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NERVES.
   The cause of paralysis................................................63
   Voluntary nerves started in Earth Period, sympathetic system in
       Moon Period......................................................239
   Higher part of desirebody built voluntary nerves.....................394
   Pneumogastric nerve, avenue of ingress of intuition or "first
       impressions".....................................................398
   Pneumogastric nerve is avenue of egress for the seedatom at death.....97
BRAIN.
   How the Ego manipulates the braincenters..............................89
   Building of brain started in Lemuria.................................239
   Built since separation of sexes......................................267
   Half the sexforce diverted to build brain........................269,284
   Cost of the faculty of thought.......................................270
   Lemurian girls first developed memory................................280
   Why Lucifer prompted Lemurians to use the generative force
       independent of the Angels........................................287
   How Lucifer spoke to the woman.......................................361
LARYNX.
   Why animals cannot speak..............................................86
   A horizontal larynx is under groupspirit.............................236
   Larynx, the highest achievement of human Ego.........................236
   Originally the larynx was part of the sexorgan.......................269
   The larynx is sustained by sexforce..............................269,284
   The larynx will eventually supersede the sexorgans and man
       will speak the (now lost) creative WORD......................364,425
   Larynx, heart and spinal cord, path of sexcurrent in Initiates.......478
SEX.
   Change of boy's voice at the time of puberty.  Sex is determined
       by forces active in Life Ether....................................36
   Sex alternates in successive births..................................160
   Will and Imagination are solar and lunar sexforces...................267
   When Earth was united with sun and moon in the Hyperborean
       Epoch man was male-female......................................268-9
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   Sexforece built brain and larynx.....................................269
   When Angels regulated sexrelation in harmony with stars 
       parturition was painless.........................................277
   When Adam KNEW his wife INDISCRIMINATELY, "their eyes were opened;"
       then pain and death began....................................278,283
   Spermatozoa an expression of male sexforce: Will.  Imagination,
       the female sexforce, builds foetus...............................284
   All retain one-half of sexforce to build brain, nervous
       system and larynx................................................284
   Selfish motive in sex and thought activities.........................286
   Lucifer spirits prompted man to abuse of sex.........................287
   Adam's "rib" and "side"..............................................347
   The beginning and the end of sex.....................................364
SKELETON.
   Skeleton soft as cartilage till crystallized in early Lemuria
       by Jehovah's lunar forces....................................275,346
   Comparison of the effect of external and internal skeletons
       on consciousness.................................................456
   Hardening of bones contributed to divide sexes.......................275
   Skeleton the particular stronghold of divine spirit..................397
RIBS.
   Young children do not create blood from bones........................143
   Adam's "rib".........................................................347
DIGESTION.
   Digestion accomplished through the aid of forces in the
       chemical ether.............................................35,94,148
   Manufacture and selection of gastric juices..........................263
   Digestion commenced in Hyperborean Epoch by osmosis..................263
   Alimentary canal started in Sun Period...............................211
   How digestion is affected by temper..................................456
   The law of assimilation (chapter)....................................457
EXCRETION; a SELECTIVE elimination of waste..............................35
SEEDATOM.
   The seedatoms have formed part of all vehicles ever used by one
       particular Ego....................................................97
   Seedatom of dense body leaves heart just after last breath,
       bearing imprint of panorama of life...............................97
   Seedatom of dense body fastens silver cord to heart...................98



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   Seedatom of vital body extracted at second rupture of silver cord....103
   Seedatom of desirebody: seat of conscience.  It is extracted
        ere spirit leaves desirebody to disintegrate....................120
   How seedatom of mind gathers materials for the mind of a new 
        life prior to birth.............................................133
   How seedatom of desirebody gathers desirestuff for a new desirebody..134
   How seedatom of vital body gathers new ether.........................134
   How the etheric mold of the coming dense body is placed in womb
        of mother by the Lords of Destiny...............................137
   Seedatom of dense body placed in semen of father.....................137
   Seedatoms of World-globes alone persist in Chaos.....................247
   Seedatoms of plant seed or eggs withheld by groupspirit
        pending favorable conditions....................................461
   Seedatoms of animals withheld by groupspirit to prevent mating
        of hybrids or mismating.........................................357
   Outside world pictured upon seedatom in each cycle of the blood......398

                      LIFE HERE AND HEREAFTER (TOPICAL)

LIFE IN GENERAL.
   The problem of life and death.........................................19
   The three solutions offered..........................................148
   The four streams of LIFE ensouling all FORM...........................31
   Life alone can feel, form is dead and unfeeling.......................32
   Life Ether: the avenue of propagation.................................36
   Life Ether freed at age of 14........................................143
   A separate vital body necessary to express life.......................57
   The four Kingdoms of LIFE symbolized in the cross.....................85
   The value of life largely dependent upon conditions at death.........101
   Duration of life in Purgatory........................................107
   Life in the First Heaven.............................................113
   Life in the Second Heaven............................................121
   Life in the Third Heaven.............................................129
   The purpose of life..................................................131
   Life a school of experience..........................................132


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   The LIFE ensouling man entered evolution in the Saturn Period........205
   The LIFE ensouling the animals entered evolution in the Sun Period...224
   The LIFE ensouling the plants entered evolution in the Moon Period...226
   The LIFE ensouling the mineral entered evolution in the Earth Period.232
   The relation of Life, Form and Consciousness......................80,223
   Life and form merge in Chaos, leaving only seedatoms of
        World-globes intact.............................................247
   Life may, and does, exist in forms intangible to us..................248
   Life always builds forms to suit conditions..........................256
   Life uncreate, the importance of the word NEPHESH....................332
   First Creation story of Bible deals with FORM, the second with
        the ensouling LIFE: nephesh.....................................344
   Nephesh chayim: breathing creatures; not living souls................345
   Life did not originate anywhere, at any time: it is..................584
   Taking life for food.................................................460
   Why plant seed and eggs contain no life..............................461
CONCEPTION.
   Conception results only when etheric mold of a body and the
        seedatom are present............................................137
   Ego enters mother's womb 18 days after conception....................138
BIRTH.
   Birth is the result of Ego's desire for experience...................129
   Birthplace usually chosen by Ego.....................................136
   Birth not accomplished when dense body is delivered..................139
   Birth of vital body and growth.......................................141
   Birth of desire body and puberty.....................................142
   Birth of mind and maturity...........................................143
DEATH.
   The problem of Life and Death.........................................19
   How death is robbed of its terror.....................................27
   Death by drowning or freezing.........................................61
   Death by suicide and its dreadful consequences.......................104
   Death by accident or on the battlefield..............................118
   The importance of peaceful surroundings at death.....................109


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   One of the main causes of infant mortality...........................118
   People who have died sometimes ignorant of that fact.................121
   Death did not exist till latter part of Lemuria..................167,278
   Premature cremation causes departing spirit pain......................98
   The oftener we die, the better we shall live.....................244,363
   Death of FORM gives spirit scope for advancement.....................249
   Our liberty purchased at cost of death and pain......................363
   Degeneracy and death of races and nations............................289
DECAY; an activity of the chemical forces in matter......................31
   VITAL and dense bodies disintegrate simultaneously...................102
CREMATION.
   Premature incineration pains departing Spirit.........................98
SILVER CORD.
   Silver Cord fastened in left ventricle of heart by seedatom. 
        Rupture there stops heart........................................98
   Silver Cord not broken in any case where resuscitation
        is accomplished.................................................102
   Final rupture and its effect.........................................102
PANORAMA OF LIFE.
   Panorama viewed through negative pole of Reflecting Ether just
        subsequent to death..........................................91,101
   Panorama is of varying length - what terminates it...................102
   Panorama basis of pleasure and pain beyond...........................108
   How panorama may be eradicated by remission of sin...................111
   Contrast between panorama of past life viewed after death and 
        a coming life seen prior to birth...............................130
   The blood in each cycle through the heart engraves panorama
        on seedatom.....................................................398
PURGATORY.
   How and why suicide suffers for rash act.............................104
   Why post-mortem existence is first purgative.........................104
   How the miser is purged of avarice...................................104
   How drunkard is purged from his vice.................................105
   How each act in life automatically produces its just reward
        or retribution..................................................107
   Duration of life in Purgatory........................................107
   How we may escape Purgatory..........................................111


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   Children go through Purgatory to First Heaven at once................117
   Conscience: the fruitage of Purgatory................................119
BORDERLAND; a pitiable state of existence between Heaven and
        Purgatory, and who goes there...................................112
FIRST HEAVEN.
   A place of happiness, the measure determined by our own 
        previous benevolence expressed in Panorama......................114
   The ethics of true benevolence.......................................115
SECOND HEAVEN.
   This is the realm of tone............................................122
   Assimilation of soulpower generated in past life.....................123
   Preparation for new earth life.......................................124
   Building new environment and new body............................125,128
THIRD HEAVEN.
   Panorama of a new life as chosen by Ego..............................129
IDEAS.
   Set ideas detrimental to investigation; great importance of 
        adaptability..................................................5,223
IMMORTALITY; why it would be most undesirable at present................363
INDIVIDUALITY.
   Of man compared to animals............................................71
   "I" consciousness of children and the thymus gland...................143
   Birth of Individuality (chapter).....................................266
   Mars, iron, red blood and individuality..............................352
INFORMATION; source of the author's information...........................8
INNOCENCE, is not virtue................................................282
IMAGINATION.
   Imagination is the spiritual expression of the female, 
        lunar sexforce. (Will is male and solar)........................267
   Imagination the formative force in creation......................324,425
INSTINCT.
   Instinct an expression of wisdom of groupspirit.......................78
   Why man's unwisdom is superior to infallible animal instinct..........79
INTUITION.
   What it is, and why most noticeable in women..........................92


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INITIATION.
   Initiation described and defined.....................................519
   Enables man to build body consciously during antenatal life......128,138
   Value of mathematics in process of attainment........................203
   Lemurian kings initiated by Lords of Mercury.......................272-3
   Initiation will enable man to leave body at will.....................274
   Lemurian initiators taught art and science...........................281
   Human Initiates have had entire charge of our evolution since
        the beginning of the Aryan Epoch................................304
   At end of Aryan Epoch highest Initiate will appear publicly 
        as leader of those who want him.................................305
   Jesus' body attuned to Christvibrations by initiation................382
   Initiation under the Christ-star.....................................391
   How to know an Initiate...........................................68,400
   Initiation open to chosen few only, before Christ....................404
   Why it is now open to "whosoever will"...........................404,482
   The Seven Days of Creation and Initiation............................412
   How Initiation will expand our consciousness.........................417
   Consciousness of the Jupiter Period..................................418
   Consciousness of the Venus Period....................................419
   Spirals within spirals of attainment.................................420
   Schematic list of Periods and consciousness..........................421
   Why probation must precede Initiation............................478,519
   Initiation of the Rose Cross.........................................519
   The necessity of training......................................25,41,480
   The bridge to the unseen worlds......................................476
MYSTERY SCHOOLS; SEPTENARY DIVISION OF.
   The Rosicrucian method of preparation................................439
EXERCISES.
   Retrospection, an review of the day's events.........................111
   Concentration; its similarity to, and its differences from sleep.....483
   The best time to concentrate.........................................485
   Concentration (chapter)..............................................486
   Meditation (chapter).................................................489
   Observation..........................................................492
   Discrimination.......................................................493


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   Contemplation (chapter)..............................................494
   Adoration (chapter)..................................................495
CLAIRVOYANCE.
   Clairvoyance is a faculty immanent in all.............................19
   Value of testimony to superphysical truths clairvoyantly obtained.....20
   The necessity and the result of training.......................25,41,480
   Animals are clairvoyant...............................................77
   Children are clairvoyant.........................................140,281
   A positive method of attainment......................................230
   "Second Sight" produced by marriage in the clan or family............354
   How international marriages have destroyed this involuntary
        clairvoyance....................................................355
   Activity of pituitary body and pineal gland formerly produced
        involuntary clairvoyance........................................473
   Re-awakening of their vibratory powers will produce positive 
        clairvoyance....................................................477
CLAIRVOYANTS.
   Why their observations differ.........................................26
   Differences in desirebody of trained and untrained clairvoyant....67,241
   How anyone may distinguish a trained clairvoyant..................68,400
   The Lemurians were all clairvoyant but could not see physically......281

               INVOLUTION, EVOLUTION AND EPIGENESIS (TOPICAL)

INVOLUTION.
   Involution illustrated................................................80
   Involution is the period of unconscious development..............185,201
   Energy of Virgin Spirits turned INWARDS to build vehicles
        of consciousness during Involution..........................189,201
   Descent of spirit marks ascent of form.  Both streams coalesce 
        in the focusing mind............................................266
   Involution, evolution and epigenesis chapter.........................336
EVOLUTION.
   Evolution commences at the coalition of spirit and body, when
        self-consciousness is awakened..............................185,202


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   Then "their eyes were opened," the creative energy turned
        OUTWARDS and conquest of world begun.....................81,190,202
   Salvation and damnation, the great importance of 
        adaptability....................................................223
   Evolution would have ceased if man had eaten of tree of life.........363
   The next great division  of the "sheep" and "goats"..................229
   Wine as a factor in evolution....................................168,359
   Evolution is progress in three directions............................151
   The end of human evolution...........................................158
   Our dense body is in fourth stage of evolution, vital body in
        third, desirebody in second and the mind a mere cloud............76
   Why races evolved to a certain point, then degenerate and 
        finally die.................................................289,341
   How embryology confirms occult teaching..............................344
   Brain evolved at cost of half our creative force, free-will
        at cost of pain and death.......................................363
   Involution, Evolution and Epigenesis (chapter).......................336
EPIGENESIS.
   Man's own original creative activity.........................128,135,185
   Chapter on Involution, Evolution and Epigenesis................80,81,336
   See definitions under diagram........................................367
KNOWLEDGE.
   Knowledge a necessary prerequisite to judgement........................7
   Knowledge of clairvoyant depends upon training.................25,41,480
   Why knowledge of Cosmogony is very important.........................191
   How to obtain first-hand knowledge.....................21,97,111,430,528
KINGDOMS OF LIFE.
   Comparing man to mineral, plant and animal............................56
   Various constitution of vital body in plant, animal and man...........58
   Divers constitution of desirebody in animal and man...............65,235
   The cross symbolical of the life currents pulsating in the 
        four kingdoms....................................................85
LAMENTATIONS; their effect upon the dying and dead..................101,118
LAW OF CAUSATION.
   Original Semites the first to be made MORALLY responsible under
        law of causation................................................301


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   Law of causation is the force impelling to rebirth...................130
   It brings each to birth at psychological moment when stellar
        influences are most propitious..................................161
   How and why the panoramas of life are produced.......................130
   Causation automatically produces the appropriate suffering
        needed to purge each from his vice..............................106
   Mature destiny and inexorable fate...............................136,161
   Law of Causation not vitiated, but complemented by doctrines
        of Forgiveness of Sin and Atonement..................91,222,373,402
   The binding effect of action and method of liberation................202
   Causation superseded by epigenesis...................................135
   Causation, and not heredity, accounts for our characteristics
        and idiosyncracies..............................................157
LAW OF REBIRTH.
   Rebirth not to be confused with doctrine of transmigration...........157
   Rebirth a Christian doctrine.........................................164
   Why this teaching has been temporarily suppressed....................167
   The purpose of Rebirth...............................................130
   The necessity of Rebirth.........................................132,137
   Rebirth and free-will................................................129
   Panorama of future life..............................................130
   The method of re-embodiment..........................................133
   Rebirth in consonance with law of evolution..........................151
   Rebirth in consonance with law of periodicity........................152
   Rebirth in consonance with ethical requirements......................153
   All may know at first hand this truth................................147
   Interval between births measured by the sun..........................159
   Intelligent administration and exceptions............................161
   Earth and other worlds also subject to this law..................190,412

                     MAN'S INVISIBLE VEHICLES (TOPICAL)

VITAL BODY.
   Germinated as a thoughtform in Sun Period given to man in the
        making by Lords of Wisdom.......................................210
   Reconstructed in Moon Period by Lords of Individuality and 
        Lords of Wisdom.................................................215


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   Reconstructed in Earth Period by Angels and Lords of Form............240
   They later, in Hyperborean Epoch, clothe man in the 
        making with an improved vital body..............................263
   Vital body is in its third stage of evolution......................75,76
   It is rooted in the spleen.  Through that organ the vital body
        specializes solar energy......................................63,68
   The vital body is built of "points" which penetrate the dense
        atoms and raise their vibrations.................................61
   The Recording Angels direct its construction at present so that
        man may reap what he sows.......................................135
   A separate vital body is necessary to growth and assimilation......57,58
   It serves to give shape to the dense body during antenatal life...60,137
   Vital body is born at 7th year; causing growth.......................141
   Under normal conditions it remains imbedded in dense body from
        birth to death...................................................61
   The chemical, life, light and reflecting ethers in vital body
        are ripened successively........................................143
   The vital body is of opposite sex or polarity to the dense body.......61
   Lemurian girls developed memory first on account of having a 
        positive vital body.............................................280
   The blood and glands are its particular expression...............397,455
   The positive vital body of woman gives intuition, also causing
        periodical flow and tears........................................60
   The blood absorbs from inspired air panorama of past life
        engraves it on seedatom and vital body...................91,397,398
   At death vital body is withdrawn and panorama of past life 
        extracted....................................................97,102
   When seedatom is withdrawn vital body gravitates back 
        to dense body and decays simultaneously with that...........102,103
   Our wakening consciousness results from war between
        desirebody and vital body.......................................455
   Collapse of the vital body is cause of sleep..........................93
   In health surplus of vitality is radiated as N-rays; they 
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   These radiations are weak in sickness, hence disease germs may
        easily enter and cause complications.............................63
   Why pain is felt in a limb subsequent to amputation...................64
   The more lax the connection between the dense and vital bodies
        the more sensitive we become to superphysical vibrations........241
   The desirebody is improved by law; the vital body by altruism,
        developed in higher life........................................404
   Initiation before Christ was therefore reserved to a chosen few..404,405
   Since vital body was partially freed at Golgotha, initiation is
        open to "whosoever will"........................................482
   Initiation separates the four ethers of vital body so that two 
        may be extracted at will and used in "soulflights" through
        inner worlds....................................................482
   The effect of prayer upon the vital body.........................434,463
   The specific method of separating the ethers..............91,111,483,528
   The vital body will be our densest vehicle in the Jupiter
        period; it will contain essence of dense body...........240,242,422
   Its essence: the intellectual soul, will be absorbed by the
        life spirit in Venus Period.....................................426
   The vital bodies of plants and animals are differently
        constituted from the human vehicle............................58,59
   Among animals it is not concentric with the dense body except
        in prodigies.....................................................77
DESIREBODY.
   Given in the Moon Period by Lords of Individuality...................215
   It is now in second stage of its evolution............................76
   In latter part of Lemurian and early part of Atlantis some 
        desirebodies divided into higher and lower parts thus they
        became fit to harbor a human Ego............................235,395
   These dense bodies assumed an upright walk which emancipated
        them from rule of groupspirit................................86,236
   Desirebody of man has now incipient sense centers.....................67
   The Lords of Mind linked mind to higher part of desirebody and
        implanted separate selfhood.....................................243
   The undivided desirebodies crystallized their dense vehicles
        which have degenerated to anthropoids.......................236,243

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   The Archangels work in those, also in the lower part of the 
        human desirebody, giving passion............................236,243
   Desirebodies of animals are not concentric with dense
        body and otherwise differently constituted....................65,77
   Only those bodies which have red blood and liver can
        have a separate desirebody.......................................69
   In coldblooded animals groupspirit forces currents of desire
        INWARDS through liver............................................69
   The separate spirit which dwells in warm red blood forces 
        its desire currents outwards through liver.......................69
   Thus the liver is the root of the desirebody..........................68
   The desirebody has its particular field of operation in
        the voluntary nerves and muscles................................455
   Its operations in the spleen produce white bloodcorpuscles...........455
   Materials for new desirebody is gathered by Ego prior to
        each birth......................................................134
   It is born at 14 when the life ether of the vital body is ripe
        and the child becomes adolescent............................142,143
   The constant war between desirebody and vital body produces
        our waking consciousness........................................455
   Desirebody is temporarily withdrawn during sleep......................93
   It is permanently extracted at death..................................97
   During life it is ovoid, but takes shape of dense body at death
        thus the man appears as before...................................66
   Desirebody of suicide feels hollowed out while archetype of
        his dense body persists; he suffers pain like intense hunger....104
   Panorama of life etched on desirebody forms basis of post
        mortem existence.  Importance of deep etching and how to
        assure that end.................................................109
   Process of purgation and extraction of conscience................105,108
   Dissolution of desirebody when seed atom is taken....................120
   Desirebodies of children who die do not dissolve.....................117
   The desirebody will be perfected in the Venus Period and 
        compounded with essence of dense and vital bodies...............423
   Its essence, the Emotional Soul, will be absorbed by the human
        spirit in Vulcan Period.........................................425


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   Prayer for the spiritualization of the desirebody....................464
MIND.
   The necessity and purpose of mind..............................57,75,298
   It is a focusing point like lens in stereopticon, valuable
        when not subject to mental St. Vitus dance...................89,393
   Given by Lords of Mind in early Atlantis.............................222
   Mind designed to give purpose to action, but became enmeshed
        in desirebody originating cunning...............................298
   Then Race religions were given to cow desire and free mind...........395
   Original Semites, the progenitors of Aryan Races first to
        evolve through thought and reason...............................299
   The Jews, a crossbreed of Original Semites (THE SONS OF GOD) and
        other Atlantean races, (THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN), still
        retain cunning..................................................310
   How mindstuff for new mind is gathered prior to each birth...........133
   It assumes shape of large bell.......................................134
   Mind is born at 21 when man reaches "majority".......................142
   The veil of Isis, the sheath of mind, which hides Ego from
        intrusion.......................................................293
   What impels thought..................................................285
   Conscious, subconscious and superconscious mind................90,92,397
   The mind is temporarily withdrawn during sleep........................93
   It is permanently extracted from dense body at death..................97
   Why the mind of children which die, persist in their next life.......117
   The mind dissolved when Ego ascends to third Heaven..................129
   The present war between heart and mind................................17
   The effects of open mind compared with scepticism......................7
   Valuable training for the mind.......................................202
   Prayer for spiritualizing the mind...................................464
   The mind is now in its MINERAL stage, dead, hence we work with
        dead chemical mineral substances........................298,426,428
   In the Jupiter Period the mind will become alive.  Then
        we shall work with living plants........................298,427,428
   In Venus Period the mind will acquire feeling.  Then
        we shall work with living, feeling animals......................428


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   In Vulcan Period the mind will become creative and capable
        of propagating itself.  Then we shall give our
        creatures a mind and make them human............................428
   How animals think though lacking mind.................................70
   What Instinct really is...............................................78
EGO. (SEE HUMAN SPIRIT)
   The Ego is a Virgin Spirit involved in a threefold veil of 
        matter which obliterates its original divine consciousness
        and engenders the illusion of a separate self...................216
   During Involution it brooded unconsciously over the evolving
        form, separate and apart therefrom..............................235
   In later Lemuria desirebody divided and dense body assumed
        upright walk.  Then Ego commenced to enter..................236,394
   It did not become fully indwelling until the last third of 
        Atlantis........................................................294
   Now the Ego is entirely in physical world while it lives
        its earth life.............................................71,77,95
   The seven human principles............................................88
   Mars polarized the iron until Atlantis so that warm blood could
        not be generated.  Thus Ego was prevented from entering
        the form till it was ripe.......................................268
   The blood is the vantage ground of Ego...............................350
   But it must be right temperature.....................................144
   The Ego is born from time to time to gather experience...............129
   In heaven it assimilates experiences of previous lives...........135,138
   It also chooses its coming environment...........................129,136
   While in heaven it builds that environment and archetypes
        of the bodies it uses on earth..................................128
   It gathers the materials for its new vehicles during its 
        descent to rebirth..............................................133
   Recording Angels place matrix of its coming body in womb of 
        mother and seedatom in semen of father..........................135
   Ego enters womb 18-21 days after conception..........................138
   Ego cannot generate blood from unripe childbody, hence thymus
        gland gives a supply of parental blood till the "I" 
        consciousness comes to puberty..................................143
   How the Race Spirit held Ego in bondage..............................350


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   Christ came to emancipate us from Race Spirit....................313,352
   How international marriages are furthering that object
        by generating individual blood..................................353
HUMAN SPIRIT. (SEE EGO)
   Originally awakened by the Seraphim..................................215
   Cherubim and Lords of Wisdom linked human spirit to life spirit......215
   Lords of Flame and Lords of Individuality linked the human 
        spirit to the divine spirit.....................................216
   The Lords of Form are now in charge of the human spirit..............220
   The divine spirit is the first veil of the Virgin Spirit, the 
        life spirit is the second and the human spirit is the third,
        outermost sheath which imprisons the Virgin Spirit and makes
        it a separate Ego...............................................216
LIFE SPIRIT.
   Awakened by Cherubim in Sun Period...................................211
   Linked to divine spirit by Lords of Flame............................212
   Linked to human spirit by Lords of Individuality.....................216
   Lords of Individuality now in charge of life spirit..................220
DIVINE SPIRIT.
   Awakened by Lords of Flame...........................................207
   Linked to life spirit by Lords of Flame..............................212
   Linked to human spirit by Lords of Individuality.....................216
   Lords of Wisdom now in charge of divine spirit.......................220
MARRIAGE.
   Marriage and generation both duty and a privilege....................468
   But not a license to unbridled indulgence............................471
   Formerly Race Spirits commanded MARRIAGE IN THE FAMILY to 
        strengthen the "tie of blood"...................................353
   Later international marriages were insisted upon to emancipate
        the individual from race, kin and country.......................353
   Under the former regime the common blood produced in each 
        member of family pictures of their common ancestors (second
        sight), thus intensifying feeling of kinship....................354
   The Race Spirit is a "jealous God".  He cuts off all who marry
        outside of race.............................................310,335


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   International marriages have mixed the blood, destroyed the 
        pictures of ancestors and second sight (which is 
        involuntary clairvoyance).......................................355
   Origin of honeymoon trips............................................219
CELIBACY; why practiced by high Initiates...............................467
MATERIALISM.
   Statement of the doctrine of materialism.............................148
   The nebular theory predicates a creator and sustainer of the
        Universe........................................................323
   The logical necessity of a Creative Intelligence.....................129
   Materialism at war with established facts............................149
   Materialism a cause of various diseases..............................113
   Cause of earthquakes, illustrated by eruptions of Vesuvius...........510
   Effect of materialism on life after death............................112
MEDIUMS.
   Why unreliable, even when honest......................................41
   The connection between the dense and vital bodies of mediums
        is more lax than among ordinary people, and their weak wills
        render them a prey to "controls"................................241
   Materialization of spirits is accomplished by these controls 
        by extracting medium's vital body through the spleen.............62
MATHEMATICS.
   Mathematical ability and semicircular canals of ear..................126
MEMORY.
   Memory was first developed by the girls in Lemuria...................280
   In olden days it was greater than now.  The third Atlantean Race,
        the Toltecs, achieved the highest efficiency....................296
   When men married in the family the common blood carried to
        them a memory of the lives of ancestors.........................353
   Memory is threefold.  Conscious, subconscious and superconscious.
        The conscious memory is unreliable, but the subconscious
        memory stores all events..............................90,92,149,397
   Why most people do not remember past lives...........................171
   Why some people remember more than others............................172
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MEMORY OF NATURE.
   There is a picture in the reflecting ether, in the Region of
        Archetypal Forces and the World of Life Spirit...................38
MENSTRUATION.
   Menstruation and tears caused by POSITIVE vital body of woman.........60
MICROBES.
   How microbes are expelled from system by N-rays.......................63
MINERAL.
   Entered evolution here in Earth Period...............................232
   Mineral has a consciousness similar to that of the human body
        when in deepest trance...........................................85
   All FORMS have been built from chemical mineral substance of
        the earth.....................................................30,31
   Comparison of mineral and man.........................................56
   Why it is incapable of growth, motion and thought.....................58
   Why it is unfeeling, though it responds to impact.....................31
   The mineral groupspirit is located in the Region of abstract
        Thought..........................................................85
MISSIONARIES.
   Needed at home more than abroad......................................163
   Why foreign missions are a mistaken effort...........................308
MUSIC.
   Music of the spheres a fact of nature................................119
   The Great Silence; the prelude to the celestial harmony of
        Appollo's seven-stringed Lyre...................................122
   The power of rhythmic vibration; supercilious incredulity
        concerning the fall of Jericho's walls gratuitous...............122
   Heaven the realm of tone and sound flows through Archetypes
        and builds form.............................................123,124
   The keynote of the body..............................................369
   The semicircular canals of the ear and music.........................126
NEBULAR THEORY.
   Predicates and requires a creator and sustainer of the Universe......323
N-RAYS. the invisible radiations of the vital body, expel microbes
        from system......................................................63


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NEW JERUSALEM; an imitation is found in first heaven built by
        thoughts on the subject.........................................116
OSMOSIS.
   A selective filtration of fluids through tissues of body..............35
   Man's first method of obtaining nourishment..........................263
PAIN.
   A blessing in disguise (illustration)................................131
   Torture used Lemuria to waken consciousness..........................279
   How pain has enlarged our consciousness..............................362
PATRIOTISM.
   Danger of patriotism when carried to extremes....................307,312
   Patriotism breaking down before international marriages..............355
PHILOSOPHER'S STONE.
   As manufactured by nature, often handled by people...................438
PILGRIMAGE THROUGH MATTER.
   Its beginning, its end and why undertaken.............................87
   What will be the fruitage............................................429
PRAYER.
   The Lord's prayer................................................435,462
   Unselfish prayers for spiritual achievement spiritualize 
        vital body.  Why we should pray "without ceasing"...........434,463
PLANTS.
   The present plants started their evolution as minerals of the
        Moon Period, they become human in the Venus period..............226
   Their consciousness is like our in deep sleep.........................85
   The Angels have particular charge over the plants....................222
   The groupspirit of plants are in the Region of Concrete Thought....74,85
   Comparison of a plant and man: THE INVERTED PLANT..................57,69
   Why incapable of thought and motion................................58,69
   How the sap is caused to circulate and deposit color..................37
   The Earth Spirit feels pain when plants are pulled out by roots.......65
   Seedatom of plants withheld by groupspirit pending favorable
        conditions for growth...........................................461


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PRECESSION OF THE EQUINOX.
   Governs the frequency of rebirth.....................................159
POEMS.
   Sir Launfal's Vision (the ethics of GIVING)..........................115
   Raphael's Song (from Faust; in re music of spheres)..................119
   The Chambered Nautilus (progression of the soul).....................159
   Fate and Freewill....................................................163
   The oftener we die, the better we live...............................249
   The Christ within....................................................389
   Who is the Grail.....................................................389
REASON.
   First developed by the Original Semites; the progenitors of the
        Aryan Races.....................................................299
   Cunning, the Atlantean characteristic of the Jew.....................309
   Reason to be superseded by Love in New Galilee.......................311
   Appeal to students' reason.............................................9
   Rosicrucian teachings endeavor to satisfy reason.....................439
RECORDING ANGELS.
   Mold the vital body; impress panorama of coming life thereon
        and place it in womb of mother..................................135
   They bring each being to birth at the auspicious moment when
        the stellar influences will give it conditions requisite to
        its next step in unfoldment.....................................161
   They also force the expiation of MATURE destiny..................136,161
RELIGION.
   The evolution of Religion (chapter)..................................367
   Why different Religions are necessary to different people............371
   The four steps in Religion through fear, avarice, love and duty......303
   Mistake of seeking a foreign religion................................308
   Why the Bible, to be adequate to the needs of the Western World
        must contain BOTH the Jewish religion of the old Testament
        and the Christian religion of the New...................308,314,315
   Paul asserts there is an allegorical meaning to the Bible
        (yet it is only to be interpreted by who can SEE - II
        Pet: 1.20).  Both Paul and Christ gave an esoteric 
        teaching to "the few"...........................................319
   Why earliest Religions taught the doctrine of Rebirth and 
        Christianity does not specially feature it......................167


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   The purpose of Jehovistic Race religions is to curb the
        DESIRENATURE that the intellect may gain scope..........334,395,433
   The purpose of the Christian Religion is to spiritualize
        the VITAL BODY by love and prayer.......................433,435,463
   The Religion of the Father will spiritualize the dense
        body and restore Unity......................................435,436
ROSICRUCIANS.
   One of the seven schools of the lesser Mysteries.....................438
   Christian Rosenkreuz and the Philosopher's Stone.....................515
   Initiation, the Order of the Rose Cross and the Rosicrucian
        Fellowship......................................................519
SALVATION.
   The theological plan of salvation....................................150
   The evolutionary plan of salvation.......................224,229,307,312
   Salvation by Atonement and Forgiveness of Sin.............91,111,373,402
SLEEP.
   Caused by collapse of vital body......................................93
   Why sleep is restorative..............................................93
   Chemical Ether, the avenue of restorative forces......................94
   Similarity between sleep and death...................................102
   Similarity between sleep and concentration...........................483
   Preliminary work of aspirant in desire world during sleep............484
SENSE PERCEPTIONS.
   Organs of sense, particularly the ear, started in the Saturn Period..206
   Sense perception depends upon the forces in the Light Ether...........36
   Lemurians could hear and feel at birth, but their sight came
        later...........................................................276

                                SOLAR SYSTEM.

   The logical necessity of a Creative Intelligence.................122,129
   The nebular theory requires a Creator and Sustainer of the 
        solar system....................................................323
   The Bible asserts that our system was formed from the "everlasting
        essence": primordial matter.....................................321


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   God is the Architect of our solar system.............................179
   The Seven Spirits before the Throne, individually considered,
        are the Regents of the seven planets............................180
   Collectively, they are God.......................................183,253
THE SUN.
   The real sun is as invisible as the real man.........................258
   How it is scientifically possible to have light before the 
        creation of the sun and moon....................................398
   The sun is the visible symbol of God.................................181
   Spiritual and physical rays of the sun...............................390
   Will is a solar force expressed in the male sex.  Imagination is
        a female lunar force............................................267
   The solar force works in vital body, makes for life, the lunar
        rays crystallize the dense body and cause death.................265
   Prior to end of Hyperborean Epoch sun, moon and earth were yet
        one and humanity were malefemale................................268
PLANETS AND MOONS.
   Spiritual reason for the formation of planets........................218
   The planets are the bodies of the Planetary Spirits which
        direct their movements from the center......................255,256
   Birth of Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter..................................258
   Mars and its canals, the Earth, Venus and Mercury............259,271,272
   The influence of Mercury will help man free himself so that
        he may leave body and re-enter at will..........................273
   The Lords of Venus as leaders of humanity............................272
   Why some planets have moons..........................................259
   Our moon, the abode of failures who crystallized.....................264
   Crystallization of the matter which is eventually thrown off
        as a planet commences at pole of the sun where motion is
        slowest.........................................................263
   The Earth was thus expelled from the sun in the end of the
        Hyperborean Epoch...............................................263
   Then a part of the Earth crystallized too early and was expelled
        in the beginning of the Lemurian Epoch; that is the Moon........264


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   Neptune does not really belong to our solar system...................260
   (For proof of this assertion, see Simplified Scientific 
        Astrology, page 5)
   Future evolution of planets..........................................256
   Each planet has three worlds: the Physical World, the Desire World
        and the World of Thought.........................................53
MARS.
   Our evolution on that part of the sun which now constitutes the earth
        commenced after Mars had been expelled and become a separate
        planet..........................................................263
   The influence of Mars on the indwelling spirit...................268,274
   The Martian canals...................................................259
VENUS.
   A number of Beings from Venus and Mercury were sent to help
        nascent humanity in Lemuria.  They were looked up to as
        messengers of the gods......................................271,272
   After gestatory period of Aryan Race they gave free-will to the
        Original Semites................................................301
   They then withdrew and left human Initiates to guide their 
        younger brothers................................................304
MERCURY.
   Lords of Mercury were the original Hierophants of the Mysteries.
        They initiated the most precocious among mankind and made them
        kings (by grace of God).........................................272
   They first showed man how he may extricate himself at will from
        dense body......................................................274
   Why quicksilver is fluidic and evaporates............................233
   The influence of Mercury will increase...............................275
EARTH.
   During the Polarian Epoch that which is now earth and the moon
        was yet a part of the sun.  Division came in the end of the
        Hyperborean Epoch...............................................263
   The present Moon-beings crystallized part of the earth and were
        expelled in the beginning of Lemuria............................264
   Effect of the solar and lunar forces upon the earth..................265
   Previous to advent of Jehovah, Earth and man were under a 
        groupspirit which worked FROM WITHOUT...........................351
   For ages prior to our era Christ worked upon earth and man FROM
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   When liberated from Jesus's body at Golgotha the Christ entered
        the Earth and has since been the indwelling Earthspirit,
        the Regent of our planet........................................407
   The planetary Christ immured in the earth is a ray from the
        Cosmic Christ in the sun, refracted into each planet when
        ready for brotherhood...........................................408
   The sacrifice on Golgotha was but commencement of a protracted
        period of suffering on part of Christ, who is groaning and
        travailing waiting for the day of liberation................408,506
   Earth Spirit feels when stone is broken or flower is plucked......55,505
   Inner constitution of the Earth and volcanic eruptions...............498
   Stages of human development and various foods........................165
   The so-called "dead" transform the earth, its flora and fauna........125
   The keynote of the earth.............................................123
   The Bible agrees with occult teaching that man has been on
        earth before....................................................332
SOUND.
   The Word made flesh, the Creative Fiat, a rhythmic sound which
        built all things................................................181
   The music of the spheres.............................................119
   The Great Silence, a gate to the realm of sound, the Heavenworld.....122
   Sound, the builder of climate, flora and fauna.......................125
   The ram's horn disrupting the walls of Jericho a scientific
        possibility.................................................122,369
   Sound, rhythm; incorporates the soul into the spirit and 
        amalgamates them................................................124
SOUL.
   The Word-soul said by Plato to be crucified...........................85
   Soul is the spiritualized product of the body.........................95
   "The soul of all flesh is the blood".................................350
   Definite method of accomplishing soulgrowth...........................95
   Sound and the amalgamation of soul with spirit.......................124
   Prior to entrance of indwelling Ego higher part of desirebody
        was master, a sort of animal soul...........................394,235
   Theological doctrine of creation of soul.............................150


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   Soul of man and animal not weighed by doctors.........................99
   SPACE is a spirit not yet crystallized for form......................249
SPIRIT.
   Of man may be seen before birth and after death.......................19
   It is clothed in various bodies.......................................88
   Mars prevented the human spirit, the Ego, from immuring 
        itself in body before it was ripe...............................268
   Effect of wine, the counterfeit spirit produced by decay, upon 
        the Ego, the spirit of life.....................................168
   Space is spirit not yet crystallized into form.......................247
   The positive pole of spirit manifests as life galvanizing the
        negative form into action.......................................248
MATTER.
   Is negative spirit substance; crystallized space or spirit...120,187,247
   Relation of force and matter illustrated.............................121
   The Seven Worlds are states of matter.................................29
   All physical matter is homogeneous in the ultimate....................31
   Matter is devoid of true feeling......................................31
   Ether is physical matter; the field of operation of force which
        acts upon the gases, liquids and solids..........................30
   Desirestuff is the matter of the Desireworld, which causes feeling
        and compels motion...............................................39
   Mindstuff is the matter of the Region of Concrete thought which
        we use to embody and concrete our ideas..........................30
   The use of desirestuff in our thought-activity........................89
   The reason for the spirits pilgrimage through matter..................87
   How its original divine All consciousness is obscured by the
        three veils of matter...........................................216
   Spirit and matter merge in Chaos; only the seedatoms of the 
        World-globes persist............................................247
   The Bible does not say the earth was created from "nothing"
        It names a basic substance......................................322
   How the homogeneous primordial matter is formed into several 
        Worlds..........................................................375
STORIES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
   A sure method of attaining wisdom.....................................21


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   Clairvoyant sees worlds as invisible to most people as the light
        and color we see is to a blind man...............................24
   The existence of Invisible Worlds, interpenetration of Physical
        World (frostflower, freezing water)..............................27
   Relative reality and permanency of visible and invisible worlds 
        shown by architects house........................................28
   The purpose of visible world as school of right thought 
        illustrated by Inventors machine.................................33
   Necessity for occult training, babe and blind who has acquired
        sight, must learn to see here....................................41
   Always look for the good.  Christ and dead dog........................44
   Three men and dog show operation of twin feelings and twin 
        forces of Desireworld............................................46
   Sponge, sand and water show interpenetration and extension
        of the three worlds of a planet..................................53
   Telegraph system illustrating operation vital fluid...................63
   Man's dense body a concretion of his finer vehicles as snails
        house is crystallized snail......................................73
   Illustration of difference between man with indwelling Ego and
        animal with groupspirit..........................................78
   Musician's hand and gloves showing obscuration of consciousness
        during involution................................................80
   Entering house on sunny day and finding focus showing purpose
        of evolution.....................................................81
   Spirit buried in matter as seed in soil...............................87
   Worldsoul symbolized in cross.........................................85
   Boston doctor weighing soul of animal and man.........................99
   The young cling to life in body as tenaciously as seed to pulp
        of unripe fruit, the aged die as easily as seed falls from
        ripe fruit......................................................103
   Snail illustrating relation of force and matter......................121
   Heidelberg wall and the walls of Jericho.............................122
   Spiritual causes produce physical effects; one man knocking
        another down....................................................125
   Necessity of a Creator; box of type and chaos........................129
   Nebular theory requires Creator and Sustainer........................323
   Blessing of pain; hand on hot stove..................................131
   How seedatoms gather material like magnet............................133


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   Heredity and individuality; carpenter takes materials from
        certain pile, but builds as he will.............................138
   Shape of body depends on etheric matrix like ice crystals on 
        lines of force in water.........................................137
   Impossibility of escape from MATURE destiny..........................161
   Story of a remembered past life......................................172
   Activity of chaos illustrated........................................208
   Color illustrating the divine and human principles...................252
   The personality, the reverse reflection of spirit as trees
        reflected in pond...............................................266
   Vicarious Atonement..................................................402
   Value of a hard life.................................................432
   Initiation like pulling trigger of pistol............................520
TEARS; why women are more prone to emotion than men......................60
TEMPERAMENT not inherited...............................................138
TEMPTATION; purpose of temptation...................................110,282
TRANSMIGRATION.
   A fallacy not to be confused with rebirth............................157
TRANCE brings one in touch with subconscious mind.......................149
THOUGHT.
   Cost of the faculty of thought.......................................270
   Thought and the faculty of expression are the highest human
        privileges......................................................236
   Cunning was developed in early Atlantis..............................309
   Difficulty of transmuting cunning to reason..........................310
   Thought first developed by Original Semites who were 
        our progenitors.............................................299,309
   What impels man to think.............................................285
   How an idea becomes a thought.........................................88
   How thoughts are generated, ensouled and projected....................89
   Thought impressed upon braincenters through Reflecting Ether.......38,89
   How thoughts are impressed upon the conscious memory..................90
   How thoughts are impressed upon the subconscious memory; "like
        chickens coming home to roost"...................................91
   The effect of the twin forces and feelings on thought.................89
   Thought transmission; how accomplished................................90
   Thought, the supreme reality..........................................28


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   The World of Thought where thoughts are generated .................48,88
   The Physical World where we are schooled in the right use 
        of thought.......................................................33
   The elevating influence of abstract thought..........................203
   How animals think though lacking mind.................................70
VESUVIUS eruptions the result of materialism............................510
VIRTUE.
   Not synonymous with innocence; it predicates knowledge and choice....282
VITAL FORCE.
   Solar energy specialized through spleen............................63,68
   How used by Ego to operate muscles....................................89
   How it expels deleterious microbes from system........................63
   How obstructed flow of vital force causes sleep.......................93
VITALITY.
   Archetypes of Vitality................................................50
WAR.
   War between heart and mind....................................17,384,393
   Effect of death on the battlefield...................................118
   Not peace, but a sword...............................................387
WISDOM.
   Human wisdom contrasted with animal instinct.......................79,84
WILL.
   Will is the spiritual expression of the positive, male and solar
        sexforce.  Imagination is feminine, negative and lunar..........267
   In early Lemuria, Will enabled man to frustrate God's plan
        and caused all our pain and suffering...........................362
   It is the force ensouling thought.....................................89
WORLDSOUL; symbolically crucified........................................85
WORD.
   The Word made flesh; the Great Creative Fiat.........................181
   The cries of the Moon period begins the first echo of the 
        creative fiat...................................................219
   Verbal expression of thought our highest human achievement
        and privilege...................................................236
   The larynx was originally part of the creative organ sometime it
        will give back in full "the lost Word", the creative
        Fiat....................................................269,364,425


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WORLDS.
   The necessity of dividing matter into Worlds..........................29
   How the homogenous primordial matter is disposed in different
        manner to form various worlds...............................187,375
   The beginning, purpose and end of worlds.............................188
   There are worlds denser than the Physical World......................233
   Each planet has three worlds; the Physical World, the Desire World
        and the World of Thought.........................................53
   The threefold planets of a solar system swim in a sea of matter from
        a fourth world; the World of Life Spirit.........................55
   All the solar systems swim in a sea of matter from the World of 
        Divine Spirit which links them...................................55
   Illustration to show this relationship................................53
   Why some worlds are invisible to most people though perceived
        clearly by others................................................24
   Why we should endeavor to investigate those worlds....................27
REGION.
   A subdivision of any of the Worlds....................................30
   The Chemical Region, the Etheric Region.  Main divisions of the
        Physical World...................................................30
   The Region of Concrete Thought, the Region of Abstract Thought.
        Main divisions of the World of Thought...........................30
PHYSICAL WORLD.
   The chemical region consists of solids, liquids and the gases which
        are the basis of form............................................30
   The etheric region consists of four ethers which are the avenue
        of LIFE vitalizing FORM....................................32,35,38
   The Physical World is the realm of FORM; why color and tone are
        foreign to thereto..............................................119
   Value of Physical World as a school of experience.....................32
CHEMICAL ETHER.
   It is the avenue of the forces which accomplish assimilation, the
        so-called DEAD among them....................................35,126
   Ripe at seventh year when vital body is born.........................143
LIFE ETHER.
   Is the avenue of propagation..........................................36
   It is ripe at the 14th year when child becomes adolescent and
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   Forces working in positive pole produces males in the negative
        pole females.....................................................36
LIGHT ETHER.
   Is our awareness of sense perception, the forces in positive pole
        generate warm blood in negative cold blood.......................36
   Chlorophyl and circulation of sap in plants...........................37
REFLECTING ETHER.
   Storehouse of the memory of nature and man............................37
   Ego makes impression on brain by this ether........................38,89
   Mediums and psychometrists read events there..........................38
DESIRE WORLD.
   Is preeminently the realm of light and color; forms are extremely
        unstable but tone is sweeter than here, yet not native 
        to this world...................................................119
   The luminous desirestuff is disposed in seven regions or states of 
        varying density as force-matter..................................39
   Purgatory is in the three densest states of the Desireworld, the 
        First Heaven in the three upper and between them a Borderland
        of monotony.....................................................112
   The twin forces and twin feelings of the Desire World.................42
REPULSION.
   One of the twin forces of the Desire World tending to purge us
        from evil and destroy it.........................................43
   It is dominant in the three lower regions.............................42
   Illustration of its operation.........................................46
   How it operates in our thought activity...............................89
ATTRACTION.
   One of the twin forces of the Desire World............................42
   Attraction builds virtue when Repulsion has shattered vice............47
   Illustration of its operation.........................................46
   Its influence on our thought activity.................................89
   Heredity discounted..................................................156
INTEREST AND INDIFFERENCE.
   That twin feeling indigenous to the 4th region of the Desire World....45
   Illustration of their operation....................................46,48
   How mathematics raises one above the realm of feeling................203


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WORLD OF THOUGHT.
   It is preeminently the sphere of music or TONE, as COLOR is
        indigenous to the Desire World and FORM to the Physical World...119
   The Great Silence is the portal to this realm of Sound...............122
   The region of Concrete Thought embraces the four densest
        subdivisions where Archetypes and Archetypal Forces are
        forming matter................................................49,50
   The Region of Abstract Thought comprises the three highest
        subdivisions where ideas are generated...........................51
   Diagram of the Seven Worlds...........................................54

                     WORLD PERIODS; THE SEVEN (TOPICAL)

   Practical value of knowing cosmogony thoroughly......................202
   The World Periods are way stations on the evolutionary journey
        of the spirit through matter....................................190
   Why this pilgrimage was undertaken and its fruits.................87,429
SATURN PERIOD.
   Activity in any Period starts in the preceding Cosmic Night..........207
   Location of the seven globes; they were dark and hot as 
        incipient firemist..............................................205
   The Bible also mentions this dark stage..........................321,322
   There was only one element: heat or incipient fire...................234
   Man went through a mineral like existence and had a trance
        like consciousness..........................................206,212
   The path of evolution described......................................195
   Lords of Flame radiate germ of dense body and awaken divine
        spirit in man...................................................206
   There were some stragglers left behind...............................224
   The Lords of Mind were human then and worked with us as we work
        with present minerals.......................................222,427
SUN PERIOD.
   Location of the seven globes, they were light balls..................210
   There were two elements, fire and air................................234
   Bible description of the Sun Period and how it is scientifically
        possible to have light prior to the creation of sun and moon....328
   Man went through a period of plantlike existence and had a
        consciousness like deep sleep...................................213


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   The path of evolution described......................................198
   Lords of Wisdom aid in reconstruction of dense body, glands and 
        alimentary canal begin germinally and vital body has its
        inception as a thoughtform......................................211
   The Cherubim waken life spirit.......................................211
   Saturn stragglers awakened and become plantlike......................224
   The present animals started evolution in Sun Period and were 
        minerals then...................................................224
   The Archangels were human in the Sun Period; they work with both
        animal and man..............................................222,349
MOON PERIOD.
   Location of the seven globes, they were water and the atmosphere was a
        steamy firefog..................................................213
   There were three elements; fire, air and water...................234,328
   The Bible describes the dense water and firefog......................328
   Man-in-the-making went through a period of animal-like existence
        he had internal picture consciousness like dreams...............217
   At that time the divine consciousness of the spirit was entirely
        obscured self-consciousness incipient...........................216
   Lords of Individuality reconstruct dense and vital bodies, skeleton,
        muscles and nerves had inception................................214
   Lords of Individuality give desirebody as a thought form, Seraphim
        awaken human spirit.............................................215
   Moon beings hung suspended in atmosphere and had horizontal spines
        like animals now................................................228
   A division of the globe took place at close of Moon Period and 
        smaller part became satellite...................................218
   Origin of birds' migrations and honeymoon trips......................219
   The divided parts merged in Cosmic Night between Moon and Earth
        Periods.........................................................220
   List of classes which started in Moon Period.........................226
   The Angels were human then and work now with plant, animal and 
        man.........................................................222,349
   Present plants were minerals then, parasites are stragglers......227,228
   Lucifer Spirits are stragglers from livewave of Angels...............286
EARTH PERIOD.
   We have made 3 1/2 revolutions of the Earth Period...................199


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   The nadir of density IN OUR EVOLUTION was reached here on earth,
        but there are worlds denser still...........................199,233
   We have now four elements............................................234
   Bible description of recapitulations.................................329
   Reconstruction of dense body to adapt it to mind.....................239
   Reconstruction of vital body by Angels...............................240
   Desirebody reconstructed by Archangels...............................242
   Mind was given by Lords of Mind......................................222
   The descending spirit meeting the ascending form in the focusing
        mind marks the birth of the thinking human being................267
   The mind is now in its mineral stage, dead, hence we work with
        dead minerals...............................................426,428
   Classes of beings at beginning of Earth Period; the minerals
        entered evolution here..........................................234
JUPITER PERIOD.
   The Earth will become etheric and globes will be disposed as they
        were in the Moon Period.........................................199
   There will be five elements, the 5th described.......................234
   The vital body will be our densest vehicle.......................240,242
   It will reach highest perfection.....................................422
   The dense body will be transmuted and compounded with
        the vital body..................................................422
   The mind will become alive...........................................427
   Then we shall work with plant life...............................298,428
   We shall have an OBJECTIVE PICTURE CONSCIOUSNESS and be capable
        of impressing pictures on other minds...........................418
   The human spirit, the Ego, will be prominent.........................425
   The animals will be human.........................................70,224
VENUS PERIOD.
   The globes will be located as in Sun Period..........................199
   Consciousness of Venus Period described..............................419
   The desire body will be perfected....................................422
   The essence of the perfected dense and vital bodies will be
        compounded therewith............................................423
   The Intellectual soul will be absorbed by the Life Spirit, which
        will be most active principle then..........................423,425
   The mind will then acquire feeling and we shall create 
        living and feeling forms....................................427,428


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   The plants will be human, the present minerals will be animal........226
VULCAN PERIOD.
   Globes will be located as in Saturn Period...........................200
   We shall have highest Spiritual, Creative Consciousness..............421
   The Mind will be perfected and compounded with essences of 
        threefold body.............................................422, 423
   It will be able to propagate itself and create living, 
        moving, thinking forms for present mineral which will
        then be human...............................................427,428
   The divine spirit will be particularly active........................423
   The Emotional soul will be absorbed by Human Spirit..................423
   The Creative Word (chapter)
REVOLUTIONS and Periods defined.........................................196
RECAPITULATION.
   Spirals within spirals...............................................321
   The meaning and necessity of recapitulation..........................208
   Work pertaining to any Period delayed till previous phases of 
        evolution have been recapitulated...............................209
   How described in the Bible...........................................329
COSMIC NIGHTS OR CHAOS.
   Reason for Cosmic Nights and death...................................244
   Activity of any Period starts in middle of preceding Cosmic
        Night as a life commences at conception.....................250,207
   Thus it is not a period of inactivity................................208
   The work in cosmic night defined and described...................196,200
   There are cosmic nights between revolutions also.....................207
   The activity there described.........................................243
   Life and form merge in Chaos, only seedatoms of world-globes
        persist.........................................................247
   Comenius coined the word "gas" to represent spirit and Chaos.........251
   Chaos, Cosmos, Genius and Epigenesis (chapter).......................252
POLARIAN EPOCH.
   It was a recapitulation of the Saturn Period.........................263
   The matter which is now the separate Earth was then in the 
        polar region of the sun.........................................261
   The dense body began to crystallize as mineral.......................165


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   Propagation by fission, the pineal gland was then a localized
        organ of feeling................................................262
   The Bible on the Polarian Epoch......................................330
HYPERBOREAN EPOCH.
   Angels and Lords of Form clothe humanity with vital body; mankind 
        was therefore plant-like........................................263
   Cain, the second epoch, man is represented as an agriculturist...165,166
   Skeleton formed in end of Hyperborean Epoch and was soft 
        as cartilage....................................................346
   Towards end of this epoch the earth was expelled from sun............263
   The Bible on that event..............................................330
LEMURIAN EPOCH.
   The Moon expelled from earth in beginning Lemuria....................264
   Atmosphere of firefog, boiling seas, giant fern forests and 
        animals.........................................................275
   A division also took place in the desire body....................235,395
   The skeleton hardened under lunar forces.........................275,346
   Then the sexes separated.............................................268
   Lords of Mind gave germinal mind and impregnated higher part
        of desirebody therewith.........................................243
   Archangels work in lower part of desirebody......................236,243
   When born man had hearing and feeling, he used his body
        unconsciously...............................................276,277
   He saw himself and others INWARDLY...............................277,283
   Propagation directed by Angels in harmony with the stars. 
        Then parturition was painless...................................277
   Sexrelation brought consciousness of dense body when "Adam
        KNEW his wife"..................................................283
   Lucifer Spirits appeared to Lemurian woman's inner consciousness
        prompting to self assertion.....................................287
   When their eyes were opened they became aware of loss of body
        at death and ignorance of stellar lore caused them to 
        propagate at wrong times, so parturition has become painful.....283
   Memory was first developed by Lemurian girls.........................280
   Science and Art were taught in Lemurian schools of Initiation
        conducted by Lords of Mercury...............................271,281


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