Regeneration

REGENERATION Being Part IL of the Temple of the

Rosy Cross

BY

AUTHOR OF

DOWD

B.

F.

" THE TEMPLE OF THE ROSY CROSS, " THE DOUBLE MAN," ETC.

Except a

man

be

of the Spirit, he

Kingdom

of

born of the

bom

of

water and

cannot enter into the

God, flesh

is

That which flesh;

and

is

that

which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, y^ must be bom again. John III., 5-7.

—

SALEM, MASS.

THE EULIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY

Cop\Tight, 1900,

BY

The Temple Publishing Company. Entered at Stationers^ Hall, London. All rights reserved.

To

SORONA,

A

The matchless

Teacher of the Rosy Cross a7id Guide to the Light of the Temple, the following pages are reverently dedicated by

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PREFACE. The

many earnest Rosy Cross," has

kindly reception accorded by

souls to

The Temple me to press to

*'

impelled

of

the

further conclusions certain

Reincarnation

points only suggested in that book. is

generally accepted by Rosicrucians as a truth.

This

acceptance

is,

of

course,

based on

reasons for belief in the continuous

The

the doctrine depends.

human

has

life

theme

while

purpose of

it

is

God who

affairs

who

;

in

ample

on which

and purpose of

been from time immemorial a

philosophic speculation

for

discussion,

the

origin

life,

the

and

religious

masses contend that the

wisely concealed in the mind of

rules,

or

gods who rule mundane

partially revealed, perhaps, to a select few,

turn trade on this assumption of superior

knowledge.

These opinions belong race

hood

?

to the childhood of the

is

the race always to remain in child-

The

discoveries and inventions of the last

but

;

half-century demonstrate that

man

is

not the de-

pendent creature we have been taught to consider him.

There

a childhood

;

is

a

a manhood of the race, manhood in which each

as there

is

individual

Preface,

vi

stands erect, and recognizes within himself that Hfe is

for his

The

own

purpose.

voice of nature heard in every Hving thing

counsels him to provide for himself. that the purpose of his existence

He

Jiimself.

is to

affirms

It

provide for

own fortunes, woe according to the

the architect of his

is

the creator of his weal or

conditions in which he finds himself, and those conditions are mainly the result of health and

This

telligence.

practice

man

unquestionable.

is

in-

in actual

has scarcely lived long enough to get

a slight understanding of

down and

But

Is

die.

good, a blessing

1

the good of

is

life

life

worth

life

so,

If

is

Is

living.''

death

exhausted.

weak, the worn out, but

before he must

is

an

Death

lie

it

a

until

evil

for the

is

not a necessity even to

them. Is eternal life

and

stars

stand.

and

and vigor a

The gods do

your inner

fact

this prolific old

self

}

Ask

the sun

we

world on which

not grow old or

die,

and

in

you are unconscious of the flight

of years.

In view of death, the love of of immortality has led

man

life

and the instinct

to predicate life

immortality on the other side of the grave

;

and but

the Rosicrucians hold that immortality in the flesh is

the purpose of evolution, and that reincarnation

is

a necessary factor in the evolution of the immor-

tal principle

until

it

is

fully

demonstrated that

Preface.

vii

now

bodily immortality right here and

within

is

the range of man's developed powers.

Why as in

should not

man be immortal here as well The law of change is no

some other world

?

for a changeless

barrier,

ceived by the mind.

can hardly be con-

life

It

rather that

is

man

within himself the power to change at will conditions of

animal

life

life

in the

all

has the

transmute this

flesh, to

into spiritual substance, thus rendering

the flesh so ethereal and so pure that corruption

can find no lodgment therein.

The the

inventive spirit of the age exhausts itself in

field of

mechanics and the

but the time with

its

mand

is

at

finer material forces,

hand when the

interior nature

mental and spiritual phenomena

equal attention.

will

Once man becomes

com-

a unit

with the thought, desire, and purpose of living

formulated

panorama will pass

the Universal

in

of

weakness,

Consciousness, this disease,

folly,

and death

away.

The purpose

of existence

is

with the

God who Adam,

dwells within every son and daughter of lying latent and

dency

unknown

in

of religious teaching

many is

to

;

while the ten-

hush inquiry and

paralyze self-reliance, closing the door of dissatisfaction with the nature of things as he sees them,

the door through which

knowledge and greater purpose to

life,

man must light. To

pass to higher give a definite

to aid in formulating immortality

Preface.

viii

in the

of

mind

of the world,

spirit in the fiesh, "

Glory," have

I

and to

assist the

God with

growth

us the hope of

written this book,

In Love and Truth, F.

Hempstead, Texas,

November, l8g8.

B.

DowD.

CONTENTS. PAGE

Chapter

I.

Creation

ii

Chapter

The Self

is

22

Chapter PoLARiTv

II.

God III.

31

•

Chapter

IV.

Christian Regeneration

39

Chapter

V.

The World of Chance

50

Chapter Love, Beauty, and

Vl.

Wisdom

64

Chapter Yll. Sexuality

78

Chapter VIII. Sexuality {Continued)

94

Chapter

IX.

Mediumship

104

Chapter X. Souls

119

Chapter XI. Angelic Love

131

Chapter XII. Conclusion

139

9

REGENERATION. CHAPTER

I.

Creation.

The

allegory of Creation contained in the open-

ing chapters of Genesis ation,

if

for

of a thoughtful

The fact made is

is

worthy

of careful consider-

no other reason than that

that

mind

to explain

God spake

possible

is

the effort

the world into existence

acceptance

of

it

the unexplainable.

by the under-

standing, through recent discoveries in hypnotism,

where suggestion by word, or unspoken thought,

is

found to be the moving factor in hallucinations, and in

its

The power and

causing or healing disease.

fluence of a word, which

is

a

symbol

is beyond calculation. was the Word" that is, the

action and reaction, " In the beginning

Word tion,

is

;

the beginning of expression or manifesta-

which

synonymous

is

with

Thought without expression, works, of

in-

of thought, in

is

dead, or

thought

is

unman if est

;

like

''

Creation."

faith

without

but the expression

not limited to concrete manifestation.

was the W^ord and the Word was with God and the Word was God. And the same was in the beginning with God." This " In the beginning

declaration

of

John

is

philosophical,

for

the

2

Regeneration.

1

Word

the seed from which

is

duced.

himself

considered,

Spiritually ;

all

things are pro-

man's word

a

is

the beginning and substance of his man-

hood.

The upon

psychological influence of a man's words

himself, too often unconsidered,

In fact they are his creator. vitiates

every atom

of

his

is

He who

enormous.

thinks a

lie

body and plants the

seeds of disease and death.

Note the influence

of heartfelt, earnest prayer

on the believer, as well as on those who

listen.

For the time it reconstructs and rearranges the atoms of soul and body but the word, the symbol, ;

without the vitality of the thought

it

represents,

is

void of power.

The

Creative

Word had

meaning than

a deeper

the vocal expression of thought

;

it

is

impossible to

conceive of Deity as speaking in this sense of the word.

There was never a ''beginning"

thing except in appearance, and

it

of

any-

was on the

ap-

pearance of the world out of the Invisible that the

assumption

in

Genesis

is

based, and from this arose

the concept of a supernatural being speaking to

himself the command, " Let there be light

What was in

mand der,

that

primordial

power which held

" !

light fast-locked

darkness awaiting the divine com-

to appear

}

It

that enveloped

was Chaos, the primal Disorall,

that

i<.'as

earth was without form and void."

all,

when

''the

Creation.

I

%

What was the nature of that light which first glowed on and brooded over the world's expanse ? It

was the Christ

the Builder, the Word, the

spirit,

Seed, poured out from the Father into the

womb

of

" In the beginning

Chaos, the primitive Mother.

was the Word [ Seed ] and the Word was with God [ the Seed was with Love ] and the Word was God This is in harmony with [the Seed was Love]." Nature, as we know her laws, and their operation.

The Seed

was the

of Creation

first

of a geo-

cell

metrically progressive series in Nature, for nothing is

made,

things gjvzv.

all

the parent of progress, of

The Word

is prolific

;

art, of literature, of ideas,

the beginning of speech, the center from which flows

all

external manifestation.

corn in which

The

is

It is like

a grain of

stored the food supply of millions.

form and disappears

in the

darkness of the moist earth, there to divide

itself,

grain parts with

project

from

The word and

itself

its

whole

or seed

a universal spirit, the life

is

light of the world,

fields of corn.

and

it

"becomes

every person born on the earth. personal form of is

named

**

sal Christ,

its

Adam."

appearance out of the invisible

Adam was

which, being

made

The Word became

flesh

and

is

flesh, is

individualized, thus creating in "

flesh" in

In Genesis that

man

the Univerparticled or

a living soul.

and dwelt among us "

these bodies are temples of the living God,

Love, or

The

Seed.

who

;

is

Rcgeneratioji

14

Love

the door through which the invisible

is

the visible, and puts on the garments of

enters

The Great

fleshly appearance.

to

''create"

himself

hence

;

be, could

Word

the

in

creation of

man he

contains

within

of seed

life

which

masculine and

the

itself it

the soul

is

evolved.

and the seed that ges-

Spirit,

is

tates the astral form,

lives

on after the death

As

of the flesh, is the spirit of our words. stated,

be-

see

feminine potencies, and from

The

it

All, from

why Jesus, even if he Deity, in the sense many believe him to truly style himself the Son of Man. The Thus we

comes human. were the

Spirit being

anything must be to make

already

words or suggestions mentally expressed

exercise a potent creative influence, bringing into

manifestation that which was hitherto unknown, and uncreate.

When God said

''Let there be light," some-

thing not before manifest appeared, and the creation of the universe it

was and

spirit

was begun. an

is

holding in solution

God, for he

is

tagonisms

— only

stance, perfect,

but

all

all

Darkness

is

uncreate

;

primordial, formless

forms.

This, too,

is

All.

Prior to creation

tJiing,

effortless,

there could have been no an-

an

silent,

universal dark,

oneness of

homogeneous

things in essence.

;

sub-

not a

Creation divided

the one into the many, separating the seed, the

liv-

ing principle from the substance, which remains as primordial

darkness.

"

God

created the heavens

5;

Creation.

1

— the Hght and the darkness,

and the earth," and form, but he in

man

between

is

Creation

in

spirit

between them, even as the soul spirit

and body, looking both

So we

the center of action and reaction.

\vays,

see

is

the godhead revealed in a

itself

trinity of expression

;

Father, Mother, Offspring

in other words. Masculine, Feminine, Love,

;

— the

seed of manifestation evolved from the action and reaction of these principles.

The

light

which was separated from the dark-

ness was the Astral

impenetrable,

Light, that

all-pervasive substance which, obedient to a sug-

gestion, will manifest in material

form, as

when

the multitude was fed by Jesus, or w^hen Elisha

the store of

increased

oil

in

the widow's cruse.

mango

So, today, the fakirs of India cause a

from the seed and bear

to spring

The manna

of the

Jews was a form

the body of Jesus was composed of

tree

an hour.

fruit in

of astral light

and he could

it,

with truth declare that he was the bread that came

down from heaven. Bread and

of seed,

all

The

vibration.

flavor, or taste;

that

life,

of

;

spirit,

is

made from

is spirit

real value of

food

is

not in

but in the volume of

to materialize is

or

life in

us

—

of

form

its

bulk,

its spirit,

The

or

doctrine

power

based on the

itself.

the spirit

it

is

grain, a

having a slow rate of

are able to appropriate.

transubstantiation

spirit life

we

matter

of

Meat does not give

the meat

that spirit which

that is

sustains

the seed of

6

;

Regeneration.

1

the body, the

"Word

that

maketh whole," or that

poisons the entire being, bringing forth disease, crime, and death.

The Word, which but man being also

God,

is

is

made

flesh in

man

;

able to create, or bring into

manifestation, has brought that flesh to putrefaction

and decay, by profaning God, who dwells within

and without all things. If he curse his brother, it is tantamount to cursing God in himself, for he and his brother are

one

God.

in

Certain thinkers ascribe personality to

how

is

that possible

transcend

.'*

nature.

No one in No picture

God but ;

thought, even, can

can

be made by

thought, word, or pencil, of a void or expanse in

which nothing exists such a void is beyond the power of the mind to comprehend, because where nature is, there must be objects, forms. So if God exists he must be a natural God, but tran;

scendently natural.

Mind cannot conceive pose; purpose involves

posing force.

There

come which

requires

of a

will, is

Maker without

and

will

a pur-

admits an op-

then something to over-

Intelligence,

or

Wisdom

Wisdom

admits of mistakes, imperfection.

so far as

we know, cannot be without an opposing

force,

and there must be some

principle, or object to Still

God

that are.

exists

He

is

;

state,

Will,

condition,

be wise about. but

he exists in the tilings

the actuating principle.

He

is

7

Creation.

the thing

in all

manifestation

medium

the

He

and further,

itself,

which everything has

the oversoul in

is

He

being.

its

the object,

;

which

in

1

motion, and

its

Space or the

moves,

it

triune

is

Oversoul.

Motion inheres

To comprehend

prehends.

No

greater.

it

;

is

to surround, to be

one can comprehend that which

Mind comprehends

greater than himself. creates

which encloses, or com-

in that

mind

is

belong Will, Wisdom, and

spirit

knowledge possible

way

only

To

Love. Are we immersed

these in

an

which these principles are the

of

constituent elements

The

or are

us,

is

mind

the motive power in motion.

principles within

ocean of

;

.^

to

to that

It

is

said

:

"

The

highest

man is a knowledge of God." knowledge is to find him in

Self-study discloses the mind within the body and the soul within the mind. Soul is mystery, not seen, but felt, and known to the consciousness chiefly when it has overpowered the mind and

the soul.

become the ruling factor in the life. The mind is like a radiant, brilliant, light of

far-flashing

varying colors, imprisoned in an opaque

substance which

awakened,

or

may be

defined as dormant, un-

unappropriated

thought.

In

the

center of the mind, this flashing, scintillating light, is

the soul, dark, silent, unknown, a fragment of

that mysterious infinite night, the

plored Oversoul of the universe.

unknown, unexThat which is

8

Regeneration.

1

uncomprehended by us little

known

denied

is

soul

is

so

often doubted or

scouted as less than a phantom in

is

it

;

The

dark.

is

that its existence

airless space.

The

nature of each soul

each soul

the same, because

is

a fragment of the Oversoul,

is

and, therefore, dark to

prehensible

feminine, and

its

offspring

is

It is like

it.

Soul

is

the masculine mind

a spark struck out b}- effort from the

matter surrounding

incom-

all

us.

opaque wall

;

of

a chick that breaks

the shell of the ^gg in search of light and another life.

fire

Every

every thought strikes sparks of

effort,

from the impenetrable Oversoul, which, adding

themselves to the mind, increase

may

Oversoul substance

mains of

light.

The

thought, the petrified

that has been, or

is,

or can be.

re-

Out

fragments as we can possess ourselves of

of such in

fossilized

is

all

its

be likened to a granite wall whose

our explorations,

of art, science,

and

we

construct our

literature.

monuments

This wall of dormant

thought or matter imprisons the mind within

We

may

look out of our prison, but

only forms of matter. it,

and God himself

is

us.

we behold

W^e clothe our thought with generally conceived of as an

embodied mind.

Man bar, to

is

ever essaying, with mental pick and crow-

demolish his prison wall and be free he styles

this proceeding,

;

"scientific analysis."

Its

efforts

are directed mainly to disintegrate and dissect the

Creation.

wondrous structure and properties walls.

rarely turns toward

It

of

the outer

the study of

the

marvelous nature of the spark within, which lights this structure.

The

soul

is

so

much

greater than the mind, that

cannot be comprehended by mental

it

opaque

within

spot

mind

the

The

soul expands as the light of

increases,

and

in its

mind

expansion the consciousness

gets glimpses beyond

the horizon of

the

mind.

material wall disappears and the soul mingles

essence with the universal soul

its

as

itself

infinite.

The

This

effort.

reveals

;

the mind

is

swallowed up, thought ceases, and intuitive percep-

an influx of power.

tion takes its place with

mind

soul and

in

The

union become the oversoul of the

individual cosmos.

There

is

then no need to ''take

thought for the morrow," for

all

the machinery of

life becomes automatic, self-regulating, and demand and supply are equal, while through the door which opens Godward we pass, and bask in the smiles of

Infinite Love.

"God things

:

is

passion. All,

God

He

Love."

there

is

no room

in

fills

and

him

surrounds

all

any

for hatred or

Love demands an object and, being loves himself.

Creation

He

acts are his children.

is

his family

;

his

loves and provides for

the least and the greatest equally, for with him

no great nor small. is

the

noumena back

The of

all

is

ego, the self, the soul,

phenomena, underived,

20

Regeneration.

free,

possessor of

hend, and

things which

all

the victor in

can compre-

it

strivings

all

and

effort.

God works unremittingly, eternally, and work is the only happiness, and the only salvation, the

—

evidence of

God

God peoples acts.

And

within.

the universe with his offspring, his

our acts people the cosmos of which

are rulers and makers.

thing

smallest

God's acts are perfect

in creation

him

reflects

as

we the

;

com-

pletely as the building of a system of worlds; but

our children, our acts, are weaklings

deformed,

complete,

ashamed

for the

of

most

gladly hide and forget

cause

we know

there

which we

part,

if

is

;

we

deficient, in-

are

heartily

and which we would

We

could.

repent be-

greater excellence, a higher

we may and nothing above God

way, something above us to which

ought to his

work

attain. is

crooked tree

;

;

travel

is

;

the crooked tree

the deformed thing

Each object

formity.

We

But there

perfect

fits

into

its

different roads to

is

is

a perfect

perfect in de-

niche perfectly.

perfection.

The

great purpose in creation seems to be individualization.

If

the Great Designer had meant that

all

should express the lines of the same mold, then the perfection of monotony would prevail. place and period of perfection its

distant

effort,

seeming

is

is

The

here and now, and

but the mirage to lure us to

by creating unrest and

the present attainment.

dissatisfaction with

1

Creation.

2

Because we are cowardly and weak, our faces are But where shall we find

turned away from God.

him

Look j^z/rj-r//" squarely

?

in the face.

Search

out your offspring, your acts, and see what you

have created.

them

}

No

Is there loveliness or perfection in

God viewed

!

monstrosity.

If life

hatred, there

is

in

your mirror

is

a

has been given to violence and

nothing lovely in the children

brought forth. " Except ye be born again, ye can not see the

kingdom of God.'' Regeneration is the open door through which all must pass who enter that kingdom. Viewed in that mirror which reflects only order and beauty, the most deformed child of the soul becomes an image of beauty, a link in the chain of

being, something without

which God-knowledge is impossible to man. The kingdom of heaven is peace, love, perfection, and it is in the soul of all things. divine

that self-knowledge which

Search for

it,

strive for

pray to enter into Creation, then,

sexual

potencies,

its is

is

it

earnestly.

conceived of as the union of

of

the

positive

principles of Deity in activity, ceiving,

Watch and

glory.

and

negative

— impregnating, con-

and bringing forth the

visible universe.

CHAPTER The Self I I

What am

AM.

am

I

my destiny, my own maker

Let us examine into is

God.

Master

?

master of

weal and woe,

Self

is

11.

of

myself

If so,

.?

my own

creator of

and saviour.

this question,

and see

the

if

supreme.

Motion, change,

is

a fundamental law of creation.

That which moves not nor changes is space. This could not be a definite something if it were not limited, divided, and bounded by something different from

To

Objects move in space, therefore

itself.

motion inheres say that

in the object. '*

I

move

pen, this hand, this

me moves moves, in

my

which

less.

If

lution, as

in

response

I

;

that

to

my

I

move

this

which belongs will.

My

to

mind

brain throbs, and this body, this chariot ride, carries

I

" is absurd.

body

move

at

one shut

me

along while

all, it is

in

in

I sit

motion-

with the cosmic revo-

an absolutely closed

car,

maair, or jarring whereby one may take note of There is, thus, the speed of passing objects. moves not; and which space, something within like

where there

is

no rushing

chinery, or outlook

The Self that something less

in the

God.

is

23

the soul, which remains motion-

is

About

center of motion.

it

revolve

things.

all

I

am

a stationary center.

influence on me, for

When

forget the road

I

ful steps, these

are reminders

Space

am

I

;

am

I

trav^ersed, the pain-

weary and stiffening muscles, which time,

of

am

I

conscious only of

How

free in the Oversoul.

when

define myself

have

I

Even time has no young nor old.

neither

am

I

much

so

mind, this light that belongs to me, but I

am

stationary

Perhaps

grade.

is

not

do not advance nor

I

:

my memory

can

I

my me

greater than

retro-

my mind

fades,

t

be-

coming misty like a cloudy day or, on the other hand, the mind may clarify, growing brighter and ;

clearer with age, as the fire in the blood burns low

and the tumultuous, jarring passions In either case,

stilled.

I

of

youth are

sense the homogeneous

quality of Being, and find myself of one stuff with I am conscious God and humanity in myself.

that lives, and thus

all

ness of

Progress soul

is

soul, is

finer

soul

While body and mind change, and more ethereal, and thus enabling

radiate

to

and the smaller

fused

and

soul-expansion, but in essence the

unchanged.

growing the

is

of the one-

of

external

in

its

influence,

self in

soul

touches

each of us blends and

the self of the community, of the nation,

the

race.

self,

so

I,

I

the

may

soul,

may

create and

destroy the recreate

it.

Regetiei'ation.

24 Destruction creation

not.'' is

destroy the

;

and

old,

'^ :

Lo,

am

I

the

lo,

new

God, and /

ap-

cJia7ige

Power does not change, and the power the same as that Infinite Power which

a

All.

often the condition which precedes

Isaiah says

pears.

have

is

drop of water

ocean, and

life is

as

I is

as really water as the

is

unchangeable

one thing as

in

in another.

The exotericand festation

is

the esoteric are the same.

]\Iani-

the storm that follows and that flows

from the calm.

All motion,

all

change, ultimately

finds rest, as bodily actinties are stilled in sleep.

But that which moves not nor changes needs no

rest.

The

it

soul, the ego, the

space without atmosphere is

a sleepless force

I, is

it

;

expansive, and from which

brought

forth.

Mind-life

is

born

all

which

of the soul in the

large

Being that

is

many forms -is

The

form of ideas innumerable. pregnant with forms of life. nature as the Oversoul,

womb

a

is

life in

;

God

soul

of the is,

is

is

same repre-

sented in the soul and given to the mind, as suggestions that arouse creation.

it

to active thought

Mind cannot be

and to

truly great without a

large soul to give originality.

It

is

a storehouse

from which the mind draws sustenance, restoring There in turn the residuum of its acquisitions. are wombs in which are generated disease and death.

In like manner, there are souls which are

productive of

abnormal

life,

developing the

life

The Self principle in

which

is

God.

2$

many forms foreign to the one form From the normal womb chil-

immortal.

is

dren are born, creating the family which, in expansion,

society and the nation, and the perpetuation

is

But small, mean, collapsed souls that

of the race.

hunger and

thirst for wealth,

dominion, and praise,

wombs which

breed disease, crime,

are abnormal

and disintegration, with

larvae of the soul,

still

infused

life.

Souls are

sence

all

into the

The Oversoul

prolific.

forms that

exist,

mind from the

contains in es-

and inventions come

soul, as a child is

born into

In space, or the Oversoul, are

the external world.

the spirits of the dead

;

we breathe and

think their

elements into our being, thus incorporating them into ourselves.

as

To

think

is

we draw the atmosphere

life,

by the

soul,

into the lungs.

All

to inhale

thought, intelligence, wisdom, charity, are

in-

haled by the mind, as are violence, fear, hatred, avarice,

and kindred passions that belong to the

animal

nature.

If

we

are

candid

and honest,

earnestly desiring love or wisdom, or any quality,

we imagine belongs to God, the dom we have will attract from same

qualities,

— being

All things,

— our

food,

charged with, made up of God,

minister to our higher natures, so.

love or wis-

thus reinforcing our littleness with

the greatness of the All.

our drink,

little

the Oversoul the

The thought we have

of

if

called

God may

on to do give

life

26

Regeneration.

and

vitality, or

atom

its vital life,

We

being.

whose

life,

it

of our flesh.

may poison and disintegrate every To think of anything is to draw

according to our thought of

made up

are

it,

into our

of the lower orders of

coalescing in the higher order,

spirits,

are lost in man, as the bubbles break and are lost

moving waters

in the

of the great

deep

but there

;

remains in the nature the attractive force of each species,

which continues to draw to us the

emanations of every species.

mind

to grasp the truth that a plant

of

are one and the same.

it

Jesus affirmed

:

the same sense as

Animal

life

and many

came

Father are one,"

its

interwoven with the

are

lives

threads of which

it

is

which

woven

essential

is

despise

the cloth

Shall

perfection.

in

man,

into manifestation prior to

fabric of his being, each thread of

to

this,

speak of this body as "me."

I

animal

the

and the seed

In illustrating

my

and

" I

spirit

It is difficult for

When we

}

the

are able

and with the understanding, my sister, the worm," we brother, the beast

to say with the spirit *'

My

may

;

sense the vibrations of

all

animal

language and those mysteries of

we

are

now

in

is

immortal, for

man, as man Evolution

The teeming

is

is

it is

immortal

from one

a concentrating of the

to

in

life of

life ;

know

its

being which

too preoccupied with our

ness to discover.

and earth

life,

its

it

own

little-

sea and air is

immortal

God.

many, but involution

many

is

into one of a higher

TJic

Self

So the genemtion

order.

God.

is

man

of

effected

is

by

coupling generation with dominion of the animal

Thus we perceive that the corruption necessary to generate the Adamic life is effected by the combination of the spirits of the lower orkingdom.

ders, the aggregation of the individualized life of

the

air,

and water.

earth,

In

the monsters of the deep

come

slime of

reptiles

;

man

are gathered

from the poisonous

and nameless creatures the eye

man has never beheld

;

tameless beasts from

accessible jungles; spores from the ooze of

in-

swamps;

microbes and microscopic monsters animalculae and germs which man as yet has never subdued. ;

Plagues, epidemics, fevers, reveal the corruption of

the flesh in which

they are generated from

these animal deposits.

A

step beyond, and behold

the monsters of

Crime and depravity crowd upon

spiritual nature!

this higher

how

have entered into and become our

lower nature

realm for rebirth into a

new

plane of

True, they lose individuality in merging into

being.

the human, but they retain the organic principles of

animal

Their souls rush together, as minute

spirit.

bubbles unite to form a larger one, and blend

in

groups, establishing propensities, antagonistic and

harmonious, each the dominant

This

is

the

group closely connected with

species

source

" Elementals."

of

from which

what

The elements

it

emanated.

Theosophy terms composed of the

are

Regeneration.

28 spirits

below man, and the ferment incident to

mingUng

of spirits

this

forms the corrupt element nec-

There can be no generation

essary to generation.

without a corrupt or complex element, and Regeneration has

its

w^ork in and with the

" Self-preservation It is

fectly

The

is

the

first

God speaking

the voice of

understood by worm,

law

bird,

of

nature."

language per-

in

man.

beast, or

object of creation seems to be the production

of infinite varieties

and

their preservation

petuation in species, and above

the preservation of the self ourselves, even

There

is

when

is

all

and per-

other instincts

dominant.

We

love

fully conscious of our defects.

no evidence that a single man or woman

of the race has fully

outgrown the animal.

tamed, modified, suppressed in slip

same elements.

many

It

persons

;

is

but

the leash, and the fierce, cunning, crafty, or

cowardly ancestors appear, showing clearly that we are of the family.

There can be but one Infinite All, and anything unworthy of reverence. Division is imperTwo Infinite Beings are fection and antagonism. impossible, and so long as the race recognizes two ruling powers, God and the Devil, there can be no less is

unity of

spirit,

Self ought to center.

''I

necessary

To

;

or effort.

The

natural love of the

show us where our reverence should

am,"

is sufficient.

No

other

name

no further search for a creator

explore myself

is

is

avails.

the true work and worship,

;

The Self

is

God.

the only study which will satisfy and repay effort. I

am

aware of no

self

but

my

own, and

can be no antagonisms, for as

judge others.

In

souls, and, as

am

unable

judge myself

exploring myself,

I

is

inferior

I

We

or beneath

to,

I

find other

measure and define another.

judge that which in

recognize

cannot comprehend myself, so

I

to

I

I

Here there

that self in every other in existence.

us

Equality there are neither judges nor verdicts.

The God

within us sees

God everywhere, and

the

devil finds another devil lurking in every other soul.

Man, being progressive, longs and

in his egoistic

for

improvement,

ignorance attempts to improve

nature by going contrary to her methods of progression, with the result that he travels in circles. If

he had the instinct to follow her

would be no inharmony or following his his history

is

in

evil

own conception

lead,

there

the world; but,

of the better road,

a record, for the most part, of un-

successful attempts to reach the goal of well-being.

Taking a broad view

of

human

history,

we

are

forced to the conclusion that the race changes very little

the

from age to age, with first

known

little

improvement since

records were made.

Ignorance

and depravity remain about the same, emphasized by the small proportion of those who have evolved above

their

fellows,

rising

above the

swamps, the

which

exceed the

still

like

valleys,

mountain-peaks plains,

hill-tops in area

and

and

seas,

fruitful-

Regejicration.

30 ness,

many

The gods

thousand-fold.

to

whom we

build temples and offer oblations are admired, loved,

and adored

them

the awakened reason discovers

until

to be myths, or

heroes,

who

after

all,

vague memories of dead

are only larger images of our-

selves.

and every soul who will turn inward the search-light of desire and love may find

God

is

And

him.

the

within,

I,

he

which

ness.

God

will

is

is

be found concealed

is

weak and

is

in

self,

being the providence

ignorant, even as the mother-love

the providence of the babe.

to perfect

the

our Providence, and the noblest man-

ifestation of the God-Self

of the

in

one with the Universal Conscious-

manhood, the way

This of

is

the true road

Regeneration, the

conscious presence of the Divine Light of Illumination.

CHAPTER

III.

Polarity.

Man

appears to be a separate entity, a being

cut loose from the earth and the various forms of

nature whose spirit animates other Hving things.

He

has within himself a sense of unity and com-

pleteness, while in fact he ing,

made up

of

master of any

many

of

is

a most composite be-

natures and not thoroughly

His power consists not

them.

one homogeneous force which he

of

many forms

of force,

absolute master.

mind

scatters

and of none

The energy and

and divides

bining and focusing

spirit,

His

it.

faith

for

the

of himself,

— the

is

he

instead of com-

to lay hold of the supra-natural

influence

but of

activity of his

him

paralyzing

rules,

of these

would enable if

the

of

it

were not

knowledge

doubts, uncertainties, and weak-

nesses he perceives within. In the unity of his being, himself,

if

he could believe

man it,

is

as free as

God

but the opposing

forces originating in and the result of the combi-

nation in him of

and

sea,

abject

make slave

all

the elements of

of

him the

of

circumstance. 31

air,

veriest coward, the

Separated

earth,

most from

Regene7'ation.

32

the natural world, he

on

infant

He

yet as dependent as an

is

changes,

its

good or

its

aspires to be greater than he

ing that he

and to

is

thus prov-

created to be superior to nature

When

laws save the law of Will.

all

aspects.

evil is,

has conquered, combined,

he

made homogeneous the

composite elements of his being, that which he wills to do,

have, or

to

The antagonisms

plished.

ferment

to

in

blood and

spirit,

be, in

will

accom-

be

body and

soul,

the

those restless, seething

passions that generate disease and crime, are due to the corruption of Generation,

man endeavors

as

to

forces of his being.

creatures below

man

;

which manifests

unify

the

Energy

is

many-particled diffused

but in his nature

it

in is

the

com-

bining, in process of attraction to a center, des-

tined to a perfect unity and a perj^etual radiation.

In creation the

was of

in

ONE

first

division of Divine

Unity

the development of polarity, the division into

TWO, Male and Female

— the antago-

becoming generative. In the vast domain of the universe, from the highest to the lowliest thing, from the crudest matter to the most ethereal, there is nothing un-

nisms

of spirit

polarized.

The

earth, herself

a living, animate,

conscious entity, the mother of a numerous family,

has two poles. self-poised,

Traversing space, self-supported,

her motion

equalized by polarity.

is made possible, and is The north and south poles

Polarity.

33

and through countless ages have The earth is a mys-

are antagonists,

warred against each other.

whose alphabet is She makes a journey yearly

terious being, the third letter of still

be learned.

to

around the sun, but never traverses precisely the

same

changing her path slightly with each

orbit,

known as the proThe changes going on and human intelligence

revolution, the variation being

cession of the equinoxes. in

the earth are so gradual,

so weak, and

mystery

life

so short for observation, that the

and growth are as much an unnow as when the pyramids were know that her surface is altering per-

of her life

solved problem

We

built.

together with

ceptibly

woman

with

she

child,

her climates, and, like a

becoming more rotund,

is

as she travels the cycles of time

and the oceans

of space.

Geology

tells

us that

the poles of

the earth

change, not being reversed, but gradually drawn together to a center at the equator, producing cata-

clysms where continents

become dry

Such

land.

sink

and

changes

ocean

beds

require

vast

stretches of time in which the achievements of

man appear air.

of as little value as writings

made

This period of the earth's regeneration

is

in in

progress now, the poles are drawing together, the perfect sphere

is

flattened at the poles,

and the

circumference, enlarged at the equator, promises the birth of a

new

earth, or rather the

Regenera-

Regeneratioji.

34

tion of the old one,

advance to a higher plane

its

of growth.

New

Behold the

pathway

Earth that

in the wilderness of

to be

is

be made, and again the morning stars together, for the old shall pass will

A

!

new

suns and stars

will

shall sing

away and

all

things

become new.

So

the

in

human

race

pearing, the positive

;

antagonisms are disap-

drawing

is

to the negative,

the male and the female forces are coming gether,

Equality

the

in

is

taking

are

souls

air,

who

Duality principle,

things,

is

place

of

and the future

with the glory the great those

the

God

is

has in

to-

thrones.

pregnant store for

love their kind. is

easily

demonstrated

which

that

constitutes

not so readily

made

between the earth's poles

but the third

;

the

trinity

apparent.

lies

the

of

Midway

equator, the

region of fiercest heat, the source of motion and fecundity, the

womb

of Generation.

It

gion where reigns eternal sunshine, and

be termed the in

his

physical

home

the

may

is

re-

fitly

Man

of the planet's soul.

structure

mother, the earth.

is

an epitome of his

Like her he

is

polarized, the

brain being one pole, the sex organs the other,

with the solar plexus, the sun of man's physical system,

midway between the two is the home of the soul

solar plexus

The

poles. ;

here

is

gen-

erated heat, and in this region the digestive forces

Polarity.

have their sphere of

Here

activity.

a winged

real mail, not

is

located

tJie

biped, nor a four-footed

beast, nor a serpent of the jungle, but the evolv-

and revolving being we know as

involving,

ing,

Here

man.

is

he extracts the

chemical

his

currents of energy, tion

energy

product of

the union of food with the

concentration of the

ments

of the

of

life

combination,

and

air,

essences of

thus the

is

all

the ele-

three kingdoms of nature, and of

All forms thus release their self-existent

spirit. life

in

brain.

a

is

it

to the organs of genera-

first

and secondly to the

Human

laboratory, wherein

from food, distributing

life

principle for the generation

Through

man.

and subsistence

this diversity of life

come the

antagonisms, the wars and fightings within man,

and without

in

his

environment

;

it

is

Nature's

Generation, and the strife of particles inheres in the very blood, bones, flesh, and mind, not only of

man, but

of

all

living

things.

This ferment

is

new forms

of

necessary to create, to bring forth life,

and

it

is

really a process of corruption

and

decay.

In this later age tion,

race.

and

is

He

as obscene

half is

man

looks askance at Genera-

ashamed

of its processes in the

prone to regard

and vulgar.

all

mention

of

it

Inertia, non-creation, celi-

bacy, and childless wedlock are exponents of his

thought; and he neutralizes, when

it

is

possible.

Regeneration.

36

The

the creative plan of his Maker.

spirits

which

St. Paul speaks of as warring in his members are

in

principle,

and the

down together

in a

union which

wisdom and the

health,

:

the lamb

lion the

type of

In the Regeneration these two will

the male. lie

Adam

every son and daughter of

the feminine

will

all-conscious

fulness of cosmic consciousness.

produce

life

— the

Ignorance,

dis-

and death, are the products of Generthe fulness of Regeneration they will no

ease, crime,

ation

;

in

But the foundation must be

longer be known. laid ere the

house

built; the physical life

is

be purely natural before the body

and

if

must

can be

Generation must precede regenera-

regenerated. tion,

itself

its

results are disease

and weakness,

the outcome can only be death and decay. Perfect polarity marks the highest plane that subject to the action of polarity.

It

is

is

not the

perfect equilibrium, where motion ceases, but such

an equalized state of the forces that the soul controls

both poles. control the earth's motion as

Thought does not

she wheels around the sun; attraction, the love she

has for the glorious mortality,

it is

life-giver,

the symbol of im-

that causes her to turn the equator,

her soul center, ever towards him.

The nance organs

soul of

man

alternately ;

for

is

a

from

vacuum the

that draws suste-

brain

and the sex

thought and emotion are the only

Polarity.

mediums

of in2:ress to the soul,

these activities must be equal. is

as destructive to soul

either pole

The overbalancing

The

of

control or dominance of matter

unreliable and

is

Too mu ch thought

destructive to tranquil, health-indu-

is

cing motion.

by mind

and to be healthful

growth and expansion as

excessive sex activity.

is

37

nance of mind by matter

is

fitful,

while the domi-

altogether evil in

its

This irrepressible conflict of the poles

effects.

of

being

its

effects

the

is

mainspring of

downward

tend

but

civilization,

rather than

upward.

kingdom

of

heaven.

Equality and Freedom are the poles of

Immor-

Dominance

not

is

of

the

tality.

Only the Great God who

posing

poles

can regulate

their

is

op-

betiueeii

motion.

It

is

destructive action that needs control in man, and that control

is

the result of thought and emotion

in equal play; the gentle, persistent influence of op-

posites acting and reacting on each other through

the

medium

dwells.

of

the soul, the center where

Self-control

but such control

is

is

God

the ideal of government,

always

partial.

The mind

governs only a small fraction of any man, for passion, like fire, hisses defiance to the

waters of rea-

son, unless they are poured out before

the tiny

spark has become a destructive flame.

Love

is

self-acting

and und^i^ no_cqntrol, ruling

us through the emotions and by thought. passions which destroy happiness and

life

The

are put

R ege7ieratio7t.

38

under our JLove. son, but ness,

feet

by merging opposing forces in is rightly polarized by rea-

Sex passion quenching

— destroys

it

destroys health and happi-

the race.

CHAPTER

IV.

Christian Regeneration.

The

is full of religions, of teachers, and of Regarded from any standpoint, all other are overtopped by that which embodies

world

priests.

religions

the real teachings of Jesus as distinguished from th_eology, or so-called Christianity.

Jesus came five hundred years after Gautama, the

Buddha, who remodeled Brahmanism and checked

Gautama denied the existence

idolatry in India. of

any God as a creator and ruler of the universe,

and taught that man alone could achieve salvation through the merit of good karma, which

is

the merit

Jesustaught the parental care and

of actions.

providence of a Divine Father and the godhood resident in man, his son.

Gau tama sought

a

way whereby

the successions

of birth into matter could be lessened

ended

and death, how to

man how

and

finally

overcome sorrow become immortal here and now,

Jesus taught

;

to

thus becoming an independent factor

in existence,

karma and reincarnaimmense evolution in

not subject to the laws of tion.

Note

thought,

in

in

the

this

the

five

hundred 39

years

between

40

Regejieration.

Gautama's time and the advent

of

No

Jesus.

teacher prior to Jesus had advocated the attain-

ment

Gautama

of immortality while in the flesh.

never hinted such a possibility, although respects the teachings of the

The

two were

many

in

similar.

conclusions reached from the teachings of

Jesus will depend upon whether they are under-

mean

stood to

exactly what he

said in the four gospels.

If

question the writings of origin,

we

is

reported to have

leaving out of the

so,

others,

all

of

doubtful

reach the conclusion that he taught the

doctrine of the immortality of the body.

Much depends on Remembering

the definition of terms used.

the ignorance and unbelief of the

apostles in their undeveloped

why

so

much

tions, or

stage, the reasons

of the teachings of Jesus are abbrevia-

ambiguous, are explained.

The

records

which ought to have contained some elucidations of his doctrines are merely narrations of his doings.

Such narratives are a matter

of

certainly require no inspiration. is in

his sermons, parables,

report

or the

reporter.

memory they The inspiration ;

and sayings, not

Lapses

in

in the

memory

are

human, and the disagreements and differences the four gospels are thus easily explained.

in

The

narratives are not ''the gospel truth."

The

miracles ascribed to Jesus were evidently

looked upon by the writers of these narratives, as exhibitions of

power

to exalt the ma7i, rather than

Christiafi Regeneration.

as vehicles to race.

It

convey grand truths

must be evident

to

41

of value to the

every thoughtful per-

son, that the gospel of Jesus, as taught by him, was that of health and life on the earth, to which end he healed the sick at every opportunity. Often in synagogue and temple, he preached to

the people of a this life

;

new

life,

of a better

way

of living

where are those sermons

but, alas,

A

?

few denunciations of hypocrites, a few hard words hurled at the aristocratic church of the time, are all

remain.

that

sayings, there

is

In giving an

account

of

his

incompleteness, garbled extracts

with only a few words which were remembered by

someone who heard' him, and afterwards repeated to someone else who may have wTitten them down. As an evidence of the want of apprehension of the

apostles, observe

the

frequency with which

Jesus explained to them in private the meaning of

\Miy

the parables. all if

that

his

did he talk to the

people at

teaching was so enveloped in mystery

none could understand him

.?

He

was a

former, and to change customs and opinions

it

re-

was

necessary that he should speak plainly and simply,

expounding what were to the masses dark sayings, and without doubt that is just what he did. It is the report alone which

ample,

the

is

conversation

idea then enunciated

odemus might

obscure.

with

Take

for ex-

Nicodemus.

The

was so astounding that Nic-

well ask the question that he asked.

42

Regeneration.

Can we imagine

that

one-tenth or even a hun-

dredth part of the teaching of Jesus on that occasion

is

recorded

on the face of law, his

The

?

made

declaration

was,

entirely at variance with natural

it,

and we cannot

belie v^e that

Jesus would leave

remarkable statement with so

little

elucidation,

thus insulting the intelligence of the distinguished

man who, night,

in

search of

when he

him out

truth, sought

at

could be free from interruption.

That Nicodemus went away

own

in his

satisfied

mind of the profundity of the Master's teaching, whether he was ready to accept it or not, is evident from the regard he showed for him ever afterward.

Yet there

nothing reported that could,

is

unaided, satisfy a searching mind as to the nature of Regeneration, or the It is

way

to

its

attainment.

evident from the declaration,

"Except ye

be born again ye cannot see the kingdom of God,"

and again, Spirit

ye

" If

ye be not born of water and the

cannot enter the kingdom

that something in

of

relation to sex inheres

teaching of Jesus on this important theme.

God," in

the

Both

these declarations are vague, and to the majority

minds incomprehensible, and the interpretations Baptism as given by the church are equally vague. of

a saving ordinance, the gift of the

immanent presence supposed to relate to the washing

away

God the new

of

of sin

in

Holy Ghost, the

the Eucharist,

birth,

all

— together with

by the blood

of atone-

C/iristian Regeneration.

ment,

— serve only as points of separation and showdegeneracy of the

plainly the

We

Christ."

of

which Jesus denounced the very

the time

are now^

churches

the

find

in

suffering,

lived,

evils

Body today

of

of

civilization

notwithstanding

under which we

language not

in

"

so-called

advanced beyond the

not a whit

he

43

to

be

mis-

construed.

One ought

to

condemn nothing unless prepared

something

to point to

better,

and unless a plain

and certain way to a more advanced type

of

Re-

generation than that held by the Christian Church

can be pointed out,

it

w^ere better to leave that

conception to work out such good results as

may

be possible even to truth misunderstood and effoH misdirected. It is

any

not possible for a perfect thing to

better

the

;

basic

principles

become

that

Jesus

taught are perfect, and can never be excelled, but the

human

ovate,

to

gospel as

was life

nature which they are designed to renbuild anew,

it

fell

from the

is

the Master, or as

objectified in the so-called miracles

and death, was much of

the wayside

and

in the

The

very imperfect.

lips of

it

and

it

in his

seed scattered by

stony places and

arid

where the perfect seed could only produce imperfect results. These imperfect results, this degenerate form of Christianity, is that which was organized in the churches and which soil,

Regeneration.

44

weak

survives to the present day, a that

imitation of

immortaUty which Paul says Jesus brought

to Hght.

In the interview with Nicodemus, ''

Art thou a master

these

in

What

things?"

which

Evidently

things?

physiological facts relating

Jesus says,

and knowest not

Israel,

the

with

generation

to

persons of education would naturally be

all

The

acquainted.

" earthly things" alluded to

have been facts of physical generation and

must birth,

while the ''heavenly things" had reference to the

second birth and to the creature made new and completely fitted

enter

to

the

into

kingdom

of

which kingdom he elsewhere positively

heaven,

declares to be "within you."

There was a wide difference between the natand the regenerate man in the thought of

ural

Jesus,

as

wind bloweth where

it

the sound thereof, but

Cometh, or whither is

new

birth,

men and women who

the Spirit

they are

The ^

''

like

it

canst not ;

a

so

tell is

whence

common

more

like

it

everyone that this test

experience for

to affirm that they are "

are no

The

and thou hearest

Notwithstanding

is

born of

the wind than

horses and oxen.'

doctrine of the

.See the story of Philip

ample of one born

listeth,

goeth

it

born of the Spirit."

of the

"

evidenced by the statement,

is

and

of the spirit.

new the

birth,

eunuch

in

marks the

Acts

\\\\.

differ-

39, 4c, for

an ex-

Christian Regencratioji.

ence between Christianity and It is is

all

45

other religions.

the great legacy of Jesus to the faith, but

it

impossible to harmonize the different views of

what constitutes Regeneration that are held by the various sects of Christendom.

All other religions teach the doctrine of future

rewards for good conduct and punishment for acts,

—

way whereby the quence of

sinner

may

ust conse-

mysteriously applied to efface from the

be

by the

edge or remembrance of his Salvation

boast,"

j

way of belief that the Jew who suffered on Calvary,

eternal record, written

*'

escape the

his evil deeds, the

blood of the gentle

can

evil

but Christian theology assumes to provide a

is

sinner,

not of works lest any

and that appears

to

all

knowl-

Paul says

ill-doing.

man

:

should

be the generally

re-

ceived opinion of the churches, a death-bed repent-

ance being a passport direct to " miansions

in

the

Most murderers become "Christians"

skies."

at

the near prospect of a gibbet, passing, according to this theology,

through the gate of repentance and

belief in

the atoning blood of a Saviour into the

company

of

"the pure

"see God."

in

heart"

Belief then in certain

who

alone shall

dogmas

of the

church must, according to this theory, constitute the

new

cess,

birth,

which

is

Regeneration, and the pro-

forsaking natural methods of gestation and

growth,

ranking

is

at

instantaneous, the foul being thus born,

once with the hoary saint

who has

Regeiicratioji.

4-6

''seen of the travail of his soul" in giving birth to the slowly

growing

"

new

creature."

Except a man be born again he cannot even

kingdom of God." These words must wrung from the lips of the Great Mashave been ter in view of the blindness and depravity of man^^

see the

kind.

Who

has

understood

meaning,

his

understanding, has reported the truth

To open wide is

the gate of

belief,

or

}

— which

after

all

only opinion, something held by the mind until

knowledge

attained;

is

—

make broad and easy

to

the "way," which Jesus declared to be ''strait"

and "narrow," seems to be the mission of the Certainly

churches.

none

declared should follow with

on him, with the

belief

all

" signs "

the

of

who

those

of faith,

he

believed

which

is

the

soul's knowledge,

not the mind's opinion, can be

said to follow the

modern

According to

believer.

the teaching of Jesus, a man's belief was only the

beginning of his journey Godward, not the end; for

he said

:

"

Not everyone who sayeth

'

Lord,

Lord,' shall enter the kingdom, but he w^ho doeth

the will of

my

Father."

Paul,

Master, thought differently

The

who never saw

early

on the new ^Messiah "had

mon," previous

way

to

immor-

churches were organized on

communistic principles, for the lievers

the

however, taught

he,

Jesus showed the

theology, \vhile tality.

;

little all

flock of

be-

things in com-

to the organization of the church.

CJiristian Regeneration.

Force,

man's

actuates

that

47

animal

directly antagonizes the spiritual principle,

nature,

which

is

love; therefore the teaching of Jesus, ''Resist not

the spirit of

evil,"

meekness and non-resistance

which prepares the way to Regeneration, is not acThe unregenerate ceptable to the natural man. Peter w^hen he smote off the ear of the High Priest's servant, brought on himself the stern rebuke of "

the Master,

Put up thy sword," together wnth

the intimation that legions of angels were ready to respond to his call

if

he wished to array force

against force.

In the dismay resulting from the Master's apparent death on the cross, the disciples

fell

from the

state of absolute belief in the words of Jesus,' into the

They had

horrors of doubt.

significance of his teaching

;

not grasped the inner

even

he had suffered death

like all

this turmoil of

how

spirit,

if

he rose again,

mortal things.

difficult

presence, himself in his immortal body ent, but the

we

same

!

In

to realize his ;

not differ-

Nineteen hundred years

after,

and hesitation congealed into his immortality as Man, his denial of positive the deification as God, and the assertion in the lives find that distrust

of his

reputed follow^ers that only gods can

hfe, or die as

live his

he did into immortality of the entire

being, body, soul, and spirit.

Gautama counseled "

He

that believeth

on me

his followers that, on passing

shall never die."

Regeneration.

48

from among them, he should no more return, or heed or hear if they called on him for help. Jesus,

"when

on the contrary, assured the disciples that

two

were gathered together

or three

in his

name,

there he should be in the midst of them,'' and that

whatever they asked of the Father should be granted.

It

was

in

his

name

this declaration that

induced them to meet together to weep and mourn as they recalled his teaching,

and from such small

gatherings sprang the church with

and

its

public worship

social prayer-meeting, all in distinct opposition

to his closet

command and

"

:

sJiut

When

which Jesus denounced

come the

The

in

corner-stone of

Regeneration

ye pray, enter into thy

door^

tJic

The

public worship

the Pharisees, has bethe Christian

ideal of

!

Christ in Jesus announced- the fulfilment of

the law of force, and ushered in the law of love;

immediate followers conceived the

yet even his

command

to

love as

God

loves to be a love of

external objects, rather than an inward

How

condition. of force

—

difficult

it

spiritual

was to reverse the law

to live the law of love

—

for the first

followers of Jesus appeared in the incipient organization

of

the

church.

Ananias

and

Saphira

keeping back a part of their property, and lying about

it,

were

by Peter. of spiritual

Oh,

slain

by the

spiritual force wielded

pitiful spectacle

power

!

The

prostitution

to the rule of force in -the

man-

Christian Regeneration.

agement church

The should

of the temporal

49

interests of

the infant

!

pozver was be,

but

it

there,

as

Jesus

promised

gradually withdrew from

it

the

church, together with the power of healing the^sick, casting out devils, speaking in tongues, the spirit of prophecy, gifts

the

and the communion of angels.

These

have passed from the church, together with regenerating

love

that

alone

made

them

possible; the church has left the secret recesses of

the soul to appear only in glib words of formal religion

on the tongue.

Jesus urged on his follow-

immense value of Silence, showing them the emptiness of wordy and resounding prayers, ers the

which have their reward

and assuring them that secret "

in

the approbation of men,

*'the

Father who seeth

would openly reward the prayer

No one

is

required to regenerate another

would be a vain

effort.

in

of silence. ;

it

Regeneration requires a

constant inward gaze, together with patient effort to i)idraiu the animal or force nature, that

be transformed into Spiritual Love.

it

may

CHAPTER

V.

The World of Chance. Evidences

of design in the structure of the uni-

verse abound on every hand.

The

reign of law

is

everywhere apparent, and equally apparent are the exceptions, giving birth to the axiom, " Exceptions All rules have exceptions, which

prove the rule."

We

we term

accidents.

tion

we have only an

is

;

do not

know what

idea of

it.

perfec-

In nature

everything shows some degree of wisdom adaptation to ends,

but

its

the distortions of

in

its

working and mechanism form, the

aberrations

;

of

mind, the abortive efforts that meet us on every side, plainly

The most

teach that wisdom

perfect plan

petty accident.

What

particular from the

may be

is

not universal.

spoiled

by some

of the child perfect in

every

eyes to the extremities, but

above the eyes having the head and ears of a calf

Evidently the wise design was the produc-

?

tion of

a perfect

human

being, but the plan

is

thwarted by the opposing force which we call accident and, with or without design, a monster is produced, something before

name

**a freak."

unknown which we

Freaks are the exceptions to 50

The World of Chance.

May we

Nature's order.

5

I

not suppose them to be

beginnings of another variety of the human, or

human-animal

kingdom,

upon

encroaching

the

domain of human nature, the outcome of another form of nature where the manifestations are not orderly and the human is not yet dislegitimate

tinctly separate

We

from animal

life

?

speak of nature as a unit

but

there are

realms of nature other than this which

we know,

with

its

cies, in

;

endless variety of forms, objects, and speall

which

of

are one and the same. to another, but

it is

life,

consciousness, sensation

Life passes from one form

always the same

life,

although

no consciousness remains of any previous condition, for

memory

is

weak

So

at its best.

life

may

pass from one order to another, from one nature to another,

growing greater here and

without losing an atom of

That one form far speculation,

its

less

there

essential quality.

of life evolves

from another

is

inasmuch as the connecting link

so is

deny the merging beyond the grave since the connecting link is not open to the vision of all. What we are to be no one actually knows. Probundiscovered, and

it

is

logical to

of this life into another

ably the grub does not dream that

it

is

to be a

and there is no evidence that the butremembers its previous form of life. And

butterfly, terfly

such memoiy,

if it

existed,

would hardly enhance

the pleasure of his gorgeous majesty.

Perhaps we

Regeneration.

52

should shrink with horror

life

very

The

future

her best one's

pleasure

little

is

rest

is

we knew what we had

if

Even

been a century ago.

is

one brief span

in

of

derived from memory.

man's sweetheart, and he who loves

the happiest.

Doubt

and

present

robs

the

of her disturbs

of

value.

its

All the religions that have blessed or cursed man-

kind have their roots in the future.

Hunting Grounds Heaven of the

of

of

the

Indian,

The Happy the Kingdom

Christian, the Nirvana of the

Buddhist, the Spheres of the Spiritualist,

all

attest

the fact that the undiscovered, the unknown, feeds

known

the soul, even as the

The

feeds body and mind.

plodding farmer ploughs in the cold and the

He

rain of the present, but he lives in the future.

sees the glittering harvest cover his soul

his

fed by hope and imagination.

is

It

and

fields,

is

well that the future,

all

unknown, takes

form through the agency of the imagination. It is well also that the past is hidden from view by

heavy curtains

of ignorance

and darkness.

past of the chaiice natin^e where

heads, or animals with heads of

That

men with animal men stalk abroad

;

where order and system are in embryo where wisdom is unknown where freaks are the dawning of order, the outgrowth of experiment, or if you ;

;

like,

the

invite

result

the mind

of

evolution

—

all

this

does

not

to turn backward, nor allure the

soul as do the promises of the future.

Albeit out

The Woi'ld of of this chaos, this

form

CJiaiice.

53

which we fondly

of nature,

imagine to be complete, has evolved, growing as

We need no longer puzzle over our want of wisdom, our incompleteness, and the lack in most men of the

everything grows toward completeness.

truly

human

The

spirit.

good, the beautiful, the

useful, are the result of culture, as the finest fruits

of the earth are the result of thought, attention,

and intelligent

labor.

growth and per-

Spiritual

fection are attained in no other way.

The

man is the Divine Triad Wisdom and these elements

spiritual nature in

Love, Will, and

of

;

of conscious individuality are not

made

to order,

created in perfection, but are evolved by culture,

through thought and action.

The "

first

Heaven's

manifestation first

derlying nature which of chance, accident,

which we

exist

is

of

knows no

imprison

order,

The realm

in

a realm of law, but chaos smoulfire

which occasion-

breaks through the walls which

built to

is

law, the realm

and disorder.

ders underneath, a quenchless ally

wisdom

law," clearly pointing to that un-

it.

Wisdom

Disorder then runs

riot

has

and

monsters appear, just as from some superior world strange natures intermingle with ours, producing a gentle Jesus, a wise Socrates, a devoted Buddha, or

some

musical, mathematical, or artistic prodigy.

The genius

that astonishes reveals a superior order

of nature

monstrosities

;

a

lower form, deficient

Regeneratio7i.

54 in

method

bUnd

the sport of

in its productions,

force working without knowledge of the end to be

Thus we

achieved.

see there

may be many forms we Hve in.

of nature besides those of the workl

The

nature in which

we

find ourselves

is

subdi-

vided into many, as organic and inorganic, brute

and human

;

but there

certain points of contact is

or

no relation or

affinity

a certain resemblance,

between order and

between certainty and chance.

chance does not

If

disorder,

a realm of

whence comes the influence harmony of this realm, bringing

exist,

that wrecks the to

is

between them, while there

naught the best

nature under rule

laid

Surely a form of

plans.

may have

opposite, or

its

may

be intermingled with millions of forms related to this only as being, in the lower forms,

animated by

universal force and, in the higher ranges, by the

expansion of that force into automatic Will, Love,

and Wisdom

is

orderly without

law, systematic without friction,

and harmonious

;

a nature that

without discord. exists

is

found

Evidence that a chance nature

in the uncertain action of the ele-

ments, the wind for instance, that it

listeth "

''

bloweth where

apparently without method and to no

definite end.

The seasons appear

regularly obe-

dient to law, but as to the wind and the rains, are

they intelligently controlled, or ful force of disorder

is

there a power-

with which Intelligence wages

an unceasing and persistent war

?

;

TJie

World of Chance.

appears that mankind

It

is

55

controlled

more by

chance than by intelligence, else war and crime would cease there is too little mind among men, ;

and consequently too little in the elements, to produce harmony of action there is too much matter and too little wisdom. ;

there a nature where

Is

grossness

We

?

Wisdom

various methods of getting into

Buddhist and the Christian

— are

cording to Buddhism, there are

many

hells in the after life

a return

to

exceeds the

are taught that there

the earth

human, from human

;

it

is

and that

— notably the

Ac-

practised.

many heavens and

a going out from and

changes from brute to

;

to brute nature

;

the soul

al-

ternately in heaven and in hell, with incarnations in

matter between. nally, there

ment

This existence

may go on

eter-

being but one way out of the entangle-

of reincarnation

:

the entire being must be

so trained as to be void of desire, free from influ-

ence from the external world, which sion,

is

Maya,

illu-

the cause of the entanglement of the Soul in

the meshes of Matter, the prolific source of

all

evil.

The from

persistent discipline necessary to freedom

all

sense impressions unbalances the nature,

turning the forces inward and thwarting the devel-

opment

of the soul,

express or manifest India,

priest-ridden,

which should use matter to itself.

Hence the

ignorant

inertia of

and retrogressive

Rege7ieratioii.

56 vital rial

only

when the masterful

Anglo-Saxon races have touched

Monasticism, with is

spirit of

the mate-

her.

primal tenet of celibacy,

its

the outcome of contempt for the external world

and

its

uses, together with a frantic effort to di-

vide that which

one, the

is

God laughs

into two.

at

male and the female,

such

folly,

and the great

primal forces play throughout the worlds while a

slow decay, the curse of outraged nature, blights the virility of the race or nation dominated by the

hoary fraud. Virility in proper use

individuals and races.

It

makes

for expansion

in

creates the family, which

is

the natural and healthy growth of the nation

it

recreates the individual

of love

and benevolent

by expanding the

feeling.

from that hideous nightmare toils for

Nirvana

;

It frees

;

limits

the soul

of selfishness

which

for placid, undisturbed serenity

for self. It is

is

a fact that through celibacy clairvoyance

sometimes developed, but to what end clairvoyant

celibate ecstasies,

may

may

.?

The

experience trances and

see the heavens opened like Saint

John, and behold the trampling horses, the chariots

and hosts, the beasts from the chance world,

and

all

the gorgeous, fearful, mysterious wonders

of another condition of being, a meaningless phan-

tasmagoria over which the ages gle,

or

blindly

adore.

How

may

puzzle, wran-

few such visions

TJie

World of

C/ia?ict\

57

stretch forth helpful hands to humanity Forced growth cannot bear the natural sunshine and rains, !

the free, changeable rush of

the winds that

all

blow, and the hothouse plant must be kept under

and use

glass for the pleasure

When race,

of a

chosen few.

expansion ceases in the individual or the

weakness, decay, and death are at hand, and

From

celibacy paralyzes expansion.

priesthood of India

came

caste with

the celibate its

iron bond-

The mo-

age, thwarting nature on every hand.

nasticism of the

Roman

church

loose on the

let

world the monsters of the Inquisition, which, after fearful struggles, like beaten hounds, slunk

back

into the darkness of the under-world of ignorance

and disorder; that chance world, devoid

of

wisdom

which were opened by the celibate priesthood, whose power to create was sub-

and

law, the doors of

verted into an engine of destruction.

No

longer

free themselves, they strove to contract the limits of thought for

all

the world.

The dynamic power

of all things

is

in the

com-

bination of the three primal principles, Lo\'e, Wjll,

and Wisdom

;

these constitute an infinite reservoir

from which we may draw

at

will

by focusing

all

our power on Love, loving Love wholly and willing only good, and this

is

Wisdom

which, in

ness, will eliminate the world of chance.

its

ful-

Spirit,

concentrating, forms a soul, or center of power, the

beginning of mind.

This

is

the

evolvement

of

Regeneration.

58

from darkness, the division

light

One

of

The

shows an wdsdom to

the latter void of

head on a human body

adjustment of parts, but the produce harmony and order through

intelligent

the entire being for the uses of

nature.

calf's

Infinite

and the De-

into the finite two, the Builder

stroyer, the former intelligent, intelligence.

the

It

lacking.

is

most

It

claimed that

is

vain to search

is

chance operations

of the

all

of

events are under

the reign of law, that there are no accidents in

and world

this life

;

but the very existence of law

presupposes something outside of

guarded against

or

controlled,

Plant a seed in the earth,

again.

nature that

it

thousand fold

shall ;

to be guided,

it

chaos come

lest

—

it

is

germinate and multiply

a law of itself

a

but then come the weeds to choke,

insects to devour, with blight, mildew, drought, or

— the whose action — condition

come

of

side

of

is

law,

laws the out-

conflicting

result of

deluge,

disorder,

a

something out-

antagonistic

to

the

orderly march of fertility, which must be guarded against

by the wisdom

of

the husbandman.

But he

is and plan as wisely as he may, helpless in the hands of the remorseless Chance

after

toil

which sends rain before It

we

is

its

all

to his ruin, or a destructive frost

proper time.

better to think that this nature in which

live is

wise and good and

all

right,

interfered with, than to believe that

all

when not things are

World of Chance,

TJie

ordered by an for in that case

wise and

all

intelligent

all

we cannot escape the

that the chance operations of

life, its

and catastrophes, are the work nant

59

of a

Being,

conclusion

''accidents

"

most malig-

spirit.

knew how he could check the

the farmer

If

growth

weeds, banish destructive insects and

of

guide the mind,

its

rain

clouds

inability to control the

The measure

out.

will

at

;

but

the lack of

feebleness in mankind, accounts for our

elements within and with-

of control

we can

exercise over

the subtile elements of our physical and spiritual

forms

fixes

the ratio of our control over the subtile

elements which surround spiritual conditions are late,

how can we

If

us.

our physical and

beyond our power

to regu-

control the wind and the

rain

}

We are intimately connected with and related to the external world, and our states of

much

are as

who

is

mind and body

subject to accident or chance.

absolute master of his

speak health into diseased conditions, tempest, raise the dead, or

impalpable

still

make bread out

story of

the

of the

the powers of

not an idle

tale,

yet the powers ascribed

him are not those

of a

God, but are such as be-

Jesus to

The

ether.

He

own organism can

is

long to another form of nature, a condition which all

men may

We to this

have life,

reach through regeneration. lived, suffered,

but the

memory

enjoyed, and died prior of that past

is in

most

6o

Regeneration.

Although we

cases wholly dissipated.

memory

of

it,

we once

retain

no

inhabited a form of nature

so dissimilar to this that the imagination refuses to picture

shall

pass out of this

remembering perhaps

another,

some

We

it.

of its

many

for

events, but of

into

life

time

a short

what use

is

such

With some, doubtless, memory perThose who are done with this human nature will pass out of it, some into a

memory ishes at

t

once.

others

higher,

into

a lower

nature where accidents the exception.

nature,

are the

the chance

and order

rule,

In the higher form of nature

dividuality exists without law, consciousness

is

in-

ac-

cording to desire, for one feels as he wishes to feel

and the

will plays

child with his toys.

notes of an infinite fected souls

man

with the laws of nature as a

The worlds of space are the anthem sung by the grand per-

who have

fulfilled

the laws of the hu-

nature by wise and orderly use.

This other

higher and freer nature was sensed by Gautama as Nirvana.

Those who reach Nirvana escape the

whirl of motion incident to this nature and attain to a condition of being indescribable

and almost

inconceivable.

Wisdom Love;

is

begotten by mind concentrated on

or, in other words,

those beloved.

by

will for the

Intelligence and

Love

good in

of

union

bring forth wise action; their products are Har-

mony, Order, and Beauty, while Intelligence with-

TJie

World of

human

out Love gives birth to those half are physical

Vvhich

6i

CJiaitce.

and true understanding; not

sense

creatures

moral monsters,

or

void

of

dege7ierateSy

but beings called up by accident, or by an unrea-

soning gust of passion

germ

of love,

and

blighted

it

;

for although passion

may be checked by

the

in

its

the

is

evolution

power

unreasoning

of

chance.

"In the beginning" there was no order; ''the earth was without form, and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep," when Spirit, concentrating, forced light, to appear

;

life,

form, order, system

but the great void, the unregulated, un-

reasoning force, uncreated ChaftcCy remains, a sub-

stratum of ignorance to ensphere every child born into

human

colleges,

nature.

The world teems with

academies, churches

;

literature to scatter the light of

it

is

schools,

loaded with

knowledge

;

gov-

ernments with standing armies suppress disorder and sternly forbid chaos from overflowing into

human

nature

;

and yet bloody wars, fiendish

cru-

wrong

tes-

elties,

cold-blooded rapacity, fraud and

tify to

a kind of nature inferior to the brute nature,

because lawless, chaotic, and semi-intelligent without even instinctive love.

This form of nature

in

which we are seems to be a mask thrown over the defects and deformities of that other from which

we came not of

it

so long ago, although

all

recollection

has passed from our transient memory, as this

Regeneration.

62 life

too will be forgotten

from

when we

shall

have passed

through the processes of Regeneration.

it

The evidence overwhelming

;

of a future existence for

because he

such communication as

is

he

is,

man

sJiall be.

is

But

possible between that

other nature and this proves that intellect wanes and disappears on the other side instead of increasing in power and brilliancy.

conclude that the appearance of individual intelligences

is

From this we human spirits as

limited to the astral belt

surrounding the earth, from beyond which there

is

Those who pass on take with them only the immortal principles of Love, Will, and Wisdom evolved by the experiences of many incarnations in the mineral, vegetable, animal, and no return.

human The is

planes of this nature. ladder the soul must climb in Regeneration

Love, and the

scious est

life is

first

round

of the ladder in con-

sexual desire, Avhile the last and high-

the Love of the Gods

is

Beyond

is

— Universal

Love.

Nirvana, the Over-soul, in which through

Love, Pity, Tenderness, the

fruit

of social

ence, joined to the Will of the Good,

experi-

the fruit of

moral growth, guided by Wisdom, the harvest of intelligence,

tations

man

source of order, is

Love

ceases to be a creature of limi-

and takes (or

his

among

place

harmony, and

love.

God), expressing

generative functions and in

itself

its

the gods, a

Sexual desire

through the

lowest phases

is

;

TJie

World of

C/iance,

without tenderness, respect, or pity regenerating soul there

is

63 but

;

in

the

a constantly increasing

activity of the creative force welling

up

in gener-

ous emotions and unselfish desires until the whole

man

groans with the burden of sympathy with

weakness and

The

suffering.

suffering and

weak

are the children, the barbarous, the ignorant, and

he who takes advantage of the weak excites in the breast of the good the same pity which is accorded Pity

to the helpless.

is

the chain that unites the

it is the ladder whereby Gods descend to earth for reincarnation. We came out of chaos where is no pity, nor order, nor law we emerged into the orderly realm of Law, where Love, Will, and Wisdom have a beginning

highest and the lowest

;

the

;

we

pass to Nirvana, which

and Love without of the mind,

order without law

Wisdom

and to add continually to

less fire of the soul

acting through

will,

is

the light

this

quench-

the work of Regeneration

is

or desire, and through love.

Concentration, which

Love and

is

limitations.

is

the focusing of mind by

Will, or Desire,

is

the beginning of

re-

straint, which is Law the Word that went forth in the Beginning ''Let there be light !" was the con;

centration of

magnetism out

into an active center,

—

of the formless chaos

a soul.

CHAPTER

VI.

Love, Beauty, and Wisdom.

The

love of beauty

Beauty higher

plane

of

is

instinctive in mankind.

and elevates the soul to a feeling. Flowers, changing

inspires love

clouds, lofty mountains, far-stretching landscapes,

night's starry

are

all

white-crested

vault,

ocean waves

impressive and inspiring preachers.

teach one lesson, they have one gospel

;

They there

is

no controversy among them all express LovCy all show forth Beauty and witness to the Wisdom that ;

Through the appeal to the eye, aroused and mere external beauty dis-

created them.

thought

is

appears in contemplation of the beautiful adaptation in

and adjustment

soul

every part to every other

of

makes the whole. Soon the of harmony in the etheric strains catches the

the order

that

vibration that underlies

all

nature's effects, through

the purifying influence of this harmony in nature all

we grow in virtue and God be Wisdom, he must be wise

unconsciously If

acts,

for

they are his

children.

Every

beauty. in his

act

of

God, man, or beast creates conditions, or makes laws

(synonymous terms), which 64

act

and react

Love, Beauty,

and Wisdoui.

65

throughout the aeons of eternity, lending their fluence to control events and to all

God

things.

in-

mould and fashion

has not ceased creating, nor will

he cease throughout eternity.

"The Kingdom

of

Heaven

within you," said

is

Jesus to the unregenerate Jews, and

man be born

''

except a

again he cannot see the kingdom of

—

That kingdom is the realm of the soul Who does not Beauty, Love and Wisdom. God."

mire himself

}

Who

of

ad-

so worthless as to be willing

somebody else t We may desire to change places and conditions with some one more fortuto be

nately placed, but no one would willingly exchange

Love does not belong to the Wisdom. God loves mainly decorative.

egos with another.

surface of things nor does Beauty nor

External beauty

is

and decorates everything

;

even the meanest ob-

jects glitter in fascinating colors

and Hghts.

They

are object lessons in beauty, pleasing the eye by

the external to attract the mind to the contemplathat immortal beauty which

tion

of

that

sees,

Beauty than

in

is

rather

than

in

the

object

in

the soul

decorated.

truly in the eye of the beholder

and the

things.

Appre-

not excited by the

external

beautiful soul finds beauty in

beauty

is

rather

it,

the object which appeals to

ciation of

is

all

only, for mental beauty far surpasses the physical,

and soul beauty, combining the two, appears in those lovely traits of character which constitute the

Regeneration.

66

wisdom

the

of

Love makes

soul.

lovely in the eyes of lovers,

even

fitness

in

who

what to others

is

and

ugliness.

The

soul of the wise controls the senses

wisdom

sees beauty and

merely physical

persons

all

see beauty

the reason

;

that are concealed from

sight.

Beauty has a voice which calls us out of our lesser selves, moving us to forget our meanness and

littleness

and inspiring admiration. We worwe love, and Love is God. Thus

ship that which

God

born

is

in

us

conceived through the eye as an

;

object and decorated like an idol

;

the mind

'but

discovering the transitory nature of the external discerns the interior loveliness which

is

more

per-

manent, and passing to a higher plane of activity senses

last

at

the

im.mortal beauty of the soul.

Worship stirs the depths of the soul because the soul is Love and is moved when approached by The soul is moved by that which is kindred. the love of the mind, which is admiration the expansion caused by its motion makes room for God. ;

This

is

2:rowin2^

the

path

within

wom.b, and

when

of

Regeneration,

our nature

is

gestation

complete

is

God

for

as a child in

He

is

the

born,

the perfect human.

The

large soul

is

the feeling soul

:

it

feels

an-

woe and weeps. Submerged in the water of As Wisdom passes it feels God in itself.

other's tears,

out of the water into light the soul discovers such

Love, Beauty,

beauty as the physical

and

man may

thus born of Love and of

ing-

Wisdovi.

67

not discern.

Water

is

Be-

be de-

to

from pain and sorrow, disease and death.

livered

Grief

the water of sympathy which the soul

is

sheds out of blind eyes when, for lack of wisdom, she cannot discover the Providence which begets the circumstances

—

that Providence which

another form of the Beauty, Love, and of

only

God.

To him who

sees with the spiritual eye, there

nothing repulsive

;

whose thought

as God's thought.

of

is

Wisdom

is

there

love destroys pain.

is

nothing

is

him

evil

to

The

ecstasy

To Jiim who truly

lives

there is no deatJi.

The golden

sun, the silver stars and planets call

our souls to admiration and worship, in awe and

wonder, of the inconceivable wisdom, the matchless

harmony, the fadeless beauty, the awful power

evidenced by these immortal things.

We

advisedly.

rush to

the

I S7iy

power

unknown from the

known, from the appearance to that which is hidAll motion is due to Will den. it is the motive ;

power

every conscious and "imconscious

of

The worm from

its

the earth

they

from danger,

may

;

the

bird

flies

Fear or desire influences the

move the dead weight generates some things she

Will to ture

crawls

presence.

act.

of the body.

Na-

sets fast rooted in

the roots of others are

provide for themselves.

left freer

that

Li this free-

Regeneration.

68

dom

is

the

manifestation of Will, and Will

first

is

always in the thing that has conscious movement.

Unconscious machinery will,

moved by an

is

but even in this case the motor

We

machine.

worlds

are

infer,

self-conscious

space and moving power of Will. Is

in

that

therefore, living

their orbits

is

outside in

the

and

suns

beings held

in

by the inherent

God because human being 1 The bird poised in air is held aloft by its own We see the bird, but we cannot see or volition. Judging from our own thought feel its thought. and activities, we infer that it sinks and soars in obedience to its own will. it is

in a

There

this Will

sun or planet, a

is

nothing

any

worm

less

or a

or motionless, although

silent

we cannot always perceive either sound or motion, The or, perceiving, we take no account of it. earth groans and protests with shaking and trem-

bling and violent breathing at the boring and tun-

neling of

frame and the destruction

its fair

beautiful forests.

The

tree

woodman's

violence of the

cries

axe,

aloud

of its at

the

and the sawmills

resound with shrieks of the forests'

fair children,

nor will these cries of anguish cease until the

wood

returns to dust.

The

the ocean tides in

we say the wind blows we note the ebb and flow of

earth breathes and

her heart beats and ;

;

her blood rushes white and limpid

streams and rivers on her surface and hidden

Love, Beai(ty, ajid Wisdom.,

69

in

the darkness of her internal structure.

is

order and system in

and beauty

all

her products of

in all

Her changeless

seas.

There

her motions, and wisdom air,

earth,

and

intelligence surpasses the

boasted wisdom of man; his years are fast-fleeting

Her admoni-

seconds beside her ages of duration.

tion impressed on every atom, nerve, tissue,

being

fiber of

Move!

is

Depend upon

*' :

Infinite fields of plenty, of use, of

y

you are winged pictures

if

think,

;

if

You

am

for

lo,

I

!

beauty

Be

!

Fly,

!

you have mind

you have genius,

terns and colors.

I

and

Work

Stand erect

you on every hand.

encircle

yourself free, self-supporting, as

try

yourself!

;

if

paint

furnish pat-

cannot surpass me, but

" I

The iialy

By

earth

self-poised, self-sustaining, individ-

is

containing within herself the seeds of Infinity.

reason of her individualized Self, the Cosmos,

the Universal Self, the All Containing, impinges

on her as a center or focus versal

Mind

her

is in

her in miniature,

is

;

of

power.

The Uni-

the Oversoul, imprisoned in

her soul

;

the Ego, which

is

evolving in mineral, vegetable, animal, and in man.

In man, mind

were not

is

in the grass

he beholds, and earth

and Is

is

evolved, which could not be

in

if

it

he treads upon, the forests

the air he breathes.

That the

a conscious entity, having thought, volition,

feeling,

is

evident to the thoughtful observer.

Intelligence and

Wisdom

limited to the things

yo

Regeiieratio?t.

on the surface of the earth, and do they find their highest and fullest expression in the stumbling biped called

man

?

The regenerated in

has no limits, no boundaries

It

itself.

soul contains the universe with-

the

;

beyond, the above and the below, cease to exist

To

in the boundless.

what are man's terms they not equal

If

"^

so,

and the expanse within without

;

the earth's consciousness, of

is

above and below

they balance each other as great as the

the inherent power

rived from

is

other worlds.

all

The eye

herself in essence.

expanse

equal to that de-

Consequently, she

other sources.

independent of

Are

}

They

is

are in fact

of the soul discovers

no difference between the within and the without. In looking within, one sees all that can be seen.

As

the world, so

It

Is

may be

it

whole ma7i.

What

asked,

body, mind,

generated.

or soul

That which It is

now

are in a ferment alkali,

the regenerated

is

is

is

is

being.

to be regenerated

The answer

}

is,

generated must be

corruptible because

of motion.

The

the good and evil in motion,

The body

human

acid is

all

1

the re-

things

and the

generation.

generated in utter helplessness, de-

void of thinking power and without the instin^t-Of

the animal.

The babe has

for emotion,

which

mind

is

developed

;

is

a soul or the capacity

the protoplasm from which

a mirror in which the things of

the soul are reflected to the perceptions.

The

ex-

and

Love, Beauty,

Wisdojji.

periences of previous incarnations color the grow-

ing

life,

tinging

for elemental

attractive point

passion

is

with peculiarities which form an

it

life,

the

as

fire

of

generated and the growing being be-

comes animal. In Regeneration

is

the animal nature

the mind outgrown, the sexual nature erative

God has made nothing Without

sin,

strength

;

in

behind,

made

inop-

?

pleasure from being

out

left

in

He

vain.

derives

Providence to the weak.

a

no salvation

;

without weakness, no

without ignorance, no intelligence

;

with-

we outgrow our folly Regeneration, wherefore shall we be wise ? folly,

no wisdom.

If

Strength without action becomes weakness, and wisdom without conduct degenerates into folly. Thus it is evident that the two exist from neces.

sity,

but the

whom dual

they are the equivalent,

is

or of

the center.

the object of Regeneration be the return of

If

is

One from whom they emanate,

man

to unity,

—

to the Universal Spirit,

evident he must return stripped of

To

all

—

it

attributes.

become One, is to compounded of animals,

return to unity, or to

Man

cease to be many. reptiles, fowls,

is

and other forms of

alescing toward

oneness,

appetites, attributes.

ture and are Ma?i.

the ego has clothed

life,

which, co-

have created passions,

These are dual

in their na-

In other words, they are what itself

with

in

varying propor-

Regeneratioji.

72

tions, to create individuality in expression, or out-

ward manifestation for the Self is the same in worm and in angel and in all the grades of life be;

Individuality

tween.

of externals,

is

the fruit of

who lives in externals is living As well think of regenerating life. generative the a horse as of regenerating some men, for until the generation, and he

of externals

life

becomes

of secondary importance

man will not seek the interior life. The declaration of Jesus to Nicodemus was made

the

Except ye be born again, ye cannot seethe kingdom of God." Jesus saw in Nicodemus an honest, capable man, an earnest, sincere

to

him

only.

inquirer,

''

but

one

who

valued his standing in the

still

living

world above

externals

in

all else.

looked on truth from the standpoint of the materialist,

regarding

it

He

literal

as an intellectual, rather

than a spiritual attainment.

Jesus seeing that he

must be reincarnated before he could reach the point

of

evolution required

to

discern

made the declaration to him and The kingdom of God is within, but

things,

whose

spiritual vision

is

open can

spiritual

to his like.

only those

see its glories.

unnumbered incarnations to reach the plane where Nicodemus stood, for only one more rebirth was required before he should be born of It

requires

"water and the spirit." The gestating of spiritis governed by the same laws as the ges-

ual life

tating of the physical.

By

experiences

of pain

;

and Wisdom.

Love, Beauty,

73

and pleasure, we are forced to think and to act the mind at its utmost tension discharges its thought seed into the

Mind

of sympathy.

Soul

masculine.

femi-

is

In the soul, ideas take form and are clothed

nine.

Regeneration

in matter.

new elements, when they

ing

meet there the ovum

soul, to is

or building

Regeneration

an evergreen

new

complete, the body, like

is

which does not shed

tree,

show

perceptibly, will not waste nor

The

cay.

tion are

When

brain cells into

are fully ripened for the change.

the old

When

a renewing process add-

is

its

foliage

signs

of de-

discordant elements in man's constitu-

cause

the

of

sorrow,

and death.

pain,

the duality w^hich runs through

gans, causing antagonism — the

all

his or-

male and female

energies in the collision of action and reaction

when

this duality

and the lamb true

harmony

ertheless,

merged

is

will lie

God

the discord as

harmony, for he has made self perfect, its

it

is

it

;

Nev-

he does the

and being

peifect discord,

lion

the only

be established.

of being w411

loves

— the

into unity

down together and

—

like

him-

whatever may be

influence on myself or others.

Man change

could not be

nothing, loses nature.

change,

man

in his structure

not

evils of existence,

without the elements of

in

nothing,

Nothing but

;

can

Regeneration he leaves belongs

that

be

destroyed

destruction. as

we

to

rise

We

;

human

there

modify

above them,

or,

is

the in

Regeneration.

74

other words, as our point of view changes,

good

in place of evil,

and instead

we

see

of suffering

we

In our infinite and eternal journey, polari-

enjoy.

sometimes reversed, but who remembers Life somea previous condition in its fulness ?

ties are

times appears like a half-forgotten dream, or like a path passed over long, long ago which, being re-

seems

traced,

familiar, half pain, half pleasure, like

an old sorrow.

Man may

be likened to the apex of a pyramid

whose base and structure are composed of mineral, vegetable, and animal life, and which coming to the apex

the animal

in

He

beneath him.

of all

produces man, the flower

life

is

the seed in which

potentially the whole pyramid, as the oak

tained in the acorn. to

which

below him

God

is

In the

new

con-

order, the door

Regeneration, he requires

all

that

is

for the attainment of the perfect whole.

himself would not be perfect

fragment were

The

is

is

lost,

since he

is

^lagi say: *'The above

and the world

of

spirits

if

the smallest

All. is

as the below,"

contains the same ele-

There are myriads of people on the plane of spirit life where the social nature is as much required as it is on earth, and ments

as does the earth.

these elements of man's nature are the outgrowth of the gregarious

animal

being here in the earth

Generation

is

life

incorporated into his

life.

the opposite of oneness.

It is

as

;

Love, Beauty,

and Wisdom.

75

God in creation forces himself with violence to become many, and, turning their faces away from if

many

himself, thus holds the

them

not permitting

kingdom

in

and look him

He

face, lest they cease to be.

ture

as individual entities,

to turn

each

made

has

human being

in

the

a minia-

wherein, as a

dual entity, he creates from the violence of his

own nature

the discords of Generation to war

all

upon and devour each

man

If

Wisdom, plenty.

creates his

other.

environment

his

kingdom

Creation

will

in

merely changing forms that

is

The

appear into those that disappear.

wisdom permits

hell

run

to

sorrow, pain, and death

Lord

make

world ignorant, deficient

and

He

riot

He

lack

Garden

this

of

the nature of the

into this

intelligence

and void

has only the instinct to cry

to feed without the is

in

in

Man comes

a howling wilderness.

of moral quality.

Love and

be of peace, joy, and

power to help

himself.

to be cultivated as a garden, to be planted

with trees and flowers, and decorated with walks

and arbors;

a

lawn through which sing and dance

the murmuring streams, the

''still

refreshment of other wearied

waters" for the

souls.

This he

will

do himself ; the thing so weak, helpless, and ignorant, out of his

or in folly tion of

all

life.

own

soul, will

generate in wisdom

the furniture, the garniture, the frui-

The

universe impinges on the newly-

born infant and broods, shelters, feeds, warms, and

Regeneration.

y6

All the experience of

educates the tiny creature. the past

is

turned on

as sunlight to call forth

it

thought energy, which

be as the tree of

shall

life

in the midst of the garden.

Regeneration

by thought, but Generation goes

is

before, producing the old crop of weeds, the old

jungle of noisome, slimy monsters, crawling and

breed

and

serpents

hissing

swamps and

the

in

where the

the

creatures

fens of

human

that

nature

gather and flow.

should

waters

still

slimy

These unsightly growths are habits generated in we lump together

the past, an accumulation which

under the name

of

these same habits habits

''

heredity."

is

The aggregate

again our wisdom, for past

constitute present

intelligence.

If

were no habits there would be no need generation.

We

of

there of

Re-

are lost in these habits of our

ancestry, which produce themselves in us, and we,

being void of the active thought-energy which

re-

generates, generate other habits kindred to those

which abide

inherited,

in

us until

we become

bundle of habits thrown together without order

a

—

a fruit of Generation, without reason or purpose.

Wisdom as to

its :

it

manifests

object. is

a habit

in

We

system and order with use

live

chiefly because

— sometimes

no object other than the generation

and our kind.

worms

in

We

do not

we have

a bad habit

intend

of

— with

our food

to generate

our flesh or monsters in our souls, nor

Love^ Beauty,

and Wisdom.

77

have we any desire or intention to destroy either

The great God is All Preswe may not be lost from his all-seeing eye, but we are lost to ourselves in our habits, bewildered, confused in the maze of our own creation, in a hell of our own contriving we are lost without chart or compass, if we have only the thought or principles which have come into our lives from some other life habit, lost in our own consciousness, when only the still small voice upbraids us with tales of what we might have been. From Generation come those habits which have worms

or monsters.

ent and

;

woven

their fibers habits. is

The

closest about the soul, the sexual

soul

is

a creator, and

Like God

generation.

is

it

the violence of personality,

the hardness of

make malleable Ignorance It is

is

itself,

its

it

inner

fire

;

submerged.

in

the waters in which

These waters are

and corrupt by incessant activity of life

which opposes

The God of

imprisonment

prison walls by corrupting them.

the outermost of being

foul

or

proceeds to soften and

the prison of the soul, "the flesh."

fires of life are

made

every effort

and without

but being less than Infinite, through

limitation,

the

its

free

its

that

of the

generates to destroy that

freedom.

and the ego is uncrowned and dethroned by the circumstances of his own creation, which return upon him as the rising sun returns to waken soul it,

is

a miniature universe

but he

a sleeping world.

is

CHAPTER

VII.

Sexuality.

Natural ing which

law

is

a safe guide in the range of be-

Law

under law.

is

is

inexorable in the

mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms, but in

the

human kingdom man has

dom.

Of

all

a measure

creatures, he only

is

of free-

endowed with Animals man, by some

imagination and the power to originate. look earthward,

the

but

mysterious attraction,

face of

is lifted

toward the heavens,

He

practically unlimited.

and his horizon is pictures beyond the is

sees

never dreaming that he

stars,

gazing into the limitless vault of his

own

soul.

There are no boundary lines to the realm of Imagination, in which man creates pictures, emotions, ecstasies of pain and pleasure, of hope and fear,

of hatred

and

covers tastes that

In this realm

love.

ruin

above and beneath the laws

The

three

lower

he

dis-

and create habits, both of his physical being.

kingdoms now organized

into

man's structure are as much subject to physical In law as they were prior to such organization. evolution, some new element is added at each step of progress.

In the change of mineral to vege78

Sexuality table elements are found in the latter not possessed

by the former, and animal

there

volition, as

however,

is

developed the new element

mind were added

if

merges into

as the vegetable

to

of

This,

clay.

only an appearance, for intelligence

is

" sleeps in the

dreams

mineral,

in the vegetable,

wakes in the animal, and comes to consciousness In the mineral, although only the intelman." ligence of obedience, it is still of the same essence and akin to mind. Chemical affinity is the love of in

atoms, and

in this love is

generated the heat that

throws lava from mountain tops and boiling water

from geysers. the rock, and

It

disintegrates minerals, softens

bursts forth in forms of use and

beauty from the insensate

soil.

Evolution

is

only

another name for Generation, and Generation

is

Sex Love. Sex Love is the action of the positive upon the negative principle, whether in inert mat-

The

ter or loftiest spirit.

earth baptizes her with

glory

alternates

with

love of the sun for the

life

the

storm, winter, and decay.

and beauty, and

shadowy

In nature,

are male and female, and Evolution

and reaction

of sex principles.

dition of being wherein action exist, is

it

is

it

is

the action

there

unknown

is

a con-

condition.

Buddhist,

remains a mental concept.

we know, motion

things

and reaction do not

perhaps the conception of the

practically

as

certainly an

If

all

this

with

night,

co-exists with life

;

So

It

but far

the logical

8o

Regeneration.

when motion has ceased nothing Generation, working on many planes,

conclusion

that

is

remains.

producing different effects on each plane, tinuous

in

its

spiritual as

Having

operations,

To

tude,

mind.

To

are

it

passes to

diet with

mental a tti-

right

of

harmony

the whole be-

of

unbalance the entire economy inviting

to

Mind and muscle

weakness, and disease.

both

mistake

expense

at the

cultivate one side of the nature with-

out due regard to the

failure,

on one plane,

sometimes generated

is

is

and

to begin the generation of spiritual force.

is

Muscle

ing,

con-

cease the generation of animal spir-

by an abstemious

its

is

mental

well as physical form and substance.

fulfilled its office

another.

creating

necessary to

in

overbalance

Habit, through long

and

equilibrium,

one

or

side

it

the

is

a

other.

sometimes be-

persistence,

comes second nature, the original true nature being overgrown and lost in the tangle of some unnatural practice revolting to those

who view

it

from a more advanced condition. Sexual habits contrary to nature are sex has

no

roots in the soul

its

evils

of

this

nature,

for

they are

wholly by the law of attraction.

fatal,

for

Animals have

itself.

If

governed

the female

in-

vites the male, he responds; not otherwise.""" Th'e

female of the lower orders of

life is

as

much bound

by the law of expansion and contraction as the fruit tree,

whose buds open and expand

for the es.

1

Sexuality.

cape of

its spirit,

8

and contract on the reception of

The male

opposite, to produce fruit.

its

tered by the female, but

is

it

mas-

is

not themastery_of

Will, or of physical fnrcc. or of the mind. _

name

"instinct," and

it

it

is

We

the attraction of the

positive for the negative iron in the blood of each.

The moment

the negative

is

charged to fulness

it

becomes po sitive and repels, while the positive force becomes negative and quiescent. Ih5 ahm^al i^rSWiprer'whne man is complex. On the animal side, he is as little complex as are the animals, but on the mental side he

is

like a

blooming flower, wide open to the influences from the universe of

spirit,

which, entering him in the

form of thought and imagination, furnish to the blood

and tissues something which the animal

By

wholly lacks.

reason of this element he

master of him self and

all T^o\ver_lif e, if

is

he willsTo"

be master.

The

field

of

Imagination

what a man adds

sinking him below the brute, for

he creates

self in

it

is

out of himself,

another form.

made up

is

without limit and

to himself, lifting

him above or

of vast importance,

—

in fact

it

is

him-

Thus, as his creations are

of the best of himself,

he should consider

well what he wishes to create before he

becomes

the victim of habits whose bondage he

may be

unable to throw

off.

Habits involve the love nature.

A

habit

of

82

Regeneration.

accumulation generates a material love, a worship material things that

of

downward

the soul

calls

toward the mineral and vegetable kingdoms, pre-

That which we love becomes our god and toward it we tend, for the soul's loves will become material by Love is not an attraction to material things. action, nor an object it is that which prompts to paratory to reincarnation.

we worship

it

;

;

action.

Its

weakest phase

is

desire of possession.

Desire leads the mind and influences

action.

all

by the habit of getThe It soon becomes a monster never satisfied ting. with accumulating and devouring material things, love of possession grows

but fastens

When to

it

its

vampire claws on the

and noblest attributes

bilities

a habit

and

is

is

method

continuance of the race

is

like

Those who do

this it-

excess and the mind reverts constantly to

good.

developed the

The will,

one

the brute.

of the

l

to

thought for the

arger the mind, the more

the greater the power to con-

trol habits, passions, is

it

the creative power exhausts

;

personal desires rather than

self

for.

the beaver which store

up more than can be used.

general

wedded

of providing for the

but in excess

;

the instinct of the rat and

self in

is

thing loved and labored

nature's

tend downward

sensiitself.

formed the soul

fully

lost in the

Sex love

finest

of the soul

and

desires.

distinctions

This control of

between man and

Ey Memory and Imagination man

is

Sexuality.

83

able to forecast the future and determine to

extent the consequences of his acts. is

some

Imagination

the parent of civilization, and inventions are not

The governments,

confined to mechanics. gions,

social

man's

prolific

and loves are

life,

reli-

products

all

of

imagination.

Matter, under the law of repulsion, softens and

becomes more susceptible to the energizing influence of spirit, whether in the earth or in the human body. Soul which controls is so far removed in condition from matter that it expands and

requires an intermediate substance, or activity, to

enable

ter on

it

Mind

with matter.

medium

to establish intimate relations this vehicle,

is

touching mat-

one side and soul on the other.

pivot on which the

of

man may

It

is

a

turn in any direction

in which to view himself a telescope whose power is unlimited. The soul is ** native and to the manner born " in a state of inconceiv-

a mirror

able

;

bliss

;

its

nature

that offers pleasure

is

pleasure,

attractive

is

and mental nature are one. nature are also one. duality.

Matter

is

to

and anything Physical

it.

Moral and

feminine,

Mind

is

masculine

Morality feminine and Spirit masculine. reason

God

is

spiritual

These two constitute man's

termed

he,

masculine and feminine.

For

;

this

although God is both The feminine in man's

nature should receive the same care and education as

should

the

masculine

— equilibrium

of

these

Regeneration.

84

necessary

being

forces

sound

to

and

health

longevity. It

has been affirmed that

man would not need generation in

properly generated

if

This

regeneration.

itself is perfect,

because

is

not true

;

natural

it is

and without thought, while regeneration is the product of thought, which is not found greatly developed

Thought

in the inferior animals.

that re-

generates does not pertain to external things, but busies

These thoughts

nature.

by

cell

with God, duty, and the interior soul

itself

and

build,

the Divine Life within.

cell,

Sexual

regenerate

fire

thought that

is

generative

stirs

the

;

same profound

the emotions attracts this

fire

from the sex organs to the solar plexus, the cenof the soul

tral station

until all grossness

and

—

to burn__on that altar

lust are

burned away,

in

the

gradual transmutation of this mortal into immortality.

Thought

It

effects.

chemical, as

is

constructs,

concentrates.

It is

is

it

mechanical, in

its

expands, and

contracts,

the executive of the universe,

by the Imagination, which leads thought to the depths and to the heights, to the far and near, to the unseen and unheard. but

is

it

Sexual

influenced

fire

is

very

sensitive

thought and imagination

and is

is

;

it

to

the

glows

action

fanned or quenched by their influence.

this

sensitiveness

that

gives

the

of

and wavers It

generative

Sexuality.

power

85

intense actions and reactions

its

;

the ex-

pansion of the atoms of the body influenced sexual emotion, enabling the soul to as

it

by-

work therein

wills.

Excessive sexual desire

There

lust.

not the only form of

is

the lust of dress, of display, of

is

wealth and power, for lust dwells in any excessive "

desire for ownership.

Thou

shalt not covet," to

own, or possess any thing, for the things we own really possess

They have taken

us.

and we are obsessed by them

Our

hold on us. sions

make

gather and scatter

fallibility

and hoard, or to

to save

absorbs our time and

divine right of kings, the

in-

Pope, private ownership of the

ownership, in

soil, all

;

selfishly,

The

of the

possession

proportion to their

children rule over us, our posses-

slaves of us

best energies.

in

fact,

are assumptions born

When God takes anything of the imagination. away from us the logical inference is that he is a The fact is, robber, if we really own anything. that we may use and enjoy anything we find in the worlds of mind or matter but nothing possessed ;

or

not possessed

belongs to

We

us.

brought

nothing into the world and we can take nothing away.

The

first

work

of

Regeneration

is

to

attain to

oneness, to unite the dual forces in yourself, that as Jesus

admonished

" the

eye

may be

single,"

86

Rege7iei'atioii.

who

seeing only God,

When come

union

that

lovely and lovable

To

perfect harmony.

a specific character

Love,

is

;

the universe.

in all

accomplished

is

things

all

be-

even discord helps on the

attain this state, training of

is

The

necessary.

external

mind must be hushed into quiet the passions and animosities engendered by the friction of life must be subdued before the Spirit can beget a child of ;

God

the

in

principles ject

of

and

This

love.

many

this

is

in

thought, motive, ob-

The combination

purity.

things in agitation causes impurity

for

;

reason the duality of Generation must give

place

to oneness

sents

spirit;

Son

The masculine and feminine

Soul.

must be united

of

in

Woman

Man.

the violence of spirit

Man

Regeneration.

therefore, Jesus

is

repre-

himself

called

represents Matter

;

the

when

tamed, Matter, and Spirit

unite and are one. It is

the masculine force that must be regener-

ated in order to enter the kingdom of God.

the words of the Great Master,

born of water, and of the the kingdom of God."

Spirit,

and water is in matter as that which impregnates and it becomes pregnant, for Matter It is

Except a

in a

man

In

be

he cannot enter

All gestation if

feminine.

''

is

womb.

in

water,

Spirit

is

is

Matter alone that

is

passive, negative,

the masculine in each person that

must be regenerated.

To be born

of

male, (mind), must enter the feminine,

water, the (soul), for

Sexuality.

Tp

these are the waters of Hfe.

and

to enter into Love,

it is

."^nter

the soul

the office of the

telHgence to find the soul and fore full faith can be

87

know

the love be-

felt.

Love ranges from the lowest sensation ecstasy of angels

:

The

sciousness as supreme. is

the

to

each thing that feels senses a

degree of pleasure which takes rank

sation

is

in-

the con-

in

highest physical sen-

generative sensation, which

the sexual

This culmination

is

the culmination of sex love.

is

the absorption of the positive by the negative

and

is

That positive element which

only partial.

passes from the male

is

generally the vilest part,

forced out by lasciviousness.

The

true feminine

nature repels lasciviousness and consequently,

in-

stead of a free and natural blending of the two forces, there

is

antagonism which closes

all

ave-

nues to Regeneration.

The is first

spiritual

being produced by Regeneration

As

conceived as a germ in the male mind.

every person

is

both

mind

and soul — Mind

— the

being

Mind must first the Soul and gently blend with it. The new male and Soul female

Regeneration, then begins the

womb.

in

find life.

embryo, as a child

in

Love and the Soul are one and the

quality of your love decides the character of the spiritual gestation.

Unless the male principle

in

each nature enters fully into the Soul, there can

be no spiritual gestation, by which

it

is

perceived

Regeneration.

88

mind cannot generate

that a divided "

of God.

Ye

the

Child

cannot serve two masters."

You

cannot enter into two or more diverse courses of thought, conduct, or effort at the same time, for that

is

division

;

and a divided love cannot beget

The man who

Regeneration.

loves neither; he loves only himself.

As he

nothing lovable, or rather

in

attractive

in

women

loves two

finds

himself,

the male elements being similars which repel

all

each other, he seizes on externals, and through the imagination borrows that which attracts and pleases

To

— the most external and unreal

of pleasures.

attain to oneness of thought, the

mind must

be focused on one desire with such intensity as to cause a gentle heat to be

the solar plexus, which, as tral

in

felt

above the back

lion just

I

have

A

station of the Soul.

that nerve gang-

of the stomach, said, is

the cen-

single thought

which being held to one point a

sun-glass

called

is

a

suffi-

cient time, kindles a fire in things that obstruct

the

until a hole is

light,

burned through dark mat-

ter to the source of light

the poet sing

and

heat.

Well might

:

"Come, Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove, With all thy quickening powers, Kindle a flame of sacred love In these cold hearts of ours."

When

this flame

a soul within

;

is

kindled you knoiv you have

the next effort

is

to get within

it,

Sexuality.

89

and become one in mind and soul. When which is Love, you are in God, and in

to blend

in the soul,

may be born

time

tation

and the growth

cess,

but

miracle,

This

immortal

all

of the

the

follows

not for

life is

those

if

;

who

This reversal of hindrances and ;

making

it

must be

but this

of

re-

Chaos.

evils requires close

culture of the

is

noblest faculties of the mind, will and desire ulties that

no law.

it.

mind only

vigilant attention

is

weary burden must be

a

versed, turned back into the darkness

and

man

universal

line of

love

life

in the

a slow pro-

is

immortal

or pleasure, but for

toil

That which makes cast aside

but the process of ges-

;

In nature, growth

slow.

is

God

of

;

fac-

connect the mind closely with the soul

where God

The Soul is the door

is.

the wandering mind

through

it

with, to

become one with God.

is

to Infinitude

drawn

;

to dwell

Regeneration requires rigid and close analysis of

may

motive and desire, to the end that oneness

two

spirits

are within warring with each other, the call

comes

be attained.

If

two natures appear,

to choose which you

will serve, for

if

the warfare re-

veals the preponderance of force, which belongs to

the plane lence,

it

of

Force acts with

Generation.

compels obedience

;

and persuades and attracts into the perfect Force love

is

is

hypnotic in

freedom.

its

vio-

but love gently leads

action,

—

it

enslaves

life. ;

but

Regenci'ation.

90 Sexual love to

whom you

the love of objects.

If

the object

make

a like re-

mutual satisfaction results and you are free

turn, to

is

give yourself in part

grow

We

to the limit of that satisfaction.

are,

however, so constituted that no two persons can

same

follow the

Sooner or

line.

later the

Unes

will

so far diverge that the limit of satisfaction

will

be reached, and antagonism begin.

parent that sex love in is

its

plane of Generation

external manifestation

;

while soul love

ing as the moral worth which attracts

element

in

transient satisfied

objects,

since no

matter

how many

the soul, like a stomach fed on

Who

and hungry.

as endur-

it,

and

spirit

of

loveless soul

is

object

an

is

who has

objects

is

is

never

can

enter

the objects loved,

air, is

always empty

can portray the burning thirst

gnawing hunger

or the

is

and barren, because the soul

No

therein.

new man born of the The love

the

Regeneration.

by

ap-

ephemeral, belonging wholly to the

transient,

attained

It is

of

a loveless

a sexless soul.

soul

A

!

Behold the world

mankind bathed in a sea of alcoholic drink to drown in universal intoxication, this immortal of

craving.

See the mad rush for wealth and power,

the incessant

drunkenness partially

As

strife for

of ambition,

appeased

place and

by which

;

this

the

hunger

is

!

already stated, to be born of

born of Love

position,

God

is

to be

and birth must presuppose a mother.

1

Sexuality.

The Mother

9

nearest to the Father

is

;

the newborn

being must be born of the mother-love, that being

What words

the nearest approach to God.

mother-love!

It

tions of love.

It

of

all

surpasses

other

all

holds within

Beside

virtue.

can

imperishable character of

the immortal,

express

itself

manifesta-

the potencies

matchless supremacy,

its

fame, gold and glory are so

many \vorthless

straws.

The mother-love gives birth to the babe, and the soul of the woman is surrendered at the shrine of She

maternity.

is

the

providence

spring, its protector, guide

of

her

and everlasting

off-

friend,

with no thought of reward or desire of return in kind, being repaid fully breast,

and permeates her entire being.

mother-love love,

by the love that warms her

that regenerates

— a creative and recreative

the whole world can failure

and

come

It

is

the

the true feminine

;

force, into

which

regardless of ignorance,

sin.

Paul testifies to the transcendent worth of this

powerful principle in the second chapter of Tim-

where he gives evidence of a knowledge that the mother-love was the true reothy, tenth verse,

generative principle. Christ

is

alluded to as ''the only begotten son

of the Father."

therefore or

it is

offspring.

spirit

Jesus said:

*'

God

is

a Spirit";

a truth that spirit begets children,

We

know

can enter into the

this,

for

womb.

nothing but Spirit

begets

.

R egeiie7'atio7i

92 love also,

and various kinds of love are given

birth through varying environment,

forms of

spirit that beget,

inating

spirit

and birth

begets

This begetting

The

are each one of us male and female. is

within,

ter ible

and

and from

life

is

it

emanates the

we

spirit

evolved the form, charac-

conduct of the man, as from the

and a woman

dom-

as for instance, a

self-love.

each individual of the race, for

in

is

and the various

The marriage

visible.

invis-

of a

man

merely an external expression of a

is

union already effected, and the child begotten of that interior

union

is

the materialized love,

character

which

is

decided by the quality

spirit is

of

predominating

the of

Genuine marriage

in each.

the union of the Father-Spirit with the Mother-

Love

in

and every individual, and unless

each

such union

is

effected in each prior to wedlock,

no real marriage possible.

there

is

Spirit

was referred

and the Bride

is

to

The

Father-

by Jesus as the Bridegroom;

the Virgin-Mother-Love that waits

the coming of the Bridegroom.

The

Christ

is

the

Only Begotten Son, born into the regenerated man or woman from such union. Physical marriage

is

the external representation of spiritual

marriage, of this dual union in the nature of each of the contracting parties

;

the failures and imper-

fections of marriage, therefore, are due to an im-

perfect spiritual union between the masculine and

feminine principles

in each.

The

Christ

is

not be-

Sexuality.

93

gotten because the Father has not descended to

meet the Bride. the Father, and

Christ can only be begotten by is

Love, — the quence, — of

death.

it

is

the only

life,

therefore the only begotten

saviour from sin and **

Love

lieth at the

its

Son

conse-

foundation "

;

the only immortality.

know what manner of spirit is essenmay make the conditions necessary to

In order to tial

that one

the evolution of the Christ, the nature of the Bride-

groom must be explained and

well understood.

— ^eraT^/on

CHAPTER

VIII.

Sexuality {Continued).

The Bridegroom spoken

"the Father," so frequently

is

He

by Jesus.

of

is

the highest spirit that

can manifest to man, or that can consciously enter into humanity.

which

all,

is

all

The

— the

darkness, of good and of ignorance

and

Universal Spirit pervading source alike of hght and pain and pleasure,

evil, of

intelligence, of virtue

is

not meant by this term, Father.

to

v/hom Jesus constantly appealed

He

only of the Christ. ity as

differentiated

From him

is

the Father

from the Universal Creator.

flows the seed of Regeneration and im-

"Word

that

human

nature

was with God" and that "was

God," declared by John. itual

The Father is

the Creator in human-

mortality, begetting the Christ in

that

—

and vice

consciousness, he

is

In the evolution of spirthe moving spirit appro-

priately styled the Bridegroom,

whose Bride

Divine Sophia of the Mystics

the Virgin mother-

;

is

the

love of humanity.

Christ in

is

a

spirit, substantial,

immortal, generated

every soul that desires him with the desire of

Love; and

tJie

growtJi of Christ in

tJic

huvian nature

Sexuality. is

No

Regeneration. possible

is

;

ture of a lifetime.

and

gestation,

atom

instantaneous transformation

the slow growth, the serious cul-

is

it

It

a process,

is

birth, infilling

of flesh into

means immortality

and transmuting every

for

tJie

"

"Christ

If

means anything

it

He who

man.

entire

to knoiu of the truth of

**

— conception,

immortal substance.

within you the hope of glory

aspires

95

this doctrine

"

must have the loftiest ideal conceivable of the powers and possibilities of humanity. Man's highest ideal of love is that which the

latent

mother

of his children manifests for him.

love

universal

of

is

There

it.

is

;

there

is

Mother-

no conscious

life

void

no weakness, defect, depravity, or

monstrosity to which she has given birth that

is

He woman

outside of the mother's love and self-sacrifice.

who can

inspire this love in the breast of a

need ask

enough

for

understand

to

propriate

nothing more.

it,

his nature

and large enough

of a

man

is

his

of

ideal

determines the loftiness of his

The mind

bridegroom

with ardent

trust,

His beloved life

verse

is full

of flowers

is

ideal,

confidence

hope, is all

filled

and

the world to him

;

of her

;

her breath

is

or

the

of the true

devotion,

anticipation. ;

without her

would be a worthless show.

itself

fine

to ap-

woman.

flight

depth of his debasement.

faith,

is

he has found Paradise.

The measure It

it

If

The

like the

uni-

aroma

the touch of her hand transports him

Regeiieratio7i.

g6

to the verge of ecstasy.

kmdles a ness

in

fire

him

The glance

that burns

for the time his feminine nature

;

and he loses himself itself,

and he

feast,

if

it

invites

all is

selfish-

supreme

Benevolence asserts

in love. all

eye

of her

away

the world to the marriage-

His pride

be only a crust.

of self

is

quenched and he becomes one with the universal. A taste of heaven is in this spiritual exaltation, rise to still greater heights of ecstasy

and he might

were not ruthlessly torn from him by the contact of coarse, irresponsive matter with which ideals are clothed. This friction of matter ideal

if

his

is

electrical in character;

it

has other objects to

This

serve than merely procreation of the race. is

a

Mystery and the key

to

it

is

held by woman.

Instructed in this Mystery, she unlocks the door an(;l

brings

man

power; ignorant,

wisdom and knowledge and she drifts with him into disunion,

into

disgust and despair.

Byj)ossession of the being

wisdom from her, he is cast out of heaven like Lucifer, Son of the Morning, the gloSo the rious being who had all things save love. bridegroom falls away from his loftier self; his loved, without

idol self

is

clay,

something separate, apart from him-

which he

ozvns, not the

beautiful

spirit

which he fondly dreamed of losing himself fect love

and

rest.*

the material male

He

in

into per-

has fallen back into himself,

spirit,

which does not expand

like the feminine to enclose

all

helpless things.

Sexuality,

97

Love manifesting through sex planes

:

the

on three

acts

which has just been de-

Electrical,

Magnetic, and the Ethereal.

Of the named we who are yet on the earth plane can know only from report a glimpse caught by the of some sensitive clear eyes soul, or the vision of the seer, in deep sleep when the angels sometimes talk with men. Of the magnetic union it may be the

fined;

last

—

said that, like the birth of the Christ, tially /^i-i-/^/^ to all,

few.

The

electrical

but really

is

it

known

poten-

to only the

union when complete and per-

fect gestates the spiritual body, atom

the magnetic union regenerates

through all-pervading Love

;

it.

It

by atom is

a mighty sea in which

the Will rouses rhythmical, profound, searching brations.

It

;

attained

vi-

soul answering soul in the great

is

deeps of Love, and the friction of matter plays no part in the ecstatic vibrations magnetically aroused.

Here,

too, the

woman

is

supreme; but she must

be pure of heart and sound of head

;

wise, too,

with the wisdom of knowledge and experience, the

woman

— " nobly To

planned,

warn, to counsel, and command."

The higher we rise in the scale of being the less we need the friction of matter to produce creative vibrations, those vibrations on which God descends to

become one with and

He who would

in us.

enter the

woman

soul in the mag:-

Regcfier^ation.

98

must be as

netic union

The rough

soul.

rounded

off,

fine

angles

and

spiritual

of his nature

his selfish arrogance

as that

must be

be converted into

gentle consideration for her and for others as his

The

equals.

attracts love

love

a

is

uct.

spirit of sacrifice

from the soul

form

of sex love,

The two

and protecting care

of the

being

woman. its

Mother-

natural prod-

manifestations are alike in essence,

The man

having different objects.

loses himself

woman, while the woman loses herself in The radius of a man's love is limher children. ited by the woman, but that of the woman, the mother, extends to many, and the more numerous the objects of her affection, the more expanded is

in

the

her capacity to love. It is

the undifferentiated mother-love which re-

turns good

for evil

other cheek.

and when smitten, turns the

When men

are filled with this love,

the Christ will be begotten in every child and Re-

generation

will

begin

in

infancy.

Feelings

of

tenderness and efforts to provide for and protect the weak are promptings of the Father, and the

emanations from such a

and attract Christ, the

The

love.

germ

spirit

Nay,

promote friendship

more,

they

beget

desire to provide for the objects of love

prompted by the Father, but beware

is

lest love cling

to the things as well as to the objects loved. is

the

of immortality.

This

the divided love, the foe to that oneness which

Sexuality.

*'Thou shalt have no

alone begets the Christ. other

gods" than

love

Love's

for

humanity

alas for the ideals of

99

sake

—

but,

Men and women

!

too often enter the married state simply for gain,

or worse

for the gratification of sexual lust.

still,

woman

Right here

attraction are false

has a mission. ;

Marriage

is

Her

ideals of

the end, and dress

and ribbons, showy accomplishments, with

cJiic^

the

This gay display, this vanity of appear-

means.

ance, like fine feathers on the birds,

may

be one of

Nature's sly methods of perpetuating the race; but the majority of

such signals

if

women would

shrink from flaunting

they caught sight of Nature's inten-

tions.

Woman

is

a mystery, an enigma,

— and

one of her most powerful attractions. desire

that

is

is

do not

which we already have; we long for

something just beyond quetry

We

this

us,

and an innocent

co-

one of the feminine wiles to arouse and

keep active the masculine curiosity and longing. ''Pushed beyond

its

mark,"

it

degenerates

into

conscienceless deceit.

To appear more and better common aim. To overreach in

than we are trade, to get

is

a

some-

thing for nothing, to get the better of a brother or sister in

of

any way, while preserving an appearance

integrity

satisfaction.

and honor, affords the profoundest

To

pervert innocence, to tempt the

lawless, to arouse passion

by the display of

false

!

I

oo

Regeneration.

charms, are but reflections from the debased ideals of

The work

mankind.

tion goes bravely on,

water and the

spirit daily

that Jesus of Nazareth

and a plunge

symbol

in

of

by a profession of belief God, the Son of God,

is

or sprinkle of water

in,

have used no more appropriate

could

Jesus

of a spurious regenera-

and we see such born

indicating the

change

in

man from

a

mortal to an immortal being than the waters of the

birth,

fructifying

God moved

in

which the

that

the

of

Spirit

of

the gestation of worlds and in which

the embryotic child floats in

— water

water

generative

mysterious unknown, upon

quenches the

its

mother's womb,

fires

that

destroy,

and which water the spirit is constantly impregThe new man nating with new forms of life. is a new being, conceived by spirit, and gestated in

the

great deep of

possessed

after birth,

human

nature to

become

through the processes of

growth, of power over the forces of nature, to be

from hurtful or poisonous things, and able to

safe

defy disease and death. of the spirit

and

This

of water."

it

is

to be

''

born

Plainly stated, the fol-

lowing are the conditions precedent to Regeneration

:

The masculine nature

in

man must know

and enter into the feminine nature in himself. Thus out of the duality of Generation there will be oneness

established

the

same

must take place

action

of

Regeneration. in the

The

nature of the

lOI

Sexuality.

By

woman.

the entrance of the male element into

the female element of each individual, the Christ

Thought and

conceived.

is

desire turned inward to

the permanent and spiritual, 'gestate the embryo,

and

birth

its

is

the beginning

This work must be perfected spiritually,

pressed

before

it

of

Regeneration.

each individual

in

appear physically, ex-

can

in character.

Every man has within himself a mother-soul, or mind must enter to be mingled_with and assimilated before it is possible for him to attract the Bride, that Virgin mother-love which completes his divine nature by making him In like manner the male nature 07ie ivitJi the All. woman in the must be blended with the female nature, which will then become Fatherly in character as well as Motherly. Justice and tenderness love, intQL-which the

will

be equal

;

the female expansiveness will be-

come provident and the

The woman who herself

true

vacillating,

becomes poised and regular

Will

man

its

action.

regenerates the male elements in

self-reliant

is

ill-regulated

in

and self-governing, and no

will aspire to rule

to govern her

To govern

over her.

husband

and

if

her rule

spring from wisdom, justice, and love,

it

will aid

herself

in his

is

;

She can recreate him into has become in her male nature,

Regeneration.

what she herself by keeping her ideal man constantly living

that

ideal

herself.

The

in

silent,

mind and persistent,

Regeneration.

102

woman

is irresistible,

mold-

nig, fashioning, and controlling men, drawing

them

honest thought-force of

up

human

to the heights of

nature and, alas

cast-

!

them down to its hells. She holds the keys to the kingdom of heaven both for herself and for man, for if she will take as husband only the man ing

who represents her

ideal

of

waiting, fully expecting his

manhood, patiently advent into her

life,

She must realize intelshe must have in mind the com-

he will presently appear. lectually, that

is,

plete picture of her ideal, as her soul intuitively

knows him.

Undue

sexual appetite, or lust,

cess of animal magnetism, and a

is

due to an ex-

woman who

has

united the dual forces within herself can appropri-

magnetism

ate that

the nervous system

in ;

ways that

will

build

anew

but this power does not come

by mere knowledge. It is a soul power, springing from love and command of the physical nature, which may be developed by intelligent training.

A

man

thus controlled

wife devotedly,

cannot

not passio?iately,

help

loving

his

but reverently,

tenderly, purely.

Judgment and criticism of others has no legitimate place in those in whom the Christ is born. "I come not to judge the world, but to save it," is

the distinguishing characteristic of the Christ.

Man

in

Christ

the natural state judges others, but the is

Love, and not judgment.

This Love

Sexuality.

103

throws the mantle of charity over the weaknesses

and folHcs of is

of the

most depraved.

In the words

our dear brother, John Heaney, the right expressed

best

"

:

I

can under the circumstances he

Jic

spirit

beheve that every one does is

tJie

in."

That sentiment, affirmed by the judgment and exemphfied

human

nary

the daily

in

The

nature.

and slavery, together with that

evinces an exaltation

life,

very far removed from the plane of ordi-

of soul

blacken the pages of

from man's presumption

in

the wars and wrongs history,

have sprung

sitting in the seat of

judgment, that place which God only tent to

He

fill.

He

ginning.

only

is

compe-

knows the end from the

can see

alone

serfdom

Inquisition,

all

blunders and the wise keep silent before the

who

junction: ''Let him first

stone."

If

we

feel

is

be-

why poor humanity in-

zuithont sin cast the

the spirit of criticism

ris-

ing withinand words of reproach tremble on the tongue,

and

if

let

we

us take the matter "into the silence," find

the Christ within, judgment will

give place to love, and the spirit of criticism will

be swallowed up and It is

lost

in

true that our intellectual

the Divine

judgment

but lest in our deficiency of wisdom

mature expression of let

it

we

Wisdom.

is

for use

;

give pre-

where others are involved,

us learn to wait, watch, and pray, rather than

blame another.

CHAPTER

IX.

Mediumship.

A

Medium

a way, an instrument

is

and there

;

are four ways, or classes of instruments, by of

which the dwellers

in

means

other forms of nature

than our own come into this form of nature and

make themselves known to dwellers here. These mediums are Physical, ^Mental, Psychic, Spiritual. In physical mediumship, the physical nature

acted upon by some foreign force without the

is

voli-

The manifestations are inmedium is irresponsible,

tion of the subject.

voluntary and hence the

having resigned the

will,

the executive of law and

receded to the realm of disorder, the chance-world.

Such persons they

know

where

subject

are

or nowhere.

sponsibility there

This

is

and

will is like

occupant. session.

;

for

lead

of

gains

where there

which

them anynothing is

no

re-

no progress, no mental or moral

is

way of human body vacated by mind

altogether foreign to the

A

Regeneration.

powers

may The medium

from such association growth.

to

nothing, and which

an empty house which invites an

mediums are prepared New Testament such were

Physical

In the

104

for obsaid to

Mediums J ip.

105

I

be ''possessed of devils," a name for the denizens of the realm of disorder.

In physical mediumship,

the manifestations are almost wholly of a physical character, occasionally involving the mental nature

to a small

degree, and sometimes merging into

mental mediumship. In mental mediumship, the manifestations are

The body and mind,

chiefly of mind. spirit, all

distinctions

and

whole being

is

somewhat arbitrary, as the some degree involved in mani-

are to

festations of a foreign force, Self,

soul

are so intimately related one to another, that

when

the Master, the

has resigned the scepter of the

umship

is

will.

Medi-

condition where one force controls

a

as, for example, the body is the medium Mind being the controlling force. Mind turn a medium of spirit, and spirit is a me-

another

:

of

mind

;

is

in

dium of soul all intermingling and blending into a homogeneous whole. However viewed, mediumship reveals three disA ruler, a subject ruled, and the tinct factors Mind is the rule is effected. whereby means ;

:

admitted to be this means, since

known

it

of the forces ruling our bodies

is

the best

and control-

ling our actions.

The value.

subject ruled

is

seldom estimated

In a general sense,

man

is

the

at its true

medium

be-

tween order and chaos; in a specific sense, that which connects mind and matter must be the medium, and that medium in man is the will.

.

I

R egenera Hon

o6

Man his

appears to be fashioned and molded, and

movement

directed

by

He

fate.

appears to

be the child of destiny, a means, a medium which

an inscrutable intelligence uses to compass an un-

known

This seeming destiny

end.

sion of unripe intelligence,

and

is

is

the conclu-

contradicted by

the soul consciousness of the lowest order of being

which has

The

volition.

intellect

believes

soul kfiozvs and affirms that the weal

the

;

and woe

of

the race depend on individual effort toward a com-

mon

We

know that to a certain extent w^e we feel the pulsations of elective power, and we know from experience that when we violate our nature we sink into a lower nature of inharmony and suffering. The medium of all acare

end.

free,

tion then

for

is

the Will.

God works through means, which means or mediums are not mankind alone, but the Thus we entire universe which God has created. It is said that

have the absurd spectacle of a higher force working in and controlling a lower, which persistently contests his supremacy.

come

of the

This opinion

than that which

is

the out-

controlled, while the truth

that only like controls trols intelligence

;

Intelligence

its like.

and when

it

is

con-

appears otherwise, a

close analysis will reveal a factor

Man

is

assumption of a controlling force other

common

to both.

controls the brute by virtue of the animal

principle

which they have

in

common, and not

Mediicmship.

by reason

of his higher

human

sumption of the superiority other

107

of

nature.

as-

from the control which one thing

arises

exercises over another thing

but rightly regarded

;

the weak are as potent as the strong

—

the great,

The

one thing over an-

for ''a chain

And

weakest link." differences at

God

in

;

the small as

not stronger than

is

there

is

oneness

its

— no

all.

Control springs from sympatJiy not from force.

The body the latter

controlled by the mind, not because

is

greater, but because of the

is

The body

existing between them.

from the mind, and the mind

its

sympathy

derives

its

life

sustenance from

the body through the sympathy existing between parts,

all

ality of

greater

which

which makes that oneness or individu-

expression

than in

we

and

Each atom

One

another.

Disturb

the

normal conditions

mind and every part sanity,

man.

call

of the

body and

is

sympathy

between the paralysis, in-

body responds

to intelligent care

by mind in all the reactions physical well-being and happiness. bestowed on Control

is

it

in

of

the thing controlled, however small

or vast, simple or complicated are

no

forms of disease appear.

countless of the

exists

part

mediums but not

it

may be.

All things

of foreign or alien forces.

A

hypnotist controls a subject by controlling himself.

By an

effort

of

will,

comes one with the

through sympathy, he be-

self

of the subject, projecting

1

08

Regeneration.

his will into the receptive will of the subject

;

but

no one can enter into and subdue another contrary

The

to his will.

guard which

Weak

nothing alien can

break through.

persons are deficient in will and therefore

most

easily

truly

'*

its

an armed

will truly in revolt is

become

Nature

passive, or vacant.

abhors a vacuum," and a being vacant of

executive power invites a

Such are

tenant.

the so-called spirit mediums. Physical

medium ship

generally induced by a

is

mental state derived from desire. precedes the action of will,

being or doing of anything

came

a

medium

belief in the

with is

it.

any

of

world of

Desire always

and must precede the no person ever be-

;

sort

of force without the

spirit

and desire for contact

Belief in superior forces, or intelligences,

a pre-requisite to mediumship, and like

tends to induce the condition believed in

the control

force

of

weakness results

in

makes

himself has

little

He who

faith

the avenues of the

belief

in-

fully believes

knows

little

of

Belief in a personal devil opens

opposing forces.

body

Belief belief in

the reality of the

in

things that disturb or annoy, and

all

;

beliefs

weakness, for mental states

duce physical conditions. in

slaves

all

in.

mind and

all

the pores of the

for his entrance, since fear mingles with that

and fear

is

weakness.

Calmness and tranforms of

quillity are safeguards against disorderly

mediumship.

If all

mankind were calm and peace-

Mediums/lip.

stonns and

f ul,

turbances

earthquakes

— would

cease, as

—

1

all

would

physical

dis-

bodily

all

09

ills.

Excitement vacates the whole being of the tranquil

presence

of

God, and disorder rushes

WTien we close our eyes

in to

fill

the vacuum.

we

are nearer to the Source of Life than at

The

other time.

ment,

its

external world with

intoxication and allurements,

in sleep

its is

any

excite-

shut out

;

we find rest and renewed life. We are no longer mediums for this external rush The day-time is hypof life that controls us. notic; we sleep when we fancy ourselves wide awake. The dreams and nightmares that possess the struggles of commerce and finance the us bloody thrones the serried mobs, which we name armies, marching to the sound of drum and entering into ouiself

;

;

;

trumpet, with waving to rouse call

flags, and noise and tumult and keep active the excitement which we

courage

—

and the body

all

this vacates the

mind

of

peace

of healthful poise, inviting disorderly

forces to take possession.

The world

drunk with greed and pride and ing on the night

it

lust.

of

day

is

Encroach-

uses for revelry the hours con-

secrated to peace, and man, stultified by the fumes of this potent liquor of hell, forsakes himself

and

dies loner before he has learned to live.

The

exhaustion that succeeds stimulation

is

a

condition that invites obsession and the fierce desire for

intoxicating stimulants indicates the close

no

Regeneration.

proximity of those vampire forces that fasten on

Saloons are doors which open to that

the weak.

lower nature

of disorder

and

spirits

other than

those swallowed by their patrons issue therefrom.

Unreasoning impulse, produced by any cause, throws open the doors of the mind and the body for the ingress of

and inharmony,

spirits,

who

indifferent

delight in disorder

the pain and de-

to

struction which attend them. others,

Consideration for

an object, a motive for action, anything

that rouses the mental forces and invigorates the will,

downward and

closes the avenues that lead

gives wings to the soul.

The

reality of reincarnation

questioned by

who trine.

many and

afihrm that there

is

and

say that

I

am

}

is

by some,

no proof of either doc-

Jesus asked his disciples "

of obsession

boldly denied

:

''Whom do men

and the answer he received shows

conclusively that reincarnation was so thoroughly believed by the Jews, that Jesus was said to be one of

their old prophets

come

again.

Much

of the

notable work of Jesus and the early church was the casting out of devils, and the new gospel em-

braced the philosophy and methods of performing this

work.

mediums

Those possessed

of devils

were the

of the disorderly forces, mouth-pieces for

undeveloped beings from the chance world. manifestations are

now

Such

classed as insanity, the ab-

berations of a disordered mind, and because

we have

Mediums /lip.

ill

named the thing we fancy we understand and have fully described It is

it.

claimed by the churches that Jesus

is

the

medium between God and man, the means, way of salvation. He taught nothing of the

great or

He

kind.

emphasized equality, brotherhood, and

the service of each for the other, rather than doing

something for God (vain

effort

!),

or exalting him-

With him goodness and greatness were synonymous the desire to rule, or self

above humanity.

;

the abjectness of being ruled, was equally foreign

His mind was the medium which

to his nature.

made manifest the God

within, the Father, Saviour,

God needs

or Server of his children.

nor

vice

connection with him

is

neither ser-

only possible service

the

servants;

to take

him

in

into the soul

and become him.

The medium between and, in a broad sense, for

it

lished,

is

by means

of

force and matter

is

mind,

mediumship is mental, mind that rapport is estaball

even with the physical.

Hearing, seeing,

personating, automatic writing, trance and materializing

much

mediumship are

mmd

as

is

with physical nature. ophizing,

all

all

physical, with just so

necessary to establish

efforts

j-apport

Teaching, lecturing, philos-

which come under what

is

usually termed inspiration, are really mental; and

the higher, deeper, and broader the mind of the

medium, the more intangible become the evidences of inspiration.

112

Regeneration.

On

confines, the utmost

the

the spirit

mediumship

verge

mind,

of

not seen or heard, for spiritual

is felt,

feeling, not the sense of touch in

is

activity but the felt sense of the person or object,

something outside the range

spirits,

the usual sense

of

The medium

senses the aura

of

or of persons on the

same plane; or

of

consciousness.

objects,

which give

of

all

intangible

off

emana-

tions, the aura or life principle of the things.

So,

touching a stone the sensitive medium becomes

aware

port wdth

No

its

aura.

one has seen a

toms are no more

An

objects. in a

through coming en rap-

of its life history,

moment

quires

spirit

spirits

at

any time.

Phan-

than are other tangible

object that dissolves and disappears is

no more

than one which

spirit

ages to effect a disappearance; but

nearer to that unconditioned state which

The

spirit.

''matter"

is

disHnction

between

re-

it

is

we term

" spirit "

and

really arbitrary, since they are one;

the elements blending, separating, interchanging,

and antagonizing, but leaving no neutral ground between.

The Will manipulates

and, in a spiritual of

mental action, while Desire holds the negative

Psychometry

or receptive pole of the mind.

form

A or

these elements

medium, holds the positive pole

of spiritual

psychic, or soul

Love

is

a

mediumship.

medium,

— synonymous

is

terms.

one born of God,

He who

feels an-

3

MediumsJlip.

1

1

woe as if it were his own, who holds himsome sense, responsible for the weakness

other's self, in

and failures

who

of others,

longs to heal the sick,

feed the hungry, rescue the oppressed true psychic medium, for

he

;

is

the

these desires spring

all

from the soul nature.

We if

speak of the different parts of ourselves as

we owned them

my

soul

we

being

is

not

my

my

body,

I

all

my

that

I

property,

my

have or

am

by experience, by

acquire

Belief

is

being ; for

or

weak and uncertain

in

myself.

me

We

am

I

are as

owns

and rules over me. stable

and permanent,

my

in proportion to

we think

;

belief

provided always

the thought be large enough to contain us.

There

a vital difference between thought, and being

wJiat

we

tJiink.

and valleys of

I

my

own little

the woodlands, the hills

farm

them lovingly and with

;

my

eye rests upon

a certain pride

beauty and use, and they enter into

come If

and

toil

My body often

obsessed by them.

my mind owns

me, and

is

mind,

and the things so gained enter into

am

I

hands,

But

house, etc.

I.

trouble,

and

my

predicate ownership, as

my

coat,

;

or of the objects that conduce to well-

;

part and

by thought

I

parcel of

my

in

their

me and

material

be-

existence.

enter into the spirit of the wood-

land and valley, with their blooming flowers and singing birds, their sheen and shadow in sun and rain,

I

am

one with them and through them

I

Regeneration.

114

enter into the Soul of

which

think

I

proportion to

Nature, and become that

all

to be.

it

my own

the truth and the life" only

I see,

feel,

it,

in

me

If

tJiink.

when

I

myself in

in

am the way, am that luhich

*'

I

I

can enter into the soul

I

storm by virtue of that

of the

to

07'

believe

I

truth, but

me which

in

can restrain and control

it

to the lesser storm-soul

calls out

akin

is

for the soul

;

;

it

obeys

the law of the higher force and for the nonce at

my

one with

will.

voice of God, because

what of

I

think

God

hear in

I

''

is.

I

am

The only control worthy of To rule and to be Love.

and beneath the dignity the things he has

made

who

is

ruled

I

am

am." is is

the control

both above

God

controls

tilings themselves,

mediumship is within you in all Love

and Wisdom, by your highest

The

I

belief

tJie

nature the

him and

man.

of

in

that

and the truest and noblest form the control by him

all

believe in

I

is

of

self.

desire to control springs from the selfish

gettifig principle.

Love

of

power and glory

is

the

foundation of thrones, the incentive to war, the ruthless parent of speculation, usury, and oppression.

To

exchange, of

most

acter.

get, to hold, giving little or is

spirit

Why

mediums,

be.''

so-called,

is

in

of this char-

be a chariot for any to ride

the spirit of Life, the to

nothing

the spirit of rule, and the "control"

The medium

One

I

feel

in save

and know myself

gains nothing in his real

self,

1

McdiunisJiip.

1

even by doing a good work under the dictation

and control he

is

Sooner or

of a spirit, or spirits.

later

abandoned, broken machinery no longer

fit

wreck by the wayside of life, having The given all and gained nothing in exchange. powers that use the so-called spirit mediums do so for

use, a

for their

own

purposes, caring

about the con-

little

sequences which are certain to ensue.

The

facts of spirit

mediums power

is

control of

are beyond dispute,

but the controlling

quite other than the

souls of our dear,

may be

a friend

permitted by the controlling powers to

commu-

departed friends. is

communion and

Occasionally,

nicate with the living, but

— void

close about this

only by permission.

it is

Murderers, thieves, drunkards, of disorder

it

liars,

of conscience

mundane

savages, beings

and love

— hover

sphere, held by reproduc-

tive law, unconsciously waiting for reincarnation.

Their dense aura tive until his

is

inhaled by the passive sensi-

nervous system

is

saturated, his brain

seized upon, his will paralyzed,

only a machine for

and he becomes

some unknown

irresponsible

force to manipulate, subvert, and destroy. "

God and

under control."

fere with

freedom of the

and the influence

of

will.

Life

is

opposing circumstances de-

get control of the animal in the life,

and

it

is

is

educational

velops wisdom and strength for self mastery.

of

He

the good never inter-

man

is

To

the lesson

the only control worth attaining.

6

Rege7teration.

1 1

In the struggle

evolved the truth that

is

To

reach out

assume that

other's re-

begin and end in control of for control of another

to

self.

leaving him vacant of incentive to

sponsibilities,

Vacancy

action.

is

rights

all

is

a condition inviting obsession,

To

which causes crime, imbecility, and insanity.

more wealth than can be used for legitimate ends, is to deprive some one of the responthe freedom to grow through sibility of wealth acquire

—

He who

wise use of money.

any form

We

of

are

freedom spirits

all

all

a robber.

and our

penetrating eyes

another sphere,

possibly

in

operation

field of

;

another nature, but

What

communication must go on constantly. the nature of these communications for self-interest,

vacant of truth in

;

and possesses

diums

of greed

truth, loving

do

we

lie

If

1

so,

that force which us,

and

is

Each soul is hidsome may be in

with our fellows.

in intercourse

den from

is

deprives another of

is

'^.

For

the mind

like us

is

gain, is

rushes

and we become physical mefraud.

If

the mind

is full

of

freedom for others as for ourselves,

accepting responsibility with knowledge and with all

material gains, the manifestations are of the

terior spirit

and we are

of the Great Spirit

There nature.

is

no

spiritual

whose name

in-

mediums blessed is

Love.

limit to the possibilities

Immortality in the flesh

will

of

man's

be an ac-

complished fact when the general mind accepts

iiy

MediiimsJiip.

it

Death

as such.

merely an unnecessary sep-

is

man from his The and decay.

outer covering by corrup-

aration of tion

chemical qualities of the

elements have decomposed

it

the affinity of

;

its

atoms are reversed by the passing forth of the Heat hastens the man, leaving the body vacant. decomposition misses is

it

of

body and

the

cremation

dis-

This proves that corruption

altogether.

not a necessary follower of death, that the sep-

aration of the

atoms

slow process.

Intelligence

elements

it

body need not be

of the

greater than

is

Fire

manipulates.

is

its

a

the

all

plaything

;

compared When the mind once to the chemistry of Mind. kjioius Iiozu, it will swallow up the body as the ris-

the chemical action of

as nothing

fire is

ing sun absorbs the mists of morning, leaving no trace that

it

has ever been.

Life without change would ony,

— the utter weariness

sun that never

sets,

immortal youth.

even though

A

it

locality nor

in

on a

a story of

the flesh

;

is

not

on the

by any

The Will being master

by any form.

and without, makes

as

life

change form and condition as the wind

that bloweth

where

glimpse of the truth

we

tell

implies an existence not limited

of all conditions within

free " to

it

changeless existence

conceived of by immortality contrary,

be endless monot-

of looking forever

shall all

it *• :

be changed.

listeth."

We .

.

Paul caught

shall not all sleep, .

For

a

but

this corruptible

8

Regeneration.

1

I

must put on incorruption and on immortality."

^

This

this mortal

must put

bodily immortality.

is

It

does not signify that after the manner of thought of

change

his age he placed the

His statement goes the body

to

show

at the

"'

trump."

last

that the condition of

not fixed to mortality, nor so subject

is

and death that these cannot be outgrown. Jesus shows the way out of pain and loss the Christ makes all free, which is the opposite of me-

to decay

;

diumship.

But honor where honor

is

The world has

due.

been forced upward by mediumship larged

the

brought

life

similar to our own.

ism

Through

it is

it

the

of

explanation,

strated that

and

and nature, distinct from yet

and superstition

reasonable

nature

world of thought knowledge of

to the

other forms of

human

of

possibilities

has en-

it

;

— and

the supernatural-

the

neither the Great

tanic Majesty that

makes

have

past

found

truth demon-

God nor

his Sa-

slaves of man, but rather

the weakness and ignorance within

man

himself.

Nevertheless, the fact remains that mediumship destructive to the medium, dwarfs soul growth, and brings about a condition of dependence which enslaves and effectually prevents all personal is

progress.

In

the end, the

abandoned when no longer ling powers. ^ I

Corinthians xv.

medium

is

generally

of use to the

control-

CHAPTER

X.

Souls.

The

meaning

story of Creation has an occult

which refers to the creation

man

nature by himself ; for

own acts. The command

man's immortal

of

by

inimortal only

is

his

*'

Let there be

creative

act

— the

center

a

sun, the

—

focusing visible

of

man, the beginning

give

life

mind

is

and energy

is

" is

By

its light,

teries,

its

is

system

call

— the

;

and

The sun is a the medium

;

of worlds.

The

soul; through all

it

directions.

understanding, the mys-

fire

of

Love flows from the

generate and quicken thought into It is at

soul to

life.

the center that formless spirit takes on

form, and the soul ties

a

poured forth to

fulness pours in

which we

to

the essences of things, are revealed, and by

rays the

its

spirit

to its

first

the intellect of

Wisdom.

the sun of the ego,

the soul out of

the

magnetism

center around which worlds revolve

through which creative

is

system and order

of

spiritually the "light"

!

center of a physical

Occultly the " light

universe.

"

light

— the womb

is

a center of infinite possibili-

of infinite form. 119

1

20

Regeneration.

The sun mother

womb

the soul of the solar system

is

from whence they were brought

not without reason that in the

is

the sun

the

;

around her

of the worlds that revolve

;

the

forth.

It

German tongue

feminine.

is

Love, the Creator,

first

manifests in centers.

These are the beginning of worlds, organizations, societies, clubs, sects, and governments. As there can be no offspring without a mother, and no mother without a father, so there cannot be soul without some measure of understanding

cumference of the

soul.

being the father, has center,

— the

Mhid

tations.

medium

soul, is

which

in

— the

cir-

Understanding, or Mind, labor around the

its field of

providing ways for

its

manifes-

the circumference of soul, the it

revolves.

Understanding

is

the spiritual part of mind, which, without understanding,

and

is

wholly material, limited, form-bound

To

inert.

conception of of things

but It

''

the

still

it

It hears the commotion of matter, small voice " of spirit is unheard.

reaches out hands to manipulate

the sensation of

spirit, for

the essence, or reality, wholly escaping

;

knowledge.

its

mind there is no knows only the forms

that quality of

is

of texture alone,

touch fine enough to discern the inner

things.

So

it

appears that mind

is

the inertia of mineral matter, through to

matter, but

having no sense

Infinite

understanding, this

life

of

graded from all

being

forms up the

most

Soh/s.

part of mind, closest

spiritual

being.

It

I

the center of

to

Wisdom, the Father, who dwells which is Love. Wisdom and Love

is

the soul,

in

2

I

are never divorced, and they are infinitely fecund.

The

material

mind deals in externals and is prowhich accord with the under-

of inventions

lific

standing of the uses of things, as remedies for

when the medical mind has

bodily ailments, even

no

glimpse of the causes or nature of disease.

real

We

and

believe in death with the external mind,

grow

and die before our time, unconscious so Ghosts of the powers and true nature of Spirit. and apparitions pass for spirits, and the shadowy old

forms evolved from cabinets are supposed to be

The

souls.

mind

is

so

soul

is

not understood, because the

accustomed

To

is

to

it

but

;

outcome of the thinking

of every-

the non-existent.

change defeats the

such minds the law of

immortality of forms

form

to predicate

thing that the formless

this conclusion

is

of the material mind,

the

—

for

the spiritual understanding perceives form to be as indestructible as the law of change.

existed before

have vacated AM,"

I

dwelt I

it.

— a formless

cause

I

am

am

in

it,

and

am that

I

not a form

I

am

:

*T

man

simply be-

a form of love, a

center around which the circumstances of like a

that

form I

principle called

in this body.

My

will exist after

life

darkened day, dimly illuminated by the ushers

in

the

dawn

of

immortality,

"

lie

fiat

Let

Rcge7icration.

122

This command is to the undermay create anew this dilapidated may scatter the forces of death and

there be light!"

standing that

body; that

it

it

disorder, proclaiming that all

When

good.

is

the

conviction becomes universal that all seeming Evil is the foundation of progress and therefore must be Good, the mind will lose its grossness and the

whole being

The

be fragrant with eternal youth.

will

Soul conceives truth

Truth, once conceived,

it.

atom the

of the body,

immortal,

every one

is

all

grow

into every

from mortal into

Not

from matter to substance.

Truth so

are potentially so.

all

is

a

fire,

a center of immor-

that everything that he had

good."

"good"; "there fore

it

which the entire being takes cognizance.

God saw "very

will

transforming

conceived of the soul tality of

the Mind perceives

immediately capable of this transform-

although

ation,

;

There can be nothing above is none good but God," there-

he has

that

made was

only be good, and evil

made, or that he is

evil

is,

can

only to our limited

understanding.

Man

is

progressive because he

imperfect, ignorant

The Mind and

is

;

is

incomplete,

darkness, rather than light.

material, far

removed from the Soul,

the soul's mind, the understanding,

ing and clouded.

The judgment

is

is

vacillat-

biased by the

testimony of the external senses and we believe that to be

evil

which

is

often the only possible

123

Souls.

good for

all

teacher,

not

We

for us or the world.

a part of

all

and that which

it,

is

are in the world,

necessary and good

must be good for each. Suffering is a some will learn of no other, and is The objection may be instruction good ?

—

urged that

—

false teaching is

an

evil

;

but

how can

that be as long as there are those in the world

whom

the truth would strike blind?

At the core

disappointments, reverses, doubt, and despair have the seed of perfection, Dissatisfaction

another. self is

tion,

in

is

— the kernel

Good.

of Infinite

the door from one condition to

The man who

is

dissatisfied with him-

aroused to improvement by that dissatisfac-

which working

and through him changes

in

time himself and his conditions.

opinions

may

The

clash of

we all God

bring the clash of arms, but

recognize and to a certain degree worship the of

War.

all

like

holder."

The good and beauty, which In

its

evil of

''is

in

the world

essence, nothing

ignorance which causes

it

is

aft^

the eye of the beis evil

;

it

to appear such.

is

our

W^ith

the perception of the all-pervading good the soul

becomes calm like still water, and pregnant with life, youth, and beauty. The body reflects the soul's state and the face is lit by a smile of heaven, a light

The

and the beautiful. ful

that

expression and

no earthly glare can

life

become

Love

of the

fixed in the

give.

good

good and the usebeautifies the ugly and makes charming the

1

Regeneration.

24

— the

plainest face,

most uncouth body.

To

the spirit of Regeneration. is

be

at

This

is

one with

it

to enter the kingdom of Love.

Regeneration cannot be attained by one alone. It

is

begun by the union

male and female,

the " Divine Quaternary

son must

find

of

the dual principles,

each person

in

or

his

"

but to establish

;

each regenerating per-

her complementary mate.

Celibacy must give place somewhere on the road, at

some

time, in

some incarnation

to the union of

counterparts, the complete blending of two per-

fected souls, the perfect marriage, of which the external phase as

lacrum,

we know

it

— a misty shadow,

is

the veriest simu-

an atrophied ghost of

the real and complete union.

Regeneration expands the soul

;

the center en-

—

the mind. and indraws the circumference, The sympathies unfold and expand until selfish cares, anxieties, and worries disappear, and effort larges

and thought

The

for the

belief that all

good

of all take their place.

good annihilates

is

evil, elimi-

nates poison from the blood, and, reconciling the mind to the " changes and chances of this mortal life,"

produces an indescribable calmness.

quiet the

still

small voice

is

heard

;

In this

man becomes

he has found his center

—

the Divine Guest has descended, and God's will

is

conscious of the soul

done ing.

in

;

the circumference as

This hushing

in

of the outer

the center of be-

mind may extend

Souls.

and the

to the material body,

Sleep of Sialam, which

may be

125 stage of the

first

physical insensibility,

is

entered.

Sleep connects with the reservoir of

life.

The

waking hours only prepare the body for the reLabor exhausts the nerves and ception of life. muscles of

spirit

;

then we

lie

down without doubt

or fear and calmly resign ourselves to the care of

a

Power

we

of

whom we know

nothing

with renewed

shall arise

life

supreme act of most faithless

faith regularly

yond the laws

of limitation, far

confident that

—a

performed by the

In deep sleep the soul passes be-

!

cumference, the Mind

beyond the

and her horizon

its

A

limited.

is

of sleep will often serve to

tions to the ingress of

cir-

but in partial sleep she

;

recognizes the circumference with ities

;

and energy

life,

—

varied activ-

few moments

remove the obstructhis ingress

does not

come from the world without, but from the world within. The deeper the sleep the greater the influx of life. We know something of the influence of magnetic sleep on body and mind with its

curative and

enlightening influx, but of the

Sacred Sleep of Sialam report and

that

a

little

as

dream

some excited

that in this sleep

future of

is

Rosicrucian

scoffing,

of

little is

men and

all

known, even by

subject

to

tradition,

enthusiast.

mysteries

It

may be

doubt and a

myth, a

is

affirmed

solved, the

angels explored, and the deter-

Regeneration.

126 mination of the

and

fall

carried into effect to the rise

will

of nations

the changing of forms of gov-

;

ernment, the downfall of dynasties, and the production of wealth and prosperity for races, nations,

and

However

individuals.

pear,

it

finds

traditions

its

and bibles

may

incredible this

confirmation in of the ages.

ap-

the religious

all

Gautama slept Bo Tree

the Sleep of Sialam under the Sacred

Mohammed part of his

lite,

;

the cave, in the earlier and purer

in

entered somewhat into this state

Jesus slept this sleep on Calvary.

The

;

fakirs of

India, ignorant of its transcendent powers,

have

its

most external form

in the

body, which

the earth for days in deep un-

lies in

death and burial of the

consciousness, to rise again in the fulness of bodily vigor.

Trance, which

is

but a self-induced

not the trance of the medium, state,

sacred sleep, and the

life

the power to enter into of the Spirit teries,

;

in

it

opens of

way

to

the

Regeneration gives

It

it.

the

is

one

of

the ways

the Christ, the Revealer of Mys-

guides the immortal into fuller immortality,

where the external din

of life

is

hushed and the

regenerating being aw^akes into perfect consciousness of his powers.

The full development of the makes the body proof against

We We

are sick because he

turn him

awav from

is

Christ in the soul disease and death.

not fully born in us.

that door of our beine:

So ids. before which he

says

127

" Behold

:

stand at the

I

Our ignorant and /labit often drives him

door and knock."

vicious sec-

ond nature

relentlessly

of

\\t cannot sleep because the din of

away.

life is

our ears and the peace and trust of childhood

in

has forsaken

bone and set

—

up,

The maker

us.

for

of brain

better

tissue,

we have

Christ does not interfere with our

deliberate choice, or coerce us into

our

and

before the ruler

fluids, retires

and himself.

nature

harmony with Our lives are

chiefly automatic obedience to habits inherited, or

engendered and fostered by the passions, and the little

WILL we manifest

is

mainly employed

in busi-

Christ cannot abide in the tur-

ness or pleasure.

moil of anxiety, the whirl of passion, or in breast of a slave, and every

who

is

man

under any other domination,

Christ

is

not

2i

is

not free.

person, albeit he found a voice in

Jesus of Nazareth.

He

and overshadows the

soul, as a larger light

the rays of the lesser ficient

enters into, blends with,

absorbs

Where Love

light.

is

de-

he cannot enter, nor overshadow the nature

He

absorbed by material things. gotten Son of God, and soul

the

ruled by habit, or

is

all

is

the only be-

else begotten in the

begotten of mortality.

"light" which

is

He

only

is

that

not quenched in the night of

death.

Jesus came

reached

its

when the Roman

civilization

had

climax and the mighty mistress of the

1

28

Regejieration.

world, drunk with conquest, fall.

This planet and

cycles fully

— were

on

all

it

was hastening

— the growth

ripe for change.

to her

of

Man had

many

learned

one lesson from his teacher Nature, the

les-

son of his weakness, dependence, and helplessness;

and

his cry of despair to

be,"

was

furies he

"whatever gods there

protection from

for

the fates and the

had himself unconsciously evoked.

came a poor man

thoroughly prepared temple for the sion of the Christ

Jesus

as regards worldly conditions, a

;

fullest expres-

a man, yet containing within

himself the fullest indwelling of the Father and

Mother, and Christ or offspring, which constitute the Trinity of the regenerated One, to whose will the elements of matter yield obedience, while the

world of

spirit

on the other in

recognized on one side

its

nature and

the air

;

He

brother. in

man

;

stilled

its

master,

the tempest

he fed the hungry from

he raised the dead from the bondage

of

the grave and the corruption of matter, and finally

he slept the Sleep of Sialam, a sleep so closely

re-

sembling death as to deceive his executioners, his

immediate followers, and the whole world since his time to the present time.

We

cannot analyze death, any more than we can

analyze

life

;

all

we know

precede decomposition.

deep as

to

are the

Instances

symptoms of

that

trance

so

be mistaken for death are not uncom-

mon, days and even weeks passing while the sub

S07//S.

ject lies in

1

profound bodily insensibility

but as

;

long as decomposition does not take place,

presumably not is

extinct.

conscious of

life

is

Sometimes the subject

that passes

all

29

around him, but

more frequently he retains consciousness only of some other condition of being. Jesus passed through the agonizing torture which preceded his death, suffering as soul rent from

all

body

tJic

must ;

but

suffer

who have

when he

fell

the

into the

Sleep _of^^ialarn he did not lose consciousness with the insensibility of the body.

After the Sleep he

had power to transmute the animal

life

into spirit,

body bewhich not being under physical came wholly magnetic and under the control of his law, his

He changed

will.

that

Mark

form

" to

the

way

same

two to

appearance

his

affirms that he appeared

*'in

of the disciples, as they

Emmaus

event, says

** :

;

another

walked on

and John, referring to the

Their eyes were holden that

they should not see and

Mary

so completely

Magdalen did not

know him for the Master." know him at the sepulcher,

but supposed him to be the gardener, even after he

had spoken to

her.

All this shows that Jesus had

form and appearance at will, even to vanish from sight, passing through closed He demonstrated that he was no phantom, doors.

power

to

change

his

by physical contact and by partaking of food with the disciples. In view of these facts

is it

incredible that Jesus

"

1

Regeneration.

30

should walk our streets today of

this

object-lesson

in

?

In the presence

the powers potential in

every son and daughter of earth,

how

shall

we

tinue to live this dwarfed, frivolous, narrow

con-

life

of

the senses, beaten about by every gust that blows

without or within, of time light the

Eat

?

—

of

a straw

on the foaming billows

the fruit of the Tree of Life

;

Divine Fire on the altar of your being, and

become through Regeneration live forever

!

" as

gods who

shall

CHAPTER

XI.

Angelic Love.

Love

is

being, but

the same in essence in it

expression.

all

conditions of

differs in manifestation or

It

may be

in

the graver pursuits of maturer years,

or literature.

In

may

its

it

gener-

manifest in business,

dual action

triple expression,

it is

of

of mirthful sports as in children, or, as

ates thought which

its

modes

always goierative of sonietJmig.

It is

the

A

it

procreates

art, ;

in

of the Rosicrucians,

Regeneration.

The

vibrations which flow from sex love differ same individual at different times and unNeither are they the der changed conditions. same in velocity in any two persons as a general thing. The grosser or more material the nature, in the

the slower the rates of vibration, and the narrower their radius, for

it

is spirit

ferences in vibrations

may

be illustrated

difference between the area covered

In both

tions,

!

it

is

light,

but

So the love

how

dif-

by the

by the

from a candle and that covered by an quality

The

that vibrates.

light

arc-light.

different in radius

and

of the brute sends out vibra-

but their velocity and radius are to man's as

Regefieration.

2,2

The reason

man's are to angel's.

the brute natural matter obstructs

spirit,

Brute love

and

is

generative, but

of love

He

it

were

vibrations,

to

also less.

is

elements of Regenerfull

fills

which he vegetates and pours out ever, being expansive,

in

;

has no expansion;

it

in the brute nature the

has no space beyond

obvious

dense, and therefore

is

and the volume

ation have not evolved.

is

Man's

fill.

might

the niche

how-

love,

the world with

fill

in

he

his force, but

its

not for the obstructions of igno-

it

rance and grossness he sets in the way.

Love

from

flows

and comes

soul

Love begins

the soul in a gentle heat those

vibrations,

first

These ultimate

in

As Love and

the

ivill,

;

i.e.,

of

which

Will

is

the

of

thrills

is

the

desire, for

feminine.

are

masculine and

see that the male

is

springs from Desire.

Desire are in the soul of

and as the soul

nerves,

to manifest first

desire,

Thus we

produces motion.

born of the female

of

body

the

into of

the consciousness in

into

ravishing pleasure. in

the

by means

waves

vibratory

in

kingdom

of

things

all

Heaven where

— the great Silence where vibrations are and power cend human imagination, — must follow the God

so

is,

fine, so infinite in

as to trans-

velocity

that

it

angels

who

are nearest to

him

and power must send forth the tive

and

creatures.

far-reaching

The

in spiritual likeness finest,

vibrations

of

most any

loves of the angelic world

of

creahis

must be

;

Angelic Love.

133

the fullest expression of the love of God, life, light,

— the

providence of the universe.

Motion and emotion spring from Love, which always and everywhere negative principles ifestation

in

is

sexual

the positive and

;

interchange causing

its

man-

from atomic rock to mightiest archangel.

Therefore, the loves of the angels are sexual, as

the love that emanates from the center of

God

is

love,

himself.

Violent vibrations are harsh creative It is

power

due to the

softer, finer,

far-reaching and rapid ones. light

;

and destructive

not the result of such vibrations.

is

and therefore, more

The

warm

still,

sun-

deep, silent waters, the quiet night, the se-

cret vibrations of the earth, are all prolific of life

unknown

man,

to

— beings

of an

hour or of an age,

forms of pulsating joy whose vibrations exceed rapidity, those of

The

form.

infinite calm,

soul, unruflfled

whose

gels,

electricity in its

the great deep of the

by passion's gusts, attracts the an-

silent

but powerful vibrations inter-

blend with and underlie those of the soul.

we may

let

in

most ethereal

go of the

Thus

erratic vibrations of the outer

world and sink into the downy bed of dreamless peace.

When

in this condition, one's

guardian an-

gel manifests that ideal counterpart of the higher self,

through

wiser, gentler, spirit,

union

with

whom we

and more charitable

grow mind and

shall in

while the vibrations of this interior uncon-

:;

1

Regeneration.

34

scious love flow outward into the

there

an influx of

is

life.

This interior unruffled the Mystic.

life

the homeland of

is

the third heaven of Paul, who,

It is

being caught up into is

physical nature,

it,

*'not lawful to utter,"

saw those things which it but which those of a later

age do not hesitate to describe as far as our imperfect

symbols

speech can be made to

of

form and meaning. The wrath of God what is it as I pondered a sermon to which :

on the verse

listened,

in John,

be "

:

mother

will

far,

soul

"

can the

answered

:

"

Away

t

I

Love,

of

Love

Wrath

in a strange land, its

wrath

may be when

I

the

What is

good,

have lived long and traveled

always asking for truth, yet

found the

last

is

with

teach her child that wrath

less divine

but of

and

iii.,

God Wrath

If

there can be no wrath in Love."

thought

much

of thing

My

.'*

had recently

I

chapter

clause of the thirty-sixth verse.

what manner

questioned

I

"i

convey

of love.

I

have never

I

have been a stranger

and have found love everywhere have known nothing, unless

footsore and hungry

I

it

was refused

bread by some "regenerate" son of the church.

Mayhap

that

Lying on ''

Great

God,

was the Wrath of Love my couch one evening !

reveal

thyself

to

me.

I

prayed

Art thou

Love 1 It is written that thy wTath rests on him who can not believe the report of thee made truly

Angelic Love.

by another man.

If

tliou

13

show me how

art Love,

"

The moonlight lay on field and wood like an angelic smile, and creeping in at the window kissed my feet, wrought pictures on the

thou lovest

and

wall,

!

softly

Like Paul, found

me from

lured

was wrapped away into

I

sphere, and what I

sweetly

saw and heard

I

myself on

a

I

myself.

another

here record.

undulating

vast

plain,

broken here and there by groves, the foliage which, of tillated,

all

conceivable colors, sparkled and scin-

touched into motion by a light breeze.

soft light lay

pondered on

I

the mystery of the sparkling trees where

was neither sun, moon, nor Everything was as distinctly liant sunlight

As a

;

woman,

there

to give light.

stars

visible as

if

in

bril-

but there were no shadows.

far as the

with

A

on the landscape, tinging earth and

sky with a pale golden gray, and

dotted

of

eye could reach the plain was

human

beings

idly wandering,

in

pairs

:

a

man and

pausing here and there

to break up and disperse again in There were no single wanderers. The air was fresh and deliciously fragrant, and inspiring music seemed to well up from the very ground beneath my feet. To cursory inspection,

in

groups,

pairs.

the

earth

fields,

seemed as

solid

as

my

well-known

but on a closer view showed a slow, gentle,

undulating motion, something like the dead swell of the sea,

but less pronounced,

its

undulations

.

R cgcjicration

136 rising I

and

falling to the

rhythm

At

sensed rather than heard.

of the

music which

intervals, small dark

spheres like bubbles, ten or twelve feet in diameter,

appeared resting on the earth,

— phenomena

which arrested and held my attention, as they They apappeared, culminated, and disappeared. peared to be composed of vapor in rapid motion, rolling

like

dusky billows

and

thrusting

flashing tongues of dark-colored fames.

forth

They

ex-

These spheres haled neither heat appeared suddenly and disappeared, in the same manner as a bubble breaks and is gone, leaving no trace behind, and yet whenever a sphere burst, I nor

smoke.

saw a man and woman standing,

attired in shining

beautiful with delicate and charming whose faces shone with such brilliancy that I could not look on them, but was forced to turn my eyes away. Astonished and bewildered, I gazed, unable to grasp the meaning of the gorgeous and unusual spectacle, and it was some time before I could overcome the sense of strangeness sufficiently to observe critically what occurred.

garments, colors,

A

pair loitering near me, apparently on

dential terms, lingered, facing each other

tudes which enabled

me

confi-

in

to scan their faces

general appearance in detail.

atti-

and

They were apparently

ordinary persons neatly clad in plain and rather

somber garments, fully intent each on the other, unaware of or indifferent to me. As they

and

A ngelic L ove. stood thus, clasping hands,

ward, and

I

i

37

saw them look up-

with that look folded

in

each others'

arms, they disappeared, and a dark, billowy sphere

appeared where they stood, rolling and tumblingvapor and thrusting forth tongues of flame. Fascinated

beyond expression,

my

eyes

were

held riveted to the pulsating sphere for a few minutes,

when suddenly

was the

pair

transfigured,

I

vanished and

it

in

its

stead

had previously seen, transformed,

with bright and delicate robes and

faces of celestial beauty.

upon me like the echo of a " Behold the way the Through the involution of spirit, the

Then was borne voice,

spirit

angels love

!

in

these words

:

in angelic splendor, and power, These dark spheres are the Divine effluence of spirit, which through Love, the angelic pairs enter, become involved in, to reappear effulwashed in the blood of the Lamb,' which gent,

progress

angels

and

joy.

*

being interpreted

is

:

*

cleansed in innocent

In humanity, in the angels, through

all

love.'

the crea-

tures of his Will, from the highest to the lowest,

God

loves tJirougJi means, as all his manifestations

are made.

There

is

no other Love of God."

These dark spheres shadowed forth the truth Love are guarded and their manifestations concealed on all planes of being. Love enters " into the closet and shuts to \\vi that the mysteries of

Regeneratioji.

138

door," even in the angelic worlds

;

but

vibra-

its

tions descend to the extremest outposts of being.

Human gelic

love

is

and

love,

a reflex or materialization of anits

round with modest

manifestations silence,

ceal themselves in the

There

a time for

is

time to decay

;

mystery

all

curtained

are

even as the angels con-

things

a time for

of spirit. ;

love

a time to grow, a to generate

the

and a time when it creates thought and refinement and the culmination of it on the human plane is when the time arrives when Love re-

family,

;

generates this mortal into immortality, **

Behold,

I

show you

The

a mystery."

soul

is

a globe and revolves in an orbit corresponding to

At

the orbit of the moon.

moon

smiles,

their conjunction the

and friendship, fame, wealth,

the soul's greatest blessing, immortality,

But beware when the face

attained. tial

orb

is

turned away, for love

rate domestic discord, ease.

"He

ill

love, or

may be

of the celes-

itself

will

fortune, poverty,

that hath ears to hear, let

gene-

and

dis-

him hear."

CHAPTER

XII.

Conclusion.

The

power of man is due to the sexual whence his being is derived. Here, behind the Veil of the Temple, from whose altars creative

nature, from

incense of

the

and

secrecy

virility

the

rises,

glorious

we

enter in silence

presence of

Creative

Here the antagonisms of sex cease, and souls merge in the unity of creati\ e bliss. Creative of what ? of all things. Of many things, Of much of which the creator soon afterwards becomes sorely ashamed, for it is an erroneous idea Power.

—

—

that the sex nature exists only for the propagation of

God

the species. his

own

ness

;

neither

is

man.

Whence come afflict

not limited to the creation of

is

kind, or such beings only as bear his like-

the

loathsome diseases

which

mankind, and the crimes that spring from

sexual abuses

;

the tyranny of the stronger positive

over the weaker negative, the brutal supremacy of

man

over

woman

tion of virile

the loins of

?

power

man

They

are as

as the child

much

the crea-

which springs from

to gestate in the

womb

of

woman.

Sexual potency engenders courage, nobility, '39

as-

1

40

Regeneration.

and

piration,

and

ship

the graces attendant on friend-

all

The energy

love.

the

of

is

proportion to

in

through which

the

flows,

it

pours

soul

through the sex nature, and the volume capacity of

of

energy

the

nature

being drawn

from

the

ocean of energy with which the soul

limitless

is

connected.

The

intellect plays

An

eration.

idiot

an important part in Regen-

can not be regenerated, neither

can an animal, because they are without the power of projection of spirit. it

will

how

Learn

to use the spirit, for

do the bidding of the potent

command

to

The

it.

spirit

they

if

know

person

of a

will

mold and fashion whatever he or she may will

The magic which Jacob worked with law's cattle,

was the polarizing

his father-in-

of Spirit

by

peel-

ing the rods he placed in the watering troughs of the cattle.

If

he had intrusted that part of the

business to another, there would have been no sults, for

it

work, but Jacob's his will,

spirit,

which, in obedience to

enveloped the rods, and by

ergy influenced the passive

cattle.

Prayers not winged with

spirit

unanswered prayers. heal the sick, condition.

It

it

its

potent en-

are the forever

Thought alone

does

or work miraculous changes is

only the chariot

goes forth to do the bidding of the

charge

re-

was not the peeled rod which did the

with the necessary power.

in

which

will

not

in

any

spirit

potent to

;

Cojiclusion.

Anger and

disgust

141

burden the thought with

poisonous emanations, which affect not alone the

one toward

whom

son whose

spirit

which

energy

is

they are directed, but the per-

charged with them.

is

So the

forced from the sex nature to

feed the passions of hatred, jealousy, envy,

fear,

covetousness, and kindred evils are destructive of health and

Human because

life.^

nature

it

is

above

God, being All that stance,

all

all

other forms of nature

free to create or

is

is,

things that are,

image must create out

of

so

As

to destroy.

must make out

man

of his sub-

being in his

— must

himself,

work

within himself, fashioning his substance into pat-

own

terns of his tality

choosing.

If

he desires Immor-

he must fashion himself into an Immortal.

The legend preted,

is

of

the Fall of

plane of division which

propagation

In

tion.

rightly inter-

i\Ian,

the descent of the sexual nature to the is

the plane of propaga-

man's

spirit

divides,

but

does not lose connection with the Infinite Spirit but

in

Regeneration

the

energy must

creative

tend upward from the propagative plane, instead of

downward

to a plane

below

it.

Propagation

is

a great creative plane dividing ''the above from

the below."

Above

is

Creation without Division,

the soul becoming greater and greater by gradual 1

See

Spirit.

the

Temple

of

The Rosy Cross,

p.

215,

for

the definition of

Regeneration.

142

absorption of the Infinite Spirit

plane the division of

spirit

;

while below that

continues until

man

divides himself into the vilest passions and vices,

scattering himself ates

— into

all

—

for

he

created hell here and now, toil,

is

that which he cre-

He

the lusts of propagation. filled

has

with care, anxiety,

and the baleful progeny of competition, greed,

and war.

Do

misunderstand

not

;

Man

is

now on

the

propagative plane and the law of being requires his full use of himself in every attribute

and func-

but to the end that he shall rise into the

tion,

heavens instead

him see

to

of

sinking into the hells.

Let

that the blossoming spirit sends

it

its

fragrance upward instead of downward, for in the

he knoivs that another use can be made

Spirit

energy than that of propagating the

of creative

species.

The

right use of the sex activities attracts the

energy which brings peace, pleasure, and happiIn the course of time these activities will

ness.

cease to be expressed physically, but the attractive

power will

remain, and the energy so attracted

will

serve to hold together the

tating within.

body, or

The

faculty of

Spirit-body ges-

disuse of any organ

the

of

mind, dismembers

the

and

maimiS that spirit-body, and therefore has no place in

the work of

Jesus said

:

" If

Regeneration. thine

It

is

true that

eye offend thee, pluck

it

;

Conclusion.

out

"

;

body,

and

it

may be

may be

some

that

shall

the only resource, but ''that

is

be"

— the

improvement

laudable

improvement when work of God. Potent

sexuality

creates, the other

mark

Any

buried talent. is

through the ages

will carry

eternity the distinguishing

of

faculty

faculty of mind, or

so degraded, so utterly ruined that

the surgeon's knife

body which

143

but destruction

;

entails a blemish

it

sensuality

not

is

the lost

of

effort

Out

destroys.

of

;

toward is

not

on the

fair

the

one

the former

blossoms the deepest love and the highest respect

man for woman, and the woman for man, while

of of

We

monsters of the slime. sis

Because the power

of love in fullest recognition

realization tends ever to the highest

harmony

;

misuse plunges the soul into the depths. Celibacy

a sure to

have here the antithe-

found throughout nature of right use and abuse.

and its

profoundest tenderness the latter breeds only

it.

calm.

is

a war against nature and the race

way

to decrease power rather than to add Power is not in excitement, but in quiet To war with the functions of nature is to

be involved

in turmoil

and unrest

Excitability in any form

is

permanently maimed.

is

an evidence of weakness.

in the still

sunshine than

until the nature

There

in all

is

more power

the tornadoes that

ever swept over the earth.

The

soul that has passed diligently

and patiently

.

^ cgenera tion

44

through this training-school

of

God

— learning the

lessons, performing the duties, passing to grade,

—

is

toils, air,

from grade

growing naturally from plane

already mounting

and pleasures

freer activities,

Regeneration.

of

to

upward from the

plane tasks,

Generation into the purer

and sublimer consciousness of

ADDENDA [Readers responsive to the teaching set forth in this volume will be interested in the followfng Rosicrucian Manifesto which appeared originally in The Temple for July, 1897, and is here reprinted by permission.]

THE ROSY CROSS The

origin of

the

Rosy Cross

is

to the oldest initiates of the order.

are as its

underlie

principles

modern.

In

Egyptian

the

ancient as

all

known only

religions,

and

ancient and

modern times the names

tian Rosenkrutz,

symbols

Its

Mysteries

of Chris-

Robert Fludd and Francis Bacon

have figured prominently torically, there are

in its literature

;

but his-

few exoteric landmarks of the

Order. Rosicruciae

is

spiritual,

ternity, rather than

gathered

among

from

the

not

an Order.

East

material Its

and the

;

Fra-

a

members West,

are

from

the lofty and the lowly, the learned and

the unlearned, wherever there are free souls, and

sympathetic and aspiring natures.

M5

It

embraces

1

Regeneration.

46

all

and climes, and reaches from the

ages, races,

visible far into invisible realms of being.

secrecy,

Silence,

and unpretending good works are

acteristics,

and one member may pass his

its

char-

life

next

door to another and neither be aware of the bond

between them miless some stress

The law

the curtain aside. larly

emphasized

need draw

obedience to the injunction to

;

''enter into the closet

imperative on

of

of Silence is particu-

all

and shut the door" being

who would have

access to the

for restatements

of truth, spe-

sources of power.

Each age cially

calls

adapted to

its

understanding and use, and

That which was hidden from the ignorant and vicious under symbols and figures in the past is emerging from its

the present age

is

outgrown

so

The tined

veil

shell

of Isis

to

no exception.

that

he who runs

may

read.

has become a misty cloud, des-

disappear

in

the

broader light

of

the

coming century, and while the Rosy Cross has its lodges, passwords, and signs, these external forms are regarded with indifference by the genuine Rosicrucian, who is aware that he can become a complete epitome of the Order only through development

of its principles within himself.

While the Rosy Cross has no creeds or dogmas to which the initiate must subscribe, there are certain principles which all true Rosicrucians accept. Among them is belief in the impartial Fatherhood

Addenda. of

God and

147

Man,

Brotherhood of

the universal

thus recognizing the Unity of Spirit in

mani-

all

festations of Life.

Reincarnation

generally accepted as a truth,

is

and salvation is the freedom of the soul from successive embodiments in earthy forms, wherein pain

and pleasure alternate where the glow of genius is dimmed by the darkened understanding of age, and the flame of passion is quenched by the chill ;

and death.

of disease

Humanity attains

because

it,

Life

is

the

of

uplifting

is

can be gained only

it

all

at

everywhere.

souls

homogeneous, and perfect

to the individual soul only

race

fully

sought in individual condi-

is

it

tions and possessions, while

through

none ever

desires happiness, but

when

rest will

come

the soul of the

Therefore, whatever makes for

rest.

the kingdom of heaven

among men

happiness for the individual.

the

is

way

to

Men and women

are born free and equal, but each one comes im-

mediately into conditions destructive of freedom

and equality,

— conditions which man

himself has

created in the evolutionary processes of thought

and life. and codes create the

He

binds himself with creeds, forms,

which divide man from man,

of action

iron

bondage

dom of thought by The recognition of the truth that

of

caste,

and

limit free-

fear.

of

all

universal brotherhood, and are entitled to equal rights

Regeneration.

148

and privileges and Mother soul

in the

is

house

of the

Common

must travel toward the perfected

The

cult of the

the

ture of

Father

an important step in the path the

whole man, and

through vibrations

life.

Rosy Cross embraces the up

set

this

in the

is

cul-

carried on

emotional or soul

These vibrations exalt and and this culture the zvork of salvation, which is not freedom is from consequences, but deliverance from evil deThat which is recorded sires and tendencies. nature by the Will.

expand the energies

of the soul,

cannot be erased, but a

which

new

record

may be made

limbo of forgotten

will cast the old into the

things.

The and

past

sins

;

but the future

fashion as he

Vibrations or

oral

belongs to God, with

will, for

its

failures

man's to mold and

is

himself and for the race.

may be

mental

all

indefinitely transferred

suggestion,

and the

by

instructed

soul consciously arouses, excites, and directs the

thoughtless and ignorant through vibrations.

norance unguards the of receptivity to uplift

soul,

good and

or degrade.

Ig-

furnishing conditions

evil

suggestions, which

Mind responds

to

mind, soul

to soul, spirit to spirit, through vibrations in the ether.

The the

invisible world of spirit

earth-plane,

is

and the souls

wherever they are sensitive

drawing near of

to

men respond

to etheric vibrations.

Addenda.

149

The Rosy Cross has long sensed spiritual tide

away

incoming

this

and confidently expects the breaking ignorance which have long

of the clouds of

obscured the

light

of

pyramids, the buried

the inner heavens.

cities,

The

the tombs and moun-

up their

tain retreats of the old world are giving

long hoarded secrets to the push and enterprise of

the age

:

but their wealth of knowledge and

wisdom, though grand and wonderful, sinks into

when compared with the treasures of the kingdom concealed in the soul of man ready This is the Kingdom of to be revealed for 2ise. the force of Heaven w^hich is taken by force, insignificance

—

persistent desire and effort.

—

Thoughts are not things they are greater than Thought is the energy, the inherent force things. and comes from the Primal Intelligence

of things,

which is

is

above and beyond

things.

all

The mind

an instrument manipulated by unseen, but not

altogether

unknown

belong to us

;

merit which

Its energies

forces.

do not

they are lent for use, and the only

we can

because

claim

adaptability of the instruments

is

in

of

superior

the quality

of their use.

The power the soul

is

to

force or energy of

project this

inherent in

human

nature

partment of the Rosy Cross culture instruction and

training in

use.

its

the etheric atoms of the body

is

;

is

and our dedevoted to

To

vibrate

to set in motion

Regeneration.

150 the ether of space ing

to exercise the Will in breath-

;

to connect with the space of Will, charging

is

the body with electricity, power, and

life

•

but the

fervent desire to attain to any condition sets in vibration the finer essences of spirit that connect

with the over soul of the universe

Love. in

spirit

— the

Infinite

Every aspiring soul reaches some plane that corresponds to itself, and which it

can absorb and use.

There are Seven Spaces to the

of Spirit corresponding

— four Mundane and Those corresponding — Mineral, Vegetable,

Seven Great Powers,

three Spiritual, or psychic.

Mundane Powers are, Animal, Human; the Spiritual Spaces

to the

Will,

and Love.

cieties,

All the spaces are

Connection

and

— Faith, with So-

Orders, Associations, Brotherhoods, which

correspond to every condition

spaces

are,

filled

with

may be

man.

inhabiting

these

by systematic training

attained

This

effort.

beings

the

possible to

not mediumship, so called,

is

but the entering into and possession of the knowl-

edge and power

body and Spirit, and all

soul, in

of is

Temple

etheric

and spaces

Those which are

vidual

with

closest

afifinity,

unconscious.

the

space

Man,

space contacted.

the

him are

spiritual states

latent.

the

of

the

Infinite

atoms belonging ;

some

active,

to

some

active connect the indi-

with

which he has the

and the influx from it is largely To illustrate Beethoven was by :

Addenda. nature

i

with the Musical

affiliated

5 i

Societies and,

instrument attuned to the inspira-

being a fine

tion of that space, he holds the world entranced

Socrates contacted the

by superhuman melodies.

Philosophical space. Napoleon, the Strategic

the

came

the Prophet of Galilee

full soul of

;

but

forth

from and breathed the inspiration of the most interior space

To

aspire

— the

is

space of Love.

to become, in time

and

in eternity

;

for aspiration connects the soul with the spaces of spirit vibrating with

immortal energies.

makes and unmakes himself and dies through feebleness life

is

** ;

he

of

sickens

fails,

will."

Man

Physical

only a series of vibrations whose intensity

may be

greatly

increased

by persistent use

of

spiritual forces.

Degrees

soul-force

of

depend on the rapidity

of the vibrations of the flame uniting the three

This powers which constitute the human ego. trinity of Intelligence, Will, and Love is a manifestation of the Divine Trinity in Unity,

making

of man a microcosmic God.

The

an

Infinite

vibrations of these triune forces

develop

soul

is

a glowing

spark

in

Flame.

The

generally diffused throughout the

which is body as a gentle warmth. This heat may be powerfully increased and drawn to a center in the

heat,

breast,

where

it

burns with a pure and conscious

Regenej'atioii.

152

This

flame.

Holy Ghost

baptism with

the

{Geist, Spirit)

burning on

kept

fire

is

temples.

It

is

and the

fire

by the

typified

ancient

the altars of the

the transmuting

also

is

and

of

fire

the

Rosicrucians, which certain of the old alchemists

misunderstood and materialized to mean the transmutation of the baser metals into gold.

This flame

in

the breast

is

an evidence

Christ-union, the seal of immortality,

To

ble only to the pure in heart.

and

ble

hunger,

possi-

the impure and

unholy, the increase of spirit vibrations soul with an unquenchable thirst

of the

is

fills

and an

the

insatia-

which destroy soul and body by a

slow combustion of unrest, impure desires, disease,

and death.

This flame

with the source of

sometimes

it

all

is

the

point of

contact

power and knowledge, and With Moses it objeca burning bush, and the

finds a voice.

the form of

tified

in

"still

small voice" of spirit

became audible

to the

external ear.

Referring to this flame the great Persian sage, Zoroaster, says,

"When

you

see the

fire,

listen for

the voice of the fire."

This

inner

fire

burned with conscious power

when the disciples walked with the risen Jesus on " Did not our hearts burn the way to Emmaus. within us, while he spake to us on the way V It

has well-nigh ceased to burn on the altars of

human

hearts, but the

Rosy Cross has preserved a

Addenda.

5 3

1

spark of it and now calls to the wise virgins, whose lamps are trimmed and burning, to unveil the light for the illumination of the world.

Love

is

the only antidote for Evil

suppress, but will not prevent

will

invis-

spaces from which descends purifying and

generative power.

war

peaceful,

open the

gentle, forgiving vibrations of love ible

force will

;

The

it.

will cease,

Through the

crime and

its

re-

vibrations of love,

vindictive

punishment

pass away, and practical help will supersede

sermons, prayers, and the

restraints

legal

with

which society now ignorantly strives to protect

Crime should be prevented rather than

itself.

punished

;

criminal tendencies should be detected,

undermined, and destroyed

;

the transmission of

criminal instincts rendered impossible.

may be done through

spiritual vibrations,

All this

and

this

is

one of the fields of work which especially engages the attention and efforts of the

The concentration many minds in one sects,

of

Rosy

effort

vibration

creates

governments, on the plane of

the same way,

spirit,

by

stroys.

Spirit

individualized in a

spirit

than

when

men and women who

are

still

the body.

;

in

and de-

human body

is

There are which the souls

of

world take part, equally with those off

action

disrobed.

conclaves in the spaces of spirit in of

its

of

societies,

projection, creates

no

less

Cross.

and the union

the mundane who have cast

Convocations are held where the

-^ egenera tion.

154

earth-bodies, who, in

terests

most nearly

in

are in the

soul projection,

and questions touching human

spaces,

spiritual

by those

earth-life are represented

interests of

in-

Such a con-

are considered.

vention, giving exclusive attention to the application of the great principles in session.

It

of sex,

has removed the

has long been

ban

silence

of

from woman, and caused her equality with man be recognized in many ways but the projection ;

this truth into the external cult,

world has been

to of

diffi-

owing to the prejudices and superstitions

of

men. Rosicruciae invites

made her

woman's

and helpful

ences on the same terms as her brothers boldly proclaims

woman

bodied in

Being the most

the

and has

co-operation,

eligible to its councils

feminine principle

influ-

it

now

as

em-

;

to be the Saviour of the Race.

spiritual,

she

is

the vibratory center

between God and man. Through her elevation the thought, will and love of man, the influx

in

of

crime, lust, and disease from the lowest hells will

be checked, and the incarnation of lofty and pure This can only be accomsouls will be facilitated. plished by the co-operation of the visible world of souls with the invisible.

Sex

is

of

the body, soul, and the

Creative

eternal

as

is

through

its

principles

ities

are

all

spirit,

Power, for

things exist.

and

is

as

by and Its

activ-

always creative, for generation on one

Addenda. creates another

plane

155

plane similar but a

little

Vibrations of the body are the result of

higher.

vibrations of spirit, which they involve, and

vi-

all

brations are creative in accord with their plane of

Sound vibrations reach the ear, thought but the powerful and farvibrations the mind reaching vibrations of emotion move the soul, and

activity.

;

the motion

Love

is

is

infinitely sustained.

the creative center and the vibrations

that harmonize the conditions, interior or exterior, of each individual are generated at that center. is

the love of one, not of

many

;

for all sincere

It

and

genuine Rosicrucians are monogamists.

Love

in the physical,

the spiritual nature,

and

all its

matter itself

is

—

has

it is

its

Love

is

in

Spirit,

What we name

vibrations are creative.

an effect produced by

transforming

spirit

through vibratory motion.

Nature makes no mistakes

God

correspondence

one, for

;

she

the word of

is

to which nothing can be added or taken

by man, except of the

to his

The

hurt.

away

separation

masculine and feminine in thought, emo-

tion, or physical life, tive.

own is

destructive,

In their perfect blending on

the secret of power, and the Lost

not construcall

planes,

Word

is

lies

unity

—

one.

The

natural use of the organs of the body, as of

the faculties of the mind and powers of the soul,

an imperative duty

to all

who would

perfect

is

the

Regoieration.

56

The

Jvuman nature.

orderly exercise of mind and

will is required to preserve the

on

of being, so that life

all

harmonious balance

planes shall march to-

gether in orderly sequence.

To be

self-poised

tive

every

of

and perfect

in

rhythmic motion,

worlds swinging in space,

like the

human being

is

the preroga-

but only those

;

who

have found the center, and lighted the flame on It is not atthat altar, approach that condition. tained by ignoring the selfhood or in disuse of the

functions of body or mind.

The Rosy Cross makes no Infinite Silence,

noise

;

Thought, Will, and Love.

It is

for the advent of the

this end,

loves the of

ready to point out

who

the path and to clasp hands with any

work

it

and works through vibrations

new

desire to

civilization.

To

the fraternity desires souls rather than

money earnest, active, sincere students and workNot all who knock can enter. Before one ers. can become a member of the visible Fraternity, he or she is already enrolled among the Invisibles. " Not everyone who saith Lord, Lord, can enter ;

into the

fore

kingdom," saith the Christ

him affirmed

''

;

and one be-

]\Iany are the wand-bearers

but few are the true Bacchanals."

Those who can

recall the conditions of life fifty

years ago will appreciate the gigantic strides

has light

made along the of

lines of progress.

The

man twi-

the stage-coach has broadened into the

Addenda.

157

noonday of steam and electricity; the inspiration of books has largely given place to scientific certainties, to ascertained truths and facts of things, thus widening and

deepening the scope of free

thought.

—

new age, the age of when he called forth a message from the God which pronounced the death sen-

Dr. Franklin ushered in a electricity,

shadow

of

tence on the limitations

annihilating

matter,

of

time and space by putting

**

a girdle

around the

earth in forty minutes," as prophesied by Shakespeare's tricksy sprite.

merged

into the

As

electrical

the age of crude force age,

bringing with

it

everything worth preserving, so the wires and dy-

namos and

circuits,

ternal activities of

which now witness to the man's restless intelligence,

exwill

give place to the simpler methods of the mental

when the possibilities of mind will become The present laborious processes of education will become obsolete, and telepathy will take

age,

manifest.

the place of the old, cumbrous methods of instruction in the imparting of knowledge.

Daguerre pictured the outside of things fifty years ago modern photography reproduces the ;

inside

y

and

it

is

only a question of a

time and a few more experiments states will be photographed,

be mapped

out, as

little

more

when mental

and man's nature

will

physical geography maps the

surface of the planet.

The swamps and

lagoons

in

Regeneration.

158

human

nature which send up the malaria that gen-

erates crime, disease, death, will be located, as will

and breezy, moral mountain-

the life-giving seas

Mind will be generated, rather than adipose tissue, and God will be enthroned in the heart of the world, rather than in some far-off anachronistic tops.

City of Gold.

age

us

let

;

Speed characterizes the

move quickly

to

help

God

electrical

save the

world.

Recognizing the value of organization for tain

work which

the

Rosy Cross has

struction,

is

cer-

before us, the Western Cult of established a bureau of in-

where those who desire

to

learn

and

work with the Fraternity may apply.

A

RosiCRUCi^

By

order of

Her who

is

Nameless.

—

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