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Zada, or Looking Forward Mysticism

Brief Biographies of Famous Rosicrucians

No. 3—H. Maurice Jacquet

A Brother of the Rosy Cross

My Yesterdays Return

They Slept With Loaded Muskets by Their

SideMany Other Important Helps

AUGUST, 1926



T W t G

Published Monthly by The Departme nt of Publication, American Supreme Council A N C I E N T A N D M Y S T IC A L O R D E R R O S A E C R UC I S

of North America

The A. M. 0 . R. C. of Nor th Amer ica is aff il ia ted with A NT IQ UU M ARC ANU M OR DI NE MROSAE ET AUREAE CRUCIS in var ious par ts of the wor ld and wi th i t s branch bodies operat ingunder similar names in other parts of the world. All affiliated branches opera te under a supremewftrld council which sponso rs the various jurisdicti ons an d ch arters the Supre me Councils andLodges of each jurisdiction.

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T H E N O R T H A M E RI C A N J U R I S D I C T I O N

(Inclu ding the Unite d States, Dominion of Canada, Alaska, Mexico, Guatem ala, H on

duras, Nicaragua . Costa Rica, Republic of Pana ma, T he W es t Indies, Lo wer California, and al l land u nder the protect io n of the U nited States of America.)

H. Spencer Lewis, F. R. C., Ph. D.. - Impe rator -Rex for North AmericaRalph M. Lewis, K. R. C., - Suprem e Secreta ry for No rth AmericaRalph A. Wa cke rma n, F. R. C., - - Suprem e Grand Mas ter for North America

Supreme Grand Lodge for North America. - Rosicrucian Square, Tam pa, Florida

GRADES AND CLASSIFICATIONS OF MEMBERSHIP

(The following classifications of membe rship appljr to the Nor th American Jurisdiction as o utlined above, and to par ts of other Jurisdi ctions. The fees or dues vary in other jurisdic tions, however).

G e n e r a l S t u d e n t M e m b e r s h i p : M e m b e r s l o c a t e d i n a n y p a r t o f t h e N o r t h A m e r i c a n J u r i s d i c t i o n ,b u t n o t w i t h i n v i s i t i n g d i s t a n c e o f a L o d g e, o r w h o c a n n o t a f f il ia te w i t h a L o d g e a n d a t t e n d l e c t u r e sf o r v a r i o u s r e a so n s , a r e p e r m i t t e d t o t a k e a p r e p a r a t o r y c o u r s e a n d t h e n r e c ei v e t h e r e g u l a r l e c t ur e s ,w e e k l y , i n s p e c i a l i n d i v i d u a l f o r m , w i t h s p e c i a l e x p e r i m e n t s , t e s t s , l e c t u r e - l e s s o n s d e s i g n e d t o m e e t i nd i v i d u a l r e q u i r e m e n t s , $ tc . T h e y a l s o r e c e i v e t h e m o n t h l y m a g a z i n e a n d f u l l > m e m b e r sh i p b e n e f it s .T h e y b e c o m e af fi li at e d w i t h t h e E x t e n s i o n D e p a r t m e n t o f t h e S u p r e m e L o d g e of N o r t h A m e r i ca . I n i t ia t i o n F e e , F i v e d o l l a r s w i t h a p p l i c a t i o n . D u e s , t w o d o l l a r s m o n t h l y , p a y a b l e a t t h e S u p r e m e L o d g eb e f o r e t h e 5 t h o f e a c h m o n t h .

AK Ho cl at e M e m b e r s h i p s M e m b e r s l i v i n g a n y w h e r e m a y b e c o m e a f f il i at e d w i t h t h e O r d e r a n d r e c e i v et h e p r i v a t e m o n t h l y p u b l i ca t i o n, a s p e c ia l i n s t r u c t i v e l e t t e r e a c h m o n t h , a n d h a v e t h e p r i v i l eg e o f a dv ic e, a s s o c i a t i o n w i t h th e O r d e r , a n d a t t e n d a n c e a t g e n e r a l c o n v o c a t i o n s . ( W ' e e k ly l e s s o n s a n d c o mp l e t e l e c t u r e c o u r s e o f a l l t h e t e a c h i n g s n o t i n c l u d e d ) F e e , $1 w i t h a p p l i c a t i o n . D u e s , o n e d o l l a rm o n t h l y , p a y a b l e a t t h e S u p r e m e L o d g e b e f o r e t h e 5t h o f e a c h / m on t h.

G r o u p M e m b e r s h i p : W h e r e a n u m b e r o f G e n e r a l S t u d e n t o r A s s o c i a t e M e m b e r s l i ve in a n y l o c a l it ya n d a r e n o t a f f il i a te d w i t h a n y r e g u l a r L o d g e , t h e y m a y h a v e t h e b e n e f i t o f t h i s f o r m o f m e m b e r s h i p .T h e b e n e f i ts a r e a s s o c i a t i o n e a c h w e e k w i t h o t h e r m e m b e r s , t h e d i s c u s s i o n o f t h e l e c t u r e s , t h e c o mp a r i s o n o f e x p e r i e nc e s , s p e c i a l r e a d i n g s a n d t a l k s , e tc . R e q u i r e m e n t s : G o od s t a n d i n g in t h e O r d e rw i t h a l l d u e s f u l l y p a i d t o d a t e , a c t i v e i n t e r e s t in t h e w o r k a n d a w i l l i n g n e s s t o c o - o p e r a t e . N o f e e sp a y a b l e t o t h e O r d e r a r e r e q u i r e d f o r G r o u p M e m b e r s h i p .

L o d g e M e m b e r s h i p : M e m b e r s a f fi l ia t ed w i t h l o ca l lo d g e s , r e c e i v i n g t h e i r l e c t u r e s a n d i n s t r u c t i o n

i n c l a s s e s m e e t i n g u n d e r a M a s t e r a n d c o m p l e t e s e t o f o ff ic er s i n t h e i r o w n T e m p l e s . S u c h L o d g e s a r el o c a t e d i n t h e p r i n c i p a l c e n t e r s o f p o p u l a t i o n i n N o r t h A m e r i c a . F e e s a n d d u e s i n t h e s e L o d g e s a rc-o p t i o n a l w i t h e a c h L o d g e . F o r d i r e c t o r y o f D i v i s i o n a l S e c r e t a r i e s , s e e l a s t c o v e r o f t h i s m a g a z i n e .

G E N E R A L I N S T R U C T I O N S T O A L L M E M B E R SI n o r d e r t o h a v e y o u r c o r r e s p o n d e n c e r e c e i v e p r o m p t a t t e n t i o n b e s u r e t o u s e t h e a d d r e s s b e lo w .

D o n o t s e n d S p e ci a l D e l i v e r y l e t t e r s o r t e l e g r a m s u n l e s s in e m e r g e n c i e s . S 'p ec la l D e l i v e r y L e t t e r sa r e n o t d e l i v e re d t o a n y o f o u r d e p a r t m e n t s s o o n e r t h a n r e g u l a r l e t t e rs . Y o u m a y d i r e c t y o u rl e t t e r t o a n y s p e c ia l d e p a r t m e n t b y p l a c i n g i n t h e l o w e r l e f t c o r n e r of t h e e n v e l o p e t h e n a m e o f a n yo f t h e f o ll o w i n g d e p a r t m e n t s :

F i n a n c i a l S e c r e t a ry , S e c r e t a r y t o th e I m p e r a t o r , S u p r e m e S e c r e t a r y , D e p t , o f E x t e n s i o n ( r e g a r di n g n e w L o d g e s ), D e p t, of G r o u p s ( r e g a r d i n g G r o u p s o r t h e i r f o r m a t i o n ) . D e p t , o f P r o p a g a n d a ( r eg a r d i n g i n c r e a s i n g m e m b e r s h i p o r i n t e r e s t i n t h e w o r k ) . D e p t, o f P u b l i c i t y ( r e g a r d i n g n e w s p a p e r o rm a g a z i n e a r t i c l e s a b o u t t h e O r d e r o r g e n e r a l p u b l i c i t y in th e f o r m o f p u b l i c l e c t u r e s ) . D e p t, o f P u b l ic a t i o n ( r e g a r d i n g t h i s m a g a z i n e o r a n y o f o u r o ff ic ia l l e a f l et s o r c i r c u l a r s ) . D e p t , o f R e s e a r c h ( r e g a r di n g a d d it i o n s , c h a n g e s o r e x t e n s i o n s o f o u r l e c t u r e s, c o u r s e s o f s t u d y o r e x p e r i m e n t a l w o r k ) . D e p t,o f P u b l i c A c t i v i t i es ( r e g a r d i n g o u r w o r k i n E g y p t i a n E x c a v a t i o n s , c h il d w e l f a r e , p r i s o n w e l f a r e , e tc .) ,C o m p l a i n t D e p a r t m e n t ( r e g a r d i n g l o s t le s so n s , e r r o r s i n m a i l i n g , c h a n g e o f a d d r e ss , e t c. ) , L e g a l D e pa r t m e n t . E a c h o f t h e s e d e p a r t m e n t s i s i n c h a r g e o f a s p e c i a l e m p l o y e e a n d e n v e l o p e s m a r k e d i n t hi sm a n n e r , b u t a d d r e s s e d a s b e lo w , w i l l re c e i v e p r o m p t a t t e n t i o n .

M a k e a l l c h e c k s o r m o n e y o r d e r s p a y a b l e o n l y t o " A m o r c F u n d s . ”

A d d r e s s a ll l e t t e r s o r p a c k a g e s t o

A M O R C

Rosicrucian Square, Memorial Boulevard, Tampa, Florida.



Zada, or Looking Forward By J. H. Thamer, K. R. C.

Of the New York Grand Lodge, AMORC

(This is the Eighth Installment of the Story which Began in the January Issue).

Ch ap te r VI ITh e F i r s t At t ack

LTRING the twe ntie th century, when one of the greatEuropean count r ies , th roughegotism and pride, becamethe aggressor in an at tempt,

on the most t r ivial pretexts,to become the g reates t power

on ear th , thereby forcing the g reater par tof the civilized world into an orgie of hatredand brutal ki l l ing, huge armies comprisingmill ions of men were dri l led and taught thela tes t methods of warfare and depar ted fo rthe vario us fields of action wit h ban dsplaying and flags f lying, accompanie d bythe cheers and plaudits of the mult i tude.

In strange contrast to that , at this t imeonly a very small percentage of the country’s population will be needed for the defense, the rat io being about sixty thousandmen, only, out of a populat ion of approxi mately two hundred mil l ion people.

One great advantage the New Americawill have in the coming conflict will be her

improved and new discoveries in radiot ransmiss ion of messages whereby th rough

the use of a hi therto unkn ow n vibra torywave they can segregate thei r messages ,thus preventing any l istening in by their

enemies.

A few days later a hurried meeting of theDefense Council was called, for the chiefof the invest igat ion d epa rtm ent had received information from both his Russianand Japanese agen ts that concer ted act ionwas about to be taken , a t tack ing wi th bo thaero-p ' lanes and sub-marines simultaneously

on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts ofNor th America .

Orvil le and Phil ip were cal led into consul tat ion relat ive to the sta te of the defenses onboth coasts , and were warmly congratu la tedupon being able to report that nothing hadbeen left undone to repel the enemy both inthe air and under water .

Orvil le was instructed by the Council totake his swiftest aero-car and to again personally inspect the defenses upon both

coasts.

When Phi l ip expectan t ly looked at Zadashe asked permission of the President tospeak and, this being granted, she explained

in detail what had transpired relative to thespies wishing to return to their nat ive land

to assist countrymen in fomenting a rebel l ion against their tyrannical rulers, and thatPhil ip wished for the commission of commanding one of the larger sub-marines in anat tempt to land them secret ly a t some Rus

sian port .

Before granting Phil ip’s request thePres iden t asked h im whether he had count ed the danger involved in this undertaking,as the countries wrere at war, to which hereplied that the successful fulfillment of thiscommission was the only thing to be cons idered , whereupon the Pres iden t congrat ulated him upon his at t i tude and, wishinghim every success, the confercnce was ad

journed.

Zada asked Orvil le and Phil ip to accompany her home to dinner, as she had something of importance to give to them beforethey departed upon their respective missions.

Arriving at her home they were not longkept in suspense, for upon repairing to her

private laboratory Zada opened a safe inthe wall and took therefrom two peculiarlooking r ings. Pre sen ting one to each ofthem she explained that they were to beworn upon the middle finger of the lefthand, and were made of a combination ofdifferent metals and precious stones, ar ranged in such a manner that their electronic vibrat ions, co-mingling with certain

vibrat ions from the hum an body, sometimes called the Odic fluid, would projecta ray or vibrat ion from the centre stone ofsufficient powe r to tem porari ly paralyze

any person whom it might touch at a distance of fifty yards.

The t iny pro t rubanc e on the bo ttom of thering would release the ray when pressedlightly with the t ip of the thumb, at anyother t ime i t being perfect ly harmless.

They expressed thei r as ton ishment a t thesubtle nature of this power and upon quest ioning her relat ive to her discovery and i tsdevelopment she en l igh tened them by br ing ing to their at tention the fact that “yearsago some persons endowed with psychicpowers discovered that under certain condi

t ions heavy furniture, such as tables andchairs, could be made to move and rise in



he air when they jointly touched the objectightly with their f inger tips.

“Not being famil iar with the laws of naure a t that t ime, any demonstrat ion beyondheir l imited knowledge was accredi ted to

uper-natural powers , and such apparent lyunknown phenomena was recognized andhought to be messages f rom depar ted sp ir ts , thus forming a sect who at that timeal led themselves Spir i tual is ts and their re igion Spiritualism.

“Upon invest igat ing th is pecul iar h i ther o-unknown power , together with the famil ar phenomena of mesm er ism or e lectro

biology, which shows that the mind of aperson operated upon can be affected orwill respond to the will or passes of the

operator a t a d is tance, th rough a mater ia lbei ng or invisible but ma teria l fluid— call itelectric or odic—as you will, I discoveredhat these vibrations were intensif ied wheno-mingling with the v ibrat ions emit ted byer tain metals and precious s tones ar rangedn harmonious at tunement , hence the inno

cent- looking r ing, which you now see, provng again the s implici ty of the N atural Laws

when properly understood and applied.”Wh en Phil ip inquired whet her she had

ested its powe r upon any living thing,Zada replied, that knowing the rate of vibra

ions necessary to temporar i ly paralyze thehuman anatomy, she unhesi ta t ingly t r ied i tupon her pet Collie dog f irst, and when this

ave the desired result, without any evilf ter effects, she had her father apply theest to herself , with the result that, while

under the ray’s influence, she was completey helpless although her mind seemed tounction with increased rapidity.

'Thus was again demonstrated the facthat what is commonly cal led super-natural ,s only a something in the laws of nature of

which we h i ther to have been ignorant .Philip now considerately excused himself ,

ay ing he had some preparat ions that need d his immediate attention, relative to his

mission, leaving the two lovers to themelves, for Orville proposed starting on hisour of inspection within the hour.

Grasping Philip by the hand Orvillewished him success in his commission, cau

ioning him that if he should perchance enounter conditions that endangered his life,r the success of the matter in hand, to useis powers of mental telepathy and he would

eave no stone unturned to come to his asistance at once.

W he n Orvil le bade Zada goodbye, shewished him success, hoping that he would

ind everyone at his post and alert; there

being no hear trending leave- tak ing , such aswas customary with lovers in the past, forthey were both masters of their des t in ies ,in consequence of which fear , the mother of

all sorrowful emotions, was eliminated.

The fo l lowing af ternoon, preceding thedepar ture of Phi l ip with the conver ted Russian Spies, Zada, at their eager request, consented to meet with them at their quar tersand say a few words of farewell.

An earnest and responsive audience facedher as s 'he took the platform in their lecturehall, the essence of her address being as follows :

“ M y d e a r b r e th r e n :

“On the eve of your departure to fulf ill asacred tru st I am filled with pride and joy for

the s tand you have taken , to do that whichis with in your power to ass is t the ignorantand oppressed in your homeland to a bet ter ,more just and ideal existence.

“To live in a great idea means to treat theimpossible as though it w^ere possible.

“I t is jus t the same with a s t rong character ; and when an idea and a stro ng chara cte rmeet , th ings wm‘11 arise wh ich will fill thewor ld with wonder for hundreds of years .A great work may l imit us for a momentbecause we feel it above our powers, but as

we incorporate i t with our cu l ture and makeit a part of our mind and heart does it become a dear and wor thy object . Truefriendship and brotherhood can only be bredin practice and maintained in practice, forit consists in keeping equal pace in life, inapproving one another’s aims, and in thusmoving forward together s teadfas t ly , however much our way and thought may vary .

“Voluntary dependence is the bes t s ta te ,and how can that be poss ib le without bro therly love?

“Sh ould false and irrelev ant and futile

ideas be thrus t upon you, you must pers is tin an effort to remove them by plain andhonest purpose.

“Centur ies ago , when the germ of f ree

dom was f irst implanted in the minds ofthe people of th is country , that famousdocument , ‘The Declarat ion of Independence,’ contai ned a sta tem ent which will

hold good for all time as it is one of Natu re ’s laws. In subst anc e it is as follows:‘W hen eve r any form of govern ment becomes destruct ive to these ends , ( the in

alienable r ights of the people) it is theright of the people to alter or abolish it.and to ins t i tu te a new government , lay ingits foundation on such principles, and or gani zing its powers in such form as to



them shall seem most l ikely to effect theirsafety and happiness.’

“This is the duty that l ies before you,and i t th r il l s me when I th ink of the g lor ious campaign you have entered upon forthe cause of freedom and idealty , the result

of which wil l be fel t through ages yet tocome.

“The supers t i t ious ignorance of yourcount rymen, fos tered and p layed upon bythe Pr ies ts o f the Church , must be rep lacedby sane and correct reasoning, so that theGod of Nature , Harmony and Love may bethei r b i r th r igh t . F i f ty years af ter theDeclarat ion of Independence was wr i t ten ,Th om as Jefferson said: ‘All eyes are opened or opening to the Rights of Man_T

“The general spread of the l ight ofscience has already laid open to every view

the palpab le t ru th that the mass o f man kind has not been born with saddles on i tsback, nor a few booted and spurred readyto r ide them legit imately, by the Grace ofGod.

“Unt i l your b rethren can be b rought tosee the l ight of freedom of thought as theirrightful heritage, so long will they be inserv i tude to ty rannical ru lers and ar rogantdomineer ing pr ies t s .

“It is to be regret ted that the simplet ru ths , as u t tered by that g reat teachercal led Jesus, have been clouded andh emmed ab o u t wi th my s te ry an d su p er s t i t ion by a few, thereby giving them the oppor tun i ty o f p rey ing upon the ignoran t in stead of teac hing them God ’s w onderfuland immutab le laws, which are the on lylaws and precepts that wil l give to everyone jus t ice and harmony.

“When you real ize that the van i ty o fyour rulers is a desire for personal glory,the wish to be appreciated, honored andrun after , not because of their real personalqual i t ies , mer i t s and ach ievements , bu t be

cause of their individual existence, you willsee how frivolous and useless they are.

“In conclusion I can promise you thatal l the knowledge and resources of the NewAmerica wil l be ut i l ized to preserve ourideal state, and also to assist you and yourfel low countrymen to at tain to such a condition.” \

Her audience rose to a man and cheered

her to an echo, after which their leader,Borgie Steffskie, in a few well-chosenwords feel ingly thanked her for the kindinterest she had shown in their behalf andassured her o f thei r undying ambi t ion anddetermination to do a ' l l within their powerto help their down-trodden brethren achieve

a successful but bloodless revolution in thecause of just ice.

As they filed out of the lecture hall on

their way to em bark in the sub-marine,Zada clasped each one by the hand with a

few words o f encouragement , af ter which

she also fol lowed them into the sub-marine(which was the largest and latest in design

that had been buil t to date) for a few wordsof farewell to Phil ip , cautioning him to usethe gre ate st vigi lance and strateg y, for ,from information just received, an immense

fleet of aero-planes and sub-marines wasalready on i ts way across the Atlantic andPacific oceans for a concerted at tack onboth coasts.

After a f inal handclasp Zada left the submarine and as i t gracefully rose in the airon i ts way to the ocean, with Phil ip at the

controls, the crew and passengers lust i lycal led and waved farewells unti l they fadedfrom view in the mist.

Zada re tu rned to her home and made pre parat ions to get in to communicat ion wi thOrvil le, whose aero-car was equipped withthe la tes t in rad io and camera- t ransmi t t ing

devices.Carefully harm oniz ing her del icate re

ceiv ing ins t ruments to the correct v ib ratoryrate, the view as registered by Orville’sradio camera from his aero-car was pro

jected on the U lt ra-V io le t screen, and as

the scenes flashed before her eyes she wasstart led, for a moment, to see thousands ofRussian and Japanese aero-planes f lying inbatt le formation at a speed of about twohundred mi les an hour towards the Ameri can shores.

No ting tha t O rvil le co ntinued in hisfl ight towards the enemy she got into radiocommunication with him, warning him ofhis apparent danger, to which he radioed

a reply that he had notif ied al l of the Pacif ic coast defense stat ions that the enemyplanes were only about f ive hundred milesoff the American shore, and that he wouldnow attempt to f ly to the rear of them, toget what information he could as to thewhereabouts o f thei r submar ines .

Although Zada, wromanlike, feared torhim, in this dangerous at tempt to get in formation, she control led her incl inat ion tourge him to return and instead gave himevery encouragement for his success.

She involun tar i ly caught her b reath , however, as she perceived on the Ultra-VioletScreen a dozen planes swoop down uponhim, each one spitting fiery bullets, but thesuperior speed of his aero-car spoiled theiraccuracy and a few that hi t the mark were



deflected harmlessly from his car body.

Orville did not appear to make any attempt to take the offensive, or to use thedeath ray , bu t seemed bent upon get t ing

safely to their rear, until one of the enemy’sspeediest planes made a sudden direct divef rom above with the in ten t of ramming h imamidship, regardless of the sure destruction

of his own plane.

Zada gave a gasp of relief when, just asi t appeared that no th ing could prevent adisastrous collision, she saw the enem yplane suddenly crumple and drop like astricken bird to the surface of the ocean,where it soon disappeared beneath the waters, proving to her the efficiency of thedeath ray, or destroying ray, as a defensive

power.She noted that Orville, with his speedier

car , soon out-distanced his pursuers, cont inu ing westward , where he soon repor tedto Zada that he had discovered a large fleetof sub-marines about one hundred miles inthe rear of the aero-planes. proceeding at adepth of about twenty fathoms, also a largenumbe r of bombin g p lanes fo l lowing the

smaller air-craft.Zada received a thrill as she sawr, on the

Ultra -Viole t screen. Orville swiftly turnand. at a speed of four hundred miles an

hour , dash through and past the enemyplanes without any mishap, to take chargeof the defense cars that were already in theair . awaiting the coming of the enemy.

As she sat in silent and tense contemplation of the conflict about to be waged, a callcame request ing her immediate presence inthe chamber of the Council for Defense.Upon her arr ival she found all of the members present, silently viewing the operationss imultaneously upon both coasts , the chamber being equipped with two Ultra-Violetscreens for this purpose.

W he n she spoke of the conditions asviewed by her on the Pacif ic Coast they informed her that identical conditions prevailed upon the Atlantic coast, the enemybeing met simultaneously f if ty miles offshore by the first line of defense.

I t was a thr i l l ing spectacle they now wit nessed on both screens in the Council

Chamber.Am eric a’s defense aero-cars were o ut

numbered three to one by the enemy planes,but the conflict wras of short duration, theenemy commen cing the at tack with a per fect hail of f iery projectiles, and great musthave been their surprise and chagrin to seetheir supposedly deadly missiles deflectharmlessly from our aero-cars.

At a rad ioed command f rom Orvil le , theAmerican aero-cars re leased their des truct ive rays and two thirds of the enemy planeswere seen to f lutter helplessly to the sur

face of the water , while the others, beingcut off from flying out to sea, were driveninland, brought down and captured.

( C o n t i n u e d i n o u r n e x t i s su e . )

Castelot’s Latest Experiments In Transmutation By Fra Fidelis

ONSIELTR F. Jollivet Castelot,president of the Societe Alchi-mique de France, whose exper imen ts in the t r ansmuta

tion of silver into gold wererecorded in the last issue ofthe Mystic Tr iangle , has re

cently completed further tests, and a reportthereon follows:

“My exper iments in t ransmutat ion , s ince1908, started always from the fact that, innature, wre find gold associated with antimony and sulphuretted arsenic' , as well aswith teller ium, which is considered as themineralize r of gold. (A mine ralizer is asubstance which mineralizes another one.)

“Therefore, i t seemed logical to me to in

troduce tellurium in the artif icial combination which I make of the silver and of thesulphides of arsenic and antimony and hereis the report of one of my most recent experiments :

“I made a mixture composed of 6 gram mesof chemically pure silver , of one gramme ofnative orpime nt free from gold, of onegramme of chemically pure gold and sul

phur of an t imony and of two grammes ofchemically pure tellurium which I obtainedfrom the es tab l ishment of Poulenc Freres(92 rue Viei l le-du-Temple) Par is ( I I I ) .

“X adde d pur e silica to the usual dissolv-ants . Thi s mixture was heated , in the reg ular way, in the furnace during an hour atthe temperature of approximately 1100°centigrade. Th e residue obtained was of agrayish black, with violescent tints, and itweighed 6 grs 420.

“Submitted to the action of nitr ic acid,the residue was affected with difficulty and

therefrom came detached metallic particlesof a greenish tint. Th e nitr ic solution being decanted, there remaine d a yellow-greenish res idue, which was again submit ted to boiling nitr ic acid during several



hours. Again, the l iquor was decanted andthe residue which had not been modifiedwas washed , t reated wi th amm onia andsubmitted to the act ion of regal water inwhich i t become entirely dissolved after

several hours of ebull i t ion. Th e chloru-ret ted regal so lu t ion was then submit tedto the react ion of gold and gave the fol low

ing resu l t s :Ferrocyanide of po tass ium—a green ish-

maroon color.Pro toch lor ide o f t in—a bronzed yel low

color with a metal l ic deposit of the same

shade.Ammonia—a precip i ta te o f iden t ical

color to the precedent , and which, at theend of some hours, changed to a yel lowdeposit of detonating gold.

Formal in—a l igh t metal l ic p recip i ta te o fa yellowish-black coilor.Oxygenated water—a l igh t b rownish-

black precipi tate sharply divided.

Oxalic acid—a ye llowish-black precipi tate.

Ferreous su lphate—a golden yel low metal l ic precipi tate.

Caustic potash—at the end of some hours,

a fair ly abu nd an t golden yellow metal l icprecipi tate.

“It wil l be seen that there was a verymarked presence of go ld and , remarkablepoint , the metal obtained presented the yel low bronzed color of tel lurium, of gold, andof nat ive silver. Ther efore I mu st have

produced art i f icial ly in m y laboratory abronzed gold, due to the intervention of tel lurium.

“Undoubtedly, there was a loss of gold in 'th is experiment just as occurred in al l my

an te r io r a t t emp t s ; b ecau se we k n o w th a tarsen ic , an t imony and te l lu r ium carry awaygold during their fusion and volat i l izat ion.

Douai—24th of April, 19.3(5.”

Mysticism By R. M. Lewis

the word myst ic i smforth from some source,is its reaction upon thedual who is in audible

of the sound? A pe-

quest ion. perhaps, butlat needs a l i t t le explan

ation from various points. It is needles s toment ion a t th is t ime that there are myr iado rg an iza t io n s emb o d y in g th e t e rm MYSTI CISM . The se organizat io ns exist in thecivi l ized nations of the day and those that

have not as yet dist inguished themselves tothe extent of being placed in that classif icat ion. In o ther words , these o rgan izat ionsare universal in the popular sense of theword universal , as i t is understood . Accepting this, then, we admit of the fact that

these o rgan izat ions are sub ject to ex t remedifferences. Fo r example, physical envi ronment, which in turn may be divided intoclimatic effects and social conditions, whichusually are the direct result of the former.Thus in conclusion of this analysis, we havemembers o f var ious o rgan izat ions , sub jectto the usual extremes of personali ty andindividuali ty plus the physical differences

previously mentioned. To each and everyone of them , my sticis m is a process ofunique understanding, l imited, they think,to the special knowledge obtained from

sources p rocurab le by them and those re la t ed to the same organized fraternal body asthemselves. In a g reat man y ins tances we

find the egotist ical individual bel ieving that

l ie himself , alone, has the proper interpre

tat ion of mysticism, as expounded by hisorgan izat ion , and that even h is f ra ternal

bro thers have no t the complete unders tand ing.

But we arrive at a peculiar state in ourprocess of invest igat ion as to the generalcomprehension of myst ic i sm. The averagestudent o f these var ious o rgan izat ions wi l lb e mo s t p l eased to i n fo rm th e ENQUIRERof the fact that i t is an impossibi l i ty toK N O W o r R E A L I Z E m y s ti ci sm w i th o utdirect affiliation with a school of mysticism.Then he places the l imitat ions, by stat ingthat your knowledge of the subject wil l beconfined to aff i l iat ion with HIS fraternal

body. In fact, he ma y contin ue to give further evidence, as he believes, of the factthat others are primit ive in their defining ofMYSTICISM, an d ev en mak e th e d ec l a ra t io n th a t o th e r s k n o w n o th in g of MY ST I CISM . He wil l continue that , upon ques

t ioning, you wil l note that others cannotintel lectually grasp the subject in i ts entirety or that , i f they do render a personal in terpretat ion. i t wil l be absolutely negativef rom h is concep tion . Fu r the r invest igat ion

upon the par t o f the ENQLHRER wi l l par t ly substan t ia te HIS s ta tement as t ru th , and

the o ther as mere specu lat ive theory ad vanced bv the s tuden t h imsel f o r h is f ra ter nal instructors.



L e t u s n o w a s s u m e th a t t h e E N Q U I RE Ris d i l igent in his search for the T R U T H OFMYSTICISM. He has per sona l ly in te r v iewed s tuden ts o f var ious SCHOOLS andreceived the inform ation from each tha t

K N O W L E D G E O F M Y S T I C IS M i s li mited to the dictates of their instruction as itproceeds from thei r fraternal affiliations.He express ly notes two facts of major importance, which he places in the archivesof his objective consciousness. First, tha tthere is a vast difference between the nature

of the subject of MYSTICISM as presentedby each school, so he apparently believesthat the subject is confusing, perhaps notwithin the realm of his conscious grasp.Secondly, he is impressed with the statements he has heard , that the laymen, thosenot under the immediate jur isd ict ion ofsome of the SCHOOLS, were l imited intheir personal knowledge of myst ic ism orwere not aware of the subject ex is t ing .

He proceeds to substan t ia te these s ta te m e nt s. P e r h a p s t hi s E N Q U I R E R , th r o u g hforce of material environment, desires absol ut e f ac t f or h is K N O W L E D G E . H e qu e s tions a fr iend, a man of the street (we useth is term now to imply one not under theguidance of one of the SCHOOLS) , he seeksdiligently in his questioning to verify the

s tatement made to h im by the s tudents ofsome of the organizat ions . He makes thepo in ted query, "Do you know M Y ST I CISM ? Can you explain i ts theor y or pur po r t i ts f ac t s?” Alas , ou r E N Q U IR E R isas tounded. The man of the s treet , withouthesi ta t ion , without apparent confusion , and

with ease that is amazing , e loquently ren ders h is conception of M YS TIC ISM . Onehing more, however, is impressed; that is ,

that the s tranger HAS s t i l l a d if ferent con cept of the subject . But the great factornoted is that he speaks readily on the sub

e ct.

The ENQLrIRER has a t l as t deve lopeda link that produces one continuous chain.Proceeding with the f irst l ink, the subjectmatter i tself , we continue down through thevarious links of individual inter preta tionand scholastic impressions to the final link.W ha t is the final link of evidence? T ha tMysticism in its term alone suggests

S O M E T H I N G t o E V E R Y O N E , t h e r e f o r et i s P O P U L A R.

T h e E N Q U I RE R m u s e s i n t h i s s t a t e o f

progressive suspension. Each individualhen men ta l ly r eac ts to the te rm MYSTI

CISM. Th ey are aware of i t. they know oft, and yet he is informed by its students,

who should be considered authorities, that

it is a unique subject. He has also been

informed by the students that it is l imited,

its interpretation is specif ically granted and

that the profane should not, and never will ,

conta ct its revelation. Ho w then are themasses cognizant of i t?

In every individual, regardless of intellect regardless of environment, there ist he U N K N O W A B L E . W e a cc um ul at efacts, we add to e xperiences, we gat herphysical knowledge. Slowly nature revealsher innermost secrets to us , g radual ly wegrasp the vastness of it all , s lowly we comprehend our individual place in the schemeof th ings . Gradual ly we realize that ourlife, like all existing life, is not a caprice

of divinity but the manifestation of a decreed law, operat ing independently of ourindividual decree or control and that we areswept along like chaff on the tide of regulation. But, unlike chaff , we follow certain

decreed courses, bound for certain ports ofreal izat ion and accomplishment , perhaps atthe sacrif ice of mate rial gratif ication. Oc

casionally a r ipple on these courses of oursbrings us to a comprehension of the definitepurpose. Those who are the most a t tunedare more subject to the r ipples of inspiration. Bu t with us and within us at all t imes

is t he U N K N O W A B L E , t he U N F A T H OM AB LE . Th e e lemen t o f mys te ry , the

at t r ibu te of awe, i t is to th is that homagehas been paid since time recordable. I t isto th is that many rel ig ions owe theirbir th. Ma n at all t ime s had need to fear

t he U N K N O W A B L E . M an k ne w t h att hi s U N K N O W A B L E , t h a t h e c ou ldnot ana lyze , wras infuse d in him bysome power greater than h imself and not

confined to the limitations that he was conf ined to. Th ose emotions, under which hewavered when contact ing cer ta in exper iences, which he could not define, were intu rn a t t r ibu ted to the unknown , the mys te r ious. Real iz ing then , tha t th is unknow nwas a power—how vast he d id not know—he desired to conque r it . I f he could onlymake i t subserv ient to h imself what a keyto life would be in his possession. Th e un knowable with in h imself was the secret ofhimself , of nature , perha ps the universe. I tis reasonable then , to unders tand that th ingsbeyond the border of intel lectual grasp werethe unknowable, the power tha t awed.

Down th rough the ages th i s power con t inued, never lessened. Tho ugh manlearned much, accomplished wonders , thegaps were ever f i l led by that yet unknown,and the mystery of all stil l remained in its



virgin s ta te unfa thomed. Man a lways seeksin some manner to appease this awe, infact he enjoys the emotional reaction of theweird, the uncanny. It is a spiri t of ad

venture . W ha t individual has never beenthr i l led over the expectancy of contac t ingsome supe rnat ura l influence? It is natura l ,i t is inheren t in the hum an race. Ho wmany have been disappointed in researchto find what they believed was in the realmof the unnatural to be merely a scientific

demonstra t ion of some law a lways exis t ingbut only jus t expla ined. W hen th is hap

pens do we not feel robbed of a birthright?Someone has taken from us by explanat ion,or proof, an emotional thril l of the w e ir d ;the mystery is gone, and in i ts place there

is light.

We then seek another source which wecannot explain, and revel in the fact thati t is beyond our scope of objective consciousness. Is i t not tha t element of my stery, that man enjoys, that has developedsome of the ri tuals of the past and present,that offers no explanation for their existenceoth er than the fact tha t the y appeal to m an ?In how many cases does man resent the ex p lana tion o f wha t to h im a t the p r e s e n t s

a my stery? Everyo ne can ver i fy tha t fac t,if the y so desire. It is also to this tha t ourwitchcraf t , supers t i t ions , and barbar ious

cults can be traced. All thr ou gh the t imes,man has been preyed on by those individuals , and groups of individuals , who haverealized this factor and developed means ofl ive l ihood by keeping the mystery cons tant

ly before man; even holding i t above him asa sword of persecution.

However , there is one point tha t cannotbe denied in this regard, and that is thatman. to a large extent, has greatly profited

by this element of myst ery. It has beenthe path to progress . Tho se spiritual and

intellectual peoples of various t imes haverealized that the element of mystery in manwas a divine law. W hy was i t divine?Man is too apt at t imes to rest upon thelaurels of his accom plishme nts . He is tooant to believe that what he has attained isall that is necessary for his immediate sat isfaction and c om fo rt ; all tha t is needed forhis security and assurance of success. , Canwe not see what would be the result of suchreasoning and such an a t t i tude? The racewould have become s tagnant , gradual ly d i

minished. and i ts u l t imate purpose would

be unfulfi lled. Th ere are those who wouldnever endeavor to add any thing to thecourse of humanity but, l ike parasites , clingto those benefits left bv others . Bu t divin

i ty propo sed otherwise. It infused in thebreas t of man the e lement of mys tery . Theresul t i s tha t man conscious ly and uncon

sc ious ly is forever a t tempt ing to unfa thomit, explain i t and compre hend it. This element of mys tery in man has i t s wonderful

attributes , which can be accredited to i td ir ec t. T h e y a re C U R I O S I T Y , A M B I

T I O N A N D D E T E R M I N A T I O N . W i ththis wonderful combination i t is not so remarkable tha t man has evolved to wherehe is. is it?

W e no w come back to the appeal and i tsappeasement. Mysticism, then, as interpreted by the masses, is considered in immediate relationship with the element of

mystery, the wreird, the awesome, and thereac t ion to the word MYSTICISM means

the thril l of adventure into the paths of theunknowable , perhaps the uncanny. Manymeans have been developed, as previouslystated, to appease this common appeal ofmystery . Th e India Fakirs , the Fortu neTellers, Magicians of all Types, and eventhe seance room, have been used to lend

atmosphere to the appeasement of the ap pea l . So the ENQUIRER con t inues tomuse, everv individual reacts to his or herS P E C I F I C C O M P R E H E N S I O N o f m ys te ry and a t tempts to c lar i fy myst ic ism byplacing i t in the same class as mystery, un

less they are a conscientious scholar on thesubjec t . Th e scholar p laces MY ST IC ISMin a separate class, not in the class of thee lement of mys tery or awe, but another .Some in one classification, others in another. W hi ch one shall I adhere to?

Fellow readers , how' shall we answer theE N Q U IR E R if he d i rects h is query to us,as Ros icrucians , s tudents of AMORC?Mysticism, we shall say. is an actual experience ; it is not a my ster y. In contain s theeleme nts of fact and truth . It is practicable, it is knowa ble. Tru e, w e continue, itis now known by comparative reasoning,but by what can we compare it? W e cannot l imit mysticism, as we know it , by placing it in the realm of the actual. It mustoriginate from the external and become areali ty inwardly. Mysticism is the imm ediate knowledge of the divine, of the universal power . Myst ic ism is the K N O W ING OF GOD, no t the mys te ry o f God .

Tts knowledge is not secured through thecreeds and dogmas; i t i s obta ined throughthe r itua ls of man-mad e creat ion. I t pro

ceeds from the sanction of God through thesouls of men. As man kno ws his soul, soshall he be an adent of myst icism . Man,K N O W T H Y S E L F , r ea liz e y o ur e xp er



iences, and you are a t rue mystic. Noschool can teach Mysticism unless i t f i rst

teaches the s tuden t to observe and appre c ia te the natural laws which surround manand whic'h man is pa rt of. A fte r this has

been accomplished, and man is appreciat ive

and humble and has know ledge of God,

then also he has knowledge of Mysticism,

as the two are synonymous.

Brief Biographies of Prom inent Rosicrucians By Fra Fidelis

No. 3. H. Maurice Jacquet

ONSIEUR H.Mau r i ce Jacq u e t Rad io en th u s i ast s may r ememb er h isis a f ine man, a gra nd charac- dainty, l ively, boyhood composit ion, “Th e

ter , cul t ivated and art i tsic, af- Cuckoo.” Th e audience of CK AC neverfect ionate and chivalrous, wearied of this selection. Unqu est iona bly,cour teous, m erry , m odest and for over two years , H. Maur ice Jac quet waswise . .T h i s po l i shed gen t le- the s tar -perform er before “Michel ,”—as

man rarely talks of himse lf ,“M ike” is cal led in the Super-p owe r Stat ionbut h is f r iends never t i re ta lk ing of h im.of “Th e Montreal La Presse .”

How ever, he wil l discuss with y ou freely W he n only seventeen year s old, his mas-the agreeableness of a wood with i ts t rees, terly handling of the score of Charpentier’sshrubs, herbs, f lowers, grass; the t inkling“Louise” at tracted the at tention of cri t icsbrook, the lowing cat t le, the tw it te ring and public.

FR. If. MAURICE J VCftlET

birds that are, in conjunction, so del ightful!This sincere lover of God and all creationis a model Rosicrucian.

Jacquet i s merely a pseudonym, serv ingto conceal the real young nobleman of a

historic house of Savoy, who now occupiesa r ightful posi t ion in the fron t ra nk 'ofmodern musicians and composers and who,at the age of nine, made his debut as apianist in public concerts.

F ran c i s Th o me t au g h t M. Jacq u e t t h e

p iano; Emile Pessard , harmony; Lenepveu ,counterpo in t and fugue; Fel ix AlexandreGui lmant , the o rg an ; Luig in i, o rchest ra lleadership.

S RO A X D R E K A H \ I , O l - J A C q l E T

Ten years ago, he founded and directedthe memorab le concer ts o f the Ar t i s tee As-socies (Salle Ra me au) , thu s creat in g inLyons, France, an entirely new and vitalinterest in mod ern music. Th e same year,

the commemorat ion of the Char les Franco isGounod Centenary was g iven under h isd i rect ion , when he presen ted “Mors e tVita,” at the Trocadero, with over 650 executants.

I understand that he is the only l iving

Uni ted S tates member o f the “Society o fAu th o r s an d Dramat i c Co mp o ser s” an d o fthe “Society o f Authors , Composers andPubl ishers o f the Fren ch Republ ic .”



Brother Jacquet was for a period ol" sixyears the musical co l laborator o f F i rm inGermier , the no ted actor -producer. The

‘‘Grande Spectacles” were directed by M.Jacquet , a l so the p resen tat ions o f the Shakespearean S oc iety ; “Shylock ,” (music by Ra-

baud) , and “Anthony and Cleopat ra .”Next , he set to music and produce d:

“Les Butors e t la F inet te ,”—“La Raboui l -l eu se , ”—“Th e Tamin g o f t h e Sh rew,”—“LeBourgeois Gent i lhomm e,”— "Le s Mil le a tUn e Nu i t s , ”—“La Gran d e Pas to ra l e , ”—“Oedipe, roi de Thebe s ,”—“L a Dolores ,”

“Les Jard ins de Murcie .” Th e las t me n t ioned w'as produced successfully , some seasons ago , a t the Maxine El l io t t Theat re ,New York Ci ty , under the t i t le o f “Spanish

Love,” f rom the book by Avery Hopwoodand Mary Rober ts Rinehar t .

Tw enty-o ne of his most represen tat iveworks have been performed. Am ong thebest know n a re : “Me ssaouda,” a one-actcomic opera. “R om anitz a,” a four-act lyricdrama, which, in 1913, won the first prize

awarded by the Min is t ry o f Publ ic Ins t ruct ion and Fine Ar ts , Par i s . Maur ice Jacqu etwas then ten years younger than the young

es t o f the seven teen compet i to rs . “R om ani tza” wil l be presented, next November, att h e New Yo rk Man h a t t an Op era Ho u se , b yMrs. Oscar H am m ers t e in ; “Sh ar ra , ” a fo ur -

act opera, “Lois,” a Breton two-act lyriccomedy. “Les Dances de Chez-Nous,” a

lovely ballet, specia lly ordered I3y the U nder-Secretary o f F ine Ar ts fo r the Grand

Fest ival p roduced at the Opera-Comique,

Paris, during a benefi t performance for disabled soldiers. Ja cq ue t’s successful opere t tas are : “Le Poi lu .” “La Pet i te Dactv lo .”“L ’As de C oeur.” “S. A. P apil lon.”

He is now working upon an edit ion deluxe of all his works, which will be published. it is expected, before the close of1926.

His new symphonic poem, suggested byW al t W h i tm an ’s immo r ta l “Th e My s t icTru m pete r .” is a b ri l l ian t ac h iev em ent ; thequartet , chorus for mixed voices and forchildren’s voices being exceptionally fine.

“Roxy” i s now bui ld ing the wor ld’s lar ges t . most beau t i fu l and modern theat re a t50th to 51st Streets and 7th Avenue, NewYor k City, which wil l seat 6.200. Th erewill be 100 carefully selected musicians, afine chorus of 60 excellent voices and athoro ugh ly traine d ballet of 40 dancers.An immense organ wi l l be p layed s imul

taneously by th ree o rgan is t s . W hen it sdoors are thrown open to the public nextOctober , the Conductor wil l be Bro the r

Jacquet . The Roxy-Jacquet con t ract i s

signed and the lat ter receives a t ruly princely salary. Mr. Roth afel received applica

t ions from the leading conductors of theUnited States, but he selected the ideal person for the very impo r tan t par t . “A leader

of the highe st type, an imagi native manwith a charming personal i ty , and wi th a

deep love of music,” declared Roxy. “M onsieur Jacquet’s presence in a f i lm theatrewill be a distinct boon to the musical and

mot ion p ic tu re aud iences .” They haveformed a f irm friendship and both are now

w'orking on a novel method of music presen tat ion . Fr a Jacq uet recen t ly expressed

the op in ion that the Roxy Theat re i s des t ined to mark a new era in the theatre oftoday.

H. Maurice Jacquet, like us all, is ever-

ready to co-operate ful ly with the BelovedImp era to r , wh en r eq u i r ed , a t Tamp a h cH-quar ters . H e has wr i t ten to Dr . Lewis ol -fer ing h im “my modest serv ices .”

If , centuries ago, Jubal was the sire ofal l such as handle the harp and the organ,

then he has two wor thy , l iv ing descendantsin lovely Mme. Amalou Jacquet , who is thegrandest French harp is t l iv ing , and in yourBro ther , the peer less American organ is t .

To know both int imately is to love themdeeply.

In private l i fe they are. respectively, theDue and Duchesse de Messir ini . related tothe historic House of Savoy—by the SardeBranch—a mighty French fami ly , descend ed f rom Humber t (11 th Century) , mastersof ancient Savoy, and since 1861 the reigning dynasty in I ta ly .

An Appreciat ion

Just at this t ime, while the music-lovingworld o f America and Canada i s pay ingadora t ion and hom age to the wonderfulability of Brother Jacquet. I. feel it a privi

lege to add to the biography given abovemy expression of appreciat ion of the wonderfu l ta len t mani fes ted by th is g reat musician and the beauty of spir i t and soul thatbreathes forth in every part of his music.Bro ther Jacquet i s a member o f the FrenchRose-Croix and wrhile I was lecturing inNew York in November last i t was his in tention to speak from the platform at one

of my public lectures and present the greet ings of the Fre nch organiz at ion to theAmerican ju r i sd ic t ion . H is engagem entsand complex act ivi t ies prevented him from

doing this and he sent me the fol lowingletter, which I feel will be of interest to allo u r Amer i can memb ers :



New York City,November 21, 1925.

“H. Spencer Lewis. F. R. C.I m p e r a to r A M O RC.

Most Worshipfu l Sir and Brother :Please be indulgent enough to forgive the

delay in answer ing your bro ther ly invi ta tion of Octob er 26th. Ve ry shortly I leavelor Chicago to give a concert and I am busyat the present moment in preparat ion there for . Up on my retu rn in Dece mbe r I shallcomm unicate with you again. I shall secure f rom our mutual brethren your addressat that time and write you for advice asImperator for the Nor th Amer ican jur isd ic tion. Meanwhile, please accept the ass urance of my fraternal devotion and my deepthanks for your benediction, and believe me

to be, most worthy Sir .

Fraternal ly ,(Signed) H. Maur ice Jacquet

(Due de Misserini) .”Many of our Brothers and Sis ters in New

York enjoyed the unusual music and thegreat pr iv i lege when they at tended the per

formances at the Metropoli tan Opera Houseon Tuesday evening, Feb. 16th of this year ,and witnessed the unusual in terpretat ion ofmusic a t the hands of Brother Jacquet , whoconducted the orchestra . W e are happy inthe fact that th is Brother f rom another jur isdiction, and internationally known as he isin addition to his great abilities, is to bewith us in America for some litt le time, andthat we can go where he is and enjoy musicand song of a character and nature beyondthe conception of the average person.

H. Spencer Lewis.

A Brother of the Rosy Cross or theAdept and the Neophyte

By Aggripa, 32° Fritter Khurum

Chap te r I I I

PON entering the off ice I immediately repaired to the of f ice of Doct or Cavendish. He

was delighted to see me andasked man y questions. I hadto tell him of the loss of thespecimens. He was as sorry

as 1 was, but not hin g could be done, so,therefore, “W hy cry over spilt milk ?” saidhe. “B y-the-way, a new Egyp tia n exhibit

is on display, and by all means, if you can

take a look at it now, do so.” I bade him

goodbye and entered the Egyptian sect ion .

I had come with a purpose, for a new ex

hibit of models from a Theban Tomb had

ju s t be en placed on displ ay. A s E gyp t , itslife and history, was one continued matterof interest to me, I went immediately tothe Egyptian Section and found that forwhich I had come in search.

There in a glass case were to be seen theboats of Ancient Egypt, fully manned andprepared for travel, just as the men of oldactually lived, worked and played. Th erewas the travelling boat, with its rowrers preparing for the journ ey down the Nile.There was the pleasure boat, with its crewand passengers leaving for a day’s outing.

The re were to be seen the f ishing bo a ts ;one with seines and the othe r with har poons to catch for the lord of the land that

which would grace his table, for these boatsare to supply the needs of Mekenkwetre inthe future state. The se models were takenfrom his tomb and their great interest l ies

in the fact that these models for the f irsttime explain completely the build and r igof a XI Dynasty boat .

All his servants were there also, carvedfrom wood and displayed at their manytasks.

I saw the s laughter house where Mekenk-wetre’s butchers were prepar ing an ox uponthe ground, with many jo in ts hanging f romthe balcony. In the stable the cattle werebeing fed and fattened. In still anotherplace the brewers were making beer and

the cooks were baking bread . Anothermodel showed the garden of an Egyptianhome, with four papyrus pillars before thedoor and litt le trees about the edge of thegarden .

These things, I was told, when foundin the tomb had the f inger prints upon themof the workman who p laced them there fourthousan d years before . For these modelsare duplicates from the daily life of the people of that time and are not made with areligious or mystical meaning, as was done

later in E gy pt ’s history. The se models depicted the life which Mekenkwetre had livedin the world and that which he expected tolive in the next world.



Beside the above I saw the mummy ofWah, who had been in l i fe a servi tor of Me-kenkwe t re , “The Gr ea t Man .” W hen t hetomb of Wah was opened, a l l was as thepriest had lef t i t for ty centur ies before.

Jus t wi th in the door where the mummy

of Wah was found were to be seen the asheswhich had fal ' len from the torch used at thefuneral. Carelessly thro wn to one s ide wasa white l inen pal l which had covered thecoffin, and beneath the coffin lay the threel inen cords with which it had been t ied. A tthe coffin’s foot lay the knob which hadbeen sawn off af ter the l id was pegged intoplace. A withered leg of beef and an open

ju g w hich had conta ined beer w ere als ofound.

The coff in, when opened, contained thir ty-eight l inen sheets beaut i ful ly made, i roned

and marked wi th a pr iva te symbol. Overthe top had been smeared aromatic g u m bythe off iciat ing pr iest and the pr int of thehand was clean as i f i t were newly made.

W ah ’s mum my lay upon i t s s ide, wi th agi lded mask upon i ts face, looking towardthe two painted eyes upon the outside of thecoffin. Ben eath his feet lay two sa nda ls;in f ront of h im a copper m i r r or ; unde r h i s

head a wooden pi l low; and beside his feeta thir teen-inch portrai t s tatue of himself .

As I looked upon these things, al l that re mained of a vanished race, I thought of the

grea t debt tha t the wor ld owed to Egyptand of the Grea t Truth of the Mystery ofOsir is , which s t i l l l ives and thr ives amongthe people of today, kept al ive and ever-blooming with i ts old, yet ever new story

of Life and Death.

Being ra ther fa t igued, I sa t down to res tbefore the red grani te palm leaf monoli th(a co lumn of the Pre-Middle Kin gdo m) ,wi tho ut doub t the o ldes t in the wor ld , whichhad come from the fore-court of a pyramidtemple bui l t by Sehura, the second king ofthe Fif th D yn ast y in the yea r 2740 B. C.

This i s among the ear l i es t known columnsin the his tory of A rchi te cture and as Ilooked upon i t I fel t the l i t t leness of humanlife , i t s joys and sorrows, and thought howsoon l i fe was over and the Ego at rest .

My thoughts engrossed me for some t ime.Coming to myself with a s tar t , I saw a gent l eman examinin g the p il la r . He was ofmiddle height , had wel l -squared shouldersand a splendid carr iage, and moved asthough he had the r ight to command, re ceive courte sy and respect f rom al l. Hisskin was of an olive hue, his hair and beard

were raven black, powdered with gray, his’l ips were thin and met in almost a s t raight

l ine, adding sternness to his face, and fromhis eyes, which were dark brown, thereshone a l ight that seemed to read onet h r ough and t h r ough .

He was dressed wel l , bu t not ex t ravagant ly, in a dark tweed suit .

Upon the f i rs t f inger of the r ight hand wasa large, old gold r ing upon which were in

scr ibed some markings which seemed a hier oglyph of Egpyt .

His age might have been f i f ty or s ixty,for the years seemed to have added digni tyto his person.

He took from his pocket a notebook and jo t ted so m e th ing therein, tu rned as if hevvrou ld le ave th e ro om and , as he t urned, sawme and knew th a t I had been watching h im.

He looked so keenly at me that I fel t theblood mo un ting to my face. Seeing my

chagrin he smiled and, bowing sl ight ly, saidtha t he wished he were in Egy pt , f romwhere this column had come, instead of inthe cold, damp ci ty of Gotham.

I told him i t was my dearest wish to goto Egypt myse l f but tha t bus iness he ld meso that I could not get away, but sometimeI hoped to go.

This conversat ion led to other things, sowe spent some t ime talking and i t seemedto me that he spoke “as one having author i ty and not as the scr ibes,” for there wasthat r ing in his voice that made the l is ten

er know he spoke only of that which heknew from experience.

At last he said he real ly must be going andthat he would deem i t an honor i f I wouldcal l on Sunday evening, when he would beat home, and there we could cont inue theacquaintance that had come about so eas-ily.

X told him I wo uld ind eed be glad tocall , so he wrote his address upon his cardand handed i t to me; then bowing in his

court ly way, he was soon lost among theother vis i tors .

Upon looking at the card I saw, to mygreat joy. the name of one whose knowledge was spoken of throughout the Occul tWor ld wi th deep respec t and a lmos t ba tedbrea th , for th i s was no o ther than theG r e a t ---------- . bu t I dare not revea l his truename so to you he must be known as Sat-urnius.

By some he is thought to be a Brother ofthat f raterni ty that claims as i ts emblem

the Rose and the Cross.* * * *

Sunday evening came and found me a t

the door of an uptown apartment house.I rang the bel l and was ushered into a



marble entrance-way, and next I stood before the door of the home of Saturnius.

He himself bowed me in and remarkedin his pleasant way that he was glad to see

me.

We took seats in that which he calledhis “ Sa nc tu m S a n c t o r u m t h i s a pp ar en tl ywas his study, for about the room, closelypacked together, were bookcases filled tooverflowing with books of strange and for gotten lore. 1 saw there the writin gs ofCornelius Agrippa. on another shelf one ofthe rare volumes of Robert de Fluctibus,the great English Rosicrucian . There werethe works of Eliphas Levi, a copy of “TheVirg in of the World”, by Hermes, Mer-curius, Trismegestus, wherein we f ind thesaying of the Hermetic School, “As above

so below.” The re was a well- thumbedcopy of the “Book of the Dead.” a large andvery old Bible that looked as if it were oneof the original manuscripts of the Vulgatewritten by S. Jerome in Bethlehem, whereChr is t was born. The re was the Kabbalahof Jewry , “The Secret Doctr ine.” The rewere the works of Lord Lytton , who wasthought by some to have been a memberof the Hermetic School, as well as manyother books of the same nature.

Also in this same Sanctum was a telescope of large size, a nu mb er of mic ro

scopes, retorts, test tubes, chemicals, electr ical ins trum ent s— in fact all the par aphernalia that one would use whose lifework it was to delve into the SecretSciences and whose main work and studywas “Man.” ’ A large crystal globe stoodupon its base near the door. Eg ypt ian incense rose in a little cloud from a brazierof old Roman type.

I rested comfortably in a large chair asSatu rnius began to speak. Said he. “Youmay wonder, my new-found fr iend, howwe happened to meet and perhaps why I .a stranger to you, would invite you to myhome upon such short acquaintance, butwould you believe me this meeting wasnot accidental and that it was planned bya Greater than you or I? Fo r you havebeen chosen to have revealed to you someknowledge, if you are worthy, that willhelp your fellowmen as well as yourself.

“Do you know aug ht of the SecretSciences and do you wish to learn ? Fo r Iam sure you have read the story, ‘Zanoni/by Bulwer Lytton . and you remember the

strange adventures of Glyndon and his fail ure ?”I told him I had done so and that I was a

member of high degree in an exoteric school

of esoteric doctr ine, for I did proudly wearthe double eagle by r ight and merit .

“I honor that sign,” said he, “for I remember having seen the same device wornby one of the higher priests when Babylonruled the Ea st, and X have also seen the

same in the temples of India. Th e wearersof that s ign in Egypt many years ago gaveto Greece her culture and refinement, toRome her civilization, and I want you toknow that the Wisdom that belonged toIndia , Mazdian , and the Ancient EgyptianMystic is stil l preserved and is now taughtin all i ts sublim ity and grand eur. TheEgyptian Pr ies thood handed on to Greece.India and Rome in the several mysteries,and they practiced it in those ancient times,the true teaching as revealed to the Initiateof tha t day and this. I t has been ever true

that the people as a class could not learnall the truth, for it indeed would be placingin their hands that which they would destroy themselve s. So the Brother s in theirwisdom have chosen only a few to keepl iv ing that Light or Lux which al l menknow mu st be found by travell ing in anEasterly direction.

^M an y cen tu ries ago you your se l f werea Mystigog in the Tempel of Isis , at Philae.which today lies under water , forever lostto the world because of the building of the

great dam at Assuan by the Br i t ish Govern ment. Thi s is the reason tha t you were soin teres ted yes terday in the new exhib i t a tthe museum, for all unconsciously to yourself , you were going back over the past andfinding it in the “Memory of Nature.” whichhad held you, for you were the very priestwhose handiwork was seen in the coffin ofW a ll ; and it was you who placed all thatwas mort al in tha t tomb. Can you not remember that you yourself have known longago of the Rose Cross, that which showedthe priest hood w’heth er or not the Nile

would flood its bank as it should, or thecrops that year would be a failure?

“Having th is knowledge, your sp ir i tualevolution has now brought you to the pointin life where I can offer you new' life, newstre ngt h and new wisdom ; for you re mem berthe words of Paul when lie said, in his FirstEpis t le to the Co r in th ian s: “H owbe it wespeak wisdom among them that are per fect ,yet not the wisdom of this world * * * thatcame to naugh t. But we speak wisdom ofGod in a mvsterv , even the Hidden W is dom.”

He paused and I missed the music of hisvoice as it told of these truths which werenew to me. for I had never heard directly



before of the Doctrines and X had laughedat them as beneath my considerat ion , bu t

here was one of the servants of the worldquietly, in his own study, telling in all seriousness that I , James Gore, was a Myst igogin the temple of Philae in Egypt in the year

two thousa nd B. C. If I had been with another I might have laughed, smiled at least ,

bu t there was that in the eyes o f Saturn iusthat forbade levity .

Readin g my mind he said , “W hy do youdoubt me? You say you are anx ious tolearn the Secret Sciences and yet you doubt

my f i rs t s ta tement o f fact .”

This ra ther nonplussed me, fo r what k indof man was th is who read my thoughts a l most before they came to my own mind?

At this point I heard the sweet tones ofa Japanese gong and my host , r i s ing , bowed

me out to dinner.I had supposed that Saturnius l ived alone

but I . was pleasantly surprised to see at theend of the table a lady to whom I was introduced, Saturnius cal l ing her. “My niece.”She was small , not exceeding f ive feet , threeinches in heigh t nor weigh ing more than onehundred and twen ty pounds . H er sk in , l ikethat of Saturnius, wras of an ol ive t inge butthere was a healthy pink upon her cheeks.Pier hair was a f ine dark brown, parted ina simple way and pi led high upon her head.Pier eyes were l ikewise brown, of a l ighter

shade, wi th very great dep th combined wi tha sof tness and sweet express ion that becameher well . H er mouth had a pleasan t curve,with pearl white teeth which gleamed asshe spoke and smiled. H er nose was purelyGrecian . H er hands were dain ty , wi th no

jewels upon them . A n d she wore a sim plegown of black China si lk which became herdark beauty well .

She seemed very quiet , taking her part inthe conversat ion in an assured manner bu tleav ing the g reater par t to Saturn ius .

The meal was well cooked and served.The dessert consisted of a dainty frui t salad,which had been prepared by the hostess her self.

W e ret ired from the table and l istened toMiss Rosamond, fo r such was her name, asshe played upon the harp many select ionsf rom the Operas and some l igh ter musicupon the p iano when S aturn ius accompaniedher with his violin. T he y wrere both artis ts,and before I knew i t . i t was t ime to make my

farewel l, which I d id to Saturn ius , then tu r n ing . shook hands wi th Miss Rosamond. Asmy hand touched hers, which met mine witha calm, cool gentleness, a strange thri l l ran

through me: i t seemed that i t was a l i t t le

bird nest l ing in my hand for love and comfort.

I was no t long in get t ing home and myhead and heart were in such turmoil thatOld Sol wras almost up before I at last fellas leep . Tw o th ings kep t coming to mind

dur ing the nex t busy week at the museum.One moment I would th ink of the s t rangeth ings Saturn ius had to ld m e ; the next , apicture of a pret ty face, with sweet , browneyes and hai r, would take me wool-gather inginto the clouds.

I prided myself on my love of my profess ion , no t car ing much for women. Thebeauties of our great ci ty never caused meto tu rn an eyelash , yet here X was th ink ingof a maiden I had met but once. Afterlunch on Wednesday , the sun sh in ingbr igh t ly and the warmth of Ind ian Summer

calling me, I decided to leave the office.I jumped in to my car and drove up townto the home of Saturn ius wi th the in ten t ionof taking him and his niece for a spin upRiverside. I cal led and found Saturnius,but his niece was with a fr iend in Jersey;so, al though I was rather disappointed, Inever theless invited m y fr iend and wredrove at not too rapid a pace up the eastside of the Hudson.

The sun was beautiful in i ts fal l glory,wonderfully reflected by the changing colorof the foliage, which had been nipped a few

times by the f ingers of Tack Frost . W edrove th rough the Bronx , then s t r ik ing theAlban y Pos t R oad we passed th roughYonkers , then T arr y town, where the Dutchused to tar r y and wai t. W e passed overthe bridge w here Ichabod Crane had .met

the Headless Horseman, af ter t ry ing to wooKatr ina Van Tassel l , and above the b r idgewe saw the old church where sleeps in thechurchyard a l l that i s mor ta l o f that g reat

American l i terary l igh t . Washing ton I rv ing .Soon we were in the old town of Ossining,which was known as Sink Sink, from which

came the name of Sing Sing, the angeli-cized name of an old Indian chief who forman y years ruled the Ossin ing t r ibe . Th isname is perpetuated in that g loomy pr isonknown as Sing Sing, where hundreds of theweak and misled must pay for their fai lureto rule themselves.

At dinner t ime we stopped at the Briar-cl iff Inn where we enjoyed a splendid dinner. At last our conversat ion at his home

came to me. and now I fel t was the t ime togain en l igh tenment in regard to what hehad told me about my being a priest of Isis

in two thousand B. C.“Yes.” he said, “that in very truth is t rue.”



“B ut,” said I , “X have alw ays been t au gh ttha t souls were created by God for thebodies that were to be born and that, whenwe died, we went to Paradise and thereawaited the Last Day."

“That is t rue,” said he. “but you mustremember that we have spoken of the Secret Sciences which for the first time arebeing revealed to the people. One of theirsecret teachings is little known for I remember the words that I have of ten heard ,‘That all l ife is continuous without beginning or ending, evolutional in a constantlyasc endi ng scale of prog ress ion .’ ”

“Have I , then, been another at any othertime since I was a priest in Egypt?”

“Yes,” said Saturnius, “you had notreached that stage of Sanctif ication which

you were intended to f ind and have notdone so yet. The M emo ry of Na ture reveals to me that you lived a helpful life inNorm andy, work ing for others. Sincethen you were one of the I lluminati, a Bro

therhood of Light which worked in Berlinin the early seventeenth century. Youwere a fr iend of Elias Ashmole, assistinghim in the establishment of the House ofSolomon in the year sixteen hundred forty-

s ix , with Wil l iam Lully , Doctor ThomasWThar ton and o the rs w ho wer e said to bemembers of the Rose Crucian Society.

“Sometime,” said he, “I will teach youhow you may invoke the Memory of Nature and how you may learn the way inwhich the Ego leaves the Vital Body insleep and goes upon its journey to assistthe Brothers.

“Before Xcan reveal more to you, I mustknow if you are willing to enter upon thePath and devote yourself to the search ofthe Kingdom of God which The Master

said was with in you.”

I told him I would think it over and. taking my car, I soon left him at his door.

(Continued in our next issue).

My Yesterdays Return By H. Spencer Lewis, F. R. C.

( A S e q u e l to A T h o u s a n d Y e a r s o f Y e s t e r d a y s ) .

C H A P T E R V I

Ruth’s ar r ival a t Cairo was without par ticular incident. In the reali zation tha tshe was now about to enter into the laststage of her great experience she becameuninteres ted in the hund reds of lesserth ings that ho ld the at ten t ion of the averagetourist to this city.

After permitting one of the hotel guidesto direct her to the hotel he represented,and settling all the incidental requirements,Ruth locked herself in the large, airy room,laughingly walked up to the great mir rorand said to the smil ing character she saw:“So th is is E g y p t!”

Th% modern appointm ents, the cleanliness, the very English atmosphere, and theabsence of many of those things she fullyexpected to f ind, rather amused Ruth andshe could not refrain from making the exclamation to her mirrored self .

Her s ta tement to the clerk at the desk

that she desired to stay in Cairo no longerthan was necessary to get on one of theboats that would take her along the Nile,had caused that personage to pass th is in formation along the line, and in a few minu tes Ruth was being so l ic i ted by te lephoneand by representatives of the various hoteldepar tm ents des ir ing her patronage. Thereseemed to be at least seven methods wherebyshe might proceed along the Nile to the

distr icts of the Temples, and there were anynumber of t r anspor ta t ion representat ives

who offered these seven met hods. Rut hwas in a quandary and finally decided to askfor an official guide.

The guide cal led upon Ruth jus t beforedinner. Th e bell-boy of the floor on whichshe was located brought her the guide’s business card. I ts large size made Ruth openthe slides of the electr ic lamp on the centertable and seat herself to read, the while thebell boy waited in the open door with theremark that the guide was wait ing in thereception room at the end of the hall.

We would be happy to p icture the smiles

and sudden outburs ts of laughter that cameas Ru th read the large card. But words cannot picture these. Afte r all her fears, ner vous tension and excitement, she was nowperfectly relaxed and forgetful of her bigproblem. She was lost in the wierdness anduniqueness of the document she held in herhand; for it was a document, a record, ofwhat this particular guide could do and haddone for his many “notable, consequential,concise and par t icu lar iz ing patrons .”

“When heavy ladies desire to r ide in myspecial car I. make provision for certain com

fort and sureness of destination,” said onepass age in small tvpe. “G entle men ofEnglish subtract ion des ir ing to por ter theirown private liquors for safety against intru



sion will be shown a hiding place in the carknown only to me who is not l ikely to suchdr inks ,” sa id ano ther paragraph in largertype.

“My car is sure to reach i ts dest inat ionhowever delays may be, for i t is composed

most ly o f an American good car wi th a num ber o f improvements f rom Ford par t s ob ta inab le easi ly in Eg ypt .” Eviden t ly theautomobile was a real sight and r iding in i tformed part of the thri l l of the tr ip he offered.

“Stops are made irregularly as befi t thet ime of arr ival at hotels or cottages enroute.Careful driving with indicated facts aboutthe sights to be seen only with my guidance

are assured. I promise to reveal the thingswhich tourists from distance lands are l ikelyto wish. Antiq ue views not found in guide

books have been established by me.” T ha twas some ass ura nc e! Ruth wondered if hemeant that he had created many of these in

his imagination. Lit t le did she kno w hownear the truth her speculat ion real ly was.

“Ladies travell ing without Gent wil l f indthis guide most honorable and unfl ir tat ious,hav ing been marr ied and no longer in teres t

ed except in business str ict ly at tended tomost ly on the en t i re t r ip .” W ha t safetywas being assured , thought Ruth .

“My tr ips start at 8 of the clock on themorn ing of Wednesday and Sunday of each

week, providing I return safely each Tuesday and Saturda y for which quest ionab le in quiry please apply at the to uris ts’ desk inthe Hotel .

“Tour is t s des i r ing a p leasan t re tu rn mayretour to Cairo by the Nile tourist steamersbut I make no assurance of meet ing such

boats at any point .”The more Ruth read the more sure she

became that she wanted to take a t r ip withth is gu ide and exper ience the many unex pected occurrences that were plainly int i mated as being possible on such a tr ip with

such a guide. His frankness was enjoyable ;for one could read between the l ines that hewas no t guaran teeing any th ing bu t th r i l l sand d isappoin tments .

Therefore she f inal ly motioned to the bel l boy that she would interview the guide, andfollowed him along the hal l to the generalreception room. One glance at her guide

convinced her that she was to have the mosthumorous experiences of her life while in

his charge.He was a ta l l , dark Egypt ian , wi th c lean-

cut, angu lar features. Th ere wa s a cordial ,

kindlv glint in his eyes and a distinct personali ty abou t him. But his at t i re was as

unique as his business card. He worenoth ing of the typ ical Egypt ian wardrobeexcept the turban, of a bright yel low withlarge spots of bright red, evidently a floraidesign of some kind. His t rousers, however, were of the English or American style

of f if teen years ago, when trousers had tobe very large and baggy in leg-of-muttonform, to be r ight , and they were turned upseveral times into a large, tight roll aroundthe ankles. He also wore a blue shir t ofmore modern style, with a large silk tie ofma ny colors. Ove r this he wore a coat thathad evidently been worn by a hotel f lunkyin some Europ ea n city . I t was of semimil i tary cut , a dark blue, and over-tr immedwith gold braids and cords. At one t ime i twould have honored the mil i tary dignityof the man who used to stand before the

Knickerbocker Hotel a t Broadw'ay andFor ty-Second s t reet in New York , bu t theblue was faded, the cloth was badly worn,and the gold- braids and cords w ere t ar nished and torn.

He was a picture, a sight to behold, ashe stood erect in military fashion, smiling,then bowing in ex t reme Eastern salu ta t ion .

“You are the guide, X believe.” Ru th desired to pay homage to the t i t le he evi dently admired.

“At your del ightful requirements, ladv,whenever you so express .” He was as p re

cise in his statements as though talking tothe f irst lady of his land, whoever she mightbe.

“Well , I wrould l ike to start for the Temples tomor row. I bel ieve your tr ip startstomorrow' , does i t not? Th an k you! Canyou tel l me what special baggage I musttake and what form of apparel wil l be bestfo r the c l imate? I want to go to Ka rnak

for my first stop and then to—well, I willtel l you about that when we are at Karnak.”Ruth could no t th ink for the mom ent o f theodd name of the one place of all others she

wished to visi t . At any rate i t d id not mat ter jus t now, she thought .

“Lady wil l need l ight clothing, much l ightand plenty, but in small bulk. Th ere is notgreat room in my car.”

“W ha t do you mean by much l igh t c lo th ing and plenty in small bulk? T ha t seemsimpossible.”

“Many pieces in dress and waist , l ight ,like silk, and like your kerchief, and in onepor tmanteau . W ea the r i s very warm inmost part in day t ime and l ight dress required by war m wea ther in car. Sometimes

when no t r id ing a t n igh t you wash l igh tclothing and have ready for next dav-ride.”



"Oh, I unders ta nd,” sa id Ruth , as shesmiled at the very clever and complete ins t ruc t ions. But these sugges t ions meanttha t Ruth would have to leave her t runk a tthe hotel and that she would have to pur

chase, early the next morning, a few extra. s ilk waists and some light skirts. Fo r themoment Ruth forgot tha t she was not inthat city where she could call her own car,drive down to Fifth Avenue in a few minutes , and find there in the hundreds of select shops the very things she desired.

“You will call for me, here at the hotel,tom orro w at one o’clock, then. Is thatr igh t?”

“In the southern corridor, lady, at one ofthe clock.”

And the tall f igure in the s trange outfi t ,walked slowly out of the room, turned in theopen doorway and, fac ing Ruth made theusual Eas ter n sa lute . Ruth re turned to herroom and prepared for dinner, for she saw-many in evening a t t i re , walking down thelong hal lway to the grand s ta i rway, and dis cussing the fact that it wras cool enough toenjoy a good meal.

As Ruth prepared for d inner she visual ized the trip th at would s tar t on the morrowr.She pictured herself riding in the automobiletha t was par t ly “good American” and par t ly

Ford. She recalled the ma ny jokes aboutthe Ford car in America and the var iousforms it took in comic pictures; but she feltsure tha t the car she would see on the morrow would outdo anything tha t comic ar t is tshad ever imagined. And, as she tho ug ht ofher journey to Karnak and beyond, she suddenly realized that she could not recall, evennow. the name of the one Temple she wishedto vis it more than any other.

Ru th hurr iedly opened her “secre tar ia l

k i t” and examined the many nota t ions shehad made from time to t ime while at sea.

At las t she found the sheet conta ining ext rac ts f rom the book tha t had he ld her in te res t in the s teamer l ibrary . The re wasthe name! “The H ouse of Am en in theSouthern A pt !” Again the words seemedso familiar to her as she read them. Sheseemed sure tha t she had used tha t te rmthou sand s of t imes. It was as familiar asthe address of an apar tment house she hadlived in as a child at school, somewhere inNew York City. Somewrhere! She couldnot recall the location of tha t ana rtm ent

house now. and where was th is “House of

Am en— in the Southern Ap t?” Suddenlv i tdawned upon her that she might have diffi culty in ma kin g plain to the guide justwhere she wished to go; for the Egypt ian

Guide Book she had with her seemed tospeak of many houses and Temples dedica t ed to Amen. Amen, the Egy pt ian God!S o u t h er n A p t ! W h a t wa s a n A p t ?

Ruth sa t down a t her reading table again ,

despi te the fac t tha t the d inner hour wasrapidly passing. She thumbed throu gh herguide book looking for the word Apt. Atlast she found it. A foot-note explainedthat i t was the name of one of the Goddessesof Thebes. T ha t did not seem like theproper explanat ion of the te rm, for grant ingthat there were Northern , Southern , Eas t e rn and Western Goddesses bear ing the

name of Apt, how could a House be locatedin a Goddess? Now here else in the guidebook could she find any reference to Apt.

Closing the book, Ruth looked off into spacefor a few minutes and gradual ly her gazewandered towrard the partly open window.Being early winter and late in the day thesky wras dark, and in the distance she saw amoving l ight swinging back and for th , asthough a s ignal. Stepping to the window towatch i t more clearly, she saw that l ightswere burning in many of the bui ld ings andhotels near her, and that night wras fastcoming to cloak the city in rest and inkydarkness. At once she tho ug ht of the dining room and realized that she was really

hungry.Hasti ly she made a few more changes inher attire and, closing her Suit case firmly,le f t her room making sure tha t the doorwas t ru ly locked with the very la rge key

provided with a curious tag.Reaching the entrance of the main dining

room she was happy to see tha t hundredswere s ti l l at the tables and that there seemed to be no hurry in proceeding with dinner . The grea t sa lon was a t t rac t ive lylighted with orange l ights partly hidden infrescos around the tops of the many col

umns and on each table were small lampshighly decorated with s i lk and metalshades and hangings , f rom under which appeared a soft green l ight. Th is gave abeautiful effect to the fine linen and silverappointm ents of the tables and added r ich ness to the whole scene. Mo st of thosedining wrere in evening clothes, but at a fewtables some men wrere in typical tourist’soutfits . Som ewh ere in an adjoi ning roomor a lcove a s t r ing quar te t was playing musicof a lazy movement and above this could beheard the mel low gong of the grea t c lock

that pea led the quar ter hours .Ruth s topped a t the entrance of the d in

ing room for a moment , awai t ing the ap proach of the director of the salon. Sud



denly she fel t someone trying to step frombehind her and taking one step to the side

she saw the tal l figure of her guide. Hewas dressed just as he had been earl ier inthe af ternoon . He made a very profound

bow, and in a soft voice said:“If i t be your pardon, lady, I ask that i t be

so for my impoli te intrusion at this necessary moment . But , i t becomes impor tan tthat I may comprehend the second p lace a twhich you wish to stop after you leaveKarnak . I must know th is a t once, lady .”

The gu ide was nervous . He was reallyexcited, and betrayed this in his fumblingfor words with which to express himself;and there was a tone of insistence that Ruthcould not fail to notice. In fact, Ru th inter p reted h is a t t i tude and demand as a th reat .Xt seemed as though he meant to convey the

idea that unless he knew, beforehand, exact ly where she wanted to go, he wouldnot under take the t r ip . Surely Ruth hadnot g iven the impress ion that she was upon

some s t range er rand or miss ion when shesaid that she would tel l him later where shewanted to go af ter leav ing Karnak . Could

it be that , as an Egy ptian , he possessedsome of the occult powers of his ancestorsand had read her mind? Perhap s even nowhe knew that there was a secret purpose inher v is i t to the Tem ples of Eg ypt ! Pe r

haps he even knew her whole plan andd re am ! Th e v ery th o u g h t s f r i gh t en edRuth. She paused to visualize all the pred icaments that such knowledge on h is par tm ight cause. Mo me nts passed. Ruth stoodas in a t rance. Th en she was broug ht backto the si tuat ion again by the words of theg u i d e :

“Lady, i f i t p leases, I must not tarry forI am not desirable here at this t ime andonly by permission of chief clerk did I darewa it for you r com ing to dinner. I havewai ted long and must leave. I must have

y o u r an swe r !” Th ere was n o mis t ak in gthe commanding tone of his voice, now.

“Pa rdon me,” began Ruth , fo rget t ingthat she was speak ing to a servan t , and thatin Egypt a lady should not recognize theexistence , even, of one of his class. Bu tRuth was t ry ing to th ink . W as she do ingright in revealing any of her plans to him?Was she no t tak ing a g rave chance in evenstar t in g on the t r ip wi th th is unknown

guide, despite the fact that he had servedso many “notable, consequential , concise,and par t icu lar iz ing pat rons?” As these

words came back to Ruth , she laughed ou t r ight . Th e hum or of his card, the carri-cature of his whole make-up. struck her

again, and she looked at him now as a poor,ignoran t man t ry ing to be impress ive andbusiness-l ike with an assumed air of im

portance.“You see,” Ruth began, with a smile st i l l

on her l ips, which seemed to surprise theguide, “I could not remember the name ofthe place. I was just t rying to think. Irecal l now. Xt has a funny name. T ha t is

wh at ma de me smile. I just wa nt to seeone other l i t t le place after we leave Karnak. I t is cal led Th e Hous e of Am en in

the Southern Apt .”The guide suddenly threw back his head.

His body became erect and ex t remely aus tere, and taking a step closer to Ru th s a id :

“ T h e S o u t h e r n A p t ? ”“Yes,” said Ruth with surprise and a re

newed feel ing of fear .

“A l i t t le place, did you say?”“W hy yes,” said Ruth , “I canno t f ind i t

on any map so I thought i t was a very small

place.”“Th en my lady does not knowr the

Ho use ?”“No, or th at is, yes, X do, but, pe rha ps

it is chang ed since ------ ” Rut h real izedthat she was reveal ing an idea and the gu ide

was quick to pick up the thought.“Changed s ince which t ime of acquain t

ance, lady?”

“Oh,” began Ruth , again fumbl ing fort ime to think and for words, “since i t was

bui l t !”“And you wish to go to the House f rom

K arn ak? ” The re was a very defin ite emphasis placed upon the word “from.” and

Ruth no t iced that .“W hy, cer ta in ly. Cannot I do tha t?”“But,” began the guide with an air of

fear, doubt and personal sol ici tat ion. “M ay

you do so? I cann ot direct you, I dare noteven t ransp i re your passage to the Housefrom Karna k . But , I wil l take you to K ar

nak . and then , may the Gods and Goddessesgran t your wish and may Amen-Ra saveyour sou l in the passage f rom Karnak!”

With these words he bowed again andhurriedly left the hal lway while Ruth, infear and trembling, desir ing to get to someseat and steady her nerves, passed on intothe dining hall escorted by the director.

W he n alone a t her table , Rut h could

th ink of on ly one th in g : Not the menu inher hands nor the purpose of her visi t tothe salon. W h at did the guide mean by“May Amen-Ra save your sou) in the pass

ag e f ro m Ka rn a k !” W h a t was t h e re ab o u tt h e p a ss a ge F R O M K a r n a k ? W a s th e resome m y s t e r y or magic in that word



FR O M ? Ha d she used some word , somephrase, some symbol, that meant more than

she realized?The morrow was surely t i l led with sur

pr ises , and Ruth appreciated now that her

Notes ForJudging f rom our correspondence dur ing

the past two weeks there is only one thing

that seems to be occupying the en thusias t icat ten t ion of our members outs ide of theirlectures , and that is the Imperator ’s Propa

ganda Campaign that is sweeping over the

w'hole of the North American jurisdiction.He had to break in another employee to

lo.ok after the classification of the hundredsof requests that have come for fur ther details , and the hundreds of letters offeringcooperation and assistance in every detailof the Campaign . Th e act iv it ies tha t he le t

loose on the organizat ion and i ts member sh ip by the announcement he made in le t ters to all the members, has turned our of f ices upside down for a few weeks and thereis every indication that it will continue forseveral months . W e are sure that he hadno idea of such immediate and whole-hear t ed response and certainly we had no plans

made to take care of the increase in activities tha t fell upon us like a storm. Fro mevery litt le town and hamlet, and from every section of the big cities, come lettersin every mail asking for more of the leaflets

that were sent to those members who arereceiv ing their ins truct ions d irect f romheadquarters, and they ask for f if teen, twenty-five, fifty, one hun dred , and in m an y

cases two hundred of the leaflets, at thesame t ime s ta t ing that thev have g iven outall we sent to them and know positively

where they can p lace the addit ional numberthey ask for . Tele gram s have come, special delivery letters, short notes, postcards,and messages in all forms, assuring the Im-perator and the Minis ter of the Depar tmentof Propaganda that they desire to representthe organizat ion in their ter r i tor ies by cal l ing on mem'bers, inquirers, applicants, andthose who are only casually interested.They of fer to in terv iew these persons , en courage them in th eir work, and arouse

their en thusiasm. W e have been in teres t ed in reading a number of these letters.

Can you imagine a man, a banker in NewYork City , with impor tan t matters weigh ing upon his mind almost every hour, offer ing to give two evenings a week to callingupon persons unknown to h im but who

fears for many months were not unfounded.

She was on the eve of some tremendous ex

perience.

(To be continued in our next issue.)

have made inquir ies a t headquar ters regard ing the Order ? This has happened in anumber of ins tances and s imilar le t ters havecome f rom lawyers , p rominent and extremely busy in large cities, from brokers, fromphysicians , f rom young women engaged in

social work, from members in every rankand profession of life. No one has writtensaying that he cannot g ive any t ime to the

work or refusin g to help in any way. Inmany local i t ies some of our newspaper ar ticles have been re-published and we havereceived te legrams f rom newspapers ask ingfor permission to reprint some of the largearticles that have appeared in other citiesabout our organizat ion . Some Groups andLodges, as for instance the one in Montreal,have reprinte d the new spap er articles insmall booklet form lor wide distr ibution intheir ter r i tor ies . In m any cases public lectures are being held by the memb ers in

halls, hotel parlors, churches, and Lodgerooms to assist in this national campaigndur ing the next few months . In fact, thereis no reason to believe that the campaignis limited to a few mont hs. T ha t is all theImperator asked for . bu t i t is ev ident thati f a l l act iv i t ies a t Headquar ters connected

with th is campaign were to cease today i twould car ry on throughout the ci t ies andhamlets of th is country for the next s ixmonths , merely f rom the impetus that hasbeen given to it by the members.

Among the in te res t ing th ings tha t have

occurred was a letter received from a clergyman of a prominent church in Brooklyn ,

of fer ing to change h is Sunday n ight ser vices to public Rosicruc ian meeti ngsthrough the coming fal l and winter , for thesake of building up the work in the city ofBrooklyn . From the Grand Lodge of Cal i forn ia came a very in teres t ing and wonder ful expression of appreciation. A telegram

from the Grand Secretary was received bythe Imperator , reading as fo l lows:

“May we have your presence and your

blessings at a special meeting of the GrandLodge at Cal iforn ia cal led for th is Thursdayevening for the purpose of s tar t ing toarouse en thusias t ic three m ont hs’ campaign

for new members . W e want you to know



that way out here in the West on the slopesof the Pacific in the city by the Golden Gatewe are going to work personally to roll upthe larges t membersh ip in the American

jurisdict ion, and we w a n t you to know th a t

California joins the Supreme officers in theireffort to make this campaign for new members a g rand success .” Th at me ant thatthe en t i re membersh ip o f Nor thern Cal i fo r

nia, which includes the large cities of SanFrancisco and Oakland , and a number o fsmaller ci t ies with large populat ions, wouldbe included in this special session in theGrand Lodge Temple at 843 Octavia St . ,San Francisco . Thei r request was that the

Imperator make himself psychical ly visibleto the members there at some period duringthe great meet ing . The Impe rato r te le

graphed the Grand Secretary in Californiaas fol lows: “I am v e r y happy ah ou t theclear and defini te contact made with yourmembers las t Thursday even ing , and tomor row night , Thursday, I wil l return the visi tby being with you at nine o’clock your t imefor f ive minutes, and I t rust that the greaten thusiasm d isp layed by your members andemphasized by your officers in regard to thepropaganda plan wil l be typical again of thewonderful spir i t of your ci ty that knowshow and of your Lodge which has a lwaysbeen with me and for me in every important

constructive effort on behalf of the Order,and it will please me greatly to find at theclose of this campaign that California andits Grand Lodge is leading in securing thegreates t num ber o f new mem bers and agreat increase in our pledged act ivi t ies andwonderful work. Give to all the membe rsassembled my k indest personal regards andI shall be sure to show your official telegram

to the officers at the great convention inEu ro p e . ”

Letters received from the CaliforniaGrand Lodge since these telegrams were

sen t ind icate that the members were en thu siast ic over the psychic experiment conducted by the Imperator and that he wasinstantly recognized in his usual place atthe a l tar in the East : and the le t ters fu r the r indicate tha t the California GrandLodge is to have in July the largest ini t iation it has ever had in its historv, as' the

result of the campaign just started. Thesecomments are being d ic ta ted fo r our magazine in the middle of June and we are conscious of the fact that our members wil l notread them unti l the last week of July or the

f i rs t week of August , bu t a t th is ear ly datei t is an established fact that the great Propagand a Campaign is the most act ive and

successful that any organizat ion has ever

undertaken in this country.W e had no idea that the req uest of the

Imperator for co-operat ion in this campaignwould bring to us the thousands of expres

sions of appreciat ion of the work that havebeen received. Pra ctic ally every letter isfilled not only with the spirit of hearty cooperat ion but with sincere and profound appreciat ion and thankfulness for the lectures,

gu idance and personal help that the members have received through the newer formof lessons and lectures which have recentlybeen used in al l of our work throughout thecountry.

If any of our members fail to receive alet ter asking them to help in this greatcampaign by the distribution of the official

leaflets, or by cal l ing upon prospective m em bers in their communit ies, they are urged towrite a let ter to the Minister of the Depart ment o f Propaganda and offer thei r ser

vices at once.

We wish to cal l the at tention of our mem

bers to the f irst page of the magazine andto ask them to read every l ine of i t verycarefully . The very gre at increase in m em bersh ip th roughout the count ry in the pas tn ine months has increased our correspond ence to such an extent that we are overwhelmed with i t and cannot add to our

staff and facilities fast enough to take careof i t. Ev ery few weeks we have to addanother office, or another department, oranother executive to the staff and i t is for tunate indeed that the Adminis t ra t ion

Building at Rosicrucian Square was designed with sufficient rooms to allow forcon tinu ous expansion . Ma ny of the officesand room s tha t were unoccupied dur ing thewinter months, and for which we thoughtwe would have no use, for another year at

least , are being rapidly converted into in

tense act ivi ty .

W e find in our correspondence a greatlack of understanding on the part of manyof the members in regard to the dist inct iveness and separat ion of our departments ofact ivi ty . Me mbe rs will gre at ly faci l itatethe answering of their correspondence and

the at tention paid to their problems by reading on the first page of this issue the listof the various departments now active atHeadquar ters ; then when you addres yourenvelope to us kindly put on the left handcorner of the envelope the proper depart ment . Rem embe r that repor ts o f lectures

and personal experience connected with thelessons and lectures should be sent to the



"Supreme Secretary ;” on the o ther hand ,i f your le t ter con tains merely a remi t tanceoi dues or lees, put m the corner 01 tlieenvelope, "Fina ncia l Secr eta ry.’’ I t your

let ter includes a remit tance as well as a re

port , let your envelope be marked for the"Supreme Secretary ." in every case , re

gard less o f what depar tment your le t ter i sintended for, be sure to address the mainpar t o f the envelope “AMORC, RosicruciauSquare , Memorial Boulevard , Tampa, F lor ida.” Aga in we say, read that f irst page

from top to bottom. Th is f irst page wil lappear in every issue of the magazine and bykeeping i t in mind you wil l avoid many oi

the errors made in your correspondence.------ o------

We have recen t ly seen some of the le t ters

coming to the Im per ato r f rom Europe, in vi t inghim to at tend the Congresses andConven tions to be held there. One of themost in teres t ing of these le t ters reads asfo l lo ws :

“Basilea, Switzerland.H. Spencer Lewis, F. R. C., K. R. C., Ph. D.,

Imp era to r , AMORC, No r th Amer i ca .

Most I l lus t r ious , Most Venerab le , S i rKn ig h t an d Bro th er :

Greet ings on a l l Po in ts o f the Tr iang le:We believe the t ime has come again to

renew and s t reng then the t ies o f Bro ther

hood between our respect ive o rgan izat ions .We st i l l hold and value highly our honorarymembersh ip in your o rgan izat ion and hopeyou st i l l value our appointment of yourselfas our honorary member .

Dur ing the las t year we const i tu ted inSwitzerland a Grand Council and Senate, at

Zur ich , wi th several Lodges a t Zur ich , Lu gano, Locarno, Ascona and Basilea.

Trust ing to hear f rom you soon we send

our most f ra ternal g reet ings and remain inthe bonds of the Order.

Yours ,

Sovereign Grand Master -General ad vi tam.”

This let ter was wri t ten upon the officialle t terhead of the Grand Lodge of Swi tzer land, bearing the seal of the Lodge, and alsothe emblem of the In ternat ional o rgan iza t ion, and i t is signed by one of the mostprominent Rosicrucians and Free-Masons ofEngland and Swi tzer land . Oth er le t ters re

ceived are irom the highest officer of the

In ternat ional Rosicrucian and Free MasonicAl l iances o f Europe, ex tend ing personal

compl iments to our Imperator and inv i t inghim to be his guest at the Congress and

Convent ion in Europe. Al l o i these le t tersshow the h igh es teem in which the Order111 America is held and the deep love andadmirat ion they have fo r thei r Bro ther o i -l icer and director in this countr y. In some

of these let ters references are made to thewonderful increase in membership and es

pecia l ly the unusual ly a t t ract ive and pract i cal form oi the teachin gs issued by theNor th American ju r i sd ic t ion as a resu l t o f

the cooperat ion of some of the Masters inEurope and the special staff of invest igatorsand wri ters work in g wi th the Imp erator

here in the recen t rev is ion and improvementof the lectures and exper imen tal work .Some of the le t ters f rom Europe were ac companied wi th long French , German, I ta l

ian and Spanish translat ions of the noticesbeing sent to the Lodges in other countriesregarding the Convention, and in some of

th ese fo re ig n co mmu n ica t io n s t h e AMORCof Nor th America i s po in ted ou t as being

the largest and most successful of al l of thehermet ic , myst ical and occu l t Rosicrucian

o rg an iza t io n s co n n ec t ed wi th t h e In t e rn a t ional All iance and Congress, under the di

rect ion of the Great W hi te Lodge. By thet ime th is magazine gets in to your hands andyou are read ing these comments , the Imperator wil l probably be somewhere on hisway be tween Tam p a an d th e So u th of

France. He has p romised to keep in touchwi th us a t Headquar ters , psych ical ly , and

by mai l and cab legram, and in our Sep tember and October issues we shall have moreto say about his t r ip , and no doubt wil lhave a ful l report of i t in our November

issue.------------------ o -------------------

This present issue of the magazine is sofull of good ma terial we have no room toextend our comments to our members but

we feel sure they would rather read themany wonderful art icles than too much ofthese personal notes, so we will close thissection of our publication and hope that we

have more room to speak personally in our

next issue.



They Slept W ith Loaded Muskets By Their Side By Fra Titus

To show to what extent the average individualis beguiled in the tales relative to Rosicrucians,the following is an excellent example:

On March the third, 1623, the good people ofParis were frightened from their propriety by theexhibition of a placard stuck upon the walls ofcertain sections of that capital city, as follows:

"We, the deputies of the principal college

of the Brethren of the Rosie Cross, have

taken up our abode, visible and invisible, in

this city, by the grace of the Most High, to

wards whom are turned the hearts of the

just . We show and te ac h wit hout an y

books or symbols whatever, and we speak

all sorts of languages in the countries

wherein we dwell, to draw mankind, our

fellows, from error, and to save them fromdeath” .

It is possible that this placard was but a mauvaise plaisanterie of some wits who desired to mys tifythe citizens.

The placard and articles published in the Mercure de Frame almost caused a panic, and the citizensof Paris were excited by fear of this mysterious sect, none of whose members had ever been seen.

Rumor soon spread throughout the area that theRosicrucians could transport themselves from placeto place with the rapidity of volition, and that theytook a delight in cheating and tormenting unhappycitizens, especially such as had sinned againstchastity.

The most absurd stories about Rosicrucians, saysthe ‘‘Edinburgh Journal,” were daily reported, andfound ready listeners.

An innkeeper asserted that a mysterious strangerentered his inn, regaled himself on his best, andsuddenly vanished in a cloud when the reckoningwas presented.

Another story goes that an innkeeper also hadbeen served a scurvy trick by a similar stranger,who lived upon the choicest fare, drunk the bestwines of his house for a week, and paid him with ahandful of new gold coins which turned into slateson the following morning.

It was also said that several persons, on awakening in the middle of the night, found individuals in

their bed-chambers who suddenly became invisible,though still palpable, when the alarm was raised.Such, according to the “Edinburgh Journal", wasthe consternation in Paris that every man whocould not give a satisfactory account of himselfwas in danger of being pelted to death; and quietcitizens slept with loaded muskets at their bedside,to take vengeance upon any Rosicrucian who mightviolate the sanctity of their chambers.

In the midst of the alarm another placard appeared, as mysterious as the first, notifying theworld that the most persevering curiosity of theprofane and ignorant would fail in discovering theRosicrucians who were then in Paris; but that anyperson who had a devout respect for them, and asincere desire to embrace their tenets, had only to

form a wish to know them and the wish would begratified.

The article mentions that the Rosicrucians are a

sect of which very little is known. The notices

relating to them, which are scattered in the pages

of encyclopaedias, biographical dictionaries, and

histories of philosophy, are exceedingly meagre and

imperfect.

The article gives cred it to “Christian Ros encreu tz”

as the supposed founder of the Rosicrucian Brother

hood, and says that, in 1604, one Michael Meyer, an

alchemist, lent authority to the promulgation of the

tenets of the Order.

Michael Meyer published in Cologne, in 1615, a

work entitled “Themis Aurea, hoc est de legibus Fra-

ternitatis Rosae Crucis,” which purp orted to contain

all the laws and ordinances of the Brotherhood.

The next Rosicrucian mentioned in the article isPeter Mormius, a celebrated alchemist of Holland

In England, Dr. Fludd, ( Robertas a Fluctilus)

warmly embraced the Rosicrucian creed. The Jour

nal says that he boasted of his intercourse with the

elementary spirits, with whom he had conversations

far surpassing those of Dr. Dee with the angels;

asserted that he could live without food for a

couple of centuries, or until it pleased him to die,

and that he could render himself invisible and turn

all metals into gold.

He was succeeded by Eugene Philalethes andJohn Hevd on. The latter was an attorney, whowrote three works on Rosicrucian mysteries, one

ca lle d: “The Wise Man’s Crown, or the Glory of the Ros ie Cross' t h e second: “The Holy Guide, leadintj the way to Art and Nature, with the Rosie Cross Uncovered”; and a third: “A New Method of

Rosic ruc ian Physic”, by John Heydon, the Servantof God and the Secretary of Nature.

In the preface to Hey don ’s last mentioned work,he maintains that Moses was the real founder otthe Rosicrucians, and that he was followed byElijah and Ezakeil, from whom the secrets of thefraternity were transmitted in succession to “Christian Rosencreutz.” (Inve rted commas are ours!)

The article likewise mentions that the most illus-trous Rosicrucian was Joseph Francis Borri, whoappeared shortly after the time of Heydon, andwho, in his work entitled “La Chiave del Gabinetto

del Signor Borri”, left that record of their tenets towhich the world is mainly indebted for all its knowledge of the subject. (Sic!)

Borri’s works afterwards fell into the hands ofthe Abbe de Villars, who founded upon it his cabalistic r o m a n c e , “The Count de Gabalis”. The articlequotes at length from “The Count de Gabalis”, andmentions several poets, including Shakespeare andMilton, the charming story of “Undine”, by theBaron de la Motte Fouque; “Zanoni", by Sir E. L.Bulwer Ly tto n ; “The Salamand rin”, by CharlesMackay. The article closes by s aying “how richare the materials afforded to poets and romancewriters by the fancies of this curious and now forgotten sect".

This article was found in a rare copy of “Chambers Edinburgh Journal”, No. 149, dated Saturday,

November 7th, 1846, and makes exceedingly interesting and humorous reading.



Scientific Notes for MembersBy The Imperator

Our members in various Grades will be

interested in the following news regardingelectrons, atom s and the comp osition ofmat ter . We want to keep our s tudentsthoroughly acquainted wi th the pos i t ion of

science and the scientific world as it relates to our laws and principles .

Many of you will recall that years ago,

when our firs t lectures bearing upon elec

trons and atom s wrere presen ted to our

student s , we were severely cri t icized by

scientific s tudents for daring to say thatthere were positive electrons, as well as

negative ones, and we were also cri t icized

for adher ing to the fundamenta ls formulated by John Dalton in his great work, the

Law of Proport ions . We had to publishDalton’s original findings in our own pub

lications because they had disappeared fromthe Librar ies throughout America and hadbecome taboo by science as unsound andtoo mystic al to be practical. Yet. Rosicru-

c ians knew the va lue of Dal ton’s s ta tementsand we are happy to find today that science

is rapidly recognizing Dalton’s laws, andalso our Ros icrucian content ions of many

years , that there are both posit ive and negative electrons. In the newer edit ion of

Professor Robert Andr ews M il l ikan’s “Th eElec tron.” publ ished by the Univers i ty ofChicago Press, Chicago, 111., and now obtainable at every large-sized bookstore, we

find the very latest and up-to -the-m inutefacts rega rdin g electrons. It will be re

called that the Nobel Prize in Physics wasrecent ly awarded to Professor Mil l ikan 011

the basis of many of the problems treatedin this very book. wrhich sells for $2. plus

postage. On page two in the Introd uctio n

of th is book we read th is paragraph:

“Thus the firs t half of the nineteenth cen

tury is unques t ionably a per iod of extraor

dinary fruitfulness. It is at the same periodin which for the firs t t ime men. under Dalton’s lead, began to get direct , experimental ,

quant i ta t ive proof tha t the a tomic world

which the Greeks had bequeathed to us . . .was far more complex than i t need be.”

This , you will notice, is high testimonyfrom science to the experimental work of

Dal ton, to which he gave the grea ter par t

of his life and which for a long time wasthrow n in the discard by science. Th is par-

aeranh fur ther on says :

“The importance of this s tep is borne wit

ness to by the fact that out of i t sprang in

a very few years the whole science of modern chemis t ry .”

Going further on in the book we come to

the subject of the s tructure of the atom,and find interesting s tatements l ike the fol lowing:

“Repeat ing the experiment and the com

putations with foils made from a considerable number of other metals , they foundthat in every case the number of free posi

t ive charges in the atoms of different subs tances was approximate ly equal to ha l f

i t s a tomic weight. This means tha t thealuminum atom, for example, has a nucleusconta ining about th i r teen free pos i t ive

charges and that the nucleus of the atom ofgold conta ins in the ne ighborhood of a hundred. Th is result was in excellent agr eement wi th the conclus ion reached independent ly by Barkla f rom experime nts of a

wholl y dififerent kind ; nam ely, exp eri me ntson the sca t te r ing of X-Rays . This indica t ed tha t the number of sca t te r ing centers inan atom—that is , i ts number of free elec

t rons— was equal to about ha lf the a tomic

weight . But th is num ber must , of course,equal the number of free posit ive electrons

in the nucleus.”

Nowr please note th at the above p arag raphends wi th the s ta tement or te rm “Free pos

itive elect rons in the nucl eus.” Th at is anadmission that the elements called “posit ive charges” throughout the precedingparagraphs of the book, wi th cons iderable

diplomacy, are adm itted to be posit iveelectrons, as we have always maintained in

our Ros icrucian teachings .

The next in teres t ing point i s the formulaconta ined in th is paragraph. W e are to ldthat the number of posit ive electrons in anatom is approximately equal to half of i ts

atomic weight. In oth er w ords, if thea tomic weight of a subs tance was twenty-

six, then by dividing that weight in halveswe determine the number of pos i t ive e lec trons. Th e par agra ph also s tates , at i t?

close, that the posit ive and negative electrons must be equal in an atom. for. to auotea preceding paragr aph in the book. “The

number of negat ive e lec t rons outs ide the

nucleus must be such as to have a totalcharge equal to the free posit ive charge ofthe nucleus, s ince otherwise the atom could

not be neutral .”



We are thus to ld tha t the a tomic weight

of any substance, divided in halves, givesus the number of both the negat ive andposi t ive electrons in the atom, or approxi mate ly so. W e wonder why the formula

could not be worded this wise: Th e atomic

weight of a subs tance g ives approximate lythe total number of electrons in the atom,

half of which are positive and half of whichare negat ive. Stat in g the formula in thisway wre have precisely the content ion madeby Dal ton and presented throughout ourRosicrucian teachings for the last one hun

dred years , and which was cr i t icized, whenfirst presented to our students in 1916 and1917, as being unscientific on the basis that

science claimed that al l e lectrons were negat ive and that there was no such thing as aposi tive electron. Th is was fol lowed a few

years later by the discreet admission on thepart of science that the negat ive electronsgathered themselves around some sort of aposi t ive nucleus, probably composed of onelit t le body which they called a positive ion.For a while i t looked as though science wasabout to improve upon na ture by decree ing

tha t a toms were composed of a mos t en gaging and obl iging l i t t le par t icle cal led aposi t ive ion, around which any number r fnegat ive e lec t rons might ga the r and , by

their abi l i ty to accommodate themselves invarious numbers around the imprisoned ion,

form various atoms. Th is would have giventhe ion the nature and character is t ic of amagnet wi th unl imi ted a t t rac t ive power ,

and atoms would therefore be of var iousnatures, depending upon the abi l i ty of elect rons to squeeze into the l imited aura of theion. In other words, the var iat ion in atomswas due to the number of electrons r idingthe magnetic field of the one positive ion.

W e see now that that pr inciple, whichwou ld have been in con tradi ction of all

other laws of nature, is cast aside for themore correct pr inciple that l ike and unl ike

must come together and rest in a neutrals tate in order to give a manifestat ion ofnature, or rather a def ini te manifestat ionof a different substance. Unti l the atom

becomes neutral , wi th a s tat ic s tate of potent ial i ty resul t ing from an equal number

of negative and positive elements, i t is sim

ply becoming something and is not different

in its manifestation.

We know f rom a lchemica l exper iments

that in order to t ransmute one metal or sub

s tance into another , the pr inciple involvedis one of increasing or decreasing the num

ber of electrons in the atoms, and all al chemists who have been successful in theirexperiments discovered that this is onlypossible by changing the number of posi t ive

electrons as well as the negative, or, moreprec i se ly , tha t through changing the num

ber of posi t ive electrons we automatical lychange the number of nega t ive e lec t ronsbecause each posi t ive electron wil l a t t racta negat ive one in order to br ing about a

balanced or neutral s tate in i ts magnet icf ield. Th e Rosicrucian alchemist also knewthat , s ince electrons are formed by the dif ferent rates of vibrat ions in ei ther their negat ive or posi t ive phases of spir i t energy,electrons may be added to or taken fromthe atoms by adding to or increasing the

vibrat ions of spir i t energy in any substance.Thus , a lchemy and the a r t of t ransmuta t ionis reduced to a mathematical process in onesense, and I call, atten tion to the a rticle inour last issue, and the one in this issue also,

by our beloved Brother Castelot , in France,regarding h i s work in t ransmuta t ion . He

explains his formula in terms of chemistrybut i f you read his comments careful ly youwil l see that his terms and formulas arereducible to mathematical laws and pr inci ples , as we have just s tated. Th e t ime iscoming when the ar t of t ransmutat ion wil l

be as popular and as s imple in the hands ofscientific laboratories as i t has been in thealchem ists’ and myst ic s’ laborator ies . But

that does not mean that i t wi l l ever becomea commercial or prof itable procedure. W ehave jus t l earned tha t exper iments made byone of the Rosicrucian myst ics in Germany,whereby he succeeded in t ransmut ing somebase meta l s in to one-quar te r grammes ofgold, cost him $42,000 and required experiments , s tudy, analysis and pract ice coveringa per iod of almost four years . Fro m an examination of the processes involved it is

quest ionable wh ethe r a gram me of goldcould ever be produced by t ransmuta t ionthat would cost less than $300 to $500 afteryears of cont inuous work and the upbui ld ingof lar^e enuipment and faci l i t ies for the pro

duc tion . Th at is why the a r t of t rans mu ta tion has remained solely in the hands of menwho are devot ing their l ives and their for

tunes to a test ing of laws and pr inciples for

the sake of knowledge, rather than in thehands of industr ial science, devoted to com

mercial benefits.



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