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Published Monthly by THE SUPREME COUNCIL of AMORCRosicrucian Park, San Jose, California

(Copyright, 1928, by AMORC.)

m a y , 1928 ^ V o l u m e v i , N o 7 4

The Imperators Monthly Message

Visitors to the State of Californiausually comment very enthusiasticallyabout the wonderful school buildingslocated in even the remote rural districts.They are always large, exceedingly ar-tistic, and with wide lawns, attractivecourt yards with beautiful flowers andshrubbery. It would seem that notonly the state and city officials, but the

parents and the children vie with eachother in planning and maintaining thesebeautiful schools.

Why? That is the question which isasked by those who study the situation.Why do the parents and the childrenseem to take more interest in these mat-ters in California than in any other partof the country? We are not alwayssure of the best answer to give to thisquestion, but we have found one answerthat certainly casts some light upon themental attitude of the children.

Here in San Jose, where we are lo-cated, the schools are notably modernand exceptionally large and beautiful.One of them, known as the Hester

School, occupies a whole city block fac-ing the main highway, and it is not aHigh School. The principal who usedto be in charge passed away a few yearsago and there now hangs in the mainlobby a portrait of him put there byappreciative parents who still pay hom-age to him.

Beneath the picture there is a tableand upon it a large vase. Every morn-

ing before school commences some chil-dren place fresh flowers in water in thatvase. Never a day passes, even on Sat-urdays and Sundays when there are nosessions, but that some child, or severalof them, rush to that shrine to be thefirst to place flowers there.

For dear old Mr. Trace, is all theysay, and they say it with a tendernessand a keen note of personal loss. T hatfrom children averaging eight to four-teen years of age!

When children can adore and payreverent homage to a principal, a teacher,now passed out of their lives, they musthave a real valuation of the service hehas rendered as a teacher, and the friend-ship he offered as a guide and com-panion. With such appreciation forthese two elements, is it any wonderthat the children want, and the parentsplan, better schools with picturesqueand smiling surroundings?

It is the spirit of California thatcreates this attitude of mind, and whencreated in the lives of children it will

last the whole life through.How many of us remember our teach-

ers of our childhood, our pastors, ourguides, the many who have helped usin our youth? Have we a shrine towhich we may go with living, smiling,fragrant blossoms? Appreciation is themystic key that unlocks the door toCosmic gifts. Let us all be like untothe children of the school in San Jose.


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Color ^Vibrations an d Music

ByEd w a r d M a r y o n

Discoverer of the Marcotone Principles

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HERMO DYNAMICS, or, bet-ter, the incoming science ofCbemico physics, will addimmeasurably to our under-standing; in fact, the sub-conscious is being located.Humanitys inner eye is be-

ing illumined in all physical sciencesthrough the Law of Interference, whichwe might term the chromatism of

Natures Gamut of Vibration.It was through the resonator that the

Approximate Law at the dawn of the

applied sciences was discovered andtermed timbre, i. e., the specific differ-ence of sound having the same pitch butvarying in quality of tone. This law isas indispensable to both chemistry and

physics as it is to music.Is it not high time, if this new vision

of man has been extended only throughthe correlationof Sound and Light, thatour arts and sciences of music are verifiedand reorganized through this same na-turally ordered manner? In the livinganimal, including Man, the phenome-

non of equilibrium takes a particularform that is characteristic of life, habit.Habit with living beings, and equilibrium pure and simple with nonliving

beings, are the two factors of what istermed universal harmony.

The following may be termed thepremises of the science of ToneColor.

N u m b e r Number is the universal ideographic

language, being the source of cosmic,religious and scientific symbolism.

The Symbolism of Number, ex-pressed. becomes the Law of Motion,

generating space and producing life inall its forms.

Life governed by Number tranformsmotion into emotion, creating time, sothat Life produces Love. These facts

prove that physical law is created toevolve moral law.

T o n eSilence decomposed through number

is sound, the source of spheric andhuman Music.

Fundamentally, all forms of vibration are generated by and are transmutable into sound; therefore sound is theorigin, even as it is the architect andbuilder of form; because all things de-pend upon the multiple variety of soundfor their infinite variety of form.

Basically, geometry is the root of theuniverse and therefore of all naturalforms, including human architectonicalforms. Geometry is created by sound.

Simple experiments, proving such tobe a fact in Nature, are those geometri-cal forms obtained from Lycopodiumspores under the influence of a series ofisochronous harmonics. These spores

placed on a drumhead and set in motionform geometrical designs correlated tothe harmonics from which they are gen-erated. The vibrations of steel forksof fixed pitches when shown in shadowscast into mirrors, form patterns whichcan be thrown through a lens upon ascreen and the invisible tone thus be-comes visible, as perfectly ordered geo-metrical figures. Therefore, it is evident

that universes and all appertaining tothem are embodied Music, the effects ofsound as musical proportions.

The human voice and musical instru-ments are capable of elaborating the

forms of ferns, flowers and trees, be-cause the vegetable kingdom is generated,geometrically, by sound which createstheir forces and distributes their typesthrough numbered motion.

The vibrations of any given tone areexclusively in a given direction, andtherefore the interferences of swinging

pendulums, which result in such com-

plexities of form as shells in which boththe angles and curves are geometrically

perfect, simply modify each other, re-producing the reality of these vibrationswhich such interference has modified.

The crystalloid serves the vegetableworld as the crystal serves the mineralworld, showing through the power ofsound the completeness and harmony ofnature.

Motion, as numbered vibrations, gov

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erns all systems of Life, its variety invelocity causing differences in the phy-sical aspect of its material composition.In either case, crystal or crystalloid, theaxes make their appearance when dulyformed by the Laws of Numbers, geo-

metrically, through sound. In themineral world every crystal takes itsform from certain sound-built axes ofdirection and the more complexly elabo-rate the crystals are, the more numerousmust of necessity be the axes whosecenter is the heart of the crystal. Aswith crystalloids the results inevitablydepend on tonally created geometry, forthe differences in both solely depend onthe basic arrangement of their axes.

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Experimentation has proved thatlight is generated and involves as a dualmanifestation under the causal protec-tion of sound. From a statical concep-tion sometimes termed cold flame,

fire is generated as radiant heat, or radi-ancy, because friction implies heat.Again, the action of such dualism is tocreate moisture, water. Thus, it fol-lows, the elements are made.

Sound paternally fostering light.Nature proceeds to energize the universeas zones, octaves, or spirals of motion;for spheres of magnetism, electricity,radioactivity spirally build cosmos

from chaos, so that time shall fill space.The correlation of sound and lightis demonstrated by throwing differingrays of light upon a multicolored glass

ball, and where correlation exists be-tween the lightwaves and the colors inthe ball, tone is generated, because thetransmutation between light-waves andsound-waves is thereby effected.

Furthermore, Bell's experiment withselenium disks shows how lightwavesare transformed into soundwaves andthen into galvanic waves, to re-becomesound-waves.

Recent invention has produced an in-strument of precision which transposesvocal and instrumental music into color.Camille Flammarion states: The notes(seven octaves) of the scale are nothingelse but ratios of numbers between so-norous vibrations . . . but a matter offigures." A. A. Michaelson asserts:All phenomena of the physical uni-verse are only different manifestationsof the various modes of motion.

Professors Mills and Milliken laydown the principle that: Sound andlight are identical except in the lengthof their waves and the nature of themedia which act as their carriers. Thegreat acoustical authority, John Tyn-

dall, in his exhaustive work, SOUND(see page 319320), gives a decisiveand what he terms a beautiful exper-iment, which, he asserts, proves the

perfect analogy between light andsound.

This momentous addition to sciencewas described and illustrated before theRoyal Institution, England. Elabora t-ing upon this, Tyndall concludes thefirst part of his magnum opus, SOUND,with the following words:

Co l o r

Thus far, therefore, we have placedour subject in the firm grasp of experi-ment: nor shall we find this test failingus further on.

Science has never found this discoveryto fail, and now applies its perfectanalogy to art, with results not alone

portentous to music, but equally to thesister arts of painting, decorating, etc.Those aspiring students who wouldlearn of cosmic Harmony which createdthe universe, so that they may religi-ously create their works to accord withthe fundamentals of natural law, will

do well to study MARCOTONE, SCIENCEo f T o n e- C o l o r .Although the method set forth herein

relates to the conscious mastery of read-ing, memorizing and writing chordforms, the vital question today is to getthe whole world a-singing, throughmastery of melody, the automatic men-tal control of melodic lines.

Melody controls comparatively allvocal and instrumental music. For

practical purposes, excepting the piano,organ, harmonium, harp and the studyof musical theory and composition, the

melodic line governsthe worlds presentday music. It is the purpose of thisvolume first of all to implant this sim-

ple yet vital fact in the mind of thegeneral public and, further, to showhow to control the power of unconscious melodic mastery as a humanly auto-matic function.

I. Vibration is the Universal Law.II. The mental faculty to apperceive

vibration in the world of phenomena as

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light-waves in the element ether is a lawof atavism forced upon the mind ofMan as color and form through the de-velopment of the organ of seeing, whichhas established this phenomenon uponthe consciousness.

III. Th e same mental faculty whichis capable of dealing with the phenome-non of Light through the eye and themind can be utilized in the world of

phenomena in another element, the air,and through another sense organ, theear, because in principle it is the samefaculty which pertains to both pheno-mena.

IV. Natural causes during vast pe-riods of time have, from the foregoing

principles, evolved the subconsciousnessto the point of willing color and form

before the human mind; but these same

causes have not obtained the same phenomal results in the realm of sound

which they have in the domain of light.Therefore, the normal mind does notapperceive the precise movements oftonalpitch, which, between air, ear andmind,are equivalent to the precise move-ments of lightwaves between ether, eye

and mind. Yet, applying the laws ofcorrespondence and analogy to this sameprinciple, which conforms to the lawof vibration, that which has developedone natural phenomenon subject tovibration will develop the other.

V. One prime cause can produce twokinds of phenomena if the natural lawwhich governs the one governs the other.Therefore, since Color is a natural,spontaneous and involuntary act of themind governed by one prime cause, soTone, governed by the same primecause, can become one and indivisible

with Color.

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Pre-ChristianEthics

A Reliable Account of Early Mystic Principles(Written by Philo Judaeus in the Year A. D., 12.)

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AVING mentioned the Essenes,

who in all respects selectedfor their admiration andfor their especial adoptionthe practical course of life,and who excel in all, orwhat perhaps may be a less

unpopular and invidious thing to say,in most of its parts, I will now proceed,in the regular order of my subject, tospeak of those who have embraced thespeculative life, and I will say what ap-pears to me to be desirable to be saidon the subject, not drawing any fic-titious statements from my own head

for the sake of improving the appearanceof that side of the question which nearlyall poets and essayists are much accus-tomed to do in the scarcity of goodactions to extol, but with the greatestsimplicity adhering strictly to the truthitself, to which I know well that eventhe most eloquent men do not keep closein their speeches.

Nevertheless we must make the en-deavor and labor to attain to this virtue;

for it is not right that the greatness of

the virtue of the men should be a causeof silence to those who do not think itright that anything which is creditableshould be suppressed in silence; but thedeliberate intention of the philosopheris at once displayed from the appellationgiven to them; for with strict regard toetymology, they are called therapeutrides, either because they profess an artof medicine more excellent than that ingeneral use in cities (for that only healsbodies, bu t the other heals souls whichare under the mastery of terrible andalmost incurable diseases, which pleas-

ures and appetites, fears and griefs, andcovetousness, and follies, and injustice,and all the rest of the innumerable mul-titude of other passions and vices, haveinflicted upon them), or else becausethey have been instructed by nature andthe sacred laws to serve the living God,who is superior to the good, and moresimple than the one, and more ancientthan the unity with whom, however,who is there of those who profess piety

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the breezes from the sea being light, andthose which proceed from the lakewhich falls into the sea being heavy,the mixture of which produces a mosthealthy atmosphere.

But the houses of these men thuscongregated together are very plain, justgiving shelter in respect of the twothings most important to be providedagainst, the heat of the sun, and thecold from the open air; and they didnot live near to one another as men doin cities, for immediate neighborhoodto others would be a troublesome andunpleasant thing to men who have con-ceived an admiration for, and have de-termined to devote themselves to, soli-tude; and, on the other hand, they didnot live very far from one another onaccount of the fellowship which they

desired to cultivate, and because of thedesirableness of being able to assist oneanother if they should be attacked byrobbers.

And in every house there is a sacredshrine which is called the holy place,and the monastery in which they retireby themselves and perform all the mys-teries of a holy life, bringing in nothing,neither meat, nor drink, nor anythingelse which is indispensable towards sup-

plying the necessities of the body, butstudying in that place the laws and thesacred oracles of God enunciated by the

holy prophets, and hymns, and psalms,and all kinds of other things by reasonof which knowledge and piety are in-creased and brought to perfection.

Therefore they always retain an im-perishable recollection of God, so thatnot even in their dreams is any othersubject ever presented to their eyes ex-cept the beauty of the divine virtuesand of the divine powers. Thereforemany persons speak in their sleep, di-vulging and publishing the celebrateddoctrines of the sacred philosophy. And

they are accustomed to pray twice a day,at morning and at evening; when thesun is rising entreating God that thehappiness of the coming day may bereal happiness, so that their minds maybe filled with heavenly light, and whenthe sun is setting they pray that theirsoul, being entirely lightened and re-lieved of the burden of the outwardsenses, and of the appropriate object ofthese outward senses, may be able to

trace out trust existing in its own con-sistory and council chamber. And theinterval between morning and eveningis by them devoted wholly to medita-tion on and to practice virtue, for theytake up the sacred scriptures and phi-losophy concerning them, investigatingthe allegories as symbols of some secretmeaning of nature, intended to be con-veyed in those figurative expressions.

They have also writings of ancientmen, who having been the founders ofone sect or another, have left behindthem many memorials of the allegoricalsystem of writing and explanation,whom they take as a kind of model,and imitate the general fashion of theirsect; so that they do not occupy them-selves solely in contemplation, but theylikewise compose psalms and hymns to

God in every kind of metre and melodyimaginable, which they of necessity ar-range in more dignified rhythm. There-fore, during six days, each of these in-dividuals, retiring into solitude byhimself, philosophises by himself in oneof the places called monasteries, nevergoing outside the threshold of the outercourt, and indeed never even lookingout.

But on the seventh day they all cometogether as if to meet in a sacred assem-

bly, and they sit down in order ac-cording to their ages with all becoming

gravity, keeping their hands inside theirgarments, having their right hand be-tween their chest and their dress, andthe left hand down by their side, closeto their flank; and then the eldest ofthem who has the most profound learn-ing in their doctrines comes forwardand speaks with steadfast look and withsteadfast voice, with great powers ofreasoning, and great prudence, notmaking an exhibition of his oratoricalpowers like the rhetoricians of old, orthe sophists of the present day, butinvestigating with great pains, and ex-

plaining with minute accuracy the pre-cise meaning of the laws, which sits, notindeed at the tips of their ears, butpenetrates through their hearing intothe soul, and remains there lastingly:and all the rest listen in silence to thepraises which he bestows upon the law.showing their assent only by nods ofthe head, or the eager look of the eyes.

And this common holy place to

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which they all come together on theseventh day is a twofold circuit, beingseparated partly into the apartment ofthe men, and partly into a chamber forthe women, for women also, in accord-ance with the usual fashion there, form

a part of the audience, having the samefeelings of admiration as the men, andhaving adopted the same sect with equaldeliberation and decision; and the wallwhich is between the houses rises fromthe ground three or four cubits upwards,like a battlement, and the upper portionrises upwards to the roof without anyopening, on two accounts; first of all,in order that the modesty which is sobecoming to the female sex may be pre-served, and secondly, that the womenmay be easily able to comprehend whatis said, being seated within earshot, since

there is then nothing which can possiblyintercept the voice of him who is speak-ing.

IV. And these expounders of thelaw, having first of all laid down tem-

perance as a sort of foundation for thesoul to rest upon, proceed to build upother virtues on this foundation, andno one of them may take any meat ordrink before the setting of the sun, sincethey judge that the work of philoso-

phising is one which is worthy of thelight, but that the care of the necessitiesof the body is suitable only to darkness,

on which account they appropriate theday to the one occupation, and a briefportion of the night to the other; andsome men, in whom there is implanteda more fervent desire of knowledge, canendure to cherish a recollection of theirfood for three days without even tast-ing it. and some men are so delighted,and enjoy themselves so exceedinglywhen regaled by wisdom which sup-

plies them with her doctrines in all pos-sible wealth and abundance, that theycan even hold out twice as great a lengthof time, and will scarcely at the end of

six days taste even necessary food, beingaccustomed, as they say that grasshop-

pers are, to feed on air, their song as Iimagine, making their scarcity tolerableto them.

And they, looking upon the seventh

day as one of perfect holiness and amost complete festival, have thought itworthy of a most especial honor, andon it, after taking due care of their soul,they tend their bodies also, giving them,

just as they do to their cattle, a completerest from their continual labors; andthey eat nothing of a costly character,

but plain bread and a seasoning of salt,which the more luxurious of them dofurther season with hyssop; and theirdrink is water from the spring; for theyoppose those feelings which have mademistresses of the human race, namely,

hunger and thirst, giving them nothingto flatter or humor them, but only justenough to escape from thirst, avoidingall satiety, as an enemy of and a plotteragainst both soul and body.

And there are two kinds of covering,one raiment and the other a house; wehave already spoken of their houses,that they are not decorated with anyornaments, but run up in a hurry, beingonly made to answer such purposes asare absolutely necessary; and in likemanner their raiment is of the mostordinary description, just stout enough

to ward off cold and heat, being a cloakof some shaggy hide for winter, and athin mantle or linen shawl in the sum-mer; for in short they practice entiresimplicity, looking upon falsehood asthe foundation of pride, but truth asthe origin of simplicity, and upon truthand falsehood as standing in the lightof fountains, for from falsehood pro-ceeds every variety of evil and wicked-ness, and from truth there flows everyimaginable abundance of good things

both human and divine.

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IMPOR T ANT : Un less we a re no ti f ied wi th in twen ty days a f te r da te o f ma i l ing tha t a subsc r ibe r

has no t rece ived h is copy o f the M ys t ic T r iang le , we canno t supp ly the copy and canno t be re-

spons ib le fo r i t s lo ss in the ma i l. T H E PUBL ISH ING DE PAR T ME N T .

ABOUT T E L E GR AM S: For dependab le , qu ick se rv ice on te leg rams to H eadqu ar te r suse on ly the

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The Tpsicrucian Order, Tast and ^Present

By Ra y m u n d An d r e a , F. R. C.f

Grand Master of AMORC, Great Britain

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[E HISTORY of our Orderpublished by the Imperatorin several issues of the mag-azine of recent date met avery real need among mem-bers and will undoubtedlyhave had its effect upon

students of advanced thought and re-search in the world at large. Nothingis so calculated to increase confidence inthe members of an organization in the

work in their hands as a clear statementof the historic past and prestige of thatorganization and a roll call of the fam-ous characters who have battled strenu-ously for it at different periods of worldevolution in the face of much opposi-tion from church, state and popular

prejudice. From the perusal of thisstatement every member should rise witha feeling of legitimate pride in his con-nection with the Order and a deep senseof personal obligation and responsibilityin preserving and extending its power

and influence in the present phase ofactivity. For it is not a debating societyto which we have given our allegiance,in which we have to wrestle for anopinion or a name; nor is it a religionwhose formulae, having no true andscientific foundation, are liable to bequestioned at any moment by an ableadversary and proven false. As Rosicrucians, we have a noble ancestry; wederive from men of an imposing andmajestic culture; we inherit the accum-ulated wisdom of a line of royal soulswho lived beyond their age and fought

for a faroff future. Their deep re-search and superior enlightenment laidthe foundations of a science of life themagnitude and value of which we areyet far from fully conscious, but whichis destined in the present century tocompel the attention and win the allegience of progressive minds in every rankof life.

The resolute pioneer work of theseillustrious men was so firmly grounded

upon the divine laws and carried for-ward so steadily and effectively withsupreme will and single intent, that thebarest outline of their activities cannotfail to react upon us as an inspirationalimpetus to forward their great work.These men were not members of thearistocracy; they were aristocrats of themind. They were men of a peculiarnature and defied common classifica-tion. They were often of obscure ab-

straction, yet of profound and inde-pendent spirit and conscious of a mis-sion. Most of them were men of letters:all were laborious students. They tookthe measure of their age with the sure-ness and facility of practiced statesmen.They were solitary contemplators andaccomplished actors and wielded theirknowledge with deadly effect againstthe ignorance, prejudice and bigotrywhich held their fellowmen in bondageto fear and servile dependence. They

bore in their hearts the insignia of the

wisdom of the Order to which theysecretly belonged and were pledged tostamp it indelibly upon the times. Theywere great devotees and in solitude drewback the mystic veil by intrinsic rightwhich hides the supersensible and di-vine. But when they came forth todeclare their Art they were changedmen. There was nothing of the vis-ionary or the fanatic about them; theywere cool and masterful, vitally poisedand immovably fixed upon the taskin hand. The light shone on theirpath, the goal was clearly defined, and

with calm judgment and immutabilityof purpose they passed straight on.They cared nothing for the criticismand obloquy heaped upon them. Theflame of their aura was of that temperthat the opposition of the ignorant andthe learned alike recoiled from it. Thecharms of pleasure could not undothem; the allurements of the world layfar behind them; death they feared not,for they passed at will beyond its fron-

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tiers and were assured of immortality.Although beyond their age they were apart of it, and infused their Art intoscience and learning to be recognized andused chiefly by later generations. Theywere divine benefactors possessed of oneoverpowering passion directed to onegreat aim, the evolution of knowledgeand advancement of the race. Surelythere can be nothing nobler for us inthis life than that we should share intheir labour, having with us it is morethan a conjecture some of these royalsouls themselves to inspire and assist us.

The historical outline has thereforeserved a twofold purpose of much in-spirational value: in the place of a gooddeal of conjecture and erroneous specu-lation we have an authentic, if neces-

sarily concise, statement of the greatworkers who preceded us, much ofwhich may be verified from writingsaccessible to us; and we know that our

present studies and work in the Orderfollow the same venerable traditionsand have the same objective, the attain-ment of Cosmic comprehension andillumination and the advancement ofthe race. But we have many singularadvantages which those early workershad not. They were a voice crying inthe wilderness and met with persecutionfrom an unenlightened people: today,

our voice is heard and recognized of men.Science has made swift and wonderfuladvances and is meeting us on the bor-derline; it is verifying daily the resultsof our researches. The mystic tru th ofthe philosophers stone is offered itwithout fear or favour; the vibration ofthe lost word of power which willtransmute the very elements in theirhands is increasing in rhythm and in-tensity over the world. Religion is onthe eve of its great renaissance; its formshave fulfilled their purpose and are pass-ing. It demands the knowledge of the

way, and we point it to the one paththe Brothers have trodden. True, ig-norance rises in its primitive boldnessto obstruct us, but we are too strongto be driven into obscurity and silence;we have nothing to fear now fromeither state, science or religion. Theyneed us: they voice intuitively, yet in-articulately, our highest ideals: but alittle while and they will seek our co-operation.

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We are also to recognize that the cycleof activity on which we are launched isperhaps the most momentous in thehistory of the Order. Th is is emphasied by the recent appearance of theRosicrucian Manual which makes publicfor the first time the facts pertaining tothe establishment of the Order for thiscycle, and extensive information regard-ing its main lines of activity and studyas pursued by ourselves. It is fittingthat such a publication should be in ourhands and that it can be producedauthoritatively to those who are inter-ested in our work and seek the Rosicru-cian path. The time is propitious anddemands that such a comprehensivedeclaration of our work and activitiesshould be available. I have heard it

affirmed that the Rosicrucians do notexist in this age, and the belief is widelyheld. Th e reason that it is so held isbecause of a general ignorance, evenamong occult students, of the cycles ofactivity and of objective inactivity ofthe Order. However, the time hascome to acquaint the growing body ofoccult and psychic researchers among uswith the Rosicrucian name, to reiteratethe magnificent accomplishments of our

predecessors, the dignity and extent oftheir work, that it is preeminently

practical world work, not a dream or a

speculation but a vital dynamic forceoperating in human lives here and nowon the physical plane. It is incumbentupon us, accompanied as we are with acloud of Cosmic witnesses, to sounddominantly the note of the practicalityand demonstrability of the work we areengaged in.

I have no wish to strain the point,but the one fact that strikes me mostforcibly about these master minds istheir labour in and for the world. Thereare so many cults around us in whichstudents are infinitely absorbed to save

their souls for themselves. I would notbe a saint under this prime condition!It is not manly: neither can the soulcome into its own through this cravingto renounce the world by becoming toogood to serve it. Let us take an exam-

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great work to which he dedicated hiswhole soul in the name of his brokenfellowmen through the last years of hislife. What is this but the Rosicrucianideal? It is a classic example with thevery virtue of the Masters in it. More-over, it is the basic principle which giveslife and stamina to our Order. Witho utthis there is peace, an ephemeral andinsipid peace, for us, but no glory,nothing to venerate, nothing to lift us

beyond self. And every Brother whohas gone before us has been a warriorengaged in a strenuous battle againstignorance in the name of his fellowmen;and whatever special interest his per-sonal and peculiar occult qualificationsmay have for us, it is for his greathumanitarian labour that we honourhim.

I said how timely was the publicationof the Manual for authoritative pro-duction to inquirers. Doubt and hesi-tancy on the part o f many arises throughthe observance of a traditional secrecyabout our activities, but to a large andlegitimate extent the Manual is calcu-lated to break through this secrecy ina manner consistent with the evolutionof the Order and the present manifesta-tion of interest in it on the part ofstudents. I might cite the case of amember in this jurisdiction. He had

nearly completed the National gradesand yet had a most nebulous idea ofboth the Order and its broad objectives.After reading the Manual he found hisdoubts cleared away and his manyquestionings answered; nor until thendid he have any clear idea of the ex-istence of the Masters. Now he is pro-ceeding with confidence in the highergrades and finding a sure basis for pastexperience. And if, as has been pointedout, advanced egos of the EgyptoChaldean period are at this time bring-ing into evolution their knowledge and

guidance, we may expect an increasinginterest shown by a large percentage ofstudents who have had past associationwith the Order in that period and whowill surely be led to unite with us. it

j jji is this ancient and fundamental RosiM vs tic Cfucian knowledge which the inquirer

. will find outlined in the section of the1 riangle Manuai setting forth the various grades

May of the Temple Lectures, the methods of1928 psychic attainment in connection with

such knowledge being completely adapted to the present evolutionary stand-

point. Nor can it be overlooked thatstudents of modern scientific researchare in their studies literally waiting forthe knowledge we possess to advancetheir researches to practical issues. Isit not then precisely in such an epoch asthe present, an epoch of great mentaland scientific achievements, that ourwork must make its great appeal? Theopportunity is ours to voice this appealand convince these students that weunderstand their need and that it can

be fully met in the demonstrations ofour deeper science.

There is another aspect which throwsout in bold relief the duty we owe toothers in bringing this work promi-

nently to light. On every hand in thepsychic world we hear the cry of theupstart and the innovator, making large

promises which cannot be fulfilled andwhich are nauseating in the extreme tothe scientific mind of the age. This,in itself, is scientific reason that if wehave inherited the greater wisdom, weshould declare it. We should be aliving challenge to the specious and un-worthy cults that flourish for the hour,and die. If we are to be true to our

profession as democrats of thought andliberators of the soul, now is the time

to set our ideas in motion over a widerfield. We have studied the use of theword of power: let us use it; we havestudied how to dream: let the dreambecome a concrete thing. That whichour higher grade members have demon-strated let them project into public life;that which they have found within theprecincts of the temple and fashionedwithin the laboratory of the soul, letthem carry out into the world of men.Let us welcome criticism as an oppor-tunity to speak the truth we know themore robustly. Why allow the truth

we know to remain a dead weight inthe heart when those who have it notgain proselytes merely by reason of acalculated effrontery?

I am of course not advocating a wildenthusiasm and a reckless disseminationof that which, under law, must yet be

preserved in silence. My object is tostress one great point. Our Order isthe repository of a noble science, theDivine Arcana, and those members in

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it who, after patient research, havereached that stage where the word ofpower becomes a vibrant reality in thesoul should be good for something; insome individual and peculiar way theyshould be practitioners, and some por-tion of their resurrected inner life shouldbe placed unreservedly at the service ofhumanity. There should be no doubtwhatever on this head. Upon themrests largely the responsibility of carry-ing the prestige of the Order to greaterheights than ever before. If we glanceback along the line of the splendid menwho preceded us we observe their namescarved indelibly in the history of theworld. They stand there a challengefor all time. Some of them were notknown as Rosicrucians to their con-

temporaries, but their works proclaimthem, and we know their responsibilitiesand their difficulties. Every one ofthem was a fervent doer in his chosenline; and the world was well aware ofhis presence whether or not it under-stood him. They trod no easy andperfumed path: they were called andsubmitted to the Cosmic urge, some-times scarcely knowing how theywrought. The more they were baffledthe stronger they became: driven fromone objective they commanded another;

they neither retracted, nor apologized,nor cared aught for their detractors

because the soul in them was awakenedand would not be silenced. Once as-sured of their mission either on themountain top or within the temple andeverything else was settled, or unsettled,just as it came.

These reflections should fill us witha divine zeal and a genuine emulation.I know very well the individual diffi-culties at this stage in attempting toshape the whole man after the innerlaws for original work. The fire ofthe Spirit that vitalizes and refines iskeen, and we must often pause andstand aside with great patience and en-durance and watch the hand of naturewondrously mould us when we cannot

help ourselves. And this is good, forit teaches a necessary humility and con-fidence in the wise architect within us.But with the vision fixed in the heartof what our Order has achieved in thepast under the dominating influence ofmaster minds, and conscious of theheritage of knowledge which is ours asthe price of their solid effort, I feel weshould lay hold of the present oppor-tunity of following firmly in their pathand carry our lives to sound practicalissues in the world of men.

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"If M y Business Methods Are Wrong,

W hat Shall I V o ?

An Address by Th e Imperator to Some Brothers

The

M ystic

Triangle

May

1928

AM happy to have yourquestion given to me as atopic for a discourse, for I

believe that all of us in ourbusiness activities are con-fronted by this same ques-tion. There is no doubtact that in dealing with the

various affairs of business life we areforced into methods, or forced to sub-mit to methods, which do not always

meet with our approval from a purelyethical point of view. What are we todo? Shall we protest or submit? Shallwe change those methods, or silence ourstill small voice and continue?

It matters little in what business youmay be engaged; so long as it is con-structive, of general good to a largenumber, and not contrary to any lawof God or man, you are justified alwaysin continuing your work if you can doso in an efficient manner. But, someof you seem to feel that in your par-ticular line there are methods or busi-

ness customs which are not fair, notethical, not honest, and each of youseeks to know what you shall do.

Permit me to call your attention tothe fact that those now assembled beforeme represent a number of different linesof business, and yet to your mutualsurprise, each feels that his line is theone in which there are more unethicalor unfair methods than in any other.There is Brother Blank who is in therealestate business; there is BrotherWhite in the wholesale grocery busi-ness; and there is Brother Jones in the

piano business; and over here we haveBrother Brown in the retail grocery

business, and he may be a little suspici-ous of the business methods of hiswholesale Brother; and back there isBrother Smith who is very successful inthe contracting business; and. yes, righthere is Brother Blue who is the managerfor a drug store, and next to him isBrother Green who is a dentist. Justthese few picked at random, indicate the

wide variance of business interests repre-sented here, and yet each of you haveagreed that the big question confrontingyou as an individual is: If MY bus-iness methods are wrong, what shallI do?

What are the essential points of yourbusiness affairs that worry you most?I find that you have agreed upon thesefew things as being the serious ones:

Unconscious misrepresentation,

Exaggerated representation,Belittling the risks,Suppressing investigations,Encouraging risky impulses,Supporting doubtful claims,Accepting unearned profits,Creating possible risks,Disregarding disappointments,Taking advantage of situations.You say that in the course of your

business affairs you become consciousat times that you are not being as fair,as square, as ethical, as a Rosicrucianshould be, that you know of only one

way to do differently, and that is toget out of the business that forces youinto such circumstances.

But, Brothers, you make a mistakein your reasoning. That conclusionis not correct. It is my hope to showyou that neither man nor the Cosmicwould expect you to give up your busi-nesses because they are so operated thatcertain unethical principles are an im-

portant part of the life of the businesses.In the first place, as Rosicrucians, we

know that nothing is ever gained bynegation or indifference. T o deny that

a thing exists does not affect its exist-ence so far as others are concerned. Wemay shut our eyes to the sunlight and

proclaim that the sun does not exist.We affect our realizationof the sun. butwe do not affect the existence of thesun nor realization of it by other per-sons.

We also know that we may negatecertain circumstances in our lives andclose our objective consciousness to

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them, but that does not affect the cir-cumstances one iota. You and I havemet those who go about with one eyeconstantly shut to actions in their ownlives, trying to negate, trying to ignore,the things that they constantly know

are not right. They think that theyare serving themselves, or rather theirinnerselves, a small dose of soothingsyrup all the time.

And, we meet those who believe thatthey have discovered a great secret, thesecret of rising above those thingswhich are obstacles in their material

path or which are painful to their con-science. How they love to tell othersabout their ability to be superior tosuch things as the still small voiceor thetwangs of regret from within! Theyfrankly say that when they find them-

selves face to face with an ethical, moralor religious problem in their lives, theyrise above it and cast it aside and payno attention to the voice from withinthat begs them to hesitate and do dif-ferently.

And, all these persons believe theyare demonstrating mastership.

By your question as to what youshould do, you indicate that you havewondered if you should not rise abovethese thoughts of selfcondemnation,and proceed to let the laws of the uni-verse work out any wrong you maydo, or you wonder if you should notabandon your present business and gointo some other line.

Let us assume that each of you is insome business the same business andthat business has in it all the faults, allthe errors and unethical principles, out-lined a few moments ago. Now, whatare you to do? Change from that lineof business, give it up altogether, orcontinue in it and fight it out withyour conscience?

We know that a wilful violation of

one of the Cosmic laws brings its penal-ties. We know that even an unconsci-ous violation of a Cosmic law bringsits particular form of penalty, just asdoes the unconscious violation of oneof natures laws. There is no avoidingthe consequences of our acts. We can-not eternally escape the law of Karmain connection with every act, large orsmall, wilful or unconscious. There-fore, it would seem that there is but

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one thing to do, abandon any businessthat entails methods which we believeare not proper, not fair nor ethical.

Again I say, however, that thisconclusion is not right. It is simplyanother way of attempting to riseabove the circumstances, the problems,and in no wise shows either mastershipor character.

I wish to offer to you an explanationof what constitutes the real situationand the proper attitude to assume inthese matters.

First of all, each one of us is here onthis earth plane to carry out some ofthe work that is to be done. We mayor may not get right into the groovethat is best for us, and we may or maynot be laboring at what is our truemission in life. But we are laboring,

we are working, we are striving, pro-ducing, creating, building and carryingon. No matter what line of activitywe may be devoted to, if it is more thanfifty per cent constructive, it is good:if it is contributing in some way to theneeds, the desires, the pleasures andhealth of the masses, it is good. Onlythe idler, the nonproducer, the parasite,is wholly wrong in his life.

It is undoubtedly true that manylines of endeavor in the business worldare based on unethical and unsoundmethods and principles. Th is is theresult of mans past attempts to createschemes of working out his plans inlife without due consideration of thehigher principles involved in all things.So, man of today is forced either to usesome of these established methods him-self, or contend with them in the activ-ities of others with whom he must deal.

What would you have all men do?Abandon their business activities andcease to conduct the various lines ofbusiness, because in nearly all lines thereare these faults? Or, would you have

all men, and women, enter just thosefew lines of business wherein there seemsto be not a single fault or unethical

principle?We must admit that just as there

were men in the days of the past whocared little or nothing for ethical prin-ciples and stooped to any degree of de-ceit and error to further their businessinterests, there are many like that in the

business world today. Would you good

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men, men who have found that somebusiness practices are not what theyshould be, abandon your places in thebusiness world and leave all such busi-ness to those men who are satisfiedwith the questionable practices? Inother words would you abandon your

place to those who will continue toincrease the unethical practices and per-mit conditions to get worse than theyare?

Perhaps you see my point of view,now. It is simply this. The evolutionand improvement of business ethicsand sound business principles rests inthe hands of those conscientious menlike yourselves who fully appreciate theerrors that now exist, who are sensitiveto the voice of conscience, and who areseeking advice and suggestions regardingany means for eliminating the wrong

principles. Your presence in the busi-ness world is like unto the fire in thealchemists furnace. You will purgeand purify the dross from the matterand finally leave it in a higher state,a better state. The fact that you arequestioning some of the practices youhave been forced to use, that you areholding some of the principles up to thelight of examination, and applying themicroscope of Cosmic enlargement toyour viewpoint, is the one great re-deeming feature of the business you arein.

You know that as Rosicrucians wehold that evolution, not revolution,is the principle that makes for perma-nency in changes. You will never alter

permanently, improve permanently, thebusiness conditions of the world byarbitrarily abandoning all lines of busi-ness activity that today are fraught withunethical practices. You would simplyturn those lines of activity back intothe hands of the unscrupulous, the in-different, the unworthy, and those lineswould never improve, never evolve, into

the ideal lines they should be.

No, my Brothers, consider yourselvesMessengers of Light in your fields of

business activities; look upon yourselvesas tools in the hands of the CosmicLaws to aid in the evolutionary changesthat must be brought about in allthings, including business methods.

Keep your eyes, your ears, your tongues,well attuned to the errors that you notein your business affairs. At every op-portunity make these wrong practicesas inconsequential in the scheme ofthings as possible; give them secondary

place whenever possible; put better onesin their places at each opportunity; helpto make their weaknesses become soevident to others that the very presenceof them in any line will be obnoxious.That will be applying the fire of thecrucible to them. Make it your busi-ness to lift your practices higher andhigher each day, not by negating thebusiness, not by casting it aside andabandoning it to those who have noheart, no active conscience, but by be-coming the saviour of your business,the leader in the evolutionary changesthat must be worked out slowly andcarefully. Each time you are forced touse a practice, a method, a principle thatyou recognize as unsound, do it withyour consciousness concentrated uponits unsoundness and make it stand outin all its crimson distinctiveness and

thereby isolate it from the other prin-ciples and methods which^are good andtrue. Little by little these markedthings will be separated and you willhave a group of branded practices, con-demned, ostracised and rejected. Thiswill be part of the process of evolutionof your business and you will be oneof those like the many in the past yearswho have aided in similar ways inmaking all our business, social and ed-ucational systems better and more idealthan they were hundreds of years ago.

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May 1928

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Some cf^erw Books R evie w ed

By T h e Im p e r a t o r

T is about time that we havea little book chat again, andpeek into some of the booksthat are being advertisedand sold as of extreme im-portance to students ofmysticism and occultism.

We are constantly hearing of new booksthat every student of mysticism musthave and unless such books are pur-chased and diligently studied, seekerswill reach nowhere in their quest. Ofcourse, we look with suspicion uponbooks which are advertised in this man -

ner, but it includes a great many thesedays, and our members write to us con-stantly in regard to some book theyhave seen announced or which has beenrecommended to them. As in the past,we try to read every new book that isissued; our Editorial library is enlarg-ing at the rate of a dozen new booksa month and we have several thousandof them which are not worth the paperupon which they are printed. Occa-sionally we find one that is very fine,and we do not hesitate to recommend it.We have found from our members that

most of them before entering our Orderwere spending between twentyfive andfifty dollars a year for books. In otherwords, they were spending at leastas much as they now pay into theAMORC for dues each year, and theyfrankly admit that they never receivedso much instruction in one year frombooks as they received from theAMORC teachings. Most of these per-sons have ceased buying so many ofthe advertised books and courses sincethey entered AMORC. However, thereare other books which our members can

well afford to buy and read from timeto time.

Now, one of the books which is be-ing so widely advertised in occult mag-azines as a very important contributionto mystical literature is called TheGreat Crystal Fraud" by W. StuartLeech, M. D. It is published by theOccult Publishing Company of 1900North Clark Street, Chicago, and sells

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for one dollar. The way this book isadvertised, one would think that it isa very large and important contributionto the literature of critical essays on thetrue and false phases of mystical philo-sophy. But the book is nothing of thekind. On its title page it admits thatit is a seriocomic story," and that isreally what it is. It is a small bookof only a few pages, and unless one isinterested in reading a comic diatribethat really teaches no lesson, but ismerely light reading, there is no use in

buying such a book despite its heavy

advertising. Another book, called"Glory Strains" by Ida C. Balter, pub-lished by the same company as theabove and selling for one dollar, is abeautifully bound little book, attempt-ing to give some messages or ideas thatmay come through automatic "pencilwriting." If you are interested in thisalluring subject, then you will probablylike this book and the story it contains.

We have also another book with thetitle "Three Conceptions of Mind" byAlexander A. Jascalevich. Th is is pub-lished by the Columbia University Press

in New York. It is well written, byone who is thoroughly familiar withhis subject from the philosophical pointof view, and it deals with such subjectsas Natures Culmination in Man, TheChristian Soul, and the RationalKnower. Th is book will be of realinterest to those who are making aspecial study of the mind. On theother hand, another book issued by thesame publishing company in New Yorkis entitled "The Realm of Mind" and isby Frederick J. E. Woodbridge. Herewe have a book that deals with the

various manifestations of the realm ofmind, and particularly with the ob-

jective mind and its distinct character-istics. The book is written from themetaphysical point of view and sells for$1.75 by mail. It is also of great valueto the student of mind.

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chology for normal people. This isby H. A. Overstreet, professor of thedepartment of Philosophy of the Col-lege of the City of New York. The

book is published by W. W. Nortonand Company in New York, for threedollars. It deals particularly with such

subjects as wishing, thinking, the com-prehension of music and of pictures,and the psychological processes of con-versation, and the effects of emotionupon our lives. This book will proveof great interest to those who are anx-ious to take up the interesting phasesof normal psychology. I have also reada book that is typical of the kind thatmay deceive or rather disappoint ourreaders. Not because the book itself isdeceptive as far as its contents are con-cerned, or that the information con-tained in it is disappointing except in

so far as our anticipations as mysticsmay be concerned. This because thetitle of the book is Leaves from aSecret Journa l and it is claimed to bea record of intimate experiences byJane Steger, published in Boston byLittle , Brown & Company. Such atitle and subtitle as mentioned abovewould lead mystics to believe that theyare going to find many pages of infor-mation and help in their mysticalstudies, but this is where the disappoint-ment is found. The book is inspiringand interesting, and probably fulfills

some mission that I have not had anopportunity to discover, but as a bookof secret, mystical experiences, it wouldbe of little interest to our members.

To those who are interested in astro-logy, I would like to say that I havealso read a new book that I am suremany will want to secure. It is calledAstrology and its Practical Applica-tion by E. Parker, and translated fromthe Dutch by Coba Gocdhart. Thebook is published by P. Dz. Veen,Amersfoort, Holland, and sells for threedollars in American money. It may be

possible to obtain this book throughBrentanos in New York City andChicago, or through other book stores

The which import books, but I believe thattic those interested would save time by

, ordering it direct from the publisher,I rtangle an(j ;n d0jng so please remember to seMay cure an International Money Order for1928 three dollars to send to the publisher.

The book is a complete guide to astro-logy, the casting of horoscopes, and thedrawing of them, and I must say thatthe interpretations given to most ofthe aspects and planetary positions, aswell as the incidental points in a horo-scope, are new, interesting, and very

thorough. The same publisher issues asmall book called Veens Tables.This is a condensed almanac of all the

planetary positions for the years 1847to 1916. It sells for 75c in Americanmoney, and saves one from buyingtwentyfive or thirty dollars worth ofearly almanacs. With this book oftables, and the larger book on the appli-cation of astrology referred to above,anyone can take up the study of astrol-ogy and become fairly proficient in theart without a teacher.

Speaking of books not recommended,

we must make this little comment oncemore. We have made it about twice ayear for the past three or four years.Our members are continually coming incontact with a book or with some onewho has read the book which claims to

be the story of the Masters in the FarEast. Th is book purports to be a storyof the experiences of one who joined anexpedition sent out by some universityof this country to investigate the mar-vellous manifestations which are re-

ported to occur in the monasteries ofTibet. Before this book was written,

the author of it attempted through someof his friends in our organization tosecure the endorsement of AMORC ofthe book, and through such endorse-ment a very large sale of the book itself.

Our investigation showed that we couldnot endorse the book as a true accountnor as a report of a person who had

been a party of any expedition fromany of the American universities. De-spite our refusal to endorse the book,the influence of one or two memberswas secured, and through them ourmembership not only in America but inforeign lands was approached in a wayto make the members believe that thenew book was not only endorsed by usbut was being sold through us. Thou-sands of copies of this book, therefore,were purchased by our members anddespite all we have said in the past fewyears, the book is still being passedaround by members who believe that

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the book contains a true account, andthat the authors claims of his expedi-tion into Tibet are true. We did notinvestigate his personal claims, because

before we could do so, the San Franciscoand other western newspapers published

stories of interviews with the author,wherein he is alleged to have admittedthat their investigations of him werecorrect, and that he had not been onany expedition to that country. How-ever true this may be, we can say most

positively that the account in that bookis not based upon the facts of conditionsin Tibet, and an unbridled imaginationis responsible for practically all of themarvellous things described therein.The book, therefore, while interestingto read, is misleading if one accepts theintroductory story about the manner in

which the experiences were secured, orif one believes that the book is a resultof an expedition. For this reason alonewe would have to condemn the book.Many far more interesting books havebeen written on what occurs in themonasteries of Tibet, even by thosewho have not been there, but are fa-miliar with the teachings of Tibet andthe practices there through other con-tacts. One such book is the famousOn the Heights of the Himalayas byBrother Van der Nailen, which book

has had many editions and has neverbeen equalled as a beautiful story ofTibet and the life of the mystics there.It may be secured through almost anylarge book company. So again we sayif you come in contact with the bookthat purports to be the story of theMasters of the Far East, please do notread it and accept its statements to suchan extent that you write to us or toanyone else and ask how these marvel-lous things were performed, and inwhat way they should be explained. Itis like asking us to explain how the

wild imagings of an unguided imagina-tion could have had material manifesta-tion. It simply cannot be done.

Some of our members have writtento us asking about a book called AnEncyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Her-metic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Phil-

osophy by Manly P. Hall. We haveexamined this book carefully since thefirst copy was off the press, and wecannot find in it anything of help tooar students of Rosicrucian symbologyor Rosicrucian philosophy. The book

should be a weighty one with such aweighty title, but most of its weight isa result of the size of the pages and itsbinding, for it is large and great in thisregard. Its price is sufficiently high tokeep the average seeker for additionalreading matter from investing hismoney and being disappointed, and wehope that no one else will spend theseventyfive dollars for a copy with theanticipation of finding anything in itthat will help him in the study of ourRosicrucian teachings. The easiestthing to write about a book or a maga-zine article, for that matter, is the title,and the hardest thing to write in sucha case is the matter that follows the title,and which should support and justifythe title. Unfortunately, titles alonesell most books, and by the time onediscoverers that the title has little rela-tionship to the contents of the book, oneis minus the price of same. Mr. Halls

book may be intensely interesting andundoubtedly of value to the Freemasonwho is collecting unusual books dealingwith his organization. We cannot at-

tempt to view it from the Masonicstandpoint. We are speaking only ofthe value of the book to our Rosicru-cian members. It is quite evident thatMr. Hall has labored long and wellin the production of this book and un-doubtedly it will greatly impress seekersand investigators with its sincerity of

purpose.

With these few terse remarks aboutbooks and things appertaining to bookreading, I call your further attention tothe fact that our lectures from time totime contain recommendations of good

additional reading matter in book form,and this magazine from time to timerecommends good books. The Chris-tian Bible still remains the best bookthat we can recommend to our students,and we doubt if we will find any otherbook that nearly equals it in any respect.

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which has given and is giving so muchturmoil in the minds of human kind.So it shall be to the seeking classes thisepistle is lovingly (in the wider sense)given. And may the mainspring whichis on high (the Father) illuminate the

hearts and minds of man even as mineis divinely illumined.

Mary, that sweetest of all namesgiven, revibrates in fullness of tonalqualities. Mary Mary, I sing it, forto me it has the meaning not of earth:She that bore me in trial subjected toearth was no other than an angel fromon high come down to earth a sacri-fice in the fullest sense, that I AM, theChrist, might have being in the flesh.That my birth be of a virgin (pure) issimple and true literally and otherwise.To be incarnate is great sacrifice for thealready glorified: it being a comingdown as it were, in the scale of evolvement. But lest ye forget, it also isvoluntary and the sacrifice of great Lovebegetting growth to the yet higher.

Thus sweet Mary of the Spiritborn to bear the man Jesus laterthe Christ of Galilee, truly lived a purenoble life protected and nurtured un-der the wings of the brotherhood of

Light, until she attained the age (thenvery young) when conditions wereripe for the coming of New Light:and having served as vestal virgin,one Joseph, man of wisdom, greatlyenhancing the thought of mankind,

followed the ancient custom of regen-eration through offspring, took sweetMary to wife. Know ye not tha t itis truth that marriage at such time wasaccording to natural divine law? Sono record (material) was held. O yechildren of men, must ye yet have signsand symbols lest ye know not Hiscoming!

So Joseph, mature in wisdom andexperience, after taking Mary to wife,pu t her away that the highest grow inlight under the glowing heart in Mary:and in due time Mary brought fortha man child whom they named Jesusand who, under the care and love of hisparents grew in stature and wisdom,and through the beloved brotherhood to be about his Fathers business.

Thus endeth the epistle concerningthe birth of the child Jesus.

Another follows at an opportunetime: hearest thou!

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Here is good news for many members. At least we have granted the request of hundreds

of our members and have had made a beautiful Gold and Red Seal, about one inch in diame-

ter, to be used on the back of envelopes. Members can use them on their private correspon-

dence. It shows the Rosy Cross and the name of the Order. They are dignified and

impressive. By using them only on private correspondence to persons who are not members,

or on business correspondence with persons or firms not connected with the Order, a great amount

of conservative publicity can be given to the Order. The Supply Bureau at Headquarters offers

these seals to our members at the actual cost, fif ty cents per hundred. You can order them in

any quantity at the above rate.

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Official Fads About the Trip to Egypt

By T h e Im pe r a t o r

I have been importuned by so manymembers to say something more aboutthe proposed trip, that I will now pre-sent some of the very definite featuresfor which I have completed all arrange-ments.

First of all I wish to thank the many,many members who have written to meexpressing a keen realization of the un-usual opportunity that is being offeredto those who can manage, in any way

possible, to take this trip. The en-thusiasm, thanks, and appreciation ex-

pressed in these letters proves that mostof our members are aware of the factthat this trip is one of the unusual op-

portunities of a lifetime. The mostrepeated phrase is this: I havedreamed for many years of taking sucha trip as this, but the usual high costof such a trip, plus the lack of know-ledge of what places would be of realinterest to a student of ancient mysti-cism, has kept me from ever thinkingthat my dream would be realized.And, such letters are not solely frommen and women in the more humble

walks of life, but from men who areat the head of big corporations, law-yers, judges, physicians, scientists andothers who are in such positions in lifethat they can be absent from their busi-ness affairs during a busy season.Among the writers are many who havemade European tours in the summermonths and who are quite familiar withforeign travel and know what the costsare and what little can be seen andlearned abroad when unaccompanied byone who is familiar with the real sightsto be seen. And, undoubtedly the most

difficult sights to be seen are those re-lated with ancient mystical and occultaffairs. Few of the professional guidesin foreign countries know anything

The about such places, and one cannot makeMystic understand that one wants to get_ . . to the unusual places; and the guide1 rtangle books and those who really know are

May significantly silent on such points for1928 reasons which one learns gradually as

one goes around to the various coun-tries.

And so we have received many letters.Some of these are from those who arein doubt about their ability to gobecause of either business or financialconditions. A few cannot decide defi-nitely until they have the approval ofsome one in connection with importantaffairs, and a few must wait to see theoutcome of certain personal affairs notconnected with business or finances.But, the majority have stated their

positive assurance of uniting with theparty.

T h e Co s t Re d u c e d It was stated in an earlier article in

this magazine that the cost of the trip,including steamship fares, railroad fares,all hotel accomodations, meals andsightseeing, from New York City andback again to New York, for sixtydays touring, would be about onethousand dollars per person. It wasthis reasonable figure which attractedthe attention of so many who knew thatthe usual cost for just a typical Medi-

terranean Cruise was never less thanapproximately double that amount.

Despite the fact that so many imme-diately accepted that offer and madereservations to go on the trip, I be-lieved that I could make the trip evenbetter and more inclusive than any evermade to the Orient, and include partsof Europe as well, without increasingthe cost. For days I consulted withsixteen of the eighteen companies thathave anything to do with foreigntravel on sea or land, and argued waysand means with them for making the

tour a magnificent one. Little by little,additional features were added andgradually the cost began to rise also.That was contrary to my plans, for Irealized that while I personally couldmake the trip and would take my

family with me, there were those whowould go along with me on this triponly if it was possible at a nominalfigure.

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Then I found that certain reductions,or inducements, were being offered tome because of the fact that I was mak-ing possible this unusual tour party.At once I insisted that such inducementsmust also be granted to all who were

going or I would abandon the plan.Our members know us only too wellin this regard. Never in any recom-mendations of books to read, things topurchase, or personal expenditures tobe made, has AMORC directly or in-directly profited in any way, exceptthrough the good will of the members.It is a remarkable fact that a simplerecommendation in these pages or in ourlectures has resulted time after time intremendous purchases being made byour members; but always have themembers found a real help, a good in-vestment, an unbiased recommendation,and no selfish interest for AMORC.The same was to be true about thisgreat trip, or there would be no trip sofar as our general membership wasconcerned.

So, down fell the price again to thethousand dollar mark, despite the manyadditional European features. Youmay readily understand what I meanwhen I say that the European trip cov-ering Italy, France, Switzerland, Bel-gium and England, with interesting

auto tours with guides, is a trip thatwhen taken alone through the servicesof any tourist company, costs not lessthan five hundred dollars; and yet Ihave added it to our tour so that wemay see a number of European Rosicrucian sites and permit our members todo some real shopping in Paris andLondon.

Fu r t h e r Su r p r is e sBut this is not all. I have succeeded

again in making the trip even moreenticing and enjoyable. First let me

tell you that I have secured exclusiveand private reservation of the entire halfof one of the finest and newest steam-ships going from New York to theMediterranean. Our party will occupythat part of the steamer exclusively,with our own dining room, loungerooms, library, salons, decks, orchestraand stewards. Only the outside staterooms of the several decks reserved forus will be used, so that everyone willhave an outside room; the other rooms

will be permanently closed. We willoccupy these rooms as a hotel for a largepart of the trip. This is indeed anunusual feature and the first time inthe history of Mediterranean travel thatit has been done. And, I have secured

the exclusive use of a steamer on theNile for a 600 mile trip on that famousriver, stopping at many points and see-ing about thirty of the famous old andlittle visited Temples, tombs, excava-tions and historial old buildings closelyallied with the earliest days of Egyptiancivilization, including the Mystic citybuilt by our past Master, AmenhotepIV. All this in addition to the daysspent in the old mystical Temples ofLuxor, Karnak and others, in one ofwhich the beautiful Rosicrucian cere-mony will be held for those in theparty who belong to the Order.

The next surprise is that I have alsosucceeded in having the price actuallyreduced to where it will be less thanone thousand dollars, giving a savingthat will help materially toward inci-dental expenses for shopping and extrasightseeing.

T h e It in e r a r ySpace will not permit of a completely

detailed program of the trip in thismagazine. Such a program will besent to all who have planned to go, in

a special booklet to be compiled thismonth. But, we have definitely de-cided upon the following points.

Leave New York City early in Janu-ary on specially reserved section ofsteamer, going direct to Funchal, Ma-deira, then to Gibraltar and parts ofSpain, then on to Algiers, Monaco andthe French Riviera, Naples, Athens and

parts of Greece, The Dardanelles bydaylight, and on to Constantinople;then on to Haifa, at the coast of Pales-tine. Throughout all this first section

of the trip we will use our steamer asour Hotel and will make extensive sight-seeing trips in the day and evening ateach of the cities mentioned above. AtHaifa we will leave the boat for someweeks and spend about ten days touringthe Holy Land in a manner that willreveal more of the historical sights andmystical places than any trip hereto-fore planned. We will visit the real

birthplace of Jesus, and also his familytow n; and will visit old Monaster

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ies, Synagogues and places of mira-cles and ancient ceremonies, includingDamascus, Capernaum, Nazareth, a rideon the Sea of Galilee, complete visit ofall landmarks in Jerusalem, and manyother points. Then by special trainfrom Jerusalem along the Phoenician

Coast for daylight sightseeing of his-torical places, to Cairo. Here a fewdays will be spent for shop and scenicvisits followed by camel ride to thedesert where we will spend at least onenight in the Shicks tents and then visitthe Great Pyramid, the Sphinx, andother wonderful Temples. Here againour members will have a surprise andunusual treat, for I will take them tothe secret birthplace of the MasterK. H., and the place of his first greatteachings. This will be followed by areturn to Cairo, a trip to Luxor andKarnak for several days where certainRosicrucian ceremonies and an Initia-tion will take place for all Rosicruciansin the party; then on to Aswan where,after a days visiting, we will board thechartered steamer and spend a numberof days viewing the old Temples, in-cluding Thebes, beautiful Denders, Edfuand a host of others, while travellingthe 600 miles back to Cairo. Then onto Alexandria for a day's sightseeingand again go aboard the great steamerfor the remainder of our trip.

The second half of the trip is alsointeresting, for we go on to Syracuse inSicily, then to Naples, where we spendsome time and go to Rome and see theancient ruins, the present magnificentcathedrals and museums, and returnagain to Naples. Then we go on toMonaco by our steamer and there leavethe ship again for several weeks. FromMonaco we go to Nice, after havingbeen at Monte Carlo and Mentone, andwhile staying a few days at Nice wewill take a specially planned auto tourin many cars, up into the Maritime

Alps to see one of the oldest of Rosi-crucian sites and also visit the famousGap and the perfume factories at Grassewhere the ladies can get fresh samples

The tkat mystical perfume called ChristMvatic mas Nigh t. We return by way of

. . Cannes, where the present head of the1 rtangle Rosicrucian Order of France has a sanc

May turn, and then make other tours of the1928 environs of Nice and its beautiful ha r-

bor. From Nice we go in special trainsto Marseilles and visit, then on to Lyonsand visit the city where Cagliostro hadhis first national headquarters. FromLyons we go to Geneva and visit theLeague of Nations building, sail on theLake for one day to Lausanne and re-

turn and finally go on by train toBasle, Switzerland, where we will stopfor one day to visit the old RosicrucianCollege and Temple grounds as well asother fascinating scenes. From this

point we go on to Heidelburg, Ger-many, after passing the great BlackForest and many fine sights. Aftervisiting the sites of old Rosicrucian

places in Heidelburg we go on to Mayence for the evening and then in themorning start the beautiful wholedaytrip on the Rhine in a specially char-tered steamer to Cologne, passing hun-

dreds of castles and historical sites.After two days visiting in Cologne wego in a special de luxe train throughBelgium, across the battlefields andthrough some of the wartime centres,and arrive in Paris in the evening.Here we will spend a number of dayssightseeing in special, big, autos andwill have one special tour to Versaillesand visit every one of the many roomsand galleries of that marvelous place.Visits will also include the principal artgalleries and stores of Paris, the theatres

and the museums. One night will bespent in a special trip through the Latinquarter with competent guides; and therewill be ample time for shopping, as wellas visiting Cagliostro's great mysteryTemple and the place of the Rose CroixTemple. Then we will go by specialtrain and boat to London, where a fewmore days will be spent in sightseeing,visiting the cathedrals, museums andhistorical London Tower and theHouses of Parliament, Bacons homeand the Shakespeare country. In Lon-don we will meet the Grand Master of

the English Rosicrucian Jurisdictionand have him bring our trip on thecontinent to an end with a special cere-mony. Then we start for home againacross the Atlantic on one of the largeregular liners of the Royal Mail Com-

pany, and reach New York after hav-ing been absent for approximately 77days.

So you see we have enlarged the trip

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from sixty to seventyseven days, addeda wonderful continental tour, and otherfeatures, and have reduced the price.Fine hotels will be reserved, excellentmeals served at all times, even on thetrains and large and small steamers, and

all sightseeing expenses included. Thosewho wish may stay longer in Paris orLondon and return on a later boat.

An o t h e r F e a t u r e Be i n g P l a n n e d

It appears now that practically everyLodge of the Order will be representedamong those going on this trip. Thatsuggests another possibility. Would itnot be fine for our American Jurisdic-tion to have a convention while inEgypt or elsewhere, and there, with allLodges represented by an Official Dele-gate, take up many matters of impor-tance and have them discussed and votedupon? We bring this suggestion beforeour various Lodges and their Officers.Perhaps those Lodges from which nomember expects to go on the trip, will

try to arrange now to have one Delegatego to represent the Lodge. Perhaps theMaster or Secretary can go, if those whohave the means to go, but not the time,will offer to aid the Master or Secretaryto go. If a number in each Lodge ar-

range to do this, it could be workedout very nicely. This is a suggestionand I would be glad to hear from thevarious Lodges about it.

Brother Arthur Bell has been ap-pointed Trip Secretary and he willhandle all routine communications re-garding passports, baggage, and similardetails. Just address your letters onthese subjects or about reservations forthe trip, to Trip Secretary, care ofAMORC, Rosicrucian Park, San Jose,California. By making reservationsnow you will be sure of a place, butyou may cancel your reservation if youfind you cannot go. Do not wait towrite later, get your name on the listnow so that as the number increases wecan make better plans.

V V V V V

Through the

oA Tribute to Egypt

By Eu g e n i e D r a k e J e n k s TENERATAS

(Hermes Lodge No. 41, Los Angeles)

1.Oh Egypt, Land of Mystery!What secrets in your heart you hold

Which, buried deepLie fast in sleep

Beneath your burning sands of gold.

2.I seem to know your sunkissed days,The velvet darkness of your night.

Your tall palm treesStir in the breeze

With murmurings of pure delight.

3.From out dim aeons of the past,I feel ijie magic of your spell.

And, on my earFalls low and clear

The ringing of a Temple bell.

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4.I see the gate stand open wide.The tread of softlysandled feet

Like rush of rainI hear again,

Through dusky twilight, dim and sweet.

5.I see the soft and shaded lightThat falls across the Temple floor.

And gladly there,I kneel in prayer

Just as I did in days of yore.

6.

The kneeling figures bending low,Perfume of incense on the air,

The Priests low droneIn monotone,

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brother Raymund Andrea, Grand Mas-ter of the British Jurisdiction. We arecertainly happy to have them eachmonth and their clearness of viewpointand excellent diction make them of realhelp to our members.

V V V V VI suppose that some of our readers

read accounts in the eastern newspapersabout a great flood resulting from thebreaking of a dam in California. Wewho live here in the central part ofCalifornia greatly regret that some ofthese Eastern newspapers reported thatthe flood occurred in the Santa ClaraValley and wiped out practically theentire agricultural section of this valley.This story was given nationwide cir-culation and has caused considerable

harm to the excellent reputation of thisdistrict. The flood did not occur inthe Santa Clara valley but practicallyfive hundred miles south of this valleyin a part of California not connectedwith this agricultural district at all.

This is but another instance of mis-information regarding California oc-currences which appear in eastern papersand which attain nationwide credencebefore a correction can be made. Herein this valley we are just emerging fromthe wonderful blossom time and enter-ing the period when the soil of thisfertile section is doing its best to giveus specimens of the three hundred andtwenty varieties of wild flowers thatgrow here. Across the street from ourexecutive building in vacant groundsadjoining Rosicrucian Park as in theuncultivated fields and unoccupied plots,roses of various hues and genus can be

picked by the basketful every day and inthe coming Fiesta de las Rosas there willbe hundreds of floats in the paradethrough San Jose containing tons offlowers gathered from the fields and

mountains and of such rare beauty andfragrance that those who live in theEast would probably think they wereartificial and of imaginary form andcolor.

V V V V VThe month has been interesting again

because of the many visitors we havehad with us, and the many who havecome to stay but a few hours. Ourvisitors have been from practically all ofthe Western States with quite a few

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from the East. Among those who haveremained here for a while to enjoy theclimate and the scenery have been GrandMaster Clark and his wife from Van-couver, B. C. wth their sons, GrandGuardian Gordon and his wife and sonfrom Vancouver, B. C., Deputy MasterCorin from Victoria, B. C., CharlesDean and wife from San Francisco, andMrs. Emma Goulder and daughter fromChicago. Members of the Order are al-ways welcome to visit and the buildingis open all day except Sunday and onThursday evenings.

V V V V VSome of our members have written to

ask if we care to express any endorse-ment regarding men who are fit for thecandidacy in the coming election. Of

all who have been suggested as possiblecandidates we certainly are enthusiasti-cally in favor of Herbert Hoover. NoRosicrucian can forget his wonderfullyclearcut and efficient services during thetime we were upset with war condi-tions nor can any Rosicrucian overlookthe mans clean moral record in the past,his excellent and tolerant viewpoints onall important subjects, and his finetraining for the highest office in thisland.

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We wonder if our members realizehow greatly the interest in mystical andoccult matters is increasing in thiscountry. Reports from all points indi-cate that thousands are daily manifest-ing a newborn interest in these subjectsand the demand at libraries and bookstores for good reading matter that willstart the beginner on the right pathis becoming so great that it is creating areal problem for the librarians and pub-lishers. What a pity it is tha t thou-sands of these persons each month be-come misled or misinformed if not dis-

couraged! We are doing our share byturning out leaflets and small pamphletsabout the Rosicrucian teachings by theton and we are doing our best to dis-seminate these pieces of printing matterto every possible source of inquiry andinvestigation. What are you doing tohelp us? Something more than mailingfour or five leaflets to your friends or

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gests that we send fifty leaflets to everymember and have him mail them tofifty persons selected at random fromthe local telephone book. Others havesuggested that leaflets be mailed toprominent people in every community.

We believe that there is some betterplan that we have not discovered and sowe put the problem up to our members.Send us your suggestions as to whatyou think is the best method for covering the United States with little leafletsand pamphlets telling some of the highlights of the Rosicrucian principles.

V V V V VWe have just issued an interesting

pamphlet entitled Why are we here?It is PUBLIC INQUIRY LEAFLET

NUM BER 2. It explains how thedoctrine of reincarnation helps us to

understand the problems and inequali-ties of life. This leaflet will attract theattention and interest of millions of per-sons in this country at the present timeand we are having as many copies of thispamphlet made as the printer can turnout in the next two weeks. Do youwant to help distribute these leaflets in-to the hands of the public? They shouldreach persons who have never had anyof our Rosicrucian leaflets or pieces ofliterature; and the increasing interest inthe subject of Rosicrucianism will makeit highly appreciated and valued.

V V V V VAt this writing the Imperator is plan-

ning to run down to Los Angeles withhis wife for a few days and there delivera public lecture which has been greatlyadvertised and enthusiastically antici-

pated. They will be the guests of theHermes Lodge in Los Angeles and willmeet with the members of that AMORCLodge for a special Convocation duringhis visit. The Imperator has beencalled upon to make a number of publicspeeches here in California since his re-turn, and we recall how very often he

was asked to speak at conventions andother public affairs in Florida and inNew York. An interesting incident wasan address he was asked to give a fewd

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