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Vol. 4 Oceanside, California November 1915 No 1

The Mystic Light

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The Occult Side of the War!

AN OPERATION FOR SPIRITUAL CATARACT

It would be news indeed to the great for centuries, witnesses of civilization, is
majority of people, if we were to tell them being waged with more than equal fierce-
that the great war, which is being fought so ness in the Invisible World, and that the
strenuously in Europe with shot and shell, participants upon the hidden side of life
involving a great destruction of human have even more at stake than those things
bodies and of buildings which have stood which are considered in this world; name-

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ly, territorial acquisition, financial indem- horses could be seen rearing and plunging,
nity, etc. Such is nevertheless the case. The and they ceased to advance”. This angelic
war started in the unseen world before it intervention, in the narrator’s opinion,
crystallized into physical action. And it saved the whole force from annihilation.
must cease there, before a permanent
peace can be negotiated. And one who The foregoing story appears to be the
sees and knows is also aware that this same as that narrated by Dr. R. F. Horton
great spiritual influence, which has caused in a recent sermon at Broughton Church,
the war, was instigated by the group spirits Manchester. He describes the occurrence
of the various countries, who have waxed as related to him by so many witnesses
fat upon the intense patriotism, shown that, if anything can be established by cor-
everywhere among the people in Europe. roborative evidence, it must be true. “A
section of the line,” said Dr. Horton, “was
Each group spirit fights through its peo- in imminent peril, and it seemed as if it
ple, and for its people, as we have shown must be borne down and cut off. Our man
in lecture N.º 13 of the Christianity Series, saw a company of Angels interposed
which lecture is entitled, “Angels as between them and the German cavalry,
Factors of Evolution”; and though the and the horses of the Germans stamped.
masses may scoff and sneer, the facts Evidently the animals beheld what our
remain nevertheless. men beheld. The German soldiers endeav-
ored to bring the horses back to the line,
Instances and evidence of this invisible but they fled. It was the salvation of our
leadership in the present war come to us men.”
through the Occult Review and the
Literary Digest, in connection with the Another account, emanating from other
Allies’ retreat from Mons. It was confi- witnesses of the occurrence, is quoted
dently affirmed that several officers had from a letter as follows:
then witnessed a curious phenomenon, in
the form of a Strange cloud, which inter- “Last Sunday I met Miss Marrable,
posed between the Germans and the daughter of the well-known Canon
British. This statement was confirmed by a Marrable, and she told me she knew the
correspondent in Light of May 8th, who officers, both of whom had themselves
stated that “in the rearguard action, there seen the Angels, who saved our left wing
was one especially critical moment, when from the Germans when they came right
the German cavalry was rapidly advancing upon them during our retreat from Mons.
and greatly outnumbered our forces.
Suddenly we saw a sort of luminous cloud “They expected annihilation, as they
or fog, which interposed itself between the were almost helpless, when, to their
Germans and our men. In this cloud there amazement, the Germans stood like dazed
seemed to be bright objects moving. The men, never so much as touched their guns
moment it appeared, the German or stirred, till we had turned and escaped
onslaught seemed to receive a check. The by some cross roads.

“One of Miss Marrable’s friends, who
was not a religious man, told her he saw a

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troop of Angels between us and the enemy, all the soldiers and by the Germans as
and has been a changed man ever since. well. The Germans suddenly stopped,
The other man she met in London last turned around and galloped away at top
week, and she asked him if he had heard of speed. The narrator adds that this is
the wonderful story of the Angels. He said vouched for not only by the Tommies, but
he had seen them himself. While he and also by the officers of the regiment.
his company were retreating, they heard
the German cavalry tearing after them. We see here, says the correspondent of
They ran for a place where they thought a the Occult Review, certain variants of what
stand might be made with some hopes of is apparently the same story, but in one
safety, but before they could reach it the case the apparition appears merely as a
German cavalry were upon them; so they strange cloud, in the second it appears as a
turned around and faced the enemy, cloud with bright objects moving within it,
expecting instant death; when, to their and in the third, fourth and fifth it appears
wonder, they saw between them and the definitely as a company of Angels. It
enemy a whole troop of Angels. And the seems not improbable that the same
horses of the Germans turned around, ter- apparition would have presented itself
rified out of their senses, and stampeded. with these variations according to the psy-
The men tugged at their bridles, while the chic temperament and development of the
poor horses tore away in the direction beholder.
from our men. He swore he saw the
Angels, whom the German horses saw It is an occult fact, a fact patent to one
plainly enough, if not the German soldiers, who is endowed with spiritual sight, that a
and this gave our men time to reach the lit- group spirit rules over its people in the
tle fort, or whatever the shelter was, and form of a cloud. In him, or in it, they actu-
save themselves.” ally live and move and have their being.
Its thoughts and ideas permeate them with
A further contribution to these Mons what is called “the national spirit”, and it
records was supplied by Mr. Lancaster, a is quite conceivable that under the strain
Weymouth clergyman, in his sermon on and stress of battle, one or another of the
May 30th. The rector read a letter in the group spirits, seeing its people in dire dis-
pulpit from a soldier from the front, who tress, should stretch forth a helping band
was in the retreat from Mons, and who and interpose itself between them and their
said in the letter that his regiment was pur- enemies.
sued by a large number of German cavalry
from which they took refuge in a large If we go back to the Bible, we find a
quarry, where the Germans found them similar occurrence at the time when the
and were on the point of shooting them. At Israelites were taken out of Egypt. They
that moment, stated the writer of that let- were then pursued by the armies of
ter, the whole of the top edge of the quar- Pharaoh, and Ail Shaddai, the Lord of
ry was lined by Angels, who were seen by Hosts, who guided them in the form of a
pillar of cloud, interposed himself between
the Israelites and the Egyptians until such

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time as the water of the Sea had subsided such moments of undecided battle, amid
and they were ready to cross. Then the pil- the violence, hurry and confusion of ideas
lar of cloud went again before them and incident to the situation, the ancient
led them through the water. Their enemies Greeks supposed they saw their deities
who followed were engulfed. Castor and Pollux, fighting in the van for
their encouragement; the Scandinavian
Under ordinary circumstances, people beheld the Valkyries, the Choosers of the
may not be able to perceive these higher slain; and the Catholics were no less easi-
vibrations and sense the beings, who are ly led to recognize the war-like Saint
always about us, invisible, yet neverthe- George, or Saint James, in the very front
less much more alive than we are, potent of the strife, showing them the way to con-
also as factors for good or evil. But when quest. Such apparitions, being generally
a time of great stress comes, when a com- visible to a multitude, have in all times
pany of men find themselves in a very been supported by the greatest strength of
tight corner, as it were, face to face with testimony.”
death, when the nervous tension has been
raised to a sufficiently high pitch, they The first instance quoted by Sir Walter
begin to sense the super-physical world Scott is from the Historia Verdadera of
and the beings who are with them. This Don Bernal Diad Del Castillo, one of the
has been the rule in all ages. Sir Walter companions of the celebrated Cortez in his
Scott, in his Witchcraft and Demonology, Mexican conquest. After having given an
tells certain instances of a similar nature; account of a great victory over extreme
but though the super-physical manifesta- odds, he mentions the report inserted in
tion, in each instance quoted, was wit- the contemporary Chronicle of Gomara,
nessed by a large number of people, Sir that Saint Iago had appeared on a white
Walter Scott seeks to discredit their testi- horse in van of the combat and led on his
mony and pooh-pooh the occurrence as beloved Spaniards to victory.
superstition, a method that has been fol-
lowed by a number of English newspapers It is very curious to observe the Castilian
with regard to the occurrences at Mons. Cavalier’s internal conviction that the
rumor arose out of a mistake, the cause of
He says that “even on the field of death, which he explains from his own observa-
and amid the mortal tug of combat itself, tion, while at the same time, he does not
strong belief has wrought the same won- venture to disown the miracle. The honest
der, which we have hitherto mentioned as Conquistador owns that he himself did not
occurring in solitude and amid darkness; see this Angelic visitation; nay, that he
and those who were themselves on the beheld a cavalier, named Francisco de
verge of the world of spirits or employed Moria, mounted on a chestnut horse and
in dispatching others to the gloomy fighting strenuously in the very place
regions, conceived they beheld the appari- where Saint James was supposed to have
tions of the beings, whom their national appeared. But instead of drawing the infer-
mythology associated with such scenes. In ence that his whole company were halluci-

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nated, the devout Conquistador exclaims: what works (i. e. locks) the guns had, and
“Sinner that I am, what am I that I should their length and wideness, and what han-
have beheld the blessed Apostle!” dles the swords had, whether small or
three-barr’d, or Highland Guard, and the
The other instance of what Sir Walter closing knots of the bonnets, black or blue;
Scott calls “the infectious character of and those who did see them there, when-
superstition”, follows. ever they were abroad, saw a bonnet and a
sword drop in the way.”
“In the year 1686, in the months of June
and July, says the honest chronicler, many In the second book of Samuel, the 22nd
yet alive can witness that about the chapter, verses 7 to 18, we read:
Crossford Boat, two miles beneath
Lanark, especially at the Mains, on the 7. In my distress I called upon the Lord,
water of Clyde, many people gathered and cried to my God: and he did hear my
together for several afternoons, where voice out of his temple, and my cry did
there were showers of bonnets, hats, guns enter into his ears.
and swords, which covered the trees and
the ground; companies of men in arms 8. Then the earth shook and trembled;
marching in order upon the waterside; the foundations of heaven moved and
companies meeting companies, going all shook, because he was wroth.
through other, and then all falling to the
ground and disappearing; other companies 9. There went up a smoke out of his nos-
immediately appeared marching the same trils, and fire out of his mouth devoured;
way. I went there three afternoons togeth- coals were kindled by it.
er, and, as I observed, there were two-
thirds of the people that were together saw, 10. He bowed the heavens also, and
and a third that saw not; and though I came down; and darkness was under his
could see nothing, there was such a fright feet.
and trembling on those that did see, that
was discernible to all those that saw not. 11. And he rode upon a cherub, and did
There was a gentleman standing next to fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the
me, who spoke as too many gentlemen and wind.
others speak, who said: ‘A pack of damned
witches and warlocks that have the second 12. And he made darkness pavilions
sight! The devil ha’t do I see’; and imme- round about him, dark waters and thick
diately there was a discernible change in clouds of the skies.
his countenance. With as much fear and
trembling as any woman I saw there, he 13. Through the brightness before him
called out: ‘All you that do not see, say were coals of fire kindled.
nothing; for I persuade you it is matter of
fact and discernible to all that are not 14. The Lord thundered from heaven and
stone-blind.’ And those who did see told the most High uttered his voice.

15. And he sent out arrows, and scattered
them; lightning, and discomfited them.

16. And the channels of the sea
appeared, the foundations of the world
were discovered, at the rebuking of the
Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nos-
trils.

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17. He sent from above, he took me; he “Also I, in the first year of Darius, the
drew me out of many waters; Mede, even I stood to confirm and
strengthen him.”
18. He delivered me from my strong
enemy, and from them that hated me: for From the foregoing it is clear, that in all
they were too strong for me. ages, when people were in great stress,
their spiritual vision has been opened for
In the above David gives a description of the time being, and in our next article on
the Lord of Hosts going forth to the fray to this subject we shall show how war is
aid his followers. And in the tenth chapter actually an operation for spiritual cataract,
of Daniel we are told how these a means of permanently opening the spiri-
Archangels actually help one nation tual vision of mankind.
against another in order to bring victory or
defeat, wherever it may be necessary for (To be continued)
punishment or for reward.
COSMIC THEOLOGY
Daniel tells us that “His body also was
like a beryl, and his face as the appearance Continued
of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire,
and his arms and his feet like in colour to By Geo T. Weaver
polished brass, and the voice of his words
like the voice of a multitude. THE THEISTIC IDEA

“And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision; for Religion, from religare, to bind anew, or
the men that were with me saw not the bind back, or bind fast, means to be bound
vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, anew, or be bound fast to God; and
so that they fled to hide themselves”. (This Theology, the word of God, or a treatise on
is another case where one saw, but others God, indicates that the theistic conception
felt the presence.) lies at the foundation of religion, and the-
ology. Who, what, and where is God, are
The Archangel said to Daniel: “The questions that have interested our race
prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood more deeply than any or all questions
me, one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, beside.
one of the chief princes, came to help me:
and I remained there with the kings of There are two leading ideas relative to
Persia. this subject: the Anthropomorphic and the
Cosmic. The anthropomorphic may also
“Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore be cosmic, but as held by those who claim
I have come unto thee? And now will I this idea, he is non-cosmic. God is thought
return to fight with the prince of Persia: of as a great Being, man-like both in form
and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of and characteristics, and possessing all the
Grecia shall come. But I will shew thee passions and desires of man, as anger, jeal-
that which is noted in the Scripture of ousy, etc. This is a very gross and unwor-
truth: and there is none that holdeth with thy conception. He is believed to possess,
me but Michael, your prince [i. e., race
spirit].

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however, all the natural attributes usually expression of man, the spiritual being; that
ascribed to Deity, as omnipotence, omni- all things were generated rather than
science and all such, so that he is able to made, and that therefore they consist of
create the universe, or cosmic order, out of divine substance, every atom of which is
hand, and to sustain it in its movements. permeated by the life principle, and that in
The universe is thought of as inert, chemi- fact there is no inertia anywhere. This cos-
cal matter—organs and not organisms; and mic conception of God implies immi-
that all things that exist were made out of nence, or omnipresence throughout space;
nothing. with all the other attributes, natural as well
at moral and spiritual, inherent in the
Among the anthropomorphics there are Cosmos.
two ideas as to where God is. The theistic
class holds that God is within his handi- It has been contended that this idea has
work as the spring of a watch which keeps come down to us from the Nature
the works moving, is within and part of the Worshippers, who conceived that every
mechanism, in close analogy with the object in nature possessed a soul, and by
principle of the watch, causing his uni- such writers as John Fisk and others.
verse to perform its movements. Nature worship was pure superstition. Fisk
himself is an advocate of Cosmic Theism,
The deistic class holds that God is but not in the pure, esoteric sense, nor in
remote from the worlds, outside of the the true cosmic sense. Fisk lived and wrote
cosmic universe, as a potter stands apart before the discovery of radium, that mar-
from the vessels his hands have devised. vellous discovery that has revolutionized
In both cases God is thought of as having science and brought it into closer harmony
in some mysterious way wound up the with mysticism.
machinery after having made it and set it
going, and then fallen into a trance-like Those old nature worshippers, though
state, waking only periodically to re-wind very crude with regard to the objective
the springs, as it were. This is an extreme- life, and therefore to modern civilization
ly mechanical and materialistic concep- and concrete thinking, were very profound
tion, void of all idea of inherent vitality in thinkers along the line of subjective life,
the cosmic order. and in a way perceived the wisdom that is
today bringing Science into harmony with
By exoteric theists, man is thought of as divine truth.
purely human, as a fallen, lost, and help-
less being, depending entirely on extrane- Gross anthropomorphism, as referred to
ous agencies, saved by vicarious method, above, is the logical outcome of the teach-
and immortalized only as a gift out of hand ings of Augustine, the Latin theologian,
from God. who drove the entering wedge into the
esotericism of early Christianity, causing
The other leading idea of Deity is the the degeneracy of the Christian system of
Cosmic conception: the idea that the cos- truth and laying the foundation of
mos itself is the outward expression of Romanism and of modern orthodox
God, as the human body is the outward

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Christianity. And it is this heresy that has ly referred to as the Zodiac or the constel-
caused the conflict between science and lations. The astronomer Herschel, after a
Christianity so called. This aspect of truth long and careful investigation, declared
has stood squarely against every discovery the Zodiac to be man-shaped. All people
of modern science, such as, that the Sun is are accustomed to say that the universal
the centre of our Solar system and that the order is a manifestation of God; but to be
earth revolves about the Sun; and the this, it must be the body in which He
Newtonian discovery of the law of gravi- resides, as man’s physical organism is the
tation; also the theory of evolution and that manifestation of the man within. One
of re-birth, as held by mystics, etc. True could not say that the cosmical order is a
mysticism and true science absolutely manifestation of the Deity, regarded as
agree; for God, the author of both, cannot simply His handiwork, any more than we
contradict himself. could that any mechanism is the manifes-
tation of the mechanic who contrived and
WHO IS GOD? made it. In this sense the great central orb
of the whole universe would be the heart
Having stated the fact that God is non- of Universal Cosmic Deity.
local but universal as to his presence, we
will now try to answer the question: Who In its more restricted sense, as the mys-
is God? tics of the earth are accustomed to think of
God, He is the central heart of our Solar
Though universal, God is centralized, system, or the Sun. The entire Solar sys-
otherwise He could not be a dynamic tem, regarding it as a unit, is the manifes-
force. An organism is essential for organi- tation of Deity, but the central Sun is the
zation and for dynamic power. Electricity, heart and life principle. The Hebrew
permeating space, is but a static force; but psalmist, David, declared, “Jehovah
harnessed up in a dynamo, or in a thunder Elohim is a Sun and a shield”. And this
cloud, it is a mighty force for either con- thought corresponds with the idea, held by
struction or destruction, for good or for all the ancient religionists, embracing the
evil. Every organism is a dynamo. The Hebrews and the early Christians. And in
creative or operative Deity is no exception the modern orthodox worship of the Son
to this rule. of God, the Sun is recognized as the Deity;
unconsciously, it may be, but really. The
The form of the creative God is that of Christ is recognized as the Logos, or cre-
man; for according to the Bible account of ative God, by whom all things were made;
the creation of man, he was made in the but, as has been shown, creation is gener-
image and likeness of God. In this regard, ation, and that all things but constitute the
God is anthropomorphic. What then, in outward expression of the Logos, or Son
nature, answers to all that has been said as of God.
to the whereabouts and form of Deity in its
broadest and most universal sense? We The demonstration of this cosmic con-
might say the entire starry heavens, usual- ception of Deity will follow.

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THE SUN phere. Its gravity on the surface exceeds
that of the Earth by twenty-seven and a
The Sun, as known by modern half times. Its axial rotation, or day’s
astronomers, is an immense globe of length, is twenty-seven of our days and ten
chemical matter, incandescently hot; so hours and four minutes. Its distance from
hot indeed, upon its surface, that it disso- the Earth is 96 million miles. The greatest
ciates the substance composing it, into telescopes now in use bring it to within
highly attenuated ether, so that descending 100,000 miles.
vapors become simple or homogeneous;
and ascending from the surface, this ether A continuous red envelope surrounds
becomes differentiated and complex, a and embraces the Sun to a depth of from
concrete mass. It is only in the cooler three to four thousand miles, called the
regions of its atmosphere that vapors, “Sierra” or’ chromosphere, composed of
resembling those of the earth, can exist: hydrogen gas. Beyond this outwardly is
while nearer the confines of the corona, the “corona”, a great mass of self-illumi-
these vapors give place to solid particles nated matter, extending far out, many
and masses. times the depth of the chromosphere, radi-
ating out in points of indefinite extent.
The diameter of this vast sphere is Beyond the corona, or crown, there is a
852,900 miles, or two and a half million faint glow, extending far out into space,
miles in circumference. It is a perfect called the Zodiacal light; that may be
sphere, not flattened at the poles, as is the regarded as the Sun’s aura. The sun, as
Earth. In volume it exceeds the Earth seen by the natural eye, bounded by the
1,252,700 times. Its mean density is but photosphere, is then but a small portion of
one fourth that of the Earth; its mass is this vast luminary. The atmosphere of the
816,000 times that of the Earth, or 700 Sun consists chiefly, if not wholly, of
times more than all the planets combined. vapors of the chemical elements, such as
Its weight is 384,000 times greater than we are acquainted with, and is generally
our home planet. As a dynamic electric supposed to be limited by the chromos-
force, it has been estimated to be equiva- phere, but some think it extends as far out
lent to 543 billion steam engines of 400 as the corona. In the atmosphere of the
horse-power each, or 217 trillion and 200 Sun, as in that of the Earth, there is a very
billion horse-power. Its chief force is elec- considerable absorption of blue light, so
tric, or positive, though it also has a nega- that its sky, like that above us, is blue.
tive or magnetic force. Its magnetic field is Some there are who think that the actual
only one three thousandths part as intense appearance of the Sun is blue, or grayish
as that of the Earth, so that in spite of its blue, and that had the Earth no atmosphere
mass it has a comparatively small magnet- intervening, the light of the Sun would
ic field. Its color is white; but that reaching appear of this color.
the Earth has a yellowish or golden tint,
caused by passing through our atmos- (To be continued)

Question Department

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THE AQUARIAN AGE tion, and they are therefore almost
unchangeable.
A correspondent writes:
Through all the centuries of which we
Many people these days realize that we have record, these stars have remained in
are entering, or about to enter, a new age. the same group and in about the same rel-
Some understand that it is the Aquarian ative position, one to another. And
Age, and to a certain extent what it stands through these constellations the Sun cir-
for. But I have not as yet heard an intelli- cles from year to year with unvarying
gible explanation of just when our Earth precision. But owing to the fact that the
or Solar system would enter this age, and axis of the Earth inclines toward the Sun
whether the Aquarian Age coincides with and has a wobbling motion, similar to
the passage of the Sun through the con- that of a spinning top which has almost
stellation of Aquarius or through the spent its force, the motion of the Sun
Zodiacal division by that name. appears to be uneven, and each year,
when it enters the constellation Aries,
Answer: in this paragraph our corre- crossing the Earth’s equator, it is a little
spondent takes up a number of points. earlier than the year before. It precedes.
And on the principle that the “the last And thus the point where the Sun crosses
shall be first”, we will consider the last the equator at the Vernal Equinox moves
part of his interrogation, where, as you backwards from year to year at the rate of
will notice, he makes a distinction one degree in seventy-two years, one
between the constellation of Aquarius constellation in two thousand and one
and the Zodiacal division by that name. hundred years, and the whole twelve
This, in itself, is a great difficulty to signs in twenty-five thousand eight hun-
many people, who do not know how to dred and fifty-six years. This latter period
differentiate between the Zodiacal con- is called a Great Sidereal year.
stellations and the so called intellectual
Zodiac. The explanation is as follows: It has been observed that no matter
where in the Zodiac the Sun crosses the
A certain group of stars in the heavens equator, a certain physical effect takes
are called Aries, another group, located place. The flowers begin to sprout out of
close to them, is called Taurus; a third the Earth, the little birds begin to mate,
group of fixed stares is called Gemini, the mute Earth is awakened to new life,
and so on. These twelve constellations or new hope and new song. Also the spiritu-
groups of stars, as seen in the heavens, al effects following the Sun’s entrance
always remain in the same relative posi- into the Northern Hemisphere, at the

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Vernal Equinox has been observed to 1915, which begins at twelve o’clock on
remain unchanged. And therefore the first the night of the 31st of December 1914,
thirty degrees from that point, where the and lasts until the 31st of December 1915
Sun crosses the equator, are called Aries, at 12 o’clock midnight. That is a mathe-
the next thirty degrees are called Taurus, matical division of time. But the various
the third thirty degrees are called Gemini, epochs of human existence depend upon
and so on through the twelve signs. vital influences in life, and are conditions
of mind rather than divisions of time,
This intellectual division of the circle though the two are linked.
of the Zodiac coincides with the constel-
lations in the heavens only once in twen- Therefore Astrologers recognize what
ty-five thousand eight hundred and fifty- is called an “orb of influence”. To under-
six years. During all the rest of the time stand this, we must realize that every
the intellectual Zodiac moves backwards, human being is something more than that
as explained, on account of the preces- which we see; that he has surrounding
sion of the equinox. The last time when him an aura, an invisible atmosphere, a
the starting point in the intellectual something which radiates from him and
Zodiac agreed with the Zodiacal constel- which partakes of his distinct and person-
lations was about 600 A. D. A year after al nature. We very often feel the effect of
these points were in exact agreement, the this aura though we do not understand the
Sun crossed the equator about fifty sec- reason why.
onds of space in the constellation Pisces.
The year following it was one minute and Suppose that someone has his whole
forty seconds into Pisces, and so it has mind concentrated upon his work so that
been creeping backwards ever since, until he neither hears nor sees what happens
at the present time the Sun crosses the about him; but gradually he becomes
equator in about ten degrees in the con- aware that someone else has entered the
stellation Pisces, and it will thus be about room; is, in fact, standing behind him,
700 years before it actually crosses the and he turns around to find a friend there.
celestial equator in the constellation He had not heard the friend enter on
Aquarius. account of absorption in his work, but he
felt him, because the aura of the friend
The Aquarian Age may be said to start intermingled with his own auric atmos-
at the time when the Sun enters, by pre- phere; and thus, though there was no
cession, the 30th degree of the constella- physical contact, he knew that someone
tion Aquarius, and it lasts 2100 years, was close by.
while the Sun moves backwards through
the thirty degrees until it comes to the The constellations are groups of Great
first degree of Aquarius. There is, howev- Spirits who have immured themselves in
er, no definite and sharp cut-off like we these starry bodies for the sake of less
make when we say we enter the year advanced intelligences to gain the experi-
ences of evolution. Each of the fixed stars

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in a constellation also has its invisible But, the Son of Man is the subject of
bodies, which extend from one to the prophecy: of something yet to come. He
other, intermingle, and overlap. is to usher in a glorious age, and therefore
Therefore, when the Sun reached the we may look for developments of a star-
tenth degree of Pisces, it touched the tling nature to take place in the nearest
fringe or the constellation of Aquarius’ centuries before us.
influence, though we are still in the
Piscean Age. Moreover, each of the foregoing ages
have had their teachers. Osiris and
That this influence is making, itself felt Mithras were worshiped in Egypt and
a glance of retrospection will soon show. Persia, while the Sun was going through
We readily recognize the Piscean influ- Taurus, the sign of the bull. The Lamb
ence during the last two-thousand years. was slain from the foundation of the
The dark ages, the superstition, the intel- Christian world, by Moses, while the Sun
lectual bondage, then prevalent, are not was going through the sign Aries. There
entirely routed. But since the middle of was a great controversy concerning the
last century, when the Aquarian influence symbol of Christ, on account whereof the
first began to make itself felt, an irre- Bishop’s Miter is still made in the form of
sistible intellectual impulse has been a fish, to symbolize the fact that the phase
instilled into our every-day life. Science of the Christian religion then inaugurated
has made such strides as never before. was to hold sway during the Piscean or
Invention has electrified the world and is Fish age, in which we now are. Later the
now conquering the air, etc. This scientif- ideal of the Son of Man, or Super-man,
ic intellectual influence will make itself will furnish inspiration for the Aquarian
felt more and more during the centuries Age, which is now being ushered in.
which will pass before we definitely
enter the constellation Aquarius by pre- The Aquarian Age is not to be con-
cession of the equinox. As the narrow, founded with The Kingdom of Christ,
conservative Piscean influence diminish- who is to come again; neither is the
es, so will the broadening inquiring Aquarian Age to be confounded with the
Aquarian influence increase. sixth (Galilean) epoch; for to quote the
words of the Christ, “Of that day and
Regarding what the Aquarian Age hour [when he comes] knows no man;
stands for spiritually, we may realize that neither the Angels in heaven, nor the Son,
Aquarius is the only figure in the Zodiac but only the Father.” And it is absolutely
representing the full stature of a Man. All preposterous and a mark of ignorance for
the principal characters of the Old anyone to predict that the coming of
Testament were shepherds, having refer- Christ will take place at a certain, speci-
ence to “Aries”, the sheep, ram or lamb. fied time. Perhaps it is even presumptu-
In the New Testament they are fishermen, ous to guess at the approximate time
referring to Pisces, the sign of the fishes. when the second advent will take place;

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but the writer has the idea that, as the pre- cannot take place for at least three thou-
cessional cycles, so far as they are con- sand years. The reader is referred to our
nected with the evolution of man, seem to article in the Astral Ray Department, on
commence with the Sun’s entrance into The Precessional Influence on Religion,
Capricorn, there may be a development at for a reason why we hold that Capricorn
that time. If that is correct, the advent is the cyclic starting point.

The Astral Ray

******

THE RATIONAL BASIS OF when the opportunity offered; for it has
ASTROLOGY always been found that “a man convinced
against his will is of the same opinion
A correspondent writes to ask for proof still.”
of the truth of Astrology. Why does
Saturn govern the knees and Jupiter the There is, however, plenty of proof of
feet? He has had an argument with some- the truth and basis of Astrology. A home-
one and wishes to learn what may be said ly old proverb says that “the proof of the
on this subject. pudding is in the eating thereof”; and
there can certainly be no better proof of
The mere denial of the truth of the truth of Astrology than that it works
Astrology by someone, because it does out in daily life. It has often been the
not appeal to him, cannot affect the truth privilege of the writer to see the sneering
or falsity of Astrology or any other sci- skeptic turn ardent advocator when a test
ence. Let us bear this in mind, that to be or two had proven to him the truth of
entitled to consideration, an opinion on Astrology. He would then be just as
any subject must be the result of study impatient with those who ridiculed this
and investigation. We may say further science or denied its rational basis as he
that no one deserves to be convinced who had previously been with those who advo-
is not willing to investigate, to some cated the accuracy of the sacred science.
extent, the subject which he presumes to
criticize. If you want to satisfy a sneering cynic,
take up his own horoscope, or some mat-
Personally, the writer has always made ter intimately connected with him, and
it a practice never to speak unbidden apply Astrology. You will then find that,
upon these subjects among strangers, no matter how thick his skull, Astrology
though always willing to present evidence will pound its way through; yes, even if

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his skull or skin is so thick that it requires furnished an explanation which would
a railway train to ram it home. Even that successfully account for all the different
will be supplied, as shown by the case phases in this prophecy and fulfillment.
mentioned in the Rosicrucian Cosmo-
Conception, where the writer told a man The above prediction was based on the
to stay indoors on two certain days; that astrological dictum that Gemini rules the
he must particularly avoid street cars and shoulders, Taurus the neck and cerebel-
other vehicles of locomotion, no matter lum, and Cancer the breast; for these
what nature; that otherwise he would parts were injured by the accident.
meet with an accident to certain specified Similar observations carried on by
parts of the body. When he had careless- Astrologers show that Capricorn, ruled
ly disregarded this advice, he had been by Saturn, governs the knees, and Jupiter
injured in a railway accident as a conse- rules Pisces, the sign of the feet.
quence, and had been subjected to three
months’ severe suffering before he was ASTROLOGICAL ANECDOTES
able to write an explanation.
The old-fashioned “’sperience
He said in the letter, which we still meetins”, where all took turns in relating
have, “This accident has deepened my what the Lord had done for them, and
respect for Astrology.” Yes, and no won- thus strengthened each other’s faith, was
der; he ate the pudding, and the pudding a simple demonstration of the fact that
proved to be true. Therefore he is now an we are helped by knowing how a given
ardent advocate of Astrology and lec- phase of human faith or knowledge has
tures upon that subject, among others. served others; and it may, therefore, be
Some predictions may come true, if both interesting and beneficial to open
made a little while before the event is due the columns of the Astral Ray
to happen, because the suggestion of the Department to those who have had direct
Astrologer acted as a factor in bringing proof of the truth of astrological predic-
about the fulfillment of his prophecy. But tions. In this way it should be possible to
surely, no one can explain the case here bring out many interesting and instruc-
quoted on that or any kindred hypothesis. tive facts.
Railroad collisions are not usually
brought about by suggestions, nor is a The stories should be clearly written,
certain person sent to such a scene to on one side of the paper only; they
receive injuries of a serious nature to cer- should be short and to the point.
tain definitely described parts of body,
mentioned in the prediction. Naturally, the writer has had many such
instances of predictions come true, and
Therefore we verily believe that even while many are private, on account of the
the champion co-incidentalist, Prof. bearing they have upon other people’s
Proctor, of Pyramid fame, could not have lives, he is free to relate many more,
where such proprieties are not involved.

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ANOTHER RAILROAD STORY National Park, so Mr. X. went alone.
Between Gardner Junction and the Park
While the accident related in our article his train was derailed, all the passengers
on The Rationale of Astrology was pre- were considerably shaken, but no one
dicted only three months before it hap- was hurt. Upon his return we both went
pened, we predicted another railway to Chicago, where the Rosicrucian
accident about the same time; that is to Cosmo-Conception was published, and
say, in the summer of 1906. But that acci- thus the prediction, made three years
dent was not due to happen until about before, was fulfilled. It must be stated,
August 1909. The subject of this accident however, that both of us had forgotten
we will call Mr. X. We saw that in the prediction until later, when Mr. X.
August 1909 he would take a railway brought out the horoscope containing the
journey for pleasure and that he would prediction, which he found while looking
meet with an accident there, but would through some papers.
escape unharmed. We also saw that in
September 1909, a month later, he would This surely is another case that will
take a long journey in connection with an successfully defy the explanation, that
important literary undertaking; but we suggestion caused its fulfillment. What
did not dream then how closely we our- human being could arrange a railroad
selves should be associated with the ful- accident three years before it happened
fillment of that matter. and provide for the safety of the passen-
gers as well. The writer knew very little
In the meantime the writer went to about the Rosicrucians at that time and
Germany, where he was given the did not dream then of the good fortune in
instructions which have resulted in the store for him as their messenger. He had
spread of the Rosicrucian teachings in had only one personal experience of the
the Western world. And after writing the soul-power latent within him, neither had
Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception and the he developed, or thought of developing,
Twenty Lectures, he went West again, to the faculty of writing. He had no dream
Seattle, during the Alaska Yukon Pacific whatever of becoming an author, and
Exposition in 1909. There he again met therefore could not have put in the sug-
Mr. X., and in August, when his lectures gestion of an important literary undertak-
had been concluded, that gentleman ing which would take Mr. X. East in
invited him to take a run up to September1909. There is only one expla-
Yellowstone Park. After taking this plea- nation possible: The stars told the tale,
sure trip and a rest, he proposed that we and it was true.
go to Chicago, to have the Rosicrucian
Cosmo-Conception published. Send us the names of your friends
who might be interested in the work this
The writer was too much occupied with magazine is trying to do.
the literary work in hand, however, to
accept the invitation to Yellowstone

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To An Astrologer

BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

Nay, seer, I do not doubt thy mystic lore,
Nor question that the tenor of my life,
Past, present and the future, is revealed
There in my horoscope. I do believe
That yon dead Moon compels the haughty seas
To ebb and flow, and that my natal star
Stands like a stern-browed sentinel in space
And challenges events; nor lets one grief,
Or joy, or favor, or success pass on
To mar or bless my earthly lot, until
It proves its karmic right to come to me.

All this I grant; but more than this I know!
Before the Solar systems were conceived,
When nothing was but the unnameable,
My spirit lived, an atom of the Cause.
Through countless ages, and in many forms
It has existed, ere it entered in
This human form to serve its little day
Upon the Earth; the deathless ME of Me.
The spark from that great all-creative fire
Is part of that eternal source called God.
And mightier than the universe.

Why he
Who knows, and knowing never once forgets
The pedigree divine of his soul,
Can conquer, shape and govern destiny,
And use vast space as 'twere a board for chess
With stars for pawns; can change his horoscope
To suit his will; turn failure to success,
And from preordained sorrows, harvest joy.

There is no puny planet, sun, or moon,
Or Zodiacal sign which can control
The God in us! If we bring that to bear
Upon events, we mold them to our wish;
’Tis when the Infinite ’neath the finite gropes
That men are governed by their horoscopes.

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Opportunity

How often one hears some one, who of your condition. These influences last
considers himself “down and out”, say, only for a month; but nevertheless they
“Well, I had my opportunity once, and I are potent factors in fertilizing the seed
lost it”. There is no greater fallacy than of opportunity so that it may bear fruit in
the idea that “Opportunity knocks only your life.
once at a man’s door”; and those who
study Astrology should be particularly If an eclipse happens in yours horo-
aware of this fact. For even if there be scope in aspect to any of the good plan-
no other help in a horoscope, Jupiter ets or vivifying any of the good aspects
makes a circuit through the twelve signs in your nativity, this influence will last
once in every eleven years and during for a whole year and bring repeated
that time he will meet and make good chances. All that is necessary is to be
aspects with every planet in our horo- awake and to grasp opportunity on the
scope. wing, for it is like a seed: Unless you
plant it in the soil and cultivate it, it will
Moreover, every year the lunations not grow.
come around to fructify at least some of
the aspects in your horoscope and bring So stop complaining. Watch for the
into your life chances for the betterment good in your horoscope and make the
best use of it. You are bound to win.

Here is a good poem on “Opportunity” by Walter Malone

They do me wrong who say I come no more
When once I knock and fail to find you in;
For every day I stand outside your door,
And bid you wake and rise and fight and win.
Wail not for precious chances passed away,
Weep not for golden ages on the wane;
Each night I burn the records of the day,
At sunrise every soul is born again.
Laugh like a boy at splendors that have sped,
To vanished joys be blind, and deaf, and dumb;
My judgments seal the dead past with its dead,
But never bind a moment yet to come.
Though deep in mire, wring not your hands and weep,
I lend my arm to all who say: “I can.”
No shamefaced outcast ever sank so deep
But he might rise and be again a man.

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YOUR CHILD’S HOROSCOPE indicates a tendency to evade the truth,
Nancy P. Born Sept. 14, 1912, 11:30 and love of truth should be carefully
inculcated in little Nancy before the habit
Portland, Maine gets a hold of her. We have no doubt that
We judge first the mentality, particular- with proper care on the part of the par-
ly from the position and aspects of the ents, this evil tendency can be kept latent
Moon and Mercury. That Mercury rises in her; for, as said, Mercury is in its home
before the Sun is a good omen; but the sign and most highly elevated. It is also
Moon makes no aspects at all and is in Lord over the sign Gemini, in which
Saturn is posited, and therefore it has
the twelfth house. Mercury also is afflict- considerable power over his evil nature.
ed by the square of Jupiter and Saturn.
Thus, Nancy will never be a very good The Sun sextile to Neptune, which
reasoner; but she will, nevertheless, be planet is in the eighth house and in the
very bright; for, as said, Mercury rises psychic sign Cancer, will give her a fond-
before the Sun, and both the Sun and ness for the mysterious and a very rich
Mercury are in the Mercurial sign Virgo. inner life. She is not going to be very
They are the most highly elevated plan- companionable, but will always seek her
ets in the horoscope and the Sun is sex- own company and prize that in prefer-
tile to Neptune. These configurations ence to other associates. Do not worry
will give her a grasp of things altogether over this tendency. People who are thus
independent of reason and much quicker. constituted often live a life that is much
more happy and contented than the lives
The square of Saturn and Mercury, as of those who, like butterflies, flit from
we have said in previous horoscopes, one cup of pleasure to another. There is a
silent, inner contentment in a nature like
Nancy’s and that is compensation, or
more than compensation, for all that she
may miss by not fraternizing with other
people. This phase of her love nature is
also expressed by the fact that Mars and
Venus are conjunction to Dragon’s tail,
close to cusp of the house of friends. The
Dragon’s tail has a Saturnine influence
and it is very plain that, as Venus the
planet of love, the ruler of the sign Libra,
which governs the eleventh house in this
figure, is between the Saturnine Dragon’s
tail and Mars, her friends would always
endeavor to make use of her and then

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would betray her. This will eventually her sufficient recuperative power that she
drive her into her own inner nature as will always come out all right; but the
into a shell. She will shun friends and period of adolescence will begin with her
seek her own company. at the age of about twelve years, when
the Moon reaches opposition to Mars,
The sixth sign, Virgo, and the sixth and as the flow will be quite copious, it is
house, denote labor. Virgo, the sixth sign, advisable to safeguard her and to watch
is on the tenth cusp, which governs the her strength in every particular during
profession and social honors. This shows the ten years following that time; for at
that she will probably have a clerical about the age of twelve the Moon strikes
position, indicated by Mercury, and the the opposition to Mars, then to Venus,
Sun close to the tenth cusp always brings and in the nineteenth year the Sun is also
employment under the government, or conjunction with Mars. Thus there will
directly with the head of some large con- be a great flow of blood in the system. At
cern. The square of Mercury to Saturn in the age of twenty-five, when the Sun has
the other Mercurial sign, Gemini, will passed the Dragon’s tail, she will again
make her very close- mouthed, and thus became strong and robust, nor is it to be
it is probable that she will be qualified inferred that she will be very delicate at
for a position of confidential nature in a any time; for. as said, the Sun being the
clerical capacity with either the govern- highest planet, will always give her lots
ment or some large corporation. This of life force and recuperative power.
position will naturally bring a commen-
surate salary, and Jupiter in his own sign, Constance Br. Born March 21, 1910
Sagittarius, near the second house gov- Chicago, Ill.
erning finance, is an indication of com-
fortable financial circumstances through When Constance was born, Mercury
life. rose before the Sun and it was trine to
Neptune. The Moon was on the
With respect to the health, Saturn in Ascendant, trine to Saturn, and both
Gemini opposition Jupiter, and Mercury Saturn and the Sun are in the ninth house,
square to Saturn from the Mercurial which governs the mind particularly.
signs, indicate that she will be of a very Jupiter being in the third house, govern-
nervous nature and subject to attacks of ing the lower mind, and trine to Mars.
cold in the chest. She ought to be given Mars, Saturn, the Sun, and Mercury are
breathing exercises with a proper amount elevated. These configurations show a
of exercise in the fresh air, for Saturn in very fine, alert, methodical mind, capa-
Gemini, the sign of the lungs, is not very ble of considerable concentration
favorable for one who is likely to because Saturn, the planet of obstruction,
become an office worker. You need have is trine to the Moon. In the writer’s esti-
no fear however, of tuberculosis. The
Sun being so highly elevated, will give

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mation, the mind is really the only place allowed to go to any spiritualistic seances
where Saturn is directly beneficial. He or have anything to do with persons who
holds down the flighty mind, and thereby have a mediumistic trait. For these prac-
makes it more usable for reasoning tices are liable to wreck her whole life if
processes; and when he reins in the mind she allows herself to indulge in them.
by a beneficent aspect, such as the sextile
or the trine, we always have a very good, About the age of twenty-two, the Moon
clear reasoner and a sensible person. will reach the conjunction to Mars and
Saturn in Aries, and Aries in the ninth Dragon’s head, which has an influence
house is a combination, however, that like the Sun, in the tenth house. The Sun
makes the mind somewhat melancholic. at the same time will have reached
This may only appear so, because per- Saturn, which is Lord of the seventh
sons with this configuration have a mind house, denoting marriage. It will then
also be sextile to Venus in the seventh
not in the slightest frivolous, but look house and trine to the Moon. This will
always upon the serious side of life. mean that at that time she will find her
mate and the result will probably be a
There are two aspects of Saturn in this marriage. But you must remember,
horoscope which are not very good, how- Astrology does not concern itself with
ever; namely, the square to Uranus and the legal union. It tells us only that there
Neptune, particularly as Neptune is in the will be, at that time, a strong attraction to
psychic sign Cancer and in the twelfth some one of opposite sex, an attraction of
house, the house of sorrow and trouble. a nature that is likely to result in a life
This gives a decided tendency to psy- partnership.
chism and mediumship of a most unde-
sirable nature, and it will therefore be Mars in Gemini, a Mercurial sign, and
well to watch that Constance is never in conjunction with the benevolent
Dragon’s head in the tenth house, and the
trine of the fiery planet to Jupiter in the
third house, the sign of the lower mind or
speech, will make Constance very quick-
spoken, good at repartee, witty, but never
vicious. The position of Mars in the tenth
house usually lays a woman liable to
slander; the trine to Jupiter shows that in
this case there will be no foundation for
the attacks upon her character and that
she will be vindicated. However, the
ounce of prevention is always better than
the pound of cure, and it would be well
for Constance to be schooled in comport-

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ing herself in a manner that she will way to save her from becoming a dys-
avoid even the slightest appearance of peptic. Start this very early in the home,
evil in her conduct. but remember, do not you eat one kind of
food while giving Constance another.
With regard to health, we find that the Children are governed by example; if
Moon is in opposition to Venus from the you give her something she considers not
sign of the heart, Leo. This shows that as good as what you eat, she will remem-
there is an obstruction of the venous cir- ber. And in later years, when she has
culation; and as Saturn governs the pneu- grown away from under your control, the
mogastric nerve and is positive in the craving for the foods she saw you eat will
sign of Aries, we may look for some assert itself. She will indulge; and the
obstruction there. This also will make her good effects of the care you have given
subject to sick headaches which will her in her childhood will not avail her
mostly be caused by gas on the stomach, nearly so much. A very simple diet for
owing to the fact that Saturn is square to the whole family will be the only effi-
Neptune in the sign of Cancer, which cient means to safeguard her digestion.
rules the stomach. From this source will No one is more miserable than a chronic
come most of her trouble and it cannot be dyspeptic and you can save her years of
emphasized strongly enough that a ratio- agony by heeding these directions.
nal diet of the simplest nature is the only

A DREAM OF ROSES beamed star-wise five streams of golden
By Blanche Cromartie rays and hanging upon the Cross there
seemed to be a wreath. But the Dreamer
That Dreamer who has Mercury (B) hardly heeded this, being engrossed by
and Venus (C) in Aquarius (Z) dreamed, the wonder of the five pointed star, for its
and in her dream she saw, reaching on all rays were more golden than the finest
sides to the horizon, a vast desert, entire- gold and each one, though myriad their
ly covered with stones; stones neither number, was clear and individual, like a
rare nor precious nor even picturesque, gleaming hair.
but misshapen, ugly, incrusted with soil
and dust—a weary sight. From the two lower star-streams the
rays fell upon the stones and she saw that
And the voice that speaks without one ray went to every separate stone, to
words said to her: every stone one. And lo, they were stones
no longer: everyone of them had become
“These stones are the souls in the a rose.
world.” Thereupon the Dreamer turned
her eyes heavenward and there beheld And the voice that speaks without
more beauty than the world of men’s words said to her:
souls dreamed, for in the blue vault there
arose a vast cross, white and luminous, “See how these roses smell.”
and its extremities seemed about bur- And the Dreamer laughed at the thought
geoning into flowers. From its center
(continued on page 29)

Studies

in

The Rosicrucian

Cosmo Conception

*******

THE VITAL BODY much higher degree of efficiency than the
(Continued) dense body of today. As it is a much more
pliable vehicle, the spirit will then be able
By Harry Wilson to use it in a manner impossible of real-
ization in the case of the present dense
During the Lemurian and Atlantean vehicle (p. 242).
Epochs of our Earth’s history man was
involuntarily clairvoyant, and it was On page 422 of the Cosmo it is said that
because at that time the vital body was in the Jupiter Period the forces of the dense
not so firmly incorporated with the dense body will be superimposed upon the com-
body (p. 241). Since then the vital body pleted vital body. That vehicle will then
has become much more firmly interwo- possess the powers of the dense body in
ven with the dense body in the majority of addition to its own faculties, and will
people, but in all “sensitives” it is loose. therefore be a much more valuable instru-
It is that looseness which constitutes the ment for the expression of the threefold
difference between the psychic and the spirit than if built from its own forces alone.
ordinary person, who is unconscious of
all but the vibrations contacted by means The Jupiter Period is the Day of
of the five senses. All human beings have Manifestation succeeding the Earth
to pass through this period of close con- Period, and will mark the fourth stage of
nection of the vehicles and experience the development of the vital body, just as the
consequent limitation of consciousness. Earth Period marks the fourth stage of
development of the dense body. The vital
In the Jupiter Period man will function body will be man’s densest vehicle in that
in his vital body as he now does in his Period, and was fashioned in the likeness
dense body; and as no development in of the present dense body so that it could
nature is sudden, the process of separat- become fitted for such use (p. 240).
ing the two bodies has already com-
menced. The vital body will then attain a On page 404 we learn that the higher
life (Initiation) does not commence until
certain work of the vital body begins. The

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means used for bringing that into activity dense body at will. He may then function
is Love, or rather Altruism. The former in the higher worlds for the purpose of
word has been so abused that it no longer investigation and make use of the knowl-
conveys the meaning here required. edge thus acquired to further his develop-
During the old dispensation the path of ment.
Initiation was not free and open, except to
the chosen few. The Hierophants of the These retrospective exercises, when
Mysteries collected certain families about practiced in accordance with the
the Temples, setting them apart from all Rosicrucian method, will necessarily
the other people. These chosen families bring about a purification of our individ-
were then rigorously guarded as to certain ual desire bodies, and we thus “pave the
rites and ceremonies. Their marriages and way” for individual advancement, as did
sexual intercourse were regulated by the THE CHRIST when He “took away the
Hierophants. The effect of this was to sins of the world”, so that Whosoever will
produce a race having the proper degree may come.
of laxity between the dense and the vital
bodies; also to awaken the desire body THE DESIRE BODY
from its state of lethargy during sleep.
Thus a special few were made fit for ini- The student of the Rosicrucian Cosmo-
tiation and were given opportunities that Conception who is looking for informa-
could not be given to all. tion regarding the desire body will first
turn to page 540 of the Cosmo, where an
The Mission of Christ, in addition to alphabetical list of words and terms, used
“saving the lost”, was to make Initiation in this work, may be found. In that group,
possible to all. By “taking away the sin of beginning with the letter “D”, will be
the world” (not of the individual), or puri- found “Desire Body” and opposite that
fying the desire body of our planet, the name, “page 572”. We turn to page 572
connection between all human desire and and find an index arranged topically,
vital bodies has been loosened to such an showing upon what page of the Cosmo
extent that by training they become capa- references are made to the desire body.
ble of separation. Therefore Initiation is This index is a valuable aid to the student,
now open to all (p. 482). and the above method, if followed, will
help materially in the study of the
The training consists, in part, of certain Philosophy.
retrospective exercises which, when
faithfully and properly performed, bring We have learned that during the first
about a union of the conscious and the day of manifestation known as the Saturn
subconscious mind. This enables the aspi- Period, the Lords of Form implanted in
rant to voluntarily bring about the neces- the evolving life the germ which has
sary separation of the vital body, and thus developed our present dense body
consciously and with safety leave the (p.206). We have also learned that in the

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second day of manifestation, known as plete Period or stage of evolution.
the Sun Period, the Lords of Wisdom During the life of man his desire body is
radiated from their own bodies the germ
of the vital body which has developed our not shaped like his dense and vital bodies.
present vital body, and making possible It has the appearance of a luminous
growth and propagation (p. 211). ovoid, which in waking hours completely
surrounds the dense body as the albumen
Our index on page 572 first refers us to does the yolk of an egg. It extends from
page 215, where it is said, in the third twelve to sixteen inches beyond the dense
Revolution of the third day of manifesta- body. It also interpenetrates both the vital
tion or Moon Period, the Lords of and dense bodies (p. 67).
Individuality radiated from themselves
the substances which they helped the We have a dense body, which is neces-
unconscious evolving man to appropriate sary as an instrument of action. We have
and build into a germinal desire body. a vital body, by which the power of
They also helped him to incorporate this motion, necessary to action, is transmit-
germinal desire body in the compound ted to the dense body. We have a desire
vital and dense body which he already body in order that there may be incentive
possessed. to action (p. 28).

We are at the present time in the fourth As shown in the diagram on page 54,
day of manifestation, or Earth Period. As the desire body is composed of the sub-
the dense body was started in the first day stance of the Desire World. On pages 38
or Saturn Period, we say that the dense and 39 we find that as the Chemical
body is now in its fourth stage of evolu- Region is the realm of form and as the
tion. The vital body having been started Etheric Region is the home of the forces
in the second day or Sun Period is now carrying on life activities in those forms,
said to be in its third stage of evolution. enabling them to live, move, and propa-
We then understand clearly what is meant gate, so the forces in the Desire World,
when we say that the desire body is now working in the quickened dense body,
in the second stage of its evolution. Its impel it to move in this or that direction.
development at the present time is no
greater than was that of our dense body in If there were only the activities of the
the Sun Period, and on page 78 is found Chemical and Etheric Regions of the
the statement that the desire body and the Physical World, there would be forms
mind are as yet mere clouds—almost having life, able to move, but with no
entirely unorganized. The mind is a prod- incentive for so doing. This incentive is
uct of the Earth Period, and its develop- supplied by the cosmic forces active in
ment therefore cannot compare with that the Desire World, and without this activi-
of the desire body, the desire body having ty playing through every fibre of the
the advantage in that respect of one com- vitalized body, urging action in this direc-
tion or that, there would be no experience
and no moral growth. The functions of

RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS 27

the different ethers would take care of the stone is broken, it does not feel; but it
growth of the form, but the moral growth would be wrong to infer that there is no
would be entirely lacking. Evolution feeling connected with such an action.
would be an impossibility, both as to form That is the materialistic view, or the view
and life; for it is only in response to the taken by the uncomprehending multitude.
acquirements of spiritual growth that The occult scientist knows that there is no
forms evolve to higher states. Thus we act, great or small, which is not felt
see at once the great importance of this throughout the universe, and even though
realm of nature (p 89). the stone, because it has no separate
desire body, cannot feel, the Spirit of the
Desires, wishes, passions, and feeling Earth feels, because it is the Earth’s desire
express themselves in the matter of the body that permeates the stone. When a
different regions of the Desire World, as man cuts his finger, the finger, having no
form and feature express themselves in separate desire body, does not feel the
the Chemical Region of the Physical pain, but the man does, because it is his
World. They take forms which last for a desire body which permeates the finger. If
longer or shorter time, according to the a plant is torn up by the roots, it is felt by
intensity of the desire, wish, or feeling the Spirit of the Earth as a man would feel
embodied in them. In the Desire World if a hair were torn from his head. The
the distinction between the forces and the Earth is a living, feeling body, and all the
matter is not so definite and apparent as in forms which are without separate desire
the Physical World. One might almost say bodies through which their informing
that here the ideas of force and matter are spirits may experience feeling, are includ-
identical or interchangeable. It is not ed in the desire body of the Earth, and
quite so, but we may say that to a certain that desire body has feeling. The breaking
extent the Desire World consists of force- of a stone and the breaking off of flowers
matter (p 39). are productive of pleasure to the Earth,
while the pulling out of plants by the
The Desire World is the desire body of roots causes pain.
our Planet, the Earth. The fact that ani-
mals and man may roam over the Earth’s The planetary Desire World pulsates
surface is due to their desire to do so. through the dense and vital bodies of ani-
This, the mineral and plant cannot do, as mal and man in the same way that it pen-
explained upon pages 64 and 65. Here we etrates the mineral and plant; but in addi-
learn that both minerals and plants lack tion to this, animal and man have separate
the separate desire body. They are perme- desire bodies, which enable them to feel
ated only by the planetary desire body, desire, emotion, and passion. There is a
the Desire World. Lacking the separate difference however: The desire body of
vehicle, they are incapable of feeling, the animal is built entirely of the material
desire, and emotion, which are faculties of the denser regions of the Desire World,
pertaining to the Desire World. When a

28 RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS

while in the case of even the lowest of body is rooted in the liver.
human races, a little of the matter of the In all warm-blooded creatures, which
higher Regions enters into the composi-
tion of the desire body. The feelings of are the highest evolved, and have feel-
animals and the lowest of the human ings, passions, and emotions, which reach
races are almost entirely concerned with outward into the world with desire, which
the gratification of the lowest desires and may be said to really live in the fuller
passions, which find their expression in meaning of the term and not merely veg-
the matter of the lower Regions of the etate—in all such creatures the currents
Desire World. Hence, in order that they of the desire body flow outward from the
may have such emotions to educate them liver. The desire stuff is continually
for something higher, it is necessary that welling out in streams or currents which
they should have the corresponding mate- travel in curved lines to every point of the
rials in their desire bodies. As man pro- periphery of the ovoid and then return to
gresses in the school of life, his experi- the liver through a number of vortices,
ences teach him, and his desires become much as boiling water is continually
purer and better. Thus, by degrees, the welling outward from the source of heat
material of his desire body undergoes a and returning to it after completing its
corresponding change. The purer and cycle (p.68).
brighter material of the higher Regions of
the Desire World replace the murky col- The plants are devoid of this impelling,
ors of the lower parts. The desire body energizing principle, hence they cannot
also grows in size, so that in a saint it is show life and motion as can the more
truly a glorious object to behold, the puri- highly developed organisms.
ty of its colors and its luminous trans-
parency being beyond adequate simile. It Where there is vitality and motion, but
must be seen to be appreciated (p 66). no red blood, there is no separate desire
body. The creature is simply in the transi-
At present, the materials of both the tion stage from plant to animal and there-
lower and the higher Regions enter into fore it moves entirely in the strength of
the composition of the desire bodies of the group-spirit.
the great majority of mankind. None are
so bad that they have not some good trait. In the cold-blooded animals, which
This is expressed in the materials of the have a liver and red blood, there is a sep-
higher Region which we find in their arate desire body and the group-spirit
desire bodies. But, on the other hand, direct the currents inward, because in
very, very few are so good that they do their case the separate spirit (of the fish or
not use some of the materials of the lower reptile, for instance) is entirely outside
Regions (p. 66). the dense vehicle (p 69).

Upon page 68 we learn that the desire When the organism has evolved so far
that the separate spirit can commence to
draw into its vehicles, then it (the individ-
ual spirit) commences to direct the cur-

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rents outward, and we see the beginning now possible, but will be unabashed
of passionate existence and warm blood. about their evil-doing (pp 69 and 70).
It is the warm, red blood in the liver of the
organism sufficiently evolved to have an (To be continued)
indwelling spirit which energizes the out-
going currents of desire stuff that cause A DREAM OF ROSES
the animal or the man to display desire (Continued from page 23)
and passion. In the case of the animal, the thought that perfume could be seen.
spirit is not yet entirely indwelling. It The surface or the world was now com-
does not become so until the points in the pletely covered with roses and she saw
vital body and the dense body come into how, in response to the rays from the star,
correspondence, as explained in Chapter each rose (which had been a stone) sent
XII, page 292 of the Cosmo. For this rea- an answering ray, not pure golden-bright,
son the animal is not a “liver,” that is, he like those shed by the star, but rays of col-
does not live as completely as does man, ors, hues, beautiful exceedingly and end-
not being capable of as fine desires and lessly varied. For every rose sent its own
emotions, because not as fully conscious. responsive ray and no two were alike, for
The mammalia of today are on a higher all the colors of Dreamland were there,
plane than was man at the animal stage of matchless in beauty and variety, far
his evolution, because they have warm, beyond any which are seen by those who
red blood, which man did not have at that think they are awake!
stage. This difference in status is account- The rays from the roses reflected to
ed for by the spiral path of evolution, their source and fell upon the wreath of
which also accounts for the fact that man roses which hung upon the Cross.
is a higher type of humanity than the pre- And just as the rays from the Cross had
sent Angels were in their human stage. changed the stones to roses, so now the
The present mammalia, which have in rays from the roses worked a wondrous
their animal stage attained to the posses- transformation, for, as they touched them,
sion of warm, red blood, and are therefore the Dreamer saw no rose-wreath but a
capable of experiencing desire and emo- halo formed of celestial beings like glow-
tion to some extent, will, in the Jupiter ing fire, which whirled and turned like
Period (the 5th day of manifestation wheels, so exquisitely bright that for very
which succeeds the Earth Period) be a joy the Dreamer awoke.
purer and better type of humanity than we
are now, while from among our present Would you like A Bigger Magazine?
humanity there will be some, even in the We have now 760 subscribers. To pay the
Jupiter Period, who will be openly and actual cost of material and mailing, we
avowedly wicked. Moreover, they will must have 1000 subscribers. When we
not be able to conceal their passions, as is get 1500 subscribers we will add 16
pages.

Nutrition and Health

******

ALCOHOL CONTROL IN SWEDEN In 1863, when Gothenburg had 30,000
population, there were 200 saloons. Now,
Harry Brook, in Brain and Brawn with 190,000 population, there are 14. In
these places only one drink is sold to a
From one of the most drunken nations customer within 30 minutes. The nearest
in Europe, Sweden has become one of liquor establishment is half a mile away,
the most sober. Fifty years ago a self- so that a man will have a chance to sober
appointed commission was organized to up between drinks, if he walks from one
investigate the alcohol traffic. With to another. The saloons are severely
Scandinavian thoroughness, the commis- plain, but clean. The barkeeper has to be
sion took a year to prepare its report. a tee-totaller. Over the bar are pictures,
This report emphasized the right of men showing a drunkard’s liver, and so forth,
to satisfy their appetites, while also instead of the “Venus at the Bath,” that
affirming the right of governments to you are likely to see in American “liquor
control the liquor traffic, when they emporiums”. Then there are cheerful
threaten to interfere with the welfare of notices reading: “The drink you hold in
society. The result was the formation of a your hand is poison,” and so forth. The
private corporation, in Gothenburg, to barkeeper is interested in the sale of soft
take over the traffic. Among the stock- drinks. An archway leads into the apart-
holders was the King of Sweden. Profits ment where these are sold. Here every-
of the corporation were limited to five thing is quite different. The room is com-
per cent, all profit above that percentage fortably furnished with rugs, easy chairs,
to be used for benevolent purposes, tables and pictures. There are cards and
including schools, libraries, workmen’s checker tables. Here are served tea, cof-
houses, vacation colonies, meals for fee, chocolate, and several kinds of soft
school children, workmen’s reading and drink, including—note this—a light beer
waiting rooms, public concerts and out- like American lager beer, which is less
door music, houses for consumptives, than half as strong as English ale. This is
children’s hospitals, out-door sports, regarded as a temperance beverage. The
sailors’ homes and parks, a large percent- fact being recognized that men in this
age to go to financing a campaign against strenuous age will partake of some kind
alcohol. Thus, every time a man takes a of stimulant, they are encouraged to take
drink in Sweden, he is aiding in fighting beer instead spirits.
the liquor traffic.
This system has been extended to all

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parts of Sweden and Norway, except in a A MENU FROM MOUNT ECCLESIA
few provinces, and in those they have
total prohibition. The result has been that Breakfast, 7:30 A. M.
drunkenness in Sweden has decreased 55
per cent and crime 45 per cent. In 1874, Baked Pears
27 liters of liquor per capita were sold in Rolled Oats and Cream
Sweden; in 1909, 10 ½ liters. Before Whole-Wheat Gems, Butter and Honey
adoption of this system there were 213
saloons to 100,000 inhabitants; now Coffee or Milk
there are 84. Deaths from alcoholism
have been reduced from 34 to 8 per ———-
10,000 inhabitants.
Dinner, 12 M.
The Swedes have many other good
customs. For instance, physical educa- Stuffed Cucumbers
tion. Even the condemned criminal has to Escalloped Salsify or Vegetable Oyster
do his “stunts,” up to the day of his exe-
cution. Then there are government pawn Buttered Noodles
shops, tending to decrease vice, crime Whole Wheat Bread, Butter and Honey
and drunkenness.
Milk
The Forestry Commission supplied last
year $13,250,000 worth of products, yet —————
accumulated timber resources equal to
twice that amount in timber felled. Over Supper, 5:30 P. M.
the entrance to the University of Upsala
is a legend from the Icelandic Eddas, Stuffed Ripe Tomatoes with Cabbage
which reads: “Free thinking is great;
right thinking is greater.” Swimming is Sponge Cake, Olives
compulsory in the schools of Sweden; in
other words, every boy and girl in Hot White Flour Biscuit
Sweden must learn to swim.
Butter and Honey Milk or Tea
In no country, not even in the United
States, do women exercise a wider influ- —————
ence, direct and indirect, in the home, the RECIPES
school, the church, and upon the platform.
Sweden was the first country to recog- STUFFED CUCUMBERS
nize equal property rights for women.
Take medium sized cucumbers, peel
- and cut in two lengthwise; remove inside
The Rosicrucian Motto: A Sane Mind, pulp and seed, stuff with mashed pota-
A Soft Heart, A Sound Body! toes, grate cheese over same, place
stuffed halves in buttered pan, sprinkle
with salt, place in oven and bake for
twenty minutes. Serve with brown sauce.

32 RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS

ESCALLOPED SALSIFY STUFFED RIPE TOMATOES WITH
CABBAGE
Wash, scrape, cut in pieces two cups of
Salsify roots: keep well covered with Wash selected ripe tomatoes, hollow
cold water until ready to cook, so as to out from stem end; stuff with slaw pre-
keep the colour; place in enough water to pared by slicing crisp cabbage, 1 1/4
keep from burning; just before tender, cups mixed with 1/2 cup chopped
salt lightly; drain, oil a shallow baking English walnuts. Place on plate gar-
pan, place salsify in layers, sprinkle with nished with parsley leaves, with one
bread or cracker crumbs between each spoonful of mayonnaise dressing on top.
layer, cover with cream sauce, bake until
brown. WHEN FOOD BECOMES A POISON

BUTTERED NOODLES No food that is used by man is a poison
per se. If it becomes a poison, it must be
Place one pint flour in shallow dish; when it has undergone the change of
with a spoon make a hole in centre, break decay which renders it unfit for food: or
two eggs into this with a little salt, mix when it is eaten beyond the digestive
the egg with the flour as long as the capacity, and is forced into an artificial
spoon will permit, making as stiff as decay; or the system so enervated that it
bread, then work with hands till as stiff has not power to rid itself of the elimina-
as possible; roll with rolling pin into a tive products, and they are retained to
thin sheet, allowing it to dry on baking further poison and enervate.
board until it can be rolled without stick-
ing. Cut into fine strips. Have a dish of —J. H. Tilden, M.D., in Food
water salted lightly and at the boiling
point; sprinkle the dry noodles lightly STARCH POISONING
into this boiling water and allow to boil
for 15 minutes; drain, place in serving Experiments conducted in Georgia and
dish and sprinkle with bread crumbs that in Mississippi have confirmed the theory
have been fried and browned in butter. of United States public health service
officials that pellagra is caused by eating
HOT WATER SPONGE CAKE too much starchy food.

Break four eggs into a dish, beat well There is no doubt that excessive eating
for 15 minutes, add 2/3 cup of sugar, beat of starchy food is harmful and a safe,
while adding 2 tablespoons of hot water wholesome diet must include a large per-
and 1/4 teaspoon vanilla flavor. Beat into centage of fresh vegetables, cooked or
this one cup flour, one tablespoon corn raw, ripe fruit, as well as milk and milk
starch (which first mix). Bake in slow products.
oven.
The excessive use of flesh meat and
starchy foods has been and is the cause of
much disease and suffering.

Healing Department

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A CASE OF OBSESSION prolonged dissertation of the forces that
work along the negative and the positive
By W. Stuart Leech, M. D., in Medical poles or the four ethers. Suffice it to say
Progress here that the elemental has real form and
possesses life, mostly gained from his
In several recently published articles poor, human victim. The casuist may
on obsession, I mentioned two classes; demand proof of this statement before
viz., demoniacal and elemental. The lat- going further. I reply that it is self-
ter is an obsession or a possession of the demonstrable and that the road to truth
patient’s faculties, to a greater or lesser and learning is open to any who is will-
extent, by an invisible (spiritual) entity. ing to pay the price. This price, however,
There may or there may not be lucid is not money, and if the searcher is
intervals, but in the case recorded below absolutely materialistic, he will do well
they were numerous. In the occult, I do not to read the Kybalion or like literature
pretend to be anything even approaching before making further medical research.
mastership, but there are lots of things I
can give first-hand knowledge on. It is well to remember that the most
fundamental thing in the plant is invisi-
It is not in the province of this brief ble to physical eyes. Supersensible
article to describe the motives and the knowledge is accessible to all those who
origin of such entities as elementals and search diligently and persistently.
nature spirits, nor will we enter into any
of the higher planes to describe the form In reporting this case we will hold our-
or chemical make-up of the elementals. selves as much to the physical side as is
The elemental is the simplest of all out- compatible with the subject, and will
side influences that obsess and it is the describe this an actual typical case of ele-
first real live outside influence or real mental obsession. Enter any institution
being with which the astro-medical diag- for the insane in the land and many like
nostician will come in contact. cases can be found. You may argue as
you please and deride to your heart’s
The real material make-up of the ele- content, but the truth will not be changed
mental is of one element, whence its to suit any of our preconceived opinions.
name. It is well for the reader to remem-
ber that we are here speaking of the Mrs. H., aged 26, wife of an honest
vibrations that are higher than the every- mechanic; mother of three children;
day physical, and that a full description blond, with some marks of feminine
of the elemental would carry us into a beauty; medium size, fairly well built;
came from an intelligent but neurotic

34 RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS

family, her father having died in an insti- was rapidly becoming bedridden and any
tution for the insane; lungs and heart in court of insanity would have unhesitat-
good condition, and no specific history. ingly adjudged a fit subject for a State
She was neat, industrious, and naturally institution. Her heart reacted to a hypo-
of a cheerful disposition. During the last dermic of strychnine; but the pupils, the
confinement, labor was completed in less windows of the soul (Ego) would not
than an hour under the able management yield to any stimulant that I applied.
of Dr. Muir, who attended her many
times during the seven weeks following. There were various metastatic nervous
The first week of the lying-in period she sensations simulating an impish brand of
did splendidly. After about the ninth day hysteria. The medical attendant can sense
she began to have peculiar nervous a warmer feeling or atmosphere when in
attacks of vague apprehension of danger the presence of the ordinary case of hys-
to her well-being. There was no fever at teria, be it the impish or the apish variety.
any time. Dr. Muir, in some subtle man-
ner, worked the case off on to me at the Her lucid intervals were slightly
beginning of the eight week. I was first noticeable. The pentabromides produced
called January 19th, at five o’clock in the fairly good sleep, although more or less
afternoon, and found her sitting in bed disturbed by dreams which were of sig-
holding a hot water bag to her left breast, nificance to any psycho-analyst.
hair dishevelled, her face displaying a
maniacal expression; not a wink of the Besides the hypodermic administration
eyelids; eyes sunken in sockets, pupils of Hys. Hydro. and the nocturnal dosage
dilated; hands and feet cold, showing dis- of pentabromides, I prescribed a bitter
turbed circulation, although the room tonic, to be taken after meals. I deter-
was comfortably warm; heart beat was mined to do all that was in my power as
slow, feeble but regular. Both pupils a physician to save her from the asylum;
were dilated and persistently refused to but the more I was doing, the more seri-
contract under the influence, of either ous grew the symptoms, until the third
light, hyoscyamus, strychnine or bro- day, when I decided that the diagnosis
mides. Her conversation was without could be modified or changed from that
reason and she was apprehensive lest she of nervous prostration to a plain case of
would immediately die, and would elemental obsession, which had its psy-
repeatedly ask the same question of the cho-neurotic symptoms produced by a
attendants as to her approaching death. factor beyond the visible physical. The
Regardless of the assurances to the con- pupils and attitude were pathognemonic.
trary, she would inquire a hundred times
or more a day if her heart was going to In this extremity a super-physical treat-
stop or if she would ever recover. She ment was begun to dispossess her of the
obsessing entity. It is not expedient to
give to the public the super-physical part
of the treatment at this time. Almost
immediately the iris began to play as it

RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS 35

were, or to react in spots, the lucid inter- ing an ideal condition as an invitation to
vals became longer, and within ten days outside influence. The elemental
the whole pupil had taken on a normal obtained an area of consciousness from
aspect. Within 36 hours of the beginning her at an early date, and as her acts were
of the modified treatment, a confession a surrender of life to the elemental it
came from the patient. She stated that grew great, feeding on the life ether and
from the age of five she had practiced was able to obtain possession of more
self-abuse and had continued this sexual areas of her consciousness. By and by the
perversion at intervals throughout life; elemental became the greatest thing
also had practiced it twice since her last within the temple, dethroning the human
confinement. Ego from its throne of reason.

The symptoms were the direct manifes- N. B.—Although the patient is able to
tation of this elemental which functioned attend to her household duties, she is still
on the ethereal plane. As an unseen vam- kept under medical observation.
pire it had grown great and was robbing
this fair mother of her very life principle. WHERE THE BATTLE RAGED
Unaided, she was powerless to rid herself FIERCEST THE ROSES WILL BLOOM
of this nature spirit.
A VISION BY L.H.M.B.
There is no need of elaborating on the
treatment as long as there is bias in the I look, and behold a plain on which a
diagnostic judgment of the reader. In terrible struggle is raging. The nations of
making a diagnosis, it is well for us to go the earth are gathered together to slay
slow in all neurotic cases, for we must and to destroy. The fiercest passions con-
first make sure that the symptoms have tend there; the most diabolical instru-
no physical origin, and that there can be ments of death and destruction that the
no obsession in toto without pupillary hands of man can fashion are there
dilation. It is easy to realize that to make ranged against one another. The air is
no error in the diagnosis in these cases is filled with the thunder of cannon, the
of paramount importance to the reputa- cries of the wounded and dying, and red
tion of the diagnostician and of serious is the ground with the blood of the slain.
import to the poor patient. In reality, the Then the smoke rises up, and blots out
names hysteria, neurasthenia and psy- my view.
cho-neurosis are vain subterfuges, used
to cover the multitudes of our ignorance. I look again, and behold! All is still. It
is evening, and the desolate country is
Stated briefly, the patient had a neurot- covered with a garment of snow. The
ic predisposition, a hostile environment, earth is at peace. Beyond the snow-clad
the stress of motherhood; and an evil hills the rising moon casts her silver
practice further weakened the physical glow upon the plain.
and mental possession, thereby provid-

36 RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS

Once more I look, and behold! It is use by the Elder Brothers and the
spring-time. The sun rises in all his beau- Invisible Helpers. The results obtained
ty and splendor, and sheds his radiance are marvellous, to say the least. The dates
o’er the earth. The air is filled with the of these meetings are as follows:
song of birds and the humming of bees.
There, where so recently fierce passions November 4, 10,16, 24
raged and the clamor of battle, the spring December 1, 7, 14, 21, 29
flowers now grow up and smile at the
Sun; the roses and honey-suckle bloom We append a few letters from those
upon the hedges; the lark soars upwards who have been helped by The Father
singing, and leaping in his joy as he through our method.
sings.
Mountain Home, Ida
The same Healing Spirit works in July 28, 1915
Nature and in the heart of man. There is
no wrong that It cannot right, no wound The Rosicrucian Fellowship
that It cannot heal. It is the Eternal Youth Oceanside, Calif.
within us, It is the Beauty that never Dear Friends:
fades nor perishes, the Love that never
wearies nor grows old. Out of the wreck I have not been writing my weekly let-
and ruin of a war-worn world It whispers ters to the healing department for I have
still. “Behold I make all things new.” been feeling so well I thought it was not
necessary. Should I feel any return of the
THE ROSYCROSS HEALING CIRCLE cough, I would be very glad to continue
my letters.
Meets as usual about half past seven in
the evening of the days when the Moon Sincerely yours,
enters Cardinal Signs of the Zodiac for Mrs. G. M.
the purpose of preparing, by spiritual
alchemy, a healing force which is then Kerman, Calif
sent out into the world to aid all who call Sept. 1, 1915
upon us in their distress—physical, men- Mr. Heindel,
tal or spiritual. Dear Sir, Just a few lines this morning
to tell you that I feel I am improving. My
Only a few of the workers are privi- hands are much better. In fact they
leged to be present in body, but thou- haven’t given me any trouble at all for
sands of faithful friends who are scat- some time.
tered all over the world go into the I wish to thank you for the wonderful
silence and join us in spirit. Thus a pow- help you are giving me and hope to be
erful dynamic current is generated for able sometime to contribute more to the
work than at present as it is surely a won-
derful work.
Very Sincerely
Mrs. V. M. L. E.

Echoes from Mt. Ecclesia

******

ROSICRUCIAN FELLOWSHIP BOOTH Booth, all associated in harmonious pro-
PANAMA PACIFIC EXPOSITION mulgation of our Ideals. We all visit each
other and I am glad to say that not only
The activities of the booth were pleas- the President of our Palace but many of
antly stimulated in July by a visit of the the most important exhibitors have visit-
General Secretary and his family who ed our Booth, not only once but several
spent three days with us on their way to times to learn more of this philosophy. I
Oceanside. We have since learned of was one of several invited to meet
their safe arrival there and are hoping for Madame Montessori because of our
another visit in August or September. teaching regarding the sacredness of Free
Will and our appreciation of what this
The Palace of Education, where the great educator is trying to bring into the
Fellowship Booth is located, has certain method of teaching.
characteristics which distinguish it from
the other Palaces. It is more especially The spirit of commercialism is con-
the Palace of Ideas for the Betterment of spicuously absent from this Palace and
Humanity. Within it are represented the generally speaking it is the resort of the
varied ideas of thinking men and women thoughtful and thinking people who
for ideals in education, living and reli- come to the Fair.
gion.
This week we had a most delightful
Back of the exhibits stands the state or call from the California poet Edwin
institution. New York alone has spent Markham, who spent over four hours
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in asking questions and listening with close
this Palace, representing her growth in attention to the answers given. He carried
Hospitals, Prison reform and schools, away every thing I had to give away and
etc. Massachusetts has done the same, I presented him with a copy of the
and other states in proportion. Cosmo-Conception which he expressed a
desire to own. The Booth has never had a
There is a Booth representing the more interesting visitor.
Sanatorium of Arequipa for the care of
Tuberculosis patients; one showing the We have had a call from the Director
child welfare work, and a model school of the Lowe Astronomical Observatory,
demonstrating the great Montessori sys- Mr. Edgar Lucien Larkin, author of,
tem of education. While scattered though Within the Mind Maze, who took a few
the Palace are the Federated churches of us over to see the Carnegie Exhibit of
and varied cults, and our own modest the work done at the Wilson Observatory

38 RAYS FROM THE ROSE CROSS

and explained the photographs made of LIVING WATER
the heavens, marvellous beyond words.
Last month the writer went to Los
So the days go, filled with work and the Angeles on Business and there acciden-
opportunity to explain as best we may tally ran across the most efficient and
this philosophy and give the spiritual simplest water purifier he has ever seen.
interpretation of the Christian Religion. The two wires from an electric lighting
circuit were connected to two aluminum
We are most glad to meet any student rods set in a piece of wood, these rods
who comes to the Fair and hope they will were three-eights of an inch thick and
always look us up. about twelve inches long. The instrument
was suspended in a glass vessel of water
In Fellowship, and the current was then turned on.
Annet C. Rich
All California water contains alkali in
ECCLESIA DRIVE varying degrees and there is probably no
water except that melted from freshly
In December 1909 we made a main fallen snow that has not been in contact
artery on Mt. Ecclesia, a beautiful wide with the ground, that is absolutely pure.
winding drive, which we completed for
about nine hundred feet, and planted, But an experiment with this simple
with large palms on both sides, which we instrument was sufficient to show its
had bought from a nursery in Oceanside. ability to purify even very hard water.
But for a year the sea breeze which blows When the current was turned on, a white
in the middle of the day on Mt. Ecclesia precipitate became visible at once and in
proved too strong for the poor palms, and about two minutes the water was milky
they had a hard time to accommodate white. The current was then turned off
themselves, now however they have and the instrument taken out, gradually
grown strong and sturdy, and everything the cloudiness disappeared and the white
is looking well. We are afraid however, precipitate raised first to the top and later
to try another experiment of the same it gradually fell to the bottom of the ves-
sort and therefore we have started a nurs- sel, leaving, above a quantity of water so
ery and planted several hundred palms of pure, so sparkling, and so soft that we
different kinds. These will grow up have never seen its like, it tasted just like
native to the soil, accustomed to the snow water.
winds from babyhood on, and next year,
when we extend Ecclesia Drive, as we The device is not patented as it is mere-
call our main road, around to Ecclesia ly the old principle of attaching metal
Point, where the Ecclesia is to be built, electrodes to an electric circuit, and the
we will also plant these little baby palms purpose of an invention can not be
so that when the Ecclesia is completed patented. Therefore, we at once secured
there will be a nice vegetation to set off three pairs of aluminum rods and made
the beautiful building. three instruments for use on Mt. Ecclesia.