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Vol. 3 Oceanside May 1915 California No 1

The Mystic Light * * * * * * “But One Thing is Needful” to take earnestly and prayerfully to heart. The Magnetic Needle is made of a metal LUKE 10:42 which has an inherent affinity for the lode- A TALK IN THE PRO-ECCLESIA stone, namely, steel. Other metals are but by indifferently affected, if at all, but when Mr. Heindel steel has once been touched with the lode- stone, its whole nature is changed, it has This evening we will take the Magnetic become alive, as it were, imbued with a Needle as our subject of meditation, for it new force which we might describe as a has a lesson of supreme importance in our constant yearning after the lodestone which spiritual career, a lesson which it behooves once kissed it. Needles made of other met- every faithful follower of the Mystic Light als, and un-magnetized steel, may be put 2 RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS

upon a pivot and they will stand in any bal- were in a certain position, but during every anced position wherever they are placed, moment since we have been here they have they are passive to whatever force is applied changed and they are now changing with to them from without. But the needle which every tick of the clock—all but one. has been touched by the lodestone resists, Among all these countless stars moving at and no matter how often or how severely such an enormous speed, there is one that is we push it away from the magnetic posi- changeless, one that always occupies the tion, as soon as the force exerted against it same position: “The North Star.” No matter is removed, it will instantly revert and point what time during the day or night, during toward the magnetic pole. summer or winter, from birth to death, we A similar phenomenon is seen in the life look up into the heavens, that star will be of the Christian: once he has felt, thorough- found always in the same place; whenever it ly felt, in his being the love of the Father, he is visible to our eyes or by the help of a tele- is a changed man. scope at any time, it will always be found to The worldly forces from without may be occupy the position which we speak of as exerted in various ways to divert his interest “North.” and attention, but every particle of his being Now mark the phenomenon of the yearns for God and is always turning in that changeless needle, always pointing towards direction, unaffected by the world of drift- the changeless star, and consider the con- ing, listless men. Whatever also he may do nection between them and the lesson there in the world, (because it is absolutely nec- is for us in this phenomenon. The magnet- essary to take the proper part in the world’s ic needle is not a fair-weather follower, it work), will be done because it is right and does not matter whether it rains or shines, dutiful to do so, but with his whole being he whether it is calm or stormy, whether there yearns for the Father, whose Love, whose are fogs or clouds; under all circumstances Being, and whose Force has drawn his soul. the magnetic needle points with unvarying To him “But one Thing is Needful”—His fidelity towards the North star, and upon Father’s Love, and his every effort is direct- this great fact the mariner stakes the proper- ed to win His approval. ty and life of himself, his crew, and his pas- When we turn from the earth to heaven, sengers. Though the sleet and the rain, snow we find almost identical conditions there. or hail may beat in his face, almost blinding Everywhere through the great firmament him and making it impossible for him to see millions and billions of miles, yea, infinite the front of his ship, yet so long as he can space, is filled with marching orbs that see that faithful needle he knows that he is move with a velocity which beggars com- on the right course, he knows that it will prehension by the human mind. At the time never swerve, that even though the ship when we entered the Pro-Ecclesia, the stars should founder and find a watery grave at RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS 3

the bottom of the sea, that faithful needle by the action of the elements, so also must will still remain in the same position, point- we, if we are really and truly yearning to be ing to the changeless star, until the very last competent guides to others, continue with atom of its being has been disintegrated by the unswerving devotion on the path which corrosion. we have chosen, looking neither to the right Therefore he trusts implicitly to this faith- or the left but fastening our eyes upon that ful guide as he “lays him down in peace to changeless star ahead, “Our Father in sleep rocked in the cradle of the deep.” Heaven,” in whom there is no change nei- There is in the unswerving devotion, sym- ther turning; for as the slightest deviation bolized by this magnetic needle, one of the upon the part of the magnetic needle in the greatest and most wonderful lessons for compass would be sufficient to dash the those who have seen the mystic light and mariner upon the shoals or rocks of a dan- who aspire to the privilege of guiding oth- gerous shore, wrecking both ship and lives, ers who have not yet found the path. Let us so also, if we swerve from the path we have realize that to do this, the first, foremost, once chosen we become stumbling blocks and the greatest prerequisite is that we shall to others who are looking to us for guidance ourselves have become firmly grounded and example, and their lives are on our and rooted so that we are not disturbed by heads. worldly changes going on about us. “To whom much has been given, from Whether the clouds of doubt, skepticism, or him much will be required.” We have persecution, be cast about us by others, or received much from the teachings of the whether they seek to ensnare us in blinding Elder Brothers, the mystic light has beck- fogs of other doctrines. oned us on, and may we realize the great It behooves us to hold fast to that which is responsibility we have, by our example and good, yea, even though life were the price our lives, to faithfully guide those seekers we have to pay, we must imitate that faith- with whom we come in contact to the haven ful needle, as the ship founders and settles of rest and refuge. to its watery grave. We must continue to point to the one goal of all, “Our Father in THE EMBLEM OF THE ROSE CROSS Heaven,” never swerving to the right or to By the left, no matter what may come. As the needle that has once been touched by the Frances H. Lyon lodestone is impregnated with a yearning after that changeless star, a yearning which Symbolism is the medium by which spir- does not cease, even though it finds a it tries to express itself to the mind of man. watery grave, a yearning which lasts until It is our means of communication one with the last atom of its being has been dissolved another. A word is the symbol of an idea, 4 RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS

and so all literature, music, art, the drama, top and later added the other arm, making dancing, and many other things are the the tau or T. This is the Egyptian Key of symbolizing of an idea which one mind Life. This horizontal line symbolized man’s wishes to convey to another. vitality and his emotional nature. When he In past ages the more highly evolved began to think, the top of the cross was minds put into picture or other form an idea added, making the true Roman cross. This of God for the less evolved. Often the completes man’s fourfold material vehi- younger man worshiped the symbol, not cle—dense, or chemical body, vital body, being able to grasp the spirit of the form. desire body, and mind. It is upon this cross Today the word “God” means a great deal of matter that the spirit of man is crucified to some of us, but we do not worship the from the foundation of the world, and we word, rather the ideal which the word calls remain upon the cross until our day of lib- to mind. Even meditation upon the word eration, when we shall know the “glorious “God” may give much food to the spirit. liberty of the Sons of God.” So long as our How much more can be got from a richer ideals remain materialistic, the cross is symbol such as the Rosicrucian Emblem is? black, symbol of matter; but as we spiritu- It is given to us as a spiritual food. There is alize our ideals in service to others we no transubstantiation so that the thing in whiten the cross. Today, humanity stands in itself is holy, though it is known that an symbols as a white cross with a black line emblem that has been used for years gradu- about it. We are recognizing the rights of ally takes on some of the vibrations of the others, and the ideals of brotherhood and service in which it is used. It also gives self-sacrifice for others are growing. The them out again, so that a sensitive can feel pure white cross symbolizes the pure dedi- them. The ideal behind a symbol may be of cated life of a servant of humanity, an invis- great spiritual value in the lives of those ible helper. The Rose Cross has three half who use it understandingly. circles at the end of each arm, making We have today in the language a little twelve in all. This is the symbol of the cos- word of one letter, which stands for the mic man of which the human is the micro- whole man—body, mind, and spirit. It is cosm. It represents the twelve Hierarchies used by man to represent any part of him- which today are manifesting as Signs of the self or the whole, according to his knowl- Zodiac, and teaching man to govern this edge. That word or symbol was used for the fourfold vehicle in which they work with body of man when his consciousness was the Ego. It takes twelve balls to cover a ball first waking up to the fact that he had a of the same size and so the great spiritual physical body. That is the lower arm of the teachers had twelve disciples, and the Ego cross. When man’s understanding of him- has twelve psychic faculties covering the self went farther, he added one arm to the spiritual man. RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS 5

Apparently out from the center of the Hung upon the cross is the wreath of cross radiates the five pointed star with the seven red roses, pure, passionless seed point up. This is the symbol of the Wedding pods, the symbol of the divine creative Garment which each human being is weav- power of sex, cleansed and raised to a high ing for himself from the loving unselfish station. The red symbolizes the Third deeds performed in the body. As the cross Aspect of Deity, the Holy Spirit. This is the grows whiter the star becomes more lumi- only pure color shown on the symbol, and nous, until it attracts the attention of one of man today is capable of thinking abstractly, the Great and Loving Ones who will put the which is the power of the Holy Ghost. The man or woman in touch with the Mystery life of man is in the blood, and so we must School, where he or she will make a much cleanse and raise the vibration of the blood quicker growth in spiritual power than by a life of active service before we can when alone on the path to God. The star is manifest the Star of Hope and attract the gold, near to the color of the Christ love, Teacher to us. As the rose is the highest which must be the motive of action. Yellow product of the flower world, so the human, is symbolic of the Second Aspect of Deity, who transmutes the impure life forces of the the Son or Christhood, but man today can- passion- filled blood into the clean creative not manifest the pure yellow of Christ’s life force of the Life Spirit, has attained the love. He has to turn it to the orange of gold. highest human station. We must develop our soul body, or Thus we see that the emblem of the Rose Wedding Garment, as Christ called it, Cross is a symbol of man’s past evolution, before the Christ can be born in us or we his present station, and the ideals for which can attend the marriage feast. Behind the he must work in the future. It is a wonder- star and the cross is the infinite field of blue ful source of inspiration for meditation. which is a symbol of pure spirit, as the blue sky is a symbol of chaos out from which ARGUMENT AND INTUITION came forth manifestation. This is the First Aspect of Deity, the Father. Christ said that by he must bring all things into subjection unto W. A. Rowdon himself and then he could hand the Kingdom over to the Father. We know lit- When a man has studied a certain subject tle of what that kingdom is to be or of its for some length of time, he gradually powers, and what little we do know comes becomes aware of time, he gradually to us through the teachings of the Son. becomes aware that the subject has a certain Hence the blue is tinged with yellow and is value in his mind. He forms an opinion on not pure blue but more like turquoise, very that subject, this opinion being the concen- translucent and full of life. tration of the many small details he has 6 RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS

learned. The actual details are not present of occurrences and facts. It is not during in the opinion, but they have helped to mold the clash of words and the harsh discor- and create it. The man has studied this sub- dance of two minds at cross purposes, that ject carefully and thoroughly, and can, by the “still small voice” of the intuition can be reason of his lengthy application to it, be heard. Only in silence can it become appar- said to understand it. Whenever this subject ent; it vanishes, like the magic treasure, is discussed, the man will judge the value of when a word is spoken. the speaker’s opinions by his own intuition. In meditation one becomes intuitive, He will know intuitively whether the speak- drawing upon the true source of real truth, er is right about it. seeing and comprehending the inner mean- The attitude, then, of this man towards ing of things. How crude, blatant, and gross those who discussed the subject he knew so does the idea of argument become when unusually well, should be one of tolerance compared with such a sublime process! and patience. Whatever was said about the subject would be judged fairly. FAITH Now suppose someone with an obviously superficial knowledge of the matter contra- By E. dicted him and brought forward numerous arguments against his opinions. These Is it not strange how few men are pos- arguments would have no weight with him, sessed of a real, living faith in God? Even because his intuition would declare them of professing Christians, there are compara- false. tively few who have a real trust in the And so, it appears to me, would be the Heavenly Father. Faith does not mean sim- mental attitude of one who had studied the ply a belief in the existence of God; Faith Rosicrucian Teachings towards persons means trust—putting ourselves in His who knew only the material phase of life. hands. Faith itself is strong, but faith joined to Faith, like all other qualities and virtues, Reason is doubly so. No arguments or grows only by exercise. Learn to trust the worldly sophistry could shake the firmness Father in everything, the smallest as well as of his belief. the greatest things of your life. This means There is actually but little truth to be deliverance from the cares, fears, and wor- obtained by argument. A sharpening of ries which the world is so full of; an open mental faculties and increase in the knowl- mind and heart to receive truth from what- edge of facts do, most decidedly, result ever source it comes, believing that the from argument. But by such means people good God has you in His keeping. For cannot arrive at the inner knowledge of when we put our trust in God, we make use things, which is superior to a mere collation of a Divine Law which bears us over all the RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS 7

trials and troubles of life. It is as if we had when we fear nothing anymore—in this seized hold of the Almighty Hand. which is world, or in any other. We attain a poise, a able to do all, and overcome all things for peace of mind and serenity of soul, a tran- us. It makes the connection between our quillity of heart, that must be a foretaste of weakness and His strength, which is greater Heavenly blessedness. We realize the than all. supreme wisdom of leaving all things to be Faith is weak at first, and sometimes it is ordered by perfect Wisdom and perfect necessary for us to be in extremity before Love, and that our own will, owing to our we can reach out to God for help, and then imperfect understanding, is prone to run even the smallest degree of faith will cause counter to His Will, which is always for our the Heavenly Father to come to our help. perfection and happiness. “Man’s extremity is God’s opportunity.” “The Lord is good, a stronghold in the He is the ever faithful One. Remember that day of trouble, and He knoweth them that He says, “I will never leave thee nor forsake trust in Him.” thee.” “I the Lord will hold thy right hand, say- The simplicity of this way makes it seem ing unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.” too easy to most men. They look for some “In all thy ways acknowledge Him and great difficulties to overcome in the way of He shall direct thy paths.” establishing a connection with the “Who so trusteth in the Lord, happy is Heavenly Father. It requires a certain sim- he.” plicity of nature, a childlikeness of mind. “Though he slay me yet will I trust in Do you recall that Christ said that we must Him.” become as little children? It is largely a “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace matter of relaxing, of letting go, of throwing whose mind is stayed on Thee, because he off of mind and heart any burden or trouble trusteth in Thee.” that comes, looking simply to Him, and There are many, many passages in the accepting as from His Hand whatever Bible entreating us to trust Him. Read the comes. And we can do nothing more pleas- twenty-third Psalm and the ninety-first ing to Him, or more helpful to ourselves, Psalm. The writer may be too credulous, than to exercise trust under every condition. but he believes that such a trust is sovereign And our capacity for faith grows with its remedy for every trouble or danger, occult exercise. The more we use it, the more we or otherwise, and that in clinging to Him we have. There comes a time in our growth are kept safe unto the end. Question Department ******

Question: sacrifice, that fills him with devotion to the Does it serve any real purpose to recall, cosmic Christ, Who is born periodically in each year, the suffering of Christ? If not, order that we may live and have an oppor- why does not the Christian Church omit the tunity of evolving in this environment, for passion and the Crown of Thorns; and con- he understands from that viewpoint, that centrate its efforts upon celebrating Easter without such recurring annual sacrifice, as a time of Joy? this Earth and its present conditions of Answer: advancement would be an impossibility. The gospel story, as it is usually read by At the time when the Sun is in the celes- people in the churches, is only the story of tial sign of Virgo (The Virgin), the Jesus, a unique character, the Son of God in immaculate conception takes place. A a special sense, who was born once in wave of solar Christ light and life is Bethlehem, lived once upon the Earth, for focused upon the earth. Gradually this the short space of thirty-three years, who light penetrates deeper and deeper into the died once for mankind after much suffer- earth, until the turning point is reached on ing, and is now permanently exalted to the the longest and darkest night which we right hand of the Father; thence they expect call Christmas. This is the Mystic birth of him to return to judge the quick and the a Cosmic Life impulse which impregnates dead, and they celebrate his birth and his and fertilizes the Earth. It is the basis of death at certain times of the year, because all terrestrial life; without it no seed they are supposed to have taken place on would germinate, no flower would appear definite dates, the same as the birth day of upon the face of the earth, neither man nor Lincoln, Washington, or the Battle of beast could exist, and life would soon Gettysburg. become extinct. But while these explanations satisfy the Therefore there is indeed a very, very multitudes who are not very deep in their valid reason for the joy that is felt at inquiries concerning the truth, there is Christmas time, as the Divine Author of our another side which is very patent to the being, Our Father in Heaven, has given the mystic, a story of divine love and perpetual greatest of all gifts to man, The Son. So RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS 9

men also are impelled to give gifts to one this be left out of consideration? Our ques- another, and joy reigns upon earth, good tioner would like to know. will and peace, no matter whether man To understand this mystery it is necessary understands the mystic and annually recur- to view the matter from the Christ point, rent reasons therefor. and it is necessary to fully and thoroughly As “a little leaven, leaveneth the whole realize that this annual life wave which is lump,” so this spiritual life impulse, which projected into our planet is not simply a impregnated the earth at the winter solstice, force devoid of consciousness. It carries works its way through the winter months, with itself the full consciousness of the towards the circumference, giving life to all Cosmic Christ. It is absolutely a true fact wherewith it comes in contact; even the that without Him was not anything made minerals could not grow were this light that was made, as we are told by St. John in impulse withheld; and by the time Easter is the opening chapter of his Gospel. reached, when the earth is in bloom, when At the time of the immaculate conception the birds start singing, and the little animals in September, this great life impulse com- in the forest are mating, all is imbued with mences its descent upon our earth, and by this great divine life; it has spent itself, it the time of the winter solstice, when the dies, and is raised again to the right hand of mystic birth takes place, the Cosmic Christ Our Father. has fully concentrated itself upon and with- Thus Christmas and Easter are turning in this planet. You will realize, that that points which mark the ebb and flow of the must cause discomfort to such a great spir- divine life annually given for our sakes, it to be cramped within this little earth of without which it would be impossible for ours and to be conscious of all the hate and us to live upon the earth. The latter ends discord we are sending out from day to day, also the annual recurrence of the festive all through the year. feeling which we experience from It is a fact, that cannot be gainsaid, that all Christmas to Easter, the joy that thrills our life expression is through and by love; sim- being. If we are at all sensitive, we cannot ilarly, death comes through hate. Were the help but feel Christmas and Easter in the hate and discord which we generate in our air, for they are laden with divine love, life, daily life, in our transactions, one with and joy. another, were the deceit, the infamy, and But whence comes the note of sorrow and the selfishness left without antidote, this suffering which precedes the Easter resur- earth would be swallowed up in death. rection? Why may we not rejoice with an You remember the description of unmingled joy at the time when the Son is Initiation given in the Rosicrucian Cosmo- liberated and returns to his father? Why this Conception; it is there stated that at the ser- passion, this crown of thorns? Why cannot vices held every night at midnight, the tem- 10 RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS

ple is the focus of all the thoughts of hate of the earth, which is the vehicle of Christ; and disturbance in the western world which the poisonous and destructive forces, gen- it serves, that these thoughts are there dis- erated by our passions, are carried away by integrated and transmuted, and that this is the life forces of the Christ; but every evil the basis of social progress in the world. It thought or act brings Him its own propor- is also known that saintly Spirits grieve and tion of pain, and therefore becomes part of suffer greatly at disturbances in the world, the crown of thorns—the crown because at the discord and the hate, that they send the head is always thought of as the seat of out from themselves, individually, thoughts consciousness—and we should realize that of love and kindness. The associated every single evil act of ours reacts upon the efforts of such orders as that of the Christ in the manner stated and adds anoth- Rosicrucian are directed in the same chan- er thorn of suffering. nels of effort when the world is still, so far In view of the foregoing, we can realize as physical exertions are concerned, and is with what relief He speaks the final words therefore more receptive to the spiritual at the time of liberation from the earthly influence, namely, at midnight. At that cross: “Consummatum est, It has been time they endeavor to attract and transmute accomplished.” these thought-arrows of hate and discord, And why the annual recurrence of suffer- suffering thus their small share while trying ing, you ask? As we take into our bodies to lift a few of the thorns from the Savior’s continually the life-giving oxygen to go crown. through its cycle to vitalize and energize Considering the foregoing, you will the whole body; as that oxygen dies to the understand that the Christ Spirit in the outside world for the time being, while it is Earth is, as Paul says, actually “groaning living in the body; as it is charged there and travailing”, waiting for the day of lib- with poisons and waste products, and final- eration. Thus He gathers all the darts of hate ly exhaled as carbon dioxide, a poisonous and anger; these are the crown of thorns. gas, so it is necessary for the Savior annu- In everything that lives, the vital body ally to enter into the great body which we radiates streamers of light from the force call the earth, and take upon Himself all the that has spent itself in building the dense poison that is generated by ourselves, to body. During health, they carry away all cleanse and purify, and to give it a new poison from the body and keep it clean. lease on life before He finally is resurrect- Similar conditions prevail in the vital body ed and rises to His Father. Studies in The Rosicrucian Cosmo Conception * * * * * * *

When we open the Rosicrucian Cosmo- trust in the rock of reason and depend upon Conception, we read on the title page that the exact facts developed by science. The the book professes to be an elementary careful scientific investigators use neither exposition of man’s past evolution, present sentimentality, nor faith, nor imagination, constitution, and future development; in but depend solely upon what they discover other words, a solution to the enigma of by patient researches into the secrets of existence—Whence have we come, why nature; they give us not maudlin sentiment are we here, and whither are we going? A but scientific FACTS. glance over the pages and through the At the first blush such an attitude seems index reveals the fact that the book deals both reasonable and logical, but a little with things from a point of view that is closer inspection will soon show the falsity above and beyond the ken of most people, thereof and its weak points. We have and the question therefore naturally arises grown into a belief during a number of in the mind of the serious: What is there to years that science is infallible, that science warrant the study of this book? Is it not gives us facts and requires no faith, that sci- better and safer to eschew the visions and ence is absolutely devoid of imaginations imaginations of anyone? I am tired of dic- and depends only upon the results which tums and dogmas which require me to have are demonstrated in various branches by faith and I feel as if the only safe basis is to the experiments of qualified researchers; 12 RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS

but this is not the case, most emphatically truth; it must be understood that it may be not, as the reader will see at once by open- replaced in time by another and better ing The Riddle of the Universe by Ernst grounded theory. But, in spite of this Haeckel, one of the foremost exponents of admitted uncertainty, theory is indispens- a monistic science, which aims to explain able for all true science; it elucidates facts all that is in the world by physical causes, by postulating a cause for them.” and entirely neglect the supernatural, as Important Theories of first rank they call it. That, by the way, is one of their The theory of gravitation in Astronomy. foremost fallacies: Everything that is, is (Newton) natural, there is nothing unnatural, it cannot The Nebular theory in Cosmogony. be, neither is there anything super-natural. (Kant and Laplace) What these people really mean is that Principle of energy in Physics. they explain everything from a physical (Meyer and Helmholtz) basis and do not recognize anything super- Atomic theory in Chemistry. physical or beyond the physical world. But (Dalton) regarding the supposedly extensive and Vibratory theory in Optics. accurate knowledge of science, we get a (Huyghens) very different idea on page 299 and 300 of Cellular theory in Histology. the book mentioned. Prof. Haeckel there (Schleiden and Schwann) says: Theory of Descent in Biology. “When we are not sure about a thing, we (Lamarck and Darwin) say, I believe it. In this sense we are com- pelled to make use of faith even in science The above theories explain a whole world itself; we conjecture or assume that a cer- of natural phenomena by the assumption of tain relation exists between two phenome- a common cause for all the several facts of na, though we do not know it for certain. If their respective provinces, and by showing it is a question of a cause, we form a that all the phenomena thereof are intercon- hypothesis: The explanation of a great nected and controlled by laws which issue number of connected phenomena by the from the common cause. Yet the cause assumption of a common cause is called a itself may remain obscure in character, or theory. Both in theory and hypothesis may be only a “provisional hypothesis.” ‘faith’ (in the scientific sense) is indispens- The “force of gravity” in the theory of grav- able; for here again it is the imagination itation and in cosmogony; “energy” itself in that fills up the gaps left by the intelligence its relation to matter; “ether” of optics and in our knowledge of the connection of electricity; the “atom” of the chemist; the things. A theory, therefore, must always be living “protoplasm” of histology; the regarded only as an approximation to the “heredity” of the evolutionist—these and RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS 13

similar conceptions of other great theories on to have been misleading, today they are may be regarded by a skeptical philosopher the only source of right belief, and science as “mere hypotheses” and the outcome of demands that they be accepted without scientific “faith,” yet they are indispensable reservation by any one who would have the for us, until they are replaced by better scientific seal of sanity. hypotheses. The opening chapter of The Rosicrucian Haeckel claims as an indispensable Cosmo-Conception is entitled “A Word to necessity, a free and unrestricted use of the the Wise,” and it is literally meant, for imagination for the purpose of bridging those who are ignorant are, to that extent, over gaps between isolated facts discovered teachable; hence the Christ pointed to a lit- by the scientific man, and he denounces in tle child as an ideal. The more thoroughly unqualified terms as wrongheaded, scien- we can lose the sense of our own greatness tists who refuse to make this use of faith and knowledge, the better we shall be in a and belief. position to acquire information. The writer Imagination and faith are “good sauce” remembers, in this connection, coming to for the scientific gander; in fact, it cannot the little city of S. a number of years ago, thrive without them, but when they are used intending to give a course of lectures. He in religion, he finds on page 301 that the was prepared to pay his own expenses for “Essential difference of this superstition hall rent, etc., but sought to enlist the aid of from rational faith lies in the fact that it a certain society in that city, that he might assumes supernatural forces and phenome- leave the people he interested through his na, which are unknown and inadmissible to lectures in their charge for further help, and science, and which are the outcome of illu- a meeting was held for the purpose of dis- sion and fancy; and therefore irrational.” cussing matters. Only a few of the mem- Thus, according to Prof. Haeckel, who may bers came, but they were quite unanimous be regarded as representative of the scien- and capable of voicing the sentiments of tific world today, faith and imagination are their lodge, which were as follows: We indispensable to science, and scientists who have had Mr. X. here, we wined, dined, and endeavor to do without them are “wrong- hired a theatre for him, and he could teach headed,” but religious faith is the outcome us nothing. We also had Mrs. Y—she was of illusion and fancies; moreover, it is no better. Then Mr. Z. came along, he knew superstition. nothing at all, and therefore we do not want Thus Religion does not seem to be the either you or your lectures, you can teach only author of dictums and dogmas; those us nothing! And verily they spoke the who bow before the scientific shrine are truth, anyone who has such set opinions, told, without a blush or apology, that who is so wise in his own conceited esti- though all these theories may be found later mation, who condemns a teaching without 14 RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS

even hearing or weighing it in the balance for use in the normal course of evolution. of reason, is incapable of being instructed Some have tried these methods and found in the Mysteries of Life. Therefore our them true, others who bring the necessary Saviour properly insisted that whosoever persistence and perseverance to bear will shall not receive the kingdom of heaven as find that it is possible to follow in their a little child, shall no wise enter therein. footsteps. The little child is not hampered by pre-con- The student should read the chapter “A ceived opinions, it does not feel obliged to Word to the Wise,” that he may thoroughly hide its ignorance, it is therefore pre-emi- understand the source of information which nently teachable and takes everything on underlies The Rosicrucian Cosmo- trust until experience in life, which comes Conception; he should also compare it with later, has proved it to be true or false. Then the avowedly speculative methods of sci- the child uses his reason to hold fast to that ence. It is noteworthy in this connection which is good, discarding whatever may that Prof. Haeckel’s “photographs” of the have been found wanting. And it is this fetus in different stages, which profess to attitude of mind that anyone must cultivate give a pictorial panorama of intra-uterine before he can properly and with profit life, are partly “made up” by speculation on study any philosophy of life. what must have taken place, in order to The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception goes connect the developments shown by the a step further: It holds that man, being genuine photographs in the series. Not a made in the image of his divine creator, is word was said about this interpolation of not necessarily limited to the five senses “missing links” by speculative drawings wherewith he is now endowed. We find when the series was published and heralded creatures in the scale of evolution behind us as the greatest of scientific achievements; that lack a number of the senses wherewith and when the professor was later accused we are blessed, and it would be only a rea- of fraudulent methods, he defended himself sonable inference that we must have within with a plea of “scientific necessity,” which ourselves the ability to evolve other senses made it imperative to fill out by speculation whereby we may know that which we now what could not be learned by observation. have to believe. This, The Rosicrucian When the student has thoroughly mas- Cosmo-Conception asserts, is the case; it tered the basis of scientific assertions and says that such senses are latent in each and compared them with the source of informa- every one of us, and that it is possible by tion of The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, proper and scientific exercises to evolve it should not be difficult to choose, or to these senses before they would be available show others how to choose. The Astral Ray ******

THE MEASURE of AMENABILITY not hurt ourselves beyond recovery in the to Great School of life. PLANETARY VIBRATIONS But, coupled with this guidance, there is, by of course, the measure of free Will, which Mr. Heindel grows as we evolve. The child in our midst has really very little free will; it is subject- When judging a horoscope, it is of prime ed not only to its parents, but to the ser- importance that we take into consideration vants, if such there be in the household, and the social and racial standing of the indi- to everybody with whom it is associated; vidual, for configurations which are of all exercise control over it, for its own great significance in the horoscope of an good. As the child grows, this measure of educated Caucasian, may mean little or restraint is by degrees relaxed; in the course nothing in the figure of a Chinese Coolie of years the child will learn to exercise its and vice versa. Neglect of this factor free will. This method has been followed would inevitably lead to false conclusions, by the Divine Hierarchies in the case of as we shall now explain. man. It is a mystic maxim that the lower in the Infant Humanity was absolutely guided scale of evolution a being is placed, the by Divine rules, without having any Will at more certainly it responds to the planetary all. “Thus shalt thou do or not do” were rays, and conversely, the higher we ascend injunctions laid upon them, which must be in the scale of attainment, the more the man implicitly obeyed, otherwise the Divine conquers and rules his stars, freeing himself displeasure was at once shown by such from the leading strings of the Divine strenuous manifestations as appealed to Hierarchies. This yoke was not, however, infant humanity’s mind; namely, lighten- placed upon man in order to restrain him ing, thunder, earthquakes, and great visita- needlessly, but just as we in our ordinary tions of plagues. This was for their collec- life restrain a child from doing things in its tive guidance; for individual restraint there ignorance which would hurt it, and maybe were strict laws, Commandments, and ordi- cripple it for life, so also are we restrained nances. Tribute must be paid continually to by the Divine Hierarchies through the plan- the Divine Leader and offered up upon the etary aspects in such a manner that we do altar as sacrifices, and for every offense 16 RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS

against the law a certain sacrifice of mater- emotions and are scarcely, if at all, respon- ial goods must be made. Fear was the dom- sive to the intellectual vibrations of inant keynote of that dispensation, for “The Mercury. fear of the Lord is the beginning of right- Neither can they appreciate such emo- eousness.” This regime was carried on tions as signified by Venus or its octave, under the planetary conditions of Mars and Uranus; they respond solely to the lower the Moon. nature, the animal passions. They move Mars, being the home of the dominant under the impulses of Mars and the Moon Lucifer Spirits, gave to mankind the energy respecting sex and sustenance. Their plea- necessary that evolution may be accom- sures are of the lowest and most sensual plished; this martial energy was of the very nature, they live like animals; altogether in greatest importance, particularly of course, the physical; their creed is eat, drink, and in the earlier stages. The Moon, which is be merry; their desires may be expressed as the home of the Angels, under their Divine “wine and woman,” for they have not yet Leader Jehovah, gave to infant humanity awakened to the charm of song, neither has that childlike brain-mind which is beauty had a chance to enchant the savage amenable to rulership, and bends itself heart at this stage of development, for that readily before authority. comes from the Venus rays, which are These with Saturn were the only plane- beyond such people. Woman is to the man tary rays which effected mankind as a of that stage only a beast of burden and a whole during the Lemurian epoch, and if a convenience. horoscope were erected for any of the peo- Meanwhile, “Father Time,” represented ple who lived then, it would be unnecessary by the planet Saturn, keeps the score, and to enter the places of the other planets, wields over them the whiplash of necessity because they could not respond to their to drive them forward on the evolutionary rays. Even today a great part of mankind path, meting out to each the fruits of his has not evolved very far beyond that point, labor at the harvest time between lives. a large class particularly among those we When the man has cultivated the savage speak of as the lower races, and even the virtues of bravery, physical endurance, etc., lower classes of our western world are he dreams in the post-mortem existence of dominated principally by these planetary new fields to conquer, he sees where he was rays. Under their impulses they act with lacking and why his desires were frustrated automatic certainty in a specific manner, because of lack of implements. and it is possible to predict exactly what Gradually, the constructive martial ray they will do under a certain aspect of these and the Saturn cunning, fertilize the lunar planets, because they live entirely in their brain which he is building, so that in time RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS 17

he learns to make the crude implements to be forgotten tomorrow or in the next gen- necessary for the attainment of his primi- eration, but ideals are inculcated so that in tive ambitions. Even today we see the time they may become part of the very life, same cunning traits of character, the same soul, and body of the race. Compare the crude crafts displayed in and by the lower race body of the Indian, the Bushman, the races for the purpose of irrigating land, Hottentots, etc. with that of the modern civ- mining ores, or milling grain. All those ilized man, and you will find that there is earliest implements were the result of the indeed beauty added to strength. planetary rays of Saturn, Moon, and Mars, It may be objected that we are degenerat- impinging on the primitive brain of infant ing compared with what is shown in the humanity. Hellenic Arts, but that is positively not so; A little further along the path of evolu- it is rather that we have not yet attained to tion, in the Atlantean epoch, the Lords of that highest ideal. In ancient Greece the Venus and the Lords of Mercury came to mystery temples occupied a much more the earth for the purpose of giving a further prominent position than today; the beauti- impulse to the mental and emotional devel- ful form was then idolized to the detriment opment. It was the task of Venus to combat of the mind, notwithstanding the fact that the lower emotions and raise the brutish she had a Plato and a Socrates. animal passions of Mars to the softer and The Lords of Mercury who had charge of more beautiful Venus-love. She was to add the development of mind, at the time when beauty to strength, and to attain that ideal the Lords of Venus exercised their great the Lords of Venus fostered the plastic arts, influence on the emotions, had not then painting and sculpture. been able to make a universally strong These were not taught men of the general impression on the early humanity. We are public at that time; the ideals which are to well aware even today that it hurts to think, be developed in a race are always first but it is easy to follow the emotions. At the taught to the most advanced ones in a mys- present time the middle class of the West is tery temple, and at that time initiation much farther advanced than the ancient included no spiritual instruction, but con- Greeks because of the influence of these sisted of an education in the liberal arts. two planetary rays in our lives. Sculpture taught how the beautiful may Woman naturally excels in the highly be incorporated in physical form; it called imaginative Venus faculty because of her attention to the body and idealized the soft- part in the creative function, which aids in ly curved lines. The result is now incorpo- molding the body of the race. On that rated in our own race body, for it should be account her figure has the graceful curves thoroughly understood that in a mystery which naturally express beauty, while man school an ideal is not taught today simply has the worldly-wise intellect fostered by 18 RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS

the Lords of Mercury, and is the exponent woman is not mentally competent; mean- of reason, the creative agency of physical while he is becoming that which he admires progress in the world’s work. in her; he is more gentle and kind. Venus is We always long for, admire, and aspire to conquering Mars, but the Mercury delusion what we lack. In days of savagery, when of intellectual superiority needs another kicks and cuffs were her daily fare, woman influence to conquer it. And this woman is longed for a caress from her lord. The now attracting by the aspiration. As she Venus ray gave her beauty and made her an mastered martial brutality by Venus beauty, adept in the feminine arts, which have con- so also she will free herself from Mercurial quered the masculine heart, so that now he bondage by Uranian intuition. plays the role of protector on the plea that (To be continued) Nutrition and Health ******

(Selected) SOME GOOD REASONS Vegetarianism?” for being a Here are, at any rate, some of my reasons for so doing. VEGETARIAN 1. Because I have tried a vegetarian diet by with the greatest benefit, having been for Bramwell Booth, Chief of Staff of the more than ten years at one time a strict veg- Salvation Army etarian. 2. Because, according to the Bible, God I have been frequently asked to write originally intended the food of man to be something on this subject. In fact, on one vegetarian: occasion, I received from no less than forty “God said, Behold, I have given you Local Officers a request that I would every herb bearing seed, which is upon the explain to them all I meant by what I had face of all the earth, and every tree, in called, when speaking in one of the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to Councils, the Gospel of Porridge. I do not you it shall be for meat.”—Gen. 1:29 think I shall be able to do all that, but I will 3. Because a vegetarian diet is favorable try and briefly reply to one question which to purity, to chastity, and to perfect control I often hear: “Why do you recommend of the appetites and passions, which is often RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS 19

a source of great temptation, especially to tion against our drinking, and because the the young. use of meat among the people is a cause of 4. Because a vegetarian diet is favorable the increase of drunkenness. One bad to robust health and strength. appetite creates another. With very few exceptions, and those only 9. Because a vegetarian diet is favorable confirmed invalids, I believe the people to industry and hard work, and because a would be better in spirits, stronger in mus- flesh diet, on the other hand, favors indo- cle, and more vigorous in energy, if they lence, sleepiness, growing fat, want of abstained entirely from the use of animal energy, indigestion, constipation, and other food. The Spartans, who stand first among like miseries and degradations. all the nations of history for power to 10. Because it is proved that life, health, endure hardship, were vegetarians, so also and happiness are all favored by a vegetar- were the armies of Rome, when Rome was ian diet. I have known many examples of conquering the world. this myself. Most of the instances of great 5. Because tens of thousands of poor age are to be found among those who from people, who have now the greatest difficul- their youth have lived principally, if not ty to make ends meet after buying flesh entirely, on vegetables and fruit. All this is foods, would, by the substitution of fruit worth thinking about. and vegetables and other economical food, 11. I favor a vegetarian diet because the be able to get along in comfort, and have digestive organs of man are not well adapt- more money to spare for the poor and for ed for the use of flesh. Flesh meat contains the work of God. a great deal of matter which, at the time the 6. Because a vegetarian diet of wheat, animal was killed, was changing and pre- oatmeal, and other grains, lentils, peas, pared for being expelled from its system. beans, nuts and similar food, is more than This matter often passes through the human ten times as economical as a flesh diet. stomach undigested into the blood and Meat contains half its weight in water, causes various diseases, especially rheuma- which has to be paid for as though it were tism, gout, indigestion, and the like. meat! A vegetable diet, even if we allow 12. Because it is very difficult, especial- cheese, butter, and milk, will only cost ly in hot weather and in warm climates, to about a quarter as much as a mixed diet of keep flesh foods sweet long enough to cook flesh and vegetables. and eat it, and a great deal of meat is there- 7. Because a vegetarian diet would stop fore eaten after it has begun to decay—that the enormous waste of all kinds of animal is, to rot. This decay often begins long food which is now consumed with scarcely before the meat gives any sign of its real any advantage to those who take it. condition. Neither its appearance nor its 8. Because a vegetarian diet is a protec- smell is a safe guide as to its being whole- 20 RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS

some. Ten thousand pigs are killed for food every 13. Because a great deal of the flesh meat hour in Europe alone. which is supplied for human food is already 18. Because the occupation of slaughter- diseased, and because it is nearly impossi- ing animals is brutalizing to those who are ble to be sure that any flesh is quite free required to do the work “The highest senti- from the germs of disease. Much common ments of humane men,” says a certain meat, which is often that of old animals, is writer, and I agree with him, “revolt at the well known to be sold to the butchers cruelty, the degrading sights, the distressing because the animals are sick or unhealthy. cries, the perpetual bloodshed, and all the 14. Because I believe that the great attendant horrors which must surround the increase in consumption and cancer during transit and slaughter of suffering creatures.” the last hundred years has been caused by 19. Because a flesh diet is not necessary the great increase in the use of animal food, to hard work. A great part of the work of and that a strict vegetarian diet would the world is done by animals which subsist greatly help to ward off these most terrible on vegetable food, namely, horses, mules, and incurable diseases. camels, oxen, etc. 15. Because I believe that a flesh diet I believe this matter is well worthy of the brings on many very painful diseases, serious consideration of our Officers. It has which, though not perhaps immediately an important bearing not only upon their dangerous to life, cause much suffering and own health and happiness, but upon their loss. I mean such complaints as eczema, influence among the people, as men and constipation, piles, worms, dysentery, women who are free from the bondage of severe headaches, and the like. A vegetari- that selfish gratification which too often an diet would do much to relieve if not cure afflicts the professed servants of Christ. them. Let us remember the Apostle’s direction: 16. Because of the awful cruelty and ter- “Whether ye ear or drink, or whatsoever ye ror to which tens of millions of animals do, do with all to the glory of God.” killed for human food are subjected in trav- Think on these things! eling long distances by ship, rail, and road to the slaughter-houses of the world. God disapproves of all cruelty—whether to man NUTRITION or beast. 17. Because of the terrible cruelties prac- It is a truism that many more die of ticed in killing animals in many slaughter- overeating than of starvation, and one fault houses. The whole business of killing is is almost universal, namely, the desire to cruel, even when it is done with care, and take more nourishment than is really need- we know that in the case of millions of ed. It is generally conceded that it is not creatures it is done with very little care. how much we eat, but how much we assim- RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS 21

ilate that counts, and as the body is built of There is, in the first place, the rule of certain material elements of the world, just mastication. This is particularly important the same as any other building, the materi- with respect to food containing starch and al for it should be as intelligently and prop- sugar such as cereals. It is a vicious habit erly selected as for the house in which we to sit down morning after morning and bolt dwell. We would certainly think a man a bowl of mush, which is absolutely imper- very foolish who started to build a building vious to the saliva, even though we take the of waste material partially rotted, when trouble to masticate it, which most of us, of plenty of good timber and stone were at course, do not do, because we are in too hand and might be had just as easily, per- great a hurry to get away to the office or haps easier; and that is just what the flesh- shop. Such stuff (it is not food) is a dead eater does, for all meat is partially decayed. weight in the stomach. This habit, when The house in which we live may be a palace persistently pursued for years, is one of the or hut, according to our means and position most fruitful sources of digestive disorders, in society, but we endeavor to build it as which cause so much misery to the human well as possible with our means Then how race; for all pastry, puddings, cakes, mush- much more should we build this living tem- es, and kindred starchy foods which enter ple, this mansion of the soul, so that it may the stomach unchanged by mastication and serve as a fit instrument for spiritual in-salivation are there subjected to a expression. process of fermentation analogous to that A diseased body always hampers us in of beer or vinegar in a brewer’s vat. They our mental and spiritual activities. set free an enormous amount of carbonic Therefore it will bring large dividends in acid gas, and are converted to vinegar or comfort of body, soul, and spirit, if we pay alcohol, producing acute distress. proper attention to certain important points Shredded Wheat and Triscuits have the in connection with our diet. property of not getting sticky in the mouth, We all know the Lord’s Prayer perfectly therefore they may be thoroughly masticat- and therefore it might seem superfluous to ed and in-salivated. Thus the whole benefit repeat it; nevertheless, there is a distinct is derived from such foods, but they are advantage in constant reiteration. We also somewhat expensive of course, and there know certain general rules of right living, are many people who cannot afford them. and it may seem superfluous in an article Variety is also needed, and if you will try like this to reiterate them, but for the same Whole Wheat Mush, as per the menu here- reason that we repeat the Lord’s Prayer, with, you will find that no mush is more namely, that repetition is like the constant easily digested, and certainly there is none drip that hollows the stone, so also let us more appetizing. reiterate a few of these general rules. Most cooks who have discontinued the 22 RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS

use of decaying carcasses still cling to the a large amount of ether, which forms the habit of seasoning vegetables with vinegar. vital body of the plant, and also salts, which Vinegar is made from fruits that have are lost in the process of cooking. decayed and fermented, and a vinegar fac- Therefore it requires considerable more tory looks like a brewery, but smells even bulk of boiled vegetables to give the body worse, for vinegar is the product of a necessary nourishment than when fed upon destructive process in nature and cannot uncooked vegetables. Very few, however, therefore be successfully used in the polity are able to live upon that food yet, because of the body for up-building. Lemons, on it induces a rate of vibration too high for the other hand, are ripe, fresh and at the them, but all who really wish to be health- apex of their evolution, antiseptic in the ful should endeavor to eat at least one meal highest degree and therefore they have a of uncooked food every day. That food high value when used as seasoning with should be taken at the evening meal food. They cleanse, whereas vinegar is because it is most easily digested and will destructive and produces further fermenta- give the body a better chance to rest during tion within our bodies. While it is neces- the night; it has a soothing and tonic effect sary to use plenty of pepper and salt on the upon the body. loathsome decaying flesh foods, so that this It is the idea of most vegetarian cooks seasoning may counterbalance the nauseat- that when vegetables are to be cooked, it ing smell and taste, both pepper and salt are does not matter that they are wilted; such is mainly superfluities in vegetarian cooking. a very erroneous conclusion. A wilted veg- The great mass cannot break away entirely etable is almost as bad as a piece of from the use of salt, therefore it seems nec- decayed meat, but vegetables that have essary to cater to this craving in a small been wilted on the market may be fresh- measure at the present time, but as shall ened up by putting them in water for sever- show in the recipes given from time to time al hours before they are to be cooked, and in this magazine, pepper is a superfluity, vegetables that have to be used uncooked even a detriment, and the seasoning we should of course always be made crisp and shall advocate will make the food properly tender by leaving them in cold water before palatable without it. they are served. Another important rule of right rations The following is a menu from Mount decrees that cooked and uncooked vegeta- Ecclesia: bles should not be eaten at the same meal. The observance of this rule will save many BREAKFAST—7:30 A.M. an hour of discomfort which follows mixed Stewed Rhubarb meals on account of flatulence. Whole Wheat mush with Dates Vegetables in the uncooked state contain and cream RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS 23

Hot Corn gems and butter cream or milk. This quantity will be suffi- Honey cient for two people. Tea, Coffee, or milk CARROTS AU GRATIN DINNER—12 NOON Wash, scrape, and slice one dozen small Cream Tomato Soup carrots; boil them in salt water for twenty Boiled Spinach Carrots au gratin minutes or until almost but not quite done. Whole Wheat bread and butter After draining in a colander and saving the Honey liquid, put two tablespoons full of butter Milk into a hot skillet with a tablespoon full of flour, allowing this to become golden brown. Then gradually add one and one- SUPPER—5:30 P.M half cups of the liquid from the carrots so as Uncooked mixed vegetable salad to make gravy. Add also one-half cupful of Whole Wheat bread and butter grated cheese with a little sprinkling of salt. Honey Then add the carrots and mix well. Pour Milk into a buttered baking dish, cover the top with a mixture of grated cheese and bread crumbs, place in an oven and bake until RECIPES brown. This is sufficient for two plates.

WHOLE WHEAT MUSH WITH DATES VEGETABLE SALAD If you cannot get the entire wheat flour at Take one head of lettuce, making it crisp your grocers, get the whole wheat, just the by putting it in water several hours before it kernel, and run them through a coffee mill, is to be used. Put one-half head on each so that you may be sure nothing is lost, that plate. Dress the lettuce with one sliced you have everything for your food that is hard boiled egg and a spoonful of boiled contained in the kernel. dressing. Bring a quart of water to the boiling point, sprinkle one cup of whole wheat UNCOOKED BOILED DRESSING flour slowly into the water, and allow it to boil for one hour, seasoning slightly with One teaspoon of mustard, one and one- salt. Just before removing it from the half tablespoons of melted butter, one stove, put in one half cup of chopped dates tablespoon of flour, one egg, one and one- and stir, but do not allow the mush to boil half tablespoons of sugar, three-quarters after the dates have been put in. Serve with cup of milk, and one-quarter cup of lemon 24 RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS

juice. Scald the milk, and mix the dry HEALING SERVICES ingredients. Pour the egg, lightly beaten, Healing services will be held in the Pro- into the dry ingredients and butter. Then Ecclesia on the following dates at six fif- pour the hot milk in and stir well. Return to teen in the evening: the sauce pan and cook over boiling water May 3rd, 9th, 17th, 24th, 30th until the mixture thickens. Add the lemon June 6th, 13th, 20th, 26th juice and allow it to cool. July 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th, 30th

Echoes from Mt. Ecclesia ****** We had hoped to announce last month the first place was one of the most promi- that a booth had been secured in the San nent and valuable in the whole grounds, Francisco Fair, and that the Rosicrucian according to reports, and the exposition Fellowship would be represented there, but managers were very wroth because of the just about the time when the magazine was way we had fallen down on the proposition. ready to go out we had the discouraging They did not want to talk to Mr. Koenig at news that through a slip the concession had all, but as said, the goat was not going to be been lost, and it seemed as if we had put out of countenance; he was going to missed our opportunity to present the butt in despite all obstacles. Moreover, he teachings of the Elder Brothers before the had the means wherewith to build the booth multitude which is coming to visit that and get things in shape and was not afraid exposition. to use it, so finally he succeeded in spite of Dr. J. M. Rich, of Seattle, who had the all. He purchased the booth of someone matter in charge was undaunted, however, who had also been dilatory in taking up a he enlisted the services of Mr. Wm. Koenig concession and now we are pleased to be of San Francisco. He could not have made able to announce in this issue that the a better choice, because Mr. Koenig is a Fellowship will have its booth at the San Capricorn and you know that when the Francisco Exposition and that any of our goat lowers its horns and starts butting, members and interested friends who visit something has to move. According to all there will be made welcome. Mr. Koenig is reports however, it seems that he needed all not working for thanks, but we all feel very of the persistence and perseverance he grateful for his efforts. could muster. Mrs. Rich of Seattle went down to San The site that had been assigned to us in Francisco on the first of April to take RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS 25

charge and she will be joined by the Doctor teachings of the Elder Brothers, and to later on. It is believed they will hold class- bring these teachings before the public. As es and in other ways endeavor to further the our subscriptions list grows and we have a objects of the Fellowship, and we bespeak little more capital to work with, we can for them, all the assistance that can be of course enlarge the magazine more and given. more so as to give better value for the dol- lar. We hope that you are pleased with the new magazine, of which this is the first This brings up a new point, the point of issue, and that you will do all you possibly subscription: you will realize of course that can to help it along by getting your friends it costs a whole lot more to put out a maga- to subscribe. There are many people who zine like this than it did to put out the are willing to take a magazine but are not Echoes, and also, if we are to put it on the ready to join an association like ours; how- newsstands we can only do so by placing a ever, it does not really matter so very much subscription price thereon, for the news about the number of members we have as it agents and news dealers cannot afford to matters about spreading the teachings of work for nothing under the present com- the Elder Brothers, and that is what we mercial system of the world, and, therefore, hope to do in a most efficient and effective it is necessary that a subscription price way by means of this magazine. must be placed on the magazine. It is being placed on the newsstands so While this will not make any difference that the public may have access to it all to a great number of our students who will over this country and Europe, thus we hope as gladly and cheerfully contribute that it will be the means of guiding many to the Dollar for this special purpose as they have Mystic Light, the Christ within. Our friend been contributing generously to the Mr. George Wiggs of Chicago, who spoke Fellowship fund before, there are, on the about the National Geographic Magazine other hand, a number of members who are and its great circulation, will perhaps have too poor to pay, and we would not feel jus- the pleasure some day to see it equaled by tified in shutting them off. They need these the Rays from the Rose Cross. teachings as much as anybody else and per- If we all work together and push it along, haps more. we can do it just as well as they can or any- We are therefore going to carry a limited one else. Although we of course shall number of members free on the subscrip- never be able to command that much tion list. To obtain the magazine free it will money, for we are not going to solicit be necessary to write to headquarters, stat- advertising. We just want to use the maga- ing conditions, and the application will then zine to advertise the books that give the be passed upon by the board of Trustees. 26 RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS

After a struggle lasting for over three remains only one single debt: the mortgage years, we have finally succeeded in getting of $1,000 which will be due in May, and we the city to abandon the streets which cross are going to strain every nerve to settle it then. the Fellowship’s property, as they promised Then the Fellowship is absolutely with- to do before we bought the land. We have out a single cent of debt, for it has always a warranty deed given by the Bank of been the policy of the leaders to buy every- Oceanside, from which we bought the thing in the most economical manner and property, but although they would therefore never go into debt. The outbreak of the of course have to defend our title, it looked war, which cut off all our European contri- very dark at times and it seemed as if we butions and stopped the sale of books in would have to go to court to obtain the European Countries, was a very severe proper ownership over the property inside handicap, and we have during that time had the fences. At last, however, this has been a number of bills on file which were never- accomplished. We had consulted the stars, theless paid within the limit. We had start- and had decided that in the February luna- ed the dining hall, and could not for the tion this year, would be the proper time to sake of the prestige of the Rosicrucian take decisive steps with greatest chance of Fellowship, stop the work, so it was neces- success, and we were going to put a bar sary to skimp, save, and string out pay- across the gate so it would be impossible ments in every conceivable manner, to for the public to cross the Fellowship make both ends meet and pay the bills Property. Thus we meant to force the city before they were overdue. Now, however, to take the aggressive part while we took the bill file is cleared; there is no debt on the defensive, and were backed by the Mt. Ecclesia, save that $1,000, and won’t it bank. But just at that time, the city council be glorious when we can take that up and at last listened to reason and signed the burn the mortgage, and say that the agreement to abandon the streets so at the Headquarters is perfectly free and clear. time when the stars showed a favorable And realize that this has been accomplished outcome, instead of having to go to law, the without ever asking any member, rich or object was accomplished by tact and diplo- poor, to contribute a cent. There are some macy, which is of course a thousand times who knew, and could have lifted this load better than any controversy or strife. You off the leaders mind without ever missing may be sure this lifts a heavy load off our it, but it was not in their heart, and Mt. shoulders, for we have really been holding Ecclesia is built of love offerings, come back considerably because we did not straight from the hearts of members— know how that matter was eventually going grateful for the privilege of aiding in the to be settled, but now the land is absolutely Great Work of the Elder Brothers for the clear and secure to the Fellowship. There uplift of our Fellowman. THE Rosicrucian Fellowship ITS MESSAGE AND MISSION Formerly, religious truths were intuitively perceived or taken wholly on faith as dogmas of the church. Today, a growing class demands that immortality and kindred matters be proved to the intellect, deductively or by observation, as are other facts of life, like heredity and ether. They desire religion as much as their fathers, but want the ancient truths in modern dress congruous to their altered intellectual condi- tion. To this class the Rosicrucian Fellowship addresses itself with a definite, logical, and sequential teaching, concerning the origin, evolution and future development of the world and man which is as strictly scientific as it is reverently reli- gious; a teaching which makes no statements not supported by reason and logic, which satisfies the mind by clear expla- nations, which neither begs nor evades questions, but offers a reasonable solution to all mysteries, so that the heart may be allowed to believe what the intellect has sanctioned, and the solace of religion may speak peace to the troubled mind.

MOUNT ECCLESIA In order to make our philosophy of life and health of prac- tical value in the world, we have bought 40 acres of land in the little town of Oceanside, 88 miles south of Los Angeles. It is one of the sightliest spots in sunny Southern California, situa- ted upon the promontory of a high tableland. From Mount Ecclesia, as we have named our headquarters, there is an unobstructed view of the beautiful blue Pacific Ocean. Directly west lies the island of San Clemente, 75 miles out, and ships are often silhouetted upon the skyline as they sail by. Forty miles to the southward looms the promontory of La Jolla, a sub- urb of San Diego, the southernmost city in Uncle Sam’s spacious realm. Eighty miles north from Mount Ecclesia we see the love- ly island of Catalina with its crystal clear waters and its luxuriant submarine gardens, so strange and fantastic that they outstrip fancy and fairy tale alike. Standing upon the same spot whence we saw the magnificent marine view described above, we may behold a landscape equal1y glorious, varied, and wide by simply turning upon our heels and looking towards the east. Immediately below Mount Ecclesia lies the smiling San Luis Rey valley with its fertile green fields and its historic old mis- sion; a little further away are the rounded foothills with their wonderful play of light and shade, then the mountains with their rugged contours, and farthest to the east we see the snowcapped peaks of Mount San Bernardino, Mount Greyback, and Mount San Jacinto. The first named is 100 and the last 75 miles from the coast. Thus the range of our views from Mount Ecclesia is 150 miles east and west (from San Jacinto Mountain to San Clemente island), and 120 miles north and south (from Catalina to La Jolla). The climate is as wonderful as the view, and as incomprehensi- ble to all who have not lived here. One may wear a white shirt- waist outdoors on every day in the winter, and although the water in our solar heater gets so hot that it cracks glass, we do not per- spire on the warmest day in summer on account of the sea breeze which sweeps over Mount Ecclesia every day from about 10 a. m. to 5 p. m., cooling the atmosphere and filling our lungs with invig- orating ozone fresh from the heaving bosom of the great Pacific Ocean. It is a veritable elixir of Life, and therefore this place offers such rare physical conditions for the attainment of health that it is probably without a peer. DINING HALL

ELECTRIC EMBLEM Mount Ecclesia is brilliantly illuminated at night, and the Electric Emblem is a unique and striking feature. OUR BUILDINGS, PRINTING, PUMPING, AND ELECTRIC PLANTS Three years ago we started building our headquarters on this beautiful spot. We installed a pumping plant in the valley, carry- ing the water 226 feet up to the summit of Mt. Ecclesia and have thus an unlimited supply of water for irrigation and ample fire protection. We have built a sanctuary devoted exclusively to wor- ship of God, an administration building wherein our general offices and printing plant are located, a commodious dining hall to accommodate all workers, patients, and pupils. We have a1so built a number of cottages for the accommodation of the students, and in the summer time a tent city adds largely to the accommo- dations during the time when the summer school is in session. Mt. Ecclesia has also its own electric lighting plant, and every night the wonderful electric emblem of the Fellowship may be seen flashing its message of light across the country for over twenty miles in either direction. The exterior of the dining hall and Pro-Ecclesia, as we call our Sanctuary, are also electri- cally lighted, and thus we let the physical light shine to attract those who are seeking the spiritual, if by chance such may pass and inquire through curiosity, which afterwards turns to keen interest. THE CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL In addition to thE publications of the Rosicrucian Fellowship, regularly advertised and before the public, there are two corre- spondence courses which furnish instructions to students, a1l over the world, who are desirous of investigating the Rosicrucian Mysteries, and the Science of Astrology. Upon request anyone who is not a Hypnotist, Professional Medium, Palmist, or Astrologer, will receive from the General Secretary, at headquar- ters, application blanks for admission to the Esoteric instructions contained in these two courses—Esoteric Astrology and The Rosicrucian Mystery Teachings. THE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING This building contains the General offices, the Printing plant and the Mailing Department.

SUMMER SCHOOL During July, August, and September, a summer school is maintained and students on our correspondence lists who wish to avail themselves of the opportunity of study at Headquarters may do so by applying to the Esoteric secretary, but no one is permitted to enter Headquarters until their applica- tion has been passed upon and accepted.

A HEALTH RESORT According to the United States Government Experts, Mt. Ecclesia is in the center of an air belt which is purest in all of the U.S. It is therefore a natur- al health resort and this, coupled with the fact that a scientific vegetarian diet is here supplied, makes it an ideal place of residence for both the well and the ill. We are prepared to take patients whose ailments do not prevent them from attending to their own needs. The rates of board are less than one-half what is usually charged in sanatariums, but we are have no resident physi- cian and cannot take proper care of patients who need nursing and attention. A Brief Resumé Of the Rosicrucian Philosophy Sooner or later there comes a time when the consciousness is forced to recognize the fact that life, as we see it, is but fleeting, and that amid all the uncertainties of our existence there is but one certainty—Death ! When the mind has thus become aroused by thought of the leap in the dark which must sometime be taken by all, the question of questions—Whence have we come—Why are we here—Whither are we going?—must inevitably present itself. This is a basic problem with which all must sooner or later grapple, and it is of the greatest importance how we solve it, for the view we take will color our whole life. Only three theories of note have been brought forward to solve this problem. To range ourselves in one of the three groups of mankind, segregated by their adherence to one theory or the other in an intelligent manner, it is necessary to know the three theories, to calmly weigh and compare them one with another and with established facts. Lecture No. 1 does just that, and whether we agree with its conclusions or not, we shall surely have a more comprehensive grasp of the various viewpoints and be better able to form an intelligent opinion when we have read “The Riddle of Life and Death.” If we have come to the conclusion that death does not end our existence, it is but a natural question to ask: Where are the dead? This momentous question is dealt with in lecture No. 2. The law of conservation of matter and energy precludes annihilation, yet we see that matter is constantly changing from the visible to the invisible state and back again, as, for instance, water is evaporat- ed by the sun, partially condensed into a cloud, and then falls to Earth again as rain. Consciousness may also exist without being able to give us any sign, as in cases where people have been thought dead, but have awakened and told all that had been said and done in their pres- ence. So there must be an invisible World of force and matter, as inde- pendent of our cognition of it as light and color exist regardless of the fact that they are not perceived by the blind. In that invisible World the so-called dead are now living in full possession of all the mental and emotional faculties. They are liv- ing a life as real as existence here. The invisible World is cognized by means of a sixth sense devel- oped by some, but latent in most people. It may be developed in all, but different methods produce varying results. This faculty compensates for distance in a manner far superior to the best telescopes and for the lack of size in a degree unreach- able by the most powerful microscope. It penetrates where the X- ray cannot. A wall or a dozen walls are no denser to the spiritual sight than crystal to ordinary vision. In lecture No. 3 Spiritual Sight and the Spiritual Worlds, this faculty is described, and lecture No. 11, Spiritual Sight and Insight, gives a safe method of development. The Invisible World is divided into different realms: The Etheric Region, the Desire World, the Region of Concrete Thought, and the Region of Abstract Thought. These divisions are not arbitrary, but are necessary because the substance of which they are composed obeys different laws. For instance, physical matter is subject to the law of gravity; in the Desire World forms levitate as easily as they gravitate. Man needs various vehicles to function in the different Worlds as we need a carriage to ride on land, a boat at sea, and an airship in the air. We know that he must have a dense body to live in the visible World. He also has a vital body composed of ether which enables him to sense things around him. He has a desire body formed of the materials of the Desire World which gives him a passionate nature and incites him to action. The Mind is formed of the sub- stance of the Region of Concrete Thought and acts as a brake upon impulse; it gives purpose to action. The real man, the Thinker or Ego, functions in the Region of Abstract Thought, act- ing upon and through his various instruments. Lecture No. 4 deals with the normal and abnormal conditions of life such as Sleep, Dreams, Trance, Hypnotism, Mediumship, and Insanity. The previously mentioned finer vehicles are all concen- tric with the dense body in the waking state when we are active in thought, word, and deed, but the activities of the day cause the body to grow tired and sleepy. When the wear and tear incident to use of a building has made exhaustive repairs necessary, the tenants must move out that the workmen may have full scope for restoration. So when wear and tear of the day has exhausted the body, it is necessary that the Ego move out. That withdrawal renders the body unconscious, and definite work is necessary to restore its tone and rhythm. During the night the Ego hovers outside the dense body clothed in desire body and mind. Sometimes the Ego only withdraws partially, is half in the body and half out; then it sees both the Desire World and the Physical World, but confused as in a dream. Hypnotism is a mental assault. The unsuspecting victim is dri- ven out of his body, the hypnotist obtains control. The victims of the hypnotist are released at his death, however, but the medium is not so fortunate. Spirit controls are really invis- ible hypnotists. Their invisibility gives great scope for deception, and after death they may take possession of a medium’s desire body, use it for ages, and keep their hapless victims from pro- gressing along the pathway of evolution. This latter phase of mediumship is elucidated in No. 5, which deals with Death and Life in Purgatory. What we call death is in reality but a shifting of consciousness from one World to another. We have a science of birth with trained nurses, obstetricians, antiseptics, and every other means of caring for the incoming Ego, but are sorely in need of a science of death, for when a friend is passing out of our concrete existence, we stand helplessly about, ignorant of how to assist, or worse, we do things which make the passing infinitely harder than if we merely stood idly by. Giving stimulants is one of our worst offenses against the dying, as it draws the passing spirit into the dense body again with the force of a catapult. After the heart has stopped, on account of the partial rupture of the silver cord (which united the higher and lower vehicles of man during sleep and remains unsevered for a time, varying from a few hours to three and a half days after death), there is still on that account a certain feeling if the body is embalmed, opened for post-mortem examination, or cremated. The body should, there- fore, be left unmolested, for at that time the passing Ego is engaged in reviewing the pictures of its past life (which are seen in a flash by drowning persons). These pictures are impressed daily and hourly upon the ether of the vital body as independent- ly of our observation as a detailed picture is impressed upon the photographic plate by the ether, regardless of whether the photog- rapher observed details or not. They form an absolutely true record of our past life, which we may call the sub-conscious mem- ory (or mind) far superior to the view we consciously store in our memory (or mind). Under the immutable Law of Consequence, which decrees that what we sow we reap, the deeds of life are the basis of our exis- tence after death. The panorama of a past life is the book of the Recording Angels, who are adjusters of the score we make under the Law of Consequence. Review of the life panorama just after death etches the pictures into the desire body, which is our normal vehicle in the Desire World, where Purgatory and the First Heaven are located. The panorama of life is the basis of purgation of evil in purga- tory and assimilation of good deeds in the first heaven. It is of the highest importance that this panorama be deeply etched into the desire body, for if that impress is deep and clear the Ego will suf- fer more sharply in purgatory and experience a keener joy in the first heaven. This feeling will remain as conscience in future lives to impel good action and discourage evil deeds. If the passing spirit is left in peace and quiet to concentrate upon the life-panorama, the etching will be clear and sharp, but if the relatives detract his attention by loud hysterical lamentations dur- ing the first three and one-half days when the silver cord is yet intact, a shallow or blurred impression will cause the spirit to lose much of the lessons which should have been learned. To correct this anomaly the Recording Angels are often forced to terminate the next Earth-life in early childhood before the desire body has come to birth, as described in Birth a Fourfold Event (lecture No. 7) for that which has not been quickened cannot die, and so the child goes into the first heaven and learns the lessons it did not learn before, and is thus equipped to pass on in Life’s School. As such Egos retain the desire body and mind they had in the life where they died as children, it often happens that they remem- ber that life, for they only stay out of Earth life from one to twen- ty years. Suffering in purgatory arises from two causes: Desires which cannot be gratified or the reaction to the pictures of the life panorama—the drunkard suffers tortures of Tantalus because he has no means of obtaining or retaining drink. The miser suffers because he lacks the hand to restrain his heirs from squandering his cherished hoard. Thus the Law of Consequence purges evil habits until desire has burned itself out. If we have been cruel the panorama of life radiates back upon us the picture of ourselves and our victims. Conditions are reversed in purgatory; we suffer as they suffered. Thus, in time, we are purged of sin. The coarse desire matter which forms the embodi- ment of evil has been expelled by the centrifugal force of Repulsion in purgatory and we retain but the pure and the good, which is embodied in subtler desire stuff dominated by the cen- tripetal force—attraction, which amalgamates good in the first heaven when the life panorama depicts scenes in our past life where we helped others, or where we felt grateful for favors, as described in lecture No. 6, Life in Heaven, which also deals with our stay in the Second Heaven, located in the Region of Concrete Thought. That is also the realm of tone, as the Desire World is of color, and the Physical World of form. Tone, or sound, is the builder of all that is on Earth, as John says: “In the beginning was the Word (sound), and the Word was made flesh,” the flesh of all things, “without it was not anything made that was made.” The moun- tain, the moss, the mouse, and the man are all embodiments of this Great Creative Word which came down from heaven. There the man becomes one with the nature forces; Angels and Archangels teach him to build such an environment as he has deserved under the Law of Consequence. If he dallied his time away in metaphysical speculation, as do the Hindus, he neglects to build a good material environment, and is reborn in an arid land where flood and famine teach him to turn his attention to materi- al things. When he focuses his mind on the Physical World, aspir- ing to wealth and material comforts, he will build in Heaven an unexcelled material environment, a wealthy land with facilities for ease and comfort, as the Western World has done. But as we always long for what we lack, the possessions we have are satiat- ing us beyond comfort and we are beginning to aspire to the spir- itual life anew, as the Hindus, our younger brothers are aspiring now to the material prosperity we are leaving behind, as more fully elucidated in lecture No. 19, The Coming Force—Vril? which shows why Hindu Yoga practices are detrimental to Westerners; they being behind us in evolution. When the Ego has helped to build the creative archetype for the environment of its next earth-life, in the second heaven, it ascends into the Third Heaven, located in the Region of Abstract Thought. But few people have learned to think abstractly, as in mathemat- ics; the majority of people are therefore unconscious, as in sleep, waiting for the Clock of Destiny—the stars, to indicate the time when effects engendered by the action of past lives can be worked out. When the heavenly time makers, the Sun, Moon, and plan- ets, have reached a proper position, the Ego wakes and desires a new embodiment. The Recording Angels look up the record of all our past lives, which is stamped upon the super-conscious mind each time an Ego withdraws to the third Heaven, as outlined in lecture No. 7, Birth a Fourfold Event. When there is no particular reason why a certain environment should be taken, the Ego has choice of vari- ous embodiments. These are shown to it as a panorama, giving the great outline of each proposed life, but leaving scope for indi- vidual free-will in the detail. Once a choice has been made, the Ego is bound to liquidate ripe causes selected by the Recording Angels, and any attempt to evade that will be frustrated. It should be carefully noted that evil is eradicated in Purgatory. Only tendencies remain, to tempt us till we have consciously overcome. Thus we are born innocent and at least every evil act is an act of free will. When the Ego descends toward rebirth, it gathers the materials for its new bodies, but they are not born at the same time. Birth of the vital body inaugurates rapid growth from 7 to 14, ripening also the propagative faculty. Birth of the desire body at 14 gives rise to the impulsive period from 14 to 21. At that age the birth of the mind furnishes a brake on impulse and gives a foundation for serious life. ROSICRUCIAN CHRISTIANITY SERIES

The price of these lectures is 5 cents each plus 1 cent postage for each copy, except No. 11. No. 1. “The Riddle of Life and Death.” Presenting a solution which is both scientific and religious. No. 2. “Where Are the Dead?” No. 3. Spiritual Sight and the Spiritual Worlds.” Showing that we have a latent “sixth sense,” and what it opens up to us when cultivated. No. 4. “Sleep, Dreams, Trance, Hypnotism, Mediumship, and Insanity.” No. 5. “Death and Life in Purgatory.” Describing the method of death and purgation, also how immutable law and not an avenging Deity transmutes the evil acts of life to ever- lasting good. No. 6. “Life and Activity in Heaven.” Showing how the Human Spirit assimilates the Good of its past life and creates its environments for a future rebirth, also how it prepares a new body. No. 7. “Birth a Fourfold Event.” Describing antenatal preparations for birth, and the spiritual changes which inaugurate the period of excessive physical growth in the 7th year; puberty at 14, and maturity at 21. This knowledge is absolutely essential to the right care of a child. No. 8. “The Science of Nutrition, Health, and Protracted Youth.” Showing the material cause of early death and the obvious prophylactic. No. 9. “Astronomical Allegories of the Bible.” A mystic scroll. No. 10. “Astrology; Its Scope and Limitations.” Showing the spiritual side of astrology, how it enables those who study it to help themselves and others. No. 11. “Spiritual Sight and Insight.” Its culture, control, and legitimate use, giving a definite and safe method of attainment. Second enlarged edition 10c. No. 12. “Parsifal.” Wagner’s famous Mystic Musical Drama, a mine of inspiration and devotion. No. 13. “The Angels as Factors in Evolution.” Showing just what part the Angels, Archangels, Cherubim, Seraphim, etc., play in the Drama of Life. No. 14. “Lucifer, Tempter or Benefactor?” Showing the origin and the mission of pain and sorrow. No. 15. “The Mystery of Golgotha and the Cleansing Blood.” A rational explanation which satisfies head and heart alike. No. 16. “The Star of Bethlehem; a Mystic Fact.” No. 17. “The Mystery of the Holy Grail.” The way to attainment. No. 18. “The Lord’s Prayer.” Showing the esoteric side and how it applies to the seven-fold constitution of man. No. 19. “The Coming Force—Vril! or What?” No. 20. “Fellowship and the Coming Race.” Showing why the Bible contains both the Jewish and Christian religions, why both combined are peculiarly adapted to the spir- itual needs of the Western World, and why Jesus was born a Jew. THE Rosicrucian Cosmo Conception

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Involution, Evolution, and Epigenesis Trance Dreamless sleep Dreams The Waking State The Mystery of Blood The Mystery of Sex The Mystery of Death The Christ of the West is not the Christ of the East The Christ of the West The law of infant mortality THE Rosicrucian Philosophy In Questions and Answers

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A book of ready reference upon all mystic matters, which ought to be in the library of every occult student. It covers 432 pages; has a considerable number of illuminating diagrams, is printed on fine paper in clear type, reinforced binding of cloth with the beautiful Rosicrucian symbols stamped upon the cover in red, black, and genuine gold leaf; the three edges are also gold. The handsome style of this volume will make it a much appreciated gift book, and the merely nominal price is an inducement to liberality.

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IT IS A MASTER-KEY to the esoteric side of Astrology, with the key to its practical application in Life. Twenty-two horoscopes are used to illustrate diagnosis of disease; examples show how

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This Is THE BOOK FOR THE BUSY MAN who is seeking a solution to the Great Mystery called Life, but lacks leisure to wade through volumes of metaphysical specula- tion. The lucid and logical explanations carry conviction. They bear THE STAMP OF TRUTH Nevertheless, the language is so simple, clear and devoid of tech- nicalities that

A CHILD CAN UNDERSTAND its message. It is therefore specially suited to beginners, but advanced students will find The Mystery Of Light, Color, and Consciousness and similar subjects of vital interest. Astrology by Correspondence

WHY YOU OUGHT TO STUDY ASTROLOGY

There is a side of the moon which we never see, but that hidden half is as potent a factor in creating the ebb and flow as the part of the moon which is visible. Similarly, there is an invisible part of man which exerts a powerful influence in life, and as the tides are measured by the motion of sun and moon, so also the eventuali- ties of existence are measured by the circling stars, which may therefore be called “the Clock of Destiny,” and knowledge of their import is an immense power, for to the competent Astrologer a horoscope reveals every secret of life. Thus, when you have given an astrologer the data of your birth, you have given him the key to your innermost soul, and there is no secret that he may not ferret out. This knowledge may be used for good or ill, to help or hurt, according to the nature of the man. Only a tried friend should be trusted with this key to your soul, and it should never be given to anyone base enough to prostitute a spiritual science for material gain. To the medical man Astrology is invaluable in diagnosing dis- eases and prescribing a remedy, for it reveals the hidden cause of all ailments. If you are a parent the horoscope will aid you to detect the evil intent in your child and teach you how to apply the ounce of pre- vention. It will show you the good points also, that you may make a better man or woman of the soul entrusted to your care. It will reveal systematic weakness and enable you to guard the health of your child; it will show what talents are there, and how the life may be lived to a maximum of usefulness. Therefore, the mes- sage of the marching orbs is so important that you cannot afford to remain ignorant thereof. In order to aid those who are willing to help themselves we have started a Correspondence Class. No direct charge will be made for tuition, but we trust that stu- dents will realize their moral obligation to contribute to the work which helps them. If you are looking for fortune telling we have nothing for you.

Our Lessons are Sermons They embody the highest moral and spiritual principles, togeth- er with the loftiest system of ethics, for Astrology is, to us, a phase of religion, we never look at a horoscope without feeling that we are in a holy presence, face to face with an immortal soul, and our attitude is one of prayer for light to guide that soul aright.

We Do Not Cast Horoscopes Despite all we can say, many people write enclosing money for horoscopes, forcing us to spend valuable time writing letters of refusal and giving us the trouble of returning the money. Please do not thus annoy us. It will avail you nothing. Contents The Mystic Light A Department devoted to articles on Occultism, Mystic Masonry, Esoteric Christianity, and similar subjects. The Question Department Designed to give further light upon the various subjects dealt with in the different departments, where queries from students and other subscribers make this necessary. The Astral Ray Astrology from an original angle, Cosmic light on Life’s Problems. Studies in the Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception Our Origin, Evolution and ultimate Destiny is religiously, reasonably and scientifically explained in this department. Nutrition and Health Our body is ‘A Living Temple’, we build it without sound of hammer, by our food. In this Department articles on diet teach how to build wisely and well. The Healing Department The Rose Cross Healing Circle, its meetings and their results. Echoes from Mount Ecclesia News and Notes from Headquarters