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On the Wings of the Soul . . .TN THE temples of yore, under starlit skies, kneeling and sway

ing to a rhythmic chant, the mystics offered their prayers to

unseen Cosmic hosts, while in their midst a silver wisp of frank-

incense swirled upward to the heavens above. No mystical or

devout ceremony was complete without its elaborate, ornamented

incense burner containing scented resin or aromatic gum. The

burning of incense was no fantastic superstition or weird rite,

but the symbol of mans attunement in prayer and meditation

with the great Cosmic consciousness. By inhaling its fragrance,

man, while listening to the harmony of the chant, and with eyesclosed to all worldly scenes, would have his sense of smell cap-

tured and be raised to a complete state of ecstacy. Thus, for the

moment, his consciousness being free Irom distracting sensations,

it could soar on high into the Cosmic realm as did the wisps of

curling smoke from the burner before him. Throughout the cen-

turies in the mystery and secret schools, the grottoes and cloisters,

beautiful symbolic incense burners have ever been used.

For Rosicrucians, we have designed one embodying the beau-

tiful spiritual significance of Amenhotep IV's salutation to the

dawn, so loved by all members of AMORC. The face is an

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SUN TEMPLE OF MEXICO

The similarity between the ancient pyramids in Mexico and those in Egypt is striking. The one above is dedicated, not to the sun as a god, butto its beneficence. The Egyp tians likewise venerated the sun. but as a god, which they named Ra. The ancient peoples who built these great Mexi-

can edifices are said to have migrated to North America from Asia, by way of the Bering Strait.

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Sun Temple of Mexico (Frontispiece) 241

The Thought of the Month: WeavingOur Destinies 244

"The Rising Tide of Co lor " 247

Cathedral Contacts: The Alchemist's Cathedral.. 250

The Holy Guide: John Heydon,

Secretary of Nature 252

Summaries of Science: Our Debt to the Past....... 258

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Sanctum Musings: Brotherhood 274

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THE

THOUGHT OF THE MONTH

W EA VIN G OUR DESTINIES

E L D O M do wetake time in ourperiods of medita-tion and concen-

tration to reflectupon the processeswhereby we weaveour destinies anddetermine our fu-ture lives and fu-ture activities. Toooften we take itfor granted thatwe have a definite

work to do here in this life, and that weshould concern ourselves with what liesimmediately before us. and give no con-cern regarding the future the greatfuture beyond the present horizon. Toomany of us feel that if we make goodpreparation for tomorrow and for theyears that lie ahead of us just this sideof the spiritual horizon, we will be do-ing our duty by God and man and lay-ing a sufficient foundation for whateverexistence there may be for us aftertransition. Very often we take the at -titude that the distant future will takecare of itself it we are diligent andmindful of the immediate future.

But the truth of the fact is that while

we are plotting and planning for tomor-row, and tomorrows tomorrow, andseeing our path only so far as it reachesthe borderline of transition, we areactually laying a foundation for a futureexistence. Whether we are believers inreincarnation or not. we are all of usbelievers in the immortality of the soul,the survival of personality, and the in-tegrity and stability of character. Onthe other hand, we know that that char-

acter. that personality, are built out ofthe elements of the experiences of eachday. and that we are tomorrow the re-sult of what we experienced and thought

and created this day. Whether that fu-ture existence is purely and wholly spir-itual in an invisible and intangible king-dom called heaven, or whether it is animpersonal existence wherein we areabsorbed into the Consciousness of Godand become a part of God. with noknowledge of ourselves as entities, orwhether we will dwell in this indefinitespiritual kingdom for a time, and againincarnate in a fleshly body to carry onagain an earthly activity, the fact re-mains that whatever of us is to survivethis life after transition will be a re-flection of the sum total of our experi-ences, our ideas, our ideals, standardsand convictions, while in the presentearthly body.

For this reason we should be moremindful of our acts and our thinkingand the molding of our characters hourby hour and day by day. W e may feelthat what we determine upon today thatwill be of benefit to us tomorrow, ornext month, or next year, is all that isnecessary for our future happiness andenjoyment of all of lifes blessings, but

we should keep in mind that the thingswe do today and tomorrow, and thethings we plot and plan for next monthor next year, may have a direct bearingand may arouse or create a reflex actionof some kind in our lives and in ourcharacters in a future existence, wherethe things we do today may become ofgreater importance than they will in theremainder of this life here on earth.Many things that we plan to do next

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sions in the hearts of men and women.W e may view many of his acts as be-ing ignoble in motive or purpose, butwe cannot deny that many other of hisacts and intentions were as noble as anyman ever conceived. He had as manystrong points of character as weak ones,

and he had surrounded himself witheleven similar minds and similar char-acters. Even today there are many citiesand towns and many thousands of per-sons in Europe who pay high tribute tohim and to his companions. Switzerland,for instance, will never forget that itwas Marshal Ney, cooperating with theidealistic plans of Napoleon, who savedthe country of Switzerland from dis-solution through its continued quarrelsand wars among its cantons. The patri-ots of Switzerland will always feel thatthe bejeweled snuff box which they of-

ficially presented to Ney, the monumentthey built to him, are only small tokensof the still greater monuments they haveerected in their hearts to his memoryand his achievements. Even the Dukeof Wellington of England, the politicaland military opponent of Napoleon andof Marshal Ney, paid the highest tri-bute possible to Ney and assisted inplanning for his escape from the un-reasonable execution that had beenordered and decreed by the revengefulmind of Louis XV III. And all of Eng -land concurred in Wellingtons opinion.In fact, Napoleon and his group madefriends of their enemies and won the ad-miration of their opponents. So far aslove and esteem are concerned, Na-poleons great defeat was truly avictory.

But in thinking of these things wemust remember that somewhere, some-time in the past, and undoubtedly in aprevious existence, these twelve menhad labored together or labored in-dividually in behalf of some great plan,

some great scheme, which laid the foun-dation for their coming together againin such a strange and fortunate manner.It would be interesting indeed to knowwhat each of them had achieved in aprevious incarnation, or in a previousexistence, what foundation each one of

them had laid for the future, and whathigh ideals or what very definite con-victions and beliefs they carried withthem across the borderline at the timeof their previous transitions.

No doubt many of us today who areassociated directly or indirectly in ourcampaign for the awakening and de-veloping of the inner self in the mass ofmankind are laying foundations for thefuture and creating our courses of des-tiny, our paths of achievement, ourcareers of experience. No doubt manyof us will be rejoined and reunited in

perhaps closer companionship and inmore intense activity, and historians ofthe time may wonder at the strangetrick of fate that brought together somany persons of diversified nationalityor tongue or social position in life.

Just as surely as we enjoy tomorrowand next week and next month and nextyear the fruits of our actions, the ac-cumulative effect of our thinking, ourstudies and our experiences of todayand tomorrow, so we shall be face toface with a standard of character and

a path of activity in the distant future,resulting from these same efforts of to-day. W e are all builders of our des-tinies, creators of our fate. But thestones in such a building and the ele-ments of such creation are laid uncon-sciously and consciously in the thingsthat we do and think, believe and takeunto ourselves as parts of our characterand our personality in each consciousand unconscious moment of the presenttime.

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DigestAugust Approach nature with expectancy, hoping to learn and not presuming to know.

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The Rising Tide of Color*AN OCCULT CONSIDERATION OF THE RACIAL QUESTION

By M a r i e H a r l o w e

HE modern whitemind refuses to getvery excited aboutsuch opinions asthat of Stoddardin his book, TheR i s in g T id e o fC o l o r A g a i n s tW h i t e S u p r e m -acy forgetting thefate of previous

civilizations suchas that of WestC e n t r a l A s i a

which was once, in the dawn of history,predominantly a white mans countryperhaps the home of the white race it-self and is now owned by the brownman. In spite of the civilizations ofChaldea, Babylonia, Assyria, Persia,and later, the grandeur that was Egypt,Greece and Rome, having disintegrated,the modern white man finds it difficultto believe that his own civilization is ina precarious condition.

Nations and races like individualsfollow the cyclic law of birth, youth,maturity, and decline and death. Entire-ly new races appear as reincarnations offormer races, for human races are bornone from another with a wide over-lapping of races, though in character thenew may differ very much from theolder race. At no time in the history ofmankind has there ever been a constantracetype, but always innumerable vari-eties of mankind fuse one into another.

The World W ar revealed, more thananything else in modern times, theweakness of the civilization of the whiterace. Civil and internecine wars in thepast had at times almost completely ex-terminated the white race. The Tro janand Peloponnesian Wars, CaesarsW ars in Gaul, the War of Roses inEngland, the Hundred Years W ar inthe Lowlands, the revolutionary, re-ligious and Napoleonic wars in France,

and the Thirty Years W ar in Germanyhad all dangerously depleted, to almostcomplete elimination, the white race.But these were all widely separated andin the past. The World W ar, on theother hand, revealed the political gulfsin white raceunity; the fear of whitesolidarity was revealed as without foun-dation. The yellow triumph over a greatwhite power in the RussianJapaneseW ar of 1904 had started the ball roll-ing. Everywhere the colored world wasechoing the old Asiatic refrain, TheEa st will see the West to bed ; the fer-

ment in Asia and Africa became ac-celerated by the World W ar, and oldunspoken hopes were revived in darkbreasts.

Something of the power of thosehopes is shown in a consideration of therelative numbers of peoples of differentraces. To da y the white world is muchweaker numerically than the coloredworld. Th e population of Asia is twicethat of Europe, and the world overcolored peoples outnumber white more

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than two to one. The yellow race is themost numerous, but the brown races arealmost as numerous and as widespread.Jamaica, where the whites form but 2%of the population, mulattoes 20% andthe remainder pure black, is typical of

many other parts of the world. Forwhile whites double themselves every80 years, yellow and brown peopledouble in 60 years, and the black peoplerequire only 40 years for the same pro-cess. And the great bulk of the whiterace is concentrated in Europe, wherewe find 80% of the entire white popu-lation occupying less than 20% of thewhite territorial area, which gives theformidable ratio of 20% of all whitepeoples protecting 80% of white terri-torial lands against colored peopleseleven times their numerical strength.

Added to the slowness of breeding,the white races are biologically degen-erating through physiological diseasesof the body. Degenerative diseases andinsanity are increasing only withinwhite races. Mussolini recently exposedworld statistics of the declining whitebirth rate30% in the United States,and such that in France, for instance,in 100 years it would be entirely nil.

With the colored population increas-ing at a prodigious rate, the "yellowperil or "black peril is likely to bemore of a migration than an invasion, a

spreading out from already overpopu-lated areas for the nonpolitical reasonof the instinct of selfpreservation. Aday of reckoning is fast approachingwhen a new Attila will sweep over thewhite world and that war of color willbe more savage than any war the worldhas ever known.

For Islam, the cause of one of themost savage of "Holy W ars is againto be considered a power. As beforestated, the RussianJapanese war shat-tered the legend of white invincibilityand the World W ar showed the great

white powers destroying themselves.With a patience unknown to the westernworld, the Moslem world has awaitedjust such an opportunity to enter intoworld rulership which it has long, ifpatiently, desired.

Islam is the greatest power today inthe colored world. Mohammedans arerapidly assimilating western ideas andmethods, and are adding them to theirpowerful powers of proselyting. When

a person once becomes a Moslem, suchis their extraordinary power of prosely-ting that that person never abandonsthe faith. W hat has been lost to Islamin Europe is being regained many timesover in Africa and Central Asia. In

Africa particularly, where Christianityhas grown slowly because it is toopacific to please the warlike propensitiesof the native, the militant faith of Islam,coupled with the resentment againstwhite domination, inflames the PanIslamic situation.

In past history, fusions of peopleswas done largely through conquests andinvasions. To day the racial homogene-ity is being changed into a heterogene-ous racial element by infusion of coloredblood; and dark blood that has onceentered the white blood stream is never

again thoroughly bred out. It is nowpractically impossible to find a fullblooded Negro in America, and whilestatistics declare that Negroes are in-creasing, what is really meant is mulat-toes. Th e white mind holds both theNegro and the mulatto as Negro.

Many states have laws of both racedistinctions and race discriminations(and the two are not similar). Sometwentynine states have laws prohibitingintermarriage between Negroes andwhites, and several states include In-dians and Mongolians as well as Ne-

groes. All Southern states and mostwestern states have such statutes,though all laws differ in severity of thepenalty. No effective law, however, hasyet been devised which will regulate thecohabitation of the extramarital rela-tion which produces, through miscegena-tion, the hybrid mulatto in ever increas-ing numbers.

A study of the mixed blood situationthe world over reveals that such an ad-mixture of bloods usually results fromthe extramatrimonial contacts of themixing of the lower classes, and where

the intermixture is of unequally en-dowed stock, it raises the capacity ofthe lower, but almost invariablv lowersthe higher, producing a nondescripthybrid offspring of a social and culturalstatus below the stratum of the higher.

For instance, in Brazil, the admixtureof Portuguese, Indian and Negro pro-duces a people more advanced than theIndian and native Negro, but somewhatinferior to the white. The same is true

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in the Phillipine Islands with the mix-ture of the Chinese and Spanish andMoro. In India the mixture of Britishand Hindu produces an outcast; inCanada the FrenchIndian gravitates tothe lower Indian standard of life rather

than rises to the French.While it is true that mixed nations

the world over are the backward na-tions, it is also, paradoxically, true thatthis will not be so in the future. Forwhen the world shall reach a certainsameness of race through intermixture,which we are fast approaching, ourstandards of life will be changed tothose of a former day when like condi-tions prevailed, when we shall recognizethat race and culture are independentfacts and processes.

Skeletal remains of early man showthat at a very early date racial strainshave been crossed and mixed. Migra-tion and racial intermixture was so com-mon that primitive groups changedquickly. No race is today, therefore,absolutely pure; even African tribesshow distinct traces of ancient inter-mixture. No one is sure of all that he is.A physician in an Ohio town years agomarried and produced a Negro baby.Typical of certain white minds, he im-mediately accused his colored chauffeurand his wife of intimate relations. A

few years later the good doctor marriedagain a girl whose family tree had firstbeen carefully scrutinized. The secondwife also produced a Negro baby, al-though no colored chauffeur was em-ployed at that time!

Mankind originated, if not from theBiblical pair, from one original stock,and Science has never fully declaredany inherent inequalities in biologicalman. Practically all European racesoriginate in the Aryan race, which hasnever been proved scientifically to havebeen the pure white claimed by theNordic. Much of the advancement ofcivilization has been contributed by thedark peoples of the Orient, and thedarkskinned Greeks and Romans.

Going back further to common darkancestors, Haldane, the modern biolo-gist of fame, declares that while allpeoples evolved from the ape, the blackrace from the gorilla, the most amiableand trustworthy of the apes, and theyellow race from the orangoutang, thewhite race is evolved from the chim-

panzee, the most vicious, tricky andleast moral of the ape family.

Beginning with Attila and his Huns,the whites of Europe have been con-quered by darker races many times inearly history. Attila was a mongoloid,

a Slav, but later Ghengis Khan and hishordes of pure Mongolians overcame aconsiderable portion of Europe and allof Asia, in one series of battles in Chinakilling more than 18,000,000 people atone time. All of Europe is thus consid-erably mixed with colored blood.

As to the exact causes of pigmenta-tion of hair and skin, science is not yetwholly clear. Environment and foodare known to be contributing factors,but since no group of Negroes has everlived for a long enough time in a really

cold climate, the effects of a harshclimate in bleaching skin and hair hasnever been observed.

While anthropology deals with min-ute details of racial distinctions, it alsotreats of man as a member of the socialgroup, and it is therefore recommendedto students of the occult who would gointo the question of Lifes Unity.

Marcus Aurelius long ago declared O universe, I wish all that thou wishest. The Universal Mind of God wish-es progression of all races to the ulti-mate end of eternal Goodness for all

peoples. Th e idea of unity with God,the Whole, and All His parts, is un-doubtedly the most important thoughtin the mind of man today. Mankind ismoving forward, in spite of the fact thatwe do not recognize all of its forwardsteps as such. Th e great cosmic tide istowards unity of all peoples, and thenext great evolutionary step must be afederation of not alone nations, butraces. The current of all life is in thedirection of unified action in unselfishservice. As occultists we must considerall humans as equals in the great cosmicscheme of life.

Races may be socially different, butnot inferior. Races are the worlds chil-dren, and whichever races child wemay be, we need not forget our broth-ers, or the Father of us all. Stoddardsaid that the white man seats himselfupon the tidal sands and bids the wavesbe stayed. He will be lucky if he es-capes merely with wet shoes. All whorefuse to go forward to Divine Unity

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Vi i M i i n i i ii i i ii i i ii i ii i ii i i ia i i ii t a i im n ai m m i Hi Hm i m i H m i H i i ii u i Mi H i i i im i ni i i i m K

The Cathedral of the Soul Is a Cosmic meeting place for all minds of themost advanced and highly developed spiritual members and workers of theRosicrucian Fraternity. It is a focal point of Cosmic radiations and thoughtwaves from which radiate vibrations of health, peace, happiness, and innerawakening. Various periods of the day are set aside when many thousandsof minds are attuned with the Cathedral of the Soul, and others attuning withthe Cathedral at this time will receive the benefit of the vibrations. Those whoare not members of the organization may share in the unusual benefits as wellas those who are members. The book called "Liber 777 describes the periodsfor various contacts with the Cathedral. Copies will be sent to persons whoare not members by addressing their request for this book to Friar S. P. C., careof AMORC Temple, San Jose, California, enclosing three cents in postagestamps. (Please state whether member or notthis is important.)

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THE ALCHEMISTS CATHEDRAL

N ancient times themystic ph i ] o s o pliers who devotedthemselves to socalled alchemy orthe early principlesof chemistry, cre-a t ed f or t hem -selves a cathe-

dral that was assacred to them asany cathedral builtby church or re-ligious sect.

While their philosophical studies andscientific studies seem to center aroundthe analysis of metals and their origin,and around the search for the elixir oflife and the Philosopher's Stone, thetruth of the matter is that they were

more concerned with the eventual dis-covery of the purification of the soul andthe search for eternal life, than with thesearch for artificial gold. Accordingly,much of their time was spent in day-dreaming as well as in actual scientificexperimentation. It has been said bysome of these old alchemists, in theirwritings, that for every hour they spentin their crude laboratories, they spentten hours in prayer and meditation andin spiritual speculation. In fact, we cantell from their ancient writings that theywere more given to the contemplation ofthings spiritual and mystical than to thecontemplation of things worldly andmaterial.

Nearly all of these ancient philoso-phers and mystics had a place which wewould call a sanctum. Whether in cave,

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grotto, attic or other structure or place,they had a space set aside for theirreading, their studying, and particularlyfor their meditation and prayers andhours of thought. This separated place,in which they often dwelt for many

hours silently and in a spiritual attitude,was indeed a holy place to them. Re-gardless of their physical structure andlocation, of their crudeness and barren-ness, and of their simple equipment,these holy rooms of the ancients becametheir cathedrals in every sense of theword. Th ey visualized the width andbreadth and space of their sanctums asbeing endless in all dimensions. Theywere limitless in their thoughts andlimitless in their existence. In theseplaces they allowed their souls and con-sciousness to rise to the greatest heightsand to expand to boundless horizons.While in meditation they could hear the Music of the Spheres and see themagnificence of the radiant colors of theinvisible sun that they believed to be inthe center of the universe. They visual-ized God in all of His omnipotence asomnipresent and intimate.

In such places they found peace andharmony. They easily isolated them-selves from the rest of the world andeven from the problems which occupied

their time at other hours in an adjoininglaboratory. They, too, visualized spiresupon their cathedrals reaching theclouds, because they believed that theirthoughts rose upward in spiral form.Here they found inspiration and the

noble motives for their efforts.Thus it is with the Cathedral of the

Soul as we have planned it today. Nomatter where you live or how you maylive, or what your problems and yoursocial and business interests may be,you can take yourself apart from theworld and apart from your physical andworldly self and exist as a soul in theCathedral of the Soul. At such timesyou can worship and pray and contactthose of similar mind and spiritual na-ture, and also find that which is the verybody of subliminal existence.

If you have not found this peace, thisjoy, this purely spiritual existence forthose hours when you feel the need ofit, then send for our little book, Liber777, which will be sent to you withoutobligation and which will point out toyou how you may enjoy the blessingsof this Cathedral of the Soul. Regard-less of your religious creeds and dog-mas, of your faith and convictions, youwill find a real Cosmic and Godly wel-come in the Cathedral of the Soul.

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will become modern Pillars of Salt, likethose of old who persisted in lookingbackward, for there is neither Jew norGreek, neither bond nor free, for ye areall one man.

Racial antagonism is no new thing.We find it in the parable of the GoodSamaritan. No racial hatred today iseven comparable to that of the Jew inJesus time for the Samaritan, yet Heheld the Samaritan up as a model neigh-bor. Racial prejudice is worse for theprejudiced than the sufferers. Slaverywas abolished because it was a greatercurse on those imposing it than thosewho suffered under its cruelties.

Few have risen to Christ's conceptionof neighborliness, for neighborhood inChristian geography implies brother-

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hood. Jesus delighted in calling himselfthe son of man, the representative ofall humanity. Each has an obligation toall. W alt Whitm an has a poem to theeffect that never a man walks to thegallows, but I go manacled with him."W e are learning, even in the economicworld, that we are all indeed one inSpirit.

It is a psychological law that we getback in this world what we give out.With what measure ye mete, it shallbe meted back to you again. The solu-tion of all racial difficulties is the uni-versal application of the words of theparable of the Good Samaritan, Go,thou, and do likewise. Humanity isone body, and he who loves and min-isters to any part of it, any race, servesthe whole, for we are One in Spirit.


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The Holy GuideJ o h n H e y d o n , Se c r e t a r y o f N a t u r e

Editors Note:This concludes John Heydon's Preface to "The Holy Guide. No doubt mostof our readers are familiar with Bacon's "New Atlantis and have been astonished to reread itunder this title. For their benefit, and for the enlightenment of those other readers who would cer-tainly have made the discovery at some future time, we point out a few interesting facts in thisconnection.

Historians of the Rosicrucian Order usually rank Heydon with Robt. Fludd, M. Maier, andThomas Vaughan as the most famous "Apologists" of the Order, hence we are interested in theman himself as well as in any connection he may have had with Bacons works. Heydons bookshave been Collectors Items for centuries now, and books written about him have long been outof print, while Bacons New Atlantis" is obtainable at any library. Therefore, we have printedthe work which our readers could not find elsewhere and ask them to compare the two, noting thatHeydon has definitely disclosed Bacons affiliation with the Order. You will find "The Temple olthe Rosie Crosse substituted for "Solomons House," Fraternity for "family, "Rosicrucianfor "W ise Man," etc. (Some authorities claim that in the description of the Rosicrucian masterBacon drew a portrait of himself.) You will also notice Heydon s tendency to exaggerate by en-larging numberssuch as substituting 36,000 years for 37; 250 persons for 51; 900 cells for 40, etc.and the changes made in names of places are apparent in even a casual reading.

However, the most interesting departure is the dissertation found at the end of this install-ment, where Heydon tells the Rosicrucian master his own life story! If Heydon had been ap-pointed to finish The New Atlantis as some authorities claim, then his manner of doing so is

open to criticism. Even so, it could be said that he probably confronted the same obstacles whichcaused Bacon himself to lay the ms. aside. (James Spedding says: "Here he was obliged tostop. He could not describe the process of a perfect Philosophical investigation; because it mustof course have proceeded by the method of the Novum Organum, which was not yet expound-ed.") However, it is more likely that Heydon was "appointed" to preserve the story in a formwhich revealed that which Bacon had veiled.

This does not seem strange when we recall the elaborate methods used to conceal Bacon's au-thorship of the Shakespearian plays and his affiliations with the Rosicrucian Order, at the sametime making certain that the connection would be discovered by posterity. Furthermore, it seemsthat the parallel between these two works was not discovered for some time, although it is nowgenerally pointed out by scholars who write of Bacon and the Order. Fr. Wittemans mentions itin "Histoire des RoseCroix. In that informative book "Bacon, Shakespeare and the RosicruciansW. F. C. Wigston makes the extraordinary discovery" which we have illustrated to you, hailingit as so important, as to be impossible to overestimate. For it throws a new light upon Baconslife, his aims and his works, etc. and quoting passages from the two works in parallel columns.

Concerning Heydon himself, and his intentions in this and other matters, historical opinion is

divided, running all the way from the esteem in which he is held by his biographer, Frederick Ta l-bot, and the abovequoted Wigston, to A. E . W aite 's uncomplimentary estimate. We cannot givemuch weight to the opinion of the lastmentioned author inasmuch as he appeared entirely ig-norant of the true authoriship of "A Voyage to the Land of the Rosicrucians a s he titled it, anddismissed it lightly among pieces "devoid of historical value! continuing by specifying that thepiece which forms the general preface to The Holy Guide is an interesting romantic fiction." How-everthough Mr. Waites data on the Rosicrucian Order is not authenticwe do recommend thatpart of his book ( The Real History of the Rosicrucians") which quotes Talbot 's life of Heydonand gives excerpts from other portions of "The Holy Guide." Here too, those who are interestedin Heydons astrological views may find the charts and other data which we have deleted fromthis installment.

Nevertheless, no information about John Heydon is as interesting or quaintly told as the color-ful autobiography which follows. (W e should add that some students surmise even this section tobe by and about Bacon.)

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H E R o si c r uc i a nMaster is speakmg:

"For the severalemployments a n do f f i c e s o f o u rfellows, we havetwelve that sail in-to foreign coun-tries, under thenames of other na-tionsbut our sealis R. C. and wemeet upon the day

altogether (for our own we conceal)who bring us the books, and abstracts,and patterns of experiments of all otherparts. These we call Merchants of

Light."W e have three that collect the ex-periments which are in all books. Thesewe call Depredators.

"W e have three that collect the ex-periments of all mechanical arts; andalso of liberal sciences; and also ofpractices which are not brought intoarts. These we call Mystery men.

"W e have three that try new experi-ments, such as themselves think good.These we call Pioners or Miners.

"W e have three that draw the ex-periments of the former four into titles

and tables, to give the better light forthe drawing of observations and axiomsout of them. These we call compilers.

"W e have three that bend them-selves, looking into the experiments oftheir fellows, and cast about how todraw out of them things of use andpractice for mans life, and knowledgeas well for works, as for strange demon-strations of causes, means of naturaldivinations, and the easy and clear dis-covery of the virtues and parts ofbodies. These we call Dowry men or

Benefactors."Then after divers meetings andconsultations of our whole number, toconsider of the former labors and collec-tions, we have three that take care, outof them, to direct new experiments of ahigher light, more penetrating into na-ture than the former. These we callLamps.

"W e have three others that do ex-ecute the experiments so directed, andreport them. These we call Inoculators.

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"Lastly, we have three that raise theformer discoveries by experiments, intogreater observations, axioms and aphor-isms. These we call interpreters ofnature.

"W e have also, as you must think,novices and apprentices, that the suc-cession of the former employed men, ofour fraternity of the Rosie Crosse donot fail; besides, a great number ofservants and attendants, men and wom-en. And this we do also: W e have con-sultations concerning which of the in-ventions and experiences which we havediscovered shall be published, and whichnot: And all take an oath of secrecy, forthe concealing of those which we thinkfit to keep secret. Though some of those

we do reveal sometimes to the state, andsome not."F or our ordinances and rites: W e

have two very long and fair galleries inthe temple of the Rosie Cro ss. In oneof these we place patterns and samplesof all manner of the more rare and ex-cellent inventions. In the other we placethe statues of all principal inventors.There we have the statues of the WestIndies; also of the inventors of ships;and the monk that was the inventor ofordnance, and of gunpowder; the in-ventor of Music; the inventor of letters;

the inventor of Printing; the inventor ofobservations of astronomy, Astromancyand Geomancy; the inventor of works inmetal; the inventor of glass; the inventorof silk of the worm; the inventor ofwine; the inventor of corn and bread;the inventor of sugars; and all these bymore certain tradition than you have.

"Then have we divers inventors ofour own, of excellent works; which sinceyou have not seen, it were too long tomake descriptions of them; and besidesin the right understanding of those

descriptions, you might easily err. Forupon every invention of value, we erecta Statue to the Inventor, and give hima liberal and honorable reward. Thesestatues are some of brass, some ofmarble and touchstone, some of cedarand other special woods gilt and adorn-ed, some of iron, some of silver, some ofgold, telesmatically made.

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forms of prayers imploring his aid andblessings for the illuminations of ourlabors, and the turning of them intogood and holy uses.

Lastly, we have circuits or visits ofdivers principal cities of the kingdom;where, as it cometh to pass, we do pub-

lish such new, profitable inventions, aswe think good. And we do also declarenatural divinations of disease, plagues,swarms of hurtful creatures, scarcity,tempests, earthquakes, great inunda-tions, comets, temperature of the year,and divers other things; and we givecounsel thereupon, what the peopleshall do, for the prevention and remedyof them.'

And when he had said this: He de-sired me to give him an account of mylife, and observations of my youth, thathe might report it to the brethren of theRosie Crosse.

I was descended from a noble fam-ily of London in England, being bom ofa compleat tall stature, small limbs, butin every part proportionable, of a darkflaxen hair, it curling as you see in theEffigies. I had the small pox and ricketsvery young. I was at Tardebick inWarwickshire, near Hewel where mymother was born, and there I learned,and so careful were they to keep me tothe book and from danger that I hadone purposely to attend me at school

and at home. For indeed my parentswere both of them honorably descend-ed. I learned Latin and Greek perfectly,and then was fitted for Oxford . But thewar began, and the sun came to thebody of Saturn and frustrated that de-sign; and whereas you are pleased tostyle me a noblenatured sweet gentle-man, you see my nativity: Mercury.Venus and Saturn are strong, and bythem, the dragon's head and Mars, I

judge my behavior full of rigor, andacknowledge my conversation austere.In my devotion I love to use the civility

of my knee, my hat, and hand, with allthose outward and sensible motionswhich may express or promote invisibledevotion.

"I followed the army of the King toEdgehill, and commanded a troop ofHorse; but never violated any man, &c.Nor defaced the memory of Saint orMartyr. I never killed any man wilfully,but took him prisoner and disarmed

him. I did never divide my self fromany man upon the difference of opinion;or was angry with his judgment for notagreeing with me in that from whichperhaps within a few days I should dis-sent my self. I never regarded what re-ligion any man was of, that did not

question mine. And yet there is nochurch in the world, whose every partso squares unto my conscience, whosearticles, constitutions and customs seemso consonant unto reason, and as itwere framed to my particular devotion,as this whereof I hold my belief, theChurch of England, to whose faith I ama sworn subject. Whatsoever is beyond,as points indifferent, I observe accord-ing to the rules of my private reason, orthe humor and fashion of my devotion;neither believing this, because Lutheraffirmed it, or disproving that, because

Calvin hath disavouched it.Now as all that die in the war, are

not termed soldiers, so neither can Iproperly term all those that suffer inmatters of religion, martyrs. And I say,there are not many extant, that in anoble way fear the face of death lessthan my self. Yet from the moral dutyI owe to the Commandment of God,and the natural respect that I tenderunto the conservation of my Essenceand being, I would not perish upon aceremony, political points or indiffer-

ence: nor is my belief of that untractabletemper, as not to bow at their obstaclesor connive at matters wherein there arenot manifest impieties. The leaves there-fore and ferment of all, not only civil,but religious actions, is wisdom; withoutwhich, to commit ourselves to theflames is homicide, and I fear, but topass through one fire into another.

I behold as a Champion with pridethe spoils and trophies of my victoryover my enemies, and can with patienceembrace this life, yet in my best Medi-tations do often defy death. I honor any

man that condemns it, nor can I loveany that is afraid of it; this makes menaturally love a soldier that will followhis Captain.

In my figure (horoscope) you maysee I am naturally bashful; yet vou mayread my qualities on my countenance. Itravelled into Spain, Italy, Turkey, andArabia. There I studied philosophy andwrit my Temple of W isdom, &c. Con-

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versation, age, or travel hath not beenable to affront or enrage me; yet I haveone part of the modesty which I haveseldom discovered in another that is (tospeak truly) I am not so much afraid ofdeath as ashamed thereof, ft is the very

disgrace and ignominy of our natures,that in a moment can so disfigure usthat our beloved friends stand afraidand start at us; the birds and beasts ofthe field that before in a natural fearobeyed us, forgetting all allegiance be-gin to prey upon us. Th is very thoughtin a storm at sea hath disposed and leftme willing to be swallowed up in theabyss of waters, wherein I had perished,unseen, unpitied, without wonderingeyes, tears of pity, lectures of mortalityand none had said, Quantum MutatusAb Illo! Not that I am ashamed of the

anatomy of my parts, or can accuse na-ture for playing the pupil in any part ofme, or my own vicious life for contract-ing any shameful disease upon me,whereby I might not call myself a com-plete bodied man free from all diseases,sound, and I thank God in perfecthealth.

"I wrote my Harmony of the Worldwhen they were all at discord, and sawmany revolutions of Kingdoms. Emper-ors, Grand Signiors, and Popes. I wastwenty when this book was finished, butme thinks I have outlived my self, andbegin to weary of the sun (although thesun now applies to a Trine of Mars).I have shaken hands with delight andknow all is vanity, and I think no mancan live well once, but he that could livetwice; yet for my own part I would notlive over my hours past, or begin againthe minutes of my days, not because Ihave lived them well, but for fear Ishould live them worse. At my death Imean to take a total adieu of the world,not caring for the burden of a tombstoneand Epitaph, nor so much as the bare

memory of my name to be found any-where but in the universal Register ofGod.

I thank God that with joy I mentionit, I was never afraid of Hell, nor nevergrew pale at the description of Sheol orTopher, 6c., because I understand thepolicy of a pulpit, and fix my contempla-tions on heaven. I wrote The RosieCrucian Infallible Axiomata in fourbooks, and study not for my own sake

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only, but for theirs that study not forthemselves. And in the law I began tobe a perfect clerk. I wrote the Idea ofthe Law,' 6c., for the benefit of myfriends and practice in the KingsBench.

I envy no man that knows more thanmyself, but pity them that know less.For ignorance is rude, uncivil, and willabuse any manas we see in Bailiffs,who are often killed for their impudentattempts. Th ey ll forge a warrant andfright a fellow to fling away his money,that they may take it up.

The Devil that did but buffet St.Paul, plays, methinks, at sharp withme. To do no injury nor take none, wasa principle which, to my former yearsand impatient affection, seemed to con-tain enough of morality, but my moresettled years and Christian constitutionhave fallen upon severer resolutions. Ihold there is no such thing as injury,and if there be, there is no such injuryas revenge, and no such revenge as thecontempt of an injury. There be thosethat will venture to write against my doc-trine when I am dead that never durstanswer me when alive. I see Cicero isabused by Cardan, who is angry atTully for praising his own daughters.And Origanus is so impudent that headventures to forge a position of theheavens, and calls it Cornelius Agrippa s Nativity; and they say, Agrippawas born to believe lies, and broachthem. Is not this unworthiness to writesuch lies, and shew such reasons forthem! his nativity I could never find: Ibelieve no man knows it; but bv a falsefigure thus they scandalize him. Indeedthey have made him who is a Nobleperson, Agrippa, a base fellow by thisfigure. And so they may use me!

Now, in the midst of all my endeav-ors, there is but one thought that dejectsme, that my acquired parts must perish

with myself, nor can be legacied amongst my dearly beloved and honoredfriends. I do not fall out. or condemn aman for an error, or conceive why a dif-ference in opinion should divide an af-fection; for a modest reproof or dispute,if it meet with discreet and peaceablenatures, doth not infringe the laws ofcharity in all arguments. So much thereis of passion, so much there is of noth-ing to the purpose! Fo r then reason,


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like my hound Lilly, spends or calls outaloud, and makes the woods echo upona false scent.

When the midheaven was directedto the trine of the moon, I wrote an-other book and entitled it, The funda-mental Elements of Philosophy, Policy,Government and the Law s.' After thistime, I had many misfortunes, and yetI think there is no man that apprehendshis own miseries less than myself, andno man that so nearly apprehends an-other s. I could lose an arm without atear, and with few groans, methinks,be quartered into pieces. Yet can I weepseriously with a true passion, to see themerciless rebels in England forge debtsagainst the King's most loyal subjects,purposely to put them in the Marshalsay, or other Houses of Hell, to be de-

stroyed in prison, and starved, or killedby the keepers; and then two or threepoor old women, for as many shillings,shall persuade the Crowner and thepeople to believe the men died of con-sumptions. It is a barbarous part of in-humanity to add unto any afflictedpartys misery, or endeavor to multiplyin any man a passion, whose single na-ture is already above his patience. Thiswas the greatest affliction of Job, andthose oblique expostulations of hisfriends a deeper injury than the down-right blows of the Devil.

It is true, I had loved a Lady inDevonshire, but when I seriously perus-ed my nativity, I found the seventhhouse afflicted, and therefore never re-solved to marry; for beyond I am a man,and I know not how: I was so propor-tioned and have something in me, thatcan be without me, and will be after me;and here is the misery of a mans life;He eats, drinks and then sleeps todaythat he may do so again tomorrow, andthis breeds diseases, which bring death,for all flesh is grass. And all these crea-

tures we behold are but the herbs of thefield digested into flesh in them, or moreremotely carnified in our selves. W e aredevourers not only of men, but of our-selves, and that not in an allegory, buta positive truth; for all this mass of fleshwhich we behold, came in at ourmouths, this frame we look upon, hathbeen upon our trenchers, and we havedevoured ourselves, and what are we?I could be content that we might raise

each other from death to life as RosieCrucians do without conjunction, orthat there were any way to perpetuatethe world without this trival and vainway of coition, as Dr. Brown calls it:It is the foolishest act a wise man com-mits all his life; nor is there anything

that will more deject his cold imagina-tion, than to consider what an odd errorhe hath committed. Had my stars fav-ored me, I might have been happy inthat sweet sex.

Then I consider the love of parents,the affections of wives and children, andthey are all dumb dreams, without real-ity, truth, or constancy; for first, thereis a strong bond of affection between usand our parents; yet how easily dis-solved! Th e son betakes himself to awoman, forgetting his mother in a wife,

and the womb that bare him, in that thatshall bear his image. This woman bless-ing him with children, his affectionleaves the level it held before, and sinksfrom his bed to his issue and picture ofposterity, where affections hold nosteady mansion; they, growing up inyears desire his end, or applying them-selves to a woman, take a lawful way tolove another better than themselves.Thus I perceive a man may be buriedalive, and behold his grave in his issue.And many take pleasure to be suchfools.

I remember also that this Quartile ofSaturn imprisoned me at a messenger'shouse, for contending with Cromwell,who maliciously commanded I should bekept close in Lambethhouse, as indeedI was two years. My person he feared,and my tongue and pen offended him,because amongst many things, I saidparticularly, such a day he would die,and he died. It is very true Oliver op-posed me all his life, and made myfather pay seventeen hundred poundsfor his liberty. Besides, they stole under

pretence of sequestering him, two thou-sand pounds in jewels, plate, &c.. andyet the Kings noblest servants sufferupon suspicion of debt: A plot that car-ries a fairer pretence to persuade theruder wits all is well, when the King andhis best friends are abused; but whyshould I trouble my self! I do not, be-lieve me, it is not hopes of a place, or asum of money, or a commission that Ilook for; I shall peaceably enjoy my

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friend, serve God, honor my kind andlove the Bishops, and few men knowwho I am.

I look upon France as I do upon theBeargarden; the dogs are always quar-relsome; and what is the difference be-twixt a man and a beast? the one is vir-tuous, learned and wise; the other isrich, proud and foolish; yet indeed thefirst is most rich, for he studies long life,happiness, health, youth and riches andenjoys it.

Yet I know some will be spectators ofthis rude rabble. Suddenly dies anenemy to Reason, Virtue and Religion;and there are a multitude of these, anumerous piece of wonder; and these Iobserve when they are taken asunder,seem men, and the reasonable creatures

of God; but confused together, make amonster more prodigious than any beastis in the tower (as Doctor Brownsaith) . It is no breach of charity to callthese fools, as objects of contempt andlaughter; and it is the style the RosieCrucians have afforded them, set downby Solomon in holy Scripture, and apoint of our faith to believe so. Neitherin the name of multitude do I only in-clude the base and minor sort of people;there is a rabble even amongst thegentry, a sort of Plebeian heads, whosefancy moves with the same wheel as

these men in the same level with Me-chanics, though their fortunes do some-what gild their infirmities, and theirpurses compound for their follies.

But, as in casting account three orfour men together come short in accountof one man placed by himself belowthem: So neither are a troop of theseignorant Doradoes of that true esteemand value as many a forlorn person,whose condition doth place them belowtheir feet; and there is a nobility withoutheraldry, a natural dignity, whereby oneman is ranked with another, another

filed before him, according to the qual-ity of his desert, and preeminence ofhis good parts; though the corruption ofthese times, and the bias of presentpractice wheel another way. Thus itwas in the first and primitive common-wealths, and is yet in the integrity andcradle of well ordered policies, till cor-ruption getteth ground under desires,laboring after that which wiser consid-erations condemn, every fool having a

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liberty to amass and heap up riches, andthey a license or faculty to do or pur-chase anything.

"I was by the fanatic Committee ofSafety committed to prison, and mybooks burnt; yet I would not entertaina base design, or an action that shouldcall me villain, for all the riches inEngland; and for this only do I loveand honor my own soul, and havemethinks two arms, too few to embracemyself. My conversation is like theSuns with all men, and with a friendlyaspect to good and bad.

Methinks there is no man bad, andthe worst best, that is, while they arekept within the circle of those qualities,wherein there is good. Th e method Ishould use in distributive justice, I often

observe in commutation, and keep aGeometrical proportion in both, where-by becoming equal to others, I becomeunjust to myself, and subrogate in thatcommon principle, Do unto others asthou wouldest be done unto thy self.Yet I give no alms to satisfy the hungerof my brother, but to fulfill and accom-plish the will and command of God.This general and indifferent temper ofmine, doth nearly dispose me to thisnoble virtue amongst those millions ofvices I do inherit and hold from Adam.I have escaped one, and that a mortal

enemy to Charity, the first and fathersin, not only of man, but of the Devil,Pride; a vice whose name is compre-hended in a Monosyllable, but in its na-ture not circumscribed with a world. Ihave escaped it in a condition that canhardly avoid it. These petty acquisitionsand reputed perfections that advanceand elevate the conceits of other men,add no feather unto mine: and this isthe observation of my life, I can loveand forgive, even my enemies.

And when I had said this, he stoodup and I kneeled down, and he laid his

right hand upon my head, and said,God bless thee my son, and God blessthese relations, which we have made. Igive thee leave to publish them for thegood of other nations: for we are herein God s bosom, a land unknown. Andso he left me, having assigned a value ofabout 2000 lbs. in gold for the bountyto me and my fellows: For they givegreat largesse where they come upon alloccasions.


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SUMMARIES

Each hour of the day finds the men of science cloistered unostentatiously inlaboratories, investigating nature's mysteries and extending the boundaries ofknowledge. The world at large, although profiting by their labors, oftentimes isdeprived of the pleasure of reviewing their work, since general periodicals andpublications announce only those sensational discoveries which appeal to thepopular imagination.

It is with pleasure, therefore, that we afford our readers a monthly summaryof some of these scientific researches, and briefly relate them to the Kosicruclan

philosophy and doctrines. To the Science Journal, unless otherwise specified,we give full credit for all matter which appears in quotations.

Our Debt To the Past

E LIKE to compareour advancem entin modern times tot h a t p r o g r e s smade by societyor civilization threehundred years ago.W e look upon our

g r e a t e r a c c o m -plishments of thisera as an indica-tion of greater in-dividual geniusand mass intellect.

However, our greatest scientists of thehour are no more profound thinkersthan those of two hundred years ago,insofar as application of individual in-telligence and reasoning is concerned.The results of the researches of todayare undoubtedly more impressive, be-

cause they are more sensational andthey are more sensational because theyare quite practical, yet, the scientist oftwo centuries ago laid the groundworkfor today. His discoveries were funda-mental natural laws, purely academic intheir immediate value, as a whole notvery comprehensible to the masses, andthus considered by many to be of littleconsequence. The majority of ourmodernday scientists are merely work-

ing with these tools of their predeces-sors. Taking the facts of the establishednatural law stheir heritage from earlierresearch workers they employ themfor the development of something of anutilitarian nature which, because of itsremarkable helpfulness, captures theimagination of the public mind, and

wins for the modernday scientist agreater acclaim than that received bythose of the past who made his resultspossible.

W e have no better example of thisthan our modern radio which is amiracle to the average man, and forwhich he gives full credit to the scienti-fic researches and developments of hisown time. He perhaps has never heardof the great physicist Heinrich Hertzand his discovery of the Hertzian wave,which made radio possible. He knows

little or nothing of Sir William Crookesand his experiments with vacuum tubesknown as the Crookes tubes, whichmade the radio tube possible. He knowslittle or nothing of Michael Faradayand the great laws of magnetism whichhe discovered and which made it pos-sible for us to have the complex and ef-ficient radio apparatus of today. W ecould go on down the list of those of the

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Along Civilizations TrailByR a l p h M. L e w i s , K. R. C.

Editor's Note:This is the seventh episode of a narrative by the Supreme Secretary relatingthe experiences he and his party had in visiting mystic shrines and places in Europe and theancient world.

THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS

Y a r r a n g e m e n t ,early in the morn-ing we met the In-spector, our drag-oman, and porterson the bank of theNi le . We werefascinated by thequaint little boatswith their patchedsai ls , and theironeman crews,fighting the tidetrying to reach a

point directly opposite on the othershore. W e watched patient little burrostread along the bank, laden with balesor crates, with masters who either walk-ed along in front, or behind, tappingthem on their flanks with a stick to keeptheir pace constant. Groups of nativewomen sat in little circles on the roadedge, waiting for the return of someone

patient, impervious to sun, flies, andinsects. Their faces were covered, withthe exception of their eyes. Most ofthem, unfortunately, had diseased eyes,due to the water in which they wash.when they doand due to infection andlack of knowledge of sanitation andhygiene.

Finally we climbed aboard our frailcraft with our equipment, and startedacross the Nile from a point where forcenturies the Egyptians had crossed. As

we were swept along, there came to ourminds the legends of the great ancientfuneral processions which had crossedthis same body of water. From the Eastbank of the Nilethe city of the living,because the sun rose with its lifegivingrays in the Eastthey floated across, ongreat decorated barges with the sar-cophagus of the departed, always atdusk, representing the closing of lifeand the crossing from this world of theliving to the world of the dead. TheW est side of the Nile, therefore, or thecity which existed there at that time,was called the City of the Dead, be-cause it was in the W est where the sunset at the close of day, and where dark-ness came.

It must have been a magnificent cere-mony. W e could imagine the chanting,the sound of strains of music on theriver. In our minds we could hear thewailing of bereavement. W e could

mentally see the unloading of the sar-cophagussee it being carried on backsand shoulders of great Nubian slaves.W e could see priests in ornamentel cos-tumes, bedecked with jewelry, emblemsof their office, marching two abreast ahead, swaying from side to side in timewith the rhythm of chanting and music.Behind came the military escort, themembers of the court and the family ofthe departed. Behind them came, piledhigh on the backs of personal slaves, the

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intimate belongings of the departedgreat alabaster chests inlaid with ivory,handbeaten gold masks and vessels,gems, rare woods, frankincense, pottery,beautiful tiles, magnificent furniture,handcarved, showing great skill andcraftsmanship. The procession wouldwend its way into the hills that becamethe tombs of the greatof the kings ofthe eighteenth, nineteenth, and twen-tieth dynasties.

Our musing soon ended as our boatslid alongside the crude landing. W eloaded our equipment into a ramshacklecar to be driven over a rough, ungradedroad as far as possible, and from thereto be packed on the backs of our por-ters. W e started through this little val-ley with its towering limestone cliffs.Here were buried the Thebian kingssome fortyone of their tombs have now

been located. W e eventually enteredvarious ones, going down their long,sloping passageways or ramps, observ-ing painted on the walls the original dia-grams showing the plan of construction.W e learned that these plans were quitefrequently deceptive, intended to mis-lead any vandals who might break intothe tomb, as to its real arrangement.Treasure rooms were usually sealed insuch a manner that it would take con-siderable investigation to locate them.When our torches were temporarily ex-tinguished for a moment, and we real-

ized the inky blackness of these under-ground chapels and mortuaries, the sen-sation was real.

On the walls were prayers in adora-tion of the gods, also inscriptions fromthe rituals which the deceased wouldhave to perform in the afterworld.There still remained some of the greatstone sarcophagi or coffins from whichthe mummified remains had been recent-ly removed, or which were empty whenrecently excavated. These tombs ofkings were not as interesting historical-ly, nor did they contribute as much toour knowledge of the times and of thepeople and their customs, as the tombsof the lords or noblemen. Th e inscrip-tions and hieroglyphics on the walls ofthese tombs of the kings were mostlyconcerned with their personal accom-plishments, and selfaggrandizement,and with phrases from the great Bookof the Dead, a book containing the

rituals and ceremonies of the afterlife.However, we did film the tombs ofRameses III, Seti II, and the one of therenowned King Tutankhamen, andothers. Th e heat was unbearable to uswho were not accustomed to it. Theonly shade was that afforded by the in-terior of the tombs themselves. The cliffswere barren, rugged, ghastly. They sug-gested another worlda world of thedead. They were used principally be-cause they were the only stone hills inthe immediate vicinity which would af-ford construction material for tombs.

W e went, then, after a few minutesjourney, to the tombs of the noblesthat class of individuals who sprang upduring the feudal age of Egypt and be-came wealthy and powerful, and whorivaled the power of the kings. Theyowned great estates, worked by both

freemen and slaves, and built luxuriouspalace homes with mosaic floors depict-ing the cool waters of the Nile, and thegreen grasses which grow about it. Thewalls were ornamented with paintingsof water fowl common at the time.These nobles enjoyed all the luxurieswhich the time affordedbeautiful fur-niture, tapestries, fruits, wines and vege-tablesmany of which we have inherit-ed, such as romaine salad wonderfuljewelry made of gold and rare stones.They had great crops of grain, and skill-ed workmen, basket makers, cabinet

makers, metal workers. These craftsmenhad tools of bronze saws, hammers,and many implements similar to thosewe employ today.

On the walls of the tombs of thesenobles, painted in vivid colors start-lingly vivid to us, for it seemed almostunbelievable that the colors could be sobright after the centuries that had pass-ed over them were incidents in thelives of the people of the estates. Thuswe know how they were employed,what they did. There are scenes show-ing the gathering of grain, showing thescribe recording the bushels. Scenesshowing the crushing of the grapes,and making of wine. Others show thetilling of fields with ploughs; and we seein these first ploughs used a similarityto ours of today. The Egyptians of thisperiod had gone beyond hoeculture andhad developed agriculture. W e see irri-gation canals, the first in the world. W e

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see the chariot makers; we note the fish-ermen preparing to set out with theirnets. W e note the intimate family lifeof the noble. Here he is entertainingguests, with children playing in thesame room at a game that resembles ourdraughts or checkers. W e observe thatthe noble had but one wife, whom herespected and who shared equally withhim all of his powers, privileges, andproperty rights. Here, on the walls ofthese tombs, history is unfolded.

W e then visited splendid DerElBahri, or the mortuary temple of QueenHatshepsut (see picture in April, 1937,Dige st) . This great tombtemple, nowbeing restored to its original conditionas nearly as possible, was built forHatshepsut by her architect and vizier,

Hapuseneb. Considerable enmity andjealousy existed in later life between herKing husband and herself. It is relatedthat he was envious of his wifes powerin the Egyptian empire. And later,when she died, he ordered her cartoucheor signature eradicated from the greatobelisks which she had erected duringher time.

On either side of the great rampwhich leads to the outer courtyard ofthis templetomb we saw what seems tobe just a great, dry root protruding from

the sand of the desert. These two rootsare all that is left of two great treeswhich were once on either side of thatramp and which had been importedfrom far up the Nile, from equatorialAfrica, by emissaries of the queen sothat she might have shade. It is alsosaid, that where now there is naught butdesert surrounding this templetomb,there were once flourishing gardens.The tomb itself is deep in the face of thecliff which is immediately behind thetemple.

Our journey next brought us to the

temple of Medinet Habu, which wasbuilt to the god, Amon. Though mam-moth in size, with gigantic columns andpylons, it reveals a decadence in archi-tecture. The reliefs tell of the greatcampaigns of the pharaoh; show hisnaval battles; we see his mercenaries orhired soldiers capturing the revoltingsubjects of the countries which com-prised his empire; we study the weaponsthey used 'spears, shields, swords, ar-mor; we examine the type of war gal-

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leys. Th e architecture is decadent incomparison with that of other templeswe have seen because there is no uni-formity of design. One finds squarecolumns, short, ill proportioned ones,others tall and graceful, with capitals ofdifferent sizes and designs, some plain,others highly ornamented.

Climbing to the top of a great pylonthrough a narrow stone passageway, wehad an excellent view of the plain around it, and the Nile a mile or twodistant. Where we stood, some seventyfive feet above the ground, had stoodthe defending warriors many times be-fore, hurling stones or spears at the at-tacking invader below.

W e left Medinet Habu, and finallythe Valley of the Kings, to admireat

a distance of some several hundredya rdsthe Colossi of Memnon. Theseenormous statues were erected byAmenhotep III as an outer gateway to agreat temple which is no longer in exist-ence. They were surrounded by wateras the land around them was inundatedby the rising Nile. It made a thrillingpicture, for the clear, still water re-flected their mysterious images. Com-pleting a full day, we returned again toLuxor, but on the following day wentback for further detailed photographing,

as our first trip was only sufficient forus to plot out those sections or portionsof all the things we saw which we be-lieved to be the most impressive andwhich would convey, to future audi-ences who would see our films, a betterimpression of the greatness of thatwhich we had the privilege of seeingpersonally.

It was while crossing the Nile afterour second day on the West bank thatHabachi said to us suddenly, I believeI can arrange to have you film withyour cinema, for the first time, an inter-

esting demonstration which I feel willprove of interest to your friends andyour countrymen.

W e asked him what it was, and hestated, I cannot comment more freelyat this time, for I must inquire furtherbefore I can be certain. But if you willcome to my office early tomorrow morn-ing, I will be prepared to tell you more,I am sure.

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more was exciting, and the followingmorning found us early at his office.W e did not know what to expect, be-cause for the last few days he had givenus entree into tombs which were or-dinarily locked and barred to the public;he had ordered attendants and guards

to make available to us places which arerecorded only in historical texts andhave never before been photographedfor public examination; so we felt thiswould truly be something unusual.

Habachi began, There is an Egyp-tian by the title and name of SheikhMoussaElHawi, who has an unusualpower of sensing or detecting by smelland other meansperhaps you will callthem mysticthe presence of venomoussnakes and insects. He also has themeans of subduing these snakes, makingthem docile, although at times I under-

stand he has been bitten by them, andin fact has lost his two sons who inherit-ed this power of detecting snakes; theywere seriously bitten.

Immediately there flashed into ourminds the accounts that had been pub-lished of this individual in Americanmagazines at different times, though ofcourse we had never seen a picture ofhim and no picture had ever been pub-lished of him. I asked, He will performfor us? He said, Yes, gladly, as acourtesy to me. When? we chorused,and he replied, He awaits in the court-yard and will accompany you to whereever you wish.

I asked if the demonstration could bedelayed for a few minutes while werushed to the hotel to obtain the pres-ence of the balance of our partyFraterand Soror Harry L. Shibley and SororLewis. He consented, and in a fewminutes we returned, breathless, for thedemonstration. Naturally we wanted toassure ourselves that this was to be agenuine demonstration and not thetrickery common among snake charmers

in the Orient. Habachi said, He is nota snake charmer; he has no snakes withhim. He will gladly remove all his gar-ments for your inspection and examina-tion. And, in fact, he did remove allhis garments except his loin cloth to as-sure us none were concealed on hisperson.

Habachi continued, He will gowherever you wish, to call out these

snakes, so that you may be certain thathe has not by any prearrangementplaced snakes in places where he wouldrecommend that the demonstration beheld.

This was fair enough. There could beno trickery under such arrangements.

W e suggested, therefore, the interior ofLuxor Temple. W e all accompaniedSheikh MoussaElHawi to LuxorTemple. He was a strange individual;his very presence caused one to shiver,to have a frigid feeling along the spine.His eyes were like a reptiles, piercingand black. His face was strange, slight-ly distorted; his clothes had a peculiarodor. He looked neither to right nor toleft, nor even at the ground before himas he walked ahead of us. (See picturein March, 1937, Digest.) Suddenly hestopped and said in broken English, to

no one in particular but audible to all ofus, I shall now, with your consent,proceed.

Frater Brower asked Inspector Ha-bachi, Will the snakes and insectswhich he calls out from the debris of theruins be within ten, twentyfive, or fiftyfeet of us as we wish to know justexactly where to set up our cameras?W e had three cameras to record the in-cident a professional cinema, a Graphlex still camera, and another.

Habachi spoke to him in Arabic, andthen said to us in English, He says heknows there is a scorpion right near himand a cobra not far distant.

Moussa, tilting his head backwardand sniffing the air as a bloodhoundwould, apparently caught the scent, ashe called it, of what he was searchingfor, and then he broke out in the weird-est chant I ever heard a chant inArabic, starting slowly with deep in-tonation, and increasing in rapidity andpitch till it eventually reached a frenziedshrill tone; repeating again and again.The man was obviously working himself

into some sort of emotional state. At theheight of this frenzy, and after walkingabout in circles from ten to twenty feetdistant from us, he suddenly stoppedbefore one of the rocks at his feet,reached down, rolled up his sleeve, bar-ing his arm, tugged at the rock, threw itbackward, and reaching in the cavity ithad made suddenly brought forth ahideous goldencolored scorpion. He

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held the scorpion in his hand so that itwas visible to us and easily photo-graphed. W e noticed that it was con-tinually striking at him with its barbedappendage. When it pricked the fleshof his finger, he would wince at the

pain, but showed little or no concernotherwise. At first this was repulsive toall of us, and yet it was so awesome andfascinating that we could not turn fromhis further demonstrations.

Returning the scorpion to its place, hethen walked ahead for perhaps thirtyfive or forty feet. W e followed him.Suddenly he stopped and again wentthrough the peculiar gesture of detect-ing some strange scent, and also brokeforth with his incantation. Frater Brow-er, with my aid, hurriedly again set upthe cinema equipment.

Habachi turned to us and stated,This time it is a cobra.

How, I whispered, do you know?He stated, His chant is different."What is this strange incantation?

I asked. Habachi said he was callingthese serpents, as representatives ofSatanical power, in the name of Allah,to expose themselves, to come forth that a greater power than they was giv-ing the command. Finally he steppedover to a little embankment. We noticedthe embankment was pockmarked withholes. Rolling up the sleeve of his robeagain, he plunged his bared arm downone of these holes to the depth of hiselbow. He was apparently strugglingwith something. I turned to Habachiwith a quizzical look on my face. An-ticipating my question, he said, "He hasone.

W e formed a semicircle at a safedistance behind Sheikh MoussaElHawi, and finally out it came. He hadpulled the cobra by its tail out of itshiding place. He threw it before him.Immediately it endeavored to get away;

it started to crawl back toward its hole.He increased the rapidity of his chant-ing and a strange light was in his eyes;his face was twisted and grotesque, andas if in a fury he jumped up and downin his bare feet in the dust before thereptile, calling it in the name of all thepowers that he knew to return to him.Slowly the snake, as if it had beendrawn against its will, turned andcrawled back toward him, apparently

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fighting against some influence strongerthan itself. When immediately beforehim, it coiled and swayed from side toside. Continually chanting, he slowlyreached down, picked up the reptilewhich coiled its body tightly around his

arm, and held it before his face. Th ecobra had inflated its hood and struck athim several times, but by a twist of hiswrist he threw the reptile off balance soit would miss its aim and he was notbitten. AH this time Frater Brower wasfaithfully recording this strange incidenton film, and as we today see the samescene on the film, we recall the strangefeeling we had that this individual wasnot just a snake charmer but did exertsome strange power over these reptiles.

The demonstration was repeated fromtime to time, and at the close of the last

demonstration we offered him compen-sation, but he haughtily refused it,waved us aside with his hand, andmarched on, apparently indifferent toour words of appreciation and gratitudefor his demonstration. W e were deeplygrateful for this unusual opportunity torecord this scene, and thanked InspectorHabachi profusely. (Note: SheikhMoussaElHawi has just died in Gizehof a cobra bite, so a recent news cablereports.)

The balance of the day was spent innegotiating for the purchase of an un-usual collection of exhibits for the Rosicrucian Egyptian Oriental Museumrelics worth a considerable sum becauseof their age and because they were theproperty of renowned personages. Eachof these antiquities had to be inspectedby Habachi before being exported fromEgypt, as it is now the custom of theEgyptian goverment to permit the ex-portation of only those things of whichit may have a likeness, and those thingswhich are authentic, so as not to bringridicule upon Egypt.

I will never forget the stroll we tookwith Habachi down to the edge of theNile just as the sun was beginning toset. Its rosy glow spread over thewater; the air was now cool and pleas-ant. It was our last night in Egypt; wewere reluctant to leave. W e were thank-ful to the Inspector for what he haddone and had helped us to accomplish.W e had just finished again expressingour gratitude, and were about to return


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to our hotel, expecting him to ac-company us part way, when he said,I leave you here. I am crossing theNile.

W e were surprised, and said, Atthis hour? It will be quite dark beforeyou return.

With a peculiar smile he lookedstraight into my eyes and said, I amnot returning tonight. I sleep on theWest bank.

Frater Brower stated, Oh, then youhave another office, or an abode acrossthere.

He said, My abode shall be theTemple of Medinet Habu.

Frater Brower and I looked at eachother. You are sleeping in that greattemple tonight, by yourself? W hy ?

Smiling again, he said, You are stu-

dents of mysticism; you are Rosicrucians, are you not?

Yes, was our reply.Then you have my answer."

W e were astounded. Apparently hewas returning to spend the night in anenvironment and atmosphere of hisancient ancestors, to be surrounded by

memories of their achievements, todream of their hopes, and aspirations,to try and visualize the scenes that tookplace there, to gain from those greatstone walls and the inscriptions, darkshadows and absolute silence, some ideaof their inner ideals, of things left un-doneperhaps to quicken his own con-sciousness, to help him carry on, to keepalive in Egypt what they had beguncenturies before.

Slowly we turned and in silence lefthim, we to leave Egypt, to pass anothermilestone along civilizations trail.

(To be continued)

OUR DEBT TO THE PAST

(Continued from Pag e 258)

past and recite the discoveries of manyeminent physicists who were pioneersin affording us our modern conveni-ences. W e must not, therefore, over-look our debt of gratitude to the greatworkers who have gone before and uponwhose shoulders we stand, as Dr. F. R.

Moulton, permanent secretary of theAmerican Association for the Advance-ment of Science, recently said. In con-nection with this it is interesting to readthe following, which is part of hisaddress:

In certain respects the steep trailscience has been traveling in recentdecades must soon change to a gentlerslope. For example, the number ofscientists in the United States has beenincreasing at a much higher rate than itstotal population. If the present geo-metric rate of increase of the names in-

cluded in American Men of Scienceshould continue even for only 150 years,this biographical book would containsketches of the lives of more scientiststhan there will probably be persons inthe United States at that time. In acomparable period the publication ofpapers on biology or chemistry woulduse up the printing capacity of the land.At that time a biologist or a chemist

would have to spend several monthseach year even to glance over an ab-stract of Biological or Chemical Abstracts. The biologists and the chemistswould have to be in continual conven-tion in a hundred centers in order topresent brief digests of their investiga-

tions. To operate their electrical equip-ment physicists would use more energythan all of industry and transportation.Evidently these things would not hap-pen. Science is now in the rapidlygrowing springtime of its existence. Itsroots are in fertile soil and its branchesare rapidly pushing out in all directions.

It is probable that scientists do notgenerally realize that in an exceptionalway they stand upon the shoulders oftheir predecessors and that for thisreason their progress is exceptionallyrapid. A scientific principle once estab-

lished becomes the property of allscience; a piece of apparatus once con-structed becomes a pattern for later ap-paratus of the same kind. But not tothe same degree is a work of art or amoral principle or even a social order astepping stone for its successor. Forexample, there has been more improve-ment in electric lights in a decade than

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HighlightsSOME OF THE IMPORTANT FEATURES OF THE RECENT

TOUR TO EGYPT, THE HOLY LAND, AND

MEDITERRANEAN CITIES

By T h e Im p e r a t o r

O GIVE ev en abrief summary ofour entire itiner-ary would fill toomany pages of toomany issues of thismagazine, and Ibelieve that themajority of our

members wouldprefer to have onlyan outline of theimportant and out-standing features

of this very unusual tour.A large number of us left the Pacific

Coast in special cars on Monday, Janu-ary 25, and journeying in a zigzagmethod across the United States, wepicked up many more members until alarge party of us arrived in New Yorkon the morning of January 29, and reg-

istered at the Rosicrucian Tour officesin the Hotel Martinique where we metscores of other members and touristswho were waiting for us, and who ar-rived throughout the day.

Early in the morning of Saturday,January 30, we left the Hotel Mar-tinique in a long caravan of taxicabsand went aboard the beautiful ship Rexof the Italian Line. After a few minutesexploration of the ship we were quitesatisfied that the Rex was not only a

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very beautiful ship, but so convenientlyand thoughtfully laid out in its arrange-ments of lounge rooms, library, deckspace, and many other features, that wewere certainly going to have an interest-ing trip.

About ten hours after we were out atsea a number of members began to makecomments about the arrangement of theportholes in the various rooms, and thisbecame quite an outstanding topic ofhumorous comment throughout the trip.Those who believed themselves extra-ordinarily fortunate in having a large,or an extra, number of portholes in theirrooms soon discovered that these port-holes meant little or nothing, because asthe sea became high and the wavesdashed against the side of the boat(without causing unnecessary disturb-ance) the portholes were closed withlarge metal plates in order to prevent

any injury to the glass in the windows,and therefore the portholes became use-less for sightseeing.

W e found the Rex very steady andsatisfactory as a ship. Since we weretouring in the winter months, it was tobe expected that there would be a fewdays of stormy weather when the shipwould roll a little, and a few membersfound it a little more convenient andcomfortable to remain in their state-roomsespecially in a lyingdown posi


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tionand there were a few days whenthe boat inclined one way or the otherto a more or less unnecessary degree,and especially one afternoon when afew of us found it impossible to remainstationary on the deck or in the loungerooms without sliding a bit.

Despite the fact that we were threeor four weeks on the one ship goingfrom port to port after a long journeyacross the Atlantic Ocean, there werevery few of the approximately one hun-dred and fifty members in the party whocould say that they were really ill, orsuffering from mal de mer to the degreethat is so humorously referred to. Andthere were no serious accidents, andcertainly no serious delays in any fea-ture of our itinerary.

As might be expected, the cuisine andservice on the Italian Line ships were of

the very highest grade. W e received themost courteous attention, everythingwas scrupulously clean, and there wasa kindness on the part of all of the of-ficers and stewards on the boat thatmade the trip very enjoyable. In fact,I may say at this point that at the con-clusion of the tour a large majority ofthose in the party who had ever touredbefore on other ships and had crossedt

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