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But one thing is needful, said Christto Martha. In those words we find oneof the great fundamental truths of life,and though the great majority would notconcede that there is but one thingneedful, many thinking people will

agree that while our wants are multitudi-nous, our needs are few indeed.

Notwithstanding this great fact, thecomplexity of our present civilized life,so called, is such that the greater portionof humanity is wearing itself out to pro-

The Mystic Light* * * * * *

The Moth and the Flame

DANGERS ON THE PATH

Volt. 4 Oceanside March 1916 California No 5

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vide so-called comforts and luxurieswhich are only for the body, while thesoul is starving. Nor do these so-calledcomforts and luxuries satisfy, when

actually in our possession. Wealthymen, when they have attained, will tellyou, if they can be interrogated when ina confidential mood, that their enjoy-ment of wealth was far more in the antic-ipation, in the quest of gaining it, than inthe actual possession and that money isreally a bitter pill in the mouth of its pos-sessor, if he is a thinker. Likewise with

social prestige, the society woman whohas won her way to the head of thecharmed circle, so called, finds that oncewithin, it is all too commonplace, a bore,not worth the effort. Yet there arealways those who clamor for riches, forsocial distinction, who seek those thingsas eagerly and regardless of cost to thesoul, as moths seek the flame. But while

there are many dangerous places in civiland social life to beguile the thoughtlessmoth, there are lures more fatal upon thepath of spiritual advancement.

The parable of the sower, like all otherparables of which the Christ made use,was apt and applicable to a degree; somegrains fell by the wayside, some uponrocky soil, among thorns and thistles,

etc., and only a small part fell in goodsoil, where it bore abundance of fruit.People now-a-days run to and fro, allover the world, driven by that inner urge,that unrestful yearning for something,they know not what. But though theyseek, they are deaf and blind, they can-not see the light within, they do not hear

the silent inner call, the lust of the eyesand the pride of life in the outer worldare too strong attractions. Like moleswe burrow in the darkness of an

orphaned existence, far from the light,far from the Father of Light, and yet Heis everywhere present; it is truth, literaltruth, poetically expressed when thePsalmist says:

Whither shall I go from thy spirit?

Or whither shall I flee from thy pres-

ence?

If I ascend up into Heaven thou artthere;

If I make my bed in the grave, behold

thou art there,

If I take the wings of the morning,

And dwell in the uttermost part of the

sea,

Even there shall thy hand lead me,

And thy right hand shall uphold me.

God is light, says the Apostle John,with mystic insight, and the light iseverywhere, only we do not see it in ourblindness of heart.

But sometime, in the course of ourlives, the latent light within each of usis awakened, the divine spark from ourinvisible Father Fire commences to

glow, and slowly we awaken to the real-ization that we are sons of light.That is the grand crisis, the turning

point in the pilgrimage of the prodigal,when it realizes its condition, when itsees clearly that all the worldly wealth,the social standing, the power of posi-tion are only husks, that there is but

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one thing needful, just one thing worthwhile in all the world, and that is to findagain the Fathers bosom.

At that moment of conversion the spir-

it voices the intense yearning which per-meates every fibre of its being in thatsoul-searing cry: I will arise and go tomy Father. That is the password toThe Path; at the other end stands theCross, where liberation awaits, and thesanctified spirit soars into the subtlerspheres with the soul-stirring shout oftriumph Consummatum est, it has

been accomplished! I am loosed fromthe fetter of flesh, a free spirit, at onewith my Father.

But let no one imagine that he is safewho enters the gate of aspiration, manya will-o-the-wisp lurks by the way,seeking to detract the attention of theseeker from the true light and no snareis more seductive at this time and age

than that which plays upon the soulsardent desire for speedy attainment.Paul voices that great yearning in the

fifth chapter of II Corinthians:

For we know that if our earthly house

of this tabernacle be dissolved, we have

a building of God not made with hands,

age-lasting in the Heavens.

For in this we groan, earnestly desir-

ing to be clothed upon with our house

which is from Heaven.

If so be, that being clothed, we shall

not be found naked.

For we that are in this tabernacle do

groan, being burdened, not that we

would be unclothed, but clothed upon,

that mortality might be swallowed up of

life. . . .whilst we are at home in thebody, we are absent from the Lord. . . .

We are . . . willing rather to be absentfrom the body to be present with the

Lord.

Wherefore we labor, that whether pre-

sent or absent we may be accepted of

him.

Let us note particularly, however, thatPaul recognizes the danger of being

found naked, that he insists he has nodesire to be unclothed, but to be clothedupon, and that therefore he labors.

Driven by this insane desire for speedydevelopment, souls are constantlysnared by unscrupulous self-constituted

pseudo teachers who promise quickresults, usually exacting an initiation feefor their services; yet the foolish flockaround such pretenders as moths arounda flame.

Truly, they do sometimes obtainresults by being propelled into the invis-ible world. But having failed to laborin the vineyard, as Paul did, in order to

earn the wedding garment or housefrom heaven, they lack the vital vehicleof consciousness necessary to functionintelligently in the higher spheres, andare also unable to find their way backinto the dense body which they have left,and it is usually reported that they diedof heart failure.

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They are then naked, indeed anddoomed to suffer until they should havepassed out in the natural course ofevents, because they have, as a matter of

fact, committed suicide and the arche-type of the dense body remains intact,constantly endeavoring to draw to itselfphysical substance; but as the silver cordis severed, none can be obtained, and apain, described by suicides as like thegnawing pangs of hunger, or liketoothache in which the whole bodyaches, is experienced, sometimes for

many years. He that entereth not bythe door is a thief and a robber. It ispossible to steal into the earthly house,and escape, but who seeks to outwit Godwill find that the way of the transgressoris hard when his wings are singed in theflame.

Is it not strange that men who under-stand the necessity of spending years to

learn a certain science, trade, or profes-sion, who will labor day after day, yearafter year, with unwearying patience andassiduous application in order to obtainthe mastery of whatever material sciencethey are studying, can at the same timebe so deluded to think that in a shorttime, a few days, a few weeks ormonths, at most a year or two, they can

master the science of the soul, by simplythinking about it for ten minutes a day orless. They would laugh to scorn anyonewho would offer to initiate them into themysteries of surgery or watchmaking ina few days, but when it comes to the sci-ence of the soul, they drop all common-sense consideration, their desire for

occult powers is so strong that it cloudsreason, and as moths flock to the flame,so will they flock to a teacher whopromises them phenomena in a short

time.And, when one has been burned, dothe others take warning? Alas, no! Forevery moth that drops, some one else, orten more, are ready to take its place.Magic mirrors or magnetized crystalsfind a ready market, while the truth goesa-begging. Fraud and deception byunscrupulous persons, who prey upon

this intense soul-hunger of their fellowmen, are more numerous than one whois not familiar with the unvoiced longingof thousands can ever conceive.Generally, the dupes pocket their finan-cial losses, but occasionally proceedingsin the public courts show that otherwiseintelligent people have parted with con-siderable sums at the request of such

self-styled teachers and pseudo spirits,and occasionally the grave closes over atoo successful seeker, or the sanitariumhides him.

But if the human moth wereamenable to reason, if it heard the voiceof warning, and asked, And how thenmay I know the true light from thefalse?, we may confidently turn to the

Scriptures for our answer. There is nouncertainty whatever about it, the Christgave His disciples the powers necessaryto aid humanity and he said to them,freely give as you have freely received.

Peter also, when he was accosted bySimon, the sorcerer, who desired to buyfor money the spiritual powers which



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the apostle exercised, cursed him.Whenever they gave, they gave withoutmoney, without price. Likewise, thetrue teacher places no price on his

teachings but lives as the apostleslived, by voluntary contributions from

those whom they help. Neither is itnecessary for one who does not seek theworldly gold to lure others with promis-es of phenomenon or powers in recordtime. It is easy to build a house of anydesired size so long as you have thematerial. You may enlarge it by adding

brick to brick. But neither plant, animalor man, grow in that manner, theirgrowth is from within and each must

do it for himself. We cannot eat anoth-ers food and give him the strengthderived therefrom, neither can we gothrough the experiences of another,assimilate them and give to him thesoul-growth derived in that manner.

So, flee the flame of false teachers,compose yourself in patience. Work,Watch and Wait. In due time the Christlight will glow within your own soul,and you will never need to look else-where for it.

COSMIC THEOLOGY

PART III

By Geo. T. Weaver

Viewed exoterically, as all materialis-tic scientists look at things, the Sunseems only a vast ball of chemical sub-stance, and scientists of the above school

contend that it is this and nothing more.They deny emphatically that it is a liv-ing, organic being, contending that if itwere it would require breath, food and

all else that such beings need. That it ischemical matter in its outward manifes-tation, will be readily admitted by all.That it is living stuff, is equally mani-fest, as all scientists of the present dayadmit that all chemical substance isalive. That it is organized is equally evi-dent, as it possesses definite form. Butthat it possesses conscious being, with

all that this idea implies, remains to beproved.Because it is chemical matter, exterior-

ly, does not argue against its consciouspersonality, for the same is true of allliving, organic beings. Every particle ofmans gross physical body is composedof chemical matter. So much for thenegative argument; but there are many

positive reasons which go to show thatthe Sun is consciously personal. Thebasic principle of personality is con-sciousness.

Potentially, consciousness exists in thegrossest inorganic matter. It is said to beasleep here, and in vegetable life todream, to be awake in animal life, and tobe self-conscious in man. The principle

of Life in all organic forms, down to thesimplest, the mono-cell being, is theelectron. This is the primal fiery vitalsubstance, the quintessence of Deity, outof which all phenomena have come, bythe involution process. It is the nucleusof the atom, and the life principle of themolecule, the cell and the more complex



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organisms. In its primal, undifferentiat-ed state it is all-consciousness, the syn-thesis of all planes of consciousness.Involved in matter, it is limited con-

sciousness, on the various planes ofexpression, from mere potential con-sciousness to the plane of super-con-sciousness. On its lower plane this is theVital Body, the life principle in grossmatter.

There is, then, no inert matter, for life-lessness is unthinkable. And where lifeexists, the absolute absence of con-

sciousness, is equally unthinkable.From this line of reasoning, it is evidentthat the Sun is a living, conscious being.This reasoning is in strict harmony withmodern science; and the reason whymaterialistic scientists deny this is eitherbecause they are governed by prejudice,or because they have not yet been able toadjust modern discoveries to so-called

inert matter.The next point to determine is theplane, or planes of the Suns conscious-ness, and so the character of its person-ality. This cannot be demonstrated exo-terically, for this would depend upon thetestimony of the senses and of the induc-tive, or concrete mind, and it is uniform-ly admitted that such testimony is illu-

sive. At best this process is but guess-work, and the conclusion reached willdepend upon the plane of consciousnessunfolded by the guesser.

The truly scientific method is the eso-teric, viewing the subject from the planeof the abstract mind, where verity aloneabides. There is a law of correspon-

dence manifest throughout nature, large-ly recognized by modern scientists, atleast on its lower plane, and known bymystics on the higher planes, during

many ages past.The Hermetic formula of this law is,As above, so below; and as below, soabove. In its relation to mankind, ourBible puts it thus: And God said, let usmake man in our own likeness andimage; and it is recorded that in his ownlikeness and image, God made man,both male and female.

If, therefore, we can fully analyzemans complex being, not simply as heis found today, but in his final outcomeas the image and likeness of Deity, wewill have defined God; and if, havingdefined God, it can be demonstrated thatthe Sun possesses all the attributes ofDeity, we will then have shown that theSun is the Deity of our solar system, and

that theology is cosmic.Our first step, then, will be to answerthe question propounded by King Davidin the eighth Psalm, What is man?Davids reply to this question was, Forthou hast made him a little less than thy-self. The word translated thyself, inHebrew is Elohim, or the creative gods;and the phrase, a little lower, accord-

ing to best Jewish translators, is for a lit-tle time.Man, then, potentially is a creative

Deity, a Logos, or Christ. The Elohimare the seven leading planets of our solarsystem; each, like the Sun, a living,organic, conscious being; each possess-ing a creative spirit, or rather, is a cre-



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ative spirit, referred to in Rev. 1:4 asThe seven spirits before the throne;each the creator of its own body, and allof them synthetically constituting the

LOGOS, or creative Word of God. John,in his first epistle and third chapter,referring to man in his ultimate unfold-ment, says, we shall be like him, for weshall see him as he is. And Jesus, theChrist, said of himself after his resurrec-tion, All authority, in heaven and earthhas been given me. This is man, theanalysis of whose being will demon-

strate the Sun as our Deity.In analyzing mans being as a micro-cosm, we find him a septenary, com-posed of a seven-fold form, form withinform, not as so many boxes, one withinthe other, each separate and distinct fromthe other; but each permeating the other,the whole woven together as one entirebeing.

Of these bodies the outermost, thegrossest, the one manifest to the sentientnature, is the gross physical. As hasbeen said, this is composed of chemicalsubstance, the outcome of evolutionfrom the plane of mineral or crystalliza-tion. This had its origin during the firstcreative day, or Saturn period, when asthought form, it sprang from the mind

and heart of Deity; and through the dou-ble process of involution and evolution,first descending into matter to the lowestplane, and then ascending from thisplane, through that marvelous transmut-ing process we call evolution, to whatwe find man today in his outermostexpression.

This gross physical body is essential,as the basis of awakened consciousness,and as an instrument through which theindwelling spirit, or divinity within,

might manifest itself, and through whichit might acquire experience for furtherunfoldment.

Immediately within this is the VitalBody, sometimes called the double asit is the mold upon which the gross bodyis formed; also the etheric body, refer-ring to the substance of its composition;also the ghost, because, as seen by

clairvoyants, it hovers over the grave ofthe dense body for a longer or shorterduration.

This etheric body is the life principleon the physical plane, because so long asit remains within the gross body, the lat-ter coheres and possesses consciousness,and on its departure, consciousness onthe physical plane departs, and the gross

body disintegrates.The vital body is composed of fourethers, varying in tenuosity from eachother. The densest of these is chemicalether, and is the medium for the assimi-lation of the gross matter taken into thesystem for physical sustenance; it is alsothe medium for the excretion, or throw-ing off, of the waste matter from the

body.The ether next in fineness to this is thelife ether, and is the medium of the prop-agation of offspring. The ether next intenuosity is the light ether, and is themedium of sense perception. The lastand finest of the ethers composing thevital body is the reflecting ether, and is



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the medium of the memory of nature.The vital, or etheric body is essential, aswithout it we could neither manifest life,nor externalize the still higher, inner

bodies. This body had its incipient stageduring the second creative day, or theSun period, in its archetypal stage.These two planes constitute the physicalbody in its entirety.

The next higher, and more refinedplane of our being is called the DesireBody. This is the seat of the emotions ofrepulsion, feeling, and attraction, which

represent three general divisions; buteach of these divisions is subdividedinto more minute planes. The lowest ofthese planes, that of repulsion, is subdi-vided into three sub-planes. The lowestof these is the seat of the passions andlow desires; the sub-plane next above isthe seat of the impressions; the highestof these sub-planes of the plane of repul-

sion is the seat of the wishes.The plane of feeling is sub-dividedinto two sub-planes. The lower of theseis the seat of indifference; the higher theseat of interest.

The third, and highest plane of theDesire Body is that of Attraction, whichis sub-divided into three sub-planes.The lowest of these sub-planes is that of

soul life; the sub-plane next above is thatof soul-light; and the highest sub-planeof the plane of attraction, is that of soul-power.

The Desire Body, in its most generalsense, is the seat of the psychic forcesand had its initiative during the third cre-ative day, or the Moon period, but only

as a thought form.The two general planes referred to,

that of the physical and the desire, con-stitute the personality of man, the so-

called fallen nature, and is that part ofmans being that is mortal, and doomedto disintegrate.

Passing still deeper into mans being,we next come to the Mind or Thought-body. This is sub-divided into two gen-eral divisions, that of concrete, and thatof abstract thought, called also the lowerand higher minds. The former of these

minds is the connecting link between thedivine and the human; the immortal andthe mortal, and is sub-divided into foursub-divisions. The lowest of these is theseat of archetypal forms, or of form con-ceptions. The next higher sub-divisionis the seat of archetypes of animal vital-ity, or the conception of the vital body.The next higher is the seat of the arche-

types of the desire and emotion body.The highest sub-plane of the concretemind is the seat of the archetypal forces,and the human mind.

Synthetically, the concrete mind is theseat of the beginnings of the creativeprocess. It is the focusing point of thehigher, or creative mind, the point whereit mirrors itself in primal substance, on

its start on the long journey through mat-ter.The higher plane of mind is that of

abstract thought, and is the sphere of thehuman spirit, the lowest plane of theEgo, or the Christhood. This body isdivided into three sub-divisions, thelowest being the sub-division containing



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germinal ideas of desire and emotion inboth animal and man. The sub-planewithin this is that containing the germi-nal idea of life in plant, animal, and man.

The innermost of these sub-divisions ofthe abstract mind is that containing thegerminal idea of form in mineral, plant,animal and human.

The mind or intellect in man had itsorigin during the fourth creative day, orEarth period, the period we are now liv-ing in, for previous to this period organ-ic life was brainless and mindless.

Within the Ego, are two higher planesof being, that of the Life Spirit, and thatof the Divine Spirit. Each of these issub-divided into seven sub-divisions,the lower being the seat in man of thesecond, or higher aspect of the three-foldspirit in man; the higher septenary beingthe region, or seat of the highest spiritu-al power and influence in man.

Beyond the region of the three-foldspirit are two planes of being still high-er, each divided into seven sub-divi-sions. The lower of these septenaries isthe seat of the Virgin spirit in man; thehigher, the seat of God, in his primal,undifferentiated, unknown and unknow-able state.

For our present purpose we do not care

to go beyond the plane of the three foldspirit, for though the higher planes arelatent in us, we will never awake to con-sciousness on these planes while resi-dents of the present solar system.

Man as we find him today, is the prod-uct of a double process, usually calledthe Involution process, or the involve-

ment of spirit in matter, from archetypalforms to dense mineral matter; and theEvolution of spirit, through matter backto Deity. In the latter process, as spirit

advances through the various planes ofmineral, vegetable, animal and human, itabsorbs the essence of these variousplanes, thus restoring matter to spirit,referred to by modern scientists as theconservation of substance and referredto in the Bible as the resurrection of thebody.

In this dual process there are seven

stages or periods of immense duration,referred to usually as the seven creativedays.

The work of the first day, as alreadyreferred to, culminating during the Earthperiod, or the fourth day, the period weare now living in.

The work of the second day, culminat-ing during the fifth period, called the

Jupiter period, when man, havingextracted the intellectual soul from thevital body, will become super man.

The work of the third creative day, cul-minating during the sixth day, called theVenus period, when super man, havingextracted the emotional soul from thedesire body, will have become ademigod.

The work of the fourth creative day,the period when mind was awakened,will culminate during the seventh longperiod, called the Vulcan period, theperiod of rest, of the culmination of allthings, when we as demigods, by amal-gamating the three-fold soul with themind, will have become God men, or



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creative gods, LOGOI.The Earth period, in which we are at

present living, is divided into two sub-periods, the former half called the Mars

period, the period of war and destruc-tion, when man was in his infantile state;the latter half, called the Mercury peri-od, the period of mind, of thought, ofconstruction.

It is in this latter half of the earth peri-od we now are, the period of creatorship,but on the plane of matter, as seen in themany useful inventions, great buildings

and cities, and all else that expressesconstructive phenomena.This analysis of man, from start to fin-

ish, is purely scientific, and accords withteachings of all sacred books, both of theOrient and Occident, including theChristian Bible, when read correctly, ormystically.

As a race, mankind has as yet attained

only to the plane of the concrete mind,or inductive reason. These have devel-oped a consciousness according to theplane reached. Many have forged aheadand entered the plane of abstract, or intu-itive mind, having awakened the Ego orhigher self.

A very few have gone even beyondthis point, having awakened the Christ

consciousness of the Life Spirit. Butnone living in the flesh have reached thefinal period, the state of rest, of essen-tial, unmixed Deity.

We are gods in the making, and theessential god consciousness is yet latentin us. John teaches, in the third chapterof his first epistle, that every one that has

this hope in him purifies himself, evenas heGodis pure. By a process ofself purgation we advance from plane toplane until the work of spirit perfection

is completed.(To be continued)

THE GARDENIA

He held the gardenia in his hand, andas he gazed, purity seemed to emanatefrom its waxen petals. He thought it the

most beautiful thing he had seen in hislife, which to him was but littleflower.

Hush, said the gardenia, art lies notso much in whats said as in whats leftunsaid.

Just then a moonbeam rippled by andthe gardenia hastily joined it, signinghim to follow. They seated themselves

in a blue lotus and sailed up the river ofmoonbeams to the moon. The man hadparted with that lump of clay called thebody as soon as they had stepped intothe flower, and only his intellect,untrammeled by human sensesremained.

He was a tiny spark of absolute knowl-edge. He understood all laws, hidden

things became plain to him, he knew allworlds, he was part of the ConsciousUniverse, part of the pale moon herself,he even soared higher until he found hissoul.

He experienced joys such as he hadnever before approached. He whisperedto the gods of Greece, and Helen laid her



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gifts at his feet. God!I told you not to speak, said the gar-

denia.And the man stood alone in the dark-

ness.Again he held the gardenia in his hand;this time he smelt it, softly touching thethick petals, and as the strange passion-awakening scent crept into his brain, theEast spread itself carpet-like before him.

He entered a room, round like a bub-ble, quivering with as many alluring col-ors. Crimson cushions, golden carpets,

pillars of carved cedar wood upholdingthe flaming ceiling, and little tablesinlaid with opals, chalcedonies, andberyls.

In the center of the room a fountain ofsunstone tossed wine into the scentedairthat rare purple wine, some say,was pressed into life by the lotus eaters.The curtain, which might have been

woven from crimson roses, exhaled afaint pungent odor of musk. He dranksome of the wine and flung himself upona divan.

Soon the music of zither tinkled out ofthe silence, and the atmosphere vibratedas the dancing girls glided in and out.Brown they were, like the sandal wood,and red poppies flowed in their hair.

They danced till the air became warmwith their breath and time was not forhim who watched.

At length, one more beautiful than therest, one who floated like a dusky lilyamong the reeds, knelt before him, andthe music became fainter in the distance.

I am sorry, little flower, said the man

as he looked at the crushed brown thingin his hand. Someone always pays,said the gardenia flower, and thenitsbreath, in which there was no sweetness,

was lost.And the man stood alone in the dark-ness.Pamagela, in South AfricanWomen in Council.

THE FASCINATION OF THE

TEMPORAL

By W. A. R.

When we consider our lives, we findthat they consist of innumerable smallactions and events. All our great actionsdepend entirely upon a groundwork oftrivial acts, acts which, at the time oftheir performance, appear irrelevant andeven unnecessary.

We hear of a man achieving a greatsuccess and immediately we can mental-ly appreciate the years of hard struggles,the myriads of insignificant detailswhich have enabled him to succeed.

Such a man is an example of deter-mined exertion and definite purpose. Acertain aim was made the focus of hisabilities. By will-power he turned the

time which many people waste in trivi-alities, into a medium with which hecould strengthen his power for success.The existence of trivialities, whetheractions or habits of thought, is alwaystemporal.

Trivialities fascinate by reason of theirchangeability, in the same manner as a



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child seeks pleasure in changing fromtoy to toy. Many people fritter awaytheir whole lives in a vain hurried searchfor new excitements. Fascinated by the

temporal, they are more or less unable toregulate their lives and characters so asto conform with their religious or otherideals.

When dealing with principles, one canmentally form an idea which, to be car-ried out, must govern everyday actions.There must be a thread of purpose anddefinite endeavor running through the

everyday thoughts and actions, stringingthem together and adding strength to theidea.

Mental and spiritual growth varies aswe learn to discriminate between thevalue and real importance of the smallactions and thoughts which constitutedaily life. A good habit of thought is apillar of strength. By its help we can

correlate and sift the mass of actionswhich we are constantly causing, andfrom them draw knowledge and power.

It is soon made apparent what the realis and what the unreal. To a young soulit is a very difficult problem to solve.Amid the innumerable actions, thoughts,occurrences, suggestions, which sur-round him, how is he to decide what is

of use to him and what is useless andharmful? To be fascinated by a mass oftrivialities, whether for a day or a life-time, is, from the souls point of view,waste of time.

A strict and willful adherence to prin-ciples, previously studied and accepted,as those of the Rosicrucian Fellowship,

ensures, as far as these things can beensured, a certain gentle peace and con-tent which seem to lie at the back of themind, acting as hope and belief, and

which certainly are most essential to thefateful times in which we live today.

TRANSFERENCE OF

CONSCIOUSNESS TO HIGHER

PLANES

Eva G. Taylor

The transference of consciousness tohigher planes marks an epoch in thesouls progress. The plane on which wecenter that consciousness makes all dif-ference in the character unfoldment.

If we center in the physical and identi-fy ourselves with the material manifesta-tions of principles and being, we do not

progress. We merely exist in an animalfashion.When centered in the desire world or

emotional plane, we get distorted viewsof religion or love. All the queer cults,all the abnormal manifestations, all thehysterical tendencies arise herewhenthe center of consciousness is fixed uponthis plane.

When transferred to the mentality, wegrow intellectually keen, but fail todevelop in poise and balance.

When the consciousness is focusedupon the mental plane we become ana-lytical, sharp, discriminating, but hardand cold. Any lop-sided development isimperfect, as we realize upon lower



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planes.The spiritual should govern all. When

we center in that one divine life, thewhole nature is exalted and glorified.

But the transference of our conscious-ness to the spiritual part of ourselves isnot a mere belief in the one manifestedlifein the Christ-principle ruling thehuman heart, yet utterly fail to realizeunity. Therefore it marks an epoch whenwe at least cease to regard ourselves orlife from any plane but the highestknown to our humanity.

When, from that plane, we rule all ourbeingthe intellectual, emotional andphysicalwe are really centering our-selves in the Infinite God. We then real-ize that we are but a ray, a spark from theinfinite light. The trivialities of life thenfall into their proper place.

Our focus is never true until we docenter in the divine life. Until then

everything is distorted and out of pro-portion. There are chromatic and spher-ical aberrations in all our lenses ofobservation and thought. In our emo-tional life it is especially so. What loversees with clear eyes? What religiouscult that deals with the emotions gains atrue insight into the spiritual life? Whatsect that merely strives to penetrate into

the very material plane surrounding thedense physical ever realizes the grandsublimities and truths of the higherworlds beyond the physical and emo-tional?

This focus and center of the conscious-ness marks one very real differencebetween the occultist and the true mys-

tic. The latter views all the phenomenaof manifested life from the higher andspiritual realms. Thus he is enabled tosee all in true perspective.

PICTURES FROM PAST LIVES

One finds them everywhere, withincreasing frequency in newspapers,magazines and books. Some think thempoetical fancies and fiction, but as timegoes on, a growing minority among the

people of the Western World are serious-ly embracing the doctrine of pre-exis-tence. They see that the souls futureimmortality involves the logical necessi-ty of past existences, for only that whichis without beginning can be without end.

Nor does it detract from the worth ofthese narratives of bygone lives, that theauthor almost invariably makes his

heroes and heroines, kings, queens, orcourtiers, and that almost all who claimto have knowledge of their own pastlives also claim to have been in similar-ly exalted position. The true value ofthese tales lies in the instinctive innerassurance of past existences which itreveals.

It is the souls awakening from a

dream state, confused and confusing atpresent, but soon we shall cease to seethrough a glass darkly. The ethericvision is gradually developing in us, andwe shall then know facts face to face.In the meantime, let us be thankful forthe poetical fancies.



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To a recent issue of The BritishReview Mr. Padraic Colum, a youngIrish poet now resident in the UnitedStates, contributes an admirable exam-

ple of that sort of verse which wascalled, a few years ago, neo-Celtic.The title would suggest that his theme isWelsh, rather than Irish; it is Celtic, atany rate, and thoroughly Celtic is theslow, chant-like music of its rhythm,which is so melodious that the earscarcely detects the absence of rhyme.

FOR MORFYDD

By Padraic Colum

It would not be far for us to go back tothe age of bronze;

Then you were a kings daughter; yourfather had curraghs a score;

A herd of horses; good tillage upon theface of four hills;And clumps of cattle beyond them, their

herdsmen rough-browed kern.And I was good at the bow, but had no

men and no herds,And your father would have bestowed

you one day on some unrenownedUlysses, or on a strong king to whom

they afterward raisedThree stones as high as the elks (thiscromlech, maybe, where we sit.)

How fair you were when you walkedbeside the old forest trees!

So fair that I thought you would changeand fly away as a swan!

And then we were mates for play, and

then all eagle you grewTo drive me to range the tempest

kings child of the hero-age!I called three times as an owl; through

the gap where the herdsmen watchedYou ran and we climbed the heightwhere the brackens pushed at our knees;

And we lay were the brackens drew theearth-smell out of the earth,

And we journeyed and baffled thefighters of three ill-wishing kings.

It would not be far for us two to go backto the age of bronze!

The fire left by the nomads is lone as aburning ship!We eat them as we pass by, the green,

sweet ears of the corn!At last a king and I save a good clan

from a dragons spleen!Pieces of amber I brought you, big as a

bowmans thumbs;Trumpets I left beside you, wrought

when the smiths had all art;A dancing bird that I caught youtheyare back in the age of bronze;

I give what I made and found andcaughta score of songs!

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Question: You say in the Cosmo thatthe white blood corpuscles are not thepolicemen of the system. What then istheir origin and mission?

Answer: To make this clear to theaverage reader it is first necessary to saythat besides the dense body, which isvisible to all of us, there are finer vehi-cles which interpenetrate this organismand which are the springs to its activi-ties. One is the vital body, composed ofether and concerned in building thedense body by the food which we takeinto the system. It controls all the vitalfunctions, such as respiration, digestion,assimilation, etc., and works through thesympathetic nervous system.

Another, still finer vehicle, is calledthe desire body. This is the vehicle of ouremotions, feelings, and desires, whichexpends the energies stored in the densebody by the vital processes by control ofthe cerebrospinal or voluntary nervoussystem. In its activities this desire bodyis constantly destroying and breakingdown tissue built up by the vital body,and it is the war between these twovehicles which causes what we call

consciousness in the physical world.

The etheric forces in the vital body actin such a manner that they convert asmuch of the food as possible into blood

and this is the highest expression of thevital body.

In the lower animals, from the birdsand downward, which are entirely underthe guidance of an invisible guardiancalled the group spirit, the blood isnucleated, but in the higher mammals,which are upon the threshold of individ-ualization, and particularly in man, whohas become an individual indwellingspirit, there are no nuclei in the bloodcorpuscles.

Even in the fetus, which is formedunder the sole guidance of the motherduring the first three weeks, and there-fore has nucleated blood corpuscles inthat period, they cease to be formed assoon as the Ego which is to live in thebody, enters. This happens about twen-ty-one days after conception, and by thetime of the quickening the indwellingEgo in the fetus has destroyed all thenucleated corpuscles and from thence-forth none are formed, for the Ego mustbe master of its vehicle and that is notthe case where there is a nucleus or cen-ter in the blood corpuscles which affordsa foothold for another spirit.

It is easily demonstrated that the life isin the blood, for while we may some-times with impunity amputate an arm ora limb, we cannot deplete the body ofblood without also killing it.

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Thus the blood is the particular vehicleof the Ego, and as in the past aeons ofdevelopment we have crystallized mat-ter in order to form our dense body, so

also it is destined that now we must ethe-realize our vehicles in order that we maylift ourselves and the world out of therealm of materiality and into the spiritu-al. Naturally, therefore, the Ego aimsfirst to make the blood gaseous and tothe spiritual sight, this red unnucleatedblood is not a fluid, but a gas. It is noargument against this assertion that the

moment we prick our skin the bloodcomes out as a liquid.The moment we open up the try-cock

of a steam boiler the gas also condensesinto a liquid, but if we make a modelsteam engine of glass and look at theway steam works there, we shall seeonly the piston move backward and for-ward, driven by an invisible agent, live

steam, and similarly, as the live steamdirect from the boiler is invisible, andgaseous, so also the live blood in thehuman body is a gas, and the higher thestate of development of any given Ego,the more ethereal is it able to make theblood.

When, by the vital processes food hasreached this highest alchemical state, the

process of condensation begins and theblood-gas is formed into tissue in thevarious organs to replace what has beenwasted or destroyed by the activities ofthe body. The spleen is the gateway ofthe vital body; there the solar force,which abounds in the surroundingatmosphere, enters in a constant stream,

to aid us in the vital processes, and therealso the war between the desire bodyand the vital body is waged most fierce-ly.

Thoughts of worry, fear, and angerinterfere with the process of evaporationin the spleen, a speck of plasm is theresult, and this is at once seized upon bya thought elemental which forms anucleus and embodies itself therein.Then it commences to live a life ofdestruction, coalescing with other wasteproducts and decaying elements wherev-

er formed, making the body a charnelhouse instead of the temple of anindwelling living spirit.

We may therefore say that every whitecorpuscle which has been taken by an

outside entity is to the Ego a lost

opportunity. The more of these lostopportunities there are in the body, theless is the body under control of the Ego;

therefore we find them present in largenumbers in all diseases than when theperson is in health.

It may also be said that the person of ajovial good nature or one who is devout-ly religious and has an absolute faith andtrust in divine providence and love, willregister many less lost opportunities orwhite blood corpuscles than those who

are always worrying and fretting.

Question: In the case of death by vio-lent means, is the next birth, when theperson dies as a child, in a body of thesame sex or the opposite; that is, will asoldier killed on the battlefield be reborn



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as a boy or a girl, or does sex play littlepart when the life is a very short one?

Answer: So far as the writer has been

able to investigate, there does not seemto be any attention paid to this matter inthe intermediate life. The Ego takes theopportunity for rebirth wherever it canbe found; all that is necessary is that thematerial for the new vehicles should begathered so that the moral impressionmay be made on the desire body duringthe heaven life which follows death as a

child.This matter of sex seems upon thewhole to be very elastic, at least in thecases of those who have been livingwhat we now call the higher life,because that has the tendency to makethe vital body more permanently posi-tive, and the seed atom, located in thesolar plexus, therefore automatically

attracts to itself an increasing quantity ofpositive polarized ether, so that whetherthe physical body is a male or female,the constituents of the vital body remainpositive. Therefore in the cases of so-called advanced people the matter ofsex becomes a matter of less importance,being in many cases left to the choice ofthe Ego which is seeking rebirth.

Question: The Cosmo says that thedesire world is fluid, and composed ofever changing light and color. Is it notcorrect to picture the darkest colors atthe lowest regions gradually blendinginto the lighter colors and in the region

of soul power finding pure white light?

Answer: Yes, in one sense you areright. Color depends upon vibration, the

rapidity of the rate and wave length. Forinstance, in the colors of the spectrumred has a much longer wave length and aslower rate of vibration than violet,which is at the other end of the solarspectrum, but the colors in the desireworld are not at all the same colors thatwe see here, for here color is caused bythe reflection of the Suns rays in the

atmosphere.There light is a property of matter, onemight almost say that from the view-point of that world desire stuff is lightand light is desire stuff; that is not quitecorrect, but almost so. Furthermore, thecolors which we would call dark thereare brighter than the brightest sunlighthere; that is why we do not see them, our

eyes cannot respond to that rate of vibra-tion.You should not consider the desire

world being above and higher than thephysical world in the sense of spacebeing involved. The desire matter ishere, it interpenetrates every physicalatom, even the ether is pervaded by it,and the dark, to the spiritual sight almost

black, chemical ether, seems almostinseparable from the lowest grade ofdesire stuff; they are so dense that theyseem nearly gaseous, and it has oftenbeen a wonder to the writer that peoplecannot see them and the beings movingtherein.



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OUR FATHERS HOUSE

By Gamma Beta

Gamma Beta is a Fellow of the RoyalAstronomical Society, an Astronomer ofrepute who has added greatly to the sci-ence of solar photography.

The heavens declare the glory ofGod; and the firmament shows Hishandiwork.Ps. 19:1. In my Fathershouse are many mansions.John 14:2.The revised version admits the follow-ing reading: In my Fathers house aremany abiding places. Continuing thisverse, Christ says, I go to prepare a

place for you. The sense of the text isthat in Gods housethat is in Godsuniverseare the mansions, or abid-ing places, in which we are to dwell ifwe are found worthy of a dwelling placewith God.

This text may be considered an astro-nomical one; and like many others, thegreater our knowledge of the structure of

the universe, the more clearly we willsee and comprehend its meaning. Whilethe astronomer himself only faintlycomprehends the overwhelming great-ness of our Fathers house, his concep-tion is vastly above that of the casualobserver.

While he would be indeed a boldastronomer who would not shrink fromthe task of explaining this and similartexts, yet he can with some degree ofintelligence direct the mind of theearnest seeker into paths that are ablazewith the glory of God.

Ask an astronomer, how large is our

Fathers house? And instantly he wouldsee in imagination unnumbered millionsof worlds, systems, constellations, clus-ters, and aggregations in our, or the visi-ble, universe; and he is reasonably cer-tain that beyond this, other universes,universe after universe, infinity afterinfinity, unspeakable in dimensions andduration, stretch away into unfath-

omable, endless space, until his imagi-nation is stunned, his mind reels, and hisreason cries Halt!for the finite mindhere meets the incomprehensible, andthe incomprehensible vastness of naturechallenges the astronomer.

We often hear from the pulpit the worduniverse. What is our preacher talkingabout? Evidently something pretty big,

for it is usually the grand finishing point,when he wishes to impress us withsomething vast and unlimited. What isthe universe? Can we understand it?Let us look into this matter and see if wecan know anything of our Fathershouse; for surely it is right for us to use

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the mind He has given us to add to ourknowledge of His glory. Nay, would itnot be sin if we did not use our bestendeavors to know all we can of the

great Master Builder, and of His workswhich He has so invitingly spread beforeus?

A Celestial Journey

Come, reader, let us, in imagination,go on a journey of observation, and seefor ourselves somewhat of our Fathers

house, with its many abiding places.We have no time for details, but at onceselect a starting point. For this theastronomer would naturally turn to thesun as the great center, from which wereceive the light and heat that make thisworld of ours habitable.

The question of the speed with whichwe must travel is more difficult; but

assuming that we have the choice in thismatter, we will soon settle this mostimportant point. Railroad speed of amile a minute is entirely out of the ques-tion, for our time is short and the journeylong; besides, we want to return in timeto tell our readers something of what wesee. There is a cannon-ballthat travelsabout twenty miles a minute! But that,

also, is too slow. But there is light?Yes, now we have it.We will travel with the inconceivable

speed of light itself; for we must travelwith velocity to us infinite, for an infi-nite journey, and light travels one hun-dred and eighty-six thousand miles in

a single second of time. This is equal to

over eleven million miles in a singleminute (186,000 times 60 equals11,160,000.)

Fearing that our unusual performance

will produce undue excitement in theworlds we are about to visit, we willsend before us a messenger to announceour coming. We will select for this pur-pose a cannon-ball, traveling at the rateof over forty thousand miles a day; andthat it may have plenty of time, we willgive it a start of a hundred years. Aswe want to be perfectly fair in all that we

do in this wonderful journey, and tostart fair, we will not start from thesun, but from the center of that vastglobe.

While we are in such a good position,we will find out something about thesuns enormous dimensions. He is overthirteen hundred thousand times as

large as our earth. His diameter is so

vast that, if he were a shell, the earthcould be placed in the center, and themoon could travel in her usual orbit, andthen be only about midway between theearth and the surface of our gigantic pri-mary, his diameter being eight hundredand sixty-six thousand miles.

Our Starting Station

From the suns center we will directour course toward the nearest fixed star,assuming that all the planets lie in thatdirection, and see what will be our expe-riences. Now, then, all ready, go!

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will find us entirely clear of the sun, andthousands of miles on our way to thenearest planet, Mercury, and in aboutthree minutes we will reach him.

Mercury is about thirty-six million milesfrom the sun, and is about three thou-sand miles in diameter. His year is equalto eighty-eight of our days; therefore hisseasons are only twenty-two days long,if he has any seasons; for you mustremember that he receives a vast amountof heat and light from the sun, which tothe Mercurians appears two and one-half

times as large as to the inhabitants of theearth. Our tremendous velocity carriesus by the Messenger of the Gods soquickly that we have no time to make aclose examination of him, and in lessthan three minutes we will cross theorbit of Venus.

Here we will find a world surprisinglylike our own in many particulars. Venus

is only twenty-six million miles nearerthe sun than we; and as we are ninety-three million miles distant, this man-sion, with very moderate changes in thecondition of her atmosphere, may be ashabitable as the earth, to life with whichwe are acquainted.

Venus is only two hundred miles lessin diameter than the earth (all distances

and dimensions are given in round num-bers), and her year is equal to two hun-dred and twenty-five of our days; and sofar as astronomers know, life is just asprobable on Venus as on our planet. Butif we find out much about her, we mustbe sure to tell the astronomers about it;for they are very anxious to know more

than they do of the condition of all theplanets.

In an instant Venus is left far in therear; and looking behind us, we note the

sun is growing smaller, while ahead wesee two brilliant starsor what appearto be starsone of which is wonderful-ly bright, and the other is close beside it.We draw toward them with lightningspeed, and they soon bid fair to rival thesun himself in brightness, for he is lessthan half the size we saw him fromMercury, and gives us less than one-

fourth of the light and heat he pours outon that planet.In a little over two minutes we reach

our two stars, and find this marvelousobject to be earth, and the companionstar to be the moon. We must be carefulhere, for if we draw too near we may bedrawn upon its surface, like many a ven-turesome meteorite (popularly called

falling stars) that has approached toonear. But our speed is our safety. Wemay approach almost to the surface, andgravitation will not be able to overcomesuch velocity as ours.

A Little Station of Interest

A feeling of reverential awe over-

comes us as we draw near this tiny speckin Gods great universe that we callearth. Here is a little world, perhaps theonly one in all our Fathers house uponwhich sin ever obtained a foothold. Ibelieve it to be absolutely unique in thisrespect, in all the length and breadth ofHis dominion. To believe otherwise is



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to doubt Gods wisdom and love. But itis here; it came sometime, somehow, butas a plant to be rooted up, not plant-ed by the Father, by the Great Sacrifice,

that the earth might be replenished withbeings worthy to be called children ofthe great Creator, and that His Fathershouse might again become clean, andthe universe be restored as it was when itcame from the hand of the GreatArchitect. It is difficult for me tobelieve that the whole human race wasworthy of such sacrifice; but a clean uni-

verse is.We pass the earth reluctantly, for herewe have the history of the life and trialsof Gods Son while upon earth; we haveHis promise, His teaching, His example;we have everything that the heart of theChristian could wish. Here, too, is beingenacted the great drama of sin and right-eousness, of life and death. We see the

struggle of the saints, and wonder whyjudgment is delayed so long. But not allwe see is black and cheerless; for Godhas a people here on this little world.Saints are here; here are they that keepall the commandments of God.

The eight minutes in which we areallowed to come from the sun to theearth have passed, and we must haste

away if we are to see the glorious dimen-sions of our Fathers house. A brightstar looms up ahead, and in less thanfour minutes we find ourselves at Mars.Our (apparent) star proves to be the littleplanet Mars, with two little moons onlyabout five and seven miles in diame-terbaby mansions, truly.

We find a world four thousand miles indiameter, and the great telescopes thatwe have left behind can plainly showhigh seas and continents, his snowy

poles, and his equatorial regions inwhich snow never appearsjust like ourearth. The Martial day is a little longerthan our own, but his year is as long assix hundred and eighty-seven of ourdays. The sun appears considerablysmaller, and his light and heat are onlyabout half as great as the earth receives,according to the data of earth upon

which we must base our conclusions.After hastily noting the above facts,we pass the ruddy planet, and are soondarting through a great number of littleworlds called the asteroids. About sevenhundred have been discovered, all sincethe first day of the nineteenth century,and there may be thousands more thathave as yet escaped the sharp-eyed

astronomers of earth. Their averagediameter is probably less than twenty-five milesmore baby mansions!

To keep track of these little worlds hasbecome a heavy task and a great nui-sance to astronomers, who are experi-encing the same troubles as the oldwoman who lived in a shoe. But thechildren must be cared for. We may be

sure these tiny planets are all part of thegreat plan, or they would not be there.

Our Great Near Neighbor

We have no time, however, to look forundiscovered asteroids, for we are nowabout to visit the giant of the solar sys-



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tem, Jupiter. It will take us over a half-hour to reach him from Mars, or aboutforty-four minutes from the sun. Wewill have a little time to look out for

comets, as we may come across onealmost any time now, on its journey to orfrom the sun. However, comets dontamount to very much, and we only men-tion them to show we havent forgottenthese erstwhile terrible visitors. ButJupiter is worthy of our greatest admira-tion.

Swinging around in a majestic orbit,

requiring twelve of our years for one ofhis, he pursues his stately path, a realgiant. His mean diameter is abouteighty-seven thousand miles, and he isas large as thirteen hundred and nine(Young) of such worlds as ours puttogether. He has eight moons, three ofwhich are larger than ours; indeed, oneof them is larger than Mercury, and

rivals Mars in size.In passing we note that a great changehas come over our sun; he appears to beonly about one-fifth the diameter, or onetwenty-fifth the area, we saw him fromthe earth, and he gives only one twenty-fifth as much light and heat to theJovians (assuming that there areJovians) as we receive.

We could find much of interest here ifwe had time to stop, but our tremendousspeed carries us by Jupiter in a twin-kling, and before we realize it we arecrossing the enormous gulf of over fourhundred million miles that separates theorbits of Jupiter and his big brotherSaturnour next station.

The Distant Members of Our Family

Saturn is the farthermost planet easilyvisible to the unaided eye. His dimen-

sions rival those of Jupiter. His meandiameter is about seventy-four thousandmiles. While his day and night is onlyten hours in length, his period (year) istwenty-nine and one-half of our years,and his volume is over seven hundredtimes greater than the world upon whichwe live. He has nine moons to keep himcompany in his vast orbit, in addition to

his enormous ring system, the outer ringof which is about one hundred and sev-enty thousand miles in diameter. Thereis nothing like him in the systempresided over by that great autocrat thesun, or in the universe as far as we know,and he is at once the marvel and admira-tion of astronomers. The sun now seemsto be growing alarmingly small, while

his light is only about one-eightieth ofthat received by the earth. We can nottarry, however interesting this abidingplace may be, but we will hasten on toUranus.

A distance of nearly nine hundred mil-lion miles separates these two planets,and it will require over an hour and aquarter to carry us on to Uranus, buried

in space as he is, nearly one billion eighthundred million miles from the sun,from which we have so recently partedcompany. We will just settle ourselvescomfortably for our flight across thismighty span, andWhiz! What wasthat?Why, it is our messenger, thecannon-ball, that left the sun a hundred



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years ago, while it is less than one and ahalf hours since we left on the wings oflight. This is very astonishingto nonemore so than to the astronomers. In a

single beat of the clock of our messengeris one hundred and eighty-six thousandmiles behind us, and we must henceforthgo unheralded. When we have crossedthis great abyss, we will find Uranus tobe thirty-two thousand miles in diame-ter, and as large as sixty-five worlds likeours. He has four moons, and it requireseighty-four of our years to see his age

increase by a single one of his years. Wehave no time to study the wonderfullypeculiar axial rotation of this far-awayplanetmuch to our regret and that ofthe astronomers on earth, who are sointerested in him, and who know so littleabout him.

Another mighty plunge and we willmeet the sentinelthe other guard, so to

speakof our systemNeptune. Wewould rest here for a few minutes if wecould, for we are on the very frontier ofthe grand scheme of worlds that com-prise the majestic family of the sun.After we leave Neptune, we will havepassed the last of the planets, so far asnow known; and at most we can onlyhope to meet one of those celestial

tramps, a comet, making his regular pil-grimage to or from the sunfor all peri-odic comets must visit him at statedtimes, to report, as it were, that they arestill faithful, and have not deserted himfor one of his mighty neighbors. Wewould find Neptune eighty-five times aslarge as the earth, upon which we dwell;

and it requires one hundred and sixty-four of our years to equal one of his. Hehas but one moon. His vast orbit is fivebillion five hundred and eighty-four mil-

lion miles in diameter.We do not wish to discourage ourfriend and messenger, the cannon-ball,but it would take him two hundred yearsto cross the tremendous distance fromthe sun to Neptune, and a railroad traingoing a mile a minuteno stopswould require ten thousand years tocross this mighty orbit. We get thor-

oughly bewildered in dealing with thesevast dimensions, and they cease to havea meaning, and, lest we forget, in deal-ing with the gigantic magnitudes of theplanets, it is well to remember that thesun is over seven hundred times as largeas all of them put together. Our sun nowgives us much concern, for he no longershows us a disk, but is only a point of

light, and as a sun we do not recognizehim. Of course he is much brighter thanany star that we can see, but his light andheat are only one nine-hundredth partthat we receive on earth. At this rate wefear that we may lose him altogether.About four and a quarter hours haveelapsed since we left the sun, and we areso far away that we are getting lone-

some, although only on our farthestknown planet.

Only a Glimpse Thus Far

Perhaps, reader, we have traveled toofast for you. Maybe you regret it, think-ing you have seen Gods house. What!



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this Gods house! Will we call this wor-thy of Him?Not so; for in our Fathershouse are many mansions; and atthis point we are still standing upon our

own threshold.Let us pause for a moment upon theoutermost member of our suns greatfamily before we take our flight acrossthe vast gulf that separates us from oursuns nearest neighbor, Alpha Centauri,a star that is only about half as far awayas our four next nearest neighbors.Looking back, the human mind is over-

whelmed by the immense magnitude ofthe worlds we have passed; the enor-mous distances that lie between them areincomprehensible to the human mind,and we shrink from the eternity of spacebefore us. Vast as is the system com-prised within the orbit of Neptune, it is,as we shall soon see, only as a grain ofsand on the shore of this ocean of eterni-

ty upon which we are now to launch our-selves.Until now we have been counting the

time of our journey, flying with thespeed of light, as we are, by seconds,minutes, and hours. But now this willnot suffice us; we must deal with days,weeks, months, years, for our very nextstopping place will require over four

years for us to reach, while the moreremote stars would require centuries andmillenniums.

(To be continued)

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ARE YOU HELPING YOUR

STARS?

One not infrequently hears students of

Astrology express their annoyance at theway the stars work. They complain thatthe evil directions are always on timeand marked in their effect, while veryoften the good directions seem to havelittle or no influence and they wonderwhy. Have you ever realized that youcannot possibly get something for noth-ing, any more than you can create some-

thing out of nothing? This holds goodwhether you want a loaf of bread, a posi-tion, favors, or anything else.

If at any time you seem to get some-thing without paying for it, you willhave to settle later, and settle with inter-est, for it is natures law of Justice thatnothing is given for nothing. There mustbe an equivalent in one way or another;

the scales may be tipped in one directionfor a long time, but as surely as the pen-dulum swings equally to each side of theneutral point, so surely will the scales of

justice swing, and swing until the bal-ance is reached.

This holds good in Astrology; it is saidthat God helps the man who helps him-self. You may also say that the stars

help the man who helps himself, forthey are Gods ministers and it shouldalways be remembered that the starsshow tendencies, they mark times

when opportunities are ripe, but they

never under any circumstance compel

any one to act in this, that or the other

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haphazard events, they are lessons andexperiences for us of which we mayavail ourselves, or not, as we choose,within certain limits. For instance, the

Moon comes to a square of Mars, and itwill bring to us an opportunity to loseour temper, and get into trouble thereby;then when the trouble is over and we sitdown to reflect on the occurrence, wewill most likely say to ourselves, wellwhat fools we are to allow a little thinglike that to play havoc with our happi-ness. On the other hand, if the

Astrological student uses his knowledgein the proper manner, then he shouldknow what the effect of the Moon squareMars will be, he should resolve to becalm beforehand and say: Here is anopportunity for me to rule my stars, I amgoing to keep my temper well undercontrol so that no matter what happens, Iam going to maintain my equilibrium.

Then, when the opportunity comes alongto lose his temper, he may stand firm.Although he may feel the passions surg-ing within, he may stand outwardlyquiet, keep a cool head and when thedanger is past he will have gained a vic-tory and learned the lesson which it wasintended that he should learn.

Or suppose that it is a square of the

Moon to Saturn; this will cause peopleto worry and look upon the dark side oflife, but the astrological student may sayto himself when such a configuration isapproaching: No, I am not going toworry, worry will not help matters, ithinders, because it takes from me all my

strength, wherewith otherwise I couldovercome conditions. I am going to lookat the bright side of the matter and seewhat I can do to remedy this trouble.

As a matter of fact, most of the thingswe worry about never come to pass, andif the student can learn under this plane-tary direction to keep his equilibrium, tostop worrying, then he has ruled his starsand learned an important lesson. Thus,if he helps his stars by learning thelessons which they are endeavoring toteach him, the evil directions will not

have the same power over him as if hesimply sits down and folds his handssaying: Well I cannot help it, I amunder evil directions and naturallythings are bound to go wrong in everyparticular.

There is in the horoscope a dominantfactor; namely, the Individual will. Bearin mind, that the horoscope shows only

tendencies and it has no power what-ever to compel you; compulsion is

from within yourself. You, in the finalanalysis, are the dominant factor in thathoroscope, and can by an exercise ofsufficient will power rule your stars. Itis admitted that we are all weak, andtherefore not able to exercise the neces-sary will power at all times, but that is

exactly what these evil directions aresent to us to cultivatea stronger and afirmer will to do the right thing at theright time, and it depends upon our-selves whether we shall be compelled bycircumstances from without or by ourown will from within. Surely that is the



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proper way, and Astrological students,above all other people, ought to be ableto guide their lives safely amid the rocksand shoals of existence, because they

have proper warning, they know what iscoming, and they should prepare for it.On the other hand it is asked: Why do

the good directions not bring a corre-sponding measure of benefit? And theanswer to that question is, for the verysame lack of co-operation; it is asabsolutely necessary to help our stars inone direction as to hinder them in the

other. Are you out of a position withperhaps the family exchequer runninglow and no means in sight wherewith toreplenish it, but your hopes are centeredupon a strong favorable direction, suchas perhaps a trine of the progressedMoon to the ruler of the sixth house orthe Sun; under these conditions you feelsure, from an astrological standpoint,

that you are going to obtain a good posi-tion which will put you on easy street?Very well, you may be sure that theopportunity will come, but do not expectit to be laid in your lap without a singleeffort upon your part.

If a thing is worth having it is worthgoing after, it is worth making the verybest efforts to get it. Do not neglect any

detail, dress yourself carefully, but notshowily when you go to see the personwho has it in his power to bestow thefavor; remember, first impressions areimportant. Have all your ammunitionready, in the shape of recommendationsand everything else that you would havewere you not depending upon an astro-

logical aspect to help you get the posi-tion. Use every proper means ofimpressing the prospective employerwith your ability and you may depend

that your effort will be successful, foryou have helped your stars, you havegrasped your opportunity.

Or, are you about to embark in a busi-ness venture with some one else and youfeel very confident because the Moon istrine to the Sun and Venus in the seventhhouse? Be careful that you do not layaside your caution on that account,

thinking that under such a direction noone can come into your partnership whois not all right. If you do, you neglectyour part and you will have no reasonwhatever to blame the stars if later on itis shown that the person is not all youexpected him to be.

Nothing is needed in the world todayin the same degree that we need com-

mon sense, and this applies to thedepartment of astrology, as well as toevery other department of life.Opportunity may be likened to a tobog-gan slide between ourselves and ourdesires: It is necessary for us to make anadequate initial effort in order to launchour sled upon this incline; but once wehave done our part, then everything will

go along swimmingly under favorabledirections, for then the stars are with usto impress others in our behalf, or tostrengthen our penetrative power so thatwe may know what is best of us.

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sky, take an ephemeris and note moonaspects given in the extreme right handcolumn for each month. This magazinewill reach you in March. On the 2nd and

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the Moon is in opposition to Mars,and you will then find in people a gener-al lack of energy and ambition; theywould rather tear down than build. Onthe 15th we have a conjunction of Marsand the Moon. Then people will beactive and energetic, but impulse, ratherthan common sense will govern; hence,they will accomplish little good, and

may do harm without intention. But onthe 6th and 24th, when the Moon andMars are trine, there will be a generaldesire among people to do something ofa constructive nature, and they will meetwith success in such efforts. And last,but not least, on the 8th and 22nd theMoon square Mars will make peopleirritable, quarrelsome, destructive, ready

to fly at each other, unreasonable andunmanageable.

YOUR CHILDS HOROSCOPE

Vincent F. Born Feb. 10, 1912, 0:12p.m. Lat. 85 W. Long. 38 N.

At Vincents birth we find Mars risingin the intellectual sign Gemini, andMercury, the ruler of the Asc., is in con-

junction with Uranus in the ninth housein Aquarius, another mental sign, trine toMars on the ascendent. This in itselfshows an exceptionally active and effi-cient mentality. He has not only a splen-

did reason, because of the configurationof Mercury, but he has also a powerfulintuition given him by the blending of

the Uranian Ray, and this is particularlystrong because the Moon, the other sig-nificator of mind, is also sextile toUranus from an energetic martial sign

Scorpio. He will be very quick to forman opinion and if any one disagrees withhim he will feel very much annoyed, andwill probably show the Scorpio side ofhis nature, a quick temper. Saturn andVenus are what we call in mutual recep-tion; that is to say, Saturn is in Taurus, asign ruled by Venus, and Venus is inCapricorn, a sign ruled by Saturn. This

makes their aspect, which is trine,stronger than it would otherwise be.Taurus is the second sign, which has rulepartly over finance and Capricorn is thetenth that has to do with social standing.The powerful aspect formed by Saturnand Venus in these two signs show thatVincent will be very faithful in all of his



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attachments, whether friendship or fam-ily ties, and will also be what people willcall very lucky. He will accumulateconsiderable money, but he will not be a

plunger or gambler by any means;whatever gains come to him will comethrough business insight and safe invest-ment in land or kindred stable enterpris-es.

Mars in Gemini on the ascendent, par-ticularly when it is so well aspected toMercury and Uranus, as is here the case,indicates a person who will write or

speak and it is very probable that atsome time or another he will go into thepublishing business with much success,for the Mercurial sign Virgo is on thefifth house, which rules publishing, andthe Moon is sextile to Uranus. This indi-cates that however conservative Vincentmay be in business methods, followingthe conventional lines, it is certain that

in the matter of his publications therewill be a very distinct occult element.Another thing that will help him great-

ly to achieve success is the fact that hewill have efficient helpers and faithfulfriends because he will know how tochoose people, being able to read themlike an open book. Mercury conjunctionUranus in the ninth house, which

denotes travel, and sextile to the wan-dering Moon, shows that there will beperiods of travel for research and inves-tigation and that this will be both pleas-ant and profitable.

Jupiter on the cusp of the seventhhouse shows also general good fortune,the Sun trine to the Asc. is very good for

the vitality. Mars also corroborates thisaugur by his presence there, but I am notso well pleased over the fact that thereare no aspects between Sun, Jupiter,

Neptune and the other planets; neitherare there any squares or oppositions.Things will come too easy to Vincentand this is apt to make him autocraticand opinionated, short in his methodsand behavior to others. Be sure that youallow him to struggle for himself asmuch as possible, both in getting hislessons, taking care of his person, and all

other things, and above all teach himconsideration for others.Because he has so much, he must not

look down upon others who have only alittle. Teach him that popularityinvolves a responsibility which he isbound to respect, for if he does not, ret-ribution will be sure to come, though notfor him in this life. But though the

Mills of the Gods grind slowly, theygrind exceedingly fine and sometime,somewhere, he will have to render anaccount for the way he has used theunusual talents which are his in the pre-sent embodiment.

With regard to health, there is oneplace in particular that is dangerous forVincent, namely, the throat. Saturn in

Taurus always brings obstructions and aliability to cold in that part of the body.Therefore it will be very necessary forVincent to look out for himself, so that adisability of the throat will not interferewith him in his expression as a speaker,if at any time he takes up that as a voca-tion. The circulation is not very good



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either because the Sun is unaspected, butproper exercises will easily compensatefor this tendency.

Aubrey B. Born March 9, 1906, 2:48p.m., Brooklyn, N. Y.

At the time of Aubreys birth the Moonwas in the Mercurial sign Virgo, sextileto Neptune, trine Uranus, opposition toSaturn, and square to Jupiter. Mercurywas in Aries, which governs the head,

sextile to Jupiter, square to Neptune andUranus. This will give Aubrey a fertile,quick, receptive and inspirational mind.The trine of the Moon to Uranus giveshim intuition, but the opposition of theMoon to Saturn is bad for memory. Hewill always have an answer ready onevery occasion, but because of thesquare of Mercury to Uranus and

Neptune he will often be sarcastic andvery critical.Mars in Aries also makes him very

blunt so that that which he says willoften sound ten times worse than hereally means it. This will cause him agreat deal of trouble in life and it shouldtherefore be your endeavor to inculcatein him a charity for others and bring

home to him the fact that he ought to bediplomatic instead of outspoken in hiscriticism. It is not that he really meansto wound other people, because Mercurysextile to Jupiter will give the mind abenevolent and sympathetic turn, butMars makes him so blunt about what hesays that it will hurt and make enemies.

The Moon in the mercurial sign Virgoand in opposition to Saturn also gives alack of continuity and a desire for

change, which is bad for success in life,no matter what our undertakings; there-fore, above all things he should betaught to stay at whatever he undertakes

until he has accomplished it.There is in this configuration also adecided tendency to gloom; it bringsmany sorrows and disappointments inlife, but on the other hand, these trialsare sent to give him the lessons he needsto learn, and there is one blessing abouthim, he will not go about with a longdrawn face wearing his heart on his

sleeve making himself and his surround-ings much more unhappy with pes-simism; he will keep his disappoint-ments to himself, and present a cheerfulfront to the world.

With regard to his work in life: Thereare two ways open for him. One goesthrough the world and if he follows that



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he will attain most success in electricity,as Uranus is in the sixth house, whichdenotes the service he will render, andCapricorn, the tenth sign, is on the sixth

cusp, making this position stronger. Butworking with electricity is not a verysafe thing, to say the least, and thesquare of Mercury to Uranus from thesign of the head makes him quite impul-sive; therefore he should be doubly care-ful in that work.

But the Moon in the sixth sign Virgoand trine to Uranus in the sixth house,

also sextile to Neptune in the psychicsign Cancer, together with the sun in theoccult sign Pisces in the eighth house ofoccultism, shows another ability, namelyas a healer. Venus and Jupiter are inmutual reception and sextile, therefore itis certain that religion will play a con-siderable part in his life and the psychicabilities which are latent in him will

undoubtedly come to the front at sometime, though probably not before thetwenty-eighth year has been passed.

Whatever line he takes up he is boundto meet with a certain amount of honorand recognition, and it is my judgmentthat Aubrey is going to be a leader inoccultism, provided he can be guardedfrom the danger which comes from

Mercury square Neptune and Uranus.These two planets, being on the sixthand twelfth houses and Neptune in thepsychic sign Cancer, may cause disem-bodied spirits to try to take advantage ofhim and overawe his mind, so that hewould become a negative mediuminstead of a positive mystic, and you

should therefore be careful that he isnever brought into any place where neg-ative conditions exist, also that he is notallowed to associate with any person

who has mediumistic faculties or whopractices mediumship. Sun and Marsare unaspected, therefore he would nothave energy enough to withstand, partic-ularly in the earlier years.

With regard to health, we find that thediseases which threatens him particular-ly are of a nervous type, owing to thepresence of Mercury in Aries square to

Neptune and Uranus on the cusps of thetwelfth and sixth houses. The Moon inopposition to Saturn in the sign Pisces,which governs the feet, is a warning tokeep those members warm, to avoidcatching colds.

Jupiter in Taurus in square to the Moonin Virgo is a warning against indulgenceof the appetite, for this will bring diges-

tive disorders, particularly in the intesti-nal tract. By knowing these matters andacting accordingly, it is quite possible toovercome them all, and the key is cur-tailment of the tendency to worry, denot-ed by the Moon opposition Saturn.

We shall one day forget all about duty

and do everything from the love of theloveliness of it, the satisfaction of therightness of it.George McDonald

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THE EGO

By Harry Wilson

Divine, Life and Human Spirit

(Continued)

In our last article we followed theprogress of the Ego to that point in itsdevelopment when it was enabled toenter the three-fold physical body. We

found that this could be accomplishedonly by means of the blood. Also, thatred, heat-giving blood was necessary asa vehicle in which the Ego could func-tion.

On page 268 of the Cosmo we find thefollowing explanation of the influenceof Mars as regard the production of redblood. In that part of the Earth period

preceding the separation of the sexesduring the three-and-a-half revolutionswhich intervened between the timewhen Mars was differentiated and thebeginning of the Lemurian EpochMars traveled in a different orbit to thepresent, and its aura (that part of the

finer vehicles which extend beyond thedense planet) permeated the body of the

central planet and polarized the ironwithin it.

As iron is essential in the productionof warm, red blood, all creatures werecold blooded, or rather, the fluid parts ofthe body were no warmer than the sur-rounding atmosphere.

When the earth was set free from thecentral sun, that event changed the orbits

of the planets, and thus the influence ofMars over the iron of the earth was min-imized. The planetary spirit of Marsfinally withdrew the remainder of thatinfluence, and although the desire bodiesof the earth and Mars still penetrate, thedynamic power of Mars over the iron(which is a Mars metal) has ceased andiron has become available for use on our

planet.Iron is in reality the basis of separate

existence. Without iron the red, heat-giving blood would be an impossibility,and the Ego could have no hold in thebody. When red blood developed, in thelatter part of the Lemurian Epoch, the

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body became upright and the time hadcome when the Ego could begin to dwellwithin the body and control it.

As already stated, the Ego did not

immediately enter, but the body wasnow ready. It was not until the last thirdof the Atlantean Epoch that the Ego wasenabled to enter fully and direct thefunctions of its physical body. (Cosmop. 294) On page 292 of the Cosmo willbe found a very interesting account ofthe physical phenomena co-incidentwith this important event.

On page 350 we find the following:The Ego works directly through theblood. The Race-spirit guides the Racesby working in the blood, as the group-spirit of the animals directs its speciesthrough the blood. So also does the Egocontrol its vehicle but with a difference.

The Ego operates by means of theheat of the blood, while the Race-(i.e.

tribal or family) spirit works by meansof the air, as it is drawn into the lungs.That is why Jehovah, or HisMessengers, breathed into mans nos-trils, thereby securing admission for theRace-spirit, Community-spirits, etc.On page 143 we also find under the cap-tion The Blood the Vehicle of the Ego,the following:

In infancy, and up to the fourteenthyear, the red marrow bones do not makeall the blood corpuscles. Most of themare supplied by the thymus gland, whichis largest in the fetus and graduallydiminishes as the individual blood-mak-ing faculty develops in the growing

child. The thymus gland contains, as itwere, a supply of blood corpuscles givenby the parents, and consequently thechild who draws its blood from that

source, does not realize its individuality.Not until the blood is made by the childdoes it think of itself as I, and whenthe thymus gland disappears at the ageof fourteen, the I feeling reaches itsfull expression, for then the blood ismade and dominated entirely by theEgo.

The following will make clear the

idea and its logic:It will be remembered that assimila-tion and growth depend upon the forcesworking along the positive pole of thevital bodys chemical ether. That is setfree at the seventh year, together withthe balance of the vital body. Only thechemical ether is fully ripe at that time;the other parts need more ripening.

At the fourteenth year the life ether ofthe vital body, which has to do withpropagation, is fully ripe. In the periodfrom seven to fourteen years of age theexcessive assimilation has stored up anamount of force which goes to the sexorgans, and is ready at the time thedesire body is set free.

This force of sex is stored in the

blood during the third of the seven yearperiods and in that time the light ether,which is the avenue for the blood heat, isdeveloped and controls the heart, so thatthe body is neither too hot nor too cold.

In early childhood the blood veryoften rises to an abnormal temperature.

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