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C H A R L E S D A N A D E A N . F . R . C .

High priest of the Illuminati, R. C., G rand M uster of the R osicrucian O rder for

North America. President of the Grand Council of the AMORC, and

a member of the Board of Directors of the corporation.

Passed to the Highest Initiation through transition on Tuesday, July 25, 1933.



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Vol. XI. SEPTEMBER, 1933 No. 8

C O N T E N T S

Page

Charles Dana Dean, F.R.C., Front isp iece ___

... 282The Thought of the M o n th ........ 284

Passed to H ighe r In itiation . ... 288

Ancie n t Symbolism .............................. .. . 290

Cathedra l Contac ts ............ ... 291

Sanctum Musings .............................................. 293

Pages from the Past ..................... . . 302

Report of the International Convention . 305

Important Rosicrucian Documents, No. 2,

I l lustra tion .. .. ................................. 317

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THOUGHT OF THE MONTHTHE NEW ROSfCRUCfAN CYCLE

T W A S the con

census of opinionon the part ofe v e r y p e rs o nattending the Convention here lastweek that the newplans and newideas revealed inthe various ad.-dresses and votedupon because oft h e s u g g e s t i o n smade by the vari

ous representatives plainly indicate that

a new cycle of Rosicrucian activity isbeing born throughout the world andthat America will be the very center ofthis world-wide awakening during thenext twelve months.

It became plain, as the various reports andproposals were read, that theA M O R C in North America had utilizedthe past twenty-four years in laying avery strong material foundation for thegreater spiritual structure which will begin to rise into view this fall and winter.

It is true that the Rosicrucian organ

ization as a school of philosophy dealsmore with the spiritual and higher thingsof life than with the material, but it isalso true that the organization as ahuman brotherhood and a worldly fraternity deals with the practical things oflife in a very definite manner. But if the

T h e spiritual and esoteric features of our

Ros icruc ian 9 re.at (w0/ k ^ e to be made paramountand of the greatest beneht to our mem-

Uig e s t jt js necessary that a strong materialS e p t e m b e r ground-work be established upon which1 9 3 3 to create and maintain the super-struc

ture. Jesus the Christ revealed His

understanding of this great law whenHe made the allegorical statement aboutbuilding His church upon a rock. Therock to which He referred was not exclusively the material and physical experience of those who had followed Hispreachments, but was composed ofthe elements of organization, system,faith, integrity, solidarity, uniformity,and law.

In the same manner A M O R C hasdivided its efforts in the past years inestablishing a foundation of integrity,faith, system, law, and order, while

revealing its power in things spiritualand esoteric. Th e spiritual structurecannot be brought into full manifestation until there is a recognized and firmfoundation to support it.

Those of our readers who recall thehistory of Athens will find in it an excellent example of this principle. TodayAthens stands in our memories as agreat center of cultural refinement. W ethink that all of its citizens were philosophers, artists, sculptors, scientists, andthose devoted to the promotion and

spread of higher thought and culturalattainment. A true census of its citizenswould probably reveal that these personswere of a great minority, and that themajority could not be thus classified, butthe attainments and the achievements ofthe minority and their contributionstoward the development of culture incivilization is so outstanding and soworld-wide in its influence in the pastand present that Athens may rightlystand in our minds as one of the severalancient monuments of cultured civiliza-

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tion. But Athens did not attain thisposition by any degree of arbitrarydecision on the part of those who constituted its minority, nor did it attain thisposition quickly and without a foundation that would support and maintainthe glorious super-structure.

The thinkers of the world may havegone to Athens with the hope of creating there a great center of higher learning, but we find from its history that theprocedure was slow and carefully considered. Tho se who realized that something must be done preparatory to thebuilding of a great center of learning, agreat power of culture, argued thatAthens must first become a strong centerof material, physical, worldly influences

before it might proceed with its higherambitions. History shows that everything was done to make Athens a greattrading center, a great business mart, agreat commercial center. Fo r yearsAthens flourished locally and in theminds of distant nations as a very meccaof material and practical activity associated with all of the mundane affairs ofhuman kind. Its firm pos it io n thus assured, its integrity thus created, andits dependability thus established, itattracted to its hills and valleys artistsand musicians, sculptors and poets, whocould find prosperity in this great cityand likewise opportunity to dream andcreate. Th e achievements of theseartists, musicians, writers, and thinkers,attracted the attention of philosophers,dreamers, musicians, and seekers for thehigher truths. Upon the material foundation of commercial citizenship wasgradually laid a second plane of humaneffort generally classified as the higherculture. Athens would never haveattained its cultural position in the worldhad it not been for the firm material

foundation previously laid.

There have been those who haveopenly expressed the opinion in the pastten years that A M O R C was perhapsgiving too much thought to businesssystems, to business integrity, to rigidrules of commercial forms, and to theprotection of its physical rights andprivileges. Th ere have been some whohave openly expressed the thought that

the highest officers of the organization

were sharing some of their thinking time

and efforts to the solving of businessproblems, the creation of good willamong business organizations, and thebuilding up of a material reputation inthe physical and commercial channels ofthe W ester n Wo rld activity. But ateach National Convention held here inSan Jose the members and delegatespresent who investigated the mattermore closely and made an analyticalstudy of the physical organization ofA M O R C came to the conclusion thatnothing less than the definite steps takenin the past in this regard would havepermitted of the gradual building of thespiritual and esoteric activities. Eac hConvention has closed with many resolutions unanimously adopted expressingthe complete faith and co-operation of

the members and delegates in the procedures, methods, and systems beingused by A M O R C to further its definite ends.

And now at this last Convention theenthusiasm which still rings in theofflces, halls, and chambers, of thesebuildings while I write these words,shows that a new cycle of activity isabout to be born. The spring of 1934will mark the quarter century of activityin behalf of the foundation work forA M O R C . In reviewing what has beenaccomplished, and in gazing upon thefoundation already created it seems likea miracle even to those of us who havebeen actively engaged with the problemday and night throughout these years.To the new member and to the outsiderthe accomplishment seems like something superhuman or supernatural. As afitting conclusion to the long period offoundation work the recent court trialembracing as it did a year's investigation of the Rosicrucian field throughoutNorth America and the rest of the world

with many preliminary court trials, andthe activities of various vigilant committees and highly trained specialistswho had to render very careful reports,the integrity of AM O R C 's claims andthe integrity of the Rosicrucian rightsand privileges in this country has been

established beyond any question, and

beyond any successful attempt to

weaken it. The value of such established

and proven integrity must be self-evi

dent to every thinking member of the

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organization as it is to every inquirerand every person of authority and position outside of the organization whomay have to deal with the matter at anytime in the future.

The court trial was the climax of allprevious legal actions to protect therights of the organization, and its nameand symbol from misuse and commercialdegradation. It removed forever thechoice morsels of falsification which aconspiring group of representatives ofthe black forces has been using fortwelve years, or more, to prevent thecontinent-wide activities of the trueRosicrucians. It will silence forever theenemies of truth, light, life and love. Itwill take from the minds of newspapereditors, magazine editors, investigators,

and persons of influence, the doubtregarding the integrity and good intentions of the organization that has beencreated in the past twelve years by theseconspiring enemies of the Gre at W or k.Already letters and telegrams fromplaces high and low in authority andpower outside of our organization havecome to us stating that the court's vindication of our claims and the court’srebuke of the conspirators has placedthe Rosicrucian organization high in theesteem of every thinking man and

woman. In every branch and chapter ofour organization throughout the countries constituting this great continentthere have been awakened and quickenedthe dormant activities that were held inabeyance until it was safe to proceedfurther without interference and withoutthe constant efforts of defense.

The effect of the court’s decisions and judgment was like some act of magic inits effect upon the members and delegates assembled here. It was as thoughsome great master had pressed a magic

button and released the great gates thatheld back a flood of Rosicrucian activityand spiritual illumination and power.From out of the vaults here at headquarters were brought documents,papers, correspondence, certificates,manuscripts, and relics showing whatthe officers of A M O R C had carefullypreserved and held in seclusion until itwas safe to release these things forpublic exposure. Letters from foreign

jurisdictions offering additional and

valuable manuscripts and many marvelous contributions to our teachings andinstructions were read and placed beforethe Convention, and its committees, thatthese committees might begin immediately to plan for the carrying on of a

greater work that has been purposelywithheld in order that the integrity andthe permanency of the organizationmight be assured and a freedom fromthe vilification and treachery of its enemies might be guaranteed by the courtsof the land as well as by the lives andsacrifices of its members. No longer cana group of conspirators misappropriateour monographs, our seals and emblems,our terminology, and our processes forpurely mercenary and selfish purposes.No longer need the great workers ofour organization protect their acts withthe veil of obscurity, and no longer needwe spend hours of effort each day indefense of that to which we wouldgladly give our lives. Now every action,every thought, every effort will be devoted to the increasing of our activities,the spreading of new work, and newideas, the creating of new plans, andnew methods, the enlargement of ourteachings, the widening of the scope ofbenefits to each member, and to manyother things that we have held sacredand protected in the past years.

The members returning home fromthis Convention were unanimous intheir enthusiastic view of what thefuture now holds for Rosicrucianism inthe Wes tern W orld , and this means agreat help to the Rosicrucians throughout the foreign lands. As one by onebid us goodbye their last words were,"On with the greater work, and thefloods of hell cannot prevail against it!”

Each and every one of the categoricalfalse charges made against A M O R C

and its officers individually and collectively were investigated by the courtand found not only wanting but malicious in their intention, and dispicable intheir use. Not a single charge, seriousor otherwise, was partially proved byeven the least attempt to support theattack as admission was made by theconspirators that the charges were figments of fiction. T h e chief of the conspirators refused to answer questionsbecause of an admission on his part that

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any answer he might make might incriminate him of felony. Th e documentsand papers, the indisputable evidence ofauthority and genuineness which theconspirators claimed had never beenpossessed by A M O R C were presented

in court evidence in such abundance asto be magestically overwhelming, butthese valuable things had been held inseclusion until the proper time andproper place in order that they mightnot become contaminated with misrepresentation and misapplication by the conspirators.

It was a notable fact that the conspirators represented other organizations andthat they looked upon AM O R C as theirrival, as a great and powerful influencethat threatened the life of their mercen

ary and selfish activities. Eac h andevery one of them had planned that ifthey were successful in the overthrow ofthat which was their common enemy,they would share the spoils betweenthem to recompense them for theirefforts. Our silence for so many yearsdue to a mistaken attitude of passivityand refusal to answer the maliciouscharges made, had been taken by theenemies as an indication of our weakness, and as an inability to prove everyclaim that we had made. Men andwomen leaders in other so-called humanitarian and brotherly-love organizations soliciting the high regard andrespect of men and women in thiscountry and claiming to represent theidealism of Christianity and the greatlight of the Great W hit e Brotherhoodwere found to be secretly and maliciously working with the conspiracy astrusted conspirators. Th e facts wereshocking to the Convention assembled,and the self-organized committee thatvolunteered at the Convention to examine the evidence that had been taken

into court, and to examine the courtpapers, were astounded to find amongthe conspirators those who claimed to bethe representatives of the true Rosicrucian movement in the world. Not onlywere they found wanting in any evidence

to support their claims, not only were

they found to be parties to a conspiracy

in which no true mystic would be

engaged, but bv their very letters

and communications between themselves

they admitted their own false positionsand condemned each other as being irresponsible, mercenary, selfish enemies oflight and truth.

Perhaps never before has such a situation arisen in this country, and mostcertainly never before has AMORC feltso prepared to proceed now with thatwhich is held sacred awaiting the dawnof the new cycle. Our members andfriends everywhere should rejoice in thevictory that is theirs as well as ours, forit will prove to be a victory for allseekers for light and all lovers of truth.Thus as we predicted some years ago1932 and 1933 have brought their cyclicchanges in the lives of men and womenthroughout the world not only in thematerial, economic, and civic affairs just

as we stated, but in the spiritual andethical things of our lives, and 1934 willstand in history as the dawn of a newday, of a new era, and of a new cycle,and we are happy in the knowledge thatRosicrucians anticipated and prophesiedevery one of the great events, civic,political, economic, and spiritual thathave occurred in the past year, and wereprepared for these things, and preparedfor what is yet to come. Th ose whohave remained steadfast and loyal to us,giving the A M O R C the largest membership of thinking men and women

philosophers in this country throughoutthe whole period of so-called depression,will not only find their reward in themonths and years to come, but they willbe recorded in history as the pioneers ofa new race, and a new type of divinebeings on earth.

The Alcove for September

September was considered in the greatmystery chamber of the year as thealcove of arts. No discrimination was

made between the expressions of artsince music, painting, sculptoring, andother fine arts were included. Amongthe many ancients assigned to thisalcove as notable workers therein were

Apelles, Reni, Correggio, Titian, Reu

bens, Corot, Hoffman, Bach, Mozart,

Mendelssohn, Wagner, Verdi, and

more recent ones. Among the great

mystics and Rosicrucians were Da

Vinci, Rafael, Beethoven, and Schubert.

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Passed to Higher Initiation Charles Dana Dean,

Grand Master for North AmericaV V V

T h e

Rosicrucian

D i g es t

Sept ember

1 9 3 3

U R V E R Y goodFrater, friend, andc o m p a n i o n h a s just left our garden of flowers andwended his waydown the path thatleads over the nills

to the distant horizon in answer toa call to enter thesacred temple onthe mountain topand find there the

higher initiation which he hoped mightcome to him at some time. T he flowersin the garden all seem to bow theirheads for they will miss his gentle touch,his loving understanding, and sympathetic appreciation. He loved to be aworker in this garden of human heartsand his love was for every flower alike.He was a gentle gardener, and his firstconsideration was to see that each growing thing had its water of life and itssunshine. He knew naught of time orconditions, but could hear only the restless music of the impatient swaying ofthe growing plants as they tried to resistthe power of the winds or yielded tothem. In the midst of this great gardenthat he loved was the temple in which heworshipped, and here he found opportunity daily to meditate and to pray and

to lift up his soul and consciousness inappreciation and thankfulness: but thegarden outside was the joy of his life forhere were his close friends and herewere the expressions o f life in all of theircolors and adornment.

Charles Dana Dean was born in thislife to fulfill the mission which occupiedso many years of his earthly efforts. Hismind was peculiarly inclined to thesciences and to the mastership of thatknowledge which would lead to thecreation of things that brought joy andhappiness, comfort and convenience toman's needs. Y et he was a true philosopher in every cell of his physicalconstitution, and in every throb of histhinking body there was a profoundcomprehension of life’s higher mysteries,and the unveiled and unknown laws ofGod and the Cosmic. He was well-be

loved indeed by men in his employ, orunder his direction who labored carefully and diligently to carry out hisscientific instructions. And ye t with thesame patience and the same helpfulmanner he has directed the thoughts ofthousands of human beings in theirsearch for the greater light, and for theillumination that rises above all materialaffairs.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, in theyear 1878, he was soon associated with

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various scientific laboratories in the Eastwhere his valuable knowledge andpatience could be used to good advantage. Becoming associated early in lifewith the Bell Telephone Company, he

rose in its ranks as a skilled engineer,and expert in the planning and construction of remote controls, amplification of sound, the adaptation of thetelephone to radio, and the developmentof television. It seemed but natural thathis footsteps should have been led earlyin life to the threshold of the Rosicrucian Brotherhood and that in this organization— the only fraternal or culturalsociety to which he belonged— he wouldfind such wisdom and such practicalinformation, as well as such spirituallight as would help him in his scientific

progress as well as in his spiritual un-foldment.

Early in his association with the Rosicrucians of California there arose thegolden opportunity for him to displayhis devotion, defend his chosen spiritualfield of guidance, and prove himselfworthy of the honor and love that camerapidly to him. In all times and in allcircumstances he never faltered in hisdevotion, and never was silent when hemight speak a word in defense. He became Grand Master of the largest lodgein California in San Francisco, and laterdefended the Order against the malicious attacks of enemies of the organization. His tireless efforts in behalf ofthe members, his devotion to researchwork, his spiritual illumination, and thegreat love in his heart soon placed himin the position of Grand Master of allof the Grand Lodges for North America, a position which he held up to thetime of his transition.

Overwork, the ceaseless expenditureof seemingly unlimited energy, the refusal to rest and discontinue some of hismany activities, finally told on his physical body, and brought him face to face

with the great problem of measuring

one's years of future activity. Even when

those in the great national corporation

which he served for thirty-five years

expressed in their kindest and most

loving manner their serious regard for

his health and advised him to take a

long vacation under their protection and

help, he hesitated. Great problems stillhad to be solved in connection with theredevelopment and reestablishment ofmany great principles still held in theheart of the telephone company for this

district, and to these problems he continued to give his deepest thought, thewhile trying to find a little rest in hisgarden of flowers among the multitudeof members with whom he came in contact, and when the great voice of theCosmic whispered through its chosenchannels and advised him that the endof his present activities was close athand, there was but one prayer on hislips and one petition to God— that hemight be spared to live through onemore of the great annual Conventionsheld here in this Sta te and Valley. Th e

nurses in the hospital to which he wasfinally taken in order to force him intorest and relaxation, and everyone whocame in contact with him, urged him tobecome peaceful, but he proceeded alonghis chosen path and still wanderedamong the smiling flowers and spoke ofnothing else, even in the last partiallyunconscious hours, but of the Convention, the great work that was to beaccomplished by members and delegates,and the far-reaching effects of its decisions. All who saw him during these

last days of the Convention realized thatonly the will of God, and the greatdetermination on the part of our belovedGrand Master united to permit life toremain in his body until the last of thedelegates and members were starting ontheir way homeward, having declaredthe Convention duties completed andthe great work accomplished.

In his conscious moments he urgedthat his condition and his absence shouldbring no note of sadness into the activities of the Convention. He urged that

his wife, always his companion in all ofthe Rosicrucian activities and ever animportant worker at each Convention,should continued her duties even on thisoccasion despite his loneliness at timesin the little chamber room of the hospital

surrounded by trees and flowers. She

was unable to bear the separation, how

ever, and toward the end of the Con

vention week she devised ways and

means of being close to him as were the

wives of the Supreme Officers who kept

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vigil with her. And so it came aboutthat on the closing night of the Convention we offered prayers of thankfulness to God that our beloved GrandMaster was still with us, still moving

about amid the flowers of his happy,sunlit, fragrant garden.

Then came Monday midnight, July24. when the angels of the Cosmichovered closely and softened the lightsin his room and bid the flowers nodtheir heads, and we who heard andunderstood the signs gathered at hisbedside and there in the presence of thewomen who had kept the watch, andwith others standing in the shadows ofthe trees under the starry heavens, camethe call, and our beloved Grand Master

at four minutes past the midnight hourstepped through the open gateway of

his garden out onto the path andascended the mountain.

A fitting memorial will be erected tohis memory in Rosicrucian Park whereamid living flowers, symbolical of the

flowers of human life which he loved,will rest his ashes, but a greater memorial and a greater monument to hisbeautiful life and character has beenerected in the hearts and minds of everyone who knew him, and in this lovingmemory will remain and rest forever thepower of his influence, and the greatnessof his goodness. Some day our belovedGrand Master will serve us again evenmore richly than he has in the past, andin the meantime his Light moving onward and forward will be the starry

beacon to guide us on our individual jou rneys through life.

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ANCIENT SYMBOLISM

vMan. when conscious of an eternal truth, has ever symbolized it so that the

human consciousness could forever have realization of it. Nations, languag es, and

customs have changed, but these ancient designs continue to illuminate mankind with their my stic light. Fo r those who are seeking light, each month we will reproduce a symbol with its ancient meaning.

T H E H O U R G L A S S

This is another emblem which has so obvious an exo-teric meaning, that its mysti-cal interpretation Is often lost sight of. Tru ly, time is fleet-ing, and the human life on earth is like the passing of the sands.

But. to the mystics, the hour glass was not known and in its place time, meas-ured by the sun's movements, was symbolical of opportuni-ties that come and go.

In the first place, we must remember that the second, minute, and hour of time as now used, Is a manmade affair and to the mystic no such arbitrary stan dard o r gua ge could have a deep and divine significance. To the M aster mystic neither time nor space exist; both are artificial creations of man’s mind to explain away, or excuse his inability to overcome seeming obstacle.

In the Cosmic world and in the world of thought, the present is linked with the past and future. W hat was, is now, and shall be. Tho ugh t travels so instantaneously that The Word, spoken now, reaches all places as it leaves the mind and is here and there and everywh ere at the same time. Thu s time and

space are not annihilated, for they do not exist; they are not overcome for they constitute nothing to be overcome.Thus the hourglass with the wings is an emblem or symbol to remind us that time and the journey through Bpace are mere symbols themselves and that our lives on this earth are like unto the symbol—seeming conditions.



The "Cathedral of the Soul" is a Cosmic meeting place for all minds of the most advanced and highly developed spiritual members and workers of the Rosicru cian Frate rnity . It is a focal point of Cosmic radiations and thought waves from which radiate vibrations of health, peace, happiness, and inner awakening. Va riou s periods of the day are set aside when many thousands of minds are attuned with the Cathedral of the Soul, and others attuning with the Cathedral at this time will receive the benefit of the vibra-tions. Tho se w ho are not members of the organization m ay share in this unusual benefit as well as those who are members. Th e book called “Libe r 7 77 ” describes the periods for various contacts with the Cathed ral. Copies

will be sent to persons who are not members by addressing their request for this book to Friar S. P. C., care of AMORC Temple, San Jose, California, enclosing three cents in postage stamps. (Please state whether member or not—this is important. )

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musical note, and a Biblical verse wouldbe transmitted, and that we would liketo have those whose initials were asstated above report to us what they received during the contest period. W e

are happy to say that the test was highlysuccessful, and a very large number ofmembers received all of the five ideastransmitted with absolute correctness, orunusual degree of closeness to precision.In order that those who took part in thecontest may check up on what they received, we will enumerate here the ideastransmitted. T h e first was a number.Number 7 was transmitted, and nearlyevery contestant received this numbercorrectly. Th e second idea was a color, _ and blue was the color transmitted. -V

M O R C m em b erseverywhere seemgreatly interestedin the recent cont e s t b e i n g c o n ducted to test thepreciseness of ourCathedral periods.In the last contest,for instance, conducted on July 9,we stated in TheRosicrucian Digestt hat w e w o u ld

make a special contact with those members whose last names begin with theinitials N and O . W e stated that anumber, a color, a sign, or symbol, a

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This also was received by a very largemajority. One interesting fact aboutthis color was that if a wrong color wasseen by any contestant it seemed tochange later either into the correct color

or a color containing the correct color.For instance, if the first color seen wasyellow, the second color visualized wasgreen, which is equivalent to the originalyellow with the blue added to it. If thefirst color seen was red, the second colorwas purple which is equivalent to redwith the blue added to it. This presentsan interesting field for investigationThe third idea transmitted was a circlewith a triangle within it with its pointdownward, and a large dot in the centerof the triangle. It is interesting to notethat practically all of the contestantssaw either a circle, triangle, or dot,within a triangle. A few, however, hadthe triangle with the point upward intheir reports which may have beenmerely an error in drawing the design.A number also reported seeing the all-seeing eye and some drew this more orless as a circle with a dot in it. Thedesign transmitted might have lookedmuch like an eye if the triangle waseliminated. A number reported seeing across which would indicate that theyallowed their imagination to influence

them in regard to the symbol. Thefourth idea was a Biblical verse, and theone chosen was that which begins with,"Come unto me all ye that are wearyand heavy laden, etc.” Th is too wasreceived correctly by a very large number, and a few quoted other paragraphsfrom the Bible of a similar theme.Number five was a musical note, and inorder that logical reasoning and imagination should not enter into the visualization of this note, F natural was purposely chosen for this is a note seldom

used in our ceremonial work. The inter

esting part about this is that fully eightyper cent of the contestants received thecorrect note, while most of the remaindereither received middle C or F or G.Very few reported the musical note ofA which would have been the naturalselection if the imagination or logicalreasoning had been used. W h y so manychose middle C is something that isworthy of psychological investigation.

Our next contest period will be onSunday evening, September 17, beginning at six o'clock Pacific Standardtime. The time for concentration will beten minutes. Fiv e ideas will be transmitted again consisting of first a number,then a color, then an emblem, then aBiblical verse, and then a musical note.It is suggested that you have pencil andpaper at hand, and write down yourideas, and each of these five impressionsimmediately upon receiving them, forthey will be sent in the above order oneat a time following each other. W aitin guntil later to make your notations isvery apt to lead to errors. This contestwill be for those whose last name beginswith the initials P, Q , and R. Send yourreports to the Secretary to the Imperator, c/o A M O R C , San Jose, California,and mark your letter on the top of thefirst page with the words, "Special Ca

thedral Co ntact.” Mail your report assoon after the evening of September 17as possible.

All of the regular Cathedral periodsas outlined in Liber 777 will be conducted as usual and the reports comingin to us indicate that the Cathedral workis still becoming a greater factor ofservice than we ever anticipated . Untilour members and friends give these Cathedral periods an actual test for aweek or two they cannot judge all

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Attfnhor. Reade rs: Th e following article is c negative view of the d octrine of the imm ortality of self. It attem pts to reason away much tha t is accepted by the believers in the above doctrine. Does it succeed 1 To merely say that you don 't agree with it, is insufficient. Can y ou logically refute, at least to yourself, the conclusions it presents? It is presented here for the purpose of compelling tis to substantiate our own views.— E d i t o r .

IMMORTALITY

H E R E i s m u c habout m a n thatlittle distinguishesh im f r o m t h eother members of

the animal genus.By comparison hismanner of living,his methods of defense, a n d th ee r e c t i o n of hisshelter, appear exceedingly uniqueand are considered

indicative of his supreme place in theuniverse. Th ey are, however, the result of physical causes. His peregrinations, environment, and the consequentphysical and mental refinement are indisputably proven to account for thesetemporal achievements. W e may observe, for example, other contrasts inthe manner of preparation of shelternearly as extreme in the animal kingdom as we find between man and ape.Zoological and evolutionary causes alsoaccount for their differences. If man isto receive approbation it must be for hisconcepts, because of all his accomplishments they are the most apt to be credited entirely to him as not even a rude

similitude exists among the other beings.The most pronounced concept in all thephases of man's advancement of whichwe have either chronological or achaeo-logical record is immortality. The origin

of the concept of immortality corresponds with the birth of reason. It implies a reason capable of questioninginto existence. Th e conception of immortality precludes any doubt as towhether the being was conscious of hisexistence. T o contemplate immortalityit is necessary to know of a beginningand be aware of growth, development,and an approach toward an end. A manthat would have no realization of a beginning of anything could not imagineits end. Being aware of a beginning ofsomething gives rise to knowledge of

its previous apparent non-existence andresults in the logical conclusion that thatstate could re-occur. Things which havea beginning and end, or appear to have,constitute a process of change. The desire for immortality is the desire tocheck that process, for if a thing or statehas no end, then it must remain constantly as it was at the beginning.Though it may be argued that there beno end to anything, yet a change ofnature or appearance constitutes an end

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of a particular state. A conception ofimmortality that admits change of athing or state cannot confine the virtueof immortality to a single thing or state,for by that reasoning everything is immortal. In truth only that which was

without beginning and has no end andis, therefore, changeless, could be immortal. Man has found no such organic or inorganic being. Th e nearestapproach to such an ideal are the lawsinherent in being. If the laws of beingare immortal, then again by the samereasoning, all things are immortal. Ifall things are immortal, then why hasman designated certain things only assuch? Does man intentionally deceivehimself?

It is undeniable that man’s discovery

of complete change in a thing or statewas the origin of his idea of death orend. It was the realization of the ac tualization of the potentiality of the particulars about him as Aristotle has toldus. T h e apparent end of a flower comesin its complete transformation, not incolor or scent alone, but in compositionand finally its thorough disintegrationand invisibility. T he end of somethingwe therefore see, is appreciated as suchonly when it is accompanied with theperception of the beginning of some

thing else, even if it be a beginning ofan apparent state of non-existence. W ecan readily comprehend, therefore, thatthose phases of nature of which manwas cognizant and in which he couldperceive no change, were thought to beimmortal. In time man eventuallyevolved mythological beginnings for ailthings for by approximation to the number of things which were having theirbeginning daily in and about him, allthings were thought to have individualbeginnings. Th ese things, however, ofwhich man had no knowledge of their

beginning and invented one for them,

did not necessarily preclude an end for

them. Since man could perceive no

change in them he considered them im

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Ros i cruc i an covered such an immortal being. Th e

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bly from the original elements. W iththe coming of the realization of ego orself as apart from all else, there wasborn the concept of an inner spirit orentity. Th is idea of duality was further confirmed by the dream state where

the consciousness had an awareness ofthings and conditions the equivalent ofthe awakened state. W hen this etherialbeing entered the physical one, was amatter of conjecture for the earliestthinkers and remains a polymic discussion among theologians and philosophers today. Suffice to say that its entrance was not perceived by man norwas its leaving, yet it apparently remained with him until the end of theexistence of the physical. Th is ego oretherial entity resident in man was, of

course, not perceived by the senses. Heknew of it only by its effects upon him.Since it was intangible it was naturallythouqht not to be affected by the debilityof the body. It was also considered tobe immune from any injury which couldbe inflicted upon its counter part, thephysical form. Th e origin of the ideaof the indestructibility of the soul or thespirit of man, using this term in the religious sense, was because of its intangible nature. T h e idea that it wasunder the aegis of a diety was a subsequent conception and was intended to

account for its intangibility rather thanits indestructibility. Because the soulwas imagined to be indestructible it wasthen reasoned to be immortal. Th is attribute of immortality was not alone attributed to the inner essence of manthat is, to an imaginary form or substance, but to the state of consciousness. T h e soul was imagined a being,alive, capable of thinking, doing, andfunctioning in an invisible way as completely as did the body. Th e immortality of an essence not capable of ap

preciation of its existence would nothave been comprehended by man as being of himself. Even to early man. con

sciousness was self. He did not know

of the term of consciousness or its equi

valent. but he did realize his ability to

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he was. He could not conceive of asubstance of his nature being still ofhim if it lacked the faculty of knowingof its existence. As he was easily ableto distinguish between himself and hisamputated leg, so he believed that ofhim which was to be immortal was theself— that which would have awarenessof its own nature. \Ve find him, therefore, assuming that consciousness is theessential attribute of the immortalizedelement of his being. From this it appears that the conception of an immortalized form is superfluous. If the human conceives consciousness of self assoul or the spiritual entity, then logically it may be asked, why does thehuman mind persist in associating aform with that soul or self conscious

ness? W h y must the immortalized selfbe clothed in a form? Consciousness isitself formless. It is the effect of a causeand always assumes the characteristicsof its cause. W e become aware of itonly bv what it realizes.

To describe consciousness of self weproceed by describing our own natureof which we have realization . An deaof self apart from form could not becomprehended by the human mind.W h a t e v e r sensations consciousnessrealizes as self, it identifies, and the

identification becomes the form of self.W e say we know a personality or individuality. W e mean we are cognizantof certain physical and mental characteristics which are embodied in a person.If you were to eliminate one by onethese identifications which your consciousness has given to the sensationsit had received by seeing or hearingthem, then you would have destroyedthe form, the comnosite picture constructed of the person in your mind. W ecannot, as we shall see, separate sen

sation from form.A sensation to which your mind will

not give identity, you cannot realize orknow. Can you imagine seeing something which will be formless: that is.that will not suggest a distinctive shapeor by approximation appear like something else? Fo r the mind to embrace theidea of immortal existence of self it mustassociate with the self the form or per

sonality it had in the physical. Though

the mind conceives the consciousness of

self or soul as having form, the formlogically is assumed to differ in somerespects from the physical one. Th isdeduction is reached by the observationof the fragility of even the strongestbody: that is, its susceptibility to disease and injury. Fo r the immortal formof the consciousness of self which isthought to be the counter part of thephysical to endure, it must not be affected by material limitations or conditions. If it were composed of the samesubstance as the body it naturally wouldbe. The natural general conclusion isthat the immortal form of self is incorporeal. That which is of the elementsof the earth is subject to the naturalforces of which the earthly elementsare composed. Th at which is presumed

to be immune to physical law and phenomena must of necessity fall into thecategory of the immaterial. If one persists in the concept of the immortalityof the form of self after transition, reason compels the belief that it is an incorporeal form. Th e soundness of reasoning the existence of an incorporealform after transition depends on thesubstantiation of the premise that consciousness of self is immortal. The concensus of opinion is that the phase ofconsciousness which permits the reali

zation of self is distinctive from the consciousness of the world of reality. Thelatter is considered purely an organicfunction, a sensitivity to impulses whichengender sensations in the brain or whatis commonly termed the objective mind.It is conceded that with the destructionof the brain, the seat of the consciousness, awareness of the outer worldwould cease for there would be no further classification of impressions received through the sense faculties. Se lfconsciousness, on the other hand, is generally emphasized as a separate function

interrelated with the objective consciousness but not dependent upon it.It is also declared to be an affinity ofthe energy of life or soul. Th is accountsfor the terminology of subjective and

subconscious, meaning that conscious

ness which is beneath or behind the

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classification of the sense impulses.

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the inner consciousness' seeming independence at times of conditions whichaffect the outer consciousness. Anaesthetics, for example, may be appliedgradually to a subject until one by onethe faculties become dorman and with

complete suspensions of the use of thesenses there is not registered in the brainany stimuli, and accordingly, there remains no objective consciousness. However, with the suspension of objectiveconsciousness there yet remains a dreamstate when the subject recollects previous experience or combines ideas intoimaginary incidents. At times they areso vivid that when the objective consciousness is revived the subject can relate them and at other times he is merelyaware of having dreamed or experienced

sensations which are too vague, too obscure in the memory to recall. Th iswould appear to be a demonstration ofthe duality of consciousness and thesupport of the popular theory of aninner, separate consciousness. But letus analyze further. If we can maintaina new theory seemingly an infallible asthe former.— a theory of single consciousness but with a dual manifestation,—we have at least established our rightto challenge the former theory.

W e shall proceed with the axiom

that consciousness is a sensitivity ofmind to impulses registered upon itwhich results in a realization of the impulses through the sensations generated.There is a process of classification of thesensations which confers identity uponthem and they become objects of knowledge, things we know. It is rational toconclude that the more intense the impulse registered in the consciousness, themore pronounced the sensation. Th erefore, those sensations which are themost prominent will be the ones of

which the mind will be most conscious.In a room in which a subject may beseated if there are no extreme odors,nothing to particularly attract the senseof vision, or to affect the senses of tasting and feeling, the attention of the sub je ct would be focused on any ex trao rdinary noise that might exist. Th iswould be because of the greater intensity of the vibrations received at thattime through the faculty of hearing. W emay, therefore, conclude that the mostintense of the vibratory impulses re

ceived by a faculty would dominate theconsciousness. Let us conceive of theconsciousness, for an analogy, as a smalliron ball suspended in the cranium andall vibrations which are detectable bythe consciousness as a magnetic flow

in the direction of this iron ball. Letus further imagine that this iron ball,the consciousness, is free within a spacein the cranium and capable of moving.If there were two flows of magnetism,one from without the cranium and onefrom deep within it, what would be theresult? Whichever magnetic flow wasthe most vigorous would attract the ironball and it would move in that direction.Assuming that the magnetic flow fromwithout the cranium are the impulseswhich accentuate the objective senses

and that it is the most vigorous of thetwo for the moment, the consciousnesswould be predominantly objective. W iththe diminishing of the outer flow whichwe can correspond to the suppressionof the senses or to insensibility, the inner flow would be superior in attractionand would draw the iron ball, the consciousness, to it. W e can without effortimagine a state of balance where theattraction from within and withoutwould be equal. Such a state would betermed a condition of harmonious consciousness, an equal awareness of exterior things and of self, popularlytermed a normal mind. Our theorem isthat there is but one consciousness withthe attribute of dual perception. W h atis termed objective consciousness is theextraspection, and subconscious introversion of the same consciousness.The suspension of objective consciousness or the phase of extraspection ofconsciousness will not end realization ofself. T he order of life energy, which isits very nature, we may term intelligence. W e designate it such because of

its persistent concern for its we lfare . Itreacts to every condition which disturbsits rhythmic nature. Th ese disturbancesproduce impulses within our being whichfind their seat in our consciousness in thenature of sensations which we designateas emotions. In the higher developed organisms such as man, not only are thesesensations realized but the reason analyzes them. Th is analysis of realization results in consciousness of self. Theelimination of exterior impulses which

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would shut out all knowledge or realityof the world would not mitigate one iotaself consciousness. It is because of thepersistence of self consciousness evenwhen insensibility has occurred, that it is

stated to be related to soul or life force.W ith the destruction of brain, the seatof sensitivity to impressions resulting inconsciousness, consciousness ceases tobe. Th is would apply to either phase ofconsciousness, awareness of self, and ofthings apart from self. It is a simplematter to demonstrate the suspension ofthe outer phase of consciousness butnaturally difficult to materially prove tothe skeptic that self consciousness ceasesat transition. But since self consciousness can be indicated only by the actionsof the being, we can deduce that with

the end of acts which denote self consciousness, it has ceased. W h en w e areunable to arouse objective consciousnessin an individual it is said to have ended.From our view, as set forth herein, wewould say consciousness has enteredinto a state of introversion, a turningwithin, unless of course, transition hasoccurred.

However, using the same premise,why can we not conclude that when weare unable to produce manifestations ofself consciousness after transition, it toohas ended? Accepting the propositionthat consciousness is the realization ofimpressions registered in the brainwhether from the interior of the beingor from without, realization of self is.therefore, dependent upon the organ ofbrain. In addition , if consciousness is tobe the consequence of exterior impressions such as light and sound w.aves, theimpulses that we feel, taste, and smell,then the senses are needed. T h e supersensitivity that is aroused to consciousness may exist without the senses but it

is not consciousness until so aroused.T he question may be asked: W hic h wasprior, the cause of consciousness orthe senses?

Consciousness, as previously stated, isan effect, but the cause, the supersensitivity, must have preceded thesenses. Th is is deduced from thepremise that the senses serve the interestof th^ life force. T hey convey to thebrain through the nervous system impulses which produce sensations eitherbeneficial to the harmony of the life

force or injurious to it. If the sensesexisted first there would have been noorganic mechanism for the transmutation of the impulses into sensations andtheir functions would have been useless.

The sensitivity of the life force is acharacteristic of life, whereas the sensesare but a complexity of the functionsof life.

Self has no existence apart frombeing. W he n self is realized, as previously stated, that self has form. Th eform is its identity. If you remove theidentity or form, self has no being, noexistence. W e may look at it in thisway. Can you conceive of a lightisolated from its source: that is, it notbeing radiated from anything? You may

say that the light waves in their natureare different from the cause of the light,yet you cannot separate them from thatwhich produced them or they wouldhave no existence. Consciousness of selfmay be a state different than that of thephysical body or gross matter, yet theconsciousness of self cannot be severedfrom that body and still have existence.W ith the destruction of animate beingself ceases to exist. It has been assertedthat since it is the order of life force,erroneously referred to as intelligence,which when disturbed produces sensations which incite consciousness ofself, that therefore, the inner beingor self is immortal. Th e suppositionfor this is that life is the consequence of the unity of two phasesof universal Cosmic motion. Th ese twophases separated would end the thirdcondition, or life, but not either of thetwo fundamental causes. T hat is logicalenough but they further argue that because the life force is either a separatephase of Cosmic motion or the combination of two others, it is immortal because

Cosmic forces are immutable and indestructible. Further, that since life energyis the cause of consciousness of the egotherefore, this ego or self is immortal.That conclusion in its entirity is unsound because admittedly all universalenergies are indestructible and thereforeeligible to the status of immortality. Yet,as we have seen, what man regards ashis immortal nature is the continuedcognizance of his identity, self awareness, the ego, not merely a vital energycapable of achievement but not able to

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perceive that capability. Fo r an addedsimile, we may liken self consciousnessto a mirror in which life reflects itself forthe duration of its embodiment in itsparticular form. Life , whether it had thevirtue of self consciousness or not, would

and does function, but it could notappreciate its own functioning. W ithhigher organisms like man, the characteristics of life energy existing withinthe being, are impressed on the sensitivity of the brain producing consciousnessof itself like an object before a mirror reflects its own image. As the destructionof the mirror would discontinue the reflection of the image, so at transition thedestruction of brain would end consciousness and the mental image of selfwould cease. It may be held that the

destruction of the mirror would endmerely the reflection, not the actualobject. But the conception of immortality embraces the idea of the continuance of only the reflected image, theconsciousness of self, not the body. It isalso contended by the exponents ofimmortality that once self has beenrealized, once the object has been reflected in the mirror, the memory of theimage remains even after the end of thereflection. Th is constitutes the doctrineof the immortality of the memory ofself. Th is reasoning is based upon thepremise that once the idea of self is hadit imposes an indelible impression thatcannot be removed. But upon what, maybe asked, is this indelible impression ofself made? If consciousness is a consequence of the organ of brain, then whatever in man’s nature may be immortal,such as the energy of life, if after transition it does not have that organ of brainany longer, it could not have memoryof itself. Th is is because memory is anattribute of brain. Are we to presumethat a phase of Cosmic motion such as

life force, is to be affected by the manifestations of its own nature? Are we tounderstand that an eventuality can affectits own cause? If an effect could alterthe cause then with the change of thecause, there would be a different effect.Universal forces cannot be altered bytheir various expressions or they wouldno longer be dependable. Such a condition would result in chaos. W e have seenthat life force is either a result of twoother universal energies or a distinct

phase of Cosmic motion and withoutbeing resident in a highly developed organism it has no consciousness; therefore, when consciousness, ceases, memory also ends. Even, therefore, if theenergy of life was immortal without

matter, the memory of self could not beimmortal. Life force without consciousness can be compared to an object without consciousness and such an objectwould not be affected by any previousreflection of its image in a mirror. W iththe removal of the mirror would go thereflection. The object would not haveany change in its nature because of thereflections. In other words, life forcewould not in any way be affected because it previously had consciousness ofself. W ith the destruction of conscious

ness, even if we imagined the continuedexistence of life force, life force could nothave memory of its consciousness of self.

There are constantly chronicled psychic experiences which appear indicativeof a psychic bondage between speciesof higher organic life such as man.Impartial scientific investigation in thatbranch of psychology known as psychical research has proven veritablecases of psychic phenomena. Th ey consist of such experiences as knowledge ofoccurrences transpiring in distant places

and reception of thoughts from a distant person. Th ese are held by manypersons as proof of the unity of thepsychic nature of all human life. Bypsychic nature they mean the psychicessence of man’s being which resolvesdown to the energy of life with itsalleged intelligence and which animatesall living things. Is this truly a logicalexplanation of psychic phenomena? Thefirst question to be answered quite obviously is; Is anything which has in itsnature that which something else has,bound to it because of that common

essence? W e may best approach thisanswer by asking another question:W hat is individuality?

Two things may be identical in nature and form yet are separate if we areaware of a state of difference betweenthem. Fo r anology: Tw o apples identical in shape, color, size, etc., are, nevertheless, appreciated by the mind as separate if there exists between them anotherobject of a different nature or a condition such as space. As long as the con

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sciousness is able to comprehend a separation between two similar objects theyare not one. Without entering a polymicdiscussion on the nature of life whichhas been done in past essays, we can

realize that life always manifests itselfinto a form with certain general characteristics which assures us that life doesnot exist without form and without itsproperties. T hat being so, each specie isa separate unit of life, of the same familyor classification perhaps, but individualmanifestations. T he life force in eachhuman would naturally be the sameforce. Y et . in the form in which i t is. itis isolated from any other form.

The life force is not the psychic bondit is thought to be we shall see. Assuming the common concept that life force

as it flows through all life unites all life,even so the units of living matter orspecies are separate and we have seenthat life force has no consciousness ofits own and could not therefore, have anappreciation of its residence in each ofthe separate living things. Consciousness is isolated in the unit of livingmatter. Th erefore, it has no otherawareness of its nature except in thesingle body in which it is confined.This does not deny psychic phenomenabut does debate the theory of the unityof life in all beings and the theory thatthat is the cause of psychic phenomena.

To the present our discussion of consciousness has been quite general in sofar as its nature is concerned and it is inconsciousness that we will find theanswer to the explanation of psychicphenomena. Consciousness is sensationand sensation is caused bv impulseswhich generate the sensations. Th isstatement may seem circumlocutory butin reality it is not, as we shall see. Theprocess which produces consciousness istriune in its nature. T he entire body is

infused with the life force, every minutecell and every organ of the body. Th enatural rhythm of the animate being is,therefore, the rhythm of the life force.Accepting the brain as the foundationalplexus of all impulses registered on thenervous system of the being, the inherent impulses of life itself would notregister any effect in the brain as it itselfwould be composed of that same rhythmic energy. Fo r an analogy: If we havea black slate an inscription on that slate

in the same shade of black would leaveno visible impression. The old axiomholds good: A thing which is the sameas something else is of the same nature.The physical forces exterior to man as.

for example, sound and light waveswhose impulses are conveyed to thebrain by the nervous system and throughthe organs of sense, would be extraneousto the natural rhythm of the life force.W hen this foreign impulse would be received through the nervous system andwould be superimposed upon this harmonious rhythmic field of life energythere would result a condition of eitherattraction or repulsion of these twoenergies. Th is encounter would resultin a third rhythmic impulse which wouldbe in contrast to both the rhythmic im

pulses of the life energy and the foreignimpulses. This third impulse is sensation. To further explain this point wemay use as an illustration a small streamof water with two boys standing twentyfeet apart, on opposite banks of thestream. Each throws a rock into thestream at his feet. One boy’s rock islarge; the other small. T h e ripples orwaves extending from thp surface wherethe large rock struck the stream wouldbe different from those where the smallrock struck the water. On e would havegreater intensity than the other. W hen

the ripples caused by the rocks encountered each other in midstream wecan easily visualize the result. Th eywould unite and form waves of differentintensity than either of the two originalundulations. W e reiterate, the third impulse is sensation. The impulses received through the senses which encounter the rhythmic impulses of thelife force produce this third impulsewhich is sensation. The se sensations areof two general classes. On e class ispleasurable and the other is not. Th osewhich are harmonious to the life rhvthmare pleasing and we term those sensations as pleasurable emotions. Th os ewhich are injurious or apt to permanently disturb the life rhythm, are painful and are also designated as emotions.The mechanical construction of the organ of brain nermits of the segregationand classification of the sensations as wewould class ify books in a library. Th econtinuous repetition of sensations oflike nature give them distinction or

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identity. Th is identity of sensation isconsciousness. Th e continuous reception of light waves of a certain frequency producing identical sensationseach time they are received result inconferring identity upon them by con

trast with other sensations and we thenrealize, for example, the color of redor blue. Th is identification of sensationsevolves the ideas of reality. It gives usawareness of the world of things inwhich we dwell. W e must realize, however, that if no exterior impulses wereregistered in the brain there would beno sensations and consequently no stateof consciousness. Th is may appear atfirst glance as contradictory to what wasformerly stated, but in reality it is not.W e realize that previously we stated

that the objective faculties could besuppressed and consciousness wouldcontinue in another phase of its application but that is so only when consciousness has existed prior to insensibility.W e have seen that sensations generatedor classified are retained by the brain ina state we call memory. W he n thesenses are destroyed it is impossible toperceive exterior stimuli. Th ere can beno further consciousness of the world ofthings but consciousness is still possible,consciousness of self. T he recollection

of the sensations previously registeredreenact the mental processes. Th e sensations produce the original impulsesand we are cognizant once again of theirparticular relation to the rhythm of life.W e feel, I use this term for analogy, theoriginal pleasure or pain which we firstexperienced. If we had not first hadthe experience of the exterior impulseswe would not only have no objectiveconsciousness but no consciousness ofself, for there would be nothing to excitethe rhythmic energy of life, nothing toproduce sensations from within whichwe know as emotions. Aristo tle's theoryof reason, the syllogism, confirms thisproposition. Tw o premises united produce the third which is the conclusionand arises from the other two. Reasonis the combining of sensations whichproduce a third sensation. Impulses, wehave seen, produce sensations whichthrough a functional process of the mindare classified. Th es e sensations aretherefore units of mental energy each ofa different vibratory rate as, for example,

our illustration of the undulations in thestream caused by the boys throwing therocks. W he n they are brought togetherthe vibratory rates of both are combinedand from their unity a new rate is produced and therefore a new sensation.

W ith this theorem the experience of inspiration is not so mysterious as generally conceded. Inspiration is the unintentional combination of sensationswhich because of their originality to us,are startling and mystifying. Even thenormal process of reasoning is merelythe fortunate combination of the sensations. It is impossible to determine inadvance what the third sensation will be,or in other words, the conclusion of asyllogism. Hig hly developed reason ismerely a precise selection through recol

lection of such sensations as will, whencombined, produce a third sensationnearest approaching an ideal.

The ability to successfully combinethese sensations and retain memory ofthe combination is what we refer to asintellect. Th is ability is an organic development and like other organic developments may be transmitted from onegeneration to another.

T o come back to our theme. If, asmaintained, immortality of self is notlogical and psychic phenomena thoughadmitted is denied as the outcome of theunity of life force, what is the cause ofthis phenomena? Perhaps the answer tothe following question will help us. Hasconsciousness the ability to transmititself? W e have stated that consciousness is an energy generated in the mindand we have surmised the manner inwhich it was accomplished . If it is anenergy it is a ohase of Cosmic motionand it is subject to the same principlesthat all other energies of the universeare. T he first essential principle is that

it would not be destructible. Th is statement may appear paradoxical in comparison to a previous one wherein wesaid consciousness ceased when the organ of brain was destroyed. Th e energy of consciousness, as consciousness,would cease at transition, but the energyitself would be converted into someother phase of motion of another vibratory rate entirely dissimilar from its previous nature. En ergy c annot be destroyed but its nature can be changed.Consciousness or the thoughts of which

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it is composed, does like other energies, have an harmonic above andbeneath its fundamental vibratory rateor frequency. Th os e who are familiarwith music know that each true note has

an harmonic in an octave above and below the fundamental. A sensation ofconsciousness commonly understood asa thought, would have a superdelicateradiating harmonic impulse. Because ofits extremely high vibratory rate in thescale of motion, it would not be opposedby any form of gross matter and therefore, neither limited by time or space; inother words, capable of penetratinganything which exists. W ith the conclusion that the energy of thought orconsciousness can be transmitted byvirtue of the same fundamental prin

ciples underlying all energies, our nextquestion is: Is there an equally soundprocess of mental mechanics for its reception? Th is must be understood! Th esame thought generated by two individuals would be of different vibratoryintensity in most instances due to thevariation of physical organisms. Th edifferences in brain, nervous system,etc., would be sufficient for considerablevariation even though the subject of thethought might be the same. W e mayuse the analogy of two boys each with

a baseball. Th e baseball each had mightbe alike in size and weight but thephysical nature of each boy might be sodifferent that one could throw the ballmuch further than the other. If we had

two individuals of exact mental sameness or nearly so, the mental sensitivityof one would be very much attuned or inresonance with the infinitesimal harmonicradiations of the consciousness of the

other. Th e reception of those imoulseswould generate sensations of consciousness in the mind of the one receivingthem in the manner previously definedand corresponding to those existing inthe consciousness of the transmitter. Itwould not only require that the recepientbe mentally similar to the transmitterbut that he practically completely eliminate from his consciousness all exteriorimpressions. It would require an introversion of consciousness on the part ofthe receiver. T he ex terior impulses received through the senses would be so

vigorous, as to so occupy the consciousness that no reception of transmittedthought would be possible unless he endeavored to suppress them or was in astate of passiveness of mind. Reco gnition by the scientific world of the fundamentals of transmission of thought orconsciousness is but a short time off. Asto the isolation of consciousness of self:that is, the conception of immortality ofego, it is as yet not demonstrable. Fo rthe millions who feel the need andnecessity of this conception of immor

tality of self, let us hope that the inability to rationally demonstrate it atpresent is because of the inadequacy ofthe human mind to fathom the infiniteprinciple by which it is governed.

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ROSICRUCIAN SUPREME TEMPLE MEETINGS

Starting with Tuesday, August 29 the usual weekly periods of meditation and the

intonation of vowel sounds will be resumed in the Supreme Temple of the Order, Rosi-

crucian Park, San Jose, California. These sessions begin at 7:30 P. M. All Rosicrucian

members of an y grade of the organization are invited to attend. W he the r you live in

the vicinity of the Grand Lodge or whether you are traveling through the State, arrange

to participate in these mystical exercises which you will find most inspiring and

beneficial.

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ST. THOMAS AQUINASEach month there will appear excerpts from the writings of famous thinkers and

teachers of the past. This will give our readers an op portunity of knowing these lives

through the presentation of writing s which typify their though ts. Occasionally, such writers will be presented through the translation or interpretation of other eminent authors or thinkers of the past. This month we bring to you St. Thom as Aquinas.

St. Thomas Aquinas lived during the era of renaissance of knowledge, the time when learnin g was being restore d. He was born in 1225 in a little town outside of Naples, Italy.At the age of seventeen he joined the Dominican Order and became a student of the other famous scholastic philosopher, Albertus Magnus of Cologne. His duties necessarily made him take an active part in the various church affairs, but he did an enormous amount of work in theology and philosophy.

He was a typical scholastic, well learned in Latin and in Greek, and an ardent student and adm irer of Aristotle. He attempted to establish a new system of knowledge by com-bining the scientific methods of Aristotle with the theological ones of the church. He recognized two different forms of knowledge.

First, Divine Revelation, inspiration, or, as we would say, Cosmic attunement, wherein man receives an influx into his consciousness of Infinite Wisdom which expresses itself outwardly. The other form of knowledge was that expounded by Aristotle—observation of the facts of reality through the senses and the classification of them by the reason. He considered, however, that both of these forms of knowledge had their source in God.

W e ma y see fro m th is th at St. Thom as Aq uina s wa s a tr ue m etap hys ic ian. H e died March 7, 1274. Below we bring to you exce rpts from his writings on the theory of

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THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE

H E R E are cer ta in i n t e l l e c t u a l s u b stances which are called immaterial.

The substancesmentioned beforethat we called immaterial are neces

sarily also intellectual. Anything, indeed, is intellectualwhich is free frommatter because ofits very nature to

be known can mean only to be perceived. for to be actually intelligible andan intellect in activity are the samethings.

It is clear, moreover, that anythingis actually intelligible when it is sep

arated from matter, for we cannot haveintellectual knowledge of material thingsexcept by abstracting it from the matterof the thing. Hence the same judgmentmust be given concerning the intellect,that what are immaterial are also intellectual. Fo r example, the immaterialsubstances are the first and highest in

rank among individual things, for actuality naturally precedes potentiality.Moreover, the intellect appears superiorto all other things, for the intellect usesbodies as instruments. Immaterial substances must, therefore, be intellectual.To this purpose as much as some thingsamong individual things are of highergrade, so much the more do they approach to the likeness of God. W e seethings of the lowest grade to participate in the divine nature only so far as

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to exist, although inanimate; that somethings, such as plants, both exist andlive; that some, such as animals, evenknow things; but that the highest gradeof existence and the one approaching

the nearest to God is in the understanding. Hence the highest creaturesare intellectual and because of their approach nearer to the likeness of Godthan any other creature they are saidto be made in the likeness of God.

That substance through which man knows is the lowest in order of intellectual substances.

Since, moreover, it is not possible inthe case of things to proceed to an infinite number of orders, just as therewas found the highest substance amongthose previously mentioned which approached nearest to God, so there isnecessarily found a lowest one whichapproaches nearest to corporeal matter,and this indeed can be made plain. Fo rto knoiv places man above the otheranimals. It is clear that man alone understands gpneral truths and the customs of things and immaterial thingswhich are perceived only through intelligence. It is impossible, moreover, thatto know is an act exercised through thebodily organism the same as sight is a

function of the eye. It is necessary thatthe whole instrument of knowledgeshould be free from that kind of a thingwhich is known through itself; just asthe pupil is free from colors of its own.So, indeed, colors are recognized insofar as the kinds of color are received inthe pupil, but the receiving part must befree from that which is received. Th eintellect knows all natural things ofsense. If, then, it knows through abodily organ, that organ must be freefrom any natural sensible thing, which

is impossible; for example, every reasonknows things that can be known by thespecies (general truths) becoming knownto itself, for this is its first principle ofknowledge. T he intellect, moreover,knows things in an immaterial way, eventhose things that are in their very naturemateria], by selecting the universal form(or truth) from the individual materialconditions. It is impossible, therefore ,that the genus of a thing known in theintellect is material. The refo re, it is notknown through some bodily organ, for

every bodily organ is material. In thesame way it appears from this that thesense is weakened and destroyed by toomuch sensibility, just as hearing bygreat noises or sight by things too

bright, which happens because the harmony of the organism is destroyed; butthe intellect grows stronger by the excellence of the things it knows, for hethat knows the higher things is able notonly to know other things but to knowthem better. So, therefore, since man isfound to be intelligent, and knowledgedoes not come through a bodily organ,there must be some other incorporealsubstance through which man knows.For since this is able to be done withoutthe body, the essence of it does not depend upon the body. Fo r all characteristics and forms which cannot exist ofthemselves without the body are notable to act except through the body.Thus heat does not become hot throughitself, but the body becomes hot throughheat. Th at incorporeal substance, therefore, through which man knows is thelowest in kind of intellectual substancesand the nearest approach to matter.

Concerning the characteristic of the intellect and the pro cess o f know ledge.

Since, moreover, to be intelligent is

a higher grade of existence than to besensible, just as the intellect is higherthan the senses; and since, moreover,the things lower in the order of being,imitate the higher, just as the corporealthings, subject to generation and destruction, imitate the cycle of the heavenly bodies; so things of sense must beassimilated in their own way to thingsintelligible, and so, from the likeness ofsensory things (to us), we are able toarrive at the knowledge of intelligiblethings. Th ere is, moreover, in sensibles

something of the highest grade that isactive, such as the form (plan), andsomething of the lowest grade that isonly potential, which is matter; alsosomething intermediate compounded ofmatter and form. So also in the intelligible nature, for the highest intellectuality, which is God, is pure activity.The other intellectual substances arethose having something of the activeand potential after the nature of anintelligible being. Th e lowest of the intellectual substances through which man

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knows is only in potentiality, like anintelligible being. Th is is witnessed bythe fact that man is found in the beginning only potentially intelligent, andafterwards, little by little, is led to active intelligence — and thence that

through which man knows is called a posi tive in te llec t.

That the possible intellect in man receives intelligible forms from sensory things.

Since it is true, as said that by asmuch as the intellectual nature is thehigher, it has more general intelligibleideas, it follows that the human intellect,which we called possible, has less general ideas than other intellectual substances, and thence it is that it receivesintelligible forms from sensory things.

This is also evident in another way, ifone considers. Fo r the form must beproportionate to the susceptibility. Justas the possible human intellect amongintellectual substances is found nearerto the corporeal matter, so it is necessary that its forms be nearest to material things.

That man needs potential sensory things for the understanding.

W e must consider, also, that forms(truths) in corporeal things are individual and have a material existence;

that in the intellect they are general andimmaterial; which indeed shows the wayin which we learn. Fo r we know thingsuniversally and immaterially. T he operation of understanding through intelligible forms (general truths, etc.), bywhich we understand, necessarily follows. Since one cannot pass from extreme to extreme save through a medium,the forms from corporeal things mustpass to the intellect through somemedium. O f such a nature are the potential sensory substances (qualities)that receive the forms of material things

without the matter. T he form of thestone comes to the eye, but not thematter, yet the forms of things in particular are received in the potential sensory substances (qualities); for in thesepotential sensory qualities we know onlyparticulars. There fore , it is necessaryfor man, in order to learn, to havesenses. Th e proof of this is that if a

sense is lacking a man lacks all knowledge of the sensory facts which are understood through that sense, just as aman born blind has no idea whatever ofcolor.

That i t is necessary to presuppose an active intellect.

From the above it is plain that theknowledge of things in our intellect isnot caused through participation, or bythe influx, in the act of knowing, of certain forms existing in themselves, asPlato believed, and others following him,but the intellect acquires knowledgefrom sensible things through mediatingsenses. But since in potential sensorythings the forms are particular, as hasbeen said, they are not actively intelligent but only potentially intelligible. The

mind, indeed, does not know universals,moreover; it exists potentially; it is notled to activity except by some otheragent. Th erefo re, there must be someother agent which makes forms existingin potentially intelligible things to beactually intelligible. T he human intellect cannot do this for it is itself morepotentially intelligible than actively so.It is necessary then to presuppose another intellect which makes forms potentially intelligible to be actively so, just as light makes colors that are po

tentially visible be actually visible, andthis we call the active intellect, whichwould not have to be supposed if formswere themselves actually intelligible, asthe Platonists have said. Therefo re, inknowing there must be first our possibleintellect which receives the intelligibleforms, and, second, an active intellectwhich makes these forms actuallv intelligible. Since the intellect is perfectedthrough intelligible forms so that it canuse them as it wishes, midway betweenmere potentiality and complete activity.

Since it also holds the general truthsbefore mentioned in complete activityit is called the active intellect for it actively comprehends a things when theclass of the thing has been made a formof the active intellect. The refo re, it issaid that the active intellect is knowledge and activity.

— Compendium Theologiae.

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Report of the International ConventionROSICRUCIANS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WESTERN

WORLD IN JOYOUS CELEBRATION

Record ed Dai l y by T h e C o n v e n t i o n S e c r e t a r y

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H E great Convent ion of Rosicrucians is now underway . Mu ch to thesurprise of all ofus it is the largestand most widelyattended of all the

C o n v e n t i o n s w ehave e ve r he l d .The Cosmic hadwarned us to beprepared for manyimportant events

in connection with this Convention, andwe had laid careful plans to bring beforethe members and delegates many seriousand timely matters. Nevertheless, manyeminent authorities warned us thatbecause of theso-called depressionthroughout the country we should not

anticipate a very large attendance. Th eCosmic was right in its warnings, however, and we were prepared. For awhole week preceding the opening ofthe Convention members arrived fromevery corner and part of the continentso that on the opening day of the Convention, Sunday, July 16, we had tostart making registrations hours beforethp auditorium was opened for the firstsession in the evening. Be fore sixo'clock in the evening over five hundredmembers and delegates had registered

and each minute of the evening hoursbrought more and more until when themoment arrived for the Supreme Secretary to step upon the platform and declare the Convention open, the largeauditorium was packed to its capacity.Never before in the history of our manyyears of Conventions have we seen so

large an assemblage for the openingsession. On e glance over the audiencewith the hundreds of smiling faces, thecheerful, healthy, prosperous, enthusiastic expressions, made one feel that ifthere had been any depression in thisWestern World continent it most certainly had not affected the Rosicrucians.

The Opening Session

The opening session started tonightwith an invocation made by the Rever

end Dr. Charles S. Knight, a clergymanof this city who is also a well-knownwriter and author, and whose newbook dealing with the secret, scientificprophecies of the Great Pyramid ofEgypt will soon be published byA M O R C .

Dr. Knight's invocation sounded thesad note that is pervading the entireConvention, and has brought themembership into closer contact than anyother incident during our present cycle

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of existence. He petitioned God andthe Heavenly Hosts to bring health,strength, and life eternal into the mindsand hearts of all beings, and at the verymoment that he uttered these words werealized the sad fact that our greatly

beloved Grand Master, Charles Dean,was lying in a hospital not far from theauditorium in a state of coma and thathis life was despaired of because of theillness that came upon him graduallyduring the past few weeks due to a veryserious breakdown from overwork.

After the invocation several of thecity officials representing also the CityCouncil and the Junior and SeniorChamber of Commerce made welcomingspeeches to the Convention in whichthey praised highly the value of the organization and its activities in localaffairs, and paid high respects to theImperator as a citizen, a civic worker,a friend ,and a leader in many humanitarian, social and educational activities.

The Supreme Secretary then introduced the members of the official staff atheadquarters, each of whom made abrief address sounding the keynote ofthe Convention, and followed this by areading of some of the many letters,telegrams, cablegrams, and radio mes

sages from the officers of the Rosicrucian Ord er throughout the world. Heasked for volunteers on a committee totake charge of the portfolio of greetingsthat had been received from foreign

jurisdictions in ord er that these communications might be passed among allthe members during the week, and carefully read and examined. He took occasion to read to the Convention a few ofthese communications, especially the onefrom Mr. Thor Kiimalehto, the firstSecretary-General of the organization,and still one of its enthusiastic members.

He also read a long cablegram fromthe Inspector-General of AM O RC forNorth America in foreign lands, ArthurRoberts, the eminent scientist, whoannounced in his cablegram that throughthe working out of some of the laws and

T h e principles contained in the RosicrucianRosicrucian teachings he had succeeded in evolvingr\' * a new liquid fuel which would supplant

o 5 the many expensive liquid fuels nowS e p t e m b e r being used throughout the world. The1 9 3 3 Imperator then asked for volunteers to

form a committee to examine the largebooks containing all of the A M O R Ccharters, letters of patents, and papersof authenticity received by the Imperator since the year 1909 . Th is committee,composed of members from all parts of

North America, will permit every member and delegate to examine these important documents and verify thembefore the Convention closes.

The Imperator then made referenceto the recent law suit conducted in theSuperior Court in San Jose, in whichcase the Judge rendered a decision infavor of AM O R C as against the groupof conspirators who had been devotinga number of years to a very extensivecampaign of vilification for the purposeof injuring the good name and reputation of A M O R C . Th e Imperator calledattention to the fact that after AMORChad submitted to the court all of itsevidence of authority and genuineness,and the conspirators had been unable toproduce a single piece of evidence tosupport their contentions and even refused to answer questions “because suchanswers might tend to incriminate themof felony,” the Judge rendered anopinion which contained a strong condemnation of the activities of theseconspirators. Th e Imperator read from

the official court records a part of the Judge's opinion in the following words:

“The unity of purpose, the concertand action of the defendant Smith, theformer defendant Thomas, and of thethree or other persons named in thecomplaint, have not only been proven,but admitted by the defendant himselfon the stand, and these constitute whatis termed a conspiracy.” T he findingsof the Judge as signed by him show acomplete refutation of all the chargesmade by these conspirators and establish the fact that A M O R C is preciselyall it has always claimed to be and hasnever been involved in any questionableposition regarding its authenticity, genuineness, affiliations, purpose, or methodof procedure.

At the Convention last year the delegates and members unanimously votedthat the administration officers ofA M O R C should take action againstthese conspirators because of their ma-

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licious defamation of A M O R C and itsofficers. T he members assembled at thispresent Convention were astounded tolearn that in the evidence submitted tothe court in the form of correspondenceseized in the home of the conspirators by the Sheriff, it was revealed that theleaders of two or three other so-calledRosicrucian organizations in Americahad been participants in the conspiracy,furnishing money to the conspiratorsand advising them how to proceed intheir malicious and secret activities withthe expressed hope of receiving somepersonal benefit if A M O R C could inany way be closed down in its activities,and entirely eliminated from every fieldof activity. Among the persons revealedin the correspondence as assisting these

conspirators were Alfred H. Saundersof New York City, a Mr. Daines ofCalgary. Canada, a Miss Myrtle Craneof Detroit, Michigan, a Mr. E. E.Thomas of Los Angeles, a Mrs. MaxHeindel, head of the so-called Rosicrucian Fel lowship of Oceanside, California, and a Mr. R. Swinburne Clymerwho is at the head of a so-called Rosi crucian Publishing Company in Pennsylvania, and several others. Perhaps neverbefore in the history of fraternal organizations in the W este rn W orld was there

ever revealed such a carefully organizedbody of conspirators working entirelywithout any sincerity or noble purpose,and so evidently hoping to derive personal benefits as a consequence of theiractivities. Even the strangers in thecourt-room when the case was triedexpressed extreme surprise when thedetails of the malicious activities wererevealed.

At the close of the Imperator’s officialaddress he consented to give anotherdemonstration of the color organ, and

was assisted by Professor George Ebert,the eminent organist, and Colombe RuthPrell of San Francisco, who danced theTemple Fire Dance before the screen ofcolored lights, illustrating the placetaken in music by rhythm, and theeffects of the combinations of color,

sound, and motion as produced through

this color organ . Among the musical

compositions played on the color organ

were special tone poems and chants

composed by our Brother Hughes of

England, who is an eminent organist.Brother Lang of New York, and others.

The Second Session

Monday morning the delegates and

members continued to arrive and Rosicrucian Park is now a riot of color composed of the attractive summer costumesworn by the women attending the Convention, the banners, flowers, streamersand other things which make thegrounds and various buildings attractive. In every department of the Ad ministration Building and in the Museum, Laboratory, Auditorium, Temple,Shrine, and other places members werebeing escorted by hostesses and guides,while committee meetings were being

held in nooks and corners, and otherswere busy making social contacts. B ecause of the growth and development ofthe junior organization this Conventionis unique in the number of childrenattending.

At two o'clock in the afternoon thesecond session of the Convention washeld with addresses by several of theofficers, followed by an open Forum conducted by the Imperator during whichvarious committees were appointed andput to work, and the general problems

of propaganda were discussed by thedelegates and official representatives ofeach district. During the discussion itwas revealed that the delegates andrepresentatives, as well as the memberspresent, were in perfect agreement inindorsing the present form of advertising and publicity used by A M O RC . Aquestion had arisen as to the nature ofthis advertising and methods for extending it. One representative expressed acriticism of the advertising, as told toher by a prospective member, and the

result of the discussion was that themembers and delegates at the Convention unanimously indorsed the presentform and methods of advertising andpropaganda as absolutely necessary inthe face of the unfair competitioncreated and maintained by a number of

organizations falsely pretending to be

truly Rosicrucian. Literature was pre

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that a so-called mystic university in

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throughout the country claiming that itheld a charter from the Gr e a t Wh i t e Br o t h e r h o o d authorizing it to presentEastern and Western teachings inNorth America, including extracts fromthe A M O R C pamphlets and lessons.

The Imperator then presented to theConvention several letters written to theuniversity in Florida informing it that itdid not have any right to claim that itwas chartered by the Gr e a t Wh i t e Brotherhood , and had no right to claimto be Rosicrucian in spirit or purpose.

He also read a letter from the chiefexecutive of that organization in Floridaaddressed to him in which it was admitted that the university in Florida did not have a charter from the Gre at W hit eBrotherhood, and that the statement in

their literature to that effect was untrue.This and other extracts from literatureissued by Clymer of Pennsylvania, andthe so-called Rosicrucian Fellowship ofSouthern California, revealed that theirpretentions to be the genuine Rosicrucian organizations were inconsistentwith the facts revealed in charters anddocuments that had been presented incourt and were available to all of thedelegates present. Th is form of competition in America was unanimouslycondemned by the delegates and mem

bers present, and plans were immediately discussed for the further activitiesof the Vigilance Committee in suppressing such malicious and mercenary pretentions as might affect the A M O R C inthe future.

A humorous element was introducedinto the Convention this afternoon bythe issuance of the first copy of the daily“Flapdoodle Gazette" in which the newsabout all Flapdoodles is to be publishedday by day. It was explained in the firstissue that the title of Flapdoodle is con

ferred upon all persons attending theNational Convention and voting infavor of all constructive proposals. Th eterm was originated by an editor of aTheosophical magazine in Canada whoclaimed that all persons attending theRosicrucian Conventions and supporting the A M O R C in its activities mustbe Fla p d o o d l e s . But, since this selfsame editor was revealed as being a coworker with the conspirators condemnedby the court proceedings, and found to

be a willing tool in their hands, hisbiased and prejudiced attitude was takenas an explanation for his criticism of theRosicrucians.

At the close of the afternoon sessionthe Past Master of the Lodge in LosAngeles presented a resolution callingupon the entire Convention to indorseand praise the activities and administrative principles exercised by the Imperator and executive officers during thepast year, and calling for a continuanceof the same excellent services, highideals, and diligent application duringthe coming year. Th e resolution wasunanimously carried without even asingle critical comment.

The Evening Session

Tonight the third session of the Convention opened with the Supreme Secretary delivering a long and intenselyinteresting address on the subject ofVirtu e and Justice. He dealt at lengthwith the ancient philosophical interpretation of these terms, and then withtheir modern relationship to our emotions and our reactions. Th e audiencewas intensely pleased with the addressfor it touched upon many importantmystical principles.

The Imperator was then introducedand after instructing various committeesin the work to be carried on by themduring the Convention, he called for aroll call of Representatives, which revealed that nearly every state in theUnited States and most of the provincesof Canada were officially represented bythose present in the auditorium or withinthe city limits, while many others arestill on the way to the city having beendelayed by steamship or railroad connections. Oth er statistics were gathered

revealing the number of persons presentwho were of the Roman Catholic faith,the various Protestant denominations,the Christian Science, and Jewish faiths,and the various oriental religions including the Greek Orthodox Church represented by several of their priests. Othe rclassifications revealed the number ofprofessional employment present at theConvention.

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dealing with the highest principles, andfinally by a long explanation of thenature and functioning of the CosmicMind, and the manner in which God inHis various ways expresses Himself and

functions through the Cosmic mind.This constituted one of the most important esoteric talks to be made by theImperator at this Convention.

While the weather during the daylight periods is quite warm the eveningsare delightfully cool and after each evening session the members and delegatesgather in various units for sociabilityand enjoy the hospitality of the city andits various forms of attractions . Duringthe morning hours many committeeshave been holding meetings while many

of the members have been indulging insight-seeing. Each day from one to twoo’clock the Imperator and his scientificassociates have escorted groups of members through the laboratory showingthem the many unusual instruments anddevices at work for the reproduction ofcolor from sound waves, the analyzingof light and color, the measurement ofvibrations, the registering of projectedvibrations from the minds of persons,and many other interesting and unusualfeats. T he large collection of minerals

representing the form in which matter iscomposed is one of the interesting exhibits in the Laboratory, as is the chemical department with its microscopes andother instruments for analyzing andwatching the effects of mind on livingmatter. O f course, the large radioequipment constituting the most powerful short-wave radio station on thePacific Coast attracts the attention of agreat many of the visitors.

During the early morning hours andlate in the afternoon the officers are

granting fifteen minute interviews toeach and every member who makesapplication for them. At lunch time anddinner time there is a great spirit ofhappiness while there is also a very

definite sense of sympathetic under

standing regarding the unhappy state

that has come to our beloved Grand

Master, making it impossible for him to

be present and assist in opening and

closing the sessions of the Convention

as he planned.

Wherever I meet the members on thelawns or in the lobbies of buildings, oron the street, I find the same enthusiastic expression and attitude regardingthe Convention. Many of these members

have driven for many days over longroads to be present at this Conventionanticipating much, and now expressingtheir happiness and joy in being here,uniting with those who have been herebefore in saying that this is unquestionably the largest and most important ofall Conventions because of the seriousmatters that are to be decided or votedupon. Certainly , I hope that all of thosemembers who were unable to come thisyear will be able to be with us next yearand take part in the many interestingfeatures that fill each day from sunriseto midnight.

The Tuesday Sess ions

Early this morning various committeemeetings were held in the auditorium.The Ju nio r O rder leaders held a meetingfor the purpose of comparing the reportsfrom various junior branches throughoutthe country, for the purpose of laying afoundation for the standardization of aspecial ritual for the juniors and of otherfeatures in connection with that work.

At the same time the foundation waslaid for a Constitution for the juniororganization. This meeting was attendedby a great number of leaders and associate leaders, and was of extreme importance. Th ere was another meetingheld by the Representatives of the Extension Department from all the principal districts of North America. Th ismeeting was for the purpose of analyzing and examining the various methodsand processes used by the Representatives in their local forms of propaganda.

The result was many excellent recommendations. The committee found itnecessary to carry the discussions overto another day in order to complete theirwork. Th ey were whole-heartedly infavor of the present national methods of

advertising and propaganda as carried

on by the Extension Department at

headquarters.

Other committees and special meet

ings were held during the day, especially

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ganization’s charters and papers ofauthenticity and legality. As at everypast Convention a committee of twelveto fourteen members was voluntarilyformed, and this committee now contains

members of other fraternal organizations, attorneys and business men andwomen were given all of the ancientrecords, charters, papers, and matters ofauthority possessed by A M O RC sothat a report could be made, and thisreport read to the entire assembly.

In the afternoon the Imperator conducted another Forum session of theConvention, answering many questions,and assisting the members and delegatesin solving many of the problems of thework and principles of the organization.

At the evening session tonight theprogram was opened with a very beautiful vocal and instrumental programfurnished by the members. Th is wasfollowed by a brief address by the Imperator on the subject of Reincarnation. The whole doctrine and philosophy ofreincarnation was discussed from manynew and interesting angles, revealingthe logic and rational foundation for thisancient doctrine. After the Imperator'saddress the Oakland (California)Chapter of the Junior Order of Rosicrucians presented a symbolical play onthe stage in which all of the juniormembers participated and displayedunusual talent and revealed an excellentunderstanding of our teachings andprinciples. Everyo ne in the auditoriumfelt sure that if Rosicrucianism could dofor so many children so much good in soshort a time it could do many wonderfulthings for the entire youth of the country. T he play was followed by a mystical period of demonstrations conductedby the Imperator, who demonstrated the

laws of vibrations in sound and color.W ith the use of the piano he playedmany fascinating and unusual selectionsof music, and with the emphasis on certain notes caused the members throughout the entire audience to feel certainsensations in their physical bodies.

The Imperator explained how eachnerve center of the body is attuned toa certain musical note, and how theharmonic of this note would cause thatnerve center and its connected plexusesto produce a physiological effect in some

definite location of the body. Throug hplaying certain chords and notes ofmusic he caused sensations of warmthand coldness, tingling and pain or peacein many widely separated parts of the

body. A t the close of this interestingdemonstration he offered to repeat onethat has never been demonstrated sinceit was shown at the First Conventionheld in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania in1916. Allowing a member in the audience to pick out mentally a note on thekeyboard, but retaining this informationsecretly and conveying it only by mentaltelepathy, the Imperator on the stage ofthe auditorium received the impressionof the correct note and without sayinganything to the young Colombe stand

ing at his side he was able to place hishand upon the right vertebra of herspine and cause her to mentally sendforth the musical sound of the noteselected by the one standing at a distantpoint of the auditorium. Th is note washeard by a majority of the members asthough it were a very soft tone sungthroughout the building, but when theImperator stepped to the piano andstruck the note of F all the memberswere surprised to find that it was precisely the note which they had heard. Inall of the tests made a very large ma

jori ty of those present raised their handsto indicate that they had felt the sensations as produced. It was probably themost successful demonstration of thiskind ever held at any of our Conventions.

Throughout the day the weather hasDeen fairly warm but nevertheless comfortable for those who enjoyed lyingabout on the lawns or under the shade-trees, and living a typical outdoor California life. Cameras were clicking everywhere taking moving and still pictures tosend back home or to be preserved in

albums. Th e joyous celebration and the

richness of color in the wearing apparel

of the members, continues to make Rosi

crucian Park look like a huge flower

garden. Ev ery one of the officers is ex

tremely busy with interviews granted to

each visitor to the Convention, while

guides and hostesses are taking the

members through every department of

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This afternoon the Imperator andothers conducted the Forum and business sessions in the auditorium while

various committees were busily at workcompleting their investigations and preparing their reports. T h e members anddelegates in the Convention voted uponmany important matters, including theproposal to have all of the A M O R Cterminology in North America revised toinclude the ancient Rosicrucian terminology which it originally had when theorganization first started in this country,but which was temporarily modified in1915 and 1916 because of the belief thatthe ancient terminology would not be as

easily understood in the We ste rnW orld . Th e members and delegateswere enthusiastic over the idea of having the ancient terms, words, andphrases appearing again in all of theofficial documents and literature, makingthe American literature agree with thatwhich is universally used by the Order.A discussion was entered into regardingthe enlargement of the amount of instructions in each weekly monograph,and not a single member or delegateoffered a proposal for the enlargementof the lessons. Each speaker on thesubject contended that the lessons andweekly monographs were now sufficiently complete and in most cases filledwith more vital information and practicalexercises than a conscientious studentcould properly digest in one week.Every suggestion regarding the enlargement or increase of the lessons or exercises was unanimously voted down bythe committees and delegates considering the matter. T he concensus ofopinion, without a single objection, wasthat the present A M O R C course of

instruction as issued during the past tenyears constitutes the most complete andthorough system that human agencycould devise, and in comparison withother so-called courses of instruction inmetaphysics, psychology, occultism and

higher thought, the Rosicrucian system

was notably superior.

At this evening’s session of the Con

vention, interesting music was furnished

by some of the employees of the Ad

ministrative Staff at headquarters and

W edn esda y Sessi ons after a very interesting and instructiveaddress on the Practical Application of the Rosicrucian Lesson s by Ethel Ward,the secretary to the Grand Master, asurprise was introduced into the pro

gram by the presentation on the part ofFrater Bufmyer of a very large andmagnificent pulpit made by him out ofpieces of wood sent to him for the purpose by the members of the InternationalRosicrucian Council and specially selected Rosicrucians in all parts of theworld. Many unusual and rare pieces ofwood and some from unusually uniqueplaces, such as from a Danish frigatelying at the bottom of the sea, contributed by a Frater who is a NavalCommander for Denmark, and a piece

of wood from a rare tree growing onlyalong one section of the Nile in Egypt,and another from a very ancienttreasure chest, constituted some of theinteresting descriptions given by FraterBufmyer. Th ere were pieces of ivorycontributed by the members of the Junior Ord er of the Rosicrucians, raremetals contributed by distant members,and a very large diamond in the centerof a handcarved rose that was contributed by an enthusiastic member in adistant city. Th e pulpit is highly symbolical in its carvings containing muchinlay work with Egyptian hieroglyphsand other emblems in beautiful enamels.A book containing the original lettersand wrappers that accompanied each ofthe hundred or more pieces of wood thatwent into the pulpit is contained in alittle drawer. The pulpit was presentedto the Imperator in trust for the organization of the present and future in theWestern World, and in accepting it theImperator stated that he could notaccept it in any personal sense but impersonally accepted it as something that

would become a sacred relic as well as apractical piece of equipment for thefuture Supreme Temple or SovereignSanctuary of the Order in the WesternWorld.

The presentation of the pulpit wasfollowed by an intensely interesting discourse by Frater A. Leon Batchelor, incharge of the Correspondence Department, who dealt at length with theproblems of the principles and teachingsof the Rosicrucians and their applicationto our human affairs.

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During the morning hours today thevarious field workers and branch leadersof the Junior organization completedtheir discussions and prepared a formalreport. Th e exhibit of the constructivework done by the Juniors in NorthAmerica in the form of practical thingsof value to children in other lands to besent to them as love offerings from thiscountry occupied the attention of all ofthe members and delegates and illustrated what could be done in the way ofco-operation on the part of the childrenin the various branches of the organization. Th e various banners displayedaround the walls of the auditoriumrepresenting the different branches of

the Junior organization illustrated theuniqueness of design and cleverness ofartistic work on the part of these youngpeople, and the reports revealed that the Junior organization has become a permanent and enthusiastic activity in allof our western jurisdiction. T he committee rendered a report calling uponA M O R C to standardize the name, emblem. ritualism, teachings and regalia ofthe Junior organization after the pastyear’s experimentation with variousforms of ritual and instruction in thedifferent cities. T he reports also revealthat in many districts children werebeing brought into the Junior organization whose parents were not members,but who believed that the instructionand other benefits of Junior membershipwould be of advantage to their children.Unquestionably, the Junior work willgrow in the coming years to a tremendous degree.

At the afternoon session the Forumcomposed of the members and delegatesentered into an analysis of the variouspoints of the work of administration,propaganda, membership, and personalguidance. Men and women of all walksof life and all the arts and professionsexpressed themselves in this regard,stating that they had found among theA M O R C leaflets and pieces of printedmatter such tvpes of appeal and presentations as would fit each and everyoccasion and each type of individual,and that it was easy to approach anytype of mind with the proper piece ofAMORC literature and find a hearty

Thu rsday Sessio ns response. Som e additional pieces ofpropaganda literature were recommended and various additions to theactivities of the different departmentswere recommended.

It is noticeable in all of these Forumdiscussions that every member has anintense interest in the administrative endof the organization, as well as in thestudent benefits. A question arose as tothe practical application of the teachingsto all the affairs of human life, and theImperator asked one very unusual question that brought a most pleasing response on the part of the large andenthusiastic audience. W ith the hallfilled with over five hundred membersand delegates, he asked all those mem

bers to raise their hands who had foundin the past three years of so-calledbusiness depression that the lessons andinstructions, principles and rules of Rosi-crucianism had enabled them to gothrough the depression without any lossin finances or any inconveniences in theirmode of living. From the hands raisedit appeared to be almost unanimous andimmediately scores started in to testifythat throughout the depression periodthe work of the organization and itsprinciples had enabled them to even increase their income or increase their

conveniences and benefits in life. Th eImperator finally called a check on thistestimony, smilingly stating that he didnot want to have the time of the sessionturned into a period of testimony, sincethat hardly seemed necessary in the faceof the statistics that were being gatheredby the various committees. Again andagain there were expressions of enthusiastic indorsement of every departmentat headquarters, and since the membershad spent a part of the morning hours invisiting the Rosicrucian printing plant

and watching the scores of large pressesand other huge pieces of machineryproducing Rosicrucian literature andturning out the current issue of theForum magazine, they were highly enthusiastic about the extremely elaborateand highly efficient equipment of thislargest of all printing plants of its kindto be found anywhere in the State ofCalifornia. It was purposely plannedthat the August issue of The Ros icrucian Digest with its new cover and thecurrent issue of the Forum magazine

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and other important literature which themembers and delegates would take homewith them would be in the process ofproduction in the printing plant whilethe Convention was in session so thatmembers might see these things actuallybeing produced.

The usual Convention photographwas taken this afternoon with the hugegrand stand built in a crescent form andthe panorama camera in the center.These pictures have become a series ofhistorical documents for each and everyone reveals an increasing number ofpersons at the annual Convention and,of course, every member and delegate isanxious to be in the picture and take onehome to show his chapter, group orlodge. T he pictures are approximately

three feet long and eight inches highand show clearly the face of everyone atthe Convention. If anyone of our members who has not attended the Convention desires a copy of this Conventionpicture, it can be secured by sending$'.00 to the Supply Bureau and askingfor a copy of the 1933 Conventionphotograph.

In the early part of this evening theannua] honorary initiation was held inthe Supreme Temple. Th is specialinitiation is for those members of the

Order throughout North America whohave contributed toward the TempleFund and are known as TempleBuilders. This fund is used exclusivelyfor the maintenance and improvement ofthe Museum Auditorium, Temple, andother buildings. T he ceremony is theancient Egyptian initiation conducted bya large staff of officers in Egyptian robesunder the direction of the Imperator,and is a most impressive and sacredoccasion. At the close of the initiationin which approximately eighty members

were thus honored, two new Colombeswere accepted into the Supreme Templeas part of the ritualistic staff. Th eseColombes were Dorothy Dougherty ofRedwood City, California, and ColombeMadeleine Lewis, the youngest daughterof the Imperator.

W hile this ceremony was being heldin the Supreme Temple the GrandSecretary and some other officers wereconducting an important session of theConvention in the Auditorium, and atten-thirty o'clock the members in both

buildings, along with the officers, unitedin a special mystical ceremony held inthe Auditorium at which time the Imperator demonstrated in a sacred andreverential manner a large number ofthe most esoteric and mystical lawstaught in the Rosicrucian system. Th isspecial mystical ceremony, lasting untilmidnight, has always been one of theoutstanding features of the Conventionand thousands of our members throughout the North American jurisdiction willtestify to the fact that in the past yearsthese occasions have given them anunusual opportunity to see the highestesoteric principles of our teachingsapplied and demonstrated in a very remarkable manner. Several of theMasters of the Great Hierarchy were

present during this ceremony and manyfascinating, astonishing, and weirdeffects were produced in a manner thatleft no doubt as to the precise operationof the laws and principles involved.

Before the opening of many of thesessions of the Convention, the membershave been entertained with interestingmusic and beautiful songs rendered bysome of the members who are professionals in their line of entertainment andthe general comment among all membersseems to be that the vibrations are more

intense and of a higher degree at thisyear’s Convention than they have everbeen at any time in the past. Th ereseems to be a greater unity of purposeand certainly there is even a greaterdegree of manifestation of peace andharmony at this Convention than at anyof the preceding ones, despite the factthat all of our Conventions have beennotable for the fact that there have neverbeen any of the disagreements or unpleasant discussions that often arise atother conventions

Friday Sessions

Early this morning the members anddelegates seemed to congregate morerapidly and with greater interest in thedifferent buildings of Rosicrucian Park,for everyone realized that this would bethe last day for all business or officialaction. Committees were anxious tocomplete their reports and many important questions had to be settled atthe afternoon and evening sessions.

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In the afternoon a great many pointsrelating 10 administrative matters andofficial activities in the various brancheswere discussed b y the personal addressesmade by the Delegates and by thespecial District Representatives, each of

whom was given ample time for a fulland complete expression of opinion. Itwas noticed that no Delegate or Representative presented a single letter ofcriticism on behalf of any member in hisdistrict. M any valuable and constructive ideas were presented, however, eachlooking toward the strengthening andbeautifying of the great work.

At this evening's session there were anumber of surprises. Among these camefirst the special music including a number of beautiful violin solos masterlyrendered by Miss Doris Thomassen,who is an eight and a half year oldprotege of the Imperator under the personal instruction of Prof. Geo. Ebert.On this occasion she performed upona very rare old violin that served fora long time in a temple in Egypt forRosicrucian ceremonies. The violin andits case containing Egyptian and Rosicrucian hieroglyphs was loaned to thelittle girl for use during her course ofstudy that she might be inspired byplaying upon it, and the audience wasunusually thrilled at her magnificent

work, especially when she played withmuch feeling and mystical understanding the Rosicrucian theme song, “SweetMystery of Life.”

Another surprise was the presentationby Frater Ballam, past Master of theFrancis Bacon Lodge in San Francisco,of a beautiful painting of the Master Jesus and His Disciples on a can vasaoprox imately seven by ten feet. It wasunveiled on the platform before theConvention with appropriate speechesand is to be on permanent exhibition in

the Auditorium.The third surprise was the exhibition

of a talking moving picture made inIndia of the various forms of worship ofanimal life in mystical ceremonies, including the charming of snakes andother animals and the place these animals hold in various superstitious Oriental religions.

During the course of this final business session of the Convention the finalreport of the committee on Credentials

and Authenticity (voluntarily formedamong members and delegates presentand containing sufficient members torepresent all of the districts of NorthAmerica and to include members of various fraternal societies other than the

Rosicrucian, and business men of various walks of life), was read by thechairman of the committee. The reportwas exhaustive and lengthy because thecommittee had spent many hours ofeach day in the careful examination,reading study, and analysis of all of theofficial foreign correspondence that hadpassed between the various Rosicrucianorganizations of Europe and the Imperator and supreme officers of the organization in America. Among thiscorrespondence were the charters anddocuments of authority and authenticity

and official letters bearing governmentseals and the seals of foreign AmericanAmbassadors. T h e documents also included the official papers of the recentcourt trial against the conspirators whohave made various false charges, andthe court's official decision and findings.

The report of this committee was anenthusiastic indorsement and positiveaffirmation of A M O R C ’s exclusive andlegitimate position in North America, asthe only true and genuinely chartered,authorized, sponsored, and affiliate

branch of the Rosicrucian organizationof the world. Th e report also includeda survey of the evidence examined bythe committee which proved conclusively, often by definite admissions onthe part of other so-called Rosicrucianorganizations, that these other claimantsfor recognition were not chartered at alland had no legitimate foundation for theclaims of authenticity set forth by them.The revelations of their participation inthe conspiracy and the admission ofconspiracy action between them revealedthat they looked upon their own claims

as being weak and unsupported.

In submitting the report to the Convention, the committee asked that thereport be printed and permanentlyplaced on record in a proper manner as

the fina l, im part ia l in ves tigat io n o f th e

entire subject, and pointed out the fact

that such an investigation need never

come before any future Convention or

require any further consideration.

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When the Credential Committee's report was read at the Convention, it wasadopted without a single dissentingvoice. Th us is closed one of the important and serious matters which eachConvention has considered during the

past ten years and voted upon favorably.Upon motions made, seconded, and

unanimously adopted, the Grand Council for the coming year was elected andis composed of the following Fratersand Soror:

Manuel Rodriguez Serra, SupremeMaster for the Spanish-American Jurisdiction.

E. D. Bufmyer, for the NorthwestDistrict.

F. H. Ingersoll, for the Midwest

District.Brian M. Casey, for the Central

District.

Joseph F . Kimmel, for the Sou th eastern District.

Marie Clemens, for the NortheasternDistrict.

Alexander Chevalier, for the EasternCanadian District.

Merritt Gordon, for the WesternCanadian District.

The Imperator issued a manifesto

honoring Nicholas de Roerich, and ThorKiimalehto as honorary members of theSupreme Council.

Another committee voluntarily composed of the delegates and membersrendered its report regarding the examination of greetings sent by the various foreign jurisdictions. Th is reportwas adopted by the Convention andmade a permanent part of the records.During the Convention week everymember and delegate had been givenpermission and opportunity to examine

not only all of these letters and documents of greetings from the foreign

jurisdictions sent especia lly to this Convention, but all of the correspondence,documents, and charters being examinedby the credential committee and covering the years from 1915 to 1933. Th eImperator on several occasions statedfrom the platform of the Conventionthat he did not want a single member ordelegate to return to his home group orlocation without having had an opportunity to examine and question every bit

of the official correspondence, documents, and charters in the hands of thecredential committee and when the entireassembly at the Convention was askedif any member or person had not seenthese things or had not had an oppor

tunity to examine them, there was noword spoken.

The committee, voluntarily composedof members and delegates to look intothe administrative matters of headquarters and to examine the businessbooks and records and to make suggestions or criticisms regarding the activities of any department, reported thatthere was no criticism and no suggestionoffered by any member or delegate.

A suggestion was offered proposingthat the next Convention be held early

in June rather than in July, but uponvote it was found to be almost a tie, andso the matter was left open for furtherinvestigation and inquiry among themembers throughout the entire organization.

This last and final business session ofthe Convention closed with resolutionsof thanks and appreciation, greetingsand good will, and with many enthusiastically expressed comments regardingthe great amount of work that wasaccomplished by the Convention and theunusual harmony and peace that prevailed throughout.

Saturday— the Last Day

Since there were no business orofficial sessions of the Convention during the day of Saturday, the membersutilized this time in being taken onofficial and unofficial visiting trips tovarious parts of the Santa Clara Valleyincluding the great Leland StanfordUniversity at Palo Alto, the Naval

Dirigible Airbase nearby, the variousastronomical observatories and scientificdepartments of the State, the mountainresorts, the beaches, and dozens of otherfascinating sights. T h e members havefreely commented on the magnificenceof the scenery, the abundance of vegetation, flowers, and especially fruits andvegetables. All those who came fromeastern and southern points were greatlypleased with the fine accommodationsprovided at very reasonable prices formeals and other necessities and the de

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lightful weather, despite the fact that inthe midday the weather was warmerthan is usual for this district but delightfully cool in the evenings.

Finally at the close of the day themembers and delegates gathered in the

Spanish dining room and open patio ofthe largest hotel in the city where asuperb banquet was furnished withoutcost to all. On this occasion specialmusic and song was rendered by themembers and the Imperator made hisclosing remarks while many resolutionsof thanks and appreciation were offeredby the members and delegates present.Many members remained after the banquet to participate in an informal dancewhile others hurried to catch trains or tomake arrangements for outings coveringthe next two or three days.

All in all this year’s Convention wasnot only a great success in accomplishing the work put before it, but it hasrevealed a great many important necessities for future consideration. All of

the officers and delegates present unitedin saying that unquestionably the workof the organization between now andthe next Convention will be so effective,so greatly increased, and so contributoryto the growth and development of Rosi-

crucianism in North America that theConvention this year will be the outstanding one in the history of theAmerican jurisdiction.

Speaking on behalf of the SupremeStaff, I wish to say that each and everyofficer has enjoyed meeting and contacting the members. W e had more opportunity for intimate contacts and for thefree discussion of problems than everbefore, and all of this led to a greaterdegree of enthusiasm and devotion. W efeel sure that each visitor enjoyed the

occasion and now we shall look forwardtoward making plans for the next Convention as well as for the great workthat lies before us in the interveningmonths.

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S E A R C H I N G

These quiet autumn days.My soul, like Noah's dove, on airy wings Goes out and searches for the hidden things

Beyond the hills of haze.

W it h mou rnful, ple ading cries,Above the waters of the voiceless sea That laps the shores of Eternity,

D ay after da y it flies.

Searching, but all in vain.For some stray leaf that it may light upon And read the future as the days agone—■

Its joy. its pain.

Listening, patiently.For some voice speaking from the mighty deep, Revealing all the things that it doth keep

In secret there for me.

Come back and wait, my soul!Day after day thy search has been in vain. Voiceless and silent, o'er the future's pain,

Its mystic waters roll.

God, seeing, knoweth best,And day by day the waters shall subside.And thou shalt know what lies beneath the tide;

Then wait, my soul, and rest.

— E ll a W hee le r W il co x.

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Sri. E. L. A. M. M. Khan, H ierophant of the Oreat White Brotherho od L,odge for the O ccidental W orld by autho rity of the pontiff of the Great W hite Brotherhood L odge of Tibet. It is issued to the Im perator, H . Spencer "Lewis, co nferring upon him the B rotherhood name of Sri. 'R eve rend ) S obhita Bhikkhu and appointing him to be the successor in apostolic succession to the position and power of the Venerable Sri. Khan after the transition of the latte r, with all of the rig hts and authorities to •’institute and establish in the Occident of the world f >r and during 'he Aquarian cycle, the O ccidental section of the Great White Brotherhood Lo dge, to be and to continue to be an active body with all of the privileges as of the Oriental section, to accept and adm it memb ers who have been duly tried th rough the grade s of the recognized and approved Order, to con fer upon them the rig hts and pow ers of the G. W. B. L. , and to affiliate them with the O riental section

of the G. W. B. L .” „ „ „The document is signedand witnesse d on the 20th day of October, 1920 A. D. (2508 A. B. —3273 R. C.).The V enerable Sri. Khan passed throug h transition in December of 1931. from which lime the powers con-ferred upon Ihe Im perato r of AMORC became active. This c ha rter and unique document establishe s the p osi-tion of the Rosicrucian Order of AMORC in North America as the "recog nized and approved O rder’ for llie preparation and training ofthose Adepts who may become affiliated with the G. W. B. L . This is oneof the most interesting of the many documents that we will illustrate from time to time.



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THE MYSTERY AND PROPHECY OF

THE GREAT PYRAMIDI ' For centuries the Pyramid, a man-made mountain, has stood as a sentinel guardingthe secre t purpose of its builders. Scientific scrutin y of the world’s enigma— the P yra mid—his disclosed indisputable evidences of an ancient knowledge in those branches ofscience thought to have attained such perfection only in recen t tim es. The modernworld admits with keen admiration that the Pyramid is located in the center of theland sur face of the earth. It is within five per cen t of facing th e true m agnetic Ea st.The apex of the Pyram id is a Dove the ex act m athem atical ce nter of its base, forminga per fect triangle. In the year of its building, the apex pointed directly to the N orthSt ar of tha t period. You will be thrilled as you read of this vast wisdom. Whencedid it come?

A M igh ty Temple

of Learning

C For years savants debated—was it a mighty tomb to aggrandize a vain pharaoh, aswere the lesser pyramids, orwas it a temple of learning, asilent tribute in unspoken eloquence of a wisdom long sinceforgotten ? You must m entallyexplore its mysterious innerchambers. They are marvelsof scientific construction andmystical symbolism. With theturning of each page of this

A gigantic f inaer point ing heavenw ard from whence bo(>l -’ olJ " il l find a grow ingall infinite knowledge and omnipotence come. r ev er en ce l or t h o s e m a s te r

minds of yore.

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THE PURPOSES OF

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

The Rosicrucian Order, existing in all civilized lands, is a nonsectarian, fraternal body of

men and women devoted to the investigation, study, and practical application of natural and spiritual laws. Th e p urpose of the organ ization is to enable all to live in harmony with the creative, constructive, Cosmic forces for the attainement of health, happiness, and Peace.

The Order is internationally known as AM O RC (an abbreviation), and the AM O RC in America, and all other lands, constitutes the only form of Rosicrucian activities united in one body having representation in the international Rosicrucian congresses. Th e A M O RC does not sell its teachings, but gives them freely to all affiliated members, together with many other benefits.

Inquirers seeking to know the historv, purposes, and practical benefits that they may re-ceive from Rosicrucian association, are invited to send for the free book, "The Wisdom of the Sag es.” Address, Friar S. P. C., care of

A M O R C T E M P L E

R O S I C R U C I A N P A R K S A N J O S E , C A L I F O R N I A , U .S .A .

( CA B L E A D D R E S S: " A M O R C O " R A D IO S T A T IO N W 6 H T B )

Officials of the Jsforth American Jurisdiction

(Including the United States, Dominion of Can ada, Alaska, Mex ico, Guatemala, Honduras, N ic-aragu a, C osta Rica, Republic of Panam a, the W es t Indies, Low er California, and all land under the protection of the United States of America.

H . S P E N C E R L E W I S , F .R . C . , P h. D...........................................................................................................Imperator

R A L P H M . L E W I S , F .R . C .............................................................................................................. Supreme Secretary

A . L E O N B A T C H E L O R , F . R . C ................................................................................ Director of Correspondence

ET H EL B . W A RD Sec re tar y to Grand Mas ter

H A R R Y L . S H I B L E Y , F . R . C ............................................................................Director of Editorial Department

Th e fo llowing pr incipal branches are Distr ict Headqu arters o f A M O RC

Los Angeles, California:

Hermes Lodge. AM O RC Temple, Reading Room and Inquiry office open daily, 9 A.M. to 9 P.M ., except Sundays. Granada Court, 672 South Lafayette Park Place. Ramer Oscar Kendall, Master.

San Jose, California:

Grand Lodge Session for all members, Tues-day evenings, 7:30 to 8:30 P.M ., Naglee

Ave., Rosicrucian Park.

San Francisco, California:Francis Bacon Lodge, W alter Reinhard, Master, 1655 Polk St., San Francisco. Cali-fornia.

New York City, New York:

AFRAMERI CAN Chapter of AMORC, 381 Convent Ave., R. C. DelaCurva, F. R. C., Master.

Philadelphia, Penna.:

Delta Lodge No. 1, AM OR C, S .E. Corner 40th & Brown Sts., 2nd floor, Dorsey Thompson, Master.

Hartford, Conn.:Isis Lodge, AM OR C, Ch as. W . Hollister, Master, 27 Kenyon Place, East Hartford. Conn.

Boston, Mass.:The Marie Clemens Lodge, Temple and Reading Rooms, 739 Boylston St., Telephone Kenmore 9398. Eldora Magee, Master.

Chicago, 111.:Chicago Chapter No. 9, O. G. Odelius, Master. Leta M. Santee, Secretary. Tele-phone Harrison 68 35 . Reading Room open afternoons and evenings. Sunday s 2 to 5 only. Ro om 705, Lyon & Healy BIdg., 64 E. Jac kson Blvd. Lec tu re ses sions for A LL members every Tuesday night, 8:00 P. M.

Chicago Chap ter N o. 10 (colored) RobertE. Clarke, Master, 31 E. 47 St. Meeting every W ed . Night at 8 o ’clock, Royal C ircle of Friends Hall, 104 E . 51 S t., Room 10, Telephone Drexel 0782.

Pittsburgh, Pa.:

Penn. First Lodge, May R. Dillner, Master, 223 Dan Drive, Mt. Lebanon Station.

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Portland, Oregon:

Portland Chapter, Clara Grace Anderson,F.R.C., 414 11th St., Phone Beacon 5964.

Seattle, Washington:

AMORC Chapter, Harry L. Ledlin, Master, 40 2|/2 21st Av e., Seattle W ash . Library and Reading Room, 501 Haigh t Bldg. Open everyday 10 A.M . to 4:30 P.M. Evenings 7 P.M. to 9:30 P .M. Telephone Seneca 9215.

Other Chartered Chapters and Lodges of the Rosicrucian O rder (A M O RC ) will be found in most large cities and towns of Nor th Amer ica. Addres s of local represen tatives given on request.

P R I N C I P A L C A N A D I A N B R A N C H E S

Victoria, B. C.:

Victoria Lodge, G. A. Phillips, Master, P.O. Bo x 14. Inquiry Office and Reading Room. 101 Union Bank Bldg. Open week days 10 A.M.—6 P.M.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada:Societe d'etude d AMORC (French Section), Pa u D'Allmen, 233 First Ave., Verdun, P. Q., Canada.

Edmonton, Alta.:

T . O. Goss, Master, 9533 Jasper Avenue, E.

Winnipe g, Man ., Ca na da :Catherine McKerchar, 517 Devon Court, W in nipeg . Man ., Ca nad a.

Vancouver, B. C.:Canadian Grand Lodge. Mr. S. A. Wilson. Grand Master. AM O RC Temple. 878 Hornby St.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada:E . Hazard, M aster. Sessions 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month, 7:00 p.m., No. 10 Lansdowne Ave.

S P A N I S H A M E R I C A N S E C T I O N

This jurisdiction includes all the Spanishspeaking Countries of the New W orld . Its Supreme Council and Head Office are located at San Juan, Puerto Rico, having local Representatives in all the principal cities of these stated Countries.

Hon. Manuel Rodriguez Serra, F.R .C.. Supreme Grand Master. P. O. Box 702,San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Armando Font de la Jara, F .R.C ., S ecretary General, P. O. Box 36, San Juan,Puerto Rico.

The name and address of other Officers and Grand Secretaries cannot be given general pub-licity, but ma y be obtained for any information or special purposes, through the Head Office at £>an Juan, Puerto Rico.

A L L C O R R E S P O N D E N C E S H O U LD B E A D D R E S SE D T O T H E S E C R E T A R Y G E N E R A L

A F E W O F T H E F O R E I G N J U R I S D I C T I O N S

India:The Supreme Council, AMORC, Calcutta. India.

Scandinavian Countries:The A M OR C Grand Lodge of Denmark, Carli Anderson, S.R.C., Grand Secretary, Manogade 13th Strand, Copenhagen, Den-mark.

France:Dr. H. Gruter, F.R.C., Grand Master, Nice. Mile. Jeanne Guesdon, S.R.C. Corresponding Secretary for the Grand Lodge (A M OR C) of France, 56 Rue Gambetta, Villeneuve Saint Georges, Seine & Oise).

Austria:Mr. Many Cihlar, K.R.C., Grossekreter der AMORC, Laxenburgerstr, 75/9, Vienna, X.

China and Russia:The United Grand Lodge of China and Rus-sia, 8/18 Kvakazasaya St., Harbin, Man-churia.

Australia:The Grand Council of Australia, M. S. Kowron, F.R.C., Grand Master, "Sandhurst,” 52 Fletcher St., Bondi, Sydney, N.S .W .

England:

The AMORC Grand Lodge of Great Britain. Mr. Raymund Andrea, K.R.C., Grand Master. 41 Berkeley Road, Bishopston. Bristol, Eng.

Dutch and East Indies:

W . J. Visse r, Grand Master, Bodjong 135 Semarang, Java.

Egypt:

The Grand Orient of AMORC. House of the Temple, M. A. Ramayvelim, F.R.C., Grand

Secretary, 7, Rue Talkha, Heliopolis.Africa:

The Grand Lodge of the Gold Coast AMORC. Mr. H. C. Moncar, Grand Master, P. O. Bo x 424 Accra, Gold Coast, W est Africa.

Costa Rica:

Grand Lodge; Grand Secretary, Edw. B. Kelly, F. R. C., Limon P. O. Box 180, Costa Rica, C. A.

The addresses of other foreign Grand Lodges and secretaries will be furnished on application.



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