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En tered as Second Class Ma t ter at the San Jose, Cal i f ., Postoffice


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P u bl is he d M o n th l y b y T H E S U P R E M E C O U N C I L o f A M O R C

Rosicrucian Park, San Jose, Cal ifornia(Copyright, 1928, by AMORC.)

J U N E , 1 92 8 V O L U M E V I , N o. ~5

The Imperators Monthly MessageHow fascinating it is to explore

t he u n k n o w n o r t h e p a r t l y k n o w n !Undoubtedly i t is due to this fascina-t ion that man has been tempted to con-quer so much of the world, for it ledh im to journey beyond h is hor izon anddiscover the dis tant , hidden and ob-scure realms of land and sky.

I read in a recent report from theOrient that there are over fifteen scien-

tific expeditions exploring the surfaceof the earth in various regions at thepre se nt ti me. Some of these sc ie nt if icpa rt ie s are in E g y p t investigating theValley of the Kings, and the earlyEgyptian civilization, while others areexploring the Maya civilization in theYucatan here in North America andsome the site of the City of David,Carthage, Sardis, and si m ilar places.

As fascinating and instructive as arethese explorations, there is still a field,a fe rti le field, for exploration, closer to

each o f us , that will yield even morewonderful results and more practicalfruits. It is the enormou s, unlimiteddomain of the human mind .

Men have not even scratched the sur-face of the human mind in his a t temptsto unearth its secrets and its wealth.Its hidden treasures are of untold value,unimaginable revelat ions and unthink-able importance. Yet, onl y a few striveto go beneath the surface while the

multitude is quite satisfied to knowonly what is easily discernable.

Material explorers of the earths pastare challenged daily by realizing thatdeeper in the body of the earth arecovered and concealed chambers of oldtemples, avenues of ancient cities andstore room s of great palaces. T o theseobscure places men are determined todelve and make discoveries. N o time,

no expense, no labor is too great to holdthem from their progress in revealingwhat is just beyond the veil of sight.

But think of the hidden chambers ofthe mind and soul ! T hi nk of the manyand varied avenues of approach and

progres s to th e sec ret s o f G od th a t con-st i tute the highways of knowledge inthe hu m an consciousness. An d, thestore rooms in the palace of the King-dom within! Incomprehensible to theone w ho has not explored them! Su b-lime in their mysteries, startling in theirunfoldment of knowledge, scint i l la t ing

in their gems of L ig h t.Are you an explorer? Or are you

ju s t sa ti sf ie d to re ad th e report s o fothers who are laboring in the inter-ests of hum anity ? N o greater f ield forimmediate research exists than the mindwith in your own body. Yo u are closerto it than any other hum an being. Youcan reach it more easily and with moreeff icient equipment than any other ex-

plore r. W h a t are y ou do ing a b o u t it ?


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CosmicDialoguesInteresting Bits of Rare Philosophy expressed by Cosmic Characters

and Tran slated into Ea rthly Discourses

By H. Sp e n c e r L e w i s , F. R. C.,Im perato r o f A M O R C fo r N o rth Am er ic a

V V V V V

(E dito rs No te: T he f i rs t instal l while in the Cosmic, and how one mayments of these remarkable dialogues become attun ed w ith such personalitieswere introduced by the Imperator in and hear the conversations. But, i t mayone of the special classes of the Supreme seem impossible to und erst and w ha t theLodge many years ago, to a group of autho r means when he at t r ibutes themembers being prepared for Rosicrucian titles of G od and Satan to two of thelectureship. B y special permissio n we voices in these dialogues. M ay we saywil l publish the or iginal and later in that whenever God sp ea ks in these dia

stallments from time to time so tha t logues, it is the voice of D iv in e In spira-those who now constitute the large tion suddenly speaking through one ofarmy of A M O RC lecturers, Lodge Mas the characters; and when Satan speaksters and G rou p Teachers may have the it is the voice of T h e T e m p t e r urgingadvantag e of th is unique presen tation his tho ugh ts throu gh the voice of oneof rare knowl edge and thereby add to of the characters. W ith this explan atheir store of Arcane Wis dom . All tion in mind the dialogues become in -members will discover inform atio n in structive and understandable,these dialogues which may be applied Because of the attem pts heretofore onto answering those thou sands of ques the par t of some to ap propria te thesetions which arise duri ng the course of rare dialogues for personal and comstud y in all the Grades. mercial use w ith othe r tha n the right

I t is imp orta nt that one poin t of ex auth or 's name, we remind all who read

p lana tion be mad e. I t is compre hensi them th a t th ey are copyrighted underble h o w th e personality o f each of th e th e ge nera l copy righ t o f the Mysti c T r i -ancient and modern earth characters angle).may communicate with each other

T H E F I R S T C O N C LA V E

(Held in a s i lent sect ion of the Cos thoug ht . Are you not he who wrotemic on the occasion o f the unexpected of the incidents of my land in history,meeting of two eminent characters o f Mane tho: T ho u a r t he who wasearthly his tory.) King and I but an hum ble wri ter of

Man etho: As I l ive, ar t thou no t his tory: the historian and Priest theyhe w ho was Mizra im, the Chaldaic called me, but I deserved no t the names.King of Eg ypt in ear thly t ime? I sense My errors were too ma ny and toothee in tha t part, tho ug h tho u art great; I wrote no t all fact. Oft en didchanged in thou ght, indeed. I allow my hatred to color my words,

Mizra im: I salute you, e lder broth and my bl indness to that which I wo ulder, and I confess to the shade of t ha t no t see did keep the L igh t out of mypersonality in m y self , b u t you are rig h t w ritten word s. B u t I co mpen sat ed ,

T h g tha t I am no more of the tho ugh t of brother , for s ince the days whereof youj . , . him, for I have expressed on earth four speak I have suffered the repu tation of

y s ic characters since the cycle of Ch ion . I one w ho was called evil by those w ho1 riangle ^av e seen you often as we passed hear not the tru th from me no r do me

J u n e thro ug h yonde r chamber, bu t I hesitated the justice to tell the truth .1928 to speak for I fou nd you in deep Mi zraim : I kn ow such compensa


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t ion too. It was in my cycle in Egy ptthat man bui l t the tower of Babel . Inthat segment of my existence the chiefseat of ear thly evolut ion of man was atthe junction of two rivers, called Edenor Edina by those who wrote his tor ies ,

b u t I k new n o th in g o f A braham .There was, of course, Ib raham formed

b y the w ords l b m eaning the whole andBrahm, meaning the world in which we live. An d I was on ear th wi th my

pe op le then un til th e establ ishment o fthe God Apis which we believed to bethe true God. H ow foolish we were!

Man etho: N ot fool ish, brother , butt ruly mistaken. I t was my duty asPriest in Egypt to teach of the Godsand the Lords, and I know, too, howmistaken we were; bu t no t foolish. Iknew well thy belief and the beliefs ofthy people, and I was ready to cryfools to those who would not acceptmy God Osir is to whom we bui l t themagni ficen t Temples my God of theSun, the great giver of Life! H ow closewe were to truth, brother mine, and yet,

blinded to the L ight. B ut, w h o comeshere, n ow, to our centre? I sense a soullight approaching and I feel the auricself expa nding . Let us salute in greet-ing!

(A hazy l ight expands in al l di-rections from the two characters and

reaches toward a third hazy formtha t is moving toward them. Th ethree finally unite in one haze in thecentre of which are three Lights.The new Light o f the group nowspeaks : )

Saint Ma rt in: Greetings wit hin theLight . I have been indulging in medi-tat ion and contacted the thoughts ex-

pressed by ea ch of you. I t was t ru lyan interesting conversation and I foundm y self in at tunement with your aurasand made bold to expan d to i t. I was

pleased to hav e you reac h o u t to me

and accept me. M ay I introduce myselfas the converging personality of LouisClaude de Saint Mart in of the ear th,the nat ion of France? I knew bo th ofyou from earthly records but I knownot your selves of this cycle.

Ma netho: I salute you, Saint M ar-tin, and rejoice in your preparation forconvergence. B u t see, ano th er L igh tapproache s an d is reciprocal. Le t usexpand and welcome another .

(The new Light is added to theothers and the four join in close as-sociat ion while the fourth Lightspeaks:)

Wilson: I t rust I have not intruded,

b u t m y form w as d ra w n by somestrange attraction to this place and be-fore I could control my movement, Iwas being added to your mis ty su b

stan ce here and soothed by your radia-tions. I have heard jus t a par t of yourconversat ions and would l ike to intro-duce myself as Benjamin S. Wilson,

ju s t fr om Chic ago an d I am a s tra ngerhere although some things seem fami-liar. Th ere is much I wo uld like toknow, bu t ra ther than in te r rup t wi thmy questions I prefer to listen to yourdiscussion.

Miz raim: It is no intrusion, I as-sure thee, for thou art welcome andagreeable. See, th y Lig ht finds a placebe tw een the fo u r o f Manetho and theseve n of Saint Mart in while my se lf , asa nine f inds harmony here at the otherside of thee. W h at peace there is in this

partnership of Ligh ts! I t is t ru ly a joyof the Cosmos. T ho u ar t s t range inthis realm, di dst say? An d fromwhence came thy Light?

Wilson: Yes, I am somewh at s t rangehere, fo r I came only yesterday into theLightness of this pla ce, and I came fromChicago.

Sa in t Mar t in : M y bro thers, I un -derstand his perplexity and his unbe-coming words. Broth er Wilson, thisis neither place nor cond i t ion , both ofwhich terms were used to refer to theCosmic. Yo u must learn tha t both

placeand condition are terms expressinga l imited form of expression. Bo thmay change must change but hereall is changeless. An d, to you , Bro the rMizraim, I would explain that Chicagois the name now given to a city on

earth which was once the centre of thatci ty of passing evolut ion known in theancient cycles as H y ji ja . You mus tknow of this , Brother Manetho, forsome of your earth races journeyed onto Hyji ja to prepare for the coming ofnew Lights after convergence.

Wils on: I have heard you speak ofconvergence, ju s t as I was preparing toadjust myself to the attraction from thislittle group. Y ou said you were a con -

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verg ing persona l i ty o f Sa in t Mar t in .Ar e y o u n o t S a in t M a r t i n n o w?

Sain t Ma r t in : No , no t n o w in thesense that you use n o w . In Cosmicsense I am Saint Mart in now, am SaintMa r t in in the pas t and am Sa in t Mar t inin the future: but in your sense of time

earth time I was Sa in t Mar t in andam n o w converging into another whichI will be later. Converging is the pr o-cess of dissolving the unimportant dis-tinctions of character and closing the

book o f m em ory o n th e im p o r ta n t ch ar -acteristics of a self's earthly expression,p rep ara to ry to tak ing up a new residencein a new body on earth as a newcharacter , Soon in ea r th ly t ime Isha l l expand my aura and a beam ofi t shal l reach dow n to ea r th . Th rou ghthat beam my Light wil l descend anden ter a new born body . M y L igh twill not be here, then, but I shall keepthe contact with my beam ascending atevery opportunity to Cosmos.

Wilson : I do no t unders tand every-thing you say, but I recal l now thatyesterday I moved along a beam, up-ward, and f inal ly found my self to bea Light like others I see about me here.Shall I converge also?

Manetho : N ot fo r a segment o fyour ea r th ly t ime , my bro ther . T ho uart too you n g , a s b ro ther Mizra im re -minded me a moment ago when you

asked about your sense of strangeness.Your cycle of earthly expression wasshort and it must be completed beforeconvergence begins

Sa in t Ma r t in : Unless

Mi zraim : Yes, unless the Logoshas decreed.

Wils on: In w ha t sense am I tooyoun g? I was fiftyseven years old justbe for e this ch ange came. T h a t m ay beyoung, of course, but I never did ex-pec t to li ve more than the av er ag e ofabo ut s ixty . Nearly al l men pass awayfrom life at sixty or possibly sixty

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Manetho : Hear? T h a t repor t hascome to me direct from earth in a recentcontact . Ma n is creating a new stan d-ard for his periods of expressions and isnot s tr iving to fulf i ll the law. Brothers ,this is sad indeed. By the Logos, manshould remain in his earthly expressiona period equal to one hundred and

for ty fo ur years ear th years . N owthat you are here in your f if tyseventhyear , you wil l probably remain as anAstral L igh t for e ightyseven earth yearsbefo re converg ing, un le ss

Saint M art in : Yes, unless!M iz r a im: H o w co me th a t t h o u

should say A str a l L igh t ra the r thanCosmic L igh t , b ro ther Mane tho?

Man etho : I thou ght he mig h t rec -ognize that word, and I sense he does.

W ilson: I certa inly have heard theword as t ra l m any t imes and knowthat i t perta ins to the sky and theheavens, but I an not sure about thewo r d C o s mic .

M a n e th o : An d , w h a t d id y o u u n -derstand about heaven and the sky?

Wilson : T ha t the sky was the g reatdis tant space aroun d the earth and aboveit the place or condition, perhaps, called

Heaven, the home of God, and Angelsor spirits. I never wa s convinced abo utGod being in a place they called Heaven,b u t I do be li eve th a t Heaven is th eplace or cond ition , as so me ca ll ed itwhich I wil l reach af ter I am adjustedin some way.

Saint M art i n: Yo u st i ll bel ieve

tha t?

W ilson : Yes, bu t in a modif iedform. I feel now tha t I am on myway to Heaven , bu t tha t I sha l l no tknow when I am there for I shall have

no consciousness.

Ma netho : A nd you st i ll bel ieve tha tyou are to go to Heaven eventually?

W ilson : I sense by you r quest iontha t I am no t fi t, no t wo r thy . I mus tsubmit to your be t te r unders tand ing o fmy worthiness .

M izr aim : I pra y thee, brothers, seeho w he suffers, and be lenient. Evennow has he compensated for much suf-fering th at he has caused. Le t us en -ve lop h im wi th our love and permi this consciousness to become refined tothe wisdom of the Cosmic. Com e

B ro ther Wilson , we wi l l commune insi lence and permit thy true se lf to ab-sorb from the universal mind the factsof real exis tence and to know that th isis the Heaven of thy earthly understand-ing , and tha t thou a r t wor thy o f i t andshall be one with God in thy Heaven.Peace!

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Why Is Light DeniedAn Interesting Letter on the Subject of Sex

and the Impera tors Reply

V V V V VTo the Imperator:

UR beloved RC tells us inunmis takable language tha tthe subject of Sex is notdiscussed. B ut whereforethis omission? Daily, yea,hour ly, there confronts theseeker for t ruth. The Grea tU n k n o w n , T h e E t e r n a l

Quest ion: Wherefore this impulse tolove?

W hatev er is, is righ t, we are told.Evi l is a mis interpre ta t ion of t ruth or

right. H ow easily I can see the goodin man; how easily I can see the badin me. Lo ng ago I sa id: A th ing hasexistence only in the mind where it hasform. T hu s I t r ied to expla in awaythe mighty and overpowering impulsewhich, verily, has seemed to be themo t iva t ing thou ght of l if e. Assumingtha t a l l i s r ight and tha t evi l is but ourpers onal an d erroneous idea, and tha t,further, that idea exists only for thosewho th ink about i t , i t would appea rtha t the many and var ied forms of sexexpression were in reality not evils , butforms of good. B ut alas, such ab -straction brings no peace to the dis-t r aught soul ! N or am I w i l l ing to do

b lind ly and be con ten t to le t K arm arees tablish the harm oniu m. I w an t thetruth; before God my soul demandsthe t ru th! T he murky g loom in whichwe l ive and through which the l ightdoes not penetrate, is stif ling us withits asph yx iatin g fumes. Y et there islight, b u t i t gleams beneath its ancient

bush el .T h o s e w h o m a y g a t h e r the ir chi ld-

ren about them and are torn by noconflicting emotions can easily hide the

light and suffer no ill , for the light iswith in them. So, also, i t may be w ith -in all of us, but whence cometh themagic key to open the treasure vaulttha t we may adorn ourse lves with the

je we ls and cleanse our se lv es w ith th ebalms and unguents f rom their sec rettubs? U nto our Impera tor , our Medi -a tor , we appeal for the t ruth and the

light. A nd will the ligh t be denied?The Cosmic Soul seems to tell me thatthe light will come.

In ancient days man loved man andnou ght was sa id to cal l i t wrong . InRome it was an hono r . An d in theBible i t he ld sway among many kings .True , Sodom fe l l as did Gommorah,b u t th e anci ent ri te o f m an and m ancame t r iumphant down the ages to to-day. Freud and Kraff t E bing ca lled i tinsanity and disease. Old psychology

cal led i t abnormalcy. Mo dern psychol-ogy informs us that i t is none of these,

b u t a th ird and disti nct phas e o f p h y -sical existence . . . T o rn a nd bleedingby the ro adsid e an d no Samari tan in

sight!W ha t meane th a ll th i s to RC ? T o

a trained observer it means much, verymuch indeed. Practically one hun dred

per ce nt of perso ns com in g under m yobservation evidence this trait, active orquiescent, but none have satisfactorilyexplained to me or to themselves thephenom ena (o r is i t n o m e n a? ) . T h a t

is the type of man that seems to be theseeker, and to the psychologically nor-mal the word occult seems to fall as adelusion and a fa na tici sm . I have live damong artists and poets and musicians,and have myself been considered one ofthe intelligentsia, and not one amongthem all would be considered normal asregards their sex life by psychologists.The great figures of the business worldare not exempt and in the na t ions gov-e rnment I have personally seen it mani-fest. Lo. wherev er I find genius, thereI also find abno rmalcy ! Is i t abno rmalto be great? Is the very greatness asymptom of abnormalcy of the sex l i feor is the latter the effect o f the great-ness? When ce shall come a ligh t un tothe peoole who dwell in darkness, amidthe t roubl ing of waters? Is there nolight, is there no rescuing hand?

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must perforce hold in check the renun-ciat ion com mo n w ith the case. Pariahin a land where wi th out h im l ife would

be unendurable, he contributes his in i ti -a t ive and creat ive abi l i ty without hopeof remunerat ion to the people who de-spise him . Ah , no t unseldo m does hedespise himself!

Wil l the magic key be for thcomingthat we may unlock the door to theshrine and behold the wil l of God?Will the bushel , though golden andcrusted with jewels, be removed thatwe may see the l ight? U nt o us thouart a mother , RC. guide thy chi ldrenaright! La y before us the blueprintsof the temple that we may bui ld as thesupreme architect has ordained.

May peace profound rest as a bene-dict ion upon you, our Imperator , and

the Order RC.G. E ..........S ..........

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MY Answer to the Foregoing:

I realize perhaps perfectly the needthere is for real light on the subject of

sex and i ts inf luence on our minds, ouract ions and our affairs of l i fe : but Iagree with the Masters of our Orderfor centuries past, that such light may

be more ef fi ciently gi ve n b y thos e w h ohave specialized in its study rather than

b y o u r O rder: a n d personal ly I feel tha tour teachings are less attractive to theabnormal minded persons by the com-

pl et e e lim ina tion of al l re fe rence to sexmatters.

I cannot agree al together with ourBrother who wri tes the foregoing ap-

pe al. I can n o t agree th a t a su btle sexinfluence is playing the important par tin our l ives that Freud, Kraff t Ebingand others like them attrib ute to it . Iwould hesi ta te long and in prayerfulmedi ta t ion before I would permi t my-self to say that the natural a n d normal

sex instinct in all human beings is alsothe one great principle responsible forall our ambitions, desires, hopes andult imate real izat ions. I wo uld rathercondemn mankind to a lmos t any o ther

T h e base instinc t tha n to the sex instinct:

M v s ti r anc* ^ co m Pare sex to 3 base instinct, forT . . i t would be that very th ing if the con-i r t a n g l e tent jons c f t^ e psychologists of some

J u n e schools were right.1928 In my personal reference library I

have none of the modern books on thesubject of se x with which the market isbe ing flo oded, an d w hich del ib era te lymisrepresent facts and drag a wonderfulfeature of natural laws to the gut ters offilth. B ut I do have a large collectionof books deal ing with psychiatry, suchas tha t by Leonardo Bianchi , and wi thabnormal psychology and mental ism,such as those by Dr. George W. Jacoby,and Dr. Alfred Adler. I also have those

books w h ich a t te m p t to p ro p o u n d th eunnatural place of sex in our life, suchas the wr i t ings of Kraf f t Ebing andmany o thers .

A careful examinat ion of al l theb ooks o n psychia try and ab n o rm a l p sy-chology and mental ism reveals that theeminent au thors o f them have foundthe subje c t of sex and the inst inct of sex

occupying a paramount o r impor tan tpl ace in the lives of o n ly th ose pers onswho a re unsound, abnormal o r inferiorin menta l i ty . T h a t fac t should set tl ethe quest ion: i t should show at oncetha t what Freud and Kraf f t Ebing a rereferring to is an abnormal state, a sadand deplorable state, indeed, in theminds of ma ny. But , i t is a broadreflection upon the mental calibre oftoo many mi l l ions of normal , hea l thy ,cleanlyminded persons to say that sucha state is universal.

Our Brother says that pract ical ly one

hundre d per cen t o f persons coming u n-der his observation evidence this trait,active or quiescent. T h a t is possible.Whatever he may define or include bythe word trait may be active o r quiescent in al l hum ans. So long as i t re-mains quiescent it need not attract theat tent ion of the psychiatr is t or requirethe at tent ion of the special is t ; and mostcertainly while it is thus passive it doesnot need analysis and examinat ionthrough any explanatory, inquisi t ive,zetetic lectures issued by us.

I am reminded by this le t ter of thegeneral tendency of humans to specializein those fields which appeal to them asvirgin for the indefatiguable researchesof their indiv idualiz ed pedantries. Spec-ialists of all schools call upon me manytimes a week. T h is has been my pleas-ure for m any years . Fro m the osteo-

p a th I le ar n th a t al l o f m a n s wo esare due to certain conditions relatedexclusively to his bon y parts. Fro m


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the chiropractor I learn tha t a l l of m an si l ls are due to a subluxation or abnor-mal cond it ion of the spine. From theophthalmologist I d iscover that everysuffering of the physical being is trace-able to some condition of the eyes.

From the psychologist I learn also thatnone of the physical condit ions of manare responsible for his failures in lifeand illnesses, but are, rather, the resultof some psychic abnorm ali ty . Fro mthe sexologist I am to believe that all ofm an s instinctive tendencies tow ard eviland ill health are due to an inherent,inheri ted, and oedematous predilectionof the baser self. Each of these spec-i a l i s ts a n d ma n y o the r s d e v ot in gtheir time and th oug ht to the s tudyof the unusual tendencies in man andhis body, become biased in their ob-

servations; it is necessary that they doso in the proper considerat ion of theirproblems. B ut, t hey a lso form anotherclass of beings which one might call

speciaphobis ts .

Seriously speaking, it is not true thatall genius is accompanied by a comple-mentary degree of variance from theaverage standard in morals, ethics orcompliance w ith conventionali t ies .Many are prone to look upon the at-t i tude of B o hem ia n is m as an indicationof genius, or an unconventional life asp ro of o f gr eat ne ss in so me di re ct io n.

And, far too many assume that a geniusis sure to be pe cu lia r or original in alllines of thought, and therefore, quiteunconventional solely to avoid beingunoriginal .

You may recall that James, the emi-nent psychologist, said that it takes butthe presence of one w h i t e crow to provetha t all crows are no t black. So, letus point out a few exceptions to thecom mon contention. Ther e is, for in-stance, Paderew ski. Can anyone saythat from childhood unti l th is very dayhe has not personified the genius? Yet,

his life has been eminently free fromscandal and from any whisperings ofunconven t iona l conduc t . We wh oknow him as a gentleman farmer herein California and have noted his lovefor nature, for home life, and all the

proper customs o f G od and man, c an-not conceive of any questionable or

pe cul ia r a t t i tude o f m in d on his pa r t inregard to sex matters or moral pr inci-

ples . T h e ver y idea is incompatiblewith the personal life of this great man.T h en there is Fr itz Kreisler. A geniusof the f irs t water; unquest ionably themaster viol inis t of today, an d a masteralso when he was a boy; also a physi-

cian and an accomplished artist orsculptor . I t would seem that the Godsof Genius united to centre their beamsof greatness on him at one time. Canyou recall any act, any thought, on his

pa r t th a t could be inte rpreted as looseness in morals or a disregard for thecustoms and conventions of the day?Ye Gods! the man is t ruly an example of the extreme in any ideal of the genius,except the perverse ideal that some haveof a genius.

May I be permitted to speak of an-other notable case, this time our own

good brother H. Maurice Jacquet . Bornof the Royal House of Savoy, reared asthe D ue de M is seri ni, he gave every in-dication as a child of becoming a geniusin the musical world . A t the age ofnine he made his d e b u t as a pianist in

publi c co nce rt s; a t eleven ye ar s o f agehis precocity as a composer manifesteditself in a piece entitled T h e C u c k o o ; at seventeen years of age he startled theworld of music critics with his master-ful direction of the score of Louise

by Charpentier, a n d this was th e beg in -ning of his career as one of Europes

most remarkable and beloved conduc-tors. Th e commemora t ion o f Go uno dscentenary was given under his directionwhen he presented Mors et Vita a tthe Trocadero with over 650 execu-tants; for a youn g m an this signalho no r was indeed unique. Since 1918he has been Europes most eminentcomposer and director an d has beencalled to all parts of the world todirect great musical feasts. His man ycomposit ions have proved him to be arare genius in his art. A nd yet, Bro therJacquet is a modest man, a lovable

be in g, l iving in co mplete and pe rf ec tconformation with al l American cus-toms with his wife , the Countess , whois a gifted harpist. Never has therebeen , in his E uropean career o r si nce hehas been in America, the slightest indi-cation of personal fo ib le s under theguise of artistic eccentricity, and therenever will be.

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every year since his passing proved himto be a genius in his art, and also aman of the highest ideals, a lover ofG od s beauty a nd nature 's grandeur ,always depicting the harmony there isin the universe and the greatness of be-

ing one wi th all harm ony ? Does hisl i fe typify the content ions of Freud andothers, or is it another exception? Onlyon e white crow is necessary, remember!

It is true that there are those caseswhich remind us of the necessity ofexerting every effort to assist naturein her wo rk of evolu tion. Bu t to giveundue emphasis to these cases by paint-ing them in all their horrible detail and

analysing them on every occasion asthough they were deserving of unendingattention, is to glorify them in the eyesof themselves and thousands of otherswho are ready for any excuse to emulatethe infamous when they cannot r ise to

the heights of the famous otherwise.The proper s tudy of man i s m a n . "

not the beast in man. Le t us leave tothe specialist, in the privacy of theclosed chamber, the camera of the clinic,the s tudy of those execptions whichtypify the undeveloped man and thewil ful carbonaro of natures laws. And ,for pity's sake let us cease dignifyingthese libertines with the title of genius .

V V V V V

Interesting T\[ews From One DepartmentB y Ro y l e T h u r s t o n

M in is te r, D epartm en t o f E xte nsio n

TheMysticTriangle

June1928

AM SURE that all of ourmembers will be glad to

hea r about the work be ingdone by s om e o f ou r m e m -ber s an d off ic er s in variouspar ts o f the coun try .

Firs t , I want to comment

upon the Imperators visitto Los Angeles during the latter part ofApri l . A t the invi tat ion of HermesLodge, No. 41, presided over by MasterE. E . Thomas , the Impera tor and h i swife went to that city for f ive days.A public meeting and several lodgemeet ings were planned, and the Imper-ator anticipated an interesting t ime withthis new lodge, but none of us were

pre pare d for th e su rpr is es which fi lledtheir visit in that city.

From what has been repor ted, andwhat we have read in the dozens of large

newspaper clippings which have comefrom Los Angeles, i t appears that thenew lodge in th at ci ty kno wn as HermesLodge, No. 41, i s not only a lodge buta n I N S T I T U T I O N . I feel su re t h a tall of ou r other lodges in No rth Americacould learn many valuable lessons fromthe history, g row th a nd development , aswell as operation, of this lodge in LosAngeles. T h e lodge is located in oneof the large buildings of that city,

known as the Music Arts Bui lding,wherein many of the best musicians anddirectors have their studios. Goin gto one o f the uppe r floors of this

buil ding, th e vis it or is impr es sed w iththe great number of office doorsalong the main hal l bear ing the name

AMORC, and the phrase RosicrucianBro therh oo d. T he f i rs t impressionone receives is tha t A M O R C occupiesmore office space and a more elaboratearrangement of off ices and hal ls thanany other activity in the building.Then one f inds that there are recept ionrooms, reading rooms and private officesfor the Master, his secretary, and othersecretaries. In fact, three secretaries areregularly engaged in the care of themail and general lodge activit ies, inaddition to special secretaries and headsof commit tees who look af ter a number

of allied activities.There are two temples or lodge

rooms with classes which meet nearlyevery nigh t in the week, a nd withseveral classes on many of the nights.There are also classes in the daytime forthe theat r ical and moving picture mem-

be rs of th e Ord er, w h o cannot a t te nd atnight . T h e lodge conducts an emp loy-ment bureau, a heal ing depar tment , awelfare depar tment , a l ibrary depar t -


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ment , an enter ta inment depar tment anda pro paga nda departm ent. I t also has adepartment in charge of a competentsecretary who represents the NationalLodge o f correspondence members l iving

in tha t section o f the country . W ill al l ofour lodges please take note that this par-ticular lodge proves that the activities ofthe Nat ional Lodge in carrying on cor-respondence instruction in no wise in-terferes with the growth and develop-ment of the local lodge in the samecom mun i ty? Hermes Lodge, No. 41,calls upon applicants for the correspon-dence instruction and encourages themto take up th is form of the work, andin every wa y cooperates with the N a -tional Headquarters in that regard, andyet i t s own membership of personal

lodge at tendance has increased beyondthe l imi ts of comfor table accommoda-tion.

The lodge a lso conducts publ ic Sun-day morning services in the large audi-torium which is at i ts disposal , and atthese Sunday morning services, between1,500 and 2 ,000 persons a t tend regu-larly. T h e Master speaks at thesepublic services, after a h a l f h o u r o fmusical program furnished by the f inesttalent in the ci ty of Los Angeles, andtha t means some of the best talent in the

coun try. Copies of the Ma sters publiclectures are made by secretaries on mim-eograph machines, and free copies of thelectures are distributed at each succeed-ing Sunday morning service, so thatthose who did not a t tend or who havemissed one of the lectures may havecopies of them. Th is depar tm ent pr o-ducing the lectures is an expensive feat-ure of the work of that lodge, and callsfor competent stenographers to takedown the talks each Sunday, stencilcutters, mimeograph operators andothers, as well as the purchase of enor-mous quant i t ies of paper and othermaterial.

In addition to these public serviceseach Sunday morning, which are ex-tensively advert ised in al l of the news-papers, the lod ge al so conducts ea chmonth a "get together meet ing formembers and their fr iends. T h is meet-ing is held in another large hall knownas Sy mp ho ny Hall . Such meetingsconsis t of an hour and a hal f of thebe st vaudevil le an d music al en ter ta in -

ment procurable in the ci ty, followed bya dance with good orchestra music andrefreshments of all kinds, served freeto those wh o are present. T h e Imperator and his wife had the pleasure of

attending one of these gettogethermeetings, and were surprised to find adozen young girls as usherettes, dressedin at tractive costume, with a great manyperso ns in evening cl oth es, an d an ex-cellent program with a feast of refresh-ments and food at the close of theevening that equalled the usual banquet.

The lodge has init iated practicallyfive hundred members, and al l of themare enthusiast ic boosters. In that me m-bership are re pre senta ti ves o f the highestwalks of l ife, the educational world,and wel l known business and profes-sional men and women.

When the Imperator and his wifearrived at the rai lroad stat ion, early inthe morning, i t seemed as though hun-dreds of men and women were thereto greet them, with f lowers and cheerywords of welcome. Th ey were drivento a suite of rooms in one of the bighotels, where a house committee hadalready arranged everything for theircomfort , and provided a private recep-t ion room decorated wi th f lowers. Inaddit ion to the public address that was

given in one of the largest halls, at-tended by al l that the hall could con-ta in , which means more than twothousand persons and wi th ful ly fourthousand persons turned away, the Im -

pera tor le ctur ed befor e the lo dge m em -ber s on tw o oc ca sions an d was accom-panied by a com mittee to the m ovingpicture studios in H o l ly w o o d where theImperator and his wife witnessed MissTalmage making her newest p ic ture en-t it l ed T h e W om an D ispu ted . H erethey also met a great many of the

members of AMORC who are in themoving picture profession, and theywere taken to the air field where thecompany in charge of the airplanes pro-vided a r ide for the Imperator and hiswife in the sister plane to the Spiri t ofS t. Louis , used by L indbergh. Th etrip was fif ty miles long, and in -cluded a f l ight over Hollywood, BeverlyHills, the Pacific ocean, the city of LosAngeles, and the suburbs. A t times,the plane was so far above the cloudsthat a view of the earth was entirely


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obstructed. Oth er receptions and sur-pr ising in cid en ts fi ll ed u p th e days andnights, including a picnic at one of the

bi g park s, a t tended by more tha n h a lfof the members and their friends.

A very impressive feature about the

act ivi t ies of AMORC in Los Angelesis the fact that all of the newspaperswere very liberal in their news an-nouncements about the Imperators vis i tand his daily activities while in thecity, and even the radio stations in thatcity anno unced the public lecture and the

presence of th e Im pera tor th er e. F romall sides, and from every part of thec i ty one heard AMORC highly spokenof as the big mystical activity of LosAngeles, and it was very gratifying toread the newspaper reports sent toHeadquarters after the Imperators re-tur n. Surely the lodge in th at city isa great In s titu t io n under the director-ship of an efficient Master and staff ofunusual, enthusiastic, and proficient as-sistants. Fo r a lodge th at is on ly alittle over a year old, and a newcomeramong the older members of that local-i ty , we must say that i t demonstratesthe possibilities of cooperative action.The Impera tor has promised to re turnto Los Angeles in October, after a visitto Vancouver with his wife in themonth of September.

V V V V VThe Imperator reported, af ter his

return from Los Angeles , that he metthere many members from other lodgesthro ugh ou t the country. In fact , he

b ro u g h t ba ck the names o f members hemet who were from Florida, Georgia ,Pennsylvania , New York , Massachu-setts. Arizona, New Mexico, Illinois,Utah . Oregon , Nevada and Ohio . Th isgoes to show how our members travelabout , and how their t ravel l ing gener-al ly br ings them into the State of Cal i-fornia.

V V V V VWe wish to announce that during the

past m o n th we hav e had an unusualnumber of appl icat ions for chartersfrom new Groups and new Lodges.

T h e Wi ll all of ou r members please take. note of the follo win g new branches of

y tc ouf o rganiza t jon ; Texas Grou p No.

Tr iang le 5 4 ^ Galveston, Texas. Cal ifornia

J u n e Gro up No. 642, Santa Barbara, Calif .1928 W a s h i n g t o n G r o u p N o . 6 4 3 , T a c o m a ,

W a s h i n g t o n . C o l o r ad o G r o u p N o .645, Greeley, Colorad o. N ort h Ca ro-l ina Group No. 646, Ashevil le , NorthCaro l ina. Colorado Grou p No. 647 ,Denver , Colorado. Wisconsin Group,

N o. 648, Milwaukee, W isconsin . T ex as

Group No. 649, Wichita Fal ls , Texas.Winnipe g Group No. 650 , W innipeg ,Mani toba , Canada . Georg ia Group

N o. 6 51 , A tla n ta , Ga. Io w a G roupNo. 652 , S ioux C ity , Iow a.

V V V V VOther lodges throughout the country

are report ing continual growth and in-crease of membership, and it appearsthat our organizat ion is becoming morerapidly organized in every State andin every large city than at any othertime in the history of the American

ju risdiction. A ll lo dg es ar e urged tokeep us informed of their activities sofar as interesting news items are con-cerned, for publication in the MysticTriangle. T he usual s tat is tical reportssent to the Supreme Secretary eachmonth do no t a f ford enough persona linformation to make interest ing factsfor the monthly magazine.

V V V V VI believe it will be of interest to our

members, generally, and especially tothose members of the organizat ion whohave been a ppoi nted as our official

representatives, to learn the proper man-ner of introducing the Rosicrucian

po in ts an d pri nci pl es to inquir ers andin clearing up some vague conceptionsthat they have in their minds.

Tha t i s why I am publ i sh ing a con-versat ion between Brother John G. Halbede l, o u r re pre sen ta tiv e in Fi tc hburg,Massachuset ts , and an inquirer whomhe interviewed. No w, this personwhom Brother Halbedel interviewedfirst received a copy of the Light of

E g y p t T h e L i g h t o f E g y p t , " asyou know, is especially prepared to an-ticipate the majority of the questionsthe inquirer might ask, but even afterthe book has been carefully read, someindividuals do not ful ly comprehend i t .They draw a wrong conc lus ion f romsome of the statements and it is verynecessary at times that a point be clearedup for them. B ut sometimes an in-quirer directs to our representative, orone of our members, some difficultquestions to answer. Bro ther Halbedel


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has clearly answered some of these dif-f icult questions. I am going to quotefrom his official report.

M o n d a y , A p r i l 9, 1928.

At twenty minutes past seven I satin Mr . M 's parlo r, talking en -thusias tica lly about AM OR C and i tsG R E A T W O R K . M r . a nd M rs . M .to whom I have been known for manyyears, listened very attentively to mybrie f b u t sp irite d exposition of Rosicrucianism.

M r . M : " M r . Halb edel, I am amaterial ist ; and I think I am gett ingmore materialistic every day."

R e p : " Y ou t h i n k you are . Bu twhat makes you t h ink so?

M r. M : "Seeing is believing."R e p : "Y ou mean that you bel ieve

only that which you can see and feel,hear, smell and taste?

M r. M : "Yes, I adm it th a t ; bu tthere are, of course, things that we mustaccept wi thout tangible proof .

R e p : "I unders tand yo u to believethat we must have fai th in higher thingswhen we lack proof or when our reasonfails us?

M r. M : " T h a t s i t ! R e p : " T h e n I i n te rp re t y o u r a n -

swer as meaning that which is beyondthe control of man or outside the rangeof his unders tanding you a t t r ibute to

N A T U R E or to a H I G H E R P O W E Ro r to a S U P E R I O R I N T E L L I -G E N C E .

M r . M : I d o ! R ep : "W ell, i f you D O , yo u r m a-

terialistic characteristics are not so verymarked. I have dra wn this conclusionfrom contact wi th you thro ugh theyears of our acquaintance. Y ou haveimpressed me as a man who is economi-cal . T o be economical does no t implythat you are a material ist .

M r . M : "W ell , I be lieve in givin g

everyone his due.R e p : "F in e; n o w we are gettingsomewhere! So you believe in ap ply -ing the Golden Rule?

M r . M : "Yes, if b y the GoldenRule you mean Live and let live.

R e p : "As a material ist, then, youare quite a philosopher; a practical phi-losopher at that, as I have long agodiscovered in the shop, where we firstmet man y years ago in Mr. J 's pr ivateoffice. Apro pos of practical philoso -

pher s, let me intr oduce the m ost practi -cal the R O S IC R U C I A N S ! Y ou haveread T H E L I G H T O F E G Y P T ?

Mr. M : "Yes, I have re ad i t .R e p : "An d w hat have you decided

to do about your appl ica t ion?

M r. M : " N o th in g jus t ye t. Y o usee, there is one thing that does not ap-pe al to me. I t s abo u t y ou r O rderclosing the door on anyone who doesno t send in his applic ation soon afterreceiving the book . T hi s seems to metoo much like fo rcin g a man into uni t -ing wi th the Order .

R e p : "Y ou r harsh conclus ion, Ithink, is based on a misunderstandingof the contents of both the personal l e t t e r , t h e O F F I C I A L I N V I T A T I O N ,from our Supreme Secretary and the

book. B u t al low me to expla in to youthis mystery in a few words. Yo uwill, I am sure, agree with me then,that no undue pressure is exerted bythe Order . Now , Mr. M , can you

p o in t ou t to me one single statementi n t he B O O K or in the O F F IC IA L IN -V I T A T I O N t h a t c o u l d b e i n t e r -

pre te d as conc eal ing a subtl e m ethod o ffo rcin g a seeker into unit ing withAM OR C? Let us consider the personalletter from our Supreme Secretary,which also consti tutes an Official In-vitation. In this personal letter from

the 'Supreme Secretary yo u will findthese words in the second paragraph;The sending of this book and let ter toyou const itu tes an invi ta t ion . Youreceive this wholehearted Invitation ButOnce through Off icial ChannelsOur Supreme Secretary requests fromyou an A nsw er N o t on ly ou t o fcour tesy but to le t h im kno w that youdesire the understanding and coopera-tion of the Order in your search for theHigher Th ing s in Life; So, if youcannot for some reason fil l out and

forward you r application, an d unitew i t h A M O R C n o w , I advise you towrite a letter to our Supreme Secretaryand expla in jus t why you must delayyou r application. If you do this, thedoor will be kept open unti l such atime as you are able to unite with theOrder. If, however, you fail to answerthis official invitation and fail even toacknowledge the receipt of this wonder-ful Book, you surely are openmindedenough to agree with the officials of


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AM ORC when t hey p r e s ume t ha t youdo not care to uni t e wi th them. Ha v-ing created such an impression, you haveonly yourse l f to b lame whe n at somefuture day you wish to uni te wi thAM ORC bu t f i nd t he door closed. A n d

i f you Do f ind the Door Closed, whois i t tha t really closed i t? I t is the In -quirer who has ignored the Off icialI nv i t a t i on .

Mr . M : Th i s un i t ing w i t h yourOrder seems very serious business.

R e p : It is a very serious matter,indeed!

M r. M : I shall wr i t e to your Su-pre me Se cr eta ry and te ll h im h o w Istand . In the meantime. I l l read hislet ter again and the Book. Also themagazines you have sent to my off ice.

.Rep : "Please do th is . Yo u wi llf ind, I think, as you read them overagain that your point of view has beenchanged. M ay I call again in, say, aweek or two?

M r. M : By all means, come again!

W h y d o y o u as k ?R e p : I fear that I have consumed

too muc h of you r t ime tonight . Is tayed longer than I meant to.

Mr . M : N ot a t a l l! N ot a t a ll !I enjoyed every minute of your vis i t .T h a t s wh y we wan t you t o comea ga in s o o n .

R e p : Well , i f you feel tha t wayabout i t , I shall come again very soon.And when I do, I hope to welcomeyou in to our Order .

Tuuo Character fadings From HandwritingFra Revel Analyzes Wr i t ing of Impera tor and Secre tary

Analysis of Our Imperator:

One of the greatest prob lem s thewriter has had to face is the full , con-tro l o f his impulses. He is inclined toth in k and act quickly. He sees allaround a problem very rapidly and isapt to pronounce his decision at once.But , knowing th i s t r a i t i n h i s owncharacter, he has spent a lot of t ime

and care in compelling himself to reasonrather than jump to conclus ions .

He is inclined to take life rather seri-ous ly , and when faced wi th some pro-

ble m or o ther is ap t to sl ip a w a y in toa brown s tudy, qui te obl ivious of hissur roundings . Th en the l ight wi ll

bre ak th ro u gh an d he w ill come backto the af fai rs o f t h e m o m e n t wi th as t ar t and probably wi th an apology.

His natural good tas te and cour tesy

are unfai l ing and he would rather losemoney than be lacking in proper cour-tesy to anyone irrespective of their socialor f inancial s tanding . He is very fondof the beaut i ful and loves to be sur-rounded w i th beauty . He has goodtas te in the harmonizing of colors , andin his home, his maxim wil l be, nothow s howy , b u t how good .

He is mathematically inclined, has aready grasp of f igures and while he doesnot l ike them, he is quite capable ofwres t l ing wi t h them. He wil l l ikelyfind an excellent safety valve in music.He loves the better class of music andcan dr i f t of f into dream land on thewings of song, see visions and invaria-

b ly in h is m ind music w ill create forms. I t tells a story which renders him moreconscious of the s tory than of the music.


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He pr ides himself on having a veryjudic ia l m ind . He likes to weig h th in gscarefully and arrive at decisions onlyafter mature deliberation and he tellshimself, or rather tries to tell himselfthat he is quite impartially just in all

his decisions, but he is only deceivinghimself in the final analysis, he will

be gover ned more by his heart th an hishead. I f by an y chance he was com -

pe lled to give a very harsh judgm ent,if you watched closely you would seehim s l ipping around the back door todo a kind deed to in some way coun-teract the severity he was unable toavoid.

On religious matters he is sane, andless of a vis ionary than one wouldthink. He likes to reason things outand place his belief on a reasonable

plane. W hatever th ere m ay be o f m y s -ticism in religion, i t will have to be a

pr act ic al myst ic is m to satis fy h im . Hismind is judicial and it is not sufficientfor someone to say a certain thing is so,for him to accept i t . He has a favoritetext , 1 Th es . V :2 1 , Prove all things;hold fast to tha t wh ich is go od. Hegreat ly admires Fra Paul , and t r ies toemula te h im in many ways .

In company hi s manner i s jovia l andple asa nt, he love s a good joke and hasnever forgot te n ho w to laugh. He is

a good mixer and pays no a t t ent ion toclass dis t inctions . T h a t element ofwatchfulness and conscious self restraintwhich I ment ioned in the opening par -agraphs of this analys is shows out inevery l ine. W he n he feels hims elf ru sh -ing ahead he is apt to say s teady,make has te s lowly and thus he incul-cates in his being that which was notreal ly born in him self dominance.

He rather dis l ikes promiscuous char-ities. He wou ld much rathe r teach afai lure how to get on his own feet , andst i f fen up his own backbone rather than

give him char ity. He hates extr ava -gance of every kind . He believes wastesin. He is no t nigga rdly and believesin supplyin g al l reasonable needs. Fo ol -ish display and des t ruct ion of thingsthat a re useful are among the unp ard on -able sins.

He has wonderful perseverance andwill chase even a rainbow to i ts end ifhe starts after i t . He has schooled h im -sel f into pat ience and the thing that

worries him least is t ime. He is by nomeans w i tho ut personal vani ty . He isvery par t icular abo ut his appearance andis by no means impervious to judiciousf lat tery; he accepts i t kindly when he

beli eves it to be sincere. He is big

enough to know his own capabi l i t iesand ye t humbl e enough t o know howfar he comes sho rt of the possible. Oneof the things his associates love m o s t about h im i s h i s humani ty and h i s in-tense love for his fellow me n . He cansympathize, and, as a confidante hewould sooner lose a hand than betraya confidence.

Analysis of Ralph M. Lewis,

Supreme Secretary

Life is not and never has been easyfor the wri ter . His natu ral impuls ive-ness is always get t ing him into hotwater. He has on many occasions rushedin wi thout due del iberat ion and hasgot ten his f ingers badly burned; as aresult, he has lost a good deal of hisearlier self confidence and is not near lyso cocksure of himself as he once was.

He hates to wait . He wan ts to seesomething moving, something doing al lthe time. He is quite quick to expresshimself , and sometimes he can do so

very f luent ly if he f inds tha t he hasbeen unfa ir o r u n ju s t he is ju s t as quic kto make amends and i t i s this humani ty,or shal l we cal l i t humanness , whichmakes his friends love him.

He inher i ts a great many of his char-acterist ics from his mo ther. He is gen-erous to a fault . He never keeps a gripon the purse where he thinks i t s con-tents would benef i t someone else.Where he can do a good turn to some-one in need he will be just as impulsiveas a school boy and if he does a servicewil l be amply repaid in the knowledge

that he has given someone a leg up.His impat ience shows up qui te of tenwhen he has a task which baff les him,and when th ings wi l l not go accordingto his likes. He is very a p t to givean exclamation of impati ence to thedickens wi th i t, or w ords to tha t ef fectand f l ounce o f f ou t but t o do h im

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f inish properly the task he has lef t un-finished.

He is apt to be somewhat changeablein his immed iate likes an d dislikes. T h edish tha t suits his palate this week, migh t

be entir ely dista ste ful nex t we ek . T h e

immediate fr iends who know him bestexcuse those little lapses in which heseems to rather pass them up, as theyknow that i t is but a passing mood ormayb e, a tense, an d like Ma ry s littlelamb he wil l come back.

He is very human in his affect ionsand could be qui te painful ly jealous i fhe considered conditions called for it.He is quite inclined to be jealous of hisown r ights and privi leges and hates tohave people t ramp on his corns or med-dle too much with his personal affairs .

He can be the life of a par ty. He

is full of fun. Has excellent spirits andis never deficient when it comes to seeingthe fun ny side of things. He shouldhave plenty of outdoor exercise, heneeds i t. Coo p him up for very longin an off ice of one room and he wouldsoon be rather hard to l ive with.

He is quick with his tongue in spi teo f the fact that he honestly tries toschool himself into guarding it . I tfalls from grace like a good Methodistoccasiona lly. He believes in sh or t cutsand hates to take the longest way arou nd to get home. He is stro ng in

his loves and equally strong in his dis-likes. He has consider able capacity fordetail bu t absolutely hates i t. Hewould much rather do the bigger thingsand let someone else do the litt le me-thodica l jobs which run away wi th

t ime and make small showing.There is an underlying element of

nervous s train and tension, and thewri ter would do well to take s tock ofhis physical condition as he is ridingfor a fall unless he takes time to get

back to no rm al . O ne ca n w o r k a t highpr ess ur e for a cer ta in length o f ti me ,b u t na ture tak es her toll eventually .I t is qui te probable that i f the wri terla id of f fo r a month and went away fora f ishing t r ip up to the mountains andthen sent me another sample of hiswriting a lot of the characteristics whichare so very marked in this particularsample of script will have been elimi-nated, or at least modified.

The wri ter has very l i t t le real per-sonal vani ty. He prefers no t to have

people pr ais e h im . He a lw ay s m is truststhose who are too effusive and takeswhat they say with several large grainsof salt . He has no il lusions abo ut hi m -self whatsoev er, an d wha tever peoplemay say, he knows qui te well his ownlimitat ions, even though he may nottel l that to others .

The Firtf American RosicruciansInterest ing and Surpris ing Facts For Our Members

B y RALPH M . L e w i s , Supreme Secretary

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:ORE interesting than tales ofmystery and romance fromthe Orient are the simplefacts of the plans, ambi-tions, struggles, sorrows,and joys of the first efforts

W/I /MMM to establish the RosicrucianOrder in the new world.

S o m a n y m e m b e r s o f A M O R C a n dother students of mystical teachingshave asked for more details of theseearly American movements, that I havegathered together just the great high-l ights f rom only the most dependable

sources. I realize tha t po pula r presenta-t ions of the his tory of the f i rs t Ameri-can Rosicrucians contain ei ther contra-dictory s tatements , or leave out impor-tant facts altogether, generally becausethe writers of such histories are entirelyignorant of the many reliable recordsthat exis t and which contain the detai lsgenera l ly unknown.

Firs t of a l l we f ind in many ancientwr i t ings perhaps we should say wr i t -ings of the fifteenth and sixteenth cen-tury an oftrepeated reference to the 'Rosicrucian stone being sent or


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b ro u g h t to Amer ica to lay the fo u n d a -t ion for the establishment of the Rosicrucian Order in this new world ofAmerica. Certain ly this was no refer-ence to an actual st one, but ra ther to a

so m eth in g that was sent here before theyear 1690 . Th e impo r tan t po in t abou t

this matter is that the references p la inlyindicate that the sto ne was to come toAmerica by a decree of the council o rcommittee of various Grand Masters ofEurope, and that such sto ne was thesymbolical cornerstone of the interna-t ional Order in Europe.

Our next documentary reference isfound in the book The New At lan t i s written by Sir Francis Bacon, the recog-

nized Imperator of the principal Rosicrucian jurisdictions of Europe, espec-ially the large German jurisdiction andthe rapidly increasing jurisdict ion of

Great Bri ta in . Bacon had his special lyselected representatives in various coun-tries , including his brother , w ho was hisf irs t Dep uty. Bacon had spent yearsin reorganizing the Rosicrucian Orderof Europe he had no power in theOrient except as a member of the inter-national council composed o f the variousImpera to rs and the many Grand Mas-ters under them.

After his reorganizat ion plans werecompleted, every country of Europe,even those which had only a few mem-bers had a Supreme G ran d M aste r orH eir op hant, and under these were Gran dMasters for every large section of eachcountry. We must bear in mind thattravel from one ci ty to another was along and tedious matter in those days,and it w as necessary for eachH eir ophantto have a district or provincial chief ineach important section, and these wereknow n as Grand Mas te rs. Th ey wereat the bead of a local group that m eton stated occasions to transact officialbusi ness, ho ld h igh ini tia t ions, and d i-rect the national decrees of the Orderin their respective sections. T he ir func -tions were much like those of the GrandMasters o f AM OR C, Freemasonry, ando ther f ra te rna l o rgan iza t ions in Amer-ica, where each state has its GrandMaster. Ove r these G ran d Masters arethe national Supreme Masters or Heiro

phants, and over these th e Imperato rsof the various jurisdictions. M ost ofthe world today has i ts Grand Masters

and Heirophants and Imperators of theRosicrucian Order. It is an ancient andtimehonored system, and we need nottake the time here to quote the hundredsof authorities referring to these old Rosicrucians Imperators , Heirophants andGrand Masters .

Bacons idea was to do in Americapra cti cally w h a t had be en done in G er-many. In Germany he s imp ly cal ledattention to i ts bir t h once more. T heancient custom was for the Order to beactive in the outerworld for 108 years;then dormant so far as outer activitieswere concerned, for another 108 years;then the Order was born again in theouter world for ano ther 108 years .

Th is had been the method fo r manycenturies, and the complete cycle of discoveries of the bo dy of C. R. C.(Chris t ian Rosenkreuz, or the Christ ian

R osey Cro ss) shows tha t every 216years this occurred.

So, a t the r ight t ime the body o fC. R. C. was discovered again at Cassel,Germany, and outer or public l i teraturewas issued and a period of propagandastar ted which was typical of the propa-ganda of a n ew o rgan iza t ion . W henthe time came for the Order to come toAmerica, the Baconian plans as outlinedin his New Atlantis and in other docu-ments prepared in advance by him, were

carried out.Therefore we f ind from a host of

American and foreign records that dur-ing the years of 1691, 92 and 93, thevarious Rosicrucian Jurisdictions ofEurope were busily engaged in selectingfrom their highest members those whowould form the Rosicrucian pi lgrimageto the new world.

The facts of th is preparat ion, themeeting of the members in variouscit ies of Europe, the charter ing of aspecial boat, the Santa Maria, the sacredconvocations held before their depart-ures, the trials of the voyage on theirboat , w i th the ce rem on ie s held dai ly ,and the final arrival in America at thepl ace n o w kn ow n as Ph i ladelph ia , andof their establishment there of the Rosi-crucian Temple, schools, homes, etc.,are all set forth in such unquestionablerecords as; T he books of Jul iu s Fried-r ich Sachse, Lifemember of the His-torical Society of Pennsylvania, thePennaGerman Society and the Ameri


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can Philosophical Society and also ap ro m in ent M asonic histo r ian and de s-cendant of one of the families of thef irs t Rosicrucian colony in Phi ladel-

p h ia ; al so th e ar ti cl es w hich appeare d inthe N e w A ge, the official organ of theScottish Rite of Freemasonry for the

Southern Jurisdiction: also the recordsof the Philadelphia Historical Society,the or iginal diary of the Grand Masterof the colony, which diary is in thecollection owned by the Hon. S. W.Pennypacker , with copies owned by thePhiladelphia Histor ical Society, A M -ORC, and several foreign sections ofthe Rosicru cian Order. See also thevery accurate articles in the Pennsyl-vania Magazine, volume X.

The colony arrived in the present cityof Phi ladelphia on Saturday, June 23,1694 . It had a complete set of Rosi-

crucian officers with full power andau thor i t y to establish the first Americanheadquarters of the Rosicrucian Order.Please note that this was not a groupof Rosicrucians coming to the newworld simply to start l ife over again.Each member of the party was selectedbecause o f special fi tn ess ; th er e werechemists, botanists, artists, printers,

paper ma ke rs , mu si ci an s, an astronomer,mathematicians, alchemists, artisans ofvarious kinds and their wives and chi ld-ren. T h ei r very first act was to callupon Benjamin Flectcher , CaptainGen-eral of Pennsylvania, and Wil l iamMarkham, his Deputy Governor , forthe purpose of taking the Oath ofAllegiance and explaining their reasonfor coming to the Colony.

From tha t day on , the work of theRosicrucians is recorded in many booksand papers to be found in the Philadel-

ph ia His to ri cal So ci ety and in books tobe found in th e Congressio nal L ibra ry .Some of the first buildings they erectedstill stand in what is n o w F a i r m o u n tPark of Phi ladelphia. Late r they

moved to more isolated and beautifulsituation s a few miles westw ard. T hegreat work of the Rosicrucians in theirf inal locat ion continued outwardly for

T h e one hun dre d and eight years (please

MVstic no te t 2e decreed cycle of 108 years) and. in 1801 the work was w ithd raw n from

/ rtangle t^e public and the cycle of 108 yearsJune of silent activity began, for by this time

1928 members and new initiates into the

Order had gone to all parts of America.

N o w r ig h t here we believe it wel lto state that some writers on the historyof the Rosicrucians in America are en-tirely unaware of the existence of thisf i rs t colony and nat ional headquartersin and near Phi ladelphia. These wri ters

be gi n their Am eric an h is to ry of theOrder with the fascinating career of oneDr. P. B. Randolph, a remarkable s tu-dent of myst ical phi losophy. He hadtravelled extensively in Europe andthere contacted the Rosicrucian Order

as had m any be fo re h im w h o were soqualified as to be permitted the privi-lege of contact. It was claimed by hisfriends that in France he became affili-a ted with the Lodge which one ofthe Napoleons at tended and was anofficer. Dr. Ran do lph became suffici-ently adept to attain the first degree

beyond adeptship, o r in o ther wordspass ed from the degree of N e o p h y te tothat of full membership, according tothe statements of his friends, and sincehe was a vis i tor in that land, and nota native, and since he was preparinghimself to be a lecturer and writer ongeneral uplift principles, the Lodge inwhich he attained this full membershiphonored him for the remainder of hisvis i t with them by making him their Grand Maste r . T hi s was t ru ly agreat honor, and if it is true, as we arewilling to believe, it was an honor thathad been bestowed upon many othercontinental visitors, to be sure, but thefirst instance of such honorary title be-ing held by an American, so far as anyrecords show.

In due t ime Dr. Randolph returnedto America and began his famous careeras a lecturer an d teacher. He did n o trepresent himself at first as a Rosicru-cian, and his first publications, copiesof which a re in the AMORC l ib ra ry ,did not contain any Rosicrucian teach-ings. He was undo ubte dly the fore-

runner o f the var ious New Thoughtand Mental Science schools of America,for his lectures laid the foundations forthis excellent style of modern thinking.Finally he believed he could do betterby* org aniz ing private s tud ent bo di esand giving to them, af ter test and proofof worthiness, some of the Rosicrucianpr in ci ples. W e fin d from severa l ver-sions of his life history, prepared by his


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p r incipal apologist o f today, D r. R.S w i n b u r n C l y m e r , t h a t P r o p o g a n d abegun in 1857 . F irs t Supreme G ra ndLodge San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 5th,1861. Second Gran d Lodge Boston,Mass. , 1871 . T hi r d Grand Lodgeformed at San Francisco, Cal., 1874.And the four th Grand Lodge formedat Ph i lade lph ia in 186 5 .

From other wri t ings by the sameapologist and devotee of the Randolphwri t ings, we learn that t reachery andtreason entered each of the Lodges es-tabl ished by Randolph and for thisreason they were disbanded and reor-ganized in later years. T h is explainsthe es tab l i shment o f two Grand Lodgesin Calif ornia, ten years apa rt. We alsolearn that f inal ly the Lodges were dis-

banded com ple tely an d nev er again

started.Please note that these attempts of Dr.

Ra ndolp h were made in 1857 andthereafter, which is precisely 164 yearsaf ter the f i rs t American Headquartersand Temple of the Rosicrucian Orderwere establ ished in Phi ladephia. Th ere -fore , Dr . Randolph was n o t the founderof the first Rosicrucian headquarters inthe new wo rld. W hen this fact was

po in ted o u t to th e apologis t, he exerci sedthe pr ivi lege of the t rue apologist andrefused to accept the evidence. He

p ro m p t ly s ta ted in hi s fu r ther his to ri calremarks tha t this s tory is manufac turedout of whole cloth and should be lookedupon as a highlycolored fairy ta lera ther than as t ru th emanat ing f rom aRosicr ucian source. Relig ious coloniesdid exist throughout the State , es-

pe cia ll y a ro un d P hiladelph ia , Lancaste r,Ephrata and Bethlehem, but these werein no sense Rosicrucian; they were ofthe Quaker , Mennoni te , Moravian andother sects.

I t is t rue that some Rosicrucians ofthis f i rs t American colony and head-

quarters were Quakers, for the recordsof tha t co lony show tha t some of them

jo ined the Quakers , and some al sojoined th e M oravians, th e M ennonitesand other religious bodies as well ashelped to establish the great Ch ristChurch of Ph i lade lph ia , whose h i s to r i -cal records tell another side of the Rosi-crucian activities. But, the Rosicrucianswere of various rel igious fai ths and na-tural ly sought some church in which

to worship. We have RosicrucianMethodists, Baptists, Quakers, Episco-

palians and o ther deno m ina t ion s today.But does that fact make them less in aRosicrucian sense? The apologist simplyignores the facts told in the historicalrecords. He ignores the manu scripts ofthe first Rosicrucians which are in thePhiladelphia Historical Society; he ig-nores the thousands of facts stated inMr. Sachses book wherein he quotesm any records and authorities. He alsoignores what has appeared in the Scot-t ish Rite Masonic magazine and in thedozens of newspaper articles whichhave appeared in America, Canada andEurope, about these first Rosicrucians.One may set aside these records and saythat the story is made out of wholecloth, but that does not make i t so.

As to what these Rosicrucians ac-complished in a scientific, mystical,educat ional and humanitar ian way, onemay read in the wri t ings of Watson,Americas greatest and timehonoredanalytical historia n. Before Mr . Sachse

passed to the beyo nd a few ye ar s agohe gave to various high degree Rosicru-cians in this country many of the or igi-nal records, papers and mementoes ofthat f i rs t American Rosicrucian head-q u a r t e r s . T o t h e I m p e r a t o r o f A M O R Ccame some of these records an d he alsohas in possession the original RoseyCross worn by the f i rs t Grand Masterin Phi ladelphia. T he apologist says henever saw any of these things. T h a tis t rue, but that does not prove thatthey do not exis t and are actual .

Furthermore, we turn to the recordsof the Order in Europe. We f ind, forinstance in even the recent French His-tory of the Rose Cross Order, an official

publication, no men t ion o f Dr . Randolph and his Rosicrucian work in

America. A M O R C is described, severalRosicrucian societies publishing interest-

ing literature on Rosicrucian subjects aredescribed, and a hundred or more at-tempts of individuals and groups to es-tablish Rosicrucian branches aredescr ibed , bu t no th ing about Dr . Ran-dolph ever having authori ty to estab-l i sh a "Lodge or Grand Lodge ofthe Rosicrucian Order in America. Ran-dolphs name is not even mentioned.

M r . C l y m e r w r i t i n g o f D r . R a n -dolphs notable career as a lecturer


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states tha t since he was a Gra ndMa ster of the Orde r in France for awhile he had sole au tho rity to estab-lish a branch of the Order wherever he

pl ea se d an d need ed no higher au thori ty ,for as Grand Master he was the highest authori ty . T ha t p l a in ly shows a

lack of understanding of the posit ionor ti t le of Gr and Master . If there wasno h igher au thor i ty t han wha t he pos-sessed, who gave him that authority?W ha t of the Supreme Master or H eir o

p h a n t o f France? W h a t o f t he Im pera to r for the French Jurisdiction.

I t i s a lso s ta ted by Dr . Clymer thataf ter having establ ished his Grand

L o d g e in Am eric a, D r . R a n d o l p h a n -nounced himsel f as the Supreme GrandMaster or Gra nd Master o f the who le w o r l d . W ha t became of al l the otherSupreme Masters , Heirophants and Im -

pera to rs ? N o where in any foreign records of the Order for the years 1857to the present t ime do we f ind anyrecords of ONE Supreme Master for theE N T I R E W O R L D , a n d n o re co rd ofDr . Randolph being a member in Amer-ica who had the honorary t i t le anddist inct ion of a Grand Master of oneof the French Lodges for a t ime. Wehave simply accepted the Randolphclaim to the honorary t i t le.

Dr . Randolph made a second t r ip ofthe wor ld , or through the Or ient , andupon his re turn wrote a book that madehim famous for a t ime. I t was calledPreA damite Man. Even in the f i f thedit ion of this book (copies of whic hare in t he AM OR C l ib r a ry ) , and whichwas published in Boston in 1873,twelve years after the founding of hisfirst Rosicrucian Society, there is noment ion of anything Rosicrucian, noment ion of h is p lans, b is h igh posi t ionas Supreme Master for the entire world,and nothing of the Rosicrucian teach-ings. T h a t i s hardly the method of aRosicrucian who occupied such a high

posit io n and w h o w o u ld ha ve had th eright to visi t the ancient Rosicrucian

Temples and describe them. M a n ygreat officers of the Order in centuries

T h e Pas t mar R a n d o l p h . T r u e , h e w r ot e

Triang le another book cal led Ravalet te , pub

J u n e l ished in 1876 and on the t i t le page of1928 this book placed the phrase A Rosicru-

cian Story and a symbol of a tr ianglecon ta in ing the word t ry . Bu t , no th -ing is said in that book to indicate thatthe author was speaking officially forthe Order, held any membership evenin the Order o r knew any th ing abou tthe Order. T he sym bol he used, and

which Dr . Clymer considers the t ruesymbol of the Rosicrucian Order, doesnot contain the Rosy Cross, nor even aRose or Cross. As for the wo rd t ry being th e ancie nt sym bol o f th e Ord er,let me suggest that i t would meanno th ing to t hose v /ho knew no t Eng-lish. Certa inly an in ternat ional o rgan i -zation such as the Rosicrucians are,would not have a symbol ical word or

phrase in E ng li sh . Fur thermore, theword t ry i s not found in any s ingle

piece o f ancient o r m odern Rosic ru cia ndocuments of any country . I t was

or ig inal wi th Dr . Randolph and is usedin connect ion wi th th is s tory of Rava-lette wherein one of the characters usedthe word T ry ! qu i t e o f ten .

Considering all of the records avail-able and Dr . Randolph 's own career andfailure in founding any real form ofRosicrucian Society in America, we can-not help but believe the statements ofthe Rosicrucian Order of Europe thatD r . R a n d o l p h had no au thor i t y to es-tabl ish a new branch of Rosicrucianismin th is country and to g ive to h im-self the t i t le of Grand Master of the w o r l d T he c l a im tha t he was aGrand Master for a t ime in France, andthat he was one of the h ighest s tudentsof the teachings that Amer ica had fora t ime, d id not g ive him any author i ty .There a r e many Grand Masters of theRosicrucian Order in Europe today andnot one of them would have the r ight ,

by vir tu e o f th a t ti tl e, to co me to A m e r-ica and start a new branch, any morethan wou ld a Grand Mas te r o f F r ee -masonry of Amer ica have a r ight to goto Europe and star t a new branch ofFreemasonry in France or England.

W e a re n o t u n m i n d f u l o f D r . R a n -

do lph s good work, nor do we wishto do him any injustice. B ut we fail tof ind where Dr . Rando lph h imse l f evermade the claims to authority and f irstr ights , now made by some of h is apol-ogists. In the later years of his life Dr.Randolph did not even pretend to beinterested in maintaining any of his new


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bra nches an d while others to ok up hi swork and tr ied to reorganize some ofhis abandoned lodges, nothing cameof i t .

F rom 1801 to 1 909 the cyc le o f108 years of secretact ivi ty of the Order;

then t ime came again for the outeropera t ions , and many went to Europein the years preceding 1909 seeking per-mission to issue the new American M an -ifesto for the bir th of the Order forth a t pe riod in the outer world . I t wasno t un t i l the summer o f 1909 tha t thepermission w as granted and the w o rkstar ted again, not by a Grand Master" of some foreign L odg e, b u t a n a p -po in ted Legate of the ent i re Order of Europe under the sponsorship of theFre nch Suprem e C ouncil . T he f i rs tnew American Manifesto was issued by

AM OR C a n n o u n c in g t h e b i r t h o f t h eOrder to the oute r wor ld no t a reb i r thof the o ld bod ies bu t a b i r th o f thenewer cycle, just as in Cassel, Germany,

ju s t as in E n g la nd , ju s t as in m anyoth er countries for ma ny cycles. And ,this Manifesto bore the true symbol ofthe Golden Cross with one Red Rose.I t bore the Latin phrases, not an Eng-l ish word, or a t r iangle with a skull andcross bones, ancho r or winged globenone of which things are a part of theRosicrucian seals.

The h ighes t au thor i t ie s fo r any o r -

ganization are its affiliations, its recog-niti on and its activities. In the Inte rnatonal Congresses of Rosicrucians heldin Europe , the A M O R C is the on lyRosicrucian body of America having aplace in the sess ions. So w i th the fi rs tc o lo n y o f P h i la d e lp h i a. T h e A M O R Cof America today is a part of the Rosi-

c ruc ian AMORC of the wor ld , a f f i l -iated w ith every foreign branch. N oother Rosicrucian body in this countryhas those connections w ith s imilarbodi es . T h e A M O R C has it s Lod ges ,Temples, Colleges, groups and branches

in every large city and section of NorthAmerica. N o othe r Rosicrucian societyfo rm ed b y R andolp h o r any one elseduring the nineteenth century had suchactivities.

F ina l ly , the AMORC in Amer ica to -day is the largest of all Rosicrucianbo di es so far as nu m b er o f bra nc he s,aff i l ia t ions and connections in thiscountry are concerned. T he early Ro s-icrucians of Philadelphia left a greatmonu men t. T h e activit ies of a ll ofthese workers read like romances andsomeday the full story will be issued in

a great book. In the mea ntim e greaterromances are being worked in the livesof thousands, and the miracles of the

past are becoming com m o n occurences

today.

Let us rejoice in the contributionsthat every soul has made to the ad-vancement of c ivi l izat ion. T he factsof the past are facts despite their ageand thin veil of obscuri ty: bu t thefacts of today are before us hourly.Let us face them squarely and make themost of them for the good of a l l .

(In a later article I will speak ofother American Rosicrucians who great-ly aided in preparing the way for thecoming of the Order in its new cycle.Many of these were eminent Ini t ia tes o fforeign jurisdict ions and preceded Ran-dolph, while others came a few yearsl a t e r ) .

V V V V V

The Law of The TriangleB y Sr o . V i r g i n i a Sc o t t , Hermes Lodge, No. 41.

symbols

H E R E are three salient anglesf rom which one migh t ap-proach a di sc us sion o f th elaw of the Trian gle . Firs t ,the law as delineated by ourR. C. Studies, second, as

p or tray ed in the ve il edwords, i l lustra t ions and

by various philo sophies.throu gh various philosophers; and th ird

as displayed in our own existence, andmethods of functioning.

Upon entering the f irs t grade ofthis order, we were at once confr onte d

by th e fa ct th a t the tria ngle sym bolizeda mos t impor tan t lay upon which wewere to build in all following grades.It is said: The triangle ivi th i ts three

p o in ts re presen ts perfect cr eat ion. T h a tis th e law, all which follows can be


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classed as a series of proofs or illustra-t ions of this one point . O ur f i rs tillustration was found in the first gradelectures Ma tter manifests according tothe law of the triangle, being composedof atoms, electrons and molecules.

In the third grade we studied the im-

p o r ta n t tri an gl e, im agina tion , asp ira-t ion and insp ira t ion . Imagina t ion be-ing the source as it were, giving birth tothe other two points in order to forma perfect manifestation.

In the fourth grade we applied thelaw of the t r iangle with nous as one

p o in t , the div in iti es as the seco nd , andthe principles as the third. Again wewere reminded that all which manifestsis t r iunal in pr inciple and a t last wewere brought to the ful l real izat ion ofthe necessity of both negative and posi-

t ive vibrat ions combining to make ath i rd po in t o r mani fes ta tion . O ur t r i -angle is then outlined, 1 positive, 2negative, 3 combined vibrations ormanifestat ions. A nd wit h the addedlight from the last lessons of that gradewe can substitute a more definite termi-nol ogy , 1 sun, 2 earth, 3 vital energy.By this time we begin to realize theunivers ality of the great law. Eventhat small particle of matter, the cell,is composed of three parts cell body,nucleus and cencrosome, the last ofwhich in turn divides itself according to

the triunal law into centriole, attractionsphere and fibrils.

W i th these po in t s f rom our ownlectures well in mind, it might be wellto turn to other phi losophies for a fewaddit ional i l lustrat ions. T he Greeksfor example fol lowed the t r iunal pr in-ciple thr ou gh ou t their reasoning. Lifemanifested in three spheres; 1 , the su-

pre me spher e, dw elling pl ace o f th eGo ds; 2, the superior sphere, meeting

plac e o f G ods and m en; 3, th e inferi o rsphere, hom e of man. I f we approach

this from a more esoteric aspect wemight word the th ree po in t s o f thetriangle a bit differently. 1 , the su-

pre me sp here spiri t; 2 , the interiorsphere the personali ty; 3 , the superior

T h e sphere mind, the meeting place forA/, .. both. Accordin g to the Greeks, these

. poi nts again have their analog y in ther ian&e body where we f ind the t r iunal mani

J u n e festation, thus : 1, Supreme sphere or1928 spirit is represented by the heart; 2, the

bra in is the meetin g place for bo th , a nd3, the reproductive organ represent theinferior sphere. T hi s same race ofthinkers even divided the mind itselfinto three parts , not only physiologi-cally but spiritually into the divine,human and an imal minds .

The Bhagavad Gita and the Bible arewell filled with such illustrations.From the la t ter consider the Song ofSolomon, which refers to the sun andthe lesser planets . So lo mo n is derivedfrom three words, contains the t r ini tyknown as the three suns, and is thename of the superior God in three lan-guages.

In one of the Eastern religions wefind the three great principles outlinedas Brahma, the creator , Vishnu, the

pr es er ve r, an d Si va , the destr oyer.

Again i f we were s tudying the symbology of the Hebrew a lphabe t we would

place at the p o in ts o f o u r tria ngle th ethree mother letters which represent thelife principles.

T h a t g rea t Chinese ph i losopher LaoT z u referred to the law on speaking ofTao which corresponds to our nous.He sa id , Tao produces un i ty ; un i ty

pro du ces du a li ty ; dua li ty produces t r i n -i ty; t r ini ty produces al l things. Allthings bear the negative principle, yin,and embrace the positive principles,yang, Im material vita l i ty , the third

pri nci ple , make s them harm onious .This is a t ruly Rosicrucian exposi t ionof the law of the t r iang le . Th rou gh ou tall philosophy the seeker finds such ex-amples.

WE have now dea l t b r ie f ly wi th thesubject from two angles; 1, our R. C.Laws concerning the triangle; 2, thelaw as mentioned and symbolized fromother various sources. T o form thethird point of the discussion we wouldl ike to remind you how much you areindebted to this law each day of your

existence.You are composed, we are told, of(a) bod y, (b ) soul, (c) spirit . As aseeker for light you met the test of,1, life; 2, asp ira tio n; 3, death . As aRosicrucian you ever seek to know thetru th in: 1, love; 2, ar t and 3, scicnce.Looking about the mater ia l wor ld youfind all matter in three forms: 1 , solids;2, liquids; 3, gasses. Y ou also find tha t

p la n t an d an im al li fe has th re e st ep s in


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mani fes ta t ion: 1 , assimilat ion ; 2 ,g row th ; 3 , reproduc t ion . Look ing onthe ethical side of life, you will findthat of ten two forces, incomplete inthemselves, form a third more perfectcreat ion by the combinat ion of their

forces. Fo r exam ple, religion is largelyemotional, science, largely intellectual.Their combinat ion gives the third and

perfe ctin g po in t, ph i losop hy . T o ill us-t ra te th i s wi th in your own body, youfind that both the subject ive and ob-

je ct iv e m in ds are ne ed ed to give th ethird point, i . e. proper balance; t h a t

b o th v o lu n ta ry and in v o lu n ta ry actionmust combine to keep the body properly

func t ion ing , and tha t bo th induc t iveand deductive reasoning are necessary toform the third point , a well def inedline of action; and last of all , but amost im por tant i l lustrat ion: yoif havedoubtless found in your s tudies that i t

is necessary to know with the heart aswell as with the min

the mystic triangle, june 1928

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