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                                 INITIATION.

   The  general  idea of initiation is that it is merely  a  ceremony  which
makes  one member of a secret society; that it may be conferred upon  anyone
willing to pay a certain price, a sum of money in most cases.

   While  that is true of the so-called initiation of fraternal  orders  and
also in most pseudo-occult orders,  it is altogether an erroneous idea  when
applied to initiations into various degrees of truly occult Brotherhoods, as
a little understanding of the real requirements and of their  reasonableness
will readily make clear.

   In the first place there is no golden key to the temple; merit counts but
not money.   Merit is not acquired in a day; it is the cumulative product of
past  good action.   The Candidate for initiation is usually totally  uncon-
scious that he is a candidate,  he is usually living his life in the  commu-
nity  and  serving his fellow man for days and years  without  any  ulterior
thought until one day there appears in his life the teacher, a Hierophant of
the  lesser  Mysteries appropriate to the country in which he  resides.   By
this  time  the candidate has cultivated within himself  certain  faculties,
stored up certain powers for service and help, of which he is usually uncon-
scious or which he does not know how to properly utilize.   The task of  the
initiator  will now be plain;  he shows the candidate the latent  faculties,
the   dormant   powers  and  initiates  him  into  their  use;  explains  or


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demonstrates  to  him FOR THE FIRST TIME how the candidate  may  awaken  the
static energy into dynamic power.

   Initiation may be accomplished by a ceremony, or not,  but let it be par-
ticularly observed,  that while Initiation is the inevitable culmination  of
prolonged spiritual endeavor, whether conscious or the reverse upon the part
of the candidate,  it can positively never take place till the requisite in-
ner  development has accumulated the latent powers which Initiation  teaches
how to use dynamically,  any more than pulling the trigger can cause an  ex-
plosion in a gun that has not first been loaded.

   Neither is there any danger that the teacher may overlook anyone who  has
attained the requisite development.   Each good and unselfish deed increases
the luminosity and vibrant power of the candidate's aura enormously,  and as
surely  as the magnet attracts the needle,  so will the brilliancy  of  that
auric light bring the teacher.

   It is,  of course, impossible to describe in a book intended for the gen-
eral  public the stages of the Rosicrucian Initiation;  to do so would be  a
breach  of  faith and it would also be impossible for lack of words  to  ad-
equately express oneself.   But it is permissible to give an outline and  to
show the purpose of initiation.

   The lesser Mysteries deal only with evolution of mankind during the Earth
Period.  In the first three and one-half Revolutions of the life wave around
the seven globes the Virgin Spirits had not yet attained consciousness.   In
consequence of this fact we are ignorant of how we came to be as we are  to-
day.   The candidate is to have light upon that subject so by the  spell  of
the  Hierophants during the period of initiation into the first  degree  his
consciousness  is turned towards that page of the memory of  nature  bearing
the records of the first revolution when we recapitulated the development of


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the  Saturn Period.   He is still in full possession of his  every-day  con-
sciousness; he knows and remembers the facts of twentieth Century life,  but
he  is now consciously watching the progress of the evolving host of  Virgin
Spirits of which he formed one unit during the Saturn Revolution.   Thus  he
learns  how the first steps were taken in the Earth Period towards the  goal
of attainment which will be revealed to him in a later step.

   Having learned the lesson as practically described in Chapter X, the can-
didate has acquired first-hand knowledge upon this subject and has come into
direct touch with the Creative Hierarchies in their work with and upon  man;
he is therefore able to appreciate their beneficent labors in the World  and
is  in measure able to range himself in line with them;  becoming  thus  far
their co-worker.

   When  the  time  has arrived for him to take the  second  degree,  he  is
similarly  caused  to  turn his attention to the conditions  of  the  second
Revolution  of the Earth Period,  and as depicted in the memory  of  nature;
then he watches in full consciousness the progress made at that time by  the
Virgin  Spirits,  much  as  Peter Ibbetson, the  hero  of  a  book.   "Peter
Ibbetson,"  by  George du Maurier;  it is well worth reading,  for it  is  a
graphic description of certain phases of subconsciousness--watched his child
life during the nights when he "dreamed true."   In the third degree he fol-
lows the evolution of the third or Moon,  Revolution,  and in the fourth de-
gree  he sees the progress made in the half-Revolution we have made  of  the
fourth.

   There is, however, a further step taken in each degree; the pupil sees in
addition  to the work done in each revolution also the work accomplished  in
the corresponding Epoch during our present stay upon globe D, the Earth.

   During the  first degree he follows the work of the Saturn Revolution and


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its latest consummation in the Polarian Epoch.

   In  the second degree he follows the work of the Sun Revolution  and  its
replica:  the Hyperborean Epoch.

   During  the  third degree he watches the work as performed  in  the  Moon
Revolution and sees how that was the basis of life in the Lemurian Epoch.

   During  the fourth degree he sees the evolution of the last half  Revolu-
tion with its corresponding period of time in our present stay on Earth; the
first  half  of the Atlantean Epoch which ended when the dense  foggy  atmo-
sphere subsided,  and the sun first shone upon land and sea;  then the night
of  unconsciousness  was over,  the eyes of the indwelling  Ego  were  fully
opened, and he was able to turn the Light of Reason upon the problem of con-
quering  the  World.   That was the time when a man as we now know  him  was
first born.

   When in the olden system of initiation we hear that the candidate was en-
tranced  for a period of three and one-half days,  reference is had  to  the
part of initiation just described,  and the three and one-half days refer to
the  stages  gone through,  they are not by any means  days  of  twenty-four
hours;  the actual time varies with each candidate,  but in all cases he  is
taken  through  the unconsciousness development of mankind during  the  past
Revolutions,  and when it is said that he is awakened at the time of sunrise
on the fourth day that is the mystical way of expressing that his initiation
into  the work of the involuntionary career of man ceases at the  time  when
the sun rose above the clear atmosphere of Atlantis.   Then the candidate is
also hailed as a "first-born."

   Having  become familiar with the road we have traveled in the  past,  the
fifth degree takes  the  candidate to the very end of the Earth Period, when


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a  glorious  humanity is gathering the fruits of this Period and  taking  it
away from the seven globes upon which we evolve during each day of  manifes-
tation, into the first of the five dark globes which are our habitation dur-
ing the Cosmic nights.  The densest of these is located in the Region of Ab-
stract Thought,  and is in reality the "Chaos" spoken of on page 249 and the
following pages.   This globe is also the Third Heaven, and when Paul speaks
of being caught up into the Third Heaven and of seeing things there which he
could  not  lawfully  reveal,  he was referring to  the  experiences  of  an
equivalent of this fifth degree in the present Rosicrucian Mysteries.

   After being shown the end in the fifth degree,  the candidate is made ac-
quainted  with the means whereby that end is attained during  the  remaining
thee  and one-half Revolutions of the Earth Period;  the four remaining  de-
grees being devoted to his enlightenment in that respect.

   By  the  insight  he  has  thus acquired  he  is  able  to  intelligently
co-operate with the Powers that work for Good, and thus he will help to has-
ten the day of our emancipation.

   In order to rout a common misconception we wish to make clear to students
that we are not Rosicrucians because we study their teachings, nor does even
admission  to  the temple entitle us to call ourselves by  that  name.   The
writer,  for instance,  is only a lay brother,  a pupil,  and would under no
circumstances call himself a Rosicrucian.

   We know well, that when a boy has graduated from grammar school he is not
therefore  fitted to teach.   He must first go through high school and  col-
lege,  and  even  then  he may not feel the call to  be  a  school  teacher.
Similarly  in  the  school of life,  because a man has  graduated  from  the
Rosicrucian Mystery School  he  is  not  even then a Rosicrucian.  Graduates


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from  the various schools of the lesser mysteries advance into five  schools
of the greater mysteries.   In the first four they pass the four Great  Ini-
tiations  and at last reach the Liberator,  where they receive  a  knowledge
concerning  other evolutions and are given the choice of remaining  here  to
assist their brothers or enter other evolutions as Helpers.  Those who elect
to  stay  here  as helpers are given various positions  according  to  their
tastes  and natural bent.   The Brothers of the Rose Cross are  among  those
Compassionate  Ones,  and it is a sacrilege to drag the Rosicrucian name  in
the  mire by applying it to ourselves when we are merely students  of  their
lofty teachings.

   During  the past few centuries the Brothers have worked for  humanity  in
secret;  each night at midnight there is a Service at the temple  where  the
Elder  Brothers,  assisted by the lay brothers who are able to  leave  their
work  in  the World (for many of them reside in places where it is  yet  day
when it is midnight in the location of the temple of the Rose Cross), gather
up  from everywhere in the Western World the thoughts of  sensuality,  greed
selfishness and materialism.   These they seek to transmute into pure  love,
benevolence,  altruism  and spiritual aspirations sending them back  to  the
World to uplift and encourage all Good.  Were it not for this potent  source
of spiritual vibration materialism must long ago have totally squelched  all
spiritual effort,  for there has never been a darker age from the  spiritual
standpoint than the last three hundred years of materialism.

   Now the time has come,  however, when the method of secret endeavor is to
be supplemented with a more direct effort to promulgate a definite,  logical
and sequential teaching concerning the origin, evolution and future develop-
ment of the World and man, showing both  the  spiritual  and  the scientific


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aspect:  a teaching which makes no statements that are not supported by rea-
son and logic;  a teaching which is satisfying to the mind, for it holds out
a reasonable solution to all mysteries; it neither begs nor evades questions
and its explanations are both profound and lucid.

   But,  and this is a very important "But,"  THE ROSICRUCIANS DO NOT REGARD
AN  INTELLECTUAL UNDERSTANDING OF GOD AND THE UNIVERSE AS AN END IN  ITSELF;
far from it!   The greater the intellect, the greater the danger of its mis-
use.   Therefore,  THIS SCIENTIFIC, LOGICAL AND EXHAUSTIVE TEACHING IS GIVEN
IN  ORDER  THAT MAN MAY BELIEVE IN HIS HEART THAT WHICH HIS HEAD  HAS  SANC-
TIONED AND START TO LIVE THE RELIGIOUS LIFE.

                         THE ROSICRUCIAN FELLOWSHIP

   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 STUDENT by writing
to the General Secretary.  There is no fee for Initiation,  or dues.   Money
cannot buy our teaching, advancement depends on merit.

   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  clause  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 it we follow one of them


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than if we zigzag 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 neglected for self-development.   It is to husband the minim of energy
which 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 by the leaders.

   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 system in one es-
pecial particular:  It aims, even at the very start, to emancipate the pupil
from  dependence upon others,  to make him SELF-RELIANT in the very  highest
degree,  so that he may be able to stand alone under all  circumstances  and
cope with all conditions.  Only one who is thus strongly poised can help the
weak.

   When  a number of people meet in a class or circle  for  self-development
along  NEGATIVE lines,  result are usually achieved in a short time  on  the
principle  that it is easier to drift with the tide than to breast the  cur-
rent.   The medium is not master of his actions, however, but the slave of a
spirit control.  Hence such gatherings must be shunned by Probationers.

   Even  classes which meet in positive attitude of mind are not advised  by
the Elder Brothers,  because the latent powers of all members are massed and
visions of the inner worlds obtained by anyone there,  are partly due to the
faculties of others.   The heat of coal in the center of a fire is  enhanced
by  surrounding  coals, and the clairvoyant produced in a circle, be it ever


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so positive,  is a hot-house plant, too dependent himself to be trusted with
the care of others.

   Therefore each Probationer in the Rosicrucian Fellowship performs his ex-
ercises in the seclusion and privacy of his room.   Results may be  obtained
more slowly by the system,  but when they appear,  they will be manifest  as
powers cultivated by himself, useable independently of all others.  Besides,
the  Rosicrucian methods build character at the same time that they  develop
spiritual faculties and thus safeguard the pupil against yielding to tempta-
tion to prostitute divine powers for worldly prestige.

   When  the  Probationer has compiled with the necessary  requirements  and
completed the term of probation, he may send request for individual instruc-
tion by the Elder Brothers through the General Secretary.

                   THE INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS OF THE
                          ROSICRUCIAN FELLOWSHIP

   Having formed the Rosicrucian Fellowship for the purpose of  promulgating
the  teaching given in this book,  and aiding aspirants on the path of  pro-
gression, it became necessary to find a permanent home and facilities requi-
site for doing this work.   To this end a tract of land was purchased in the
town of Oceanside,  Cal.,  ninety miles south of Los Angeles and forty miles
north of San Diego, the southwesternmost city of the United States.

   This tract occupies a commanding site having a most wonderful view of the
great  Pacific Ocean to the west and the beautiful snow capped mountains  in
the east.

   Southern  California  offers  exceptional  opportunities  for   spiritual
growth,  because of the ether atmosphere being denser than in any other part
of  the world and MOUNT ECCLESIA, as the Earth Fellowship  Headquarters  are
called, is particularly favored in this respect.


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                                OUR BUILDINGS

   The  work  at  Headquarters was begun toward the end of  1911.   To  date
(1973) numerous buildings have been erected, some of which now no longer ex-
ist.  The Pro-Ecclesia, or Chapel, in which two 15-minute services have been
held daily since its dedication in December, 1913,  was thoroughly renovated
in  1962.   A devotional service with lecture continues to be  conducted  on
Sundays.   A  two-story Administration Building was completed in  1917,  and
renovated in 1962.   On the second floor are offices for the various depart-
ments:  Esoteric, Correspondence Courses, Editorial, Foreign Languages,  and
Accounting.   On  the  first  floor are  the  Shipping  Department  and  the
printshop,  where Lessons,  RAYS, pamphlets, etc.,  are printed.   An offset
press was installed in 1972.

   The  Dining  Hall  was  built in 1914, added to in  the  late  30's,  and
renovated in 1962.  Vegetarian meals are served.  The Healing Temple,  where
a  healing service is conducted each evening,  was completed in 1920.   Rose
Cross Lodge was built in 1924, for the use of guests and workers.  It is now
used largely for storing books.   The Sanitarium Building was opened in 1939
and   used  for  a  number  of  years  to  treat  patients  suffering   from
non-contagious  diseases.   It is now our Guest House,  used by workers  and
members.   Numerous cottages built since 1962,  and some renovated ones pro-
vide living quarters for workers.  The Healing Dept. Building was erected in
1940.  Here secretaries conduct our healing work.

                          THE CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL

   In  addition to publications of The Rosicrucian Fellowship noted  in  the
back  of  this book there are three correspondence courses  offered  on  the
freewill basis:   Rosicrucian Philosophy, Bible Interpretation,  and Astrol-
ogy.  Information concerning these is furnished upon request.


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                       THE SYMBOLISM OF THE ROSE CROSS

   When inquiring into the meaning of any myth,  legend or symbol of  occult
value,  it is an absolute necessity that we should understand that,  as  any
object  in the three-dimensional world may, or rather must,  be viewed  from
all points to obtain a full and complete comprehension thereof,  so all sym-
bols  have  a number of aspects.  Each viewpoint reveals a  different  phase
from the others, and all have an equal claim to consideration.

   Viewed in its fullness,  this wonderful symbol contains the key to  man's
past  evolution,  his present constitution and future development,  together
with the method of attainment.   In the form where it is represented with  a
single rose in the center it symbolizes the spirit radiating from itself the
four vehicles:  the dense, vital and desire bodies plus the mind;  where the
spirit  has  drawn  INTO its instruments and  become  the  INDWELLING  human
spirit.   But  there was a time when that condition did not obtain,  a  time
when the three-fold spirit hovered above its vehicles and was unable to  en-
ter.  Then the cross stood alone without the rose, symbolizing the condition
which prevailed in the early third of Atlantis.   There was even a time when
the  upper limb of the cross was lacking and man's constitution  was  repre-
sented  by  the  Tau (T) that was in the Lemurian epoch when he had only the


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dense, vital and desire bodies, but lacked the mind.  Then the animal nature
was  paramount.   Man followed desire without reserve.   At a still  earlier
time,  in the Hyperborean Epoch,  he was also minus the desire body and pos-
sessed only the dense and vital bodies.  Then man-in-the-making was like the
plants:   chaste and devoid of desire.  At that time his constitution  could
not  have  been represented by a cross.   It was symbolized  by  a  straight
shaft, a pillar (I).

   This  symbol has been considered phallic,  an emblem showing  the  licen-
tiousness  of  the people who worshiped it.  Truly it is a  symbol  of  gen-
eration, but generation is by no means synonymous with degradation--far from
it--the   pillar   is   the  lower  limb  of  the   cross,   symbolical   of
man-in-the-making when he was plantlike.   The plant is unconscious of  pas-
sion, desire, innocent of evil.  It generates and perpetuates its species in
a manner so pure,  so chaste,  that properly understood,  it is a model  for
fallen  and passionate humanity to worship as an ideal and it was  given  to
earlier races with that intent.  The Phallus and Yona used in the Greek mys-
tery  temples  were given by the hierophants in that spirit,  and  over  the
temple was placed the enigmatical words:  "Man, know thyself,"  which motto,
properly understood,  is similar to that of the Rose Cross, for it shows the
reason for man's fall into desire, passion and sin, and gives the key to his
liberation  in the same way that the roses upon the cross indicate the  path
of liberation.

   The  plant  is innocent,  BUT NOT VIRTUOUS;  it has  neither  desire  not
choice.   Man has both.   He may follow desire or not as he wishes,  that he
may learn to master himself.

   While he was plant-like,  a hermaphrodite, he could generate FROM HIMSELF
without the help of another,  but though he was as chaste and as innocent as
the  plants,  he  was also as unconscious and inert.  In order to advance he


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must have desire to spur him on, and a mind to guide him, and therefore half
his  creative force was retained for the purpose of building a brain  and  a
larynx.   He had at that time a round shape similar to that of  the  embryo,
and the present larynx was a part of the creative organ which adhered to the
head when the body straightened out.  The connection between the two is seen
even today in the fact that the boy,  who expresses the positive pole of the
generative force,  changes his voice at puberty.   That the same force which
builds another body when it is sent OUTWARDS builds the brain when  RETAINED
is  equally clear when we consider that sex mania leads to  insanity,  while
the profound thinker will feel little inclination for amorous practices.  He
uses  all  his creative force to generate thought instead of wasting  it  in
sense gratification.

   At  the time when man commenced to withhold half his creative  force  for
the above mentioned purpose, his consciousness was directed INWARDS to build
organs.  He was capable of SEEING these organs and he used the same creative
force  then under the direction of Creative Hierarchies in planning  and  in
executing plans of organs, that he now uses in the OUTER world to build air-
ships, houses, automobiles, telephones, etc.  Then he was unconscious of how
that  half of the creative force was used which was sent OUTWARDS  for  gen-
eration of another body.

   Generation was carried on under the guidance of Angels.  At certain times
of the year they herded the growing man together in great temples and  there
the  generative act was performed.   Man was unconscious of the  fact.   His
eyes had not yet been opened,  and though it was necessary for him to have a
partner  who  had the half or other pole of the creative force available for


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generation  which he retained to build organs within,  he did not  at  first
KNOW  his wife.   In ordinary life he was shut within himself so far as  the
Physical World was concerned,  but it was different when he was brought into
such intimate and close touch with another, as in the case of the generative
act.  Then for the moment the spirit pierced the veil of flesh and Adam KNEW
his wife.  He had ceased to KNOW HIMSELF--thus his consciousness became more
and more and more centered outside himself in the OUTSIDE WORLD and he  lost
his INNER PERCEPTION.   That cannot be fully regained until he has passed to
the  stage where it is no longer necessary to have a partner in  generation,
and he has reached the development where he can again utilize his WHOLE cre-
ative force at will.   Then he will again KNOW HIMSELF ad he did during  his
stage of plant-like existence,  but with this all important difference  that
he will use his creative faculty consciously,  and will not be restricted to
using  it  solely for the pro-creation of his own species,  but  may  create
whatever he will.  Neither will he use his present organs of generation, but
the  larynx will SPEAK the creative WORD as directed by the  spirit  through
the co-ordinating mechanism of the brain.  Thus the two organs built by half
the creative force will in time be the means whereby man will eventually be-
come an independent self-conscious creator.

   Even  at the present time man molds matter both by thought and voice,  as
instanced in scientific experiments where thoughts have created an image  on
photographic plates,  and where the human voice has created geometrical fig-
ures in sand,  etc.   In proportion as man becomes unselfish he will release
the  creative force held in leash.   That will give him added thought  power
and  enable him to utilize it for upliftment of others instead of  to  plant
how to degrade and subject others to his will.   He will learn how to master
HIMSELF and cease to try to master others, except it be done temporarily FOR


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THEIR GOOD,  but never for selfish ends.   Only one who has mastered himself
is  qualified  to rule others,  and competent to judge when that  should  be
done, and what is best for them.

   Thus  we see that in time the present passionate mode of generation  will
be  again superseded by a pure and more efficient method than  the  present,
and  that also is symbolized in the Rose Cross where the rose is  placed  in
the  center between the four arms.   The long limb represents the body,  the
two horizontals, the two arms, and the short upper limb, the head.  THE ROSE
IS IN PLACE OF THE LARNYX.

   The rose,  like any other flower,  is the generative organ of the  plant.
Its green stem carries the colorless,  passionless plant blood.   The  blood
red rose shows the passion filled blood of the human race,  but in the  rose
the vital fluid is not sensuous,  it is chaste and pure.   Thus it is an ex-
cellent  symbol of the generative organ in the pure and holy state to  which
man  will  attain when he has cleansed and purified his blood  from  desire,
when he has become chaste, pure and Christ-like.

   Therefore  the  Rosicrucians look ardently forward to the  day  when  the
roses shall bloom upon the cross of humanity,  therefore the Elder  Brothers
greet  the aspiring soul with the words of the Rosicrucian  Greeting:   "May
the Roses bloom upon your Cross," and therefore the greeting is given in the
meetings of the Fellowship Centers by the leader to the assembled  students,
probationers  and  disciples who respond to the greeting by saying  "And  on
yours, also."

   John speaks of his purification (1st epistle,  iii,  9) and says that  he
who is born of God cannot sin, FOR HE KEEPETH HIS SEED WITHIN HIM.  It is an
absolute  necessity  to progress that the aspirant should be chaste.  Yet it


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must be borne in mind,  that absolute celibacy is not required of man  until
he has reached a point where he is ready for the great initiations, and that
is a duty we owe to the whole to perpetuate the race.   If we are  mentally,
morally,  physically and financially able,  we may approach the act of  gen-
eration  as a holy sacrifice laid upon the altar of humanity,  but  not  for
sensual pleasure.  Neither should it be performed in an austere,  forbidding
frame  of mind,  but in glad giving up of oneself for the privilege of  fur-
nishing a friend seeking rebirth with the body and environment he needs  for
development.   Thus we shall also help him cultivate the blooming roses upon
his cross.



                                TOPICAL INDEX

                     ALPHABETICAL LIST OF WORDS INDEXED

   The Topical Index is arranged with particular view to facilitate  topical
study, but at the same time alphabetical order has been adhered to as nearly
as possible.  We add an alphabetical list of the words indexed.

   Opposite each word in this list will be found a number, which refers to a
page in the Index.   On that page the word is grouped with others pertaining
to the same topic.

   The student is particularly requested to note the CONSECUTIVE arrangement
of references.   For instance,  under the heading,  "VITAL BODY,"  the first
reference tells where that vehicle had its first inception, the last directs
to  a page which treats of its final spiritualization,  and the  intervening
references  point  IN  ORDERLY SUCCESSION to the places  where  its  gradual
unfoldment is described.  These references, in themselves, form an excellent
syllabus of the vital body.

   By   diligent  and  intelligent  use  of  this  index   the   Rosicrucian
Cosmo-Conception will be found a most complete and exhaustive reference  li-
brary,  and  we  recommend  students to STUDY THE INDEX as much as the book.


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The  mere reading of references will often clear comprehension of a  subject
and reveal much that is hidden in a general reading of the book.


                                                                     Page
                   A           Page        Contemplation..............568
   Adaptability.................543        Concentration..............567
   Adept .......................543                       D
   Adoration....................568        Death......................564
   Akkadian Race................596        Decay......................565
   Animals..................543-553        Desire.....................554
   Anaesthetics.................544        Dense Body.................558
   Angels...................551-553        Desire Body................572
   Archangels...............551-553        Desire World...............590
   Archetypes...................544        Destiny....................555
   Aryan Epoch..................597        Digestion..................562
   Atlantean Epoch..............596        Disease....................554
   Attraction...................590        Discrimination.............567
   Atoms .......................544        Doctrines Christian........546
   Assimilation.................562        Drowning...................554
   Astrology....................544        Dreams.....................554
                   B                       Drunkard...................554
   Bible Texts..................544        Divine Spirit..............576
   Birth .......................564                       E
   Blood .......................559        Ear........................559
   Brain .......................561        Earth......................583
   Brotherhood..................546        Earth Period...............592
   Borderland...................566        Ego........................575
                   C                       Elements...................554
   Celibacy.....................577        Elementals.................554
   Christian Doctrines..........546        Epochs.....................594
   Christ.......................548        Epigenesis.................569
   Cherubim.....................550        Equinox, Precession........579
   Chemical Ether...............589        Excretion..................562
   Chosen People............596-597        Exercises..................567
   Children.....................557        Ether..................589-590
   Clairvoyance.................568        Evil.......................554
   Causation, Law of............569        Evolution..................568
   Color .......................548        Eye........................559
   Conscience...................546                       F
   Consciousness................547        Faith......................554
   Conception...................564        Feeling....................554
   Creator......................546        Fertilization..............555
   Cremation....................565        Food.......................555
   Crime .......................548        Free-will..................555
   Cross .......................548        Form.......................556
   Creative Hierarchies.........548        Forgiveness of Sin.........555
   Cosmic Night or Chaos........594        Forces.....................555
                                           Father, the................548


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                          Page                                       Page
                   G                       Life Spirit................576
   Genius..................556             Life Waves.................553
   Glands..................560             Light Ether................590
   God.....................548             Liver......................560
   Good....................556             Lords of Flame.............549
   Group Spirit............552             Lords of Form..............550
                   H                       Lords of Individuality.....550
   Haemolysis..............559             Lords of Mind..........551-553
   Heart...................560             Lords of Wisdom............550
   Heaven..................566             Lucifer....................551
   Heredity................570             Lungs......................560
   Hierarchies, Creative...548                             M
   Holy Spirit.............549             Man (invisible)............570
   Humanity................557             Man (visible)..............557
   Human Organism..........558             Marriage...................576
   Human Spirit............576             Mars.......................583
   Hyperborean Epoch.......595             Materialism................577
   Hypnotism...............556             Materialization............577
                   I                       Mathematics................577
   Ideas...................566             Matter.....................585
   Illustrations...........585             Meditation.................567
   Imagination.............566             Mediums....................577
   Immortality.............566             Memory.....................577
   Indifference............590             Memory of Nature...........578
   Individuality...........566             Menstruation...............578
   Information.............566             Mercury....................583
   Initiation..............567             Microbes...................578
   Innocence...............566             Mind.......................574
   Instinct................566             Mind, Lords of ........551-553
   Interest................590             Mineral....................578
   Intuition...............566             Missionary.................578
   Interest................590             Mongolians.................596
   Information.............566             Moons......................582
   Initiation..............567             Moon Period................592
   Innocence...............566             Muscles....................560
   Instinct................567             Music......................578
                                           Mystery Schools............567
                 K                                         N
   Kingdoms................569             N Rays.....................578
   Knowledge...............569             Nebular Theory.............578
                 L                         Neptune....................583
   Lamentations............569             Nerves.....................561
   Larynx..................561             New Jerusalem..............579
   Law of Causation........569             New Life Waves.............552
   Law of Rebirth..........570                             O
   Lemurian Epoch..........595             Observation................567
   Life Ether..............589             Organism human.............558
   Life....................563             Original Semitic...........596


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   Original Turanian.......596             Solar System...............581
   Osmosis.................579             Son, the...................548
             P                             Soul.......................584
   Pain....................579             Sound......................584
   Panorama of Life........565             Space......................585
   Patriotism..............579             Spirit.....................585
   Periods, the seven......591             Spirit (Group).............552
   Philosopher's Stone.....579             Spirit (Holy)..............549
   Physical World..........589             Spirit (Human).............576
   Pilgrimage through mat-                 Spirit (7 before Throne)...548
     ter...................579             Spleen.....................560
   Pineal Gland............560             Stone, Philosopher's.......579
   Pituitary Body..........560             Stones.....................584
   Planets.................582             Stragglers.................552
   Plants..............553-579             Suicide....................565
   Poems...................580             Sun........................582
   Polarian Epoch..........594             Sun Period.................591
   Prayer..................579             Supreme Being..............548
   Precession of Equinox...579                            T
   Purgatory...............565             Tears......................578
             R                             Temperament................587
   Races...................596             Temptation.................587
   Race Spirits........551-553             Thought....................587
   Reason..................580             Thymus Gland...............560
   Rebirth, Law of.........570             Tlavatli Race..............596
   Recapitulation..........594             Toltec Race................596
   Recording Angels........580             Trance.....................587
   Reflecting Ether........590             Trinity....................548
   Regions.............589-591             Turanian Race..............596
   Religion................580                            V
   Remorse.................554             Venus......................583
   Repulsion...............590             Venus Period...............593
   Retrospection...........567             Vesuvius...................588
   Revolutions.............594             Virgin Spirits.........551-553
   Ribs....................562             Virtue.....................588
   Rmoahal Race............596             Vital Body.................570
   Rosicrucians............581             Vitality...................588
             S                             Vulcan Period..............594
   Salvation...............581                            W
   Saturn Period...........591             War........................588
   Seed atom...............562             Will.......................588
   Sense Perception........581             Wisdom.....................588
   Seraphim................550             Women......................557
   Sex.....................561             Word.......................588
   Silver Cord.............565             World Periods..............591
   Sin, Forgiveness of.....555             Worlds.....................589
   Skepticism..............554             World Soul.................588
   Skeleton................562
   Sleep...................581




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                                    INDEX

ADAPTABILITY; of supreme importance.....................................223
ADEPT; One who has passed the 9 degrees of the lesser Mysteries and
       the first of the Great Initiations...........................475,502
ANIMALS.
   Animals started evolution in the Sun Period , become human in the
       Jupiter Period................................................70,224
   Why some have cold and others warm blood..............................37
   Why their color often changes with the seasons........................37
   Animals compared with man.............................................57
   Why animals do not really think....................................59,70
   Desirebody of cold and warm-blooded animals differently
       constituted....................................................68,69
   The present animals are more developed than we were during 
       our animal stage..................................................69
   How animals think though lacking mind.................................70
   Animal group spirit located in Desireworld............................77
   Why desire and vital bodies of animals are not concentric with
       dense body........................................................77
   Animal prodigies..................................................77,293
   Why animals are clairvoyant...........................................77
   Relation of groupspirit to animals illustrated.....................78,82
   When hurt animals do not suffer as much as group spirit...............78
   What instinct really is...............................................78
   Groupspirit governs the animals by suggestion.....................83,350
   Horizontal limb of cross symbolizes animal kingdom....................86
   Bereft of vial body at death.........................................100
   Archangels work in animals' desirebodies.............................222
   Angels work in their vital bodies....................................222
   Anthropoids belong to human lifewave.............................230,281
   The missing link.....................................................341
   Lemurian's Word gave him power over animals......................275,281
   Horse's head and vital body not concentric...........................293


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   Haemolysis; the destruction of blood corpuscles......................356
   Why hybrids cannot mate..............................................357
   Groupspirit withholds seed atom from eggs pending favorable
       conditions.......................................................461
ANAESTHETICS; their effect on the vital body.............................62
ASTROLOGY; spiritually based in the Law of Causation....................161
ATOMS; How vital body accelerates their vibratory rate...................61
ARCHETYPES.
   Not merely models, but living things..................................49
   Archetype of suicide's body persists after death and
       causes him suffering.............................................104
BIBLE TEXTS AND TEACHINGS.
   Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom, etc.......................5,223
   The truth shall make you free.........................................23
   In whom we live and move and have our being.......................87,179
   Whatsoever a man soweth that also shall he reap......................106
   Falling of the walls of Jericho......................................122
   Misunderstanding concerning the plan of salvation................151,223
   Changing water to wine...............................................169
   Him that overcometh will I make a pillar, etc........................158
   Christ said of the Baptist:  This is Elijah..........................169
   Who did sin, this man or his parents?................................170
   Know ye not that ye are gods?........................................171
   The Seven Spirits before the Throne..............................180,252
   The Word made flesh..................................................181
   Their eyes were opened and they saw they were naked..................190
   Everlasting Salvation and Damnation..............................224,229
   I die daily (Paul)...................................................249
   Adam KNEW Eve and she bore Seth......................................277
   The tree of KNOWLEDGE................................................278
   The tree of Life.....................................................363
   How shall I conceive, I KNOW not a man (Mary)........................278
   Why the Angel said:  In pain shalt thou bear children................278
   Why foreign missions are a mistake...................................308
   The sons of God married the daughters of men.....................310,335
   Location of the promised land....................................310,335
   The "lost" tribes................................................310,335
   Chosen people--past and future...........................298,305,311,334
   A new heaven and a new earth.........................................313


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   How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation...............315
   Translation of the Bible discussed...................................317
   Bible not intended as an "open book".............................319,322
   Paul asserts allegorical signification of Bible, he and 
       Christ gave deeper teachings to a few............................320
   The Greek Septuagint; the Talmud and the transcription
       of the Masoretes.................................................320
   A fallacious standard of Truth.......................................321
   Two renderings of the opening sentence in Genesis and
       how each complements the other...................................321
   According to the Bible the Earth was formed from the 
       "EVEREXISTING ESSENCE", not from "NOTHING".......................322
   Nebular theory proves Gods creative and sustaining
       energy.......................................................129,323
   The dual Creative force..............................................324
   The 7 Creative Hierarchies...........................................325
   Why Genesis does not mention Cherubim and Seraphim...................326
   THE SATURN PERIOD....................................................327
   THE SUN PERIOD; how it is scientifically possible to have
       light ere sun and moon were created..............................328
   THE MOON PERIOD; its atmosphere of "firefog".........................328
   THE EARTH PERIOD and Recapitulations.................................329
   THE POLARIAN EPOCH; the HYPERBOREAN EPOCH............................330
   The Creation of the Sun..............................................330
   Expelling the Moon from the Earth....................................331
   THE LEMURIAN EPOCH...................................................331
   "FORM" not "LIFE", created...........................................332
   ATLANTEAN EPOCH; "nephesh" an important word.........................332
   ARYAN EPOCH; the Elohim rest and man's work begins...................333
   Jehovah, leader of Angels and Regent of the Moon.....................333
   Jehovah is builder of "FORM"; giver of children......................334
   The wilderness; the rebel Jews.......................................335
   Involution, Evolution and Epigenesis.................................336
   How the two Creation stories of Bible harmonize......................344
   Jehovah blew NEPHESH: BREATH into Adam's nostrils and
       Adam became nephesh chayim: BREATHING creature...................345
   Occult effect of this inbreathing................................348,350
   The SOUL (not merely the "LIFE") of all flesh is in the
       blood............................................................349


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   The seed of Abraham..................................................351
   Before Abraham was I am..............................................352
   How and why the Lucifer Spirits spoke to woman.......................361
   Atonement of Christ and Forgiveness of sins complement
       the Laws of Causation........................................373,401
   Jesus, Christ, the only begotten, not one but three..................374
   On earth peace: good will among men..................................387
   I came not to bring peace, but a sword...............................383
   An eye for an eye....................................................384
   Return good for evil.................................................393
   As a man thinketh in his heart.......................................398
   Why Christ's mission required a violent ending...................406,408
   The Cleansing Blood (chapter)........................................406
   Darkness and rending of the temple veil..............................407
BROTHERHOOD.
   Atlanteans evolved CUNNING, we Aryans are evolving REASON, in
       future New Galileans will cultivate LOVE.........................311
   One groupspirit controlled humanity during the earliest epochs.......348
   That was composed of all the Creative Hierarchies....................351
   Jehovah segregated humanity into nations and races...................352
   Christ came to reunite them into a Brotherhood.......................352
   Why Christ is the only Being who can do that.........................380
CHRISTIAN DOCTRINES.
   The Creation.........................................................317
   The Fall.....................................................277,278,361
   Salvation and Damnation..........................................224,229
   The Immaculate Conception........................................378,390
   The Atonement........................................................400
   The Cleansing Blood..................................................406
   Forgiveness of Sin............................................91,111,373
   The Trinity...................................................87,229,253
CONSCIENCE.
   Conscience is the fruitage of previous purgatorial existences........120
   How conscience battles with desire....................................89
CREATOR.
   Nebular theory predicates a creator..................................323
   Creator of Universe a logical necessity..............................129


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   How we learn to become Creators..................................128,338
   Man's desire to create caused the Fall...............................361
CONSCIOUSNESS.
   Consciousness of the four Kingdoms, with diagram...................73,74
   Consciousness of animals described....................................83
   Effect of the skeleton on consciousness..............................456
   Consciousness of minerals and plants described........................85
   How soul-growth enlarges the consciousness............................96
   Evolution of consciousness, Ariadne's thread through maze of
       "Worlds," "Periods," "Globes," etc...............................201
   Why Pythagoras made knowledge of mathematics a prerequisite
       to occult teaching...............................................203
   Vehicles and consciousness of man in Saturn Period like those 
       of present mineral...............................................212
   Vehicles and consciousness plantlike in Sun Period...................213
   Vehicles and consciousness of man like the lower Animals during 
       the the Moon Period..............................................217
   Tabular description of consciousness in past and future Periods......421
   Our present consciousness results from the war between the desire
       body and the vital body..........................................455
   Involution: from divine All-consciousness to human SELF-
       consciousness.................................................80,216
   POLARIAN EPOCH: trance consciousness like Saturn, HYPERBOREAN
       EPOCH deep sleep like in Sun Period..............................263
   Torture used in LEMURIA to waken consciousness to a dreamy state.....279
   Our present waking consciousness dates from middle of 
       ATLANTIS when "mist" cleared.....................................300
   How marriage in the family produced the tie of blood by
       generating common consciousness..............................354,397
   How intertribal marriage has destroyed "second sight" or
       clairvoyance.....................................................355
   Internal and external skeleton as factors in consciousness...........456
   The four causes of our materialistic ideas...........................359
   How sin and its consequent pain has awakened and is sharpening
       our consciousness................................................362
   How our consciousness will be expanded...............................417
   The Consciousness of the JUPITER PERIOD..............................418


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   The Consciousness of the VENUS PERIOD................................419
   The Consciousness of the VULCAN PERIOD...............................421
COLOR.
   Illustrative of the "Trinity"........................................253
   Why changeable in animals at different seasons........................37
CRIME; crimes we ignorantly commit against the dying....................101
CROSS.
   The cross is symbolical of the life currents vitalizing the 
       bodies of plant, animal and man...................................85
   Cross symbolical of man's past evolution, present constitution
       and future development...........................................516

                 CREATIVE HIERARCHIES AND OTHER LIFE WAVES.

THE SUPREME BEING.
   The Supreme Being is the architect of the whole Universe; vastly
       exalted above our solar God......................................179
   The Supreme Being images the Universe prior to creation and
       dissolves it when it has served its purpose......................375
   The WORD made flesh..................................................181
GOD.
   God is the Creator and sustainer of solar system.....................179
   The logical necessity of a creator and sustainer of the worlds...129,323
   God is an expression of the positive pole of the Universal
       Spirit (matter is negative pole).................................185
   God is a composite Being.........................................183,253
   The Sun is the visible symbol of God.................................181
   THE FATHER is highest Initiate of Saturn Period......................376
   THE SON: CHRIST, is highest Initiate of Sun Period...................376
   THE HOLY SPIRIT (JEHOVAH) is highest Initiate of Moon Period.........376
   Purpose of the Jehovistic Race religions.....................352,433,435
   Purpose of the Christian religion............................352,433,435
   Purpose of the coming religion of the Father.........................435
THE SEVEN SPIRITS BEFORE THE THRONE.
   Collectively they are God..........................................252-3
   Individually they are Regents of the planets.........................180
CHRIST
   Christ is highest Initiate of Sun Period.............................376


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   The Christ became Regent of Earth at Golgotha........................407
   The Immaculate Conception............................................378
   Why Christ used the dense and vital body of Jesus............128,378,380
   Why Christ is unique among Beings, celestial or terrestrial
       and alone able to reunite mankind............................380,382
   Jesus' body attuned to Christ vibrations.............................382
   Atonement does not vitiate the law of Causation; nor does
       doctrine of remission of sins................................373,401
   Salvation illustrated................................................402
   Why Christ said "not peace but a sword"..............................389
   Why the death of Christ was violent..................................405
   The wounds of Christ, of esoteric significance.......................406
   How the sin of the world was taken away..............................408
   The purpose of the Christian Religion............................433,435
   Jehovah segregated mankind into nations and races.
       Christ will reunite them in Brotherhood..........................352
   The special mission of Christ....................................401,405
JEHOVAH (HOLY SPIRIT).
   Prior to Jehovah's regime a common groupspirit ruled mankind.........351
   Jehovah is highest Initiate of the Moon Period.......................376
   He is leader of Angels and Regent of all moons, ours included........333
   Why some Archangels (who are sun spirits) help Jehovah,
       the lunar God....................................................404
   Jehovah built hard bony structures in early Lemuria..................346
   He blew in the breath: NEPHESH, and men became NEPHESH CHAYIM:
       breathing creatures..............................................345
   He separated the sexes...............................................347
   Jehovah and the Archangels divided mankind into nations and 
       and races, appointing a Guardian Angel for each Ego..........347,352
   Jehovah and Archangels work in desirebody by "Law,"
       fear of God is pitted against desire of flesh....................395
   Purpose of the Jehovistic Race religions.........................433,435
   Why Race religions are insufficient to meet human needs..............383
LORDS OF FLAME.
   Are brilliantly luminious; called "THRONES" in Bible.................206


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   They gave germ of DENSE BODY and awakened DIVINE SPIRIT of
       man-in-the-making................................................207
   Lords of Flame aided Virgin Spirits to penetrate first veil
       of matter........................................................216
   They helped Lords of Wisdom reconstruct dense body...................211
   Lords of Flame help link divine spirit and life spirit...............212
   They helped Lords of Individuality link divine spirit and
       human spirit.....................................................216
   Lords of Flame, CHERUBIM and SERAPHIM leave our system...............220
CHERUBIM.
   Awaken LIFE SPIRIT of man-in-the-making..............................212
   Aid spirit penetrate second veil of matter...........................216
   Cheribum helps Lords of Individuality link human spirit to 
       life spirit......................................................215
   LORDS OF FLAME, CHERUBIM and SERAPHIM leave our evolution............220
   Why Cheribum and Seraphim are not mentioned in the Creation
       story of Bible...................................................326
SERAPHIM.
   Awaken HUMAN SPIRIT (the Ego) in man-in-the-making...................215
   They leave our evolution.............................................326
LORDS OF WISDOM.
   They had charge of material evolution in Sun Period,
       they helped LORDS OF FLAME reconstruct dense body................211
   They gave germ of VITAL BODY to man-in-the-making....................211
   They helped Lords of Flame link divine spirit to life spirit.........214
   LORDS OF INDIVIDUALITY help Lords of Wisdom reconstruct
       dense body, giving germ of skeleton, muscle......................214
   Lords of Wisdom now in charge of divine spirit.......................220
LORDS OF FORM.
   They have charge of material evolution now...........................240
   Also of human spirit, the Ego........................................220
   They reconstruct dense body, giving germ of brain....................239
   Help ANGELS reconstruct vital body...................................240


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   Help man build dense body in POLARIAN EPOCH..........................261
   Vivified human spirit in many Moon Stragglers........................266
   Those stragglers remained mindless, however..........................266
LORDS OF MINDS.
   They were human in the Saturn period, are expert MIND BUILDERS
       and work only with man.......................................222,243
   They also help man build higher desire body..........................265
   THE FATHER is highest Initiate among the Lords of Minds..............376
ARCHANGELS.
   They were human in Sun Period, are expert builders in 
       DESIRE BODIES, work with animal and man.....................222, 349
   THE SON, Christ, is highest Initiate Archangel.......................376
   Archangels work in lower part of desirebody..........................243
   They helped man build his desirebody in Lemuria......................265
   During heavenlife they teach him to reconstruct the earth............126
ANGELS.
   They were human in Moon Period; are expert builders of VITAL 
       BODY, work with plant, animal and man........................222,349
   A GUARDIAN ANGEL was appointed for each Ego..........................352
   THE HOLY SPIRIT, Jehovah, is their highest Initiate..................376
   Angels and Lords of Form clothe man in vital body....................263
   The vital body is their normal vehicle, they are double
       sexed and without brain..........................................285
   Angels directed man's propagation in harmony with stars,
       then parturition was painless....................................283
LUCIFER SPIRITS.
   They were stragglers of the life wave of Angels......................286
   They are called serpents.............................................288
   How and why they spoke to the woman..............................287,361
VIRGIN SPIRITS (OUR HUMAN LIFE WAVE).
   Whence we came and why pilgrimage through matter was undertaken.......87
   Our varying grades of unconsciousness during Involution,
       attainment of self-consciousness.............................189,201
   The descent of spirit marks the ascent of form and both 
       streams coalesce in the focusing mind............................266
   Their evolution depends upon adaptability............................223
   Their future development.............................................417



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STRAGGLERS AND NEWCOMERS.
   Some of our life wave proved unadaptable in Saturn Period,
       they formed dark spots on the luminous Sun globe.................225
   More straggled in sixth revolution of Sun Period.....................225
   Some Saturn stragglers were promoted in seventh revolution
       of the Sun Period................................................225
   Some from the animal life wave straggled in Sun Period...............225
   List of classes at beginning of Moon Period..........................226
   More spirits of our life wave straggled in fifth revolution
       of the Moon Period.  Cheribum promoted some......................229
   When there are no more stragglers a race dies........................341
NEW LIFE WAVES (BEHIND THE HUMAN SPIRITS).
   The present animals started evolution in Sun Period..................224
   The present plants started evolution in Moon Period..................226
   The minerals started in the Earth Period.........................230,232
GROUP SPIRITS.
   A guardian spirit governing a tribe of animals or plants
       FROM WITHOUT...................................................72,81
   Prior to the advent of Jehovah humanity was governed FROM
       WITHOUT by a common groupspirit..................................351
   Jehovah and his Archangels are like groupspirits, for they
       govern the nations...............................................349
   Groupspirits evolve to family and Race spirits........................82
   Groupspirit of plant and oviparous animals withhold seed atom
       from seed and egg, pending favorable conditions..................461
   Groupspirit is "a jealous god" like Jehovah; it abhors and 
       prevents intermarriage of species............................353,357
   Instinct is suggestion of groupspirit responded to by animal..........78
   Groupspirit suffers when an animal is hurt............................78
   Groupspirit is responsible for the similar traits, tastes and 
       appearance of the separate plants or animals in its tribe.........71
   Groupspirit is responsible for the currents which flow inwards
       in coldblooded animals............................................69
   Outgoing currents in the desirebody of animals are generated
       by them, not by groupspirits......................................69


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   Animal groupspirits work in the blood by means of their air inspired.350
   Difference between a groupspirit and a human Ego...............78,82,350
   Diagram showing present location of groupspirits......................74

                                 LIFE WAVES
                 (WHICH REACH THE HUMAN STAGE IN OUR SYSTEM)
LORDS OF MIND (STARTED EVOLUTION BEFORE OUR SCHEME).
   Became human in the Saturn Period, are expert mind builders, work 
       only with man (who was mineral in Saturn Period).............222,427
   THE FATHER is their highest Initiate.................................376
   They became Creative Intelligences in Earth Period...................243
ARCHANGELS (STARTED PRIOR TO OUR SCHEME).
   Became human in the Sun Period, are expert builders of COURSE
       desirestuff, work principally with animals (which were mineral
       in Sun Period), but also with man........................222,349,427
   THE SON (CHRIST) is their highest Initiate...........................376
   They become Creative Intelligences in Jupiter Period.................
ANGELS (STARTED PRIOR TO OUR EVOLUTION).
   Became human in Moon Period, are expert builders of Ether. Work
       specifically with plants (which were mineral in Moon
       Period)..................................................222,349,427
   Their highest Initiate is JEHOVAH, THE HOLY SPIRIT...................376
   They become Creative Intelligences in Venus Period...................
VIRGIN SPIRITS (OUR PRESENT HUMANITY).
   Started evolution as mineral in Saturn Period........................205
   Became human in the Earth Period.  We are now becoming expert
       builders of Form from chemical mineral substance.................426
   In the Jupiter Period we shall vitalize the forms....................428
   In the Venus Period we shall give them feeling.......................428
   In the Vulcan Period we shall become Creative Intelligences
       and give the forms a mind........................................428
ANIMALS started evolution in the Sun Period, become human in
       Jupiter Period................................................70,224
PLANTS started evolution in Moon Period, become human in Venus
       Period...........................................................226


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MINERALS started evolution in Earth Period, become human in Vulcan
       Period.......................................................230,232
DESIRE.
   Desire for prolonged earth-life makes the spirit earth-bound
       amid unpleasant surroundings.....................................103
   How conscience battles with desire....................................89
   Archetypes of desires, feelings and emotions..........................50
DISEASE.
   Why complications set in when a person is sick........................64
   Why pain is felt in a limb subsequent to the time of amputation.......64
   A spiritual cause of paralysis........................................63
   A spiritual cause of consumption and rachitis........................113
   HAEMOLYSIS (destruction of blood corpuscles; see Human Organism).
   Nostalgia (homesickness); how engendered by the Race Spirit..........351
DREAMS.
   The cause of dreams, and why mostly confused..........................94
   Dreamlike internal picture consciousness of animals rational
       because engendered by groupspirit................................217
DRUNKARD; how purged in Purgatory.......................................105
DROWNING; why drowning persons see past life in a flash..................61
ELEMENTS.
   In Saturn Period there was only one element: heat--incipient fire....234
   In Sun Period there was fire and air; in Moon Period fire, air 
       water.  Here we have four elements...............................234
   A new element will be added in the Jupiter Period....................234
ELEMENTALS or naturespirits; help build our bodies......................126
EVIL; how it grows and is destroyed...................................42-43
FAITH.
   Childlike faith and scepticism compared................................6
FEELING.
   Distinct from mere response to impacts................................32
   A separate desirebody necessary to TRUE feeling.......................57
   INTEREST and INDIFFERENCE; the twin feelings which move the world.....45
   Remorse...............................................................47


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   Archetypes of feeling.................................................50
   Effect of sharp purgatorial pain on future lives.....................109
   Mathematic study raises us above feeling.............................203
   Pineal gland once an organ of feeling................................262
   Feeling was awakened by torture in Lemuria...........................279
   Rhmoahals developed finer feelings: joy and sorrow, pleasure
       and pain, etc....................................................294
   Tlavatlis developed ambition.........................................295
FREEWILL AND DESTINY.
   Relative freewill of mineral, plant, animal and man compared..........83
   All evil acts in life at least are voluntary.........................110
   Choice regarding place of Rebirth................................129,136
   Epigenesis more than choice of action................................135
   Original Semites the first to be given freewill and made 
       responsible to law of consequence................................301
   Causes when ripened to maturity become destiny.......................136
   MATURE destiny cannot be escaped (story).............................161
   The stars: the clock of Destiny......................................163
   Poem on freewill and destiny.........................................163
   Freewill bought at cost of pain and death........................288,363
FORGIVENESS OF SIN.
   Forgiveness and the subconscious mind.................................91
   How it shortens or eliminates Purgatory..............................111
   The doctrines of Forgiveness and Atonement do not vitiate, but
       complement the Law of Causation..................................373
FERTILIZATION.
   Depends upon presence of etheric matrix of body being present in
       mother's womb and on seedatom................................137,461
   Seedatom withheld by groupspirit when animals mate outside 
       their species....................................................352
FOOD.
   Why one man's meat is another's poison................................84
   Food as factor in evolution..........................................165
   The science of nutrition (chapter)...................................441
   Why we do not take life when eating plantseed or eggs................461
   The law of assimilation (chapter)....................................457
FORCES.
   Laws of Nature not blind, but Great Intelligences.....................49


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   Archetypal Forces and the inception of form...........................51
   Force is spirit not yet crystallized to matter...................120,247
   Relation of force and matter illustrated.............................121
   Attraction and Repulsion; the twin forces, and how they operate.......46
   The Bible on "dual creative energy"..................................324
FORM.
   All forms are built of one basic substance............................31
   Forms are crystallized space; at death it dissolves to spirit....249,186
   Relation of Life, Form and Consciousness.............................223
   Reason for multiplicity of forms and their decay......................31
   All form devoid of true feeling.......................................31
   Wonderful metamorphoses of forms in Desire world......................41
   Archetypes of form....................................................50
   Archetypes build forms by sound......................................123
   Sound the builder of climate, flora and fauna........................125
   Form and life merge into one spirit in Chaos; seedatoms
       of worldglobes alone remain intact...............................247
   Life may, and does, exist independently of concrete form.............248
   Forms are always built to suit conditions............................255
   Man's past, present and future form..................................257
   How pineal gland preserved man's form from destruction by 
       fire in Lemuria..................................................262
   Why form evolves to a certain point; then degenerates
       and dies.................................................289,341,343
   Jehovah, the builder of form and giver of children...............334,348
   Bible story of Creation refers to form: Life is uncreate.........332,344
   Life has no origin: Forms have.......................................504
GENIUS.
   Genius and epigenesis................................................185
   A genius builds better organism from parental material than others...138
   Heredity cannot account for genius...................................155
   Why genius is AHEAD of its time......................................161
GOOD; how assimilated by the spirit........................21,47,96,123,417
HYPNOTISM.
   How hypnotism and anaesthetics affect vital body......................62


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                             HUMANITY (TOPICAL)

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   Humanity compared with mineral, plant and animal......................57
   Origin of our faculties: sense perception, locomotion and thought.....59
   Man is the inverted plant.............................................86
   Seven human principles as correlated to five worlds...................88
   Man is a 3-fold spirit having a mind by which he governs a
       3-fold body and transmutes it to soul...............................
   Man builds in heaven the body he uses on earth.......................128
   In Hyperboran Epoch we had both lunar and solar sexforce, hence 
       we were hermaphrodites...........................................268
   Why nations rise and fall............................................289
   Originally humanity were governed by one common groupspirit..........351
   Later Jehovah segregated them into nations...........................352
   Original Semites first to be given freewill and made 
       responsible to the law of consequence............................301
   Mission of Christ to reunite the races as Brothers...................352
   The four steps and stages in Religion................................302
   The sixteen paths to destruction.................................271,306
   The "missing link"...................................................341
   The origin of Life...................................................504
MAN.
   Differently educated from women in Lemuria...........................279
   Man possesses solar sexforce expressing "Will".......................267
   Spermatozoon an expression of concentrated will......................284
WOMAN.
   Why subject to periodical flow and tears..............................60
   Why more intuitive than man...........................................92
   Woman has lunar sexforce which expresses itself spiritually
       as "Imagination".................................................267
   How woman was educated in Lemuria....................................279
   Woman developed memory before man....................................280
   Why parturition became painful.......................................283
   Imagination builds the foetus........................................284
   How and why Lucifer spoke to the woman...............................361
CHILDREN.
   Childlike faith compared to scepticism.................................6
   Childlife in the first heaven........................................117


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   Birth of a child only commenced with the delivery of the dense body..139
   Children are clairvoyant and have invisible playmates................149
   Do not manufacture individual blood in early years...................143
   Birth of the vital body produces growth..............................141
   Why one who has died as a child will be apt to remember
       that life in its next embodiment.................................172
   Education of children in Lemuria.................................279,361
   Education of children in early Atlantis..............................296
   Children are clairvoyant while innocent..............................281
   Jehovah, the Regent of the Moon, is the builder of "form" and 
       hence the giver of children......................................334

                          HUMAN ORGANISM (TOPICAL)

DENSE BODY.
   A dense body necessary to live in the Physical World..................57
   What determines shape of dense body...................................60
   Why the dense body is our most valuable instrument....................76
   Dense body abandoned at death.........................................97
   How premature loss of dense body causes suffering to suicide.........104
   Archetype of dense body built by us in heaven........................126
   Birth of dense body..................................................139
   Germinally started in Saturn Period with incipient sense organs......206
   Reconstructed in Sun Period.  Germination of alimentary canal
       and glands commenced.............................................211
   Reconstructed in Moon Period.  Skeleton, cartilage, muscle and 
       nerves begin to form.............................................214
   Reconstructed in Earth Period.  Then brain and voluntary nerves
       began to form................................................236,239
   Wonderful mechanism of dense body....................................237
   Line of future improvements..........................................262
   "Point" in forehead not concentric with the corresponding "point"
       in vital body in Atlantis........................................293
   When those points came into correspondence clairvoyance was lost.....294
   The keynote of the dense body........................................369


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   How connection between dense and vital bodies has become
       relaxed since Golgotha...........................................482
BLOOD.
   How warm and cold-blooded animals are produced........................37
   Difference of constitution of desirebody in cold and 
       warm-blooded animals..............................................69
   Red blood requisite to a separate desirebody..........................69
   In our animal stage we had no red blood...............................69
   Incipient blood currents started in Moon Period......................218
   Before the Ego can become an indwelling spirit it must 
       have body with warm blood and upright larynx..................86,236
   The blood is the direct vehicle of the Ego....................91,238,350
   The blood is the carrier of feelings and emotions.....................91
   Children do not manufacture individual blood.........................143
   Effects upon Ego of high and low temperature.........................144
   Constancy of blood temperature more marked after 21st year...........145
   Mars, iron, warm blood and individuality.........................268,274
   Why Mars prevented evolution of warm blood in the first three
       and one-half Earth-revolutions...................................274
   The soul of all flesh is in the blood................................350
   Why marriage "in the clan" gives second sight....................353,397
   Why mixing blood of one family by marriage with another
       family kills clairvoyance........................................355
   The blood; the highest expression of vital body......................397
   Menstruation and tears................................................60
   In each cycle the blood carries a picture of the outside world
       to seedatom in heart..........................................92,398
HAEMOLYSIS (DESTRUCTION OF BLOOD).
   Haemolysis and death results when blood of higher animal is injected
       in lower.........................................................355
   Mating of different species causes partial haemolysis with loss
       of propagating faculty...........................................357
   International marriages produce haemolysis which kills second
       sight enjoyed by marrying in the clan............................358
EAR.
   The semicircular canals of the ear, music and logic..................126
   Ear was started in Saturn Period.....................................206
EYE; the eye was built by light......................................18,276


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   The so-called "third eye" was organ of feeling.......................262
LIVER.
   Desirebody rooted in liver............................................68
   Groupspirit directs currents INWARDS in cold-blooded animals.
       Currents WELL OUT in mammals......................................69
   Liver and "liver".....................................................69
LUNGS; the place of ingress for the groupspirit.................345,348,350
SPLEEN.
   Spleen is root of vital body, it specializes solar energy.............63
   How white corpuscles are made........................................455
GLANDS.
   Glands and alimentary canal started in Sun Period....................211
   Pineal Gland was once the localized seat of feeling..................262
   Glands are expressions of the vital body.............................455
THYMUS GLAND; supplies parental blood to child in infancy and
       early childhood..................................................143
PITUITARY BODY; latent in most people, it is an organ of clairvoyance...473
PINEAL GLAND.
   Once a localized organ of feeling....................................262
   Now an organ of clairvoyance when developed..........................473
HEART.
   Head and heart figuratively at war................................17,393
   Silver Cord fastened to left ventricle of heart by the seedatom.......98
   Rupture of silver cord causes heart to stop...........................98
   Heart, though an involuntary muscle, is cross-striped like 
       a voluntary muscle...............................................396
   How the crossstripes may be developed and the heart control body.....399
   How heart, larnyx and spinal cord become path of sex currents........477
MUSCLES.
   How manipulated by thoughts of Ego....................................89
   The higher part of desirebody built the voluntary nervous system.....394
   Voluntary muscles striped lengthwise and crosswise; involuntary
       muscles striped lengthwise only..................................396
   Muscles the particular stronghold of desirebody......................455


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