Chapter XIX: Christian Rosenkreuz and the Order of Rosicrucians
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Chapter XIX: Christian Rosenkreuz and the Order of Rosicrucians
CHAPTER XIX
CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUZ AND THE ORDER OF ROSICRUCIANS
ANCIENT TRUTHS IN MODERN DRESS
Having encountered among the public a widespread desire to learn some- thing of the Order of Rosicrucians, and as there is a lack of understanding of the important place occupied by the Brothers of the Rose Cross in our Western civilization, even among our students, it may be well to furnish au- thentic information upon the subject.
Everything in the world is subject to law, even our evolution is thus en- compassed; spiritual and physical progression go hand in hand. The sun is the physical light bringer and, as we know, it apparently travels from east to west bringing light and life to one part of the earth after another. But the visible sun is only a part of the sun as the visible body is a small part of composite man. There is an invisible and spiritual sun whose rays promote soul growth upon one part of the earth after another as the physical sun promotes the growth of form, and this spiritual impulse also travels in the same direction as the physical sun; from east to west.
Six or seven hundred year B.C., a new wave of spirituality was started near the western shores of the Pacific Ocean to give enlightenment to the Chinese nation and the religion of Confucius is embraced to this day by many millions in the celestial kingdom. Later we note the effect of this wave in the religion of Buddha, a teaching designed to stir the aspirations of
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millions of Hindus and western Chinese. In its westward course it appears among the more intellectual Greeks in the lofty philosophies of Pythagoras and Plato, and at last it sweeps over the western world, among the pioneers of the human race, where it takes the lofty form of the Christian religion.
The Christian religion has gradually worked its way to the westward, even to the shores of the Pacific Ocean and thither the spiritual aspirations are being massed and concentrated. There they will reach a point of culmina- tion, prior to taking a new leap across the ocean and inaugurating a higher and more lofty spiritual awakening in the Orient than now exists in that part of the earth.
Just as day and night, summer and winter, ebb and flood, follow each other in unbroken sequence according to the law of alternating cycles, so also the appearance of a wave of spiritual awakening in any part of the world is followed by a period of material reactions, so that our development may not become onesided.
Religion, Art and Science are the three most important means of human education, and they are a trinity in unity which cannot be separated without distorting our viewpoint of whatever we may investigate. TRUE RELIGION em- bodies both science and art, for it teaches a beautiful life in harmony with the laws of nature.
TRUE SCIENCE is artistic and religious in the highest sense, for it teaches us to reverence and conform to laws governing our well-being and ex- plains why the religious life is conducive to health and beauty.
TRUE ART is as educational as science and as uplifting in its influence as religion. In architecture we have a most sublime presentation of cosmic lines of force in the universe. It fills the spiritual beholder with a
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powerful devotion and adoration born of an awe-inspiring conception of the overwhelming grandeur and majesty of Deity. Sculpture and painting, music and literature inspire us with a sense of transcendent loveliness of God, the immutable source and goal of all this beautiful world.
Nothing short of such an all-embracing teaching will answer the needs of humanity permanently. There was a time, even as late as Greece, when RELI- GION, ART and SCIENCE were taught unitedly in Mystery temples. But it was necessary to the better development of each that they should separate for a time.
RELIGION held sole sway in the so-called "dark ages." During that time it bound both Science and Art hand and foot. Then came the period of Re- naissance and ART came to the fore in all its branches. Religion was strong as yet, however, and Art was only too often prostituted in the service of Religion. Last came the wave of modern SCIENCE, and with iron hand it has subjugated Religion.
It was a detriment to the world when Religion shackled Science. IGNO- RANCE and SUPERSTITION caused untold woe, nevertheless man cherished a lofty spiritual ideal then; he hoped for a higher and better life. It is infi- nitely more disastrous that Science is killing Religion, for now even HOPE, the only gift of the gods left in Pandora's box, may vanish before MATERIAL- ISM and AGNOSTICISM.
Such a state cannot continue. Reaction must set in. If it does not, An- archy will rend the Cosmos. To avert a calamity RELIGION, SCIENCE and ART must reunite in a higher expression of the GOOD, the TRUE and the BEAUTIFUL than obtained before the separation.
Coming events cast their shadows before, and when the Great Leaders of humanity saw the tendency towards ultramaterialism which is now rampant in
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the Western World, they took certain steps to counteract and transmute it at the auspicious time. They did not wish to kill the budding Science as the latter has strangled Religion, for they saw the ultimate good which will re- sult when an advanced Science has again become the co-worker of Religion.
A spiritual Religion, however, cannot blend with a materialistic Science any more than oil can mix with water. Therefore steps were taken to spiritualize Science and make Religion scientific.
In the thirteenth century a high spiritual teacher, having the symbolical name Christian Rosenkreuz--Christian: Rose: Cross--appeared in Europe to commence that work. He founded the mysterious Order of Rosicrucians with the object of throwing occult light upon the misunderstood Christian Reli- gion and to explain the mystery of Life and Being from the scientific stand- point in harmony with Religion.
Many centuries have rolled by since the birth, as Christian Rosenkreuz, of the Founder of the Rosicrucian Mystery School, and by many his existence is even regarded as a myth. But his birth as Christian Rosenkreuz marked the beginning of a new epoch in spiritual life of the Western World. That particular Ego has also been in continuous physical existence ever since, in one or another of the European Countries. He has taken a new body when his successive vehicles have outlived their usefulness, or circumstances ren- dered it expedient that he changes the scene of his activities. Moreover, he is embodied today--an Initiate of high degree, an active or potent factor in all affairs of the West--although unknown to the World.
Her labored with the Alchemists centuries before the advent of modern science. He, through, an intermediary, inspired the now mutilated works of
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Bacon. Jacob Boehme and others received through him the inspiration which makes their works so spiritually illuminating. In the works of the immortal Goethe and the masterpieces of Wagner the same influence meets us. All un- daunted spirits who refuse to be fettered by either orthodox science or or- thodox religion, who fling away the husks and penetrate to the spiritual kernel regardless of vilification or of flattery, draw their inspiration from the same fountain as did and does the great spirit which animated Christian Rosenkreuz.
His very name is an embodiment of the manner and the means by which the present day man is transformed into the Divine Superman. This symbol,
"Christian Rosen Kreuz"
[The] Christian Rose Cross,
shows the end and aim of human evolution, the road to be traveled, and the means whereby that end is gained. The black cross, the twining green stem of the plant, the thorns, the blood red roses--in these is hidden the solu- tion of the World Mystery--Man's past evolution, present constitution, and particularly the secret of his future development.
It hides from the profane, but reveals to the Initiate the more clearly how he is to labor day by day to make for himself that choicest of all gems, the Philosopher's Stone--more precious than the Kohinoor; nay, than the sum of all earthly wealth! It reminds him how mankind, in its ignorance, is hourly wasting the actual concrete material that might be used in the forma- tion of this priceless treasure.
To keep him steadfast and true through every adversity, the Rose cross holds aloft, as an inspiration, the glorious consummation in store for him
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that overcometh, and points to Christ as the Star of Hope, the "first fruits," Who wrought this marvelous Stone while inhabiting the body of Jesus.
Upon investigation it has been found that there was in all systems of Re- ligion a teaching reserved for the Priest-craft and not given to the multi- tude. The Christ also spoke to the multitude in parables, but explained the inner meaning of these parables to the disciples, to give them an under- standing more suited to their developed minds.
Paul gave "milk" to the BABES or younger members of the community, but "meat" to the STRONG who had studied more deeply. Thus there has always been an INNER and an OUTER TEACHING, and this inner teaching was given in so-called Mystery Schools which have changed from time to time to suit the needs of the people among whom they were designed to work.
The Order of Rosicrucians is not merely a secret society; it is one of the Mystery Schools, and the Brothers are Hierophants of the lesser Myster- ies, Custodians of the Sacred Teachings and a spiritual Power more potent in the life of the Western World than any of the visible Governments, though they may not interfere with humanity so as to deprive them of their free will.
As the path of development in all cases depends upon the temperament of the aspirant, there are two paths, THE MYSTIC and THE INTELLECTUAL. The Mystic is usually devoid of intellectual knowledge; he follows the dictates of his heart and strives to do the will of God as he FEELS it, lifting him- self upward without being conscious if any definite goal, and in the end he attains knowledge. In the middle ages people were not as intellectual as we are nowadays, and those who felt the call of a higher life usually followed the mystic path. But in the last few hundred years, since the advent of
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modern science, a more INTELLECTUAL humanity has peopled the earth; the head has completely overruled the heart, materialism has dominated all spiritual impulse and the majority of the thinking people do not believe anything they cannot touch, taste or handle. Therefore, it is necessary that appeal should be made to their intellect in order that the heart may be allowed to believe what the intellect has sanctioned. As a response to this demand the Rosicrucian Mystery teachings aim to correlate scientific facts to spiritual verities.
In the past these have been kept secrete from all but a few Initiates, and even today they are among the most mysterious and secret in the Western World. All so-called "discoveries" of the past which have professed to re- veal the Rosicrucian secrets, have been either fraudulent, or the result or treachery upon the part of some outsider who may, accidentally or otherwise, have overheard fragments of conversation, unintelligible to all but those who have the key. It is possible to live under the same roof and on terms of the closest intimacy with an Initiate of any school, yet his secret will always remain hidden in his breast until the friend has reached the point where he can become a Brother Initiate. The revealing of secrets does not depend upon the Will of the Initiate, but upon the qualifications of the as- pirant.
Like all other Mystery Orders, the Order of Rosicrucians is formed on cosmic lines: If we take balls of even size and try how many it will take to cover one and hide it from view, we shall find that it will require 12 to conceal a thirteenth ball. The ultimate division of physical matter, the true atom, found in interplanetary space, is thus grouped in twelve around one. The twelve signs of the Zodiac enveloping our Solar System, the twelve
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semi-stones of the musical scale comprising the octave, the twelve Apostles who clustered around the Christ, etc., are other examples of this grouping of 12 and 1. The Rosicrucian Order is therefore also composed of 12 Broth- ers and a 13th.
There are other divisions to be noted, however. We have seen that of the Heavenly Host of twelve Creative Hierarchies who were active in our scheme of evolution, five have withdrawn to liberation, leaving only seven to busy themselves with our further progress. It is in harmony with this fact that the man of today, the indwelling Ego, the microcosm, works outwards through seven visible orifices in his body: 2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 nostrils and a mouth, while five more orifices are wholly or partially closed. the mammae, the um- bilicus and two excretory organs.
The seven roses which garnish our beautiful emblem and the five pointed radiating star behind, are emblematical of the twelve Great Creative Hierar- chies which have assisted the evolving human spirit through the previous conditions as mineral, plant and animal, when it was devoid of self-consciousness and unable to care for itself in the slightest degree. Of these twelve hosts of Great Beings, three classes worked upon and with man of their own free wills and without any obligation whatever.
These are symbolized by the three points in the star upon our emblem which points upwards. Two more of the Great Hierarchies are upon the point of withdrawal, and these are pictured in the two points of the star which radiate downward from the center. The seven roses reveal the fact that there are still seven Great Creative Hierarchies active in the development of the beings upon earth, and as all of these various classes from the smallest to the greatest are but parts of One Great Whole whom we call God, the whole emblem is a symbol of God in manifestation.
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The Hermetic axiom says: "As above so below," and the lesser teachers of mankind are also grouped upon the same cosmic lines of 7, 5 and 1. There are upon earth seven schools of the lesser Mysteries, five of the Greater Mysteries and the whole is grouped under one Central Head Who is called the Liberator.
In the Order of Rosicrucians seven Brothers go out into the World when- ever occasion requires; appearing as men among other men or working in their invisible vehicles with or upon others as needed; yet it must be strictly kept in mind that they never influence people against their will or contrary to their desires; but only strengthen good wherever found.
The remaining five Brothers never leave the temple; and though they do possess physical bodies all their work is done from the inner Worlds.
The Thirteenth is Head of the Order, the link with a higher Central Coun- cil composed of the Hierophant of the Greater Mysteries, who do not deal with ordinary humanity at all, but only with graduates of the lesser Myster- ies.
The Head of the Order is hidden from the outside world by the twelve Brothers, as the central ball mentioned in our illustration. Even the pu- pils of the School never see him, but at the nightly Services in the Temple His presence is FELT by all, whenever He enters, and is the signal for the commencement of the ceremony.
Gathered around the Brothers of the Rose Cross, as their pupils, are a number of "lay brothers"; people who live in various parts of the Western World, but are able to leave their bodies consciously, attend the services and participate in the spiritual work at the temple; they having each and every one been "initiated" in the method of so doing by one of the Elder Brothers. Most of them are able to remember all that happens, but there are
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a few cases where the faculty of leaving the body was acquired in a previous life of well-doing and where a drug habit or a sickness contracted in the present existence has unfitted the brain to receive impression of the work done by the man when away.
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INITIATION.
The general idea of initiation is that it is merely a ceremony which makes one member of a secret society; that it may be conferred upon anyone willing to pay a certain price, a sum of money in most cases.
While that is true of the so-called initiation of fraternal orders and also in most pseudo-occult orders, it is altogether an erroneous idea when applied to initiations into various degrees of truly occult Brotherhoods, as a little understanding of the real requirements and of their reasonableness will readily make clear.
In the first place there is no golden key to the temple; merit counts but not money. Merit is not acquired in a day; it is the cumulative product of past good action. The Candidate for initiation is usually totally uncon- scious that he is a candidate, he is usually living his life in the commu- nity and serving his fellow man for days and years without any ulterior thought until one day there appears in his life the teacher, a Hierophant of the lesser Mysteries appropriate to the country in which he resides. By this time the candidate has cultivated within himself certain faculties, stored up certain powers for service and help, of which he is usually uncon- scious or which he does not know how to properly utilize. The task of the initiator will now be plain; he shows the candidate the latent faculties, the dormant powers and initiates him into their use; explains or
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demonstrates to him FOR THE FIRST TIME how the candidate may awaken the static energy into dynamic power.
Initiation may be accomplished by a ceremony, or not, but let it be par- ticularly observed, that while Initiation is the inevitable culmination of prolonged spiritual endeavor, whether conscious or the reverse upon the part of the candidate, it can positively never take place till the requisite in- ner development has accumulated the latent powers which Initiation teaches how to use dynamically, any more than pulling the trigger can cause an ex- plosion in a gun that has not first been loaded.
Neither is there any danger that the teacher may overlook anyone who has attained the requisite development. Each good and unselfish deed increases the luminosity and vibrant power of the candidate's aura enormously, and as surely as the magnet attracts the needle, so will the brilliancy of that auric light bring the teacher.
It is, of course, impossible to describe in a book intended for the gen- eral public the stages of the Rosicrucian Initiation; to do so would be a breach of faith and it would also be impossible for lack of words to ad- equately express oneself. But it is permissible to give an outline and to show the purpose of initiation.
The lesser Mysteries deal only with evolution of mankind during the Earth Period. In the first three and one-half Revolutions of the life wave around the seven globes the Virgin Spirits had not yet attained consciousness. In consequence of this fact we are ignorant of how we came to be as we are to- day. The candidate is to have light upon that subject so by the spell of the Hierophants during the period of initiation into the first degree his consciousness is turned towards that page of the memory of nature bearing the records of the first revolution when we recapitulated the development of
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the Saturn Period. He is still in full possession of his every-day con- sciousness; he knows and remembers the facts of twentieth Century life, but he is now consciously watching the progress of the evolving host of Virgin Spirits of which he formed one unit during the Saturn Revolution. Thus he learns how the first steps were taken in the Earth Period towards the goal of attainment which will be revealed to him in a later step.
Having learned the lesson as practically described in Chapter X, the can- didate has acquired first-hand knowledge upon this subject and has come into direct touch with the Creative Hierarchies in their work with and upon man; he is therefore able to appreciate their beneficent labors in the World and is in measure able to range himself in line with them; becoming thus far their co-worker.
When the time has arrived for him to take the second degree, he is similarly caused to turn his attention to the conditions of the second Revolution of the Earth Period, and as depicted in the memory of nature; then he watches in full consciousness the progress made at that time by the Virgin Spirits, much as Peter Ibbetson, the hero of a book. "Peter Ibbetson," by George du Maurier; it is well worth reading, for it is a graphic description of certain phases of subconsciousness--watched his child life during the nights when he "dreamed true." In the third degree he fol- lows the evolution of the third or Moon, Revolution, and in the fourth de- gree he sees the progress made in the half-Revolution we have made of the fourth.
There is, however, a further step taken in each degree; the pupil sees in addition to the work done in each revolution also the work accomplished in the corresponding Epoch during our present stay upon globe D, the Earth.
During the first degree he follows the work of the Saturn Revolution and
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its latest consummation in the Polarian Epoch.
In the second degree he follows the work of the Sun Revolution and its replica: the Hyperborean Epoch.
During the third degree he watches the work as performed in the Moon Revolution and sees how that was the basis of life in the Lemurian Epoch.
During the fourth degree he sees the evolution of the last half Revolu- tion with its corresponding period of time in our present stay on Earth; the first half of the Atlantean Epoch which ended when the dense foggy atmo- sphere subsided, and the sun first shone upon land and sea; then the night of unconsciousness was over, the eyes of the indwelling Ego were fully opened, and he was able to turn the Light of Reason upon the problem of con- quering the World. That was the time when a man as we now know him was first born.
When in the olden system of initiation we hear that the candidate was en- tranced for a period of three and one-half days, reference is had to the part of initiation just described, and the three and one-half days refer to the stages gone through, they are not by any means days of twenty-four hours; the actual time varies with each candidate, but in all cases he is taken through the unconsciousness development of mankind during the past Revolutions, and when it is said that he is awakened at the time of sunrise on the fourth day that is the mystical way of expressing that his initiation into the work of the involuntionary career of man ceases at the time when the sun rose above the clear atmosphere of Atlantis. Then the candidate is also hailed as a "first-born."
Having become familiar with the road we have traveled in the past, the fifth degree takes the candidate to the very end of the Earth Period, when
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a glorious humanity is gathering the fruits of this Period and taking it away from the seven globes upon which we evolve during each day of manifes- tation, into the first of the five dark globes which are our habitation dur- ing the Cosmic nights. The densest of these is located in the Region of Ab- stract Thought, and is in reality the "Chaos" spoken of on page 249 and the following pages. This globe is also the Third Heaven, and when Paul speaks of being caught up into the Third Heaven and of seeing things there which he could not lawfully reveal, he was referring to the experiences of an equivalent of this fifth degree in the present Rosicrucian Mysteries.
After being shown the end in the fifth degree, the candidate is made ac- quainted with the means whereby that end is attained during the remaining thee and one-half Revolutions of the Earth Period; the four remaining de- grees being devoted to his enlightenment in that respect.
By the insight he has thus acquired he is able to intelligently co-operate with the Powers that work for Good, and thus he will help to has- ten the day of our emancipation.
In order to rout a common misconception we wish to make clear to students that we are not Rosicrucians because we study their teachings, nor does even admission to the temple entitle us to call ourselves by that name. The writer, for instance, is only a lay brother, a pupil, and would under no circumstances call himself a Rosicrucian.
We know well, that when a boy has graduated from grammar school he is not therefore fitted to teach. He must first go through high school and col- lege, and even then he may not feel the call to be a school teacher. Similarly in the school of life, because a man has graduated from the Rosicrucian Mystery School he is not even then a Rosicrucian. Graduates
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from the various schools of the lesser mysteries advance into five schools of the greater mysteries. In the first four they pass the four Great Ini- tiations and at last reach the Liberator, where they receive a knowledge concerning other evolutions and are given the choice of remaining here to assist their brothers or enter other evolutions as Helpers. Those who elect to stay here as helpers are given various positions according to their tastes and natural bent. The Brothers of the Rose Cross are among those Compassionate Ones, and it is a sacrilege to drag the Rosicrucian name in the mire by applying it to ourselves when we are merely students of their lofty teachings.
During the past few centuries the Brothers have worked for humanity in secret; each night at midnight there is a Service at the temple where the Elder Brothers, assisted by the lay brothers who are able to leave their work in the World (for many of them reside in places where it is yet day when it is midnight in the location of the temple of the Rose Cross), gather up from everywhere in the Western World the thoughts of sensuality, greed selfishness and materialism. These they seek to transmute into pure love, benevolence, altruism and spiritual aspirations sending them back to the World to uplift and encourage all Good. Were it not for this potent source of spiritual vibration materialism must long ago have totally squelched all spiritual effort, for there has never been a darker age from the spiritual standpoint than the last three hundred years of materialism.
Now the time has come, however, when the method of secret endeavor is to be supplemented with a more direct effort to promulgate a definite, logical and sequential teaching concerning the origin, evolution and future develop- ment of the World and man, showing both the spiritual and the scientific
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aspect: a teaching which makes no statements that are not supported by rea- son and logic; a teaching which is satisfying to the mind, for it holds out a reasonable solution to all mysteries; it neither begs nor evades questions and its explanations are both profound and lucid.
But, and this is a very important "But," THE ROSICRUCIANS DO NOT REGARD AN INTELLECTUAL UNDERSTANDING OF GOD AND THE UNIVERSE AS AN END IN ITSELF; far from it! The greater the intellect, the greater the danger of its mis- use. Therefore, THIS SCIENTIFIC, LOGICAL AND EXHAUSTIVE TEACHING IS GIVEN IN ORDER THAT MAN MAY BELIEVE IN HIS HEART THAT WHICH HIS HEAD HAS SANC- TIONED AND START TO LIVE THE RELIGIOUS LIFE.
THE ROSICRUCIAN FELLOWSHIP
In order to promulgate this teaching the Rosicrucian Fellowship has been formed, and anyone who is not a HYPNOTIST, PROFESSIONAL MEDIUM, CLAIRVOYANT, PALMIST OR ASTROLOGER, may enroll as a PRELIMINARY COURSE STUDENT by writing to the General Secretary. There is no fee for Initiation, or dues. Money cannot buy our teaching, advancement depends on merit.
After completing the Preliminary Course one is put on the Regular Student list for a period of two years, after which if he has become so imbued with the verity of the Rosicrucian teachings that he is prepared to sever his connection with all other occult or religious orders--THE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES AND FRATERNAL ORDERS ARE EXCEPTED--he may assume the Obligation which admits him to the degree of PROBATIONER.
We do not mean to insinuate by the foregoing clause that all other schools of occultism are of no account--far from it--many roads lead to Rome, but we shall attain with much less effort it we follow one of them
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than if we zigzag from path to path. Our time and energy are limited in the first place, and are still further curtailed by family and social duties not to be neglected for self-development. It is to husband the minim of energy which we may legitimately expend upon ourselves, and to avoid waste of the scanty moments at our disposal, that resignation from all other Orders is insisted upon by the leaders.
The world is an aggregate of opportunities, but to take advantage of any one of them we must possess efficiency in a certain line of endeavor. De- velopment of our spiritual powers will enable us to help or harm our weaker brothers. It is only justifiable when efficiency in Service of Humanity is the object.
The Rosicrucian method of attainment differs from other system in one es- pecial particular: It aims, even at the very start, to emancipate the pupil from dependence upon others, to make him SELF-RELIANT in the very highest degree, so that he may be able to stand alone under all circumstances and cope with all conditions. Only one who is thus strongly poised can help the weak.
When a number of people meet in a class or circle for self-development along NEGATIVE lines, result are usually achieved in a short time on the principle that it is easier to drift with the tide than to breast the cur- rent. The medium is not master of his actions, however, but the slave of a spirit control. Hence such gatherings must be shunned by Probationers.
Even classes which meet in positive attitude of mind are not advised by the Elder Brothers, because the latent powers of all members are massed and visions of the inner worlds obtained by anyone there, are partly due to the faculties of others. The heat of coal in the center of a fire is enhanced by surrounding coals, and the clairvoyant produced in a circle, be it ever
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so positive, is a hot-house plant, too dependent himself to be trusted with the care of others.
Therefore each Probationer in the Rosicrucian Fellowship performs his ex- ercises in the seclusion and privacy of his room. Results may be obtained more slowly by the system, but when they appear, they will be manifest as powers cultivated by himself, useable independently of all others. Besides, the Rosicrucian methods build character at the same time that they develop spiritual faculties and thus safeguard the pupil against yielding to tempta- tion to prostitute divine powers for worldly prestige.
When the Probationer has compiled with the necessary requirements and completed the term of probation, he may send request for individual instruc- tion by the Elder Brothers through the General Secretary.
THE INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS OF THE
ROSICRUCIAN FELLOWSHIP
Having formed the Rosicrucian Fellowship for the purpose of promulgating the teaching given in this book, and aiding aspirants on the path of pro- gression, it became necessary to find a permanent home and facilities requi- site for doing this work. To this end a tract of land was purchased in the town of Oceanside, Cal., ninety miles south of Los Angeles and forty miles north of San Diego, the southwesternmost city of the United States.
This tract occupies a commanding site having a most wonderful view of the great Pacific Ocean to the west and the beautiful snow capped mountains in the east.
Southern California offers exceptional opportunities for spiritual growth, because of the ether atmosphere being denser than in any other part of the world and MOUNT ECCLESIA, as the Earth Fellowship Headquarters are called, is particularly favored in this respect.
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OUR BUILDINGS
The work at Headquarters was begun toward the end of 1911. To date (1973) numerous buildings have been erected, some of which now no longer ex- ist. The Pro-Ecclesia, or Chapel, in which two 15-minute services have been held daily since its dedication in December, 1913, was thoroughly renovated in 1962. A devotional service with lecture continues to be conducted on Sundays. A two-story Administration Building was completed in 1917, and renovated in 1962. On the second floor are offices for the various depart- ments: Esoteric, Correspondence Courses, Editorial, Foreign Languages, and Accounting. On the first floor are the Shipping Department and the printshop, where Lessons, RAYS, pamphlets, etc., are printed. An offset press was installed in 1972.
The Dining Hall was built in 1914, added to in the late 30's, and renovated in 1962. Vegetarian meals are served. The Healing Temple, where a healing service is conducted each evening, was completed in 1920. Rose Cross Lodge was built in 1924, for the use of guests and workers. It is now used largely for storing books. The Sanitarium Building was opened in 1939 and used for a number of years to treat patients suffering from non-contagious diseases. It is now our Guest House, used by workers and members. Numerous cottages built since 1962, and some renovated ones pro- vide living quarters for workers. The Healing Dept. Building was erected in 1940. Here secretaries conduct our healing work.
THE CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
In addition to publications of The Rosicrucian Fellowship noted in the back of this book there are three correspondence courses offered on the freewill basis: Rosicrucian Philosophy, Bible Interpretation, and Astrol- ogy. Information concerning these is furnished upon request.
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THE SYMBOLISM OF THE ROSE CROSS
When inquiring into the meaning of any myth, legend or symbol of occult value, it is an absolute necessity that we should understand that, as any object in the three-dimensional world may, or rather must, be viewed from all points to obtain a full and complete comprehension thereof, so all sym- bols have a number of aspects. Each viewpoint reveals a different phase from the others, and all have an equal claim to consideration.
Viewed in its fullness, this wonderful symbol contains the key to man's past evolution, his present constitution and future development, together with the method of attainment. In the form where it is represented with a single rose in the center it symbolizes the spirit radiating from itself the four vehicles: the dense, vital and desire bodies plus the mind; where the spirit has drawn INTO its instruments and become the INDWELLING human spirit. But there was a time when that condition did not obtain, a time when the three-fold spirit hovered above its vehicles and was unable to en- ter. Then the cross stood alone without the rose, symbolizing the condition which prevailed in the early third of Atlantis. There was even a time when the upper limb of the cross was lacking and man's constitution was repre- sented by the Tau (T) that was in the Lemurian epoch when he had only the
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dense, vital and desire bodies, but lacked the mind. Then the animal nature was paramount. Man followed desire without reserve. At a still earlier time, in the Hyperborean Epoch, he was also minus the desire body and pos- sessed only the dense and vital bodies. Then man-in-the-making was like the plants: chaste and devoid of desire. At that time his constitution could not have been represented by a cross. It was symbolized by a straight shaft, a pillar (I).
This symbol has been considered phallic, an emblem showing the licen- tiousness of the people who worshiped it. Truly it is a symbol of gen- eration, but generation is by no means synonymous with degradation--far from it--the pillar is the lower limb of the cross, symbolical of man-in-the-making when he was plantlike. The plant is unconscious of pas- sion, desire, innocent of evil. It generates and perpetuates its species in a manner so pure, so chaste, that properly understood, it is a model for fallen and passionate humanity to worship as an ideal and it was given to earlier races with that intent. The Phallus and Yona used in the Greek mys- tery temples were given by the hierophants in that spirit, and over the temple was placed the enigmatical words: "Man, know thyself," which motto, properly understood, is similar to that of the Rose Cross, for it shows the reason for man's fall into desire, passion and sin, and gives the key to his liberation in the same way that the roses upon the cross indicate the path of liberation.
The plant is innocent, BUT NOT VIRTUOUS; it has neither desire not choice. Man has both. He may follow desire or not as he wishes, that he may learn to master himself.
While he was plant-like, a hermaphrodite, he could generate FROM HIMSELF without the help of another, but though he was as chaste and as innocent as the plants, he was also as unconscious and inert. In order to advance he
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must have desire to spur him on, and a mind to guide him, and therefore half his creative force was retained for the purpose of building a brain and a larynx. He had at that time a round shape similar to that of the embryo, and the present larynx was a part of the creative organ which adhered to the head when the body straightened out. The connection between the two is seen even today in the fact that the boy, who expresses the positive pole of the generative force, changes his voice at puberty. That the same force which builds another body when it is sent OUTWARDS builds the brain when RETAINED is equally clear when we consider that sex mania leads to insanity, while the profound thinker will feel little inclination for amorous practices. He uses all his creative force to generate thought instead of wasting it in sense gratification.
At the time when man commenced to withhold half his creative force for the above mentioned purpose, his consciousness was directed INWARDS to build organs. He was capable of SEEING these organs and he used the same creative force then under the direction of Creative Hierarchies in planning and in executing plans of organs, that he now uses in the OUTER world to build air- ships, houses, automobiles, telephones, etc. Then he was unconscious of how that half of the creative force was used which was sent OUTWARDS for gen- eration of another body.
Generation was carried on under the guidance of Angels. At certain times of the year they herded the growing man together in great temples and there the generative act was performed. Man was unconscious of the fact. His eyes had not yet been opened, and though it was necessary for him to have a partner who had the half or other pole of the creative force available for
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generation which he retained to build organs within, he did not at first KNOW his wife. In ordinary life he was shut within himself so far as the Physical World was concerned, but it was different when he was brought into such intimate and close touch with another, as in the case of the generative act. Then for the moment the spirit pierced the veil of flesh and Adam KNEW his wife. He had ceased to KNOW HIMSELF--thus his consciousness became more and more and more centered outside himself in the OUTSIDE WORLD and he lost his INNER PERCEPTION. That cannot be fully regained until he has passed to the stage where it is no longer necessary to have a partner in generation, and he has reached the development where he can again utilize his WHOLE cre- ative force at will. Then he will again KNOW HIMSELF ad he did during his stage of plant-like existence, but with this all important difference that he will use his creative faculty consciously, and will not be restricted to using it solely for the pro-creation of his own species, but may create whatever he will. Neither will he use his present organs of generation, but the larynx will SPEAK the creative WORD as directed by the spirit through the co-ordinating mechanism of the brain. Thus the two organs built by half the creative force will in time be the means whereby man will eventually be- come an independent self-conscious creator.
Even at the present time man molds matter both by thought and voice, as instanced in scientific experiments where thoughts have created an image on photographic plates, and where the human voice has created geometrical fig- ures in sand, etc. In proportion as man becomes unselfish he will release the creative force held in leash. That will give him added thought power and enable him to utilize it for upliftment of others instead of to plant how to degrade and subject others to his will. He will learn how to master HIMSELF and cease to try to master others, except it be done temporarily FOR
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THEIR GOOD, but never for selfish ends. Only one who has mastered himself is qualified to rule others, and competent to judge when that should be done, and what is best for them.
Thus we see that in time the present passionate mode of generation will be again superseded by a pure and more efficient method than the present, and that also is symbolized in the Rose Cross where the rose is placed in the center between the four arms. The long limb represents the body, the two horizontals, the two arms, and the short upper limb, the head. THE ROSE IS IN PLACE OF THE LARNYX.
The rose, like any other flower, is the generative organ of the plant. Its green stem carries the colorless, passionless plant blood. The blood red rose shows the passion filled blood of the human race, but in the rose the vital fluid is not sensuous, it is chaste and pure. Thus it is an ex- cellent symbol of the generative organ in the pure and holy state to which man will attain when he has cleansed and purified his blood from desire, when he has become chaste, pure and Christ-like.
Therefore the Rosicrucians look ardently forward to the day when the roses shall bloom upon the cross of humanity, therefore the Elder Brothers greet the aspiring soul with the words of the Rosicrucian Greeting: "May the Roses bloom upon your Cross," and therefore the greeting is given in the meetings of the Fellowship Centers by the leader to the assembled students, probationers and disciples who respond to the greeting by saying "And on yours, also."
John speaks of his purification (1st epistle, iii, 9) and says that he who is born of God cannot sin, FOR HE KEEPETH HIS SEED WITHIN HIM. It is an absolute necessity to progress that the aspirant should be chaste. Yet it
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must be borne in mind, that absolute celibacy is not required of man until he has reached a point where he is ready for the great initiations, and that is a duty we owe to the whole to perpetuate the race. If we are mentally, morally, physically and financially able, we may approach the act of gen- eration as a holy sacrifice laid upon the altar of humanity, but not for sensual pleasure. Neither should it be performed in an austere, forbidding frame of mind, but in glad giving up of oneself for the privilege of fur- nishing a friend seeking rebirth with the body and environment he needs for development. Thus we shall also help him cultivate the blooming roses upon his cross.
TOPICAL INDEX
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF WORDS INDEXED
The Topical Index is arranged with particular view to facilitate topical study, but at the same time alphabetical order has been adhered to as nearly as possible. We add an alphabetical list of the words indexed.
Opposite each word in this list will be found a number, which refers to a page in the Index. On that page the word is grouped with others pertaining to the same topic.
The student is particularly requested to note the CONSECUTIVE arrangement of references. For instance, under the heading, "VITAL BODY," the first reference tells where that vehicle had its first inception, the last directs to a page which treats of its final spiritualization, and the intervening references point IN ORDERLY SUCCESSION to the places where its gradual unfoldment is described. These references, in themselves, form an excellent syllabus of the vital body.
By diligent and intelligent use of this index the Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception will be found a most complete and exhaustive reference li- brary, and we recommend students to STUDY THE INDEX as much as the book.
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The mere reading of references will often clear comprehension of a subject and reveal much that is hidden in a general reading of the book.
Page
A Page Contemplation..............568
Adaptability.................543 Concentration..............567
Adept .......................543 D
Adoration....................568 Death......................564
Akkadian Race................596 Decay......................565
Animals..................543-553 Desire.....................554
Anaesthetics.................544 Dense Body.................558
Angels...................551-553 Desire Body................572
Archangels...............551-553 Desire World...............590
Archetypes...................544 Destiny....................555
Aryan Epoch..................597 Digestion..................562
Atlantean Epoch..............596 Disease....................554
Attraction...................590 Discrimination.............567
Atoms .......................544 Doctrines Christian........546
Assimilation.................562 Drowning...................554
Astrology....................544 Dreams.....................554
B Drunkard...................554
Bible Texts..................544 Divine Spirit..............576
Birth .......................564 E
Blood .......................559 Ear........................559
Brain .......................561 Earth......................583
Brotherhood..................546 Earth Period...............592
Borderland...................566 Ego........................575
C Elements...................554
Celibacy.....................577 Elementals.................554
Christian Doctrines..........546 Epochs.....................594
Christ.......................548 Epigenesis.................569
Cherubim.....................550 Equinox, Precession........579
Chemical Ether...............589 Excretion..................562
Chosen People............596-597 Exercises..................567
Children.....................557 Ether..................589-590
Clairvoyance.................568 Evil.......................554
Causation, Law of............569 Evolution..................568
Color .......................548 Eye........................559
Conscience...................546 F
Consciousness................547 Faith......................554
Conception...................564 Feeling....................554
Creator......................546 Fertilization..............555
Cremation....................565 Food.......................555
Crime .......................548 Free-will..................555
Cross .......................548 Form.......................556
Creative Hierarchies.........548 Forgiveness of Sin.........555
Cosmic Night or Chaos........594 Forces.....................555
Father, the................548
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G Life Spirit................576
Genius..................556 Life Waves.................553
Glands..................560 Light Ether................590
God.....................548 Liver......................560
Good....................556 Lords of Flame.............549
Group Spirit............552 Lords of Form..............550
H Lords of Individuality.....550
Haemolysis..............559 Lords of Mind..........551-553
Heart...................560 Lords of Wisdom............550
Heaven..................566 Lucifer....................551
Heredity................570 Lungs......................560
Hierarchies, Creative...548 M
Holy Spirit.............549 Man (invisible)............570
Humanity................557 Man (visible)..............557
Human Organism..........558 Marriage...................576
Human Spirit............576 Mars.......................583
Hyperborean Epoch.......595 Materialism................577
Hypnotism...............556 Materialization............577
I Mathematics................577
Ideas...................566 Matter.....................585
Illustrations...........585 Meditation.................567
Imagination.............566 Mediums....................577
Immortality.............566 Memory.....................577
Indifference............590 Memory of Nature...........578
Individuality...........566 Menstruation...............578
Information.............566 Mercury....................583
Initiation..............567 Microbes...................578
Innocence...............566 Mind.......................574
Instinct................566 Mind, Lords of ........551-553
Interest................590 Mineral....................578
Intuition...............566 Missionary.................578
Interest................590 Mongolians.................596
Information.............566 Moons......................582
Initiation..............567 Moon Period................592
Innocence...............566 Muscles....................560
Instinct................567 Music......................578
Mystery Schools............567
K N
Kingdoms................569 N Rays.....................578
Knowledge...............569 Nebular Theory.............578
L Neptune....................583
Lamentations............569 Nerves.....................561
Larynx..................561 New Jerusalem..............579
Law of Causation........569 New Life Waves.............552
Law of Rebirth..........570 O
Lemurian Epoch..........595 Observation................567
Life Ether..............589 Organism human.............558
Life....................563 Original Semitic...........596
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Original Turanian.......596 Solar System...............581
Osmosis.................579 Son, the...................548
P Soul.......................584
Pain....................579 Sound......................584
Panorama of Life........565 Space......................585
Patriotism..............579 Spirit.....................585
Periods, the seven......591 Spirit (Group).............552
Philosopher's Stone.....579 Spirit (Holy)..............549
Physical World..........589 Spirit (Human).............576
Pilgrimage through mat- Spirit (7 before Throne)...548 ter...................579 Spleen.....................560
Pineal Gland............560 Stone, Philosopher's.......579
Pituitary Body..........560 Stones.....................584
Planets.................582 Stragglers.................552
Plants..............553-579 Suicide....................565
Poems...................580 Sun........................582
Polarian Epoch..........594 Sun Period.................591
Prayer..................579 Supreme Being..............548
Precession of Equinox...579 T
Purgatory...............565 Tears......................578
R Temperament................587
Races...................596 Temptation.................587
Race Spirits........551-553 Thought....................587
Reason..................580 Thymus Gland...............560
Rebirth, Law of.........570 Tlavatli Race..............596
Recapitulation..........594 Toltec Race................596
Recording Angels........580 Trance.....................587
Reflecting Ether........590 Trinity....................548
Regions.............589-591 Turanian Race..............596
Religion................580 V
Remorse.................554 Venus......................583
Repulsion...............590 Venus Period...............593
Retrospection...........567 Vesuvius...................588
Revolutions.............594 Virgin Spirits.........551-553
Ribs....................562 Virtue.....................588
Rmoahal Race............596 Vital Body.................570
Rosicrucians............581 Vitality...................588
S Vulcan Period..............594
Salvation...............581 W
Saturn Period...........591 War........................588
Seed atom...............562 Will.......................588
Sense Perception........581 Wisdom.....................588
Seraphim................550 Women......................557
Sex.....................561 Word.......................588
Silver Cord.............565 World Periods..............591
Sin, Forgiveness of.....555 Worlds.....................589
Skepticism..............554 World Soul.................588
Skeleton................562
Sleep...................581
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ADAPTABILITY; of supreme importance.....................................223 ADEPT; One who has passed the 9 degrees of the lesser Mysteries and the first of the Great Initiations...........................475,502 ANIMALS.
Animals started evolution in the Sun Period , become human in the
Jupiter Period................................................70,224
Why some have cold and others warm blood..............................37
Why their color often changes with the seasons........................37
Animals compared with man.............................................57
Why animals do not really think....................................59,70
Desirebody of cold and warm-blooded animals differently constituted....................................................68,69
The present animals are more developed than we were during our animal stage..................................................69
How animals think though lacking mind.................................70
Animal group spirit located in Desireworld............................77
Why desire and vital bodies of animals are not concentric with dense body........................................................77
Animal prodigies..................................................77,293
Why animals are clairvoyant...........................................77
Relation of groupspirit to animals illustrated.....................78,82
When hurt animals do not suffer as much as group spirit...............78
What instinct really is...............................................78
Groupspirit governs the animals by suggestion.....................83,350
Horizontal limb of cross symbolizes animal kingdom....................86
Bereft of vial body at death.........................................100
Archangels work in animals' desirebodies.............................222
Angels work in their vital bodies....................................222
Anthropoids belong to human lifewave.............................230,281
The missing link.....................................................341
Lemurian's Word gave him power over animals......................275,281
Horse's head and vital body not concentric...........................293
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Haemolysis; the destruction of blood corpuscles......................356
Why hybrids cannot mate..............................................357
Groupspirit withholds seed atom from eggs pending favorable conditions.......................................................461 ANAESTHETICS; their effect on the vital body.............................62 ASTROLOGY; spiritually based in the Law of Causation....................161 ATOMS; How vital body accelerates their vibratory rate...................61 ARCHETYPES.
Not merely models, but living things..................................49
Archetype of suicide's body persists after death and causes him suffering.............................................104 BIBLE TEXTS AND TEACHINGS.
Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom, etc.......................5,223
The truth shall make you free.........................................23
In whom we live and move and have our being.......................87,179
Whatsoever a man soweth that also shall he reap......................106
Falling of the walls of Jericho......................................122
Misunderstanding concerning the plan of salvation................151,223
Changing water to wine...............................................169
Him that overcometh will I make a pillar, etc........................158
Christ said of the Baptist: This is Elijah..........................169
Who did sin, this man or his parents?................................170
Know ye not that ye are gods?........................................171
The Seven Spirits before the Throne..............................180,252
The Word made flesh..................................................181
Their eyes were opened and they saw they were naked..................190
Everlasting Salvation and Damnation..............................224,229
I die daily (Paul)...................................................249
Adam KNEW Eve and she bore Seth......................................277
The tree of KNOWLEDGE................................................278
The tree of Life.....................................................363
How shall I conceive, I KNOW not a man (Mary)........................278
Why the Angel said: In pain shalt thou bear children................278
Why foreign missions are a mistake...................................308
The sons of God married the daughters of men.....................310,335
Location of the promised land....................................310,335
The "lost" tribes................................................310,335
Chosen people--past and future...........................298,305,311,334
A new heaven and a new earth.........................................313
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How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation...............315
Translation of the Bible discussed...................................317
Bible not intended as an "open book".............................319,322
Paul asserts allegorical signification of Bible, he and
Christ gave deeper teachings to a few............................320
The Greek Septuagint; the Talmud and the transcription of the Masoretes.................................................320
A fallacious standard of Truth.......................................321
Two renderings of the opening sentence in Genesis and how each complements the other...................................321
According to the Bible the Earth was formed from the
"EVEREXISTING ESSENCE", not from "NOTHING".......................322
Nebular theory proves Gods creative and sustaining energy.......................................................129,323
The dual Creative force..............................................324
The 7 Creative Hierarchies...........................................325
Why Genesis does not mention Cherubim and Seraphim...................326
THE SATURN PERIOD....................................................327
THE SUN PERIOD; how it is scientifically possible to have light ere sun and moon were created..............................328
THE MOON PERIOD; its atmosphere of "firefog".........................328
THE EARTH PERIOD and Recapitulations.................................329
THE POLARIAN EPOCH; the HYPERBOREAN EPOCH............................330
The Creation of the Sun..............................................330
Expelling the Moon from the Earth....................................331
THE LEMURIAN EPOCH...................................................331
"FORM" not "LIFE", created...........................................332
ATLANTEAN EPOCH; "nephesh" an important word.........................332
ARYAN EPOCH; the Elohim rest and man's work begins...................333
Jehovah, leader of Angels and Regent of the Moon.....................333
Jehovah is builder of "FORM"; giver of children......................334
The wilderness; the rebel Jews.......................................335
Involution, Evolution and Epigenesis.................................336
How the two Creation stories of Bible harmonize......................344
Jehovah blew NEPHESH: BREATH into Adam's nostrils and
Adam became nephesh chayim: BREATHING creature...................345
Occult effect of this inbreathing................................348,350
The SOUL (not merely the "LIFE") of all flesh is in the blood............................................................349
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The seed of Abraham..................................................351
Before Abraham was I am..............................................352
How and why the Lucifer Spirits spoke to woman.......................361
Atonement of Christ and Forgiveness of sins complement the Laws of Causation........................................373,401
Jesus, Christ, the only begotten, not one but three..................374
On earth peace: good will among men..................................387
I came not to bring peace, but a sword...............................383
An eye for an eye....................................................384
Return good for evil.................................................393
As a man thinketh in his heart.......................................398
Why Christ's mission required a violent ending...................406,408
The Cleansing Blood (chapter)........................................406
Darkness and rending of the temple veil..............................407 BROTHERHOOD.
Atlanteans evolved CUNNING, we Aryans are evolving REASON, in future New Galileans will cultivate LOVE.........................311
One groupspirit controlled humanity during the earliest epochs.......348
That was composed of all the Creative Hierarchies....................351
Jehovah segregated humanity into nations and races...................352
Christ came to reunite them into a Brotherhood.......................352
Why Christ is the only Being who can do that.........................380 CHRISTIAN DOCTRINES.
The Creation.........................................................317
The Fall.....................................................277,278,361
Salvation and Damnation..........................................224,229
The Immaculate Conception........................................378,390
The Atonement........................................................400
The Cleansing Blood..................................................406
Forgiveness of Sin............................................91,111,373
The Trinity...................................................87,229,253 CONSCIENCE.
Conscience is the fruitage of previous purgatorial existences........120
How conscience battles with desire....................................89 CREATOR.
Nebular theory predicates a creator..................................323
Creator of Universe a logical necessity..............................129
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How we learn to become Creators..................................128,338
Man's desire to create caused the Fall...............................361 CONSCIOUSNESS.
Consciousness of the four Kingdoms, with diagram...................73,74
Consciousness of animals described....................................83
Effect of the skeleton on consciousness..............................456
Consciousness of minerals and plants described........................85
How soul-growth enlarges the consciousness............................96
Evolution of consciousness, Ariadne's thread through maze of
"Worlds," "Periods," "Globes," etc...............................201
Why Pythagoras made knowledge of mathematics a prerequisite to occult teaching...............................................203
Vehicles and consciousness of man in Saturn Period like those of present mineral...............................................212
Vehicles and consciousness plantlike in Sun Period...................213
Vehicles and consciousness of man like the lower Animals during the the Moon Period..............................................217
Tabular description of consciousness in past and future Periods......421
Our present consciousness results from the war between the desire body and the vital body..........................................455
Involution: from divine All-consciousness to human SELF- consciousness.................................................80,216
POLARIAN EPOCH: trance consciousness like Saturn, HYPERBOREAN
EPOCH deep sleep like in Sun Period..............................263
Torture used in LEMURIA to waken consciousness to a dreamy state.....279
Our present waking consciousness dates from middle of
ATLANTIS when "mist" cleared.....................................300
How marriage in the family produced the tie of blood by generating common consciousness..............................354,397
How intertribal marriage has destroyed "second sight" or clairvoyance.....................................................355
Internal and external skeleton as factors in consciousness...........456
The four causes of our materialistic ideas...........................359
How sin and its consequent pain has awakened and is sharpening our consciousness................................................362
How our consciousness will be expanded...............................417
The Consciousness of the JUPITER PERIOD..............................418
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The Consciousness of the VENUS PERIOD................................419
The Consciousness of the VULCAN PERIOD...............................421 COLOR.
Illustrative of the "Trinity"........................................253
Why changeable in animals at different seasons........................37 CRIME; crimes we ignorantly commit against the dying....................101 CROSS.
The cross is symbolical of the life currents vitalizing the bodies of plant, animal and man...................................85
Cross symbolical of man's past evolution, present constitution and future development...........................................516
CREATIVE HIERARCHIES AND OTHER LIFE WAVES.
THE SUPREME BEING.
The Supreme Being is the architect of the whole Universe; vastly exalted above our solar God......................................179
The Supreme Being images the Universe prior to creation and dissolves it when it has served its purpose......................375
The WORD made flesh..................................................181 GOD.
God is the Creator and sustainer of solar system.....................179
The logical necessity of a creator and sustainer of the worlds...129,323
God is an expression of the positive pole of the Universal
Spirit (matter is negative pole).................................185
God is a composite Being.........................................183,253
The Sun is the visible symbol of God.................................181
THE FATHER is highest Initiate of Saturn Period......................376
THE SON: CHRIST, is highest Initiate of Sun Period...................376
THE HOLY SPIRIT (JEHOVAH) is highest Initiate of Moon Period.........376
Purpose of the Jehovistic Race religions.....................352,433,435
Purpose of the Christian religion............................352,433,435
Purpose of the coming religion of the Father.........................435 THE SEVEN SPIRITS BEFORE THE THRONE.
Collectively they are God..........................................252-3
Individually they are Regents of the planets.........................180 CHRIST
Christ is highest Initiate of Sun Period.............................376
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The Christ became Regent of Earth at Golgotha........................407
The Immaculate Conception............................................378
Why Christ used the dense and vital body of Jesus............128,378,380
Why Christ is unique among Beings, celestial or terrestrial and alone able to reunite mankind............................380,382
Jesus' body attuned to Christ vibrations.............................382
Atonement does not vitiate the law of Causation; nor does doctrine of remission of sins................................373,401
Salvation illustrated................................................402
Why Christ said "not peace but a sword"..............................389
Why the death of Christ was violent..................................405
The wounds of Christ, of esoteric significance.......................406
How the sin of the world was taken away..............................408
The purpose of the Christian Religion............................433,435
Jehovah segregated mankind into nations and races.
Christ will reunite them in Brotherhood..........................352
The special mission of Christ....................................401,405 JEHOVAH (HOLY SPIRIT).
Prior to Jehovah's regime a common groupspirit ruled mankind.........351
Jehovah is highest Initiate of the Moon Period.......................376
He is leader of Angels and Regent of all moons, ours included........333
Why some Archangels (who are sun spirits) help Jehovah, the lunar God....................................................404
Jehovah built hard bony structures in early Lemuria..................346
He blew in the breath: NEPHESH, and men became NEPHESH CHAYIM: breathing creatures..............................................345
He separated the sexes...............................................347
Jehovah and the Archangels divided mankind into nations and and races, appointing a Guardian Angel for each Ego..........347,352
Jehovah and Archangels work in desirebody by "Law," fear of God is pitted against desire of flesh....................395
Purpose of the Jehovistic Race religions.........................433,435
Why Race religions are insufficient to meet human needs..............383 LORDS OF FLAME.
Are brilliantly luminious; called "THRONES" in Bible.................206
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They gave germ of DENSE BODY and awakened DIVINE SPIRIT of man-in-the-making................................................207
Lords of Flame aided Virgin Spirits to penetrate first veil of matter........................................................216
They helped Lords of Wisdom reconstruct dense body...................211
Lords of Flame help link divine spirit and life spirit...............212
They helped Lords of Individuality link divine spirit and human spirit.....................................................216
Lords of Flame, CHERUBIM and SERAPHIM leave our system...............220 CHERUBIM.
Awaken LIFE SPIRIT of man-in-the-making..............................212
Aid spirit penetrate second veil of matter...........................216
Cheribum helps Lords of Individuality link human spirit to life spirit......................................................215
LORDS OF FLAME, CHERUBIM and SERAPHIM leave our evolution............220
Why Cheribum and Seraphim are not mentioned in the Creation story of Bible...................................................326 SERAPHIM.
Awaken HUMAN SPIRIT (the Ego) in man-in-the-making...................215
They leave our evolution.............................................326 LORDS OF WISDOM.
They had charge of material evolution in Sun Period, they helped LORDS OF FLAME reconstruct dense body................211
They gave germ of VITAL BODY to man-in-the-making....................211
They helped Lords of Flame link divine spirit to life spirit.........214
LORDS OF INDIVIDUALITY help Lords of Wisdom reconstruct dense body, giving germ of skeleton, muscle......................214
Lords of Wisdom now in charge of divine spirit.......................220 LORDS OF FORM.
They have charge of material evolution now...........................240
Also of human spirit, the Ego........................................220
They reconstruct dense body, giving germ of brain....................239
Help ANGELS reconstruct vital body...................................240
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Help man build dense body in POLARIAN EPOCH..........................261
Vivified human spirit in many Moon Stragglers........................266
Those stragglers remained mindless, however..........................266 LORDS OF MINDS.
They were human in the Saturn period, are expert MIND BUILDERS and work only with man.......................................222,243
They also help man build higher desire body..........................265
THE FATHER is highest Initiate among the Lords of Minds..............376 ARCHANGELS.
They were human in Sun Period, are expert builders in
DESIRE BODIES, work with animal and man.....................222, 349
THE SON, Christ, is highest Initiate Archangel.......................376
Archangels work in lower part of desirebody..........................243
They helped man build his desirebody in Lemuria......................265
During heavenlife they teach him to reconstruct the earth............126 ANGELS.
They were human in Moon Period; are expert builders of VITAL
BODY, work with plant, animal and man........................222,349
A GUARDIAN ANGEL was appointed for each Ego..........................352
THE HOLY SPIRIT, Jehovah, is their highest Initiate..................376
Angels and Lords of Form clothe man in vital body....................263
The vital body is their normal vehicle, they are double sexed and without brain..........................................285
Angels directed man's propagation in harmony with stars, then parturition was painless....................................283 LUCIFER SPIRITS.
They were stragglers of the life wave of Angels......................286
They are called serpents.............................................288
How and why they spoke to the woman..............................287,361 VIRGIN SPIRITS (OUR HUMAN LIFE WAVE).
Whence we came and why pilgrimage through matter was undertaken.......87
Our varying grades of unconsciousness during Involution, attainment of self-consciousness.............................189,201
The descent of spirit marks the ascent of form and both streams coalesce in the focusing mind............................266
Their evolution depends upon adaptability............................223
Their future development.............................................417
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Some of our life wave proved unadaptable in Saturn Period, they formed dark spots on the luminous Sun globe.................225
More straggled in sixth revolution of Sun Period.....................225
Some Saturn stragglers were promoted in seventh revolution of the Sun Period................................................225
Some from the animal life wave straggled in Sun Period...............225
List of classes at beginning of Moon Period..........................226
More spirits of our life wave straggled in fifth revolution of the Moon Period. Cheribum promoted some......................229
When there are no more stragglers a race dies........................341 NEW LIFE WAVES (BEHIND THE HUMAN SPIRITS).
The present animals started evolution in Sun Period..................224
The present plants started evolution in Moon Period..................226
The minerals started in the Earth Period.........................230,232 GROUP SPIRITS.
A guardian spirit governing a tribe of animals or plants
FROM WITHOUT...................................................72,81
Prior to the advent of Jehovah humanity was governed FROM
WITHOUT by a common groupspirit..................................351
Jehovah and his Archangels are like groupspirits, for they govern the nations...............................................349
Groupspirits evolve to family and Race spirits........................82
Groupspirit of plant and oviparous animals withhold seed atom from seed and egg, pending favorable conditions..................461
Groupspirit is "a jealous god" like Jehovah; it abhors and prevents intermarriage of species............................353,357
Instinct is suggestion of groupspirit responded to by animal..........78
Groupspirit suffers when an animal is hurt............................78
Groupspirit is responsible for the similar traits, tastes and appearance of the separate plants or animals in its tribe.........71
Groupspirit is responsible for the currents which flow inwards in coldblooded animals............................................69
Outgoing currents in the desirebody of animals are generated by them, not by groupspirits......................................69
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Animal groupspirits work in the blood by means of their air inspired.350
Difference between a groupspirit and a human Ego...............78,82,350
Diagram showing present location of groupspirits......................74
LIFE WAVES
(WHICH REACH THE HUMAN STAGE IN OUR SYSTEM) LORDS OF MIND (STARTED EVOLUTION BEFORE OUR SCHEME).
Became human in the Saturn Period, are expert mind builders, work only with man (who was mineral in Saturn Period).............222,427
THE FATHER is their highest Initiate.................................376
They became Creative Intelligences in Earth Period...................243 ARCHANGELS (STARTED PRIOR TO OUR SCHEME).
Became human in the Sun Period, are expert builders of COURSE desirestuff, work principally with animals (which were mineral in Sun Period), but also with man........................222,349,427
THE SON (CHRIST) is their highest Initiate...........................376
They become Creative Intelligences in Jupiter Period................. ANGELS (STARTED PRIOR TO OUR EVOLUTION).
Became human in Moon Period, are expert builders of Ether. Work specifically with plants (which were mineral in Moon
Period)..................................................222,349,427
Their highest Initiate is JEHOVAH, THE HOLY SPIRIT...................376
They become Creative Intelligences in Venus Period................... VIRGIN SPIRITS (OUR PRESENT HUMANITY).
Started evolution as mineral in Saturn Period........................205
Became human in the Earth Period. We are now becoming expert builders of Form from chemical mineral substance.................426
In the Jupiter Period we shall vitalize the forms....................428
In the Venus Period we shall give them feeling.......................428
In the Vulcan Period we shall become Creative Intelligences and give the forms a mind........................................428 ANIMALS started evolution in the Sun Period, become human in
Jupiter Period................................................70,224 PLANTS started evolution in Moon Period, become human in Venus
Period...........................................................226
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Period.......................................................230,232 DESIRE.
Desire for prolonged earth-life makes the spirit earth-bound amid unpleasant surroundings.....................................103
How conscience battles with desire....................................89
Archetypes of desires, feelings and emotions..........................50 DISEASE.
Why complications set in when a person is sick........................64
Why pain is felt in a limb subsequent to the time of amputation.......64
A spiritual cause of paralysis........................................63
A spiritual cause of consumption and rachitis........................113
HAEMOLYSIS (destruction of blood corpuscles; see Human Organism).
Nostalgia (homesickness); how engendered by the Race Spirit..........351 DREAMS.
The cause of dreams, and why mostly confused..........................94
Dreamlike internal picture consciousness of animals rational because engendered by groupspirit................................217 DRUNKARD; how purged in Purgatory.......................................105 DROWNING; why drowning persons see past life in a flash..................61 ELEMENTS.
In Saturn Period there was only one element: heat--incipient fire....234
In Sun Period there was fire and air; in Moon Period fire, air water. Here we have four elements...............................234
A new element will be added in the Jupiter Period....................234 ELEMENTALS or naturespirits; help build our bodies......................126 EVIL; how it grows and is destroyed...................................42-43 FAITH.
Childlike faith and scepticism compared................................6 FEELING.
Distinct from mere response to impacts................................32
A separate desirebody necessary to TRUE feeling.......................57
INTEREST and INDIFFERENCE; the twin feelings which move the world.....45
Remorse...............................................................47
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Archetypes of feeling.................................................50
Effect of sharp purgatorial pain on future lives.....................109
Mathematic study raises us above feeling.............................203
Pineal gland once an organ of feeling................................262
Feeling was awakened by torture in Lemuria...........................279
Rhmoahals developed finer feelings: joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, etc....................................................294
Tlavatlis developed ambition.........................................295 FREEWILL AND DESTINY.
Relative freewill of mineral, plant, animal and man compared..........83
All evil acts in life at least are voluntary.........................110
Choice regarding place of Rebirth................................129,136
Epigenesis more than choice of action................................135
Original Semites the first to be given freewill and made responsible to law of consequence................................301
Causes when ripened to maturity become destiny.......................136
MATURE destiny cannot be escaped (story).............................161
The stars: the clock of Destiny......................................163
Poem on freewill and destiny.........................................163
Freewill bought at cost of pain and death........................288,363 FORGIVENESS OF SIN.
Forgiveness and the subconscious mind.................................91
How it shortens or eliminates Purgatory..............................111
The doctrines of Forgiveness and Atonement do not vitiate, but complement the Law of Causation..................................373 FERTILIZATION.
Depends upon presence of etheric matrix of body being present in mother's womb and on seedatom................................137,461
Seedatom withheld by groupspirit when animals mate outside their species....................................................352 FOOD.
Why one man's meat is another's poison................................84
Food as factor in evolution..........................................165
The science of nutrition (chapter)...................................441
Why we do not take life when eating plantseed or eggs................461
The law of assimilation (chapter)....................................457 FORCES.
Laws of Nature not blind, but Great Intelligences.....................49
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Archetypal Forces and the inception of form...........................51
Force is spirit not yet crystallized to matter...................120,247
Relation of force and matter illustrated.............................121
Attraction and Repulsion; the twin forces, and how they operate.......46
The Bible on "dual creative energy"..................................324 FORM.
All forms are built of one basic substance............................31
Forms are crystallized space; at death it dissolves to spirit....249,186
Relation of Life, Form and Consciousness.............................223
Reason for multiplicity of forms and their decay......................31
All form devoid of true feeling.......................................31
Wonderful metamorphoses of forms in Desire world......................41
Archetypes of form....................................................50
Archetypes build forms by sound......................................123
Sound the builder of climate, flora and fauna........................125
Form and life merge into one spirit in Chaos; seedatoms of worldglobes alone remain intact...............................247
Life may, and does, exist independently of concrete form.............248
Forms are always built to suit conditions............................255
Man's past, present and future form..................................257
How pineal gland preserved man's form from destruction by fire in Lemuria..................................................262
Why form evolves to a certain point; then degenerates and dies.................................................289,341,343
Jehovah, the builder of form and giver of children...............334,348
Bible story of Creation refers to form: Life is uncreate.........332,344
Life has no origin: Forms have.......................................504 GENIUS.
Genius and epigenesis................................................185
A genius builds better organism from parental material than others...138
Heredity cannot account for genius...................................155
Why genius is AHEAD of its time......................................161 GOOD; how assimilated by the spirit........................21,47,96,123,417 HYPNOTISM.
How hypnotism and anaesthetics affect vital body......................62
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Humanity compared with mineral, plant and animal......................57
Origin of our faculties: sense perception, locomotion and thought.....59
Man is the inverted plant.............................................86
Seven human principles as correlated to five worlds...................88
Man is a 3-fold spirit having a mind by which he governs a
3-fold body and transmutes it to soul...............................
Man builds in heaven the body he uses on earth.......................128
In Hyperboran Epoch we had both lunar and solar sexforce, hence we were hermaphrodites...........................................268
Why nations rise and fall............................................289
Originally humanity were governed by one common groupspirit..........351
Later Jehovah segregated them into nations...........................352
Original Semites first to be given freewill and made responsible to the law of consequence............................301
Mission of Christ to reunite the races as Brothers...................352
The four steps and stages in Religion................................302
The sixteen paths to destruction.................................271,306
The "missing link"...................................................341
The origin of Life...................................................504 MAN.
Differently educated from women in Lemuria...........................279
Man possesses solar sexforce expressing "Will".......................267
Spermatozoon an expression of concentrated will......................284 WOMAN.
Why subject to periodical flow and tears..............................60
Why more intuitive than man...........................................92
Woman has lunar sexforce which expresses itself spiritually as "Imagination".................................................267
How woman was educated in Lemuria....................................279
Woman developed memory before man....................................280
Why parturition became painful.......................................283
Imagination builds the foetus........................................284
How and why Lucifer spoke to the woman...............................361 CHILDREN.
Childlike faith compared to scepticism.................................6
Childlife in the first heaven........................................117
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Birth of a child only commenced with the delivery of the dense body..139
Children are clairvoyant and have invisible playmates................149
Do not manufacture individual blood in early years...................143
Birth of the vital body produces growth..............................141
Why one who has died as a child will be apt to remember that life in its next embodiment.................................172
Education of children in Lemuria.................................279,361
Education of children in early Atlantis..............................296
Children are clairvoyant while innocent..............................281
Jehovah, the Regent of the Moon, is the builder of "form" and hence the giver of children......................................334
HUMAN ORGANISM (TOPICAL)
DENSE BODY.
A dense body necessary to live in the Physical World..................57
What determines shape of dense body...................................60
Why the dense body is our most valuable instrument....................76
Dense body abandoned at death.........................................97
How premature loss of dense body causes suffering to suicide.........104
Archetype of dense body built by us in heaven........................126
Birth of dense body..................................................139
Germinally started in Saturn Period with incipient sense organs......206
Reconstructed in Sun Period. Germination of alimentary canal and glands commenced.............................................211
Reconstructed in Moon Period. Skeleton, cartilage, muscle and nerves begin to form.............................................214
Reconstructed in Earth Period. Then brain and voluntary nerves began to form................................................236,239
Wonderful mechanism of dense body....................................237
Line of future improvements..........................................262
"Point" in forehead not concentric with the corresponding "point" in vital body in Atlantis........................................293
When those points came into correspondence clairvoyance was lost.....294
The keynote of the dense body........................................369
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How connection between dense and vital bodies has become relaxed since Golgotha...........................................482 BLOOD.
How warm and cold-blooded animals are produced........................37
Difference of constitution of desirebody in cold and warm-blooded animals..............................................69
Red blood requisite to a separate desirebody..........................69
In our animal stage we had no red blood...............................69
Incipient blood currents started in Moon Period......................218
Before the Ego can become an indwelling spirit it must have body with warm blood and upright larynx..................86,236
The blood is the direct vehicle of the Ego....................91,238,350
The blood is the carrier of feelings and emotions.....................91
Children do not manufacture individual blood.........................143
Effects upon Ego of high and low temperature.........................144
Constancy of blood temperature more marked after 21st year...........145
Mars, iron, warm blood and individuality.........................268,274
Why Mars prevented evolution of warm blood in the first three and one-half Earth-revolutions...................................274
The soul of all flesh is in the blood................................350
Why marriage "in the clan" gives second sight....................353,397
Why mixing blood of one family by marriage with another family kills clairvoyance........................................355
The blood; the highest expression of vital body......................397
Menstruation and tears................................................60
In each cycle the blood carries a picture of the outside world to seedatom in heart..........................................92,398 HAEMOLYSIS (DESTRUCTION OF BLOOD).
Haemolysis and death results when blood of higher animal is injected in lower.........................................................355
Mating of different species causes partial haemolysis with loss of propagating faculty...........................................357
International marriages produce haemolysis which kills second sight enjoyed by marrying in the clan............................358 EAR.
The semicircular canals of the ear, music and logic..................126
Ear was started in Saturn Period.....................................206 EYE; the eye was built by light......................................18,276
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The so-called "third eye" was organ of feeling.......................262 LIVER.
Desirebody rooted in liver............................................68
Groupspirit directs currents INWARDS in cold-blooded animals.
Currents WELL OUT in mammals......................................69
Liver and "liver".....................................................69 LUNGS; the place of ingress for the groupspirit.................345,348,350 SPLEEN.
Spleen is root of vital body, it specializes solar energy.............63
How white corpuscles are made........................................455 GLANDS.
Glands and alimentary canal started in Sun Period....................211
Pineal Gland was once the localized seat of feeling..................262
Glands are expressions of the vital body.............................455 THYMUS GLAND; supplies parental blood to child in infancy and early childhood..................................................143 PITUITARY BODY; latent in most people, it is an organ of clairvoyance...473 PINEAL GLAND.
Once a localized organ of feeling....................................262
Now an organ of clairvoyance when developed..........................473 HEART.
Head and heart figuratively at war................................17,393
Silver Cord fastened to left ventricle of heart by the seedatom.......98
Rupture of silver cord causes heart to stop...........................98
Heart, though an involuntary muscle, is cross-striped like a voluntary muscle...............................................396
How the crossstripes may be developed and the heart control body.....399
How heart, larnyx and spinal cord become path of sex currents........477 MUSCLES.
How manipulated by thoughts of Ego....................................89
The higher part of desirebody built the voluntary nervous system.....394
Voluntary muscles striped lengthwise and crosswise; involuntary muscles striped lengthwise only..................................396
Muscles the particular stronghold of desirebody......................455
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The cause of paralysis................................................63
Voluntary nerves started in Earth Period, sympathetic system in
Moon Period......................................................239
Higher part of desirebody built voluntary nerves.....................394
Pneumogastric nerve, avenue of ingress of intuition or "first impressions".....................................................398
Pneumogastric nerve is avenue of egress for the seedatom at death.....97 BRAIN.
How the Ego manipulates the braincenters..............................89
Building of brain started in Lemuria.................................239
Built since separation of sexes......................................267
Half the sexforce diverted to build brain........................269,284
Cost of the faculty of thought.......................................270
Lemurian girls first developed memory................................280
Why Lucifer prompted Lemurians to use the generative force independent of the Angels........................................287
How Lucifer spoke to the woman.......................................361 LARYNX.
Why animals cannot speak..............................................86
A horizontal larynx is under groupspirit.............................236
Larynx, the highest achievement of human Ego.........................236
Originally the larynx was part of the sexorgan.......................269
The larynx is sustained by sexforce..............................269,284
The larynx will eventually supersede the sexorgans and man will speak the (now lost) creative WORD......................364,425
Larynx, heart and spinal cord, path of sexcurrent in Initiates.......478 SEX.
Change of boy's voice at the time of puberty. Sex is determined by forces active in Life Ether....................................36
Sex alternates in successive births..................................160
Will and Imagination are solar and lunar sexforces...................267
When Earth was united with sun and moon in the Hyperborean
Epoch man was male-female......................................268-9
When Earth separated from sun and moon the sexes also separated......268
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Sexforece built brain and larynx.....................................269
When Angels regulated sexrelation in harmony with stars parturition was painless.........................................277
When Adam KNEW his wife INDISCRIMINATELY, "their eyes were opened;" then pain and death began....................................278,283
Spermatozoa an expression of male sexforce: Will. Imagination, the female sexforce, builds foetus...............................284
All retain one-half of sexforce to build brain, nervous system and larynx................................................284
Selfish motive in sex and thought activities.........................286
Lucifer spirits prompted man to abuse of sex.........................287
Adam's "rib" and "side"..............................................347
The beginning and the end of sex.....................................364 SKELETON.
Skeleton soft as cartilage till crystallized in early Lemuria by Jehovah's lunar forces....................................275,346
Comparison of the effect of external and internal skeletons on consciousness.................................................456
Hardening of bones contributed to divide sexes.......................275
Skeleton the particular stronghold of divine spirit..................397 RIBS.
Young children do not create blood from bones........................143
Adam's "rib".........................................................347 DIGESTION.
Digestion accomplished through the aid of forces in the chemical ether.............................................35,94,148
Manufacture and selection of gastric juices..........................263
Digestion commenced in Hyperborean Epoch by osmosis..................263
Alimentary canal started in Sun Period...............................211
How digestion is affected by temper..................................456
The law of assimilation (chapter)....................................457 EXCRETION; a SELECTIVE elimination of waste..............................35 SEEDATOM.
The seedatoms have formed part of all vehicles ever used by one particular Ego....................................................97
Seedatom of dense body leaves heart just after last breath, bearing imprint of panorama of life...............................97
Seedatom of dense body fastens silver cord to heart...................98
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Seedatom of vital body extracted at second rupture of silver cord....103
Seedatom of desirebody: seat of conscience. It is extracted ere spirit leaves desirebody to disintegrate....................120
How seedatom of mind gathers materials for the mind of a new life prior to birth.............................................133
How seedatom of desirebody gathers desirestuff for a new desirebody..134
How seedatom of vital body gathers new ether.........................134
How the etheric mold of the coming dense body is placed in womb of mother by the Lords of Destiny...............................137
Seedatom of dense body placed in semen of father.....................137
Seedatoms of World-globes alone persist in Chaos.....................247
Seedatoms of plant seed or eggs withheld by groupspirit pending favorable conditions....................................461
Seedatoms of animals withheld by groupspirit to prevent mating of hybrids or mismating.........................................357
Outside world pictured upon seedatom in each cycle of the blood......398
LIFE HERE AND HEREAFTER (TOPICAL)
LIFE IN GENERAL.
The problem of life and death.........................................19
The three solutions offered..........................................148
The four streams of LIFE ensouling all FORM...........................31
Life alone can feel, form is dead and unfeeling.......................32
Life Ether: the avenue of propagation.................................36
Life Ether freed at age of 14........................................143
A separate vital body necessary to express life.......................57
The four Kingdoms of LIFE symbolized in the cross.....................85
The value of life largely dependent upon conditions at death.........101
Duration of life in Purgatory........................................107
Life in the First Heaven.............................................113
Life in the Second Heaven............................................121
Life in the Third Heaven.............................................129
The purpose of life..................................................131
Life a school of experience..........................................132
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The LIFE ensouling man entered evolution in the Saturn Period........205
The LIFE ensouling the animals entered evolution in the Sun Period...224
The LIFE ensouling the plants entered evolution in the Moon Period...226
The LIFE ensouling the mineral entered evolution in the Earth Period.232
The relation of Life, Form and Consciousness......................80,223
Life and form merge in Chaos, leaving only seedatoms of
World-globes intact.............................................247
Life may, and does, exist in forms intangible to us..................248
Life always builds forms to suit conditions..........................256
Life uncreate, the importance of the word NEPHESH....................332
First Creation story of Bible deals with FORM, the second with the ensouling LIFE: nephesh.....................................344
Nephesh chayim: breathing creatures; not living souls................345
Life did not originate anywhere, at any time: it is..................584
Taking life for food.................................................460
Why plant seed and eggs contain no life..............................461 CONCEPTION.
Conception results only when etheric mold of a body and the seedatom are present............................................137
Ego enters mother's womb 18 days after conception....................138 BIRTH.
Birth is the result of Ego's desire for experience...................129
Birthplace usually chosen by Ego.....................................136
Birth not accomplished when dense body is delivered..................139
Birth of vital body and growth.......................................141
Birth of desire body and puberty.....................................142
Birth of mind and maturity...........................................143 DEATH.
The problem of Life and Death.........................................19
How death is robbed of its terror.....................................27
Death by drowning or freezing.........................................61
Death by suicide and its dreadful consequences.......................104
Death by accident or on the battlefield..............................118
The importance of peaceful surroundings at death.....................109
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One of the main causes of infant mortality...........................118
People who have died sometimes ignorant of that fact.................121
Death did not exist till latter part of Lemuria..................167,278
Premature cremation causes departing spirit pain......................98
The oftener we die, the better we shall live.....................244,363
Death of FORM gives spirit scope for advancement.....................249
Our liberty purchased at cost of death and pain......................363
Degeneracy and death of races and nations............................289 DECAY; an activity of the chemical forces in matter......................31
VITAL and dense bodies disintegrate simultaneously...................102 CREMATION.
Premature incineration pains departing Spirit.........................98 SILVER CORD.
Silver Cord fastened in left ventricle of heart by seedatom.
Rupture there stops heart........................................98
Silver Cord not broken in any case where resuscitation is accomplished.................................................102
Final rupture and its effect.........................................102 PANORAMA OF LIFE.
Panorama viewed through negative pole of Reflecting Ether just subsequent to death..........................................91,101
Panorama is of varying length - what terminates it...................102
Panorama basis of pleasure and pain beyond...........................108
How panorama may be eradicated by remission of sin...................111
Contrast between panorama of past life viewed after death and a coming life seen prior to birth...............................130
The blood in each cycle through the heart engraves panorama on seedatom.....................................................398 PURGATORY.
How and why suicide suffers for rash act.............................104
Why post-mortem existence is first purgative.........................104
How the miser is purged of avarice...................................104
How drunkard is purged from his vice.................................105
How each act in life automatically produces its just reward or retribution..................................................107
Duration of life in Purgatory........................................107
How we may escape Purgatory..........................................111
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Children go through Purgatory to First Heaven at once................117
Conscience: the fruitage of Purgatory................................119 BORDERLAND; a pitiable state of existence between Heaven and
Purgatory, and who goes there...................................112 FIRST HEAVEN.
A place of happiness, the measure determined by our own previous benevolence expressed in Panorama......................114
The ethics of true benevolence.......................................115 SECOND HEAVEN.
This is the realm of tone............................................122
Assimilation of soulpower generated in past life.....................123
Preparation for new earth life.......................................124
Building new environment and new body............................125,128 THIRD HEAVEN.
Panorama of a new life as chosen by Ego..............................129 IDEAS.
Set ideas detrimental to investigation; great importance of adaptability..................................................5,223 IMMORTALITY; why it would be most undesirable at present................363 INDIVIDUALITY.
Of man compared to animals............................................71
"I" consciousness of children and the thymus gland...................143
Birth of Individuality (chapter).....................................266
Mars, iron, red blood and individuality..............................352 INFORMATION; source of the author's information...........................8 INNOCENCE, is not virtue................................................282 IMAGINATION.
Imagination is the spiritual expression of the female, lunar sexforce. (Will is male and solar)........................267
Imagination the formative force in creation......................324,425 INSTINCT.
Instinct an expression of wisdom of groupspirit.......................78
Why man's unwisdom is superior to infallible animal instinct..........79 INTUITION.
What it is, and why most noticeable in women..........................92
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Initiation described and defined.....................................519
Enables man to build body consciously during antenatal life......128,138
Value of mathematics in process of attainment........................203
Lemurian kings initiated by Lords of Mercury.......................272-3
Initiation will enable man to leave body at will.....................274
Lemurian initiators taught art and science...........................281
Human Initiates have had entire charge of our evolution since the beginning of the Aryan Epoch................................304
At end of Aryan Epoch highest Initiate will appear publicly as leader of those who want him.................................305
Jesus' body attuned to Christvibrations by initiation................382
Initiation under the Christ-star.....................................391
How to know an Initiate...........................................68,400
Initiation open to chosen few only, before Christ....................404
Why it is now open to "whosoever will"...........................404,482
The Seven Days of Creation and Initiation............................412
How Initiation will expand our consciousness.........................417
Consciousness of the Jupiter Period..................................418
Consciousness of the Venus Period....................................419
Spirals within spirals of attainment.................................420
Schematic list of Periods and consciousness..........................421
Why probation must precede Initiation............................478,519
Initiation of the Rose Cross.........................................519
The necessity of training......................................25,41,480
The bridge to the unseen worlds......................................476 MYSTERY SCHOOLS; SEPTENARY DIVISION OF.
The Rosicrucian method of preparation................................439 EXERCISES.
Retrospection, an review of the day's events.........................111
Concentration; its similarity to, and its differences from sleep.....483
The best time to concentrate.........................................485
Concentration (chapter)..............................................486
Meditation (chapter).................................................489
Observation..........................................................492
Discrimination.......................................................493
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Contemplation (chapter)..............................................494
Adoration (chapter)..................................................495 CLAIRVOYANCE.
Clairvoyance is a faculty immanent in all.............................19
Value of testimony to superphysical truths clairvoyantly obtained.....20
The necessity and the result of training.......................25,41,480
Animals are clairvoyant...............................................77
Children are clairvoyant.........................................140,281
A positive method of attainment......................................230
"Second Sight" produced by marriage in the clan or family............354
How international marriages have destroyed this involuntary clairvoyance....................................................355
Activity of pituitary body and pineal gland formerly produced involuntary clairvoyance........................................473
Re-awakening of their vibratory powers will produce positive clairvoyance....................................................477 CLAIRVOYANTS.
Why their observations differ.........................................26
Differences in desirebody of trained and untrained clairvoyant....67,241
How anyone may distinguish a trained clairvoyant..................68,400
The Lemurians were all clairvoyant but could not see physically......281
INVOLUTION, EVOLUTION AND EPIGENESIS (TOPICAL)
INVOLUTION.
Involution illustrated................................................80
Involution is the period of unconscious development..............185,201
Energy of Virgin Spirits turned INWARDS to build vehicles of consciousness during Involution..........................189,201
Descent of spirit marks ascent of form. Both streams coalesce in the focusing mind............................................266
Involution, evolution and epigenesis chapter.........................336 EVOLUTION.
Evolution commences at the coalition of spirit and body, when self-consciousness is awakened..............................185,202
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Then "their eyes were opened," the creative energy turned
OUTWARDS and conquest of world begun.....................81,190,202
Salvation and damnation, the great importance of adaptability....................................................223
Evolution would have ceased if man had eaten of tree of life.........363
The next great division of the "sheep" and "goats"..................229
Wine as a factor in evolution....................................168,359
Evolution is progress in three directions............................151
The end of human evolution...........................................158
Our dense body is in fourth stage of evolution, vital body in third, desirebody in second and the mind a mere cloud............76
Why races evolved to a certain point, then degenerate and finally die.................................................289,341
How embryology confirms occult teaching..............................344
Brain evolved at cost of half our creative force, free-will at cost of pain and death.......................................363
Involution, Evolution and Epigenesis (chapter).......................336 EPIGENESIS.
Man's own original creative activity.........................128,135,185
Chapter on Involution, Evolution and Epigenesis................80,81,336
See definitions under diagram........................................367 KNOWLEDGE.
Knowledge a necessary prerequisite to judgement........................7
Knowledge of clairvoyant depends upon training.................25,41,480
Why knowledge of Cosmogony is very important.........................191
How to obtain first-hand knowledge.....................21,97,111,430,528 KINGDOMS OF LIFE.
Comparing man to mineral, plant and animal............................56
Various constitution of vital body in plant, animal and man...........58
Divers constitution of desirebody in animal and man...............65,235
The cross symbolical of the life currents pulsating in the four kingdoms....................................................85 LAMENTATIONS; their effect upon the dying and dead..................101,118 LAW OF CAUSATION.
Original Semites the first to be made MORALLY responsible under law of causation................................................301
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Law of causation is the force impelling to rebirth...................130
It brings each to birth at psychological moment when stellar influences are most propitious..................................161
How and why the panoramas of life are produced.......................130
Causation automatically produces the appropriate suffering needed to purge each from his vice..............................106
Mature destiny and inexorable fate...............................136,161
Law of Causation not vitiated, but complemented by doctrines of Forgiveness of Sin and Atonement..................91,222,373,402
The binding effect of action and method of liberation................202
Causation superseded by epigenesis...................................135
Causation, and not heredity, accounts for our characteristics and idiosyncracies..............................................157 LAW OF REBIRTH.
Rebirth not to be confused with doctrine of transmigration...........157
Rebirth a Christian doctrine.........................................164
Why this teaching has been temporarily suppressed....................167
The purpose of Rebirth...............................................130
The necessity of Rebirth.........................................132,137
Rebirth and free-will................................................129
Panorama of future life..............................................130
The method of re-embodiment..........................................133
Rebirth in consonance with law of evolution..........................151
Rebirth in consonance with law of periodicity........................152
Rebirth in consonance with ethical requirements......................153
All may know at first hand this truth................................147
Interval between births measured by the sun..........................159
Intelligent administration and exceptions............................161
Earth and other worlds also subject to this law..................190,412
MAN'S INVISIBLE VEHICLES (TOPICAL)
VITAL BODY.
Germinated as a thoughtform in Sun Period given to man in the making by Lords of Wisdom.......................................210
Reconstructed in Moon Period by Lords of Individuality and
Lords of Wisdom.................................................215
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Reconstructed in Earth Period by Angels and Lords of Form............240
They later, in Hyperborean Epoch, clothe man in the making with an improved vital body..............................263
Vital body is in its third stage of evolution......................75,76
It is rooted in the spleen. Through that organ the vital body specializes solar energy......................................63,68
The vital body is built of "points" which penetrate the dense atoms and raise their vibrations.................................61
The Recording Angels direct its construction at present so that man may reap what he sows.......................................135
A separate vital body is necessary to growth and assimilation......57,58
It serves to give shape to the dense body during antenatal life...60,137
Vital body is born at 7th year; causing growth.......................141
Under normal conditions it remains imbedded in dense body from birth to death...................................................61
The chemical, life, light and reflecting ethers in vital body are ripened successively........................................143
The vital body is of opposite sex or polarity to the dense body.......61
Lemurian girls developed memory first on account of having a positive vital body.............................................280
The blood and glands are its particular expression...............397,455
The positive vital body of woman gives intuition, also causing periodical flow and tears........................................60
The blood absorbs from inspired air panorama of past life engraves it on seedatom and vital body...................91,397,398
At death vital body is withdrawn and panorama of past life extracted....................................................97,102
When seedatom is withdrawn vital body gravitates back to dense body and decays simultaneously with that...........102,103
Our wakening consciousness results from war between desirebody and vital body.......................................455
Collapse of the vital body is cause of sleep..........................93
In health surplus of vitality is radiated as N-rays; they expel deleterious microbes from system...........................63
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These radiations are weak in sickness, hence disease germs may easily enter and cause complications.............................63
Why pain is felt in a limb subsequent to amputation...................64
The more lax the connection between the dense and vital bodies the more sensitive we become to superphysical vibrations........241
The desirebody is improved by law; the vital body by altruism, developed in higher life........................................404
Initiation before Christ was therefore reserved to a chosen few..404,405
Since vital body was partially freed at Golgotha, initiation is open to "whosoever will"........................................482
Initiation separates the four ethers of vital body so that two may be extracted at will and used in "soulflights" through inner worlds....................................................482
The effect of prayer upon the vital body.........................434,463
The specific method of separating the ethers..............91,111,483,528
The vital body will be our densest vehicle in the Jupiter period; it will contain essence of dense body...........240,242,422
Its essence: the intellectual soul, will be absorbed by the life spirit in Venus Period.....................................426
The vital bodies of plants and animals are differently constituted from the human vehicle............................58,59
Among animals it is not concentric with the dense body except in prodigies.....................................................77 DESIREBODY.
Given in the Moon Period by Lords of Individuality...................215
It is now in second stage of its evolution............................76
In latter part of Lemurian and early part of Atlantis some desirebodies divided into higher and lower parts thus they became fit to harbor a human Ego............................235,395
These dense bodies assumed an upright walk which emancipated them from rule of groupspirit................................86,236
Desirebody of man has now incipient sense centers.....................67
The Lords of Mind linked mind to higher part of desirebody and implanted separate selfhood.....................................243
The undivided desirebodies crystallized their dense vehicles which have degenerated to anthropoids.......................236,243
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The Archangels work in those, also in the lower part of the human desirebody, giving passion............................236,243
Desirebodies of animals are not concentric with dense body and otherwise differently constituted....................65,77
Only those bodies which have red blood and liver can have a separate desirebody.......................................69
In coldblooded animals groupspirit forces currents of desire
INWARDS through liver............................................69
The separate spirit which dwells in warm red blood forces its desire currents outwards through liver.......................69
Thus the liver is the root of the desirebody..........................68
The desirebody has its particular field of operation in the voluntary nerves and muscles................................455
Its operations in the spleen produce white bloodcorpuscles...........455
Materials for new desirebody is gathered by Ego prior to each birth......................................................134
It is born at 14 when the life ether of the vital body is ripe and the child becomes adolescent............................142,143
The constant war between desirebody and vital body produces our waking consciousness........................................455
Desirebody is temporarily withdrawn during sleep......................93
It is permanently extracted at death..................................97
During life it is ovoid, but takes shape of dense body at death thus the man appears as before...................................66
Desirebody of suicide feels hollowed out while archetype of his dense body persists; he suffers pain like intense hunger....104
Panorama of life etched on desirebody forms basis of post mortem existence. Importance of deep etching and how to assure that end.................................................109
Process of purgation and extraction of conscience................105,108
Dissolution of desirebody when seed atom is taken....................120
Desirebodies of children who die do not dissolve.....................117
The desirebody will be perfected in the Venus Period and compounded with essence of dense and vital bodies...............423
Its essence, the Emotional Soul, will be absorbed by the human spirit in Vulcan Period.........................................425
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Prayer for the spiritualization of the desirebody....................464 MIND.
The necessity and purpose of mind..............................57,75,298
It is a focusing point like lens in stereopticon, valuable when not subject to mental St. Vitus dance...................89,393
Given by Lords of Mind in early Atlantis.............................222
Mind designed to give purpose to action, but became enmeshed in desirebody originating cunning...............................298
Then Race religions were given to cow desire and free mind...........395
Original Semites, the progenitors of Aryan Races first to evolve through thought and reason...............................299
The Jews, a crossbreed of Original Semites (THE SONS OF GOD) and other Atlantean races, (THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN), still retain cunning..................................................310
How mindstuff for new mind is gathered prior to each birth...........133
It assumes shape of large bell.......................................134
Mind is born at 21 when man reaches "majority".......................142
The veil of Isis, the sheath of mind, which hides Ego from intrusion.......................................................293
What impels thought..................................................285
Conscious, subconscious and superconscious mind................90,92,397
The mind is temporarily withdrawn during sleep........................93
It is permanently extracted from dense body at death..................97
Why the mind of children which die, persist in their next life.......117
The mind dissolved when Ego ascends to third Heaven..................129
The present war between heart and mind................................17
The effects of open mind compared with scepticism......................7
Valuable training for the mind.......................................202
Prayer for spiritualizing the mind...................................464
The mind is now in its MINERAL stage, dead, hence we work with dead chemical mineral substances........................298,426,428
In the Jupiter Period the mind will become alive. Then we shall work with living plants........................298,427,428
In Venus Period the mind will acquire feeling. Then we shall work with living, feeling animals......................428
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In Vulcan Period the mind will become creative and capable of propagating itself. Then we shall give our creatures a mind and make them human............................428
How animals think though lacking mind.................................70
What Instinct really is...............................................78 EGO. (SEE HUMAN SPIRIT)
The Ego is a Virgin Spirit involved in a threefold veil of matter which obliterates its original divine consciousness and engenders the illusion of a separate self...................216
During Involution it brooded unconsciously over the evolving form, separate and apart therefrom..............................235
In later Lemuria desirebody divided and dense body assumed upright walk. Then Ego commenced to enter..................236,394
It did not become fully indwelling until the last third of
Atlantis........................................................294
Now the Ego is entirely in physical world while it lives its earth life.............................................71,77,95
The seven human principles............................................88
Mars polarized the iron until Atlantis so that warm blood could not be generated. Thus Ego was prevented from entering the form till it was ripe.......................................268
The blood is the vantage ground of Ego...............................350
But it must be right temperature.....................................144
The Ego is born from time to time to gather experience...............129
In heaven it assimilates experiences of previous lives...........135,138
It also chooses its coming environment...........................129,136
While in heaven it builds that environment and archetypes of the bodies it uses on earth..................................128
It gathers the materials for its new vehicles during its descent to rebirth..............................................133
Recording Angels place matrix of its coming body in womb of mother and seedatom in semen of father..........................135
Ego enters womb 18-21 days after conception..........................138
Ego cannot generate blood from unripe childbody, hence thymus gland gives a supply of parental blood till the "I" consciousness comes to puberty..................................143
How the Race Spirit held Ego in bondage..............................350
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Christ came to emancipate us from Race Spirit....................313,352
How international marriages are furthering that object by generating individual blood..................................353 HUMAN SPIRIT. (SEE EGO)
Originally awakened by the Seraphim..................................215
Cherubim and Lords of Wisdom linked human spirit to life spirit......215
Lords of Flame and Lords of Individuality linked the human spirit to the divine spirit.....................................216
The Lords of Form are now in charge of the human spirit..............220
The divine spirit is the first veil of the Virgin Spirit, the life spirit is the second and the human spirit is the third, outermost sheath which imprisons the Virgin Spirit and makes it a separate Ego...............................................216 LIFE SPIRIT.
Awakened by Cherubim in Sun Period...................................211
Linked to divine spirit by Lords of Flame............................212
Linked to human spirit by Lords of Individuality.....................216
Lords of Individuality now in charge of life spirit..................220 DIVINE SPIRIT.
Awakened by Lords of Flame...........................................207
Linked to life spirit by Lords of Flame..............................212
Linked to human spirit by Lords of Individuality.....................216
Lords of Wisdom now in charge of divine spirit.......................220 MARRIAGE.
Marriage and generation both duty and a privilege....................468
But not a license to unbridled indulgence............................471
Formerly Race Spirits commanded MARRIAGE IN THE FAMILY to strengthen the "tie of blood"...................................353
Later international marriages were insisted upon to emancipate the individual from race, kin and country.......................353
Under the former regime the common blood produced in each member of family pictures of their common ancestors (second sight), thus intensifying feeling of kinship....................354
The Race Spirit is a "jealous God". He cuts off all who marry outside of race.............................................310,335
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International marriages have mixed the blood, destroyed the pictures of ancestors and second sight (which is involuntary clairvoyance).......................................355
Origin of honeymoon trips............................................219 CELIBACY; why practiced by high Initiates...............................467 MATERIALISM.
Statement of the doctrine of materialism.............................148
The nebular theory predicates a creator and sustainer of the
Universe........................................................323
The logical necessity of a Creative Intelligence.....................129
Materialism at war with established facts............................149
Materialism a cause of various diseases..............................113
Cause of earthquakes, illustrated by eruptions of Vesuvius...........510
Effect of materialism on life after death............................112 MEDIUMS.
Why unreliable, even when honest......................................41
The connection between the dense and vital bodies of mediums is more lax than among ordinary people, and their weak wills render them a prey to "controls"................................241
Materialization of spirits is accomplished by these controls by extracting medium's vital body through the spleen.............62 MATHEMATICS.
Mathematical ability and semicircular canals of ear..................126 MEMORY.
Memory was first developed by the girls in Lemuria...................280
In olden days it was greater than now. The third Atlantean Race, the Toltecs, achieved the highest efficiency....................296
When men married in the family the common blood carried to them a memory of the lives of ancestors.........................353
Memory is threefold. Conscious, subconscious and superconscious.
The conscious memory is unreliable, but the subconscious memory stores all events..............................90,92,149,397
Why most people do not remember past lives...........................171
Why some people remember more than others............................172
A little girl's memory of past life..................................172
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There is a picture in the reflecting ether, in the Region of
Archetypal Forces and the World of Life Spirit...................38 MENSTRUATION.
Menstruation and tears caused by POSITIVE vital body of woman.........60 MICROBES.
How microbes are expelled from system by N-rays.......................63 MINERAL.
Entered evolution here in Earth Period...............................232
Mineral has a consciousness similar to that of the human body when in deepest trance...........................................85
All FORMS have been built from chemical mineral substance of the earth.....................................................30,31
Comparison of mineral and man.........................................56
Why it is incapable of growth, motion and thought.....................58
Why it is unfeeling, though it responds to impact.....................31
The mineral groupspirit is located in the Region of abstract
Thought..........................................................85 MISSIONARIES.
Needed at home more than abroad......................................163
Why foreign missions are a mistaken effort...........................308 MUSIC.
Music of the spheres a fact of nature................................119
The Great Silence; the prelude to the celestial harmony of
Appollo's seven-stringed Lyre...................................122
The power of rhythmic vibration; supercilious incredulity concerning the fall of Jericho's walls gratuitous...............122
Heaven the realm of tone and sound flows through Archetypes and builds form.............................................123,124
The keynote of the body..............................................369
The semicircular canals of the ear and music.........................126 NEBULAR THEORY.
Predicates and requires a creator and sustainer of the Universe......323 N-RAYS. the invisible radiations of the vital body, expel microbes from system......................................................63
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A selective filtration of fluids through tissues of body..............35
Man's first method of obtaining nourishment..........................263 PAIN.
A blessing in disguise (illustration)................................131
Torture used Lemuria to waken consciousness..........................279
How pain has enlarged our consciousness..............................362 PATRIOTISM.
Danger of patriotism when carried to extremes....................307,312
Patriotism breaking down before international marriages..............355 PHILOSOPHER'S STONE.
As manufactured by nature, often handled by people...................438 PILGRIMAGE THROUGH MATTER.
Its beginning, its end and why undertaken.............................87
What will be the fruitage............................................429 PRAYER.
The Lord's prayer................................................435,462
Unselfish prayers for spiritual achievement spiritualize vital body. Why we should pray "without ceasing"...........434,463 PLANTS.
The present plants started their evolution as minerals of the
Moon Period, they become human in the Venus period..............226
Their consciousness is like our in deep sleep.........................85
The Angels have particular charge over the plants....................222
The groupspirit of plants are in the Region of Concrete Thought....74,85
Comparison of a plant and man: THE INVERTED PLANT..................57,69
Why incapable of thought and motion................................58,69
How the sap is caused to circulate and deposit color..................37
The Earth Spirit feels pain when plants are pulled out by roots.......65
Seedatom of plants withheld by groupspirit pending favorable conditions for growth...........................................461
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Governs the frequency of rebirth.....................................159 POEMS.
Sir Launfal's Vision (the ethics of GIVING)..........................115
Raphael's Song (from Faust; in re music of spheres)..................119
The Chambered Nautilus (progression of the soul).....................159
Fate and Freewill....................................................163
The oftener we die, the better we live...............................249
The Christ within....................................................389
Who is the Grail.....................................................389 REASON.
First developed by the Original Semites; the progenitors of the
Aryan Races.....................................................299
Cunning, the Atlantean characteristic of the Jew.....................309
Reason to be superseded by Love in New Galilee.......................311
Appeal to students' reason.............................................9
Rosicrucian teachings endeavor to satisfy reason.....................439 RECORDING ANGELS.
Mold the vital body; impress panorama of coming life thereon and place it in womb of mother..................................135
They bring each being to birth at the auspicious moment when the stellar influences will give it conditions requisite to its next step in unfoldment.....................................161
They also force the expiation of MATURE destiny..................136,161 RELIGION.
The evolution of Religion (chapter)..................................367
Why different Religions are necessary to different people............371
The four steps in Religion through fear, avarice, love and duty......303
Mistake of seeking a foreign religion................................308
Why the Bible, to be adequate to the needs of the Western World must contain BOTH the Jewish religion of the old Testament and the Christian religion of the New...................308,314,315
Paul asserts there is an allegorical meaning to the Bible
(yet it is only to be interpreted by who can SEE - II
Pet: 1.20). Both Paul and Christ gave an esoteric teaching to "the few"...........................................319
Why earliest Religions taught the doctrine of Rebirth and
Christianity does not specially feature it......................167
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The purpose of Jehovistic Race religions is to curb the
DESIRENATURE that the intellect may gain scope..........334,395,433
The purpose of the Christian Religion is to spiritualize the VITAL BODY by love and prayer.......................433,435,463
The Religion of the Father will spiritualize the dense body and restore Unity......................................435,436 ROSICRUCIANS.
One of the seven schools of the lesser Mysteries.....................438
Christian Rosenkreuz and the Philosopher's Stone.....................515
Initiation, the Order of the Rose Cross and the Rosicrucian
Fellowship......................................................519 SALVATION.
The theological plan of salvation....................................150
The evolutionary plan of salvation.......................224,229,307,312
Salvation by Atonement and Forgiveness of Sin.............91,111,373,402 SLEEP.
Caused by collapse of vital body......................................93
Why sleep is restorative..............................................93
Chemical Ether, the avenue of restorative forces......................94
Similarity between sleep and death...................................102
Similarity between sleep and concentration...........................483
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