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                            THE PHILOSOPHY OF WAR


                              QUESTION NO. 163

   FROM THE ROSICRUCIAN VIEWPOINT, AN WAR BE SAID TO BE RIGHT?   WHAT SHOULD
BE THE STAND OF THE ROSICRUCIAN STUDENT IN THE PRESENT CONFLICT?  (World War
I)

   ANSWER:   In  the great crises of life we are brought face to  face  with
certain  issues  and called upon to make decisions of such  importance  that
they often require reversion of ideas and ideals, even of our most cherished
principles as hitherto conceived.  When such a crisis comes it will be noth-
ing short of mental,  moral, and spiritual suicide to shirk or evade the is-
sue,  no matter what the cost.  Consistency is said to be a jewel, but if we
would be truly wise we must be ready to change or revise our ideas  whenever
occasion really demands.

   The  Rosicrucian  teaching has always been in conformity with  the  Bible
dictum, "Thou shalt not kill."  No qualification was made and some have car-
ried this idea to such extremes that they would not kill a fly.  But the ma-
jority rightly felt that the injunction was not intended to cover pests  and
microorganisms which take such a terrible toll of human life.  These things,
being manifestations of evil thoughts,  are without the pale.   These people
have  no  intention of allowing their bodies or the bodies of their children


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to be overrun by vermin rather than to kill the pests, and they realize that
extermination  of insects was a great basic factor in America's  success  at
Panama.   In  fact it turned the balance from failure to success,  and  this
principle should be applied wherever necessary.  They feel that it would  be
a  foolish  application of the injunction, "Thou shalt not kill,"  to  allow
beasts of prey or poisonous reptiles to roam about among us to endanger  our
lives,  and they would cheerfully kill to remove such a menace from the com-
munity.   In their code of ethics the injunction involves only the idea that
it is wrong to kill for food, for sport, or for profit.  To kill a human be-
ing seemed to remote a possibility to most of us that it was not  considered
even as a contingency.   We always denounced capital punishment both on  the
ground that it is basically wrong and that it is worse than useless for when
we  free  the  Spirit of a murderer from his body we  liberate  him  in  the
spiritual world where he can and often does work on others to influence them
to similar crimes.   Therefore, it is better to restrain him in a prison and
strive to reform him so that even if he does not regain his liberty in  this
life, he will in future existences respect the sanctity of life of others.

   But  while it is possible thus to deal with the individual murderer,  the
case is different when an entire nation runs amuck against another,  commit-
ting  wholesale  murder,  arson,  destruction,  and  pillage.   It  is  then


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impossible to imprison a whole nation and more drastic means of self-defense
must be found.

   In civil life we recognize the law of self-defense,  which gives the  in-
tended  victim  of a would-be murderer the right to slay rather than  to  be
slain, and it would be specious to contend that this right is lost because a
million murderers dress themselves in uniform or because they go out  boldly
and brazenly,  proclaiming their intention to kill,  or because they lie  in
ambush by companies instead of singly.  Being the aggressors,  they are mur-
derers, and their intended victims have an unquestionable moral right to de-
fend their own lives by slaying these murderers.   Furthermore,  there rests
upon the strong the sacred duty of protecting the lives of those who are too
weak to protect themselves.   Even that involves the slaying of the  murder-
ers.

   FROM  THE  SPIRITUAL STANDPOINT,  THEREFORE,  THE RIGHT OR WRONG  OF  WAR
HINGES UPON THE QUESTION:  WHO IS THE AGGRESSOR AND WHO IS THE VICTIM?

   This question is easily answered where war is started for the purpose  of
conquest, or when war is waged for an altruistic purpose such as the emanci-
pation of a subjected people from physical, industrial,  and religious bond-
age.   It needs no argument to show that in such cases the oppressor is also
the aggressor and the liberator is the defender of inalienable human rights.
He is performing a sacred duty as his "brother's keeper."

   When this is once understood we cannot be deceived by the jack-o-lanterns


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of  diplomacy,  for we have a true light,  a simple standard  of  right  and
wrong.

   Having  made up our minds on that point,  it follows that it is far  more
noble  and heroic to face a firing squad for refusing to enter the  army  of
the aggressor,  or to flee from our native land,  or even join the ranks  of
the  defenders in the most menial capacity, than to hold a post  of  highest
honor among the aggressors.

   On the other hand it is a sacred duty in accord with the highest and  no-
blest  spiritual principles to fight among the defenders.   The greater  the
sacrifice,  the greater the merit, and he who shirks this sacred duty to de-
fend  hearth and home,  kin and country,  or who fails to fight for the  op-
pressed,  is beneath denunciation.  Furthermore,  the greater the emergency,
the greater the sacrifice that is required.

   Nor  is this great privilege of sacrifice confined to those of brawn  and
broad  shoulders.   Not alone are they bound by duty;  the work  behind  the
lines  is  even  more important and all can share according  to  talent  and
ability--mental, physical, and financial.

   Furthermore,  when  the  occasion  arises  where  defense  of  others  or
self-defense  becomes unavoidable,  the harder the campaign is  pushed,  the
shorter and more successful it will be.  Therefore,  no half measures should
be  tolerated,  and neutrality under such circumstances must be regarded  at
least as a sin of omission.


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   It  is well understood by students of occultism that wars are  instigated
and inspired by the divine hierarchies who thus use one nation to punish an-
other for its sins.  Even a superficial study of the Bible will furnish many
instances.   This does not always mean that the victor is  altogether  righ-
teous, but it does show that the vanquished nation has done wrong and merits
the punishment inflicted,  usually on account of its arrogance and  godless-
ness.   Nor is it a sign that because it is victorious for a long  time  and
extremely difficult to conquer,  it enjoys divine favor--at least in a  mea-
sure.   Such a course may be brought about by the invisible army who support
the arms of the aggressor and prolong the struggle for the purpose of making
the final defeat more thorough and disastrous; also to teach the defenders a
lesson that could not be learned in a short decisive struggle.

   Such, briefly, is the philosophy of war from the spiritual viewpoint, re-
gardless of who are the nations involved.   If we apply these principles and
tests  to the present war (World War I) it must be apparent to everyone  who
is not biased and will approach the subject with a broad and open mind  that
the militarists of the Central Empires have been preparing for this war  for
generations,  and on the fifth of July, 1914,  at the notorious Potsdam Con-
ference which is now acknowledged by them, they agreed to start the war  af-
ter a few weeks during which the bankers of these nations were so manipulat-
ing the markets as to amass the greatest possible financial resources.  This


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stamps the Austro-German war parties as the aggressors,  who under the spell
of the Race Spirits have marshaled their millions against all the other  na-
tions  of the world.   In the beginning of the conflict France and  England,
who  were the immediate neighbors of the outraged Belgians,  made her  cause
their own and acted in that respect as their brother's keeper.  However, be-
ing  unprepared,  they have been unable to bring the struggle to a  decisive
termination.   Therefore it became necessary for America to enter  the  con-
flict and turn the balance, so that peace may be restored and safety secured
to those who are too weak to protect themselves.

   It  has been a matter for rejoicing that whenever the United  States  has
been  forced to enter upon a military campaign it has always been either  in
self-defense or in the still more altruistic role of defender and  emancipa-
tor  of the weak.   Were this a war of conquest or aggression,  it would  be
better  for any spiritually minded person to face a firing squad as  already
stated than to participate in such an unrighteous undertaking.  On the other
hand,  seeing  that the present struggle which is waged for the  purpose  of
crushing the militarism of Central Europe has taken such a terrible toll  of
human life with the strength of the allied defenders nearly spent, it is the
sacred duty of everyone to aid to the very limit according to his spiritual,
mental, moral, or physical capacity, either at the front or behind the lines


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wherever the judgment of those in charge may require his or her service.

   Therefore  we  would  urge  each and every one of  the  students  of  the
Rosicrucian Fellowship,  of whatever country now defending the cause of  hu-
manity against the militarist party of the Central Powers, to support his or
her  government to the very best of his ability that we may soon see  "Peace
on earth and among men good will."


                         THE ROSICRUCIAN FELLOWSHIP

                              QUESTION NO. 164

   IS THE TEACHING OF THE ROSICRUCIANS AVAILABLE FOR EVERYONE?   IF SO,  HOW
IS IT MADE AVAILABLE?

   ANSWER:   In order to promulgate this teaching The Rosicrucian Fellowship
has  been formed,  and anyone who is not a hypnotist,  professional  medium,
clairvoyant, palmist, or astrologer, may enroll as a Preliminary Course Stu-
dent by writing to the General Secretary.   There is no fee for  initiation,
or dues.  Money cannot buy our teaching.  Advancement depends upon merit.


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   After completing the Preliminary Course one is put on the Regular Student
list for a period of two years,  after which if he has become so imbued with
the  verity  of the Rosicrucian teachings that he is prepared to  sever  his
connection with all other occult or religious orders--the Christian Churches
and Fraternal Orders are excepted--he may assume the Obligation which admits
him to the degree of Probationer.

   We  do not mean to insinuate by the foregoing that all other  schools  of
occultism are of no account--far from it.  Many roads lead to Rome,  but  we
shall attain with much less effort if we follow one of them than if we  zig-
zag from path to path.   Our time and energy are limited in the first place,
and  are still further curtailed by family and social duties not to  be  ne-
glected for self-development.   it is to husband the minimum of energy  that
we may legitimately expend upon ourselves,  and to avoid waste of the scanty
moments  at our disposal that resignation from all other Orders is  insisted
upon.

   The world is an aggregate of opportunities,  but to take advantage of any
one  of them we must possess efficiency in a certain line of endeavor.   De-
velopment of our spiritual powers will enable us to help or harm our  weaker
brothers.   It is only justifiable when efficiency in service of humanity is
the object.

   The  Rosicrucian  method of attainment differs from other systems in  one
especial particular:  It aims, even at the very start, to emancipate the pu-
pil  from  dependence  upon  others,  to  make  him SELF-RELIANT to the very


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highest  degree,  so that he may be able to stand alone  under  all  circum-
stances and cope with all conditions.   Only one who is thus strongly poised
can help the weak.

                             NATURE OF THE MYTH

                              QUESTION NO. 165

   DO  YOU CONSIDER THE ANCIENT MYTHS OF ACTUAL VALUE,  OR ARE THEY  LARGELY
FIGMENTS OF THE IMAGINATION?

   ANSWER:   They contain profound occult truths.  The contest between light
and  darkness is described in innumerable myths which are alike in the  main
features,  though circumstances vary according to the evolutionary stage  of
the people among whom they are found.  Generally the appear fantastic to the
normal  mind because the picture drawn is highly symbolical,  and  therefore
out of tune with the concrete realities of the material world.  However, em-
bodied in these legends are great truths which appear when they are stripped
of their scale of materialism.

   In  the first place it should be borne in mind that the  contest  between
light  and  darkness,  as  fought here in the physical  world,  is  but  the
manifestation of a similar  contest  fought  also  in the moral, mental, and


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spiritual realms.   This is a fundamental truth, and he who would know truth
should  realize that the concrete world,  with all the things which  we  now
think so real,  solid,  and enduring is but an evanescent manifestation cre-
ated by the divine thought, and it will dissolve into dust millions of years
before  the  other  worlds which we think of us unreal  and  intangible  are
similarly  dissolved and we once more return to the bosom of the Father,  to
rest until the dawn of another and greater Cosmic Day.

   It  is  particularly at Christmas,  when the light is low and  the  night
long, that humanity turns its attention to the Southern Sun, and waits in an
attitude  of  expectancy  for the moment when it shall  again  commence  its
northward journey to bring back the light and life to our frozen hemisphere.
In the Bible we learn how Samson, the Sun,  waxed strong while his rays grew
longer; how the powers of darkness, the Philistines, ferreted out the secret
of his power and had his hair, or rays, cut, to rob him of his strength; how
they deprived him of his sight by piercing his eyes and finally slew him  at
the temple of the Winter Solstice.

   The Anglo Saxons speak of the victory of King George over the dragon; the
Teutons call to mind how Beowolf slew the fire drake and how Siegfried  con-
quered the dragon Fafner.   Among the Greeks we find Apollos victorious over
Python,  and  hercules over the dragon of the Hesperides.  Most of the myths


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tell only the victory of the newborn Sun,  but there are others which,  like
the  story of Samson just recited,  and Hiram Abiff of the  Masonic  Legend,
tell  also of how the old year's Sun was vanquished after  having  completed
its circle and was then ready to give birth to a new Sun,  which rises  from
the ashes of the old Phoenix to be the Lightbearer of a new year.

   It is in such a myth that we learn of the origin of the mistletoe, a tale
which is told in Scandinavia and Iceland,  particularly at Yuletide when the
red  holly mingles in decorative effect with the white mistletoe--a  shadowy
symbol of the blood that was scarlet with sin but has become white as  snow.
The story follows:

   In  ancient  days when the Gods of Olympus reigned  over  the  Southland,
Wotan with his company of Gods,  held sway in Walhall where the icicles  re-
flected the winter Sun in all tints of the rainbow and the beautiful  cover-
let of snow made light the darkest night eve without the aid of the  flaming
Aurora Borealis.  They were a wonderful company; Tyr, the God of War,  still
lives in memory among us, for him we have named Tuesday.  Wotan,  the wisest
among them,  is remembered in Wednesday; Thor still is with us as the God of
Thursday.   He was the hammer swinger.   When he threw his hammer after  the
giants,  the  enemies of God and man, he made thunder and lightning  by  the
terrific force with which his hammer struck the clouds.   The gentle  Freya,
the Goddess of beauty,  for  whom  we have named Friday, and the treacherous


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Loke,  whose name lives in the Scandinavian Saturday,  are other present-day
fragments of a forgotten faith.

   But  there  was no one like Baldur.   He was the second son of  Odin  and
Freya.   He was the noblest and most gentle of the Gods,  beloved of  every-
thing in nature.   He exceeded all beings,  not only in gentleness,  but  in
prudence and eloquence,  also, and was so fair and graceful that light radi-
ated from him.   In a dream it was revealed to him that his life was in dan-
ger  and this weighted so heavily on his Spirit that he shunned the  society
of the Gods.   His mother Freya, having at length prevailed upon him to tell
her the cause of his melancholy, called a council of the Gods,  and all were
filled with sad forebodings, for they knew that the death of Baldur would be
the forerunner of their downfall--the first victory of the giants, or powers
of darkness.

   Wotan therefore cast RUNES, magic characters, which were used to foretell
the  future,  but all seemed dark to him.   He could gain no  insight.   The
"Vessel  of Wisdom,"  which might have served them in their need was in  the
keeping of one of the Norns,  the Goddesses of Fate,  so that could not help
them now.   Ydun,  the Goddess of health,  whose golden apples kept the Gods
ever young,  had been betrayed into the powers of the giants by the trickery
of Loke, the spirit of evil, but a delegation was sent to her, in order that
she  might  be  consulted  on  the  nature  of the sickness which threatened


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Baldur,  if such it be.  However, she only answered with tears,  and finally
after a solemn council held by all the Gods,  it was determined that all the
elements,  and everything in nature should be bound by an oath not  to  harm
the  gentle God.   This was done and a pledge was obtained from  everything,
except  one  insignificant plant which grew westward of the  Palace  of  the
Gods;  this  seemed so frail and fragile that the Gods deemed it to  be  in-
nocuous.

   However,  Wotan's  mind  still misgave him that all was  not  right.   it
seemed to him that the Norns of good fortune had flown away.  Therefore,  he
resolved  to visit the home of a celebrated prophetess by the name of  Vala.
This  is the spirit of the earth,  and from her he would learn the  Fate  in
store  for the Gods,  but he received no comfort from her and   returned  to
Walhall more cast down than formerly.

   Loke,  the spirit of evil,  and treachery, was in reality one of the  gi-
ants,  or powers of darkness,  but part of the time he lived with the  Gods.
He was a turncoat,  who could be depended upon by neither party,  and there-
fore  he was usually distrusted and despised by both Gods and  giants.   One
day while he was sitting bemoaning his Fate a dense cloud began to rise from
the  ocean,  and after a time the dark figure of the Giant King issued  from
it.   Loke in some terror demanded what brought him hither.  The monarch be-
gan  to reproach him with the contemptible part he,  a demon by  birth,  was
acting in consenting to be the tool of the Gods in their warfare against the


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giants,  to whom he owed his origin.  It was out of no affection for himself
that he was admitted to the society of the Gods, but because Wotan knew well
the  ruin  which he and his offspring were destined to bring upon  them  and
thought  by thus conciliating him to defer the evil day.   He who  from  his
power  and cunning might have been a leader with either party,  was now  de-
spised and rejected by all.  The Giant King further reproached him with hav-
ing  already  frequently saved the Gods from ruin and even  with  furnishing
them with weapons against the giants,  and ended by appealing to the  hatred
which rankled in his bosom against Wotan and his whole race as a proof  that
his natural place was with the giants.

   Loke  acknowledged the truth of this and professed his readiness  to  aid
his brethren by all means in his power.   The Giant King then told him  that
the moment was now at hand when he might seal the Fate of the Gods;  that if
Baldur was slain their destruction must sooner or later follow and that  the
gentle  God's life was at that time threatened by some as  yet  undiscovered
danger.   Loke replied that the anxiety of the Gods was already at  an  end,
for Freya had bound everything in nature by oath not to injure her son.  The
dark monarch said that one thing only had been omitted.  However,  what that
was lay concealed in the breast of the  Goddess  and  was known to no other.


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He  then  sank  down again to his dark abyss and left  Loke  to  his  darker
thoughts.

   Loke then,  having assumed the figure of an old woman,  appeared to Freya
and by his cunning drew from her the fatal secret; that presuming on the in-
significant  nature of the mistletoe she had omitted to obtain from  it  the
pledge  wherewith she had bound everything else.   Loke lost no time in  re-
pairing  to  the place where the mistletoe grew,  and tearing it up  by  the
roots, gave it to the dwarfs, who were cunning smiths, to form into a spear.
This  weapon was made with many incantations,  and when the spear  was  com-
pleted one called for blood to temper it.   A child free from all taint  was
brought in, th dwarf plunged the spear into its breast and sang:

         "The death-grasp hear,
         Ho!  Ho!--now 'tis o'er--
         Soon hardens the spear
         In the babe's pure gore--
         Now the barbed head feel,
         Whilst the veins yet bleed,
         Such a deed--such a deed--
         Might harden e'en steel."

   In the meantime the Gods and the dead braves, who are with them assembled
for  a tournament,  in order to convince Baldur how groundless were his  ap-
prehensions,  now that his life was deemed to be charmed,  made him the butt
of all their weapons.


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   Loke  repaired there also with the fatal spear and seeing the  blind  and
strong God,  Hoedur,  standing apart from the rest, asked him why he did not
honor his brother Baldur by tilting with him, also.   Hoedur excused himself
on account of his blindness and because he had no weapon.  Loke then put the
enchanted spear into his hands and Hoedur,  unsuspicious of malice,  pierced
Baldur through the breast with the spear made from the mistletoe, so that he
fell lifeless to the ground to the unspeakable grief of all creatures.

   Baldur  is the summer Sun,  beloved by everything in nature,  and in  the
blind God,  Hoedur,  who slays him with the spear,  we may readily recognize
the  sign Sagittarius,  for when the Sun enters that sign in December it  is
nearly  without  light and is therefore said to be slain by  the  blind  God
Hoedur.   The  bow of Sagittarius,  as pictured on the zodiac of  the  south
presents symbolically the same idea as the spear of the story in the Eddas.

   The  legend of Baldur's death teaches the same cosmic Truth as all  other
myths of kindred nature,  namely, that the Spirit of the Sun must die to the
glories  of the Universe while,  as Christ, it enters the earth to bring  it
the  renewed life,  without which all physical manifestations on our  planet
must  cease.   As death here precedes a birth into the spiritual realms,  so
also  there is a death upon the spiritual plane of existence before a  birth
can  take  place  into  the  physical  body.  As Osiris in Egypt is slain by


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Typhon,  ere Horus, the Sun of the New Year, may be born, so also Christ die
to the higher world before He an be born into the earth and bring to us  the
needed annual spiritual impulse; but our Holy Season commemorates no greater
manifestation of Love than that of which the mistletoe is emblematical.  Be-
ing  physically the extreme of weakness,  it clings to the oak which is  the
symbol of strength.   it is the very weakness of the weakest of beings  that
pierces the heart of the noblest and gentlest of Gods so that,  compelled by
his love for the lowly, he descends to the shades in the underworld, even as
Christ  for our sake dies to the spiritual world each year and is born  into
our planet that He may permeate it anew with His radiant Life and Energy.

                                   PRAYER

                              QUESTION NO. 166.


   WHAT IS THE ROSICRUCIAN ATTITUDE TOWARD PRAYER,  IN THE LIGHT OF BIBLICAL
ADMONITIONS?

   ANSWER:   In one place the Bible directs us to pray without ceasing.   In
another  Christ repudiates the practice,  saying that we should not  imitate
those  who  believe  they are heard for their many  words.   There  can,  of
course, be no contradiction between the  words  of  Christ  and those of His


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disciples,  and we must therefore reconstruct our ideas of prayer in such  a
manner  that we may pray always and yet without voluminous verbal or  mental
expression.  Emerson said:

         Although your knees were never bent,
         To heaven your hourly prayers are sent,
         And be they formed for good or ill,
         Are registered and answered still."

   In other words,  every act is a prayer, which, under the law of cause and
effect,  brings to us adequate results.   We get exactly what we want.   Ex-
pression in words is unnecessary,  but sustained action along a certain line
indicates what we wish, even if we ourselves do not realize it, and in time,
longer  or shorter,  according to the intensity of our desire,  there  comes
that which we have thus prayed for.

   The  things  thus gained or achieved may not be what we really  and  con-
sciously want.   In fact, sometimes we may get something we would far sooner
be without,  something that is a curse and a scourge, but the prayer-act has
brought  them to us and we must keep them until we can legitimately get  rid
of them.   If we throw a stone into the air,  the act is not complete  until
the reaction has carried the stone back to the earth.   In that case the ef-
fect  follows the cause so speedily that it is not difficult to connect  the
two.

   However, if we wind the spring of an alarm clock, the  power is stored up


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in  the  spring  until  a certain mechanism releases  it.   Then  comes  the
effect--the  ringing of a bell--and although we may have been  sleeping  the
sleep of forgetfulness,  the reaction or unwinding of the spring took  place
just the same.  Similarly, acts which we have forgotten will sometime or an-
other produce their results regardless, and thus the prayer of action is an-
swered.

   However,  there is the true mystic prayer--the prayer where we  meet  God
face to face, as Elijah met Him.  Not in the tumult of the world,  the wind,
the  earthquake,  or the fire,  do we meet Him,  but when all is  still  the
soundless voice speaks to us from within.  However, the silence which is re-
quired  for this experience is not a mere silence of words.   There are  not
even the inward pictures which usually pass before us in meditation, nor are
there thoughts, but our whole being resembles a calm crystal-clear lake.  In
it Deity mirrors Himself, and we experience the unity which makes communica-
tion  unnecessary  either by words or in any other way.   We  feel  all  God
feels.  He is nearer than hands and feet.

   The Christ taught us to say, "Our Father who are in heaven,"  etc.   That
prayer  is the most sublime that can be given utterance in words,  but  this
prayer of which I am speaking may at the moment of union give itself  utter-
ance in the one unspoken word,  "Father."  The devotee,  when he is truly in
the mood of prayer, never gets any farther.  He makes no requests,  for what
is the use?  Has he not the promise, "The Lord is my Shepherd,  I  shall not


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want"?   Has  he not been told to seek first the kingdom of heaven  and  all
other things shall be added?  His attitude can perhaps best be understood if
we  take  the simile of a faithful dog looking with dumb devotion  into  its
master's face,  its whole soul pouring itself out through its eyes in  love.
Likewise,  only of course with much greater intensity,  does the true mystic
look  to the God within and pour himself or herself out in voiceless  adora-
tion.   In this way we may pray without ceasing, inwardly,  while we work as
zealous servants in the world without; for let us always remember that it is
not  intended  that we should dream our lives away.   While we pray  to  God
within, we must also work for God without.



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                                    INDEX

Accidents, are foreshown in horoscope, 374
Adam, was the primitive man, 281, 289
Adaptability, determines number of births under a sign, 107
   makes for progress of the Spirit, 105
Adept, builds body of fresh vegetables, fruits, etc., 221
   can use the Creative Word, 440
   has two spinal cords, 271
   is able to preserve body for centuries, 249
   sees, knows, and can use laws of Nature, 247
Adrenals, assimilate proteins and eliminate waste, 157
Affections, should not be inordinate, 20
Affirmations, are in vain unless accompanied by actions, 97
Aggressor, in war, is to be blamed, 544
Aionian, means "an age", 483
Alchemists, did not profess to change metal into gold, 540
Alcohol, has deleterious effects, 433
   is a spirit of death, 175
Amputation, has certain effects, 124
Anesthetic, may ease transition after death, 119
Angels, announced birth of Isaac, Samuel, and Jesus, 339
   are located on the moons, 346
   deal with life in a constructive manner, 346
   forced entrance to spinal cord of man, 377
   have densest body of ether, 345
   were humanity of Moon Period, 57, 522
Angelus Silesius, spoke of Christ being born within, 309
Animals, are due consideration by man, 55, 192
   are governed by Group Spirits by means of third part of silver cord, 431
   are guided by Spirit from without, 319
   are related to group Spirits, 189
   have internal picture consciousness, 489
   should not replace human beings in affections, 441
   started mineral existence in Sun Period, 522
   will become pupils of present humans, 58
   will be humanity of Jupiter Period, 57
   prehistoric, may be reconstructed by their fossil remains, 471


[PAGE 562]                                             QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Anthropoids, may be said to be soulless, 105
Apis, was worshiped by Egyptians, 260, 268, 302
Apostles' Creed, was composed centuries after Apostles passed away, 241
Aquarian Age, began to be felt in middle of 19th Century, 353
   comprises 2,100 years from 2,600 A.D., 360
   is not to be confounded with Kingdom of Christ, 354
   is now approaching, 110
   starts when Sun enters 30th degree of Aquarius, 351
   will be the intellectual age of "the Son of Man", 303
   will bring spiritual influence, 353
   will bring new standards, 501
Aquarius, has inventive, mystic, scientific influence, 361, 365
Archangels, are rulers of animals, 522
   have densest body made of desire stuff, 244, 345
   inhabit the Sun, 346
Archetype, determines length of life, 337
   indicates path along which silver cord will grow, 428
   is pattern for physical body, 486
   of new earth formations, was seen by Max Heindel, 494
Aryan Age, is now drawing to a close, 294
Aries, on Ascendant, indicates new cycle in life, 106
Ascendant, differs from life to life, 499
Aspects, are stronger than house or sign position, 379
   give tendencies, 384
Aspirant, has trials so as to progress, 453
Assimilation, Law of, requires overpowering by Ego of food eaten, 221, 249
Astrological symbols, have definite meaning, 368
Astrology, horary, is based upon certain principles, 393
   gives insight into plan of evolution, 397
   is part of all religions, 370, 372
   is rapidly gaining ground, 362
   may be used advantageously in guiding the life, 92
Athenians, were always seeking something new, 525
Atlantean Epoch, was time of involution, 408
Atlanteans, had not all evolved lungs, 408, 418
Atlantis, existed a million or more years ago, 109
Attraction, force of, holds sway in higher regions, 28, 44
Aura, attracts one to proper Mystery School, 500
   is possessed by man and planet, 352, 365
Avitchi, is Eastern term meaning state of consciousness, 


[PAGE 563]                                                             INDEX

Baldus, represents the summer sun, 554
Baptism, was occasion of descent of Christ Spirit into vehicles of Jesus, 
   245
Besant, Mrs. Annie, said to be have been Hypatia in previous life, 70
Bible, contains many interpolations, 333
   confirms Rosicrucian Teaching of lost souls, 482
   does not teach resurrection of the physical body, 241
   does not teach that the soul is immortal, 87
   states that dry land appeared, 262
   teaches that Christ was alone begotten Son, 328
   teaches that we shall meet the Christ in the air, 282, 283
   teachings of, are being vindicated by science, 264
   tells of beginning of Rainbow Age, 433
   tells us that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, 263
   was translated by poor Hebrew scholars, 242
Birth, best time for, 392
   is a fourfold event, 536
   premature, 388
   science of is efficient, 37
Birth control, has spiritual aspects, 109
Bishops, wear mitre shaped as head of fish, 261, 303, 354
Blood, is a gas, 145
   is etherealized food, 151
   is nucleated in lower animals, 144
   is the particular vehicle of the Ego, 145
Blood corpuscles, white, are not the policement of the system, 143
Blue, is the color which represents the Father, 265
Body, physical, adapts itself to altered conditions, 137
   is broken up by spiritual living, 57
   is composed of changing atoms, 242
   is composed of numerous cells, 190
   is created by Initiate, 220
   is dead after 3 1/2 days following rupture of silver cord, 38
   is fashioned according to invisible mold, 486
   is not resurrected, 241
   is penetrated by finer vehicles, 410
   should be regarded as temple of God, 437
   tissues of, are destroyed by emotions, 248
Bolinger Case, investigation of, revealed that the Ego had been a nun in 
   previous life, 470
Book of the Dead, describes ritual of Egyptians, 533


[PAGE 564]                                             QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Brain, is man's most important instrument, 433
   was evolved so that man might think, 270
Bread, symbolizes ideal of Pisces-Virgo Age, 293
Brotherhood, vibrations of, are generated by Christ, 326
Brothers of the Rose Cross, formulated the Western Wisdom Religion, 465
Buddha, was a world teacher, 327
   was reborn as Shankaracharya, 450


Cagliostro, was an initiate, 22, 250
Cain, Sons of, are semi-divine in nature, 299, 451
   symbolizes second race, 289
   was the son of a widow, 444
Cana, marriage at, has esoteric meaning, 288, 303
Canals, semi-circular in ear, are bony structures, 207
Cancer, involves a debt of destiny, 117
Capital punishment, increases number of murderers, 100
   is opposed by Rosicrucians, 99, 542
Cataclysms, will break up present shape of continent, 494
Catholic church, has holy water at door, 261
Catholic Hierarchy, concentrates efforts upon children, 537
Cerebrum, whole of will be used in future, 271
Chambered Nautilus, The, describes progress in body building, 135
Charity, begins at home, 441
Children, are sometimes predestined to die in infancy, 83
   have only two parts of silver cord developed, 431
   should have early training in religion, 538
Christ, abrogated old covenant, 303
   brought grace and truth, 268
   brought religion of Aquarian Age, 304
   called blessed those persecuted for His sake, 73
   called Himself the "Son of Man", 298, 302
   came on a mission, 323
   came to raise vibrations of earth, 72
   came to supersede law with love, 244, 254, 287, 320
   came when Sun was about 7 degrees of Aries, 260
   changed water to wine, 433, 291, 303
   chose vehicle of entrance into earth, 314
   coming of, ended sway of Jehovah and Saturn, 254
   could not construct physical body, 245, 250
   dwells in the Sun, 320
   evolved within becomes soul body, 309
   functioned in soul body of Jesus when He appeared to Disciples after 
Golgotha, 337


[PAGE 565]                                                             INDEX

Christ (CONT.) gave not the cup to the multitude, 294
   gospel of, teaches knowledge of Nature's laws, 142
   had to be tempted, 296
   is born periodically, 275
   is born within when mercurial and neptunian rays meet in spinal canal, 
     378
   is Cosmic Sun Spirit, 250
   is here only temporarily, 323
   is highest Initiate among Archangels, 188, 243, 320
   is highest Initiate of Sun Period, 327, 448
   is not Son of Mary, 288
   is pained by evil thoughts, 279
   is represented by yellow color, 265
   is the chief corner stone, 452
   is the Spirit of our Earth, 319
   must be differentiated from Jesus, 243, 251
   preached to stragglers, 409
   second advent of, 280, 283, 300
   sought out the afflicted, 18
   symbol of was disputed, 354
   taught us the Lord's Prayer, 558
   told parable of rich man and Lazarus, 86
   tomb of, was not hermetically sealed, 317
   turns his attention from one planet to another, 321
   used different methods of healing, 132
   washed feet of Disciples, 58
   when born within makes us men of sorrow, 56
   will be both kind and priest for humanity, 301
Christ Life, is poured into earth anew each year, 197
Christ Light, is invisible to Eastern aspirant, 229
   wave of, is focused upon earth, 276
Christ Spirit, learned through bodily limitations of Jesus, 297
   was Initiator who raised Lazarus, 237
   worked on earth from outside prior to Golgotha, 244
Christian religion, preaches love as fulfillment of the law, 451
Christian Rosenkreuz, is felt at meetings in Temple, 223
   is reincarnation of Hiram Abiff and Lazarus, 237, 300, 447, 498
   is said to be using a body preserved for centuries, 249
   is thirteenth member of the Order, 223
   whereabouts of, are unknown, 504
   works with governments and science, 300, 504
Christian Scientists, have no high priced preachers, 529


[PAGE 566]                                             QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Christianity, essence of, is that love overcomes law, 285
Christians, were pioneers of the age, 254
Christmas, is time of greatest spiritual impulse, 276, 548
   is turning point in flow of divine life, 277
Christos, means "anointed", 251
Cigarettes, interfere with use of spiritual faculties, 378
Circle, is symbol of Spirit, 368
Civilization, has been changed by Mercurians, 378
Clairvoyants, can see things in invisible worlds, 449
   see by invisible light, 162
Cognition, spiritual, method of, 201
Colds, are due largely to attitude of mind, 152
Comforter, The, is Holy Spirit working from within, 235
Compatability, is indicated by horoscopes, 400
Concentration, is focusing thought upon a single point, 423
   is direct application of thought power, 424
Conception, The Immaculate, becomes personal experience of everyone, 251
   is taught in Rosicrucian Philosophy, 243
   takes place when sun is in sign Virgo, 276
Concrete World, is but an evanescent manifestation, 548
Conditions, may be changed 486
Confucius, was a world teacher, 327
Conscience, is a quality of the soul, 511
   results from pain felt in Purgatory, 83, 343
Conscientiousness, has astrological origin, 343
   requires combination of highest virtues of several planets, 344
Conscious soul, grows by action, external impacts, and experience, 519
   is extracted from dense body, 516
   will be absorbed by Divine Spirit, 520
Consciousness, does not begin with birth, 330
   is augmented by shuffling off mortal coil, 331
   on inner planes, is not always pleasant, 417
Continence, is taught by occult philosophy, 112
Contributions, were not solicited by Max Heindel, 241
Correspondence Courses, are offered by the Fellowship, 547
Cosmic Christ, concentrates fully within earth, 278
   enters earth at winter solstice, 308
   feels everything that goes on in earth, 321
Cosmic consciousness, is gradually being awakened, 175
Cosmic wisdom, is learned only through long period, 60
Cosmos, is wrought from chaos by divine power, 192
Constellations, are groups of great Spirits, 352


[PAGE 567]                                                             INDEX

Craftsmen, are descended from Cain, 499
Creation, involves use of will and imagination, 273
Creative word, is used by Adepts, 440
   will be spoken in New Galilee, 293
Cremation, is permissible only after 3 1/2 days following death, 24
   story of, is told in Masonic Legend, 299
Cross, is symbol of matter, 368
   under symbolic letters 256


David, was tempted by Satan, 401
Dead, so-called, may form clothes by thoughts, 11
Death, does not end all, 86
   science of, is needed, 38
Defectives, should be allowed to live, 467
Delirium tremens, nature of, 174, 434
Dense body, forces of, will be superimposed on vital body, 517
   is emanation of Divine Spirit, 519
Desire body, assumes shape of dense body after death, 13
   interlocks with vital body to cause "sin body", 173
   is born about the 14th year, 536
   is ovoid in shape during life, 13
   is special vehicle of Human Spirit, 519
   is vehicle of our emotions, 143
   of spiritual person, contains little coarse material, 42
   was started in Moon Period, 517
Desire stuff, is amenable to power of thought, 11, 30
   is superlatively plastic, 202
Desire World, colors in, are different from those here, 193
   denizens of, have power to mold desire stuff, 14
   forms in, attract material of like nature, 44
   has no seasons, 162
   higher part dominated by force of attraction, 44
   higher part reached only through lower part, 18
   interpenetrates ethers and Physical World, 41
   lower part of constitutes hell, 284
   material of may be molded by thought, 21
   nature of, 193
   new inhabitants of watch developments on physical plane, 30
   people in see the sun, 162
Destiny, can be changed, 93
   debts of not created in Christian religion, 451
   is being generated every moment of our lives, 66, 67
   of world, is influenced by earthbound Spirits, 31
   when ripe, cannot be circumvented, 491


[PAGE 568]                                             QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Development, occult is impossible until after formation of third part of 
   silver cord at 21, 429
Diet, of flesh, must be replenished often, 221
Discrimination, is a great factor in soul growth, 240
Disease, caused by attitude of mind, 152
   caused by contravention of Nature's laws, 142
   causes vital body to become emaciated, 129
   may be healed by spiritual power, 117
   may be prevented by keeping life force flowing from body, 149
   often caused by eating too much, 150
   products of may be destroyed, 126, 129
Divine Spirit, will absorb Human Spirit at close of Jupiter Period, 523
   will be strongest in Vulcan Period, 519
Divinity, is indicated by ability to rule oneself, 96
Doctors, have duty to prolong life, 469
Dogs, get scent of people through ether from vital body, 414
Dragon's Head, is Moon's north node, 252
Dragon's Tail, is the Moon's south node, 252
Dreams, are not illusory, 166
   nature of, 162
Drugs, use of interferes with exercise of spiritual FAculties, 76
Drunkard, in Purgatory, feels suffering inflicted upon family, 78
   may have negative clairvoyance, 176
   remains in Purgatory longer than person of high ideals, 42
Dweller on Threshold, is manifested as being of the opposite sex, 458
   represents burden of the past, 72, 160

Earth, atmosphere of, revolves with it, 162
   has wobbling motion, 358
   history of, may be read by trained persons, 471
   is going through stages of evolution, 262
   was crystallized by humanity, 322
Earth Period, is fourth stage for dense body, 517
Easter, comes on first Sunday following the Paschal full moon, 448
   is turning point marking ebb and flow of Divine Life, 277
Effluvia, from sick person, should be burned, 127
   has affinity for water, 128


[PAGE 569]                                                             INDEX

Ego, acts of, gradually crystallize into a body, 123
   aims to make blood gaseous, 143
   ascends after death through spiritual realms, 17
   enters body about 21 days after conception, 144
   eventually becomes free, 190
   evolves through friction, 455
   functions as indwelling Spirit while awake, 159
   identity of, is guarded by Dweller on Threshold, 161
   if advanced, chooses hardest life possible, 72
   is affected by post-mortem of body, 26
   is an individual, 488
   is never insane, 121
   is the indwelling Spirit, 489
   makes itself felt as burning fire in Sons of Cain, 498
   may be disturbed during 3 1/2 days immediately following death, 25
   of medium, is driven out by controlling Spirit, 169
   ordinarily is born twice during passage of sun by precession through 
     one sign of the zodiac, 69
   purgatorial experience of, is not continuous, 9
   takes pictures of life into invisible worlds, 343
   usually alternates in male and female bodies, 69
   when withdrawn in sleep is clothed in mind and desire body, 164
Egypt, priests of, studied astrology, 370
Elberfeld horses, are animal prodigies perhaps in last animal embodiment, 
   209
Elder Brothers, are proper teachers for spiritual aspirants, 76
   guard vital body of Jesus, 314
   have Jupiter Period consciousness, 227
   have material body, 418
   function in soul bodies during Temple Service, 504
   live in a material house, 419
   look about 40 years of age, 249
   never urge, never praise their pupils, 226
   of Mercury, are human, 378
   teach deceased soldiers power of thought, 12
Elementals, clothe themselves in desire stuff, 440
may be formed by man, 15
   try to frighten newcomers in Desire World, 14
Elijah, was reborn as John the Baptist, 334
Emblem, of Rosicrucians, shows manifestation of God has been accomplished, 
   266
Emerson, said "A sick man is a scoundrel, 124, 142
Emotional soul, grows by feelings and emotions, 520


[PAGE 570]                                             QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Emotions, a re unstable, as water, 498
Energy, conservation of, aimed at by Nature, 9
   solar, is transmuted in solar plexus, 137
Entities, actions of, are spontaneous, 205
   in Invisible Worlds, are of many kinds, 113
Environment, effect of, 384
Epidemics, result largely from wars, 48
Epigenesis, is gradually bring us Godward, 386
   is the divine creative ability inherent in Spirit, 89
   is transforming the world, 409
Epilepsy, cause of, 121
Epochs, in human existence, are conditions of mind, 352
Equinox, precession of, is connected with spiritual progress of humanity, 
   260
Equipoise, is Ego's most valuable possession, 399
   is necessary for spiritual progress, 277
Essenes, cared for body of Christ Jesus, 310, 317
Ether, interpenetrates every physical molecule, 337
   interpenetrates fruits and vegetables, 221
   is necessary to transmit light, 33
   is visible to the eye of lens, 413
Etheric fluid, is colored pale rose with slight purple tinge, 148
Etheric sight, is similar to X-ray vision, 203
Ethers, two higher, vibrate more rapidly than lower, 336
   vibrate to pituitary body and pineal gland, 434
   two lower, are molded into matrix by Lords of Destiny, 13
   vibrate to seed atoms in heart and solar plexus, 434
Euthanasia, is not desirable in light of occult teachings, 484
Evil, is good in the making, 65
Evolution, depends upon soul growth, 520
   is path of progress, 216
   of human beings, is only half finished, 346
   path of, is a spiral, 57
   spiritualizes vehicles, 175
Existences, object of, is the evolution of consciousness, 194
   past, are remembered by some people, 90
Experience, is different from standpoint of two sexes, 54
   of Invisible Helper, is stored in seed atom, 139

Face, is an expression of the soul, 479
Faculties, divine, are inherent in every Spirit, 98
Faith, has declined during materialistic age, 524


[PAGE 571]                                                             INDEX

Fate, is not simply a measure to get even, 66
   results from past actions, 159
Father, is Highest Initiate of Saturn Period, 448
Father Fire, is revealed at last Initiation, 501
   stamp of, is always present, 499
Faust, endeavored to gain spiritual power before he had earned it, 313
Fellow feeling, must become universal, 79
Fire, sleeps invisibly in everything, 311
First Heaven, experiences in, give desire to serve more, 80
   experiences in, may be obviated by retrospection, 172
   inhabitants of, have only head remaining, 173
   life in, is blessed by presence of loved ones, 22
   lasts from one to 21 years, 48
Fish, has esoteric significance, 338
   were not eaten by Jesus, 304
Fishes, miraculous draft of, 259
Flesh, putrefies more quickly than vegetables, 155
Foetus, is under sole guidance of mother during first three weeks, 144
Food, does not always form healthy tissue, 248
   is changed into blood by vital processes, 145
   loses ether when cooked, 154
Force, surrounds us invisibly, 33
Fourth Dimension, The, consciousness of, 206
Frankincense, may be linked to essence of sympathy and helpfulness, 514
Freya, was goddess of beauty, 550
Friction, is necessary for soul growth, 454
Frontal sinus, is part of the crown of thorns, 258

Gabriel, gave name to Jesus, 251
Genius, is twin brother to idiocy, 469
Glyndon, in "Zanoni," saw Dweller on Threshold, 160
Gnomes, are made principally of chemical ether, 208
   help to build flowers and plants, 197
God, differentiates Spirits within Himself at beginning of manifestation, 98
   geometrizes, 207
   is love, 455
   is met in true mystic prayer, 557
   kingdom of, is not inherited by flesh and blood, 242, 282, 309
   mills of, grind slowly, 72
   paths to, are many, 224


[PAGE 572]                                             QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Golden wedding garment, will be essential to function in New Galilee, 418
Gospels, are formulae of initiation, 236, 259, 289
   are greatly misinterpreted, 236
Great Sidereal Year, lasts 25,856 years, 350
Group Spirits, learn sympathy and compassion, 192
   belong to archangelic life wave, 188
   function in spiritual body, 190
   govern animals by third part of silver cord, 431
   guard their charges, 191
   guide lower animals, 144
Growth, is impeded by poor assimilation, 155

Half-circle, is symbol of the soul, 368
Hands, laying on of, should not be done indiscriminately, 128
Happiness, exists in higher life, 416
Hate, can be absolved only by love, 67
Healer, magnetic, draws diseased part of vital body from patient, 414
Healing, accomplished by initiates in different ways, 132
   magnetic, consists of healer absorbing diseased vibrations of patient, 
     129
Healing power, emanates from God, 132
Health, depends largely upon attitude of mind, 153
Heaven, is reached by no byway, 18
   was not occupied in earlier times, 72
Hierarchies, divine, assisted man in building the threefold body, 518
   choose characters to play part desired, 475
   guide our evolution, 60

   work with laws of evolution, 246
Higher self, is the threefold Spirit, 487
Hiram Abiff, built Solomon's Temple, 498
   is symbolized by the Sun, 445
   was grand master workman in Solomon's Temple, 444
   was reborn as Lazarus, 300, 447, 452
Hohenzollerns, were warned of death by "white lady", 16
Holy of Holies, contained ark which symbolized man, 235
Holy Spirit, enters in when Christ is born within, 235
   has two sides, 234
   is leader of the angels, 339
   is represented by color red, 265, 268
Horoscope, general tenor of, must be considered, 379
   represents twelve departments of life, 513
   shows only tendencies, 108


[PAGE 573]                                                             INDEX

Horoscopic ray, is governed by planet which is ruler of horoscope at 
   birth,   501
Human Spirit, is an individualized Ego, 489
   was awakened during Moon Period, 518
Humanity, builds both the earth and their own bodies, 325
   had to be prepared by race religions for religion of the Son, 449
   has become engrossed in materialism, 217
   must learn lessons in age of wine, 295
   was commanded to be chaste, 286
   works with mineral life wave, 522
Hyperborean Epoch, man of, was plantlike, 272

Iabeshah, is Hebrew word for earth, 256
Iam, is Hebrew word for water, 256
Ideas, must be changed when occasion demands, 541
Idiocy, results from different causes, 121
Idolatry, nature of, 437
Imagination, is attribute of the Spirit, 230, 273, 456
   will be highly developed in Jupiter Period, 523
Immortality, must be sought, 87
Incense, burning of, can be very dangerous, 474
   represented essence of shewbread in Tabernacle in Wilderness, 513
Individual ray, is governed by sub-ray of Father Star, 501
   is retained by Spirit through series of lives, 503
Individuality, is evolved through evolution, 99
Inertia, is keynote of dense body, 531
Infant mortality, is greater among boys than girls, 82
   is rooted largely in wars, 48
   law of, 47, 101
   law of, requires many to be taken directly to First Heaven, 479
   must continue until we learn science of death, 83
Initiate, can function best in material of male body, 230
   can leave body consciously, 247, 439
   is able to hold desire stuff in form in Desire World, 27
   learns to function in Region of Concrete Thought, 70
Initiation, consists partly of helping someone change his consciousness, 217
   enables one to read in Memory of Nature, 165
   follows tests, 219
   is an inward experience, 227
   occurs while candidate is fully conscious, 218


[PAGE 574]                                             QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Initiation (CONT.) of mystic, differs from that of occultist, 224
   Rosicrucian , endeavors to blend the mystic with the occult, 229
   secrets of, cannot be revealed, 227
Insanity, exists in different types, 121
Instinct, of animals, is Group Spirit influence, 489
Intellectual soul, grows by exercise of memory, 520
   is extracted from vital body, 516
Inventor, molds designs in mind, 477
Invisible Helpers, are taught to speak word of power, 294
   educate the newly dead, 29
   experiences of, may be likened to a dream, 139
   find difficulty in refraining from materializing, 336
   have considerable scope in methods of healing, 133
   leave body by way of head, 313
   may materialize hand, etc., 407
   often hesitate to re-enter body after being out, 308
Invisible world, beings in, described in book, "The Ministry of Angels", 177
   disfigurement in, is unnecessary, 29
   divisions of, require different keynote, 285
   forms in, are very plastic, 177, 187
   handclasp in, is felt, 477
   is becoming real to greater number of people, 187
   is place of opportunity, 23
   residents of, have consciousness, 159
   stay in, may be shortened, 55
Iron, abounds in lettuce, tomatoes, and strawberries, 141

Jehovah, formed man from dust of earth, 88
   gave law to subdue desire body, 286
   gave moral laws upon Mt. Sinai, 235
   helped mankind from without by law, 322
   instilled egoism into humanity, 324
   is cloudlike in outer form, 427
   is highest Initiate of Moon Period, 448
   is lawgiver and cosmic Lord of fecundation, 253, 268
   is represented by color red, 268
   is ruler of all the satellites, 325
   is ruler of the Moon, 2 52
   is the author of law, 234
   is the giver of children, 234, 339
   ruled earth until 2,000 years ago, 244, 320
Jesus, is special messenger to sons of Abel, 447
   body of, was scattered by vibratory force, 311, 315


[PAGE 575]                                                             INDEX

Jesus (CONT.) called himself the "Son of Man", 298, 302
   genealogy of, may be traced to Joseph, 246
   is reincarnation of Solomon, 237
   provided body for Christ Spirit, 237, 244
   vital body of, is preserved for Second Coming, 309, 312
   vital body of, will be most wonderful of all human vehicles, 314
   was born of an immaculate conception, 339
   was provided body by Mary and Joseph, 251
   whereabouts of, after the Baptism, 326
   will be compensated for loss of experience, 318
   works with the churches, 300
   work of, differs from that of Christian Rosenkreuz, 312
Joan of Arc, was guided by discarnate Spirits, 330
John the Baptist, was Elijah reincarnated, 89, 334
Jupiter, gives joy and laughter, 396
   has preponderance of light ether, 255
   has symbol of soul above matter, 369
   is great benefic, 375
   is planet of law and order, 344
Jupiter Period, is located in Etheric Region, 517
   will have conditions different from now, 57

Karma, can be changed, 96
Keys, to heaven and hell, given by Christ, 284
Kingdom of God, is not inherited by winebibbers, 434
Kingdoms, lower, are steppingstones for higher, 58
Knowledge, firsthand, is not to be bought for gold, 91
   firsthand, is reached only by right living, 170
   of individual, may not all be accessible in one life, 169


Larynx, was evolved for man's benefit, 270
Last Supper, cup used at, did not contain wine, 292
Law of analogy, is master key to all mysteries, 17, 188, 201, 319, 360
Law of attraction, brings people together, 123
Law of Consequence, always balances the scales, 192
   is under administration of Higher Beings, 491
Law of love, works for good through seeming evil, 65
Laws of Nature, safeguard humanity, 492
Lazarus, was reincarnation of Hiram Abiff, 237
Leech, Dr. Stuart, avoided operation by materializing hands when out of 
   body, 133


[PAGE 576]                                             QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Lemurian Epoch, pioneers of, discovered their bodies, 217
   was period of humanity's division into sexes, 272
Lhassa, Temple at, is not a Mystery School, 439
Liberator, The, has charge of evolution on earth, 255
Life, is a school, 482
   is in the blood, 144
   requires both positive and negative expression, 75
Life panorama, should be etched into desire body, 83
   should not be interfered with by lamentations, 47
Life Spirit, was started in Sun Period, 518
Life wave, human, comprises sixty billion Spirits, 109
   has been divided into races, 104
Light, is a property of matter in Desire World, 193
   may be refracted into three primary colors, 488
"Light of life, The," is seen as a flaming torch, 169
Loke, was spirit of evil, 551
Lord's Prayer, consists of seven prayers, 420
   is sublimest that can be uttered, 558
Lords of Destiny, interfere in man's life when necessary, 390
   mold ether around seed atom into matrix, 13
Lords of Mind, have densest body of mind stuff, 345
   were human in Saturn Period, 522
Lovers, may be reunited in heaven, 21
Lucifer Spirits, are the hierarchy of Mars, 378
   influenced humanity, 498

Magic, black, is practiced unconsciously, 35
   involves use of dual creative force, 273
   white, is symbolized by pentagram with one point up, 313
Magicians, black, eventually retrograde to Saturn, 255
   subvert life force, 313
Magnetic circuit, may be formed when person crosses limbs at ankles and 
folds hand, 140
Man, gradually becomes more soulful, 512
   has negative vital body, 82
   is learning by mistakes to build better bodies, 135
   is the microcosm, 360
   is tied to concrete body by silver cord, 427
   was once hermaphrodite, 270, 272, 328
Mankind, inner vision of, faded, 377
   once lived as children of the mist, 281
Manson, described invisible temple in "The Servant in the House", 538
Marriage, does not exist in heaven, 21, 457


[PAGE 577]                                                             INDEX

Mars, had strong influence in Earth Period, 385
   symbolizes matter, 368
Masonic legend, relates that Jehovah created Eve, 444
Mass, chanted in Catholic churches, has great power, 529
Masters, belong to East, 226
Materialization, is affected by mother love, 406
   is based upon certain principles, 304
Mathematics, study of, is conducive to spiritual vision, 207
Matrix, of negative etheric atoms attracts positive dense atoms, 75
Matter, exists and moves in states we cannot see, 33
Meditation, is method of gathering knowledge by spiritual power, 425
Medium, has own Ego driven out when controlled by another Spirit, 169
Mediumship, is dangerous phase of unfoldment, 31
Medulla oblongata, is organ through which controlling Spirit works, 169
Memory of Nature, exists in three places, 210
   is found in Region of Concrete Thought, 70
   is unfolded backward, 210
   may be read by those properly trained, 472
   reveals difference between truth and delusion, 76
   reveals lives of Jesus, 243, 327
   reveals record of previous earth lives, 70
   reveals that Atlanteans breathed by means of gill clefts, 408
   reveals that Christ influenced earth from without, 325
   reveals virginity of Mary and Joseph, 245
   shows that hate ceases only through love, 67
   shows that water was used at Last Supper, 292
Mercury, Lords of, belong to our life wave, 103
   Lords of, counterbalance effect of Lucifers, 386
   has been in obscuration, 386
   has symbol of body, soul, and Spirit, 369
   is associated with reason and intelligence, 376
   is colorless and neutral, 385
   is lower octave of Neptune, 376
Mermaids, are real, 195
Miasma, is formed about abdominal region, 248
   is generated by diseased organ, 130
   of sick person, should be burned, 128
Microbes, are dreaded by man, 147
Micro-organisms, cannot gain foothold in health organism, 147


[PAGE 578]                                             QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Milk, is supercharged with ethers when fresh, 95, 141, 154
Mind, attitude of, causes disease, 152
   has prospered at expense of heart, 498
   is aid to individualization, 56
   is being developed by right thought, 61
   is born about 21st year, 536
   is focus through which Spirit endeavors to guide personality, 532
   is formed of colorless mind stuff, 387
   is not possessed by animal and plant, 164
   is the fulcrum upon which involution turns to evolution, 89
   was given during Earth Period, 516, 521
   will be amalgamated with threefold soul during Vulcan Period, 516
   will have acquired feeling in Venus Period, 521
Mineral, has consciousness resembling deepest trance, 489
Mineral kingdom, is practically devoid of feeling, 162
"Ministry of Angels, The," is book dealing with beings in invisible world, 
   177
Miser, in Purgatory, sees his gold squandered, 41
Mistletoe, is emblematical of manifestation of love of the Christ, 555
   is symbolic of blood scarlet with sin turned white as snow, 549
Mithras, was the Persian Christ, 260
   was worshiped in Persia, 354
Moon, growing, increases vitality, 394
   is connected with Mercury and Neptune, 378
   is gate into Chaos, 354

   is symbolized by half-circle, 369
Moon Period, humanity of, was animal like, 426
Morality, cannot be legislated into people, 296
Morals, are being developed in physical world, 479
Morphine, has deleterious effects, 118
Moses, body of, was so vibrant it shone, 336
   led Israelites out of Egypt, 500
   was reborn as Elijah, 450
Mother Shipton, prophesied discovery of an unknown land, 493
Mothers, are often earthbound by love for children, 406
Munchausen, Baron, was champion prevaricator, 150
Mount Ecclesia, residents of, take turns reading in Chapel, 266
murderer, can do more harm after "death" than when in physical body, 542


[PAGE 579]                                                             INDEX

Music, has greater mission than to give enjoyment, 285
   speaks to the spiritual man, 526
Mystery Schools, are all etheric, 439
   are colored by planetary influence of Father Fire, 502
   are not contacted by Sons of Seth, 497
   teach process of initiation, 499
   teach scientific exercises, 27
Mystic, follows path of faith, 224
   looks to the God within, 558
Mystic marriage, the, is performed when two poles of Spirit are united, 457
Myths, contain occult truths, 547

Nature, is God in manifestation, 9
   processes of, are founded upon system, 207
   seeks only to teach, 10
Neophyte, is taught after initiation to observe alternate rebirths of 
   Ego, 69, 90
   is taught to read Memory of Nature, 76
   must face Dweller on Threshold, 160
Neptune, is higher octave of Mercury, 376
   is planet of psychism, 31
   is responded to by few people, 385
   kindles spinal spirit fire, 377
   lights the regenerative spinal spirit fire, 258
Neshamah, is Hebrew word for soul, 88
New Jerusalem, will require living in ether, 283
Nimrod, symbolizes third race, 289
Norns, are mentioned in Norse mythology, 66
   were goddesses of Fate, 550
Nour, is Hebrew word for fire, 256

Occult development, begins with vital body, 531
Occultist, follows path of knowledge and works, 224
Occultism, throws light upon problem of sorrow, 73
Onesimus, is referred to by St. Paul, 87
Operations, surgical, effects of, 133
Optimism, is a great factor in health, 152
Original Semites, were seed race of coming Aryan Epoch, 268
Orion, has effect upon man, 348
Osiris, was worshiped in Egypt, 354
Osteopathy, may be aid in healing, 126
   teaches manipulation of nerves, 131
Outram Court, letter concerning, 32
Oxygen, vitalizes and energizes body, 279


[PAGE 580]                                             QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Pain, can be felt by the Spirit, 307
   is experienced in Purgatory, 10
Parents, should study astrology, 383
Parentage is a duty of those properly fitted, 111
Passover, was accomplished by Noah, 268
Paul, informs us love is essential, 525
   knew man as a composite being, 281
   spoke of Christ as being born within, 309
   stated that flesh and blood cannot inherit Kingdom of God, 451
Phantasms, of living, may exist, 50
Pharisees, feared their religion would be superseded, 447
Physical existence, has a purpose, 476
Pilgrimage through matter, unfolds powers of Spirit, 98
Pineal gland, vibration of, brings spiritual vision, 175
Pioneers, decrease in number as evolution progresses, 102
   have unfolded sixth sense, 217
Pisces, is a fruitful sign, 347
Pituitary body, is organ of assimilation, 156
   is ruled by Uranus, 156
   vibration of, brings spiritual vision, 175
Planet, is weak when unaspected, 380
   virtues of, are brought out by favorable aspects, 391
Planetary Hour Tables, use of, 366
Planetary Spirits, have replica in the seven tones of the octave, 371
Plants, are affected by planets, 345
   have affinity for Sun, 346
   had mineral existence in Moon Period, 522
   have consciousness similar to dreamless sleep, 489
   live and breathe, 164
   planting of, is influenced by phases of Moon, 347
Pleiades, have effect upon man, 348
Polarity, is possessed by planets, 399
Population, is regulated by divine hierarchies, 111
Poverty, is not a virtue in itself, 238
Prayer, aims to get us into close communication with God, 421
   can never take place of work, 421
   differs from concentration, 423
   is sum of daily actions, 556
   may be aid in purgation, 28
   may be used to aid the dead, 36
Problems, always exist during transition period, 110
Propagation, is carried on through lower ethers, 511
Prosperity, economic, should not be prayed for, 422


[PAGE 581]                                                             INDEX

Protestant churches, could be federated to advantage, 535
   do not hold attendants, 525
Protestant ministers, work upon desire body, 536
Psychic Research Movement, has done good, 167, 330
Psychometers, see by invisible light, 162
Psychometry, is a faculty, 471
Purgation, process of, may be shortened, 28
Purgatory, contains noisome sights and much suffering, 18
   experiences in, are origin of conscience, 343
   is place where our debts are paid, 79
   lasts one third of earth life, 81
   may be shortened by retrospection, 171
   suffering in, causes conscience, 67, 83
   suffering in, is based upon pain inflicted during life, 10, 78, 80
   was continuous between earth lives formerly, 72
Pythagoras, spoke of music of spheres, 371

Queen of Sheba, journeyed to see Solomon, 445

Race Religions, founders of, were initiates in the Jehovistic mysteries, 450
Race Spirits, are learning through suffering of human beings, 192
   govern all nations except America, 432
   work in desire body and foster selfishness, 432
Rebirth, is based on Bible teaching, 332
   is necessary physically and spiritually, 59
   law of, is not a blind law, 70
   occurs systematically, 54
   of Egos who die in childhood, 63
   was taught in ancient religions, 290
Recording angels, administer law of rebirth, 70
   assist Ego to come to birth, 74
   have to do with all details of human evolution, 54
   help to mold archetype of coming physical body, 134
Reflecting ether, contains impermanent Memory of Nature, 77
Reforms, will be brought about by Spirits more evolved than we, 110
Region of Concrete Thought, appears blue-black, 386
   has own rate of vibration, 284
   has neither time nor space, 212
   is basically a dazzling, brilliant white, 387
   objects in, appear as vacuous cavities, 204


[PAGE 582]                                             QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Relatives, may be contacted during sleep, 171
Remorse, is necessary for spiritual progress, 540
Repetition, is keynote of vital body, 531, 533
Repulsion, force of, is centrifugal by nature, 27, 42
   is a disintegrating force, 44
Resurrection, will not be time of marriage, 242
Retaliation, practice of, is wrong, 101
Retrospection, is means of obviating necessity for purgatorial experience, 
   171
Revelation, gives information about New Heaven and New Earth, 331
Rhythm, is keynote of desire body, 532
Riches, may be means of soul growth, 240
Right ascension, degrees of, are divisions of circle of heavens, 358
Ritual, has fostered soul growth, 533
   is used advantageously by Catholics, 529
Rose, explains path of chastity, 447
Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, The, gives instance of ripe destiny, 491
   has been studied by many Theosophists, 460
   was reviewed by Mr. Wedgwood, 461
   teachings in given by Brothers of the Rose Cross, 464
Rosicrucian Fellowship, The, is preparatory school of Rosicrucian Order, 502
   offers correspondence courses, 547
   students of, urged to support their governments, 547
   was founded to herald Aquarian Age, 465
Rosicrucian Teachings, are in accord with Christian religion, 99
   conform to Bible dictum, "Thou shalt not kill", 541
   emphasize the fact that like attracts like, 111
   encourage cheerful attitude, 39
   represent wisdom of West, 68
   were given to Max Heindel in Germany, 301
Rosicrucian Temple, is in Germany, 278
   is surrounded by wall of vibration, 284
   Service in, transmutes evil thoughts, 278
   was visited by Max Heindel, 435
Rosicrucians, are special messengers of Christ to Sons of Cain, 447
   teach that life is a great school, 481
Rosy Cross, Theosophical Temple of, is not connected with Rosicrucian 
   Order, 459
Ruach, is Hebrew word for Spirit, 88, 256
Rulers, have responsibilities, 475


[PAGE 583]                                                             INDEX

Runes, are magic characters, 550
Russia, was scene of strange influence, 505

Sabbath, is kept by Jews for reason, 252
Sacrifices, were salted with salt under Mosaic law, 539
Saints, Christian, should be our guide on the devotional path, 266
Salamanders, are built of the 4th ether, 209
   are the fire spirits, 197
Salt, has occult significance, 539, 540
Samael, is ambassador of Mars to Earth, 298
Samson, represents the sun, 548
Satan, means adversary, 402
Saturn, gives tact and diplomacy, 391
   has preponderance of reflecting ether, 255
   has symbol of cross above soul, 369
   is a factor in enlightenment, 397
   is mythologically the angel of death, 344
   is the gate into chaos, 253, 254
   is the planet of pessimism, 396
Saturn Period, always begins creative Day of Manifestation, 252
   has mineral-like humanity, 426
Savior, symbol of, is always sign of the zodiac, 260, 303
School, of life is essential for Spirit's progress, 62
Science, has progressed greatly since 1850, 365
Scorpio, is a fruitful sign, 347
Second Heaven, is attained by some immediately after death, 172
   is in Region of Concrete Thought, 159
   residents of, learn to create next environment, 134
   residents of, prepare to build new bodies, 196
Sea, will eventually evaporate, 262
Second Advent, may occur when Sun by precession enters Capricorn, 355
Seed atom, contains magnetic powers, 26
   of desire body of initiate, forms center of attraction, 27
Seer, is one who has spiritual sight, 247
Self-defense, law of, is recognized, 543
Selfishness, causes all trouble in world, 142
   is cause of disease, 143
Seth, Sons of, believe in faith, 299
Sex, is determined largely by law of alternation, 74
   plays no part in heaven, 457
Shewbread, may be likened to experiences in serving, 514


[PAGE 584]                                             QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS


Silver cord, has three parts, 428
   is coiled about solar plexus during waking hours, 429
   loosing of, causes body to return to dust, 88
   third part of, is essential to occult development, 429
Sin, may be overcome by love, 287
Sin body, is caused by intense wickedness, 174
Sixth sense, enables aspirant to perceive invisible worlds, 217
   is latent in each human being, 331
Skin, color of, is no certain indication of age of soul, 103
Sleep, is dreamless when higher vehicles separate completely from physical 
   body, 410
Sleepwalking, may be cured, 410
Snakes, are not abhorred by all humanity, 510
Solar plexus, contains seed atom of vital body, 137
   is point for changing of etheric life force, 148
   is ruled by Venus, 156
Soldiers, who passed on, reproduced wounds in desire body, 125
Solomon, was descendant of Seth, 445
   was reborn as Jesus, 452
Solomon's Temple, was built by craftsmen under leadership of Hiram Abiff, 
   498
Sons of Cain, represent Freemasonry, 497
Sons of Seth, represent Catholicism, 497
Sorrow, is necessary in scheme of things, 395
Soul, age of, may be judged, 105
   differs from Spirit, 88
   is pabulum for the Spirit, 515
   is symbolized by the half-circle, 368
   is the extract of experience, 89
Soul body, appears as a golden aura, 514
   is being built by service, 409
   is composed of ether, 281
   is composed of two higher ethers, 13
   is not possessed by child at birth, 13
   is not subject to death, 306
   is now being formed within us, 283
   is the priestly robe of the New Dispensation, 269
   is used by Invisible Helpers, 14
   remains with Ego after death, 13, 14
   remains with man through First Heaven experience, 511
   of initiate, is very powerful, 222
   prepares one to enter invisible worlds, 220
Souls, are not eternally lost, 481


[PAGE 585]                                                             INDEX

Spheres, harmony of, is basis of evolution, 285
Spices, have effects when burned, 473
Spinal cord, contains three segments, 258
   has three lengthwise fissures, 377
Spirit, The, carries the aroma of all its past lives, 515
   grew a threefold body, 516
   is undivided, 487
Spirits, are aided by love and helpful thoughts during transition, 40
   are born alternately in male and female bodies, 457
   are born under all zodiacal signs, 106
   are both good and evil, 473
   are disturbed, during transition by hysterical outbursts, 38, 39
   are evolving under guidance of spiritual hierarchies, 345
   are limited by present mode of existence, 56
   are sexless, 230
   are usually attracted to prospective mothers years before birth, 63
   before the Throne, are Star Angels, 309
   cannot be burned by fire nor drowned by water, 411
   creative energy of, is bi-polar, 273
   feel incision in body immediately after death, 24
   must learn all things, 499
   number about sixty billion in our life wave, 109
   possessed divine all-consciousness before differentiation, 98
   require time for adjustment after passing, 42
   retain vital body, desire body, and mind when death occurs in childhood, 
     47
   see and hear with every atom of spiritual body, 43
   sometimes straggle, 253
   were free at beginning of manifestation, 56
Spiritual sight, positive, remains from one life to another, 75
Spleen, is affected in its work by worry and fear, 146
   is gateway of vital body, 145
   is gate of solar forces, 137, 148
   is helped by massage, 85
St. Vitus dance, cause of, 121
St. Germain, was an initiate, 222, 250
Stars, are bodies of great Intelligences, 375
   can be ruled, 399
Stigmata, are located in form of a star, 258


[PAGE 586]                                             QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Stragglers, are eventually saved, 482
   retrograde to Kingdom of Jehovah, 254
Subconscious memory, of purgatorial suffering, engenders repentance, 68
Subterranean activities, are not suspended, 494
Suffering, is obviated by repentance and reform, 78
   is needed to teach us lessons, 485
   is not wantonly inflicted upon us, 492
Suicide, experiences torture, 34
   feels sensation of hunger, 37
   is susceptible to sensual suggestions, 34
   suffers from gnawing hunger, 487
Summer solstice, is apex of physical impulse, 198
Sun, rays of, will ignite inflammable material when focused through glass, 
     423
   astrologically, gives us our loftiest ideals, 344
   by precession, has traveled one degree in 70 years, 361, 364
   circles through constellations, 350
   conjunction of with Moon, is good augury for health and general 
     success, 391
   has esoteric connection with Saturn and Moon, 252
   is symbol of Spirit, 368
   now crosses equator in about 10 degrees of Pisces, 351, 364
Sun Period, humanity of, was plantlike, 426
Stars, impel but do not compel, 92
Sylphs, are subject to mortality, 208
   cause winds, 197

Tabernacle, in the Wilderness, veil of, had certain colors, 265, 268
   was ancient Atlantean Mystery Temple, 512, 533
   was the first church, 267
Table of Shewbread, was part of furnishing of Tabernacle in Wilderness, 512
Teacher, appears to candidate when he is in full walking consciousness, 218
   will come in Aquarian Age, 266
Temple, of Rosicrucians, is etheric, 419, 504
   of Rosicrucians, was visited by Max Heindel, 464
   veil of, contained no yellow, 267
   veil of, was rent when Christ came, 269
Temptation, is for a purpose, 401
   must be something desirable to the one tempted, 296


[PAGE 587]                                                             INDEX

Tests, are necessary on spiritual path, 482
   of initiation, come in the daily life, 219
   of initiation, are never the same for any two candidates, 220
Theosophy, represents wisdom of the East, 68
Third Heaven, consciousness in, possessed by few, 134
   is in Region of Abstract Thought, 159
Thor, was God of thunder, 550
Thorns, were in crown, 275, 279
Thought, is a creative power, 61
   is clothed in desire stuff congruous to its nature, 422
   is all-powerful in its own realm, 479
   present power of, is small, 57
Thought forms, sent out for purpose of helping others, are replaced by 
higher   grade of desire stuff, 140
   lack spontaneity, 205
   must be clothed in desire stuff to compel action, 204
   speak in Region of Concrete Thought, 205
Tobacco, has deleterious effects, 433
Trance, is never a mark of spiritual enlightenment, 170
   may be used to bring out hidden talents, 468
   nature of, 167
Tyr, was god of war, 549

Undines, are real, 195
   live in water, 208
Universe, is governed by law, 234
Uranus, is affecting many people, 385

Vala, was celebrated prophetess, 551
Vampire, is often an anemic person, 84
   is often a sick person, 127
Vampirism, may be guarded against, 139
Vegetables, green, are surcharged with ether, 141
Vehicles, are gradually dissolved in higher worlds, 134
   have gradually improved, 168
   higher, are akin to electricity, 412
   higher, may be divided, 165
   must be etherealized, 145
Venus, has effect in 12th house, 379
   has symbol of Spirit above matter, 369
   Lords of, belong to our life wave, 103
   rules solar plexus, 156
Vernal equinox, is at present in 10 degrees of Pisces, 364
   is time when Sun enters Northern Hemisphere, 350
Vibrations, of sick persons, may be destroyed, 126


[PAGE 588]                                             QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Virgin Spirits, appear as threefold during manifestation, 488
   are sent into matter as Light Rays from Divine Flame, 89
   differ in adaptability, 102
Virtue, is a quality of the soul, 511
   is essence of all that was good in former lives, 512
   is generated by pleasure felt in First Heaven, 83
Visitors, celestial, are of different types, 177
Vital body, attracts matter, 306
   builds up dense body, 143
   changes when Ego lives spiritually, 335
   disintegrates simultaneously with physical body after death, 335, 415
   ether of, may be extracted, 50
   existence of, may be proved, 413
   has been photographed, 305
   is avenue of vitality, 530
   is affected by repeated prayers, chants, etc., 537
   is born about 7th year, 536
   is composed of four ethers, 511
   is counterpart of Life Spirit, 519
   of infant, is still comparatively unorganized, 84
   of Initiate, is always positively polarized, 231
   of sick person, is thin and weak, 129, 138
   of woman, is positive, 74
   radiates force and light, 279
   rises after death through sutures in skull, 178
   seed atom of, is in solar plexus, 137
Vivisectors, have unhappy post-mortem fate, 80


Wars, are instigated by divine hierarchies, 545
Water, constitutes large part of bodies of man, animal, and plant, 262
   has wonderful drawing power with respect to electricity, 412
   was changed to wine by Christ, 291
   was used in temples of Atlantean Epoch, 289
Western Mystery Teaching, holds that no Spirit is ever lost, 484
Western people, are cream of this evolution, 110
   are pioneers, 290
   belong to Western Wisdom School of Rosicrucians, 500
Western Wisdom Religion, is taught by Rosicrucian Fellowship, 465


[PAGE 589]                                                             INDEX

Will, determines actions on all planes, 35
   effort of, enables newly dead to mold features, 30
   effort of, is necessary for Invisible Helper to re-enter physical 
   body,    14
   is attribute of the Spirit, 230, 273, 456
   is factor not shown in horoscope, 91
   use of, is necessary to hold desire nature in control, 112
   use of, may frustrate fate, 96
Wine, became a factor in human evolution, 291
   is a false spirit, 290
   is now being abolished from temple service, 295
   was first used during Atlantis, 290
Wine cup, new, is etheric organ in throat, 293
   old, contained death and destruction, 293
Woman, has been arbiter of world's destiny, 110
   has positive vital body, 82
Word, The Lost, is used by Adepts, 440
World of Life Spirit, contains record of events from earliest dawn of our 
present manifestation, 213
World, dense, substances of, are necessary to sustain visible bodies, 33
   spiritual, is reflected in spinal canal, 377
   Western, has developed intellect to detriment of feelings, 229
World of Thought, contains archetypes, 202
Wotan, was god for whom Wednesday was named, 549

Ydun, was goddess of health, 551

Zodiac, is circled by Sun by precession in about 2,100 years, 54
   intellectual, moves backward, 351
   intellectual, starts from point of vernal equinox, 359
   natural, is composed of 12 constellations, 359


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