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Bavant d'en entrer un
Explication des enseignements de Rosicrucian, il peut être bon de dire un mot
à leur sujet et à la place qu’ils occupent dans l’évolution de l’humanité.

Pour des raisons d'être donné plus tard ces enseignements
Parlant pour des vues dualistes, ils soutiennent que l'homme est un Esprit qui plie tout le monde
Les pouvoirs de Dieu en tant que graine aggrave la plante, et que ces forces sont
Lentement développé par une variété d'existences dans un corps terrestre en amélioration progressive;
aussi que ce processus de développement est mené sous la direction de
êtres exaltés qui commandent toujours nos pas, mais dans un but décroissant,
à mesure que nous acquérons progressivement l'intellect et la volonté. Ces êtres élevés, mais invisibles
Aux yeux physiques, cependant, les facteurs forts sont dans toutes les conditions de la vie,
et donner aux différents groupes d'humanité des leçons qui seront les plus efficaces
promouvoir la croissance de leurs pouvoirs spirituels. En fait, la terre peut être comparée
à un excellent cours de formation où il y a des étudiants d'âges et de capacités variés
comme nous le trouvons dans l'une de nos propres écoles. C'est le sauvage, vivant et
adorer dans les conditions les plus primitives, regarder dans un pieu ou une pierre un dieu.
Ensuite, à mesure que l’homme avance dans l’échelle de la civilisation, nous devenons
Trouvez une opinion de plus en plus haute de Dieu, qui a prospéré ici ce printemps
Monde occidental dans la belle religion chrétienne qui nous rend maintenant
inspiration spirituelle et incitation à améliorer.

Ces différentes religions ont été données à
Chaque groupe d'humanité connaît les êtres exaltés que nous connaissons dans le chrétien
religion comme un ange enregistreur, dont la merveilleuse prévision leur permet de voir
L’évolution de soi en tant que foule instable comme l’esprit humain, et donc ils sont
permis de déterminer quelles étapes sont nécessaires pour guider notre développement le long
lignes congruentes avec le plus grand bien universel.

Quand on étudie l'histoire de l'ancien
nations nous trouverons que dans environ six cents ans avant JC un grand spirituel
vague est originaire de la côte est du Pacifique où
La grande religion confucéenne a ensuite accéléré le progrès de la nation chinoise
La religion de Bouddha a également commencé à gagner ses millions d'adeptes dans
L'Inde et même plus à l'ouest, nous avons la haute philosophie de Pythagore. chaque
le système a été adapté aux besoins des personnes à qui il a été envoyé.
Puis vint la période des sceptiques, en Grèce, puis plus tard dans l'ouest
La même vague spirituelle se manifeste comme la religion chrétienne de la soi-disant
"Dark Ages" quand le dogme d'une église dominante obligé de croire
dans toute l'Europe occidentale.

Il y a une loi dans l'univers comme une vague de
l'éveil spirituel suit toujours une période de matérialisme douteux; chaque
phase est nécessaire pour que l’Esprit reçoive un développement égal de
cœur et de l'intellect sans être poussé trop loin dans les deux sens. Le grand
Les êtres mentionnés, soucieux de nos progrès, prennent toujours des mesures pour protéger
l'humanité contre ce père, et quand ils ont prévu la vague de matérialisme
qui a commencé au XVIe siècle avec la naissance de notre science moderne,
Ils ont pris des mesures pour protéger l'Ouest comme ils l'avaient précédemment sécurisé l'Est
contre les sceptiques qui ont été tenus en échec par les écoles de mystère.

Au XIVe siècle, apparu dans
Europe centrale un grand professeur spirituel dont le nom symbolique était

CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUZ

ou

CRISTAL ROSKROSS,

qui a fondé l'ordre mystérieux des roses
Cross, à propos duquel tant de spéculations ont été faites et si peu a
Être connu dans le monde entier, car c’est l’école des mystères de l’Ouest et
est seulement ouvert à ceux qui ont atteint le stade de développement spirituel
nécessaire pour être initié à leurs secrets des sciences de la vie et
Être.

Si nous sommes si développés que nous sommes capables
de quitter notre corps physique dense et prendre un aperçu de soi dans interplanétaire
Nous trouverons que l'atome physique ultime est de forme sphérique
notre sol; C'est une balle. Quand on prend un certain nombre de balles de taille et de groupe uniformes
Ceux autour de l'un, il ne faudra que douze balles pour cacher un treizième à l'intérieur.
Ainsi, les douze sont visibles et celui qui est caché, des nombres qui révèlent un cosmique
relations et tous les ordres de mystère sont basés sur des lignes cosmiques, ils sont
composé de douze membres réunis autour d'un treize qui est invisible
HEAD.

Il y a sept couleurs dans le spectre: rouge,
orange, jaune, vert, bleu, indigo et violet. Mais entre le violet et le violet
rouge il y a encore cinq autres couleurs qui sont invisibles à l'oeil physique
mais se manifester à la vision spirituelle. Dans chaque ordre de mystère, il est
aussi sept frères qui vont parfois dans le monde et y agissent
Peu importe le travail nécessaire pour promouvoir les gens parmi ceux qu’ils servent, cependant
Cinq ne sont jamais vus en dehors du temple. Ils travaillent avec et leur apprendre seul qui
a traversé certaines étapes du développement spirituel et est capable de visiter
le temple dans leurs corps spirituels, un exploit enseigné dans la première dédicace
qui a généralement lieu à l'extérieur du temple car il n'est pas pratique pour tout le monde de
visiter cet endroit physiquement.

Ne laissez pas le lecteur l'imaginer
L'inauguration fait de l'étudiant une Rose-Croix, il ne fait pas plus que l'admission
un lycée fait d'un garçon un membre de la faculté. Il ne devient pas non plus un
Rosicrucienne, même après avoir parcouru les neuf degrés de ceci ou de certains
une autre école de mystère. Les rosicruciens sont les hiérophantes des petits mystères,
et au-delà, il y a encore des écoles où l'on enseigne de plus grands mystères.
Ceux qui ont traversé les plus petits mystères s'appellent des adeptes, mais eux-mêmes
ils n'ont pas atteint la vue surélevée des douze frères
Ordre Rosicrucien ou Hiérophantes par une autre école de moindre mystère plus
que étudiant de première année au collège a atteint la connaissance et la position d'un
professeur de lycée dont il vient d'être diplômé.

Un travail ultérieur gérera l’initiation, cependant
On peut dire ici que la porte d’une véritable école de mystère n’est pas déverrouillée par un
Clé en or, mais seulement ouverte comme récompense pour un service digne de l'humanité
et toute personne qui annonce comme un rosicrucien ou qui paie
l'enseignement, par l'une de ces actions s'avère être un charlatan. Le vrai étudiant
Par n'importe quelle école de mystère est trop modeste pour annoncer le fait, il aura honte de tout
titres ou l'honneur des hommes, il n'aura aucun respect pour la richesse, sauve la richesse
amour qui lui est donné par ceux qui deviennent son privilège d’aider et d’enseigner.

Depuis des siècles, depuis lors
L’Ordre Rosicrucien a été formé, ils ont travaillé discrètement et secrètement, dans le but de
pour créer l'idée de l'Europe occidentale à travers les œuvres Paracelsus, Boehme,
Bacon, Shakespeare, Fludd et autres. Chaque nuit à minuit atteint le physique
Les activités d’aujourd’hui sont au plus bas et l’impulsion spirituelle de son
Les plus hautes eaux de crue, ils ont émis de l'âme de leur temple remuant
vibrations pour contrer le matérialisme et promouvoir le développement de l'âme
forces. Pour leurs activités, nous devons une spiritualisation progressive de notre vie
science matérialiste.

Au début du vingtième
siècle, un pas supplémentaire fut franchi. On s'est rendu compte qu'il fallait faire quelque chose
Faire la religion scientifiquement ainsi que faire religieux religieux, pour cela
ils peuvent éventuellement interférer; car pour le moment il y a du coeur et de l'intellect
divorcé. Le cœur ressent instinctivement la vérité sur les doctrines religieuses
mystères aussi merveilleux que la notion immaculée (mysticisme
Naissance), la crucifixion (la mort mystérieuse), le sang de purification, le sacrifice expiatoire,
et d'autres doctrines dans l'Église, que l'intellect refuse de croire, comme
ils ne sont pas capables de démonstration et semblent en violation du droit de la nature.
Les progrès matériels peuvent être favorisés lorsque l'intellect est dominant et
les désirs du cœur insatisfaits, mais la croissance de l'âme sera ralentie
le coeur aussi reçoit satisfaction.

Donner au monde une leçon alors
Mélangé pour satisfaire à la fois l'esprit et le cœur, il faut trouver un messager
et instruit. Certaines qualifications inhabituelles étaient nécessaires et le premier
a choisi de ne pas passer un test spécifique après plusieurs années d'utilisation
Préparez-le pour le travail à faire.

On dit bien qu'il est temps de regarder,
et un temps pour récolter, et qu'il y a des moments spécifiques pour tous les actes de la vie,
et conformément à cette règle de périodicité, chaque impulsion d'abolition spirituelle
doit également être mis en œuvre à un moment opportun pour réussir. Le premier et
Les sixièmes décennies de chaque siècle sont particulièrement bénéfiques pour commencer
libération de nouveaux enseignements spirituels. Voilà pourquoi Rosicrucians était beaucoup
préoccupé par cette erreur, il ne restait que cinq ans de la première décennie de
le vingtième siècle.

Leur autre choix d'un messager est tombé sur
L’auteur actuel, bien qu’il ne le sache pas à cette époque, et en façonnant
Les circonstances autour de lui lui ont permis de commencer une période de temps
préparation pour le travail qu'ils voulaient qu'il fasse. Trois ans plus tard, quand il avait
allé en Allemagne, également en raison de circonstances façonnées par l'invisible
Fraternité, et était au bord du désespoir à la découverte que la lumière
qui était le sujet de sa quête était juste un jack-o-lanterne, frères de
L’Ordre Rosicrucien a utilisé le test pour voir s’il serait fidèle
messager et donner les doctrines qu'ils voulaient lui laisser au monde.
Et après avoir passé le test, ils lui ont donné la solution monumentale
problème d’existence publié pour la première fois dans ROSICRUCIAN COSMO-CONCEPTION IN
Novembre 1909, plus d’un an avant la fin de la première décennie de
le vingtième siècle. Ce livre a marqué une nouvelle ère dans le soi-disant
la littérature "occulte" et les nombreuses éditions publiées depuis
publié en plus des milliers de lettres qui continuent à venir
auteur, témoigne que les gens trouvent dans cette
Apprenez une satisfaction qu'ils ont cherché ailleurs en vain.

Rosicrucians enseigne que tout va bien
les religions ont été donnés aux gens parmi ceux qu'ils se trouvent, de divin
Les intelligences qui ont conçu chaque système de culte pour répondre aux besoins de la race
ou nation à qui il a été donné. Un peuple primitif ne peut pas répondre à haute voix et
religion sublime et VICE VERSA. Ce qui aide une course en empêchera une autre, et
selon la même politique, un système a été préparé
Le développement des âmes est particulièrement adapté au peuple occidental, qui est racial et
tempéramentalement inapte à subir la discipline à la East School, qui était
conçu pour les Hindous les plus arriérés.

BOURSE ROSICRUCIENNE

Transmettre
Enseignements rosicruciens dans le monde occidental, la communauté rosicrucienne était
fondée en 1909. Elle est apparue à l’ère du Verseau lorsque le soleil est son
passage précessionnel à travers la constellation du Verseau, fera ressortir tout le monde
potentiels intellectuels et spirituels chez l'homme symbolisés par ce signe.
Comme la chaleur d'un feu, tous les objets chauffent dans la sphère de son rayonnement, donc
De plus, le rayon Aquarian augmentera les vibrations de la terre à un niveau que nous sommes encore
ne peut pas comprendre, même si nous avons des démonstrations du travail MATERIEL
ce pouvoir des inventions qui a révolutionné la vie à la mémoire de
la génération actuelle. Nous nous sommes demandé à propos de la radiographie, qui regarde à travers
le corps humain, mais chacun a un sentiment latent comme quand il se développe lui permettra
regarder à travers un nombre quelconque de corps ou à une distance quelconque. Nous sommes admirés
Appels téléphoniques à travers le continent américain, mais chacun a
Le sentiment latent que, une fois développé, lui permettra de regarder à travers un nombre quelconque
corps ou à n'importe quelle distance. Nous nous interrogeons sur les appels téléphoniques dans le monde entier
Amérique, mais chacun a un sens latent de la parole et de l'audition
c'est beaucoup plus aigu; Nous sommes surpris par l’utilisation de navires sous la mer et
dans le ciel, mais nous pouvons tous passer sous l’eau ou à travers le ciel;
Non, nous ne pouvons plus passer en bon état à travers la pierre solide et le feu furieux si
Nous savons comment, et la foudre elle-même est lente comparée à la vitesse que nous avons
peut voyager. Cela ressemble à une aventure aujourd’hui, et cela a fait des récits de Jules Verne un
génération depuis, mais l’âge du Verseau sera témoin de la réalisation de ces
rêves, et toujours tellement plus que nous ne rêvons toujours pas. De telles facultés
seront alors des atouts d'un grand nombre de personnes qui veulent être progressive
développé comme capacité passée à marcher, parler, entendre et voir, était
développé.

Il y a un grand danger, évidemment,
quiconque est équipé de telles facultés peut les utiliser dans une large mesure
Le monde dans une grande mesure, à moins qu’il ne soit limité par un désintéressement et un
altruisme tout compris. Par conséquent, la religion est nécessaire aujourd'hui comme jamais auparavant, pour
Favoriser l'amour et la compassion parmi l'humanité afin qu'elle puisse être disposée à utiliser
les grands cadeaux dans le magasin pour ce sage et bon. Ce besoin de religion est
particulièrement ressenti dans une classe particulière où l'éther est plus faiblement tricoté
atomes physiques que dans la majorité, à partir de maintenant
sentir les vibrations du Verseau.

Cette classe est à nouveau divisée en deux groupes.
Dans l’un, l’intellect est dominant et les gens de cette classe cherchent donc à
Saisissez les mystères spirituels par curiosité du point de vue du baiser
la raison. Ils poursuivent le chemin de la connaissance pour la connaissance, en considération
C'est une fin en soi. L'idée que la connaissance n'a de valeur que lorsqu'elle est ajoutée
L'utilisation pratique constructive ne semble pas s'être présentée à eux. cette
classe nous pouvons appeler OCCULTISTS.

L'autre groupe ne se soucie pas de la connaissance,
mais ressent un culte divin et poursuit le chemin de la dévotion à la haute
Idéalement placé devant eux en Christ, faites ce qu'il a fait jusqu'à la vôtre
viande permettra, et au fil du temps, résultant en un éclairage intérieur tel que
apporte toutes les connaissances acquises par la deuxième classe et bien plus encore.
Nous pouvons décrire cette classe comme un mystère.

Certains dangers sont confrontés à chacun des deux
groupes. Si l'occultiste réalise l'éclairage et se développe en soi
facultés spirituelles latentes, il peut les utiliser pour promouvoir son
objets, au grand détriment de leurs semblables. C'est de la magie noire, et
La peine que l’automate a automatiquement infligée à la tête de l’auteur est
si horrible qu'il vaut mieux l'esquisser. Le mystique peut aussi célébrer
à cause de l'ignorance, et tomber dans le filet de la loi de la nature, mais pour être
Influencé par l'amour, ses erreurs ne seront jamais très graves et à mesure qu'il grandit
Grace, la voix silencieuse de son coeur parlera plus clairement pour enseigner
Il chemin.

La communauté rosicrucienne s'efforce
préparer le monde en général et la sensibilité des deux groupes en
en particulier pour le réveil des forces latentes chez l'homme afin que tout le monde puisse être
guider en toute sécurité à travers la zone de danger et être aussi bien équipé que possible pour utiliser
ces nouvelles facultés. Des efforts sont faits pour mélanger l'amour sans lequel Paul
déclaré une connaissance de tous les mystères sans valeur, avec une connaissance mystérieuse enracinée
et ancré dans l'amour pour que les étudiants de cette école puissent vivre
les exposants de cette science de l'âme mélangée de l'école de sagesse occidentale, et
Éduquer progressivement l'humanité aux vertus nécessaires pour le faire
possession de puissances supérieures en toute sécurité.


LE PROBLEME DE LA VIE ET ​​SA SOLUTION

Problème de la vie

FRtout le monde
Le changement de vie, qui varie selon l'expérience de chacun, est un
Événement qui tôt ou tard vient à tout le monde – La mort! Quel que soit notre moteur
Dans la vie, que la vie ait été légitime ou inversement, soit
les bonnes performances ont marqué notre chemin parmi les hommes; soit la santé ou la maladie
a été beaucoup, que nous soyons connus ou entourés par un certain nombre
admirez des amis ou avez traversé des années inconnues au fil de nos vies, dans certains
Le temps vient un moment où nous sommes seuls devant la mort et sommes
forcé de faire le saut dans l'obscurité.

L'idée de ce saut et ce qui se cache
Au-delà de cela, il doit inévitablement s'imposer à chaque personne qui réfléchit. Au fil des ans
la jeunesse et la santé, quand l’écorce de notre vie navigue sur la mer de la prospérité, quand
tout semble beau et lumineux, nous pouvons mettre la pensée derrière nous, mais là
Sera sûrement une fois dans la vie de chaque personne qui pense au problème
La vie et la mort se renforcent dans sa conscience et refusent d'être mises de côté.
Cela ne l'aidera pas non plus à accepter la solution finie de quelqu'un d'autre
sans pensée et avec une foi aveugle, car c’est un problème fondamental comme tout le monde.
doivent se résoudre pour obtenir satisfaction.

À l'est du désert
Le Sahara est le sphinx mondialement connu avec son visage impénétrable face à
à l'est, toujours saluer le soleil alors que ses rayons montants annoncent le nouveau-né
jour. Il était dit dans le mythe grec qu’il était habitué à ce monstre de demander
puzzle de chaque voyageur. Elle dévorait ceux qui ne pouvaient pas répondre, mais quand
Œdipe a résolu la joie qu'elle s'est détruite.

Les félicitations qu'elle a posées à propos des hommes
énigme de la vie et de la mort, une question qui est toujours aussi pertinente aujourd’hui et qui
chacun doit répondre ou se faire dire dans la gueule de la mort. Mais une fois qu'une personne atteint
Ayant trouvé la solution au problème, on aura l’impression que c’est en réalité
Aucune mort, à quoi elle ressemble, n’est qu’un changement d’un état de FIRST à
un autre. Par conséquent, pour l'homme qui trouve la vraie solution à la vie,
Son sphinx a cessé d'exister et il peut élever la voix
cri triomphant: "O mort, où est ton aiguillon? O creuser, où est le tien
victoire? "

Différentes théories de la vie ont été racontées
Pour résoudre ce problème de la vie. Nous pouvons les diviser en deux classes, les
THÉORIE MONISTIQUE, ce qui signifie que tous les faits de la vie peuvent être expliqués par
référence à ce monde visible où nous vivons, et la théorie dualiste comme
Parle une partie du phénomène de la vie d’un autre monde qui est maintenant invisible pour
nous.

Raphael dans son célèbre tableau, "Le
École d’Athènes ", nous a très bien décrit l’attitude de ces deux hommes.
écoles de pensée. Nous regardons la peinture étonnante d'une cour grecque comme
ceux où les philosophes étaient jadis habitués à se réunir. Sur les différentes étapes
menant dans le bâtiment un grand nombre d'hommes sont profondément engagés
conversation, mais au milieu en haut des marches se trouvent deux chiffres,
apparemment par Platon et Aristote, l’une tournée vers le haut, l’autre contre
le sol, chacun regardant l'autre dans le visage, muté, mais avec profondément concentré
sera; Chacun cherche à convaincre l’autre que son attitude est juste pour chacun
porte la conviction dans son coeur. On dit qu'il est terrestre,
qu'il est sorti de la poussière et qu'il reviendra, l'autre entreprise
Dit que c'est plus haut quelque chose qui a toujours existé
et continuera, indépendamment du fait que le corps où il réside actuellement
ensemble ou pas.

La question de savoir qui a raison est toujours ouverte
un avec la majorité de l'humanité. Millions de tonnes de papier et d'encre d'imprimante
a été utilisé dans des tentatives non intentionnelles de le régler par argument, mais il sera toujours
restez ouvert à toute personne qui n'a pas résolu l'énigme elle-même, car elle est fondamentale
problème, une partie de l'expérience de vie de chaque personne pour le déterminer
La question, et donc personne ne peut nous donner la solution pour nous
approbation. Tout ce qui peut être fait par ceux qui ont vraiment résolu le problème est
indiquer la deuxième ligne à laquelle ils ont trouvé la solution, et donc
La bonne enquête sur la manière dont lui-même, avec ses propres efforts, peut arriver à une conclusion.

C'est le but de ce petit livre. ne pas
Donner une solution au problème de la vie qui doit être prise aveuglément, avec foi
capacité d'enquête de l'auteur. Les leçons décrites ici sont celles
transmis par la grande école mystique occidentale de l'ordre Rosicrucian et est
Le résultat du témoignage simultané d'une longue lignée de téléspectateurs entraînés
l'auteur et complété par sa propre enquête indépendante sur les royaumes
traversé par l’Esprit dans son chemin cyclique du monde invisible à cette
plan d'existence et de retour.

Néanmoins, l'étudiant est averti que
L’auteur a peut-être mal compris une partie de l’enseignement et que malgré cela
il peut avoir pris la mauvaise image de ce qu'il croit avoir
été vu dans le monde invisible où la possibilité de faire une erreur est
légion. Ici dans le monde comme nous nous regardons, les formes sont stables et non
changer facilement, mais dans le monde qui nous entoure, cela n’est visible que
vision spirituelle, on peut dire qu'en réalité il n'y a pas de forme, mais c'est tout
la vie. Au moins les formes sont si interchangeables que la métamorphose raconte
Les contes de fées y sont actualisés à un degré incroyable, et nous avons donc
les révélations surprenantes des médias et d’autres clairvoyants non entraînés qui,
Bien qu'ils puissent être très honnêtes, les illusions de FORM sont trompées
évanescente, car ils sont incapables de voir la vie qui est permanente
base pour cette forme.

Nous devons apprendre à voir dans ce monde. ils
le nouveau-né n'a aucun sens de la distance et atteindra les choses loin, loin
au-delà de sa compréhension jusqu'à ce qu'il ait appris à mesurer sa capacité. Un aveugle comme
obtenir la faculté d'apparaître, ou est-il restauré par une opération d'abord
être enclin à fermer les yeux lorsque vous vous déplacez et le déclarez
il est plus facile de marcher par sentiment que par vue; C'est parce qu'il ne le fait pas
appris à utiliser sa nouvelle faculté. De même, l'homme qui est spirituel
La vision a récemment été ouverte et nécessite une formation. En fait, il est dans beaucoup
un besoin plus grand que celui de l’enfant et de l’aveugle déjà mentionné. refusé
Cette formation, il serait comme un nouveau-né placé dans une pépinière où
les murs sont bordés de miroirs de différentes boucles convexes et concaves, qui
fausser leur propre forme et la forme de leurs serviteurs. Si on laisse grandir
dans de tels environnements et incapable de voir les vrais personnages d'eux-mêmes et de son
Les infirmières penseraient naturellement qu’il y avait tant de personnes différentes et déformées
formes, quand en réalité les miroirs étaient responsables de l'illusion. Était-ce
les gens qui sont concernés par une telle expérience et l'enfant sorti de l'illusoire
l'environnement, il ne serait pas en mesure de les reconnaître avant que l'affaire
été correctement expliqué. Il existe des dangers similaires avec illusion pour ceux qui ont
développé une vision spirituelle jusqu'à ce qu'ils aient été formés pour escompter
casser et voir une vie permanente et stable, sans tenir compte
Forme évanescente et changeante. Le danger de faire bouger les choses
Cependant, l’attention reste toujours et est si subtile que l’auteur se sent
obligation obligatoire d'avertir leurs lecteurs de toutes les déclarations concernant l'invisible
le monde avec le grain de sel riche en sel, car il n'a pas l'intention de tromper. il
est donc enclin à s’élargir plutôt que de minimiser ses limites et
conseillera à l'étudiant de ne rien accepter du stylo de l'auteur sans
raisonner pour lui-même. Ainsi, s'il est trompé, il sera trompé
et l'auteur est innocent.

TROIS THÉORIES DE LA VIE

Seules trois théories notables ont été
sont proposés comme solutions au mystère de l'existence et pour que nous puissions
Afin de faire le choix important entre eux, nous allons définir ce qu’ils sont.
et donner certains des arguments qui nous amènent à prêcher la doctrine de la renaissance
comme une méthode qui favorise la croissance de l'âme et la réalisation ultime de
perfection, fournissant ainsi la meilleure solution au problème de la vie.

1) LA THÉORIE MATÉRIALISTE L'ENSEIGNE
La vie n’est qu’un court trajet entre la boucle et la tombe; Il n'y en a pas
HAUTE INTELLIGENCE DANS L'UNIVERS MAIS MAN; Que sa mémoire est produite par
CORRÉLATIONS SÉCURITAIRES DE LA NOURRITURE ET DONC LA MORT ET LA RÉSOLUTION OFF
CORPS TERMINATE EXISTENCE.

Il y avait un jour où les arguments sont venus
les philosophes matérialistes semblaient convaincants, mais la science le changea
découvrez de plus en plus que c'est un côté spirituel de l'univers. que
La vie et la conscience peuvent exister sans pouvoir nous donner un caractère, ont été
Bien prouvé dans les cas où une personne qui était fascinée et croyait mort
des jours se sont soudainement réveillés et racontent tout ce qui s’est passé autour du corps.
Un scientifique aussi éminent que Sir Oliver Lodge, Camille Flammarion, Lombroso et
d'autres hommes avec la plus haute intelligence et la formation scientifique ont sans équivoque
à la suite de leurs enquêtes que l'intelligence que nous
Le ringman survit à la mort du corps et vit au milieu de nous en tant qu'indépendant
que nous les voyions ou non, puisque la lumière et la couleur existent tout autour de l'aveugle
Peu importe le fait qu'il ne les perçoive pas. Ces chercheurs ont
atteint sa conclusion après des années d’investigation minutieuse. Ils ont trouvé
que les soi-disant morts peuvent, et dans certaines circonstances, communiquer
avec nous de telle sorte que l'erreur est hors de question. Nous le maintenons
leur témoignage vaut plus que l'argument du matérialisme dans la direction opposée,
Car il est basé sur des années d'investigation minutieuse, il est en harmonie avec eux
des lois bien établies telles que la loi de conservation du droit et la loi de
CONSERVATION DE L'ENERGIE. Les considérations sont une forme d’énergie, insensible à la destruction
revendiqué par le matérialiste. Par conséquent, nous perturbons la théorie matérialiste en tant que
malsain car il est en harmonie avec les lois de la nature et avec des principes bien établis
faits.

2) THÉORIE DE LA THÉOLOGIE JUSTE IL JUSTE
Avant chaque naissance, une âme est créée par Dieu et va dans le monde où elle se trouve.
Vivez une durée allant de quelques minutes à quelques années IT ON
FIN DE CETTE CARTE DE VIE QUI REVIENT À LA HAUTEUR DE LA MORT
NON SÉCURISABLE EN RELATION AVEC LE LIEU QUI EST LIÉ AVEC LE JOINT OU LE MISSY
Selon les travaux effectués dans le corps au fil des ans, il a vécu ici.

Platon a insisté sur la nécessité d'un clair
Définition des termes comme base d’argumentation, et nous affirmons que c’est comme
nécessaire de discuter du problème de la vie du point de vue biblique comme dans
arguments du point de vue platonique. Selon la Bible, l'homme est un
Le composite est composé de corps, d'âme et d'esprit. Les deux derniers sont généralement
pris pour être synonyme, mais nous insistons sur le fait qu'ils ne sont pas interchangeables et
Présentez ce qui suit pour soutenir notre poème.

Toutes les choses sont dans un état de vibration.
Les vibrations des objets dans notre environnement nous touchent tout le temps
porter à nos sens une connaissance du monde extérieur. Les vibrations dans
L'éther agit sur nos yeux lorsque nous voyons et les vibrations dans l'air se transmettent
est entendu à l'oreille.

Nous respirons également l'air et l'éther qui est
donc chargé d'images de notre environnement et des sons du printemps
environnement, de sorte que l’utilisation du souffle que nous recevons à chaque instant de notre vie
Life, INTERNAL, une image fidèle de notre environnement extérieur.

C'est une proposition scientifique. science
N'explique pas ce que seront ces vibrations, mais selon
Enseignement du mystère rosicrucien, ils sont transférés dans le sang puis gravés
sur un petit atome du coeur aussi automatique qu'une image en mouvement est
imprimé sur le film sensibilisé et un enregistrement audio est gravé sur
plaque phonographique. Cette respiration commence dès le premier souffle
nouveau-né et se termine seulement avec le dernier souffle du mourant, et
"Soul" est un produit de souffle. Genesis montre également la connexion
entre souffle et âme dans les mots: "Et le Seigneur Dieu forma un homme
dépoussiérer le sol et respirait dans ses narines le souffle de vie; et l'homme
est devenu une âme vivante "(Le même mot: NEPHESH, est traduit souffle et
âme dans la citation ci-dessus.)

Dans l'existence post mortem, il
Les souffles du souffle sont jetés. Les bonnes actions de la vie donnent des sentiments de joie
et l'intensité de l'attraction les incorpore dans l'Esprit en tant que puissance de l'âme.
LORSQUE LA LETTRE RECORDS DE NOS BONNES MARCHANDISES EST RÉSERVEE PAR SEMI
l'union avec l'Esprit devient immortelle. Quand ils accumulent leur vie après la vie,
nous devenons plus soulful et ils sont donc aussi la base pour la croissance de l'âme.

L'histoire de nos mauvaises actions est également dérivée
de notre souffle dans les moments où ils ont été commis. La douleur et la souffrance
ils apportent l'Esprit pour expulser son souffle
Purgatoire. Comme il ne peut exister indépendamment de l'Esprit qui donne la vie,
Le registre des souffles de nos péchés se dissout à l'expiration, et nous le voyons
"L'âme qui pèche, elle mourra." Le souvenir de la souffrance
Au hasard avec l'expulsion, cependant, reste avec l'Esprit comme preuve, à
dissuader de répéter le même mal plus tard dans la vie.

Ainsi, nos bonnes et nos mauvaises actions
enregistré auprès de l'organisme de respiration, qui constitue donc la base de
âme, mais tandis que les souffles de bonnes actions se rassemblent avec l'Esprit et
Vivre à jamais comme une âme immortelle, l'enregistrement des souffles est un acte diabolique
dissous; C'est l'âme qui pèche et meurt.

Alors que la Bible enseigne que l'immortalité existe
L'âme est conditionnée par le plaisir, cela ne fait aucune différence
esprit. La déclaration est claire et recherchée lorsque … "Le fil d'argent est
desserré … alors la poussière devrait revenir à la terre telle qu'elle était et l'esprit devrait
Reviens à Dieu qui l'a donné. "

Ainsi, la Bible enseigne que le corps est fait
de la poussière et y retourner, cette partie de l'âme qui est générée dans le souffle est
périssable, mais que l’Esprit survit à la mort corporelle et persiste éternellement.
Par conséquent, une "âme perdue" dans l'acceptation commune de ce terme n'est pas un
Enseignement biblique, car l’Esprit est opaque et éternel comme Dieu lui-même et
Par conséquent, la théorie orthodoxe ne peut être vraie.

3) LA THÉORIE DE LA RENAISSANCE: NOTANT
Chaque esprit fait partie intégrante de Dieu, il remplit toutes les mauvaises occasions
Quand la corne suit le chêne; C'EST TERMES DE NOMBREUSES EXISTENCES SUR UNE TERRE
Le corps de l'amélioration progressive des capacités latentes du texte est lentement incomplet
ET DISPONIBLE COMME ÉNERGIE DYNAMIQUE; Il ne peut pas être perdu, mais tout le monde le fera
TRAITEMENT ULTIME POUR LA PERFECTION ET LE VOYAGE AVEC DIEU SI IL L'UTILISE
EXPERIENCES EXCUMÉES QUI SONT LES FRUITS DE CE GUIDE SUIVANT.

Ou, comme nous pouvons l'exprimer poétiquement:

Nous sommes éternels









En sifflant tempête; sur l'aile Zephyrus,

La croûte des grands hymnes du monde chante;

Hark! Listez leur voix: "Nous avons franchi la porte,

Il n'y a pas de mort; réjouissez-vous! la vie est plus longue. "



Nous avons toujours été, nous le serons toujours.

Nous faisons partie de l'éternité,

Plus vieux que Créateur, faisant partie d'un grand enfer,

Est-ce que chaque âme unique et immortelle.



À temps, nos vêtements que nous avons travaillés tissent,

Éternellement nous tissons sur le réseau de la pensée,

Notre parent et notre pays, par l'esprit né à la naissance,

Ont été modelés dans le ciel étaient moulés sur la terre.



Nous avons brillé dans le bijou et avons dansé sur la vague,

Nous avons scintillé au feu, défiant la tombe;

À travers des formes en constante évolution, de taille, de genre et de nom

Notre essence individuelle est toujours la même.



Et quand on atteint le plus haut de tous,

Les gradations de croissance nos esprits doivent se rappeler,

Donc, ce lien pour lier nous pouvons les rejoindre

Et trace par étape nous y sommes arrivés.



Ainsi nous saurons, si seulement nous faisons

Ce qui soulève, ennoblit, est juste et vrai.

Avec gentillesse envers tous, sans malice,

Que par et à travers nous, la volonté de Dieu soit faite.



Nous affirmons qu'il y a est un sens: IGNORANCE et un salut: SAVOIR APPLIQUÉ. Even the wisest among us know but little of what may be learned, however, and no one has attained to perfection, or an attain in one single short life, but we note that everywhere in nature slow persistent unfoldment makes for higher and higher development of everything, and we call this process evolution.

One of the chief characteristics of evolution lies in the fact that it manifests in alternating periods of activity and rest. The busy summer, when all things upon earth are exerting themselves to bring forth, is followed by the flood-tide. Thus, as all other things move in cycles, the life that expresses itself here upon earth for a few years is not to be thought of as ended when death has been reached, but as surely as the Sun rises in the morning after having set at night, will the life that was ended by the death of one body be taken up again in a new vehicle and in a different environment.

This earth may, in fact, be likened to a school to which we return life after life to learn new lessons, as our children go to school day after day to increase their knowledge. The child sleeps through the night which intervenes between death and a new birth. There are also different classes in this world school which correspond to the various grades from kindergarten to college. In the lower classes we find Spirits who have gone to the school of life but a few times, they are savages now, but in time they will become wiser and better than we are, and we ourselves shall progress in future lives to spiritual heights of which we cannot even conceive at the present. If we apply ourselves to learn the lessons of life, we shall of course advance much faster in the school of life than if we dilly-dally and idle our time away. This, on the same principle which governs in one of our own institutions of learning.

We are not here then by the caprice of God. He has not placed one in clover and another in a desert, nor has He given one a healthy body so that he may live at ease from pain and sickness, while He placed another in poor circumstances with never a rest from pain. But what we are, we are on account of our own diligence or negligence, and what we shall be in the future depends upon what we will to be and not upon divine caprice or upon inexorable fate. No matter what the circumstances, it lies with us to master them, or to be mastered as we will. Sir Edwin Arnold puts the teaching most beautifully in his "Light of Asia:"









The Books say well, my Brothers! each man's life

The outcome of his former living is;

The bygone wrongs bring forth sorrows and woes,

The bygone right breeds bliss.



Each has such lordship as the loftiest ones,

Nay, for with powers around, above, below,

As with all flesh and whatsoever lives ACT maketh joy or woe.



Who toiled, a slave, may come anew a prince

For gentle worthiness and merit won,

Who ruled, a king, may wander earth in rags

For things done or undone.



Or, as Ella Wheeler Wilcox says:









"One ship sails East and another sails West

With the self same winds that blow.

'Tis the set of the sail, and not the gale,

Which determines the way they go.



As the winds of the sea are the ways of fate

As we voyage along through life.

'Tis the act of the soul, which determines the goal

And not the calm or the strife."



When we wish to engage someone to undertake a certain mission we choose some one whom we think particularly fitted to fulfill the requirements, and we must suppose that a Divine Being would use at least as much common sense and not choose anyone to do his errand who was not fitted therefore. So when we read in the Bible that Samson was foreordained to be the slayer of the Philistines and that Jeremiah was predestined to be a prophet, it is but logical to suppose that they must have been particularly suited to such occupations. John the Baptist, also, was born to be a herald of the coming Savior and to preach the Kingdom of God which is to take the place of the kingdom of men.

Had these people had no previous training, how could they have developed such a fitness to fulfill their various missions, and if they had been fitted, how else could they have received their training if not in earlier lives?

The Jews believed in the Doctrine of Rebirth or they would not have asked John the Baptist if he were Elijah, as recorded in the first chapter of John. The Apostles of Christ also held the belief as we may see from the incident recorded in the Sixteenth chapter of Matthew where the Christ asked them the question: "Whom do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?" The Apostles replied: "Some say that thou art John the Baptist; some, Elias; and others Jeremias or one of the Prophets." Upon this occasion the Christ tacitly assented to the teaching of Rebirth because He did not correct the disciples as would have been His plain duty in His capacity as teacher, when the pupils entertained a mistaken idea.

But to Nicodemus He said unequivocally: "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God," and in the eleventh chapter of Matthew, the fourteenth verse, He said, speaking of John the Baptist: "THIS IS ELIJAH." In the seventeenth chapter of Matthew, the twelfth verse, He said: "Elijah is come already and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed." "Then the disciples understood that he spoke to them of John the Baptist."

Thus we maintain that the Doctrine of Rebirth offers the only solution to the problem of life which is in harmony with the laws of nature, which answers the ethical requirements of the case and permits us to love God without blinding our reason to the inequalities of life and the varying circumstances which give to a few the ease and comfort, the health and wealth, which are denied to the many.

The theory of heredity advanced by materialists applies only to the FORM, for as a carpenter uses material from a certain pile of lumber to build a house in which he afterward lives, so does the Spirit take the substance wherewith to build its house from the parents. ils carpenter cannot build a house of hard wood from spruce lumber, and the Spirit also must build a body which is like those from which the material was taken. But the theory of heredity does not apply upon the moral plane, for it is a known fact that in the rogues galleries of America and Europe there is no case where both father and son are represented. Thus the sons of criminals, though they have the tendencies to crime, keep out of the clutches of the law. Neither will heredity hold good upon the plane of the intellect, for many cases may be cited where a genius and an idiot spring from the same stock. The great Cuvier, whose brain was of about the same weight, as Daniel Webster's, and whose intellect was as great, had five children who all died of paresis; broren of Alexander the Great was an idiot; and thus we hold that another solution must be found to account for the facts of life.

The Law of Rebirth coupled with its companion law, the Law of Causation, does that. When we die after one life, we return to earth later, under circumstances determined by the manner in which we lived before. The gambler is drawn to pool parlors and race tracks to associate with others of like taste, the musician is attracted to the concert halls and music studios where there are congenial Spirits, and the returning Ego also carries with it likes and dislikes which cause it to seek parents among the class to which it belongs.

But then someone will point to cases where we find people of entirely opposite tastes living lives of torture, because grouped in the same family, and forced by circumstances to stay there contrary to their wills. But that does not vitiate the law in the slightest. In each life we contact certain obligations which cannot then be fulfilled. Perhaps we have run away from a duty such as the care of an invalid relative and have met death without coming to a realization of our mistake. That relative upon the other hand may have suffered severely from our neglect, and have stored up a bitterness against us before death terminates the suffering. Death and the subsequent removal to another environment does not pay our debts in this life, any more than the removal from the city where we now live to another place will pay the debts we have contracted prior to our removal. It is therefore quite possible that the two who have injured each other as described, may find themselves members of the same family. Then, whether they remember the past grudge or not, the old enmity will assert itself and cause them to hate anew until the consequent discomfort force them to tolerate each other, and perhaps later they may learn to love where they hated.

The question also arises in the mind of inquirers: If we have been here before why do we not remember? And the answer is that while most people are not aware of how their previous existences were spent, there are others who have very distinct recollection of previous lives. FR friend of the writer for instance, when living in France, one day started to read to her son about a certain city where they were then going upon a bicycle tour, and the boy exclaimed: "You do not need to tell me about that, Mother. I know that city. I lived there and was killed!" He then commenced to describe the city and also a certain bridge. Later he took his mother to that bridge and showed her the spot where he had met death centuries before. Un autre friend traveling in Ireland saw a scene which she recognized, and she also described to the party the scene around the bend of the road which she had never seen in this life, so it must have been a memory from a previous life. Numerous other instances could be given where such minor flashes of memory reveal to us glimpses from a past life. The verified case in which a little three year old girl in Santa Barbara described her life and death has been given in THE ROSICRUCIAN COSMO-CONCEPTION. It is perhaps the most conclusive evidence as it hinges on the veracity of a child too young to have learned deception.

This theory of life does not rest upon speculation, however. It is one of the first facts of life demonstrated to the pupil of a Mystery School. He is taught to watch a child in the act of dying, also, to watch it in the invisible world from day to day, until it comes to a new birth a year or two later. Then he knows with absolute certainty that we return to Earth to reap in a future life what we now sow.

The reason for taking a child to watch in preference to an adult is that the child is reborn very quickly, for its short life on Earth has borne but few fruits and these are soon assimilated, while the adult who has lived a long life and had much experience remains in the invisible worlds for centuries, so that the pupil could not watch him from death to rebirth. The cause of infant mortality will be explained later; here we merely desire to emphasize the fact that it is within the range of possibilities of every one without exception to become able to know at first hand that which is here taught.

The average interval between two Earth-lives is about a thousand years. It is determined by the movement of the Sun known to astronomers as PRECESSION OF THE EQUINOX, by which the Sun moves through one of the signs of the Zodiac in about 2,100 years. During that time the conditions upon Earth have changed so much that the Spirit will find entirely new experiences here, and therefore it returns.

The Great Leaders of evolution always obtain the maximum benefit from each condition designed by them, and as the experiences in the same social conditions are very different in the case of a man from what they are for a woman, the human Spirit takes birth twice during the 2,100 years measured by the precession of the equinox, as already explained: it is born once as a man and another time as a woman. Such is the rule, but it is subject to whatever modifications may be necessary to facilitate reaping what the Spirit has sown, as required under the Law of Causation which works hand in hand with the Law of Rebirth. Thus, at times a Spirit may be brought to birth long ere the thousand years have expired, in order to fulfill a certain mission, or it may be detained in the invisible worlds after the time when it should have come to birth according to the strict requirements of a blind law. The laws of nature are not that, however. They are Great Intelligences who always subordinate minor considerations to higher ends, and under their beneficent guidance we are constantly progressing from life to life under conditions exactly suited to each individual, until in time we shall attain to a higher evolution and become Supermen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes has so beautifully voiced that aspiration and its consummation in the lines:









"Build thee more stately mansions, O my  soul,

As the swift seasons roll!

Leave thy low-vaulted past;

Let each new temple, nobler than the last,

Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,

Till thou at length art free,

Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!"




THE VISIBLE AND THE INVISIBLE WORLDS

THE CHEMICAL REGION

Jef one who is capable of consciously using his spiritual body with the same facility that we now use our physical vehicles should glide away from the Earth into interplanetary space, the Earth and the various other planets of our solar system would appear to him or her to be composed of three kinds of matter, roughly speaking. ils densest matter, which is our visible Earth, would appear to him as being the center of the ball as the yolk is in the center of an egg. Around that nucleus he or she would observe a finer grade of matter similarly disposed in relation to the central mass, as the white of the egg is disposed outside the yolk. Upon a little closer investigation he would also discover that this second kind of substance permeates the solid Earth to the very center, even as the blood percolates through the more solid parts of our flesh. Outside both of these mingling layers of matter he would observe a still finer, third layer corresponding to the shell of the egg, except that this third layer is the finest, most subtle of the three grades of matter, and that it interpenetrates both of the two inner layers.

As already said, the central mass, spiritually seen, is our visible world, composed of solids, liquids, and gases. They constitute the Earth, its atmosphere, and also the ether, of which physical science speaks hypothetically as permeating the atomic substance of all chemical elements. The second layer of matter is called the Desire World and the outermost layer is called the World of Thought.

A little reflection upon the subject will make clear that just such a constitution is necessary to account for facts of life as we see them. All forms in the world about us are built from chemical substances: solids, liquids, and gases, but insofar that they do move, these forms obey a separate and distinct impulse, and when this impelling energy leaves, the form becomes inert. The steam engine rotates under the impetus of an invisible gas called steam. Before steam filled its cylinder, the engine stood still, and when the impelling force is shut off its motion again ceases. ils dynamo rotates under the still more subtle influence of an electric current which may also cause the click of a telegraph instrument or the ring of an electric bell, but the dynamo ceases its swift whirl and the persistent ring of the electric bell becomes mute when the invisible electricity is switched off. The forms of the bird, the animal, and the human being also cease their motion when the inner force which we call LIFE has winged its invisible way.

All forms are impelled into motion by desire: the bird and the animal roam land and air in their desire to secure food and shelter, or for the purpose of breeding. Man is also moved by these desires, but has in addition other and higher incentives to spur him to effort; blant them is desire for rapidity of motion which led him to construct the steam engine and other devices that move in obedience to HIS desire.

If there were no iron in the mountains man could not build machines. If there were no clay in the soil, the bony structure of the skeleton would be an impossibility, and if there were no Physical World at all, with its solids, liquids, and gases, this dense body of ours could never have come into existence. Reasoning along similar lines it must be at once apparent that if there were no Desire World composed of desire-stuff, we should have no way of forming feelings, emotions, and desires. A planet composed of the materials we perceive with our PHYSICAL eyes and of no other substances, might be the home of plants which grow unconsciously, but have no desires to cause them to move. The human and animal kingdoms, however, would be impossibilities.

Furthermore, there is in the world a vast number of things, from the simplest and most crude instruments, to the most intricate and cunning devices which have been constructed by the hand of man. These reveal the fact of man's thought and ingenuity. Thought must have a source as well as FORM and FEELING. We saw that it was necessary to have the requisite material in order to build a steam engine or a body and we reasoned from the fact that in order to obtain material to express desire there must also be a world composed of desire stuff. Carrying our argument to its logical conclusion, we also hold that unless a World of Thought provides a reservoir of mind stuff upon which we may draw, it would be impossible for us to think and invent the things which we see in even the lowest civilization.

Thus it will be clear that the division of a planet into worlds is not based on fanciful metaphysical speculation, but is logically necessary in the economy of nature. Therefore it must be taken into consideration by any one who would study and aim to understand the inner nature of things. When we see the street cars moving along our streets, it does not explain to say that the motor is driven by electricity of so many amperes at so many volts. These names only add to our confusion until we have thoroughly studied the science of electricity; and then we shall find that the mystery deepens, for while the street car belongs to the world of INERT FORM perceptible to our vision, the electric current which moves it is indigenous to the realm of FORCE, the invisible Desire World, and the thought which created and guides it, comes from the still more subtle World of Thought which is the home world of the human Spirit, the Ego.

It may be objected that this line of argument makes a simple matter exceedingly intricate, but a little reflection will soon show the fallacy of such a contention. Viewed superficially any of the sciences seem extremely simple; anatomically we may divide the body into flesh and bone, chemically we may make the simple divisions between solid, liquid, and gas, but thoroughly to master the science of anatomy it is necessary to spend years in close application and learn to know all the little nerves, the ligaments which bind articulations between various parts of the bony structure, to study the several kinds of tissue and their disposition in our system where they form the bones, muscles, glands, etc., which in the aggregate we know as the human body. To understand properly the science of chemistry we must study the valence of the atom which determines the power of combination of the various elements, together with other niceties, such as atomic weight, density, etc. New wonders are constantly opening up to the most experienced chemist, who understands best the immensity of his or her chosen science.

The youngest lawyer, fresh from law school, knows more about the most intricate cases, in his or her own estimation, than the judges upon the Supreme Court bench who spend long hours, weeks and months, seriously deliberating over their decisions. But those who, without having studied, think they understand and are fitted to discourse upon the greatest of all sciences, the science of Life and Being, make a greater mistake. After years of patient study, of holy life spent in close application, a man is oftentimes perplexed at the immensity of the subject he studies. He finds it to be so vast in both the direction of the great and small that it baffles description, that language fails, and that the tongue must remain mute. Therefore we hold (and we speak from knowledge gained through years of close study and investigation) that the finer distinctions which we have made, and shall make, are not at all arbitrary, but absolutely necessary as are divisions and distinctions made in anatomy or chemistry.

No form in the physical world has feeling in the true sense of that word. It is the indwelling life which feels, as we may readily SEE from the fact that a body which responds to the lightest touch while instinct with life, exhibits no sensation whatever even when cut to pieces after the life has fled. Demonstrations have been made by scientists, particularly by Professor Bose of Calcutta, to show that there is feeling in dead animal tissue and even in tin and other metal, but we maintain that the diagrams which seem to support his contentions in reality demonstrate only a response to impacts similar to the rebound of a rubber ball, and that must not be confused with such feelings as LOVE, HATE, SYMPATHY and AVERSION. Goethe also, in his novel. "Elective Affinities," (Wahlverwandtschaft), brings out some beautiful illustrations wherein he makes it seem as if atoms loved and hated, from the fact that some elements combine readily while other substances refuse to amalgamate, a phenomenon produced by the different rates of speed at which various elements vibrate and an unequal inclination of their axes. Only where there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy.

THE ETHERIC REGION

In addition to the solids, liquids, and gases which compose the CHEMICAL REGION of the Physical World there is also a finer grade of matter called ether, which permeates the atomic structure of the earth and its atmosphere substantially as science teaches. Scientists have never seen, nor have they weighed, measured, or analyzed this substance, but the infer that it must exist in order to account for transmission of light and various other phenomena. If it were possible for us to live in a room from which the air had been exhausted, we might speak at the top of our voices, we might ring the largest bell, or we might even discharge a cannon close to our ear and ) we should hear no sound, for air is the medium which transmits sound vibrations to the tympanum of our ear, and that would be lacking. But if an electric light were lighted, we should at once perceive its rays; it would illumine the room despite the lack of air. Hence there must be a substance capable of being set into vibration, between the electric light and our eyes. That medium scientists call ether, but it so subtle that no instrument has been devised whereby it may be measured or analyzed, and therefore the scientists are without much information concerning it, though forced to postulate its existence.

We do not seek to belittle the achievements of modern scientists. We have the greatest admiration for them and we entertain high expectations of what ambitions they may yet realize, but we perceive a limitation in the fact that all discoveries of the past have been made by the invention of wonderful instruments applied in a most ingenious manner to solve seemingly insoluble and baffling problems. The strength of science lies vested in its instruments, for the scientist may say to anyone: "Go, procure a number of glasses ground in a certain manner, insert them in a tube, direct that tube toward a certain point in the sky where now nothing appears to your naked eye. You will then see a beautiful star called Uranus." If his directions are followed, anyone is QUICKLY AND WITHOUT PREPARATION able to demonstrate for himself the truth of the scientist's assertion. But while the instruments of science are its tower of strength, they also mark the end of its field of investigation, for it is impossible to contact the spirit world with PHYSICAL instruments; so the research of occultists begins where the physical scientist finds his limit and is carried on by SPIRITUAL means.

These investigations are as thorough and as reliable as researches by material scientists, but not as easily demonstrable to the general public. Spiritual powers lie dormant within every human being, and when awakened, they compensate for both telescope and microscope, they enable their possessor to investigate, instanter, things beyond the veil of matter, but they are only developed by a patient application and continuance in well doing extended over years, and few are they who have faith to start upon the path to attainment to perseverance to go through with the ordeal. Therefore the occultist's assertions are not generally credited.

We can readily see that long probation must precede attainment, for a person equipped with spiritual sight is able to penetrate walls of houses as easily as we walk through the atmosphere, able to read at will the innermost thoughts of those about him, and if not actuated by the most pure and unselfish motives, would become a scourge to humanity. Therefore that power is safeguarded as we would withhold the dynamite bomb from an anarchist and from the well-intentioned but ignorant person, or, as we withhold match and powder barrel from a child.

In the hands of an experienced engineer the dynamite bomb may be used to open a highway of commerce, and an intelligent farmer may use gunpowder to good account in clearing his field of tree-stumps, but in the hands of an ill-intentioned criminal or ignorant child an explosive may wreck much property and end many lives. The force is the same, but used differently, according to the ability or intention of the user, it may produce results of a diametrically opposite nature. So it is also with spiritual powers, there is a time-lock upon them, as upon a bank safe, which keeps out until they have earned the privilege and the time is ripe for its exercise.

As already said, the ether is physical matter and responsive to the same laws which govern other physical substances upon this plane of existence. Therefore it requires but a slight extension of PHYSICAL sight to see ether (which is disposed in four grades of density); ils blue haze seen in mountain canyons is in fact ether of the kind known to occult investigators as CHEMICAL ETHER. Many people who see this ether unaware that they are possessed of a faculty not enjoyed by all. Others, who have developed spiritual sight are not endowed with etheric vision, a fact which seems an anomaly until the subject of clairvoyance is thoroughly understood.

The reason is, that as ether is physical matter, etheric sight depends upon the sensitiveness of the optic nerve, while spiritual sight is acquired by developing latent vibratory powers in two little organs situated in the brain: the pituitary body and the pineal gland. Even near-sighted people may have etheric vision. Though unable to read the print in a book, they may be able to "see through a wall," owing to the fact that their optic nerve responds more rapidly to fine than to coarse vibrations.

When anyone views an object with etheric sight he sees THROUGH that object in a manner similar to the way an X-ray penetrates opaque substances. If he looks at a sewing machine, he will perceive first, an outer casing; then, the works within, and behind both, the casing farthest away from him.

If he has developed the grade of spiritual vision which opens the Desire World to him and he looks at the same object, he will see it both inside and out. If he looks closely, he will perceive every little atom spinning upon its axis and no part or particle will be excluded from his perception.

But if his spiritual sight has been developed in such a measure that he is capable of viewing the sewing machine with the vision peculiar to the World of Thought, he will behold a cavity where he had previously seen the form.

Things seen with etheric vision are very much alike in color. They are nearly reddish-blue, purple or violet, according to the density of the ether, but when we view any object with the spiritual sight pertaining to the Desire World, it scintillates and coruscates in a thousand ever changing colors so indescribably beautiful that they can only be compared to living fire. The writer therefore calls this grade of vision COLOR SIGHT, but when the spiritual vision of the World of Thought is the medium of perception, the seer finds that in addition to still more beautiful colors, there issues from the cavity described a constant flow of a certain harmonious TONE. Thus this world wherein we now consciously live and which we perceive the world of FORM, the Desire World is particularly the world of COLOR, and the World of Thought is the realm of TONE.

Because of the relative proximity or distance of these worlds, a statue, a FORM withstands the ravages of time for millenniums, but the COLORS upon a painting fade in far shorter time, for they come from the Desire World; and MUSIC, which is native to the world farthest removed from us, the World of Thought, is like a will-o-the-wisp which none may catch or hold; it is gone again as soon as it has made its appearance. But there is in color and music a compensation for this increasing evanescence.

The statue is cold and dead as the mineral of which it is composed and has attractions for but few though its FORM is a tangible reality.

The forms upon a painting are illusory, yet they express LIFE, on account of the COLOR which has come from a region where nothing is inert and lifeless. Therefore the painting is enjoyed by many.

Music is intangible and ephemeral, but it comes from the home world of the Spirit and though so fleeting it is recognized by the Spirit as a SOUL-SPEECH fresh from the celestial realms, an echo from the home whence we are now exiled. Therefore it touches a chord in our being, regardless of whether we realize the true cause or not.

Thus we see that there are various grades of spiritual sight, each suited to the superphysical realm which it opens to our perception: etheric vision, color vision, and tonal vision.

The occult investigator finds that ether is of four kinds, or grades of density: the CHEMICAL ETHER, the LIFE ETHER, the LIGHT ETHER, and the REFLECTING ETHER.

The CHEMICAL ETHER is the avenue of expression for forces promoting assimilation, growth, and the maintenance of forme.

The LIFE ETHER is the vantage ground of forces active in propagation, or the building of new forms.

The LIGHT ETHER transmits the motive power of the Sun along the various nerves of living bodies and makes motion possible.

The REFLECTING ETHER receives an impression of all that is, lives and moves. It also records each change, in a similar manner as the film upon a moving picture machine. In this record mediums and psychometrists may read the past, upon the same principle as, under proper conditions, moving pictures are reproduced time and again.

We have been speaking of ether as an avenue of FORCES, a word which conveys no meaning to the average mind, because force is invisible. But to an occult investigator the forces are not merely names such as steam, electricity, etc. He finds them to be intelligent beings of varying grades, both sub- and superhuman. What we call "laws of nature," are great Intelligences which guide more elemental beings in accordance with certain rules designed to further their evolution.

In the Middle Ages, when many people were still endowed with a remnant of NEGATIVE clairvoyance, they spoke of gnomes, elves, and fairies, which roamed about the mountains and forests. These were the EARTH spirits. They also told of the undines or WATER sprites, which inhabited rivers and streams, and of sylphs which were said to dwell in the mists above moat and moor as air spirits. But not much was said of the salamanders, as they are fire spirits, and therefore not so easily detected, or so readily accessible to the majority of people.

The old folk stories are now regarded as superstitions, but as a matter of fact, one endowed with etheric vision may yet perceive the little gnomes building green chlorophyll into the leaves of plants and giving to flowers the multiplicity of delicate tints which delight our eyes.

Scientists have attempted time and again to offer an adequate explanation of the phenomenon of wind and storm but have failed signally, nor can they succeed while they seek a mechanical solution to what is really a manifestation of life. Could they see the hosts of sylphs winging their way hither and thither, they would KNOW who and what is responsible for the fickleness of the wind; could they watch a storm at sea from the etheric viewpoint, they would perceive that the saying "the war of the elements" is not an empty phrase, for the heaving sea is truly then a battlefield of sylphs and undines and the howling tempest is the war cry of spirits in the air.

Also the salamanders are found everywhere and no fire is lighted without their help. However, they are active mostly underground, being responsible for explosions and volcanic eruptions.

The classes of beings which we have mentioned are still sub-human, but will all at some time reach a stage in evolution corresponding to the human, though under different circumstances from those under which we evolve. But at present the wonderful Intelligences we speak of as the laws of nature, marshal the armies of less evolved entities mentioned.

To arrive at a better understanding of what these various beings are and their relation to us, we may take an illustration: Let us suppose that a mechanic is making an engine, and meanwhile a dog is watching him. It SEES the man at his labor, and how he uses various tools to shape his materials, also how, from the crude iron, steel, brass, and other metals the engine slowly take shape. The dog is a being from a lower evolution and does not comprehend the purpose of the mechanic but it sees both the workman, his labor, and the result thereof which manifests as an engine.

Let us now suppose that the dog were able to see the materials which slowly change their shape, assemble, and become an engine, but that it is unable to perceive the workman and to see the work he does. The dog would then be in the same relation to the mechanic as we are to the great Intelligences we call laws of nature, and their assistants, the nature spirits, for we behold the manifestations of their work as FORCE moving matter in various ways but always under immutable conditions.

In the ether we may also observe the Angels, whose densest body is made of that material, as our dense body is formed of gases, liquids, and solids. These Beings are one step beyond the human stage, as we are a degree in advance of the animal evolution. We have never been animals like our present fauna, however, but at a previous stage in the development of our planet we had an animal-like constitution. Then the Angels were human, though they have never possessed a dense body such as ours, nor ever functioned in any material denser than ether. At some time, in a future condition, the Earth will again become ethereal. Then man will be like the Angels. Therefore the Bible tells us that man was made A LITTLE LOWER than the Angels. (Hebrews 2:7).

As ether is the avenue of vital, creative forces, and as Angels are such expert builders of ether, we may readily understand that they are eminently fitted to be warders of the propagative forces in plant, animal, and man. All through the Bible we find them thus engaged: Two ANGELS came to Abraham and announced the birth of Isaac, they promised a child to the man who had obeyed God. Later these same Angeles destroyed Sodom for abuse of the creative force. ANGELS foretold to the parents of Samuel and Samson the birth of these giants of brain and brawn. To Elizabeth came the ANGEL (not Arch-angel) Gabriel and announced the birth of John; seinere he appeared also to Mary with the message that she was chosen to bear Jesus.

THE DESIRE WORLD

When spiritual sight is developed so that it becomes possible to behold the Desire World, many wonders confront the newcomer, for conditions there are so widely different from what they are here that a description must sound quite as incredible as a fairy tale to anyone who has not himself seen them.

Many cannot believe that such a world exists, and that other people can see that which is invisible to them, yet some people are blind to the beauties of this world which we see. A man who was born blind, may say to us: "I know that this world exists. I can hear, I can smell, I can taste, and above all I can feel, but when you speak of light and of color, they are non-existent to me. You say that you SEE these things. I cannot believe it for I cannot SEE myself. You say that light and color are all about me, but none of the senses at my command reveal them to me and I do not believe that the sense you call sight exists. I think you suffer from hallucinations." We might sympathize very sincerely with the poor man who is thus afflicted, but his skepticisms, reasonings, objections, and sneers notwithstanding, we would be obliged to maintain that we perceive light and color.

The man or woman whose spiritual sight has been awakened is in a similar position with respect to those who do not perceive the Desire World of which he speaks. If the blind man acquires the faculty of sight by an operation, his eyes are opened and he will be compelled to assert the existence of light and color which he formerly denied, and when spiritual sight is acquired by anyone, he also perceives for himself the facts related by others. Neither is it an argument against the existence of spiritual realms that seers are at variance in their descriptions of conditions in the invisible world. We need but to look into books on travel and compare stories brought home by explorers of China, India, or Africa; we shall find them differing widely and often contradictory, because each traveler saw things from his own standpoint, under other conditions than those met by his brother authors. We maintain that the man who has read most widely these varying tales concerning a certain country AND WRESTLED WITH THE CONTRADICTIONS OF NARRATORS, will have a more comprehensive idea of the country or people of whom he has read, than the man who has read only one story assented to by all the authors. Similarly, the varying stories of visitors to the Desire World are of value, because giving a fuller view, and more rounded, than if all had seen things from the same angle.

In this world matter and force are widely different. The chief characteristic of matter here is INERTIA: the tendency to remain at rest until acted upon by a force which sets it in motion. en Desire World, on the contrary, force and matter are almost indistinguishable one from the other. We might almost describe desire-stuff as force-matter, for it is in incessant motion, responsive to the slightest FEELING of a vast multitude of beings which populate this wonderful world in nature. We often speak of the "teeming millions" of China and India, even of our vast cities, London, New York, Paris, or Chicago; we consider them overcrowded in the extreme, yet even the densest population of any spot on Earth is sparsely inhabited compared with the crowded conditions of the Desire World. aucun inconvenience is felt by any of the denizens of that realm, however, for, while in this world two things cannot occupy the same space at the same time, it is different there. A number of people and things may exist IN THE SAME PLACE AT THE SAME TIME and be engaged in most diverse activities, regardless of what others are doing, such is the wonderful elasticity of desire-stuff. As an illustration we may mention a case where the writer, while attending a religious service, plainly perceived at the altar certain beings interested in furthering that service and working to achieve that end. At the same time there drifted through the room and the altar, a table at which four persons were engaged in playing cards. They were as oblivious to the existence of the beings engaged in furthering our religious service, as though these did not exist.

The Desire World is the abode of those who have died, for some time subsequent to that event, and we may mention in the above connection that the so-called "dead" very often stay for a long while among their still living friends. Unseen by their relatives they go about the familiar rooms. At first they are often unaware of the condition mentioned: THAT TWO PERSONS MAY BE IN THE SAME PLACE AT THE SAME TIME, and when they seat themselves in a chair or at the table, a living relative may take the supposedly vacant seat. The man we mistakenly call dead will at first hurry out of his seat to escape being sat upon, but he soon learns that being sat upon does not hurt him in his altered condition, and that he may remain in his chair regardless of the fact that his living relative is also sitting there.

In the lower regions of the Desire World the whole body of each being may be seen, but in the highest regions only the head seems to remain. Raphael, who like many other people in the Middle Ages was gifted with a so-called SECOND SIGHT, pictured that condition for us in his Sistine Madonna, now in the Dresden Art Gallery, where Madonna and the Christ-child are represented as floating in a golden atmosphere and surrounded by a host of genie-heads: conditions which the occult investigator knows to be in harmony with actual facts.

Among the entities who are, so to speak, "native" to that realm of nature, none are perhaps better known to the Christian world than the Archangels. These exalted Beings were human at a time in the Earth's history when we were yet plant-like. Since then we have advanced two steps; through the animal and to the human stage of development. The present Archangels have also made two steps in progression; one, in which they were similar to what the Angels are now, and another step which made them what we call Archangels.

Their densest body, though differing from ours in shape, and made of desire-stuff, is used by them as a vehicle of consciousness in the same manner that we use our body. They are expert manipulators of forces in the Desire World, and these forces, as we shall see, move all the world to action. Therefore the Archangels work with humanity INDUSTRIALLY and POLITICALLY as arbitrators of the destiny of peoples and nations. The Angels may be said to be FAMILY SPIRITS, whose mission is to unite a few Spirits as members of a family, and cement them with ties of blood and love of kin, while the Archangels may be called race and national spirits, as they unite whole nations by patriotism or love of home and country. They are responsible for the rise and fall of nations, they give war or peace, victory or defeat, as it serves the best interest of the people they rule. This we may see, for instance, from the book of Daniel, where the Archangel Michael is called the prince of the children of Israel. Another Archangel tells Daniel (in the tenth chapter) that he intends to fight the prince of Persia by means of the Greeks.

There are varying grades of intelligence among human beings; some are qualified to hold lofty positions entirely beyond the ability of others. So it is also among higher beings. Not all Archangels are fitted to govern a nation and rule the destiny of a race, people, or tribe; quelques-uns are not fitted to rule human beings at all, but as the animals also have a desire nature, these lower grades of Archangels govern the animals as Group Spirits and evolve to higher capacity thereby.

The work of the Race Spirit is readily observable in the people it governs. The lower in the scale of evolution the people, the more they show a certain racial likeness. That is due to the work of the Race Spirit. One national Spirit is responsible for the swarthy complexion common to Italians, for instance, while another causes the Scandinavians to be blond. In the more advanced types of humanity, there is a wider divergence from the common type, due to the individualized Ego, which thus expresses in form and feature its own particular idiosyncrasies. Among the lower types of humanity such as Mongolians, native African Negroes and South Sea Islanders, the resemblance of individuals in each tribe makes it almost impossible for civilized Westerners to distinguish between them. Among animals, where the separate Spirit is not individualized and self-conscious, the resemblance is not only much more marked physically but extends even to traits and characteristics. We may write the biography of a man, for the experiences of each varies from that of others and his acts are different, but we cannon write the biography of an animal, for members of each tribe all act alike under similar circumstances. If we desire to know the facts about Edward VII, it would profit us nothing to study the life of the Prince- Consort, his father, or of George V, his son, as both would be entirely different from Edward. In order to find out what manner of man he was, we must study his own individual life. If, on the other hand, we wish to know the characteristics of beavers, we may observe any individual of the tribe, and when we have studied its idiosyncrasies, we shall know the traits of the whole tribe of beavers. What we call "instinct" is in reality the dictates of "Group Spirits" which govern separate individuals of its tribe telepathically, as it were.

The ancient Egyptians knew of these animal Group spirits and sketched many of them, in a crude way, upon their temples and tombs. Such figures with a human body and an animal head actually live in the Desire World. They may be spoken to, and will be found much more intelligent than the average human being.

That statement brings up another peculiarity of conditions in the Desire World in respect of language. Here in this world human speech is so diversified that there are countries where people who live only a few miles apart speak a dialect so different that they understand each other with great difficulty, and each nation has its own language that varies altogether from the speech of other peoples.

In the lower regions of the Desire World, there is the same diversity of tongues as on Earth, and the so-called "dead" of one nation find it impossible to converse with those who lived in another country. Hence linguistic accomplishments are of great value to the Invisible Helpers, of whom we shall hear later, as their sphere of usefulness is enormously extended by that ability.

Even apart from differences of language our mode of speech is exceedingly productive of misunderstandings. The same words often convey most opposite ideas to different minds. If we speak of a "body of water," one person may think we mean a lake of small dimensions, the thoughts of another may be directed to the Great Lakes, and a third person's thoughts may be turned towards the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean. If we speak of a "light," one may think of a gaslight, another of an electric arc-lamp, or if we say "red," one person may think we mean a delicate shade of pink and another gets the idea of crimson. The misunderstandings of what words mean goes even farther, as illustrated in the following.

The writer once opened a reading room in a large city where he lectured, and invited his audience to make use thereof. Among those who availed themselves of the opportunity was a gentleman who had for many years been a veritable "metaphysical tramp," roaming from lecture to lecture, hearing the teachings of everybody and practicing nothing. Like the Athenians on Mars' Hill, he was always looking for something "new," particularly in the line of phenomena, and his mind was in that seething chaotic state which is one of the most prominent symptoms of "mental indigestion."

Having attended a number of our lectures he knew from the program that: "The lecturer does not give readings or cast horoscopes FOR PAY." But seeing on the door of the newly opened reading room, the legend: "Free Reading Room," his erratic mind at once jumped to the conclusion that although we were opposed to telling fortunes for pay, we were now going to give free readings of the future in the Free Reading Room. He was much disappointed that we did not intend to tell fortunes, either gratis or for a consideration, and we changed our sign to "Free Library" in order to obviate a repetition of the error.

In the higher Regions of the Desire World the confusion of tongues gives place to a universal mode of expression which absolutely prevents misunderstandings of our meaning. There each of our thoughts takes a definite form and color perceptible to all, and this thought-symbol emits a certain tone, which is not a word, but it conveys our meaning to the one we address no matter what language we spoke on earth.

To arrive at an understanding of how such a universal language becomes possible and is at once comprehended by all, without preparation, we may take as an illustration the manner in which a musician reads music. A German or a Polish composer may write an opera. Each has his own peculiar terminology and expresses it in his own language. When that opera is to be played by an Italian bandmaster, or by a Spanish or American musician, it need not be translated; the notes and symbols upon the page are a universally understood language of symbols which is intelligible to musicians of no matter what nationality. Similarly with figures, the German counts: ein, zwei, drei; the Frenchman says: un, deux, trois, and in English we use the words: one, two, three, but the figures: 1,2,3, though differently spoken, are intelligible to all and mean the same. There is no possibility of misunderstanding in the cases of either music or figures. Thus it is also with the universal language peculiar to the higher regions of the Desire World and the still more subtle realms in nature, it is intelligible to all, an exact mode of expression.

Returning to our description of the entities commonly met with in the lower Desire World, we may note that other systems of religion than the EGYPTIAN, already mentioned, has spoken of various classes of beings native to these realms. The Zoroastrian religion, for instance, mentions SEVEN AMSHASPANDS and the IZZARDS as having dominion over certain days in the month and certain months in the year. The Christian religion speaks of Seven Spirits before the Throne, which are the same beings the Persians called Amshaspands. Each of them rules over two months in the year while the seventh: Michael, the highest, is their leader, for he is ambassador from the Sun to the Earth; the others are ambassadors from the planets. ils Catholic religion with its abundant occult information takes most notice of these "star-angels" and knows considerable about their influence upon the affairs of the earth.

The Amshaspands, however, do not inhabit the lower regions of the Desire World but influence the Izzards. À la suite the old Persian legend these beings are divisible into two groups: one of twenty-eight classes, and the other of three classes. Each of these classes has dominion over, or takes the lead of all the other classes on one certain day of the month. They regulate the weather conditions on that day and work with animal and man in particular. At least the twenty-eight classes do that, the other group of three classes has nothing to do with animals, because they have only twenty-eight pairs of spinal nerves, while human beings have thirty-one. Thus animals are attuned to the lunar month of twenty-eight days, while man is correlated to the solar month of thirty or thirty-one days. The ancient Persians were astronomers but not physiologists; they had no means of knowing the different nervous constitution of animal and man, but they saw clairvoyantly these superphysical beings; they noted and recorded their work with animal and men, and our own anatomical investigations may show us the reason for these divisions of the classes of Izzards recorded in that ancient system of philosophy.

Still another class of beings should be mentioned: those who have entered the Desire World through the gate of death and are now hidden from our physical vision. These so-called "dead" are in fact much more alive than any of us, who are tied to a dense body and subject to all its limitations, who are forced slowly to drag this clog along with us at the rate of a few miles an hour, who must expend such an enormous amount of energy upon propelling that vehicle that we are easily and quickly tired, even when in the best of health, and who are often confined to a bed, sometimes for years, by the indisposition of this heavy mortal coil. But when that is once shed and the freed Spirit can again function in its spiritual body, sickness is an unknown condition, and distance is annihilated, or at least practically so, for though it was necessary for the Savior to liken the freed Spirit to the wind which blows where it listeth, that simile gives but a poor description of what actually takes place in soul flights. Time is non-existent there, as we shall presently explain, so the writer has never been able to time himself, but has on several occasions timed others when he was in the physical body and then speeding through space upon a certain errand. Distances such as from the Pacific Coast to Europe, the delivery of a short message there and the return to the body has been accomplished in slightly less than one minute. Therefore our assertion, that those whom we call dead are in reality much more alive than we, is well founded in facts.

We spoke of the dense body in which we now live, as a "clog" and a "fetter." It must not be inferred, however, that we sympathize with the attitude of certain people who, when they have learned with what ease soul- flights are accomplished, go about bemoaning the fact that they are now imprisoned. They are constantly thinking of, and longing for, the day when they shall be able to leave this mortal coil behind and fly away in their spiritual body. Such an attitude of mind is decidedly mistaken; the great and wise Beings who are invisible leaders of our evolution have not placed us here to no purpose. Valuable lessons are to be learned in this visible world wherein we dwell, lessons that cannot be learned in any other realm of nature, and the very conditions of density and inertia whereof such people complain, are factors which make it possible to acquire the knowledge this world is designed to give. This fact was so amply illustrated in a recent experience of the writer:

A friend had been studying occultism for a number of years but had not studied astrology. Last year she became aroused to the importance of this branch of study as a key to self-knowledge and a means of understanding the natures of others, also of developing the compassion for their errors, so necessary in the cultivation of love for one's neighbor. Love for our neighbor the Savior enjoined upon us as the Supreme Commandment, which is the fulfillment of all laws, and as astrology teaches us to BEAR and FORBEAR, it helps as nothing else can in the development of this supreme virtue. She therefore joined one of the classes started in Los Angeles by the writer, but a sudden illness quickly ended in death and thus terminated her study of the subject in the physical body, here it was well begun.

Upon one of many occasions when she visited the writer subsequent to her release from the body, she deplored the fact that it seemed so difficult to make headway in her study of astrology. The writer advised continued attendance at the classes, and suggested that she could surely get someone "on the other side" to help her study.

At this she exclaimed impatiently: "Oh, yes! Of course I attend the classes. I have done so right along; I have also found a friend who helps me here. But you cannot imagine how difficult it is to concentrate here upon mathematical calculations and the judgment of a horoscope or in fact upon any subject here, where every little thought-current takes you miles away from your study. I used to think it difficult to concentrate when I had a physical body, but it is not a circumstance to the obstacles which face the student here."

The physical body was an anchor to her, and it is that to all of us. Being dense, it is also to a great extent impervious to disturbing influences from which the more subtle spiritual bodies do not shield us. It enables us to bring our ideas to a logical conclusion with far less effort at concentration than is necessary in that realm where all is in such incessant and turbulent motion. Thus we are gradually developing the faculty of holding our thoughts to a center by existence in this world, and we should value our opportunities here, rather than deplore the limitations which help in one direction more than they fetter in another. In fact, we should never deplore any condition, each has its lesson. If we try to learn what that lesson is and to assimilate the experience which may be extracted therefrom, we are wiser than those who waste time in vain regrets.

We said there is no time in the Desire World, and the reader will readily understand that such must be the case from the fact, already mentioned, that nothing there is opaque.

In this world the rotation of the opaque earth upon its axis is responsible for the alternating conditions of day and night. We call it DAY when the spot where we live is turned towards the Sun and its rays illumine our environment, but when our home is turned away from the Sun and its rays obstructed by the opaque earth we term the resulting darkness NIGHT. The passage of the earth in its orbit around the Sun produces the seasons and the year, which are our divisions of time. But in the Desire World where all is light there is but one long day. The Spirit is not there fettered by a heavy physical body, so it does not need sleep and existence is unbroken. Spiritual substances are not subject to contraction and expansion such as arise here from heat and cold, hence summer and winter are also non-existent. Thus there is nothing to differentiate one moment from another in respect of the conditions of light and darkness, summer and winter, which mark time for us. Therefore, while the so-called "dead" may have a very accurate memory of time as regards the life they lived here in the body, they are usually unable to tell anything about the chronological relation of events which have happened to them in the Desire World, and it is a very common thing to find that they do not even know how many years have elapsed since they passed out from this plane of existence. Only students of the stellar science are able to calculate the passage of time after their demise.

When the occult investigator wishes to study an event in the past history of man, he may most readily call up the picture from THE MEMORY OF NATURE, but if he desires to fix the time of the incident, he will be obliged to count backwards by the motion of the heavenly bodies. For that purpose he generally uses the measure provided by the Sun's precession: each year the Sun crosses the Earth's equator about the twenty-first of March. Then day and night are of even length, therefore this is called the vernal equinox. But on account of a certain wobbling motion (nutation) of the Earth's axis, the Sun does not cross over at the same place in the zodiac. It reaches the equator a little too early, it PRECEDES, year by year it moves BACKWARDS a little. At the time of the birth of Christ, for instance, the vernal equinox was in about seven degrees of the zodiacal sign Aries. During the two thousand years which have intervened between that event and the present time, the Sun has moved BACKWARDS about twenty-seven degrees, so that it is now in about ten degrees of the sign Pisces. It moves around the circle of the zodiac in about 25,868 years. The occult investigator may therefore count back the number of signs, or whole circles, which the Sun has PRECEDED between the present day and the time of the event he is investigating. Thus he has by the use of the heavenly time keepers an approximately correct measure of time even though he is in the Desire World, and that is another reason for studying the stellar science.

THE WORLD OF THOUGHT

When we have attained the spiritual development necessary consciously to enter the World of Thought and leave the Desire World, which is the realm of light and color, we pass through a condition which the occult investigator calls The Great Silence.

As previously stated, the higher regions of the Desire World exhibit the marked peculiarity of blending form and sound, but when one passes through the Great Silence, all the world seems to disappear and the Spirit has the feeling of floating in an ocean of intense light, utterly alone, yet absolutely fearless, because imbued with a sense of its impregnable security, no longer subject to form or sound, past or future; all is one eternal NOW.


Les robustes platoniques marchent comme des cellules unitaires qui se répètent sur elles-mêmes afin de maintenir l’intégrité de leur forme insolite. Chaque cellule unitaire a un espace spécifique de conscience, ou lien énergétique, qu’elle exprime par sa forme unique. Les cellules unitaires se développent les unes au travers des autres et se soutiennent les unes les autres. c’est pourquoi certaines cellules deviennent des nerfs, d’autres des muscles, d’autres encore des organes. Chacun suit une directive qui se répète sur lui-même tout en aujourd’hui l’intégrité d’un corps homme de 3ème surface. Drunvalo Melchizédek note que l’icosaèdre et le dodécaèdre tournent microscopiquement à l’intérieur de la double hélice de notre ADN qui soumet et maintient la conscience humaine dans la 3ème dimension. C’est aussi la raison pour laquelle l’humanité, en tant que forme de vie de troisième surface, ne peut pas voir physiquement des êtres dimensionnels supérieurs. Nos yeux physiques ne peuvent pas distinguer la signature énergétique des êtres de la septième superficie. Cependant, à mesure que notre planète avance vers la cinquième dimension, le monde avance vers notre prochaine expression physique en tant qu’êtres de cinquième superficie sur Terre. A travers nos yeux de cinquième surface, nous ferons l’expérience de nous-mêmes au sein de notre nouveau monde dans une perspective d’amour inconditionnel, de pardon compatissant et de grande paix. Travaillez avec ces automobiles de la fabrication pour célébrer tout ce que vous soyez. n

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