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VOL XII OCTOBER, 1934 No. 9

C O N T E N T S PageWorld's Most Picturesque Monastery

(Frontispiece) ....................................................... 321 The Thought of the Month: Living in the Clouds.... 324 This Physical World .................................................. 326Ancient Symbolism ..................................................... 332

The F ourfold Man ......................................................... 333Cathedral Contacts .................................................. 338

The Rosetta Stone .................................................... 340Our Responsibility as Rosicrucians ........................ 342Pages from the Past ................................................ 345

The Death R ay ............................................................ 348Sanctum Musings: Supremacy of Individual

or State — W hich? ............................................ 351Head of Ancient God in Yucatan (Illustration) 357

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THOUGHT OF THE MONTHLIVING IN THE CLOUDS

By THE IMPERATORut

T is very often saidby those who can-not comprehend

competen t ly thetrue aim and pur-pose of mysticaland spiritual studythat such personsthus inclined aregiven to “living inthe clouds.” It isgenerally meant tobe a derogatoryc o m m e n t , o r a t

least an intimation of fanatical tend-encies. It alw ays implies an attitudethat is not universally normal, and moreor less impractical in these moderntimes.

In truth, the student of spiritualvalues, and the seeker after that formof arcane knowledge which reveals thehigher principles of life, is not one whois given to abstract thinking and im-practical living. He may at times dwellin the clouds in his spiritual thoughts,and he may very often lift his conscious-ness to a higher realm or a plane greatlybeyond the material things of this life.But such an individual realizes keenly

the fact that man is here on earth for some very definite purpose, and thatsince his consciousness was projectedfrom a Divine spiritual source to be en-closed in a physical form here in thematerial world, there is some very defi-nite mission in life for him, and thismission can be fulfilled only by meetingits conditions and carrying out theworldly duties and obligations.

The real mystic is not one who baseshis explorations into the spiritual worldupon the false premise of a negation of

worldly conditions and material inter-ests. The mystic is ever a seeker for mastership, and this mastership includes

a conquering of the worldly problems,as well as a masterful comprehension of spiritual truths. He realizes, therefore,that the spiritual unfoldment and thehigher glories of life are to be attainedby rising step by step from this earthlyplane to the planes that may lie beforehim, and that this attainment must bebrought about through the mastering of the natural obstacles or limitations sur-rounding it.

It is only the idle dreamer and the oneunfamiliar with the fundamental truthswho believes that he may lift himself arbitrarily and wilfully out of and be-yond the specific environment here onearth in which God and the Cosmicprinciples have placed him. Th e mysticdoes not look upon the incidents of hisbirth as incidents of chance, but rather of law, order, and system . He does notconsider that all earthly experiences aresecondary , but rather primary. He doesnot attempt to deceive himself with thephilosophy that the ultimate end of lifeis the annihilation of worldly exper-iences or worldly efforts. Since some

Divine Law or principle has ordainedhis incarnation here on earth, and sincethere is some very definite purpose to becarried out by this incarnation, he ever seeks to find the why and the whereforeof earthly existence, and the specificwork which has been allotted to him or planned for him as the medium of hispersonal evolution.

The true mystic believes that manevolves from the primitive and funda-mental activities of earthly existence tothe higher and more perfect conditions



of spiritual unfoldment. He recognizesin the trials and tribulations of earthlylife the contest between good and evil,light and darkness, and the challenge tohis own fortitude. He becomes con-vinced that the law of the survival of thefittest is not solely the mechanism of earthly life, but a principle of the evolu-tion of the inner self and the personal-ity. A s the ancient philosophical mysticsbelieved in the smoothing of the cubicstone and the rounding off of its edgesin order that it might be a more perfectstone, so the mystic believes that thegrosser elements of his worldly natureand the rougher edges of his personalitymust be eliminated in order that the puregold of his consciousness and ego mayrise to the sublime heights which he

keeps in mind as the goal of his existtence. But he does not allow his vision todwell exclusively upon an ethereal andintangible portal nor does he allow all of his thinking and acting to be influencedby any fanatical dream or hope of aNirvana in which he may live as a beingsuspended above and beyond all worldlyduties and obligations. He is as keenlyinterested in the laws and principles of the atomic and molecular constructionof matter as he is in the spiritual integ-rity of the Divine source of life. He is just as practical in his application of nature’s worldly laws as in the applica-tion of the spiritual principles. Hisdreams are equally divided between thephysical accomplishments here on earthand the spiritual attainments of thefuture. He keeps his feet solidly uponthe earth, and upon the rock of thismaterial existence, while permitting hisconsciousness at times to soar into great-

er heights of this life beyond. Nor doeshe anticipate and hope for any indefiniteperiod in the future when all produc-tiveness at his hands and all creation of his material consciousness will bebrought to an end, and his usefulness inthe great scheme of things here on earthwill be terminated by an ethereal, spirit-ual existence of no value to God or man.He anticipates, rather, that his attain-ment here on earth will lead him into aspiritual school of more profound un-foldment wherein he will be preparedfor another opportunity to make greater victories here on earth and to accomplisheven a more extensive campaign of un-foldment and contribution to man’s de-velopment, and that this will be repeatedfrom time to time until all men and all

beings here on earth will have reachedthat degree of perfection when materialexistence may no longer be necessary.But while he hopes for that inevitableresult for all beings, he rejoices in theopportunity of living among men, of be-ing a friend to men, and of working outthe great cycles of evolution which Godhas decreed. His ambition is to serveand to labor in the vineyard rather thanto rest in the eventide and to find eternalpeace without accomplishments or re-sponsibilities. Th is is what constitutesthe true nature of the mystic, and of theseeker of illumination and wisdom andspiritual light. Such should be the idealof every Rosicrucian for such is theteaching and purpose of the Brother-hood, and such has been the spirit whichanimated all of its founders and leadersthroughout the centuries who h a v ebrought power, happiness, contentment,and inner joy to its leaders and follow-ers of all times.

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This Physical WorldAND OUR RELATION TO IT

By P r o f . A. C a r t l a n d B a i l e y

(Ed itor 's Note: Frater A. Cartland Bailey, a member of the newly organized faculty of the Rose-Croix University, and an eminent physicist, delivered the following address to the recent Rosicru- cian Convention. It is worthy your careful study and not a mere casu al reading.)

ERE we are assem-bled fresh from our v a r i o u s e n v ir o n -ments and duties of the kitchen andshop, laboratoryand studio, busi-ness and profes-sional office, the

farm house, tradea n d p r o f e s s i o n ;from the hubbub,hurry and worry of our smolce screened

in d u st ri a l cities; from the hustlingbustle of the b u si n e ss world; fromthewide open sun kissed areas of thefarmingre g io n s; from the panickyfinancial world: from the cancerouspolitical world; from the self sacrificingmedical and educat ional worlds:from a snapping, gossiping, back bit-ing, intolerant, irreligious world: fromthe mess in which this world is evolvingand O U T o f which it IS evolving. Bysome common urge, pull, or interest, wehave gathered here at our peacefulMecca, united in our efforts to master a first hand knowledge, a technique of its use, and to acquire a wisdom to usethat knowledge and technique in the in-terest of the humanity among whom welive and to whom we return from thisinspirational spot.

Although the subject. “This PhysicalW or ld", is one with which we are allmore or less familiar and one upon whichwe are all competent to speak, it is myprivilege to present a view point fromthe world of modern physical science. If it is on the program as RosicrucianPhysics, I will touch upon the physicspart and leave other more competent

speakers to deal with the Rosicrucianpart.Regardless of our classification as

Neophytes, P o s t u l a n t s , Disciples,Adepts or Masters, we are Fratres oneand all, "cribbed, cabined, and con-fined." as Madame Blavatsky expressedit, and very much limited in our activi-ties in this physical world diving suit.To those of us who are less free thanothers is the consolation that like thechick in its cribbed, cabined and con-fined quarters, within the limitations of its egg shell, we may kick and pick our way out to the freedom of the nest andthe shelter and protection of guardingwings. For one thing we can be mostthankful. All of us here have kickedand picked our way through confiningwalls into this expansive A M O R C nest,and here we may grow, sheltered andprotected in a way to best give strengthto our legs and head for the struggles instore in the life ahead. If flights are tobe taken into realms yet undreamed of,then wings must sprout and grow strong



by carefully planned and graded testflights.

It is not out of place that we pauseoccasionally to think about this physicalworld which is our school and experi-

mental laboratory. It is well to consider it from the standpoint of all the classi-fied experimental knowledge available.Th is is of two fold benefit. It gives usthe view point of modern knowledgethat we may talk intelligently in modernterminology, and it puts into our handsthe key which unlocks the unknownahead. W e proceed from known to un-known and there is no other way.

Actual experiment, such as Roger Bacon argued for so strongly and well,in the days when it had been the customto sit and speculate, gives a first handknowledge of the working of naturallaw—and all law is natural. Whatever is, is natural. There can be no super-natural. There may be superphysicallaw and superphysical substance, butnatural and super natural are two namesfor whatever IS.

W e need more of experiment and of experimental data. W e need tabulateddata. W e need repetition after repetitionof experimental work. W e need an an-alysis of it all, and we need conclusionswhich are indisputable, because they areforged in the teeth of stubborn facts andin the teeth of the world of Natu re A SIT IS in actuality. “To be or not to be”is not of so much interest to the experi-mentalist and Baconian scientist as isthe present active voice of that verb. W eare interested in what IS and IS N O T ,in H O W and W H Y . These are theinterests of the modern philosophicallyminded Baconian scientist. ( I am usingthe term Baconian scientist here to dis-tinguish between the scientist whomerely classifies and investigatesW H A T , and the philosophically mind-ed scientist who tries to correlateW H AT. H O W, a n d W H Y. )

Today the philosophically mindedscientist occupies the high seat that thephilosophically minded poet occupied inthe days of Bacon and Shakespeare.This type of experimentalist comes towisdom and knowledge from personalexperience. He KN O W S where othersmerely speculate. As the author of “TheGreat W ork ” points out, one person be-lieves or disbelieves, from reading or

hearsay, what others K N O W from per-sonal knowledge or A S S U M E from re-views of experimental data. Th at sameauthor wisely points out that the workof this day—in addition to the experi-mentation, investigation, exploration,and accumulation of data, is a necessityfor a synthesization of the accumulatedknowledge into undebatable conclu-sions, and this should be done in meta-physical as well as in physical realms.

W e are either Gnostics or Agnostics.W e either KN O W or we do N O TK N O W . A L L K N O W L E D G E , physi-cal or psychic, comes from personal ex-perience, experience tried and testedover and over again. W e should notbe men and women of beliefs and spec-ulations and theories merely. W e shouldbe men and women of C O N V IC -T IO N S , men and women who canspeak with authority and with the au-thority of actual, first hand, personal K N O W LE D G E. Mere reading aboutthe world and about natural law in booksor lectures and about experiments willnever give this convincing evidence. W ecannot learn vicariously. W e may be-lieve or disbelieve or speculate, but ittakes more than blind faith, belief andspeculation to establish convincing evi-dence and personal, first hand knowledge of fact. A s Rosicrucians, we musthave this first hand personal knowledge.This constitutes the difference betweenmere membership in A M O R C and grow-ing as a Rosicrucian.

As we evolve from ignorance to Cos-mic Consciousness; from the inexper-ience of savagery to the experience of the Illuminati; from helpless infants and“slaves of our ganglia,” as Dr. EdwardClark says, to masters of Destiny, wecome to speculate and believe less andless, and grow in experimental, first-hand experience, undebatable knowlledqe and wisdom. Th is is the PA T H .K N O W LE D G E, the Technique of itsuse, and the Wisdom to use it for evolutionai’y rather than contra evolutionarypurposes, is the difference between theman of the street and the Master on theMount. Th e twelve labors of Herculesare the labors of us all as we strugglethrough the twelve zodiacal signs frominfancy to human perfection, from ignor-ance to perfect knowledge.




This Physical World offers us a toe-hold for our upward climb. It gives usa schooling place to which we may per-iodically return and learn to choose thatwhich is the thing we most need. Itgives us experiences into which we

can get our teeth, experience to workupon and work over into other moredesirable experiences. Here we can ex-periment to our heart's delight with nat-ural law in a more or less safe world.Here we may pry loose secrets from Isisabout the fundamental structure of theuniverse and ourselves and the modus operandi without dealing out death anddestruction too freely. Th e Lord knowswe learn slowly, and certainly we havealready dealt some severe blows withdangerous weapons. Yet, in the face of all of this, some have the audacity toargue that all knowledge should be freelygiven to all, irrespective of their BullDurham Ferocity and devilish destruc-tive instincts.

When we have learned the simple,evolutionary applications of natural lawin the physical world, then perhaps wemay be entrusted with the more power-ful and dangerous applications of the"Natu ral Law in the Spiritual W orld ,”as that grand old soul, Henry Drum-mond, puts it.

This physical world to ordinary

human sense organs is obviously aworld of solids, liquids and gases. Thatis the world that you left outside whenyou came in here today. Tha t is theworld that has been investigated byevery department of Science. For a re-view of that world go to the excellentmodern books of profound scientificthinkers. Tha t world, I hope, will never be the same to you again after you gothrough the door marked “exit” throughwhich you entered. Th is is a Chang ingWorld, but I would like to produce achange in your view point tonight thatwill produce to your mind a world morechanged than would naturally happenin one short half hour.

To this end I might discuss, if I wereable, this physical world from the view-point of the alchemist and the Five Ele-ments of Alchemy. I will not, as no onebut an alchemist could do that and noone but an alchemist could understandhim if he did. Alchemists use words tohide ideas. M ost of us use words as asmoke screen to hide ignorance of what

actually IS. Their words are a screento hide powerful truths.

To treat this world merely as an ag-gregation of atoms and molecules andcolloids, though tremendously enlighten-ing, would only be to review fairly re-

cent history of inorganic, organic, col-loid and bio chemistry. The books arefull of that for him who wishes to read.For the purpose of changing our pointof view of this physical world which weleft outside tonight, I know of no better weapon than the weapon of the phys-icist. the energy crammed, atomic sys-tem. These energy systems are systemsof electrically charged points in terrificmotion and accompanied by powerfulinterlocking magnetic fields. Electrons,negatrons, positrons, neutrons, protons,atomic centers, nuclear charges andtheir motions and generated magneticfields are the pieces of ammunition weshall use to disrupt this physical worldas we have known it.

So skipping over the more obviousforms of matter which any man notblind can see, we will come down to thebuilding blocks of the atomic energysystems themselves. Molecular Physicswas once rather an advanced course inphysics but Electron Physics now oc-cupies that place. Even now that isgiving way in our Universities to a moremodern work in Nuclear Physics. Withthe field of electrons quite satisfactorilysurveyed our more advanced universitiesare establishing seminars and researchwork on the very complicated and intri-cate nucleus of the atom itself. Mechan-ics, molecular and Atomic physics arestill in the curriculum and as true asever. Science advances from the old tothe new boundaries. W e have advancedfrom block and tackle to the electro-meter; from vibrating strings to oscillat-ing electrons; from falling apples andmotion of bodies under the influence of

gravity to the velocities of electrons andtheir change in mass with change of velocity; from playing with prisms andlenses and refraction and diffractionphenomena to serious consideration of the relationship between ether, electronsand matter; between electron jumps andlight quanta; between atomic electro-magnetic fields and cohesion, gravita-tion, impenetrability, osmosis, surfacetension, capillarity, vapor pressure, radioactivity, magnetism and life itself.



There is at least one book on the mar-ket by Drerbeck on ‘‘The ElectronTheory of Life.” In other words, thewhole field of electromagnetic radiationsfrom the longest wireless waves to theshortest Cosmic radiations; the wholefield of physical phenomena; the wholefield of chemistry; the whole field of bio-logy, and I think we are perfectly safein saying the whole field of psychologyand psychic phenomena and soulgrowth, is most intimately and insepar-ably tied up with the structure of theatoms that compose our body, our food,our books, our homes, furniture and en-vironment and every speck of visibleand tangible evidence that we ARE andthat a world exists.

Let us take a good sized solar sys-tem,—our own, which is the only onethat exists so far as our knowledge goes,and shrink it up till it is about as smallas it is now big. Then we will have per-haps a rather poor model of a respect-able atomic system. Although the sunis about a million times the volume of the earth, that does not necessarily meanthat the nucleus of the atom is as largecompared to the electrons. In Hy drogenit is not. Although the planets vary insize from asteroids a few miles or less indiameter, to voluminous Saturn and Jup-

iter of some 70,000 miles diameter, theelectrons in the various orbits are all of the same size it appears. An d althoughthere is only one planet in each orbit, inthe electron orbits they may vary fromtwo in the innermost orbit to eight ineach of the four fourth shell orbits.Hydrogen, simplest atom that seems tobe possible, has a diameter from center to K ring of about two (2.17) ten mil-lionths of a millimeter. This is about50,000 times the diameter of the singlecharged positive nucleus.

W e really have no time to go intofigures here. Suffice it to say that thenuclei of atoms of the 90 odd elementsvary from Hydrogen of mass 1 to Ura n-ium of mass 238. Electron orbits varyfrom one in hydrogen to twenty one inthe case of the heavier radio active ele-ments. Th e number of electrons per orbit vary from one to eight, the upper limit from all evidence. The particular point which I want to make is just this:The atomic system is composed of min-ute electric charges rotating in the var-

ious orbits at various distances from amassive center and these points nocloser together in proportion to size thanthe planets in our solar system. Th atspace within the limits of the outer orbitis about as closely packed with matter ‘‘as a cathedral would be with a fly buz-zing around in it,” to use Sir Oliver Lodge’s words.

These atoms are mostly empty voids,we see, so far as electric charges are con-cerned. Further than this, atoms never contact each other. Th ey can't. It isn’ttheir nature. The distances betweenthem is immense compared to their size.The molecules which you breathe inwith every breath, millions of billions of them in every cubic inch, 120 millions of billions in round numbers, actually oc-cupy about a millionth of that space. Infact, there is so much empty space in a150 pound man that if it were possibleto compress all of the electric chargesinto contact so that atomic centers con-tact each other, the total volume wouldbe about that of the head of a pin. Evenif you weigh 300 pounds, what is anextra pinhead full of atomic nuclei? Amessage from “toe to head,” or viceversa, is really a wireless communicationany way you take it, even if it should befound to be propagated along a carrier

current about the nerve fibres.Although this space within the partic-

ular shell of charges, or electromagneticfield that I call this suit of clothes, isoccupied by billions of atomic systemsin various combinations and configura-tions, it is something more than justelectric charges and magnetic fields andspace. Electric charges in one case makeup an atom of Oxygen and in another Carbon, and in another Radium. Com-binations of certain of these charged sys-tems make in one case microbes, in an-

other ants, and in another man, withwhatever characteristics belong to eachof these types of fields. W hatever dif-ferences there are between chemical ele-ments is electric and magnetic. W hat -ever differences there are between min-eral forms, I presume, must be found inthe resultant electromagnetic fields.Whatever differences there are betweenbiologic forms, they are electromagnetic,undoubtedly. They are, of course, biotic,but probably biotic differences are fund-amentally electromagnetic, as are the




radio active differences and magneticdifferences among the elements. W hat -ever differences there may be betweenintelligent, self conscious forms of life,in addition to the differences common tothe lower forms, is said to be psychic,whatever that actually is. Differences inpower of thought and will and concen-tration are linked up with electromag-netic forms called hormones and other glandular secretions.

Why is it that a carbon nucleus withsix positive charges and six electrons inoutside orbits, and a nitrogen nucleuswith seven positive charges and sevenoutside electrons, and Oxygen witheight positive charges in the nucleus andeight negatively charged electrons out-side, are the particular basic elements

that enter into organic forms of plantand animal life, defies explanation? Justwhy the ferro magnetic elements shouldoccur with 26, 27 and 28 electrons inoutside orbits and why radio activity isin the neighborhood of 88 to 92 outsideelectrons is also a mystery. An d thesemysteries of magnetism, radio activity,life, and thought, defy thoughtful an-alysis.

A bit ago it was stated that magneticfields accompany m o v i n g electriccharges. No electrician needs any ex-

planation, but for the benefit of thosewho are not familiar with the eternalinterlocking of magnetism and movingcharge, we will demonstrate with an in-strument that is very sensitive to mov-ing electrons. T o its terminals we willattach the ends of a coil of copper wireand then bring a magnet up to the coilor into the helix. W e notice there is aflow of electrons through the coil andgalvanometer. W hen we remove themagnet the electrons flow in the oppositedirection, as is evidenced by the motionof the galvanometer needle in the op-

posite direction.In this other coil of wire we have an

electric current moving in one direction.To prove that a magnetic field is set upat right angles to the direction of theelectron motion, we may bring a mag-netic needle up to the coil. W e see thatit no longer points north and south, butalong the ax is of the coil. A magneticfield always accompanies a movingcharge. The electrons of the atomic sys-tems are in constant rotation in their or-

bits. In Hy drogen the electron of theK orbit moves with a speed of 1300miles per second. In Uranium, in thisorbit, it moves with two thirds of infinitespeed , the speed of light or about 120,000miles a second. Whenever an electronchanges its rate of motion there is acorresponding opposite change in themagnetic field. The field always changesto oppose the change in the rate of motion of the electron.

Now can we get the picture of thisphysical world made up of ether and itsmodifications into electric charges andthese in motion accompanied by mag-netic fields? Th ese atoms and molecules,themselves separated by great distancesand in continual rapid movement backand forth within the limits of the space

allotted to them within the solid sub-stance, are hither and yon in the freeopen spaces of the liquids and gases.The cause of the motion of these atomsis the tremendous motions of the elec-trons within the various orbits. So theatoms go whirling, colliding, dancing,pulsing, oscillating back and forth, scin-tillating with tremendous energies.When these atoms are sufficiently closetogether we have solid substance. If they are not so close we have liquids,and at still greater distances apart wehave gases. W hen they are so far apartas to be not more than 20,000,000 per cubic centimeter or 120,000,000 per cubic inch, we have an excellent vacuum.

All the mass of this physical world isa mass of electric charge or strain in theether. Impenetrability of this physicalworld is the resistance one charge offersto another, or the resistance that inter-locking electro magnetic fields offer toanother field. All color is due to psychicinterpretation of a certain limited groupof wave lengths or frequencies of vibra-tion incident upon the retina of the eye.These modifications of the ether haveless color than a soap bubble. W e can-not think of plus and minus electriccharges as having color. The colorswith which you were impressed as youcame down the electric and magneticfield called "street” do not belong tothe trees, flowers, grass, buildings, silksand satins, dyes and rouges. It is onlythat these atomic systems are so spacedwith reference to the wave lengths of incident energy from the sun that someabsorb certain frequencies and reflect



others. G rass absorbs all but a certaingroup of wave lengths which it reflects.The eye senses that and we call it green.Flowers absorb other frequencies andreflect those which the eye interprets as

red or yellow. Th is receiving instru-ment, the eye, has a very high sensitivityto frequencies or variation in frequencieswithin the limits of its reception, whichis less than one octave or between 450,000,000,000,000 and 750,000,000,000,000 vibrations per second. Within thoselimits it can distinguish 2,000,000 colors,shades, tints and hues.

There is just as much color here inspace beside me as there is in your silkor pique prints, or a dish of flowers.There is none in either case. The flowers

offer to the frequencies of vibration of the ether a certain atomic spacing whichabsorbs some frequencies, transmitsothers on through, and reflects stillothers. Th e eye has come to call 750,000,000 million vibrations a second, vio-let, and less than that number by someother name. Marve lous, it is, indeed,that the accommodation of this instru-ment is such that it can tell from justwhat point any particular wave lengthis reflected to it, and can tell about howmuch of each frequency there is.

You came in here "all dolled up” ingroupings of electric charges reflectingall the wave lengths of the rainbow.Certain electric charges were added toothers of the mass that you call your overcoat of flesh. Yo u came in and satdown, a whole pin head full of atomicnuclei, dressed and powdered and paint-ed and scented and rouged, with nothingin the world but modified ether forms tocover that couple of cubic feet of modi-fied, warped, or strained ether spacethat you call Y O U and to which youthink you have homestead rights.

When you go out that door, remem-ber the world as you knew it, is no more.Rene Descartes, a French philosopher who lived three incarnations ago, saidthat a glass containing gold had no moresubstance in it than when it is empty.That doorway is just as full of sub-stance when open as when closed, still1 would take this electromagnetic fieldthrough the open doorway rather thanthrough the wall. Th ere is less frictionand expenditure of energy, and is moreeconomical.

Our particular sense organs havegiven us a particular impression of thisworld. With different sense organs theworld would be different to us. Take,for instance, the sense of sight. Sup po se

for a moment that you could see in theoctave just below or just above the pre-sent light octave. None of the colorsnow visible would be sensed . If youused the octave above violet there wouldbe no shadows. The sun would be seenas through a cloud or heavy fog and allparts of the sky would be equally lum-inous. Painting would be a very differ-ent art.

W ha t is true of sight is equally trueof other senses . Th e world is what itappears to be SIMPLY BECAUSE

our sense organs are W H A T T H EYA RE. Th ey tell us nothing at all aboutwhat actually is. Solids, liquids andgases would all be different to us if our sense organs were different, just ascolors would be different if we usedultra violet vision. If we can change our sense organs or change the sensitivityof them or increase their range of re-ceptivity, then we shall have changedthe world from our point of view. Whatthis physical world really is, we cannotsay. for we do not know what ether isand don’t know how it is modified intoelectric charges and don’t know thenature of the warps or strains in it inthe regions of magnetism.

From the point of view of the majoritythe world is as described in the books.It is this way, perhaps, to all but one ina thousand or one in a million, but thatmany people are usually wrong on fund-amentals. Like too many of our wouldbe scientific and non Rosicrucian doc-tors, we treat everything but fundamen-tal causes. Our sense impressions of what exists in actuality is about as re-liable as the stories of jealous, devilishminded, rattling tongued, gossiping,scandal mongers of modern society.

From the point of view of the minor-ity the world has never been describedin books. Lan guag e would probablyfail to be adequate to describe the worldA S IT IS. Such a description as I havegiven is a poor attempt at a descriptionfrom the view point of modern physics.Whether this description is a border-line description between physics andmetaphysics, I can’t say. It certainly is



a different conception of this universethan was held when we were twenty fiveyears younger. Today we are in a physi-cal world, a world of vibrations; a worldof ether and ether strains; a world of forces and energies transmitted throughspace; a world of action at a distancerather than action by contact; a worldin which we talk about ether pressure,

ether density, pressure of light waves,interchange of matter and energy, lossof one and gain of the other, a world inwhich the law of Conservation of Matter is becoming obsolete, but the law of theConservation of Energy still holds if Matter is merely a form of Energy.This, Sorores and Fratres, is our Physi-cal World as we today know it.

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ANCIENT SYMBOLISMMan, when conscious of an eternal truth, has ever symbolized Itso that the

human consciousness could forever have realization of it. Nations, languages, andcustoms have changed, but these ancient designs continue to Illuminate mankindwith the ir mystic light. For those who are seeking light, each month we willreproducea symbol with its ancient meaning.

FLIGHT OF TIME AND CERTAINTYOF DEATH

The hourglass symbolizes time; thescythe, death.

"W atch therefore for ye know neitherthe day, nor the hour wherein the Sonof man cometh." Matthew X XV : 13.

"Remember how short my time is;W herefore hast thou made all men invain?"

"W ha t man is he that liveth and shallnot see death?" LX XX IX:47, 48.

This symbol is another composite symbol. The hourglass, of course,has been symbolic of the passing of time fo r several centuries. Thescythe has been the symbol of the grim reaper of death, talcing the tollof life without exception to any man of any class of society. The wingsindicate the flig ht of time. Time moves on inevitably and cannot be

checked by money, power or influence of any kind. Therefore, man should prepare for the eventuality of ® -------

death and give thought as to immortality and theresult of transition from this life to another.



The Fourfold ManBy F r a t e r W i l l i a m H. M c K e g g

1 see the Fourfold Man; the Humanity in deadly sleep,And its fallen Emanation, the Spectre and its cruel Shadow. 1 see the Past, Present, and Future existing all at once Before me.

— William Blake.

NE Great Mysteryhas held man for all time— the mys-tery of his own be-ing!

T h i s M ystery

will probably holdhim for ages tocome, unless he be-gins to seek out hiso w n capabilitiesand powers; thenthe hidden knowl-edge will be placed

before him for his private study andpersonal unfoldment.

Is man merely matter with consciousanimation, or a Divine Power manifest-ing in material form? Man is torn bytwo decisions— utter unbelief, or blindfaith.

The materialist ridicules any tran-scendental theory and still remains indoubt. The ardent believer declares hisbelief in all things spiritual, but moreoften than not gets no definitely person-al proof and finds no more tangiblefacts to uphold his assertion of immor-tality than has the materialist for hisobstinate negation!

The old Ionic philosophers propound-ed many explanations, most of them ex-

tracted from the mystery schools of ancient Egy pt. Socrates, Plato andPythagoras reached the greatest heightsof Truth. Pythagoras sought abovematter—which exists in Space and Time— to Spirit, the cause. Most seekers

study only Matter, the effect.The World and Civilization are thesame as man. Man seeks to progress.He has gone through ages of struggleand mistakes; of advancement and light.Now we are facing the New Age . Inci-dentally man, who has valiantly foughtfor the Truth, is about to face its lus-trous beams flashing over the heavenand the earth, breaking into the longawaited Golden Dawn!

As each cell in the human body is acomplete universe in itself—the Manygoing to make the One man—man must,in his own sphere, be a mere cell in theInfinite Macrocosmic Man, in which helives and moves and has his being.(Acts 17:24 28)

The Divine Man keeps his universein Law and Order. Man should do like-wise, then he would work in harmonywith the Cosmos. Kosmos is the Greekword for Order.

The two interlaced triangles revealthe workings of the four dimensions. If High can come to Low it is more than




logical to say it is able to manifest againon the plane of its own source. To d is-cover the means of transmutation givesman the secret of his Real Being.

Since vibrations are the cause of things as they are ‘seen', many thingsmust appear non existent to our physi-cal senses. W hen man attains to spirit-ual perceptions he can then sensespiritual vibrations of a high intensitywhich enable him to see the Real fromthe False . Hum anity lives in a world of material vibrations. Education, as taughttoday, is only for our material senses.Thus a limit is enforced on knowledge.

A prison might have numerous vastrooms. So long as a prisoner is confinedto one small cell, he is unable to movein any other part. Once freed, he can

move about elsewhere. When we breakdown our walls of materialism we canenter into a high sphere of existence,whenever we wish, through our spirit-ual faculties.

In the poetical words of the Rosicru-cian Henry Vaughan (1622 1695):If a star were confined into a tomb Her captive flames must needs burn

there:But when the hand that locked her up

gives room,She’ll shine through all the sphere!

St. Hildegarde, the 12th century Ger-man mystic, saw her visions 'with the eyes of the spirit' and heard messageswith the ‘inward ear.’

“ I have always seen this light in myspirit and not with external eyes, nor with any thoughts of my heart, nor withhelp from the senses,” she wrote in oneof her many manuscripts. “ But myoutward eyes remain open and the other corporeal senses retain their activity.The light which I see is not located butyet is more brilliant than the sun, nor can I imagine its height, length, or breadth, and I name it the ‘cloud of theliving ligh t’. And as the sun, moon, andstars are reflected in water, so the writ-ings, sayings, virtues, and works of menshine in it before me. . . My spirit, ac-cording to the will of God, soars up-ward in vision to the highest heavenand to the farthest stretch of the air andspreads itself among different peoplesto regions exceeding far from me here,and thence I can behold changing cloudsand the mutation of all created things.”

/ am the Light of the World! Withthe attainment of the Christos — theChrist Spirit—man can prove this mys-tic statement, and ‘shine through all thesphere’! (John 12:44 46).

God comes from a Sanskrit word‘Od’—meaning, ‘that which penetrates everywhere .'

"By faith,” wrote St. Paul, “weunderstand that the world has beenframed by the word of God, so thatwhat is seen hath not been made out of things which appear.”

“ Know Th yse lf!” Socrates said. Toattain knowledge of the Cosmos and of Self we must first of all create Law andOrd er within us. Th e next step is tostir and foster to greater power and

strength the Divine Spark in our breast.It is the First Principle without whichthe body perishes and dissolves intodust. It is the Essence in which our Fourth Dimensional power operates. Soit is evident, as ancient mystics stated,that the so called ‘Fourth’ dimension isreally the Firs t and comes before theother three— for, without it, they couldnot exist.

In that strangely fascinating occultbook, The Comte de Gabalis, we comeacross a passage named Invocation To The Flame:

“Manifest thy power and ooen for methe Temple of Almighty God which iswithin this fire! Manifest fehy light for my regeneration, and let the breadth,height, fullness and crown of solar radi-ance appear, and may the God withinshine forth!”

Many have regained their lost splen-dor: many— such as our own Rosicru-cian students—are working toward it.Mankind lost the Fourth Dimensionalstate when it lost the Logos, or Word.Man seeks for them once more. TheW ord opened to him the Fourth dimen-sional plane. W ha t seems a miraclenow was a common fact ages past.

The Master Amatu gave us someyears ago a very inspiring message of that ancient age. “ The present NorthPole,” he wrote, “was then well favoredin many ways. A high degree of En -lightenment, a high degree of Under-standing based on a Conception as highas Height as deep as Depth and as wideas Width. The three dimensions existed



then, as now, but in addition there wasthe now ‘Lost’ fourth dimension, andthat is Comprehension of what we nowcall impossibility. W here the three arenow known, the four were then known

as the three are today, and served thepurpose of Depth, Height, Width andComprehension.”

Know Thyself! The secret is not tostudy the outer man, but the Inner,Divine Man. Within us is the PoeticGenius. He knows all things past,present and future, for eternal memoryis in him. From him we get inspirationand imagination.

If matter be all, if form be all, why isman led by Inspiration and by Imagina-tion?

W hat is Imagination? To the major-ity it means impossible fancies. D ay -dreaming. To imagine means 'to con~ ceive in thought.’ Imaginary means'ideal; visionary .' Imagination, 'a faculty by which we can form a mental image of anything ’

“I believe in intuition and inspira-tion,” Einstein states in Cosmic Religion. ‘‘Imagination is more importantthan knowledge. Fo r knowledge islimited, whereas imagination embracesthe entire world, stimulating progress,

giving birth to evolution. It is, strictlyspeaking, a real factor in scientific re-search.”

The secret of the Ancients, still asecret to the greater part of mankind,was to find out the point at which spiritenters the density of matter.

“The great task,” Eliphas Levi wrote,‘‘was not, properly speaking, the secretof the transmutation of metals, whichwas an accessory result, but the uni-versal arcanum of life. The search for the central point of transformation

where light becomes matter and is con-densed into a world which contains initself the principle of movement and of life.”

Objectively, nothing exists. Subjec-tively, everything exists. Our outer ac-tions are merely results from our inner urges. Good or Evil effects are thuscreated. W hat we have done causedwhat we are doing, which in turn causeswhat we shall do. Our Free Will pat-terns our actions in any three periods.The memory of the Inner Man records

everything, though we are unable torealize them objectively. But some timesglimpses break through. (Eph esians3:16 18)

It is only with his inner spiritualsense that man is able to solve theproblem of himself and the universalarcanum of life. He thus attains ‘sec-ond’ sight.

In his war book. Bloody Years, Francis Yeates Brown relates a very in-teresting event which occurred to him.He had been taken a prisoner by theTurks, and was on his way to a town inthe centre of Anatolia. At a place calledBozanti, he lay amid a heap of oldsacks on a railway station, half con-scious through a severe illness and pain.Suddenly he became very clear minded,and in this state saw an event whichdid not take place until three monthslater!

The vision he saw was of hundredsof men, east Indians, prisoners of war.One lay on the very same heap of sack-ings upon which he himself rested. Thewounded Indian was in great pain, hisarm having been broken bv the butt of a gun used on it by a Turkish soldier.

Several months later, Yeates Brownheard that a Hindu soldier had died on

the sacks from a broken arm, given himin the brutal manner the vision fore-shadowed!

Francis Yeates Brown is an adept inoriental mysticism, which he studied inIndia. Therefore it was much easier for him to get this strange experience thanit would be for an undeveloped person.His consciousness, when he was almostin a half conscious state, melded witht h e Universal Consciousness. H i sFourth Dimensional faculty worked.

It is often in that semi conscious at-

titude of mind that certain pictures arereflected in the ‘mirror’ of our psychicmind. One single thought near waking,or at any time during the night on goingto sleep, will instantly fill our mind withmyriad occurrences. It is the viewing of an association of ideas, of this presentlife and of lives past, not infrequentlyof coming events.

One morning when waking to objec-tive sense, I beheld in my half consciousstate a purple glow. Before rousingcompletely to reality, I started to con-




centrate on the color Purple. Soon thepurple glow melded in zig zag streakswith bronze. Then the two colors, withpurple predominating, became a vividItalian sunset. I saw a fortress castlewith a zig zag flight of stairs risingbetween two towers on which the sun-set light gleamed in bright lights.

A young boy, dressed in the costumeof what I sensed to be 13th, or 14thcentury Italy, fled up the flight of steps,pursued by soldiers. At the tower tophe stopped, glanced in horrified despair at the depth below, bathed, as was thevalley nearby, in the deep purple of thesunset. Just as the soldiers arrived hehurled himself over to the pavement far underneath.

The Italian youth was lying dead.His doublet and hose were purple. Awoman and two children turned thecorner. The children were holdingpurple balloons. The purple balloonsslipped from their grasp and floated upinto the air. A young man came run-ning to the scene of the tragedy and,seeing the corpse, stood stock still anddrew back, terror on his face, and calledout the dead youth’s name.

I sensed, in a strangely detachedmanner, that the dead youth had someconnection with myself. Crowds gath -ered, coming from all directions. Somecarried bronze ornaments against purplecloths.. . . Later on, I stood within aroom of what seemed to be a convent,or a monastery. Th e room was lit by asmall lamp in a purple glass. The win-dows were also of the same color.Kneeling in the purple light was an eld-erly woman, weeping bitterly.

Most of this is senseless. M ost of itis too ‘studied,’ too strongly holding tothe one idea of ‘purple.’ Probably partshad no connection with other parts, butonly fitted in. But my concentration of the color purple aroused my inner memory, and from that eternal memoryflashed some of the myriad events withwhich the color purple had been asso-ciated in my ancestral mind.

In this one incident, purple—which is,by the way, one of my favorite colors—became a key for my use in unlockingone most outstanding event in a pastlife. Purple was the predominating note in my physical mind just before the

passing of spirit from matter took place,and was thus carried over into eternalmemory.

In his brief, but very profound, treat-ise on the Fourth Dimension, A Primer Of Higher Space, Claude Bragdon re-turns to the Pythagorean style of spirit-ual science. It is the method few canunderstand, but the one which comesnearest of all to the Divine Mystery.Bragdon geometrizes. With geometricaldiagrams and proofs he brings before usthe workings of the Fourfold Man.

“It is thus that consciousness becomesself con scious,” he writes. “ It multipliesitself. Each unit, in its cube body, at-tains to a realization of its form andstructure through the many tracingsthat it makes in physical matter (thefilm world), each transit being an in-carnation, a personal life. Th e eventsof each life seem, to the personal con-sciousness, to slip away into nothing-ness. never to be recovered; but everyexperience of every film life, all its con-tacts with other cubes, are indelibly im-pressed upon the higher body and bythe cube consciousness may be recover-ed at will, since all inhere in the bound-ing planes of the cube. For this reason.when cube-consciousness is attained by the personality the memory of past lives is recovered. All lives may be lived over again a s vividly as before: the indwelling consciousness has only to seek out in the bounderies of its cube body the particular point or line of contact with the film world in which the vanished event inheres.”

This is done by the merging of theInner Self with the Cosmic Conscious-ness—what Plotinus called “the flightof the alone to the alone.”

Materlinck cryptically remarks in Le tresor des humbles that we ought toseek out the cause which makes our soul, our Inner Self, move with morethan ordinary emotion, for in doing sowe can learn to see and know our realself.

The mystic Kircher resurrected a rosefrom its ashes before Queen Christinaof Sweden, in 1687, proving that thoughthe matter, or form, perishes, the spiritis eternally alive and existing—to bebrought again into material manifesta-tion by particularly secret methods,known but to very few.



Most thinking men and women of today are strongly moved by the factthat mankind should be able to see andhear events that have passed into an-tiquity.

The well known novelist, GertrudeAtherton, alludes to this present trendof thought in her recent autobiography— speaking , of course, from the point of view of a creative artist.

"M ay it not be possible that a phan-tasm of all civilization of the past hasbeen translated to some place high inspace, their wraith like inhabitants liv-ing, moving, going through all the oldgestures, as eternal as space itself? Andthat, magnetized, they flow through cer-tain minds bent upon recreating them?W e know that no sound is lost, thatsomewhere out in the ether are the echo-ing voices of the Cro Magnon and theNeanderthal man. the crashing andrending of the ice ages, the battle criesof Caesar's armies, the impact of thebattering ram on the mighty walls of forgotten cities. W hy should ‘‘history”be a mere matter of the printed page?W e have witnessed so many wonders of science in our own brief time, may it notbe that a super Edison will one daymake the past visible, and we shall see—and possibly hear—Socrates firing

questions at the helpless he has button-holed in the market place, see Napoleonstanding with his arms folded, lookingdown upon W aterloo ?”

Indeed, all is possible! When man re-gains his Fourfold faculties he can thenmaterialize for others the things that arehidden from the present age.

A house kept uncleaned will soon be-come dark. Its window s will becomedarkened, so that not a streak of sun-light will be able to penetrate its dark-ness. Th e tenant residing in the house

alone can alter its condition. By clean -ing it within the light surrounding itwithout will enter and brighten its in-terior.

So it is with the human body. If it isdark with ignorance, the light will never illuminate it. By careful study a studentcan clean his house. He can make brightthe mirrors inside, which will clearlyand without flaw reflect Cosmic lightand events going on beyond his physicalsenses.

Perhaps no poet or artist has ever at-tained such genius in being able to re-veal to us visions of our ‘lost’ fourthstate as William Blake, who was a poetand an artist and a Rosicrucian mystic.

Humanity to Blake is the divine inner powers, asleep within us. The Spec treis our physical, human body, a slave toits Shad ow , our earthly existence. “The Visions of Eternity, by reason of narrowed perceptions, are become weak Visions of Time and Space, fixed into furrows of Death.” To awaken our Humanity is to awaken that PoeticalGenius to which Blake so often alludes:that Genius which enables us to regainour Fourfold faculty — to relight thelamp on our forehead, so that the dark-ness of physical sight can be dispersed,and the mirror’s surface cleansed; thatit may reflect the Cosmic mutations,since it is the Mirror of the Mind whichreveals to us the thoughts of the DivineMan.

Within the next few years, with thegreat awakening of the Art of the NewAge, artists of the American nation willin many cases reveal this ‘lost’ faculty.For only by our inner sight can we seeinto the present form of nature; toevents of the most ancient past; toevents yet to occur. Rosicrucian ph ilo-

sophy has aided its students to awakentheir dormant psychic sense to the in-spiration of the Divine Man.

W e create within ourselves a vision-ary existence and realize our imaginaryillusion as coming to us from without.Plato said that Imagination was theMemory of the Soul’s ride through theuniverse as it descended to be born intomatter; and that everything man does,or creates, from inspiration is only theresult of arousing Memory of thatCosmic descent of the Soul, in which

everything in the past, present andfuture is pictured and known. All can be seen af once by the Fourfold man!

The divinest jewel of wisdom manpossesses is this proud and noble fact—that as man he can materialize his Inner Self, his hopes and inspirations. Our lifeon earth is of great value, and shouldbe beautiful and rare; for in physicalform we can, through study and wis-dom, experience the whole meaning of the universe!



TheRosicrucianDigestOctober 1 9 3 4

The "Cathedral of the Soul” is a Cosmic meeting place for all minds of themost advanced and highly developed spiritual members and workers of theRosicrucian Fratern ity. It is a focal point of Cosmic radiations and thoughtwaves from which radiate vibrations of health, peace, happiness, and inner awakening. Va riou s periods of the day are set aside when many thousandsof minds are attuned with the Cathedral of the Soul, and others attuning withthe Cath edral a t this time will receive the benefit of the vibrations. Th ose whoare not members of the organization may share in the unusual benefit as wellas those who are members. Th e book called "Liber 77 7" describes the periodsfor various contacts with the Cathedral. Copies will be sent to persons whoare not members by addressing their request for this book to Friar S. P. C., careof AM O R C Tem ple, San Jose, California, enclosing three cents in postagestamps. (Please state whether member or not—this is important.)

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N a little town of Belgium there wasonce a great cathe-dral which seemedto the people livingnear it to be one of the most magnifi-cent structures thatthe hands of man

have ever createdin the attempt toidealize the wor-ship of God, and toprovide a spiritual

sanctum and Holy of Holies for the de-vout.

In comparison with the other greatcathedrals of Europe this cathedral inBelgium was small, indeed, but standingas it did in a peaceful valley far from the

great centers of civilization, and distantfrom the larger cities and larger villages,it was indeed an inspiring product of man's attempt to lift the consciousnessupward into the heavenly spaces. Thosewho worshipped there, and even thosewho never entered its sacred portal,looked upon all of its stones and all of its carvings and its rising spires as sacred

things. They seemed to think that thevery vibrations and emanations of thestone created within the walls a holinessand condition of spirituality which pene-trated and enveloped those who enteredits sanctum and ensconced them with aspiritual quality that brought them closer to God. Th ey thought that the verymystical and intriguing beams of coloredsunlight that shone through the stainedglass windows and enveloped the wor-



shippers in cloaks of variegated tintscontributed to the sanctity of the placeand the upliftment of those within. Theybelieved that the great altar with itsgolden cross, its marble railing, its sac-red font, its candlestands, and greatchoir, was a Divine thing that gave atouch of spiritual power to all who cameclose to them. They came to look uponthis cathedral as the only spot in their community where God actually dwelledand the Heavenly Hosts communed withthe supplicants.

And then came the great W orld W ar.Hordes of tramping feet and the artilleryalong with the smoke and fiery bomb-shells and the invasion of the unthinkingand sacrilegious warriors brought wreckand ruin to the magnificent idol of re-ligion. The spires were torn to the earth,the walls were battered, and made tocrumble to the ground, the stained glasswindows were shattered to unrecogniz-able pieces. Th e altar was torn down,and the golden cross seized and takento a safe hiding place. Th e choir stallswere used disrespectfully, and the greatsunlight of the heavens shone brightlywithin the formerly enclosed sanctum,eliminating all of its spiritual tones andrevealing the horrible wreckage of theformer beautiful structure.

After months passed by the invadinghordes were gone, and where once stoodthe beautiful cathedral there was nowbut a mass of useless, worthless stoneand wood. The storms had poured their rain upon the wreckage, the fowl of theair had made their nests in portions of it, and even the wild grass and weedshad begun to grow in the crevices be-tween the mass of tangled remnants of the cathedral. There was nothing sacredor spiritual about the place, and thepeople of the community knelt out in thefields in prayer thanking God only for the fact that their lives had been saved,and that the little village was again intheir possession. They deplored the factthat there was no place to worship andthat for months to come their holinessmust be developed only in the privatesanctums of their homes. Then beganthe great task of clearing the wreckageaway in order that a new cathedralmight be built some day in place of theold one. Willing hands from everyfamily and from the distant communities

came and toiled all day or in spare hours.The stones from the wreckage weretaken far away to be recut and possiblyused again. Th e work of clearing theholy ground was long and tedious, anda year or more passed before men wereable to stand upon the actual groundbeneath the building and observe onlythe foundation walls upon which thecathedral stood.

Realizing that it might be many yearsbefore a new structure could be raisedupon the old foundation, a temporaryaltar was erected upon the soil, whereonce the marble altar stood, and in theopen space before it, which one timeconstituted the nave of the cathedral,wooden benches were placed in order that the worshippers might sit beforethe altar and participate in an open air ceremony conducted by the venerablepriests of the cathedral.

And there suddenly came to the con-sciousness of these open air worshippersthat although the magnificent walls withtheir carvings and murals were no long-er there, and although the stained glasswindows no longer shed their beams of tinted light upon them, and althoughthere was no longer any portal throughwhich they entered in order to be ex-cluded from the outside world, still herein the bright sunlight of the morning, or in the moonlight of the evening withnothing to exclude them from the out-side world, with nothing to enclose andprotect their spiritual vibrations, andwith no great spires pointing heaven-ward as a petition to God to reach downto them, still they were able to find Godin their prayers, to attune with God intheir worship, and to receive His Holybenedictions. To these worshippers thencame the realization that it is not theplace or the conditions around it, nor the

material form of the holy sanctum thatmakes a place of worship, but insteadit is the spiritual nature within man, andthe uplifted consciousness of the soulthat reaches God, and brings God intothe heart of man.

Our Cathedral of the Soul is not amaterial structure. It does not rest upona stone foundation, nor upon the groundof this earth. It has no material walls,no spires of concrete, steel or stone; ithas no isles, no marble or tiled nave, no



tures rather than symbols. Sometimesto make doubly sure the meaning of several pictures, they added another which combined the meaning of all intoone.

These added pictures have been call-ed determinatives, and the pictures usedto convey meanings in this way areknown as hieroglyphics. There wassomething very attractive and decora-tive about this method of writing bythus picturing out stories, and it wasused exclusively in tombs and temples.

It became too elaborate, however, for daily use, and gradually only theM AIN O U T LI N E S of the original pic-tures were used to represent the idea or word. Th is system of writing wa s morepractical for constant everyday needsthan the more ornamental hieroglyphics.It is known as hieratic writing.

Finally, late in the history of Egypt,these hieratics were very much abbrevi-ated, mere dots and lines being substi-tuted. This cursory system is known asdemotic writing. It was adopted by thepeople generally, and might perhaps becompared to modern shorthand. Tomake the whole more complicated still,all three methods were used for differ-ent purposes contemporaneously.

Hundreds of years passed; the langu-age of the ancient Egyptians was for-gotten and so, indeed, were the peoplethemselves.

In modern times the learning of anci-ent people was revived and their writ-ings eagerly read. Quite naturally,students wished to know something of the earliest civilizations, particularly of the civilization of the Nile Valley . Herethey were confronted by what seemedbaffling, indeed. Three forms of writ-ing used contemporaneously, even inter-changeably, defied all efforts to de-cipher them. Attem pts were made toexplain certain inscriptions, but theseexplanations were found later to havebeen far astray. In 1799, one of Na po -

leon's soldiers, while excavating in themouth of Rosetta, came upon a stonewhich bore a royal decree written inthree ways:

1— In hieroglyphics

2— In demotic3— In GreekThis supplied the key at last, and

scholars set themselves to the task of deciphering ancient Egyptian writings.Other inscriptions written in two or more languages were found and veri-fied the conclusions reached earlier inthe translation of the Rosetta Stone.

In recent years a large number of in-scriptions from tombs and temples havebeen read and many rolls of papyrushave been translated. Th is has enabled

historians to read back, step by step,into far away ages, and to carry thethread of Egyptian civilizations to itsbeginnings. M aspero, Edward Meyer,Breasted, Petrie, and other painstakingstudents of Egyptology have given their lives to the task of unravelling the past,both by deciphering inscriptions and un-earthing forgotten cities. From the tire-less efforts of men like these, tombshidden for centuries have been recov-ered, temples and colonnades laid bareof drifting sands, inscriptions tran-scribed and translated, and volumes of scholarly material written for the specialstudent, while at the same time the gen-eral reader may find much of interestconcerning the life of a remarkablepeople whose works have borne testi-mony through the ages.

It is a work of this sort that has re-vealed to modern civilization the mightyefforts of ancient civilizations, andgradually will be unveiled the true storyof these giants of remote ages, whichwill amaze the scholar of the profoundknowledge in the possession of thepeoples of the ancients, and confirm theundying knowledge in the possession of our Order.

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ACTIVITIES AT THE GRAND LODGEEvery Tuesday evening in the Egyptian Temple of the Supreme Grand Lodge there

is held an unusual ceremony and convocation for the benefit of all Rosicrucian membersof any degree that wish to attend. It con sists of a period of meditation, the intonation of vowels and other unusually inspiring activities. Ev ery member of the Order of any de-gree from anywhere throughout the world, who may be in this section of California, isinvited to attend these Tuesday night convocations.




Our Responsibility as RosicruciansAN ADDRESS GIVEN AT THE ROSICRUCIAN CONVENTION

By E t h e l B. W a r d , F. R. C.

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O W many of ustruly realize our great responsibilityas Rosicrucians?Most of us comeinto the Order seeking personaldevelopment a n dknowledge of themystical and Di-vine laws of theUniverse; and mostof us are sincerely■anxious to help our

fellowman in his struggle to find hisway in the great adventure called"Life.”

In the very beginning of the studies—in the Neophyte work—we learn thatwe are not separate individuals, work-ing separately and solely for individualsalvation.

W e learn of the oneness of the soul;

that what we have been thinking of asan individual soul, for whose salvationand development we are responsible, isan unseparated segment of the greatuniversal soul.

It dawns upon some of us very earlyin this work that no matter what the ex-perience of the soul segment manifest-ing through an individual physicaltemple is, it has its effect or influenceon every other soul segment.

Then, as we proceed, we learn of thecreation of matter and just what stepsand what forms matter takes in itsmanifestation.

Then we learn of the creative power of thought, and how to bring into beingthe things and conditions we wish tohave in life. W e learn that if we followcertain instructions and put into prac-tice certain laws and principles, we mayconfidently expect our desires to begranted, provided those desires are notstrictly selfish.

Now, we wonder how many haveconnected that idea of unselfishnesswith the oneness of the soul. Do youunderstand how it would be an absoluteimpossibility for Cosmic or Divine Lawto assist in bringing about a selfish de-sire, whereas if we are trying to usethese laws in bringing into being a thingor condition which will be of benefit toothers, as well as ourselves, we haveevery reason to expect Cosmic blessing?

This thought of Oneness — attunement with every other soul segment—will bear much contemplation. W e willfind a great deal of understanding andinner illumination through meditatingupon this idea. Once we realize thatwe are not living separate lives, suffi-cient unto ourselves or accountable onlyto ourselves, we will also realize howgreat is our responsibility as Rosicru-cians.



One of the very first things a Rosi-crucian should do, is to watch histhoughts, to see that they are unselfishand of a constructive nature. Tho sewho have reached the advanced degreeswill know what I mean when I say thatthoughts are as powerful as dynamite.Th ey are creative. Th ose who have notreached the higher degrees, who are notyet ready to receive one of the greatestsecrets known to Rosicrucians pertain-ing to the Cosmic law back of materialmanifestation, have, nevertheless, beengiven even in the early Neophyte De-grees information regarding the creativepower of thought which they may useright now.

W e need only to look back over thepast few years to see how the world asa whole has reacted to a condition cre-ated first in the thoughts of a minority— Fear, Selfishness, and Greed, beingat the bottom of those thoughts.

Rosicrucians are not Reformers. W'eshould not undertake to prohibit anyonefrom doing those things or indulging incertain other things which an individualmay have found detrimental to himself.On the other hand, we should not losesight of the fact that the way we liveour lives, the way we conduct ourselves,not only reacts upon our inner selvesand soul development but also reactsupon every other soul segment.

Watch a community into which a socalled individual may come, having anenterprising, public spirited nature anddesiring to improve conditions in thatcommunity, not for a selfish purpose,but from an altruistic, unselfish desireto help his fellowman toward a larger,better outlook on life. Yo u will see per -haps how slowly, first two or three,then a dozen or more persons of a pro-gressive. thinking type, will rally aroundthat individual. Th ings will star t mov-ing—that small minority acts as theleaven which soon results in a com-munity movement. That community inturn has its influence on neighboringcommunities.

W e have seen how Fear reacts onso called individuals in the case of epidemics, not so much because of con-tagion, but in spite of every precautionagainst contagion, through a thoughtcondition created by a minority whichalso acts as leaven and is apt to affect

every other soul segment in the com-munity.

This law works both ways, remember,as all laws do; therefore, it is our dutyas Rosicrucians, a minority at present,

to conduct our lives in a manner thatwill be as closely in accord as possiblewith the highest dictates of our inner selves.

You may ask how and what can wedo to change unpleasant conditions or bring into our lives the ideal conditionswe so desire. Yes, many ask that ques-tion, even those in the higher degrees.They have missed the point in the in-structions which plainly states the lawand puts the very tools into your hands.

Suppose, for instance, it is a better

position you wish which will bring youa larger salary and enable you andyour family to live better, to have morecomforts, etc. Th is is not a strictlyselfish desire, since, if it is granted, allof your friends as well as your familywill enjoy your good fortune. Th emerchants will benefit through your prosperity, and in many ways the entirecommunity will reap the benefits of your improved conditions.

Now, what is the first step to take?Listen! The first thing in the morningas soon as possible after you awaken,sit quietly in your sanctum, or if youhave no material sanctum, enter theSanctum of your Heart and give thanksto God for the blessing of restful sleepand the protection that was yoursthrough the night, as well as all other blessings. Then ask for guidance anddirection into the steps you should takewhich will lead you into a better posi-tion with the accompanying better salary.

Then proceed to visualize yourself inthe position you desire, receiving asalary commensurate with that position.Paint your thought picture step by step.Make it so vivid and so real to you thatyou fairly feel yourself in that position;then stop. Fo rge t about the picture for the time, being confident that if your desire is in accord with Cosmic Lawyour efforts will meet with the blessingof the Cosmic. Then GO T O W O RKto attract your ideal to yourself.

If your concentration has been right,if you have visualized correctly, just assure as you are living you have created




that ideal position and condition; butnow you must start to work to open upchannels through which that position,that increased salary, may come to you,be attracted to you.

If you are working for an employer,start working for your employer’s bestinterest. Search for ways and meanswhereby you can render more servicethan you are paid for. Make yourself so necessary and valuable to your em-ployer that when you go to him andsuggest that he give you an opportunityto serve in a better position, or give youan increase in salary, he will be recep-tive and practically “sold’’ on the idea.

Oh, yes. You have to work to openup the channels through which to at-tract the thing or condition that you

have created mentally, AND you mustA SK . You cannot sit down and waitfor the ideal you have visualized to bedropped into your lap. The Master Jesus said, “Ask and ye shall receive”;but He, also, taught the creative power of thought. It wa s Job who said, “ Th atwhich I have dreaded has come uponme.”

Now, you may do all these things,following each step in accordance withthe laws and principles you have learn-ed, and yet the manifestation is delayed. Please notice that I said “delayed,” not“refused.”

If, after you have left no stone un-turned in your effort to bring into your

life the ideal you have visualized, itsmanifestation seems unduly delayed,then you should start checking backover your past life to see if you can’tfind where, by your own actions or thoughts, you have created and brought

to yourself the very conditions whichprevail.If it appears that the condition in

which you find yourself is of your owncreation, and, therefore, rightfullyyours, and if you are willing to profitby the lesson, thereby canceling thedebt, the ideal situation which you have just as surely created may be hastenedin its manifestation. It will come to yousometime, somewhere, somehow.

It must be remembered, however,that not every trial, test, or unpleasantcondition which confronts us is a pro-duct of our own thoughts. W e maysuffer through conditions broughtabout by a community or NationalKarmic debt, or because of some specialwork or mission in life which makes aknowledge and understanding of theconditions in which we may find our-selves necessary in the great Cosmicscheme of things.

In any case, the safest thing to do isto start the laws we have been taughtto working, realize our responsibility asRosicrucians, and stand guardian at thePortal of Thought so that we maycreate only the conditions we would de-sire and wish to have manifested for our fellowman, as well as ourselves.

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ARE YOU INTERESTED IN THE CULTURALTRAINING !| OF CHILD REN? j

Th e minds of young children under the influence of their pare nts or gu ardian s are §§ like clay in the hands or a sculptor. Th ey can be properly molded and shaped in their §= thoughts, and in their vision and the result is a beautiful character and personality, or if in ii difference is show n during those formativ e ye ars between two and fifteen, distorted view s, jjE grotesque ideas may result causing a stilted consciousness, which will later in life bring §§ pain and suffering due to misfortune. f

The Child Culture Institute has prepared some very attractive literature on the train \ E ing of children up to a certain age. It is not only for the training of the child that this f E institution was organized, but also for the purpose of training the parents as to the proper Iz attitude of mind to adop t. §

Ev en in the da ys of antiquity during the period of the golden age of Pericles, pre |: natal influence w as a fundam ental study and can we not see that it might have been one =I of the contributing cau ses of the great culture we look upon as being of ancient Greece ? §§ Yo u who are parents would find it profitable to addr ess a commu nication to the following §I add ress and ask for the free literature pertaining to the activities of the Child Culture =i Institute. Child Culture Institute, College Park, San Jose, California.

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► COM ENIUS► Each month there w ill appear excerp ts from the wr i tings of famous th inkers and► teachers of the past. This will give our readers an opportunity of knowing these lives► through the presentation of the w ritings which typify their thoughts. Occasionally such► writ ings wil l be presented through the translation or interpretation of other eminent► authors or thinkers of the past. This month we bring to you John Amos Comenius.£ Comenius was born in 1592 in Moravia. He was left an orp han early in life. He com-: pleted elementary school at Stassnick, and at the age of sixteen entered the Latin school.

His higher education was obtained at the universities of Am sterdam and Heidelberg. Hewas app ointed in 1618 head of Moravian school and ch urch at F ulneck . In 1627 aft er los-

T ing his property due to Spanish troops he sought peace and seclusion in Poland. In 1641? he was summoned to E ngland to add his experience to the improvement of the publicf schools, but civil w ar p revented him from completing his work. He return ed to Polandf and in a few yea rs found ed a model school. In 1670 he died at the home of Lou is de Geer.C H e p at te rn e d his metho d of e du ca tio n af te r n a tu re . H e ma de a c lo se s tu d y of th ek man ner in which na ture progresses and matures, and how different living thing s react to^ their environment and he endeavored to adopt these principles to his public school systemt and to his plan for a model school.k Rosicrucians and all stud ents will find his analysis of the method of acquiring knowl-► edge and the way of preparing for study most helpful. Those who find it difficult to► study, or who wish to know the best plan for study should especially give attention to► this wonderful article of several centuries ago by Comenius.

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T h e P r i n c i p l e s o f F a c i l i t y i n T e a c h i n g a n d i n L e a r n i n g

E have already con-sidered the meansby which the edu-cationist may at-tain his goal withcertainty, we willnow proceed to seehow these meanscan be suited tothe minds of thepupils, so that their use may be easyand pleasant.

Following in thefootsteps of nature we find that theprocess of education will be easy.

a. If it begin early, before the mindis corrupted.

b. If the mind be duly prepared toreceive it.

c. If it proceed from the general tothe particular.

d. An d from what is easy to whatis more difficult.

e. If the pupil be not overburdenedby too many subjects.

f. And if progress be slow in everycase.

g. If the intellect be forced to noth-ing to which the natural bent does notincline it, in accordance with its age andwith the right method.

h. If everyth ing be taugh t throughthe medium of the senses.

i. And if the use of everythingtaught be continually kept in view.

j. If everything be taught accordingto one and the same method.

These, I say, are the principles to beadopted if education is to be easy andpleasant.

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First Principle

Nature begins by a careful selectionof materials. Fo r instance, for hatchinga bird she selects fresh eggs and thosethat contain pure matter. If the forma-tion of the chicken have already begun,it is in vain to expect any result.

Imitation.—The architect who wishesto erect a building, needs a clear plot of ground, and, if there be a house alreadystanding there, he must pull it down be-fore he can build the new one.

The artist, too, does his best work ona clean canvas. If it have already beenpainted on, or be dirty or rough, it mustbe cleaned or smoothed before he canuse it.

For the preservation of precious oint-ments, empty jars must be procured, or those that are in use must be carefullycleansed of their contents.

The gardener, too, prefers to plantyoung trees, or, if he takes them too old,cuts off the branches in order that thesap may not be dissipated. Fo r thisreason Aristotle placed “privation”among the principles of nature, for heheld that it was impossible to impress anew form on any material until the oldone had been removed.

Deviation.— It follows from this: (1 )That it is best to devote the mind tothe pursuit of wisdom while it is stillfresh, and before it has acquired thehabit of dissipating its strength over avariety of occupations; and that thelater the education begins, the harder itwill be for it to obtain a hold, becausethe mind is already occupied by other things. (2 ) T ha t the result must be badif a boy be instructed by several teach-ers at once, since it is scarcely possiblefor them all to use the same method,and, if they do not, the boy’s mind is

drawn first in one direction and then inanother, and its development is thushindered. (3 ) Tha t it shows great lackof judgment if moral instruction be notmade the first point when the educationof children or of older boys is com-menced; since, when they have beentaught to control their feelings, theywill be the more fit to receive other in-struction. Horse tamers keep a horseunder absolute control with an iron bit,and ensure its obedience before they

teach it its pace s. Right ly does Senecasay : “ First learn virtue, and then wis-dom, since without virtue it is difficultto learn wisdom.” And Cicero says:“Moral philosophy makes the mind fitto receive the seeds of further knowl-edge.”

Rectification.—Thereforea. Education should be commenced

early.b. Th e pupil should not have more

than one teacher in each subject.c. Befo re anything else is done, the

morals should be rendered harmoniousby the master’s influence.

Second Principle

Nature prepares its material so that itactually strives to attain the form.

Thus the chicken in the egg, whensufficiently formed, seeks to develop it-self still further, moves, and bursts theshell or breaks through it with its beak.After escaping from its prison, it takespleasure in the warmth and nutrimentprovided by its mother, opens its beakexpectantly and swallows its foodgreedily . It rejoices to find itself under the open sky, exercises its wings, andlater on, uses them with enjoyment; in

a word, it displays a keen desire to ful-fill all its natural functions, thoughthroughout the whole process of devel-opment it advances step by step.

Imitation.—The gardener also mustbring it about that the plant, properlyprovided with m o ist ur e and withwarmth, take pleasure in its vigorousgrowth.

Deviation.— T h er ef or e, those whodrive boys to their studies, do themgreat harm. Fo r what result can theyexpect? If a man have no appetite, but

yet takes food when urged to do so, theresult can only be sickness and vomit-ing, or at least indigestion and indis-position. On the other hand, if a manbe hungry, he is eager to take food,digests it readily, and easily converts itinto flesh and blood. Thu s Isocratessays: “ He who is anxious to learn willalso be learned.” And Quintilian says:“The acquisition of knowledge dependson the will to learn, and this cannot beforced.”



Rectification.—Thereforea. Th e desire to know and to learn

should be excited in boys in every pos-sible manner.

b. Th e method of instruction shouldlighten the drudgery of learning, thatthere may be nothing to hinder thescholars or deter them from making pro-gress with their studies.

The desire to learn is kindled in boysby parents, by masters, by the school,by the subjects of instructions, by themethods of teaching, and by the author-ity of the state.

By parents, if they praise learningand the learned in the presence of their children, or if they encourage them to

be industrious by promising them nicebooks and clothes, or some other prettythings; if they commend the teach ers(especially him to whom they entrusttheir sons) as much for their friendlyfeeling towards the pupils as for their skill in teaching ( for love and ad mira-tion are the feelings most calculated tostimulate a desire for imitation); finally,if, from time to time, they send the childto him with a small present. In this waythey will easily bring it about that thechildren like their lessons and their teachers, and have confidence in them.

By the teachers, if they are gentleand persuasive, and do not alienatetheir pupils from them by roughness,but attract them by fatherly sentimentsand words; if they commend the studiesthat they take in hand on account of their excellence, pleasantness, and ease;if they praise the industrious ones fromtime to time (to the little ones they maygives apples, nuts, sugar, etc .); if theycall the children to them, privately or inthe class, and show them pictures of thethings that they must learn, or explainto them optical or geometrical instru-ments, astronomical globes, and such-like things that are calculated to excitetheir admiration; or again, if they occa-sionally give the children some messageto carry to their parents. In a word, if they treat their pupils kindly they willeasily win their affections, and willbring it about that they prefer going toschool to remaining at home.

The school itself should be a pleasantplace, and attractive to the eye bothwithin and without. Within , the roomshould be bright and clean, and itswalls should be ornamented by pic-

tures. Th ese should be either portraitsof celebrated men, geographical maps,historical plans, or other ornaments.Without, there should be an open placeto walk and to play in (for this is ab-solutely necessary for children, as weshall show later), and there should alsobe a garden attached, into which thescholars may be allowed to go from timeto time and where they may feast their eyes on trees, flowers and plants. If this be done, boys will, in all probabil-ity, go to school with as much pleasureas to fairs, where they always hope tosee and hear something new.

The subjects of instruction them-selves prove attractive to the young, if they are suited to the age of the pupiland are clearly explained; especially if the explanation be relieved by a humor-ous or at any rate by a less serious tone.For thus the pleasant is combined withthe useful.

If the method is to excite a taste for knowledge, it must, in the first place, benatural. For what is natural takes placewithout compulsion. W ate r need not beforced to run down a mountain side. If the dam, or whatever else holds it back,be removed, it flows down at once. Itis not necessary to persuade a bird tofly; it does so as soon as the cage isopened. Th e eye and the ear need nourging to enjoy a fine painting or abeautiful melody that is presented tothem. In all these cases it is more oftennecessary to restrain than to urge on.The requisites of a natural method areevident from the preceding chapter andfrom the rules that follow.

In the second place, if the scholarsare to be interested, care must be takento make the method palatable, so thateverything, no matter how serious, maybe placed before them in a familiar andattractive manner; in the form of adialogue, for instance, by pitting theboys against one another to answer andexplain riddling questions, comparisons,and fables.

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The Death RaySOME FACTS ABOUT THIS MUCH DISCUSSED DISCOVERY

By T h e I m p e r a to r

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In the first place, a ray or beam of vibrations or radiations that can destroyliving matter is not something new.Some of the fish in the sea and someanimals living above and on the surfaceof the earth have the ability to sendfrom their bodies certain invisible elec-tric, magnetic, or other forms of energyor vibrations which destroy living mat-ter.

There have been known to sciencefor many years certain radiations fromelectrical tubes which will destroy livingtissue, and even the very valuable natur-al product known as radium is destruc-tive because of the destructive qualitiesof its emanations.

The radiations from the average Xray tube are highly destructive and thatis why the operators of X ray equip-ment and the nurses and attendants atsuch places must protect themselvesfrom it. It is said that a few seconds'use of the X ray upon the human bodysterilizes such bodies by destroying allof the vital reproductive cells within thebody and certainly the rays also destroy

diseased tissue or other living cells thatare healthy and unhealthy. Th ese raysfrom the X ray tube can reach to agreat distance and cause destructivemanifestations. In one notable case anelderly woman living in a wheel chair at her window a thousand feet awayfrom a hospital room where the X raywas being used, was gradually burnedby the X ray which reached from thehospital across an open park to whereshe w as sitting at her window duringthe daytime.

From all of this it can be seen thatscience has not revealed a new law or any principle in nature in developinganything that might be called a deathray. On the other hand, in a certainlaboratory, presided over by eminentspecialists, the location and name of which I cannot reveal, there was deve-loped a special form of invisible radiat-ing energy that could reach out to con-siderable distances and at certain focalpoints cause all living matter to become

O much has beenwritten and spokenin recent years re-garding the dis-covery of a “deathray" and a greatnumber have re-called that therewere veiled refer-ences to such a

scientific achieve-ment in the writ-ings of Marie Cor-elli, that a large

portion of the Rosicrucians in NorthAmerica are anxious to know somethingdefinite about the death ray and its pos-sibilities.



immediately inactive and a breakingdown process to begin at once. Th isvery wonderful application of naturallaws was discovered and evolved just afew years ago and in all of the early ex-

periments it was conclusively provedand demonstrated that as the dualenergies that constitute this beam werebrought to focalize upon each other ata distant point or directed in unison toa distant point, a terrific destruction of living matter of all kinds would im-mediately result. Th e beam was p assedover vegetation and small animals, over trees and larger growing things andthere was an immediate destruction of life.

It must be apparent to everyone thatsuch a scientific achievement constitutesone of the most marvelous and at thesame time most horrible means of de-struction. If such an invisible beamwere focused upon and moved across alarge army of men, it would annihilatethe army and bring immediate cessationto all of their activities. From the testsmade it would seem that if such a beamwere focused upon an airplane or battle-ship, not only would all human beingsupon them be destroyed but there wouldbe set up a counter action in the elec-

tronic vibrations and atomic structureof the airplane or battleship that wouldcause many of its elements to fall apartand to weaken them and cause them toexplode or disintegrate.

The question often asked is why thediscovery and invention has not beenapplied in recent warfare activities andwhy the method has not been offered toone of the countries of the world for use in warfare.

My understanding in this regard isbased upon some very intimate knowl-edge, and I am happy to say that themen who have worked upon this greatscientific achievement have been notonly reluctant to let the world knowanything about it, but have been re-luctant to allow the process to be usedfor warfare. There is a popular story tothe effect that the process has been of-fered to the United States and either refused or accepted and buried away toprevent anyone from using it. I do notknow how true this is. but I do not be-lieve it to be true. I believe that the

process has been demonstrated to cer-tain officials of several goverments onlyas a warning of what might be achievedor attained in some other laboratories atsome time in the future.

I know, however, that those who arein possession of this great secret processdo not want it used for warfare and arecooperating with Cosmic principles inpreventing the misuse of it. The process probably has some very legitimate con-structive use in various activities of theworld, but to release it to any one gov-ernment for use would be manifestlyunfair from a Cosmic point of view.Any one government owning and pos-sessing such a process exclusively anddeveloping it so that it could be used bya large army of specialized workers onairplanes, battleships, and land, wouldsoon be able to conquer all other na-tions and destroy much of the world inany ambitious campaign directed towardthat end. T o release such knowledgefreely to all nations would mean totempt them all to use it and in such acampaign the governments of the worldmight soon destroy each other and all of the nations or peoples bringing thegreatest havoc that the world has ever seen.

Think of the predicament in whichscientists would find themselves uponrealizing that they had discovered andevolved such a process and further realizing that what they held in their laboratory or in their minds as a pro-cess could destroy the world or wipeout of existence other nations and other governments. W ha t restless nights andwhat a terrific sense of dire responsi-bility must weigh upon them! Is it anywonder, then, that such men have beenreluctant to demonstrate or make knowntheir process except to a secret few andthen only with the reservation of thereal secret whereby the process mightbe applied or used in a general manner for warfare?

Certainly, the Cosmic would step inand reveal to others in such circum-stances, just what has recently been dis-covered in another laboratory; namely,a neutralizing wave that probably willsucceed in neutralizing some of the ef-fects of this “ death ray .” In other words, the Cosmic is already revealing




to some men a safeguard against thisdestructive process, but fortunately themen who possess the real knowledgeregarding the death ray are not makingthemselves any party to the darker forces of the universe in destroying life

and property. For this reason, it is morethan likely that the death ray will re-main a secret for many years or manycenturies.

It is not in keeping with Cosmic lawthat any one nation, any one govern-ment, or any small group of individualsshall conquer and destroy the rest of the world. An y nation or group of in-dividuals having such an ambition wouldsoon find that their desires were bring-ing destruction to themselves. It is animmutable law of the Cosmic that hewho seeks to destroy because of selfishambitions, or he who seeks to conquer undeservingly, sooner or later destroyshimself or is conquered by those whowill restrain his cruel ambitions.

I hope, therefore, that our memberswill understand the real problems in-

volved in connection with this and simi-lar scientific discoveries and achieve-ments and that in talking about thepotential and possible powers that onegroup of individuals may have over others throughout the world, they will

remember that the Cosmic creative andproductive laws have maintained in-creasing numbers of human life on thisplanet and are furthering the advance-ment of human existence by protectingit and safeguarding it against unneces-sary destruction and that only that formof destruction through famines, disease,pestilence, storms, and strifes, whichconstitute a part of the evolutionaryprocesses of the world, are tolerated byCosmic law as necessary in the greatscheme of things and that man hasnever been given the right, nor will hebe permitted to assume the right of making himself or his group of associ-ates conquerors of the world or thedirect and immediate destroyers of anylarge portion of human existence or of human activities.

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SUPREMACY OF INDIVIDUAL OR ST ATE — WHICH?

H E controversy asto which shall besupreme, the stateor the individual,and which engagesthe minds of manytoday, should notbe confined to thefields of economics,

law, or politicalscience. It serious-ly involves philo-sophy, the philo-sophy of human

society. Perhaps in a philosophical con-ception of the need for the state shallwe find either its right to supremacy or the reason for it to be subservient to theindividual.

W e become daily conscious of an ex -panding world, an increase in the num-ber of forms of reality. This is brought

about by the elaborate aid given to our senses by the improved methods of science. An examination of these newforms but quickens our appreciation of the fact that each manifestation is a de-pendency. There cannot, we realizewith awe, be among them, whether adistant hazy nebulae floating like a veilof a mythological goddess in space, or the pulsating bacteria beneath the lensof a microscope, a free agent. Each iswoven into a pattern of harmoniouslaws from which there is no eventualseparation. Whether the pattern is

teleological or not, does not detractfrom the very evident consistency anduniformity which we are pleased to callnature. Nature has no ultimate end ex -cept in the speculations and abstractionsof man's mind. Each expression of alaw fulfills its periodicity. Th e transi-tion from one form or period to another is but the performance of the law of

change and motion. In a general sense,all things are related to this Cosmicfabric, or nature. Fo r something to beindependent of it, it would need be out-side of the realm of natural law, withina field of phenomena exclusively itsown.

Thus everything is literally dependenton natural law, yet all things are notplaced within that category termed na-ture. Th ings which are not the directresult of a natural cause — that is, anatural law humanly undirected— are

not natural. W e look about us and seemany such examples in our everydayworld in the home and in business. It isquite true that these things have beenmade possible because of the creativedirection of natural laws by the humanmind, but in all of them one of thecauses was human reason and thus theyare not entitled to the classification of natural. Unnatural things are thosethen which come into existence with aidother than the causative, physical laws.The majority of such unnatural thingswith which we are familiar are the con



tributions of the ingenuity of the humanmind. W hy does the human mind bringthem into existence? If the end whichis served by the unnatural entity had acounterpart in nature of which manwould be aware, it is logical to assume

that the unnatural would not have beenproduced. Th e answer must be thatthe unnatural is created to serve a natu-ral end. which natural end in itself is in-sufficient to satis fy a human need. H asnature erred in satisfying the needs of life? Must man perfect an imperfectionand labor in life to that end? Na ture isnot extravaga nt. Th at which is, is be-cause it neither lacks something nor canit eliminate anything of which it is com-posed. All things are of a balance,poised in the form they seem to have,awaiting an insufficiency or an excesswhich shall transform their being. N a-ture cares not for the individual pre-servation of its forms, whether the in-dividual balance shall be terminated or not, for each expression in her estima-tion is equally worthy, the one beforeand the one to come. Neve r can anyphase of her being be out of balance,for one but falls into the other. Th ebalance in nature is a proportionateamount of opposites. Th at which is allof one nature is not in balance, just asweight must be equally distributed ateither end of a beam of a scale or wehave no equipoise. Eac h expression of life seeks out and draws to itself thatwhich is necessary to maintain its parti-cular balance. Obviously, essentials areonly required. Equally obvious is thefact that nothinq can be eliminatedwithout the disturbance of this sensitivebalance. Th is truly may be called theeconomy of life.

In the instance of human life, we findcertain essential requirements necessaryif its balance is to be maintained. Theseessential requirements establish them-selves in the instincts and fundamentalappetites. Th e satisfaction and fulfill-ment of them bring harmonious sensa-tions, and a lessening of stress. Over-balance is a stress because of a lack or

T he an excess Th at which is not in balance,Rosicrucian we “ V.*8due *?, either an ex 5e8S or aninsufficiency. I he improp er balance in

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consciously seek to preserve the state of pleasure or to prolong it. Th us everyadaptation and invention may be re-duced to the basic reason of intensify-ing pleasures, securing the essentialswhich result in these pleasures or to

moderate the rigors in acquiring them.The essential requisites first sought andnecessary for sustenance satisfied andpreserved the balance necessary for the continuance of life. M an ’s first en-deavors were the endeavors of necessityand not a credit to any form of life for they were lacking in distinctiveness. Alllivinq things sought and continue to doso, these essentials . But with the con-sciousness of comparative value of thepleasures arising from the state of bal-ance or normalcy, came desires result-ing in such human endeavor which isover and beyond the search for neces-sity. From that time on all human en-deavor beyond the need of necessity isbut the fulfillment of the purpose of adding to or securing the pleasures of life.

This may be repulsive to idealism,but it is, nevertheless, applicable, evento the great love— the love of knowl-edge. A highly sensitive consciousness,like an energetic and robust body, re-quires exercise. A passive state to it isirritating and unpleasant. Its balance is

most easily disturbed. Profound inquiryinto the mysteries of life and the uni-verse, for example, give it that function-al stimulation required to produce thatadded zest which it finds necessary.Such mental stimulation exceeds thatneeded for the acquirinq of the re-quisite s of life. But such a hiqhlydeveloped consciousness has need of in-tensifying the common mental pleasures.In the sphere of the fine arts we butfind other examples of this same condi-tion. The harmonies of pronortion andcolor in nature are not satisfying to theartist when just realized throuqh thesenses. Th e mind seeks to simulatethem within its own consciousness. Evenin the arts which copy natural form,nature is used as a model to assist inperfecting an ideal which brings greater pleasure to the mind than the observa-tion of the original. The senses can bedeceived, distorted and fatigued, andthe impressions of beauty which theyconvey no longer translated into pleas



urable sensations, but in the mindbeauty never wanes. Th e ideal can al-ways be reshaped and always gratifies.Such pleasures are not necessary tolife, but those who seek them do notwish life without them. So we find manadding to the natural, the mind’s crea-tions— the unnatural.

These realities which man has created,these things and conditions have notprovided life with even one more funda-mental desire. Th e centuries of refine-ment, culture, the advance of the ma-chine age, things we think of as needs,have not been transmitted from genera-tion to generation as absolute desires.Fundamental needs must arise fromfundamental and inherent desires. Th e

nature of man as a being is the same.The instinctive urges have neither beensupplanted nor added to. Fundamentalneeds are instinctively sought after.Reason is not required for such a desire.The unnatural needs which man later requires, the unnatural longings comeas the result of reason. Th ey arisefrom comparison, analysis, and theacquisition of habit.

W hat shall we say of the desire of association and gregariousness, thismilling together in millions as in theteeming metropolitan centers, or thecombining of persons in group s? Is themutual consent to form a society, natur-al or unnatural? Does it satisfy a funda-mental desire? Considering again our definition of what constitutes naturaland unnatural needs and desires, per-haps we may arrive at the answer. Isthe desire which displays itself in al-most all humans to form society im-manent? Is it part of the very instinctswhich maintain their life and being, andtherefore natural and free from the in-

fluence of reason? W ill the absence of reason find the same urge for the estab-lishment of society? Certa inly with thedawn of human life, the need for societywas not felt. Th e pan gs of hunger, thecravings of thirst, the repulsion fromblistering heat, or the cringing fromhowling gales did not come from theneed of society. Man was driven blind-ly by these urges, finding relief whennormalcy was attained, when the forceof life was no longer jeopardized by thelack of its essentials. W ha t is natural

to life is just what composes it andwhat will preserve it. Association withothers, society, has yet, with all of itsadvancement, to preserve life beyondits natural period. Its attributes supplynothing which will fill the want of anessential of life. It is conceded thateven where the primitive needs of lifeare regularly met, life eventually ceases.This transition or end of the period of one of nature’s forms is a law that isnot unique with human life; it appliesto all things animate or inanimate.However, human life can exist for itsnormal period without the aid of society,but not one of the essential urges of lifenecessary for its continuance can bepermanently suppressed if life is to en-dure. W e may then readily see thatsociety is not a primary need of life, for life is not dependent on it. It is notnatural to life. Man in life seeks society.Life in man will endure without society,but man does not desire to endure with-out it: so society becomes a secondaryneed of man.

Society was not a fundamental de-sire when man became man, and with the ages the physiological and psycho-logical structure and functions of manhave still not changed, so as to makethe organization of society a funda-mental desire, one that is necessary for the existence of individual, human life.W e must presume, then, that the evi-dent display of the desire and need for human association is a secondary con-sideration in the welfare of humanity. Society being a secondary need is un-natural in comnarison to the naturalneeds of man. Being unnatural, it mustbe and is man created. It automaticallyfalls into the category of all other un-natural things man has created.

The obligation of society is to add tothe natural capabilities of the individualso he may obtain therefrom greater per-sonal satisfaction. The urges and in-stincts of all men are alike in nature,but the capabilities of performance of some are greater than others. W ith thecomprehension of this and the exerciseof intelligence, some humans invent andcreate ways and means of amplifyingtheir capabilities or preventing their dis-sipation and consequent lessening of happiness and pleasure. Society affords




the most excellent means of making thispossible. In numbers there is strength.Ten men are no stronger individuallywhen working collectively, or weaker when working singly, but as a unittheir strength exceeds by far that of any

single man. Three Neanderthal menmay have each placed a boulder in frontof their entrance to their respectivecaves, assuring a nominal protectionagainst entrance by another. But thethree Neanderthal men working in uni-son could have exerted a strength whichwould have made possible the puttingin place of a boulder that would havebeen an absolute assurance against itsremoval by any one man. A s long asthe individual efforts continue to satis-fy, there is not created the desire for collective effor ts or for society. The

individual effor ts m av be sufficient tomeet the primary needs of existence of the individual, but after they no longer gratify the individual seeks to intensifythe satisfaction derived from them.Such a search results in the need of society for man easily discovered hisinabilitv to compete with collective ef-fort. M an ’s secondary needs, resultingin the need for society, are not born outof inadeguacy of the simple primaryneeds of life, but rather out of muchdissatisfaction with the pleasures he ob-tains from them.

The evolved society or state itself becomes an entity, as are the individualswhich compose it. T o be recognized, itis identified with a definite form, aform composed of conventions, stand-ards, laws and regulations. As an entityit has an existence which must be main-tained. Its maintenance means that ithas certain primary needs necessary for its existence, just as has the individuals of which it is composed. Obviously, theprimary needs of state are the second-ary needs of man. To return to theanalogy of the stone and the Neander-thal man. Man became dissatisfied tomove a stone of a size that was withinthe limits of his personal strength, butto accomplish the movement of a larger stone required the combined strength of a number of his fellowmen, thereforethe secondary need—that of moving thelarger stone—when perhaps the smaller one which could have been moved byhis own strength would have sufficed.

This state of combination of effort or human unity is, we will see, the state.Is not, then, the primary need of thestate to bring about the unity of humaneffort, the fulfillment of the individual’ssecondary need?— In other words, add i-

tional power or ability? Logica lly for the state to justify its existence, it mustserve the individual’s secondary needs,which in turn, as said heretofore, is thestate’s primary need.

The reason for man's existence weare not certain of. W e may presume,but it is at its best but presumption. W eare fortunate, however, to have selfrealization accompanied with a sense of comprehending the needs to preserveour being, but with the state man him-self has been the creator and he is ableto determine the relationship of theprimary needs of the state to the veryreason for its existence. Th e needs of astate are the addition to itself of power,efficiency, justice, related to the purposeof exercising these attributes for thebenefit of the individual. A separationbetween these needs of a state and thereason for its existence is disastrous, for then it has no proper channel for theventing of its accumulated energy.

A state may easily become a detri-ment instead o f an aid to humanity. Astate may become a liability to humaninitiative and ingenuity. It may lag. be-come so parasitic as to detract from theoriginal primary needs of the individual An individual without the aid of society,as long as life endures normally, is as-sured of certain definite pleasures andfreedom from any exceptional tormentor displeasure. A faultily governed statemay so deviate from its original objective as to interfere with the naturalheritage of man, the acquisition of hisprimary needs. States have been createdto augment man’s primary needs. D e-traction from or restraint of these needsis logically inconsistent, unless to pre-vent one individual's efforts to satisfvhis primary needs from interfering withanother’s efforts to satisfy the sameneeds. The state is thus obliged todetermine a mean of the primary needsof its component parts and only restrictthe needs of an individual or group of individuals when an acquiring of their needs interferes with the primary needsof society as a whole. Society is evi-



dently a menace when it restricts theprimary needs of the majority, or whenit sets a standard of what shall consti-tute the primary needs of the individualand which is below the majority’sagreement or below what the majoritywould seek individually as necessary for their primary needs, if they were out-side the pale of society.

The state’s main duty, as we haveseen, is the provision of the secondaryneeds of the individual. The excellenceof its performance, then, depends onwhat extent and variety it provides of these needs. They should be unlimitedin their extent and possibility of afford-ing human satisfaction and equally un-limited in a variety from which manmay choose. There should not be op-position or interference offered theprimary essential needs of man by theserefinements, this culture, the secondaryneeds offered by society. The only con-sideration society must have in attempt-ing to provide man’s secondary needsis that it does not defeat its purpose of adding to the pleasures derived fromhis instinctive essential primary needsor their security. Whenever a state hasadopted a policy or established a gov-ernment which hinders man in acquiringhis normal, natural, rightful needs, sucha policy should be outlawed or govern-ment abandoned, for no man would in-telligently assign to a created entity theright to rob him of a natural heritage,a birthright.

The state accomplishes its end by theconcerted power of its members. It isthis unified power that is desired whena state is created, because it can realizefor man attainments not possible other-wise. Shall it, however, curtail the ex-ceptional power of an individual, one of its members, which may make itself manifest? Suppose an individual devel-ops a mental, physical, or financialpower which exceeds any power whichthe state can exert of a like nature.Shall the state be justified in suppress-ing that individual power? Which shallreign supreme? Th e individual hasvolunteered to support the state, to giveit existence. He pledges not to interferein the gaining of his orimarv needs withthe primary needs of his fellowman, sothat a harmonious political state mayexist and serve them all by adding to

their natural state. His is a plea for concerted power to multiply his singleefforts. If the state fails in E X C E L L -ING him in any proper human venture,it has failed miserably. A man does notpurchase a horse to lead it to his desti-nation, but for the horse to transporthim there. If a man may reach hisdestination more rapidly without ahorse, then his purchase of it is in vainand an extravaqance. But further, if aman is CO M P EL LE D to purchase ahorse intended for transportation whenhe can travel faster without it, a greatinjustice is done him. The state in pro-viding the secondary needs of man be-comes his servant, not his master, andas such should aid, not hinder him. In-dividual powers to accomplish shouldbe unrestrained but censored. Th e cen-sorship should be of the manner of ex-ercise of those powers of the individualwhich would tend to defeat the purposeof the state. When and where thestate’s purpose is not hindered and theindividual’s ingenuity and effort far exceed the state’s effort, the state thenis inefficient and must raise its stand-ards for the furtherance of society be-yond the powers of the greatest of itsindividuals.

The state, we have said, is an entity,and what satisfaction shall it find as areturn for its efforts? Man finds pleas-ure in the gratification of his naturaldesires, which is an indication that hehas maintained the necessary balance of the life force within him. Th e state’ssatisfaction shall be consequently foundin fulfilling its purpose. Its qlory shallcome from advancing man far beyondthe mere satisfaction of his elementary,primary needs. It shall pride itself onthe development of a world of interestto occupy and bring happiness to thehuman and which shall exalt him beyondnot only all other living things, but evenhimself, in the point of time and previ-ous accomplishment. Th ese are theprimary duties, and needs to be met bythe state. Th e state shall have no sec-ondary duties or needs for the state isbut a nexus. It shall only reflect thehopes, ego, emotions and passions of the majority which compose it. Thestate shall not seek to acquire or ac-complish for itself unless its activitiesare directly reflected in advantages to




the individual. There shall be no dis-tinction in objective between the appli-cation of the powers of the state and the powers of the individual. W heth er aman lifts a small stone unaided, or em-ploys a lever to lift a large boulder, thepower applied in either instance is his.The power resulting from the use of amechanical means is not independent of him. It must alway s be under his con-trol. Th e state afford s but a method of increasing the individual’s power. Thestate's power is rightfully the individ-ual's and the state is never justified inapplying its power except to the in-dividual’s end.

When the state has so deviated fromits objective as to have secondary needsof its own; that is, seek pleasure andsatisfaction in its own power and in-

vents means for the preservation of it-self as an entity without concern as tothe effect upon the individual, it has be-come competitive with the individual.The state is then a monstrosity givenlife by man. It then proceeds to devour him. It becomes but a gigantic robotperfected by human intelligence, but byuncontrollable might crushing its creat-

or. Man may gather the trickling watersof many streams, which as streams arebut musical to the ear, cooling to thetouch and pleasing to the eye. But oncethey are dammed there has been createda vast potential power, and if man is so

unfortunate as to lose his mastery or control of this power, before it shallhave dissipated itself, it will overwhelmand destroy him in its unleashed fury.

M an ’s life is for an end. It is im-material whether God or nature, which-ever you please, premeditated the endor whether man evolved it in his ownconsciousness. A definite end, an ulti-mate ideal he must have unless he ad-mit himself the puppet of the forcesabout him. The state has no real end.At least, its end cannot and should notbe distinguished from that of the needs

of man. H as the axe an ultimate end?If so, the end would be to serve thewoodman in his daily labors. If thewoodman has brought his axe into ex-istence, so has man made the state andthus it has no end, but to further hissecondary desires or those things whichnow form the complicated structure of modern civilization.

Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow prog res s. To those who fully admit the immortality of the human soul, the destruction of our world will not appear so dreadful.

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The addresses of other foreign Grand Lodges and secretaries will be furnished on application.



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