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Published Monthly by T h b Su p r e m b Co u n c i l of AMORC

Rosicrucian Park, San Jose, California

AUG UST, 1929 VO LU ME VII, No. 7

Contents

The Imperator's Monthly Message_________________ ____________How Can We Best Express Love and Service to Others? ...............

.............. ........................... ................. ...................................By Br o t h e r J o s e p h

Our Teachings Still Lead................................ ..................................By T h e I m p e r a t o r Latent Power____________________________JJy A St u d e n t o f AMORCGod Spoke...__________________________________________By T h e I m pe r a t o r How Nature Provides for Our Needs______.____

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Jiy Ro y l e T h u r s t o n

What is the Mystery of Sleep?............................ ...............By W. H. M c Keg gReport of the Egyptian Tour (Installment Six)_....By T h e T r ip Se c r e t a r yGod of Our Hearts.......................... c..................... .... .....JBy A r t h u r B. Be l lJesus, the Incarnated Word............................By Br o t h e r Ra y m o n d Wa l t o n

HOW TO ADDRESS LETTERSThis is Very Important

Always address your envelopes to: A M O R C , Rosicrucian Park, San Jose, California.

In the lower corner of your envelope, write the name of one of the following departments;which is to give immediate attention to your letter.

For general information: Supreme Secretary.Payment of dues or fees: Financial Secretary.Purchase of supplies: Supply Bureau.Regarding lost lectures, missing mail, errors, etc., Complaint Dept. Regarding the formation

of groups, distribution of propaganda literature, and furtherance of the work: ExtensionDept. Regarding this magazine and its departments: Triangle Dept. Regarding helpin illness or strictly personal problems: Welfare Dept.

Personal letters to the Imperator should be marked in the corner: Imperator's Secretary.Make checks and money orders payable only to AMORC FUNDS.Unless you notify us within thirty days after issuance of a magazine that you have not received

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^he Imperators e!Monthly (Message

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Y MESSAGE this monthis one of encouragement tothose who have found the

path, and who have sensedthe first and early beamsof inspiration from theCosmic Mind.

As I have watched the beautifulroses growing in my garden here inthis valley of hearts delight, I cannothelp but think of the appropriateness,as well as the revential significance, ofthe rose on the cross as one of theemblems of our organization.

There is within each one of us thatwhich is like unto a budding rose.W e come into life on this earth andin this material environment as physical part of all that the earth affords,

but containing within our beings therose of God's Consciousness, theflower of Cosmic power and life. And

just as the body at birth is young, andweak and small, and helpless, so thesoul, great in its wisdom and power, isnevertheless y o u n g and helpless inits ability to express. The soul withinus is hampered in childhood by thelimitations of the physical body andthe restrictions and incapabilities ofthe physical mind and intellect. Butthis flower of Cosmic Consciousnessgrows and opens and unfolds like the

bud of the rose, until in its fulness, itsbeauty, and its effulgence of life it

must express itself, it must attract at

tention, and must become the emblem

of its law. It is the unfolding of this

flower that brings to us Cosmic at-

tunement, Cosmic Consciousness, andCosmic development. W e become untoothers and unto the world like the un

folding rose to the passerby. W ebecome a symbol of that which isDivine, that which is good, perfect,and beautiful. The vibrations of ourbrilliant aura and the fragrance ofour emanations radiating the Divineessence of which this flower within usis composed, carries to all a messageof beauty, symmetry, rhythm, perfectform, and Divine creation.

Oh, if we would but let the flowerblossom early in life, and let the fulness of the bloom of the rose make

itself manifest while our bodies areyoung enough to have a long futureof usefulness! W hy do some wait andhesitate and doubt? These things holdthe flower within and keep it fromunfolding and giving forth that whichmakes it the most beautiful thing inthe world. W hy not let the Divine

power of the whole universe centerits beams upon this budding blossom,and let the blossom, in return, carryto the minds of men and women thefragance and beauty of its life and

being? Every moment of meditation inreverence and sacredness, every kindlyact, every thought that is in accordance with Cosmic law, and in fulfilment of Divine principle, adds to the

beauty of the rose and increases itssize and goodness. Let us become sofilled with the rose that we are radiating souls in the garden of light, blossoms in the garden of life, and rosesin the garden of love.

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c3iow Qan we iBest Express Love andService toBy Br o t h e r Jo s e ph

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HE heart as the symbol ofall life, is rightfully typicalof love, friendship, goodwill, peace, and happiness.When perverted, it maytake on the opposites, whichare hate, ill-will, strife, dis

cord, unhappiness, and misery. It iswell to keep these facts in mind, forthey explain a great many things that

are more or less an enigma to the manand woman not acquainted with Rosi-crucian ideals and principles.

Early in your studies you were toldthat AMORC was an order of loveand service. Perhaps you tried to express this loveperhaps you tried torender service through suggestions andadvice to others, with results oppositeto what you expected.

Lets analyze this condition and findout where the fault was. If you haveread Rosicrucian literature, you have no

doubt noticed that the outstanding character always typifies love and service,while at the same time seemingly coldand adverse to impressing his highideals upon the minds of his friends andacquaintances.

The entire explanation is in the factthat love is both positive and negative.The positive is love in every sense ofthe word. In its negative attitude, it

brings about discord, hate, and strife,disrupting family life, bringing on divorce, antagonism, and ill-will. W hat

is the reason?A love that is purea love that is

built on AMORC ideals, is a love ofhelpfulnessa love that recognizes eachindividual as a distinct personality, different in mind and thought from anyother individual, a universe unto itself,even though at one with all.

With this fact as a basis, it followsthat what may be poverty to one manwill be riches to another. A truth that

may point out the way to life, liberty,and eternal happiness to one person,may plunge another into misery anddespair. It is therefore well to ask howyou can express love and service toothers in such a manner that it will

bring about peace and harmony insteadof ill-will and hate.

The answer is a simple oneso simple that quite often it requires consid

erable thinking to fully realize the far-reaching truth of it. First of all, youhave no right to forcefully try to makeothers conform to what in your estimation is best. You are obligated to givelove and service only to those willing toaccept it. You cannot force it. Youcannot compel others to do what youthink is best for them.

Therefore, love must be sought. Youare to express your love only to thosewilling to accept it. You are to renderservice only to those willing to receive

it. When anyone asks your advice, itis your duty and obligation to give advice and suggestions to the best of yourability. If a person indicates by wordor action that your advice is objectionable, you have no right to force yourideas onto others.

Just consider the in-law" problem.Its source ninety-nine times out of ahundred is love. One in-law desires tohelp anotherdesires it so strongly thatwhen the suggestions and ideas are notaccepted, it causes ill-will and familyquarrels. One member of the family is

so interested in the success of the other,that he or she tries to remake the personality to conform with the ideas ofhimself. The other has ideas of hisown and you have a family quarrel lasting perhaps throughout lifeandall because of love and good-will.

These few paragraphs mean much.They tell you the reason for familyquarrels. They should impress uponyour mind the fact that you have no

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right to force others to accept your loveor service. In such instances your actions, your ideas, your suggestions andgood will are sown on barren groundand will bear no fruit, except perhapssuch growths as thorns and thistles.

Suppose, however, that one of thefamily, or even a stranger, asks you foradvice or help, then you are in duty

bound to give all you possibly can. Yoursuggestions and ideas will be sown onfertile soil. Your good works will bearfruit. You will be doing a good deedyour action will be appreciated and remembered.

If after reading these truths, yourmind reverts to the varied Rosicrucianliterature you have read, you can readily recall that in each instance the prin

ciple character lived strictly accordingto this Rosicrucian code of ethics.The characters are always ready to

give friendly council and advice. Theyare ever willing to extend a helpinghand to the needy. But also, they refrain from forcing their love, thoughts,services, and help on others. They seekout persons whom they can help, peoplewho appreciate their actions, religiouslyleaving alone those who do not appreciate help and advice.

Whether you are in the home, office,

or factorywhether you have a business of your own or serve another, thetruth is always the same. In every instance you will advance most rapidly,make most friends, gain most materialand spiritual knowledge, by strictly observing this Rosicrucian code of ethics.Each of us has lessons to learn. If yousee misery and failure ahead for one ofyour friends, you have a right to offeryour help and suggestions, but you donot have a right to force another to doyour bidding against his will.

But AMORC is an order of love andservice. Be ever ready to extend a helping hand to others. Be ever ready for

the call of duty. Express your love

through thought, word, and action. You

must love if you expect to be loved.

You must be a friend if you want to

have friends. You must refrain from

expressing your love and friendship

when it is plainly not wanted. The

world is filled with people who arelonely and friendless, looking for sym

pathy and encouragement. You willhave no trouble finding them. In bigcities like New York and Chicago thereare thousands of people who are more

lonely than hermits in the mountains.If you want to make an experiment inappreciation, give a ragged newspaper

boy a quarter for a two-cent newspaperand watch his eyes glow in thankfulness.If among your nephews or nieces thereis one who does not seem to be gettingthe best out of life, invite the youngsterto your home once in a while. Extenda helping hand, prove your friendship

by doing something to please the child,even though it be but an occasional invitation to go to the movies' with you,a little help in school work, instructionin the making of one thing or another.

If you have a garden laden withabundant flowers, go to the nearest hospital and get the names of two or threemost neglected patients, send each a fewflowers, simply saying from a friend.Youll find real satisfaction in the doingof this kindly deed.

In your daily life let your thoughtsand actions be based on unselfish loveand service. Instead of your firstthought being: W hat will I get out of

it? think of how well you can serveothers. For after all, we on earth arebut a single unit, all of us deriving lifefrom the same source. To hate anotheris to hate yourself. To help another isto help yourself. As you do untoothers, so shall it be done unto you.

Cultivate the habit of a friendlysmile. Express kindliness, even thoughthe mountain tops seem to be tumblingdown upon your head. Live your lifeso that you need fear nothingnot eventransition to the glorious beyond, which

Elbert Hubbard expressed as the greatest of all lifes adventures.

If the Infinite has blessed you withmore than your share of earthly goods,

share some of your good fortune with

others. If the making of a living seems

something like a problem, remember that

this may be just the lesson you most

need. Take life as it comes, looking

upon fortune and misfortune indiffer

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ently, for they are both from the samesource. Realize that within you there issupreme power to make life what youwant it to be. You have only to reachout into the Infinite and bring into yourlife any material or spiritual quality youdesire. You are supreme master in yourown universe. The condition of todayis but the reflection of your thinkingand belief of past years. As you give,so shall you receive. As you think, soshall you be. The power within isstronger, mightier, more far reachingthan any power you can receive fromfriends and acquaintances.

Yet in all your giving, in the doingof good deeds, be ever respectful of therights of others. Never force your giftson anyone who resents them. Help

those who welcome and appreciate yourhelp. Leave alone those who desire to

be let alone. In this way your life willbe a glorious experience. You will makefriends by the score. If others seem to

be envious of your accomplishments andknowledge of life, just ignore the fact.Treat an enemy as a friendand hecannot long remain an enemy. Transmute your selfish traits into unselfishacts of kindliness; transmute hate intolove; transmute misery into happiness.

Look upon life as a series of lessons,

enjoying each experience to the utmost.Cultivate joy and laughter. The manwith a disgruntled face is not in stepwith the times, he is often shunned andavoided. The Master Jesus attendednumerous feasts and weddings. Makeyour universe radiate happiness andgood will. Spread cheer and laughter,for in so doing you will help to makethis world a better and more pleasanthome for the multitudes. Avoid disagreements. Avoid the unpleasant vi

brations so noticeable in various neigh

borhoods.Make yours a life of radiant happiness, vibrating the spirit of love, friendliness, joy, and life, combined with the

power and self assurance possible

through your knowledge of oneness

with the Infinite.

Cultivate an easy manner of self-con

trol, placing yourself on an equal basis

with every man and woman on earth.

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Talk to rich and poor alikeas man toman. Be afraid of no one. Cast fear outof your life. Be submissive, but neverservile. Remember that you are servingonly one masterthe master within.Each day try to spend half an houralonelistening to the still small voicethat will guide you through life andlead you to achievement you perhapsnever even dreamed possible. But whenlistening to the voice within, be surethat it is THE voice and not somerandom thought wave. Know that thevoice within will never suggest anything to the detriment of others. It isalways helpful, always expressing loveand good will.

Be a Rosicrucian in every sense ofthe word. Read some of the mystical

literature recommended through yourlessons or the Triangle from time totime. Study the actions of the leadingcharacter, so that little by little, you can

build yourself into a similar character.Have nothing to do with pride and vanity. Be yourself in thought, word, anddeed. Look upon all work as a God-given opportunity for study and advancement. Try to accomplish successfully everything you undertake, keeping in mind that a big accomplishmentis after all nothing more than a num

ber of small tasks well done. Do notexpect credit or praise for favors, forwhen looking for such recognition, thisin itself constitutes your reward, whileif you avoid the thanks of others, evendoing things without letting them knowabout it, the Heavenly Father will reward youand this reward is a thousand times more real than the thanksyou receive from your friends.

Never praise yourself. Never tellothers how good your work is. Let themfind it out through some other source

and the chances are you will receivemore respect, more consideration, yourefforts will be more appreciated and youwill be happier.

"The good you do in darkness I willbring out into the light." So you maybe certain that every good deed will beproperly rewardedand by doing gooddeeds simply for the joy of doing them,you attract rewards that would otherwise be far beyond your reach.


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If each and every one of us put intoour daily life a Rosicrucian code ofethics, such as outlined here, we will all

be richer in the joy of living, while atthe same time attracting to ourselvesmaterial and spiritual rewards far beyond the conception of the average person. But we must be patient. W e must

be willing to grow into the new life. W emust not demand immediate rewards.W e should take life as it comes, doingeach task before us to the best of ourGod-given ability. Lets forget aboutrewards, forget about everything exceptthe good we can doand all else willtake care of itself.

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Our teachings Still Lead

A Discussion of the Various Truths Presented in Our Lectures

By T h e Im pe r a t o r

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NCE or twice a year wefind it helpful at Headquarters to call togetherthe various masters, teachers, instructors, department heads, and others,and review the discoveries and new presenta

tions put forward by the variousschools of science throughout theworld. As our members probablyknow, there are numerous organiza

tions in the world composed of thescientists and learned men of the various scientific schools, and at theirmonthly or semi-annual sessions, thesemen put forward what they believeto be their discoveries or new findingsin the s e v e r a l scientific fields, reports of these sessions and discussionsare published in scientific magazines.And from time to time the new theoriesor findings made by these scientistsreach various magazines and publications before the sessions or con

gresses of .their scientific bodies. According to the published information,we read every now and then that thescientific world is about to be upset,or startled, or thrown into a revolutionary state, by some of these discoveries, scientific findings, and it isa fact that the text books of most ofthe sciences have to be changed, modified, and edited every year in order tokeep abreast of the new postulations

and findings of the most eminent menin the scientific fields.

W e are always interested in oursemi-annual review of these scientificdiscoveries to see just how they affectour teachings. As we have said overand over, nothing that has been revealed as a discovery or a new findingby science in the past several hundredyears has changed one iota of ourteachings, and nothing presented asabsolutely new is absent from our

teachings. In other words, the Rosicrucian teachings as issued by AMORChave not only contained scientific information far in advance of the findings of the scientists outside of theorganization, but our teachings have

been so free from guesswork, personal theories, and hypothetical postulations that nothing actually discoveredas true in the scientific world hascaused us to make any changes inour teachings.

You know, it is often said by learned

men and persons of the materialistic,scientific schools that the teachings ofthe mystics are theoretical, and thatsuch organizations as the Rosicrucianscould not possibly have informationthat science does not have, and thatmost of our teachings are purely mystical, theoretical, and based on guesswork. It is very common for thecritical scientist to say, regarding theRosicrucian work, You have nothing

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scientific, and nothing that the scientific mind can accept as truth.

To offset this sort of argument andto give our members some facts uponwhich they can argue for the Rosi-crucians, and to show how far in advance our teachings are, and how correct we have been in our statementsfor the past years, I am going to takeyour time right now, to look over anumber of the recent scientific discoveries and comment briefly on eachone of them.

W e read that an eminent Germanscientist has stirred medical circlesin Germany with an important discovery regarding oxygen and its placein the blood. He has found thatoxygen is what we term in our teach

ings a negative element, and therefore can be added synthetically to thesystem for the cure of anemia. It isnot so many years ago that oxygenwas considered as the great vitalityelement of life taken into the systemthrough breathing, and our teachingsdenied that this was so and classifiedoxygen as a negative element belonging to the material world, and to beadded to the system like other negativeelements. For twenty years or morescientific men and physicians have

laughed at our statements that oxygenwas a negative element. W hat willthey say now?

A Kansas chemist of considerable repute, and head of the department ofchemistry in a university, announcesthat he believes he has found a way tomake synthetic diamonds. His "startling announcement includes the statement that the only difference betweena diamond and some grains of sugaris a difference that can be broughtabout through heat. The heat affectsthe molecular and atomic structure ofthe element, and sugar can be changedinto carbon and carbon into diamonds

by the changing of the rate of vibrations of the electrons and atoms whichexpress themselves either as sugar,carbon, or diamonds, or anything else.His ideas sound like the elementarylessons issued by the Rosicucians on thesubject of transmutation, and instead ofhis experiments being the first on rec

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ord, we call attention to the fact thatthe Rosicrucians have made diamondsin the past, and Cagliostro was famousduring his lifetime for having made diamonds that stood the test of everyknown method, and brought fabulous

sums of money. The Kansas scientistis just a few hundred years behindCagliostro and others in making hisexperiments.

One of the "worlds foremost mathematicians now steps upon the stageand states that the electrons may nothave any actual material existence atall, as an element of matter, but may

be only a charge of some form ofenergy. He also states that the formation of electrons into atoms to composematter is as system regulated by purely

goemetrical considerations. He has evendiscovered a very remarkable principle, and that is, that there are onlyone hundred and thirty six possible arrangements for this geometrical system,and that when two electrons come neareach other, they repel, and that morethan two form themselves around a

positive nucleus. He ventures the opinion that "we probably shall have to revise our old notions of the structure ofmatter, and possibly abandon the ideaof any physical existence of the electron. All matter, in fact, will become

again merely a mode of thought. Now,that is very interesting, though not atall startling or surprising to Rosicrucians. The Rosicruians never didunderstand that an electron was a physicalform of matter, or that the electron hadany physcial existence like matter has.And all Rosicrucians have known thattwo negative electrons would repel eachother, and that the only way a groupof electrons could form an atom would

be through their mutual relationship toone or more electrons of an opposite

polarity. And the Rosicrucians andmystics have always taught that matteris composed according to geometricallaws and principals, and that "in the

beginning and throughout all of creation, "God geonaetrizes as the ancient

mystic once put it. All but the Rosi

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come to learn that the energy or Divineessence constituting the nature of electronic energy is identical with thoughtenergy. This is what gives the mysticthe creative power taught in the higherlectures.

An eminent authority on aeronauticsannounces that he has found the method used by Lindbergh to be the latestdiscovery in regard to the earths magnetism, because by this method it is

possible to keep an airplane to itscourse, or within certain definite linesof flight. The startling discovery connected with this announcement is thatthe earth has a definite amount of magnetism which may be utilized, andwhich is of a distinct nature from othermagnetic forces. This will not startle

the Rosicrucians, who have studied theteachings of our higher grades, or thosewho have been studying the ArcaneCosmology. The earths magnetism,its nature, its source, and its usefulness,in hundreds of ways, has been wellknown to the Rosicrucians for severalcenturies.

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Another professor in Kansas, connected with the department of astronomy at one of the universities, surprisesthe astronomical world of science witha system whereby he can predict the

weather for many years in advance. Hehas made the surprising discovery thatmost things in life, including theweather, are affected by the law ofrhythm, and that in astronomical configurations, the law of periodicity is alsomanifest. The Rosicrucians have knownabout rhythm and periodicity for manycenturies, and the weather is only oneof the many manifestations of the lawsas they affect our lives. W e are busyright now preparing a new book, thetitle of which will be "The Mastery of

Fate or "The Law of Probabilities.This book will be a business and vocational guide because it will reveal thelaw of r h y t h m and periodicity in

business, social life, health, and otheraffairs of all human beings, and provetha t our so-called ups and downs infinances, business, pleasure, health, emotions, and other conditions of life arein accordance with certain establishedrhythmic laws, or laws which manifest

in accordance with rhythm and mathematical periodicity. Through such principles, everyone in business or out ofit will be able to know in advance justwhat periods of the day, week, month,year, and lifetime certain events willoccur, and certain conditions recur,either for good or otherwise. This bookwill be the first complete presentationof the fundamental principles containedin our teachings, and in other unpublished manuscripts of a Rosicrucian nature. The Kansas professor is attempting to do what Dr. John Dalton, theeminent Rosicrucian physicist, didyearsago.

A German scientific publication announces that one of their scientists hasdiscovered some new rays of light called

border lights, which are in betweensome of the known octaves of vibrations and which rays affect the health.This scientist is simply dealing with vi

brations in one of the upper octavesof the Cosmic keyboard presented inthe Rosicrucian teachings many yearsago, and referred to in many of ourlectures on the laws of vibrations. Suchultra light rays are within the octavesof nous, and the higher rates whichhave to do with the vital life force.Therapeutic light has been used by theRosicrucians for several centuries, andthis announcement from Germany willnot surprise or startle the Rosicruciansat all.

An announcement from Canadastates that some scientists have discovered that in parts of Canada, they havefound indications that in the Yukon and

Northwest territories are relics of a prehistoric civilization. The Rosicrucianteachings, and especially our Americanmagazine, "The Mystic Triangle havereferred to the fact that the western

half of the United States, from Alaskato Lower California is part of the ancient lost continent of Lemuria, and wehave published many interesting storeisof what can be found beneath the soilof this ancient land. The Rosicrucianrecords contain more in this regard thanscience will discover through its excavations in hundreds of years.

Announcement also come of a scientist, formerly connected with the Smith

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sonian Institute, who has discovered evidence of the existence of sun worshippers or ancient tribes in the mountain parts of northern New Mexico. Alarge cave has been found indicatingthat it was used up to within a fewcenturies ago, for ancient ceremonials,and that in the same mountains areother ruins of great antiquity. Weknow that these are parts of the ruinsof ancient Lemuria, and we have manyreferences in our records here and inEurope regarding the ancient peopleswho populated America long before theAmerican Indians came.

From Rome comes the announcementthat a scientist and artist who has recently returned from Thibet has madesome remarkable discoveries. W e areglad that this scientist has brought thesefacts to light, for probably they will

be accepted by the masses, whereas thesame statements contained in our teachings for many centuries have been disregarded as being biased and untrue.The scientists announce that the realThibetans, or the g r e a t educatedMasters that are connected with theAryan monasteries in Thibet are unquestionably European rather thanAsiatic. He calls attention to the factthat even their tombstones are like those

found in Greece, France, England, andparts of Egypt. He says that theseThibetans admit that the American Indians were once part of their people,and became separated from them, whichfact has been stated in our Rosicrucianteachings and supplemented with manyother interesting facts for many years.W e know that the real Masters inThibet who are the true Thibetans aredescendants of the original Aryan race,and that they have nothing to do withthe Mongolians or with MongolianBuddhist temples and monasteries ofthat country.

Dr. E. E. Free, the eminent Americanwirter on scientific subjects, announcesin one of his scientific contributions toAmerican publications that at a recentinternational congress of military medicine and pharmacy held in London, aBritish expert called attention to the factthat there was a relationship betweenthe eyes and the teeth, and that the con

dition of the teeth could be diagnosedthrough an examination of the eyes.W e wonder when other scientists willgo a little further and discover thatevery condition of the body, chemical,

physcial, anatomical, and organic, canbe diagnosed through an examinationof the human eye, and that there is arelationship between the iris of the human eyes and every part of the body.The Rosicrucians have taught this formany years, and in the higher work,the principles are well understood andused. There is nothing new to Rosicrucians in this discovery.

From New York comes the announcement that an eminent chemist hasdiscovered that X-rays will producechanges in species and types of insectsor other living creatures. This will notsurprise any Rosicrucian, for the Rosicrucian teachings have contained reference to the fact that the determinationof species and the transmission ofspecies by heredity remains within thechromosomes, their number and relationship. In our own laboratories yearsago we experimented in the artificialfeeding and development of living cellsresulting from spontaneous generation,and proved that light rays and coloredlights of various kinds affect the species,

growth, development, size, and the nature of living things. Every Rosicrucianwho has gone high in the teachingsknows why this is, and uses some ofthese principles in connection with manyinteresting experiments. What the scientists have not discovered is that emanations from the mind, through concentration, can also affect these chromosomes, and this proves again the creative power of man's mind.

Perhaps the most interesting announcement of all is that which comes

from Philadelphia, where the American Philosophical Society has beenholding some of its national sessions.Here Dr. George W . Crile startled theaudience composed mostly of scientistswith the statement that life is electricity.He says he has positively found thatthe vital life force is an electric strainor potential." He probably will surpriseall but Rosicrucians with the followingstatement: I propose now to offer new

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experimental evidence which identifiesa form of energy that is lost in death. . . . in animals, plants, and fruitsit has a potential existence during life,and disappears at death, Now if wesubstitute the word polarity for potential and they are identical wordsor terms. Dr. Criles statement readsprecisely like many which appear in ourRosicrucian teachings, and have ap

peared therein for several centuriesThe positive polarity of nous is thatvital life force (V. L. F.) which comesat birth into the animal body, or intothe plant when the seed is first polarized. Dr. Chile's statements also refer to the fact that all living things havea variation polarity or potentiality, andthat mating and the proper assembly ofcells which will react one upon another

is dependent upon the proper rela-lationship of various potentials or polarities. All Rosicurcians above thepreliminary grades have studied thesefacts for many years, and in Americatoday there are thousands of Rosicru-cians who are using the laws just discovered by Dr. Crile in the treatmentand prevention of disease and in thepreformance of many so-called modern miracles.

And so we have picked out someof the most important of the scientific

revelations of the day, and haveavoided none because they presentedfacts which our teachings did notcontain, but have simply eliminatedthose which referred to ordinary thingswell understood by every one of ourmembers. Such announcements as a

physician in Baltimore recently made,that as a professor at John Hopkinsuniversity, and as a practicing physician for many years, he had discovered that mental troubles are real,and must be treated by one expertin mental conditions and who understands the mental laws, is a statementthat is hardly worth giving space toin these pages, for his new viewpointis being rapidly adopted by physiciansall over the world, even though theyare a few centuries late in doing so.

Our members should feel happy inthe knowledge that the Rosicrucianteachings are giving them an under-stadning of life and a knowledge ofthemselves far in advance of any ofthe other schools of thought or instruction, and that, as in the ancient times,they areassociated with an organization that is leading the world ofthought, and pioneering in all thingsthat make for health, happiness, pros

perity, and success in life.

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LAST CALL FOR THE CONVENTION

All members and officers are advised that the details of the National Con-onvention of AMORC are being rapidly arranged so this is the last call tothose who wish to attend. The Convention will be held in San Jose, California,during the week beginning August 19th. Those who are planning to come, orwho hope to come should write to the Convention Chairman, care of AMORC

Headquarters as quickly as possible. Those who have written or who will writewill receive letters of advice. The whole week of the Convention will be filledwith interest, but Thursday and Friday, the 22nd and 23rd, will be of especial interest. Unless you write and make definite reservations before August15th, you may not find hotel rooms. This is the last call.

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O W often have we, at sometime or other, after eitherreading or hearing of anunusual experience of someother person, paused, lostin thought trying to pictureto ourselves just what we

would have done in the event the sameexperience should have happened tohave been our own. How we have

thought of the ways we would havesolved the problem in another way, howdifferently we should have acted underthe same circumstances. Then again, wehave so often heard someone say, IfI were in your place, I would have doneso and so.

Who has not, at some time or otherin his or her lifetime, actually laid outplans as to how he would spend themoney were he to suddenly awakensome fine morning and find himself amillionairewhat things he would do,who he would help, what he would buy,

and how he would invest the money, orspend the income?

Who has not imagined, what hewould do, were he to awake suddenlyin the stillness of the night, and find a

burglar in his room; or how he wouldact in the event of an accident at sea,a railroad wreck, or in a thousand otheremergencies of a highly exciting nature.

The truth is, that while we mightthink we would do certain things undercertain conditions, as we sit and calmlythink the matter over, we will find that

under an emotional strain, or the at-tending excitement and reality, wewould have done the selfsame thing,which thousands of others before ushave doneact upon the impulse of themoment, just as it would be perfectlynatural for us to act. W hat might af-fect one person in one way, might nothave the same reaction upon another;

because people differ, some often goingalmost insane under certain conditions,while others seem to be perfectly calm

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and collected. W e might each thinkthat we would do certain things, but wewould find that when unexpectedly con-fronted with the experience, we mightdo far differently than what we thoughtwe would do. Perhaps our action wouldbe a brave one, or, instead a very fool-ish act; we cannot really say or knowwhat we might do, even though weimagine we know what we would do.

Only the actual experience will provejust how an event will affect us, andthis would be the result caused by theexperience.

The effects of sudden anger, hatred,and jealousy, as well as many other hu-man failings, so often terminate in seriousharm; not only to ourselves, but to theone to whom the evil was directed, andoften even brings in others who thoughinnocent of any evil intention are madeto suffer through acts committed rashlyunder the stressof strong emotions. Be-

hind the expression of these acts, seemsto be an irresistible driving power, alatent force that lies hidden within our-selves. People under stress of thesestronger emotions seem to possess thestrength of ten ordinary men; somethingseems to come to their aid. An ordinaryperson who, in a state of calmness, canhardly shoulder a hundred poundweight, will, under certain conditions,actually lift three times that weight andnot realize he is doing it; he seems tocall upon some reserve power, which hemakes wonderful use of, momentarily.People who have been noticeably slowin their movements have under greatstress shown extraordinary sprynessand alertness, escaping seemingly im-

possible accidents, making mighty ef-forts as their call upon this latent powerhas been answered; we might even referto many cases where the lower animalshave done the selfsame thing.

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strength; in time of trial he does nothesitate to at least try to do something,or to call upon all the power within his

being either in defense or to overcomesome obstacle or object. How particular we are to apply all that we have in

material matters, to call upon all thereserve power within our bodies, andfight or resist to the bitter end, eitherin the preservation of life, the defenseof our worldly possessions, or the accomplishment of our desire, more especially when they smack of self interest.W ha t a row most of us put up!

So much for the latent power in thephysical material sense. If we wouldbut apply as much endeavor, as mucheffort toward the attainment of anotherlatent force which lies dormant withinus all, we would not only be able thento direct this latent power to meet ourdesires, but, if we would apply it according to the fixed laws, which governand control the use of this latent power,we would be quite able to apply it tomaterial and physical use as well. Notwith the strength of just ten men, butwith an unlimited force to which thereis no end.

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If men but knew what power lieswithin themselves, if they but took thetrouble to learn and study its nature,

the laws which control it, we all wouldneed little else in this world. Whenyou, or I, try to imagine a limit to thepossibilities of this power we can onlygo so far, and that is to the extent ofour imaginations; still there is no sucha thing as a condition or a situationwhich, if it is according to the law, isimpossible of realization. Man, himself,places the bounds of the limit of thisforce. God goes farther than man cango, and we see Him manifested all aboutus in creation; and still the world, andall that is in it, is but a small item, a mere

nothing for God to bring into reality, incomparison with some of the hiddenthings that God has done and is stilldoing, materially, psychically, and spiritually; for man cannot bring forth onething, which God cannot do if He sowills, and which is in accordance withthe laws. God will not change a fixedlaw, nor will He add one straw to thosewhich He has already ordained. If wedo not know the law the fault is our

own; there is no law which commandsus to learn the law against our own freewill, or that promises us anything thatis not of the law, either for good orevil. Man makes his own choice; he hasthis power within himself, and the use

or disuse of that force remains with theindividual, not with God.The strangest thing seems to be that

so many of us will not bow our necks tothe yoke; we will not study the law.We seem to want to have everything

brought to us on a golden plate, andgarnished with flowers. Even then wewant to paw it all over, sample a fewmorsels, and if we like it, and it is nottoo much trouble or effort, we will reapits reward.

W e once heard of a fellow whoowned a small island covered with acocoanut grove; he lay all day in theshade of the grove, sipping his finewine, reading all the latest books, andhaving a native fan him. While he wassprawled upon his soft hammock, hewould listen to the ripe nuts fall off thetrees. Ah, he would say, there isanother ten-cent piece for me. Thenhe would order the natives to gather thenuts and ship them; he never touchedthem. So it is with a lot of others;they expect these latent powers tospring into life for them automatically.

If it is not going to disturb them in anyway, and they do not have to exertthemselves, they are quite willing to en

joy the benefits.Can any sane, thinking person, know

ing from whence our teachings come,believe that they came without any effort upon the part of our teachers?Who really can tell the price that manyof these teachers have paid, are nowpaying, and will continue to pay just aslong as payment is due? W hat is theirreason for the great effort, the self denial, the sacrifice of personal interests,self rewards, and the assumption of thedebt, which they are obliged to pay, ifit is not for the rest of mankind? Sometimes, one is filled with righteous wrath(if there is such a thing) to think of allthat these teachers are doing for us,and that they are so little rewarded orappreciated. Right today, in this verylife, we have teachers who are makingthese sacrifices, that you, and I, might

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approach closer to that life and happiness which the Creator intended should

be oursthe life of the perfect man andperfect woman.

Perhaps we are unconsciously a bit

selfish when we do not appreciate theseefforts. It is not our praise they needor seek, words of ours means so little tothem, they are far above vanity and

prudishness, and the flatterings ofempty, easily-applied words, pretty

phrases, or grandiloquent bombasticspeeches which mean nothing to them;

but they do want our earnest, sincereco-operation to help spread the light, toreclaim the world, and to bring it againunder the banner of universal brotherhood; such as it once was in the days ofAtlantis. However this time they de

sire this difference: we shall remainwhere we once were and know that weshall live again one day, each with afull knowledge of the law, and each amaster of the latent power within himself.

There is certainly work for all of us,and there is no one but can contributesomething, giving of his aid and servicetowards the end. W hat matter the material costs to us if we can but free theworld, Who are those who desire toshare the work; who are those who will

still uphold the torch of knowledge thathumanity might again find itself andbe as God intends us to be? W ho arethose who knowingly would place astumbling block across the path of

man's progress in the great struggle toagain find himself? Who willinglywould impede this work, if he could?Truly we have only to ask to be privileged to lend a hand. Our officers are

ever ready to assist and to point out thebest way, if we but ask them to do so.Let us all lend a hand towards the

awakening of these latent powerswithin everyone. Let all men partakeof the waters of knowledge and drinkdeep at the fountain of wisdom, knowing more of the God who made them,and His divine truths. Then the latent

powers shall, indeed, awaken and lifebecome as it once was, highly developed, civilized, and above all tolerantand fit to live just as our God intendsus to live. Just so long as we do

nothing towards attaining this end, justthat much longer shall the eventual day

be postponed; for the lack of action,even though the desire might be present, cannot hasten the time, but ratherdelays it.

The opportunity is offered throughour Order, and in no other way can thedoor be opened, regardless of whatmight be claimed otherwise. W e students have had experience with othermethods, with little or no results, andwe do know that AMORC is the only

way. It is our unbounded duty to see thatothers find the selfsame opportunitywhich we are enjoying, and we will ifwe are trying to really live as Rosicru-cians are supposed to live.

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Qod Spoke

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August1929

By H. Sp e n c e r L e w i s , F. R. C.

(Reprinted by request)

N our mad ambition to conquer the formidable and attain the very pinnacle ofmaterial heights, we losesight of the little, sweet essentials of life; and it is oftenin the twilight of life only

that we realize we have wandered faraway from that narrow road which,after all, leads to the only goal of contentment and peace.

More especially do we wander fromthe natural elements of religion. W eenter those modern, recently constructed, and as yet untrammeled paths ofinterpreted religion where the trueand real God is little or not at all considered or understood. W e lose sightof the simple laws and words of God,and our worship of Him becomes so involved, so complex, so profound, thatGod actually becomes a stranger to ourhearts and consciousness.

Yet God is so close, so near to us, so

intimate and so easily understood thatwe may hear the Divine Voice, feel theDivine Presence, and realize the DivineMind every hour in the day. v

I make plea for a return to the simpleworship of God. I urge that we unitein an endeavor to realize God, consciously, as a living presence, and tohearken unto the Voice and observeHis handiwork.

God spoke!You have thought that exclamation to

be a doctrinal reply from the over-zealous Bible student. You have, perhaps,

thought it to be the blind belief of thereligious fanatic; or you may havethought it to be the metaphorical replyof the religious idealist.

But, my beloved friends, I have heardGod speak; and I say it, declare it, inthe coolness of careful thought, withoutundue fervor or zeal. To me it is beautifully true, wonderful, inspiring; but itis not phenomenal, supernatural, or mystical in any sense.

God spoke!I have wandered idly through a field

of daisies, lying in a peaceful valley,with the great blue heaven above me,the sun shining brightly, birds light-heartedly passing from bough to bough,all nature gay, sweet, and glorious;strife, turmoil and evil far away; nothingnear but goodness and Godliness. AndI have felt the oneness of all nature, allGods manifestations; I have forgotten

personality of self and individuality ofego; I have lost myself in the simplicityand grandeurnot the complexity andmarvelsof all about me. And, I havesat down in the midst of the daisies totry and attune my consciousness withtheir simplicity. And I have reached outand drawn close to my cheek one ofthese daisies that I might feel its soft,innocent face against mine, and I havelooked into its eyes, its soul. Thenthe occasion will ever be rememberedI saw the harmony of its form; the

grace of its design, the symmetry of itsyellow head, the regularity of its petals,the method of its unfoldment, the sim

plicity of its anatomy andGod spoke!Through the daisy, God revealed to mein unmistakable language, the infinitewisdom of His mind, the superiority ofHis ways and His laws.

God spoke! Truly, and I heard, andunderstood; God spoke as only God canspeak. Could man but speak as Godspeaksah! the vanity of the thought.Yet man demands that in order to beheard and understood, God must speak

in his limited, self-made, finite language,and man, therefore, hears not the voiceof God.

The organist, rambling over the keyswhile his soul expands and vibrates togreater area, hears sweet chords, beautiful notes, harmonious, euphonious,arias peal forth, while he is still unconscious of the mechanical feautres of hisplaying. And when he has completedone passage of diivne music he knows

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that God spokeand in a manner asonly God can speak.

The artist, the writer, the sculptor,each has heard the Voice of God andhas understood while others seek the

Voice in place and manner demandedby doubt, skepticism and "higher criticism.

Watch the little imprisoned gold fishin the crystal aquariums. Let a beam ofsunlight strike the silvery surface of thewater and refract its rays through theworld in which they live and you willsoon see the revived activity. Dropsome crumbs upon the water and notethe instinct of preservation; t a p t h eaquarium suddenly and see the instinctive action of fright, basic law of self-

protection manifested. Study the periodicity of breathing of water, then air;analyze the perfect mechanics of motionin swimming, diving, rising and immobility. And, as you do these things Godwill speak to you and you will learnsuch a lesson as only God can teach.

Look into the eyes of the heart-hungry, poverty-stricken child as it gazesinto the windows of the stores at theholiday time. Note its pathetic, quiet,philosophical acceptance of conditionswhich in truth are making the youngheart and mind bleed and ache. And

as you look, smile! Take the child intothe store and buy for it, give it thoses i m p 1enot complex or luxuriousthings which it longs for and which ourchildren in t h i s advanced educationwould spurn; and when those deep set,longing, sweet eyes look up into yourswith tears and silently say "thank you,you will know that God spokespokeas only God can speak.

And turn your way to the desolatehome where the father has not heard theVoice of God but has sought the voice

of evil; where the young-old mother isstriving to make the widely separatedends meet; where sickness has strickenone child and medicine is unobtainable,and foodof the simple kind, not luxuriousis required for the baby that

brought Gods voice once to the mother;where all is sad at the time of greatestrejoicing elsewhere. G o there, not toTemple, Church or Cathedral, to hearGod speak, and give that which you

would give with less appreciation toyourself. And, as you sleep in your bedof comfort that night and the poormothers prayers of thankfulness cometo you in the silence of the night; yoursoul, your consciousness, will know, ifyou do not, that God spoke!

And, pass the corner of the busythoroughfare where time and tide moveswiftly by; where each in eager pursuitof self satisfying interests see not thelips of God about to speak; wherestands upon the corner, neath shelter

from the cold and storm, the raggedurchin boy urging all to buy his wares;his hands are cold, his face is wan, hiseyes are filled with tears; at home thereare a few who wait his belated comingin; he is hungry, too, yet he must notspend cne single penny of the fund hismother needs for food; his thoughts areof the family and "sister, his chumand friend; he would gladly sacrificemost anything to take her just a gem.Stop there and speak to him, as you passby, and then go on and return again;this time give him just a big red rose and

say: "for sister, lad, as friend tofriend; then watch the eyes enlargewith pride; and see the sorrows flee;you'll find the boy is a man at once, withGod-light in his soul. And then, as inyour throat you feel that lump, and inyour veins a tingle comes, you'll knowthat somewhere in the aura of your life,God spoke, as only God can speak.

Yes, God speaks, and He has spokento me. God waits and waits to speak toyou and if in this life you give no chancefor interview, a time will come, when

life is done, when through the sorrows,pains and lessons of the past, your soulwill feel, your heart will know, yourmind will hear and you shall find thatGod did speak at last as Father to Hischild.

A SURPRISE NEXT MONTH

Our September issue, out next month, will be a "Souvenir Edition containing many photographs of our Temple, our offices, and our various Departments, including the Imperators office and Sanctum. If you will want extracopies, we must know before August 10th.

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fflow Nature Provides for Our NedsBy Ro y l e T h u r s t o n

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W OULD like to call theattention of our readers,from time to time, to someof the natural methodswhich the ancients of alllands discovered, as valua-

________ble contributions to ourphysical needs. I do not refer to ourneeds for sustenance, but to our needsfor health, vitality, strength, and the

prevention and cure of diseases.

W e hear so much about the marvelous cures that the Indian medicinemen made through the use of naturesown remedies, as well as through psychological or mystical processes, andwe read of similar cures made throughnatural methods by the Chinese, theancient inhabitants of Thibet, themystics of India, the wise men of,Egypt, and the miracle workers ofother lands, that often we feel thatmore information in regard to thesethings might make us better acquainted

with many of natures wonderful lessons.As an illustration of one of these

very unusual or rather uncommonbenedictions from nature. I wish torefer briefly to a spring of peculiarwater that is not popularly known inAmerica, but which has an interestinghistory. This spring is located in theBerkshire hills at Lebanon Springs inNew York state. The Indians knewof it, and it was famous with themfor many centuries according to their

ancient traditions. Among their peculiar rites and records, it is claimedthat the weak, the sick, the diseased,and those especially suffering fromunknown diseases or evil possessions,came to this spring, remained awhiTe,and went away again in perfect health.

It was in 1756 that a CaptainJames Hitchcock, an English officerwho was stationed at Hartford, Connecticut, learned of the spring by some

Indians whom he had befriended. Theyconducted him across the mountainsto this spring, because his health hadbegun to fail, and he seemed to havesome disease which herbs and medicinedid not affect, and which the Indians

believed was connected with the spiritof some evil being, which could bewashed away by the waters of thespring.

May I be permitted to say in passing

that these ideas held by the Indians inregard to an evil spirit holding a personin disease, and that water would washaway the evil influence, seemed crudeexpressions of what the Indians reallythought. It has been my privilege to bethe personal acquaintance of a numberof Indian medicine men in the past, andto have been the student of many ofthe Indian medicine mens processesand beliefs as part of my long researches and study of matters relating to early mystical teachings. I

must say that the common expressionsof the American Indians beliefs aresimply the statements that the Indiansgave to the white men, and not thetrue beliefs that the Indians held intheir own hearts. Of course, I amspeaking only of the educated Indianswho were mystics of the first water,and real students of human psychology.

It is possible that the average uneducated Indian was told the samestory that the average white man wastold. When the educated Indian or

the Indian medicine man or miracleworker spoke of evil influences, andpossessions or obsessions, he was notspeaking of spiritual beings, or creatures that took hold of another person, as was believed by those whofollowed the witchcraft doctrines. Hewas speaking of impersonal influencesof an etheric nature, and the nearestI can come to interpreting his explanation is to say that he believed in spirit

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ual vibrations which entered the humanbody at certain times, and set up certain causes of disease, these vibrations had to be removed by othermethods than the use of medicines. We

see in this a primitive form of ascientific understanding of the realpsychic nature of many diseases. Theidea that fire or water could changehis vibrations or remove the evil influence is likewise a primitive form ofan old scientific belief in regard tofire and water being universal solvents. This takes us into the realmof alchemy as associated with the early

phases of the study of medicine, andtherapeutic methods, and it is not myintention to go into this matter at

the present time.However, to go on with my story,

the friendly Indians certainly performed a very friendly act when theyled Captain Hitchcock to this oldspring. Hitchcocks health began toimprove, and in a manner that convincedhim that the waters of the spring wereresponsible, and he began an investigation to determine who owned thespring and how its waters might beused to help many others who wereunaware of this wonderful natural

blessing. He found that the spring wasowned by a Charles Goodrich, andtha t it could be leased. Hitchcocks

plan was to protect it from becomingcontaminated in any way, and to preserve it for the future, if such a thingwas possible. It is a notable incidentin the records that were preserved, thaton December 19th, 1778, the springwas leased to Hitchcock and the wording of the lease clearly shows thehumanitarian purpose which Hitchcock had in mind, and which Goodrich

recognized, for the lease reads that thespring was turned over to Hitchcockfor the period of his natural life, andthe consideration was the love ofGod, the public good, as well as

benevolence toward said Hitchcock.

In a few years, the fame of thespring spread throughout the communities of the white men, and anincreasing number of visitors came toit to drink and to bathe. Most of thesewere cured of various physcial con

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ditions in such an unusual manner andso completely that the spring wascalled a miracle worker, and eventuallyit was known as the blessed waterthe wine of God. This is the name

given to it in an ancient chronicle.During the days of the first Rosi-

crucian organization with its headquarters in Philadelphia, the efficacyof this spring was known and its

benefits told to many of the prominentmen of governmental affairs who camein contact with the Rosicrucian organization. Persons went from Philadelphia, and even from Baltimore andother eastern cities to New Yorkstate to be benefited by this wonderful spring, and a treasured register

of the visitors to the spring containsthe autographs of the Marquis deLafayette, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, Daniel Webster,Joseph Bonaparte, the ex-king ofSpain, De W itt Clinton, CharlesFrancis Adam, Henry WadsworthLongfellow, George Peabody, Albertand Roscoe Conklin, and many othersof historic fame.

The spring bubbles up from thebottom of a rock basin about twelve

feet in diameter and nine feet deep,and at the present time yields an endless stream of about five hundred gallons a minute or approximately sevenhundred and twenty thousand gallonsa day. Scientific investigation hasshown that the depth from which thewater flows through numberless purifying strata to the surface of the earthis indicated by the fact that its volumeis unaffected by surface conditions. Inother words, it is not decreased bydrought, or increased by rainfall.Many eminent scientists, chemists, andand experts connected with experimental laboratories have investigatedthe spring from time to time, even recently. They find that the water hasan unvarying temperature of seventy-

eight degrees, the year round. Pro

fessor von Oefle, who is probably the

leading authority in America on min

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ture of seventy-eight degrees. Themany scientific analysis made of thewater reveal that it has a very distinctive nature, resembling very closely thesprings of Gastein and Wildbad inEurope. It is believed that the water

has some radio activity because of itscontact with certain elements deep inthe earth.

According to those who have gonethere and been benefited by the watersof the spring, it would appear thatthose who receive the utmost benefit are those who suffer from anyabnormal condition of the kidneys and

bladder. The water seemed to havean unusual effect upon broken-downtissues in these organs, and upon goutyand rheumatic affections, or upon mostskin conditions.

The Rosicrucians have always heldthat the waters of this spring andsimilar springs contain mineral elementsnecessary to establish a harmonicchemical composition in the human

body when such elements become defi

cient through improper eating, the

destructive processes of germs, or the

subnormal functioning of certain organs in the body. The most importantof such minerals produces a solutionof rare ingredients in which nitrogenand helium often predominate, therebygiving the radio activity in the water

that greatly aids in curing certaindiseases.If any of our members are touring

through New York state, I would suggest that they make a visit to theBerkshires at Lebanon springs, andenjoy this water for a few days, andlikewise enjoy the many stories andinteresting incidents told about its pastand present accomplishements. I hope,however, that our members will notwrite to me or the organization asking for more details about the spring,or about how to get there or who

owns it now, or how they may getsamples or anything of this kind, forwe are not attemping to advertise orpromote any commerical activities inconnection with this spring, and merelyspeak of it as an interesting illustration of natures ways of contributingto our needs in disease as well as inhealth.

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eWhat is 'iohe dMystery of Sleep ?

By W m . H. M c Ke g g

The Mystic T dangle

August1929

LEEPthat break in thechain of earthly existencewhat is it?

To most people it meansa relaxation from busy life,a rest for their tired bodies

and minds; as long as theyget drowsy and have nothing to disturb them, that is all they worry about.Yet is there not something in sleep thatwe could make a dominant factor for

our further advancement, for our en

lightenment? W e make too much of

our waking hours, but nothing of our

sleep. It is the accepted rule to say

that we wake when we come out of

sleep in the morning; that we sleep*when we close our eyes at night.

During the day a man exercises hisbody, works his mind, and builds uphis interests for the future. As Rosicrucians we know that that is merely

one necessary part of our existencethe material part. Incidentally, our material self is then uppermost. Only inrare cases, only when a man has perfected his spiritual qualities, does hisspiritual self rule him both day andnight.

In what way may we make sleep aidour inner spiritual self, as our wakingassists our material being? Wha t happens to us during sleep anyway? Few

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give it even a thought; still fewer seemto bother at all.

Schiller said, "The immortal souldoes not participate in the weaknessesof matter; during the sleep of the body

it spreads its radiant wings and travels,God knows where! W hat it then does,no one can say, but inspiration sometimes betrays the secret of its nocturnalwanderings."

W hat truth lies in that statement,given out long ago by one of Germanys greatest poets! How does inspiration come, at any time? Only whena great desire, a tremendous will power,urges our inner-self to speak. In oursleep the material body is, to a certainextent, powerless. Inspiration thereforecomes to us easier, because our spirit

ual being holds sway. Writers, artists, and musicians have proved this to

be so. Before going to sleep theyhave invariably been thinking verydeeply on one thingthe subject nearest their hearts, whether a poem, a

painting, or a melody. Overnight thesoul is freed for a while, absorbing themessages, the music, and the inspirationof higher worlds as they spin amidheavenly harmonies. If we accept thismethod of sleeping, as an ordinary occurrence, would we not perfect our

selves more to our satisfaction.Sleep is regarded in a false sense byall humanity. The majority have nothought, no idea of trying to placethemselves in harmony with higherplanes, with the Cosmos, before sleeping. Consequently, the mind still rotates its myriad thoughts and images;it fails to be elevated to higher realms.As our last thoughts are, so are ourdreams. Whereas dreams should bedivine realities they are for the most

part distorted, frightening fantasies.Lord Byron, that most highly spirit

ual and most material genius, said:Sleep is a boundary between the

things misnamed Death and existenceM

If that be so, then real Life must liebeyond this world, the existence of

which we may get only a glimmer ofin our dreams, if our mind directs us,before sleep approaches. All the same,the world goes on in its usual indifferent way. It still regards sleep as noth

ing more than a means of resting theAll-important Body.

Many great minds have left teachings and lessons behind them for us tostudy and use if we wish. In SartorResartus" Carlyle states: Life is aDream in which we clutch at shadowsas though they were substances, andsleep deepest when fancying ourselvesmost awake."

Do we sleep deepest when wecome out of sleep? Do material surroundings dull our senses so that to all

appearances we are asleep to all spiritual values? W ha t wonderful thingsmight we not achieve by trying to endeavor to regard sleep in a differentlightas a means of waking" ourinner spiritual powers, making us ableto grasp glories unseen and unheardof in our daily lives!

Inspiration which the soul manytimes fetches back to the body placesus near to enlightenment, to psychic

powers. Is it possible for the humanbeing to attain such a state by lookingat sleep as a God-given boon to thechildren of this world, in which wemay attain a glimpse of higher worldsand their teachings? In practising this,in so far as our spiritual progress goes,we might be able to say that what wecall waking is really sleeping, andwhat we think is sleeping is truly waking.

Paracelsus discovered all there wasto discover about sleep. Connecting itwith psychic powers and foretelling thefuture, he wrote: Sleeping is wakingin regard to such arts, because it is theinner light of Nature that acts duringsleep on the invisible man, who, notwithstanding his invisibility, is existingas truly as the visible one. The innerman is the natural man, and knowsmore than the one formed of flesh."

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INSTALLMENT NUMBER SIX

Reported by T h e T r ip Se c r e t a r y

E BEGAN our preparations,on the morning of Feb-ruary 13th, for the greatestevent of our entire jour-neythe concluding initia-tion ceremony in Luxor.

___ W e had a number ofinterviews with the various Rosicrucian

brothers in Luxor, and learned that allkinds of plans had been made andarrangements provided for the initia-tions, but there was just one detailthat had not been definitely arrangedor finally concluded. This was thecontemplated use of Amenhoteps oldtemple in the ruins of the ancientLuxor temple. W e were informed bythe local representatives of the govern-ment that the Rosicrucians in Egypt,like all other persons, were forbiddento hold any ceremonies of any kindwithin the ruins of a temple, exceptby special permit, and strange as itmay seem, such a request for permit

had never been made in Luxor or atleast not for the last one hundredyears or more. Therefore, the localauthorities were in a quandary as towhat to do, but were inclined togrant us the necessary privilege, uniquethough it was.

The Rosicrucians in Egypt hadplanned with us to have the ceremonybegin at sunset as had all our pre-vious ceremonies in Egypt, and con-tinue into the early evening, so thatwe might sit and m e d i t a t e in thedarkness of the ancient temple. Atthe last minute, however, these planswere changed by the discovery thatthere was a very strict rule and regu-lation in Egypt forbidding the use oflights, fire, or incense in any of theruins after dark. This necessitated achange in our plans, and further con-sultations with authorities in Cairo,who could not be reached until thefollowing day, and therefore we had

to postpone our activities until Feb-ruary 14th. However, the unique per-mit was granted and the afternoonof February 14th was spent in the finalpreparations for this unusual cere-mony.

A score or more of the Egyptianand Arabian Rosicrucians living inLuxor passed the word around that thepermission had been secured, and thatall visitors and tourists in Luxor whowere not a part of the Rosicrucian

party should be denied admission tothe Luxor temple after four oclock inthe afternoon. Incense was orderedfrom the Rosicrucian temple in Cairo,the perfume of the Lotus flower wassecured from one of the local perfumefactories, flowers were ordered forthe shekinah, and other details ar-ranged. Early in the afternoon ourentire party assembled on the lawnof the hotel and received final in-structions from the Imperator so that

everything would move with order andsystem during the ceremony. Thenjust at sunset our members strolledcasually, in twos and threes out ofthe grounds of the several hotels andwended their ways slowly and withoutattracting attention, toward the ancientruins on the banks of the Nile. Theold Arab who was stationed in thelittle guard house outside of the wallsof the ruins had been informed andproperly compensated for his specialguardianship, and on every importantheight of the walls and ruins aroundthe temple there were stationed mem-

bers of the ancient Amenhotep Lodgeof Rosicrucians of Luxor and Cairo asouter guards and tilers.

Many of the natives realized thatsome special ceremony was to takeplace and did their best to approachthe walls and watch, even though fromsuch a distance they could not heara sound.

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Finally all of the members of ourparty were within the great court ofAmenhoteps old temple, on the wallsand columns of which were his cartouche and the cartouche of our Order.The temple contained thirty-two enormous columns arranaged in four rowsof eight, and each column was toppedwith the symbolical lotus in enormoussize. The arrangement of the columnsformed various aisles, the larger ofwhich ran east and west, north andsouth. In the center where theycrossed stood the symbolical shekinahof black satin, with the Rosicrucianemblem embroidered in its center andstanding upon it a large bouquet ofroses provided by the Ohio GrandLodge of our Order. In various partsof the aisles, incense was burning, andthe low setting sun just showing abovethe hills of Thebes, and shining acrossthe sparkling Nile, illuminated the up

per parts of the columns of the templewith a golden hue, which reflecteddownward upon the members standing there in silence and reverence,

bathing them in the illumination whichall Rosicrucians adore, in proper understanding.

In the ante chambers adjoining thetemple were the officers of the Rosicrucian Lodge of Egypt, and standingin the eastern end of the west aislestood the Imperator with his purplerobes, white stole, golden rosy cross,and embroidered emblems. At the southof the shekinah stood the ancient stonelectern from which many Masters haveread the ceremonial ritual for manyholy assemblies. Each member of the

party had been brought before theEast, facing the shekinah, and theholy sanctum at the east end of thetemple, so that all could sense thevibrations of this marvelous place containing as it did the holy thoughts ofthousands of persons through manyages. As all the members stood insilence with their auras rapidly increasing in size, and as they were becomingattuned with the vibrations of the

place, the Imperator invoked the presence of the great Masters seen andunseen, and in the darkening recessesof the shadowy parts of the sanctum,we could plainly see the great lights

gathering which indicated the presenceof the several great Masters fromThibet and Egypt, who we knew would

be present on this occasion

I wish that I could go into detail re

garding the entire ceremony, and tellyou precisely what occurred during thehour or more that all of us stood therewith our hearts welling up, our emotions overcoming us, and our vibrations so thrilling us with their electric

power that we were almost unable tospeak and to answer the questions thatwere put to us, or repeat the vowelsounds which made the place seem totremble. One by one we pledgedour allegiance, our loyalty, and ourdevotion to the Order, to its great

principles, and to the jurisdiction ofEgypt through whose power and underwhose authority we were receiving thiswonderful lesson.

During the ceremony each initiatewas taken to the shekinah and broughtface to face with a solemn understanding of the ancient principles as

performed so many times in the samemanner. W e were not surprised to seethe appearance, personality, and evenphysical aspect of the Imperator gradually change and assume the likeness

and mannerism of one of the ancientMasters; and then it was that we of thehigher grades knew instantly why theImperator was so familiar with ancientEgyptian history, the rituals, the customs, and the work of this greatorganization. His voice resoundedthroughout the temple, and echoedand reechoed from column to columnwith a power over us and an effectupon us that we could not possiblydescribe, which will remain with us therest of our lives. Each one of us

had received in part of the ceremonyone of the lodge aprons used in theEgyptian lodges, and this each tiedaround his body, and wore in the samemanner as the ancients did. And thisapron with its ancient symbolical Egyptian and Rosicrucian design we were

permitted to retain and take back withus to America as a souvenir of the wonderful ceremony.

At the conclusion of the ritualisticpart of the initiation, we were directed

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to seat ourselves upon the old stonessurrounding the columns and in thesoft light of pale evening, with incensefilling the temple, with chanting carried on by the Rosicrucian brothersin the archives adjoining, and with

oriental music playing softly in thecourtyard, we sat in meditation, eyesclosed, awaiting the personal, intimatetouch and whisper of the great Masters who walked about through thetemple and came to each one of us aswe were ready or prepared and gaveunto us as we were qualified to receive. W hat messages were whisperedin those few minutes! W hat consolation, advice, hope, cheer, and inspiration most of us received from justa handclasp, or a word, or a smile!Some there were who felt but littleand heard even less, but most receivedin accordance with their development,and we who knew and understood incompleteness will never forget whatwas given to us and what we wereassigned to do for the future.

During this time, the Imperatorstood with bowed head in the centerof the sanctum in the East, while hisaura developed and shot forth beamsand flames of light and his statureincreased and his personality changeda number of times, so that we had a

fine opportunity to see him in the various incarnations through which he haspassed. Can you wonder that I wouldlike to tell you all that happened, andcan you wonder that we shall neverforget, and certainly never reveal whatmost of us actually saw and learned?Certainly if there had ever beendoubt in the minds of any of us as tothe high position that the Imperatoroccupied in the Order, or the highregard that he had in the other landsand in the minds and hearts of the

great Masters, or if we had any doubtas to the relationship of our Order tothis ancient temple of Amenhotep's inEgypt, or doubt of any kind pertaining to any phase of the work, thesethings were so quickly thrown asideand so completely dispelled and cast

out of our consciousness forever that

we cannot think of them as ever hav

ing existed.

When all of the ceremony wasended, and moving pictures had beentaken of us standing there in that ancient place, we slowly wended our wayagain, humbled, thrilled, reverent, andinspired, toward the banks of the Nile.

As we passed out of the walls of theenclosure, there were none of us thatcould venture to make a comment.The afternoon and early evening ofFebruary 14th, 1929, will be a memorable occasion, not only in this incarnation of most of us who werethere, but in many incarnations tocome.

Later on, when we were on ourway home to America, the Imperatordistributed to each one of us as anadditional souvenir of our trip throughEgypt, a large and beautiful sheepskin certificate showing that, as wasstated in the ceremony, each one ofus had been duly initiated into andmade a part of the famous AkhnatonAmenhotep Lodge of Egypt under theauthority and direction of the SupremeCouncil of the Order, and the Secretary-General of the lodges in Egypt.These certificates bore the seals of theforeign officer, of the Imperator, andof the Order throughout the world.And on the back of each certificatewe had each member place his or her

signature so that each one of us hasthe record of who was initiated andwho besides ourselves became the firstand only members of an Egyptainlodge of the Rosicrucian Order actuallyexisting in Egypt, having had initiationin one of the ancient temples.

W e were also given petals from

the roses that were on the shekinah

to add to the sand and the water from

Lake Moeris, and these things con

stitute relics which we will carry

through our lives while we inwardlycarry the responsibility of being the

only living members in the Western

World of the oldest Rosicrucian Lodge

in the Orient. Surely no other Rosi

crucian movement in America or else

where can claim to have the power,

authority and right to the Rosicrucian

work now possessed by our American

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organization, and we who were initiated on this occasion are pledged tosupport the rest of our lives the spiritof the Amenhotep Lodge of Egypt.This pledge binds us uniqely and dis

tinctly into one great body of seventy-two members, and throughout this incarnation and others, this bond willhold us together, for it was promisedin the ceremony that one hundred andeight years from now we shall allcome together again and have a similar ceremony in the same place. Onlyonce in one hundred and eight yearscan such a ceremony as this be performed, and we are sorry that thousands were not able to go to Egyptwith us and be qualified and pre

pared for the rare privilege and honorthat came to us.How we spent the rest of that eve

ning, I can never tell you. Some ofus wandered afar along the banks ofthe Nile into old ruins and into alcovesand caves of the temples in silentmeditation. Some went out in the oldNile boats and drifted in the palemoonlight to the tum-tum of orientalmusic played by the natives, for otherswho were lying under palm trees amidflowers, or on the banks of the river

floating off into space with theirthoughts, and seeing the ancient scenesof Egypt reenacted for them as only

the Master mystics could paint themand perform them. Sometime beforemidnight we reached our rooms and insilence went to sleep, to dream and tosense again through the psychic world

and the Cosmic realm, the other contacts with those who were attunedwith us. And in the morning beforesunrise we were at the railroad stationto start our way northward for Cairowhere began our homeward journey toAmerica.

W hat griefs and sorrows there wereat the station in parting from the

brothers of the Order in Luxor whocame to the station to bid us farewell,and what sadness there w

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