1917_03_Mar Rays From the Rose Cross

VOL 6 OCEANSIDE, CALIFORNIA MARCH, 1917 NO. 5

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WE ARE told in the gospels whichrelate the story of the ChristianMystic Initiation, how on the nightwhen Christ had partaken of the LastSupper with His disciples, His min-istry being finished at that time, He rose from the tableand girded Himself with a towel, then He poured waterinto a basin and commenced to wash His disciples feet,an act of the most humble service, but prompted by animportant occult consideration.

Comparatively few realize that when we rise in thescale of evolution we do so by trampling upon the bod-ies of our weaker brothers, consciously or unconsciouslywe crush them and use them as stepping stones to attainour own ends. This assertion holds good concerning allthe kingdoms in nature. When a life-wave has beenbrought down to the nadir of involution and encrusted ina mineral form, that is immediately seized upon byanother slightly higher life-wave, which takes the disin-tegrating mineral crystal, adapts it to its own ends ascrystalloid and assimilates it as part of a plant form. Ifthere were no minerals which could thus be seized upon,disintegrated and transformed, plant-life would be animpossibility. Then again, the plant-forms are taken bynumerous classes of animals, masticated to a pulp,devoured and made to serve as food for a higher king-dom. If there were no plants, animals would be an impos-sibility. The same principle holds good in the spiritualevolution for if there were no pupils standing on thelower round of the ladder of knowledge and requiringinstruction, there would be no room for a teacher. Buthere there is one all-important difference. The Teachergrows by giving to his pupils and serving them. Upontheir shoulders he steps to a higher rung on the ladder ofknowledge. He lifts himself by lifting them, but, never-theless, he owes them a debt of gratitude, which is sym-bolically acknowledged and liquidated by the foot-wash-ingan act of humble service to those who have servedhim.

When we realize that nature, which is the expressionof God, is continually exerting itself to create and bringforth, we may also understand that whoever kills any-

thing, be it ever so little and seemingly insignificant, is tothat extent thwarting Gods purpose. This applies partic-ularly to the aspirant to the higher life and therefore theChrist exhorted His disciples to be wise as the serpentsbut harmless as doves notwithstanding. But no matterhow earnest our desire to follow the precept of harmless-ness, our constitutional tendencies and necessities forceus to kill at every moment of our lives, and it is not onlyin the great things that we are constantly committingmurder. It was comparatively easy for the seeking soul,symbolized by Parsifal, to break the bow wherewith hehad shot the swan of the Grail-knights when it had beenexplained to him what a wrong he had committed. Fromthat time Parsifal was committed to the life of harmless-ness, so far as the great things are concerned. All earnestaspirants follow him readily in that act once it hasdawned upon them how subversive of soul-growth is thepractice of partaking of food which requires the death ofan animal. But even the noblest and most gentle amongmankind is poisoning those about him with every breath,and being poisoned by them in turn, for all exhale thepoisonous death-dealing carbon dioxide and we aretherefore a menace to one another. Nor is this a far-fetched idea; it is a very real danger which will becomemuch more manifest in course of time when mankindbecomes more sensitive. In a disabled submarine, orunder similar conditions where a number of people aretogether, the carbon dioxide exhaled by them quicklymakes the atmosphere unable to sustain life. There is astory from the Indian mutiny of how a number of Englishprisoners were huddled into a room in which there wasonly one small opening for air. In a very short time theoxygen was exhausted and the poor prisoners began tofight one another like beasts in order to obtain a placenear that air inlet until all had died from the struggle andasphyxiation. The same principle is illustrated in theancient Atlantean Mystery Temple, the Tabernacle in theWilderness, where we find a nauseating stench and a suf-focating smoke ascending from the Altar of BurntOffering, where the poison-laden bodies of the unwillingvictims sacrificed for sin were consumed and where thelight shone but dimly through the enveloping smoke.

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The Christian Mystic InitiationTHE FOOTWASHING

This we may contrast with the light which emanatedclear and bright from the seven-branched candlestick,fed by the olive oil extracted from the chaste plant andwhere the incense symbolizing the willing service ofdevoted priests rose to heaven as a sweet savor which, aswe are told in many places, were pleasing to Deity, whilethe blood of the unwilling victims, the bulls and thegoats, were a source of grief and annoyance to God, Whodelights mostly in the sacrifice of prayer, which helps thedevotee and harms no one.

It has been stated concerning some of the saints thatthey emitted a sweet odor and as we have often had occa-sion to say, this is no mere fanciful story, it is an occultfact. The great majority of mankind inhale during everymoment of life the vitalizing oxygen contained in thesurrounding atmosphere and at every expiration weexhale a charge of carbon dioxide, which is a deadly poi-son and would certainly vitiate the air in time if the pureand chaste plant did not inhale this poison, separate itfrom the oxygen, use it to build bodies that last some-times for many centuries or even millennia, as instancedin the Redwoods of California, and give us back the pureoxygen we need for our life. And these carboniferousplant-bodies, by certain further processes of nature, havein the past become immineralized and turned to stone,instead of disintegrating. We find them today as coal, theimperishable philosophers stone made by natural meansin Natures laboratory. But this philosophers stone mayalso be made artificially by man from his own body. Itshould be understood once and for all that the philoso-phers stone is not made in an exterior chemical labora-tory, but that the body is the work-shop of the Spirit andcontains all the elements necessary to produce this elixir-vitae, and that this philosophers stone is not exterior tothe body, but the alchemist himself becomes the philoso-phers stone. The salt, sulphur, and mercury emblemati-cally contained in the three segments of the spinal cord,which controls the sympathetic, motor, and sensory nervesand are played upon by the Neptunian spinal spirit fire,constitute the essential elements in the alchemical process.

It needs no argument to show that indulgence in sen-suality, brutality, and bestiality makes the body coarse.Contrariwise, devotion to Deity, an attitude of perpetualprayer, a feeling of love and compassion for all that livesand moves, the loving thought sent out to all beings andthose inevitably received in return, all invariably havethe effect of refining and spiritualizing the nature. Wespeak of a person of that nature as breathing or radiat-ing love, an expression which much more nearlydescribes the actual fact than most people imagine, for asa matter of actual occult observation the percentage ofpoison contained in the breath of an individual is in exact

proportion to the nature of his inner life and the thoughtshe thinks. The Hindu Yogi makes a practice of sealingthe candidate for a certain grade of Initiation in a cavewhich is not much larger than his body. There he mustlive for a number of weeks breathing the same air overand over again to demonstrate practically that he hasceased exhaling the death-dealing carbon dioxide and isbeginning to build his body therefrom. This then is not abody of the same nature as the plant, though it is pure andchaste, but is a celestial body such as that whereof St.Paul speaks in the 5th chapter of Second Corinthians, abody which becomes immortal as a diamond or a rubystone. It is not hard and inflexible as the mineral, it is asoft diamond (or ruby) and by every act of the naturedescribed the Christian Mystic is building this body,though he is probably unconscious thereof for a longtime. When he has attained to that degree of holiness, it isnot necessary for him to perform the footwashing so far asthe physical pupil is concerned that helps him to rise, buthe will always have the feeling of gratitude symbolized bythat act toward those whom he is fortunate enough toattract to himself as disciples, that he may give unto themthe living bread which nourisheth them to immortality.

Students will realize that this is part of the processwhich eventually culminates in the Transfiguration, but itshould also be realized that in the Christian MysticInitiation there are no set and definite degrees. TheCandidate looks to the Christ as the author and finisherof his faith, seeking to imitate Him and follow in Hissteps through every moment of existence. Thus the vari-ous stages which we are considering are reached byprocesses of soul-growth which simultaneously bringhim to higher stages in all the steps that we are now ana-lyzing. In this respect the Christian Mystic Initiation dif-fers radically from the processes in vogue among theRosicrucians where an understanding on the part of thecandidate of that which is to take place is consideredindispensable. But there comes a time at which theChristian Mystic must and does realize the path beforehim and that is what constitutes Gethsemane, which wewill consider in the next issue.

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IDREAMT that I seemed to be a prisoner in a housewhere there were many others. The guards were verycruel and seemed to have taken a special dislike tome, torturing me whenever possible. I was knockeddown and otherwise mistreated and a guard kept over meto prevent me leaving the house. One day I escaped hun-gry and utterly exhausted. Even the fruits I picked to eatwere bitter; the fence was made of swords and it seemedimpossible to climb it. But taking a companion in miseryby the hand, I gave one jump and both of us seemed tofly over the fence. The rest did not miss us, they weremore interested in themselves and begging the guards tobe lenient, to give them food and drink to keep themfrom starvation.

We walked a little distance when we met a small child.She asked where we were going. My answer was that Iwas seeking rest and quiet and wanted to go far awaywhere there was no trouble.With a childs look of entiretrust and confidence, she pointed to a number of houseson a hillsaying My Father can help youhe knowseverything, and so we were led by this little child to alarge group of buildings on a hill, looking somewhat likea monastery. A broad flight of steps led upward to a wideporch, grapevines covered it and large bunches of grapeshung in strangely transparent bunches. It seemed as if alight were back of themto the taste they were verysweet and refreshing.

As we hesitated, an old white-bearded man came tothe door; the lighted face with its transparency andbright eyes seemed to glow and shine with a pure whitelight. The eyes were a dark blue black and looked kindlydown at me.

My companion had left me and taking my hand, thevenerable man said: Child, you want peace, yet peace iswithin you. You want rest and rest is all about you. Youknow and yet have come for help. Dont you know thatIn my Fathers house are many mansions? You mustseek, not by books, but by practice.

He talked long and lovingly, then as he bade meGodspeed, he again repeated these directions. Child ofthe World; go! Seek near and far among my FathersMansions. You will learn much and when you havegained the right, you will be admitted into the place ofpeace, where sorrow teaches its lessons in the way Godintended. The House of Soul Rest you will find, but learnwell each lesson as it comes, and may God speed you andcare for you in your search. Turning to the broad pathpointed out before me, full of obstacles and trials, I

looked back. The face again beamed only more, if thatwere possible, and the hands stretched forth in a blessingas I started on my way.

One by one I surmounted the obstacles in my path andtriumphantly pushed onward. Miles flew by, buildingsappeared and disappeared, trains rushed by and there wasmuch noise and confusion around me.

Something seemed to push me into a large building,open at the sides, where people in all stages of grief andtrouble seemed to be. Some were sobbing, others cryingout in agony. Some had hands and arms torn and bleed-ing. Some were on crutches and still others had limbspartly torn off and hanging. Crushed faces and smallbabies in spasms added their note to the picture of pain.In all the crowd I could only see one who seemed to un-derstand the grief of the rest; all others seemed to becursing their own particular suffering.

Stooping to speak to a tiny child and quiet it, I saw apair of pensive blue eyes watching me. The mouth wasdrawn in pain yet no word came of complaint, just resig-nation, the eyes spoke and going over I discovered thatboth his limbs were off, so I stayed with him.

I must have slept a little for I remember getting up andgoing to another building that glistened like white mar-ble. Where before had been confusion and trouble, nowwas quiet and resignation. Smiling faces were every-where I searched for the child and the man. The whiteglistening building was ablaze with golden light, but nei-ther the child nor the man could be found.

Then I went through a door and saw written in largeletters of yellow light House of Soul Rest and Peace,and sinking down on the white cushions, I watched theplay of colors that came and went through the room. Thegolden light was everywhere; the white gleamed andglistened all around me. My body was filled with rest, Iseemed to sink in the cushions and feel rest pour all overme; at last my soul was content and had found its peace.After so long a time and so many struggles, as my friendhad said, I had found peace and content. Affairs of earthwere forgotten. I wanted to stay there always, in thissupreme happiness that was mine. Nothing mattered,only that I stay in this House of Soul Rest and Peaceand experience this supreme content and happinessalwaystruly, I had found soul rest and peace here.

But then I remembered the child and the man, I sawagain the house of tears and agony, I heard again themoan of the maimed, and I burned with shame andhumiliation at the thought of having deserted my suffer-

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A Dream Within A DreamPearl Peterson

ing brother to seek my own ease and peace. So I fled the House of Soul Rest, vowing never to

return till I had found my brother and brought him also. Then I woke from the dream within the dream, I sat

again by the man and the child and I recognized them asthe little child that had led me, and the Father who hadtaught me. Again he smiled, and his face lighted when hesaid:

My daughter, you have learned one secret of the path

to the House of Soul Rest. It cannot be enjoyed in soli-tude, and I will tell you another, every wail in the worlddetracts from the pleasure of those within. Seek youtherefore all who are weak and heavy-laden and try tobring them rest, for in so doing you will find the only trueand lasting peace.

And as I woke there fell from my lips the vow; I willstrive first to show my brothers the path to peace, and inGods good time I shall follow.

New York chap the way you do! You jest throw yourselfin his way, hangin out here over the gate until he cumsalongthen you make excuses to slip down the roadafter him! Ive seen it lots of times an Ive tried to keepMa from guessin fer I didnt want you scoldedbutbless me ef I aint a gettin tired of it myself!

Sarah Thomas stood by the stile until he vanishedbehind the barn, then glancing furtively back in the direc-tion of the milk-house she quietly slipped over the barsand walked rapidly down the hill road.

I cant help it! she murmured with a defiant littlethrill in her consciousness.....a sensation so new to thehungry stifled heart that it was given ungrudging lodge-ment within. When she reached a point where the curveof the hill hid the house from view she turned aside intoa meadow which bordered the road. The tall grassswathed her feet and lay in long ribbons behind her. Asmall serpent flashed across her path. When she reachedher favorite view-point, a large flat rock deep in themeadow overlooking the creek and the distant hills shesat down and waited.

I cant help it! she repeated. I do love himand Ihate Tom Gregory! Marozia Remington, my turn is com-ing now! Many conflicting emotions stirred her-envy,jealousy, hatredbut the fascination of the spell whichforces from the Desire World were weaving predominat-ed. She glanced hastily around.

Why doesnt he come? I told him to meet me here!He didnt say he would but I should think he would whenhe can see how I love him! She waited until her stolentime had reached its limit, then she walked slowly backto the road with a sickening consciousness of shame anddisappointment. She quickened her pace when she sud-


ACLEAR baritone voice rang out in crude mock-ing recitative to the accompaniment of mellowcow-bells: So boyso boyeasy there, Sorrel-top!

For its all in a life-time, my Polly Ann! So tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee! The fairest lass to the bravest man (So boyso boy) Whoa there, Nancy Jane! Spose you git inter the path! Wellwell, I never saw

such ca-ows! The lane was narrow, its elder-bush border infringed

on the deviating cow-paththe cows were erratic intheir movementstwilight was falling and Tom tried toaccelerate the plodding march of the herd toward thecow-sheds. Possibly cows have moods! However, theyhad strayed and explored the utmost limits of their littleworld today and Tom was late with his milking. Againhis rich untrained voice sang bits of song, sentimentaland pathetic interspersed with doggerel and foolish jar-gon, while his jolly sunburned face twitched with littlesmirking grimaces as he paused between the lines to call,So boyso boy to the erratic kine.

Wellwell, bless me Sally! I was jest a thinkin ofyou an ef you aint a waitin fer me!

Im not waiting for you, Tom Gregory! O, I aint the lucky chap then! I didnt think youd

treat a feller that waybless me ef I did! Sarah Thomascrimsoned with rage and shamewith rage against theworld in general and Tom in particular. With shamebecause of what was in her heart. His voice lowered andthe tone of quizzical banter merged into tender entreaty:

Sally, you know that I care more for you than any-thing else an I dont like to see you hang-in round thet

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denly heard approaching horse hoofs and caught sight ofa figure rounding a curve in the road. A nonchalant voicecalled out:

Ah Sarah, how dejected you look! Has anything hap-pened to Tom? No mockery could have fallen morecrushingly upon a heart, yet she was dimly consciousthat she deserved it. Unsophisticated as she was, herinnate pride came to the rescue.

Good evening, Mr. Rathburn! she said in a strainedvoice and would have passed on. He fancied he saw a lit-tle amusement for future days of boredom when com-pelled to pass them in this little hamlet. So he halted andchanged his manner to one of assumed interest.

In a hurry, Sarah? An appointment with Tom or hismother?

My appointment was with youbut you seem tohave forgotten it, Mr. Rathburn! She was not sophisti-cated enough to cherish resentment, or let pride have avery long leash.

So I didah, pardon my negligence, my rustic maid!There was mockery in his tone but she did not notice.

I suppose you were up at the Remingtons, so natural-ly you forgot! A stab of jealous hatred accompanied thewords. He smiled curiously.

And if I were? O of course you have a right to go where you please

butBut what? She grew confused. She was not used to parrying and

thrusting. Societys little fencing methods were allunknown to her and as usual in such cases her mind wastransparent. Like the average man of the world he seizedthe opportunity to amuse himself further.

By the way, Sarah, you are improving rapidly! In factyou are growing quite pretty! Do you work hard nowa-days?

Yes. How would you like to live in a nice home where you

wouldnt have to work hardjust assist in the lighterwork? Im going to buy a place soon and put Mrs. Reedin as housekeeper. Would you like to be her assistant?The girls eyes sparkled with pleasure.

O, I should love it so much! You asked if I had been to the Villa. I just came from

therehad business with Mr. Remington. He looks asthough he wouldnt last long! Lucks going against himall round!

Two little entities just then clamored for admission toSarahs brain. One was a malicious imp who grinnedfiendishly behind her eyes when it secured entrance. Iturged her to rejoice in the prospective downfall of animaginary enemy. It pointed Marozia Remington out as

the enemy. The momentary flash of exultant triumphrevealed its presence to Claude Rathburn. It betrayed anugly side to the hitherto simple rustic maid. It acted asa palliative to an accusing conscienceas a palliativewould act, for his conscience never troubled him. It hadbeen put to sleep long ago. He was beginning to feel adisgusted contempt mingled with amusement when theother entity prevailed momentarily. This one awoke abetter emotionone of pitynot for Marozia, but herfather. She exclaimed feelingly:

Poor Master! I used to like him! He was such ateacher tooI never saw one like him! He helped me sothat terrible time when father took me from school to putme on the farm! I only lacked one year and I did want tofinish so I could teach. Mr. Remington helped me out ofschool hours with my geometry and Latinbut it was ofno use! Father said it spoiled women to be educatedsoI was sent to Mrs. Gregory!

Well you need not stay there long! His tone was indifferent. He tried momentarily to feel

the former amused interest, but in vain. He had seen thevulgar streak in her nature which reduced the possibleplaything of an hour to a commonplace virago in themaking. The look of triumph on her face quickly gaveplace to one of frightened dismay as she heard Tomswhistle in the distance.

O I must hurry back to the milk-house or Mrs.Gregory will miss me, then

Then she would send Tom on your trail, I suppose! O worse than thatshe might come herself! An amused smile crossed his face. I have a vision of herspectacles, sunbonnet, nose

and all the other accessories sailing down the road afteryou!

Wellit wouldnt be any laughing matter I can tellyou! Butwhen shall I come again, Mr. Rathburn?

O dont trouble yourself, Sarah! You know Im apretty busy man nowadayshave several irons in thefire in fact! Noticing her look of disappointment headded quickly:

Just come whenever you feel like it and if I happen tobe here all right! If notTom might do

I wish you wouldnt say those things, Mr. Rathburn!You know I hate Tom Gregory!

Well, its all right, SarahI was only teasing you!The smile which accompanied the words restored sun-shine to her unsophisticated heart. As she fled up the roadshe felt suddenly lifted out of her wretchedly common-place existence. A touch of romance had entered her lifeof sordid drudgery. All nature seemed to sympathize withher gladness and the tall grass by the roadside whichtouched her gown swayed as if with rapture.


Tom was at the stile and smiled meaningly as shepassed. There was misery and pathos in the smile.

Look here, SallyMas in the milk-room waitin feryou! Youd better hurry up!

She felt a sudden defiance of fate, a sort of wild dar-ing which made her reckless of consequences. Like awounded animal Tom turned away and crawled up to hisloft in the barn.

Claude Rathburn rode disdainfully over the dusty roadto the village and muttered in disgust:

Hang itbut I hate this sleepy old burg and every-thing in it except......Well I suppose Ill have to endure itfor the sake ofresults!

CHAPTER IX Marozia was in a strange state of mind during the days

which followed. Her problems suddenly seemed unsolv-able by any key which she possessed. The strange influ-ence of that night at the party remained with her, try asshe would to dispel it. The spell so subtilely wovenreflected itself in her mental nature and she was doublytormented. She could not banish the memory of that onemoment, when she felt the basilisk eyes upon her. Attimes she was conscious only of deep loathing and scornfor the man who had acquired this unaccountable in-fluence over her. Then again in a flash the irresistiblecoils were woven around her senses. She was dumb withthe horror and the mystery of it.

A month passed during which there were numeroussocial events in which Claude Rathburn figured promi-nently. He was Marozias shadowtry as she would shecould not escape him. Then suddenly her popularitybegan to wane. She had been the life of every social gath-eringher brightness and originality, her piquancy andquaint humor won for her admiration and a certain fol-lowing. She possessed great magnetic charm and withher strength and poise there was an irresistible sweetnessand grace of soul. Claude Rathburn now was desperate-ly in love with her and resolved that nothing should standin the way of his efforts to win her for his bride. But pop-ularity is as evanescent as fame and honor. It dependsupon so many contingencies. She did not change, but thewhims of her acquaintances did. They were in her esti-mation merely acquaintancesnot friends. Friendship istoo sacred a name to apply to the fungus growths whichspring up in a day to wither as quickly. Jealousy was theunderlying motive in the recently waning popularity. Itwas decided at the tea cup meetings that the other girlsstood no chance whatever while Marozia was so much inevidence, so she must be suppressed. The Watsons tookthe initiative by getting up an excursion to Otsego Lakeand leaving her out. It was a daring thing to do in that lit-

tle community, but they did not look far aheadtheywere incapable of that expenditure of mental energy.They congratulated themselves upon the master strokeand planned a coup detat in which wealth and excessivefashion display would play a prominent partClaudeRathburn to be the prize.

On the morning of the eventful day from which theeligibles hoped so much, Marozia was sitting aloneupon her rock in the meadow, in deep meditation. Asusual of late her mind was focused upon her many-sideddifficulties. What shall I do? she exclaimed aloud,after looking at the situation from every angle. A voice ather side answered:

I will tell you if you will listen! I can give you theRosetta stone which will enable you to solve lifesstrange hieroglyphics! Otherwise you will grope invain! Startled beyond measure she looked in the direc-tion of the voice and beheld Claude Rathburn. Springingquickly to her feet she exclaimed in dismay:

I thought you had gone with the party! Do you think I would go without you? When at the

last moment I learned that you were not to be of the partyI simply vanished! She put up her hands to shut outthose terrible eyes but he seized them.

Marozia, you know I love you beyond anything!Why do you seek to avoid me? It will do no goodyoumust be my wife!

Never-never! He compelled her to look at him andas he fixed his eyes upon her face she again wavered.

Marozia? The name was breathed in a low sibilantwhisper.

Marozia? he repeated. Still she did not answer butthe spell was creeping over her again and while shelonged to escape she felt powerless to move.

Will you be my wife? The tone was more a com-mand than an entreaty.

Noa thousand times no! Still his eyes were fixedon hers and she grew faint.

Forgive me! I hardly know what I am saying, butYes, I understand! You are excited but I know what

your heart would say! You love me, only your mind is sodominant that it will not give the heart a chance to speak!Let it speak now and you will not regret it! With a vio-lent effort she wrenched her hands loose and turned awayher eyes.

I do not love youI abhor you! Leave me at once!Again she lifted her eyes to his face and felt her holdupon her will relaxing. Then a doubt of herself seizedher. Did intellect war with the heart and its rights? Was shetoo intellectual to love? Did her dominant mind hold herback from possible happiness? Again his voice pleaded:

Love alone satisfies! The heart, not the mind should


be the deciding voice! Your mentality is too imperious toyield to its rightful sovereign! She felt herself yielding.again to the spellthe strange spell creeping over her.

Marozia will you be my wife? she heard him pleadin low magnetic tones. His eyes gleamed with a kind ofsubtile triumph. He made an effort to draw her towardhim and again she wrenched herself free. Pressing herhands over her eyes she recovered her poise.

Nonoa thousand times no! she repeated asbefore. The effort of will released the spell and eachword acted as a tonic to her resolution. A queer expres-sion crossed his face in which a close observer mighthave descried baffled rage and chagrin. She dared notlook into his face again. As she hastened up the greenlane she felt as the rose might feel after some slimy thinghad crawled over its sweet white heart. She longed toescape to rub out the stain left upon her lily-white con-sciousness. She knewchildwoman as she was thatlove would leave no such blightthat a high pure naturewould not leave that impress upon hers. She heard himcall after her:

Marozia! His voice was close at hand. If you imagine that I abandon a purpose as coolly as

this you mistake my nature! I never will give you up! Please leave me, she entreated, I only wish to forget!Your words are a confession! They imply that there is

something to forget! A wave of shame crimsoned her face.NoI could not love you and I would not marry

unless I could love with all my heart and soul! By all the Powers that be, you shall love me thus! he

cried with startling vehemence. I will notI would not if I couldit would kill me!

Even while she spoke she dreaded lest the spell return. Then you have trifled with me, Marozia Remington,

and you shall pay for it! She had suddenly lost the sweetmorning freshness out of her life.

Was it thus that Eve felt after the serpent left her?she queried. Yet what have I done to deserve this feel-ing of guilt? Nothing consciously, yet everything seemschanged!

Later she knew why. When she understood more fullythe teaching of the Mystery School she knew that therewere several kinds of vampires. Today she did not knowhow the ethers of the vital body can be used to servesome base and selfish end and the mystery of the experi-ence terrified her.

Day by day her perplexities deepened and her fathergrew more silent, more troubled. He had not been idlebut effort had been futile. There were too many oddsagainst him. The one thing which gave him a ray of com-fort was the attitude of Marozia toward Claude Rathburn.It harmonized with his own inner impression. He felt

intuitively that no happiness could result to Maroziathrough such a union. He knew that she needed far moreof loving loyalty and truth than the average girl, for shewould give more. With her bright, keen mind, her deepanalytical nature, and her artistic temperament she wasvery rich in possibilities. Few men could come up to herexalted standard, but happy would be the man who couldbe her knight! Her standards were not arbitrarily imposedfrom withoutlike the conventions of societybutwere inherent in her own sublime nature. They grew outof her inner convictions and were formed from the sub-stance of the plane wherein her consciousness wasfocused. Her convictions were a part of her. Materialisticand mercenary calculations ever were most repulsive toher, yet this was the aspect which colored all ClaudeRathburns thought. He surrounded himself with an aurathrough which high and lofty thought never could filter.At this stage she had not reasoned it out, but instinctive-ly felt the inharmony between them. Yet all pressure wasbeing brought to bear from every plane to bring her lifeinto union with his.

While Ralph Remington noted with approval the atti-tude of his child toward Claude Rathburn, he awaited thecrisis in his affairs.

(To be continued)

RECOLLECTIONS OF A PAST LIFE C. W. Stiles

I have a friend living near me here in Porto Rico whohas a very interesting life, although she is still young.She has lived all over the world; spent all her early yearsin the Far East, eight of which were passed in an UrsulineConvent in Java as a nun; then she went across the Pacificto New York, and finally came to rest on this island.

One experience she tells something like this: When I was about ten years old I was sent to the nuns

in Singapore to be educated. The first time I entered theCatholic church there I saw hanging on the wall a largepicture representing a man tied to a tree and being lashedwith a knotted rope by another man. The man doing thebeating was evidently a Roman in authority. His wife wassitting on a chair at a short distance and two children, aboy and a girl were standing one on either side of her.

The moment my eyes fell on the picture, anotherscene, much more vivid came back to me; and I distinct-ly recalled a day when just such a criminal (if he was acriminal), was brought to our house by a great crowd ofpeople. As soon as my father left the house my motherfollowed him as did my brother and myself.

Outside the gate the man was tied to a big tree andmy father lashed him. I well remember the cry formercy which escaped from my mothers lips, at the


sound of which my father stopped for a moment, turnedaround and ordered a chair to be brought for her as shewas about to faint. As soon as she sat down I buried myface in her lap and can not remember any more.

I told the nuns that that picture represented my par-ents, my brother and me, but that I should have beenpainted with my face buried in my mothers lap.

They carefully explained to me that my idea was

quite impossible for the picture represented St. Paul per-secuting the Christians before his conversion toChristianity.

I also was puzzled, because my father and mother inthe picture looked different from what I recollected them,but for all I could not explain, I knew the little girl in thepicture was my own self, and the others my parents andbrother whom I distinctly remembered.

yet on the form side of the manifesting seven worlds wehave four divisions, four vehicles, a threefold body and amind. The Cosmo teaches us that three Hierarchies werebrought over from a previous manifestation to finishtheir evolution in our scheme, and these same three havenow in the Earth Period charge of the three aspects ofourselves, viz.the Divine, Life, and Human Spirit. Wenote that we are the fourth life wave in our presentscheme to become conscious and thereby check theplunge into matter. We are also taught that there were inaddition to these seven mentioned life-waves five morewhich had passed into liberationwho could gain noth-ing by a further manifestation and only remained to assistus by giving the necessary spiritual impulses to help usto awaken the three-fold Spirit. Thus we see that whilewe have twelve colorsfive of which are invisible tophysical visionand twelve orifices to the bodyfiveof which are closedthere are just as surely twelve tonesto the octave, seven of which constitute the Virgin scale,with the interspersing of five more to give us the simplechromatic scale from which all the heavenly themescome which bring to the Ego the message from itsHome and speak to it in a language which no pen norcanvas can equal.

With the help of the accompanying diagram let us nowdivide the musical scale into the proper divisions relativeto the scheme of Evolution as outlined in the Cosmo. Inthe world of God there are two Hierarchies which gavesome assistance to usthe nature of which is not yetrevealedand then withdrew into liberation. These areAries and TaurusD flat and E flat. At the close of theMoon Period the other three who had remained solely togive us assistance in awakening the three aspects of theSpirit, withdrew also. These are Gemini, the SeraphimCancer, the Cherubimand Leo, the Lords of the Flame.F sharp for Gemini, G sharp for Cancer, and A sharp forLeo. We have now placed the five Hierarchies which arein liberationtwo in the World of God and three in theWorld of Virgin Spirits. This leaves us seven which are


AS OCCULT mysteries are revealed to us, wereadily grasp the significant fact that throughoutall the complexities of the World Wisdom runsan orderly principle. The first thing which is apparent tostudents is that the Cosmos is built upon the 1-3-5-7-10and 12 aspects. It is non-essential to go into detailregarding these co-relations, but it is sufficient to saythat the 12 semi-tones of the octave conform in every de-tail with the cosmic schemein fact to a bewilderingdegree, because it must be remembered that when weconsider the building of the octave we are intruding intothe world of tone, which is the very basis of physicalmanifestation. The following outline is but a rudimenta-ry one and can only be considered a foundation for fur-ther study.

Although we have 12 semi-tones to the octave, con-forming with the 12 months and 12 Hierarchies, etc.,unless we have considered the musical scale from theoccult point we are confused as to why we make certaindivisions in the particular places which we do. We knowthat the human ear is pleased with a limited number ofwhole tones and then desires a half tone, in building thescale. We cannot say Do-re-me-fe-se-le-do and bepleased with it, yet it is an orderly succession of wholetones. The great question is, Why do we require a half-tone here and there, and what is the significance of theproper division?

Before going further we must review certain essentialsin the scheme of Evolution as explained in the Cosmo.We see that God is a Triune expression of the positivepole of the Supreme Being in manifestation. Also thatthis triune expression of the Oneness is capable of aseptenary division, the seven Spirits before the Throne,which collectively are God. Furthermore, each planetarySpirit is a trinity capable of a septenary division also.The Ego is also a threefold Spirit and has emanated fromitself a threefold body which itguides by means of thelink of mind and from which a threefold soul will beextracted. It is significant that we have a threefold spirit,

A Dream Within A DreamArthur E. Taylor

in manifestation. We see that there are three Worlds ofwhich the Virgin Spirit is an integral part and that theDivine Aspect is the highest, Also, that the three Hierarchiesbrought over to complete their evolution with us are atpresent in charge of these three aspects in regular orderof state of being commencing with Virgo. So the Virginkey of C is the Home-world of the Divine Aspect.

So also the three whole tones of C, D, and E are thekey-notes of the three aspects of the Spirit and are Virgo,Libra, and Scorpiothe three life-waves which werebrought over to complete their evolution in our scheme, andwhich are at present in charge of those same three aspects.

Now we come to a very significant fact! The three-fold spirit is going to emanate from itself a three-foldvehicle by means of the archetypal forces and at a latertime is going to be given a separate unit of the archetyp-al forces as a mind, a separate thinking vehicle. Let usparticularly bear in mind that the idea which emanatesfrom the region of Abstract Thought, the present home ofthe Ego, and the Thought-form built by it, are dependentupon the archetypal forces and that all constitute oneWorld. Thus we have a semi-tone between the HumanSpirit and the concrete region which is on the form sideof the seven worlds. We note that this same semi-tonaldivision occurs between Scorpio and Sagittariusthat is,between the previous scheme and ours. This gives F forthe key-note of Sagittariusthe Lords of Mindwhogave us a germ of mind composed of the same material

in which they were human in the Saturn Period. Buildingon we have G, A, and B for Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pis-ces, respectively and for the three-fold body. This com-pletes the outline with seven tones of the Virgin key,three whole tones for the Hierarchies which werebrought over and for the three aspects of the spirit whichthey at present have charge of, and four more wholetones for the life-waves of the present scheme ofEvolution, with a semi-tone division between the twoschemes of Evolution and also between the spirit andmatter portions of this present scheme.

The next point to consider is that if we start with thekey of C and proceed with the trinity we are successive-ly carried through the keys of 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-flats. Thekey of seven flats being identical with five sharps carriesus by the same process through 5-4-3-2-1 sharps backinto the key of C. Another very significant fact is thateach key-note in flats or sharps is the complementarykey-note of the other on a septenary basis. That is to say,the key of 1 flat is six sharps2 flats, 5 sharps3 flats,4 sharps4flats, 3 sharps, etc. Now we note that bystarting with the key of C and proceeding through the flatkeys we bring in successively the key-note of theHierarchies in the proper order in which they appeared tohelp us to awaken the three aspects of the spirit, with theaddition of Aries and Taurus from the World of God. It issignificant that the key-note is in those who did not man-ifest, but gave spiritual impulses on1y. On the other hand


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we shall see later that the key-note of the sharps falls onthe seven tones of the Virgin key in regular order, butwith this differenceinstead of being spiritual impulsesit will be the conscious spirit sounding its own key-noteson its three aspects and four vehicles in regular succes-sion, lifting itself from the nadir of materiality by spiri-tualizing its vehicles and extracting the essence of its pil-grimage as a three-fold soul by which to enhance itself.Thus we see that the flats carry us to the nadir and the sharpslift us up from this somber depth with the brilliancy of anawakening soul, to carry us away from the suppression wehave had to dwell in. Now let us build the seven Periodsof manifestation into the seven and a third octaves.

At the dawn of our first period of manifestationtheSaturn Periodthe Lords of Mindhumanity of theSaturn Periodthe Angels, humanity of the MoonPeriod, and ourselves, Pisces, the newly differentiatedVirgin Spirits, all have to wait until the proper conditionsare made for their further development. So at the verybeginning, Virgo, Libra, and Scorpiothe threeHierarchies brought over to complete their evolutionwill manifest first. These are followed by Sagittariushierarchy, the Lords of Mind, who after recapitulatingtheir previous stages, become human. Thus we start withthe Virgin key of C for Virgo and sound the key-notes ofLibra and Scorpio next for the Trinity of Hierarchiesbrought over which manifest first, and which at the pre-sent Earth Period have charge of the three aspects of ourspirit. Sagittarius becoming human in this period soundsthe key of F or one flat.

One point must be clearly fixed in mind before pro-ceeding further, viz., that the Rulers of the variousPeriods are the fifth life wave ahead of the humanity ofthe corresponding Period. To illustrate: In the EarthPeriod the rulership is Scorpio, the Lords of Form, andthey are the fifth life wave ahead of us. The Moon Periodwas in charge of Libra, the Lords of Individuality, fivelife-waves ahead of the Angels, the humanity of thatPeriod. The same rule applies to the other Periods. To un-derstand the logical and scientific basis for this we mustremember that the triune Spirit, having four distinctphases of manifestation, requires a period to bring outeach one and has the corresponding lifewaves ahead of itto give the necessary help. As the purpose of the ruler-ship is primarily to give the necessary impacts thusaffording the stimuli to lift it upward, it is apparent thatthe ruler should dwell in one of the Spiritual Worlds.

Thus we see why the Ruler is the fifth ahead, becausethe second, third, and fourth ahead have a close associa-tion of vehicles. Consequently, with the sounding of Fthe key-note of the Lords of Mind, Sagittariuswe bringin one flat, B flat, which is the key-note of Leo, the Lords

of Flame, who had charge of the Saturn Period. It will benoted that we have to bring in B flat below the firstoctave, which note is five ahead of the F sounded for thehumanity of the Saturn Period, Sagittarius. This gives usone flat for the first half of the Saturn Period, and startsour manifestation with the three life-waves brought over,giving the rulership to the lowest of the five life-waves whohad passed into liberation. This was Leo, the Lords ofFlame, who started us with a thought-form of a dense body.

Leaving the 4th globe of the Saturn Period, which isthe globe of consciousness, we remember that the 5th,6th, and 7th globes will be devoted to the three aspects ofthe Spirit, so from the key-note of F the trinity carries usto B flat. Here we have struck the key-note of the closingportion of the Saturn Period on 2 flats, Leo, the Lords ofFlame, who gave the necessary Spiritual impulse toawaken within us the Divine Spirit. Now we note that Bflat was the rulership of the Saturn Period and that thefirst key of the Saturn Period was F for the humanity,whereas now the key-note itself falls on B flat for theSpiritual impulse. So the next lifewave now becomes theRuler, and C for Virgo, the Lords of Wisdom, is the Rulerof the Sun Period. (We must not confuse this progressionof rulership by the manifesting life-waves with theSpiritual assistance given by those who had passed intoliberation.) From the key of 2 flats the trinity carries usto 3 flats for the first of the Sun PeriodE flat forTaurus. The Archangels, Capricorn, are the humanity ofthis Sun Period, whose key-note is G, and we again notethat the Ruler is five ahead, viz., Virgo, the Lords ofWisdom. With the upward arc of the Sun Period the trin-ity carries us from 3 flats to 4 flats, which is A flat. Thisis the key-note of Cancer, the Cherubim, who at the sixthrevolution gave the necessary Spiritual impulse to awak-en the Life Spirit. The Angels are the humanity of theMoon Period, whose key-note is A for Aquarius. Therulership of the Moon Period was Libra, the Lords ofIndividuality, whose key-note, it will be remembered, isD, which is five ahead of this humanity. On the otherhand, the trinity carries us from 4 flats at the close of theSun Period to five for the first half of the Moon Period,whose key-note is D flat, Aries, the other Hierarchy whichis in the World of GodTaurus coming in the Sun Period.

On the upward arc of the Moon Period after thehumanity of the Angels on A, the trinity carries us from5 flats to six, and this being the key-note of Gemini, theSeraphim, we have the necessary Spiritual impulse givenin the fifth revolution to awaken the Human Spirit. Wenote that the spiritual impulses for awakening the aspectsof the Virgin Spirits have all fallen in regular order on thefive keys which represent the five Hierarchies which arein liberation, and that now the trinity carries us to B nat-


ural, Pisces, and the three-fold Spirit, the Ego, comesinto existence. The key-note for the Earth Period willconsequently be 7 flats or B natural, and the Lords ofForm, Scorpio, have charge of the Earth Period, whosekey-note is Efive ahead of the humanity of this periodas in the others. Now the key of seven flats being identi-cal with five sharps, we have the turning point at thenadir of materiality. Here we are forcibly reminded of thesignificant sentence in the Cosmo: When a world hasserved the purpose for which it came into being, Godceases the activity which sustains that world and its exis-tence is terminated. We must bear in mind that we arestill at the nadir, although the very lowest state waspassed some two million years ago. This calls to mindanother fact worth considering. The key of seven flatsbeing identical with five sharps, we have a somber keyand a brilliant key combined. The writer has done someexperimenting along this line and for some time has beenconvinced that one playing in the key of B Natural can makeit either somber or brilliant according to his own inspiration.

Leaving the Earth Period with the key of 5 sharps, thetrinity carries us to 4 sharps, the key of E natural. Againreferring to the Diagram we see that E is the key-note ofthe Human Spiritalso of Scorpio, who have charge ofthis aspect in the Earth Period. As the Jupiter Period, onthe upward arc of the spiral, corresponds to the MoonPeriod, at which time we awakened the Human Spirit,this Jupiter Period becomes the period of HumanSpiritand we have the key-note of 4 sharps, E, theHuman Spirit. At the close of the Jupiter Period theHuman Spirit is absorbed by the Divine Spirit, and thetrinity carries us to A, the key of 3 sharps.

Now let us remember that while in the chemical regionof the Physical World in the Earth Period, we are extract-ing the Conscious Soul and in the Jupiter Period we willbe building the Intellectual Soul from the Vital Body,while at that time the densest state of matter will be theEtheric region. The key of 3 sharps falling on A is thekey-note of Aquarius, the Angels, who, it will be remem-bered, were human in the Etheric region and becamemost proficient with the vital body. So in the JupiterPeriod, when we are extracting the Intellectual Soul, weshall sound the key-note of A natural.

Proceeding by the trinity we are carried from the keyof 3 sharps at the close of the Jupiter Period to 2 sharpsfor the beginning of the Venus Period, which is D natur-al. Referring to the Diagram we see that this is the key-note of Libra, who in the Earth Period have charge of theLife Spirit. On the upward arc of the spiral the VenusPeriod corresponds to the Sun Period and is the period ofLife Spirit. At the close of the Venus Period the DivineSpirit absorbs the Life Spirit and we note that at this peri-

od the third body is perfected, viz., the Desire Body, andthen we shall be building the Emotional Soul. Now thetrinity carries us from 2 sharps to 1 sharp, which is G nat-ural, the key-note of Capricorn, the Archangels of theSun Period, who became most proficient in working withthe attenuated matter of that planeDesire stuff. So in thecorresponding period on the upward arc of the spiral wewill be extracting the Emotional Soul from the Desire Body.

In this article nothing has been said of the re-capitulations of each period, but the student will re-member that when each period begins, the first workdone is a recapitulation of all which has gone before;consequently, in each period we have farther to go beforewe begin the new work of that period. Thus, after therecapitulations of all previous periods, the real Vulcanwork begins and it can readily be seen that this is practi-cally at the close of manifestation, seven epochs of theseven revolutions. So in a general way we say that theVulcan Period consists of all periods combined.

Thus the trinity carries us from G to C natural, the key-note of the Divine Spirit, which now has absorbed theother two aspects of the Spirit and the three-fold Souland the perfected mind. We are then back to the Virginkey, sounding it as a conscious Spirit. We are thendwelling in the whole week, the white color, and all theseven octaves have beennot consumed, but unified.

It will be remembered that all the life-waves ahead ofus were in varying degrees of evolution, prior to ourscheme. The next ahead of us, the Angels, were in theirfirst, or mineral state in the period prior to the SaturnPeriod and we had, as the Ruler of this period, Leo, theopposite sign to Aquarius. Then considering the differen-tiation of ourselves prior to this manifestation, we bringinto the seven octaves the three tones below, making theseven and a third octaves, or 88 notes.

It is not the purpose of this article to give a detailedanalysis of the scheme, but merely to point out theimportant fundamental co-relations for any who may feelinclined to carry the investigation still further. Especiallymay the student of astrology profit by a study of this out-line, for it is through astrology that one can reach morepeople and serve in greater capacity than through anyother science. As stated in the Message of the Stars,Have faith in the stars and they will justify your faith.The same might be said of any of our investigations. Ifwe approach the subject with reverent enthusiasminstead of selfish aggrandizement, if our purpose is toacquire more capability, more efficiency in servinghumanity, undreamed-of truths will unfold to us. So uponthis tonal basis a mighty structure may be reared.

In closing, let us consider the chords of the FieryTriplicity, or trine. It is do-me-la, or la-do-me, a minor


tone. The Airy triplicity is do-me-sol, or me-sol-do. TheEarthy triplicity is the same as the Fiery, viz., do-me-la.The Watery is the same as the Airy, do-me-sol. The stu-dent should bear in mind that certain sextiles, squares,and trines will be formed by signs which are in libera-tion, others between signs of the seven manifesting life-waves, while still others form aspects between them,causing an inter-play of influences from one to the otherwhich makes a significant difference. Also the nature ofthe aspect, fire to air, earth or water, is important to note.Combining these two conditions, let us consider the var-ious chords and aspects, remembering the dual rulershipof Mercury, Venus, and Mars.

SextileFire to AirAries to Geminisol-do. Leo to Librado-me. Sagittarius to Aquarius-do-me.

SextileEarth to WaterTaurus to Cancersol-do. Virgo to Scorpiodo-me. Capricorn to Piscesdo-me.

TrinesFiery and Earthydo-me-la. Airy and Waterydo-me-sol.

SquareFire to WaterAries to Cancerdo-sol. Leo to Scorpiofa-te. Sagittarius to Pisces-fa-te.

SquareEarth to FireTaurus to Leodo-sol. Virgo to Sagittariussol-do. Capricorn to Ariesfa-te.

SquareAir to EarthGemini to Virgofa-te. Libra to Capricornsol-do. Aquarius to Taurusfa-te.

SquareWater to AirCancer to Librafa-te. Scorpio to Aquariussol-do. Pisces to Geminido-sol.

OppositionAll discordant semi-tones . Here we come again to a very significant thing. We

know that the opposite signs reflect each other and thatan aspect may be formed denoting certain ailments in agiven sign or its opposite. Thus we have all chordsformed by the oppositions, different, yet too nearly aliketo be pleasing to the ear. That is at the present stage ofdevelopment. The oppositions formed by the signs of thelife-waves in manifestation prior to our scheme, on theupward arc of the previous scheme, are rising tones, asAries-Libra; Taurus-Scorpiobecause Libra andScorpio were human on the upward arc of the spiral ofthe scheme of evolution previous to ours. On the otherhand the path of evolution is downward on our schemefrom the Saturn Period to the Earth Period covering thehumanities from Sagittarius to Pisces. Consequently wehave a lowered tone for Gemini-SagittariusCancer-CapricornLeo-Aquarius. Virgo, being also in upwardarc of the previous scheme, we having rising tone for

Virgo-Pisces. For Aries-Libra we have D flat D. ForTaurus-Scorpio, E flat E. For Gemini-Sagittarius F sharpF. For Cancer-Capricorn, G sharp G. For Leo-Aquarius Asharp A. For Virgo-Pisces B sharp B.

We have seen that the scheme is worked out on the 88notes of the piano and that the Earth Period conditionsare at the middle. With the addition of our last vehicle,the mind, comes the meeting of the two streams of life,the evolving bodies and the suppressed spirit. With theawakening of our consciousness we strike the 12th noteof the scale, and the last region of the plunge into matteron this scheme. We have command of all keys and buildour heavenly themes, looking both ways. Backward intothe cataclysmic past we hear the rumbling of history-making epochs growing less and less pronounced and oflesser impulseforward to the brilliant and inspiringpossibilities of the future unfoldment of the enhancedspirit, still less understood and appreciated. But one thingstands out pre-eminently. Whether we consider a simplemelody on the piano or organ, or the masterpieces ofWagner-Liszt, requiring the full orchestra with variationsand intricacies of grandeur that few ears at the presenttime can fully appreciate, the theme is built and carriedat the central octave with slight deviations. The furtherwe deviate from the centre the more uncertain becomesour interpretation. As the progressing spirit becomesmore and more capable of receiving terrific vibrations, ofworking out more of the consequences of its transgres-sions in a shorter time, just as surely is the soul-growthenhanced and the human ear capable of interpretingthemes which to the less developed appear as a con-glomeration of discords, or a succussion of meaninglesssounds. Thus we see how the progress of the variousnations has in a measure kept step with the themes oftheir musical schools instituted by the mastersalsohow the Spirit becomes more and more skilled in inter-preting these messages from Home, wedding the chaoswith the cosmos in a steady climb to God.

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QUESTION: Do the Rosicrucians believe incapital punishment and if so, please state thereasons why, and when a man has been exe-cuted does he come under the law of infantmortality in his next life and die as a child the

same as victims of accidents? Answer:

The Rosicrucian teachings are never in conflict withthe Christian religion and we know that according to thedoctrine of Christ the principle of retaliation, an eye foran eye, a tooth for a tooth, is absolutely wrong; besides,from the occult standpoint there are other good and suf-ficient reasons why capital punishment is emphaticallythe worst possible manner of dealing with a dangerousman. So long as such a man is in the physical body it iseasy to restrain him and put him in a place where he can-not do society any harm, but when we hang or electro-cute him we actually set him at liberty in the DesireWorld where it is possible for him to influence others toa much greater extent than here and such people who area menace to society are not slow in finding out their pos-sibilities and taking advantage of them. They incite oth-ers who have a grievance against the community to dotheir work by inciting them to wreck buildings, commitmurder, and rape on a large scale, or perhaps gratify per-sonal grievance against some enemy by taking his life,and thus one murder will effect a number of other crimesby the practice of capital punishment. On the other hand,if the murderer were imprisoned for safety to the com-munity, it is possible that during the years of his life insuch an institution he will change his views. A greatmany of them do repent of their crimes; then whenreleased from the body and sent out into the DesireWorld at death they are no longer a menace to societyand will not have an evil influence upon others. For thesereasons capital punishment is really subversive of thepurpose for which it is meted out. It does not act as adeterrent to others but actually fosters crime, so that,even apart from the fact that the practice of retaliation isabsolutely wrong and that we have no right to take a lifewhich we cannot give, and apart from the considerationof the fact that at times the wrong man is found guiltyand executed for a crime he never committed, while thereal murderer goes free, capital punishment should be

abolished to lessen crime. Referring to your question as to whether. a murderer

who has been executed will have to die as a child in thenext life, we may answer yes. For according to the law ofinfant mortality anyone who dies under horrible circum-stances so that he does not attend to the panorama of hislife, which is reviewed just after death, does not reap thefruits of his past life. When a person is executed, theshock, the anger, and resentment he feels and the horrorsof the whole proceeding deprive him of the peace andquiet necessary to the post mortem work, so that he willnot obtain a record of the life just ended. Therefore thislack will have to be supplied by educational work doneafter he has died as a child in the next life, exactly on thelines we have shown in other places in our literaturewhere the law of infant mortality is explained.

Question: Do the people in the Desire World or Etheric Region

see the Sun we see and do not these regions go roundwith the world as its atmosphere? If so why would it notmake darkness and day there also? Answer:

The reason why we have day and night, light and dark-ness is that the earth is opaque to our physical sight.Therefore, when the Sun is on the opposite side of theearth we cannot look through this physical globe and seethe light nor can we perceive the light-rays which pene-trate through it, by our physical sight, though there issuch an invisible light by which psychometers and clair-voyants see just as well in that which we call darkness asin that which we call light. It is true that the atmosphereof the earth revolves with it and so does the desire stuffwhich constitutes the Desire World of our planet, butthose who have shed the mortal coil and are in the DesireWorld see through the earth just as easily as we dothrough a pane of glass. Furthermore, the greater part ofthem are usually so far outside the physical earth thateven the direct rays of the Sun would not be obstructedby the mineral globe upon which we live in our physicalbodies. For those reasons there is neither day nor nightthere, neither are there seasons, which depend in a mea-sure upon what we call day, but there is everlasting dayand everlasting light in those worlds.

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The Effect of Capital Punishment

WHAT is the age of the earth? An ans-wer to this question, which has baf-fled human intellect since the begin-ning of thought, was attempted in alecture given recently before the ParisAstronomical Society by M. Jean Bosler, one of the mostdistinguished scientists of Europe. After running over theolder methods of attacking the problem, based on the de-posit of sediment in river beds and the saltiness of thesea, and showing that the results of these dated the originof the globe not less than one hundred million years ago,M. Bosler made statements of the greatest scientific impor-tance based on the evidence of radio-activity in rocks.

He pointed out that if uranium, for instance, gives outhelium at a speed which can be determined, the presenceof these two elements in the same rock gives the lattersage as soon as the relative quantity of each is measured.Investigating along these lines, it has been calculated thata specimen of primary igneous rock examined in theParis laboratories originated as far back as 710,000,000years ago.

Another series of investigations which has been uti-lized in attacking the problem is connected with themicroscopic colored circles found imbedded in primitivegranites and other rocks. These, which have for a longwhile received no explanation, prove to be the efflores-cence of the alpha rays from minute specks of zirconi-um, and it is certain that millions of centuries haveelapsed while the rays have been penetrating the sur-rounding rock. Altogether, the lecturer declared, weshould be wrong in regarding the world as less than athousand million years old.

In conclusion, M. Bosler dwelt on the light whichthese facts threw on the origin of the sun. If the solar heat

is only due, as has been thought for the last twenty years,to the concentration of its mass, the sun cannot be morethan twenty million years old. But since this would makeit an infant compared with the earth, its energy must havesome other origin. But what? Whether radium, or theinterior force of atoms, or some other source nowundreamed of, remains, said the lecturer, one of the greatmysteries of science which it may be reserved for ourdescendants to unveil. The address has caused consider-able discussion in scientific circles.

According to the foregoing, Science is getting warmin its speculations concerning the age of the earth. As wehave said often, it is a million years since the AtlanteanEpoch, and the further we go back in the worlds history,the longer the spans of time required for the variousdevelopments which were to be accomplished from thebeginning of a certain Age to its end, because the spiritsundergoing evolution were more or less asleep and there-fore unable to co-operate with the divine Hierarchs incharge. As consciousness increased, development wasaccelerated and time lessened. Future periods and epochswill be of much shorter duration than the Earth Period,on account of the intelligent co-operation and initiativewhich will be yielded in increasing measure by anenlightened humanity. There will, of course, always bestragglers, but even their number will be materiallydecreased as we progress, for with this higher develop-ment we shall also feel more keenly than we do now thatwe are indeed our brothers keeper, and that anythingwhich checks his growth has a retarding influence on ourown advancement. Appreciation of this fact will promptus to take measures to help the backward ones so that inthe later stages there will probably be no lost sheep; naymore, many of those who have been left behind, even at

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Solar Soul-GrowthA scientific address of occult significance.

the present time may catch up. Naturally, this work willslightly delay humanity as a whole, but it is certain thatthe concrete earth, crystallized by us from the substanceof the Sun, will be dissolved in a fraction of the propor-tionate time which by past standards would be requiredto cover the two remaining epochs. Nevertheless, in spiteof the increasing intelligence of humanity, and the co-operation with the divine plan which must eventuallyresult, it is safe to say that millions of years will passbefore we have learned all the lessons which this earthhas in store for us. The address shows that the scientistsare gradually adopting the longer time measures ofoccultism. It is also significant that their speculationspoint to Radium as the source of the Suns luminosity,and we would refer the student to our articles on TheChristian Mystic Initiation where the analogy is drawnbetween the luminous radium extracted by often repeat-ed filtration and distillation from the densest and black-est of all the chemical elements, pitchblende, and theluminous vesture, the soul-body, extracted from theopaque physical body, which becomes transparent andradiant. It is then the philosophers stone, the elixir vitae,and the healing balm all in one, thus expressing the char-acteristics of the Sun.

As a matter of fact, the scientists are therefore gettingwarm in their speculations. We have stated in theCosmo that the reason planets were detached from thecentral source, the Sun, was that groups of spirits whooriginally inhabited that sphere were unable to keep upthe required rate of vibration so they crystallized part ofthe Sun and were thrown off by centrifugal force. Eachsuccessive group took with it much of the coarser el-ements and very little of the finer, so that by a refiningprocess on a cosmic scale the Sun is now composed prin-cipally of the finest and most radiant elements which arekept in a state of intense vibration by the Archangels.

Thus the Sun is a source of Light like radium while theplanets are dark, or comparatively so, like the refusefrom which that precious element is extracted, and it hasbecome luminous by a process of elimination of itscoarser constituents, analogous to the method nowrequired in human advancement and even in the refine-ment of mineral, showing the universality of law asexpressed in the Hermetic Axiom: As above, so below.

STARS AS POINTERS Nostradamus, who in his prophecies of this Great War

mentions the fighting in the air, takes his radix fromthe year 4960 B.C., when Canopus was coincident withthe Vernal Equinox. He uses the great stars as pointers. Inthis connection it has been pointed out that the Flood,followed by the Great Dispersal in the days of Peleg, inwhose days the world was divided, coincides with the

equinoctial position of the star Eta Tauri. In the year1555 Nostradamus said: Now we are in the seventh mil-lenary and coming near the eighth, and some shall begathered in Aquarius for many years and others inCancer also for many years, so that all being told, theworld draws near to an anaregonic revolution. Andthereupon he predicted the French Revolution. Now if tothe year B. C. 4960 we add 1555 A. D., we obtain 6515years since the beginning of the cycle, which is in theseventh millenary, and coming near the eighth.Calculation shows that at the beginning of the cycle agreat cross was lifted up in the heavens, B Crucis, a starof the first magnitude, being at the head of the cross atthe summer solstice, Canopus on the right hand at thevernal equinox, and Vega on the left hand at the autumnequinox.British Journal of Astrology

PSYCHIC SIGNS It has long been recognized by students of astrology

that there are certain signs of the zodiac, called flexed ormutable signs, which lend themselves especially to thedevelopment of the psychic faculties These are the signsGemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces, and they areknown as the sympathetic signs, because those inwhose horoscopes the majority of the planets are thereinlocated are found to have flexible and versatile natures,wide sympathies, multifarious interests, and sensitiveminds, much influenced by their environment, and apt tosimulate the characters of those with whom they associ-ate. Prominent among these signs is Pisces, which, by itsassociation with the 12th division of the heavens, is heldto be paramount in the production of occult and psychicfaculties. A singular illustration of this fact came undermy notice when staying in Cornwall, where I came intocontact with Mrs. Ashton, a magnetic healer and dows-er or water finder. She lives at Hawkes Point, nearCarbis Bay, where she owns a pretty cottage on the cliffside. Near to the cottage there is a metal lode hiddenbeneath the soil. Having cut a new hazel fork shaped likethe letter Y, in which two twigs converged on a commonstem, she took the two twigs in her hands, her palmsbeing upward, and the fingers firmly grasping the hazel,while the stem of the fork was pointing upward, awayfrom the ground. With elbows firmly pressed to hersides, she slowly traversed the indicated path, while I andanother held her hands, at the same time using our dis-engaged hands to securely hold the projecting ends of thetwigs. Now, although there was no perceptible tremor ormovement of the hands of the dowser, nor any the leastturn of the twigs in our grasp, the stem suddenly swunground toward the ground and at the exact point where themetal was hidden it was pointing perpendicularly down-ward, having traversed an angle of 180 degs. in the


course of a few paces. The dowser had scarcely passedthe point of this disturbance when the rod sprang backagain as if released from a spring. Experiments showedthat three out of about ten people present had a similarfaculty in less degree. Mrs. Ashton has been a subject ofstudy by Professor Barrett, whose book on the subject isdoubtless the best statement of the facts we yet possess.The astrology of the case is this: Mrs. Ashton was bornon March 1st, 1849, at Aylesbury, and a figure of theheavens for midnightthat being the hour of her birthshows the Sun, Neptune, and Saturn all in the sign Pisceson the lower angle of the heavens, while the Moon was

in the flexed sign Gemini. Another psychic of evengreater fame was the late D. D. Home, who was born onMarch 20th, 1833, the Sun and Moon being in Pisces insextile to Neptune, Saturn being in opposition in Virgo,and Mars in Gemini, so that we find four of the signifi-cators in flexed signs. In a note on this point Mr. DavidGow remarks: I have been struck with the number ofpsychics who were born with the Sun or Moon inPisces. This falls quite into line with the association ofthe signs with the various Houses, the 12th house andSign being allied and having obvious connection with-the development of psychic faculty.

firms it, and the file of lame and halt and blind thatstreams through the door of the apartment during thelads time away from school attests the fact. These unfor-tunates give their names to the little boy and describe tohim the exact nature of their afflictions. Then he dis-misses them, and before he goes to bed he prays for themall. Just how he heals them Johnnie professes not toknow himself.

When I pray I feel light, he said yesterday. I feel asthough I am flying.

We have many callers, said Mrs. McDonnell yester-day. It gets us tired answering the doorbell. SometimesI wish we wouldnt get so many.

Johnnies father is a waiter, at present out of work.The McDonnell home is barely furnished and the familyis sometimes hard put to provide for household expens-es. The boy healer has offered to sell papers, but hisfather will not consider the suggestion.

We have different plans for the boy, said Mc-Donnell. We want to make him a priest.

When they were living in Connecticut four years agoJohnnie got his father a job by praying for it.

It is my belief that Johnnie is an instrument of God,said his father. His power is a blessing God hasbestowed upon him. Of course, he cant cure every case.

The only trouble, spoke up Mrs. McDonnell, aspare, tired-eyed woman, is that we have been threat-ened with excommunication by the Catholic Church. Wedont know whether its what people call auto-suggestionor not, but our boy has cured people. We shouldnt, how-ever, want to be expelled from the faith weve beenbrought up in.

Johnnies school report card for the period just beforethe Easter vacation showed nothing but As.

Our correspondent took pains to ascertain the boysdata and sent us the horoscope cast for 6 a. m.,


A Little Boy Healer

WHAT is bred in the bone will out in the fleshsays an old proverb and it is true in a muchdeeper sense than the popular one that hered-ity will find expression. We have received a clippingfrom The New York Tribune regarding a boy of ten whoby prayer heals numerous poor cripples. The power is

within himself, and he simply cannot help expressing itany more than a stove filled with fuel in combustion canhelp radiating heat. The account speaks for itself:

John McDonnell, of 337 East 123rd Street, is onlynine years old, but his gift of prayer is mighty. Small andthin and yellow-haired is Johnnie, and his intellect, asmen measure it, has only advanced as far as the 3B gradein Public School 63. But his power as a mental healer issuch that more than a hundred persons have beenrestored to health by his prayers.

The McDonnells themselves admit this, Johnnie con

September 13th, New York, which we herewith re-produce for the benefit of students to show the stellarinfluences which indicate Johnnies gift earned byhimself in previous existences by sympathetic helpful-ness to suffering fellow beings, for we feel certain thatunder the immutable law of cause and effect, neither henor anyone else can have anything not acquired by ourown efforts, any more than we possess the faculty ofwriting without the now forgotten effort expended inchildhoods days.

We find four common signs on the angles showingthat Johnnie is not of an aggressive nature in physicalmatters, but the spiritual tendencies are so much the moreprominent as shown by the presence of Neptune, Moon,and Jupiter elevated in the psychic sign Cancer. Neptuneis the most prominent and best aspected planet in thehoroscope. its conjunction with the essentially dignifiedMoon and the noble and philanthropic Jupiter shows avery close touch with the psychic forces which will beused for benevolent purposes. There is also a close trinebetween Neptune and Saturn who is in the occult twelfth-house-sign Pisces. Pisces signifies the department of lifedevoted to sorrow, trouble, obstacles, prisons, et cetera,and would thus indicate the sympathetic fellow feeling

inherent in this soul. We also find Neptune sextiIe to itslower octave Mercury who is exalted in Virgo in thetwelfth house. A synthetic reading of these influencespoints in the same direction as the foregoing testimony,to a benevolent care of the sick through occult means, butthe power itself comes from the Sun on the Ascendant inVirgo. For be it noted that without the physical magnet-ism as an avenue of expression, the desire would not beable to manifest as potently as it does in this case. TheSun is the life-giver, the vehicle of the Godhead fromwhom come all blessings, including the great boon ofhealth. The Ascendant is occupied by Virgo the sixth-house-sign governing health and disease. It is therefore anotable fact that the people who express Virgo strongly,when they are not the victims of disease, become greatapostles of health, nurses and healers. The Sun and theMoon are sextile focussed through the psychic sign Can-cer and the healing sign Virgo. It is this which gives forceof expression to the prayers of Johnnie, and his parentsare following the right track by encouraging him tobecome a priest. He is absolutely unfit for a commercialor industrial career, but the mystic and profoundlydevout nature shown by this horoscope are infallibleindications that his mission is the ministry

Moon always brings into action any planet wherewith sheis in aspect. We may therefore judge that the aspects ofthe Moon and Mercury to Jupiter, the planet of opulence,will give Henry an ample income, but the eleventh houseposition of Saturn in the twelfth-house sign Pisces, andsquare to Jupiter, shows that Henrys friends, particularlypeople who are older than himself, will cause him finan-cial trouble unless he can learn in time to keep out of theirclutches. He should be taught to discriminate betweenfriends who only seek him for their own self-interest andto his detriment and those who really seek him for him-self. The conjunction of Neptune with the Sun in the psy-chic sign Cancer shows Henry to be mystically inclined,and the sextile of Mercury and the Moon to Jupiter andVenus will further accentuate the religious tendencies.Moreover, Henry is not by any means a negative charac-ter and he will therefore profit considerably from theseconfigurations without danger to himself.


Your Childs HoroscopeIf the readings given in this department were to be paid for they would be very expensive. for besides typewriting. typesetting, plating

of the figure, etc., the calculation and reading of each horoscope requires at least one half day of the editors time. Please note that we donot promise anyone a reading to get them to subscribe. We give these readings to help parents in training their children, to help youngpeople find their place in the world, and to help students of the stellar science with practical lessons. If your childs horoscope appears, bethankful for your luck. If it does not. you have no cause for anger at us.

We Do Not Cast Horoscopes.Despite all we can say, many people write enclosing money for horoscopes, forcing us to spend valuable time writing letters of refusal

and giving us the trouble of returning their money. Please do not thus annoy us: It will avail you nothing.

HENRY F., born July 4th, 1905, 0:30 a. m.,Schenectady, N Y. Here we have a youngster coming into the world amid

the rejoicing incidental to the nations birthday, withTaurus on the Ascendant and the gentle Venus and Jupiterrising sextiIe to the Moon and Mercury which are the sig-nificators of mind, thus giving him a benevolent, opti-mistic disposition for a birthday present. Although this issomewhat toned down by the square of Saturn, the plan-et of obstruction, to Jupiter, the planet of benevolence, itwill, nevertheless, have the tendency to turn the cornersof Henrys mouth upward and give him a feeling of opti-mism, even under trying circumstances. Thus he willbecome very popular among his associates, for such peo-ple are always well received and much sought after.There is no truer saying than Laugh and the worldlaughs with you, weep and you weep alone. Mercury isruler of the second house, which governs finances and the

The indications regarding Henrys health are exceed-ingly favorable. Venus and Jupiter rising in the ruggedsign Taurus give him a strong robust body, and the Sun,which is the giver of life, trine to Mars, the planet ofdynamic energy, shows that he will have an abundance ofvital energy all through life. There is only one adversetestimony, Saturn, the planet of obstruction, square toJupiter, the planet which governs the arterial circulation.This, we believe, is more than offset by the trine of Sunand Mars, though it may give Henry a poor circulation inthe feet, which are governed by the sign Pisces, whereSaturn is found. The sextile of Jupiter and Venus placedin the Ascendant in Taurus, sextile to Mercury and theMoon, will give Henry musical talent which should becultivated. Probably that is the best vocation for him inlife for we find Virgo and Libra in the sixth house, in-dicating that his service to the world should come fromVenus and Mercury.

Josephine M., born May 10th, 1905, 4:15 p. m.,Mountain Home, Idaho.

Here we have a young lady with an exceedingly well-fortified seventh house. There we find the Sun, which fora woman is the significator of the marriage partner,Jupiter, the planet of benevolence, Venus, the planet oflove and coalition, and Mercury, the principal significa-tor of the mind. There can therefore be no question thatJosephines sphere in life is in the home. There are all theelements of success for her in this life. The Sun andJupiter, the planet of opulence, on the cusp of the eighthhouse, which indicates the finances of the marriage part-ner, show that he will be well-to-do and generous, butthere is also an element of trouble immanent in this fig-ure which will come from Josephine herself, and unlessit is checked it will mar her happiness, for we find that

Mars, the planet of dynamic energy, is in Scorpio inopposition to the Sun and Jupiter. This will give her avery violent temper, and the marriage partner will be theparticular victim thereof. We find the Moon, which is oneof the significators of mind, in the sign of the heart, Leo,and square to Mercury and Venus in Aries, the sign of thehead, showing that Josephine will develop an exceeding-ly jealous nature which may eventually cause a rupture inthe marriage relation. On account of these indications itis the first duty of the parents to strive from the very ear-liest childhood to teach her control of temper. She is nowat an age where these things can be explained to her bythe object lessons, which unfortunately are only too fre-quently occurrences in our social life. She also has astrong tendency toward reckless extravagance, onaccount of the influence of Mars in the second house,which governs finances. This ought to be checked asmuch as possible.

With regard to her health, Mars in Scorpio, oppositionthe Sun, shows a tendency toward copious menses, forScorpio governs the genitals, and it would therefore bewell for the parents to instruct her carefully in advance ofthe occurrence so that she may know how to take care ofherself and not become unduly frightened. Saturn inPisces, the sign which governs the feet, shows a tenden-cy to cold in these extremities, and for one with theaforementioned tendency that may cause serious con-sequences which you would do well to guard her againstin the severe northern climate where you are living. TheMoon square Venus and Mercury also indicates distur-bances to the health, particularly through over-indul-gence in pleasure and worry. There is a tendency to bevery sarcastic and quick-spoken which it would be wellfor you to endeavor to curb by reasoning with her, forsuch an attitude of mind is what causes unpopularity and


the worry that follows then has a reflex action upon thehealth. Fortunately, however, it is possible for a personwho has the will to modify the influences indicated in thehoroscope and thus change the undesirable tendencies tosomething better.

Frances W., born September 15th, 1903, 11 p. m.,Seattle, Wash.

Here we have a young lady of unusual ability in theoccult direction. Uranus in the mental sign Sagittarius,sexti

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