EDITED BY MAX HEINDEL VOL 6 OCEANSIDE, CALIFORNIA APRIL, 1917 NO. 6 General 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 Subscription in the U. S. and Canada: $2 a year Single copies 20¢ Back numbers 25¢ England: 8s 4d a year; Germany: 8 marks 25 Pf. CHANGE OF ADDRESS must reach us before the 10th of the month preceding issue, or we cannot be responsible for the loss of magazine. Be sure to give OLD as well as NEW address. Entered at the Post Office at Oceanside, California, as Second Class matter under the Act of August 24th, 1912 Rosicrucian Fellowship Oceanside California Printed by the Fellowship Press A Brief Resume of The Rosicrucian Philosophy The Rosicrucian Order was founded in the thirteenth centu- our existence, it is but a natural question to ask: Where are the ry by Christian Rosenkreuz, a messenger of the Divine dead? This momentous question is dealt with in Lecture No. 2. Hierarchs who guide Humanity upon the path of evolution. The law of conservation of matter and energy precludes annihi- Its mission was to blend Esoteric Christianity, Mystic lation, yet we see that matter is constantly changing from the Masonry, and Spiritual Alchemy into one great system of visible state and back again, as, for instance, water is evaporat- Religious Philosophy, adequate to meet the advanced spiritual ed by the sun, partially condensed into a cloud and then falls to and intellectual needs of the Western World, during the earth again as rain. Aquarian Age of two thousand years, when the Sun, by preces- Consciousness may also exist without being able to give us sion of the Equinox, passes through the constellation Aquarius. any sign, as in cases where people have been thought dead, but This Western Wisdom School, like all earlier Esoteric have awakened and told all that had been said and done in their Orders, is secret, but the Rosicrucian Fellowship is its Herald presence. of the Aquarian Age, now at hand, promulgating this blended So there must be an invisible World of force and matter, as scientific soul science: The Western Wisdom Religion for independent of our cognition of it as light and color exist the Western World. regardless of the fact they are not perceived by the blind. Formerly, religious truths were intuitively perceived or taken In that invisible World the so-called dead are now living in wholly on faith as dogmas of the church. Today, a growing full possession of all the mental and emotional faculties. They class demands that immortality and kindred matters be proved are living a life as real as existence here. to the intellect, deductively or by observation, as are other facts The invisible World is cognized by means of a sixth sense of life, like heredity and ether. They desire religion as much as developed by some, but latent in most people. It may be devel- their fathers but want the ancient truths in modern dress con- oped in all, but different methods produce varying results. gruous to their altered intellectual condition. To this class the This faculty compensates for distance in a manner far supe- Rosicrucian Fellowship addresses itself with a definite, logical rior to the best telescopes and for the lack of size in a degree and sequential teaching, concerning the origin, evolution and unreachable by the most powerful microscope. It penetrates future development of the world and man, which is strictly sci- where the X-ray cannot. A wall or a dozen walls are no denser entific as it is reverently religious; a teaching which makes no to the spiritual sight than crystal to ordinary vision. statements not supported by reason and logic, which satisfies In Lecture No. 3 Spiritual Sight and the Spiritual Worlds, the mind by clear explanations, which neither begs nor evades this faculty is described, and Lecture No. 11, Spiritual Sight questions, but offers a reasonable solution to all mysteries, so and Insight, gives a safe method of development. that the heart may be allowed to believe what the intellect has The Invisible World is divided into different realms: The sanctioned, and the solace of religion may speak peace to the Etheric Region, the Desire World, the Region of Concrete troubled mind. The following is a brief resume of Facts about Thought and the Region of Abstract Thought. Life here and hereafter. A list of the lectures referred to is These divisions are not arbitrary, but are necessary because found in the back of this magazine. the substance of which they are composed obeys different laws. Sooner or later there comes a time when the consciousness For instance, physical matter is subject to the law of gravity, in is forced to recognize the fact that life, as we see it, is but fleet- the Desire World forms levitate as easily as they gravitate. ing, and that amid all the uncertainties of our existence there is Man needs various vehicles to function in the different but one certainty—Death! Worlds, as we need a carriage to ride on land, a boat at sea and When the mind has thus become aroused by thought of the an airship in the air. leap in the dark which must some time be taken by all, the ques- We know that we must have a dense body to live in the vis- tion of questions—Whence have we come?—Why are we ible World. Man also has a vital body composed of ether, here?—Whither are we going?—must inevitably present itself. which enables him to sense things around him. He has a desire This is a basic problem with which all must sooner or later body formed of the materials of the Desire World, which gives grapple, and it is of the greatest importance how we solve it, for him a passionate nature and incites him to action. The Mind is the view we take will color our whole life. formed of the substance of the Region of Concrete Thought and Only three theories of note have been brought forward to acts as a brake upon impulse. It gives purpose to action. The solve this problem. To range ourselves in one of the three real man, the Thinker or Ego, functions in the Region of groups of mankind, segregated in their adherence to one theory Abstract Thought, acting upon and through its various instru- or the other in an intelligent manner, it is necessary to know the ments. three theories, to calmly weigh and compare them one with Lecture No. 4 deals with the normal and abnormal condi- another with established facts. Lecture No. 1 does just that, and tions of life such as Sleep, Dreams, Trance, Hypnotism, whether we agree with its conclusions or not, we shall surely Mediumship and Insanity. The previously mentioned finer have a more comprehensive grasp of the various viewpoints vehicles are all concentric with the dense body in the waking and be better able to form an intelligent opinion when we have state, when we are active in thought, word and deed, but the read “The Riddle of Life and Death.” activities of the day cause the body to grow tired and sleepy. If we have come to the conclusion that death does not end When the wear and tear incident to use of a building has made exhaustive repairs necessary, the tenants move out that will suffer more sharply in purgatory and experience a keener the workmen may have full scope for restoration. So when joy in the first heaven. This feeling will remain as conscience wear and tear of the day has exhausted the body, it is necessary in future lives to impel good action and discourage evil deeds. to restore its tone and rhythm. During the night the Ego hovers If the passing spirit is left in peace and quiet to concentrate outside the dense body clothed in desire body and mind. upon the life-panorama, the etching will be clear and sharp, but Sometimes the Ego only withdraws partially, is half in the body if the relatives distract his attention by loud hysterical lamenta- and half out, then it sees both the Desire World and the Physical tions during the first three and one half days when the silver World, but confused as in a dream. cord is yet intact, a shallow or blurred impression will cause the Hypnotism is mental assault. The unsuspecting victim is dri- spirit to lose much of the lessons which should have been ven out of his body and the hypnotist obtains control. learned. To correct this anomaly the Recording Angels are The victims of the hypnotist are released at his death, how- often forced to terminate the next Earth-life in early childhood ever, but the medium is not so fortunate. Spirit-controls are before the desire body has come to birth, as described in Birth really invisible hypnotists.