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rFor the Student

At Home.. .

THIS MONTH’S SUGGESTION

Sanctum Altar Scarf

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We can visualize early man in the midst of wild placesuprooting thick vegetation with crude implements and

with gnarled and unskilled hands reverentially levellingground in a spot chosen to become his temple. The sacredarea was not to accommodate a magnificent structure ofstone and glass, a symbol of culture and religion alike,but a humble pylon of native rocks, whose height waslimited by man’s ability and strength to raise them inplace. Upon this raised place, the first altar , man madehis sacrificial offerings and indicated his devotion to theunseen Omnipotence. With time the sacred circle about thealtar expanded and learning and theology included in itmany ecclesiastical accessories, but never through the cen-turies has the altar lost its prominence as the principalplace of worship. The altar may be the lavish one of agreat Cathedral or a humble shelf in a home sanctum,but its symbolism is always of the highest spiritual order.

To the Rosicrucian, because of his understanding of thetrue significance of the sanctum altar, we offer a beautifulwhite silk broadcloth alta r scarf. It is 38 inches long and11J inches wide, and is lined with cambric and has anattra ctive lace edging. Its design is a handsomely em-broidered mystic symbolism of five colors, red, yellow, palepink, rose, and black. A limited number have been es-pecially made and we offer them at the low price of $2.50each. This sca rf will make a splendid addition to yoursanctum.

R O S I C R U C I A N S UP PL Y B U R E A U

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



REGIONAL GRAND MA STER M ER RITT G. GORDON, F . R . C.

Illustrious Frater Gordon has been an initiate of the Brotherhood for

many years, and has served the Order in many capacities. He is an

InspectorGeneral of the Brotherhood for the district of Canada, and one

of the two North American representatives for North America in the

Chamber of Legates of F. U. D . O. S. I. He was also one of the special

initiates in the Rosicrucian Lodge of Amenhotep in Luxor, Egypt, in 1929

and has been elected a member of the Rosicrucian International Council.

His wife and son are members of the Order in Vancouver and he is one

of the most advanced members in the esoteric work of the Order in

North America. His official sanctum for the regional district of Canada

is located in Vancouv er, B. C.

(Courtesy o{ Rosicrucian Digest.)



4 i V ° P £ i V

to M e s s a g e

T h e M an and W oman

I n M odera t e Cir cumst ances

You have a steady position, a regular income, nominalhut comfortable; perhaps you have a car, a radio, and ownyour home. You are surrounded by loved ones in anenvironment of your own making. Occasionally you havetroubles and problems, but you find security in the wellwishes of friends and associates. These factors do notconstitute the final end or attainments of life; they are just a beginning.

A fuller life does not mean doubling many times yourworldly possessions, for that would still leave you on theeve of the greater things that life affords. It is only whenyou have leisure moments, free from the struggle for sheernecessities, that life can be measured in terms other thanexistence and sustenance. The bloom of a flower, its ex'quisite color and fragrance, follow its growth and fightfor life.

The bloom of mankind is the exercise of the mind andthe mental powers toward an understanding of the mys^teries which have given it existence. It is one thing toinstinctively labor and strive to survive, and still anotheito find an inspirational reason for so doing. The distinctionwhich man has, as a superior being, is not found in thefact that he lives, but that he has a mind by which liecan find the answer to the ancient query, “Why am Ihere and whence came I?”

Some Pointers On LifeFor those who find joy in thought and seek knowledge,

not for its probable value in dollars and cents, but forthe personal satisfaction it brings, an unusual book isoffered by the Rosicrucians. It contains not religious discourses nor a series of philosophical maxims, but a guideto the finer things of life. To the man, it reveals the wayto a personal solution of such Cosmic mysteries as timeand space and affords a fascinating contemplation of thesource of all being. To the woman it points the way to abetter understanding of the Master within and the esotericpowers which make for inner beauty, culture, and realhappiness.

Just address a letter (not a postcard of curiosity) toScribe S. P. C., The Rosicrucians, San Jose, California,

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Vol. X III JUNE, 1935 No. 5

C O N T E N T S Page

Regional Grand Master Merritt T. Gordon, F.R.C.

(Frontispiece) ... ......................... 161

The Thought of the Month: An Interesting Month 164

The Mystic Druids 166Cathedral Contacts ... 171

Dual Development 174

Pages From the Past: A. E. Waite 180

Ancient Symbolism 184

Are You Seeking Secret Wisdom? 185

Sanctum Musings: What is Culture?...... 191

Whither? (Illustration) ............. 197

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T h e

Rosicruc ian

D igest

June

1935

H E month of Juneis very interestingindeed if we givea little thought to

what it has meantto individuals andnations in the past.

In the U n itedStates and a largep a r t of N o r t hAmerica, June isanticipated as thebeginning of thevacation period. In

a great many cities and communities theschools close some time in June and thelong summer vacation begins for stu-dents and teachers alike. During the

month of June we have the longest dayin the year dividing our spring andsummer quarters. Generally speaking. June is a month of joy, recreation, anda temptation to get back to nature andout in the open country.

But the month can give us many in-teresting things to think about. It wason the 28th of June that the Arch DukeFerdinand was assassinated in 1914.furnishing the technical excuse for thegreat W orld W ar . Certainly in con-nection with that event we are given

much food for very serious thought.But we find other events associated withthe month of June that are more pleas-ant and inspiring. On June 14, 1777,Betsy Ross made herself famous as adesigner of the American flag and forthis reason, the day is celebrated nat-ionally in the United States as FlagDay.

On June 15 in 1752, however, Ben- jamin Franklin lifted his thoughts be -yond national matters and allowed his

inventive genius to soar into the higherheavens along with the kite from whichhe drew enough electricity to establishthe fundamental principles of a division

of science that has been responsible formore benefits to humanity than any onesingle event performed by an individualin recent centuries. Benjamin Franklinwas not only a mystic whose vision cen-tered itself in the philosophies of manand a close study of human nature, butthe whole world, including the universalspace around it, became the field of hisexplorations. W h at he accomplishedshould remind us that we can become asgreat as is our vision and that our mis-sion in life can be as broad as our visionand that as we take our thoughts awayfrom ourselves and beyond our immedi-ate environment, we begin to masteruniversal principles.

Many other eminent men are associ-ated with this month, as. for instance,Roger Bacon, the great mystic whosecipher writings are only now beingproperly interpreted and understood ashe intended them to be in the 20th cen-tury with all their revelations of scienti-fic knowledge. He passed through tran-sition on the 11th of June, 1294.

And on the 17th of June in the year

1703, John Wes ley was born. He be-c a m e , unquestionably, a specializedchannel for the Great W hit e B rother-hood in introducing a proper under-standing of certain definite religiousprinciples.

Among other astonishing events ofworldwide interest occurring in themonth of June, we find that one of themost significant in its period was thesetting fire to the Temple of Diana on adate equivalent to June 6 in the year



356 B. C. T his was not the beginningnor the ending of drastic expressions ofintolerance. M any famous libraries andtemples have been destroyed in pastcenturies and along with them the rar-

est of secret manuscripts containing im-portant knowledge for the future. If itwere not for the extraordinary knowl-edge carved in stone in certain templesthat were not destroyed and for theknowledge contained in manuscriptspreserved in the archives of the GreatW hite Brotherhood and the Rosicru-cians and similar channels and organi-zations of the Brotherhood, the worldwould today be in great darkness in-tellectually and spiritually. Kings andpotentates of various kinds have con-spired collectively or exercised them-

selves individually and autocratically inthe past to see that certain libraries andtemples of wisdom have been destroyedin order that a portion of the worldmight be kept in darkness. But we neednot scan the pages of the past to findthe evidence of this, for it is takingplace even today.

Among other incidents which tell thestory of the strange customs and habitsof an evolving race called the humans,we find the one that occurred in Parison June 21, 1770, highly significant. It

was the occasion of the marriage ofLouis X V I and so great was the throngof uninvited guests who stormed theground and environs of the palace in anattempt to see the King and Queen intheir bridal attire that fifteen hundredof them were trampled to death. Similarstampedes h a v e occurred in recentyears, as, for instance, the one at thefuneral of the late Valentino, a movieactor. And there have been stampedesat W a ll Street and at foolish exhibitsof freaks of nature. But history hasrecorded no stampede at any school of

learning or any portal of true wisdom.On the last day of June will begin the

1354th year of the Mohammedan era.Our members and friends would do wellto turn to some encyclopedia or refer-ence book and read about the life ofMohammed. In most modern Christian

countries the very name of Mohammedcreates a vague picture of pagan andheathen worship of some kind, if not anidea of an atheistic religion that is con-trary to all of the revelations of the

Cosmic. All of this is an injustice to agreat man and to a great mass of hu-manity loyally and sincerely followingthe footsteps of a leader who helped tosave a large portion of the human racefrom continued degradation. Moham-med was one of the many great Avatarsand unquestionably a great Light in histime and place. As one travels throughthe Orient or Near E ast— as many ofus will do on our Egyptian and Medi-terranean trip next winter — one be-comes more and more convinced of thefundamental kindliness, grandeur, sin-

cerity, and systematic devotion of thetrue Mohammedan. A student of mys-ticism will find much in even a briefsynopsis of the life of Mohammed andhis teachings to be of interest and profit.

And let us not forget that on the 17thday of June is celebrated in the UnitedStates what is known as Father’s Day.If any of us overlooked Mother’s Day,let us make amends by rememberingFather’s Day and seeing that some dearold father— if not our own— is given akindly word, a flower, a little gift, orsome thoughts that will make him real-

ize that he is not forgotten. When civ-ilization advances to the degree whereit begins to be expressive of the divineprinciples within the soul, every daywill be a day for showing our respectand love to mother and father.

As usual, there will be many mar-riages during the month of June and June brides again will be very popular.In most parts of North America themonth finds nature fully expressive inher glory, grandeur and sweet frag-rance of flowers and growing things. It

is a time when all of nature calls to theself within to respond and to be merryand lighthearted and to attune with theheavenly forces and join in the Cosmicchorus anthems of adoration and re- joicin g. Make June a particular ly happymonth for yourself by helping to makeit happy for someone else.

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REMEMBER THE RO S ICR U C IA N CO NV EN T ION — JULY 14-20, 1935



T h e

Ros ic ruc ian

D igest

Ju ne

1935

T h e M yst i c D ru i ds

SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THIS VERY ANCIENT

ORDER OF PHILOSOPHERSBy F r a t e r M a r c L a n v a l

Archdruid of the Ordre National Druidique (Omandru) Belgium;

Grand Chancellor of FUDOSI

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H E beg in ni ng olethe year 6935 ofthe Druidic erawas celebrated onNov ember 1 l a s twith the ancientDruidic ceremonyof “New Heyl” inBelgium, under theauspices of theO r d r e N a t i o n a lDr u idiq u e (Or n a n d r u ) . T h i syear begins a new

cycle in the Druidic era and brings withit the long expected release from thesacred archives of the great sacredDruidic book known as the “Voluspa”

from which will be copied and releasedto the mystic brethren of the w o r l dmany of the most sacred teachings ofthe Orient, especially from that sectionof the book known as the Sepher, theancestor of the modern Bible.

For several centuries there has beenmuch discussion as to the origin and na-ture of the Druidic philosophy andscience. It has been suspected by manyand known to all high initiates of thevarious divisions of the Grea t W hite

Brotherhood that the ancient Order ofthe Druids has not ceased to exist butthat its silence during the past centurieshas been merely the result of a tempor-

ary mute put upon the lips of its initi-ates in accordance with some ancientlaw of periodicity for the Orde r. In themeantime, writers and researchers havespeculated, written, or said much re-garding the Druids, coming to a numberof erroneous conclusions merely be-cause of certain public references tothem in ancient histories. The fact thatthe earliest mention of the Order is re-ported by Diogenes and which wasfound in a lost work by a Greek, Sotionof Alexandria, written about 2000 B. C.,has led many to believe that possibly

the Order of Druids had its origin inthe Orient, despite the fact that most ofthe key w o r d s in its philosophy andsymbolism are unquestionably of Celticorigin.

Caesar’s account of the Druids, how-ever, is more popularly known amongresearchers, but even he was misled insome of his conclusions. W e find Ciceroand Pliny explaining their beliefs re-garding the Druids from various anglesand different considerations, but most



certain it is that very early in the his-tory of civilization’s mystical activitiesthe Druids had a wide reputation fortheir profound philosophy, their secretscientific knowledge, and especially for

t h e i r theology. They were very em-phatic in teaching the principle of theimmortality of the soul and of reincar-nation, and many eminent theologianshave attempted to show in long disser-tations and analogies that many of thefundamental principles of Christianitycan be traced to the philosophical andtheological teachings of the Druids.

W h at constituted their most sacredand secret scientific knowledge, how-ever, was their familiarity with Cosmiclaws and principles and their under-

standing of universal cosmogony. Theywere unquestionably more familiar withthe influences and affects on human lifeof Cosmic forces and energies and moreadvanced in the understanding of howto use these influences in guiding anddirecting the affairs of human life thanwere any of the ancient mystical organi-zations, and this secret knowledge hasbeen carefully preserved and a little ofit released from time to time from theirsecret archives through various affili-ated channels and through their own

silent and ‘‘unknown’' philosophers whohave been trained to devote their entirelives to the secret dissemination of thisknowledge.

It would appear from all of the mostancient and modern records t h a t theplan for the dissemination of this knowl-edge has been very successfully carriedout and it is no violation of any parti-cular secret to say that the m a n n e radopted was that of carefully preparinga high initiate and having him associateh i m s e l f with other organizations orscientific bodies where he would advo-cate, promote, or diplomatically intro-duce the Druidic scientific knowledgewithout revealing his association withthe Druids or revealing his real purposeand devotion.

It is generally u n d e r s t o o d amongDruids that the Order had its realorigin in the country located betweenthe river Meuse (Moesa Helion) andthe river Scheldt (Scaldis) in the mys-terious glades of Arduina’s Forrest (ofwhich still remain the Soignes Forrest

and the Hertogenwald). This being un-doubtedly true, it was the migration ofthe Druids that took the teachings overto the Orient and especially into China,parts of Italy, including the Etrusks,

Egypt, a n d p a r t s o f M inor Asia .Interesting light is thrown upon someof the origin of t h e teachings by therelationship that can be discovered be-tween the old Sanskrit and the Celtictongues and certain Celtic records inthe Greek. Then there is the interestingfact that the Queen s ( Druidesses, gunein the old Grec, meaning woman) main-tained a spiritual power and scientificpatrimony of the nations. They hadmasculine representatives who were incharge of the preservation of peace and

the protection of t h e people. The sechiefs were called Kanks, equivalent tothe English Kings.

Here in Europe in many of the publicand popular schools c h i l d r e n weretaught, and some today are being taughtthat the Celts were originally barbar-ians, always drunk, constantly quarrel-ling, and living almost as brutes. Suchan unfortunate picture is traceable tothe opinions deliberately expressed atthe time of the Roman conquest of theGallia Celtica, one of the greatest ofthe Roman wars. In bitter disappoint-ment and anger the Romans instituted acampaign of persecution and all leadersof spiritual thought and of cultural andethical schools were slain or imprisoned.Even w o m e n , the very soul of theDruidic organization, were not spared.Most of the documents cut upon skin oron birch bark were systematically de-stroyed as soon as found and the lead-ing circles of thought in Rome taughtthe people that the Celts had no civiliza-tion and did not even know how towrite.

Many religions have based their va-rious doctrines upon Druidic sources.M ost o f the modern e x p e r i m e n t a lsciences of today were originally insti-tuted in the Druidic laboratories. Thosewho have sought the basis of the scien-tific therons based u p o n the trianglewill be happy to di s c o v e r very soonthrough new knowledge to be releasedthat the Druids were the first to dis-cover in the law of the triangle s u c hfundamentals as were applicable to thesciences, arts, and philosophies.



T h e

Rosicruc ian

D igest

June

1935

The Ordre National Druidique in itspresent form c o n t i n u e s the work ofscientific restoration which was startedin 1643 w h e n the poems of the Edda Islandorum were found and which had

been written more than one thousandyears before t h e i r era, containing thecosmogony of the Voluspa. This workof restoration w a s continued by thewellknown F r e n c h occultist , Frabred’Olivet. Since 1868 the work has notceased, as has been said by some popu-lar writers of philosophical history, buthas been constantly su p p o r t e d andstrengthened by the devotion and gen-erous gifts of the late beloved Archidruidess, who recently passed to theHigher Life in the 84th year of her age.The generous ideas of our modern civ-

ilization toward women may point withthankfulness to the g o o d influence ofthis g r e a t woman who was the firstfeminine professor ever allowed to in-struct and hold a definite department ina French university.

Of course, the Druidic movement, likeall of the channels of the Grea t W hi teBrotherhood, had its esoteric as well asexoteric circle. The exoteric b o d y hasbeen contacted by the public m o r e orless in various periods of time becauseits rituals were not always easily con-

cealed and its outer temples were neverdeliberately hidden f r o m public view.Researchers, however, not familiar withthe real nature of the Druidic organiza-tion and contacting only the outer circleof members occasionally through theirwritings or contacting o n l y the outertemples, have reached erroneous conclu-sions in regard to the organization.

Druidism is a school: it is not a reli-gion nor a sectarian body. It is purely aphilosophic and scientific university ofinitiates of both sexes and of intense

value to all initiates. This was the workas understood originally, but like every-thing else human, exterior influenceshave slightly modified some of the outeractivities of the organization. In fact,some phases of the exterior work havehad to suffer as a result of its continu-ous contact with the world at large and

with the many changes that have taken

place politically, economically, religious-

ly, and otherwise. Gradually political

influences entered the outer circle and

there were those who sought the Druid-ic organization as a power for domina-tion and as a means of mercenary bene-fit. Perh aps this v e r y condition wasforeseen by the founders of the originalorganization and t h a t is why certainphases of the outer a c t i v i t i e s wereclothed from time to time while the eso-teric work of the organization remainedunchangeable and constantly increasingin power.

However, it is the outer exoteric sideof the organization that is best knownhistorically and will a l w a y s be mostfamiliar to the public: the oak, themistletoe, the Druid with his sickle, andthe erroneously suspected human sacri-fices and many other ceremonies which

are simply h u m a n conclusions basedupon a misunderstanding of symbolismand ritualistic phrases n o t having theusual meaning. The symbol of the oakand the mistletoe, for instance, has beengreatly misunderstood a n d some havebelieved that the etymology of the wordDruid is through a derivation from anoakword. The truth, however, is thatthe real etymology of the word is foundin two words meaning profound knowl-edge, and the word Druid, therefore, isequivalent to the R o s i c r u c i a n termIllumination. The D r u i d s , therefore,

were one of the branches of the GreatW hi te Brotherhood limited exclusivelyto the Illuminati, but operating in a dif-ferent path of human effort.

It probably will never be possible toremove from the mind of the public thepopular ideas regarding the Druids, es-pecially the belief that many marvelousthings happened at the h a n d s of theDruids through their intimate contactwith gods a n d goddesses. These werebased u p o n the fact that the Druidswere unusually familiar with the points

of the cosmic space above us f r o mwhich emanate certain rays that influ-ence our lives. Th ese points and rayswere named a n d personalized merelyfor the convenience of tabulation andnot in the belief that they were myth-ological gods and goddesses.

Recently a number of eminent biolo-gists and scientists who were broughttogether in a preliminary contact withthe esoteric section of the Druids afterbeing prepared in the outer circle were



astonished at the knowledge of biologyand of o t h e r sciences relating to ourhuman existence contained in the teach-ings of the Druids. They were greatlysurprised to think that such knowledgehad been known for so many years or

centuries and had not been made public.Laboratory experiments conducted bythese men gave a m p l e proof of thesoundness of the unusual principles con-tained in these sacred teachings. Thosewho are not initiates may ask, of course,why this knowledge was kept secret andwhy the whole scheme of human evolu-tion as understood by the Druids andeasily demonstrated to be true to thehigh initiate, is not given to the worldat large. Tr ue initiates, however, willunderstand why knowledge of variouskinds possessed by the initiates of the

past has not been released to the publicmind u n t i l certain eras in the Cosmiccycle. The outline of human evolutionand of ontology as possessed by theDruids a n d preserved in their sacredarchives c o v e r s a cycle of over tenthousand years and g i v e s the key tonumerous mysteries and facts w h i c hhave remained misunderstood or unsus-pected through even the most modernyears of the past centuries. Even a t thepresent time m u c h of this knowledgewill be limited for some time to come toall the high initiates of the most ad-vanced of the esoteric channels of theGreat W hite Brotherhood.

Each individual is not considered bythe Druids as anything in and of itselfand its earthly evolution is but an in-dividualized phase of Cosmic evolution.The spiritual self within is the import-ant element in each human being. Thusthe Druid philosophy a t t a c h e s verylittle importance or interest to person-ality of the individual or outer self butcenters its interest upon the evolution,unfoldment and development of the in-

ner self. Fo r this reason th e Druidichistory of past civilization a n d humanevolution is not replete with stories ofconquests a n d battles of achievementand attempts made by individuals andnations of individuals in their materialaffairs, nor of wars and struggles, theglorification of bloodthirsty generals,and the satisfying massacre of massesby human beings attempting to carryout purely mercenary and selfish ambi-tions.

So complete is the history of humanspiritual achievements and human cul-tural evolution t h a t in its documents and books w e r e found recently suchknowledge of Egypt as to enable emi-nent Egyptologists to modify some of

the Egyptian history. By th e keysfound in the books of the Druids, it hasbeen possible in past centuries to un-derstand and translate some of the mostancient texts of various nations and tofathom the mysteries of the most ancientrecords.

The present Ordre National Druidique is a prosperous and lively body. Inthe profane world it has made its influ-ence felt in many circumstances. It isthe spirit and soul of a number of al-truistic movements and through its dip-lomatic representatives maintains the

light of knowledge in many schools andsystems of thought.

The Druidic order to which we refermust be distinguished from some of themodern organizations bearing the nameDruid and which h a v e no connectionwith the ancient Druids nor with any-thing philosophical and mystical of aDruidic nature. In the United State sand in various parts of the world thereexists a Druidic movement w h i c h iswholly an exoteric fraternal organiza-tion of mutual benefit. This organiza-

tion does not claim to descend from theancient Druids nor to poss es s an y of theancient Druidic teachings. Th ey havesimply adopted the name of the Druidsout of respect for them and as a sym-bolical term. There is no attempt atdeception on the part of t h e s e fewmodern movements, but the student whois seeking for more knowledge shouldnot be misled by the listing of some ofthese modern organizations in popularindexes. The Ordre National Druidique(ORNADRU) perpetuating and pre-serving the ancient teachings and repre-

senting the ancient Druids was regis-tered in the F e d e r a t i o Universalis(F U D O S I) under the index number ofseventeen and had its h i g h officialspresent at the great congress recentlyheld in Europe. Th e Druidique Ordre(ORNADRU) has a very high idea ofthe mutual labors and cooperative workthat lies before the group of allied or-ganizations forming the F U D O SI andtakes this opportunity to proclaim itsgood will toward the friendly and fra-



ternal work carried on by the initiatesof all of the orders and societies con-stituting the FU D O SI a n d especiallytoward t h e A M O RC throughout theworld, whose work and aims are great-ly apreciated by the Druidic initiates

everywhere.

(Editor’s Note: In the c o u r s e of arecent investigation the Editor of The Rosicrucian Digest communicated withthe Supreme Secretary of the SupremeGrove of the United Ancient Order ofDruids of America and received fromthem in writing the official admissionthat their organization has never claim-ed to be descended from nor representa-tive of the early Druids. Th is high of-ficial states t h a t the organization herepresents, "claims no direct descendency or relation to the Druids of ancienttimes, merely adopting the name Druid

after the ancient organization and not inpossession of any teachings or rituals ofthe ancient Druids nor having any mys-tical ceremonies of initiation.” He statesthat the modern organization in Ameri-ca is conducted wholly as a social and

beneficial organization, paying weeklysick benefits and death benefits like aninsurance organization. He states thatthis modern organization throughoutthe world had its origin in England inthe year 1781 and was not organized ashaving any relationship to the ancientorganization of Druids. This shouldmake it plain to all students of mysti-cism and to all investigators t h a t thefacts related by Frater Lanval in thepreceding article pertain to the ancientorganization a n d its descendants andnot to the modern one that was organ-ized in 1781 and which has a very highstanding of its own as a “fraternal andbenevolent society.”)

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T h e

Rosicruc ian

D igest

Ju n e

1935

A SURPRISING CONVENTION

W hi le all the forces of Light and all the officers of our organization are working

cooperatively and constructively to make our 1935 Convention replete with surprises,

as well as many inspiring benefits and practical helps, other forces and principalities

are undoubtedly planning to bring their surprises before us at our great national assembly.It is the contest between light and darkness, good and evil, right and might, that makes

this life interesting and contributory to our progressive evolution. Because the challenge

is quickening and inspiring and because the differences of opinion awaken intellectuality,

so the contest between opposing forces brings forth the greater truths and the most

astonishing revelations.

Do not fail to be present at our next Convention from July 14 to 20 at Rosicrucian

Pa rk in San Jose. It is going to be one of the most important, one of the most interesting

and instructive Conventions ever held, and every member of any degree of study in any

branch of the work is entitled to come to the Convention as long as he or she is in

activ e membership. Make this period of July a grand and glorious vacation for yourself

and family by coming to California. If you desire information, write to the Convention

Secretary, care of AMORC Temple, San Jose, California.

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REGARDING CHAIN LETTERS

A M O RC and all of its officers are returning to the senders all money and all letters

received in connection with the chain letter craze. Th e organization s trongly condemns

this sort of propaganda for any purpose. Members should not send such letters to us

nor attempt to raise money for the organization through such chain letters.

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The "Cathedral of the Soul” is a Cosmic meeting place for all minds of themost advanced and highly developed spiritual members and workers of theRosicrucian F ratern ity. It is a focal point of Cosmic radiations and thoughtwaves from which radiate vibrations of health, peace, happiness, and innerawakening. Variou s periods of the day are set aside when many thousandsof minds are attuned with the Cathedral of the Soul, and others attuning withthe Cathedral at this time will receive the benefit of the vibrations. Those whoare not members of the organization may share in the unusual benefit as wellas those who are members. Th e book called ‘‘Liber 777 ” describes the periodsfor various contacts with the Cathedral. Copies will be sent to persons whoare not members by addressing their request for this book to Friar S. P. C., careof AMORC Temple, San Jose, California, enclosing three cents in postage

stamps. (Please state whether member or not—this is important.)

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OUR VISION LIFTS US UP

O T long ago thewoman physicianin an institute for

the care and treat-ment of the blindtold a story of alittle g i r l twelveyears of age whohad been in theclinical depart-ment of the insti-tute f o r m a n ymonths a n d hadbeen released as

partially cured of blindness with an as-

surance that normal sight would gradu-ally come and remain permanently.

The little girl had been born blind

through an abnormal condition in theeye which could not be corrected untilapproxima tely the age of puberty. Afew minor operations and some eyeexercises, along with the proper psycho-logical care and treatment, graduallybrought the vision of light to the con-sciousness of the child and finally shebegan to see colors in things— some-thing she had never seen before. Formany, many months she had seen abrightness of some kind before her eyes



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indicating that the nerves sensitive tolight vibrations were being revived orawakened, but it was not until the sud-den change had taken place in the pro-cess of the restoration of sight thatcolors in all of their brilliancy made a

proper and startling impression uponher consciousness.

The physician said that when thelittle girl first approached the windowof her room in the clinic and looked outover the trees and the lawns, she wasso happy because of the variations incolors and the magnificence of nature’spainting. It was late in the aftern oonand the western sky beyond the treeswas tinted with a variation of colorssuch as is often seen only in the GoldenW es t. T he full scale of prismatic spec-

trum colors seemed to have been paint-ed by the hand of God in a magnificentpastel blending, for there were the yel-lows and the blues, the violet and or-ange, the deep golden red and the mar-velous turquoise greens and emeraldtints of intermediate shades. The childstood fascinated by this marvelous sceneand after a few moments of silence anurse told the child to come with herdown stairs into the yard and see prettyflowers and the children’s faces andother things she could not see from thewindow. For several days the little girl

was happy in the new world in the cen-ter of which she seemed to occupy adistinct place. From her descriptions ofthings she seemed to feel that the worldsurrounded her and that she was thepivotal center of all existing conscious-ness.

W he n Sunday came she asked to beallowed to go with a few others for aride and then a walk into the valleysurrounding the clinic. After riding inan automobile for an hour the group ofnurses and children stopped at a lawn

near the foothills where a picnic lunchwas prepared. The children were al-lowed to play— to romp and jump, torun and walk — without restriction onthe lawn and between the trees whilethe adults prepared the meal. After ahalf hour had passed it was noticed thatAlice and two of the other children weremissing from the group. They said thatshe had taken two other children by thehand and that the three of them walkingside by side had started off toward the

foothills. Going after them, the nurseand physician found that Alice and hertwo companions were going up the sideof the hill, struggling on the steep in-cline and winding their way between theboulders and fallen trees with great dif-

ficulty. When asked why she chosesuch a tiresome and fatiguing walk inpreference to the level and softly cov-ered lawns below, she explained: “Idid not know that we were going up theside of the hill or that it was hard towalk. All the time that I have been outhere in the open space between thetrees, I have kept my eyes on the skywatching the beautiful c o l o r s thatchange in the clouds and in the spacesbetween and I wanted to go nearer andnearer to those clouds. I guess it wasbecause I had my eyes turned upward

to the sky that I did not notice that Iwas going up a hill instead of remainingon the level ground.”

In that explanation the little girl re-vealed a fundamental law of life. W eunconsciously tend to approach thattoward which we have our vision cen-tered. As we go through life, we willrise to the heights of our vision or fallto the level of its downward gaze. If wecenter our sight and our consciousnesson the things that are level with us, wenever lift ourselves up and we never

rise above the commonplace of life. Ifour vision, our admiration, adoration,and concentrated attention is upward,we will find that fate as well as ourminds and hearts tend to take us bodily,physically, and spiritually to the heightswe see.

By centering our thoughts for certainperiods of the day upon the Cathedralof the Soul, we not only lift up our eyes,minds, and hearts to the sublime heightsof Cosmic space beyond the earth, butwe lift up our bodies, for in all of thedaily steps we take and all of the move-

ments on the trampled paths of life, wefind ourselves constantly tending to-ward the narrower path that leads up-ward and onward rather than thatwhich goes about in circles and ends atthe place where we began.

Dwelling in the Cosmic space aboveus for a few minutes each day is notonly a tonic to the soul and an inspira-tion to the mind but a real uplifting tothe whole physical self, and soon we



will find that we are approaching not

only with an uplifted gaze and a specu-

lative mind but with our whole being,

the place to which we have directed our

thoughts, to the place which holds our

attention, to the ideals which dominateour thinking and to the point that holds

us to itself as by some magic power.

If you have not felt the benefit or de-

rived the pleasure of periodic contact

with the Cathedral of the Soul, whether

a member or not, send for the free

booklet, Liber 777, a n d follow the

schedule of periods when thousands of

other individuals in all parts of the

world are attuned to the great Cathed-

ral and meet there spiritually and men-tally en masse. It is this unity of thought,

this concentration of spirituality, this

attunement of the better part of our-

selves with that which we hold most

s a c r e d that constitutes a dynamic

spiritual power in the ethereal Cathed-

ral of Cosmic vastness. From this

spiritualized focal point will radiate and

emanate the reflected thoughts of love,

peace, health and power that are creat-

ed by the uplifted minds and hearts of

those attuned.

Wonderful miracles can come into

your life at such moments of Cosmic

conta ct. Until you try them with all

sincerity, until you dwell in peace and

happiness within the Cathedral, youcan never know of its joy and inspira-

tion. Th ere not only the Christ con-

sciousness will dwell because of those

who dwell in His name, but there also

the creative power and the love of God

constitute the Shekinah w i t h i n the

temple and bring a benediction unto allwho bow before it.

Come with us and kneel at the altar

in the Temple of the Soul and help to

bring into the lives of thousands the

sublime realization of spiritual unity

and omnipotent peace and love.

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THE BALTIMORE CHAPTER

All Rosicrucians in the vicinity of Baltimore, Maryland, are advised that the Balti-more Chap ter meets on the second and fourth Sunday of the month, at 2: 30 p. m. For

information as to its meeting place, kindly address the Secretary, as follows: Miss E.

Pauline T rax, 1116 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, M aryland.

All you need do is present your credentials as an active Rosicrucian and you will

be entitled to visit this interesting Chapter.

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THE SAN DIEGO EXPOSITION

Rosicrucians visiting the San Diego Exposition in Southern California this summer

should not fail to avail themselves of the opportunity of attending the Rosicrucian Chapterof AMORC in San Diego.

Th e name and address of the Secretary are: Mrs. E va W ea ry , 4085 Chaumone

Street, San Diego , Califor nia. By communicating with her, you will be advised of the

time and place of meetings of the Chapter.

Our friends who are not members, if they will communicate with the Secretary

at the above mentioned address, will be invited to attend all public sessions of the

Chapter: and if they will call upon the occasion of the Chapter’s meetings, will receive

interesting literature and further information about the Order’s activities in Southern

California.

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D ua l D ev el opm ent

THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE AND FORM

By F r a t e r A. C a r t l a n d B a i l e y , M. A ., M. Sc.

(Continued from the May issue)

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C C O R D I N G tothe theory of DualD e v e l o p m e n t ,there is progresscontinually beingmade in the devel-

opment of b o t hthe Form and theLife w i t h i n theForm. Th e soulsi n h a b i t i n g t h eforms come withan experience ofthe past w i t h i n

similar forms. Instead of N E W souls,fresh from oblivion, mere vacuous bub-bles that are to inhabit the progressive-ly evolving forms, this theory postulatesevolving souls or evolving Life, which,as it advances, necessarily requires more

highly organized and sensitized formsand nervous systems through which toexpress itself and gain new impressionsof the outside world and through whichto gain new lessons of the evolutionaryprocess.

It is the evolving Life W IT H IN thatis the fundamental cause of the evolu-tion of all Forms. W h at is manifestedW IT H O U T must be first W ITH INThe Form is the result, and the Life

within is the cause. The Form is adapt-ed to the particular lesson that is to belearned in that particular day at school.

Life, according to this theory, is aschool and human souls come back andcome back until the lessons of life are

learned. Some about us are old and ex-perienced and some are very inexperi-enced. All have experiences to look for-ward to. Some are W orld Teachersand some are infants and there are allgrades between on all sides of us. Someare learning the use of power and someare learning the lessons of Peace, Love.Harmony, Cooperation, and Happinessand Power rightly used. All are learn-ing and we may rest assured that eachis learning his own most important les-son. It may be that an old and very ex-perienced soul has an elementary lesson

not mastered; and so, often great soulsare in humble circumstances. It is prob-ably true that it is the weakest side ofour nature that is always in evidence,and in evidence because it is that sidethat needs strengthening. In school andin life we are developing the undevel-oped sides of our natures.

The physical body is but a suit ofclothes put on for the particular lessonnot yet learned. If it is a lesson in



manual training and control of thephysical organism and development ofit to a bull strength, a coarser andheavier garment will do better than oneof greater delicacy and refinement. If

the individual is to learn expression ofharmony of tone and color and lessonsof peace, quiet meditation and contactwith the Inner Life then a finer andmore responsive organism and a morehighly sensitized nervous s y s t e m isnecessary. There is just as great a dif-ference between nervous systems asthere is between cheap crystal sets forwireless reception and the m o d e r nsuperallwave receiving instruments.The one important point is that the or-ganism must be an adequate instrumentwith which to work out the particular

lesson or lessons to be learned.

If justice is done, the young souls oregos are given the lessons fitted fortheir particular stage of growth or de-velopment in the g r e a t evolutionaryscheme. If God is no respecter of per-sons, He is also no respecter of peoples,races, ages or climes. Each people willhave the particular lessons and teach-ings and teacher that is best adapted tothe needs of the particular group ofegos incarnating there, or we may saythat the souls incarnate where the les-

sons they most need are given.

It sounds rather egotistical and child-ish to talk about a “Chosen People,”One Great Teaching, or “The OneTru e Te ach er.” Let us repeat: “God isno respecter of persons” or peoples ortimes or places. All have the same op-portunities but all do not have the samelessons at the SA M E TI M E . In anyschool system we find those who are inthe primary grades contemporaneouswith those who are in the high schools,universities, graduate schools, on teach-

ing staffs and those out in the “W or kof the W orld .”

On any particular day that we mayhappen to drop in to visit some schoolsystem we find one playing with blocksand another with mathematical symbols.One is learning to coordinate muscleand mind and another is learning mas-tery of the difficulties of abstract think-ing, who by his ow n efforts has ad-vanced from the primary lessons to thelesson at hand. W e do not think of ac-

cusing the school authorities of havingtaken the school population on that par-ticular day and arbitrarily placed one inone grade and another in some highergrade, and because of some favoritism

or political favor placed another personover them as teacher. W e know thatevery individual there is in that parti-cular place because of his own particu-lar background of lessons learned or un-learned and because of the necessity oflessons that lie ahead.

Some may prefer to waste time andlet lessons go unlearned for the time be-ing. Others seem to have learned theadvantage of daybyday patient effortin mastery of the preparatory lessonsand have consistently and systematical-

ly advanced from lesson to lesson. W eknow that loafers do not reap the re-ward of the industrious. W e know thatthere is no premium on ignorance, lazi-ness or cowardice. Every day countsand the strenuous workers forge ahead.That is school as we know it and thatis LIFE.

W h y was a threeyearold Mozartable to play the harpsicord? W h er e didhe learn that lesson? W h y is the uni-versity student able to fill up pages ofmathematical calculations in clear, con-

cise, logical sequence and arrive at aprecise conclusion on any particular daythat we happen to drop into class? W h yis another student able to play his violinwith such perfection? In all cases theanswer is the same. Th ere is a past.Each has a background of preparatorylessons. The primary, intermediate, andadvanced lessons have been studied andmastered. W h at the student has beensowing that is he reaping. W hatso eve ra man has mastered that he has learned to master. Results follow on the heelsof causes and no man can crawl up to

a result by any other way than by thepath of adequate cause. Da ys at schooland lives lived are but rungs on theladder by which we climb from infancyto adulthood and from ignorance toMastership of the problems of life andeventually to the perfection set as thegoal of human achievement.

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from inexperience and a vacuous pastor is it more reasonable to assume thatit was the result of past lessons whichthat particular individual soul had mas-tered in previous days or lives lived?

People talk about free gifts passeddown from some member of the familytree and something not worked for norearned by us. It is quite natural for usto wish for inheritances. W e all natural-ly like something for nothing and weoften spend a lot of time and energyand even money trying to get results bysome other path than the path of ade-quate causes. W e have traits of wishthinking and laziness and cowardicewithin us and we like to think that theother fellow has nothing on us. W edon't like to think that our efforts have

been lacking but prefer to believe that"chance” is responsible for all differ-ences in ability and results.

If one child in school gets a highermark than the rest, then immediatelythe rest are likely to accuse him of be-ing ‘‘teach er’s pe t." In the same way,many claim that Mozart was a favoriteof the gods and was given the “gift” ofmusic as others are “given’' the "gifts”of song or dancing or painting. Somemodern pseudophilosophers would haveus believe that whatsoever a man reaps

that someone else has sown and whatwe sow someone else will reap who hasmore "pull." That may be politics butit is not justice. Politicians and wishthinkers look upon the Supreme Intelli-gence as a mere political juggler with asense of justice which is inferior to evena human sense of justice.

If we are to be reasonable we mustassume either one of two things. Eith erthere is no Supreme Intelligence and no

justice anywhere and all is chaotic andaccidental, or else we are forced to the

conclusion that Reincarnation is a factin Nature and that God is no respecterof persons, and that all get exactly whatthey work for and earn and pay for.Past experiences are responsible for thepresent if justice is done.

W e are where we are simply becausewe h a v e not advanced beyond thispoint. W e have bought and paid for just what we have and if we don’t likewhat we have, then we shall have towork for something else, on the theory

of justice being done. That may seemrather cold, hard, and unfeeling, but itis common horsesense logic and wemay as well face the facts and quit sen-timentalizing or else just frankly admitthat we are outandout atheists. In all

of our experiences results follow causesand Action brings Reaction and "faithwithout works is dead.” Cherry pies arenot made by dreaming of cherry blos-soms.

Mozart played b e f o r e kings andqueens of Europe in his childhood, notbecause God was any respecter of per-sons and gave music as a free gift to thisgenius, not because of some ancestraltrait manifested by some entirely dif-ferent soul, not because of favoritismand "pull,” but because the soul of

Mozart was the soul of a musician andan experienced one of earlier times inother climes. The present is always thesum total of the long past and the ap-pearance of Mozart in this family wasbecause of the development of the ner-vous system in this family and the sensi-tization of it to a point where the soulof music could efficiently express itselfand, perhaps, also, because of past kar-mic ties which linked him to this en-vironment and family.

W e must not forget the fact that no

matter what the soul behind the organ-ism may be, it is limited to a large ex-tent in its expression of itself by the in-herited characteristics of t h e physicalancestry. This is a great necessity foreugenics and scientific development ofthe human organism. Souls are greatreservoirs of experience and what is ex-pressed in a physical world is limited bythe physical organism and its unrespon-siveness to stimuli of a superphysicalnature.

The top floors of high buildings are

always, invariably, connected with thefloors beneath and on down through acontinuous connection to the firm foun-dation below. Mountain peaks do notfloat in the air nor do end products ap-pear without a history. The prodigy andthe genius and the master mind is noexception to this rigid rule, according tothis theory of Dual Development. Thereis always a gradual, steady, progressiveadvancement f r o m an endless pastwhich is summed up in the H E R E and



N O W . T he past is focussed in thepresent and all that we have ever learn-ed is with us for present and future usewhen we have once learned how tosensitize ourselves to this W IT H IN .

The fact that we have no consciousmemory of our past lives is no argumentagain st the existence of that past. Noneof us can consciously remember whenwe learned to walk or handle a spoonor fork or a glass, nor when we learnedto tie our shoe strings or comb our hairor dress ourselves. Our whole child-hood may have been so uneventful thatwe remember nothing of it, except pos-sibly here and there an outstandingevent. The important point, however, isthat there is a memory of our past andour whole present is a proof of that

past. Some people do remember con-sciously important outstanding eventsof past lives but we won't go into thatsubject here.

W e all remember subconsciously andto such an extent that many of us wouldnot be induced to go out and kill, evenanimals, for the love of killing. W eshrink with horror at the idea of killinganother human being. M ost of us havel e a r n e d that "honesty is the bestpolicy,” and have learned that what be-longs to another is not ours. M ost of

us did not find it hard to learn theselessons in T H IS life. In the thought ofSolomon, we came into this life goodlysouls and with inborn and inherent re-actions against the cruel, inelegant, uglyand unjust.

Not all people have these same re-actions against the crude things of life.Conscience differs in different individ-uals according to th e unconsciousmemories. Irrespective of parents andtraining many find it hard to learn to be just and kind and tolerant. Some seem

never to learn them. Even excellent,respectable business men and life longchurch members, who have continuallybeen exposed to the teachings of hon-esty, honor, fairness and justice stillpersist in playing the game of life likea chess game and do their level best toget the best of a competitor or even acustomer in any business deal. Legalrules of the game are rigidly adhered toand the game is played from start tofinish just within the law, irrespective of

sentiment and morality . In spite ofbloodshed and the cruelty and sufferingof war, many want the profit it willbring in the business game. Such soulshave lessons yet to learn that many

others have already learned well.W e find souls in all stages o f evolu-

tion just as we find students in allgrades of school. Some are young andinexperienced, others are older a n dmore experienced. Some have not yetlearned the lessons of justice and fair-ness and others teach the lessons oflove and kindness and practice daily.Some use power wisely and in a way toassist in the evolutionary process; othersmisuse it and think only of self and theirown immediate and personal pleasure.

W h a t lessons have not been learnedare yet to be learned and we shouldlook about us every day for some phaseof a lesson for our immediate benefit.It is our privilege to play truant and laydown on the job but it is useless andonly delays progress. If we get tired ofgoing on with the class we are in, wemay drop back and come on later withanother group, though it means an ad- justm ent of ourselves to its idiosyncra-sies and to a background which is notreally ours. There are no final failuresin this scheme of things though theremay be many temporary ones.

If evolution of soul is as much a factof nature as evolution of physical form,then each one has the opportunity tolearn his particular lesson, be he savageor Adept. Fo r each and all there areadequate teachings and we do not needto worry about trying to make every in-dividual conform to our own particularideas of what T H E important lesson is.W e do not send university professorsinto the kindergarten as missionaries toteach Calculus or Sanskrit or Homemaking courses. Neither do we sendmathematicians into classes of Romancelanguages to convert them from theirevil ways.

W e find in the history of races thateach has had its teachers and lessonsand in no case is there any fundamentalconflict in the teachings. In all gradesand in all walks of life among allp e o p l e s honesty, sincerity, kindness,reverence for the beautiful, love for ourneighbors and fellow earthdwellers, de-



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votion to high ideals and reverence andrespect for a Supreme Intelligence arefundamentals that have always beentaught. Tw o times two is four in allgrades and throughout life. Funda -mentals are fundamentals and we find

them in all ages and among all peoplesas far back as history can be read. Ourgreat and chief concern should be aboutour O W N lesson, our own ability tomaster it and our own qualifications inwisely assisting others whenever advis-able.

For a High School Freshman to go,in his great enthusiasm for algebraicmultiplication, into the primary gradesand brow beat the second or thirdgrade pupil into accepting H IS teacherand HIS teacher's teachings would be

the height of absurdity— most ridicul-ously absurd. Instead, how much betterfor the more advanced pupil to go intothe beginning arithmetic class and seewhat lesson there is there that is beingpresented and then try his best to ex-plain that lesson in simple language ofthe third grade pupil and give that pupilthe benefit of his more experiencedbackground and leave algebra out of thequestion. That is real missionary workand the only kind that there is any ex-cuse for tolerating.

If we can realize that God is not nowand never has been a respecter of per-sons or peoples and that He truly caresfor the needs of all, be they Jew orGentile. Catholic or Protestant, Budd-hist or Brahman; whether born in Pales-tine, Egypt, Utah, or in Louisianna thenwe will begin to practice true tolerancein just the same way that it is practicedin our school systems throughout thegrades from the Kindergarten to theNational Commissioner of Education.

Multiplication is multiplication and it

isn't necessary to label it or name itafter some particular person’s name.Geometry is geometry and it is of noparticular advantage to us to label our-selves disciples of Euclid. W h at doesthe name matter? The F A C T S arethere and the truths persist irrespectiveand regardless of who first taught themor who discovered them or who im-proved them or who popularized themor who was the “Father” of them.W he the r they are medical facts, chem-

ical facts, electrical facts, biologicalfacts, psychological facts, or spiritualfacts, FA C TS are FA C T S regardlessof personalities. W e are all too muchinclined to be like children who fightover who has the most beautiful mother

or the strongest father or the best teach-er. W e are still ridiculously childlikein our “hero worship’’ of personalityrather then principle and of the teacherrather than the teaching.

W h en we grow up to maturity andbecome wise we will laugh at such ab-surd nonsense as lines of demarcationseparating a “Chosen People” fromsome other less favored group with lesspolitical or religious or scientific orartistic “pull,” with some jealous an-thropomorphic God. Let the Baptist,the Methodist, the Buddhist, the Spirit-ualist. the Catholic and the Zoroastrianextract the last bit of juice from his“ism” or “ist” and stick to it until hecan get no more. If he believes in no re-ligion at all let him revel in his logic orfancy until he begins to hunt aroundfor a new lesson. Fo r some groups ofsouls it may be much more important tolearn Physical Culture and tap dancingthan it is to learn how to write epicpoetry or paint landscapes. Some peoplehave neglected their physical bodiescruelly and it is, perhaps, necessary that

a life time be spent in very careful careof the training and development of aphysical organism.

W h o shall say that even the prizefighter is not learning as valuable a les-son in the evolution of his soul as is theclergyman in the evolution of his? Solong as both believe in and practice“fair play” and honest dealing with thepublic why criticise either of them? W emay rest assured that there is adequatetime in the scheme of things to learn all the lessons that are needed in thegrowth of the soul. W e do not need tofeel any necessity of running aboutbreathlessly hitting a few high spotshere and there for fear that we shall be

among the failures when the day's work

is done. There is no need to get worried

and begin to feverishly consume all the

short cuts to prosperity, power and hap-

piness that are offered for sale. One day

at school is but a day at school and

there are others to follow.



If we consistently and persistently doour daily duties as best we can with theability that we possess and try constant-ly to increase that ability we do notneed to worry about being “lost” in thefina ltest periods. If we wish to keep upwith the class we will not waste timeand energy. W e will take each experi-ence as it comes and extract the lessonfrom it that the soul needs and then goon to the next one and continue to buildthe more stately mansions as the seasonsand incarnations roll along.

O f these various theories of life, wemust agree that the Dual DevelopmentTheory is one that satisfies our sense of justice. It stands the test of the F A C T SO F L IF E as we observe them and of-fers an explanation that explains. Evo-

lution of Soul and of Form go hand inhand as physical and superphysicalcounterparts of each other. W e shouldnot minimize the importance of either.Form is important, for it is only as formsbecome refined and sensitized and deli-cately adjusted that they become re-sponsive to the Life within.

It is the Evolution of Life, however,that seems to be of the greatest import-ance in the long run. The forms merelyfurnish the contact with the physicalworld where the forces of the universeare stepped down to a nondangerousstate that we may use them with littledanger. “Safety first” precautions havebeen taken by the Supreme Intelligenceand here we are placed to learn to doby DOING and learn safely. The lessdangerous forces are first used and itis only by their wise use and their mas-

tery that we are permitted the graspof the more subtle, the more powerfuland more dangerous forces. Studentsbeginning chemistry are not started offwith high explosives. In the physicalworld, we first learn the use of physicaland physiological and electrical forces.When later we learn of psychic ener-gies and learn to use them consciouslyand rightly for the health and happinessof those with whom we are in dailycontact, then little by little more of thesubtle, powerful, and higher powers willbe unfolded within us.

It is by the use of the strength thatwe have that more strength is gained.It is by the use of the mental powersthat we have that more powerful poweris attained. It is by the use of knowl-edge that more knowledge is assimilated.When we learn tolerance and learn tokeep out of other people's business andlearn to let others do their own think-ing and acting and progressing andlearn to watch our own thinking, feeling,acting, and progressing, then we are onthe R IG H T path to health, strength,happiness, and real power for good.

The physical Form will take care ofitself if we give it the chance that wegive to our thoroughbred cattle andhogs and horses and learn the controlof the foods— physical, emotional, men-tal, and spiritual— that are to be fedupon. The Forms evolve as the Lifewithin evolves and as Dual Evolutionprogresses, humanity, already far alongin the process, will ultimately reach thegoal that is set for “gods in the making.”

( T H E E N D )

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BE SURE TO SEE THESE MOVING PICTURES

i Once more we recommend two moving pictures in which many of our teachings \

E have been inculcated and with which our Rosicrucian ideals are being promulgated in §

I symbolical, allegorical, and direct manner. Th e two pictures are, "Le s Miserables ” and jj

E “Our Daily Bread." Watc h for these pictures to have first or second runs in your §

| neighborhood, and be sure to see them. 1

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PA G ES f r om t he

A R T H U R E D W A R D W A I T E

Each month there will appear excerpts from the writings of famous thinkers andteachers of the past. This will give our readers an opportunity of knowing their livesthrough the presentation of the writings which typify their thoughts. Occasionally suchwritings will be presented through the translations or interpretations of other eminentauthors or thinkers of the past.

Arthur Edward Waite has been long known and recognized as an eminent Masonichistorian, and as such, his works on the history of Masonry are quite authentic. He isalso a commentator on Rosicrucian activities of the past and present, but his comments onRosicrucianism are not equally authoritative as those upon Masonry, inasmuch as he Is nota member of the Rosicru cian Order in any of the jurisdiction s of the world. He has,however, acquired by diligent resea rch a number of those works which are availableto the public bv outstanding Rosicrucians of the past and which are not secret, and histranslations and presentation of them may be accepted. His annotations and personalsummaries, however, in the opinion of officers of the Rosicrucian Order, are not reliable,inasmuch as he arrives at conclusions not founded upon fac ts accessible to Rosicru cianofficers in the archives of the Order.

Below, however, we bring you W aite’s compilation of the writings of one SincerusRen atus, otherwise Sigmund Ric hter, of 1710 A. D. It is a table of Laws of the Broth er-hood, meaning, of course, the Brotherhood of the Golden and Ro3y Cross, or the Ros i-crucian Order. These will undoubtedly prove most interesting to all Rosicrucians and allinterested in Rosicrucianism . Naturally, such rules and regulations adopted by theRosicrucians centuries ago have been modified to meet changing conditions, or rescinded,but fundamentally most of the Order’s rules today are the same as those of centuries ago.

LAWS OF THE BROTHERHOOD, AS PUBLISHED BY

SINCERUS RENATUS (1710 A. D.)

I. The Brotherhood shall not consist

of more than sixtythree members.II. The initiation of Catholics shall

be allowed, and one member is prohibit-ed to question another about his belief.

III. Th e ten years’ office of the Rosi-crucian Imperator shall be abolished,and he shall be elected for life.

IV . Th e Imperator shall keep the ad-dress of every member on his list, toenable them to help each other in case

of necessity . A list of all n a m e s and

birthplaces shall likewise be kept. Theeldest brother shall always be Impera-

tor. Two houses shall be erected at

Nurenberg and Ancona for the period-

ical conventions.

V . If two or three brethren meet to-

gether, they shall not be empowered to

elect a new member without the permis-

sion of the Imperator. Any such electionshall be void.



VI. The young apprentice or brothershall be obedient unto death to hismaster.

V II. Th e brothers shall not eat to-gether except on Sundays, but if theywork together they shall be allowed tolive, eat. and drink in common.

V II I. It is prohibited for a father toelect his son or brother, unless he shallhave proved him well. It is better toelect a stranger so as to prevent the Artbecoming hereditary.

IX. Although two or t h r e e of thebrethren may be gathered together, theyshall not permit anyone, whomsoever itmay be, to make his profession to theOrder unless he shall have previously

taken part in the Practice, and has hadfull experience of all its workings, andhas, moreover, an earnest desire to ac-quire the Art.

X . W he n one of the brethren in-tends to make an heir, such an one shallconfess in one of the churches built atour expense, and afterwards shall re-main about two years as an apprentice.During this probation he shall be madeknown to the Congregation, a n d theImperator shall be i n f o r m e d of hisname, country, profession, and origin, toenable him to despatch two or t h r e emembers at the proper time with his sealto make the apprentice a brother.

X I. W hen the brethren meet theyshall salute each other in the followingm a n n e r:— Th e first shall say, A ve Frater! Th e s e c o n d shall answer,Roseae et Aureae. Whereupon the firstshall conclude with Ccucis. After theyhave thus discovered their position, theyshall say one to another, Benedictus Dominus Deus noster qui dedit nobis

signurn, and shall also uncover theirseals, because if the name can be falsi-fied the seal cannot.

X I I . I t is c o m m a n d e d that every

brother shall set to work after he has

been accepted in our large houses, and

has been endowed with the Stone (he

receives always a sufficient portion to

ensure his life for the space of sixty

y ea rs ). B efo re b e g i n n i n g he shall

recommend himself to God, pledging

himself not to use his secret Art to of-fend Him, to destroy or corrupt the em-pire, to become a tyrant through ambi-tion or other causes, but always to ap-pear ignorant, invariably asserting that

the existence of such secret arts is onlyproclaimed by charlatans.

X III. It is prohibited to m a k e ex-tracts from the secret writings, or tohave them printed, without permissionfrom the Congregation; also to signthem with the names or characters ofany brother. Likewise, it is prohibitedto print anything against the Art.

X IV . Th e brethren shall only be al-lowed to discourse of the secret Art ina wellclosed room.

X V . It is permitted for one brotherto bestow the Stone freely upon an-other, for it shall not be said that thisgift of God can be bought with a price.

X V I. It is not permissible to kneelbefore any one. under any circum-stances, unless that person be a memberof the Order.

X V II . The brethren s h a l l neithertalk much nor marry. Y et it shall belawful for a member to take a wife if hevery much desire it, but he shall livewith her in a philosophical mind. Heshall not allow his wife to practice over-much with the young brethren. W iththe old members she may be permittedto practice, and he shall value thehonour of his children as his own.

X V II I . The brethren s h a l l ref ra infrom stirring up hatred and discordamong men. They shall not discourse ofthe soul, whether in human beings, ani-mals, or plants, nor of any other subjectwhich, however natural to themselves,

may appear miraculous to the commonunderstanding. Such d i s c o u r s e c aneasily lead to their discovery, as occur-red at Rome in the yea r 162 0. But ifthe brethren be alone they may speakof these secret things.

X IX . It is forbidden to give any por-tion of the Stone to a woman in labour,as she would be brought to bed prema-turely.

X X . Th e Stone shall not be used atthe chase.



X X I. No person having the Stone inhis possession shall ask a favour of anyone.

X X II . It is not allowable to manufac-ture pearls or other precious stones

larger than the natural size.X X II I. It is forbidden (under penal-

ty of punishment in one of our largehouses) that anyone shall make publicthe sacred and s e c r e t matter, or anymanipulation, coagulation, or solutionthereof.

X X IV . Because it may happen thatseveral brethren are present together inthe same t o w n , it is advised, but notcommanded, t h a t on Whitsuntidedayany brother shall go to that end of thetown which is situated towards sunrise

and shall hang up a green cross if hebe a Rosicrucian, and a red one if he bea brother of the Golden Cross. A fter-wards, such a brother shall tarry in thevicinity till sunset, to s e e if anotherbrother shall come and h a n g up hiscross also, when they shall salute afterthe usual m a n n e r , make themselvesmutually acquainted, and subsequentlyinform the Imperator of their meeting.

X X V . Th e Imperator shall every tenyears change his abode, name, and sur-name. Should he t h i n k it needful he

may do so at shorter periods, the breth-ren to be i n f o r m e d with all possiblesecrecy.

X X V I. It is commanded t h a t eachbrother, after his initiation into theOrder, shall change his name and sur-name, and alter his years with theStone . Likew ise, should he travel fromone country to another, he shall changehis name to prevent recognition.

X X V I I . N o b r o t h e r shall remainlonger than ten y e a r s out of his owncountry, and whenever he departs into

another he shall give notice of his de-

stination, and of the n a m e he has

adopted.

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X X V II I. No brother shall begin to

work till he has been one year in the

town w h e r e he is residing, and has made the acquaintance of its inhabi-

tants. He shall have no acquaintance

with the profe ssores ignorantes.

X X IX . No brother shall dare to re-veal his treasures, either of gold or sil-ver, to any person whomsoever; heshall be particularly careful with mem-bers of religious societies, two of ourbrethren having been lost, anno 1641,

thereby. No m e m b e r of any suchsociety shall be accepted as a brother upon any pretence whatever.

X X X . W hile working, the brethrenshall select persons of years as servantsin preference to the young.

X X X I. W hen the brethren wish torenew themselves, they must, in the firstplace, travel through another kingdom,and a f t e r their renovation is accomp-lished, must remain absent f r o m theirformer abode.

X X X II . W hen brethren dine togeth-er, the host, in accordance with the con-ditions already laid down, shall en-deavour to instruct his guests as muchas possible.

X X X II I. Th e brethren shall assemblein our great houses as frequently aspossible, and shall communicate one toanother the name and abode of theImperator.

X X X IV . Th e brethren in their trav-els shall have no connection nor conver-

sation with women, but shall choose oneor two friends, generally not of theOrder.

X X X V . When the brethren intendto leave any place, they shall divulgetheir destination to no one, neither shallthey sell anything which they cannotcarry away, but shall direct their land-lord to divide it among the poor, if theydo not return in six weeks.

X X X V I. A brother who is travellingshall carry nothing in oil, but only inthe form of powder of the first projec-

tion, which shall be enclosed in a metal-lic box having a metal stopper.

X X X V II . No brother should carry

any written description of the Art about

him, but should he do so, it must be

written in an enigmatical manner.

X X X V II I. Brethren who travel, or

take any active part in the world, shall

not eat if invited by any man to his



table unless their host has first tastedthe food. If this be not possible, theyshall take in the morning, before leavinghome, one grain of our medicine in thesixth projection, after which they can

eat without fear, but both in eating anddrinking they shall be moderate.

X X X IX . No brother shall give theStone in the sixth projection to strang-ers, but only to sick brethren.

X L . If a brother, who is at work withanyone, be questioned as to his position,he shall say that he is a novice and veryignorant.

X L I . Should a b r o t h e r d esire towork, he shall only employ an appren-tice in default of securing the help of a

brother, and shall be careful that suchan apprentice is not present at all hisoperations.

XL II. No married man s h a l l beeligible for initiation as a brother, andin case any brother seeks to appoint anheir, he shall choose some one unen-cumbered by many friends. If he havefriends, he must take a special oath tocommunicate the secrets to none, underpenalty of punishment by the Imperator.

XLIII. The brethren may take as an

apprentice anyone they have chosen fortheir heir, provided he be ten years old.Let the person make profession. W he nthe permission of the Imperator is ob-tained, whereby anybody is really ac-cepted as a member, he can be consti-tuted heir.

X L I V . It is c o m m a n d e d that abrother who by any accident has been

discovered by any prince, shall sooner

die than initiate him into the secret; and

all the other brethren, including the Im-

perator, shall be obliged to venturetheir life for his liberation. If, by mis-

fortune, the prince remain obstinate,

and the brother dies to preserve the

secret, he shall be declared a martyr, a

relative shall be received in his place,

and a monument with secret inscriptions

shall be erected in his honour.

X L V . It is commanded that a new

brother can only be received into the

Order in one of the churches built at

our expense, and in the presence of sixbrethren. It is necessary to instruct himfor three months, and to provide himwith all things needful. Afterwards hemust receive the sign of Peace, a palm

branch, and three kisses, with the words— “D ear brother, we command you tobe silent.” After this, he must kneel be-fore the Imperator in a special dress,with an assistant on either side, the onebeing his magister, and the other abrother. He shall then say:— "I, N. N.,swear by the eternal and living God notto make known the secret w h i c h hasbeen communicated to me (here he up-lifts two fingers) to any human being,but to preserve it in concealment underthe natural seal all the days of my life;likewise to keep secret all things con-

nected therewith as far as they may bemade known to me; likewise to discovernothing concerning the position of ourbrotherhood, neither the abode, name,or surname of our Imperator, nor toshew the Stone to anyone; all which Ipromise to preserve eternally in silence,by peril of my life, as God a n d HisW ord may help me.”

Afterwards his magister cuts seventufts of hair from his head and sealsthem up in s e v e n papers, writing oneach the name and surname of the new

brother, and giving them to the Impera-tor to keep. The next day the brethrenproceed to the residence of the newbrother, and eat therein without speak-

ing or saluting one another. W hen they

go away, however, t h e y must say,

"Fratev Aureae (vel Roseae) Crucis Deus sit tecum cum perpetuo silentio Deo promisso et nostrae sanctae con

gregat ioni.” This is done three days in

succession.

XL V I. W hen these three da y s are

passed, they shall give some gifts to the

poor, according to their intention anddiscretion.

X L V II . It is forbidden to tarry in

our houses longer than two months to-gether.

X L V I I I . A fte r a c e r t a i n time the

brethren shall be on a m o r e familiar

footing with the new brother, and shall

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X L I X . N o b r o t h e r need performmore t h a n three projections while hestays in our large house, because thereare certain operations which belong tothe magisters.

L. The brethren shall be called, intheir conversation with each other, bythe name they received at their recep-tion.

LI. In presence of strangers t h e yshall be called by their ordinary names.

LI I. Th e new brother shall invariablyreceive the n a m e of the brother thenlast deceased; and all the brethren shall

be obedient to these rules when theyhave been accepted by the Order, andhave taken the oath of fidelity in thename of the Lord Jesus Christus.

V V V

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

ANCIENT SYMBOLISMv

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Man, when conscious of an eternal truth, has ever symbolized it bo that thehuman consciousness could forever have realization of it. Nations, languages,and customs are changed, but these ancient designs continue to illuminate man-kind with their mystic light. Fo r those who are seeking light, each month wewill reproduce a symbol or symbols, with their ancient meaning.

T H E H EA RT , C H A L I C E , D O V E A N D A R R O W S

Again we have a composite symbol with a multiple meaning. The cup or chalice in the mystical

sense alludes to the fullness of life, the richness and joys of living. Above the cup is suspended the

heart, emblematic of the emotions and sentiments

which are required to temper life and guide it from

sensuous paths. The cross seen upon the heart indicates that spiritual interests must keep man's

emotions within their proper bounds. The dove, as

usual, alludes to purity and ascending consciousness.

In this symbol the dove depicts the true life, the

ideal of purity and the desire to raise the consciousness to a lofty plane.

The arrows represent temptation striking at the very soul of man and

which he must resist regardless of the torture and torment such re-

la

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'4&SI of the symbol is found in 2 Timothy 111:12.D, 'A n d R

all that will live Godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution."

K W1 d

This series of articles dealing with symbolism will be published later on in a small pamphlet or

boo k. M emb ers need not mutilate their m agazines. therefore, by cutting these articles out and pre~

serving them in a scrapbook.



A r e Yo u Seek i ng Secret W i sdom ?

DO YOU WISH TO ADVANCE MORE RAPIDLY INYOUR STUDIES AND PRACTICES?

By T h e I m p e r a t o r

V V V

A M S U R E thatthe average mem-ber in our organi-zation will answer

“yes’’ to the ques-tions presented atthe h e a d of thisarticle. E very sin-cere and earnests tud e nt o f Ro s i crucianism is anxi-ous to contact thatindefinable, mys-terious, secret “in-

ner circle” of wisdom which he hasbeen led to believe exists somewhere inthe world, and very likely in association

with an organization such as A M O R C .And, of course, every earnest student isanxious to make the most rapid ad-vancement possible. Time seems to bethe one element that most students areanxious to overcome.

But because the earnest student doesdesire such rapid advancement and isanxious to make a contact with anyinner secret circle that may exist, he ismore susceptible than anyone else to themisleading claims and false pretenses ofthe tempter. I believe, therefore, it is

my duty to call the attention of ourmembers to c e r t a i n possibilities andprobabilities that may confront themfrom time to time in connection withtheir work in the Order. I especiallyrecommend the reading of this warningto our members who are affiliated withchapters and lodges where they come incontact with many of our members, andwhere they are easily reached by visit-ors or inquirers who purposely contactour members with the sole motive oftrying to lead them astray.

The situation reminds me somewhatof an incident that occurred in W a sh -ington, D. C., not many months ago. Agreat conclave was being held for two

days in the capital city for the purposeof discussing various plans for universalpeace. Men and women from all partsof America had journeyed to the city,and were to be assembled in a forumthere for one purpose only— the pro-mulgation of universal p e a c e . Sinceeach person who w e n t to considerabletrouble a n d expense to be present atthese meetings was an enthusiast re-garding peace, each was more suscept-ible than the average human being tothe temptations that schemers might in



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vent. Therefore, there were among theearnest and sincere ones a large numberof representatives of communistic, radi-cal movements who skillfully, diploma-tically, and insidiously presented theirideas and plans a n d hoped to draw

some of the sincere lovers of peace intothe intrigues of nefarious propaganda.

Since the A M O R C has been recog-nized in North America for ten or moreyears as the largest, most active, andmost conservative organization of mys-tical students ever maintained in theWestern World, various questionableorganizations, and various representa-tives of the shady or darker principlesof life have spent many sleepless nightsand exerted much energy in devising,planning, and trying to carry out vari-ous schemes for c o n t a c t i n g theA M O R C members, and cleverly divert-ing the attention of these sincere seek-ers from the straight and narrow pathto highly colored, intriguing bypaths.In our investigations of this matter, andin the reports that have come to usthrouqh the fine workers who representthe Militia of our organization, we havegathered together a large file of inter-esting correspondence, and printed cir-culars issued and mailed by various in-dividuals and organizations attemptinoto break into the ranks of the AM O R C

members.The average member of AMORC

would smile if he could read some ofthese letters and this literature, and seehow stupidly and how foolishly some ofthese schemers have changed our mem-bers so far as human weaknesses areconcerned. All of them have a veryhigh regard for the enthusiasm of ourmembers, and for the affluence, finan-cial power, business and social posi-tions, political possibilities, and otherqualities possessed by our members, but

they seem to think that many of ourmembers are so enthusiastic in theirsearch for secret wisdom and greatknowledge that they are lacking in com-mon sense in regard to many things ofimportance.

W e know only too well how serious-ly all of our A M O R C members accept

the act upon recommendations that we

make in our lessons and monographs,

or magazine articles. W e know from

long experience that when we recom-mend a book to our members severalhundred of them buy copies of thatbook after they have r e c e i v e d therecommendation, whether the recom-mendation appeared in The Rosicrucian

Digest, The Rosicrucian Forum, or inletters and monographs. W e know thatthe bookbuying potentialities of ourmembers represent a very high com-mercial asset if it were to be turnedwholly into commercial channels, andadvantage taken of the faith our mem-bers have in our recommendations. Butdo not make the mistake of thinkingthat we here at Headquarters are theonly ones who realize this potentialcommercial possibility. Eve ry large andsmall publisher of socalled occult ormystical books in North America orEurope seems to realize it also, andevery promoter of a scheme or plan orinvestment proposition seems to learn ofit sooner or later, and immediately at-tempts to devise ways and means oftaking advantage of the faith which ourmembers have in our integrity and sin-cerity. For this reason they not onlyboldly write to us from time to time andoffer us personal or organization com-missions and bonuses if we will enthus-iastically recommend something t h a tthey have to sell, but t h e y try every

method possible of an underhanded na-ture to secure the names of our mem-bers, or our mailing list in part or inwhole, or the names of our members atany one of the chapters or lodges sothat they may circularize them and pre-tend to be doing so with our permissionand indorsement. Books of every con-ceivable kind, and pamphlets of everysize and shape are sent to us with theassurance that the book is somethingthat the A M O R C members must haveif they would succeed in their studies,and that we will be doing our members

an enormous favor by recommending it.In fairness to all publishers we read

every book that is sent to us that ap-

pears to be of interest, and we have it

carefully analyzed by a number of our

executives. Our great problem has al-

ways been to find a book that we could

honestly and sincerely recommend no

matter who published it or what its

price might be. Ea ch time we find such



a book we recommend it, and of courseour members know that we have no wayof determining just how many of thesebooks are sold, nor do we attempt tocontrol the sale, and in no case has anycommission or benefit of any kind beengiven to A M O R C . or any of its officersfor such recommendations. It is for thisreason that we h a v e recommended ascore or more of good books in recentyears which were published by variousreliable companies in various parts ofthe world, and have not attempted inany way to limit our recommendationsof books to the books which we publishourselves. Ou r members will probablyrecall that in the early monographs ofthe first degrees where we want to care-fully direct our members in their supple-

mentary reading, we recommend booksthat are not our own books, but whichcan be secured in a library or bought atbookstores. W e are not biased in re-gard to our own publications. There aremany good books that have been pub-lished in the past, some that are beingpublished now, and undoubtedly othersthat will be published in the future thatare just as good, if not much better,than any book that we have publishedof our own.

W e know also from the vast amount

of correspondence coming to us e a c hmonth that there are thousands of ourmembers who are seeking s o m e s a f e ,conservative form of investment. Thesemembers write to us and say that theyhave a sum of money in the bank, or in-vestment in some other negotiable form,or have just received as an inheritanceor gift a sum of money, and wish to in-vest it exclusively upon o u r recom-mendation. Members of l o d g e s andchapters have boasted in the past theyhave written to us for such investment

information, and of course the financialand social standing of t h e average

member of AM O R C is such as to help

create the idea that many members in

our organization have sums of money,

or could secure sums of money for in-

vestment. That information has gradu-

ally found its way to the minds of

s c h e m e r s and pretenders of various

classifications. They would like to con-

tact our members with one or more of

their questionable, fraudulent, or honestpropositions. Th ey have written to usand urged us to cooperate in such in-vestment recommendations by offeringus not only bonuses but a continuousprofitsharing interest in their plans, ifwe will promote their scheme and re-commend them. Every member whohas been in our organization for a yearor more, and has looked into this mat-ter, or has written to us about invest-ments, knows that invariably we adviseour members not to invest without ex-cellent guidance on the part of theirbankers, or the recommendation of somevery close and dependable friendly at-torney. Never have we made a singlerecommendation of any kind to thosewho want to invest, and never in this

history of our organization have werecommended that a member invest asingle dollar in the general funds ofA M O R C .

W e know that there are at least fivethousand of our members at the presenttime who would enthusiastically and

joyful ly invest sums from five thousandto fifty thousand dollars in our generalfunds if we merely suggested it. In fact,nearly every one of these persons wouldsay that they considered it a privilegeto assist A M O R C in this manner, and

they would ask for only a nominaldividend or i n t e r e s t rate. So farA M O R C has created its various fundssolely through the personal investmentof the four or five officers who consti-tute the directing board of the organi-zation, and through a careful manage-ment of the organization so that its in-come affords a small margin of con-tribution to the regular funds for theperpetuity of the organization and themeeting of its emergencies. Every inchof ground occupied by the Order atRosicrucian Park or elsewhere through-out North America is fully paid for, andfree of mortgages or leins. Every oneof the twelve units of buildings at Rosi-crucian Park is fully paid for and free

of debt, and every instrument, device,

piece of equipment and asset within the

buildings is free of indebtedness. Th e

organization has no outstanding loans,

no shares of stock, no bonds, and is per-

fectly solvent in every financial sense.

A M O R C has demonstrated in the past



twentyfive years in its own affairs asan organization the soundness of theprinciples it teaches, and it has demon-strated the soundness of these principlesin the lives of at least ten thousand ofits members.

Schemers of various kinds have per-sistently made suggestions to the su-preme officers that special funds becreated through solicitations f o r thepurpose of carrying out some socalledhumanitarian plan or beneficent move-ment. Hundreds of these schemers havesuggested that if AM O R C would askfor only five dollars from each one ofits members who could donate such asum, a huge fortune could be collectedalmost overnight, and that this sum ofmoney could be used in promoting

something or other that would be ofbenefit to humanity, and at the sametime help the organization. All of usare well enough trained in businessmethods to understand the potentialpossibilities of such plans. That we havenot made such solicitations among ourmembers is not due to our ignorance ofthe possibilities, or our ignorance of thecommercial value of our recommenda-tions or solicitations. It has simply beena sacred and binding rule with each oneof the directors of AM O R C that nomoney should ever be solicited from our

members except for some special pur-pose wholly devoted to the Order andwithout personal profit to a single in-dividual in the Order or outside of it.

W he n we asked our members a yearago to make donations toward the es-tablishment of a science building hereat Rosicrucian Park, it was the firstsuch solicitation that we had ever madeto our general membership. Fo r twentyyears or more we have refrained frommaking such a solicitation for the simplereason that we did not need the money

in our general funds for we had nothingwhich we wished to create that would

be of general benefit to all of the or-

ganization, and therefore warrant the

voluntary support of e v e r y member.

T h e The response to the science building

Rosicrucian solicitation was so overwhelmingly gen

Digest erous that no second call or solicitation

Ju n e was ever made, and those who wrote

1935 and offered to send their donations

later in another year or two were ad-vised that their money w o u l d not beneeded, and that no sacrifice or incon-venience on the part of any member wasnecessary inasmuch as the fund hadbeen completely and totally provided by

those who could contribute easily andwithout the slightest inconvenience. W eknow that if a cleverly worded callwere sent to all of our members inti-mating that the org an iza tion n e e d e d large sums of money to save it from dis-integration, from losing its dignifiedposition, or to lift it out of an embar-rassing predicament, an astonishing sumcould be raised within ten days. In fact,we would need to accept only the sumsof money that have been offered us asloans or investments at six per cent.

But we also know that rather thansell our souls, so to speak, with anysuch unwarranted statements or preten-sions, we would rather sacrifice every-thing that we personally possess, andeach one of us associated with Head-quarters raise the money individuallyand through outside channels. The timemay come when such a call to our mem-bers may be issued in truth and in sin-cerity, and we rest happy in the knowl-edge that when that time comes, if ever,the response will be magnanimous andprompt. But until then we give all we

have to give to each member alike andask from each one alike the establishedcontribution of two dollars a month. Itis said that today the AM O R C is thehighest priced school or system of meta-physics and philosophical unfoldmentand training because it calls for an ex-penditure of twentyfour dollars a yearon the part of each member. W e areproud of that statement and do not lookupon it as a criticism. M any who make

the statement hope to create a deroga-

tory impression, but they are paying us

a compliment. Th e AM O R C gives toits members more than any other similar

organization or movement, and it is con-

stantly adding to what it gives to its

members, and it wants to be known as a

highly successful, selfsupporting, inde-

pendent, and wholly fair system in its

financial and business activities as it is

in its teachings and philosophical ideas.

You do not do injury to the reputation



of the Chickering and Steinway pianoswhen you say that they are the mostexpensive pianos on the market. Tothinking p e r s o n s such a statementwould convey a compliment and a re-

commendation.But there are other insidious cam-

paigns being carried on intended to de-ceive and mislead our members in amanner that is difficult for us to pre-vent. Many of the rules and regulationscontained in our Grand Lodge Statutesand in the rules and regulations forchapters and lodges are intended toprotect the individual members, as wellas the organization itself against theseinsidious and deceitful schemes.

First of all, there is the one who is

influenced by arguments and misleadingimpressions to believe that he has metsomewhere in the outer field a greatmaster, teacher, a great leader, a greatthinker, or a great expounder of Cosmiclaws and principles. His enthusiasmbased u p o n false pretenses is fannedinto a fire of zealousness, a n d he isurged to visit a lodge or chapter andtell others about this great teacher orthis great master, and to invite otherA M O R C members to private classes,secret meetings, a n d exclusive assem-

blies. O ften with honest sincerity thesenewer members actually solicit amongour other members a n d try to temptthem into attending such private classeswith the claim that more rapid advance-ment can be made, and that higherteachings can be secured and much timeeliminated in the mastership of Cosmicand m y s t i c a l principles. Inevitablythese small groups thus formed in var-ious cities gradually attempt to have theA M O R C m e m b e r s w ithdraw fromA M O R C , or divide their loyalty andinterest, and finally support the self-

acclaimed teacher or master with largedonations but without regular fees.

Then there is the new member whobelieves that he has some knowledgethat is greater than that possessed byA M O R C , and he s e c r e t l y solicitsamong other newer members, and re-commends that they form “a secretcircle” for the study of Rosicrucianism,and his special knowledge which he hasaccumulated from various sources. Heproceeds to hold meetings in someone's

home, or in a small room, and binds hisfollowers to great secrecy, and gradu-ally weans them a w a y from theirA M O RC connections o n l y to leavethem stranded after a year’s study with

far less knowledge t h a n they wouldhave gained if they had remained stead-fast in their Rosicrucian studies.

Then there is the one who whispersthat he has discovered that there is an“inner circle” in the AM O R C , and thathe has contacted it and can lead themto it. He ventures the opinion that iften, fifteen, or twenty will join with himin following out some strange, mysticalceremonies and complying with certainconditions, they will be recognized bysome invisible masters as part of an in-

ner circle, or taken into t h e group ofstudents that will be guided by a greatworldly master who is soon to come intotheir community. Here again the fol-lowers are misled and relieved of sumsof money large or small over a periodof time, and they suddenly realize thatthey have been gaining nothing andsimply encouraging a scheme of decep-tion.

To all of our members we would say,therefore, beware of these deceivers.There is no inner circle of Rosicrucian-ism, or of t h e A M O RC , except that

circle of members who are in the high-est grades. As th e members advancefrom the l o w e r grades to the higherones the circle of members becomesmore exclusive, more esoteric, more pro-found, and mystical. There is no secretcircle in the Rosicrucian Order, or con-nected with it. Every m e m b e r in thelower grades, or any grade who studiesdiligently and follows the prescribedlessons a n d l e c t u r e s as issued byA M O R C will gradually reach everycircle of instruction and every branch

of our work without difficulty. Th osewho want to advance more rapidly thanthe regular course prescribes will findthat they are defrauding themselves ifthey attempt to reach the higher gradesor the teachings contained in the high-er grades by joining s o m e private,secret circle or group which holds itsmeetings outside of the chapter roomsor away from the lodge rooms, andunder the leadership of some person notofficially appointed by A M O R C toconduct such meetings.



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A M O R C is exerting every possibleeffort to make its lessons and mono-graphs, and its graded course of in-struction, just as brief as it can bemade, consistent w i t h proper innerd e v e l o p me n t and unfoldment. The

course of study is not l i k e somethingthat requires only mental comprehensionor intellectual understanding. It is likethe study of music or art or engineering,or any one of the other great arts.There must be a certain amount of innerunfoldment and progress keeping pacewith the mental comprehension. If thereading a n d studying of the lecturesgoes on more rapidly than the practiceof the principles, there is n o t h i n ggained. If the attempt to practice ispushed beyond the lectures and lessonsthat pertain to such principles, the stu-

dent bungles in his work and deals withlaws that he does not understand andis sure to become a failure as a student.

The only safe procedure is for ourmembers to keep in mind the fact thatunless the individual, or the plan, or thespecial group is recommended or ad-vised in The Rosicrucian Digest, it isnot official. Unless the book that some-one is attempting to sell you as a partof the Rosicrucian teachings is recom-mended in The Rosicrucian Digest , orThe Rosicrucian Forum, or some of ourofficial literature, it is not an official

recommendation. Unless the investmentor the financial procedure recommendedby some member is a p p r o v e d byA M O R C in the printed pages of itsmagazines, it is not an official recom-mendation, a n d immediately is to besuspected and investigated. Unless apublic meeting, a special lecture, orsome other outside feature is recom-mended and announced in your lodgeor chapter by the Master, or is an-nounced in our literature a n d maga-zines, it is not an official affair, andshould be avoided.

And remember that A M O R C doesnot appoint secret teachers in any chap-ter or lodge to form little classes to meetin homes or elsewhere, and give higheror new teachings to a few of the mem

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bers under p r o m i s e of keeping thematter secret from all other members.If anyone proposes such a plan to you,you should report it immediately to themaster or officers of y o u r chapter orlodge or to th e Supreme Secretary.

There are no secret, mysterious, affili-ated bodies, or g r o u p s belonging toA M O R C , and there are no investmentschemes, bookbuying propositions, goldmines, silver mines, or other things be-ing sponsored by AM O R C , indorsed byAMORC, or recommended to AMORCmembers. Report all such stories, suchglamorous offerings, to y o u r superiorofficers at once and help us to protectthe good name of AMORC, and thebest interests of its members, and to de-feat the schemers who write to one an-other saying, "If we could only get hold

of some of the A M O R C members, ortheir mailing list, and lead some of themastray far enough to start a rival group,or a new plan, we could make moneyout of their faith and honest beliefs, andmake a lot of it quickly.” One s u c hschemer promoting a g r e a t religiousmovement throughout the United Statesand posing as a worldknown spiritual-ized being, b e y o n d criticism or re-proach, recently wrote a letter over hisown signature in confidence to one ofhis coworkers in which he said, "Allthat we need to do is to get our hands

on the l i s t of members of AM OR C,and then we can build up our organiza-tion overnight, because of their faith inwhat A M O R C says.” Such things asthis we have h e a r d and read manytimes, and if our members were awareof the plots and plans that are beingconceived for them, they would coop-erate with us in preventing any whisper-ing campaigns being carried on in thelodge rooms, or chapters, or elsewhere,and would see to it that the pretender,the solicitor, the one who is out of step,is made to realize the error of his ways,

and the fact that the average member inA M O R C is not so gullible and not soeasily influenced as to b e l i e v e therambling and elaborated claims so oftenpresented.

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SANCTUM MUSINGS

W H A T I S C U L TU R E ?

H E garden spots ofo u r e a r t h a r eb a s k e d i n s u n -s h i n e , c a r e s s e dw i t h sof t winds,and bathed in ref r e s h i n g r a i n s .Life so fortunateas to have exist-ence there is vig-orous. Each qual-ity of every genusand specie is fa-vored. Th e spiny,

the repugnant, the graceful, the harhonious of color flourish alike, for theyall participate in the beneficence ofnature.

Nature considers no quality that isnatural to a thing as more worthy ofher attentions. All that which comeswithin her touch prospers or dies. If inits struggle for survival it strengthens

its qualities, to the law of existence mustgo the credit for such special develop-ment— not to any preconceived ideal asto what was the best. In nature thehighest good in a thing attains thatstate by elimination in the conquestwith environment, not by estimation ofthe probable good and cultivation to-ward that end. W he re environmentfavors the existence of a thing, all theinherent elements of its nature willprosper.

Such, however, is not culture, forwho can say under such circumstanceswhich of the many qualities of a thingwill predominate? Nature is not con-cerned with the eventual supremacy ofa quality of a thing, for nature does notcultivate her progeny; she but nurturesthem. Culture, consequently, reflects in-telligence, for those qualities which aresaid to be cultured have been intention-ally selected with an end in view. Thesame care and attention shown all thequalities of a thing alike develops them,and their relationship to each other re-mains the same.

Culture, therefore, must begin by adetermination of those qualities to bedeveloped or refined. W h a t shall mancultivate? W ha t criterion can he possesswhich will aid him in ascertaining thosequalities of his being worthy of specialconsideration? Yo u may turn to tradi-tion and custom, but they are not satis-

factory . Histo ry reveals the fall of com-plex states which were confident oftheir culture, but which very culturecontributed to their ruination. Suchcalamities w e r e either the result of aculture imposed upon individuals by theartificial intelligence created by society,the state which was not n a t u r a l tothem, or due to the individuals’ faultyestimation of the qualities of their na-ture to be developed. The culture ofsociety must be the personal culture of



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the individual, not an arbitrary and leg-islated one foreign to the nature of theindividual. C u l t u r e , consequently,starts with the individual.

It would seem that in any considera-tion of the human characteristics to be

favored with special development weare admitting natural imperfections. Italso appears as an attempt to improveupon the works thought to be confinedto divine province. In fact, it is reallyneither. In aspiring to culture, one doesnot expect to add to his nature qualitiesof which he is not already possessed;he rather prefers to exercise certainones more than others. He finds greatdelight in their special refinement.

Culture indicates in its very begin-ning a preference for personal powers.

Such preference in the narrow sense isquite selfish. It is desire because it re-sults in a state of happiness or ecstasywhich indifference to personal develop-ment cannot afford. The truly cultureddisdain the lustful, the sensuous. Suchdisdain is not a hypocrisy, for t h e i rlives are examples of their contempt ofextreme pleasures of the body and yetthey are not ascetics. It is a realizationof the insufficiency of the joys of theappetites and desires.

Every philosophy, w h e t h e r of theHedonists, Cyrenaics, or Epicureans,which has declared the highest good inlife to be the pleasure of the senses, hasalso lamented that the pleasure so de-rived was in ratio to the irritation ofthe appetite or desire. W ith the lessen-ing of the latter, the former diminishes.Such pleasure is not lasting; it is notpositive. It is provoked, and it finds itslimit within the limit of its cause. Itavails man little to develop these ap-petites or desires, for such developmentcan at its b e s t be s light, for they are confined to the organic nature of man.

To develop a taste for special viandsdoes not lengthen the period of gratifi-cation of the appetite. The pleasure thatcomes from appeasing it is not prolong-ed by foods which are more palatablethan others. They but stimulate the de-sire and q u i c k e n the consumption,bringing the appetite to the point ofgratification sooner. The satisfaction ofman’s appetites is to be had in Q U A N T I T Y , not quality. The choicest wines

and most exquisite delicacies consumedby the gourmand actually add no great-er pleasure to the satisfaction of the na-tural appetite than does the eating ofsimple wholesome foods by the peasant.The difference in the t a s t e of foods

means a difference in the point of timein arousing the appetite to its greatestintensity. W her e actual hunger maybring about a naturally intense appetite,spiced foods may arouse it sooner arti-ficially. The ecstasy of gratification isalone to be found in the assimilation ofsufficient food to remove the desire.

Th e cultivation, therefore, of th eelementary nature of man, is futile andmust lead not to greater pleasure but alessening of it because of a degeneracyof the appetites. The pleasure they af-ford is, obviously, secondary to theirfunctional purpose. Man cannot add totheir function, so he cannot add to thesensation which is produced by the ful-fillment of the function.

Man is inclined toward culture whenthe ideal is no longer sensual gratifica-tion, when the mind is keen, active, butsensitive to the finer emotions. Culturemay fall into want or find itself there,but it does not first breed in an environ-ment w h i c h deprives the body of itswants. Hered itary tendencies towardculture may be manifest in one whom

fate deprived from birth of a sufficiencyof the necessities, but in s u c h an in-stance culture has not been acquired;it was born.

The pleasures of culture cannot com-pete with the pleasures of the body.Culture must begin when the body is atease. It m u s t gain its strength whenthe senses have been assuaged. W hen ithas gained its stride it can a n d doeswith ease relegate the passions to theirorder in man’s nature. Man comes torealize the need for culture only when

he h a s acquired suffic ient wisdom torealize the futility of a search for last-ing happiness in bodily pleasures. Sucha realization is not possible when theappetites gnaw at t h e consciousness,when every nerve fibre cries out for re-lief and the body dominates the mind.The satisfaction of one appetite and theneglect of another does not relieve themind and permit it to be free from thesensations of desire. It is only when



they are all relieved that thought maybe free for o t h e r pursuits. Culturecomes only to those who have satisfiedthe appetites and met the needs of thebody by an effort. Th e wresting from

nature of the means to meet physical re-quirements, and to satisfy fundamentalinstinctive urges, sharpens the wits andthe mental faculties of man. It quickensthe intellect and develops the reasoningpowers. Such a mind becomes accus-tomed to the d a i l y challenges of theworld, and so not only reacts to envir-onment, becomes agitated by impulsesforeign to it, but produces its ownstimuli, the internal sensations of think-ing. It becomes pliable, sensitive, acute.Whereas it once responded only to theintense urges of the senses, and foundits m o s t pleasing sensations in theirgratification, it n o w has developed asensitivity to the emotions. These innersensations of the instincts, the emotions,constantly provoke the reason. Theycause a constant assembly and reassem-bly of antecedent experiences whichconform to these immanent urges andbring about an idealization of them.

Such a mind through its developmenthas found that with comparative ease itcan bring into realization the ideals that

the appetites engender in the conscious-ness. The pleasure, therefore, that suchrealization affords too quickly dimin-ishes. The ideal founded upon sensualthings eventually becomes lacking incomplexity, and consequently cannot beprolonged. But the subtle and f i n e remotional impulses create, by the sen-sations they cause, such complex idealsas require mu c h effort of body andmind to realize t h e m. Being realizedwith difficulty, a n d gradually, theyabound in g r e a t e r and more lastingpleasures.

That magic t o u c h of the emotionswhich causes the sculptor to have thepsychic desire to find or create in forma harmonious counterpart that can berealized through the sense of sight, cer-tainly contributes more to his ecstasythan he could by the realization of anysensual ideal.

The mind prepared for the impregna-tion of culture first experiences a rest-lessness, an irritation it cannot seem tolessen. The emotional impulses have not

yet taken form. T he y merely agitate.Th e sensations are not pleasing; theyirk. Not until they have been fashionedinto an ideal, and the ideal is shapedinto a complimentary form to be real-

ized by the senses, do t h e y please.These shapes, these outer forms, are theproducts of the c r e a t i v e mind, theachievements of the arts and sciences.

The neophyte of culture, when con-scious of the mental restlessness, be-comes an introvert, and this introver-sion results in pride, pride of capabilitiesnot before realized. Unconsciously, theone on the eve of a dawning of cultureis compelled by his turbulent state ofmind to direct his thoughts inward, tobegin an actual , p e r h a p s f irst, self

analysis. W e might term this, withoutbecoming too abstruse, a consciousnessof selfconsciousness. The individual,though always having consciousness ofhis individuality, now seeks and desiresto particularly express that individual-ity. Such a desire is pride.

Though we have shown t h a t pridemust precede culture, and we associateculture w i t h humans, yet it is to befound in animals that are especially in-telligent. Their pride is identical in na-ture with human pride but on a lesserscale. Th e mind, not being solely oc-cupied with the demands of the senses,has found the opportunity for selfap-preciation. Dogs and horses are notedto be proud of their achievements andpleasure from satisfaction of the prideapparently exceeds any sensual pleas-ure they might have.

Rudimentary p r i d e is even to befound in primitive beings— aboriginals.Culture is n o t stand ardized. It is astate of mind rather than a degree ofattainment. Thus the crude music andart of s o m e barbarous people are as

much the result of culture as the greatexhibits of our modern art museums.The selfexamination, the inner scrutinyof t h e dominant emotions responsiblefor the restlessness of spirit bring forthpride. The emotional sensations are in-terpreted; they are classified, and givenan identity. If we think of these emo-tions as longings, we can readily com-prehend how the m i n d will give thelonging m e n t a l form. It cannot, andwill not, permit it to remain a mere sen-sation.



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The e m o t i o n sensations draw tothemselves, when we concentrate uponthem, memory sensations of a similarnature, which accompanied at some timean a c t u a l empirical experience. This

gives the sensations of emotion charac-ter, a nature which the mind can grasp.One who can define, for an example,such emotional sensations only in termsof music, has given those sensations thedesire form of music. The pride centersupon that personal interpretation of theemotional sensation, for there is a re-cognition that it is the most prominent.Having made the selection of the out-standing qualification, the ego aspiresto d i s p 1a y it. The qualification isclothed by the imaginative processes ofthe mind in a form t h a t composes an

ideal. The ideal causes the selection ofexperiences, whose sensations will ap-proximate those of the emotion.

To use the analogy of one inclinedtoward music, the emotional u r g e ofthat type can only be satisfied when anideal has been formed, centered aroundmusic and which will arouse within thebeing sensations which are pleasing toand sooth the agitations of the emotion.The individual therefore realizes that inthat channel alone is there to be foundrelief from the mental perturbation, and

also the opportunity to e x p r e s s thecraving of personality. Th e i d e a l isnever finally attained, however, for it isnot stationary, for before it can be real-ized as it was originally visualized, ithas evolved and transcended its formernature.

In giving any special qualification ofo u r emotional nature reign, we refineand develop it, namely, truly cultivateit. In endeavoring to create, without, acorresponding f o r m to the ideal inwhich we have cloaked the qualifica-

tion, we derive gratification, a continu-ous pleasure, but before it can reach itsculmination the ideal has advanced andwe must continue to approach it. Un-consciously all of our mental facultiesand especially our imaginative powersare concentrated upon the end in view,the materializing and experiencing ex-ternally a condition or state which willbe in harmony with the urge and idealwithin. Such a combination makes forcreation in the arts and sciences. The

faculties b e c o m e capable of simplytranscending each former ideal beforeit is completely realized.

Th ere are no limitations to s u c hpleasures; unlike those of the appetites

such pleasures are not dependent uponorganic capacity or endurance. W ithsensual pleasures t h e ideal diminisheswith the lessening of the craving, andthe craving diminishes when the organicpurpose has been fulfilled. These emo-tional impulses, however, are not re-lated to organic needs, and their excite-ment is as constant as the mind is cap-able of being sensitive to it. The pleas-ure is as constant as the mind is ableto form ideals a n d attempt to realizethem.

It is not a mystery, therefore, that thereally cultured never find life boresomeor monotonous, but they do find it alltoo s h o r t for attaining the eventualideal— the one always just beyond theimmediate.

There is oftentimes the attempt tolink culture w i t h morality, as though one were dependent u p o n the other.Frequently, when an individual obvious-ly cultured is lacking in the establishedmorals of society, there is cast by manya reflection upon his cultural attain-

ment. There is absolutely no basis forthis presumed relationship. True moral-ity proceeds from the individual and notfrom society. It, too, is founded purelyupon the emotions and the personal de-cision and conviction as to what consti-tutes the mean of every act, what an ex-cess and what a deficiency.

Public morals are, as Hobbes has putit, an imposition of law. W he the r per-sonal morals should coincide with thoseestablished by the state or religion isnot a question for discussion here, but

suffice it is to say that moral standardswill not curtail the cultural ideal regard-less of what penalty the individual needpay society for his defiance of them.Though the truly cultured may there-fore have his vices, they are always sopersonal that t h e y affect society butlittle except perhaps in violation of prin-ciple. M ost all moral codes of societyare directed toward a restraining of thenatural passions and desires of the in-dividual in the interest of the weaker



members of society. The really cultured,as we have indicated, finds his greatestpleasure in the ideal of the emotions,not the passions, therefore is less in-clined toward debauchery a n d licen-

tiousness. The salacious individual, re-gardless of outward appearances, is notcultured, for salaciousness requires apersistent sensual ideal which patentlyopposes the cultural one.

The cultured individual is quite fre-quently marked by his indifference tothe definite provisions of religious orsocial morals, and it is in this alone thathe may be termed immoral, rather thanin actual excesses or deficiencies of con-duct.

Where the cultural ideal is the pro-

mulgation of a moral philosophy, thecircumstances are en t i r e l y different.There the realization of the ideal is de-pendent not only upon the actual estab-lishment of the moral code, but absoluteabidance by its very letter. T o fail tolive the code one has established or as-sumed as his own is to fail to attain thepersonal cultural ideal. W her e one hasfounded such a moral code and fails toabide by it, society is justified in adopt-ing an attitude of censure. The in-dividual in such an instance has him-self, by his own creation, linked culturewith morality, but they are otherwiseindependent of each other.

Culture and civilization are not con-comitant. The f o r m e r precedes thelatter. W^e may think of their order as,first the individual, then society, culture,and last civilization. W e are all too aptto judge a society which we do not con-sider civilized, as lacking in culture.This is due to the fact that we believeour culture, representative of our civil-ization, as T H E C U L T U R E , andwhere it is absent, as no culture exist-

ing at all.W e previously have shown that cul-

ture is on a graduated scale. The idealevolves, but there is no eventual ideal tobe attained by which we can declare allelse which falls short of it an absenceof culture. There are lesser degrees ofculture. Whenever the elements of cul-ture are present, such as an ideal basedupon the finer emotions, accompaniedby the desire to express it in form, thereis c u l t u r e , regardless of the form ittakes.

Culture cannot be the effect of civili-zation, for the latter is the outgrowth ofit. Every student of sociology knowsthat humans, though they may be byn a t u r e gregarious, voluntarily bind

themselves together because of commonnecessity, for as Hobbes in his treatiseon political philosophy has stated, thestrongest of men is at the mercy of anumber of the weak if they are suffi-ciently organized, and no individual canbe positive that by his own force andmeans he can protect his possessions.He needs also the guarantee of immun-ity from violation of his rights by somepower greater than himself. Primarily,then, the cause of society is ignoble. Itis selfish. Th e primitive societies are

mainly devoted to preserving and pro-tecting what the individual has acquiredby personal effort and sacrifice, and as-suring the individual his right to add tothat already had. A successful societyor state is m a r k e d by that enforcedorder which protects the individual's in-herent rights, and at the s a m e timelimits them for the interest of the whole.It is when this has been accomplishedthat the ideal of the state or society istransformed by a then changing idealof the individual.

The average individual in a s o u n dstate or society is capable under normalcircumstances of easily satisfying thesensual ideal, satisfying the appetitesand providing for the natural wants; itis then, as we have shown, that he be-gins to form the cultural ideal. Thishigher ideal becomes reflected in soci-ety. Civil pride develops. The power ofthe state's capabilities as a unit of in-dividuals is felt, and is followed by thedesire to realize them in form. Such aspirit manifests in public improvements,parks, art galleries, museums, conserva-

tories of music, shrines, cathedrals; in aminor scale this is represented in everycivilization of every age.

Civilization is to society like cultureis to the individual— a higher idealismborn from a dissatisfaction wi t h thepleasures of a lower nature. It seeks thefreedom of its intellectual powers fromthe slavery of necessity and the direc-tion of them into higher channels.

Civilization being dependent upon thecultural ideal of the individual, society



is therefore only able to r e t a i n anysemblance of civilization while the in-dividual preserves a cultural ideal. Ifthere is a decline of individual cultureor deterioration of it, civilization cor-respondingly declines. History reveals

that in the fall of great civilizations, theindividual ideal had become perverted.The body, the appetites and passions,were again glorified. Th e final end oflife once again became sensual pleasure.The consiousness became coarsened, in-capable of sensitivity to the higher andmore delicate emotional impulses whichare the basis of the cultural ideal.

W e must not presume that where astate of civilization exists, there is im-parted to all who are transplanted insuch a state, culture. All who reside orare a part of a civilized state, do not,unfortunately, contribute to its civiliza-tion. It is k n o w n and lamented thatonly the minority of any civilized soci-ety have brought about or even assistedin maintaining that civilization. Civiliza-tion falls when the minority who are inpower lose their cultural aspect. Themajority are never really cultured; theyare but veneered. Th eir culture is anobligation imposed upon them by forceof public opinion. It finds no actualresponse in their nature. Shear them ofthe impositions and restrictions of law

and they s t a n d naked in their loweridealism.

This is best experienced by their mis-use of culture, their attempts to divertit into channels that will satisfy theiractual personal lower idealism, such aspower, wealth, and fame. W hen theycannot in some manner convert the cul-

ture which they must adopt by the dic-tates of society into a form that willbring satisfaction to their elemental na-ture, it proves irksome to t h e m andis readily dropped, and they oppose itat every opportunity. Their oppositionmay assume the attitude of unwilling-ness to support it.

Witness the necessity of the state be-ing obliged to compel recognition and

support of the c u l t u r a l institutions,

which really should inspire and win the

loyalty of every individual of a civilized

state. No civilization of the past hasinstilled, and none of the future can in-

stil into the individual, culture. It can

but provide means for the realization of

the cultural ideal when and if the in-

dividual has such an ideal. Our cultural

institutions have never produced a cul-

tured individual, for all of their tech-

nique, where the individual has not been

first personally motivated by a cultured

ideal, deeply rooted to his finer emo-

tions. A coarse leather cannot t a k e a

high polish.

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PLAN TO ATTEND THE CO N V EN TIO N — JULY 14-20, 1935

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YOU ARE WELCOME TO VISIT

E Every member of the Order in any degree or any department of the studies is very E

: welcome to visit any of our branches in any city. Th e lodges and chapters maintain =5 reading rooms, libraries, consultation rooms and other convenient arrangements whereby E

E members may drop in during the day or evening for meditation, reading, consultation, E

E or contact with other members. You do not have to be a member of these branches, E

E chapters, or lodges in order to enjoy the privilege of the reading room, library, and E

T h e E other forms of contact with members or to benefit by the periods of rest and meditation. =R o s i c r u c t d n ^ ^ ou are a ways welcome at any of these branches. Consult the directory in the rear jj j j* . : pages of this mag azine and vis it the other members whenever you hav e a little time §

June " to spare‘

1935



W H I T H E R ?

The title given this splendid painting by the artist, Tom Mostyn, is most appropriate. Thedeep shadows and foreboding cliffs are representative of the unknown elements of existence

and the almost unsurmountable obstacles we are compelled to overcome. In life, like in the

scene of this painting, we are drawn onward by the vision of temples, temples of power, fame,

wealth, honor, wisdom.(Courtesy o/ Rosicrucian Digest.)



The

World’s Mysteries

Within Your

Family

Circle!

The world is at you r fingertips in the peace and qu iet of your home. Free -

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Member of“FUDO SI ”

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SocietesInitiatiques)

T H E R O S I C R U C I A N O R DE RThe Rosicrucian Order, existing in all civilized lands, is a nonsectarian,

fraternal body of men and women devoted to the investigation, study, andpractical application of natural and spiritual laws. The purpose of the organi-

zation is to enable all to live in harmony with the creative, constructive,Cosmic forces for the attainment of health, happiness, and Peace.

The Order is internationally known as AMORC (an abbreviation), and theAMORC in America, and all other lands, constitutes the only form of Rosi-crucian activities united in one body having representation in the interna-tional federation. The AMORC does not sell its teachings, but give3 themfreely to all affiliated members, together with many other benefits.

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H. SPENCER L EW IS, F. R. C., Ph. D ....................................................................................... „..ImperatorRALPH M. LEWIS, F. R. C....................... .................................... Supreme SecretaryCLEMENT B. LE BRUN, F. R. C.................................................................................................................. Grand MasterHARVEY MILE S. F. R. C .......... Grand TreasurerETHEL B. WARD, F. R. C..................................................................................................... Secretary to Grand MasterHARRY L. SHIBLEY, F. R. C .................................................................................................... Director of Publications

Ju n io r Order of To rch Bea re rs (sponsored by AM ORC). F o r com ple te inf ormation as to it s aim sand benefits address General Secretary, Grand Chapter, Rosicrucian Park, San Jose, California.

The following principal branches are District Headquarters of AMORC Atlanta, Georgia:

Atlanta Chapter No. 650. Dr. James C. Oakshette, Master; Nassau Hotel. Meetings 7:30

every Thursday night.San Jose, California:

Grand Lodge Session for all members, Tues-day evenings, 7:30 to 8 :30 p. m., N agleeAvenue, Rosicrucian Park.

San Francisco, California:

Francis Bacon Lodge, Mr. David Mackenzie,Master, 1655 Polk Street, San Francisco,California.

New York City, New York:

New York ChaDter, Rooms 3536, 711 8thAve., cor. 8th Ave. and 45th Street. LouisRiccardi, Master; Margaret Sharpe, Secretary.Inquiry and reading rooms open week days,

1 to 8 p. m.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:

Delta Lodqe No. 1, AM OR C. S. R. Corner40th and Brown Sts., 2nd Floor, Mr. AlbertCourtney, Master.

Benjamin Franklin Chapter of AMORC;Warren C. Aitken, Master, Martha Aitken,Secretary, 2203 N. 15th Street. Meetings forall members every Sunday, 7:30 p.m. 1706Rittenhouse Square.

Boston, Massachusetts:The Marie Clemens Lodge, Fortunatus ).Bagocius. Master. Temple and ReadingRooms, 739 Boylston St., Telephone Kenmore 9398.

Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania:

Penn. First Lodge, Dr. Charles D. Green,Master; 37 87 Eas t St. N. S., Pittsburgh. Pa.

Reading, Pennsylvania:Reading Chapter, Mr. Harrison N. Mucher,Master. 144 Clymer St.; Mr. George R. Os-man, Secretary. Meeting every Sundav, 7:30p. m., Friendship Hall, 113 North 8th St.

Los Angeles, California:Hermes Lodge. AMORC Temple. Mr. OllinW . Marden, Master. Reading Room and In-quiry office open daily, 9 a. m. to 9 p. m.,except Sundays. Granada Court, 672 SouthLafayette Park Place.

Hartford, Connecticut:

Isis Lodge AMORC, Mrs. Mary Andross,Master, So. Windsor, Conn.

Baltimore, Maryland:

Baltimore Chapter, Mr. William Roland,Master; Miss E. Pauline Trax, Secretary,1116 St. Paul Street.

Chicago, Illinois:Chicago Chapter No. 9, Joseph S. Older,Master; Mabel L. Schmidt, Secretary. Tele-phone Superior 6681. Reading Room openafternoons and eveninqs. Simdav s 9 to “ionly. 100 E. Ohio St., Room 403404. Lecturesessions for ALL members every Tuesdaynight, 8:00 p. m.

Chicago AfraAmerican Chapter No. 10.Robert S. Breckenridge, Master; AureliaCarter, Secretary . Meeting every W edne s-day night at 8 o'clock, Y. M. C. A., 3763 So.Wabash Avenue.

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Portland, Oregon:

Portland Chapter. Paul E. Hartson, Master;Telephone East 1245. Meetings every Thurs-day, 8:00 p.m. at 714 S. W . 11th Avenue.

Washington, D . C.:Thom as Jefferson Chapter. W illiam V.Whittington, Master. Confederate MemorialHall, 1322 Vermont Ave. N. W . Meetings

every Friday, 8:00 p. m.

Seattle, Washington:

AMORC Chapter 586. Walter G. Simpson,Master; Mrs. Beatrice Stuberg, Secretary.31114 Lowman Bldg., between 1st and 2ndAves. on Cherry St. Reading Room openweek days 11 a . m. to 4:30 p. m. Visitorswelcome. Chapter meetings each Friday,8:00 p. m.

Other Chartered Chapters and Lodges of the Rosicrucian Order (AMORC) will be found Inmost large cities and towns of North America. Address of local representatives 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 SVancouver, British Columbia:

Canadian Grand Lodge, AMORC, Mr. H. B.Kidd, Master, AMORC temple, 878 Horn-by Street.

Victoria, British Columbia:

Victoria Lodge, Mr. A. A. Calderwood,Master. Inquiry Offic e and Reading Room,101 Union Bank Bldg. Open week days 10a. m. to 6 p. m.

Winnipeg, Manitoba. Canada:

Mr. Ely Law, Master, 120 Spence St. (Ph.33341.) Session for all members every Sun-day, 2:45 p.m.. 212 "A ” Enderton Bldg.,Portage Av. and Hargrave St., Phone 27204.

S P A N I S H A M E R I C A N S E C T I O NTh is jurisdiction includes all the Spanishspeaking Countries of the New Wo rld. Its Supreme

Council and Administrative Office are located at San Juan, Puerto Rico, having local Represen-tatives in all the principal cities of these stated Countries.

The name and address of the Officers and Representatives in the jurisdiction will be furnishedon application.

A ll co rr es ponden ce sh ou ld be addre ss ed as fo ll ow s:Secretary General of the SpanishAmerican Jurisdiction of AM OR C, P. O. B ox 36, San Juan,

Puerto Rico.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada:

Montreal Chapter — Alexandre Chevalier,F. R. C., M aster, 210 W est St. James Street.Inquiry office open 10:00 a. m. to 5 p. m.daily; Saturdays 10:00 to 100 p.m.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada:

Mr. Benjamin F. Wakelin, Master. Sessions1st and 3rd Sundays of the month, 7:00p.m., No. 10 Lansdowne Ave.

Edmonton, Alberta:

Mr. Alfred H. Holmes, Master, 9533 JasperAvenue E.

A F E W O F T H E F O R E IG N JU R I S D IC T I O N S

Scandinavian Countries:The AMORC Grand Lodge of Denmark,Mr. Arthur Sundstrup, Grand Master; CarliAnderson, S. R. C.. Grand Secre tary. Manogade 13th Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Sweden:

Grand Lodge "Rosenkorset.” Anton Svanlund, F. R. C., Grand Master. Jerusalemsgatan, 6, Malmo.

Holland:De Rozekruisers Orde; GrootLod ge derNederlanden. J. Coops, Gr. Sect., Hunzestraat 141, Amsterdam.

France:

Dr. H. Gruter, F. R. C., Grand Master, Nice.

Mile. Jeanne Guesdon, S.R.C., CorrespondingSecretary for the Grand Lodge (AMORC)of France, 56 Rue Gambetta, VilleneuveSaint Georges, (Seine & Oise).

Switzerland:AMORC Grand Lodge, August Reichel,F. R. C., Gr. Sect,, A v e n u e d'Evian, 3,Lausanne.

Austria:

Mr. Man y Cihlar, K. R. C., Grossekretar derAMORC, Laxenburgerstr, 75/9, Vienna, X.

China and Russia:

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

Australia:The Grand Council of Australia, S. L. S.Kowron, F.R.C., Grand Master, “Sandhurst,"Quirk St., Dee W hy , Sydney, N. S. W .

New Zealand:

Auckland Chapter, Attention Mr. C. D. Mill,Wakefield College, Palmerston Bldg., QueenSt., Auckland.

England:

The AMORC Grand Lodge of Great Britain,Mr. Raymund Andrea. K.R.C., Grand Master,34 Baywater Ave., Westbury Park, Bristol 6.

Dutch and East Indies:

W . J. Visser, Grand Master, Bodjong 135Semarang, Java.

Egypt:The Grand Orient of AMORC, Houce of theTemple, M. A. Ramayvelim. F. R. C., GrandSecretary, 26, Avenue Ismalia, Heliopolis.

Africa :

The Grand Lodge of the Gold Coast,AMORC, Mr. William Okai, Grand Master,P. O. Box 424 Accra, Gold Coast, WestAfrica.

India:

The Supreme Council, AMORC, Calcutta,India.

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



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