Yet it is not the aim of God to "get even;" love is higher than law and in His wonderful mercy and solicitude for our welfare He has opened the way of repentance and reform whereby we may obtain forgiveness of sin, as taught by the Lord of Love: the Christ. Not indeed contrary to law, for His laws are immutable, but by application of a higher law, whereby we accomplish here that which would otherwise be delayed until death had forced the day of reckoning. The method is as follows:

In our explanation concerning the sub-conscious memory we noted that a record of every act, thought and word is transmitted by air and ether into our lungs, thence to the blood, and finally inscribed upon the tablet of the heart:—a certain little seedatom, which is thus the book of Recording Angels. It was later explained how this panorama of life is etched into the desire body and forms the basis of retribution after death. When we have committed a wrong and our conscience accuses us in consequence, and this accusation is productive of sincere repentance accompanied by reform, the picture of that wrong act will gradually fade from the record of our life, so that when we pass out at death it will not stand accusingly against us. We noted that the panorama of life unwinds backwards just after death. Later, in the purgatorial life it again passes before the spiritual vision of the man, who then experiences the exact feeling of those whom he has wronged. He seems to lose his own identity for the time being, and assumes the condition of his one time victim, he experiences all the mental and physical suffering himself which he inflicted upon others. Thus he learns to be merciful instead of cruel, and to do right instead of wrong in a future life. But if he awakens to a thorough realization of a wrong previous to his death, then, as said, the feeling of sorrow for his victim and the restitution or redress which he gives of his own free will, make the suffering after death unnecessary, hence—"his sin is forgiven."

The Rosicrucian Mystery teaching gives a scientific method whereby an aspirant to higher life may purge himself continually, and thus be able to entirely avoid existence in purgatory. Each night after retiring the pupil reviews his life during the past day _in reverse order_. He starts to visualize as clearly as possible the scene which took place just before retiring. He then endeavors to impartially view his actions in that scene examining them to see whether he did right or wrong. If the latter, he endeavors to _feel and realize as _ vividly as possible_ that wrong. For instance, if he spoke harshly to someone, and upon later consideration finds it was not merited, he will endeavor to _feel_ exactly as that one felt whom he wronged and at the very earliest opportunity to apologize for the hasty expression. Then he will call up the next scene in backward succession which may perhaps be the supper table. In respect of that scene he will examine himself as to whether he ate to live, sparingly and of foods prepared without suffering to other creatures of God, (such as flesh foods that cannot be obtained without taking life). If he finds that he allowed his appetite to run away with him and that he ate gluttonously, he will endeavor to overcome these habits, for to live a clean life we must have a clean body and no one can live to his highest possibilities while making his stomach a graveyard for the decaying corpses of murdered animals. In this respect there occurs to the writer a little poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox:

"I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak, Till a deaf world's ear Shall be made to hear The wrongs of the wordless weak.

The same force formed the sparrow That fashioned man the king; The God of the whole Gave a spark of soul To furred and feathered thing.

And I am my brother's keeper And I will fight his fight, And speak the word For beast and bird Till the world shall set things right.

Thus the pupil will continue to review each scene in reverse order from night till morning, and to feel really sorry for whatever he has done amiss. He will not neglect to feel glad either when he comes to a scene where he has done well, and the more intensely he can feel, the more thoroughly he will eradicate the record upon the tablet of the heart and sharpen his conscience, so that as time goes on from year to year, he will find less cause for blame and enhance his soul power enormously. Thus he will grow in a measure impossible by any less systematic method, and there will be no necessity for his stay in purgatory after death.

This evening exercise and another, for the morning, if persistently performed day by day, will in time awaken the spiritual vision as they improve life. This matter has, however, been so thoroughly treated in number 11 of the lecture series: "Spiritual Sight and Insight; its safe culture and control," that it is unnecessary to dwell upon the matter further in this place.

The First Heaven.

In the first heaven, which is located in the higher regions of the Desire World, the panorama of life again unrolls and reveals every scene where we aimed to help or benefit others. They were not felt at the time the spirit was in the lower regions, for higher desires cannot express themselves in the coarse matter composing the lower regions of the Desire World, but when the spirit ascends to the first heaven it reaps from each scene all the good which it expressed in life. It will feel the gratitude poured out by those whom it helped; if it comes to a scene where itself received a favor from others and was grateful, it will experience the gratitude anew. The sum of all these feelings is there amalgamated into the spirit to serve in a future life as incentives to good.

Thus, the soul is purged from evil in purgatory, and strengthened in good in the first heaven. In one region the extract of sufferings become conscience to deter us from doing wrong, in the other region the quintessence of good is transmuted to benevolence and altruism which are the basis of all true progress. Moreover, purgatory is far from being a place of punishment, it is perhaps the most beneficent realm in nature, for because of purgation we are born innocent life after life. The tendencies to commit the same evil for which we suffered remain with us and temptations to commit the same wrongs will be placed in our path until we have consciously overcome the evil here; temptation is not sin, however, the sin is in yielding.

Among the inhabitants of the invisible world there is one class which lives a particularly painful life, sometimes for a great many years, namely, the suicide who tried to play truant from the school of life. Yet it is not an angry God or a malevolent devil who administers punishment, but an immutable law which proportions the sufferings differently to each individual suicide.

We learned previously, when considering the World of Thought, that each form in this visible world has its archetype there,—a vibrating hollow mold which emits a certain harmonious sound; that sound attracts and forms physical matter into the shape we behold, much in the same manner as when we place a little sand upon a glass plate and rub the edge with a violin bow, the sand is shaped into different geometrical figures which change as the sound changes.

The little atom in the heart is the sample and the center around which the atoms in our body gather. When that is removed at death, the center is lacking, and although the archetype keeps on vibrating until the limit of the life has been reached—as also previously explained,—no matter can be drawn into the hollow shape of the archetype and therefore the suicide feels a dreadful gnawing pain as if he were hollowed out, a torture which can only be likened to the pangs of hunger. In his case, the intense suffering will continue for exactly as many years as he should have lived in the body. At the expiration of that time, the archetype collapses as it does when death comes naturally. Then the pain of the suicide ceases, and he commences his period of purgation as do those who die a natural death. But the memory of sufferings experienced in consequence of the act of suicide will remain with him in future lives and deter him from a similar mistake.

In the first heaven there is a class who have not had any purgatorial existence and who lead a particularly joyous life: the children. Our homes may be saddened almost beyond endurance when the little flower is broken and the sunshine it brought has gone. But could we see the beautiful existence which these little ones lead, and did we understand the great benefits which accrue to a child from its limited stay there, our sorrow would be at least ameliorated in a great measure, and the wound upon our heart would heal more quickly. Besides, as nothing else in the world happens without a cause, so there is also a much deeper cause for infant mortality than we are usually aware of, and as we awake to the facts of the case, we shall be able to avoid in future the sorrow incident to loss of our little ones.

To understand the case properly we must revert to the experiences of the dying in the death hour. We remember that the panorama of the past life is etched upon the desire body during a period varying from a few hours to three and one-half days, just subsequent to demise. We recall also, that upon the depth of this etching depends the clearness of the picture, and that the more vivid this panorama of life, the more intensely will the spirit suffer in purgatory and feel the joys of heaven; also, that the greater the suffering in purgatory the stronger the conscience in the next life.

It was explained how the horrors of death upon the battlefield, in an accident or other untoward circumstances would prevent the spirit from giving all its attention to the panorama of life with the result that there would be a light etching in the desire body, followed by a vague and insipid existence in purgatory and the first heaven. It was also stated that hysterical lamentations in the death chamber would produce the same effect.

A spirit which had thus escaped suffering proportionate to its misdeeds, and which had not experienced the pleasure commensurate with the good it had done, would not in a future life have as well developed a conscience as it ought to have, nor would it be as benevolent as it ought to be, and therefore the life, terminated under conditions over which the spirit had no control, would be partly wasted. The Great Leaders of humanity therefore take steps to counteract such a calamity and prevent an injustice. The spirit is brought to birth, caused to die in childhood, it re-enters the Desire World and in the first heaven it is taught the lessons of which it was deprived previously.

As the first heaven is located in the Desire World,—which is the realm of light and color,—where matter is shaped most readily by thought, the little ones are given wonderful toys impossible of construction here. They are taught to play with colors which work upon their moral character in exactly the manner each child requires. Anyone who is at all sensitive is affected by the color of his clothing and surroundings. Some colors have a depressing effect, while others inspire us with energy, and others again soothe and comfort us. In the Desire World the effect of colors is much more intense, they are much more potent factors of good and evil there than here, and in this color play, the child imbibes unconsciously the qualities which it did not acquire on account of accident or lamentations of relatives. Often it also falls to the lot of such relatives to care for a child in the invisible world, or perhaps to give it birth and see it die. Thus they receive just retribution for the wrong committed. As wars cease, and man learns to be more careful of life, and also how to care for the dying, infant mortality, which now is so appalling, will decrease.

The Second Heaven.

When both the good and evil of a life has been extracted, the spirit discards its desire body and ascends to the second heaven. The desire body then commences to disintegrate as the physical body and the vital body have done, but it is a peculiarity of desire stuff, that once it has been formed and inspired with life, it persists for a considerable time. Even after that life has fled it lives a semi-conscious, independent life. Sometimes it is drawn by magnetic attraction to relatives of the spirit whose clothing it was, and at spiritualistic seances these shells generally impersonate the departed spirit and deceive its relatives. As the panorama of the past life is etched into the shells they have a memory of incidents in connection with these relatives, which facilitates the deception. But as the intelligence has fled, they are of course unable to give any true counsel, and that accounts for the inane, goody-goody nonsense of which these things deliver themselves.

When passing from the first to the second heaven, the spirit experiences the condition known and described previously as "The Great Silence," where it stands utterly alone conscious only of its divinity. When that silence is broken there floats in upon the spirit celestial harmonies of the world of tone where the second heaven is located. It seems then to lave in an ocean of sound and to experience a joy beyond all description and words, as it nears its heavenly home—for this is the first of the truly spiritual realms from which the spirit has been exiled during its earth life and the subsequent post-mortem existence. In the Desire World its work was corrective, but in the World of Thought the human spirit becomes one with the nature forces and its creative activity begins.

Under the law of causation we reap exactly what we sow, and it would be wrong to place one spirit in an environment where there is a scarcity of the necessities of life, where a scorching sun burns the crop and millions die from famine, or where the raging flood sweeps away primitive habitations not built to withstand its ravages, and to bring another spirit to birth in a land of plenty, with a fertile soil which yields a maximum of increase with a minimum of labor, where the earth is rich in minerals that may be used in industry to facilitate transportation of products of the soil from one point to another. If we were thus placed without action or acquiescence upon our part, there would be no justice, but as our post-mortem existence in purgatory and the first heaven is based upon our moral attitude in this life so our activities in the second heaven are determined by our mental aspirations and they produce our future physical environment, for in the second heaven, the spirit becomes part of the nature forces which work upon the earth and change its climate, flora and fauna. A spirit of an indolent nature, who indulges in day dreams and metaphysical speculations here, is not transformed by death respecting its mental attitude any more than regarding its moral propensities. It will dream away time in heaven, glorying in its sights and sounds. Thus it will neglect to work upon its future country and return to a barren and arid land. Spirits, on the other hand, whose material aspirations lead them to desire so-called solid comforts of hearth and home, who aim to promote great industries and whose mind is concerned in trade and commerce, will build in heaven a land that will suit their purpose: fertile, immineralized, with navigable rivers and sheltered harbors. They will return in time to enjoy upon earth the fruits of their labors in the second heaven, as they reap the result of their life upon earth in purgatory and the first heaven.

The Third Heaven.

In the third heaven most people have very little consciousness for reasons explained in connection with the Region of Abstract Thought, for there the third heaven is located. It is therefore more of a place of waiting where the spirit rests between the time when its labors in the second heaven have been completed and the time when it again experiences the desire for rebirth. But from this realm inventors bring down their original ideas; there the philanthropist obtains the clearest vision of how to realize his utopian dreams and the spiritual aspirations of the saintly minded are given renewed impetus.

In time the desires of the spirit for further experiences draws it back to rebirth, and the Great Celestial Beings who are known in the Christian Religion as Recording Angels, assist the spirit to come to birth in the place best suited to give it the experience necessary to further unfold its powers and possibilities.

We have all been here many times and in different families, we have had relations of varying nature with many different people and usually there are several families among whom we may seek re-embodiment to work out our self-generated destiny and reap what we have sown in former life. If there are no special reasons why we should take birth in any particular family among certain friends or foes, the spirit is allowed to choose its own place of birth. Thus it may be said that most of us are in our present places by our own prenatal choice.

In order to assist us in making that choice the Recording Angels call up before the spirit's vision a panorama in general outlines of each of the offered lives. This panorama will show what part of our past debts we are to pay, and what fruits we may be expected to reap in the coming life.

The spirit is left free to choose between the several lives offered. But once a choice has been made no evasion is possible during life. We have free will with regard to the future, but the past "mature" destiny we cannot escape, as shown by the incident recorded in The Rosicrucian Cosmo Conception, where the writer warned a well known Los Angeles lecturer that if he left his home upon a certain day, he would be injured by a conveyance, in head, neck, breast and shoulders. The gentleman believed and intended to heed our warning. Nevertheless he went to Sierra Madre to lecture upon the fateful day. He was injured in the places stated by a collision and later explained: "I thought the twenty-eighth was the twenty-ninth."

When the spirit has made its choice, it descends into the second heaven where it is instructed by the Angels and Archangels how to build an archetype of the body which it will later inhabit upon earth. Also here we note the operation of the great law of justice which decrees that we reap what we sow. If our tastes are coarse and sensual, we shall build an archetype which will express these qualities; if we are refined and of aesthetic taste, we shall build an archetype correspondingly refined, but no one can obtain a better body than he can build. Then, as the architect who builds a house in which he afterwards lives, will suffer discomfort if he neglects to properly ventilate it, so also the spirit feels disease in a poorly constructed body, and as the architect learns to avoid mistakes and remedy the short-comings of one house when building another, so also the spirit which suffers from defects in its body, learns in time to build better and better vehicles.

In the Region of Concrete Thought, the spirit also draws to itself materials for a new mind. As a magnet draws iron filings but leaves other substances alone, so also each spirit draws only the kind of mind-stuff which it used in its former life, plus that which it has learned to use in its present post-mortem state. Then it descends into the Desire World where it gathers material for a new desire body such as will express appropriately its moral characteristics, and later it attracts a certain amount of ether which is built into the mold of the archetype constructed in the second heaven and acts as cement between the solids, liquids and gaseous material from the bodies of parents which forms the dense physical body of a child, and in due time the latter is brought to birth.

Birth and Child Life.

It must not be imagined, however, that when the little body of a child has been born, the process of birth is completed. The dense physical body has had the longest evolution, and as a shoemaker who has worked at his trade for a number of years is more expert than an apprentice and can make better shoes and quicker, so also the spirit which has built many physical bodies produces them quickly, but the vital body is a later acquisition of the human being. Therefore we are not so expert in building that vehicle. Consequently it takes longer to construct that from the materials not used up in making the lining of the archetype, and the vital body is not born until the seventh year. Then the period of rapid growth commences. The desire body is a still later addition of composite man, and is not brought to birth until the fourteenth year when the desire nature expresses itself most strongly during so-called "hot" youth, and the mind, which makes man man, does not come to birth until the twenty-first year. In law that age is recognized as the earliest time he is fitted to exercise a franchise.

This knowledge is of the utmost importance to parents, as a proper understanding of the development which should take place in each of the septenary epochs enables the educator to work intelligently with nature and thus fulfill more thoroughly the trust of a parent than those who are ignorant of the Rosicrucian Mystery Teaching. We shall therefore devote the remaining pages to an elucidation of this matter and of the importance of the knowledge of astrology upon the part of the parent.

The Mystery of Light, Color and Consciousness.

"God is Light," says the Bible, and we are unable to conceive of a grander simile of His Omnipresence, or the mode of His manifestation. Even the greatest telescopes have failed to reach the boundaries of light, though they reveal to us stars millions of miles from the earth, and we may well ask ourselves, as did the Psalmist of old: Whither shall I flee from Thy Presence? If I ascend into heaven Thou art there, If I make my bed in the grave (the Hebrew word sheol means grave and not hell), Thou art there, If I take the wings of morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there shall thy hand lead me.

When, in the dawn of Being, God the Father enunciated The Word, and The Holy Spirit moved upon the sea of homogeneous Virgin Matter, primeval Darkness was turned to Light. That is therefore the prime manifestation of Deity, and a study of the principles of Light will reveal to the mystic intuition a wonderful source of spiritual inspiration. As it would take us too far afield from our subject we shall not enter into an elucidation of that theme here, except so far as to give an elementary idea of how divine Life energizes the human frame and stimulates to action.

Truly, God is ONE and undivided, He enfolds within His Being all that is, as the white light embraces all colors. But He appears three-fold in manifestation, as the white light is refracted in three primary colors: Blue, Yellow and Red. Wherever we see these colors they are emblematical of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. These three primary rays of divine Life are diffused or radiated through the sun and produce Life, Consciousness and Form upon each of the seven light-bearers, the planets, which are called "the Seven Spirits before the Throne." Their names are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. Bode's law proves that Neptune does not belong to our solar system and the reader is referred to "Simplified Scientific Astrology" by the present writer, for mathematical demonstration of this contention.

Each of the seven planets receives the light of the sun in a different measure, according to its proximity to the central orb and the constitution of its atmosphere, and the beings upon each, according to their stage of development, have affinity for some of the solar rays. They absorb the color or colors congruous to them, and reflect the remainder upon the other planets. This reflected ray bears with it an impulse of the nature of the beings with which it has been in contact.

Thus the divine Light and Life comes to each planet, either directly from the sun, or reflected from its six sister planets, and as the summer breeze which has been wafted over blooming fields carries upon its silent invisible wings the blended fragrance of a multitude of flowers, so also the subtle influences from the garden of God bring to us the commingled impulses of all the Spirits and in that varicolored light we live and move and have our being.

The rays which come directly from the sun are productive of spiritual illumination, the reflected rays from other planets make for added consciousness and moral development and the rays reflected by way of the moon give physical growth.

But as each planet can only absorb a certain quantity of one or more colors according to the general stage of evolution there, so each being upon earth: mineral, plant, animal and man can only absorb and thrive upon a certain quantity of the various rays projected upon the earth. The remainder do not affect it or produce sensation, any more than the blind are conscious of light and color which exist everywhere around them. Therefore each being is differently affected by the stellar rays and the science of Astrology a fundamental truth in nature, of enormous benefit in the attainment of spiritual growth.

From a horoscopic figure in mystic script we may learn our own strength and weakness, with the path best suited to our development, or we may see the tendencies of those friends who come to us as children, and what traits are dormant in them. Thus we shall know clearly how to discharge our duty as parents, by repressing evil before it comes to birth and fostering good, so that it may bring forth most abundantly the spiritual potencies of the soul committed to our care.

As we have already said, man returns to earth to reap that which he has sown in previous lives and to sow anew the seeds which make for future experience. The stars are the heavenly time keepers which measure the year, the moon indicates the month when time will be propitious to harvest or to sow.

The child is a mystery to us all, we can only know its propensities as they slowly develop into characteristics, but it is usually too late to check when evil habits have been formed and the youth is upon the downward grade. A horoscope cast for the time of birth in a scientific manner shows the tendencies to good or evil in the child, and if a parent will take time and trouble necessary to study the science of the stars, he or she may do the child intrusted to his or her care an inestimable service by fostering tendencies to good and repressing the evil bent of a child ere it has crystallized into habit. Do not imagine that a superior mathematical knowledge is necessary to erect a horoscope. Many construct a horoscope in such an involved manner, so "fearfully and wonderfully made" that it is unreadable to themselves or others, while a simple figure easy of reading may be constructed by anyone who knows how to add and subtract. This method has been thoroughly elucidated in Simplified Scientific Astrology which is a complete text book, though small and inexpensive, and parents who have the welfare of their children thoroughly at heart should endeavor to learn for themselves, for even though their ability may not compare with that of a professional astrologer, their intimate knowledge of the child and their deep interest will more than compensate for such lack and enable them to see most deeply into the child's character by means of its horoscope.

Education of Children.

Respecting the birth of the various vehicles and the influence which that has upon life, we may say that during the time from birth to the seventh year the lines of growth of the physical body are determined, and as it has been noted that sound is builder both in the great and small, we may well imagine that rhythm must have an enormous influence upon the growing and sensitive little child's organism. The apostle John in the first chapter of his gospel expresses this idea mystically in the beautiful words: "In the beginning was the WORD ... and without it was not anything made that was made ... and the word became flesh;" the word is a rhythmic sound, which issued from the Creator, reverberated through the universe and marshaled countless millions of atoms into the multiplex variety of shapes and forms which we see about us. The mountain, the mayflower, the mouse and the man are all embodiments of that great Cosmic Word which is still sounding through the universe and which is still building and ever building though unheard by our insensitive ears. But though we do not hear that wonderful celestial sound, we may work upon the little child's body by terrestrial music, and though the nursery rhymes are without sense, they are nevertheless bearers of a wonderful rhythm, and the more a child is taught to say, sing and repeat them, to dance and to march to them, the more music is incorporated into a child's daily life, the stronger and healthier will be its body in future years.

There are two mottoes which apply during this period, one to the child and the other to the parent: Example and Imitation. No creature under heaven is more imitative than a little child, and its conduct in after years will depend largely upon the example set by its parents during its early life. It is no use to tell the child "not to mind," it has no mind wherewith to discriminate, but follows its natural tendency, as water flows down a hill, when it imitates. Therefore it behooves every parent to remember from morning till night that watchful eyes are upon him all the time waiting but for him to act in order to follow his example.

It is of the utmost importance that the child's clothing should be very loose, particularly the clothing of little boys, as chafing garments often produce vices which follow a man through life.

If anyone should attempt to forcibly extract a babe from the protecting womb of its mother, the outrage would result in death, because the babe has not yet arrived at a maturity sufficient to endure impacts of the Physical World. In the three septenary periods which follow birth, the invisible vehicles are still in the womb of mother nature. If we teach a child of tender years to memorize, or to think, or if we arouse its feelings and emotions, we are in fact opening the protecting womb of nature and the results are equally as disastrous in other respects as a forced premature birth. Child prodigies usually become men and women of less than ordinary intelligence. We should not hinder the child from learning or thinking of his own volition, but we should not goad them on as parents often do to nourish their own pride.

When the vital body is born at the age of seven a period of growth begins and a new motto, or relation rather, is established between parent and child. This may be expressed in the two words Authority and Discipleship. In this period the child is taught certain lessons which it takes upon faith in the authority of its teachers, whether at home or at school, and as memory is a faculty of the vital body it can now memorize what is learned. It is therefore eminently teachable; particularly because it is unbiased by pre-conceived opinions which prevent most of us from accepting new views. At the end of this second period: from about twelve to fourteen, the vital body has been so far developed that puberty is reached. At the age of fourteen we have the birth of the desire body, which marks the commencement of self-assertion. In earlier years the child regards itself more as belonging to a family and subordinate to the wishes of its parents than after the fourteenth year. The reason is this: In the throat of the foetus and the young child there is a gland called the thymus gland, which is largest before birth, then gradually diminishes through the years of childhood and finally disappears at ages which vary according to the characteristics of the child. Anatomists have been puzzled as to the function of this organ and have not yet come to any settled conclusion, but it has been suggested that before development of the red marrow bones, the child is not able to manufacture its own blood, and that therefore the thymus gland contains an essence, supplied by the parents, upon which the child may draw during infancy and childhood, till able to manufacture its own blood. That theory is approximately true, and as the family blood flows in the child, it looks upon itself as part of the family and not as an Ego. But the moment it commences to manufacture its own blood, the Ego asserts itself, it is no longer Papa's girl or Mamma's boy, it has an "I"-dentity of its own. Then comes the critical age when parents reap what they have sown. The mind has not yet been born, nothing holds the desire nature in check, and much, very much, depends upon how the child has been taught in earlier years and what example the parents have set. At this point in life self-assertion, the feeling "I am myself", is stronger than at any other time and therefore authority should give place to Advice; the parent should practice the utmost tolerance, for at no time in life is a human being as much in need of sympathy as during the seven years from fourteen to twenty-one when the desire nature is rampant and unchecked.

It is a crime to inflict corporal punishment upon a child at any age. Might is never right, and as the stronger, parents should always have compassion for the weaker. But there is one feature of corporal punishment which makes it particularly dangerous to apply it to the youth: namely, that it wakens the passional nature which is already perhaps beyond the control of a growing boy.

If we whip a dog, we shall soon break its spirit and transform it into a cringing cur, and it is deplorable that some parents seem to regard it as their mission in life to break the spirit of their children with the rule of the rod. If there is one universal lack among the human race which is more apparent than any other, it is lack of will, and as parents we may remedy the evil in a large measure by guiding the wills of our children along such lines as dictated by our own more mature reason, so that we help them to grow a backbone instead of a wishbone with which unfortunately most of us are afflicted. Therefore, never whip a child; when punishment is necessary, correct by withholding favors or withdrawing privileges.

At the twenty-first year the birth of the mind transforms the youth into a man or a woman fully equipped to commence his own life in the school of experience.

Thus we have followed the human spirit around a life cycle from death to birth and maturity, we have seen how immutable law governs his every step and how he is ever encompassed by the loving care of the Great and Glorious Beings who are the ministers of God. The method of his future development will be explained in a later work which will deal with "The Christian Mystic Initiation."



MT. ECCLESIA

(Transcriber's Note: This chapter is the series of pages which, earlier, the author said "had been transferred" to the back of the book.)

A DESCRIPTION OF THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE ROSICRUCIAN FELLOWSHIP

Work in the physical world requires physical means of accomplishment; therefore a tract of land was bought in 1911 in the town of Oceanside, ninety miles south of Los Angeles, California. Southern California was selected because of the abundance of ether in the atmosphere there, and this spot was found to be particularly favored in that respect.

On this commanding site having a wide view of the great Pacific Ocean, of snow capped mountains and smiling valleys, we began to establish our headquarters in the latter part of 1911. Soon after this we erected a sanctuary, the Pro-Ecclesia, where the Rosicrucian Temple Service is held at appropriate times. The Rose Cross Healing Circle holds its meetings there to help sufferers, and it is the place appointed for the united morning and evening devotions of the workers. In the latter half of 1920 we built an Ecclesia, which is designed to be a Temple of Healing. The building, a beautiful domed structure, is of steel and reinforced concrete. It is twelve sided in shape, corresponding to the twelve signs of the zodiac. At the present writing, January, 1921, the final work upon it is just being completed. The esoteric work of the Fellowship will be carried on here.

We have also built a two-story Administration Building to house the general office, the book department, the correspondence school in Christian Mysticism which links Headquarters with students all over the world, and the editorial offices of our monthly publications, notably the "Rosicrucian Fellowship Magazine—Rays from the Rose Cross." We have also an astrological department which conducts a correspondence school. Its offices are located on the second floor.

The whole first floor is occupied by a modern printing plant and book bindery required to furnish the immense amount of literature needed in this work. In the book department we publish all the standard works and text books of the Rosicrucian Philosophy written by Max Heindel. We are now in process of publishing in book form his former lessons to students.

In October, 1920, a Training School was established for the preparation of candidates for the lecture field. It is our intention to thereby maintain a Lecture Bureau, from which we will send our lecturers throughout the country to disseminate the teachings and carry the message of our philosophy to the people to a greater extent than has before been possible.

A Dining Hall with seating capacity for over one hundred people affords ample accommodation for workers, students, and patients. The scientific meatless diet served there preserves or restores health, as required in each case. Furthermore, it improves the vitality and mentality in an astonishing degree. A large dormitory, and a number of cottages and tents provide living quarters for all.

By the liberal use of water and the expenditure of much labor, Mount Ecclesia is gradually being transformed into a luxuriant tropical park. There is a deep spiritual purpose in this attempt to make the visible centre of the new world movement beautiful, for it fosters in the workers a poise and peace which are absolutely essential to the proper performance of their work. Without that they cannot escape being disturbed by the flood of sorrow and trouble which flows into Headquarters from members all over the world; without that they cannot continue to put heart into the letters of help, hope and cheer which continually go out to souls who are groaning under the burden of sickness, but by bathing their souls in the beauty of the surroundings, whether consciously or not, they gain in strength and grow in grace, they become better and better fitted for the Great Work in the Master's Vineyard.

In order to aid those who feel the upward urge, to prepare intelligently and reverently for the unfoldment of their inner latent spiritual powers, the Rosicrucian Fellowship maintains two correspondence courses which furnish instruction to students all over the world. One deals with Astrology, the other with Christian Mysticism.

The Astrology to which we refer is not to be confounded with fortune-telling; it is a phase of the Mystic Religion, as sublime as the stars with which it deals, and to the Mystic they are not dead bodies moving in space in obedience to so-called blind natural law, but they are the embodiments of "The Seven Spirits before the Throne," mighty Star-Angels who use their benevolent influences to guide other less exalted beings, humanity included, upon the path of evolution.

There is a side of the moon which we never see, but that hidden half is as potent a factor in creating the ebb and flow, as the part of the moon which is visible. Similarly, there is an invisible part of man which exerts a powerful influence in life, and as the tides are measured by the motion of sun and moon, so also the eventualities of existence are measured by the circling stars, which may therefore be called "the Clock of Destiny," and knowledge of their import is an immense power, for to the competent Astrologer a horoscope reveals every secret of life.

Thus, when you have given an astrologer the data of your birth, you have given him the key to your innermost soul, and there is no secret that he may not ferret out. This knowledge may be used for good or ill, to help or hurt, according to the nature of the man. Only a friend should be trusted with this key to your soul, and it should never be given to anyone base enough to prostitute a spiritual science for material gain.

To the medical man Astrology is invaluable in diagnosing diseases and prescribing a remedy, for it reveals the hidden cause of all ailments, in a manner that has often perplexed the skeptic and dumbfounded the scoffer.

The opinion of thousands is of great value, but it does not prove anything, for thousands may hold an opposite view; occasionally a single man may be right and the rest of the world wrong, as when Galileo maintained that the earth moves. Today the whole world has been converted to the opinion for which he suffered torture, and we assert that, as man is a composite being, cures are successful only in proportion as they remedy defects on the physical, moral and mental planes of Being. We also maintain that results may be obtained more easily at certain times when stellar rays are propitious to healing of a particular disease, or by treatment with remedies previously prepared under auspicious conditions.

If you are a parent the horoscope will aid you to detect the evil latent in your child and teach you how to apply the ounce of prevention. It will show you the good points also, that you may make a better man or woman of the soul entrusted to your care. It will reveal systemic weakness and enable you to guard the health of your child; it will show what talents are there, and how the life may be lived to a maximum of usefulness. Therefore, the message of the marching orbs is so important that you cannot afford to remain ignorant thereof.

In order to aid those who are willing to help themselves we maintain a Correspondence Class in Astrology, but make no mistake, we do not teach fortune-telling; if that is what you are looking for, we have nothing for you.

OUR LESSONS ARE SERMONS

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

WE DO NOT CAST HOROSCOPES

Despite all we can say, many people write enclosing money for horoscopes, forcing us to spend valuable time writing letters of refusal and giving us the trouble of returning their money. Please do not thus annoy us; it will avail you nothing.

THE COURSE IN CHRISTIAN MYSTICISM

Christ taught the multitude in parables, but explained the mysteries to His disciples. Paul gave milk to the babes, but meat to the strong.

Max Heindel, the founder and leader of the Rosicrucian Fellowship, endeavored to follow in their steps and give to interested and devoted students a deeper teaching than that promulgated in public.

For that purpose we conduct a correspondence course in Christian Mysticism. The General Secretary may admit applicants to the preliminary course, but advancement in the deeper degrees depends upon merit. It is for those alone who have been tried, and found true.

HOW TO APPLY FOR ADMISSION

Anyone who is not engaged in fortune-telling or similar methods of commercializing spiritual knowledge will, upon request, receive an application blank from the General Secretary, Rosicrucian Fellowship. When this blank is returned properly filled, he may admit the applicant to instruction in either or both correspondence courses.

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There are a few who cannot contribute, and who need these teachings as much or more than those who may take comfort from financial ease or affluence. If they make their condition known, they will receive as much attention as the largest contributors, but others are expected to contribute for their own good as well as for the good of the work. Remember, a closed hand that does not give cannot receive.



INDEX

Abstract Thought, see Thought, World of, Region of Abstract Thought.

Action, incentive to, 158.

Adepts, pupils of schools of the Greater Mysteries, 10.

Air, charged with pictures of surroundings, 37, 155.

Alchemy, proved by radio-activity, 108.

Alcohol, results of using, 166.

Ambassador from sun, 87.

Ameshaspends, Seven Spirits before the Throne, 87.

Angels, densest body of, composed of ether, 73; expert builders in ether, 74; family spirits, 80; guardians of propagative force, 74; instruct ego in building archetype, 184; one step beyond human stage, 73.

Angels, Recording, see Recording angels.

Animals, dependent upon group spirit for infusion of stellar rays, 124; keyed to lunar month, 124; thought processes of, 122.

Aquarian Age, intellect of, 15.

Archangels, densest vehicle of, 79; instruct ego in building archetype, 184; less evolved become group spirits, 81; native of Desire World, 79; race and national spirits, 80; various grades of, 80; work with humanity politically and industrially, 80.

Arche, primordial matter of, 108.

Archetypal forces direct archetypes, 103.

Archetype, duration of, 175; vibratory mold, 175.

Assimilation, through ether, 123.

Astrology, estimation of time by, in Desire World, 94; value of, 190.

Atom, physical, spherical shape of, 9.

Atom, seed, see Seed atom.

Atoms, chemical, expelled through skin, 127.

Attitude, mental, results of, 181.

Benevolence, acquired in First Heaven, 174.

Bennett, Florence, trance of, 141.

Black magic, punishment of, 17.

Blood, charged with pictures of surroundings, 155; relation of, to vital body, 129.

Blue, in stellar ray, life of the Father, 124, 188.

Bode's law and Neptune, 189.

Body, dense, see Dense body. desire, see Desire body. vital, see Vital body.

Brain, absorption of stellar rays through, 124.

Breath, record of, 37, 38.

Capital punishment, menace of, 164.

Carelessness, power of, to shorten life, 147.

Causation, law of, attraction of like to like, 48; determines environment, 48, 180; flexibility of law of, 52.

Chaos, (Cosmic night) seed ground of Cosmos, 112; state of orderly segregation, 105.

Chemical atoms, expelled through skin, 127.

Chemical ether, assimilation and growth by, 69; seen as blue haze, 65.

Child, post-mortem experiences of, easily investigated, 51; prodigies, 195.

Children, clairvoyance of, 160; danger of mental forcing, 195; discipline of, 195; individual blood developed in, 196; imitativeness of, 194; proper clothing of, 194; life of, in First Heaven, 176; understanding of, through astrology, 192.

Christ, higher laws taught by, 169; rebirth taught by, 46.

Christianity, the flowering of previous religions, 6.

Clairvoyance of children, 160; of the dying, 148; varieties of, 136.

Clairvoyants, separation of vital body of, 137.

Clairvoyants, trained, positive powers of, 137.

Colors, emotional effect produced by, 178.

Colors, primary, symbolize God, 188.

Community affected by executions, 165.

Concentration in Desire World, 91.

Concrete Thought, see Thought, World of, Region of Concrete Thought.

Conditions of life related to past action, 43.

Conscience, assimilated pictures of past experience, 38, 156.

Consequence, law of, see Causation, law of.

Conservation, law of, and survival of spirit, 35.

Cord, Silver, see Silver Cord.

Corporal punishment, inadvisability of, 197.

Cosmic night, see Chaos.

Cosmos, aggregate of systematic order, 105.

Countries, egos work upon, 180.

Creation of Cosmos, 188.

Creative force, develops spinal nerves, 125.

Creative Hierarchies, aid humanity, 6; guide man's evolution, 5, 52; safeguard man from materialism, 8.

Criminals, care of, 164; execution of, a menace, 164.

Crucifixion, the Mystic Death, 12.

Crystallization in man's evolution, 163.

Dead, care of, 152; inhabit Desire World, 88; intense activity of, 89.

Death, disrobing process of ego, 163; foreseen by higher powers, 142; peaceful, helpfulness of, 147; premature, ill effects of, 145; problem of, 27; provides fresh start, 143.

Debts, binding nature of, 49.

Demmler, Minna, materializations by, 129.

Dense body, chemical constituents of, 57; crystallized spirit substance, 162; disease of, due to imperfect archetype, 185; energized by divine life, 188; improves as spirit progresses, 5; quality of, dependent upon ego, 184; most evolved of man's vehicles, 186.

Desire, created and guided by thought, 58; forms impelled into action by, 56.

Desire body, basic individual color of, 132; born at fourteenth year, 186; capable of sense perception, 133; cause dreams, 139; circulation in currents, 133; colors of, 132; destructive action of, 138; extends beyond dense body, 130; gives ability to experience desire and emotion 121, 130, 133; impels motion, 56, 139; impels to sense gratification, 130; main vortex, in the liver, 131; rapid locomotion of, 131; recent acquisition of, 130; shape of, ovoid, 130; shell of, persists after death, 163, 179; vortices of, 131; war of, with vital body, 138; withdrawal of, in sleep, 138.

Desire stuff, constant motion of, 77, 131; elasticity of, 77; force combined with matter, 77; modeled by thought, 142; permeates atmosphere, 120; persistence of, 179; responsiveness to feeling, 77.

Desire World, archangels native to, 79; dead remain in, varying lengths of time, 78; difficulty of concentration in, 91; diversity of tongues in, 83; effect of colors in, 178; ego's corrective work in, 168-170; estimation of time in, 93; existence of, makes man's desires possible, 57; force and matter closely related in, 77; form blends into sound in, 95; head only perceptible in some regions of, 79; large population of, 77; seasons non-existent in, 93; second vehicle of earth, 55; time non-existent in, 92; universal mode of expression in, 85; vision pertaining to, 66; world of color, 68.

Earth composed of three interpenetrating worlds, 55, 116; structure of dense body, obtained from, 57; training school of, 6, 43; worked upon, by the disembodied, 104.

Earth lives, intervals between, 52.

Earth spirits, fairies and elves, 70.

Eastern Wisdom, unsuited to Western peoples, 14.

Ego, see Spirit, threefold.

Egyptians painted group spirits, 82.

Electron, discovery of, 107.

Elves, spirits of mountains, 70.

Emotions, relation of, to desire body, 186.

Enmity overcome by its own discomforts, 49.

Environment, suffering caused by, 49.

Ether, avenue for solar forces, 70, 74, 123; nature of, 62; permeates atomic structure of dense matter, 62.

Ether, chemical, see Chemical ether.

Ether, life, see Life ether.

Ether light, see Light ether.

Ether, reflecting see Reflecting ether.

Etheric sight, distinguished from spiritual, 66; extension of physical, 65; penetrates opaque substances, 66; shows all objects same color, 67.

Ethers, separation of, 136.

Ever-existing essence, 107.

Evil and good acts recorded by breath, 38; destruction of, 39; transmutation of, to good, 158.

Evolution, from life to life, 53; manifests in rest and activity, 42; of vehicles, manner of, 185; persistent unfoldment in, 42.

Fairies, spirits of the mountains, 70.

Fate, ripe, unavoidability of, 184.

Faults, correction of, 169.

Feeling, right, increases conscience, 172.

First cause, necessity for, 162.

First hand knowledge, possible to all, 52.

First Heaven, good of past life reaped in, 173; good strengthened in, 174; panorama of life in, 173; upper regions of Desire World, 173.

Fluid, vital, cessation of flow of, 138.

Forgiveness of sin, 164, 169.

Form, archetypes of, 175; incapable of feeling, 60.

Forms, impelled into action by desire, 56.

Forms, physical, built from chemical substance, 55.

Free will, existence of, 147; pertaining to future, 184.

Generation caused by red ray of Holy Spirit, 124.

Germination caused by blue ray of Father, 124.

Gnomes, earth spirits, 70.

God, immanence of, 187.

Good amalgamates with spirit, 39; and evil acts recorded by breath, 38.

Great Silence between Desire World and World of Thought, 95, 180; may be entered by acts of will, 96.

Group spirit, brings stellar influence to animals, 124; less evolved archangels, 81; painted by Egyptians, 82.

Growth, physical, carried on through ether, 123; caused by yellow rays of Son, 124; relation of, to moon, 124; relation of, to vital body, 186.

Growth, spiritual, must be slow, 103.

Heaven, among you, 116.

Heaven, First, see First Heaven.

Heaven, Second, see Second Heaven.

Heaven, Third, see Third Heaven.

Hell, existence of, impossible, 117.

Helpers, Invisible, see Invisible Helpers.

Heredity, of the physical only, 47.

Hierarchies, Creative, see Creative Hierarchies.

Higher Self dominates lower by keynote, 99.

Higher senses of man, 16.

Higher vehicles, permeability of, 138; withdrawal of, in sleep, 138.

Holy of Holies, temple of our bodies, 134.

Hotz, Dr., spirit photographs taken by, 129.

Humanity, two classes of, 136.

I, badge of self-consciousness, 135.

Ideas clothe themselves in mind stuff, 113; embryonic thoughts, 113; generated by ego in Region of Abstract Thought, 113; originate in chaos, 112.

Ignorance, man's one sin, 42.

Illumination, induced by solar rays, 123.

Immaculate conception, the Mystic Birth, 12.

Immortality of spirit, 39.

Incense, evil effects of, 165.

Incentive, induced by etchings of life panorama, 158.

Individual auric color, dependent upon ruling planet, 132.

Infant mortality, causes of, 176-179.

Intelligence induced by planetary rays, 123.

Interval between earth lives, 52.

Invisible Helpers, faculties of, 137; linguistic abilities, valuable to, 83.

Izzards, 87.

James, Professor William, reputed communication from, 149-151.

Jehovah, see Holy Spirit.

John, Gospel of, spiritual significance of, 105.

Jupiter, auric color of, 132.

Karma, see Causation, law of.

Keynote, creates and maintains form, 98; manifestation of Higher Self, 99; stopping of, terminates life, 100; Voice of Silence, 99.

Knowledge, the only salvation, 42.

Laws of nature, living intelligences, 53.

Life, dualistic theory of, 29; lengthened by good deeds, 147; long, value of, 144, 146; monistic theory of, 29; object of, gaining of experience, 142; shortened by neglected opportunities, 146.

Life ether, propagation accomplished through medium of, 69.

Life panorama, backward unfoldment of, 156; duration of, 153; importance of, 153, 158; insufficient, causes infant mortality, 177; sub-conscious memory, basis of, 154; terminated by collapse of vital body, 157.

Light, relation of, to creation, 188.

Light ether, motion due to, 69; transmits solar force, 69.

Likes and dislikes determine environment, 48.

Liver, main vortex of desire body, 131.

Logos, Reasonable Thought, 109.

Love, higher than law, 168; supreme commandment, 90.

Lunar ray enters body through spleen, 124.; induces physical growth, 123, 190.; three-fold constitution of, 124..

Magic, black, punishment of, 17.

Man, born innocent of sin, 174; composite being of body, soul, spirit, 36; desires of, impel to action, 56; gathers spiritual substance, 162; Great Beings safeguard, 198; has evolved from lower forms, 73; higher vehicles of, 120; keyed to solar month, 125; made a little lower than angels, 73; spinal nerves of undeveloped, 125; spiritual faculties of, 15.

Mars, auric color of, 132.

Materialism and spirituality, necessity of, 7.

Materialistic theory of life, 34-36.

Materialization through incense, 165; through mediums, 129.

Mathematics, benefit derived from study of, 115.

Matter, illusory nature of, 114.

Mediums and negative clairvoyance, 137; read in reflecting ether, 70.

Memory of Nature, events recorded in, 94.

Memory of past lives, 50.

Memory, sub-conscious, see Sub-conscious memory.

Metamorphosis in higher worlds, 32.

Michael, ambassador from sun to earth, 87.

Michael, archangel, guardian of Jews, 80.

Mind, born at twenty-first year, 186, 198; cloudy thought form , 131, 133; material for, acquired in Region of Concrete Thought, 185; recent acquisition of, 131.

Mind, Lords of, expert builders of mind stuff, 102; help man to acquire mind, 103; human during dark stage of earth, 101; Powers of Darkness, 101; worked with man in mineral stage, 102.

Mind stuff, permeability of, 120; veils inner spirit, 134.

Monistic, theory of life, 29.

Moon rays, see Lunar rays.

Morality induced by planetary rays, 123, 190.

Music in Desire World, 68; soul-speech of World of Thought, 68.

Mystery Orders formed on cosmic lines, 9; seven world workers in, 9.

N-rays, etheric radiation of, 128.

Nature, laws of, control nature spirits, 72; Great Intelligences, 70.

Nebulae, fiery formation of, 161.

Nebular theory postulates First Cause, 162.

Negative development, mediumship allied to, 137.

Nephesh, 37.

Neptune outside of our solar system, 189.

Occult orders, see Mystery orders.

Odic fluid, see Solar fluid.

Opportunities, each life contains, 142.

Over-eating, ill-effects of, 128.

Painting, related to Desire World, 68.

Palladino, Eusapio, materializations through, 129.

Panorama of Life, see Life Panorama.

Patriotism, inspired by archangels, 80.

Periodicity, law of, determines time of actions, 13.

Personality governed by keynote, 99.

"Peter Ibbettson," occult information in, 161.

Physical body, anchor of mind, 92.

Physical embodiment, value of, 90, 143.

Pineal gland, localized organ of feeling, 132; spiritual sight through development of, 66; third eye, 132.

Planetary ray, see Stellar ray.

Planetary spirits, color belonging to, 189; names of, 189.

Planets, absorption of solar rays by, 188.

Post-mortem experiences, usefulness of, 143.

Powers of Darkness, see Mind, Lords of.

Powers, spiritual, difficulty of obtaining, 64; microscopic and telescopic, 64; possible to all, 64.

Prayer, forgiveness of sin through, 164.

Precession of equinoxes, measure of time, 94.

Predestination of great leaders, 45, 46.

Primary colors symbolize God, 188.

Probation, long, necessity for, 64.

Propagation carried on through life ether, 123.

Psychometrists read in reflecting ether, 70.

Puberty, cause of, 196.

Pituitary body and clairvoyance, 66.

Punishment, corporal, evils of, 198.

Purgatory, evil habits corrected in, 167; evil of past lives transmuted in, 116; experiences in, based on moral attitude of preceding life, 181; review of life experiences in, 170.

Race likeness caused by race spirits, 81.

Race Spirits, see Archangels.

Rebirth, law of, alternation of sex in, 52; believed in, by Jews, 46; Biblical foundation for doctrine of, 46; explanation of inequalities, 43, 47; harmonious with nature's methods, 47; intervals between, 52; preparations for, 185; special talents of individual, evidence of, 46; specially adapted to ego's need, 52; taught by Christ, 46.

Recording angels aid ego in choice of environment, 183; give race religions, 6, 14; show ego life panorama, 183.

Red in stellar ray, life of Holy Spirit, 124; produces form, 188.

Reflecting ether, impressions of universe recorded in, 69; mediums and psychometrists read in, 70.

Regret, time wasted in, 92.

Reincarnation, see Rebirth.

Religions, all have origin in God, 104.

Repentance, benefits received through, 169.

Restrospection, exercise of, 170-173.

Ripe fate, unavoidability of, 184.

Rose Cross, initiates into science of life and being, 8; Mystery school of the West, 8; thirteen Brothers of, 9; thirteenth member, the invisible head, 9; works to mould public opinion, 11.

Rosicrucian Fellowship, herald of the Aquarian Age, 15; purpose and work of, 14-18.

Rosicrucians, hold doctrine of man's potential divinity, 5; hierophants of Lesser Mysteries, 10; influence of, upon writers of modern times, 11; midnight service of, 11; object of, to unite religion and science, 12; work with evolved humanity, 9.

Ruling planet, relation of color of, 132.

Salamanders, fire spirits, 71; produce volcanic eruptions, 72.

"School of Athens," painting of, 29.

Science discovers spiritual side of universe, 34; established proofs of spirit survival, 35; spiritualized by Rosicrucians, 11.

Sculpture belongs to physical world., 68.

Second Heaven, ego prepares future environment in, 116; located in Region of Concrete Thought, 116.

Seed atom, basis of sub-conscious memory, 156; etchings of, 37; sample and center of other dense atoms, 175; transmits pictures to desire body, 156.

Sensitives, separation of ethers in vital body of, 136.

Servia, regicides in, 165.

Seven Spirits before the Throne, see Planetary Spirits.

Sex, alternation of, 52.

Shells, discarded desire bodies, 179; retain life panorama, 179; spiritualistic impersonations by, 179.

Sight, spiritual, accompanies development of pineal gland and pituitary body, 66; varieties of, 67.

Silence, Great, see Great Silence.

Silence, Voice of, see Voice of the Silence.

Silver cord holds higher and lower vehicles together, 153; snapping of, 153.

Solar fluid, absorption of, by different kingdoms, 124; aids in digestion, 127; cleansing power of, 128; expels disease germs, 127; muscular movement by means of, 126; permeates nervous system, 123, 126; radiates from body, 123; transformed to rose color, 123, 126.

Solar rays, direct and indirect, 123; spiritual illumination from, 123; three-fold constitution of, 124.

Soul, differentiated from spirit, 134; product of breath, 37.

Soul flights, time non-existent in, 89.

Soul growth induced by planetary rays, 123.

Soul power, assimilated from past action, 116; developed by good action, 38.

Sound, power of, over matter, 175.

Spinal cord, absorbs stellar ray, 124.

Spencer, Herbert, and nebular hypothesis, 162.

Sphinx, faces east, 28; riddle of, 28.

Spirit, threefold (ego) abandons vital body in sleep, 138; absorbs solar ray, 124; destined to become creative intelligence, 103; disembodied, relief of, at leaving body, 161; distinguished from soul, 134; drawn to rebirth by desire for experience, 182; earth-bound, condition of, 144; encrusted in mind stuff, 101; free will of, 184; freedom of, in choosing environment, 183; has seat in forehead, 124; immortality of, 39; improvement in vehicles of, 185; individualization of, in childhood, 196; instructed in building archetype, 184; many earth lives of, 183; no limitations possible for, 104; sowing and reaping of, 104; sufferings of, in purgatory, 163; uncreate and eternal, 39; various human relations of, 183; works with archetypes, 103, 180.

Spirits, planetary, see Planetary Spirits.

Spiritual investigations, 63.

Spiritual powers, see Powers, spiritual.

Spiritual sight, see Sight, spiritual.

Spiritual thought, spinal nerves developed by, 125.

Spirituality followed by materialism, 7.

Spleen, entrance for solar forces, 123; transmutation for solar energy in, 123.

Stellar ray, absorption of, by brain and spinal cord, 124; animals incapable of absorbing, 124; induces morality, 123, 190; threefold nature of, 124.

Stimulants, effects of, upon dying, 152.

Storms caused by nature spirits, 71.

Sub-conscious memory, basis of future life, 156; consciously utilized, 161; in seed atom, 155; retentiveness of, 154.

Suicide, sufferings of, 174.

Sun, movements of, 94.

Superman, evolution of man into, 53.

Survival after death, established by scientists, 35.

Sylphs, spirits of mists, 70.

Tears, white bleeding, 130.

Temptation, repetition of, 174.

Theological theory of life, 36-39.

Third Heaven, few have consciousness in, 182; in Region of Abstract Thought, 116, 182; inspiration of philanthropist, 182; place of awaiting rebirth, 182; source of inventor's inspiration, 182.

Thompson, J. J., discovery of electron by, 107.

Thought, objects of physical world, crystallized, 97, 131; result of union, idea and mind stuff, 113.

Thought, world of, earth's finest vehicle, 55; home of spirit, 58; knowledge gained in, 100; makes man's thought possible, 57; realm of tone, 180; spirit's work in, 180; time non-existent in, 101; tonal vision pertaining to, 67.

Thought, World of, Region of Abstract Thought, abstract verities of, 106; Third Heaven in, 116.

Thought, World of, Region of Concrete Thought, acme of reality, 97; mind built in, 185; physical world replica of, 97; Second Heaven, 116.

Thymus Gland, function of, 196.

Time, end of, 112; relatively non-existent in higher worlds, 92.

Tobacco, fumes of, disembodied work through, 166.

Trance, caused by flight of spirit, 140; kinds of, 140.

Truth, freedom by, 114; self-evident in higher worlds, 114.

Undines, spirits of water, 70.

Vehicles, improvements in, 185.

Veil of Isis, 134.

Vibration, external, transferred to blood, 37; universality of, 36.

Vital body, born at seventh year, 195; collapse of, in sleep, 138; composed of ether, 122; connected with spleen, 123; disintegration of, stops life panorama, 157; extends beyond dense vehicle, 123; in sickness lacks solar rays, 128; in third stage of evolution, 131; nourishes dense body, 129; photographed by scientists, 129; polarity of, 129; propagation by, 121; recuperative work of, 138; second vehicle acquired by man, 186; separation of ethers of, 137; war with desire body, 138; well organized state of, 130.

Vital Fluid, see Solar fluid.

Voice of the Silence, 99.

Volcanic eruptions produced by salamanders, 72.

Vortices, whirling, of desire body, 131.

War causes infant mortality, 177, 179.

Wave of spirituality inspired great religions, 7.

Whipping children, evil of, 198.

Will, lack of, racial defect, 198.

Wind, changes of, caused by sylphs, 71.

Word, Creative Fiat, 109.

Word, creative, and key-note, 100; God was, 106; power of, 110, 193; still sounds in cosmos, 112.

World, Desire, see Desire World.

World of Thought, see Thought, World of.

World, physical, world of form, 68.

Worlds, higher, difficulty of investigating, 32.

Yellow in stellar ray, life of Son, 124; produces consciousness, 188.

Zoroastrian religion, deities of, 86.



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No. 8. The Science of Nutrition, Health and Protracted Youth.

No. 9. The Astronomical Allegories of the Bible.

No. 10. Astrology; Its Scope and Limitations.

No. 11. Spiritual Sight and Insight.

No. 12. Parsifal.

No. 13. The Angels as Factors in Evolution.

No. 14. Lucifer, Tempter or Benefactor?

No. 15. The Mystery of Golgotha and the Cleansing Blood.

No. 16. The Star of Bethlehem; A Mystic Fact.

No. 17. The Mystery of the Holy Grail.

No. 18. The Lord's Prayer.

No. 19. The Coming Force; Vril or What?

No. 20. Fellowship and the Coming Race.

These lectures are particularly suitable for beginners. Read consecutively, they give a comprehensive outline of our philosophy.

THEY FIT THE POCKET

and allow a busy man to utilize time on cars en route to or from business.

GIVE ONE TO A FRIEND

It is an inexpensive and a helpful gift.

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CORRESPONDENCE COURSES

IN

The Rosicrucian Philosophy and Astrology

(1) Rosicrucian Philosophy:

Using the Cosmo-Conception by Max Heindel as a textbook, this course of twelve lessons points to a logical explanation of the origin, evolution, and future development of mankind, and opens the way to a deeper knowledge of this great subject. This philosophy seeks to make Christianity a living factor in the world, and to combine the eternal facts of Science, Art, and Religion. This course is open to all those interested.

(2) Astrology:

We want to assist you in helping yourself and others. This correspondence course will teach you the importance of astrology as a phase of religion and a Divine Science. The one restriction is that our pupils may not prostitute the knowledge thus obtained for gain in any way. Anyone not engaged in fortune telling or similar methods of commercializing spiritual knowledge may be admitted to this course.

For admission to these courses address,

(I) Philosophy Secretary.

(II) Astrology Secretary.

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THE

ROSICRUCIAN COSMO-CONCEPTION

BY MAX HEINDEL

Eighth Edition With New 70 Page Index

This book gives a complete outline of the Western Wisdom Teaching as far as it may be made public at the present time. The Rosicrucian Brotherhood from time to time gives out occult teachings to the public in such a manner that their expression conforms to the intellectual development of the times. This is the latest of their communications.

Max Heindel was the accredited agent of the Rosicrucian Brotherhood, commissioned to give the contents of this book to the world. There is no other book that contains so complete an exposition of the factors that enter into the creation of the universe and of man and all its statements are in keeping with the results of scientific research.

Part I is a treatise on the Visible and the Invisible Worlds, Man and the Method of Evolution, Rebirth and the Law of Cause and Effect.

Part II takes up the scheme of Evolution in general and the Evolution of the Solar System and the Earth in particular.

Part III treats of Christ and His Mission, Future Development of Man and Initiation, Esoteric Training and a Safe Method of Acquiring First-hand Knowledge.

616 Pages. Cloth Bound. $2.00 Postfree. The Rosicrucian Fellowship, Mt. Ecclesia Oceanside, California.

THE MESSAGE OF THE STARS

BY MAX HEINDEL AND AUGUSTA FOSS HEINDEL

One of the most complete systems of character delineation and reading the horoscope for medical diagnosis yet given to modern astrology.

With many nontechnical articles to interest the general student of the occult, a simple method of

PROGRESSION AND PREDICTION,

and a new index for quickly locating desired information, it is indeed a classic in its realm.

In the section on Medical Astrology the authors have given a system that is based on years of practical experience. Thirty-six example horoscopes are included, and the subject is dealt with most thoroughly.

YOU NEED THIS BOOK!

708 Pages. Cloth Bound. $3.50 Postpaid.

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THE WEB OF DESTINY

HOW MADE AND UNMADE

BY MAX HEINDEL

Including

The Occult Effect of Our Emotions

Prayer—A Magic Invocation

Practical Methods of Achieving Success

This book is based on personal occult investigations by the author, in which he uncovered many of the inner laws governing man's hidden springs of action.

It gives information regarding the Dweller on the Threshold, which every aspirant has to meet, usually at an early stage of his progress into the unseen worlds. It treats of the causes of obsession of men and animals. It describes how we create our environment and some of the causes of disease, pointing the way to final emancipation.

The part devoted to the emotions shows the function of desire, the color effects of emotion, and the results of worry and remorse.

Prayer is shown here as a magic invocation by which powerful forces may be marshalled. It throws much light on the nature of prayer, pointing out that true prayer is based on scientific principles which will bring results when rightly applied.

Written in a simple and narrative style, it offers at the same time serious instruction and pleasant relaxation.

175 Pages. Cloth Bound.

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM

BY MAX HEINDEL

An Esoteric Treatise on the Underlying Facts regarding these two great Institutions as determined by occult investigation.

It explains in terms of Mystic Masonry the conflict between the Sons of Cain and the Sons of Seth, and unravels the allegory dealing with the building of Solomon's Temple, the Queen of Sheba, and the Grand Master, Hiram Abiff.

If you are interested in the symbols of Masonry, in knowing the source of these mysteries which have come down to us from past ages, this is the book you want.

Only a trained Seer could have read the Akashic Records of the past and given such a clear explanation of their meaning.

In addition, read what the author says about the famous Philosopher's Stone of the Alchemists, the Path of Initiation, and the Coming Age.

This Book Should Be in Every Mason's Library.

98 Pages. Cloth Bound. $1.00 Postfree.

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GLEANINGS OF A MYSTIC

BY MAX HEINDEL

This book is devoted to practical mysticism, bringing out a vast array of new information and fine points never before presented in this form. The information contained in this book will be of immense value to the student and aspirant, enabling them to make swifter progress in both their spiritual and material development.

A few chapter headings are appended to give a better idea of the contents:

Initiation—What It Is and Is Not.

The Sacraments of Communion, Baptism, and Marriage.

The Coming Christ.

The Coming Age.

Magic, White and Black.

Our Invisible Government.

Practical Precepts for Practical People.

Sound, Silence, and Soul Growth.

The Mysterium Magnum of the Rose Cross.

Stumbling Blocks.

Why I Am a Rosicrucian.

196 Pages. Cloth Bound. $2.00 Postpaid.

THE ROSICRUCIAN PHILOSOPHY

IN QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

BY MAX HEINDEL

A book of ready reference upon all mystic matters, which ought to be in the library of every occult student. It comprises the answers to hundreds of questions asked of Max Heindel on the lecture platform.

PARTIAL LIST OF SUBJECTS:

Life after Death.

Life on Earth.

The Bible Teachings.

Spiritualistic Phenomena.

Clairvoyance.

Astrology.

Animals.

176 Pages. Cloth Bound. $2.00 Postpaid.

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HOW SHALL WE KNOW CHRIST AT HIS COMING?

BY MAX HEINDEL

This book tells us that Christ will return in an etheric, not a physical body. Hence mankind must develop the etheric body to the point where they can function in it consciously before Christ will return. Then they will possess the inner spiritual perception by which they will be able to recognize Him.

These matters are fully elucidated in this book.

29 Pages. Paper Bound. 15c Postfree.

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IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING DEAD

AN OCCULT STORY

BY PRENTISS TUCKER

Among the many post-war books, here is one to interest the soldier, student, and layman alike. Its appeal is general and lasting in that it portrays in story form the ever existing conditions on the superphysical planes. It inclines toward that thing called "The religion of the trenches," and will help to open the eyes of many a puzzled participant as well as of those who lost friends and relatives in the Great War.

Look at some of the chapter headings:

A Visit to the Invisible Planes.

_A Sergeant's Experiences after _"_Passing out._"_

A Doughboy's Ideas on Religion.

Helping a Slain Soldier to Comfort His Mother.

A Crisis in Love.

168 Pages. Cloth Bound. $1.50 Postpaid.

THE MYSTICAL INTERPRETATION OF CHRISTMAS

BY MAX HEINDEL

This treatise covers the Cosmic Significance of Christmas and the annual Sacrifice of Christ, traces the astrological interpretation up through the simplicity of nature worship, and sketches a glorious outlook for the coming age, which inspires the casual reader to seek more Light.

Here is a book most attractively bound in heavy mottled paper which, aside from its merit as a simple gift, is most useful in answering inquiries on the occult significance of its subject. The world is beginning to ask the greater meaning of this holy festival; it is well to be informed.

Heavy Paper Binding. 75 Cents Postpaid.

EARTHBOUND

BY AUGUSTA FOSS HEINDEL

An addition to our Rosicrucian Christianity Series of twenty lectures. This pamphlet warns against the craze for phenomena, mediumship, and the ouija board. It cites concrete cases where those who held too closely to things of this earth were thereby held back in their progress after leaving the earthy body and passing onward to the unseen realms of being. It points out how this condition may be avoided; also how some prolong their stay in the Borderland close to the earth.

It describes the condition of those who are bound to the lower Desire World after death by sense affiliation, sorrow, or other causes, showing clearly their delusions and their activities.

13 pages. Paper Bound. Price 10c.

SIMPLIFIED SCIENTIFIC ASTROLOGY

BY MAX HEINDEL

Fifth Edition.

WITH MAX HEINDEL'S PORTRAIT

198 Pages. Cloth Bound. $1.50 Postpaid.

A complete textbook on the art of erecting a horoscope, making the process simple and easy for beginners. It also includes a

Philosophic Encyclopedia

—and—

Tables of Planetary Hours

The Philosophic Encyclopedia fills a long felt want both of beginners and advanced students for information concerning the underlying reasons for astrological dicta. It is a mine of knowledge arranged in such a manner as to be instantly accessible.

The Tables of Planetary Hours enable one to select the most favorable time for beginning new enterprises.

The unparalleled merits of this book have been amply attested by many thousands of enthusiastic students who have bought the first four editions.

No astrological student can afford to be without it.

MYSTERIES OF THE GREAT OPERAS

BY MAX HEINDEL

Faust, Parsifal, The Ring of the Niebelung, Tannhauser, Lohengrin

Folk Lore and its interpretation through music has much to offer to the general reader as well as to the musician and occultist. These Myths conceal many of the hidden truths which are now being translated from symbol and allegory, and this attractive book is the key to these poetic tales of evolution, sacrifice, and unfoldment.

176 Pages. Cloth Bound. $2.00 Postpaid.

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