The Mind

a Psychic Radio
How it correlates with
I matter.
V A V
Hours of Birth
and Death'
C ycl i c i n f l u en ce
of the moon .
' V A V
Environment
and Ethics
I gnor ance, an u n b al an c-
t ing f actor .
V A V
M y s t i c i s m
i S c i en c e
T h e A r t s
V A V
T iex t
Strange Powers
of Honey
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I slaynic W or l d
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1957
MARCH
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T h e cel ebrated F r en ch mathemati ci an and phi l osopher. R ene D escar tes, (1596- 1650) l i es bu ri ed i n the med i eval
church, St. G ermai n-d es-P r es, i n the hear t of P ar i s. T h e cen ter tabl et show n above i s a si mpl e tr i bu te to a great
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to the pr i nci pl e of i ndi v i dual i ty and su bjecti v i ty . T h e tr u th of r eal i ty to hi m began w i th i ndi vi dual hu man
experi ence. H e decl ared, T h e fi rst r u l e w as, nev er to r ecei v e an y th i n g as a tr u th w hi ch I di d not cl ear l y
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OUyour conscious self, is susp ended
between two worlds ! There is the
w'orld of every dayof colors, sounds,
and substances. There is also the world
of the universesof moons, stars, and
distant nebulae.
But has your mind ever been sud
denly filled with the light of other re
alitiesideas which, although stimulat
ing and informative, were strangely new
and di ffer ent? Have you had mental p ic
tures of events that your mortal eyes
have never seen? Do you feel at times
as though an i ntelligence was striving to
guide you? Have you found yourself
listening to words of i nn er direction?
Behind your thinking mind lies a
great mi ddl e w or l d the world of the
subconscious. It is p oised between the
world of everyday existence and the
great i ntel l i gence of the universe. It is
this mi ddl e world which translates the
subtle Cosmic forces which p ervade
your being, into the urges of self and
into i ntui ti ve impressions. Do you want
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The Mind a Psychic Radio 94
F inding s in T elep athy ................... 98
C athed ral C ontac ts: Sanc tuary ................................... 102
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The
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Di gest
March
1957
T H E
THOUGHT OF THE MONTH
T HINKING CREATIVELY
By T H E IMP E R A T O R
e c e n t l y an i n d u st r i al
leader, i n an address be
fore a young mens serv
ice club, urged them to
thi nk creati vel y. H e
concluded by sayi ng that
such was a p rerequisite
f o r success i n t o d ay s
business world. Si nce the
not attemp t, to define thi nk
i ng cr eati vel y, he must have assumed
unless his remarks were intended as a
mere cliche that everyone understood
the p rocess. Everyone, of course, has
the cap aci ty to thi nk creati vel y some
more so than others. T he fact that
many do not or onl y occasi onal l y do
creati ve thi nki ng is, we believe, due to
their not havi ng any sp ecific i nstruc
tion in the matter.
L et us begin si mp l y by sep arati ng
the p hrase into its two comp onent parts
namel y, the words, thi nki ng and cr e
ati vel y. Everyone who forms ideas does
so by thi nki ng. H avi ng a thought is
to have knowledge or awareness of a
thing. But a mere sensation is not neces
sari l y a thought. T here are, for ex
amp l e, vari ous kinds of sensations: or
gani c sensations whi ch include kinaes-
theti c, such as bodi l y movement or the
feel i ng of wei ght or p ressure; vi sceral
sensations or the feel i ng of the organs
of our body, as the p ul sati on of the
heart and the exp ansion and contrac
tion of the chest i n breathing. These
sensations, unless some idea or notion
is associated wi th them, do not consti
tute thi nki ng.
I t is difficult for us, however, to ex
p erience a sensation wi thout i denti fyi ng
some idea with it almost i mmediately.
I f you feel sudden heat, you wi l l , most
l i kel y, si mul taneousl y thi nk of vari ous
sources or causes of it. T hi s is the re
sult of your havi ng p erceived at some
time rel ated sensations; that is, you
saw what ap p eared to cause the heat
at the same time as you felt it. T here
fore, whenever subsequently exp eri enc
ing the sensation of heat, the related
i dea of what you ori gi nal l y had seen,
in connection wi th it, would be recalled.
I deas can be mere words whi ch we
have assigned to sensations without
thei r havi ng any corresp onding mental
image. You may, for further examp le,
i denti fy a sound as being hi gh-pi tched.
You may have no knowledge of just,
what caused it. Y et the term, high-
p itched, constitutes an idea. I t is a
thought.
There is a general distinction which
it i s necessary to make in the nature
of thought. W e shall say that thought
is of two kinds, i nvol untary and vol un
tar y. I nvol untary thought is that which
arises i mmedi atel y from some p ercep
tion or sti mul i without the conscious
effort of thi nki ng on our p art. Look up
from this p age and about the room in
whi ch you are seated. I mmedi atel y
you wi l l vi sual l y p erceive that is, see
some object whi ch wi l l have identi ty
or meani ng to you. Si multaneousl y with
the sti muli you wi l l have an idea as to
the nature of the vi sual image. I n
other words, you wi l l be conscious that
such i s a wi ndow, a chai r, a lamp , or a
bookcase. T hi s whole p rocess wi l l be
so instantaneous that it wi l l seem to be
an i nvol untar y resp onse. M ost of our
thi nki ng is of this typ e and is, conse
quentl y, effortless and, unfortunatel y,
p referred by most p ersons.
Vol untary thi nki ng is a more com
p lex p rocess. I t is, shal l we say, a
search for new ideas. By contrast with
i nvol untary thought, i t i s work. T he
effort, however, becomes less wi th the
culti vati on of the habit. I n vol untary
thought, we reason. W e may, for ex
amp le, take the elements of exp erience,
ideas had, and reorganize them into a
form whi ch p rovides us wi th a different
idea whi ch is more thoroughl y sati sfy
i ng to us.
T o use an anal ogy, A , B, and C are
sep arate ideas. T hey have ari sen from
some p ercep tual exp erience, something
whi ch we have ei ther heard or seen.
T hese sep arate thoughts, the p arti cul ars
of the exp erience, are not ful l y com
p rehensible to us. W e may bel i eve that
there is some relation, however, be
tween A , B, and C whi ch we should
know or that wi l l make these ideas more
useful to us. W e p roceed, fi gurati vel y,
to juggl e them about i n our minds. W e
concentrate up on them, holding them
i n mind, exami ni ng each i n rel ati on to
the others. I f we are successful from
such a combination, there emerges a
new thought whi ch is grati fyi ng to us.
Such a method of vol untary thought
is known also as concep tual thought;
that is, i t consists of concep tions as con
trasted to p ercep tions or that whi ch is
objecti vel y p erceived. I t i s to be seen
that this typ e of thi nki ng i s subjecti ve.
Our consciousness is i ntroverted. I t is,
i n other words, drawn i nward. I n p ro
found concep tual or vol untary thought,
we are not aware of that whi ch i s ex
ternal , unless the sti mulus from wi th
out i s so intense as to i nterrup t the
subjecti ve p rocess.
T hi s vol untary thought can be ac
comp lished either by means of an i n
ductive or a deductive p rocess. T he
former constitutes thi nki ng from some
p arti cul ar idea and enl argi ng i t to be
come a more general , al l -embraci ng
concep t. T hus, to revert to our anal ogy
agai n, A , B, and C are so uni ted as to
form an idea whi ch i ncludes them all.
T he deductive p rocess may begin
wi th some general notion whi ch we
have and then p roceed to an anal ysi s
of i t to determine of what sep arate
comp onents it may consist. For further
anal ogy, a mans business, we shal l say,
i s deteriorati ng. Such retrogression,
however, i s but a general notion to
him. WTiat are the par ti cul ar factors
whi ch are contri buti ng to this business
setback? I s i t due to loss of sales, i n
efficiency, or hi gher op erati ng costs? I n
deductive thi nki ng or reasoning the
search is for the p arti cul ars of whi ch
the whole i s comp osed.
I t must be real i zed that al l study is
not necessari l y vol untary thi nki ng i n
the manner whi ch we have here de
fined. L et us p resume that one i s study
i ng li nes to be sp oken i n a p l ay. H e is
concentrating up on them; he is focusing
his attention up on the words, the sym
bols of the ideas whi ch he reads. H e
is endeavori ng to gi ve each word such
mental emp hasis as to assure its reten
ti on i n the memory. Each word that
he reads may resul t i n an immediate
idea. T he si gni fi cance of the word re
qui res no vol untary thought. I f, for
examp l e, he sees such words as dog,
house, man, or tree i n the scrip t, thei r
content becomes i mmedi ate knowl edge
to him. Everyone who thus studies ma
teri al, p ri nci p al l y for memori zi ng its
content, i s not, therefore, by such ap
p li cati on a thi nker. T hi s accounts for
the fact that many p ersons who are
educated, who are p ossessed of a fount
of facts, may not be ori gi nal or anal yt
i cal i n thei r thi nki ng.
T o cr eate is to bri ng something into
existence as we ordi nari l y thi nk of it.
Phi l osop hi cal l y, however, i t may be
contended that i t does not l i e wi thi n
the p rovince of man to absol utel y cre
ate. W hatever man bri ngs forth is onl y
new i n form or i n function, but not
comp l etel y so i n essence. T he creation
of the human mi nd is the p rocess of
reorgani zati on or reap p l i cati on of that
whi ch exists al ready i n some nature.
From the p racti cal rather than from
the p hi losop hical ap p roach, there are
two ways i n whi ch to create. T he first
arises from an exi gency. I t comes when
one is confronted wi tn a p roblem, as
a need to acqui re or accomp lish some
thi ng. T he creation then consists i n
p rovi di ng a solution. I t is obvious that
a whol l y objective p erusal of the ele
ments i s not al ways sufficient. M erel y
to exami ne the thi ng or circumstances
as they exi st i n thei r enti rety wi l l usu
al l y not suggest anythi ng more than
what they ap p ear to be. T he p roblem
arises from the fact that the normal
condition or one whi ch i s desired is
blocked, i t is i nterfered wi th i n some
manner. I f exami nati on does not reveal
the cause, then thi nki ng cr eati vel y must
be ap p lied.
One may begin deducti vel y, though
this dep ends on the p arti cul ar nature
of the p roblem, as we shal l note. One
asks hi msel f, W hy does thi s thi ng or
circumstance normal l y work i n a satis
factory manner? W l i at are the causes
that contri bute to what i t is and what
i t does?
T here are many thi ngs whi ch we
accep t i n l i fe. So l ong as they serve
us, we gi ve them l i ttl e thought. I f we
do not comp rehend the nature of a
thi ng or function, we cannot hop e to
remedy its fai l ure. E ver y effort, there
fore, must be made to fi gurati vel y dis
sect the normal qual i ty or functi on of
the thi ng. W hat makes i t as i t i s? By
thi s p rocess we begin to form a mental
p i cture and dwel l up on the p roblem of
its i ntegral p arts. I f we find that, for
a thi ng to functi on i n a certai n man
ner, A , B, C, and D of whi ch i t is
comp osed must be arranged i n a p ar
ti cul ar way, we have then discovered
its p attern of relationship s. W e have
l earned the uni ty of dep endence of its
resp ecti ve elements.
T he next requi rement is to determi ne
whether each of these relationship s con
tinues to exist. I f one or more do not,
or i f they are not op erati ng i n a manner
i n accord wi th the arrangement we
thi nk necessary, we then know what
needs to be created. O ur creation wi l l
consist of restori ng that condition to
its p rop er function. W e are then di
rected m the p rop er channel of i nves
ti gati on.
T he second method of creati ng is
more concep tual. I t consists of formu
l ati ng some ideal, some objective, whi ch
one wishes to attain. T hi s i deal may
not necessari l y be an extension of some
thi ng whi ch objecti vel y i s al ready in
existence. I n other words, i t does not
T he have to be a mere enl argement or im-
R osi cr uci an Pr0nent up on some external p revai l -
mg thi ng or condition. I he suggestion
di gest ma ari se from ones own ideation
M ar ch rather than by p ercei vi ng a need in
1957 something else around him.
L et us use a hyp otheti cal case for
further eluci dation of this p oint. A n
i ndi vi dual , we shal l say, real i zes that
he has accep ted the words, good and
evi l , as a mere manner of sp eech to
exp l ai n the qual i ti es of a thi ng or con
dition. H e has never real l y attemp ted
p ersonal l y to define the words and to
arri ve at an i nti mate understandi ng of
them. Pi e begins, therefore, a process
of vol untary thought, as we have ex
p lai ned. H e mental l y inquires into the
nature of good. W hy is something re
ferred to as such? Eventual l y, by his
rel egati ng to the word good al l the
thought whi ch he has ever had about
it, a p rocess of eval uati on begins. Some
of hi s p resup p ositions are drop p ed as
bei ng erroneous. Other notions ap p ear
whi ch have greater cl ari ty to hi m; they
seem self-evi dent. These become a new
convi nci ng concep tion. I t is a creati on.
H e has added a new idea.
A creation does not have to have
external i ty. I t can be enti rel y subjec
ti ve something whi ch we have added
to our own understanding. W e may,
for examp l e, create a new p hi losop hy
of l i fe for ourselves, a new way of l i vi ng.
Creati ng must h ave mot i v at i on .
T here must be i ncentive. No one ever
creates who i s satisfied wi th hi msel f
and al l the thi ngs and conditions of his
environment. T he creator i s a crusader.
H e wants to remedy what he conceives
to be a faul t or he wants to transcend
some exi sti ng circumstance. H e must
have sufficient i magination to be able
to p roject the p resent into the future.
H e must be able i n his imagi nati on and
vol untary thi nki ng to fi nd ways of ad
vanci ng A to B, and B to C.
T hi nki ng creati vel y quickens the i n
tuiti on. I ntui ti on i s a hi gher order or
judgment of the mind whi ch occurs i n
the subconscious. I n the thi nki ng to
cr eate, we are not al ways successful in
our vol untary p rocess, as we al l know
too wel l . T he necessary association of
ideas does not al ways flow readi l y. T he
effort to comp lete a chai n of thought
is often continued i n the subconscious
after we have dismissed i t objecti vel y.
I t continues there as an unconscious
wor k of the mind. A hi gher order of
judgment wi thi n our own mental p roc
esses carri es on where we have vol un
tar i l y l eft off. T he dominant thought
then unconsci ously calls forth al l the
related ideas unti l a harmonious order
is established whi ch becomes emotion
al l y sati sfyi ng. T he comp lete idea, then,
comes to the fore of the consciousness
as an insp iration or i ntui ti ve flash.
Periods of meditation and abstraction
sti mulate the i ntuition just as listeni ng
to musi c culti vates an ap p reci ati on of
it. Setting aside a half-hour a day for
vol untary thi nki ng is essenti al to devel
op ing the p rocess of mental l y creating.
One must enter the p eriod of medita
tion wi th a sp ecific p urp ose, something
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whi ch he wants to attain. Then, by
the p rocess of reasoning, p revi ousl y ex
p lai ned, he should tr y to find what
relationship there is between realiti es,
that is, what al ready has existence and
that whi ch he wishes to bri ng about.
H e must determi ne i n what manner
that whi ch i s can contri bute to that
whi ch as yet i s not. T he gap must be
bri dged. T he creator is r eal l y an al
chemist. H e is transmuti ng the elements
of that whi ch has existence into what
to him and others may ap p ear as a new
substance or exp ression.
A V
( D n z < S m a [[ ^ S o n c j
B y A n n S y l t e , F.R.C.
woke, and waki ng, real
ized that I had been l i s
teni ng to m u si c fr om
another worl d: a world
of gr eat er dimensi on
of dep th, color, and sound
beyond the exp erience of
ordi nary o b j ect i ve con
sciousness. I n the back
ground of mind were sti ll , di ml y heard,
the celesti al overtones, the harmony of
worshi p ful song. A s I sl owl y and un
wi l l i ngl y came forth from this p lace of
divi ne concord, those l ovel y sounds were
being l eft behind. I struggled to bri ng
them wi th me, stri vi ng to recreate
mental l y the wondrous range of color
and beauty I had just l eft. I succeeded
onl y i n heari ng a smal l harsh sound
whi ch seemed to be al l that the limited
range of conscious mi nd could retai n.
Gone was al l the beauty the exul tant
sound of exquisi te musi c, the rol l i ng
overtones of magni fi cent melody. A l l
that was l eft was a small, discordant
tune within.
Could it be that this smal l song,
which conti nual l y goes on wi thi n each
one of us, when allowed to magni fy i t
sel f without the restrai nt of our con
scious minds, could extend into the
infini te vari ety and dep th of Sound i t
self, and become one wi th the musi c
of the uni verse? I s i t p ossible that the
small song of our hearts, freed from
fi ni te bearings, thus becomes one with
the voice of angels, and magni fi es to
sp i ri tual hei ghts the smal l rhythm of
our own beings? Can i t be that this
smal l voice wi thi n us is a segment of
the Cosmic A l l , an i nfi ni tesi mal smal l
p art of the grand crescendo of ecstatic
chords whi ch is the M usi c of the
Sp heres?
M usi ci ans and comp osers have ever
stri ven to cap ture these magi c notes,
and mysti cs of every age have sought
to i denti fy themselves wi th this music,
to enter into it, to remai n i n the circle
of glorious, sacred song, and fi nal l y to
awaken to a l i fe magni fi ed to heights
and dep ths uni magi ned, p rojected be
yond heari ng of any but the gods. T he
sound of trees cl ap p i ng thei r hands
the shouting of rocks the hal l el ujah of
joyful knowledge of the W ord, the
Logos, made flesh but yet eternal ! Stars
sp i nni ng i n great circles, p lanets p ass
i ng i n thei r orbits i n the midnight blue
of vast heavens thei r sound can onl y
be the musi c of the uni verse, the W ord,
l ovi ngl y fal l i ng from the l i p s of God
H i msel f, and going forth, forever, to
ful fi l l its eternal missi on of growth and
unfoldment.
T hi s is the hymn of sacred love, the
word whi ch was lost, the p ulsation
and ful fi l l ment of l i fe i tsel f i n the joy
of the hol y communion of one small
soul wi th the soul of God.
Environment and Ethics
By A l exan d er F. Sk u t ch , of Costa Rica
The
Rosicrucian
Di gest
March
1957
l t h o ugh farmers, natu
ralists, and other observ
ers had long known in a
general way that animals
and p lants are restricted
to p arti cul ar environ
ments and that the p res
ence of certain kinds of
living things is favorable
or unfavorable to certain others, the
systematic study of relationship s of this
sort began less than a century ago.
l i f e can exi st onl y wi thi n a very
narrow range of p hysi cal conditions.
Astronomers sp eak of t em p er at u r es
rangi ng from several hundred degrees
below zero i n i nterstel l ar sp ace to some
mi llions of degrees above zero i n the
i nteri or of the sun and stars. T he bi
ologist i s concerned wi th onl y a minute
fracti on of thi s total range of p ossible
temp eratures. Si nce al l l i vi ng thi ngs
contain a hi gh p rop ortion of water,
whi ch must be i n the l i qui d state i n
order to sup p ort vi tal p rocesses, l i fe can
go on onl y at temp eratures between the
freezi ng and boi l i ng p oints of water.
Few organisms can remai n al i ve at tem
p eratures even ap p roachi ng the boi l i ng
p oint of water, and these onl y i n a
quiescent state, as i n certai n sp ores.
Si mi l arl y, l i vi ng ti l i ngs requi re ai r of
a certai n comp osition. W e read of
p lanets surrounded by a dense atmos
p here i n whi ch methane or marsh gas
and ammonia are p rominent constitu
ents and free oxygen is l acking. I t is
certai n that l i fe as we know i t could
not exi st i n such a medium. W i th very
few excep tions, every ki nd of organism
on this earth is dep endent up on sun
light. But the l i ght must not be too
i ntense, as at our distance from the sun
i ts rays would be wi thout a fi l teri ng
atmosp here; yet l i ght must not be too
weak, as i n the case of starli ght.
A p hysiologist mi ght i nform us
whether a gi ven ki na of ani mal or
p lant, adequatel y fed, watered and p ro
tected, could survi ve for a day or a
month on some p art of the earths sur
face where the meteorologi cal condi
tions are known. H owever, the ki nd of
studies he makes are quite inadequate
to disclose whether this ani mal or p lant
could survi ve wi thout human care, and
rep roduce its kind, i n any p arti cul ar
natural environment.
Survi val dep ends not merel y up on
the p hysi cal envi ronment but also up on
the other l i vi ng thi ngs whi ch hap p en
to be p resent i n these surroundings. The
branch of bi ol ogy whi ch treats of the
relations of organisms to thei r total en
vi ronment, li fel ess and l i vi ng, is known
as ecology.
N at ural Communities
T he ecologist i s concerned wi th nat
ural communities, each of whi ch con
sists of few or many kinds of p lants and
of the animals great and smal l whi ch
l i ve among them, dep ending up on them
for food, shelter, and other vi tal needs.
Some communities consist of comp ara
ti vel y few sp ecies of ani mal s and p lants,
whereas other s are far more comp lex.
A n examp l e of a simp le community
is a cattai l marsh whi ch contains few
consp icuous p lants, save the cattai ls
themselves, although careful i nvesti ga
ti on discloses many vari eti es of small
and microscop ic p lants whi ch thri ve
among them, and ani mal s of numerous
kinds are not lacking. A n examp l e of
a comp lex communi ty i s a trop ical
forest, wi th its bewi l deri ng ar r ay of
great trees, many of them burdened
wi th masses of ai r-p l ants, its creep ers,
p alms, ferns, and l ow herbs, and al l the
birds, monkeys, rep tiles, insects, and
other creatures whi ch thri ve there. I n
al l p arts of the worl d where l i fe exists
i t is p ossible to recognize natural com
munities, and p racti cal l y every l i vi ng
thi ng belongs to some community.
T he study of these natural communi
ties, even the si mp l er ones, reveal s thei r
vast comp lexity. Di rectl y or indi rectl y,
every member seems to i nteract wi th
ever y other member, affecti ng i ndi vi d
ual and collective wel fare i n ways great
or small. T he p lants p rovide nouri sh
ment for the ani mal s, whi ch are i n
cap able of synthesi zi ng nutri ments from
inorgani c matter. T he ani mal s serve
the p lants by carryi ng thei r p ollen from
flower to flower, by scatteri ng thei r
seeds, by sti rri ng up and aerati ng the
soil, as earthworms do. A t the same
time some of the ani mal s do great harm
to the p lants by devouri ng thei r foliage,
flowers or other p arts, or, i n the case
of the l arger creatures, by breaki ng and
crushing vegetation as they move about.
T he fi rst requisite of an y natural
community is the p resence i n i t of or
ganisms, nearl y al ways green p lants,
whi ch bui ld up organi c comp ounds
from the si mp l er substances found i n
earth, water, and ai r. H owever, i t is
equal l y necessary that there be other
organisms to carry on the reverse p roc
ess, the breaki ng down of organized
tissues into thei r si mp l er constituents.
W ithout the bacteri a, fungi , and smal l
ani mal s whi ch decomp ose the l arger
organisms, the dead l eaves, stems and
flowers of p lants, the carcasses of
animals, would l i tter the ground in
ever-i ncreasing p rofusion, unti l vi tal
p rocesses would come to a hal t because
al l the necessary materi al s would be
locked up i n l i fel ess bodies.
I f the constructi ve p rocesses were not
ap p roxi matel y balanced by the destruc
ti ve p rocesses, the worl d would even
tual l y become a sort of vast museum
of the wonderful structures whi ch l i fe
could create, but there would be no
more growi ng, movi ng thi ngs to enjoy
the sunshine.
Co-Operators and Competitors
W e often fi nd i t conveni ent to divi de
the p eop le around us into fri ends and
enemies, co-op erators and comp etitors;
and si mi l arl y, when we thi nk of any
ki nd of p l ant or ani mal i n its natural
communi ty, we tr y to cl assi fy the other
members of that communi ty as bene
fi ci al or i njuri ous to it. But deep er
study shows that this i s a rather nai ve
way of p roceeding. I n any association
of l i vi ng thi ngs, human or otherwise,
i t i s ver y difficult to draw the l i ne be
tween co-op eration and comp etition.
Co-op erators are easi l y turned into com
p etitors, and comp etitors often hel p each
other i n subtle ways a fact recognized
by a merchant when he locates his shop
close to another whi ch sells the same
things.
A p lot of bare ground i n a forested
regi on i s soon colonized by many more
seedlings than can fi nd room for their
ful l develop ment. T hey comp ete stren
uousl y among themselves for a p lace
i n the sun, and many succumb in the
struggle. But the crowdi ng causes them
to grow strai ght and tal l instead of
sp rawl i ng outward, and the clustered
fol i age miti gates the suns rays for the
more tender p lants that could not en
dure thei r ful l intensi ty.
Si mi l arl y, we look up on the great
cats and other carni vores as enemies of
the deer, antelop es, and other herbi v
orous ani mal s on whi ch they p rey. Yet
when we remove them we fi nd that the
grazers and browsers mul ti p l y to such
a degree that they destroy the vegeta
ti on on whi ch they subsist, and then die
of slow starvati on even more horri bl y
than when struck down by a lion or
a ti ger. So comp lex, so incap able of
faci l e schematizati on, are the i nterac
tions among the members of a natural
communi ty!
I t is often difficult to decide whether
some sp ecies of p l ant or ani mal is i n
the l ong run benefi ci al or i njuri ous to
some other sp ecies, but i t is far more
difficult to l earn the ul ti mate effect of
a whol e class of organisms up on some
other class. W e commonly thi nk of
hawks as enemies of the smal l er song
birds, and some of the former p rey
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March
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heavi l y up on the latter. But other kinds
of hawks feed l argel y or almost whol l y
on snakes, and some kinds of snakes
devour many of the eggs and nestlings
of bi rds; so, i t i s p ossible that hawks,
taken as a class, are more benefici al
than detri mental to songbirds. And
serp ents not onl y destroy birds but also
eat some of the enemies of birds, so
that to el imi nate al l the snakes from
an area of woodland mi ght not bri ng
about the i ncrease i n its avi an p op ula
ti on that we exp ect.
M uch has been made of the rol e of
the smal l er birds i n keep i ng i n check
the insects whi ch at ti mes so conflict
wi th the interests of man. T he U ni ted
States government once conducted an
exhausti ve survey of the di etary habits
of the di fferent sp ecies i nhabi ti ng the
country, maki ng p ai nstaki ng anal yses
of the food taken by each sp ecie, and
sep arati ng the insects, each consumed,
into those benefi ci al and those i njuri ous
to agri cul ture. But some kinds of i n
sects p rey up on or p arasi ti ze others,
and i t i s difficult to decide whether the
redatory and p arasi ti c insects eaten by
i rds mi ght not, i f l eft al i ve, have been
more effecti ve than the birds themselves
i n reduci ng the numbers of the deleteri
ous sorts.
Perhap s the bi rd lovers and p oets
who have p ai nted such fri ghteni ng p ic
tures of what woul d hap p en to our
orchards and farms, and ul ti matel y to
ourselves, i f we destroyed al l the song
birds, exaggerate the situation. W e do
not know.
Stabilizing Associations
From the comp l exi ty of the interac
tions of the several kinds of creatures
formi ng a natural communi ty, and the
subtle manner in whi ch they co-op erate
and comp ete, i t results that the greater
the vari ety of organisms a community
contains, the more stable and enduring
i t is l i kel y to be. T he si mp l er com
munities, comp osed of rel ati vel y few
kinds of p lants and ani mal s, are i n
many cases transi tory. Often they rep
resent earl y stages i n the colonization
of new or denuded land, and they
gradual l y p rep are thi s area for occup a
ti on by a more vari ed and stable as
sociation of l i vi ng thi ngs.
Al though there are a number of rea
sons for the greater stabi l i ty of the
mor e var i ed communi ty, among them
we mi ght notice the greater i mmuni ty
from diseases and p lagues whi ch its
members enjoy. A p ure stand of p lants
of any sort, a crowded settlement of
men or other ani mal s, offers op timum
conditions for the rap i d sp read of an
infectious disease or of some destruc
ti ve i nsect p est. W hen p lants of one
ki nd are sep arated by p lants of other
kinds, the l atter act as barri ers to the
di ssemination of the p lague, whi ch as a
rul e attacks onl y one kind of vegetation,
or at most a group of rel ated sp ecies.
Si mi l arl y, the fewer the contacts be
tween ani mal s of the same kind, the
more sl owl y a disease sp reads through
the p op ulation.
I n the vast forests of the Amazon
basin, the Brazi l i an rubber tree con
ti nues to flouri sh amid a great vari ety
of trees, desp ite a fungus whi ch attacks
its foliage. I f one makes a cl eari ng in
these same forests and starts a p lanta
ti on of these rubber trees, he finds them
so heavi l y attacked by the fungus that
they yi el d li ttl e rubber; and this l eaf
disease has unti l recentl y defeated al l
attemp ts to establish p rofitable rubber
p lantations anywhere i n the Ameri can
trop ics. T he outstanding success of the
rubber p lantations i n the trop ics of the
Old W orl d is due to the fact that when
the Brazi l i an rubber tree was intro
duced there i n the last century, the
fungus was acci dental l y l eft behind.
Cities and Farms
A great modem ci ty is a community
comp osed of a single dominant organ
ism, wi th an admi xture of dep endent
organisms such as dogs, cats, birds in
cages, and p lants i n beds and p ots, and
a far l arger number of p arasi ti c or
semip arasiti c organi sms, i ncl udi ng rats,
mice, and hosts of bacteri a, many of
them hi ghl y i njuri ous to the dominant
ani mal man. I t i s difficult to p oint
to any si mi l ar aggregati on of comp ara
ble size measured i n number of inhab
itants comp osed so excl usi vel y of a
single ki nd of ani mal . T he less p op ulous
hi ves of bees and nests of ants seem
usual l y to harbor a rel ati vel y l arger
number of p arasi ti c insects and hangers-
on of vari ous sorts.
But these human communities are
far from self-sup p orting. T hey would
cease to exi st i f they did not each day
imp ort vast quantities of foodstuffs and
other materi al s, some of them brought
from the antip odes. T hus each human
community might be looked up on as
sendi ng out roots or tentacles to a num
ber of other communities scattered far
and wide over the earth; and its p ros
p eri ty dep ends up on the health of these
other sup p orti ng communities. Or we
might thi nk of the ci ty al ong wi th al l
those regions whi ch contribute to its
l i fe as formi ng one single, comp lex
community, discontinuous i n sp ace, its
scattered p arts joined by arteries along
whi ch materials flow i n both directions
for the ci ty must somehow p ay i n
goods and services for what i t recei ves.
Some of the materi al s whi ch a ci ty
recei ves, such as l umber and p ulp for
p ap er, come from natural woodland;
and i t is obvious that these woods must
form balanced, sel f-sustai ni ng commu
nities, i f they are to continue to p roduce
what the ci ty requires. M ost of the
foodstuffs, as wel l as fibers for clothing,
come from cul ti vated fields, where hu
man op erations create conditions di ffer
ent from those whi ch p revai l i n com
munities where man has not interfered.
But a fi el d of grai n, vegetables, or
cotton is by no means a p ure culture,
such as a bacteriologist may mai ntai n
in a test tube. T he soil i n whi ch the
crop grows sup p orts a vari ed flora and
fauna, many of whose members are so
small that they escap e ordi nary obser
vation: weeds sp rout among the cul ti
vated p lants; insects swarm ami dst thei r
fol i age; birds f l y overhead or nest i n
the fi el d itsel f. M oreover, there are
usual l y adjacent areas of more or less
natural vegetation, and what hap
p ens i n them may have great effect up
on the success of the crop . For examp le,
animals of vari ous sorts whi ch breed
there may come forth to eat it.
T hus the farms are by no means ex
emp t from the op erati on of the p roc
esses whi ch govern al l communities of
l i vi ng things, and the distant cities are
in turn cl osel y dep endent on the farms.
I n p arti cul ar, i t should be noted that
an extensive field of grai n or some oth
er culti vated p lant is, li ke al l organisms
i n simp le communities, comp osed of
rel ati vel y few sp ecies, hi ghl y vul ner
abl e to any fungal disease or i nsect p est
that gains a foothold i n it.
Dangers of Wholesale Destruction
Exasp erated by these p lagues that so
greatl y dimi ni sh the farmers p rofits
and at times seem to jeop ardize the ver y
existence of humani ty, men have de
voted much thought to devi si ng meth
ods to control or destroy noxious
organisms. Recentl y chemists have i n
vented some extremel y l ethal com
p ounds; whol e forests and swamp s have
been dusted wi th them. Al so, roadsides
have been treated wi th chemicals whi ch
destroy almost everythi ng that sp routs
there. T hese successes i n the wholesale
destruction of undesi red creatures
al ong wi th i nnumerabl e others which
gi ve us no ground for comp laint are
leadi ng to the notion that we may
fi nal l y el i mi nate from the worl d al l
so-called noxi ous organisms, l eavi ng
onl y ourselves, our domestic animals
and cul ti vated p lants, and such other
creatures as are somehow useful to us,
or at l east do not cause us discomfort
nor diminish our p rofits.
But anyone who has absorbed some
of the p ri nci p l es of ecology wi l l at once
detect the fal l aci es and the dangers of
this shal l ow mode of thought. I n the
fi rst p lace, there i s the almost i nsup er
able diffi cul ty of fi nal l y disti nguishing
between fri ends and enemies, co-op
erators and comp etitors. A n organism
whi ch di rectl y hurts human interests
may i ndi rectl y benefit us, as by keep
i ng i n check some other organism whi ch
mi ght become even more i njuri ous, or
by p reservi ng the balance of a natural
communi ty whose health is imp ortant
to us. T he bird, for examp le, that eats
our cherries or other smal l frui ts may
also devour insects whi ch i f uncon
trolled woul d greatl y damage the frui t
trees.
Ecol ogy i s such a young science, and
the p roblems i t investi gates are so com-
l ex, that he would be an unusual l y
ari ng ecologist who woul d venture to
p redi ct the ul ti mate effect of the com
p lete removal from a natural communi
ty of some ki nd of organi sm whi ch has
long flourished i n it.
A thri vi ng communi ty of animals
and p lants mi ght be comp ared to a
heal thy human body; and each of the
sp ecies whi ch make up thi s community
might be likened to one of the organs
(Conti nued on p age 107)
^UPl z c^-fnaiznt (Dzdzz of U^>%uicl
By J o h n C. H e n d r i k s e , LL.M., Western Australia
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i n c e 1850, Drui d hall s
have been fami l i ar sights
i n the cap i tal s and towns
of A ustral i a. Throughout
its Commonwealth, 64,000
old and new Austral i ans
(mi grants) of every creed
and colour have taken
p art i n ri tual i sti c i ni ti a
ti on ceremonies symbolic of the ancient
ri tes of the Britons.
Drui di sm p receded Chri sti ani ty. I t
was p robabl y the p re-Celti c and aborig
i nal fai th of Gaul (France) adop ted and
modified by the Celts mi grati ng to the
Bri ti sh I sles. W hen archaeologi sts dis
covered a Drui di c god seated on an
al tar wi th his legs crossed, the theory
was advanced that Drui ds were fol l ow
ers of Buddha.
J ul i us Caesar described them as a
body of p riests, p hilosop hers, judges,
magi ci ans, and astronomers who were
the nati ons leaders p ossessing the p ow
er to excommuni cate hi gh officials. Even
ki ngs submitted to thei r wi l l . T hei r
name was derived from the Celti c word
dru for oak (dr us i n Greek), because
they met i n the sacred oak grove.
T here, nocturnal i ni ti ations into the
vari ous degrees of p riesthood took p lace
i n stone temp les situated on hi gh sp ots.
T he ceremonies were held i n the ark of
mysteri es (cromlech or dolmen) con
sisti ng of two up ri ght stones wi th a
l arge flat rock across the top of them.
(Rel i cs of underground temp le cham
bers have been found i n Derbyshi re and
W i l tshi re.)
T o consolidate thei r influence, the
Drui ds imp arted thei r knowledge by
word of mouth, usual l y i n verse form,
to p revent the masses from gai ni ng i n
sight.
Y et i t i s known that they were wor
ship p ers for whom the sun held sp ecial
meaning. T hey believed i n rei ncarna
ti on and shared Pythagoras conviction
as to the magi c of numbers. T hey mai n
tai ned that water, the fi rst mani festa
ti on of matter, existed i n absolute p uri
t y before the creati on; that fi re
cleansed the body and soul and attuned
man to the uni verse.
T he p riests foretold the future from
the movement of water, the flights of
birds, the p resence of white horses, and
from human sacrifices.
T hey organised the festi vities on M ay
Eve, the remembrance of whi ch i s still
al i ve i n the nati onal sp orts and games
associated wi th M ay D ay. T he p eop le
joined them i n the celebration of the
suns bi rthday on December 25 wi th
great bonfi res and mistletoe decorations.
Chri sti ani ty and Drui di sm clashed as
was to be exp ected. T he Arch-Drui d
real i zi ng the new rel i gi on endangered
his p osition, convened a meeti ng to dis
cuss ways and means of eradi cati ng the
Chri sti an fai th p reached by St. Patri ck.
But the Church smoothed away di f
ferences between the two group s and
borrowed from the Drui di c doctrine.
Resp ecti ng the nati onal tradi ti on, the
Church sup p orted the December feast,
wi th some metap horical modification, as
the commemoration of Chri sts birth.
T he bl endi ng was so successful that the
p eop le were converted before they real
ized it. T he Druids, charged wi th black
art and unhol y dealings, were fi nal l y
defeated under Suetoni us, Roman Gov
ernor of Bri tai n.
Yet, they continued thei r p racti ces i n
secret unti l the 11t h century and were
frequentl y featured i n legends and
songs comp osed by the M i nstrels. Some
Scottish kings sent thei r sons to Drui di c
colleges to study astronomy, astrology,
and natural p hilosop hy.
For centuries the Pri nces of W al es
have been i ni ti ated at Stonehenge a
temp le since 2000 B.C. and Queen
Eli zabeth I I has been admitted as a
Bard of the Anci ent Order of Druids.
T he p easants of the Bri ti sh I sles and
Scandi navi a have p erp etuated Drui di c
lore. T he p leasant custom of kissi ng a
young l ady under the mistletoe is ap
p arentl y of Drui di c ori gi n. Anci entl y,
the mistletoe was an emblem of p eace,
and the kiss a kiss of p eace. T he
mistletoe was also considered to cure
p hysi cal and mental illnesses.
A p art from its ri tual asp ect revi ewed
at the qui nquenni al conference of the
Grand Lodge of Engl and, the p resent
Order i n A ustral i a has lost the mysti
cism of the anci ent Celti c organizati on.
Founded i n 1781 i n London, from
where i t sp read throughout the Engl i sh-
sp eaki ng worl d, the Anci ent Order of
Drui ds of the p resent day is a Fri endl y
Soci ety to whi ch an y rep utabl e p erson
may ap p l y for social membership .
V A V
dan. ^Ljoii SxULain.
By K ay St i n n et t

few months ago, I was on

a bus travel i ng from a
smal l town i n T exas to
attend my brothers fu
neral . I t was necessary
to make a certai n trai n
connection at Dal l as in
order to reach my desti
nati on on time.
W hen about seven miles from Dal l as,
a terri fi c rainstorm forced our bus dri v
er to one side of the hi ghway to wai t
unti l the storm abated.
A s the minutes p assed and the storm
did not lessen, I feared I woul d miss my
trai n. I fel t I could not under the ci r
cumstances ask the dri ver to go ahead
whi l e i t was unsafe to dri ve; I said
nothing.
T o my surp rise, i n a few minutes the
dri ver came to my seat and said, L ady,
I know you want to make connection
wi th your trai n, but I cannot ri sk dri v
i ng i n this rai n. A t the next town I l l
telep hone and ask them to hold the
trai n for you. H e did this and the
trai n was wai ti ng when we reached
Dal l as.
H ow did he know i t was urgent for
me to make that trai n? I had said
nothing to hi m, nor had I mentioned it
to any of the other p assengers.
W hen I asked hi m how he knew,
he smiled, but made no answer.
V A V
U l m (on the Danube) was noted for its mathemati ci ans, i ncl udi ng Faul haber
(a rep uted Rosi cruci an), whom Descartes most p robabl y met there. H i s stay
near U l m was chi efl y remarkabl e for a certai n i l l umi nati on and certai n dreams
whi ch he exp erienced there.
E n c y c l o pa e d i a B r i t a n n i c a
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March
1957
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By R. M. Bak er , M.E.
T
h e great Russian-
bor n sci en t i st ,
G eor ges L akhovsky,*
who l i ved i n Pari s,
con cei ved of ever y
p art of the earth to be
comp osed of matter,
vi si o l e and i nvi si bl e,
resembling radio-send-
i ng stations, each cell
broadcasti ng and re
cei vi ng on its i ndi vi d
ual wave length, and
al l combini ng into a
ki nd of Cosmic key
board of i mmense size.
A l l these r ad i at i o n s
were conceived of as
being channels, si mi l ar
to those adop ted by
radi o stations. T hey
sp read themselves out
i n octaves of acti vi ty
above and below mans comp rehension,
every cel l of l i vi ng matter i n this en
ti re keyboard acti ng both as a recei ver
and a sender. T hi s concep tion had of
course been a fami l i ar one wi th ancient
mysti c p hilosop hers.
Ever y l i vi ng thi ng, from the ti niest
p arti cl e to man, i s sendi ng out and re
cei vi ng radiations of one ki nd or an
other. Al so, i t has been established, by
means of the encep halograp h, that the
brai n directs into sp ace a smal l electric
current of whi ch the frequency, or rate
of vi brati on, i s a function of the nature
of the thought itself.
T hi s bri ngs us to the p oint of just
what is a radi o sender, or transmi tter,
and a recei ver? A radi o transmi tter
consists, basi cal l y, of a microp hone
whi ch p icks up sound waves p roduced
at a studio by p erformers, musi cians,
etc., and converts these waves i nto an
audio si gnal havi ng the same charac
teri stics as the sound waves. T hi s audio
si gnal then travels through the mi cro
p hone to the control room, where i t is
amp l i fi ed many ti mes by vacuum tube
* Author of Le Secret de I a Vie. Pasteur Institute of Paris.
amp l i fi er stages and
then fed to the trans
mi tter p rop er. Since
this audio si gnal does
not p ossess en ough
strength, or energy of
its own, to travel far
i n sp ace, i t i s modu
lated, or mixed, with
another strong signal
before being fed to the
transmi tti ng antenna
tower.
T hi s addi tional si g
nal is known as an
R. F . (radi o frequen
cy) carri er and is p ro
duced by a crystal
osci l l ator a vacuum
tube stage op erati ng at
a steady, fi xed fre-
' quency of hi gh energy
l evel , controlled by a
crystal . T he combined si gnal is amp l i
fied further and then fed to the trans
mi tti ng antenna where, under the
i nfluence of this modulated R. F . carri er
current, vi brati ng electromagnetic waves
travel out through sp ace and are there
by transmitted.
W e mi ght comp are the function of
thi s R. F. carri er current to that of a
human transinitter. I n transmi tti ng a
thought, the brai n, through the wi l l ,
directs the nervous (el ectri cal ) energy
of the system into sp ace. T he R. F.
carri er current i n this case woul d cor
resp ond to the wi l l , since the wi l l rei n
forces and concentrates the nervous
el ectri cal energy of the body into an
electromagneti c p ul se up on the instant
of thought transmission.
A s we know, al l vi bratory electro
magneti c energy travels through sp ace
i n the form of waves. T hese waves are
cycl i c i n form and comp lete each cycl e
i n a defini te i nterval of ti me from
whi ch i s derived the term fr equency
exp ressed i n cycl es, or vi brati ons, p er
second. Those waves of l ong cyclic
length have a l ow frequency, since they
onl y comp lete a few cycl es p er second,
whereas the waves of ver y short cycl i c
l ength have a hi gh frequency, because
many of these waves p ass a gi ven p oint
i n the same i nterval of time that is,
one second.
T he sense of touch, for examp l e, rep
resents the lowest frequencies i n the
scale ( 2- 16 vi brati ons p er second), wi th
sound p ercep tion next ( 32- 16,384 vi
brations p er second), fol l owed by radio
frequency from 16,384 to 34,359,738,-
368 vi brati ons p er second, and on up
to the Gamma and Cosmic rays, to i n
clude the p henomena of p sychi c p ro
jections. T he vi brati ons i n this p sychi c
range are so high that they are incom
p rehensible to the objective conscious
ness.
Radio transmission and recep ti on is
i n the range of 550,000 to 1,600,000
cycl es p er second, wi th F M (Frequency
M odulati on) i n the ver y hi gh frequen
cy band, or range, of 88 mi l l i on to 108
mi l l i on cycl es p er second. Tel evi si on,
whi ch needs much wi der channels, or
range of vi bratory recep ti on than F M
or A M radio, has 13 of them i n the
ver y hi gh scale hal f are under F M
frequencies from 54 to 88 mi l hon cycles
p er second, and the other hal f are above
them between 174 and 216 milhon
cycles. Between the aforementioned
F M and T V band, or range of frequen
cies recei ved, are the hi gh frequencies
of 3 to 30 mi l l i on cycl es p er second.
These are referred to as Short W aves,
and are normal l y used for amateur and
forei gn broadcast recep tion. T he next
rung up the frequency l adder takes us
to the ul tra-hi ghs, from 300 to 3,000
mi l l i on cycles p er second (frequencies
above 300 mi l l i on cycl es are also referred
to as mi crowaves).
Fr o m Energy to Sound
N ow that we have p rojected a signal,
or electromagnetic wave of vi bratory
energy, into sp ace, how do we recei ve
or translate i t back into its ori gi nal form
of voice, musi c, etc.? A s you are no
doubt aware, there are many di ffer ent
typ es and styles of radi o sets, but they
are al l al i ke i n thei r basic op erati ng
p rincip le.
T oday al l radi o recei vers emp l oy
what is known as the Sup erhetrodyne
commonly referred to as the Sup er-
het ci rcui t whi ch, i n bri ef, p icks up
the transmi tted radi o si gnal from the
surroundi ng ai r through its enclosed
antenna and beats, or mi xes, i t with
another si gnal of fi xed frequency gen
erated by an oscillator the resultant
combined, or I .F . (i ntermedi ate fre
quency), i s then amp l i fi ed and p assed
to what i s known as a demodulator or
detector. T he p urp ose of the detector
stage i s to stri p the combined I .F . si gnal
of its R.F . carri er comp onent p revious
l y referred to so as to recl ai m the
ori gi nal audio si gnal , whi ch i s accom
p li shed by the action of a vacuum tube
(diode) stage and a resonant tank
circui t.
T hus, the detector p rovides us with
the audio si gnal we are seeking. T hi s
audio si gnal i s then fed to the audio
amp l i fi er and loud-sp eaker stages where
i t gets one boost i n strength from the
fi rst A .F . stage and another from the
audio outp ut stage before being fed to
the loud sp eaker. H ere the audio si gnal
is converted i nto sound waves; thi s, in
turn, constitutes the desi red p rogram.
T he conversi on of the audio (el ec
tri cal ) si gnal into sound waves results
from the action of the amp l i fi ed audio
si gnal al ternatel y attracti ng and re
p ul si ng a voice-coil p laced i n a magnetic
fi el d and attached to a movabl e di a
p hragm. A s the l atter moves back and
forth i n synchroni sm wi th the audio
si gnal the sp eaker cone, to whi ch the
di ap hragm i s connected by means of a
deli cate sp i der, causes the ai r surround
i ng i t to be moved backward and for
ward, and thus creates the resultant
sound waves.
Resonance
Perhap s the most i mp ortant asp ect,
or key, to the abi l i ty of the afore
mentioned r ec ei ver to convert the
transmitted el ectri cal si gnal into sound
intell i gence lies i n the p ri nci p l e of
resonance.
Resonance, i n the el ectri cal sense is,
bri efl y, the p rop erty of a tuned elec
tri cal ci rcui t to p ass, or reject, from
one ci rcui t to another a si gnal of the
one frequency to whi ch that p arti cul ar
ci rcui t i s tuned. T hi s resonant effect
i s an el ectri cal p henomenon, p roduced
by adjusti ng the i nducti ve and cap aci
ti ve reactances, or comp onents, of the
The
ci rcui t to a val ue whi ch, when p assi ng
a si gnal of the desi red frequency, p er
mits a maxi mum flow of current, thus
r ei nfor ci ng the p assed si gnal and at the
same ti me rejecti ng al l signals of other
frequencies. P racti cal l y al l stages of
radi o and T V sets emp l oy this p ri n
cip le of resonance to p ass or reject, as
the case mi ght be, si gnal s of di fferent
frequencies.
T l i i s p ri nci p l e of resonance i s not
restricted to the el ectri cal fi el d, but has
its counterp art i n the mechani cal field
also. W ebster defines mechani cal res
onance as the p henomenon whi ch
results when, i n the case of a forced
vi brati on, the p eriod of the force equals
that of a natural vi brati on of the sys
tem to whi ch the force is ap p lied. I t
consists of a vi brati on of l arge amp l i
tude i n the system. I f the force is due
to a tuni ng fork i n vi brati on, and i f
the system is a second fork of the same
p itch, the l atter wi l l be set i n vi brati on
as a resul t of the waves emitted by the
former, and consequently the sound
heard wi l l be louder.
A ver y common examp l e of mechan
i cal resonance is that of a troop of sol
diers marchi ng across a narrow bridge
i n cadence. B y so doing, a vi brati on
rhythm is set up , the dri vi ng force i n
duced by thei r step s, i f i n p hase that
is, i n step wi th the natural frequency
of the bridge. T hus is created a resonant
force whi ch tends to rei nforce and
thereby i ncrease the amp l i tude of vi
bration to a p oint where i t could p os
si bl y exceed the fl exural ri gi di ty of the
bri dge and destroy it.
I nci dentl y, by the natural frequency
of an object is meant the rate at whi ch
i t woul d continue to vi brate after a
suddenl y ap p lied load, or imp act, has
been removed.
A s we know, nothing exists or mani
fests to us excep t through vi brati ons.
T he energy, p ower, and force whi ch
emanates from the Source of al l L i fe
is vi bratory i n character and manifests
i n vi brati ons of vari ous rates of sp eed
whi ch, under certai n conditions and i n
obedience to the dictates of natural l aw,
establishes the worl d of form vi si bl e
Rosicrucian anf^ i nvi si bl e. I t op erates through a
Di gest
March
1957
system of harmonics, by means of a
Cosmic keyboard of 80 octaves. Each
octave repr esents a defi ni te number of
vi brati ons from the Source of al l L i fe,
begi nni ng wi th two vi brati ons, for the
fi rst octave, and ending wi th tri l l i ons of
vi brati ons p er second for the l ast one.
T he fi rst 10 octaves p roduce the sen
sation of feel i ng and heari ng mani fes
tations of action whi ch may be felt
and even seen, and those of sound. I t
is due to the vi bratory rate of each L i fe
wave, movi ng from the Source toward
earth i n an undul ati ng manner, i n an
i nfi ni ty of waves travel l i ng at different
rates of sp eed, that created masses
themselves are able to send forth the
vi brati ons by whi ch they are known
and recognized.
T hus, materi al objects, though i n ap
p earance p erfectl y sti ll , vi brate at di f
ferent rates, thei r ap p earance being
stri ctl y a function of the frequency of
these vi brati ons. A l l vi brati ons received
by the mind have a defini te effect ac
cordi ng to the degree of attunement or
resonance wi th whi ch we recei ve them.
Vi brati ons of rel ati vel y l ow frequency
come to the objective mind from the
materi al worl d; vi brati ons from non
matter come through the subjective
p hase of the mind, or from that which
is p urel y M i nd. T he frequency of these
vi brati ons from the i mmateri al world
i s of such hi gh order that i t must be
step p ed down by ones mind acti ng as
a transformer i n order to be com
p rehended.
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A l l p sychi c p roducts that is, p rod
ucts of the mind resul t from the trans
formati on i n the brai n and nervous
system of the energies, wi thi n and wi th
out, into comp onent or collective p arts
of these the intell ect and emotions
may be considered the two synthesized
uni ficati ons. W e can thus p erceive that
the brai n is, as i t were, a veri table
transformer of the Cosmic energies be
tween intell ect and emotions, and that
the p ure or hi gher forms of creative
i magi nati on i n vo l ve a h ar m o n y, a
blending, a coordination between these
two p sychi c p rincip les.
A l l vi brati ons are recei ved from our
environment i n the external worl d of
some we are conscious and of others
unconscious. Because we are uncon
scious objecti vel y of so great a number
does not mean that there is no real i za
ti on of them. I t i s by means of the
unconscious recep tion of vi brati ons that
we have a subjecti ve p ercep tion whi ch
is easi l y traced i n our p hysi cal and
sychi c reactions. I n our p hysi cal be-
avi or and our emotions we are moody
and frequentl y cannot, wi th al l our
reasoning p ower, exp l ai n our mood or
find its cause; these are the results of
vi brati ons recei ved and subjecti vel y
p erceived.
I n the conscious recep ti on of vi bra
tions there i s a p hysi cal factor the re
tention of a p ercep tion. A p eriod of time
must elap se whi ch i s of sufficient dura
tion to convey the sensation to the
brai n, where i t i s transformed into
conscious real i zati on. I n the l ow rates
of vi brati on (frequency), we are wea
ri ed and dep ressed, so that thei r monot
ony p roduces unconsciousness, whereas
i n the hi gher or exal ted states of vi bra
tions we are dazzled or confused. For
examp le, motion p ictures are p rojected
onto the screen i n about 1/ 16 of a
second. I f they are sl ower than that,
we get an imp ression of weari ness; i f
they are faster, they p resent an i ndefi
nite bl ur to our sense of sight, because
not enough time has been allowed for
the sensation to reach the brai n and be
i nterp reted.
Thus we see that the real i zati ons of
consciousness are according to the l aw
which i nvolves that ti me necessary for
the recep tion, transmission, and con
scious i nterp retation of the image. T he
recep tion of a vi brati on is p racti cal l y
the same for everyone, as science has
defi ni tel y p roved that l i ght, heat, sound,
etc., al ways travel at thei r own defini te
rates of sp eed through the atmosp here.
H owever, the transmission of these i m
p ressions through the nervous system
of man is vari abl e, due to functional
conditions. T he conscious retention is
l i kewi se vari abl e, based on the degree
of attention and concentration gi ven to
it.
Consequently, too great stress cannot
be l ai d up on the fact that we must
l eam to resonate, or attune our minds
to recei ve at any time the imp res
sions whi ch the Cosmic M i nd can make
on our human minds. A s we attune our
recei vers (mi nds) to vari ed vi bra
tions, or thoughts, we thereby immedi
atel y become transformers, transferri ng
these thoughts into words and actions.
M edi tati on i s the means afforded us to
best attune ourselves to the recep tion
of the hi gher octaves of vi bratory ener
gy, through p ure i ntellect, or concen
tration.
I n conclusion, by the anal ogy wi th
our radi o and transmi tter, we see that
the mind, through the brai n, is both a
sender and a recei ver of vi bratory en
ergy. T he brai n wi th its many areas
of acti vi ti es memory, language, p o
etry, musi c, etc. is the transformer of
imp ressions, or si gnal s, both transmit
ti ng and sendi ng out these imp ressions
to and from the fi ve senses. By the
p ri nci p l e of resonance, we also see how
we are enabled to attune our recei vers
(mi nds) to the desired hi gher frequen
cies or octaves of thought and thereby
attai n a cl oser affi ni ty with the Cosmic.
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The
Rosi cruci an
Di gest
March
1957
B y M a r k H a r r i s o n
(F r om T he Sunday Standar d F ebr u ar y 19, 1956, Bombay , I nd i a)
n e day i n anci ent Athens
a teacher named Sosip a-
tra p aused suddenl y in
the middle of a lecture,
a startl ed look on her
face. She stood ri gi d for
a f ew mom en t s, t h en
turned to her students
wi th a strange story.
U nwi tti ngl y, she thereby started a
controversy whi ch, 2,500 years l ater, is
sti ll ragi ng.
She told them she had just had a
vi si on i n whi ch she saw her kinsman,
Philometor, ri di ng i n his carri age many
mi l es away. Suddenl y she saw the
carri age overturn and her ki nsman fal l
beneath it, i n danger of bei ng crushed.
She saw a servant dash to the rescue
and p ul l him to safety, unharmed ex
cep t for cuts to hi s hands and elbows.
W eeks l ater she met Phi l ometor and
discovered her vi si on had been no mere
fi gment of her imagination.
H e had, i n fact, encountered such an
acci dent at the moment i t had flashed
through her mind. Each detail of her
vi si on tal l i ed p reci sel y wi th hi s ac
count of the mishap .
Sosip atras vi si on was p robabl y the
fi rst recorded i nstance of what has
come to be known i n the jargon of
modern p sychol ogy as E SP extrasen
sory p ercep tion the abi l i ty of the mind
to tune i n on the thoughts of others
or to p i cture distant events whi l e, or
before, they hap p en.
Y et after 25 centuries of such vi
sions the subject of extrasensory p er
cep tion remai ns hi ghl y controversial.
I s mental tel epathy possi bl e? Can
one p erson read the mind of another or
foretel l future events? I s there any
scientific basis for ESP ?
Or i s i t just a mass of sup erstitious
mumbo-jumbo whi ch has been swal
lowed by a lot of gul l i bl e p eop le?
U nti l about a generati on ago most
scientists regarded i t as nonsense, a sub
ject any rep utabl e scientist could safel y
lore. But they can no l onger dismiss
the p ersi stence wi th whi ch cases of ESP
continue to crop up .
Some cases have been startling, li ke
the Bri ti sh scientist who dreamed a
crack exp ress trai n p lunged off a bridge
and was wrecked; tnen, saw his dream
become a real i ty fi ve months later.
Others have been amusi ng, l i ke the
North Carol i na coup le whose thoughts
were so attuned that whenever the hus
band brought home a box of strawber
ries he found his wi fe had al ready made
the shortbread.
M ost such exp eriences, however,
have been of the typ e almost everyone
has encountered anti ci p ati ng a tele
p hone cal l , p erhap s, or a letter, or a
conversation, or p redi cti ng an op p o
nents move i n a bri dge game.
Few have stood the test of scientific
scruti ny. ESP , dealing as i t does with
the shadowy, fleeti ng resp onses of the
mi nd to nonp hysi cal thi ngs, is a hard
thi ng to p i n down.
Even a dozen years ago you could
toss the subject of E SP before any group
of scientists and safel y gi ve odds that
they would wi nd up i n a heated argu
ment.
Si nce then the p ublic and a large
segment of scientific op ini on has be
come i ncreasi ngl y convinced of the ex
istence of ESP .
M uch of the new resp ectabi l i ty of
the E SP advocates i s due to the work
of Dr. J osep h B. Rhi ne, head of the
p arap sychol ogy l aboratory at U . S.
Duke U ni versi ty, and Dr. S. G. Soal, a
mathemati ci an at the U ni versi ty of
London.
T hei r di l i gent research has won over
many scep tics to the vi ew that mental
tel ep athy and cl ai rvoyance are scien
ti fi cal l y established truths.
But the controversy is now ragi ng
agai n, sp arked by a wi theri ng denun
ciati on of ESP by Dr. George Pri ce, a
medical researcher at the U ni versi ty of
M innesota.
I n a recent arti cl e i n Sci ence, a l ead
i ng U . S. techni cal p ublication, Dr.
Pri ce vi ewed mental tel ep athy as hocus-
p ocus to be regarded i n the same cate
gory as bl ack magi c and wi tchcraft.
T he fi el d of p sychi c research, he says,
i s wel l camouflaged with some of the
p arap hernal i a of science but bears i n
abundance the marki ngs of magi c.
Those scientists who cl ai m they can
p rove the existence of mental telep athy
and cl ai rvoyance, he says, are gui l ty of
human error or deli berate fraud.
Those are harsh words for Pri ce to
ap p l v to a group of fel l ow scientists.
Y et he is no hidebound scep tic.
U nti l 15 years ago he was hi msel f a
bel i ever i n E SP and avi dl y read al l the
l i terature he could fi nd on the subject.
But he chanced one day to read a p as
sage by the Engl i sh p hi losop her, Davi d
H ume, whi ch cnanged his mind.
M i racl es, said H ume, were vi olati ons
of the l aws of nature and no claims
of mi racl es should be accep ted unless
they could be p roved beyond doubt.
Pri ce, who believed ESP was beyond
the laws of nature, agreed. Si nce then,
he told me, he has vi ewed al l cl ai ms of
mental tel ep athy and cl ai rvoyance with
susp icion. H e says he has found most
clai ms to be p hony.
A few have been p roved by scientists,
he admits, but he cl ai ms the p roof could
have been faked or be the resul t of
honest error.
H e notes that Dr. Soal and Dr. Rhi ne
conducted most of thei r tests wi th decks
of cards and p ersons who seemed to be
esp eci al l y resp onsive to ESP . T he sub
jects were asked to guess, wi thout look
ing, what cards would turn up i n a
shuffled deck.
A verage p eop le could be exp ected to
turn up a certai n number of correct
answers. But the ESP-p rone subjects
i nvari abl y guessed so many cards cor
rectl y that thei r feats seemed imp os
sible by any normal yardsti ck. These
results have been interp reted as evi
dence for ESP.
Nonsense, says Pri ce. Such exp eri
ments dont p rove anythi ng, he says,
because the p ersons used i n the test
were symp atheti c toward the research
ers.
W hat i s needed i s something that
can be demonstrated to the most hostile,
p igheaded and scep ti cal of cri ti cs, he
says. J ust one r eal l y good exp eriment.
A nd unti l such a demonstration has
been p rovided I hop e my fel l ow scien
ti sts wi l l also wi thhol d thei r bel i ef.
Reaction to Pri ces vi ews has ranged
from one extreme to another to judge
from the flood of mai l he has recei ved
from such vari ed sources as housewives,
l awyers, doctors, atomi c p hysici sts.
W hat about the two men whose
work Dr. Pri ce singled out for criticism
Dr. Soal and Dr. Rhine?
I n London, Dr. Soal declared the
Pri ce arti cl e was a di atribe of unsup
p orted conjecture contai ni ng not the
least fragment of factual evidence.
Dr. Pri ce woul d ap p ear to be trad
i ng on the p rejudi ce ana hosti l i ty whi ch
a maj ori ty of U . S. scientists bear to
ward the subject of telep athy.
I n Engl and, where scientists and
p hilosop hers are more tolerant, such an
attack would be considered grossl v un
fai r.
I n U . S. Dr. Rhi ne was equal l y vi g
orous i n his denunciati on of Dr. Pri ces
cl aims. A slanderous diatri be, he
snap p ed.
I f this i s the way scientific workers
are to have thei r good fai th i mp ugned
. . . then i t would ap p ear that M c-
Carthyi sm has come to A meri can sci
ence, he said.
Dr. Pri ce i s fi ghti ng wi th smear,
words li ke magi c, fraud and sup er
natural i sm.
O nl y utter cyni cs can accep t his
fantasti c theory of a vi ci ous consp iracy.
I t wi l l l i kel y ap p ear a si l l y question to
most scientific men even to ask whether
a hundred or more research scientists,
most of them p rofessional uni versi ty
p eop le, are so stup id as to i ndul ge i n a
gi ganti c hoax.
Sci entists are continui ng to chase the
shy wi l l - o-the-wisp whi ch is E SP as
i t l eads them into deep er and more p ro
found mysteri es of mans nature.
M eanti me the controversy rages un
abated and rep orts of seemi ngl y fan
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The
Rosicrucian
Di gest
March
1957
S
a n c t u a r y has different
meani ngs for vari ous p eo
p le. To many i t is syn
onymous w i t h cer t ai n
religi ous t er m i n o l o gy;
they ap p l y the word to
the area of a church or
cathedral whi ch is con
sidered the most sacred.
T o others the term means a release
from resp onsi bi l i ty and troubles; i t
symbolizes an escap e from those p rob
lems whi ch are i nevi tabl y a p art of the
dai l y l i fe of each human being. Sti l l
to others the word has li ttl e meaning.
Faced by the demands of an objective
worl d i n a ceaseless effort to keep them
selves occup ied mental l y and p hysi cal
l y, i ndi vi dual s do not acknowledge ob
jecti vel y the need of turni ng away from
these demands whi ch they p ermi t to
dominate thei r ful l attention.
T he signi fi cance of vari ous words is
based up on the exp erience and back
ground of the i ndi vi dual . A l l of us as
sign to words such meani ngs as we feel
they exp ress, and these meanings may
not al ways be those that are agreed
up on i n a formal definition. Sanctuar y
should carry for everybody the conno
tation that there is a rel ease for a trou
bled mind or a troubled sp irit. Sanctuary
should p rovide the means by whi ch an
i ndi vi dual can detach hi msel f or her
sel f from those thi ngs that cause him
p ai n and sufferi ng whether it be p hysi
cal or mental.
I t would be foolish to deny that p ai n,
sufferi ng, and gri ef exi st i n the world.
W e have to face the facts of existence
and real i ze that not al l the reasons for
al l events are known to us. T he p ur
p ose of some events is onl y exp l ai nabl e
when the i ndi vi dual is abl e to retreat
from the demands and the exp eriences
taki ng p lace about him. H e then can
gai n a vi ew sep arated enti rel y from the
objective and p etty considerations of
everyday l i vi ng.
A few years ago a book was p ublished
whi ch contained i n its ti tle the words:
No Pl ace to H ide. T hi s book, I be
l ieve, imp li ed that should catastrop hic
destruction occur up on this earth, in
connection wi th another war or wi th
some other event, there woul d be no
p lace where anyone woul d be safe. I n
other words, this theory i s si mp l y an
extension of the beliefs so p reval ent i n
the minds of many p eop le since the con
clusion of W orl d W ar I I . T hi s book
emp hasized the fact that great destruc
tion is p ossible, and that regardless of
where an i ndi vi dual mi ght be he would
have l i ttl e chance of escap ing the con
sequences of such an event.
I f ap p lied p urel y to p hysi cal envi ron
ment and to the p hysi cal human being,
this statement certai nl y i s true. I t is a
very discouraging p i cture to look to the
future wi th the constant contemp lation
that some event wi l l eventual l y end the
exp ression of l i fe and ci vi l i zati on as we
have known i t i n our l ives. T he state
ment that there is no p lace to hi de,
may be l i teral l y true i nsofar as our ma
teri al selves and p ossessions are con
cerned. H owever, there al ways has been
a p lace to whi ch we could retreat i f we
wished. I n usi ng the word r etr eat i n
this sense, I do not mean that an i n
di vi dual is evadi ng the consequences of
his existence or tryi ng to avoid his ob
ligations. R etr eat can mean that the
indi vi dual could reti re i n a way so that
he might gai n a new p ersp ective, a new
p oint of vi ew.
Retreat from l i fe has been the desire
of many i ndi vi dual s i n al l times. I n
every age i n hi story, regardless of the
extent of the advancement of ci vi l i za
tion or the p hysi cal , mental , and other
accomp lishments of man, there al ways
have been those who were recluses
that is, those who l eft the p hysi cal
world i n order to avoid the resp onsi
bi l i ty of meeti ng the consequences of
environment. These i ndi vi dual s retired
to caves or monasteri es, sometimes with
the sincere p urp ose that they would be
able better to serve thei r God i n doing
so. M any times a desi re to reti re from
the worl d has been due to a p ersonal
p sychol ogi cal concep t, a desi re to re
treat from the obligations of l i fe and
thereby avoi d them.
One may be able to retreat or reti re
from the i mmediate demands of p hysi
cal obligations. I t i s p ossible, at least
theoreti cal l y, for an i ndi vi dual to move
and rel i eve hi msel f of his obligations.
Ever y day, accounts can be read in
newsp ap ers of i ndi vi dual s who have
vani shed as i t were, l eft thei r fami l i es,
thei r debts, and i n that way have seem
i ngl y been able to escap e from obliga
tions whi ch they fel t were p ressing
up on them. A ctual case histories seem
to i ndi cate that few of these i ndi vi dual s
have real l y made thei r escap e. T hey
seem to create the same or si mi l ar con
ditions wherever they go; that i s, i f a
erson escap es to avoi d p ayment of a
ebt i n one p lace, debts of one ki nd or
another wi l l accumulate again.
M ost i ndi vi dual s fai l to real i ze that
envi ronment is as much of an effect as
i t is a cause. I n the ear l y p art of this
century, p sychologists had a tendency
to base the whol e concep t of behavi or of
an i ndi vi dual up on the i nfluence of en
vi ronment. I t was conceived that envi
ronment molded the character and
p ersonal i ty of the i ndi vi dual and that
he was therefore a p roduct of envi ron
ment. T hi s is an ap p licati on of the
mechanisti c p hi l osop hy whi ch was so
p reval ent at that time. I f this were
comp l etel y true, i t woul d seem that
to solve any p roblem one woul d need
onl y to escap e from environment. I n
this theory, sight was lost of the fact
that the human being is more than the
vari ous p hases of his environment. H e
i s not onl y of matter, he is of some
other substance also. L i fe i tsel f is a
factor that cannot be accounted for ex
cl usi vel y by materi al comp osition. Con
sequently, between the human enti ty
and envi ronment there i s no one-way
street; there is constant interaction. En
vi ronment affects man and man affects
envi ronment; and our p arti cul ar p er
sonal i ty, habits, and behavi or tend to
affect the envi ronment whi ch we l i ve
in. I f we move away from that envi ron
ment, we do not solve our p roblems.
W e may onl y create the same p roblems
i n another si tuati on.
I n other words, there i s no retreat
from self. Sel f i s a conti nui ty. I t is
the p hase of us that endures, regardless
of the condition of the p hysi cal world
or of the environment i n whi ch we l i ve.
I t is p ossible to retreat from the p rob
lems of the p hysi cal world temp orari ly,
and p ossi bl y even i n such retreat to
gai n some i nsp i rati on or some i nsi ght
into how to i mp rove the handl i ng of
the p roblems that envi ronment and our
obligations demand of us. But i t i s not
necessary to take a p hysi cal step to do
this. Some travel a l ong distance to
enter a monastery, to fi nd a p lace where
they can be alone. T he eventual end
of such an attemp t is that they wi l l
sti ll be wi th themselves and they wi l l
face sel f wherever they may be.
L ong ago the former chi ef executi ve
of this organizati on established the Ca
thedral of the Soul. For many years
this dep artment has been carri ed i n the
R osi cruci an D i gest. I t i s an ap p eal to
al l i ndi vi dual s who would like to re
treat temp orari l y from the demands of
thei r envi ronment to seek rel ease from
the tiresome work and resp onsibili ties
whi ch are a p art of everyones l i fe. T o
enter a theoretical or, we mi ght say, a
mental sanctuary requires no p hysi cal
movement. I t merel y requi res the as
sociation of the mind with i ndi vi dual s
of li ke design and p urp ose. I n this
p rocess a moment of silence can be
found whi ch wi l l p roduce p eace and
add to the forti fi cati on of the mental
and sp i ri tual values that are inherent
wi thi n us. I n this meeti ng of the minds
we may be encouraged, or may recei ve
i nsp i rati on for dealing with the p rob
lems whi ch are a p art of our envi ron
ment.
Sanctuary for every man and woman
is the abi l i ty to face l i fe consi stently.
T he greatest achi evement man can at
tai n is to be able to l eave unanswered
some of the questions whi ch are not
readi l y ap p arent i nsofar as thei r p ur
p ose i s concerned, and to find an i nner
strength that wi l l cause one to adjust
to environment, in a way that wi l l con
tribute to the develop ment of p eace of
mind.
T he Cathedral of the Soul ful fi l l s that
desire whi ch we al l have for a p lace
to whi ch we can vol untari l y reti re. I t
is a p oint of absolute p ri vacy because
i t is p ri vacy of the self, and i n i t one
can find, as thousands of p eop le before
us have done, a p oint of contact with
p owers or forces whi ch sup ersede those
that p l ay around us i n our envi ron
ment and create the p etty p roblems of
p hysi cal l i vi ng.
W hether or not you are a member of
the Rosi crucian Order, AM O RC, you
are invited to wri te for the booklet en
titled, L i ber 777, whi ch exp l ai ns how
the Cathedral of the Soul p rovides a
sanctuary free from any restriction that
mi ght be imp osed by man for the re
habi l i tati on of the human sp irit.
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Rosi cruci an
D i gest
March
1957
AMORC I N FRANCE
T h e G rand L odge of F r an ce, an affi l i ate of the I n ter n ati on al J u r i sd i cti on of A M O R C ,
th e subor di nate body of th e Su pr eme G rand L odge of th e O rder, has made rapi d ex
pansi on r ecen tl y i n th e establ i shment of chapters and pronaoi . W e ar e extr emel y happy
to be abl e to l i st these new est chapter s and pr onaoi und er th e respecti ve countr i es i n
w hi ch th ey exi st. O ur R osi cr u ci an member s w ho contempl ate v i si ti ng E u r op e at an y
ti me shoul d not f ai l to av ai l themsel ves of attend ance at these R osi cr u ci an bodi es.
E v er y other month i n th e d i r ector y of the R osi cr uci an D i gest, these new Rosi cruci an
groups w i l l appear l i sted und er th ei r respecti ve countr i es as do those th at have been
pr ev i ou sl y establ i shed by A M O R C throughou t the w orl d. T h e ad mi ni str ati on of the
G rand L od ge of F r an ce has been v er y effi ci ent i n spreadi ng th e doctr i nes of A M O R C
i n accord ance w i th our tr ad i ti onal pr i nci pl es.
cJ -foiit oj- and '^J^zatfi
By D r . H. S p e n c e r L e w i s , F.R.C.
T h i s r ep r i n t f r om one of the w r i ti n gs of D r . L ew i s
h as n o t pr ev i ou sl y appeared i n t h i s magaz i ne.
L
et us sp end a few min-
utes i n exam i n i n g
some of the p rincip les
and l aws i nvolved i n the
cycl es of l i fe as they re
late to the hours of birth
and so-called death. Ever y
time we can examine
the cycl e of human l i fe
mi croscop ically and note
the p erfect rhythm of
each human existence,
we should do so i n order
that we may constantly
real i ze the p reci si on and
the exactness of the hu
man cycl e. For many centuries there
has been a widesp read and common be
l i ef on the p art of the uni ni ti ated that
l i fe is ver y greatl y a thi ng of chance.
I thi nk that even a l arge maj ori ty of
those who are devout believers of the
Bible, or who are sincere followers of
some of the Chri sti an rel i gi ous move
ments, still have a feel i ng that l i fe is
al l a gamble; or that i f i t is not a gam
ble, i t is at l east a p urel y arbi trary
thing and that our coming and going
and al l of our dai l y affai rs are regulated
not according to any l aw or system, but
according to the p assing whi m and
fancy of God. T hey believe that human
birth occurs when the great Creator of
al l things decides suddenl y to create
another being, and that l i fe ends when
this same Sup reme I ntel li gence decides
that i t is time for some p arti cul ar hu
man being to pass out of earthl y ex
istence. A nd they believe that each
and every event of goodness or sorrow
in each human l i fe is also the result
of the wi l l of God exp ressed sp ontane
ousl y and arbi trari l y, and not according
to any p lan or imp ortant scheme.
W e know, of course, that a soul does
not enter into a human body at birth
excep t in accordance wi th certain l aws,
and that these l aws are a p art of the
great l aws of the cycl es of l i fe. W e
know also that the i m
p ortant events through
out a p ersons l i fe come
wi thi n thi s same cycl e,
or the l aws of this cycl e,
and the same is true of
transiti on. T hi s concep
tion does not do away
wi th the wi l l of God but
merel y shows that the
Sup reme W i l l is not a
mere whi m or p assing
thought, but a careful l y
studied p lan.
W hen we come to study
the hours of births and
transiti ons, we fi nd the l aw of averages
reveal i ng one of the l aws of the human
cycl e of l i fe. I t is fortunate for us i n
our research work that the l arger life-
i nsurance comp anies have comp iled vi
tal statistics for many years ana worked
out many interesting l aws of averages,
as they cal l it. I t is also fortunate that
our Government has kep t vi tal statistics
for so man}'- years, and that they are
avai l abl e i n an understandable way.
T hi s subject of the hours of births
and transiti ons has often been discussed
by scientists and by statistici ans. W e
have been amused at times at some of
the attemp ted exp l anati ons of the laws
of averages reveal ed by the statistics.
Recentl y, a p hysi ci an of North Carolina
became i nterested i n the subject and
comp iled the records of transiti ons oc
curri ng al ong the coasts of our country.
Of course, he had some i dea in mind
or some theory, or he woul d not have
selected just the records of cities lo
cated al ong the coasts. H e found from
these records that the majority of tran
sitions occur between two and four
oclock i n the morning.
H e woul d have found that the aver
age transition in cities inland and away
from the coasts i s also between two and
four oclock in the morning. T here is
a sl i ght difference i n regard to alti tude
and temp erature, and I thi nk the vari
ations at the equator al l around the
worl d woul d be noticeable as comp ared
wi th those i n the more temp erate or
colder zones. B y taki ng the United
States as a whole, or any other country
anywhere, we woul d fi nd sufficient
transiti ons occurri ng between two and
fi ve i n the morni ng to show that there
is some l aw of averages or some effect
of a cycl e op erati ng i n this regard.
Now, l et us note that the p hysi ci an
who comp iled these records regardi ng
coast cities, states that he believes that
these transiti ons occur at thi s time be
cause of the effect of the tides. W e
must understand, of course, that i n com
p i l i ng these records, onl y those transi
tions resul ti ng from l i ngeri ng illnesses
were taken into consideration. A l l tran
sitions occurri ng through acci dent, or
those through suicide or deli berate acts,
were not considered. These are i n ac
cordance wi th other l aws and do not
rel ate to the same l aw as transiti ons
that occur after long illnesses. T he doc
tor, therefore, decided that the ebbing
ti de of the water at these coast cities
was rel ated i n some way to the ebbing
of l i fe. H e did not attemp t to say why
or how,- he merel y stated this p art of
his theory.
The M oon s Influence
H ere is where the Rosi cruci an, who
has studied the cycl es of l i fe, can step
i n and exp l ai n the how and why of
what the doctor has discovered. T he
book S el f M aster y and F ate wi th the
C ycl es of L i fe p oints out the fact that
the moons p eriods have a ver y consi d
erabl e effect up on p rolonged illnesses
and vari ous diseases, and up on chi l d
birth. T he table of the moons influences
shows that i llnesses, whi ch l i nger for a
consi derable length of time, wi l l have
crises at certai n p eriods of the moons
p hases or influences, and that when the
moon i s wani ng i n p ower, the vi tal i ty
of a sick p erson also wanes. T he doctor
has discovered that there i s a rel ati on
ship between the ebbing of l i fe and the
ebbing of tides, but he does not know
The that both of these manifestations are
Rosi cruci an t^le resu^ f the moons i nfluence and
r y . that this influence is i n accordance wi th
a well-defined cycl e. A l l of us have
M ar ch ai so noticed that the p eriod between two
1957 and four oclock is an excellent p eriod
each morni ng for cl ear and easy con
tacts of a p sychi c nature.
I t i s i nteresti ng to note also that the
statistics regardi ng births show that a
great p rop ortion of births occur duri ng
these same morni ng hours. N o exp l an
ati on i s ventured i n regard to this mat
ter, however, for i t woul d ap p ear foolish
to any p hysi ci an to say that the ebbing
of l i fe has anythi ng to do wi th the birth
of a child. Looki ng at our cycl es of l i fe,
however, and studyi ng the l aws rel ati ng
to them, we fi nd an easy answer. T ak
i ng into consi deration that both transi
tions and births occur at these morning
hours, we di scover that i t is at this
ti me that the human body is the most
rel axed i n its objecti ve tenseness and
this is usual l y a resul t of the moons
influence.
Effects of t le la xat io n
Rel axati on i n the human body is
easi l y understood as an aid to both
birth and transiti on. A fter midnight of
each ni ght the average human being
becomes more rel axed. A s the hours
p ass, unti l just before sunri se of each
morning, the average i ndi vi dual is in
a more rel axed and more p sychi c state
than at any other ti me duri ng the day,
unless he is conducting some sp ecial
p sychi c exp eriment.
I t i s duri ng this condition of p erfect
rel axati on, therefore, that nature is able
to p erform her p rop er functi oni ng and
p ermi t the birth of a body. You al l
recal l the famous T wi l i ght Sleep sys
tem that was introduced into this coun
tr y some years ago from abroad, and
whi ch was cl aimed to be the greatest
ai d to exp ectant mothers at the time
of d el i ver y. Thorough investigati on
p roved that the combination of a mild
drug and mental suggestion p roduced
a state of comp lete rel axati on i n the
mother, duri ng whi ch she was not
whol l y unconscious but semiconscious;
and i n such a condition del i very was
made short and simp le, and wi th the
least amount of sufferi ng to the mother.
I ts general p ractice was abandoned be
cause the drug did have some other ef
fects, mostl y up on the vi tal i ty of the
chi l d at the ti me of birth, and because
other methods were known whi ch had
no objectionable features. . . .
I t is onl y natural that when a p erson
who has been l i ngeri ng for a l ong time
with a severe i llness and has been los
i ng vi tal i ty and strength continuously
should suddenl y yi el d up l i fe i tsel f dur
i ng those hours when the enti re body
is most rel axed. Understandi ng, there
fore, that al l of us are more rel axed
between two and fi ve i n the morning,
and real i zi ng the effect that this would
have up on both the exp ectant mother
and the p erson who has been sufferi ng
from a l ong i llness, we can p l ai nl y see
why so many births and so many tran
sitions occur at this time.
A gai n I say that this observation of
the worki ng of the cycl es of l i fe makes
us real i ze how defini te these cycl es
r eal l y are and how marvel ous is the
enti re scheme of al l the manifestations
of the Creator i n thi s uni verse.
A V
ENVI RONMENT AND ETHI CS
(Conti nued from p age 91)
of that body. Doubtless some of these
sp ecies are as unnecessary to the wel
fare of the community as tonsils and
ap p endi x are to the health of the body,
and li ke them they may even at times
endanger the community. Others are
rather sup erfluous adornments, l i ke eye
brows and hai r on the head.
But i t would requi re much p ai nstak
ing i nvesti gati on to determi ne just
whi ch members of the communi ty are
sup erfluous and could be elimi nated
without jeop ardi zi ng the balance of the
whol e association. J ust as a p hysi ci an
would hesitate to remove an y organ
from a heal thy body, so should we be
cautious about exti rp ati ng any member
of a natural communi ty, even i f i t were
p ossible for us to do so. Conversel y,
i t is most p erilous to introduce some
exotic ani mal or p l ant into a natural
community. W e cannot p redi ct from
its behavior i n i ts homeland how i t wi l l
act among new associates up on meet
i ng them i n some other p art of the
world.
I n i nnumerabl e cases, p lants and
animals whi ch were fai r l y wel l be
haved i n thei r nati ve l and ran ri ot i n a
forei gn country, to the vast annoyance
and loss of those who were foolish
enough to transp ort them.
I n vi ew of our ignorance of the ul ti
mate effect of destroying or fomenting
the i ncrease of a sp ecies of p lant or
animal, what course should we follow
when one of them attacks our crop s or
otherwise destroys our p rop erty?
Perhap s i n the fi rst p lace we should
desist from runni ng for guns, trap s, or
p oison the moment our fields or house
hold stores are touched by some hungry
ani mal . For often our loss wi l l be
slight, p erhap s less than the cost of
combatting the ani mal ; and at a p rice
we can wel l afford we can have the
satisfaction of being surrounded by
beauti ful and i nteresti ng creatures and
of havi ng avoided slaughter. But i n
some instances we must take drastic
measures of control, esp eci al l y agai nst
i nsect and fungal p ests, to avoid heavy
losses and the rui n of a house, a farm,
or an orchard. I n such cases, anyone
wi th some understandi ng of ecology
wi l l seek methods of control whi ch are
sp ecific agai nst the p lague he needs to
combat, avoi di ng the whol esal e destruc
tion of l i fe of al l sorts.
Such feats of diaboli cal i ngenui ty as
sp rayi ng whole forests and marshlands
wi th a vi ol ent p oison from an ai rp l ane
woul d never recommend themselves to
anyone who resp ects ecological p ri nci
p les, i f onl y for the reason that nobody
knows enough about the interactions of
the vari ous forms of l i fe to p redi ct the
fi nal resul t of such destructi ve op era
tions. Since we can draw no sharp l ine
between fri ends and enemies, co-op era
tors and comp etitors, we must resi gn
ourselves to shari ng the earth wi th
creatures that sometimes annoy us, but
whi ch may at the same ti me benefit us
i n i ndi rect ways that we fai l to detect.
Perhap s they merel y are hel p i ng to
p reserve the health of the natural com
muni ty of whi ch they are a p art, and
whose continuance i n a flouri shing state
is imp ortant to us.
The Ethical Viewpoint
Our consi deration of ecological p ri n
cip les is i n accord wi th that whi ch we
should reach through an exami nati on
of ethi cal p ri nci p l es. M oral codes have
vari ed greatl y from race to race and
from age to age, but p racti cal l y al l of
them, esp eci al l y i n the more advanced
cultures, agree that i t is wrong to harm
ones neighbors. I n p ri mi ti ve societies,
moral injuncti ons lost thei r force beyond
the limits of ones own tribe. I n the
ori gi nal M osai c l aw, T hou shal t not
k i l l meant merel y that thou shal t not
take the l i fe of another member of the
twel ve tribes of I srael on an y other
sup p osition, the behavi or of the I srael
ites i mmedi atel y after thei r recei vi ng
this di vi nel y gi ven l aw is incomp re
hensible.
But as mens i nsi ght and symp athy
continued to grow, as the tri besmans
fierce p arti zanshi p began to mel t into
the feel i ng of the brotherhood of all
men, moral rul es were conceived as
more and more wi del y ap p licable. T hi s
exp ansion of moral concep ts finds no
l ogi cal stop p ing p lace unti l i t governs
our treatment of al l l i vi ng thi ngs; for i f
we begin to ap p l y the term br other to
those who did not sp ri ng from the same
father and mother as ourselves, we shall
end by recogni zi ng al l creatures as in
a sense our brothers. W e al l are
branches and twi gs of the one great
tree of l i fe.
T hi s wi de exp ansion of moral con
cep ts, whi ch A l bert Schwei tzer has re
centl y brought to the attention of West-
V A
em civi l i zati on, took p lace i n I ndi a
thousands of years ago. H ere the an
cient sages p roclaimed the great p ri n
ci p l e of ahi msa, whi ch in its negati ve
form means refrai ni ng from i nj uri ng
any creature whatsoever; i n its p osi
ti ve form i t i mp li es the cul ti vati on of
uni versal , al l -embraci ng love. Of course,
i n a worl d so crowded wi th l i fe, so ful l
of comp eting interests as our own, no
one could fol l ow this p ri nci p l e to the
letter and continue to l i ve. Even to sat
i sfy our hunger, we must destroy l i vi ng
thi ngs of some sort. For this reason the
stri ct p ractice of ahi msa was conceived
to be p ossible onl y by ascetics who had
renounced the world.
For householders, i ncl udi ng the farm
ers resp onsible for p roducing every
bodys food, certai n excep tions were
made wi thout whi ch no one could at
temp t to ti ll the soil. Nevertheless, ab
solute harmlessness remai ns the ideal
even for householders, and dep artures
from i t are tolerated onl y when they
are unavoi dabl e i f human l i fe is to be
p reserved.
W i th this hi ghest ethi cal p rincip le,
the indi scri mi nate destruction of l i vi ng
thi ngs, such as has been done i n recent
years, is whol l y incomp atible. T hus the
thi ngs that ecology warns us to avoid
for reasons of danger and i nexp ediency,
the hi ghest moral i ty also forbids be
cause of thei r being wrong. W hen stud
ies so di ssi mi l ar as ecology and ethics
gi ve us the same counsel, that counsel is
certai nl y worthy of our p rofound re
sp ect.
V
The
Rosicrucian
Di gest
March
1957
LETTER FROM POLAND
W e now hav e a br eath of f reedom, a th i n g to w hi ch w e had grow n unaccustomed
f or man y y ear s. A new P ol i sh soci al i sm i s bei ng bu i l t upon th e basi s of ju sti ce and tr u th,
and thou gh our economi c di ffi cul ti es ar e r ath er seri ous, a process of h eal i n g and R enai s
sance i s f el t thr ou ghou t th e l and. F i r st of al l , w e now hav e r el i gi ou s tol er ance. W e
exp ect th at i n the f u tu r e ther e w i l l be w i d er possi bi l i ti es f or publ i shi ng fi rms and f or
the d i str i buti on of books and papers.
(L etter recei ved f rom f or mer P ol i sh offi cer
of the G rand L odge of A M O R C of P ol and .)
\fxom <[Pa%a[y5.ii to '[PazaPynijiici
By J o el D i sh er , F.R.C.
n 1944, Dr. L udwi g Gutt
mann came to a revol u
ti onary decision i n regard
to p hysi otherap y treat
ment of p atients at the
Nati onal Sp i nal I njuri es
Centre, Stoke M andevi i l e
H osp i tal, A yl esbury, Eng
land. I n the l i ght of
twel ve years success, his decision was
whol l y a common sense one, even
though it was deci dedly revol uti onary
then. Dr. Guttmann ti nned his back
on the accep ted methods of recumbency
and immobili zation. H e did away with
such stand-bys as p laster casts, shells,
corsets, and cal i p ers, and determined to
rel y on what was l eft of the neuro
muscul ar cap abili ties of the p arap legic.
I n other words, he reasoned that re
habilitation could be accomp lished more
qui ckl y by exerci se than by i mmobi l i ty.
H i s decision raised the question:
W hat could p aral yti c p atients do i n the
way of exerci se when any movement
was p ai nful even i f p ossible? A whole
new p rogram of readjustment was nec
essary and i t had to begin under the
heading of recreation. I t began cau
ti ously, Dr. Guttmann admitted, with
darts, snooker, p unch-ball, and skittles.
T o p atients just out of p laster shells
and other forms of confinement, such
recreation meant p ai n and many ex
cruci ati ng moments; but it aroused i n
terest, a wi l l i ngness to gi ve i t a try.
T o almost everyones surp ri se, there
was immediate i mp rovement, p hysi cal
and p sychological and a great step
forward i n the whole rehabilitation
p rogram.
Si tti ng one afternoon i n a travaux
chai r, tryi ng to hi t a bal l wi th the
curved head of a wal ki ng stick, Dr.
Guttmann dreamed up wheel -chai r
p olo and took his rehabilitation-recre-
ation p rogram ri ght into the field of
comp etiti ve sp orts. Teams were organ
ized, comp etitions held, and enthusiasm
grew. T he l i st of sp orts included was
exp anded consi derably to include table-
tenni s, swi mmi ng, j a vehn-throwi ng, net
bal l , basketball, fenci ng, and archery.
T he Stoke M andevi i l e Games were
held as annual comp etitions, wi th i n
terest sp readi ng farther and farther
from the hosp ital itself.
I n 1948, sp ort hi story was made wi th
a comp etiti ve archery match between
ei ght war veterans from the Sp i nal
Centre at Stoke M andevi i l e H osp i tal
and ei ght from the Sp i nal U ni t at
Richmonds Star and Garter Home.
T hat year the O lymp ic games were held
i n L ondon and the i dea of an i nterna
ti onal sp orts movement for the p ara
l yzed took shap e i n Dr. Guttmanns
mind. Four years l ater that hop e seemed
a defini te p ossi bi l i ty when a team of
Dutch war veterans came over to com
p ete i n an archery meet wi th thei r
Bri ti sh fellow-sp ortsmen.
I n the meanti me, the i dea of com
p etiti ve sp orts for the p aral yzed was
gai ni ng p ubl i c notice and favor. A
sp ecial section i n the 1949 tournament
of sp orts clubs of the South of Engl and
was set asi de for comp etition of the
p arap l egi cs i n archery and javel i n-
throwing. I n 1950, a wheel -chai r bas
ketbal l match featured the festi val of
sp orts at the Emp ress H al l , London. Be
fore an audience of several thousand,
these p arap l egi c p l ayers gave a thri l l
i ng demonstration. One exci ted sp ecta
tor commented, Bless my Soul, I
thought they were al l i nval i ds!
A l i ttl e l ater, members of the Stoke
M andevi i l e A rchery T eam shot against
the Grand N ati onal A rchery Soci ety
among whose members was Barbara
W aterhouse, worl d ch am p i on wi th
great credit, scori ng 410 to the p rofes
sionals 514. By 19 51, the total number
of comp etitions i n the vari ous cl assi fi
cations of the annual games was 128.
Even teams of Old Bovs and Old
Gi rl s of Stoke M andevi i l e had been
organized and were comp eting.
A s the M i ni ster of Pensions once said
at the p rize gi vi ng duri ng one of the
The
Rosicrucian
Di gest
March
1957
comp etitions: Doctors may p rescri be
medicine and treatment, but i t is the
undefeatable sp i ri t of the p atients them
selves whi ch r eal l y help s to p roduce
resul ts. I f i t were not so, sp orts could
not have p l ayed such an i mp ortant role
i n the whole p aral ysi s rehabi l i tati on
p rogram. T hat undefeatabl e sp i ri t
showed i tsel f from the fi rst and this
new ap p roach to p arap l egi c p roblems
is today returni ng otherwise help less i n
divi duals to society as normal citizens.
Li mi ted cap abi l i ty when i t is nothing
more than p sychol ogi cal is a chal l enge
that many never successful l y answer,
but here was a handi cap far more for
mi dabl e p ai nful l y but j oyful l y sur
mounted by that undefeatabl e sp i ri t.
T hrough a desi re for heal i ng so great
as to make addi tional p hysi cal p ai n a
thi ng of no moment, these p aral yti c
vi cti ms went into sp orts, sometimes
wi th thei r p l ayi ng tools bandaged onto
hands too crip p led to hold them. F ur
thermore, they entertained thousands,
achi eved p ersonal satisfaction, and suc
cessful l y worked at thei r own salvation.
W hat was undertaken courageousl y
i ni ti al l y out of fai th and confidence i n
the wisdom of Dr. Guttmann is now
recei vi ng sup p ort and encouragement
from the Bri ti sh Government, i n organ
izati ons both wi thi n and wi thout the
Bri ti sh I sles and p ri vate i ndi vi dual s
everywhere. W hat also was i n 1948
onl y a dream i s now an accomp lished
fact, for the Stoke M andevi l l e Games
have been for fi ve years on an i nterna
ti onal basis, and are p rop erl y entitled
to be cal led Paral ymp i cs.
T he p rogram for the 1956 event the
ni nth annual and the fi fth i nternati onal
listed comp etitors from nineteen di f
ferent countries. I n the W heel - Past of
N ati ons, A ustral i a, A ustri a, Bel gi um,
Canada, Denmark, Fi nl and, France,
Germany, I srael , I tal y, M al aya, M al ta,
T he Netherl ands, N orway, Paki stan,
South A fri ca, the U ni ted States of
Ameri ca, Yugosl avi a, and Great Bri tai n
were rep resented. T he Sal ute was taken
by General Si r Geral d W . R. Temp l er,
Chi ef of the I mp eri al General Staff.
L ady T emp l er graci ousl y p resented the
trop hies. T he mai n sp eaker at the p rize-
gi vi ng ceremony was Si r A rthur E.
Porri tt, whi l e M r. Curtis Camp aigne,
Secretary General of the W orl d Vet
erans Federation, sp oke on behal f of
the vi si ti ng teams from abroad.
M emorabl e as this occasion was,
there is every exp ectation that the 1957
event wi l l be more worl d-wi de i n char
acter and more newsworthy. T he mes
sage addressed to each years comp eti
tors wi l l , however, remai n the same. I t
cannot be bettered:
T he ai m of the Stoke M andevi l l e
Games is to uni te p aral ysed men
and women from al l p arts of the
worl d i n an internati onal sp orts
movement, and your sp i ri t of true
sp ortsmanship today wi l l gi ve hop e
and i nsp i rati on to thousands of
p aral ysed p eop le.
N o greater contribution can be
made to society by the p aral ysed
than to help , through the medium
of sp ort, to further friendshi p and
understandi ng amongst nations.
T hi s, l et i t be remembered, is the
resul t of the decision of one man with
wisdom and wi th courage. Dr. L udwi g
Guttmann needs no greater monument
than the real i zati on of hop e, health,
and freedom that his wisdom and cour
age have brought to thousands.
L ast year, the Rosi crucian Order,
A M O RC honored hi m wi th its H uman
i st A ward. T he citation carri ed this
quotation from U nto T hee 1 Grant' . I t
i s not the recei vi ng honour that de-
l ighteth the noble mi nd; its p ri de i s the
deservi ng i t.
I n resp onse. Dr. Guttmann wrote: I t
gi ves me, and al l my co-workers who
have been carryi ng out the work on
the p aral ysed for so many years and
have been abl e to bri ng hap p iness to
many of our so severel y handi cap p ed
fel l ow men, a deep satisfaction to know
that this work i s recognized by good
p eop le al l over the worl d.
From p aral ysi s to p aral ymp i cs is not
too much, he seems to say, to those p os
sessed of an undefeatable sp i ri t.
V V A
God p rotect us from hi m who has read but one book.
A G e r m a n P r o v er b
n e of the busiest months
i n its hi story was exp eri
enced by the Rosi crucian
Sci en ce M u seu m and
Pl anetari um i n J anuary,
according to Frater H ar
old W i l son who i s in
charge. Boy Scouts and
u n i ver si t y students, as
general p ublic, came in
l arge numbers as p art of the Nati onal
A stronomy M onth progr am. Attend
ance records for the month were 2,562,
wi th the hi ghest dai l y attendance being
94 adults and 133 children.
V A V
Shuho K awashi ma is a p re-emi nent
l y fri endl y indi vi dual of seventy-one,
wi th a hi ghl y i nfectious good humor.
A fter a hal f-century of farmi ng, he has
turned to art wi th a zest and an i nter
est that i s whol l y cap ti vati ng. H e has
no exp l anati on other than the fact that
a hobby ran away wi th him. W hi l e
on a vi si t to J ap an some years back, he
bought p ictures for resal e i n the United
States to help his struggl i ng country
men. W hen the p ictures fai l ed to sell,
he began to study them hi msel f. T he
more he looked at them, the more he
fel t he could do better. A rmed with
the confidence of some half-dozen les
sons, he began.
T oday he is achi evi ng recogniti on as
a serious artist. T he Rosi cruci an Gal
l ery arranged i n J anuar y for his first
exhi bition. T he enthusiasm of vi si tors
did the rest. Those who came out of
curi osity, remai ned to buy and so to
day Shuho K awashi ma i s at l ast not
onl y sel l i ng p ictures, but also p ai nti ng
them.
V A V
M embers i n Swi tzerl and were noti
fied earl i er i n the year of the newl y
formed chap ters and p ronaoi of the
Order i n that country. T he D i gest D i
r ector y wi l l carry the necessary i nstruc
ti on as to p lace of meeti ng. A l l , with
the excep tion of the p ronaos i n Zuri ch,
are under the sup ervision of the Grand
Lodge of France and the ri tual s are in
French. T hese include the Geneva
Chap ter, M . Emi l e Rognon, M aster;
the L ausanne Chap ter, M . J ean Ried-
weg, M aster; the Berne Pronaos, M .
H enri J accottet, M aster; and the N euf-
chatel Pronaos, M . Charl es Andre Borel,
M aster.
T he Zuri ch Pronaos, wi th M r. W i l l y
Staep el as M aster, has been organized
under the A meri can divi si on of that
juri sdi cti on and its meeti ngs are con
ducted i n Engl i sh. Vi si tors to Swi tzer
l and are i nvi ted to attend these meet
ings. T hey need onl y make certai n that
they have the p rop er credentials.
* * *
Accordi ng to a l ate bul l eti n, M a-
tanzas Chap ter of Cuba celebrated its
fourth anni versary wi th a p rogram of
musi c, instructi on, and entertainment.
Not onl y local members were i nvi ted to
see the growth that had been made;
but also members throughout Cuba.
* * *
Byron Chap ter, Notti ngham, Eng
land, took a moment out i n November
to remi nd i tsel f that it was maki ng
steady growth since on the eleventh it
commemorated the anni versary of its
fi rst chap ter ini ti ation. N ot too l ong
after that, Frater J ohn L a Buschagne
of the London office addressed the mem
bers, and i n J an uar y there was an en
joyabl e social eveni ng, featuri ng a
Bri ng and Buy Sal e. Chap ter finances
benefited consi derably.
* * *
A few months ago, Rosi cruci an mem
bers i n Brussel s, Bel gi um, organized a
p ronaos. W i th a hands-across-the-sea
gesture, they decided to cal l i t San J ose
Pronaos. Frater A l bert Rei ns i s the
M aster.
* * *
Established i n Sep tember of 1956,
Quinte Pronaos i n Bel l evi l l e, Ontario,
Canada, is al ready maki ng hi story. For
one thi ng, i t has almost its ful l quota
of members. I t i s i ssui ng a bulleti n.
I t is also undertaki ng a p rogram that
is cultured, i nformati ve, and certai n to
bri ng credit up on i tsel f and the Order.
A n extensive l ecture series On U n
derstanding M usi c is in p rogress under
L en H art at H art H ouse, 36 Oriole Park,
Bel l evi l l e. T he meeti ngs are on Sat
urday and are two hours long. Not
limited to members, they are op en,
however, onl y to those seri ousl y i nter
ested and wi l l i ng to attend regul arl y.
T he l aw of A mra i s coveri ng the ex
p ense and addi ng to Pronaos funds at
the same time. M aster W i l ki e Orr,
Secretary A udrey H art, and Guardi an
H el mut Schuetten, as wel l as commit
tee chai rmen and enthusiasti c members,
are to be commended for what i s i n
deed a noteworthy p rogram.
V A V
Frater Paul L . Dep uty, the Sup reme
Chap l ai n of the Order and on the staff
of the I nstructi on Dep artment i n Rosi
cruci an Park, finds time, in the midst
of other duties, for M asoni c acti vi ty.
E ar l y i n J anuar y he was i nstal l ed E x
cel l ent H i gh Pri est of H oward Chap ter
No. 14, Royal A rch M asons of San Jose.
M any of his Rosi cruci an associates and
acquaintances were p resent at his i n
stallation.
* * *
T he movi e actor, Ri cardo M ontal ban,
i n Egyp t on location for scenes of his
E
icture Son of the Shei k found his real-
fe adventures far more serious and ex
citing. W hat had been vague rumors
became fact. L i ghts suddenl y went out,
sirens began to scream and anti -ai rcraft
guns started fi ri ng. W i thi n 24 hours
there were 48 ai r rai ds, he told a news
p ap er rep orter.
Al though wanti ng desp eratel y to get
out of the counti y, he missed the last
contingent of the escap i ng Ameri cans.
Then, he said, some young p eop le em
p loyed by the Bel gi an Ai rl i nes took him
wi th them i n a smal l car. Not onl y
that, they managed to get hi m aboard
a barge along wi th fi ve hundred others
for a three-day and three-ni ght journey
down the Ni l e. I n Sudan, without mon
ey or p assp ort, he was p ermitted to
l eave because someone recognized him
from havi ng seen the fi l m Sombrero.
From Sudan to T ri p ol i , from there to
London, and so back to the United
States. H e remembers wi th p arti cul ar
grati tude the Bel gi an ai r peopl e who
bel ong to the Rosicrucians.
* * *
T he F ar East has agai n p ai d a cour
tesy cal l to the F ar West Rosi crucian
Park, i n fact. M r. and M rs. Thon,
friends of Frater A . J . V an J annup of
Djakarta, I ndonesi a, were welcome vi si
tors to the Sup reme See of the Rosi cru
ci an Order. M r. T hon is Dep uty Grand
M aster of M asons for South East Asi a.
* * *
T he p op ul ar Broadway musi cal D amn
Y ankees has now taken to the road i n
the U ni ted States and Canada to be seen
i n Columbus, Phi l adel p hi a, Boston. De
troit, and M ontreal. Of interest to Rosi
cruci an theatergoers is the fact that
Frater Ral p h L owe wi l l si ng the lead
i ng role. Those not able to see the p l ay
may li ke to read a book one Frater
Lowe has wri tten. T he Greenwi ch Book
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The
Rosicrucian
Di gest
March
1957
I N APPRECI ATI ON
T o m y many f r atr es and sorores throughou t the w orl d w ho w ere so ki nd as to r emem
ber th e occasi on of m y bi r thd ay , I w i sh to express my appr eci ati on. I know you w i l l
understand my tak i ng thi s method of thank i ng each of you, si nce i t w oul d be i mpossi bl e
to otherw i se acknow l edge al l of y ou r v er y ki nd greeti ngs.
R A L P H M . L E W I S
I mp er ator of the A .M .O .R .C .
Dfiz oj- Sait c^-f-j-iiaa
By I da B r ad l ey, F.R.C.
n this bustli ng mod
em world a vaca
ti on i s a p r eci ou s
thing. W e have a few
weeks i n which to for
get th e o f f i c e, our
household chores, the
newsp ap ers, the radio,
and al l the fami l i ar
routi ne of our dai l y
l ives. Some of us trav
el, some of us p ursue
a p ar t i c u l ar hobby,
others fish or p l ay golf.
For me, a vi si t to the
Eastern seabo ar d of
A fri ca was a dream
come true.
I f you look at a smal l scal e map of
the East coast of A fri ca you wi l l see,
on a two-hundred mi l e stretch of coast
l i ne between L amu I sl and i n the north
and Dar es Sal aam i n the south, names
of p laces that are imbued wi th interest,
romance, and hi story. M ombasa, M a-
lindi , K i l i fi , Pemba I sl and, T anga, Zan
zibar al l these p laces conjure up the
gl amour of the East i ntermi ngl ed wi th
the mystery of A fri ca.
H ere you can see the influence of
Egyp t, A rabi a, Greece, Portugal , and
Great Bri tai n. H ere, as ear l y as 500
B.C., the Phoenicians, encouraged by
the Pharaoh Necho, p ut into the wi l d
but natural harbours for water whi l e
on an exp edi ti on to the L and of Punt,
a voyage whi ch took them round the
coast of A fri ca, and Ptol emy (A .D.
150) , the Graeco-Egyp ti an geograp her,
gi ves an account of the acti vi ti es of
Arabs i n Toni ka, the name by whi ch
M ombasa was then known.
Vasco da Gama, the Portuguese navi
gator, sailed to this coast i n 1498 and,
after many bitter struggles wi th the
Arabs who were by then wel l estab
lished, succeeded i n gai ni ng a footing
i n this fasci nati ng country. T he op p o
sition was fierce, however, and the great
stronghold, Fort J esus, was bui lt by the
Portuguese i n the p ort of M ombasa. I n
1696 the A rabs laid
siege to the Fort, one
whi ch lasted for thi r
ty-three long, weary
months and whi ch, in
blood and tears, ended
Portuguese rul e on the
Coast.
I n sp ite of its earl y
di scovery, its contact
wi th so many ci vi l i za
tions, its p otentialities,
the coast of East A fr i
ca has remai ned, in
m an y asp ect s, un
touched by modem i n
fluences. A p art from
the n at u r al p rogress
made by the p orts whi ch cater for the
vast countri es of K enya and T angan
yi ka, l i fe among the nati ve p eop les goes
on today much as i t must have done
hundreds of years ago. Each town has
its own p arti cul ar atmosp here and each
one has histori cal l andmarks whi ch tell
of the p eop les whi ch have i nhabited its
shores at one ti me or another.
T o the touri st the Coast is at once
a deli ght and a revel ati on. T he imp res
sion is that of ones being caught up
wi thi n the p ages of the Arabi an
N i ghts wi th a dash of the South Sea
I slands thrown i n for good measure. I n
the typ i cal narrow streets of thei r quar
ter, the A rabs p l y thei r trades i n op en-
fronted shop s, usual l y termed the ba
zaar. T he Swahi l i , a mi xture of A rab
and Bantu, sp ends his worki ng hours
as dri ver, gui de, and boatman, whi l e
hi s humbler brother works on the sisal
and coconut p lantations.
W hen we arri ved by ship and ap
p roached the i sl and of Zanzi bar, we felt
at once the real atmosp here of the
trop ics. W hi te, p al m-fri nged beaches
were cl earl y vi si bl e, and smal l islands
dotted here and there i n the blue wa
ters looked li ke ti ny trop i cal p aradises.
T he water front of the town of Zanzi
bar is dominated by the Sul tans Pal ace;
and i n the old harbour, A rab dhows
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1957
could be seen at anchor. T hese dhows
had arri ved on the K askasi , or northeast
trade wi nd, from A rabi a, Persi a, and
I ndi a, bri ngi ng goods from these far-off
p laces; and after the wi nd shifts to the
southeast, they wi l l sai l on thei r home
ward voyage.
Vi si ti ng ship s anchor i n the roadstead
and a bri sk trade is done bv the little
boats taki ng vi si tors to and from the
shore. W hi l e i n p ort the decks of the
li ners become mi ni ature bazaars as I n
dian vendors come aboard and l ay out
thei r wares jewel ry, i vory, and ebony
ware, some made l ocal l y and some from
as far afi el d as H ong Kong, Ceyl on, and
Bombay. Semip reci ous stones i n a ka
leidoscop ic p rofusion of colour, Persi an
si l ver, deli cate fi l i gree si l ver, fantastic
carvi ngs from Chi na are disp l ayed and,
as this i s a free p ort, watches, p l ay
i ng cards, and fountai n p ens are at low
p rices.
A s we step p ed ashore from the p re
cari ousl y swayi ng hi red boat, i t fel t
l i ke step p ing from our modern nucl ear
world i nto an atmosp here of centuries
ago. For here, ap art from the macadam
roads, the occasional fami l i ar adverti se
ment on a smal l A rab store and a
gl i mp se of a nati ve bus ful l of col ourful
turbaned fi gures, l i fe is the same as it
must have been when the Portuguese
came storming into the i sl and and made
i t, temp orari ly, a tri butary to Portugal.
Wooden carts, drawn by p atient,
hump backed oxen, p roceed l ei surel y
al ong the p al m-l i ned roads, setti ng a
p ace whi ch i s typ i cal of the whol e i s
l and. T he p ri nci p al exp orts are cloves
and cop ra the dried kernel of the
coconut and everywhere huge coconut
groves and the p ungent p lantations of
clove trees are to be seen. Vegetation is
lush, and around the coast are deli ght
ful beaches whi ch remi nd one of al l
the songs one has ever heard about
trop ic moons and romantic lagoons.
N ati ve houses are squarel y bui lt of mud
and p oles, p alm-thatched, and wi th
front and back gardens di sp l ayi ng a
p rofuse growth of p awp aws, p ineap p les,
sweet p otatoes, bananas, and mangoes.
Each house has a p ri mi ti ve verandah
wi th a mud p latform rai sed about four
feet from the ground, and sometimes
one catches a glimp se of the owner
sp rawled at his ease on thi s vantage
p oint watchi ng the p assi ng scene.
T he A rab houses are more substantial
than the nati ve huts, havi ng stone wal l s
and barred windows, and even the low
l iest of them has one of the typ i cal
Zanzi bar doors. These doors, of anti que
ori gi n, are p ecul i ar to Zanzi bar and are
art of every A rab bui ldi ng, from the
umblest dwel l i ng in the i nteri or of the
i sl and to the more p al ati al houses i n the
town and on the sea front. T hey all
fol l ow the same p attern, although the
designs and qual i ty imp rove as the
social and economic status of the owner
imp roves. T he doors are usual l y double,
one of them havi ng a heavy centrep iece
ver y p rofusel y carved; i n many of the
weal thi er homes, the whol e door is
heavi l y studded wi th brass bosses. The
centre carvi ng has, at its base, wavy
li nes rep resenti ng the sea. Above them
can be seen the fi sh and the lotus i nter
sp ersed wi th rosettes and geometri cal
designs.
T he carvi ng is often continued al l
around the frame but the centrep iece is
the most outstanding, and even i n the
oorer houses this i s ver y evident. The
esi gns are symbolic: the lotus, insp ired
by Anci ent Egyp t, i s a sign of p roduc
ti vi ty as also is the fi sh; the other carv
ings denote weal th and good luck to the
house owner.
T he Swahi l i s cal l the two halves of
the door mal e and female. I t is
thei r way of referri ng to thi ngs right-
handed and left-handed. I n the earl y
days these doors were rep resentati ve of
the p restige of the owner, and i t is said
that many an A rab trader bought first
the door and then had his house bui lt
round it.
Our ti me was short i n this del i ghtful
p lace and we had onl y a bri ef glimp se
of the old town. W e saw narrow streets,
the houses on ei ther side havi ng orna
mental o ver h an gi n g b al co n i es and
barred windows. Rememberi ng al l the
stories we had heard of p urdah, we
wondered about those windows and
i magi ned the colour and jewel s of the
M usl i m women when they shed the en
vel op i ng black garment whi ch they
wore i n the streets. Rel uctantl y we took
a last hurri ed look at the exotic di sp l ay
of goods i n the bazaar. N ext we had a
ri ckshaw ri de to the docks and an ex
hi l arati ng p assage on a chop p y sea to
the ship . W e sailed wi th the tide and,
as the sun drop p ed l ow in the sky, we
watched the p al m-framed shore recede
sl owl y i n the distance unti l onl y a
memory remai ned.
T wo days after l eavi ng Zanzi bar, we
reached M ombasa. I n the hal fl i ght of
ear l y dawn the ship steamed sl owl y into
the long reaches of K i l i ndi ni harbour.
By the time we had dressed and gone
on deck our ship had tied alongside,
and behind the barren wal l s of Goods
and Customs sheds we glimp sed white
bui ldi ngs and the now fami l i ar p al m
trees and flame trees.
L i ke most of the towns on the coast,
M ombasa i s a mi xture of the old and
the new. T he streets of the modem
town are lined wi th fine bui ldi ngs but
the p eop le who throng them are mostl y
the p icturesque p eop les of East A fri ca,
and they contrast strangel y wi th the
evidences of modem commerce and i n
dustry. J ostl i ng al ong the p avements
one can see A rab dhow masters i n white
robes and coni cal turbans, short daggers
at thei r wai sts; Swahi li s i n l ong cotton
garments and sti ff cotton cap s; M usl i m
women i n thei r black p urdah gar
ments; I ndi ans i n l ongish bl ack or
whi te cotton coats and ti ght cotton
trousers, and thei r womenfolk i n col
ourful saris. I n the banks and offices
soft-sp oken Asi ans attend to you; and,
at your hotel, A fri can servants murmur
J ambo as they bri ng your earl y
morning tea.
On the other hand a tri p to the old
town wi l l reveal sleek I ndi an-owned
motor cars stri ki ng an i ncongruous note
i n the atmosp here of centuries ago as
do the fami l i ar adverti sements of the
new world p asted on some age-old
bui ldi ng and the sound of honky-tonk
T i n Pan A l l ey tunes that occasi onal l y
bl are forth from some A rab eating-
house.
T he toweri ng mass of Fort J esus
dominates the old harbour and, al
though now used as a p rison, i t wi l l
shortl y become a nati onal monument.
A s we gazed up at the ancient battle
ments we seemed transp orted to me
di eval times. A l l the cruel ty and bar
bari sm of that p eriod for a moment
descended up on us; i t was a rel i ef to
turn away and gaze over the p eaceful
scene of the old harbour that l ay below
us. A rab dhows rocked gentl y at anchor,
and fishi ng boats wi th thei r tri angul ar
sails came sl owl y into anchorage for
the night.
M ombasa is an i sl and and, ap art
from one p ri vatel y owned p ontoon
bri dge, and the rai l way, al l roads
l eadi ng to the mai nl and are ferri es.
H ere you or your car are haul ed across
the i nterveni ng water by a band of
A fri cans who, quick to sp ot the tourist,
enl i ven thei r labours by chanti ng and
dancing. A leader blows a conch shell
at i nterval s. T he sahibs and mem-
sahibs are going on safari ! they sing,
i n thei r own language. W e wi sh them
good hunti ng. Bri ng back the lion,
sahibs, and good l uck be wi th you. I t
is worth a few p enni es to see this sp on
taneous exhi bition and the sight of the
smi l i ng bl ack faces when the coins drop
into thei r outstretched hands.
W hen we l eft M ombasa on a seven
ty- fi ve mi l e tri p up the coast to M a-
lindi , we step p ed into A fri ca. Ap art
from an occasional A rab store i n some
smal l vi l l age, the Eastern i nfluence is
not felt. H ere were nati ve vi l l ages and
thei r p icturesque p eop les l i vi ng i n p ri m
i ti ve p aganism. A s our taxi sp ed along
the road between si sal and coconut
p lantations we were aware of the real
meani ng of darkest A fr i ca. For here
it was evi dent that the wi ngs of ci vi l i za
tion had onl y just l i ghtl y brushed the
country. H ere the p eop le of the Gi ri ama
tribe disdai n the trap p i ngs of modem
dress, as such, and retai n thei r tradi
ti onal way of l i fe. T he men are seen
i n sarongs from wai st to feet. T he
women wear a ver y ful l short white
ski rt made of yards and yards of butter
musl i n whi ch sp reads out like a bal l et
skirt. T hi s ski rt and bri ght bead neck
laces and anklets i s thei r sole dress, and
ver y p icturesque they look. U nfortu
natel y they do not take ki ndl y to the
camera.
Cotton i s thei r mai n source of l i vel i
hood, wi th kap ok, frui t, and fi shi ng as
side lines. Ever y vi l l age has its cotton
field, and we were fortunate to see
numbers of the inhabitants bri ngi ng
this commodity i n huge baskets on thei r
heads to a local gi nnery at M al i ndi .
L aughi ng, chatteri ng, they made a p i c
turesque sight, and tnei r grace and nat
ural p atience was a lesson to many of
us more ci vi l i zed folk.
M al i ndi is an old A rab seap ort whi ch
is now rap i dl y becoming a fashionable
seaside resort for the p eop les of K enya.
M odem hotels l i ne the sea front and an
up -to-date ai rfi el d bri ngs vi si tors from
afar. One has, however, onl y to turn
a comer to drop back centuries i n time.
T he old town and harbour mb shoul
ders wi th modem M al i ndi but al l the
tradi ti on remai ns.
Some miles from thi s resort are the
rui ns of an old A rab ci ty whi ch is
known today as Gedi . Excavated out
of the jungl e, i t dates back to the thi r
teenth century, and some of the arches,
p i l l ars, and wal l s are i n a ver y good
state of p reservation. Cooking p ots,
beads, blue and whi te p orcelain, and
glazed earthenware of the p eriod have
been found. T hi s area i s now p reserved
as a Royal N ati onal Park. T o most
tourists i t is extremel y i nteresti ng, and
to the archaeologi st i t must be a treas
ure. Neverthel ess, as I stood i n that
si l ent mi ned p lace wi th the jungl e
whi sp eri ng al ong its fri nges, I fel t an
overp oweri ng sense of evi l and dep res
sion. Perhap s the women of that p lace
and era had l i ved a l i fe of op p ression
and terror. I do not know and the
guidebook does not say. I can onl y
record that my sp i ri t remai ned at this
l ow l evel unti l our car reached the main
road, and I once more saw the reassur
i ng signs of my own era take the p lace
of those sleep i ng stones.
I t was p leasant to sp end a few days
i n M al i ndi and li sten at ni ght to the
roar of the surf on the beach, for here
the coral reef, whi ch mns al l along
this coast, i s broken and the ful l force
of the I ndi an Ocean sweep s into the
bay. But hol i days must come to an end
and farewel l s have to be said.
Back i n M ombasa on the ni ght be
fore our ship sai l ed on its homeward
course, I stood at my hotel wi ndow and
looked out over the sleep ing town. Only
the whi rri ng of i nnumerabl e fans dis
turbed the sti llness of a trop ical night.
A s I gazed out over the roof top s where
was etched the fai nt outline of Fort
J esus hi gh battlements agai nst a star
l i t sky, I heard a thi n thread of sound
reach up into the ni ght. I t was the
tremulous note of some nati ve p ip e. I
thought of an old A rab p roverb I had
heard i n Zanzi bar and I knew then
that I could never forget this wonder
ful coast the coast of East A fri ca.
I f you pl ay on the fl ute at Z anzi bar,
E ver yone as far as the L akes dances!
V A V
D flIZ Z < ^ A /[
Before me that whi ch was, is, and
ever shal l be.
Before me three mi rrors, i magi ng the
eternal. T he fi rst one quite fai thful l y,
the second less fai thful l y, and the thi rd
most p oorly.
T hus the one l aw, by whi ch al l is
caused to be and by whi ch al l is for a
ti me continued, has three asp ects, yet
i s unchanged i n truth.
V A
A t fi rst the l aw i s p erceived di ml y,
l ater more cl earl y, and fi nal l y cl earl y
enough to have meani ng and usefulness.
U l ti matel y through continued study,
through continued ap p licati on, ful l y re
veal ed, ful l y understood, ful l y ap p lied
comes truth. Y et onl y the wi se can
comp rehend it.
T . W . Small, F.R.C.
V
The A n i ntui ti ve truth is one that satisfies the emotional as wel l as the reasoning
R osi cr uci an self. Such truths are arri ved at si mp l y and ap p ear insp i rati onal . Because they
D i gest seem to flash into the consciousness, rather than to be arri ved at, they al l ay the
March susp icion whi ch they mi ght have suffered i n the p rocess of reasoning.
1957 V ALIDIVAR
L O S T C I V I L I Z A T I O N
T h e ru i ns of the T em p l e of C ui cui l o, a few mi l es f r om M exi co C i ty, is the w ork of an ar ch ai c peopl e. T h e ci v i l i z ati on devel oped by
them w as based p r i n ci p al l y on agr i cu l tu r e, bu t i t i ncl uded th e er ecti on of magni f i cent stru ctu res. T hese peopl e l i ved i n the v al l ey of
M exi co f or an unknow n peri od of ti me. Sev eral centu ri es befor e C hri st, a vol cani c er upti on spread l ava over the southern par t of the
v al l ey and destroyed th e gr eat edi fi ces. T h e str u ctu r e show n w as ci r cu l ar and consi sted of sev er al stori es. A round i t w ere the sanctuar i es
and homes of the pri ests. T h e r emai ns of the vol cano may sti l l be seen i n the di stance. T h e f ate of the peopl e i s unknow n.
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P r o f o u n d
Y e t Si m p l e
O v er 350 P ages!
I The M ystical Li fe
I I The God Concep t
I I I Sel f and Soul
I V Love and Desire
V Li vi ng Ful l y
V I Light and
I llumination
V I I Death The Law
of Change
V I I I Causal i ty and Karina
I X Karma i n Effect
X Entering the Silence
X I Meditation
X I I Nature of Prayer
X I I I Affi rmati ons T hei r
U se and Misuse
X I V T he Lost Word
X V T he Technique of
I nitiation
X V I Occultism, Her-
meticism, and
Esoterici sm
X V I I I l l usi ons of the
Psychic
X V I I I Sup ersti ti on
X I X Nature of Dreams
X X Prediction
X X I M astership and
Perfection
X X I I Sp irituality
X X I I I Cosmic Consci ousness
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f r o m w r o n g th o u g h t an d acti o n ! T h e S an ct u ar y o f S el f i s w r i tten i n
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m y sti cal an al y si s o f d r i v es t h at m o ti v ate h u m an b eh av i o r . T h i s bo o k
goes i n to th e m y sti cal v al u e o f en ter i n g th e si l en ce n o t as an escap e
f r o m r eal i ty an d th e d u ti es o f l i f e, bu t as a m ean s o f d i sco v er i n g new
vi si on t h a t m ak es f o r acco m p l i sh m en t.
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R o si cr u ci an O r d er , A . M . O . R . C . , b r i n g s t o y o u th e r esu l ts o f h i s y ear s
o f ex p er i en ce w i th t h e p r acti cal asp ects o f m y sti ci sm . T h e bo o k co n
tai n s o v er 350 p ag es ( 2 3 co m p l ete c h a p t er s ) ; i t i s b eau ti f u l l y an d
w el l bo u n d , p r i n ted i n l ar g e ty p e. T h e p r i ce, #3.10 ( 1/ 2/ 9 ster l i n g )
p er co p y , i n cl u d es m ai l i n g ch ar ges.
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F r a nc e , Switzerland, S w e de n, a nd A f r i c a .
T he f o l l o w i ng ar e c ha r t e r e d R o s i c r uc i a n L odg e s , C ha pt e r s , a nd P r o na o i i n t he U ni t e d S t at e s . T he I n t e r
na t i o na l Di r e c t o r y l i s t i n g L odg e s , Cha pt e r s , a nd P r o na o i i n o t he r c o unt r i e s w i l l a ppe a r i n t he ne x t i s s ue of
t he R o s i c r uc i a n Di g e s t . T he A me r i c a n a nd t he I n t e r n a t i o n a l di r e c t or i e s a l t e r na t e mo nt hl y .
A L A S K A
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HAWAI I
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S o ut h B e nd: Ma y B ank s - S t ace y C ha pt e r , 519 S.
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F or e s t A v e.
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N E V A DA
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O R E G O N
E ug e ne : E ug e ne P r ona os . Ma r y E . K a l k hov e n,
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S an . J ua n: L uz de A MO R C Cha pt e r , Ponce de
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U T A H
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W Y O M I N G
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Ma s t e r , 704 S. W a s hi n g t o n S t.
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