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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: 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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 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+<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 target='index-archangels'>Archangels</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-rebirth'/> +<l>Rebirth, law of, alternation of sex in, <ref target='Pg052'>52</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>believed in, by Jews, <ref target='Pg046'>46</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Biblical foundation for doctrine of, <ref target='Pg046'>46</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>explanation of inequalities, <ref target='Pg043'>43</ref>, <ref target='Pg047'>47</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>harmonious with nature's methods, <ref target='Pg047'>47</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>intervals between, <ref target='Pg052'>52</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>preparations for, <ref target='Pg185'>185</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>special talents of individual, evidence of, <ref target='Pg046'>46</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>specially adapted to ego's need, <ref target='Pg052'>52</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>taught by Christ, <ref target='Pg046'>46</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-recording-angels'/> +<l>Recording angels aid ego in choice of environment, <ref target='Pg183'>183</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>give race religions, <ref target='Pg006'>6</ref>, <ref target='Pg014'>14</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>show ego life panorama, <ref target='Pg183'>183</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Red in stellar ray, life of Holy Spirit, <ref target='Pg124'>124</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>produces form, <ref target='Pg188'>188</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<pb n='221'/><anchor id='Pg221'/> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-reflecting-ether'/> +<l>Reflecting ether, impressions of universe recorded in, <ref target='Pg069'>69</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>mediums and psychometrists read in, <ref target='Pg070'>70</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Regret, time wasted in, <ref target='Pg092'>92</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Reincarnation, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> +<ref target='index-rebirth'>Rebirth</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Religions, all have origin in God, <ref target='Pg104'>104</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Repentance, benefits received through, <ref target='Pg169'>169</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Restrospection, exercise of, <ref target='Pg170'>170-173</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Ripe fate, unavoidability of, <ref target='Pg184'>184</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Rose Cross, initiates into science of life and being, <ref target='Pg008'>8</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Mystery school of the West, <ref target='Pg008'>8</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>thirteen Brothers of, <ref target='Pg009'>9</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>thirteenth member, the invisible head, <ref target='Pg009'>9</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>works to mould public opinion, <ref target='Pg011'>11</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Rosicrucian Fellowship, herald of the Aquarian Age, <ref target='Pg015'>15</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>purpose and work of, <ref target='Pg014'>14-18</ref>.</l> +</lg> + 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target='Pg034'>34</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>established proofs of spirit survival, <ref target='Pg035'>35</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>spiritualized by Rosicrucians, <ref target='Pg011'>11</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Sculpture belongs to physical world., <ref target='Pg068'>68</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-second-heaven'/> +<l>Second Heaven, ego prepares future environment in, <ref target='Pg116'>116</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>located in Region of Concrete Thought, <ref target='Pg116'>116</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-seed-atom'/> +<l>Seed atom, basis of sub-conscious memory, <ref target='Pg156'>156</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>etchings of, <ref target='Pg037'>37</ref>;</l> +<pb n='222'/><anchor id='Pg222'/> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>sample and center of other dense atoms, <ref target='Pg175'>175</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>transmits pictures to desire body, <ref target='Pg156'>156</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Sensitives, separation of ethers in vital body of, <ref target='Pg136'>136</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Servia, regicides in, <ref target='Pg165'>165</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Seven Spirits before the Throne, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> +<ref target='index-planetary-spirits'>Planetary Spirits</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Sex, alternation of, <ref target='Pg052'>52</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Shells, discarded desire bodies, <ref target='Pg179'>179</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>retain life panorama, <ref target='Pg179'>179</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>spiritualistic impersonations by, <ref target='Pg179'>179</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-sight-spiritual'/> +<l>Sight, spiritual, accompanies development of pineal gland and pituitary body, <ref target='Pg066'>66</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>varieties of, <ref target='Pg067'>67</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Silence, Great, <hi rend='italic'>see</hi> +<ref target='index-great-silence'>Great 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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 id='Pg223'/> + +<lg> +<l>Sound, power of, over matter, <ref target='Pg175'>175</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Spinal cord, absorbs stellar ray, <ref target='Pg124'>124</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Spencer, Herbert, and nebular hypothesis, <ref target='Pg162'>162</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Sphinx, faces east, <ref target='Pg028'>28</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>riddle of, <ref target='Pg028'>28</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-spirit-threefold'/> +<l>Spirit, threefold (ego) abandons vital body in sleep, <ref target='Pg138'>138</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>absorbs solar ray, <ref target='Pg124'>124</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>destined to become creative intelligence, <ref target='Pg103'>103</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>disembodied, relief of, at leaving body, <ref target='Pg161'>161</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>distinguished from soul, <ref target='Pg134'>134</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>drawn to rebirth by desire for 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> +<anchor id='index-sub-conscious-memory'/> +<l>Sub-conscious memory, basis of future life, <ref target='Pg156'>156</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>consciously utilized, <ref target='Pg161'>161</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>in seed atom, <ref target='Pg155'>155</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>retentiveness of, <ref target='Pg154'>154</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Suicide, sufferings of, <ref target='Pg174'>174</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Sun, movements of, <ref target='Pg094'>94</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Superman, evolution of man into, <ref target='Pg053'>53</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Survival after death, established by scientists, <ref target='Pg035'>35</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Sylphs, spirits of mists, <ref target='Pg070'>70</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Tears, white bleeding, <ref target='Pg130'>130</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Temptation, repetition of, <ref target='Pg174'>174</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Theological theory of life, <ref target='Pg036'>36-39</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-third-heaven'/> +<l>Third Heaven, few have consciousness in, <ref target='Pg182'>182</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>in Region of Abstract Thought, <ref target='Pg116'>116</ref>, <ref target='Pg182'>182</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>inspiration of philanthropist, <ref target='Pg182'>182</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>place of awaiting rebirth, <ref target='Pg182'>182</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>source of inventor's inspiration, <ref target='Pg182'>182</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Thompson, J. J., discovery of electron by, <ref target='Pg107'>107</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Thought, objects of physical world, crystallized, <ref target='Pg097'>97</ref>, <ref target='Pg131'>131</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>result of union, idea and mind stuff, <ref target='Pg113'>113</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-thought-world'/> +<l>Thought, world of, earth's finest vehicle, <ref target='Pg055'>55</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>home of spirit, <ref target='Pg058'>58</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>knowledge gained in, <ref target='Pg100'>100</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>makes man's thought possible, <ref target='Pg057'>57</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>realm of tone, <ref target='Pg180'>180</ref>;</l> +<pb n='225'/><anchor id='Pg225'/> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>spirit's work in, <ref target='Pg180'>180</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>time non-existent in, <ref target='Pg101'>101</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>tonal vision pertaining to, <ref target='Pg067'>67</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-thought-world-abstract'/> +<l>Thought, World of, Region of Abstract Thought, abstract verities of, <ref target='Pg106'>106</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Third Heaven in, <ref target='Pg116'>116</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-thought-world-concrete'/> +<l>Thought, World of, Region of Concrete Thought, acme of reality, <ref target='Pg097'>97</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>mind built in, <ref target='Pg185'>185</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>physical world replica of, <ref target='Pg097'>97</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Second Heaven, <ref target='Pg116'>116</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Thymus Gland, function of, <ref target='Pg196'>196</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Time, end of, <ref target='Pg112'>112</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>relatively non-existent in higher worlds, <ref target='Pg092'>92</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Tobacco, fumes of, disembodied work through, <ref target='Pg166'>166</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Trance, caused by flight of spirit, <ref target='Pg140'>140</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>kinds of, <ref target='Pg140'>140</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Truth, freedom by, <ref target='Pg114'>114</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>self-evident in higher worlds, <ref target='Pg114'>114</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Undines, spirits of water, <ref target='Pg070'>70</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Vehicles, improvements in, <ref target='Pg185'>185</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Veil of Isis, <ref target='Pg134'>134</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Vibration, external, transferred to blood, <ref target='Pg037'>37</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>universality of, <ref target='Pg036'>36</ref>.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<anchor id='index-vital-body'/> +<l>Vital body, born at seventh year, <ref target='Pg195'>195</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>collapse of, in sleep, <ref target='Pg138'>138</ref>;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 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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Ecclesia</hi></l> +<l><hi rend='italic'>Oceanside, California.</hi></l> +</lg> + +<pb n='232'/><anchor id='Pg232'/> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>The Web of Destiny</hi> +</p> + +<p> +HOW MADE AND UNMADE +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>By Max Heindel</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Including +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>The Occult Effect of Our Emotions</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>Prayer—A Magic Invocation</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>Practical Methods of Achieving Success</hi> +</p> + +<p> +This book is based on personal occult investigations +by the author, in which he uncovered many of the +inner laws governing man's hidden springs of action. +</p> + +<p> +It gives information regarding the Dweller on the +Threshold, which every aspirant has to meet, usually +at an early stage of his progress into the unseen +worlds. 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> +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> +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> +Written in a simple and narrative style, it offers at +the same time serious instruction and pleasant relaxation. +</p> + +<lg> +<l>175 Pages. Cloth Bound.</l> +</lg> + +<pb n='233'/><anchor id='Pg233'/> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Freemasonry and Catholicism</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>By Max Heindel</hi> +</p> + +<p> +An Esoteric Treatise on the Underlying Facts regarding +these two great Institutions as determined by +occult investigation. +</p> + +<p> +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> +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> +Only a trained Seer could have read the Akashic +Records of the past and given such a clear explanation +of their meaning. +</p> + +<p> +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> +<hi rend='italic'>This Book Should Be in Every Mason's Library.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +98 Pages. Cloth Bound. $1.00 Postfree. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>The Rosicrucian Fellowship,<lb/> +Mt. Ecclesia<lb/> +Oceanside, California.</hi> +</p> + +<pb n='234'/><anchor id='Pg234'/> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Gleanings of a Mystic</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>By Max Heindel</hi> +</p> + +<p> +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> +A few chapter headings are appended to give a better +idea of the contents: +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>Initiation—What It Is and Is Not.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>The Sacraments of Communion, Baptism, and Marriage.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>The Coming Christ.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>The Coming Age.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>Magic, White and Black.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>Our Invisible Government.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>Practical Precepts for Practical People.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>Sound, Silence, and Soul Growth.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>The Mysterium Magnum of the Rose Cross.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>Stumbling Blocks.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>Why I Am a Rosicrucian.</hi> +</p> + +<lg> +<l>196 Pages. Cloth Bound. $2.00 Postpaid.</l> +</lg> + +<pb n='235'/><anchor id='Pg235'/> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>The Rosicrucian Philosophy</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>IN QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>By Max Heindel</hi> +</p> + +<p> +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> +PARTIAL LIST OF SUBJECTS: +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>Life after Death.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>Life on Earth.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>The Bible Teachings.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>Spiritualistic Phenomena.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>Clairvoyance.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>Astrology.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>Animals.</hi> +</p> + +<lg> +<l>176 Pages. Cloth Bound. $2.00 Postpaid.</l> +</lg> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>How Shall We Know Christ +at His Coming?</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>By Max Heindel</hi> +</p> + +<p> +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> +These matters are fully elucidated in this book. +</p> + +<lg> +<l>29 Pages. Paper Bound. 15c Postfree.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>The Rosicrucian Fellowship,<lb/> +Mt. Ecclesia<lb/> +Oceanside, California.</hi> +</p> + +<pb n='236'/><anchor id='Pg236'/> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>In the Land of +The Living Dead</hi> +</p> + +<p> +AN OCCULT STORY +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>By Prentiss Tucker</hi> +</p> + +<p> +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 +<q>The religion of the trenches,</q> 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> +Look at some of the chapter headings: +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>A Visit to the Invisible Planes.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>A Sergeant's Experiences after <q>Passing out.</q></hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>A Doughboy's Ideas on Religion.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>Helping a Slain Soldier to Comfort His Mother.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>A Crisis in Love.</hi> +</p> + +<lg> +<l>168 Pages. Cloth Bound. $1.50 Postpaid.</l> +</lg> + +<pb n='237'/><anchor id='Pg237'/> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>The Mystical Interpretation +of Christmas</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>By Max Heindel</hi> +</p> + +<p> +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> +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> +Heavy Paper Binding.<lb/> +75 Cents Postpaid. +</p> + +<pb n='238'/><anchor id='Pg238'/> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Earthbound</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>By Augusta Foss Heindel</hi> +</p> + +<p> +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> +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. It also +includes a +</p> + +<p> +Philosophic Encyclopedia +</p> + +<p> +—and— +</p> + +<p> +Tables of Planetary Hours +</p> + +<p> +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> +The Tables of Planetary Hours enable one to select the +most favorable time for beginning new enterprises. +</p> + +<p> +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> +No astrological student can afford to be without it. +</p> + +<pb n='240'/><anchor id='Pg240'/> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Mysteries of the Great Operas</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>By Max Heindel</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Faust, Parsifal, The Ring of the Niebelung, +Tannhauser, Lohengrin +</p> + +<p> +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> + +<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> |