our being.” Outside Him we could have no existence; we live by and
through His life; we move and act by and through His strength; it is
His power which sustains our dwelling place, the earth, and without His
unflagging, unwavering efforts the universe itself would disintegrate.
Now we are taught that man was made in the likeness of God, and we
are given to understand that according to the law of analogy we are
possessed of certain powers latent within us which are similar to those
we see so potently expressed in the labor of Deity in the universe.
This gives us a particular interest in the annual cosmic drama
involving the death and resurrection of the sun. The life of the _God
Man, Christ Jesus_, was moulded in conformity with the solar story,
and it foreshadows in a similar manner all that may happen to the _Man
God_ of whom this Christ Jesus prophesied when He said: The works that
I do shall ye do also; and greater works shall ye do; whither I go thou
canst not follow me now, but thou shalt follow me afterwards.
Nature is the symbolic expression of God. She does nothing in vain
or gratuitously, but there is a purpose behind every thing and every
act. Therefore we should be alert and regard carefully the signs in
the heavens for they have a deep and important meaning concerning our
own lives. The intelligent understanding of their purpose enables us
to work so much more efficiently with God in His wonderful efforts
for the emancipation of our race from bondage to the laws of nature,
and for its liberation into a full measure of the stature of the sons
of God—crowned with glory, honor, and immortality, and free from the
power of sin, sickness, and suffering which now curtail our lives by
reason of our ignorance and nonconformity to the laws of God. The
divine purpose demands this emancipation, but whether it is to be
accomplished by the long and tedious process of evolution or by the
immensely quicker pathway of Initiation depends upon whether or not
we are willing to lend our cooperation. The majority of mankind go
through life with unseeing eyes and with ears that do not hear. They
are engrossed in their material affairs, buying and selling, working
and playing, without an adequate understanding or appreciation of the
purpose of existence, and were it unfolded to them it is scarcely to
be expected that they would conform and co-operate because of the
sacrifice it involves.
It is no wonder that the Christ appeals particularly to the poor and
that He emphasizes the difficulty of the rich entering the kingdom of
heaven, for even to this day when humanity has advanced in the school
of evolution for two millenia since His day, we find that the great
majority still value their houses and lands, their pretty hats and
gowns, the pleasures of society, dances, and dinners more than the
treasures of heaven which are garnered by service and self-sacrifice.
Although they may intellectually perceive the beauty of the spiritual
life, its desirability fades into insignificance in their eyes when
compared with the sacrifice involved in attaining. Like the rich young
man they would willingly follow Christ were there no such sacrifice
involved. They prefer rather to go away when they realize that
sacrifice is the one condition upon which they may enter discipleship.
So for them Easter is simply a season of joy because it is the end of
winter and the beginning of the summer season with its call of outdoor
sports and pleasures.
But for those who have definitely chosen the path of self-sacrifice
that leads to Liberation, Easter is the annual sign given them as
evidence of the cosmic basis of their hopes and aspirations. As Paul
properly states in that glorious fifteenth chapter of 1st Corinthians,
“If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is
also vain.
“Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have
testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He raised not up if so
be that the dead rise not.
“For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised.
“And if Christ be not raised your faith is vain; ye are yet in your
sins.
“If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most
miserable.
“If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what
advantageth it me if the dead rise not?
“But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of
them that slept.”
But in the Easter sun which at the vernal equinox commences to soar
into the northern heavens after having laid down its life for the
earth, we have the cosmic symbol of the verity of resurrection. When
taken as a cosmic fact in connection with the law of analogy that
connects the macrocosm with the microcosm, it is an earnest that some
day we shall all attain the cosmic consciousness and know positively
for ourselves by our own experience that there is no death, but that
what seems so is only a transition into a finer sphere.
It is an annual symbol to strengthen our souls in the work of
well-doing that we may grow the golden wedding garment required to make
us sons of God in the highest and holiest sense. It is literally true
that unless we walk in the light as God is in the light, we are not in
fellowship; but by making the sacrifices and rendering the services
required of us to aid in the emancipation of our race we are building
the soul body of radiant golden light which is the special substance
emanated from and by the Spirit of the Sun, the Cosmic Christ. When
this golden substance has clothed us with sufficient density, then
we shall be able to imitate the Easter sun and soar into the higher
spheres.
With these ideals firmly fixed in our minds, Easter time becomes a
season when it is in order to review our life during the preceding year
and make new resolutions for the coming season to serve in furthering
our soul growth. It is a season when the symbol of the ascending sun
should lead us up to a keen realization of the fact that we are but
pilgrims and strangers upon earth, that our real home as spirits is
in heaven, and that we ought to endeavor to learn the lessons in this
life school as quickly as is consistent with proper service, so that
as Easter Day marks the resurrection and liberation of the Christ
Spirit from the lower realms, so we also may continually look for the
dawn of that day which shall permanently free us from the meshes of
matter, from the body of sin and death, together with our brethren in
bondage, for no true aspirant would conceive of a liberation that did
not include all who were similarly placed.
This is a gigantic task; the contemplation of it may well daunt the
bravest heart, and were we alone it could not be accomplished; but the
divine hierarchies who have guided humanity upon the path of evolution
from the beginning of our career are still active and working with us
from their sidereal worlds, and with their help we shall eventually be
able to accomplish this elevation of humanity as a whole and attain to
an individual realization of glory, honor, and immortality. Having this
great hope within ourselves, this great mission in the world, let us
work as never before to make ourselves better men and women, so that by
our example we may waken in others a desire to lead a life that brings
liberation.
Chapter XXII
THE NEWBORN CHRIST
It has often been said in our literature that the sacrifice of Christ
was not an event which, taking place on Golgotha, was accomplished in a
few hours once and for all time, but that the mystic births and deaths
of the Redeemer are continual cosmic occurrences. We may therefore
conclude that this sacrifice is necessary for our physical and
spiritual evolution during the present phase of our development. As the
annual birth of the Christ Child approaches, it presents a never old,
ever new theme for meditation, from which we may profit by pondering it
with a prayer that it may create in our hearts a new light to guide us
upon the path of regeneration.
The inspired apostle gave us a wonderful definition of Deity when
he said that “God is Light,” and therefore “light” has been used to
illustrate the nature of the Divine in the Rosicrucian teachings,
especially the mystery of the Trinity in Unity. It is clearly taught
in the Holy Scriptures of all times that God is one and indivisible.
At the same time we find that as the one white light is refracted
into three primary colors, red, yellow, and blue, so God appears in a
threefold role during manifestation by the exercise of the three divine
functions of _creation, preservation, and dissolution_.
When He exercises the attribute of _creation_, God appears as Jehovah,
the _Holy Spirit_; He is then Lord of law and generation and projects
the solar fertilizing principle _indirectly_ through the lunar
satellites of all planets where it is necessary to furnish bodies for
their evolving beings.
When He exercises the attribute of _preservation_ for the purpose of
sustaining the bodies generated by Jehovah under the laws of nature,
God appears as the Redeemer, _Christ_, and radiates the principles of
love and regeneration _directly_ into any planet where the creatures of
Jehovah require this help to extricate themselves from the meshes of
mortality and egotism in order to attain to altruism and endless life.
When God exercises the divine attribute of _dissolution_, He appears as
_The Father_ who calls us back to our heavenly home to assimilate the
fruits of experience and soul growth garnered by us during the day of
manifestation. This Universal Solvent, the ray of the Father, emanates
from the Invisible Spiritual Sun.
These divine processes of creation and birth, preservation and
life, and dissolution, death and return to the Author of our being
we see everywhere about us, and we recognize the fact that they
are activities of the Triune God in manifestation. But have we ever
realized that in the spiritual world there are no definite events, no
static conditions; that the beginning and the end of all adventures of
all ages are present in the eternal “here” and “now?” From the bosom of
the Father there is an everlasting outwelling of the essence of things
and events, which enters the realms of “time” and “space.” There it
gradually crystallizes and becomes inert, necessitating dissolution
that there may be room for other things and other events.
There is no escape from this cosmic law; it applies to everything in
the realm of time and space, the Christ ray included. As the lake
which empties itself into the ocean is replenished when the water that
left it has been evaporated and returns to it as rain, to flow again
ceaselessly toward the sea, so the Spirit of Love is eternally born of
the Father, day by day, hour by hour, endlessly flowing into the solar
universe to redeem us from the world of matter which enmeshes us in its
death grip. Wave upon wave is thus impelled outward from the sun to all
the planets, giving a rhythmic urge to the evolving creatures there.
And so it is in the very truest and most literal sense _a newborn
Christ_ that we hail at each approaching Yule-feast, and Christmas is
the most vital annual event for all humanity whether we realize it or
not. It is not merely a commemoration of the birth of our beloved
Elder Brother, Jesus, but the advent of the rejuvenating love life of
our Heavenly Father, sent by Him to redeem the world from the wintry
death grip. Without this new infusion of divine life and energy we
should soon perish physically, and our orderly progress would be
frustrated so far as our present lines of development are concerned.
This is a point we should endeavor to realize thoroughly in order that
we may learn to appreciate Christmas as keenly as we should.
We may learn a lesson in this respect as in many others from our
children or from reminiscences of our own childhood. How keen were
our anticipations of the approaching feast! How eagerly we waited
for the hour when we should receive the gifts which we knew would be
forthcoming from Santa Claus, the mysterious universal benefactor who
brought the toys for the coming year! How would we have felt had our
parents given us the dismembered dolls and broken drums of yesteryear?
It would surely have been felt as an overwhelming misfortune and would
have left a deep sense of broken trust which even time would have found
it difficult to heal; yet it would have been as nothing compared with
the cosmic calamity that would befall mankind if our Heavenly Father
should fail to provide the newborn Christ for our cosmic Christmas gift.
The Christ of last year cannot save us from physical famine any more
than last year’s rain can drench the soil again and swell the millions
of seeds that slumber in the earth awaiting the germinal activities
of the Father’s life to begin their growth; the Christ of last year
cannot kindle anew in our hearts the spiritual aspirations which urge
us onward in the Quest any more than last summer’s heat can warm us
now. The Christ of last year gave us His love and His life to the last
breath without stint or measure; when He was born into the earth last
Christmas, he endued with life the sleeping seeds which have grown
and gratefully filled our granaries with the bread of physical life;
He lavished the love given Him by the Father upon us, and when He had
wholly spent His life, He died at Eastertide to rise again to the
Father, as the river by evaporation rises to the sky.
But endlessly wells the divine love; as a father pities his children,
so does our Heavenly Father pity us, for He knows our physical and
spiritual frailty and dependence. Therefore we are now confidently
awaiting the mystic birth of the Christ of another year, laden with new
life and love sent by the Father to preserve us from the physical and
spiritual famine which would ensue were it not for this annual love
offering.
Younger souls usually find it difficult to disabuse their minds of the
personality of God, of Christ, and of the Holy Spirit, and some can
only love Jesus, the man. They forget Christ, the Great Spirit, who
ushered in a new era in which the nations established under the regime
of Jehovah will be broken to pieces that the sublime structure of
Universal Brotherhood may be built upon their ruins. In time all the
world will realize that “God is spirit, to be worshiped in spirit and
in truth.” It is well to love Jesus and to imitate him; we know of no
nobler ideal and none more worthy. Could a nobler one have been found,
Jesus would not have been chosen as a vehicle of that Great One, the
Christ, in whom dwelt the Godhead. We shall therefore do well to follow
“in His steps.”
At the same time we shall exalt God in our own consciousness by taking
the word of the Bible that He is spirit, and that we cannot make any
likeness which will portray Him for He is like nothing in heaven or
on earth. We can see the physical vehicles of Jehovah circling as
satellites around the various planets; we can also see the sun, which
is the visible vehicle of the Christ; but the Invisible Sun, which
is the vehicle of the Father and the source of all, appears to the
greatest of human seers only as a higher octave of the photosphere of
the sun, a ring of violet-blue luminosity behind the sun. But we do not
need to see; we can feel His love, and that feeling is never so great
as at Christmas time when He is giving us the greatest of all gifts,
the Christ of the new year.
Chapter XXIII
WHY I AM A ROSICRUCIAN
Not infrequently we find that some one takes the platform to explain
why he is a Baptist, Methodist, or Christian Scientist, and what his
particular faith may be. We have often been asked by our students for
something which would help make plain to their associates why they
had embraced the teachings of the Elder Brothers given through the
Rosicrucian Fellowship, in preference to the faith which they had left.
We will, therefore, endeavor to give a succinct resume of reasons which
appeal to us as sufficient, but students will doubtless find many other
reasons equally good or better, which they may add verbally to what is
here said.
It should be made clear in the very beginning that students in the
Rosicrucian Fellowship do not call themselves Rosicrucians. That title
applies alone to the Elder Brothers, who are the hierophants of the
Western Wisdom Teaching. They are as far beyond the greatest living
saint in spiritual development as that saint is above the lowest fetish
worshiper.
When the bark of our life sails lightly upon smooth summer seas,
wafted along by the fair winds of health and prosperity, when friends
are present on every hand, eager to help us plan pleasures which will
increase our enjoyment of this world’s goods, when social favors or
political powers come to us to gratify our every wish in whatever
sphere our inclinations seek expression, then, indeed, we may say and
seem justified in saying with our whole heart and soul: “This world is
good enough for me.” But when we come to the end of the smiling sea of
success; when the whirlwind of adversity has blown us upon the rocky
shores of disaster, and a wave of suffering threatens to engulf us;
when friends have failed and every human help is as far off as it is
unavailing, then we must look for guidance to the skies as does the
mariner when he steers his ship over the waste of waters.
But when the skipper scans the sky in search of a star whereby to
steer the ship safely, he finds that the whole heavens are in motion.
Therefore to follow almost any one of the myriad of wandering stars
visible to the eye would be disastrous. To meet the requirements the
guiding star must be perfectly steadfast and immovable, _and there
is only one such, namely, the North Star_. By its guiding light the
mariner may steer in full confidence and bring his ship to a haven
of rest and safety. Likewise one who is looking for a guide which he
may trust in days of sorrow and trouble should embrace a religion
founded on eternal laws and immutable principles, able to explain
the mystery of life in a logical manner so that his intellect may be
satisfied, and at the same time containing a system of devotion that
may satisfy the heart, so that these twin factors in life may receive
equal satisfaction. Only when man has a clear intellectual conception
of the scheme of human development is he in a position to range himself
in line therewith. When it is made clear to him that this scheme is
beneficent and benevolent in the very highest degree, that all is truly
ruled by divine love, then this understanding will sooner or later call
out in him a true devotion and heartfelt acquiescence which will awaken
in him a desire to become a co-worker with God in the world’s work.
When seeking souls come to the door of the church to seek surcease from
sorrow, they cannot be satisfied with the platitudes that it is the
will of God that sorrow and suffering have come to them, that in His
divine providence He has seen fit to scourge them, and that they must
take it as an indication that He regards them as His beloved children
and be satisfied no matter what happens. They cannot see that Deity
does justice when He makes some rich and many poor, a few healthy and
many sickly; and it is only too often in evidence that iniquity is
prosperous while rectitude is in rags.
The Rosicrucian teachings give clear and logical information concerning
the world and man; they invite questions instead of discouraging them,
so that the seeker after spiritual truth may receive full satisfaction
intellectually; their explanations are strictly scientific as they are
reverently religious. They refer us for information regarding life’s
problems to laws that are as unchangeable and immutable in their realm
of action as the North Star is in the heavens.
Though the world whirls upon its axis at the rate of one thousand
miles an hour, we stand safely anywhere upon its surface because the
principle of gravity prevents us from being hurled into space by the
terrific speed. We know that the law of gravity is eternal; it will
not act today and suspend action tomorrow. When we enter a hydraulic
elevator we rest safely upon a column of water because that fluid is
more incompressible than most solids, and this property is the same
yesterday, today, and forever. Were its action suspended for even a
few moments, thousands of people would fall to their death; but it is
steadfast and sure, therefore we trust it implicitly.
The law of cause and effect is also immutable; if we throw a stone into
the air, the act is not complete until by gravitation it has returned
to earth. “_Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap_,” is the
way this law is expressed in the realm of morals. “The mills of God
grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small,” and once an act has been
done, the reaction will come some time, some where, as surely as the
stone that was thrown into the air will return to the earth.
But it is manifest that all of the causes that we set going in life
do not ripen in the present existence, and it therefore follows that
they must find their fruition somewhere else at some other time, or the
law would be invalidated, a proposition that would be as absolutely
impossible as that the law of gravitation could be suspended, for
either would make chaos out of cosmos. The Rosicrucian teachings
explain this by a statement that man is a spirit attending the School
of Life for the purpose of unfolding latent spiritual power, and that
for this purpose he lives many lives in earthly bodies of increasingly
finer texture, which enable him to express himself better and better.
In the lower grades of this school of evolution man has few faculties.
Each life-day he comes to school in the morning of childhood, and is
given lessons to learn, and at night when old and gray the nurse maid
of nature, “Death,” puts him to sleep that he may rest from his labors
until the dawn of another life-day, when he is given a new child body
and new lessons. Each day “Experience,” the teacher of the school helps
him to learn some of the lessons of life, and gradually he becomes
more and more proficient. Some day he will have learned the entire
curriculum of the school, which includes building of bodies as well as
using them.
Thus when we see one who has few faculties, we know that he is a young
soul who has gone to life’s school only a few days; and when we find a
beautiful character, we recognize an old soul who has spent much time
in mastering its lessons. Therefore we do not despair of God’s love
when we see the inequalities of life, for we know that in time all will
be perfect as our Father in Heaven is perfect.
The Rosicrucian teachings also take the sting of sorrow out of the
greatest of all trials, the loss of loved ones, even if they have
been what is called wayward or black sheep; for we know that it is an
actual fact that _in God we live and move and have our being_; hence,
if one single soul were lost, a part of God would be lost, and such
a proposition is absolutely impossible. Under the immutable law of
cause and effect we are bound to meet these loved ones some time in
the future under other circumstances, and there the love that binds us
together must continue until it has found its fullest expression. The
laws of nature would be violated if a stone thrown from the earth were
to remain suspended in the atmosphere, and under the same immutable
laws those who pass into the higher spheres must return. Christ said,
“Ye must be born again,” and “If I go to my Father, _I will return_.”
But although our reason may reach into the mysteries of life, there
is still a higher stage, _actual first-hand knowledge_. As a matter
of fact the foregoing propositions are capable of verification by
each one, for we all have a _sixth sense_ latent in our being, which
will sometime enable us to view the spiritual world with the same
distinctness as that with which we see the temporal. This sixth sense
will be developed by all in the course of evolution, and there are
certain means whereby it may be developed now by all who care to take
the necessary time and trouble to do so. Some have done this, and they
have told us of their travels in the land of the soul. We believe
their testimony concerning that place just as we believe what people
who have traveled in Africa or Australia tell us of those countries.
And just as we say that _we know_ the earth rotates upon its axis and
revolves in its orbit around the sun because we have been thus informed
by scientists who have made the investigations and calculations that
establish these facts, so also we say that _we know_ the dead live,
and that whether dead or alive, in the body or out of it, we are all
enfolded in the love of our Father in Heaven, without whose Will not
the smallest sparrow falls to the ground, and that He cares for all and
orders our steps in harmony with His plans to develop our spiritual
powers to the highest possible degree.
So because of the logical, soul-satisfying philosophy of life given
by the Rosicrucians, we follow their teachings in preference to other
systems, and invite others who wish to share the blessings thereof to
investigate.
Chapter XXIV
THE OBJECT OF THE ROSICRUCIAN FELLOWSHIP
The object of the Rosicrucian Fellowship has been clearly stated in our
literature, as have the means whereby it is hoped to attain the end in
view, but in response to requests for a succinct summary we devote this
chapter to that subject.
The world is God’s training school. During the past we have learned
to build different vehicles, among others the physical body. By this
work we are promoted from class to class, each with its particular
scope of consciousness. We evolved eyes that we might see, ears that
we might hear, and other organs that we might taste, smell, and feel.
But not all egos were promoted at every step. When the mist in the air
at the time of Atlantis condensed and filled the basins of the earth
with oceans of water, driving men to the highlands, many perished by
asphyxiation because they had not evolved lungs. They could not pass
through the portal of the rainbow, which was, so to speak, the entrance
gate to the new age with its dry atmospheric conditions.
Another great world transformation is coming, we know not when; even
the Christ confessed His ignorance of the day and the hour; but He
warned us that the day would come as a thief in the night, and He
prophesied that the conditions in the world would then be similar to
those prevailing in the days of Noah; they were living then in carefree
enjoyment of life when suddenly the floodgates of heaven were opened,
and death and destruction spread before them.
Christ told us that it is possible to take the kingdom of God by storm
and attain to the consciousness and conditions there prevailing. But
Paul informs us that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God;
he states that we have a soul body (_soma psuchicon_—1 Cor. 15: 44),
and that we shall meet the Lord _in the air_ when He comes. This soul
body is therefore as necessary to entrance into the new age of the
kingdom of God, as a body equipped with lungs was to the Atlanteans who
desired to enter into the age in which we are now living. Therefore it
is necessary that we make our calling and election sure by preparing
the _Golden Wedding Garment_, the soul body, which alone can secure our
admission to the mystic marriage.
The multitude is slowly moving in the right direction as led by the
different churches, but there is an ever growing class that, so to
speak, feels the wings of the soul body sprouting, people who feel an
inner urge to take the kingdom of God by storm. Though unaware of any
definite ideal, they sense a greater truth and a more certain light
than those which the Church radiates; they are tired of parables and
long to learn the underlying facts at the very feet of Christ.
The Rosicrucian Fellowship was started for the purpose of reaching this
class, to show them the way to illumination, to help them build their
soul body and evolve the soul powers which will enable them to enter
consciously into the kingdom of God and obtain first-hand knowledge.
This is a large undertaking, none greater and even under the most
favorable existing conditions progress must be slow, but if the
aspirant will continue with patient perseverance in well doing, it can
be done.
The methods are definite, scientific, and religious; they have been
originated by the Western School of the Rosicrucian Order, and are
therefore specially suited to the western people. Sometimes, but very
rarely, they bring results in a short time; generally it requires years
and even lives before the aspirant attains, but the following system
will in the end bring all to their hearts’ desire.
The Tabernacle in the Wilderness was a symbolic representation of the
way to God, and, as Paul says, held a shadow of better things to come.
Everything in it had its spiritual meaning. The table of shewbread
gives us an important lesson germane to our present consideration.
Students will remember that the ancient Israelites were commanded to
bring the shewbread to the tabernacle at stated intervals. The grain
from which this was made was given them by God but they must prepare
the soil in which it was to grow, they must plant and cultivate, they
must weed and water, so as to secure the greatest possible increase;
they must harvest and thresh, grind and bake, ere they had the loaves
which they brought to the tabernacle as _bread to shew_ for their toil.
Similarly, God gives to all the grain of opportunity to serve, but it
is our duty to cultivate these opportunities and nurse and nourish
them in the soil of loving kindness so that they may bring a great
increase. We must always bear in mind the words of Christ that He came
to minister and to serve. Therefore anyone aspiring to follow in His
steps and to be great in the kingdom of God must ever be on the lookout
for opportunities to serve his fellows. Each day must be filled as full
as possible with kind and considerate deeds, for they are the warp and
woof of which the _golden wedding garment_ is woven. Without these
“works” no amount of prayer, fasting, or other religious exercises will
avail. It is useless to repair to the temple without this _bread to
shew_ that we have really worked in the Master’s service.
The foregoing is also the teaching of the exoteric churches; but the
following is the exclusively Rosicrucian scientific teaching and
method, based upon the deepest knowledge of spiritual facts whereby the
aspirant is enabled to gain the maximum soul growth in each life, so
that his spiritual advancement is accelerated beyond his very wildest
dreams. Therefore this is the most important spiritual teaching that
has been given to man in modern times, and no one who tries honestly to
follow this simple method can fail to be enormously benefited:
Ether is the medium of transmission of light, that which etches a
picture on the photographic film. It permeates the air, and with every
breath we draw from birth to death ether enters our system and etches
a picture of our surroundings and actions on a little atom in the
heart. Thus each carries with him a complete record of his life, which
is assimilated after death. Expiation of the evil deeds causes pain
and anguish in purgatory. These are thus transmuted to conscience to
prevent repetition of the same mistakes in succeeding lives: the good
deeds are transmuted to love and benevolence. Instead of waiting for
this post-mortem transmutation of the shewbread of life, the aspirant
who desires to take heaven by storm may assimilate the fruits of each
day after retiring and before going to sleep by running over the deeds
done. The events of the day are considered in reverse order, so that
that which happened in the evening is taken first, then the happenings
of the afternoon, forenoon, and morning. This is important for it
conforms to the way the life panorama acts after death, taking first
the events just prior to death, last the events of infancy. The object
is to show the effects and then refer them to their antecedent causes.
In this retrospection it will do the aspirant no good to run over the
events of the day and mildly blame himself where he did wrong—he is
usually sure enough to praise himself sufficiently for his good deeds.
But he must remember the altar of burnt offerings where the sacrifices
for sin were offered. They were first rubbed with salt and then placed
on the altar to be consumed by a divinely enkindled fire. Anyone knows
what an intense pain is caused when salt is rubbed into a wound, and
this rubbing with salt is symbolic of the pain the aspirant must feel
for his wrongdoing. Now mark that it was not permissible to place
the sacrifice on the altar until it had been thus rubbed with salt.
God would not accept it before, but _when it had been salted it was
consumed by a fire kindled by God Himself_.
This tells us that unless we have washed our evil deeds of the day in
the salt of our tears and heartfelt contrition, God will not accept our
sacrifice of repentance; but when we have really repented, our sins
will be washed away and our recording atom will be clean as the driven
snow. With respect to our good deeds we may remember that there were
two little piles of frankincense on the top of the shewbread. These
were offered upon the altar of incense, where the smoke ascended as a
sweet savor to the Lord, so different from the nauseating stench that
went up from the altar where the sin offerings were burned. Is it any
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Index
Abel, man of Lemuria, 23.
Action, desirability of, 16.
Action, good, required for soul body, 183.
A. D. M., red earth, 78.
Adam, a Polarian, 22.
Airships of Atlantis, 71.
Albumen not needed by spiritual, 24.
Alcohol, action, 83.
Altar of sacrifice, 96.
America, the melting pot, 112.
Angels, humanity of Moon Period, 50.
lived in etheric world, 50.
guided man, 32.
Anglo-Saxons, pioneers of race, 75.
Animals ruled by group spirits, 108.
Aquarian Age, science to rule in, 82.
six hundred years until, 81.
teacher of, 76.
Arche-Tektons, Initiates are, 103.
Ark, airship of Atlantis, 71.
Aryan Age, invaders of, 80.
Aryana, national segregation of, 70.
Assimilation of life experiences, 184.
Asteroids, remnants of Moons, 60.
Astrology, value of in marriage, 53.
Atlantis, destruction of, 180.
Atlantean epoch, the nadir of materiality, 9.
Atlanteans aspire to light, 95.
divinely guided, 69.
Atlantis, airships of, 71.
atmosphere of, 69.
man becomes man in, 25.
peaceful conditions of, 86.
Atmosphere, changes of, 180.
Attainment, method of, 171.
Baptism, soul’s urge for higher life, 55.
Black Brothers, increase evil, 106.
Black Magic, frequent practice of, 101.
golden, wedding garment protects against, 106.
practices of, 103.
Blood hound, follows invisible emanation, 104.
Born of water and spirit, 80.
Brain gained at sacrifice of creative force, 32.
Breathing exercises, danger of, 9.
use of, 10.
Brotherhood, all members of, 44.
Cain, a Hyperborean, 23.
Candles, tallow, attract elementals, 106.
Causation, 177.
Children, training of, 127.
Chosen people, 95.
Christ, annual coming of, 171.
bodily presence of the Father, 98.
forgiveness of, 57.
Inhabits central sun, 58.
man a Christ-in-the-making, 158.
mission of, 47, 87.
power of, 158, 159.
preservation, principle of, 168.
sacrifice of, 98.
Christ, _see also_ Earth Spirit.
Civilization, evolution of, 111.
Communication with dead, 113.
Communion, points to age to come, 55.
worthy celebration of, 31.
Conscience gained in purgatory, 184.
Consciousness result of war between vital and desire bodies, 49.
Conservation of strength, 122.
Contentment lengthens life, 51.
Contrition, importance of, 185.
Conversion and Initiation, 12.
inner experience, 13.
Converts, making of, 132.
Courage, 91.
Creation, principle of Jehovah, 168.
Creative hierarchies guide man, 22.
Crystalloids aid in evolving vital body, 88.
Dead, communication with, 113.
Death, care of body after, 134.
conquest of, 56.
price of consciousness, 50.
Dense body, care of after death, 134.
crystallized state of, 47.
raising vibrations of, 10.
restoration of in sleep, 128.
spiritualization of, 74.
under laws of nature, 57.
Desire body, control of, 128.
destroys dense body, 49.
gained in Lemuria, 23.
reaction of man’s acts, 25.
Dietetics, albumen not needed by spiritual, 24.
legumes not needed by advanced, 24.
Diplomacy and force, 119.
Dissolution the Father’s power, 168.
Divine hierarchies work upon man, 22.
Divine leaders abolish religious errors, 46.
Divine spirit and physical body, 132.
Earth conditions cramp humanity, 99.
crystallization of due to man, 32.
Earth Spirit body and blood, 31.
Earth Spirit, _see also_ Christ.
Earthly goods, use of, 117.
Easter, Christ’s liberation, 160.
vital, force of, 161.
Effort brings opportunities, 15.
Ego chooses work of life, 64.
Egotism, protection from, 19.
Elder Brothers hierophants of western wisdom teaching, 173.
high status of, 173.
not mercenary, 20.
transmute evil, 105.
Elementals inhaled with incense, 106.
Emancipation, God’s purpose, 162.
Environment chosen by ego, 64, 122.
power of, 74.
Epochs, changes of, 77.
Ether etches pictures on seed atom, 184.
medium of transmission of light, 184.
new element, 71.
Evolution, 177.
Evolution of man, 35.
path of spiral, 14.
Exercises: Breathing practices, 9, 10.
Experience, a grindstone, 63.
Extreme unction, 56.
Faculties, evolution of, 177.
Fall, unchastity, 62.
Family, duty to, 127.
Father, The, dissolution principle of, 168.
highest Initiate of Saturn Period, 58.
inhabits spiritual sun, 58.
Finger nails used in Black Magic, 103.
Flesh, eating of, difficult to digest, 90.
material progress result of, 23, 86, 92.
necessitated by materialism, 23.
sins of, 90.
Flood, sun in Cancer, 78.
Food, significance of, 22.
Forgiveness of Christ, 57.
Free Will, 22.
of Initiate in choice of environment, 64.
in Atlantis, 25.
Galilee, melting pot, 74.
Gill clefts replaced by lungs, 24.
Gills of early Atlantis, 70.
Glass of water in Black Magic, 104.
God, immanence of, 161.
Golden wedding garment, _see_ Soul Body.
Good Friday, 153.
Gospels formulae of Initiation, 64.
Grace and forgiveness of sin, 34.
Grail, _see_, Holy Grail.
Group Spirit, 108.
Hair used in Black Magic, 103.
Healing, Rosicrucian method of, 103.
Help, practical, 133.
Hierarchies, service of, 135.
still active, 166.
Hindu breathing exercises, 73.
Holy Grail, many orders constitute, 105.
two forces of, 105.
Holy Spirit, _see_ Jehovah.
Human spirit and desire body, 132.
Humanity, salvation of, 160.
slowly progressing, 14.
Hyperborea, generation in, 49.
Hyperborean epoch, man plantlike in, 22.
vital body gained in, 22.
Hypnotism, danger of, 107.
I as pronoun, 83.
Inactivity causes straggling, 16.
Incense, Black Forces use, 106.
Inequalities, harmonizing of, 178.
Initiates, arche-tektons, 103.
bodies of, immaculately conceived, 64.
choose own life work, 64.
purity of, 64.
may be women, 67.
Initiation, changes life, 13.
confers authority, 13.
free, 13.
inner experience, 12.
money cannot buy, 11.
requirements for, 20.
spiritual process, 11.
spiritualizes vital body, 67.
through spiritual exercises, 11.
tribulation leads to, 63.
Initiation fee, impossibility of, 20.
Inner vision opened, 136.
Intellectual conception of life, 175.
Intensity of feeling, 19.
Jehovah, creation principle of, 168.
dwells in physical sun, 58.
highest Initiate of Moon Period, 58.
race spirit of the Jews, 110.
regent of various moons, 58.
warder of creative forces, 56.
Jesus race body of, 74.
Judgment, Sun in Libra, 156.
Justice of life, 175.
with mercy, 33.
Knowledge, necessity for, 131.
Larynx gained at sacrifice of creative force, 32.
Law, knowledge of, 131.
Law of Consequence given to Atlanteans, 26.
Laws of nature and destiny, 25.
Legumes not needed by advanced, 24.
Lemurian epoch, desire body gained in, 23.
Life Spirit and vital body, 132.
Light, Atlanteans aspire to, 95.
symbol of God, 167.
Living church within, 124.
Lords of Mercury, stragglers of past, 59.
Lords of Venus, stragglers of past, 59.
Lord’s Supper, _see_ communion.
Lost souls, 58.
Love endlessly born, 169.
keynote of coming age, 80.
of souls, 53.
transcends sex, 51.
Lucifer spirits cause body’s crystallization, 32.
Lungs related to spirits’ freedom, 24.
Man becomes man in Atlantis, 25.
mineral-like in Polarian Epoch, 88.
Marriage necessitated by disintegration and death, 49.
sacrament of, 55.
transcends sex, 51.
Materialism, predominance of, 163.
Matter, limitation of causes self-confidence, 22.
Materialization, varieties of, 102.
Meat non-permanent as food, 82.
Meat eating, _see_ Flesh eating.
Michael, race spirit, 111.
Milk aid in evolving desire body, 89.
given in Lemuria, 23.
Mind, effect of meat upon, 93.
given during Atlantean epoch, 22.
given for discrimination, 122.
link between spirit and matter, 132.
Minerals, assimilation impossible, 82.
Moderation in food, 136.
Mongols, descendants of Atlanteans, 75.
Moons, discipline stragglers, 59.
physical vehicles of Jehovah, 172.
tumors of universe, 60.
Moses led followers through water, 26.
Motive, importance of, 101.
Mysteries, soul body teaches, 136.
Mystery schools furnish higher teaching, 8.
Nationalism must pass, 112.
Nations, rise and fall of, 110.
Negroes, descendants of Lemurians, 75.
New Galilee, 135.
New heaven and new earth, _see_ Aquarian Age.
New race, 75.
Niebelungen ring, 42.
Nimrod, Atlantean king, 22.
Noah, 27.
Noise, evil effects of, 125.
stirs desire bodies, 126.
Nucleus in magic practices, 103.
Orthodoxy, arguments of, 46.
Panorama etched into desire body, 133.
Passion, crystallizing power of, 32.
Periodic flow of earth, 62.
Philosophy, hidden meaning in, 135.
Physical body, _see_ Dense body.
Pioneers the active workers, 16.
two classes of, 17.
Pisces, creed and dogma of, 81.
Planet, body of Great Spirit, 156.
evolution of, 41.
orbit of, 156.
Poise, necessity for, 125.
Polarian had only dense body, 88.
Polarian epoch, dense body in, 22.
mineral-like state of man in, 22.
Polygamy, 66.
Possession cures desire, 93.
Post mortem experience, 15.
Post mortem state, 16.
Preservation, Christ principle, 168.
Progress, impossible to unworthy, 150.
Proselyting unnecessary, 132.
Providence of God, 120.
Purity, redemption of, 35.
Race spirits cause racial characteristics, 109.
high ideals of, 110.
Racial characteristics, 109.
Rainbow, advent of, 27.
emblem of diversity, 70.
entrance to new age, 180.
gates to promised land, 69.
Reconciliation, desirability of, 119.
Recording angels give religions, 7.
Religion, happiness from, 126.
Religion given by Recording Angels, 7.
suited to nations, 8.
Religious errors, not long permitted, 46.
Responsibility not to be shirked, 127.
Resurrection, Easter Sun symbolizes, 163.
Retrospection, good gained by, 184.
importance of, 18.
Rhine Gold, 42.
Rosicrucian messengers, 11.
Sacrament, Hebrew derivation of, 55.
importance of, 38.
Sacrifice, evolution result of, 97.
soul growth from, 165.
Sanctuary, inner, 124.
Saints, 17.
Salt, 185.
Science becomes religious, 40.
to rule Aquarian Age, 82.
Seances, danger of, 107.
Seasons symbolize diversity, 70.
Self-Sacrifice, advancement from, 38.
of Christ, 100.
Selfishness bane of race, 43.
Separation of sexes, 32.
Service builds soul body, 135.
essential in life, 135.
the policy that pays, 118.
redemption of stragglers, 59.
Sexes, separation of, 32.
Silence, great help in soul growth, 126.
Sin must be expiated, 57.
Sixth sense, 178.
Sleep, work during gains soul growth, 129.
Solar system body of God, 59.
Son, _see_ Christ.
Sorrow, keynote of Buddhism, 57.
Soul amalgamates with spirit, 96.
Soul body, 54.
from seed, 73.
light of teaches man, 136.
of new age, 181.
methods of building, 80.
protects against Black Magic, 106.
wedding garment of new age, 80.
Soul growth dissolves crystallized bodies, 96.
helps in, 126.
method of, 17.
Sound, effect of, 124.
Spinal nerves, animal twenty-eight pairs of, 61.
man thirty-one pairs of, 61.
Spirit orbit of, 156.
Spiritual forces, ebb and flow of, 61.
Spiritual sight result of war, 112.
Spiritual world, time non-existent, 169.
Spring and Earth Spirit, 31.
Stellar ray, 64.
Strength, conservation of, 122.
Sugar beneficial effects of, 83.
cure of alcoholism by, 84.
Sun ascends at Easter, 165.
in Cancer, the flood, 78.
invisible vehicle of God, 172.
visible vehicle of Christ, 172.
Tact, value of, 119.
Talents of ego, 15.
Teacher of New Age, 76.
Temple, way to shown, 136.
Thought breaks down tissue, 23.
Time, non-existent in spiritual world, 169.
Tolerance for our families, 137.
Tree of knowledge, 32.
Tribulation prepares for Initiation, 63.
Trinity, mystery of, 167.
Unfoldment, three stages of, 55.
Universal solvent, 168.
Vegetarianism, advantages of, 91.
Vegetarian needs no alcohol, 91.
Virgin spirits enmeshed in matter as egos, 132.
self-consciousness attained by, 22.
Vital body charges body with energy, 132.
constructive energy of, 49.
evolved by Hyperborean, 22, 88.
medium of occult growth, 9.
spiritualized by Initiation, 67.
stores up power, 128.
vehicle of love, 51.
War, spiritual aspects of, 123.
spiritual intensity of, 104.
spiritual sight result of, 112.
Water, Noah and Moses led followers through, 26.
used in Black Magic, 104.
Wedding garment, _see_ Soul Body.
Western Initiates more advanced, 8.
Western Mystery Teaching Christian, 47.
White Magic, unselfish, 102.
Wine, given in Atlantis, 26.
self-assertion from drinking, 86.
stimulates spirit of man, 27.
Word, cosmic meaning of, 155.
Workers, the pioneers, 16.
World, God’s training school, 180.
World change to come, 181.
Worry, evil of, 116.
You as pronoun, 83.
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Earthbound
BY AUGUSTA FOSS HEINDEL
This is a new lecture in our Rosicrucian Christianity Series. It is
a very interesting description of the soul who is earthbound after
death, the conditions which surround him on the superphysical planes,
his activities there, and the causes which hold him in that state.
The dangers of the ouija board, as affording a field of operation for
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The Mystical Interpretation of Christmas
BY MAX HEINDEL
Five dissertations in one volume, upon this most interesting Subject of
CHRISTMAS from the Mystical Viewpoint, showing the occult significance
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_Christian Mysticism_: A correspondence course of twelve lessons upon
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origin, evolution, and future development of the world and man, showing
both the spiritual and scientific aspects. It is entirely Christian,
aiming to make religion a _living factor in the world_ and to lead to
Christ those who cannot reach Him by faith alone.
This course is open to all who are interested.
_Astrology_: We want to _help you to help others_, and for that reason
we have instituted a correspondence course in Astrology. Astrology is
to us a phase of religion, a Divine Science. We teach it to others on
condition that they will not prostitute it for gain.
_Anyone who is not engaged in fortune telling_ or similar methods of
commercializing spiritual knowledge may be admitted to this course.
Address:—
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The Rosicrucian Fellowship, Oceanside, California.
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Transcriber's Notes
Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations
in hyphenation have been standardised but all other spelling and
punctuation remains unchanged.
The entry “Catalogue of Publications” has been added to the Table of
Contents.
Italics are represented thus _italic_.