Rosicrucian Digest V20 N11 1942
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& ’• dO 0 3 3 STUDENT SUPPLIES Our Suggestion To You - - - And By This Sign Shall They Be Known \ Y / E T H IN K in terms of pictures. O ur ideas are not composed ” of mere angles, straight lines, or cubes, but are tbe complete mental forms of things we have heard, seen, tasted, felt, or smelled. A thing need not always be seen in its entirety to suggest its com plete nature to us. O ne snowflake can convey the idea of a storm, a flag can signify the nation it represents, and the appearance of CHRISTMAS SEALS one uniformed police officer denotes the forces of law and order. O ne little sign or symbol, simple, even inconspicuous, can by (In C o lo n ) association bring to tbe fore of human consciousness a vast and I? These Rosicrucian Seals a re detailed mental picture of that which it represents. 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'-irr?r rrrrrrciyrfrttrrrtTT ROSICRUCIAN DIGEST COVERS THE WORLD THE OFFICIAL INTERNATIONAL ROSICRUCIAN MAGA ZINE OF THE WORLD-WIDE ROSICRUCIAN ORDER Vol. XX DECEMBER, 1942 No. II Christmas Greetings (Frontispiece] 401 Thought of the Month: What of Tomorrow? 404 Soul Doctor 408 It Is Not The Outer Man 411 Journeys In The Esoteric: Part II 412 Behind The Mirror 416 What Do YOU Think? 418 Cosmic Politics 420 Cathedral Contacts: The Star In The East_ 423 The Moral Argument of Kant 425 A Philosophical View of Alchemy 427 Religion and the Mystic 431 The Vision of Perfection 433 Sanctum Musings: Peace 435 The Parable of fhe Exodus 436 Our New Curator (Illustration) 437 Subscription to the Rosicrucian Digest, Three Dollars per year. Single copies twenty-five cents. Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at San Jose, Cali fornia, under Section I 103 of the U. S. Postal Act of Oct. 3, 1917. Changes ot address must reach us by the tenth of the month preceding date of issue. Statements made in this publication are not the official expressions of the organization or its officers unless stated to be official communications. Published Monthly by the Supreme Council of THE ROSICRUCIAN ORDER—AMORC ROSICRUCIAN PARK SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA THE THOUGHT OF THE MONTH WHAT OF TOMORROW? By THE IMPERATOR The following is the last installment in a series of articles by Ralph M Lewis. F. R. C.. on the changes today's international involvement will produce In thp world in Ihe near future. He has projected an outline of the effects current events will have on nations and on the minds, lives, and custom s of the people who live in them. In presaging these events, he has used nothing more mysterious as an aid than a pencil, a world map. the immanent faeul ties of observation and abstraction, and an analysis of what he perceives to be the present trends. — E D ITO R. AN actual benefits poses of the conflict. It will perhaps be be derived from contended that the numerous purported war? Yes. History advantages derived from a major war is replete with nu would in all probability have emerged merous alleged anyway, in the progress of civilization. examples. It is re The principal advantage accruing from lated that the ex a war. not considering its tremendous tensive use of iron mental, physical, and material costs, is by the ancient the great acceleration given develop Assyrians in their ment in technical and other fields of implements of human enterprise. A five-year war. for war, after discov example, may advance certain sciences ering it among the and arts, both in their refinement and Hittites whom enlargement, from fifty years to a they invaded, caused that metal to be century. more generally used by Asiatic powers Such results are sometimes indirect for peaceful pursuits. The raids of the consequences of the stimulation of war. Kassite hordes an the Babylonians in At the end of a war many newly cre 2100 B. C. introduced the horse to that ated and expanded technological pro civilization. Likewise, the barbarian cesses can. with comparative ease, be Hyksos. a mysterious people, who converted into the manufacture of civi swept down on and conquered Egypt lian products and become of service to about 1700 B. C. brought horses with society. them and taught the Egyptians to do What then will be some of the ad mesticate them. The Moors who fought vantages spawned directly by this war? their way from North Africa into Spain, There are certain ones which are so ob again brought to Europe the ancient vious that they must be apparent to all culture of the East and of Greece, alert persons. Aviation is such an ex which had been stamped out by the de ample. Necessity, concerted effort, and cadent Romans. unlimited funds have revolutionized cer The It must be conceded that a tremen tain aeronautical theories literally over Rosicrucian dous price in human hlood. suffering, night, in contrast to a norma] peacetime and misery was paid for such benefits. development. The mourners of today s Digest In almost all instances the benefits re war dead will inherit this advantage December sulting from war were unexpected, and with their grief.