Filename: RC1080.TXT
Source: "The Rosicrucian Philosophy in Questions & Answers, Vol. II"
         by Max Heindel

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                             YOUNG SOULS AND OLD:
                               QUESTION NO. 34:

   YOU SPEAK OF YOUNG SOULS.   WERE NOT ALL STARTED INTO THIS EARTH LIFE  AT
THE SAME TIME, OR DID SOME COME ON A PREVIOUS LIFE WAVE?

   ANSWER:  The detailed explanation of this great question is given in "The
Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception," particularly in the chapter on stragglers and
newcomers,  but we may say briefly that the human life wave now in evolution
on the earth comprises about six billion spirits.  At the present time about
1,500 million are embodied, so that there are about three fourths of the hu-
man life wave in the invisible worlds.   At certain periods of our  develop-
ment as many as 50 per cent inhabit the earth, clothed in the earthen vessel
of physical bodies.   It must also be remembered that in addition to  these,
which belong to the earth ray only,  there are other hosts inhabiting  Mars,
Mercury, Venus, and the other planets.

   However,  the whole vast company of Virgin Spirits commenced their evolu-
tion in our solar period at the same time in a mineral-like existence.  Dif-
ferences soon developed, however.  Some were found to be much more adaptable
than  others and they naturally progressed faster upon the path  than  their
brethren who then become stragglers.   As we advanced along the evolutionary
course the number of pioneers became smaller and smaller, and the company of
stragglers increased proportionately.

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                                  SOUL AGE:
                              QUESTION NO. 35:

   YOU  SOMETIMES  SPEAK  OF YOUNG SOULS AND OLD SOULS.   WERE  WE  NOT  ALL
STARTED IN THIS EARTH LIFE AT THE SAME TIME,  OR DID SOME COME ON A PREVIOUS
LIFE WAVE?  ARE NOT ALL THE WHITE PEOPLE OF THE SAME SOUL AGE?

   ANSWER:   Yes,  we started at the same time as the Virgin Spirits on  our
pilgrimage  of evolution,  but from the very start there were some who  were
more  adaptable to their environment than others.   Therefore from the  very
beginning  there have been some who have straggled behind in life's  school,
just  the same as we find children in our schools at the present day.   Some
are more precocious than others, and these precocious ones in life's schools
are  naturally  able to pass into phases of evolution carrying with  them  a
higher degree of consciousness than others.

   Thus the life wave which is now human has been automatically divided into
a  number  of  classes which we now see as white,  black,  red,  and  yellow
people,  and the lowest of the school are now the anthropoid apes.   On  the
other hand there are also some who have been particularly precocious and who
have  taken  higher steps in evolution than the majority of  mankind.   They
are,  comparatively speaking,  very few,  however, and we find them as  Ini-
tiates,  Adepts,  and Elder Brothers of humanity who stand at the top of the

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ladder of the human life wave.   Therefore, it is true that we have all been
on the road of evolution the same length of time,  but some have been   more
adaptable,  more diligent.  Consequently they have gathered for themselves a
greater  amount of experience.   That is what really makes the soul age,  so
that those who have attained the highest amount of knowledge may probably be
called "OLD SOULS," while those who are behind them are comparatively speak-
ing "YOUNG SOULS."  Those Spirits who inhabit the anthropoids we may say are
"SOULLESS."

                              JUDGING SOUL AGE:

                               Question No. 36:

   I SHOULD LIKE TO ASK A QUESTION REGARDING A STATEMENT MADE MY MR. HEINDEL
IN SOME OF HIS WRITINGS TO THE EFFECT THAT WHEN THE ASCENDANT IS IN ARIES IT
SHOWS THAT THE NATIVE IS A YOUNG SOUL, OR IN OTHER WORDS, AS IT WERE, IN THE
BEGINNING OF MATERIAL MANIFESTATION.  OPPOSING THIS,  MR.  HEINDEL ALSO SAYS
THAT WHENEVER THE ASCENDANT OCCURS IN SCORPIO, IT INDICATES THAT DISSOLUTION
HAS TAKEN PLACE AS A BEGINNING.

   NOW WHILE THE ARIES ASPECT INDICATES A PHYSICAL PROPOSITION,  THE SCORPIO
ASPECT LEAVES ONE  IN DOUBT.  IS THIS SCORPIO ASPECT RELATED TO THE PHYSICAL

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ALONE AND IN WHAT MANNER?  DOES DISSOLUTION FOLLOW IMMEDIATELY OR IS IT OF A
GRADUAL NATURE, FINALLY CULMINATING IN THE PASSING OF THE SIGN PISCES?

   MR.  HEINDEL ALSO STATES THAT THE CHART OF A SEVEN MONTHS'  CHILD IS DIF-
FICULT TO HANDLE IN THAT IT SEEMS OUT OF LINE WITH THE NATIVE CONCERNED.   I
AM  A SEVEN MONTHS'  EXAMPLE AND CAN VOUCHSAFE FOR THE TRUTH OF THIS  STATE-
MENT,  BUT TAKING THE FOREPART OF THIS LETTER INTO CONSIDERATION,  I AM AT A
LOSS AS TO JUST HOW I CAN RECONCILE CONDITIONS IN MY HOME AS REGARDS THE AS-
CENDANT  OF EACH MEMBER AND THE APPARENT INDICATION AND INCLINATION OF  EACH
AS OPPOSED TO MYSELF.

   ANSWER:  Even if it were true that we have made the statement you ascribe
to  us that those who have Aries on the Ascendant at birth are young  souls,
that would be no guide in your case, because you admit being a seven months'
child.  Therefore, the general principles could not be applied in your case,
but as a matter of fact we have never made such a statement.  If you look up
the  passage  to which you have reference,  you will find that  your  memory
played you a trick.   What we have said, and still, say,  is that the Spirit
is born under all the twelve signs in order that it may gain the  experience
which  comes from each and it may be taken on general principles that  THOSE
WHO  ARE BORN WITH ARIES ON THE ASCENDANT HAVE JUST ENTERED UPON A NEW  LIFE
CYCLE, A HIGHER SPIRAL ON THEIR PATH OF EVOLUTION.

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   Thus  it is evident that others in their immediate family or  environment
may have any of the other eleven signs rising and still be one or more rungs
or spirals below or above the one who has Aries on the Ascendant.  When this
is understood you will also readily realize that when a person reaches Scor-
pio,  the sign of death and dissolution, the fruits of all the  lives  under
the  various  preceding signs are beginning to ripen and dissolve,  so  that
when the Spirit progresses through Capricorn,  Aquarius,  and Pisces,  these
fruits are gradually assimilated and the seed ripens for the entrance of the
soul into Aries and the commencement of a new life cycle.

   It  should  also be understood that the number of births under  any  par-
ticular  sign  varies according to the adaptability of the  Spirit  and  the
readiness  wherewith it learns the lessons that have been set for it by  the
divine  Hierarchies.   There may be only one birth under Aries in a  certain
life  cycle and perhaps five or ten under other signs,  and vice  versa,  so
that  if  two Spirits were to enter birth under the sign Aries on  the  same
spiral  of  evolution and one were diligent in learning his lessons  in  the
school of life,  he might be promoted to the Taurus or even the Gemini class
before the other left Aries.   Then he having a particular liking for Gemini
work might speed on past the other who would be slow in the Cancer path, and
so on.   There are no definite rules.   Everything depends upon the inherent
quality of the Ego,  and  what  one  does  is no criterion whatever for what

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another may do.  Thus you cannot judge the status of any one merely by exam-
ining his Ascendant.

   There is only one method that gives an approximate solution of the  prob-
lem  and  shows what is the intention of the divine Hierarchs  concerning  a
particular  life,  and that is by comparing the relative progression of  the
Ascendant  and the Midheaven.   When you do this you will note that  one  of
them  moves  faster  than the other.   Supposing,  for  instance,  that  you
progress the horoscope of a person for forty years.  Let us say that one de-
gree of Aries is on the Midheaven and one degree of Cancer on the  Ascendant
at birth.   Suppose,  then,  that at any age of forty the Midheaven has pro-
gressed  to  Taurus  5 and the Ascendant to Leo 15.   This  shows  that  the
Midheaven has traveled 35 degrees while the Ascendant has traveled 45.   The
Midheaven denotes the spiral tendencies and opportunities in life, while the
Ascendant shows the material side.   Thus is it evident that the  opportuni-
ties placed before the Ego have been mainly material and the tendency of his
evolution in the particular life under consideration would be of the  earth,
earthly.

   But,  mark this:  the horoscope, as we have repeatedly reiterated,  shows
only tendencies, and it is quite possible for a person with such a horoscope
to determine to go his own way and cultivate all the spiritual opportunities
he possibly can.   If he has sufficient will power to do this he may  change
his  life  entirely.  Another,  who  Midheaven  progresses  faster  than his

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Ascendant,  might  find it difficult to attain material success,  but  would
have all the opportunities for soul growth he could wish placed in his path.
He  also  may determine that he will rule his stars and succeed  in  worldly
things,  but  whether he does or not depends upon the strength of  his  will
pitted against the suasion of the stars.

                     SPIRITUAL ASPECTS OF BIRTH CONTROL:

                               QUESTION NO. 37:

   WILL YOU PLEASE EXPLAIN THE ROSICRUCIAN VIEWPOINT TOWARD BIRTH CONTROL?

   ANSWER:  In the first place we should remember that there are about sixty
billion Spirits in our life wave, going the cycle of life and death,  living
part  of the time in the visible and part in the invisible worlds.   At  the
present  time there are only fifteen hundred millions of people in  physical
existence.   This is about the lowest ebb,  and that usually happens at  the
end  of  an  age.   During the million years or more since we  came  out  of
Atlantis the average has been fifty to sixty million people.  It may also be
stated  that  the  Western  people  are  the  cream  of  this evolution, and

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therefore it has fallen to our lot to grapple with the great problems  which
are always incidental to a transition stage.

   Woman has been the arbiter of the world's destiny in past  civilizations,
while man has had his way in others as is now the case.  We are now upon the
eve of a transition to a new Age where woman will again wield the scepter of
power and man will have to submit to her dictates,  but before that comes to
pass an era of equality will come.   This is called the Aquarian Age by  oc-
cultists,  and we are beginning to feel its effects since the middle of  the
last  century  when  the Sun by precession came within orb of  the  cusp  of
Aquarius.   It is, however, at the present time, still in ten degrees of Pi-
sces.   At the slow rate of travel of the equinox the Sun will not reach the
last degree of Aquarius until about six hundred years have passed.  But dur-
ing  that  time  there will of course be so many wonderful  changes  in  our
physical,  moral,  and mental status, that we are unable at the present time
to conceive what we shall be like then.

   We  who are now in the body will be followed by groups of  Spirits  still
more evolved than we,  who will bring about great reforms,  and by the  time
the people on earth at the present time are reborn about four hundred  years
of the Aquarian Age will be passed,  so that the world will be well  started
on the line development peculiar to that time.  The backward Spirits who are
born into the atmosphere of great intellectual attainment  will thereby gain

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an immense uplift on the same principle that an electric conductor which  is
brought into close proximity to a highly charged wire will automatically re-
ceive  a  charge of a lower voltage.  Thus each class or group  which  rises
helps  also to raise those who are below it in the scale of evolution.   The
matter of population,  then, is not entirely governed by individuals,  or by
manmade laws.  The divine hierarchs who guide our evolution arrange the mat-
ter  as required for the highest good for all concerned,  and the number  of
population is in their hands rather than in our own.

   This does not mean that we cannot or should not exercise birth control in
some degree as suggested by those who are responsible for that movement.  It
is  also  true that one must help people where they are and not  where  they
ought  to be.   The Rosicrucian teachings emphasize the fact that  like  at-
tracts like,  and therefore it is a duty upon the part of those who are well
developed physically, morally, and mentally to provide an environment for as
many  incoming  Spirits as their physical and financial  circumstances  will
permit.  This duty is still more binding upon those who are also spiritually
developed,  for a high spiritual entity cannot enter into physical existence
through a vile parentage.   But when a couple has reached the point where it
is  deemed either dangerous to the health of the mother to bear  more  chil-
dren,  or where the financial burden would be above their means,  then  they
should  live  a  life  of  continence,  not  indulging  the passional nature

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and seeking by artificial means to bar the way for incoming Egos to take ad-
vantage of the opportunity for rebirth offered them by the sexual indulgence
of such a couple.

   This   naturally   requires  considerable   spiritual   advancement   and
self-control.   There are few who are capable of living such a life, and one
might  as well preach continence to a stone wall as to the average  specimen
of humanity.   He cannot understand that it is necessary.   He even believes
that it would interfere with his health,  for false statements about the ne-
cessity  of exercising the natural function has led to many  deplorable  re-
sults.   Even if he could be persuaded that he ought to deny himself for the
good of his mate and the children he has already brought into the world,  he
would probably be utterly unable to restrain himself,  particularly  because
people  in  such  moderate  circumstances can usually  not  afford  to  have
separate  sleeping quarters.   Therefore it may be necessary to teach  these
people birth control by scientific means.   However,  we submit that  though
they are unable to understand the reason why continence should be practiced,
and  unable  to practice it because of lace of self-control,  THE  SPIRITUAL
TEACHINGS  SHOULD BE GIVEN REPEATEDLY so that as the steady drop  wears  the
stone, in time the coming generations will learn to depend on their own will
power  to  accomplish  the object of keeping their lower  nature  in  check.
Without  this educational feature looking towards a spiritual  emancipation,
information  concerning  physical  methods  of  limiting  the  birth rate in

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families that are overburdened is dangerous in the extreme.

   There is another phase of the matter which deserves elucidation.   It has
been said that,  "the attitude of the mother's mind just prior to the recep-
tion of the seed atom is all-important in determining what sort of child she
will  bring  into the world.   A fit of temper or violent  passion  at  this
sacred moment leaves the gateway unguarded and invites the wrong sort of en-
tity  to enter."   Besides the people in the world we see,  the whole  atmo-
sphere about us teems with different other entities who are attracted to be-
ings  of  a  like nature.   Just as musicians  congregate  in  music  halls,
sportsmen  in yacht clubs and on race tracks,  etc.,  so do  these  entities
gather  around people of a nature similar to their own.   As  drunkards  and
gangsters gather around our physical saloons, as immoral men and woman  meet
in  so-called redlight districts,  so also IMMORAL SPIRITS GATHER  AROUND  A
HOME WHERE THE PASSIONS OF THE LOWER NATURE ARE INDULGED PERHAPS MANY  TIMES
DURING THE NIGHT OR DAY.

   There  is a certain class of beings, male or female demons living in  the
ether,  who were called by the ancient alchemists incubi and succubi,  which
feed upon the passions of others.  What chance has a mother in such an envi-
ronment of attracting desirable Spirit to take rebirth through her?  And al-
though conception is almost never synchronous with the union of the parents,
but  may  take  place  at any moment with two weeks or more of that event, a

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mother  surrounded by such influences in the home is never free  from  them.
Some of the religions of some of the people we call savages require to  this
day  that the generative act be performed in the temple,  and that is as  it
should  be.   There is no more important act in life,  and instead of  being
condemned  as a shame it ought to be exalted to the dignity of  a  sacrament
and  performed under the holiest and most inspiring circumstances  possible.
Were  this  done today as in the so-called Golden Age,  we  should  find  an
upliftment and an improvement in the conditions of the world as we would not
deem possible to accomplish in centuries.

                 QUESTIONS DEALING WITH HEALTH AND HEALING:

                                  DIAGRAM 2:

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|                                                                         |    
|                         THE SEVEN WORLDS                                |   
|                                                                         |   
|                          /\                                             |   
|WORLD OF    Consisting of/  \ 7 Regions.                                 |   
|  GOD                   /GOD \                                           |   
|                       --------                                          |   
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|   
|WORLD OF    This World consists of 7 Regions and is the  abode |         |   
| VIRGIN     of the Virgin Spirits when they have been  differ- |         |   
|SPIRITS     entiated in  God  before  the  pilgrimage  through |VEHICLES |   
|            matter.                                            | OF MAN: |   
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|<<|
|WORLD OF    Consists of 7 Regions and  is  the  abode  of  the | Divine  |  |
|DIVINE      highest spiritual influence in man.                | Spirit  |  |
|SPIRIT                                                         |         |  |
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|WORLD OF    Consists of 7 Regions and is the abode of the  se- | Life    |  |
|LIFE        second aspect of the threefold spirit in man.      | Spirit  |  |
|SPIRIT                                                         |         |  T
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|  H
|WORLD OF                                                       |         |  E 
|THOUGHT:                                                       |         |   
|                                                               |         |  E
|            7th Region contains the germinal idea of  form  in |         |  G
|            mineral, plant, animal and man.                    | Human   |  O
|REGION OF   6th Region contains germinal idea of life in plant |         |  |
|ABSTRACT    animal and man.                                    | Spirit  |  |
|THOUGHT     5th Region contains germinal idea  of  desire  and |         |  |
|            emotion in animal and man; abode of 3rd aspect  of |         |  |
|            spirit in man.                                     |         |  |
|      -------------------------------------------------------------------|<<<
|            4th Region contains the archetypal forces and  the |         |  |
|REGION OF   human mind. It is the focusing point through which |         |  |
|CONCRETE    the spirit mirrors itself in matter.               |  Mind   |THE
|THOUGHT     3rd Region: archetypes of desire and emotion.      |         LINK
|            2nd Region: archetypes of universal vitality.      |      BETWEEN
|            1st Region: archetypes of form                     |         |  |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|<<<
|            7th Region: Soul-Power >--|                        |         |  |
|            6th Region: Soul-Light >--|---->>Attraction        |         |  |
|            5th Region: Soul-Life  >--|                        |         |  |
|                                                               |         |  |
| DESIRE                          |--< Interest                 |  Desire |  T
|            4th Region: Feeling<-|                             |         |  H
|                                 |--< Indifference             |         |  E
| WORLD                                                         |   Body  |    
|            3rd Region: Wishes                 >--|            |         |  P
|            2nd Region: Impressionability      >--|->>Repulsion|         |  E
|            1st Region: Passion and Low Desire >--|            |         |  R
|---------------------------------------------------------------|---------|  S
|PHYSICAL                                                       |         |  O
| WORLD:                                                        |         |  N
|                                                               | Vital   |  A
|            7th Region: Reflecting ether, memory of nature.    |         |  L
|ETHERIC     6th Region: Light ether, medium of  sense  percep- |  Body   |  I
|REGION                  tion.                                  |         |  T
|            5th Region: Life ether, medium for propagation.    |         |  Y
|            4th Region: Chemical ether, medium  for  assimila- |         |  |
|                        tion and excretion.                    |         |  |
|      ---------------------------------------------------------|---------|  |
|CHEMICAL    3rd Region: Gases                                  | Dense   |  |
|REGION      2nd Region: Liquids                                |         |  |
|            1st Region: Solids                                 |  Body   |  |
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                 PROCEDURE WITH SO-CALLED INCURABLE DISEASES:

                              QUESTION NO. 38:

   DO YOU THINK IT ADVISABLE TO ASK FOR TREATMENT IN SUCH CASES OF  CONSUMP-
TION,  CANCER, SCLEROSIS AND THE LIKE, OR SHOULD WE ACCEPT THESE DISEASES AS
INCURABLE,  THE RESULT OF SOME CAUSE IN THE PAST,  AND WAIT FOR A MORE EFFI-
CIENT BODY IN ANOTHER LIFE?

   ANSWER:   Cancer and consumption are often seemingly incurable, yet there
is always a possibility that they may yield,  and they certainly will  yield
if the force directed against them is sufficient.   Like all other  physical
manifestations they are the result of a spiritual cause,  and if we can  get
at that,  offset it with something of an opposite nature,  there is a chance
of recovery; whereas the attitude of resignation and nonassistance will cer-
tainly never bring the patient out of his condition.   Life in a  salubrious
climate,  a strong desire for health,  a hope that neither knows nor permits
of  discouragement,  and a simple nutritious diet will cure even  the  worst
case of consumption.

   As  for cancer,  no one can ever tell when the debt of destiny which  has
caused the trouble has been paid.  There are many cases on record where can-
cer  has  been  cured;  that is to say, in its milder forms.  But even in an

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advanced  stage  there is no reason for giving up hope as long as  there  is
life.  In the case of sclerosis there are several methods of curing it,  and
the patient may become as well as ever particularly if he can be brought  to
recognize  the breach of the laws of nature which caused the disease in  his
particular case.

   It is to this end that we should always labor, for whether any disease be
cured or not,  if the patient can be taught what laws have been transgressed
and how, if he can be led to see what is the spiritual cause of the disease,
and learn to walk in the way of virtue according to the laws of God, then in
the future there will be no disease for him.  It is that which we are labor-
ing for, that we may hasten the day of Liberation, and bring all mankind to-
ward the full realization of health.

                 MORPHINE AND THE POST-MORTEM CONSCIOUSNESS:

                              QUESTION NO. 39:

   WHAT  IS  THE EFFECT OF MORPHINE ON THOSE WHO ARE ADDICTED  TO  ITS  USE?
WHEN A PERSON WHO HAS BEEN VERY ILL FOR A LONG TIME, AND WHO, BECAUSE OF THE
SEVERE SUFFERING,  HAS BEEN KEPT UNCONSCIOUS BY LARGE DOSES OF MORPHINE  FOR
MANY DAYS, PASSES FROM  EARTH  LIFE  IN  THAT  CONDITION,  DOES THE RELEASED

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SPIRIT BECOME CONSCIOUS WHEN IT LEAVES THE BODY?  WHAT IS ITS CONDITION COM-
PARED TO THAT OF ONE WHO DIES SUDDENLY AND IN FULL POSSESSION OF ALL  FACUL-
TIES?

   ANSWER:  The use of morphine and other narcotics in very small doses such
as  are generally taken by the ordinary drug addict has a  deadening  effect
upon  the nerves,  so that the Spirit feels less sensitive in the  body  and
more like the freed Spirit which left the physical vehicle.  Under such con-
ditions the mental faculties are better,  and the person feels such an  ease
of  mind and body that it is like heaven itself until the reaction sets  in;
then he begins to suffer the tortures of hell,  and consequently takes  more
in order to restore his previous sense of well-being.

   When morphine is given in large doses, it produces a condition similar to
that of a person who passes out while under an anesthetic.   The writer  has
met a number of the latter,  but has never seen one who passed out under the
action  of morphine;  therefore he cannot give the direct information  asked
for.   But these people who died under an anesthetic were just as  conscious
as  the ordinary human being after the silver cord has been  severed.   They
went  through  their life panorama in about the same way as the  person  who
passes out normally, and had no different experiences.   Therefore we should
say that one who passes out under morphine probably has no  extra-unpleasant

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experience  on account of the morphine given him before his transition;  and
the first feeling would be one of great relief that he had escaped from  the
suffering  incident to severe illness preceding death of the physical  body.
This feeling of relief is common to all who have suffered, no matter whether
consciously or unconsciously.   They are all exceedingly grateful that  this
is past,  and can scarcely realize that there is no sickness in the land  of
the living dead to which they go after leaving this world.

                             IDIOCY AND INSANITY:

                               QUESTION NO. 40:

   ARE  DOCTORS JUSTIFIED IN ALLOWING A CHILD TO DIE THAT IS BOUND TO BE  AN
IDIOT  AND  PHYSICALLY HELPLESS WHEN AN OPERATION WOULD ENABLE IT  TO  LIVE.
DOES  AN  IDIOT OR AN INSANE PERSON GAIN ANY WORTH-WHILE  EXPERIENCE  DURING
LIFE?   IS THE EGO WITHIN AWARE OF THE PHYSICAL DISABILITY OF THE  MIND  AND
BODY DURING SUCH A LIFE, AND DOES IT LEARN THEREBY?  CAN INSANITY BE CLASSED
AMONG THE HEREDITARY DISEASES?

   ANSWER:   Suppose a child met with an accident while playing,  a blow  on
the  head,  and  hence  became abnormal,  or perhaps was put into a state of

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coma; no one would hesitate for a moment to have the operation of trepanning
performed  so that by taking the pressure off the skull from the  brain  the
child  might  be restored to its normal state of  consciousness.   They  why
should  a weak-minded child not receive the same care,  and have  everything
done  for it that is possible?   It would be considered criminal to allow  a
normal child to die for lack of care, and it is just as indefensible in  the
case of a child born to be an idiot,  for when the Ego has gone through  the
womb in order to gain the experiences of this physical life,  we are in duty
bound to support its efforts in every possible manner.

   The Ego does gain experience by a life of insanity, for the Ego itself is
never insane.   It is improper connection between its various vehicles,  the
mind,  desire body, vital body, and dense body, which makes insanity.   When
the connection between the brain centers and the vital body is imperfect, we
have  what  is called the idiot,  often melancholy but  generally  perfectly
harmless.   When the faulty connection is between the vital body and the de-
sire body,  the conditions are somewhat similar, but include the class whose
muscular control is defective, as in epilepsy., St Vitus dance,  etc.   When
the connection is broken or faulty between the desire body and the mind,  we
have a raving maniac who is violent and dangerous.   And when the connection
is  defective  between the Ego and the mind,  we have what we might  call  a
soulless  man,  the  most  dangerous  of  all, gifted with a cunning that is

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usually at some unexpected time put to a most diabolical use.

   If we consider the body, or the different bodies,  as musical instruments
upon which the Ego is playing, then when every connection is perfect the Ego
can bring out more or less beautiful symphony of life according to its state
in evolution.  But when the connections are faulty or broken the Ego is like
a musican forced to exercise his talent with an instrument lacking a  number
of  strings,  and he is therefore unable to bring out anything but  discord.
To the musician it would be torture to be forced to play on such a defective
instrument;  and it is the same with the Ego which is immured in a body  cut
off from its normal control.   For reasons to be sought in past lives it  is
forced  to stay with a body that it cannot control,  and it suffers more  or
less  acutely  according to its stage in evolution;  thus,  however,  it  is
learning a certain lesson in the school of life which is required to make it
perfect.   It is a sad condition,  but though a lifetime appears to be  very
long, it is but a fleeting moment in the unending life of the Spirit; and we
may console ourselves with the knowledge that when such an Ego comes back to
earth  it  will have a normal body, provided of course that the  lesson  has
been learned.

   With  respect to the last part of the question as to whether insanity  is
hereditary,  we may answer in the affirmative or the negative  according  to
which  phase  of  the  problem we are considering.  From the spiritual point

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of view it is not hereditary for,  as already stated,  insanity is not a de-
fect in the Ego.  Because of a twist in its character it cannot build a nor-
mal body, hence by association it is drawn to a family that is similarly af-
flicted.   This is on the very same principle that people of like  character
always  seek  one another's company;  as the old saying goes,  "birds  of  a
feather flock together."  Musicians congregate in music halls,  at concerts,
and similar places.   They also seek birth in families of musicians  because
there the instruments needed,  long slender fingers and an ear in which  the
semicircular canals are properly placed,  can be obtained,  which will  give
them the ability to express music.  Sporting men and gamblers flock together
at race tracks and in gambling dens.  Thieves have their resorts, and so on.
Similarly,  those with a certain defect in their character are attracted  to
families which have the same defect.  Hence if we view the problem of insan-
ity from the form side, it may be said that it is hereditary.

   Scientists  who  view the matter entirely from the form side are  of  the
opinion  that by limiting the reproduction of defectives they may stamp  out
disease.   But just as the soft juices of the snail's body are gradually set
out  and  crystallized into the hard and flinty shell it  carries  upon  its
back,  so it is also the acts of the Ego which gradually  crystallize  them-
selves into a body wherein the Spirit must dwell until they are worked  out.
Relief will never be obtained  by  working  with  and upon the physical body

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alone,  any  more  than operating upon the shell would cure  a  sick  snail.
Emerson  said truly that "a sick man is a scoundrel who has been found  out,
breaking the laws of nature."   The insane are in that category,  and if  we
wish to cure them we must use spiritual means of education.  All other meth-
ods are simply palliative; they do not reach the source of the disease.

                            EFFECTS OF AMPUTATION:

                              QUESTION NO. 41:

   WHEN  AN ARM OR A LIMB IS AMPUTATED DOES THAT EXIST INDEPENDENTLY IN  THE
DESIRE WORLD AFTER THE AMPUTATION?  AND AFTER DEATH DOES A PERSON APPEAR MI-
NUS A HAND OR FOOT IN THE DESIRE WORLD?   I HAVE KNOWN PEOPLE TO SUFFER PAIN
IN A LIMB LONG AFTER AMPUTATION, EVEN YEARS.  HOW IS THIS ACCOUNTED FOR?

   ANSWER:   When  an arm,  limb,  or any organ has been  removed  from  the
physical body by any means of a surgical operation,  only the dense part  of
the organ permeated by the planetary ether is taken away.   The four  ethers
which  constitute the vital body of the man or woman thus operated upon  re-
main; but there is a certain magnetic connection  between  the part decaying

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in  the  grave  and  the  etheric counterpart which remains with the person.
Therefore,  he or she feels the pain and suffering in the part  removed  for
some time after an operation,  until decay has taken place,  and the etheric
counterpart has disintegrated.

   You  will find some interesting cases demonstrating this point  and  some
further teaching on this matter in the COSMO.   When a person who is injured
passes into the invisible realm, he thinks with the same mind, pictures him-
self there as he was in this world.   Consequently a scar on the forehead or
the loss of an arm or limb is reproduced by his thought in the matter of the
Desire World and he appears there disfigured as he was here.

   In  the  World War this was very noticeable,  for all  the  soldiers  who
passed  out with wounds which they could see and which they knew how to  de-
termine the effect of, reproduced these wounds in their desire bodies.  They
felt pain similar to what they would have felt if they had still been in the
physical body,  because they fancied that there must be pain connected  with
it.   However,  they were very quickly assisted by one another and by  those
who  had  been helped by the Elder Brothers to see the matter  right:   that
there was no actual pain.   As soon as they were convinced that their wounds
were but illusions and taught that they could shape their bodies in the nor-
mal and health state, they could quickly remedy the condition.

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                         DESTROYING SICK VIBRATIONS:

                               QUESTION NO. 42:

   THE  FOLLOWING  IS SENT IN BY A DOCTOR OF OSTEOPATHY:   AT  THE  TIME  OF
TREATMENT CAN ONE DESTROY SICK VIBRATIONS SO THAT THEY WILL NOT RETURN AFTER
TREATMENT?

   ANSWER:  If we read between the lines of this question we shall sense two
very  common difficulties in the practice of Osteopathy and kindred  methods
of treatment by the laying on of hands.   In this process there are two dis-
tinct  operations.   One is taking away from the patient something  that  is
poisonous and injurious,  provocative of disease; and there is also a giving
out of vital force by the doctor himself or herself.  Everybody who has done
any work of this kind knows this because it has been felt and is felt by ev-
erybody  who is successful.   Now,  unless the doctor or healer is  bubbling
over with radiant health, two things are liable to happen:  either the human
miasma taken away from the patient may so overwhelm him or her that,  to use
a common expression,  "he takes on the condition" of the patient,  or he may
give  too much of his own vital force,  and thus become  entirely  depleted.
Both  of these conditions may combine,  and then there comes a day when  the
physician or healer finds himself or herself run down and forced to rest up.

   Magnetic healers who are frankly unscientific,  often  escape  the first-

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mentioned condition by "throwing off the magnetism,"  as they say,  but  all
are liable to be run down.   That is something that nobody can escape,  save
one who can see the etheric effluvia he takes and the vital fluid he  gives.
Most people are vampires when they are sick,  and the stronger and more  ro-
bust they are ordinarily,  the worst they are usually when sickness has  put
them in bed.   I have never been so sick as I was after treating a giant who
was  suffering from intense inflammation of the kidneys and had been in  bed
from this cause for more than two weeks.   It was dreadful to see his agony,
and I gave myself wholly,  with the result that I was prostrated.   The  pa-
tient,  however, was up the next morning and as well as ever.  He had my vi-
tality,  I had his disease, or at least the effluvia from it, and it took me
three days to get rid of it.  That was, of course,  before I was able to see
spiritually.

   Since  then I have gained considerable knowledge in this department,  and
the  questioner will find the following hint of value in keeping away  these
undesirable  conditions:   First,  fix your thought firmly in such a  manner
that  you will not allow this miasmatic effluvia which leaves the  patient's
body to enter your body farther than the elbow; second,  when you are giving
treatment  leave the patient once in a while and wash your hands in  running
water if possible;  but at any rate wash in water,  and change the water  as
frequently  as  possible.   The water has a twofold effect.   In  the  first
place, the effluvia leaving the patient's body  has  an  affinity for water.

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In the second place, the moisture which stays upon your hands enables you to
get  the  miasma  from the patient in a larger measure  than  you  otherwise
would.

   This is on the very same principle that if you take the electrodes of  an
electrical battery and put them into water, you will find the effect of  the
electricity is many times intensified if you try to touch the water.

   So  also with yourself:   you are the electric battery in the  case,  and
your hands being moistened,  the miasma will be drawn to yourself in a  much
greater measure than otherwise.   If conditions are such that you cannot get
water you may try to throw off the magnetism, but then it is necessary to be
careful,  because when the magnetism is thrown away from you it is attracted
to the earth because it is subject to gravity.   To the spiritual vision  it
is a dark or rather a black, jelly-like fluid.  It lies shimmering and shiv-
ering  on  the floor.   If now the patient gets up relieved from  the  couch
where the treatment has been given,  and goes over the place where this mag-
netism has been thrown away, then the miasma will reenter the body and he or
she  will  be in a worse condition that before you  started  the  treatment.
Therefore, it is the best policy to throw such  miasma out of the window, or
better still, put it into a fireplace and then set fire to it.

   From the foregoing,  it is evident that this laying on of hands is  some-
thing that should not be done indiscriminately by any one who  has  not been

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trained  in  one of the many properly schools of  Osteopathy,  Chiropractic,
etc.   In the School of the Rosicrucians, Probationers who live worthy lives
are trained under the special guidance of the Elder Brothers.

                              QUESTION NO. 43:

                         DESTROYING DISEASE PRODUCTS:

   AT THE TIME OF TREATING A PATIENT, CAN ONE DESTROY THE VIBRATIONS OF DIS-
EASE SO THAT ONCE THEY HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM THE PATIENT THEY DO NOT RETURN
AFTER THE TREATMENT IS OVER?

   ANSWER:   We suppose you refer to magnetic treatment for disease,  and we
may  say that this method of healing consists wholly in removing  vibrations
of disease by absorption into the body of the healer,  who must have  suffi-
cient  vitality  to throw them off himself or he will become  ill  in  turn.
This  has been explained before in our literature,  but perhaps  taking  the
subject up from another angle may not prove uninteresting or uninstructive.

   When one looks with the spiritual sight at a person who is diseased,  the
patient's vital body looks thin and emaciated in proportion  to  the ravages

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made by the disease.   There are no radiating lines from it as when the body
is  in health,  but a sickly emanation which curls up in eddies and  spirals
that  hand close to the dense body.   Instead of being pinkish-purple it  is
usually  a dull grey in most places, and the part that is particularly  dis-
eased is enveloped in something which resembles a mass of black jelly.  That
is  what we might call the vibrations of disease,  and at the time when  the
person receives a magnetic healing treatment it is this black poisonous mass
which  is absorbed into the hands of the healer.   When he or she throws  it
off by a vigorous movement of the arms it sinks to the floor.   Then if  the
patient  happens  to step close to that place where it lies he or  she  will
reabsorb it.   Therefore, it has always been the writer's practice to either
throw these emanations out of the window or into a fire place where they may
be burned.  They they can do no harm.

   But  while we are upon this subject it may be well to bring home  another
phase of this matter and the method of healing.  So long as an organ is dis-
eased  it generates this poison stuff which hangs about it and prevents  the
currents of the vital body from coarsing through it.  What a magnetic healer
does  is simply to cleanse this organ for the time being and thus  he  opens
the  way for the influx of life-giving and health-promoting  currents.   The
relief is usually only temporary,  for the weak and diseased organ continues
to generate the poison "miasma," as we call it, so that shortly  it requires

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another  cleansing by the magnetic healer.   This continues until the  vital
currents  finally become sufficiently strong to over- master and  throw  off
the poison stuff and cleanse the organ themselves.  Then health returns.

   The  osteopathic physician goes at the matter from the opposite angle  by
manipulation of the nerves for the vital currents.   This strengthens  these
currents  and they begin to scatter the miasma in the diseased part  of  the
body.  However, it usually requires a number of treatments from him also be-
fore  health  is restored,  because the poison miasma blocks up  the  nerves
again shortly after he has ceased manipulations.   Therefore,  it would seem
to the writer,  though he has never tried it,  that a combination of the two
methods:   opening up the nerve currents and strengthening them by means  of
osteopathic treatments,  at the same time removing the poison miasma by mag-
netic healing,  being careful either to burn or otherwise dispose of the ef-
fluvia, ought to facilitate the treatment of disease wonderfully.

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                              HEALING THE SICK:

                               QUESTION NO. 44:

   HOW  DOES AN INITIATE HEAL THE SICK?  BY INVOCATION OF A HIGHER POWER  OR
CONCENTRATION OF HIS OWN?  IS THERE ANY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE FIRST AND THE
LAST METHOD?  IF SO, WHAT IS IT?

   ANSWER:  As the question stands it is difficult to answer.  While we know
certain methods of healing,  we also believe that the choice is a matter  of
temperament,  and the different methods of healing are probably used at dif-
ferent times by all Initiates as the occasion demands.  We know that on cer-
tain occasions the Christ addressed Himself to the Father when performing  a
cure.  At other times when He was in a crowd and someone touched Him, He ob-
served  that the virtue had gone out from Him and doubtless healed  the  one
who had drawn the force from Him.   All who have followed in His steps  have
no  doubt  varied  their methods to suit the occasion.   But  in  the  final
analysis  the healing power is the same, for it emanates from our Father  in
heaven  who is the Great Physician,  and each Initiate or healer absorbs  as
much  of His divine power as he is capable of containing,  giving it out  as
required to each suffering one that comes before Him.

   If you look up the article "How We heal the Sick"  in the Healing Depart-
ment of "Rays from the Rose Cross" for September, 1915, you will  find there

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a  description  of our method which will throw considerable light  upon  the
subject.   (See page 105 of Occult Principles of Health and Healing.)  There
is also in the same magazine an article by Stuart Leech,  M.D.,  showing how
he saved himself the necessity of performing a surgical operation by  visit-
ing  the patient at night when he was out of his body,  materializing  hands
within the body of the patient,  and straightening out the trouble,  so that
the  next morning the patient was cured beyond the necessity of  having  the
knife applied.   This will probably make it clear that there is considerable
scope and latitude to the Initiate and Invisible Helper in dealing with  the
morbid conditions of the body.  As said before,  the healing balm comes from
our Father in heaven, and no matter who does the work or what method he uses
to bring health to the ailing, the glory and honor belong to God alone.

                          REMOVING DISEASED ORGANS:

                               QUESTION NO. 45:

   WHEN  WE  ARE AFFLICTED IN THIS LIFE AND HAVE A SURGICAL  OPERATION  PER-
FORMED AND THE DISEASED ORGAN REMOVED,  DOES THAT HEAL US PERMANENTLY OR  DO
WE RETURN IN A FUTURE BODY WITH A SIMILAR AILMENT?

   ANSWER:   Christ said:   "As a man thinketh in his heart so is  he,"  and
this  covers  the matter thoroughly when taken in its  widest  significance.
When  we enter the invisible realms after death and during  the  post-mortem
state undergo the purgatorial and First Heaven experiences, all our vehicles
are gradually dissolved, and we enter the Second Heaven where we commence to
create the environment of our new existence.   When that task has been  com-
pleted we enter the Third Heaven where only a very, very few have conscious-
ness  as yet.   Hence,  forgetfulness of all that has gone before wipes  the
slate  clean and we take with us only the quintessence of our  past  experi-
ences  as faculties when we reenter the Second Heaven on our way toward  re-
birth  and mould the archetype of our coming physical body with the help  of
the Recording Angels and their agents.

   To make the point clear let us remember that during childhood days we  go
through the most dreadful contortions in learning to write.   The letters we
form are grotesque in the extreme,  but by and by in the course of time with
persistent effort we acquire the faculty of writing a legible hand.  Then as
the  years pass by we forget our difficulties in learning to write  but  the
faculty remains with us.   Similarly,  the embodied Spirit forgets all  that
has gone before, but the faculty of doing certain  things  remains  with it.

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Therefore,  it is has formed a body weak in a certain place in one life  and
has suffered the pain incident to that weakness and disease, even to the re-
moval of an organ, we may be very sure that though the event will be forgot-
ten  in  a  coming existence the Spirit will remember the fact  when  it  is
moulding  the  archetype and coming to rebirth.   It will then  endeavor  to
build a better organ so that it may save itself the pain which it endured in
a previous life and thus, instead of perpetuating the diseased organ,  it is
very  safe to say that an organ that was diseased in one life will be  sound
in the next.  Gradually mankind is thus learning by past mistakes to build a
better and sounder body.

   To take another illustration,  we may consider how an architect would act
who had built a house and by living in it found certain discomforts.   If he
sold this house and built himself another, he would remember the discomforts
he had in his previous dwelling and endeavor to build a house that would  be
free from those inconveniences.   Then perhaps he would find other  develop-
ments that were not to his taste in the new house and on selling that  would
build  a third house that would be better than the two previous and  so  on.
We may infer that the case is similar with the house of the Spirit which  it
builds  anew in each life.   Oliver Wendell Holmes put that so very  beauti-
fully in the last verse of his "Chambered Nautilus,"  which had built larger
and larger chambers as it grew and finally had left the outgrown shell.   He
says:

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   "Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
    As the swift seasons roll.
    Leave thy low vaulted past!
    Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
    Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
    Till thou at length art free,
    Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea."

                             REMOVING THE SPLEEN:

                               QUESTION NO. 46:

   THERE  HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO MY NOTICE A CASE WHERE A WOMAN HAD BEEN  OPER-
ATED  UPON AND THE SPLEEN REMOVED.   ACCORDING TO THE ROSICRUCIAN  TEACHINGS
THE SPLEEN IS THE ENTRANCE GATE OF THE SOLAR FORCES WHICH VITALIZE THE BODY,
AND IN THE ETHERIC COUNTERPART OF THAT ORGAN THE SOLAR ENERGY IS  TRANSMUTED
TO  A VITAL FLUID OF A PALE ROSE COLOR,  WHICH FROM THENCE SPREADS ALL  OVER
THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.   WE ALSO LEARN THAT THE RAYS OF THE SUN ARE TRANSMITTED
EITHER DIRECTLY OR REFLECTED BY WAY OF THE PLANETS,  OR BY WAY OF THE  MOON.
THE  DIRECT  RAYS FROM THE SUN GIVE SPIRITUAL ILLUMINATION,  THOSE  RECEIVED
FROM THE PLANETS PRODUCE INTELLIGENCE, MORALITY, AND SOUL GROWTH.  IN A CASE
LIKE THE ABOVE DESCRIBED, WILL THE ETHERIC COUNTERPART CONTINUE  TO  PERFORM

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ITS WORK AFTER THE DENSE ORGAN HAS BEEN REMOVED,  OR WILL IT DISINTEGRATE AS
DOES  THE ETHERIC COUNTERPART OF AN ARM OR LEG THAT HAS BEEN AMPUTATED,  AND
IF SO WHAT IS THE EFFECT UPON THE PERSON SO OPERATED ON?

   ANSWER:   You are right in your statement of the  Rosicrucian  Teachings,
except where you say that the solar energy is transmuted in the spleen to  a
pale  rose colored fluid.   The spleen is the gate of the solar forces,  but
the transmutation you speak about takes place in the solar plexus, where the
prismatic seed-atom of the vital body is located.

   With  respect to what takes place after the spleen has been  removed,  it
will help us to recall that the physical body accommodates itself so far  as
possible  to altered conditions.   If a wound in a certain part of the  body
makes it impossible for the blood to flow in the normal channels,  it  finds
another set of veins by which it may take its circuit.   But an organ  never
atrophies  so long as it can serve any useful purpose.   It is similar  with
the vital body composed of the ethers.  When an arm or a limb has been ampu-
tated,  the etheric counterpart of that member is no longer required in  the
economy of the body, therefore it gradually wastes away.  But in the case of
an  organ  like the spleen where the etheric counterpart  has  an  important
functions as gateway for the solar energy,  naturally no such disintegration
will take place.

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   It  should  also  be remembered that whenever disease  manifests  in  the
physical  vehicle  that part of the vital body has first  become  thin,  at-
tenuated, and diseased, and it was its failure to supply the necessary vital
energy  that  caused the manifestation of physical symptoms  of  ill-health.
Conversely,  when health returns, the vital body is the first to pick up and
this convalescence is then manifested in the dense body.  Therefore,  if the
physical  spleen is diseased,  it is a foregone conclusion that the  etheric
counterpart is also in subnormal health,  and the wisdom of removing the or-
gan is doubtful.   However, if it is done, the body will seek to accommodate
itself to the new conditions and the etheric counterpart of the spleen  with
continue to function as before.

                             INVISIBLE HELPERS:

                              QUESTION NO. 47:

   WHEN ONE WHO HAS BEEN WORKING UNCONSCIOUSLY AS AN INVISIBLE HELPER LEAVES
THE BODY AT DEATH,  WILL HE RECOGNIZE THOSE IN THE SPIRIT WORLD WITH WHOM HE
HAS BEEN WORKING AT NIGHT, OR WILL THOSE EXPERIENCES LEAVE NO RECORD?

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   ANSWER:   The experiences of an Invisible Helper who works  unconsciously
in the invisible worlds during the time when the body is asleep may be  lik-
ened to a dream which he does not remember upon awakening.  However, the ex-
periences are nevertheless stored in the seed atom and will form part of the
panorama of life,  so that when he leaves the body at death he will see  all
that has happened to him,  awake or asleep, during the time when he lived in
the body.   Thus his recollection of what has happened will not be quire the
same as if he had gone through it consciously,  but he will nevertheless ob-
tain  from the life-panorama a knowledge and an idea of what has been  done.
thus,  though  he  will not have the same feeling as if he  had  been  going
through the experience consciously,  he will soon adjust himself to  believe
and understand that what seemed a dream is nevertheless a perfectly true ex-
perience.

                        PROTECTION AGAINST VAMPIRISM:

                              QUESTION NO. 48:

   I  HAVE  ALWAYS  BEEN  WEAK AND ANEMIC,  AND I  FIND  THAT  OTHER  PEOPLE
VAMPIRIZE  MY  STRENGTH.  MUST  I  STOP  HELPING PEOPLE BY CONCENTRATING FOR

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THEM,  OR CAN YOU GIVE SOME SAFE METHOD OF PROTECTION?   I KNOW  OF  SEVERAL
PEOPLE WHO WOULD BE HELPED BY YOUR ANSWER.

   ANSWER:   If  you  will  study what is said on pages 89  and  90  in "The
Rosicrucian  Cosmo-Conception" about the way thoughts are generated  in  the
mind and then projected upon others to do their work, you will learn a great
deal concerning the science of concentration and how to do the work you  are
trying  to perform for humanity.  Incidentally,  you will  probably  realize
that  the thought forms you send out for the purpose of helping others  take
away only a small part of your own desire body which is immediately replaced
by  desire stuff of an even higher grade than that sent out,  owing  to  the
high  rate of vibration always generated by unselfish effort.   However,  it
takes nothing away from your vital body and it is upon the condition of this
vehicles that your physical health depends.

   Thus you  are never vampirized by concentrating upon anyone else when you
yourself are alone,  but it is the contact with other people that is apt  to
hurt  you if you are in a weakened condition.   If you are at all  sensitive
you  probably know who draws upon you,  and while walking and visiting  with
such  people it is best if possible to keep a few feet away from  them.   If
you are sitting in a room with them and talking with them,  cross your limbs
at the ankles and fold your hands.  Then  you form a magnetic circuit on the

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floor or ground your are in magnetic rapport with any person who happens  to
be near you.

   These measures are,  however, only precautions which you may use with ad-
vantage until you get yourself in hand.  That should be your first consider-
ation,  for it is useless to apply palliative treatments to the effect while
the cause is still thee.  According the the conditions we get from your let-
ter you need iron and ether.  If it is possible for you to get milk directly
it has been milked from the cow that will be a wonderful help to you, for at
that time the milk is surcharged with the healthy animal ether.   However if
you cannot get it that way there are other means.

   Relative to their size,  the plants have the strongest vital bodies  com-
posed  of the two lower ethers,  which have to do with the  assimilation  of
physical nutriment.   Therefore, green vegetables even though they have been
in  the market for some time are surcharged with ether.   Lettuce,  spinach,
tomatoes,  and strawberries are among the plants which abound in  iron.   If
you will refrain from cooking,  merely putting them in water an hour  before
meals  to make them crisp,  you will in a short time increase the  ether  in
your  body and the iron in your system.  The you will  not be anemic and  in
danger of vampirism.

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