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OCEANSIDE, CALIFORNIA, DECEMBER 1920 Contents Page An Appeal for New Subscribers 282 Your Child's Horoscope: Prize Offer for “ “ 283 Delineations:— New Books by Max Heindel 284 David A. G. L. Viola E. THE MYSTIC LIGHT- The Message of the Bells STUDIES IN THE ROSICRUCIAN Kittie S. Cowen 285 COSMO—CONCEPTION— The New Born Christ Max Heindel 286 The Rosicrucian Catechism There is no Death (Poem) 287 Alfred Adams Will Levington Comfort Letter 288 A Christmas Story CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT- ‘ Corinne S. Dunklee The Little Temples Mortar and Cement Mary Louise Bridges Witt 311 Mary-Abby Proctor A Plea for the Church A. R. The Story of Gypsie I Am Thought (Poem) Anita Rau 312 Tessie Lehrer - Conditions on the Invisible Planes NUTRITION AND HEALTH- From Talks With Those Beyond Agnes Cook What Is Consumption? The Doctor's Dilemma—A Story of Augustin Levanzin, A.B., Ph.D., the Unknown Realms. L.L.B. 313 Prentiss Tucker The Criminal Folly of Eating White The Mysteriou Svastika J. H. Bread W. A. Staebler 315 What Constitutes Success Menus from Mt. Ecclesia 316 ( selected) Recipes 316 "I: qvzsrzozv DEPARTMENT- Rosy Cross Healing Circle: The Immaculate Conce tion Testimonials 31? What is the Necessity or Creeds? Healing Dates 317 R THE ASTRAL RAY- ECHOES FROM MT E'CCLESIA— Astrological Predictions Regarding A Personal Letter To Our Friends the Neutrality of Holland Kittie S. Cowen 318 Richard Gordon Hallett 308 A Letter From Abroad The Training School for Lecturers 306 Richard Gordon Hallett 319 The Children of Sagittarius 1920 306 Prize Competition 820

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Listen to the merry ringing, Christmas joy to earth it ’s bringing, List the bells.

How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, Mild, He stands outside, and waiting, While the stars in silence twinkle Whilst your heart is still debating With the bells. With the bells.

Youth and joy and all earth’s brightness Know ye not the mystic meaning, Fill the crisp, clear air with lightness, Threads of silver interveining, And the bells. In the bells?

Does there come no deeper feeling Christ may come to earth for aeons, Softly through your conscience stealing Chanting forth His love in paeans With the bells? In the bells.

In your heart which beats thefaster Yet the world will know Him never, Does no longing for the Master Christmas come and go forever Greet the bells? With the bells.

Must He come again appealing For mankindwill grow no better, Still to find no deeper feeling Strife will reign and peace still fetter,

In the bells? ~ With the bells,

Ah, the Christ-Child stands with healing, Till we tune our hearts to hear it, All His love divine revealing And receive the great Christ Spirit In the bells. In the bells.

Lift your eyes to Himwithlonging; Then will choirs, angelic, chorus: “ Love, the very air is thronging, Christ, the risen Lord, is o'er us.” List the bells. List the Bells! Kittie S. Cowen. 288 RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS Wye fish: flora Qlhrisi Max Hmmnn.

Editor’s Note: The following is one of Max from the meshes of mortality and egoism in or- Heindel’s former lessons to students. It is one der to attain to altruism and endless life. of a series which we shall publish. When God exercises the divine attitude of dissolution, He appears as The Father who calls us T HAS OFTEN been said in our literature back to our heavenly home to assimilate the ~| that the sacrifice of Christ was not an fruits of experience and soul growthgarnered by event which took place on Golgotha and us during the day of manifestation. This Uni- was accomplished in a few hours once and for versal Solvent, theray of the Father,then eman- all time, but thatthe mystic birthsand deaths of ates from the Invisible Spiritual Sun. the Redeemer are continuous cosmic occurrences. These divine processes of creation and birth, We may therefore conclude that this sacrifice is preservation and life, and dissolution, death and necessary for our physical and spiritual evolu- return to the Author of our being we see every- tion during the present phase of our develop- where about us, and we recognize the fact that ment. As the annual birth of the Christ Child they are activitiesof the TriuneGod in manife- is now approaching, it presents again a never tation. But have we ever realized that in the old, ever new theme for meditation from which spiritual world there are no definite events, no with a we may profit by pondering it prayer static conditions; thatthe beginning and the end that it may create in our hearts a new light to of all adventures of all ages are present in the guide us upon the pathof regeneration. eternal “here” and “now?” From the bosom. of the Father there is an wonderful def- everlasting outwelling The inspired apostle gave us a of the seed of and events which enters the said that “God is things inition of Deity when he realm of “time” and “space.” There it grad- has been used to Light,’ and therefore’ “light” ually crystallizes and becomes inert, necessitat- illustrate the nature of the Divine in the Rosi- ing dissolution thatthere may be room for other the mystery of the crucian teachings, especially things and other events. Trinityin Unity. It is clearly taught in the Holy There is no escape from this cosmic law; it ap- Scriptures of all times that God is one and indi- plies to everything in the realm of “time” and At the same time we find that as the visible. “space,” the Christ-ray included. As the lake one white light is refracted into three primary which empties itself into the ocean is replenished red, yellow, and blue, so God appears in 8. colors, when the water that left it has been evaporated threefold role during manifestation, by the ex- and returns to it as rain, to flow again ceaselessly ercise of the three divine functions of creation, toward the so the of Love is eternally and dissolution. sea, Spirit preservation, born of the Father, day by day, hour by hour, When He exercises the attribute of creation, endlessly flowing into the solar universe to re- is God appears as Jehovah, the Holy Spirit; He deem ns from the world of matter which en- then Lord of law and generation and projects meshes us in its death grip. Wave upon wave is the solar fertility indirectly through the lunar thus impelled outward from the sun to all the satellites of all planets where it is necemary to planets giving a rhythmic urge to the evolving furnish bodies for the evolving beings. creatures there. When He exercises the attribute of preserva- And so it is in the very truest and most literal tion for the purpose of sustaining the bodies sense a new-born Christ that we hail at each ap- generated by Jehovah under the laws of nature,‘ proaehing Yule-feast, and Christmas is the most. whether we God appears as the Redeemer, Christ, and radi- vital annual event for all humanity, ates the principles of love, and regeneration di- realize it or not. It is not merely a commemor- Elder rectly into any planet where the creatures of Je- ation of the birthof our beloved Brother, hovah require this help to extricate themselves Jesus, but the advent of the rejuvenating love- RAYS FROM THE ROBE CROSS 28?

life of our Heavenly Father, sent by Him to re- Christ of another year laden with new life and deem the world from the wintry death grip. love sent by the Father to succor us from the Without this new infusion of divine life and en- physical and spiritual famine which would ensue ergy we must soon perish physically,and our or- were it not for the annual love-offering. derly progress would be frustrated so far as our Younger souls usually find it difficult to dis- present lines of development are concerned. This abuse their minds of the personality of God, of is a point we should endeavor to thoroughlyreal- Christ, and of the Holy Spirit, and some can ize in order that we may learn to appreciate only love Jesus, the man. They forget Christ, Christmas as keenly as we should: and we may the Great Spirit, who ushered in a new era in learn a lesson in this respect, as in many others, which the nations established under the regime from our children or from reminiscences of our of Jehovah will be broken to pieces that the sub- own childhood. How keen were our anticipa- lime structure of Universal Brotherhood may be tions of the approaching feast! How eagerly we built upon their ruins. In time all the waited for the hour when we should receive the world will realize that “God is spirit, to be wor- gifts which we knew would be forthcoming from shipped in- spirit and in truth.” It is well to Santa Claus, the mysterious universal benefac- love Jesus and to imitate him; we know of no tor who brought the toys of the coming year! nobler ideal and none more worthy. Could a How would we have felt had our parents given nobler one have been found, Jesus would not us the dismembereddolls and drums of yester- have been chosen as a vehicle of that Great One, year? It would surely have been felt as an over- the Christ, in whom dwelt the Godhead. We whelming misfortune and would have left a deep shall therefore do well to follow “in His steps.” sense of broken trust which even time would have At the same time we shall exalt God in our own found it difficult to heal; yet it would be as consciousness by taking the word of the Bible nothing compared with the cosmic calamity that that He is spirit, and that we cannot make any would befall mankind if our Heavenly Father likeness which will portray Him for He is like should fail to provide the new-born Christ for nothing in heaven or on earth. We can see the our Cosmic Christmas Gift. The Christ of last physical vehicles of Jehovah circling as satellites year cannot save us from physical famine any around the various planets; we can also see the more than last year’s rain can drench the soil sun, which is the visible vehicle of the Christ; again and swell the millions of seeds that slum- but the Invisible Sun, which is the vehicle of the ber in the earth and await thegerminal activities Father and the source of all, appears to the of the Father’s life to begin their growth; the greatest of human seers only as a higher octave Christ of last year cannot kindle anew in our of the photosphere of the sun, a ring of violet hearts thespiritual aspirations which urge us on- blue luminosity behind the sun. But we do not ward in the Quest any more than last summer ’s need to see; we can feel His love, and that feel- heat can warm us now. The Christ of last year ing is never so great as at Christmas time when gave us His love and His life to the last breath He is giving us the greatest of all gifts, the withoutstint or measure; when He was born into Christ of the new year. the earth last Christmas, He endued withlife the seeds which have and sleeping grown gratefully THERE IS NO DEATH filled our granaries with the bread of physical life; He lavished the love given Him by the In the great cosmic life there is no death. What we call death Fatherupon us, and when He had wholly spent ' Is but the shadow in the ’s His life, He died at Eastertide to rise again to valley cup which we the Father as the river, by evaporation, rises to Through pass, the sky. Onward and upward to the greater task And the But endlesslywells the divine love; as a father fulfillment; In the cosmic life there is no death. pitiethhis children,so doth our Heavenly Father great pity us, for He knows our physical and spiritual frailty and dependence. Therefore we are now “The Kingdom of Heaven standeth alone in confidently awaiting the mystic birth of the the strength of humility.” 288 RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS anal Meagan Qlnmfurt new (Republished by Permission of the Author) MUCH do you want this thing, Co- new. You now realize that to change is the EHOWordination? It means to be born again, whole work; that consciously to change is trans. but where we are now birthmeans pain. mutal’-i011» 8 myfitic Office; that development The pain has to do not with the new, but with means change or death—thefalling away of the the death of the old that formed its matrix. The old that the new may be 1-e1e.,ged_ old case falls away. “The king is dead: Long You realize that you need more vitality to en. live the King.” If you want this thing enough dun’ “*9 W38-di and rapid process of laser you can have it, but courage and stamina are re- deaths which are taking plaee in your body_ quired. You are called to be a gamester; you Y0“? healthimproves becauseyou have put away must stake all and stand by, losing with grace many of the little things that keep up a steady all that the world holds to. You lose the old; drfiln 011 Your vitality; in factreally on the Road, you change all your outer ways, becausethey are you willfind thatyour healthis beingpowerfully Genius I not the ways of your Genius. By your managed from within, the procemes of regener- and back in cer. mean the inimitable You, underneath ation giving you extraordinary endurance of all, the Immortal. mfn W838; but daily for a time you use up all th“ You must want thisthingmore than you want 3l11'P1113 Strength because the deaths of the old follow fast and follow faster. ease, more than health, wealth, or any earthly establishment. You must want it more than There is not only the shock of battle, but there _ are in the IS the cleansing of the battlefield afterward. One you want earth-love. All that you world must bow before it; place, power, and all by one your old thoughts and feelings are strick- first en with death—fasterand more until things men see in you to idealize. At you ruthlessly, that it seems that your fingers are hammered give up grudgingly, one by one, the things being the last Then these old and detain you in the world and in the lesser self- from ledge. thoughts faults. Each feelmflfi have to be disintegrated, broken up for your habits, appetites, manners, the nurture of the new the eljmjn- at first, when you make a little renunci- body, poison time, the cleansed. All the little renunci- ation, you thinkthatthe Master surely must come ated, system ations said to form the then comes and take you in His arms at once. But thicker are Passion; different in each breast. This means and faster are called forth your renunciations, Crucifixion, the Road. Days 8iVi!18up the 0116 Ere“ thing—tosome it is house, as you approach the Foothillson for the hu- lands, and friends; to others, the craving for po- of your quickening stride; gray days litical or intellectual dominion over men; to oth- man heart. You find ohliquities in your thought and csste or of mind; to others the and action you did not dream of; cruelties ers, aristocracy of love of to it is the lusts, subtleties and sophistries and softenings possessive children; many love of the mate. In case it is the one characterthatrequire long steady patient work— earth any have “This be- above all sincere work. You find these outer thing you kept, saying, surely It is I It can’t mean that horrors of the petty self,in thelight thatis grow- longs to me. ing within. One in the world of self loves the this must go, too.” hold to it last and hardest self; is filled and satisfied withworld-ways, self The fact that you his own is the measure of the importance of its pauing. ways. The Lord Gautama, in Light, with Do not see that all the old is now clinging even as a youth, found everything wrong you all old and feel- the world and himself when first looking upon desperately to it, your thoughts all the old life that the new from sickness, old age, and death. After many days ings, prevents that It is the one thingthat keeps the bal- you have the grim satisfaction, at least, you growth! could ance of in the mortal, preventing the de- can now change in a day more than you power liverance of the Immortal from within. formerly change in a month: change meaning transmutation, death of the old and birthof the Coordination is yours if you want it enough. RAYS FROM THE ROBE CROSS 289

You must want it more than anythinghere. You than to stay; time when all voices here say Stay, must approach your Genius, palms up, full of but your Soul says Stay Not. You have tried to faith, staking every substance of earth upon stay—and felt the breath of the inner life slack- your faith that what He has is better for you en, the pulse of the Soul diminish. That is the than anything, of any nature whatsoever, that only pain there is to one who has felt the benefi- theworld can offer—a better relation to theworld cence of Awakening; to one who has felt, at all, even, a lovelier relation to friends and children the presence of the Soul in the human mind and have ever known as a a fairer love than you body! . In the last days of the death of mortal. You must hold to this against all the the old the pain is constant, yet you know it is advisers of the world, even those who hint that the pain that frees the new life. You do not your mind is failing; against the smash of ma- want comfort for the old then; no life-giving so- terial fortune and the degrading of your every lution to prolong the misery of the old body that living ideal: you may even be called to watch the holds so hard against death. Before this, many health of your body disrupted and the dearer times, you have brought it back to life—taking part of your self put from you in shadows and earth-love in your arms once more, or turning to monstrous illusions. In the midst of this Pas- the temporal again to assuage the pain of days. sion and Crucifixion you must finally see that Myriad times you have brought the old back to nothing in the world or the petty self is fit to life through such a failure. This amounts to stay; not even that which you have called love, failuremystically;any placationof the old comes even though you have thought yourself a great to mean a failure in ordeal. But even these les- lover and have given much to that. You come sons pass when you come into that spiritual to your Soul with bowed head, empty, having strength which realizes pain and pleasure of the failed, having found all life intolerable. molecular body to be but opposites of the same On the way to this point, possibly through thing. Neither suffices to one who has felt the many incarnations, you have taken half-meas- Knower in his mind, the _Lover in his heart of ures. Look about you now in the world; even in flesh, and the Door, heroic and miraculous, in the world of religion, you will find myriads giv- the human hand. Indeed, in these last ing a little but holding much; even giving much days one become alarmed if the pain stops lest and keeping perhaps only the last furious grip the processes of birth are being impeded. One upon planetary life, building the cross upon learns to stay in the upper room of Being, apart which the lower self must die. You will even from the pleasure or pain of the body. find many religious documents that do not urge Yes, there is a sense of well-being, and there the surrender of self; or which try to complete is invincible help. One who succeeds in turning give you the first lessons in joy before you are over the mind-will—thelittle instrument of “I half the grades of pain; the result of through will” and “I won’t,” to the Doer who “Does” which cannot be other than a still or untimely or “Does not” without intensity or protestation birth. You will find the very moral element of or advertisement; when one realizes that he can the world today, counting such measures as told change in a night's meditation a habit of the in this letter, fanatical; you will find a system years with little or no inconvenience; or rise to of placations vast as the solar system any earthly occasion without flush or fury or a but the inexorable remains; if you want some- clenched muscle anywhere; when one learns that thing for your body more than you want En- he may take any human problem or puzzle to the lightenment; if you prefer to give your mind Knower, and if straight and sincere and eager right of way over certain departments of being the answer is for him—a for- instead of rendering all—utterly—to Basic Be- enough, perfect ever changelms answer, having nothing to do ing, you are still divided, not ready to become with or of the mind, One. separate concepts opinions operating in the realm of change but in no way Yet the passage is not all one of misery. There affected by materials; above all, when one real- is a sense of well-being on the Road. The time comes when yon- find it easier to go on and up (Continued on page 310) RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS (A Qlhrishnas fitnrg Corinne S. Dunklee “Whatever the test that rends the soul, Whatever the grief that floods thy sorrowing heart with tears, Whatever thyspirit fears. Let it all lift thee up, . To ldss the very cross thatblights thylife. For in the fullness of His grace Thou shalt see Him face to face, And after the darkness of the night Thou shalt rejoice in His glorious light.”

9' T WAS Christmas Eve, and before the vast J portals of light that opened into the Realms of Paradise stood a weary spirit striving to gain admission. Inside all was bright and joyous. The Angels were singing the chorus triumphant,—“Glory to God in theHighest” —the words trailed away in a tremolo of glad- ness and the waiting spirit could not .RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS 291

I have done so little upon the earth and there re- soothe the great world woe, you gained the right mains so much yet to do.” to enter here. The cross that was set up within “Come in, my child,” he answered gently, your own heart you have transformed into a “Your exile from heaven is ended. Your lesson crown of service to bless the heart of the world. learned. When you turned your personal sor- Come in!” row into a beautifulflower of the soul and used As he finished speaking her spirit was ab- its transmuted strength and power as a balm to sorbed in the great shining.

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I was suffering keenly at the apparent un- know that whatever was entrusted to me would fairness of life; I had abilityand talent, perhaps be truly and firmly held. That through my above the ordinary, but I was thwarted at every integrity would not only the beautyof the struc- turn and compelled to be ordinary, mediocre- ture be maintained, but its safety and perman- a stunted plant with blasted blossoms. I knew ence as well. And so, compounded and com- I could “do things”had I the chance. But, no! pressed, hidden from sight, I, like the cement, Fate in the garb of Duty was ever at the door would hold firmly in Unity. of Opportunity and halted the first effort. I know the Great Builder recognizes no differ- And then one day I chanced to overhear a con- ence in the value of the materials He uses; that versation. Two men were discussing the dis- all possess qualities which make them a necessitv lodgment and fall of a beautiful carved stone to the structure He erects. which held a sightly, conspicuous position in one Never again will I rebel at my commonplace of the handsome new buildings recently erected life. Neither the frosts of adversity and depres- in Boston. And I judged from the conversation sion, nor the heat of impatience, resentment, an- that the cause which dislodged the stone, also ger, pride, and kindred emotions, shall be per jeopardized more or less the safety of the build- mitted to injure the establishment or cause the ing. fall of my fellow men. Yes, if I can not be the The fall of this ornamental stone, which was ornamental, skillfully carved piece, the beauty the pride of the architect and “the keystone of of which catches the eye of him who passes, I the arch,” I heard one man tell the other, was will be good mortar and cement! I simply will occasioned by “poor mortar and cement”, im- strive to make myself of such value that when I properly compounded, so that the action of the His work is complete, shall be incorporated elements, the alternate freezing and thawing, into the Perfect Whole. And holding to my brother with love and and - produced a chemical change which caused the kindly thought deed, mortar to disintegrate and crumble away. I will endeavor to build theDivine Man——“made A simple explanation, but the statement came in the image and likeness of God”. home to me with tremendous force. For days increases I pondered over it. “Poor mortar and cement”, The power of prayer enormously out of sight and practicallyout of the conscious- with each additional worshiper. The increase if nem of every passerby—yet the essential element may be compared to geometrical progression of the whole building! the worshipers are properly attuned and trained Never again would I complain of my “humble in collective prayer; the very opposite may re- sphere”, lowly though the lot and hard the task. sult if they are not. Max Heindel. Though I might not be one of the handsome, prominent parts in the social structure, I would be gool mortar-and-cement, holding faithfully “Everything dependeth on the will, not on everything in place; having the Great Builder the understanding.” 292 RAYS FROM 13% R08]! CROSS .3 lfilw for the cum BY A. R.

I.’ T SEEMS to be general that when people each is given the teaching that he can under- 1] leave the church, often because its stand- stand. ards are too difficult to live up to, and Consider the flowers; dark, cloudy, rainy days they go out seeking for somethingthat will sat- are necessary to them. They are nourished and isfy, something that will give them more free- fed by the rain and moisture. At the same time dom, they nearly all become critical in their at- there is an inner growthgoing on that is not vis- titude towards the church, strange as it may ap- ible to the eye, an inner longing for the sunlight, pear. Many of them are honest seekers after and when the mist clears, the clouds roll away, truth, who have reached a stage in evolution and the sun shines, the work that was done dur- where they are not satisfied to accept the teaching the cloudy days is apparent. Similarlywith ings of the Bible as taught by the church, the men; it is necessary for many of them thatthey doctrine of faith;they want more definite knowl- should travel through the dark valleys of unbe- edge. lief, but during these periods of darkness there We, students of the Rosicrucian teachings, is an inner growthgoing on, an inner longing for should rise above criticism of the church. We the light, a longing to leave the valley and to climb the mountain heights. When the mist have a definite teaching regarding religion as the left the and related to man and his evolution. We know that clears, valley behind, sunlight the mountain view are so there is as virgin spirits we were equally each a word of appreciated; with their those God. But the many different environments nothing wrong getting experiences at that of evolution. wherein we have been placed in order to gain stage the necessary experience have not acted on all In addition to being the head of the great alike. Some have forged ahead and adapted White Lodge and in direct touch with the 12 themselves to their various environments more mystery schools, Jesus, as said before, has charge readily than others. Some have lagged behind of the Christian religion. Of those within this to the extent that they have become stragglers. religion who accept the Bible as their guide, We understand that man’s religion evolves Christ as their Saviour, God as their Father, with him. It is the purpose of the great leaders there are many grades, requiring to be dealt of humanity to give to each what he can under- within many different ways, hence the necmity stand, and these great leaders make no mistakes. for some 600 different creeds. Each one of these Jesus has been given charge of Christianizing creeds will take the same verse of scripture and the world. Our Elder Brothers are working un- view it from a different angle, and the thousands der him. We understand thatthere are 12 mys- of followers of these different creeds will each tery schools, 7 of the Lesser and 5 of the Greater find in his creed a variety of spiritual food to Mysteries, each school presided over by a con- feed his spiritual nature. Hence those who crit- clave of 12 Elder Brothers under a 13th. The icise or sneer at any form of worship are sneer- 12 heads of the different schools form what is ing at the Elder Brothers, for they are not alone known as the White Lodge, presided over by a concerned with the Rosicrucian teaching. They 13th, and this 13th is Jesus. Being head of 12 are helping wherever help is needed. Those who great schools, he is in direct touch with all the sneer are sneering at Jesus, at Christ, at God, different philosophies that radiate from them, questioning their wisdom in dealing with man- some of which deny his existence. It seems kind. One who claims to be a true follower of strange that Jesus should sanction teachings Christ (Christ being the corner stone, the foun- that would concede him and Christ, whom he dation, upon which the Rosicrucian philosophy prepared the way for, to be only highly devel- rests,) will recognize His teachings no matter oped men, and which in some instances even what method He may use, and will bow his head deny their existence, but still, as we have said, with reverence wherever thatName is uttered. RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS 293

Sitting with a friend the other night on the the freedom which we all enjoy today, are the re- hilltop in the moonlight, gazing up at the sky flections of Christ ’s religion through His many, sparklingand dancing with the myriads of shin- many lights which are constantly flashing to the ing jewels, the North Star stood out strong and world. Will you help, not hinder, in His work? bold, that star that has guided so many sea- We were recently attending church with a tossed mariners to a harbor of safety, a haven of friend, one who had left it some years ago and rest. Our gaze turned to the valley, the San (Continued on page 310) Luis Rey Valley. There the light of the moon that attracted our attention, shining upon great I All THOUGHT white the thathas stood there structure, Mission, Hush, and listen, listen, listen! for years and, by analogy, is a guiding star that Can ’t you hear me singing, singing, has to God a sin-sick soul. As the pointed many In the dews that glisten, glisten, moon reflects the dispels the darkness, sunlight, In the vin all clinging, clinging? so this old Mission has been one of the reflectors which Christ Jesus has shed His through light Hush, and listen, listen, listen! upon the world. Shame on the one who would All you see is singing loudly, at that Minion and those who labor there. sneer Singing out its story proudly, A few years ago we sat in the Pentecostal Of its home, the Second Heaven, Mission in the city of Seattle, Washington, and Realm of music, realm of joy, heard a woman give her testimony, a woman who Realm of labor, labor, labor; had been of the street. She faced the audience Realm where each in some employ, and told of the of old things and disappearing Knows no “self” but only "neighbor,” the appearing of new. Transformed was she, changed by the power of Christ, conveyed to her Realm where all is music given. by the old Gospel story. Who has a fault to Hush, and listen, listen, listen! find with that Gospel! Music comes from spheres awhirling, In another city, in another church, we saw a God's creative word is hurling dmnkard stagger to the penitents’ bench and Universes, madly racing, heard his plea for healing, for cleansing, for All in order foreordained, truth; and it seemed as though the strong de- God is guiding, guiding, guiding, sire of the man for these things reached up and Heaven realms are thus attuned, touched the hem of theFather’s garment, for the To this music there abiding, healing was complete. Today he is a married Ever forming, interlacing. man, has a good position, a lovely home, a loving wife, and several children. Will you criti- I am God's creative music, cise a Gospel that will do these things? I am archetypal forces, The other evening we sat in a park in one of I am ever at man's bidding, our California cities. The streets were ablaze I am thought, and through me courses with lights. Signs were flashing in all direc- Every form which you may view, tions. One sign particularly attracted our at- All the things you ever knew. tention; it was made up of hundreds of little I am thought which moves in man glass globes of different colors, all in constant Ere he can create, create, motion. Acrom the street was a large plate I am that which is the plan glass window where the flashing of these lights For a thing or for a fate. was reflected. So is the church of God sending out her message in hundreds of different colors And I sing, forever sing. (methods,) and the reflections of that message Hush, and listen, listen, listen! are those who have been redeemed. The high Can’t you hear my sweet full ring standard of national life, the enforcement of In the roses as they glistenf prohibition, the maintenance of morality, and Tessie Lehrer. RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS Glmthitimts (En the RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS 295 @112 fiuctofs fiilenmta. (A Storg of the iflnknnfim fiiicalms Pass-riss Tucua CHAPTER VIII

HE NEW ARRIVAL was of a different least of the presence of the two spirits. Frances I character from his predecessor. There had continued to talk when theDoctor had grown was practically none of the auimality of somewhat silent, and the Chilean renewed his the other, the face, indeed, showing a kind of conversation about theunseen thoughhe had suf- aaceticismsuch as thatoften found in thepictures ficient tact to drop the question of automatic of aged ecclesiastics, but it was the asceticism of writing for the present. evilifsuchathingcanbeimagined.Hewas So the Doctor ’s concentration took place to the not to be moved so much by the coarser desires running accompaniment of a very interesting which actuated the other spirit but, if the story description by da Siletra of an old tradition told by his face could be believed, was much held by some of the coast-wise South American further advanced along the left hand path and Indians that the devilfish or octopus is the re- of far greater power. Intellect, cruelty. and ab- embodiment of very evil people, usually grasp- normal pride were shown in his features, and ing misers who have caught their victims in the Doctor George felt his heart sink somewhat as he toils of the money market and have sucked them realized how much more dangerous this adver- dry of all their property and money and then sary was than the full-faced voluptuary whose cast them off to perish. The octopus is the measure he had already taken. The newcomer spider of the sea just as the money shark is one immediatelytook charge of the situation, motion- of the spiders of the land, and the analogy made ing thefirst spirit to desist from his attempts to Doctor George shudder when he thought of the influencethe girl, and they both turned their at- cases which had come under his notice c: priva- tention to the Doctor, gazing at him with venom tion caused by the latter. He remembered that in their eyes and evidently with the desire of either the Professor had told him or else he had driving him from the room. road somewhere that the miser has a very un- They had not, however, taken into account a pleasant time on the other side of the veil until factor in the equation which took them by sur- he learns the lesson thatthe real riches of life are prise and that was the Doctor's powers of re- neither gold nor property. sistance. He brought to bear upon the matter all Da Siletra was telling a very interesting story that the Profemor had told him of the methods about a diver of his acquaintance who had been of protecting one’s self against mental assault, caught while diving for pearls by an octopus and and by using his imagination and will power in who had been freed only by three of his com- certain ways which would not at all do to rades diving over and attacking the beast with describe, he threw such a strong protective vi- long knives. The tentacles of the octopus are so bration around himself thatall the efforts of the extremely tough that it is almost impossible to late comer helped by the first spirit merely re- cut them when at the bottom of the sea and op- bounded upon themselves, and the expression of pressed by lack of breath, and though the diver anger and amazement which came over the face who is encased in a modern diving suit stands a of the ascetic man was from the Doctor ’s stand- much better chance, yet he too dreads the spider point, comical. of the sea. The fear and horror of the man who It must not be supposed that all this went on had been caught by the sea devil were graphically in silence. Miss Edgerly was, of course, entire- portrayed by da Siletra who had a great deal of ly ignorant of the by-play which was going on histrionic ability and might have made some around her, and as a matter of fact the Chilean little name for himself on the stage. The was also unaware of it thoughthe Doctor had be- Chilean acted the scene with vigor and depicted gun to thinkthat he must have some inkling at on his face the horror and fear and finally the 296 RAYS FROH TEE ROSE CROSS despair of the pearl diver and then the great re- termine. The fact was, he thought, that most vulsion of feeling when his friends swam down mil‘-1)’ the Chilean got a thought without know- to his rescue and attacked the octopus. ingwhereitcamefromthough,ofcourse,there During the recital the Doctor and Min Edg- was always the chance that under the influence erly had been fascinated listeners, Miss Edgerly andhelp ofhisunseenfriendsandmastersda through interest in the story and admiration for Siletra grew more sensitive than he was ordi- the ability of the Chilean and the Doctor be- narily. cause it gave him an opportunity to watch the “And might I ask,” the Doctor said quite silent members of the little party. The be- humbly, “how you get your information from havior of these was quite amusing to the Doctor your unseen friends! Do they speak to you or for it was evident that they were both in doubt do you get it in the form of writing or do they as to whether he knew of their presence or not. appear during your sleep? Of course,” he ad- That he was protecting himself was no proof ded hurriedly, “I do not mean to ask anything since people often feel adverse vibrations and which is not permisible, so please forgive my protect themselves accordingly,and the Doctor questions if they are such as should not be had never looked directly at them but had prac- answered.” tically ignored them as one might ignore a “Pray do not apologize,’ said da Siletra, “I stranger on the physical plane. The Chilean am only too happy to give out what information did not see them though it was probable that I can but, indeed, it is hard, very hard to make he sensed their presence in some way for he had to understand. It is not only that I have to use grown very confident and bold in his talk and anothertongue than my own Spanish but also was telling of conditions on the other planes as iflcouldspeaksevenlanguageswitheaseit though perfectly familiar with them. wouldbenolenhard. Iflsaythatlhearthe “And so it often happens,” he went on, “ac- voices that would not always be true, and if I cording to thetradition of these Indians that the say that I do not hear them that also would not soul of themiser, of theone who loves naughtbut always be true. Perhaps it is nearer to thetruth money, goes on into one of these devclfish and to say that I hear them almost as I hear you. I there suffers for its sins while in the body—' ' heard one of them but just now when you spoke “Then what does it do when it comes back?” of the Hindu teaching of rebirth.” “And I some advanced asked the Doctor. , yet have heard very “Pardon, Senor, I am afraid I do not under- students. of occultism speak of the teaching of stan .” rebirth—” “When it comes back to rebirth, what does it “Ah, but they were students. These that do then!” speak to me, they are great masters of wisdom “Rebirth? I am afraid I do not understand.” and they are doing what they can to teach these “Yes, rebirth. When it is born again as a truths to the people.” child, what does it do then!” “And they teach that rebirth is not a correct “Ah, I see, you have the Hindu idea of many theory and that automaticwriting and medium- incarnations. My friends on the other side tell "ship are great helps in development?” me this is not a fact. We do not come back “Yes, yes, indeed. I have so tried to get Miss again on this plane. That would be retrogres- Edger-lee here to try her skill at the writing for sion. No, we go on and on. There is no stop- she is very sensitive and would have fine results. ping and no turning back.” I am sure that she would be made the channel worl The ascetic looking spirit was nodding his for wonderful truths to be given to the ." head approvingly at this statement of the Chile- Here the two spirits turned their attention in the belief an, and he leaned down and apparently whis- towards Miss Edgerly apparently and that pered something in da Siletra’s ear though that the Doctor was not clairvoyant whether the Chilean actually heard the whis- they would be wasting their time in bothering one in front pered message or not the Doctor could not de- withhim. They stationed themselves RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS 297 of her and one behind her chair, and under their of interest and color in her face as she listened combined efforts the Doctor could notice that to the Chilean portraying the sufferings of the some of the colors of her aura underwent a slight diver and telling of the conditions in the other change. Evidently the attempt was to attack her world. It was a sweet picture. He could not through her vanity and her desire to be the bear to thinkof so much beautyand grace made great channel for the dissemination of truth the prey of the diabolical black forces which which da Siletra had promised. The Doctor seemed to be surrounding her. Looking at her could not see on the mental plane but he could with the sight of the Desire World he could see see the very slight change in some of the auric the magnificentdisplay of auriccolors as she fol- colors and he knew theidea would be to force her lowed the narrative and dwelt with enthusiasm into a certain line of action while at the same on the pictured glories of the Other Country as time making her believethat she had chosen that da Siletra was depicting them. With thissight, line of her ownfree will. This is one of the also, he could see the two entities assisting da principles of black magic and is well known to Siletra and could watch the thought forms which such schools as teach the control of others with- they projected against the girl's aura in the en- out their consent. deavor to aid their physical confederate. This knowledge, coupled with the actual sight The Doctor knew thatnow was the time to act. of the two entities engaged in their nefarious He could not stay much longer. His presence work, made the Doctor wonder whether his pol- would soon be needed in an old tenement where icy of non-interference was as wise as he had a woman lay moaning in the crisis of a deadly thought. He had hoped that by mildly ques- disease. There would be no money in the visit tioning the information and purposes of the and no prospect of future profitable work but Chilean he might arouse in Frances’ mind a I am glad to say that it never entered the Doc- doubt as to the wisdom of surrendering her in- tor’s head thatthis was any reason for following estimable birthright of self-control into the his own pleasure and letting a fellow being suf- power of persons whom she had never seen and fer. The Chilean was taking an unfair advan- could not possibly know; but apparently the in- tage, but the Chilean, too, realized that the crisis fluence of the Chilean together with the active had come in his pursuit of the girl. If he could efforts of the two spirits would prove too much only keep her mind favorable until his helpers for her. But if he spoke out his mind, would it had time to get a partial control of her, then do any good? The dilemma was a pressing one nothing could shake loose his grip. No argument and he wished fervently that he could consult can touch an obsessed mind, and it is almost im- the Professor. Yet it was a problem which he possible to convince a mind which is strongly in- ought to face and solve for himself. Of what fluenced although not obsessed. If the Doctor use would he be in the great work for the uplift left now without bringing matters to a head, he of humanity if he could not be trusted to face an knew that there was little doubt but that the unaccustomed situation and use his own judg- Chilean with the aid of his partners on the other ment to solve the problem in the best way! In side would get complete control of the girl. Yet the commercial world, as he well knew, men who if he did speak out his mind and warn Frances can obey orders are plentiful and therefore against this combination of black magic and cheap, but men who can be relied upon to use mental assault, would it do any good? their heads and use them wisely, to form their He pondered the matter over whilethe Chilean own judgments with more or less good sense, are was further discoursing on the wonders of the rare. great plan of life which took the soul from this In this case, too, he had the strongest possible sphere to others of gradually increasing glory motive for using the best judgment at his com- and of the great rewards which would accrue to mand. From where he sat he could see the af- those who would offer themselves as channels for ternoon sunlight, a few rays of wh.ich strayed the wisdom ready to be given out by spirits of through the window near where Frances sat, high attainments who are anxious to come backto glinting on her hair and lighting up the play the earth atmosphere for thatpurpose. The mon- 298 RAYS FROM THE BOSE CROSS ologue was interspersed with covert sneers at the those who yield up their personalities to the con- wildtheory of rebirthwhich was held by none but trol of others. Yet if he did not would not the those of little knowledge (though da Siletra was speak openly result be the same, while he would have the aw- careful to give no offense from the standpoint of ful sense of having left undone something, no Miss Edgerly.) matter how slight, which might have turned the So the Doctor weighed the two sides of the scale! The Chilean was too good an actor and question. If he ca.me out and denounced the he had very powerful and utterly unscrupulous man and his black magic he might succeed only help on the other side. It was possible that in estranging his sweetheart. He was willingto Frances was not yet completely in the power of do even that if it would save her from the fate the snake and there was the chance thata jar or which he could easily see before her. Too well, jolt might serve to restore her mind to its ac- now, he could understand the dream and the na- customed reasoning powers. ture of the deep abyss towards which, as an oc- So under fire from the covert sneers of the cult student, he knew she was straying. He Chilean, regarded by the girl as but an illogical knew now that the illusions of the promises that and inexperienced dilettante in a wonderful sci- she should be made the channel for great and ence, forced'to watch the two spirits as they im- needed truths to be given out were, in the dream, planted thoughts of fame and power and vanity the flowers which she had plucked and which in her mind, the Doctor made his decision. Since had turned to thistles in her hand. The great hints and reason and appeals were useles, he chasm toward which she had wandered was that would try what direct attack might accomplish. awful gulf of spiritual destruction which awaits ( To be continued.)

W112 fiigsterinits fifiastika Br J. H. (Continued from November) “ N THE BEGINNING was the W0 A; The Greek word for Word is Logos, and Logos, the Word, as well as Logeion, Reason, have the numerical value of 13 or 4; the former is numerically 238, the latter 373. The name of the Teacher of angels and men, Christos, numbers 1480; again 13 or 4. More- over, the word Ichthys, or Pisces, which is composed of the initials of “Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Saviour,” numbers 1219, again 13 or 4. The Tetragrammaton,or four-lettered name, was known to the Greeks, but instead of writing it Y H W H, with 13 above and 13 below, or with 4 Daleths or doors, in which form it numbers 16, they used their third letter Gamma, and wrote it with4 Gammas, in which form it numbrs 3 x 4 or 12, as a symbol of the Pyramid. The reason for this change we find in astrology. Astrology, which is spiritually based upon the Law of Consequence, is too old 8 science to be dis- RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS 299 world, or the Christian year is meant. The The 4 principal events in a human life are birth, trouble with most of these eras is that they be- (which is itself fourfold), education, attainment begin with some memorable event here upon of social standing, and death, and these are in- earth, such as the foundation of a city or a dec- dictated by the 1st, 3rd, 10th and 8th houses as laration of independence. The astrologer, on shown in the diagram above. In addition, a the other hand, measures time by the heavenly child coming from the heaven world and born timekeepers, which constitute the Clock of the into this world, carries with it as heredity the Universe and are never out of order. The’ As- experience of a previous journey through the 12 trological Era begins with the year 25,835 B. C. houses, which can be added to the 1st house, According to the astrological records Christ giving it the number 13; for the numerical value was born 33 B. C. He died on the Cross in the of 12 plus 1 is 13, as said before. crossed year 0, when the sun by precession The Svastika, then, is a symbol of the atom, the last from the first degree of Aries to degree the man, and also of the sun, and its arms cor- and the of Pisces, to begin a new Sidereal Year; responded to the old and thenew Sidereal Yearof on the first Ruler of the New Age rose (again) 25,868 ordinary years. Of course, we also find day, of the first week, of the first month, of the the left-hand Svastika in the New Age and the first year A. D. And the astrological year cor- right-hand in the old, but that need not disturb 1422 responding to 1920 A. D. is the the year us. The meaning of this sign will also become Era the sun A. D., for accordingto the Christian more and more glorious as we advance from the was in the first degree of Aries at the equinox in Earth Period to the Jupiter, Venus, and Vulcan 498 A. D. Periods. We have made three and one-half rev- The life of Christ marked the end of the old olutions of the Earth Period and obtained a Sidereal Yearand the beginningof the new, and mind by means of which our bodies will be con- this the astrologers expressed in the symbol of sciously perfected during the present Aryan Ep- the sun by changing the arms of the Svastika och and the following periods. During the pres- from left to right. That the Svastika was not ent Aryan Epoch the Svastika represents the 4 merely a letter or a figure composed of letters, vehicles, dense, vital, and desire bodies. plus the but also a symbol of the sun, is shown in the sign mind. In the Jupiter Period the horizontal line has itself when written with 4 Daleths where it will represent our present animals, who will then if we the numerical value of 4 x 4 equal 16; for be human, while the perpendicular line will rep- make 16 squares in the form of 4 rows of 4 resent our intellectual soul which we shall have squares we get a figure of the heavens with the extracted from the vital body. In the Venus sun in the center. Period the horizontal line will represent our plants, who will then be human, while the perpendicular line will represent our emotional soul which we shall have extracted from the desire body. And in the Vulcan Period, when our present minerals will be human, the Svastika will represent the Creative Word, “through whom all things were made.” There are, then, two forms of the Svastika, the left-armed and the right-armed. The former has the numerical value of 16, the latter of 3 x 4 There is one law for the atom, the man, and which the initiates often wrote as 34. The thesun. As the sun travels throughthe 12 signs former is a symbol of the 16 races, the 16 paths of the zodiac, which are divisions of the heavens to destruction; the latter is a sign of initiation producing the 4 seasons, spring, summer, au- into the 9 (3x3 or 33) lesser mysteries, and of lib- tumn, and winter, so man travels through the 12 eration ( 1). The candidate must pass through houses, which are divisions of the earth, going the former before he can reach the latter. The through infancy, youth, manhood, and old age. former is the symbol of the involuntary clair- 300 RAYS FROM THE ROBE C3056

voyant whose sense centers of the desire body are 13 or 4 to its opposite the outer 13 or four we spinning around to the left or counter-clockwise get the sum of the Tetragammaton,the four let- (following negatively the motion of the earth tered name Y H W H, whose numerical value which moves on its axis in that direction). The is 26. latter is the of sign thetrained clairvoyant whose Returning now to our own Svastika, the won- sense centers of the desire are body spinning derful emblem of the Rose Cross, with which we around to the right, clockwise, or in the direction started, we find the left armed, visible sign rep- of the hands of a clock. resented by a Circle of seven roses, while the The Svastika is left-armed when seen from right armed. invisible sign is represented by a the front, and it is right-armed when seen from pure white Roman Cros or Square having three behind. Where the two forms are combined,the half circles at the end of each of the four arms Svastika represents the visible and the invisible FmmthecenterofthisCrouradiatuthefive- side of nature and of man. pointed, -golden Star. The problem here pre- When both forms of the sign are represented sented among other things is to find a square together by means of theirmystical numbers, the whichshallbeequalinareatothatofacirele Svsstika unfolds into a magic square in the fol- with a given radius. To solve this problem we lowing form, which should be compared with the must know the ratio of the circumference of the previous diagram. circle to its diameter, and thiswe learn from the Pentalpha, (Pentacle, Pentagram), the five- pointed Star. The five points of this Star are made up of the five letters of the Hebrew word Elohim, A L H I M If we write the first letter Aleph on the right upper point, and the other letters of the word in their order around the circle to the left, because Hebrew is written from right to left, the last letter M will fall upon the right lower point and the letter L will stand at the top. If we now read the same letters around the circle to the right or clockwise, start- In thisdiagram theleft Svastilrais represented ing with the letter L at the top, we get this ar- by the visible squares numbered from 1 to 16, rangement: L A M I H. The numerical value while the right sign is represented by the invis- of these letters in their order is 30, 1, 40, 10, 5, ible sum of 3x4 or 34. ‘These 16 squares are the Leaving out zero we get 3.1415—and this is the 16 pathsto destruction which the candidate must ratio which we sought. safely pass, before he can attain initiation into the nine lesser mysteries (33), and find liber- (The End) ation through the Thirteenth (1). This diagram illustrates the hermetic axiom, WHAT OONSTITUTES SUCCESS “As above, so below; as within, so without.” “He has achieved success who has lived well, In this diagram add any line of numbers above laughed often, and loved much; who has gained or below, within or without, or any square of the respect of intelligent men and the love of numbers, above or below, within or without; the little children; who has filled his niche and ac- sum will be the same. Again, the sum of the complished his task; who has left the world bet- paths has numerically the same number as the ter than he found it, whether by an improved Liberator,for 1 plus 6 equal 7, and 3 plus 4 equal poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued son): who 7; and so the number of the Liberator 13, cor- has never lacked appreciation of beautyor failed responding to the sign Aries, the Lamb, and to to express it; who has always looked for the best the 1st house in the inner square occupies the in others and given the best he had; whose life same place and the same space as the number 7 was an inspiration; whose memory a benedic- in the outer square. And if We add the inner tion.” Selected. (huratinn Brpartmmt. W112 Qlnunamxlaie flmtteptinn

QUESTION : stract Thought the ego selects a mother and at- The Rosicrucian interpretation of the immacu- taches itself to her. This takes place long be- late conception is very satisfactory; however, the fore the physical conception, and as each ego inquirer would like to know whether he is right “is spirit,” a part of God who “is spirit,” we inassumingthattherearemoreaspectsthanone may truly say that a woman chosen by an ego to this question and whether these are alluded to to provide it with a physical vehicle is overshad- in your literature. owed byvthe Holy Spirit and carries with her the sacred of ANSWER: mystery virgin motherhood ere she “knows” man. Every occult truth is said to have seven as- Besides, the World of pects, three hidden, four revealed in manifesta- AbstractThought is one of the main spheres from tion. These four are the which, through the universal; the cosmic; of Jehovah the terrestrial agency and his angels, the third as- or historical; and the mystic or of personal. pect the Deity, the Holy Spirit, acts upon us. It is through the creative of the The approach to the sublime arcanum of the activity Holy Spirit thatthe in the immaculate conception of the universe is dis- ego third Heaven re- ceives the impetus to build for itself closed in the grandiose simile of the Spirit of God once more a physical form for the fashioning of which it re- moving upon the sea of virgin matter. quires the help of earthly parents. The cosmic aspect presents itself to us each Christmas night when the cosmic Christ is born The virginal, spiritual conception, namely the into the earth at the time that the constellation attached of the ego to the mother-to-he must precede the of Virgo, the divine virgin mother, rises on the physical conception, and well may eastern horizon. the poet hail a woman called into such mystical ‘ communion with The terrestrial or histovical aspect found its the highest Heaven World, the supreme illustration when Mary and Joseph, very homeland of the spirit: “You with God's own wonder in those high Essenian initiates who had long risen your heart, you with God's own in above thestage of physical generation, gave their glory your eyes.” chaste bodies as sacrifices,since they alone of all . The angel greeted Mary, the initiate, “Hail, human beings had pure enough material to offer thou that are highly favoured, the Lord is with from which the Master Jesus could build his per- thee; blessed art thou among women.” fected physical body as a habitat for the Christ On the strength of her initiateship Mary be- Spirit. came immediately conscious of the fact of which The mystic or personal aspect of the question her less advanced sisters remain unconscious, is the least understood, and yet being personal it namely that an ego in heaven had attached itself is experienced by every one of us; being mystic to her, and from the tremendous rate of the vi- it concerns every mother and every human ego brations with which she felt quickened she knew at its descent into earth life. that she had been chosen by a greatly exalted From thismystic point of view not only Jesus spirit. This is really the meaning of the an~ but every human ego is immaculatelfconceived, nunciation, which was a mystical happening for we know thatwhen preparing for the descent within Mary's inner consciousness. into matter from the region of the World of Ab- But she also knew that the immaculate con- 302 RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS ception from the world of spirit must inevitably “I asked the truffle-seekingswine, as rooting by be followed by physical conception in the world he went, of dense matter, and her serene soul felt per- ‘What is the keynote of your life!’ He grunted turbed, for her union with Joseph was entirely out, ‘Content.’ spiritual and the very nature" of their high initiateship excluded every thought of physical “I asked a slave who toiled and sang, just what generation. Then the angel or the voice of the his singing meant; Holy Spirit speaking within herself comforted He plodded on his changelm way, and said, ‘I her saying: “With God nothing shall be im- am content.’ possible.” She recognized the divine workings “I asked a plutocrat of greed, on what his of a law higher even than that of celibacy on which she her initiateship dependent, thoughts were bent; thought He chinked the silver in his and ‘I namely the law of service and sacrifice, and she purse, said, am content.’ answered, “Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thyword.” _“I asked the mighty forest tree from whence its force was sent; Its thousand branches as and WHAT IS THE NECESSITY FOR CREEDS spoke one, said, ‘From discontent.' QUESTION : “I asked the memage speeding on, by what are there so creeds and churches, Why many great law was rent each to have the real and truth claiming only God's secret from the waves of space. It said, and thinkingevery other one is wrong? ‘From discontent.’

ANSWER : “I asked the marble, where the works of God When the Ego enters into the physical vehicle and man were blent, its limits itself. This vehicle is separated from What brought the statue from the block. It an- others, and naturally when the light is enclosed swered, ‘Discontent.’ in a small body the view is narrowed down to a small area, just as with the camera when the “I asked an Angel, looking down on earth with shutter is only partly opened. The focusing with gaze intent, point is very small, but the shutter may be How man should rise to larger growth. Quoth opened wider and wider and a broader scope is he, ‘Through discontent.’ ” then given to the picture. So religious ideas may Ella Wheeler Wilcox. also be narrowed down and become dogmatic, but this segregating influence of creeds is not Rebirthalso explains why each man is distinct without its benefit. If all held the same opin- from and unlike his brother and why he cannot ion on religion, what a monotonous and crys- think along the same lines. We find children tallized world we should have. No one would graded in school. The kindergarten teacher then make the effort to search deeper for the must give her pupils pictures as object lessons, truth. The strife betweenvarious creeds and the and when she speaks of a book she must show the differences of opinion are prodding irons which children a book; but as they grow, their lemons force man to seek for something more. These of life must be broadened and their views en- differences create discontent within his mind, larged. Thus the lower races must be given a which then spurs him on to seek for something symbol of their God or what is called by ortho- better. doxy an idol. They must have an object before them to worship, while the more advanced man “I asked the rock beside the road, what joy ex- has a higher viewpoint as regards spiritual istence lent: truths. The older the soul, the more generous It answered, ‘For a million years my heart has and liberal minded he becomes, and he can com- been content, prehend spiritual truths from a broader range. glstmlngiwl firehirtiuns gkegarhing the geéfmtralirg nf zalnume RICHARD Goaoon Hamm-r

‘V THINK students of astroloy will be the horoscope into space as an offering to the 11 pleased to read another case which I had Almighty, that the light of wisdom may dawn the privilege of investigating during the upon me. This image thus being held up and war in response to a genuine question put to me left to rest in the upper regions for some time by a Belgian lady refugee in the year 1916. returns to me enveloped with remarkable truth: It is perhaps just as well to acquaint the my mind then understands and my intuition reader as to my state of mind previous to looking knows. It gives one the impression henceforth up such important matters, in order thathe may of a channel having been opened for the waters compare his impressions with my own: of a natural spring, which immediately begin to I have found that the prerequisites to the cor- run to the lower levels. rect delineation of any horoscope, whether gen- I realize to an extent how musicians, poets, ethliacalor horary, are in the first place, an in- and painters feel when shaping their master- tense longing to be of some assistance to the in- pieces. The genius of a Milton must have de- quirer and a feeling that one is not wasting en- rived its inspiration from a higher source when ergy uselessly in probing into matters which he felt himself overflowing with thoughts and of no what- might be considered by some as value music seeking expression in verse. In a poem ever to anyone; secondly, a true love of astrol- which is said to have been his last lines, he ogy and an admiration for all God's works. It writes: should be realized that one is in touch with the the and at Infinite when face to face with stars, “In a purer clime, the moment of to solve an astrolog- undertaking My being fills with rapture; waves of thought ical should be imbued with problem, the student Roll in upon my spirit; strains sublime akin to the attitude which a true de- a reverence Break over me unsought. votee of any religion experiences when bowing down before the altar of his church or of place “Give me now my lyre! worship. I feel the stirring of a gift divine; the is before me to be de- When planetary map Within my bosom glows unearthlyfire, I endeavor first to enter into the lineated, spirit Lit by no skill of mine.” of the configurations, aspiring to be thoroughly filled with the message that they are destined In the beginningof the year 1916, the newspa- to convey to me. After having examined the pers in England were continually referring to planetary positions and combinationsin a scien- the dangers surrounding Holland during the tific manner and committed the scheme to my war crisis, and reports came through every now memory, I mentallylift up or project, as it were, and then of a concentration of German troops on RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS the Dutch frontier. Rumors were also spread ber,) both as regards the signs on the cusps of in divers quarters that the Allies had sent an the houses and the positions of the planets rel- ultimatum to Holland requesting her to stop sup- ative to the earth. After a study of the con- plying Germany with foodstuffs and various ma- figurations which presided over the mighty en- terials for the prosecution of the war; a decision counter at Verdun, I understood more thoro- to this effect was said to have been taken at an ughly the meaning of the present horoscope. Allied conference in Paris. The fixed signs on the angles of the Verdun map showed immense the It appeared almost an impossibilityto get at stability notwithstanding the the bottom of the many stories circulating in all many terrible adverse forces workingagainst directions, yet everybody seemed to feel instinc- fortress. I concluded that it would be the same with Holland for and tively thatthere must be some foundation to the Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, on the of the many contradictory statements prevailing on Aquarius angles horoscope pointed this point. This state of affairs caused much to her firm resolution not to depart from an attitude of strict The forces leveled anxiety among the Belgian refugees in every neutrality. her as as was the country, because on the neutrality of Holland against were great, morally, This rested almost their last hopes of receiving news pressure of the German legions at Verdun. from their families, relatives, and friends who little country knew she would be swamped with- had remained in their native land. The entry out accomplishing any good purpose, did she launch her bark in the torrent of Holland into thewar, either for or against the roaring raging Allies, would in this respect have deepened the around her frontiers. Consequently there was no use in to bribeher. The sadness existing in an already distressing situ- endeavoring position ation, owing to her being practically the only at times was most embarrassing because she had to on all sides without, gate on the continent of Europe through the me- yield diplomtically dium of which communication with Belgium, however, disclosing her plans. however difficult, was still possible. The Moon, one of Holland’s significators, is in In themidst of all the uncertainties surround- exact opposition to her Ascendant and in exact ing thismatter, I met a lady who was very much square to Mars, the othcr representative, indi- troubled at the idea of Belgium being possibly cating the difficulties arising from the state of cut off from the rest of the world, and she ex- neutrality: she bends a little here and slightly claimed out of the fullness of her heart, “Is Hol- therebut keeps her balance. It is somewhat like land's neutrality threatened?” This question one of La Fontaine’s fables, “Le Meunier, son and coming from very deep was naturallya means of Fils et l’ane,” (the Miller, his Son the Al- throwingsome light on the subject. It was 9 :06 Ass,) for she had to endeavor to satisfy the Hers was P. M. on Aprilthe4th, 1916, London. lies as well as Austria and Germany. The horoscope cast in the usual way gives the indeed a most difficult and dangerous task. following particulars: The open enemies are represented by the sev- Cusp: of the Houses enth house, and the secret enemies are shown by 10thhouse, Leo 27; 11thhouse, Virgo 29; 12th th twelfth house influences. In the present house, Libra 23; Ascendant, Scorpio 11:32; 2nd horoscope both are signified by Venus placed in house, Sagittarius 10; 3rd house, Capricorn ‘I8. - the seventh house, angular and essentially dig- Positions of the Planets nified. This was a good augnry and a splendid Uranus 18:42 Aquarius; Mercury 4:32 Aries: indication that harmony would be maintained Jupiter 12-18 Aries; Sun 14-45 Aries; Moon with the European nations. Open threats and 11:8 Taurus; Venus 29:16 Taurus; Saturn 10:5 underhand plots left Holland unaffected. The Cancer; Neptune 29:53 Cancer, retrograde: Moon in the seventh house, exalted and angular, Mars 11:29 Leo. is also a strong position, making for harmony, would out The feature of this map which at first and foretold how well the Dutch ease which arise the pe- glance struck me most forcibly was its resem- of any danger might through in blance to the figure which I had erected for the culiar condition shown by the Moon opposi- to Mars. It battle of Verdun (published in a previous num- tion to the Ascendant and square RAYS FROM TflROSE CROSS 806 was indeed awkward for Holland to maintain a circumstances, for Mars in Leo throws a trine perfect equilibrium. aspect to Jupiter and the Sun. When Mars as- Now there is another phase in connection with pects favorably, he stands for energy and execu- Venus which is noteworthy. This planet, though tive abilitywherever he manifests himself, so it well placed, is only aspected by the sextile of was clear that the Dutch were striving hard to Mercury and the perfect receptive sextile aspect surmount any after-effects which the strain of with Neptune, Messenger of the Gods. Neptune the war was likely to leave behind. The student being the planet of divinity, beckons to the fact will also notice the trine aspect of Mars with that the Powers which regulate the destinies of the cusp of the second house and the mutual re- nations -had decided that this little country ception of the Sun and Mars, i.e. the Sun in would keep out of the wear and tear of the Aries and Mars in Leo; all testimonies concur- war. Therefore, the subtle forces of Neptune ring to denote the strength of Holland’s finan- combined with the already well placed Venus cial standing. This last condition, I believe, has were wonderful testimonies to Holland’s secu- so far stood the test of events, and was already rity. written in the heavens in 1916 witha lustre beautiful to behold. Thus it was that the lady by voicing her fears Supplied the clue which enabled me to give some One shouldrejoice to thinkthat in the midst assurance accordingto the foregoing description. of all the miseries of the last years a few indi- But I do not suppose the lady imagined for one viduals and nations have pamed through the or- moment the possibilities contained in the ex- deal comparatively smoothly. The world says

‘ pression of a. single emotion, so closely human af- they may “thank their stars,” they are ‘ fairs are related with the cosmos, nor the mental ‘lucky”; but thephilosopherand seer know that food she was supplying to a student of astral sci- “luck is closely linked to merit.” ence

Before I had finished with her question, I Get but the truth once uttered and ’t.is like a found my attention drawn to a department of star, new born, that drops into its place, and Dutch national life which shone too brilliantly which, once circling in its placid round, not all in before me to the planetary keyboard escape the tumult of the earth can shake. my notice. I am referring to the financial situ- James Russell Lowell. ation and business prospects of Holland which are so clearly indicated. The horoscope leaves no shadow of doubt on this score. The financa The Training School for Lecturers are represented by Sagittarius on the cusp of the The Training School is now in operation, with second house, and Jupiter, the ruler, in the fifth Dr. Hodges and Mrs. Cramer as instructors, as house in conjunctionwiththe Sun in Aries. De- mentioned in a previous issue. A great deal of spite the obstructing influence of the square of interest in the class work is being manifested by Saturn, this foreshadowed a lively, prosperous, the students. The instruction given in the va- and bountiful growth in wealth through strong rious subjects is designed to advance them as connections and influential circles,—a mighty rapidly as possible toward their goal, namely, to asset for the Dutch nation. A glance at the fig- go out and present our philosophyto the world. ure will show up the strong currents at work in The chaotic and disordered economic and so- ' this direction: cial conditions now generally prevailingpoint to Jupiter and the Sun in conjunction are both the urgent need by the people of a philosophyof casting a trine aspect to the cusp of the second 11'fe which will show them the fundamental prin- house from the fifthhouse, the Sun beinglord of ciples underlyinghuman existence, and the meth- the tenth house. This combinationshows a state ods by which they can adjust their lives in har- of comfort and ease for the Dutch business peo- mony with those principles. We know that the ple and large commercial concerns. This bit of Rosicrucian Philosophy meets this need. We good fortune is brought on by their own indus- thereforehope thatmany will feel the call to take try, by their own labor, and by favorable general up thiswork. RAYS FROH THE ROBE CROSS W12 Qllfilhrm of fiagittarius, 1921'! Born between November23d and December21st, inclusive.

is the custom of astroEDlI'1‘0B'8ogers whN0'l;I"3._—Itan vmg a reading requir- ingssdataonlythelnonthinwhlchthe personisborn,toconfinetheirrema.rksto the characteristicsgiven by thesign in which the Sun is at the time. Obviously, how- eve:-,thisisamostelementaryreadingand does not really conve any idea ofwhatapersonisl e,forif esechar- aetcnstics were his only ones, there would only be twdve kinds of people in the world. _We shall improve. upon this method by ing monthl readm that will fit the $-- dren born the ven month of that par- ticular year and take into consideration the characteristics_ conferred by the other Planets according to the sign in which they are during that month. This will give an accurate idea of the nature and - bilitiesof these children and will, we o beofsoineusetothemanyparentswo are not fortunate enough to have their children's horoscopes cast and read indi- Vidua-119. We keep these magazines in stocksoth_atparentsmaygetsucharead- 31:18!‘ born month after 0.f0I‘9f_1I1Ildr'¢la‘1l1l. e Priceinfany0 back numhers is 25¢ I T

HAT A TIME the parents of thechildren ASTROLOGYBY CORRESPONDENCE born while the Sun is passing through of this the restless sign Sagittarius year To us, Astrology is a phase of Religion. We will have! These active little busy-bodies are teach it to others on condition thatthey will not if made so full of energy thatthey are miserable prostitute it for gain, but will use it to help and to sit still. When they play they do it with so hcal suffering humanity. much energy, wasted energy, racing and dancing, Anyone who is not engaged in fortune telling will so full of life thatthe mother's nerves some- or similar methods of commercializing spiritual of sun- times feel the effects. But they are rays knowledge may be admitted to instruction in children are shine nevertheless, for Sagittarius either the Junior or Senior correspondence very bright and seem to acquire knowledge course. sunrise without effort. The children born at There are no fixed fees for instruction. At is also will when the sign of Sagittarius rising the same time it cannot be given “free,” for want to go all the time, for Uranus, the liberty- those who work to promulgate it must have the will then be loving planet, in the sign of Pisces, necessities of life. Type, paper, machinery and will in the 4th House; they will be very restleu, postage also cost money, and unless you con- and will be con- not want to remain at home, tribute your share, someone also must pay for stantly seeking pleasure. you. Address, Rosicrucian Fellowship, Ocean- Calif. The planets are scattered all over the horos- side, cope, one or more in each of seven signs, which will make the children born during this period For Heaven is a book before thee set: wherein and learn his ser- very versatile. They will be Jacks—of-all-trades to read His wondrous works, but masters of none; they will be able to fit into mons, hours, or days, or months, or years. -—llI'llos. any place and will be very adaptable. RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS 807 flour Gllpilifs flilntnstnpe If the readingsglveninthlsdeparunentweretobepaidtoth uldbevery sides typewriting, etc., the calculation and reading of each holrosctiypewo tune. Please note that we do not promise anyone a reading to get him to subscribe. readings tohelp pareutsin training their children, to and to help students of the stellar science with p 808 RAYS FROM THE ROSE C3088 also showing thathis musical friendswill be most dangers that might cost her her good name; for ready to assist him. Uranus in opposition to Venus will attract the Saturn in Cancer gives thenative an abnormal opposite sex and that type of man who would appetite and indicates one who is unusually fond take advantage of her. Saturn is also afflicting of sweets, desserts, and rich food. Mars gives a Venus and Uranus, which will make the oppo- ravenous appetite; he wants much of whatever sition of the above planets more subtle. he likes and especially he wants highly seasoned She willbe very bright and activementally,for fluids. food. Saturn restricts the digestive we find the Moon in Ariestrine to Mercury, Sun, Hence if the. boy is not curbed or restrained Jupiter, and Mars from the fiery sign of Leo. the while young, this configuration in Cancer, The parents may save this child much suffering sign ruling the stomach, will cause disturbance in the future, as Jupiter and Mercury, rulers of in the body. the 10th and 4th Houses, indicating the parents, are in conjunction with the Sun, which is ruler VIOLA E. of the 2nd House, finances, and with Mars, the Born August 16, 1908. 2:00 A. M. ruler of the House of friends and co-ruler of the Long. 121 W., Lat. 38 N. 5th House, pleasure. The parents should Cusp: of the Houses choose Viola’s friends for her and also make a 10th House, Pisces 23; 11th House, Aries 28, companion of her, taking part with her in her Taurus intercepted; 12th House, Gemini 7; As- studies and her pleasures, making a confidant of cendant, Cancer 11-50; 2nd House, Leo 2; 3rd her; in so doing she will confide in them. But House, Leo 25. if she is humored in money matters and allowed Position: of the Planets. to spend money freely, she may become very im- Neptune 16-1 Cancer; Mercury 18-41 Leo: provident, wanting many pretty clothes and to Sun 23-5 Leo; Jupiter 24-10 Leo; Mars 25-1 Leo; spend her money on theaters and entertainments. Uranus 13-29 Capricorn; Saturn 9-40, retro- When she is permitted to go out, let the parents grade, Aries; Moon 21-54 Aries; Dragon’s Head choose her boy companions or accompany her. 2-23 Cancer; Venus 11-42 Cancer. but never try to force her to do anythingagainst her Here we have another nativity with Cancer on her will; rather let them love and tactfully the Ascendant, but a very different personality win her over to theirway of is shown. Instead of the malefic Mars and Sat- urn which we find in the horoscope of the boy, we find the beautifuland artistic planet Venus and the inspirational and devotional Neptune, both in conjunction withthe Ascendant. These two planets in the occult and sensitive sign of Cancer will give this girl a wonderfully sweet and dreamy nature, with high and lofty ideals. She is a sensitive plant which needswto be shel- tered from the cruel blows of the world, for with the configurations which we find there will be many hard lessons to learn in this life. The Moon, ruler of the horoscope, in the mar- tial sign of Aries and in the 10th House, square to Neptune, will give her a very restless nature, and she will find it very hard to remain con- tented in one place for any lengthof time. We also find the restless Uranus in opposition to both Venus and Neptune from the 7th House, which will tend to give her a great desire for change and adventure. It may also place her in fitghisa @112 llnzirrurian (lluamn (llmtrrptinn

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(Pages 129-133 Cosmo-Conception) dense body. ' Q. What does this desire produce! What is the reason for this radical differ- A. It conjures up a series of pictures before ence in the two panoramas? the vision of the of the spirit—a panorama The reason is thatin the before-birthpanor- life in store for it. ama the object is to show the incarnating What does this panorama contain! Ego how certain causes produce certain ef It contains the only principal events. fects. In the after-death panorama the ob- F’*.°!’*;° Does the spirit have free will as to detail? ject is to show how each event in the past this be Yes, may compared to a man travel- life was the effect of some cause further ing on a time-limit ticket. After he has back in the life. chosen his route, it is difficult to change to Why is nature a wise mother? another route the He during trip. may PP Because nature, or God, does nothing with- stop over in as many places as he wishes, out a logical reason, always using the best but he cannot go back. means to accomplish the object in view. Does he become more limited as he pro- Why should we incarnate? ceeds on his journey? !>*.° Because the purpose of life is not happiness, He does. If has chosen he a road using but experience. Sorrow and pain are our soft coal, he must expect to be soiled and most benevolent teachers, while the joys of dusty. Had he chosen a road using elec- life are but fleeting. tricity, he would have been cleaner. Why does this seem a stern doctrine‘! How does this compare with a man in a new EH0 Because the heart cries out passionately at life! even the thought that it may possibly be P’ He may have to live a hard life, but he is true. free to choose whether he will live it cleanly Can you give an illustrationof the bl- or wallow in the mire. of ings pain! . When do the pictures begin and end in the If we could place our hand upon a hot panorama of the coming life! stove and feel no pain, it might be allowed They begin at the cradle and end at the to remain there until it burned away. with- grave. out our knowing anythingabout it, and un- What is the difference between this panor- til too late to save it. ama and the one after death! What is it that makes us snatch our hand :'>-;°.>;D in It proceeds the opposite direction from away! the panorama which passes before the vision The pain. Instead of losing our hand we es- of the spirit following its release from the cape with only a blister. 810 RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS

Where does this principle apply? WILL LEVINGTON COMFORT LETTER P"? In the Moral and Mental Worlds as well as ,(Conts°nued from page 289) in the Physical World. izes that the glorious solvent of all misery and is his for his of If we outrage morality, what results! pain straight rendering allegi- ence to theLover within—such a man moves, not .>*?3 The pangs of conscience bring us pain that as one without hope even in the midst of stresses will us from repeating the act, and prevent and ordeals, the least of which is supposed to if we do not heed the first lesson, nature will break the human heart. give us harder and harder experiences until at last the fact is forced into our conscious- CONDITIONS ON THE INVISIBLE PLANES ness that “the way of the transgressor is hard.” (Continued from page 294) ’ How long will the lessons continue! long and faithfullyare around her—dearer still the words of comfort and affection. P63 They will continue until we are forced to A subtle fills the air from which turn in a new direction and take a step on- harmony special melodies rise high and clear, the mea- ward toward a better life. sages of invisible guardians spealdng heaven's What is the result of experience? own language. The perfume of a thousand vi- P63 The knowledge of the effects which follow olets, delicate yet persistent, is with her, the fra- causes. grance of a 1ifetime’s aspirations. Georgeous Q. What is will? color harmonies glow and opalcsce in flames of A The force whereby we apply the results of living fire, shaking the domes and fretted towers experience. of many a Dream Temple. (To be continued.) The vital essence of heaven’s life burns her veins, renewing youth and health. through Her wings erstwhile folded in fatigue on the A PLEA FOR THE CHURCH dream-ocean are once more outspread, poised in (Continued from page 293) the radiance of the new day. Now she rises to to gone out seeking and who had at last found the complete the tale of joys, winging her way Rosicrucian philosophy. During the service and the Temple, nevermore to go out, and enters an when the prayer was offered, he showed a devo- eternity of Love and Service. tional attitude. He participated heartily in the She has awakened to her royal heritage! singing and during the sermon manifested an evidence of being teachable. Should we not re- Views of Mt. Ecclesia turn thanks to Jesus, that great shining light We have for a of who through his ministers has given us the Rosi- sale supply photographs and size 61:8 in. crucian Philosophy, which will make men and ready for mounting framing, Eleven as follows: women as little children, willing, eager, to be subjects, taught, willing to help him call his wandering The New Ecclesia, in course of erection. children home, thus drawing them nearer to The Pro-Ecclesia, outside view. God. The Pro-Ecclesia, inside view. Disciples, probationers, and students of the The Pro-Ecclesia Rose-Cross and rostrum. H Rosicrucian Fellowship, stand by the church, for General view of the grounds. and it is through her thatthis great philosophymust Library building grounds. view of eventuallyflow to theworld. Interior Library. The Dining Hall, (exterior)

‘°9°>‘.°'°P‘!“.°°.‘°!". The Dining Hall, (interior.) 1921 Ephemeris 10. The Electric Rose-Cross. This Ephemeris is now ready for delivery. 11. The Print Shop. Orders will be fined the day received. Price 35 cents each, or any three for $190- (llhilhrrnhiflrparimrnt @3112 312 RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS W112 Sting nf (figpsie ANITA RAU NEW HOMES VIII In the meantime, Mr. Meier and Mr. Smithhad held a whispered conversation, and the former THE MEETING came to a close; there now stepped toward Gypsie, who gave a sigh of $0 was nothingmore to be said. The affair relief. could not have been decided better. The “Come, Gypsie, we will go all together to rest or the wise councilors congratulated their Mother Elizabeth;she will love you and you will two friends and prepared to leave. love her. Baby shall sleep with you, and when had overlooked the fact Unfortunately they you know where Mr. Smith lives perhaps you not understand what that the children could will be glad to let Johnny go and live there." good fortune had befallen them, and when Mr. Big tears were rolling down the excited little Smith tried to pick the little fellow up he ’s she lifted her little screamed and kicked and Gypsie went fiercely girl cheeks; impulsively arms to him and he picked her up and kissed to his rescue. “This is my brother and you shall her. Then on their not take him He does not know you and he putting hats, the strong tall man headed the procession withthe tiny hand of does not go with strangers.” . Gypsie in while she held close The wise farmers shook their heads. Had it his, safely Johnny to her. ever been known that little paupers dared to Down the main street the other object to what was to be done withthem! But they walked, gentlemen them as reached Gypsie’s eyes glistened and she looked as if she bidding goodbye they their homes, until Mr. Meier and Mr. Smithwere were perfectly capable of protecting her little left alone with the two children. In the charge. She would not answer anyone and middle of the she could not understand why Johnny could not village stood a lovely two-story house in the midst of a small remain with her. Her eyes wandered appeal- flower garden. It was ingly to Mr. Meier. “You will not let him be whitewashed, snowy curtains framed the win- shutters shut out the snn.anri taken, will you, he is my only brother.” dows, green glaring white and pink roses in big clusters climbed The tall man ’s were moist. He liked the eyes along the walls. All together it looked charm- litle all the more for her faithfulness, yet girl “Would like in what would his wife if he brought her two ing. you to live this house, say asked Mr. Meier little children instead of one? Now Mr. Smith Gypsie?” kindly. how seemed to have received an inspiration. “Your “Very much; lovely it is, what beautiful little brother will not be taken away; Mr. flowers!” Smith and I live right near each other so you “Yes, dear, and if you like you shall help care can see your brother every day and play with for them, for here lives Mother Elizabeth. You him if you are good and obedient.” must be very good, for she is sad; her daughter But Gypsie was not to be persuaded. “He is going away and you must not hurt her feel- must sleep in my bed or he will cry,” and again ings.” her eyes went to Mr. Meier. The others looked on, How strange that this tall, stern looking man wondering how it would all end, trying to scold could speak so gently with the little orphan! and to persuade the two mites thatthey ought to When he spoke she was all confidence. Wonder» be grateful for their good luck and not annoy ing, she followed him into the house where ev- the gentlemen or they would not take them. erything gave testimony to the presence of a re- “No one needs to take us; we thought we fined, gentle lady. Never had Gypsie been in would find our Mama here, or else we would not such a lovely place. The stairs and floors even have come. I can sell flowers and we are never were as white as snow, and everythingbreathed hungry”, and she hugged the crying little fellow cleanliness and plenty. only the more tightly and wiped away his tears. (To be continued.) Nutritinn emh ifiralth fimliat is Clnnsumptinn? Aucusrm Lnvanzm, A. B., Ph. D., L. L. B. In “The Drugless Physician.” ONSUMPTION is a catarrhal condition of bowels; of the kidneys, of the circulatory sytem, the lungs, due chiefly to the excessive and of the lungs. use of carbohydrates (starches and su- When the eliminatory organs—the skin, the gars), and fats. intestines and thekidneys—arenot active enough Consumption is not due to malnutrition, but to help the organism throw off its accumulated waste, the fourth of elimination—the to an excess of the wrong kinds of food; it is a organ bear the result of overeating, and not otherwise. lungs-—must brunt of the whole stren- uous effort of the to rid The in and in body get of its impuri- carbohydrates, excess wrong com- ties. blnations with other foods, create fermentation The lungs take care chiefly of the elimination in the intestines, flooding the system withthe ir- of the by-products produced by the ingestion of ritating acids that are generated as a by—product carbohydrates and fats. when one of fermentation. These acids, with the Therefore, every overeats of carbohydrates and he overworks toxins from protein putrefaction, overwork the fats, to rid of the excessive amount of and the liver until the second line of the lungs get pancreas carbonic acid formed in the system. defense of the organism—the liver—is broken When the outer skin is not sufficiently active down. (The first line of defense is the mucous because of the inefficiencyof a worn-out membrane of the intestines, that normally will thyroid gland, then the strain of elimination falls natur- not allow any acids or toxins to enter the circu- ally upon the inner skin—the mucous membrane lation.) that lines the digestive and the respiratory ap- When the custom-house function of the liver paratuses. " that flow to it is broken down, the impurities ‘The outer and the inner skins, embryologically, the instead of being through portal system, are developed from the same layer, and therefore transformed into bile and returned into the in- can act vicariously in case of necessity. Under liver into the tcstines, are let throughthe general normal conditions, the outer skin eliminates, circulation. The thyroid gland, with the ad- while the inner one assimilates; but when the renals and the other ductless glands—the third _ necessity is not of assimilatingmore food but of line of defense-—secrete their juices in a great eliminating accumulated acids and toxins, the effort to neutralize and render innocuous these inner skin takes up temporarilythe function of of fermentation and acids and toxins putrefac- elimination when the outer skin, the intestines, until in are badly overworked tion, they, turn, and the kidneys are not sufficiently efficient to and seriously crippled. take care of it. Then the mucous membrane of Because the thyroid gland regulates the activ- the digestive tract becomes the most active outlet ity of the skin, a crippled thyroidmeans a poor for the impurities of the body; and to protect elimination of waste matter and acids through itself from the exuding acids and toxins, pours the skin. with them a large quantity of mucus in self-de- Because the adrenal glands regulate the activ- fense. This is what we call a catarrhal condi- ity of the solar plexus and of the sympathetic tion. Therefore, when one is suffering from ca- system, a pair of exhausted adrenals means low- tarrh, it simply means that he has crippled to a ered metabolism in general, and especially re- great extent three of the most important organs duced activityof the peristaltic movement of the of elimination, and that the fourth is making a 814 RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS heroic effort to save the organism. the tubercle bacilli,acting as helpful and intel- rna LUNGS ans: oaaans or DIGISTION ligent scavengers, eat up the harmful pathogen. They digest oxygen, which is the most import- Consumption, therefore, if looked at h-om the ant element of nutrition, forming three-fourths right point of view, is not a curse but a blessing, by weight, nearly of the human body. Because in the sense thatwhen one has not lived correctly oxygen is so vitally important, the organism, andasaconsequencehasfilledhissystemwith through evolution, has developed an independ- pathogen to such an extent that the ordinary ent, automaticapparatus-—thelungs—for its in- outlets of elimination are not sufficient to take gestion; but the lungs are a branch of the de- careofit,thesurfaceofthelungsisresorted partment of digestion just the same. to as a helpful, vicarious mundificaut,and ‘ ‘con- The mucous membrane of the lungs is embry- sumption” develops to finish the job that the ologically a continuation of the mucous mem- other organs could not fully handle. brane of the digestive tract; and when the latter consmu-non I8 N01‘ A mans: is crippled by the long-sustained effort of catar- —but a remedial effort of the organism to save rhal elimination, the other naturally comes for- the life and restore the health of the individual. ward to the rescue, developing that catarrhal If the consumptive understands exactly and condition in the lungs which is commonly known clearly what the organism is trying to do, and by the name of “Consumption.” co-operates with it instead of breaking down its Therefore, first, we have catarrh of the di- efforts by drugs, serum, and overfeeding, there gestive tract in an effort to clean the system of is no reason why he should look at this instruct- its pathogen, and when this is not sufficient to ive experience as a bugaboo, a curse, or an incur- do it, the surface and the ultra-activity of the able ailment. lungs are resorted to, as an efficient help, by the If people did not overfeed on starches, de- organism. If thiseffort is too active, because of mineralized white bread and pastries, deminer therich supply of reserve energy of the body, we alized sugars, adulterated candies and syrups, have pneumonia; if limited exclusively to the vitamine-lacking margarines, excessive quanti- bronchi, bronchitis; if to the pharynx, sore ties of salted butter, peeled potatoes—therefore throat, tonsillitis, and sometimes diphtheria. If deprived of their alkalinizingpotassium—dens- the virulent toxins and irritating acids need di- tured breakfast foods and mushes, sulplmrsd lution to reduce their harmfulness, they are molasses and sulphurod dried fruits, sour and thrown out by the lungs into the pleural cavity. tubercular cow ’s milk,pork fat and bacon, ham, and by an increase of plasma-exudation cause chocolates, and many other harmful and adulter- pleurisy. ated foods, rich in carbon—thathave to be elim- Cough is the irritation caused by these excre- iated by overworking the lungs after knocking ta on the delicate and sensitive nervous fila- down the liver—no one need ever suffer from ments of the throat. consumption. When the catarrhal elimination of pathogen It is the excess of foods rich in carbon and, in through the mucous surface of the lungs is some cases, thedeficiency and thewrong combin- chronic, because of the pluri-glandular insuf- ations of the proteins, that engender the white ficiency of the ductless glands, we have “con- plague of civilization, which is reaping the sumption,” which ultimately degenerates into flower of our population, one in every ten in the tuberculosis, as a defensive procedure to localize so-called civilized world. and circumscribe the virulent toxins and the ir- When the people are taught how to eat and ritating acids, and not to allow them to spill into drink—how not to overeat of foods rich in car- the general circulation and damage the vital bon and of proteins, especially meat and eggs- organs. cases of consumption will become very scarce. Calcification is another defensive measure of It is a great mistake to feed consumptives large the organism to build a solid wall around the quantities of meat, eggs, milk, cod liver oil, etc., tubercles, so thattheir virulent contents cannot as prescribed by the allopathic physicians and enter the circulation till our beneficent friends, sanitariums. By overfeeding on proteins, the RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS 815 ductless glands, especially the thyroid, are seri- my life by following the methodsuggested above, ously crippled; and then through the reduced and by organotherapy—whichis nothingelse but activity of the solar plexus, the lungs cannot a branch of dietetics,—after groping for light function to their best to eliminate the pathogen for many dreary, hopelem years. Today no able and the carbonic acid. By keeping thisharmful diagnostician or expert roentgenologist could waste accumulated in the lungs, the tubercular even find the least trace of the trouble in my process sets in and makes the case more difficult lungs, because I am completely cured of it, as I to handle. ' have cured many others. The stimulation caused by the excessive At the same time I cured myself entirely of a amount of proteins may seem to help temporarily catarrhal condition of many years’ standing, by throwing out large quantities of the accumu- coupled with very obstinate constipation; and in lated pathogen; and the patient thinks he is the last ten years I have cured several cases and cured. But he is whipping his nervous system improved many more when my patients have and his dnctless glands to death, and after some been faithful and persevering enough to follow time he generallyfinds himself very much worse. strictly my mode of procedure. . This is not mere theory nor the vaporings of Deficiency in the organic salts and the vita- an exalted dreamer. After having been given mines, and the derangement of the ductless up to die of consumption by some of the most em- glands by toxemia and by sexual and emotional inent physicians, after they had fattened me by excesses, have also a great deal to do with the Qverfeeding to over two hundred pounds, I saved causation of consumption.

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UR DAILY BREAD! Mute or mur- may function within us as God intended? (ID mured, this ageless cry of earth’s odd There is a harmony in nature that must never billion rises from the toiling masses. be disturbed if evil is not to follow. Not one of Since rivers have run to the sea the wheat berry all the plagues of mind and body that have and the grain of rice have sprouted from the soil scourged our race but can be traced to some such in answer. The grains that Joseph stored in violation. - Our greatest sins are less of will than Egypt, fruit of the forked stick of the fellaheen, ignorance, and these cannot be pardoned save are wondrously like the yellow streams evoked through knowledge. Whim and expedience have and swept along by modern engines. The sweet caused the grain eaters of the world to discard alchemy of sun and rain has not changed since all but the starchy element of the grain. Or- then. Wheat is still wheat, but bread has ceased ganic chemistry is a dark, uncharted sea of to be! knowledge wherein we must find the sources of Sermons there may be in stones, but in the disease. Not long ago a light flashed from the daily white loaf of the baker I see the saddest Orient which may lead us far if we have the wit comedy of errors that ever played so long upon to follow. It was found that beri-bericould be the boards. The story of white bread goes to the cured by restoring to the diet the polishings of very root of modern ills, for it is both cause and rice. A simple thing, yet profound as any law result of a large percentage of these same ills. of nature! Harmony had thereby been restored. White bread was once the pride and fancy of the Why has analogy not been drawn from this few. When the slow gears of evolution quick- significant occurrence? Our hundred million ened under theimpact of machines, it became the civilized on this continent consume denatured universal bane. Barren of life as powdered food in the greater proportion of their diet. marble, white flour “keeps” indeed, whereby White bread, white flour pastry, and potatoes its single obvious quality becomes insidious evil, scalped and boiled dry of their essences, these for if it have no life, what can we give it that it (Continued on page 316) 316 RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS cfliemts from flit. flfittlesia —CHRISTMAS MENUS-— —BREAKFAST— Baked Apples Boiled Rice and Cream Cheese Omelet Entire Wheat Gems Cereal Coffee Milk ——DINNER— _,g(}ppE3_ _

Cream of - Asparagus Soup and Celery salad Stuffed Green Peppers Escalloped Salsify Pineapple _ Browned Sweet Potatoes. Hot Corn Bread Nut Sandwiches Plum Puddmg Milk Cranberry Sauce Milk Qiiesipes Escalloped Salsify celery to be sliced very fine and mixai withpine- Scrape and dice salsify, boil for fifteen min- apple. Place on plate garnished with lettuce or utes in hot salted water; drain. Place layer of celery leaves. Sprinkle chopped English wal- ' salsify in oiled baking dish, then a layer of nuts over top. cracker or bread crumbs, anotherlayer of salsify and crumbs. Beat two eggs and mix with one THE CRIMINAL FOLLY OF EATING pint each of the juice of the salsify and of milk. WHITE BREAD Pour over salsify. Dot with butter and bake , (Continued for twenty minutes. from page 315) and meat are the main food of the mases,-—the Browned Sweet Potatoes mamas among whom cancer and consumption Wash medium sized potatoes and boil in strike pitilessly through the apparent bulwarks of “science.” skins for twenty minutes in salted water. Drain Only the dusky, unprotected who has not means or and allow to cool. Peel and dip potatoes in savage had inclination to his these bolts of retribu- sweetened milk. Place in oiled baking pan and change ways, escapes tion. brown in oven. Have we stepped into the machineof progrm Stuffed Green Peppers to rot and wither in our seat? Will the word “civilize”in some Golden to be but a Remove stem end and seeds from pepper. Age come, Stuff with dressing made by grinding toasted word synonymous with “evil”! Are humans like unto the fabled that the stale bread with one onion, one clove of garlic, frog slipped space of two back for forward We two cold boiled potatoes, one cup of cold boiled leaps every leap? beans and whatever odds and ends of vegetables are content to know there is no royal road to Then do we pursue may be left over from the day before. Fry to knowledge. why persistently the to “cure” disease by phoning for a nice brown. Season with celery salt, paprika, easy way the and on thatwell man lay all nutmeg, salt, etc. Add one egg just before fill- doctor, meaning for our salvation from the sins of ing peppers. Place in baking pan and braze responsibility 1 from time to time with tomato sauce. Bake one ignorance hour. For ’tis the bliss of friendship’s holy state Pineapple and Celery Salad To mix their minds and communicate: Take one can of sliced pineapples, cut in The bodies cannot, souls can penetrate. squares; yellow stalks and leaves of one head of —Drvden- RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS 317

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Mount Ecclesia, Oceanside, California. tion was retaliating by sending forth volumes of November7, 1920. smoke and soot through various openings, the Dear Friends: existence of many of which was previously quite Having been one of the readers of the “Rays unknown. But nothing can long resist a morn- from the Rose Cross” who has spent most of her ing sunrise on Mount Ecclesia, not even a re- time far from our beloved headquarters, I take fractory stove; and so, in due time, the chimney much pleasure in sending you all a message di- bathed in glorious sunlight, began to respond: rect, not only from headquarters but from the the atmosphere cleared, and the slightly belated Ecclesia on “InspirationPoint”, the spot where brealcfast was served, tasting all the better for our Temple stands and which received itsname the short but unavoidable delay. from our dear leader, Max Heindel. For as I I must not forget to tell you that we had with write this message to you I am seated inside the us this morning two gentlemen from countries buildingon a portion of the concrete foundation far distant. Mr. Simon Moore comes to us from near the spot where the altar is soon to be British Guiana, and Mr. J. D. Connellan, from erected. Queensland, Australia Both have come to learn First I shall tell you something of our large more of our beautifulteachingin order thatthey family,now numbering between fifty and sixty may return, carrying a better understanding of members. Taken as a whole, we are just a jolly the message with them, and establish centers for lot of “boys and girls grown tall”, although our its dissemination within their own countriea ages range from fourteen to, I was going to say, Anothervisitor and memberof our familywhom “fifty-sixty—”, but I shall not, for that would we are always delighted to welcome is with us be telling, and I might possibly be called upon today, Captain D. Moro, bandmaster of the by some of them to give an account. So I shall United States steamer, “Wyoming.” only say that we are all well, are a happy band, For some weeks we have had with us a pro- and busy. bationer, Mr. A. C. Lohr, and family from Hol- Few of you, I dare say, put in longer hours land. They too have come from their far off than we. It requires no small amount of labor home to learn more of a Christian Teachingthat just to supply our daily needs; but as each one reaches out and gathers the whole world unto endeavors to do his or her share, the work is thus itself with the selfles desire only to alleviate materiallylightened. pain wherever found and render loving, self-for Last evening we enjoyed a wonderful rain, getting service to others. soft and refreshing. But scarcely had the dawn And now a few words about the new Temple. appeared, when through the clouds close to the Our Ecclesia is an assured fact. Its outer walls mountain’s rim the radiant sun burst forth, and are completed, its concrete roof-dome is in place, distant snow clad mountains and nearer verdant and tomorrow we hope to have men here to plains smiled cheerily upon us on our way to begin the finishing work on the interior. I say morning chapel. Services over we repaired to “hope”—for it is almost impossible to get plas- the dining room to find the cooks had a surprise terers to come here from the city, and when they in store for us in the way of a genuine “smoker”. do come they ask very high wages. This has Think of it, a smoker at Mount Ecclesia, and be- made it very hard for our indefatigable worker fore breakfast, too. and leader, Mrs. Heindel, particularly so as con- Investigationrevealed the factthatthekitchen tributions for the Ecclesia have not been coming range, having worked steadily for years with in lately as readilyas we had hoped they would. only a few hours off each day, had decided to and wages even though exorbitant must he paid. go on strike, and when finally coerced into ac- Unfortunately there are some kinds of work on RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS 319 the temple that our voluntary helpers cannot of unutterable anguish, now to the tune of a perform. great laughter and heroic shoutings like the cry The most remarkablepart of it all to me is the of thunder. Sometimes in the night time manner in which the work of this temple is be- one may hear the tiny hammerings of the coming carried on. Surely here is a living example rides at work in the dome——the comrades who of loving, self-forgetting service on the part of have aloft.” a band of loyal men, the acquaintance of whom gone is well worth cultivation; men with great souls And Holy Night we dedicate this modern who have put all else aside and are giving them- Temple to thehigh spiritual use for which it has selves to this wonderful cause. And when you been built. All of you cannot be present at that stand outside the building and listen to their time, but will you not in spirit kneel with us at hammering as they place the steel bands that re- midnight December 24th, uniting with us in a enforce the dome, one is forcibly reminded of prayer to the Heavenly Father, the great and Manson's temple, so often referred to in the lit- only true Physician, that this temple may speed- erature of our dear leader. “It is yet building, ily be used for the great purpose for which it is building, and built upon. Sometimes the work being built, the carrying out in a more effective goes forward in deep darkness; sometimes in manner of the second of the commandments of blinding light Now beneaththe burden the Christ, that we heal the sick.

3 wetter glfrnm fshrnah Paris, October 13, 1920. destroyed the very powerful effect he has pro- Dear Mrs. Heindel: duced in France with astronomy, wherein he It may interest you to know that on two oc- has revealed the greatness of God. The French casions I visited the great French astronomer, would not have believed him had he emphasized Camille Flammarion, who has now reached the same idea through astrology as well. eighty years of age. This man has done a very I have realized that Providence acts very pe- great deal to spread astronomical knowledge in culiarly sometimes. France. By showing people the vastness of the On the other hand when a French newspaper universe and thelittleness of man, he has greatly correspondent inquired of him the other day offset the ways of materialism in this country. what he thought of Edison’s announced machine He has also searched all his life to gather for communicating with other worlds, he said he “proofs” of life beyond, and at this present mo- did not think such a thing possible because he ment, he told me, he has either written or did not see to what kind of “matter” Edison planned to be written about ten books on ‘ ‘ Death could resort as a medium for communication. and Its Mystery.” The first book has come out, He added: “Besides, such a machine is unnec- wherein he seeks to show with all the evidence essary because we all have an organ in the brain he has been able to gather that there are such (under the skull), which we shall be able to use ’ ‘ thingsas ‘ ‘ Sight without eyes,’ ‘Visions of peo- one day to see the spirit world.” ple going to the beyond,” “Telepathy,”etc. I thought it would interest you to hear some- Is it not extraordinary that a man of his type. thingof a man who has perhaps done more than a man with an open mind, does not see anything anybody else here to show the citizens of this un- in astrology? I explain it this way: Flam- believing country that there is a spiritual prin- marion is a Frenchman, and people here are very ciple in nature, in the universe, which is not blind but skeptical. The great mass of the people simply remarkablyintelligent. A roar at astrology. Had he been allowed to see Believe me to be, anything in it, he would have been sincere and Yours sincerely, said so openly in his books, but this might have R. Gordon Hallett. lflfize (1Inmp2fitintt-- For The Rosicrucian . Fellowship Magazine THE EDITOR OF THE ROSICRUUIAN FELLOWSHIP MAGAZINE, “RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS,” OFFERS FOUR PRIZES FOR THE FOUR BEST ARTICLES, ONE IN EACH OF THE FOUR DIVISIONS NOTED BELOW, SUB- MITTED BEFORE JANUARY 15, 1921. First Prize; Fifteen Dollars Second Prize; Ten Dollars Third Prize; Five Dollars Fourth Prize; Three Dollars IN ADDITION—All other articles received in this competition which we can use for publication will be retained and one year’: subscription to the Mag- azine given to each of the writers. CONDITIONS: Articles submitted must have at least 1500 words. They may be along any of the following lines: ‘ (1 Occult Stories and Personal Occult Experiences. (2) Philosophy. (3) Astrology. (4) Health and Scientific Diet. Note: We are not'in need of articles on the technical features of philosophy but can use articles on the practical application of philosophy to daily life. Therefore articles submitted in division (2) should conform to this condition. All manuscripts should, if possible, be typewritten and in double spacing. However, legibly written long-hand will do if typewriting facilities are not available. We sometimes find it necessary to make slight modifications in articles in order to adapt them to our requirements. We accept literary contributions only subject to this provision. All manuscripts intended for this competition must be plainly marked “Prize Competition,” and number of words stated. All articles submitted will be examined at as early a date as possible, and the names of the prize-winners announced in the Magazfiw. Manuscripts, whether accepted or rejected, will not be returned unless re- quested. NOTE ESPECIALLY: The object of this competition is to stimulate our read- contributors to the ers to literary effort so that they will become regular our will all benefitthereby. Magazine. As a result, they, we, and’ readers,

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