, _see_ First Heaven. + +Heaven, Second, _see_ Second Heaven. + +Heaven, Third, _see_ Third Heaven. + +Hell, existence of, impossible, 117. + +Helpers, Invisible, _see_ Invisible Helpers. + +Heredity, of the physical only, 47. + +Hierarchies, Creative, _see_ Creative Hierarchies. + +Higher Self dominates lower by keynote, 99. + +Higher senses of man, 16. + +Higher vehicles, permeability of, 138; + withdrawal of, in sleep, 138. + +Holy of Holies, temple of our bodies, 134. + +Hotz, Dr., spirit photographs taken by, 129. + +Humanity, two classes of, 136. + +I, badge of self-consciousness, 135. + +Ideas clothe themselves in mind stuff, 113; + embryonic thoughts, 113; + generated by ego in Region of Abstract Thought, 113; + originate in chaos, 112. + +Ignorance, man’s one sin, 42. + +Illumination, induced by solar rays, 123. + +Immaculate conception, the Mystic Birth, 12. + +Immortality of spirit, 39. + +Incense, evil effects of, 165. + +Incentive, induced by etchings of life panorama, 158. + +Individual auric color, dependent upon ruling planet, 132. + +Infant mortality, causes of, 176-179. + +Intelligence induced by planetary rays, 123. + +Interval between earth lives, 52. + +Invisible Helpers, faculties of, 137; + linguistic abilities, valuable to, 83. + +Izzards, 87. + +James, Professor William, reputed communication from, 149-151. + +Jehovah, _see_ Holy Spirit. + +John, Gospel of, spiritual significance of, 105. + +Jupiter, auric color of, 132. + +Karma, _see_ Causation, law of. + +Keynote, creates and maintains form, 98; + manifestation of Higher Self, 99; + stopping of, terminates life, 100; + Voice of Silence, 99. + +Knowledge, the only salvation, 42. + +Laws of nature, living intelligences, 53. + +Life, dualistic theory of, 29; + lengthened by good deeds, 147; + long, value of, 144, 146; + monistic theory of, 29; + object of, gaining of experience, 142; + shortened by neglected opportunities, 146. + +Life ether, propagation accomplished through medium of, 69. + +Life panorama, backward unfoldment of, 156; + duration of, 153; + importance of, 153, 158; + insufficient, causes infant mortality, 177; + sub-conscious memory, basis of, 154; + terminated by collapse of vital body, 157. + +Light, relation of, to creation, 188. + +Light ether, motion due to, 69; + transmits solar force, 69. + +Likes and dislikes determine environment, 48. + +Liver, main vortex of desire body, 131. + +Logos, Reasonable Thought, 109. + +Love, higher than law, 168; + supreme commandment, 90. + +Lunar ray enters body through spleen, 124.; + induces physical growth, 123, 190.; + three-fold constitution of, 124.. + +Magic, black, punishment of, 17. + +Man, born innocent of sin, 174; + composite being of body, soul, spirit, 36; + desires of, impel to action, 56; + gathers spiritual substance, 162; + Great Beings safeguard, 198; + has evolved from lower forms, 73; + higher vehicles of, 120; + keyed to solar month, 125; + made a little lower than angels, 73; + spinal nerves of undeveloped, 125; + spiritual faculties of, 15. + +Mars, auric color of, 132. + +Materialism and spirituality, necessity of, 7. + +Materialistic theory of life, 34-36. + +Materialization through incense, 165; + through mediums, 129. + +Mathematics, benefit derived from study of, 115. + +Matter, illusory nature of, 114. + +Mediums and negative clairvoyance, 137; + read in reflecting ether, 70. + +Memory of Nature, events recorded in, 94. + +Memory of past lives, 50. + +Memory, sub-conscious, _see_ Sub-conscious memory. + +Metamorphosis in higher worlds, 32. + +Michael, ambassador from sun to earth, 87. + +Michael, archangel, guardian of Jews, 80. + +Mind, born at twenty-first year, 186, 198; + cloudy thought form , 131, 133; + material for, acquired in Region of Concrete Thought, 185; + recent acquisition of, 131. + +Mind, Lords of, expert builders of mind stuff, 102; + help man to acquire mind, 103; + human during dark stage of earth, 101; + Powers of Darkness, 101; + worked with man in mineral stage, 102. + +Mind stuff, permeability of, 120; + veils inner spirit, 134. + +Monistic, theory of life, 29. + +Moon rays, _see_ Lunar rays. + +Morality induced by planetary rays, 123, 190. + +Music in Desire World, 68; + soul-speech of World of Thought, 68. + +Mystery Orders formed on cosmic lines, 9; + seven world workers in, 9. + +N-rays, etheric radiation of, 128. + +Nature, laws of, control nature spirits, 72; + Great Intelligences, 70. + +Nebulae, fiery formation of, 161. + +Nebular theory postulates First Cause, 162. + +Negative development, mediumship allied to, 137. + +Nephesh, 37. + +Neptune outside of our solar system, 189. + +Occult orders, _see_ Mystery orders. + +Odic fluid, _see_ Solar fluid. + +Opportunities, each life contains, 142. + +Over-eating, ill-effects of, 128. + +Painting, related to Desire World, 68. + +Palladino, Eusapio, materializations through, 129. + +Panorama of Life, _see_ Life Panorama. + +Patriotism, inspired by archangels, 80. + +Periodicity, law of, determines time of actions, 13. + +Personality governed by keynote, 99. + +“Peter Ibbettson,” occult information in, 161. + +Physical body, anchor of mind, 92. + +Physical embodiment, value of, 90, 143. + +Pineal gland, localized organ of feeling, 132; + spiritual sight through development of, 66; + third eye, 132. + +Planetary ray, _see_ Stellar ray. + +Planetary spirits, color belonging to, 189; + names of, 189. + +Planets, absorption of solar rays by, 188. + +Post-mortem experiences, usefulness of, 143. + +Powers of Darkness, _see_ Mind, Lords of. + +Powers, spiritual, difficulty of obtaining, 64; + microscopic and telescopic, 64; + possible to all, 64. + +Prayer, forgiveness of sin through, 164. + +Precession of equinoxes, measure of time, 94. + +Predestination of great leaders, 45, 46. + +Primary colors symbolize God, 188. + +Probation, long, necessity for, 64. + +Propagation carried on through life ether, 123. + +Psychometrists read in reflecting ether, 70. + +Puberty, cause of, 196. + +Pituitary body and clairvoyance, 66. + +Punishment, corporal, evils of, 198. + +Purgatory, evil habits corrected in, 167; + evil of past lives transmuted in, 116; + experiences in, based on moral attitude of preceding life, 181; + review of life experiences in, 170. + +Race likeness caused by race spirits, 81. + +Race Spirits, _see_ Archangels. + +Rebirth, law of, alternation of sex in, 52; + believed in, by Jews, 46; + Biblical foundation for doctrine of, 46; + explanation of inequalities, 43, 47; + harmonious with nature’s methods, 47; + intervals between, 52; + preparations for, 185; + special talents of individual, evidence of, 46; + specially adapted to ego’s need, 52; + taught by Christ, 46. + +Recording angels aid ego in choice of environment, 183; + give race religions, 6, 14; + show ego life panorama, 183. + +Red in stellar ray, life of Holy Spirit, 124; + produces form, 188. + +Reflecting ether, impressions of universe recorded in, 69; + mediums and psychometrists read in, 70. + +Regret, time wasted in, 92. + +Reincarnation, _see_ Rebirth. + +Religions, all have origin in God, 104. + +Repentance, benefits received through, 169. + +Restrospection, exercise of, 170-173. + +Ripe fate, unavoidability of, 184. + +Rose Cross, initiates into science of life and being, 8; + Mystery school of the West, 8; + thirteen Brothers of, 9; + thirteenth member, the invisible head, 9; + works to mould public opinion, 11. + +Rosicrucian Fellowship, herald of the Aquarian Age, 15; + purpose and work of, 14-18. + +Rosicrucians, hold doctrine of man’s potential divinity, 5; + hierophants of Lesser Mysteries, 10; + influence of, upon writers of modern times, 11; + midnight service of, 11; + object of, to unite religion and science, 12; + work with evolved humanity, 9. + +Ruling planet, relation of color of, 132. + +Salamanders, fire spirits, 71; + produce volcanic eruptions, 72. + +“School of Athens,” painting of, 29. + +Science discovers spiritual side of universe, 34; + established proofs of spirit survival, 35; + spiritualized by Rosicrucians, 11. + +Sculpture belongs to physical world., 68. + +Second Heaven, ego prepares future environment in, 116; + located in Region of Concrete Thought, 116. + +Seed atom, basis of sub-conscious memory, 156; + etchings of, 37; + sample and center of other dense atoms, 175; + transmits pictures to desire body, 156. + +Sensitives, separation of ethers in vital body of, 136. + +Servia, regicides in, 165. + +Seven Spirits before the Throne, _see_ Planetary Spirits. + +Sex, alternation of, 52. + +Shells, discarded desire bodies, 179; + retain life panorama, 179; + spiritualistic impersonations by, 179. + +Sight, spiritual, accompanies development of pineal gland and pituitary + body, 66; + varieties of, 67. + +Silence, Great, _see_ Great Silence. + +Silence, Voice of, _see_ Voice of the Silence. + +Silver cord holds higher and lower vehicles together, 153; + snapping of, 153. + +Solar fluid, absorption of, by different kingdoms, 124; + aids in digestion, 127; + cleansing power of, 128; + expels disease germs, 127; + muscular movement by means of, 126; + permeates nervous system, 123, 126; + radiates from body, 123; + transformed to rose color, 123, 126. + +Solar rays, direct and indirect, 123; + spiritual illumination from, 123; + three-fold constitution of, 124. + +Soul, differentiated from spirit, 134; + product of breath, 37. + +Soul flights, time non-existent in, 89. + +Soul growth induced by planetary rays, 123. + +Soul power, assimilated from past action, 116; + developed by good action, 38. + +Sound, power of, over matter, 175. + +Spinal cord, absorbs stellar ray, 124. + +Spencer, Herbert, and nebular hypothesis, 162. + +Sphinx, faces east, 28; + riddle of, 28. + +Spirit, threefold (ego) abandons vital body in sleep, 138; + absorbs solar ray, 124; + destined to become creative intelligence, 103; + disembodied, relief of, at leaving body, 161; + distinguished from soul, 134; + drawn to rebirth by desire for experience, 182; + earth-bound, condition of, 144; + encrusted in mind stuff, 101; + free will of, 184; + freedom of, in choosing environment, 183; + has seat in forehead, 124; + immortality of, 39; + improvement in vehicles of, 185; + individualization of, in childhood, 196; + instructed in building archetype, 184; + many earth lives of, 183; + no limitations possible for, 104; + sowing and reaping of, 104; + sufferings of, in purgatory, 163; + uncreate and eternal, 39; + various human relations of, 183; + works with archetypes, 103, 180. + +Spirits, planetary, _see_ Planetary Spirits. + +Spiritual investigations, 63. + +Spiritual powers, _see_ Powers, spiritual. + +Spiritual sight, _see_ Sight, spiritual. + +Spiritual thought, spinal nerves developed by, 125. + +Spirituality followed by materialism, 7. + +Spleen, entrance for solar forces, 123; + transmutation for solar energy in, 123. + +Stellar ray, absorption of, by brain and spinal cord, 124; + animals incapable of absorbing, 124; + induces morality, 123, 190; + threefold nature of, 124. + +Stimulants, effects of, upon dying, 152. + +Storms caused by nature spirits, 71. + +Sub-conscious memory, basis of future life, 156; + consciously utilized, 161; + in seed atom, 155; + retentiveness of, 154. + +Suicide, sufferings of, 174. + +Sun, movements of, 94. + +Superman, evolution of man into, 53. + +Survival after death, established by scientists, 35. + +Sylphs, spirits of mists, 70. + +Tears, white bleeding, 130. + +Temptation, repetition of, 174. + +Theological theory of life, 36-39. + +Third Heaven, few have consciousness in, 182; + in Region of Abstract Thought, 116, 182; + inspiration of philanthropist, 182; + place of awaiting rebirth, 182; + source of inventor’s inspiration, 182. + +Thompson, J. J., discovery of electron by, 107. + +Thought, objects of physical world, crystallized, 97, 131; + result of union, idea and mind stuff, 113. + +Thought, world of, earth’s finest vehicle, 55; + home of spirit, 58; + knowledge gained in, 100; + makes man’s thought possible, 57; + realm of tone, 180; + spirit’s work in, 180; + time non-existent in, 101; + tonal vision pertaining to, 67. + +Thought, World of, Region of Abstract Thought, abstract verities of, 106; + Third Heaven in, 116. + +Thought, World of, Region of Concrete Thought, acme of reality, 97; + mind built in, 185; + physical world replica of, 97; + Second Heaven, 116. + +Thymus Gland, function of, 196. + +Time, end of, 112; + relatively non-existent in higher worlds, 92. + +Tobacco, fumes of, disembodied work through, 166. + +Trance, caused by flight of spirit, 140; + kinds of, 140. + +Truth, freedom by, 114; + self-evident in higher worlds, 114. + +Undines, spirits of water, 70. + +Vehicles, improvements in, 185. + +Veil of Isis, 134. + +Vibration, external, transferred to blood, 37; + universality of, 36. + +Vital body, born at seventh year, 195; + collapse of, in sleep, 138; + composed of ether, 122; + connected with spleen, 123; + disintegration of, stops life panorama, 157; + extends beyond dense vehicle, 123; + in sickness lacks solar rays, 128; + in third stage of evolution, 131; + nourishes dense body, 129; + photographed by scientists, 129; + polarity of, 129; + propagation by, 121; + recuperative work of, 138; + second vehicle acquired by man, 186; + separation of ethers of, 137; + war with desire body, 138; + well organized state of, 130. + +Vital Fluid, _see_ Solar fluid. + +Voice of the Silence, 99. + +Volcanic eruptions produced by salamanders, 72. + +Vortices, whirling, of desire body, 131. + +War causes infant mortality, 177, 179. + +Wave of spirituality inspired great religions, 7. + +Whipping children, evil of, 198. + +Will, lack of, racial defect, 198. + +Wind, changes of, caused by sylphs, 71. + +Word, Creative Fiat, 109. + +Word, creative, and key-note, 100; + God was, 106; + power of, 110, 193; + still sounds in cosmos, 112. + +World, Desire, _see_ Desire World. + +World of Thought, _see_ Thought, World of. + +World, physical, world of form, 68. + +Worlds, higher, difficulty of investigating, 32. + +Yellow in stellar ray, life of Son, 124; + produces consciousness, 188. + +Zoroastrian religion, deities of, 86. + + + + + +ADVERTISEMENTS + + +Rays From the Rose Cross + +_The American Mystic Monthly_ + +A Monthly Magazine of Mystic Light devoted to philosophy, occultism, +mystic masonry, astrology, and healing. + +_Those who desire knowledge and guidance along the Path of the Western +Wisdom Teachings will find this magazine a constant aid._ + +It expounds and supports occult and mystical philosophy in a most +instructive and interesting manner. 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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/29855-0.zip b/29855-0.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..73bb9e4 --- /dev/null +++ b/29855-0.zip diff --git a/29855-8.txt b/29855-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bee0ac5 --- /dev/null +++ b/29855-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5735 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Rosicrucian Mysteries by Max Heindel + + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no +restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under +the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or +online at http://www.gutenberg.org/license + + + +Title: The Rosicrucian Mysteries + +Author: Max Heindel + +Release Date: August 30, 2009 [Ebook #29855] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO 8859-1 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ROSICRUCIAN MYSTERIES*** + + + + + + The + + Rosicrucian Mysteries + + An Elementary Exposition of + + Their Secret Teachings + + By + + Max Heindel + +Author of: The Rosicrucian Cosmo Conception, The Rosicrucian Philosophy in + Questions and Answers, The Rosicrucian Interpretation of Christianity, + Rays from the Rose Cross, etc. + + Third Edition + + Rosicrucian Fellowship + + Oceanside, California + + London + + L. N. Fowler, 7 Imperial Arcade + + Ludgate Circus. E. C. + + + + + +CONTENTS + + +Chapter I. The Order of Rosicrucians and the Rosicrucian Fellowship +Chapter II. The Problem of Life and Its Solution +Chapter III. The Visible and the Invisible World +Chapter IV. The Constitution of Man +Chapter V. Life and Death +Mt. Ecclesia +Index + + + + + + +CHAPTER I. THE ORDER OF ROSICRUCIANS AND THE ROSICRUCIAN FELLOWSHIP + + +Our Message And Mission + +_A Sane Mind_ + +_A Soft Heart_ + +_A Sound Body_ + +Before entering upon an explanation of the teachings of the Rosicrucians, +it may be well to say a word about them and about the place they hold in +the evolution of humanity. + +For reasons to be given later these teachings advocate the dualistic view; +they hold that man is a spirit enfolding all the powers of God as the seed +enfolds the plant, and that these powers are being slowly unfolded by a +series of existences in a gradually improving earthy body; also that this +process of development has been performed under the guidance of exalted +beings who are yet ordering our steps, though in a decreasing measure, as +we gradually acquire intellect and will. These exalted Beings, though +unseen to the physical eyes, are nevertheless potent factors in all +affairs of life, and give to the various groups of humanity lessons which +will most efficiently promote the growth of their spiritual powers. In +fact, the earth may be likened to a vast training school in which there +are pupils of varying age and ability as we find it in one of our own +schools. There are the savages, living and worshipping under most +primitive conditions, seeing in stick or stone a God. Then, as man +progresses onwards and upwards in the scale of civilization, we find a +higher and higher conception of Deity, which has flowered here in our +Western World in the beautiful Christian religion that now furnishes our +spiritual inspiration and incentive to improve. + +These various religions have been given to each group of humanity by the +exalted beings whom we know in the Christian religion as the Recording +Angels, whose wonderful prevision enable them to view the trend of even so +unstable a quantity as the human mind, and thus they are enabled to +determine what steps are necessary to lead our enfoldment along the lines +congruous to the highest universal good. + +When we study the history of the ancient nations we shall find that at +about six hundred years B. C. a great spiritual wave had its inception on +the Eastern shores of the Pacific Ocean where the great Confucian Religion +accelerated the progress of the Chinese nation, then also the Religion of +the Buddha commenced to win its millions of adherents in India, and still +further West we have the lofty philosophy of Pythagoras. Each system was +suited to the needs of the particular people to whom it was sent. Then +came the period of the Sceptics, in Greece, and later, traveling westward +the same spiritual wave is manifested as the Christian religion of the +so-called "Dark Ages" when the dogma of a dominant church compelled belief +from the whole of Western Europe. + +It is a law in the universe that a wave of spiritual awakening is always +followed by a period of doubting materialism, each phase is necessary in +order that the spirit may receive equal development of heart and intellect +without being carried too far in either direction. The Great Beings +aforementioned, Who care for our progress, always take steps to safeguard +humanity against that danger, and when they foresaw the wave of +materialism which commenced in the sixteenth century with the birth of our +modern Science, they took steps to protect the West as they had formerly +safeguarded the East against the Sceptics who were held in check by the +Mystery schools. + +In the thirteenth century there appeared in central Europe a great +spiritual teacher whose symbolical name was + +Christian Rosenkreuz. +or +Christian Rose Cross. + +who founded the mysterious Order of the Rosy Cross, concerning which so +many speculations have been made and so little has become known to the +world at large, for it is the Mystery school of the West and is only open +to those who have attained the stage of spiritual unfoldment necessary to +be initiated in its secrets concerning the Science of Life and Being. + +If we are so far developed that we are able to leave our dense physical +body and take a soul flight into interplanetary space we shall find that +the ultimate physical atom is spherical in shape like our earth; it is a +ball. When we take a number of balls of even size and group them around +one, it will take just twelve balls to hide a thirteenth within. Thus the +twelve visible and the one hidden are numbers revealing a cosmic +relationship and as all Mystery Orders are based upon cosmic lines, they +are composed of twelve members gathered around a thirteenth who is the +invisible _head_. + +There are seven colors in the spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, +indigo and violet. But between the violet and the red there are still +other five colors which are invisible to the physical eye but reveal +themselves to the spiritual sight. In every Mystery Order there are also +seven brothers who at times go out into the world and there perform +whatever work may be necessary to advance the people among whom they +serve, but five are never seen outside the temple. They work with and +teach those alone who have passed through certain stages of spiritual +unfoldment and are able to visit the temple in their spiritual bodies; a +feat taught in the first initiation which usually takes place outside the +temple as it is not convenient for all to visit that place physically. + +Let not the reader imagine that this initiation makes the pupil a +Rosicrucian, it does not, any more than admission to a High School makes a +boy a member of the faculty. Nor does he become a Rosicrucian even after +having passed through all the nine degrees of this or any other Mystery +School. The Rosicrucians are Hierophants of the lesser Mysteries, and +beyond them there are still schools wherein Greater Mysteries are taught. +Those who have advanced through the lesser Mysteries and have become +pupils of the Greater Mysteries are called Adepts, but even they have not +reached the exalted standpoint of the twelve Brothers of the Rosicrucian +Order or the Hierophants of any other lesser Mystery School any more than +the freshman at college has attained to the knowledge and position of a +teacher in the High school from which he has just graduated. + +A later work will deal with initiation, but we may say here that the door +of a genuine Mystery School is not unlocked by a golden key, but is only +opened as a reward for meritorious service to humanity and any one who +advertises himself as a Rosicrucian or makes a charge for tuition, by +either of those acts shows himself to be a charlatan. The true pupil of +any Mystery School is far too modest to advertise the fact, he will scorn +all titles or honors from men, he will have no regard for riches save the +riches of love given to him by those whom it becomes his privilege to help +and teach. + +In the centuries that have gone by since the Rosicrucian Order was first +formed they have worked quietly and secretly, aiming to mould the thought +of Western Europe through the works of Paracelsus, Boehme, Bacon, +Shakespeare, Fludd and others. Each night at midnight when the physical +activities of the day are at their lowest ebb, and the spiritual impulse +at its highest flood tide, they have sent out from their temple +soul-stirring vibrations to counteract materialism and to further the +development of soul powers. To their activities we owe the gradual +spiritualization of our once so materialistic science. + +With the commencement of the twentieth century a further step was taken. +It was realized that something must be done to make religion scientific as +well as to make science religious, in order that they may ultimately +blend; for at the present time heart and intellect are divorced. The heart +instinctively feels the truth of religious teachings concerning such +wonderful mysteries as the Immaculate Conception (the Mystic Birth), the +Crucifixion (the Mystic Death), the cleansing blood, the atonement, and +other doctrines of the Church, which the intellect refuses to believe, as +they are incapable of demonstration, and seemingly at war with natural +law. Material advancement may be furthered when intellect is dominant and +the longings of the heart unsatisfied, but soul growth will be retarded +until the heart also receives satisfaction. + +In order to give the world a teaching so blended that it will satisfy both +the mind and heart, a messenger must be found and instructed. Certain +unusual qualifications were necessary, and the first one chosen failed to +pass a certain test after several years had been spent to prepare him for +the work to be done. + +It is well said that there is a time to sow, and a time to reap, and that +there are certain times for all the works of life, and in accordance with +this law of periodicity each impulse in spiritual uplift must also be +undertaken at an appropriate time to be successful. The first and sixth +decades of each century are particularly propitious to commence the +promulgation of new spiritual teachings. Therefore the Rosicrucians were +much concerned at this failure, for only five years were left of the first +decade of the twentieth century. + +Their second choice of a messenger fell upon the present writer, though he +knew it not at the time, and by shaping circumstances about him they made +it possible for him to begin a period of preparation for the work they +desired him to do. Three years later, when he had gone to Germany, also +because of circumstances shaped by the invisible Brotherhood, and was on +the verge of despair at the discovery that the light which was the object +of his quest, was only a jack-o-lantern, the Brothers of the Rosicrucian +Order applied the test to see whether he would be a faithful messenger and +give the teachings they desired to entrust to him, to the world. And when +he had passed the trial they gave him the monumental solution of the +problem of existence first published in "_The Rosicrucian Cosmo +Conception_" in November, 1909, more than a year before the expiration of +the first decade of the twentieth century. This book marked a new era in +so-called "occult" literature, and the many editions which have since been +published, as well as the thousands of letters which continue to come to +the author, are speaking testimonies to the fact that people are finding +in this teaching a satisfaction they have long sought elsewhere in vain. + +The Rosicrucians teach that all great religions have been given to the +people among whom they are found, by Divine Intelligences who designed +each system of worship to suit the needs of the race or nation to whom it +was given. A primitive people cannot respond to a lofty and sublime +religion, and _vice versa_. What helps one race would hinder another, and +in pursuance of the same policy there has been devised a system of +soul-unfoldment suited specially to the Western people, who are racially +and temperamentally unfit to undergo the discipline of the Eastern school, +which was designed for the more backward Hindoos. + +THE ROSICRUCIAN FELLOWSHIP + +For the purpose of promulgating the Rosicrucian teachings in the Western +World, the Rosicrucian Fellowship was founded in 1909. It is the herald of +the Aquarian Age, when the Sun by its precessional passage through the +constellation Aquarius will bring out all the intellectual and spiritual +potencies in man which are symbolized by that sign. As heat from a fire +warms all objects within the sphere of its radiations, so also the +Aquarian ray will raise the earth's vibrations to a pitch we are as yet +unable to comprehend, though we have demonstrations of the _material_ +workings of this force in the inventions which have revolutionized life +within the memory of the present generation. We have wondered at the +X-ray, which sees through the human body, but each one has a sense latent +which when evolved will enable him to see through any number of bodies or +to any distance. We marvel at the telephone conversations across the +continent of America, but each has within a latent sense of speech and +hearing that is far more acute; we are surprised at the exploits of ships +under sea and in the sky, but we are all capable of passage under water or +through the sky; nay, more, we may pass unscathed through the solid rock +and the raging fire, if we know how, and lightning itself is slow compared +to the speed with which we may travel. This sounds like a fairy tale +today, as did Jules Verne's stories a generation ago, but the Aquarian Age +will witness the realization of these dreams, and ever so much more that +we still do not even dream of. Such faculties will then be the possessions +of large numbers of people who will have gradually evolved them as +previously the ability to walk, speak, hear, and see, were developed. + +Therein lies a great danger, for, obviously, anyone endowed with such +faculties may use them to the greatest detriment of the world at large, +unless restrained by a spirit of unselfishness and an all-embracing +altruism. Therefore religion is needed today as never before, to foster +love and fellow-feeling among humanity so that it may be prepared to use +the great gifts in store for it wisely and well. This need of religion is +specially felt in a certain class where the ether is more loosely knit to +the physical atoms than in the majority, and on that account they are now +beginning to sense the Aquarian vibrations. + +This class is again divided in two groups. In one the intellect is +dominant, and the people in that class therefore seek to grasp the +spiritual mysteries out of curiosity from the viewpoint of cold reason. +They pursue the path of knowledge for the sake of knowledge, considering +that an end in itself. The idea that knowledge is of value only when put +to practical constructive use does not seem to have presented itself to +them. This class we may call _occultists_. + +The other group does not care for knowledge, but feels an inner urge +God-ward, and pursues the path of devotion to the high ideal set before +them in Christ, doing the deeds that He did as far their flesh will +permit, and this in time results in an interior illumination which brings +with it all the knowledge obtained by the other class, and much more. This +class we may describe as _mystics_. + +Certain dangers confront each of the two groups. If the occultist obtains +illumination and evolves within himself the latent spiritual faculties, he +may use them for the furtherance of his personal objects, to the great +detriment of his fellow-men. That is black magic, and the punishment which +it _automatically_ calls down upon the head of the perpetrator is so awful +that it is best to draw the veil over it. The mystic may also err because +of ignorance, and fall into the meshes of nature's law, but being actuated +by love, his mistakes will never be very serious, and as he grows in grace +the soundless voice within his heart will speak more distinctly to teach +him the way. + +The Rosicrucian Fellowship endeavors to prepare the world in general, and +the sensitives of the two groups in particular, for the awakening of the +latent powers in man, so that all may be guided safely through the +danger-zone and be as well fitted as possible to use these new faculties. +Effort is made to blend the love without which Paul declared a knowledge +of all mysteries worthless, with a mystic knowledge rooted and grounded in +love, so that the pupils of this school may become _living_ exponents of +this blended soul-science of the Western Wisdom School, and gradually +educate humanity at large in the virtues necessary to make the possession +of higher powers safe. + +_Note_:-- + +_Pages 19 to 26 inclusive, describing Mt. Ecclesia, have been transferred +to the back of the book._ (Transcriber's Note: They are pages 191 through +200.) + + + + + +CHAPTER II. THE PROBLEM OF LIFE AND ITS SOLUTION + + +THE PROBLEM OF LIFE. + +Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's +experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to +everyone--Death! No matter what our station in life, whether the life lived +has been a laudable one or the reverse, whether great achievements have +marked our path among men, whether health or sickness have been our lot, +whether we have been famous and surrounded by a host of admiring friends +or have wandered unknown through the years of our life, at some time there +comes a moment when we stand alone before the portal of death and are +forced to take the leap into the dark. + +The thought of this leap and of what lies beyond must inevitably force +itself upon every thinking person. In the years of youth and health, when +the bark of our life sails upon seas of prosperity, when all appears +beautiful and bright, we may put the thought behind us, but there will +surely come a time in the life of every thinking person when the problem +of life and death forces itself upon his consciousness and refuses to be +set aside. Neither will it help him to accept the ready made solution of +anyone else without thought and in blind belief, for this is a basic +problem which every one must solve for himself or herself in order to +obtain satisfaction. + +Upon the Eastern edge of the Desert of Sahara there stands the +world-famous Sphinx with its inscrutable face turned toward the East, ever +greeting the sun as its rising rays herald the newborn day. It was said in +the Greek myth that it was the wont of this monster to ask a riddle of +each traveler. She devoured those who could not answer, but when Oedipus +solved the riddle she destroyed herself. + +The riddle which she asked of men was the riddle of life and death, a +query which is as relevant today as ever, and which each one must answer +or be devoured in the jaws of death. But when once a person has found the +solution to the problem, it will appear that in reality there is no death, +that what appears so, is but a change from one state of _existence_ to +another. Thus, for the man who finds the true solution to the riddle of +life, the sphinx of death has ceased to exist, and he can lift his voice +in the triumphant cry "Oh death where is thy sting, oh grave where is thy +victory." + +Various theories of life have been advocated to solve this problem of +life. We may divide them into two classes, namely _the monistic theory_, +which holds that all the facts of life can be explained by reference to +this visible world wherein we live, and _the dualistic theory_, which +refers part of the phenomenon of life to another world which is now +invisible to us. + +Raphael in his famous painting "the School of Athens" has most aptly +pictured to us the attitude of these two schools of thought. We see upon +that marvelous painting a Greek Court such as those wherein philosophers +were once wont to congregate. Upon the various steps which lead into the +building a large number of men are engaged in deep conversation, but in +the center at the top of the steps stand two figures, supposedly of Plato +and Aristotle, one pointing upwards, the other towards the earth, each +looking the other in the face, mutely, but with deeply concentrated will. +Each seeking to convince the other that his attitude is right for each +bears the conviction in his heart. One holds that he is of the earth +earthy, that he has come from the dust and that thereto he will return, +the other firmly advocates the position that there is a higher something +which has always existed and will continue regardless of whether the body +wherein it now dwells holds together or not. + +The question who is right is still an open one with the majority of +mankind. Millions of tons of paper and printer's ink have been used in +futile attempts to settle it by argument, but it will always remain open +to all who have not solved the riddle themselves, for it is a basic +problem, a part of the life experience of every human being to settle that +question, and therefore no one can give us the solution ready made for our +acceptance. All that can be done by those who have really solved the +problem, is to show to others the line along which they have found the +solution, and thus direct the inquirer how he also may arrive at a +conclusion. + +That is the aim of this little book; not to offer a solution to the +problem of life to be taken blindly, on faith in the author's ability of +investigation. The teachings herein set forth are those handed down by the +Great Western Mystery School of the Rosicrucian Order and are the result +of the concurrent testimony of a long line of trained Seers given to the +author and supplemented by his own independent investigation of the realms +traversed by the spirit in its cyclic path from the invisible world to +this plane of existence and back again. + +Nevertheless, the student is warned that the writer may have misunderstood +some of the teachings and that despite the greatest care he may have taken +a wrong view of that which he believes to have seen in the invisible world +where the possibilities of making a mistake are legion. Here in the world +which we view about us the forms are stable and do not easily change, but +in the world around us which is perceptible only by the spiritual sight, +we may say that there is in reality no form, but that all is life. At +least the forms are so changeable that the metamorphosis recounted in +fairy stories is discounted there to an amazing degree, and therefore we +have the surprising revelations of mediums and other untrained +clairvoyants who, though they may be perfectly honest, are deceived by +illusions of _form_ which is evanescent, because they are incapable of +viewing the _life_ that is the permanent basis of that form. + +We must learn to see in this world. The new-born babe has no conception of +distance and will reach for things far, far beyond its grasp until it has +learned to gauge its capacity. A blind man who acquires the faculty of +sight, or has it restored by an operation, will at first be inclined to +close his eyes when moving from place to place, and declare that it is +easier to walk by feeling than by sight; that is because he has not +learned to use his newly acquired faculty. Similarly the man whose +spiritual vision has been newly opened requires to be trained, in fact he +is in much greater need thereof than the babe and the blind man already +mentioned. Denied that training he would be like a new-born babe placed in +a nursery where the walls are lined with mirrors of different convex and +concave curvatures, which would distort its own shape and the forms of its +attendants. If allowed to grow up in such surroundings and unable to see +the real shapes of itself and its nurses it would naturally believe that +it saw many different and distorted shapes where in reality the mirrors +were responsible for the illusion. Were the persons concerned in such an +experiment and the child taken out of the illusory surroundings, it would +be incapable of recognizing them until the matter had been properly +explained. There are similar dangers of illusion to those who have +developed spiritual sight, until they have been trained to discount the +refraction and to view the _life_ which is permanent and stable, +disregarding the _form_ which is evanescent and changeable. The danger of +getting things out of focus always remains however and is so subtle that +the writer feels an imperative duty to warn his readers to take all +statements concerning the unseen world with the proverbial grain of salt, +for he has no intention to deceive. He is therefore inclined rather to +magnify than to minimize his limitations and would advise the student to +accept nothing from the author's pen without reasoning it out for himself. +Thus, if he is deceived, he will be self-deceived and the author is +blameless. + +_Three Theories of Life._ + +Only three noteworthy theories have been offered as solutions to the +riddle of existence and in order that the reader may be able to make the +important choice between them, we will state briefly what they are and +give some of the arguments which lead us to advocate the doctrine of +Rebirth as the method which favors soul-growth and the ultimate attainment +of perfection, thus offering the best solution to the problem of life. + +1) THE MATERIALISTIC THEORY _teaches that life is but a short journey from +the cradle to the grave, that there is no higher intelligence in the +universe than man; that his mind is produced by certain correlations of +matter and that therefore death, and dissolution of the body terminate +existence._ + +There was a day when the arguments of Materialistic philosophers seemed +convincing, but as science advances it discovers more and more that there +is a spiritual side to the universe. That life and consciousness may exist +without being able to give us a sign, has been amply proven in the cases +where a person who was entranced and thought dead for days has suddenly +awakened and told all that had taken place around the body. Such eminent +scientists as Sir Oliver Lodge, Camille Flammarion, Lombroso and other men +of highest intelligence and scientific training, have unequivocally stated +as the result of their investigations, that the intelligence which we call +man survives death of the body and lives on in our midst as independently +of whether we see them or not as light and color exist all about the blind +man regardless of the fact that he does not perceive them. These +scientists have reached their conclusion after years of careful +investigation. They have found that the so-called dead can, and under +certain circumstances do, communicate with us in such a manner that +mistake is out of the question. We maintain that their testimony is worth +more than the argument of materialism to the contrary, for it is based +upon years of careful investigation, it is in harmony with such well +established laws as _the law of conservation of matter_ and _the law of +conservation of energy_. Mind is a form of energy, and immune from +destruction as claimed by the materialist. Therefore we disbar the +materialistic theory as unsound, because out of harmony with the laws of +nature and with well established facts. + +2) THE THEORY OF THEOLOGY _claims that just prior to each birth a soul is +created by God and enters into the world where it lives for a time varying +from a few minutes to a few score of years; that at the end of this short +span of life it returns through the portal of death to the invisible +beyond, where it remains forever in a condition of happiness or misery +according to the deeds done in the body during the few years it lived +here_. + +Plato insisted upon the necessity of a clear definition of terms as a +basis of argument and we contend that that is as necessary in discussing +the problem of life from the Bible point of view as in arguments from the +platonic standpoint. According to the Bible man is a composite being +consisting of body, soul and spirit. The two latter are usually taken to +be synonymous, but we insist that they are not interchangeable and present +the following to support our dictum. + +All things are in a state of vibration. Vibrations from objects in our +surroundings are constantly impinging upon us and carry to our senses a +cognition of the external world. The vibrations in the ether act upon our +eyes so that we see, and vibrations in the air transmit sounds to the ear. + +We also breathe the ether which is charged with pictures of our +surroundings and the sounds in our environment, so that by means of the +breath we receive at each moment of our life, _internally_ an accurate +picture of our external surroundings. + +That is a scientific proposition. Science does not explain what becomes of +these vibrations however, but according to the Rosicrucian Mystery +teaching they are transmitted to the blood, and then etched upon a little +atom in the heart as automatically as a moving picture is imprinted upon +the sensitized film, and a record of sounds is engraven upon the +phonographic disc. This breath-record starts with the first breath of the +newborn babe and ends only with the last gasp of the dying man, and "soul" +is a product of the breath. Genesis also shows the connection between +breath and soul in the words: "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of +the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man +became a living soul" (The same word: _nephesh_, is translated breath and +soul in the above quotation.) + +In the post mortem existence the breath-record is disposed of. The good +acts of life produce feelings of pleasure and the intensity of attraction +incorporates them into the spirit as soul-power. _Thus the breath-records +of our good acts are the soul which is saved_, for by the union with the +spirit they become immortal. As they accumulate life after life, we become +more soulful and they are thus also the basis of soulgrowth. + +The record of our evil acts is also derived from our breath in the moments +when they were committed. The pain and suffering they bring cause the +spirit to expel the breath-record from its being in Purgatory. As that +cannot exist independently of the life-giving spirit, the breath-record of +our sins disintegrates upon expurgation, and thus we see that "the soul +that sinneth, it shall die." The memory of the suffering incidental to +expurgation however, remains with the spirit as _conscience_, to deter +from repetition of the same evil in later lives. + +Thus both our good and evil acts are recorded through the agency of the +breath, which is therefore the basis of the soul, but while the +breath-record of good acts amalgamates with the spirit and lives on +forever as an immortal soul, the breath-record of evil deeds is +disintegrated; it is the soul that sinneth and dies. + +While the Bible teaches that immortality of the soul is conditional upon +well-doing, it makes no distinction in respect of the spirit. The +statement is clear and emphatic that when ... "The silver cord be loosed +... then shall the dust return to the earth as it was and the spirit shall +return to God who gave it." + +Thus the Bible teaches that the body is made of dust and returns thereto, +that a part of the soul generated in the breath is perishable, but that +the spirit survives bodily death and persists forever. Therefore a "lost +soul" in the common acceptance of that term is not a Bible teaching, for +the spirit is uncreate and eternal as God Himself, and therefore the +orthodox theory cannot be true. + +3) THE THEORY OF REBIRTHS _which teaches that each spirit is an integral +part of God, that it enfolds all divine possibilities as the acorn enfolds +the oak; that by means of many existences in an earthy body of gradually +__ improving texture its latent powers are being slowly unfolded and +become available as dynamic energy; that none can be lost but that all +will ultimately attain to perfection and reunion with God, each bringing +with it the accumulated experience which is the fruitage of its pilgrimage +through matter._ + +Or, as we may poetically express it: + +WE ARE ETERNAL. + + + On whistling stormcloud; on Zephyrus wing, + The Spirit-choir loud the World-anthems sing + Hark! Lis't to their voice "we have passed through death's door + There's no Death; rejoice! life lives evermore." + + We are, have always been, will ever be. + We are a portion of Eternity + Older than Creation, a part of One Great Whole, + Is each Individual and immortal Soul. + + On Time's whirring loom our garments we've wrought + Eternally weave we on network of Thought, + Our kin and our country, by Mind brought to birth, + Were patterned in heaven ere molded on earth. + + We have shone in the Jewel and danced on the Wave, + We have sparkled in Fire defying the grave; + Through shapes everchanging, in size, kind and name + Our individual essence still is the same. + + And when we have reached to the highest of all, + The gradations of growth our minds shall recall + So that link by link we may join them together + And trace step by step the way we reached thither. + + Thus in time we shall know, if only we do + What lifts, ennobles, is right and true. + With kindness to all; with malice to none, + That in and through us God's will may be done. + + +We venture to make the assertion that there is but one sin: _Ignorance_ +and but one salvation: _Applied Knowledge_. Even the wisest among us know +but little of what may be learned, however, and no one has attained to +perfection, or can attain in one single short life, but we note that +everywhere in nature slow persistent unfoldment makes for higher and +higher development of every thing and we call this process evolution. + +One of the chief characteristics of evolution lies in the fact that it +manifests in alternating periods of activity and rest. The busy summer, +when all things upon earth are exerting themselves to bring forth, is +followed by the rest and inactivity of winter. The busy day alternates +with the quiet of night. The ebb of the ocean is succeeded by the +flood-tide. Thus, as all other things move in cycles, the life that +expresses itself here upon earth for a few years is not to be thought of +as ended when death has been reached, but as surely as the sun rises in +the morning after having set at night, will the life that was ended by the +death of one body be taken up again in a new vehicle and in a different +environment. + +This earth may in fact be likened to a school to which we return life +after life to learn new lessons, as our children go to school day after +day to increase their knowledge. The child sleeps through the night which +intervenes between two days at school and the spirit also has its rest +from active life between death and a new birth. There are also different +classes in this world-school which correspond to the various grades from +kindergarten to college. In the lower classes we find spirits who have +gone to the school of life but a few times, they are savages now, but in +time they will become wiser and better than we are, and we ourselves shall +progress in future lives to spiritual heights of which we cannot even +conceive at the present. If we apply ourselves to learn the lessons of +life, we shall of course advance much faster in the school of life than if +we dilly-dally and idle our time away. This, on the same principle which +governs in one of our own institutions of learning. + +We are not here then, by the caprice of God. He has not placed one in +clover and another in a desert nor has He given one a healthy body so that +he may live at ease from pain and sickness, while He placed another in +poor circumstances with never a rest from pain. But what we are, we are, +on account of our own diligence or negligence, and what we shall be in the +future depends upon what we will to be and not upon Divine caprice or upon +inexorable fate. No matter what the circumstances, it lies with us to +master them, or to be mastered, as we will. Sir Edwin Arnold puts the +teaching most beautifully in his "Light of Asia." + + + "The Books say well, my Brothers! each man's life + The outcome of his former living is; + The bygone wrongs bring forth sorrows and woes + The bygone right breeds bliss. + + Each has such lordship as the loftiest ones + Nay for with powers around, above, below + As with all flesh and whatsoever lives + _Act_ maketh joy or woe. + + Who toiled a slave may come anew a prince + For gentle worthiness and merit won; + Who ruled a king may wander earth in rags + For things done or undone." + + +Or, as an unknown poet says: + + + "One ship sails East and another sails West + With the self same winds that blow. + 'Tis the set of the sail, and not the gale, + Which determines the way they go. + + As the winds of the sea are the ways of fate + As we voyage along through life. + 'Tis the act of the soul, which determines the goal + And not the calm or the strife." + + +When we wish to engage someone to undertake a certain mission we choose +some one whom we think particularly fitted to fulfill the requirements and +we must suppose that a Divine Being would use at least as much common +sense, and not choose anyone to go his errand who was not fitted therefor. +So when we read in the Bible that Samson was foreordained to be the slayer +of the Philistines and that Jeremiah was predestined to be a prophet, it +is but logical to suppose that they must have been particularly suited to +such occupation. John the Baptist also, was born to be a herald of the +coming Savior and to preach the kingdom of God which is to take the place +of the kingdom of men. + +Had these people had no previous training, how could they have developed +such a fitness to fulfill their various missions, and if they had been +fitted, how else could they have received their training if not in earlier +lives? + +The Jews believed in the Doctrine of Rebirth or they would not have asked +John the Baptist if he were Elijah, as recorded in the first chapter of +John. The Apostles of Christ also held the belief as we may see from the +incident recorded in the sixteenth chapter of Matthew where the Christ +asked them the question: "Whom do men say that I the Son of Man am?" The +Apostles replied: "Some say that Thou art John the Baptist; some, Elias; +and others Jeremias or one of the Prophets." Upon this occasion the Christ +tacitly assented to the teaching of Rebirth because He did not correct the +disciples as would have been His plain duty in His capacity as teacher, +when the pupils entertained a mistaken idea. + +But to Nicodemus He said unequivocally: "Except a man be born again, he +cannot see the kingdom of God" and in the eleventh chapter of Matthew, the +fourteenth verse, He said, speaking of John the Baptist: "_this __ is +Elijah_," in the seventeenth chapter of Matthew, the twelfth verse, He +said: "Elijah has come already and they knew him not, but have done to him +whatsoever they listed, ... then the disciples understood that he spoke to +them of John the Baptist." + +Thus we maintain that the Doctrine of Rebirth offers the only solution to +the problem of life which is in harmony with the laws of nature, which +answers the ethical requirements of the case and permits us to love God +without blinding our reason to the inequalities of life and the varying +circumstances which give to a few the ease and comfort, the health and +wealth, which are denied to the many. + +The theory of Heredity advanced by Materialists applies only to the +_form_, for as a carpenter uses material from a certain pile of lumber to +build a house in which he afterwards lives, so does the spirit take the +substance wherewith to build its house from the parents. The carpenter +cannot build a house of hard wood from spruce lumber and the spirit also +must build a body which is like those from which the material was taken, +but the theory of Heredity does not apply upon the moral plane, for it is +a notorious fact, that in the rogues galleries of America and Europe there +is no case where both father and son are represented. Thus the sons of +criminals, though they have the tendencies to crime, keep out of the +clutches of the law. Neither will Heredity hold good upon the plane of the +intellect, for many cases may be cited where a genius and an idiot spring +from the same stock. The great Cuvier, whose brain was of about the same +weight, as Daniel Webster's, and whose intellect was as great, had five +children who all died of paresis, the brother of Alexander the Great was +an idiot, and thus we hold that another solution must be found to account +for the facts of life. + +The law of Rebirth coupled with its companion law, the law of Causation +does that. When we die after one life, we return to earth later, under +circumstances determined by the manner in which we lived before. The +gambler is drawn to pool parlors and race tracks to associate with others +of like taste, the musician is attracted to the concert halls and music +studios, by congenial spirits, and the returning Ego also carries with it +its likes and dislikes which cause it to seek parents among the class to +which it belongs. + +But then someone will point to cases where we find people of entirely +opposite tastes living lives of torture, because grouped in the same +family, and forced by circumstances to stay there contrary to their wills. +But that does not vitiate the law in the slightest, in each life we +contract certain obligations which cannot then be fulfilled. Perhaps we +have run away from a duty such as the care of an invalid relative and have +met death without coming to a realization of our mistake. That relative +upon the other hand may have suffered severely from our neglect, and have +stored up a bitterness against us before death terminates the suffering. +Death and the subsequent removal to another environment does not pay our +debts in this life, any more than the removal from the city where we now +live to another place will pay the debts we have contracted prior to our +removal. It is therefore quite possible that the two who have injured each +other as described, may find themselves members of the same family. Then, +whether they remember the past grudge or not, the old enmity will assert +itself and cause them to hate anew until the consequent discomfort forces +them to tolerate each other, and perhaps later they may learn to love +where they hated. + +The question also arises in the mind of inquirers: If we have been here +before why do we not remember? And the answer is, that while most people +are not aware of how their previous existences were spent, there are +others who have a very distinct recollection of previous lives. A friend +of the writer's for instance, when living in France, one day started to +read to her son about a certain city where they were then going upon a +bicycle tour, and the boy exclaimed: you do not need to tell me about that +mother. I know that city, I lived there and was killed! He then commenced +to describe the city and also a certain bridge. Later he took his mother +to that bridge and showed her the spot where he had met death centuries +before. Another friend travelling in Ireland saw a scene which she +recognized and she also described to the party the scene around the bend +of the road which she had never seen in this life, so it must have been a +memory from a previous life. Numerous other instances could be given where +such minor flashes of memory reveal to us glimpses from a past life. The +verified case in which a little three year old girl in Santa Barbara +described her life and death has been given in the Rosicrucian Cosmo +Conception. It is perhaps the most conclusive evidence as it hinges on the +veracity of a child too young to have learned deception. + +This theory of life does not rest upon speculation however, it is one of +the first facts of life demonstrated to the pupil of a Mystery school. He +is taught to watch a child in the act of dying, also, to watch it in the +invisible world from day to day, until it comes to a new birth a year or +two later. Then he knows with absolute certainty that we return to earth +to reap in a future life what we now sow. + +The reason for taking a child to watch in preference to an adult, is, that +the child is reborn very quickly, for its short life on earth has borne +but few fruits and these are soon assimilated, while the adult who has +lived a long life, and had much experience remains in the invisible worlds +for centuries, so that the pupil could not watch him from death to +rebirth. The cause of infant mortality will be explained later, here we +merely desire to emphasize the fact that it is within the range of +possibilities of every one without exception to become able to know at +first hand that which is here taught. + +The average interval between two earth-lives is about a thousand years. It +is determined by the movement of the sun known to astronomers as +_precession of the equinox_, by which the sun moves through one of the +signs of the Zodiac in about 2100 years. During that time the conditions +upon earth have changed so much that the spirit will find entirely new +experiences here, and therefore it returns. + +The Great Leaders of evolution always obtain the maximum benefit from each +condition designed by them, and as the experiences in the same social +conditions are very different in the case of a man from what they are for +a woman, the human spirit takes birth twice during the 2100 years measured +by the precession of the equinox as already explained, it is born once as +a man and another time as a woman. Such is the rule, but it is subject to +whatever modifications may be necessary to facilitate reaping what the +spirit has sown, as required under the law of Causation which works hand +in hand with the law of Rebirth. Thus, at times a spirit may be brought to +birth long ere the thousand years have expired, in order to fulfill a +certain mission, or it may be detained in the invisible worlds after the +time when it should have come to birth according to the strict +requirements of a blind law. The laws of nature are not that however. They +are Great Intelligences who always subordinate minor considerations to +higher ends, and under their beneficent guidance we are constantly +progressing from life to life under conditions exactly suited to each +individual, until in time we shall attain to a higher evolution and become +Supermen. + +Oliver Wendell Holmes has so beautifully voiced that aspiration and its +consummation in the lines: + + + "Build thee more stately mansions Oh! my soul, + As the swift seasons roll, + Leave thy low-vaulted past; + Let each new temple, nobler than the last, + Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast. + Till thou at length art free, + Leaving thy outgrown shell by life's unresting sea." + + + + + +CHAPTER III. THE VISIBLE AND THE INVISIBLE WORLD + + +_The Chemical Region._ + +If one who is capable of consciously using his spiritual body with the +same facility that we now use our physical vehicles should glide away from +the earth into interplanetary space, the earth and the various other +planets of our solar system would appear to him to be composed of three +kinds of matter, roughly speaking. The densest matter, which is our +visible earth, would appear to him as being the center of the ball as the +yolk is in the center of an egg. Around that nucleus he would observe a +finer grade of matter similarly disposed in relation to the central mass, +as the white of the egg is disposed outside the yolk. Upon a little closer +investigation he would also discover that this second kind of substance +permeates the solid earth to the very center, even as the blood percolates +through the more solid parts of our flesh. Outside both of these mingling +layers of matter he would observe a still finer, third layer corresponding +to the shell of the egg, except that this third layer is the finest most +subtile of the three grades of matter, and that it inter-penetrates both +of the two inner layers. + +As already said, the central mass, spiritually seen, is our visible world, +composed of solids, liquids and gases. They constitute the earth, its +atmosphere, and also the ether, of which physical science speaks +hypothetically as permeating the atomic substance of all chemical +elements. The second layer of matter is called the Desire World and the +outermost layer is called the World of Thought. + +A little reflection upon the subject will make clear that just such a +constitution is necessary to account for facts of life as we see them. All +forms in the world about us are built from chemical substances: solids, +liquids and gases, but in so far that they do move, these forms obey a +separate and distinct impulse, and when this impelling energy leaves, the +form becomes inert. The steam engine rotates under the impetus of an +invisible gas called steam. Before steam filled its cylinder, the engine +stood still, and when the impelling force is shut off its motion again +ceases. The dynamo rotates under the still more subtile influence of an +electric current which may also cause the click of a telegraph instrument +or the ring of an electric bell, but the dynamo ceases its swift whirl and +the persistent ring of the electric bell becomes mute when the invisible +electricity is switched off. The form of the bird, the animal and the +human being also cease their motion when the inner force which we call +_life_ has winged its invisible way. + +All forms are impelled into motion by desire:--the bird and the animal roam +land and air in their desire to secure food and shelter, or for the +purpose of breeding, man is also moved by these desires, but has in +addition other and higher incentives to spur him to effort, among them is +desire for rapidity of motion which led him to construct the steam engine +and other devices that move in obedience to _his_ desire. + +If there were no iron in the mountains man could not build machines. If +there were no clay in the soil, the bony structure of the skeleton would +be an impossibility, and if there were no Physical World at all, with its +solids, liquids and gases, this dense body of ours could never have come +into existence. Reasoning along similar lines it must be at once apparent +that if there were no Desire World composed of desire-stuff, we should +have no way of forming feelings, emotions and desires. A planet composed +of the materials we perceive with our _physical_ eyes and of no other +substances, might be the home of plants which grow unconsciously, but have +no desires to cause them to move. The human and animal kingdoms however, +would be impossibilities. + +Furthermore, there is in the world a vast number of things, from the +simplest and most crude instruments, to the most intricate and cunning +devices which have been constructed by the hand of man. These reveal the +fact of man's thought and ingenuity. Thought must have a source as well as +_form_ and _feeling_. We saw that it was necessary to have the requisite +material in order to build a steam engine or a body and we reasoned from +the fact that in order to obtain material to express _desire_ there must +also be a world composed of desire stuff. Carrying our argument to its +logical conclusion, we also hold that unless a World of Thought provides a +reservoir of mind stuff upon which we may draw, it would be impossible for +us to think and invent the things which we see in even the lowest +civilization. + +Thus it will be clear that the division of a planet into worlds is not +based on fanciful metaphysical speculation, but is logically necessary in +the economy of nature. Therefore it must be taken into consideration by +any one who would study and aim to understand the inner nature of things. +When we see the street cars moving along our streets, it does not explain +to say that the motor is driven by electricity of so many amperes at so +many volts. These names only add to our confusion until we have thoroughly +studied the science of electricity and then we shall find that the mystery +deepens, for while the street car belongs to the world of _inert form_ +perceptible to our vision, the electric current which moves it is +indigenous to the realm of _force_, the invisible Desire World, and the +thought which created and guides it, comes from the still more subtile +World of Thought which is the home world of the human spirit, the Ego. + +It may be objected that this line of argument makes a simple matter +exceedingly intricate, but a little reflection will soon show the fallacy +of such a contention. Viewed superficially any of the sciences seem +extremely simple; anatomically we may divide the body into flesh and bone, +chemically we may make the simple divisions between solid, liquid and gas, +but to thoroughly master the science of anatomy it is necessary to spend +years in close application and learn to know all the little nerves, the +ligaments which bind articulations between various parts of the bony +structure, to study the several kinds of tissue and their disposition in +our system where they form the bones, muscles, glands, etc., which in the +aggregate we know as the human body. To properly understand the science of +chemistry we must study the valence of the atom which determines the power +of combination of the various elements, together with other niceties, such +as atomic weight, density, etc. New wonders are constantly opening up to +the most experienced chemist, who understands best the immensity of his +chosen science. + +The youngest lawyer, fresh from law school knows more about the most +intricate cases, in his own estimation, than the judges upon the Supreme +Court bench who spend long hours, weeks and months, seriously deliberating +over their decisions. But those who, without having studied, think they +understand and are fitted to discourse upon the greatest of all sciences, +the science of Life and Being, make a greater mistake. After years of +patient study, of holy life spent in close application, a man is +oftentimes perplexed at the immensity of the subject he studies. He finds +it to be so vast in both the direction of the great and small that it +baffles description, that language fails, and that the tongue must remain +mute. Therefore we hold, (and we speak from knowledge gained through years +of close study and investigation), that the finer distinctions which we +have made, and shall make, are not at all arbitrary, but absolutely +necessary as are divisions and distinctions made in anatomy or chemistry. + +No form in the physical world has feeling in the true sense of that word. +It is the indwelling life which feels, as we may readily see from the fact +that a body which responded to the slightest touch while instinct with +life, exhibits no sensation whatever even when cut to pieces after the +life has fled. Demonstrations have been made by scientists, particularly +by Professor Bose of Calcutta, to show that there is feeling in dead +animal tissue and even in tin and other metal, but we maintain that the +diagrams which seem to support his contentions in reality demonstrate only +a response to impacts similar to the rebound of a rubber ball, and that +must not be confused with such feelings as _love_, _hate_, _sympathy_ and +_aversion_. Goethe also, in his novel "Elective Affinities," +(Wahlverwandtschaft), brings out some beautiful illustrations wherein he +makes it seem as if atoms loved and hated, from the fact that some +elements combine readily while other substances refuse to amalgamate, a +phenomenon produced by the different rates of speed at which various +elements vibrate and an unequal inclination of their axes. Only where +there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow +or joy. + +_The Etheric Region._ + +In addition to the solids, liquids and gases which compose the _Chemical +Region_ of the Physical World there is also a finer grade of matter called +Ether, which permeates the atomic structure of the earth and its +atmosphere substantially as science teaches. Scientists have never seen, +nor have they weighed, measured or analyzed this substance, but they infer +that it must exist in order to account for transmission of light and +various other phenomena. If it were possible for us to live in a room from +which the air had been exhausted we might speak at the top of our voices, +we might ring the largest bell or we might even discharge a cannon close +to our ear and we should hear no sound, for air is the medium which +transmits sound vibrations to the tympanum of our ear, and that would be +lacking. But if an electric light were lighted, we should at once perceive +its rays; it would illumine the room despite the lack of air. Hence there +must be a substance, capable of being set into vibration, between the +electric light and our eyes. That medium scientists call ether, but it is +so subtile that no instrument has been devised whereby it may be measured +or analyzed and therefore the scientists are without much information +concerning it, though forced to postulate its existence. + +We do not seek to belittle the achievements of modern scientists, we have +the greatest admiration for them and we entertain high expectations of +what ambitions they may yet realize, but we perceive a limitation in the +fact, that all discoveries of the past have been made by the invention of +wonderful instruments applied in a most ingenious manner to solve +seemingly insoluble and baffling problems. The strength of science lies +vested in its instruments, for the scientist may say to anyone: Go, +procure a number of glasses ground in a certain manner, insert them in a +tube, direct that tube toward a certain point in the sky where now nothing +appears to your naked eye. You will then see a beautiful star called +Uranus. If his directions are followed, anyone is _quickly and without +preparation_, able to demonstrate for himself the truth of the scientist's +assertion. But while the instruments of science are its tower of strength +they also mark the end of its field of investigation, for it is impossible +to contact the spirit world with _physical_ instruments, so the research +of occultists begins where the physical scientist finds his limit and are +carried on by _spiritual_ means. + +These investigations are as thorough and as reliable as researches by +material scientists, but not as easily demonstrable to the general public. +Spiritual powers lie dormant within every human being, and when awakened, +they compensate for both telescope and microscope, they enable their +possessor to investigate, _instanter_, things beyond the veil of matter, +but they are only developed by a patient application and continuance in +well doing extended over years, and few are they who have faith to start +upon the path to attainment or perseverance to go through with the ordeal. +Therefore the occultist's assertions are not generally credited. + +We can readily see that long probation must precede attainment, for a +person equipped with spiritual sight is able to penetrate walls of houses +as easily as we walk through the atmosphere, able to read at will the +innermost thoughts of those about him; if not actuated by the most pure +and unselfish motives, he would be a scourge to humanity. Therefore that +power is safeguarded as we would withhold the dynamite bomb from an +anarchist and from the well-intentioned but ignorant person, or, as we +withhold match and powder barrel from a child. + +In the hands of an experienced engineer the dynamite bomb may be used to +open a highway of commerce, and an intelligent farmer may use gunpowder to +good account in clearing his field of tree-stumps, but in the hands of an +ill-intentioned criminal or ignorant child an explosive may wreck much +property and end many lives. The force is the same, but used differently, +according to the ability or intention of the user, it may produce results +of a diametrically opposite nature. So it is also with spiritual powers, +there is a time-lock upon them, as upon a bank safe, which keeps out all +until they have earned the privilege and the time is ripe for its +exercise. + +As already said, the ether is physical matter and responsive to the same +laws which govern other physical substances upon this plane of existence. +Therefore it requires but a slight extension of _physical_ sight to see +ether, (which is disposed in four grades of density), the blue haze seen +in mountain canyons is in fact ether of the kind known to occult +investigators as "_chemical ether_." Many people who see this ether, are +unaware that they are possessed of a faculty not enjoyed by all. Others, +who have developed spiritual sight are not endowed with etheric vision, a +fact which seems an anomaly until the subject of clairvoyance is +thoroughly understood. + +The reason is, that as ether is physical matter, etheric sight depends +upon the sensitiveness of the optic nerve while spiritual sight is +acquired by developing latent vibratory powers in two little organs +situated in the brain: the Pituitary body and the Pineal gland. +Nearsighted people even, may have etheric vision. Though unable to read +the print in a book, they may be able to "see through a wall," owing to +the fact that their optic nerve responds more rapidly to fine than to +coarse vibrations. + +When anyone views an object with etheric sight he sees _through_ that +object in a manner similar to the way an x-ray penetrates opaque +substances. If he looks at a sewing machine, he will perceive, first an +outer casing; then, the works within, and behind both, the casing furthest +away from him. + +If he has developed the grade of spiritual vision which opens the Desire +World to him and he looks at the same object, he will see it both inside +and out. If he looks closely, he will perceive every little atom spinning +upon its axis and no part or particle will be excluded from his +perception. + +But if his spiritual sight has been developed in such a measure that he is +capable of viewing the sewing machine with the vision peculiar to the +World of Thought, he will behold a cavity where he had previously seen the +form. + +Things seen with etheric vision are very much alike in color, they are +nearly reddish-blue, purple or violet, according to the density of the +ether, but when we view any object with the spiritual sight pertaining to +the Desire World, it scintillates and coruscates in a thousand ever +changing colors so indescribably beautiful that they can only be compared +to living fire, and the writer therefore calls this grade of vision _color +sight_, but when the spiritual vision of the World of Thought is the +medium of perception, the seer finds that in addition to still more +beautiful colors, there issues from the cavity described a constant flow +of a certain harmonious _tone_. Thus this world wherein we now consciously +live and which we perceive by means of our physical senses is preeminently +the world of _form_, the Desire World is particularly the world of _color_ +and the World of Thought is the realm of _tone_. + +Because of the relative proximity or distance of these worlds, a statue, a +_form_, withstands the ravages of time for millenniums, but the _colors_ +upon a painting fade in far shorter time, for they come from the Desire +World, and _music_ which is native to the World furthest removed from us, +the World of Thought, is like a will-o-the-wisp which none may catch or +hold, it is gone again as soon as it has made its appearance. But there is +in color and music a compensation for this increasing evanescence. + +The statue is cold and dead as the mineral of which it is composed and has +attractions for but few though its _form is_ a tangible reality. + +The forms upon a painting are illusory yet they express _life_, on account +of the _color_ which has come from a region where nothing is inert and +lifeless. Therefore the painting is enjoyed by many. + +Music is intangible and ephemeral, but it comes from the home world of the +spirit and though so fleeting it is recognized by the spirit as a +_soul-speech_ fresh from the celestial realms, an echo from the home +whence we are now exiled, and therefore it touches a cord in our being, +regardless of whether we realize the true cause or not. + +Thus we see that there are various grades of spiritual sight, each suited +to the superphysical realm which it opens to our perception: Etheric +vision, color vision and tonal vision. + +The occult investigator finds that ether is of four kinds, or grades of +density: + +The Chemical Ether, +The Life Ether, +The Light Ether, +The Reflecting Ether. + +_The Chemical Ether_ is the avenue of expression for forces promoting +assimilation, growth and the maintenance of form. + +_The Life Ether_ is the vantage ground of forces active in propagation, or +the building of new forms. + +_The Light Ether_ transmits the motive power of the sun along the various +nerves of _living_ bodies and makes motion possible. + +_The Reflecting Ether_ receives an impression of all that is, lives and +moves. It also records each change, in a similar manner as the film upon a +moving picture machine. In this record mediums and psychometrists may read +the past, upon the same principle as, under proper conditions, moving +pictures are reproduced time and again. + +We have been speaking of ether as an avenue of _forces_, a word which +conveys no meaning to the average mind, because force is invisible. But to +an occult investigator the forces are not merely names such as steam, +electricity, etc. He finds them to be intelligent beings of varying +grades, both sub and superhuman. What we call "laws of nature," are great +intelligences which guide more elemental beings in accordance with certain +rules designed to further their evolution. + +In the Middle Ages, when many people were still endowed with a remnant of +_negative_ clairvoyance, they spoke of Gnomes and Elves or Fairies, which +roamed about the mountains and forests. These were the _earth_ spirits. +They also told of the Undine or _water_-sprite, which inhabited rivers and +streams, of Sylphs which were said to dwell in the mists above moat and +moor, as air spirits, but not much was said of the Salamanders, as they +are, fire spirits, and therefore not so easily detected, or so readily +accessible to the majority of people. + +The old folk stories are now regarded as superstitions, but as a matter of +fact, one endowed with etheric vision may yet perceive the little gnomes +building green chlorophyll into the leaves of plants and giving to flowers +the multiplicity of delicate tints which delight our eyes. + +Scientists have attempted time and again to offer an adequate explanation +of the phenomenon of wind and storm but have failed signally, nor can they +succeed while they seek a mechanical solution to what is really a +manifestation of life. Could they see the hosts of sylphs winging their +way hither and thither, they would _know_ who and what is responsible for +the fickleness of the wind; could they watch a storm at sea from the +etheric view-point they would perceive that the saying "the war of the +elements" is not an empty phrase, for the heaving sea is truly then a +battlefield of sylphs and undines and the howling tempest is the war cry +of spirits in the air. + +Also the salamanders are found everywhere and no fire is lighted without +their help, but they are mostly active underground. They are responsible +for explosions and volcanic eruptions. + +The classes of beings which we have mentioned are still sub-human, but +will all at some time reach a stage in evolution corresponding to the +human, though under different circumstances from those under which we +evolve. But at present the wonderful intelligences we speak of as the laws +of nature, marshall the armies of less evolved entities mentioned. + +To arrive at a better understanding of what these various beings are, and +their relation to us, we may take an illustration: Let us suppose that a +mechanic is making an engine, and meanwhile a dog is watching him. It +_sees_ the man at his labor, and how he uses various tools to shape his +materials, also how, from the crude iron, steel, brass and other metals +the engine slowly takes shape. The dog is a being from a lower evolution +and does not comprehend the purpose of the mechanic but it _sees_ both the +workman, his labor and the result thereof, which manifests as an engine. + +Let us now suppose that the dog were able to see the materials which +slowly change their shape, assemble and become an engine but that it is +unable to perceive the workman and to see the work he does. The dog would +then be in the same relation to the mechanic as we are to the great +intelligences we call laws of nature, and their assistants, the nature +spirits, for we behold the manifestations of their work as _force_ moving +matter in various ways but always under immutable conditions. + +In the ether we may also observe the angels, whose densest body is made of +that material, as our dense body is formed of gases, liquids and solids. +These beings are one step beyond the human stage, as we are a degree in +advance of the animal evolution. We have never been animals like our +present fauna, however, but at a previous stage in the development of our +planet we had an animal-like constitution. Then the angels were human, +though they have never possessed a dense body such as ours, nor ever +functioned in any material denser than ether. At some time, in a future +condition, the earth will again become ethereal. Then man will be _like_ +the angels. Therefore the Bible tells us that man was made _a little +while_ lower than the angels (Paul's letter to the Hebrews, second +chapter, seventh verse; _see marginal reading_.) + +As ether is the avenue of vital, creative forces, and as angels are such +expert builders of ether, we may readily understand that they are +eminently fitted to be warders of the propagative forces in plant, animal +and man. All through the Bible we find them thus engaged: Two _angels_ +came to Abraham and announced the birth of Isaac, they _promised_ a child +to the man who had obeyed God. Later _these same angels_ destroyed Sodom +for _abuse of the creative force_. _Angels_ foretold _to the parents_ of +Samuel and Samson, the birth of these giants of brain and brawn. To +Elizabeth came the _angel_ (not archangel) Gabriel and announced the birth +of John, later he appeared also to Mary with the message that she was +chosen to bear Jesus. + +_The Desire World._ + +When spiritual sight is developed so that it becomes possible to behold +the Desire World, many wonders confront the newcomer, for conditions are +so widely different from what they are here, that a description must sound +quite as incredible as a fairy tale to anyone who has not himself seen +them. Many cannot even believe that such a world exists, and that other +people can see that which is invisible to them, yet some people are blind +to the beauties of this world which we see. A man who was born blind, may +say to us: I know that this world exists, I can hear, I can smell, I can +taste and above all I can feel but when you speak of light and of color, +they are nonexistent to me. You say that you _see_ these things, I cannot +believe it for I cannot _see_ myself. You say that light and color are all +about me, but none of the senses at my command reveal them to me and I do +not believe that the sense you call _sight_ exists. I think you suffer +from hallucinations. We might sympathize very sincerely with the poor man +who is thus afflicted, but his scepticism, reasonings and objections and +sneers notwithstanding we would be obliged to maintain that we perceive +light and color. + +The man whose spiritual sight has been awakened is in a similar position +with respect to those who do not perceive the Desire World of which he +speaks. If the blind man acquires the faculty of sight by an operation, +his eyes are opened and he will be compelled to assert the existence of +light and color which he formerly denied, and when spiritual sight is +acquired by anyone, he also perceives for himself the facts related by +others. Neither is it an argument against the existence of spiritual +realms that seers are at variance in their descriptions of conditions in +the invisible world. We need but to look into books on travel, and compare +stories brought home by explorers of China, India or Africa and we shall +find them differing widely and often contradictory, because each traveler +saw things from his own standpoint, under other conditions than those met +by his brother authors, and we maintain that the man who has read most +widely these varying tales concerning a certain Country _and wrestled with +the contradictions of narrators_, will have a more comprehensive idea of +the country or people of whom he has read, than the man who has only read +one story assented to by all the authors. Similarly, the varying stories +of visitors to the Desire World are of value, because giving a fuller +view, and more rounded, than if all had seen things from the same angle. + +In this world matter and force are widely different. The chief +characteristic of matter here is _inertia_: the tendency to remain at rest +until acted upon by a force which sets it in motion. In the Desire World, +on the contrary, force and matter are almost indistinguishable one from +the other. We might almost describe desire-stuff as force-matter, for it +is in incessant motion, responsive to the slightest _feeling_ of a vast +multitude of beings which populate this wonderful world in nature. We +often speak of the "teeming millions" of China and India, even of our vast +cities, London, New York, Paris or Chicago, we consider them overcrowded +in the extreme, yet even the densest population of any spot upon earth is +sparsely inhabited compared with the crowded conditions of the Desire +World. No inconvenience is felt by any of the denizens of that realm, +however, for, while in this world two things cannot occupy the same space +at the same time, it is different there. A number of people and things may +exist _in the same place at the same time_ and be engaged in most diverse +activities, regardless of what others are doing, such is the wonderful +elasticity of desire stuff. As an illustration we may mention a case where +the writer while attending religious service, plainly perceived at the +altar certain beings interested in furthering that service and working to +achieve that end. At the same time there drifted through the room and the +altar, a table at which four persons were engaged in playing cards. They +were as oblivious to the existence of the beings engaged in furthering our +religious service, as though these did not exist. + +The Desire World is the abode of those who have died, for some time +subsequent to that event, and we may mention in the above connection that +the so-called "dead" very often stay for a long while among their still +living friends. Unseen by their relatives they go about the familiar +rooms. At first they are often unaware of the condition mentioned: "that +two persons may be in the same place at the same time," and when they seat +themselves in a chair or at the table, a living relative may take the +supposedly vacant seat. The man we mistakenly call dead will at first +hurry out of his seat to escape being sat upon, but he soon learns that +being sat upon does not hurt him in his altered condition, and that he may +remain in his chair regardless of the fact that his living relative is +also sitting there. + +In the lower regions of the Desire World the whole body of each being may +be seen, but in the highest regions only the head seems to remain. +Raphael, who like many other people in the middle ages was gifted with a +so-called _second sight_, pictured that condition for us in his Sistine +Madonna, now in the Dresden Art Gallery, where Madonna and the +Christ-child are represented as floating in a golden atmosphere and +surrounded by a host of genie-heads: conditions which the occult +investigator knows to be in harmony with actual facts. + +Among the entities who are, so to speak, "_native_" to that realm of +nature, none are perhaps better known to the Christian world than the +Archangels. These exalted Beings were human at a time in the earth's +history when we were yet plant-like. Since then we have advanced two +steps: through the animal and to the human stage of development. The +present Archangels have also made two steps in progression; one, in which +they were similar to what the angels are now, and another step which made +them what we call Archangels. + +Their densest body, though differing from ours in shape, and made of +desire stuff, is used by them as a vehicle of consciousness in the same +manner that we use our body. They are expert manipulators of forces in the +Desire World, and these forces, as we shall see, move all the world to +action. Therefore the Archangels work with humanity _industrially_ and +_politically_ as arbitrators of the destiny of peoples and nations. The +Angels may be said to be _family_-spirits whose mission is to unite a few +spirits as members of a family, and cement them with ties of blood and +love of kin, while the Archangels may be called race and national spirits, +as they unite whole nations by patriotism or love of home and country. +They are responsible for the rise and fall of nations, they give war or +peace, victory or defeat as it serves the best interests of the people +they rule. This we may see, for instance, from the book of Daniel, where +the Archangel Michael (not to be confounded with the Michael, who is +ambassador from the sun to the earth), is called the prince of the +children of Israel. Another Archangel tells Daniel, (in the tenth chapter) +that he intends to fight the prince of Persia by means of the Greeks. + +There are varying grades of intelligence among human beings, some are +qualified to hold high and lofty positions entirely beyond the ability of +others. So it is also among higher beings, not all Archangels are fitted +to govern a nation and rule the destiny of a race, people or tribe, some +are not fitted to rule human beings at all, but as the animals also have a +desire nature these lower grades of Archangels govern the animals as +group-spirits and evolve to higher capacity thereby. + +The work of the race spirits is readily observable in the people it +governs. The lower in the scale of evolution the people, the more they +show a certain racial likeness. That is due to the work of the race +spirit. One national spirit is responsible for the swarthy complexion +common to Italians, for instance, while another causes the Scandinavians +to be blond. In the more advanced types of humanity there is a wider +divergence from the common type, due to the individualized Ego, which thus +expresses in form and feature its own particular idiosyncrasies. Among the +lower types of humanity such as Mongolians, native African Negroes and +South Sea Islanders, the resemblance of individuals in each tribe makes it +almost impossible for civilized Westerners to distinguish between them. +Among animals, where the separate spirit is not individualized and +self-conscious, the resemblance is not only much more marked physically +but extends even to traits and characteristics. We may write the biography +of a man, for the experiences of each varies from that of others and his +acts are different, but we cannot write the biography of an animal for +members of each tribe all act alike under similar circumstances. If we +desire to know the facts about Edward VII, it would profit us nothing to +study the life of the Prince-Consort, his father, or of George V, his son, +as both would be entirely different from Edward. In order to find out what +manner of man he was, we must study his own individual life. If, on the +other hand, we wish to know the characteristics of beavers, we may observe +any individual of the tribe, and when we have studied its idiosyncrasies, +we shall know the traits of the whole tribe of beavers. What we call +"instinct," is in reality the dictates of group-spirits which govern +separate individuals of its tribe telepathically, as it were. + +The ancient Egyptians knew of these animal group spirits and sketched many +of them, in a crude way, upon their temples and tombs. Such figures with a +human body and an animal head actually live in the desire world. They may +be spoken to, and will be found much more intelligent than the average +human being. + +That statement brings up another peculiarity of conditions in the Desire +World in respect of language. Here in this World human speech is so +diversified that there are countries where people who live only a few +miles apart speak a dialect so different that they understand each other +with great difficulty, and each nation has its own language that varies +altogether from the speech of other peoples. + +In the lower Regions of the Desire World, there is the same diversity of +tongues as on earth, and the so-called "dead" of one nation find it +impossible to converse with those who lived in another country. Hence +linguistic accomplishments are of great value to the "Invisible Helpers", +of whom we shall hear later, as their sphere of usefulness is enormously +extended by that ability. + +Even apart from difference of language our mode of speech is exceedingly +productive of misunderstandings. The same words often convey most opposite +ideas to different minds. If we speak of a "body of water", one person may +think we mean a lake of small dimensions, the thoughts of another may be +directed to the great American Lakes and a third person's thoughts may be +turned towards the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans. If we speak of a "light", +one may think of a gas-light, another of an electric Arc-lamp, or if we +say "red", one person may think we mean a delicate shade of pink and +another gets the idea of crimson. The misunderstandings of what words mean +goes even farther, as illustrated in the following. + +The writer once opened a reading room in a large city where he lectured, +and invited his audience to make use thereof. Among those who availed +themselves of the opportunity was a gentleman who had for many years been +a veritable "metaphysical tramp," roaming from lecture to lecture, hearing +the teachings of everybody and practicing nothing. Like the Athenians on +Mars' Hill, he was always looking for something "new," particularly in the +line of phenomena, and his mind was in that seething chaotic state which +is one of the most prominent symptoms of "mental indigestion." + +Having attended a number of our lectures he knew from the program that: +"The lecturer does not give readings, or cast horoscopes _for pay_." But +seeing on the door of the newly opened reading room, the legend: "Free +Reading Room," his erratic mind at once jumped to the conclusion that +although we were opposed to telling fortunes for pay, we were now going to +give free readings of the future in the Free Reading Room. He was much +disappointed that we did not intend to tell fortunes, either gratis or for +a consideration, and we changed our sign to "Free Library" in order to +obviate a repetition of the error. + +In the higher Regions of the Desire World the confusion of tongues gives +place to a universal mode of expression which absolutely prevents +misunderstandings of our meaning. There each of our thoughts takes a +definite form and color perceptible to all, and this thought-symbol emits +a certain tone, which is not a word, but it conveys our meaning to the one +we address no matter what language he spoke on earth. + +To arrive at an understanding of how such a universal language becomes +possible and is at once comprehended by all, without preparation, we may +take as an illustration the manner in which a musician reads music. A +German or a Polish composer may write an opera. Each has his own peculiar +terminology and expresses it in his own language. When that opera is to be +played by an Italian band master, or by a Spanish or American musician, it +need not be translated, the notes and symbols upon the page are a +universally understood language of symbols which is intelligible to +musicians of no matter what nationality. Similarly with figures, the +German counts: ein, zwei, drei; the Frenchman says: un, deux, trois, and +in English we use the words: one, two, three, but the figures: 1, 2, 3, +though differently spoken, are intelligible to all and mean the same. +There is no possibility of misunderstanding in the cases of either music +or figures. Thus it is also with the universal language peculiar to the +higher Regions of the Desire World and the still more subtile realms in +nature, it is intelligible to all, an exact mode of expression. + +Returning to our description of the entities commonly met with in the +lower Desire World, we may note that other systems of religion than the +Egyptian, already mentioned, have spoken of various classes of beings +native to these realms. The Zoroastrian Religion, for instance, mentions +_Seven Ameshaspends_ and the Izzards as having dominion over certain days +in the month and certain months in the year. The Christian religion speaks +of Seven Spirits before the Throne, which are the same beings the Persians +called Ameshaspends. Each of them rules over two months in the year while +the seventh: Michael, the highest, is their leader, for he is ambassador +from the sun to the earth, the others are ambassadors from the planets. +The Catholic religion with its abundant occult information takes most +notice of these "_star-angels_" and knows considerable about their +influence upon the affairs of the earth. + +The Ameshaspends, however, do not inhabit the lower Regions of the Desire +World but influence the Izzards. According to the old Persian legend these +beings are divisible into one group of twenty-eight classes, and another +group of three classes. Each of these classes has dominion over, or takes +the lead of all the other classes on one certain day of the month. They +regulate the weather conditions on that day and work with animal and man +in particular. At least the twenty-eight classes do that, the other group +of three classes has nothing to do with animals, because they have only +twenty-eight pair of spinal nerves, while human beings have thirty-one. +Thus animals are attuned to the lunar month of twenty-eight days, while +man is correlated to the solar month of thirty or thirty-one days. The +ancient Persians were astronomers but not physiologists, they had no means +of knowing the different nervous constitution of animal and man, but they +saw clairvoyantly these superphysical beings, they noted and recorded +their work with animal and men and our own anatomical investigations may +show us the reason for these divisions of the classes of Izzards recorded +in that ancient system of philosophy. + +Still another class of beings should be mentioned: those who have entered +the Desire World through the gate of death and are now hidden from our +physical vision. These so-called "dead" are in fact much more alive than +any of us, who are tied to a dense body and subject to all its +limitations, who are forced to slowly drag this clog along with us at the +rate of a few miles an hour, who must expend such an enormous amount of +energy upon propelling that vehicle that we are easily and quickly tired, +even when in the best of health and who are often confined to a bed, +sometimes for years, by the indisposition of this heavy mortal coil. But +when that is once shed and the freed spirit can again function in its +spiritual body, sickness is an unknown condition and distance is +annihilated, or at least practically so, for though it was necessary for +the Savior to liken the freed spirit to the wind which blows where it +listeth, that simile gives but a poor description of what actually takes +place in soul flights. Time is nonexistent there, as we shall presently +explain, so the writer has never been able to time himself, but has on +several occasions timed others when he was in the physical body and they +speeding through space upon a certain errand. Distances such as from the +Pacific Coast to Europe, the delivery of a short message there and the +return to the body has been accomplished in slightly less than one minute. +Therefore our assertion, that those whom we call dead are in reality much +more alive than we, is well founded in facts. + +We spoke of the dense body in which we now live, as a "clog" and a +"fetter." It must not be inferred, however, that we sympathize with the +attitude of certain people who, when they have learned with what ease +soul-flights are accomplished, go about bemoaning the fact that they are +now imprisoned. They are constantly thinking of, and longing for, the day +when they shall be able to leave this mortal coil behind and fly away in +their spiritual body. Such an attitude of mind is decidedly mistaken, the +great and wise beings who are invisible leaders of our evolution have not +placed us here to no purpose. Valuable lessons are to be learned in this +visible world wherein we dwell, that cannot be learned in any other realm +of nature, and the very conditions of density and inertia whereof such +people complain, are factors which make it possible to acquire the +knowledge this world is designed to give. This fact was so amply +illustrated in a recent experience of the writer:--A friend had been +studying occultism for a number of years but had not studied astrology. + +Last year she became aroused to the importance of this branch of study as +a key to self knowledge and a means of understanding the natures of +others, also of developing the compassion for their errors, so necessary +in the cultivation of love of one's neighbor. Love of our neighbor the +Savior enjoined upon us as the Supreme Commandment which is the +fulfillment of all laws, and as Astrology teaches us to _bear_ and +_forbear_, it helps as nothing else can in the development of the supreme +virtue. She therefore joined one of the classes started in Los Angeles by +the writer, but a sudden illness quickly ended in death and thus +terminated her study of the subject in the physical body, ere it was well +begun. + +Upon one of many occasions when she visited the writer subsequent to her +release from the body, she deplored the fact that it seemed so difficult +to make headway in her study of astrology. The writer advised continued +attendance at the classes, and suggested that she could surely get someone +"on the other side" to help her study. + +At this she exclaimed impatiently: "Oh yes! of course I attend the +classes, I have done so right along; I have also found a friend who helps +me here. But you cannot imagine how difficult it is to concentrate here +upon mathematical calculations and the judgment of a horoscope or in fact +upon any subject here, where every little thought-current takes you miles +away from your study. I used to think it difficult to concentrate when I +had a physical body, but it is not a circumstance to the obstacles which +face the student here." + +The physical body was an anchor to her, and it is that to all of us. Being +dense, it is also to a great extent impervious to disturbing influences +from which the more subtle spiritual bodies do not shield us. It enables +us to bring our ideas to a logical conclusion with far less effort at +concentration than is necessary in that realm where all is in such +incessant and turbulent motion. Thus we are gradually developing the +faculty of holding our thoughts to a center by existence in this world, +and we should value our opportunities here, rather than deplore the +limitations which help in one direction more than they fetter in another. +In fact, we should never deplore any condition, each has its lesson. If we +try to learn what that lesson is and to assimilate the experience which +may be extracted therefrom, we are wiser than those who waste time in vain +regrets. + +We said there is no time in the Desire World, and the reader will readily +understand that such must be the case from the fact, already mentioned, +that nothing there is opaque. + +In this world the rotation of the opaque earth upon its axis is +responsible for the alternating conditions of day and night. We call it +Day--when the spot where we live is turned towards the sun and its rays +illumine our environment, but when our home is turned away from the sun +and its rays obstructed by the opaque earth we term the resulting +darkness: Night. The passage of the earth in its orbit around the sun +produces the seasons and the year, which are our divisions of time. But in +the Desire World where all is light there is but one long day. The spirit +is not there fettered by a heavy physical body, so it does not need sleep +and existence is unbroken. Spiritual substances are not subject to +contraction and expansion such as arise here from heat and cold, hence +summer and winter are also non-existent. Thus there is nothing to +differentiate one moment from another in respect of the conditions of +light and darkness, summer and winter, which mark time for us. Therefore, +while the so-called "dead" may have a very accurate memory of time as +regards the life they lived here in the body, they are usually unable to +tell anything about the chronological relation of events which have +happened to them in the Desire World, and it is a very common thing to +find that they do not even know how many years have elapsed since they +passed out from this plane of existence. Only students of the Stellar +Science are able to calculate the passage of time after their demise. + +When the occult investigator wishes to study an event in the past history +of man, he may most readily call up the picture from _the memory of +nature_, but if he desires to fix the time of the incident, he will be +obliged to count backwards by the motion of the heavenly bodies. For that +purpose he generally uses the measure provided by the sun's precession: +Each year the sun crosses the earth's equator about the twenty-first of +March. Then day and night are of even length, therefore this is called the +Vernal equinox. But on account of a certain wabbling motion of the earth's +axis, the sun does not cross over at the same place in the Zodiac, it +reaches the equator a little too early, it _precedes_, year by year it +moves _backwards_ a little. At the time of the birth of Christ, for +instance, the Vernal Equinox was in about seven degrees of the Zodiacal +sign Aries. During the two thousand years which intervene between that +event and the present time, the sun has moved _backwards_ about +twenty-seven degrees, so that it is now in about ten degrees of the sign +Pisces. It moves around the whole circle of the Zodiac in about 25,868 +years. The occult investigator may therefore count back the number of +signs, or whole circles, which the sun has _preceded_ between the present +day and the time of the event he is investigating. Thus he has by the use +of the heavenly time keepers a very approximately correct measure of time +even though he is in the Desire World and that is another reason for +studying the Stellar Science. + +_The World of Thought._ + +When we have attained the spiritual development necessary to consciously +enter the World of Thought and leave the Desire World, which is the realm +of light and color, we pass through a condition which the occult +investigator calls The Great Silence. + +As previously stated, the higher Regions of the Desire World exhibit the +marked peculiarity of blending form and sound, but when one passes through +the Great Silence, all the world seems to disappear and the spirit has the +feeling of floating in an ocean of intense light, utterly alone, yet +absolutely fearless, since unimbued with a sense of its form or sound, nor +past or future, but all is one eternal NOW. There seems to be neither +pleasure nor pain and yet there is no absence of feeling but it all seems +to center in the one idea:--"_I am_"! The human Ego stands face to face +with itself as it were, and for the time being all else is shut out. This +is the experience of anyone who passes that breach between the Desire +World and the World of Thought, whether involuntarily, in the course of an +ordinary cyclic pilgrimage of the soul, which we shall later elucidate +when speaking of the post-mortem existence, or by an act of the will, as +in the case of the trained occult investigator, all have the same +experience in transition. + + ------------------------------------- + +There are two main divisions in the Physical World: the Chemical Region +and the Etheric Region. The World of Thought also has two great +subdivisions: The Region of concrete Thought and the Region of abstract +Thought. + +As we specialize the material of the Physical World and shape into a dense +body, and as we form the force-matter of the Desire World into a desire +body, so do we appropriate a certain amount of mindstuff from the Region +of concrete Thought; but we, as spirits, clothe ourselves in +spirit-substance from the Region of abstract Thought and thereby we become +individual, separate Egos. + +_The Region of Concrete Thought._ + +The Region of concrete Thought is neither shadowy nor illusory. It is the +acme of reality and this world which we mistakenly regard as the only +verity, is but an evanescent replica of that Region. + +A little reflection will show the reasonableness of this statement and +prove our contention that all we see here is really crystallized thought. +Our houses, our machinery, our chairs and tables, all that has been made +by the hand of man is the embodiment of a thought. As the juices in the +soft body of the snail gradually crystallize into the hard and flinty +shell which it carries upon its back and which hides it, so everything +used in our civilization is a concretion of invisible, intangible +mind-stuff. The thought of James Watt in time congealed into a steam +engine and revolutionized the world. Edison's thought was condensed into +an electric generator which has turned night to day, and had it not been +for the thought of Morse and Marconi, the telegraph would not have +annihilated distance as it does today. An earthquake may wreck a city and +demolish the lighting plant and telegraph station, but the thoughts of +Watt, Edison and Morse remain, and upon the basis of their indestructible +ideas new machinery may be constructed and operations resumed. Thus +thoughts are more permanent than things. + +The sensitive ear of the musician detects a certain musical note in every +city which is different from that of another city. He hears in each little +brook a new melody, and to him the sound of wind in the treetops of +different forests give a varying sound. In the Desire World we noted the +existence of forms similar to the shapes of things here, also that +seemingly _sound proceeds from form_, but in the Region of concrete +Thought it is different, for while each form occupies and obscures a +certain space here, form is nonexistent when viewed from the standpoint of +the Region of concrete Thought. Where the form was, a transparent, vacuous +space is observable. _From that empty void comes a sound_ which is the +"keynote" that _creates_ and maintains the _form_ whence it _appears_ to +come, as the almost invisible core of a gas-flame is the source of the +light we perceive. + +Sound from a vacuum cannot be heard in the Physical World, but the harmony +which proceeds from the vacuous cavity of a celestial _archetype_ is "the +voice of the silence," and it becomes audible when all earthly sounds have +ceased. Elijah heard it not while the storm was raging; nor was it in +evidence during the turbulence of the earthquake, nor in the crackling and +roaring fire, but when the destructive and inharmonious sounds of this +world had melted into silence, "the still small voice" issued its commands +to save Elijah's life. + +That "keynote" is a direct manifestation of the Higher Self which uses it +to impress and govern the Personality it has created. But alas, part of +its life has been infused into the material side of its being, which has +thus obtained a certain will of its own and only too often are the two +sides of our nature at war. + +At last there comes a time when the spirit is too weary to strive with the +recalcitrant flesh, when "the voice of the silence" ceases. + +The earthly nourishment we may seek to give, will not avail to sustain a +form when this harmonious sound, this "word from heaven" no longer +reverberates through the empty void of the celestial archetype, for "man +lives not by bread alone," but by the WORD, and the last sound-vibration +of the "keynote" is the death-knell of the physical body. + +In this world we are compelled to investigate and to study a thing before +we know about it, and although the facilities for gaining information are +in some respects much greater in the Desire World, a certain amount of +investigation is necessary nevertheless to acquire knowledge. In the World +of Thought, on the contrary, it is different. When we wish to know about +any certain thing there, and we turn our attention thereto, then that +thing speaks to us, as it were. The sound it emits at once gives us a most +luminous comprehension of every phase of its nature. We attain to a +realization of its past history; the whole story of its unfoldment is laid +bare and we seem to have lived through all of those experiences together +with the thing we are investigating. + +Were it not for one enormous difficulty, the story thus obtained would be +exceedingly valuable. But all this information, this life-picture, flows +in upon us with an enormous rapidity in a moment, in the twinkling of an +eye, so that it has neither beginning nor end, for, as said, in the World +of Thought, all is one great NOW, Time does not exist. + +Therefore, when we want to use the archetypal information in the Physical +World, we must disentangle and arrange it in chronological order with +beginning and ending before it becomes intelligible to beings living in a +realm where Time is a prime factor. That rearrangement is a most difficult +task as all words are coined with relation to the three dimensions of +space and the evanescent unit of time, the fleeting moment, hence much of +that information remains unavailable. + +Among the denizens of this Region of concrete Thought we may note +particularly two classes. One is called the powers of darkness by Paul and +the mystic investigator of the Western World knows them as Lords of Mind. +They were human at the time when the earth was in a condition of darkness +such as worlds in the making go through before they become luminous and +reach the firemist-stage. At that time we were in our mineral evolution. +That is to say: The Human Spirit which has now awakened was encrusted in +the ball of mindstuff, which was then the earth. At that time the present +Human Spirits were as much asleep as is the life which ensouls our +minerals of today, and as we are working with the mineral chemical +constituents of the earth, molding them into houses, railways, +steam-boats, chairs, etc, etc., so those beings, who are now Lords of +Mind, worked with us when we were mineral-like. They have since advanced +three steps, through stages similar to that of the Angels and Archangels, +before they attained their present position and became creative +intelligences. They are expert builders of mind stuff, as we are builders +of the present mineral substances and therefore they have given us +necessary help to acquire a mind which is the highest development of the +human being. + +According to the foregoing explanation it seems to be an anomaly when Paul +speaks of them as evil and exhorts us to withstand them. The difficulty +disappears, however, when we understand that good and evil are but +relative qualities. An illustration will make the point clear:--Let us +suppose that an expert organ builder has constructed a wonderful organ, a +masterpiece. Then he has followed his vocation in the proper manner, and +is therefore to be commended for the good which he has done. But if he is +not satisfied to leave well enough alone, if he refuses to give up his +product to the musician who understands how to play upon the instrument; +if he intrudes his presence into the concert hall, he is out of place and +to be censured as evil. Similarly the Lords of Mind did the greatest +possible service to humanity when they helped us to acquire our mind, but +many subtle thought influences come from them, and are to be resisted, as +Paul very properly emphasizes. + +The other class of beings which must be mentioned are called Archetypal +Forces by the Western School of occultism. They direct the energies of the +creative Archetypes native to this realm. They are a composite class of +beings of many different grades of intelligences, and there is one stage +in the cyclic journey of the Human Spirit when that also labors in, and is +part of, that great host of beings. For the Human Spirit is also destined +to become a great creative intelligence at some future time, and if there +were no school wherein it could gradually learn to create, it would not be +able to advance, for nothing in nature is done suddenly. An acorn planted +in the soil does not become a majestic oak over night, but many years of +slow, persistent growth are required before it attains to the stature of a +giant of the forest. A man does not become an Angel by the mere fact of +dying and entering a new world any more than an animal advances to be a +man by the same process. But in time all that lives, mounts the ladder of +Being from the clod to the God. There is no limitation possible to the +spirit, and so at various stages in its unfoldment the Human Spirit works +with the other nature forces, according to the stage of intelligence which +it has attained. It creates, changes and remodels the earth upon which it +is to live. Thus, under the great law of cause and effect, which we +observe in every realm of nature, it reaps upon earth what it has sown in +heaven, and vice versa. It grows slowly but persistently and advances +continually. + +_The Region of Abstract Thought._ + +Various religious systems have been given to humanity at different times, +each suited to meet the spiritual needs of the people among whom it was +promulgated, and, coming from the same divine source:--God, all religions +exhibit similar fundamentals or first principles. + +All systems teach that there was a time when _darkness_ reigned supreme. +Everything which we now perceive was then non-existent. Earth, sky and the +heavenly bodies were uncreate, so were the multitudinous forms which live +and move upon the various planets.--All, all, was yet in a fluidic +condition and the Universal Spirit brooded _quiescent_ in limitless Space +as the One Existence. + +The Greeks called that condition of homogeneity _Chaos_, and the state of +orderly segregation which we now see; the marching orbs which illumine the +vaulted canopy of heaven, the stately procession of planets around a +central light, the majestic sun; the unbroken sequence of the seasons and +the unvarying alternation of tidal ebb and flow;--all this aggregate of +systematic order, was called _Cosmos_, and was supposed to have proceeded +from Chaos. + +The Christian Mystic obtains a deeper comprehension when he opens his +Bible and ponders the first five verses of that brightest gem of all +spiritual lore: the Gospel of St. John. + +As he reverently opens his aspiring heart to acquire understanding of +those sublime mystical teachings he transcends the form-side of nature, +comprising various realms of which we have been speaking, and finds +himself "in the spirit," as did the prophets in olden times. He is then in +the Region of abstract Thought and sees the eternal verities which also +Paul beheld in this, the third, heaven. + +For those among us who are unable to obtain knowledge save by reasoning +upon the matter, however, it will be necessary to examine the fundamental +meaning of words used by St. John to clothe his wonderful teaching, which +was originally given in the Greek language, a much simpler matter than is +commonly supposed, for Greek words have been freely introduced into our +modern languages, particularly in scientific terms, and we shall show how +this ancient teaching is supported by the latest discoveries of modern +science. + +The opening verse of the gospel of St. John is as follows: "In the +_beginning_ was the _Word_, and the _Word_ was with _God_, and the _Word_ +was _God_." We will examine the words: "beginning," "Word" and "God." We +may also note that in the Greek version the concluding sentence reads: +"and God was the Word," a difference which makes a great distinction. + +It is an axiomatic truth that "out of nothing, nothing comes," and it has +often been asserted by scoffers that the Bible teaches generation "from +nothing." We readily agree that _translations_ into the modern languages +promulgate this erroneous doctrine, but we have shown in _The Rosicrucian +Cosmo Conception_ (chapter on "the Occult Analysis of Genesis"), that the +Hebrew text speaks of an _ever-existing essence_, as the basis whence all +forms, the earth and the heavenly lights included, were first created, and +John also gives the same teaching. + +The Greek word _arche_, in the opening sentence of the gospel of St. John +has been translated _the beginning_, and it may be said to have that +meaning, but it also has other valid interpretations, vastly more +significant of the idea John wished to convey. It means:--an elementary +condition,--a chief source,--a first principle,--primordial matter. + +There was a time when science insisted that the elements were immutable, +that is to say, that an atom of iron had been an atom of iron since the +earth was formed and would so remain to the end of time. The Alchemists +were sneered at as fanciful dreamers or madmen, but since Professor J. J. +Thomson's discovery of the electron, the atomic theory of matter, is no +longer tenable. The principle of radio-activity has later vindicated the +Alchemists. Science and the Bible agree in teaching, that all that is, has +been formed from one homogeneous substance. + +It is that basic principle which John called _arche_:--primordial +matter,--and the dictionary defines Archeology as: "the science of the +origin (_arche_) of things." Masons style God the "Grand Architect," for +the Greek word tektos means builder, and God is the Chief Builder +(_tektos_) of _arche_: the primordial virgin matter which is also the +chief source of all things. + +Thus we see that when the opening sentence of St. John's gospel is +properly translated, our Christian Religion teaches that once a virgin +substance enfolded the divine Thinker:--God. + +That is the identical condition which the earlier Greeks called Chaos. A +little thought will make it evident that we are not arbitrary in finding +fault with the translation of the gospel, for it is self-evident that a +word cannot be the beginning, a thought must precede the word, and a +thinker must originate thought before it can be expressed as a word. + +When properly translated the teaching of John fully embodies that idea, +for the Greek term _logos_ means both the reasonable thought,--(we also say +Logic),--and the word which expresses this (logical) thought. + + + 1) _In the primordial substance was thought, and the thought was + with God And God was the word_, + + 2) THAT, [The Word], _also was with God in the primal state_. + + +Later the divine WORD; the Creative Fiat, reverberates through space and +segregates the homogeneous virgin substance into separate forms. + + + 3) _Every thing has come into existence because of that prime + fact_, [The Word of God], _and no thing exists apart from that + fact._ + + 4) _In that was Life._ + + +In the alphabet we have a few elementary sounds from which words may be +constructed. They are basic elements of expression, as bricks, iron and +lumber are raw materials of architecture, or as a few notes are component +parts of music. + +But a heap of bricks, iron and lumber, is not a house, neither is a +jumbled mass of notes music, nor can we call a haphazard arrangement of +alphabetical sounds a word. + +These raw materials are prime necessities in construction of architecture, +music, literature or poetry, but the contour of the finished product and +the purpose it will serve depends upon the arrangement of the raw +materials, which is subject to the constructor's design. Building +materials may be formed to prison or palace; notes may be arranged as +fanfare or funeral dirge; words may be indited to inspire passion or +peace, all according to the will of the designer. So also the majestic +rhythm of the Word of God has wrought the primal substance: _arche_, into +the multitudinous forms which comprise the phenomenal world, according to +His will. + +Did the reader ever stop to consider the wonderful power of a human word. +Coming to us in the sweet accents of love, it may lure us from paths of +rectitude to shameful ignominy and wreck our life with sorrow and remorse, +or it may spur us on in noblest efforts to acquire glory and honor, here +or hereafter. According to the inflection of the voice a word may strike +terror into the bravest heart or lull a timid child to peaceful slumber. +The word of an agitator may rouse the passions of a mob and impel it to +awful bloodshed, as in the French Revolution, where dictatorial mandates +of mob-rule killed and exiled at pleasure, or, the strain of "Home, Sweet +Home" may cement the setting of a family-circle beyond possibility of +rupture. + +Right words are true and therefore free, they are never bound or fettered +by time or space, they go to the farthest corners of the earth, and when +the lips that spoke them first have long since mouldered in the grave, +other voices take up with unwearying enthusiasm their message of life and +love, as for instance the mystical "Come unto me" which has sounded from +unnumbered tongues and brought oceans of balm to troubled hearts. + +Words of Peace have been victorious, where war would have meant defeat, +and no talent is more to be desired than ability to always say the right +word at the auspicious time. + +Considering thus the immense power and potency of the human word, we may +perhaps dimly apprehend the potential magnitude of the Word of God, the +Creative Fiat, when as a mighty dynamic force it first reverberated +through space and commenced to form primordial matter into worlds, as +sound from a violin bow moulds sand into geometrical figures. Moreover, +_the Word of God still sounds_ to sustain the marching orbs and impel them +onwards in their circle paths, the Creative Word continues to produce +forms of gradually increasing efficiency, as media expressing life and +consciousness. The harmonious enunciation of consecutive syllables in the +Divine Creative Word mark successive stages in evolution of the world and +man. When the last syllable has been spoken and the complete word has +sounded, we shall have reached perfection as human beings. Then Time will +be at an end, and with the last vibration of the Word of God, the worlds +will be resolved into their original elements. Our life will then be "hid +with Christ in God," till the Cosmic Night:--Chaos,--is over, and we wake to +do "greater things" in a "new heaven and a new earth." + +According to the general idea Chaos and Cosmos are superlative antitheses +of each other. Chaos being regarded as a past condition of confusion and +disorder which has long since been entirely superseded by cosmic order +which now prevails. + +As a matter of fact, Chaos is the seed-ground of Cosmos, the basis of all +progress, for thence come all IDEAS which later materialize as Railways, +Steamboats, Telephones, etc. + +We speak of "thoughts as being conceived by the mind," but as both father +and mother are necessary in the generation of a child, so also there must +be both _idea_ and _mind_ before a _thought_ can be conceived. As semen +germinated in the positive male organ is projected into the negative +uterus at conception, so ideas are generated by a positive Human Ego in +the spirit-substance of the Region of abstract Thought. This idea is +projected upon the receptive mind, and a conception takes place. Then, as +the spermatozoic nucleus draws upon the maternal body for material to +shape a body appropriate to its individual expression, so does each idea +clothe itself in a peculiar form of mindstuff. It is then a thought, as +visible to the inner vision of composite man, as a child is to its parent. + +Thus we see that ideas are embryonic thoughts, nuclei of spirit-substance +from the Region of abstract Thought. Improperly conceived in a diseased +mind they become vagaries and delusions, but when gestated in a sound mind +and formed into rational thoughts they are the basis of all material, +moral and mental progress, and the closer our touch with Chaos, the better +will be our Cosmos, for in that realm of abstract realities truth is not +obscured by matter, it is self-evident. + +Pilate was asked "what is Truth," but no answer is recorded. We are +incapable of cognizing truth in the abstract while we live in the +phenomenal world, for the inherent nature of matter is illusion and +delusion, and we are constantly making allowances and corrections whether +we are conscious of the fact or not. The sunbeam which proceeds for 90 +millions of miles in a straight line, is refracted or bent as soon as it +strikes our dense atmosphere, and according to the angle of its +refraction, it _appears_ to have one color or another. The straightest +stick appears crooked when partly immersed in water, and the truths which +are so self-evident in the Higher worlds are likewise obscured, refracted +or twisted out of all semblance under the illusory conditions of this +material world. + +"The truth shall set you free," said Christ, and the more we turn our +aspirations from material acquisitiveness and seek to lay up treasure +above, the more we aim to rise, the oftener we "get in the spirit," the +more readily we "shall know truth" and reach liberation from the fetter of +flesh which binds us to a limited environment, and attain to a sphere of +greater usefulness. + +Study of philosophy and science has a tendency to further perception of +truth, and as science has progressed it has gradually receded from its +erstwhile crude materialism. The day is not far off when it will be more +reverently religious than the church itself. Mathematics is said to be +"dry," for it doesn't stir the emotions. When it is taught that "the sum +of the angles of a triangle is 180 degrees," the dictum is at once +accepted, because its truth is self-evident and no feeling is involved in +the matter. But when a doctrine such as the Immaculate Conception is +promulgated and our emotions are stirred, bloody war, or heated argument, +may result, and still leave the matter in doubt. Pythagoras demanded that +his pupils study mathematics, because he knew the elevating effect of +raising their minds above the sphere of feeling, where it is subject to +delusion, and elevating it towards the Region of abstract Thought which is +the prime reality. + +In this place we are dealing with worlds in particular, and will therefore +defer comment upon the remainder of the first 5 verses of St. John's +gospel: + + + "_And Life became Light in man,_ + 5) _and Light shines in Darkness._" + + +We have now seen that the earth is composed of three worlds which +interpenetrate one another so that it is perfectly true when Christ said +that "heaven is within you" or, the translation should rather have been +_among you_. We have also seen that of these three realms two are +subdivided. It has also been explained that each division serves a great +purpose in the unfoldment of various forms of life which dwell in each of +these worlds, and we may note in conclusion, that the lower regions of the +Desire World constitute what the Catholic religion calls _Purgatory_, a +place where the evil of a past life is transmuted to good, usable by the +spirit as conscience in later lives. The higher regions of the Desire +World are the _first Heaven_ where all the good a man has done is +assimilated by the spirit as _soul_ power. The Region of concrete Thought +is the _second Heaven_, where, as already said, the spirit prepares its +future environment on earth, and the Region of abstract Thought is the +_third Heaven_, but as Paul said, it is scarcely lawful to speak about +that. + +Some will ask: is there then no hell?--No! _The mercy of God_ tends as +greatly towards the principle of GOOD as "_the inhumanity of man_" towards +cruelty, so that he would consign his brother men to flames of hell during +eternity for the puerile mistakes committed during a few years, or perhaps +for a slight difference in belief. The writer has heard of a minister who +wished to impress his "flock" with the reality of an eternity of hell +flames, and to demonstrate the fallacy of a heretical notion entertained +by some of his parishioners that when sinners come to hell they burn to +ashes and that is the end. + +He took with him an alcohol lamp and some asbestos into the pulpit and +told his audience that God would turn their souls into a substance +resembling asbestos. He showed them that though the asbestos were heated +red hot it did not decompose into ashes. Fortunately the day of the hell +preacher has gone by, and if we believe the Bible which says that "in God +we live and move and have our being," we can readily understand that _a +lost soul would be an impossibility_, for were one single soul lost, then +logically a part of God Himself would be lost. No matter what our color, +our race or our creed, we are all equally the children of God and in our +various ways we shall obtain satisfaction. Let us therefore rather look to +Christ and forget Creed. + + + _Creed or Christ?_ + + No man loves God who hates his kind, + Who tramples on his Brother's heart and soul. + Who seeks to shackle, cloud or fog the mind + By fears of Hell has not perceived our goal. + + God-sent are all religions blest; + And Christ, the Way, the Truth and Life, + To give the heavy-laden rest, + And peace from Sorrow, Sin and Strife. + + At his request the Universal Spirit came + _To all the churches_, not to one alone. + On Pentecostal morn a tongue of flame + Round _each_ apostle as a halo shone. + + Since then, as vultures ravenous with greed, + We oft have battled for an empty name, + And sought by Dogma, Edict, Creed, + To send each other to the flame. + + Is Christ then divided? Was Cephas or Paul + Nailed to the deathly tree? + If not--then why these divisions at all? + Christ's love doth embrace you and me. + + His pure sweet love is not confined + By creeds which segregate and raise a wall; + His love enfolds, embraces _Humankind_ + No matter what ourselves or Him we call. + + Then why not take Him at His word? + Why hold to creeds which tear apart? + But one thing matters, be it heard, + That brother-love fill every heart. + + There is but one thing that the world has need to know; + There is but one balm for all our human woe + There is but one way that leads to heaven above; + That way is human sympathy and love. + + + + + +CHAPTER IV. THE CONSTITUTION OF MAN + + +Our chapter head, "the constitution of man," may surprise a reader who has +not previously studied the Mystery teachings, or he may imagine that we +intend to give an anatomical dissertation, but such is not our intention. +We have spoken of the earth upon which we live as being composed of +several invisible realms in addition to the world we perceive by means of +our senses. We have also spoken of man as being correlated to these +various divisions in nature, and a little thought upon the subject will +quickly convince us that in order to function upon the various planes of +existence described, it is necessary that a man should have a body +composed of their substance, or at least have specialized for his own use, +some of the material of each of these worlds. + +We have said that finer matter, called desire stuff and mind stuff, +permeates our atmosphere and the solid earth, even as blood percolates +through all parts of our flesh. But that is not a sufficient explanation +to account for all facts of life. If that were all, then minerals, which +are interpenetrated by the world of thought and the world of desire, would +have thoughts and desires as well as man. This is not the case, so +something more than mere interpenetration must be requisite to acquire the +faculties of thought and feeling. + +We know that in order to function in this world, to live as a physical +being among other like beings, we must have a physical body all our own, +built of the chemical constituents of this visible world. When we lose it +at death, it profits us nothing that the world is full of just the very +chemicals needed to build such a body. We cannot then specialize them, and +therefore we are invisible to all others. Similarly, if we did not possess +a special body made of ether, we should be unable to grow and to +propagate. That is the case with the mineral. Had we no separate +individual desire body, we should be unable to feel desires and emotions, +there would be no incentive to move from one place to another. We should +then be stationary as plants, and did we not possess a mind, we should be +incapable of thought, and act upon impulse and instinct as animals. + +Some one may of course object to this last statement, and contend that +animals do think. So far as our domesticated animals are concerned that is +partially true, but it is not quite in the same way that we think and +reason. The difference may perhaps best be understood if we take an +illustration from the electrical field. When an electric current _of high +voltage_ is passed through a coiled copper wire, and another wire is +placed in the center of the coils, that wire will become charged with +electricity _of a lower voltage_. So also the animal, when brought within +the sphere of human thoughts, evolves a mental activity of a lower order. + +Paul, in his writings, also mentions _the natural body_ and the _spiritual +body_ while the man himself is a spirit inhabiting those vehicles. We will +briefly note the constitution of the various bodies of man invisible to +the physical sight but as objective to spiritual sight as the dense body +to ordinary vision. + +_The Vital Body._ + +That body of ours which is composed of ether is called the "_vital body_" +in Western Mystery Schools, for, as we have already seen, ether is the +avenue of ingress for vital force from the sun and the field of agencies +in nature which promote such vital activities as assimilation, growth and +propagation. + +This vehicle is an exact counterpart of our visible body, molecule for +molecule, and organ for organ, with one exception, which we shall note +later. But it is slightly larger, extending about one and one-half inches +beyond the periphery of our dense vehicle. + +The spleen is the entrance gate of forces which vitalize the body. In the +etheric counterpart of that organ solar energy is transmuted to vital +fluid of a pale rose color. From thence it spreads all over the nervous +system, and after having been used in the body it radiates in streams, +much as bristles protrude from a porcupine. + +The rays of the sun are transmitted either directly, or reflected by way +of the planets and the moon. The rays directly from the sun give spiritual +illumination, the rays received by way of the planets produce +intelligence, morality, and soul growth, but the rays reflected by way of +the moon make for physical growth, as seen in the case of plants which +grow differently when planted in the light of the moon from what is the +case when they are planted when the moon is dark. There is also a +difference in plants sown when the moon is in barren and fruitful signs of +the Zodiac. + +The solar ray is absorbed by the human spirit which has its seat in the +center of the forehead, the stellar ray is absorbed by the brain and +spinal cord, and the lunar ray enters our system through the spleen. + +The solar, stellar and lunar rays are three-colored, and in the lunar ray +which supplies our vital force, the blue beam is the life of The Father, +which causes germination, the yellow beam is the life of The Son, which is +the active principle in nutrition and growth, and the red beam is the life +of the Holy Spirit, which stimulates to action, dissipating the energy +stored by the yellow force. This principle is particularly active in +generation. + +The various kingdoms absorb this life-force differently, according to +their constitution. Animals have only 28 pairs of spinal nerves. They are +keyed to the lunar month of 28 days and therefore dependent upon a +Groupspirit for an infusion of stellar rays necessary to produce +consciousness. They are altogether incapable of absorbing the direct ray +of the sun. + +Man is in a transition stage, he has 31 pairs of spinal nerves which keys +him to the solar month, but the nerves in the so-called +cauda-equina--literally horse-tail--, at the end of our spinal cord, are +still too undeveloped to act as avenues for the spiritual ray of the sun. +In proportion as we draw our creative force upward by spiritual thought we +develop these nerves and awaken dormant faculties of the spirit. But it is +dangerous to attempt that development except under guidance of a qualified +teacher, and the reader is earnestly warned not to use any method +published in books, or sold, for their practice usually leads to dementia. +The safe method is never sold for money or any earthly consideration +however large or small; it is always freely given as a reward of merit. +"Ask and ye shall receive, seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be +opened", said the Christ. If our life is a prayer for illumination, the +search will not be uncertain, nor the knock without response. + +When solar energy has been transmuted in the spleen it traverses the whole +nervous system of the body glowing with a most beautiful color of a +delicate rosy hue. It answers the same purpose as electricity in a +telegraph system. We may string wires between cities, erect telegraph +stations, install receivers and transmitters. We may even have operators +ready at the keys, but until electric fluid is turned into our wires, the +telegraph keys will refuse to click. So also in the body, the human spirit +is operator, and from the central station of the brain, nerves ramify, go +through the whole body to all the different muscles. When this vitalizing +fluid of which we are speaking traverses the nervous system, the Ego may +send his commands to the muscles and cause them to move but if the vital +fluid for any reason does not flow into a certain part of the body such as +an arm or a limb, then the spirit is powerless to move that part of the +body and we say that it is paralyzed. + +When we are in health, we specialize solar energy in such great quantities +that we cannot use it all in the body and therefore it radiates through +the pores of our skin in straight streams and serves a similar purpose as +an exhaust fan. That machine drives the foul air out of a room or building +and keeps the atmosphere within pure and sweet. The excessive vital force +which radiates from the body drives out poisonous gases, deleterious +microbes and effete matter thus tending to preserve a healthy condition. +It also prevents armies of disease germs, which swarm about in the +atmosphere, from entering; upon the same principle that a fly cannot wing +its way into a building through the exhaust fan. Thus it serves a most +beneficent purpose even after it has been utilized in our body and is +returning to the free state. + +It is a curious and most astounding sight when one first observes how, +from exposed parts of the body such as hands and face, there suddenly +commences to flow a stream of stars, cubes, pyramids and a variety of +other geometrical forms. The writer has more than once rubbed his eyes +when he first perceived the phenomenon, for it seemed that he must be +suffering from hallucinations. The forms observed are chemical atoms +however, which have served their purpose in the body and are expelled +through the pores. + +When one has eaten a meal, vital fluid is consumed by the body in great +quantities, for it is the cement whereby nature's forces build our food +into the body. Therefore the radiations are weakest during the period of +digestion. If the meal has been heavy, the outflow is very perceptibly +diminished, and does not then cleanse our body as thoroughly as when the +food has been digested, nor is it as potent in keeping out inimical germs. +Therefore one is most liable to catch cold or other disease by overeating, +a fault which should be avoided by all who wish to keep in good health. + +During ill health the vital body specializes but little solar energy. +Then, for a time, the visible body seems to feed upon the vital body as it +were, so that the vehicle becomes more transparent and attenuated at the +same rate as the visible body exhibits a state of emaciation. The +cleansing odic radiations are almost entirely absent during sickness, +therefore complications set in so easily. + +Though science has not directly observed this vital body of man, it has +upon several occasions postulated the existence of such a vehicle as +necessary to account for facts in life and the radiations have been +observed by a number of scientists at different times and under varying +conditions. Blondlot and Charpentier have called them N-rays after the +city of Nantes where the radiations were observed by these scientists, +others have named them "The Odic fluid". Scientific investigators who have +conducted researches into psychic phenomena have even photographed it when +it has been extracted through the spleen by materializing spirits. Dr. +Hotz for instance obtained two photographs of a materialization through +the German medium, Minna-Demmler. On one a cloud of ether is seen oozing +out through the left side of the medium, shapeless and without form. The +second picture, taken a few moments later, shows the materialized spirit +standing at the medium's side. Other photographs obtained by scientists +from the Italian medium Eusapio Palladino show a luminous cloud +over-hanging her left side. + +We said in the beginning of this description that the vital body is an +exact counterpart of the dense body with one exception: it is of the +opposite sex or perhaps we should rather say polarity. As the vital body +nourishes the dense vehicle, we may readily understand that blood is its +highest visible expression, and also that a positively polarized vital +body would generate more blood than a negative one. Woman who is +physically negative has a positive vital body, hence she generates a +surplus of blood which is relieved by the periodical flow. She is also +more prone to tears, which are white bleeding, than man, whose negative +vital body does not generate more blood than he can comfortably take care +of. Therefore it is not necessary for him to have the outlets which +relieve excess of blood in woman. + +_The Desire Body._ + +In addition to the visible body and the vital body we also have a body +made of desire stuff from which we form our feelings and emotions. This +vehicle also impels us to seek sense gratification. But while the two +instruments of which we have already spoken, are well organized, the +desire body appears to spiritual sight as an ovoid cloud extending from +sixteen to twenty inches beyond the physical body. It is above the head +and below the feet so that our dense body sits in the center of this +egg-shaped cloud as the yolk is in the center of an egg. + +The reason for the rudimentary state of this vehicle is, that it has been +added to the human constitution more recently than the bodies previously +mentioned. Evolution of form may be likened to the manner in which the +juices in the snail first condense into flesh and later become a hard +shell. When our present visible body first germinated in the spirit, it +was a thought-form, but gradually it has become denser and more concrete +until it is now a chemical crystallization. The vital body was next +emanated by the spirit as a thought-form and is in the third stage of +concretion which is etheric. The desire body is a still later acquisition. +That also was a thought form at its inception, but has now condensed to +desire stuff, and the mind, which we have only recently received, is still +but a mere cloudy thought form. + +Arms and limbs, ears and eyes are not necessary to use the desire body, +for it can glide through space more swiftly than wind without such means +of locomotion as we require in this visible world. + +When viewed by spiritual sight, it appears that there are in this desire +body a number of whirling vortices. We have already explained that it is a +characteristic of desire stuff to be in constant motion, and from the main +vortex in the region of the liver there is a constant outwelling flow +which radiates towards the periphery of this egg-shaped body and returns +to the center through a number of other vortices. The desire body exhibits +all the colors and shades which we know and a vast number of others which +are indescribable in earthly language. Those colors vary in every person +according to his characteristics and temperament and they also vary from +moment to moment as passing moods, fancies or emotions are experienced by +him. There is however in each one a certain basic color dependent upon the +ruling star at the moment of his birth. The man in whose horoscope Mars is +peculiarly strong usually has a crimson tint in his aura, where Jupiter is +the strongest planet the prevailing tint seems to be a bluish tone, and so +on with the other planets. + +There was a time in the earth's past history when incrustation was not yet +complete, and human beings of that time lived upon islands here and there, +amid boiling seas. They had not yet evolved eyes or ears, but a little +organ: the pineal gland, which anatomists have called _the third eye_, +protruded through the back of the head and was a _localised organ of +feeling_, which warned the man when he came too near a volcanic crater and +thus enabled him to escape destruction. Since then the cerebral +hemispheres have covered the pineal gland, and instead of a single organ +of feeling, the whole body inside and out is sensitive to impacts, which +of course is a much higher state of development. + +In the desire body every particle is sensitive to vibrations similar to +those which we call sight, sounds and feelings and every particle is in +incessant motion rapidly swirling about so that in the same instant it may +be at the top and bottom of the desire body and impart at all points to +all the other particles a sensation of that which it has experienced thus +every particle of desire stuff in this vehicle of ours will instantly feel +any sensation experienced by any single particle. Therefore the desire +body is of an exceedingly sensitive nature, capable of most intense +feelings and emotions. + +_The Mind._ + +This is the latest acquisition of the human spirit, and in most people who +have not yet accustomed themselves to orderly, consecutive thought, it is +a mere inchoate cloud disposed particularly in the region of the head. +When looking at a person clairvoyantly there appears to be an empty space +in the center of the forehead just above and between the eyebrows. It +looks like the blue part of a gas flame. That is mind stuff which veils +the human spirit, or Ego, and the writer has been told that not even the +most gifted seer can penetrate that veil which is said to have been spoken +of in ancient Egypt as "_the veil of Isis_" which none may lift and live, +for behind that veil is the Holy of Holies, the temple of our body, where +the spirit is to be left secure from all intrusion. + +To those who have not previously studied the deeper philosophies the +question may occur: But why all these divisions; even the Bible speaks +only of soul and body, for most people believe soul and spirit to be +synonymous terms. We can only answer that this division is not arbitrary +but necessary, and founded upon facts in nature. Neither is it correct to +regard the soul and the spirit as synonymous. Paul himself speaks of _the +natural body_ which is composed of physical substances: solids, liquids, +gases and ethers; he mentions _a spiritual body_, which is the vehicle of +the spirit composed of the mind and desire body, and _the spirit itself_, +which is called Ego in Latin or "I" in English. + +That term "I" is an appelation which can only be made by the human spirit +of itself. We may all call a dog, dog; or we may call a table, table, and +any one else may apply the same name to the dog and to the table, but only +a human being can be called "I" and only he himself can apply that most +exclusive of all words, I, for this is the badge of self-consciousness, +the recognition by the human spirit of _itself_ as an entity, separate and +apart from all others. + +Thus we see that the constitution of man is more complex than appears upon +the surface, and we will now proceed to note the effect upon this +multiplex being of various conditions of life. + + + + + +CHAPTER V. LIFE AND DEATH + + +_Invisible Helpers and Mediums._ + +There are two classes of people in the world. In one class the vital and +dense bodies are so firmly cemented that the ethers cannot be extracted +under any circumstances but remain with the dense body at all times and +under all conditions from birth to death. Those people are insensible to +any supersensuous sights or sounds. They are therefore usually exceedingly +sceptic, and believe nothing exists but what _they_ can see. + +There is another class of people in whom the connection between the dense +and the vital bodies is more or less loose, so that the ether of their +vital bodies vibrates at a higher rate than in the first class mentioned. +These people are therefore more or less sensitive to the spiritual world. + +This class of sensitives may again be divided. Some are weak characters, +dominated by the will of others in a _negative_ manner, as mediums, who +are the prey of disembodied spirits desirous of obtaining a physical body +when they have lost their own by death. + +The other class of sensitives are strong _positive_ characters, who act +only from within, according to their own will. They may develop into +trained clairvoyants, and be their own masters instead of slaves of a +disembodied spirit. In some sensitives of both classes it is possible to +extract part of the ether which forms the vital body. When a disembodied +spirit obtains a subject of that nature, it develops the sensitive as _a +materializing medium_. The man who is capable of extracting his own vital +body by an act of will, becomes a citizen of two worlds, independent and +free. Such are usually known as _Invisible Helpers_. There are certain +other abnormal conditions where the vital body and the dense body are +separated totally or in part, for instance if we place our limb in an +uncomfortable position so that circulation of the blood ceases. Then we +may see the etheric limb hanging down below the visible limb as a +stocking. When we restore circulation and the etheric limb seeks to enter +into place, an intense prickly sensation is felt, due to the fact that the +little streams of force, which radiate all through the ether, seek to +permeate the molecules of the limb and stir them into renewed vibration. +When a person is drowning, the vital body also separates from the dense +vehicle and the intense prickly pain incident to resuscitation is also due +to the cause mentioned. + +While we are awake and going about our work in the Physical World, the +desire body and mind both permeate the dense and the vital bodies, and +there is a constant war between the desire nature and the vital body. The +vital body is continually engaged in building up the human organism, while +the impulses of the desire body tend to tire and to break down tissue. +Gradually, in the course of the day, the vital body loses ground before +the onslaughts of the desire body, poisons of decay slowly accumulate and +the flow of vital fluid becomes more and more sluggish, until at length it +is incapable of moving the muscles. The body then feels heavy and drowsy. +At last the vital body collapses, as it were, the little streams of force +which permeate each atom seem to shrivel up, and the Ego is forced to +abandon its body to the restorative powers of sleep. + +When a building has become dilapidated and is to be _restored_ and put in +thorough repair, the tenants must move out to let the workmen have a free +field. So also when the building of a spirit has become unfit for further +use, it must withdraw therefrom. As the desire body caused the damage, it +is a logical conclusion that that also must be removed. Every night when +our body has become tired, the higher vehicles are withdrawn, only the +dense and vital bodies are left upon the bed. + +Then the process of restoration commences and lasts for a longer or a +shorter time according to circumstances. + +At times however, the grip of the desire body upon our denser vehicles is +so strong that it refuses to let go. When it has become so interested in +the proceedings of the day, it continues to ruminate over them after the +collapse of the physical body, and is perhaps only half extracted from +that vehicle. Then it may transmit sights and sounds of the desire world +to the brain. But as the connections are necessarily askew under such +conditions, the most confused dreams result. Furthermore, as the desire +body compels motion, the body is very apt to toss about when the desire +body is not fully extracted, hence the restless sleep which usually +accompanies dreams of a confused nature. + +There are times of course when dreams are prophetic and come true, but +such dreams result only _after_ complete extraction of the desire body, +under circumstances where the spirit has seen some danger perhaps, which +may befall, and then impresses the fact upon the brain _at the moment of +awakening_. + +It also happens that the spirit goes upon a soul flight and omits to +perform its part of the work of restoration, then the body will not be fit +to re-enter in the morning, so it sleeps on. The spirit may thus roam +afield for a number of days, or even weeks, before it again enters its +physical body and assumes the normal routine of alternating waking and +sleep. This condition is called _trance_, and the spirit may remember upon +its return what it has seen and heard in the super-physical realm, or it +may have forgotten, according to the stage of its development and the +depth of the trance condition. When the trance is very light, the spirit +is usually present in the room where its body lies all the time, and upon +its return to the body it will be able to recount to relatives all they +said and did while its body lay unconscious. Where the trance is deeper, +the returning spirit will usually be unconscious of what happened around +its body, but may recount experiences from the invisible world. + +A few years ago a little girl by the name of Florence Bennett in Kankakee, +Illinois, fell into such a trance. She returned to the body every few +days, but stayed within only a few hours each time, and the whole trance +lasted three weeks, more or less. During the returns to her body she told +relatives that in her absence she seemed to be in a place inhabited by all +the people who died. But she stated that none of them spoke about dying +and no one among them seemed to realize that they were dead. Among those +she had seen was a locomotive engineer who had been accidentally killed. +His body was mangled in the accident which caused death. The little girl +perceived him there walking about minus arms, and with lesions upon his +head, all of which is in line with facts usually seen by mystic +investigators. Persons who have been hurt in accidents go about thus, +until they learn that a mere wish to have their body made whole will +supply a new arm or limb, for desire stuff is most quickly and readily +molded by thought. + +_Death._ + +After a longer or shorter time there comes in each life a point where the +experiences which a spirit can gain from its present environment have been +exhausted, and life terminates in death. + +Death may be sudden and seemingly unexpected, as for instance by +earthquake, upon the battle-field, or by accident, as we call it, but in +reality, death is never accidental or unforeseen by Higher Powers. Not a +sparrow falls to the ground without divine Will. There are along life's +path partings of the way, as it were; on one side the main line of life +continues onward, the other path leads into what we might call a blind +alley. If the man takes that path, it soon ends in death. We are here in +life for the sake of gaining experience and each life has a certain +harvest to reap. If we order our life in such a manner that we gain the +knowledge it is intended we should acquire, we continue in life, and +opportunities of different kinds constantly come our way. But if we +neglect them, and the life goes into paths which are not congruous to our +individual development it would be a waste of time to let us stay in such +environment. Therefore the Great and Wise Beings, Who are behind the scene +of evolution, terminate our life, that we may have a fresh start in a +different sphere of influence. The law of conservation of energy is not +confined to the Physical World, but operates in the spiritual realms also. +There is nothing in life that has not its purpose. We do wrong to rail +against circumstances, no matter how disagreeable, we should rather +endeavor to learn the lessons which are contained therein, that we may +live a long and useful life. Some one may object, and say: You are +inconsistent in your teachings. You say there is really no death, that we +go into a brighter existence, and that we have to learn other lessons +there in a different sphere of usefulness! Why then aim to live a long +life here? + +It is very true that we make these claims, and they are perfectly +consistent with the other assertions just mentioned, but there are lessons +to be learned _here_ which cannot be learned in the other worlds, and we +have to bring up this physical body through the useless years of +childhood, through hot and impulsive youth, to the ripeness of manhood or +womanhood, before it becomes of true spiritual use. The longer we live +after maturity has been attained, when we have commenced to look upon the +serious side of life and started to truly learn lessons which make for +soulgrowth, the more experience we shall gather and the richer our harvest +will be. Then, in a later existence, we shall be so much more advanced, +and capable of taking up tasks that would be impossible with less length +of life and breadth of activity. Besides, it is hard to die for the man in +the prime of life with a wife and growing family whom he loves; with +ambitions of greatness unfulfilled; with hosts of friends about him, and +with interests all centered upon the material plane of existence. It is +sad for the woman whose heart is bound up in home and the little ones she +has reared, to leave them, perhaps without anyone to care for them; to +know that they have to fight their way alone through the early years when +her tender care is needed, and perhaps to see those little ones abused, +and she unable to lift a hand, though her heart may bleed as freely as it +would in earth life. All these things are sad, and _they bind the spirit +to earth_ for a much longer time than ordinarily, they hinder it from +reaping the experiences it should reap upon the other side of death, and +they make it desirable along with other reasons already mentioned to live +a long life before passing onwards. + +The difference between those who pass out at a ripe old age, and one who +leaves this earth in the prime of life, may be illustrated by the manner +in which the seed clings to a fruit in an unripe state. A great deal of +force is necessary to tear the stone from a green peach; it has such a +tenacious hold upon the fruit that shreds of pulp adhere to it when +forcibly removed, so also the spirit clings to the flesh in middle life +and a certain part of its material interest remain and bind it to earth +after death. On the other hand, when a life has been lived to the full, +when the spirit has had time to realize its ambitions or to find out their +futility, when the duties of life have been performed and satisfaction +rests upon the brow of an aged man or woman; or when the life has been +misspent and the pangs of conscience have worked upon the man and shown +him his mistakes; when, in fact, the spirit has learned the lessons of +life, as it must have to come to old age; then it may be likened to the +seed of the ripe fruit which falls out clean, without a vestige of flesh +clinging thereto, at the moment the encasing pulp is opened. Therefore we +say, as before, that though there is a brighter existence in store for +those who have lived well, it is nevertheless best to live a long life and +to live it to the fullest extent possible. + +We also maintain, that no matter what may be the circumstances of a man's +death, it is not accidental; it has either been brought about by his own +neglect to embrace opportunities of growth, or else life has been lived to +the ultimate possible. There is one exception to that rule, and that is +due to man's exercise of his divine prerogative of interference. If we +lived according to schedule, if we all assimilated the experiences +designed for our growth by the Creative Powers, we should live to the +ultimate length, but _we ourselves_ usually shorten our lives by not +taking advantage of opportunities, and it also happens that _other men_ +may shorten our lives and cut them off as suddenly as the so-called +accident whereby the divine rulers terminate our life here. In other +words, murder, or fatal accidents brought about _by human __ +carelessness_, are in reality the only termination to life not planned by +invisible leaders of humanity. No one is ever compelled to do murder or +other evil, or there could not come to them a just retribution for their +acts. The Christ said that evil must come but _woe unto him by whom it +cometh_, and to harmonize that with the law of divine justice: "as a man +soweth, so shall he also reap," _there must at least be absolute free will +in respect to evil acts_. + +There are also cases where a person lives such a full and good life of +such vast benefit to humanity and to himself, that his days are lengthened +beyond the ultimate, as they are shortened by neglect, but such cases are +of course too few to allow of their being dwelt upon at length. + +Where death is not sudden as in the case of accidents, but occurs at home +after an illness, quietly and peacefully, dying persons usually experience +a falling upon them as of a pall of great darkness shortly before +termination of life. Many pass out from the body under that condition, and +do not see the light again until they have entered the super-physical +realms. There are many other cases however, where the darkness lifts +before the final release from the body. Then the dying person views both +worlds at once, and is cognizant of the presence of both dead and living +friends. Under such circumstances it very often happens that a mother sees +some of her children who have gone before, and she will exclaim joyously: +Oh, there is Johnny standing at the foot of my bed; my but hasn't he +grown! The living relatives may feel shocked and uneasy, thinking the +mother suffering from hallucinations, while in reality she is more +clear-sighted than they; she perceives those who have passed beyond the +veil who have come to greet and help her to make herself at home in the +new world she is entering. + +Each human being is an individual, separate and apart from all others, and +as experiences in the life of each differ from those of all others in the +interval from the cradle to the grave, so we may also reasonably infer +that the experiences of each spirit vary from those of every other spirit +when it passes through the gates of birth and death. We print what +purports to be a _spirit message_ communicated by the late Professor James +of Harvard at the Boston spirit temple, and in which he describes +sensations which he felt when passing through the gate of death. We do not +vouch for its authenticity as we have not investigated the matter +personally. + +Professor James had promised to communicate after death with his friends +in this life, and the whole world of psychic research was and still is on +watch for a word from him. Several mediums have claimed that Professor +James has communicated through them, but the most remarkable are those +given through the Boston spirit temple as follows: + + + "And this is death, only to fall asleep, only to awaken in the + morning and to know that all is well. I am not dead, only arisen. + + ------------------------------------- + + "I only know that I experienced a great shock through my entire + system, as if some mighty bond had been rent asunder. For a moment + I was dazed and lost consciousness. When I awakened I found myself + standing beside the old body which had served me faithfully and + well. To say that I was surprised would only inadequately express + the sensation that thrilled my very being, and I realized that + some wonderful change had taken place. Suddenly I became conscious + that my body was surrounded by many of my friends, and an + uncontrollable desire took possession of me to speak and touch + them that they might know that I still lived. Drawing a little + nearer to that which was so like and yet unlike myself, I + stretched forth my hand and touched them, but they heeded me not." + + ------------------------------------- + + "Then it was that the full significance of the great change that + had taken place flashed upon my newly awakened senses; then it was + that I realized that an impenetrable barrier separated me from my + loved ones on earth, and that this great change which had taken + place was indeed death. A sense of weariness and longing for rest + took possession of me. I seemed to be transported through space, + and I lost consciousness, to awaken in a land so different and yet + so similar to the one which I had lately left. It was not possible + for me to describe my sensations when I again regained + consciousness and realized that, though dead, I was still alive. + + "When I first became conscious of my new environment I was resting + in a beautiful grove, and was realizing as never before what it + was to be at peace with myself and all the world." + + ------------------------------------- + + "I know that only with the greatest difficulty shall I be enabled + to express to you my sensations when I fully realized that I had + awakened to a new life. All was still, no sound broke the silence. + Darkness had surrounded me. In fact, I seemed to be enveloped in a + heavy mist, beyond which my gaze could not penetrate. Soon in the + distance I discerned a faint glimmer of light, which slowly + approached me, and then, to my wonder and joy, I beheld the face + of her who had been my guiding star in the early days of my earth + life." + + +One of the saddest sights witnessed by the seer at a death-bed is the +tortures to which we often subject our dying friends on account of +ignorance of how to care for them in that condition. We have a science of +birth; obstetricians who have been trained for years in their profession +and have developed a wonderful skill, assist the little stranger into this +world. We have also trained nurses attendant upon mother and child, the +ingenuity of brilliant minds is focused upon the problem of how to make +maternity easier, neither pains nor money are spared in these beneficent +efforts for one whom we have never seen, but when the friend of a +lifetime, the man who has served his kind well and nobly in profession, +state, or church, is to leave the scene of his labors for a new field of +activity, when the woman--who has labored to no less good purpose in +bringing up a family to take its part in the world's work--has to leave +that home and family, when one whom we have loved all our lives is about +to bid us the final farewell, we stand by utterly at a loss how to help; +perhaps we even do the very things most detrimental to the comfort and +welfare of the departing one. + +Probably there is no form of torture more commonly inflicted upon the +dying than that which is caused by administering stimulants. Such potions +have the effect of drawing a departing spirit into its body with the force +of a catapult, to remain and to suffer for sometime longer. Investigators +of conditions beyond have heard many complaints of such treatment. When it +is seen that death must inevitably ensue, let not selfish desire to keep a +departing spirit a little longer prompt us to inflict such tortures upon +it. The death chamber should be a place of the utmost quiet, a place of +peace and of prayer, for at that time, and _for three and one-half days +after the last breath_, the spirit is passing through a Gethsemane and +needs all the assistance that can be given. The value of the life that has +just been passed depends greatly upon conditions which then prevail about +the body; yes even the conditions of its future life are influenced by our +attitude during that time, so that if ever we were our brother's keeper in +life, we are a thousand times more so at death. + +Post-mortem examinations, embalming and cremation during the period +mentioned, not only disturb the passing spirit mentally, but are +productive of a certain amount of pain, for there is still a slight +connection with the discarded vehicle. If sanitary laws require us to +prevent decomposition while thus keeping the body for cremation, it may be +packed in ice till the three and one-half days have passed. After that +time the spirit will not suffer, no matter what happens to the body. + +_The Panorama of a Past Life._ + +No matter how long we may keep the spirit from passing out however, at +last there will come a time when no stimulant can hold it and the last +breath is drawn. Then the silver cord, of which the Bible speaks, and +which holds the higher and the lower vehicles together, snaps in the heart +and causes that organ to stop. That rupture releases the vital body, and +that with the desire body and mind float above the visible body for from +one to three and one-half days while the spirit is engaged in reviewing +the past life, an exceedingly important part of its post-mortem +experience. Upon that review depends its whole existence from death to a +new birth. + +The question may arise in the student's mind: How can we review our past +life from the cradle to the grave when we do not even remember what we did +a month ago, and to form a proper basis for our future life, this record +ought to be very accurate, but even the best memory is faulty? When we +understand the difference between the conscious and sub-conscious memory +and the manner in which the latter operates, the difficulty vanishes. This +difference and the manner in which the sub-conscious memory keeps an +accurate record of our life experiences may be best understood by an +illustration, as follows: When we go into a field and view the surrounding +landscape, vibrations in the ether carry to us a picture of everything +within the range of our vision. It is as sad as it is true however, that +"we have eyes and see not," as the Savior said. These vibrations impinge +upon the retina of our eyes, even to the very smallest details, but they +usually do not penetrate to our consciousness, and therefore are not +remembered. Even the most powerful impressions fade in course of time so +that we cannot call them back at will when they are stored in our +conscious memory. + +When a photographer goes afield _with his camera_ the results which he +obtains are different. The ether vibrations emanating from all things upon +which his camera is focused, transmit to the sensitive plate an impression +of the landscape true to the minutest detail, and, mark this well, this +true and accurate picture is in no wise dependent upon whether the +photographer is observant or not. It will remain upon the plate and may be +reproduced under proper conditions. Such is the subconscious memory, and +it is generated automatically by each of us during every moment of time, +independently of our volition, in the following manner. + +From the first breath which we draw after birth to our last dying gasp, we +inspire air which is charged with pictures of our surroundings, and the +same ether which carries that picture to the retina of our eye, is inhaled +into our lungs where it enters the blood. Thus it reaches the heart in due +time. In the left ventricle of that organ, near the apex, there is one +little atom which is particularly sensitized, and which remains in the +body all through life. It differs in this respect from all other atoms +which come and go, for it is the particular property of God, and of a +certain spirit. This atom may be called the book of the Recording Angel, +for as the blood passes through the heart, cycle after cycle, the pictures +of our good and evil acts are inscribed thereon to the minutest detail. +This record may be called the sub-conscious memory. It forms the basis of +our future life when reproduced as a panorama just subsequent to death. By +removal of the seed atom--which corresponds to the sensitized plate in a +camera,--the reflecting ether of the vital body serves as a focus, and as +the life unrolls slowly backwards from death to birth the pictures thereof +are etched into the desire body which will be our vehicle during our +sojourn in purgatory and the first heaven where evil is eradicated and +good assimilated, so that in a future life the former may serve as +_conscience_ to withhold the man from repeating mistakes of the past, and +the latter will spur us to greater good. + +A phenomenon similar to the panorama of life usually takes place when a +person is drowning. People who have been resuscitated speak of having seen +their whole life _in a flash_. That is because under such conditions the +vital body also leaves the dense body. Of course there is no rupture of +the silver cord, or life could not be restored. Unconsciousness follows +quickly in drowning, while in the usual post-mortem review the +consciousness continues until the vital body collapses in the same manner +that it does when we go to sleep. Then consciousness ceases for a while +and the panorama is terminated. Therefore also the time occupied by the +panorama varies with different persons, according to whether the vital +body was strong and healthy, or had become thin and emaciated by +protracted illness. The longer the time spent in review, and the more +quiet and peaceful the surroundings, the deeper will be the etching which +is made in the desire body. As already said, that has a most important and +far reaching effect, for then the sufferings which the spirit will realize +in purgatory on account of bad habits and misdeeds will be much more keen +than if there is only a slight impression, and in a future life the still +small voice of conscience will warn so much more insistently against +mistakes which caused sufferings in the past. + +When conditions are such at the time of death that the spirit is disturbed +by outside conditions, for instance the din and turmoil of a battle, the +harrowing conditions of an accident or the hysterical wailings of +relatives, the distraction prevents it from realizing an appropriate depth +in the etching upon the desire body. Consequently its post-mortem +existence becomes vague and insipid, the spirit does not harvest fruits of +experience as it should have done had it passed out of the body in peace +and under normal conditions. It would therefore lack incentive to good in +a future life, and miss the warning against evil which a deep etching of +the panorama of life would have given. Thus its growth would be retarded +in a very marked degree, but the beneficent powers in charge of evolution +take certain steps to compensate for our ignorant treatment of the dying +and other untoward circumstances mentioned. What these steps are, we shall +discuss when considering the life of children in heaven, for the present +let it be sufficient to say that in God's kingdom every evil is always +transmuted to a greater good though the process may not be at once +apparent. + +_Purgatory._ + +During life the collapse of the vital body at night terminates our view of +the world about us, and causes us to lose ourselves in unconsciousness of +sleep. When the vital body collapses just subsequent to death, and the +panorama of life is terminated, we also lose consciousness for a time +which varies according to the individual. A darkness seems to fall upon +the spirit, then after a while it wakes up and begins dimly to perceive +the light of the other world, but is only gradually accustomed to the +altered conditions. It is an experience similar to that which we have when +coming out of a darkened room into sunlight, which blinds us by its +brilliancy, until the pupils of our eyes have contracted so that they +admit a quantity of light bearable to our organism. + +If under such a condition we turn momentarily from the bright sunlight and +look back into the darkened room, objects there will be much more plain to +our vision than things outside which are illumined by the powerful rays of +the sun. So it is also with the spirit, when it has first been released +from the body it perceives sights, scenes and sounds of the material +world, which it has just left, much more readily than it observes the +sights of the world it is entering. Wordsworth in his Ode to Immortality +noted a similar condition in the case of new-born children, who are all +clairvoyant and much more awake to the spiritual world than to this +present plane of existence. Some lose the spiritual sight very early, +others retain it for a number of years and a few keep it all through life, +but as the birth of a child is a death in the spiritual world and it +retains the spiritual sight for a time, so also death here is a birth upon +the spiritual plane, and the newly dead retain a consciousness of this +world for some time subsequent to demise. + +When one awakes in the Desire World after having passed through +aforementioned experiences, the general feeling seems to be one of relief +from a heavy burden, a feeling perhaps akin to that of a diver encased in +a heavy rubber suit, a weighty brass helmet upon his head, leaden soles +under his feet and heavy weights of lead upon his breast and back, +confined in his operations on the bottom of the ocean by a short length of +air tube, and able only to move clumsily with difficulty. When after the +day's work such a man is hauled to the surface, and divests himself of his +heavy garments and he moves about with the facility we enjoy here, he must +surely experience a feeling of great relief. Something like that is felt +by the spirit when it has been divested of the mortal coil, and is able to +roam all over the globe instead of being confined to the narrow +environment which bound it upon earth. + +There is also a feeling of relief for those who have been ill. Sickness, +such as we know it, does not exist there. Neither is it necessary to seek +food and shelter, for in that world there is neither heat nor cold. +Nevertheless, there are many in the purgatorial regions who go to all +bothers of housekeeping, eating and drinking just as we do here. George Du +Maurier in his novel "Peter Ibbetson" gives a very good idea of this +condition in the life lived between the hero and the Countess of Towers. +This novel also illustrates splendidly what has been said of the +sub-conscious memory, for Geo. Du Maurier has somewhere, somehow +discovered an easy method which anyone may apply to do what he calls +"dreaming true." By taking a certain position in going to sleep, it is +possible, after a little practice, to compel the appearance, in a dream, +of any scene _in our past life_ which we desire to live over again. The +book is well worth reading on that account. + +When a fiery nebula has been formed in the sky and commences to revolve, a +little matter in the center where motion is slowest commences to +crystallize. When it has reached a certain density it is caught in the +swirl, and whirled nearer and nearer to the outward extremity of what has, +by that time, become the equator of a revolving globe. Then it is hurled +into space and discarded from the economy of the revolving sun. + +This process is not accomplished automatically as scientists would have us +believe,--an assertion which has been proven in _The Rosicrucian Cosmo +Conception_ and other places in our literature. Herbert Spencer also +rejected the nebular theory because it required a First Cause, which he +denied, though unable to form a better hypothesis of the formation of +solar systems,--but it is accomplished through the activity of a Great +Spirit, which we may call God or by any other name we choose. As above, so +below, says the Hermetic axiom. Man, who is a lesser spirit, also gathers +about himself spirit-substance, which crystallizes into matter and becomes +the visible body which the spiritual sight reveals as placed inside an +aura of finer vehicles. The latter are in constant motion. When the dense +body is born as a child it is extremely soft and flexible. + +Childhood, youth, maturity and old age are but so many different stages of +crystallization, which goes on until at last a point is reached where the +spirit can no longer move the hardened body and it is thrown out from the +spirit as the planet is expelled from the sun. That is death!--the +commencement of a disrobing process which continues in purgatory. The low +evil passions and desires we cultivated during life have crystallized the +desire stuff in such a manner that that also must be expelled. Thus the +spirit is purged of evil under the same law that a sun is purged of the +matter which later forms a planet. If the life lived has been a reasonably +decent one, the process of purgation will not be very strenuous nor will +the evil desires thus expurgated persist for a long time after having been +freed, but they quickly disintegrate. If, on the other hand, an extremely +vile life has been led, the part of the expurgated desire nature may +persist even to the time when the spirit returns to a new birth for +further experience. It will then be attracted to him and haunt him as a +demon, inciting him to evil deeds which he himself abhors. The story of +Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is not a mere fanciful idea of Robert Louis +Stevenson, but is founded upon facts well known to spiritual +investigators. Such cases are extremes of course, but they are +nevertheless possible and we have unfortunately laws which convert such +possibilities to probabilities in the case of a certain class of so-called +criminals. We refer to laws which decree capital punishment as penalty of +murder. + +When a man is dangerous he should of course be restrained, but even apart +from the question of the moral right of a community to take the life of +anyone--which we deny--society by its very act of retaliatory murder defeats +the very end it would serve, for if the vicious murderer is restrained +under whatever discipline is necessary in a prison for a number of years +until his natural death, he will have forgotten his bitterness against his +victim and against society, and when he stands as a free spirit in the +Desire World, he may even by prayer have obtained forgiveness and have +become a good Christian. He will then go on his way rejoicing, and will in +the future life seek to help those whom he hurt here. + +When society retaliates and puts him to a violent death shortly after he +has committed the crime, he is most likely to feel himself as having been +greatly injured, and not without cause. Then such a character will usually +seek to "get even" as he calls it, he will go about for a long time +inciting others to commit murder and other crimes. Then we have an +epidemic of murders in a community, a condition not infrequent. + +The regicide in Servia shocked the Western World by wiping out an entire +royal house in a most shockingly bloody manner, and the Minister of the +Interior was one of the chief conspirators. Later he wrote his memoirs, +and therein he writes that whenever the conspirators had tried to win +anyone as a recruit, they always succeeded when they burned incense. He +did not know why, but simply mentioned it as a curious coincidence. To the +mystic investigator the matter is perfectly clear. We have shown the +necessity of having a vehicle made of the materials of any world wherein +we wish to function. We usually obtain a physical vehicle by going through +the womb, or perhaps in a few special cases from a particularly good +materializing medium, but where it is only necessary to work upon the +brain and influence someone else to act, we need but a vehicle made of +such ether as may be obtained from fumes of many different substances. +Each kind attracts different classes of spirits, and there is no doubt +that the incense burned at meetings where the conspirators were successful +was of a low and sensual order and attracted spirits who had a grudge +against humanity in general and the King of Servia in particular. These +malcontents were unable to injure the King himself, but used a subtle +influence which helped the conspirators in their work. The released +murderer who has a grudge against society on account of his execution, may +enter low gambling saloons where the fumes of liquor and tobacco furnish +ample opportunity for working upon the class of people who congregate in +such places, and the man whose spiritual sight has been developed is often +sadly impressed when he sees the subtle influences to which those who +frequent such places are exposed. It is a fact of course that a man must +be of a low caliber to be influenced by low thoughts, and that it is as +impossible to incite a person of benevolent character to do murder--unless +we put him into a hypnotic sleep--as to make a tuning fork which vibrates +to C sing by striking another attuned to the key of G, but the thoughts of +both living and dead constantly surround us, and no man ever thought out a +high spiritual philosophy under the influence of tobacco fumes or while +imbibing alcoholic stimulants. Were capital punishment, newspaper +notoriety of criminals, the _manufacture_ of liquor and tobacco eliminated +from society, the gun factories would soon cease to advertise and go out +of business along with most of the locksmiths. The police force would +decrease, so would jails and taxes would be correspondingly minimized. + +When a person enters purgatory he is exactly the same person as before he +died. He has just the same appetites, likes and dislikes, sympathies and +antipathies, as before. There is one important difference, however, +namely, that _he has no dense body wherewith to gratify his appetites_. +The drunkard craves drink, in fact, far more than he did in this life, but +has no stomach which can contain liquor and cause chemical combustion +necessary to bring about the state of intoxication in which he delights. +He may and does enter saloons, where he interpolates his body into the +body of a physical drunkard, so that he may obtain his desires at second +hand as it were, he will incite his victim to drink more and more. Yet +there is no true satisfaction. He sees the full glass upon the counter but +his spirit hand is unable to lift it. He suffers tortures of Tantalus +until in time he realizes the impossibility of gratifying his base desire. +Then he is free to go on so far as that vice is concerned. He has been +purged from that evil without intervention of an angry deity or a +conventional devil with hell's flames and pitchfork to administer +punishment, but under the immutable law that as we sow so shall we reap, +he has suffered exactly according to his vice. If his craving for drink +was of a mild nature, he would scarcely miss the liquor which he cannot +there obtain. If his desires were strong and he simply lived for drink, he +would suffer veritable tortures of hell without need of actual flames. +Thus the pain experienced in eradication of his vice would be exactly +commensurate with the energy he had expended upon contracting the habit, +as the force wherewith a falling stone strikes the earth is proportionate +to the energy expended in hurling it upwards into the air. + +Yet it is not the aim of God to "get even;" _love_ is higher than _law_ +and in His wonderful mercy and solicitude for our welfare He has opened +the way of repentance and reform whereby we may obtain forgiveness of sin, +as taught by the Lord of Love: the Christ. Not indeed contrary to law, for +His laws are immutable, but by application of a higher law, whereby we +accomplish here that which would otherwise be delayed until death had +forced the day of reckoning. The method is as follows: + +In our explanation concerning the sub-conscious memory we noted that a +record of every act, thought and word is transmitted by air and ether into +our lungs, thence to the blood, and finally inscribed upon the tablet of +the heart:--a certain little _seedatom_, which is thus the book of +Recording Angels. It was later explained how this panorama of life is +etched into the desire body and forms the basis of retribution after +death. When we have committed a wrong and our conscience accuses us in +consequence, and this accusation is productive of sincere repentance +_accompanied by reform_, the picture of that wrong act will gradually fade +from the record of our life, so that when we pass out at death it will not +stand accusingly against us. We noted that the panorama of life unwinds +backwards just after death. Later, in the purgatorial life it again passes +before the spiritual vision of the man, who then experiences the exact +feeling of those whom he has wronged. He seems to lose his own identity +for the time being, and assumes the condition of his one time victim, he +experiences all the mental and physical suffering himself which he +inflicted upon others. Thus he learns to be merciful instead of cruel, and +to do right instead of wrong in a future life. But if he awakens to a +thorough realization of a wrong previous to his death, then, as said, the +feeling of sorrow for his victim and the restitution or redress which he +gives of his own free will, make the suffering after death unnecessary, +hence--"his sin is forgiven." + +The Rosicrucian Mystery teaching gives a scientific method whereby an +aspirant to higher life may purge himself continually, and thus be able to +entirely avoid existence in purgatory. Each night after retiring the pupil +reviews his life during the past day _in reverse order_. He starts to +visualize as clearly as possible the scene which took place just before +retiring. He then endeavors to impartially view his actions in that scene +examining them to see whether he did right or wrong. If the latter, he +endeavors to _feel and realize as __ vividly as possible_ that wrong. For +instance, if he spoke harshly to someone, and upon later consideration +finds it was not merited, he will endeavor to _feel_ exactly as that one +felt whom he wronged and at the very earliest opportunity to apologize for +the hasty expression. Then he will call up the next scene in backward +succession which may perhaps be the supper table. In respect of that scene +he will examine himself as to whether he ate to live, sparingly and of +foods prepared without suffering to other creatures of God, (such as flesh +foods that cannot be obtained without taking life). If he finds that he +allowed his appetite to run away with him and that he ate gluttonously, he +will endeavor to overcome these habits, for to live a clean life we must +have a clean body and no one can live to his highest possibilities while +making his stomach a graveyard for the decaying corpses of murdered +animals. In this respect there occurs to the writer a little poem by Ella +Wheeler Wilcox: + + + "I am the voice of the voiceless; + Through me the dumb shall speak, + Till a deaf world's ear + Shall be made to hear + The wrongs of the wordless weak. + + The same force formed the sparrow + That fashioned man the king; + The God of the whole + Gave a spark of soul + To furred and feathered thing. + + And I am my brother's keeper + And I will fight his fight, + And speak the word + For beast and bird + Till the world shall set things right. + + +Thus the pupil will continue to review each scene _in reverse order_ from +night till morning, and to _feel really sorry_ for whatever he has done +amiss. He will not neglect to _feel glad_ either when he comes to a scene +where he has done well, and _the more intensely he can feel, the more +thoroughly he will eradicate the record upon the tablet of the heart and +sharpen his conscience_, so that as time goes on from year to year, he +will find less cause for blame and enhance his soul power enormously. Thus +he will grow in a measure impossible by any less systematic method, and +there will be no necessity for his stay in purgatory after death. + +This evening exercise and another, for the morning, if persistently +performed day by day, will in time awaken the spiritual vision as they +improve life. This matter has, however, been so thoroughly treated in +number 11 of the lecture series: "_Spiritual Sight and Insight; its safe +culture and control_," that it is unnecessary to dwell upon the matter +further in this place. + +_The First Heaven._ + +In the first heaven, which is located in the higher regions of the Desire +World, the panorama of life again unrolls and reveals every scene where we +aimed to help or benefit others. They were not felt at the time the spirit +was in the lower regions, for higher desires cannot express themselves in +the coarse matter composing the lower regions of the Desire World, but +when the spirit ascends to the first heaven it reaps from each scene all +the good which it expressed in life. It will feel the gratitude poured out +by those whom it helped; if it comes to a scene where itself received a +favor from others _and was grateful_, it will experience the gratitude +anew. The sum of all these feelings is there amalgamated into the spirit +to serve in a future life as incentives to good. + +Thus, the soul is purged from evil in purgatory, and strengthened in good +in the first heaven. In one region the extract of sufferings become +_conscience_ to deter us from doing wrong, in the other region the +quintessence of good is transmuted to _benevolence_ and altruism which are +the basis of all true progress. Moreover, purgatory is far from being a +place of _punishment_, it is perhaps the most beneficent realm in nature, +for _because of purgation we are born innocent_ life after life. The +tendencies to commit the same evil for which we suffered remain with us +and temptations to commit the same wrongs will be placed in our path until +we have consciously overcome the evil here; temptation is not sin, +however, the sin is in yielding. + +Among the inhabitants of the invisible world there is one class which +lives a particularly painful life, sometimes for a great many years, +namely, the suicide who tried to play truant from the school of life. Yet +it is not an angry God or a malevolent devil who administers punishment, +but an immutable law which proportions the sufferings differently to each +individual suicide. + +We learned previously, when considering the World of Thought, that each +form in this visible world has its archetype there,--a vibrating hollow +mold which emits a certain harmonious sound; that sound attracts and forms +physical matter into the shape we behold, much in the same manner as when +we place a little sand upon a glass plate and rub the edge with a violin +bow, the sand is shaped into different geometrical figures which change as +the sound changes. + +The little atom in the heart is the sample and the center around which the +atoms in our body gather. When that is removed at death, the center is +lacking, and although the archetype keeps on vibrating until the limit of +the life has been reached--as also previously explained,--no matter can be +drawn into the hollow shape of the archetype and therefore the suicide +feels a dreadful gnawing pain as if he were hollowed out, a torture which +can only be likened to the pangs of hunger. In his case, the intense +suffering will continue for exactly as many years as he should have lived +in the body. At the expiration of that time, the archetype collapses as it +does when death comes naturally. Then the pain of the suicide ceases, and +he commences his period of purgation as do those who die a natural death. +But the memory of sufferings experienced in consequence of the act of +suicide will remain with him in future lives and deter him from a similar +mistake. + +In the first heaven there is a class who have not had any purgatorial +existence and who lead a particularly joyous life: the children. Our homes +may be saddened almost beyond endurance when the little flower is broken +and the sunshine it brought has gone. But could we see the beautiful +existence which these little ones lead, and did we understand the great +benefits which accrue to a child from its limited stay there, our sorrow +would be at least ameliorated in a great measure, and the wound upon our +heart would heal more quickly. Besides, as nothing else in the world +happens without a cause, so there is also a much deeper cause for infant +mortality than we are usually aware of, and as we awake to the facts of +the case, we shall be able to avoid in future the sorrow incident to loss +of our little ones. + +To understand the case properly we must revert to the experiences of the +dying in the death hour. We remember that the panorama of the past life is +etched upon the desire body during a period varying from a few hours to +three and one-half days, just subsequent to demise. We recall also, that +upon the depth of this etching depends the clearness of the picture, and +that the more vivid this panorama of life, the more intensely will the +spirit suffer in purgatory and feel the joys of heaven; also, that the +greater the suffering in purgatory the stronger the conscience in the next +life. + +It was explained how the horrors of death upon the battlefield, in an +accident or other untoward circumstances would prevent the spirit from +giving all its attention to the panorama of life with the result that +there would be a light etching in the desire body, followed by a vague and +insipid existence in purgatory and the first heaven. It was also stated +that hysterical lamentations in the death chamber would produce the same +effect. + +A spirit which had thus escaped suffering proportionate to its misdeeds, +and which had not experienced the pleasure commensurate with the good it +had done, would not in a future life have as well developed a conscience +as it ought to have, nor would it be as benevolent as it ought to be, and +therefore the life, terminated under conditions over which the spirit had +no control, would be partly wasted. The Great Leaders of humanity +therefore take steps to counteract such a calamity and prevent an +injustice. The spirit is brought to birth, caused to die in childhood, it +re-enters the Desire World and in the first heaven it is taught the +lessons of which it was deprived previously. + +As the first heaven is located in the Desire World,--which is the realm of +light and color,--where matter is shaped most readily by thought, the +little ones are given wonderful toys impossible of construction here. They +are taught to play with _colors which work upon their moral character_ in +exactly the manner each child requires. Anyone who is at all sensitive is +affected by the color of his clothing and surroundings. Some colors have a +depressing effect, while others inspire us with energy, and others again +soothe and comfort us. In the Desire World the effect of colors is much +more intense, they are much more potent factors of good and evil there +than here, and in this color play, the child imbibes unconsciously the +qualities which it did not acquire on account of accident or lamentations +of relatives. Often it also falls to the lot of such relatives to care for +a child in the invisible world, or perhaps to give it birth and see it +die. Thus they receive just retribution for the wrong committed. As wars +cease, and man learns to be more careful of life, and also how to care for +the dying, infant mortality, which now is so appalling, will decrease. + +_The Second Heaven._ + +When both the good and evil of a life has been extracted, the spirit +discards its desire body and ascends to the second heaven. The desire body +then commences to disintegrate as the physical body and the vital body +have done, but it is a peculiarity of desire stuff, that once it has been +formed and inspired with life, it persists for a considerable time. Even +after that life has fled it lives a semi-conscious, independent life. +Sometimes it is drawn by magnetic attraction to relatives of the spirit +whose clothing it was, and at spiritualistic seances these _shells_ +generally impersonate the departed spirit and deceive its relatives. As +the panorama of the past life is etched into the shells they have a memory +of incidents in connection with these relatives, which facilitates the +deception. But as the intelligence has fled, they are of course unable to +give any true counsel, and that accounts for the inane, goody-goody +nonsense of which these things deliver themselves. + +When passing from the first to the second heaven, the spirit experiences +the condition known and described previously as "The Great Silence," where +it stands utterly alone conscious only of its divinity. When that silence +is broken there floats in upon the spirit celestial harmonies of _the +world of tone_ where the second heaven is located. It seems then to lave +in an ocean of sound and to experience a joy beyond all description and +words, as it nears its heavenly home--for this is the first of the truly +spiritual realms from which the spirit has been exiled during its earth +life and the subsequent post-mortem existence. In the Desire World its +work was _corrective_, but in the World of Thought the human spirit +becomes one with the nature forces and its _creative_ activity begins. + +Under the law of causation we reap exactly what we sow, and it would be +wrong to place one spirit in an environment where there is a scarcity of +the necessities of life, where a scorching sun burns the crop and millions +die from famine, or where the raging flood sweeps away primitive +habitations not built to withstand its ravages, and to bring another +spirit to birth in a land of plenty, with a fertile soil which yields a +maximum of increase with a minimum of labor, where the earth is rich in +minerals that may be used in industry to facilitate transportation of +products of the soil from one point to another. If we were thus placed +without action or acquiescence upon our part, there would be no justice, +but as our post-mortem existence in purgatory and the first heaven is +based upon our moral attitude in this life so our activities in the second +heaven are determined by our mental aspirations and they produce our +future physical environment, for in the second heaven, the spirit becomes +part of the nature forces which work upon the earth and change its +climate, flora and fauna. A spirit of an indolent nature, who indulges in +day dreams and metaphysical speculations _here_, is not transformed by +death respecting its mental attitude any more than regarding its moral +propensities. It will dream away time in heaven, glorying in its sights +and sounds. Thus it will neglect to work upon its future country and +return to a barren and arid land. Spirits, on the other hand, whose +material aspirations lead them to desire so-called solid comforts of +hearth and home, who aim to promote great industries and whose mind is +concerned in trade and commerce, will build in heaven a land that will +suit their purpose: fertile, immineralized, with navigable rivers and +sheltered harbors. They will return in time to enjoy upon earth the fruits +of their labors in the second heaven, as they reap the result of their +life upon earth in purgatory and the first heaven. + +_The Third Heaven._ + +In the third heaven most people have very little consciousness for reasons +explained in connection with the Region of Abstract Thought, for there the +third heaven is located. It is therefore more of a place of waiting where +the spirit rests between the time when its labors in the second heaven +have been completed and the time when it again experiences the desire for +rebirth. But from this realm inventors bring down their original ideas; +there the philanthropist obtains the clearest vision of how to realize his +utopian dreams and the spiritual aspirations of the saintly minded are +given renewed impetus. + +In time the desires of the spirit for further experiences draws it back to +rebirth, and the Great Celestial Beings who are known in the Christian +Religion as Recording Angels, assist the spirit to come to birth in the +place best suited to give it the experience necessary to further unfold +its powers and possibilities. + +We have all been here many times and in different families, we have had +relations of varying nature with many different people and usually there +are several families among whom we may seek re-embodiment to work out our +self-generated destiny and reap what we have sown in former life. If there +are no special reasons why we should take birth in any particular family +among certain friends or foes, the spirit is allowed to choose its own +place of birth. Thus it may be said that most of us are in our present +places by our own prenatal choice. + +In order to assist us in making that choice the Recording Angels call up +before the spirit's vision a panorama in general outlines of each of the +offered lives. This panorama will show what part of our past debts we are +to pay, and what fruits we may be expected to reap in the coming life. + +The spirit is left free to choose between the several lives offered. But +once a choice has been made no evasion is possible during life. We have +free will with regard to the future, but the past "_mature_" destiny we +cannot escape, as shown by the incident recorded in _The Rosicrucian Cosmo +Conception_, where the writer warned a well known Los Angeles lecturer +that if he left his home upon a certain day, he would be injured by a +conveyance, in head, neck, breast and shoulders. The gentleman believed +and intended to heed our warning. Nevertheless he went to Sierra Madre to +lecture upon the fateful day. He was injured in the places stated by a +collision and later explained: "I thought the twenty-eighth was the +twenty-ninth." + +When the spirit has made its choice, it descends into the second heaven +where it is instructed by the Angels and Archangels how to build an +archetype of the body which it will later inhabit upon earth. Also here we +note the operation of the great law of justice which decrees that we reap +what we sow. If our tastes are coarse and sensual, we shall build an +archetype which will express these qualities; if we are refined and of +aesthetic taste, we shall build an archetype correspondingly refined, but +no one can obtain a better body than he can build. Then, as the architect +who builds a house in which he afterwards lives, will suffer discomfort if +he neglects to properly ventilate it, so also the spirit feels disease in +a poorly constructed body, and as the architect learns to avoid mistakes +and remedy the short-comings of one house when building another, so also +the spirit which suffers from defects in its body, learns in time to build +better and better vehicles. + +In the Region of Concrete Thought, the spirit also draws to itself +materials for a new mind. As a magnet draws iron filings but leaves other +substances alone, so also each spirit draws only the kind of mind-stuff +which it used in its former life, plus that which it has learned to use in +its present post-mortem state. Then it descends into the Desire World +where it gathers material for a new desire body such as will express +appropriately its moral characteristics, and later it attracts a certain +amount of ether which is built into the mold of the archetype constructed +in the second heaven and acts as cement between the solids, liquids and +gaseous material from the bodies of parents which forms the dense physical +body of a child, and in due time the latter is brought to birth. + +_Birth and Child Life._ + +It must not be imagined, however, that when the little body of a child has +been born, the process of birth is completed. The dense physical body has +had the longest evolution, and as a shoemaker who has worked at his trade +for a number of years is more expert than an apprentice and can make +better shoes and _quicker_, so also the spirit which has built many +physical bodies produces them quickly, but the vital body is a later +acquisition of the human being. Therefore we are not so expert in building +that vehicle. Consequently it takes longer to construct that from the +materials not used up in making the lining of the archetype, and the vital +body is not born until the seventh year. Then the period of rapid growth +commences. The desire body is a still later addition of composite man, and +is not brought to birth until the fourteenth year when the desire nature +expresses itself most strongly during so-called "hot" youth, and the mind, +which makes man man, does not come to birth until the twenty-first year. +In law that age is recognized as the earliest time he is fitted to +exercise a franchise. + +This knowledge is of the utmost importance to parents, as a proper +understanding of the development which should take place in each of the +septenary epochs enables the educator to work intelligently with nature +and thus fulfill more thoroughly the trust of a parent than those who are +ignorant of the Rosicrucian Mystery Teaching. We shall therefore devote +the remaining pages to an elucidation of this matter and of the importance +of the knowledge of astrology upon the part of the parent. + +_The Mystery of Light, Color and Consciousness._ + +"God is Light," says the Bible, and we are unable to conceive of a grander +simile of His Omnipresence, or the mode of His manifestation. Even the +greatest telescopes have failed to reach the boundaries of light, though +they reveal to us stars millions of miles from the earth, and we may well +ask ourselves, as did the Psalmist of old: Whither shall I flee from Thy +Presence? If I ascend into heaven Thou art there, If I make my bed in the +grave (the Hebrew word _sheol_ means _grave_ and not hell), Thou art +there, If I take the wings of morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of +the sea, even there shall thy hand lead me. + +When, in the dawn of Being, _God the Father_ enunciated _The Word_, and +_The Holy Spirit_ moved upon the sea of homogeneous _Virgin Matter_, +primeval _Darkness_ was turned to _Light_. That is therefore the prime +manifestation of Deity, and a study of the principles of Light will reveal +to the mystic intuition a wonderful source of spiritual inspiration. As it +would take us too far afield from our subject we shall not enter into an +elucidation of that theme here, except so far as to give an elementary +idea of how divine Life energizes the human frame and stimulates to +action. + +Truly, God is ONE and undivided, He enfolds within His Being all that is, +as the white light embraces all colors. But He appears three-fold in +manifestation, as the white light is refracted in three primary colors: +Blue, Yellow and Red. Wherever we see these colors they are emblematical +of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. These three primary rays of divine +Life are diffused or radiated through the sun and produce _Life_, +_Consciousness_ and _Form_ upon each of the seven light-bearers, the +planets, which are called "the Seven Spirits before the Throne." Their +names are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. Bode's +law proves that Neptune does not belong to our solar system and the reader +is referred to "Simplified Scientific Astrology" by the present writer, +for mathematical demonstration of this contention. + +Each of the seven planets receives the light of the sun in a different +measure, according to its proximity to the central orb and the +constitution of its atmosphere, and the beings upon each, according to +their stage of development, have affinity for some of the solar rays. They +absorb the color or colors congruous to them, and reflect the remainder +upon the other planets. This reflected ray bears with it an impulse of the +nature of the beings with which it has been in contact. + +Thus the divine Light and Life comes to each planet, either directly from +the sun, or reflected from its six sister planets, and as the summer +breeze which has been wafted over blooming fields carries upon its silent +invisible wings the blended fragrance of a multitude of flowers, so also +the subtle influences from the garden of God bring to us the commingled +impulses of all the Spirits and in that varicolored light we live and move +and have our being. + +The rays which come directly from the sun are productive of spiritual +illumination, the reflected rays from other planets make for added +consciousness and moral development and the rays reflected by way of the +moon give physical growth. + +But as each planet can only absorb a certain quantity of one or more +colors according to the general stage of evolution there, so each being +upon earth: mineral, plant, animal and man can only absorb and thrive upon +a certain quantity of the various rays projected upon the earth. The +remainder do not affect it or produce sensation, any more than the blind +are conscious of light and color which exist everywhere around them. +Therefore each being is differently affected by the stellar rays and the +science of Astrology a fundamental truth in nature, of enormous benefit in +the attainment of spiritual growth. + +From a horoscopic figure in mystic script we may learn our own strength +and weakness, with the path best suited to our development, or we may see +the tendencies of those friends who come to us as children, and what +traits are dormant in them. Thus we shall know clearly how to discharge +our duty as parents, by repressing evil before it comes to birth and +fostering good, so that it may bring forth most abundantly the spiritual +potencies of the soul committed to our care. + +As we have already said, man returns to earth to reap that which he has +sown in previous lives and to sow anew the seeds which make for future +experience. The stars are the heavenly time keepers which measure the +year, the moon indicates the month when time will be propitious to harvest +or to sow. + +The child is a mystery to us all, we can only know its propensities as +they slowly develop into characteristics, but it is usually too late to +check when evil habits have been formed and the youth is upon the downward +grade. A horoscope cast for the time of birth in a scientific manner shows +the tendencies to good or evil in the child, and if a parent will take +time and trouble necessary to study the science of the stars, he or she +may do the child intrusted to his or her care an inestimable service by +fostering tendencies to good and repressing the evil bent of a child ere +it has crystallized into habit. Do not imagine that a superior +mathematical knowledge is necessary to erect a horoscope. Many construct a +horoscope in such an involved manner, so "fearfully and wonderfully made" +that it is unreadable to themselves or others, while a simple figure easy +of reading may be constructed by anyone who knows how to add and subtract. +This method has been thoroughly elucidated in Simplified Scientific +Astrology which is a complete text book, though small and inexpensive, and +parents who have the welfare of their children thoroughly at heart should +endeavor to learn for themselves, for even though their ability may not +compare with that of a professional astrologer, their intimate knowledge +of the child and their deep interest will more than compensate for such +lack and enable them to see most deeply into the child's character by +means of its horoscope. + +_Education of Children._ + +Respecting the birth of the various vehicles and the influence which that +has upon life, we may say that during the time from birth to the seventh +year the lines of growth of the physical body are determined, and as it +has been noted that sound is builder both in the great and small, we may +well imagine that rhythm must have an enormous influence upon the growing +and sensitive little child's organism. The apostle John in the first +chapter of his gospel expresses this idea mystically in the beautiful +words: "In the beginning was the WORD ... and without it was not anything +made that was made ... and the word became flesh;" the word is a rhythmic +sound, which issued from the Creator, reverberated through the universe +and marshaled countless millions of atoms into the multiplex variety of +shapes and forms which we see about us. The mountain, the mayflower, the +mouse and the man are all embodiments of that great Cosmic Word which is +still sounding through the universe and which is still building and ever +building though unheard by our insensitive ears. But though we do not hear +that wonderful celestial sound, we may work upon the little child's body +by terrestrial music, and though the nursery rhymes are without sense, +they are nevertheless bearers of a wonderful rhythm, and the more a child +is taught to say, sing and repeat them, to dance and to march to them, the +more music is incorporated into a child's daily life, the stronger and +healthier will be its body in future years. + +There are two mottoes which apply during this period, one to the child and +the other to the parent: _Example_ and _Imitation_. No creature under +heaven is more imitative than a little child, and its conduct in after +years will depend largely upon the example set by its parents during its +early life. It is no use to tell the child "not to mind," it has no mind +wherewith to discriminate, but follows its natural tendency, as water +flows down a hill, when it imitates. Therefore it behooves every parent to +remember from morning till night that watchful eyes are upon him all the +time waiting but for him to act in order to follow his example. + +It is of the utmost importance that the child's clothing should be very +loose, particularly the clothing of little boys, as chafing garments often +produce vices which follow a man through life. + +If anyone should attempt to forcibly extract a babe from the protecting +womb of its mother, the outrage would result in death, because the babe +has not yet arrived at a maturity sufficient to endure impacts of the +Physical World. In the three septenary periods which follow birth, the +invisible vehicles are still in the womb of mother nature. If we teach a +child of tender years to memorize, or to think, or if we arouse its +feelings and emotions, we are in fact opening the protecting womb of +nature and the results are equally as disastrous in other respects as a +forced premature birth. Child prodigies usually become men and women of +less than ordinary intelligence. We should not hinder the child from +learning or thinking of _his own volition_, but we should not goad them on +as parents often do to nourish their own pride. + +When the vital body is born at the age of seven a period of growth begins +and a new motto, or relation rather, is established between parent and +child. This may be expressed in the two words _Authority_ and +_Discipleship_. In this period the child is taught certain lessons which +it takes upon faith in the authority of its teachers, whether at home or +at school, and as memory is a faculty of the vital body it can now +memorize what is learned. It is therefore eminently teachable; +particularly because it is unbiased by pre-conceived opinions which +prevent most of us from accepting new views. At the end of this second +period: from about twelve to fourteen, the vital body has been so far +developed that puberty is reached. At the age of fourteen we have the +birth of the desire body, which marks the commencement of self-assertion. +In earlier years the child regards itself more as belonging to a family +and subordinate to the wishes of its parents than after the fourteenth +year. The reason is this: In the throat of the foetus and the young child +there is a gland called the thymus gland, which is largest before birth, +then gradually diminishes through the years of childhood and finally +disappears at ages which vary according to the characteristics of the +child. Anatomists have been puzzled as to the function of this organ and +have not yet come to any settled conclusion, but it has been suggested +that before development of the red marrow bones, the child is not able to +manufacture its own blood, and that therefore the thymus gland contains an +essence, supplied by the parents, upon which the child may draw during +infancy and childhood, till able to manufacture its own blood. That theory +is approximately true, and as the family blood flows in the child, it +looks upon itself as part of the family and not as an Ego. But the moment +it commences to manufacture its own blood, the Ego asserts itself, it is +no longer Papa's girl or Mamma's boy, it has an "I"-dentity of its own. +Then comes the critical age when parents reap what they have sown. The +mind has not yet been born, nothing holds the desire nature in check, and +much, very much, depends upon how the child has been taught in earlier +years and what example the parents have set. At this point in life +self-assertion, the feeling "_I am myself_", is stronger than at any other +time and therefore authority should give place to _Advice_; the parent +should practice the utmost tolerance, for at no time in life is a human +being as much in need of sympathy as during the seven years from fourteen +to twenty-one when the desire nature is rampant and unchecked. + +It is a crime to inflict corporal punishment upon a child at any age. +Might is never right, and as the stronger, parents should always have +compassion for the weaker. But there is one feature of corporal punishment +which makes it particularly dangerous to apply it to the youth: namely, +that it wakens the passional nature which is already perhaps beyond the +control of a growing boy. + +If we whip a dog, we shall soon break its spirit and transform it into a +cringing cur, and it is deplorable that some parents seem to regard it as +their mission in life to break the spirit of their children with the rule +of the rod. If there is one universal lack among the human race which is +more apparent than any other, it is lack of will, and as parents we may +remedy the evil in a large measure by guiding the wills of our children +along such lines as dictated by our own more mature reason, so that we +help them to grow a backbone instead of a wishbone with which +unfortunately most of us are afflicted. Therefore, never whip a child; +when punishment is necessary, correct by withholding favors or withdrawing +privileges. + +At the twenty-first year the birth of the mind transforms the youth into a +man or a woman fully equipped to commence his own life in the school of +experience. + +Thus we have followed the human spirit around a life cycle from death to +birth and maturity, we have seen how immutable law governs his every step +and how he is ever encompassed by the loving care of the Great and +Glorious Beings who are the ministers of God. The method of his future +development will be explained in a later work which will deal with "The +Christian Mystic Initiation." + + + + + +MT. ECCLESIA + + +(Transcriber's Note: This chapter is the series of pages which, earlier, +the author said "had been transferred" to the back of the book.) + +A DESCRIPTION OF THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE ROSICRUCIAN FELLOWSHIP + +Work in the physical world requires physical means of accomplishment; +therefore a tract of land was bought in 1911 in the town of Oceanside, +ninety miles south of Los Angeles, California. _Southern California was +selected because of the abundance of ether in the atmosphere there, and +this spot was found to be particularly favored in that respect._ + +On this commanding site having a wide view of the great Pacific Ocean, of +snow capped mountains and smiling valleys, we began to establish our +headquarters in the latter part of 1911. Soon after this we erected a +sanctuary, the Pro-Ecclesia, where the Rosicrucian Temple Service is held +at appropriate times. The Rose Cross Healing Circle holds its meetings +there to help sufferers, and it is the place appointed for the united +morning and evening devotions of the workers. In the latter half of 1920 +we built an Ecclesia, which is designed to be a Temple of Healing. The +building, a beautiful domed structure, is of steel and reinforced +concrete. It is twelve sided in shape, corresponding to the twelve signs +of the zodiac. At the present writing, January, 1921, the final work upon +it is just being completed. The esoteric work of the Fellowship will be +carried on here. + +We have also built a two-story Administration Building to house the +general office, the book department, the correspondence school in +Christian Mysticism which links Headquarters with students all over the +world, and the editorial offices of our monthly publications, notably the +"_Rosicrucian Fellowship Magazine--Rays from the Rose Cross_." We have also +an astrological department which conducts a correspondence school. Its +offices are located on the second floor. + +The whole first floor is occupied by a modern printing plant and book +bindery required to furnish the immense amount of literature needed in +this work. In the book department we publish all the standard works and +text books of the Rosicrucian Philosophy written by Max Heindel. We are +now in process of publishing in book form his former lessons to students. + +In October, 1920, a Training School was established for the preparation of +candidates for the lecture field. It is our intention to thereby maintain +a Lecture Bureau, from which we will send our lecturers throughout the +country to disseminate the teachings and carry the message of our +philosophy to the people to a greater extent than has before been +possible. + +A Dining Hall with seating capacity for over one hundred people affords +ample accommodation for workers, students, and patients. The scientific +meatless diet served there preserves or restores health, as required in +each case. Furthermore, it improves the vitality and mentality in an +astonishing degree. A large dormitory, and a number of cottages and tents +provide living quarters for all. + +By the liberal use of water and the expenditure of much labor, Mount +Ecclesia is gradually being transformed into a luxuriant tropical park. +There is a deep spiritual purpose in this attempt to make the visible +centre of the new world movement beautiful, for it fosters in the workers +a poise and peace which are absolutely essential to the proper performance +of their work. Without that they cannot escape being disturbed by the +flood of sorrow and trouble which flows into Headquarters from members all +over the world; without that they cannot continue to put heart into the +letters of help, hope and cheer which continually go out to souls who are +groaning under the burden of sickness, but by bathing their souls in the +beauty of the surroundings, whether consciously or not, they gain in +strength and grow in grace, they become better and better fitted for the +Great Work in the Master's Vineyard. + +In order to aid those who feel the upward urge, to prepare intelligently +and reverently for the unfoldment of their inner latent spiritual powers, +the Rosicrucian Fellowship maintains two correspondence courses which +furnish instruction to students all over the world. One deals with +_Astrology_, the other with _Christian Mysticism_. + +The Astrology to which we refer is not to be confounded with +fortune-telling; it is a phase of the Mystic Religion, as sublime as the +stars with which it deals, and to the Mystic they are not dead bodies +moving in space in obedience to so-called blind natural law, but they are +the embodiments of "_The Seven Spirits before the Throne_," mighty +Star-Angels who use their benevolent influences to guide other less +exalted beings, humanity included, upon the path of evolution. + +There is a side of the moon which we never see, but that hidden half is as +potent a factor in creating the ebb and flow, as the part of the moon +which is visible. Similarly, there is an invisible part of man which +exerts a powerful influence in life, and as the tides are measured by the +motion of sun and moon, so also the eventualities of existence are +measured by the circling stars, which may therefore be called "the Clock +of Destiny," and knowledge of their import is an immense power, for to the +competent Astrologer a horoscope reveals every secret of life. + +Thus, when you have given an astrologer the data of your birth, you have +given him the key to your innermost soul, and there is no secret that he +may not ferret out. This knowledge may be used for good or ill, to help or +hurt, according to the nature of the man. Only a friend should be trusted +with this key to your soul, and it should never be given to anyone base +enough to prostitute a spiritual science for material gain. + +To the medical man Astrology is invaluable in diagnosing diseases and +prescribing a remedy, for it reveals the hidden cause of all ailments, in +a manner that has often perplexed the skeptic and dumbfounded the scoffer. + +The opinion of thousands is of great value, but it does not prove +anything, for thousands may hold an opposite view; occasionally a single +man may be right and the rest of the world wrong, as when Galileo +maintained that the earth moves. Today the whole world has been converted +to the opinion for which he suffered torture, and we assert that, _as man +is a composite being, cures are successful only in proportion as they +remedy defects on the physical, moral and mental planes of Being_. We also +maintain that results may be obtained more easily at certain times when +stellar rays are propitious to healing of a particular disease, or by +treatment with remedies previously prepared under auspicious conditions. + +If you are a parent the horoscope will aid you to detect the evil latent +in your child and teach you how to apply the ounce of prevention. It will +show you the good points also, that you may make a better man or woman of +the soul entrusted to your care. It will reveal systemic weakness and +enable you to guard the health of your child; it will show what talents +are there, and how the life may be lived to a maximum of usefulness. +Therefore, the message of the marching orbs is so important that you +cannot afford to remain ignorant thereof. + +In order to aid those who are willing to help themselves we maintain a +Correspondence Class in Astrology, but make no mistake, we do not teach +fortune-telling; if that is what you are looking for, we have nothing for +you. + +OUR LESSONS ARE SERMONS + +They embody the highest moral and spiritual principles, together with the +loftiest system of ethics, for Astrology is, to us, a phase of religion; +we never look at a horoscope without feeling that we are in a holy +presence, face to face with an immortal soul, and our attitude is one of +prayer for light to guide that soul aright. + +WE DO NOT CAST HOROSCOPES + +Despite all we can say, many people write enclosing money for horoscopes, +forcing us to spend valuable time writing letters of refusal and giving us +the trouble of returning their money. Please do not thus annoy us; it will +avail you nothing. + +THE COURSE IN CHRISTIAN MYSTICISM + +_Christ_ taught the multitude in _parables_, but explained the _mysteries_ +to His disciples. _Paul gave milk_ to the babes, but _meat_ to the strong. + +Max Heindel, the founder and leader of the Rosicrucian Fellowship, +endeavored to follow in their steps and give to interested and devoted +students a _deeper teaching_ than that promulgated in public. + +For that purpose we conduct a correspondence course in _Christian +Mysticism_. The General Secretary may admit applicants to the preliminary +course, but _advancement_ in the deeper degrees depends upon merit. It is +for those alone who have been _tried_, and found true. + +HOW TO APPLY FOR ADMISSION + +Anyone who is not engaged in fortune-telling or similar methods of +commercializing spiritual knowledge will, upon request, receive an +application blank from the General Secretary, Rosicrucian Fellowship. When +this blank is returned properly filled, he may admit the applicant to +instruction in either or both correspondence courses. + +THE COST OF THE COURSE + +There are no fixed fees; no esoteric instruction is ever put in the +balance against coin. At the same time, it cannot be given "_free_," "_for +nothing_," for those who work to promulgate it must have the necessities +of life. Type, paper, machinery and postage also cost money, and _unless +you pay your part someone else must pay for you_. + +There are a few who cannot contribute, and who need these teachings as +much or more than those who may take comfort from financial ease or +affluence. If they make their condition known, they will receive as much +attention as the largest contributors, but others are expected to +contribute for their own good as well as for the good of the work. +Remember, _a closed hand that does not give cannot receive_. + + + + + +INDEX + + +Abstract Thought, _see_ Thought, World of, Region of Abstract Thought. + +Action, incentive to, 158. + +Adepts, pupils of schools of the Greater Mysteries, 10. + +Air, charged with pictures of surroundings, 37, 155. + +Alchemy, proved by radio-activity, 108. + +Alcohol, results of using, 166. + +Ambassador from sun, 87. + +Ameshaspends, Seven Spirits before the Throne, 87. + +Angels, densest body of, composed of ether, 73; + expert builders in ether, 74; + family spirits, 80; + guardians of propagative force, 74; + instruct ego in building archetype, 184; + one step beyond human stage, 73. + +Angels, Recording, _see_ Recording angels. + +Animals, dependent upon group spirit for infusion of stellar rays, 124; + keyed to lunar month, 124; + thought processes of, 122. + +Aquarian Age, intellect of, 15. + +Archangels, densest vehicle of, 79; + instruct ego in building archetype, 184; + less evolved become group spirits, 81; + native of Desire World, 79; + race and national spirits, 80; + various grades of, 80; + work with humanity politically and industrially, 80. + +Arche, primordial matter of, 108. + +Archetypal forces direct archetypes, 103. + +Archetype, duration of, 175; + vibratory mold, 175. + +Assimilation, through ether, 123. + +Astrology, estimation of time by, in Desire World, 94; + value of, 190. + +Atom, physical, spherical shape of, 9. + +Atom, seed, _see_ Seed atom. + +Atoms, chemical, expelled through skin, 127. + +Attitude, mental, results of, 181. + +Benevolence, acquired in First Heaven, 174. + +Bennett, Florence, trance of, 141. + +Black magic, punishment of, 17. + +Blood, charged with pictures of surroundings, 155; + relation of, to vital body, 129. + +Blue, in stellar ray, life of the Father, 124, 188. + +Bode's law and Neptune, 189. + +Body, dense, _see_ Dense body. + desire, _see_ Desire body. + vital, _see_ Vital body. + +Brain, absorption of stellar rays through, 124. + +Breath, record of, 37, 38. + +Capital punishment, menace of, 164. + +Carelessness, power of, to shorten life, 147. + +Causation, law of, attraction of like to like, 48; + determines environment, 48, 180; + flexibility of law of, 52. + +Chaos, (Cosmic night) seed ground of Cosmos, 112; + state of orderly segregation, 105. + +Chemical atoms, expelled through skin, 127. + +Chemical ether, assimilation and growth by, 69; + seen as blue haze, 65. + +Child, post-mortem experiences of, easily investigated, 51; + prodigies, 195. + +Children, clairvoyance of, 160; + danger of mental forcing, 195; + discipline of, 195; + individual blood developed in, 196; + imitativeness of, 194; + proper clothing of, 194; + life of, in First Heaven, 176; + understanding of, through astrology, 192. + +Christ, higher laws taught by, 169; + rebirth taught by, 46. + +Christianity, the flowering of previous religions, 6. + +Clairvoyance of children, 160; + of the dying, 148; + varieties of, 136. + +Clairvoyants, separation of vital body of, 137. + +Clairvoyants, trained, positive powers of, 137. + +Colors, emotional effect produced by, 178. + +Colors, primary, symbolize God, 188. + +Community affected by executions, 165. + +Concentration in Desire World, 91. + +Concrete Thought, _see_ Thought, World of, Region of Concrete Thought. + +Conditions of life related to past action, 43. + +Conscience, assimilated pictures of past experience, 38, 156. + +Consequence, law of, _see_ Causation, law of. + +Conservation, law of, and survival of spirit, 35. + +Cord, Silver, _see_ Silver Cord. + +Corporal punishment, inadvisability of, 197. + +Cosmic night, _see_ Chaos. + +Cosmos, aggregate of systematic order, 105. + +Countries, egos work upon, 180. + +Creation of Cosmos, 188. + +Creative force, develops spinal nerves, 125. + +Creative Hierarchies, aid humanity, 6; + guide man's evolution, 5, 52; + safeguard man from materialism, 8. + +Criminals, care of, 164; + execution of, a menace, 164. + +Crucifixion, the Mystic Death, 12. + +Crystallization in man's evolution, 163. + +Dead, care of, 152; + inhabit Desire World, 88; + intense activity of, 89. + +Death, disrobing process of ego, 163; + foreseen by higher powers, 142; + peaceful, helpfulness of, 147; + premature, ill effects of, 145; + problem of, 27; + provides fresh start, 143. + +Debts, binding nature of, 49. + +Demmler, Minna, materializations by, 129. + +Dense body, chemical constituents of, 57; + crystallized spirit substance, 162; + disease of, due to imperfect archetype, 185; + energized by divine life, 188; + improves as spirit progresses, 5; + quality of, dependent upon ego, 184; + most evolved of man's vehicles, 186. + +Desire, created and guided by thought, 58; + forms impelled into action by, 56. + +Desire body, basic individual color of, 132; + born at fourteenth year, 186; + capable of sense perception, 133; + cause dreams, 139; + circulation in currents, 133; + colors of, 132; + destructive action of, 138; + extends beyond dense body, 130; + gives ability to experience desire and emotion 121, 130, 133; + impels motion, 56, 139; + impels to sense gratification, 130; + main vortex, in the liver, 131; + rapid locomotion of, 131; + recent acquisition of, 130; + shape of, ovoid, 130; + shell of, persists after death, 163, 179; + vortices of, 131; + war of, with vital body, 138; + withdrawal of, in sleep, 138. + +Desire stuff, constant motion of, 77, 131; + elasticity of, 77; + force combined with matter, 77; + modeled by thought, 142; + permeates atmosphere, 120; + persistence of, 179; + responsiveness to feeling, 77. + +Desire World, archangels native to, 79; + dead remain in, varying lengths of time, 78; + difficulty of concentration in, 91; + diversity of tongues in, 83; + effect of colors in, 178; + ego's corrective work in, 168-170; + estimation of time in, 93; + existence of, makes man's desires possible, 57; + force and matter closely related in, 77; + form blends into sound in, 95; + head only perceptible in some regions of, 79; + large population of, 77; + seasons non-existent in, 93; + second vehicle of earth, 55; + time non-existent in, 92; + universal mode of expression in, 85; + vision pertaining to, 66; + world of color, 68. + +Earth composed of three interpenetrating worlds, 55, 116; + structure of dense body, obtained from, 57; + training school of, 6, 43; + worked upon, by the disembodied, 104. + +Earth lives, intervals between, 52. + +Earth spirits, fairies and elves, 70. + +Eastern Wisdom, unsuited to Western peoples, 14. + +Ego, _see_ Spirit, threefold. + +Egyptians painted group spirits, 82. + +Electron, discovery of, 107. + +Elves, spirits of mountains, 70. + +Emotions, relation of, to desire body, 186. + +Enmity overcome by its own discomforts, 49. + +Environment, suffering caused by, 49. + +Ether, avenue for solar forces, 70, 74, 123; + nature of, 62; + permeates atomic structure of dense matter, 62. + +Ether, chemical, _see_ Chemical ether. + +Ether, life, _see_ Life ether. + +Ether light, _see_ Light ether. + +Ether, reflecting _see_ Reflecting ether. + +Etheric sight, distinguished from spiritual, 66; + extension of physical, 65; + penetrates opaque substances, 66; + shows all objects same color, 67. + +Ethers, separation of, 136. + +Ever-existing essence, 107. + +Evil and good acts recorded by breath, 38; + destruction of, 39; + transmutation of, to good, 158. + +Evolution, from life to life, 53; + manifests in rest and activity, 42; + of vehicles, manner of, 185; + persistent unfoldment in, 42. + +Fairies, spirits of the mountains, 70. + +Fate, ripe, unavoidability of, 184. + +Faults, correction of, 169. + +Feeling, right, increases conscience, 172. + +First cause, necessity for, 162. + +First hand knowledge, possible to all, 52. + +First Heaven, good of past life reaped in, 173; + good strengthened in, 174; + panorama of life in, 173; + upper regions of Desire World, 173. + +Fluid, vital, cessation of flow of, 138. + +Forgiveness of sin, 164, 169. + +Form, archetypes of, 175; + incapable of feeling, 60. + +Forms, impelled into action by desire, 56. + +Forms, physical, built from chemical substance, 55. + +Free will, existence of, 147; + pertaining to future, 184. + +Generation caused by red ray of Holy Spirit, 124. + +Germination caused by blue ray of Father, 124. + +Gnomes, earth spirits, 70. + +God, immanence of, 187. + +Good amalgamates with spirit, 39; + and evil acts recorded by breath, 38. + +Great Silence between Desire World and World of Thought, 95, 180; + may be entered by acts of will, 96. + +Group spirit, brings stellar influence to animals, 124; + less evolved archangels, 81; + painted by Egyptians, 82. + +Growth, physical, carried on through ether, 123; + caused by yellow rays of Son, 124; + relation of, to moon, 124; + relation of, to vital body, 186. + +Growth, spiritual, must be slow, 103. + +Heaven, among you, 116. + +Heaven, First, _see_ First Heaven. + +Heaven, Second, _see_ Second Heaven. + +Heaven, Third, _see_ Third Heaven. + +Hell, existence of, impossible, 117. + +Helpers, Invisible, _see_ Invisible Helpers. + +Heredity, of the physical only, 47. + +Hierarchies, Creative, _see_ Creative Hierarchies. + +Higher Self dominates lower by keynote, 99. + +Higher senses of man, 16. + +Higher vehicles, permeability of, 138; + withdrawal of, in sleep, 138. + +Holy of Holies, temple of our bodies, 134. + +Hotz, Dr., spirit photographs taken by, 129. + +Humanity, two classes of, 136. + +I, badge of self-consciousness, 135. + +Ideas clothe themselves in mind stuff, 113; + embryonic thoughts, 113; + generated by ego in Region of Abstract Thought, 113; + originate in chaos, 112. + +Ignorance, man's one sin, 42. + +Illumination, induced by solar rays, 123. + +Immaculate conception, the Mystic Birth, 12. + +Immortality of spirit, 39. + +Incense, evil effects of, 165. + +Incentive, induced by etchings of life panorama, 158. + +Individual auric color, dependent upon ruling planet, 132. + +Infant mortality, causes of, 176-179. + +Intelligence induced by planetary rays, 123. + +Interval between earth lives, 52. + +Invisible Helpers, faculties of, 137; + linguistic abilities, valuable to, 83. + +Izzards, 87. + +James, Professor William, reputed communication from, 149-151. + +Jehovah, _see_ Holy Spirit. + +John, Gospel of, spiritual significance of, 105. + +Jupiter, auric color of, 132. + +Karma, _see_ Causation, law of. + +Keynote, creates and maintains form, 98; + manifestation of Higher Self, 99; + stopping of, terminates life, 100; + Voice of Silence, 99. + +Knowledge, the only salvation, 42. + +Laws of nature, living intelligences, 53. + +Life, dualistic theory of, 29; + lengthened by good deeds, 147; + long, value of, 144, 146; + monistic theory of, 29; + object of, gaining of experience, 142; + shortened by neglected opportunities, 146. + +Life ether, propagation accomplished through medium of, 69. + +Life panorama, backward unfoldment of, 156; + duration of, 153; + importance of, 153, 158; + insufficient, causes infant mortality, 177; + sub-conscious memory, basis of, 154; + terminated by collapse of vital body, 157. + +Light, relation of, to creation, 188. + +Light ether, motion due to, 69; + transmits solar force, 69. + +Likes and dislikes determine environment, 48. + +Liver, main vortex of desire body, 131. + +Logos, Reasonable Thought, 109. + +Love, higher than law, 168; + supreme commandment, 90. + +Lunar ray enters body through spleen, 124.; + induces physical growth, 123, 190.; + three-fold constitution of, 124.. + +Magic, black, punishment of, 17. + +Man, born innocent of sin, 174; + composite being of body, soul, spirit, 36; + desires of, impel to action, 56; + gathers spiritual substance, 162; + Great Beings safeguard, 198; + has evolved from lower forms, 73; + higher vehicles of, 120; + keyed to solar month, 125; + made a little lower than angels, 73; + spinal nerves of undeveloped, 125; + spiritual faculties of, 15. + +Mars, auric color of, 132. + +Materialism and spirituality, necessity of, 7. + +Materialistic theory of life, 34-36. + +Materialization through incense, 165; + through mediums, 129. + +Mathematics, benefit derived from study of, 115. + +Matter, illusory nature of, 114. + +Mediums and negative clairvoyance, 137; + read in reflecting ether, 70. + +Memory of Nature, events recorded in, 94. + +Memory of past lives, 50. + +Memory, sub-conscious, _see_ Sub-conscious memory. + +Metamorphosis in higher worlds, 32. + +Michael, ambassador from sun to earth, 87. + +Michael, archangel, guardian of Jews, 80. + +Mind, born at twenty-first year, 186, 198; + cloudy thought form , 131, 133; + material for, acquired in Region of Concrete Thought, 185; + recent acquisition of, 131. + +Mind, Lords of, expert builders of mind stuff, 102; + help man to acquire mind, 103; + human during dark stage of earth, 101; + Powers of Darkness, 101; + worked with man in mineral stage, 102. + +Mind stuff, permeability of, 120; + veils inner spirit, 134. + +Monistic, theory of life, 29. + +Moon rays, _see_ Lunar rays. + +Morality induced by planetary rays, 123, 190. + +Music in Desire World, 68; + soul-speech of World of Thought, 68. + +Mystery Orders formed on cosmic lines, 9; + seven world workers in, 9. + +N-rays, etheric radiation of, 128. + +Nature, laws of, control nature spirits, 72; + Great Intelligences, 70. + +Nebulae, fiery formation of, 161. + +Nebular theory postulates First Cause, 162. + +Negative development, mediumship allied to, 137. + +Nephesh, 37. + +Neptune outside of our solar system, 189. + +Occult orders, _see_ Mystery orders. + +Odic fluid, _see_ Solar fluid. + +Opportunities, each life contains, 142. + +Over-eating, ill-effects of, 128. + +Painting, related to Desire World, 68. + +Palladino, Eusapio, materializations through, 129. + +Panorama of Life, _see_ Life Panorama. + +Patriotism, inspired by archangels, 80. + +Periodicity, law of, determines time of actions, 13. + +Personality governed by keynote, 99. + +"Peter Ibbettson," occult information in, 161. + +Physical body, anchor of mind, 92. + +Physical embodiment, value of, 90, 143. + +Pineal gland, localized organ of feeling, 132; + spiritual sight through development of, 66; + third eye, 132. + +Planetary ray, _see_ Stellar ray. + +Planetary spirits, color belonging to, 189; + names of, 189. + +Planets, absorption of solar rays by, 188. + +Post-mortem experiences, usefulness of, 143. + +Powers of Darkness, _see_ Mind, Lords of. + +Powers, spiritual, difficulty of obtaining, 64; + microscopic and telescopic, 64; + possible to all, 64. + +Prayer, forgiveness of sin through, 164. + +Precession of equinoxes, measure of time, 94. + +Predestination of great leaders, 45, 46. + +Primary colors symbolize God, 188. + +Probation, long, necessity for, 64. + +Propagation carried on through life ether, 123. + +Psychometrists read in reflecting ether, 70. + +Puberty, cause of, 196. + +Pituitary body and clairvoyance, 66. + +Punishment, corporal, evils of, 198. + +Purgatory, evil habits corrected in, 167; + evil of past lives transmuted in, 116; + experiences in, based on moral attitude of preceding life, 181; + review of life experiences in, 170. + +Race likeness caused by race spirits, 81. + +Race Spirits, _see_ Archangels. + +Rebirth, law of, alternation of sex in, 52; + believed in, by Jews, 46; + Biblical foundation for doctrine of, 46; + explanation of inequalities, 43, 47; + harmonious with nature's methods, 47; + intervals between, 52; + preparations for, 185; + special talents of individual, evidence of, 46; + specially adapted to ego's need, 52; + taught by Christ, 46. + +Recording angels aid ego in choice of environment, 183; + give race religions, 6, 14; + show ego life panorama, 183. + +Red in stellar ray, life of Holy Spirit, 124; + produces form, 188. + +Reflecting ether, impressions of universe recorded in, 69; + mediums and psychometrists read in, 70. + +Regret, time wasted in, 92. + +Reincarnation, _see_ Rebirth. + +Religions, all have origin in God, 104. + +Repentance, benefits received through, 169. + +Restrospection, exercise of, 170-173. + +Ripe fate, unavoidability of, 184. + +Rose Cross, initiates into science of life and being, 8; + Mystery school of the West, 8; + thirteen Brothers of, 9; + thirteenth member, the invisible head, 9; + works to mould public opinion, 11. + +Rosicrucian Fellowship, herald of the Aquarian Age, 15; + purpose and work of, 14-18. + +Rosicrucians, hold doctrine of man's potential divinity, 5; + hierophants of Lesser Mysteries, 10; + influence of, upon writers of modern times, 11; + midnight service of, 11; + object of, to unite religion and science, 12; + work with evolved humanity, 9. + +Ruling planet, relation of color of, 132. + +Salamanders, fire spirits, 71; + produce volcanic eruptions, 72. + +"School of Athens," painting of, 29. + +Science discovers spiritual side of universe, 34; + established proofs of spirit survival, 35; + spiritualized by Rosicrucians, 11. + +Sculpture belongs to physical world., 68. + +Second Heaven, ego prepares future environment in, 116; + located in Region of Concrete Thought, 116. + +Seed atom, basis of sub-conscious memory, 156; + etchings of, 37; + sample and center of other dense atoms, 175; + transmits pictures to desire body, 156. + +Sensitives, separation of ethers in vital body of, 136. + +Servia, regicides in, 165. + +Seven Spirits before the Throne, _see_ Planetary Spirits. + +Sex, alternation of, 52. + +Shells, discarded desire bodies, 179; + retain life panorama, 179; + spiritualistic impersonations by, 179. + +Sight, spiritual, accompanies development of pineal gland and pituitary + body, 66; + varieties of, 67. + +Silence, Great, _see_ Great Silence. + +Silence, Voice of, _see_ Voice of the Silence. + +Silver cord holds higher and lower vehicles together, 153; + snapping of, 153. + +Solar fluid, absorption of, by different kingdoms, 124; + aids in digestion, 127; + cleansing power of, 128; + expels disease germs, 127; + muscular movement by means of, 126; + permeates nervous system, 123, 126; + radiates from body, 123; + transformed to rose color, 123, 126. + +Solar rays, direct and indirect, 123; + spiritual illumination from, 123; + three-fold constitution of, 124. + +Soul, differentiated from spirit, 134; + product of breath, 37. + +Soul flights, time non-existent in, 89. + +Soul growth induced by planetary rays, 123. + +Soul power, assimilated from past action, 116; + developed by good action, 38. + +Sound, power of, over matter, 175. + +Spinal cord, absorbs stellar ray, 124. + +Spencer, Herbert, and nebular hypothesis, 162. + +Sphinx, faces east, 28; + riddle of, 28. + +Spirit, threefold (ego) abandons vital body in sleep, 138; + absorbs solar ray, 124; + destined to become creative intelligence, 103; + disembodied, relief of, at leaving body, 161; + distinguished from soul, 134; + drawn to rebirth by desire for experience, 182; + earth-bound, condition of, 144; + encrusted in mind stuff, 101; + free will of, 184; + freedom of, in choosing environment, 183; + has seat in forehead, 124; + immortality of, 39; + improvement in vehicles of, 185; + individualization of, in childhood, 196; + instructed in building archetype, 184; + many earth lives of, 183; + no limitations possible for, 104; + sowing and reaping of, 104; + sufferings of, in purgatory, 163; + uncreate and eternal, 39; + various human relations of, 183; + works with archetypes, 103, 180. + +Spirits, planetary, _see_ Planetary Spirits. + +Spiritual investigations, 63. + +Spiritual powers, _see_ Powers, spiritual. + +Spiritual sight, _see_ Sight, spiritual. + +Spiritual thought, spinal nerves developed by, 125. + +Spirituality followed by materialism, 7. + +Spleen, entrance for solar forces, 123; + transmutation for solar energy in, 123. + +Stellar ray, absorption of, by brain and spinal cord, 124; + animals incapable of absorbing, 124; + induces morality, 123, 190; + threefold nature of, 124. + +Stimulants, effects of, upon dying, 152. + +Storms caused by nature spirits, 71. + +Sub-conscious memory, basis of future life, 156; + consciously utilized, 161; + in seed atom, 155; + retentiveness of, 154. + +Suicide, sufferings of, 174. + +Sun, movements of, 94. + +Superman, evolution of man into, 53. + +Survival after death, established by scientists, 35. + +Sylphs, spirits of mists, 70. + +Tears, white bleeding, 130. + +Temptation, repetition of, 174. + +Theological theory of life, 36-39. + +Third Heaven, few have consciousness in, 182; + in Region of Abstract Thought, 116, 182; + inspiration of philanthropist, 182; + place of awaiting rebirth, 182; + source of inventor's inspiration, 182. + +Thompson, J. J., discovery of electron by, 107. + +Thought, objects of physical world, crystallized, 97, 131; + result of union, idea and mind stuff, 113. + +Thought, world of, earth's finest vehicle, 55; + home of spirit, 58; + knowledge gained in, 100; + makes man's thought possible, 57; + realm of tone, 180; + spirit's work in, 180; + time non-existent in, 101; + tonal vision pertaining to, 67. + +Thought, World of, Region of Abstract Thought, abstract verities of, 106; + Third Heaven in, 116. + +Thought, World of, Region of Concrete Thought, acme of reality, 97; + mind built in, 185; + physical world replica of, 97; + Second Heaven, 116. + +Thymus Gland, function of, 196. + +Time, end of, 112; + relatively non-existent in higher worlds, 92. + +Tobacco, fumes of, disembodied work through, 166. + +Trance, caused by flight of spirit, 140; + kinds of, 140. + +Truth, freedom by, 114; + self-evident in higher worlds, 114. + +Undines, spirits of water, 70. + +Vehicles, improvements in, 185. + +Veil of Isis, 134. + +Vibration, external, transferred to blood, 37; + universality of, 36. + +Vital body, born at seventh year, 195; + collapse of, in sleep, 138; + composed of ether, 122; + connected with spleen, 123; + disintegration of, stops life panorama, 157; + extends beyond dense vehicle, 123; + in sickness lacks solar rays, 128; + in third stage of evolution, 131; + nourishes dense body, 129; + photographed by scientists, 129; + polarity of, 129; + propagation by, 121; + recuperative work of, 138; + second vehicle acquired by man, 186; + separation of ethers of, 137; + war with desire body, 138; + well organized state of, 130. + +Vital Fluid, _see_ Solar fluid. + +Voice of the Silence, 99. + +Volcanic eruptions produced by salamanders, 72. + +Vortices, whirling, of desire body, 131. + +War causes infant mortality, 177, 179. + +Wave of spirituality inspired great religions, 7. + +Whipping children, evil of, 198. + +Will, lack of, racial defect, 198. + +Wind, changes of, caused by sylphs, 71. + +Word, Creative Fiat, 109. + +Word, creative, and key-note, 100; + God was, 106; + power of, 110, 193; + still sounds in cosmos, 112. + +World, Desire, _see_ Desire World. + +World of Thought, _see_ Thought, World of. + +World, physical, world of form, 68. + +Worlds, higher, difficulty of investigating, 32. + +Yellow in stellar ray, life of Son, 124; + produces consciousness, 188. + +Zoroastrian religion, deities of, 86. + + + + + +ADVERTISEMENTS + + +Rays From the Rose Cross + +_The American Mystic Monthly_ + +A Monthly Magazine of Mystic Light devoted to philosophy, occultism, +mystic masonry, astrology, and healing. + +_Those who desire knowledge and guidance along the Path of the Western +Wisdom Teachings will find this magazine a constant aid._ + +It expounds and supports occult and mystical philosophy in a most +instructive and interesting manner. 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You may copy it, + give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project + Gutenberg License <a href="#pglicense" class="tei tei-ref">included with this + eBook</a> or online at <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/license" class="tei tei-xref">http://www.gutenberg.org/license</a></p></div><pre class="pre tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 3.00em; margin-top: 3.00em">Title: The Rosicrucian Mysteries + +Author: Max Heindel + +Release Date: August 30, 2009 [Ebook #29855] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ROSICRUCIAN MYSTERIES*** +</pre></div> + </div> + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> + + </div> + + <hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">The</p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.73em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Rosicrucian Mysteries</span></p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">An Elementary Exposition of</p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.44em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Their Secret Teachings</span></p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">By</p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.44em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Max Heindel</span></p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">Author of: The Rosicrucian +Cosmo Conception, The Rosicrucian Philosophy in Questions and Answers, The +Rosicrucian Interpretation of Christianity, Rays from the Rose Cross, etc.</p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.20em"><span style="font-size: 120%">Third Edition</span></p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.44em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Rosicrucian Fellowship</span></p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.20em"><span style="font-size: 120%">Oceanside, California</span></p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">London</p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">L. N. Fowler, 7 Imperial Arcade</p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ludgate Circus. E. C.</p> + </div> + <hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Contents</span></h1> + <ul class="tei tei-index tei-index-toc"><li><a href="#toc1">Chapter I. The Order of Rosicrucians and the Rosicrucian Fellowship</a></li><li><a href="#toc3">Chapter II. The Problem of Life and Its Solution</a></li><li><a href="#toc5">Chapter III. The Visible and the Invisible World</a></li><li><a href="#toc7">Chapter IV. The Constitution of Man</a></li><li><a href="#toc9">Chapter V. Life and Death</a></li><li><a href="#toc11">Mt. Ecclesia</a></li><li><a href="#toc13">Index</a></li></ul> + </div> + + </div> +<div class="tei tei-body" style="margin-bottom: 6.00em; margin-top: 6.00em"> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page005">[pg 005]</span><a name="Pg005" id="Pg005" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc1" id="toc1"></a> +<a name="pdf2" id="pdf2"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Chapter I. The Order of Rosicrucians and the Rosicrucian Fellowship</span></h1> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Our Message And Mission +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">A Sane Mind</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">A Soft Heart</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">A Sound Body</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Before entering upon an explanation of +the teachings of the Rosicrucians, it may be +well to say a word about them and about the +place they hold in the evolution of humanity. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +For reasons to be given later these teachings +advocate the dualistic view; they hold +that man is a spirit enfolding all the powers +of God as the seed enfolds the plant, and +that these powers are being slowly unfolded +by a series of existences in a gradually improving +earthy body; also that this process +of development has been performed under +the guidance of exalted beings who are yet +ordering our steps, though in a decreasing +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page006">[pg 006]</span><a name="Pg006" id="Pg006" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +measure, as we gradually acquire intellect +and will. These exalted Beings, though unseen +to the physical eyes, are nevertheless +potent factors in all affairs of life, and give +to the various groups of humanity lessons +which will most efficiently promote the +growth of their spiritual powers. In fact, +the earth may be likened to a vast training +school in which there are pupils of varying +age and ability as we find it in one of our +own schools. There are the savages, living +and worshipping under most primitive conditions, +seeing in stick or stone a God. Then, +as man progresses onwards and upwards in +the scale of civilization, we find a higher and +higher conception of Deity, which has flowered +here in our Western World in the beautiful +Christian religion that now furnishes +our spiritual inspiration and incentive to +improve. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +These various religions have been given +to each group of humanity by the exalted +beings whom we know in the Christian religion +as the Recording Angels, whose wonderful +prevision enable them to view the +trend of even so unstable a quantity as the +human mind, and thus they are enabled to +determine what steps are necessary to lead +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page007">[pg 007]</span><a name="Pg007" id="Pg007" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +our enfoldment along the lines congruous to +the highest universal good. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +When we study the history of the ancient +nations we shall find that at about six hundred +years B. C. a great spiritual wave had +its inception on the Eastern shores of the +Pacific Ocean where the great Confucian Religion +accelerated the progress of the Chinese +nation, then also the Religion of the +Buddha commenced to win its millions of +adherents in India, and still further West +we have the lofty philosophy of Pythagoras. +Each system was suited to the needs of the +particular people to whom it was sent. Then +came the period of the Sceptics, in Greece, +and later, traveling westward the same spiritual +wave is manifested as the Christian +religion of the so-called <span class="tei tei-q">“Dark Ages”</span> when +the dogma of a dominant church compelled +belief from the whole of Western Europe. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It is a law in the universe that a wave of +spiritual awakening is always followed by +a period of doubting materialism, each +phase is necessary in order that the spirit +may receive equal development of heart and +intellect without being carried too far in +either direction. The Great Beings aforementioned, +Who care for our progress, always +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page008">[pg 008]</span><a name="Pg008" id="Pg008" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +take steps to safeguard humanity +against that danger, and when they foresaw +the wave of materialism which commenced +in the sixteenth century with the +birth of our modern Science, they took +steps to protect the West as they had formerly +safeguarded the East against the +Sceptics who were held in check by the Mystery +schools. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In the thirteenth century there appeared +in central Europe a great spiritual teacher +whose symbolical name was +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Christian Rosenkreuz.<br /> +or<br /> +Christian Rose Cross. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +who founded the mysterious Order of the +Rosy Cross, concerning which so many speculations +have been made and so little has +become known to the world at large, for it +is the Mystery school of the West and is +only open to those who have attained the +stage of spiritual unfoldment necessary to +be initiated in its secrets concerning the +Science of Life and Being. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +If we are so far developed that we are +able to leave our dense physical body and +take a soul flight into interplanetary space +we shall find that the ultimate physical atom +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page009">[pg 009]</span><a name="Pg009" id="Pg009" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +is spherical in shape like our earth; it is a +ball. When we take a number of balls of +even size and group them around one, it will +take just twelve balls to hide a thirteenth +within. Thus the twelve visible and the one +hidden are numbers revealing a cosmic relationship +and as all Mystery Orders are +based upon cosmic lines, they are composed +of twelve members gathered around a thirteenth +who is the invisible <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">head</span></em>. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +There are seven colors in the spectrum: +red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and +violet. But between the violet and the red +there are still other five colors which are +invisible to the physical eye but reveal +themselves to the spiritual sight. In every +Mystery Order there are also seven brothers +who at times go out into the world and there +perform whatever work may be necessary to +advance the people among whom they serve, +but five are never seen outside the temple. +They work with and teach those alone who +have passed through certain stages of spiritual +unfoldment and are able to visit the +temple in their spiritual bodies; a feat +taught in the first initiation which usually +takes place outside the temple as it is not +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page010">[pg 010]</span><a name="Pg010" id="Pg010" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +convenient for all to visit that place physically. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Let not the reader imagine that this initiation +makes the pupil a Rosicrucian, it does +not, any more than admission to a High +School makes a boy a member of the faculty. +Nor does he become a Rosicrucian even after +having passed through all the nine degrees +of this or any other Mystery School. +The Rosicrucians are Hierophants of the +lesser Mysteries, and beyond them there are +still schools wherein Greater Mysteries are +taught. Those who have advanced through +the lesser Mysteries and have become pupils +of the Greater Mysteries are called Adepts, +but even they have not reached the exalted +standpoint of the twelve Brothers of the Rosicrucian +Order or the Hierophants of any +other lesser Mystery School any more than +the freshman at college has attained to the +knowledge and position of a teacher in the +High school from which he has just graduated. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A later work will deal with initiation, but +we may say here that the door of a genuine +Mystery School is not unlocked by a golden +key, but is only opened as a reward for meritorious +service to humanity and any one +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page011">[pg 011]</span><a name="Pg011" id="Pg011" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +who advertises himself as a Rosicrucian or +makes a charge for tuition, by either of +those acts shows himself to be a charlatan. +The true pupil of any Mystery School is far +too modest to advertise the fact, he will +scorn all titles or honors from men, he will +have no regard for riches save the riches of +love given to him by those whom it becomes +his privilege to help and teach. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In the centuries that have gone by since +the Rosicrucian Order was first formed they +have worked quietly and secretly, aiming to +mould the thought of Western Europe +through the works of Paracelsus, Boehme, +Bacon, Shakespeare, Fludd and others. Each +night at midnight when the physical activities +of the day are at their lowest ebb, and +the spiritual impulse at its highest flood +tide, they have sent out from their temple +soul-stirring vibrations to counteract materialism +and to further the development of +soul powers. To their activities we owe the +gradual spiritualization of our once so materialistic +science. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +With the commencement of the twentieth +century a further step was taken. It was realized +that something must be done to make +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page012">[pg 012]</span><a name="Pg012" id="Pg012" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +religion scientific as well as to make science +religious, in order that they may ultimately +blend; for at the present time heart and intellect +are divorced. The heart instinctively +feels the truth of religious teachings concerning +such wonderful mysteries as the Immaculate +Conception (the Mystic Birth), the +Crucifixion (the Mystic Death), the cleansing +blood, the atonement, and other doctrines of +the Church, which the intellect refuses to believe, +as they are incapable of demonstration, +and seemingly at war with natural law. Material +advancement may be furthered when +intellect is dominant and the longings of the +heart unsatisfied, but soul growth will be retarded +until the heart also receives satisfaction. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In order to give the world a teaching so +blended that it will satisfy both the mind and +heart, a messenger must be found and instructed. +Certain unusual qualifications were +necessary, and the first one chosen failed to +pass a certain test after several years had +been spent to prepare him for the work to be +done. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It is well said that there is a time to sow, +and a time to reap, and that there are certain +times for all the works of life, and in accordance +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page013">[pg 013]</span><a name="Pg013" id="Pg013" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +with this law of periodicity each impulse +in spiritual uplift must also be undertaken at +an appropriate time to be successful. The +first and sixth decades of each century are +particularly propitious to commence the promulgation +of new spiritual teachings. Therefore +the Rosicrucians were much concerned at +this failure, for only five years were left of +the first decade of the twentieth century. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Their second choice of a messenger fell +upon the present writer, though he knew it +not at the time, and by shaping circumstances +about him they made it possible for him to +begin a period of preparation for the work +they desired him to do. Three years later, +when he had gone to Germany, also because +of circumstances shaped by the invisible +Brotherhood, and was on the verge of despair +at the discovery that the light which was the +object of his quest, was only a jack-o-lantern, +the Brothers of the Rosicrucian Order applied +the test to see whether he would be a +faithful messenger and give the teachings +they desired to entrust to him, to the world. +And when he had passed the trial they gave +him the monumental solution of the problem +of existence first published in <span class="tei tei-q">“<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Rosicrucian +Cosmo Conception</span></span>”</span> in November, 1909, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page014">[pg 014]</span><a name="Pg014" id="Pg014" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +more than a year before the expiration of the +first decade of the twentieth century. This +book marked a new era in so-called <span class="tei tei-q">“occult”</span> +literature, and the many editions which have +since been published, as well as the thousands +of letters which continue to come to the +author, are speaking testimonies to the fact +that people are finding in this teaching a satisfaction +they have long sought elsewhere in +vain. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Rosicrucians teach that all great religions +have been given to the people among +whom they are found, by Divine Intelligences +who designed each system of worship to suit +the needs of the race or nation to whom it +was given. A primitive people cannot respond +to a lofty and sublime religion, and +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">vice versa</span></span>. What helps one race would hinder +another, and in pursuance of the same +policy there has been devised a system of +soul-unfoldment suited specially to the Western +people, who are racially and temperamentally +unfit to undergo the discipline of the +Eastern school, which was designed for the +more backward Hindoos. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">The Rosicrucian Fellowship</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +For the purpose of promulgating the Rosicrucian +teachings in the Western World, the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page015">[pg 015]</span><a name="Pg015" id="Pg015" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +Rosicrucian Fellowship was founded in 1909. +It is the herald of the Aquarian Age, when +the Sun by its precessional passage through +the constellation Aquarius will bring out all +the intellectual and spiritual potencies in man +which are symbolized by that sign. As heat +from a fire warms all objects within the +sphere of its radiations, so also the Aquarian +ray will raise the earth's vibrations to a pitch +we are as yet unable to comprehend, though +we have demonstrations of the <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">material</span></em> workings +of this force in the inventions which have +revolutionized life within the memory of the +present generation. We have wondered at +the X-ray, which sees through the human +body, but each one has a sense latent which +when evolved will enable him to see through +any number of bodies or to any distance. We +marvel at the telephone conversations across +the continent of America, but each has within +a latent sense of speech and hearing that is +far more acute; we are surprised at the exploits +of ships under sea and in the sky, but +we are all capable of passage under water or +through the sky; nay, more, we may pass +unscathed through the solid rock and the raging +fire, if we know how, and lightning itself +is slow compared to the speed with which we +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page016">[pg 016]</span><a name="Pg016" id="Pg016" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +may travel. This sounds like a fairy tale today, +as did Jules Verne's stories a generation +ago, but the Aquarian Age will witness the +realization of these dreams, and ever so much +more that we still do not even dream of. Such +faculties will then be the possessions of large +numbers of people who will have gradually +evolved them as previously the ability to walk, +speak, hear, and see, were developed. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Therein lies a great danger, for, obviously, +anyone endowed with such faculties may use +them to the greatest detriment of the world +at large, unless restrained by a spirit of +unselfishness and an all-embracing altruism. +Therefore religion is needed today as never +before, to foster love and fellow-feeling +among humanity so that it may be prepared to +use the great gifts in store for it wisely and +well. This need of religion is specially felt in +a certain class where the ether is more loosely +knit to the physical atoms than in the majority, +and on that account they are now beginning +to sense the Aquarian vibrations. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +This class is again divided in two groups. +In one the intellect is dominant, and the people +in that class therefore seek to grasp the +spiritual mysteries out of curiosity from the +viewpoint of cold reason. They pursue the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page017">[pg 017]</span><a name="Pg017" id="Pg017" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +path of knowledge for the sake of knowledge, +considering that an end in itself. The idea +that knowledge is of value only when put to +practical constructive use does not seem to +have presented itself to them. This class we +may call <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">occultists</span></em>. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The other group does not care for knowledge, +but feels an inner urge God-ward, and +pursues the path of devotion to the high ideal +set before them in Christ, doing the deeds that +He did as far their flesh will permit, and this +in time results in an interior illumination +which brings with it all the knowledge obtained +by the other class, and much more. +This class we may describe as <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">mystics</span></em>. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Certain dangers confront each of the two +groups. If the occultist obtains illumination +and evolves within himself the latent spiritual +faculties, he may use them for the furtherance +of his personal objects, to the great detriment +of his fellow-men. That is black magic, and +the punishment which it <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">automatically</span></em> calls +down upon the head of the perpetrator is so +awful that it is best to draw the veil over it. +The mystic may also err because of ignorance, +and fall into the meshes of nature's law, but +being actuated by love, his mistakes will never +be very serious, and as he grows in grace the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page018">[pg 018]</span><a name="Pg018" id="Pg018" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +soundless voice within his heart will speak +more distinctly to teach him the way. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Rosicrucian Fellowship endeavors to +prepare the world in general, and the sensitives +of the two groups in particular, for the +awakening of the latent powers in man, so +that all may be guided safely through the +danger-zone and be as well fitted as possible +to use these new faculties. Effort is made to +blend the love without which Paul declared a +knowledge of all mysteries worthless, with a +mystic knowledge rooted and grounded in +love, so that the pupils of this school may +become <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">living</span></em> exponents of this blended soul-science +of the Western Wisdom School, and +gradually educate humanity at large in the +virtues necessary to make the possession of +higher powers safe. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Note</span></span>:— +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Pages 19 to 26 inclusive, describing Mt. Ecclesia, +have been transferred to the back of the book.</span></span> +(Transcriber's Note: They are pages <a href="#Pg191" class="tei tei-ref">191</a> through +<a href="#Pg200" class="tei tei-ref">200</a>.) +</p> + +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page027">[pg 027]</span><a name="Pg027" id="Pg027" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc3" id="toc3"></a> +<a name="pdf4" id="pdf4"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Chapter II. The Problem of Life and Its Solution</span></h1> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +THE PROBLEM OF LIFE. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Among all the vicissitudes of life, which +vary in each individual's experience, there +is one event which sooner or later comes +to everyone—Death! No matter what our +station in life, whether the life lived has +been a laudable one or the reverse, whether +great achievements have marked our path +among men, whether health or sickness have +been our lot, whether we have been famous +and surrounded by a host of admiring friends +or have wandered unknown through the years +of our life, at some time there comes a moment +when we stand alone before the portal +of death and are forced to take the leap into +the dark. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The thought of this leap and of what lies +beyond must inevitably force itself upon +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page028">[pg 028]</span><a name="Pg028" id="Pg028" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +every thinking person. In the years of +youth and health, when the bark of our life +sails upon seas of prosperity, when all appears +beautiful and bright, we may put the +thought behind us, but there will surely +come a time in the life of every thinking person +when the problem of life and death forces +itself upon his consciousness and refuses +to be set aside. Neither will it help +him to accept the ready made solution of +anyone else without thought and in blind belief, +for this is a basic problem which every +one must solve for himself or herself in order +to obtain satisfaction. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Upon the Eastern edge of the Desert of +Sahara there stands the world-famous +Sphinx with its inscrutable face turned toward +the East, ever greeting the sun as its +rising rays herald the newborn day. It was +said in the Greek myth that it was the wont +of this monster to ask a riddle of each traveler. +She devoured those who could not answer, +but when Oedipus solved the riddle she +destroyed herself. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The riddle which she asked of men was +the riddle of life and death, a query which +is as relevant today as ever, and which each +one must answer or be devoured in the jaws +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page029">[pg 029]</span><a name="Pg029" id="Pg029" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +of death. But when once a person has found +the solution to the problem, it will appear +that in reality there is no death, that what +appears so, is but a change from one state +of <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">existence</span></em> to another. Thus, for the man +who finds the true solution to the riddle of +life, the sphinx of death has ceased to exist, +and he can lift his voice in the triumphant +cry <span class="tei tei-q">“Oh death where is thy sting, oh +grave where is thy victory.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Various theories of life have been advocated +to solve this problem of life. We may +divide them into two classes, namely <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">the +monistic theory</span></em>, which holds that all the +facts of life can be explained by reference +to this visible world wherein we live, and <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">the +dualistic theory</span></em>, which refers part of the +phenomenon of life to another world which +is now invisible to us. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Raphael in his famous painting <span class="tei tei-q">“the +School of Athens”</span> has most aptly pictured +to us the attitude of these two schools of +thought. We see upon that marvelous +painting a Greek Court such as those wherein +philosophers were once wont to congregate. +Upon the various steps which lead into +the building a large number of men are +engaged in deep conversation, but in the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page030">[pg 030]</span><a name="Pg030" id="Pg030" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +center at the top of the steps stand two +figures, supposedly of Plato and Aristotle, +one pointing upwards, the other towards the +earth, each looking the other in the face, +mutely, but with deeply concentrated will. +Each seeking to convince the other that his +attitude is right for each bears the conviction +in his heart. One holds that he is of +the earth earthy, that he has come from the +dust and that thereto he will return, the +other firmly advocates the position that +there is a higher something which has always +existed and will continue regardless of +whether the body wherein it now dwells +holds together or not. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The question who is right is still an open +one with the majority of mankind. Millions +of tons of paper and printer's ink have +been used in futile attempts to settle it by +argument, but it will always remain open to +all who have not solved the riddle themselves, +for it is a basic problem, a part of the +life experience of every human being to +settle that question, and therefore no one +can give us the solution ready made for our +acceptance. All that can be done by those +who have really solved the problem, is to +show to others the line along which they +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page031">[pg 031]</span><a name="Pg031" id="Pg031" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +have found the solution, and thus direct the +inquirer how he also may arrive at a conclusion. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +That is the aim of this little book; not to +offer a solution to the problem of life to be +taken blindly, on faith in the author's ability +of investigation. The teachings herein +set forth are those handed down by the +Great Western Mystery School of the Rosicrucian +Order and are the result of the concurrent +testimony of a long line of trained +Seers given to the author and supplemented +by his own independent investigation of the +realms traversed by the spirit in its cyclic +path from the invisible world to this plane +of existence and back again. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Nevertheless, the student is warned that +the writer may have misunderstood some of +the teachings and that despite the greatest +care he may have taken a wrong view of +that which he believes to have seen in the invisible +world where the possibilities of making +a mistake are legion. Here in the world +which we view about us the forms are stable +and do not easily change, but in the world +around us which is perceptible only by the +spiritual sight, we may say that there is in reality +no form, but that all is life. At least the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page032">[pg 032]</span><a name="Pg032" id="Pg032" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +forms are so changeable that the metamorphosis +recounted in fairy stories is discounted +there to an amazing degree, and therefore we +have the surprising revelations of mediums +and other untrained clairvoyants who, +though they may be perfectly honest, are deceived +by illusions of <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">form</span></em> which is evanescent, +because they are incapable of viewing +the <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">life</span></em> that is the permanent basis of that +form. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +We must learn to see in this world. The +new-born babe has no conception of distance +and will reach for things far, far beyond its +grasp until it has learned to gauge its capacity. +A blind man who acquires the faculty +of sight, or has it restored by an operation, +will at first be inclined to close his eyes +when moving from place to place, and declare +that it is easier to walk by feeling than +by sight; that is because he has not learned +to use his newly acquired faculty. Similarly +the man whose spiritual vision has been +newly opened requires to be trained, in fact +he is in much greater need thereof than the +babe and the blind man already mentioned. +Denied that training he would be like a new-born +babe placed in a nursery where the +walls are lined with mirrors of different +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page033">[pg 033]</span><a name="Pg033" id="Pg033" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +convex and concave curvatures, which +would distort its own shape and the forms +of its attendants. If allowed to grow up in +such surroundings and unable to see the real +shapes of itself and its nurses it would naturally +believe that it saw many different and +distorted shapes where in reality the mirrors +were responsible for the illusion. Were the +persons concerned in such an experiment +and the child taken out of the illusory surroundings, +it would be incapable of recognizing +them until the matter had been +properly explained. There are similar +dangers of illusion to those who have developed +spiritual sight, until they have been +trained to discount the refraction and to +view the <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">life</span></em> which is permanent and stable, +disregarding the <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">form</span></em> which is evanescent +and changeable. The danger of getting +things out of focus always remains however +and is so subtle that the writer feels an imperative +duty to warn his readers to take all +statements concerning the unseen world +with the proverbial grain of salt, for he has +no intention to deceive. He is therefore inclined +rather to magnify than to minimize +his limitations and would advise the student +to accept nothing from the author's pen +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page034">[pg 034]</span><a name="Pg034" id="Pg034" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +without reasoning it out for himself. Thus, +if he is deceived, he will be self-deceived and +the author is blameless. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Three Theories of Life.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Only three noteworthy theories have been +offered as solutions to the riddle of existence +and in order that the reader may be +able to make the important choice between +them, we will state briefly what they are and +give some of the arguments which lead us +to advocate the doctrine of Rebirth as the +method which favors soul-growth and the ultimate +attainment of perfection, thus offering +the best solution to the problem of life. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +1) <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">The Materialistic Theory</span></span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">teaches that +life is but a short journey from the cradle to +the grave, that there is no higher intelligence +in the universe than man; that his +mind is produced by certain correlations of +matter and that therefore death, and dissolution +of the body terminate existence.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +There was a day when the arguments of +Materialistic philosophers seemed convincing, +but as science advances it discovers +more and more that there is a spiritual side +to the universe. That life and consciousness +may exist without being able to give us a +sign, has been amply proven in the cases +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page035">[pg 035]</span><a name="Pg035" id="Pg035" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +where a person who was entranced and +thought dead for days has suddenly awakened +and told all that had taken place around +the body. Such eminent scientists as Sir +Oliver Lodge, Camille Flammarion, Lombroso +and other men of highest intelligence and +scientific training, have unequivocally stated +as the result of their investigations, that the +intelligence which we call man survives +death of the body and lives on in our midst +as independently of whether we see them or +not as light and color exist all about the +blind man regardless of the fact that he +does not perceive them. These scientists +have reached their conclusion after years of +careful investigation. They have found that +the so-called dead can, and under certain circumstances +do, communicate with us in such +a manner that mistake is out of the question. +We maintain that their testimony is worth +more than the argument of materialism to +the contrary, for it is based upon years of +careful investigation, it is in harmony with +such well established laws as <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">the law of conservation +of matter</span></span> and <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">the law of conservation +of energy</span></span>. Mind is a form of energy, +and immune from destruction as claimed by +the materialist. Therefore we disbar the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page036">[pg 036]</span><a name="Pg036" id="Pg036" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +materialistic theory as unsound, because out +of harmony with the laws of nature and with +well established facts. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +2) <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">The Theory of Theology</span></span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">claims that +just prior to each birth a soul is created by +God and enters into the world where it lives +for a time varying from a few minutes to a +few score of years; that at the end of this +short span of life it returns through the portal +of death to the invisible beyond, where +it remains forever in a condition of happiness +or misery according to the deeds done +in the body during the few years it lived here</span></span>. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Plato insisted upon the necessity of a +clear definition of terms as a basis of argument +and we contend that that is as +necessary in discussing the problem of life +from the Bible point of view as in arguments +from the platonic standpoint. According +to the Bible man is a composite being +consisting of body, soul and spirit. The two +latter are usually taken to be synonymous, +but we insist that they are not interchangeable +and present the following to support +our dictum. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +All things are in a state of vibration. Vibrations +from objects in our surroundings +are constantly impinging upon us and carry +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page037">[pg 037]</span><a name="Pg037" id="Pg037" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +to our senses a cognition of the external +world. The vibrations in the ether act upon +our eyes so that we see, and vibrations in the +air transmit sounds to the ear. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +We also breathe the ether which is +charged with pictures of our surroundings +and the sounds in our environment, so +that by means of the breath we receive at +each moment of our life, <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">internally</span></em> an accurate +picture of our external surroundings. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +That is a scientific proposition. Science +does not explain what becomes of these vibrations +however, but according to the Rosicrucian +Mystery teaching they are transmitted +to the blood, and then etched upon a +little atom in the heart as automatically as +a moving picture is imprinted upon the sensitized +film, and a record of sounds is engraven +upon the phonographic disc. This +breath-record starts with the first breath of +the newborn babe and ends only with the +last gasp of the dying man, and <span class="tei tei-q">“soul”</span> is a +product of the breath. Genesis also shows +the connection between breath and soul in the +words: <span class="tei tei-q">“And the Lord God formed man of +the dust of the ground, and breathed into his +nostrils the breath of life; and man became +a living soul”</span> (The same word: <span class="tei tei-foreign"><span style="font-style: italic">nephesh</span></span>, is +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page038">[pg 038]</span><a name="Pg038" id="Pg038" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +translated breath and soul in the above quotation.) +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In the post mortem existence the breath-record +is disposed of. The good acts of life +produce feelings of pleasure and the intensity +of attraction incorporates them into the +spirit as soul-power. <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">Thus the breath-records +of our good acts are the soul which is +saved</span></em>, for by the union with the spirit they +become immortal. As they accumulate life +after life, we become more soulful and they +are thus also the basis of soulgrowth. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The record of our evil acts is also derived +from our breath in the moments when +they were committed. The pain and suffering +they bring cause the spirit to expel the +breath-record from its being in Purgatory. +As that cannot exist independently of the +life-giving spirit, the breath-record of our +sins disintegrates upon expurgation, and +thus we see that <span class="tei tei-q">“the soul that sinneth, it +shall die.”</span> The memory of the suffering +incidental to expurgation however, remains +with the spirit as <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">conscience</span></em>, to deter from +repetition of the same evil in later lives. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Thus both our good and evil acts are recorded +through the agency of the breath, +which is therefore the basis of the soul, but +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page039">[pg 039]</span><a name="Pg039" id="Pg039" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +while the breath-record of good acts amalgamates +with the spirit and lives on forever +as an immortal soul, the breath-record of evil +deeds is disintegrated; it is the soul that sinneth +and dies. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +While the Bible teaches that immortality +of the soul is conditional upon well-doing, it +makes no distinction in respect of the spirit. +The statement is clear and emphatic that +when ... <span class="tei tei-q">“The silver cord be loosed ... then +shall the dust return to the earth as it was +and the spirit shall return to God who gave +it.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Thus the Bible teaches that the body is +made of dust and returns thereto, that a +part of the soul generated in the breath is +perishable, but that the spirit survives bodily +death and persists forever. Therefore a +<span class="tei tei-q">“lost soul”</span> in the common acceptance of +that term is not a Bible teaching, for the +spirit is uncreate and eternal as God Himself, +and therefore the orthodox theory cannot +be true. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +3) <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">The Theory of Rebirths</span></span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">which teaches +that each spirit is an integral part of God, +that it enfolds all divine possibilities as the +acorn enfolds the oak; that by means of +many existences in an earthy body of gradually +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page040">[pg 040]</span><a name="Pg040" id="Pg040" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-style: italic"> +improving texture its latent powers +are being slowly unfolded and become available +as dynamic energy; that none can be +lost but that all will ultimately attain to perfection +and reunion with God, each bringing +with it the accumulated experience which is +the fruitage of its pilgrimage through matter.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Or, as we may poetically express it: +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +WE ARE ETERNAL. +</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">On whistling stormcloud; on Zephyrus wing,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">The Spirit-choir loud the World-anthems sing</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Hark! Lis't to their voice </span><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">we have passed through death's door</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">There's no Death; rejoice! life lives evermore.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">We are, have always been, will ever be.</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">We are a portion of Eternity</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Older than Creation, a part of One Great Whole,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Is each Individual and immortal Soul.</span></div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page041">[pg 041]</span><a name="Pg041" id="Pg041" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">On Time's whirring loom our garments we've wrought</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Eternally weave we on network of Thought,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Our kin and our country, by Mind brought to birth,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Were patterned in heaven ere molded on earth.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">We have shone in the Jewel and danced on the Wave,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">We have sparkled in Fire defying the grave;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Through shapes everchanging, in size, kind and name</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Our individual essence still is the same.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">And when we have reached to the highest of all,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">The gradations of growth our minds shall recall</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">So that link by link we may join them together</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">And trace step by step the way we reached thither.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Thus in time we shall know, if only we do</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">What lifts, ennobles, is right and true.</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">With kindness to all; with malice to none,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">That in and through us God's will may be done.</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page042">[pg 042]</span><a name="Pg042" id="Pg042" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +We venture to make the assertion that +there is but one sin: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Ignorance</span></span> and but one +salvation: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Applied Knowledge</span></span>. Even the +wisest among us know but little of what may +be learned, however, and no one has attained +to perfection, or can attain in one single +short life, but we note that everywhere in nature +slow persistent unfoldment makes for +higher and higher development of every +thing and we call this process evolution. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +One of the chief characteristics of evolution +lies in the fact that it manifests in alternating +periods of activity and rest. The +busy summer, when all things upon earth are +exerting themselves to bring forth, is followed +by the rest and inactivity of winter. The +busy day alternates with the quiet of night. +The ebb of the ocean is succeeded by the +flood-tide. Thus, as all other things move in +cycles, the life that expresses itself here upon +earth for a few years is not to be thought +of as ended when death has been reached, +but as surely as the sun rises in the morning +after having set at night, will the life that +was ended by the death of one body be taken +up again in a new vehicle and in a different +environment. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page043">[pg 043]</span><a name="Pg043" id="Pg043" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +This earth may in fact be likened to a +school to which we return life after life to +learn new lessons, as our children go to +school day after day to increase their knowledge. +The child sleeps through the night +which intervenes between two days at school +and the spirit also has its rest from active +life between death and a new birth. There +are also different classes in this world-school +which correspond to the various +grades from kindergarten to college. In the +lower classes we find spirits who have gone +to the school of life but a few times, they +are savages now, but in time they will become +wiser and better than we are, and we +ourselves shall progress in future lives to +spiritual heights of which we cannot even conceive +at the present. If we apply ourselves to +learn the lessons of life, we shall of +course advance much faster in the school of +life than if we dilly-dally and idle our time +away. This, on the same principle which governs +in one of our own institutions of learning. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +We are not here then, by the caprice of +God. He has not placed one in clover and +another in a desert nor has He given one a +healthy body so that he may live at ease +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page044">[pg 044]</span><a name="Pg044" id="Pg044" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +from pain and sickness, while He placed another +in poor circumstances with never a +rest from pain. But what we are, we are, on +account of our own diligence or negligence, +and what we shall be in the future depends +upon what we will to be and not upon Divine +caprice or upon inexorable fate. No matter +what the circumstances, it lies with us to +master them, or to be mastered, as we will. +Sir Edwin Arnold puts the teaching most +beautifully in his <span class="tei tei-q">“Light of Asia.”</span> +</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">The Books say well, my Brothers! each man's life</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">The outcome of his former living is;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">The bygone wrongs bring forth sorrows and woes</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">The bygone right breeds bliss.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Each has such lordship as the loftiest ones</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Nay for with powers around, above, below</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">As with all flesh and whatsoever lives</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">Act</span></em><span style="font-size: 90%"> maketh joy or woe.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Who toiled a slave may come anew a prince</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">For gentle worthiness and merit won;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Who ruled a king may wander earth in rags</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">For things done or undone.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span></div> +</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page045">[pg 045]</span><a name="Pg045" id="Pg045" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Or, as an unknown poet says: +</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">One ship sails East and another sails West</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">With the self same winds that blow.</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">'Tis the set of the sail, and not the gale,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Which determines the way they go.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">As the winds of the sea are the ways of fate</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">As we voyage along through life.</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">'Tis the act of the soul, which determines the goal</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">And not the calm or the strife.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span></div> +</div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +When we wish to engage someone to undertake +a certain mission we choose some one +whom we think particularly fitted to fulfill +the requirements and we must suppose that +a Divine Being would use at least as much +common sense, and not choose anyone to go +his errand who was not fitted therefor. So +when we read in the Bible that Samson was +foreordained to be the slayer of the Philistines +and that Jeremiah was predestined to +be a prophet, it is but logical to suppose that +they must have been particularly suited to +such occupation. John the Baptist also, was +born to be a herald of the coming Savior and +to preach the kingdom of God which is to +take the place of the kingdom of men. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page046">[pg 046]</span><a name="Pg046" id="Pg046" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Had these people had no previous training, +how could they have developed such a +fitness to fulfill their various missions, and +if they had been fitted, how else could they +have received their training if not in earlier +lives? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Jews believed in the Doctrine of Rebirth +or they would not have asked John the +Baptist if he were Elijah, as recorded in the +first chapter of John. The Apostles of +Christ also held the belief as we may see +from the incident recorded in the sixteenth +chapter of Matthew where the Christ asked +them the question: <span class="tei tei-q">“Whom do men say that +I the Son of Man am?”</span> The Apostles replied: +<span class="tei tei-q">“Some say that Thou art John the +Baptist; some, Elias; and others Jeremias or +one of the Prophets.”</span> Upon this occasion +the Christ tacitly assented to the teaching +of Rebirth because He did not correct the disciples +as would have been His plain duty in +His capacity as teacher, when the pupils entertained +a mistaken idea. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +But to Nicodemus He said unequivocally: +<span class="tei tei-q">“Except a man be born again, he cannot see +the kingdom of God”</span> and in the eleventh +chapter of Matthew, the fourteenth verse, He +said, speaking of John the Baptist: <span class="tei tei-q">“<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">this +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page047">[pg 047]</span><a name="Pg047" id="Pg047" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-style: italic"> +is Elijah</span></em>,”</span> in the seventeenth chapter of +Matthew, the twelfth verse, He said: <span class="tei tei-q">“Elijah +has come already and they knew him not, +but have done to him whatsoever they listed, ... +then the disciples understood +that he spoke to them of John the Baptist.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Thus we maintain that the Doctrine of Rebirth +offers the only solution to the problem +of life which is in harmony with the laws of +nature, which answers the ethical requirements +of the case and permits us to love God +without blinding our reason to the inequalities +of life and the varying circumstances +which give to a few the ease and comfort, the +health and wealth, which are denied to the +many. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The theory of Heredity advanced by Materialists +applies only to the <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">form</span></em>, for as a +carpenter uses material from a certain pile +of lumber to build a house in which he afterwards +lives, so does the spirit take the substance +wherewith to build its house from the +parents. The carpenter cannot build a house +of hard wood from spruce lumber and the +spirit also must build a body which is like +those from which the material was taken, but +the theory of Heredity does not apply upon +the moral plane, for it is a notorious fact, +that in the rogues galleries of America and +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page048">[pg 048]</span><a name="Pg048" id="Pg048" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +Europe there is no case where both father +and son are represented. Thus the sons of +criminals, though they have the tendencies +to crime, keep out of the clutches of the law. +Neither will Heredity hold good upon the +plane of the intellect, for many cases may +be cited where a genius and an idiot spring +from the same stock. The great Cuvier, +whose brain was of about the same weight, +as Daniel Webster's, and whose intellect was +as great, had five children who all died of +paresis, the brother of Alexander the Great +was an idiot, and thus we hold that another +solution must be found to account for the +facts of life. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The law of Rebirth coupled with its companion +law, the law of Causation does that. +When we die after one life, we return to +earth later, under circumstances determined +by the manner in which we lived before. The +gambler is drawn to pool parlors and race +tracks to associate with others of like taste, +the musician is attracted to the concert halls +and music studios, by congenial spirits, and +the returning Ego also carries with it its +likes and dislikes which cause it to seek parents +among the class to which it belongs. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page049">[pg 049]</span><a name="Pg049" id="Pg049" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +But then someone will point to cases where +we find people of entirely opposite tastes living +lives of torture, because grouped in the +same family, and forced by circumstances to +stay there contrary to their wills. But that +does not vitiate the law in the slightest, in +each life we contract certain obligations +which cannot then be fulfilled. Perhaps we +have run away from a duty such as the care +of an invalid relative and have met death +without coming to a realization of our mistake. +That relative upon the other hand may +have suffered severely from our neglect, and +have stored up a bitterness against us before +death terminates the suffering. Death and +the subsequent removal to another environment +does not pay our debts in this life, +any more than the removal from the city +where we now live to another place will pay +the debts we have contracted prior to our removal. +It is therefore quite possible that +the two who have injured each other as described, +may find themselves members of +the same family. Then, whether they remember +the past grudge or not, the old enmity +will assert itself and cause them to +hate anew until the consequent discomfort +forces them to tolerate each other, and perhaps +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page050">[pg 050]</span><a name="Pg050" id="Pg050" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +later they may learn to love where they +hated. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The question also arises in the mind of inquirers: +If we have been here before why do +we not remember? And the answer is, that +while most people are not aware of how their +previous existences were spent, there are +others who have a very distinct recollection +of previous lives. A friend of the writer's +for instance, when living in France, one day +started to read to her son about a certain +city where they were then going upon a bicycle +tour, and the boy exclaimed: you do +not need to tell me about that mother. I +know that city, I lived there and was killed! +He then commenced to describe the city and +also a certain bridge. Later he took his +mother to that bridge and showed her the +spot where he had met death centuries before. +Another friend travelling in Ireland +saw a scene which she recognized and she also +described to the party the scene around +the bend of the road which she had never +seen in this life, so it must have been a memory +from a previous life. Numerous other +instances could be given where such minor +flashes of memory reveal to us glimpses from +a past life. The verified case in which a little +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page051">[pg 051]</span><a name="Pg051" id="Pg051" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +three year old girl in Santa Barbara described +her life and death has been given in +the Rosicrucian Cosmo Conception. It is perhaps +the most conclusive evidence as it +hinges on the veracity of a child too young +to have learned deception. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +This theory of life does not rest upon speculation +however, it is one of the first facts of +life demonstrated to the pupil of a Mystery +school. He is taught to watch a child in the +act of dying, also, to watch it in the invisible +world from day to day, until it comes to a +new birth a year or two later. Then he +knows with absolute certainty that we return +to earth to reap in a future life what we now +sow. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The reason for taking a child to watch in +preference to an adult, is, that the child is reborn +very quickly, for its short life on earth +has borne but few fruits and these are soon +assimilated, while the adult who has lived a +long life, and had much experience remains in +the invisible worlds for centuries, so that the +pupil could not watch him from death to rebirth. +The cause of infant mortality will be +explained later, here we merely desire to emphasize +the fact that it is within the range +of possibilities of every one without exception +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page052">[pg 052]</span><a name="Pg052" id="Pg052" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +to become able to know at first hand +that which is here taught. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The average interval between two earth-lives +is about a thousand years. It is determined +by the movement of the sun known +to astronomers as <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">precession of the equinox</span></span>, +by which the sun moves through one of the +signs of the Zodiac in about 2100 years. During +that time the conditions upon earth have +changed so much that the spirit will find entirely +new experiences here, and therefore it +returns. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Great Leaders of evolution always obtain +the maximum benefit from each condition +designed by them, and as the experiences +in the same social conditions are very +different in the case of a man from what +they are for a woman, the human spirit takes +birth twice during the 2100 years measured +by the precession of the equinox as already +explained, it is born once as a man and another +time as a woman. Such is the rule, but +it is subject to whatever modifications may +be necessary to facilitate reaping what the +spirit has sown, as required under the law of +Causation which works hand in hand with the +law of Rebirth. Thus, at times a spirit may +be brought to birth long ere the thousand +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page053">[pg 053]</span><a name="Pg053" id="Pg053" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +years have expired, in order to fulfill a certain +mission, or it may be detained in the invisible +worlds after the time when it should +have come to birth according to the strict requirements +of a blind law. The laws of nature +are not that however. They are Great +Intelligences who always subordinate minor +considerations to higher ends, and under their +beneficent guidance we are constantly progressing +from life to life under conditions exactly +suited to each individual, until in time +we shall attain to a higher evolution and become +Supermen. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Oliver Wendell Holmes has so beautifully +voiced that aspiration and its consummation +in the lines: +</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">Build thee more stately mansions Oh! my soul,</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">As the swift seasons roll,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Leave thy low-vaulted past;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Let each new temple, nobler than the last,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast.</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Till thou at length art free,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Leaving thy outgrown shell by life's unresting sea.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span></div> +</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page054">[pg 054]</span><a name="Pg054" id="Pg054" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc5" id="toc5"></a> +<a name="pdf6" id="pdf6"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Chapter III. The Visible and the Invisible World</span></h1> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Chemical Region.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +If one who is capable of consciously using +his spiritual body with the same facility that +we now use our physical vehicles should +glide away from the earth into interplanetary +space, the earth and the various other planets +of our solar system would appear to him +to be composed of three kinds of matter, +roughly speaking. The densest matter, +which is our visible earth, would appear to +him as being the center of the ball as the +yolk is in the center of an egg. Around that +nucleus he would observe a finer grade of +matter similarly disposed in relation to the +central mass, as the white of the egg is disposed +outside the yolk. Upon a little closer +investigation he would also discover that this +second kind of substance permeates the solid +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page055">[pg 055]</span><a name="Pg055" id="Pg055" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +earth to the very center, even as the blood +percolates through the more solid parts of our +flesh. Outside both of these mingling layers +of matter he would observe a still finer, third +layer corresponding to the shell of the egg, +except that this third layer is the finest most +subtile of the three grades of matter, and +that it inter-penetrates both of the two inner +layers. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +As already said, the central mass, spiritually +seen, is our visible world, composed of +solids, liquids and gases. They constitute +the earth, its atmosphere, and also the ether, +of which physical science speaks hypothetically +as permeating the atomic substance of +all chemical elements. The second layer of +matter is called the Desire World and the +outermost layer is called the World of +Thought. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A little reflection upon the subject will +make clear that just such a constitution is +necessary to account for facts of life as we +see them. All forms in the world about us +are built from chemical substances: solids, +liquids and gases, but in so far that they do +move, these forms obey a separate and distinct +impulse, and when this impelling energy +leaves, the form becomes inert. The steam +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page056">[pg 056]</span><a name="Pg056" id="Pg056" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +engine rotates under the impetus of an invisible +gas called steam. Before steam filled +its cylinder, the engine stood still, and when +the impelling force is shut off its motion +again ceases. The dynamo rotates under +the still more subtile influence of an electric +current which may also cause the click of a +telegraph instrument or the ring of an electric +bell, but the dynamo ceases its swift +whirl and the persistent ring of the electric +bell becomes mute when the invisible electricity +is switched off. The form of the bird, +the animal and the human being also cease +their motion when the inner force which we +call <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">life</span></em> has winged its invisible way. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +All forms are impelled into motion by desire:—the +bird and the animal roam land +and air in their desire to secure food and shelter, +or for the purpose of breeding, man is also +moved by these desires, but has in addition +other and higher incentives to spur him to +effort, among them is desire for rapidity of +motion which led him to construct the steam +engine and other devices that move in obedience +to <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">his</span></em> desire. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +If there were no iron in the mountains +man could not build machines. If there were +no clay in the soil, the bony structure of the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page057">[pg 057]</span><a name="Pg057" id="Pg057" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +skeleton would be an impossibility, and if +there were no Physical World at all, with its +solids, liquids and gases, this dense body of +ours could never have come into existence. +Reasoning along similar lines it must be at +once apparent that if there were no Desire +World composed of desire-stuff, we should +have no way of forming feelings, emotions +and desires. A planet composed of the materials +we perceive with our <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">physical</span></em> eyes +and of no other substances, might be the +home of plants which grow unconsciously, +but have no desires to cause them to move. +The human and animal kingdoms however, +would be impossibilities. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Furthermore, there is in the world a vast +number of things, from the simplest and +most crude instruments, to the most intricate +and cunning devices which have been constructed +by the hand of man. These reveal +the fact of man's thought and ingenuity. +Thought must have a source as well as <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">form</span></em> +and <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">feeling</span></em>. We saw that it was necessary +to have the requisite material in order to +build a steam engine or a body and we reasoned +from the fact that in order to obtain +material to express <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">desire</span></em> there must also be +a world composed of desire stuff. Carrying +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page058">[pg 058]</span><a name="Pg058" id="Pg058" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +our argument to its logical conclusion, we also +hold that unless a World of Thought provides +a reservoir of mind stuff upon which +we may draw, it would be impossible for us to +think and invent the things which we see in +even the lowest civilization. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Thus it will be clear that the division of a +planet into worlds is not based on fanciful +metaphysical speculation, but is logically +necessary in the economy of nature. Therefore +it must be taken into consideration by +any one who would study and aim to understand +the inner nature of things. When we +see the street cars moving along our streets, +it does not explain to say that the motor is +driven by electricity of so many amperes at +so many volts. These names only add to our +confusion until we have thoroughly studied +the science of electricity and then we shall +find that the mystery deepens, for while the +street car belongs to the world of <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">inert form</span></em> +perceptible to our vision, the electric current +which moves it is indigenous to the realm +of <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">force</span></em>, the invisible Desire World, and the +thought which created and guides it, comes +from the still more subtile World of Thought +which is the home world of the human spirit, +the Ego. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page059">[pg 059]</span><a name="Pg059" id="Pg059" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It may be objected that this line of argument +makes a simple matter exceedingly intricate, +but a little reflection will soon show +the fallacy of such a contention. Viewed +superficially any of the sciences seem extremely +simple; anatomically we may divide +the body into flesh and bone, chemically we +may make the simple divisions between solid, +liquid and gas, but to thoroughly master the +science of anatomy it is necessary to spend +years in close application and learn to know +all the little nerves, the ligaments which +bind articulations between various parts of +the bony structure, to study the several +kinds of tissue and their disposition in our +system where they form the bones, muscles, +glands, etc., which in the aggregate we know +as the human body. To properly understand +the science of chemistry we must +study the valence of the atom which determines +the power of combination of the +various elements, together with other niceties, +such as atomic weight, density, etc. +New wonders are constantly opening up to +the most experienced chemist, who understands +best the immensity of his chosen +science. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page060">[pg 060]</span><a name="Pg060" id="Pg060" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The youngest lawyer, fresh from law +school knows more about the most intricate +cases, in his own estimation, than the judges +upon the Supreme Court bench who spend +long hours, weeks and months, seriously deliberating +over their decisions. But those +who, without having studied, think they understand +and are fitted to discourse upon +the greatest of all sciences, the science of +Life and Being, make a greater mistake. +After years of patient study, of holy life +spent in close application, a man is oftentimes +perplexed at the immensity of the subject +he studies. He finds it to be so vast in +both the direction of the great and small +that it baffles description, that language +fails, and that the tongue must remain mute. +Therefore we hold, (and we speak from +knowledge gained through years of close +study and investigation), that the finer distinctions +which we have made, and shall +make, are not at all arbitrary, but absolutely +necessary as are divisions and distinctions +made in anatomy or chemistry. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +No form in the physical world has feeling +in the true sense of that word. It is the indwelling +life which feels, as we may readily +see from the fact that a body which responded +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page061">[pg 061]</span><a name="Pg061" id="Pg061" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +to the slightest touch while instinct with +life, exhibits no sensation whatever even +when cut to pieces after the life has fled. Demonstrations +have been made by scientists, +particularly by Professor Bose of Calcutta, +to show that there is feeling in dead animal +tissue and even in tin and other metal, but +we maintain that the diagrams which seem +to support his contentions in reality demonstrate +only a response to impacts similar to +the rebound of a rubber ball, and that must +not be confused with such feelings as <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">love</span></em>, +<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">hate</span></em>, <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">sympathy</span></em> and <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">aversion</span></em>. Goethe also, +in his novel <span class="tei tei-q">“Elective Affinities,”</span> (Wahlverwandtschaft), +brings out some beautiful +illustrations wherein he makes it seem as if +atoms loved and hated, from the fact that +some elements combine readily while other +substances refuse to amalgamate, a phenomenon +produced by the different rates of +speed at which various elements vibrate and +an unequal inclination of their axes. Only +where there is sentient life can there be feelings +of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Etheric Region.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In addition to the solids, liquids and gases +which compose the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Chemical Region</span></span> of the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page062">[pg 062]</span><a name="Pg062" id="Pg062" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +Physical World there is also a finer grade of +matter called Ether, which permeates the +atomic structure of the earth and its atmosphere +substantially as science teaches. Scientists +have never seen, nor have they +weighed, measured or analyzed this substance, +but they infer that it must exist in +order to account for transmission of light +and various other phenomena. If it were +possible for us to live in a room from which +the air had been exhausted we might speak +at the top of our voices, we might ring the +largest bell or we might even discharge a +cannon close to our ear and we should hear +no sound, for air is the medium which transmits +sound vibrations to the tympanum of +our ear, and that would be lacking. But if +an electric light were lighted, we should at +once perceive its rays; it would illumine the +room despite the lack of air. Hence there +must be a substance, capable of being set into +vibration, between the electric light and +our eyes. That medium scientists call ether, +but it is so subtile that no instrument has +been devised whereby it may be measured +or analyzed and therefore the scientists are +without much information concerning it, +though forced to postulate its existence. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page063">[pg 063]</span><a name="Pg063" id="Pg063" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +We do not seek to belittle the achievements +of modern scientists, we have the greatest +admiration for them and we entertain high +expectations of what ambitions they may yet +realize, but we perceive a limitation in the +fact, that all discoveries of the past have +been made by the invention of wonderful instruments +applied in a most ingenious manner +to solve seemingly insoluble and baffling +problems. The strength of science lies +vested in its instruments, for the scientist +may say to anyone: Go, procure a number +of glasses ground in a certain manner, insert +them in a tube, direct that tube toward +a certain point in the sky where now nothing +appears to your naked eye. You will then +see a beautiful star called Uranus. If his +directions are followed, anyone is <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">quickly and +without preparation</span></em>, able to demonstrate for +himself the truth of the scientist's assertion. +But while the instruments of science are its +tower of strength they also mark the end of +its field of investigation, for it is impossible +to contact the spirit world with <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">physical</span></em> instruments, +so the research of occultists begins +where the physical scientist finds his +limit and are carried on by <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">spiritual</span></em> means. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page064">[pg 064]</span><a name="Pg064" id="Pg064" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +These investigations are as thorough and +as reliable as researches by material +scientists, but not as easily demonstrable to +the general public. Spiritual powers lie +dormant within every human being, and +when awakened, they compensate for both +telescope and microscope, they enable their +possessor to investigate, <span class="tei tei-foreign"><span style="font-style: italic">instanter</span></span>, things beyond +the veil of matter, but they are only developed +by a patient application and continuance +in well doing extended over years, and +few are they who have faith to start upon +the path to attainment or perseverance to go +through with the ordeal. Therefore the occultist's +assertions are not generally credited. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +We can readily see that long probation must +precede attainment, for a person equipped +with spiritual sight is able to penetrate +walls of houses as easily as we walk through +the atmosphere, able to read at will the innermost +thoughts of those about him; if not +actuated by the most pure and unselfish motives, +he would be a scourge to humanity. +Therefore that power is safeguarded as we +would withhold the dynamite bomb from an +anarchist and from the well-intentioned but +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page065">[pg 065]</span><a name="Pg065" id="Pg065" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +ignorant person, or, as we withhold match +and powder barrel from a child. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In the hands of an experienced engineer +the dynamite bomb may be used to open a +highway of commerce, and an intelligent +farmer may use gunpowder to good account +in clearing his field of tree-stumps, but in +the hands of an ill-intentioned criminal or ignorant +child an explosive may wreck much +property and end many lives. The force is +the same, but used differently, according to +the ability or intention of the user, it may +produce results of a diametrically opposite +nature. So it is also with spiritual powers, +there is a time-lock upon them, as upon a +bank safe, which keeps out all until they have +earned the privilege and the time is ripe for +its exercise. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +As already said, the ether is physical matter +and responsive to the same laws which +govern other physical substances upon this +plane of existence. Therefore it requires +but a slight extension of <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">physical</span></em> sight to +see ether, (which is disposed in four grades +of density), the blue haze seen in mountain +canyons is in fact ether of the kind known +to occult investigators as <span class="tei tei-q">“<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">chemical ether</span></em>.”</span> +Many people who see this ether, are unaware +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page066">[pg 066]</span><a name="Pg066" id="Pg066" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +that they are possessed of a faculty +not enjoyed by all. Others, who have developed +spiritual sight are not endowed +with etheric vision, a fact which seems an +anomaly until the subject of clairvoyance is +thoroughly understood. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The reason is, that as ether is physical matter, +etheric sight depends upon the sensitiveness +of the optic nerve while spiritual sight +is acquired by developing latent vibratory +powers in two little organs situated in the +brain: the Pituitary body and the Pineal +gland. Nearsighted people even, may have +etheric vision. Though unable to read the +print in a book, they may be able to <span class="tei tei-q">“see +through a wall,”</span> owing to the fact that their +optic nerve responds more rapidly to fine +than to coarse vibrations. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +When anyone views an object with etheric +sight he sees <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">through</span></em> that object in a manner +similar to the way an x-ray penetrates +opaque substances. If he looks at a sewing +machine, he will perceive, first an outer +casing; then, the works within, and behind +both, the casing furthest away from him. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +If he has developed the grade of spiritual +vision which opens the Desire World to +him and he looks at the same object, he will +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page067">[pg 067]</span><a name="Pg067" id="Pg067" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +see it both inside and out. If he looks closely, +he will perceive every little atom spinning +upon its axis and no part or particle +will be excluded from his perception. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +But if his spiritual sight has been developed +in such a measure that he is capable of +viewing the sewing machine with the vision +peculiar to the World of Thought, he will behold +a cavity where he had previously seen +the form. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Things seen with etheric vision are very +much alike in color, they are nearly reddish-blue, +purple or violet, according to the density +of the ether, but when we view any object +with the spiritual sight pertaining to +the Desire World, it scintillates and coruscates +in a thousand ever changing colors so +indescribably beautiful that they can only +be compared to living fire, and the writer +therefore calls this grade of vision <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">color +sight</span></span>, but when the spiritual vision of the +World of Thought is the medium of perception, +the seer finds that in addition to still +more beautiful colors, there issues from the +cavity described a constant flow of a certain +harmonious <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">tone</span></em>. Thus this world wherein +we now consciously live and which we perceive +by means of our physical senses is preeminently +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page068">[pg 068]</span><a name="Pg068" id="Pg068" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +the world of <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">form</span></em>, the Desire +World is particularly the world of <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">color</span></em> and +the World of Thought is the realm of <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">tone</span></em>. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Because of the relative proximity or distance +of these worlds, a statue, a <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">form</span></em>, withstands +the ravages of time for millenniums, +but the <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">colors</span></em> upon a painting fade in far +shorter time, for they come from the Desire +World, and <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">music</span></em> which is native to the +World furthest removed from us, the World +of Thought, is like a will-o-the-wisp which +none may catch or hold, it is gone again as +soon as it has made its appearance. But +there is in color and music a compensation +for this increasing evanescence. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The statue is cold and dead as the mineral +of which it is composed and has attractions +for but few though its <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">form is</span></em> a tangible +reality. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The forms upon a painting are illusory +yet they express <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">life</span></em>, on account of the <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">color</span></em> +which has come from a region where nothing +is inert and lifeless. Therefore the painting +is enjoyed by many. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Music is intangible and ephemeral, but it +comes from the home world of the spirit and +though so fleeting it is recognized by the spirit +as a <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">soul-speech</span></em> fresh from the celestial +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page069">[pg 069]</span><a name="Pg069" id="Pg069" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +realms, an echo from the home whence we +are now exiled, and therefore it touches a +cord in our being, regardless of whether we +realize the true cause or not. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Thus we see that there are various grades +of spiritual sight, each suited to the superphysical +realm which it opens to our perception: +Etheric vision, color vision and +tonal vision. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The occult investigator finds that ether is +of four kinds, or grades of density: +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Chemical Ether,<br /> +The Life Ether,<br /> +The Light Ether,<br /> +The Reflecting Ether. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Chemical Ether</span></span> is the avenue of expression +for forces promoting assimilation, +growth and the maintenance of form. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Life Ether</span></span> is the vantage ground of +forces active in propagation, or the building +of new forms. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Light Ether</span></span> transmits the motive +power of the sun along the various nerves of +<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">living</span></em> bodies and makes motion possible. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Reflecting Ether</span></span> receives an impression +of all that is, lives and moves. It also +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page070">[pg 070]</span><a name="Pg070" id="Pg070" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +records each change, in a similar manner as +the film upon a moving picture machine. In +this record mediums and psychometrists +may read the past, upon the same principle +as, under proper conditions, moving pictures +are reproduced time and again. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +We have been speaking of ether as an +avenue of <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">forces</span></em>, a word which conveys no +meaning to the average mind, because force +is invisible. But to an occult investigator +the forces are not merely names such as +steam, electricity, etc. He finds them to be intelligent +beings of varying grades, both sub +and superhuman. What we call <span class="tei tei-q">“laws of nature,”</span> +are great intelligences which guide +more elemental beings in accordance with +certain rules designed to further their evolution. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In the Middle Ages, when many people +were still endowed with a remnant of <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">negative</span></em> +clairvoyance, they spoke of Gnomes and +Elves or Fairies, which roamed about the +mountains and forests. These were the +<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">earth</span></em> spirits. They also told of the Undine +or <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">water</span></em>-sprite, which inhabited rivers and +streams, of Sylphs which were said to dwell +in the mists above moat and moor, as air +spirits, but not much was said of the Salamanders, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page071">[pg 071]</span><a name="Pg071" id="Pg071" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +as they are, fire spirits, and therefore +not so easily detected, or so readily accessible +to the majority of people. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The old folk stories are now regarded as +superstitions, but as a matter of fact, one +endowed with etheric vision may yet perceive +the little gnomes building green chlorophyll +into the leaves of plants and giving to +flowers the multiplicity of delicate tints +which delight our eyes. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Scientists have attempted time and again +to offer an adequate explanation of the phenomenon +of wind and storm but have failed +signally, nor can they succeed while they +seek a mechanical solution to what is really +a manifestation of life. Could they see the +hosts of sylphs winging their way hither +and thither, they would <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">know</span></em> who and what +is responsible for the fickleness of the wind; +could they watch a storm at sea from the +etheric view-point they would perceive that +the saying <span class="tei tei-q">“the war of the elements”</span> is not +an empty phrase, for the heaving sea is truly +then a battlefield of sylphs and undines and +the howling tempest is the war cry of spirits +in the air. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Also the salamanders are found everywhere +and no fire is lighted without their +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page072">[pg 072]</span><a name="Pg072" id="Pg072" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +help, but they are mostly active underground. +They are responsible for explosions +and volcanic eruptions. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The classes of beings which we have mentioned +are still sub-human, but will all at some +time reach a stage in evolution corresponding +to the human, though under different +circumstances from those under which we +evolve. But at present the wonderful intelligences +we speak of as the laws of nature, +marshall the armies of less evolved entities +mentioned. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +To arrive at a better understanding of +what these various beings are, and their relation +to us, we may take an illustration: +Let us suppose that a mechanic is making +an engine, and meanwhile a dog is watching +him. It <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">sees</span></em> the man at his labor, and how +he uses various tools to shape his materials, +also how, from the crude iron, steel, brass +and other metals the engine slowly takes +shape. The dog is a being from a lower evolution +and does not comprehend the purpose +of the mechanic but it <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">sees</span></em> both the +workman, his labor and the result thereof, +which manifests as an engine. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Let us now suppose that the dog were +able to see the materials which slowly +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page073">[pg 073]</span><a name="Pg073" id="Pg073" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +change their shape, assemble and become an +engine but that it is unable to perceive the +workman and to see the work he does. The +dog would then be in the same relation to the +mechanic as we are to the great intelligences +we call laws of nature, and their assistants, +the nature spirits, for we behold the manifestations +of their work as <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">force</span></em> moving +matter in various ways but always under +immutable conditions. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In the ether we may also observe the +angels, whose densest body is made of that +material, as our dense body is formed of +gases, liquids and solids. These beings are +one step beyond the human stage, as we are +a degree in advance of the animal evolution. +We have never been animals like our present +fauna, however, but at a previous stage +in the development of our planet we had an +animal-like constitution. Then the angels +were human, though they have never possessed +a dense body such as ours, nor ever +functioned in any material denser than +ether. At some time, in a future condition, +the earth will again become ethereal. Then +man will be <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">like</span></em> the angels. Therefore the +Bible tells us that man was made <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">a little +while</span></em> lower than the angels (Paul's letter to +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page074">[pg 074]</span><a name="Pg074" id="Pg074" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +the Hebrews, second chapter, seventh verse; +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see marginal reading</span></span>.) +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +As ether is the avenue of vital, creative +forces, and as angels are such expert builders +of ether, we may readily understand that +they are eminently fitted to be warders of +the propagative forces in plant, animal and +man. All through the Bible we find them +thus engaged: Two <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">angels</span></em> came to Abraham +and announced the birth of Isaac, they <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">promised</span></em> +a child to the man who had obeyed God. +Later <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">these same angels</span></em> destroyed Sodom +for <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">abuse of the creative force</span></em>. <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">Angels</span></em> foretold +<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">to the parents</span></em> of Samuel and Samson, +the birth of these giants of brain and brawn. +To Elizabeth came the <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">angel</span></em> (not archangel) +Gabriel and announced the birth of John, +later he appeared also to Mary with the message +that she was chosen to bear Jesus. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Desire World.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +When spiritual sight is developed so +that it becomes possible to behold the Desire +World, many wonders confront the newcomer, +for conditions are so widely different +from what they are here, that a description +must sound quite as incredible as a fairy +tale to anyone who has not himself seen them. +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page075">[pg 075]</span><a name="Pg075" id="Pg075" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +Many cannot even believe that such a +world exists, and that other people can see +that which is invisible to them, yet some people +are blind to the beauties of this world +which we see. A man who was born blind, +may say to us: I know that this world exists, +I can hear, I can smell, I can taste and +above all I can feel but when you speak of +light and of color, they are nonexistent to +me. You say that you <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></em> these things, I +cannot believe it for I cannot <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></em> myself. +You say that light and color are all about +me, but none of the senses at my command +reveal them to me and I do not believe that +the sense you call <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">sight</span></em> exists. I think you +suffer from hallucinations. We might sympathize +very sincerely with the poor man +who is thus afflicted, but his scepticism, reasonings +and objections and sneers notwithstanding +we would be obliged to maintain +that we perceive light and color. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The man whose spiritual sight has been +awakened is in a similar position with respect +to those who do not perceive the Desire +World of which he speaks. If the blind +man acquires the faculty of sight by an operation, +his eyes are opened and he will be +compelled to assert the existence of light and +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page076">[pg 076]</span><a name="Pg076" id="Pg076" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +color which he formerly denied, and when +spiritual sight is acquired by anyone, he also +perceives for himself the facts related by +others. Neither is it an argument against +the existence of spiritual realms that seers +are at variance in their descriptions of conditions +in the invisible world. We need but to +look into books on travel, and compare stories +brought home by explorers of China, India +or Africa and we shall find them differing +widely and often contradictory, because +each traveler saw things from his own standpoint, +under other conditions than those met +by his brother authors, and we maintain that +the man who has read most widely these +varying tales concerning a certain Country +<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">and wrestled with the contradictions of narrators</span></em>, +will have a more comprehensive idea +of the country or people of whom he has +read, than the man who has only read one +story assented to by all the authors. Similarly, +the varying stories of visitors to the +Desire World are of value, because giving a +fuller view, and more rounded, than if all +had seen things from the same angle. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In this world matter and force are widely +different. The chief characteristic of matter +here is <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">inertia</span></em>: the tendency to remain at +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page077">[pg 077]</span><a name="Pg077" id="Pg077" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +rest until acted upon by a force which sets it +in motion. In the Desire World, on the contrary, +force and matter are almost indistinguishable +one from the other. We might almost +describe desire-stuff as force-matter, +for it is in incessant motion, responsive to +the slightest <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">feeling</span></em> of a vast multitude of +beings which populate this wonderful world +in nature. We often speak of the <span class="tei tei-q">“teeming +millions”</span> of China and India, even of our +vast cities, London, New York, Paris or Chicago, +we consider them overcrowded in the +extreme, yet even the densest population of +any spot upon earth is sparsely inhabited +compared with the crowded conditions of the +Desire World. No inconvenience is felt by +any of the denizens of that realm, however, +for, while in this world two things cannot +occupy the same space at the same time, it is +different there. A number of people and +things may exist <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">in the same place at the +same time</span></em> and be engaged in most diverse +activities, regardless of what others are doing, +such is the wonderful elasticity of desire +stuff. As an illustration we may mention a +case where the writer while attending religious +service, plainly perceived at the altar +certain beings interested in furthering that +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page078">[pg 078]</span><a name="Pg078" id="Pg078" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +service and working to achieve that end. At +the same time there drifted through the room +and the altar, a table at which four persons +were engaged in playing cards. They were as +oblivious to the existence of the beings engaged +in furthering our religious service, as +though these did not exist. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Desire World is the abode of those who +have died, for some time subsequent to that +event, and we may mention in the above connection +that the so-called <span class="tei tei-q">“dead”</span> very often +stay for a long while among their still living +friends. Unseen by their relatives they go +about the familiar rooms. At first they are +often unaware of the condition mentioned: +<span class="tei tei-q">“that two persons may be in the same place +at the same time,”</span> and when they seat themselves +in a chair or at the table, a living relative +may take the supposedly vacant seat. +The man we mistakenly call dead will at first +hurry out of his seat to escape being sat upon, +but he soon learns that being sat upon does +not hurt him in his altered condition, and that +he may remain in his chair regardless of the +fact that his living relative is also sitting +there. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In the lower regions of the Desire World +the whole body of each being may be seen, but +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page079">[pg 079]</span><a name="Pg079" id="Pg079" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +in the highest regions only the head seems to +remain. Raphael, who like many other people +in the middle ages was gifted with a so-called +<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">second sight</span></em>, pictured that condition +for us in his Sistine Madonna, now in the +Dresden Art Gallery, where Madonna and +the Christ-child are represented as floating +in a golden atmosphere and surrounded by a +host of genie-heads: conditions which the occult +investigator knows to be in harmony with +actual facts. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Among the entities who are, so to speak, +<span class="tei tei-q">“<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">native</span></em>”</span> to that realm of nature, none are +perhaps better known to the Christian world +than the Archangels. These exalted Beings +were human at a time in the earth's history +when we were yet plant-like. Since then we +have advanced two steps: through the animal +and to the human stage of development. The +present Archangels have also made two steps +in progression; one, in which they were similar +to what the angels are now, and another +step which made them what we call Archangels. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Their densest body, though differing from +ours in shape, and made of desire stuff, is +used by them as a vehicle of consciousness in +the same manner that we use our body. They +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page080">[pg 080]</span><a name="Pg080" id="Pg080" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +are expert manipulators of forces in the Desire +World, and these forces, as we shall see, +move all the world to action. Therefore the +Archangels work with humanity <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">industrially</span></em> +and <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">politically</span></em> as arbitrators of the destiny +of peoples and nations. The Angels may be +said to be <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">family</span></em>-spirits whose mission is to +unite a few spirits as members of a +family, and cement them with ties of +blood and love of kin, while the Archangels +may be called race and national spirits, as +they unite whole nations by patriotism or love +of home and country. They are responsible +for the rise and fall of nations, they give war +or peace, victory or defeat as it serves the +best interests of the people they rule. This +we may see, for instance, from the book of +Daniel, where the Archangel Michael (not to +be confounded with the Michael, who is ambassador +from the sun to the earth), is called +the prince of the children of Israel. Another +Archangel tells Daniel, (in the tenth chapter) +that he intends to fight the prince of Persia +by means of the Greeks. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +There are varying grades of intelligence +among human beings, some are qualified to +hold high and lofty positions entirely beyond +the ability of others. So it is also among +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page081">[pg 081]</span><a name="Pg081" id="Pg081" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +higher beings, not all Archangels are fitted to +govern a nation and rule the destiny of a race, +people or tribe, some are not fitted to rule +human beings at all, but as the animals also +have a desire nature these lower grades of +Archangels govern the animals as group-spirits +and evolve to higher capacity thereby. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The work of the race spirits is readily observable +in the people it governs. The lower +in the scale of evolution the people, the more +they show a certain racial likeness. That is +due to the work of the race spirit. One +national spirit is responsible for the swarthy +complexion common to Italians, for instance, +while another causes the Scandinavians to be +blond. In the more advanced types of humanity +there is a wider divergence from the +common type, due to the individualized Ego, +which thus expresses in form and feature its +own particular idiosyncrasies. Among the +lower types of humanity such as Mongolians, +native African Negroes and South Sea +Islanders, the resemblance of individuals in +each tribe makes it almost impossible for civilized +Westerners to distinguish between +them. Among animals, where the separate +spirit is not individualized and self-conscious, +the resemblance is not only much more +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page082">[pg 082]</span><a name="Pg082" id="Pg082" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +marked physically but extends even to traits +and characteristics. We may write the biography +of a man, for the experiences of each +varies from that of others and his acts are +different, but we cannot write the biography +of an animal for members of each tribe all act +alike under similar circumstances. If we desire +to know the facts about Edward VII, it +would profit us nothing to study the life of +the Prince-Consort, his father, or of George +V, his son, as both would be entirely different +from Edward. In order to find out what +manner of man he was, we must study his +own individual life. If, on the other hand, +we wish to know the characteristics of beavers, +we may observe any individual of the +tribe, and when we have studied its idiosyncrasies, +we shall know the traits of the whole +tribe of beavers. What we call <span class="tei tei-q">“instinct,”</span> is +in reality the dictates of group-spirits which +govern separate individuals of its tribe +telepathically, as it were. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The ancient Egyptians knew of these animal +group spirits and sketched many of them, +in a crude way, upon their temples and +tombs. Such figures with a human body and +an animal head actually live in the desire +world. They may be spoken to, and will be +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page083">[pg 083]</span><a name="Pg083" id="Pg083" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +found much more intelligent than the average +human being. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +That statement brings up another peculiarity +of conditions in the Desire World in respect +of language. Here in this World human +speech is so diversified that there are +countries where people who live only a few +miles apart speak a dialect so different that +they understand each other with great difficulty, +and each nation has its own language +that varies altogether from the speech of +other peoples. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In the lower Regions of the Desire World, +there is the same diversity of tongues as on +earth, and the so-called <span class="tei tei-q">“dead”</span> of one nation +find it impossible to converse with those who +lived in another country. Hence linguistic +accomplishments are of great value to the +<span class="tei tei-q">“Invisible Helpers”</span>, of whom we shall hear +later, as their sphere of usefulness is enormously +extended by that ability. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Even apart from difference of language +our mode of speech is exceedingly productive +of misunderstandings. The same words often +convey most opposite ideas to different +minds. If we speak of a <span class="tei tei-q">“body of water”</span>, +one person may think we mean a lake of small +dimensions, the thoughts of another may be +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page084">[pg 084]</span><a name="Pg084" id="Pg084" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +directed to the great American Lakes and a +third person's thoughts may be turned towards +the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans. If we +speak of a <span class="tei tei-q">“light”</span>, one may think of a gas-light, +another of an electric Arc-lamp, or if +we say <span class="tei tei-q">“red”</span>, one person may think we mean +a delicate shade of pink and another gets the +idea of crimson. The misunderstandings of +what words mean goes even farther, as illustrated +in the following. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The writer once opened a reading room in a +large city where he lectured, and invited his +audience to make use thereof. Among those +who availed themselves of the opportunity +was a gentleman who had for many years +been a veritable <span class="tei tei-q">“metaphysical tramp,”</span> +roaming from lecture to lecture, hearing the +teachings of everybody and practicing nothing. +Like the Athenians on Mars' Hill, he +was always looking for something <span class="tei tei-q">“new,”</span> +particularly in the line of phenomena, and his +mind was in that seething chaotic state which +is one of the most prominent symptoms of +<span class="tei tei-q">“mental indigestion.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Having attended a number of our lectures +he knew from the program that: <span class="tei tei-q">“The lecturer +does not give readings, or cast horoscopes +<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">for pay</span></em>.”</span> But seeing on the door of +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page085">[pg 085]</span><a name="Pg085" id="Pg085" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +the newly opened reading room, the legend: +<span class="tei tei-q">“Free Reading Room,”</span> his erratic mind at +once jumped to the conclusion that although +we were opposed to telling fortunes for pay, +we were now going to give free readings of +the future in the Free Reading Room. He +was much disappointed that we did not intend +to tell fortunes, either gratis or for a consideration, +and we changed our sign to <span class="tei tei-q">“Free +Library”</span> in order to obviate a repetition of +the error. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In the higher Regions of the Desire World +the confusion of tongues gives place to a universal +mode of expression which absolutely +prevents misunderstandings of our meaning. +There each of our thoughts takes a definite +form and color perceptible to all, and this +thought-symbol emits a certain tone, which is +not a word, but it conveys our meaning to the +one we address no matter what language he +spoke on earth. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +To arrive at an understanding of how such +a universal language becomes possible and is +at once comprehended by all, without preparation, +we may take as an illustration the +manner in which a musician reads music. A +German or a Polish composer may write an +opera. Each has his own peculiar terminology +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page086">[pg 086]</span><a name="Pg086" id="Pg086" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +and expresses it in his own language. +When that opera is to be played by an Italian +band master, or by a Spanish or American +musician, it need not be translated, the notes +and symbols upon the page are a universally +understood language of symbols which is intelligible +to musicians of no matter what nationality. +Similarly with figures, the German +counts: ein, zwei, drei; the Frenchman says: +un, deux, trois, and in English we use the +words: one, two, three, but the figures: 1, 2, 3, +though differently spoken, are intelligible to +all and mean the same. There is no possibility +of misunderstanding in the cases of either +music or figures. Thus it is also with the universal +language peculiar to the higher Regions +of the Desire World and the still more +subtile realms in nature, it is intelligible to +all, an exact mode of expression. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Returning to our description of the entities +commonly met with in the lower Desire +World, we may note that other systems of religion +than the Egyptian, already mentioned, +have spoken of various classes of beings native +to these realms. The Zoroastrian Religion, +for instance, mentions <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Seven Ameshaspends</span></span> +and the Izzards as having dominion over certain +days in the month and certain months in +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page087">[pg 087]</span><a name="Pg087" id="Pg087" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +the year. The Christian religion speaks of +Seven Spirits before the Throne, which are +the same beings the Persians called Ameshaspends. +Each of them rules over two months +in the year while the seventh: Michael, the +highest, is their leader, for he is ambassador +from the sun to the earth, the others are ambassadors +from the planets. The Catholic religion +with its abundant occult information +takes most notice of these <span class="tei tei-q">“<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">star-angels</span></em>”</span> and +knows considerable about their influence upon +the affairs of the earth. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Ameshaspends, however, do not inhabit +the lower Regions of the Desire World but +influence the Izzards. According to the old +Persian legend these beings are divisible into +one group of twenty-eight classes, and another +group of three classes. Each of these +classes has dominion over, or takes the lead of +all the other classes on one certain day of the +month. They regulate the weather conditions +on that day and work with animal and man +in particular. At least the twenty-eight classes +do that, the other group of three classes +has nothing to do with animals, because they +have only twenty-eight pair of spinal nerves, +while human beings have thirty-one. Thus +animals are attuned to the lunar month of +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page088">[pg 088]</span><a name="Pg088" id="Pg088" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +twenty-eight days, while man is correlated to +the solar month of thirty or thirty-one days. +The ancient Persians were astronomers but +not physiologists, they had no means of knowing +the different nervous constitution of animal +and man, but they saw clairvoyantly +these superphysical beings, they noted and +recorded their work with animal and men +and our own anatomical investigations may +show us the reason for these divisions of the +classes of Izzards recorded in that ancient +system of philosophy. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Still another class of beings should be +mentioned: those who have entered the Desire +World through the gate of death and are +now hidden from our physical vision. These +so-called <span class="tei tei-q">“dead”</span> are in fact much more alive +than any of us, who are tied to a dense body +and subject to all its limitations, who are +forced to slowly drag this clog along with us +at the rate of a few miles an hour, who +must expend such an enormous amount of +energy upon propelling that vehicle that we +are easily and quickly tired, even when in +the best of health and who are often confined +to a bed, sometimes for years, by the +indisposition of this heavy mortal coil. But +when that is once shed and the freed spirit +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page089">[pg 089]</span><a name="Pg089" id="Pg089" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +can again function in its spiritual body, sickness +is an unknown condition and distance +is annihilated, or at least practically so, for +though it was necessary for the Savior to +liken the freed spirit to the wind which blows +where it listeth, that simile gives but a poor +description of what actually takes place in +soul flights. Time is nonexistent there, as +we shall presently explain, so the writer has +never been able to time himself, but has on +several occasions timed others when he was +in the physical body and they speeding +through space upon a certain errand. Distances +such as from the Pacific Coast to Europe, +the delivery of a short message there +and the return to the body has been accomplished +in slightly less than one minute. +Therefore our assertion, that those whom we +call dead are in reality much more alive than +we, is well founded in facts. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +We spoke of the dense body in which we +now live, as a <span class="tei tei-q">“clog”</span> and a <span class="tei tei-q">“fetter.”</span> It must +not be inferred, however, that we sympathize +with the attitude of certain people who, when +they have learned with what ease soul-flights +are accomplished, go about bemoaning the +fact that they are now imprisoned. They are +constantly thinking of, and longing for, the day +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page090">[pg 090]</span><a name="Pg090" id="Pg090" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +when they shall be able to leave this mortal +coil behind and fly away in their spiritual +body. Such an attitude of mind is decidedly +mistaken, the great and wise beings who are +invisible leaders of our evolution have not +placed us here to no purpose. Valuable lessons +are to be learned in this visible world +wherein we dwell, that cannot be learned in +any other realm of nature, and the very conditions +of density and inertia whereof such +people complain, are factors which make it +possible to acquire the knowledge this world +is designed to give. This fact was so amply +illustrated in a recent experience of the writer:—A +friend had been studying occultism +for a number of years but had not studied +astrology. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Last year she became aroused to the importance +of this branch of study as a key to +self knowledge and a means of understanding +the natures of others, also of developing +the compassion for their errors, so necessary +in the cultivation of love of one's neighbor. +Love of our neighbor the Savior enjoined +upon us as the Supreme Commandment +which is the fulfillment of all laws, and as +Astrology teaches us to <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">bear</span></em> and <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">forbear</span></em>, it +helps as nothing else can in the development +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page091">[pg 091]</span><a name="Pg091" id="Pg091" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +of the supreme virtue. She therefore joined +one of the classes started in Los Angeles by +the writer, but a sudden illness quickly ended +in death and thus terminated her study of +the subject in the physical body, ere it was +well begun. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Upon one of many occasions when she visited +the writer subsequent to her release +from the body, she deplored the fact that it +seemed so difficult to make headway in her +study of astrology. The writer advised continued +attendance at the classes, and suggested +that she could surely get someone <span class="tei tei-q">“on +the other side”</span> to help her study. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +At this she exclaimed impatiently: <span class="tei tei-q">“Oh +yes! of course I attend the classes, I have +done so right along; I have also found a +friend who helps me here. But you cannot +imagine how difficult it is to concentrate here +upon mathematical calculations and the judgment +of a horoscope or in fact upon any subject +here, where every little thought-current +takes you miles away from your study. I +used to think it difficult to concentrate when +I had a physical body, but it is not a circumstance +to the obstacles which face the student +here.”</span> +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page092">[pg 092]</span><a name="Pg092" id="Pg092" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The physical body was an anchor to her, +and it is that to all of us. Being dense, it is +also to a great extent impervious to disturbing +influences from which the more subtle +spiritual bodies do not shield us. It enables +us to bring our ideas to a logical conclusion +with far less effort at concentration than is +necessary in that realm where all is in such +incessant and turbulent motion. Thus we are +gradually developing the faculty of holding +our thoughts to a center by existence in this +world, and we should value our opportunities +here, rather than deplore the limitations +which help in one direction more than they +fetter in another. In fact, we should never +deplore any condition, each has its lesson. If +we try to learn what that lesson is and to +assimilate the experience which may be extracted +therefrom, we are wiser than those +who waste time in vain regrets. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +We said there is no time in the Desire +World, and the reader will readily understand +that such must be the case from the +fact, already mentioned, that nothing there +is opaque. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In this world the rotation of the opaque +earth upon its axis is responsible for the alternating +conditions of day and night. We +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page093">[pg 093]</span><a name="Pg093" id="Pg093" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +call it Day—when the spot where we live is +turned towards the sun and its rays illumine +our environment, but when our home is +turned away from the sun and its rays obstructed +by the opaque earth we term the resulting +darkness: Night. The passage of the +earth in its orbit around the sun produces +the seasons and the year, which are our divisions +of time. But in the Desire World +where all is light there is but one long day. +The spirit is not there fettered by a heavy +physical body, so it does not need sleep and +existence is unbroken. Spiritual substances +are not subject to contraction and expansion +such as arise here from heat and cold, hence +summer and winter are also non-existent. +Thus there is nothing to differentiate one +moment from another in respect of the conditions +of light and darkness, summer and +winter, which mark time for us. Therefore, +while the so-called <span class="tei tei-q">“dead”</span> may have a very +accurate memory of time as regards the life +they lived here in the body, they are usually +unable to tell anything about the chronological +relation of events which have happened +to them in the Desire World, and it is a very +common thing to find that they do not even +know how many years have elapsed since +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page094">[pg 094]</span><a name="Pg094" id="Pg094" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +they passed out from this plane of existence. +Only students of the Stellar Science are able +to calculate the passage of time after their +demise. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +When the occult investigator wishes to +study an event in the past history of man, he +may most readily call up the picture from +<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">the memory of nature</span></em>, but if he desires to fix +the time of the incident, he will be obliged to +count backwards by the motion of the heavenly +bodies. For that purpose he generally +uses the measure provided by the sun's precession: +Each year the sun crosses the earth's +equator about the twenty-first of March. Then +day and night are of even length, therefore +this is called the Vernal equinox. But on account +of a certain wabbling motion of the +earth's axis, the sun does not cross over at +the same place in the Zodiac, it reaches the +equator a little too early, it <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">precedes</span></em>, year by +year it moves <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">backwards</span></em> a little. At the time +of the birth of Christ, for instance, the Vernal +Equinox was in about seven degrees of +the Zodiacal sign Aries. During the two +thousand years which intervene between +that event and the present time, the sun has +moved <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">backwards</span></em> about twenty-seven degrees, +so that it is now in about ten degrees +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page095">[pg 095]</span><a name="Pg095" id="Pg095" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +of the sign Pisces. It moves around the +whole circle of the Zodiac in about 25,868 +years. The occult investigator may therefore +count back the number of signs, or +whole circles, which the sun has <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">preceded</span></em> between +the present day and the time of the +event he is investigating. Thus he has by +the use of the heavenly time keepers a very +approximately correct measure of time even +though he is in the Desire World and that is +another reason for studying the Stellar Science. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The World of Thought.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +When we have attained the spiritual development +necessary to consciously enter the +World of Thought and leave the Desire +World, which is the realm of light and color, +we pass through a condition which the occult +investigator calls The Great Silence. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +As previously stated, the higher Regions +of the Desire World exhibit the marked peculiarity +of blending form and sound, but +when one passes through the Great Silence, +all the world seems to disappear and the spirit +has the feeling of floating in an ocean of +intense light, utterly alone, yet absolutely +fearless, since unimbued with a sense of its +form or sound, nor past or future, but all is +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page096">[pg 096]</span><a name="Pg096" id="Pg096" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +one eternal NOW. There seems to be neither +pleasure nor pain and yet there is no absence +of feeling but it all seems to center in the one +idea:—<span class="tei tei-q">“<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">I am</span></em>”</span>! The human Ego stands +face to face with itself as it were, and for the +time being all else is shut out. This is the experience +of anyone who passes that breach +between the Desire World and the World of +Thought, whether involuntarily, in the +course of an ordinary cyclic pilgrimage of +the soul, which we shall later elucidate when +speaking of the post-mortem existence, or by +an act of the will, as in the case of the trained +occult investigator, all have the same experience +in transition. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +There are two main divisions in the Physical +World: the Chemical Region and the +Etheric Region. The World of Thought also +has two great subdivisions: The Region of +concrete Thought and the Region of abstract +Thought. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +As we specialize the material of the Physical +World and shape into a dense body, and as +we form the force-matter of the Desire +World into a desire body, so do we appropriate +a certain amount of mindstuff from the +Region of concrete Thought; but we, as spirits, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page097">[pg 097]</span><a name="Pg097" id="Pg097" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +clothe ourselves in spirit-substance from +the Region of abstract Thought and thereby +we become individual, separate Egos. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Region of Concrete Thought.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Region of concrete Thought is neither +shadowy nor illusory. It is the acme of reality +and this world which we mistakenly regard +as the only verity, is but an evanescent +replica of that Region. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A little reflection will show the reasonableness +of this statement and prove our contention +that all we see here is really crystallized +thought. Our houses, our machinery, our +chairs and tables, all that has been made by +the hand of man is the embodiment of a +thought. As the juices in the soft body of +the snail gradually crystallize into the hard +and flinty shell which it carries upon its back +and which hides it, so everything used in our +civilization is a concretion of invisible, intangible +mind-stuff. The thought of James +Watt in time congealed into a steam engine +and revolutionized the world. Edison's +thought was condensed into an electric generator +which has turned night to day, and had +it not been for the thought of Morse and Marconi, +the telegraph would not have annihilated +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page098">[pg 098]</span><a name="Pg098" id="Pg098" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +distance as it does today. An earthquake +may wreck a city and demolish the +lighting plant and telegraph station, but the +thoughts of Watt, Edison and Morse remain, +and upon the basis of their indestructible +ideas new machinery may be constructed and +operations resumed. Thus thoughts are +more permanent than things. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The sensitive ear of the musician detects a +certain musical note in every city which is +different from that of another city. He hears +in each little brook a new melody, and to him +the sound of wind in the treetops of different +forests give a varying sound. In the Desire +World we noted the existence of forms similar +to the shapes of things here, also that +seemingly <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">sound proceeds from form</span></em>, but in +the Region of concrete Thought it is different, +for while each form occupies and obscures +a certain space here, form is nonexistent +when viewed from the standpoint of +the Region of concrete Thought. Where the +form was, a transparent, vacuous space is observable. +<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">From that empty void comes a +sound</span></em> which is the <span class="tei tei-q">“keynote”</span> that <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">creates</span></em> and +maintains the <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">form</span></em> whence it <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">appears</span></em> to +come, as the almost invisible core of a gas-flame +is the source of the light we perceive. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page099">[pg 099]</span><a name="Pg099" id="Pg099" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Sound from a vacuum cannot be heard in the +Physical World, but the harmony which proceeds +from the vacuous cavity of a celestial +<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">archetype</span></em> is <span class="tei tei-q">“the voice of the silence,”</span> and it +becomes audible when all earthly sounds +have ceased. Elijah heard it not while the +storm was raging; nor was it in evidence +during the turbulence of the earthquake, nor +in the crackling and roaring fire, but when +the destructive and inharmonious sounds of +this world had melted into silence, <span class="tei tei-q">“the still +small voice”</span> issued its commands to save +Elijah's life. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +That <span class="tei tei-q">“keynote”</span> is a direct manifestation of +the Higher Self which uses it to impress and +govern the Personality it has created. But +alas, part of its life has been infused into the +material side of its being, which has thus obtained +a certain will of its own and only too +often are the two sides of our nature at war. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +At last there comes a time when the spirit +is too weary to strive with the recalcitrant +flesh, when <span class="tei tei-q">“the voice of the silence”</span> ceases. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The earthly nourishment +we may seek to give, will not avail to sustain +a form when this harmonious sound, this +<span class="tei tei-q">“word from heaven”</span> no longer reverberates +through the empty void of the celestial archetype, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page100">[pg 100]</span><a name="Pg100" id="Pg100" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +for <span class="tei tei-q">“man lives not by bread alone,”</span> but +by the WORD, and the last sound-vibration +of the <span class="tei tei-q">“keynote”</span> is the death-knell of the physical +body. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In this world we are compelled to investigate +and to study a thing before we know +about it, and although the facilities for gaining +information are in some respects much +greater in the Desire World, a certain +amount of investigation is necessary nevertheless +to acquire knowledge. In the World +of Thought, on the contrary, it is different. +When we wish to know about any certain +thing there, and we turn our attention thereto, +then that thing speaks to us, as it were. +The sound it emits at once gives us a most +luminous comprehension of every phase of +its nature. We attain to a realization of its +past history; the whole story of its unfoldment +is laid bare and we seem to have lived +through all of those experiences together +with the thing we are investigating. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Were it not for one enormous difficulty, the +story thus obtained would be exceedingly +valuable. But all this information, this life-picture, +flows in upon us with an enormous +rapidity in a moment, in the twinkling of an +eye, so that it has neither beginning nor end, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page101">[pg 101]</span><a name="Pg101" id="Pg101" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +for, as said, in the World of Thought, all is +one great NOW, Time does not exist. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Therefore, when we want to use the archetypal +information in the Physical World, we +must disentangle and arrange it in chronological +order with beginning and ending before +it becomes intelligible to beings living in +a realm where Time is a prime factor. That +rearrangement is a most difficult task as all +words are coined with relation to the three +dimensions of space and the evanescent unit +of time, the fleeting moment, hence much of +that information remains unavailable. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Among the denizens of this Region of concrete +Thought we may note particularly two +classes. One is called the powers of darkness +by Paul and the mystic investigator of the +Western World knows them as Lords of +Mind. They were human at the time when +the earth was in a condition of darkness such +as worlds in the making go through before +they become luminous and reach the firemist-stage. +At that time we were in our mineral +evolution. That is to say: The Human Spirit +which has now awakened was encrusted in +the ball of mindstuff, which was then the +earth. At that time the present Human Spirits +were as much asleep as is the life which +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page102">[pg 102]</span><a name="Pg102" id="Pg102" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +ensouls our minerals of today, and as we are +working with the mineral chemical constituents +of the earth, molding them into houses, +railways, steam-boats, chairs, etc, etc., so +those beings, who are now Lords of Mind, +worked with us when we were mineral-like. +They have since advanced three steps, +through stages similar to that of the Angels +and Archangels, before they attained their +present position and became creative intelligences. +They are expert builders of mind +stuff, as we are builders of the present mineral +substances and therefore they have given +us necessary help to acquire a mind which is +the highest development of the human being. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +According to the foregoing explanation it +seems to be an anomaly when Paul speaks of +them as evil and exhorts us to withstand +them. The difficulty disappears, however, +when we understand that good and evil are +but relative qualities. An illustration will +make the point clear:—Let us suppose that +an expert organ builder has constructed a +wonderful organ, a masterpiece. Then he has +followed his vocation in the proper manner, +and is therefore to be commended for the +good which he has done. But if he is not satisfied +to leave well enough alone, if he refuses +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page103">[pg 103]</span><a name="Pg103" id="Pg103" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +to give up his product to the musician who +understands how to play upon the instrument; +if he intrudes his presence into the +concert hall, he is out of place and to be censured +as evil. Similarly the Lords of Mind +did the greatest possible service to humanity +when they helped us to acquire our mind, but +many subtle thought influences come from +them, and are to be resisted, as Paul very +properly emphasizes. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The other class of beings which must be +mentioned are called Archetypal Forces by +the Western School of occultism. They direct +the energies of the creative Archetypes +native to this realm. They are a composite +class of beings of many different grades of intelligences, +and there is one stage in the cyclic +journey of the Human Spirit when that also +labors in, and is part of, that great host of +beings. For the Human Spirit is also destined +to become a great creative intelligence +at some future time, and if there were no +school wherein it could gradually learn to +create, it would not be able to advance, for +nothing in nature is done suddenly. An +acorn planted in the soil does not become a +majestic oak over night, but many years of +slow, persistent growth are required before +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page104">[pg 104]</span><a name="Pg104" id="Pg104" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +it attains to the stature of a giant of the +forest. A man does not become an Angel by +the mere fact of dying and entering a new +world any more than an animal advances to +be a man by the same process. But in time +all that lives, mounts the ladder of Being +from the clod to the God. There is no limitation +possible to the spirit, and so at various +stages in its unfoldment the Human Spirit +works with the other nature forces, according +to the stage of intelligence which it has +attained. It creates, changes and remodels +the earth upon which it is to live. Thus, under +the great law of cause and effect, which +we observe in every realm of nature, it reaps +upon earth what it has sown in heaven, and +vice versa. It grows slowly but persistently +and advances continually. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Region of Abstract Thought.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Various religious systems have been given +to humanity at different times, each suited to +meet the spiritual needs of the people among +whom it was promulgated, and, coming from +the same divine source:—God, all religions +exhibit similar fundamentals or first principles. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +All systems teach that there was a time +when <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">darkness</span></em> reigned supreme. Everything +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page105">[pg 105]</span><a name="Pg105" id="Pg105" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +which we now perceive was then non-existent. +Earth, sky and the heavenly bodies +were uncreate, so were the multitudinous +forms which live and move upon the various +planets.—All, all, was yet in a fluidic condition +and the Universal Spirit brooded <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">quiescent</span></em> +in limitless Space as the One Existence. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Greeks called that condition of homogeneity +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Chaos</span></span>, and the state of orderly segregation +which we now see; the marching orbs +which illumine the vaulted canopy of heaven, +the stately procession of planets around a +central light, the majestic sun; the unbroken +sequence of the seasons and the unvarying +alternation of tidal ebb and flow;—all this +aggregate of systematic order, was called +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Cosmos</span></span>, and was supposed to have proceeded +from Chaos. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Christian Mystic obtains a deeper comprehension +when he opens his Bible and ponders +the first five verses of that brightest +gem of all spiritual lore: the Gospel of St. +John. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +As he reverently opens his aspiring heart +to acquire understanding of those sublime +mystical teachings he transcends the form-side +of nature, comprising various realms of +which we have been speaking, and finds himself +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page106">[pg 106]</span><a name="Pg106" id="Pg106" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<span class="tei tei-q">“in the spirit,”</span> as did the prophets in +olden times. He is then in the Region of abstract +Thought and sees the eternal verities +which also Paul beheld in this, the third, +heaven. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +For those among us who are unable to obtain +knowledge save by reasoning upon the +matter, however, it will be necessary to examine +the fundamental meaning of words +used by St. John to clothe his wonderful +teaching, which was originally given in the +Greek language, a much simpler matter than +is commonly supposed, for Greek words have +been freely introduced into our modern languages, +particularly in scientific terms, and +we shall show how this ancient teaching is +supported by the latest discoveries of modern +science. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The opening verse of the gospel of St. John +is as follows: <span class="tei tei-q">“In the <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">beginning</span></em> was the +<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">Word</span></em>, and the <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">Word</span></em> was with <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">God</span></em>, and the +<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">Word</span></em> was <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">God</span></em>.”</span> We will examine the +words: <span class="tei tei-q">“beginning,”</span> <span class="tei tei-q">“Word”</span> and <span class="tei tei-q">“God.”</span> We +may also note that in the Greek version the +concluding sentence reads: <span class="tei tei-q">“and God was the +Word,”</span> a difference which makes a great +distinction. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page107">[pg 107]</span><a name="Pg107" id="Pg107" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It is an axiomatic truth that <span class="tei tei-q">“out of nothing, +nothing comes,”</span> and it has often been +asserted by scoffers that the Bible teaches +generation <span class="tei tei-q">“from nothing.”</span> We readily +agree that <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">translations</span></em> into the modern languages +promulgate this erroneous doctrine, +but we have shown in <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Rosicrucian Cosmo +Conception</span></span> (chapter on <span class="tei tei-q">“the Occult Analysis +of Genesis”</span>), that the Hebrew text speaks of +an <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">ever-existing essence</span></em>, as the basis whence +all forms, the earth and the heavenly lights +included, were first created, and John also +gives the same teaching. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Greek word <span lang="el" class="tei tei-foreign" xml:lang="el"><span style="font-style: italic">arche</span></span>, in the opening sentence +of the gospel of St. John has been +translated <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">the beginning</span></span>, and it may be said +to have that meaning, but it also has other +valid interpretations, vastly more significant +of the idea John wished to convey. It means:—an +elementary condition,—a chief source,—a +first principle,—primordial matter. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +There was a time when science insisted that +the elements were immutable, that is to say, +that an atom of iron had been an atom of iron +since the earth was formed and would so remain +to the end of time. The Alchemists +were sneered at as fanciful dreamers or madmen, +but since Professor J. J. Thomson's discovery +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page108">[pg 108]</span><a name="Pg108" id="Pg108" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +of the electron, the atomic theory of +matter, is no longer tenable. The principle +of radio-activity has later vindicated the Alchemists. +Science and the Bible agree in +teaching, that all that is, has been formed +from one homogeneous substance. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It is that basic principle which John called +<span lang="el" class="tei tei-foreign" xml:lang="el"><span style="font-style: italic">arche</span></span>:—primordial +matter,—and the dictionary +defines Archeology as: <span class="tei tei-q">“the science of +the origin (<span lang="el" class="tei tei-foreign" xml:lang="el"><span style="font-style: italic">arche</span></span>) of things.”</span> Masons style +God the <span class="tei tei-q">“Grand Architect,”</span> for the Greek +word tektos means builder, and God is the +Chief Builder (<span lang="el" class="tei tei-foreign" xml:lang="el"><span style="font-style: italic">tektos</span></span>) +of <span lang="el" class="tei tei-foreign" xml:lang="el"><span style="font-style: italic">arche</span></span>: the primordial +virgin matter which is also the chief +source of all things. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Thus we see that when the opening sentence +of St. John's gospel is properly translated, +our Christian Religion teaches that +once a virgin substance enfolded the divine +Thinker:—God. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +That is the identical condition which the +earlier Greeks called Chaos. A little thought +will make it evident that we are not arbitrary +in finding fault with the translation of the +gospel, for it is self-evident that a word cannot +be the beginning, a thought must precede +the word, and a thinker must originate +thought before it can be expressed as a word. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page109">[pg 109]</span><a name="Pg109" id="Pg109" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +When properly translated the teaching of +John fully embodies that idea, for the Greek +term <span lang="el" class="tei tei-foreign" xml:lang="el"><span style="font-style: italic">logos</span></span> means both the reasonable +thought,—(we also say Logic),—and the +word which expresses this (logical) thought. +</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%"> +1) </span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">In the primordial substance was thought, +and the thought was with God +And God was the word</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, +</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%"> +2) </span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">that</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, [The Word], </span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">also was with God in +the primal state</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">. +</span></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Later the divine WORD; the Creative Fiat, +reverberates through space and segregates +the homogeneous virgin substance into separate +forms. +</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%"> +3) </span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">Every thing has come into existence because +of that prime fact</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, [The Word of +God], </span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">and no thing exists apart from that +fact.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%"> +4) </span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">In that was Life.</span></span> +</p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In the alphabet we have a few elementary +sounds from which words may be constructed. +They are basic elements of expression, +as bricks, iron and lumber are raw materials +of architecture, or as a few notes are component +parts of music. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +But a heap of bricks, iron and lumber, is +not a house, neither is a jumbled mass of +notes music, nor can we call a haphazard arrangement +of alphabetical sounds a word. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page110">[pg 110]</span><a name="Pg110" id="Pg110" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +These raw materials are prime necessities in +construction of architecture, music, literature +or poetry, but the contour of the finished product +and the purpose it will serve depends +upon the arrangement of the raw materials, +which is subject to the constructor's design. +Building materials may be formed to prison +or palace; notes may be arranged as fanfare +or funeral dirge; words may be indited to inspire +passion or peace, all according to the +will of the designer. So also the majestic +rhythm of the Word of God has wrought the +primal substance: <span lang="el" class="tei tei-foreign" xml:lang="el"><span style="font-style: italic">arche</span></span>, into the multitudinous +forms which comprise the phenomenal +world, according to His will. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Did the reader ever stop to consider the +wonderful power of a human word. Coming +to us in the sweet accents of love, it may lure +us from paths of rectitude to shameful ignominy +and wreck our life with sorrow and remorse, +or it may spur us on in noblest efforts +to acquire glory and honor, here or hereafter. +According to the inflection of the voice a +word may strike terror into the bravest heart +or lull a timid child to peaceful slumber. The +word of an agitator may rouse the passions +of a mob and impel it to awful bloodshed, as +in the French Revolution, where dictatorial +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page111">[pg 111]</span><a name="Pg111" id="Pg111" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +mandates of mob-rule killed and exiled at +pleasure, or, the strain of <span class="tei tei-q">“Home, Sweet +Home”</span> may cement the setting of a family-circle +beyond possibility of rupture. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Right words are true and therefore free, +they are never bound or fettered by time or +space, they go to the farthest corners of the +earth, and when the lips that spoke them first +have long since mouldered in the grave, other +voices take up with unwearying enthusiasm +their message of life and love, as for instance +the mystical <span class="tei tei-q">“Come unto me”</span> which has +sounded from unnumbered tongues and +brought oceans of balm to troubled hearts. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Words of Peace have been victorious, +where war would have meant defeat, and no +talent is more to be desired than ability to +always say the right word at the auspicious +time. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Considering thus the immense power and +potency of the human word, we may perhaps +dimly apprehend the potential magnitude of +the Word of God, the Creative Fiat, when as +a mighty dynamic force it first reverberated +through space and commenced to form primordial +matter into worlds, as sound from a +violin bow moulds sand into geometrical figures. +Moreover, <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">the Word of God still sounds</span></em> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page112">[pg 112]</span><a name="Pg112" id="Pg112" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +to sustain the marching orbs and impel them +onwards in their circle paths, the Creative +Word continues to produce forms of gradually +increasing efficiency, as media expressing +life and consciousness. The harmonious +enunciation of consecutive syllables in the +Divine Creative Word mark successive stages +in evolution of the world and man. When the +last syllable has been spoken and the complete +word has sounded, we shall have reached +perfection as human beings. Then Time will +be at an end, and with the last vibration of +the Word of God, the worlds will be resolved +into their original elements. Our life will +then be <span class="tei tei-q">“hid with Christ in God,”</span> till the Cosmic +Night:—Chaos,—is over, and we wake to +do <span class="tei tei-q">“greater things”</span> in a <span class="tei tei-q">“new heaven and a +new earth.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +According to the general idea Chaos and +Cosmos are superlative antitheses of each +other. Chaos being regarded as a past condition +of confusion and disorder which has long +since been entirely superseded by cosmic order +which now prevails. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +As a matter of fact, Chaos is the seed-ground +of Cosmos, the basis of all progress, +for thence come all IDEAS which later materialize +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page113">[pg 113]</span><a name="Pg113" id="Pg113" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +as Railways, Steamboats, Telephones, +etc. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +We speak of <span class="tei tei-q">“thoughts as being conceived +by the mind,”</span> but as both father and mother +are necessary in the generation of a child, so +also there must be both <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">idea</span></em> and <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">mind</span></em> before +a <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">thought</span></em> can be conceived. As semen germinated +in the positive male organ is projected +into the negative uterus at conception, so +ideas are generated by a positive Human Ego +in the spirit-substance of the Region of abstract +Thought. This idea is projected upon +the receptive mind, and a conception takes +place. Then, as the spermatozoic nucleus +draws upon the maternal body for material +to shape a body appropriate to its individual +expression, so does each idea clothe itself in +a peculiar form of mindstuff. It is then a +thought, as visible to the inner vision of composite +man, as a child is to its parent. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Thus we see that ideas are embryonic +thoughts, nuclei of spirit-substance from the +Region of abstract Thought. Improperly +conceived in a diseased mind they become vagaries +and delusions, but when gestated in a +sound mind and formed into rational thoughts +they are the basis of all material, moral and +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page114">[pg 114]</span><a name="Pg114" id="Pg114" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +mental progress, and the closer our touch +with Chaos, the better will be our Cosmos, +for in that realm of abstract realities truth is +not obscured by matter, it is self-evident. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Pilate was asked <span class="tei tei-q">“what is Truth,”</span> but no +answer is recorded. We are incapable of +cognizing truth in the abstract while we live +in the phenomenal world, for the inherent nature +of matter is illusion and delusion, and +we are constantly making allowances and corrections +whether we are conscious of the fact +or not. The sunbeam which proceeds for 90 +millions of miles in a straight line, is refracted +or bent as soon as it strikes our dense atmosphere, +and according to the angle of its +refraction, it <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">appears</span></em> to have one color or another. +The straightest stick appears crooked +when partly immersed in water, and the +truths which are so self-evident in the Higher +worlds are likewise obscured, refracted or +twisted out of all semblance under the illusory +conditions of this material world. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“The truth shall set you free,”</span> said Christ, +and the more we turn our aspirations from +material acquisitiveness and seek to lay up +treasure above, the more we aim to rise, the +oftener we <span class="tei tei-q">“get in the spirit,”</span> the more readily +we <span class="tei tei-q">“shall know truth”</span> and reach liberation +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page115">[pg 115]</span><a name="Pg115" id="Pg115" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +from the fetter of flesh which binds us to +a limited environment, and attain to a sphere +of greater usefulness. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Study of philosophy and science has a tendency +to further perception of truth, and as +science has progressed it has gradually receded +from its erstwhile crude materialism. +The day is not far off when it will be more +reverently religious than the church itself. +Mathematics is said to be <span class="tei tei-q">“dry,”</span> for it +doesn't stir the emotions. When it is taught +that <span class="tei tei-q">“the sum of the angles of a triangle is +180 degrees,”</span> the dictum is at once accepted, +because its truth is self-evident and no feeling +is involved in the matter. But when a doctrine +such as the Immaculate Conception is +promulgated and our emotions are stirred, +bloody war, or heated argument, may result, +and still leave the matter in doubt. Pythagoras +demanded that his pupils study mathematics, +because he knew the elevating effect of +raising their minds above the sphere of feeling, +where it is subject to delusion, and elevating +it towards the Region of abstract +Thought which is the prime reality. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In this place we are dealing with worlds in +particular, and will therefore defer comment +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page116">[pg 116]</span><a name="Pg116" id="Pg116" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +upon the remainder of the first 5 verses of St. +John's gospel: +</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">And Life became Light in man,</span></span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">5)</span><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"> <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">and Light shines in Darkness.</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span></div> +</div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +We have now seen that the earth is composed +of three worlds which interpenetrate +one another so that it is perfectly true when +Christ said that <span class="tei tei-q">“heaven is within you”</span> or, +the translation should rather have been +<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">among you</span></em>. We have also seen that of these +three realms two are subdivided. It has also +been explained that each division serves a +great purpose in the unfoldment of various +forms of life which dwell in each of these +worlds, and we may note in conclusion, that +the lower regions of the Desire World constitute +what the Catholic religion calls <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Purgatory</span></span>, +a place where the evil of a past life is +transmuted to good, usable by the spirit as +conscience in later lives. The higher regions +of the Desire World are the <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">first Heaven</span></em> +where all the good a man has done is assimilated +by the spirit as <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">soul</span></em> power. The Region +of concrete Thought is the <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">second Heaven</span></em>, +where, as already said, the spirit prepares +its future environment on earth, and the Region +of abstract Thought is the <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">third Heaven</span></em>, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page117">[pg 117]</span><a name="Pg117" id="Pg117" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +but as Paul said, it is scarcely lawful to +speak about that. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Some will ask: is there then no hell?—No! +<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">The mercy of God</span></em> tends as greatly towards +the principle of GOOD as <span class="tei tei-q">“<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">the inhumanity +of man</span></em>”</span> towards cruelty, so that he would +consign his brother men to flames of hell during +eternity for the puerile mistakes committed +during a few years, or perhaps for a +slight difference in belief. The writer has +heard of a minister who wished to impress +his <span class="tei tei-q">“flock”</span> with the reality of an eternity of +hell flames, and to demonstrate the fallacy of +a heretical notion entertained by some of his +parishioners that when sinners come to hell +they burn to ashes and that is the end. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +He took with him an alcohol lamp and +some asbestos into the pulpit and told his +audience that God would turn their souls +into a substance resembling asbestos. He +showed them that though the asbestos were +heated red hot it did not decompose into +ashes. Fortunately the day of the hell +preacher has gone by, and if we believe the +Bible which says that <span class="tei tei-q">“in God we live and +move and have our being,”</span> we can readily +understand that <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">a lost soul would be an impossibility</span></em>, +for were one single soul lost, then +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page118">[pg 118]</span><a name="Pg118" id="Pg118" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +logically a part of God Himself would be +lost. No matter what our color, our race or +our creed, we are all equally the children of +God and in our various ways we shall obtain +satisfaction. Let us therefore rather look +to Christ and forget Creed. +</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">Creed or Christ?</span></span> +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">No man loves God who hates his kind,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Who tramples on his Brother's heart and soul.</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Who seeks to shackle, cloud or fog the mind</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">By fears of Hell has not perceived our goal.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">God-sent are all religions blest;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">And Christ, the Way, the Truth and Life,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">To give the heavy-laden rest,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">And peace from Sorrow, Sin and Strife.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">At his request the Universal Spirit came</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">To all the churches</span></em><span style="font-size: 90%">, not to one alone.</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">On Pentecostal morn a tongue of flame</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Round </span><em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">each</span></em><span style="font-size: 90%"> apostle as a halo shone.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Since then, as vultures ravenous with greed,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">We oft have battled for an empty name,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">And sought by Dogma, Edict, Creed,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">To send each other to the flame.</span></div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page119">[pg 119]</span><a name="Pg119" id="Pg119" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Is Christ then divided? Was Cephas or Paul</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Nailed to the deathly tree?</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">If not—then why these divisions at all?</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Christ's love doth embrace you and me.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">His pure sweet love is not confined</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">By creeds which segregate and raise a wall;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">His love enfolds, embraces </span><em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">Humankind</span></em></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">No matter what ourselves or Him we call.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Then why not take Him at His word?</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Why hold to creeds which tear apart?</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">But one thing matters, be it heard,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">That brother-love fill every heart.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">There is but one thing that the world has need to know;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">There is but one balm for all our human woe</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">There is but one way that leads to heaven above;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">That way is human sympathy and love.</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page120">[pg 120]</span><a name="Pg120" id="Pg120" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc7" id="toc7"></a> +<a name="pdf8" id="pdf8"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Chapter IV. The Constitution of Man</span></h1> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Our chapter head, <span class="tei tei-q">“the constitution +of man,”</span> may surprise a reader who +has not previously studied the Mystery +teachings, or he may imagine that +we intend to give an anatomical dissertation, +but such is not our intention. We have spoken +of the earth upon which we live as being +composed of several invisible realms in addition +to the world we perceive by means of +our senses. We have also spoken of man as +being correlated to these various divisions in +nature, and a little thought upon the subject +will quickly convince us that in order to +function upon the various planes of existence +described, it is necessary that a man +should have a body composed of their substance, +or at least have specialized for his +own use, some of the material of each of +these worlds. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +We have said that finer matter, called desire +stuff and mind stuff, permeates our atmosphere +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page121">[pg 121]</span><a name="Pg121" id="Pg121" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +and the solid earth, even as blood +percolates through all parts of our flesh. +But that is not a sufficient explanation to account +for all facts of life. If that were all, +then minerals, which are interpenetrated by +the world of thought and the world of desire, +would have thoughts and desires as well as +man. This is not the case, so something +more than mere interpenetration must be requisite +to acquire the faculties of thought +and feeling. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +We know that in order to function in this +world, to live as a physical being among other +like beings, we must have a physical body +all our own, built of the chemical constituents +of this visible world. When we lose it +at death, it profits us nothing that the world +is full of just the very chemicals needed to +build such a body. We cannot then specialize +them, and therefore we are invisible to +all others. Similarly, if we did not possess +a special body made of ether, we should be +unable to grow and to propagate. That is +the case with the mineral. Had we no separate +individual desire body, we should be +unable to feel desires and emotions, there +would be no incentive to move from one +place to another. We should then be stationary +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page122">[pg 122]</span><a name="Pg122" id="Pg122" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +as plants, and did we not possess a mind, +we should be incapable of thought, and act +upon impulse and instinct as animals. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Some one may of course object to this last +statement, and contend that animals do +think. So far as our domesticated animals +are concerned that is partially true, but it +is not quite in the same way that we think +and reason. The difference may perhaps +best be understood if we take an illustration +from the electrical field. When an electric +current <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">of high voltage</span></em> is passed through a +coiled copper wire, and another wire is placed +in the center of the coils, that wire will +become charged with electricity <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">of a lower +voltage</span></em>. So also the animal, when brought +within the sphere of human thoughts, evolves +a mental activity of a lower order. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Paul, in his writings, also mentions <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">the +natural body</span></em> and the <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">spiritual body</span></em> while the +man himself is a spirit inhabiting those vehicles. +We will briefly note the constitution +of the various bodies of man invisible to the +physical sight but as objective to spiritual +sight as the dense body to ordinary vision. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Vital Body.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +That body of ours which is composed of +ether is called the <span class="tei tei-q">“<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">vital body</span></em>”</span> in Western +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page123">[pg 123]</span><a name="Pg123" id="Pg123" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +Mystery Schools, for, as we have already +seen, ether is the avenue of ingress for vital +force from the sun and the field of agencies +in nature which promote such vital activities +as assimilation, growth and propagation. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +This vehicle is an exact counterpart of our +visible body, molecule for molecule, and organ +for organ, with one exception, which we +shall note later. But it is slightly larger, extending +about one and one-half inches beyond +the periphery of our dense vehicle. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The spleen is the entrance gate of forces +which vitalize the body. In the etheric +counterpart of that organ solar energy is +transmuted to vital fluid of a pale rose color. +From thence it spreads all over the nervous +system, and after having been used in the +body it radiates in streams, much as bristles +protrude from a porcupine. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The rays of the sun are transmitted either +directly, or reflected by way of the planets +and the moon. The rays directly from the +sun give spiritual illumination, the rays +received by way of the planets produce intelligence, +morality, and soul growth, but the +rays reflected by way of the moon make for +physical growth, as seen in the case of plants +which grow differently when planted in the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page124">[pg 124]</span><a name="Pg124" id="Pg124" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +light of the moon from what is the case when +they are planted when the moon is dark. +There is also a difference in plants sown +when the moon is in barren and fruitful signs +of the Zodiac. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The solar ray is absorbed by the human +spirit which has its seat in the center of the +forehead, the stellar ray is absorbed by the +brain and spinal cord, and the lunar ray enters +our system through the spleen. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The solar, stellar and lunar rays are +three-colored, and in the lunar ray which +supplies our vital force, the blue beam is the +life of The Father, which causes germination, +the yellow beam is the life of The Son, which +is the active principle in nutrition and +growth, and the red beam is the life of the +Holy Spirit, which stimulates to action, dissipating +the energy stored by the yellow force. +This principle is particularly active in generation. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The various kingdoms absorb this life-force +differently, according to their constitution. +Animals have only 28 pairs of spinal +nerves. They are keyed to the lunar month +of 28 days and therefore dependent upon a +Groupspirit for an infusion of stellar rays +necessary to produce consciousness. They +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page125">[pg 125]</span><a name="Pg125" id="Pg125" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +are altogether incapable of absorbing the +direct ray of the sun. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Man is in a transition stage, he has 31 pairs +of spinal nerves which keys him to the solar +month, but the nerves in the so-called cauda-equina—literally +horse-tail—, at the end of +our spinal cord, are still too undeveloped to +act as avenues for the spiritual ray of the +sun. In proportion as we draw our creative +force upward by spiritual thought we develop +these nerves and awaken dormant faculties of +the spirit. But it is dangerous to attempt +that development except under guidance of +a qualified teacher, and the reader is earnestly +warned not to use any method published +in books, or sold, for their practice usually +leads to dementia. The safe method is never +sold for money or any earthly consideration +however large or small; it is always freely +given as a reward of merit. <span class="tei tei-q">“Ask and ye +shall receive, seek and ye shall find, knock +and it shall be opened”</span>, said the Christ. If +our life is a prayer for illumination, the +search will not be uncertain, nor the knock +without response. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +When solar energy has been transmuted +in the spleen it traverses the whole nervous +system of the body glowing with a most +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page126">[pg 126]</span><a name="Pg126" id="Pg126" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +beautiful color of a delicate rosy hue. It +answers the same purpose as electricity in a +telegraph system. We may string wires between +cities, erect telegraph stations, install +receivers and transmitters. We may even +have operators ready at the keys, but until +electric fluid is turned into our wires, the +telegraph keys will refuse to click. So also +in the body, the human spirit is operator, and +from the central station of the brain, nerves +ramify, go through the whole body to all the +different muscles. When this vitalizing fluid +of which we are speaking traverses the nervous +system, the Ego may send his commands +to the muscles and cause them to move but if +the vital fluid for any reason does not flow +into a certain part of the body such as an +arm or a limb, then the spirit is powerless +to move that part of the body and we say that +it is paralyzed. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +When we are in health, we specialize solar +energy in such great quantities that we cannot +use it all in the body and therefore it +radiates through the pores of our skin in +straight streams and serves a similar purpose +as an exhaust fan. That machine drives +the foul air out of a room or building and +keeps the atmosphere within pure and sweet. +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page127">[pg 127]</span><a name="Pg127" id="Pg127" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +The excessive vital force which radiates from +the body drives out poisonous gases, deleterious +microbes and effete matter thus tending +to preserve a healthy condition. It also prevents +armies of disease germs, which swarm +about in the atmosphere, from entering; +upon the same principle that a fly cannot +wing its way into a building through the +exhaust fan. Thus it serves a most beneficent +purpose even after it has been utilized +in our body and is returning to the free state. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It is a curious and most astounding sight +when one first observes how, from exposed +parts of the body such as hands and face, +there suddenly commences to flow a stream +of stars, cubes, pyramids and a variety of +other geometrical forms. The writer has +more than once rubbed his eyes when he first +perceived the phenomenon, for it seemed that +he must be suffering from hallucinations. +The forms observed are chemical atoms +however, which have served their purpose in +the body and are expelled through the pores. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +When one has eaten a meal, vital fluid is +consumed by the body in great quantities, +for it is the cement whereby nature's forces +build our food into the body. Therefore the +radiations are weakest during the period of +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page128">[pg 128]</span><a name="Pg128" id="Pg128" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +digestion. If the meal has been heavy, the +outflow is very perceptibly diminished, and +does not then cleanse our body as thoroughly +as when the food has been digested, nor is +it as potent in keeping out inimical germs. +Therefore one is most liable to catch cold +or other disease by overeating, a fault which +should be avoided by all who wish to keep +in good health. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +During ill health the vital body specializes +but little solar energy. Then, for a time, +the visible body seems to feed upon the vital +body as it were, so that the vehicle becomes +more transparent and attenuated at the same +rate as the visible body exhibits a state of +emaciation. The cleansing odic radiations +are almost entirely absent during sickness, +therefore complications set in so easily. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Though science has not directly observed +this vital body of man, it has upon several +occasions postulated the existence of such a +vehicle as necessary to account for facts in +life and the radiations have been observed +by a number of scientists at different times +and under varying conditions. Blondlot and +Charpentier have called them N-rays after +the city of Nantes where the radiations were +observed by these scientists, others have +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page129">[pg 129]</span><a name="Pg129" id="Pg129" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +named them <span class="tei tei-q">“The Odic fluid”</span>. Scientific +investigators who have conducted researches +into psychic phenomena have even photographed +it when it has been extracted +through the spleen by materializing spirits. +Dr. Hotz for instance obtained two photographs +of a materialization through the +German medium, Minna-Demmler. On one a +cloud of ether is seen oozing out through the +left side of the medium, shapeless and without +form. The second picture, taken a few +moments later, shows the materialized spirit +standing at the medium's side. Other photographs +obtained by scientists from the +Italian medium Eusapio Palladino show a +luminous cloud over-hanging her left side. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +We said in the beginning of this description +that the vital body is an exact counterpart +of the dense body with one exception: it +is of the opposite sex or perhaps we should +rather say polarity. As the vital body nourishes +the dense vehicle, we may readily understand +that blood is its highest visible expression, +and also that a positively polarized +vital body would generate more blood than a +negative one. Woman who is physically negative +has a positive vital body, hence she generates +a surplus of blood which is relieved by +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page130">[pg 130]</span><a name="Pg130" id="Pg130" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +the periodical flow. She is also more prone +to tears, which are white bleeding, than man, +whose negative vital body does not generate +more blood than he can comfortably take care +of. Therefore it is not necessary for him to +have the outlets which relieve excess of blood +in woman. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Desire Body.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In addition to the visible body and the +vital body we also have a body made of desire +stuff from which we form our feelings +and emotions. This vehicle also impels us to +seek sense gratification. But while the two +instruments of which we have already spoken, +are well organized, the desire body appears +to spiritual sight as an ovoid cloud +extending from sixteen to twenty inches beyond +the physical body. It is above the +head and below the feet so that our dense +body sits in the center of this egg-shaped +cloud as the yolk is in the center of an egg. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The reason for the rudimentary state of +this vehicle is, that it has been added to the +human constitution more recently than the +bodies previously mentioned. Evolution of +form may be likened to the manner in which +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page131">[pg 131]</span><a name="Pg131" id="Pg131" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +the juices in the snail first condense into flesh +and later become a hard shell. When our +present visible body first germinated in the +spirit, it was a thought-form, but gradually +it has become denser and more concrete until +it is now a chemical crystallization. The +vital body was next emanated by the spirit +as a thought-form and is in the third stage of +concretion which is etheric. The desire body +is a still later acquisition. That also was a +thought form at its inception, but has now +condensed to desire stuff, and the mind, +which we have only recently received, is still +but a mere cloudy thought form. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Arms and limbs, ears and eyes are not +necessary to use the desire body, for it can +glide through space more swiftly than wind +without such means of locomotion as we require +in this visible world. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +When viewed by spiritual sight, it appears +that there are in this desire body a number +of whirling vortices. We have already +explained that it is a characteristic of desire +stuff to be in constant motion, and from the +main vortex in the region of the liver there +is a constant outwelling flow which radiates +towards the periphery of this egg-shaped +body and returns to the center through a +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page132">[pg 132]</span><a name="Pg132" id="Pg132" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +number of other vortices. The desire body +exhibits all the colors and shades which we +know and a vast number of others which are +indescribable in earthly language. Those +colors vary in every person according to his +characteristics and temperament and they +also vary from moment to moment as passing +moods, fancies or emotions are experienced +by him. There is however in each +one a certain basic color dependent upon +the ruling star at the moment of his birth. +The man in whose horoscope Mars is peculiarly +strong usually has a crimson tint in +his aura, where Jupiter is the strongest +planet the prevailing tint seems to be a bluish +tone, and so on with the other planets. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +There was a time in the earth's past history +when incrustation was not yet complete, +and human beings of that time lived upon +islands here and there, amid boiling seas. +They had not yet evolved eyes or ears, but +a little organ: the pineal gland, which anatomists +have called <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">the third eye</span></span>, protruded +through the back of the head and was a <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">localised +organ of feeling</span></em>, which warned the man +when he came too near a volcanic crater and +thus enabled him to escape destruction. Since +then the cerebral hemispheres have covered +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page133">[pg 133]</span><a name="Pg133" id="Pg133" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +the pineal gland, and instead of a single organ +of feeling, the whole body inside and out +is sensitive to impacts, which of course is +a much higher state of development. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In the desire body every particle is sensitive +to vibrations similar to those which we +call sight, sounds and feelings and every particle +is in incessant motion rapidly swirling +about so that in the same instant it may be at +the top and bottom of the desire body and impart +at all points to all the other particles a +sensation of that which it has experienced +thus every particle of desire stuff in this +vehicle of ours will instantly feel any sensation +experienced by any single particle. +Therefore the desire body is of an exceedingly +sensitive nature, capable of most intense +feelings and emotions. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Mind.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +This is the latest acquisition of the human +spirit, and in most people who have not yet +accustomed themselves to orderly, consecutive +thought, it is a mere inchoate cloud disposed +particularly in the region of the head. +When looking at a person clairvoyantly there +appears to be an empty space in the center +of the forehead just above and between the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page134">[pg 134]</span><a name="Pg134" id="Pg134" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +eyebrows. It looks like the blue part of a gas +flame. That is mind stuff which veils the human +spirit, or Ego, and the writer has been +told that not even the most gifted seer can +penetrate that veil which is said to have been +spoken of in ancient Egypt as <span class="tei tei-q">“<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">the veil of +Isis</span></span>”</span> which none may lift and live, for behind +that veil is the Holy of Holies, the temple +of our body, where the spirit is to be left +secure from all intrusion. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +To those who have not previously studied +the deeper philosophies the question may occur: +But why all these divisions; even the +Bible speaks only of soul and body, for most +people believe soul and spirit to be synonymous +terms. We can only answer that this +division is not arbitrary but necessary, and +founded upon facts in nature. Neither is it +correct to regard the soul and the spirit as +synonymous. Paul himself speaks of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">the +natural body</span></span> which is composed of physical +substances: solids, liquids, gases and ethers; +he mentions <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">a spiritual body</span></span>, which is the +vehicle of the spirit composed of the mind and +desire body, and <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">the spirit itself</span></span>, which is +called Ego in Latin or <span class="tei tei-q">“I”</span> in English. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +That term <span class="tei tei-q">“I”</span> is an appelation which can +only be made by the human spirit of itself. +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page135">[pg 135]</span><a name="Pg135" id="Pg135" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +We may all call a dog, dog; or we may call +a table, table, and any one else may apply +the same name to the dog and to the table, +but only a human being can be called <span class="tei tei-q">“I”</span> +and only he himself can apply that most exclusive +of all words, I, for this is the badge +of self-consciousness, the recognition by the +human spirit of <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">itself</span></em> as an entity, separate +and apart from all others. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Thus we see that the constitution of man +is more complex than appears upon the surface, +and we will now proceed to note the +effect upon this multiplex being of various +conditions of life. +</p> + +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page136">[pg 136]</span><a name="Pg136" id="Pg136" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc9" id="toc9"></a> +<a name="pdf10" id="pdf10"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Chapter V. Life and Death</span></h1> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Invisible Helpers and Mediums.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +There are two classes of people in the +world. In one class the vital and dense +bodies are so firmly cemented that the ethers +cannot be extracted under any circumstances +but remain with the dense body at all times +and under all conditions from birth to death. +Those people are insensible to any supersensuous +sights or sounds. They are therefore +usually exceedingly sceptic, and believe nothing +exists but what <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">they</span></em> can see. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +There is another class of people in whom +the connection between the dense and the +vital bodies is more or less loose, so that +the ether of their vital bodies vibrates at a +higher rate than in the first class mentioned. +These people are therefore more or less sensitive +to the spiritual world. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +This class of sensitives may again be divided. +Some are weak characters, dominated +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page137">[pg 137]</span><a name="Pg137" id="Pg137" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +by the will of others in a <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">negative</span></em> manner, +as mediums, who are the prey of disembodied +spirits desirous of obtaining a physical body +when they have lost their own by death. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The other class of sensitives are strong +<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">positive</span></em> characters, who act only from within, +according to their own will. They may +develop into trained clairvoyants, and be +their own masters instead of slaves of a disembodied +spirit. In some sensitives of both +classes it is possible to extract part of the +ether which forms the vital body. When a +disembodied spirit obtains a subject of that +nature, it develops the sensitive as <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">a materializing +medium</span></em>. The man who is capable +of extracting his own vital body by an act +of will, becomes a citizen of two worlds, independent +and free. Such are usually known +as <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Invisible Helpers</span></span>. There are certain other +abnormal conditions where the vital body and +the dense body are separated totally or in +part, for instance if we place our limb in an +uncomfortable position so that circulation of +the blood ceases. Then we may see the etheric +limb hanging down below the visible limb as +a stocking. When we restore circulation and +the etheric limb seeks to enter into place, an +intense prickly sensation is felt, due to the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page138">[pg 138]</span><a name="Pg138" id="Pg138" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +fact that the little streams of force, which +radiate all through the ether, seek to permeate +the molecules of the limb and stir them +into renewed vibration. When a person is +drowning, the vital body also separates from +the dense vehicle and the intense prickly pain +incident to resuscitation is also due to the +cause mentioned. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +While we are awake and going about our +work in the Physical World, the desire body +and mind both permeate the dense and the +vital bodies, and there is a constant war between +the desire nature and the vital body. +The vital body is continually engaged in building +up the human organism, while the impulses +of the desire body tend to tire and to break +down tissue. Gradually, in the course of the +day, the vital body loses ground before the +onslaughts of the desire body, poisons of decay +slowly accumulate and the flow of vital +fluid becomes more and more sluggish, until +at length it is incapable of moving the muscles. +The body then feels heavy and drowsy. +At last the vital body collapses, as it were, +the little streams of force which permeate +each atom seem to shrivel up, and the Ego +is forced to abandon its body to the restorative +powers of sleep. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page139">[pg 139]</span><a name="Pg139" id="Pg139" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +When a building has become dilapidated +and is to be <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">restored</span></em> and put in thorough repair, +the tenants must move out to let the +workmen have a free field. So also when the +building of a spirit has become unfit for further +use, it must withdraw therefrom. As +the desire body caused the damage, it is a +logical conclusion that that also must be removed. +Every night when our body has become +tired, the higher vehicles are withdrawn, +only the dense and vital bodies are +left upon the bed. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Then the process of restoration commences +and lasts for a longer or a shorter time according +to circumstances. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +At times however, the grip of the desire +body upon our denser vehicles is so strong +that it refuses to let go. When it has become +so interested in the proceedings of the +day, it continues to ruminate over them after +the collapse of the physical body, and is perhaps +only half extracted from that vehicle. +Then it may transmit sights and sounds of +the desire world to the brain. But as the +connections are necessarily askew under such +conditions, the most confused dreams result. +Furthermore, as the desire body compels motion, +the body is very apt to toss about when +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page140">[pg 140]</span><a name="Pg140" id="Pg140" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +the desire body is not fully extracted, hence +the restless sleep which usually accompanies +dreams of a confused nature. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +There are times of course when dreams +are prophetic and come true, but such dreams +result only <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">after</span></em> complete extraction of the +desire body, under circumstances where the +spirit has seen some danger perhaps, which +may befall, and then impresses the fact upon +the brain <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">at the moment of awakening</span></em>. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It also happens that the spirit goes upon a +soul flight and omits to perform its part of +the work of restoration, then the body will +not be fit to re-enter in the morning, so it +sleeps on. The spirit may thus roam afield +for a number of days, or even weeks, before +it again enters its physical body and assumes +the normal routine of alternating waking and +sleep. This condition is called <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">trance</span></span>, and +the spirit may remember upon its return +what it has seen and heard in the super-physical +realm, or it may have forgotten, according +to the stage of its development and the +depth of the trance condition. When the +trance is very light, the spirit is usually +present in the room where its body lies all +the time, and upon its return to the body it +will be able to recount to relatives all they +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page141">[pg 141]</span><a name="Pg141" id="Pg141" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +said and did while its body lay unconscious. +Where the trance is deeper, the returning +spirit will usually be unconscious of what +happened around its body, but may recount +experiences from the invisible world. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A few years ago a little girl by the name +of Florence Bennett in Kankakee, Illinois, +fell into such a trance. She returned to the +body every few days, but stayed within only +a few hours each time, and the whole trance +lasted three weeks, more or less. During the +returns to her body she told relatives that +in her absence she seemed to be in a place +inhabited by all the people who died. But +she stated that none of them spoke about dying +and no one among them seemed to realize +that they were dead. Among those she had +seen was a locomotive engineer who had been +accidentally killed. His body was mangled +in the accident which caused death. The little +girl perceived him there walking about +minus arms, and with lesions upon his head, +all of which is in line with facts usually seen +by mystic investigators. Persons who have +been hurt in accidents go about thus, until +they learn that a mere wish to have their +body made whole will supply a new arm or +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page142">[pg 142]</span><a name="Pg142" id="Pg142" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +limb, for desire stuff is most quickly and +readily molded by thought. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Death.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +After a longer or shorter time there comes +in each life a point where the experiences +which a spirit can gain from its present environment +have been exhausted, and life +terminates in death. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Death may be sudden and seemingly unexpected, +as for instance by earthquake, upon +the battle-field, or by accident, as we call it, +but in reality, death is never accidental or +unforeseen by Higher Powers. Not a sparrow +falls to the ground without divine Will. +There are along life's path partings of the +way, as it were; on one side the main line +of life continues onward, the other path leads +into what we might call a blind alley. If the +man takes that path, it soon ends in death. +We are here in life for the sake of gaining +experience and each life has a certain harvest +to reap. If we order our life in such a manner +that we gain the knowledge it is intended +we should acquire, we continue in life, and +opportunities of different kinds constantly +come our way. But if we neglect them, and +the life goes into paths which are not congruous +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page143">[pg 143]</span><a name="Pg143" id="Pg143" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +to our individual development it +would be a waste of time to let us stay in +such environment. Therefore the Great and +Wise Beings, Who are behind the scene of +evolution, terminate our life, that we may +have a fresh start in a different sphere of influence. +The law of conservation of energy +is not confined to the Physical World, but +operates in the spiritual realms also. There +is nothing in life that has not its purpose. +We do wrong to rail against circumstances, +no matter how disagreeable, we should rather +endeavor to learn the lessons which are contained +therein, that we may live a long and +useful life. Some one may object, and say: +You are inconsistent in your teachings. You +say there is really no death, that we go into +a brighter existence, and that we have to +learn other lessons there in a different +sphere of usefulness! Why then aim to live +a long life here? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It is very true that we make these claims, +and they are perfectly consistent with the +other assertions just mentioned, but there +are lessons to be learned <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">here</span></em> which cannot +be learned in the other worlds, and we have +to bring up this physical body through the +useless years of childhood, through hot and +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page144">[pg 144]</span><a name="Pg144" id="Pg144" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +impulsive youth, to the ripeness of manhood +or womanhood, before it becomes of true +spiritual use. The longer we live after maturity +has been attained, when we have commenced +to look upon the serious side of life +and started to truly learn lessons which make +for soulgrowth, the more experience we shall +gather and the richer our harvest will be. +Then, in a later existence, we shall be so much +more advanced, and capable of taking up +tasks that would be impossible with less +length of life and breadth of activity. Besides, +it is hard to die for the man in the +prime of life with a wife and growing family +whom he loves; with ambitions of greatness +unfulfilled; with hosts of friends about him, +and with interests all centered upon the material +plane of existence. It is sad for the +woman whose heart is bound up in home and +the little ones she has reared, to leave them, +perhaps without anyone to care for them; to +know that they have to fight their way alone +through the early years when her tender care +is needed, and perhaps to see those little ones +abused, and she unable to lift a hand, though +her heart may bleed as freely as it would in +earth life. All these things are sad, and +<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">they bind the spirit to earth</span></em> for a much longer +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page145">[pg 145]</span><a name="Pg145" id="Pg145" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +time than ordinarily, they hinder it from +reaping the experiences it should reap upon +the other side of death, and they make it +desirable along with other reasons already +mentioned to live a long life before passing +onwards. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The difference between those who pass out +at a ripe old age, and one who leaves this +earth in the prime of life, may be illustrated +by the manner in which the seed clings to a +fruit in an unripe state. A great deal of +force is necessary to tear the stone from a +green peach; it has such a tenacious hold +upon the fruit that shreds of pulp adhere to +it when forcibly removed, so also the spirit +clings to the flesh in middle life and a certain +part of its material interest remain and +bind it to earth after death. On the other +hand, when a life has been lived to the full, +when the spirit has had time to realize its +ambitions or to find out their futility, when +the duties of life have been performed and +satisfaction rests upon the brow of an aged +man or woman; or when the life has been +misspent and the pangs of conscience have +worked upon the man and shown him his +mistakes; when, in fact, the spirit has learned +the lessons of life, as it must have to come +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page146">[pg 146]</span><a name="Pg146" id="Pg146" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +to old age; then it may be likened to the seed +of the ripe fruit which falls out clean, without +a vestige of flesh clinging thereto, at the +moment the encasing pulp is opened. Therefore +we say, as before, that though there is +a brighter existence in store for those who +have lived well, it is nevertheless best to live +a long life and to live it to the fullest extent +possible. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +We also maintain, that no matter what may +be the circumstances of a man's death, it is +not accidental; it has either been brought +about by his own neglect to embrace opportunities +of growth, or else life has been lived +to the ultimate possible. There is one exception +to that rule, and that is due to man's +exercise of his divine prerogative of interference. +If we lived according to schedule, +if we all assimilated the experiences designed +for our growth by the Creative Powers, +we should live to the ultimate length, but +<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">we ourselves</span></em> usually shorten our lives by not +taking advantage of opportunities, and it also +happens that <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">other men</span></em> may shorten our +lives and cut them off as suddenly as the so-called +accident whereby the divine rulers +terminate our life here. In other words, murder, +or fatal accidents brought about <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">by human +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page147">[pg 147]</span><a name="Pg147" id="Pg147" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-style: italic"> +carelessness</span></em>, are in reality the only termination +to life not planned by invisible leaders +of humanity. No one is ever compelled +to do murder or other evil, or there could not +come to them a just retribution for their acts. +The Christ said that evil must come but <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">woe +unto him by whom it cometh</span></span>, and to harmonize +that with the law of divine justice: +<span class="tei tei-q">“as a man soweth, so shall he also reap,”</span> +<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">there must at least be absolute free will in +respect to evil acts</span></em>. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +There are also cases where a person lives +such a full and good life of such vast benefit +to humanity and to himself, that his days are +lengthened beyond the ultimate, as they are +shortened by neglect, but such cases are of +course too few to allow of their being dwelt +upon at length. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Where death is not sudden as in the case +of accidents, but occurs at home after an +illness, quietly and peacefully, dying persons +usually experience a falling upon them as of +a pall of great darkness shortly before termination +of life. Many pass out from the +body under that condition, and do not see the +light again until they have entered the super-physical +realms. There are many other cases +however, where the darkness lifts before the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page148">[pg 148]</span><a name="Pg148" id="Pg148" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +final release from the body. Then the dying +person views both worlds at once, and is cognizant +of the presence of both dead and living +friends. Under such circumstances it +very often happens that a mother sees some +of her children who have gone before, and she +will exclaim joyously: Oh, there is Johnny +standing at the foot of my bed; my but hasn't +he grown! The living relatives may feel +shocked and uneasy, thinking the mother suffering +from hallucinations, while in reality +she is more clear-sighted than they; she perceives +those who have passed beyond the veil +who have come to greet and help her to make +herself at home in the new world she is entering. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Each human being is an individual, separate +and apart from all others, and as experiences +in the life of each differ from those of +all others in the interval from the cradle to +the grave, so we may also reasonably infer +that the experiences of each spirit vary from +those of every other spirit when it passes +through the gates of birth and death. We +print what purports to be a <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">spirit message</span></span> +communicated by the late Professor James of +Harvard at the Boston spirit temple, and in +which he describes sensations which he felt +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page149">[pg 149]</span><a name="Pg149" id="Pg149" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +when passing through the gate of death. We +do not vouch for its authenticity as we have +not investigated the matter personally. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Professor James had promised to communicate +after death with his friends in this +life, and the whole world of psychic research +was and still is on watch for a word from +him. Several mediums have claimed that +Professor James has communicated through +them, but the most remarkable are those +given through the Boston spirit temple as +follows: +</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"> +<span class="tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">And this is death, only to fall asleep, only to +awaken in the morning and to know that all is well. +I am not dead, only arisen.</span></span> +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"> +<span class="tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">I only know that I experienced a great shock +through my entire system, as if some mighty bond +had been rent asunder. For a moment I was dazed +and lost consciousness. When I awakened I found +myself standing beside the old body which had +served me faithfully and well. To say that I was +surprised would only inadequately express the sensation +that thrilled my very being, and I realized +that some wonderful change had taken place. Suddenly +I became conscious that my body was surrounded +by many of my friends, and an uncontrollable +desire took possession of me to speak and +touch them that they might know that I still lived. +Drawing a little nearer to that which was so like +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page150">[pg 150]</span><a name="Pg150" id="Pg150" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%"> +and yet unlike myself, I stretched forth my hand +and touched them, but they heeded me not.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span> +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"> +<span class="tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">Then it was that the full significance of the +great change that had taken place flashed upon my +newly awakened senses; then it was that I realized +that an impenetrable barrier separated me from my +loved ones on earth, and that this great change +which had taken place was indeed death. A sense +of weariness and longing for rest took possession +of me. I seemed to be transported through space, +and I lost consciousness, to awaken in a land so +different and yet so similar to the one which I had +lately left. It was not possible for me to describe +my sensations when I again regained consciousness +and realized that, though dead, I was still alive.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"> +<span class="tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">When I first became conscious of my new environment +I was resting in a beautiful grove, and +was realizing as never before what it was to be at +peace with myself and all the world.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span> +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"> +<span class="tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">I know that only with the greatest difficulty +shall I be enabled to express to you my sensations +when I fully realized that I had awakened to a new +life. All was still, no sound broke the silence. Darkness +had surrounded me. In fact, I seemed to be +enveloped in a heavy mist, beyond which my gaze +could not penetrate. Soon in the distance I discerned +a faint glimmer of light, which slowly approached +me, and then, to my wonder and joy, I +beheld the face of her who had been my guiding +star in the early days of my earth life.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span> +</p> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page151">[pg 151]</span><a name="Pg151" id="Pg151" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +One of the saddest sights witnessed by the +seer at a death-bed is the tortures to which +we often subject our dying friends on account +of ignorance of how to care for them in that +condition. We have a science of birth; obstetricians +who have been trained for years +in their profession and have developed a +wonderful skill, assist the little stranger into +this world. We have also trained nurses attendant +upon mother and child, the ingenuity +of brilliant minds is focused upon the problem +of how to make maternity easier, neither +pains nor money are spared in these beneficent +efforts for one whom we have never seen, +but when the friend of a lifetime, the man who +has served his kind well and nobly in profession, +state, or church, is to leave the scene +of his labors for a new field of activity, when +the woman—who has labored to no less good +purpose in bringing up a family to take its +part in the world's work—has to leave that +home and family, when one whom we have +loved all our lives is about to bid us the final +farewell, we stand by utterly at a loss how +to help; perhaps we even do the very things +most detrimental to the comfort and welfare +of the departing one. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page152">[pg 152]</span><a name="Pg152" id="Pg152" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Probably there is no form of torture more +commonly inflicted upon the dying than that +which is caused by administering stimulants. +Such potions have the effect of drawing a departing +spirit into its body with the force of +a catapult, to remain and to suffer for sometime +longer. Investigators of conditions beyond +have heard many complaints of such +treatment. When it is seen that death must +inevitably ensue, let not selfish desire to keep +a departing spirit a little longer prompt us +to inflict such tortures upon it. The death +chamber should be a place of the utmost +quiet, a place of peace and of prayer, for at +that time, and <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">for three and one-half days +after the last breath</span></em>, the spirit is passing +through a Gethsemane and needs all the assistance +that can be given. The value of the +life that has just been passed depends greatly +upon conditions which then prevail about the +body; yes even the conditions of its future +life are influenced by our attitude during +that time, so that if ever we were our brother's +keeper in life, we are a thousand times +more so at death. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Post-mortem examinations, embalming and +cremation during the period mentioned, not +only disturb the passing spirit mentally, but +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page153">[pg 153]</span><a name="Pg153" id="Pg153" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +are productive of a certain amount of +pain, for there is still a slight connection with +the discarded vehicle. If sanitary laws require +us to prevent decomposition while thus +keeping the body for cremation, it may be +packed in ice till the three and one-half days +have passed. After that time the spirit will +not suffer, no matter what happens to the +body. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Panorama of a Past Life.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +No matter how long we may keep the spirit +from passing out however, at last there will +come a time when no stimulant can hold it +and the last breath is drawn. Then the silver +cord, of which the Bible speaks, and which +holds the higher and the lower vehicles together, +snaps in the heart and causes that organ +to stop. That rupture releases the vital +body, and that with the desire body and +mind float above the visible body for from +one to three and one-half days while the +spirit is engaged in reviewing the past life, +an exceedingly important part of its post-mortem +experience. Upon that review depends +its whole existence from death to a +new birth. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The question may arise in the student's +mind: How can we review our past life from +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page154">[pg 154]</span><a name="Pg154" id="Pg154" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +the cradle to the grave when we do not even +remember what we did a month ago, and to +form a proper basis for our future life, this +record ought to be very accurate, but even +the best memory is faulty? When we understand +the difference between the conscious +and sub-conscious memory and the manner +in which the latter operates, the difficulty +vanishes. This difference and the manner in +which the sub-conscious memory keeps an +accurate record of our life experiences may +be best understood by an illustration, as follows: +When we go into a field and view the +surrounding landscape, vibrations in the +ether carry to us a picture of everything +within the range of our vision. It is as sad +as it is true however, that <span class="tei tei-q">“we have eyes and +see not,”</span> as the Savior said. These vibrations +impinge upon the retina of our eyes, +even to the very smallest details, but they +usually do not penetrate to our consciousness, +and therefore are not remembered. Even +the most powerful impressions fade in +course of time so that we cannot call them +back at will when they are stored in our conscious +memory. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +When a photographer goes afield <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">with his +camera</span></em> the results which he obtains are different. +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page155">[pg 155]</span><a name="Pg155" id="Pg155" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +The ether vibrations emanating from +all things upon which his camera is focused, +transmit to the sensitive plate an impression +of the landscape true to the minutest detail, +and, mark this well, this true and accurate +picture is in no wise dependent upon whether +the photographer is observant or not. It will +remain upon the plate and may be reproduced +under proper conditions. Such is the subconscious +memory, and it is generated automatically +by each of us during every moment +of time, independently of our volition, in the +following manner. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +From the first breath which we draw after +birth to our last dying gasp, we inspire air +which is charged with pictures of our surroundings, +and the same ether which carries +that picture to the retina of our eye, is inhaled +into our lungs where it enters the +blood. Thus it reaches the heart in due time. +In the left ventricle of that organ, near the +apex, there is one little atom which is particularly +sensitized, and which remains in the +body all through life. It differs in this respect +from all other atoms which come and +go, for it is the particular property of God, +and of a certain spirit. This atom may be +called the book of the Recording Angel, for +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page156">[pg 156]</span><a name="Pg156" id="Pg156" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +as the blood passes through the heart, cycle +after cycle, the pictures of our good and evil +acts are inscribed thereon to the minutest detail. +This record may be called the sub-conscious +memory. It forms the basis of our future +life when reproduced as a panorama just +subsequent to death. By removal of the seed +atom—which corresponds to the sensitized +plate in a camera,—the reflecting ether of the +vital body serves as a focus, and as the life +unrolls slowly backwards from death to birth +the pictures thereof are etched into the desire +body which will be our vehicle during our +sojourn in purgatory and the first heaven +where evil is eradicated and good assimilated, +so that in a future life the former may serve +as <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">conscience</span></em> to withhold the man from repeating +mistakes of the past, and the latter +will spur us to greater good. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A phenomenon similar to the panorama of +life usually takes place when a person is +drowning. People who have been resuscitated +speak of having seen their whole life +<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">in a flash</span></em>. That is because under such conditions +the vital body also leaves the dense +body. Of course there is no rupture of the +silver cord, or life could not be restored. +Unconsciousness follows quickly in drowning, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page157">[pg 157]</span><a name="Pg157" id="Pg157" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +while in the usual post-mortem review the +consciousness continues until the vital body +collapses in the same manner that it does +when we go to sleep. Then consciousness +ceases for a while and the panorama is terminated. +Therefore also the time occupied +by the panorama varies with different persons, +according to whether the vital body was +strong and healthy, or had become thin and +emaciated by protracted illness. The longer +the time spent in review, and the more quiet +and peaceful the surroundings, the deeper +will be the etching which is made in the desire +body. As already said, that has a most important +and far reaching effect, for then the +sufferings which the spirit will realize in +purgatory on account of bad habits and misdeeds +will be much more keen than if there +is only a slight impression, and in a future +life the still small voice of conscience will +warn so much more insistently against mistakes +which caused sufferings in the past. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +When conditions are such at the time of +death that the spirit is disturbed by outside +conditions, for instance the din and turmoil +of a battle, the harrowing conditions of an +accident or the hysterical wailings of relatives, +the distraction prevents it from realizing +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page158">[pg 158]</span><a name="Pg158" id="Pg158" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +an appropriate depth in the etching upon +the desire body. Consequently its post-mortem +existence becomes vague and insipid, the +spirit does not harvest fruits of experience +as it should have done had it passed out of +the body in peace and under normal conditions. +It would therefore lack incentive to +good in a future life, and miss the warning +against evil which a deep etching of the panorama +of life would have given. Thus its +growth would be retarded in a very marked +degree, but the beneficent powers in charge of +evolution take certain steps to compensate +for our ignorant treatment of the dying and +other untoward circumstances mentioned. +What these steps are, we shall discuss when +considering the life of children in heaven, for +the present let it be sufficient to say that in +God's kingdom every evil is always transmuted +to a greater good though the process may +not be at once apparent. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Purgatory.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +During life the collapse of the vital body +at night terminates our view of the world +about us, and causes us to lose ourselves in +unconsciousness of sleep. When the vital +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page159">[pg 159]</span><a name="Pg159" id="Pg159" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +body collapses just subsequent to death, and +the panorama of life is terminated, we also +lose consciousness for a time which varies according +to the individual. A darkness seems +to fall upon the spirit, then after a while it +wakes up and begins dimly to perceive the +light of the other world, but is only gradually +accustomed to the altered conditions. It is an +experience similar to that which we have when +coming out of a darkened room into sunlight, +which blinds us by its brilliancy, until the +pupils of our eyes have contracted so that +they admit a quantity of light bearable to +our organism. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +If under such a condition we turn momentarily +from the bright sunlight and look back +into the darkened room, objects there will be +much more plain to our vision than things +outside which are illumined by the powerful +rays of the sun. So it is also with the spirit, +when it has first been released from the body +it perceives sights, scenes and sounds of the +material world, which it has just left, much +more readily than it observes the sights of +the world it is entering. Wordsworth in his +Ode to Immortality noted a similar condition +in the case of new-born children, who are all +clairvoyant and much more awake to the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page160">[pg 160]</span><a name="Pg160" id="Pg160" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +spiritual world than to this present plane of +existence. Some lose the spiritual sight very +early, others retain it for a number of years +and a few keep it all through life, but as the +birth of a child is a death in the spiritual +world and it retains the spiritual sight for a +time, so also death here is a birth upon the +spiritual plane, and the newly dead retain a +consciousness of this world for some time +subsequent to demise. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +When one awakes in the Desire World after +having passed through aforementioned +experiences, the general feeling seems to be +one of relief from a heavy burden, a feeling +perhaps akin to that of a diver encased in a +heavy rubber suit, a weighty brass helmet +upon his head, leaden soles under his feet +and heavy weights of lead upon his breast +and back, confined in his operations on the +bottom of the ocean by a short length of air +tube, and able only to move clumsily with +difficulty. When after the day's work such +a man is hauled to the surface, and divests +himself of his heavy garments and he moves +about with the facility we enjoy here, he must +surely experience a feeling of great relief. +Something like that is felt by the spirit when +it has been divested of the mortal coil, and is +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page161">[pg 161]</span><a name="Pg161" id="Pg161" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +able to roam all over the globe instead of being +confined to the narrow environment which +bound it upon earth. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +There is also a feeling of relief for those +who have been ill. Sickness, such as we know +it, does not exist there. Neither is it necessary +to seek food and shelter, for in that +world there is neither heat nor cold. Nevertheless, +there are many in the purgatorial regions +who go to all bothers of housekeeping, +eating and drinking just as we do here. +George Du Maurier in his novel <span class="tei tei-q">“Peter Ibbetson”</span> +gives a very good idea of this condition +in the life lived between the hero and +the Countess of Towers. This novel also illustrates +splendidly what has been said of the +sub-conscious memory, for Geo. Du Maurier +has somewhere, somehow discovered an easy +method which anyone may apply to do what +he calls <span class="tei tei-q">“dreaming true.”</span> By taking a certain +position in going to sleep, it is possible, +after a little practice, to compel the appearance, +in a dream, of any scene <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">in our past +life</span></em> which we desire to live over again. The +book is well worth reading on that account. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +When a fiery nebula has been formed in +the sky and commences to revolve, a little +matter in the center where motion is slowest +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page162">[pg 162]</span><a name="Pg162" id="Pg162" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +commences to crystallize. When it has reached +a certain density it is caught in the swirl, and +whirled nearer and nearer to the outward +extremity of what has, by that time, become +the equator of a revolving globe. Then it is +hurled into space and discarded from the +economy of the revolving sun. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +This process is not accomplished automatically +as scientists would have us believe,—an +assertion which has been proven in <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The +Rosicrucian Cosmo Conception</span></span> and other +places in our literature. Herbert Spencer +also rejected the nebular theory because it +required a First Cause, which he denied, +though unable to form a better hypothesis of +the formation of solar systems,—but it is +accomplished through the activity of a Great +Spirit, which we may call God or by any +other name we choose. As above, so below, +says the Hermetic axiom. Man, who is a +lesser spirit, also gathers about himself +spirit-substance, which crystallizes into matter +and becomes the visible body which the +spiritual sight reveals as placed inside an +aura of finer vehicles. The latter are in constant +motion. When the dense body is born +as a child it is extremely soft and flexible. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page163">[pg 163]</span><a name="Pg163" id="Pg163" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Childhood, youth, maturity and old age are +but so many different stages of crystallization, +which goes on until at last a point is +reached where the spirit can no longer move +the hardened body and it is thrown out from +the spirit as the planet is expelled from the +sun. That is death!—the commencement of +a disrobing process which continues in purgatory. +The low evil passions and desires +we cultivated during life have crystallized +the desire stuff in such a manner that that +also must be expelled. Thus the spirit is +purged of evil under the same law that a +sun is purged of the matter which later forms +a planet. If the life lived has been a reasonably +decent one, the process of purgation +will not be very strenuous nor will the evil +desires thus expurgated persist for a long +time after having been freed, but they quickly +disintegrate. If, on the other hand, an +extremely vile life has been led, the part of +the expurgated desire nature may persist +even to the time when the spirit returns to a +new birth for further experience. It will then +be attracted to him and haunt him as a demon, +inciting him to evil deeds which he +himself abhors. The story of Dr. Jekyll and +Mr. Hyde is not a mere fanciful idea of +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page164">[pg 164]</span><a name="Pg164" id="Pg164" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +Robert Louis Stevenson, but is founded upon +facts well known to spiritual investigators. +Such cases are extremes of course, but they +are nevertheless possible and we have unfortunately +laws which convert such possibilities +to probabilities in the case of a certain +class of so-called criminals. We refer to laws +which decree capital punishment as penalty +of murder. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +When a man is dangerous he should of +course be restrained, but even apart from the +question of the moral right of a community +to take the life of anyone—which we deny—society +by its very act of retaliatory murder +defeats the very end it would serve, for if the +vicious murderer is restrained under whatever +discipline is necessary in a prison for a +number of years until his natural death, he +will have forgotten his bitterness against his +victim and against society, and when he +stands as a free spirit in the Desire World, +he may even by prayer have obtained forgiveness +and have become a good Christian. +He will then go on his way rejoicing, and +will in the future life seek to help those whom +he hurt here. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +When society retaliates and puts him to +a violent death shortly after he has committed +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page165">[pg 165]</span><a name="Pg165" id="Pg165" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +the crime, he is most likely to feel himself +as having been greatly injured, and not +without cause. Then such a character will +usually seek to <span class="tei tei-q">“get even”</span> as he calls it, he +will go about for a long time inciting others +to commit murder and other crimes. Then +we have an epidemic of murders in a community, +a condition not infrequent. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The regicide in Servia shocked the Western +World by wiping out an entire royal house in +a most shockingly bloody manner, and the +Minister of the Interior was one of the chief +conspirators. Later he wrote his memoirs, +and therein he writes that whenever the conspirators +had tried to win anyone as a recruit, +they always succeeded when they burned +incense. He did not know why, but simply +mentioned it as a curious coincidence. +To the mystic investigator the matter is perfectly +clear. We have shown the necessity of +having a vehicle made of the materials of any +world wherein we wish to function. We usually +obtain a physical vehicle by going +through the womb, or perhaps in a few +special cases from a particularly good materializing +medium, but where it is only necessary +to work upon the brain and influence +someone else to act, we need but a vehicle +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page166">[pg 166]</span><a name="Pg166" id="Pg166" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +made of such ether as may be obtained from +fumes of many different substances. Each +kind attracts different classes of spirits, and +there is no doubt that the incense burned at +meetings where the conspirators were successful +was of a low and sensual order and +attracted spirits who had a grudge against +humanity in general and the King of Servia +in particular. These malcontents were unable +to injure the King himself, but used a +subtle influence which helped the conspirators +in their work. The released murderer who +has a grudge against society on account of +his execution, may enter low gambling saloons +where the fumes of liquor and tobacco +furnish ample opportunity for working upon +the class of people who congregate in such +places, and the man whose spiritual sight has +been developed is often sadly impressed when +he sees the subtle influences to which those +who frequent such places are exposed. It is a +fact of course that a man must be of a low +caliber to be influenced by low thoughts, and +that it is as impossible to incite a person of +benevolent character to do murder—unless +we put him into a hypnotic sleep—as to +make a tuning fork which vibrates to C sing +by striking another attuned to the key of G, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page167">[pg 167]</span><a name="Pg167" id="Pg167" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +but the thoughts of both living and dead constantly +surround us, and no man ever thought +out a high spiritual philosophy under the influence +of tobacco fumes or while imbibing +alcoholic stimulants. Were capital punishment, +newspaper notoriety of criminals, the +<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">manufacture</span></em> of liquor and tobacco eliminated +from society, the gun factories would soon +cease to advertise and go out of business +along with most of the locksmiths. The police +force would decrease, so would jails and +taxes would be correspondingly minimized. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +When a person enters purgatory he is exactly +the same person as before he died. He +has just the same appetites, likes and dislikes, +sympathies and antipathies, as before. +There is one important difference, however, +namely, that <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">he has no dense body wherewith +to gratify his appetites</span></em>. The drunkard craves +drink, in fact, far more than he did in this +life, but has no stomach which can contain +liquor and cause chemical combustion necessary +to bring about the state of intoxication +in which he delights. He may and does enter +saloons, where he interpolates his body +into the body of a physical drunkard, so that +he may obtain his desires at second hand as +it were, he will incite his victim to drink more +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page168">[pg 168]</span><a name="Pg168" id="Pg168" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +and more. Yet there is no true satisfaction. +He sees the full glass upon the counter but +his spirit hand is unable to lift it. He suffers +tortures of Tantalus until in time he +realizes the impossibility of gratifying his +base desire. Then he is free to go on so +far as that vice is concerned. He has been +purged from that evil without intervention of +an angry deity or a conventional devil with +hell's flames and pitchfork to administer +punishment, but under the immutable law +that as we sow so shall we reap, he has suffered +exactly according to his vice. If his +craving for drink was of a mild nature, he +would scarcely miss the liquor which he cannot +there obtain. If his desires were strong +and he simply lived for drink, he would suffer +veritable tortures of hell without need +of actual flames. Thus the pain experienced +in eradication of his vice would be exactly +commensurate with the energy he had expended +upon contracting the habit, as the +force wherewith a falling stone strikes the +earth is proportionate to the energy expended +in hurling it upwards into the air. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Yet it is not the aim of God to <span class="tei tei-q">“get even;”</span> +<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">love</span></em> is higher than <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">law</span></em> and in His wonderful +mercy and solicitude for our welfare He has +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page169">[pg 169]</span><a name="Pg169" id="Pg169" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +opened the way of repentance and reform +whereby we may obtain forgiveness of sin, as +taught by the Lord of Love: the Christ. Not +indeed contrary to law, for His laws are immutable, +but by application of a higher law, +whereby we accomplish here that which +would otherwise be delayed until death had +forced the day of reckoning. The method is +as follows: +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In our explanation concerning the sub-conscious +memory we noted that a record of +every act, thought and word is transmitted +by air and ether into our lungs, thence to the +blood, and finally inscribed upon the tablet of +the heart:—a certain little <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">seedatom</span></span>, which is +thus the book of Recording Angels. It was +later explained how this panorama of life is +etched into the desire body and forms the basis +of retribution after death. When we have +committed a wrong and our conscience accuses +us in consequence, and this accusation +is productive of sincere repentance <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">accompanied +by reform</span></em>, the picture of that wrong +act will gradually fade from the record of our +life, so that when we pass out at death it will +not stand accusingly against us. We noted +that the panorama of life unwinds backwards +just after death. Later, in the purgatorial +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page170">[pg 170]</span><a name="Pg170" id="Pg170" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +life it again passes before the spiritual vision +of the man, who then experiences the exact +feeling of those whom he has wronged. He +seems to lose his own identity for the time being, +and assumes the condition of his one +time victim, he experiences all the mental and +physical suffering himself which he inflicted +upon others. Thus he learns to be merciful +instead of cruel, and to do right instead of +wrong in a future life. But if he awakens to +a thorough realization of a wrong previous to +his death, then, as said, the feeling of sorrow +for his victim and the restitution or redress +which he gives of his own free will, make the +suffering after death unnecessary, hence—<span class="tei tei-q">“his +sin is forgiven.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Rosicrucian Mystery teaching gives a +scientific method whereby an aspirant to higher +life may purge himself continually, and thus +be able to entirely avoid existence in purgatory. +Each night after retiring the pupil reviews +his life during the past day <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">in reverse +order</span></em>. He starts to visualize as clearly as +possible the scene which took place just before +retiring. He then endeavors to impartially +view his actions in that scene examining +them to see whether he did right or wrong. If +the latter, he endeavors to <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">feel and realize as +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page171">[pg 171]</span><a name="Pg171" id="Pg171" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-style: italic"> +vividly as possible</span></em> that wrong. For instance, +if he spoke harshly to someone, and upon later +consideration finds it was not merited, he will +endeavor to <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">feel</span></em> exactly as that one felt whom +he wronged and at the very earliest opportunity +to apologize for the hasty expression. +Then he will call up the next scene in backward +succession which may perhaps be the +supper table. In respect of that scene he will +examine himself as to whether he ate to live, +sparingly and of foods prepared without suffering +to other creatures of God, (such as +flesh foods that cannot be obtained without +taking life). If he finds that he allowed his +appetite to run away with him and that he +ate gluttonously, he will endeavor to overcome +these habits, for to live a clean life we +must have a clean body and no one can live to +his highest possibilities while making his +stomach a graveyard for the decaying corpses +of murdered animals. In this respect there +occurs to the writer a little poem by Ella +Wheeler Wilcox: +</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">I am the voice of the voiceless;</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Through me the dumb shall speak,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Till a deaf world's ear</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Shall be made to hear</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 3.60em"><span style="font-size: 90%">The wrongs of the wordless weak.</span></div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page172">[pg 172]</span><a name="Pg172" id="Pg172" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">The same force formed the sparrow</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">That fashioned man the king;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">The God of the whole</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Gave a spark of soul</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 3.60em"><span style="font-size: 90%">To furred and feathered thing.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">And I am my brother's keeper</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">And I will fight his fight,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">And speak the word</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">For beast and bird</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 3.60em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Till the world shall set things right.</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Thus the pupil will continue to review each +scene <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">in reverse order</span></em> from night till morning, +and to <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">feel really sorry</span></em> for whatever he +has done amiss. He will not neglect to <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">feel +glad</span></em> either when he comes to a scene where +he has done well, and <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">the more intensely he +can feel, the more thoroughly he will eradicate +the record upon the tablet of the heart +and sharpen his conscience</span></em>, so that as time +goes on from year to year, he will find less +cause for blame and enhance his soul power +enormously. Thus he will grow in a measure +impossible by any less systematic method, +and there will be no necessity for his stay in +purgatory after death. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +This evening exercise and another, for the +morning, if persistently performed day by +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page173">[pg 173]</span><a name="Pg173" id="Pg173" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +day, will in time awaken the spiritual vision +as they improve life. This matter has, however, +been so thoroughly treated in number +11 of the lecture series: <span class="tei tei-q">“<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Spiritual Sight +and Insight; its safe culture and control</span></span>,”</span> +that it is unnecessary to dwell upon the matter +further in this place. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The First Heaven.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In the first heaven, which is located in the +higher regions of the Desire World, the panorama +of life again unrolls and reveals every +scene where we aimed to help or benefit others. +They were not felt at the time the spirit +was in the lower regions, for higher desires +cannot express themselves in the coarse matter +composing the lower regions of the Desire +World, but when the spirit ascends to +the first heaven it reaps from each scene all +the good which it expressed in life. It will +feel the gratitude poured out by those whom +it helped; if it comes to a scene where itself +received a favor from others <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">and was grateful</span></em>, +it will experience the gratitude anew. +The sum of all these feelings is there amalgamated +into the spirit to serve in a future life +as incentives to good. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page174">[pg 174]</span><a name="Pg174" id="Pg174" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Thus, the soul is purged from evil in purgatory, +and strengthened in good in the first +heaven. In one region the extract of sufferings +become <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">conscience</span></em> to deter us from doing +wrong, in the other region the quintessence +of good is transmuted to <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">benevolence</span></em> and altruism +which are the basis of all true progress. +Moreover, purgatory is far from being +a place of <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">punishment</span></em>, it is perhaps the most +beneficent realm in nature, for <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">because of +purgation we are born innocent</span></em> life after life. +The tendencies to commit the same evil for +which we suffered remain with us and temptations +to commit the same wrongs will be +placed in our path until we have consciously +overcome the evil here; temptation is not sin, +however, the sin is in yielding. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Among the inhabitants of the invisible +world there is one class which lives a particularly +painful life, sometimes for a great +many years, namely, the suicide who tried to +play truant from the school of life. Yet it is +not an angry God or a malevolent devil who +administers punishment, but an immutable +law which proportions the sufferings differently +to each individual suicide. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +We learned previously, when considering +the World of Thought, that each form in this +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page175">[pg 175]</span><a name="Pg175" id="Pg175" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +visible world has its archetype there,—a vibrating +hollow mold which emits a certain +harmonious sound; that sound attracts and +forms physical matter into the shape we behold, +much in the same manner as when we +place a little sand upon a glass plate and rub +the edge with a violin bow, the sand is shaped +into different geometrical figures which +change as the sound changes. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The little atom in the heart is the sample +and the center around which the atoms in our +body gather. When that is removed at death, +the center is lacking, and although the archetype +keeps on vibrating until the limit of the +life has been reached—as also previously explained,—no +matter can be drawn into the +hollow shape of the archetype and therefore +the suicide feels a dreadful gnawing pain as +if he were hollowed out, a torture which can +only be likened to the pangs of hunger. In +his case, the intense suffering will continue +for exactly as many years as he should have +lived in the body. At the expiration of that +time, the archetype collapses as it does when +death comes naturally. Then the pain of the +suicide ceases, and he commences his period +of purgation as do those who die a natural +death. But the memory of sufferings experienced +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page176">[pg 176]</span><a name="Pg176" id="Pg176" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +in consequence of the act of suicide will +remain with him in future lives and deter him +from a similar mistake. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In the first heaven there is a class who have +not had any purgatorial existence and who +lead a particularly joyous life: the children. +Our homes may be saddened almost beyond +endurance when the little flower is broken +and the sunshine it brought has gone. But +could we see the beautiful existence which +these little ones lead, and did we understand +the great benefits which accrue to a child from +its limited stay there, our sorrow would be at +least ameliorated in a great measure, and the +wound upon our heart would heal more +quickly. Besides, as nothing else in the +world happens without a cause, so there is +also a much deeper cause for infant mortality +than we are usually aware of, and as we +awake to the facts of the case, we shall be +able to avoid in future the sorrow incident to +loss of our little ones. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +To understand the case properly we must +revert to the experiences of the dying in the +death hour. We remember that the panorama +of the past life is etched upon the desire +body during a period varying from a few +hours to three and one-half days, just subsequent +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page177">[pg 177]</span><a name="Pg177" id="Pg177" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +to demise. We recall also, that upon +the depth of this etching depends the clearness +of the picture, and that the more vivid +this panorama of life, the more intensely will +the spirit suffer in purgatory and feel the +joys of heaven; also, that the greater the suffering +in purgatory the stronger the conscience +in the next life. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It was explained how the horrors of death +upon the battlefield, in an accident or other +untoward circumstances would prevent the +spirit from giving all its attention to the panorama +of life with the result that there would +be a light etching in the desire body, followed +by a vague and insipid existence in purgatory +and the first heaven. It was also stated that +hysterical lamentations in the death chamber +would produce the same effect. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A spirit which had thus escaped suffering +proportionate to its misdeeds, and which had +not experienced the pleasure commensurate +with the good it had done, would not in a future +life have as well developed a conscience +as it ought to have, nor would it be as benevolent +as it ought to be, and therefore the life, +terminated under conditions over which the +spirit had no control, would be partly wasted. +The Great Leaders of humanity therefore +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page178">[pg 178]</span><a name="Pg178" id="Pg178" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +take steps to counteract such a calamity and +prevent an injustice. The spirit is brought +to birth, caused to die in childhood, it re-enters +the Desire World and in the first heaven +it is taught the lessons of which it was deprived +previously. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +As the first heaven is located in the Desire +World,—which is the realm of light and color,—where +matter is shaped most readily by +thought, the little ones are given wonderful +toys impossible of construction here. They +are taught to play with <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">colors which work +upon their moral character</span></em> in exactly the +manner each child requires. Anyone who is +at all sensitive is affected by the color of his +clothing and surroundings. Some colors have +a depressing effect, while others inspire us +with energy, and others again soothe and +comfort us. In the Desire World the effect +of colors is much more intense, they are much +more potent factors of good and evil there +than here, and in this color play, the child +imbibes unconsciously the qualities which it +did not acquire on account of accident or lamentations +of relatives. Often it also falls to +the lot of such relatives to care for a child in +the invisible world, or perhaps to give it birth +and see it die. Thus they receive just retribution +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page179">[pg 179]</span><a name="Pg179" id="Pg179" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +for the wrong committed. As wars +cease, and man learns to be more careful of +life, and also how to care for the dying, infant +mortality, which now is so appalling, will +decrease. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Second Heaven.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +When both the good and evil of a life has +been extracted, the spirit discards its desire +body and ascends to the second heaven. The +desire body then commences to disintegrate +as the physical body and the vital body have +done, but it is a peculiarity of desire stuff, +that once it has been formed and inspired +with life, it persists for a considerable time. +Even after that life has fled it lives a semi-conscious, +independent life. Sometimes it is +drawn by magnetic attraction to relatives of +the spirit whose clothing it was, and at spiritualistic +seances these <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">shells</span></span> generally impersonate +the departed spirit and deceive its relatives. +As the panorama of the past life is +etched into the shells they have a memory of +incidents in connection with these relatives, +which facilitates the deception. But as the +intelligence has fled, they are of course unable +to give any true counsel, and that accounts +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page180">[pg 180]</span><a name="Pg180" id="Pg180" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +for the inane, goody-goody nonsense +of which these things deliver themselves. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +When passing from the first to the second +heaven, the spirit experiences the condition +known and described previously as <span class="tei tei-q">“The +Great Silence,”</span> where it stands utterly alone +conscious only of its divinity. When that silence +is broken there floats in upon the spirit +celestial harmonies of <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">the world of tone</span></em> +where the second heaven is located. It seems +then to lave in an ocean of sound and to experience +a joy beyond all description and +words, as it nears its heavenly home—for this +is the first of the truly spiritual realms from +which the spirit has been exiled during its +earth life and the subsequent post-mortem +existence. In the Desire World its work was +<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">corrective</span></em>, but in the World of Thought the +human spirit becomes one with the nature +forces and its <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">creative</span></em> activity begins. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Under the law of causation we reap exactly +what we sow, and it would be wrong to place +one spirit in an environment where there is a +scarcity of the necessities of life, where a +scorching sun burns the crop and millions die +from famine, or where the raging flood +sweeps away primitive habitations not built +to withstand its ravages, and to bring another +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page181">[pg 181]</span><a name="Pg181" id="Pg181" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +spirit to birth in a land of plenty, with a fertile +soil which yields a maximum of increase +with a minimum of labor, where the earth is +rich in minerals that may be used in industry +to facilitate transportation of products of the +soil from one point to another. If we were +thus placed without action or acquiescence +upon our part, there would be no justice, but +as our post-mortem existence in purgatory +and the first heaven is based upon our moral +attitude in this life so our activities in the +second heaven are determined by our mental +aspirations and they produce our future +physical environment, for in the second heaven, +the spirit becomes part of the nature +forces which work upon the earth and change +its climate, flora and fauna. A spirit of an +indolent nature, who indulges in day dreams +and metaphysical speculations <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">here</span></em>, is not +transformed by death respecting its mental +attitude any more than regarding its moral +propensities. It will dream away time in +heaven, glorying in its sights and sounds. +Thus it will neglect to work upon its future +country and return to a barren and arid land. +Spirits, on the other hand, whose material +aspirations lead them to desire so-called solid +comforts of hearth and home, who aim to +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page182">[pg 182]</span><a name="Pg182" id="Pg182" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +promote great industries and whose mind is +concerned in trade and commerce, will build +in heaven a land that will suit their purpose: +fertile, immineralized, with navigable rivers +and sheltered harbors. They will return in +time to enjoy upon earth the fruits of their +labors in the second heaven, as they reap the +result of their life upon earth in purgatory +and the first heaven. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Third Heaven.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In the third heaven most people have very +little consciousness for reasons explained in +connection with the Region of Abstract +Thought, for there the third heaven is located. +It is therefore more of a place of waiting +where the spirit rests between the time +when its labors in the second heaven have been +completed and the time when it again experiences +the desire for rebirth. But from this +realm inventors bring down their original +ideas; there the philanthropist obtains the +clearest vision of how to realize his utopian +dreams and the spiritual aspirations of the +saintly minded are given renewed impetus. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In time the desires of the spirit for further +experiences draws it back to rebirth, and the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page183">[pg 183]</span><a name="Pg183" id="Pg183" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +Great Celestial Beings who are known in the +Christian Religion as Recording Angels, assist +the spirit to come to birth in the place +best suited to give it the experience necessary +to further unfold its powers and possibilities. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +We have all been here many times and in +different families, we have had relations of +varying nature with many different people +and usually there are several families among +whom we may seek re-embodiment to work +out our self-generated destiny and reap what +we have sown in former life. If there are no +special reasons why we should take birth in +any particular family among certain friends +or foes, the spirit is allowed to choose its own +place of birth. Thus it may be said that most +of us are in our present places by our own +prenatal choice. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In order to assist us in making that choice +the Recording Angels call up before the spirit's +vision a panorama in general outlines of +each of the offered lives. This panorama will +show what part of our past debts we are to +pay, and what fruits we may be expected to +reap in the coming life. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The spirit is left free to choose between the +several lives offered. But once a choice has +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page184">[pg 184]</span><a name="Pg184" id="Pg184" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +been made no evasion is possible during life. +We have free will with regard to the future, +but the past <span class="tei tei-q">“<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">mature</span></em>”</span> destiny we cannot escape, +as shown by the incident recorded in +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Rosicrucian Cosmo Conception</span></span>, where +the writer warned a well known Los Angeles +lecturer that if he left his home upon a certain +day, he would be injured by a conveyance, +in head, neck, breast and shoulders. +The gentleman believed and intended to heed +our warning. Nevertheless he went to Sierra +Madre to lecture upon the fateful day. He +was injured in the places stated by a collision +and later explained: <span class="tei tei-q">“I thought the twenty-eighth +was the twenty-ninth.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +When the spirit has made its choice, it descends +into the second heaven where it is instructed +by the Angels and Archangels how +to build an archetype of the body which it +will later inhabit upon earth. Also here we +note the operation of the great law of justice +which decrees that we reap what we sow. If +our tastes are coarse and sensual, we shall +build an archetype which will express these +qualities; if we are refined and of aesthetic +taste, we shall build an archetype correspondingly +refined, but no one can obtain a +better body than he can build. Then, as the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page185">[pg 185]</span><a name="Pg185" id="Pg185" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +architect who builds a house in which he afterwards +lives, will suffer discomfort if he +neglects to properly ventilate it, so also the +spirit feels disease in a poorly constructed +body, and as the architect learns to avoid +mistakes and remedy the short-comings of +one house when building another, so also the +spirit which suffers from defects in its body, +learns in time to build better and better vehicles. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In the Region of Concrete Thought, the +spirit also draws to itself materials for a new +mind. As a magnet draws iron filings but +leaves other substances alone, so also each +spirit draws only the kind of mind-stuff which +it used in its former life, plus that which it +has learned to use in its present post-mortem +state. Then it descends into the Desire +World where it gathers material for a new +desire body such as will express appropriately +its moral characteristics, and later it +attracts a certain amount of ether which is +built into the mold of the archetype constructed +in the second heaven and acts as cement +between the solids, liquids and gaseous +material from the bodies of parents which +forms the dense physical body of a child, and +in due time the latter is brought to birth. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page186">[pg 186]</span><a name="Pg186" id="Pg186" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Birth and Child Life.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It must not be imagined, however, that +when the little body of a child has been born, +the process of birth is completed. The dense +physical body has had the longest evolution, +and as a shoemaker who has worked at his +trade for a number of years is more expert +than an apprentice and can make better shoes +and <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">quicker</span></em>, so also the spirit which has built +many physical bodies produces them quickly, +but the vital body is a later acquisition of the +human being. Therefore we are not so expert +in building that vehicle. Consequently it +takes longer to construct that from the materials +not used up in making the lining of the +archetype, and the vital body is not born until +the seventh year. Then the period of rapid +growth commences. The desire body is a +still later addition of composite man, and is +not brought to birth until the fourteenth year +when the desire nature expresses itself most +strongly during so-called <span class="tei tei-q">“hot”</span> youth, and the +mind, which makes man man, does not come +to birth until the twenty-first year. In law +that age is recognized as the earliest time he +is fitted to exercise a franchise. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page187">[pg 187]</span><a name="Pg187" id="Pg187" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +This knowledge is of the utmost importance +to parents, as a proper understanding of the +development which should take place in each +of the septenary epochs enables the educator +to work intelligently with nature and thus +fulfill more thoroughly the trust of a parent +than those who are ignorant of the Rosicrucian +Mystery Teaching. We shall therefore +devote the remaining pages to an elucidation +of this matter and of the importance of the +knowledge of astrology upon the part of the +parent. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Mystery of Light, Color and +Consciousness.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“God is Light,”</span> says the Bible, and we are +unable to conceive of a grander simile of His +Omnipresence, or the mode of His manifestation. +Even the greatest telescopes have +failed to reach the boundaries of light, though +they reveal to us stars millions of miles from +the earth, and we may well ask ourselves, as +did the Psalmist of old: Whither shall I flee +from Thy Presence? If I ascend into heaven +Thou art there, If I make my bed in the grave +(the Hebrew word <span lang="he" class="tei tei-foreign" xml:lang="he"><span style="font-style: italic">sheol</span></span> +means <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">grave</span></span> and +not hell), Thou art there, If I take the wings +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page188">[pg 188]</span><a name="Pg188" id="Pg188" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +of morning and dwell in the uttermost parts +of the sea, even there shall thy hand lead +me. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +When, in the dawn of Being, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">God the Father</span></span> +enunciated <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Word</span></span>, and <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Holy Spirit</span></span> +moved upon the sea of homogeneous <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Virgin +Matter</span></span>, primeval <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Darkness</span></span> was turned to +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Light</span></span>. That is therefore the prime manifestation +of Deity, and a study of the principles +of Light will reveal to the mystic intuition a +wonderful source of spiritual inspiration. As +it would take us too far afield from our subject +we shall not enter into an elucidation of +that theme here, except so far as to give an +elementary idea of how divine Life energizes +the human frame and stimulates to action. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Truly, God is ONE and undivided, He enfolds +within His Being all that is, as the white +light embraces all colors. But He appears +three-fold in manifestation, as the white light +is refracted in three primary colors: Blue, +Yellow and Red. Wherever we see these colors +they are emblematical of the Father, Son +and Holy Spirit. These three primary rays +of divine Life are diffused or radiated +through the sun and produce <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Life</span></span>, +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Consciousness</span></span> +and <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Form</span></span> upon each of the seven light-bearers, +the planets, which are called <span class="tei tei-q">“the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page189">[pg 189]</span><a name="Pg189" id="Pg189" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +Seven Spirits before the Throne.”</span> Their +names are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, +Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. Bode's law +proves that Neptune does not belong to our +solar system and the reader is referred to +<span class="tei tei-q">“Simplified Scientific Astrology”</span> by the +present writer, for mathematical demonstration +of this contention. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Each of the seven planets receives the light +of the sun in a different measure, according +to its proximity to the central orb and the +constitution of its atmosphere, and the beings +upon each, according to their stage of +development, have affinity for some of the +solar rays. They absorb the color or colors +congruous to them, and reflect the remainder +upon the other planets. This reflected ray +bears with it an impulse of the nature of the +beings with which it has been in contact. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Thus the divine Light and Life comes to +each planet, either directly from the sun, or +reflected from its six sister planets, and as +the summer breeze which has been wafted +over blooming fields carries upon its silent +invisible wings the blended fragrance of a +multitude of flowers, so also the subtle influences +from the garden of God bring to us the +commingled impulses of all the Spirits and +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page190">[pg 190]</span><a name="Pg190" id="Pg190" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +in that varicolored light we live and move and +have our being. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The rays which come directly from the sun +are productive of spiritual illumination, the +reflected rays from other planets make for +added consciousness and moral development +and the rays reflected by way of the moon +give physical growth. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +But as each planet can only absorb a certain +quantity of one or more colors according +to the general stage of evolution there, so +each being upon earth: mineral, plant, animal +and man can only absorb and thrive upon a +certain quantity of the various rays projected +upon the earth. The remainder do not affect +it or produce sensation, any more than +the blind are conscious of light and color +which exist everywhere around them. +Therefore each being is differently affected +by the stellar rays and the science of Astrology +a fundamental truth in nature, of enormous +benefit in the attainment of spiritual +growth. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +From a horoscopic figure in mystic script +we may learn our own strength and weakness, +with the path best suited to our development, +or we may see the tendencies of those friends +who come to us as children, and what traits +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page191">[pg 191]</span><a name="Pg191" id="Pg191" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +are dormant in them. Thus we shall know +clearly how to discharge our duty as parents, +by repressing evil before it comes to birth +and fostering good, so that it may bring forth +most abundantly the spiritual potencies of +the soul committed to our care. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +As we have already said, man returns to +earth to reap that which he has sown in previous +lives and to sow anew the seeds which +make for future experience. The stars are +the heavenly time keepers which measure the +year, the moon indicates the month when time +will be propitious to harvest or to sow. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The child is a mystery to us all, we can +only know its propensities as they slowly develop +into characteristics, but it is usually +too late to check when evil habits have been +formed and the youth is upon the downward +grade. A horoscope cast for the time of birth +in a scientific manner shows the tendencies +to good or evil in the child, and if a parent +will take time and trouble necessary to study +the science of the stars, he or she may do the +child intrusted to his or her care an inestimable +service by fostering tendencies to good +and repressing the evil bent of a child ere it +has crystallized into habit. Do not imagine +that a superior mathematical knowledge is +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page192">[pg 192]</span><a name="Pg192" id="Pg192" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +necessary to erect a horoscope. Many construct +a horoscope in such an involved manner, +so <span class="tei tei-q">“fearfully and wonderfully made”</span> +that it is unreadable to themselves or others, +while a simple figure easy of reading may be +constructed by anyone who knows how to add +and subtract. This method has been thoroughly +elucidated in Simplified Scientific +Astrology which is a complete text book, +though small and inexpensive, and parents +who have the welfare of their children +thoroughly at heart should endeavor to learn +for themselves, for even though their ability +may not compare with that of a professional +astrologer, their intimate knowledge of the +child and their deep interest will more than +compensate for such lack and enable them to +see most deeply into the child's character by +means of its horoscope. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Education of Children.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Respecting the birth of the various vehicles +and the influence which that has upon +life, we may say that during the time from +birth to the seventh year the lines of growth +of the physical body are determined, and as +it has been noted that sound is builder both +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page193">[pg 193]</span><a name="Pg193" id="Pg193" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +in the great and small, we may well imagine +that rhythm must have an enormous influence +upon the growing and sensitive little +child's organism. The apostle John in the +first chapter of his gospel expresses this idea +mystically in the beautiful words: <span class="tei tei-q">“In the +beginning was the WORD ... and +without it was not anything made that was +made ... and the word became flesh;”</span> +the word is a rhythmic sound, which issued +from the Creator, reverberated through the +universe and marshaled countless millions of +atoms into the multiplex variety of shapes +and forms which we see about us. The +mountain, the mayflower, the mouse and the +man are all embodiments of that great Cosmic +Word which is still sounding through the +universe and which is still building and ever +building though unheard by our insensitive +ears. But though we do not hear that wonderful +celestial sound, we may work upon +the little child's body by terrestrial music, +and though the nursery rhymes are without +sense, they are nevertheless bearers of a wonderful +rhythm, and the more a child is taught +to say, sing and repeat them, to dance and to +march to them, the more music is incorporated +into a child's daily life, the stronger +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page194">[pg 194]</span><a name="Pg194" id="Pg194" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +and healthier will be its body in future years. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +There are two mottoes which apply during +this period, one to the child and the other to +the parent: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Example</span></span> +and <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Imitation</span></span>. No creature +under heaven is more imitative than a +little child, and its conduct in after years will +depend largely upon the example set by its +parents during its early life. It is no use to +tell the child <span class="tei tei-q">“not to mind,”</span> it has no mind +wherewith to discriminate, but follows its +natural tendency, as water flows down a hill, +when it imitates. Therefore it behooves +every parent to remember from morning till +night that watchful eyes are upon him all the +time waiting but for him to act in order to +follow his example. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It is of the utmost importance that the +child's clothing should be very loose, particularly +the clothing of little boys, as chafing +garments often produce vices which follow a +man through life. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +If anyone should attempt to forcibly extract +a babe from the protecting womb of its +mother, the outrage would result in death, +because the babe has not yet arrived at a maturity +sufficient to endure impacts of the +Physical World. In the three septenary periods +which follow birth, the invisible vehicles +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page195">[pg 195]</span><a name="Pg195" id="Pg195" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +are still in the womb of mother nature. +If we teach a child of tender years to memorize, +or to think, or if we arouse its feelings +and emotions, we are in fact opening the protecting +womb of nature and the results are +equally as disastrous in other respects as a +forced premature birth. Child prodigies usually +become men and women of less than ordinary +intelligence. We should not hinder the +child from learning or thinking of <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">his own +volition</span></em>, but we should not goad them on as +parents often do to nourish their own pride. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +When the vital body is born at the age of +seven a period of growth begins and a new +motto, or relation rather, is established between +parent and child. This may be expressed +in the two words <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Authority</span></span> and <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Discipleship</span></span>. +In this period the child is taught +certain lessons which it takes upon faith in +the authority of its teachers, whether at home +or at school, and as memory is a faculty of +the vital body it can now memorize what is +learned. It is therefore eminently teachable; +particularly because it is unbiased by pre-conceived +opinions which prevent most of us +from accepting new views. At the end of this +second period: from about twelve to fourteen, +the vital body has been so far developed +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page196">[pg 196]</span><a name="Pg196" id="Pg196" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +that puberty is reached. At the age of fourteen +we have the birth of the desire body, +which marks the commencement of self-assertion. +In earlier years the child regards itself +more as belonging to a family and subordinate +to the wishes of its parents than after +the fourteenth year. The reason is this: In +the throat of the fœtus and the young child +there is a gland called the thymus gland, +which is largest before birth, then gradually +diminishes through the years of childhood +and finally disappears at ages which vary according +to the characteristics of the child. +Anatomists have been puzzled as to the function +of this organ and have not yet come to +any settled conclusion, but it has been suggested +that before development of the red +marrow bones, the child is not able to manufacture +its own blood, and that therefore the +thymus gland contains an essence, supplied +by the parents, upon which the child may +draw during infancy and childhood, till able +to manufacture its own blood. That theory +is approximately true, and as the family +blood flows in the child, it looks upon itself as +part of the family and not as an Ego. But +the moment it commences to manufacture its +own blood, the Ego asserts itself, it is no +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page197">[pg 197]</span><a name="Pg197" id="Pg197" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +longer Papa's girl or Mamma's boy, it has an +<span class="tei tei-q">“I”</span>-dentity of its own. Then comes the critical +age when parents reap what they have +sown. The mind has not yet been born, nothing +holds the desire nature in check, and +much, very much, depends upon how the +child has been taught in earlier years and +what example the parents have set. At this +point in life self-assertion, the feeling <span class="tei tei-q">“<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">I am +myself</span></em>”</span>, is stronger than at any other time +and therefore authority should give place to +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Advice</span></span>; the parent should practice the utmost +tolerance, for at no time in life is a human being +as much in need of sympathy as during +the seven years from fourteen to twenty-one +when the desire nature is rampant and unchecked. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It is a crime to inflict corporal punishment +upon a child at any age. Might is never +right, and as the stronger, parents should always +have compassion for the weaker. But +there is one feature of corporal punishment +which makes it particularly dangerous to apply +it to the youth: namely, that it wakens the +passional nature which is already perhaps beyond +the control of a growing boy. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +If we whip a dog, we shall soon break its +spirit and transform it into a cringing cur, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page198">[pg 198]</span><a name="Pg198" id="Pg198" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +and it is deplorable that some parents seem +to regard it as their mission in life to break +the spirit of their children with the rule of +the rod. If there is one universal lack among +the human race which is more apparent than +any other, it is lack of will, and as parents we +may remedy the evil in a large measure by +guiding the wills of our children along such +lines as dictated by our own more mature +reason, so that we help them to grow a backbone +instead of a wishbone with which unfortunately +most of us are afflicted. Therefore, +never whip a child; when punishment is +necessary, correct by withholding favors or +withdrawing privileges. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +At the twenty-first year the birth of the +mind transforms the youth into a man or a +woman fully equipped to commence his own +life in the school of experience. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Thus we have followed the human spirit +around a life cycle from death to birth and +maturity, we have seen how immutable law +governs his every step and how he is ever +encompassed by the loving care of the Great +and Glorious Beings who are the ministers of +God. The method of his future development +will be explained in a later work which will +deal with <span class="tei tei-q">“The Christian Mystic Initiation.”</span> +</p> + +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page199">[pg 199]</span><a name="Pg199" id="Pg199" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc11" id="toc11"></a> +<a name="pdf12" id="pdf12"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Mt. Ecclesia</span></h1> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +(Transcriber's Note: This chapter is the series of pages which, earlier, the +author said <span class="tei tei-q">“had been transferred”</span> to the back of the book.) +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">A Description of the Headquarters of the +Rosicrucian Fellowship</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Work in the physical world requires physical +means of accomplishment; therefore +a tract of land was bought in 1911 in the +town of Oceanside, ninety miles south of Los Angeles, +California. <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Southern California was selected +because of the abundance of ether in the atmosphere +there, and this spot was found to be particularly +favored in that respect.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +On this commanding site having a wide view of +the great Pacific Ocean, of snow capped mountains +and smiling valleys, we began to establish our +headquarters in the latter part of 1911. Soon after +this we erected a sanctuary, the Pro-Ecclesia, +where the Rosicrucian Temple Service is held at +appropriate times. The Rose Cross Healing Circle +holds its meetings there to help sufferers, and it +is the place appointed for the united morning and +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page200">[pg 200]</span><a name="Pg200" id="Pg200" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +evening devotions of the workers. In the latter +half of 1920 we built an Ecclesia, which is designed +to be a Temple of Healing. The building, +a beautiful domed structure, is of steel and reinforced +concrete. It is twelve sided in shape, corresponding +to the twelve signs of the zodiac. At +the present writing, January, 1921, the final work +upon it is just being completed. The esoteric work +of the Fellowship will be carried on here. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +We have also built a two-story Administration +Building to house the general office, the book department, +the correspondence school in Christian +Mysticism which links Headquarters with students +all over the world, and the editorial offices of our +monthly publications, notably the <span class="tei tei-q">“<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Rosicrucian +Fellowship Magazine—Rays from the Rose Cross</span></span>.”</span> +We have also an astrological department which +conducts a correspondence school. Its offices are +located on the second floor. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The whole first floor is occupied by a modern +printing plant and book bindery required to furnish +the immense amount of literature needed in +this work. In the book department we publish all +the standard works and text books of the Rosicrucian +Philosophy written by Max Heindel. We are +now in process of publishing in book form his +former lessons to students. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page201">[pg 201]</span><a name="Pg201" id="Pg201" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In October, 1920, a Training School was established +for the preparation of candidates for the +lecture field. It is our intention to thereby maintain +a Lecture Bureau, from which we will send +our lecturers throughout the country to disseminate +the teachings and carry the message of our +philosophy to the people to a greater extent than +has before been possible. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A Dining Hall with seating capacity for over +one hundred people affords ample accommodation +for workers, students, and patients. The scientific +meatless diet served there preserves or restores +health, as required in each case. Furthermore, it +improves the vitality and mentality in an astonishing +degree. A large dormitory, and a number of +cottages and tents provide living quarters for all. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +By the liberal use of water and the expenditure +of much labor, Mount Ecclesia is +gradually being transformed into a luxuriant +tropical park. There is a deep spiritual purpose in +this attempt to make the visible centre of the new +world movement beautiful, for it fosters in +the workers a poise and peace which are absolutely +essential to the proper performance of +their work. Without that they cannot escape +being disturbed by the flood of sorrow and +trouble which flows into Headquarters from +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page202">[pg 202]</span><a name="Pg202" id="Pg202" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +members all over the world; without that they +cannot continue to put heart into the letters +of help, hope and cheer which continually go +out to souls who are groaning under the burden +of sickness, but by bathing their souls in +the beauty of the surroundings, whether consciously +or not, they gain in strength and +grow in grace, they become better and better +fitted for the Great Work in the Master's +Vineyard. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In order to aid those who feel the upward +urge, to prepare intelligently and reverently +for the unfoldment of their inner latent spiritual +powers, the Rosicrucian Fellowship maintains +two correspondence courses which furnish +instruction to students all over the world. +One deals with <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Astrology</span></span>, the other with +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Christian Mysticism</span></span>. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Astrology to which we refer is not to +be confounded with fortune-telling; it is a +phase of the Mystic Religion, as sublime as +the stars with which it deals, and to the Mystic +they are not dead bodies moving in space +in obedience to so-called blind natural law, +but they are the embodiments of <span class="tei tei-q">“<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Seven +Spirits before the Throne</span></span>,”</span> mighty Star-Angels +who use their benevolent influences to +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page203">[pg 203]</span><a name="Pg203" id="Pg203" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +guide other less exalted beings, humanity included, +upon the path of evolution. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +There is a side of the moon which we never +see, but that hidden half is as potent a factor +in creating the ebb and flow, as the part of the +moon which is visible. Similarly, there is an +invisible part of man which exerts a powerful +influence in life, and as the tides are measured +by the motion of sun and moon, so also +the eventualities of existence are measured by +the circling stars, which may therefore be +called <span class="tei tei-q">“the Clock of Destiny,”</span> and knowledge +of their import is an immense power, for to +the competent Astrologer a horoscope reveals +every secret of life. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Thus, when you have given an astrologer +the data of your birth, you have given him the +key to your innermost soul, and there is no +secret that he may not ferret out. This knowledge +may be used for good or ill, to help or +hurt, according to the nature of the man. +Only a friend should be trusted with this key +to your soul, and it should never be given to +anyone base enough to prostitute a spiritual +science for material gain. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +To the medical man Astrology is invaluable +in diagnosing diseases and prescribing a remedy, +for it reveals the hidden cause of all +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page204">[pg 204]</span><a name="Pg204" id="Pg204" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +ailments, in a manner that has often perplexed +the skeptic and dumbfounded the +scoffer. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The opinion of thousands is of great value, +but it does not prove anything, for thousands +may hold an opposite view; occasionally a +single man may be right and the rest of the +world wrong, as when Galileo maintained that +the earth moves. Today the whole world has +been converted to the opinion for which he +suffered torture, and we assert that, <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">as man is +a composite being, cures are successful only in +proportion as they remedy defects on the +physical, moral and mental planes of Being</span></em>. +We also maintain that results may be obtained +more easily at certain times when stellar +rays are propitious to healing of a particular +disease, or by treatment with remedies +previously prepared under auspicious conditions. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +If you are a parent the horoscope will aid +you to detect the evil latent in your child and +teach you how to apply the ounce of prevention. +It will show you the good points also, +that you may make a better man or woman of +the soul entrusted to your care. It will reveal +systemic weakness and enable you to guard +the health of your child; it will show what +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page205">[pg 205]</span><a name="Pg205" id="Pg205" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +talents are there, and how the life may be +lived to a maximum of usefulness. Therefore, +the message of the marching orbs is so important +that you cannot afford to remain ignorant +thereof. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In order to aid those who are willing to +help themselves we maintain a Correspondence +Class in Astrology, but make no mistake, +we do not teach fortune-telling; if that is what +you are looking for, we have nothing for you. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Our Lessons Are Sermons</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +They embody the highest moral and spiritual +principles, together with the loftiest system +of ethics, for Astrology is, to us, a phase +of religion; we never look at a horoscope +without feeling that we are in a holy presence, +face to face with an immortal soul, and our +attitude is one of prayer for light to guide +that soul aright. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">We Do Not Cast Horoscopes</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Despite all we can say, many people write +enclosing money for horoscopes, forcing us to +spend valuable time writing letters of refusal +and giving us the trouble of returning their +money. Please do not thus annoy us; it will +avail you nothing. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page206">[pg 206]</span><a name="Pg206" id="Pg206" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">The Course in Christian Mysticism</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Christ</span></span> taught the multitude in <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">parables</span></em>, but +explained the <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">mysteries</span></em> to His disciples. +<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">Paul gave milk</span></em> to the babes, but <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">meat</span></em> to the +strong. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Max Heindel, the founder and leader of +the Rosicrucian Fellowship, endeavored to follow +in their steps and give to interested and +devoted students a <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">deeper teaching</span></em> than that +promulgated in public. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +For that purpose we conduct a correspondence +course in <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Christian Mysticism</span></span>. The General +Secretary may admit applicants to the +preliminary course, but <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">advancement</span></em> in the +deeper degrees depends upon merit. It is for +those alone who have been <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">tried</span></em>, and found +true. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">How To Apply for Admission</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Anyone who is not engaged in fortune-telling +or similar methods of commercializing +spiritual knowledge will, upon request, receive +an application blank from the General +Secretary, Rosicrucian Fellowship. When +this blank is returned properly filled, he may +admit the applicant to instruction in either or +both correspondence courses. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page207">[pg 207]</span><a name="Pg207" id="Pg207" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">The Cost of the Course</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +There are no fixed fees; no esoteric instruction +is ever put in the balance against coin. +At the same time, it cannot be given <span class="tei tei-q">“<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">free</span></em>,”</span> +<span class="tei tei-q">“<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">for nothing</span></em>,”</span> for those who work to promulgate +it must have the necessities of life. Type, +paper, machinery and postage also cost +money, and <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">unless you pay your part someone +else must pay for you</span></em>. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +There are a few who cannot contribute, and +who need these teachings as much or more +than those who may take comfort from financial +ease or affluence. If they make their condition +known, they will receive as much attention +as the largest contributors, but others +are expected to contribute for their own good +as well as for the good of the work. Remember, +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">a closed hand that does not give cannot +receive</span></span>. +</p> + +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page208">[pg 208]</span><a name="Pg208" id="Pg208" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc13" id="toc13"></a> +<a name="pdf14" id="pdf14"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Index</span></h1> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Abstract Thought, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> +<a href="#index-thought-world-abstract" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Thought, World of, +Region of Abstract Thought</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Action, incentive to, <a href="#Pg158" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">158</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Adepts, pupils of schools of the Greater Mysteries, <a href="#Pg010" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">10</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Air, charged with pictures of surroundings, <a href="#Pg037" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">37</a>, <a href="#Pg155" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">155</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Alchemy, proved by radio-activity, <a href="#Pg108" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">108</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Alcohol, results of using, <a href="#Pg166" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">166</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Ambassador from sun, <a href="#Pg087" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">87</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Ameshaspends, Seven Spirits before the Throne, <a href="#Pg087" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">87</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Angels, densest body of, composed of ether, <a href="#Pg073" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">73</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">expert builders in ether, <a href="#Pg074" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">74</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">family spirits, <a href="#Pg080" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">80</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">guardians of propagative force, <a href="#Pg074" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">74</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">instruct ego in building archetype, <a href="#Pg184" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">184</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">one step beyond human stage, <a href="#Pg073" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">73</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Angels, Recording, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> +<a href="#index-recording-angels" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Recording angels</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Animals, dependent upon group spirit for infusion of stellar rays, <a href="#Pg124" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">124</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">keyed to lunar month, <a href="#Pg124" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">124</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">thought processes of, <a href="#Pg122" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">122</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aquarian Age, intellect of, <a href="#Pg015" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">15</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-archangels" id="index-archangels" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Archangels, densest vehicle of, <a href="#Pg079" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">79</a>;</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page209">[pg 209]</span><a name="Pg209" id="Pg209" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">instruct ego in building archetype, <a href="#Pg184" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">184</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">less evolved become group spirits, <a href="#Pg081" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">81</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">native of Desire World, <a href="#Pg079" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">79</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">race and national spirits, <a href="#Pg080" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">80</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">various grades of, <a href="#Pg080" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">80</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">work with humanity politically and industrially, <a href="#Pg080" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">80</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Arche, primordial matter of, <a href="#Pg108" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">108</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Archetypal forces direct archetypes, <a href="#Pg103" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">103</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Archetype, duration of, <a href="#Pg175" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">175</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">vibratory mold, <a href="#Pg175" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">175</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Assimilation, through ether, <a href="#Pg123" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">123</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Astrology, estimation of time by, in Desire World, <a href="#Pg094" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">94</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">value of, <a href="#Pg190" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">190</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Atom, physical, spherical shape of, <a href="#Pg009" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">9</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Atom, seed, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> <a href="#index-seed-atom" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Seed +atom</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Atoms, chemical, expelled through skin, <a href="#Pg127" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">127</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Attitude, mental, results of, <a href="#Pg181" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">181</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Benevolence, acquired in First Heaven, <a href="#Pg174" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">174</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Bennett, Florence, trance of, <a href="#Pg141" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">141</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Black magic, punishment of, <a href="#Pg017" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">17</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Blood, charged with pictures of surroundings, <a href="#Pg155" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">155</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">relation of, to vital body, <a href="#Pg129" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">129</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Blue, in stellar ray, life of the Father, <a href="#Pg124" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">124</a>, <a href="#Pg188" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">188</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Bode's law and Neptune, <a href="#Pg189" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">189</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Body, dense, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> <a href="#index-dense-body" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Dense +body</a>.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">desire, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> +<a href="#index-desire-body" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Desire body</a>.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">vital, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> +<a href="#index-vital-body" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Vital body</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Brain, absorption of stellar rays through, <a href="#Pg124" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">124</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Breath, record of, <a href="#Pg037" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">37</a>, <a href="#Pg038" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">38</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Capital punishment, menace of, <a href="#Pg164" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">164</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Carelessness, power of, to shorten life, <a href="#Pg147" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">147</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-causation-law" id="index-causation-law" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Causation, law of, attraction of like to like, <a href="#Pg048" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">48</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">determines environment, <a href="#Pg048" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">48</a>, <a href="#Pg180" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">180</a>;</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page210">[pg 210]</span><a name="Pg210" id="Pg210" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">flexibility of law of, <a href="#Pg052" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">52</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-chaos" id="index-chaos" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Chaos, (Cosmic night) seed ground of Cosmos, <a href="#Pg112" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">112</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">state of orderly segregation, <a href="#Pg105" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">105</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Chemical atoms, expelled through skin, <a href="#Pg127" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">127</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-chemical-ether" id="index-chemical-ether" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Chemical ether, assimilation and growth by, <a href="#Pg069" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">69</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">seen as blue haze, <a href="#Pg065" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">65</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Child, post-mortem experiences of, easily investigated, <a href="#Pg051" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">51</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">prodigies, <a href="#Pg195" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">195</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Children, clairvoyance of, <a href="#Pg160" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">160</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">danger of mental forcing, <a href="#Pg195" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">195</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">discipline of, <a href="#Pg195" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">195</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">individual blood developed in, <a href="#Pg196" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">196</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">imitativeness of, <a href="#Pg194" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">194</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">proper clothing of, <a href="#Pg194" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">194</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">life of, in First Heaven, <a href="#Pg176" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">176</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">understanding of, through astrology, <a href="#Pg192" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">192</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christ, higher laws taught by, <a href="#Pg169" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">169</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">rebirth taught by, <a href="#Pg046" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">46</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christianity, the flowering of previous religions, <a href="#Pg006" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">6</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Clairvoyance of children, <a href="#Pg160" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">160</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">of the dying, <a href="#Pg148" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">148</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">varieties of, <a href="#Pg136" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">136</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Clairvoyants, separation of vital body of, <a href="#Pg137" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">137</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Clairvoyants, trained, positive powers of, <a href="#Pg137" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">137</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Colors, emotional effect produced by, <a href="#Pg178" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">178</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Colors, primary, symbolize God, <a href="#Pg188" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">188</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Community affected by executions, <a href="#Pg165" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">165</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Concentration in Desire World, <a href="#Pg091" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">91</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Concrete Thought, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> +<a href="#index-thought-world-concrete" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Thought, World of, Region +of Concrete Thought</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Conditions of life related to past action, <a href="#Pg043" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">43</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Conscience, assimilated pictures of past experience, <a href="#Pg038" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">38</a>, <a href="#Pg156" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">156</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Consequence, law of, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> +<a href="#index-causation-law" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Causation, law of</a>.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page211">[pg 211]</span><a name="Pg211" id="Pg211" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Conservation, law of, and survival of spirit, <a href="#Pg035" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">35</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Cord, Silver, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> <a href="#index-silver-cord" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Silver +Cord</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Corporal punishment, inadvisability of, <a href="#Pg197" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">197</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Cosmic night, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> <a href="#index-chaos" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Chaos</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Cosmos, aggregate of systematic order, <a href="#Pg105" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">105</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Countries, egos work upon, <a href="#Pg180" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">180</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Creation of Cosmos, <a href="#Pg188" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">188</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Creative force, develops spinal nerves, <a href="#Pg125" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">125</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-creative-hierarchies" id="index-creative-hierarchies" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Creative Hierarchies, aid humanity, <a href="#Pg006" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">6</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">guide man's evolution, <a href="#Pg005" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">5</a>, <a href="#Pg052" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">52</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">safeguard man from materialism, <a href="#Pg008" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">8</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Criminals, care of, <a href="#Pg164" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">164</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">execution of, a menace, <a href="#Pg164" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">164</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Crucifixion, the Mystic Death, <a href="#Pg012" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">12</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Crystallization in man's evolution, <a href="#Pg163" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">163</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Dead, care of, <a href="#Pg152" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">152</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">inhabit Desire World, <a href="#Pg088" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">88</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">intense activity of, <a href="#Pg089" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">89</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Death, disrobing process of ego, <a href="#Pg163" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">163</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">foreseen by higher powers, <a href="#Pg142" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">142</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">peaceful, helpfulness of, <a href="#Pg147" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">147</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">premature, ill effects of, <a href="#Pg145" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">145</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">problem of, <a href="#Pg027" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">27</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">provides fresh start, <a href="#Pg143" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">143</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Debts, binding nature of, <a href="#Pg049" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">49</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Demmler, Minna, materializations by, <a href="#Pg129" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">129</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-dense-body" id="index-dense-body" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Dense body, chemical constituents of, <a href="#Pg057" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">57</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">crystallized spirit substance, <a href="#Pg162" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">162</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">disease of, due to imperfect archetype, <a href="#Pg185" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">185</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">energized by divine life, <a href="#Pg188" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">188</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">improves as spirit progresses, <a href="#Pg005" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">5</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">quality of, dependent upon ego, <a href="#Pg184" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">184</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">most evolved of man's vehicles, <a href="#Pg186" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">186</a>.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page212">[pg 212]</span><a name="Pg212" id="Pg212" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Desire, created and guided by thought, <a href="#Pg058" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">58</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">forms impelled into action by, <a href="#Pg056" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">56</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-desire-body" id="index-desire-body" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Desire body, basic individual color of, <a href="#Pg132" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">132</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">born at fourteenth year, <a href="#Pg186" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">186</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">capable of sense perception, <a href="#Pg133" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">133</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">cause dreams, <a href="#Pg139" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">139</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">circulation in currents, <a href="#Pg133" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">133</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">colors of, <a href="#Pg132" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">132</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">destructive action of, <a href="#Pg138" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">138</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">extends beyond dense body, <a href="#Pg130" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">130</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">gives ability to experience desire and emotion <a href="#Pg121" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">121</a>, <a href="#Pg130" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">130</a>, <a href="#Pg133" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">133</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">impels motion, <a href="#Pg056" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">56</a>, <a href="#Pg139" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">139</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">impels to sense gratification, <a href="#Pg130" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">130</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">main vortex, in the liver, <a href="#Pg131" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">131</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">rapid locomotion of, <a href="#Pg131" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">131</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">recent acquisition of, <a href="#Pg130" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">130</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">shape of, ovoid, <a href="#Pg130" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">130</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">shell of, persists after death, <a href="#Pg163" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">163</a>, <a href="#Pg179" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">179</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">vortices of, <a href="#Pg131" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">131</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">war of, with vital body, <a href="#Pg138" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">138</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">withdrawal of, in sleep, <a href="#Pg138" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">138</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Desire stuff, constant motion of, <a href="#Pg077" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">77</a>, <a href="#Pg131" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">131</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">elasticity of, <a href="#Pg077" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">77</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">force combined with matter, <a href="#Pg077" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">77</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">modeled by thought, <a href="#Pg142" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">142</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">permeates atmosphere, <a href="#Pg120" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">120</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">persistence of, <a href="#Pg179" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">179</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">responsiveness to feeling, <a href="#Pg077" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">77</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-desire-world" id="index-desire-world" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Desire World, archangels native to, <a href="#Pg079" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">79</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">dead remain in, varying lengths of time, <a href="#Pg078" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">78</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">difficulty of concentration in, <a href="#Pg091" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">91</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">diversity of tongues in, <a href="#Pg083" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">83</a>;</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page213">[pg 213]</span><a name="Pg213" id="Pg213" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">effect of colors in, <a href="#Pg178" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">178</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">ego's corrective work in, <a href="#Pg168" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">168-170</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">estimation of time in, <a href="#Pg093" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">93</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">existence of, makes man's desires possible, <a href="#Pg057" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">57</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">force and matter closely related in, <a href="#Pg077" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">77</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">form blends into sound in, <a href="#Pg095" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">95</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">head only perceptible in some regions of, <a href="#Pg079" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">79</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">large population of, <a href="#Pg077" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">77</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">seasons non-existent in, <a href="#Pg093" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">93</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">second vehicle of earth, <a href="#Pg055" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">55</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">time non-existent in, <a href="#Pg092" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">92</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">universal mode of expression in, <a href="#Pg085" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">85</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">vision pertaining to, <a href="#Pg066" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">66</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">world of color, <a href="#Pg068" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">68</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Earth composed of three interpenetrating worlds, <a href="#Pg055" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">55</a>, <a href="#Pg116" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">116</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">structure of dense body, obtained from, <a href="#Pg057" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">57</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">training school of, <a href="#Pg006" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">6</a>, <a href="#Pg043" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">43</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">worked upon, by the disembodied, <a href="#Pg104" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">104</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Earth lives, intervals between, <a href="#Pg052" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">52</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Earth spirits, fairies and elves, <a href="#Pg070" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">70</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Eastern Wisdom, unsuited to Western peoples, <a href="#Pg014" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">14</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Ego, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> <a href="#index-spirit-threefold" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Spirit, +threefold</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Egyptians painted group spirits, <a href="#Pg082" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">82</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Electron, discovery of, <a href="#Pg107" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">107</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Elves, spirits of mountains, <a href="#Pg070" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">70</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Emotions, relation of, to desire body, <a href="#Pg186" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">186</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Enmity overcome by its own discomforts, <a href="#Pg049" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">49</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Environment, suffering caused by, <a href="#Pg049" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">49</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Ether, avenue for solar forces, <a href="#Pg070" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">70</a>, <a href="#Pg074" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">74</a>, <a href="#Pg123" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">123</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">nature of, <a href="#Pg062" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">62</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">permeates atomic structure of dense matter, <a href="#Pg062" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">62</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Ether, chemical, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> +<a href="#index-chemical-ether" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Chemical ether</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Ether, life, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> <a href="#index-life-ether" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Life +ether</a>.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page214">[pg 214]</span><a name="Pg214" id="Pg214" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Ether light, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> +<a href="#index-light-ether" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Light ether</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Ether, reflecting <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> +<a href="#index-reflecting-ether" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Reflecting ether</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Etheric sight, distinguished from spiritual, <a href="#Pg066" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">66</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">extension of physical, <a href="#Pg065" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">65</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">penetrates opaque substances, <a href="#Pg066" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">66</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">shows all objects same color, <a href="#Pg067" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">67</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Ethers, separation of, <a href="#Pg136" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">136</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Ever-existing essence, <a href="#Pg107" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">107</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Evil and good acts recorded by breath, <a href="#Pg038" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">38</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">destruction of, <a href="#Pg039" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">39</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">transmutation of, to good, <a href="#Pg158" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">158</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Evolution, from life to life, <a href="#Pg053" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">53</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">manifests in rest and activity, <a href="#Pg042" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">42</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">of vehicles, manner of, <a href="#Pg185" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">185</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">persistent unfoldment in, <a href="#Pg042" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">42</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Fairies, spirits of the mountains, <a href="#Pg070" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">70</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Fate, ripe, unavoidability of, <a href="#Pg184" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">184</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Faults, correction of, <a href="#Pg169" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">169</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Feeling, right, increases conscience, <a href="#Pg172" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">172</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">First cause, necessity for, <a href="#Pg162" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">162</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">First hand knowledge, possible to all, <a href="#Pg052" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">52</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-first-heaven" id="index-first-heaven" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">First Heaven, good of past life reaped in, <a href="#Pg173" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">173</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">good strengthened in, <a href="#Pg174" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">174</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">panorama of life in, <a href="#Pg173" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">173</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">upper regions of Desire World, <a href="#Pg173" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">173</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Fluid, vital, cessation of flow of, <a href="#Pg138" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">138</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Forgiveness of sin, <a href="#Pg164" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">164</a>, <a href="#Pg169" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">169</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Form, archetypes of, <a href="#Pg175" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">175</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">incapable of feeling, <a href="#Pg060" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">60</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Forms, impelled into action by desire, <a href="#Pg056" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">56</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Forms, physical, built from chemical substance, <a href="#Pg055" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">55</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Free will, existence of, <a href="#Pg147" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">147</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">pertaining to future, <a href="#Pg184" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">184</a>.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page215">[pg 215]</span><a name="Pg215" id="Pg215" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Generation caused by red ray of Holy Spirit, <a href="#Pg124" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">124</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Germination caused by blue ray of Father, <a href="#Pg124" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">124</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Gnomes, earth spirits, <a href="#Pg070" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">70</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God, immanence of, <a href="#Pg187" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">187</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Good amalgamates with spirit, <a href="#Pg039" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">39</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">and evil acts recorded by breath, <a href="#Pg038" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">38</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-great-silence" id="index-great-silence" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Great Silence between Desire World and World of Thought, <a href="#Pg095" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">95</a>, <a href="#Pg180" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">180</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">may be entered by acts of will, <a href="#Pg096" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">96</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Group spirit, brings stellar influence to animals, <a href="#Pg124" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">124</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">less evolved archangels, <a href="#Pg081" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">81</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">painted by Egyptians, <a href="#Pg082" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">82</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Growth, physical, carried on through ether, <a href="#Pg123" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">123</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">caused by yellow rays of Son, <a href="#Pg124" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">124</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">relation of, to moon, <a href="#Pg124" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">124</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">relation of, to vital body, <a href="#Pg186" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">186</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Growth, spiritual, must be slow, <a href="#Pg103" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">103</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Heaven, among you, <a href="#Pg116" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">116</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Heaven, First, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> +<a href="#index-first-heaven" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">First Heaven</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Heaven, Second, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> +<a href="#index-second-heaven" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Second Heaven</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Heaven, Third, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> +<a href="#index-third-heaven" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Third Heaven</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hell, existence of, impossible, <a href="#Pg117" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">117</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Helpers, Invisible, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> +<a href="#index-invisible-helpers" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Invisible Helpers</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Heredity, of the physical only, <a href="#Pg047" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">47</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hierarchies, Creative, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> +<a href="#index-creative-hierarchies" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Creative Hierarchies</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Higher Self dominates lower by keynote, <a href="#Pg099" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">99</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Higher senses of man, <a href="#Pg016" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">16</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Higher vehicles, permeability of, <a href="#Pg138" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">138</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">withdrawal of, in sleep, <a href="#Pg138" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">138</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Holy of Holies, temple of our bodies, <a href="#Pg134" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">134</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hotz, Dr., spirit photographs taken by, <a href="#Pg129" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">129</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Humanity, two classes of, <a href="#Pg136" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">136</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I, badge of self-consciousness, <a href="#Pg135" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">135</a>.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page216">[pg 216]</span><a name="Pg216" id="Pg216" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Ideas clothe themselves in mind stuff, <a href="#Pg113" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">113</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">embryonic thoughts, <a href="#Pg113" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">113</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">generated by ego in Region of Abstract Thought, <a href="#Pg113" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">113</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">originate in chaos, <a href="#Pg112" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">112</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Ignorance, man's one sin, <a href="#Pg042" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">42</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Illumination, induced by solar rays, <a href="#Pg123" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">123</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Immaculate conception, the Mystic Birth, <a href="#Pg012" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">12</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Immortality of spirit, <a href="#Pg039" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">39</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Incense, evil effects of, <a href="#Pg165" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">165</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Incentive, induced by etchings of life panorama, <a href="#Pg158" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">158</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Individual auric color, dependent upon ruling planet, <a href="#Pg132" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">132</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Infant mortality, causes of, <a href="#Pg176" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">176-179</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Intelligence induced by planetary rays, <a href="#Pg123" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">123</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Interval between earth lives, <a href="#Pg052" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">52</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-invisible-helpers" id="index-invisible-helpers" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Invisible Helpers, faculties of, <a href="#Pg137" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">137</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">linguistic abilities, valuable to, <a href="#Pg083" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">83</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Izzards, <a href="#Pg087" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">87</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">James, Professor William, reputed communication from, <a href="#Pg149" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">149-151</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Jehovah, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Holy Spirit.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">John, Gospel of, spiritual significance of, <a href="#Pg105" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">105</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Jupiter, auric color of, <a href="#Pg132" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">132</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Karma, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> +<a href="#index-causation-law" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Causation, law of</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Keynote, creates and maintains form, <a href="#Pg098" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">98</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">manifestation of Higher Self, <a href="#Pg099" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">99</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">stopping of, terminates life, <a href="#Pg100" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">100</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Voice of Silence, <a href="#Pg099" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">99</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Knowledge, the only salvation, <a href="#Pg042" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">42</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Laws of nature, living intelligences, <a href="#Pg053" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">53</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Life, dualistic theory of, <a href="#Pg029" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">29</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">lengthened by good deeds, <a href="#Pg147" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">147</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">long, value of, <a href="#Pg144" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">144</a>, <a href="#Pg146" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">146</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">monistic theory of, <a href="#Pg029" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">29</a>;</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page217">[pg 217]</span><a name="Pg217" id="Pg217" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">object of, gaining of experience, <a href="#Pg142" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">142</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">shortened by neglected opportunities, <a href="#Pg146" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">146</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-life-ether" id="index-life-ether" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Life ether, propagation accomplished through medium of, <a href="#Pg069" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">69</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-life-panorama" id="index-life-panorama" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Life panorama, backward unfoldment of, <a href="#Pg156" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">156</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">duration of, <a href="#Pg153" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">153</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">importance of, <a href="#Pg153" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">153</a>, <a href="#Pg158" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">158</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">insufficient, causes infant mortality, <a href="#Pg177" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">177</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">sub-conscious memory, basis of, <a href="#Pg154" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">154</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">terminated by collapse of vital body, <a href="#Pg157" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">157</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Light, relation of, to creation, <a href="#Pg188" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">188</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-light-ether" id="index-light-ether" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Light ether, motion due to, <a href="#Pg069" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">69</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">transmits solar force, <a href="#Pg069" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">69</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Likes and dislikes determine environment, <a href="#Pg048" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">48</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Liver, main vortex of desire body, <a href="#Pg131" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">131</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Logos, Reasonable Thought, <a href="#Pg109" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">109</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Love, higher than law, <a href="#Pg168" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">168</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">supreme commandment, <a href="#Pg090" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">90</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-lunar-ray" id="index-lunar-ray" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Lunar ray enters body through spleen, <a href="#Pg124" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">124</a>.;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">induces physical growth, <a href="#Pg123" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">123</a>, <a href="#Pg190" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">190</a>.;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">three-fold constitution of, <a href="#Pg124" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">124</a>..</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Magic, black, punishment of, <a href="#Pg017" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">17</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Man, born innocent of sin, <a href="#Pg174" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">174</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">composite being of body, soul, spirit, <a href="#Pg036" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">36</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">desires of, impel to action, <a href="#Pg056" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">56</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">gathers spiritual substance, <a href="#Pg162" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">162</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Great Beings safeguard, <a href="#Pg198" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">198</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">has evolved from lower forms, <a href="#Pg073" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">73</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">higher vehicles of, <a href="#Pg120" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">120</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">keyed to solar month, <a href="#Pg125" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">125</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">made a little lower than angels, <a href="#Pg073" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">73</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">spinal nerves of undeveloped, <a href="#Pg125" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">125</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">spiritual faculties of, <a href="#Pg015" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">15</a>.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page218">[pg 218]</span><a name="Pg218" id="Pg218" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mars, auric color of, <a href="#Pg132" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">132</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Materialism and spirituality, necessity of, <a href="#Pg007" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">7</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Materialistic theory of life, <a href="#Pg034" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">34-36</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Materialization through incense, <a href="#Pg165" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">165</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">through mediums, <a href="#Pg129" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">129</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mathematics, benefit derived from study of, <a href="#Pg115" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">115</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Matter, illusory nature of, <a href="#Pg114" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">114</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mediums and negative clairvoyance, <a href="#Pg137" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">137</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">read in reflecting ether, <a href="#Pg070" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">70</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Memory of Nature, events recorded in, <a href="#Pg094" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">94</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Memory of past lives, <a href="#Pg050" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">50</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Memory, sub-conscious, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> +<a href="#index-sub-conscious-memory" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Sub-conscious memory</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Metamorphosis in higher worlds, <a href="#Pg032" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">32</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Michael, ambassador from sun to earth, <a href="#Pg087" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">87</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Michael, archangel, guardian of Jews, <a href="#Pg080" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">80</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mind, born at twenty-first year, <a href="#Pg186" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">186</a>, <a href="#Pg198" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">198</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">cloudy thought form , <a href="#Pg131" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">131</a>, <a href="#Pg133" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">133</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">material for, acquired in Region of Concrete Thought, <a href="#Pg185" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">185</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">recent acquisition of, <a href="#Pg131" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">131</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-mind-lords" id="index-mind-lords" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mind, Lords of, expert builders of mind stuff, <a href="#Pg102" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">102</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">help man to acquire mind, <a href="#Pg103" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">103</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">human during dark stage of earth, <a href="#Pg101" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">101</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Powers of Darkness, <a href="#Pg101" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">101</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">worked with man in mineral stage, <a href="#Pg102" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">102</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mind stuff, permeability of, <a href="#Pg120" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">120</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">veils inner spirit, <a href="#Pg134" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">134</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Monistic, theory of life, <a href="#Pg029" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">29</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Moon rays, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> +<a href="#index-lunar-ray" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Lunar rays</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Morality induced by planetary rays, <a href="#Pg123" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">123</a>, <a href="#Pg190" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">190</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Music in Desire World, <a href="#Pg068" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">68</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">soul-speech of World of Thought, <a href="#Pg068" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">68</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-mystery-orders" id="index-mystery-orders" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mystery Orders formed on cosmic lines, <a href="#Pg009" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">9</a>;</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page219">[pg 219]</span><a name="Pg219" id="Pg219" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">seven world workers in, <a href="#Pg009" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">9</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">N-rays, etheric radiation of, <a href="#Pg128" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">128</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Nature, laws of, control nature spirits, <a href="#Pg072" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">72</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Great Intelligences, <a href="#Pg070" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">70</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Nebulae, fiery formation of, <a href="#Pg161" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">161</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Nebular theory postulates First Cause, <a href="#Pg162" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">162</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Negative development, mediumship allied to, <a href="#Pg137" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">137</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Nephesh, <a href="#Pg037" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">37</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Neptune outside of our solar system, <a href="#Pg189" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">189</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Occult orders, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> +<a href="#index-mystery-orders" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Mystery orders</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Odic fluid, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> +<a href="#index-solar-fluid" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Solar fluid</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Opportunities, each life contains, <a href="#Pg142" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">142</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Over-eating, ill-effects of, <a href="#Pg128" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">128</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Painting, related to Desire World, <a href="#Pg068" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">68</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Palladino, Eusapio, materializations through, <a href="#Pg129" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">129</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Panorama of Life, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> +<a href="#index-life-panorama" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Life Panorama</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Patriotism, inspired by archangels, <a href="#Pg080" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">80</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Periodicity, law of, determines time of actions, <a href="#Pg013" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">13</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Personality governed by keynote, <a href="#Pg099" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">99</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Peter Ibbettson,”</span> occult information in, <a href="#Pg161" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">161</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Physical body, anchor of mind, <a href="#Pg092" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">92</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Physical embodiment, value of, <a href="#Pg090" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">90</a>, <a href="#Pg143" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">143</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Pineal gland, localized organ of feeling, <a href="#Pg132" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">132</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">spiritual sight through development of, <a href="#Pg066" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">66</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">third eye, <a href="#Pg132" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">132</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Planetary ray, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> +<a href="#index-stellar-ray" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Stellar ray</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-planetary-spirits" id="index-planetary-spirits" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Planetary spirits, color belonging to, <a href="#Pg189" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">189</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">names of, <a href="#Pg189" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">189</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Planets, absorption of solar rays by, <a href="#Pg188" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">188</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Post-mortem experiences, usefulness of, <a href="#Pg143" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">143</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Powers of Darkness, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> +<a href="#index-mind-lords" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Mind, Lords of</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-powers-spiritual" id="index-powers-spiritual" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Powers, spiritual, difficulty of obtaining, <a href="#Pg064" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">64</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">microscopic and telescopic, <a href="#Pg064" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">64</a>;</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page220">[pg 220]</span><a name="Pg220" id="Pg220" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">possible to all, <a href="#Pg064" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">64</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Prayer, forgiveness of sin through, <a href="#Pg164" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">164</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Precession of equinoxes, measure of time, <a href="#Pg094" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">94</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Predestination of great leaders, <a href="#Pg045" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">45</a>, <a href="#Pg046" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">46</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Primary colors symbolize God, <a href="#Pg188" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">188</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Probation, long, necessity for, <a href="#Pg064" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">64</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Propagation carried on through life ether, <a href="#Pg123" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">123</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Psychometrists read in reflecting ether, <a href="#Pg070" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">70</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Puberty, cause of, <a href="#Pg196" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">196</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Pituitary body and clairvoyance, <a href="#Pg066" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">66</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Punishment, corporal, evils of, <a href="#Pg198" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">198</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Purgatory, evil habits corrected in, <a href="#Pg167" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">167</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">evil of past lives transmuted in, <a href="#Pg116" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">116</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">experiences in, based on moral attitude of preceding life, <a href="#Pg181" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">181</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">review of life experiences in, <a href="#Pg170" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">170</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Race likeness caused by race spirits, <a href="#Pg081" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">81</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Race Spirits, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> +<a href="#index-archangels" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Archangels</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-rebirth" id="index-rebirth" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Rebirth, law of, alternation of sex in, <a href="#Pg052" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">52</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">believed in, by Jews, <a href="#Pg046" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">46</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Biblical foundation for doctrine of, <a href="#Pg046" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">46</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">explanation of inequalities, <a href="#Pg043" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">43</a>, <a href="#Pg047" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">47</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">harmonious with nature's methods, <a href="#Pg047" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">47</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">intervals between, <a href="#Pg052" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">52</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">preparations for, <a href="#Pg185" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">185</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">special talents of individual, evidence of, <a href="#Pg046" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">46</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">specially adapted to ego's need, <a href="#Pg052" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">52</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">taught by Christ, <a href="#Pg046" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">46</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-recording-angels" id="index-recording-angels" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Recording angels aid ego in choice of environment, <a href="#Pg183" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">183</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">give race religions, <a href="#Pg006" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">6</a>, <a href="#Pg014" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">14</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">show ego life panorama, <a href="#Pg183" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">183</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Red in stellar ray, life of Holy Spirit, <a href="#Pg124" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">124</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">produces form, <a href="#Pg188" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">188</a>.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page221">[pg 221]</span><a name="Pg221" id="Pg221" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-reflecting-ether" id="index-reflecting-ether" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Reflecting ether, impressions of universe recorded in, <a href="#Pg069" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">69</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">mediums and psychometrists read in, <a href="#Pg070" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">70</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Regret, time wasted in, <a href="#Pg092" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">92</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Reincarnation, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> +<a href="#index-rebirth" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Rebirth</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Religions, all have origin in God, <a href="#Pg104" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">104</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Repentance, benefits received through, <a href="#Pg169" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">169</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Restrospection, exercise of, <a href="#Pg170" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">170-173</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Ripe fate, unavoidability of, <a href="#Pg184" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">184</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Rose Cross, initiates into science of life and being, <a href="#Pg008" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">8</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Mystery school of the West, <a href="#Pg008" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">8</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">thirteen Brothers of, <a href="#Pg009" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">9</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">thirteenth member, the invisible head, <a href="#Pg009" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">9</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">works to mould public opinion, <a href="#Pg011" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">11</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Rosicrucian Fellowship, herald of the Aquarian Age, <a href="#Pg015" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">15</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">purpose and work of, <a href="#Pg014" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">14-18</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Rosicrucians, hold doctrine of man's potential divinity, <a href="#Pg005" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">5</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">hierophants of Lesser Mysteries, <a href="#Pg010" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">10</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">influence of, upon writers of modern times, <a href="#Pg011" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">11</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">midnight service of, <a href="#Pg011" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">11</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">object of, to unite religion and science, <a href="#Pg012" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">12</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">work with evolved humanity, <a href="#Pg009" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">9</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Ruling planet, relation of color of, <a href="#Pg132" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">132</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Salamanders, fire spirits, <a href="#Pg071" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">71</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">produce volcanic eruptions, <a href="#Pg072" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">72</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“School of Athens,”</span> painting of, <a href="#Pg029" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">29</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science discovers spiritual side of universe, <a href="#Pg034" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">34</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">established proofs of spirit survival, <a href="#Pg035" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">35</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">spiritualized by Rosicrucians, <a href="#Pg011" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">11</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sculpture belongs to physical world., <a href="#Pg068" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">68</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-second-heaven" id="index-second-heaven" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Second Heaven, ego prepares future environment in, <a href="#Pg116" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">116</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">located in Region of Concrete Thought, <a href="#Pg116" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">116</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-seed-atom" id="index-seed-atom" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Seed atom, basis of sub-conscious memory, <a href="#Pg156" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">156</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">etchings of, <a href="#Pg037" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">37</a>;</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page222">[pg 222]</span><a name="Pg222" id="Pg222" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">sample and center of other dense atoms, <a href="#Pg175" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">175</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">transmits pictures to desire body, <a href="#Pg156" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">156</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sensitives, separation of ethers in vital body of, <a href="#Pg136" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">136</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Servia, regicides in, <a href="#Pg165" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">165</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Seven Spirits before the Throne, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> +<a href="#index-planetary-spirits" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Planetary Spirits</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sex, alternation of, <a href="#Pg052" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">52</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Shells, discarded desire bodies, <a href="#Pg179" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">179</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">retain life panorama, <a href="#Pg179" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">179</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">spiritualistic impersonations by, <a href="#Pg179" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">179</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-sight-spiritual" id="index-sight-spiritual" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sight, spiritual, accompanies development of pineal gland and pituitary body, <a href="#Pg066" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">66</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">varieties of, <a href="#Pg067" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">67</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Silence, Great, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> +<a href="#index-great-silence" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Great Silence</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Silence, Voice of, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> +<a href="#index-voice-of-silence" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Voice of the Silence</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-silver-cord" id="index-silver-cord" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Silver cord holds higher and lower vehicles together, <a href="#Pg153" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">153</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">snapping of, <a href="#Pg153" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">153</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-solar-fluid" id="index-solar-fluid" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Solar fluid, absorption of, by different kingdoms, <a href="#Pg124" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">124</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">aids in digestion, <a href="#Pg127" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">127</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">cleansing power of, <a href="#Pg128" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">128</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">expels disease germs, <a href="#Pg127" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">127</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">muscular movement by means of, <a href="#Pg126" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">126</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">permeates nervous system, <a href="#Pg123" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">123</a>, <a href="#Pg126" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">126</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">radiates from body, <a href="#Pg123" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">123</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">transformed to rose color, <a href="#Pg123" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">123</a>, <a href="#Pg126" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">126</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Solar rays, direct and indirect, <a href="#Pg123" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">123</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">spiritual illumination from, <a href="#Pg123" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">123</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">three-fold constitution of, <a href="#Pg124" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">124</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Soul, differentiated from spirit, <a href="#Pg134" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">134</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">product of breath, <a href="#Pg037" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">37</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Soul flights, time non-existent in, <a href="#Pg089" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">89</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Soul growth induced by planetary rays, <a href="#Pg123" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">123</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Soul power, assimilated from past action, <a href="#Pg116" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">116</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">developed by good action, <a href="#Pg038" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">38</a>.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page223">[pg 223]</span><a name="Pg223" id="Pg223" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sound, power of, over matter, <a href="#Pg175" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">175</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Spinal cord, absorbs stellar ray, <a href="#Pg124" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">124</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Spencer, Herbert, and nebular hypothesis, <a href="#Pg162" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">162</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sphinx, faces east, <a href="#Pg028" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">28</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">riddle of, <a href="#Pg028" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">28</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-spirit-threefold" id="index-spirit-threefold" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Spirit, threefold (ego) abandons vital body in sleep, <a href="#Pg138" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">138</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">absorbs solar ray, <a href="#Pg124" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">124</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">destined to become creative intelligence, <a href="#Pg103" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">103</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">disembodied, relief of, at leaving body, <a href="#Pg161" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">161</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">distinguished from soul, <a href="#Pg134" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">134</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">drawn to rebirth by desire for experience, <a href="#Pg182" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">182</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">earth-bound, condition of, <a href="#Pg144" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">144</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">encrusted in mind stuff, <a href="#Pg101" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">101</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">free will of, <a href="#Pg184" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">184</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">freedom of, in choosing environment, <a href="#Pg183" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">183</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">has seat in forehead, <a href="#Pg124" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">124</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">immortality of, <a href="#Pg039" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">39</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">improvement in vehicles of, <a href="#Pg185" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">185</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">individualization of, in childhood, <a href="#Pg196" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">196</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">instructed in building archetype, <a href="#Pg184" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">184</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">many earth lives of, <a href="#Pg183" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">183</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">no limitations possible for, <a href="#Pg104" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">104</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">sowing and reaping of, <a href="#Pg104" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">104</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">sufferings of, in purgatory, <a href="#Pg163" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">163</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">uncreate and eternal, <a href="#Pg039" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">39</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">various human relations of, <a href="#Pg183" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">183</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">works with archetypes, <a href="#Pg103" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">103</a>, <a href="#Pg180" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">180</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Spirits, planetary, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> +<a href="#index-planetary-spirits" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Planetary Spirits</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Spiritual investigations, <a href="#Pg063" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">63</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Spiritual powers, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> +<a href="#index-powers-spiritual" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Powers, spiritual</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Spiritual sight, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> +<a href="#index-sight-spiritual" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Sight, spiritual</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Spiritual thought, spinal nerves developed by, <a href="#Pg125" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">125</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Spirituality followed by materialism, <a href="#Pg007" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">7</a>.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page224">[pg 224]</span><a name="Pg224" id="Pg224" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Spleen, entrance for solar forces, <a href="#Pg123" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">123</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">transmutation for solar energy in, <a href="#Pg123" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">123</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-stellar-ray" id="index-stellar-ray" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Stellar ray, absorption of, by brain and spinal cord, <a href="#Pg124" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">124</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">animals incapable of absorbing, <a href="#Pg124" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">124</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">induces morality, <a href="#Pg123" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">123</a>, <a href="#Pg190" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">190</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">threefold nature of, <a href="#Pg124" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">124</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Stimulants, effects of, upon dying, <a href="#Pg152" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">152</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Storms caused by nature spirits, <a href="#Pg071" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">71</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-sub-conscious-memory" id="index-sub-conscious-memory" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sub-conscious memory, basis of future life, <a href="#Pg156" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">156</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">consciously utilized, <a href="#Pg161" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">161</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">in seed atom, <a href="#Pg155" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">155</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">retentiveness of, <a href="#Pg154" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">154</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Suicide, sufferings of, <a href="#Pg174" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">174</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sun, movements of, <a href="#Pg094" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">94</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Superman, evolution of man into, <a href="#Pg053" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">53</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Survival after death, established by scientists, <a href="#Pg035" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">35</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sylphs, spirits of mists, <a href="#Pg070" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">70</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Tears, white bleeding, <a href="#Pg130" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">130</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Temptation, repetition of, <a href="#Pg174" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">174</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Theological theory of life, <a href="#Pg036" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">36-39</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-third-heaven" id="index-third-heaven" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Third Heaven, few have consciousness in, <a href="#Pg182" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">182</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">in Region of Abstract Thought, <a href="#Pg116" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">116</a>, <a href="#Pg182" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">182</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">inspiration of philanthropist, <a href="#Pg182" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">182</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">place of awaiting rebirth, <a href="#Pg182" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">182</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">source of inventor's inspiration, <a href="#Pg182" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">182</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thompson, J. J., discovery of electron by, <a href="#Pg107" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">107</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thought, objects of physical world, crystallized, <a href="#Pg097" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">97</a>, <a href="#Pg131" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">131</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">result of union, idea and mind stuff, <a href="#Pg113" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">113</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-thought-world" id="index-thought-world" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thought, world of, earth's finest vehicle, <a href="#Pg055" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">55</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">home of spirit, <a href="#Pg058" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">58</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">knowledge gained in, <a href="#Pg100" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">100</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">makes man's thought possible, <a href="#Pg057" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">57</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">realm of tone, <a href="#Pg180" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">180</a>;</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page225">[pg 225]</span><a name="Pg225" id="Pg225" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">spirit's work in, <a href="#Pg180" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">180</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">time non-existent in, <a href="#Pg101" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">101</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">tonal vision pertaining to, <a href="#Pg067" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">67</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-thought-world-abstract" id="index-thought-world-abstract" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thought, World of, Region of Abstract Thought, abstract verities of, <a href="#Pg106" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">106</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Third Heaven in, <a href="#Pg116" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">116</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-thought-world-concrete" id="index-thought-world-concrete" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thought, World of, Region of Concrete Thought, acme of reality, <a href="#Pg097" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">97</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">mind built in, <a href="#Pg185" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">185</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">physical world replica of, <a href="#Pg097" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">97</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Second Heaven, <a href="#Pg116" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">116</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thymus Gland, function of, <a href="#Pg196" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">196</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Time, end of, <a href="#Pg112" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">112</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">relatively non-existent in higher worlds, <a href="#Pg092" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">92</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Tobacco, fumes of, disembodied work through, <a href="#Pg166" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">166</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Trance, caused by flight of spirit, <a href="#Pg140" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">140</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">kinds of, <a href="#Pg140" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">140</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth, freedom by, <a href="#Pg114" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">114</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">self-evident in higher worlds, <a href="#Pg114" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">114</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Undines, spirits of water, <a href="#Pg070" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">70</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Vehicles, improvements in, <a href="#Pg185" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">185</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Veil of Isis, <a href="#Pg134" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">134</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Vibration, external, transferred to blood, <a href="#Pg037" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">37</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">universality of, <a href="#Pg036" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">36</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-vital-body" id="index-vital-body" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Vital body, born at seventh year, <a href="#Pg195" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">195</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">collapse of, in sleep, <a href="#Pg138" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">138</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">composed of ether, <a href="#Pg122" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">122</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">connected with spleen, <a href="#Pg123" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">123</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">disintegration of, stops life panorama, <a href="#Pg157" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">157</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">extends beyond dense vehicle, <a href="#Pg123" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">123</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">in sickness lacks solar rays, <a href="#Pg128" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">128</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">in third stage of evolution, <a href="#Pg131" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">131</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">nourishes dense body, <a href="#Pg129" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">129</a>;</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page226">[pg 226]</span><a name="Pg226" id="Pg226" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">photographed by scientists, <a href="#Pg129" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">129</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">polarity of, <a href="#Pg129" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">129</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">propagation by, <a href="#Pg121" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">121</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">recuperative work of, <a href="#Pg138" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">138</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">second vehicle acquired by man, <a href="#Pg186" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">186</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">separation of ethers of, <a href="#Pg137" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">137</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">war with desire body, <a href="#Pg138" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">138</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">well organized state of, <a href="#Pg130" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">130</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Vital Fluid, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> +<a href="#index-solar-fluid" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Solar fluid</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<a name="index-voice-of-silence" id="index-voice-of-silence" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Voice of the Silence, <a href="#Pg099" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">99</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Volcanic eruptions produced by salamanders, <a href="#Pg072" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">72</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Vortices, whirling, of desire body, <a href="#Pg131" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">131</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">War causes infant mortality, <a href="#Pg177" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">177</a>, <a href="#Pg179" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">179</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Wave of spirituality inspired great religions, <a href="#Pg007" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">7</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Whipping children, evil of, <a href="#Pg198" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">198</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Will, lack of, racial defect, <a href="#Pg198" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">198</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Wind, changes of, caused by sylphs, <a href="#Pg071" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">71</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Word, Creative Fiat, <a href="#Pg109" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">109</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Word, creative, and key-note, <a href="#Pg100" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">100</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">God was, <a href="#Pg106" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">106</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">power of, <a href="#Pg110" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">110</a>, <a href="#Pg193" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">193</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">still sounds in cosmos, <a href="#Pg112" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">112</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">World, Desire, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> +<a href="#index-desire-world" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Desire World</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">World of Thought, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> +<a href="#index-thought-world" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Thought, World of</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">World, physical, world of form, <a href="#Pg068" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">68</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Worlds, higher, difficulty of investigating, <a href="#Pg032" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">32</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Yellow in stellar ray, life of Son, <a href="#Pg124" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">124</a>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">produces consciousness, <a href="#Pg188" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">188</a>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Zoroastrian religion, deities of, <a href="#Pg086" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">86</a>.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page227">[pg 227]</span><a name="Pg227" id="Pg227" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; 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It treats of the causes of obsession of men +and animals. It describes how we create our environment +and some of the causes of disease, pointing the +way to final emancipation. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The part devoted to the emotions shows the function +of desire, the color effects of emotion, and the results +of worry and remorse. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Prayer is shown here as a magic invocation by which +powerful forces may be marshalled. It throws much +light on the nature of prayer, pointing out that true +prayer is based on scientific principles which will +bring results when rightly applied. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Written in a simple and narrative style, it offers at +the same time serious instruction and pleasant relaxation. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">175 Pages. Cloth Bound.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page233">[pg 233]</span><a name="Pg233" id="Pg233" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Freemasonry and Catholicism</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">By Max Heindel</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +An Esoteric Treatise on the Underlying Facts regarding +these two great Institutions as determined by +occult investigation. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It explains in terms of Mystic Masonry the conflict +between the Sons of Cain and the Sons of +Seth, and unravels the allegory dealing with the building +of Solomon's Temple, the Queen of Sheba, and +the Grand Master, Hiram Abiff. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +If you are interested in the symbols of Masonry, in +knowing the source of these mysteries which have +come down to us from past ages, this is the book you +want. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Only a trained Seer could have read the Akashic +Records of the past and given such a clear explanation +of their meaning. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In addition, read what the author says about the +famous Philosopher's Stone of the Alchemists, the +Path of Initiation, and the Coming Age. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">This Book Should Be in Every Mason's Library.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +98 Pages. Cloth Bound. $1.00 Postfree. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Rosicrucian Fellowship,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic"> +Mt. Ecclesia</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic"> +Oceanside, California.</span></span> +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page234">[pg 234]</span><a name="Pg234" id="Pg234" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Gleanings of a Mystic</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">By Max Heindel</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +This book is devoted to practical mysticism, bringing +out a vast array of new information and fine points never +before presented in this form. The information contained +in this book will be of immense value to the student and +aspirant, enabling them to make swifter progress in both +their spiritual and material development. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A few chapter headings are appended to give a better +idea of the contents: +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Initiation—What It Is and Is Not.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Sacraments of Communion, Baptism, and Marriage.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Coming Christ.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Coming Age.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Magic, White and Black.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Our Invisible Government.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Practical Precepts for Practical People.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Sound, Silence, and Soul Growth.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Mysterium Magnum of the Rose Cross.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Stumbling Blocks.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Why I Am a Rosicrucian.</span></span> +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">196 Pages. Cloth Bound. $2.00 Postpaid.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page235">[pg 235]</span><a name="Pg235" id="Pg235" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">The Rosicrucian Philosophy</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">IN QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">By Max Heindel</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A book of ready reference upon all mystic matters, +which ought to be in the library of every occult student. +It comprises the answers to hundreds of questions +asked of Max Heindel on the lecture platform. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +PARTIAL LIST OF SUBJECTS: +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Life after Death.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Life on Earth.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Bible Teachings.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Spiritualistic Phenomena.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Clairvoyance.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Astrology.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Animals.</span></span> +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">176 Pages. Cloth Bound. $2.00 Postpaid.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">How Shall We Know Christ +at His Coming?</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">By Max Heindel</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +This book tells us that Christ will return in an +etheric, not a physical body. Hence mankind must +develop the etheric body to the point where they can +function in it consciously before Christ will return. +Then they will possess the inner spiritual perception +by which they will be able to recognize Him. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +These matters are fully elucidated in this book. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">29 Pages. Paper Bound. 15c Postfree.</div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Rosicrucian Fellowship,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic"> +Mt. Ecclesia</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic"> +Oceanside, California.</span></span> +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page236">[pg 236]</span><a name="Pg236" id="Pg236" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">In the Land of +The Living Dead</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +AN OCCULT STORY +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">By Prentiss Tucker</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Among the many post-war books, here is one to +interest the soldier, student, and layman alike. Its +appeal is general and lasting in that it portrays in +story form the ever existing conditions on the superphysical +planes. It inclines toward that thing called +<span class="tei tei-q">“The religion of the trenches,”</span> and will help to open +the eyes of many a puzzled participant as well as of +those who lost friends and relatives in the Great War. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Look at some of the chapter headings: +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">A Visit to the Invisible Planes.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">A Sergeant's Experiences after </span><span class="tei tei-q"><span style="font-style: italic">“</span><span style="font-style: italic">Passing out.</span><span style="font-style: italic">”</span></span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">A Doughboy's Ideas on Religion.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Helping a Slain Soldier to Comfort His Mother.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">A Crisis in Love.</span></span> +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">168 Pages. Cloth Bound. $1.50 Postpaid.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page237">[pg 237]</span><a name="Pg237" id="Pg237" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">The Mystical Interpretation +of Christmas</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">By Max Heindel</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +This treatise covers the Cosmic Significance of +Christmas and the annual Sacrifice of Christ, traces +the astrological interpretation up through the simplicity +of nature worship, and sketches a glorious +outlook for the coming age, which inspires the casual +reader to seek more Light. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Here is a book most attractively bound in heavy +mottled paper which, aside from its merit as a simple +gift, is most useful in answering inquiries on the occult +significance of its subject. The world is beginning +to ask the greater meaning of this holy festival; it is +well to be informed. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Heavy Paper Binding.<br /> +75 Cents Postpaid. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page238">[pg 238]</span><a name="Pg238" id="Pg238" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Earthbound</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">By Augusta Foss Heindel</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +An addition to our Rosicrucian Christianity Series +of twenty lectures. This pamphlet warns against the +craze for phenomena, mediumship, and the ouija +board. It cites concrete cases where those who held +too closely to things of this earth were thereby held +back in their progress after leaving the earthy body +and passing onward to the unseen realms of being. It +points out how this condition may be avoided; also +how some prolong their stay in the Borderland close +to the earth. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It describes the condition of those who are bound +to the lower Desire World after death by sense affiliation, +sorrow, or other causes, showing clearly their delusions +and their activities. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">13 pages. Paper Bound. Price 10c.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page239">[pg 239]</span><a name="Pg239" id="Pg239" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Simplified Scientific Astrology</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">By Max Heindel</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Fifth Edition.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">With Max Heindel's Portrait</span></span> +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">198 Pages. Cloth Bound. $1.50 Postpaid.</div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A complete textbook on the art of erecting a horoscope, +making the process simple and easy for beginners. It also +includes a +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Philosophic Encyclopedia +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +—and— +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Tables of Planetary Hours +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Philosophic Encyclopedia fills a long felt want both +of beginners and advanced students for information concerning +the underlying reasons for astrological dicta. It is +a mine of knowledge arranged in such a manner as to be +instantly accessible. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Tables of Planetary Hours enable one to select the +most favorable time for beginning new enterprises. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The unparalleled merits of this book have been amply attested +by many thousands of enthusiastic students who have +bought the first four editions. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +No astrological student can afford to be without it. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page240">[pg 240]</span><a name="Pg240" id="Pg240" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mysteries of the Great Operas</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">By Max Heindel</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Faust, Parsifal, The Ring of the Niebelung, +Tannhauser, Lohengrin +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Folk Lore and its interpretation through music has +much to offer to the general reader as well as to the +musician and occultist. These Myths conceal many +of the hidden truths which are now being translated +from symbol and allegory, and this attractive book +is the key to these poetic tales of evolution, sacrifice, +and unfoldment. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">176 Pages. 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N. Fowler, 7 Imperial Arcade</p> + <p rend="text-align: center">Ludgate Circus. E. C.</p> + </div> + <div rend="page-break-before: always"> + <head>Contents</head> + <divGen type="toc" /> + </div> + + </front> +<body> + +<pb n='005'/><anchor id='Pg005'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Chapter I. The Order of Rosicrucians and the Rosicrucian Fellowship</head> + +<p> +Our Message And Mission +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>A Sane Mind</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>A Soft Heart</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>A Sound Body</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Before entering upon an explanation of +the teachings of the Rosicrucians, it may be +well to say a word about them and about the +place they hold in the evolution of humanity. +</p> + +<p> +For reasons to be given later these teachings +advocate the dualistic view; they hold +that man is a spirit enfolding all the powers +of God as the seed enfolds the plant, and +that these powers are being slowly unfolded +by a series of existences in a gradually improving +earthy body; also that this process +of development has been performed under +the guidance of exalted beings who are yet +ordering our steps, though in a decreasing +<pb n='006'/><anchor id='Pg006'/> +measure, as we gradually acquire intellect +and will. These exalted Beings, though unseen +to the physical eyes, are nevertheless +potent factors in all affairs of life, and give +to the various groups of humanity lessons +which will most efficiently promote the +growth of their spiritual powers. In fact, +the earth may be likened to a vast training +school in which there are pupils of varying +age and ability as we find it in one of our +own schools. There are the savages, living +and worshipping under most primitive conditions, +seeing in stick or stone a God. Then, +as man progresses onwards and upwards in +the scale of civilization, we find a higher and +higher conception of Deity, which has flowered +here in our Western World in the beautiful +Christian religion that now furnishes +our spiritual inspiration and incentive to +improve. +</p> + +<p> +These various religions have been given +to each group of humanity by the exalted +beings whom we know in the Christian religion +as the Recording Angels, whose wonderful +prevision enable them to view the +trend of even so unstable a quantity as the +human mind, and thus they are enabled to +determine what steps are necessary to lead +<pb n='007'/><anchor id='Pg007'/> +our enfoldment along the lines congruous to +the highest universal good. +</p> + +<p> +When we study the history of the ancient +nations we shall find that at about six hundred +years B. C. a great spiritual wave had +its inception on the Eastern shores of the +Pacific Ocean where the great Confucian Religion +accelerated the progress of the Chinese +nation, then also the Religion of the +Buddha commenced to win its millions of +adherents in India, and still further West +we have the lofty philosophy of Pythagoras. +Each system was suited to the needs of the +particular people to whom it was sent. Then +came the period of the Sceptics, in Greece, +and later, traveling westward the same spiritual +wave is manifested as the Christian +religion of the so-called <q>Dark Ages</q> when +the dogma of a dominant church compelled +belief from the whole of Western Europe. +</p> + +<p> +It is a law in the universe that a wave of +spiritual awakening is always followed by +a period of doubting materialism, each +phase is necessary in order that the spirit +may receive equal development of heart and +intellect without being carried too far in +either direction. The Great Beings aforementioned, +Who care for our progress, always +<pb n='008'/><anchor id='Pg008'/> +take steps to safeguard humanity +against that danger, and when they foresaw +the wave of materialism which commenced +in the sixteenth century with the +birth of our modern Science, they took +steps to protect the West as they had formerly +safeguarded the East against the +Sceptics who were held in check by the Mystery +schools. +</p> + +<p> +In the thirteenth century there appeared +in central Europe a great spiritual teacher +whose symbolical name was +</p> + +<p> +Christian Rosenkreuz.<lb/> +or<lb/> +Christian Rose Cross. +</p> + +<p> +who founded the mysterious Order of the +Rosy Cross, concerning which so many speculations +have been made and so little has +become known to the world at large, for it +is the Mystery school of the West and is +only open to those who have attained the +stage of spiritual unfoldment necessary to +be initiated in its secrets concerning the +Science of Life and Being. +</p> + +<p> +If we are so far developed that we are +able to leave our dense physical body and +take a soul flight into interplanetary space +we shall find that the ultimate physical atom +<pb n='009'/><anchor id='Pg009'/> +is spherical in shape like our earth; it is a +ball. When we take a number of balls of +even size and group them around one, it will +take just twelve balls to hide a thirteenth +within. Thus the twelve visible and the one +hidden are numbers revealing a cosmic relationship +and as all Mystery Orders are +based upon cosmic lines, they are composed +of twelve members gathered around a thirteenth +who is the invisible <emph>head</emph>. +</p> + +<p> +There are seven colors in the spectrum: +red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and +violet. But between the violet and the red +there are still other five colors which are +invisible to the physical eye but reveal +themselves to the spiritual sight. In every +Mystery Order there are also seven brothers +who at times go out into the world and there +perform whatever work may be necessary to +advance the people among whom they serve, +but five are never seen outside the temple. +They work with and teach those alone who +have passed through certain stages of spiritual +unfoldment and are able to visit the +temple in their spiritual bodies; a feat +taught in the first initiation which usually +takes place outside the temple as it is not +<pb n='010'/><anchor id='Pg010'/> +convenient for all to visit that place physically. +</p> + +<p> +Let not the reader imagine that this initiation +makes the pupil a Rosicrucian, it does +not, any more than admission to a High +School makes a boy a member of the faculty. +Nor does he become a Rosicrucian even after +having passed through all the nine degrees +of this or any other Mystery School. +The Rosicrucians are Hierophants of the +lesser Mysteries, and beyond them there are +still schools wherein Greater Mysteries are +taught. Those who have advanced through +the lesser Mysteries and have become pupils +of the Greater Mysteries are called Adepts, +but even they have not reached the exalted +standpoint of the twelve Brothers of the Rosicrucian +Order or the Hierophants of any +other lesser Mystery School any more than +the freshman at college has attained to the +knowledge and position of a teacher in the +High school from which he has just graduated. +</p> + +<p> +A later work will deal with initiation, but +we may say here that the door of a genuine +Mystery School is not unlocked by a golden +key, but is only opened as a reward for meritorious +service to humanity and any one +<pb n='011'/><anchor id='Pg011'/> +who advertises himself as a Rosicrucian or +makes a charge for tuition, by either of +those acts shows himself to be a charlatan. +The true pupil of any Mystery School is far +too modest to advertise the fact, he will +scorn all titles or honors from men, he will +have no regard for riches save the riches of +love given to him by those whom it becomes +his privilege to help and teach. +</p> + +<p> +In the centuries that have gone by since +the Rosicrucian Order was first formed they +have worked quietly and secretly, aiming to +mould the thought of Western Europe +through the works of Paracelsus, Boehme, +Bacon, Shakespeare, Fludd and others. Each +night at midnight when the physical activities +of the day are at their lowest ebb, and +the spiritual impulse at its highest flood +tide, they have sent out from their temple +soul-stirring vibrations to counteract materialism +and to further the development of +soul powers. To their activities we owe the +gradual spiritualization of our once so materialistic +science. +</p> + +<p> +With the commencement of the twentieth +century a further step was taken. It was realized +that something must be done to make +<pb n='012'/><anchor id='Pg012'/> +religion scientific as well as to make science +religious, in order that they may ultimately +blend; for at the present time heart and intellect +are divorced. The heart instinctively +feels the truth of religious teachings concerning +such wonderful mysteries as the Immaculate +Conception (the Mystic Birth), the +Crucifixion (the Mystic Death), the cleansing +blood, the atonement, and other doctrines of +the Church, which the intellect refuses to believe, +as they are incapable of demonstration, +and seemingly at war with natural law. Material +advancement may be furthered when +intellect is dominant and the longings of the +heart unsatisfied, but soul growth will be retarded +until the heart also receives satisfaction. +</p> + +<p> +In order to give the world a teaching so +blended that it will satisfy both the mind and +heart, a messenger must be found and instructed. +Certain unusual qualifications were +necessary, and the first one chosen failed to +pass a certain test after several years had +been spent to prepare him for the work to be +done. +</p> + +<p> +It is well said that there is a time to sow, +and a time to reap, and that there are certain +times for all the works of life, and in accordance +<pb n='013'/><anchor id='Pg013'/> +with this law of periodicity each impulse +in spiritual uplift must also be undertaken at +an appropriate time to be successful. The +first and sixth decades of each century are +particularly propitious to commence the promulgation +of new spiritual teachings. Therefore +the Rosicrucians were much concerned at +this failure, for only five years were left of +the first decade of the twentieth century. +</p> + +<p> +Their second choice of a messenger fell +upon the present writer, though he knew it +not at the time, and by shaping circumstances +about him they made it possible for him to +begin a period of preparation for the work +they desired him to do. Three years later, +when he had gone to Germany, also because +of circumstances shaped by the invisible +Brotherhood, and was on the verge of despair +at the discovery that the light which was the +object of his quest, was only a jack-o-lantern, +the Brothers of the Rosicrucian Order applied +the test to see whether he would be a +faithful messenger and give the teachings +they desired to entrust to him, to the world. +And when he had passed the trial they gave +him the monumental solution of the problem +of existence first published in <q><hi rend='italic'>The Rosicrucian +Cosmo Conception</hi></q> in November, 1909, +<pb n='014'/><anchor id='Pg014'/> +more than a year before the expiration of the +first decade of the twentieth century. This +book marked a new era in so-called <q>occult</q> +literature, and the many editions which have +since been published, as well as the thousands +of letters which continue to come to the +author, are speaking testimonies to the fact +that people are finding in this teaching a satisfaction +they have long sought elsewhere in +vain. +</p> + +<p> +The Rosicrucians teach that all great religions +have been given to the people among +whom they are found, by Divine Intelligences +who designed each system of worship to suit +the needs of the race or nation to whom it +was given. A primitive people cannot respond +to a lofty and sublime religion, and +<hi rend='italic'>vice versa</hi>. What helps one race would hinder +another, and in pursuance of the same +policy there has been devised a system of +soul-unfoldment suited specially to the Western +people, who are racially and temperamentally +unfit to undergo the discipline of the +Eastern school, which was designed for the +more backward Hindoos. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>The Rosicrucian Fellowship</hi> +</p> + +<p> +For the purpose of promulgating the Rosicrucian +teachings in the Western World, the +<pb n='015'/><anchor id='Pg015'/> +Rosicrucian Fellowship was founded in 1909. +It is the herald of the Aquarian Age, when +the Sun by its precessional passage through +the constellation Aquarius will bring out all +the intellectual and spiritual potencies in man +which are symbolized by that sign. As heat +from a fire warms all objects within the +sphere of its radiations, so also the Aquarian +ray will raise the earth's vibrations to a pitch +we are as yet unable to comprehend, though +we have demonstrations of the <emph>material</emph> workings +of this force in the inventions which have +revolutionized life within the memory of the +present generation. We have wondered at +the X-ray, which sees through the human +body, but each one has a sense latent which +when evolved will enable him to see through +any number of bodies or to any distance. We +marvel at the telephone conversations across +the continent of America, but each has within +a latent sense of speech and hearing that is +far more acute; we are surprised at the exploits +of ships under sea and in the sky, but +we are all capable of passage under water or +through the sky; nay, more, we may pass +unscathed through the solid rock and the raging +fire, if we know how, and lightning itself +is slow compared to the speed with which we +<pb n='016'/><anchor id='Pg016'/> +may travel. This sounds like a fairy tale today, +as did Jules Verne's stories a generation +ago, but the Aquarian Age will witness the +realization of these dreams, and ever so much +more that we still do not even dream of. Such +faculties will then be the possessions of large +numbers of people who will have gradually +evolved them as previously the ability to walk, +speak, hear, and see, were developed. +</p> + +<p> +Therein lies a great danger, for, obviously, +anyone endowed with such faculties may use +them to the greatest detriment of the world +at large, unless restrained by a spirit of +unselfishness and an all-embracing altruism. +Therefore religion is needed today as never +before, to foster love and fellow-feeling +among humanity so that it may be prepared to +use the great gifts in store for it wisely and +well. This need of religion is specially felt in +a certain class where the ether is more loosely +knit to the physical atoms than in the majority, +and on that account they are now beginning +to sense the Aquarian vibrations. +</p> + +<p> +This class is again divided in two groups. +In one the intellect is dominant, and the people +in that class therefore seek to grasp the +spiritual mysteries out of curiosity from the +viewpoint of cold reason. They pursue the +<pb n='017'/><anchor id='Pg017'/> +path of knowledge for the sake of knowledge, +considering that an end in itself. The idea +that knowledge is of value only when put to +practical constructive use does not seem to +have presented itself to them. This class we +may call <emph>occultists</emph>. +</p> + +<p> +The other group does not care for knowledge, +but feels an inner urge God-ward, and +pursues the path of devotion to the high ideal +set before them in Christ, doing the deeds that +He did as far their flesh will permit, and this +in time results in an interior illumination +which brings with it all the knowledge obtained +by the other class, and much more. +This class we may describe as <emph>mystics</emph>. +</p> + +<p> +Certain dangers confront each of the two +groups. If the occultist obtains illumination +and evolves within himself the latent spiritual +faculties, he may use them for the furtherance +of his personal objects, to the great detriment +of his fellow-men. That is black magic, and +the punishment which it <emph>automatically</emph> calls +down upon the head of the perpetrator is so +awful that it is best to draw the veil over it. +The mystic may also err because of ignorance, +and fall into the meshes of nature's law, but +being actuated by love, his mistakes will never +be very serious, and as he grows in grace the +<pb n='018'/><anchor id='Pg018'/> +soundless voice within his heart will speak +more distinctly to teach him the way. +</p> + +<p> +The Rosicrucian Fellowship endeavors to +prepare the world in general, and the sensitives +of the two groups in particular, for the +awakening of the latent powers in man, so +that all may be guided safely through the +danger-zone and be as well fitted as possible +to use these new faculties. Effort is made to +blend the love without which Paul declared a +knowledge of all mysteries worthless, with a +mystic knowledge rooted and grounded in +love, so that the pupils of this school may +become <emph>living</emph> exponents of this blended soul-science +of the Western Wisdom School, and +gradually educate humanity at large in the +virtues necessary to make the possession of +higher powers safe. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>Note</hi>:— +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>Pages 19 to 26 inclusive, describing Mt. Ecclesia, +have been transferred to the back of the book.</hi> +(Transcriber's Note: They are pages <ref target='Pg191'>191</ref> through +<ref target='Pg200'>200</ref>.) +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='027'/><anchor id='Pg027'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Chapter II. The Problem of Life and Its Solution</head> + +<p> +THE PROBLEM OF LIFE. +</p> + +<p> +Among all the vicissitudes of life, which +vary in each individual's experience, there +is one event which sooner or later comes +to everyone—Death! No matter what our +station in life, whether the life lived has +been a laudable one or the reverse, whether +great achievements have marked our path +among men, whether health or sickness have +been our lot, whether we have been famous +and surrounded by a host of admiring friends +or have wandered unknown through the years +of our life, at some time there comes a moment +when we stand alone before the portal +of death and are forced to take the leap into +the dark. +</p> + +<p> +The thought of this leap and of what lies +beyond must inevitably force itself upon +<pb n='028'/><anchor id='Pg028'/> +every thinking person. In the years of +youth and health, when the bark of our life +sails upon seas of prosperity, when all appears +beautiful and bright, we may put the +thought behind us, but there will surely +come a time in the life of every thinking person +when the problem of life and death forces +itself upon his consciousness and refuses +to be set aside. Neither will it help +him to accept the ready made solution of +anyone else without thought and in blind belief, +for this is a basic problem which every +one must solve for himself or herself in order +to obtain satisfaction. +</p> + +<p> +Upon the Eastern edge of the Desert of +Sahara there stands the world-famous +Sphinx with its inscrutable face turned toward +the East, ever greeting the sun as its +rising rays herald the newborn day. It was +said in the Greek myth that it was the wont +of this monster to ask a riddle of each traveler. +She devoured those who could not answer, +but when Oedipus solved the riddle she +destroyed herself. +</p> + +<p> +The riddle which she asked of men was +the riddle of life and death, a query which +is as relevant today as ever, and which each +one must answer or be devoured in the jaws +<pb n='029'/><anchor id='Pg029'/> +of death. But when once a person has found +the solution to the problem, it will appear +that in reality there is no death, that what +appears so, is but a change from one state +of <emph>existence</emph> to another. Thus, for the man +who finds the true solution to the riddle of +life, the sphinx of death has ceased to exist, +and he can lift his voice in the triumphant +cry <q>Oh death where is thy sting, oh +grave where is thy victory.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Various theories of life have been advocated +to solve this problem of life. We may +divide them into two classes, namely <emph>the +monistic theory</emph>, which holds that all the +facts of life can be explained by reference +to this visible world wherein we live, and <emph>the +dualistic theory</emph>, which refers part of the +phenomenon of life to another world which +is now invisible to us. +</p> + +<p> +Raphael in his famous painting <q>the +School of Athens</q> has most aptly pictured +to us the attitude of these two schools of +thought. We see upon that marvelous +painting a Greek Court such as those wherein +philosophers were once wont to congregate. +Upon the various steps which lead into +the building a large number of men are +engaged in deep conversation, but in the +<pb n='030'/><anchor id='Pg030'/> +center at the top of the steps stand two +figures, supposedly of Plato and Aristotle, +one pointing upwards, the other towards the +earth, each looking the other in the face, +mutely, but with deeply concentrated will. +Each seeking to convince the other that his +attitude is right for each bears the conviction +in his heart. One holds that he is of +the earth earthy, that he has come from the +dust and that thereto he will return, the +other firmly advocates the position that +there is a higher something which has always +existed and will continue regardless of +whether the body wherein it now dwells +holds together or not. +</p> + +<p> +The question who is right is still an open +one with the majority of mankind. Millions +of tons of paper and printer's ink have +been used in futile attempts to settle it by +argument, but it will always remain open to +all who have not solved the riddle themselves, +for it is a basic problem, a part of the +life experience of every human being to +settle that question, and therefore no one +can give us the solution ready made for our +acceptance. All that can be done by those +who have really solved the problem, is to +show to others the line along which they +<pb n='031'/><anchor id='Pg031'/> +have found the solution, and thus direct the +inquirer how he also may arrive at a conclusion. +</p> + +<p> +That is the aim of this little book; not to +offer a solution to the problem of life to be +taken blindly, on faith in the author's ability +of investigation. The teachings herein +set forth are those handed down by the +Great Western Mystery School of the Rosicrucian +Order and are the result of the concurrent +testimony of a long line of trained +Seers given to the author and supplemented +by his own independent investigation of the +realms traversed by the spirit in its cyclic +path from the invisible world to this plane +of existence and back again. +</p> + +<p> +Nevertheless, the student is warned that +the writer may have misunderstood some of +the teachings and that despite the greatest +care he may have taken a wrong view of +that which he believes to have seen in the invisible +world where the possibilities of making +a mistake are legion. Here in the world +which we view about us the forms are stable +and do not easily change, but in the world +around us which is perceptible only by the +spiritual sight, we may say that there is in reality +no form, but that all is life. At least the +<pb n='032'/><anchor id='Pg032'/> +forms are so changeable that the metamorphosis +recounted in fairy stories is discounted +there to an amazing degree, and therefore we +have the surprising revelations of mediums +and other untrained clairvoyants who, +though they may be perfectly honest, are deceived +by illusions of <emph>form</emph> which is evanescent, +because they are incapable of viewing +the <emph>life</emph> that is the permanent basis of that +form. +</p> + +<p> +We must learn to see in this world. The +new-born babe has no conception of distance +and will reach for things far, far beyond its +grasp until it has learned to gauge its capacity. +A blind man who acquires the faculty +of sight, or has it restored by an operation, +will at first be inclined to close his eyes +when moving from place to place, and declare +that it is easier to walk by feeling than +by sight; that is because he has not learned +to use his newly acquired faculty. Similarly +the man whose spiritual vision has been +newly opened requires to be trained, in fact +he is in much greater need thereof than the +babe and the blind man already mentioned. +Denied that training he would be like a new-born +babe placed in a nursery where the +walls are lined with mirrors of different +<pb n='033'/><anchor id='Pg033'/> +convex and concave curvatures, which +would distort its own shape and the forms +of its attendants. If allowed to grow up in +such surroundings and unable to see the real +shapes of itself and its nurses it would naturally +believe that it saw many different and +distorted shapes where in reality the mirrors +were responsible for the illusion. Were the +persons concerned in such an experiment +and the child taken out of the illusory surroundings, +it would be incapable of recognizing +them until the matter had been +properly explained. There are similar +dangers of illusion to those who have developed +spiritual sight, until they have been +trained to discount the refraction and to +view the <emph>life</emph> which is permanent and stable, +disregarding the <emph>form</emph> which is evanescent +and changeable. The danger of getting +things out of focus always remains however +and is so subtle that the writer feels an imperative +duty to warn his readers to take all +statements concerning the unseen world +with the proverbial grain of salt, for he has +no intention to deceive. He is therefore inclined +rather to magnify than to minimize +his limitations and would advise the student +to accept nothing from the author's pen +<pb n='034'/><anchor id='Pg034'/> +without reasoning it out for himself. Thus, +if he is deceived, he will be self-deceived and +the author is blameless. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>Three Theories of Life.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Only three noteworthy theories have been +offered as solutions to the riddle of existence +and in order that the reader may be +able to make the important choice between +them, we will state briefly what they are and +give some of the arguments which lead us +to advocate the doctrine of Rebirth as the +method which favors soul-growth and the ultimate +attainment of perfection, thus offering +the best solution to the problem of life. +</p> + +<p> +1) <hi rend='smallcaps'>The Materialistic Theory</hi> <hi rend='italic'>teaches that +life is but a short journey from the cradle to +the grave, that there is no higher intelligence +in the universe than man; that his +mind is produced by certain correlations of +matter and that therefore death, and dissolution +of the body terminate existence.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +There was a day when the arguments of +Materialistic philosophers seemed convincing, +but as science advances it discovers +more and more that there is a spiritual side +to the universe. That life and consciousness +may exist without being able to give us a +sign, has been amply proven in the cases +<pb n='035'/><anchor id='Pg035'/> +where a person who was entranced and +thought dead for days has suddenly awakened +and told all that had taken place around +the body. Such eminent scientists as Sir +Oliver Lodge, Camille Flammarion, Lombroso +and other men of highest intelligence and +scientific training, have unequivocally stated +as the result of their investigations, that the +intelligence which we call man survives +death of the body and lives on in our midst +as independently of whether we see them or +not as light and color exist all about the +blind man regardless of the fact that he +does not perceive them. These scientists +have reached their conclusion after years of +careful investigation. They have found that +the so-called dead can, and under certain circumstances +do, communicate with us in such +a manner that mistake is out of the question. +We maintain that their testimony is worth +more than the argument of materialism to +the contrary, for it is based upon years of +careful investigation, it is in harmony with +such well established laws as <hi rend='italic'>the law of conservation +of matter</hi> and <hi rend='italic'>the law of conservation +of energy</hi>. Mind is a form of energy, +and immune from destruction as claimed by +the materialist. Therefore we disbar the +<pb n='036'/><anchor id='Pg036'/> +materialistic theory as unsound, because out +of harmony with the laws of nature and with +well established facts. +</p> + +<p> +2) <hi rend='smallcaps'>The Theory of Theology</hi> <hi rend='italic'>claims that +just prior to each birth a soul is created by +God and enters into the world where it lives +for a time varying from a few minutes to a +few score of years; that at the end of this +short span of life it returns through the portal +of death to the invisible beyond, where +it remains forever in a condition of happiness +or misery according to the deeds done +in the body during the few years it lived here</hi>. +</p> + +<p> +Plato insisted upon the necessity of a +clear definition of terms as a basis of argument +and we contend that that is as +necessary in discussing the problem of life +from the Bible point of view as in arguments +from the platonic standpoint. According +to the Bible man is a composite being +consisting of body, soul and spirit. The two +latter are usually taken to be synonymous, +but we insist that they are not interchangeable +and present the following to support +our dictum. +</p> + +<p> +All things are in a state of vibration. Vibrations +from objects in our surroundings +are constantly impinging upon us and carry +<pb n='037'/><anchor id='Pg037'/> +to our senses a cognition of the external +world. The vibrations in the ether act upon +our eyes so that we see, and vibrations in the +air transmit sounds to the ear. +</p> + +<p> +We also breathe the ether which is +charged with pictures of our surroundings +and the sounds in our environment, so +that by means of the breath we receive at +each moment of our life, <emph>internally</emph> an accurate +picture of our external surroundings. +</p> + +<p> +That is a scientific proposition. Science +does not explain what becomes of these vibrations +however, but according to the Rosicrucian +Mystery teaching they are transmitted +to the blood, and then etched upon a +little atom in the heart as automatically as +a moving picture is imprinted upon the sensitized +film, and a record of sounds is engraven +upon the phonographic disc. This +breath-record starts with the first breath of +the newborn babe and ends only with the +last gasp of the dying man, and <q>soul</q> is a +product of the breath. Genesis also shows +the connection between breath and soul in the +words: <q>And the Lord God formed man of +the dust of the ground, and breathed into his +nostrils the breath of life; and man became +a living soul</q> (The same word: <foreign rend='italic'>nephesh</foreign>, is +<pb n='038'/><anchor id='Pg038'/> +translated breath and soul in the above quotation.) +</p> + +<p> +In the post mortem existence the breath-record +is disposed of. The good acts of life +produce feelings of pleasure and the intensity +of attraction incorporates them into the +spirit as soul-power. <emph>Thus the breath-records +of our good acts are the soul which is +saved</emph>, for by the union with the spirit they +become immortal. As they accumulate life +after life, we become more soulful and they +are thus also the basis of soulgrowth. +</p> + +<p> +The record of our evil acts is also derived +from our breath in the moments when +they were committed. The pain and suffering +they bring cause the spirit to expel the +breath-record from its being in Purgatory. +As that cannot exist independently of the +life-giving spirit, the breath-record of our +sins disintegrates upon expurgation, and +thus we see that <q>the soul that sinneth, it +shall die.</q> The memory of the suffering +incidental to expurgation however, remains +with the spirit as <emph>conscience</emph>, to deter from +repetition of the same evil in later lives. +</p> + +<p> +Thus both our good and evil acts are recorded +through the agency of the breath, +which is therefore the basis of the soul, but +<pb n='039'/><anchor id='Pg039'/> +while the breath-record of good acts amalgamates +with the spirit and lives on forever +as an immortal soul, the breath-record of evil +deeds is disintegrated; it is the soul that sinneth +and dies. +</p> + +<p> +While the Bible teaches that immortality +of the soul is conditional upon well-doing, it +makes no distinction in respect of the spirit. +The statement is clear and emphatic that +when ... <q>The silver cord be loosed ... then +shall the dust return to the earth as it was +and the spirit shall return to God who gave +it.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Thus the Bible teaches that the body is +made of dust and returns thereto, that a +part of the soul generated in the breath is +perishable, but that the spirit survives bodily +death and persists forever. Therefore a +<q>lost soul</q> in the common acceptance of +that term is not a Bible teaching, for the +spirit is uncreate and eternal as God Himself, +and therefore the orthodox theory cannot +be true. +</p> + +<p> +3) <hi rend='smallcaps'>The Theory of Rebirths</hi> <hi rend='italic'>which teaches +that each spirit is an integral part of God, +that it enfolds all divine possibilities as the +acorn enfolds the oak; that by means of +many existences in an earthy body of gradually +<pb n='040'/><anchor id='Pg040'/> +improving texture its latent powers +are being slowly unfolded and become available +as dynamic energy; that none can be +lost but that all will ultimately attain to perfection +and reunion with God, each bringing +with it the accumulated experience which is +the fruitage of its pilgrimage through matter.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Or, as we may poetically express it: +</p> + +<p> +WE ARE ETERNAL. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>On whistling stormcloud; on Zephyrus wing,</l> +<l>The Spirit-choir loud the World-anthems sing</l> +<l>Hark! Lis't to their voice <q rend='pre'>we have passed through death's door</q></l> +<l><q rend='post'>There's no Death; rejoice! life lives evermore.</q></l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>We are, have always been, will ever be.</l> +<l>We are a portion of Eternity</l> +<l>Older than Creation, a part of One Great Whole,</l> +<l>Is each Individual and immortal Soul.</l> +</lg> + +<pb n='041'/><anchor id='Pg041'/> + +<lg> +<l>On Time's whirring loom our garments we've wrought</l> +<l>Eternally weave we on network of Thought,</l> +<l>Our kin and our country, by Mind brought to birth,</l> +<l>Were patterned in heaven ere molded on earth.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>We have shone in the Jewel and danced on the Wave,</l> +<l>We have sparkled in Fire defying the grave;</l> +<l>Through shapes everchanging, in size, kind and name</l> +<l>Our individual essence still is the same.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>And when we have reached to the highest of all,</l> +<l>The gradations of growth our minds shall recall</l> +<l>So that link by link we may join them together</l> +<l>And trace step by step the way we reached thither.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Thus in time we shall know, if only we do</l> +<l>What lifts, ennobles, is right and true.</l> +<l>With kindness to all; with malice to none,</l> +<l>That in and through us God's will may be done.</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +<pb n='042'/><anchor id='Pg042'/> + +<p> +We venture to make the assertion that +there is but one sin: <hi rend='italic'>Ignorance</hi> and but one +salvation: <hi rend='italic'>Applied Knowledge</hi>. Even the +wisest among us know but little of what may +be learned, however, and no one has attained +to perfection, or can attain in one single +short life, but we note that everywhere in nature +slow persistent unfoldment makes for +higher and higher development of every +thing and we call this process evolution. +</p> + +<p> +One of the chief characteristics of evolution +lies in the fact that it manifests in alternating +periods of activity and rest. The +busy summer, when all things upon earth are +exerting themselves to bring forth, is followed +by the rest and inactivity of winter. The +busy day alternates with the quiet of night. +The ebb of the ocean is succeeded by the +flood-tide. Thus, as all other things move in +cycles, the life that expresses itself here upon +earth for a few years is not to be thought +of as ended when death has been reached, +but as surely as the sun rises in the morning +after having set at night, will the life that +was ended by the death of one body be taken +up again in a new vehicle and in a different +environment. +</p> + +<pb n='043'/><anchor id='Pg043'/> + +<p> +This earth may in fact be likened to a +school to which we return life after life to +learn new lessons, as our children go to +school day after day to increase their knowledge. +The child sleeps through the night +which intervenes between two days at school +and the spirit also has its rest from active +life between death and a new birth. There +are also different classes in this world-school +which correspond to the various +grades from kindergarten to college. In the +lower classes we find spirits who have gone +to the school of life but a few times, they +are savages now, but in time they will become +wiser and better than we are, and we +ourselves shall progress in future lives to +spiritual heights of which we cannot even conceive +at the present. If we apply ourselves to +learn the lessons of life, we shall of +course advance much faster in the school of +life than if we dilly-dally and idle our time +away. This, on the same principle which governs +in one of our own institutions of learning. +</p> + +<p> +We are not here then, by the caprice of +God. He has not placed one in clover and +another in a desert nor has He given one a +healthy body so that he may live at ease +<pb n='044'/><anchor id='Pg044'/> +from pain and sickness, while He placed another +in poor circumstances with never a +rest from pain. But what we are, we are, on +account of our own diligence or negligence, +and what we shall be in the future depends +upon what we will to be and not upon Divine +caprice or upon inexorable fate. No matter +what the circumstances, it lies with us to +master them, or to be mastered, as we will. +Sir Edwin Arnold puts the teaching most +beautifully in his <q>Light of Asia.</q> +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l><q rend='pre'>The Books say well, my Brothers! each man's life</q></l> +<l>The outcome of his former living is;</l> +<l>The bygone wrongs bring forth sorrows and woes</l> +<l>The bygone right breeds bliss.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Each has such lordship as the loftiest ones</l> +<l>Nay for with powers around, above, below</l> +<l>As with all flesh and whatsoever lives</l> +<l><emph>Act</emph> maketh joy or woe.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Who toiled a slave may come anew a prince</l> +<l>For gentle worthiness and merit won;</l> +<l>Who ruled a king may wander earth in rags</l> +<l><q rend='post'>For things done or undone.</q></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +<pb n='045'/><anchor id='Pg045'/> + +<p> +Or, as an unknown poet says: +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l><q rend='pre'>One ship sails East and another sails West</q></l> +<l>With the self same winds that blow.</l> +<l>'Tis the set of the sail, and not the gale,</l> +<l>Which determines the way they go.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>As the winds of the sea are the ways of fate</l> +<l>As we voyage along through life.</l> +<l>'Tis the act of the soul, which determines the goal</l> +<l><q rend='post'>And not the calm or the strife.</q></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +<p> +When we wish to engage someone to undertake +a certain mission we choose some one +whom we think particularly fitted to fulfill +the requirements and we must suppose that +a Divine Being would use at least as much +common sense, and not choose anyone to go +his errand who was not fitted therefor. So +when we read in the Bible that Samson was +foreordained to be the slayer of the Philistines +and that Jeremiah was predestined to +be a prophet, it is but logical to suppose that +they must have been particularly suited to +such occupation. John the Baptist also, was +born to be a herald of the coming Savior and +to preach the kingdom of God which is to +take the place of the kingdom of men. +</p> + +<pb n='046'/><anchor id='Pg046'/> + +<p> +Had these people had no previous training, +how could they have developed such a +fitness to fulfill their various missions, and +if they had been fitted, how else could they +have received their training if not in earlier +lives? +</p> + +<p> +The Jews believed in the Doctrine of Rebirth +or they would not have asked John the +Baptist if he were Elijah, as recorded in the +first chapter of John. The Apostles of +Christ also held the belief as we may see +from the incident recorded in the sixteenth +chapter of Matthew where the Christ asked +them the question: <q>Whom do men say that +I the Son of Man am?</q> The Apostles replied: +<q>Some say that Thou art John the +Baptist; some, Elias; and others Jeremias or +one of the Prophets.</q> Upon this occasion +the Christ tacitly assented to the teaching +of Rebirth because He did not correct the disciples +as would have been His plain duty in +His capacity as teacher, when the pupils entertained +a mistaken idea. +</p> + +<p> +But to Nicodemus He said unequivocally: +<q>Except a man be born again, he cannot see +the kingdom of God</q> and in the eleventh +chapter of Matthew, the fourteenth verse, He +said, speaking of John the Baptist: <q><emph>this +<pb n='047'/><anchor id='Pg047'/> +is Elijah</emph>,</q> in the seventeenth chapter of +Matthew, the twelfth verse, He said: <q>Elijah +has come already and they knew him not, +but have done to him whatsoever they listed, ... +then the disciples understood +that he spoke to them of John the Baptist.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Thus we maintain that the Doctrine of Rebirth +offers the only solution to the problem +of life which is in harmony with the laws of +nature, which answers the ethical requirements +of the case and permits us to love God +without blinding our reason to the inequalities +of life and the varying circumstances +which give to a few the ease and comfort, the +health and wealth, which are denied to the +many. +</p> + +<p> +The theory of Heredity advanced by Materialists +applies only to the <emph>form</emph>, for as a +carpenter uses material from a certain pile +of lumber to build a house in which he afterwards +lives, so does the spirit take the substance +wherewith to build its house from the +parents. The carpenter cannot build a house +of hard wood from spruce lumber and the +spirit also must build a body which is like +those from which the material was taken, but +the theory of Heredity does not apply upon +the moral plane, for it is a notorious fact, +that in the rogues galleries of America and +<pb n='048'/><anchor id='Pg048'/> +Europe there is no case where both father +and son are represented. Thus the sons of +criminals, though they have the tendencies +to crime, keep out of the clutches of the law. +Neither will Heredity hold good upon the +plane of the intellect, for many cases may +be cited where a genius and an idiot spring +from the same stock. The great Cuvier, +whose brain was of about the same weight, +as Daniel Webster's, and whose intellect was +as great, had five children who all died of +paresis, the brother of Alexander the Great +was an idiot, and thus we hold that another +solution must be found to account for the +facts of life. +</p> + +<p> +The law of Rebirth coupled with its companion +law, the law of Causation does that. +When we die after one life, we return to +earth later, under circumstances determined +by the manner in which we lived before. The +gambler is drawn to pool parlors and race +tracks to associate with others of like taste, +the musician is attracted to the concert halls +and music studios, by congenial spirits, and +the returning Ego also carries with it its +likes and dislikes which cause it to seek parents +among the class to which it belongs. +</p> + +<pb n='049'/><anchor id='Pg049'/> + +<p> +But then someone will point to cases where +we find people of entirely opposite tastes living +lives of torture, because grouped in the +same family, and forced by circumstances to +stay there contrary to their wills. But that +does not vitiate the law in the slightest, in +each life we contract certain obligations +which cannot then be fulfilled. Perhaps we +have run away from a duty such as the care +of an invalid relative and have met death +without coming to a realization of our mistake. +That relative upon the other hand may +have suffered severely from our neglect, and +have stored up a bitterness against us before +death terminates the suffering. Death and +the subsequent removal to another environment +does not pay our debts in this life, +any more than the removal from the city +where we now live to another place will pay +the debts we have contracted prior to our removal. +It is therefore quite possible that +the two who have injured each other as described, +may find themselves members of +the same family. Then, whether they remember +the past grudge or not, the old enmity +will assert itself and cause them to +hate anew until the consequent discomfort +forces them to tolerate each other, and perhaps +<pb n='050'/><anchor id='Pg050'/> +later they may learn to love where they +hated. +</p> + +<p> +The question also arises in the mind of inquirers: +If we have been here before why do +we not remember? And the answer is, that +while most people are not aware of how their +previous existences were spent, there are +others who have a very distinct recollection +of previous lives. A friend of the writer's +for instance, when living in France, one day +started to read to her son about a certain +city where they were then going upon a bicycle +tour, and the boy exclaimed: you do +not need to tell me about that mother. I +know that city, I lived there and was killed! +He then commenced to describe the city and +also a certain bridge. Later he took his +mother to that bridge and showed her the +spot where he had met death centuries before. +Another friend travelling in Ireland +saw a scene which she recognized and she also +described to the party the scene around +the bend of the road which she had never +seen in this life, so it must have been a memory +from a previous life. Numerous other +instances could be given where such minor +flashes of memory reveal to us glimpses from +a past life. The verified case in which a little +<pb n='051'/><anchor id='Pg051'/> +three year old girl in Santa Barbara described +her life and death has been given in +the Rosicrucian Cosmo Conception. It is perhaps +the most conclusive evidence as it +hinges on the veracity of a child too young +to have learned deception. +</p> + +<p> +This theory of life does not rest upon speculation +however, it is one of the first facts of +life demonstrated to the pupil of a Mystery +school. He is taught to watch a child in the +act of dying, also, to watch it in the invisible +world from day to day, until it comes to a +new birth a year or two later. Then he +knows with absolute certainty that we return +to earth to reap in a future life what we now +sow. +</p> + +<p> +The reason for taking a child to watch in +preference to an adult, is, that the child is reborn +very quickly, for its short life on earth +has borne but few fruits and these are soon +assimilated, while the adult who has lived a +long life, and had much experience remains in +the invisible worlds for centuries, so that the +pupil could not watch him from death to rebirth. +The cause of infant mortality will be +explained later, here we merely desire to emphasize +the fact that it is within the range +of possibilities of every one without exception +<pb n='052'/><anchor id='Pg052'/> +to become able to know at first hand +that which is here taught. +</p> + +<p> +The average interval between two earth-lives +is about a thousand years. It is determined +by the movement of the sun known +to astronomers as <hi rend='italic'>precession of the equinox</hi>, +by which the sun moves through one of the +signs of the Zodiac in about 2100 years. During +that time the conditions upon earth have +changed so much that the spirit will find entirely +new experiences here, and therefore it +returns. +</p> + +<p> +The Great Leaders of evolution always obtain +the maximum benefit from each condition +designed by them, and as the experiences +in the same social conditions are very +different in the case of a man from what +they are for a woman, the human spirit takes +birth twice during the 2100 years measured +by the precession of the equinox as already +explained, it is born once as a man and another +time as a woman. Such is the rule, but +it is subject to whatever modifications may +be necessary to facilitate reaping what the +spirit has sown, as required under the law of +Causation which works hand in hand with the +law of Rebirth. Thus, at times a spirit may +be brought to birth long ere the thousand +<pb n='053'/><anchor id='Pg053'/> +years have expired, in order to fulfill a certain +mission, or it may be detained in the invisible +worlds after the time when it should +have come to birth according to the strict requirements +of a blind law. The laws of nature +are not that however. They are Great +Intelligences who always subordinate minor +considerations to higher ends, and under their +beneficent guidance we are constantly progressing +from life to life under conditions exactly +suited to each individual, until in time +we shall attain to a higher evolution and become +Supermen. +</p> + +<p> +Oliver Wendell Holmes has so beautifully +voiced that aspiration and its consummation +in the lines: +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l><q rend='pre'>Build thee more stately mansions Oh! my soul,</q></l> +<l>As the swift seasons roll,</l> +<l>Leave thy low-vaulted past;</l> +<l>Let each new temple, nobler than the last,</l> +<l>Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast.</l> +<l>Till thou at length art free,</l> +<l><q rend='post'>Leaving thy outgrown shell by life's unresting sea.</q></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='054'/><anchor id='Pg054'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Chapter III. The Visible and the Invisible World</head> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>The Chemical Region.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +If one who is capable of consciously using +his spiritual body with the same facility that +we now use our physical vehicles should +glide away from the earth into interplanetary +space, the earth and the various other planets +of our solar system would appear to him +to be composed of three kinds of matter, +roughly speaking. The densest matter, +which is our visible earth, would appear to +him as being the center of the ball as the +yolk is in the center of an egg. Around that +nucleus he would observe a finer grade of +matter similarly disposed in relation to the +central mass, as the white of the egg is disposed +outside the yolk. Upon a little closer +investigation he would also discover that this +second kind of substance permeates the solid +<pb n='055'/><anchor id='Pg055'/> +earth to the very center, even as the blood +percolates through the more solid parts of our +flesh. Outside both of these mingling layers +of matter he would observe a still finer, third +layer corresponding to the shell of the egg, +except that this third layer is the finest most +subtile of the three grades of matter, and +that it inter-penetrates both of the two inner +layers. +</p> + +<p> +As already said, the central mass, spiritually +seen, is our visible world, composed of +solids, liquids and gases. They constitute +the earth, its atmosphere, and also the ether, +of which physical science speaks hypothetically +as permeating the atomic substance of +all chemical elements. The second layer of +matter is called the Desire World and the +outermost layer is called the World of +Thought. +</p> + +<p> +A little reflection upon the subject will +make clear that just such a constitution is +necessary to account for facts of life as we +see them. All forms in the world about us +are built from chemical substances: solids, +liquids and gases, but in so far that they do +move, these forms obey a separate and distinct +impulse, and when this impelling energy +leaves, the form becomes inert. The steam +<pb n='056'/><anchor id='Pg056'/> +engine rotates under the impetus of an invisible +gas called steam. Before steam filled +its cylinder, the engine stood still, and when +the impelling force is shut off its motion +again ceases. The dynamo rotates under +the still more subtile influence of an electric +current which may also cause the click of a +telegraph instrument or the ring of an electric +bell, but the dynamo ceases its swift +whirl and the persistent ring of the electric +bell becomes mute when the invisible electricity +is switched off. The form of the bird, +the animal and the human being also cease +their motion when the inner force which we +call <emph>life</emph> has winged its invisible way. +</p> + +<p> +All forms are impelled into motion by desire:—the +bird and the animal roam land +and air in their desire to secure food and shelter, +or for the purpose of breeding, man is also +moved by these desires, but has in addition +other and higher incentives to spur him to +effort, among them is desire for rapidity of +motion which led him to construct the steam +engine and other devices that move in obedience +to <emph>his</emph> desire. +</p> + +<p> +If there were no iron in the mountains +man could not build machines. If there were +no clay in the soil, the bony structure of the +<pb n='057'/><anchor id='Pg057'/> +skeleton would be an impossibility, and if +there were no Physical World at all, with its +solids, liquids and gases, this dense body of +ours could never have come into existence. +Reasoning along similar lines it must be at +once apparent that if there were no Desire +World composed of desire-stuff, we should +have no way of forming feelings, emotions +and desires. A planet composed of the materials +we perceive with our <emph>physical</emph> eyes +and of no other substances, might be the +home of plants which grow unconsciously, +but have no desires to cause them to move. +The human and animal kingdoms however, +would be impossibilities. +</p> + +<p> +Furthermore, there is in the world a vast +number of things, from the simplest and +most crude instruments, to the most intricate +and cunning devices which have been constructed +by the hand of man. These reveal +the fact of man's thought and ingenuity. +Thought must have a source as well as <emph>form</emph> +and <emph>feeling</emph>. We saw that it was necessary +to have the requisite material in order to +build a steam engine or a body and we reasoned +from the fact that in order to obtain +material to express <emph>desire</emph> there must also be +a world composed of desire stuff. Carrying +<pb n='058'/><anchor id='Pg058'/> +our argument to its logical conclusion, we also +hold that unless a World of Thought provides +a reservoir of mind stuff upon which +we may draw, it would be impossible for us to +think and invent the things which we see in +even the lowest civilization. +</p> + +<p> +Thus it will be clear that the division of a +planet into worlds is not based on fanciful +metaphysical speculation, but is logically +necessary in the economy of nature. Therefore +it must be taken into consideration by +any one who would study and aim to understand +the inner nature of things. When we +see the street cars moving along our streets, +it does not explain to say that the motor is +driven by electricity of so many amperes at +so many volts. These names only add to our +confusion until we have thoroughly studied +the science of electricity and then we shall +find that the mystery deepens, for while the +street car belongs to the world of <emph>inert form</emph> +perceptible to our vision, the electric current +which moves it is indigenous to the realm +of <emph>force</emph>, the invisible Desire World, and the +thought which created and guides it, comes +from the still more subtile World of Thought +which is the home world of the human spirit, +the Ego. +</p> + +<pb n='059'/><anchor id='Pg059'/> + +<p> +It may be objected that this line of argument +makes a simple matter exceedingly intricate, +but a little reflection will soon show +the fallacy of such a contention. Viewed +superficially any of the sciences seem extremely +simple; anatomically we may divide +the body into flesh and bone, chemically we +may make the simple divisions between solid, +liquid and gas, but to thoroughly master the +science of anatomy it is necessary to spend +years in close application and learn to know +all the little nerves, the ligaments which +bind articulations between various parts of +the bony structure, to study the several +kinds of tissue and their disposition in our +system where they form the bones, muscles, +glands, etc., which in the aggregate we know +as the human body. To properly understand +the science of chemistry we must +study the valence of the atom which determines +the power of combination of the +various elements, together with other niceties, +such as atomic weight, density, etc. +New wonders are constantly opening up to +the most experienced chemist, who understands +best the immensity of his chosen +science. +</p> + +<pb n='060'/><anchor id='Pg060'/> + +<p> +The youngest lawyer, fresh from law +school knows more about the most intricate +cases, in his own estimation, than the judges +upon the Supreme Court bench who spend +long hours, weeks and months, seriously deliberating +over their decisions. But those +who, without having studied, think they understand +and are fitted to discourse upon +the greatest of all sciences, the science of +Life and Being, make a greater mistake. +After years of patient study, of holy life +spent in close application, a man is oftentimes +perplexed at the immensity of the subject +he studies. He finds it to be so vast in +both the direction of the great and small +that it baffles description, that language +fails, and that the tongue must remain mute. +Therefore we hold, (and we speak from +knowledge gained through years of close +study and investigation), that the finer distinctions +which we have made, and shall +make, are not at all arbitrary, but absolutely +necessary as are divisions and distinctions +made in anatomy or chemistry. +</p> + +<p> +No form in the physical world has feeling +in the true sense of that word. It is the indwelling +life which feels, as we may readily +see from the fact that a body which responded +<pb n='061'/><anchor id='Pg061'/> +to the slightest touch while instinct with +life, exhibits no sensation whatever even +when cut to pieces after the life has fled. Demonstrations +have been made by scientists, +particularly by Professor Bose of Calcutta, +to show that there is feeling in dead animal +tissue and even in tin and other metal, but +we maintain that the diagrams which seem +to support his contentions in reality demonstrate +only a response to impacts similar to +the rebound of a rubber ball, and that must +not be confused with such feelings as <emph>love</emph>, +<emph>hate</emph>, <emph>sympathy</emph> and <emph>aversion</emph>. Goethe also, +in his novel <q>Elective Affinities,</q> (Wahlverwandtschaft), +brings out some beautiful +illustrations wherein he makes it seem as if +atoms loved and hated, from the fact that +some elements combine readily while other +substances refuse to amalgamate, a phenomenon +produced by the different rates of +speed at which various elements vibrate and +an unequal inclination of their axes. Only +where there is sentient life can there be feelings +of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>The Etheric Region.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +In addition to the solids, liquids and gases +which compose the <hi rend='italic'>Chemical Region</hi> of the +<pb n='062'/><anchor id='Pg062'/> +Physical World there is also a finer grade of +matter called Ether, which permeates the +atomic structure of the earth and its atmosphere +substantially as science teaches. Scientists +have never seen, nor have they +weighed, measured or analyzed this substance, +but they infer that it must exist in +order to account for transmission of light +and various other phenomena. If it were +possible for us to live in a room from which +the air had been exhausted we might speak +at the top of our voices, we might ring the +largest bell or we might even discharge a +cannon close to our ear and we should hear +no sound, for air is the medium which transmits +sound vibrations to the tympanum of +our ear, and that would be lacking. But if +an electric light were lighted, we should at +once perceive its rays; it would illumine the +room despite the lack of air. Hence there +must be a substance, capable of being set into +vibration, between the electric light and +our eyes. That medium scientists call ether, +but it is so subtile that no instrument has +been devised whereby it may be measured +or analyzed and therefore the scientists are +without much information concerning it, +though forced to postulate its existence. +</p> + +<pb n='063'/><anchor id='Pg063'/> + +<p> +We do not seek to belittle the achievements +of modern scientists, we have the greatest +admiration for them and we entertain high +expectations of what ambitions they may yet +realize, but we perceive a limitation in the +fact, that all discoveries of the past have +been made by the invention of wonderful instruments +applied in a most ingenious manner +to solve seemingly insoluble and baffling +problems. The strength of science lies +vested in its instruments, for the scientist +may say to anyone: Go, procure a number +of glasses ground in a certain manner, insert +them in a tube, direct that tube toward +a certain point in the sky where now nothing +appears to your naked eye. You will then +see a beautiful star called Uranus. If his +directions are followed, anyone is <emph>quickly and +without preparation</emph>, able to demonstrate for +himself the truth of the scientist's assertion. +But while the instruments of science are its +tower of strength they also mark the end of +its field of investigation, for it is impossible +to contact the spirit world with <emph>physical</emph> instruments, +so the research of occultists begins +where the physical scientist finds his +limit and are carried on by <emph>spiritual</emph> means. +</p> + +<pb n='064'/><anchor id='Pg064'/> + +<p> +These investigations are as thorough and +as reliable as researches by material +scientists, but not as easily demonstrable to +the general public. Spiritual powers lie +dormant within every human being, and +when awakened, they compensate for both +telescope and microscope, they enable their +possessor to investigate, <foreign rend='italic'>instanter</foreign>, things beyond +the veil of matter, but they are only developed +by a patient application and continuance +in well doing extended over years, and +few are they who have faith to start upon +the path to attainment or perseverance to go +through with the ordeal. Therefore the occultist's +assertions are not generally credited. +</p> + +<p> +We can readily see that long probation must +precede attainment, for a person equipped +with spiritual sight is able to penetrate +walls of houses as easily as we walk through +the atmosphere, able to read at will the innermost +thoughts of those about him; if not +actuated by the most pure and unselfish motives, +he would be a scourge to humanity. +Therefore that power is safeguarded as we +would withhold the dynamite bomb from an +anarchist and from the well-intentioned but +<pb n='065'/><anchor id='Pg065'/> +ignorant person, or, as we withhold match +and powder barrel from a child. +</p> + +<p> +In the hands of an experienced engineer +the dynamite bomb may be used to open a +highway of commerce, and an intelligent +farmer may use gunpowder to good account +in clearing his field of tree-stumps, but in +the hands of an ill-intentioned criminal or ignorant +child an explosive may wreck much +property and end many lives. The force is +the same, but used differently, according to +the ability or intention of the user, it may +produce results of a diametrically opposite +nature. So it is also with spiritual powers, +there is a time-lock upon them, as upon a +bank safe, which keeps out all until they have +earned the privilege and the time is ripe for +its exercise. +</p> + +<p> +As already said, the ether is physical matter +and responsive to the same laws which +govern other physical substances upon this +plane of existence. Therefore it requires +but a slight extension of <emph>physical</emph> sight to +see ether, (which is disposed in four grades +of density), the blue haze seen in mountain +canyons is in fact ether of the kind known +to occult investigators as <q><emph>chemical ether</emph>.</q> +Many people who see this ether, are unaware +<pb n='066'/><anchor id='Pg066'/> +that they are possessed of a faculty +not enjoyed by all. Others, who have developed +spiritual sight are not endowed +with etheric vision, a fact which seems an +anomaly until the subject of clairvoyance is +thoroughly understood. +</p> + +<p> +The reason is, that as ether is physical matter, +etheric sight depends upon the sensitiveness +of the optic nerve while spiritual sight +is acquired by developing latent vibratory +powers in two little organs situated in the +brain: the Pituitary body and the Pineal +gland. Nearsighted people even, may have +etheric vision. Though unable to read the +print in a book, they may be able to <q>see +through a wall,</q> owing to the fact that their +optic nerve responds more rapidly to fine +than to coarse vibrations. +</p> + +<p> +When anyone views an object with etheric +sight he sees <emph>through</emph> that object in a manner +similar to the way an x-ray penetrates +opaque substances. If he looks at a sewing +machine, he will perceive, first an outer +casing; then, the works within, and behind +both, the casing furthest away from him. +</p> + +<p> +If he has developed the grade of spiritual +vision which opens the Desire World to +him and he looks at the same object, he will +<pb n='067'/><anchor id='Pg067'/> +see it both inside and out. If he looks closely, +he will perceive every little atom spinning +upon its axis and no part or particle +will be excluded from his perception. +</p> + +<p> +But if his spiritual sight has been developed +in such a measure that he is capable of +viewing the sewing machine with the vision +peculiar to the World of Thought, he will behold +a cavity where he had previously seen +the form. +</p> + +<p> +Things seen with etheric vision are very +much alike in color, they are nearly reddish-blue, +purple or violet, according to the density +of the ether, but when we view any object +with the spiritual sight pertaining to +the Desire World, it scintillates and coruscates +in a thousand ever changing colors so +indescribably beautiful that they can only +be compared to living fire, and the writer +therefore calls this grade of vision <hi rend='italic'>color +sight</hi>, but when the spiritual vision of the +World of Thought is the medium of perception, +the seer finds that in addition to still +more beautiful colors, there issues from the +cavity described a constant flow of a certain +harmonious <emph>tone</emph>. Thus this world wherein +we now consciously live and which we perceive +by means of our physical senses is preeminently +<pb n='068'/><anchor id='Pg068'/> +the world of <emph>form</emph>, the Desire +World is particularly the world of <emph>color</emph> and +the World of Thought is the realm of <emph>tone</emph>. +</p> + +<p> +Because of the relative proximity or distance +of these worlds, a statue, a <emph>form</emph>, withstands +the ravages of time for millenniums, +but the <emph>colors</emph> upon a painting fade in far +shorter time, for they come from the Desire +World, and <emph>music</emph> which is native to the +World furthest removed from us, the World +of Thought, is like a will-o-the-wisp which +none may catch or hold, it is gone again as +soon as it has made its appearance. But +there is in color and music a compensation +for this increasing evanescence. +</p> + +<p> +The statue is cold and dead as the mineral +of which it is composed and has attractions +for but few though its <emph>form is</emph> a tangible +reality. +</p> + +<p> +The forms upon a painting are illusory +yet they express <emph>life</emph>, on account of the <emph>color</emph> +which has come from a region where nothing +is inert and lifeless. Therefore the painting +is enjoyed by many. +</p> + +<p> +Music is intangible and ephemeral, but it +comes from the home world of the spirit and +though so fleeting it is recognized by the spirit +as a <emph>soul-speech</emph> fresh from the celestial +<pb n='069'/><anchor id='Pg069'/> +realms, an echo from the home whence we +are now exiled, and therefore it touches a +cord in our being, regardless of whether we +realize the true cause or not. +</p> + +<p> +Thus we see that there are various grades +of spiritual sight, each suited to the superphysical +realm which it opens to our perception: +Etheric vision, color vision and +tonal vision. +</p> + +<p> +The occult investigator finds that ether is +of four kinds, or grades of density: +</p> + +<p> +The Chemical Ether,<lb/> +The Life Ether,<lb/> +The Light Ether,<lb/> +The Reflecting Ether. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>The Chemical Ether</hi> is the avenue of expression +for forces promoting assimilation, +growth and the maintenance of form. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>The Life Ether</hi> is the vantage ground of +forces active in propagation, or the building +of new forms. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>The Light Ether</hi> transmits the motive +power of the sun along the various nerves of +<emph>living</emph> bodies and makes motion possible. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>The Reflecting Ether</hi> receives an impression +of all that is, lives and moves. It also +<pb n='070'/><anchor id='Pg070'/> +records each change, in a similar manner as +the film upon a moving picture machine. In +this record mediums and psychometrists +may read the past, upon the same principle +as, under proper conditions, moving pictures +are reproduced time and again. +</p> + +<p> +We have been speaking of ether as an +avenue of <emph>forces</emph>, a word which conveys no +meaning to the average mind, because force +is invisible. But to an occult investigator +the forces are not merely names such as +steam, electricity, etc. He finds them to be intelligent +beings of varying grades, both sub +and superhuman. What we call <q>laws of nature,</q> +are great intelligences which guide +more elemental beings in accordance with +certain rules designed to further their evolution. +</p> + +<p> +In the Middle Ages, when many people +were still endowed with a remnant of <emph>negative</emph> +clairvoyance, they spoke of Gnomes and +Elves or Fairies, which roamed about the +mountains and forests. These were the +<emph>earth</emph> spirits. They also told of the Undine +or <emph>water</emph>-sprite, which inhabited rivers and +streams, of Sylphs which were said to dwell +in the mists above moat and moor, as air +spirits, but not much was said of the Salamanders, +<pb n='071'/><anchor id='Pg071'/> +as they are, fire spirits, and therefore +not so easily detected, or so readily accessible +to the majority of people. +</p> + +<p> +The old folk stories are now regarded as +superstitions, but as a matter of fact, one +endowed with etheric vision may yet perceive +the little gnomes building green chlorophyll +into the leaves of plants and giving to +flowers the multiplicity of delicate tints +which delight our eyes. +</p> + +<p> +Scientists have attempted time and again +to offer an adequate explanation of the phenomenon +of wind and storm but have failed +signally, nor can they succeed while they +seek a mechanical solution to what is really +a manifestation of life. Could they see the +hosts of sylphs winging their way hither +and thither, they would <emph>know</emph> who and what +is responsible for the fickleness of the wind; +could they watch a storm at sea from the +etheric view-point they would perceive that +the saying <q>the war of the elements</q> is not +an empty phrase, for the heaving sea is truly +then a battlefield of sylphs and undines and +the howling tempest is the war cry of spirits +in the air. +</p> + +<p> +Also the salamanders are found everywhere +and no fire is lighted without their +<pb n='072'/><anchor id='Pg072'/> +help, but they are mostly active underground. +They are responsible for explosions +and volcanic eruptions. +</p> + +<p> +The classes of beings which we have mentioned +are still sub-human, but will all at some +time reach a stage in evolution corresponding +to the human, though under different +circumstances from those under which we +evolve. But at present the wonderful intelligences +we speak of as the laws of nature, +marshall the armies of less evolved entities +mentioned. +</p> + +<p> +To arrive at a better understanding of +what these various beings are, and their relation +to us, we may take an illustration: +Let us suppose that a mechanic is making +an engine, and meanwhile a dog is watching +him. It <emph>sees</emph> the man at his labor, and how +he uses various tools to shape his materials, +also how, from the crude iron, steel, brass +and other metals the engine slowly takes +shape. The dog is a being from a lower evolution +and does not comprehend the purpose +of the mechanic but it <emph>sees</emph> both the +workman, his labor and the result thereof, +which manifests as an engine. +</p> + +<p> +Let us now suppose that the dog were +able to see the materials which slowly +<pb n='073'/><anchor id='Pg073'/> +change their shape, assemble and become an +engine but that it is unable to perceive the +workman and to see the work he does. The +dog would then be in the same relation to the +mechanic as we are to the great intelligences +we call laws of nature, and their assistants, +the nature spirits, for we behold the manifestations +of their work as <emph>force</emph> moving +matter in various ways but always under +immutable conditions. +</p> + +<p> +In the ether we may also observe the +angels, whose densest body is made of that +material, as our dense body is formed of +gases, liquids and solids. These beings are +one step beyond the human stage, as we are +a degree in advance of the animal evolution. +We have never been animals like our present +fauna, however, but at a previous stage +in the development of our planet we had an +animal-like constitution. Then the angels +were human, though they have never possessed +a dense body such as ours, nor ever +functioned in any material denser than +ether. At some time, in a future condition, +the earth will again become ethereal. Then +man will be <emph>like</emph> the angels. Therefore the +Bible tells us that man was made <emph>a little +while</emph> lower than the angels (Paul's letter to +<pb n='074'/><anchor id='Pg074'/> +the Hebrews, second chapter, seventh verse; +<hi rend='italic'>see marginal reading</hi>.) +</p> + +<p> +As ether is the avenue of vital, creative +forces, and as angels are such expert builders +of ether, we may readily understand that +they are eminently fitted to be warders of +the propagative forces in plant, animal and +man. All through the Bible we find them +thus engaged: Two <emph>angels</emph> came to Abraham +and announced the birth of Isaac, they <emph>promised</emph> +a child to the man who had obeyed God. +Later <emph>these same angels</emph> destroyed Sodom +for <emph>abuse of the creative force</emph>. <emph>Angels</emph> foretold +<emph>to the parents</emph> of Samuel and Samson, +the birth of these giants of brain and brawn. +To Elizabeth came the <emph>angel</emph> (not archangel) +Gabriel and announced the birth of John, +later he appeared also to Mary with the message +that she was chosen to bear Jesus. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>The Desire World.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +When spiritual sight is developed so +that it becomes possible to behold the Desire +World, many wonders confront the newcomer, +for conditions are so widely different +from what they are here, that a description +must sound quite as incredible as a fairy +tale to anyone who has not himself seen them. +<pb n='075'/><anchor id='Pg075'/> +Many cannot even believe that such a +world exists, and that other people can see +that which is invisible to them, yet some people +are blind to the beauties of this world +which we see. A man who was born blind, +may say to us: I know that this world exists, +I can hear, I can smell, I can taste and +above all I can feel but when you speak of +light and of color, they are nonexistent to +me. You say that you <emph>see</emph> these things, I +cannot believe it for I cannot <emph>see</emph> myself. +You say that light and color are all about +me, but none of the senses at my command +reveal them to me and I do not believe that +the sense you call <emph>sight</emph> exists. I think you +suffer from hallucinations. We might sympathize +very sincerely with the poor man +who is thus afflicted, but his scepticism, reasonings +and objections and sneers notwithstanding +we would be obliged to maintain +that we perceive light and color. +</p> + +<p> +The man whose spiritual sight has been +awakened is in a similar position with respect +to those who do not perceive the Desire +World of which he speaks. If the blind +man acquires the faculty of sight by an operation, +his eyes are opened and he will be +compelled to assert the existence of light and +<pb n='076'/><anchor id='Pg076'/> +color which he formerly denied, and when +spiritual sight is acquired by anyone, he also +perceives for himself the facts related by +others. Neither is it an argument against +the existence of spiritual realms that seers +are at variance in their descriptions of conditions +in the invisible world. We need but to +look into books on travel, and compare stories +brought home by explorers of China, India +or Africa and we shall find them differing +widely and often contradictory, because +each traveler saw things from his own standpoint, +under other conditions than those met +by his brother authors, and we maintain that +the man who has read most widely these +varying tales concerning a certain Country +<emph>and wrestled with the contradictions of narrators</emph>, +will have a more comprehensive idea +of the country or people of whom he has +read, than the man who has only read one +story assented to by all the authors. Similarly, +the varying stories of visitors to the +Desire World are of value, because giving a +fuller view, and more rounded, than if all +had seen things from the same angle. +</p> + +<p> +In this world matter and force are widely +different. The chief characteristic of matter +here is <emph>inertia</emph>: the tendency to remain at +<pb n='077'/><anchor id='Pg077'/> +rest until acted upon by a force which sets it +in motion. In the Desire World, on the contrary, +force and matter are almost indistinguishable +one from the other. We might almost +describe desire-stuff as force-matter, +for it is in incessant motion, responsive to +the slightest <emph>feeling</emph> of a vast multitude of +beings which populate this wonderful world +in nature. We often speak of the <q>teeming +millions</q> of China and India, even of our +vast cities, London, New York, Paris or Chicago, +we consider them overcrowded in the +extreme, yet even the densest population of +any spot upon earth is sparsely inhabited +compared with the crowded conditions of the +Desire World. No inconvenience is felt by +any of the denizens of that realm, however, +for, while in this world two things cannot +occupy the same space at the same time, it is +different there. A number of people and +things may exist <emph>in the same place at the +same time</emph> and be engaged in most diverse +activities, regardless of what others are doing, +such is the wonderful elasticity of desire +stuff. As an illustration we may mention a +case where the writer while attending religious +service, plainly perceived at the altar +certain beings interested in furthering that +<pb n='078'/><anchor id='Pg078'/> +service and working to achieve that end. At +the same time there drifted through the room +and the altar, a table at which four persons +were engaged in playing cards. They were as +oblivious to the existence of the beings engaged +in furthering our religious service, as +though these did not exist. +</p> + +<p> +The Desire World is the abode of those who +have died, for some time subsequent to that +event, and we may mention in the above connection +that the so-called <q>dead</q> very often +stay for a long while among their still living +friends. Unseen by their relatives they go +about the familiar rooms. At first they are +often unaware of the condition mentioned: +<q>that two persons may be in the same place +at the same time,</q> and when they seat themselves +in a chair or at the table, a living relative +may take the supposedly vacant seat. +The man we mistakenly call dead will at first +hurry out of his seat to escape being sat upon, +but he soon learns that being sat upon does +not hurt him in his altered condition, and that +he may remain in his chair regardless of the +fact that his living relative is also sitting +there. +</p> + +<p> +In the lower regions of the Desire World +the whole body of each being may be seen, but +<pb n='079'/><anchor id='Pg079'/> +in the highest regions only the head seems to +remain. Raphael, who like many other people +in the middle ages was gifted with a so-called +<emph>second sight</emph>, pictured that condition +for us in his Sistine Madonna, now in the +Dresden Art Gallery, where Madonna and +the Christ-child are represented as floating +in a golden atmosphere and surrounded by a +host of genie-heads: conditions which the occult +investigator knows to be in harmony with +actual facts. +</p> + +<p> +Among the entities who are, so to speak, +<q><emph>native</emph></q> to that realm of nature, none are +perhaps better known to the Christian world +than the Archangels. These exalted Beings +were human at a time in the earth's history +when we were yet plant-like. Since then we +have advanced two steps: through the animal +and to the human stage of development. The +present Archangels have also made two steps +in progression; one, in which they were similar +to what the angels are now, and another +step which made them what we call Archangels. +</p> + +<p> +Their densest body, though differing from +ours in shape, and made of desire stuff, is +used by them as a vehicle of consciousness in +the same manner that we use our body. They +<pb n='080'/><anchor id='Pg080'/> +are expert manipulators of forces in the Desire +World, and these forces, as we shall see, +move all the world to action. Therefore the +Archangels work with humanity <emph>industrially</emph> +and <emph>politically</emph> as arbitrators of the destiny +of peoples and nations. The Angels may be +said to be <emph>family</emph>-spirits whose mission is to +unite a few spirits as members of a +family, and cement them with ties of +blood and love of kin, while the Archangels +may be called race and national spirits, as +they unite whole nations by patriotism or love +of home and country. They are responsible +for the rise and fall of nations, they give war +or peace, victory or defeat as it serves the +best interests of the people they rule. This +we may see, for instance, from the book of +Daniel, where the Archangel Michael (not to +be confounded with the Michael, who is ambassador +from the sun to the earth), is called +the prince of the children of Israel. Another +Archangel tells Daniel, (in the tenth chapter) +that he intends to fight the prince of Persia +by means of the Greeks. +</p> + +<p> +There are varying grades of intelligence +among human beings, some are qualified to +hold high and lofty positions entirely beyond +the ability of others. So it is also among +<pb n='081'/><anchor id='Pg081'/> +higher beings, not all Archangels are fitted to +govern a nation and rule the destiny of a race, +people or tribe, some are not fitted to rule +human beings at all, but as the animals also +have a desire nature these lower grades of +Archangels govern the animals as group-spirits +and evolve to higher capacity thereby. +</p> + +<p> +The work of the race spirits is readily observable +in the people it governs. The lower +in the scale of evolution the people, the more +they show a certain racial likeness. That is +due to the work of the race spirit. One +national spirit is responsible for the swarthy +complexion common to Italians, for instance, +while another causes the Scandinavians to be +blond. In the more advanced types of humanity +there is a wider divergence from the +common type, due to the individualized Ego, +which thus expresses in form and feature its +own particular idiosyncrasies. Among the +lower types of humanity such as Mongolians, +native African Negroes and South Sea +Islanders, the resemblance of individuals in +each tribe makes it almost impossible for civilized +Westerners to distinguish between +them. Among animals, where the separate +spirit is not individualized and self-conscious, +the resemblance is not only much more +<pb n='082'/><anchor id='Pg082'/> +marked physically but extends even to traits +and characteristics. We may write the biography +of a man, for the experiences of each +varies from that of others and his acts are +different, but we cannot write the biography +of an animal for members of each tribe all act +alike under similar circumstances. If we desire +to know the facts about Edward VII, it +would profit us nothing to study the life of +the Prince-Consort, his father, or of George +V, his son, as both would be entirely different +from Edward. In order to find out what +manner of man he was, we must study his +own individual life. If, on the other hand, +we wish to know the characteristics of beavers, +we may observe any individual of the +tribe, and when we have studied its idiosyncrasies, +we shall know the traits of the whole +tribe of beavers. What we call <q>instinct,</q> is +in reality the dictates of group-spirits which +govern separate individuals of its tribe +telepathically, as it were. +</p> + +<p> +The ancient Egyptians knew of these animal +group spirits and sketched many of them, +in a crude way, upon their temples and +tombs. Such figures with a human body and +an animal head actually live in the desire +world. They may be spoken to, and will be +<pb n='083'/><anchor id='Pg083'/> +found much more intelligent than the average +human being. +</p> + +<p> +That statement brings up another peculiarity +of conditions in the Desire World in respect +of language. Here in this World human +speech is so diversified that there are +countries where people who live only a few +miles apart speak a dialect so different that +they understand each other with great difficulty, +and each nation has its own language +that varies altogether from the speech of +other peoples. +</p> + +<p> +In the lower Regions of the Desire World, +there is the same diversity of tongues as on +earth, and the so-called <q>dead</q> of one nation +find it impossible to converse with those who +lived in another country. Hence linguistic +accomplishments are of great value to the +<q>Invisible Helpers</q>, of whom we shall hear +later, as their sphere of usefulness is enormously +extended by that ability. +</p> + +<p> +Even apart from difference of language +our mode of speech is exceedingly productive +of misunderstandings. The same words often +convey most opposite ideas to different +minds. If we speak of a <q>body of water</q>, +one person may think we mean a lake of small +dimensions, the thoughts of another may be +<pb n='084'/><anchor id='Pg084'/> +directed to the great American Lakes and a +third person's thoughts may be turned towards +the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans. If we +speak of a <q>light</q>, one may think of a gas-light, +another of an electric Arc-lamp, or if +we say <q>red</q>, one person may think we mean +a delicate shade of pink and another gets the +idea of crimson. The misunderstandings of +what words mean goes even farther, as illustrated +in the following. +</p> + +<p> +The writer once opened a reading room in a +large city where he lectured, and invited his +audience to make use thereof. Among those +who availed themselves of the opportunity +was a gentleman who had for many years +been a veritable <q>metaphysical tramp,</q> +roaming from lecture to lecture, hearing the +teachings of everybody and practicing nothing. +Like the Athenians on Mars' Hill, he +was always looking for something <q>new,</q> +particularly in the line of phenomena, and his +mind was in that seething chaotic state which +is one of the most prominent symptoms of +<q>mental indigestion.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Having attended a number of our lectures +he knew from the program that: <q>The lecturer +does not give readings, or cast horoscopes +<emph>for pay</emph>.</q> But seeing on the door of +<pb n='085'/><anchor id='Pg085'/> +the newly opened reading room, the legend: +<q>Free Reading Room,</q> his erratic mind at +once jumped to the conclusion that although +we were opposed to telling fortunes for pay, +we were now going to give free readings of +the future in the Free Reading Room. He +was much disappointed that we did not intend +to tell fortunes, either gratis or for a consideration, +and we changed our sign to <q>Free +Library</q> in order to obviate a repetition of +the error. +</p> + +<p> +In the higher Regions of the Desire World +the confusion of tongues gives place to a universal +mode of expression which absolutely +prevents misunderstandings of our meaning. +There each of our thoughts takes a definite +form and color perceptible to all, and this +thought-symbol emits a certain tone, which is +not a word, but it conveys our meaning to the +one we address no matter what language he +spoke on earth. +</p> + +<p> +To arrive at an understanding of how such +a universal language becomes possible and is +at once comprehended by all, without preparation, +we may take as an illustration the +manner in which a musician reads music. A +German or a Polish composer may write an +opera. Each has his own peculiar terminology +<pb n='086'/><anchor id='Pg086'/> +and expresses it in his own language. +When that opera is to be played by an Italian +band master, or by a Spanish or American +musician, it need not be translated, the notes +and symbols upon the page are a universally +understood language of symbols which is intelligible +to musicians of no matter what nationality. +Similarly with figures, the German +counts: ein, zwei, drei; the Frenchman says: +un, deux, trois, and in English we use the +words: one, two, three, but the figures: 1, 2, 3, +though differently spoken, are intelligible to +all and mean the same. There is no possibility +of misunderstanding in the cases of either +music or figures. Thus it is also with the universal +language peculiar to the higher Regions +of the Desire World and the still more +subtile realms in nature, it is intelligible to +all, an exact mode of expression. +</p> + +<p> +Returning to our description of the entities +commonly met with in the lower Desire +World, we may note that other systems of religion +than the Egyptian, already mentioned, +have spoken of various classes of beings native +to these realms. The Zoroastrian Religion, +for instance, mentions <hi rend='italic'>Seven Ameshaspends</hi> +and the Izzards as having dominion over certain +days in the month and certain months in +<pb n='087'/><anchor id='Pg087'/> +the year. The Christian religion speaks of +Seven Spirits before the Throne, which are +the same beings the Persians called Ameshaspends. +Each of them rules over two months +in the year while the seventh: Michael, the +highest, is their leader, for he is ambassador +from the sun to the earth, the others are ambassadors +from the planets. The Catholic religion +with its abundant occult information +takes most notice of these <q><emph>star-angels</emph></q> and +knows considerable about their influence upon +the affairs of the earth. +</p> + +<p> +The Ameshaspends, however, do not inhabit +the lower Regions of the Desire World but +influence the Izzards. According to the old +Persian legend these beings are divisible into +one group of twenty-eight classes, and another +group of three classes. Each of these +classes has dominion over, or takes the lead of +all the other classes on one certain day of the +month. They regulate the weather conditions +on that day and work with animal and man +in particular. At least the twenty-eight classes +do that, the other group of three classes +has nothing to do with animals, because they +have only twenty-eight pair of spinal nerves, +while human beings have thirty-one. Thus +animals are attuned to the lunar month of +<pb n='088'/><anchor id='Pg088'/> +twenty-eight days, while man is correlated to +the solar month of thirty or thirty-one days. +The ancient Persians were astronomers but +not physiologists, they had no means of knowing +the different nervous constitution of animal +and man, but they saw clairvoyantly +these superphysical beings, they noted and +recorded their work with animal and men +and our own anatomical investigations may +show us the reason for these divisions of the +classes of Izzards recorded in that ancient +system of philosophy. +</p> + +<p> +Still another class of beings should be +mentioned: those who have entered the Desire +World through the gate of death and are +now hidden from our physical vision. These +so-called <q>dead</q> are in fact much more alive +than any of us, who are tied to a dense body +and subject to all its limitations, who are +forced to slowly drag this clog along with us +at the rate of a few miles an hour, who +must expend such an enormous amount of +energy upon propelling that vehicle that we +are easily and quickly tired, even when in +the best of health and who are often confined +to a bed, sometimes for years, by the +indisposition of this heavy mortal coil. But +when that is once shed and the freed spirit +<pb n='089'/><anchor id='Pg089'/> +can again function in its spiritual body, sickness +is an unknown condition and distance +is annihilated, or at least practically so, for +though it was necessary for the Savior to +liken the freed spirit to the wind which blows +where it listeth, that simile gives but a poor +description of what actually takes place in +soul flights. Time is nonexistent there, as +we shall presently explain, so the writer has +never been able to time himself, but has on +several occasions timed others when he was +in the physical body and they speeding +through space upon a certain errand. Distances +such as from the Pacific Coast to Europe, +the delivery of a short message there +and the return to the body has been accomplished +in slightly less than one minute. +Therefore our assertion, that those whom we +call dead are in reality much more alive than +we, is well founded in facts. +</p> + +<p> +We spoke of the dense body in which we +now live, as a <q>clog</q> and a <q>fetter.</q> It must +not be inferred, however, that we sympathize +with the attitude of certain people who, when +they have learned with what ease soul-flights +are accomplished, go about bemoaning the +fact that they are now imprisoned. They are +constantly thinking of, and longing for, the day +<pb n='090'/><anchor id='Pg090'/> +when they shall be able to leave this mortal +coil behind and fly away in their spiritual +body. Such an attitude of mind is decidedly +mistaken, the great and wise beings who are +invisible leaders of our evolution have not +placed us here to no purpose. Valuable lessons +are to be learned in this visible world +wherein we dwell, that cannot be learned in +any other realm of nature, and the very conditions +of density and inertia whereof such +people complain, are factors which make it +possible to acquire the knowledge this world +is designed to give. This fact was so amply +illustrated in a recent experience of the writer:—A +friend had been studying occultism +for a number of years but had not studied +astrology. +</p> + +<p> +Last year she became aroused to the importance +of this branch of study as a key to +self knowledge and a means of understanding +the natures of others, also of developing +the compassion for their errors, so necessary +in the cultivation of love of one's neighbor. +Love of our neighbor the Savior enjoined +upon us as the Supreme Commandment +which is the fulfillment of all laws, and as +Astrology teaches us to <emph>bear</emph> and <emph>forbear</emph>, it +helps as nothing else can in the development +<pb n='091'/><anchor id='Pg091'/> +of the supreme virtue. She therefore joined +one of the classes started in Los Angeles by +the writer, but a sudden illness quickly ended +in death and thus terminated her study of +the subject in the physical body, ere it was +well begun. +</p> + +<p> +Upon one of many occasions when she visited +the writer subsequent to her release +from the body, she deplored the fact that it +seemed so difficult to make headway in her +study of astrology. The writer advised continued +attendance at the classes, and suggested +that she could surely get someone <q>on +the other side</q> to help her study. +</p> + +<p> +At this she exclaimed impatiently: <q>Oh +yes! of course I attend the classes, I have +done so right along; I have also found a +friend who helps me here. But you cannot +imagine how difficult it is to concentrate here +upon mathematical calculations and the judgment +of a horoscope or in fact upon any subject +here, where every little thought-current +takes you miles away from your study. I +used to think it difficult to concentrate when +I had a physical body, but it is not a circumstance +to the obstacles which face the student +here.</q> +</p> + +<pb n='092'/><anchor id='Pg092'/> + +<p> +The physical body was an anchor to her, +and it is that to all of us. Being dense, it is +also to a great extent impervious to disturbing +influences from which the more subtle +spiritual bodies do not shield us. It enables +us to bring our ideas to a logical conclusion +with far less effort at concentration than is +necessary in that realm where all is in such +incessant and turbulent motion. Thus we are +gradually developing the faculty of holding +our thoughts to a center by existence in this +world, and we should value our opportunities +here, rather than deplore the limitations +which help in one direction more than they +fetter in another. In fact, we should never +deplore any condition, each has its lesson. If +we try to learn what that lesson is and to +assimilate the experience which may be extracted +therefrom, we are wiser than those +who waste time in vain regrets. +</p> + +<p> +We said there is no time in the Desire +World, and the reader will readily understand +that such must be the case from the +fact, already mentioned, that nothing there +is opaque. +</p> + +<p> +In this world the rotation of the opaque +earth upon its axis is responsible for the alternating +conditions of day and night. We +<pb n='093'/><anchor id='Pg093'/> +call it Day—when the spot where we live is +turned towards the sun and its rays illumine +our environment, but when our home is +turned away from the sun and its rays obstructed +by the opaque earth we term the resulting +darkness: Night. The passage of the +earth in its orbit around the sun produces +the seasons and the year, which are our divisions +of time. But in the Desire World +where all is light there is but one long day. +The spirit is not there fettered by a heavy +physical body, so it does not need sleep and +existence is unbroken. Spiritual substances +are not subject to contraction and expansion +such as arise here from heat and cold, hence +summer and winter are also non-existent. +Thus there is nothing to differentiate one +moment from another in respect of the conditions +of light and darkness, summer and +winter, which mark time for us. Therefore, +while the so-called <q>dead</q> may have a very +accurate memory of time as regards the life +they lived here in the body, they are usually +unable to tell anything about the chronological +relation of events which have happened +to them in the Desire World, and it is a very +common thing to find that they do not even +know how many years have elapsed since +<pb n='094'/><anchor id='Pg094'/> +they passed out from this plane of existence. +Only students of the Stellar Science are able +to calculate the passage of time after their +demise. +</p> + +<p> +When the occult investigator wishes to +study an event in the past history of man, he +may most readily call up the picture from +<emph>the memory of nature</emph>, but if he desires to fix +the time of the incident, he will be obliged to +count backwards by the motion of the heavenly +bodies. For that purpose he generally +uses the measure provided by the sun's precession: +Each year the sun crosses the earth's +equator about the twenty-first of March. Then +day and night are of even length, therefore +this is called the Vernal equinox. But on account +of a certain wabbling motion of the +earth's axis, the sun does not cross over at +the same place in the Zodiac, it reaches the +equator a little too early, it <emph>precedes</emph>, year by +year it moves <emph>backwards</emph> a little. At the time +of the birth of Christ, for instance, the Vernal +Equinox was in about seven degrees of +the Zodiacal sign Aries. During the two +thousand years which intervene between +that event and the present time, the sun has +moved <emph>backwards</emph> about twenty-seven degrees, +so that it is now in about ten degrees +<pb n='095'/><anchor id='Pg095'/> +of the sign Pisces. It moves around the +whole circle of the Zodiac in about 25,868 +years. The occult investigator may therefore +count back the number of signs, or +whole circles, which the sun has <emph>preceded</emph> between +the present day and the time of the +event he is investigating. Thus he has by +the use of the heavenly time keepers a very +approximately correct measure of time even +though he is in the Desire World and that is +another reason for studying the Stellar Science. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>The World of Thought.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +When we have attained the spiritual development +necessary to consciously enter the +World of Thought and leave the Desire +World, which is the realm of light and color, +we pass through a condition which the occult +investigator calls The Great Silence. +</p> + +<p> +As previously stated, the higher Regions +of the Desire World exhibit the marked peculiarity +of blending form and sound, but +when one passes through the Great Silence, +all the world seems to disappear and the spirit +has the feeling of floating in an ocean of +intense light, utterly alone, yet absolutely +fearless, since unimbued with a sense of its +form or sound, nor past or future, but all is +<pb n='096'/><anchor id='Pg096'/> +one eternal NOW. There seems to be neither +pleasure nor pain and yet there is no absence +of feeling but it all seems to center in the one +idea:—<q><emph>I am</emph></q>! The human Ego stands +face to face with itself as it were, and for the +time being all else is shut out. This is the experience +of anyone who passes that breach +between the Desire World and the World of +Thought, whether involuntarily, in the +course of an ordinary cyclic pilgrimage of +the soul, which we shall later elucidate when +speaking of the post-mortem existence, or by +an act of the will, as in the case of the trained +occult investigator, all have the same experience +in transition. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<p> +There are two main divisions in the Physical +World: the Chemical Region and the +Etheric Region. The World of Thought also +has two great subdivisions: The Region of +concrete Thought and the Region of abstract +Thought. +</p> + +<p> +As we specialize the material of the Physical +World and shape into a dense body, and as +we form the force-matter of the Desire +World into a desire body, so do we appropriate +a certain amount of mindstuff from the +Region of concrete Thought; but we, as spirits, +<pb n='097'/><anchor id='Pg097'/> +clothe ourselves in spirit-substance from +the Region of abstract Thought and thereby +we become individual, separate Egos. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>The Region of Concrete Thought.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +The Region of concrete Thought is neither +shadowy nor illusory. It is the acme of reality +and this world which we mistakenly regard +as the only verity, is but an evanescent +replica of that Region. +</p> + +<p> +A little reflection will show the reasonableness +of this statement and prove our contention +that all we see here is really crystallized +thought. Our houses, our machinery, our +chairs and tables, all that has been made by +the hand of man is the embodiment of a +thought. As the juices in the soft body of +the snail gradually crystallize into the hard +and flinty shell which it carries upon its back +and which hides it, so everything used in our +civilization is a concretion of invisible, intangible +mind-stuff. The thought of James +Watt in time congealed into a steam engine +and revolutionized the world. Edison's +thought was condensed into an electric generator +which has turned night to day, and had +it not been for the thought of Morse and Marconi, +the telegraph would not have annihilated +<pb n='098'/><anchor id='Pg098'/> +distance as it does today. An earthquake +may wreck a city and demolish the +lighting plant and telegraph station, but the +thoughts of Watt, Edison and Morse remain, +and upon the basis of their indestructible +ideas new machinery may be constructed and +operations resumed. Thus thoughts are +more permanent than things. +</p> + +<p> +The sensitive ear of the musician detects a +certain musical note in every city which is +different from that of another city. He hears +in each little brook a new melody, and to him +the sound of wind in the treetops of different +forests give a varying sound. In the Desire +World we noted the existence of forms similar +to the shapes of things here, also that +seemingly <emph>sound proceeds from form</emph>, but in +the Region of concrete Thought it is different, +for while each form occupies and obscures +a certain space here, form is nonexistent +when viewed from the standpoint of +the Region of concrete Thought. Where the +form was, a transparent, vacuous space is observable. +<emph>From that empty void comes a +sound</emph> which is the <q>keynote</q> that <emph>creates</emph> and +maintains the <emph>form</emph> whence it <emph>appears</emph> to +come, as the almost invisible core of a gas-flame +is the source of the light we perceive. +</p> + +<pb n='099'/><anchor id='Pg099'/> + +<p> +Sound from a vacuum cannot be heard in the +Physical World, but the harmony which proceeds +from the vacuous cavity of a celestial +<emph>archetype</emph> is <q>the voice of the silence,</q> and it +becomes audible when all earthly sounds +have ceased. Elijah heard it not while the +storm was raging; nor was it in evidence +during the turbulence of the earthquake, nor +in the crackling and roaring fire, but when +the destructive and inharmonious sounds of +this world had melted into silence, <q>the still +small voice</q> issued its commands to save +Elijah's life. +</p> + +<p> +That <q>keynote</q> is a direct manifestation of +the Higher Self which uses it to impress and +govern the Personality it has created. But +alas, part of its life has been infused into the +material side of its being, which has thus obtained +a certain will of its own and only too +often are the two sides of our nature at war. +</p> + +<p> +At last there comes a time when the spirit +is too weary to strive with the recalcitrant +flesh, when <q>the voice of the silence</q> ceases. +</p> + +<p> +The earthly nourishment +we may seek to give, will not avail to sustain +a form when this harmonious sound, this +<q>word from heaven</q> no longer reverberates +through the empty void of the celestial archetype, +<pb n='100'/><anchor id='Pg100'/> +for <q>man lives not by bread alone,</q> but +by the WORD, and the last sound-vibration +of the <q>keynote</q> is the death-knell of the physical +body. +</p> + +<p> +In this world we are compelled to investigate +and to study a thing before we know +about it, and although the facilities for gaining +information are in some respects much +greater in the Desire World, a certain +amount of investigation is necessary nevertheless +to acquire knowledge. In the World +of Thought, on the contrary, it is different. +When we wish to know about any certain +thing there, and we turn our attention thereto, +then that thing speaks to us, as it were. +The sound it emits at once gives us a most +luminous comprehension of every phase of +its nature. We attain to a realization of its +past history; the whole story of its unfoldment +is laid bare and we seem to have lived +through all of those experiences together +with the thing we are investigating. +</p> + +<p> +Were it not for one enormous difficulty, the +story thus obtained would be exceedingly +valuable. But all this information, this life-picture, +flows in upon us with an enormous +rapidity in a moment, in the twinkling of an +eye, so that it has neither beginning nor end, +<pb n='101'/><anchor id='Pg101'/> +for, as said, in the World of Thought, all is +one great NOW, Time does not exist. +</p> + +<p> +Therefore, when we want to use the archetypal +information in the Physical World, we +must disentangle and arrange it in chronological +order with beginning and ending before +it becomes intelligible to beings living in +a realm where Time is a prime factor. That +rearrangement is a most difficult task as all +words are coined with relation to the three +dimensions of space and the evanescent unit +of time, the fleeting moment, hence much of +that information remains unavailable. +</p> + +<p> +Among the denizens of this Region of concrete +Thought we may note particularly two +classes. One is called the powers of darkness +by Paul and the mystic investigator of the +Western World knows them as Lords of +Mind. They were human at the time when +the earth was in a condition of darkness such +as worlds in the making go through before +they become luminous and reach the firemist-stage. +At that time we were in our mineral +evolution. That is to say: The Human Spirit +which has now awakened was encrusted in +the ball of mindstuff, which was then the +earth. At that time the present Human Spirits +were as much asleep as is the life which +<pb n='102'/><anchor id='Pg102'/> +ensouls our minerals of today, and as we are +working with the mineral chemical constituents +of the earth, molding them into houses, +railways, steam-boats, chairs, etc, etc., so +those beings, who are now Lords of Mind, +worked with us when we were mineral-like. +They have since advanced three steps, +through stages similar to that of the Angels +and Archangels, before they attained their +present position and became creative intelligences. +They are expert builders of mind +stuff, as we are builders of the present mineral +substances and therefore they have given +us necessary help to acquire a mind which is +the highest development of the human being. +</p> + +<p> +According to the foregoing explanation it +seems to be an anomaly when Paul speaks of +them as evil and exhorts us to withstand +them. The difficulty disappears, however, +when we understand that good and evil are +but relative qualities. An illustration will +make the point clear:—Let us suppose that +an expert organ builder has constructed a +wonderful organ, a masterpiece. Then he has +followed his vocation in the proper manner, +and is therefore to be commended for the +good which he has done. But if he is not satisfied +to leave well enough alone, if he refuses +<pb n='103'/><anchor id='Pg103'/> +to give up his product to the musician who +understands how to play upon the instrument; +if he intrudes his presence into the +concert hall, he is out of place and to be censured +as evil. Similarly the Lords of Mind +did the greatest possible service to humanity +when they helped us to acquire our mind, but +many subtle thought influences come from +them, and are to be resisted, as Paul very +properly emphasizes. +</p> + +<p> +The other class of beings which must be +mentioned are called Archetypal Forces by +the Western School of occultism. They direct +the energies of the creative Archetypes +native to this realm. They are a composite +class of beings of many different grades of intelligences, +and there is one stage in the cyclic +journey of the Human Spirit when that also +labors in, and is part of, that great host of +beings. For the Human Spirit is also destined +to become a great creative intelligence +at some future time, and if there were no +school wherein it could gradually learn to +create, it would not be able to advance, for +nothing in nature is done suddenly. An +acorn planted in the soil does not become a +majestic oak over night, but many years of +slow, persistent growth are required before +<pb n='104'/><anchor id='Pg104'/> +it attains to the stature of a giant of the +forest. A man does not become an Angel by +the mere fact of dying and entering a new +world any more than an animal advances to +be a man by the same process. But in time +all that lives, mounts the ladder of Being +from the clod to the God. There is no limitation +possible to the spirit, and so at various +stages in its unfoldment the Human Spirit +works with the other nature forces, according +to the stage of intelligence which it has +attained. It creates, changes and remodels +the earth upon which it is to live. Thus, under +the great law of cause and effect, which +we observe in every realm of nature, it reaps +upon earth what it has sown in heaven, and +vice versa. It grows slowly but persistently +and advances continually. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>The Region of Abstract Thought.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Various religious systems have been given +to humanity at different times, each suited to +meet the spiritual needs of the people among +whom it was promulgated, and, coming from +the same divine source:—God, all religions +exhibit similar fundamentals or first principles. +</p> + +<p> +All systems teach that there was a time +when <emph>darkness</emph> reigned supreme. Everything +<pb n='105'/><anchor id='Pg105'/> +which we now perceive was then non-existent. +Earth, sky and the heavenly bodies +were uncreate, so were the multitudinous +forms which live and move upon the various +planets.—All, all, was yet in a fluidic condition +and the Universal Spirit brooded <emph>quiescent</emph> +in limitless Space as the One Existence. +</p> + +<p> +The Greeks called that condition of homogeneity +<hi rend='italic'>Chaos</hi>, and the state of orderly segregation +which we now see; the marching orbs +which illumine the vaulted canopy of heaven, +the stately procession of planets around a +central light, the majestic sun; the unbroken +sequence of the seasons and the unvarying +alternation of tidal ebb and flow;—all this +aggregate of systematic order, was called +<hi rend='italic'>Cosmos</hi>, and was supposed to have proceeded +from Chaos. +</p> + +<p> +The Christian Mystic obtains a deeper comprehension +when he opens his Bible and ponders +the first five verses of that brightest +gem of all spiritual lore: the Gospel of St. +John. +</p> + +<p> +As he reverently opens his aspiring heart +to acquire understanding of those sublime +mystical teachings he transcends the form-side +of nature, comprising various realms of +which we have been speaking, and finds himself +<pb n='106'/><anchor id='Pg106'/> +<q>in the spirit,</q> as did the prophets in +olden times. He is then in the Region of abstract +Thought and sees the eternal verities +which also Paul beheld in this, the third, +heaven. +</p> + +<p> +For those among us who are unable to obtain +knowledge save by reasoning upon the +matter, however, it will be necessary to examine +the fundamental meaning of words +used by St. John to clothe his wonderful +teaching, which was originally given in the +Greek language, a much simpler matter than +is commonly supposed, for Greek words have +been freely introduced into our modern languages, +particularly in scientific terms, and +we shall show how this ancient teaching is +supported by the latest discoveries of modern +science. +</p> + +<p> +The opening verse of the gospel of St. John +is as follows: <q>In the <emph>beginning</emph> was the +<emph>Word</emph>, and the <emph>Word</emph> was with <emph>God</emph>, and the +<emph>Word</emph> was <emph>God</emph>.</q> We will examine the +words: <q>beginning,</q> <q>Word</q> and <q>God.</q> We +may also note that in the Greek version the +concluding sentence reads: <q>and God was the +Word,</q> a difference which makes a great +distinction. +</p> + +<pb n='107'/><anchor id='Pg107'/> + +<p> +It is an axiomatic truth that <q>out of nothing, +nothing comes,</q> and it has often been +asserted by scoffers that the Bible teaches +generation <q>from nothing.</q> We readily +agree that <emph>translations</emph> into the modern languages +promulgate this erroneous doctrine, +but we have shown in <hi rend='italic'>The Rosicrucian Cosmo +Conception</hi> (chapter on <q>the Occult Analysis +of Genesis</q>), that the Hebrew text speaks of +an <emph>ever-existing essence</emph>, as the basis whence +all forms, the earth and the heavenly lights +included, were first created, and John also +gives the same teaching. +</p> + +<p> +The Greek word <foreign lang='el' rend='italic'>arche</foreign>, in the opening sentence +of the gospel of St. John has been +translated <hi rend='italic'>the beginning</hi>, and it may be said +to have that meaning, but it also has other +valid interpretations, vastly more significant +of the idea John wished to convey. It means:—an +elementary condition,—a chief source,—a +first principle,—primordial matter. +</p> + +<p> +There was a time when science insisted that +the elements were immutable, that is to say, +that an atom of iron had been an atom of iron +since the earth was formed and would so remain +to the end of time. The Alchemists +were sneered at as fanciful dreamers or madmen, +but since Professor J. J. Thomson's discovery +<pb n='108'/><anchor id='Pg108'/> +of the electron, the atomic theory of +matter, is no longer tenable. The principle +of radio-activity has later vindicated the Alchemists. +Science and the Bible agree in +teaching, that all that is, has been formed +from one homogeneous substance. +</p> + +<p> +It is that basic principle which John called +<foreign lang='el' rend='italic'>arche</foreign>:—primordial +matter,—and the dictionary +defines Archeology as: <q>the science of +the origin (<foreign lang='el' rend='italic'>arche</foreign>) of things.</q> Masons style +God the <q>Grand Architect,</q> for the Greek +word tektos means builder, and God is the +Chief Builder (<foreign lang='el' rend='italic'>tektos</foreign>) +of <foreign lang='el' rend='italic'>arche</foreign>: the primordial +virgin matter which is also the chief +source of all things. +</p> + +<p> +Thus we see that when the opening sentence +of St. John's gospel is properly translated, +our Christian Religion teaches that +once a virgin substance enfolded the divine +Thinker:—God. +</p> + +<p> +That is the identical condition which the +earlier Greeks called Chaos. A little thought +will make it evident that we are not arbitrary +in finding fault with the translation of the +gospel, for it is self-evident that a word cannot +be the beginning, a thought must precede +the word, and a thinker must originate +thought before it can be expressed as a word. +</p> + +<pb n='109'/><anchor id='Pg109'/> + +<p> +When properly translated the teaching of +John fully embodies that idea, for the Greek +term <foreign lang='el' rend='italic'>logos</foreign> means both the reasonable +thought,—(we also say Logic),—and the +word which expresses this (logical) thought. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +1) <hi rend='italic'>In the primordial substance was thought, +and the thought was with God +And God was the word</hi>, +</p> + +<p> +2) <hi rend='smallcaps'>that</hi>, [The Word], <hi rend='italic'>also was with God in +the primal state</hi>. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +Later the divine WORD; the Creative Fiat, +reverberates through space and segregates +the homogeneous virgin substance into separate +forms. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +3) <hi rend='italic'>Every thing has come into existence because +of that prime fact</hi>, [The Word of +God], <hi rend='italic'>and no thing exists apart from that +fact.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +4) <hi rend='italic'>In that was Life.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +In the alphabet we have a few elementary +sounds from which words may be constructed. +They are basic elements of expression, +as bricks, iron and lumber are raw materials +of architecture, or as a few notes are component +parts of music. +</p> + +<p> +But a heap of bricks, iron and lumber, is +not a house, neither is a jumbled mass of +notes music, nor can we call a haphazard arrangement +of alphabetical sounds a word. +</p> + +<pb n='110'/><anchor id='Pg110'/> + +<p> +These raw materials are prime necessities in +construction of architecture, music, literature +or poetry, but the contour of the finished product +and the purpose it will serve depends +upon the arrangement of the raw materials, +which is subject to the constructor's design. +Building materials may be formed to prison +or palace; notes may be arranged as fanfare +or funeral dirge; words may be indited to inspire +passion or peace, all according to the +will of the designer. So also the majestic +rhythm of the Word of God has wrought the +primal substance: <foreign lang='el' rend='italic'>arche</foreign>, into the multitudinous +forms which comprise the phenomenal +world, according to His will. +</p> + +<p> +Did the reader ever stop to consider the +wonderful power of a human word. Coming +to us in the sweet accents of love, it may lure +us from paths of rectitude to shameful ignominy +and wreck our life with sorrow and remorse, +or it may spur us on in noblest efforts +to acquire glory and honor, here or hereafter. +According to the inflection of the voice a +word may strike terror into the bravest heart +or lull a timid child to peaceful slumber. The +word of an agitator may rouse the passions +of a mob and impel it to awful bloodshed, as +in the French Revolution, where dictatorial +<pb n='111'/><anchor id='Pg111'/> +mandates of mob-rule killed and exiled at +pleasure, or, the strain of <q>Home, Sweet +Home</q> may cement the setting of a family-circle +beyond possibility of rupture. +</p> + +<p> +Right words are true and therefore free, +they are never bound or fettered by time or +space, they go to the farthest corners of the +earth, and when the lips that spoke them first +have long since mouldered in the grave, other +voices take up with unwearying enthusiasm +their message of life and love, as for instance +the mystical <q>Come unto me</q> which has +sounded from unnumbered tongues and +brought oceans of balm to troubled hearts. +</p> + +<p> +Words of Peace have been victorious, +where war would have meant defeat, and no +talent is more to be desired than ability to +always say the right word at the auspicious +time. +</p> + +<p> +Considering thus the immense power and +potency of the human word, we may perhaps +dimly apprehend the potential magnitude of +the Word of God, the Creative Fiat, when as +a mighty dynamic force it first reverberated +through space and commenced to form primordial +matter into worlds, as sound from a +violin bow moulds sand into geometrical figures. +Moreover, <emph>the Word of God still sounds</emph> +<pb n='112'/><anchor id='Pg112'/> +to sustain the marching orbs and impel them +onwards in their circle paths, the Creative +Word continues to produce forms of gradually +increasing efficiency, as media expressing +life and consciousness. The harmonious +enunciation of consecutive syllables in the +Divine Creative Word mark successive stages +in evolution of the world and man. When the +last syllable has been spoken and the complete +word has sounded, we shall have reached +perfection as human beings. Then Time will +be at an end, and with the last vibration of +the Word of God, the worlds will be resolved +into their original elements. Our life will +then be <q>hid with Christ in God,</q> till the Cosmic +Night:—Chaos,—is over, and we wake to +do <q>greater things</q> in a <q>new heaven and a +new earth.</q> +</p> + +<p> +According to the general idea Chaos and +Cosmos are superlative antitheses of each +other. Chaos being regarded as a past condition +of confusion and disorder which has long +since been entirely superseded by cosmic order +which now prevails. +</p> + +<p> +As a matter of fact, Chaos is the seed-ground +of Cosmos, the basis of all progress, +for thence come all IDEAS which later materialize +<pb n='113'/><anchor id='Pg113'/> +as Railways, Steamboats, Telephones, +etc. +</p> + +<p> +We speak of <q>thoughts as being conceived +by the mind,</q> but as both father and mother +are necessary in the generation of a child, so +also there must be both <emph>idea</emph> and <emph>mind</emph> before +a <emph>thought</emph> can be conceived. As semen germinated +in the positive male organ is projected +into the negative uterus at conception, so +ideas are generated by a positive Human Ego +in the spirit-substance of the Region of abstract +Thought. This idea is projected upon +the receptive mind, and a conception takes +place. Then, as the spermatozoic nucleus +draws upon the maternal body for material +to shape a body appropriate to its individual +expression, so does each idea clothe itself in +a peculiar form of mindstuff. It is then a +thought, as visible to the inner vision of composite +man, as a child is to its parent. +</p> + +<p> +Thus we see that ideas are embryonic +thoughts, nuclei of spirit-substance from the +Region of abstract Thought. Improperly +conceived in a diseased mind they become vagaries +and delusions, but when gestated in a +sound mind and formed into rational thoughts +they are the basis of all material, moral and +<pb n='114'/><anchor id='Pg114'/> +mental progress, and the closer our touch +with Chaos, the better will be our Cosmos, +for in that realm of abstract realities truth is +not obscured by matter, it is self-evident. +</p> + +<p> +Pilate was asked <q>what is Truth,</q> but no +answer is recorded. We are incapable of +cognizing truth in the abstract while we live +in the phenomenal world, for the inherent nature +of matter is illusion and delusion, and +we are constantly making allowances and corrections +whether we are conscious of the fact +or not. The sunbeam which proceeds for 90 +millions of miles in a straight line, is refracted +or bent as soon as it strikes our dense atmosphere, +and according to the angle of its +refraction, it <emph>appears</emph> to have one color or another. +The straightest stick appears crooked +when partly immersed in water, and the +truths which are so self-evident in the Higher +worlds are likewise obscured, refracted or +twisted out of all semblance under the illusory +conditions of this material world. +</p> + +<p> +<q>The truth shall set you free,</q> said Christ, +and the more we turn our aspirations from +material acquisitiveness and seek to lay up +treasure above, the more we aim to rise, the +oftener we <q>get in the spirit,</q> the more readily +we <q>shall know truth</q> and reach liberation +<pb n='115'/><anchor id='Pg115'/> +from the fetter of flesh which binds us to +a limited environment, and attain to a sphere +of greater usefulness. +</p> + +<p> +Study of philosophy and science has a tendency +to further perception of truth, and as +science has progressed it has gradually receded +from its erstwhile crude materialism. +The day is not far off when it will be more +reverently religious than the church itself. +Mathematics is said to be <q>dry,</q> for it +doesn't stir the emotions. When it is taught +that <q>the sum of the angles of a triangle is +180 degrees,</q> the dictum is at once accepted, +because its truth is self-evident and no feeling +is involved in the matter. But when a doctrine +such as the Immaculate Conception is +promulgated and our emotions are stirred, +bloody war, or heated argument, may result, +and still leave the matter in doubt. Pythagoras +demanded that his pupils study mathematics, +because he knew the elevating effect of +raising their minds above the sphere of feeling, +where it is subject to delusion, and elevating +it towards the Region of abstract +Thought which is the prime reality. +</p> + +<p> +In this place we are dealing with worlds in +particular, and will therefore defer comment +<pb n='116'/><anchor id='Pg116'/> +upon the remainder of the first 5 verses of St. +John's gospel: +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l><q rend='pre'><hi rend='italic'>And Life became Light in man,</hi></q></l> +<l>5)<q rend='post'> <hi rend='italic'>and Light shines in Darkness.</hi></q></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +<p> +We have now seen that the earth is composed +of three worlds which interpenetrate +one another so that it is perfectly true when +Christ said that <q>heaven is within you</q> or, +the translation should rather have been +<emph>among you</emph>. We have also seen that of these +three realms two are subdivided. It has also +been explained that each division serves a +great purpose in the unfoldment of various +forms of life which dwell in each of these +worlds, and we may note in conclusion, that +the lower regions of the Desire World constitute +what the Catholic religion calls <hi rend='italic'>Purgatory</hi>, +a place where the evil of a past life is +transmuted to good, usable by the spirit as +conscience in later lives. The higher regions +of the Desire World are the <emph>first Heaven</emph> +where all the good a man has done is assimilated +by the spirit as <emph>soul</emph> power. The Region +of concrete Thought is the <emph>second Heaven</emph>, +where, as already said, the spirit prepares +its future environment on earth, and the Region +of abstract Thought is the <emph>third Heaven</emph>, +<pb n='117'/><anchor id='Pg117'/> +but as Paul said, it is scarcely lawful to +speak about that. +</p> + +<p> +Some will ask: is there then no hell?—No! +<emph>The mercy of God</emph> tends as greatly towards +the principle of GOOD as <q><emph>the inhumanity +of man</emph></q> towards cruelty, so that he would +consign his brother men to flames of hell during +eternity for the puerile mistakes committed +during a few years, or perhaps for a +slight difference in belief. The writer has +heard of a minister who wished to impress +his <q>flock</q> with the reality of an eternity of +hell flames, and to demonstrate the fallacy of +a heretical notion entertained by some of his +parishioners that when sinners come to hell +they burn to ashes and that is the end. +</p> + +<p> +He took with him an alcohol lamp and +some asbestos into the pulpit and told his +audience that God would turn their souls +into a substance resembling asbestos. He +showed them that though the asbestos were +heated red hot it did not decompose into +ashes. Fortunately the day of the hell +preacher has gone by, and if we believe the +Bible which says that <q>in God we live and +move and have our being,</q> we can readily +understand that <emph>a lost soul would be an impossibility</emph>, +for were one single soul lost, then +<pb n='118'/><anchor id='Pg118'/> +logically a part of God Himself would be +lost. No matter what our color, our race or +our creed, we are all equally the children of +God and in our various ways we shall obtain +satisfaction. Let us therefore rather look +to Christ and forget Creed. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>Creed or Christ?</hi> +</p> + +<lg> +<l>No man loves God who hates his kind,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Who tramples on his Brother's heart and soul.</l> +<l>Who seeks to shackle, cloud or fog the mind</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>By fears of Hell has not perceived our goal.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>God-sent are all religions blest;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And Christ, the Way, the Truth and Life,</l> +<l>To give the heavy-laden rest,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And peace from Sorrow, Sin and Strife.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>At his request the Universal Spirit came</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'><emph>To all the churches</emph>, not to one alone.</l> +<l>On Pentecostal morn a tongue of flame</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Round <emph>each</emph> apostle as a halo shone.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Since then, as vultures ravenous with greed,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>We oft have battled for an empty name,</l> +<l>And sought by Dogma, Edict, Creed,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>To send each other to the flame.</l> +</lg> + +<pb n='119'/><anchor id='Pg119'/> + +<lg> +<l>Is Christ then divided? Was Cephas or Paul</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Nailed to the deathly tree?</l> +<l>If not—then why these divisions at all?</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Christ's love doth embrace you and me.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>His pure sweet love is not confined</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>By creeds which segregate and raise a wall;</l> +<l>His love enfolds, embraces <emph>Humankind</emph></l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>No matter what ourselves or Him we call.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Then why not take Him at His word?</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Why hold to creeds which tear apart?</l> +<l>But one thing matters, be it heard,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>That brother-love fill every heart.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>There is but one thing that the world has need to know;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>There is but one balm for all our human woe</l> +<l>There is but one way that leads to heaven above;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>That way is human sympathy and love.</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='120'/><anchor id='Pg120'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Chapter IV. The Constitution of Man</head> + +<p> +Our chapter head, <q>the constitution +of man,</q> may surprise a reader who +has not previously studied the Mystery +teachings, or he may imagine that +we intend to give an anatomical dissertation, +but such is not our intention. We have spoken +of the earth upon which we live as being +composed of several invisible realms in addition +to the world we perceive by means of +our senses. We have also spoken of man as +being correlated to these various divisions in +nature, and a little thought upon the subject +will quickly convince us that in order to +function upon the various planes of existence +described, it is necessary that a man +should have a body composed of their substance, +or at least have specialized for his +own use, some of the material of each of +these worlds. +</p> + +<p> +We have said that finer matter, called desire +stuff and mind stuff, permeates our atmosphere +<pb n='121'/><anchor id='Pg121'/> +and the solid earth, even as blood +percolates through all parts of our flesh. +But that is not a sufficient explanation to account +for all facts of life. If that were all, +then minerals, which are interpenetrated by +the world of thought and the world of desire, +would have thoughts and desires as well as +man. This is not the case, so something +more than mere interpenetration must be requisite +to acquire the faculties of thought +and feeling. +</p> + +<p> +We know that in order to function in this +world, to live as a physical being among other +like beings, we must have a physical body +all our own, built of the chemical constituents +of this visible world. When we lose it +at death, it profits us nothing that the world +is full of just the very chemicals needed to +build such a body. We cannot then specialize +them, and therefore we are invisible to +all others. Similarly, if we did not possess +a special body made of ether, we should be +unable to grow and to propagate. That is +the case with the mineral. Had we no separate +individual desire body, we should be +unable to feel desires and emotions, there +would be no incentive to move from one +place to another. We should then be stationary +<pb n='122'/><anchor id='Pg122'/> +as plants, and did we not possess a mind, +we should be incapable of thought, and act +upon impulse and instinct as animals. +</p> + +<p> +Some one may of course object to this last +statement, and contend that animals do +think. So far as our domesticated animals +are concerned that is partially true, but it +is not quite in the same way that we think +and reason. The difference may perhaps +best be understood if we take an illustration +from the electrical field. When an electric +current <emph>of high voltage</emph> is passed through a +coiled copper wire, and another wire is placed +in the center of the coils, that wire will +become charged with electricity <emph>of a lower +voltage</emph>. So also the animal, when brought +within the sphere of human thoughts, evolves +a mental activity of a lower order. +</p> + +<p> +Paul, in his writings, also mentions <emph>the +natural body</emph> and the <emph>spiritual body</emph> while the +man himself is a spirit inhabiting those vehicles. +We will briefly note the constitution +of the various bodies of man invisible to the +physical sight but as objective to spiritual +sight as the dense body to ordinary vision. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>The Vital Body.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +That body of ours which is composed of +ether is called the <q><emph>vital body</emph></q> in Western +<pb n='123'/><anchor id='Pg123'/> +Mystery Schools, for, as we have already +seen, ether is the avenue of ingress for vital +force from the sun and the field of agencies +in nature which promote such vital activities +as assimilation, growth and propagation. +</p> + +<p> +This vehicle is an exact counterpart of our +visible body, molecule for molecule, and organ +for organ, with one exception, which we +shall note later. But it is slightly larger, extending +about one and one-half inches beyond +the periphery of our dense vehicle. +</p> + +<p> +The spleen is the entrance gate of forces +which vitalize the body. In the etheric +counterpart of that organ solar energy is +transmuted to vital fluid of a pale rose color. +From thence it spreads all over the nervous +system, and after having been used in the +body it radiates in streams, much as bristles +protrude from a porcupine. +</p> + +<p> +The rays of the sun are transmitted either +directly, or reflected by way of the planets +and the moon. The rays directly from the +sun give spiritual illumination, the rays +received by way of the planets produce intelligence, +morality, and soul growth, but the +rays reflected by way of the moon make for +physical growth, as seen in the case of plants +which grow differently when planted in the +<pb n='124'/><anchor id='Pg124'/> +light of the moon from what is the case when +they are planted when the moon is dark. +There is also a difference in plants sown +when the moon is in barren and fruitful signs +of the Zodiac. +</p> + +<p> +The solar ray is absorbed by the human +spirit which has its seat in the center of the +forehead, the stellar ray is absorbed by the +brain and spinal cord, and the lunar ray enters +our system through the spleen. +</p> + +<p> +The solar, stellar and lunar rays are +three-colored, and in the lunar ray which +supplies our vital force, the blue beam is the +life of The Father, which causes germination, +the yellow beam is the life of The Son, which +is the active principle in nutrition and +growth, and the red beam is the life of the +Holy Spirit, which stimulates to action, dissipating +the energy stored by the yellow force. +This principle is particularly active in generation. +</p> + +<p> +The various kingdoms absorb this life-force +differently, according to their constitution. +Animals have only 28 pairs of spinal +nerves. They are keyed to the lunar month +of 28 days and therefore dependent upon a +Groupspirit for an infusion of stellar rays +necessary to produce consciousness. They +<pb n='125'/><anchor id='Pg125'/> +are altogether incapable of absorbing the +direct ray of the sun. +</p> + +<p> +Man is in a transition stage, he has 31 pairs +of spinal nerves which keys him to the solar +month, but the nerves in the so-called cauda-equina—literally +horse-tail—, at the end of +our spinal cord, are still too undeveloped to +act as avenues for the spiritual ray of the +sun. In proportion as we draw our creative +force upward by spiritual thought we develop +these nerves and awaken dormant faculties of +the spirit. But it is dangerous to attempt +that development except under guidance of +a qualified teacher, and the reader is earnestly +warned not to use any method published +in books, or sold, for their practice usually +leads to dementia. The safe method is never +sold for money or any earthly consideration +however large or small; it is always freely +given as a reward of merit. <q>Ask and ye +shall receive, seek and ye shall find, knock +and it shall be opened</q>, said the Christ. If +our life is a prayer for illumination, the +search will not be uncertain, nor the knock +without response. +</p> + +<p> +When solar energy has been transmuted +in the spleen it traverses the whole nervous +system of the body glowing with a most +<pb n='126'/><anchor id='Pg126'/> +beautiful color of a delicate rosy hue. It +answers the same purpose as electricity in a +telegraph system. We may string wires between +cities, erect telegraph stations, install +receivers and transmitters. We may even +have operators ready at the keys, but until +electric fluid is turned into our wires, the +telegraph keys will refuse to click. So also +in the body, the human spirit is operator, and +from the central station of the brain, nerves +ramify, go through the whole body to all the +different muscles. When this vitalizing fluid +of which we are speaking traverses the nervous +system, the Ego may send his commands +to the muscles and cause them to move but if +the vital fluid for any reason does not flow +into a certain part of the body such as an +arm or a limb, then the spirit is powerless +to move that part of the body and we say that +it is paralyzed. +</p> + +<p> +When we are in health, we specialize solar +energy in such great quantities that we cannot +use it all in the body and therefore it +radiates through the pores of our skin in +straight streams and serves a similar purpose +as an exhaust fan. That machine drives +the foul air out of a room or building and +keeps the atmosphere within pure and sweet. +<pb n='127'/><anchor id='Pg127'/> +The excessive vital force which radiates from +the body drives out poisonous gases, deleterious +microbes and effete matter thus tending +to preserve a healthy condition. It also prevents +armies of disease germs, which swarm +about in the atmosphere, from entering; +upon the same principle that a fly cannot +wing its way into a building through the +exhaust fan. Thus it serves a most beneficent +purpose even after it has been utilized +in our body and is returning to the free state. +</p> + +<p> +It is a curious and most astounding sight +when one first observes how, from exposed +parts of the body such as hands and face, +there suddenly commences to flow a stream +of stars, cubes, pyramids and a variety of +other geometrical forms. The writer has +more than once rubbed his eyes when he first +perceived the phenomenon, for it seemed that +he must be suffering from hallucinations. +The forms observed are chemical atoms +however, which have served their purpose in +the body and are expelled through the pores. +</p> + +<p> +When one has eaten a meal, vital fluid is +consumed by the body in great quantities, +for it is the cement whereby nature's forces +build our food into the body. Therefore the +radiations are weakest during the period of +<pb n='128'/><anchor id='Pg128'/> +digestion. If the meal has been heavy, the +outflow is very perceptibly diminished, and +does not then cleanse our body as thoroughly +as when the food has been digested, nor is +it as potent in keeping out inimical germs. +Therefore one is most liable to catch cold +or other disease by overeating, a fault which +should be avoided by all who wish to keep +in good health. +</p> + +<p> +During ill health the vital body specializes +but little solar energy. Then, for a time, +the visible body seems to feed upon the vital +body as it were, so that the vehicle becomes +more transparent and attenuated at the same +rate as the visible body exhibits a state of +emaciation. The cleansing odic radiations +are almost entirely absent during sickness, +therefore complications set in so easily. +</p> + +<p> +Though science has not directly observed +this vital body of man, it has upon several +occasions postulated the existence of such a +vehicle as necessary to account for facts in +life and the radiations have been observed +by a number of scientists at different times +and under varying conditions. Blondlot and +Charpentier have called them N-rays after +the city of Nantes where the radiations were +observed by these scientists, others have +<pb n='129'/><anchor id='Pg129'/> +named them <q>The Odic fluid</q>. Scientific +investigators who have conducted researches +into psychic phenomena have even photographed +it when it has been extracted +through the spleen by materializing spirits. +Dr. Hotz for instance obtained two photographs +of a materialization through the +German medium, Minna-Demmler. On one a +cloud of ether is seen oozing out through the +left side of the medium, shapeless and without +form. The second picture, taken a few +moments later, shows the materialized spirit +standing at the medium's side. Other photographs +obtained by scientists from the +Italian medium Eusapio Palladino show a +luminous cloud over-hanging her left side. +</p> + +<p> +We said in the beginning of this description +that the vital body is an exact counterpart +of the dense body with one exception: it +is of the opposite sex or perhaps we should +rather say polarity. As the vital body nourishes +the dense vehicle, we may readily understand +that blood is its highest visible expression, +and also that a positively polarized +vital body would generate more blood than a +negative one. Woman who is physically negative +has a positive vital body, hence she generates +a surplus of blood which is relieved by +<pb n='130'/><anchor id='Pg130'/> +the periodical flow. She is also more prone +to tears, which are white bleeding, than man, +whose negative vital body does not generate +more blood than he can comfortably take care +of. Therefore it is not necessary for him to +have the outlets which relieve excess of blood +in woman. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>The Desire Body.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +In addition to the visible body and the +vital body we also have a body made of desire +stuff from which we form our feelings +and emotions. This vehicle also impels us to +seek sense gratification. But while the two +instruments of which we have already spoken, +are well organized, the desire body appears +to spiritual sight as an ovoid cloud +extending from sixteen to twenty inches beyond +the physical body. It is above the +head and below the feet so that our dense +body sits in the center of this egg-shaped +cloud as the yolk is in the center of an egg. +</p> + +<p> +The reason for the rudimentary state of +this vehicle is, that it has been added to the +human constitution more recently than the +bodies previously mentioned. Evolution of +form may be likened to the manner in which +<pb n='131'/><anchor id='Pg131'/> +the juices in the snail first condense into flesh +and later become a hard shell. When our +present visible body first germinated in the +spirit, it was a thought-form, but gradually +it has become denser and more concrete until +it is now a chemical crystallization. The +vital body was next emanated by the spirit +as a thought-form and is in the third stage of +concretion which is etheric. The desire body +is a still later acquisition. That also was a +thought form at its inception, but has now +condensed to desire stuff, and the mind, +which we have only recently received, is still +but a mere cloudy thought form. +</p> + +<p> +Arms and limbs, ears and eyes are not +necessary to use the desire body, for it can +glide through space more swiftly than wind +without such means of locomotion as we require +in this visible world. +</p> + +<p> +When viewed by spiritual sight, it appears +that there are in this desire body a number +of whirling vortices. We have already +explained that it is a characteristic of desire +stuff to be in constant motion, and from the +main vortex in the region of the liver there +is a constant outwelling flow which radiates +towards the periphery of this egg-shaped +body and returns to the center through a +<pb n='132'/><anchor id='Pg132'/> +number of other vortices. The desire body +exhibits all the colors and shades which we +know and a vast number of others which are +indescribable in earthly language. Those +colors vary in every person according to his +characteristics and temperament and they +also vary from moment to moment as passing +moods, fancies or emotions are experienced +by him. There is however in each +one a certain basic color dependent upon +the ruling star at the moment of his birth. +The man in whose horoscope Mars is peculiarly +strong usually has a crimson tint in +his aura, where Jupiter is the strongest +planet the prevailing tint seems to be a bluish +tone, and so on with the other planets. +</p> + +<p> +There was a time in the earth's past history +when incrustation was not yet complete, +and human beings of that time lived upon +islands here and there, amid boiling seas. +They had not yet evolved eyes or ears, but +a little organ: the pineal gland, which anatomists +have called <hi rend='italic'>the third eye</hi>, protruded +through the back of the head and was a <emph>localised +organ of feeling</emph>, which warned the man +when he came too near a volcanic crater and +thus enabled him to escape destruction. Since +then the cerebral hemispheres have covered +<pb n='133'/><anchor id='Pg133'/> +the pineal gland, and instead of a single organ +of feeling, the whole body inside and out +is sensitive to impacts, which of course is +a much higher state of development. +</p> + +<p> +In the desire body every particle is sensitive +to vibrations similar to those which we +call sight, sounds and feelings and every particle +is in incessant motion rapidly swirling +about so that in the same instant it may be at +the top and bottom of the desire body and impart +at all points to all the other particles a +sensation of that which it has experienced +thus every particle of desire stuff in this +vehicle of ours will instantly feel any sensation +experienced by any single particle. +Therefore the desire body is of an exceedingly +sensitive nature, capable of most intense +feelings and emotions. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>The Mind.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +This is the latest acquisition of the human +spirit, and in most people who have not yet +accustomed themselves to orderly, consecutive +thought, it is a mere inchoate cloud disposed +particularly in the region of the head. +When looking at a person clairvoyantly there +appears to be an empty space in the center +of the forehead just above and between the +<pb n='134'/><anchor id='Pg134'/> +eyebrows. It looks like the blue part of a gas +flame. That is mind stuff which veils the human +spirit, or Ego, and the writer has been +told that not even the most gifted seer can +penetrate that veil which is said to have been +spoken of in ancient Egypt as <q><hi rend='italic'>the veil of +Isis</hi></q> which none may lift and live, for behind +that veil is the Holy of Holies, the temple +of our body, where the spirit is to be left +secure from all intrusion. +</p> + +<p> +To those who have not previously studied +the deeper philosophies the question may occur: +But why all these divisions; even the +Bible speaks only of soul and body, for most +people believe soul and spirit to be synonymous +terms. We can only answer that this +division is not arbitrary but necessary, and +founded upon facts in nature. Neither is it +correct to regard the soul and the spirit as +synonymous. Paul himself speaks of <hi rend='italic'>the +natural body</hi> which is composed of physical +substances: solids, liquids, gases and ethers; +he mentions <hi rend='italic'>a spiritual body</hi>, which is the +vehicle of the spirit composed of the mind and +desire body, and <hi rend='italic'>the spirit itself</hi>, which is +called Ego in Latin or <q>I</q> in English. +</p> + +<p> +That term <q>I</q> is an appelation which can +only be made by the human spirit of itself. +<pb n='135'/><anchor id='Pg135'/> +We may all call a dog, dog; or we may call +a table, table, and any one else may apply +the same name to the dog and to the table, +but only a human being can be called <q>I</q> +and only he himself can apply that most exclusive +of all words, I, for this is the badge +of self-consciousness, the recognition by the +human spirit of <emph>itself</emph> as an entity, separate +and apart from all others. +</p> + +<p> +Thus we see that the constitution of man +is more complex than appears upon the surface, +and we will now proceed to note the +effect upon this multiplex being of various +conditions of life. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='136'/><anchor id='Pg136'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Chapter V. Life and Death</head> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>Invisible Helpers and Mediums.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +There are two classes of people in the +world. In one class the vital and dense +bodies are so firmly cemented that the ethers +cannot be extracted under any circumstances +but remain with the dense body at all times +and under all conditions from birth to death. +Those people are insensible to any supersensuous +sights or sounds. They are therefore +usually exceedingly sceptic, and believe nothing +exists but what <emph>they</emph> can see. +</p> + +<p> +There is another class of people in whom +the connection between the dense and the +vital bodies is more or less loose, so that +the ether of their vital bodies vibrates at a +higher rate than in the first class mentioned. +These people are therefore more or less sensitive +to the spiritual world. +</p> + +<p> +This class of sensitives may again be divided. +Some are weak characters, dominated +<pb n='137'/><anchor id='Pg137'/> +by the will of others in a <emph>negative</emph> manner, +as mediums, who are the prey of disembodied +spirits desirous of obtaining a physical body +when they have lost their own by death. +</p> + +<p> +The other class of sensitives are strong +<emph>positive</emph> characters, who act only from within, +according to their own will. They may +develop into trained clairvoyants, and be +their own masters instead of slaves of a disembodied +spirit. In some sensitives of both +classes it is possible to extract part of the +ether which forms the vital body. When a +disembodied spirit obtains a subject of that +nature, it develops the sensitive as <emph>a materializing +medium</emph>. The man who is capable +of extracting his own vital body by an act +of will, becomes a citizen of two worlds, independent +and free. Such are usually known +as <hi rend='italic'>Invisible Helpers</hi>. There are certain other +abnormal conditions where the vital body and +the dense body are separated totally or in +part, for instance if we place our limb in an +uncomfortable position so that circulation of +the blood ceases. Then we may see the etheric +limb hanging down below the visible limb as +a stocking. When we restore circulation and +the etheric limb seeks to enter into place, an +intense prickly sensation is felt, due to the +<pb n='138'/><anchor id='Pg138'/> +fact that the little streams of force, which +radiate all through the ether, seek to permeate +the molecules of the limb and stir them +into renewed vibration. When a person is +drowning, the vital body also separates from +the dense vehicle and the intense prickly pain +incident to resuscitation is also due to the +cause mentioned. +</p> + +<p> +While we are awake and going about our +work in the Physical World, the desire body +and mind both permeate the dense and the +vital bodies, and there is a constant war between +the desire nature and the vital body. +The vital body is continually engaged in building +up the human organism, while the impulses +of the desire body tend to tire and to break +down tissue. Gradually, in the course of the +day, the vital body loses ground before the +onslaughts of the desire body, poisons of decay +slowly accumulate and the flow of vital +fluid becomes more and more sluggish, until +at length it is incapable of moving the muscles. +The body then feels heavy and drowsy. +At last the vital body collapses, as it were, +the little streams of force which permeate +each atom seem to shrivel up, and the Ego +is forced to abandon its body to the restorative +powers of sleep. +</p> + +<pb n='139'/><anchor id='Pg139'/> + +<p> +When a building has become dilapidated +and is to be <emph>restored</emph> and put in thorough repair, +the tenants must move out to let the +workmen have a free field. So also when the +building of a spirit has become unfit for further +use, it must withdraw therefrom. As +the desire body caused the damage, it is a +logical conclusion that that also must be removed. +Every night when our body has become +tired, the higher vehicles are withdrawn, +only the dense and vital bodies are +left upon the bed. +</p> + +<p> +Then the process of restoration commences +and lasts for a longer or a shorter time according +to circumstances. +</p> + +<p> +At times however, the grip of the desire +body upon our denser vehicles is so strong +that it refuses to let go. When it has become +so interested in the proceedings of the +day, it continues to ruminate over them after +the collapse of the physical body, and is perhaps +only half extracted from that vehicle. +Then it may transmit sights and sounds of +the desire world to the brain. But as the +connections are necessarily askew under such +conditions, the most confused dreams result. +Furthermore, as the desire body compels motion, +the body is very apt to toss about when +<pb n='140'/><anchor id='Pg140'/> +the desire body is not fully extracted, hence +the restless sleep which usually accompanies +dreams of a confused nature. +</p> + +<p> +There are times of course when dreams +are prophetic and come true, but such dreams +result only <emph>after</emph> complete extraction of the +desire body, under circumstances where the +spirit has seen some danger perhaps, which +may befall, and then impresses the fact upon +the brain <emph>at the moment of awakening</emph>. +</p> + +<p> +It also happens that the spirit goes upon a +soul flight and omits to perform its part of +the work of restoration, then the body will +not be fit to re-enter in the morning, so it +sleeps on. The spirit may thus roam afield +for a number of days, or even weeks, before +it again enters its physical body and assumes +the normal routine of alternating waking and +sleep. This condition is called <hi rend='italic'>trance</hi>, and +the spirit may remember upon its return +what it has seen and heard in the super-physical +realm, or it may have forgotten, according +to the stage of its development and the +depth of the trance condition. When the +trance is very light, the spirit is usually +present in the room where its body lies all +the time, and upon its return to the body it +will be able to recount to relatives all they +<pb n='141'/><anchor id='Pg141'/> +said and did while its body lay unconscious. +Where the trance is deeper, the returning +spirit will usually be unconscious of what +happened around its body, but may recount +experiences from the invisible world. +</p> + +<p> +A few years ago a little girl by the name +of Florence Bennett in Kankakee, Illinois, +fell into such a trance. She returned to the +body every few days, but stayed within only +a few hours each time, and the whole trance +lasted three weeks, more or less. During the +returns to her body she told relatives that +in her absence she seemed to be in a place +inhabited by all the people who died. But +she stated that none of them spoke about dying +and no one among them seemed to realize +that they were dead. Among those she had +seen was a locomotive engineer who had been +accidentally killed. His body was mangled +in the accident which caused death. The little +girl perceived him there walking about +minus arms, and with lesions upon his head, +all of which is in line with facts usually seen +by mystic investigators. Persons who have +been hurt in accidents go about thus, until +they learn that a mere wish to have their +body made whole will supply a new arm or +<pb n='142'/><anchor id='Pg142'/> +limb, for desire stuff is most quickly and +readily molded by thought. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>Death.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +After a longer or shorter time there comes +in each life a point where the experiences +which a spirit can gain from its present environment +have been exhausted, and life +terminates in death. +</p> + +<p> +Death may be sudden and seemingly unexpected, +as for instance by earthquake, upon +the battle-field, or by accident, as we call it, +but in reality, death is never accidental or +unforeseen by Higher Powers. Not a sparrow +falls to the ground without divine Will. +There are along life's path partings of the +way, as it were; on one side the main line +of life continues onward, the other path leads +into what we might call a blind alley. If the +man takes that path, it soon ends in death. +We are here in life for the sake of gaining +experience and each life has a certain harvest +to reap. If we order our life in such a manner +that we gain the knowledge it is intended +we should acquire, we continue in life, and +opportunities of different kinds constantly +come our way. But if we neglect them, and +the life goes into paths which are not congruous +<pb n='143'/><anchor id='Pg143'/> +to our individual development it +would be a waste of time to let us stay in +such environment. Therefore the Great and +Wise Beings, Who are behind the scene of +evolution, terminate our life, that we may +have a fresh start in a different sphere of influence. +The law of conservation of energy +is not confined to the Physical World, but +operates in the spiritual realms also. There +is nothing in life that has not its purpose. +We do wrong to rail against circumstances, +no matter how disagreeable, we should rather +endeavor to learn the lessons which are contained +therein, that we may live a long and +useful life. Some one may object, and say: +You are inconsistent in your teachings. You +say there is really no death, that we go into +a brighter existence, and that we have to +learn other lessons there in a different +sphere of usefulness! Why then aim to live +a long life here? +</p> + +<p> +It is very true that we make these claims, +and they are perfectly consistent with the +other assertions just mentioned, but there +are lessons to be learned <emph>here</emph> which cannot +be learned in the other worlds, and we have +to bring up this physical body through the +useless years of childhood, through hot and +<pb n='144'/><anchor id='Pg144'/> +impulsive youth, to the ripeness of manhood +or womanhood, before it becomes of true +spiritual use. The longer we live after maturity +has been attained, when we have commenced +to look upon the serious side of life +and started to truly learn lessons which make +for soulgrowth, the more experience we shall +gather and the richer our harvest will be. +Then, in a later existence, we shall be so much +more advanced, and capable of taking up +tasks that would be impossible with less +length of life and breadth of activity. Besides, +it is hard to die for the man in the +prime of life with a wife and growing family +whom he loves; with ambitions of greatness +unfulfilled; with hosts of friends about him, +and with interests all centered upon the material +plane of existence. It is sad for the +woman whose heart is bound up in home and +the little ones she has reared, to leave them, +perhaps without anyone to care for them; to +know that they have to fight their way alone +through the early years when her tender care +is needed, and perhaps to see those little ones +abused, and she unable to lift a hand, though +her heart may bleed as freely as it would in +earth life. All these things are sad, and +<emph>they bind the spirit to earth</emph> for a much longer +<pb n='145'/><anchor id='Pg145'/> +time than ordinarily, they hinder it from +reaping the experiences it should reap upon +the other side of death, and they make it +desirable along with other reasons already +mentioned to live a long life before passing +onwards. +</p> + +<p> +The difference between those who pass out +at a ripe old age, and one who leaves this +earth in the prime of life, may be illustrated +by the manner in which the seed clings to a +fruit in an unripe state. A great deal of +force is necessary to tear the stone from a +green peach; it has such a tenacious hold +upon the fruit that shreds of pulp adhere to +it when forcibly removed, so also the spirit +clings to the flesh in middle life and a certain +part of its material interest remain and +bind it to earth after death. On the other +hand, when a life has been lived to the full, +when the spirit has had time to realize its +ambitions or to find out their futility, when +the duties of life have been performed and +satisfaction rests upon the brow of an aged +man or woman; or when the life has been +misspent and the pangs of conscience have +worked upon the man and shown him his +mistakes; when, in fact, the spirit has learned +the lessons of life, as it must have to come +<pb n='146'/><anchor id='Pg146'/> +to old age; then it may be likened to the seed +of the ripe fruit which falls out clean, without +a vestige of flesh clinging thereto, at the +moment the encasing pulp is opened. Therefore +we say, as before, that though there is +a brighter existence in store for those who +have lived well, it is nevertheless best to live +a long life and to live it to the fullest extent +possible. +</p> + +<p> +We also maintain, that no matter what may +be the circumstances of a man's death, it is +not accidental; it has either been brought +about by his own neglect to embrace opportunities +of growth, or else life has been lived +to the ultimate possible. There is one exception +to that rule, and that is due to man's +exercise of his divine prerogative of interference. +If we lived according to schedule, +if we all assimilated the experiences designed +for our growth by the Creative Powers, +we should live to the ultimate length, but +<emph>we ourselves</emph> usually shorten our lives by not +taking advantage of opportunities, and it also +happens that <emph>other men</emph> may shorten our +lives and cut them off as suddenly as the so-called +accident whereby the divine rulers +terminate our life here. In other words, murder, +or fatal accidents brought about <emph>by human +<pb n='147'/><anchor id='Pg147'/> +carelessness</emph>, are in reality the only termination +to life not planned by invisible leaders +of humanity. No one is ever compelled +to do murder or other evil, or there could not +come to them a just retribution for their acts. +The Christ said that evil must come but <hi rend='italic'>woe +unto him by whom it cometh</hi>, and to harmonize +that with the law of divine justice: +<q>as a man soweth, so shall he also reap,</q> +<emph>there must at least be absolute free will in +respect to evil acts</emph>. +</p> + +<p> +There are also cases where a person lives +such a full and good life of such vast benefit +to humanity and to himself, that his days are +lengthened beyond the ultimate, as they are +shortened by neglect, but such cases are of +course too few to allow of their being dwelt +upon at length. +</p> + +<p> +Where death is not sudden as in the case +of accidents, but occurs at home after an +illness, quietly and peacefully, dying persons +usually experience a falling upon them as of +a pall of great darkness shortly before termination +of life. Many pass out from the +body under that condition, and do not see the +light again until they have entered the super-physical +realms. There are many other cases +however, where the darkness lifts before the +<pb n='148'/><anchor id='Pg148'/> +final release from the body. Then the dying +person views both worlds at once, and is cognizant +of the presence of both dead and living +friends. Under such circumstances it +very often happens that a mother sees some +of her children who have gone before, and she +will exclaim joyously: Oh, there is Johnny +standing at the foot of my bed; my but hasn't +he grown! The living relatives may feel +shocked and uneasy, thinking the mother suffering +from hallucinations, while in reality +she is more clear-sighted than they; she perceives +those who have passed beyond the veil +who have come to greet and help her to make +herself at home in the new world she is entering. +</p> + +<p> +Each human being is an individual, separate +and apart from all others, and as experiences +in the life of each differ from those of +all others in the interval from the cradle to +the grave, so we may also reasonably infer +that the experiences of each spirit vary from +those of every other spirit when it passes +through the gates of birth and death. We +print what purports to be a <hi rend='italic'>spirit message</hi> +communicated by the late Professor James of +Harvard at the Boston spirit temple, and in +which he describes sensations which he felt +<pb n='149'/><anchor id='Pg149'/> +when passing through the gate of death. We +do not vouch for its authenticity as we have +not investigated the matter personally. +</p> + +<p> +Professor James had promised to communicate +after death with his friends in this +life, and the whole world of psychic research +was and still is on watch for a word from +him. Several mediums have claimed that +Professor James has communicated through +them, but the most remarkable are those +given through the Boston spirit temple as +follows: +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<q rend='pre'>And this is death, only to fall asleep, only to +awaken in the morning and to know that all is well. +I am not dead, only arisen.</q> +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<p> +<q>I only know that I experienced a great shock +through my entire system, as if some mighty bond +had been rent asunder. For a moment I was dazed +and lost consciousness. When I awakened I found +myself standing beside the old body which had +served me faithfully and well. To say that I was +surprised would only inadequately express the sensation +that thrilled my very being, and I realized +that some wonderful change had taken place. Suddenly +I became conscious that my body was surrounded +by many of my friends, and an uncontrollable +desire took possession of me to speak and +touch them that they might know that I still lived. +Drawing a little nearer to that which was so like +<pb n='150'/><anchor id='Pg150'/> +and yet unlike myself, I stretched forth my hand +and touched them, but they heeded me not.</q> +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'>Then it was that the full significance of the +great change that had taken place flashed upon my +newly awakened senses; then it was that I realized +that an impenetrable barrier separated me from my +loved ones on earth, and that this great change +which had taken place was indeed death. A sense +of weariness and longing for rest took possession +of me. I seemed to be transported through space, +and I lost consciousness, to awaken in a land so +different and yet so similar to the one which I had +lately left. It was not possible for me to describe +my sensations when I again regained consciousness +and realized that, though dead, I was still alive.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>When I first became conscious of my new environment +I was resting in a beautiful grove, and +was realizing as never before what it was to be at +peace with myself and all the world.</q> +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<p> +<q>I know that only with the greatest difficulty +shall I be enabled to express to you my sensations +when I fully realized that I had awakened to a new +life. All was still, no sound broke the silence. Darkness +had surrounded me. In fact, I seemed to be +enveloped in a heavy mist, beyond which my gaze +could not penetrate. Soon in the distance I discerned +a faint glimmer of light, which slowly approached +me, and then, to my wonder and joy, I +beheld the face of her who had been my guiding +star in the early days of my earth life.</q> +</p> +</quote> + +<pb n='151'/><anchor id='Pg151'/> + +<p> +One of the saddest sights witnessed by the +seer at a death-bed is the tortures to which +we often subject our dying friends on account +of ignorance of how to care for them in that +condition. We have a science of birth; obstetricians +who have been trained for years +in their profession and have developed a +wonderful skill, assist the little stranger into +this world. We have also trained nurses attendant +upon mother and child, the ingenuity +of brilliant minds is focused upon the problem +of how to make maternity easier, neither +pains nor money are spared in these beneficent +efforts for one whom we have never seen, +but when the friend of a lifetime, the man who +has served his kind well and nobly in profession, +state, or church, is to leave the scene +of his labors for a new field of activity, when +the woman—who has labored to no less good +purpose in bringing up a family to take its +part in the world's work—has to leave that +home and family, when one whom we have +loved all our lives is about to bid us the final +farewell, we stand by utterly at a loss how +to help; perhaps we even do the very things +most detrimental to the comfort and welfare +of the departing one. +</p> + +<pb n='152'/><anchor id='Pg152'/> + +<p> +Probably there is no form of torture more +commonly inflicted upon the dying than that +which is caused by administering stimulants. +Such potions have the effect of drawing a departing +spirit into its body with the force of +a catapult, to remain and to suffer for sometime +longer. Investigators of conditions beyond +have heard many complaints of such +treatment. When it is seen that death must +inevitably ensue, let not selfish desire to keep +a departing spirit a little longer prompt us +to inflict such tortures upon it. The death +chamber should be a place of the utmost +quiet, a place of peace and of prayer, for at +that time, and <emph>for three and one-half days +after the last breath</emph>, the spirit is passing +through a Gethsemane and needs all the assistance +that can be given. The value of the +life that has just been passed depends greatly +upon conditions which then prevail about the +body; yes even the conditions of its future +life are influenced by our attitude during +that time, so that if ever we were our brother's +keeper in life, we are a thousand times +more so at death. +</p> + +<p> +Post-mortem examinations, embalming and +cremation during the period mentioned, not +only disturb the passing spirit mentally, but +<pb n='153'/><anchor id='Pg153'/> +are productive of a certain amount of +pain, for there is still a slight connection with +the discarded vehicle. If sanitary laws require +us to prevent decomposition while thus +keeping the body for cremation, it may be +packed in ice till the three and one-half days +have passed. After that time the spirit will +not suffer, no matter what happens to the +body. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>The Panorama of a Past Life.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +No matter how long we may keep the spirit +from passing out however, at last there will +come a time when no stimulant can hold it +and the last breath is drawn. Then the silver +cord, of which the Bible speaks, and which +holds the higher and the lower vehicles together, +snaps in the heart and causes that organ +to stop. That rupture releases the vital +body, and that with the desire body and +mind float above the visible body for from +one to three and one-half days while the +spirit is engaged in reviewing the past life, +an exceedingly important part of its post-mortem +experience. Upon that review depends +its whole existence from death to a +new birth. +</p> + +<p> +The question may arise in the student's +mind: How can we review our past life from +<pb n='154'/><anchor id='Pg154'/> +the cradle to the grave when we do not even +remember what we did a month ago, and to +form a proper basis for our future life, this +record ought to be very accurate, but even +the best memory is faulty? When we understand +the difference between the conscious +and sub-conscious memory and the manner +in which the latter operates, the difficulty +vanishes. This difference and the manner in +which the sub-conscious memory keeps an +accurate record of our life experiences may +be best understood by an illustration, as follows: +When we go into a field and view the +surrounding landscape, vibrations in the +ether carry to us a picture of everything +within the range of our vision. It is as sad +as it is true however, that <q>we have eyes and +see not,</q> as the Savior said. These vibrations +impinge upon the retina of our eyes, +even to the very smallest details, but they +usually do not penetrate to our consciousness, +and therefore are not remembered. Even +the most powerful impressions fade in +course of time so that we cannot call them +back at will when they are stored in our conscious +memory. +</p> + +<p> +When a photographer goes afield <emph>with his +camera</emph> the results which he obtains are different. +<pb n='155'/><anchor id='Pg155'/> +The ether vibrations emanating from +all things upon which his camera is focused, +transmit to the sensitive plate an impression +of the landscape true to the minutest detail, +and, mark this well, this true and accurate +picture is in no wise dependent upon whether +the photographer is observant or not. It will +remain upon the plate and may be reproduced +under proper conditions. Such is the subconscious +memory, and it is generated automatically +by each of us during every moment +of time, independently of our volition, in the +following manner. +</p> + +<p> +From the first breath which we draw after +birth to our last dying gasp, we inspire air +which is charged with pictures of our surroundings, +and the same ether which carries +that picture to the retina of our eye, is inhaled +into our lungs where it enters the +blood. Thus it reaches the heart in due time. +In the left ventricle of that organ, near the +apex, there is one little atom which is particularly +sensitized, and which remains in the +body all through life. It differs in this respect +from all other atoms which come and +go, for it is the particular property of God, +and of a certain spirit. This atom may be +called the book of the Recording Angel, for +<pb n='156'/><anchor id='Pg156'/> +as the blood passes through the heart, cycle +after cycle, the pictures of our good and evil +acts are inscribed thereon to the minutest detail. +This record may be called the sub-conscious +memory. It forms the basis of our future +life when reproduced as a panorama just +subsequent to death. By removal of the seed +atom—which corresponds to the sensitized +plate in a camera,—the reflecting ether of the +vital body serves as a focus, and as the life +unrolls slowly backwards from death to birth +the pictures thereof are etched into the desire +body which will be our vehicle during our +sojourn in purgatory and the first heaven +where evil is eradicated and good assimilated, +so that in a future life the former may serve +as <emph>conscience</emph> to withhold the man from repeating +mistakes of the past, and the latter +will spur us to greater good. +</p> + +<p> +A phenomenon similar to the panorama of +life usually takes place when a person is +drowning. People who have been resuscitated +speak of having seen their whole life +<emph>in a flash</emph>. That is because under such conditions +the vital body also leaves the dense +body. Of course there is no rupture of the +silver cord, or life could not be restored. +Unconsciousness follows quickly in drowning, +<pb n='157'/><anchor id='Pg157'/> +while in the usual post-mortem review the +consciousness continues until the vital body +collapses in the same manner that it does +when we go to sleep. Then consciousness +ceases for a while and the panorama is terminated. +Therefore also the time occupied +by the panorama varies with different persons, +according to whether the vital body was +strong and healthy, or had become thin and +emaciated by protracted illness. The longer +the time spent in review, and the more quiet +and peaceful the surroundings, the deeper +will be the etching which is made in the desire +body. As already said, that has a most important +and far reaching effect, for then the +sufferings which the spirit will realize in +purgatory on account of bad habits and misdeeds +will be much more keen than if there +is only a slight impression, and in a future +life the still small voice of conscience will +warn so much more insistently against mistakes +which caused sufferings in the past. +</p> + +<p> +When conditions are such at the time of +death that the spirit is disturbed by outside +conditions, for instance the din and turmoil +of a battle, the harrowing conditions of an +accident or the hysterical wailings of relatives, +the distraction prevents it from realizing +<pb n='158'/><anchor id='Pg158'/> +an appropriate depth in the etching upon +the desire body. Consequently its post-mortem +existence becomes vague and insipid, the +spirit does not harvest fruits of experience +as it should have done had it passed out of +the body in peace and under normal conditions. +It would therefore lack incentive to +good in a future life, and miss the warning +against evil which a deep etching of the panorama +of life would have given. Thus its +growth would be retarded in a very marked +degree, but the beneficent powers in charge of +evolution take certain steps to compensate +for our ignorant treatment of the dying and +other untoward circumstances mentioned. +What these steps are, we shall discuss when +considering the life of children in heaven, for +the present let it be sufficient to say that in +God's kingdom every evil is always transmuted +to a greater good though the process may +not be at once apparent. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>Purgatory.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +During life the collapse of the vital body +at night terminates our view of the world +about us, and causes us to lose ourselves in +unconsciousness of sleep. When the vital +<pb n='159'/><anchor id='Pg159'/> +body collapses just subsequent to death, and +the panorama of life is terminated, we also +lose consciousness for a time which varies according +to the individual. A darkness seems +to fall upon the spirit, then after a while it +wakes up and begins dimly to perceive the +light of the other world, but is only gradually +accustomed to the altered conditions. It is an +experience similar to that which we have when +coming out of a darkened room into sunlight, +which blinds us by its brilliancy, until the +pupils of our eyes have contracted so that +they admit a quantity of light bearable to +our organism. +</p> + +<p> +If under such a condition we turn momentarily +from the bright sunlight and look back +into the darkened room, objects there will be +much more plain to our vision than things +outside which are illumined by the powerful +rays of the sun. So it is also with the spirit, +when it has first been released from the body +it perceives sights, scenes and sounds of the +material world, which it has just left, much +more readily than it observes the sights of +the world it is entering. Wordsworth in his +Ode to Immortality noted a similar condition +in the case of new-born children, who are all +clairvoyant and much more awake to the +<pb n='160'/><anchor id='Pg160'/> +spiritual world than to this present plane of +existence. Some lose the spiritual sight very +early, others retain it for a number of years +and a few keep it all through life, but as the +birth of a child is a death in the spiritual +world and it retains the spiritual sight for a +time, so also death here is a birth upon the +spiritual plane, and the newly dead retain a +consciousness of this world for some time +subsequent to demise. +</p> + +<p> +When one awakes in the Desire World after +having passed through aforementioned +experiences, the general feeling seems to be +one of relief from a heavy burden, a feeling +perhaps akin to that of a diver encased in a +heavy rubber suit, a weighty brass helmet +upon his head, leaden soles under his feet +and heavy weights of lead upon his breast +and back, confined in his operations on the +bottom of the ocean by a short length of air +tube, and able only to move clumsily with +difficulty. When after the day's work such +a man is hauled to the surface, and divests +himself of his heavy garments and he moves +about with the facility we enjoy here, he must +surely experience a feeling of great relief. +Something like that is felt by the spirit when +it has been divested of the mortal coil, and is +<pb n='161'/><anchor id='Pg161'/> +able to roam all over the globe instead of being +confined to the narrow environment which +bound it upon earth. +</p> + +<p> +There is also a feeling of relief for those +who have been ill. Sickness, such as we know +it, does not exist there. Neither is it necessary +to seek food and shelter, for in that +world there is neither heat nor cold. Nevertheless, +there are many in the purgatorial regions +who go to all bothers of housekeeping, +eating and drinking just as we do here. +George Du Maurier in his novel <q>Peter Ibbetson</q> +gives a very good idea of this condition +in the life lived between the hero and +the Countess of Towers. This novel also illustrates +splendidly what has been said of the +sub-conscious memory, for Geo. Du Maurier +has somewhere, somehow discovered an easy +method which anyone may apply to do what +he calls <q>dreaming true.</q> By taking a certain +position in going to sleep, it is possible, +after a little practice, to compel the appearance, +in a dream, of any scene <emph>in our past +life</emph> which we desire to live over again. The +book is well worth reading on that account. +</p> + +<p> +When a fiery nebula has been formed in +the sky and commences to revolve, a little +matter in the center where motion is slowest +<pb n='162'/><anchor id='Pg162'/> +commences to crystallize. When it has reached +a certain density it is caught in the swirl, and +whirled nearer and nearer to the outward +extremity of what has, by that time, become +the equator of a revolving globe. Then it is +hurled into space and discarded from the +economy of the revolving sun. +</p> + +<p> +This process is not accomplished automatically +as scientists would have us believe,—an +assertion which has been proven in <hi rend='italic'>The +Rosicrucian Cosmo Conception</hi> and other +places in our literature. Herbert Spencer +also rejected the nebular theory because it +required a First Cause, which he denied, +though unable to form a better hypothesis of +the formation of solar systems,—but it is +accomplished through the activity of a Great +Spirit, which we may call God or by any +other name we choose. As above, so below, +says the Hermetic axiom. Man, who is a +lesser spirit, also gathers about himself +spirit-substance, which crystallizes into matter +and becomes the visible body which the +spiritual sight reveals as placed inside an +aura of finer vehicles. The latter are in constant +motion. When the dense body is born +as a child it is extremely soft and flexible. +</p> + +<pb n='163'/><anchor id='Pg163'/> + +<p> +Childhood, youth, maturity and old age are +but so many different stages of crystallization, +which goes on until at last a point is +reached where the spirit can no longer move +the hardened body and it is thrown out from +the spirit as the planet is expelled from the +sun. That is death!—the commencement of +a disrobing process which continues in purgatory. +The low evil passions and desires +we cultivated during life have crystallized +the desire stuff in such a manner that that +also must be expelled. Thus the spirit is +purged of evil under the same law that a +sun is purged of the matter which later forms +a planet. If the life lived has been a reasonably +decent one, the process of purgation +will not be very strenuous nor will the evil +desires thus expurgated persist for a long +time after having been freed, but they quickly +disintegrate. If, on the other hand, an +extremely vile life has been led, the part of +the expurgated desire nature may persist +even to the time when the spirit returns to a +new birth for further experience. It will then +be attracted to him and haunt him as a demon, +inciting him to evil deeds which he +himself abhors. The story of Dr. Jekyll and +Mr. Hyde is not a mere fanciful idea of +<pb n='164'/><anchor id='Pg164'/> +Robert Louis Stevenson, but is founded upon +facts well known to spiritual investigators. +Such cases are extremes of course, but they +are nevertheless possible and we have unfortunately +laws which convert such possibilities +to probabilities in the case of a certain +class of so-called criminals. We refer to laws +which decree capital punishment as penalty +of murder. +</p> + +<p> +When a man is dangerous he should of +course be restrained, but even apart from the +question of the moral right of a community +to take the life of anyone—which we deny—society +by its very act of retaliatory murder +defeats the very end it would serve, for if the +vicious murderer is restrained under whatever +discipline is necessary in a prison for a +number of years until his natural death, he +will have forgotten his bitterness against his +victim and against society, and when he +stands as a free spirit in the Desire World, +he may even by prayer have obtained forgiveness +and have become a good Christian. +He will then go on his way rejoicing, and +will in the future life seek to help those whom +he hurt here. +</p> + +<p> +When society retaliates and puts him to +a violent death shortly after he has committed +<pb n='165'/><anchor id='Pg165'/> +the crime, he is most likely to feel himself +as having been greatly injured, and not +without cause. Then such a character will +usually seek to <q>get even</q> as he calls it, he +will go about for a long time inciting others +to commit murder and other crimes. Then +we have an epidemic of murders in a community, +a condition not infrequent. +</p> + +<p> +The regicide in Servia shocked the Western +World by wiping out an entire royal house in +a most shockingly bloody manner, and the +Minister of the Interior was one of the chief +conspirators. Later he wrote his memoirs, +and therein he writes that whenever the conspirators +had tried to win anyone as a recruit, +they always succeeded when they burned +incense. He did not know why, but simply +mentioned it as a curious coincidence. +To the mystic investigator the matter is perfectly +clear. We have shown the necessity of +having a vehicle made of the materials of any +world wherein we wish to function. We usually +obtain a physical vehicle by going +through the womb, or perhaps in a few +special cases from a particularly good materializing +medium, but where it is only necessary +to work upon the brain and influence +someone else to act, we need but a vehicle +<pb n='166'/><anchor id='Pg166'/> +made of such ether as may be obtained from +fumes of many different substances. Each +kind attracts different classes of spirits, and +there is no doubt that the incense burned at +meetings where the conspirators were successful +was of a low and sensual order and +attracted spirits who had a grudge against +humanity in general and the King of Servia +in particular. These malcontents were unable +to injure the King himself, but used a +subtle influence which helped the conspirators +in their work. The released murderer who +has a grudge against society on account of +his execution, may enter low gambling saloons +where the fumes of liquor and tobacco +furnish ample opportunity for working upon +the class of people who congregate in such +places, and the man whose spiritual sight has +been developed is often sadly impressed when +he sees the subtle influences to which those +who frequent such places are exposed. It is a +fact of course that a man must be of a low +caliber to be influenced by low thoughts, and +that it is as impossible to incite a person of +benevolent character to do murder—unless +we put him into a hypnotic sleep—as to +make a tuning fork which vibrates to C sing +by striking another attuned to the key of G, +<pb n='167'/><anchor id='Pg167'/> +but the thoughts of both living and dead constantly +surround us, and no man ever thought +out a high spiritual philosophy under the influence +of tobacco fumes or while imbibing +alcoholic stimulants. Were capital punishment, +newspaper notoriety of criminals, the +<emph>manufacture</emph> of liquor and tobacco eliminated +from society, the gun factories would soon +cease to advertise and go out of business +along with most of the locksmiths. The police +force would decrease, so would jails and +taxes would be correspondingly minimized. +</p> + +<p> +When a person enters purgatory he is exactly +the same person as before he died. He +has just the same appetites, likes and dislikes, +sympathies and antipathies, as before. +There is one important difference, however, +namely, that <emph>he has no dense body wherewith +to gratify his appetites</emph>. The drunkard craves +drink, in fact, far more than he did in this +life, but has no stomach which can contain +liquor and cause chemical combustion necessary +to bring about the state of intoxication +in which he delights. He may and does enter +saloons, where he interpolates his body +into the body of a physical drunkard, so that +he may obtain his desires at second hand as +it were, he will incite his victim to drink more +<pb n='168'/><anchor id='Pg168'/> +and more. Yet there is no true satisfaction. +He sees the full glass upon the counter but +his spirit hand is unable to lift it. He suffers +tortures of Tantalus until in time he +realizes the impossibility of gratifying his +base desire. Then he is free to go on so +far as that vice is concerned. He has been +purged from that evil without intervention of +an angry deity or a conventional devil with +hell's flames and pitchfork to administer +punishment, but under the immutable law +that as we sow so shall we reap, he has suffered +exactly according to his vice. If his +craving for drink was of a mild nature, he +would scarcely miss the liquor which he cannot +there obtain. If his desires were strong +and he simply lived for drink, he would suffer +veritable tortures of hell without need +of actual flames. Thus the pain experienced +in eradication of his vice would be exactly +commensurate with the energy he had expended +upon contracting the habit, as the +force wherewith a falling stone strikes the +earth is proportionate to the energy expended +in hurling it upwards into the air. +</p> + +<p> +Yet it is not the aim of God to <q>get even;</q> +<emph>love</emph> is higher than <emph>law</emph> and in His wonderful +mercy and solicitude for our welfare He has +<pb n='169'/><anchor id='Pg169'/> +opened the way of repentance and reform +whereby we may obtain forgiveness of sin, as +taught by the Lord of Love: the Christ. Not +indeed contrary to law, for His laws are immutable, +but by application of a higher law, +whereby we accomplish here that which +would otherwise be delayed until death had +forced the day of reckoning. The method is +as follows: +</p> + +<p> +In our explanation concerning the sub-conscious +memory we noted that a record of +every act, thought and word is transmitted +by air and ether into our lungs, thence to the +blood, and finally inscribed upon the tablet of +the heart:—a certain little <hi rend='italic'>seedatom</hi>, which is +thus the book of Recording Angels. It was +later explained how this panorama of life is +etched into the desire body and forms the basis +of retribution after death. When we have +committed a wrong and our conscience accuses +us in consequence, and this accusation +is productive of sincere repentance <emph>accompanied +by reform</emph>, the picture of that wrong +act will gradually fade from the record of our +life, so that when we pass out at death it will +not stand accusingly against us. We noted +that the panorama of life unwinds backwards +just after death. Later, in the purgatorial +<pb n='170'/><anchor id='Pg170'/> +life it again passes before the spiritual vision +of the man, who then experiences the exact +feeling of those whom he has wronged. He +seems to lose his own identity for the time being, +and assumes the condition of his one +time victim, he experiences all the mental and +physical suffering himself which he inflicted +upon others. Thus he learns to be merciful +instead of cruel, and to do right instead of +wrong in a future life. But if he awakens to +a thorough realization of a wrong previous to +his death, then, as said, the feeling of sorrow +for his victim and the restitution or redress +which he gives of his own free will, make the +suffering after death unnecessary, hence—<q>his +sin is forgiven.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The Rosicrucian Mystery teaching gives a +scientific method whereby an aspirant to higher +life may purge himself continually, and thus +be able to entirely avoid existence in purgatory. +Each night after retiring the pupil reviews +his life during the past day <emph>in reverse +order</emph>. He starts to visualize as clearly as +possible the scene which took place just before +retiring. He then endeavors to impartially +view his actions in that scene examining +them to see whether he did right or wrong. If +the latter, he endeavors to <emph>feel and realize as +<pb n='171'/><anchor id='Pg171'/> +vividly as possible</emph> that wrong. For instance, +if he spoke harshly to someone, and upon later +consideration finds it was not merited, he will +endeavor to <emph>feel</emph> exactly as that one felt whom +he wronged and at the very earliest opportunity +to apologize for the hasty expression. +Then he will call up the next scene in backward +succession which may perhaps be the +supper table. In respect of that scene he will +examine himself as to whether he ate to live, +sparingly and of foods prepared without suffering +to other creatures of God, (such as +flesh foods that cannot be obtained without +taking life). If he finds that he allowed his +appetite to run away with him and that he +ate gluttonously, he will endeavor to overcome +these habits, for to live a clean life we +must have a clean body and no one can live to +his highest possibilities while making his +stomach a graveyard for the decaying corpses +of murdered animals. In this respect there +occurs to the writer a little poem by Ella +Wheeler Wilcox: +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l><q rend='pre'>I am the voice of the voiceless;</q></l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Through me the dumb shall speak,</l> +<l>Till a deaf world's ear</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Shall be made to hear</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 4'>The wrongs of the wordless weak.</l> +</lg> + +<pb n='172'/><anchor id='Pg172'/> + +<lg> +<l>The same force formed the sparrow</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>That fashioned man the king;</l> +<l>The God of the whole</l> +<l>Gave a spark of soul</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 4'>To furred and feathered thing.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>And I am my brother's keeper</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And I will fight his fight,</l> +<l>And speak the word</l> +<l>For beast and bird</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 4'>Till the world shall set things right.</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +<p> +Thus the pupil will continue to review each +scene <emph>in reverse order</emph> from night till morning, +and to <emph>feel really sorry</emph> for whatever he +has done amiss. He will not neglect to <emph>feel +glad</emph> either when he comes to a scene where +he has done well, and <emph>the more intensely he +can feel, the more thoroughly he will eradicate +the record upon the tablet of the heart +and sharpen his conscience</emph>, so that as time +goes on from year to year, he will find less +cause for blame and enhance his soul power +enormously. Thus he will grow in a measure +impossible by any less systematic method, +and there will be no necessity for his stay in +purgatory after death. +</p> + +<p> +This evening exercise and another, for the +morning, if persistently performed day by +<pb n='173'/><anchor id='Pg173'/> +day, will in time awaken the spiritual vision +as they improve life. This matter has, however, +been so thoroughly treated in number +11 of the lecture series: <q><hi rend='italic'>Spiritual Sight +and Insight; its safe culture and control</hi>,</q> +that it is unnecessary to dwell upon the matter +further in this place. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>The First Heaven.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +In the first heaven, which is located in the +higher regions of the Desire World, the panorama +of life again unrolls and reveals every +scene where we aimed to help or benefit others. +They were not felt at the time the spirit +was in the lower regions, for higher desires +cannot express themselves in the coarse matter +composing the lower regions of the Desire +World, but when the spirit ascends to +the first heaven it reaps from each scene all +the good which it expressed in life. It will +feel the gratitude poured out by those whom +it helped; if it comes to a scene where itself +received a favor from others <emph>and was grateful</emph>, +it will experience the gratitude anew. +The sum of all these feelings is there amalgamated +into the spirit to serve in a future life +as incentives to good. +</p> + +<pb n='174'/><anchor id='Pg174'/> + +<p> +Thus, the soul is purged from evil in purgatory, +and strengthened in good in the first +heaven. In one region the extract of sufferings +become <emph>conscience</emph> to deter us from doing +wrong, in the other region the quintessence +of good is transmuted to <emph>benevolence</emph> and altruism +which are the basis of all true progress. +Moreover, purgatory is far from being +a place of <emph>punishment</emph>, it is perhaps the most +beneficent realm in nature, for <emph>because of +purgation we are born innocent</emph> life after life. +The tendencies to commit the same evil for +which we suffered remain with us and temptations +to commit the same wrongs will be +placed in our path until we have consciously +overcome the evil here; temptation is not sin, +however, the sin is in yielding. +</p> + +<p> +Among the inhabitants of the invisible +world there is one class which lives a particularly +painful life, sometimes for a great +many years, namely, the suicide who tried to +play truant from the school of life. Yet it is +not an angry God or a malevolent devil who +administers punishment, but an immutable +law which proportions the sufferings differently +to each individual suicide. +</p> + +<p> +We learned previously, when considering +the World of Thought, that each form in this +<pb n='175'/><anchor id='Pg175'/> +visible world has its archetype there,—a vibrating +hollow mold which emits a certain +harmonious sound; that sound attracts and +forms physical matter into the shape we behold, +much in the same manner as when we +place a little sand upon a glass plate and rub +the edge with a violin bow, the sand is shaped +into different geometrical figures which +change as the sound changes. +</p> + +<p> +The little atom in the heart is the sample +and the center around which the atoms in our +body gather. When that is removed at death, +the center is lacking, and although the archetype +keeps on vibrating until the limit of the +life has been reached—as also previously explained,—no +matter can be drawn into the +hollow shape of the archetype and therefore +the suicide feels a dreadful gnawing pain as +if he were hollowed out, a torture which can +only be likened to the pangs of hunger. In +his case, the intense suffering will continue +for exactly as many years as he should have +lived in the body. At the expiration of that +time, the archetype collapses as it does when +death comes naturally. Then the pain of the +suicide ceases, and he commences his period +of purgation as do those who die a natural +death. But the memory of sufferings experienced +<pb n='176'/><anchor id='Pg176'/> +in consequence of the act of suicide will +remain with him in future lives and deter him +from a similar mistake. +</p> + +<p> +In the first heaven there is a class who have +not had any purgatorial existence and who +lead a particularly joyous life: the children. +Our homes may be saddened almost beyond +endurance when the little flower is broken +and the sunshine it brought has gone. But +could we see the beautiful existence which +these little ones lead, and did we understand +the great benefits which accrue to a child from +its limited stay there, our sorrow would be at +least ameliorated in a great measure, and the +wound upon our heart would heal more +quickly. Besides, as nothing else in the +world happens without a cause, so there is +also a much deeper cause for infant mortality +than we are usually aware of, and as we +awake to the facts of the case, we shall be +able to avoid in future the sorrow incident to +loss of our little ones. +</p> + +<p> +To understand the case properly we must +revert to the experiences of the dying in the +death hour. We remember that the panorama +of the past life is etched upon the desire +body during a period varying from a few +hours to three and one-half days, just subsequent +<pb n='177'/><anchor id='Pg177'/> +to demise. We recall also, that upon +the depth of this etching depends the clearness +of the picture, and that the more vivid +this panorama of life, the more intensely will +the spirit suffer in purgatory and feel the +joys of heaven; also, that the greater the suffering +in purgatory the stronger the conscience +in the next life. +</p> + +<p> +It was explained how the horrors of death +upon the battlefield, in an accident or other +untoward circumstances would prevent the +spirit from giving all its attention to the panorama +of life with the result that there would +be a light etching in the desire body, followed +by a vague and insipid existence in purgatory +and the first heaven. It was also stated that +hysterical lamentations in the death chamber +would produce the same effect. +</p> + +<p> +A spirit which had thus escaped suffering +proportionate to its misdeeds, and which had +not experienced the pleasure commensurate +with the good it had done, would not in a future +life have as well developed a conscience +as it ought to have, nor would it be as benevolent +as it ought to be, and therefore the life, +terminated under conditions over which the +spirit had no control, would be partly wasted. +The Great Leaders of humanity therefore +<pb n='178'/><anchor id='Pg178'/> +take steps to counteract such a calamity and +prevent an injustice. The spirit is brought +to birth, caused to die in childhood, it re-enters +the Desire World and in the first heaven +it is taught the lessons of which it was deprived +previously. +</p> + +<p> +As the first heaven is located in the Desire +World,—which is the realm of light and color,—where +matter is shaped most readily by +thought, the little ones are given wonderful +toys impossible of construction here. They +are taught to play with <emph>colors which work +upon their moral character</emph> in exactly the +manner each child requires. Anyone who is +at all sensitive is affected by the color of his +clothing and surroundings. Some colors have +a depressing effect, while others inspire us +with energy, and others again soothe and +comfort us. In the Desire World the effect +of colors is much more intense, they are much +more potent factors of good and evil there +than here, and in this color play, the child +imbibes unconsciously the qualities which it +did not acquire on account of accident or lamentations +of relatives. Often it also falls to +the lot of such relatives to care for a child in +the invisible world, or perhaps to give it birth +and see it die. Thus they receive just retribution +<pb n='179'/><anchor id='Pg179'/> +for the wrong committed. As wars +cease, and man learns to be more careful of +life, and also how to care for the dying, infant +mortality, which now is so appalling, will +decrease. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>The Second Heaven.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +When both the good and evil of a life has +been extracted, the spirit discards its desire +body and ascends to the second heaven. The +desire body then commences to disintegrate +as the physical body and the vital body have +done, but it is a peculiarity of desire stuff, +that once it has been formed and inspired +with life, it persists for a considerable time. +Even after that life has fled it lives a semi-conscious, +independent life. Sometimes it is +drawn by magnetic attraction to relatives of +the spirit whose clothing it was, and at spiritualistic +seances these <hi rend='italic'>shells</hi> generally impersonate +the departed spirit and deceive its relatives. +As the panorama of the past life is +etched into the shells they have a memory of +incidents in connection with these relatives, +which facilitates the deception. But as the +intelligence has fled, they are of course unable +to give any true counsel, and that accounts +<pb n='180'/><anchor id='Pg180'/> +for the inane, goody-goody nonsense +of which these things deliver themselves. +</p> + +<p> +When passing from the first to the second +heaven, the spirit experiences the condition +known and described previously as <q>The +Great Silence,</q> where it stands utterly alone +conscious only of its divinity. When that silence +is broken there floats in upon the spirit +celestial harmonies of <emph>the world of tone</emph> +where the second heaven is located. It seems +then to lave in an ocean of sound and to experience +a joy beyond all description and +words, as it nears its heavenly home—for this +is the first of the truly spiritual realms from +which the spirit has been exiled during its +earth life and the subsequent post-mortem +existence. In the Desire World its work was +<emph>corrective</emph>, but in the World of Thought the +human spirit becomes one with the nature +forces and its <emph>creative</emph> activity begins. +</p> + +<p> +Under the law of causation we reap exactly +what we sow, and it would be wrong to place +one spirit in an environment where there is a +scarcity of the necessities of life, where a +scorching sun burns the crop and millions die +from famine, or where the raging flood +sweeps away primitive habitations not built +to withstand its ravages, and to bring another +<pb n='181'/><anchor id='Pg181'/> +spirit to birth in a land of plenty, with a fertile +soil which yields a maximum of increase +with a minimum of labor, where the earth is +rich in minerals that may be used in industry +to facilitate transportation of products of the +soil from one point to another. If we were +thus placed without action or acquiescence +upon our part, there would be no justice, but +as our post-mortem existence in purgatory +and the first heaven is based upon our moral +attitude in this life so our activities in the +second heaven are determined by our mental +aspirations and they produce our future +physical environment, for in the second heaven, +the spirit becomes part of the nature +forces which work upon the earth and change +its climate, flora and fauna. A spirit of an +indolent nature, who indulges in day dreams +and metaphysical speculations <emph>here</emph>, is not +transformed by death respecting its mental +attitude any more than regarding its moral +propensities. It will dream away time in +heaven, glorying in its sights and sounds. +Thus it will neglect to work upon its future +country and return to a barren and arid land. +Spirits, on the other hand, whose material +aspirations lead them to desire so-called solid +comforts of hearth and home, who aim to +<pb n='182'/><anchor id='Pg182'/> +promote great industries and whose mind is +concerned in trade and commerce, will build +in heaven a land that will suit their purpose: +fertile, immineralized, with navigable rivers +and sheltered harbors. They will return in +time to enjoy upon earth the fruits of their +labors in the second heaven, as they reap the +result of their life upon earth in purgatory +and the first heaven. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>The Third Heaven.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +In the third heaven most people have very +little consciousness for reasons explained in +connection with the Region of Abstract +Thought, for there the third heaven is located. +It is therefore more of a place of waiting +where the spirit rests between the time +when its labors in the second heaven have been +completed and the time when it again experiences +the desire for rebirth. But from this +realm inventors bring down their original +ideas; there the philanthropist obtains the +clearest vision of how to realize his utopian +dreams and the spiritual aspirations of the +saintly minded are given renewed impetus. +</p> + +<p> +In time the desires of the spirit for further +experiences draws it back to rebirth, and the +<pb n='183'/><anchor id='Pg183'/> +Great Celestial Beings who are known in the +Christian Religion as Recording Angels, assist +the spirit to come to birth in the place +best suited to give it the experience necessary +to further unfold its powers and possibilities. +</p> + +<p> +We have all been here many times and in +different families, we have had relations of +varying nature with many different people +and usually there are several families among +whom we may seek re-embodiment to work +out our self-generated destiny and reap what +we have sown in former life. If there are no +special reasons why we should take birth in +any particular family among certain friends +or foes, the spirit is allowed to choose its own +place of birth. Thus it may be said that most +of us are in our present places by our own +prenatal choice. +</p> + +<p> +In order to assist us in making that choice +the Recording Angels call up before the spirit's +vision a panorama in general outlines of +each of the offered lives. This panorama will +show what part of our past debts we are to +pay, and what fruits we may be expected to +reap in the coming life. +</p> + +<p> +The spirit is left free to choose between the +several lives offered. But once a choice has +<pb n='184'/><anchor id='Pg184'/> +been made no evasion is possible during life. +We have free will with regard to the future, +but the past <q><emph>mature</emph></q> destiny we cannot escape, +as shown by the incident recorded in +<hi rend='italic'>The Rosicrucian Cosmo Conception</hi>, where +the writer warned a well known Los Angeles +lecturer that if he left his home upon a certain +day, he would be injured by a conveyance, +in head, neck, breast and shoulders. +The gentleman believed and intended to heed +our warning. Nevertheless he went to Sierra +Madre to lecture upon the fateful day. He +was injured in the places stated by a collision +and later explained: <q>I thought the twenty-eighth +was the twenty-ninth.</q> +</p> + +<p> +When the spirit has made its choice, it descends +into the second heaven where it is instructed +by the Angels and Archangels how +to build an archetype of the body which it +will later inhabit upon earth. Also here we +note the operation of the great law of justice +which decrees that we reap what we sow. If +our tastes are coarse and sensual, we shall +build an archetype which will express these +qualities; if we are refined and of aesthetic +taste, we shall build an archetype correspondingly +refined, but no one can obtain a +better body than he can build. Then, as the +<pb n='185'/><anchor id='Pg185'/> +architect who builds a house in which he afterwards +lives, will suffer discomfort if he +neglects to properly ventilate it, so also the +spirit feels disease in a poorly constructed +body, and as the architect learns to avoid +mistakes and remedy the short-comings of +one house when building another, so also the +spirit which suffers from defects in its body, +learns in time to build better and better vehicles. +</p> + +<p> +In the Region of Concrete Thought, the +spirit also draws to itself materials for a new +mind. As a magnet draws iron filings but +leaves other substances alone, so also each +spirit draws only the kind of mind-stuff which +it used in its former life, plus that which it +has learned to use in its present post-mortem +state. Then it descends into the Desire +World where it gathers material for a new +desire body such as will express appropriately +its moral characteristics, and later it +attracts a certain amount of ether which is +built into the mold of the archetype constructed +in the second heaven and acts as cement +between the solids, liquids and gaseous +material from the bodies of parents which +forms the dense physical body of a child, and +in due time the latter is brought to birth. +</p> + +<pb n='186'/><anchor id='Pg186'/> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>Birth and Child Life.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +It must not be imagined, however, that +when the little body of a child has been born, +the process of birth is completed. The dense +physical body has had the longest evolution, +and as a shoemaker who has worked at his +trade for a number of years is more expert +than an apprentice and can make better shoes +and <emph>quicker</emph>, so also the spirit which has built +many physical bodies produces them quickly, +but the vital body is a later acquisition of the +human being. Therefore we are not so expert +in building that vehicle. Consequently it +takes longer to construct that from the materials +not used up in making the lining of the +archetype, and the vital body is not born until +the seventh year. Then the period of rapid +growth commences. The desire body is a +still later addition of composite man, and is +not brought to birth until the fourteenth year +when the desire nature expresses itself most +strongly during so-called <q>hot</q> youth, and the +mind, which makes man man, does not come +to birth until the twenty-first year. In law +that age is recognized as the earliest time he +is fitted to exercise a franchise. +</p> + +<pb n='187'/><anchor id='Pg187'/> + +<p> +This knowledge is of the utmost importance +to parents, as a proper understanding of the +development which should take place in each +of the septenary epochs enables the educator +to work intelligently with nature and thus +fulfill more thoroughly the trust of a parent +than those who are ignorant of the Rosicrucian +Mystery Teaching. We shall therefore +devote the remaining pages to an elucidation +of this matter and of the importance of the +knowledge of astrology upon the part of the +parent. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>The Mystery of Light, Color and +Consciousness.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>God is Light,</q> says the Bible, and we are +unable to conceive of a grander simile of His +Omnipresence, or the mode of His manifestation. +Even the greatest telescopes have +failed to reach the boundaries of light, though +they reveal to us stars millions of miles from +the earth, and we may well ask ourselves, as +did the Psalmist of old: Whither shall I flee +from Thy Presence? If I ascend into heaven +Thou art there, If I make my bed in the grave +(the Hebrew word <foreign lang='he' rend='italic'>sheol</foreign> +means <hi rend='italic'>grave</hi> and +not hell), Thou art there, If I take the wings +<pb n='188'/><anchor id='Pg188'/> +of morning and dwell in the uttermost parts +of the sea, even there shall thy hand lead +me. +</p> + +<p> +When, in the dawn of Being, <hi rend='italic'>God the Father</hi> +enunciated <hi rend='italic'>The Word</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>The Holy Spirit</hi> +moved upon the sea of homogeneous <hi rend='italic'>Virgin +Matter</hi>, primeval <hi rend='italic'>Darkness</hi> was turned to +<hi rend='italic'>Light</hi>. That is therefore the prime manifestation +of Deity, and a study of the principles +of Light will reveal to the mystic intuition a +wonderful source of spiritual inspiration. As +it would take us too far afield from our subject +we shall not enter into an elucidation of +that theme here, except so far as to give an +elementary idea of how divine Life energizes +the human frame and stimulates to action. +</p> + +<p> +Truly, God is ONE and undivided, He enfolds +within His Being all that is, as the white +light embraces all colors. But He appears +three-fold in manifestation, as the white light +is refracted in three primary colors: Blue, +Yellow and Red. Wherever we see these colors +they are emblematical of the Father, Son +and Holy Spirit. These three primary rays +of divine Life are diffused or radiated +through the sun and produce <hi rend='italic'>Life</hi>, +<hi rend='italic'>Consciousness</hi> +and <hi rend='italic'>Form</hi> upon each of the seven light-bearers, +the planets, which are called <q>the +<pb n='189'/><anchor id='Pg189'/> +Seven Spirits before the Throne.</q> Their +names are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, +Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. Bode's law +proves that Neptune does not belong to our +solar system and the reader is referred to +<q>Simplified Scientific Astrology</q> by the +present writer, for mathematical demonstration +of this contention. +</p> + +<p> +Each of the seven planets receives the light +of the sun in a different measure, according +to its proximity to the central orb and the +constitution of its atmosphere, and the beings +upon each, according to their stage of +development, have affinity for some of the +solar rays. They absorb the color or colors +congruous to them, and reflect the remainder +upon the other planets. This reflected ray +bears with it an impulse of the nature of the +beings with which it has been in contact. +</p> + +<p> +Thus the divine Light and Life comes to +each planet, either directly from the sun, or +reflected from its six sister planets, and as +the summer breeze which has been wafted +over blooming fields carries upon its silent +invisible wings the blended fragrance of a +multitude of flowers, so also the subtle influences +from the garden of God bring to us the +commingled impulses of all the Spirits and +<pb n='190'/><anchor id='Pg190'/> +in that varicolored light we live and move and +have our being. +</p> + +<p> +The rays which come directly from the sun +are productive of spiritual illumination, the +reflected rays from other planets make for +added consciousness and moral development +and the rays reflected by way of the moon +give physical growth. +</p> + +<p> +But as each planet can only absorb a certain +quantity of one or more colors according +to the general stage of evolution there, so +each being upon earth: mineral, plant, animal +and man can only absorb and thrive upon a +certain quantity of the various rays projected +upon the earth. The remainder do not affect +it or produce sensation, any more than +the blind are conscious of light and color +which exist everywhere around them. +Therefore each being is differently affected +by the stellar rays and the science of Astrology +a fundamental truth in nature, of enormous +benefit in the attainment of spiritual +growth. +</p> + +<p> +From a horoscopic figure in mystic script +we may learn our own strength and weakness, +with the path best suited to our development, +or we may see the tendencies of those friends +who come to us as children, and what traits +<pb n='191'/><anchor id='Pg191'/> +are dormant in them. Thus we shall know +clearly how to discharge our duty as parents, +by repressing evil before it comes to birth +and fostering good, so that it may bring forth +most abundantly the spiritual potencies of +the soul committed to our care. +</p> + +<p> +As we have already said, man returns to +earth to reap that which he has sown in previous +lives and to sow anew the seeds which +make for future experience. The stars are +the heavenly time keepers which measure the +year, the moon indicates the month when time +will be propitious to harvest or to sow. +</p> + +<p> +The child is a mystery to us all, we can +only know its propensities as they slowly develop +into characteristics, but it is usually +too late to check when evil habits have been +formed and the youth is upon the downward +grade. A horoscope cast for the time of birth +in a scientific manner shows the tendencies +to good or evil in the child, and if a parent +will take time and trouble necessary to study +the science of the stars, he or she may do the +child intrusted to his or her care an inestimable +service by fostering tendencies to good +and repressing the evil bent of a child ere it +has crystallized into habit. Do not imagine +that a superior mathematical knowledge is +<pb n='192'/><anchor id='Pg192'/> +necessary to erect a horoscope. Many construct +a horoscope in such an involved manner, +so <q>fearfully and wonderfully made</q> +that it is unreadable to themselves or others, +while a simple figure easy of reading may be +constructed by anyone who knows how to add +and subtract. This method has been thoroughly +elucidated in Simplified Scientific +Astrology which is a complete text book, +though small and inexpensive, and parents +who have the welfare of their children +thoroughly at heart should endeavor to learn +for themselves, for even though their ability +may not compare with that of a professional +astrologer, their intimate knowledge of the +child and their deep interest will more than +compensate for such lack and enable them to +see most deeply into the child's character by +means of its horoscope. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>Education of Children.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Respecting the birth of the various vehicles +and the influence which that has upon +life, we may say that during the time from +birth to the seventh year the lines of growth +of the physical body are determined, and as +it has been noted that sound is builder both +<pb n='193'/><anchor id='Pg193'/> +in the great and small, we may well imagine +that rhythm must have an enormous influence +upon the growing and sensitive little +child's organism. The apostle John in the +first chapter of his gospel expresses this idea +mystically in the beautiful words: <q>In the +beginning was the WORD ... and +without it was not anything made that was +made ... and the word became flesh;</q> +the word is a rhythmic sound, which issued +from the Creator, reverberated through the +universe and marshaled countless millions of +atoms into the multiplex variety of shapes +and forms which we see about us. The +mountain, the mayflower, the mouse and the +man are all embodiments of that great Cosmic +Word which is still sounding through the +universe and which is still building and ever +building though unheard by our insensitive +ears. But though we do not hear that wonderful +celestial sound, we may work upon +the little child's body by terrestrial music, +and though the nursery rhymes are without +sense, they are nevertheless bearers of a wonderful +rhythm, and the more a child is taught +to say, sing and repeat them, to dance and to +march to them, the more music is incorporated +into a child's daily life, the stronger +<pb n='194'/><anchor id='Pg194'/> +and healthier will be its body in future years. +</p> + +<p> +There are two mottoes which apply during +this period, one to the child and the other to +the parent: <hi rend='italic'>Example</hi> +and <hi rend='italic'>Imitation</hi>. No creature +under heaven is more imitative than a +little child, and its conduct in after years will +depend largely upon the example set by its +parents during its early life. It is no use to +tell the child <q>not to mind,</q> it has no mind +wherewith to discriminate, but follows its +natural tendency, as water flows down a hill, +when it imitates. Therefore it behooves +every parent to remember from morning till +night that watchful eyes are upon him all the +time waiting but for him to act in order to +follow his example. +</p> + +<p> +It is of the utmost importance that the +child's clothing should be very loose, particularly +the clothing of little boys, as chafing +garments often produce vices which follow a +man through life. +</p> + +<p> +If anyone should attempt to forcibly extract +a babe from the protecting womb of its +mother, the outrage would result in death, +because the babe has not yet arrived at a maturity +sufficient to endure impacts of the +Physical World. In the three septenary periods +which follow birth, the invisible vehicles +<pb n='195'/><anchor id='Pg195'/> +are still in the womb of mother nature. +If we teach a child of tender years to memorize, +or to think, or if we arouse its feelings +and emotions, we are in fact opening the protecting +womb of nature and the results are +equally as disastrous in other respects as a +forced premature birth. Child prodigies usually +become men and women of less than ordinary +intelligence. We should not hinder the +child from learning or thinking of <emph>his own +volition</emph>, but we should not goad them on as +parents often do to nourish their own pride. +</p> + +<p> +When the vital body is born at the age of +seven a period of growth begins and a new +motto, or relation rather, is established between +parent and child. This may be expressed +in the two words <hi rend='italic'>Authority</hi> and <hi rend='italic'>Discipleship</hi>. +In this period the child is taught +certain lessons which it takes upon faith in +the authority of its teachers, whether at home +or at school, and as memory is a faculty of +the vital body it can now memorize what is +learned. It is therefore eminently teachable; +particularly because it is unbiased by pre-conceived +opinions which prevent most of us +from accepting new views. At the end of this +second period: from about twelve to fourteen, +the vital body has been so far developed +<pb n='196'/><anchor id='Pg196'/> +that puberty is reached. At the age of fourteen +we have the birth of the desire body, +which marks the commencement of self-assertion. +In earlier years the child regards itself +more as belonging to a family and subordinate +to the wishes of its parents than after +the fourteenth year. The reason is this: In +the throat of the fœtus and the young child +there is a gland called the thymus gland, +which is largest before birth, then gradually +diminishes through the years of childhood +and finally disappears at ages which vary according +to the characteristics of the child. +Anatomists have been puzzled as to the function +of this organ and have not yet come to +any settled conclusion, but it has been suggested +that before development of the red +marrow bones, the child is not able to manufacture +its own blood, and that therefore the +thymus gland contains an essence, supplied +by the parents, upon which the child may +draw during infancy and childhood, till able +to manufacture its own blood. That theory +is approximately true, and as the family +blood flows in the child, it looks upon itself as +part of the family and not as an Ego. But +the moment it commences to manufacture its +own blood, the Ego asserts itself, it is no +<pb n='197'/><anchor id='Pg197'/> +longer Papa's girl or Mamma's boy, it has an +<q>I</q>-dentity of its own. Then comes the critical +age when parents reap what they have +sown. The mind has not yet been born, nothing +holds the desire nature in check, and +much, very much, depends upon how the +child has been taught in earlier years and +what example the parents have set. At this +point in life self-assertion, the feeling <q><emph>I am +myself</emph></q>, is stronger than at any other time +and therefore authority should give place to +<hi rend='italic'>Advice</hi>; the parent should practice the utmost +tolerance, for at no time in life is a human being +as much in need of sympathy as during +the seven years from fourteen to twenty-one +when the desire nature is rampant and unchecked. +</p> + +<p> +It is a crime to inflict corporal punishment +upon a child at any age. Might is never +right, and as the stronger, parents should always +have compassion for the weaker. But +there is one feature of corporal punishment +which makes it particularly dangerous to apply +it to the youth: namely, that it wakens the +passional nature which is already perhaps beyond +the control of a growing boy. +</p> + +<p> +If we whip a dog, we shall soon break its +spirit and transform it into a cringing cur, +<pb n='198'/><anchor id='Pg198'/> +and it is deplorable that some parents seem +to regard it as their mission in life to break +the spirit of their children with the rule of +the rod. If there is one universal lack among +the human race which is more apparent than +any other, it is lack of will, and as parents we +may remedy the evil in a large measure by +guiding the wills of our children along such +lines as dictated by our own more mature +reason, so that we help them to grow a backbone +instead of a wishbone with which unfortunately +most of us are afflicted. Therefore, +never whip a child; when punishment is +necessary, correct by withholding favors or +withdrawing privileges. +</p> + +<p> +At the twenty-first year the birth of the +mind transforms the youth into a man or a +woman fully equipped to commence his own +life in the school of experience. +</p> + +<p> +Thus we have followed the human spirit +around a life cycle from death to birth and +maturity, we have seen how immutable law +governs his every step and how he is ever +encompassed by the loving care of the Great +and Glorious Beings who are the ministers of +God. The method of his future development +will be explained in a later work which will +deal with <q>The Christian Mystic Initiation.</q> +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='199'/><anchor id='Pg199'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Mt. Ecclesia</head> + +<p> +(Transcriber's Note: This chapter is the series of pages which, earlier, the +author said <q>had been transferred</q> to the back of the book.) +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>A Description of the Headquarters of the +Rosicrucian Fellowship</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Work in the physical world requires physical +means of accomplishment; therefore +a tract of land was bought in 1911 in the +town of Oceanside, ninety miles south of Los Angeles, +California. <hi rend='italic'>Southern California was selected +because of the abundance of ether in the atmosphere +there, and this spot was found to be particularly +favored in that respect.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +On this commanding site having a wide view of +the great Pacific Ocean, of snow capped mountains +and smiling valleys, we began to establish our +headquarters in the latter part of 1911. Soon after +this we erected a sanctuary, the Pro-Ecclesia, +where the Rosicrucian Temple Service is held at +appropriate times. The Rose Cross Healing Circle +holds its meetings there to help sufferers, and it +is the place appointed for the united morning and +<pb n='200'/><anchor id='Pg200'/> +evening devotions of the workers. In the latter +half of 1920 we built an Ecclesia, which is designed +to be a Temple of Healing. The building, +a beautiful domed structure, is of steel and reinforced +concrete. It is twelve sided in shape, corresponding +to the twelve signs of the zodiac. At +the present writing, January, 1921, the final work +upon it is just being completed. The esoteric work +of the Fellowship will be carried on here. +</p> + +<p> +We have also built a two-story Administration +Building to house the general office, the book department, +the correspondence school in Christian +Mysticism which links Headquarters with students +all over the world, and the editorial offices of our +monthly publications, notably the <q><hi rend='italic'>Rosicrucian +Fellowship Magazine—Rays from the Rose Cross</hi>.</q> +We have also an astrological department which +conducts a correspondence school. Its offices are +located on the second floor. +</p> + +<p> +The whole first floor is occupied by a modern +printing plant and book bindery required to furnish +the immense amount of literature needed in +this work. In the book department we publish all +the standard works and text books of the Rosicrucian +Philosophy written by Max Heindel. We are +now in process of publishing in book form his +former lessons to students. +</p> + +<pb n='201'/><anchor id='Pg201'/> + +<p> +In October, 1920, a Training School was established +for the preparation of candidates for the +lecture field. It is our intention to thereby maintain +a Lecture Bureau, from which we will send +our lecturers throughout the country to disseminate +the teachings and carry the message of our +philosophy to the people to a greater extent than +has before been possible. +</p> + +<p> +A Dining Hall with seating capacity for over +one hundred people affords ample accommodation +for workers, students, and patients. The scientific +meatless diet served there preserves or restores +health, as required in each case. Furthermore, it +improves the vitality and mentality in an astonishing +degree. A large dormitory, and a number of +cottages and tents provide living quarters for all. +</p> + +<p> +By the liberal use of water and the expenditure +of much labor, Mount Ecclesia is +gradually being transformed into a luxuriant +tropical park. There is a deep spiritual purpose in +this attempt to make the visible centre of the new +world movement beautiful, for it fosters in +the workers a poise and peace which are absolutely +essential to the proper performance of +their work. Without that they cannot escape +being disturbed by the flood of sorrow and +trouble which flows into Headquarters from +<pb n='202'/><anchor id='Pg202'/> +members all over the world; without that they +cannot continue to put heart into the letters +of help, hope and cheer which continually go +out to souls who are groaning under the burden +of sickness, but by bathing their souls in +the beauty of the surroundings, whether consciously +or not, they gain in strength and +grow in grace, they become better and better +fitted for the Great Work in the Master's +Vineyard. +</p> + +<p> +In order to aid those who feel the upward +urge, to prepare intelligently and reverently +for the unfoldment of their inner latent spiritual +powers, the Rosicrucian Fellowship maintains +two correspondence courses which furnish +instruction to students all over the world. +One deals with <hi rend='italic'>Astrology</hi>, the other with +<hi rend='italic'>Christian Mysticism</hi>. +</p> + +<p> +The Astrology to which we refer is not to +be confounded with fortune-telling; it is a +phase of the Mystic Religion, as sublime as +the stars with which it deals, and to the Mystic +they are not dead bodies moving in space +in obedience to so-called blind natural law, +but they are the embodiments of <q><hi rend='italic'>The Seven +Spirits before the Throne</hi>,</q> mighty Star-Angels +who use their benevolent influences to +<pb n='203'/><anchor id='Pg203'/> +guide other less exalted beings, humanity included, +upon the path of evolution. +</p> + +<p> +There is a side of the moon which we never +see, but that hidden half is as potent a factor +in creating the ebb and flow, as the part of the +moon which is visible. Similarly, there is an +invisible part of man which exerts a powerful +influence in life, and as the tides are measured +by the motion of sun and moon, so also +the eventualities of existence are measured by +the circling stars, which may therefore be +called <q>the Clock of Destiny,</q> and knowledge +of their import is an immense power, for to +the competent Astrologer a horoscope reveals +every secret of life. +</p> + +<p> +Thus, when you have given an astrologer +the data of your birth, you have given him the +key to your innermost soul, and there is no +secret that he may not ferret out. This knowledge +may be used for good or ill, to help or +hurt, according to the nature of the man. +Only a friend should be trusted with this key +to your soul, and it should never be given to +anyone base enough to prostitute a spiritual +science for material gain. +</p> + +<p> +To the medical man Astrology is invaluable +in diagnosing diseases and prescribing a remedy, +for it reveals the hidden cause of all +<pb n='204'/><anchor id='Pg204'/> +ailments, in a manner that has often perplexed +the skeptic and dumbfounded the +scoffer. +</p> + +<p> +The opinion of thousands is of great value, +but it does not prove anything, for thousands +may hold an opposite view; occasionally a +single man may be right and the rest of the +world wrong, as when Galileo maintained that +the earth moves. Today the whole world has +been converted to the opinion for which he +suffered torture, and we assert that, <emph>as man is +a composite being, cures are successful only in +proportion as they remedy defects on the +physical, moral and mental planes of Being</emph>. +We also maintain that results may be obtained +more easily at certain times when stellar +rays are propitious to healing of a particular +disease, or by treatment with remedies +previously prepared under auspicious conditions. +</p> + +<p> +If you are a parent the horoscope will aid +you to detect the evil latent in your child and +teach you how to apply the ounce of prevention. +It will show you the good points also, +that you may make a better man or woman of +the soul entrusted to your care. It will reveal +systemic weakness and enable you to guard +the health of your child; it will show what +<pb n='205'/><anchor id='Pg205'/> +talents are there, and how the life may be +lived to a maximum of usefulness. Therefore, +the message of the marching orbs is so important +that you cannot afford to remain ignorant +thereof. +</p> + +<p> +In order to aid those who are willing to +help themselves we maintain a Correspondence +Class in Astrology, but make no mistake, +we do not teach fortune-telling; if that is what +you are looking for, we have nothing for you. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Our Lessons Are Sermons</hi> +</p> + +<p> +They embody the highest moral and spiritual +principles, together with the loftiest system +of ethics, for Astrology is, to us, a phase +of religion; we never look at a horoscope +without feeling that we are in a holy presence, +face to face with an immortal soul, and our +attitude is one of prayer for light to guide +that soul aright. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>We Do Not Cast Horoscopes</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Despite all we can say, many people write +enclosing money for horoscopes, forcing us to +spend valuable time writing letters of refusal +and giving us the trouble of returning their +money. Please do not thus annoy us; it will +avail you nothing. +</p> + +<pb n='206'/><anchor id='Pg206'/> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>The Course in Christian Mysticism</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>Christ</hi> taught the multitude in <emph>parables</emph>, but +explained the <emph>mysteries</emph> to His disciples. +<emph>Paul gave milk</emph> to the babes, but <emph>meat</emph> to the +strong. +</p> + +<p> +Max Heindel, the founder and leader of +the Rosicrucian Fellowship, endeavored to follow +in their steps and give to interested and +devoted students a <emph>deeper teaching</emph> than that +promulgated in public. +</p> + +<p> +For that purpose we conduct a correspondence +course in <hi rend='italic'>Christian Mysticism</hi>. The General +Secretary may admit applicants to the +preliminary course, but <emph>advancement</emph> in the +deeper degrees depends upon merit. It is for +those alone who have been <emph>tried</emph>, and found +true. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>How To Apply for Admission</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Anyone who is not engaged in fortune-telling +or similar methods of commercializing +spiritual knowledge will, upon request, receive +an application blank from the General +Secretary, Rosicrucian Fellowship. When +this blank is returned properly filled, he may +admit the applicant to instruction in either or +both correspondence courses. +</p> + +<pb n='207'/><anchor id='Pg207'/> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>The Cost of the Course</hi> +</p> + +<p> +There are no fixed fees; no esoteric instruction +is ever put in the balance against coin. +At the same time, it cannot be given <q><emph>free</emph>,</q> +<q><emph>for nothing</emph>,</q> for those who work to promulgate +it must have the necessities of life. Type, +paper, machinery and postage also cost +money, and <emph>unless you pay your part someone +else must pay for you</emph>. +</p> + +<p> +There are a few who cannot contribute, and +who need these teachings as much or more +than those who may take comfort from financial +ease or affluence. If they make their condition +known, they will receive as much attention +as the largest contributors, but others +are expected to contribute for their own good +as well as for the good of the work. Remember, +<hi rend='italic'>a closed hand that does not give cannot +receive</hi>. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='208'/><anchor id='Pg208'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Index</head> + +<lg> +<l>Abstract Thought, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> +<ref target='index-thought-world-abstract'>Thought, World of, +Region of Abstract Thought</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Action, incentive to, <ref target='Pg158'>158</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Adepts, pupils of schools of the Greater Mysteries, <ref target='Pg010'>10</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Air, charged with pictures of surroundings, <ref target='Pg037'>37</ref>, <ref target='Pg155'>155</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Alchemy, proved by radio-activity, <ref target='Pg108'>108</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Alcohol, results of using, <ref target='Pg166'>166</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Ambassador from sun, <ref target='Pg087'>87</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Ameshaspends, Seven Spirits before the Throne, <ref target='Pg087'>87</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Angels, densest body of, composed of ether, <ref target='Pg073'>73</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>expert builders in ether, <ref target='Pg074'>74</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>family spirits, <ref target='Pg080'>80</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>guardians of propagative force, <ref target='Pg074'>74</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>instruct ego in building archetype, <ref target='Pg184'>184</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>one step beyond human stage, <ref target='Pg073'>73</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Angels, Recording, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> +<ref target='index-recording-angels'>Recording angels</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Animals, dependent upon group spirit for infusion of stellar rays, <ref target='Pg124'>124</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>keyed to lunar month, <ref target='Pg124'>124</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>thought processes of, <ref target='Pg122'>122</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Aquarian Age, intellect of, <ref target='Pg015'>15</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-archangels'/> +<l>Archangels, densest vehicle of, <ref target='Pg079'>79</ref>;</l> +<pb n='209'/><anchor id='Pg209'/> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>instruct ego in building archetype, <ref target='Pg184'>184</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>less evolved become group spirits, <ref target='Pg081'>81</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>native of Desire World, <ref target='Pg079'>79</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>race and national spirits, <ref target='Pg080'>80</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>various grades of, <ref target='Pg080'>80</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>work with humanity politically and industrially, <ref target='Pg080'>80</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Arche, primordial matter of, <ref target='Pg108'>108</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Archetypal forces direct archetypes, <ref target='Pg103'>103</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Archetype, duration of, <ref target='Pg175'>175</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>vibratory mold, <ref target='Pg175'>175</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Assimilation, through ether, <ref target='Pg123'>123</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Astrology, estimation of time by, in Desire World, <ref target='Pg094'>94</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>value of, <ref target='Pg190'>190</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Atom, physical, spherical shape of, <ref target='Pg009'>9</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Atom, seed, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> <ref target='index-seed-atom'>Seed +atom</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Atoms, chemical, expelled through skin, <ref target='Pg127'>127</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Attitude, mental, results of, <ref target='Pg181'>181</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Benevolence, acquired in First Heaven, <ref target='Pg174'>174</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Bennett, Florence, trance of, <ref target='Pg141'>141</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Black magic, punishment of, <ref target='Pg017'>17</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Blood, charged with pictures of surroundings, <ref target='Pg155'>155</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>relation of, to vital body, <ref target='Pg129'>129</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Blue, in stellar ray, life of the Father, <ref target='Pg124'>124</ref>, <ref target='Pg188'>188</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Bode's law and Neptune, <ref target='Pg189'>189</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Body, dense, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> <ref target='index-dense-body'>Dense +body</ref>.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>desire, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> +<ref target='index-desire-body'>Desire body</ref>.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>vital, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> +<ref target='index-vital-body'>Vital body</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Brain, absorption of stellar rays through, <ref target='Pg124'>124</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Breath, record of, <ref target='Pg037'>37</ref>, <ref target='Pg038'>38</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Capital punishment, menace of, <ref target='Pg164'>164</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Carelessness, power of, to shorten life, <ref target='Pg147'>147</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-causation-law'/> +<l>Causation, law of, attraction of like to like, <ref target='Pg048'>48</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>determines environment, <ref target='Pg048'>48</ref>, <ref target='Pg180'>180</ref>;</l> +<pb n='210'/><anchor id='Pg210'/> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>flexibility of law of, <ref target='Pg052'>52</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-chaos'/> +<l>Chaos, (Cosmic night) seed ground of Cosmos, <ref target='Pg112'>112</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>state of orderly segregation, <ref target='Pg105'>105</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Chemical atoms, expelled through skin, <ref target='Pg127'>127</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-chemical-ether'/> +<l>Chemical ether, assimilation and growth by, <ref target='Pg069'>69</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>seen as blue haze, <ref target='Pg065'>65</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Child, post-mortem experiences of, easily investigated, <ref target='Pg051'>51</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>prodigies, <ref target='Pg195'>195</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Children, clairvoyance of, <ref target='Pg160'>160</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>danger of mental forcing, <ref target='Pg195'>195</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>discipline of, <ref target='Pg195'>195</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>individual blood developed in, <ref target='Pg196'>196</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>imitativeness of, <ref target='Pg194'>194</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>proper clothing of, <ref target='Pg194'>194</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>life of, in First Heaven, <ref target='Pg176'>176</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>understanding of, through astrology, <ref target='Pg192'>192</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Christ, higher laws taught by, <ref target='Pg169'>169</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>rebirth taught by, <ref target='Pg046'>46</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Christianity, the flowering of previous religions, <ref target='Pg006'>6</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Clairvoyance of children, <ref target='Pg160'>160</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>of the dying, <ref target='Pg148'>148</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>varieties of, <ref target='Pg136'>136</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Clairvoyants, separation of vital body of, <ref target='Pg137'>137</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Clairvoyants, trained, positive powers of, <ref target='Pg137'>137</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Colors, emotional effect produced by, <ref target='Pg178'>178</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Colors, primary, symbolize God, <ref target='Pg188'>188</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Community affected by executions, <ref target='Pg165'>165</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Concentration in Desire World, <ref target='Pg091'>91</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Concrete Thought, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> +<ref target='index-thought-world-concrete'>Thought, World of, Region +of Concrete Thought</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Conditions of life related to past action, <ref target='Pg043'>43</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Conscience, assimilated pictures of past experience, <ref target='Pg038'>38</ref>, <ref target='Pg156'>156</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Consequence, law of, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> +<ref target='index-causation-law'>Causation, law of</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<pb n='211'/><anchor id='Pg211'/> + +<lg> +<l>Conservation, law of, and survival of spirit, <ref target='Pg035'>35</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Cord, Silver, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> <ref target='index-silver-cord'>Silver +Cord</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Corporal punishment, inadvisability of, <ref target='Pg197'>197</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Cosmic night, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> <ref target='index-chaos'>Chaos</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Cosmos, aggregate of systematic order, <ref target='Pg105'>105</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Countries, egos work upon, <ref target='Pg180'>180</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Creation of Cosmos, <ref target='Pg188'>188</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Creative force, develops spinal nerves, <ref target='Pg125'>125</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-creative-hierarchies'/> +<l>Creative Hierarchies, aid humanity, <ref target='Pg006'>6</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>guide man's evolution, <ref target='Pg005'>5</ref>, <ref target='Pg052'>52</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>safeguard man from materialism, <ref target='Pg008'>8</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Criminals, care of, <ref target='Pg164'>164</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>execution of, a menace, <ref target='Pg164'>164</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Crucifixion, the Mystic Death, <ref target='Pg012'>12</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Crystallization in man's evolution, <ref target='Pg163'>163</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Dead, care of, <ref target='Pg152'>152</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>inhabit Desire World, <ref target='Pg088'>88</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>intense activity of, <ref target='Pg089'>89</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Death, disrobing process of ego, <ref target='Pg163'>163</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>foreseen by higher powers, <ref target='Pg142'>142</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>peaceful, helpfulness of, <ref target='Pg147'>147</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>premature, ill effects of, <ref target='Pg145'>145</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>problem of, <ref target='Pg027'>27</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>provides fresh start, <ref target='Pg143'>143</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Debts, binding nature of, <ref target='Pg049'>49</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Demmler, Minna, materializations by, <ref target='Pg129'>129</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-dense-body'/> +<l>Dense body, chemical constituents of, <ref target='Pg057'>57</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>crystallized spirit substance, <ref target='Pg162'>162</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>disease of, due to imperfect archetype, <ref target='Pg185'>185</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>energized by divine life, <ref target='Pg188'>188</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>improves as spirit progresses, <ref target='Pg005'>5</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>quality of, dependent upon ego, <ref target='Pg184'>184</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>most evolved of man's vehicles, <ref target='Pg186'>186</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<pb n='212'/><anchor id='Pg212'/> + +<lg> +<l>Desire, created and guided by thought, <ref target='Pg058'>58</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>forms impelled into action by, <ref target='Pg056'>56</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-desire-body'/> +<l>Desire body, basic individual color of, <ref target='Pg132'>132</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>born at fourteenth year, <ref target='Pg186'>186</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>capable of sense perception, <ref target='Pg133'>133</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>cause dreams, <ref target='Pg139'>139</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>circulation in currents, <ref target='Pg133'>133</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>colors of, <ref target='Pg132'>132</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>destructive action of, <ref target='Pg138'>138</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>extends beyond dense body, <ref target='Pg130'>130</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>gives ability to experience desire and emotion <ref target='Pg121'>121</ref>, <ref target='Pg130'>130</ref>, <ref target='Pg133'>133</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>impels motion, <ref target='Pg056'>56</ref>, <ref target='Pg139'>139</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>impels to sense gratification, <ref target='Pg130'>130</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>main vortex, in the liver, <ref target='Pg131'>131</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>rapid locomotion of, <ref target='Pg131'>131</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>recent acquisition of, <ref target='Pg130'>130</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>shape of, ovoid, <ref target='Pg130'>130</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>shell of, persists after death, <ref target='Pg163'>163</ref>, <ref target='Pg179'>179</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>vortices of, <ref target='Pg131'>131</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>war of, with vital body, <ref target='Pg138'>138</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>withdrawal of, in sleep, <ref target='Pg138'>138</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Desire stuff, constant motion of, <ref target='Pg077'>77</ref>, <ref target='Pg131'>131</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>elasticity of, <ref target='Pg077'>77</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>force combined with matter, <ref target='Pg077'>77</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>modeled by thought, <ref target='Pg142'>142</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>permeates atmosphere, <ref target='Pg120'>120</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>persistence of, <ref target='Pg179'>179</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>responsiveness to feeling, <ref target='Pg077'>77</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-desire-world'/> +<l>Desire World, archangels native to, <ref target='Pg079'>79</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>dead remain in, varying lengths of time, <ref target='Pg078'>78</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>difficulty of concentration in, <ref target='Pg091'>91</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>diversity of tongues in, <ref target='Pg083'>83</ref>;</l> +<pb n='213'/><anchor id='Pg213'/> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>effect of colors in, <ref target='Pg178'>178</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>ego's corrective work in, <ref target='Pg168'>168-170</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>estimation of time in, <ref target='Pg093'>93</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>existence of, makes man's desires possible, <ref target='Pg057'>57</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>force and matter closely related in, <ref target='Pg077'>77</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>form blends into sound in, <ref target='Pg095'>95</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>head only perceptible in some regions of, <ref target='Pg079'>79</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>large population of, <ref target='Pg077'>77</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>seasons non-existent in, <ref target='Pg093'>93</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>second vehicle of earth, <ref target='Pg055'>55</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>time non-existent in, <ref target='Pg092'>92</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>universal mode of expression in, <ref target='Pg085'>85</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>vision pertaining to, <ref target='Pg066'>66</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>world of color, <ref target='Pg068'>68</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Earth composed of three interpenetrating worlds, <ref target='Pg055'>55</ref>, <ref target='Pg116'>116</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>structure of dense body, obtained from, <ref target='Pg057'>57</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>training school of, <ref target='Pg006'>6</ref>, <ref target='Pg043'>43</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>worked upon, by the disembodied, <ref target='Pg104'>104</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Earth lives, intervals between, <ref target='Pg052'>52</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Earth spirits, fairies and elves, <ref target='Pg070'>70</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Eastern Wisdom, unsuited to Western peoples, <ref target='Pg014'>14</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Ego, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> <ref target='index-spirit-threefold'>Spirit, +threefold</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Egyptians painted group spirits, <ref target='Pg082'>82</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Electron, discovery of, <ref target='Pg107'>107</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Elves, spirits of mountains, <ref target='Pg070'>70</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Emotions, relation of, to desire body, <ref target='Pg186'>186</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Enmity overcome by its own discomforts, <ref target='Pg049'>49</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Environment, suffering caused by, <ref target='Pg049'>49</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Ether, avenue for solar forces, <ref target='Pg070'>70</ref>, <ref target='Pg074'>74</ref>, <ref target='Pg123'>123</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>nature of, <ref target='Pg062'>62</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>permeates atomic structure of dense matter, <ref target='Pg062'>62</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Ether, chemical, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> +<ref target='index-chemical-ether'>Chemical ether</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Ether, life, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> <ref target='index-life-ether'>Life +ether</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<pb n='214'/><anchor id='Pg214'/> + +<lg> +<l>Ether light, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> +<ref target='index-light-ether'>Light ether</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Ether, reflecting <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> +<ref target='index-reflecting-ether'>Reflecting ether</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Etheric sight, distinguished from spiritual, <ref target='Pg066'>66</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>extension of physical, <ref target='Pg065'>65</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>penetrates opaque substances, <ref target='Pg066'>66</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>shows all objects same color, <ref target='Pg067'>67</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Ethers, separation of, <ref target='Pg136'>136</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Ever-existing essence, <ref target='Pg107'>107</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Evil and good acts recorded by breath, <ref target='Pg038'>38</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>destruction of, <ref target='Pg039'>39</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>transmutation of, to good, <ref target='Pg158'>158</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Evolution, from life to life, <ref target='Pg053'>53</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>manifests in rest and activity, <ref target='Pg042'>42</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>of vehicles, manner of, <ref target='Pg185'>185</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>persistent unfoldment in, <ref target='Pg042'>42</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Fairies, spirits of the mountains, <ref target='Pg070'>70</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Fate, ripe, unavoidability of, <ref target='Pg184'>184</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Faults, correction of, <ref target='Pg169'>169</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Feeling, right, increases conscience, <ref target='Pg172'>172</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>First cause, necessity for, <ref target='Pg162'>162</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>First hand knowledge, possible to all, <ref target='Pg052'>52</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-first-heaven'/> +<l>First Heaven, good of past life reaped in, <ref target='Pg173'>173</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>good strengthened in, <ref target='Pg174'>174</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>panorama of life in, <ref target='Pg173'>173</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>upper regions of Desire World, <ref target='Pg173'>173</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Fluid, vital, cessation of flow of, <ref target='Pg138'>138</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Forgiveness of sin, <ref target='Pg164'>164</ref>, <ref target='Pg169'>169</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Form, archetypes of, <ref target='Pg175'>175</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>incapable of feeling, <ref target='Pg060'>60</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Forms, impelled into action by desire, <ref target='Pg056'>56</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Forms, physical, built from chemical substance, <ref target='Pg055'>55</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Free will, existence of, <ref target='Pg147'>147</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>pertaining to future, <ref target='Pg184'>184</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<pb n='215'/><anchor id='Pg215'/> + +<lg> +<l>Generation caused by red ray of Holy Spirit, <ref target='Pg124'>124</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Germination caused by blue ray of Father, <ref target='Pg124'>124</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Gnomes, earth spirits, <ref target='Pg070'>70</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>God, immanence of, <ref target='Pg187'>187</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Good amalgamates with spirit, <ref target='Pg039'>39</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>and evil acts recorded by breath, <ref target='Pg038'>38</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-great-silence'/> +<l>Great Silence between Desire World and World of Thought, <ref target='Pg095'>95</ref>, <ref target='Pg180'>180</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>may be entered by acts of will, <ref target='Pg096'>96</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Group spirit, brings stellar influence to animals, <ref target='Pg124'>124</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>less evolved archangels, <ref target='Pg081'>81</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>painted by Egyptians, <ref target='Pg082'>82</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Growth, physical, carried on through ether, <ref target='Pg123'>123</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>caused by yellow rays of Son, <ref target='Pg124'>124</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>relation of, to moon, <ref target='Pg124'>124</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>relation of, to vital body, <ref target='Pg186'>186</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Growth, spiritual, must be slow, <ref target='Pg103'>103</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Heaven, among you, <ref target='Pg116'>116</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Heaven, First, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> +<ref target='index-first-heaven'>First Heaven</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Heaven, Second, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> +<ref target='index-second-heaven'>Second Heaven</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Heaven, Third, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> +<ref target='index-third-heaven'>Third Heaven</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Hell, existence of, impossible, <ref target='Pg117'>117</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Helpers, Invisible, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> +<ref target='index-invisible-helpers'>Invisible Helpers</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Heredity, of the physical only, <ref target='Pg047'>47</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Hierarchies, Creative, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> +<ref target='index-creative-hierarchies'>Creative Hierarchies</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Higher Self dominates lower by keynote, <ref target='Pg099'>99</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Higher senses of man, <ref target='Pg016'>16</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Higher vehicles, permeability of, <ref target='Pg138'>138</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>withdrawal of, in sleep, <ref target='Pg138'>138</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Holy of Holies, temple of our bodies, <ref target='Pg134'>134</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Hotz, Dr., spirit photographs taken by, <ref target='Pg129'>129</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Humanity, two classes of, <ref target='Pg136'>136</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>I, badge of self-consciousness, <ref target='Pg135'>135</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<pb n='216'/><anchor id='Pg216'/> + +<lg> +<l>Ideas clothe themselves in mind stuff, <ref target='Pg113'>113</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>embryonic thoughts, <ref target='Pg113'>113</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>generated by ego in Region of Abstract Thought, <ref target='Pg113'>113</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>originate in chaos, <ref target='Pg112'>112</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Ignorance, man's one sin, <ref target='Pg042'>42</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Illumination, induced by solar rays, <ref target='Pg123'>123</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Immaculate conception, the Mystic Birth, <ref target='Pg012'>12</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Immortality of spirit, <ref target='Pg039'>39</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Incense, evil effects of, <ref target='Pg165'>165</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Incentive, induced by etchings of life panorama, <ref target='Pg158'>158</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Individual auric color, dependent upon ruling planet, <ref target='Pg132'>132</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Infant mortality, causes of, <ref target='Pg176'>176-179</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Intelligence induced by planetary rays, <ref target='Pg123'>123</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Interval between earth lives, <ref target='Pg052'>52</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-invisible-helpers'/> +<l>Invisible Helpers, faculties of, <ref target='Pg137'>137</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>linguistic abilities, valuable to, <ref target='Pg083'>83</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Izzards, <ref target='Pg087'>87</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>James, Professor William, reputed communication from, <ref target='Pg149'>149-151</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Jehovah, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> Holy Spirit.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>John, Gospel of, spiritual significance of, <ref target='Pg105'>105</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Jupiter, auric color of, <ref target='Pg132'>132</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Karma, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> +<ref target='index-causation-law'>Causation, law of</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Keynote, creates and maintains form, <ref target='Pg098'>98</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>manifestation of Higher Self, <ref target='Pg099'>99</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>stopping of, terminates life, <ref target='Pg100'>100</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Voice of Silence, <ref target='Pg099'>99</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Knowledge, the only salvation, <ref target='Pg042'>42</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Laws of nature, living intelligences, <ref target='Pg053'>53</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Life, dualistic theory of, <ref target='Pg029'>29</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>lengthened by good deeds, <ref target='Pg147'>147</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>long, value of, <ref target='Pg144'>144</ref>, <ref target='Pg146'>146</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>monistic theory of, <ref target='Pg029'>29</ref>;</l> +<pb n='217'/><anchor id='Pg217'/> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>object of, gaining of experience, <ref target='Pg142'>142</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>shortened by neglected opportunities, <ref target='Pg146'>146</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-life-ether'/> +<l>Life ether, propagation accomplished through medium of, <ref target='Pg069'>69</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-life-panorama'/> +<l>Life panorama, backward unfoldment of, <ref target='Pg156'>156</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>duration of, <ref target='Pg153'>153</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>importance of, <ref target='Pg153'>153</ref>, <ref target='Pg158'>158</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>insufficient, causes infant mortality, <ref target='Pg177'>177</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>sub-conscious memory, basis of, <ref target='Pg154'>154</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>terminated by collapse of vital body, <ref target='Pg157'>157</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Light, relation of, to creation, <ref target='Pg188'>188</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-light-ether'/> +<l>Light ether, motion due to, <ref target='Pg069'>69</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>transmits solar force, <ref target='Pg069'>69</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Likes and dislikes determine environment, <ref target='Pg048'>48</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Liver, main vortex of desire body, <ref target='Pg131'>131</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Logos, Reasonable Thought, <ref target='Pg109'>109</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Love, higher than law, <ref target='Pg168'>168</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>supreme commandment, <ref target='Pg090'>90</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-lunar-ray'/> +<l>Lunar ray enters body through spleen, <ref target='Pg124'>124</ref>.;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>induces physical growth, <ref target='Pg123'>123</ref>, <ref target='Pg190'>190</ref>.;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>three-fold constitution of, <ref target='Pg124'>124</ref>..</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Magic, black, punishment of, <ref target='Pg017'>17</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Man, born innocent of sin, <ref target='Pg174'>174</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>composite being of body, soul, spirit, <ref target='Pg036'>36</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>desires of, impel to action, <ref target='Pg056'>56</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>gathers spiritual substance, <ref target='Pg162'>162</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Great Beings safeguard, <ref target='Pg198'>198</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>has evolved from lower forms, <ref target='Pg073'>73</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>higher vehicles of, <ref target='Pg120'>120</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>keyed to solar month, <ref target='Pg125'>125</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>made a little lower than angels, <ref target='Pg073'>73</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>spinal nerves of undeveloped, <ref target='Pg125'>125</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>spiritual faculties of, <ref target='Pg015'>15</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<pb n='218'/><anchor id='Pg218'/> + +<lg> +<l>Mars, auric color of, <ref target='Pg132'>132</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Materialism and spirituality, necessity of, <ref target='Pg007'>7</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Materialistic theory of life, <ref target='Pg034'>34-36</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Materialization through incense, <ref target='Pg165'>165</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>through mediums, <ref target='Pg129'>129</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Mathematics, benefit derived from study of, <ref target='Pg115'>115</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Matter, illusory nature of, <ref target='Pg114'>114</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Mediums and negative clairvoyance, <ref target='Pg137'>137</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>read in reflecting ether, <ref target='Pg070'>70</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Memory of Nature, events recorded in, <ref target='Pg094'>94</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Memory of past lives, <ref target='Pg050'>50</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Memory, sub-conscious, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> +<ref target='index-sub-conscious-memory'>Sub-conscious memory</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Metamorphosis in higher worlds, <ref target='Pg032'>32</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Michael, ambassador from sun to earth, <ref target='Pg087'>87</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Michael, archangel, guardian of Jews, <ref target='Pg080'>80</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Mind, born at twenty-first year, <ref target='Pg186'>186</ref>, <ref target='Pg198'>198</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>cloudy thought form , <ref target='Pg131'>131</ref>, <ref target='Pg133'>133</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>material for, acquired in Region of Concrete Thought, <ref target='Pg185'>185</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>recent acquisition of, <ref target='Pg131'>131</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-mind-lords'/> +<l>Mind, Lords of, expert builders of mind stuff, <ref target='Pg102'>102</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>help man to acquire mind, <ref target='Pg103'>103</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>human during dark stage of earth, <ref target='Pg101'>101</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Powers of Darkness, <ref target='Pg101'>101</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>worked with man in mineral stage, <ref target='Pg102'>102</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Mind stuff, permeability of, <ref target='Pg120'>120</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>veils inner spirit, <ref target='Pg134'>134</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Monistic, theory of life, <ref target='Pg029'>29</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Moon rays, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> +<ref target='index-lunar-ray'>Lunar rays</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Morality induced by planetary rays, <ref target='Pg123'>123</ref>, <ref target='Pg190'>190</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Music in Desire World, <ref target='Pg068'>68</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>soul-speech of World of Thought, <ref target='Pg068'>68</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-mystery-orders'/> +<l>Mystery Orders formed on cosmic lines, <ref target='Pg009'>9</ref>;</l> +<pb n='219'/><anchor id='Pg219'/> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>seven world workers in, <ref target='Pg009'>9</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>N-rays, etheric radiation of, <ref target='Pg128'>128</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Nature, laws of, control nature spirits, <ref target='Pg072'>72</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Great Intelligences, <ref target='Pg070'>70</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Nebulae, fiery formation of, <ref target='Pg161'>161</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Nebular theory postulates First Cause, <ref target='Pg162'>162</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Negative development, mediumship allied to, <ref target='Pg137'>137</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Nephesh, <ref target='Pg037'>37</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Neptune outside of our solar system, <ref target='Pg189'>189</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Occult orders, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> +<ref target='index-mystery-orders'>Mystery orders</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Odic fluid, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> +<ref target='index-solar-fluid'>Solar fluid</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Opportunities, each life contains, <ref target='Pg142'>142</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Over-eating, ill-effects of, <ref target='Pg128'>128</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Painting, related to Desire World, <ref target='Pg068'>68</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Palladino, Eusapio, materializations through, <ref target='Pg129'>129</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Panorama of Life, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> +<ref target='index-life-panorama'>Life Panorama</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Patriotism, inspired by archangels, <ref target='Pg080'>80</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Periodicity, law of, determines time of actions, <ref target='Pg013'>13</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Personality governed by keynote, <ref target='Pg099'>99</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l><q>Peter Ibbettson,</q> occult information in, <ref target='Pg161'>161</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Physical body, anchor of mind, <ref target='Pg092'>92</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Physical embodiment, value of, <ref target='Pg090'>90</ref>, <ref target='Pg143'>143</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Pineal gland, localized organ of feeling, <ref target='Pg132'>132</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>spiritual sight through development of, <ref target='Pg066'>66</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>third eye, <ref target='Pg132'>132</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Planetary ray, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> +<ref target='index-stellar-ray'>Stellar ray</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-planetary-spirits'/> +<l>Planetary spirits, color belonging to, <ref target='Pg189'>189</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>names of, <ref target='Pg189'>189</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Planets, absorption of solar rays by, <ref target='Pg188'>188</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Post-mortem experiences, usefulness of, <ref target='Pg143'>143</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Powers of Darkness, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> +<ref target='index-mind-lords'>Mind, Lords of</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-powers-spiritual'/> +<l>Powers, spiritual, difficulty of obtaining, <ref target='Pg064'>64</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>microscopic and telescopic, <ref target='Pg064'>64</ref>;</l> +<pb n='220'/><anchor id='Pg220'/> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>possible to all, <ref target='Pg064'>64</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Prayer, forgiveness of sin through, <ref target='Pg164'>164</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Precession of equinoxes, measure of time, <ref target='Pg094'>94</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Predestination of great leaders, <ref target='Pg045'>45</ref>, <ref target='Pg046'>46</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Primary colors symbolize God, <ref target='Pg188'>188</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Probation, long, necessity for, <ref target='Pg064'>64</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Propagation carried on through life ether, <ref target='Pg123'>123</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Psychometrists read in reflecting ether, <ref target='Pg070'>70</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Puberty, cause of, <ref target='Pg196'>196</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Pituitary body and clairvoyance, <ref target='Pg066'>66</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Punishment, corporal, evils of, <ref target='Pg198'>198</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Purgatory, evil habits corrected in, <ref target='Pg167'>167</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>evil of past lives transmuted in, <ref target='Pg116'>116</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>experiences in, based on moral attitude of preceding life, <ref target='Pg181'>181</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>review of life experiences in, <ref target='Pg170'>170</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Race likeness caused by race spirits, <ref target='Pg081'>81</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Race Spirits, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> +<ref 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Silence</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Silence, Voice of, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> +<ref target='index-voice-of-silence'>Voice of the Silence</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-silver-cord'/> +<l>Silver cord holds higher and lower vehicles together, <ref target='Pg153'>153</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>snapping of, <ref target='Pg153'>153</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-solar-fluid'/> +<l>Solar fluid, absorption of, by different kingdoms, <ref target='Pg124'>124</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>aids in digestion, <ref target='Pg127'>127</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>cleansing power of, <ref target='Pg128'>128</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>expels disease germs, <ref target='Pg127'>127</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>muscular movement by means of, <ref target='Pg126'>126</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>permeates nervous system, <ref target='Pg123'>123</ref>, <ref target='Pg126'>126</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>radiates from body, <ref target='Pg123'>123</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>transformed to rose color, <ref target='Pg123'>123</ref>, <ref target='Pg126'>126</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Solar rays, direct and indirect, <ref target='Pg123'>123</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>spiritual illumination from, <ref target='Pg123'>123</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>three-fold constitution of, <ref target='Pg124'>124</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Soul, differentiated from spirit, <ref target='Pg134'>134</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>product of breath, <ref target='Pg037'>37</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Soul flights, time non-existent in, <ref target='Pg089'>89</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Soul growth induced by planetary rays, <ref target='Pg123'>123</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Soul power, assimilated from past action, <ref target='Pg116'>116</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>developed by good action, <ref target='Pg038'>38</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<pb n='223'/><anchor 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experience, <ref target='Pg182'>182</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>earth-bound, condition of, <ref target='Pg144'>144</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>encrusted in mind stuff, <ref target='Pg101'>101</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>free will of, <ref target='Pg184'>184</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>freedom of, in choosing environment, <ref target='Pg183'>183</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>has seat in forehead, <ref target='Pg124'>124</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>immortality of, <ref target='Pg039'>39</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>improvement in vehicles of, <ref target='Pg185'>185</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>individualization of, in childhood, <ref target='Pg196'>196</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>instructed in building archetype, <ref target='Pg184'>184</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>many earth lives of, <ref target='Pg183'>183</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>no limitations possible for, <ref target='Pg104'>104</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>sowing and reaping of, <ref target='Pg104'>104</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>sufferings of, in purgatory, <ref target='Pg163'>163</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>uncreate and eternal, <ref target='Pg039'>39</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>various human relations of, <ref target='Pg183'>183</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>works with archetypes, <ref target='Pg103'>103</ref>, <ref target='Pg180'>180</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Spirits, planetary, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> +<ref target='index-planetary-spirits'>Planetary Spirits</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Spiritual investigations, <ref target='Pg063'>63</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Spiritual powers, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> +<ref target='index-powers-spiritual'>Powers, spiritual</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Spiritual sight, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> +<ref target='index-sight-spiritual'>Sight, spiritual</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Spiritual thought, spinal nerves developed by, <ref target='Pg125'>125</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Spirituality followed by materialism, <ref target='Pg007'>7</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<pb n='224'/><anchor id='Pg224'/> + +<lg> +<l>Spleen, entrance for solar forces, <ref target='Pg123'>123</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>transmutation for solar energy in, <ref target='Pg123'>123</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-stellar-ray'/> +<l>Stellar ray, absorption of, by brain and spinal cord, <ref target='Pg124'>124</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>animals incapable of absorbing, <ref target='Pg124'>124</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>induces morality, <ref target='Pg123'>123</ref>, <ref target='Pg190'>190</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>threefold nature of, <ref target='Pg124'>124</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Stimulants, effects of, upon dying, <ref target='Pg152'>152</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Storms caused by nature spirits, <ref target='Pg071'>71</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> 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2'>composed of ether, <ref target='Pg122'>122</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>connected with spleen, <ref target='Pg123'>123</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>disintegration of, stops life panorama, <ref target='Pg157'>157</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>extends beyond dense vehicle, <ref target='Pg123'>123</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>in sickness lacks solar rays, <ref target='Pg128'>128</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>in third stage of evolution, <ref target='Pg131'>131</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>nourishes dense body, <ref target='Pg129'>129</ref>;</l> +<pb n='226'/><anchor id='Pg226'/> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>photographed by scientists, <ref target='Pg129'>129</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>polarity of, <ref target='Pg129'>129</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>propagation by, <ref target='Pg121'>121</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>recuperative work of, <ref target='Pg138'>138</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>second vehicle acquired by man, <ref target='Pg186'>186</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>separation of ethers of, <ref target='Pg137'>137</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>war with desire body, <ref target='Pg138'>138</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>well organized state of, <ref target='Pg130'>130</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Vital Fluid, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> +<ref target='index-solar-fluid'>Solar fluid</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-voice-of-silence'/> +<l>Voice of the Silence, <ref target='Pg099'>99</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Volcanic eruptions produced by salamanders, <ref target='Pg072'>72</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Vortices, whirling, of desire body, <ref target='Pg131'>131</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>War causes infant mortality, <ref target='Pg177'>177</ref>, <ref target='Pg179'>179</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Wave of spirituality inspired great religions, <ref target='Pg007'>7</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Whipping children, evil of, <ref target='Pg198'>198</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Will, lack of, racial defect, <ref target='Pg198'>198</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Wind, changes of, caused by sylphs, <ref target='Pg071'>71</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Word, Creative Fiat, <ref target='Pg109'>109</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Word, creative, and key-note, <ref target='Pg100'>100</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>God was, <ref target='Pg106'>106</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>power of, <ref target='Pg110'>110</ref>, <ref target='Pg193'>193</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>still sounds in cosmos, <ref target='Pg112'>112</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>World, Desire, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> +<ref target='index-desire-world'>Desire World</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>World of Thought, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> +<ref target='index-thought-world'>Thought, World of</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>World, physical, world of form, <ref target='Pg068'>68</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Worlds, higher, difficulty of 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It +points out how this condition may be avoided; also +how some prolong their stay in the Borderland close +to the earth. +</p> + +<p> +It describes the condition of those who are bound +to the lower Desire World after death by sense affiliation, +sorrow, or other causes, showing clearly their delusions +and their activities. +</p> + +<lg> +<l>13 pages. Paper Bound. Price 10c.</l> +</lg> + +<pb n='239'/><anchor id='Pg239'/> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Simplified Scientific Astrology</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>By Max Heindel</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>Fifth Edition.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>With Max Heindel's Portrait</hi> +</p> + +<lg> +<l>198 Pages. Cloth Bound. $1.50 Postpaid.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +A complete textbook on the art of erecting a horoscope, +making the process simple and easy for beginners. 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These Myths conceal many +of the hidden truths which are now being translated +from symbol and allegory, and this attractive book +is the key to these poetic tales of evolution, sacrifice, +and unfoldment. +</p> + +<lg> +<l>176 Pages. Cloth Bound. $2.00 Postpaid.</l> +</lg> +</div> +</body> +<back rend="page-break-before: right"> + <div rend="page-break-before: right"> + <divGen type="pgfooter" /> + </div> +</back> +</text> +</TEI.2> diff --git a/29855.txt b/29855.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..665f8ed --- /dev/null +++ b/29855.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5735 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Rosicrucian Mysteries by Max Heindel + + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no +restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under +the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or +online at http://www.gutenberg.org/license + + + +Title: The Rosicrucian Mysteries + +Author: Max Heindel + +Release Date: August 30, 2009 [Ebook #29855] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: US-ASCII + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ROSICRUCIAN MYSTERIES*** + + + + + + The + + Rosicrucian Mysteries + + An Elementary Exposition of + + Their Secret Teachings + + By + + Max Heindel + +Author of: The Rosicrucian Cosmo Conception, The Rosicrucian Philosophy in + Questions and Answers, The Rosicrucian Interpretation of Christianity, + Rays from the Rose Cross, etc. + + Third Edition + + Rosicrucian Fellowship + + Oceanside, California + + London + + L. N. Fowler, 7 Imperial Arcade + + Ludgate Circus. E. C. + + + + + +CONTENTS + + +Chapter I. The Order of Rosicrucians and the Rosicrucian Fellowship +Chapter II. The Problem of Life and Its Solution +Chapter III. The Visible and the Invisible World +Chapter IV. The Constitution of Man +Chapter V. Life and Death +Mt. Ecclesia +Index + + + + + + +CHAPTER I. THE ORDER OF ROSICRUCIANS AND THE ROSICRUCIAN FELLOWSHIP + + +Our Message And Mission + +_A Sane Mind_ + +_A Soft Heart_ + +_A Sound Body_ + +Before entering upon an explanation of the teachings of the Rosicrucians, +it may be well to say a word about them and about the place they hold in +the evolution of humanity. + +For reasons to be given later these teachings advocate the dualistic view; +they hold that man is a spirit enfolding all the powers of God as the seed +enfolds the plant, and that these powers are being slowly unfolded by a +series of existences in a gradually improving earthy body; also that this +process of development has been performed under the guidance of exalted +beings who are yet ordering our steps, though in a decreasing measure, as +we gradually acquire intellect and will. These exalted Beings, though +unseen to the physical eyes, are nevertheless potent factors in all +affairs of life, and give to the various groups of humanity lessons which +will most efficiently promote the growth of their spiritual powers. In +fact, the earth may be likened to a vast training school in which there +are pupils of varying age and ability as we find it in one of our own +schools. There are the savages, living and worshipping under most +primitive conditions, seeing in stick or stone a God. Then, as man +progresses onwards and upwards in the scale of civilization, we find a +higher and higher conception of Deity, which has flowered here in our +Western World in the beautiful Christian religion that now furnishes our +spiritual inspiration and incentive to improve. + +These various religions have been given to each group of humanity by the +exalted beings whom we know in the Christian religion as the Recording +Angels, whose wonderful prevision enable them to view the trend of even so +unstable a quantity as the human mind, and thus they are enabled to +determine what steps are necessary to lead our enfoldment along the lines +congruous to the highest universal good. + +When we study the history of the ancient nations we shall find that at +about six hundred years B. C. a great spiritual wave had its inception on +the Eastern shores of the Pacific Ocean where the great Confucian Religion +accelerated the progress of the Chinese nation, then also the Religion of +the Buddha commenced to win its millions of adherents in India, and still +further West we have the lofty philosophy of Pythagoras. Each system was +suited to the needs of the particular people to whom it was sent. Then +came the period of the Sceptics, in Greece, and later, traveling westward +the same spiritual wave is manifested as the Christian religion of the +so-called "Dark Ages" when the dogma of a dominant church compelled belief +from the whole of Western Europe. + +It is a law in the universe that a wave of spiritual awakening is always +followed by a period of doubting materialism, each phase is necessary in +order that the spirit may receive equal development of heart and intellect +without being carried too far in either direction. The Great Beings +aforementioned, Who care for our progress, always take steps to safeguard +humanity against that danger, and when they foresaw the wave of +materialism which commenced in the sixteenth century with the birth of our +modern Science, they took steps to protect the West as they had formerly +safeguarded the East against the Sceptics who were held in check by the +Mystery schools. + +In the thirteenth century there appeared in central Europe a great +spiritual teacher whose symbolical name was + +Christian Rosenkreuz. +or +Christian Rose Cross. + +who founded the mysterious Order of the Rosy Cross, concerning which so +many speculations have been made and so little has become known to the +world at large, for it is the Mystery school of the West and is only open +to those who have attained the stage of spiritual unfoldment necessary to +be initiated in its secrets concerning the Science of Life and Being. + +If we are so far developed that we are able to leave our dense physical +body and take a soul flight into interplanetary space we shall find that +the ultimate physical atom is spherical in shape like our earth; it is a +ball. When we take a number of balls of even size and group them around +one, it will take just twelve balls to hide a thirteenth within. Thus the +twelve visible and the one hidden are numbers revealing a cosmic +relationship and as all Mystery Orders are based upon cosmic lines, they +are composed of twelve members gathered around a thirteenth who is the +invisible _head_. + +There are seven colors in the spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, +indigo and violet. But between the violet and the red there are still +other five colors which are invisible to the physical eye but reveal +themselves to the spiritual sight. In every Mystery Order there are also +seven brothers who at times go out into the world and there perform +whatever work may be necessary to advance the people among whom they +serve, but five are never seen outside the temple. They work with and +teach those alone who have passed through certain stages of spiritual +unfoldment and are able to visit the temple in their spiritual bodies; a +feat taught in the first initiation which usually takes place outside the +temple as it is not convenient for all to visit that place physically. + +Let not the reader imagine that this initiation makes the pupil a +Rosicrucian, it does not, any more than admission to a High School makes a +boy a member of the faculty. Nor does he become a Rosicrucian even after +having passed through all the nine degrees of this or any other Mystery +School. The Rosicrucians are Hierophants of the lesser Mysteries, and +beyond them there are still schools wherein Greater Mysteries are taught. +Those who have advanced through the lesser Mysteries and have become +pupils of the Greater Mysteries are called Adepts, but even they have not +reached the exalted standpoint of the twelve Brothers of the Rosicrucian +Order or the Hierophants of any other lesser Mystery School any more than +the freshman at college has attained to the knowledge and position of a +teacher in the High school from which he has just graduated. + +A later work will deal with initiation, but we may say here that the door +of a genuine Mystery School is not unlocked by a golden key, but is only +opened as a reward for meritorious service to humanity and any one who +advertises himself as a Rosicrucian or makes a charge for tuition, by +either of those acts shows himself to be a charlatan. The true pupil of +any Mystery School is far too modest to advertise the fact, he will scorn +all titles or honors from men, he will have no regard for riches save the +riches of love given to him by those whom it becomes his privilege to help +and teach. + +In the centuries that have gone by since the Rosicrucian Order was first +formed they have worked quietly and secretly, aiming to mould the thought +of Western Europe through the works of Paracelsus, Boehme, Bacon, +Shakespeare, Fludd and others. Each night at midnight when the physical +activities of the day are at their lowest ebb, and the spiritual impulse +at its highest flood tide, they have sent out from their temple +soul-stirring vibrations to counteract materialism and to further the +development of soul powers. To their activities we owe the gradual +spiritualization of our once so materialistic science. + +With the commencement of the twentieth century a further step was taken. +It was realized that something must be done to make religion scientific as +well as to make science religious, in order that they may ultimately +blend; for at the present time heart and intellect are divorced. The heart +instinctively feels the truth of religious teachings concerning such +wonderful mysteries as the Immaculate Conception (the Mystic Birth), the +Crucifixion (the Mystic Death), the cleansing blood, the atonement, and +other doctrines of the Church, which the intellect refuses to believe, as +they are incapable of demonstration, and seemingly at war with natural +law. Material advancement may be furthered when intellect is dominant and +the longings of the heart unsatisfied, but soul growth will be retarded +until the heart also receives satisfaction. + +In order to give the world a teaching so blended that it will satisfy both +the mind and heart, a messenger must be found and instructed. Certain +unusual qualifications were necessary, and the first one chosen failed to +pass a certain test after several years had been spent to prepare him for +the work to be done. + +It is well said that there is a time to sow, and a time to reap, and that +there are certain times for all the works of life, and in accordance with +this law of periodicity each impulse in spiritual uplift must also be +undertaken at an appropriate time to be successful. The first and sixth +decades of each century are particularly propitious to commence the +promulgation of new spiritual teachings. Therefore the Rosicrucians were +much concerned at this failure, for only five years were left of the first +decade of the twentieth century. + +Their second choice of a messenger fell upon the present writer, though he +knew it not at the time, and by shaping circumstances about him they made +it possible for him to begin a period of preparation for the work they +desired him to do. Three years later, when he had gone to Germany, also +because of circumstances shaped by the invisible Brotherhood, and was on +the verge of despair at the discovery that the light which was the object +of his quest, was only a jack-o-lantern, the Brothers of the Rosicrucian +Order applied the test to see whether he would be a faithful messenger and +give the teachings they desired to entrust to him, to the world. And when +he had passed the trial they gave him the monumental solution of the +problem of existence first published in "_The Rosicrucian Cosmo +Conception_" in November, 1909, more than a year before the expiration of +the first decade of the twentieth century. This book marked a new era in +so-called "occult" literature, and the many editions which have since been +published, as well as the thousands of letters which continue to come to +the author, are speaking testimonies to the fact that people are finding +in this teaching a satisfaction they have long sought elsewhere in vain. + +The Rosicrucians teach that all great religions have been given to the +people among whom they are found, by Divine Intelligences who designed +each system of worship to suit the needs of the race or nation to whom it +was given. A primitive people cannot respond to a lofty and sublime +religion, and _vice versa_. What helps one race would hinder another, and +in pursuance of the same policy there has been devised a system of +soul-unfoldment suited specially to the Western people, who are racially +and temperamentally unfit to undergo the discipline of the Eastern school, +which was designed for the more backward Hindoos. + +THE ROSICRUCIAN FELLOWSHIP + +For the purpose of promulgating the Rosicrucian teachings in the Western +World, the Rosicrucian Fellowship was founded in 1909. It is the herald of +the Aquarian Age, when the Sun by its precessional passage through the +constellation Aquarius will bring out all the intellectual and spiritual +potencies in man which are symbolized by that sign. As heat from a fire +warms all objects within the sphere of its radiations, so also the +Aquarian ray will raise the earth's vibrations to a pitch we are as yet +unable to comprehend, though we have demonstrations of the _material_ +workings of this force in the inventions which have revolutionized life +within the memory of the present generation. We have wondered at the +X-ray, which sees through the human body, but each one has a sense latent +which when evolved will enable him to see through any number of bodies or +to any distance. We marvel at the telephone conversations across the +continent of America, but each has within a latent sense of speech and +hearing that is far more acute; we are surprised at the exploits of ships +under sea and in the sky, but we are all capable of passage under water or +through the sky; nay, more, we may pass unscathed through the solid rock +and the raging fire, if we know how, and lightning itself is slow compared +to the speed with which we may travel. This sounds like a fairy tale +today, as did Jules Verne's stories a generation ago, but the Aquarian Age +will witness the realization of these dreams, and ever so much more that +we still do not even dream of. Such faculties will then be the possessions +of large numbers of people who will have gradually evolved them as +previously the ability to walk, speak, hear, and see, were developed. + +Therein lies a great danger, for, obviously, anyone endowed with such +faculties may use them to the greatest detriment of the world at large, +unless restrained by a spirit of unselfishness and an all-embracing +altruism. Therefore religion is needed today as never before, to foster +love and fellow-feeling among humanity so that it may be prepared to use +the great gifts in store for it wisely and well. This need of religion is +specially felt in a certain class where the ether is more loosely knit to +the physical atoms than in the majority, and on that account they are now +beginning to sense the Aquarian vibrations. + +This class is again divided in two groups. In one the intellect is +dominant, and the people in that class therefore seek to grasp the +spiritual mysteries out of curiosity from the viewpoint of cold reason. +They pursue the path of knowledge for the sake of knowledge, considering +that an end in itself. The idea that knowledge is of value only when put +to practical constructive use does not seem to have presented itself to +them. This class we may call _occultists_. + +The other group does not care for knowledge, but feels an inner urge +God-ward, and pursues the path of devotion to the high ideal set before +them in Christ, doing the deeds that He did as far their flesh will +permit, and this in time results in an interior illumination which brings +with it all the knowledge obtained by the other class, and much more. This +class we may describe as _mystics_. + +Certain dangers confront each of the two groups. If the occultist obtains +illumination and evolves within himself the latent spiritual faculties, he +may use them for the furtherance of his personal objects, to the great +detriment of his fellow-men. That is black magic, and the punishment which +it _automatically_ calls down upon the head of the perpetrator is so awful +that it is best to draw the veil over it. The mystic may also err because +of ignorance, and fall into the meshes of nature's law, but being actuated +by love, his mistakes will never be very serious, and as he grows in grace +the soundless voice within his heart will speak more distinctly to teach +him the way. + +The Rosicrucian Fellowship endeavors to prepare the world in general, and +the sensitives of the two groups in particular, for the awakening of the +latent powers in man, so that all may be guided safely through the +danger-zone and be as well fitted as possible to use these new faculties. +Effort is made to blend the love without which Paul declared a knowledge +of all mysteries worthless, with a mystic knowledge rooted and grounded in +love, so that the pupils of this school may become _living_ exponents of +this blended soul-science of the Western Wisdom School, and gradually +educate humanity at large in the virtues necessary to make the possession +of higher powers safe. + +_Note_:-- + +_Pages 19 to 26 inclusive, describing Mt. Ecclesia, have been transferred +to the back of the book._ (Transcriber's Note: They are pages 191 through +200.) + + + + + +CHAPTER II. THE PROBLEM OF LIFE AND ITS SOLUTION + + +THE PROBLEM OF LIFE. + +Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's +experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to +everyone--Death! No matter what our station in life, whether the life lived +has been a laudable one or the reverse, whether great achievements have +marked our path among men, whether health or sickness have been our lot, +whether we have been famous and surrounded by a host of admiring friends +or have wandered unknown through the years of our life, at some time there +comes a moment when we stand alone before the portal of death and are +forced to take the leap into the dark. + +The thought of this leap and of what lies beyond must inevitably force +itself upon every thinking person. In the years of youth and health, when +the bark of our life sails upon seas of prosperity, when all appears +beautiful and bright, we may put the thought behind us, but there will +surely come a time in the life of every thinking person when the problem +of life and death forces itself upon his consciousness and refuses to be +set aside. Neither will it help him to accept the ready made solution of +anyone else without thought and in blind belief, for this is a basic +problem which every one must solve for himself or herself in order to +obtain satisfaction. + +Upon the Eastern edge of the Desert of Sahara there stands the +world-famous Sphinx with its inscrutable face turned toward the East, ever +greeting the sun as its rising rays herald the newborn day. It was said in +the Greek myth that it was the wont of this monster to ask a riddle of +each traveler. She devoured those who could not answer, but when Oedipus +solved the riddle she destroyed herself. + +The riddle which she asked of men was the riddle of life and death, a +query which is as relevant today as ever, and which each one must answer +or be devoured in the jaws of death. But when once a person has found the +solution to the problem, it will appear that in reality there is no death, +that what appears so, is but a change from one state of _existence_ to +another. Thus, for the man who finds the true solution to the riddle of +life, the sphinx of death has ceased to exist, and he can lift his voice +in the triumphant cry "Oh death where is thy sting, oh grave where is thy +victory." + +Various theories of life have been advocated to solve this problem of +life. We may divide them into two classes, namely _the monistic theory_, +which holds that all the facts of life can be explained by reference to +this visible world wherein we live, and _the dualistic theory_, which +refers part of the phenomenon of life to another world which is now +invisible to us. + +Raphael in his famous painting "the School of Athens" has most aptly +pictured to us the attitude of these two schools of thought. We see upon +that marvelous painting a Greek Court such as those wherein philosophers +were once wont to congregate. Upon the various steps which lead into the +building a large number of men are engaged in deep conversation, but in +the center at the top of the steps stand two figures, supposedly of Plato +and Aristotle, one pointing upwards, the other towards the earth, each +looking the other in the face, mutely, but with deeply concentrated will. +Each seeking to convince the other that his attitude is right for each +bears the conviction in his heart. One holds that he is of the earth +earthy, that he has come from the dust and that thereto he will return, +the other firmly advocates the position that there is a higher something +which has always existed and will continue regardless of whether the body +wherein it now dwells holds together or not. + +The question who is right is still an open one with the majority of +mankind. Millions of tons of paper and printer's ink have been used in +futile attempts to settle it by argument, but it will always remain open +to all who have not solved the riddle themselves, for it is a basic +problem, a part of the life experience of every human being to settle that +question, and therefore no one can give us the solution ready made for our +acceptance. All that can be done by those who have really solved the +problem, is to show to others the line along which they have found the +solution, and thus direct the inquirer how he also may arrive at a +conclusion. + +That is the aim of this little book; not to offer a solution to the +problem of life to be taken blindly, on faith in the author's ability of +investigation. The teachings herein set forth are those handed down by the +Great Western Mystery School of the Rosicrucian Order and are the result +of the concurrent testimony of a long line of trained Seers given to the +author and supplemented by his own independent investigation of the realms +traversed by the spirit in its cyclic path from the invisible world to +this plane of existence and back again. + +Nevertheless, the student is warned that the writer may have misunderstood +some of the teachings and that despite the greatest care he may have taken +a wrong view of that which he believes to have seen in the invisible world +where the possibilities of making a mistake are legion. Here in the world +which we view about us the forms are stable and do not easily change, but +in the world around us which is perceptible only by the spiritual sight, +we may say that there is in reality no form, but that all is life. At +least the forms are so changeable that the metamorphosis recounted in +fairy stories is discounted there to an amazing degree, and therefore we +have the surprising revelations of mediums and other untrained +clairvoyants who, though they may be perfectly honest, are deceived by +illusions of _form_ which is evanescent, because they are incapable of +viewing the _life_ that is the permanent basis of that form. + +We must learn to see in this world. The new-born babe has no conception of +distance and will reach for things far, far beyond its grasp until it has +learned to gauge its capacity. A blind man who acquires the faculty of +sight, or has it restored by an operation, will at first be inclined to +close his eyes when moving from place to place, and declare that it is +easier to walk by feeling than by sight; that is because he has not +learned to use his newly acquired faculty. Similarly the man whose +spiritual vision has been newly opened requires to be trained, in fact he +is in much greater need thereof than the babe and the blind man already +mentioned. Denied that training he would be like a new-born babe placed in +a nursery where the walls are lined with mirrors of different convex and +concave curvatures, which would distort its own shape and the forms of its +attendants. If allowed to grow up in such surroundings and unable to see +the real shapes of itself and its nurses it would naturally believe that +it saw many different and distorted shapes where in reality the mirrors +were responsible for the illusion. Were the persons concerned in such an +experiment and the child taken out of the illusory surroundings, it would +be incapable of recognizing them until the matter had been properly +explained. There are similar dangers of illusion to those who have +developed spiritual sight, until they have been trained to discount the +refraction and to view the _life_ which is permanent and stable, +disregarding the _form_ which is evanescent and changeable. The danger of +getting things out of focus always remains however and is so subtle that +the writer feels an imperative duty to warn his readers to take all +statements concerning the unseen world with the proverbial grain of salt, +for he has no intention to deceive. He is therefore inclined rather to +magnify than to minimize his limitations and would advise the student to +accept nothing from the author's pen without reasoning it out for himself. +Thus, if he is deceived, he will be self-deceived and the author is +blameless. + +_Three Theories of Life._ + +Only three noteworthy theories have been offered as solutions to the +riddle of existence and in order that the reader may be able to make the +important choice between them, we will state briefly what they are and +give some of the arguments which lead us to advocate the doctrine of +Rebirth as the method which favors soul-growth and the ultimate attainment +of perfection, thus offering the best solution to the problem of life. + +1) THE MATERIALISTIC THEORY _teaches that life is but a short journey from +the cradle to the grave, that there is no higher intelligence in the +universe than man; that his mind is produced by certain correlations of +matter and that therefore death, and dissolution of the body terminate +existence._ + +There was a day when the arguments of Materialistic philosophers seemed +convincing, but as science advances it discovers more and more that there +is a spiritual side to the universe. That life and consciousness may exist +without being able to give us a sign, has been amply proven in the cases +where a person who was entranced and thought dead for days has suddenly +awakened and told all that had taken place around the body. Such eminent +scientists as Sir Oliver Lodge, Camille Flammarion, Lombroso and other men +of highest intelligence and scientific training, have unequivocally stated +as the result of their investigations, that the intelligence which we call +man survives death of the body and lives on in our midst as independently +of whether we see them or not as light and color exist all about the blind +man regardless of the fact that he does not perceive them. These +scientists have reached their conclusion after years of careful +investigation. They have found that the so-called dead can, and under +certain circumstances do, communicate with us in such a manner that +mistake is out of the question. We maintain that their testimony is worth +more than the argument of materialism to the contrary, for it is based +upon years of careful investigation, it is in harmony with such well +established laws as _the law of conservation of matter_ and _the law of +conservation of energy_. Mind is a form of energy, and immune from +destruction as claimed by the materialist. Therefore we disbar the +materialistic theory as unsound, because out of harmony with the laws of +nature and with well established facts. + +2) THE THEORY OF THEOLOGY _claims that just prior to each birth a soul is +created by God and enters into the world where it lives for a time varying +from a few minutes to a few score of years; that at the end of this short +span of life it returns through the portal of death to the invisible +beyond, where it remains forever in a condition of happiness or misery +according to the deeds done in the body during the few years it lived +here_. + +Plato insisted upon the necessity of a clear definition of terms as a +basis of argument and we contend that that is as necessary in discussing +the problem of life from the Bible point of view as in arguments from the +platonic standpoint. According to the Bible man is a composite being +consisting of body, soul and spirit. The two latter are usually taken to +be synonymous, but we insist that they are not interchangeable and present +the following to support our dictum. + +All things are in a state of vibration. Vibrations from objects in our +surroundings are constantly impinging upon us and carry to our senses a +cognition of the external world. The vibrations in the ether act upon our +eyes so that we see, and vibrations in the air transmit sounds to the ear. + +We also breathe the ether which is charged with pictures of our +surroundings and the sounds in our environment, so that by means of the +breath we receive at each moment of our life, _internally_ an accurate +picture of our external surroundings. + +That is a scientific proposition. Science does not explain what becomes of +these vibrations however, but according to the Rosicrucian Mystery +teaching they are transmitted to the blood, and then etched upon a little +atom in the heart as automatically as a moving picture is imprinted upon +the sensitized film, and a record of sounds is engraven upon the +phonographic disc. This breath-record starts with the first breath of the +newborn babe and ends only with the last gasp of the dying man, and "soul" +is a product of the breath. Genesis also shows the connection between +breath and soul in the words: "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of +the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man +became a living soul" (The same word: _nephesh_, is translated breath and +soul in the above quotation.) + +In the post mortem existence the breath-record is disposed of. The good +acts of life produce feelings of pleasure and the intensity of attraction +incorporates them into the spirit as soul-power. _Thus the breath-records +of our good acts are the soul which is saved_, for by the union with the +spirit they become immortal. As they accumulate life after life, we become +more soulful and they are thus also the basis of soulgrowth. + +The record of our evil acts is also derived from our breath in the moments +when they were committed. The pain and suffering they bring cause the +spirit to expel the breath-record from its being in Purgatory. As that +cannot exist independently of the life-giving spirit, the breath-record of +our sins disintegrates upon expurgation, and thus we see that "the soul +that sinneth, it shall die." The memory of the suffering incidental to +expurgation however, remains with the spirit as _conscience_, to deter +from repetition of the same evil in later lives. + +Thus both our good and evil acts are recorded through the agency of the +breath, which is therefore the basis of the soul, but while the +breath-record of good acts amalgamates with the spirit and lives on +forever as an immortal soul, the breath-record of evil deeds is +disintegrated; it is the soul that sinneth and dies. + +While the Bible teaches that immortality of the soul is conditional upon +well-doing, it makes no distinction in respect of the spirit. The +statement is clear and emphatic that when ... "The silver cord be loosed +... then shall the dust return to the earth as it was and the spirit shall +return to God who gave it." + +Thus the Bible teaches that the body is made of dust and returns thereto, +that a part of the soul generated in the breath is perishable, but that +the spirit survives bodily death and persists forever. Therefore a "lost +soul" in the common acceptance of that term is not a Bible teaching, for +the spirit is uncreate and eternal as God Himself, and therefore the +orthodox theory cannot be true. + +3) THE THEORY OF REBIRTHS _which teaches that each spirit is an integral +part of God, that it enfolds all divine possibilities as the acorn enfolds +the oak; that by means of many existences in an earthy body of gradually +__ improving texture its latent powers are being slowly unfolded and +become available as dynamic energy; that none can be lost but that all +will ultimately attain to perfection and reunion with God, each bringing +with it the accumulated experience which is the fruitage of its pilgrimage +through matter._ + +Or, as we may poetically express it: + +WE ARE ETERNAL. + + + On whistling stormcloud; on Zephyrus wing, + The Spirit-choir loud the World-anthems sing + Hark! Lis't to their voice "we have passed through death's door + There's no Death; rejoice! life lives evermore." + + We are, have always been, will ever be. + We are a portion of Eternity + Older than Creation, a part of One Great Whole, + Is each Individual and immortal Soul. + + On Time's whirring loom our garments we've wrought + Eternally weave we on network of Thought, + Our kin and our country, by Mind brought to birth, + Were patterned in heaven ere molded on earth. + + We have shone in the Jewel and danced on the Wave, + We have sparkled in Fire defying the grave; + Through shapes everchanging, in size, kind and name + Our individual essence still is the same. + + And when we have reached to the highest of all, + The gradations of growth our minds shall recall + So that link by link we may join them together + And trace step by step the way we reached thither. + + Thus in time we shall know, if only we do + What lifts, ennobles, is right and true. + With kindness to all; with malice to none, + That in and through us God's will may be done. + + +We venture to make the assertion that there is but one sin: _Ignorance_ +and but one salvation: _Applied Knowledge_. Even the wisest among us know +but little of what may be learned, however, and no one has attained to +perfection, or can attain in one single short life, but we note that +everywhere in nature slow persistent unfoldment makes for higher and +higher development of every thing and we call this process evolution. + +One of the chief characteristics of evolution lies in the fact that it +manifests in alternating periods of activity and rest. The busy summer, +when all things upon earth are exerting themselves to bring forth, is +followed by the rest and inactivity of winter. The busy day alternates +with the quiet of night. The ebb of the ocean is succeeded by the +flood-tide. Thus, as all other things move in cycles, the life that +expresses itself here upon earth for a few years is not to be thought of +as ended when death has been reached, but as surely as the sun rises in +the morning after having set at night, will the life that was ended by the +death of one body be taken up again in a new vehicle and in a different +environment. + +This earth may in fact be likened to a school to which we return life +after life to learn new lessons, as our children go to school day after +day to increase their knowledge. The child sleeps through the night which +intervenes between two days at school and the spirit also has its rest +from active life between death and a new birth. There are also different +classes in this world-school which correspond to the various grades from +kindergarten to college. In the lower classes we find spirits who have +gone to the school of life but a few times, they are savages now, but in +time they will become wiser and better than we are, and we ourselves shall +progress in future lives to spiritual heights of which we cannot even +conceive at the present. If we apply ourselves to learn the lessons of +life, we shall of course advance much faster in the school of life than if +we dilly-dally and idle our time away. This, on the same principle which +governs in one of our own institutions of learning. + +We are not here then, by the caprice of God. He has not placed one in +clover and another in a desert nor has He given one a healthy body so that +he may live at ease from pain and sickness, while He placed another in +poor circumstances with never a rest from pain. But what we are, we are, +on account of our own diligence or negligence, and what we shall be in the +future depends upon what we will to be and not upon Divine caprice or upon +inexorable fate. No matter what the circumstances, it lies with us to +master them, or to be mastered, as we will. Sir Edwin Arnold puts the +teaching most beautifully in his "Light of Asia." + + + "The Books say well, my Brothers! each man's life + The outcome of his former living is; + The bygone wrongs bring forth sorrows and woes + The bygone right breeds bliss. + + Each has such lordship as the loftiest ones + Nay for with powers around, above, below + As with all flesh and whatsoever lives + _Act_ maketh joy or woe. + + Who toiled a slave may come anew a prince + For gentle worthiness and merit won; + Who ruled a king may wander earth in rags + For things done or undone." + + +Or, as an unknown poet says: + + + "One ship sails East and another sails West + With the self same winds that blow. + 'Tis the set of the sail, and not the gale, + Which determines the way they go. + + As the winds of the sea are the ways of fate + As we voyage along through life. + 'Tis the act of the soul, which determines the goal + And not the calm or the strife." + + +When we wish to engage someone to undertake a certain mission we choose +some one whom we think particularly fitted to fulfill the requirements and +we must suppose that a Divine Being would use at least as much common +sense, and not choose anyone to go his errand who was not fitted therefor. +So when we read in the Bible that Samson was foreordained to be the slayer +of the Philistines and that Jeremiah was predestined to be a prophet, it +is but logical to suppose that they must have been particularly suited to +such occupation. John the Baptist also, was born to be a herald of the +coming Savior and to preach the kingdom of God which is to take the place +of the kingdom of men. + +Had these people had no previous training, how could they have developed +such a fitness to fulfill their various missions, and if they had been +fitted, how else could they have received their training if not in earlier +lives? + +The Jews believed in the Doctrine of Rebirth or they would not have asked +John the Baptist if he were Elijah, as recorded in the first chapter of +John. The Apostles of Christ also held the belief as we may see from the +incident recorded in the sixteenth chapter of Matthew where the Christ +asked them the question: "Whom do men say that I the Son of Man am?" The +Apostles replied: "Some say that Thou art John the Baptist; some, Elias; +and others Jeremias or one of the Prophets." Upon this occasion the Christ +tacitly assented to the teaching of Rebirth because He did not correct the +disciples as would have been His plain duty in His capacity as teacher, +when the pupils entertained a mistaken idea. + +But to Nicodemus He said unequivocally: "Except a man be born again, he +cannot see the kingdom of God" and in the eleventh chapter of Matthew, the +fourteenth verse, He said, speaking of John the Baptist: "_this __ is +Elijah_," in the seventeenth chapter of Matthew, the twelfth verse, He +said: "Elijah has come already and they knew him not, but have done to him +whatsoever they listed, ... then the disciples understood that he spoke to +them of John the Baptist." + +Thus we maintain that the Doctrine of Rebirth offers the only solution to +the problem of life which is in harmony with the laws of nature, which +answers the ethical requirements of the case and permits us to love God +without blinding our reason to the inequalities of life and the varying +circumstances which give to a few the ease and comfort, the health and +wealth, which are denied to the many. + +The theory of Heredity advanced by Materialists applies only to the +_form_, for as a carpenter uses material from a certain pile of lumber to +build a house in which he afterwards lives, so does the spirit take the +substance wherewith to build its house from the parents. The carpenter +cannot build a house of hard wood from spruce lumber and the spirit also +must build a body which is like those from which the material was taken, +but the theory of Heredity does not apply upon the moral plane, for it is +a notorious fact, that in the rogues galleries of America and Europe there +is no case where both father and son are represented. Thus the sons of +criminals, though they have the tendencies to crime, keep out of the +clutches of the law. Neither will Heredity hold good upon the plane of the +intellect, for many cases may be cited where a genius and an idiot spring +from the same stock. The great Cuvier, whose brain was of about the same +weight, as Daniel Webster's, and whose intellect was as great, had five +children who all died of paresis, the brother of Alexander the Great was +an idiot, and thus we hold that another solution must be found to account +for the facts of life. + +The law of Rebirth coupled with its companion law, the law of Causation +does that. When we die after one life, we return to earth later, under +circumstances determined by the manner in which we lived before. The +gambler is drawn to pool parlors and race tracks to associate with others +of like taste, the musician is attracted to the concert halls and music +studios, by congenial spirits, and the returning Ego also carries with it +its likes and dislikes which cause it to seek parents among the class to +which it belongs. + +But then someone will point to cases where we find people of entirely +opposite tastes living lives of torture, because grouped in the same +family, and forced by circumstances to stay there contrary to their wills. +But that does not vitiate the law in the slightest, in each life we +contract certain obligations which cannot then be fulfilled. Perhaps we +have run away from a duty such as the care of an invalid relative and have +met death without coming to a realization of our mistake. That relative +upon the other hand may have suffered severely from our neglect, and have +stored up a bitterness against us before death terminates the suffering. +Death and the subsequent removal to another environment does not pay our +debts in this life, any more than the removal from the city where we now +live to another place will pay the debts we have contracted prior to our +removal. It is therefore quite possible that the two who have injured each +other as described, may find themselves members of the same family. Then, +whether they remember the past grudge or not, the old enmity will assert +itself and cause them to hate anew until the consequent discomfort forces +them to tolerate each other, and perhaps later they may learn to love +where they hated. + +The question also arises in the mind of inquirers: If we have been here +before why do we not remember? And the answer is, that while most people +are not aware of how their previous existences were spent, there are +others who have a very distinct recollection of previous lives. A friend +of the writer's for instance, when living in France, one day started to +read to her son about a certain city where they were then going upon a +bicycle tour, and the boy exclaimed: you do not need to tell me about that +mother. I know that city, I lived there and was killed! He then commenced +to describe the city and also a certain bridge. Later he took his mother +to that bridge and showed her the spot where he had met death centuries +before. Another friend travelling in Ireland saw a scene which she +recognized and she also described to the party the scene around the bend +of the road which she had never seen in this life, so it must have been a +memory from a previous life. Numerous other instances could be given where +such minor flashes of memory reveal to us glimpses from a past life. The +verified case in which a little three year old girl in Santa Barbara +described her life and death has been given in the Rosicrucian Cosmo +Conception. It is perhaps the most conclusive evidence as it hinges on the +veracity of a child too young to have learned deception. + +This theory of life does not rest upon speculation however, it is one of +the first facts of life demonstrated to the pupil of a Mystery school. He +is taught to watch a child in the act of dying, also, to watch it in the +invisible world from day to day, until it comes to a new birth a year or +two later. Then he knows with absolute certainty that we return to earth +to reap in a future life what we now sow. + +The reason for taking a child to watch in preference to an adult, is, that +the child is reborn very quickly, for its short life on earth has borne +but few fruits and these are soon assimilated, while the adult who has +lived a long life, and had much experience remains in the invisible worlds +for centuries, so that the pupil could not watch him from death to +rebirth. The cause of infant mortality will be explained later, here we +merely desire to emphasize the fact that it is within the range of +possibilities of every one without exception to become able to know at +first hand that which is here taught. + +The average interval between two earth-lives is about a thousand years. It +is determined by the movement of the sun known to astronomers as +_precession of the equinox_, by which the sun moves through one of the +signs of the Zodiac in about 2100 years. During that time the conditions +upon earth have changed so much that the spirit will find entirely new +experiences here, and therefore it returns. + +The Great Leaders of evolution always obtain the maximum benefit from each +condition designed by them, and as the experiences in the same social +conditions are very different in the case of a man from what they are for +a woman, the human spirit takes birth twice during the 2100 years measured +by the precession of the equinox as already explained, it is born once as +a man and another time as a woman. Such is the rule, but it is subject to +whatever modifications may be necessary to facilitate reaping what the +spirit has sown, as required under the law of Causation which works hand +in hand with the law of Rebirth. Thus, at times a spirit may be brought to +birth long ere the thousand years have expired, in order to fulfill a +certain mission, or it may be detained in the invisible worlds after the +time when it should have come to birth according to the strict +requirements of a blind law. The laws of nature are not that however. They +are Great Intelligences who always subordinate minor considerations to +higher ends, and under their beneficent guidance we are constantly +progressing from life to life under conditions exactly suited to each +individual, until in time we shall attain to a higher evolution and become +Supermen. + +Oliver Wendell Holmes has so beautifully voiced that aspiration and its +consummation in the lines: + + + "Build thee more stately mansions Oh! my soul, + As the swift seasons roll, + Leave thy low-vaulted past; + Let each new temple, nobler than the last, + Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast. + Till thou at length art free, + Leaving thy outgrown shell by life's unresting sea." + + + + + +CHAPTER III. THE VISIBLE AND THE INVISIBLE WORLD + + +_The Chemical Region._ + +If one who is capable of consciously using his spiritual body with the +same facility that we now use our physical vehicles should glide away from +the earth into interplanetary space, the earth and the various other +planets of our solar system would appear to him to be composed of three +kinds of matter, roughly speaking. The densest matter, which is our +visible earth, would appear to him as being the center of the ball as the +yolk is in the center of an egg. Around that nucleus he would observe a +finer grade of matter similarly disposed in relation to the central mass, +as the white of the egg is disposed outside the yolk. Upon a little closer +investigation he would also discover that this second kind of substance +permeates the solid earth to the very center, even as the blood percolates +through the more solid parts of our flesh. Outside both of these mingling +layers of matter he would observe a still finer, third layer corresponding +to the shell of the egg, except that this third layer is the finest most +subtile of the three grades of matter, and that it inter-penetrates both +of the two inner layers. + +As already said, the central mass, spiritually seen, is our visible world, +composed of solids, liquids and gases. They constitute the earth, its +atmosphere, and also the ether, of which physical science speaks +hypothetically as permeating the atomic substance of all chemical +elements. The second layer of matter is called the Desire World and the +outermost layer is called the World of Thought. + +A little reflection upon the subject will make clear that just such a +constitution is necessary to account for facts of life as we see them. All +forms in the world about us are built from chemical substances: solids, +liquids and gases, but in so far that they do move, these forms obey a +separate and distinct impulse, and when this impelling energy leaves, the +form becomes inert. The steam engine rotates under the impetus of an +invisible gas called steam. Before steam filled its cylinder, the engine +stood still, and when the impelling force is shut off its motion again +ceases. The dynamo rotates under the still more subtile influence of an +electric current which may also cause the click of a telegraph instrument +or the ring of an electric bell, but the dynamo ceases its swift whirl and +the persistent ring of the electric bell becomes mute when the invisible +electricity is switched off. The form of the bird, the animal and the +human being also cease their motion when the inner force which we call +_life_ has winged its invisible way. + +All forms are impelled into motion by desire:--the bird and the animal roam +land and air in their desire to secure food and shelter, or for the +purpose of breeding, man is also moved by these desires, but has in +addition other and higher incentives to spur him to effort, among them is +desire for rapidity of motion which led him to construct the steam engine +and other devices that move in obedience to _his_ desire. + +If there were no iron in the mountains man could not build machines. If +there were no clay in the soil, the bony structure of the skeleton would +be an impossibility, and if there were no Physical World at all, with its +solids, liquids and gases, this dense body of ours could never have come +into existence. Reasoning along similar lines it must be at once apparent +that if there were no Desire World composed of desire-stuff, we should +have no way of forming feelings, emotions and desires. A planet composed +of the materials we perceive with our _physical_ eyes and of no other +substances, might be the home of plants which grow unconsciously, but have +no desires to cause them to move. The human and animal kingdoms however, +would be impossibilities. + +Furthermore, there is in the world a vast number of things, from the +simplest and most crude instruments, to the most intricate and cunning +devices which have been constructed by the hand of man. These reveal the +fact of man's thought and ingenuity. Thought must have a source as well as +_form_ and _feeling_. We saw that it was necessary to have the requisite +material in order to build a steam engine or a body and we reasoned from +the fact that in order to obtain material to express _desire_ there must +also be a world composed of desire stuff. Carrying our argument to its +logical conclusion, we also hold that unless a World of Thought provides a +reservoir of mind stuff upon which we may draw, it would be impossible for +us to think and invent the things which we see in even the lowest +civilization. + +Thus it will be clear that the division of a planet into worlds is not +based on fanciful metaphysical speculation, but is logically necessary in +the economy of nature. Therefore it must be taken into consideration by +any one who would study and aim to understand the inner nature of things. +When we see the street cars moving along our streets, it does not explain +to say that the motor is driven by electricity of so many amperes at so +many volts. These names only add to our confusion until we have thoroughly +studied the science of electricity and then we shall find that the mystery +deepens, for while the street car belongs to the world of _inert form_ +perceptible to our vision, the electric current which moves it is +indigenous to the realm of _force_, the invisible Desire World, and the +thought which created and guides it, comes from the still more subtile +World of Thought which is the home world of the human spirit, the Ego. + +It may be objected that this line of argument makes a simple matter +exceedingly intricate, but a little reflection will soon show the fallacy +of such a contention. Viewed superficially any of the sciences seem +extremely simple; anatomically we may divide the body into flesh and bone, +chemically we may make the simple divisions between solid, liquid and gas, +but to thoroughly master the science of anatomy it is necessary to spend +years in close application and learn to know all the little nerves, the +ligaments which bind articulations between various parts of the bony +structure, to study the several kinds of tissue and their disposition in +our system where they form the bones, muscles, glands, etc., which in the +aggregate we know as the human body. To properly understand the science of +chemistry we must study the valence of the atom which determines the power +of combination of the various elements, together with other niceties, such +as atomic weight, density, etc. New wonders are constantly opening up to +the most experienced chemist, who understands best the immensity of his +chosen science. + +The youngest lawyer, fresh from law school knows more about the most +intricate cases, in his own estimation, than the judges upon the Supreme +Court bench who spend long hours, weeks and months, seriously deliberating +over their decisions. But those who, without having studied, think they +understand and are fitted to discourse upon the greatest of all sciences, +the science of Life and Being, make a greater mistake. After years of +patient study, of holy life spent in close application, a man is +oftentimes perplexed at the immensity of the subject he studies. He finds +it to be so vast in both the direction of the great and small that it +baffles description, that language fails, and that the tongue must remain +mute. Therefore we hold, (and we speak from knowledge gained through years +of close study and investigation), that the finer distinctions which we +have made, and shall make, are not at all arbitrary, but absolutely +necessary as are divisions and distinctions made in anatomy or chemistry. + +No form in the physical world has feeling in the true sense of that word. +It is the indwelling life which feels, as we may readily see from the fact +that a body which responded to the slightest touch while instinct with +life, exhibits no sensation whatever even when cut to pieces after the +life has fled. Demonstrations have been made by scientists, particularly +by Professor Bose of Calcutta, to show that there is feeling in dead +animal tissue and even in tin and other metal, but we maintain that the +diagrams which seem to support his contentions in reality demonstrate only +a response to impacts similar to the rebound of a rubber ball, and that +must not be confused with such feelings as _love_, _hate_, _sympathy_ and +_aversion_. Goethe also, in his novel "Elective Affinities," +(Wahlverwandtschaft), brings out some beautiful illustrations wherein he +makes it seem as if atoms loved and hated, from the fact that some +elements combine readily while other substances refuse to amalgamate, a +phenomenon produced by the different rates of speed at which various +elements vibrate and an unequal inclination of their axes. Only where +there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow +or joy. + +_The Etheric Region._ + +In addition to the solids, liquids and gases which compose the _Chemical +Region_ of the Physical World there is also a finer grade of matter called +Ether, which permeates the atomic structure of the earth and its +atmosphere substantially as science teaches. Scientists have never seen, +nor have they weighed, measured or analyzed this substance, but they infer +that it must exist in order to account for transmission of light and +various other phenomena. If it were possible for us to live in a room from +which the air had been exhausted we might speak at the top of our voices, +we might ring the largest bell or we might even discharge a cannon close +to our ear and we should hear no sound, for air is the medium which +transmits sound vibrations to the tympanum of our ear, and that would be +lacking. But if an electric light were lighted, we should at once perceive +its rays; it would illumine the room despite the lack of air. Hence there +must be a substance, capable of being set into vibration, between the +electric light and our eyes. That medium scientists call ether, but it is +so subtile that no instrument has been devised whereby it may be measured +or analyzed and therefore the scientists are without much information +concerning it, though forced to postulate its existence. + +We do not seek to belittle the achievements of modern scientists, we have +the greatest admiration for them and we entertain high expectations of +what ambitions they may yet realize, but we perceive a limitation in the +fact, that all discoveries of the past have been made by the invention of +wonderful instruments applied in a most ingenious manner to solve +seemingly insoluble and baffling problems. The strength of science lies +vested in its instruments, for the scientist may say to anyone: Go, +procure a number of glasses ground in a certain manner, insert them in a +tube, direct that tube toward a certain point in the sky where now nothing +appears to your naked eye. You will then see a beautiful star called +Uranus. If his directions are followed, anyone is _quickly and without +preparation_, able to demonstrate for himself the truth of the scientist's +assertion. But while the instruments of science are its tower of strength +they also mark the end of its field of investigation, for it is impossible +to contact the spirit world with _physical_ instruments, so the research +of occultists begins where the physical scientist finds his limit and are +carried on by _spiritual_ means. + +These investigations are as thorough and as reliable as researches by +material scientists, but not as easily demonstrable to the general public. +Spiritual powers lie dormant within every human being, and when awakened, +they compensate for both telescope and microscope, they enable their +possessor to investigate, _instanter_, things beyond the veil of matter, +but they are only developed by a patient application and continuance in +well doing extended over years, and few are they who have faith to start +upon the path to attainment or perseverance to go through with the ordeal. +Therefore the occultist's assertions are not generally credited. + +We can readily see that long probation must precede attainment, for a +person equipped with spiritual sight is able to penetrate walls of houses +as easily as we walk through the atmosphere, able to read at will the +innermost thoughts of those about him; if not actuated by the most pure +and unselfish motives, he would be a scourge to humanity. Therefore that +power is safeguarded as we would withhold the dynamite bomb from an +anarchist and from the well-intentioned but ignorant person, or, as we +withhold match and powder barrel from a child. + +In the hands of an experienced engineer the dynamite bomb may be used to +open a highway of commerce, and an intelligent farmer may use gunpowder to +good account in clearing his field of tree-stumps, but in the hands of an +ill-intentioned criminal or ignorant child an explosive may wreck much +property and end many lives. The force is the same, but used differently, +according to the ability or intention of the user, it may produce results +of a diametrically opposite nature. So it is also with spiritual powers, +there is a time-lock upon them, as upon a bank safe, which keeps out all +until they have earned the privilege and the time is ripe for its +exercise. + +As already said, the ether is physical matter and responsive to the same +laws which govern other physical substances upon this plane of existence. +Therefore it requires but a slight extension of _physical_ sight to see +ether, (which is disposed in four grades of density), the blue haze seen +in mountain canyons is in fact ether of the kind known to occult +investigators as "_chemical ether_." Many people who see this ether, are +unaware that they are possessed of a faculty not enjoyed by all. Others, +who have developed spiritual sight are not endowed with etheric vision, a +fact which seems an anomaly until the subject of clairvoyance is +thoroughly understood. + +The reason is, that as ether is physical matter, etheric sight depends +upon the sensitiveness of the optic nerve while spiritual sight is +acquired by developing latent vibratory powers in two little organs +situated in the brain: the Pituitary body and the Pineal gland. +Nearsighted people even, may have etheric vision. Though unable to read +the print in a book, they may be able to "see through a wall," owing to +the fact that their optic nerve responds more rapidly to fine than to +coarse vibrations. + +When anyone views an object with etheric sight he sees _through_ that +object in a manner similar to the way an x-ray penetrates opaque +substances. If he looks at a sewing machine, he will perceive, first an +outer casing; then, the works within, and behind both, the casing furthest +away from him. + +If he has developed the grade of spiritual vision which opens the Desire +World to him and he looks at the same object, he will see it both inside +and out. If he looks closely, he will perceive every little atom spinning +upon its axis and no part or particle will be excluded from his +perception. + +But if his spiritual sight has been developed in such a measure that he is +capable of viewing the sewing machine with the vision peculiar to the +World of Thought, he will behold a cavity where he had previously seen the +form. + +Things seen with etheric vision are very much alike in color, they are +nearly reddish-blue, purple or violet, according to the density of the +ether, but when we view any object with the spiritual sight pertaining to +the Desire World, it scintillates and coruscates in a thousand ever +changing colors so indescribably beautiful that they can only be compared +to living fire, and the writer therefore calls this grade of vision _color +sight_, but when the spiritual vision of the World of Thought is the +medium of perception, the seer finds that in addition to still more +beautiful colors, there issues from the cavity described a constant flow +of a certain harmonious _tone_. Thus this world wherein we now consciously +live and which we perceive by means of our physical senses is preeminently +the world of _form_, the Desire World is particularly the world of _color_ +and the World of Thought is the realm of _tone_. + +Because of the relative proximity or distance of these worlds, a statue, a +_form_, withstands the ravages of time for millenniums, but the _colors_ +upon a painting fade in far shorter time, for they come from the Desire +World, and _music_ which is native to the World furthest removed from us, +the World of Thought, is like a will-o-the-wisp which none may catch or +hold, it is gone again as soon as it has made its appearance. But there is +in color and music a compensation for this increasing evanescence. + +The statue is cold and dead as the mineral of which it is composed and has +attractions for but few though its _form is_ a tangible reality. + +The forms upon a painting are illusory yet they express _life_, on account +of the _color_ which has come from a region where nothing is inert and +lifeless. Therefore the painting is enjoyed by many. + +Music is intangible and ephemeral, but it comes from the home world of the +spirit and though so fleeting it is recognized by the spirit as a +_soul-speech_ fresh from the celestial realms, an echo from the home +whence we are now exiled, and therefore it touches a cord in our being, +regardless of whether we realize the true cause or not. + +Thus we see that there are various grades of spiritual sight, each suited +to the superphysical realm which it opens to our perception: Etheric +vision, color vision and tonal vision. + +The occult investigator finds that ether is of four kinds, or grades of +density: + +The Chemical Ether, +The Life Ether, +The Light Ether, +The Reflecting Ether. + +_The Chemical Ether_ is the avenue of expression for forces promoting +assimilation, growth and the maintenance of form. + +_The Life Ether_ is the vantage ground of forces active in propagation, or +the building of new forms. + +_The Light Ether_ transmits the motive power of the sun along the various +nerves of _living_ bodies and makes motion possible. + +_The Reflecting Ether_ receives an impression of all that is, lives and +moves. It also records each change, in a similar manner as the film upon a +moving picture machine. In this record mediums and psychometrists may read +the past, upon the same principle as, under proper conditions, moving +pictures are reproduced time and again. + +We have been speaking of ether as an avenue of _forces_, a word which +conveys no meaning to the average mind, because force is invisible. But to +an occult investigator the forces are not merely names such as steam, +electricity, etc. He finds them to be intelligent beings of varying +grades, both sub and superhuman. What we call "laws of nature," are great +intelligences which guide more elemental beings in accordance with certain +rules designed to further their evolution. + +In the Middle Ages, when many people were still endowed with a remnant of +_negative_ clairvoyance, they spoke of Gnomes and Elves or Fairies, which +roamed about the mountains and forests. These were the _earth_ spirits. +They also told of the Undine or _water_-sprite, which inhabited rivers and +streams, of Sylphs which were said to dwell in the mists above moat and +moor, as air spirits, but not much was said of the Salamanders, as they +are, fire spirits, and therefore not so easily detected, or so readily +accessible to the majority of people. + +The old folk stories are now regarded as superstitions, but as a matter of +fact, one endowed with etheric vision may yet perceive the little gnomes +building green chlorophyll into the leaves of plants and giving to flowers +the multiplicity of delicate tints which delight our eyes. + +Scientists have attempted time and again to offer an adequate explanation +of the phenomenon of wind and storm but have failed signally, nor can they +succeed while they seek a mechanical solution to what is really a +manifestation of life. Could they see the hosts of sylphs winging their +way hither and thither, they would _know_ who and what is responsible for +the fickleness of the wind; could they watch a storm at sea from the +etheric view-point they would perceive that the saying "the war of the +elements" is not an empty phrase, for the heaving sea is truly then a +battlefield of sylphs and undines and the howling tempest is the war cry +of spirits in the air. + +Also the salamanders are found everywhere and no fire is lighted without +their help, but they are mostly active underground. They are responsible +for explosions and volcanic eruptions. + +The classes of beings which we have mentioned are still sub-human, but +will all at some time reach a stage in evolution corresponding to the +human, though under different circumstances from those under which we +evolve. But at present the wonderful intelligences we speak of as the laws +of nature, marshall the armies of less evolved entities mentioned. + +To arrive at a better understanding of what these various beings are, and +their relation to us, we may take an illustration: Let us suppose that a +mechanic is making an engine, and meanwhile a dog is watching him. It +_sees_ the man at his labor, and how he uses various tools to shape his +materials, also how, from the crude iron, steel, brass and other metals +the engine slowly takes shape. The dog is a being from a lower evolution +and does not comprehend the purpose of the mechanic but it _sees_ both the +workman, his labor and the result thereof, which manifests as an engine. + +Let us now suppose that the dog were able to see the materials which +slowly change their shape, assemble and become an engine but that it is +unable to perceive the workman and to see the work he does. The dog would +then be in the same relation to the mechanic as we are to the great +intelligences we call laws of nature, and their assistants, the nature +spirits, for we behold the manifestations of their work as _force_ moving +matter in various ways but always under immutable conditions. + +In the ether we may also observe the angels, whose densest body is made of +that material, as our dense body is formed of gases, liquids and solids. +These beings are one step beyond the human stage, as we are a degree in +advance of the animal evolution. We have never been animals like our +present fauna, however, but at a previous stage in the development of our +planet we had an animal-like constitution. Then the angels were human, +though they have never possessed a dense body such as ours, nor ever +functioned in any material denser than ether. At some time, in a future +condition, the earth will again become ethereal. Then man will be _like_ +the angels. Therefore the Bible tells us that man was made _a little +while_ lower than the angels (Paul's letter to the Hebrews, second +chapter, seventh verse; _see marginal reading_.) + +As ether is the avenue of vital, creative forces, and as angels are such +expert builders of ether, we may readily understand that they are +eminently fitted to be warders of the propagative forces in plant, animal +and man. All through the Bible we find them thus engaged: Two _angels_ +came to Abraham and announced the birth of Isaac, they _promised_ a child +to the man who had obeyed God. Later _these same angels_ destroyed Sodom +for _abuse of the creative force_. _Angels_ foretold _to the parents_ of +Samuel and Samson, the birth of these giants of brain and brawn. To +Elizabeth came the _angel_ (not archangel) Gabriel and announced the birth +of John, later he appeared also to Mary with the message that she was +chosen to bear Jesus. + +_The Desire World._ + +When spiritual sight is developed so that it becomes possible to behold +the Desire World, many wonders confront the newcomer, for conditions are +so widely different from what they are here, that a description must sound +quite as incredible as a fairy tale to anyone who has not himself seen +them. Many cannot even believe that such a world exists, and that other +people can see that which is invisible to them, yet some people are blind +to the beauties of this world which we see. A man who was born blind, may +say to us: I know that this world exists, I can hear, I can smell, I can +taste and above all I can feel but when you speak of light and of color, +they are nonexistent to me. You say that you _see_ these things, I cannot +believe it for I cannot _see_ myself. You say that light and color are all +about me, but none of the senses at my command reveal them to me and I do +not believe that the sense you call _sight_ exists. I think you suffer +from hallucinations. We might sympathize very sincerely with the poor man +who is thus afflicted, but his scepticism, reasonings and objections and +sneers notwithstanding we would be obliged to maintain that we perceive +light and color. + +The man whose spiritual sight has been awakened is in a similar position +with respect to those who do not perceive the Desire World of which he +speaks. If the blind man acquires the faculty of sight by an operation, +his eyes are opened and he will be compelled to assert the existence of +light and color which he formerly denied, and when spiritual sight is +acquired by anyone, he also perceives for himself the facts related by +others. Neither is it an argument against the existence of spiritual +realms that seers are at variance in their descriptions of conditions in +the invisible world. We need but to look into books on travel, and compare +stories brought home by explorers of China, India or Africa and we shall +find them differing widely and often contradictory, because each traveler +saw things from his own standpoint, under other conditions than those met +by his brother authors, and we maintain that the man who has read most +widely these varying tales concerning a certain Country _and wrestled with +the contradictions of narrators_, will have a more comprehensive idea of +the country or people of whom he has read, than the man who has only read +one story assented to by all the authors. Similarly, the varying stories +of visitors to the Desire World are of value, because giving a fuller +view, and more rounded, than if all had seen things from the same angle. + +In this world matter and force are widely different. The chief +characteristic of matter here is _inertia_: the tendency to remain at rest +until acted upon by a force which sets it in motion. In the Desire World, +on the contrary, force and matter are almost indistinguishable one from +the other. We might almost describe desire-stuff as force-matter, for it +is in incessant motion, responsive to the slightest _feeling_ of a vast +multitude of beings which populate this wonderful world in nature. We +often speak of the "teeming millions" of China and India, even of our vast +cities, London, New York, Paris or Chicago, we consider them overcrowded +in the extreme, yet even the densest population of any spot upon earth is +sparsely inhabited compared with the crowded conditions of the Desire +World. No inconvenience is felt by any of the denizens of that realm, +however, for, while in this world two things cannot occupy the same space +at the same time, it is different there. A number of people and things may +exist _in the same place at the same time_ and be engaged in most diverse +activities, regardless of what others are doing, such is the wonderful +elasticity of desire stuff. As an illustration we may mention a case where +the writer while attending religious service, plainly perceived at the +altar certain beings interested in furthering that service and working to +achieve that end. At the same time there drifted through the room and the +altar, a table at which four persons were engaged in playing cards. They +were as oblivious to the existence of the beings engaged in furthering our +religious service, as though these did not exist. + +The Desire World is the abode of those who have died, for some time +subsequent to that event, and we may mention in the above connection that +the so-called "dead" very often stay for a long while among their still +living friends. Unseen by their relatives they go about the familiar +rooms. At first they are often unaware of the condition mentioned: "that +two persons may be in the same place at the same time," and when they seat +themselves in a chair or at the table, a living relative may take the +supposedly vacant seat. The man we mistakenly call dead will at first +hurry out of his seat to escape being sat upon, but he soon learns that +being sat upon does not hurt him in his altered condition, and that he may +remain in his chair regardless of the fact that his living relative is +also sitting there. + +In the lower regions of the Desire World the whole body of each being may +be seen, but in the highest regions only the head seems to remain. +Raphael, who like many other people in the middle ages was gifted with a +so-called _second sight_, pictured that condition for us in his Sistine +Madonna, now in the Dresden Art Gallery, where Madonna and the +Christ-child are represented as floating in a golden atmosphere and +surrounded by a host of genie-heads: conditions which the occult +investigator knows to be in harmony with actual facts. + +Among the entities who are, so to speak, "_native_" to that realm of +nature, none are perhaps better known to the Christian world than the +Archangels. These exalted Beings were human at a time in the earth's +history when we were yet plant-like. Since then we have advanced two +steps: through the animal and to the human stage of development. The +present Archangels have also made two steps in progression; one, in which +they were similar to what the angels are now, and another step which made +them what we call Archangels. + +Their densest body, though differing from ours in shape, and made of +desire stuff, is used by them as a vehicle of consciousness in the same +manner that we use our body. They are expert manipulators of forces in the +Desire World, and these forces, as we shall see, move all the world to +action. Therefore the Archangels work with humanity _industrially_ and +_politically_ as arbitrators of the destiny of peoples and nations. The +Angels may be said to be _family_-spirits whose mission is to unite a few +spirits as members of a family, and cement them with ties of blood and +love of kin, while the Archangels may be called race and national spirits, +as they unite whole nations by patriotism or love of home and country. +They are responsible for the rise and fall of nations, they give war or +peace, victory or defeat as it serves the best interests of the people +they rule. This we may see, for instance, from the book of Daniel, where +the Archangel Michael (not to be confounded with the Michael, who is +ambassador from the sun to the earth), is called the prince of the +children of Israel. Another Archangel tells Daniel, (in the tenth chapter) +that he intends to fight the prince of Persia by means of the Greeks. + +There are varying grades of intelligence among human beings, some are +qualified to hold high and lofty positions entirely beyond the ability of +others. So it is also among higher beings, not all Archangels are fitted +to govern a nation and rule the destiny of a race, people or tribe, some +are not fitted to rule human beings at all, but as the animals also have a +desire nature these lower grades of Archangels govern the animals as +group-spirits and evolve to higher capacity thereby. + +The work of the race spirits is readily observable in the people it +governs. The lower in the scale of evolution the people, the more they +show a certain racial likeness. That is due to the work of the race +spirit. One national spirit is responsible for the swarthy complexion +common to Italians, for instance, while another causes the Scandinavians +to be blond. In the more advanced types of humanity there is a wider +divergence from the common type, due to the individualized Ego, which thus +expresses in form and feature its own particular idiosyncrasies. Among the +lower types of humanity such as Mongolians, native African Negroes and +South Sea Islanders, the resemblance of individuals in each tribe makes it +almost impossible for civilized Westerners to distinguish between them. +Among animals, where the separate spirit is not individualized and +self-conscious, the resemblance is not only much more marked physically +but extends even to traits and characteristics. We may write the biography +of a man, for the experiences of each varies from that of others and his +acts are different, but we cannot write the biography of an animal for +members of each tribe all act alike under similar circumstances. If we +desire to know the facts about Edward VII, it would profit us nothing to +study the life of the Prince-Consort, his father, or of George V, his son, +as both would be entirely different from Edward. In order to find out what +manner of man he was, we must study his own individual life. If, on the +other hand, we wish to know the characteristics of beavers, we may observe +any individual of the tribe, and when we have studied its idiosyncrasies, +we shall know the traits of the whole tribe of beavers. What we call +"instinct," is in reality the dictates of group-spirits which govern +separate individuals of its tribe telepathically, as it were. + +The ancient Egyptians knew of these animal group spirits and sketched many +of them, in a crude way, upon their temples and tombs. Such figures with a +human body and an animal head actually live in the desire world. They may +be spoken to, and will be found much more intelligent than the average +human being. + +That statement brings up another peculiarity of conditions in the Desire +World in respect of language. Here in this World human speech is so +diversified that there are countries where people who live only a few +miles apart speak a dialect so different that they understand each other +with great difficulty, and each nation has its own language that varies +altogether from the speech of other peoples. + +In the lower Regions of the Desire World, there is the same diversity of +tongues as on earth, and the so-called "dead" of one nation find it +impossible to converse with those who lived in another country. Hence +linguistic accomplishments are of great value to the "Invisible Helpers", +of whom we shall hear later, as their sphere of usefulness is enormously +extended by that ability. + +Even apart from difference of language our mode of speech is exceedingly +productive of misunderstandings. The same words often convey most opposite +ideas to different minds. If we speak of a "body of water", one person may +think we mean a lake of small dimensions, the thoughts of another may be +directed to the great American Lakes and a third person's thoughts may be +turned towards the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans. If we speak of a "light", +one may think of a gas-light, another of an electric Arc-lamp, or if we +say "red", one person may think we mean a delicate shade of pink and +another gets the idea of crimson. The misunderstandings of what words mean +goes even farther, as illustrated in the following. + +The writer once opened a reading room in a large city where he lectured, +and invited his audience to make use thereof. Among those who availed +themselves of the opportunity was a gentleman who had for many years been +a veritable "metaphysical tramp," roaming from lecture to lecture, hearing +the teachings of everybody and practicing nothing. Like the Athenians on +Mars' Hill, he was always looking for something "new," particularly in the +line of phenomena, and his mind was in that seething chaotic state which +is one of the most prominent symptoms of "mental indigestion." + +Having attended a number of our lectures he knew from the program that: +"The lecturer does not give readings, or cast horoscopes _for pay_." But +seeing on the door of the newly opened reading room, the legend: "Free +Reading Room," his erratic mind at once jumped to the conclusion that +although we were opposed to telling fortunes for pay, we were now going to +give free readings of the future in the Free Reading Room. He was much +disappointed that we did not intend to tell fortunes, either gratis or for +a consideration, and we changed our sign to "Free Library" in order to +obviate a repetition of the error. + +In the higher Regions of the Desire World the confusion of tongues gives +place to a universal mode of expression which absolutely prevents +misunderstandings of our meaning. There each of our thoughts takes a +definite form and color perceptible to all, and this thought-symbol emits +a certain tone, which is not a word, but it conveys our meaning to the one +we address no matter what language he spoke on earth. + +To arrive at an understanding of how such a universal language becomes +possible and is at once comprehended by all, without preparation, we may +take as an illustration the manner in which a musician reads music. A +German or a Polish composer may write an opera. Each has his own peculiar +terminology and expresses it in his own language. When that opera is to be +played by an Italian band master, or by a Spanish or American musician, it +need not be translated, the notes and symbols upon the page are a +universally understood language of symbols which is intelligible to +musicians of no matter what nationality. Similarly with figures, the +German counts: ein, zwei, drei; the Frenchman says: un, deux, trois, and +in English we use the words: one, two, three, but the figures: 1, 2, 3, +though differently spoken, are intelligible to all and mean the same. +There is no possibility of misunderstanding in the cases of either music +or figures. Thus it is also with the universal language peculiar to the +higher Regions of the Desire World and the still more subtile realms in +nature, it is intelligible to all, an exact mode of expression. + +Returning to our description of the entities commonly met with in the +lower Desire World, we may note that other systems of religion than the +Egyptian, already mentioned, have spoken of various classes of beings +native to these realms. The Zoroastrian Religion, for instance, mentions +_Seven Ameshaspends_ and the Izzards as having dominion over certain days +in the month and certain months in the year. The Christian religion speaks +of Seven Spirits before the Throne, which are the same beings the Persians +called Ameshaspends. Each of them rules over two months in the year while +the seventh: Michael, the highest, is their leader, for he is ambassador +from the sun to the earth, the others are ambassadors from the planets. +The Catholic religion with its abundant occult information takes most +notice of these "_star-angels_" and knows considerable about their +influence upon the affairs of the earth. + +The Ameshaspends, however, do not inhabit the lower Regions of the Desire +World but influence the Izzards. According to the old Persian legend these +beings are divisible into one group of twenty-eight classes, and another +group of three classes. Each of these classes has dominion over, or takes +the lead of all the other classes on one certain day of the month. They +regulate the weather conditions on that day and work with animal and man +in particular. At least the twenty-eight classes do that, the other group +of three classes has nothing to do with animals, because they have only +twenty-eight pair of spinal nerves, while human beings have thirty-one. +Thus animals are attuned to the lunar month of twenty-eight days, while +man is correlated to the solar month of thirty or thirty-one days. The +ancient Persians were astronomers but not physiologists, they had no means +of knowing the different nervous constitution of animal and man, but they +saw clairvoyantly these superphysical beings, they noted and recorded +their work with animal and men and our own anatomical investigations may +show us the reason for these divisions of the classes of Izzards recorded +in that ancient system of philosophy. + +Still another class of beings should be mentioned: those who have entered +the Desire World through the gate of death and are now hidden from our +physical vision. These so-called "dead" are in fact much more alive than +any of us, who are tied to a dense body and subject to all its +limitations, who are forced to slowly drag this clog along with us at the +rate of a few miles an hour, who must expend such an enormous amount of +energy upon propelling that vehicle that we are easily and quickly tired, +even when in the best of health and who are often confined to a bed, +sometimes for years, by the indisposition of this heavy mortal coil. But +when that is once shed and the freed spirit can again function in its +spiritual body, sickness is an unknown condition and distance is +annihilated, or at least practically so, for though it was necessary for +the Savior to liken the freed spirit to the wind which blows where it +listeth, that simile gives but a poor description of what actually takes +place in soul flights. Time is nonexistent there, as we shall presently +explain, so the writer has never been able to time himself, but has on +several occasions timed others when he was in the physical body and they +speeding through space upon a certain errand. Distances such as from the +Pacific Coast to Europe, the delivery of a short message there and the +return to the body has been accomplished in slightly less than one minute. +Therefore our assertion, that those whom we call dead are in reality much +more alive than we, is well founded in facts. + +We spoke of the dense body in which we now live, as a "clog" and a +"fetter." It must not be inferred, however, that we sympathize with the +attitude of certain people who, when they have learned with what ease +soul-flights are accomplished, go about bemoaning the fact that they are +now imprisoned. They are constantly thinking of, and longing for, the day +when they shall be able to leave this mortal coil behind and fly away in +their spiritual body. Such an attitude of mind is decidedly mistaken, the +great and wise beings who are invisible leaders of our evolution have not +placed us here to no purpose. Valuable lessons are to be learned in this +visible world wherein we dwell, that cannot be learned in any other realm +of nature, and the very conditions of density and inertia whereof such +people complain, are factors which make it possible to acquire the +knowledge this world is designed to give. This fact was so amply +illustrated in a recent experience of the writer:--A friend had been +studying occultism for a number of years but had not studied astrology. + +Last year she became aroused to the importance of this branch of study as +a key to self knowledge and a means of understanding the natures of +others, also of developing the compassion for their errors, so necessary +in the cultivation of love of one's neighbor. Love of our neighbor the +Savior enjoined upon us as the Supreme Commandment which is the +fulfillment of all laws, and as Astrology teaches us to _bear_ and +_forbear_, it helps as nothing else can in the development of the supreme +virtue. She therefore joined one of the classes started in Los Angeles by +the writer, but a sudden illness quickly ended in death and thus +terminated her study of the subject in the physical body, ere it was well +begun. + +Upon one of many occasions when she visited the writer subsequent to her +release from the body, she deplored the fact that it seemed so difficult +to make headway in her study of astrology. The writer advised continued +attendance at the classes, and suggested that she could surely get someone +"on the other side" to help her study. + +At this she exclaimed impatiently: "Oh yes! of course I attend the +classes, I have done so right along; I have also found a friend who helps +me here. But you cannot imagine how difficult it is to concentrate here +upon mathematical calculations and the judgment of a horoscope or in fact +upon any subject here, where every little thought-current takes you miles +away from your study. I used to think it difficult to concentrate when I +had a physical body, but it is not a circumstance to the obstacles which +face the student here." + +The physical body was an anchor to her, and it is that to all of us. Being +dense, it is also to a great extent impervious to disturbing influences +from which the more subtle spiritual bodies do not shield us. It enables +us to bring our ideas to a logical conclusion with far less effort at +concentration than is necessary in that realm where all is in such +incessant and turbulent motion. Thus we are gradually developing the +faculty of holding our thoughts to a center by existence in this world, +and we should value our opportunities here, rather than deplore the +limitations which help in one direction more than they fetter in another. +In fact, we should never deplore any condition, each has its lesson. If we +try to learn what that lesson is and to assimilate the experience which +may be extracted therefrom, we are wiser than those who waste time in vain +regrets. + +We said there is no time in the Desire World, and the reader will readily +understand that such must be the case from the fact, already mentioned, +that nothing there is opaque. + +In this world the rotation of the opaque earth upon its axis is +responsible for the alternating conditions of day and night. We call it +Day--when the spot where we live is turned towards the sun and its rays +illumine our environment, but when our home is turned away from the sun +and its rays obstructed by the opaque earth we term the resulting +darkness: Night. The passage of the earth in its orbit around the sun +produces the seasons and the year, which are our divisions of time. But in +the Desire World where all is light there is but one long day. The spirit +is not there fettered by a heavy physical body, so it does not need sleep +and existence is unbroken. Spiritual substances are not subject to +contraction and expansion such as arise here from heat and cold, hence +summer and winter are also non-existent. Thus there is nothing to +differentiate one moment from another in respect of the conditions of +light and darkness, summer and winter, which mark time for us. Therefore, +while the so-called "dead" may have a very accurate memory of time as +regards the life they lived here in the body, they are usually unable to +tell anything about the chronological relation of events which have +happened to them in the Desire World, and it is a very common thing to +find that they do not even know how many years have elapsed since they +passed out from this plane of existence. Only students of the Stellar +Science are able to calculate the passage of time after their demise. + +When the occult investigator wishes to study an event in the past history +of man, he may most readily call up the picture from _the memory of +nature_, but if he desires to fix the time of the incident, he will be +obliged to count backwards by the motion of the heavenly bodies. For that +purpose he generally uses the measure provided by the sun's precession: +Each year the sun crosses the earth's equator about the twenty-first of +March. Then day and night are of even length, therefore this is called the +Vernal equinox. But on account of a certain wabbling motion of the earth's +axis, the sun does not cross over at the same place in the Zodiac, it +reaches the equator a little too early, it _precedes_, year by year it +moves _backwards_ a little. At the time of the birth of Christ, for +instance, the Vernal Equinox was in about seven degrees of the Zodiacal +sign Aries. During the two thousand years which intervene between that +event and the present time, the sun has moved _backwards_ about +twenty-seven degrees, so that it is now in about ten degrees of the sign +Pisces. It moves around the whole circle of the Zodiac in about 25,868 +years. The occult investigator may therefore count back the number of +signs, or whole circles, which the sun has _preceded_ between the present +day and the time of the event he is investigating. Thus he has by the use +of the heavenly time keepers a very approximately correct measure of time +even though he is in the Desire World and that is another reason for +studying the Stellar Science. + +_The World of Thought._ + +When we have attained the spiritual development necessary to consciously +enter the World of Thought and leave the Desire World, which is the realm +of light and color, we pass through a condition which the occult +investigator calls The Great Silence. + +As previously stated, the higher Regions of the Desire World exhibit the +marked peculiarity of blending form and sound, but when one passes through +the Great Silence, all the world seems to disappear and the spirit has the +feeling of floating in an ocean of intense light, utterly alone, yet +absolutely fearless, since unimbued with a sense of its form or sound, nor +past or future, but all is one eternal NOW. There seems to be neither +pleasure nor pain and yet there is no absence of feeling but it all seems +to center in the one idea:--"_I am_"! The human Ego stands face to face +with itself as it were, and for the time being all else is shut out. This +is the experience of anyone who passes that breach between the Desire +World and the World of Thought, whether involuntarily, in the course of an +ordinary cyclic pilgrimage of the soul, which we shall later elucidate +when speaking of the post-mortem existence, or by an act of the will, as +in the case of the trained occult investigator, all have the same +experience in transition. + + ------------------------------------- + +There are two main divisions in the Physical World: the Chemical Region +and the Etheric Region. The World of Thought also has two great +subdivisions: The Region of concrete Thought and the Region of abstract +Thought. + +As we specialize the material of the Physical World and shape into a dense +body, and as we form the force-matter of the Desire World into a desire +body, so do we appropriate a certain amount of mindstuff from the Region +of concrete Thought; but we, as spirits, clothe ourselves in +spirit-substance from the Region of abstract Thought and thereby we become +individual, separate Egos. + +_The Region of Concrete Thought._ + +The Region of concrete Thought is neither shadowy nor illusory. It is the +acme of reality and this world which we mistakenly regard as the only +verity, is but an evanescent replica of that Region. + +A little reflection will show the reasonableness of this statement and +prove our contention that all we see here is really crystallized thought. +Our houses, our machinery, our chairs and tables, all that has been made +by the hand of man is the embodiment of a thought. As the juices in the +soft body of the snail gradually crystallize into the hard and flinty +shell which it carries upon its back and which hides it, so everything +used in our civilization is a concretion of invisible, intangible +mind-stuff. The thought of James Watt in time congealed into a steam +engine and revolutionized the world. Edison's thought was condensed into +an electric generator which has turned night to day, and had it not been +for the thought of Morse and Marconi, the telegraph would not have +annihilated distance as it does today. An earthquake may wreck a city and +demolish the lighting plant and telegraph station, but the thoughts of +Watt, Edison and Morse remain, and upon the basis of their indestructible +ideas new machinery may be constructed and operations resumed. Thus +thoughts are more permanent than things. + +The sensitive ear of the musician detects a certain musical note in every +city which is different from that of another city. He hears in each little +brook a new melody, and to him the sound of wind in the treetops of +different forests give a varying sound. In the Desire World we noted the +existence of forms similar to the shapes of things here, also that +seemingly _sound proceeds from form_, but in the Region of concrete +Thought it is different, for while each form occupies and obscures a +certain space here, form is nonexistent when viewed from the standpoint of +the Region of concrete Thought. Where the form was, a transparent, vacuous +space is observable. _From that empty void comes a sound_ which is the +"keynote" that _creates_ and maintains the _form_ whence it _appears_ to +come, as the almost invisible core of a gas-flame is the source of the +light we perceive. + +Sound from a vacuum cannot be heard in the Physical World, but the harmony +which proceeds from the vacuous cavity of a celestial _archetype_ is "the +voice of the silence," and it becomes audible when all earthly sounds have +ceased. Elijah heard it not while the storm was raging; nor was it in +evidence during the turbulence of the earthquake, nor in the crackling and +roaring fire, but when the destructive and inharmonious sounds of this +world had melted into silence, "the still small voice" issued its commands +to save Elijah's life. + +That "keynote" is a direct manifestation of the Higher Self which uses it +to impress and govern the Personality it has created. But alas, part of +its life has been infused into the material side of its being, which has +thus obtained a certain will of its own and only too often are the two +sides of our nature at war. + +At last there comes a time when the spirit is too weary to strive with the +recalcitrant flesh, when "the voice of the silence" ceases. + +The earthly nourishment we may seek to give, will not avail to sustain a +form when this harmonious sound, this "word from heaven" no longer +reverberates through the empty void of the celestial archetype, for "man +lives not by bread alone," but by the WORD, and the last sound-vibration +of the "keynote" is the death-knell of the physical body. + +In this world we are compelled to investigate and to study a thing before +we know about it, and although the facilities for gaining information are +in some respects much greater in the Desire World, a certain amount of +investigation is necessary nevertheless to acquire knowledge. In the World +of Thought, on the contrary, it is different. When we wish to know about +any certain thing there, and we turn our attention thereto, then that +thing speaks to us, as it were. The sound it emits at once gives us a most +luminous comprehension of every phase of its nature. We attain to a +realization of its past history; the whole story of its unfoldment is laid +bare and we seem to have lived through all of those experiences together +with the thing we are investigating. + +Were it not for one enormous difficulty, the story thus obtained would be +exceedingly valuable. But all this information, this life-picture, flows +in upon us with an enormous rapidity in a moment, in the twinkling of an +eye, so that it has neither beginning nor end, for, as said, in the World +of Thought, all is one great NOW, Time does not exist. + +Therefore, when we want to use the archetypal information in the Physical +World, we must disentangle and arrange it in chronological order with +beginning and ending before it becomes intelligible to beings living in a +realm where Time is a prime factor. That rearrangement is a most difficult +task as all words are coined with relation to the three dimensions of +space and the evanescent unit of time, the fleeting moment, hence much of +that information remains unavailable. + +Among the denizens of this Region of concrete Thought we may note +particularly two classes. One is called the powers of darkness by Paul and +the mystic investigator of the Western World knows them as Lords of Mind. +They were human at the time when the earth was in a condition of darkness +such as worlds in the making go through before they become luminous and +reach the firemist-stage. At that time we were in our mineral evolution. +That is to say: The Human Spirit which has now awakened was encrusted in +the ball of mindstuff, which was then the earth. At that time the present +Human Spirits were as much asleep as is the life which ensouls our +minerals of today, and as we are working with the mineral chemical +constituents of the earth, molding them into houses, railways, +steam-boats, chairs, etc, etc., so those beings, who are now Lords of +Mind, worked with us when we were mineral-like. They have since advanced +three steps, through stages similar to that of the Angels and Archangels, +before they attained their present position and became creative +intelligences. They are expert builders of mind stuff, as we are builders +of the present mineral substances and therefore they have given us +necessary help to acquire a mind which is the highest development of the +human being. + +According to the foregoing explanation it seems to be an anomaly when Paul +speaks of them as evil and exhorts us to withstand them. The difficulty +disappears, however, when we understand that good and evil are but +relative qualities. An illustration will make the point clear:--Let us +suppose that an expert organ builder has constructed a wonderful organ, a +masterpiece. Then he has followed his vocation in the proper manner, and +is therefore to be commended for the good which he has done. But if he is +not satisfied to leave well enough alone, if he refuses to give up his +product to the musician who understands how to play upon the instrument; +if he intrudes his presence into the concert hall, he is out of place and +to be censured as evil. Similarly the Lords of Mind did the greatest +possible service to humanity when they helped us to acquire our mind, but +many subtle thought influences come from them, and are to be resisted, as +Paul very properly emphasizes. + +The other class of beings which must be mentioned are called Archetypal +Forces by the Western School of occultism. They direct the energies of the +creative Archetypes native to this realm. They are a composite class of +beings of many different grades of intelligences, and there is one stage +in the cyclic journey of the Human Spirit when that also labors in, and is +part of, that great host of beings. For the Human Spirit is also destined +to become a great creative intelligence at some future time, and if there +were no school wherein it could gradually learn to create, it would not be +able to advance, for nothing in nature is done suddenly. An acorn planted +in the soil does not become a majestic oak over night, but many years of +slow, persistent growth are required before it attains to the stature of a +giant of the forest. A man does not become an Angel by the mere fact of +dying and entering a new world any more than an animal advances to be a +man by the same process. But in time all that lives, mounts the ladder of +Being from the clod to the God. There is no limitation possible to the +spirit, and so at various stages in its unfoldment the Human Spirit works +with the other nature forces, according to the stage of intelligence which +it has attained. It creates, changes and remodels the earth upon which it +is to live. Thus, under the great law of cause and effect, which we +observe in every realm of nature, it reaps upon earth what it has sown in +heaven, and vice versa. It grows slowly but persistently and advances +continually. + +_The Region of Abstract Thought._ + +Various religious systems have been given to humanity at different times, +each suited to meet the spiritual needs of the people among whom it was +promulgated, and, coming from the same divine source:--God, all religions +exhibit similar fundamentals or first principles. + +All systems teach that there was a time when _darkness_ reigned supreme. +Everything which we now perceive was then non-existent. Earth, sky and the +heavenly bodies were uncreate, so were the multitudinous forms which live +and move upon the various planets.--All, all, was yet in a fluidic +condition and the Universal Spirit brooded _quiescent_ in limitless Space +as the One Existence. + +The Greeks called that condition of homogeneity _Chaos_, and the state of +orderly segregation which we now see; the marching orbs which illumine the +vaulted canopy of heaven, the stately procession of planets around a +central light, the majestic sun; the unbroken sequence of the seasons and +the unvarying alternation of tidal ebb and flow;--all this aggregate of +systematic order, was called _Cosmos_, and was supposed to have proceeded +from Chaos. + +The Christian Mystic obtains a deeper comprehension when he opens his +Bible and ponders the first five verses of that brightest gem of all +spiritual lore: the Gospel of St. John. + +As he reverently opens his aspiring heart to acquire understanding of +those sublime mystical teachings he transcends the form-side of nature, +comprising various realms of which we have been speaking, and finds +himself "in the spirit," as did the prophets in olden times. He is then in +the Region of abstract Thought and sees the eternal verities which also +Paul beheld in this, the third, heaven. + +For those among us who are unable to obtain knowledge save by reasoning +upon the matter, however, it will be necessary to examine the fundamental +meaning of words used by St. John to clothe his wonderful teaching, which +was originally given in the Greek language, a much simpler matter than is +commonly supposed, for Greek words have been freely introduced into our +modern languages, particularly in scientific terms, and we shall show how +this ancient teaching is supported by the latest discoveries of modern +science. + +The opening verse of the gospel of St. John is as follows: "In the +_beginning_ was the _Word_, and the _Word_ was with _God_, and the _Word_ +was _God_." We will examine the words: "beginning," "Word" and "God." We +may also note that in the Greek version the concluding sentence reads: +"and God was the Word," a difference which makes a great distinction. + +It is an axiomatic truth that "out of nothing, nothing comes," and it has +often been asserted by scoffers that the Bible teaches generation "from +nothing." We readily agree that _translations_ into the modern languages +promulgate this erroneous doctrine, but we have shown in _The Rosicrucian +Cosmo Conception_ (chapter on "the Occult Analysis of Genesis"), that the +Hebrew text speaks of an _ever-existing essence_, as the basis whence all +forms, the earth and the heavenly lights included, were first created, and +John also gives the same teaching. + +The Greek word _arche_, in the opening sentence of the gospel of St. John +has been translated _the beginning_, and it may be said to have that +meaning, but it also has other valid interpretations, vastly more +significant of the idea John wished to convey. It means:--an elementary +condition,--a chief source,--a first principle,--primordial matter. + +There was a time when science insisted that the elements were immutable, +that is to say, that an atom of iron had been an atom of iron since the +earth was formed and would so remain to the end of time. The Alchemists +were sneered at as fanciful dreamers or madmen, but since Professor J. J. +Thomson's discovery of the electron, the atomic theory of matter, is no +longer tenable. The principle of radio-activity has later vindicated the +Alchemists. Science and the Bible agree in teaching, that all that is, has +been formed from one homogeneous substance. + +It is that basic principle which John called _arche_:--primordial +matter,--and the dictionary defines Archeology as: "the science of the +origin (_arche_) of things." Masons style God the "Grand Architect," for +the Greek word tektos means builder, and God is the Chief Builder +(_tektos_) of _arche_: the primordial virgin matter which is also the +chief source of all things. + +Thus we see that when the opening sentence of St. John's gospel is +properly translated, our Christian Religion teaches that once a virgin +substance enfolded the divine Thinker:--God. + +That is the identical condition which the earlier Greeks called Chaos. A +little thought will make it evident that we are not arbitrary in finding +fault with the translation of the gospel, for it is self-evident that a +word cannot be the beginning, a thought must precede the word, and a +thinker must originate thought before it can be expressed as a word. + +When properly translated the teaching of John fully embodies that idea, +for the Greek term _logos_ means both the reasonable thought,--(we also say +Logic),--and the word which expresses this (logical) thought. + + + 1) _In the primordial substance was thought, and the thought was + with God And God was the word_, + + 2) THAT, [The Word], _also was with God in the primal state_. + + +Later the divine WORD; the Creative Fiat, reverberates through space and +segregates the homogeneous virgin substance into separate forms. + + + 3) _Every thing has come into existence because of that prime + fact_, [The Word of God], _and no thing exists apart from that + fact._ + + 4) _In that was Life._ + + +In the alphabet we have a few elementary sounds from which words may be +constructed. They are basic elements of expression, as bricks, iron and +lumber are raw materials of architecture, or as a few notes are component +parts of music. + +But a heap of bricks, iron and lumber, is not a house, neither is a +jumbled mass of notes music, nor can we call a haphazard arrangement of +alphabetical sounds a word. + +These raw materials are prime necessities in construction of architecture, +music, literature or poetry, but the contour of the finished product and +the purpose it will serve depends upon the arrangement of the raw +materials, which is subject to the constructor's design. Building +materials may be formed to prison or palace; notes may be arranged as +fanfare or funeral dirge; words may be indited to inspire passion or +peace, all according to the will of the designer. So also the majestic +rhythm of the Word of God has wrought the primal substance: _arche_, into +the multitudinous forms which comprise the phenomenal world, according to +His will. + +Did the reader ever stop to consider the wonderful power of a human word. +Coming to us in the sweet accents of love, it may lure us from paths of +rectitude to shameful ignominy and wreck our life with sorrow and remorse, +or it may spur us on in noblest efforts to acquire glory and honor, here +or hereafter. According to the inflection of the voice a word may strike +terror into the bravest heart or lull a timid child to peaceful slumber. +The word of an agitator may rouse the passions of a mob and impel it to +awful bloodshed, as in the French Revolution, where dictatorial mandates +of mob-rule killed and exiled at pleasure, or, the strain of "Home, Sweet +Home" may cement the setting of a family-circle beyond possibility of +rupture. + +Right words are true and therefore free, they are never bound or fettered +by time or space, they go to the farthest corners of the earth, and when +the lips that spoke them first have long since mouldered in the grave, +other voices take up with unwearying enthusiasm their message of life and +love, as for instance the mystical "Come unto me" which has sounded from +unnumbered tongues and brought oceans of balm to troubled hearts. + +Words of Peace have been victorious, where war would have meant defeat, +and no talent is more to be desired than ability to always say the right +word at the auspicious time. + +Considering thus the immense power and potency of the human word, we may +perhaps dimly apprehend the potential magnitude of the Word of God, the +Creative Fiat, when as a mighty dynamic force it first reverberated +through space and commenced to form primordial matter into worlds, as +sound from a violin bow moulds sand into geometrical figures. Moreover, +_the Word of God still sounds_ to sustain the marching orbs and impel them +onwards in their circle paths, the Creative Word continues to produce +forms of gradually increasing efficiency, as media expressing life and +consciousness. The harmonious enunciation of consecutive syllables in the +Divine Creative Word mark successive stages in evolution of the world and +man. When the last syllable has been spoken and the complete word has +sounded, we shall have reached perfection as human beings. Then Time will +be at an end, and with the last vibration of the Word of God, the worlds +will be resolved into their original elements. Our life will then be "hid +with Christ in God," till the Cosmic Night:--Chaos,--is over, and we wake to +do "greater things" in a "new heaven and a new earth." + +According to the general idea Chaos and Cosmos are superlative antitheses +of each other. Chaos being regarded as a past condition of confusion and +disorder which has long since been entirely superseded by cosmic order +which now prevails. + +As a matter of fact, Chaos is the seed-ground of Cosmos, the basis of all +progress, for thence come all IDEAS which later materialize as Railways, +Steamboats, Telephones, etc. + +We speak of "thoughts as being conceived by the mind," but as both father +and mother are necessary in the generation of a child, so also there must +be both _idea_ and _mind_ before a _thought_ can be conceived. As semen +germinated in the positive male organ is projected into the negative +uterus at conception, so ideas are generated by a positive Human Ego in +the spirit-substance of the Region of abstract Thought. This idea is +projected upon the receptive mind, and a conception takes place. Then, as +the spermatozoic nucleus draws upon the maternal body for material to +shape a body appropriate to its individual expression, so does each idea +clothe itself in a peculiar form of mindstuff. It is then a thought, as +visible to the inner vision of composite man, as a child is to its parent. + +Thus we see that ideas are embryonic thoughts, nuclei of spirit-substance +from the Region of abstract Thought. Improperly conceived in a diseased +mind they become vagaries and delusions, but when gestated in a sound mind +and formed into rational thoughts they are the basis of all material, +moral and mental progress, and the closer our touch with Chaos, the better +will be our Cosmos, for in that realm of abstract realities truth is not +obscured by matter, it is self-evident. + +Pilate was asked "what is Truth," but no answer is recorded. We are +incapable of cognizing truth in the abstract while we live in the +phenomenal world, for the inherent nature of matter is illusion and +delusion, and we are constantly making allowances and corrections whether +we are conscious of the fact or not. The sunbeam which proceeds for 90 +millions of miles in a straight line, is refracted or bent as soon as it +strikes our dense atmosphere, and according to the angle of its +refraction, it _appears_ to have one color or another. The straightest +stick appears crooked when partly immersed in water, and the truths which +are so self-evident in the Higher worlds are likewise obscured, refracted +or twisted out of all semblance under the illusory conditions of this +material world. + +"The truth shall set you free," said Christ, and the more we turn our +aspirations from material acquisitiveness and seek to lay up treasure +above, the more we aim to rise, the oftener we "get in the spirit," the +more readily we "shall know truth" and reach liberation from the fetter of +flesh which binds us to a limited environment, and attain to a sphere of +greater usefulness. + +Study of philosophy and science has a tendency to further perception of +truth, and as science has progressed it has gradually receded from its +erstwhile crude materialism. The day is not far off when it will be more +reverently religious than the church itself. Mathematics is said to be +"dry," for it doesn't stir the emotions. When it is taught that "the sum +of the angles of a triangle is 180 degrees," the dictum is at once +accepted, because its truth is self-evident and no feeling is involved in +the matter. But when a doctrine such as the Immaculate Conception is +promulgated and our emotions are stirred, bloody war, or heated argument, +may result, and still leave the matter in doubt. Pythagoras demanded that +his pupils study mathematics, because he knew the elevating effect of +raising their minds above the sphere of feeling, where it is subject to +delusion, and elevating it towards the Region of abstract Thought which is +the prime reality. + +In this place we are dealing with worlds in particular, and will therefore +defer comment upon the remainder of the first 5 verses of St. John's +gospel: + + + "_And Life became Light in man,_ + 5) _and Light shines in Darkness._" + + +We have now seen that the earth is composed of three worlds which +interpenetrate one another so that it is perfectly true when Christ said +that "heaven is within you" or, the translation should rather have been +_among you_. We have also seen that of these three realms two are +subdivided. It has also been explained that each division serves a great +purpose in the unfoldment of various forms of life which dwell in each of +these worlds, and we may note in conclusion, that the lower regions of the +Desire World constitute what the Catholic religion calls _Purgatory_, a +place where the evil of a past life is transmuted to good, usable by the +spirit as conscience in later lives. The higher regions of the Desire +World are the _first Heaven_ where all the good a man has done is +assimilated by the spirit as _soul_ power. The Region of concrete Thought +is the _second Heaven_, where, as already said, the spirit prepares its +future environment on earth, and the Region of abstract Thought is the +_third Heaven_, but as Paul said, it is scarcely lawful to speak about +that. + +Some will ask: is there then no hell?--No! _The mercy of God_ tends as +greatly towards the principle of GOOD as "_the inhumanity of man_" towards +cruelty, so that he would consign his brother men to flames of hell during +eternity for the puerile mistakes committed during a few years, or perhaps +for a slight difference in belief. The writer has heard of a minister who +wished to impress his "flock" with the reality of an eternity of hell +flames, and to demonstrate the fallacy of a heretical notion entertained +by some of his parishioners that when sinners come to hell they burn to +ashes and that is the end. + +He took with him an alcohol lamp and some asbestos into the pulpit and +told his audience that God would turn their souls into a substance +resembling asbestos. He showed them that though the asbestos were heated +red hot it did not decompose into ashes. Fortunately the day of the hell +preacher has gone by, and if we believe the Bible which says that "in God +we live and move and have our being," we can readily understand that _a +lost soul would be an impossibility_, for were one single soul lost, then +logically a part of God Himself would be lost. No matter what our color, +our race or our creed, we are all equally the children of God and in our +various ways we shall obtain satisfaction. Let us therefore rather look to +Christ and forget Creed. + + + _Creed or Christ?_ + + No man loves God who hates his kind, + Who tramples on his Brother's heart and soul. + Who seeks to shackle, cloud or fog the mind + By fears of Hell has not perceived our goal. + + God-sent are all religions blest; + And Christ, the Way, the Truth and Life, + To give the heavy-laden rest, + And peace from Sorrow, Sin and Strife. + + At his request the Universal Spirit came + _To all the churches_, not to one alone. + On Pentecostal morn a tongue of flame + Round _each_ apostle as a halo shone. + + Since then, as vultures ravenous with greed, + We oft have battled for an empty name, + And sought by Dogma, Edict, Creed, + To send each other to the flame. + + Is Christ then divided? Was Cephas or Paul + Nailed to the deathly tree? + If not--then why these divisions at all? + Christ's love doth embrace you and me. + + His pure sweet love is not confined + By creeds which segregate and raise a wall; + His love enfolds, embraces _Humankind_ + No matter what ourselves or Him we call. + + Then why not take Him at His word? + Why hold to creeds which tear apart? + But one thing matters, be it heard, + That brother-love fill every heart. + + There is but one thing that the world has need to know; + There is but one balm for all our human woe + There is but one way that leads to heaven above; + That way is human sympathy and love. + + + + + +CHAPTER IV. THE CONSTITUTION OF MAN + + +Our chapter head, "the constitution of man," may surprise a reader who has +not previously studied the Mystery teachings, or he may imagine that we +intend to give an anatomical dissertation, but such is not our intention. +We have spoken of the earth upon which we live as being composed of +several invisible realms in addition to the world we perceive by means of +our senses. We have also spoken of man as being correlated to these +various divisions in nature, and a little thought upon the subject will +quickly convince us that in order to function upon the various planes of +existence described, it is necessary that a man should have a body +composed of their substance, or at least have specialized for his own use, +some of the material of each of these worlds. + +We have said that finer matter, called desire stuff and mind stuff, +permeates our atmosphere and the solid earth, even as blood percolates +through all parts of our flesh. But that is not a sufficient explanation +to account for all facts of life. If that were all, then minerals, which +are interpenetrated by the world of thought and the world of desire, would +have thoughts and desires as well as man. This is not the case, so +something more than mere interpenetration must be requisite to acquire the +faculties of thought and feeling. + +We know that in order to function in this world, to live as a physical +being among other like beings, we must have a physical body all our own, +built of the chemical constituents of this visible world. When we lose it +at death, it profits us nothing that the world is full of just the very +chemicals needed to build such a body. We cannot then specialize them, and +therefore we are invisible to all others. Similarly, if we did not possess +a special body made of ether, we should be unable to grow and to +propagate. That is the case with the mineral. Had we no separate +individual desire body, we should be unable to feel desires and emotions, +there would be no incentive to move from one place to another. We should +then be stationary as plants, and did we not possess a mind, we should be +incapable of thought, and act upon impulse and instinct as animals. + +Some one may of course object to this last statement, and contend that +animals do think. So far as our domesticated animals are concerned that is +partially true, but it is not quite in the same way that we think and +reason. The difference may perhaps best be understood if we take an +illustration from the electrical field. When an electric current _of high +voltage_ is passed through a coiled copper wire, and another wire is +placed in the center of the coils, that wire will become charged with +electricity _of a lower voltage_. So also the animal, when brought within +the sphere of human thoughts, evolves a mental activity of a lower order. + +Paul, in his writings, also mentions _the natural body_ and the _spiritual +body_ while the man himself is a spirit inhabiting those vehicles. We will +briefly note the constitution of the various bodies of man invisible to +the physical sight but as objective to spiritual sight as the dense body +to ordinary vision. + +_The Vital Body._ + +That body of ours which is composed of ether is called the "_vital body_" +in Western Mystery Schools, for, as we have already seen, ether is the +avenue of ingress for vital force from the sun and the field of agencies +in nature which promote such vital activities as assimilation, growth and +propagation. + +This vehicle is an exact counterpart of our visible body, molecule for +molecule, and organ for organ, with one exception, which we shall note +later. But it is slightly larger, extending about one and one-half inches +beyond the periphery of our dense vehicle. + +The spleen is the entrance gate of forces which vitalize the body. In the +etheric counterpart of that organ solar energy is transmuted to vital +fluid of a pale rose color. From thence it spreads all over the nervous +system, and after having been used in the body it radiates in streams, +much as bristles protrude from a porcupine. + +The rays of the sun are transmitted either directly, or reflected by way +of the planets and the moon. The rays directly from the sun give spiritual +illumination, the rays received by way of the planets produce +intelligence, morality, and soul growth, but the rays reflected by way of +the moon make for physical growth, as seen in the case of plants which +grow differently when planted in the light of the moon from what is the +case when they are planted when the moon is dark. There is also a +difference in plants sown when the moon is in barren and fruitful signs of +the Zodiac. + +The solar ray is absorbed by the human spirit which has its seat in the +center of the forehead, the stellar ray is absorbed by the brain and +spinal cord, and the lunar ray enters our system through the spleen. + +The solar, stellar and lunar rays are three-colored, and in the lunar ray +which supplies our vital force, the blue beam is the life of The Father, +which causes germination, the yellow beam is the life of The Son, which is +the active principle in nutrition and growth, and the red beam is the life +of the Holy Spirit, which stimulates to action, dissipating the energy +stored by the yellow force. This principle is particularly active in +generation. + +The various kingdoms absorb this life-force differently, according to +their constitution. Animals have only 28 pairs of spinal nerves. They are +keyed to the lunar month of 28 days and therefore dependent upon a +Groupspirit for an infusion of stellar rays necessary to produce +consciousness. They are altogether incapable of absorbing the direct ray +of the sun. + +Man is in a transition stage, he has 31 pairs of spinal nerves which keys +him to the solar month, but the nerves in the so-called +cauda-equina--literally horse-tail--, at the end of our spinal cord, are +still too undeveloped to act as avenues for the spiritual ray of the sun. +In proportion as we draw our creative force upward by spiritual thought we +develop these nerves and awaken dormant faculties of the spirit. But it is +dangerous to attempt that development except under guidance of a qualified +teacher, and the reader is earnestly warned not to use any method +published in books, or sold, for their practice usually leads to dementia. +The safe method is never sold for money or any earthly consideration +however large or small; it is always freely given as a reward of merit. +"Ask and ye shall receive, seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be +opened", said the Christ. If our life is a prayer for illumination, the +search will not be uncertain, nor the knock without response. + +When solar energy has been transmuted in the spleen it traverses the whole +nervous system of the body glowing with a most beautiful color of a +delicate rosy hue. It answers the same purpose as electricity in a +telegraph system. We may string wires between cities, erect telegraph +stations, install receivers and transmitters. We may even have operators +ready at the keys, but until electric fluid is turned into our wires, the +telegraph keys will refuse to click. So also in the body, the human spirit +is operator, and from the central station of the brain, nerves ramify, go +through the whole body to all the different muscles. When this vitalizing +fluid of which we are speaking traverses the nervous system, the Ego may +send his commands to the muscles and cause them to move but if the vital +fluid for any reason does not flow into a certain part of the body such as +an arm or a limb, then the spirit is powerless to move that part of the +body and we say that it is paralyzed. + +When we are in health, we specialize solar energy in such great quantities +that we cannot use it all in the body and therefore it radiates through +the pores of our skin in straight streams and serves a similar purpose as +an exhaust fan. That machine drives the foul air out of a room or building +and keeps the atmosphere within pure and sweet. The excessive vital force +which radiates from the body drives out poisonous gases, deleterious +microbes and effete matter thus tending to preserve a healthy condition. +It also prevents armies of disease germs, which swarm about in the +atmosphere, from entering; upon the same principle that a fly cannot wing +its way into a building through the exhaust fan. Thus it serves a most +beneficent purpose even after it has been utilized in our body and is +returning to the free state. + +It is a curious and most astounding sight when one first observes how, +from exposed parts of the body such as hands and face, there suddenly +commences to flow a stream of stars, cubes, pyramids and a variety of +other geometrical forms. The writer has more than once rubbed his eyes +when he first perceived the phenomenon, for it seemed that he must be +suffering from hallucinations. The forms observed are chemical atoms +however, which have served their purpose in the body and are expelled +through the pores. + +When one has eaten a meal, vital fluid is consumed by the body in great +quantities, for it is the cement whereby nature's forces build our food +into the body. Therefore the radiations are weakest during the period of +digestion. If the meal has been heavy, the outflow is very perceptibly +diminished, and does not then cleanse our body as thoroughly as when the +food has been digested, nor is it as potent in keeping out inimical germs. +Therefore one is most liable to catch cold or other disease by overeating, +a fault which should be avoided by all who wish to keep in good health. + +During ill health the vital body specializes but little solar energy. +Then, for a time, the visible body seems to feed upon the vital body as it +were, so that the vehicle becomes more transparent and attenuated at the +same rate as the visible body exhibits a state of emaciation. The +cleansing odic radiations are almost entirely absent during sickness, +therefore complications set in so easily. + +Though science has not directly observed this vital body of man, it has +upon several occasions postulated the existence of such a vehicle as +necessary to account for facts in life and the radiations have been +observed by a number of scientists at different times and under varying +conditions. Blondlot and Charpentier have called them N-rays after the +city of Nantes where the radiations were observed by these scientists, +others have named them "The Odic fluid". Scientific investigators who have +conducted researches into psychic phenomena have even photographed it when +it has been extracted through the spleen by materializing spirits. Dr. +Hotz for instance obtained two photographs of a materialization through +the German medium, Minna-Demmler. On one a cloud of ether is seen oozing +out through the left side of the medium, shapeless and without form. The +second picture, taken a few moments later, shows the materialized spirit +standing at the medium's side. Other photographs obtained by scientists +from the Italian medium Eusapio Palladino show a luminous cloud +over-hanging her left side. + +We said in the beginning of this description that the vital body is an +exact counterpart of the dense body with one exception: it is of the +opposite sex or perhaps we should rather say polarity. As the vital body +nourishes the dense vehicle, we may readily understand that blood is its +highest visible expression, and also that a positively polarized vital +body would generate more blood than a negative one. Woman who is +physically negative has a positive vital body, hence she generates a +surplus of blood which is relieved by the periodical flow. She is also +more prone to tears, which are white bleeding, than man, whose negative +vital body does not generate more blood than he can comfortably take care +of. Therefore it is not necessary for him to have the outlets which +relieve excess of blood in woman. + +_The Desire Body._ + +In addition to the visible body and the vital body we also have a body +made of desire stuff from which we form our feelings and emotions. This +vehicle also impels us to seek sense gratification. But while the two +instruments of which we have already spoken, are well organized, the +desire body appears to spiritual sight as an ovoid cloud extending from +sixteen to twenty inches beyond the physical body. It is above the head +and below the feet so that our dense body sits in the center of this +egg-shaped cloud as the yolk is in the center of an egg. + +The reason for the rudimentary state of this vehicle is, that it has been +added to the human constitution more recently than the bodies previously +mentioned. Evolution of form may be likened to the manner in which the +juices in the snail first condense into flesh and later become a hard +shell. When our present visible body first germinated in the spirit, it +was a thought-form, but gradually it has become denser and more concrete +until it is now a chemical crystallization. The vital body was next +emanated by the spirit as a thought-form and is in the third stage of +concretion which is etheric. The desire body is a still later acquisition. +That also was a thought form at its inception, but has now condensed to +desire stuff, and the mind, which we have only recently received, is still +but a mere cloudy thought form. + +Arms and limbs, ears and eyes are not necessary to use the desire body, +for it can glide through space more swiftly than wind without such means +of locomotion as we require in this visible world. + +When viewed by spiritual sight, it appears that there are in this desire +body a number of whirling vortices. We have already explained that it is a +characteristic of desire stuff to be in constant motion, and from the main +vortex in the region of the liver there is a constant outwelling flow +which radiates towards the periphery of this egg-shaped body and returns +to the center through a number of other vortices. The desire body exhibits +all the colors and shades which we know and a vast number of others which +are indescribable in earthly language. Those colors vary in every person +according to his characteristics and temperament and they also vary from +moment to moment as passing moods, fancies or emotions are experienced by +him. There is however in each one a certain basic color dependent upon the +ruling star at the moment of his birth. The man in whose horoscope Mars is +peculiarly strong usually has a crimson tint in his aura, where Jupiter is +the strongest planet the prevailing tint seems to be a bluish tone, and so +on with the other planets. + +There was a time in the earth's past history when incrustation was not yet +complete, and human beings of that time lived upon islands here and there, +amid boiling seas. They had not yet evolved eyes or ears, but a little +organ: the pineal gland, which anatomists have called _the third eye_, +protruded through the back of the head and was a _localised organ of +feeling_, which warned the man when he came too near a volcanic crater and +thus enabled him to escape destruction. Since then the cerebral +hemispheres have covered the pineal gland, and instead of a single organ +of feeling, the whole body inside and out is sensitive to impacts, which +of course is a much higher state of development. + +In the desire body every particle is sensitive to vibrations similar to +those which we call sight, sounds and feelings and every particle is in +incessant motion rapidly swirling about so that in the same instant it may +be at the top and bottom of the desire body and impart at all points to +all the other particles a sensation of that which it has experienced thus +every particle of desire stuff in this vehicle of ours will instantly feel +any sensation experienced by any single particle. Therefore the desire +body is of an exceedingly sensitive nature, capable of most intense +feelings and emotions. + +_The Mind._ + +This is the latest acquisition of the human spirit, and in most people who +have not yet accustomed themselves to orderly, consecutive thought, it is +a mere inchoate cloud disposed particularly in the region of the head. +When looking at a person clairvoyantly there appears to be an empty space +in the center of the forehead just above and between the eyebrows. It +looks like the blue part of a gas flame. That is mind stuff which veils +the human spirit, or Ego, and the writer has been told that not even the +most gifted seer can penetrate that veil which is said to have been spoken +of in ancient Egypt as "_the veil of Isis_" which none may lift and live, +for behind that veil is the Holy of Holies, the temple of our body, where +the spirit is to be left secure from all intrusion. + +To those who have not previously studied the deeper philosophies the +question may occur: But why all these divisions; even the Bible speaks +only of soul and body, for most people believe soul and spirit to be +synonymous terms. We can only answer that this division is not arbitrary +but necessary, and founded upon facts in nature. Neither is it correct to +regard the soul and the spirit as synonymous. Paul himself speaks of _the +natural body_ which is composed of physical substances: solids, liquids, +gases and ethers; he mentions _a spiritual body_, which is the vehicle of +the spirit composed of the mind and desire body, and _the spirit itself_, +which is called Ego in Latin or "I" in English. + +That term "I" is an appelation which can only be made by the human spirit +of itself. We may all call a dog, dog; or we may call a table, table, and +any one else may apply the same name to the dog and to the table, but only +a human being can be called "I" and only he himself can apply that most +exclusive of all words, I, for this is the badge of self-consciousness, +the recognition by the human spirit of _itself_ as an entity, separate and +apart from all others. + +Thus we see that the constitution of man is more complex than appears upon +the surface, and we will now proceed to note the effect upon this +multiplex being of various conditions of life. + + + + + +CHAPTER V. LIFE AND DEATH + + +_Invisible Helpers and Mediums._ + +There are two classes of people in the world. In one class the vital and +dense bodies are so firmly cemented that the ethers cannot be extracted +under any circumstances but remain with the dense body at all times and +under all conditions from birth to death. Those people are insensible to +any supersensuous sights or sounds. They are therefore usually exceedingly +sceptic, and believe nothing exists but what _they_ can see. + +There is another class of people in whom the connection between the dense +and the vital bodies is more or less loose, so that the ether of their +vital bodies vibrates at a higher rate than in the first class mentioned. +These people are therefore more or less sensitive to the spiritual world. + +This class of sensitives may again be divided. Some are weak characters, +dominated by the will of others in a _negative_ manner, as mediums, who +are the prey of disembodied spirits desirous of obtaining a physical body +when they have lost their own by death. + +The other class of sensitives are strong _positive_ characters, who act +only from within, according to their own will. They may develop into +trained clairvoyants, and be their own masters instead of slaves of a +disembodied spirit. In some sensitives of both classes it is possible to +extract part of the ether which forms the vital body. When a disembodied +spirit obtains a subject of that nature, it develops the sensitive as _a +materializing medium_. The man who is capable of extracting his own vital +body by an act of will, becomes a citizen of two worlds, independent and +free. Such are usually known as _Invisible Helpers_. There are certain +other abnormal conditions where the vital body and the dense body are +separated totally or in part, for instance if we place our limb in an +uncomfortable position so that circulation of the blood ceases. Then we +may see the etheric limb hanging down below the visible limb as a +stocking. When we restore circulation and the etheric limb seeks to enter +into place, an intense prickly sensation is felt, due to the fact that the +little streams of force, which radiate all through the ether, seek to +permeate the molecules of the limb and stir them into renewed vibration. +When a person is drowning, the vital body also separates from the dense +vehicle and the intense prickly pain incident to resuscitation is also due +to the cause mentioned. + +While we are awake and going about our work in the Physical World, the +desire body and mind both permeate the dense and the vital bodies, and +there is a constant war between the desire nature and the vital body. The +vital body is continually engaged in building up the human organism, while +the impulses of the desire body tend to tire and to break down tissue. +Gradually, in the course of the day, the vital body loses ground before +the onslaughts of the desire body, poisons of decay slowly accumulate and +the flow of vital fluid becomes more and more sluggish, until at length it +is incapable of moving the muscles. The body then feels heavy and drowsy. +At last the vital body collapses, as it were, the little streams of force +which permeate each atom seem to shrivel up, and the Ego is forced to +abandon its body to the restorative powers of sleep. + +When a building has become dilapidated and is to be _restored_ and put in +thorough repair, the tenants must move out to let the workmen have a free +field. So also when the building of a spirit has become unfit for further +use, it must withdraw therefrom. As the desire body caused the damage, it +is a logical conclusion that that also must be removed. Every night when +our body has become tired, the higher vehicles are withdrawn, only the +dense and vital bodies are left upon the bed. + +Then the process of restoration commences and lasts for a longer or a +shorter time according to circumstances. + +At times however, the grip of the desire body upon our denser vehicles is +so strong that it refuses to let go. When it has become so interested in +the proceedings of the day, it continues to ruminate over them after the +collapse of the physical body, and is perhaps only half extracted from +that vehicle. Then it may transmit sights and sounds of the desire world +to the brain. But as the connections are necessarily askew under such +conditions, the most confused dreams result. Furthermore, as the desire +body compels motion, the body is very apt to toss about when the desire +body is not fully extracted, hence the restless sleep which usually +accompanies dreams of a confused nature. + +There are times of course when dreams are prophetic and come true, but +such dreams result only _after_ complete extraction of the desire body, +under circumstances where the spirit has seen some danger perhaps, which +may befall, and then impresses the fact upon the brain _at the moment of +awakening_. + +It also happens that the spirit goes upon a soul flight and omits to +perform its part of the work of restoration, then the body will not be fit +to re-enter in the morning, so it sleeps on. The spirit may thus roam +afield for a number of days, or even weeks, before it again enters its +physical body and assumes the normal routine of alternating waking and +sleep. This condition is called _trance_, and the spirit may remember upon +its return what it has seen and heard in the super-physical realm, or it +may have forgotten, according to the stage of its development and the +depth of the trance condition. When the trance is very light, the spirit +is usually present in the room where its body lies all the time, and upon +its return to the body it will be able to recount to relatives all they +said and did while its body lay unconscious. Where the trance is deeper, +the returning spirit will usually be unconscious of what happened around +its body, but may recount experiences from the invisible world. + +A few years ago a little girl by the name of Florence Bennett in Kankakee, +Illinois, fell into such a trance. She returned to the body every few +days, but stayed within only a few hours each time, and the whole trance +lasted three weeks, more or less. During the returns to her body she told +relatives that in her absence she seemed to be in a place inhabited by all +the people who died. But she stated that none of them spoke about dying +and no one among them seemed to realize that they were dead. Among those +she had seen was a locomotive engineer who had been accidentally killed. +His body was mangled in the accident which caused death. The little girl +perceived him there walking about minus arms, and with lesions upon his +head, all of which is in line with facts usually seen by mystic +investigators. Persons who have been hurt in accidents go about thus, +until they learn that a mere wish to have their body made whole will +supply a new arm or limb, for desire stuff is most quickly and readily +molded by thought. + +_Death._ + +After a longer or shorter time there comes in each life a point where the +experiences which a spirit can gain from its present environment have been +exhausted, and life terminates in death. + +Death may be sudden and seemingly unexpected, as for instance by +earthquake, upon the battle-field, or by accident, as we call it, but in +reality, death is never accidental or unforeseen by Higher Powers. Not a +sparrow falls to the ground without divine Will. There are along life's +path partings of the way, as it were; on one side the main line of life +continues onward, the other path leads into what we might call a blind +alley. If the man takes that path, it soon ends in death. We are here in +life for the sake of gaining experience and each life has a certain +harvest to reap. If we order our life in such a manner that we gain the +knowledge it is intended we should acquire, we continue in life, and +opportunities of different kinds constantly come our way. But if we +neglect them, and the life goes into paths which are not congruous to our +individual development it would be a waste of time to let us stay in such +environment. Therefore the Great and Wise Beings, Who are behind the scene +of evolution, terminate our life, that we may have a fresh start in a +different sphere of influence. The law of conservation of energy is not +confined to the Physical World, but operates in the spiritual realms also. +There is nothing in life that has not its purpose. We do wrong to rail +against circumstances, no matter how disagreeable, we should rather +endeavor to learn the lessons which are contained therein, that we may +live a long and useful life. Some one may object, and say: You are +inconsistent in your teachings. You say there is really no death, that we +go into a brighter existence, and that we have to learn other lessons +there in a different sphere of usefulness! Why then aim to live a long +life here? + +It is very true that we make these claims, and they are perfectly +consistent with the other assertions just mentioned, but there are lessons +to be learned _here_ which cannot be learned in the other worlds, and we +have to bring up this physical body through the useless years of +childhood, through hot and impulsive youth, to the ripeness of manhood or +womanhood, before it becomes of true spiritual use. The longer we live +after maturity has been attained, when we have commenced to look upon the +serious side of life and started to truly learn lessons which make for +soulgrowth, the more experience we shall gather and the richer our harvest +will be. Then, in a later existence, we shall be so much more advanced, +and capable of taking up tasks that would be impossible with less length +of life and breadth of activity. Besides, it is hard to die for the man in +the prime of life with a wife and growing family whom he loves; with +ambitions of greatness unfulfilled; with hosts of friends about him, and +with interests all centered upon the material plane of existence. It is +sad for the woman whose heart is bound up in home and the little ones she +has reared, to leave them, perhaps without anyone to care for them; to +know that they have to fight their way alone through the early years when +her tender care is needed, and perhaps to see those little ones abused, +and she unable to lift a hand, though her heart may bleed as freely as it +would in earth life. All these things are sad, and _they bind the spirit +to earth_ for a much longer time than ordinarily, they hinder it from +reaping the experiences it should reap upon the other side of death, and +they make it desirable along with other reasons already mentioned to live +a long life before passing onwards. + +The difference between those who pass out at a ripe old age, and one who +leaves this earth in the prime of life, may be illustrated by the manner +in which the seed clings to a fruit in an unripe state. A great deal of +force is necessary to tear the stone from a green peach; it has such a +tenacious hold upon the fruit that shreds of pulp adhere to it when +forcibly removed, so also the spirit clings to the flesh in middle life +and a certain part of its material interest remain and bind it to earth +after death. On the other hand, when a life has been lived to the full, +when the spirit has had time to realize its ambitions or to find out their +futility, when the duties of life have been performed and satisfaction +rests upon the brow of an aged man or woman; or when the life has been +misspent and the pangs of conscience have worked upon the man and shown +him his mistakes; when, in fact, the spirit has learned the lessons of +life, as it must have to come to old age; then it may be likened to the +seed of the ripe fruit which falls out clean, without a vestige of flesh +clinging thereto, at the moment the encasing pulp is opened. Therefore we +say, as before, that though there is a brighter existence in store for +those who have lived well, it is nevertheless best to live a long life and +to live it to the fullest extent possible. + +We also maintain, that no matter what may be the circumstances of a man's +death, it is not accidental; it has either been brought about by his own +neglect to embrace opportunities of growth, or else life has been lived to +the ultimate possible. There is one exception to that rule, and that is +due to man's exercise of his divine prerogative of interference. If we +lived according to schedule, if we all assimilated the experiences +designed for our growth by the Creative Powers, we should live to the +ultimate length, but _we ourselves_ usually shorten our lives by not +taking advantage of opportunities, and it also happens that _other men_ +may shorten our lives and cut them off as suddenly as the so-called +accident whereby the divine rulers terminate our life here. In other +words, murder, or fatal accidents brought about _by human __ +carelessness_, are in reality the only termination to life not planned by +invisible leaders of humanity. No one is ever compelled to do murder or +other evil, or there could not come to them a just retribution for their +acts. The Christ said that evil must come but _woe unto him by whom it +cometh_, and to harmonize that with the law of divine justice: "as a man +soweth, so shall he also reap," _there must at least be absolute free will +in respect to evil acts_. + +There are also cases where a person lives such a full and good life of +such vast benefit to humanity and to himself, that his days are lengthened +beyond the ultimate, as they are shortened by neglect, but such cases are +of course too few to allow of their being dwelt upon at length. + +Where death is not sudden as in the case of accidents, but occurs at home +after an illness, quietly and peacefully, dying persons usually experience +a falling upon them as of a pall of great darkness shortly before +termination of life. Many pass out from the body under that condition, and +do not see the light again until they have entered the super-physical +realms. There are many other cases however, where the darkness lifts +before the final release from the body. Then the dying person views both +worlds at once, and is cognizant of the presence of both dead and living +friends. Under such circumstances it very often happens that a mother sees +some of her children who have gone before, and she will exclaim joyously: +Oh, there is Johnny standing at the foot of my bed; my but hasn't he +grown! The living relatives may feel shocked and uneasy, thinking the +mother suffering from hallucinations, while in reality she is more +clear-sighted than they; she perceives those who have passed beyond the +veil who have come to greet and help her to make herself at home in the +new world she is entering. + +Each human being is an individual, separate and apart from all others, and +as experiences in the life of each differ from those of all others in the +interval from the cradle to the grave, so we may also reasonably infer +that the experiences of each spirit vary from those of every other spirit +when it passes through the gates of birth and death. We print what +purports to be a _spirit message_ communicated by the late Professor James +of Harvard at the Boston spirit temple, and in which he describes +sensations which he felt when passing through the gate of death. We do not +vouch for its authenticity as we have not investigated the matter +personally. + +Professor James had promised to communicate after death with his friends +in this life, and the whole world of psychic research was and still is on +watch for a word from him. Several mediums have claimed that Professor +James has communicated through them, but the most remarkable are those +given through the Boston spirit temple as follows: + + + "And this is death, only to fall asleep, only to awaken in the + morning and to know that all is well. I am not dead, only arisen. + + ------------------------------------- + + "I only know that I experienced a great shock through my entire + system, as if some mighty bond had been rent asunder. For a moment + I was dazed and lost consciousness. When I awakened I found myself + standing beside the old body which had served me faithfully and + well. To say that I was surprised would only inadequately express + the sensation that thrilled my very being, and I realized that + some wonderful change had taken place. Suddenly I became conscious + that my body was surrounded by many of my friends, and an + uncontrollable desire took possession of me to speak and touch + them that they might know that I still lived. Drawing a little + nearer to that which was so like and yet unlike myself, I + stretched forth my hand and touched them, but they heeded me not." + + ------------------------------------- + + "Then it was that the full significance of the great change that + had taken place flashed upon my newly awakened senses; then it was + that I realized that an impenetrable barrier separated me from my + loved ones on earth, and that this great change which had taken + place was indeed death. A sense of weariness and longing for rest + took possession of me. I seemed to be transported through space, + and I lost consciousness, to awaken in a land so different and yet + so similar to the one which I had lately left. It was not possible + for me to describe my sensations when I again regained + consciousness and realized that, though dead, I was still alive. + + "When I first became conscious of my new environment I was resting + in a beautiful grove, and was realizing as never before what it + was to be at peace with myself and all the world." + + ------------------------------------- + + "I know that only with the greatest difficulty shall I be enabled + to express to you my sensations when I fully realized that I had + awakened to a new life. All was still, no sound broke the silence. + Darkness had surrounded me. In fact, I seemed to be enveloped in a + heavy mist, beyond which my gaze could not penetrate. Soon in the + distance I discerned a faint glimmer of light, which slowly + approached me, and then, to my wonder and joy, I beheld the face + of her who had been my guiding star in the early days of my earth + life." + + +One of the saddest sights witnessed by the seer at a death-bed is the +tortures to which we often subject our dying friends on account of +ignorance of how to care for them in that condition. We have a science of +birth; obstetricians who have been trained for years in their profession +and have developed a wonderful skill, assist the little stranger into this +world. We have also trained nurses attendant upon mother and child, the +ingenuity of brilliant minds is focused upon the problem of how to make +maternity easier, neither pains nor money are spared in these beneficent +efforts for one whom we have never seen, but when the friend of a +lifetime, the man who has served his kind well and nobly in profession, +state, or church, is to leave the scene of his labors for a new field of +activity, when the woman--who has labored to no less good purpose in +bringing up a family to take its part in the world's work--has to leave +that home and family, when one whom we have loved all our lives is about +to bid us the final farewell, we stand by utterly at a loss how to help; +perhaps we even do the very things most detrimental to the comfort and +welfare of the departing one. + +Probably there is no form of torture more commonly inflicted upon the +dying than that which is caused by administering stimulants. Such potions +have the effect of drawing a departing spirit into its body with the force +of a catapult, to remain and to suffer for sometime longer. Investigators +of conditions beyond have heard many complaints of such treatment. When it +is seen that death must inevitably ensue, let not selfish desire to keep a +departing spirit a little longer prompt us to inflict such tortures upon +it. The death chamber should be a place of the utmost quiet, a place of +peace and of prayer, for at that time, and _for three and one-half days +after the last breath_, the spirit is passing through a Gethsemane and +needs all the assistance that can be given. The value of the life that has +just been passed depends greatly upon conditions which then prevail about +the body; yes even the conditions of its future life are influenced by our +attitude during that time, so that if ever we were our brother's keeper in +life, we are a thousand times more so at death. + +Post-mortem examinations, embalming and cremation during the period +mentioned, not only disturb the passing spirit mentally, but are +productive of a certain amount of pain, for there is still a slight +connection with the discarded vehicle. If sanitary laws require us to +prevent decomposition while thus keeping the body for cremation, it may be +packed in ice till the three and one-half days have passed. After that +time the spirit will not suffer, no matter what happens to the body. + +_The Panorama of a Past Life._ + +No matter how long we may keep the spirit from passing out however, at +last there will come a time when no stimulant can hold it and the last +breath is drawn. Then the silver cord, of which the Bible speaks, and +which holds the higher and the lower vehicles together, snaps in the heart +and causes that organ to stop. That rupture releases the vital body, and +that with the desire body and mind float above the visible body for from +one to three and one-half days while the spirit is engaged in reviewing +the past life, an exceedingly important part of its post-mortem +experience. Upon that review depends its whole existence from death to a +new birth. + +The question may arise in the student's mind: How can we review our past +life from the cradle to the grave when we do not even remember what we did +a month ago, and to form a proper basis for our future life, this record +ought to be very accurate, but even the best memory is faulty? When we +understand the difference between the conscious and sub-conscious memory +and the manner in which the latter operates, the difficulty vanishes. This +difference and the manner in which the sub-conscious memory keeps an +accurate record of our life experiences may be best understood by an +illustration, as follows: When we go into a field and view the surrounding +landscape, vibrations in the ether carry to us a picture of everything +within the range of our vision. It is as sad as it is true however, that +"we have eyes and see not," as the Savior said. These vibrations impinge +upon the retina of our eyes, even to the very smallest details, but they +usually do not penetrate to our consciousness, and therefore are not +remembered. Even the most powerful impressions fade in course of time so +that we cannot call them back at will when they are stored in our +conscious memory. + +When a photographer goes afield _with his camera_ the results which he +obtains are different. The ether vibrations emanating from all things upon +which his camera is focused, transmit to the sensitive plate an impression +of the landscape true to the minutest detail, and, mark this well, this +true and accurate picture is in no wise dependent upon whether the +photographer is observant or not. It will remain upon the plate and may be +reproduced under proper conditions. Such is the subconscious memory, and +it is generated automatically by each of us during every moment of time, +independently of our volition, in the following manner. + +From the first breath which we draw after birth to our last dying gasp, we +inspire air which is charged with pictures of our surroundings, and the +same ether which carries that picture to the retina of our eye, is inhaled +into our lungs where it enters the blood. Thus it reaches the heart in due +time. In the left ventricle of that organ, near the apex, there is one +little atom which is particularly sensitized, and which remains in the +body all through life. It differs in this respect from all other atoms +which come and go, for it is the particular property of God, and of a +certain spirit. This atom may be called the book of the Recording Angel, +for as the blood passes through the heart, cycle after cycle, the pictures +of our good and evil acts are inscribed thereon to the minutest detail. +This record may be called the sub-conscious memory. It forms the basis of +our future life when reproduced as a panorama just subsequent to death. By +removal of the seed atom--which corresponds to the sensitized plate in a +camera,--the reflecting ether of the vital body serves as a focus, and as +the life unrolls slowly backwards from death to birth the pictures thereof +are etched into the desire body which will be our vehicle during our +sojourn in purgatory and the first heaven where evil is eradicated and +good assimilated, so that in a future life the former may serve as +_conscience_ to withhold the man from repeating mistakes of the past, and +the latter will spur us to greater good. + +A phenomenon similar to the panorama of life usually takes place when a +person is drowning. People who have been resuscitated speak of having seen +their whole life _in a flash_. That is because under such conditions the +vital body also leaves the dense body. Of course there is no rupture of +the silver cord, or life could not be restored. Unconsciousness follows +quickly in drowning, while in the usual post-mortem review the +consciousness continues until the vital body collapses in the same manner +that it does when we go to sleep. Then consciousness ceases for a while +and the panorama is terminated. Therefore also the time occupied by the +panorama varies with different persons, according to whether the vital +body was strong and healthy, or had become thin and emaciated by +protracted illness. The longer the time spent in review, and the more +quiet and peaceful the surroundings, the deeper will be the etching which +is made in the desire body. As already said, that has a most important and +far reaching effect, for then the sufferings which the spirit will realize +in purgatory on account of bad habits and misdeeds will be much more keen +than if there is only a slight impression, and in a future life the still +small voice of conscience will warn so much more insistently against +mistakes which caused sufferings in the past. + +When conditions are such at the time of death that the spirit is disturbed +by outside conditions, for instance the din and turmoil of a battle, the +harrowing conditions of an accident or the hysterical wailings of +relatives, the distraction prevents it from realizing an appropriate depth +in the etching upon the desire body. Consequently its post-mortem +existence becomes vague and insipid, the spirit does not harvest fruits of +experience as it should have done had it passed out of the body in peace +and under normal conditions. It would therefore lack incentive to good in +a future life, and miss the warning against evil which a deep etching of +the panorama of life would have given. Thus its growth would be retarded +in a very marked degree, but the beneficent powers in charge of evolution +take certain steps to compensate for our ignorant treatment of the dying +and other untoward circumstances mentioned. What these steps are, we shall +discuss when considering the life of children in heaven, for the present +let it be sufficient to say that in God's kingdom every evil is always +transmuted to a greater good though the process may not be at once +apparent. + +_Purgatory._ + +During life the collapse of the vital body at night terminates our view of +the world about us, and causes us to lose ourselves in unconsciousness of +sleep. When the vital body collapses just subsequent to death, and the +panorama of life is terminated, we also lose consciousness for a time +which varies according to the individual. A darkness seems to fall upon +the spirit, then after a while it wakes up and begins dimly to perceive +the light of the other world, but is only gradually accustomed to the +altered conditions. It is an experience similar to that which we have when +coming out of a darkened room into sunlight, which blinds us by its +brilliancy, until the pupils of our eyes have contracted so that they +admit a quantity of light bearable to our organism. + +If under such a condition we turn momentarily from the bright sunlight and +look back into the darkened room, objects there will be much more plain to +our vision than things outside which are illumined by the powerful rays of +the sun. So it is also with the spirit, when it has first been released +from the body it perceives sights, scenes and sounds of the material +world, which it has just left, much more readily than it observes the +sights of the world it is entering. Wordsworth in his Ode to Immortality +noted a similar condition in the case of new-born children, who are all +clairvoyant and much more awake to the spiritual world than to this +present plane of existence. Some lose the spiritual sight very early, +others retain it for a number of years and a few keep it all through life, +but as the birth of a child is a death in the spiritual world and it +retains the spiritual sight for a time, so also death here is a birth upon +the spiritual plane, and the newly dead retain a consciousness of this +world for some time subsequent to demise. + +When one awakes in the Desire World after having passed through +aforementioned experiences, the general feeling seems to be one of relief +from a heavy burden, a feeling perhaps akin to that of a diver encased in +a heavy rubber suit, a weighty brass helmet upon his head, leaden soles +under his feet and heavy weights of lead upon his breast and back, +confined in his operations on the bottom of the ocean by a short length of +air tube, and able only to move clumsily with difficulty. When after the +day's work such a man is hauled to the surface, and divests himself of his +heavy garments and he moves about with the facility we enjoy here, he must +surely experience a feeling of great relief. Something like that is felt +by the spirit when it has been divested of the mortal coil, and is able to +roam all over the globe instead of being confined to the narrow +environment which bound it upon earth. + +There is also a feeling of relief for those who have been ill. Sickness, +such as we know it, does not exist there. Neither is it necessary to seek +food and shelter, for in that world there is neither heat nor cold. +Nevertheless, there are many in the purgatorial regions who go to all +bothers of housekeeping, eating and drinking just as we do here. George Du +Maurier in his novel "Peter Ibbetson" gives a very good idea of this +condition in the life lived between the hero and the Countess of Towers. +This novel also illustrates splendidly what has been said of the +sub-conscious memory, for Geo. Du Maurier has somewhere, somehow +discovered an easy method which anyone may apply to do what he calls +"dreaming true." By taking a certain position in going to sleep, it is +possible, after a little practice, to compel the appearance, in a dream, +of any scene _in our past life_ which we desire to live over again. The +book is well worth reading on that account. + +When a fiery nebula has been formed in the sky and commences to revolve, a +little matter in the center where motion is slowest commences to +crystallize. When it has reached a certain density it is caught in the +swirl, and whirled nearer and nearer to the outward extremity of what has, +by that time, become the equator of a revolving globe. Then it is hurled +into space and discarded from the economy of the revolving sun. + +This process is not accomplished automatically as scientists would have us +believe,--an assertion which has been proven in _The Rosicrucian Cosmo +Conception_ and other places in our literature. Herbert Spencer also +rejected the nebular theory because it required a First Cause, which he +denied, though unable to form a better hypothesis of the formation of +solar systems,--but it is accomplished through the activity of a Great +Spirit, which we may call God or by any other name we choose. As above, so +below, says the Hermetic axiom. Man, who is a lesser spirit, also gathers +about himself spirit-substance, which crystallizes into matter and becomes +the visible body which the spiritual sight reveals as placed inside an +aura of finer vehicles. The latter are in constant motion. When the dense +body is born as a child it is extremely soft and flexible. + +Childhood, youth, maturity and old age are but so many different stages of +crystallization, which goes on until at last a point is reached where the +spirit can no longer move the hardened body and it is thrown out from the +spirit as the planet is expelled from the sun. That is death!--the +commencement of a disrobing process which continues in purgatory. The low +evil passions and desires we cultivated during life have crystallized the +desire stuff in such a manner that that also must be expelled. Thus the +spirit is purged of evil under the same law that a sun is purged of the +matter which later forms a planet. If the life lived has been a reasonably +decent one, the process of purgation will not be very strenuous nor will +the evil desires thus expurgated persist for a long time after having been +freed, but they quickly disintegrate. If, on the other hand, an extremely +vile life has been led, the part of the expurgated desire nature may +persist even to the time when the spirit returns to a new birth for +further experience. It will then be attracted to him and haunt him as a +demon, inciting him to evil deeds which he himself abhors. The story of +Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is not a mere fanciful idea of Robert Louis +Stevenson, but is founded upon facts well known to spiritual +investigators. Such cases are extremes of course, but they are +nevertheless possible and we have unfortunately laws which convert such +possibilities to probabilities in the case of a certain class of so-called +criminals. We refer to laws which decree capital punishment as penalty of +murder. + +When a man is dangerous he should of course be restrained, but even apart +from the question of the moral right of a community to take the life of +anyone--which we deny--society by its very act of retaliatory murder defeats +the very end it would serve, for if the vicious murderer is restrained +under whatever discipline is necessary in a prison for a number of years +until his natural death, he will have forgotten his bitterness against his +victim and against society, and when he stands as a free spirit in the +Desire World, he may even by prayer have obtained forgiveness and have +become a good Christian. He will then go on his way rejoicing, and will in +the future life seek to help those whom he hurt here. + +When society retaliates and puts him to a violent death shortly after he +has committed the crime, he is most likely to feel himself as having been +greatly injured, and not without cause. Then such a character will usually +seek to "get even" as he calls it, he will go about for a long time +inciting others to commit murder and other crimes. Then we have an +epidemic of murders in a community, a condition not infrequent. + +The regicide in Servia shocked the Western World by wiping out an entire +royal house in a most shockingly bloody manner, and the Minister of the +Interior was one of the chief conspirators. Later he wrote his memoirs, +and therein he writes that whenever the conspirators had tried to win +anyone as a recruit, they always succeeded when they burned incense. He +did not know why, but simply mentioned it as a curious coincidence. To the +mystic investigator the matter is perfectly clear. We have shown the +necessity of having a vehicle made of the materials of any world wherein +we wish to function. We usually obtain a physical vehicle by going through +the womb, or perhaps in a few special cases from a particularly good +materializing medium, but where it is only necessary to work upon the +brain and influence someone else to act, we need but a vehicle made of +such ether as may be obtained from fumes of many different substances. +Each kind attracts different classes of spirits, and there is no doubt +that the incense burned at meetings where the conspirators were successful +was of a low and sensual order and attracted spirits who had a grudge +against humanity in general and the King of Servia in particular. These +malcontents were unable to injure the King himself, but used a subtle +influence which helped the conspirators in their work. The released +murderer who has a grudge against society on account of his execution, may +enter low gambling saloons where the fumes of liquor and tobacco furnish +ample opportunity for working upon the class of people who congregate in +such places, and the man whose spiritual sight has been developed is often +sadly impressed when he sees the subtle influences to which those who +frequent such places are exposed. It is a fact of course that a man must +be of a low caliber to be influenced by low thoughts, and that it is as +impossible to incite a person of benevolent character to do murder--unless +we put him into a hypnotic sleep--as to make a tuning fork which vibrates +to C sing by striking another attuned to the key of G, but the thoughts of +both living and dead constantly surround us, and no man ever thought out a +high spiritual philosophy under the influence of tobacco fumes or while +imbibing alcoholic stimulants. Were capital punishment, newspaper +notoriety of criminals, the _manufacture_ of liquor and tobacco eliminated +from society, the gun factories would soon cease to advertise and go out +of business along with most of the locksmiths. The police force would +decrease, so would jails and taxes would be correspondingly minimized. + +When a person enters purgatory he is exactly the same person as before he +died. He has just the same appetites, likes and dislikes, sympathies and +antipathies, as before. There is one important difference, however, +namely, that _he has no dense body wherewith to gratify his appetites_. +The drunkard craves drink, in fact, far more than he did in this life, but +has no stomach which can contain liquor and cause chemical combustion +necessary to bring about the state of intoxication in which he delights. +He may and does enter saloons, where he interpolates his body into the +body of a physical drunkard, so that he may obtain his desires at second +hand as it were, he will incite his victim to drink more and more. Yet +there is no true satisfaction. He sees the full glass upon the counter but +his spirit hand is unable to lift it. He suffers tortures of Tantalus +until in time he realizes the impossibility of gratifying his base desire. +Then he is free to go on so far as that vice is concerned. He has been +purged from that evil without intervention of an angry deity or a +conventional devil with hell's flames and pitchfork to administer +punishment, but under the immutable law that as we sow so shall we reap, +he has suffered exactly according to his vice. If his craving for drink +was of a mild nature, he would scarcely miss the liquor which he cannot +there obtain. If his desires were strong and he simply lived for drink, he +would suffer veritable tortures of hell without need of actual flames. +Thus the pain experienced in eradication of his vice would be exactly +commensurate with the energy he had expended upon contracting the habit, +as the force wherewith a falling stone strikes the earth is proportionate +to the energy expended in hurling it upwards into the air. + +Yet it is not the aim of God to "get even;" _love_ is higher than _law_ +and in His wonderful mercy and solicitude for our welfare He has opened +the way of repentance and reform whereby we may obtain forgiveness of sin, +as taught by the Lord of Love: the Christ. Not indeed contrary to law, for +His laws are immutable, but by application of a higher law, whereby we +accomplish here that which would otherwise be delayed until death had +forced the day of reckoning. The method is as follows: + +In our explanation concerning the sub-conscious memory we noted that a +record of every act, thought and word is transmitted by air and ether into +our lungs, thence to the blood, and finally inscribed upon the tablet of +the heart:--a certain little _seedatom_, which is thus the book of +Recording Angels. It was later explained how this panorama of life is +etched into the desire body and forms the basis of retribution after +death. When we have committed a wrong and our conscience accuses us in +consequence, and this accusation is productive of sincere repentance +_accompanied by reform_, the picture of that wrong act will gradually fade +from the record of our life, so that when we pass out at death it will not +stand accusingly against us. We noted that the panorama of life unwinds +backwards just after death. Later, in the purgatorial life it again passes +before the spiritual vision of the man, who then experiences the exact +feeling of those whom he has wronged. He seems to lose his own identity +for the time being, and assumes the condition of his one time victim, he +experiences all the mental and physical suffering himself which he +inflicted upon others. Thus he learns to be merciful instead of cruel, and +to do right instead of wrong in a future life. But if he awakens to a +thorough realization of a wrong previous to his death, then, as said, the +feeling of sorrow for his victim and the restitution or redress which he +gives of his own free will, make the suffering after death unnecessary, +hence--"his sin is forgiven." + +The Rosicrucian Mystery teaching gives a scientific method whereby an +aspirant to higher life may purge himself continually, and thus be able to +entirely avoid existence in purgatory. Each night after retiring the pupil +reviews his life during the past day _in reverse order_. He starts to +visualize as clearly as possible the scene which took place just before +retiring. He then endeavors to impartially view his actions in that scene +examining them to see whether he did right or wrong. If the latter, he +endeavors to _feel and realize as __ vividly as possible_ that wrong. For +instance, if he spoke harshly to someone, and upon later consideration +finds it was not merited, he will endeavor to _feel_ exactly as that one +felt whom he wronged and at the very earliest opportunity to apologize for +the hasty expression. Then he will call up the next scene in backward +succession which may perhaps be the supper table. In respect of that scene +he will examine himself as to whether he ate to live, sparingly and of +foods prepared without suffering to other creatures of God, (such as flesh +foods that cannot be obtained without taking life). If he finds that he +allowed his appetite to run away with him and that he ate gluttonously, he +will endeavor to overcome these habits, for to live a clean life we must +have a clean body and no one can live to his highest possibilities while +making his stomach a graveyard for the decaying corpses of murdered +animals. In this respect there occurs to the writer a little poem by Ella +Wheeler Wilcox: + + + "I am the voice of the voiceless; + Through me the dumb shall speak, + Till a deaf world's ear + Shall be made to hear + The wrongs of the wordless weak. + + The same force formed the sparrow + That fashioned man the king; + The God of the whole + Gave a spark of soul + To furred and feathered thing. + + And I am my brother's keeper + And I will fight his fight, + And speak the word + For beast and bird + Till the world shall set things right. + + +Thus the pupil will continue to review each scene _in reverse order_ from +night till morning, and to _feel really sorry_ for whatever he has done +amiss. He will not neglect to _feel glad_ either when he comes to a scene +where he has done well, and _the more intensely he can feel, the more +thoroughly he will eradicate the record upon the tablet of the heart and +sharpen his conscience_, so that as time goes on from year to year, he +will find less cause for blame and enhance his soul power enormously. Thus +he will grow in a measure impossible by any less systematic method, and +there will be no necessity for his stay in purgatory after death. + +This evening exercise and another, for the morning, if persistently +performed day by day, will in time awaken the spiritual vision as they +improve life. This matter has, however, been so thoroughly treated in +number 11 of the lecture series: "_Spiritual Sight and Insight; its safe +culture and control_," that it is unnecessary to dwell upon the matter +further in this place. + +_The First Heaven._ + +In the first heaven, which is located in the higher regions of the Desire +World, the panorama of life again unrolls and reveals every scene where we +aimed to help or benefit others. They were not felt at the time the spirit +was in the lower regions, for higher desires cannot express themselves in +the coarse matter composing the lower regions of the Desire World, but +when the spirit ascends to the first heaven it reaps from each scene all +the good which it expressed in life. It will feel the gratitude poured out +by those whom it helped; if it comes to a scene where itself received a +favor from others _and was grateful_, it will experience the gratitude +anew. The sum of all these feelings is there amalgamated into the spirit +to serve in a future life as incentives to good. + +Thus, the soul is purged from evil in purgatory, and strengthened in good +in the first heaven. In one region the extract of sufferings become +_conscience_ to deter us from doing wrong, in the other region the +quintessence of good is transmuted to _benevolence_ and altruism which are +the basis of all true progress. Moreover, purgatory is far from being a +place of _punishment_, it is perhaps the most beneficent realm in nature, +for _because of purgation we are born innocent_ life after life. The +tendencies to commit the same evil for which we suffered remain with us +and temptations to commit the same wrongs will be placed in our path until +we have consciously overcome the evil here; temptation is not sin, +however, the sin is in yielding. + +Among the inhabitants of the invisible world there is one class which +lives a particularly painful life, sometimes for a great many years, +namely, the suicide who tried to play truant from the school of life. Yet +it is not an angry God or a malevolent devil who administers punishment, +but an immutable law which proportions the sufferings differently to each +individual suicide. + +We learned previously, when considering the World of Thought, that each +form in this visible world has its archetype there,--a vibrating hollow +mold which emits a certain harmonious sound; that sound attracts and forms +physical matter into the shape we behold, much in the same manner as when +we place a little sand upon a glass plate and rub the edge with a violin +bow, the sand is shaped into different geometrical figures which change as +the sound changes. + +The little atom in the heart is the sample and the center around which the +atoms in our body gather. When that is removed at death, the center is +lacking, and although the archetype keeps on vibrating until the limit of +the life has been reached--as also previously explained,--no matter can be +drawn into the hollow shape of the archetype and therefore the suicide +feels a dreadful gnawing pain as if he were hollowed out, a torture which +can only be likened to the pangs of hunger. In his case, the intense +suffering will continue for exactly as many years as he should have lived +in the body. At the expiration of that time, the archetype collapses as it +does when death comes naturally. Then the pain of the suicide ceases, and +he commences his period of purgation as do those who die a natural death. +But the memory of sufferings experienced in consequence of the act of +suicide will remain with him in future lives and deter him from a similar +mistake. + +In the first heaven there is a class who have not had any purgatorial +existence and who lead a particularly joyous life: the children. Our homes +may be saddened almost beyond endurance when the little flower is broken +and the sunshine it brought has gone. But could we see the beautiful +existence which these little ones lead, and did we understand the great +benefits which accrue to a child from its limited stay there, our sorrow +would be at least ameliorated in a great measure, and the wound upon our +heart would heal more quickly. Besides, as nothing else in the world +happens without a cause, so there is also a much deeper cause for infant +mortality than we are usually aware of, and as we awake to the facts of +the case, we shall be able to avoid in future the sorrow incident to loss +of our little ones. + +To understand the case properly we must revert to the experiences of the +dying in the death hour. We remember that the panorama of the past life is +etched upon the desire body during a period varying from a few hours to +three and one-half days, just subsequent to demise. We recall also, that +upon the depth of this etching depends the clearness of the picture, and +that the more vivid this panorama of life, the more intensely will the +spirit suffer in purgatory and feel the joys of heaven; also, that the +greater the suffering in purgatory the stronger the conscience in the next +life. + +It was explained how the horrors of death upon the battlefield, in an +accident or other untoward circumstances would prevent the spirit from +giving all its attention to the panorama of life with the result that +there would be a light etching in the desire body, followed by a vague and +insipid existence in purgatory and the first heaven. It was also stated +that hysterical lamentations in the death chamber would produce the same +effect. + +A spirit which had thus escaped suffering proportionate to its misdeeds, +and which had not experienced the pleasure commensurate with the good it +had done, would not in a future life have as well developed a conscience +as it ought to have, nor would it be as benevolent as it ought to be, and +therefore the life, terminated under conditions over which the spirit had +no control, would be partly wasted. The Great Leaders of humanity +therefore take steps to counteract such a calamity and prevent an +injustice. The spirit is brought to birth, caused to die in childhood, it +re-enters the Desire World and in the first heaven it is taught the +lessons of which it was deprived previously. + +As the first heaven is located in the Desire World,--which is the realm of +light and color,--where matter is shaped most readily by thought, the +little ones are given wonderful toys impossible of construction here. They +are taught to play with _colors which work upon their moral character_ in +exactly the manner each child requires. Anyone who is at all sensitive is +affected by the color of his clothing and surroundings. Some colors have a +depressing effect, while others inspire us with energy, and others again +soothe and comfort us. In the Desire World the effect of colors is much +more intense, they are much more potent factors of good and evil there +than here, and in this color play, the child imbibes unconsciously the +qualities which it did not acquire on account of accident or lamentations +of relatives. Often it also falls to the lot of such relatives to care for +a child in the invisible world, or perhaps to give it birth and see it +die. Thus they receive just retribution for the wrong committed. As wars +cease, and man learns to be more careful of life, and also how to care for +the dying, infant mortality, which now is so appalling, will decrease. + +_The Second Heaven._ + +When both the good and evil of a life has been extracted, the spirit +discards its desire body and ascends to the second heaven. The desire body +then commences to disintegrate as the physical body and the vital body +have done, but it is a peculiarity of desire stuff, that once it has been +formed and inspired with life, it persists for a considerable time. Even +after that life has fled it lives a semi-conscious, independent life. +Sometimes it is drawn by magnetic attraction to relatives of the spirit +whose clothing it was, and at spiritualistic seances these _shells_ +generally impersonate the departed spirit and deceive its relatives. As +the panorama of the past life is etched into the shells they have a memory +of incidents in connection with these relatives, which facilitates the +deception. But as the intelligence has fled, they are of course unable to +give any true counsel, and that accounts for the inane, goody-goody +nonsense of which these things deliver themselves. + +When passing from the first to the second heaven, the spirit experiences +the condition known and described previously as "The Great Silence," where +it stands utterly alone conscious only of its divinity. When that silence +is broken there floats in upon the spirit celestial harmonies of _the +world of tone_ where the second heaven is located. It seems then to lave +in an ocean of sound and to experience a joy beyond all description and +words, as it nears its heavenly home--for this is the first of the truly +spiritual realms from which the spirit has been exiled during its earth +life and the subsequent post-mortem existence. In the Desire World its +work was _corrective_, but in the World of Thought the human spirit +becomes one with the nature forces and its _creative_ activity begins. + +Under the law of causation we reap exactly what we sow, and it would be +wrong to place one spirit in an environment where there is a scarcity of +the necessities of life, where a scorching sun burns the crop and millions +die from famine, or where the raging flood sweeps away primitive +habitations not built to withstand its ravages, and to bring another +spirit to birth in a land of plenty, with a fertile soil which yields a +maximum of increase with a minimum of labor, where the earth is rich in +minerals that may be used in industry to facilitate transportation of +products of the soil from one point to another. If we were thus placed +without action or acquiescence upon our part, there would be no justice, +but as our post-mortem existence in purgatory and the first heaven is +based upon our moral attitude in this life so our activities in the second +heaven are determined by our mental aspirations and they produce our +future physical environment, for in the second heaven, the spirit becomes +part of the nature forces which work upon the earth and change its +climate, flora and fauna. A spirit of an indolent nature, who indulges in +day dreams and metaphysical speculations _here_, is not transformed by +death respecting its mental attitude any more than regarding its moral +propensities. It will dream away time in heaven, glorying in its sights +and sounds. Thus it will neglect to work upon its future country and +return to a barren and arid land. Spirits, on the other hand, whose +material aspirations lead them to desire so-called solid comforts of +hearth and home, who aim to promote great industries and whose mind is +concerned in trade and commerce, will build in heaven a land that will +suit their purpose: fertile, immineralized, with navigable rivers and +sheltered harbors. They will return in time to enjoy upon earth the fruits +of their labors in the second heaven, as they reap the result of their +life upon earth in purgatory and the first heaven. + +_The Third Heaven._ + +In the third heaven most people have very little consciousness for reasons +explained in connection with the Region of Abstract Thought, for there the +third heaven is located. It is therefore more of a place of waiting where +the spirit rests between the time when its labors in the second heaven +have been completed and the time when it again experiences the desire for +rebirth. But from this realm inventors bring down their original ideas; +there the philanthropist obtains the clearest vision of how to realize his +utopian dreams and the spiritual aspirations of the saintly minded are +given renewed impetus. + +In time the desires of the spirit for further experiences draws it back to +rebirth, and the Great Celestial Beings who are known in the Christian +Religion as Recording Angels, assist the spirit to come to birth in the +place best suited to give it the experience necessary to further unfold +its powers and possibilities. + +We have all been here many times and in different families, we have had +relations of varying nature with many different people and usually there +are several families among whom we may seek re-embodiment to work out our +self-generated destiny and reap what we have sown in former life. If there +are no special reasons why we should take birth in any particular family +among certain friends or foes, the spirit is allowed to choose its own +place of birth. Thus it may be said that most of us are in our present +places by our own prenatal choice. + +In order to assist us in making that choice the Recording Angels call up +before the spirit's vision a panorama in general outlines of each of the +offered lives. This panorama will show what part of our past debts we are +to pay, and what fruits we may be expected to reap in the coming life. + +The spirit is left free to choose between the several lives offered. But +once a choice has been made no evasion is possible during life. We have +free will with regard to the future, but the past "_mature_" destiny we +cannot escape, as shown by the incident recorded in _The Rosicrucian Cosmo +Conception_, where the writer warned a well known Los Angeles lecturer +that if he left his home upon a certain day, he would be injured by a +conveyance, in head, neck, breast and shoulders. The gentleman believed +and intended to heed our warning. Nevertheless he went to Sierra Madre to +lecture upon the fateful day. He was injured in the places stated by a +collision and later explained: "I thought the twenty-eighth was the +twenty-ninth." + +When the spirit has made its choice, it descends into the second heaven +where it is instructed by the Angels and Archangels how to build an +archetype of the body which it will later inhabit upon earth. Also here we +note the operation of the great law of justice which decrees that we reap +what we sow. If our tastes are coarse and sensual, we shall build an +archetype which will express these qualities; if we are refined and of +aesthetic taste, we shall build an archetype correspondingly refined, but +no one can obtain a better body than he can build. Then, as the architect +who builds a house in which he afterwards lives, will suffer discomfort if +he neglects to properly ventilate it, so also the spirit feels disease in +a poorly constructed body, and as the architect learns to avoid mistakes +and remedy the short-comings of one house when building another, so also +the spirit which suffers from defects in its body, learns in time to build +better and better vehicles. + +In the Region of Concrete Thought, the spirit also draws to itself +materials for a new mind. As a magnet draws iron filings but leaves other +substances alone, so also each spirit draws only the kind of mind-stuff +which it used in its former life, plus that which it has learned to use in +its present post-mortem state. Then it descends into the Desire World +where it gathers material for a new desire body such as will express +appropriately its moral characteristics, and later it attracts a certain +amount of ether which is built into the mold of the archetype constructed +in the second heaven and acts as cement between the solids, liquids and +gaseous material from the bodies of parents which forms the dense physical +body of a child, and in due time the latter is brought to birth. + +_Birth and Child Life._ + +It must not be imagined, however, that when the little body of a child has +been born, the process of birth is completed. The dense physical body has +had the longest evolution, and as a shoemaker who has worked at his trade +for a number of years is more expert than an apprentice and can make +better shoes and _quicker_, so also the spirit which has built many +physical bodies produces them quickly, but the vital body is a later +acquisition of the human being. Therefore we are not so expert in building +that vehicle. Consequently it takes longer to construct that from the +materials not used up in making the lining of the archetype, and the vital +body is not born until the seventh year. Then the period of rapid growth +commences. The desire body is a still later addition of composite man, and +is not brought to birth until the fourteenth year when the desire nature +expresses itself most strongly during so-called "hot" youth, and the mind, +which makes man man, does not come to birth until the twenty-first year. +In law that age is recognized as the earliest time he is fitted to +exercise a franchise. + +This knowledge is of the utmost importance to parents, as a proper +understanding of the development which should take place in each of the +septenary epochs enables the educator to work intelligently with nature +and thus fulfill more thoroughly the trust of a parent than those who are +ignorant of the Rosicrucian Mystery Teaching. We shall therefore devote +the remaining pages to an elucidation of this matter and of the importance +of the knowledge of astrology upon the part of the parent. + +_The Mystery of Light, Color and Consciousness._ + +"God is Light," says the Bible, and we are unable to conceive of a grander +simile of His Omnipresence, or the mode of His manifestation. Even the +greatest telescopes have failed to reach the boundaries of light, though +they reveal to us stars millions of miles from the earth, and we may well +ask ourselves, as did the Psalmist of old: Whither shall I flee from Thy +Presence? If I ascend into heaven Thou art there, If I make my bed in the +grave (the Hebrew word _sheol_ means _grave_ and not hell), Thou art +there, If I take the wings of morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of +the sea, even there shall thy hand lead me. + +When, in the dawn of Being, _God the Father_ enunciated _The Word_, and +_The Holy Spirit_ moved upon the sea of homogeneous _Virgin Matter_, +primeval _Darkness_ was turned to _Light_. That is therefore the prime +manifestation of Deity, and a study of the principles of Light will reveal +to the mystic intuition a wonderful source of spiritual inspiration. As it +would take us too far afield from our subject we shall not enter into an +elucidation of that theme here, except so far as to give an elementary +idea of how divine Life energizes the human frame and stimulates to +action. + +Truly, God is ONE and undivided, He enfolds within His Being all that is, +as the white light embraces all colors. But He appears three-fold in +manifestation, as the white light is refracted in three primary colors: +Blue, Yellow and Red. Wherever we see these colors they are emblematical +of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. These three primary rays of divine +Life are diffused or radiated through the sun and produce _Life_, +_Consciousness_ and _Form_ upon each of the seven light-bearers, the +planets, which are called "the Seven Spirits before the Throne." Their +names are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. Bode's +law proves that Neptune does not belong to our solar system and the reader +is referred to "Simplified Scientific Astrology" by the present writer, +for mathematical demonstration of this contention. + +Each of the seven planets receives the light of the sun in a different +measure, according to its proximity to the central orb and the +constitution of its atmosphere, and the beings upon each, according to +their stage of development, have affinity for some of the solar rays. They +absorb the color or colors congruous to them, and reflect the remainder +upon the other planets. This reflected ray bears with it an impulse of the +nature of the beings with which it has been in contact. + +Thus the divine Light and Life comes to each planet, either directly from +the sun, or reflected from its six sister planets, and as the summer +breeze which has been wafted over blooming fields carries upon its silent +invisible wings the blended fragrance of a multitude of flowers, so also +the subtle influences from the garden of God bring to us the commingled +impulses of all the Spirits and in that varicolored light we live and move +and have our being. + +The rays which come directly from the sun are productive of spiritual +illumination, the reflected rays from other planets make for added +consciousness and moral development and the rays reflected by way of the +moon give physical growth. + +But as each planet can only absorb a certain quantity of one or more +colors according to the general stage of evolution there, so each being +upon earth: mineral, plant, animal and man can only absorb and thrive upon +a certain quantity of the various rays projected upon the earth. The +remainder do not affect it or produce sensation, any more than the blind +are conscious of light and color which exist everywhere around them. +Therefore each being is differently affected by the stellar rays and the +science of Astrology a fundamental truth in nature, of enormous benefit in +the attainment of spiritual growth. + +From a horoscopic figure in mystic script we may learn our own strength +and weakness, with the path best suited to our development, or we may see +the tendencies of those friends who come to us as children, and what +traits are dormant in them. Thus we shall know clearly how to discharge +our duty as parents, by repressing evil before it comes to birth and +fostering good, so that it may bring forth most abundantly the spiritual +potencies of the soul committed to our care. + +As we have already said, man returns to earth to reap that which he has +sown in previous lives and to sow anew the seeds which make for future +experience. The stars are the heavenly time keepers which measure the +year, the moon indicates the month when time will be propitious to harvest +or to sow. + +The child is a mystery to us all, we can only know its propensities as +they slowly develop into characteristics, but it is usually too late to +check when evil habits have been formed and the youth is upon the downward +grade. A horoscope cast for the time of birth in a scientific manner shows +the tendencies to good or evil in the child, and if a parent will take +time and trouble necessary to study the science of the stars, he or she +may do the child intrusted to his or her care an inestimable service by +fostering tendencies to good and repressing the evil bent of a child ere +it has crystallized into habit. Do not imagine that a superior +mathematical knowledge is necessary to erect a horoscope. Many construct a +horoscope in such an involved manner, so "fearfully and wonderfully made" +that it is unreadable to themselves or others, while a simple figure easy +of reading may be constructed by anyone who knows how to add and subtract. +This method has been thoroughly elucidated in Simplified Scientific +Astrology which is a complete text book, though small and inexpensive, and +parents who have the welfare of their children thoroughly at heart should +endeavor to learn for themselves, for even though their ability may not +compare with that of a professional astrologer, their intimate knowledge +of the child and their deep interest will more than compensate for such +lack and enable them to see most deeply into the child's character by +means of its horoscope. + +_Education of Children._ + +Respecting the birth of the various vehicles and the influence which that +has upon life, we may say that during the time from birth to the seventh +year the lines of growth of the physical body are determined, and as it +has been noted that sound is builder both in the great and small, we may +well imagine that rhythm must have an enormous influence upon the growing +and sensitive little child's organism. The apostle John in the first +chapter of his gospel expresses this idea mystically in the beautiful +words: "In the beginning was the WORD ... and without it was not anything +made that was made ... and the word became flesh;" the word is a rhythmic +sound, which issued from the Creator, reverberated through the universe +and marshaled countless millions of atoms into the multiplex variety of +shapes and forms which we see about us. The mountain, the mayflower, the +mouse and the man are all embodiments of that great Cosmic Word which is +still sounding through the universe and which is still building and ever +building though unheard by our insensitive ears. But though we do not hear +that wonderful celestial sound, we may work upon the little child's body +by terrestrial music, and though the nursery rhymes are without sense, +they are nevertheless bearers of a wonderful rhythm, and the more a child +is taught to say, sing and repeat them, to dance and to march to them, the +more music is incorporated into a child's daily life, the stronger and +healthier will be its body in future years. + +There are two mottoes which apply during this period, one to the child and +the other to the parent: _Example_ and _Imitation_. No creature under +heaven is more imitative than a little child, and its conduct in after +years will depend largely upon the example set by its parents during its +early life. It is no use to tell the child "not to mind," it has no mind +wherewith to discriminate, but follows its natural tendency, as water +flows down a hill, when it imitates. Therefore it behooves every parent to +remember from morning till night that watchful eyes are upon him all the +time waiting but for him to act in order to follow his example. + +It is of the utmost importance that the child's clothing should be very +loose, particularly the clothing of little boys, as chafing garments often +produce vices which follow a man through life. + +If anyone should attempt to forcibly extract a babe from the protecting +womb of its mother, the outrage would result in death, because the babe +has not yet arrived at a maturity sufficient to endure impacts of the +Physical World. In the three septenary periods which follow birth, the +invisible vehicles are still in the womb of mother nature. If we teach a +child of tender years to memorize, or to think, or if we arouse its +feelings and emotions, we are in fact opening the protecting womb of +nature and the results are equally as disastrous in other respects as a +forced premature birth. Child prodigies usually become men and women of +less than ordinary intelligence. We should not hinder the child from +learning or thinking of _his own volition_, but we should not goad them on +as parents often do to nourish their own pride. + +When the vital body is born at the age of seven a period of growth begins +and a new motto, or relation rather, is established between parent and +child. This may be expressed in the two words _Authority_ and +_Discipleship_. In this period the child is taught certain lessons which +it takes upon faith in the authority of its teachers, whether at home or +at school, and as memory is a faculty of the vital body it can now +memorize what is learned. It is therefore eminently teachable; +particularly because it is unbiased by pre-conceived opinions which +prevent most of us from accepting new views. At the end of this second +period: from about twelve to fourteen, the vital body has been so far +developed that puberty is reached. At the age of fourteen we have the +birth of the desire body, which marks the commencement of self-assertion. +In earlier years the child regards itself more as belonging to a family +and subordinate to the wishes of its parents than after the fourteenth +year. The reason is this: In the throat of the foetus and the young child +there is a gland called the thymus gland, which is largest before birth, +then gradually diminishes through the years of childhood and finally +disappears at ages which vary according to the characteristics of the +child. Anatomists have been puzzled as to the function of this organ and +have not yet come to any settled conclusion, but it has been suggested +that before development of the red marrow bones, the child is not able to +manufacture its own blood, and that therefore the thymus gland contains an +essence, supplied by the parents, upon which the child may draw during +infancy and childhood, till able to manufacture its own blood. That theory +is approximately true, and as the family blood flows in the child, it +looks upon itself as part of the family and not as an Ego. But the moment +it commences to manufacture its own blood, the Ego asserts itself, it is +no longer Papa's girl or Mamma's boy, it has an "I"-dentity of its own. +Then comes the critical age when parents reap what they have sown. The +mind has not yet been born, nothing holds the desire nature in check, and +much, very much, depends upon how the child has been taught in earlier +years and what example the parents have set. At this point in life +self-assertion, the feeling "_I am myself_", is stronger than at any other +time and therefore authority should give place to _Advice_; the parent +should practice the utmost tolerance, for at no time in life is a human +being as much in need of sympathy as during the seven years from fourteen +to twenty-one when the desire nature is rampant and unchecked. + +It is a crime to inflict corporal punishment upon a child at any age. +Might is never right, and as the stronger, parents should always have +compassion for the weaker. But there is one feature of corporal punishment +which makes it particularly dangerous to apply it to the youth: namely, +that it wakens the passional nature which is already perhaps beyond the +control of a growing boy. + +If we whip a dog, we shall soon break its spirit and transform it into a +cringing cur, and it is deplorable that some parents seem to regard it as +their mission in life to break the spirit of their children with the rule +of the rod. If there is one universal lack among the human race which is +more apparent than any other, it is lack of will, and as parents we may +remedy the evil in a large measure by guiding the wills of our children +along such lines as dictated by our own more mature reason, so that we +help them to grow a backbone instead of a wishbone with which +unfortunately most of us are afflicted. Therefore, never whip a child; +when punishment is necessary, correct by withholding favors or withdrawing +privileges. + +At the twenty-first year the birth of the mind transforms the youth into a +man or a woman fully equipped to commence his own life in the school of +experience. + +Thus we have followed the human spirit around a life cycle from death to +birth and maturity, we have seen how immutable law governs his every step +and how he is ever encompassed by the loving care of the Great and +Glorious Beings who are the ministers of God. The method of his future +development will be explained in a later work which will deal with "The +Christian Mystic Initiation." + + + + + +MT. ECCLESIA + + +(Transcriber's Note: This chapter is the series of pages which, earlier, +the author said "had been transferred" to the back of the book.) + +A DESCRIPTION OF THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE ROSICRUCIAN FELLOWSHIP + +Work in the physical world requires physical means of accomplishment; +therefore a tract of land was bought in 1911 in the town of Oceanside, +ninety miles south of Los Angeles, California. _Southern California was +selected because of the abundance of ether in the atmosphere there, and +this spot was found to be particularly favored in that respect._ + +On this commanding site having a wide view of the great Pacific Ocean, of +snow capped mountains and smiling valleys, we began to establish our +headquarters in the latter part of 1911. Soon after this we erected a +sanctuary, the Pro-Ecclesia, where the Rosicrucian Temple Service is held +at appropriate times. The Rose Cross Healing Circle holds its meetings +there to help sufferers, and it is the place appointed for the united +morning and evening devotions of the workers. In the latter half of 1920 +we built an Ecclesia, which is designed to be a Temple of Healing. The +building, a beautiful domed structure, is of steel and reinforced +concrete. It is twelve sided in shape, corresponding to the twelve signs +of the zodiac. At the present writing, January, 1921, the final work upon +it is just being completed. The esoteric work of the Fellowship will be +carried on here. + +We have also built a two-story Administration Building to house the +general office, the book department, the correspondence school in +Christian Mysticism which links Headquarters with students all over the +world, and the editorial offices of our monthly publications, notably the +"_Rosicrucian Fellowship Magazine--Rays from the Rose Cross_." We have also +an astrological department which conducts a correspondence school. Its +offices are located on the second floor. + +The whole first floor is occupied by a modern printing plant and book +bindery required to furnish the immense amount of literature needed in +this work. In the book department we publish all the standard works and +text books of the Rosicrucian Philosophy written by Max Heindel. We are +now in process of publishing in book form his former lessons to students. + +In October, 1920, a Training School was established for the preparation of +candidates for the lecture field. It is our intention to thereby maintain +a Lecture Bureau, from which we will send our lecturers throughout the +country to disseminate the teachings and carry the message of our +philosophy to the people to a greater extent than has before been +possible. + +A Dining Hall with seating capacity for over one hundred people affords +ample accommodation for workers, students, and patients. The scientific +meatless diet served there preserves or restores health, as required in +each case. Furthermore, it improves the vitality and mentality in an +astonishing degree. A large dormitory, and a number of cottages and tents +provide living quarters for all. + +By the liberal use of water and the expenditure of much labor, Mount +Ecclesia is gradually being transformed into a luxuriant tropical park. +There is a deep spiritual purpose in this attempt to make the visible +centre of the new world movement beautiful, for it fosters in the workers +a poise and peace which are absolutely essential to the proper performance +of their work. Without that they cannot escape being disturbed by the +flood of sorrow and trouble which flows into Headquarters from members all +over the world; without that they cannot continue to put heart into the +letters of help, hope and cheer which continually go out to souls who are +groaning under the burden of sickness, but by bathing their souls in the +beauty of the surroundings, whether consciously or not, they gain in +strength and grow in grace, they become better and better fitted for the +Great Work in the Master's Vineyard. + +In order to aid those who feel the upward urge, to prepare intelligently +and reverently for the unfoldment of their inner latent spiritual powers, +the Rosicrucian Fellowship maintains two correspondence courses which +furnish instruction to students all over the world. One deals with +_Astrology_, the other with _Christian Mysticism_. + +The Astrology to which we refer is not to be confounded with +fortune-telling; it is a phase of the Mystic Religion, as sublime as the +stars with which it deals, and to the Mystic they are not dead bodies +moving in space in obedience to so-called blind natural law, but they are +the embodiments of "_The Seven Spirits before the Throne_," mighty +Star-Angels who use their benevolent influences to guide other less +exalted beings, humanity included, upon the path of evolution. + +There is a side of the moon which we never see, but that hidden half is as +potent a factor in creating the ebb and flow, as the part of the moon +which is visible. Similarly, there is an invisible part of man which +exerts a powerful influence in life, and as the tides are measured by the +motion of sun and moon, so also the eventualities of existence are +measured by the circling stars, which may therefore be called "the Clock +of Destiny," and knowledge of their import is an immense power, for to the +competent Astrologer a horoscope reveals every secret of life. + +Thus, when you have given an astrologer the data of your birth, you have +given him the key to your innermost soul, and there is no secret that he +may not ferret out. This knowledge may be used for good or ill, to help or +hurt, according to the nature of the man. Only a friend should be trusted +with this key to your soul, and it should never be given to anyone base +enough to prostitute a spiritual science for material gain. + +To the medical man Astrology is invaluable in diagnosing diseases and +prescribing a remedy, for it reveals the hidden cause of all ailments, in +a manner that has often perplexed the skeptic and dumbfounded the scoffer. + +The opinion of thousands is of great value, but it does not prove +anything, for thousands may hold an opposite view; occasionally a single +man may be right and the rest of the world wrong, as when Galileo +maintained that the earth moves. Today the whole world has been converted +to the opinion for which he suffered torture, and we assert that, _as man +is a composite being, cures are successful only in proportion as they +remedy defects on the physical, moral and mental planes of Being_. We also +maintain that results may be obtained more easily at certain times when +stellar rays are propitious to healing of a particular disease, or by +treatment with remedies previously prepared under auspicious conditions. + +If you are a parent the horoscope will aid you to detect the evil latent +in your child and teach you how to apply the ounce of prevention. It will +show you the good points also, that you may make a better man or woman of +the soul entrusted to your care. It will reveal systemic weakness and +enable you to guard the health of your child; it will show what talents +are there, and how the life may be lived to a maximum of usefulness. +Therefore, the message of the marching orbs is so important that you +cannot afford to remain ignorant thereof. + +In order to aid those who are willing to help themselves we maintain a +Correspondence Class in Astrology, but make no mistake, we do not teach +fortune-telling; if that is what you are looking for, we have nothing for +you. + +OUR LESSONS ARE SERMONS + +They embody the highest moral and spiritual principles, together with the +loftiest system of ethics, for Astrology is, to us, a phase of religion; +we never look at a horoscope without feeling that we are in a holy +presence, face to face with an immortal soul, and our attitude is one of +prayer for light to guide that soul aright. + +WE DO NOT CAST HOROSCOPES + +Despite all we can say, many people write enclosing money for horoscopes, +forcing us to spend valuable time writing letters of refusal and giving us +the trouble of returning their money. Please do not thus annoy us; it will +avail you nothing. + +THE COURSE IN CHRISTIAN MYSTICISM + +_Christ_ taught the multitude in _parables_, but explained the _mysteries_ +to His disciples. _Paul gave milk_ to the babes, but _meat_ to the strong. + +Max Heindel, the founder and leader of the Rosicrucian Fellowship, +endeavored to follow in their steps and give to interested and devoted +students a _deeper teaching_ than that promulgated in public. + +For that purpose we conduct a correspondence course in _Christian +Mysticism_. The General Secretary may admit applicants to the preliminary +course, but _advancement_ in the deeper degrees depends upon merit. It is +for those alone who have been _tried_, and found true. + +HOW TO APPLY FOR ADMISSION + +Anyone who is not engaged in fortune-telling or similar methods of +commercializing spiritual knowledge will, upon request, receive an +application blank from the General Secretary, Rosicrucian Fellowship. When +this blank is returned properly filled, he may admit the applicant to +instruction in either or both correspondence courses. + +THE COST OF THE COURSE + +There are no fixed fees; no esoteric instruction is ever put in the +balance against coin. At the same time, it cannot be given "_free_," "_for +nothing_," for those who work to promulgate it must have the necessities +of life. Type, paper, machinery and postage also cost money, and _unless +you pay your part someone else must pay for you_. + +There are a few who cannot contribute, and who need these teachings as +much or more than those who may take comfort from financial ease or +affluence. If they make their condition known, they will receive as much +attention as the largest contributors, but others are expected to +contribute for their own good as well as for the good of the work. +Remember, _a closed hand that does not give cannot receive_. + + + + + +INDEX + + +Abstract Thought, _see_ Thought, World of, Region of Abstract Thought. + +Action, incentive to, 158. + +Adepts, pupils of schools of the Greater Mysteries, 10. + +Air, charged with pictures of surroundings, 37, 155. + +Alchemy, proved by radio-activity, 108. + +Alcohol, results of using, 166. + +Ambassador from sun, 87. + +Ameshaspends, Seven Spirits before the Throne, 87. + +Angels, densest body of, composed of ether, 73; + expert builders in ether, 74; + family spirits, 80; + guardians of propagative force, 74; + instruct ego in building archetype, 184; + one step beyond human stage, 73. + +Angels, Recording, _see_ Recording angels. + +Animals, dependent upon group spirit for infusion of stellar rays, 124; + keyed to lunar month, 124; + thought processes of, 122. + +Aquarian Age, intellect of, 15. + +Archangels, densest vehicle of, 79; + instruct ego in building archetype, 184; + less evolved become group spirits, 81; + native of Desire World, 79; + race and national spirits, 80; + various grades of, 80; + work with humanity politically and industrially, 80. + +Arche, primordial matter of, 108. + +Archetypal forces direct archetypes, 103. + +Archetype, duration of, 175; + vibratory mold, 175. + +Assimilation, through ether, 123. + +Astrology, estimation of time by, in Desire World, 94; + value of, 190. + +Atom, physical, spherical shape of, 9. + +Atom, seed, _see_ Seed atom. + +Atoms, chemical, expelled through skin, 127. + +Attitude, mental, results of, 181. + +Benevolence, acquired in First Heaven, 174. + +Bennett, Florence, trance of, 141. + +Black magic, punishment of, 17. + +Blood, charged with pictures of surroundings, 155; + relation of, to vital body, 129. + +Blue, in stellar ray, life of the Father, 124, 188. + +Bode's law and Neptune, 189. + +Body, dense, _see_ Dense body. + desire, _see_ Desire body. + vital, _see_ Vital body. + +Brain, absorption of stellar rays through, 124. + +Breath, record of, 37, 38. + +Capital punishment, menace of, 164. + +Carelessness, power of, to shorten life, 147. + +Causation, law of, attraction of like to like, 48; + determines environment, 48, 180; + flexibility of law of, 52. + +Chaos, (Cosmic night) seed ground of Cosmos, 112; + state of orderly segregation, 105. + +Chemical atoms, expelled through skin, 127. + +Chemical ether, assimilation and growth by, 69; + seen as blue haze, 65. + +Child, post-mortem experiences of, easily investigated, 51; + prodigies, 195. + +Children, clairvoyance of, 160; + danger of mental forcing, 195; + discipline of, 195; + individual blood developed in, 196; + imitativeness of, 194; + proper clothing of, 194; + life of, in First Heaven, 176; + understanding of, through astrology, 192. + +Christ, higher laws taught by, 169; + rebirth taught by, 46. + +Christianity, the flowering of previous religions, 6. + +Clairvoyance of children, 160; + of the dying, 148; + varieties of, 136. + +Clairvoyants, separation of vital body of, 137. + +Clairvoyants, trained, positive powers of, 137. + +Colors, emotional effect produced by, 178. + +Colors, primary, symbolize God, 188. + +Community affected by executions, 165. + +Concentration in Desire World, 91. + +Concrete Thought, _see_ Thought, World of, Region of Concrete Thought. + +Conditions of life related to past action, 43. + +Conscience, assimilated pictures of past experience, 38, 156. + +Consequence, law of, _see_ Causation, law of. + +Conservation, law of, and survival of spirit, 35. + +Cord, Silver, _see_ Silver Cord. + +Corporal punishment, inadvisability of, 197. + +Cosmic night, _see_ Chaos. + +Cosmos, aggregate of systematic order, 105. + +Countries, egos work upon, 180. + +Creation of Cosmos, 188. + +Creative force, develops spinal nerves, 125. + +Creative Hierarchies, aid humanity, 6; + guide man's evolution, 5, 52; + safeguard man from materialism, 8. + +Criminals, care of, 164; + execution of, a menace, 164. + +Crucifixion, the Mystic Death, 12. + +Crystallization in man's evolution, 163. + +Dead, care of, 152; + inhabit Desire World, 88; + intense activity of, 89. + +Death, disrobing process of ego, 163; + foreseen by higher powers, 142; + peaceful, helpfulness of, 147; + premature, ill effects of, 145; + problem of, 27; + provides fresh start, 143. + +Debts, binding nature of, 49. + +Demmler, Minna, materializations by, 129. + +Dense body, chemical constituents of, 57; + crystallized spirit substance, 162; + disease of, due to imperfect archetype, 185; + energized by divine life, 188; + improves as spirit progresses, 5; + quality of, dependent upon ego, 184; + most evolved of man's vehicles, 186. + +Desire, created and guided by thought, 58; + forms impelled into action by, 56. + +Desire body, basic individual color of, 132; + born at fourteenth year, 186; + capable of sense perception, 133; + cause dreams, 139; + circulation in currents, 133; + colors of, 132; + destructive action of, 138; + extends beyond dense body, 130; + gives ability to experience desire and emotion 121, 130, 133; + impels motion, 56, 139; + impels to sense gratification, 130; + main vortex, in the liver, 131; + rapid locomotion of, 131; + recent acquisition of, 130; + shape of, ovoid, 130; + shell of, persists after death, 163, 179; + vortices of, 131; + war of, with vital body, 138; + withdrawal of, in sleep, 138. + +Desire stuff, constant motion of, 77, 131; + elasticity of, 77; + force combined with matter, 77; + modeled by thought, 142; + permeates atmosphere, 120; + persistence of, 179; + responsiveness to feeling, 77. + +Desire World, archangels native to, 79; + dead remain in, varying lengths of time, 78; + difficulty of concentration in, 91; + diversity of tongues in, 83; + effect of colors in, 178; + ego's corrective work in, 168-170; + estimation of time in, 93; + existence of, makes man's desires possible, 57; + force and matter closely related in, 77; + form blends into sound in, 95; + head only perceptible in some regions of, 79; + large population of, 77; + seasons non-existent in, 93; + second vehicle of earth, 55; + time non-existent in, 92; + universal mode of expression in, 85; + vision pertaining to, 66; + world of color, 68. + +Earth composed of three interpenetrating worlds, 55, 116; + structure of dense body, obtained from, 57; + training school of, 6, 43; + worked upon, by the disembodied, 104. + +Earth lives, intervals between, 52. + +Earth spirits, fairies and elves, 70. + +Eastern Wisdom, unsuited to Western peoples, 14. + +Ego, _see_ Spirit, threefold. + +Egyptians painted group spirits, 82. + +Electron, discovery of, 107. + +Elves, spirits of mountains, 70. + +Emotions, relation of, to desire body, 186. + +Enmity overcome by its own discomforts, 49. + +Environment, suffering caused by, 49. + +Ether, avenue for solar forces, 70, 74, 123; + nature of, 62; + permeates atomic structure of dense matter, 62. + +Ether, chemical, _see_ Chemical ether. + +Ether, life, _see_ Life ether. + +Ether light, _see_ Light ether. + +Ether, reflecting _see_ Reflecting ether. + +Etheric sight, distinguished from spiritual, 66; + extension of physical, 65; + penetrates opaque substances, 66; + shows all objects same color, 67. + +Ethers, separation of, 136. + +Ever-existing essence, 107. + +Evil and good acts recorded by breath, 38; + destruction of, 39; + transmutation of, to good, 158. + +Evolution, from life to life, 53; + manifests in rest and activity, 42; + of vehicles, manner of, 185; + persistent unfoldment in, 42. + +Fairies, spirits of the mountains, 70. + +Fate, ripe, unavoidability of, 184. + +Faults, correction of, 169. + +Feeling, right, increases conscience, 172. + +First cause, necessity for, 162. + +First hand knowledge, possible to all, 52. + +First Heaven, good of past life reaped in, 173; + good strengthened in, 174; + panorama of life in, 173; + upper regions of Desire World, 173. + +Fluid, vital, cessation of flow of, 138. + +Forgiveness of sin, 164, 169. + +Form, archetypes of, 175; + incapable of feeling, 60. + +Forms, impelled into action by desire, 56. + +Forms, physical, built from chemical substance, 55. + +Free will, existence of, 147; + pertaining to future, 184. + +Generation caused by red ray of Holy Spirit, 124. + +Germination caused by blue ray of Father, 124. + +Gnomes, earth spirits, 70. + +God, immanence of, 187. + +Good amalgamates with spirit, 39; + and evil acts recorded by breath, 38. + +Great Silence between Desire World and World of Thought, 95, 180; + may be entered by acts of will, 96. + +Group spirit, brings stellar influence to animals, 124; + less evolved archangels, 81; + painted by Egyptians, 82. + +Growth, physical, carried on through ether, 123; + caused by yellow rays of Son, 124; + relation of, to moon, 124; + relation of, to vital body, 186. + +Growth, spiritual, must be slow, 103. + +Heaven, among you, 116. + +Heaven, First, _see_ First Heaven. + +Heaven, Second, _see_ Second Heaven. + +Heaven, Third, _see_ Third Heaven. + +Hell, existence of, impossible, 117. + +Helpers, Invisible, _see_ Invisible Helpers. + +Heredity, of the physical only, 47. + +Hierarchies, Creative, _see_ Creative Hierarchies. + +Higher Self dominates lower by keynote, 99. + +Higher senses of man, 16. + +Higher vehicles, permeability of, 138; + withdrawal of, in sleep, 138. + +Holy of Holies, temple of our bodies, 134. + +Hotz, Dr., spirit photographs taken by, 129. + +Humanity, two classes of, 136. + +I, badge of self-consciousness, 135. + +Ideas clothe themselves in mind stuff, 113; + embryonic thoughts, 113; + generated by ego in Region of Abstract Thought, 113; + originate in chaos, 112. + +Ignorance, man's one sin, 42. + +Illumination, induced by solar rays, 123. + +Immaculate conception, the Mystic Birth, 12. + +Immortality of spirit, 39. + +Incense, evil effects of, 165. + +Incentive, induced by etchings of life panorama, 158. + +Individual auric color, dependent upon ruling planet, 132. + +Infant mortality, causes of, 176-179. + +Intelligence induced by planetary rays, 123. + +Interval between earth lives, 52. + +Invisible Helpers, faculties of, 137; + linguistic abilities, valuable to, 83. + +Izzards, 87. + +James, Professor William, reputed communication from, 149-151. + +Jehovah, _see_ Holy Spirit. + +John, Gospel of, spiritual significance of, 105. + +Jupiter, auric color of, 132. + +Karma, _see_ Causation, law of. + +Keynote, creates and maintains form, 98; + manifestation of Higher Self, 99; + stopping of, terminates life, 100; + Voice of Silence, 99. + +Knowledge, the only salvation, 42. + +Laws of nature, living intelligences, 53. + +Life, dualistic theory of, 29; + lengthened by good deeds, 147; + long, value of, 144, 146; + monistic theory of, 29; + object of, gaining of experience, 142; + shortened by neglected opportunities, 146. + +Life ether, propagation accomplished through medium of, 69. + +Life panorama, backward unfoldment of, 156; + duration of, 153; + importance of, 153, 158; + insufficient, causes infant mortality, 177; + sub-conscious memory, basis of, 154; + terminated by collapse of vital body, 157. + +Light, relation of, to creation, 188. + +Light ether, motion due to, 69; + transmits solar force, 69. + +Likes and dislikes determine environment, 48. + +Liver, main vortex of desire body, 131. + +Logos, Reasonable Thought, 109. + +Love, higher than law, 168; + supreme commandment, 90. + +Lunar ray enters body through spleen, 124.; + induces physical growth, 123, 190.; + three-fold constitution of, 124.. + +Magic, black, punishment of, 17. + +Man, born innocent of sin, 174; + composite being of body, soul, spirit, 36; + desires of, impel to action, 56; + gathers spiritual substance, 162; + Great Beings safeguard, 198; + has evolved from lower forms, 73; + higher vehicles of, 120; + keyed to solar month, 125; + made a little lower than angels, 73; + spinal nerves of undeveloped, 125; + spiritual faculties of, 15. + +Mars, auric color of, 132. + +Materialism and spirituality, necessity of, 7. + +Materialistic theory of life, 34-36. + +Materialization through incense, 165; + through mediums, 129. + +Mathematics, benefit derived from study of, 115. + +Matter, illusory nature of, 114. + +Mediums and negative clairvoyance, 137; + read in reflecting ether, 70. + +Memory of Nature, events recorded in, 94. + +Memory of past lives, 50. + +Memory, sub-conscious, _see_ Sub-conscious memory. + +Metamorphosis in higher worlds, 32. + +Michael, ambassador from sun to earth, 87. + +Michael, archangel, guardian of Jews, 80. + +Mind, born at twenty-first year, 186, 198; + cloudy thought form , 131, 133; + material for, acquired in Region of Concrete Thought, 185; + recent acquisition of, 131. + +Mind, Lords of, expert builders of mind stuff, 102; + help man to acquire mind, 103; + human during dark stage of earth, 101; + Powers of Darkness, 101; + worked with man in mineral stage, 102. + +Mind stuff, permeability of, 120; + veils inner spirit, 134. + +Monistic, theory of life, 29. + +Moon rays, _see_ Lunar rays. + +Morality induced by planetary rays, 123, 190. + +Music in Desire World, 68; + soul-speech of World of Thought, 68. + +Mystery Orders formed on cosmic lines, 9; + seven world workers in, 9. + +N-rays, etheric radiation of, 128. + +Nature, laws of, control nature spirits, 72; + Great Intelligences, 70. + +Nebulae, fiery formation of, 161. + +Nebular theory postulates First Cause, 162. + +Negative development, mediumship allied to, 137. + +Nephesh, 37. + +Neptune outside of our solar system, 189. + +Occult orders, _see_ Mystery orders. + +Odic fluid, _see_ Solar fluid. + +Opportunities, each life contains, 142. + +Over-eating, ill-effects of, 128. + +Painting, related to Desire World, 68. + +Palladino, Eusapio, materializations through, 129. + +Panorama of Life, _see_ Life Panorama. + +Patriotism, inspired by archangels, 80. + +Periodicity, law of, determines time of actions, 13. + +Personality governed by keynote, 99. + +"Peter Ibbettson," occult information in, 161. + +Physical body, anchor of mind, 92. + +Physical embodiment, value of, 90, 143. + +Pineal gland, localized organ of feeling, 132; + spiritual sight through development of, 66; + third eye, 132. + +Planetary ray, _see_ Stellar ray. + +Planetary spirits, color belonging to, 189; + names of, 189. + +Planets, absorption of solar rays by, 188. + +Post-mortem experiences, usefulness of, 143. + +Powers of Darkness, _see_ Mind, Lords of. + +Powers, spiritual, difficulty of obtaining, 64; + microscopic and telescopic, 64; + possible to all, 64. + +Prayer, forgiveness of sin through, 164. + +Precession of equinoxes, measure of time, 94. + +Predestination of great leaders, 45, 46. + +Primary colors symbolize God, 188. + +Probation, long, necessity for, 64. + +Propagation carried on through life ether, 123. + +Psychometrists read in reflecting ether, 70. + +Puberty, cause of, 196. + +Pituitary body and clairvoyance, 66. + +Punishment, corporal, evils of, 198. + +Purgatory, evil habits corrected in, 167; + evil of past lives transmuted in, 116; + experiences in, based on moral attitude of preceding life, 181; + review of life experiences in, 170. + +Race likeness caused by race spirits, 81. + +Race Spirits, _see_ Archangels. + +Rebirth, law of, alternation of sex in, 52; + believed in, by Jews, 46; + Biblical foundation for doctrine of, 46; + explanation of inequalities, 43, 47; + harmonious with nature's methods, 47; + intervals between, 52; + preparations for, 185; + special talents of individual, evidence of, 46; + specially adapted to ego's need, 52; + taught by Christ, 46. + +Recording angels aid ego in choice of environment, 183; + give race religions, 6, 14; + show ego life panorama, 183. + +Red in stellar ray, life of Holy Spirit, 124; + produces form, 188. + +Reflecting ether, impressions of universe recorded in, 69; + mediums and psychometrists read in, 70. + +Regret, time wasted in, 92. + +Reincarnation, _see_ Rebirth. + +Religions, all have origin in God, 104. + +Repentance, benefits received through, 169. + +Restrospection, exercise of, 170-173. + +Ripe fate, unavoidability of, 184. + +Rose Cross, initiates into science of life and being, 8; + Mystery school of the West, 8; + thirteen Brothers of, 9; + thirteenth member, the invisible head, 9; + works to mould public opinion, 11. + +Rosicrucian Fellowship, herald of the Aquarian Age, 15; + purpose and work of, 14-18. + +Rosicrucians, hold doctrine of man's potential divinity, 5; + hierophants of Lesser Mysteries, 10; + influence of, upon writers of modern times, 11; + midnight service of, 11; + object of, to unite religion and science, 12; + work with evolved humanity, 9. + +Ruling planet, relation of color of, 132. + +Salamanders, fire spirits, 71; + produce volcanic eruptions, 72. + +"School of Athens," painting of, 29. + +Science discovers spiritual side of universe, 34; + established proofs of spirit survival, 35; + spiritualized by Rosicrucians, 11. + +Sculpture belongs to physical world., 68. + +Second Heaven, ego prepares future environment in, 116; + located in Region of Concrete Thought, 116. + +Seed atom, basis of sub-conscious memory, 156; + etchings of, 37; + sample and center of other dense atoms, 175; + transmits pictures to desire body, 156. + +Sensitives, separation of ethers in vital body of, 136. + +Servia, regicides in, 165. + +Seven Spirits before the Throne, _see_ Planetary Spirits. + +Sex, alternation of, 52. + +Shells, discarded desire bodies, 179; + retain life panorama, 179; + spiritualistic impersonations by, 179. + +Sight, spiritual, accompanies development of pineal gland and pituitary + body, 66; + varieties of, 67. + +Silence, Great, _see_ Great Silence. + +Silence, Voice of, _see_ Voice of the Silence. + +Silver cord holds higher and lower vehicles together, 153; + snapping of, 153. + +Solar fluid, absorption of, by different kingdoms, 124; + aids in digestion, 127; + cleansing power of, 128; + expels disease germs, 127; + muscular movement by means of, 126; + permeates nervous system, 123, 126; + radiates from body, 123; + transformed to rose color, 123, 126. + +Solar rays, direct and indirect, 123; + spiritual illumination from, 123; + three-fold constitution of, 124. + +Soul, differentiated from spirit, 134; + product of breath, 37. + +Soul flights, time non-existent in, 89. + +Soul growth induced by planetary rays, 123. + +Soul power, assimilated from past action, 116; + developed by good action, 38. + +Sound, power of, over matter, 175. + +Spinal cord, absorbs stellar ray, 124. + +Spencer, Herbert, and nebular hypothesis, 162. + +Sphinx, faces east, 28; + riddle of, 28. + +Spirit, threefold (ego) abandons vital body in sleep, 138; + absorbs solar ray, 124; + destined to become creative intelligence, 103; + disembodied, relief of, at leaving body, 161; + distinguished from soul, 134; + drawn to rebirth by desire for experience, 182; + earth-bound, condition of, 144; + encrusted in mind stuff, 101; + free will of, 184; + freedom of, in choosing environment, 183; + has seat in forehead, 124; + immortality of, 39; + improvement in vehicles of, 185; + individualization of, in childhood, 196; + instructed in building archetype, 184; + many earth lives of, 183; + no limitations possible for, 104; + sowing and reaping of, 104; + sufferings of, in purgatory, 163; + uncreate and eternal, 39; + various human relations of, 183; + works with archetypes, 103, 180. + +Spirits, planetary, _see_ Planetary Spirits. + +Spiritual investigations, 63. + +Spiritual powers, _see_ Powers, spiritual. + +Spiritual sight, _see_ Sight, spiritual. + +Spiritual thought, spinal nerves developed by, 125. + +Spirituality followed by materialism, 7. + +Spleen, entrance for solar forces, 123; + transmutation for solar energy in, 123. + +Stellar ray, absorption of, by brain and spinal cord, 124; + animals incapable of absorbing, 124; + induces morality, 123, 190; + threefold nature of, 124. + +Stimulants, effects of, upon dying, 152. + +Storms caused by nature spirits, 71. + +Sub-conscious memory, basis of future life, 156; + consciously utilized, 161; + in seed atom, 155; + retentiveness of, 154. + +Suicide, sufferings of, 174. + +Sun, movements of, 94. + +Superman, evolution of man into, 53. + +Survival after death, established by scientists, 35. + +Sylphs, spirits of mists, 70. + +Tears, white bleeding, 130. + +Temptation, repetition of, 174. + +Theological theory of life, 36-39. + +Third Heaven, few have consciousness in, 182; + in Region of Abstract Thought, 116, 182; + inspiration of philanthropist, 182; + place of awaiting rebirth, 182; + source of inventor's inspiration, 182. + +Thompson, J. J., discovery of electron by, 107. + +Thought, objects of physical world, crystallized, 97, 131; + result of union, idea and mind stuff, 113. + +Thought, world of, earth's finest vehicle, 55; + home of spirit, 58; + knowledge gained in, 100; + makes man's thought possible, 57; + realm of tone, 180; + spirit's work in, 180; + time non-existent in, 101; + tonal vision pertaining to, 67. + +Thought, World of, Region of Abstract Thought, abstract verities of, 106; + Third Heaven in, 116. + +Thought, World of, Region of Concrete Thought, acme of reality, 97; + mind built in, 185; + physical world replica of, 97; + Second Heaven, 116. + +Thymus Gland, function of, 196. + +Time, end of, 112; + relatively non-existent in higher worlds, 92. + +Tobacco, fumes of, disembodied work through, 166. + +Trance, caused by flight of spirit, 140; + kinds of, 140. + +Truth, freedom by, 114; + self-evident in higher worlds, 114. + +Undines, spirits of water, 70. + +Vehicles, improvements in, 185. + +Veil of Isis, 134. + +Vibration, external, transferred to blood, 37; + universality of, 36. + +Vital body, born at seventh year, 195; + collapse of, in sleep, 138; + composed of ether, 122; + connected with spleen, 123; + disintegration of, stops life panorama, 157; + extends beyond dense vehicle, 123; + in sickness lacks solar rays, 128; + in third stage of evolution, 131; + nourishes dense body, 129; + photographed by scientists, 129; + polarity of, 129; + propagation by, 121; + recuperative work of, 138; + second vehicle acquired by man, 186; + separation of ethers of, 137; + war with desire body, 138; + well organized state of, 130. + +Vital Fluid, _see_ Solar fluid. + +Voice of the Silence, 99. + +Volcanic eruptions produced by salamanders, 72. + +Vortices, whirling, of desire body, 131. + +War causes infant mortality, 177, 179. + +Wave of spirituality inspired great religions, 7. + +Whipping children, evil of, 198. + +Will, lack of, racial defect, 198. + +Wind, changes of, caused by sylphs, 71. + +Word, Creative Fiat, 109. + +Word, creative, and key-note, 100; + God was, 106; + power of, 110, 193; + still sounds in cosmos, 112. + +World, Desire, _see_ Desire World. + +World of Thought, _see_ Thought, World of. + +World, physical, world of form, 68. + +Worlds, higher, difficulty of investigating, 32. + +Yellow in stellar ray, life of Son, 124; + produces consciousness, 188. + +Zoroastrian religion, deities of, 86. + + + + + +ADVERTISEMENTS + + +Rays From the Rose Cross + +_The American Mystic Monthly_ + +A Monthly Magazine of Mystic Light devoted to philosophy, occultism, +mystic masonry, astrology, and healing. + +_Those who desire knowledge and guidance along the Path of the Western +Wisdom Teachings will find this magazine a constant aid._ + +It expounds and supports occult and mystical philosophy in a most +instructive and interesting manner. 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