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To the Members of the Esoterio Hlerarchy, Greetingsl

We shall now proceed to take the fourth step in this process of re-
viewing the irapressions and pictures of a past incarnation. During
this ooraing week you will use the same method as you used for the
first and second steps, that is, sit down and concéntrate and review
with your mind turned inwardly. This time, however, you are to select
as your key to unlock the storehouse of memory the key that we might
cali tlie travel key.

In the years that would have covered a previous incarnation, there

was much travel on the part of persons who lived in any part of the
world. Travel was necessary because of the need for living materials,
clothing, general commerce and trade, education and news. Today we
can sit right in our homes and hear all of the news of the world by
radio and see the pictures of the world in a local neighborhood
theater; and by readlng newspapers and magazines we can keep abreast
of everything and even have a college education brought to our homes
by correspondence. In purchasing tne necessities of life, even cloth-
ing, shoes, automobiles and what-not, we need only cali on the tele-
phone and have some things brought right to our doors, or go for a
short walk to the center of the town or city to the largest depart-
ment stores and find everything we want, and have it delivered to us.

In ancient times and in the middle ages, and not so many years ago,
it was necessary in most of the cities of the world to travel to adjoin-
ing cities and communities, or more distant ones, for many of the
greater necessities of life, for education and cultural contact. All
the early historical records show that roadways were well built be-
tween cities and towns, and that these were well traversed. It was
in this way that civilization spread and education grew, and contact
between peoples and nations, cities and towns, was greatly extended.

Because of the means of travel, any long journey or any journey of

several hours was quite an event in everyone1s life. We talk today
of the "horse and buggy days", but there were days not so many hun-
dreds of years ago when even horses and buggies were a luxury. Where
there were horses, it represented a family of considerable means, and
these horses usually pulled wagons that were used in commerce or
agriculture and not exclusively for pleasure riding. The average
travel to town or to an adjoining community was either by walking or
on horseback or in a wagón, or by caravans, and even by pony or burro.
In Europe today, much of the travel is done in the same manner as it
was hundreds of’years ago. Therefore, when persons attempted to go
to a city fifty or one hundred miles or further away, it represented
a journey of several days, a stopping overnight at some unfamiliar
hotel or lnn, and the taking along of clothing and baggage for the
overnight stops, and so forth, and often the taking along of food.

Journeys of this kind became quite an event, and individuáis prepared

for them for several days in advance— not íike today, when we jump
into an automobile and take a rlde of one hundred miles without even
changing our clothing or taking along any food, or expectlng to be
gone more than half a day, or between sunriee and sunset. Therefore,
in the memory of every individual who lived several hundred years ago
or more, there are pictures and deep impressions of jaunts or journeys
to adjoining cities or distant cities with all of the thrills of
sleeping in strange beds or eating at strange tables, or eating under
a tree in picnic form, or meeting various obstacles, caring for horses,
changing of money, contact with different languages or dialects, the
hearing of news, the seeing of strange slghts and so forth.

All of these important things made deep impressions upon the minds of
the individuáis. There was scarcely such a Journey of a day or more
that did not consist of one or two bitter disappointments, one or two
surprising incidents, one or two unanticlpated activities, and one or
two outstanding pleasures. There were accidents, flres, thefts and
other things that would make impressions also. Very often the persons
on such trips would visit a larger city for the purpose of buying or
selling, and would be deeply impressed by taller buildings, or larger
buildings, or differently dressed people and different customs. In
other words, such a Journey in those days would make the same out­
standing impressions on the mind as a journey to Italy, France or some
other foreign country or foreign city would make on the minds of
American people today. Therefore, if you will use the key of travel
and try to bring out of your memory storehouse scenes of persons and
places, buildings— inside and out— and incidents connected with jaunts
or Journeys or long travels, you will add to your notebook of incidents.

Do not try to think of yourself as young or oíd in connection with any

of these travels, but just try to see what you can bring out of the
storehouse in the way of impressions, either pictures or memorized
experiences mentally photographed in your mind. Each day that you try
this you should have different recollections come to you, and each one
of these different recollections should be carefully tabulated in your
notebook along with your comment as to whether the iinpresslon seemed
to be at nighttime, middle of the day, or evening, and whether anyone
was with you or you were alone, what types of buildings and places you
seemed to see, and what kinds of costumes people seemed to be wearing
and what language they spoke; also what you were doing, whether buying,
selling, or just visiting for pleasure.

Now this key should afford you a great áeal of pleasure and interest
in each of your daily concentration periods, and I do hope you are
practicing the concentration more than just once a day.

Next week we will take up one more step. There are only a few more
steps to take. Each one will prove intensely interesting if the pre-
ceding ones have been practiced sincerely and regularly.

Fraternally,
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YOUR CLASS MA3TER
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To the Members of the Esoteric Hierarchy, Greetingsi

Today I want to have another one of those confidential talks with each
of you, and I want you to feel that I am giving you some important
facts and that I am talking straight to you as I would if you were
sitting in my sanctum and I were giving you personal instruction.

First of all, I want to anticípate something that may be right in your

mind at this very moment, because quite a few of the members of this
degree i\Tho have visited me during the past few months have expressed
the same idea, and I plainly realize that it is an idea that may be in
the minds of a, great many of the members of this Twelfth Degree. So
let us assume that you are sitting right opposite me and that you have
asked the following question:

"Dr. Lewis, if it is true that I am on the verge of becoming a real

master of the Rosicrucian principies and I have had so much preparation
and training to make me a master, how is it that I do not have all of
the things in life that I have wanted, and I have not been able to
demónstrate in my own personal life all of the things I would like to
demónstrate? How can I be a mastor and yet not demónstrate all of
these wonderful things in my own life?"

I remember I asked that question of myself many times when I was going
through the system of development and training and particularly when
the great masters in Europe informed me that I was now ready and pre-
pared to take charge of the entire mastership of the Order in America.
I could not have been more surprised if someone had told me I had been
elected president of the United States, or in some way made king of
England. The first shock of it all carne to me as I realized that I
had not demonstrated in my own personal life all of the things I
thought I should demónstrate before I attempted to assist others. But
it was quickly pointed out to me that I had the wrong viewpoint of the
whole matter, and I want to show you this morning that the same error
may be in your viewpoint and in your reasoning.

In the first place, I was shown what I now realize very thoroughly.
It is a fact that all through the history of civilization of man the
great leaders of truth and spiritual development and of mystical philo-
sophy, the great "lights among men" and the great avatars, did not pos-
sess or did not demónstrate or show or reveal in their own personal
lives the power or the wisdom or the knowledge they possessed. Let
us take one outstanding example, simply because there are so many re-
ferences and so many ways to verify it. Let us take the life of the
great Master, Jesús. With all of the great wisdom and power He pos­
sessed, we never have a picture of Him as living in any place of luxury
or of dressing in wonderful clothes, or having a sumptuous bed in which
to lie and sleep at night, or of having a caravan of camels or horses
to take Him around the country, or of having great banquets or any of
the things we think a great and powerful and successful person should
have. He even once told His Disciples that whereas all the animals
of the field had a place to sleep and a place where they could lay
their heads, the "Son of Man" had no place to lay His head and sleep.
Every reference to His appearance, every picture, imaginary or based
upon recorded facts, reveáis Jesús as dressing in the most simple, the
most coarse, the most commonplace, and the most unpretentious of gowns,
robes or covers. His sanaals were of the cneapest common kind. He
had no jewelry, no special uniform, no elabórate walking stick, and
His principal means of travel was either by boat or on one of the
common little donkeys that we still see traveling around in Palestine,
and upon which the tourist people travel.

Those of us xvho have visited the places in Palestine where Jesús lived
at times have been greatly impressed with the fact that the buildings
were the most ordinary kind of structures, and that even in the
heighth of its glory in ancient times, those little stone buildings
must have been very crude, very commonplace— and, undoubtedly, very
uncomfortable. And we know that He made many references to the fact
that at times He became tired, discouraged, and suffered from want of
comfort and sleep and even of food. He did not have a lot of servants
to wait on Him, and He did n o t ’attempt at any time to use any of His
powers or knowledge to manifest to Himself or to demónstrate to Him-
self or attract to Himself many of the things that His followers had,
and which He might have had. And we know that at the cióse of His
life he had not even prepared for Himself a tomb for His burial, ñor
had He made any preparation for His future or the future of His life-
less body. At the time of His crucifixión, His body was clothed only
in the most common and coarse kind of linens, and He suffered pain
and agony, and even suffered long before He was placed upon the Cross.
That is why so many of the doubters in His day laughed at His state-
ments about His supremacy or His divine appointment or His divine
knowledge.

Compare this whole picture with what we see of some of the self-ap-
pointed avatars and masters who make themselves so popular these days
in their public travels and advertising campaigns. They invariably
stop at the finest notéis, and wear the most gorgeous kind of clothing,
and have a lot of servants, usually including two or three women who
'are called their secretarles or hostesses or something, and who kowtow
to them. They generally have large shining automobiles and plenty of
jewelry, and enjoy delicious meáis and banquets, and when they travel
on trains or steamboats they insist upon having the most elabórate
rooms. In every other way they try to impress the public with their
greatness by their extravagant expenditure of money, by their posses-
sions and diamonds, by their aggrandizing of their persons and their
surroundings.

Hundreds of our own members in the Order who have traveled with me to
Egypt or to Europe, or who have seen me travel across the country in
connection with our w o r k , know that invariably I have chosen very
moderate, and sometimes the most economical, means of travel, and that
even on the large ocean steamships I have selected for myself and my
wife the most economical portion of the boat, and have not chosen to
make any grand display or to use any powers or principies I have learn-
ed, to give myself, or to attract to myself, any large degree of ag-
grandizement or display. And I have found this true of everyone who
has learned the great mystical lessons of life. I trust in the Cosmic
to see that I am supplied with the actual necessities so that I can
carry on the work I am doing* In all the years I have been connected
with the AMORCX have not attempted to build up any personal fortune
or any personal bank account, or collect any personal Jewelry or a
large wardrobe of clothing, or anything of that kind* When I have
gone to various cities to visit our lodges or chapters, or when I
have gone on personal private vacations with my wife and my children,
those few members who have succeeded in contacting me during my stay
in several cities or in any cities have found that we have been living
at moderately prlced hotels with a complete absence of pretentiousness
and displaya

But I did not start in to make comparisons between myself and others.
The point I wanted to bring to your attention was the fact that all
through history the greatest of the masters and avatars have not at­
tempted to use their knowledge and their powers and abilities for
themselves, Of course, you will agree with me that that is the right
attitude for them to take, But a second point I want to bring to your
attention is the fact that not one of these great masters throughout
ancicnt times, or in the Middle Ages, or throughout Europe or the rest
of the world in the past century, has ever Judgcd his own development,
his own abilities and his own powers by the demonstrations that have
come into his own personal U f e . If most of these, or any of these,
great rnasters had Judged their powers and abilities by their own
stations in life, or their own positions, they would have all con-
sidered themselves as being unprepared and unqualifiod. If any of
these masters had said, "I will not begin to help others, and I will
not assume a position of leadership or mastership until I have every-
thing I need or until the Cosmic has demonstrated in my own life all
the things I should have," I am afraid that most of the great masters
would have never started in on their life work, It is not the Cosmic's
way to use the great knowledge and powers to demónstrate these things
to the master himself in order to encourage him to try to help others,

Now this do es not mean that in order that a person may be very suc-
cessful and highly developed as a master he must U v e in poverty and
in want and do without everything he would like to have.

There used to be an idea in America— and perhaps in other countries

too— that a successful minlster of any country church or any city
church should be a man who had very little clothing and very little
food, and that he should visit from house to house to get a good meal,
and that he should depend upon what his followers or parishioners
threw over the back fence for him to use as fuel or food. It used to
be believed that if a minlster of a ohurch had three square meáis a
day or three fair meáis a day, and more than one suit of clothing, and
more than a very humble cot to sleep on, he was inslncere in his reli­
gión and was a pretender and void of spiritual power or spiritual knowl­
edge* It used to be a disgraceful thing, because it forced thé clergy-
man to go about his work in a half-nourished, half-healthy way, and
with worries on his mind constantly as to whether he, or even his
children would have a meal to eat the next day or any coal to warm the
house in which they lived. But most of all, it forced the minlster
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to accept charity from his followers, and that charity used to be given
to him with the most sarcastic remarks or the most ungrateful attitude.
Fortunately today the average minister is not put in such a position,
but nevertheless it is true that the greatest of the preachers of to­
day and the greatest of the ministers and leaders of religión are not
wealthy men or men with magnificent homes or wonderful clothing or who
enjoy great banquete or magnificent automobiles and things of that
kind.

So if you have thought sometimes that you were not making progress or
reaching toward the point of mastership because you did not have all
of the luxuries as well as the necessities of life, try to get that
idea out of your mind now. It is true that as you go along in life
and help others and serve others, and help others to develop and be-
come masters, you will gradually attract and receive from the Cosmic
more of the blessings of life. But you cannot try to build up your
own personal necessities and your own personal life and success and
happiness to a great degree as the first steP in your mastership.
Humility is one of the greatest assets and powers that a master can
possess. Humbleness of self and position in worldly things constitutes
one of the surest signs of mastership. Again I say this does not mean
that you should be without food or clothing, that you should live in
a humble little hut, or that you should walk the streets and wear
yourself out and not have a ride in an automobile or a carriage or a
car. But I do mean that you should not measure or gauge your own
development— your own power and success in your development— by the
worldly things you now possess.

You will find later on that you are able to do for others such things
as you never believed you could do for yourself, and really you will
be able to do for others such things as you have not been able to do
for yourself. Every one of the great masters soon learns that he is
able to heal and treat other persons more quickly than he is able to
heal and treat himself. There are two reasons for this: In the first
place, the Cosmic works through him to a greater and stronger degree
when he is trying to help someone else than when he is trying to help
himself; and secondly, the average great master of the past and present
time, and the well developed mystic who is trying to do great work for
others, often neglects himself in regard to rest., recreation, and pro-
tection against ill health.

Speaking of myself again, I know that I am constantly violating many

of the laws of the Cosmic and of nature. I work too long and too many
hours a day, and especially at night. I use my mental energy and
psychic energy too greatly throughout every day and night for the sake
of others, and make myself exhausted and worn out to a greater degree
than I can recuperate in any twenty-four hours. Because of my intense
anxiety to accomplish things and do things for others, I eat wrongly
at times. There are times every year when physicians and others around
me demand that I must take periods of rest, and that I must give up my
work for a while and try to recuperate. I know that if others around
me were doing the exhausting things that I do from one end of the week
to the other, I would condemn them for their actions. Yet I have faith
that in the end the Cosmic will help me to take care of myself, even
though I am giving the Cosmic a bigger job than I should.
The path of a master in the procese of development is not an easy one,
and is not a healthy, comfortable one. It is filled with sacrifices
of time and of pleasure and of comfort. But it is also filled with
the greatest joy in life, namely, the joy of helping others and seeing
them succeed, and of understanding the mysteries of life. Everyone
who knows me and has known me for twenty years or more knows that
twenty years ago or twenty-five years ago I was capable of earning
more money and of having a more comfortable life than I am capable of
having now, and many who were in the Order with me, and many of my
friends in New York and other cities, know that if I had continued in
my business career instead of giving it up and taking charge of this
work of the Order, I would have had a large income and a comfortable
living. I had connections with the art world, with the moving pie-
ture world, and with the advertising world that were not equalled by
many men of thirty years of age. And it was at a time when everything
in those fields was starting with a big boom, and when I could have
easily secured a continuous position of affluence by getting in on the
"ground floor." But today I would not exchange my present position
with any one of the great and successful men in either the moving pie-
ture industry or the advertising or art business. I am happier, and
have more understanding of life, and more contentment than they ever
have had or ever will have.

My outlook on life, my understanding of the mysteries and problema

of U f e , is one great satisfaction. Every now and then one of the
great big men of business whom I used to know twenty or more years
ago, and who has constantly risen in power and position, and who is
looked upon as wealthy and powerful today, consults me in regard to
some of the problems he has to face, and every often they have to cali
upon me or one of our officers here for help in regard to health or
business or other problems. And I have the satisfaction of knowing
that with all of their wealthy positions, and all of their worldly
power, they still are not able to meet the problems of life as we are
able to meet them.

While these great business men have received honors in the business
world and have their ñames listed as wealthy men, and get appointed
to positions of influence, I sit quietly back and find glory and
satisfaction in the fact that I have received appointments and honors
in educational institutions, and among learned people, instead of in
politics or business. As I sit in my sanctum right now and look at
the walls and see on those walls the framed certificates from the
Smithsonian Institute and the American Museum of Natural History in
New York, and of the Andhra University of India, and of the American
Flag Association in Washington, and look at other books and see docu-
ments of recognition and honorary degrees from universities in Europe
and from Knighthoods and from learned organizations, and as I look at
the pile of mail on my desk and see the letters from great leaders of
scientific knowledge and scientific achievement thanking me for what
I have done and praising the Order for its work, I feel more honored
and more happy than as if I had room filled with certificates of
political appointments and magnificent bank statements showing that I
possessed millions of dollars in various banks.
And so it will be with you. Each hour of the day and of the year, and
with each passing year, you will become more satisfied and more happy
with the knowledge you possess and the understanding you possess, and
with the abilities which you can use to help others.

After all, real mastership aoes not consist of the mastership over
worldly things, but the mastership over self. The great upheaval that
took place in America in the fall of 1929 should have taught many
valuable lessons to millions of human beings. During the spring of
1929, while a hundred of us were travelling in Sgypt and Palestine
making scientific and mystical researches, there were hundreds or
thousands of men in the United States alone who measured their master­
ship and their success by their bank books and their business posi-
tions. I know that when that tour of ours started for Egypt in January
of 1929 there were hundreds of thousands of business men and newspaper
editors and magazine writers and bankers and even scientists who laugh-
ed at our party of one hundred or more going on a moderately priced
ship with moderately priced conveniences to spend several months in and
around Africa, Egypt, Palestine and parts of Europe. They laughed at
the idea that we were failing to go to the amusement centers of Europe,
and that we were not planning to stay in Paris and attend all of the
night clubs and musical affairs, and that we were not going to go
yachting in the Mediterranean. They thought we were either crazy or
insane or absolutely foolish to pass up all of the beautiful parts
of Europe in the springtime and to go camping out on the Sahara Desert,
with all of its inconveniences, merely for the sake of mystical study
and investigation. These critics in the business and financial and
political world pointed to the fact that they owned trunk loads oí-
stocks and had staggering bank accounts and magnificent offices and
private yachts and big automobiles, and had an elabórate staff of
servants to wait upon them, and that they could hire special railroad
trains to take them across the country if they wished to travel. There
was not one of them who would have exchanged positions with me or with
our other members, and yet a few months later in the fall, these same
critics and masters in the political, social and financial world were
reduced practically to poverty. They saw all of their idols crumble
before them, but they found we were back here in America happy and
contented. I found that not one of those persons who had been with
us on that tour in the early part of 1929 actually lost any consider­
able amount through the depression, or was reduced to poverty or forced
to suicide or to disgrace or anything else because of the position he
or she previously occupied. In fact, throughout 1929, 1930, and up
to the present time, those members have gone along happily in their
lives with the same even program of daily activities, with a developing
understanding and a growing degree of contentment and peace that these
other prominent characters never had and never will have.

So whatever may be your worldly lot in life at the present time, do

not gauge your future success or happiness, or your future mastership
by what you have at the present time or what you have been able to
demónstrate in your own personal life. Perhaps you have not been able
to demónstrate any miracles in your own private affairs, but that is
no indication that you are not developing a mastership that will be an
outstanding power in the lives of many others and in your own life
later on.
I want you to think these things over this coming week, and I want
you to take a few minutes daily in ooncentrating on yourself with the
thought of personal mastership. Concéntrate on the thought when you
get up in the morning and first awaken, and at night just before you
go to sleep, that the spiritual and psychic self within you is grow-
ing larger and larger, stronger and stronger. Spend at least ten
minutes each morning and evening alone and in silence, attuning your­
self with the Cosmic by thinking of yourself as being part of the
great Cosmic power, and that the Cosmic power is developing within
you and making you more masterful. At the same time, have the thought
and conviction that this great Cosmic power developing in you will
not manifest itself in clothing or jewelry or a larger horne or more
business or a better.social position or anything of that kind. Per­
sonal poiver and spiritual power are entirely independent of all worldly
goods, and yet they enable you to have a control and mastership over
worldly problems.

Next week I am going to point out to you how you can take advantage
of certain days and periods of the week and month to increase that
personal power and mastership within you so that you will prepare
yourself to a greater degree during the next few months for the psychic
mastership that awaits you.

Hay Peace Profound abide with each of you.

Fraternally,

YOUR CLA33 MASTER

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D egree No.

O FF 'E
To the Members of the Esoteric Hierarchy, GreetingsJ

This week we bring to you another of the monographs submitted by a

member of the Esoteric Hierarchy— the special class of members with
which you are associated. This monograph constitutes the observations
of a Frater who, at the time of the writing of this introduction, is
one of our Grand Councillors.

Fraternally,

YOUR CLASS MASTER

Often Have I pondered over li f e ’s many revelations which have come to

me since uniting with the Order of the Rose and Cross; the many laws
and principies thus revealed, the many experiences which I have had,
and the many lessons learned by observing events and happenings in
the lives of others, have all added greatly to the treasures of mind.

This world and its events are but one phase only of our immortal
existence; the tragedies of life are our lessons along the way, and
all that happen or come to us are for our greatest good.

Truth today has many deserving seekers, while to others, the mere
mention of the higher things of life serves only to awaken their cheap
scorn and derision.

Those for whom the higher things of life hold no appeal, experience
no lasting happiness, neither do they escape their share of sorrow;
their ways of life are trivial and unsatisfactory; their so-called
pleasant vices lead to painful and unforeseen difficulties, while
their shallow amusements pall on their overwearied senses; through
false ideas they create their own delusions of life, and despite their
experiences and opportunities to profit thereby, they usually attri-
bute their failures and misfortunes in life to what they deem to be—
the inevitable workings of "fate"; if fate is the indicated ñame for
such phenomena, man alone is responsible for its creation.

If we fail to make use of the infinite faculty with which we are en-
dowed it is quite our own fault, for there is no power, human or
divine, which requires man to remain in ignorance, ñor are we given
any duty on earth which we have not the strength to perform.

As we think— we act— and so we are; and as "Corning events cast their

shadows before," so within the shadows of our thoughts lies our
self-created future; through our minds and by our thoughts we pise
above the masses and evolve toward the finer things of life— or we
drift along with those who have no real purpose in life except their
own personal gratification, for within our minds alone lie the
unshaped elements of the future.

The unhappiness in our world today is due to the misdirected "will" of

man, and his fighting against the things which come to him to give
him experience in life, and which are necessary for his advancement.

To what purpose is the struggle man is forever making against eternal

decrees, when in the end all must bend to the Will of God?

Why should man resist the workings of Cosmic laws and decrees, and
in so doing bring upon himself unhappiness and sorrow?

Slowly unfolds the Rose; for only as we master Cosmic laws may we
dispel the clouds of earthly illusion and rid our lives of sorrow.

It is not for man to question the justice of why we are here, for
God has decreed thatour evolvement shall take place, and he who
spends much time in bemoaning his "fate" in life is an unnatural
creature and displeasing to his Maker.

All is unceasing, progressive change; such is the Law of Evolution;

from the Past we have evolved the Present, and from the Present we
shall evolve all which is yet to Come.

Humanlty evolves slowly; for endless ages has the sharp lash of
Karmlc retribution fallen in countless ways upon the transgressors of
Cosmic law— for man musí: fulflll the law, or be swept away; man's
ignorance of the law exceeds only his fear, and the world today cares
not to hear that all the misery and woe which afflicts mankind, are
simply their own Karmic debts seeking liquidation.

We hear much about the sorrow and suffering of the world today, but
the sorrow and suffering are wrought by man alone; man invites his
own miseries, God does not send them; he injures himself, for God
will not injure him; all the sorrow and despalr in our world today is
of our own making, for God leaves the will of man unfettered; He
neither constrains ñor compels; man, through will, may commit such
acts as he sees fit, but he can in no way command the result; we, by
experience, must learn "right” and "wrong," and having learned, must
choose— for in the Cosmic scheme of life eacn Soul must make its own
eternal future.

As we sow— or choose— so shall we reap; such is the Law of Compensation.

Our life is an endless battle between urge and decisión; the Cosmic
urges from within vie with the worldly temptations from without; but
though man is motivated by urge, he is free to decide, and he therefore
decrees his own fate; thus our sins are essentially against ourselves,
for it is we who must suffer and pay*
If we give up the struggle in despair, then in mercy are we lifted
from the "path" to av/ait another day; but Know Well, that we must
later take up the task again, until all is done or paid.

Life holds no nfate" for any man; for fate implles but one blind
course, of some still blinder power.

Ñor is there "oblivion"— it is not ours to forget; and though "memory"

may haunt and drive to despair, I have seen brave hearts that ache,
with a smile on their lips that concealed the pain from all exoept the
one.

But there is a "destiny" for all; each man or woman must make his or
her destiny, both here and hereafter; our lives are woven and inter-
woven with the destiny of others, and believe thou not that sitting
alone in proud seclusion and apart from men will aolve your problems
of life.

From birth to transition man weaves his web around himself as a

spider weaves its web; and when the last strand is woven— he stands
wrapped in the network of a self-created destiny.

Since ages long past the world*s greatest mystics have tried to
impress these facts upon the minds of men; the world still has these
mystical teachings, the Bible, and Christ; but in its apparent present
ways of living has learned little or nothing from the three; men and
women today will scarce endure,hear, or read that which urges the
mystical facts of life upon their consciousness, lest they be scandal-
ized by an encounter with truth.

Why all the endless cycles of human creation, with countless civiliza-
tions in ever recurring proc-essional order, if not for the evolution
of the '•infinite11 lives of men?

Nothing is without a meaning; nothing ever has been, or ever will be,
without a purpose; but until humanity learns that their lives are
"infinite" and that each have a part to play in the eternal "drama"
called Life, just so long must creation seem a cruel farce and "death"
the end of it all.

That so-called "death" is not the end, we know; for that which man
calis "death" is by Cosmic Law impossible; our future is neither a
void ñor bereft of hope; for when the veil of mere appearances has been
lifted we need no longer accept that which Seems for that which Is.

Man fears the Unknown; for when that which he calis "death" stands
face to face— and all he has thought, or planned, or dreamed, seems
fadlng away; there comes that "dread" of "something after death"—
for that undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns—
puzzles the mind.
Why fear death— when there is none? We live Not in Time— but
Eternity, for a thousand ages in the sight of God are but an evening
gone; nothing ever died ñor ever will die, for all is "transition."

When time decrees transition we relinquish our body of clay, and our
once proud dust returns to the elements from which we sprang; but
that immortal being within us whose destiny it is to make eternal
progress throughout the endless phases of human life, returns to the
plañe from whence it carne; at the change called "death" it continúes
the "path," from earth to elysian shores; it is the Soul1s return to
that immortal beauty of its eternal summer home; then, comes our Higher
Initiation into the eternal mysteries of Life, as we bend the knee
before the celestial Shekinah of God; but when the Soul’s sojourn
amongst Elysian Fields has ended, man must be born again— and once more
as a "living soul" shall walk the earth as of oíd.

So manifests the Law of Reincarnation; and with the understanding of

this law comes the removal of all fear of so-called "death."

But many believe it not; humanity drifts to and fro upon the face of
the earth ever seeking comfort in its various forms of religión, and
most often finding none; they prate about God and Life and at the
change called "death," pass from the earth knowing little of elther.

We hear the cry that Life is unjust; but how can man cali life unjust,
he being the solé director of his own? Life gives us earth and heaven,
time and eternity to reach our goal of happiness; it gives us our
dreams and aspirations whom none can take away— for none can slay a
hope but he in whose heart it was born.

You and I each had a personal reason for uniting with the Rosicrucian
Order; what were some of those reasons?

One may say that he desired to be benefited in a material way;

others might say that they desired to achieve success in a certain
field of endeavor; still others might say that they desired more
perfect health, relief from sickness or disease; while still others
might say that they desired to attain to greater heights spiritually;
these and myriad others are reasons why we accepted the invitation to
unite with the Rosicrucian Order.

However, it is my belief that if you will carefully analyze the vari­

ous reasons set forth, you will reach the conclusión that humanity
as a whole the world over are seekers; and furthermore, that the object
of their search may be summed up in one word— and that word is Happi­
ness .

The one who desires to be benefited in a material way, does so because

he believes that by eliminating certain material difficulties— it will
bring happiness.

The same reason applies to those who seek success— they see beyond
success— happiness.
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Likewise, those who desire more perfect health, relief í’rom sickness
or disease; they see happiness through the ellmination of their
undesirable condition; while those who desire to attain to greater
heights spiritually, aspire to that supreme happiness which comes to
the highly evolved soul, and is the goal of our dreams and aspirations.

Even the criminal, in his ignorance, thinks that by the illegal gain
of power, or the possession of another's wealth— his ease, comfort, and
happiness are assured; in his ignorance he reckons not with the Law
of Karma.

Why so elusive, is this object of all humanity's search? Could it not

have been, that after all these many years of seeking in vain, we
might have returned to our own mental doorsteps and found thereon the
Holy Grail of Happiness?

Our present environment in which we now find ourselves is the exact

one which we ourselves have created, whether wilfully or through
ignorance, and we cannot blame the Cosmic if the scene is not an
alluring one.

If, in thought, we limit ourselves, so are we limited in manifestation.

If we have falled to help others who are needy, and who desired our
assistance, so will the help of the Cosmic be withheld from us.

If we are in ill health, we have violated some of nature's laws, or

through the thinking of negative thoughts have changed our vibratory
rate from a balanced state to one of inharmony.

The Reality of Life is Happiness; the Delusion of Life, which we

ourselves create, is Sorrow.

Sorrow is the result of misguidance of the will, for that particular

atom which man calis ''self" is the neurotic folly of our world
today— determined not to understand; the Cosmic silently obeys G o d 1s
ordinance, but man, on the contrary, questions, argües, denies, and
rebels, ever persistlng in the belief that his own ideas of right and
wrong are superior to those of eternal decrees exlstent since the dawn
of creation.

Our Master, above all things on earth despised the hypocrite; like
he who says with his mouth and believes not in his heart; who prays
God to save his soul and in all his ways of life shows an utter un-
belief in its very existence; and from what would he save his soul—
being, as it is, a deathless part of God Himself?

In the days of our Master's comlng, few men would listen, and few
will listen now; words of Divine Truth today, as ever, are drowned
in the laughter of fools and the mockery of the profane.
Hate— not Love, is the one false note in our world today; a hate that
prefers falsehood to truth, malice to kindness, selfishness to
generosity; rran despising man, envying another the slightest advantage
creed cursing creed, each calling on God to fulfill the curse; nation
fighting nation, in the mutual massacres of a world gone mad.

Man worships the Self— not the God; and He who scattered seeds of
kindness, knows that the seeds fell neither on sterile rock, ñor by
the way, but on prolific soil— made rich by human gore.

To the Order of the Rose and Cross— our hope lies in its Future, we
bow in reverence to its Past; through fields of glory its glittering
symbol has shed its rays of mystic illumination down through the
centuries of a long gone past, to our present time; its sacred teach-
ings, their beautiful thoughts and treasured secrets, are as
scintillating jewels of Gosmic revelation.

How long the "One Rose from Keaven" must await its earthly bloom,
God alone can tell; time and eternity alone can unravel our tangíes
of life, though the way is, and forever shall be, clear and plain;
but whatever in life our mission may be, whether our "path" be level
or of steep ascent; whether strewn with flowers or the thorns of
fate— the Rose and Cross shall lead us, to visions— and communion
with God.
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under the em blem below, which was registe re d in the United States Patent O ffic e for the purpose of pro-
tecting all the "p rin te d , e n graved , typew ritten, and p h oto grap h ic co p ies of official, p rescrib ed , and co p y-
righted lectures, dissertations, scie n tific postulationr. philosophical discourses and a cad e m ic studies, diagram s,
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strictly co nfid e ntial to the m em ber receivin g , and are im parted only as an incid ent to m em bership. The
ownership of, the legal title and the right of possession to this m onograph is and shall rem ain in the Suprem e
G ra n d Lo d ge of A . M . O . R. C . and it shall be returned to it upon its request. The contents herein are
loaned to be used for the solé and exclusive inform ation of the receivin g m em ber and not otherwise. A n y
other use or atte m p ted use does, ipso facto, te rm ín ate all rights of the m em ber, and is a violation of the
Statutes of this O rd e r.

A . M .O . R . C . is the only organization authorized to use the R egistered ñame and symbols, and the
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S U P R E M E T E M P LE R O S IC R U C IA N P A R K , S A N J O S E , C A L IF O R N IA

"Co nsecrated to truth and dedicated to every Rosicrucian"

REGISTERED in U .S. PATENT OFFICE

To the Members of the Esoteric Hierarchy, Greetingsl

This week we have the views of another Soror in regard to our work.
This Soror and her husband have been members with us for many years,
living in the New England section of the United States. Her husband
has been the Master of a Chapter of our members, and.both have had
opportunities to assist in Chapter work and assist many, many members.
They have been through floods in the New England States, have watched
their worldly possessions wlped out, and seen the sufferlngs and
anguish of many others who have lost their worldly possessions in the
floods. This Soror has had an opportunity to apply our principies not
only in her own daily affairs but in the lives of many others as well.
We, in the Rosicrucian Order, know what she has been able to accomplish
for herself and her husband and many others, and I am sure that you
who are in the highest Degrees of our work will be greatly helped by
what she tolla you in the account of her various experiences.

May Peace Profound abido with each of you.

Fraternally,

YOUR CLASS MASTER

"As I review the past six or more years it does not seem real, that
so many perplexing conditions have been overcome. Depression carne with
its hardships to rich and poor and an ever-increasing cry for sympathy
in actions and words; but after my own loss of a large h o m e , a condi-
tion was created and we carried on with a fortitude and assurance
gained by our weekly lectures and application of their contents. We
must assume complete faith and thon get busy to make our plans come
through for rehabilitating a new home and surroundings. Víith the
knowledge gained from my lectures I have livea a life of service to
humanity in sickness, the flood panics of 1936 and 1938 with hurricane
to hamper. If one has nct experienced these conditions it is a bless-
ing in one way, but it is a wonderful experience to be able to command
confidence and receive strength to give to these despondent human
beings, as well as animals, assurance that all will be taken care of
in good time.

Upon a number of occasions my intuition has averted accidents— and we

all know that in meeting so many strangers, intuition is a great help.
These attributes attract conditions and people to one, and in Service
to mankind are very gratifying. New experiences unfold, even to the
plañe in the sky at night with its red and green lights, coming from
somewhere and going somewhere, and the ordinarily unheard sounds of
the night.

It is very hard after a lifetime of study to speak of experiences had

by such studying; for every day, or even hourly, some new experience
comes up, small or large, and in my humble way, I cannot give full
valuation to these conditions.
The study gives mental poise and a contentment of life by being calm
and unhurried in these hectio days of everyone trying to get away from
themselves and stifling the consciousness. Our health is better, for
the nerves are quiet, and when the mind is peaoeful and in harmony with
the Cosmic the physical self is better. With the window open to the
winter’s coid wind and a large bowl of water in the room my night’s
rcst and experiences are complete and the morning1s of devotions and
exercise upon arising— and also upon rctiring— givcs the best of
spiritual upliftment for fulfilling the day’s activities.

Worrying and frctting over what has come and what will come seems to
be the chief complaint of human beings and the liarde st to overo orne.
The things we have done consclously or unconsciously can't be changed,
but we can profit by these experiences and remedy this condition.
Whatever your troubles have been for the day, when upon rctiring
place your confidence and being in tho hands of God, or the Supremo
Being, and go to sleep and a most refreshing rest will be had and the
next day will come with renewed confidence and strength to do the best
with your knowledge and faith.

Recently I have been reading of the gala attendance at a preview of a

motion pieture in Hollywood and of the wonderful celebrities, and
gowns worn by the same, and I am wondering how many of us preview our
past experiences and appreciate the valué of doing this. One does not
need to have elabórate gowns or jewels to do this. As I sit in our
humble home, with the wind and snow outside but warmth and quiet
inside and the companionship of a nearly blind husband, all seems as
it should be after nineteen years of study of Rosicrucianism and
thirty-seven of marriage experiences. Upon the stage or screen of the
past comes realization of having gained confidence in one's ability
to judge and completing plans, and peace of mind. It'is well that we
do not know what is to be in the tomorrow but when it, or what seems
to be unsurmountable, does come we receive the ability to surmount
these conditions, or if it is to be that we cannot do this, the
strength is given to us to endure and help others endure these condi­
tions.

After years of weekly leetures upon all subjeets pertaining to all

things in life one attains the quietude and stability which gives one
the distinction of helpfulness and cheerfulness upon all occasions.
We have obtained the knowledge of proper breathing and sleeping which
in turn gives better health and right living. In our hurried lives
few think of just slttlnp;, but an evening of just this will give more
proof of nature's laws and principies. No need of the spoken word for
complete companionship, as the wonderful painting of the aged mother
and father sitting in front of the fireplace on an old-fashioned sofá
shows. In the background are pietures of her vivid experiences, and
his on his side of the picture, and complete harmony is shown in their
faces as their years are nearing completion.

During our busy daily lives intuition is a great asset. It is called

many ñames but it is the same small voice which we should listen to
and heed at once. With the steady increase of knowledge we can attain
an attitude which receives confidence of humans as well as animals and
birds. In being near or with the sick the assurance of well-being and
strength-giving is helpful and quieting. A long time ago a stranger
stopped in my city on her way to New York and telephoned from the
depot that she had stopped over one train to see me and where could
we meet in the city as I lived out in the suburbs. As the place was
public she was rather at loss, as I also was, as to how we would know
each other, as we had forgotten to mention any way of Identification,
but upon my arrival we know each other. For me it had bcen a subject
of interest but she, a new student, said, when I asked her how she
knew I was I, fI could feel it as you were Just opposite m e . 1

We often do wrong but upon omission of the wrong we can readjust this
law and so gain in experience; but one must have the hard knocks to
appreciate the good things in life, In cases of extreme moasures, in
case of accidents, sickness, catastrophes, we are given confidence—
if we sincerely ask it will be given or shown to us, or strength and
fortitude will be available to give others who have not had the
privilege of these lectures, the assurance until conditions are con-
trolled. My most extreme need of all I have learned was my experience
of the 1936 and 1938 floods and hurricane. My homo was on the edge,
or in the wedge shapo which the hurricane formed, for three rods each
side was strewn with trees, sheds full of tobacco, wires, poles, etc.
down. The water of both floods carne into our home 5 and 2 ft. on the
first floor, so we took our animals, cats and dogs, and went to higher
land where hundreds were together in all modes of living. Every moment
was used in helping others to think not of the past but to readjust
their lives and plan for the futuro. What had gone could not be
brought back, but plarming and keeping them busy helping one help
another proved that suggestion is all that is necessary to equalize
human emotions. A smile even if you feel like crying carries the day
and reaps results.

The habi$ of peaceful sleeping is very easily acquired if your mind

is given the assurance of oneness with the Cosmic. Plain food and
exercise in the open will give good health and divine being. Give
thanks for all things given to you, and give of all you have attained.
This will be your heritage for the coming years of satisfaction and
the reward of: Well done my good and faithful servant."

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"Co nsecrated to truth and dedicated to every Rosicrucian"

REGISTERED IN U . S . PATENT OFFICE

BelovecL Members, Greetingsl

Of course, it is too early for me to know much about the resu't ts that
you or others may have obtained through last week's experiment, be-
cause I find from even those living cíose to me that the first few day
produced only a sensation of calmness with a slight sensation of invig
oration., I know that as the week ends there will be a very definite
tonic. feeling and a sense of increased vitality, but even this is not
the fullest eXpression of the exercise for the real effects will come
.during the week following in each case and there will be an accumula-
tive effect from the various exercises to be given each week.

There is one point in connection with these color exercises that I

overlooked mentioning last week but it is not too late to speak of it
now, and that is that the color of yellow should be used the least of
all. If you have selected yellow as the first color for your exercise
then do not use it again for many months and if vou have not yet used
yellow and wish to use it this coming week, keep in mind that while
all the other colors or shades of color which you may select mey be
used alternately and each one as frequently as the other, the color
yellow— that is the brilliant, bright, puré yellow--should not be used
except after eight or ten weeks. in other words, all the other colors
should be used for eight or ten weeks before the color of yellow is
repeated in any of these or 'future exercises. If you select a shade
of color that ls'a light green with much yellow in it, then it may be
t^sea as frequently as other colors, or if you select an orange with a
targe amount of yellow in it you may use it frequently. So long as
the yellow is modified with some other color it may be used frequently
but puré yellow in its unmodified form as a primary color should not
be used more often than every eight or ten weeks. I repeat this be-
cause it is important. It is important because yellow is the only
color that does not add to the vitality. It does not deplete or take
away from the vitality in any sense but it has no effect upon the
vitality and very little effect upon the psychic development. It does
have some minor effects upon some of the glands and that is why we do
not eliminate it altogether.

Now auring the coming week you may try a second color if you wish or
stick.to the first color you have used, repeating this same color for
■the coming week (unless it was the color of yellow, in which case
select a new color). I know that I suggested in my talk to you last
week that you could change the color every few days if you wished but
I really think it would be better to stiok to one color for an entire
week for the coming few weeks until your system has been pretsy. well
toned and tunea with these colors, then you may change them more
rapidly than once a week.

I promised you some little explanation regarding these exercises and

I find that the explanations will involve a great many fundamental
principies and a great many new and interesting princioles and so the
best I can do is to touch upon an important one each week.
Each one of us as a vibrating unit of matter in this universal cell of
existence has a natural color valué which is our individual color, just
as each one of us has a definite musical note and a definite polarity
of vibration. Every unit of matter throughout the universe, whether
it is a unit of the mineral mercury or a unit of the mineral known as
gold or silver, copper, tin, iron, salt or what-not, has its distinc-
tive color. It is true that all of the mineral elements, and, in fact,
all of the elements of nature in the universe, give off various color-s
which constitute their individual spectrums, but nevertheless, there
is one part of the spectrum of color which is most definite for each
element and this is known as the distinct color, or shade of color,
of that -olece of matter. This is not a mystical idea but one which
science has verified, and the fact that every element of matter does
have a distinct and outstanding line of color in the general spectrum
has enabled science to lócate or discover many minerals that were
missing from the periodic table of earthly elements. Every plant has
its distinct color which results from the vibrations of the plant.

It is a difficult thing for an individual human being to discover

which is his color except from experience. All of us sooner or later
learn of the color, or precise shade of color, which is not only most
attractive to us but which is most pleasing, satisfying and helpful
to us. Every woman has discovered that a certain shade of some de­
finite color is best for her clothing because it makes her fee'l more
vital, soothes her nerves, gives her added contentment and in many
other mystical ways enables her to sense that this particular shade
of color is most appropriate for her. Of course, she has to seek for
some other modifications or even opposites to this color because she
cannot wear one color continually in clothing.

Also all women, and a great many men, have found that there is one
color, or shade of color, that is quite displeasing. It is commonly
known that brown is quite displeasing to people of the white race
whereas it is a pleasing color for the average persons of the so-callud
colored or black race. This is not due to any similarity between
the complexión and the color for there are other dark skinned races,
or what we might almost cali brown skinned races, that do not enjoy
wearing brown. But the colored persons of the Southern states of
America who were born in such states and who are descendants of the
African races are quite attuned to the color of brown whereas this
same color in almost any of its dark shades is disturbing to the
average white person. There are many psychological reasons for this
into which we will not enter at the present time. The same is true
of musical notes for each individual and of certain other universal
conditions and elements of vibrations.

Now the object of the present color exercises is not merely to assist
you in discovering what is your most pleasing and satisfying color,
for I think that there are many more simple ways to discover this.
These exercises are for the purpose of building up the vibratory func-
tioning of many parts of the body which can oníy function properly
when they are attuned with the various rates of vibrations that affect
our bodles generally. The whole physlcal body of man is in rhythm and
vibration. Unless every cell in the body is vibrating properly and in
harmony with others there will be illness, and unless the entire body
as one cell is vibrating harmoniously with the universal vibrations
there will be illness. Each of the colors of the spectrum, excepting
yellow, has a vitalizing effect upon the entire body. Yellow has an
effect upon only a few glands of minor iraportance but, nevnrtheü ess,
necessary to the general scheme..

So for the following week either continué the same color that you
used last week for the same exercise, repeating it identically as
you used it during the past week, or, if you have felt very definite
effects from that color you may change to another color for the coming
week. But I would strongly urge that you pick one of the colors you
used last week and stay with it and repeat it in your exercises this
week so that we may start this work with a good aevelopment of the
effects at the very beginning. In other words, follow the same exer­
cise as outlined on the several pages of lecture 120 sent to you last
week.

Fraternally,

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Continulñg our study of the esoteric principie of Grace it is fitting

that we should examine this principie from every angle.

We discover in our studies that the most primitive of religious rites

included this idea of developing the Grace of God. In order to under-
stand this principie from the viewpoint of the ancient mystics we must
lay aside any consideration of the fact that there was a great diver-
gence of opinion as to whom and what was God. Let me suggest that
even though we at the present time think that we know the real God and
are worshipping the real God through having a proper conception of Him,
the time may come in the distant future when people will have an even
better conception of God, and will smile at the conception we have now.
They may even think that our present conception of God was quite heath-
enish or paganish. All that we can do is to think of God and conceive
of Him in the Light of our understanding. This is all that the ancient
pagans did. Their idea of the God of the universe and the God of all
beings may have been very crude, and surrounded with wrong ideas, and
misconceptíons; however, to them the idea of God included the great
essentials. To them God was the most supreme being in the world. He
was omnipotent in every conceivable sense. They even went so far as
to think of Him as being larger in stature, larger in mentalitv^
larger in volume of voice, and possessing all the powers of the uni­
verse. He was God of the Winds, God of the Sun, God of the Water,
God of the Air, and in fact, God of everything, for he supplanted all
of the score or more gods that had been previously assigned to all
of the elements and conditions of the universe. To them God was also
omnipresent; He was in everything and therefore to "bo found every-
where. The slightest whispering sound produced by the wlnd contained
the presence of God, according to their idea. The ripples on the
suri ace of the water contained His presence. Every holy altar in
home or temple, every holy casket, every holy fountain, every holy
shrine, contained the presence of God.

I often think as I read some of their ancient writings that they had
an even greater appreciation of the presence of God than we have today.
In many of our present-day churches the prayers offered to God peti-
tion Him to come down in the congregation and be present in the
edifice--as though God had not been present since the previous Sun-
day or Wednesday evening, Many other prayers ask God to visit a cer­
tain locality, or come into touch with a certain place, as though He
were not already there. To the ancients such an idea would have seem­
ed peculiar. They not only looked upon God as being constantly and
continously present in every holy temple, shrine, and s&cred place,
but as being present wherever living things, living creatures, were
to be found. He was therefore always present night and day in every
home where there were living persons who recognized Him or who paid
adoration to Him. Certainly He was continuously present in the great
temples, and never had to be asked or petitioned t o b e present on a
special occasion. The Jewish religión took this idea out of the Orient
and built for itself in every synagogue a holy altar which represented
the eternal and contlnuous presence of God in the place. Therefore,
a worshipper night go into such synagogues at any time of the day or
night whether there was a service being conducted or not, and be sure
of find^ng the presence of God at the altar. Going to this point,
therefore, or standing near it would bring one closer to sorae form of
attunement with God*

So we see that ever though the pagans and ancient peoples had strange
ideas about the personal looks of God and believed many peculiar
things about Him such as that He was extremely jeelous and filled
with wrath at times, and easily angered by the siaful acts of persons,
and would smite people with pestilence and famine, or cause earth-
quakes, floods, or fires in order to make people obey His will, still
the God they conceived of was as perfect as was their Light* We
can also understand, therefore, how they attributea to the nature of
this God of theirs a benevolent and kindly side. With all his anger,
jealousy, wrath, and occasionally peeved attitude, they believed He
also had a great amount of love, an encompaesing kindness, and a most
friendly feeling for those who obeyed Him, It was the desire, there­
fore, of the most religious and most devout to win the friendship of
God, and win the love of God by living properly* obeying His laws,
and fearing Him. In order to win His friendship and His love, and
thus be sure of being blessed with favors from God, it was necessary
to find Grace with God. Once more we may smil? with toleration and
kind consideration of the peculiar methods tha'u some of them adopted
to find this Grace, or win this Grace of flod, but after all they did
not do many things that were greatly different from what the churches
advise us to do today,

Thousands of these ancient mystics believed that by abandoning all

of their worldly standing, worldly heritage, and worldly possessions
•they would more quickly find this Grace. Taking the life of Buddha
as an example, we find that he was $ot the only one born of royal
blood and princely standing who abandoned his palace, his titles,-
his elegant clothing, and worldly things and, put on a covering of one
piece of cloth, merely partially to wrap hla naked body, and went forth
into the world under an asaumed ñame as a poor man and livefl on the
morsels of food that were voluntarily dropped in his begging bowl while
he preached some religious doctrine. Some of the greatest rulers known
in history sacrificed at least one half, it not all, of their worldly
power at times to find Grace with God. Others believed that by living
apart from worldly people a/id worldly temptations, and going into
caves, grottos or ruined bulldings on the ♦nountaintops, or in unin-
habited valleys, they would develop greater spirituality and thus at-
tain Grace. In ’this belief we find the origin of the practice of be-
coming an anchorite. Others believed that- by separating themselves
from the world and going to live in a gre^tt building with others who
felt llke they did, and devoting most of i:heir time to study and medi-
tation on spiritual subjeets, and devoting a part of their time to do-
ing humanitarian work for others, they would find this Grace, This
was the origin of the monkish organizaticins, and of the tuilding of
monasteries. Others believed that by persecuting their physical
boaies, neglecting them, and thus making the world and all of its
temptations less interesting to them the,7 would increase the spiritual
side of their natures,- and obtain Grace," This was the origin of the
oriental systems of self-punishment whic¿ we find still axisting in
India and some other countries.. Some of the most uneducated and
illiterate of the pagans believed that by burning sacrifices to God
they would obtain Grace, and we find this custom was partly a&opted by
the Jewish people, and is still existent as a religious rite in many
countries. Others thought that by building huge temples with spires,
or domes pointing to the heavens in which long and glorious prayers to
God could be offered, and in which they could go for hours at a time
for spiritual separation from the world, it would help to bring Grace,
and this was the orlgin of the many unique buildings that were built y
with such magnificent heights and wonderful spires.

The ide«»s held by these ancients were many, and too numerous to even
think of putting into one book or one encyclopedia. There was the op-
posite side of the picture as well. There were those who believed that
God was conflned to some special forms and places. They believed that
God existed in certain stones or metáis, and these were carried by per-
sons or hung on cords around their necks, and this was the beginning of
the belief in amulets, and lucky charms. There were others who believed
that the spirit of God rested in certain animals, and these animals
were carefully protected and faithfully watched, not as God but as re-
presentatives of God, and v/e find this idea still in usage in some
oriental countries where certain animals are greatly respected. Then,
of course, carne the sex idea based upon the people1s ignorancc of sex
and sex matters. They believed that slnce life in all of its visible
methods of reproduction seemed to be associated with the sex organs,
God's power resided solely in these organs, and the result was a de-
velopment of a system of sex worship that did not have any element of
the perversions and monstrous ideas associated with sex worship today;
but nevertheless, with all of its purity and absolutely holy respect,
the sex worship idea was erroneous and led to many misconceptions about
God and life generally.

The outstanding fact is that through all of these so-called dark ages
in ancient times, and in the middle ages as well, man sought to find
Grace with God by winning the favor of God, and it is to be noted that
the one fundamental idea in all of their methods for finding Grace was
the principie of attuning oneself with God through proper living and
through obeying God1s laws.

Now, up to the time that Moses carne forth to his people with a tablet
of stone upon which certain comments were definitely written, the
people of the world had no definitely prescribed and definitely worded
laws as being the laws of God. They based all of their understanding
of God1s laws upon occurrences in U f e which they observed. A child
does not have to study a medical book to know that cutting his finger
with a knife produces pain, injury, a loss of blood, and some incon-
venience in the use of the finger. In the same way as a child observed
the law of protecting the finger to save pain, so these ancient peoples
observed that by not doing certain things they were happier and in bet-
ter health, and found a certain peace and spiritual power that they
would not have otherwise. Consequently they worked out a code that
seemed to them to represent the fundamental laws of God. Now these
laws we are going to study and analyze in connection with earning, de-
serving, and attaining the Grace of God. In addition to the other help-
ful exercises you should meditate upon and try to analyze what you
think are the fundamental laws of God, which will bring the approval
of God into our U v e s , and bring us Grace.
Fraternally, YOUR CLASS MASTER
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