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VO L. IX D E C E M B E R . 1931 No. 11

C o n t e n t s

The Thought of the Month ............................... By The Imperator

Is Karma Fatalism?....................................By Frater R. V. Andes

Thomas Edison, The Mystic ...........................By Brother H. H.

A Materialistic Conception of

Adam and Eve .........................................By Bro. John Cowan

Giving God a Chance .........................................By The Imperator

Prediction .............................................By Ralph M. Lewis, F.R.C.

Contacting the Spiritual World ......................By The Imperator

Cathedral Notes.................. ................................................

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TheRosicrucian

DigestDecember

1931

T h e

THOUGHT OF THE MONTHTHE SPIRIT OF CHRIST

By THE IMPERATOR

E are approaching theholiday season and the

special day set asidefor the celebration of the anniversary of thebirth of Jesus, theChrist . It is intendedto be a day of rejoicing, of happiness, andof the free sharing of

our bounties and blessings.

In truth, the holiday should be aperiod for the celebration of the spiritof Christ and the realization of theChrist consciousness in each one of us.It is really immaterial whether the dayselected is the true birthday of Jesusthe man, for, after all, we may arbi-trarily set any period of the year or any hour of the day for the proper realization of the Christ consciousnesswithin us and to demonstrate some of the principles of the spirit of Christ.

Undoubtedly, the great outstandingmessage of Jesus was that of universallove. Critics point out to us that nearlyall of His doctrines were based uponreligious principles known in other re-ligions and perhaps viewed only in a

more modern form, but there was thisone principle of universal love that wasquite unique and which Jesus broughtto the world at a time when it wasneeded most and it is doubtful whether the need has ever been quite met, evenafter all these years of Christianpreaching.

Jesus said that man should strive tolove his neighbor as himself. Th at is abig order, a big proposition. If applied

universally as it was meant, it wouldmean universal love, universal peace,

universal harmony. After all, it is notpurely a religious doctrine but a Cos-mic doctrine. If man would love menin a universal sense, in a Cosmic sense,it would bring an end to all war, allstrife, all disagreement, and all conten-tions. It would encourage us to dothe right thing at the right time and tobe our brother’s keeper and to seethings and understand things from theCosmic point of view.

Perhaps there is no greater need inthe world today than the need for the

Cosmic point of view. We, as Rosicrucians, talk about broadening our visionand extending our consciousness out of the narrow limitations of self and self’senvironment. But how far do we reallypractice this principle, as well as talkabout it? How far away from our-selves do we really get in each twentyfour hours of the day ? It is true thatthe studies of Rosicrucianism do tendto broaden our vision, broaden our viewpoint, broaden our contact withhumanity but even though that broad-ening may extend our consciousness

from the narrow limitations of our physical immediacy it is doubtfulwhether we extend it at all in a uni-versal sense.

To love our neighbors as ourselvesand thereby sympathetically understandtheir problems, their trials and tribula-tions, we should be able not only toextend our consciousness and under-standing a part of the way but all of the way. W e should do more than



merely broaden our horizon and pushthat horizon from our own city, our own state, or our own country to an-other distant land, but to all distantlands. W e should be able to sense thecrying needs, the heart throbs, the

tears, the heartaches, the trials andtribulations of each tribe and each be-ing in the uttermost parts of the world.

W e should be able to realize whatit is that the oppressed in various partsof India and Africa are asking andpraying for. W e should be able tounderstand what it is that the Russiansare seeking to accomplish, what theGermans hope to prevent, what theItalians desire to accomplish, what theFrench seek to bring about, what theBritains hold as their ideal, what theJapanese and Chinese believe is their serious problem, what the people of many smaller lands consider the out-standing obstacles to their progress inlife.

To do this we would have to layaside all bias, all prejudice, all selfinterest, and all intolerance.

From the Cosmic point of view allraces of men, all beings, all creaturescreated by God are equal in the rightto work out their own evolution andattain the inevitable goal of their pres-ent existence. All trials and tribulations

are but stepping stones to these humanbeings and what we might consider anobstacle or a trial or tribulation may be,after all, a commonplace incident inlife to some others. Tha t which wewould condemn as being crude or cruel,unnecessary or unimportant, fictitiousor unreal, immoral or unmoral, may beclassified quite differently by the Cos-mic consciousness.

Christ, as a saviour, came to savemankind. His mess age was for all be-ings and the Light that He shed amongmen was a Light for the darkest partof every country and of every race. Hislife and His teachings were Cosmicsymbols for all beings to interpret. Our interpretation as Christians may begreatly different from that of theMohammedans or the Buddhists, or the

Jews, or many other sects and cults,

but however they interpret the symbol,

there is back of it the Cosmic law of

equal application and universal good.

So I plead with my Brothers andSisters at this period of the year whenmuch of the world is thinking of theChrist and the coining of the HolyChild with all of the accompanyingsymbolism and prophecy, to think of

Christmas season and the birth of the universality of the Christ conscious-ness and to remember that whatever was real, and whatever was great, wasDivine and whatever was of Cosmicordinance in the consciousness of theman, Jesus, is equally existent in theconsciousness of every human being inthe world today.

It is not necessary for the tribesman,the atheist, the heathen to know of Jesus and His work, or to have dis-covered the message of Jesus and to

have been saved through the grace of His teachings, to have a realizationthat there is a Christ consciousnesswithin him. Go d and the Cosmic lawsand principles did not limit the Christconsciousness in any being to onlythose who could outwardly and objec-tively recognize in the man Jesus, thesymbol of that consciousness. As wedevelop the Christ consciousness withinus through our realization of it the manJesus becomes to us our Saviour in aCosmic sense and not in a sectariansense. But first must come the real iza-

tion of the Christ spirit universally dif-fused throughout the Divine conscious-ness of all beings.

Let us, therefore, be at one with thisChrist consciousness at this period of the year , if not at all times. Let usindulge in the Holy Communion of Cosmic baptism and be bathed not inthe water of material symbolism but inthe Divine wraters that flow in the Cos-mic sense through all of our being,through all of earth’s beings. In thisway we will attune ourselves with the

highest consciousness of the Cosmicand be at one with God and with each

other. In this sense we will understand

what is meant by the message of Jesus

regarding universal love. To under-

stand our neighbors sympathetically is

to love them and to harmonize with

them and this can come about so easily

through attunement with Cosmic con-

sciousness.



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Rejoice, therefore, this season andlet it be the beginning of a period of realization for each month, or eachweek, or each day of your lives. Leteach hour or at least each sunrise of anew day be the birth of a Christ day

for you. Let the Christ spirit be born

in you each morning and find you ababe in the manger of humbleness andinnocence and thereby establish for yourself in your own lives a Christbirthday that you may celebrate every-day of your lives as the Holy Day for

you.

V V V V V

Is Karma Fatalism ?

YOU MAY EASILY DECEIVE YOURSELF IN THIS REGARD.

By F r a t e r R. V. A n d e s

OFTEN meet withthose who do not havea correct understandingof the laws of Karmaand who seem to feelthat the doctrine of Karma is a sort of fa-talistic doctrine. Theyargue that if the law of

Karma has outlined for them or some-one else a certain period or time of misfortune or suffering or inconvenience

that no matter what we may do wecannot change this decree of Karmiclaw and therefore it is Fate. Someoften say that it is like the law amongthe Turks when they say, “Kismet.”The Mohammedan doctrine of Kismetseems to these people to be a law of Fate also but there again they are mis-taken.

Mohammed, the prophet, and hisgreatest disciples taught that the doc-trine of Kismet was a law much likethe law that we have called Karma and

that there was nothing fatalisticabout it.

So many of the ancient mysticallaws are misunderstood and the misun-derstanding in the western world hasgrown into a form of popular belief that is erroneous. Th e Buddhis t law of Nirvana is typical of the Oriental lawsthat have been misinterpreted and mis-understood in the western world. Sim-ply because there is no word or groupof words in the English language that

properly describes what is meant byNirvana we find that certain writers inthe years that have passed have under-taken to give their personal interpreta-tion of it and have claimed that Nir-vana was equivalent to the annihilationof the consciousness . In other wordsthey tried to explain that when theBuddhist sought for that peaceful statecalled Nirvana it meant the annihila-tion of his earthly consciousness. Grad-ually the common belief in this country

was that Nirvana meant an annihila-tion of all forms of consciousness andthat the mystic in the Nirvana statesimply did not exist at all. O f course,that is a ridiculous statement and thevery thought is so absurd that uponanalysis it becomes self evidently un-true. But this does not help one tounderstand what the real meaning of Nirvana is and we do not have per-haps the proper understanding of whatKarma and Kismet are.

Nirvana means the momentary sus-

pension of earthly consciousness so thatone is unconscious of all earthly sur-roundings and is conscious only of thepsychic condition or psychic state. Thisis not properly expressed because, as Ihave already intimated, there are nowords in the English language that are

equivalent in meaning to the word Nir-vana. But it is a state of absolute

peace and absolute perfect attunement

with the Cosmic.



Now Karma is the doctrine of com-pensation, adjustment. What wouldyou think of a person who said thatbecause the grocer man at the corner asked for money in exchange for his mer-

chandise that he had made a rule thateveryone of the persons living in hisneighborhood had to come to his storeevery Saturday night and pay half of his salary to him as a matter of course; in other words, that he had de-creed this to be Fate? W e know, of course, that the money is to be paidonly to the grocer in exchange for what he gives us, and that if we takenothing from him we shall not be re-quired to give anything. W e know thathis statement about wanting money isa part of the law of compensation and

that if we find ourselves in the predica-ment of giving him money all the restof our lives, it will be due to the factthat we have received something andare continuing to receive something inexchange and that we are merely mak-ing compensation for what we have re-ceived.

The law of Karma is not a systemof punishment. The Rosicrucians plainlypoint out in their highly interesting andmodernized instructions in regard toKarma that the law of Karma is quitesatisfied with any form of compensa-

tion or adjustment that we voluntarilymake or that is forced upon us so longas we learn a lesson from the adjust-ment. Karma would rather have uspleasantly instructed and happily ad-vised than to have us suffer. In other words, suffering is not the end or theaim of Karma but a means to an endand the pain and suffering of life canbe instantly ended by a realization of the purpose back of the suffering.

In most cases the matter of makingadjustment or compensation is left en-

tirely to ourselves and we have, as freeagents, the power to decide w'hether we shall make compensation or not. Insome cases compensation or adjustmentis forced upon us simply because wehave wilfully refused to understand thelaw or admit its power and have like-wise refused to make any adjustmentor compensation of any kind. If we eatsome foods that are not compatible or

not chemically agreeable to each other,

we are sure to have physical discom-

fort. Our bodies are chemical recept-acles, they are composed of chemicalelements and the fire and heat of thephysical vitality is formed from thechemical elements we take into our

body. If we take the wrong kind wenot only fail to give ourselves nourish-ment but we set up a chemical actionthat is destructive or harmful to thebody and our vital existence. In pro-test to such a thing, pain and discom-fort result. Are we to say then thatKarma causes us to have pain when weeat the wrong kind of food merely for the sake of punishing us for wrong eat-ing? Is it not more logical to say thatthe pain and suffering is Nature’s wayof showing us what we have done thatis wrong and is teaching us to eat

properly?If we violate any of nature’s laws

there is a reaction that is unpleasant.This reaction is not the aim and theend of Karma but a means for teach-ing us that we have done somethingwrong and should not do it again. Theinnocent little kitten that sticks its facein the flames of the gas logs when itsees these playful flames for the firsttime is made to feel a certain amountof pain as its whiskers and hairs aresinged not as a punishment for its in-nocent little act but to teach it not togo near the flames again.

Because it is true that some mennever learn through such suffering,never learn through inconveniences re-sulting from Karmic action, it is neces-sary for the law of Karma to prolongand continue the inconveniences andthe suffering until man finally is over-whelmed with the truth of the lessonthat he cannot continue to do wrongand still be healthy and happy. Butthe moment he does realize that theuncomfortable conditions, the obstacles,

the pains, trials and tribulations in hisown life are the result of his own pre-vious actions and that he can changethe course of his life and change hisKarma by doing the right things thenhis trials and tribulations begin to easeand his life becomes more peaceful andhappy. Up to the time that man realizesthe responsibility of his Karma it mayseem to him like Fate but the momenthe has the proper realization and ad-

justs himself to Cosmic law and makes



the proper compensation to Karma hefinds himself changing what he calledhis Fate and having the power tocreate new and better conditionsaround him.

Karma is often the cause of many

forms of illness or suffering of theflesh. Medications, surgery, therapeu-tics of all kinds and money spent for specialists and physicians will notchange the physical condition so longas Karma is trying to impress the in-dividual with the error of his ways nor can a mystic healer come along andgive the patient treatments that will notonly cure the physical trouble but re-move the Karmic law. It is not in hispower to do this and if he attempts todo it he must be ready to assume someof the Karmic law of the patient for hisinterference. But let the patient analyzehimself and analyze his past and allthat he has done and discover the realcause of his illness and he will findfrom that moment on there will be aneffect upon his condition. If he dis-covers his illness or suffering is a longstanding chronic condition or his in-competency or inability is due to someact of his own in the past and that heis suffering under Karmic law and de-cides at once to undo the wrongs hehas done in the past or make compen-

sations, then, immediately will come aneasement of the conditions he has beensuffering and a gradual elimination of them.

Many men find their careers seem-ingly blocked and their affairs at astand still solely because of Karmiccondition. The law of Karm a has de-creed that they shall have a certain

amount of bitter experience in life onearth in order to teach them that theyhave done wrong at some time and thatcompensation should be made.

Judging Karma properly then leadsto an understanding of one of the most

fundamental and benevolent laws of theuniverse affecting all persons equallyregardless of nationality, religious be-lief, or social position. The best way tobring an end to your fate or career or to the suffering that comes into your life is to discover the original cause thatresides somewhere within you. Bychanging or compensating for the orig-inal cause and eliminating this causefrom your life and properly realizingthe error of your ways and pledgingto yourself that you will not repeat thisonce again you immediately bring anend to the Karmic condition and youare free to go on through your lifewith a clean slate so far as that par-ticular incident is concerned.

There is no way of avoiding Karma.Man may find ways and means of breaking or violating or escaping thelaws that he has made but he cannotescape from the laws of God and na-ture. As he sows so shall he reap. Ashe thinks so shall he live, and as helives so shall he participate in the thingsof both the Cosmic and earthly life.

Guard well your thoughts, therefore;guard well all of your actions and besure that he is happiest who has noKarma to control and he is next hap-piest who adjusts the wrongs in hislife, makes compensation for his errors,and changes the course of his life from sorrow, grief and tribulations to one of complete joy and happiness.

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Thomas Edison, The MysticSOME INTERESTING POINTS ABOUT THE LIFE

OF THIS GREAT MAN

B y B r o t h e r H. H.(Written especially for the “Rosicrucian Digest.’ )

V V V

May I first call attention to the fact

that like many real philosophers andespecially mystics, who live more of thecontemplative, meditative life than aworldly one, Mr. Edison confined allof his philosophical discussions and allof his religious expressions to just agroup of persons who were likemindedand who constituted his little associa-tion of real companions. I say this wa stypical of the mystic, for we find that,those who formed this little group of personal, confidential companions werenot only likeminded, but truly mysticalin their own individual expressions and

ways of living.In this group were such men as Mr.Henry Ford, who has publically andotherwise expressed himself very defi-nitely regarding his mystical view-point of life, and of his firm belief insuch mystical principles as Karma, re-incarnation, Cosmic inspiration, intui-tive knowledge, true meditation, attunement through prayer, etc.

Then, too, there was Mr. Firestone,who occasionally expressed himself more or less definitely along the sameline and whose very nature is expres-

sive of the existence of a profoundphilosopher underneath the outer cloakof a business man. The re were othersin the group, some of whom havepassed beyond and who were wellknown for their poetical, philosophical,and mystical writings and speeches. Onthe other hand, among those who wereadmired and respected by this groupwere such men as Burbank, who notonly was looked upon as a great mys-tic, but who was condemned a heretic

There is much about the philosophi-cal and religious convictions and opin-ions of Thomas Edison that will be of interest to every Rosicrucian, and be-cause of my intimate knowledge of these points, I think that it is timelynow to speak of them.

While Mr. Edison was still in theflesh and sufficiently conscious tospeak for himself, it was not the busi-ness of anyone else to speak for himand those who knew more about his

personal religious opinions than anyoneelse were perfectly right in their atti-tude of silence. No w that he haspassed on, and just before passingmade one statement that opened thedoorway to a revelation of what hispersonal, private opinions were, I thinkthat it is perfectly proper for us to lookat his opinions in a broad and kindlyway, and see if we can discover stillfurther greatness in the character andabilities of this famous inventor.

HE final passing of

Thomas A. Edison tospiritual life has againaroused an interest inhis religious and phi-losophical beliefs andeven before he reachedthe stage of transitionand was resting quiet-ly in a semicoma state,

his beliefs and opinions regarding im-mortality and life after transition werebeing discussed in the newspapers andeven in interviews between newspaper and magazine representatives, and his

wife and relatives.



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in all religious matters, simply becausehis mystical philosophy took him be-yond the orthodoxy of present daycreeds and doctrines.

Looking very broadly at the life of Edison from the time that he mani-

fested Cosmic intuition and Cosmic in-spiration as a young man and was ableto invent or devise ways and means of helping him solve many of life’s ma-terial problems up to the present yearsof restricted activity, we find that hislife was expressive constantly of thephilosophical trend of his nature. Ineed not speak of his optimism, whichwas captivating and was tonic in itseffect upon everyone, who came incontact with him, and I need not speakof his hopefulness that everything inthe universe was being directed by an

Intelligence that would see that every-thing came out right and for the good,but delving behind all of this andpeeping intimately into his laboratory,and into his home, and even into hismore or less secluded life in southernFlorida, we find the mystic in the phi-losopher in all of the ear marks of histhinking and doing.

In looking at his little nook in thecorner of his laboratory which hecalled his study den, I could not helpbut think of the picture made by Rem-

brandt of the mystical philosopher inhis little nook, delving deeply into theold books of mysticism. You could notsay that because an inventor had alarge library adjoining his laboratory,that he must be a mystic, for there aremany such libraries adjoining manysuch laboratories, which certainly giveno such impression. But the manner inwhich Edison had selected one corner for the sanctum and the manner inwhich the desk, the chair, and other things were arranged in relation to hisbooks, the hours he selected for his

study and reading, and the subjects heread in between his search for technicaldata, told the story of the philosopher,rather than the inventor, to anyonewho was around him sufficiently tonote the manner in which he relaxedand abandoned the material things of this life to delve into the philosophicaland spiritual, if not the religious.

Then again, his comments in connec-tion with many of his discoveries and

his little side remarks in connectionwith some of the fundamental prin-ciples that were involved in his workrevealed the philosophical trend of histhinking. Wh ene ver an outstandinguniversal law made its uniform and an-

ticipated manifestation of its immutabil-ity, Mr. Edison would be seen to havea softness coming to his eyes and atenderness of expression come over hisface, as he would remark either to him-self or anyone who was near, “Howbeautiful the law is fulfilled!”

His constant admiration for andadoration to the fine laws of Cosmicregulation were immutable signs of thephilosophical appreciation that was apart of his deeper nature. He almostreverenced some of these laws, and onmany occasion would feel personally

hurt when anyone questioned the re-liability of a continuous manifestationof any principle that he knew to befirmly established. His sensitiveness inthis regard was one of his strongpoints, and certainly a valued asset tohim in his research. Once a law wasrevealed to him, either by accidentaldiscovery or the evolution of an idea,the law became like an idol for worshipfor he knew that he could always de-pend upon it that it was in some waysusceptible of universal application and

that his business was to learn how towork with that law and harness itsbeneficent manifestation for the com-mon good of all mankind.

Where Mr. Edison drew the line,however, was in the attempt of anyoneto transmute a universal Cosmic lawinto a purely divine law by giving it asectar ian or doctrinal nature. In hismind, God made all laws, and therewere no exceptions to any of them, for they were not only immutable, but ac-cessible and beneficent, if a beneficentmind sought to apply them for bene-

ficent purposes. Th ose who claim thatMr. Edison recognized no God or Su-preme Mind ruling the universe areabsolutely in error, and know nothingabout his own personal opinions, andtmdoubtedly never heard him expresshimself when in his philosophical medi-tation. He did recognize a SupremeArchitect, a Supreme Mind, an Omni-potent Ruler, but could not in the lightof his philosophy and his study of



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Salutation*

From the East arose the Light of spirituality, to

ever be reflec ted in the soul of man. On the horizonof human consciousness and ascending the heavens of in-

dividual achievement have shone in splendor the heralding stars of

man's future unfoldment. Each star an ava tar— Zoro aster, Buddha,

Con fucius, M ohamm ed, Moses, Jesus— the glorious radiations of each

transcend ing its predecessor, but all fusing their Co sm ic Light into a beam

that penetrated the shadows of superstition, hate, and ignoran ce. W e

hail the memory of the last and greatest ascension, Jesus the Christ.

Let us turn Eastward in respect and contemplation, that we may

bathe in a Spiritua l Lig ht which had its dawn in a Ch ristm as

centuries ago. M ay through each of us this Light be

replenished, never to be diminished by time or the

vicissitudes of man's selfmade philosophy.

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The StaffS u p r e m e Grand Lodge

Rosicrucian Brotherhood A M O R C



TH E S ACR E D GR O V E

Th e Vesta ls gathered at sunset to replenish the mystical fire. Th is famous painting is by A. Bocklin. whose "Isle of the Dead" is also a worldfamous mysticalpicture. Note : Presented to you with the compliments of the "Rosicrucian Dig est.'



universal laws reduce this magnificentmind and universal power to one beingpersonified as an individual. In fact,he never attempted to visualize the Godhe discovered or found in his sciences

for this would have seemed like a sac-rilege to him. He felt that God wasincomprehensible except through Hislaws and that man’s finite mind wasincapable of limiting God to size, form,character, or personality. Thi s view-point naturally prevented him fromaccepting or having any interest in theorthodox creeds and doctrines of anyof the presentday religions. In thishe was truly the mystic and revealedthe more advanced and profound un-derstanding of God than the averagehuman being of today.

Whenever he was questioned on re-ligious subjects by those who sought todrag him into an interview on this sub-

ject , he expressed his displeasure attalking on such a serious subject andat the same time expressed his modestrecognition of his incapability of givinga positive opinion by simply sayingthat whether there was a future life or not, he did not know. Certainly, thosewho have never passed through transi-tion in a conscious state cannot saywith positiveness that there is such astate. Mr. Edison was extremely care-ful in all of his statements, whether of a scientific or philosophical nature. Un-til he knew something very definiteand positive and could demonstratethat he knew, he did not say yea or nay.

However, toward the close of hislife, he did make this very mystical andphilosophical statement in quite a posi-tive manner. He said that if there wasany part of man that lived, it could notbe the flesh or the brain, but that in-visible personality that constituted the

real man, and which if it lived again,at all, would live and manifest on thisearth plane. Thi s opinion was repeatedby him again during the last few hoursof his consciousness in life when heknew that everyone else knew thattransition was close at hand. In other words, his real mystical philosophy wasrevealed at last in a veiled way and in

agreement with the opinion held by

Mr. Ford and Burbank, and the others,

who were so closely associated withhim as companions, and with thosemany other mystical philosophers inthis country who were privately andsecretly in touch with him in his mys-

tical work. His last statement in thisregard was clearly a revelation of hisfirm belief in reincarnation, for it wasunthinkable to him, he said, that any-thing other than the personality of manshould survive transition, and that thispersonality should have any other ex-istence than that of an earthly lifewhere it could be useful in evolvingand perfecting itself toward some greatend. In other words, Mr. Edison abso-lutely failed to recognize the specula-tive, doctrinal principle that personalitywould survive transition and continue

to live a useless, unevolving, uncon-scious life for many aeons of timeawaiting some ultimate judgment day.

That Mr. Edison was wellversed inthe terminology and ideas of mysticalphilosophy is shown in the fact that heoften frankly admitted that the inspir-ation which came to him in connectionwith many of his discoveries came fromthe Cosmic, and one of his friends inwriting of Edison’s prolific intuitive in-spirations stated that Edison admittedto him one time that most of his crea-

tions were Cosmical ly inspired. Th every use of the word "Cosmic” is high-ly significant and often led the pro-moters of sectarian religions to arguewith him and to finally agree that Mr.Edison was outside of the pale of or-thodoxy. Of course, the time is com-ing when the great lights of the pres-ent day religions will come to recognizethe real meaning of the word “Cosmic”and that time will be when the major-ity of mankind has expressd itself defi-nitely in this regard for today thereare more outside of the orthodox

churches who have their faith centeredin the Cosmic laws and the principlesof the Cosmic rule rather than in themanmade creeds and interpretations of these principles.

That Mr. Edison was Cosmicallyattuned many times and could easilythrow himself into a state of relaxationand receive Cosmic illumination to helphim solve his problems was revealed onmany occasions, the results of which he



was pleased to speak about confiden-tially to his philosophical companions.His complete trust and confidence inthe Cosmic and his continued practiceof attuning himself with it graduallybrought about a very close relationship

between himself and the Cosmicpowers, and unquestionably this had agreat deal to do with the regenerativestrength that came to him in the lasthours and enabled him to have such aprolonged period of transition withoutany of the suffering that often accom-panies the passage from this life intospiritual existence.

That he was more or less consciousof this Cosmic attunement is shown bythe last words he uttered to his physi-cian, who recorded them in a signedstatement, which he issued to the Asso-ciated Press. In this statement hisphysician said that just before Mr.Edison discontinued speaking at all,he stated very definitely and clearly tohim that “ It is very beautiful over there.” Thi s was in answer to certainquestions, and referred very definitelyto the spiritual or Cosmic life, whichhe already sensed and toward whichhe was gradually progressing. Certain-ly, a man who had absolutely no faithin any possibility of a future existenceand who would not tolerate an idea of

a future existence, as some orthodox persons have tried to say of Mr. Edi-son, would not make such a statementthat “ It is very beautiful over there.”He was undoubtedly on the borderlinewith his consciousness as clearly incontact with the spiritual state as itwas in contact with the earthly state,and perhaps more so.

And, so another great mystic haspassed to the beyond, leaving manyvaluable lessons for us who are on thePath, and who have the privilege of

contacting such noble souls in thecourse of their lives. It is regret table,however, that such men, who have thebroad vision to see beyond and back of the doctrines of today, and above andbeyond the creeds and dogmas of or

rj 'f ie thodoxy should be labeled as hereticsn or as atheists. But we find this true as

osicrucian £ ur0pean history. Recalling our greatUigest Americans, who have thus suffered inDecember repute, we can reach back and take1931 the life of Thomas Jefferson, as an

early example. This man until a fewyears ago was popularly considered tobe a dyedinthewool atheist, and itwas not until an examination of hiswritings, and especially of his officialdocuments and proclamations, while he

was president of the United States, re-veal that he was not an atheist, thatthere was any change in the generalopinion held of him in this regard. Inmany of these documents, he referredto God as Divine Providence, the Su-preme Intellect, and similar terms. Buthe, too, being a mystic and a Rosicru-cian in his active interests could notaccept the idea of a personalized God.nor could he associate himself honestlyand wholeheartedly with any of thereligious movements, and accept any of the orthodox creeds and dogmas. For this reason, he was called an atheist.

The same was said in regard to Mr.Burbank centuries later, and for thesame reason. Certainly, this is unfair and the time is coming when all think-ing men and women will realize thatMr. Jefferson, Mr. Burbank, and Mr.Edison had the true and more pro-found and spiritual understanding of God and God's laws than those whohave tried to limit this understandingby the creeds of orthodoxy. Then, weshall know how truly great these men

were in their spiritual understanding,and we shall also come to learn thatthese men attained a greater height inspiritual unfoldment and spiritual de-velopment than many others.

Mr. Thomas Edison, the inventor,the scientist, the great humanitarianwill live eternally in the minds of hu-mankind, but Thomas Edison, the mys-tic, will live a greater life again, andbuild for himself a higher reputationthan that which he now enjoys, andundoubtedly, his personality will seekto bring comfort and consolation tothose of his loved ones who are stillhere on the earth plane, and in thismanner lead them to a discovery of thegreater light that lies not in the limita-tions of an earthly shell or which maybe produced only through the me-chanics of the laboratory, but whichcomes into the hearts and souls of allbeings by Cosmic law, and turns thereal darkness of life into the beautiesof spiritual and eternal illumination.



A Materialistic Conception of

Adam and Eve and the

Serpent PeopleBy Biio. J o h n C o w a n

^ ^ ^ ^ R O F E S S O R BO U SSAC of the Instituteof Egypt, after a care-

ful study of the mythsof the dim past andextensive examinationof Egyptian records,says the Scripturalnarrative of Adam andEve tempted by the

Serpent in the Garden of Eden wasbased upon early Egyptian traditions.The important role played by the Ser-pent in the Book of Genesis is tracedby him directly to ancient Egyptiansources. He says that Moses knew allof the mysteries of the Egyptian re-

ligion and this explains why he de-scribes as a great serpent the tempter who induced Eve to eat the forbiddenfruit to the subsequent misfortune of the human race.

In Ur, the oldest city of the Baby-lonian region, have been found statuesof a queer snakeheaded woman, saidto represent Lillith, Adam’s first wife.

The earliest monument dealing withthe subject is a Babylonian cylinder of chlorite in the British Museum. In thisis shown a tree with horizontalbranches from which hang two roundbunches of fruit. It is a date palm withdates. Upon either side of the trunk of the tree a man and a woman are ex-tending their hands for the fruit. Be -hind the woman a S E R P E N T standserect upon its tail.

Archaeological discoveries in Assyriahave brought to light a creation storyclosely related to that of Genesis. Thisversion, discovered at Nineveh, comesfrom the library of Assurbanipal, anddates from 668 to 626 before Christ.

But it is only a copy of an earlier Babylonian record which cannot havebeen later than the twelfth century be-

fore Christ, according to Prof. Boussac.Assyria had been dominated by Egyptfifteen centuries before the Christianera, and Egyptian influences had there-fore left important traces in the religionand customs of that country.

The interesting cave of Mas d' Azil,in southern France, one of the oldestknown dwelling places of prehistoricman, contains a cleverly painted figureof a snake which archaeologists saywas done some fifty thousand yearsago. All over the continent of Africasnakes are held in reverence by various

tribes, either as totems or tribal divini-ties. Prof. Boussac reasons that thegreat prevalence of serpent myths inEgyptian religion sprang from a fear of serpents entertained by primitive manlong before the beginning of civiliza-tion.

Before taking up the study of mys-ticism I also held that FEAR was theprobable basis of primitive religion, butI now wish to call attention to another possible cause which seems to me evenmore plausible than the motive of fear.I refer to a probability that a raceknown as Serpent People antedatedAdam and Eve. Fea r is a destructiveprocess of thought, whereas, thesemyths, which play so important a partin the early development of mankind,are evidently a result of constructivethinking even tho very primitive. In thefirst place, the traditions of savagesand barbarians are based upon actualevents. W e shall endeavor therefore toreconstruct the event upon which thistradition is based and remove it from



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the field of allegory to which it hasbeen relegated by many who cannotconceive of any other explanation.Savages and barbarians have not yetreached the allegorical stage of de-velopment. Th at comes with later civil-

ization.According to Professor Winchell in

his “PreAdamites,” the name ADAMin its original form did not refer to aparticular individual, but to a collectionof people. It is a Semitic name mean-ing M A N K IN D . Likewise the nameEve, and the names of all of the patri-archs mentioned in the Book of Gene-sis, were used each in its collectivesense instead of the singular. In other words, Adam was the name of a pre-dominant tribe or race of people in-

stead of one person. Eve was the nameof another people. Likewise, Cain.Abel, Seth and so on, were names of other peoples who may have been off-shoots from the amalgamation of theAdam and Eve peoples.

Professor Sigmund Freud in “ Totemism and Taboo.” says, “Totemismis a system which takes the place of re-ligion among certain primitive races inAustralia, America and Africa, andfurnishes the basis of social organiza-tion.”

Totemism was based upon the deifi-cation of a female ancestor. Th e mostprimitive peoples usually adopted ani-mal names. Consequently the totemname was usually the name of an ani-mal. It was asso ciated with animismand magic. Descent was traced in thefemale line to the deified ancestress,and all those who inherited the totemname were prohibited from inter-marrying.

In Lewis H. Morgan’s “Ancient So-ciety,” three distinct stages of develop-ment are traced in the evolution of

mankind—Savagery, Barbarism, andCivilization. In the earliest stages of development savage man was primarilya hunter. Animals were not domesti-cated nor were crops cultivated untilman rose out of Savagery into Bar-barism. But the domestication of ani-mals for food was not in itself a volun-tary act. It was forced upon a peoplesomewhere by a growing scarcity of game. It was a result of the greatest economic revolution the world has ever

seen. It upset the whole totemic system.It overthrew the animistic worship of adeified ancestress. It brought about thetracing of descent in the male line in-stead of in the female line. It subst i-tuted religion for totemic animism.

Gardens were not cultivated untilafter animals were domesticated, for the roaming life of a hunter precludeda residence in one locality long enoughfor the cultivation of a garden. Wi ththe domestication of animals came amore permanent place of abode andgardens were cultivated as an auxiliarymeans of subsistence.

W . W unt says, “ It is a general lawin mythology that a preceding stage, just because it has been overcome andpushed back by a higher stage, main-

tains itself next to it in a debased formso that the objects of its veneration be-come objects of aversion.”

Now the Serpent was coexistentwith Adam and Eve, and is presentedas an object of aversion. According toWunt’s law therefore the Serpent rep-resents a preceding stage which was atone time an object of veneration, butwhich has been overcome and pushedback by the higher stage of Adam andEve. Hence, in all probability, the Se r-pent was the totem of a people whopreceded the Adam and Eve amalga-

mation but were overcome and pushedback by them when religion took theplace of totemism. Anthro polog istshave learned that the Totem of theSerpent was indeed a great people. Itis perhaps the most widespread of anyof the totems of aboriginal peoples. Itbecame a symbol of cunning, sagacityand wisdom amongst all other peoplewho came into contact with them.

Had Adam and Eve been the pro-genitors of the human race an accountof them should have described their

hunting grounds rather than a “Gardenof Delight.” Their descendants shouldhave been traced in the female linerather than in the male line. A T O -

T E M should have been mentioned in-

stead of a God.Tradition tells us that Lillith was

Adam’s first wife. She was said to have

been a snakeheaded woman who be-

came a demon and went about in the

air.



Since Adam was a race of peoplerather than an individual the Lillithsmust also have been a people withwhom the Adamites were closely asso-ciated. Th at Lillith was snakeheadedindicates that they were connected with

the Serpent People. And that she be-came a demon and went about in theair signifies that the Lilliths met withdeath, either at the hands of the Ad-amites or otherwise, for the adherentsof the animistic system believed that allsouls became demons at death.

Eve was said to be the “mother of all living.” Th at she was formed froma rib of Adam indicates that the Eviteswere a branch of the same body of mankind as Adam, in contradistinction to the Serpent People. According tosome authorities the Hebrew word

which has been corrupted and con-demned into the name Eve is Chavvath, which means silent and passive.The Jewish Encyclopedia, however,gives her the name Ishshah, which, itsays, is of Babylonian derivation, andit remarks, “Noldeke explains the nameas meaning ‘serpent,’ preserving thusthe belief that all life sprang from aprimeval serpent.” Another explanationsay s that “ Ish ” means man. I am im-pressed, however, with the resemblanceof the name to Ishatar, a Babyloniangoddess, who, like Eve, was said to be

the mother of all living.The belief “that all life sprang froma primeval serpent,” comes, I am con-vinced, from the fact that its adherents

were descendants of the people of theSERPENT TOTEM, wh o in turntraced their descent to a deified ances-tress whose name signified Serpent. After the overthrow of the totemic sys-tem and the substitution of the maleline of descent for the female line theorigin of their belief was forgotten, andonly a lingering hazy idea remainedthat somehow they had sprung from aserpent.

The date palm was a staple foodvery early in the history of mankind.And primitive man learned of the ex-hilarating and intoxicating effects of itsfermented juice long before they un-dertook its cultivation. In animals magicintoxication was often resorted to inorder to induce visions. Therefore, thedate palm became the tree of know-

ledge, because in his visions savageman attained his wisdom.After the great economic revolution

in which the animistic system was over-thrown everything pertaining to ani-mism became taboo. Hence the prohibi-tion in regard to the tree of knowledge.The Adamites religiously observed thattaboo, but the Evites, who were a morepassive and impressionable people,yielded to the temptations of the Ser-pent People and finally prevailed uponthe Adamites to partake also of theforbidden fruit.

This, I believe, is the correct materi-alistic interpretation of the story of Adam and Eve.

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Giving God A ChanceA TALK ON HEALING GIVEN AT A PUBLIC SERVICE IN THE

FRANCIS BACON AUDITORIUM IN SAN JOSE

By t h e I m p e r a t o r

V V V

E R E is a little news froma report that I think

will be very encourag-ing to all of you, and Ihope you will pass italong to all who are sickand ailing.

In the “Medical Rec-ord’’ of September 25,

1920, there was a statement by Dr. Jo-seph Byrne, professor of neurology atthe Fordham University medical schoolin New York. In this report, this recog-nized author said:

“At a conservative estimate, it maybe admitted that of all the ailments for which relief is sought, 9 0% or over are selflimited and tend to get well. Itmay also be admitted that in over 90%of all human ailments the psychic isthe dominant factor.”

Now, Brothers and Sisters, think of what that statement means. I think thatif any of us wanted to preach a sermonor give a lecture on the value of psy-chic study and the value of metaphysi-cal and drugless healing, we could donothing better than take this paragraphas the text, and from some public lec-tures that I have heard in years goneby, by men who did not thoroughlyunderstand the subject of real psy-chology, it would be a good thing if they started with this text and thenclosed the lecture at the end of thetext before they said anything more.

The first part of this statement bythe professor says that 90% of theailments for which people go to doc-tors, clinics, hospitals, or specialists for

treatment are selflimited and tend toget well. In other words, 90% of theseailments are those which nature wouldcure through God’s own healing pro-cesses in our own bodies if we wouldremove the limitations and stop inter-fering with the processes of nature. Ido not think there is a truer statementthat has ever been made regarding hu-man ailments than this. In most of thehealing work done by every metaphysi-cian the greatest problem he has to deal with Is not the problem of givingthe right treatment to the patient for the healing of any ailment nor diagnos-ing what is wrong, nor recommendinganything to the patient in the way of aconstructive practice, but to get theideas out of the mind of the patientthat limit the healing processes and atthe same time remove all of the ob-stacles to nature ’s own work. Th ehardest thing in nearly all these casesis to get the patient to stop taking a lotof medicine or to stop analyzing hiscondition and trying to give fancy andfictitious names to his condition, and tostop thinking that he is going to getworse and may need two or three moredoctors and possibly a hospital opera-tion and several other things.

How often we find persons sufferingfrom some little discomfort in the chestor upper part of the body, and whohave analyzed it as being a weak heartor an abnormal condition of the heartof some kind, and who cannot help re-ferring to it as heart trouble. Everytime they feel a little cramp or pain,or congestion or strain, or something



else in breathing or moving, they in-stantly say to themselves or anyonewho is near them, “My heart hurtsme!” Eve ry time they become con-scious of an unusual sensation in thechest, they think of the heart, and talk

of the heart, and picture the heart asbeing affected. Such persons act andtalk as though the only organ, the onlyinner thing within the chest is theheart. You would never think that theyhad any lungs or any muscles, or nerves, tissues, or anything else in theupper part of the body. On the other hand, there are those who credit allsuch peculiar sensations, pains, or aches to the lungs. Th ey seem to thinkthat the lungs are the only thing thatexist in the upper part of the body, andcould be responsible for any sensation.

They are sure that they are going tohave tuberculosis or that they are go-ing to have some other fatal and long-standing illness connected with thelungs.

Then there are those women whofeel sure that every little ache and painin the upper part of their bodies is dueto the oncoming of cancer. Th ey haveread about it, heard about it, talkedover the fatal cancer cases that havebeen brought to their attention, andthey simply concentrate on that one

idea. Eve ry time a nerve in the upper part of their bodies gives a little twingeor there is a little cramp of some kind,they immediately say to themselves or someone else, “ I feel that I have thebeginning of cancer." Then there arethose who think that every little achethey have is a sure indication that theyhave gall stones or appendicitis, or liver trouble, or kidney trouble, or something else. Usual ly these personsget such ideas by comparing their ownvague symptoms with the vague de-scription of symptoms that some other

person has had who suffered from sucha disease as they are now picturing for themselves.

Every time that someone in a familypasses away from heart trouble, thereare sure to be a number of relatives of that person who will interpret everyache and pain they have as an indica-

tion that they also have heart trouble.

Every operation for gall stones in any

family or community of friends leads to

the suspicion of gall stones in connec-tion with every ache. Th ese are thelimitations to natural healing and tonature’s processes that interfere withthe metap hysician’s work. Such limit-ing thoughts are generally accompanied

by many forms of drugging and un-usual treatment. These persons willtry every remedy that anybody recom-mends to them; they will take hot bathsand will sweat themselves in electricblankets; they will make foolish regula-tions in their diet; change their generalhabits of living, walking, sleeping, andexercise, and will try more concoctionsin the form of specialized remedies thanany normal person would ever think of putting into the normal body.

Then when they go to get sometreatment for their condition, they willdiscount anything that is said to themby a physician who does not agree withtheir point of view. If they find aphysician who tells them that they aremistaken in thinking that they haveheart trouble, and that their trouble ismerely a nervous condition of themuscles in the chest, they will feel surethat the physician is incompetent andwill seek another and still another untilthey find one who agrees with their own diagnosis.

These persons generally end their

search by placing themselves in thehands of socalled specialists. Th e onewho is sure that he has heart troublewill not feel satisfied until he haseventually placed himself in the handsof a heart specialist. Th e one whothinks he has lung trouble will never be satisfied until he has placed himself in the hands of a lung specialist. Andso it goes.

It is not until such a person either becomes tired of the useless treatmentwhich does not seem to affect his con-dition one way or the other, or until

he has become convinced by some sanearguments and demonstrations that hegoes to a metaphysician or druglesshealer and gets some unbiased informa-tion.

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of the obstacles purged and cleansedand negated. It is just as though thephysician went up into the garret of thebrain of the patient and started withbrooms and vacuum cleaner, shovelsand pickax, and began to not only take

down cobwebs and dust, but all kindsof refuse in the way of boxes, crates,barrels, old cans, and what not, beforebeing able to set the garret into order.All this time the patient may think thathe is being given little benefit, andprobably wonders why some more ob-stacles and refuse in the way of pillsand medicine and other things are notbeing given to him. If his patiencelasts, and he is rational and saneenough to give the physician an oppor-tunity to get through with the housecleaning, he will begin to receive some

benefit through the constructive workthat the physician makes possible bygiving nature a chance.

Every drugless physician, like everymetaphysician, will frankly admit thatit is not his system, not his work, nothis peculiar methods that bring aboutthe cure, but nature through God'sown laws. He will frankly tell anyhonest patient that his work is not thehealing of the body as it is the healingof the mind through getting rid of thelimitations. It is absolutely true that in90% of such cases, God and naturallaws will take care of the healing with-out any physician of any kind, if thepatient would only give God a chance.But just as we often find our homes,our offices, our back yards, and our front yards so covered with dust or grime, and littered with undesirablethings that we send for an expert tocome and do the cleaning, so it isnecessary sometimes for patients to callin an expert to do some house cleaningthat we really could do ourselves, if weonly knew how to go about it.

Now, note that in the second partof the professor’s statement he saysthat in 90% of all human ailments thepsychic is the dominant factor. Do yourealize fully what this means? Itmeans that in a majority of the human,physical ailments, the real cause, thereal condition, the real seat and sourceof the trouble is not in the flesh or in

the material part of the body, but in

the psychic part of the body. W ha t a

wonder ful truth that is! It is the mostimportant, as well as the most astonish-ing, factor ever discovered in the fieldsof therapeutic research. Trac ing backthe art of therapy to the most primitivetribes in the most ancient of times,

we find that there has always been arealization on the part of those wrho aremystically inclined that some psychicelement entered into most of the humanailments. The ancient forms of incanta-tions and mystical ceremonies aroundan ailing person, and even the practicesof the American Indian medicine man,which were a highly evolved state of the ancient mystical practices, took intoconsideration the fact that the psychicpart of man had a great connectionwith his physical condition.

During the past hundred years, or

more, we have advanced from the spec-ulative, mystical state to the scientificunderstanding of the psychic nature of disease and we no longer work in thedark through the use of incantationsand vowel sounds, magical prayers,and formulas, which were little under-stood in their real nature, but weworked with highly evolved and wellunderstood psychic laws that are morereliable, more dependable, and moreabsolute in their action than any of theprocesses of the drug system of medi-cation.

In other words, there can be no ail-ment in the physical body unless thereis first of all an ailment in the psychicbody or the psychic part of our beings.The foolish objectors to this idea, wrhoare generally avowed medical practi-tioners, say that if the psychic part of man is divine and godly, there can beno illness in the psychic part, and thatit is only in the human, earthly, fleshpart of the body that illness can reside.That argument seems logical to a greatmany persons, and they often say to us

that they cannot believe that diseasecan start in the psychic part of our beings. This misunderstanding is dueto the wrong premise at the very be-ginning of the argument. These arg u-ments begin with the assumption thatthe psychic part of man is 100% di-vine, pure, and undefilable. The psychicpart of man is not the soul. It is hismental, psychological, neurological con-stitution. It is asso ciated with a soul;



it is associated with the divine part of man, but it is not the soul, itself.

Therefore, the psychic part of mancan become obsessed with wrong ideasor abnormal with wrong conditions. Our emotions will affect our psychic na-

tures. Anxiety , hatred, envy, jealousy,deceit, injustice, intolerance, and simi-lar destructive emotions, will shatter the harmony of the psychic part of ourselves and spread in its very beinga poison and toxic condition that is asdisastrous as poison of a material na-ture is to the physica l body. In thesame manner, the emotional part of ourselves may help to purge and purifythe psychic nature within each one of us. Thought s of love, kindness, mercy, just ice, toleration, go od will, universalbrotherhood, peace, harmony, and simi-lar emotions will act as a stimulant, asa perfume to the inner self, and makethe psychic part of our bodies pleas-ant, happy, strong, pure in every sense.

Every metaphysician knows that indiagnosing any illness, or Cosmic con-dition surrounding our lives, the causewill be found in the psychic nature of ourselves and in a preliminary condi-tion of the human body that seems tobe breaking it down or tearing it assunder, or keeping the blood impure,and causing all kinds of physical aches

and abnormalities can be traced to apoisonous condition of the psychic partof ourselves, and this psychic poisoningcan be traced to some silent or secret,or deeprooted emotion that is destruc-tive such as anger, hatred, jealousy, or some similar attitude toward a person,or a group of persons, or toward con-ditions generally.

The problem, therefore, is simple tothe metaphysician and to the druglesshealer, but difficult indeed to the pa-tient and to those healers who attemptto cure through purely material means.

To attempt to remove or affect thecause and conditions of ailments in thehuman body by medication directedtoward a chemical change in the physi-cal body alone is merely attempting tochange the outer manifestation of the

trouble without affecting the causewhatsoever. Any attempt to change thechemical nature of the blood and puri-fy it and bring it to a normal standardthrough medication or diet, or exercise,while the emotional, psychic part of

the nature of the body is being pois-oned and continuing to poison theblood, is simply to waste one’s effortsand to make no progress whatever inthe cure of disease.

Those of your friends, and especiallythose who are in various fields of medi-cal healing who decry or deny theefficacy of metaphysical healing shouldbe shown this statement by Dr. JosephByrne. But whether this scientist’sstatement is accepted or not, or whether some physician will believe in

metaphysical healing or not, the factremains that the metaphysician is ableto demonstrate the truthfulness of thisprinciple and to bring about cures andchanges in the human existence thatno other method or system can effect.

Man is truly fearfully and wonder-fully made, but all the wonder and allthe marvelousness of it does not restin the purely chemical composition andchemical actions and reactions of thephysical part of the body. The greatestwonder, the greatest marvel, the great-est magic, and miracle of man’s whole

existence is the psychic, soul part of hisbeing. Herein lies all the mystery of health and disease, power and strength,fortitude, and selfmastery. It is thispart of man that is the real part andit is this part that is the thinking, do-ing, mastering part of man’s existence.The Rosicrucian, the mystic generally,the metaphysician, are giving thegreater part of their thought to thisgreater part of man, while the other systems of helping man concentratetheir efforts exclusively on the lesser,material, negative, changeable, mortal

part of man, which is of little con-sequence, and which has no power of its own, no processes, and no methodswithin its own capabilities of recreat-ing, reconstructing, rebuilding andhealing the real body of man.

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A FALSE O R TRUE AR T ?

By R a l p h M. L e w i s , F.R.C.

V V V

HE human emotionswith their associatedmental processes arethe keyboard of manupon which he canever be played. Timem a y c h a n g e t h erhythm but the notesare ever on the samescale. There are certain

inherent characteristics which go to com-prise the mental and psychic makeupof man, and change is noticed not intheir nature but in their outlet only.Since their manifestation is ever ma-terial, physical, it is not difficult totrace.

Early in the event of man, as early

perhaps as the time when he became aselfconscious entity, certain conceptionsso gratified his emotions and intriguedhis imagination as to leave an indelibleimpression on his mental and psychicself. These characteristics he transmittedfrom tribe to tribe, race to race, andage to age, until they are deeply em-bedded in the sacred works of all re-ligions and social customs of everyperiod. O f outstanding importance isthe subtle influence of prediction, prog-nostication, or more commonly termed,fortunetelling, the ridicule of the

learned, the logic and persuasive factsof the scientists, notwithstanding.

The persistent attempt to relegatesystems of divination to the category of superstition upon the part of thelearned have merely obliged the de-votees to entrench themselves morefirmly. Thus they have resorted topsuedo religious, moral, ethical andscientific methods for a justification of their beliefs. No period has seen a

lesser interest than another in predic-tion, that is, as concerns the interest of the mass as a whole. Some periods of high civilization have witnessed statesanction of the practices, such as theoracular systems of Greece and Rome;but even under religious condemnationand persecution, the mass have clungtenaciously to prediction. The questionnaturally arises, why? It is not suffi-cient alone to say that the tradition of the practices are accepted withoutquestion. As any custom which is notin accord with the inner feelings of theindividual is soon cast aside. The emo-tional urge, therefore, may be either love, fear, hatred or selfpreservation.To understand the reason why even in

modern times the custom of predictionpersists, we must study the notes of the human keyboard, namely, the emo-tions. Thro ugh ascertaining the prob-able cause of the desire of the indi-vidual to foretell the future, we cancome to understand its uselessness tomankind.

Let us analyze from the view of thesense of satisfaction to be derived fromthe knowledge of forthcoming events.The past is an experience and one thatis personally and directly acquired. Theinstances are classified in our memory

unconsciously as those of a pleasurableor disagreeable nature. The past, un-doubtedly, affords knowledge of waysand means to comfort varied conditionswhen they arise. But the question is,when will the need arise? Wi ll cer-tain occurrences of the past reoccur?Again will the individual have a futurecomparable to the past, more favorableor unfavorable? Th e present is butmomentary, if it is that. Th e present



is like Heraclitus said about matter;that is, it is a state of becoming—be-coming the past.

Unlike either the past or the present,the future is unlimited. It holds possi -bilities; it may be the reward for the

endurance of ordeals of both the pastand the present . Is the inclination todetermine the future due to the secondgreatest force of human nature, curio-sity? Is it merely an overwhelming de-sire to fathom the unknown? Super-ficially, it would appear to be. In manyinstances those most interested in sys-tems of prediction emphatically pro-claim their disbelief in the authenticityof divinations or predictions. But their continued recourse to different methodsbecomes ipso facto, a disprover of their proclamations.

The interest in prognostication isdeeper and more vital than mere fascin-ation. It goes beyond the desire tolearn the completion of a series of events, the closing of a tale. The subtleforce that impels one to determine whatlies ahead is not like the inclination onehas to turn to the forward chapters of a book to learn the conclusion of anovel. Th e future to the modern highlycivilized man and to the aboriginal alikeseems like a black abyss. Man maycolor it with his imagination. He may

adorn it with dreams of golden possi-bilities. He may speak of it as a virginfield for his endeavors. Yet, in reality,the future lies behind a veil which hisobjective senses cannot pierce, and manis inwardly conscious of this fact. Thefuture hangs like a pall above him. Notin the sense that the future will beoppressive or disagreeable but there isno definite assurance that it will not be.

In that lack of assurance lies thefundamental answer to man's interestin prediction. The fear of an impend-ing course of events which inevitably

will occur and whose results are notknown brings terror. If but a rendcould be torn in the veil between thepresent and that to come, it wouldafford an insight into the future which,whether favorable or not, would atleast give an assurance. It would per-mit certainty of what was impendingand permit peace of mind and time for preparat ion. Fortified with the exper i-ence of the past, one would have a pos-sible chance of averting misfortune.

These seem to be the distinctive ad-vantages of foretelling the future. Per-haps at this time there arises in themind of the reader the thought of thedisadvantages of prediction of events.W e are, however, at this time only dis -

cussing the sense of satisfaction to bederived from foretelling the future. Onewho is convinced that the events of thefuture are about to be revealed to himcan never be dissuaded. It is only after he is possessed of the prediction can hebe reasoned with.

Thus the object of this article is tohelp the adherent to systems of prog-nostication to weigh theprima facie factsalready before him. Further substantia-tion of the contention that selfassur-ance is the primary motive for interest-

ing prediction is the individualized in-terest shown. Th e questions directed tothe oracle at Delhi or to the modernvaudeville entertainer compare in simi-larity very favorably. The questions in-variably are involved around the per-sonal welfare of the interrogator, suchquestions as to whether the financial,physical, and domestic status will re-main the same, whether impending fav-orable or unfavorable affairs will bechanged. Above all, paramount issuesof the moment are considered in their future light.

It is a rare instance when a devoteeof prediction seeks light on the futureoutcome of the race of man, on the ad-vancement of society, or the probableoutcome of the universe. Prediction isbound to the self interest s of man. Afuture in which man cannot visualizehimself as an important actor, or atleast part of the setting, is empty andmeaningless to him. Thi s is perhaps tobe expected, after all. The mass of men dwelling in the N O W , the pres-ent, concern themselves with the pres-

ent only, as it relates to their needs.They entertain little thought that theresults of the present are preparationsfor a future generation. One must not

think that man’s individualized outlookon the future is of a selfish impulse. It

really is an instinctive attempt to forti-fy against the loss of possessions.

The California orange grower whoconsults the meteorological expert onthe weather conditions and when



warned of an impending frost, immedi-ately uses smudge fires to prevent in-

ju ry to his crops, is not primarily sel-fish in his actions and his interests. Itis an attempt to preserve what he hasor is responsible for. Th e weather pre-

diction to him is not a means wherebyhe alone can have a crop by obtainingadvance information of danger andthereby safeguard against it; it is an in-stinctive desire to be cautious to pre-vent anything from disturbing the pres-ent sta tus of his wellbeing. In thesense, therefore, of assurance of safety,the attempt to preserve one’s well beinginstead of selfishness is their individual-ized interest in prediction.

The origin of divination or predic-tion affords a student opportunity for extensive research. It permits an in-

sight into the innermost workings of the mental processes of man. Prominentacademic psychologists declare the birthof prediction as a practice to have beenassociated with magic, the predecessor of early forms of religion. Even today,among primitive people still practicingsympathetic magic, may we find predic-tion as we would expect to find it prac-ticed by our earliest ancestors.

That phase of sympathetic magicknown as homeopathic or imitativemagic serves well to illustrate our pointon the origin of prediction— to quote

Sir J. G. Fraser, “The principle of imitative magic is, that like produceslike, or that an effect resembles itscause. It may be also called the law of similarity. It must be remembered magicis a spurious system of natural law aswell as a fallacious guide of conduct;it is a false science as well as an abor-tive art.”

As an example of imitative magicwe find sorcerers and shaman of African tribes modeling miniatures of their enemies from limbs of trees whichthey place upright in the ground and

proceed to skillfully pierce with a sharpmetal weapon in the region of theheart. Th is is, of course, accompaniedwith the usual embellishments of chant

T he ing and the ritual. Th e intention wasRmlrrnr ;™ to suggest to nature, the natural forces,

that like misfortune should befall thehated enemy when engaged in combat.The miniature being a resemblance tothe enemy, the enemy would, therefore,

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suffer the misfortune of the carvedfigure.

Other examples of this type of im-itative magic are the piercing of minia-ture figures in the regions of the heart,stomach, and eyes, the belief being

that the sympathetic bond between theone in mind and the effigy would re-sult in severe pain in the particular organ pierced. Further developmentsresulted in the evolution of imitativemagic into the systems of prediction.The natural formation of rocks andlimbs of trees resembling grotesquefaces or malformed limbs of humanswas accepted as a prediction of aphysical misfortune to befall the finder.

In this early beginning we see pre-diction being evolved into the directmeaning of divination, that is, a divine

revelation. Th e forecast was not re-ceived through a third party, namely,a medium of any sort, but the appar-ent message of divinity was given di-rectly through some sign or omen to thereceiver. Eventually, omens becamewell established. Cloud formations,eclipses of the sun, comets and rain-bows— these signs were believed to beomnipotent demonstrations of impend-ing events. Ma ny of which, we willsee, have carried down to this day.More and more man became solicitousof nature for certain signs of what thefuture would reveal. Among the mass

certain ones became skilled in the inter-pretation of the meaning of peculiar cries of birds, the movement and posi-tion of animals, the designs cast byshadows, and whatever appealed to thefantasy of their imagination.

These interpreters of omens weresecluded from the mass as being all-wise, as having natural communicationwith the God or gods. Priesthoodswere established and they were con-sulted for their impressions of strangeconditions. Oftimes the interpretationof a phenomenon was different at every

consultation; at other times a singular aptitude for reasoning out the probableconclusion of circumstances indicated akeen appreciation of human behavior-ism. Eventually, however, there cameabout a standardization of interpreta-tion of omens, so much so that we cantrace the migration of races by thestudy of similarity of their ritualisticpractices.



It is interesting to review some of the most common forms of divinationas practiced by the ancient primitivepeople. W e find divination or predic-tion by bodily action, that is, the in-voluntary action of the body— sneez-ing, for instance. Sneezing was con-sidered ominous, as the sudden con-vulsion was thought to disturb the soul,perhaps, dislodge it. Immediately after sneezing a prayer or blessing for thewelfare of the sneezer was offered. W efind this custom well practiced in oldPrussia and even prevalent in Germanytoday. (Gesundheit!). The cracklingof joints was taken as a spirits answer to a wish; the particular joint indicatedthe answer. Divinations by mechanicalmeans were numerous. A wild lemon

for example, was pierced by a longslender fishbone so that the bone withthe lemon firmly lodged at one end re-sembled the pendulum of a clock. Itwas so suspended that it could movefreely; whichever side it swung to im-plied a supernatural answer to a ques-tion.

Investigators of the practice amongprimitive people today report an un-canny accuracy in the decisions of thisform of mechanical divination. Their explanation is that the shaman, or medicine man, or oracle, is very close

to the pendulum and his involuntarymuscular action causes the propulsionof the pendulum to either side. Thisanswer, however, seems to be very in-complete and evasive of a better ex-planation, or it is an admittance thatnone is known. Mecha nical divinationof our present day is seen in such prac-tices as the ouija board, automatic slate,and mirror reading. W e find ancientprediction also in the form of hepatoscony. The liver of a freshly killedbullock was taken by the ancientAssyrians and Babylonians to their seer. He read the signs from the rightand left lower lobes, the maze of crossducts and subsidiary veins were inter-preted in omens of good or bad intent.Even the gall bladder contributed toprediction. A swollen gall bladder meant an increase of power to theregime or an increase of power to theenemy.

W e also find rhabdomancy, that is,divination by the staff, rod and arrow,as for example, “Jacobs peeled rods.”

(Gen. 30,37.) A limb of a tree wasformed into a slender rod, was peeledon one side and thrown into the air.The side it landed upon determined thefuture. Arro ws were shot straight up-ward; whichever side of a selected object it fell upon indicated the foretell -ing of coming events. Our wishingbone originated from the practices of early Christian festivities. Te a leaf reading and cup reading was contrib-uted by the Jewish oracles who cuppedtheir hands and read the signs therein.This also is the predecessor of our presentday palmistry. The persistanceof these practices is seen on all sidestoday.

Of essential interest is the answer tothe question, are the practices to be

relied upon and are they dangerous tothe adherent? Obviously , when we godeductively back in the tracing of theorigin of the forms of prediction, wefind them to be based upon the wildestsuperstition. An y rational person canlogically prove this to be so.

If we believe the events of the futureare to be revealed to us as completepictures of subsequent conditions, wemust of necessity, therefore, accept fa-talism as our philosophy. W e must beconvinced of predestination. One must,therefore, have faith in the belief that

some intelligence has carefully, in ad-vance, ordained what every act of hisfuture is to be. If one places relianceon predestination, then one becomes aslave chained to a course of events thatno effort, intelligence, or will on hispart can alter or even modify. Ma nmay as well then admit that the free-dom of will, individually, the power of mental creation, are mere meaninglessterms because fate would not permitthem to intercede for the slightest mod-ification of her plans. Man could never

hope to overcome the inequality of hisbirth.If one is not a fatalist, then he can-

not be a slave to a system of prediction.If one is to place reliance upon predic-tion, he first must have the fundamentalbelief that the revelations are estab-lished, definite and actually to occur.Is it not logical to say that no one canbe sincerely interested in predictionwho doubts that the events of his fu-ture are not of his own making? If oneholds the conception that he is master



of his own destiny and can exercise hisown will and intelligence and maythereby alter impending conditions, hecannot reconcile these thoughts to afixed fate, no matter how impressive its

relating may sound. Fatalis m and pre-diction must of necessity go hand inhand. T o the one who believes that hispath in life has been layed down in ad-vance and that he can never deviatefrom it, prediction naturally is the nextstep he must take because, logically,one who believes that way wishes tohave revealed to him what the path isso he may trudge it as a horse would atreadmill.

It is not the purpose of this articleto discuss the fallacies of fatalism. If one is a converted fatalist, he cannot

be discouraged from dependency inprediction until he is first convinced tothe contrary of fatalism; but to thoserational persons who readily deny thedoctrine of fatalism, one can say, why,then, allay yourselves with its accessoryprediction?

There is considerable danger in pre-diction when one considers the psy-chological effect on the mind of themany who practice it. Th e direct sug -gestions as to conditions that are tooccur and will occur according to theoracle or medium, as the case may be,

are apt to compel one to fall into a stateof fatalism without a realization that heis doing so or without an appreciationof what fatalism means. For an ex-ample, if a certain seer, fortune teller,or a certain type of astrologer predictsa period of ill health, which, accordingto them, one absolutely must expect,the subject resigns himself to the pre-diction; he relegates his consciousnessto the mental picture given him: heaccepts the sugge stion as final. Manypersons when told by socalled fortunetellers that a certain year was to be

extremely bad for business ventures of any nature, no matter what they did toprevent it, have regulated their affairsaccordingly. Th ey immediately en-trenched in business enterprise whenthat period came about. Th ey would

The not consider any attempt to oppose thePntimtrism prediction, accepting the prediction asn : absolute, and. of course, the prediction

''S was fulfilled, their business did fail—Decem ber they, themselves, were responsible193 1 for its failure.

Just recently a woman in Australiawrote to me stating that she must be inreceipt of materials from me by a cer-tain time, as she had only till March,1932, to live. An astro loger told her,

so she alleges, that in March, 1932,she was to enter transition. She soaccepted this negative fatalistic sug-gestion as to actually prepare for tran-sition as though she had in reality re-ceived a death warrant from the Al-mighty, as though He had set her ex-ecution for that time.

These persons who put utter faith inprediction as conditions that are tocome about and which are unconquer-able assign their Godgiven privilegeof free agency to the monster of super-stition. From then on fear Jashes them

and their inhibited minds drive theminto the pit which they have let othersdig for them. Ma n is the builder of his own future. If you think not, thenwhy believe in a God, virtue, goodness,morals, even prayer? W h y recourse tothe solicitation of the Almighty for understanding, help, mercy, if we areby our very birth placed in a rut fromwhich we can never expect to be lifted?W h y even hope to conquer, to achieve,attain enlightenment, to expect prog-ress or selfdevelopment, if the wayprepared for us does not permit such

accomplishments? Th ese two conceptscannot be reconciled. If we believe manis possessed of a soul, regardless of our religious convictions, and that thissoul is part of an Infinite intelligenceand capable of Cosmic consciousness,then we must believe man capable of climbing to the highest pinnacle of hisideals. W e must think of him eachday, yes, each minute, as building afoundation upon which a mighty, noblestructure can arise in the future.

Man makes his own environment;not the environment man, if he exertshimself. If man casts aside his blessingof rational reasoning and permits him-self to be swept by circumstances,either actual or suggested, then en-vironment molds man, molding him towhatever pattern it has. Reliance maybe placed upon a system of predictiononly when that system is composed of a law in accordance with the estab-lished, intelligent creative laws of theuniverse. Whe never a system of pre



diction purports to reveal a future asimmutable, limited, not subject to thetransmutation of man’s mind, then itdefies the very first law of God. Thatfirst law is the freedom of personal ex-

pression, of spiritual unfoldment, of progression. It also denies the creativepower of the Cosmic which every manand woman may employ for his self-

improvement through supplication. Asystem of prognostication, which eventhough based on sound, natural law,and which does not admit that its pre-dictions are mere inclinations and dis-

posed to transmutation is false. Divin-ity has created the multifarious ele-ments of our destiny, but man may di-rect their assembly.

V V V V V

Contacting The Spiritual World

ARE SEANCES AND AUTOMATIC WRITING

DEPENDABLE ?

By t h e I m p e r a t o r

T SE E M S to me thatevery so often, ap-proximately every year or two, I find it neces-sary to speak to our members on the sub-

ject of Spiri tualismand ways and means

of contacting the spir-itual world. N e w

members who are admitted to the or-ganization and many of their friends,who have read any of the old issues of our magazines and other publications,feel that they do not thoroughly under-stand what the attitude of the Rosicru-cian Brotherhood is in regard to thissubject. Therefore, as the correspond-ence on this point increases in volume,I find it necessary every year or twoto speak about it through the pages of our monthly magazine.

Many of those who write to me inthese days seem to feel that the Spir-itualistic movement, or rather theclaims and propaganda of Spiritualism,are more intense and more widespreadtoday than they have ever been in thepast. My writers argue that this in-dicates that the Spiritualistic movementand the belief in seances and other forms of Spiritualistic experimentationare becoming more popular and moreacceptable to the public.

As a matter of fact, my intimateknowledge of and contact with theSpiritualistic movement twenty or thirtyfive years ago convinces me thatthere was far more popular interest,and certainly far more individual ex-perimentation and investigation alongSpiritualistic lines in those years than

there is at the present time. It maybe that many thousands who should beexperimenting now or investigating arefreely accepting the claims of Spirit-ualism without investigating and, there-fore, the movement and the beliefs of Spiritualism has more followers todaythan it ever had, despite the fact thatthere are not as many seances beingheld in upper rooms in various parts of each city, as was quite common severaldecades ago.

Within recent months, however, sev-eral movements have been inaugurated,tending to utilize the unawakened or dormant interest in Spiritualistic com-munication, and to direct this interestalong new lines and into new channels.I must admit, however, that this newpropaganda is not of the unselfish andpurely religious type that animatedthousands of Spiritualistic centers inthe United States many years ago andstill animates them. I even feel thatsome of the new propaganda in thisline is of a commercial nature, and



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while it is very intelligently conductedin order to appeal to thinking minds,there is an unmistakable note of selfish-ness and personal interest back of thesenew, popular movements.

The idea that through public meet-ings and study classes, and through afew books and magazines, individualscan be easily taught to successfullycontact the spiritual world and receivereliable and intimate personal informa-tion of a practical nature makes astrong appeal to those who are in aquandary and to those who love any-thing of a weird and mystical nature;but the methods used are associatedwith commercial features, and there islacking the high religious motive thathas really been the most sincere ele-ment in all previous Spiritualistic move-ments.

A great many of our members be-lieve that the Rosicrucian organizationcondemns widely, broadly, and intoler-antly all investigation of the possibilityof spiritual communication, and that itcondemns all investigators, all seekersfor truth in this connection, as either mentally incompetent or wilfully fraud-ulent. Th is is not the true attitude of our fraternity, and I would regret anyact or word on our part that wouldreally indicate such an attitude.

It is true that in the past, and at thepresent, and undoubtedly the same willbe true of the future, we disapprove of unscientific, haphazard investigationand experiments, dealing with unknownlaws and principles of the Cosmic or the spiritual world. W e likewise dis-approve of those practices, systems or methods, which are promulgated assimple and harmless ways of contactingthe spiritual world, and which we knowto be not only misleading and futile inthe results obtained but often danger-ous to the psychic development andmental status of the experimenter.

I do not mean to say that in attempt-ing to test the Spiritualistic claims,there is grave danger of coming in con-tact with some mighty force or power that may destroy the experimenter be-fore he has an opportunity to protecthimself. Whatever forces, powers,laws, and principles the experimenter may contact in his experimenting aregenerally good and constructive, andcan do him or her no harm. But, some

of the methods advocated and some of the principles used by a few modernmovements are harmful, inasmuch asthey are unnatural and are a strainupon certain faculties and functioningsof the psychic self, and lead to indul-gences of a mental or psychic nature,which are dangerous.

In any method of proper attunementwith the spiritual world, or with thepsychic personality of any being, thereshould be such a preponderance of peace, healthgiving vibrations, and su-preme illumination, that the wise inves-tigator will find himself being greatlybenefited spiritually, mentally, and phy-sically, through his contacts with thehigher realm. The re is probably nomore beautiful, no more supremelybeneficial practice in life than that of attunement with the spiritual world inmeditation, prayer, contemplation, or even experimentation. I know from ex-perience and from the testimony of thousands of men and women thatevery moment spent in the attempt toproperly and truly attune with the spir-itual world brings a rich spiritual re-ward that is as necessary to a life of glorious living as any benefit that isgranted to humans here on earth.

I am not going to take time or spaceto argue whether many of the com-

munications or socalled messages re-ceived by eminent persons, or by ex-perimenters, have actually come fromdeparted personalities living in the spir-itual world or not. I think all such dis-cussion is beside the question. I thinkit is generally admitted that if there isa spiritual world in which the soul or personality of the departed ones con-tinue to live that such personalities willattempt to impress their mind uponothers on the earth plane here, and thatthis impression will translate itself intowhat might be called messages or

visions, communications, or inspirations.I do not believe, from my own experi-ence of over thirty years’ investigationof such communications and such pro-cesses for bringing communicationsabout, that the foolish, unimportant,

unreliable, and nonsensical “messages”that some persons claim to receive from

the spiritual world ever emanated from

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I know also that all who depart fromthis life at the time of transition do notdepart to such an extent that their per-sonalities are immediately transferredto a higher realm where every evil

thought, every evil idea, and everyearthly passion and impulse are in-stantaneously eliminated. In other words, I know that the mere transitionor separation of personality and bodydoes not result in an automatic purgingof the mind and personality of the per-son to such an extent that they areimmediately free of all of the erroneousideas and tendencies, as well as evilbeliefs and habits, which they posses-sed while still in the body. W e shouldrealize that in attempting to make con-tact with the spiritual personalities of

those who have gone from active lifehere, we are opening the doorwaywidely and broadly to unrestrainedcontact with any and all personalitiesthat may be able to contact us.

Therefore, in attempting to contactthe spiritual realm of the Cosmic realm,we should keep in mind that we maynot be necessarily contacting those whoare pure of thought and truly spiritual-ized in the highest sense. Mo st cer-tainly, one would be foolish to thinkthat because Berkeley, California, isthe seat of great learning and manyschools and systems of ethical culture,that by merely going to Berkeley andcontacting anyone passing on thestreet, one would come in contact witha highly evolved, highly educated, andextremely ethical personality. To be-lieve that by making such a casual con-tact with anyone in the city of Berkeleywould result in a noble inspiration, abeautiful idea, or a trustworthy com-munication would be to open our mindsto many forms of deceit and bitter dis-appointment.

Since the spiritual world is peopledby those who have evolved to andattained the highest degree of spiritualdevelopment and understandig, as wellas by those who are a little better thanwhat they were here on the earthplane, it should be apparent to everysane and rational investigator that ex-

treme care must be taken in making

spiritual contacts at any time, especially

if one is going to place any depend-

ence, reliability, or faith in the results

of the contact, or if one is going to beinfluenced by the impressions that re-sult from such contacts.

The Rosicrucians know also that thehighest types existing in the spiritual

world are not waiting momentarily,hourly, and daily for contacts fromanyone with any kind of a motive andfor any purpose. If contact with thesehighly evolved spiritual beings is possi-ble at all, it is possible only because of a high motive and because the personseeking the contact is able to spirit-ualize himself or inwardly attune him-self to the same noble, beautiful, spir-itual standard possessed by the onebeing sought.

W e cannot conceive of a spiritualrealm in which the most noble and

beautifully evolved beings of all times,devoted to a great and noble work,place themselves in such a position asto be available to any person who callsfor them through any professionalmedium, or through any simple processof concentration. W e do not find thenoble persons of this earth plane or the highly evolved, intellectual, spiritualbeings of our earthly surroundings con-stantly available to everyone who seekstheir words of advice or help, nor dowe find these wonderful charactersready to answer foolish and nonsensi-cal questions relating to the most idioticincidents of life.

Without being too personal, I mightsay that in my own case, I feel that Iwould be in any spiritual realm of con-sciousness in the future, much like Iam today. Since my present positionaffords me the opportunity of givingadvice and help to those who havereally serious problems and who aredevoting their time and their efforts tohelping others in the higher and morenoble things of life, I find it necessary,

because of the lack of time and condi-tions, to limit my services, my inter-views, my correspondence, and my per-sonal contacts, to those who have onlythe serious things of life, the more im-portant things of this earth, and thehighest motives as the urges for their contact with me. Since time and manyother conditions necessitate the limita-

tion of the number of contacts that can

be made with me in twentyfour hours,

and since I must keep my mind attuned



with the higher and better things of life, rather than with the sordid andpurely selfish, I naturally refrain fromsuch contacts, interviews or calls uponmy time as are outside of the standard

I have set. Mo st certainly, when mysoul is freed of this body and I findmyself conscious in a higher realm withthe ability to do in a larger scale whatI have been trying to do here on earthfor thirty or more years, and with myown evolution and development to keepin mind also, I will not reverse mypresent methods and place myself insuch a position that I will be availableto everyone who calls upon me in amental way, or everyone who rings apsychic bell and asks that I appear intheir presence and talk with them onany subject, or help them in any per-

sonal, selfish, or nonsensical plan or scheme that they may have.

There are those who think that whileit would be presumptuous to call at myoffice and interrupt my work, merelyto ask me if I can help them find alost pocketbook or tell them whether two sweethearts will eventually marryor not, it would not be presumptuousto call upon me in a psychic state after my transition and demand that I giveof my more important spiritual time ahalf hour or more to the considerationof such unimportant problems.

When persons approach the spiritualworld with such unspiritual questionsin their minds and with purely earthly,mundane problems to be solved, theyare very apt to come in contact withthose who are on a level of develop-ment or on a plane of consciousnessagreeable to the nature of the problemsbeing presented, or perhaps in contactwith those who are still so earthly intheir consciousness and forms of think-ing that they will give any kind of ananswer, any form of advice, and laughat the gullibility of the inquirer.

What are we to think, therefore, of some of the modern systems whichpromulgate the idea of using the ouija board, or using automatic writing, or

j" / ie writing in a mirror, as simple and easy

Rosicrucian £ aV5 contacting the spiritual world?. . Certainly, this is belittling the highUigest standard of true spiritual doctrines andDecember it is placing the inquirer, the investi1931 gator , in a serious position. From a

long and careful study made of socalled spiritual practices in the past, Iam fully convinced of two things re-garding socalled automatic writing. Inthe first place, most of such writing is

useless, unreliable, deceiving, and non-sensical. Secondly , a persistence in thepractice of relaxing and submittingone's nervous and psychic self to theimpulses of automatic writing generallyresults in regretted and sorrowful con-ditions of mind and consciousness. Infact, I do not know of anything of amental or psychic nature that has sounbalanced so many minds and left somany rational and clear thinking brainsin a muddle of irrationality, borderingupon insanity, as has the continuedpractice of automatic writing.

I think that we receive each monthin our offices at least one hundredmanuscripts from one hundred differentpersons asking us to judge the value of something that has been written auto-matically, and each month brings a newbatch of manuscripts from an entirelynew group of writers. In every case,these writings are of little value, for the statements in them are unreliableand usually uninteresting except to theperson who receives them. Secondly, amajority of them show that the mindof the writer is wandering in its sane-ness and ability to logically reason,otherwise he would not permit the pen-cil in his hands to write such matter as even a child would recognize asbeing silly, uninterestiing, unprofitable,and usually wholly ungrammatical andillogical. Certainly, if the same matter was written under normal conditionsand sent by one person to another bymail as a normal communication, itwould be considered a sure indicationof a subnormal mental condition.

The very best authorities in thestudy of spiritualism today have longsince reached the conclusion that theonly dependable and reliable informa-tion to be secured from the spiritualworld is that which comes silently, un-pretentiously. and generally unexpect-edly to some worthy person in the hour of real need, and when there is realspiritual attunement. I have talkedmuch with some of the leaders of themore scientific schools of spiritual phi-losophy, and find that they agree with



me that the organized systems or theplans for organized and group contactwith spiritual beings is not the trueand dependable way of discovering anyreal evidence regarding the facts of a

future life.

A Word of Warning

Therefore, I feel that I am justified inissuing this word of warning and urg-ing others to think twice before theyallow themselves to be drawn into anynew movement that has for its motive,or for its objective, the attunement withthe spiritual world, for the purpose of receiving messages through automaticwriting or similar methods. Nor, arethe popular movements, designed to en-

able individuals to reach the psychicworld for personal experiences, to bedepended upon, while they are oper-ated as a nationwide movement asso-ciated with some form of commercial-ism. I am not criticizing the manybeautiful and wonderful Spiritualisticchurches to be found in thousands of our American cities and in other landswhere sacred services are held, andwhere the thoughts and vibrations of those in the congregation are graduallylifted to a higher realm where theymay contact some inspirational com-munication, which they will feel in-wardly in a moment of divine attune-ment. No r do I mean to criticize thosewho are devoting their lives to thework of acting as a spiritualized me-dium in assisting others to attune them-selves properly. But I do mean to criti-cize some of the popular movements,which are attempting to promote or-

ganized classes for the study of auto-

matic writing. Spiritualistic communica-

tion, and other forms of weird, spir-

itual practices, solely for the sake of making the little mystery that sur-

rounds Spiritualism of popular appeal

and thereby rob the entire practice of

its sacredness, solemnity, and dignity.

As fast as we find any of our mem-

bers associated with any such move-

ments as these, we are advising them

that they must discontinue such work

or discontinue their membership withour organization.

W e have said over and over againin our lectures and in all of our teach-ings that the true way of contactingany possible spiritual realm in whichthere may be any spiritual personalities

worthy of contact is to develop one'sown inner, sacred, psychic self to sucha high degree of spiritual attunementthat contact will be easy and simple inthe privacy of one’s own life and with-out any of the mechanics, without anyof the claptrap, and without any of thedangers of fantastic practices. In other words, it is not necessary that another disembodied personality should takepossession of you and of your hand,and of your muscles, and automaticallywrite what you, yourself, would notthink of writing. No r is it necessary or

helpful for you to allow yourself to beenveloped by the personality of someearthbound character that has not yetevolved to a high spiritual state, andthereby become a slave to this char-acter, and to chatter or talk, or dothings that this invisible personalitymay force you to do through takingpossession of your nervous system andyour mind power.

The only reliable, dependable, andennobling contacts of a spiritual natureare those which are made by you in

all of your goodness and psychic evolu-tion reaching up to the highest charac-ters that can be contacted, and therebymaking sure that the contact takesplace in the highest realms rather thandown here in the lowest.

W e greatly regret the present popu-lar movements in this regard for theyare tending to hold the spiritual con-tacts upon the lowest level and willunquestionably result in many sad ex-periences for the thousands who arenow abandoning all of their sane andrational thinking for the sake of fol-

lowing something that appears to benew, but which, after all, is as old asmany of the socalled forms of blackmagic and witchcraft. T o assist in suchmovements, to promote them, and todelve into their practices is regrettable,and I trust that none of our honoredand respected members will be tempted

to take part in any such propaganda,

no matter by whom originated, nor how

ethically and intellectually the propa-

ganda may be presented.



The "Cathedral of the Soul” is a Cosmic meeting place for all minds of the most advanced and highly developed spiritual members and workers of the Rosicrucian Fraternity. It is a focal point of Cosmic radiations andthought waves from which radiates vibrations of health, peace, happiness,and inner awakening. Var ious periods of the day are set aside when manythousands of minds are attuned with the Cathedral of the Soul, and othersattuning with the Cathedral at this time will receive the benefit of the vibra-tions. Th ose who are not members of the organization may share in thisunusual benefit as well as those who are members. Th e book called “ Liber

777” describes the periods for various contacts with the Cathedral. Copieswill be sent to persons who are not members by addressing their request for this book to librarian S. P. C.. care of AMORC Temple, San Jose, California,enclosing three cents in postage stamps.

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URING the holiday sea-son there should be nointerference with theCathedral contacts and,in fact, there should be

more incentive for thekeeping of these contactsat the regular periods.

The increasing inter-est in all of the Cathedral periods andthe fact that each month adds severalthousand persons to those who are mak-ing the contacts should encourage allof us to get the utmost out of this oppor-tunity.

Throughout December the regular periods will be adhered to, except thatat 7:00, Pacific Standard Time, on theevening of Thursday, December 24,

there will be a special period conductedby the Imperator as a Christmas eveperiod. Th is will last for ten minutesbeginning at 7:00, Pacific StandardTime, and this is equal to 10:00 East

'J'fle ern Standard Time, other hours accordr, • ing to the distance from the Pac ific

osictucian coas{. g e sure to refer {0 table of

Uigest time periods in the book “Liber 111"December ]n figuring the difference in time be1931 tween your location and San Jose.

Then again at precisely midnight onThursday evening, December 24, Paci-fic Standard Time, there will be another period conducted by the Imperator for ten minutes. Th is will be equivalent

to 3:00 to 3:10 A.M., Friday morning,Eastern Standa rd Time. Those whocan stay awake or who may be awaken-ed by the vibrations of the period areinvited to participate in this ten min-ute mystical period in celebration of thecoming to the earth of the Christ con-sciousness. Midnight of December 2425 has always been a mystical periodand was celebrated as such long beforethe birth of Jesus the Christ, and avery mystical ceremony will be carriedon in the Cathedral of the Soul on thisoccasion.

Excellent reports are coming to usfrom all parts of the world regardingthe benefits derived from contact withthe Cathedral and even from those whohave not consciously made the contact.W e receive reports that sitting in sil-ence or relaxation during these periodsbrings not only peace and health, butanything asked of the Cosmic duringsuch periods seems to reach to greater distances or greater heights with more



abundant response than at any other time. In other words, it is an excellentperiod for Cosmic attunement whether you are consciously aware of your Cathedral contact or not.

These Cathedral contacts are being

augmented by the special spiritual cere-mony held every Tuesday night in theSupreme Lodge in San Jose by GrandMaste r Dean. At precisely 8:00, Paci-fic Standard Time, every Tuesday nightthe members and highest officers asso-ciated with Grand Master Dean in hisspiritual ceremony will sit in silence andsend forth to all members everywherespecial healing and strengthening vib-rations for ten minutes. If you enjoythe inspiration and uplift of the contactwith thousands of Brothers and Sisterseverywhere, sending to you and receiv-ing in exchange vibrations of love,peace, health, and happiness, then donot miss this Tuesday night period of each week beginning at 8:00, PacificStandard Time, and if you are ever anywhere near San Jose and can reachthis city and temple in time for suchceremony, remember that you are veryheartily welcome to come and parti-cipate personally in this highly ritual-istic spiritual period of unfoldmentwhich is for members exclusively.

The radio announcements to be found

elsewhere in this magazine will tell youwhen you may attune with our radioprograms and with the healing periodsconducted during these programs. Tellyour friends about these radio programs

and have them tune in to the music andattune with us and receive benefits fromthem each week.

The same healing vibrations with thewonderful mystical music are conductedevery Sunday night in the special pu

lic meeting held in the great FrancisBacon Auditorium at Rosicrucian Park,San Jose. Tho se living near enough tobe present personally are invited tocome to these meetings, beginning at7:30 each Sunday evening, and you maybring your friends. W e must warn our members and friends, however, that athousand persons tried to get into thesemeetings each Sunday night and somewere turned away because they cametoo late to get seats. Th e doors areopen at 7:00, and unless you are presentby a quarter past seven it is doubtful if you will find a seat in the large audi-torium or its lobby.

In many other cities such as Minnea-polis. New York, Boston, San Francisco,Los Angeles and other places of theUnited States and Canada, public meet-ings are being held on Sunday for thebenefit of members and their friends.Get in touch with the local Secretaryor district representative and find outwhen and where these meetings arebeing held and bring your friends tothem. The coming year is going to see

the greatest revival of Rosicrucianismin this country that the world has ever experienced and we are now only begin-ning to announce a few of the first plansfor this great year of activity.

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If you would be interested in seeing some of the various volumes of the Rosicrucian

Library, such as are advertised in this magazine and elsewhere by the RosicrucianSupply Bureau, go to your local book dealer, one of the established dealers of your

community, and state what bock, or books, of the Rosicrucian Library you are inter-

ested in seeing before purchasing. Ha ve the deale rs write vis and we will arrange to send

books to the dealer so that you may secure them from him after examining same. Th e

dealer may merely write to us directly and we will arrange it with him. Of course, you

may always secure the books directly from the Rosicrucian Supply Bureau, San Jose,California.



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PRIVATE INSTRUCTIONS AT HOMEThe Rosicrucians Offer You Their Personal Service

Interesting Free Book Explains

Those who are interested in studying the complete instructions contained in theentire Rosicrucian system and who cannot find it convenient to attend a lodge or studygroup of the organization in their own district, or who live where there is no estab-lished branch of the organization, may have the benefit of these instructions and all of

the personal service of the organization in the privacy of their own homes.After many years of development of a special system for home study and after the organization of many departments of special personal help, thousands of men andwomen in every walk of life in all parts of the world, are finding peace and happiness,fulfillment of their desires and powers, through the special private help offered by theorganization to every sincere seeker. If you would like to know more about this personalservice and its benefits and the wonderful instruction that is offered to those who areseeking for it, write a letter addressed to: “Librarian S. P. C., care of AMORC Temple,San Jose, California,” and an interesting free book and other literature will be gladly sentto you by mail.

( Tho se who are Rosicrucian students are now receiving these instructions)



THE PURPOSES OFT H E R O S I C R U C I A N O R D E R

The Rosicrucian Order, having existed in all civilized lands for many centuries, is a nonsectarian, fraternal body of men and women devoted to the investigation, study, and practicalapplication of natural and spiritual laws. The purpose of the organization is to enable all to livein harmony with the creative, constructive, Cosmic forces for the attainment of health, happi-ness, and Peace.

The Order is internationally known as AM O RC (an abbreviation), and the A M O RC inAmerica, and all other lands, constitutes the only form of Rosicrucian activities united in onebody having representation in the international Rosicrucian congresses. The AMORC does not sellits teachings, but gives them freely to all affiliated members, together with many other benefits.

Inquirers seeking to know the history, purposes, and practical benefits of Rosicrucian asso-ciation, are invited to send for the free book, "Th e Light of Egyp t." A ddress, Librarian, S . P. Q ,care of

A M O R C T E M P L ER O S I C R U C I A N P A R K S A N J O S E , C A L I F O R N I A U. S. A.

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Directory of the J\[orth American Jurisdiction

(Including the United States, Dominion of Canada, Alaska, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nic -aragua, Costa Rica, Republic of Panama, the West Indies, Lower California, and all landunder the protection of the United States of America.)

H. SPEN CE R LE W IS, F. R. C., Ph. D ......... Imperator for North AmericaRALPH M. LEW IS, F. R. G.................... Supreme Secretary for North AmericaCHARLES DANA DEAN, F . R . C ........................................ NationalGrandMaster A. LEON BATCHELOR, F. R. C ........ .............................Director of CorrespondenceDR. ARTHUR B. BELL, F. R. C ........... Director of the Welfare DepartmentHARRY L. SHIBLEY, F. R. C. ........ Director of Editorial Department

The following principal branches are D istrict He adquarteres of A M O R C

New York City:

New York Chapter Reading Rooms, InquiryOffice and Temple. Mr. George ]. Herbst,Grand Master, Roerich Museum Bldg., 310Riverside Drive, cor. 103rd St. Open dailyand evenings. Telephone Clarkson 1700.

AFRAMERICAN Chapter of AMORC,125 W est 130th St., L. Bayn ard W hitney,F.R.C., Master.

Boston, Mass.:

Mass. Grand Lodge, Mrs. Marie Clemens,S. R. C., Grand Master, Lodge Building, 739Boylston Street,

Pittsburgh, Pa.:Penn. Grand Lodge, Dr. Charles D. Green,K. R. C., Grand Master. 610 Arch St., N. S.Pittsburgh, co AMORC.

Hartford, Conn.:

Isis Lodge, AM ORC , Mr. W . B. Andross,Master, Box 54, South Windsor, Conn.

Tampa, Florida:Florida Grand Lodge, Mrs. Frances Crcscenzi, Grand Secretary, 3420 10th St.

San Francisco, Calif.:

Calif. Grand Lodge, Mr. Elrod Ward, K.R.C.,Grand Master, AMORC Temple, 1655 PolkStreet.

Los Angeles, Calif.:

Hermes Lodge, Nos. 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, and

46. AMORC TEMPLE, 316H West Pico

Street, Dr. J. C. Guidero, Master. Inquiry

Office and Secretary, Suite 813, New Or

pheum Theatre Building.

San Jose, Calif.:

Egypt Lodge No. 7, Mr. A. Leon Batchelor,

K. R. C., Master, Rosicrucian Park.

Chicago, 111.:Chicago Ch apter No. 9., O. D . O ’Delius,Master. Offices and Reading room (open

daily and evenings), Auditorium Hotel (ClubRoom No. 4) 430 South Michigan Ave.

(Telephone Harrison 5000).

Philadelphia, Penna.:

Delta Lodge No. 1, AM ORC . Stanley K.

Taylor, K.R.C., Secretary 5215 Ridge Ave.

(Directory Continued on Next Page)



Portland, Oregon:

Portland Chapter, Clara G. Anderson, S.R.C.,Master, 424 Clay Street.

AMORC Chapter, Mary A. Huey, Secre-tary, 301 Haight Bldg., Second Ave. andPine St., Telephone Main 9941.

Washington, D. C. :

Official Representatives: R. N. Trezise,3418 17th St. N. W. : Virgil McCom as,4707 Connecticut Avenue, N . W .

San Antonio, TexasTexas Grand Lodge, Mrs. C. Wanblom,S. R. C., Grand Master, 1133 So. Laredo St.

O T H E R A M E R IC A N B R A N C H E SChartered Branches and Groups of AMORC will be found in most large cities and towns

of North America. Addre ss of local representatives given on requ est

P R I N C I P A L C A N A D I A N B R A N C H E SVancouver, B. C.s

Canadian Grand Lodge, Dr. ]. B. Clark,K. R. C., Grand Master, AMORC Temple,560 Granville Street.

Montreal, Quebec:AMORC, English Division, Albert E. Poad,K. R. C., Master Apt. No. 4, 1431 MackayStreet.

Montreal, Quebec:Societe d'etude d’AMORC (French Section).E. G. Clossey, K. R. C., Master, 3839 Berri

Street.Verdun, Quebec:Mr. R. A. Williamson, Master 3809 Well-ington Street.

Winnipeg, Man.:A. G. Gaillard, P. O. Box 681.

Lashbum, Sask.:Mr. V. William Potten, Master, P. O. Box 104.

New Westminster, B. C.:Mr. A. H. P. Mathew, Master, 1313 7th Ave.

Victoria, B. C.:Secretary, AMORC, Box 14.

Edmonton, Alta.:Mr. James Clements, K. R. C., Master 9533Jasper Avenue, E.

S P A N IS H A M E R I C A N S E C T I O N

Th is jurisdiction includes all the Spanishspeaking Countries of the New W orld. Its SupremeCouncil and Head Office are located at San Juan, Puerto Rico, having local Representatives in allthe principal cities of these stated Countries.

Hon. Manuel Rodriguez Serra, F. R. C., Supreme Grand Master, P. O. Box 702, San Juan,Puerto Rico.

Armando Font de la Jara, F. R. C., Secretary General, P. O. Box 36, San Juan, Puerto Rico.The name and address of other Officers and Branch Secretaries cannot be given general pub-

licity, but may be obtained for any information or specia l purposes, through the Head Office atSan Juan. Puerto Rico.

A LL C O RRE SPO N D E N C E SHO UL D B E A D D RE SSE D T O T H E SE C RE T A R Y G EN E RA L

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India:The Supreme Council, AMORC, Calcutta,India.

Scandinavian Countries:The AMORC Grand Lodge of Denmark,Commander E. E. Anderson, K. R. C., GrandMaster, M anogade 13th Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark.

France:Dr. H. Gruter, F. R. C., Grand Master, Nice.Mile. Jeanne Guesdon, S. R. C., Corres-ponding Secretary for the Grand Lodge(AMORC) of France, 56 Rue Gambetta,Villeneuve Saint Georges, (Seine & Oise).

Austria:Mr. Many Cihlar, K. R. C. Grossekreter der AM OR C. Laxenburgerstr, 75/9, Vienna, X.

China and Russia:The United Grand Lodge of China and Rus-sia, 8/18 Kvakazasaya St., Harbin, Man-churia.

Australia:The Grand Council of Australia, Mr. S.Kowron, F. R. C., Grand Master, 40 Fletcher St, 3, Astoria Flat. Bondi, Sydney, N . S. W .

England:

Hie AMORC Grand Lodge of Great Britian,Mr. Raymund Andrea, K.R.C., Grand Master 41 Berkely Road , Bishopton, Bristol, England.

Dutch East Indies:

W . J. Visser, Grand Master, Bodjon g 135,Semarang, Java.

Egypt:

The Grand Orient of AMORC, House of theTemple, Mr. A. Ramayvelim, F.R.C., GrandSecretary, 7, Rue Talkha, Heliopolis.

Africa:

The Grand Lodge of the Gold Coast,AM OR C. Mr. Stephen H. Addo, GrandMaster, P. O. Box 424, Accra, Gold Coast,West Africa.

Costa Rica:

William T. Lindo, F. R. C., Grand Master,P. O. Box 521, Limon, Republic of CostaRica, C. A.

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



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The Submerged Land oS Mystics!Beneath the rolling, restless seas He the mysteries of forgotten

civilization s. Sw ept by the tides, half buried in the sands, w orn

away by terrific pressure are the remnants of a culture little knownto our age to day . W here the mighty Pacific now rolls in a majesticsweep of thousan ds of miles, there w as once a vast continent. Th island was known as Lemuria, and its people as Lemurians.

Science has gradually pieced together the evidences of this lostrace, and in this book you will find the most astounding, enthrallingchapters you have ever read. How these people came to be sweptfrom the face of the earth, except for survivors who have livingdescendants today, is explained.

The Magic Dwellers of Mt. ShastaFanned by the cool breezes of the Pacific and crowned by a cap

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Do you know how they came there, when their forbears perishedcenturies ago with the submersion of the continent of Lemuria?Would you like to know the truths which they concealed from amerely curious world?

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