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T he Great W hite Lodge of Our Solar System...... 63 An E ditorial Step to Mastery, VI, By Henry Christeen Warnack...... 66 A Remarkable P rophecy ...... :...... 67 T he Tarot of the Year, V, By William Millard Barker ... 68 Gambling with the W orld, By Frater Acliad...... 69 Lesson Letters to a Student, VI, By Agnes Mae Glasgov' 72 E lementary P sychology, VI, By Clarence II. Foster...... 73 Some Recent Books...... 74 F rom the I nner Circle...... 76 Talks W ith Aspirants P eriodical L iterature ...... 78 E ditorial Shop T alk...... 85 Astrological Question Box...... 89 Correspondence ...... 89

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Vol. II June, 1923 No. 5 The Great White Lodge of Our Solar System A Contributed Editorial Since the year 1875 of the preced­ ing promulgated and the effort made to ing century, much talk, controversy, so- raise the human vibratory rate to a called teaching and information con­ higher condition and quality. cerning what has been variously termed During a portion of the last quarter the “ Great White Lodge,” the “White of the last century—to be exact from Brotherhood,” the “ Lodge of Initiates,” 1875 to 1891—a certain Force was oper­ etc., has been to a greater or less ex­ ative upon this planet whose efforts were tent circulated throughout the world. primarily focused upon the American Much of this is erroneous and mislead­ Continent, the proposed birthplace and ing and many ideas in this regard have field of operation of the incoming Sixth been formed. However this may be, the Root Race. The Force of which we fact remains that the primary purpose speak was most assuredly a moulder of of the initial impulse in putting forth world thought and performed a labor even an intimation of such knowledge which to the true world student of the has been fulfilled, in that certain por­ Sacred and Universal Science whose tions of humanity have been stimulated great study is that of CAUSES back of through curiosity, interest or what not EFFECTS, assumes as each year to more original, independent and indi­ passes, monumental proportions and is vidual modes of thought and investiga­ seen to be a vital factor in race evolu­ tion along lines which—if persisted in tion, a turning point, as it were, where to their logical sequence—must inevit­ human mentalism took greater strides ably lead to a wider and possibly first than heretofore in its development. This hand knowledge of the subject which Force—however embodied—was the ac­ we attempt to touch herein. tive working agent of the Unseen The year 1875 marked the commence­ Spiritual Forces who are the direct ment of the last quarter of the 19th agents through Whom the Will of the century; from the Teaching of the Supreme Consciousness is objectively Sacred Science comes the knowledge manifested, the Divine Plan outworked that during the last quarter of each and human evolution progressed. century, a special effort is made by the As a working basis by which to under­ invisible forces guiding world progress, stand somewhat of the manifestation of to raise the vibratory rate of the race Life we term HUMANITY—an in­ along the particular line possible to that finitesimal portion of the Great Whole day and age. The last quarter of a —we postulate that in the evolution and century also marks the commencement economy of Nature, there MUST of of such a cycle; both together constitut­ necessity exist such Intermediary Forces ing a transitional period wherein the carrying on evolutional purposes as old order to some extent gives way to those we term the Great White Brother­ and is merged in the new. While in hood, or the Great White Lodge. These every century this is true to a degree, are composed of developed units of Con­ at the present time the human race is sciousness who have passed through the passing through a transitional cycle of human kingdom, together with all pre­ far greater than century magnitude, of ceding it, have unfolded the latent and planetary and solar importance, where­ natural powers within their organisms in an intensified spiritual impulse is be­ to the extent that constitutes entire 63 64 T he O ccult P ress Review self-mastery and control of natural human being would truly realize that forces, and have blended their conscious­ he has a “Master” within his own ness with the Supreme Consciouness organism if he would but allow that to an extent which is spoken of as Force to come through and dominate: UNION or LIBERATION: Union with that he needs not to seek outside him­ the Supreme Consciousness; Liberation self for AUTHORITY: that the only of the ensouling Life within the Form true authority is within and that he is vehicle of the lesser consciousness, which —potentially—a self-responsible being makes such Union possible. Such as who must become in process of time these are no longer limited by the con­ awake to his own Divinity and REAL­ fining Form but have transcended it, IZE his Godhood. However, this is the and only to a very limited degree can evolutionary labor to be performed by the human mind in its present state of each individual which will entitle him development cognize all that this to place in that “ Lodge of Masters,” implies. concerning which there has been so The Great White Lodge may be con­ much speculation and conjecture. sidered in two ways, exoterieally and The Great White Brotherhood then esoterically, and as of course the mind —exoterieally—brings us the concept of of man in its present unprogressed an organized body of beings who are state as regards its higher aspect able to exercise superphysical powers (Higher Manas or the mental quality of and who exert untold influence upon Abstract Mind) must grasp a concept the destinies of men and nations. All first exoterieally through the avenues of this is undoubtedly true and appertains the lower mind), this aspect of a human more particularly to the human stage organized Brotherhood was primarily through which we as entitized and in­ presented as an opening wedge, to form dividualized human beings are now a groundwork, a starting point, from passing. “ Brotherhood” means ONE­ whence he could as his higher faculties NESS, SYNTHESIS, WHOLENESS unfolded to a wider comprehension of in essence, and as evolution progresses Life and its mysteries, finally arrive at the true Realization of this as a Princi­ the apprehension of the Great Lodge of ple in Nature and in Life must uni­ Masters—of Master Forces—in its truer versally obtain. The “ Great Brothers” esoteric aspect or light of a Spiritual are most truly One with each other, Reality of Natural Force and Energy. united as ONE in the Supreme Con­ During the past 50 years much per­ sciousness of which They form identify­ sonalization of the Masters so-called has ing atomic parts of ITS Organism been done; by those who have acquired which IS the Solar System: even as we but a faint comprehension of the subject —humanity—are identifying atomic and are limited by material mind; by parts of Their Spiritual Being. The those who need “ props” and those who same correspondence is true in consid­ live and move according to £ £ authority; ’ ’ ering the White Lodge as we understand by those who seek for personal leaders it, as an atomic component of a Greater and are ever credulous enough to take Lodge of the Cosmic System, and so on the teaching of every self-constituted ad infinitum. £‘spiritual” exponent unquestioningly, Here we enter upon the more esoteric INSTEAD of exercising their own in­ aspect of the Great White Lodge as a born faculties—doing their own think­ Center or Yortex of Solar and Spirit­ ing and thus unsheathing and liberating ual Force or Energy, wherein this the Inner God who ever waits to lead Force or Energy is received from a still the way to spiritual heights. greater Cosmical Energy or Sun, and In all of the confusion of ideas from which it is dispersed to those lives described above consequent upon the within Its orbit and jurisdiction, there­ new stimulation of thought, and en­ by applying the vibratory stimulus hanced by the seekers for “ psychic by which all human manifestation phenomena” which many mistake for progresses. spiritual development, the concept of Through this Center then are trans­ “ Masters” has become belittled, debased mitted and from It are poured forth and prostituted. We would that each streams of vibratory force, and while T he Occult P ress Review 65 THERE ARE Masters and Controllers reverence and love are truly the due of this Force who in themselves embody of Those whe seek tirelessly to serve it, still to the beings of the human their human brothers and thus advance kingdom, it is a far wider, higher and race progress. They ever teach and pro­ more Synthetic Ideal to consider Them claim that each individual soul MUST impersonally as Streams of Force, per­ wrork out its own salvation, which can forming Their function impartially ac­ never be done by slavish submission or cording to Divine Law, rather than to blind and unquestioning obedience. No personalize Them and bring Them to Master or Spiritual Teacher can do more earth in a concrete and limiting form. than point the wray over which them­ The present transitional cycle we selves have passed; each individual in maintain, is one in which the spiritual turn must pass the same way over the life and kingdom must develop from Christie Path, through overcoming the and out of the human life and kingdom ; lower nature, through the true building is the true and natural outgrowth of it; of character, through Purification and a period wherein the personal must be­ Sacrifice. No other way than this there come merged and absorbed in the IM­ is to enter the Portals of Initiation PERSONAL; a period wherein the through which a soul must pass to reach mainspring of human life action and the Great White Lodge and become a relationships must be Principle and member therein. never Personality; where LIFE itself Let us have done therefore, wfith all is the great ideal for study rather than this useless talk of Masters, Their agents, its containing form; wherein Group Their messages, etc., all of which leads Relationship and Consciousness must be to separativeness and belittling the the object of CO-OPERATIVE labor mighty Streams of Spiritual Force and growr into actual REALIZATION which ever seek to energize and vitalize as a unifying agent of Evolutionary humanity wherever entrance therein is Force. And to this end wre deplore the made possible by human life conduct, personification of Masters; the ac­ and to spur humanity on to greater centuation of personal leadership; the spiritual endeavor. Let us devote our­ assumption of authority; the degrada­ selves to the acquisition of the LOVE- tion of the Master Forces through drag­ WISDOM-COMPASSION Conscious­ ging them down to personal levels; all ness; to strict adherence to the High as deterrents to true spiritual progress Principles laid down by the Spiritual as anything must be which leads to the Lights of all time; always these—but— obstruction of the God within each soul, let go the old rigid idols and build those waiting and eager to break through the of plastic spiritual substance—even ap­ shrouding sheaths and make itself dom­ proaching the Divine—which shall eter­ inant within its earthly house. nally endure. We deplore the belittling, irrational The great moulder of world thought and inconsequential references to herein referred to has stated that in a Lodge members, the Masters; the per­ certain exposition of the Sacred Science sonal claims made to “ special” Lodge has been given all of Truth that can be connections; personality claims to per­ divulged in “ this century,” (the 19th). sonal chelaship; to the separative, sel­ This has been shown to be undeniably fish and ignorant assertions made con­ true and it yet remains for humanity en cerning Lodge “ links,” agents, and in­ masse to receive, assimilate and incor­ struments, put forth into the world to­ porate within its being, the first ele­ day by those who feel the cyclic vibra­ ments of theknowledge therein contained. tory stimulus but are without the dis­ Since the time that statement was made criminative balance necessary to a true (1888, and bear in mind that the state­ understanding of it and consequent ment referred to the “ present” the 19th wdse control and use. century in w'hich occurred the year No Intermediary Force—no Master 1888,) the dawn of a new’ century (the —demands or permits Divine honors: 20th) and the dawn of a NEW CYCLE, no Spiritual Teacher or Initiate of bring the hope which amounts to a prob­ whatever grade desires worship or able certainty, (also emphasized by the adoration from His pupils. Gratitude, moulder of thought named,) of a more 66 T he O ccult P ress R eview detailed, therefore greater and at the turies preceding, in the last quarter of same time a simpler unfoldment and each one has been given the impulse for presentation of Truth, fitted to the pres­ greater spiritual uplift and enlighten­ ent day. ment according to human capacity to re­ Not in intellectual systems can this ceive it; just as will be the case in the be found, for an Avataric or Solar centuries yet to come until mankind Cycle brings not the propounding of reaches a stage of moral and spiritual such, save as emphasizing what has be­ responsibility and evolves beyond his fore been given as a foundation for present limiting boundaries. thought and effort; but rather an insist­ Thus was the pioneer work (now be­ ence upon the “ Heart Doctrine;” living ginning to bear fruit) begun in 1875; the life of Purity and Spiritual Freedom the field prepared and the seed of stimu­ rather than the life of bigoted material­ lative thought well planted within the ism and of personalism; following in the human mind by the Master Force em­ footsteps of Humanity’s Great Brother, bodied at that time as Helena Petrovna her Firstborn, and exemplifying the Blavatsky, an Initiate of the Great White ethical and moral Principles Pie taught Lodge, serving humanity, working with of LOVE-WISDOM-COMPASSION; of and for humanity, and truly dying for Brotherhood and Justice, in a word, of humanity in a deeper sense than has SYNTHESIS: He Who stands while ever been comprehended: a true Torch- time endures as the model and Ex­ bearer who labored to stem the threat­ emplar for humanity to build upon. ening tide of bigotry and materialism; For this great Avataric Cycle and for who kept alight the Holy Flame to kin­ the next Great Coming was the prepara­ dle the minds of men to that individual tion of thought stimulation started in effort which alone shall carry on the the last quarter of the last century. race to its Divine destiny. (1875-1900) just as through the cen­ —From the Life Study Club

S teps to M astery By H enry Christeen W arnack VI. THE GRACE OF SWEETNESS We radiate from the center. There­ mean that they permitted some external fore, the heart must be right. If we force or condition earljr in the day to would give to all men only what is good, enter the Inner Temple and to disturb one of the first virtues we should seek and distress them. Having enthroned it­ to possess and to express is the quality self Within, the inharmony carries its of sweetness. We should keep untellably unhappy influence to all other condi­ sweet. Eliminate all bitterness and you tions of the day, exactly as the spread­ will do so. You owe this to yourself and ing of the ripples in still water into you owe it to the world. In truth, we which a stone is hurled. In such in­ owe nothing to the world and all to the stances we suffer because we fail to keep Self, but when we find and express Self, sweet. we give to the world all of our rare Our lives will never seem of the ut­ powers and real possessions. In keeping most effect while we divide our forces sweet, the possessions of Self seem with bitterness. Power comes from self- richer and its powers are more easily fore we can yield it the control of per- brought into their full usefulness. He control, and we must know the Self be- who keeps sweet is not blinded by anger sonality. Self-control means Right and knows not its thousand-fanged pes­ Thinking, Pure Feeling and Right Ac­ tilence. He who keeps sweet avoids tion. Freed from the dictation of bodily bitterness and its manifold vexations. feeling, of the sensuous and of the ex­ Often we hear people complain that ternal forces, the Self is sinless and they “ got a bad start this morning and sorrowless. In reality we cannot be nothing seems to go right today. ’ ’ They (Continued on Page 83) A Remarkable Prophecy

A rather curious prophecy recently appeared in one of the monthly lessons issued by The Order of Christian Mystics, the subject being “ Man and the Elementals,” Part III. The Fire. Owing to the element of significance con­ tained therein, The Occult Press Review is herewith reprinting the text in full: PROPHECY FROM THE KING OF THE WORLD At the present time, the transmuting aspect of the Divine Flame is burning throughout the world as a mighty destructive agent, fanned by the inharmony and evil of “man’s inhumanity to man,” and the great lack of the constructive forces of peace, harmony, brotherliness and co-operation. In this connection there was re­ cently given to the Founders of the Order a prophecy from the Planetary Ruler of the Earth, and as it has to do with the spread of the transmuting Flame we will include it in this lesson: “I see a great and devastating Flame finger’s on a man’s hand! Four shall be sweeping the world from East to West; a great and one small, but out of the small­ Flame of fire; a Flame of sword and est there grows the greatest Light; there famine, of anger and murder and bitter­ comes redemption; there comes that which ness and death. alone can make this world to be reborn, “I see the peoples of the Earth, each one once more human, like a babe laid in a with its hand lifted against its brother; manger, cradled in its mother’s arms. each country seeking for its own; men “Think not that any country in this dying and cursing God with every dying broad world can escape. The Flame breath and sowing the seed of new and sweeps onward and over. Only those who more frightful Flames. have the Flame of the Living Christ in “I see descending from on high the their hearts shall survive. mighty Angel with the Flaming Sword, for “I speak, for this is my world. Into my only fire can purify hate. hands it has been given. I stretch out my “I see this Flame of Purification sweep­ hand* and each finger represents a point ing the Earth from East to West, from of force, a place where the great living the rising of the Sun to the going down Power of the Sun has breathed into it of the Sun. the life (Fire) which is immortal. "Five countries are left; the rest sink “Where are my children? They are beneath the seas. dying. They are being murdered and “I see a great mountain lifted up in starved. They are being scattered like the midst of the countries which are left, sheep on the old bare mountain tops, home­ and from its top there radiates the Light less. For a time I bow to the inevitable. I of the Spiritual Sun. And I see the rem­ wait. I wait that a greater than I may nants of mankind bathed in its Radiance. read to you the riddle of this Dark Star.” “Five countries! Five lands like the Considerable matter of comment and explanation accompanies the above prophecy, but lack of space precludes its being reprinted here. Those who are interested may obtain further information from The Order of Christian Mystics, 1644 Monterey Blvd., San Francisco. •The Vision that came with the prophecy was that of an immense hand with the wrist to the North, the thumb to the East, the little finger to the extreme West and all the fingers widely spread. On the little finger a light seemed to be glowing under ashes. This light slowly spread and grew brighter until finally a hill rose up in the middle of the back of the hand and when the light from the little finger reached it it broke out into a radiant shining which covered the whole Eearth. No limit as to time was given in this prophecy, both the time and degree of the changes depending largely upon the character of the forces engendered by humanity.

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67 T h e T arot of t h e Y ear

By W il l i a m M il l a r d B a r k e r

Part V.

The Heart Suit is the fourth and last pointed with life. part of Table 4, and with it the entire DEC. 25th—SIX OF HEARTS: Types: The Feminine influence of Venus; is of espe­ deck of cards has been covered. Hearts cial influence if considered with relation begin on 18th of December for their to women; denotes excellent conditions only full run. They end Dec. 30th and for women, in the home and with regard Dec. 31st is ruled by the Joker, the only affairs of the Heart. time that card comes into the scheme. DEC. 26th.—FIVE OF HEARTS: Types: Changes among People or with people; DEC. 18th.—KING OF HEARTS: Thir­ also crystallization of one’s affairs with teenth card of the suit. Types: A ruler people. May represent a static condition over people; a professional in some line in relationships with others. dealing with people; one who is a great DEC. 27th—FOUR OF HEARTS—Satisfac­ friend but likely to be impulsive and tion with people or in Love affairs; abil­ perhaps with too great an enthusiasm ity to obtain satisfactory values in love, after the intensity is passed; esoterically the affections, or any relationships in­ a God-like type. volving the good will and esteem of DEC. 19th.—QUEEN OF HEARTS: Twelfth others. card of the suit. Types: One who rules DEC. 28th.—THREE OF HEARTS: Types: people by the warm impulsive action of Both indecision and consequent judg­ the nature; or if wholly selfish, one who ment; represents experience with people rules people through a play upon the and affairs of the heart. better impulses of others. DEC. 29th.—TWO OF HEARTS: Types: DEC. 20th.—JACK OR HEARTS: Eleventh Union of the Higher and the Lower card of the suit. Types: One of many Worlds, Spirit and Substance. Also the human impulses, a rover, a student of Union of Hearts, either in the personal Human Nature, reflecting upon the Di­ sense as marriage or at least a proposal, vine through Its manifestation in the or in work of some kind having to do Human. It is said to be the card of the with people. “MASTER,” one who has attained the DEC. 30th.—ACE (ONE) OF HEARTS: unselfish state of action. Types: Desire for Love and affection; an DEC. 21st.—TEN OF HEARTS: Types, Tri­ intention to be of service to Humanity; umph and Glory; success; is called the an aspiration to appear well before Strongest card of all; gives the fullness others; ambition to serve the World at of Life and Love; represents the fullness Large. of the Divine action. DEC. 22nd—NINE OF HEARTS: Longing This is the end of Table 4 and com­ and Desire, is called the* Wish-Card. De­ pletes a delineation of the individual notes an ability to complete the Cycles elements of the whole Card Suit. Char­ of the Life, and as Birth-Card shows that the person returned to complete processes acter and personality can be determined remaining from previous existences. by the application of the meanings of DEC. 23rd.—EIGHT OF HEARTS: Types: the Birth, Personal and Thought Cards. People of Power or, equally, Power over The next installment will give fully the people, ability to obtain and control af­ methods for finding the Birth-Card of fection. Denotes as Birth-Card the career any person and specify how the reading will be among masses of people and can be very useful to humanity in that way. from his cards is to be made. DEC. 24th.—SEVEN OF HEARTS: Types: {To be continued) Crystallization of Humanity in the sense of limitation; may denote a condition of (The complete exposition of “The Tarot of great usefulness but is sometimes the the Year,* began in THE OCCULT PRESS REVIEW for December, 1022. Back numbers, Card of one who is jealous and unhappy while they last, may be obtained from the in his nature and likely to be disap- Circulation Department.)

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68 Gambling With the World By F rater A chad The article entitled “ Gambling with “The End of the World.” Rather the W orld” published in the London would I be classed among those who feel Daily Express some months ago, has that we are already living in a New come into my hands, having been sent Aeon or Cycle of time, that our energy to me, here in Chicago, by one of those should be devoted to the re-construction who are always on the lookout for “ The of the remnants of the old Aeon, to a End of the World” and who may have freeing of the minds of men and women been glad to find a trace of a scientific from the gross superstitions of the past, possibility for this long looked-for but and the terrible state of fear and depres­ somewhat elusive event. sion which must, to some extent, fill the I suppose the readers of “ The Occult minds of those who are “ looking for Press Review” are not entirely guiltless trouble” all the time. in regard to reading the “ News” in the However, if science succeeds in blow­ various Daily Papers, and that some at ing up the globe, well and good. One least will have read and remember the might almost be inclined to say to the article referred to. scientist, “ Do your damndest.” Things Is the World on the verge of the greatest cannot be much worse and the only scientific triumph of the ages? thing we may hope is that they’ll make Is the world on the verge of extinction? a clean, complete and speedy job of it. These are the questions hanging in the I t ’s hard, as the}' say, to tell just what test tubes of modern laboratories where would happen if that particular type scientists are trying to explode an atom of of experiment were successful. But hydrogen in order to harness its energy. The stakes are these: what about the statements: SUCCESS means that our earth becomes a “ Mankind will soar to undreamed of paradise. The work of the world can be mental and spiritual heights. The golden done with one-seven-thousandth the present age will dawn.” effort. Mankind, freed from material shackles, will soar to undreamed-of mental ‘ ‘ A new era—or—puff and a new star and spiritual heights. The golden age will in place of the old earth ? ’ ’ dawn. It may be true that “ No living man FAILURE means the explosion of every has any idea what will happen when an atom in the world—every man and beast and atom (of hydrogen) is turned into tree, the waters of all the seas, the moun­ tains, and the whole mass of the globe itself energy” but there may be those who shattered in an instant into microscopic have experimented in other fields and dust or gas. succeeded in discovering something of NO ONE KNOWS. the nature of the individual change of No man living has any idea what will consciousness that might be expected happen when an atom is turned into en­ (in a more general way) to result from ergy. some such cataclysm as mentioned in I have quoted somewhat at length, for the article. At least, the following may the benefit of those who had not noticed be of some interest, since it actually this article, and I desire to quote just happened, to the writer’s knowledge. one more paragraph from the following In 1904 a certain Adept received, day’s paper. under very extraordinary circumstances, One atom exploded. Then a new era in a communication from, what appears to which mankind will be forever freed from have been, a praeter-human source. material shackles, or—puff—and a new star This communication dealt with the in­ in place of the old earth. coming of a New Aeon and with the Some of the ideas presented in the solutions of the moral, ethical and so­ above quotations were intensely inter­ cial problems that would arise. Many esting to me, not so much on account of conditions have arisen and these “ keys” the surface meaning, but from a slightly have been found to unlock the doors and different view point which I intend to proved to be solutions of at least some of discuss, rather briefly, in this article. the problems. This Book contained First let me state that I am not one many prophecies, among them that of those who are anxiously looking for “ There cometh one to follow thee, he 69 70 T he O ccult Press Review shall discover the key of it all.” The mally, and although he may have appeared to them as a normal being (or nearly so), Book referred to (which is known as life in all forms become a Great Drama of Liber Legis, the Book of the Law) pro­ Initiation. As he continued to work out the claims the freedom of humanity and great Qabalistic problems of the Universe, says: “ Every man and every woman is he found all that he said or did woven into a star.” It also contains a number of that picture in his mind. Qabalistic puzzles which were not at all Then came a time when all things had to be balanced and equilibrated, for it is writ­ apparent to him who received it and ten “Equilibrium is the basis of the Work." which remained dark for many years. He found that although all around (within) In 1909 a certain Aspirant to the him was Chaos, yet certain formulas of Great Work, whom we will call Frater power were his, so that gradually, with great toil, he accomplished this, establish­ X, was introduced to the Order to which ing the elements and planets in their proper the before-mentioned Adept belonged. places (on New Aeon lines) and finally unit­ He had never heard of “ Liber Legis” ing Aleph with Shin, so that all disappeared. and did not hear of it for several years (Note. Aleph is Air or Ether, Shin is Fire afterwards. or Spirit). In 1916, at the Summer Solstice, he Then, it seemed, he was instructed in the building of a "New Universe" and this was underwent an Initiation which proved, not a simple process but took place in two in a very extraordinary and quite un­ or more points (in space) at the same time, expected manner, that he was likely to so that he, as it were added a square here be the “ one” referred to in the proph­ and a sphere there. It was, in the begin­ ecy. The details of this proof are ning, as if a Temple were builded (four­ square) and at the same "time” certain fully dealt with elsewhere, in the records Mysteries of Babylon were present to his of the Order. consciousness. Also in another “place" the In 1917, at the Winter Solstice, the “Kether” of a new “Tree of Life" was for­ Initiation continued on another “ Plane” mulated, and then The Supernal Triad, with a Sphere pendant, which afterwards (for most real Initiations are multiplex) became complete in itself and comprehended and this time the states of consciousness all in One. Yet, all this while was the were interesting from the point of view Being of Frater X being rebuilded from of our present enquirj'. I may remark the feet up, so that his feet were of “Burn­ that it was not until September of the ished Brass,” etc. And his body was filled with “Fire." All there things were separate, following year (1918) that the reason­ yet one. During this time the body of ing mind of Frater X was able to set Frater X was seated in the smoke-room of the details of this Initiation in the per­ an ordinary steamer playing between V----- spective which made it possible to record and V-----, yet such were his experiences them in writing. that he could no longer tell if this steamer were above or below water, whether those I am permitted to quote several pass­ around him were of the living or of the ages from the actual record, though dead. Yet again, there was, as it were, a leaving out almost entirely the Qabalis­ great reflection of the "Stele" in the sky, tic references which would appeal to a this in turn being produced from a small very limited number of readers. “stele” under ice (as it were in locked glass) below him. Yet, in all this “The Air First then, regarding the experience of was his Balance” and he went on calmly that Being we call Frater “X,” there arose working out the details of the reformulation in his consciousness a state unlike the nor­ of all things on New Aeon lines, copying mal, which, by description, might appear the “Stele" and forming it first of one ele­ very like madness since Reason was des­ ment, then of another, bringing all to a troyed and transcended. The Air became fluid, then to a gas and finally to fire and his Balance. The structure of his mind, Aethyr as before said. And when all had which had hitherto been built on qabalisti< become a Concentric System this seemed lines, was changed, and the “House of God" to terminate one part of the Initiation. was, as it were, destroyed by the “lightning We must now consider Frater X as going Flash." (Opening of the Eye of Shiva). about with his mind transformed into a At this time he walked, talked, and per­ Solar Consciousness. This state lasted all formed all physical actions in a normal day, during which he underwent many ad­ manner, but all that took place, wherever ventures and seemed to perform much Magic. he went, whatever he said or heard, tasted That evening the process continued under or smelt, had value according to his mental extraordinary circumstances, to be recorded state. That is to say, he perceived the ac­ elesewhere, but it may be said that he was tions of those around him in an unusual in a place which appeared to him like unto light, so that, although people in his sur­ a Temple of Initiation especially prepared in roundings may have been acting quite nor­ every detail for the Ceremony, and around T he O ccult P ress R eview 71 him were the Officers, exactly carrying out great Mystery. their appointed parts, yet he was, unwit­ Then came the equilibration of IDEAS tingly in a place surrounded by the scum oi and they rushed back and were formulated the earth. in the person of ADAM, who appeared op­ But, to continue, during this final sec­ posite to Frater X. tion, the Solar Sphere of his consciousness Then the First Man and the Last gazed became more and more concentrated, until at each other in a final struggle. The it appeared as a single point of Light of minute point of Light grew ever brighter intense brilliance. This point was outside and more dazzling, and appeared concen­ of his body, now here, now there, yet ever trated upon the figure of Adam, first on the nearer to the centre of the “New Universe.” shoulder, then moving a little, till it finally The process of the exact balancing of all settled in one eye. things, (exterior as well as interior) ap­ At this point Frater X gazed. Then, all peared to have got down to a very small “rushed back" again, through the animal radius. Those about him, who appeared creation, each animal dissolving into its as the past Buddhas, helped in this final earlier type, until, at last, as the prototype process. appeared the common fly, but very large, Let us imagine that the Universal Cen­ perhaps six inches long. Then the process tre was to be changed to that one spot on stopped for a moment while Frater X this globe. That little room was to be the gazed at this. Then it became the Winged centre of a New System, and for thousands Beetle, then the Scarab—and Egyptian ideas of years had these ancient Brethren toiled crowded up. Finally only the point of and striven to equilibrate things more and Light remained. more perfectly, in readiness for this mo­ Gradually he was able to bring this point ment. And now all was prepared, and it of Light nearer and nearer, until it almost needed only this One to complete Their num­ touched his breast. It touched his breast, ber, and he was Zero and his Office was it was IN his breast a n d ...... suddenly SILENCE. The slightest slip, and the —A NEW CREATION. He had reached the equilibrium would be upset and the earth BEGINNING, and out of the old elements, fall into the Sun. SUCCESS, and the earth he had been witnessing on his return to the itself became a Sun, by the fact of a per­ Source, a New Design was formed. The fectly equilibrated Solar Consciousness same material, but in a different Order. having been established at this New Cen­ Wonder of wonders, who shall express this tre. (Readers will note how very closely Mystery in words? And this happened these ideas conform to those mentioned in again and again. English, Hebrew, Greek, the Article previously quoted.) Egyptian, Man, Beast and Bird, all yere re­ Those around him appeared to take up arranged and RE-created in new relation­ different positions in the room so as just to ship to each other. keep the balance by the weight of their And so he understood the Mystery of bodies. Finally Frater X was to take his Change, and how the world is created again place in the centre, then, if all were well and again, forever new, yet ever the same. —success. If not—?. Nearer and nearer they came to the centre, at last Frater X, And the last WORD he realized, before his whole being aflame with the ecstasy of the FLASH of the New Creation, which the God-head, yet calm and composed to when repeated, in a certain manner, seemed outward appearance, took his seat—and all to produce these changes again and again, was well. as it were alternating between Nothing­ ness and Creation, was the Holy Word Next, it seemed, even minute actions “ ...... ” and there was a certain Gesture, must be equilibrated. Those around, who not unlike the Sign of the Cross, which had each performed a certain task through­ was also connected with this miracle. out the centuries, performed it for the last time—perfectly. Frater X sat still, for his Office was Silence and Stillness. Does not the above possibly east Again all was well, but SPEECH re­ some light on the matter in hand? At mained. least one person obtained an experience Each had his own WORD to utter per­ of a complete transformation of con­ fectly and in proper order, and this they sciousness from the normal planetary tried over and over again always with type to the Solar. some little slip, then the whole process had to be repeated. Gradually even this was Did he destroy (or discover) the Cen­ perfected, and one by one they dropped out tral Atom of his own Being? Man is a and remained in intense expectance of the Microcosm or Little Universe, just as End. the atom is on a smaller scale. Frater X remained still and silent till May it not be that “The World at last all seemed perfect on the Mental comes to an end” for each one of us Plane, for, suddenly, the English Language seemed to “rush back to the beginning” when we succeeded in breaking up the and reversed as Hebrew—which is written illusory atom or “ Ego,” thus obtaining in the opposite direction—and this was a Cosmic Consciousness or Union with the 72 T he O ccult Press Review Macrocosm ? happened to be the missing Key to * ‘ Lib­ Is each one of us the result of a er Legis ’ ’—The book of the Law—writ­ WORD, and can we find that Word ten by the hand of another before he (which is the True Will) at the centre had ever heard of the Order which gave of our being? If we can, the New Aeon it to humanity, but which foretold that —or Era—will dawn for each one of us. “ One should discover the Key of it all.” here and now. We need not wait for And he did. the Scientist to blow up the planet in My advice> to those who read these order to “ free the energy” which will pages is just this: Find your own Cen­ make us Free Beings, Masters of the tral Atom, break up the limitations of World. your own consciousness, discover your But how about Frater X, did he dis­ True Will, Then Do your Will, with cover the True Word of his Being? one-pointedness, detachment and peace, Did he discover his true Will, which is remembering always that one with Destiny, even with Necessity? Love is the law, love under will. That perhaps remains for others to de­ cide, for having penetrated to the root Do not miss Prater Achad’s treatise on “Initiation,” the first of his being, and discovered, when all chapter of which will appear in the July else disappeared, this One Word, it issue of THE OCCULT PRESS REVIEW.

Original Thought LESSON LETTER TO A STUDENT By Agnes Mae Glasgow My Dear Mr. Service : the declaration that it was I, who had Your good letter of the 20th inst. came taught her that IT WAS THE HABIT­ in this morning. I am indeed pleased to UAL THOUGHT WHICH GAINED note that you are getting hold of original RESULTS. ideas, thoughts that you have worked to Now this woman is right and she is evolve from the inner source of all wrong. It is the habitual thought or that knowledge. This is the primary reason character of thought which has become that I have all along sought to have you a HABIT OF THE SUB-CONSCIOUS read the words of the affirmations and MIND WHICH IS LATER CARRIED auto-suggestions that I have given you OUT IN MATERIAL RESULTS. But and then to fit words of your own to the it is not the habit of automatic repeti­ spiritual meaning of the affirmation tion of a set of words which gets re­ given. sults. To gain results it is vitally neces­ A woman said to me not long ago sary to go back to the word and seek the that in the beginning she had used the spiritual meaning of the words, then to well known affirmation of M. Coue: live. LIVE IN THE SPIRITUAL “ Every day in every way I am growing REALIZATION OF THE THOUGHT better and better,” with marked benefit WHICH GETS RESULTS. My thought but that of late she had not gained the cannot help you unless it helps you to same mental or spiritual uplift from evolve original thoughts, thoughts that their use as heretofore, and what was come direct from your own spiritual worse to her manner of thinking was Being, of your own. It is not the habit that she was not getting good results. of repeating words but the habit of seek­ She asked me what was wrong with the ing YOUR OWN SPIRITUAL MEAN­ affirmation. ING OF WORDS that brings the de­ My reply to her was that there was sired material effects. Thus I once gave nothing wrong with the affirmation but a man a very simple—at the time he the wrong or fault was with herself, in thought it a very silly lesson to learn. It having used the affirmation until it had was this: become an automatic effort on her part. “Little Jack Horner sat in a corner, This woman then came back at me with (Continued on Page 87) E lem entary P sychology By C larence H. Foster Point Six 1. Life is not, and cannot be, made tirely different and deeper meaning each up of an unbroken series of new reali­ successive time. zations and lessons gleaned on the way 8. Yet it is always possible to analyze of unfoldment. For every new lesson or any teaching, and lift out into isolation realization grasped a great deal of “ fill- the simple basic facts which that teach­ in ” time must elapse, which is appar­ ing gives. If stripped of all illustration ently of no value whatever. In this and argument, the prime points which “ fill-in” time one feels that he is learn­ any large volume of instructions gives, ing nothing and is making no progress. could usually be printed upon one page 2. There is not much that one can of the book. do to lessen or eliminate this “ fill-in” 9. The broad class of teachings here time. One cannot force growth and un­ called “ Elementary Psychology” can be foldment to come at a speed greater stripped of argument, illustration and than its natural rate. Study alone can­ “ fill-in” and will be found to contain not do it, for you may read and study three major truths. endlessly, yet only truly grasp it by 10. That we, in our active, conscious, degrees. “ thinking” mind, are aware of but a 3. Further, it is not possible for us very small portion of our total mental to easily and readily learn from cold activity. That there exists beneath the bare statements and facts. Like chil­ surface of consciousness a greater, dren we learn best of natural laws deeper, thinking self which has been through analogy and illustration, with termed by some—“ Subconscious Mind.” later application to the experiences of Since any person who may read these our own inner life. lines will have already passed beyond 4. In all teachings, in all learning, a this stage of understanding, we will not great deal of time is devoted to “ fill-in” pause here for long. and a great deal is devoted to illustra­ 11. It teaches, in an abstract way of tion. generalities, that the composite “ Ideas” 5. The “ fill-in” is necessary in order existent in the Subconscious Mind make that the lessons may not come too rapid­ up the true personality, deeper and ly, for it is possible for unfoldment to more powerful than our conscious self. It teaches that the outer circumstances come at a dangerous rate. The illustra­ tions are to make plain truths more are but the reflection of the Ideas in the Subconscious Mind. While it is abso­ readily clear to us. lutely true that the Subconscious at- 6. Then too, in many teachings, attracts exactly all outer experiences, much space is given to suitable veilings yet there are many half-truths and even and parables, the true lesson or lessons untruths in common teaching which being deeply cloaked in allegory and fails to know of the duplex or dual at­ symbolism. This has always been true traction of all Ideas, reaping in many of the deepest esoteric truths, and is cases the exact opposite of the Idea. But necessary in order that they may be this is of the deepest study of cause and meaningless to the one not yet ready, effect which we shall cover by degrees yet simple enough to him who can read. in the years to come. Suffice it now to 7. It is not possible to say that any­ say that the Subconscious rules the thing contains only certain vital points body and the outer circumstances of the and lessons. For even a statement of life. the most simple principle will bring 12. It teaches of a way whereby the many different messages to those who Subconscious may be altered. It teaches hear. The further one goes the more of the Law of Suggestion, which is very true this becomes. One may read the simple. For one learns that he has but same identical sentence at various times (Continued on Page 91) over a period of years, and find an en­ *73 S ome R ec e n t B ooks

The Public Square. By Will Levington broods with patience and insight over the Comfort. 320 pp. Cloth. Price $2.0'0. D. tragedy at Amritsar, India, April 13, 1919, Appleton and Co., New York. when English troops fired upon a huge and defenseless mob gathered to hear speeches There are men in whom articulation is from the disciples of Gandhi, that tragic, more melody than words. Readers are heroic and inarticulate mystery-man of the subtly deceived by the subtlety of those old mother nation whose doctrine of non- writers whose pens are dipped in a fluid resistance surprised the world more than above the energy of ink. They are apt to would have a score of battles. If there were mistake naive charm, and wisdom in its no more to the book than the few chapters naive form, for a lack of power because that which cut to the bone of this startling event, power is not grossly expressed. Coarse na­ it would be a great revealing light to India, tures encounter a current of storm, and to England and to the world. Fortunately violence breaks out in common brawl where its correlating value is superb, and the story the brutes are expressed by their fists. beautiful. You will love John Higgins, the Others more articulate would fight it out in hoary old editor of “The Public Square,” words with a sort of animal reasoning In with all of his foolish wisdom and his the place of the dumb instinct released in a quixotic affections. You will marvel at the fight. Those who have sight pass over and wisdom of Pidge, the blessedly sound wom­ above the squalor of strife. If they are an of the piece, you will grow along with witnesses because it is there, they are par­ Richard Cobden and you will want to up­ ticipants never. There is by the same token root every weakness in your own cosmogony a type of letters, fiction if you please, which to be rid of the mockeries and empty ugli­ makes no attempt to lose its purity in the ness of Adolph Musser and Rufe Melton, all whirlpool of muddy personalities. They are characters well rooted in the clay and of the earth as much as any, but they are breathing with that above it. Of style, of the new earth drawn out of the waters Higgins wisely remarks, "Until a man for a new race, or it were better perhaps to learns technique he is a fool, while he is say for those remnants of the old race to learning it he is a cripple, after he’s learned ascend in themselves to new levels and it and forgotten it he begins to be a work­ higher ones. Of such are the Kingdom; and man.” Concerning the period of silence, of such is Will Levington Comfort, poet, the young Hindu, who is perhaps the soul philosopher and mystic in prose, a man with of the piece more than Gandhi and who a story to tell—a story lacking nothing in bears the name of Nagar, says, “We seek action or art because of the message it to silence all opinions, all half-truths, all carries. thinking in fact in order to know. We pos­ Any man less the artist, and giving so tulate of course a center of spontaneous much of the truth, would forbid rather knowledge or genius above the mind. To than invite wearing the garb of the priest. learn obedience to this, one takes a vow of Comfort is a High Priest in the Temple of silence.” Letters, whose litanies are songs fit for life, Quite apart from the work itself or its its matter rendered up to the spirit. If you fine values, one gets an impression somehow think of vitality as blood and iron you will that is the promise of a great deal more, miss it in some of his work, but if you that it is in truth the first of a new and know it for what it is, the spirit that in­ forms the matter it enlivens, then you will long series of rare books in which we will find him surcharged with that pulse and discover Will Levington Comfort in the power which creates, sustains and moves days of realization. the world. You could forgive him if you —Henry Christeen Warnack. did know on account of his sincerity, but when you add to sincerity both KNOWING The Consciousness of the Atom. By and LOVE, you have in each of his novels a Alice A. Bailey. 125 pp. Blue Silk. Price tone of attainment. Whether he is for the $2.50. The Lucifer Publishing Co., New multitude in the Heart of Hearts sense and York. aside from the delightful entertainment his pages offer, is for time, and time only, to Of somewhat different character than her tell; but for such as read not with the eyes other two volumes. Initiation, Human and of flesh, but with the clearer sight of the Solar and Letters on Occult Meditation, Mrs. Soul, he will remain enshrined as one of Bailey’s The Consciousness of the Atom, fur­ the gentler spirits who have laid an offer­ nishes in a way a worthy introduction to ing upon the altars of art. the first mentioned two books. The book After a long silence, in so far as the world consists of a series of lectures delivered by at large goes, he is offering us through the the author in New York during the winter agency of D. Appleton and Company a fresh of 1921-22, the purpose of which is stated by novel called The Public Square, which her to have been the presentation of the tes- 74 T he O ccult Press R eview 75 timony of science as to the relationship itself is “good Yoga’’—in a certain sense, as between matter and consciousness, to make Mrs. Bailey points out in one of her plain the identical manifestation of these chapters, a form of meditation. There are, relations and of certain basic laws in suc­ by the way, some splendid remarks and cessively higher states of Being which would sound advice on meditation and Initiation tend to bring about a realization of the uni­ in the chapter on “Evolution of Conscious­ versality of the evolutionary process and its ness." actuality; and, further, to deal somewhat This book cannot be too strongly and with the nature of expanded states of con­ earnestly recommended to those students sciousness and the larger life to which all who have hazy or misconceived ideas on the mankind is traveling. attainment of a higher state of conscious­ The author suggests at the outset that a ness through “union with the Absolute.” unification of synthesis of the three main —R. Caswell Werner. lines of philosophic and religious thought, which she ably defines as the frankly ma­ terialistic, the purely supernatural and the Life Study Club Papers. 42 pp. Bound idealistic, which have been put forward in in mss. form. Issued by the Life Study explanation of the cosmic process, will em­ Club, 217 North Satsuma Ave., Eagle body just as much of the evolutionary truth Rock City, Cal. as is possible for the human mind to grasp We have in hand, personally to us both at the present stage of evolution. Outlining and not editorially perhaps, a series of the plan of presenting her study, she deals studies from The Life Study Club, spon­ first with the evolution of substances, the sored in the exoteric sense by Katherine study of the atom and nature of atomic Hillwood Poor. But since these papers are matter. From that, she proceeds to the con­ available to those who apply to the Club’s sideration of the evolution of intelligence, address, 217 North Satsuma Ave., Eagle and thence to the evolution of conscious­ Rock City, Calif., it cannot be amiss to say ness in its many forms, ranging from those a word publicly about them, especially since types of consciousness which are considered it has been the full informing privilege of sub-human, on up through states of human The Occult Press Review to offer to its conscious to that which may at least be readers a far-reaching view of the Great logically posited as superhuman conscious­ Work through contributions received at the ness. hand of Mrs. Poor, an instrument whose In the review columns of last months’ clarity, sentience and vibrance draws her issue of The Occult Press Review was dealt with a book, which if it did not demon­ close to the heart of Truth. strate, it at least marshalled an impressive We have found in these papers a rhythm aggregation of personal testimony as to the which is singularly advancing to the reader, reality of an experienced state of advanced and a knowing that more and more satis­ consciousness. From the foregoing remarks fies the hunger of the newly-awakened. We anent the volume at present under review it are moved to say that it is both our faith may be rightly deduced that what one writer and our sure knowledge that the way of has testified by personal experiences as being such a work as this is always amply pro­ possible, the other has demonstrated as be­ vided for, but it is like the human heart of ing a logical probability. The reviewer can­ us to yearn to place it in the hands of all not refrain from here taking advantage of those who have not altogether silenced that this opportunity to comment that that tumult of heart and mind in which the which is referred to in New Thought and Voice cannot be heard by and for the self. kindred parlance as cosmic consciousness is Here indeed is peerless instruction for that more or less badly named. Mrs. Bailey, ac­ candidate who is sincere enough to under­ cording to the reviewer's way of thinking, take his or her work in finding the dear has done much better in positing three approach. definite stages of consciousness above that It is a work beyond contradiction, and of animal consciousness, namely, individual therefore above confusion. Like all good consciousness, universal consciousness and workmanship it assists in building up that absolute consciousness. Now what is re­ mental structure by which it may be rightly ferred to in Mrs. Moody’s book, We Are entertained. Having heard its truths, what­ Here— Why f and by the New Thoughtist ever you do to make them your own is your generally as cosmic consciousness is but one sure advancement from where there is no slight phase or aspect, usually the first retrogression, and if perchance you accept touch, of what Mrs. Bailey calls universal them in full measure, the reward, though consciousness. And from this first phase of not for measure of men, will be an enhance­ universal consciousness to absolute con- ment of Being. consciousness, that there are many inter­ At present these papers are only type­ mediate stages, each higher than the pre­ written, and while no price is placed upon ceding one, goes without saying. them or could be placed, due to the nature Students who have difficulty with a dry of their ideal content and rich context, and slightly stilted style may find this book nevertheless the editors of The Occult Press of Mrs. Bailey’s somewhat hard going, more Review suggest that in writing for them so than Initiation, Human and Solar. But if you send some offering, which if not com- they stick to it they will find that this in (Continued on Page 87) F rom t h e I n n e r C ircle Talks With Aspirants

Center thy thought in ME: for there Lay thy hands upon no man save him alone may be found Peace. thou canst help by so doing. With true motives—work as those Call no man thy enemy, but such a who labor for results, that so thy destiny man call thou thy brother; look upon may be fulfilled and thou mayst stand him by the light of thine heart and be­ forth free and untrammeled in thy Di­ fore thee he shall shine forth in his true vine vestures at the end of the long beauty and holiness of Self. Thou shalt journey. see the REAL and obscure the unreal, Place no other God before Me—the and the Brotherness of All shall be thy Inner God who am in truth thy Self to truth forevermore. whom all reverence and honor is due, Let thyself harbor no thought of evil thy Ruler and thy Teacher. Defile not motive; unto thee the evil doer is not ac­ My Temple, that when I come unto Mine countable and if thou accuseth him un­ Own, I may find ready entrance and a justly, by so doing thou taketh his evil welcome worthy of thee. deed upon thyself. Let no word from thy mouth be The Inner Light shall shine o’er all spoken in vain; for vain speech is of the thy way provideth thou feedeth thy lower man only and partaketh not of lamp with pure oil and maintain it pure that Holy One whom thou dost most and clean. revere. Look deep into thy brother’s eyes and Train thy footsteps to follow closely thou shalt sense the yearning heart, the the foot prints of the Master who hath longing soul, and open wide thine arms gone before thee and Who yet returneth to give him love, protection and succor to succor thee, to encourage and speed and to help him onward in his journey- thee on thy way, and finally to enwrap ings. thee within His mantle. Therefore prove Hold high before thee always the thyself worthy of His endeavors and Light of the Christos within thy soul; place thyself and all thou art or shall be, regard thyself thus; I AM the Truth, I wholly at His service. AM the Way, and in the midst of Life No way there is so dark but that a Eternal I rejoice. gleam of light may be seen in some direc Stay not upon thy Path to cast thy tion: likewise, no soul there is so dark gaze backward nor regret thy past wan­ that hath not the smoldering ember deep derings ; rather seek to carve out a truer within that shall ignite when touched and more righteous Path wherein thou by the Torch of Flame and kindled to shalt more firmly set thy feet. its upward burning. See that thou keepest thy torch well alight—for may­ hap—it will be thy task to ignite the Life—more Life, more Light, is the smoldering ember within thy brother’s cry, even the world cry in a partial heart. sense which is little comprehended. 0 See that no stone thou placeth in the Humanity, HOW receive “ more light,” way of one of these, My little ones, lest if you prepare not the receptacles where­ he stumble thereon and fall, for if so, in to receive and contain it? Know you thou fallest with him and thine must be not that Light is heat, is Fire, and that the hand to lift him and set him once FIRE consumes all of lesser purity than again upon the Path before thou canst Itself? Can you not lift your under­ resume thy own journey, for indeed thy standing and KNOW, the Light is there brother’s path is thine and thine is his. waiting, the warmth of Love-Fire, the Seek to perform thine own service, Christie Force in all Its glorious es­ thine own duty, and meddle thou not un­ sence, waiting to fill your being and duly with that of another, lest in so do­ mould you into semblance of Itself? ing thou overburden him by thy mis- Abroad throughout the world the un­ judgment, and thine own performance rest increases; in ever greater strength thereby be delayed. the stimulative vibratory force from the 76 T he O ccult P ress R eview 77 Heart Center is poured forth. Ever in­ himself as a separate personality he creasing numbers feel its impact and cares not, and desires naught, save as respond according to their interpretation that personality must be brought to be. of the contact. Many have been given a vital reflection of the Christie Higher opportunity to become tried and tested Self. He knows himself to be a compon­ instruments in the Universal Christie ent unit of the Whole and that upon his Service, and effort has been made to individual effort rests the responsibility stimulate their vibratory rate to the of raising that unit into a co-ordinated highest possible point of .response. A alignment with the Spiritual and Divine very few have so responded and are be­ Forces brought to bear upon it. There­ coming true laborers. Many more have fore does he concentrate his efforts upon utterly failed to grasp the inner mean­ Purification of the personality that it ing of the widespread force, and seek to may become a clean and fit dwelling turn it to the human uses of the separ­ place for the Mighty One to Whom he ated personality, rather than to imper­ aspires, blended and absorbed into the sonal service to the Whole. Divine Being seeking to take possession Little knows mankind as yet of the of His domain. true meaning of self-effort; the purifica­ Disciple, swerve not in your allegi­ tion, subjugation and absorption of the ance to the Christie Principle within little personal self into the Great Self and without, falter not in your effort at which ALONE can bring spiritual ad­ subjective and objective preparation for vancement and forms the training the Great Advent: as each day dawns through which all must pass who aspire seek to intensify your effort. Listen to become true and intelligent servitors. ever more closely to the Interior Voices In varying degrees of strength, the calling; voices uncognizable to physical desire to serve is found within the hearts sense, yet clear and strong and true in of men, but in how few is this desire ac­ REALITY; seek to truly interpret these companied by the understanding of insistent suggestions, even commands. what constitutes true service or of the HOW may you know their truth and means to such attainment. Desire is po­ righteousness? One proof of surety in tent to create, and as it is lifted from this regard there is, of unquestionable personal levels and transmuted into authority. Hold them before the bar of Love, Wisdom, Compassion, the little- DISCRIMINATION, of DISPASSION­ personal will absorbed into the Great ATE LOVE and JUSTICE, question Will, the WILL Supreme, so does recre­ them thus: are they selfish or SELF­ ation become a Realized Accomplish­ LESS? Are they 'personal or IMPER­ ment and a possible servitor in the Great SONAL? Do they cater to me, the lit­ Christie Purpose is born. tle personal self, or to the GREAT and The true spiritual disciple turns his LIVING WHOLE ? attention to these matters: he seeks to Thus can you, disciple, become fitted perfect himself as an active working in­ to truly serve HIM who comes, and in strument to be used in the service of the thus serving HIM, to serve that Human­ Whole under the intelligent direction of ity which IS HIMSELF, which is HIS the Spiritual Guides and Guardians of KINGDOM: thus you may become a the race. Those Who have consciously tempered, tested instrument in the Great entered the Spiritual Kingdom through Work of World Redemption and Pro­ the Gates of Initiation. In this effort gram. there is no selfish personal motive. For — Written down by Katharine Hillwood Poor Further “Talks with Aspirants,” will appear in this department of THE OCCULT PRESS REVIEW in following numbers. Particularly valuable material for the July number is already in the hands of the Editor. While there is want among men,I can never be satisfied; while one of my brethren is cast down, I can not be lifted up. I will not enter the City of Light while a child is in darkness; my throne is vacant while one straggler loiters without the gates.—H enry Christeen W arnack in L ife’s New Psalm. Periodical Literature The Book Department of THE OCCULT PRESS REVIEW will be glad to fur­ nish its readers with single copies of, or handle their yearly subscription to, any periodical mentioned in the following columns, at publishers’ regular prices.

Astrology, Numerology, Color Vibration, Cryptology “Around the Zodiac With our Public Calif.), for May, is a discussion of the prac­ Men,” is an unusually interesting article in tical application of astrology with the pur­ The American Astrological Student and pose of making it of value to the average Adept (Marshall, Minn.), for April, from person. “The Children of Taurus," are de­ the pen of Catherine Beach Ely, in which lineations of children born while the Sun each of the twelve signs of the Zodiac is il­ is passing through the sign Taurus of the lustrated by a brief sketch of a modern present year, which will be found a very American statesman, born under and repre­ great aid in making a complete delineation sentative of that sign. The statesmen used for specific birth times occuring in that pe­ as examples, are: Woodrow Wilson, Samuel riod. Two horoscopes of children are also Gompers, William J. Bryan, James Cox, delineated, which will be found to be excel­ Henry Cabot Lodge, John R. Mott, Calvin lent model charts for the purpose of study. Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, William Howard Much tedium of calculation for those who Taft, Leonard Wood, Warren G. Harding have no leaning in that direction, is saved and Robert LaFollette. “The Effects of by The Astrological Bulletin (Los Angeles), Herschel," are well described by T. Francis in its tables of daily planetary aspects. In Hines. The current installment of M. Cogs­ addition to these tables there is a complete well’s “A Simple Method of Directing,” is daily calendar giving detailed analyses of devoted to the different methods of house the prevailing planetary influences of the division. The Editor, H. A. Macaulay, con­ day, with advice as to appropriate conduct tinues his “Simple Lessons in Astrology,” to meet them. and there is the usual schedule of days for “Materiality vs. Spirituality,” is the title the month, according to astrological indica­ of Lesson No. 4 of Ruby Remont’s course in tions. Graphology in The Aquarian Age (Santa "Notes on Practical Astrology,” by Gladys Barbara, Cal.), for April, in which is shown M. Robinson, in the Astral Ray Department how the differing aspects of these attributes of Rays from the Rose Cross (Oceanside, are revealed in an individual’s handwriting.

Alchemy, Hermetic Philosophy, Esoterism, Mysticism, Rosicrucianism The first three issues of Mercury (New sub-titled "The Sacramental System, No. 7, York), for 1923, January, February, and Matrimonium.” It has to do with the March, make their appearance combined in Divine Union—reflection of the Macrocos- one large number. “Musings on the Temp­ mic Unity in the Microcosm. It is an­ lars’ Tragedy,” by Frances Mayer, is a nounced by the publishers that it has been lengthy and intensely interesting article decided to continue the publication of throwing much new light on the underlying Mercury, in similar form, namely, quarterly, causes of the Molay inquiry. Many inter­ for the remainder of the current year, at esting nuggets of esoteric information are least. This arrangement will make possible uncovered. One in particular, the essential a more comprehensive series of articles. difference in the two opposing systems of In­ The present number of Mercury reaches a itiation, the Ionic and Doric, will throw high mark. much light on present day occult affairs. Rays from the Rose Cross (Oceanside, “The Pythagorean Tetractys—and its Rosi- Cal.), for May, contains the third install­ crucian Development,” is a Masonic Study ment of Mystic Light on the World War, by Henry Van Arsdale Parsell. “The Mys­ entitled “Peace on Earth,” by Max Heindel. tery of the Lord's Prayer,” selected by the “Boolah,” an occult story, is by Margaret same writer and reprinted from an old Brent. Kittie Skidmore Cowen contributes, volume of “Notes and Queries,” is a remark­ “The Risen Lord of the Western Wisdom able interpretation of the Pater Noster. The Teachings,” with sidelights on Max Heindel concluding installment of “Aphorism! Ur- and Mt. Ecclesia. "The Lost Keys of bigerani,” being a reprint of the Alchemical Masonry,” by Manly P. Hall, is the first of Treatise on the Grand Elixir, by Baro Ur- a series on the esoteric aspect of Masonry. bigerus, is printed. "Astronomical Jot­ It is announced that the following numbers tings,” by Charles Nevers Holmes, will be of the series will be devoted to "The En­ found of interest by mystics and astrologers tered Apprentice,” “Fellowcraft,” “The as well as those interested only in the Master Mason,” and "The Duties of a True astronomical aspect. "A Perpetual Festival Mason.” “In Quest.of Wisdom,” is the con­ Calendar,” for the months of January to tinuation of an allegory by Ethne Rayden. June, inclusive, will be found an excellent There is also a new installment of the tabulation by all Occultists, Rosicrucians “Letters from a Rosicrucian,” written to Hermetists and Freemasons. The Study in Karl von Eckarthausen, Munich, 1792-1801. Hermetic Philosophy in the present issue, is "The Pituitary Body and the Pineal Gland,” T he O ccult Press R eview 79 is the current month’s study in the Rosicru- the keynote of Unity, Study, Work, Serv­ cian Cosmo-Conception, prepared by Kittie ice, it extends the greetings of Goodwill Skidmore Cowen, and describes the func­ and of common fellowship in the Great tion of these glands from the occult stand­ Cause of service to Humanity. Those in­ point. “Peter and his Pets,” by Cora terested in that Cause will find much in­ Cochrane Graves, and “When the Fairies spiration and aid in The Message. A-Maying Go,” by Matilda Fancher, are In The Esoterist (Washington, D. C.)t stories in the Children’s Department. The issue for March 30th, the leading article is Question Department discusses such topics “The Message of Easter Time,” preceded as why some people experience difficulty in by a brief text, “The First Easter,” which accepting statements of occult philosophy; is also the title of a poem by Elizabeth what is matter; the advisability of declining Price, following the longer article. The to help a person through fear of interfer­ subject of Meditation is “Easter.” ...... ing wth his destiny; mundane aspects; the “Providence and the Law of Tithes,” is the degree of harmony between the occult defini­ opening article in the issue of April 13th, tion and the electronic theory; the density and is very illuminative. There is a of the ethers; and several others. shorter article on “True Proportions.” In “Notes of the Month” the editor of “Soul Sight” is the topic arranged for the the Occult Review (London), continues weekly Meditation...... In the issue of from last month his article on the life April 27th there appears an article by the story of Laurence Oliphant. Dr. Charlotte Editor on "The Path to Perfection,” which Sturm contributes a comprehensive article should be read and reread by all aspirants. on "The Christology of Steiner;” “The Soul "Humanity,” is the subject for Mediation; of the Beast,” is by H. Stanley Redgrove; and there is a very beautiful poem entitled "Myths and Legends of China,” are treated "Prayer.” in an interesting manner by Regina Miriam “The Pentecost,” is the subject treated Bloch. “The Sacred Heart,” by Arthur in the two latest monthly lessons issued by Ward, is an article of more than ordinary The Order of Christian Mystics (San Fran­ value for students of mystisism. Much of cisco). The subject is treated in the light interest is to be found in the Correspon­ of Christian Mysticism. Further particulars dence published in the current issue. may be had regarding these lessons by ad­ Numbers 1 and 2 of The Message, which dressing the above Order at 1644 Monterey is issued by the Life Study Club, of 217 Blvd., San Francisco. North Satsuma Ave., Eagle Rock City, Cal., One of the most interesting and instruc­ have reached the desk of the Review Editor, tive articles in the April number of the the two numbers being for the months of Herald of Light (Arroyo Grande, Cal.) is April and May respectively. This little “The Seven Degrees,” and comes from the publication has started on an unpretentious Life Study Club. This issue has many scale, being issued in mimeographed leaflet other good things under various Depart­ form, and is sent without price to all who mental headings, among them being, “The request it. As to its contents, the reviewer Noon Communion,” “Brother-Sister of the is somewhat at loss for words. It would Third Degree,” “Old Mother Earth,” “Reci­ really savor of presumption on his part to procity,” "The True High Priest,” and endeavor to comment upon it. Sounding “Resurrection.”

Ethics, Philosophy, Scriptural Review The serial, "Elice, or Life in the Spiritual It is a relief to turn to the article, “And World,” which has been running in Divine the Lord Spake by the Mouth o f ...... ” Life (Chicago), for some months past, by Martha Elizabeth Webb, which is con­ reaches its conclusion in the issue for structive even if not literary. March. Its author, and editor of the maga­ The March issue of Broadcast (Los An­ zine, Mrs. Celestia Root Lang, begins a new geles), while not as bulky as some of the series on “Reincarnation,” in the same num­ issues, is perhaps the best number of this ber. “Union With the Higher Self,” is a publication that has appeared so far. “The very good article with a self-descriptive Bahai Message to Humanity,” is reprinted; title which emphasizes the doctrine stressed “The Spiritual Life,” is an original article by all schools belonging to the Doric system by Reynold E. Blight; part of Will Leving- of Initiation. In view of this article, it is ton Comfort’s Seventy-Sixth Letter is re­ somewhat disappointing though not greatly produced, and in addition to this eulogy of surprising in view of the vitrolic contro­ Gandhi, there are also tributes to this strik­ versial matter that has been admitted to ing figure of modern India from the pens of the pages of this journal in the past, to Mrs. Annie Besant and Dr. J. H. Holmes. turn to the article, "Worshipping the "Little Mother,” is a child’s story by Elaine ‘Golden Calf,' ” by the same writer under Helmer. “The Will of God,” by Jessie W. a nom de guerre, in which she tacitly but Boerstler, is continued from the January fully aligns herself with the great Irish Ca­ issue. "Self-Control,” is reprinted from tholic journalist who is with little doubt the Spiritual Unfoldment. There are several greatest single power for evil in this shorter articles and many poems. country, if not on the entire planet today. 80 T he O ccult Press Review

"RjVD'|jV|jl A Self-Healing Lesson, entitled “Just How to Heal Yourself and Cure JU X v.Ei.EJ Others,” which formerly sold for 50c. J. Albin Johnson, Escanaba, Mich., says, “It is worth many dollars to any one in bad health.” A postal card brings it. L The Gore Book Co., Box 74-C., Ruskin, Florida Applied Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Advanced Thought, Business Philosophy, Mental Science, Christian and Divine Healing “Being Practical,” by Christian D. Lar­ ticularly of value, containing many valuable son, is one of a series of lessons on the use and interesting correlations. of the mind, in The Golden Rule Magazine, “Notes and Comments" by Charles Fill­ (Chicago), for April. “The Changed Selling more, being the editorial column of Unity Conditions,” is the subject of the current (Kansas City, Mo.), for April contain a installment of James Samuel Knox's series number of good things which may be taken on “The Psychology of Selling.” “Offensive to indicate that the school he is leading is and Defensive Thinking,” is the title of the playing an important part in the advance­ eighth lesson of Dr. McKeever’s Studies in ment into the New Era. “Laying Hold of Human Analysis, which is intended as a Life Eternal,” is by May Whitney; "Bring­ method for placing Psycho-Analysis on a ing the Real Man into Expression,” is by permanent basis. “Why Some Men Get H. T. Wiegel; Chapter IV of E. V. Ingra­ Ahead,” is by Bruce F. Richards; Julia W. ham’s “Creation and Re-Creation” deals with Wolfe contributes “The Pursuit of Posses­ the Sun, Moon and the Stars. Imelda sion.” “Listening In On the Day-Dream,” Octavia Shanklin contributes "Resurrec­ is No. 6 of Frederick K. Davis’ series on tion,” and there is the usual unmber of Self-Discovery. “The Darkest Hour Means Dawn Ahead,” is from the prolific pen of departments. Agnes Mae Glasgow. “Meditations,” are “How to Acquire a Good Memory,” is No. shown by Rev. John P. Sala to be the 5 of Eleanor May Cantor’s series on Practi­ search for the Temple of the Most High cal Psychology, appearing in The Conqueror within the soul of Man. (Los Angeles), for April. “Eliminating “On Our Way to Jerusalem,” is an Easter fear,” is by Joel E. Smith, and the same Meditation by Charles Edgar Prather, in writer also contributes “Heaven and Hell,” Poiver (Denver, Colo.), which appears in a and “In a Mist of Maze.” “Would Ye somewhat larger form with attractive ap­ Serve, or Be Served?” and “The Infinite” pearance enhanced. “Are You the Man,” is are by Jesse M. Emerson. “Earthbound” by Edwin Goforth Dean. “The Awakening,” is a poem by Jeanne Stanley Gary, and is by Elsie Gibbs. There are many shorter “Release from Bondage,” is by Margaret articles and several departments. Pearl Yates. “Time and Space are False Beliefs,” by “Why Are We Here?” by Louise B. A. L. Ramon, appears in Forerunner of the Brownell, is the opening article in The Light (New York), for April 14th. “The Aquarian Age (Santa Barbara, Cal) for Action of God,” is by Mrs. Edward H. April. George B. Brownell writes of “The Burmester. “The Immensity of Space— Healing Hand.” “On the Edge of the Woods,” Why All Matter Must Short-Circuit Itself,” is an inspiring contribution by Adelaide L. is a very interesting article both from meta­ Gaffney. “Bread Upon the Waters,” is a physical and physical standpoints. There is Little Journey Info Success story bv Agnes also another installment of supplemental Mae Glasgow. "Dorothea Trudell,” is the treatments for Mr. Rawson’s Treatment, or translation of an article from a German mag­ Healing by True Prayer. azine, which tells of some marvelous healing “This Freedom,” by G. A. P., is an install­ through spiritual power. ment of “True Prayer in the Daily Round “Pleasures for Evermore,” is the tran­ and Common Task,” in Active Service, for script of one of Annie Rix Militiz’s practical March 24th. “Between Two Thieves,” is by noon-day talks in Los Angeles, appearing in Beatrice O’Connor. There is also an in­ The Master Mind (Los Angeles) for April. stallment of “The Herb Gatherer,” by Ger­ “Reuben and Joseph,” is this month’s sub­ trude M. Bradley. The two series referred ject in the series of Scriptual Interpreta­ to continue through the issues for March tions under the general heading, “The Pass 31st and April 7th. There are short arti­ Key to the Bible,” by the same writer. cles on "Easter,” by Derek, “Life Eternal,” Richard Whitwell’s biagraphy of the great by D. E. Scotter, “The Real Cross,” by Mystic, “Francis of Assisi,” is continued. Beatrice O’Connor, and “Luck” by E. G. There are many departments devoted to the Benedict, in the issue for March 31st. In Home of Truth work. the number for April 7th, Suzanne Olga Courage, "A Magazine Unique,” (Wash­ Verchoore contributes "Raised and Up­ ington, D. C.) for April, contains an article held,” and “Go Ahead” is from the pen of on “Self-Control,” by M. Aubrey Ashe; “The Gertrude M. Bradley. There are several de­ Price Men Pay to Be Men,” by Miles O. partments, “Signs of the Times,” being par­ Brooks; “Sleep Well, You’ve Done Your T he O ccult Press R eview 81

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Best," a poem by M. Aubrey Ashe; “Money," personal energy to such an extent that there "Concord Musings,” and several other is plenty for any achievement. Other shorter and pungent articles and depart­ articles in this issue are “Self-Conscious­ ments by the Editor, Earl Wayne. ness But the Desire for Unselfish Action,” “Telepathy," is No. 6 in the series of by Brown Landone; “In Spite of the Years," Demonstrable Psychology, in Now (San by Orison Swett Marden, which is written Francisco) for April. “Multiple Personal­ for the man (or woman) of sixty or older ity,” is one of the series on “The Cell who desires success; “Making One’s Way,” a Theory of Body Building," by Dr. William little lesson in self-reliance; “Actions Speak Franklin Kelley. “The Faith That Demon­ Louder Than Words” a new treatment of an strates,” is by Henry Victor Morgan. old subject illustrated by a personal inci­ Charles Hine Hubbard contributes “The Hu­ dent; “The Pursuit of Things,” by Lucile man and Divine." Perry Ames, who maintains that it is better to occasionally "stay your haste and make “Realizing Prosperity,” by Eugene Del delays” rather than become a human Mar, is one of the leading articles in The "Twentieth Century Limited;" “Adoles­ Business Philosopher, (Memphis, Tenn.) cence,” by Margaret Cutting Ives, showing for April. “Mental Attributes and Content­ how to deal with children of 14 and 15 from ment,” is the second of two articles of Con­ the New Thought viewpoint in such a way tentment by the veteran New Thought as to safely carry them over what is usually writer, Horatio W. Dresser. “According to considered the critical period of life; “Love the Viewpoint,” is by Luella F. Phelan. Never Faileth,” and "Harmonizing Tone,” by Agnes Mae Glasgow contributes "A Man’s Alberta Carter; “The Man with the Vision," Reputation.” Harry Van Demark advances an outline bf the New Present that is fol­ some ideas on “Measuring Your Brain lowing the world war; and “Mechanical Be­ Power.” Orison Swett Marden writes on lief,” and brief lesson in the value and “Making Today a Success.” Charles Clinton method of developing faith. Elizabeth Hanson’s department, “The Principle of Towne’s Editorials include a most interest­ Service Viewed from Many Angles,” is a ing and instructive series on her expe­ splendid compilation of quotations from riences while attending two Emile Cou6 many divergent sources, all focusing on the lectures together with her estimates to­ one thing—Service! gether with her estimate of the worth of his One of the best things in May Nautilus teachings; and William E. Towne’s Views (Holyoke, Mass.) is “How to Conserve and Reviews include “The Law of Reversed Energy,” by Claude William Chamberlain, Effort,” "Science and Metaphysics," “To in which the author discusses what he calls Insure Success in Auto-Suggestion" and the most important things in psychology— “The Power of Attention.” that is, how to increase and multiply one's Electronic Science, Health, Dietics, Rational Living “Purifying the Inner Temple,” is the title heading L. K. Russell also tells of “The of Lecture No. 2 of Fred W. Tilney's series Benefits of Milk and Vegetables.” “Curing on “Fasting for the Cure of Disease,” in Cancer Through Natureopathy,” will interest Scientific Natureopatli (Hartford, Conn.) many. for March-April. “My Personal Experience “The Inside Bath” is continued in Letter with Tobacco,” is contributed by Ray C. No. 4 of Sander I. Christensen's series, “Vita Endicott, and is recommended to many who (Life)” in The Vegetarian Magazine (Julia- are kidding themselves. “The Development etta, Idaho) for April. “Progress of the of Will Power," by Crespino should have Movement,” and “The Vegetarian Table,” been noted under the heading of Psychology. are departments, the latter containing many It is well worth-while. “Proper Posture," is helpful recipes and menus for those desirous another contribution of Fred W. Kilney’s. of following the vegetarian diet. There are “Auto Intoxication,” by Dr. Robert Keashen a number of short articles and paragraphs is a continuation from last issue. There are devoted to the humanitarian movement. many splending recipes, menus and tables in The Vegetarian Magazine is doing good the Material Department, under which work. T he O ccult Press Review

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