Filename: RC1046.TXT
Source: "The Rosicrucian Christianity Lectures" by Max Heindel

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   In the sudden killing of the animal the lowest part of the soul clings to
the body,  the Group Spirit has lost the passions which remain in the  flesh
which we eat.  That Group Spirit is thinking continuously, however,  "I must
get another vehicle."   That idea is impressed on every cell because of  our
wholesale murder,  and so we have that intense sex craving in every particle
of meat we eat, impelling us to satisfy its demand.

   It was Nimrod,  the Atlantean,  who first killed to eat,  who inaugurated
the social evil.   And so we see that although we injure the animals when we
kill them,  we injure ourselves the more, for we have ever that social  evil
in consequence,  that stays with us, and when we speak of the social evil we
do  not  mean  only  that  which we COMMONLY  call  the  social  evil,  that
unhallowed thing of church and state,  but any intercourse whatsoever except
that  which  is performed as a sacrifice to provide a body for  an  incoming
Ego.   Other use of the creative function, whether in greater or less degree
is nevertheless social evil.

   Now  when we understand the connection between the social evil and  flesh
eating,  the taking away of life from others, then we can understand why the
Knights of the Holy Grail were pure and harmless, and until that time comes,
the  time  when Parsifal breaks his bow, when he will no longer  take  life,
when he says,  "I will no longer take these particles into my body that  cry
out for separate existence, and want to create all the time, but I will live
the pure and harmless life"; only when a man comes to that stage in life can
he feel compassion.   So long as we go out and kill we cannot feel the  true
compassion.

   You and I who live under such complex conditions where killing is concen-
trated  in  one  place, of course never seethe animals killed, yet we are as

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responsible  for the fear and anguish which ensoul them as if we had a  per-
sonal  hand  on it.   Could you and I go into that bloody pen and  lift  the
knife, look into those dying eyes, and then go and enjoy our victim's flesh?
We could not.   We have gone too far in evolution for that.   It is only be-
cause we are able to get the flesh without having the noisome sights of  the
slaughter house before us,  and yet you and I are doing a great harm to  an-
other  fellow being.   Because you and I do not want to go there he  has  to
stand there day after day, month after month, and year after year, and kill,
and kill,  and kill.  You and I are escaping the brutality which we see con-
centrated in him,  concentrated to such an extent that the law holds him  as
an outcast in certain respects; it will not allow him to sit on a jury where
capital  punishment is involved because he has become so brutalized that  he
has lost all regard for life.

   Friends!  let us cease to be destructive.  Let us aim to be constructive,
and  let ALL creatures live.   They have as much right to life as  we  have.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox prefers their claim in the following beautiful words:

         I am the voice of the voiceless;
         Through me the dumb shall speak
         Till a deaf world's ear
         Shall be made to hear
         The wrongs of the wordless weak.

         The same force formed the sparrow
         That fashioned man, the king.
         The God OF THE WHOLE
         Gave a spark of soul
         To furred and feathered thing.

         And I AM MY BROTHER'S KEEPER;
         And I will fight his fight,
         And speak the word
         For beast and bird
         Till the world shall set things right.

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   Now  we  have come so far that we begin to see the application  of  these
things  more and more that we have seen in Parsifal and the Holy Grail.   We
see it is the beginning of compassion when we leave off our lower appetites.
We become pure in thought,  desire,  and body,  and so we are going onwards.
Here  we have in this myth as presented by Wagner one of the most  wonderful
interpretations  of the fact that a certain class of us may go  forward  and
become  helpers of humanity.   Parsifal is the man who has purified  himself
and  has become harmless.   That was seen and felt spiritually by Wagner  on
yon Good Friday morning when he sat by the Zurich Sea and saw all around him
life forces operating.   Innumerable seeds were sprouting,  all around  this
wonderful flow of life, and Wagner asked himself what connection could there
be between the Savior's death upon the cross and this sprouting forth of ev-
erything in nature?   And there he struck upon the very heart of the Mystery
of the Holy Grail.

   We  remember from the last lecture particularly how man is  the  inverted
plant.

   Plato  gave  this occult view when he said the World Soul  is  crucified.
The  horizontal limb of the cross represents the lines of influence  of  the
animal  group  spirits  which  circle the  Earth,  manifesting  through  the
horizontal  spine of the animals--they are between the plants and the  human
kingdom.  The plants are represented by the lower limb of the cross, and man
by the upper limb.

   We  know  that the Group Spirits of the plants are in the center  of  the
Earth and that they are radiating lines of force which are continually pass-
ing  through the trees and plants.   Man,  on the other hand,  receives  his
spiritual  influence  from  the  sun  through the head, and is therefore the

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inverted  plant in that sense.   We also know that the plant takes its  food
through  the roots and man through the head.   The plant is chaste and  pas-
sionless;  it stretches its creative organ chastely towards the sun, a thing
of beauty,  the flower;  man stretches his passion-filled creative organ to-
wards the Earth.

   Man  exhales the poisonous carbon dioxide, while the plant sends out  the
life-giving oxygen;  so man is the opposite to the plant.  Now,  in the Mys-
tery of the Holy Grail man was brought to use,  or rather he was brought  to
FEEL these truths.  He was told:

   "Look around you;  see everywhere in nature all these innumerable  plants
growing, all these seeds sprouting.

   "That creative force which you see in them is nothing but what is in you,
and in every human being;  but in the plants it expresses itself in the  op-
posite way.  There is the chasm of passion between the plant and the god.

   "The  animals are also passion filled;  they have the red  passion-giving
blood; but in the plant we see chastity, and that chastity must be regained.

   "There are certain stages of advancement which you are to go through; you
are to become pure and passionless again.  Therefore, this emblem--the Grail
Cup--which you see here,  is like the pod of the plant that holds the  seed.
That is the emblem of purity, which you are to hold before your gaze all the
time in order to aspire to that high ideal--that purity which is embodied in
the plant."

   This  conception  is  also  embodied in the communion  cup  used  in  the
churches,  which  is  emblematical of the ideal we are to strive for, and in

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the  German  the communion cup has the same name as the pod of  the  flower,
KELCH.  In different other languages its name has also a similar meaning.

   Thus the holy Communion Cup is not a wine cup;  but it is a cup which  we
may  look upon as containing the very essence of life in pristine  purity--a
quickening spiritual essence.   Not the paralyzing spirit that Noah brought,
not the fermented spirit of decay,  but that life-giving fluid which is  the
blood of the plant.   There we have a description of one of the emblems held
up to the pupils of the Mysteries as ideals to be realized in him.

   The other was the holy spear,  symbolized by the sunbeam that comes  down
and  opens the flower.   the sunbeam is the representation of the  spiritual
power which is working to bring forth all through the universe; a power most
potent, but also most dangerous when used without discrimination, or abused,
as we see so forcibly accentuated in the legend of Parsifal, where Parsifal,
Amfortas,  and  Klingsor  represent three classes--Amfortas,  who  used  the
spiritual  power without discrimination;  Klingsor, who used it for  selfish
purposes, and Parsifal, who used it in the only way it should be used.   The
power is the same,  but produces different effects as it is variously  used.
Fire  is man's greatest ally when under control and used for good  purposes;
but used with evil intent or ignorantly, it becomes dangerous.

   Parsifal represents the mystic whose FEELINGS have become aroused.  He is
not fit to have the spiritual power until he has been tempted and tried, for
one  whose feelings are intense is very apt to make mistakes.   Against  the
manifestly  evil  he  is secure,  because of his  very  innocence,  as  when
Parsifal fails to perceive  anything  sensual in the advances of the Flower-

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maidens.   He is so guileless and pure that that does not affect him at all,
but  INNOCENCE is not by any means synonymous with VIRTUE.   Innocence is  a
negative purity such as we find in all children, and is very, very different
from  the virtue which has come unscathed through the fire  of  temptations,
and is kept on the path of rectitude,  guided by an innate feeling of right.
Innocence  is untried and inferior to the virtue of the sinner who  has  re-
pented  and  reformed and is strong for the right as the path of  peace  and
joy,  because  he has known the sufferings which are  encountered  upon  the
pathway of wrong.

   Amfortas is tempted and falls and suffers.   Parsifal witnesses his  suf-
fering  and can sympathize with his pain,  because of having broken the  bow
and become harmless.  The man who can kill cannot also feel compassion.  The
one  who is harmless is tender of heart,  and sees what a benefit  pain  is.
Usually    Parsifal    is    so    glad   and    joyous    he    has    left
Herzleide--Sorrow--behind.   See him in the garden with the  Flower-maidens,
his  face beaming with innocent joy.  Then comes the temptation  of  Kundry,
and it causes a pain--something Parsifal is not used to, and by the power of
association  there comes before his inner vision that other scene  where  he
felt pain--the scene in the Grail Castle, where the stricken king was minis-
tering at the sacred rite.  He sees and he understands,  because of sympathy
which  his harmlessness has engendered.   But for that,  he too  might  have
fallen to the subtle temptations of Kundry.

   Klingsor  is  the very antithesis of Parsifal.   He is no  fool;  he  has
knowledge, and by knowledge he wields his power entirely apart from feeling.

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He  has mutilated himself;  HE HAS KILLED ALL FEELING INSTEAD OF SEEKING  TO
CONTROL  IT.   When we go along the mystical path the feelings are most  po-
tently aroused,  and unless we have become harmless also and ceased to  live
upon  food imbued with the lower feelings, we are extremely apt to fall,  as
witness  the  well-known fact that ultra-devotional people  are  exceedingly
strongly  sexed and have been the cause of great Church scandals,  denounced
as hypocrites,  when in reality they were as true as steel,  but were unable
to  control the intense waves of feeling which swept them away,  because  of
impure food.

   Klingsor is not minded to run such chances,  so he has mutilated his  sex
organ  and thus made it impossible for him to gratify that craving and  lose
his power, as Amfortas did when he fell before the charms of Kundry.

   Also in the Niebelungen Ring we hear the same principle  enunciated--that
the one who desires power must forswear love.  Alberich, the Niebelung, does
that in order to possess the Rheingold,  and it becomes a curse to gods  and
man.

   When the head or the intellect rules apart from the feelings,  as it does
in the intellectual occultist,  the black path lies before that man,  but in
the blending of head and heart is the true balance, the only safety.

   Amfortas could not have fallen if he had been harmless,  but he was  con-
templating a misuse of the spiritual power symbolized by the spear.   He was
going to use it without due discrimination against Klingsor;  therefore,  it
reached upon him and wounded him.  the black and the white magician both use
the  same  force--a  spiritual  power--and it is  as  impossible  to  use  a
spiritual  force to harm a spiritual man as it is to drown a fish in  water.
Therefore, when Klingsor hurls the  spiritual power--the spear--at Parsifal,

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it  floats harmlessly above him and Parsifal directs it against  the  Castle
only, not against Klingsor.

   The good cannot use good for direct destruction of evil,  but only  indi-
rectly by showing them the greater power of Good.

   As the flower draws the vital force,  the spiritual power,  from the sun-
beam in a pure and chaste manner as it unfolds its harmless beauty,  so must
we  unfold  in purity and harmlessness the spiritual powers latent  in  man.
Neither  must we kill or cut ourselves off from the expression of the  feel-
ings,  as some have done who have taken vows and have entered monasteries or
like sheltered environments, where they are out of the way of temptation--or
at least where temptation cannot mature to acts.  Desire may be as strong in
a  monk as in a Knight,  but the monk has made it impossible by his  vow  to
gratify desire, while the Knight is free to choose good or evil.  If he man-
fully overcomes the temptation, as parsifal did, he evokes in his being that
higher  love  which is as far removed from sensual passion  as  heaven  from
hell.   We as Christians are like King Amfortas--we have lost our  spiritual
powers temporarily on account of our abuses and impurities;  but out of  the
ashes of that state shall come the New Christianity symbolized by  Parsifal,
which  shall heal the sufferings of the old and take its place.   That  per-
sonal  condition of which the Holy Grail is emblematical is the state  where
the evanescent gives way to the lasting and permanent.

   We  build our bodies on flesh foods,  which leave it very quickly.   Even
vegetables  are not stable.   Our bodies change altogether in a  few  years.
The plant, on the other hand, has a body that lasts for ages, even after the

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life has left it,  as seen in wooden buildings that last a century or  more.
What is the secret?

   The tree is almost purely carbon.  Where did it get the carbon?  From the
carbon dioxide exhaled by animal and man.  In other words,  WE ARE IN  EVERY
BREATH THROWING AWAY THAT WHICH WOULD BUILD A STABLE BODY IF KEPT.  What be-
comes of that wood?   In millenniums it is transmuted to coal--black carbon.
The  hardest  and  most  durable substance on  Earth  is  white  carbon--the
diamond.

   If we could find a way of retaining that carbon we would become what  the
Hindu  calls  the  Diamond Soul--the perfect immortal body.   We  should  be
manufacturing what the Rosicrucian calls the Philosopher's Stone,  which  is
the liquor vitae,  the panacea for all the world's woe.  We should then know
the meaning of the sea of glass in the New Jerusalem and understand the sig-
nificance  of "the molten sea"  which was the last work of Hiram  Abiff  the
Grand Architect of Solomon's Temple, built without hands.  For these all ex-
press the same truth as the Holy Grail, and are only attainable by those who
are pure in heart, who have overcome the world and are helpers of humanity.

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                              LECTURE EIGHTEEN :

                              THE LORD'S PRAYER

   Many  people who have thought seriously upon the problems of  the  higher
life  have  unfortunately forsaken the methods of their earlier  days,  they
have  ceased to believe in the teachings of the church regarding the  atone-
ment, the saving power of faith, the efficacy of prayer, and kindred dogmas.
While  from the standpoint of such people,  who are honestly  and  sincerely
seeking for truth, these ideas may seem palpably fallacious, we would never-
theless  bespeak for the following views an unbiased hearing in  order  that
they may THEN be judged.   Thus viewed, the teachings of the Church will ap-
pear  in  a light probably not heretofore perceived which will give  them  a
new, a grander meaning, more satisfactory to the heart and perfectly accept-
able to the intellect.

   Many  among us have been impelled by Reason to withdraw from the  Church,
although with a bleeding heart.   Intellectual conceptions of God and of the
purpose of life cannot satisfy, and our lives have since been barren.   That
the new light may make it possible for those who still feel the heart's  de-
sire  for the fellowship of the Church to return and take their places  with
renewed zeal born of deeper  understanding  of the cosmic truths embodied in

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the teachings of the Church is the earnest prayer of the writer and his  mo-
tive in enunciating the following teachings.

   There is one fact very noticeable to the student of Comparative Religion,
namely,  that the further we go back in time,  the more primitive the  race,
the more crude is also its religion.  As man advances,  so do his  religious
ideas.   Materialistic  investigators draw from these facts  the  conclusion
that all religions are man-made,  that all conceptions of God are rooted  in
human  imagination.   The fallacy of that idea is readily seen when we  con-
sider the tendency of all that lives toward self-preservation.   Where  only
the  law  of  the survival of the fittest governs,  as  it  does  among  the
animals, where might is right, there is no religion.  Not until a higher EX-
TRANEOUS  power makes itself felt can that law be abrogated and the  Law  of
Self-abnegation comes into play as a factor of life,  as it does in a  small
measure in even the most crude religion.  Huxley recognized that fact in his
last  lecture,  where he pointed out that while the Law of Survival  of  the
Fittest marks the animal's line of progression,  the Law of Sacrifice is the
heart of human advancement, impelling the strong to care for the weak,  giv-
ing gladly what they might easily withhold, yet growing by such giving.

   The reason for this anomaly cannot be found by the materialist;  from his
viewpoint  it must ever remain an insoluble riddle,  but once we  understand
that man is a composite being: Spirit, soul, and body; that Spirit expresses
itself in thought,  soul in feeling, and body in action;  and that is three-
fold  man  is an image of the triune God,  we shall readily  understand  the
seeming anomaly, for by his constitution such a composite being would be pe-
culiarly  fitted  to respond to both spiritual vibrations and  physical  im-
pacts.

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   When  we see how little the majority care for the higher life  today,  we
may infer that there must have been a time when man was nearly entirely cal-
lous  to  the spiritual vibrations in the universe.   He  sensed  vaguely  a
higher power in Nature,  and being then partially endowed with clairvoyance,
he recognized the existence of powers not now perceived,  though working  as
potently as ever.

   Man  was to be led for his future good,  so in order to guide him  aright
and  aid the higher nature in obtaining mastery over the lower  nature,  the
personality, the latter was at first worked upon by FEAR.  To have given him
a religion of Love,  to have tried moral suasion would have been  absolutely
useless  when  the  human Ego was in its earliest infantile  stage  and  the
animal  nature of the lower personality was paramount.   The God who  is  to
help such a humanity must be A STRONG GOD who can wield the thunderbolt  and
strike with lightning.

   When man had been brought a little further along he was taught to look to
God  also as THE GIVER of all,  he was imbued with the idea that if he  fol-
lowed  the LAWS of this God MATERIAL PROSPERITY WOULD FOLLOW.   Disobedience
on the other hand resulted in FAMINE, WAR, AND PESTILENCE.  In order to lead
man up higher he must be taught the Law of Sacrifice,  but at that stage man
prized material possessions highly,  and therefore he was prompted to sacri-
fice his sheep and oxen THROUGH FAITH in the promise that "the lord will re-
pay an hundredfold," that he who gives to the poor lends to the Lord who al-
ways returns abundantly.   There was then no promise of a heaven,  that  was
yet beyond man's capacity of appreciation.  It  was emphatically stated that

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"Heaven,  even the heavens are the Lord's, but THE EARTH has He given to the
children of men" (Ps: 115-16).

   Next  man is taught to SACRIFICE HIMSELF FOR A FUTURE REWARD  IN  HEAVEN.
Instead  of performing an OCCASIONAL act of sacrificing a  material  posses-
sion, a bull or a sheep which the Lord quickly restores, it was now required
that  he should give up his evil desires and by "CONTINUANCE IN  WELL-DOING"
"LAY UP TREASURE IN HEAVEN,"  caring nothing for material possessions  which
thieves may steal or moth and rust corrupt.

   Almost anyone may for a short time work himself up to a pitch of  exalta-
tion  where it is easy to lay down all in one supreme act  of  renunciation.
It is comparatively easy TO DIE for one's faith,  as in martyrdom,  but that
is not enough; the Christian Religion requires of us the courage TO LIVE our
faith  from  day to day all through life BY FAITH IN A FUTURE  REWARD  in  a
heaven which is but very dimly adumbrated.   Truly,  the labors of  Hercules
seem  small in comparison,  and what wonder if doubts come to weigh us  down
with  a  burden like that of Atlas, robbing us of faith in  the  beneficent,
all-sustaining power of God.

   As a matter of fact,  whether we know it or not,  we live by faith  every
minute  of our lives,  and in proportion that we so live,  are we  happy  or
miserable.   At night we lie down to sleep secure in the faith that no  harm
will disturb our slumbers,  that we shall wake in the morning and be able to
go  through our appointed tasks the next day.   Were it not for that  faith,
were  doubts on the above points to assail,  would we dare to lay our  heads
upon our pillows?  could we close our eyes in calm slumber?  Surely not; and
in  a short time we should be physical and mental wrecks,  hastened  into  a
premature  grave  by  the  demon  of  doubt.  When we go to the store to buy

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provisions we have faith in the rectitude of the merchant,  we are satisfied
that  he will give us wholesome viands and not poisoned good.   If not,  how
miserable our lives would be, and instead of enjoying our food,  doubt would
take away our appetite so that we should be unable to eat a wholesome  meal,
for even food would be poisoned by out mental state of doubt and fear, as is
well known to physiologists.

   By faith we leave our homes in the morning trusting to the law of gravity
to keep them in the same place till we return at night.

   Very  few  among us have watched the shadow of the Earth  when  projected
upon the Moon at an eclipse of the Moon and realized that that round  shadow
is the only positive proof of the rotundity of the Earth,  yet everyone says
he  knows that the Earth is round.   He knows it BY FAITH in other  people's
statements.   So  with the fact that we are traveling through space  at  the
rate  of one thousand miles an hour by virtue of the Earth's motion  on  its
own axis,  and the still more astonishing,  scientific fact that this  Earth
which  appears to be so still and motionless is in reality traveling in  its
orbit  around the sun at the rate of 1,600,000 miles in  twenty-four  hours.
These and many other similar facts which we cannot possibly investigate  for
ourselves we accept and live by every day of our lives;  we call them knowl-
edge and we stake our lives and our happiness upon them by virtue of faith.

   It  has  been said in previous lectures that faith is the  force  in  man
which  opens  up the channel of communication with God and  brings  us  into
touch with his Life and Power.  Doubt, on the other hand, has a most wither-
ing  and  blighting  influence  on  the  spiritual  life.  That such are the

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effects  of faith and doubt can easily be seen by examining their  influence
in  our daily life.   We know how expressions of faith and trust buoy us  up
and  how depressing is the effect on us when we are doubted by others.   The
same holds good in the higher realms, as the following incident will show:

   When  visiting  Columbus,  Ohio,  in 1907, we heard  a  lecture  on  "New
Evidences of a Future Life," by Professor Hyslop.  The writer could not find
one  single scrap of new evidence or anything which has not been adduced  in
the  reports  of the Society for Psychical Research in hundreds  of  similar
cases, and wondered why a man like Professor Hyslop, who must know these re-
ports,  should call it NEW evidence.  The riddle was not solved till a ques-
tion by someone brought out the fact that MR. HYSLOP HAD NO FAITH in Profes-
sor Crook's experiments or in the results of the researches of any one  else
for that matter; he was not prepared to believe one iota of which HE was not
personally cognizant.  and therefore what he had presented was new,  it  had
been NEWLY perceived (by him).  But although Professor Hyslop refused to ac-
cept the evidence of other investigators he was not in the least backward in
asking his audience to accept his testimony as the only reliable brand,  and
unwittingly he furnished an illustration of his inefficiency as an  investi-
gator  because of ultra-scepticism when he related how he had one day  at  a
sitting  with  a medium had a communication from Richard  Hodgson  (who  has
died) to meet him at another medium's where Hodgson was to give certain com-
munications then agreed upon.

   At  the  appointed hour Professor Hyslop "sat"  with the medium  and  Mr.
Hodgson  commenced  to  make  his  communications.  Mr. Hodgson  seems to be

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entirely unable to answer questions,  and Professor Hyslop asked in a  irri-
tated  tone:   "What is the matter with you,  Richard ?  when  you  were  in
Earth-life you were always ready enough with an answer,  why cannot you  an-
swer now?"  Then, said Professor Hyslop, in telling the story, then came the
answer as quick as lightning--`OH!   EVERY TIME I GET INTO YOUR WRETCHED AT-
MOSPHERE I SEEM TO GO ALL TO PIECES.'  .  .  .Professor Hyslop's attitude of
ultra-scepticism  had the same benumbing effect on the communicating  spirit
of Mr.  Hodgson,  as for instance, the mental attitude of an examining board
has upon a candidate.   If the board has made up its mind that the candidate
is a dunce he may be ever so well prepared,  he will stutter,  stumble,  and
fail while even the dunce may comport himself creditably if supported by the
mental encouragement of the board.

   Thus we see that doubt and scepticism have a withering and blighting  ef-
fect  upon  the object directed against, while faith opens and  expands  our
mental  capacity as sunlight unfolds the beautiful flower,  and we can  thus
understand the necessity for faith in approaching spiritual teachings.   Met
in  that  manner  they show themselves in true light,  while  doubt,  higher
criticism, or agnosticism wither and wilt the beauty of spiritual conception
as biting frost blights the fairest flower.  Christ Jesus said:   "Whosoever
shall  not  receive  the Kingdom of God as a little child  shall  not  enter
therein."  In that sentence is hidden the key to the proper mental attitude.
The grown person when confronted with a new teaching either rejects it  off-
hand because it is something he has not though or heretofore come into  con-
tact  with,  or  he  accepts it without question  if  it  supports  his  own
theories.  He makes his own viewpoint and knowledge the absolute  measure of

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truth whereby he gauges all ideas presented,  but however wide his view  may
be, it must be narrow from a cosmic standpoint.

   A little child is unhampered by the limitation of previous knowledge, ITS
MIND  IS OPEN TO ALL TRUTH,  and it takes unhesitatingly every  teaching  on
faith.  Time will bring out facts to show whether it is true or not and that
test alone is conclusive.   The pupil of the occult school cultivates such a
childlike attitude of mind,  forgetting always when examining a new teaching
or investigating phenomena not previously perceived, all else,  so as to ob-
viate any bias of mind.   Of course, he does not believe offhand that  black
is white,  but he is ready always when a proposition is made to him to admit
that there may be a viewpoint he has not hitherto perceived whence an object
he thought white might appear black,  or vice versa,  and that is an exceed-
ingly  advantageous attitude of mind,  for the man who cultivates it is  ca-
pable of learning, of increasing his knowledge in the same ratio as does the
child which listens rather than argues.

   Thus the childlike attitude is particularly conducive to the  acquisition
of  knowledge  which  is  symbolically spoken as  the  Kingdom  of  God,  in
contra-distinction to that ignorance which is the estate of man.   Let it be
clearly understood that faith which is required is not a BLIND faith, not an
unreasoning  faith which clings to a creed or dogma contrary to reason,  but
it is an open and unbiased state of the mind which is ready to entertain ANY
PROPOSITION until thorough investigation has proven it untenable.

   In a previous lecture,  Prayer was said to be an opening up of a  channel
along which the divine Life and Light may flow into the Spirit,  in the same

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way  that the turning of a switch opens the way for the electric current  to
flow  from the power-house into our house.  Faith in prayer is like the  en-
ergy  which turns the switch.   Without muscular force we can not  turn  the
switch to obtain physical light,  and without faith we cannot pray in such a
manner  as to secure spiritual illumination.  If we pray for  worldly  ends,
for  that  which  is contrary to the law of love  and  universal  good,  our
prayers will prove as unavailing as a glass switch in an electrical circuit.
Glass  is non-conductor,  a bar to the electric power,  and selfish  prayers
are, likewise, bars to divine purposes and must therefore remain unanswered.
To pray to a purpose we much pray aright, and in the Lord's Prayer we have a
most wonderful pattern,  for it caters to the needs of man as no other  for-
mula  could do.   Within a few short sentences it encompasses all  the  com-
plexities of the relationship of God to man.

   Properly  to understand this sublime prayer and to be able to  render  it
understandingly and efficiently,  let us briefly state some of the teachings
given in earlier lectures.

   The Father is the highest Initiate of the Saturn Period.

   The Son is the highest Initiate of the Sun Period.

   The Holy Spirit is the highest Initiate of the Moon Period.

   The  Divine Spirit and the dense body of man started their  evolution  in
the Saturn Period and are therefore under the special care of the Father.

   The Life Spirit and the vital body started their evolution in the Sun Pe-
riod and are consequently the particular charges of the Son.

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   The Human Spirit and the desire body commenced to evolve in the Moon  Pe-
riod and are therefore the special wards of the Holy Spirit.

   The  Mind was added in the Earth Period and is not cared for by other  or
outside beings, but is to be subdued by man himself, without any outside as-
sistance.

   In the Lord's Prayer there are seven prayers; or rather,  there are three
sets of two prayers and one single supplication.  Each of the three sets has
reference to the needs of one of the aspects of the threefold spirit and its
counterpart in the threefold body.  The opening sentence, Our Father who art
in Heaven,  is merely as the address upon an envelope.   The student is  re-
ferred to the chart on page 306 for a key to this prayer,  showing  diagram-
matically the relation between the Trinity, the threefold Spirit, the three-
fold body, and the mind, each aspect of the Spirit being connected by a line
with the prayer specifically suited to its counterpart in the threefold body
and addressed to its guardian aspect in the Trinity.

   The  Human Spirit lifts itself upon wings of DEVOTION to its parents  as-
pects in the Holy Trinity and intones the opening incantation,  Hallowed  be
Thy name.

   The  Life  Spirit raises itself upon pinions of LOVE  and  addresses  the
fount of its being, The Son:  Thy Kingdom come.

   The Divine Spirit soars with superior INSIGHT to the fountain head whence
it sprang at the dawn of time, The Father,  and manifests its confidence  in
that all-embracing Intelligence in the words, Thy Will be done.

   Having thus reached the Throne of Grace, the threefold Spirit in man pre-
fers its requests concerning the personality, the threefold body.

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   The  Divine  Spirit prays to The Father for its  counterpart,  the  dense
body, Give us our daily bread.

   The  Life Spirit prays to The Son for its counterpart,  the  vital  body,
Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

   The  Human  Spirit  utters the supplication for the desire  body  in  the
words, Lead us not into temptation.

   Then  all join in a concentrated appeal concerning the mind,  Deliver  us
from Evil.

   The affix,  For thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory,  for-
ever, are not given by Christ and are not prayers.

   Looking  at the foregoing explanation from the analytical standpoint,  we
find that there are three religious teachings to be given to man in  helping
him  to attain to perfection.   One is the Religion of The Holy  Spirit  the
next is the Religion of The Son, and the last is the Religion of the Father.

   Under  the regime of the Holy Spirit the human race was divided into  na-
tions and peoples segregated by their adherence to one group from fellowship
with  other nations.   Each group was further cut off from the rest  because
speaking  another language.   They were all put under certain laws and  were
taught to reverence THE NAME of their God.  One people worshiped him as Iao,
another  as Tao,  others as Bel.   Everywhere the name of this LAWGIVER  was
holy.   The method of segregation had the advantage that the Race Spirit  in
chief,  Jehovah, could use one people to punish another who had transgressed
his law,  but it has the disadvantage that if fosters egotism and  separates
humanity  in  a manner detrimental to universal good.   It is  an  axiomatic
truth  that what does not benefit all cannot really benefit any.   Therefore
ways and means must be found to reunite the scattered nations and  weld them

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into one universal Brotherhood.   That is to be the work of the Religion  of
the  Son--Christianity.   The  warring of nations is fostered  by  the  Race
Spirit,  but the Christian Religion will eventually unit them, cause them to
beat  their swords into ploughshares and bring peace and good will on  Earth
when  THE  KINGDOM of the Son has superseded the tribes and races.   Then  a
still  higher religious teaching,  the religion of the Father,  is to  unite
mankind still closer.   In the Kingdom of the Son there will be a  Universal
Brotherhood of SEPARATE individuals having varying interests,  but ready  to
give  and take through love,  sinking individual preferences for the  common
good,  but when the religion of the Father becomes a fact in life,  the self
will be entirely submerged in a common purpose, a single will.   THE WILL OF
GOD will then be done on earth as it is in heaven, where there is neither me
nor thee, but where God is All and in All.

   In  the  meantime  a certain work has to be performed  by  the  threefold
Spirit upon the threefold body, to spiritualize it and extract the threefold
soul.

   The dense body is but an irresponsible tool, but,  nevertheless,  it is a
most valuable instrument, to be cared for and prized as a mechanic cares for
and prizes a valuable tool.  We hold firmly before out mental vision that we
are not the body, any more than the mechanic is identical with his tools, or
the  carpenter is in the house.   That is plainly evident when  we  consider
that our body is a constantly changing aggregation of cells,  while we  keep
our "I"-dentity amid and despite all the changes,  which would be impossible
if  we were identical with our dense body.   That body is to be  valued  and
cared for.  "Give us out daily bread," says the fourth prayer.  Most  people

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eat too much,  and for them an occasional fast may be good,  but fasting  is
unnecessary for those who do not feast, but live the simple life from day to
day.   When the body is over-fed, the Spirit may be ever so willing, but the
flesh will be correspondingly weak.   Therefore,  when a young Spirit  gains
ascendancy,  it  seeks to overcome the lower nature by  fastings,  tortures,
etc.,  as best explained in Hindu Yogis who emaciate the body,  causing  the
limbs to wither, etc., that the Spirit may shine.

   That  is a mistake as much subversive of true spiritual growth as is  the
habit of overeating.  As said, where a man can control his appetite and feed
his body on pure food he need not fast,  but may give to his body its  daily
bread.

   In  Asia,  where the Laws of Consequence and Rebirth are commonly  known,
and clearly enunciated, people readily see that their action will,  in time,
raise  humanity  to a state of supernal glory,  but it is necessary  to  the
evolution of accuracy of thought, whereby man will,  in time,  create,  that
his  whole  attention  should for a time be focused in  the  dense  Physical
World,  and his knowledge of spiritual matters must therefore be  curtailed.
To attain that end,  the leaders of man gave the pioneers of the human  race
the lethal drink--Wine--and they have forgotten temporarily the above.  They
have  come to look upon the present life as the only one to be  lived  here,
and are therefore at the greatest pains to make the most of it;  thus  occi-
dental  energy is conquering the material world by leaps and  bounds,  while
oriental  lassitude is looking on.   In coming ages they will also  have  to
forget for a time and follow our path of conquest.

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   But  as the Western Religion,  Christianity, does not teach how a  cosmic
law  makes haste slowly to purge man and raise him to Godhood  through  many
lives, there must be given him a compensatory teaching, or he would despair,
for  this intelligence tells him his imperfection and forces him to  realize
the  utter impossibility of spiritual attainment in a single life  which  he
is,  by force of circumstance,  compelled to devote mainly to material  pur-
suits.   Therefore, he was taught the doctrine of the REMISSION OF SINS,  by
faith  in the righteousness of the Christ, the Beacon of Light of Hope,  the
"Sun of Righteousness."

   It is self-evident that in a universe of law and truth the Great  Leaders
could  not teach a lie to save man from despair which must  inevitably  have
crushed  all spiritual effort if he had had only the teaching of the Law  of
Consequence which decrees that we reap as we have sown.  Therefore, the doc-
trine of the remission of sins must be a law in Nature as much as the Law of
Consequence; in fact, it must be a higher law as it is able to supersede the
Law  of  Consequence.   Both have a certain scope in  human  life,  and  the
Catholic  Church still teaches the scientific way of obtaining remission  of
sins  when  it encourages its members to go over the happenings of  the  day
each evening when retiring, blaming themselves for any wrong deed,  substan-
tially as has been taught in our previous lectures where,  however,  the oc-
cult  teaching is more clearly enunciated,  and the far-reaching efforts  of
this exercise are particularly set forth in Lecture No. 11.   The beneficent
action  of the Law of Consequence in purging us of evil not repented of  and
forgiven  is also enunciated in the Catholic teaching concerning  Purgatory,
though they mistake by regarding that state as a PUNISHMENT, and fail to see

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that even if there were a personal devil to torment us while there, the pain
he  would  cause in cleansing us from sin would be analogous to the  pain  a
surgeon would cause in extracting a bullet from a self-inflicted wound;  the
devil would be no more vindictive than the surgeon.

   The vital body being the storehouse of the panorama of our life,  our own
sins  and  the wrong we have suffered at the hands of others are  there  in-
scribed,  hence the fifth prayer,  "Forgive us our trespasses as we  forgive
those who trespass against us," enunciated the needs of the vital body,  and
be it noted that this prayer teaches the doctrine of the remission of  sins,
in the words,  FORGIVE US,  and the Law of Consequence in the words,  AS  WE
FORGIVE, making our attitude to others the measure of our emancipation.

   "Lead us not into temptation"  is the prayer for the desire body which is
the storehouse of energy,  and furnishes incentive to action through desire.
An oriental maxim says,  "Kill out desire,"  and the Orientals furnish  good
examples of the indolence resultant upon the attempt to do that.   "Kill out
your temper"  is the foolish admonition sometimes given those who lose their
temper.  Desire or temper is a valuable asset, too valuable to be stunted or
killed; the man without desire is like the steel devoid of temper--of no ac-
count.   In Revelation,  while the six churches are praised,  the seventh is
utterly anathematized for being "neither hot nor cold,"  a wishy-washy  com-
munity.   "The greater the sinner,  the greater the saint"  is a true adage,
for  it takes energy to sin and when that energy is turned in the right  di-
rection, it is as much of a power for good as previously it was for evil.  A
man  may  be  good  because he cannot summon up sufficient energy to be bad,

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then  he  is  so good that he is good for nothing,  like  the  Nicolaitanes.
While we are weak our desire nature masters us and may lead us into  tempta-
tion, but as we learn to control our desire nature, our temper, we may guide
it in harmony with the laws of God and man.

   The  guiding power which directs this energy of the desire nature is  the
mind,  hence the seventh prayer, "Deliver us from evil," is made with regard
to the mind.

   The  animals follow desire blindly and commit no sin.   To them there  is
not evil; that only comes to our cognition by and through the discriminating
mind  which enables man to see various courses of action and to choose.   If
he chooses to act in harmony with universal good, he cultivates virture,  if
the  contrary,  he becomes tainted with vice.   It should be noted that  the
much-vaunted "innocence" of a child is not by many means virtue.   The child
has  not  yet been tempted and tried,  therefore it is innocent.   In  time,
temptations from the desire nature will come to test its mettle,  and it de-
pends upon the control of the mind over desire whether it will stand for the
right or fall by the wayside.   If the mind is strong enough to "deliver  us
from evil" desires, we have become virtuous, which is a positive quality and
even if we fall for a time before we realize our wrong, we acquire virtue as
soon  as  we  repent and reform.  We exchange  negative  innocence  for  the
positive quality of virtue.

   Thus does the Lord's Prayer cover the various parts of the human  consti-
tution and enunciate the need of the all,  showing the marvelous wisdom laid
down in that simple formula.

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                              LECTURE NINETEEN:

                      THE COMING FORCE--VRIL! OR WHAT!

   So  much is written and spoken of the inner worlds from the occult  point
of  view,  so much stress is laid upon the fact that we possess  higher  ve-
hicles,  are capable of developing them and functioning consciously in them,
that it seems needful to emphasize at times the enormous value of the  dense
body  and of the visible world to which it correlates us,  to counteract  as
far  as may be done the disdain with which some people regard the  world  in
which we now live.

   Let us rest assured,  that there are Great and Exalted Intelligences  be-
hind evolution who order all things with a wisdom which neglects no  factor,
and  let us try to understand the aim and object of our present mode of  ex-
istence.   Then we shall soon see that all is well,  that there are good and
sufficient reasons for our placement in the present phase of concrete exist-
ence and for the limitations which result in consequence.

   We  see  that at the present time the Western World is  going  through  a
phase  of material development and many among us who are grappling with  the
things of the spirit are prone to look down upon the activities of the ordi-
nary  man with a feeling of "thank God that I am holier than you"  which  is
entirely gratuitous.

   The much despised  "Ordinary Person"  on his side looks askance at us who

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talk with glib familiarity of both heaven and hell,  but are not very up  to
date  in our knowledge of material affairs.   He has a very  strong  feeling
that it is our first and foremost duty to know something about the  material
world,  to do our duty HERE to the best of our ability before we aim to soar
into the clouds.  To emphasize his argument he will point to India where the
people  suffer death by famine yet are too indolent to work;  they think  of
"NIRVANA"  and forget present conditions.   The Ordinary Person will bid  us
look at the backward condition of these Orientals and attribute it to  their
belief in the doctrine of rebirth,  which inculcates habitual disregard  for
the present phase of existence in them.  He will then contend that spiritual
development, particularly outside the methods of the recognized churches, is
detrimental in the highest degree, and he is largely right in his assertion,
but there is also a deeper view to be dealt with later.

   To develop in a safe and a sane manner we must positively have a  correct
appreciation  of the mission of this world in the divine plan of  unfoldment
which we call evolution,  and we must do our full share of the world's work.
On  the other hand it may also be said that occult viewpoint gives a  deeper
insight and a wider scope for usefulness than the mere surface view.  Let us
therefore  examine the path of advancement in the material world  from  both
viewpoints.

   It has been stated in Lecture No. 2 that all things in this visible mate-
rial  world are crystallized thought-forms and an illustration was given  of
how an architect forms a house in his mind, of how from that thought-form he
draws the plans and the workmen build the house.   Graham Bell's imagination
crystallized  into  the  telephone,  Fulton's  to  a  steamboat, etc. But of

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course those ideas were not perfect at once;  a great deal  of  experimental 
work  was  necessary before the inventions cited were  brought to sufficient
efficiency to become useful in life.

   If  we  imagine  this world in which we live to be  a  World  of  Thought
wherein we might form IMAGES like mental pictures,  but which would  provide
no  way of concreting our images in metal or wood such as we now  use,  what
would have happened in the case of the telephone or the steamboat?   The in-
ventor would have been through with his invention in a trice, there would be
no  material condition to show the imperfections in his thought  and  conse-
quently he would not have learned TO THINK RIGHT.

   IT  IS  THE MISSION OF THE CONCRETE MATERIAL WORLD TO MAKE  OUR  MISTAKES
MANIFEST.   We are developing an enormous power within ourselves and we have
in the dense Physical World the most ideal condition for developing the req-
uisite ability to use it properly.  Apart from such ability,  and given sub-
tler conditions of matter it would work immense harm.   What is that  coming
force will be seen when a backward glance at the past development has  given
us the gauge of true perspective.

   In  the  earliest dawn of man's existence he dealt principally  with  the
SOLIDS;  his first implements were such stones, sharp or blunt,  as he found
ready at hand.  Later he commenced to trust himself to the LIQUIDS when pro-
pelling his first crude craft on water or to turn the primitive water  mill.
Still  later  he learned to use a GAS--wind--as a force  of  propulsion  for
ships and mills.

   That was an immense advancement; it brought the most distant parts of the
world  into  communication,  and  widened  the scope of man's knowledge  im-

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measurably,  but  even  the progress attained by the use of air power  fades
into insignificance before the strides we have made wince we started to  use
the more ethereal gas--steam power.   That has turned the wheels of progress
at a rate which leaves us dumb with astonishment.   Yet even the wonders ac-
complished by steam are as nothing when compared to the thousand and one im-
provements in communication and knowledge development by the utilization  of
that still finer force--electricity,  which circles the globe with a message
in  fewer seconds than the years it would have required by earlier means  of
propulsion.

   Thus we see that human progress has been accomplished by the use of finer
and  finer  forces and that each time we have learned to utilize  a  subtler
energy than heretofore used we have made a wonderful stride in civilization.

   This  view  is one we have not usually accustomed ourselves to  take;  we
usually  associate solidity and strength as if they were  synonymous  terms,
but a little observation will readily show us the fallacy of that idea.

   The waves of the sea,  which are fluid will raze the decks of a ship if a
few  moments,  twist and bent the strongest iron stanchions as if they  were
but wires.   The winds may blow the masts of a ship overboard in the twinkle
of an eye,  yet winds are but air, a gas.  Water,  a fluid,  is tearing down
the hills of Seattle, Washington, and making the city level at a rate impos-
sible  to the solid pick and shovel.  When we look at the great  locomotives
with  their  extremely heavily built trains and we  admire  their  ponderous
bulk,  do  we  ever  realize  that the reason why they have to be so solidly

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built  is  because  they  are  to be acted  upon  by  an  invisible  elastic
gas--steam?

   The  waterwheel was of no use as a power producer except when  in  direct
contact with a stationary source of energy, a waterfall.  Windpower was bet-
ter,  it could be used as a force of propulsion all over the world,  but was
fickle and uncertain.   Steam was more nearly ideal,  as it is procurable AT
WILL  almost ANYWHERE,  but required ponderous machinery to be moved  around
wherever  the force is to be used,  as best illustrated by  the  locomotive,
which  is such a movable power plant.   Electricity may be  transmitted  for
many miles by means of little wire and can be used anywhere along that line;
it may be stored, bottled in fact, and taken along; it may even be transmit-
ted from place to place without wires along the all-pervading ether.

   We  have not shown that man's progress in the past has been  accomplished
by  the  utilization of forces of increasing  subtlety--water,  air,  steam,
electricity--and that the increasing utility of each of these forces is fur-
ther enhanced by the facility with which it may be transmitted and  utilized
at  various places.   The latest advancement is the transmission  of  energy
from a central source to various points without visible material  connection
as in the wireless telegraphy.

   Having reviewed past accomplishments, it must be evident that the FURTHER
PROGRESS  OF THE HUMAN RACE DEPENDS UPON THE DISCOVERY AND UTILIZATION OF  A
YET  FINER ENERGY TRANSMISSIBLE WITH STILL GREATER FACILITY THAN  EITHER  OF
THE FORCES YET KNOWN.

   What is that new force--what will it accomplish in the advancement of the
human race--and along what  lines are we to look for its discovery?  Such is

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the natural threefold question, and we shall attempt to answer it.

   In his "Coming Race,"  Bulwer Lytton gave us an inkling of what that com-
ing force will be.   Like all other such stories it has never been taken se-
riously,  but regarded only as the fantastic imagination of a clever writer.
Jules Verne's stories met with a like attitude of admiration for this  vivid
fancy (?) upon the part of the public, yet how much in them has already been
realized?   "Around the World in Eighty Days"  is too slow for the twentieth
century globe trotter.  Submarine navigation and bird-like flights are facts
today.

   In  truth,  THE HUMAN MIND IS INCAPABLE OF IMAGINING ANYTHING THAT CANNOT
BE ACHIEVED.  That seems an extravagant statement, but it is not justifiable 
in view  of what has been done? And reverting to our main line of  argument,
something akin to the VRIL of Bulwer must be discovered before man can  take
the next great step in advancement.   True,  great and marvelous discoveries
lie  ahead of us in the further exploitation of the forces we  already  pos-
sess, but the next GREAT STEP depends upon the discovery of and the prepara-
tion for the use of the coming force.   Attempts at making the steam  engine
were made many centuries ago by the ancients before we succeeded in the lat-
ter days.   Electricity was known in a very small way also by them,  but  it
took  a  long time to ripen these ideas sufficiently to make  them  directly
available for use;  similarly, while we go ahead and exploit these forces we
know we must also prepare for the coming force and if we can find it we  may
be  able to find the means of using it the quicker.   Let us look  a  little
closer at Bulwer Lytton's Vril,  it may be that beneath the fantastic garb a
valuable clue is hidden.

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   Vril was a force generated WITHIN each of the beings of our story; it did
not depend upon outside machinery which cost money and could be had by a fa-
vored exclusive few but not by the majority; all without exception possessed
this power from birth to death.

   That  is certainly a yet higher ideal than even a central power  station.
No need for elevators when everybody levitates at will.   No need of street-
cars  or railways when everybody can move swiftly and easily by his own  in-
herent  force;  no need of ships when man can move through the  air  without
such  cumbersome contrivances as those which move upon the surface of  earth
and  water,  and see how much less resistance he will have to  overcome  who
flies  through  the air as the bird does than if forced to  depend  upon  an
aeroplane or similar contrivance.

   Like  all other forces Vril could be used as a means of  destruction;  it
was swift in that also, so exceeding care would naturally be required of one
who used it.  He must have self-control in highest degree, for if he were to
give way to temper dire disaster would surely happen.  If ever we are to use
such a force as that we can see how absolutely essential it will be that  we
be  good and kind and make no enemies.  Our lives would be in the  hands  of
others to an extent undreamt of now.

   When we look within ourselves to see if it is possible that an energy  of
that description be incipiently growing,  we cannot look very far before  we
are  forced to recognize the fact that a power having vast possibilities  in
there--Thought-power.  Our ideas take shape as mental pictures which we form
with  great facility and afterwards crystallize into material things  in  an
exceedingly  slow  and  laborious  manner as cities, houses, furniture, etc.

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All that is made by the hand of man is crystallized thought.

   Nor should we regard its present slow mode of manifestation from  thought
to  thing as an indication of its possibilities,  or allow the fact that  it
escapes  and eludes us to cause dismay.   It has been the same way with  the
other  forces  we  have already harnessed to our wheels  of  progress.   For
countless ages the waves of the ocean have wasted energy in beating upon the
seashore,  but  now  inventors are beginning to harness them  as  they  have
coupled the waterfall to the electric dynamo.   For a like period the  winds
swept  the  land and sea before man learned to use them as carriers  of  the
commerce  of the world by appropriate sailing vessels.   For ages steam  es-
caped  into the air from the camp kettles of primitive humanity before  they
learned  to concentrate its power and use it in the various industries.   In
like  manner as the steam escaped uselessly from the kettles of  olden  time
does the radiant energy of thought escape from humanity of today and as  the
steam was utilized by concentrating it,  so may also this subtler but  enor-
mously more potent thought-power be concentrated and used to do the work  of
man  with a facility impossible of imagination even by comparison  with  the
present forces,  for they are merely utilitarian, working in,  with and upon
already existing things, but THOUGHT-POWER IS A CREATIVE FORCE.

   We   know  how  dangerous  the  other  forces  are  when  harnessed   and
concentrated.   While the steam is escaping from the camper's kettle it  can
do no serious hurt.   Electricity generated by the friction of a belt or  by
rubbing a piece of amber is no danger to anyone, but when steam is generated
in  quantities and confined in a steam boiler it may burst its bonds in  the
hands of an incompetent workman and  so  may electricity under pressure in a

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wire  kill the one who ignorantly meddles with it.   Similarly we may  infer
that Thought-power misdirected or ignorantly used would have a far more  di-
sastrous effect, because it is a much subtler force.  Therefore it is neces-
sary  that  man should be placed in a school were he may learn to  use  this
enormous force in a safe and efficient manner.  and whether we realize it or
not,  the wise teachers who work unseen but potently with humanity have  al-
ready placed us in this concrete existence, the Physical World.   Whether we
know  it or not,  every day,  every hour we are here learning the lesson  of
RIGHT  THOUGHT and as we learn it, more and more we shall  become  creatures
like our Father in Heaven.

   Thus we see what a great mistake it is to despise this concrete existence
and  live in the clouds of hopes and aspirations which have to do  with  the
higher  life  and  the higher worlds to the neglect of  our  duties  in  the
present concrete material life.

   It  should be equally plain,  however,  that it is also wrong to  confine
ourselves  to  the  purely material phase of life to the  exclusion  of  the
spiritual side of our nature.  Extremes are dangerous.   If we recognize the
two poles of our being,  and endeavor to guide our material existence by the
light of our spiritual perception we shall learn the lessons so  wonderfully
provided  for us in the school of experience in a far shorter time than  re-
quired if we go to either of the extremes.

   What  are the results of the following one or the other of  the  extremes
may be seen by a comparison,  from the occult viewpoint,  of the Hindus with
the Western World.

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   As stated before,  people of a materialistic tendency in order to justify
their  aloofness from spiritual affairs will point to countries and  peoples
which are going in that direction,  particularly to India,  bid us note  the
backward state of the Hindus, the indolence of the Oriental and attribute it
to their religious trend.   Others have tried to defend them on the  grounds
that they are massed together in an arid mountainous country that is  unable
to  feed the millions that populate it and hence disease and famine are  in-
evitable.  They point to the scorching sun and the devastating floods of In-
dia  and  contrast them with our own fertile,  thinly populated  land  where
abundance is the portion of all,  and they almost imply that it is an injus-
tice on the part of God to give to one what he denies to another who is more
worthy in the opinion of such critics.

   That the condition of the Hindus is such depicted, and even worse than we
ever get to know,  is a safe assertion.   Looking at life from the  ordinary
Western standpoint of one life only, those people are really to be pitied as
victims of the caprice of an unjust God,  but when we understand the Laws of
Consequence and Rebirth and the activities carried on in the second  heaven,
we  shall readily comprehend the spiritual reason for the  different  condi-
tions of nations as well as of individuals.

   The scorching sun,  the arid condition of the soil of India,  and the de-
structive  floods are only effects produced in the material world by  causes
in the spiritual realms as are all other acts of nature and man.  There is a
spiritual explanation to every phenomenon that goes deeper to the roots than
the material facts, there is a spiritual reason for the poverty and the cli-
matic  conditions  which  cause  them  in  India  as well as there is a deep

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purpose  in our prosperity.   To get at that reason it is necessary to  keep
clearly in mind the distinction between the body and the Spirit that  inhab-
its it.   All Spirits are alike except that some have developed faster  than
others.   The Races are only bodies created by the Spirits and as a class of
Spirits  evolves it goes from race to race.   The most accomplished  do  the
pioneer work and bring the race to its highest perfection.  When that is at-
tained  they form a new race and the race bodies which they  have  discarded
are taken in turn by less developed Spirits and therefore commence to degen-
erate.   When thus, these become useless to them also, they advance and turn
the  race  bodies over to another and still lower class of  Spirits.   Under
their influence the race degenerates still further and at last,  when  there
is no Spirit so backward that it can gain experience by using the degenerate
form  any  more,  the women become sterile and the race does  out.   It  has
served its purpose.

   We of the Western nations  at one time inhabited Hindu bodies;  that  was
the time when India was in its glory, when the race was evolving both physi-
cally and spiritually. That was in the so-called GOLDEN AGE, when the sacred
writings came into existence,  when the great temples were built,  when  the
spiritual and material evolution of India was at its height.

   But man was destined to master the material world to the full;  while  he
thought  of  himself  as  a  Spirit principally  and  had  an  absolute  and
unswerving  faith in the continuity of life;  while he knew positively  that
birth  follows  death as surely as death follows birth,  he also  felt  that
there was endless time to progress in,  and therefore made only  indifferent
efforts to develop the resources of the material world.

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   Therefore it was necessary that he should forget for a time the  doctrine
of  rebirth and think of the life he was living as the only one so  that  he
might  concentrate all his efforts on making the most of  his  opportunities
for material advancement.   The way that was accomplished has been described
in the earlier lectures and more fully  in  "The  Rosicrucian  Cosmo-Concep-
tion."

   Thus  we  (the Spirits now inhabiting the Western race-bodies)  left  the
Hindu bodies and built in turn the bodies of the succeeding races, gradually
attaining   higher  and  higher  levels  of  material  development,   during
Earth-life,  and as the life in heaven between incarnations is an outcome of
a  previous life and a preparation for the next,  where we build out  future
bodies and our future country under the direction of the great Creative  Hi-
erarchies as described in Lecture No 6., we have gradually built our present
highly organized bodies; our rich and beautiful country with its magnificent
natural resources,  its propitious climate, etc.,  and are thus enjoying the
fruits of our work in previous existences in heaven and on Earth.

   The Hindu race was the first in the Aryan epoch; it has been degenerating
ever  since we left it,  is now inhabited by the most backward Spirits  born
into Aryan bodies,  and as we implanted such strong spiritual tendencies  in
them, heredity has yet preserved that trait in the Hindu bodies so that they
are more amenable to spiritual impacts than the more material bodies of  the
later  races,  yet it is not as high an order of spirituality  as  expressed
when we were in the Hindu bodies; the bodies have degenerated and the  Spir-
its are less evolved than we,  so that the race distinguishes itself more by
a highly analytical mind than by true spirituality.

   Having  retained  a  full  realization  of,  and an implicit faith in the

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doctrine  of  rebirth which the Westerner has lost  TEMPORARILY,  and  being
backward, the Hindus are naturally indolent and do not seek to improve their
physical  conditions in Earth-life nor between incarnations.   As  a  conse-
quence  the country also has degenerated with the bodies and  the  resulting
suffering has for its purpose to awaken them to the necessity of concentrat-
ing  on material things that they may learn to conquer the Earth as  we  are
doing;  they  are  to follow in our footsteps and forget for  a  time  their
spiritual being,  in order to master the important lessons of this  material
world.  Lack of worldly goods is to drive them to abandon the spiritual side
of their development and take up the material phase.   Our plenitude and ma-
terial prosperity has the opposite end in view;  it is destined to cause  in
us the nausea of satiety,  to drive us to a realization of the worthlessness
of material things,  to cause us to turn anew to the spiritual,  and in  the
degree  that  new  inventions and better means  of  distribution  make  life
easier,  will the desire for the higher life overrule the desire for worldly
success.

   Our  concentration upon material things, and our consequent worldly  suc-
cess,  has gradually given us such an impetus in the material direction than
we  are forgetting our spiritual nature as a superstitious fallacy  exploded
by scientific facts.

   Our "scientific" ultra-materialistic attitude is the very opposite to the
attitude of the Hindus and as extremes meet,  the ultra-materialism of West-
ern  thought works destructively on Western lands as Oriental indolence  has
laid waste the East Indies.   There is a connection between materialism  and
seismic and other disturbances.

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   In"The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception"a chapter has been devoted to the de-
scription of the different layers of the Earth,  so  far  as that is allowed
and possible without initiation,  Suffice it here to say that there are nine
such layers of  different  thicknesses and that the core forms a tenth part.
This is the seat of the consciousness of the Earth-Spirit.

   It  is  a  fact  that is patent to  the  occult  investigator  that  this
Earth-Spirit  feels all we do.   When in the autumn the harvester mows  down
the ripened grain,  there is a feeling of pleasure, of joy in having brought
forth,  a feeling akin to that felt by the cow when milk is taken  from  its
bursting udders by its offspring.   When flowers are plucked it is the same,
but when trees or plants are pulled out by the roots the Earth-spirit  expe-
riences pain, for the plant kingdom is to it what the hair is to our body.

   The Earth-Spirit is not affected by our acts alone, however; it feels our
mental  attitude as well.   There is one particular layer in the Earth  that
reflects our passions,  feelings,  and emotions in a most startling  manner,
and causes them to react upon us as storm, flood, and earthquake.

   Materialism causes volcanic eruptions,  and the more spiritual conditions
prevail, the more such cataclysmic events will cease to startle the World.

   That  is a statement hard to verify by the ordinary man,  and  would  not
have  been  made,  were  it not possible to  give  at  least  circumstantial
evidence of its verity.   This evidence is derived from a study of the trend
of  thought at the times when the eruptions of Vesuvius have occurred.   The
list  of  the cataclysms which have taken place in our era  begin  with  the
eruption which destroyed Herculaneum and Pompeii, where Pliny the Elder per-
ished A.D. 79; then, 203, 472, 512, 652, 982, 1036, 1158, 1500, 1631,  1737,
1794, 1822, 1855, 1872, 1885, 1891, 1906.

   There  have been 18 eruptions in 1900 years.   The first half (nine)  oc-
curred in 1600 years, during the time of the so-called "dark ages," when man

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was  ignorant and superstitious enough to believe in God and even in  elves,
fairies, and such foolishness.

   Since  the  advent of modern science has brought enlightenment  into  the
Western World,  demonstrated the superfluity of God,  and taught us that  we
are the highest intelligence in the cosmos, "that the brain is a gland which
secretes thoughts as the liver secretes bile,"  "that we talk with the  same
force  that  we  use to think,"  and much more of  the  same  nature,  these
cataclysmic reactions have been correspondingly numerous.   There have  been
nine eruptions during the 300 years since modern science has labored for our
enlightenment  as against the other nine catastrophes which occurred in  the
"dark  ages"  in 1600 years.   The first six occurred in the first  thousand
years of our era,  the last five within a period of 51 years.   If we number
the  strides taken by science in the last century,  and particularly in  the
last sixty years, the inference is obvious that as materialism increases the
volcanic eruptions become more numerous; the more it spreads the more points
on the Earth will become affected.

   The above is not to be understood to mean that science is detrimental  in
the eyes of the occultists;  it has its legitimate places as an educator  of
the human race, but where it divorces itself from religion and becomes mate-
rialistic,  as has been the case in modern times, it becomes a menace to hu-
manity.   There was a time when religion,  art,  and science were united and
taught in the mystery-temples, even so late as in Greece, but as this is the
plane of separateness and specialization, they have been purposely separated
for a time,  in order that they might attain a greater perfection than would
have been possible if they had remained united.  In  due  time they will all

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three be united again;  and then, and only then,  will we get perfect satis-
faction through the heart,  the intellect, and the senses.   The heart  will
enjoy  the religious ceremonial aspect,  the intellect will be satisfied  by
the scientific side,  and the esthetic side of man's nature will be  catered
to by the various arts as they will be employed in the temple-service of the
future.

   When  man has spiritualized his being under the influence  of  scientific
and  artistic religion of the future day he will have  learned  self-control
and have become unselfishly helpful to his fellow-being;  he will then be  a
safe guardian of the THOUGHT-POWER, whereby he will be able to form accurate
IDEAS which will be immediately fit to crystallize into useful THINGS.  This
will be accomplished by means of the larynx,  which will speak the  creative
WORD.

   All  things  in Nature were spoken into existence by the WORD  which  was
made  flesh  (John 1).   Sound or spoken Thought will be our next  force  in
manifestation,  a force that will make us creative God-men when through  our
present schooling we have fitted ourselves to use such an enormous power for
the good of all, regardless of self-interest.

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                               LECTURE TWENTY:

                       FELLOWSHIP AND THE COMING RACE

         Forth from little motes in chaos
         We have come to what we are;
         No hidden force can stay us,
         We shall climb from star to star.
         We will break away the fetters
         That have bound us heretofore--
         For the world today is better
         Than it ever was before.

   Onward,  Upward,  Forever!  is the battle cry of the  conquering  Spirit.
Ever  since "their eyes opened"  the human race has been consciously  imbued
with that divine discontent which is our means of advancement upon the  path
of evolution.   That is true of the great majority at least;  there are some
who have lagged and "kicked against the pricks," but continued prodding will
and  must eventually bring them to the goal of perfection and  reunion  with
God.  A "lost soul" is an impossible conception when we consider that we are
all a part of God,  IN whom as an actual fact "we live and move and have our
being."   We could not exist outside God,  in a hell,  and if a single  soul
were lost, that would mean that a part of God would be lost.

   But then,  it may be asked, what may be the meaning of the number of pas-
sages  which  in  the  New  Testament  speak  of "everlasting" salvation and

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condemnation?   The passages are easily understood when properly illuminated
by a directory and a knowledge of the occult teaching.

   In  the first place such meaning hinges upon the definition of  the  word
"everlasting."  Like all other words in the English Version it is translated
from  Greek.   The original word is "AIONIAN."   By referring  to  Liddel  &
Scott's  Greek dictionary it will be seen that this word has many  meanings:
"An indefinite period of time," "an age," "a lifetime," as for instance when
Paul used it in his letter to hilemon to whom he returned Onesimus,  a slave
who  had become converted,  with the words:   "For perhaps he therefore  de-
parted for a season that thou shouldst receive him FOREVER" (verse 15).  The
word "forever" is a translation of the very same word AIONIAN, which is ren-
dered  "everlasting"  in  connection with punishment or  salvation,  and  as
Onesimus and Philemon were both moral men the word AIONIAN must  necessarily
mean something different from what we usually have in mind when we say  "ev-
erlasting."   In the case cited it cannot mean a more protracted period than
part of a lifetime.

   As soon as we understand that this word does not mean ETERNITY,  but only
an age of indefinite duration, a period of time which has both beginning and
end, these passages appear in a vastly different light; instead of EVERLAST-
ING salvation or condemnation--AGE-lasting salvation or condemnation.   What
does it mean?

   In  previous lectures we have heard how man started his evolution in  the
present  dense condition in the Polarian Epoch where he made the  first  at-
tempt at the construction of a body of chemical matter.  The quality of this
body  is  inertia.  In  the  Bible he is called Adam.  The Hebrew word Admah

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means "FIRM GROUND"  and Josephus' rendering "RED EARTH"  is also illuminat-
ing,  for  that  which  was then the human body was  formed  from  the  same
chemical matter which is the FIRM GROUND today,  but at that time it was not
as solid nor as cool as the earth's crust of today.  The Earth was just com-
ing out of Chaos then and was in a red glow, later to become brilliantly lu-
minous fire mist.  In the Hyperborean Epoch that luminosity was attained and
man-in-the-making  commenced the construction of his vital body,  possessing
the power to move the dense body.

   In the Lemurian Epoch he evolved a desire body, and desire to give incen-
tive to action.  In the Atlantean Epoch the mind was added to act as a brake
on impulse.  Cunning is its inherent quality, but in our present Aryan Epoch
the Ego manifests through the mind, evolving the faculty of reason to super-
sede cunning.

   Thus,  in each of the previous ages a vehicle having a certain faculty or
quality  has  been evolved to a certain stage of completion,  just as  in  a
school the children pass onwards from grade to grade year after year, evolv-
ing  the faculty of reading,  of writing, etc.,  to a certain stage in  each
grade.

   But there are some who fail in each class every year,  there are some who
are  "weighed and found wanting"  in the requisite attainment  of  knowledge
necessary for promotion to a higher grade.   Therefore they are CONDEMNED to
remain in the same class for another year, to gain the necessary proficiency
to enter a new class and obtain more advanced instruction.

   Those  who have diligently endeavored to master their lessons  are  SAVED
from that necessity and are told to "enter into" a new class.  They have not

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attained  once  and for all;  in the new class there are new lessons  to  be
learned,  and unless each one keeps on in patient and persistent  well-doing
he will certainly be condemned when the next examination comes.

   As  in the school for children,  so in the school of life,  constant  en-
deavor is the price of promotion and in each stage there have been those who
have  lagged behind.   We of the Western World are the  pioneers,  generally
speaking,  and the other races:  brown, yellow, and black, are stragglers at
varying stages of inefficiency; nevertheless they are all advancing and they
will  sometime  reach  our  stage  of attainment  and  we  shall  have  gone
higher--if we continue to be diligent.

   To  understand  this  matter properly it is  necessary  to  differentiate
clearly  between  the  race-bodies and the Spirits who  inhabit  them.   The
pioneers  are  always  given  race-bodies  soft,   pliable,   and  flexible,
responsive  and capable of attaining a certain height in  evolution.   Under
the sway of the pioneer Spirits the race or nation evolves as far as it may,
and  when it has reached its zenith of attainment the pioneers leave  it  to
the  next class of stragglers and then commences the decline of the race  as
it is taken in turn by class after class of Spirits of increasingly inferior
abilities,  until at last it has degenerated so low that there are not Spir-
its belonging to our human life-wave backward enough to progress by birth in
such  bodies.   Then  the women cease to be  fruitful,  for  no  fertilizing
seed-atoms are deposited and the race dies out.

   Such  is the divine plan of advancement,  but here as everywhere man  has
the  equally divine prerogative of bringing disorder in nature for  a  time,

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and  so attach himself to a race that he may resist for ages the efforts  of
the  Great Leaders to help him progress,  as we shall see has been the  case
with a certain class of Spirits.

   Considering  the fact that the task of the Aryan races is to evolve  rea-
son,  and that we of the Western World are the most advanced,  it is not  at
all surprising that we analyze everything, religion included.  Religion like
all  else is in a state of growth and becoming,  and as the present work  of
the  Western World is principally along material lines its religious  teach-
ings are not yet so clearly enunciated as in some of the Eastern  religions.
The  result is that some of the investigators scoff at the Christian  teach-
ings,  and others have been led to foresake the Christian religion and  have
adopted Eastern systems.

   From the occult standpoint that is a retrogression.   The Great Recording
Angels who have charge of our present evolution give to each nation the  re-
ligion  suited  to its stage of growth, and we may rest assured  that  those
Great Intelligences make no mistakes.   They have given to us the Bible con-
taining  both the Jewish and the Christian Religions.   One would  not  have
been enough,  BOTH are absolutely necessary to our evolution as we shall see
when  we consider the matter thoroughly.   When we have done that  we  shall
also find that of all the religious systems in the world, this is positively
the only one suited to the needs of the Western World, the only one which is
capable of making us "wise into salvation" and enable us to "enter into" the
"new heaven and the new earth"; the coming age and the coming race.

   As previously stated, we evolved a dense, a vital, and a desire body dur-
ing the Polarian,  Hyperborean,  and Lemurian Epoch,  but the Spirit had not
yet drawn into its vehicles, it hovered outside much as the Group Spirits of

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the animals do,  for there was no connecting mind whereby it could link  it-
self with its vehicles.

   In  the latter part of the Lemurian Epoch there was a small part of  this
nascent  humanity  who were sufficiently advanced so that  a  germinal  mind
could  be given them and the Spirit could commence slowly to draw  into  its
vehicles.   On that account these people were different from all the rest of
the  to-be-human  beings of that time,  THEY WERE THE FIRST RACE,  a  chosen
people,  selected from the rest on account of special fitness to receive  in
germ the mind which was to be evolved during the coming Atlantean Epoch.

   There are no sudden processes in Nature, however; the Spirit did not draw
into its vehicles in a day.   It took ages,  and was not fully  accomplished
until the middle of the Atlantean Epoch.  In the meantime the mind had  also
been growing,  and for reasons more clearly given in Lectures No. 13 and 14,
it coalesced with the desire body which it ruled,  as a sort of  animal-soul
by cunning, using brain rather than brawn to further its ends.

   In  the  Polarian  Epoch  the Earth was  a  dark  heated  mass,  "without
(definite) form and void."  In the Hyperborean Epoch "God said, Let there be
light,"  and the dark mass became a luminous fire mist.  In the Lemurian Ep-
och the contact of the heated fire mist with the cold of outside space  pro-
duced  moisture,  dense water nearest the fiery core  which,  being  heated,
rushed outwards as steam to be cooled and fall back to the central source of
heat.   Thus "God divided the waters from the waters,"  the dense water from
the steam.

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   In  that  manner incrustations commenced to form in the  latter  part  of
Lemuria and upon such crust islands man lived in an atmosphere of fire-fog.

   In  the early Atlantean Epoch the Earth become fully incrusted  and  from
this damp Earth "there went up a mist from the ground and watered the  whole
face of the earth."

   This mist grew less and less dense and its extension above the surface of
the Earth diminished gradually until at last it ceased to envelop the  human
beings,  who them began to see the clear atmosphere around them at about the
same time that the Spirit had drawn fully into its vehicles.

   Again  there  were  some who had advanced further than  others  and  were
therefore "a chosen people"  to become the forbears of a people  "multitudi-
nous as the sands upon the seashore" in a "promised land."

   At  that time the mist had condensed into water which  gradually  flooded
the valley of Atlantis, situated between the present Europe and America,  so
it became necessary for "God's people"  to migrate and they were led out  of
the doomed Atlantis,  as variously related in  he stories of Noah who  first
saw  the rainbow (for that phenomenon was impossible in the foggy  Atlantean
atmosphere),  and of Moses who led "the chosen people" through the waters of
the Red Sea where Pharaoh or the wicked Atlantean kings perished.

   The chosen people were the ORIGINAL Semites,  the fifth of the  Atlantean
Races.  There were no races prior to the one spoken of in the latter part of
the  Lemurian Epoch.   In the Atlantean Epoch there were seven;  seven  more
there will have been before our present Aryan Epoch is ended and there  will
be one in the beginning of the  Sixth Epoch, which the Rosicrucians call the

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"New Galilee," a total of sixteen races.

   During Periods,  Revolutions, and other Epochs there is such an abundance
of time that the Great Leaders manage to get nearly all the spirits in their
charge through,  but during the periods in which the sixteen races are  born
and die, conditions are dense and the time of their rise and fall is compar-
atively very brief so that there is grave danger to the Spirits who may  be-
come  fettered  and  crystallized  in the  dense  race-bodies  and  fail  to
progress.   Salvation is therefore to be striven for more earnestly at  this
time,  for  the possibility of condemnation is greater during  the  Spirits'
passage through the sixteen aces than at any other time.   Therefore Occult-
ists call these races THE SIXTEEN PATHS TO DESTRUCTION,  and they are a very
serious concern to the Great Leaders of humanity.

   As the Lemurians evolved DESIRE through the desire body,  the  Atlanteans
evolved CUNNING through the mind.  We are evolving reason by the activity of
the  Ego which is the threefold Spirit acting solely through  its  outermost
veil,  the Human Spirit, and in the Sixth Epoch the Life-Spirit will implant
and ripen the faculties of INTUITION and LOVE.   Those who aspire to  become
the  pioneers  of the coming race must therefore strive to  cultivate  these
faculties within themselves.

   As  in former cases,  the breeding of a race means generation and at  the
present time that is performed through passion rather than love.   Marriages
are made for convenience, a home, or other ulterior considerations.   There-
fore so many who desire to live the higher life seek to escape marriage  and
parenthood;  which is a great mistake,  for of all people these who have be-
come imbued with a higher knowledge  are  the  best  fitted  for the duty of

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bringing  up children;  they can best control passion and perform  the  gen-
erative act from love, as a sacrifice laid upon the altar of humanity.

   In  the coming race the fellowship and this love will also extend to  our
younger brothers--the animals.  Instead of doing as we are at present, hunt-
ing,  killing,  and often tormenting them,  we shall care for them  and  win
their confidence.   Thus all the glorious prophecies will come into  effect.
Men  will  beat  their  swords  into  ploughshares  and  their  spears  into
pruning-hooks,  they will sit each one under his fig tree and eat the  fruit
thereof, there will then be peace on earth and good will among men.

   It is our privilege to help usher in that glorious age.  The age is ready
when we are.   There is no outside force to bring it about, there is not ex-
terior leader to be expected till a sufficient number have commenced to LIVE
Brotherhood.   It is vain to look for a second Coming of Christ in any other
way  than by making ourselves ready to receive Him,  for it has  been  truly
said of that coming that "the day and the hour knoweth no man."   It may  be
long or it may be short, there is no fixed time.   As we live lives of self-
ishness, indulge in passion or vice, we retard His coming, and vice versa do
we  hasten it by living lives of love that lighten the burdens and bear  the
sorrows  of others.   Only when the Christ has been formed within can He  be
perceived without, for--

         Through Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born
         And not within thyself, they soul will be forlorn.
         The Cross on Golgotha thou lookest to in vain
         Unless within thyself it be set up again.

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