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The Light of the World

COMING WORLD CHANGES

"THE CURTISS BOOKS"

THE VOICE OF ISISTHE MESSAGE OF AQUARIA

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THE TEMPLE OF SILENCETHE DIVINE MOTHER

THE SOUNDLESS SOUND

THE PHILOSOPHY OF WAR

THE CURTISS PHILOSOPHIC BOOK CO.

COMING WORLDCHANGES

BY

HARRIETTE AUGUSTA CURTISSAND

F. HOMER CURTISS, B.S., M.D.Founders of The Order of Christian Mystics

Authors of"The Voice of isis," "The Message of Aquaria," "The Key to

the Universe," "The Key of Destiny," "Realms of the LivingDead," "Letters from the Teacher," Vols i and ii, "Gems

of Mysticism," "The Temple of Silence," "The DivineMother," "The Philosophy of War," etc., etc.

Members ofThe American Association for the Advancement of Science; The

American Society for Psychical Research; The AmericanAsiatic Association; The Authors' League of America;

The League of American Pen-Women; Council ofinternational Advisers, Optimist international;

Committee on Psychology, World Conferenceon Narcotic Education; National Council

of American Indians; The AnthonyFoundation, etc., etc.

WASHINGTON, D. C.

THE CURTISS PHILOSOPHIC BOOK CO.1926

COPYPIGUT, 1926, BY

F. HoiR Cvinss, M.D.

All Rights Reserved

Printed in the United Staes of America

CONTENTS

CliAPTZE PACE

FolIEwoiw vii

THE PROPHECIES 17

Gior.oici.i. CONSIDERATIONS . 30

THE PHILOSOPHY or PLANETARY CHANGES 40

THE KING OF THE WORLD 54

THE HEART OF THE Woiu.D . 63

THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON. . 79

TIIE REMEDY 103

INDEX. . . . . 121

FOREWORD

"Quench not the Spirit. Despise not prophesyings."I Thessalonians, v, 19-20.

"To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they mayhear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannothearken: behold, the word of the Lord is unto them a re-proach; they have no delight in it." Jeremiah, vi, 10.

While it takes a certain amount of courage to placepredictions as to coming events before the people ofthis materialistic and skeptical age, nevertheless wewould not be true to our trust unless we gave out thatwhich has been revealed to us. It should be remem-bered, however, that the mere predicting of comingevents does not constitute a prophet; for a prophet is"one who speaks by divine inspiration as the interpreterthrough whom a divinity declares himself . . . onewho interprets the will of the gods to man," and pre-diction alone plays but a small part in his life and work."In the New Testament, Christian prophets were recog-nized in the church as possessing a charism or spiritualgift distinct from that of ordinary teachers, and asuttering special revelations and predictions."

As to the value of such prophecies at the present timewe quote the following from an editorial by a prominentauthority on the subject: "Since a proportion of thesensitives of our time are apparently agreed that a

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period of tribulation lies ahead, the question naturallyarises whether these shadows of coming events serveany purpose other than to arouse emotions of fear andapprehension. . . . My own impression, for what itis worth, is that such foreshadowings have as definitea value as have those premonitory dreams to whichcertain individuals are liable. They afford at least anopportunity of mitigating the severity of the comingshock, and in some instances actually offer, a meansof avoiding the threatened crash. Much, of course,depends upon the nature of the foreshadowed crisis.Where the circumstances admit of the intervention ofthe free and unfettered will of the individual or indi-viduals concerned, it is frequently possible at the criti-cal moment to entirely avert the disaster. . . . Someof my readers will also recall the record publisheddescribing how a lady was saved from embarking onthe ill-fated Lusitania by a premonitory vision.The point of this digression is that prophecies orpremonitions may be turned to good account even incases where the outcome is inevitable. Such forewarn-ings may be regarded in the light of opportunities forthe correct orientation of the inner life. Assuming thatthe world is indeed destined to pass through a periodof special tribulation in face of which mankind maystand impotent and helpless, there still remains to theindividual freedom to meet the future either in a spiritof rebellion, or with resignation, if not with willingacceptance." 2

a Editorial in The Occult Review, London, June, 1926.

FOREWORD ix

Our object in presenting this volume to the publicis not, as one mistaken reader expressed it, "to scarepeople into 'being good' as they used to do with thedoctrine of hell fire," but to arouse them to the im-portance of uniting on a definite method by which thecoming disasters can be minimized and "the days oftribulation" be shortened. None of the propheciesquoted from other sources give any solution or suggestany remedy or method of salvation, only the destruc-tive aspect being presented. This has a tendency toarouse a sense of helplessness and hopeless fear, withno remedy in sight. On the contrary, in this volumewe present the constructive side and give a definiteremedy and method of salvation. We make it clearthat the pessimistic outlook is not the only side of thepicture. There is also an optimistic one, but its mani-festation depends upon the voluntary efforts of awak-ened humanity.

Our readers are not urged to "be good" or even touse proved constructive methods merely to save them-selves from suffering or even to save their own livesfor their past Karma and that which they generatenow by heeding the warnings, following the directionsand fulfilling the Law will take care of thatbut theyare urged to act not from personal and selfish motives,but from impersonal and unselfish motives, i.e., to makethemselves one of the Elect and help to generate suchpowerful currents of definitely constructive, radio-active, spiritual force as will counteract the destructiveforces and save, not only themselves, but the great mass

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may be called naïve. Their conclusions may be as-sailed as emperic and unscientific. Yet, reading theirsimple phrasing, sensing their calm earnestness, one isdisposed to think upon what they have said.Their writings abound in thousands of minor deduc-tions as to what the future holdsand through themall runs the steady note of honest counsel, of deepconviction as to the responsibilities which man mustassume. . . ."

"Dr. and Mrs. Curtiss are noted internationally forthe profound scholarship with which they have studiedthe problems of ancient and modern mysticism.Through their other booksnotably The Voice of Isis,The Message of Aquaria and The Key to the Universethey have placed some astonishing interpretations onold doctrines. Often they have challenged the mostcherished superstitions of modern religion. They areentirely frank, and utterly fearless."

"Now, in their latest book, they do more than this.They picture the overturn of many a prized institu-tion, in the coming new day. This might be termedthe theme from which they have written:

"'The fetus of the New Humanity is already stir-ring in the Womb of Time, and, like the human mother,humanity must learn to eliminate its waste materialsand poisons and give the fetus proper nourishment orthe life of both the child and the mother will be en-dangered, as in cases of eclampsia. This is the workof the present transitory conditions. The entirethought and aim of today should be to meet present-

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day conditions as they confront us, but meet them withan intelligent conception of the advanced conditions inhumanity and its organization toward which the pres-ent-day events are tending."

"From this angle they have approached their topic;not for the sensation they might create by picturingthe future, but to prepare the minds of those who fol-low the philosophy of such teachings, for the changeswhich are at hand.

"Before outlining the predictions which Dr. andMrs. Curtiss have made, let us see upon what theybase their claim for the authority for such predictions.

"It is the contention of the authorsand also ofthousands of such teachers through all the march ofthe centuriesthat thoughts are things; actually phys-ical entities, created by the brain as the child is cre-ated by another physical process. From this theorycame the old saying, 'Coming events cast their shadowsbefore!' Those who accept this theory contend thatthese thoughts work out an astral, or thought-pattern,before they ever manifest in actual happenings. .

"It is their contention that we are standing beforethe mighty portals, waiting for the curtain of time torise on the new age, wherein wonders greater than theradio will seem commonplace to the eyes of our de-scendants.

"If all this seems but the fevered dream of an en-thusiast, stop and consider for a moment our presentposition, as contrasted with that of our grandparentsa hundred years ago.

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"The fact that they predicted the World War, in avolume published two years before the assassination atSerajevo, lends special value to their extraordinarydream of the approaching new era in the world."

The first, and part of the fourth chapter of thisvolume is a collection of the prophecies of others: thebalance of the book is our own.

THE AUTHORS.Washington, D. C.

July i, 1926.


CHAPTER I

THE PROPHECIES

"There shall be great tribulation, such as was not sincethe beginning of the world to this time." St. Matthew, xxiv, 21.

"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help introuble. Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be re-moved, and though the mountains be carried into the midstof the sea.?' Psalms, xlvi, 1-2.

"Beloved of Christ, keep your star shining brightOut through the darkness of Earth's dreary night.'Mid toil and confusion of battle and strife,Send your message of Love. It is life."

Harriettc Augusta Curtiss in Realms of the LivingDead, 176.

The many prophecies as to impending disasters ofcataclysmic proportions which have been given outfrom various sources in recent years have focusedon this subject the attention of large groups of thought-ful persons who give serious consideration to the manyremarkable signs of the times in which we are living.And in answer to the questions of our students inmany parts of the world as to the teachings of TheOrder of Christidn Mystics on the subject we will tryto explain the scientific and philosophical principlesunderlying cataclysmic phenomena.

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While we do not wish to be classed as calamityprophets, crying disaster and offering no hope or rem-edyfor we here present a definite remedyneverthe-less we consider it our duty to do all we can to warnhumanity that unless the practical failure of the Lo-carno treatythrough the secret and petty intriguesof certain nations selfishly seeking minor advantagesis speedily counteracted, the most serious consequenceswill result. That agreement and accord was about thelast chance for Europe to generate spiritual forces ofaccord and harmony which would mitigate the severityof that which is destined to occur. But first'let us sum-marize, as briefly as possible, some of the more strik-ing and important prophecies.

Last September Sir Arthur Conan Doyle announced'that for the past three years he had received repeatedwarnings from reliable sources in the invisible realmsconcerning the near approach of widespread cataclysmsof so serious a nature as to impel him to warn thepeople of Great Britain and Europe that, "In order toarouse the world to a sense of its responsibility a greatcatastrophe, shattering in its nature, is approaching."He pointed out that the world had been getting into ashocking state of materialism; that the War, the Bol-shevik régime, and even the epidemic diseases whichhave swept the world since the War, are part of theprice mankind has had to pay for its sins. "The timeis not certain, although everything points to its beingvery close. Dates are given in certain messages rang-ing from 1925 to 1928. If the High Powers find that

'London Morning Post, Sept. 1, 192S.

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mankind is improving, and that the world can becleansed and brought by other means to its right mindas regards strict spiritual matters, then we may besaved." In conclusion Sir Arthur added that conhIrma-tory messages were being received from all parts ofthe world, but that the subject should not be treated asa sensation.

In a personal letter to the Authors, under the dateof April 18, 1926, Sir Arthur says:

"We still get incessant messages of coming troubleshort, sharp and salutary. By 'short' I mean aboutthree years. Always it is to end in a great psychicdemonstration corresponding with the second coming,which will show the world how mad it has been in itsstupid and obstinate rejection of the advances fromthe higher world. Each nation will suffer accordingto the extent of that rejection, and the 'Elect' whomyou quote will be those who have worked for this cause.In that hour of tribulation Nations will realize whatthey owe to those who have obscured the light .but when it is to occurbeyond a general sense ofnearnessor how far some spiritual change in us maymodify or even stop it is more than I can say. Myimpression is that it is too far gone for that. I haveabout 100,000 words of detail . . ."

On November 25, 1922, Mary Forbesa prophetessof Boston who has spent most of her life in Indiastudying Oriental mysticism, and who gained wide-spread attention by her accurate prophecy of theWorld War two years before it beganpredicted, "A


great war by the Orient against the Occident. TheEast will win. Violent earthquakes will destroy mostof Europe, except parts of France and Russia. A r.w,continent will arise in the Pacific."2

"Terror-stricken by prophecies of the world's end in1926 made by GccL, p i-tphet of the Meican peoplein Nogales, Sonora, hundreds of residents of ihc McxLcan border town to-day began religious preparationsfor 'the end.' Enoch said the coming year will be asuccession of tremors over the earth. Cities will beleveled and the loss of life will be tremendous, he pre-dicted. As the earthquakes subside, he prophesied, aterrible heat will settle upon the earth and dry placeswill ignite."'

Showing that such prophecies are not confined tothe prophets of the Western world we find a similarprophecy coming from far-off China. "The Chinesethroughout the Philippines are busy building rafts onwhich to escape from a world catastrophe, propheciesof which have roused a panic that is seriously affectingbusiness. The Society for the Unification of theWorld's Religions, at Chengtu, Szechwan, China, an-nounces, first, a great earthquake, spreading to all landsat the same moment; second, a great edipse, affectingboth Sun and Moon; third, a vast flood, caused by theoverflowing of the ocean; fourth, a violent vibrationin the air 1,000 times louder than any thunder; fifth,some stars becoming cracked and pieces falling uponthe Earth; sixth, numerous angels descending to Earth.

'San Francisco Journal, Nov. 26, 1922.'San Francisco Chronicle, June 4, 1925.

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These prophecies are printed in Chinese characters onthin tissue paper and have caused great alarm."4

Reasoning from an astrological standpoint, M. D.Sagane says5 that:

"It is an admitted fact that what are called thesuperior planets . . . certainly produce remarkableresults by their transits taken in relation to the signsruling particular countries. . . . In the year 1926Neptune will be in Leo, Saturn in Scorpio and Jupiterin Aquarius, and in squares and oppositionsthe worstpossible aspectsto one another. Also Mars will be inthe fixed signs Aquarius and Taurus in August andMay, and August to December respectively, and willthus add to the aforesaid influences. As a result therewill be gigantic convulsions and disasters after disastersin the physicalearthquakes, eruptions, floods, etc.and political spheres. The countries that will experi-ence these God-sent things will be Ireland, Poland,Prussia, Sweden, France, Russia, Italy, Asia Minor,Arabia and Persia. We may even expect bloodshed."

The Australian seer, Victor E. Cromer, says that:

"The next seven years are to be the most awe-in-spiring that the world has ever seen. On the one handwe are to have a series of mighty cataclysms, and onthe other hand events .leading up to the revealing ofthe World Teacher and the organization of the NewAge. . . . These three countries (Germany, Russia,

4Abstracted from an article in the Far Eastern News, Peking, Jan.23, 1924.

'The Kaipaka Magazine, Dec. 192S, S5&


Turkey) will league themselves into an unholy allianceabout July, 1926, and shortly afterwards a new worldwar will begin. . . . This war will last about fouryears, and will be the most terrible war in the historyof the world. . . . Germany is now perfecting the'death ray,' ° so that she 'maketh fire to come downfrom heaven on the earth in the sight of men,' (Rev.xiii, 13) indicating the nature of the next war, an aerialcampaign. . . . The pyramid measures undoubtedlyanswer to the various epochs of our history. And notonly is the first 'low passage' an exact measure of thelate Great War, at the rate of one inch per month, butthe next and final low passage in the approach to theKing's Chamber is an exact demarcation of the timelimits of the next and final Great War which is calledArmageddon, followed by the Great Desolation orEarthquake. According to all measures now in use,this period begins at the end of July, 1926. . . . It isthe new measure which fulfills the prophecy concerningthe 'shortening of the times' of tribulation. This meas-ure shows the beginning to be in October of 1926 andthe end in November of 1932. . . . A period of sixyears one month and three days . . . so that from1926 to 1932 the world will be in tribulation 'such asnever was since the beginning of the world.' But sideby side with the tribulation, will be the wonderful out-pouring of the Shekinah or Visible Glory of God, lead-ing to the establishment of the New Age. . . . The'Kings of the East' are the great Buddhist leaders of

If a "death ray," then it is possible to develop a "life ray" toCounteract it.

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the Mongolian race who will occupy the territory afterthe devastation. Australia and America and whatevernew land rises in the New World will be the scene ofthe Christian Millennium, while the Mongolian raceswill enjoy a Buddhist Millennium in the Old World,but they will work in perfect harmony with the NewWorld after the New Age has started. After the trialsand tribulations of the next seven years, the GreatPeace will descend upon the world and the nations willlearn the art of war no more.

"The means by which the World Teacher will be re-vealed to the world will be by a remarkable outpouringof spiritual magnetism, which will surround Him witha pranic sea which will appear like a flaming fire tothe vision of those who look upon Him. From themoment that this remarkable and wonderful manifesta-tion takes place the organization of the New Age willgo on by leaps and bounds. The whole world will beastounded at the mighty series of events which willtake place. On the one hand there will be a mightywar raging, and on the other hand the events leadingto the organization of the New Age."

A profound student of the pyramid measurements,Mr. \V. H. F. MacHuisdean, claims that: "The GreatTribulation is indicated in the Great Pyramid to occurin 1928 A.D."

A remarkable prophetic vision, received in full wak-ing consciousness, has recently been published by anEnglish mystic, Mr. E. A. Chaylor, evidently referringto the coining cataclysms:

T The Kalpoka Magazine1 Jan. 1926, 11-12-13, Feb., 1926, 90-1-2.


"I saw the land (Europe) spread out below me. Atthe four corners stood four Men, holding each the cor-ner of a black cloth. Now a wind came from the East,causing the cloth to billow and shake. Then I askedone of the Men, 'What is the meaning of the cloth?'And he said, 'It is the Shadow of those things about tocome upon the Earth.' Then the four Men lowered thecloth, and it covered all the land.

"The wind now blew with violence, and there was agreat shaking, with clamor and confusion, and thecloth became soaked with blood. Then I asked theMan, 'Why are these things done?' And he answeredme, 'Because those things which hindered are about tobe removed.' And I said, 'What are the things whichare to be removed?' And again he answered me, 'Theyare three: the first two shall be destroyed by the third,tmd the third, wizen its work is accomplished, shall bechanged!'

"Yet again I asked him, 'How shall these things be?'And he said, 'The lands which you see have passed theCycle of Hate; they are now in the Cycle of Madness.The next Cycle is the Cycle of Destruction.' And Isaid, 'How long until this Cycle shall end?' Andhe answered me, 'In about two years (1928) it shallend, and destruction shall commence. Then, innine years the times of nine nations shall be accom-lis bed.'

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"Now the cloth dissolved away, and the land wasseen to be desolate. The lines which had divided itwere removed, and over all there was silence. Then,out of the silence was heard a Trumpet, and a Voice


In 1914 we published'1 several remarkable prophe-cies received from unusual sources, among which werethe following:

Prophecy of the Storm Wind

"I am the Spirit of the Storm Wind that blows thewaves: that changes the day to night; that saddensthe world and lets the rain from the mighty deep pourover the darkened Earth until it is engulfed.

"Blow, blow, blow, ye winds! Blow from the West,blow from the North!

"Let the ocean find itself a new bed!"What is so beautiful as the breakers on the shore!"

An Undine's Prophecy

(The more remarkable because given in June, 1914.)"The waters shall cleanse the Earth! The dead and

dying both alike are carried away by the beautifulclear waters of the ocean.

"The implements of death, misery and suffering areall washed away, and the beautiful waters of the ocean,with the sunlight on them, are moving, moving, so calmand sweet and clean.

"Breathe in the salt air, the salt, salt air of the ocean!"What is this putrid smell of unburied thousands?

Of earth saturated with blood? What is this deaththat man has made? It is hideous. It smells aloudto heaven. How horrible!

11Reaims of the Living Dead, Curtiss, 173-4-S.

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"Then the beautiful clear waters come with theirsweet breath of purity and life, the salt of purity andsweetness. Smell the air! How sweet it is!

"This is not death; for there is no death. It is onlythe Divine Law which goes forth and says: 'Go backand be washed by the ocean: be covered up. Whenpurified let the dry land appear.'

"All this land will be ifiled with forces, little seedsof love and life that have been purified by the waters.And they draw to themselves other forces, and out ofthese, little flames of life try to embody themselves intrees and grass and flowers. They grow stronger andembody themselves in something else.

"After a long, long time God says to man: 'Go anddwell on the new land I have made for you.' Thenman comes and finds all things growing. Then Godsays, 'These are the things you have made. I havesent my ocean to wash away the wickedness you cre-ated by your thoughts. But in your spirit the DivineLife centered and has brought forth."

The Spirit of the Ocean Waves

"Onward, onward we go! The ocean is king! Theocean is king!

Down, down, 0 land, underneath the waves!A new day, a new place to play, ye nymphs of the

caves!

"Man, puny creature, is gone. And the land wherehe dwelt and made his proud boast, where is it now?


Under the waves! And over it the dolphins dance andplay all day.

"0 puny man, where is your kingdom? Would youkeep back the Great Deep? Ha! Ha!

"Onward, onward over the land! Now it is gone.The spray dashes high and the beautiful Sun shinesthrough its depths and makes myriads of diamonds andpearls. They are not tears, but pearls, pearls of joy,joy, joy! while the dolphins dance and play. For theland is gone, is gone, is gone."

Those who base their predictions upon the propheciesof the Bible, and who are striking terror to the heartsof thousands by asserting that the coming changesmean "the end of the world," we have quite fully dealtwith in the chapter on "Are These the Last Days" inour book, The Message of Aquaria.12 In it we showthat,

"Since all creation, as manifested in Nature and in thehistory of nations, follow a parallel course, theseprophecies point unmistakably to the close of somegreat period; not 'the end of the wprld,' as many think,but the end of a dispensation, the end of a great cycle,in this case the end of a sub-race. . . . The comingsixth sub-race into whose beginnings humanity is nowentering will not usher in the millennium referred toin the biblical prophecies, but will foreshadow and pre-pare for it, sow the seed, as it were. That is, therewill be such a tremendous uplift and advance over pre-vious conditions as they existed before the World War

12 The Message of Aquaria, Curtiss, 40, 44.

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.spiritually, mentally and physicallythat to manyit will seem to be the dawn of the millennium.Therefore, the great importance of arousing all whowill listen to a recognition of the necessity of takingadvantage of the great opportunities now offered forspecial progress and setting out in earnest on the Pathor striving to live the Mystic Life. For this is truly'the end of the world' (cycle) for those who refuseutterly to respond to the higher ideals that are nowbeing set forth for humanity's standard and attain-ment." 12

12 40, 44.

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CHAPTER II

GEOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS

"That the periodical sinking and reappearance of mightyContinents, now called Atlantean and Lemurian by modernwriters, is no fiction, will be demonstrated.. . . It is only in thetwentieth century that portions, if not the whole, of the present

work will be vindicated." The Secret Doctrine, Blavatsky, 5,340, 461.

"0 Souls who are patiently waiting for day,Be not discouraged; turn not away;

For the day that is dawning is gloriously bright;The dreams so appalling will flee with the night."

Harriette Augusta Curtiss in Realms of the LivingDead, 176.

Before taking up an explanation of the prophecies indetail, let us first consider an outline of what the cos-mic philosophy of The Order of Christian Mysticsteaches as to the planet as a whole. The fundamentalidea to grasp is that this globe is not a mere mass ofrocks and earth and seas; a mere mechanical mixtureof dead and inert substances held together by purelymechanical forces. Nearly all ancient philosophersand peoples recognized that the Earth is a living entity,a gigantic organism with its own stages of growth andevolution and its own life history quite independent of,although affected by, the various classes of living crea-tures which dwell upon its surface and within it.

Not only is the Earth's surface in constant motion,through its daily tides of ocean and landthe height

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of the land-tide being estimated at 18 inchesbutthe entire surface undergoes a constant undulatingmovement of vast extent. The rate of this continentalmovement is so slow that it is imperceptible except asit reaches its periods of climax, when comparativelysudden readjustments of the surface take place. Ulti-mately this vast undulation successively raises and sub-merges whole continents and peoples, such as the sub-mergence of the Hyperborean continent and the SecondGreat Race, the Lemurian continent and the ThirdRace, the Atlantean continent and the Fourth Race.'

Geologists recognize this cyclic elevation and sub-mersion of continents in the character of the stratifiedrocks, with their various types of fossils, etc., and suchdiscoveries as the remains of tropical vegetation inGreenland and what are now the polar regions. Thepoint to keep in mind is that while such changes in thearrangement of the Earth's surface are cycljc, periodicand inevitable, by taldng proper measures and by heed-ing the prophecies of their enlightened Seers, mankindcan accommodate itself to such changes without seriousdisaster. The vital point is that while these changesare ultimately inevitable, they can take place gradu-ally and harmoniously, giving mankind time to adaptitself to them without too great loss if they will obeytheir Seers, or they can take place rapidly and destruc-tively, according as the vibration of harmony and co-operation or the vibration of inharmony, antagonismand evil is the keynote sounded by mankind as a whole.

'For details see chapter "The Origin of Man" in The Voice of isis,Curtiss, 230.


During the winter of 1925-6 there was comparativelylittle snow in Alaska, and that region which formerlyhad a sub-polar climate has been warmer than manyparts of the United States, although for the past fouryears the heat radiated by the Sun has been much be-low the normal amount. "The return of volcanic ac-tivity to North America's loftiest peak, Mount Mc-Kinley (20,300 feet), is indicative of a series ofvolcanic phenomena in which many observers to-daysee a promise of radical and permanent climatic changesin the southern part of Alaska. Since Mt. Shishaldin,in the Aleutians 800 miles southwest of Mt. McKinley,erupted November 11, 1925, this region has experienceda springlike November and December unparalleled inthe memory of the oldest inhabitant. Streams usuallyfrozen at this season have remained open, and in placeof the usual snowbound landscape there is green vege-tation. The affected area covers several hundredsquare miles along Cook Inlet . . . and far up thevalley of the Sushitna river. Anchorage had a Fahren-heit temperature of 28 degrees above on Christmasday, when the mercury is usually around zero . . . thewarm air from Cook Inlet's heated waters caused con-siderable melting of large glaciers. Observers believethat subterranean fires are eating their way north-ward. . . . Geologists consider these forces similar tothose which ages ago submerged the land-bridge be-tween North America and Asia.. . . Many think thebanishment of the former bitter winters from this partof Alaska may be permanent."2

2AssociaSed Press dispatch, Dec. 30, 192S.


According to reports from the University of Norway,"The Arctic Ocean has been growing steadily warmersince 1918, and to-day the Arctic is not recognizableas the same region of 1868 to 1917. Where formerlythere were great masses of ice, heCaptain MartinIngebrigsten, who has sailed the Arctic for 50 yearsfound mountains of earth and stones. At manypoints well-known glaciers have entirely disappeared.The disappearance of whitefish and seals is accom-panied by the appearance of vast schools of herringand also smelts, fish which have never before venturedso far North."

"The discovery of a new volcano located on the tinyAlbemarle Island of the Galapagos group off the coastof Ecuador, has been officially entered in the recordsof the navy hydrographic office in San Francisco. Thediscovery was reported by Captain J. S. Collier of theUnion Oil tank steamer Montebello which approachedwithin half a mile of the island. . . The volcano waspouring a stream of lava some 20 feet wide and manyfeet deep into the ocean, creating a shoal which theMontebello's skipper reported as a menace to naviga-tion." $

On his recent4 return from a two and a half years'cruise in the interests of the Cleveland Museum ofNatural History, Captain George F. Simmons reportedthe discovery and naming of two new islands in theMartin Vas group in the South Atlantic off the coastof Brazil.

San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 18, 1926.'June 5, 1926.


After being inactive for over five years, the violentoutburst of the volcano Mauna Loa in the HawaiianIslands on April 17, 1926, presented the most awe-inspiring spectacle in the memory of the islanders.Fountains of fire spouted 400 feet high above the craterand formed burning rivers of lava 1800 feet wide andmany feet deep. The stream of lava completely en-gulfed the village of Hoopuloa, together with manyranches. The village and wharf were buried 50 feetdeep and as the lava poured into the sea it started thewater to boiling several hundred feet out to sea.

These examples are sufficient to show that practicallythe whole northern portion of the Pacific is in a seeth-ing condition, owing to the relatively rapid rise of theold continent of Lemuria. No wonder scientists tell usthat there are six submarine quakes to one on land!Much of California, especially the chain of islandsalong its coast, and part of Mexico with its islands andtheir antediluvian animalssea elephants, etc.wasonce a part of Lemuria, later covered with a volcaniccrust and volcanic sand for many miles inland. Infact, a great part of the Western coast of America, andthe chain of islands all the way up to the North, wasformed in this way. Hence this region is particularlyapt to suffer from quakes, upheavals and tidal waves,.as evidenced by the serious quake at Santa Barbara lastyear (1925) and the repeated minor shocks all alongthe coast.

But the western coast of North America and thePacific ocean are not the only areas that are under-going marked and often violent changes. Our attention


has recently been called to the fact that "portentoussignificance is to be attached to other signs whichare of greater import as foreshadowing the onset of acrisis in the earth's history which may well bring aboutin the near future a vast alteration in the existing con-figuration of oceans and continents. These tokensbear witness to the oncoming of an era of readjustmentin the balance of our planeta loss of equilibriumwhich . . . may yet gather force and impetus which

. . would, ere long, rush to its climax. . . . Strangeare the reports of sea erosion and the disappearanceof the coastline in localities near home and far remote.At Cochin we hear of such inroads so extensive and sothreatening that the residents of the foreshore are mov-ing inland. There is no explanation of the phenomena.Our own Southwestern coast (of England) is the sub-ject of a change slower but no less sure. From Mine-head, in North Devon, around the Cornish coast andalong the South as far as Lancing, in Sussex, a steadyadvance of the sea has been noted. The action of localcurrents will not explain this. . . One thing is cer-tain, namely, that the bed of the Atlantic is rising, andrising rapidly, in certain places. . . . In the Bay ofGascony . . . therewas an ocean profundity whichfathomed, we understand, two and a half miles. Atone point in this area the commander of the Frenchtransport Loriet found no more than 132 feet of water.Other parts of the Atlantic have also been found to berising. . . . Ocean currents are affected, with an in-evitable reaction on climate. . But the result of alifting of the ocean bed must be to raise the sea-level


and cause it to overflow those lands which are thuscorrespondingly depressed. . . . The disturbance ofthe ocean bed is worldwide."

"After taking all the trouble to ascertain the exactposition of a new island in the China Sea and mark iton the charts, the hydrographers of the various nationshave had to expunge it again . . . islands, which arethe tops of submarine mountains, frequently appearand disappear. . . . This island was the largest ofseveral thrown up during the recent Japanese earth-quake. When it was apparently firmly set and vegeta-tion commenced to grow on it, one of the most notoriousof the Chinese pirates, known as Mala Dahlak, settledon it with his band of desperadoes. . . . Then oneday . . . they saw that Mala Dahiak and his islandhad utterly vanished. Subsequent investigation estab-lished the fact that where the island stood there is nowtwenty-five fathoms of water. . . The rising of theAtlantic bed . . . is one of the most vast and im-portant of the changes in the earth's swjace. It wasdiscovered when the Eastern Cable Company's cablebetween Cape Town and St. Helena broke some 800miles north of the Cape. The repair ship, instead offinding it at the depth it was laid, in 1899, of 2,700fathoms, or just over three miles, picked it up at onlya little more than three-quarters of a mile deep.Therefore the ocean bed must have risen more thantwo miles within the last twenty-five years."6

As the result of purely scientific investigations we

Psychic Science, Jan., 1926, 248.6 The Literary Digest, Jan. 31, 192S.


may mention an article published in 1922 by Dr. Mil-ton A. Nobles, a noted geologist and authority onearthquakes and volcanoes, in which he predicted aseries of disasters in an "earthquake belt" embracingthe exact spots where most of the large earthquakesand volcanic eruptions occurred in the year (1923)following. In 1923 Dr. Nobles published a map inwhich he outlined a belt extending around the globewhich embraced most of the world's active volcanoes,and which he predicted would be the scene of greatcataclysmic changes during the next ten years(1923-33).

In our Prophecy from the one called the King ofthe World,T given in December, 1922, it was statedthat owing to volcanic activity and a tilting of the axisof the Earth, vast and cataclysmic changes were to takeplace in the comparatively near future which wouldentirely remodel and rearrange the land surface of theglobe. Mr. Nobles' article predicts the beginning ofthese changes, showing that we are not the only onesto sense the coming changes, and alo showing thatthese predictions are not mere fancitul dreams of im-practical visionaries, but have a sound scientific basis.To quote from Mr. Nobles' article:

"Southwestern Europe and the Near East of Asiaare being undermined like a section of creampuff underinternal pressure. This corner of the world will soonbe ready to sink and make room for the surroundingwaters to rush in. Italy, Bulgaria, Turkey, Arabia andPersia are in the area destined to be covered before

See pages 57-8 herehi.


long by a new ocean, dotted by a few islands that oncewere mountain peaks. . . . When this internal heathas blown a big abscess under the cold surface of theearth, the top crust will crack, as it has done on a titanicscale three times in the past 5,000 years. . . . And themapmakers will need to get busy redesigning theircharts. . . . To-day the ancient volcanic areas ofItaly, Eastern Europe and Western Asia and Icelandare ready for that final disruptive action which willremove fully one-third of the present earth areas andsubmerge their remnants beneath the waters of the At-lantic, the North Sea, the Ægean, the Indian Oceanand the Pacific. But not only will a new continentappear from Australia and the Pacific depth, but therewill be a change of polar axes, formed of regions nowin more temperate climes. . . . There seems to be aperiodicity in such cataclysms, whose details are butfaintly established, beginning historically with theBiblical deluge about 2316 B.C. Etna and Strombolihave been active since long before the Christian era.Hecklafer even longer. Such activity means that con-stant eating away by internal fires of the overheadwalls is going on. When will these walls be so weak-ened that the crevassing occurs? It would be a foolishguess to estimate it in years though the earth seemsripe."8

8Unfted News, June 20, 1923. "Towns destroyed by quake andire; many isles rocked. Crete and Rhodes are badly shaken. Vastdamage in region of the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas. Egypt,lonians and many other places suffer loss; people in consternation.Five shocks were recorded in 48 hours." Washington Post, June28, 1926.


The continental changes referred to above sometimesrequire thousands of years for the great cycle of theircomplete readjustment, but at every sub-cycle minorchanges occur which, while relatively local, neverthe-.less are cataclysmic to the people inhabiting the af-fected regions. Just now the Earth, having enteredupon the new Aquarian Age or cycle, has reached apoint in its evolution when such minor cataclysms aredue to begin, and in fact have alreañy begun. Thatour present day is such a period of culmination isrecognized by all groups of students who have givenany special study to the subject, and although theyoften arrive at their conclusions from widely differentstandpoints and from different data, they are praai-cally unanimous as to the time and the general regionsmost likely to be affected.

All of which is evidence that the change of Earthconditions has already begun, and as it progressesthere must naturally be a shifting of the great oceans,certain countries becoming submerged and others raisedup, as indicated in our Prophecy of the King of theWorld.

The coming chaes may not involve the destructionof an entire continent and a whole Race, as in the daysof Lemuria and Atlantis, but they will, nevertheless,be vast in extent, and it seems to be the consensus ofopinion that they will be largely centered in Europeand the Near East and along the Western coast ofAmerica, although with marked reverberations in moredistant regions.

CIIAPTER III

ThE PHILOSOPHY OF PLANETARY CHANGES

"Esoteric Science teaches that every sound in the visibleworld awakens its corresponding sound in the invisible realms,and arouses to action some force or other on the occult side ofNature." The Secret Doctrine, Blavatsky, iii, 451.

"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shallcome. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous,boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthank-ful, unholy . . . despisers of those that are good. . . lovers ofpleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of holiness,but denying the power thereof." II Timothy, 1, 5.

"I will pray with the Spirit, and I will pray with understand-ing also." I Corinthians, xiv, 15.

In the previous chapter we have pointed out thatchanges in the surface of the globe are normal, periodic,cyclic and inevitable, owing to the necessary rearrange-ment of the land and water areas as the axis of theEarth slowly swings from the perpendicular to thehorizontal and back again in its cyclic arc of revolution.

"Esoteric Philosophy . . . teaches distinctly, thatafter the first geological disturbance of the Earth's axis,which ended in the sweeping down to the bottom ofthe seas the whole of the Second Continent, with itsprimeval racesof which successive Continents or'Earths' Atlantis was the fourththere came anotherdisturbance owing to the axis again resuming its pre-vious degree of inclination as rapidly as it had changed

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are not accustomed to a planetary viewpoint, insteadof a local and therefore very limited one, it may seemfantastic to assert that the thoughts and actions ofhumanity have anything to do with storms, earthquakesand cataclysms. But a deeper study of the Law ofCause and Effect called Karma, and of the radio-ac.tivity of living forces will show that this is so.

The forces of Nature operate in a rhythmic andcyclic manner, season following season with the pre-cision of a gigantic cosmic clock. These changes nor.mally come about in a harmonious manner. The snowfalls gently to blanket the Earth, protect the seedsfrom winter-killing by the intense cold, and to fill Na-ture's reservoirs with moisture for the coming season;the rain descends to refresh the Earth and its childrenand supply them with water; the wind blows mildly orstrongly to circulate and purify the atmosphere accord-ing to the meteomlogical conditions, all in peace andharmony and cooperation. But where great clouds ofinharmonious mental and magnetic force have beengenerated by mankind they tend to find expressionthrough the forces of Nature, and thus the equilibriumand rhythmic harmony of Nature is upset and destruc-tive expressions of normally constructive Nature-forcestake place.

"Let us keep in mind that the heresies of Galileo'sday are now universally accepted scientific facts."

If the seemingly absurd theory that such vastly re-mote causes as storms in the photosphere of the Sun(sun-spots) can so upset the magnetic balance of theEarth and its atmosphere as to produce marked dimatic

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changes has been proved true and accepted as scien-tifically correct; if the invisible radiations of humanthought exert a sufficiently physical force to affect aphotographic plate and produce a skotograph3 of thethought held at the time, as in the hundreds of experi-ments of Dr. Baraduc in Paris, is it any more strangeor unreasonable to assert that an accumulation of mil-lions of such streams of thought-force of an intenselyinharmonious character should affect and upset theharmonious balance of Nature-forces and find expres-sion in destructive storms? For it is thus that Naturebecomes an agent for the execution of karmic law whichbrings to mankind the results of the forces it has gen-erated. All religions and philosophies teach, as a fun-dainental law, that "whatsoever a man soweth, thatshall he reap," both individually and collectively, andusually through such apparently natural events as thoseof Nature.

The law of the radio-active nature of thought andthe power of its broadcasting to produce physical re-suIts was well known to the ancients and is especiallytaught in many places in the Bible. For instance,Jeremiah (vi, 19) tells us: "Hear, 0 earth: behold, Iwill bring evil upon this people, even the fruits of theirthoughts, because they have not harkened unto mywords, nor my law, but rejected it." Again, speakingof blessings expected, he tells us (v, 25) that, "Youriniquities have turned away these things, and yoursins have withholden good things from you." "Cursenot the king, no not in thy thought. . . for a bird of

$ A picture taken without the use of light of any kind.


the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wingsshall tell the matter."

"Mi Occultist or a Philosopher will not speak of t,hegoodness or cruelty of Providence; but . . . he willnevertheless teach that it guards the good and watchesover them in this and future lives; and that it punishesthe evil-doer . . . so long, indeed, as the effect of hishaving thrown into perturbation even the smallest atomin the infinite World of Harmony has not been finallyadjusted. For the only decree of Karmaan eternaland immutable decreeis absolute Harmony in theworld of Matter as it is in the world of Spirit. It isnot, therefore, Karma that rewards or punishes, but itis we who reward or punish ourselves, according as wework with, through and along with Nature, abiding bythe laws on which harmony depends, orbreakingthem." 6

As we have said elsewhere: "When storms, earth.quakes, tidal waves, volcanic outbursts or catastrophesof other kinds take place many say, 'Behold the workof God! How insignificant is man!' This is false.God never made a storm or a catastrophe of any kind,for God is the great Law of Lqve. They are all evi-dences of man's power. Had man never sent out evilthoughts, wicked words, blasphemies and curses, theEarth's aura could never be so charged with destruc-five forces that a catastrophe was necessary to dissipatethem and bring about equilibrium.!.. . 'Thus saiththe Lord of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from

'Ecclesisstes, x, 20.'The Secret Doctrine, Blavatsky, I, 7044.


nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raisedup from the coasts of the earth.' e Although thetornado is a result of the inharmony and impurity cre-ated by man, still it is used as an agent of Karma todissipate the accumulated forces of evil and to re-

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adjust the atmosphere and permit new conditions moreadvantageous for the evolution of the planet and itsinhabitants to manifest. 'The tornado was not thecause of the destruction of life and property in its path,it was merely the agent for adjusting the causes set upbyman. . . . The fundamental idea of Karma is Har-mony. it is not a punishment; not even an inevitablelaw of suffering which you must endure . . . not oneof punishment for past failures, but that you may learnyour lessons and gain as quickly as possible the Soulqualities needed, that you may fulfill your destiny, yourspecial place and work in the Grand lanT

With this brief survey of the cyclic law of geologicalchanges in mind, the point we wish to emphasize isthat while such geological changes are due to take placeit rests with humanity how these changes shall comeabout, gradually anLd harmoniously or suddenly andcataclysmically. As the one called the King of theWorld told us in a talk some months ago: --

"The time is coming shortly when there must bewonderful changes take place in the Earth. Thesechanges can be made in peace and quietness, but 'nonforbids. We wait for the New Day to ceme, and the

Jerer4oih, xxv, 32.tT*e Voice of Isis, Curtiss, 172, 116-7.See Chapter IV herein.July 2, 192.


in the caverns and crevices of the Earth for treasure,only physical treasure! The only treasure that God,the Almighty Ever-Lasting One, has given to man isthe treasure of His words. Can ye wonder then if thechanges from one great Cosmic Day to another comelike crashes? come like the dissolution of the founda-tions of the Earth?"

It should be remembered that recent investigationsinto the radio-active power of mental forces teaches usthat the magnetic currents which sustain the crust ofthe Earth can be so upset and made to fluctuate by thepowerful though subtile vibrations generated by man-kind that the vast structural changes which are inevit-able are precipitated cataclysmically. On the other hand,harmonious vibrations generated by humanity throughlove, brotherhood, cooperation and the definite currentsof constructive cosmic energy which can be invokedthrough prayer and aspirationas testified to by allreligions in all agestend to neutralize the inhar-monious and destructive vibrations and sustain the nor-mal Earth-currents. While the natural and cyclicchanges in the Earth's surface do not come as punish-ment for man's sinsfor our God is a God of Love andmercyyet the radio-active power of man's evil anddestructive vibrations can so unbaian conditions thatthey precipitate normal changes in a cataclysmicTnnner.

In addition to this we know that we have already en-tered the great cycle during which the axis of the Earthis slowly returning to its former horizontal position,preparatory to the dosing or Golden Age of this World


Period or Manvantara, when perpetual summer will

again reign as it did in the opening Golden Age of hu-manity. Although this final result will not be reacheduntil the time of the Seventh Great Race1° thousandsof years hence, nevertheless the process has alreadydefinitely begun and the changes will be sufficientlyrapid to give the sixth sub-race of the presentAryan Race its (a minor) Golden Age. But thechanges foreshadowed in the Prophecies may wellbe close at hand, mudi sooner in years than manyimagine.

Naturally, those who do not correlate with the newspiritual keynote now set for the coming sixth sub-racewill tend to go on from one excess to anotheras seenin the present jazz ageand from one disbelief to an-other; disbelief in God and in spiritual Beings andforces; disbelief in religion, in law, in medicine, in co-operation, in unselfishness and in Good, in fact in every-thing but selfishness, self-indulgence and physicalorce.All those who refuse to set a higher spiritual

standard and vibration for their thoughts, their livesand their conduct, together with those whose Karma issuch that it would not be just or kind of the Great Lawto expect them to make so great an advance in so shorta time, will naturally be removed so that the more spir-itually advanced ones who are left will be in sufficientmajority to dictate the principles and ideals underwhich the surviving mankind shall exist and be gov-

10 For details see The Voice of Isis, Curtiss, 239, The Message ofAquaria. Curtiss. 41, 126.


side of life, the spirit of Divine Love and Compassion.And just as with the individual who puts his wholeattention upon the development of mind and uses thepowers thus gained to achieve personal aggrandizementand power to dominate others, the result must be a falland death and a temporary forgetting of all that hasbeen accomplished, so is it with nations and peoples.If in the past the ambition of one great nation to domi-nate the commerce, wealth and the power of the worldcould bring on the last World War, so to-day the am-bition of a certain nation to seize and dismember othernations, as a step toward dominating the MediterraneanSea, may well precipitate conditions which will con-solidate the peoples of Asia against Europe and so leadto the fifth great Asiatic invasion1' so frequentlyprophesied, as recounted on pages 20-23, 56-57.

Such another World War might well be sufficient tounbalance the Earth-currents, already still fluctuatingfrom the effects of the last Great War, and precipitatethe catastrophes in Europe and the Near East. Forthe same forces which were the instruments throughwhich the catastrophes at the last crossing over werebrought about ages ago are now about to completeanother turn around the globe and another crossingover. And if such a crossing over is not accomplishednormally: if it is perturbed by the destructive vibra-tions of intense antagonism and hatred of whole na-tions, of injustice, bloodshed and all the horrors ofanother World War, it may well result in disasters

11 Previous invasions: the Buns in 451 An.; the Arabs in 732 AD.;the Mongols in 1241 A.D.; the Turks in 1683 AD.


which will wipe out whole nations and necessitatea reconstruction of civilization by those that areleft.

In a certain sense these two great Earth-currents actas the currents of past and future Kanna; the Karmaof ancient Lempria which is now slowly rising in thePacific and must needs meet and conquer the Karmawhich sunk it. While that great continent has remainedbeneath the waters undergoing its physical cleansing,its peoples have been incarnating in later Races andlearning great lessons, yet every one now in incarnationwho was associated with the fall of Lemuria will bemore or less affected by the coming changes. TheGreat Law which has been their guide throughout suc-ceeding ages and which has sustained them in theireffort to redeem their Karma, will still guide and sus-tain them wherever it is best for them to be. For notone who has striven sincerely to face and work out thatold Karma and advance spiritually and help make theworld better for all mankind but will be taken care ofwherever their inner guidance impels them to live.Therefore "Fear yeiot, stand still and see the salva-tion of the Lord, which he will shew you to-day."

Some few students who do not sufficiently understandour philosophy have written that the sweeping away ofthousands or millions in the coming storms, plagues,disasters and cataclysms, was a terrible and horribleidea to contemplate, although over ten million werekilled in the late World War and over fifty-two millionsmore died from its after-effects--famines, plagues, etc.,with 140,000,000 injured, a total of more than 10 per


cent. of the world's population! 12 But even if theProphecies were fulfilled in a day, those thus removedfrom physical manifestation would only be reaping theresults of the causes they as nations and peoples hadset up. And even this scientifically just retributionwould not be an evidence that they had been desertedand condemned by the God of Divine Love and Wis-domwhich is also Justicebut rather had been re-moved to make them cease generating further resultsof that kind, and to give them an opportunity to see theunhappy results which their wrong standards ofthought and action had brought about, and to learntheir needed lessons and prepare them for more positivespiritual advance in subsequent incarnations.

Those who refuse to heed the warnings and suffernow were among those who helped to generate thecauses of inharmony which made the Earth changesfocalize in their particular region and involve them,even though they were apparently innocent in this life.Far from this being a time to "eat, drink and be merry,for to-morrow we die" it is a time for prayer and medi-tation; for the radiation of definite spiritual forces;for a spiritual and moral housecleaning for both in-dividuals and nations if the disasters are to be mini-mized.

Our readers, however, should have no fear of thesecatastrophes, for we have explained why and flow theseseeming disasters are but an outworking of the GreatLaw, and that since there is no death to the Soul, thesweeping out of incarnation of even millions of Souls

13 Report of the League of Red Cross Societies, June, 1926.


may be for their greatest good and in the greatest love,for such a removal from Earth-life would give theman opportunity to learn greater lessons and makegreater progress before their next incarnation than thelongest possible life on Earth, especially in its presentupset condition, could bring about. Such catastropheswould also bring about a great development of love,sympathy, brotherhood and cooperation in those whowere left behind.

CHAPTER IV

THE KING OF THE WORLD

"And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, andthe water of amiction, yet shall not thy teachers be removedinto a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers.And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This isthe way, walk ye in it." Isaiah, xxx, 20-1.

"Press on, my warriors, fear not the fray IWe are the Conquerors; our Voice obey.Sound loud the trumpet blast, happy and free,Tell of the Day Star that is destined to be."

Harriette Augusta Curtiss in Realms of Ike LivingDead, 176

In his remarkable book, Beasts, Men and Gods,published in 1922, Dr. Ferdinand Ossendowski, for-merly Professor of Chemistry and Economical Geog-raphy in the Polytechnic Institut of Petrograd, andlater Professor of Chemistry at the Polish Universityat Warsaw, reports a prophecy, given as far back as1890, to the Hutuktu (Abbott) of the NarabanchiMonastery in Mongolia by the Great Unknown who,throughout Asia, is called the King of the World.This prophecy described the conditions that were com-ing to humanity during the following fifty years(1890-1940)much of which was literally fulfilledduring the World War of 1914-18as follows:

"More and more people will forget their souls andcare about their bodies. The greatest sin and corrup-

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tion will reign on earth. . . . The crowns of kings,great and small, will fall . . . one, two, three, four,five, six, seven, eight. . . . There will be a terriblebattle among all peoples. (The World War.) Theseas will become red . . . the earth and the bottomof the sea will be strewn with bones . . . kingdomswill be scattered . . . whole peoples will diehunger, disease, crimes unknown to law, never beforeseen in the world . . . the ancient roads will be cov-ered with crowds wandering from one place to an-other. . . . All the earth will be emptied. God willturn away from it and over it there will be only nightand death. Then I shall send a people, now unknown,which shall tear out the weeds of madness and vicewith a strong hand, and I will lead those who still re-main faithful to the spirit of man in the fight againstEvil. They will found a new life on the earth purifiedby the death of nations. . . . The King of the Worldwill appear before all people when the time shall havearrived for him to lead all the good people of the worldagainst all the bad; but this time has not yet come.The most evil among mankind have not yet beenborn."

In an article in Tile Century Magazine for Decem-ber, l923, Professor Ossendowski states that amongvarious Asiatic peoples there exists, "a watchword pro-claiming the superiority of the spiritual strength of theEast, and affirming the necessity of forcing all hu-manity to accept its will and its world-outlook, even

'Beasts, Men and Gods, OssendowsJd, 312-13-14.247, 256.


at the cost of general blood-spilling, even by hurlingAsiatic multitudes upon the nations rotting in the bogof European civilization.

"Accordingly, at the fires of the nomad shepherdsof the prairies, in the Tzaidam marshes in northernThibet, in the Himalayas, on the banks of the Hindand the Ganges, in Asia Minor, in Iran, in the valleysof the Yang-tse and the Hwang-po, people of differentcolors, tribes, races and creeds, but united by the com-mon bond of Asiatic ideology, talk, discuss, sing, anddream about the approaching hour, when the hand ofthe Asiatic will be the hand of karma and will executethe decrees of fate . . . to an attack against thewhite racean attack which is the dream of someAsiatic circles. . . . At all events, it is more thanprobable that the white race will be obliged to reckonwith the influence of the now only legendary King ofthe World."

The latter part of the above prophecy seems tocorroborate the prophecy of Mr. Cromer regarding anAsiatic invasion as given on page 23.

During her remarkable visit to Lhasa, the capital ofThibet, Mme. Alexandria David-Neel relates that:"Hatred of Europeans is sown in many remote cornersof Asia. Many partisans stand ready to support theexpected warrior Messiah, who, according to theprophets, will arise before long in the northern land,unite all Asia under his victorious sword and cast outthe impure, demoniacal Westerners."

3Asia Magazine, July, 1926, 627.

THE KING OF THE WORLD

Already the Japanese have called a Pan-AsiaticUnion Conference to meet at Nagasaki on August 1st,1926, "designed to bind the nations of the Orient inthe same sort of fashion as the Pan-American Unionlinks the nations of the Western Hemisphere.There is unfortunately an ominous ring in the title ofthe Pan-Asiatic Society. There is considerable justi-fication for the apprehensions, but not, as yet, for theaccompanying fears. . . . The unity and peace ofAsia . . . are the objectives . . . of the leaders whohope, sooner or later, to bring about a serious 'Asiafor the Asiatics' situation.4'

In our lesson for December, 1922, we gave out aprophecy given to The Order of Christian Mystics bythis same mysterious King of the World which read asfollows:

"I see a great and devastating Flame sweeping theworld from East to West; a Flame of fire; a Flame ofsword and famine and murder and bitterness anddeath. I see the peoples of the Earth, each one withits hand lifted againt its brother; each country seek-ing for its own; men dying, dying and cursing Godwith every dying breath, and sowing the seed of newand more frightful Flames.

"I see descending from on high the mighty Angelwith the Flaming Sword; for only fire can purify hate.I see this Flame of Purification sweeping the Earthfrom East to West, from the rising of the Sun to thegoing down of the Sun.

4Washington Sta,, March 14, 1926.


It was at first thought that the King of the Worldwas the Planetary Ruler of the Earth, but later in-struction from the King himself explained that hewas a great Atlantean Master who had passed throughthe process of physical regeneration and so was able toretain and renew his physical body indefinitely. Dur-ing the ensuing ages he had developed greater andgreater powers and had been entrusted with greaterand greater tasks until he becanie the chief represen-tative on Earth of the celestial Ruler of our globe.

Since the publication of this Prophecy, in Decem-ber, 1922, we have had many inquiries for further de-tails as to this Prophecy, but few further details canbe given. Remember that the Prophecy did not comefrom the Teacher of The Order of Christian Mystics

from the Coming Avatar, but from the representa-tive of the Planetary Ruler of this globe, the Earth,and those few who heard it were too greatly awed toask for details during that brief visit. The only de-tail that we can give is that the country represented by"the little finger" was not Japan, as some supposed,but probably some part of Western North America.The special region cannot be indicated until after therising of Lemuria and the settling and readjustment ofthe continent.

To us the Prophecy indicated that which will cometo pass if humanity persists in its present course and

the middle of the back of the band and when the light from thelittle finger reached it it broke out into a radiant shining whichcovered the whole Earth. No limit as to time was given in thisprophecy, both the time and the degree of the changes dependinglargely upon the character of the forces engendered by humanity.


continues to send out destructive vibrations of inbar-mony, antagonism, hatred, selfishness and greed, in-stead of the constructive vibrations of brotherhoòdand cooperation. That the latter are the most vitalneeds of the world to-day is corroborated by UnitedStates Senators, officials and prominent business menafter returning from Europe, who practically agreewith Senator McCormick of Illinois, who is quoted assaying that: "More important to the rehabilitation ofEurope than any Conference, than any agreement be-tween statesmen and financiers can be, is the exorciimof the spirit of hate and greed which animates govern-ments and peoples. Unless the peoples are moved bya Christian will to peace and by a Christian comity,there can be no real peace in Europe."

While the Earth-children are scattered through allcountries they are most concentrated in the Far East.They are concentrated in Asia because there they areless mingled with children of other planets, and henceare able to correlate more readily with the conscious-ness of the Earth and come more fully under theguidance of their King, where in certain sacred monas-teries He has appeared and given personal instruction.They must be judged as good or bad, not according towestern standards, but according to their obedience ordisobedience to the principles of their religion.

By Eartji-children we do not mean those who in thisincarnation are born astrologically under the earthsigns, for we must all incarnate many times under allthe astrological signs crc Mastery is attained. TheEarth-children are those who came to this planet


primarily because, through affinity, it was their nat-ural habitat. These Souls naturally owe allegiance andworship to their divine Progenitor, hence we find themfollowing almost exclusively the forms of worship andreligion, ethics and morals inspired by that Progenitor.

At the same time we know that there are millions ofSouls on Earth who come from all the other planets ofthis system and some from other systems, attracted tothis newest field of experience, some few advancedSouls volunteering to come to act as helpers and teach-ers of mankind, but the majority to gain the new andmuch needed experience of Earth conditions. Try topicture to yourself this great truth. See the little planetEarth newly born, born from the accumulated stardust and meteors, from the left-overs cast off fromother greater and mightier systems, passing through itsfiery birth, and within its bosom holding fast the germof living powers, each destined to play its part in thegreat drama which is now being staged thereon. Somemay be born of the very Earth itself and with the es-sence of the Earth Spirit breathed into them, othersmay have traveled éòns of ages through time and spacefrom far-distant planets or systems. They may havevoluntarily chosen and consciously given up their Soul-home and their realization of the great planetry Beingwho is their Father that they might come to help on theevolution of this new and infant world, nevertheless-the instant they enter the Earth's aura and comminglein its forces they become clothed in Earth materialsand this Earth covering blinds them into forgetfulnessof that which they have left behind.


In view of the above we can now understand whythe destructive aspect of the Flame of Purification willspread from the East to the West and will ultimatelysweep all nations, each suffering according to theamount of inharmony, unbrotherliness, antagonism,and evil there is to be consumed. We can correlatewith the Flame and make the fire our servant only aswe strive to become one with the Divine Fire of theLiving Christ and willingly allow it to bum from us allinharmony and impurity, all that holds back the man!-festation of our Real or Divine Self.

Once we have grasped the idea that the Flame con-sumes only that which is evil or which must be trans-muted to make room for the Divine Life and Joy ofthose who fearlessly face self and bravely strive toconquer all that is not in harmony with the Law, then,like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, even thoughwe seem bound hand and foot and thrown into themidst of the fiery furnacethe flames of purgationnow sweeping the Earthwhen the morning of theNew Day dawns we will be found walking free in themidst of the Flame because the Lord Christ walks withus.

CHAPTER V

THE HEART OF THE WORLD

"Occult Philosophy teaches that even now, under our vezyeyes, the new Race and races are preparing to be formed, andthat it is in America that the transformation will take place, andhas already silently commenced." Tile Secret Doctrine, Blavat-sky, ii, 463.

"To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lordthan sacrifice." Proverbs, xxi, 3.

The Cosmic Philosophy of The Order of ChristiwzMystics teaches that the cycle of human evolutionfrom the primitive to perfectionextends throughoutseven Major or Root Races, one succeeding the otherthrough immense periods of time and each overlappingthe other for many ages.1 Each Major Race hasseven sub-races, each of which is composed of manynations and peoples. Each sub-race spreads over andoccupies a particular area, sometimes even a continent,almost exclusively. As each sub-race grows in power,since it is the youngest and most virile, its nationsgradually become the leaders for its cycle.

It is generally accepted that America is to be theneat of the coming new sub-race, the sixth sub-race ofthe fifth Major or Aryan Race.

"Pure Anglo-Saxons hardly three hundred years ago,the Americans of the United States have already be-

1 details see The Voice of Ins, Curtiss, Chapt. xvii.63


come a nation apart, and owing to a strong admixtureof various nationalities, almost a race sui generis, notonly mentally, but also physically. Thus Americanshave become in only three centuries a 'primary race,'temporarily, before becoming a race apart, andstrongly separated from other now existing races.They are, in short, the germs of the sixth sub-race, andin some few hundred years more, will become mostdecidedly the pioneers of the Race which must suc-ceed to the present European or fifth sub-race, in all itsnew characteristics." 2

Some teachers have given out that California is tobe the seat of a new Race, without making it plainthat it is only a sub-race to which they refer and nota Major Race. But since even a sub-race extendsthrough more than 210,000 ears3 and its componentfamily races more than 30,000 years each, it will be atleast 10,000 before even a new family race reaches thezenith of its power and development. And thousandsof years before it reaches that point of its develop-menteven within a comparatively few yearsthechanges incident to the reemergence of the great con-tinent of Lemuria from the waters of the Pacific willso modify California that it will hardly be recogniz-able. What remains of its present coast cities will beleft far inland and separated from the sea by greatstretches of newly risen land which will be uninhabit-able for ages while it is undergoing its period of prepa-ration.

2The Secret Doctrine, Blavatsky, if, 463-4.3 details see The Message of Aquaria, Curtiss, 42.

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For when a continent sinks beneath the sea it under-goes a cleansing and purifying process to fit it for re-habitation by those who, through many incarnationsduring the ages of its submersion, have so progressedthat they require new and purified conditions ere they-can incarnate on their home-land when it again emergesfrom the sea. The law is that at certain stages of evo-lution both continents and humanity must be purifiedfirst by water and then by fire. In the human beingthe personality is first cleansed by the salt tears ofsuffering and then by the fire of experience. In thecase of a continent it is first purified by the salt water,'then it rises to lie as a desolate desert waste for ageswhile the volcanic fires and the baking action of theSun purify it as by fire, much as flour is first mixedwith water and tl)en baked in the oven ere it is fit forfood.

While children who are the forerunners and pioneersof the new sub-race are being born in California, theyare also being born in the Eastern states in evengreater numbers, jecause more densely populated.Therefore it will be many generations ere Californiawill be especially distinguished in that respect. It isnot California especially that must be prepared to re-ceive the sensitive and advanced Souls of the new sub-race, but the entire country.

It is a part of the cosmic scheme or Divine Plan thatAmerica, as it develops and proves itself, is destinedto become the leading nation of the new Aquarian Ageinto which the world has recently entered. America is.

4 details see The Voice of Isu, Curtiss, Chapt. xxxi.


already called the most advanced nation in the world.As far as achievements of mind, of new inventions, ofmechanical and material development and in wealthand luxury she already leads the world. But in add!-lion to her material achievements she has proved her-self the most capable of using the products of theworld for the highest ends, for she has unselfishly spenthundreds of millions of dollars and has gone to theends of the Earth to feed and clothe and bring help toforeign cities, nations and peoples in distress, whethersuffering from disasters, famines, plagues or the im-poverishing results of war.

But in spite of all her generosity and unselfishnessshe has much Karma to reap, a great expansion of con-sciousness to undergo and a great realization of injus-tice done and its correction to bring about ere she canbecome the moral as well as the material leader of theworld. Much of the injustice done to the negroduring the days of slavery his been corrected bymaking him a citizen and free to exercise all the privi-leges of a citizen, not only to vote but to live wherehe pleases, to go and come without restraint and towork out his destiny according to his racial capacity,which citizenship privileges are denied to theIndian.

According to a message recently received from the1jater: "There are many thigs from which this na-lion must be cleansed, and her day of purgation isdrawing nigh. Oh, if I could only say: 'This is mycountry. These are my chosen people, for I havechosen them that they shall prevail and rule the

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world!' How easy and satisfactory such a state-ment would be! But it is not so. America, with allher possessions, her vast lands, her great wealth,her so-called advanced civilization, nevertheless musthave her time of reckoning, her time of house-cleaning.

"There is one special blot upon the escutcheon ofthis nation, and until it is recognized and something isdone to bring about justice and an understanding andbetter conditions, there will be little hope of this coun-try escaping the terrible cataclysms that are to come.I speak of its treatment of the original lords of thisgreat land, the real Americans, now called the Indians.Ever since the sinking of Atlantis, when some of theWise Men of that country took refuge on what is nowknown as America, their descendants have occupiedthe land. When, after ages and ages, the white mancame he made no attempt to understand them, butcalled them ignorant savages and heathen. Then camehis war of extermination, which failed to exterminate;a war of stupidity...and ignorance, a wilful and per-sistent ignoring that the Indian had any rights, anyreligion, any ideals worthy of recognition or considera-tion....

"As to their religion, of course the wonderful reli-gion taught by the better class of Atlanteans of theRight Hand Path gradually degenerated through theages, yet some of the Indians still retain many myste-rious gifts and practices which are remnants of the At-lantean Mysteries, but which were unrecognized bythe ignorant white people who seized their possessions


without compensation and tried to push the Indinsoff the Earth Those who are their priests, thosewho have passed the initiationsinitiations so intenseand searching that they bring out the most heroicpowers of body and soulhave many marvelouspowers and attainments. . . . No ordinary peoplecould live and maintain their own life, their nationalityand their religion in the United States unless they hadpowers little dreamed of by the white man. Indeed,the white man is responsible for the suppression andkilling out, in the younger generation of Indians, ofeven Me memory of their ancient mysteries, many oftheir Wise Men having voluntarily withdrawn fromEarth life.

"Until this great wrong has been righted; untilAmerica begins to recognize and learn the mysteries,both as to religion, the development of the myJc çe-tç in the bõdy, and many wonderful ways of livingwhich the Indian could teach her, and is willing to re-ceive and learn them from him as from a brother, shewill never reach the heights of her glory."

Not only was great injustice done the Indians in thepast, but it still continues to be done to-day. Althoughtechnically granted citizenship they are not permittedto enjoy or exercise its privileges, not even allowed toseek redress in courtfor tribal affairsas is freelygranted the negro, without the special permission ofCongress. Also, our Government, after persuadingthe Indians to enter various treaties with it, has itselfviolated nearly every one of them, and the Indians arewithout redress in court. These are not matters of


opinion, but are facts of pubijc record.5 Could therebe any greater injustice and denial of rights to UnitedStates citizens in direct violation of the Constitution?No wonder we are told that such a constant and stillcontinuing injustice must have a marked effect uponthe Karma of the whole nation until it is redeemed.

The point is that even though the Indian did littleto cultivate the soil and occupy the land in an agricul-tural sense, he should have been properly compensatedfor being driven from his forest and prairie huntinggrounds into the arid desert regions which no one elsewanted until coal and oil were found upon them. Theleast America can do is to fulfill the solemn obligationsvoluntarily assumed by her in her many treaties withthe Indians.

"The leaders of this nation should remember thatthe Indians are not an unintelligent and inferior race,but are remnants of the once mightiest of Races whichreached the highest pinnacle of mental attainment andmagical powers before the sinking of their continent(Atlantis). You talk about the mysteries of Egyptand the Far East I They are as nothing when com-pared to some of the mysteries known to and kept alivethrough practice by certain Indian priests. . . . Youshould do all you can to induce Congress to right theinjustice, but you should also pray and invoke thehigher powers to help you save America from such aKarma. Let America look to the power of her vitalinner strength; not the strength of arms or of great

'For particulars send a stamp to the National Council of AmerkanIndians, Transportation Building, Washington, D. C.


wealth, but the strength of justice, of Karma re-deemed, the strength of the Man Who Knows. Thereis hope if there are even a few determined ones whocan believe in their fellow men, who can realize thatmoney is not all, that head-learning is not all; for it isonly trained and developed mind wedded to awakenedheart that can carry you through the Day of Reckon-ing that is now dawning. Let all who will raise theirhands to heaven morning, noon and night and cryaloud:

Justice for the Indian!A clean escutcheon for our country!The shortening of the Days of Tribulation! *

"We are now entering upon a great age of testing.America is a wonderful country and should be theHeart of the World, but to be chosen and have the op-portunity does not mean that she has attained thatposition already. With all her great attainments, hervast wealth, her mighty territory, her great abilities,she could hold the world in her grasp. Americaemerged from the World War as a great world power,and had she then taken her rightful place at the head

* Within one month after our students throughout the worldbegan repeating the prayer for Justice for the Indian the infamousoil leasing bill was defeated. This bill would have deprived theIndians of their title to their unallotted lands and Imposed a 372per cent income tax! The Senate has now passed a bill drafted bythe friends of the Indians permanently safeguarding their ownershipof their lands, and there is every prospect of their being allowed toexercise the full privileges of the citizenship conferred upon them in1924. No such sweeping defeat of the autocratic Indian Bureau haseven taken place in Indian history. So let us keep up the prayer andlet the good work go on to completionThe Authors.


of the League of Nations, as was her destiny, shecould easily have led the world. But now it is toolate. Since her repudiation of her great mission andher great opportunity she lost her moral leadershipand it will be wise for her to keep free from Europeanentanglements until she is able to dominate other thanby her arms or her wealth. This she will not be ableto do until she corrects injustice and disregard for lawat home, and begins to recognize and utilize some of themysterious higher and super-physical powers alreadyknown to the Indians.

"This great nation is the hope of the Living Powerthat is to precede the manifestation of the belovedSon of God, but how can such a manifestation takeplace where all is dominated by materiality, by busi-ness strife and political turmoil?

"Whenever the Earth is to pass through a greatcataclysm and pass through a time of necessary pun-fication1-some positive manifestation of the great Ava-tar destined to come as the Savior of mankind is givento humanity andjs noted by its seers, prophets andawakened ones. Such a manifestation of the lovingSon of God has already been shown to you and itssignificance pointed out. Hence you can say posi-tively that He, the Mighty One, has already come.He is invisible to the multitude because surrounded bythe panoply of glory6 always sent forth by the cosmicLogoi to surround an Avatar until the time for Hismanifestation. Yet this glory can be penetrated,under special conditions, by those who have conse-

Called the Logoitic Sun.


crated themselves and given themselves up to helpingwisely and silently in the great preparation.These are taught how to transcend the physical andthrough a mighty love for humanity penetrate theglory to where their Lord waits, and correlate withHm. . . . He has come close to Earth to give com-fort and help to all His children during the Day ofReckoning that is at handfor without His presencethere would be no hopeyet He can be perceived onlyby those who, through love and aspiration and child-like faith, can penetrate the mists of glory that sur-round Him; for His call still is: 'Come unto me inspirit and in truth.' His presence in the aura of theEarth brings such a mighty outpouring of Love thatall who come to Him in spirit and in truth will find thecomfort and help needed for themselves and also tohelp others.

". . . Indeed, all who have faith and believe in Hismighty love and catch even a ray of His radiance willbe comforted and helped; for His mighty out-shiningis a panoply of strength and comfort intervening be-tween them and destruction, as the scripture saith:'With a strong hand, and a stretched out arm; for Hismercy endureth forever.' . . . He brings the glory ofthe Logoitic Sun, and it spreads through the ocean ofhumanity and gives humanity the strength to with-stand the disasters that come at the end of every age.

"America has a great work to perform for the NewDay. America, which is so often called the land of thefree, is yet so bound, so tied down with the greenwithes of materalism, so helplessly caught in a net of


misunderstanding and the money-question. Yet itwas born to be the land of the free, and you must helpto set it free, to bring about the freedom of the world.But to do so it must recognize its mystical inner

wer."America is the greatest nation on Earth, and has

been so destined from its inception, because it is areincarnation of the old Atlanteans who are reincarna-ting at this time to do a very important service forhumanity and the world. And it can save the worldif it tries. Even if every one will not work for it,where two or three are gathered together in knowledgeand power and persistency, in accomplishment, therecan be no doubt about the result. . . . America hasthe power to save this world from the cataclysms andconditions which will be the turning-point toward de-struction or salvation.

"The great and mighty omnipotent Power, which atthis day and generation is once more to send down intothis dark star the great outshining of His only begottenSon, must have disciples who can touch His robe. Itis the Day of Regeneration. No longer must it be adescent into the darkness of crucifixion and death.He must have disciples who know, even if they be butfew, gathered from all quarters of the world, gathered inthe Upper Chamber of the higher, divine intuition,knowing each other.

"These are the days prophesied of old when Eastand West must meet; when hands must be clasped;when the great wall of misunderstanding shall be torndown; when the East shall learn that it is not the


East alone that worships the true Lord God of Hosts,but also the Sons and daughters of the West who havededicated their lives to His service.

"The time is drawing close when all centers in alllands must recognize each other and join together,every one who can lift up his hands in blessing and cryto the Lord God in any language for the blessings todescend: the blessings of understanding, of brother-hood, of oneness; the overcoming of the power of thosein all countries who drive their fellow men like lambsto the slaughter.

"There is going to be a period of eclipse, of dark-ness, when the clouds of human mind-stuff are rollingup like thunder-caps: when we hear the distant rumbleof the storm: when we know there is danger: when weknow we must be more and more filled with the livingpower of the Christ if we would save the ship.This little speck we call the Earth is our ship, and it isin great distress. It is tossed hither and thither. Whatcan save it? Only God. And what is God? He isnot a Being far off in heaven. He is Divine Love.And He has placed centers of force in every humanbeing through which His kind of love can radiate andmanifest. What will you do to awaken that force,spread it and save the world? .

"In ages long past, when the time for a cyclic Earthchange had come, there was gathered together a greatcompany which said: 'Come, let us build a mightytemple unto the Lord.' And the great pyramid fEgypt still stands to-day as a monument to their ef-forts. To accomplish this there was a great burying


of all differences in ideas and religious conceptions,and an overwhelming desire to embody the divine prin..ciples of the making and maintaining of the universein such a way that it would be a lesson to all futuregenerations.

"Every step was carefully considered, and the manytypes of people necessary were brought together fromall parts. First there was the Prophet to whom wasgiven the idea and its symbology, the plans and meas-urements, in which the wonderful hidden mysteries ofthe Earth were to be foreshadowed and embodied.Then came the Divine Helpers of that mortal, thosewho upheld the hands of the one to whom the taskwas given. Then there were the many classes of ar-tisans and workers of all kinds gathered from the endsof the Earth, each a specialist in his own line, yet allagreeing to the great mandate: 'Come, let us make amighty temple unto the Lord.'

"Then came the serfs, the ignorant ones, the la-borers. These were not beaten slaves as historyimagines, for no such temple could have been built orhave endured through the ages on such a basis. Therewas not one who had not his own place and workofmind, of talent or of bodyand all this work wasgiven freely as a sacrifice to the God of Gods. Evento-day it still is a mystery to the modern world how itwas accomplished. How did they gain their super-human knowledge, their superhuman ability? By de-votion. By giving themsdves to their Cause: theirlives, their talents, their all. That mighty pile there-fore stands to-day as a great monument, not, as we so


often hear, to God's glory alone, but to man's coÖperation, devotion and determination.

"To-day we are drawing very close to another justsuch a mighty era in the world's unfoldment. And theLord Christ comes down to Earth and says: 'Buildunto me another mighty pyramid which shall endurethroughout the ages as a monument to my glory and tothe devotion and cooperation of my children.' Butthis new monument is not to be made of stones andearth and ment and the particles and forces of theEarth. It is to be made of human hearts, of humanlives, of human devotion. . . . What shall become ofyou if this day of days, this time of times, this greatcosmic anniversary is waiting for recognition and ful-fillment and mankind fails to grasp it?

"Those who have heard the call, those who can un-derstand and grasp the mystery of the mighty work tobe accomplished are the ones to inaugurate it. You arebut human and the greatness and magnitude of thework may stagger your minds and you may say: 'Weare so small in the world's sight, so seemingly power-less and limited in every way, yet we will do our best.'But all can begin at the beginning. First, the prepara-tion of their hearts to comprehend and their minds tounderstand the mighty ideal; second, to overcome thenatural tendencies which lead them away from de-voting their attention to the.ideals of their inner andreal life.

"This is a mighty work, and if America is to becomethe Heart of the World it is here that it should begin.Here its heart must begin to beat like that of an Un-


born babe. When a child is to be born the first sign oflife is the beating of the fetal heart, and that is also thelast center to cease at death. The fetal heart of thismighty living monument to the Lord Christ has alreadybegun to beat in the heart of this nation, but it needslove and devotion and cooperation to sustain it. And sothe cry goes forth as of old: 'Come, bring your talents,your love, your life, your all, and help build this liv-ing monument unto the Lord God.' You who haveheard the Voice; you who have felt the heart beat arethe ones to send forth the call; to instill into everyheart a vision of that which is to be and a desire tohelp, to build, to build with your prayers and devotionand spiritual forces as well as material; for this monu-ment is not to be a pile of masonry, but a Flaming Fireascending to the very throne of God, purifying thewhole Earth and touching the hearts of every nation-ality and bringing them here.

"This is a mighty message, and it needs a mightycomprehension, a mighty devotion, a consecrated, con-centrated and continual prayer, and above all com-munion with the Lord of Nations. You cannot accom-plish it alone. God Himself cannot accomplish italone. For it is destined that His sanctuary shall bebuilt by sanctified hearts and by hands gladly givento lift up His banner before the heart-hungry, distant,weary and despondent children... . Begin with thisOrder which you love and help to support, and build,build, build. Spread its Teachings broadcast to everyawakened heart. Spread the knowledge of its books.Let there be no lack; for this is the beginning of that


great Brotherhood of Nations that is to be gathered,not only out of this nation, but out of all nations, tobuild this mighty Temple unto the Lord God...Be like that unknown king whose name has died out ofhistory, yet who first got the conception of the pyra-mid. Be like those helpers who, putting into it theirall, built into it the mysteries of science and religionnot then even dreamed of, but which were to be mani-fested later.

"Then pray daily that the little doors of this Heartof the World shall speedily open; that this wonderfulChild of Light shall grow and wax strong and come tobirth in this nation, so that all mankind shall see theLight of His countenance shining through. . . . Willyou enlist in this great undertaking? Will you devoteyour lives, your loves, your understanding, your all, tothe solving of the greatest problem the world has everfaced? to bring peace and harmony and cooperationout of the present-day confusion and unbrotherliness,that the one Divine Light may shine forth and illumineall?"

CHAPTER VI

THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON'

"And I saw three undean spirits like frogs come out of themouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, andout of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spiritsof devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of thewhole earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battleof that great day of God Almighty. . . . And he gatheredthem together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armaged-don." Revelation, xvi, 13-16.

The literal meaning of Armageddon is "on theheights" or "on high," and in this sense it is used todesignate not a physical battlefield but the invisiblerealms of the astral plane. The hosts which are gath-ered to this great battle are the hosts of the accumu-lated thought-forms of lust, greed, envy, hate, selfish-ness and unbrotherliness engendered by the wrongthinking of humanity from the beginning, as well asthe results of their evil words and deeds.

Jeremiah specifically refers to these forces as causeswhen he says: "Hear, 0 earth; behold, I will bring evilupon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, be-

'Although this chapter was first written in May, 1909, revised Sept.30, 1914, and published in the second edition of our Philosophy ofWar in Sept., 1917, in view of the many predictions it containssome of which have already been fulfilledwe feel justified in re-printing it in this collection of prophecies, especially as The Philos-ophy of War is now out of print. Allowance should therefore bemade for the fact that it was first published seventeen years ago.The Authors.

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cause they have not harkened unto my words, nor mylaw, but rejected it." 2 During this battle all the stored-up evil must have a focus through which it can pouritself out upon the lowest or physical plane where itsprecipitation will end the cycle of its manifestation.

These forces have accumulated because, during thechildhood of the Race, the Lords of Karma, throughthe Masters of Wisdom and the Rulers of the sub-races, have held the forces back until the Race grewstrong enough to bear them upon its shoulders: grewup as it were. The cycle is now closing and the timefor the adjustment is at hand so that the new sixth sub-race may enter the New Age with a clean slate."Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord (Law); Iani weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon thechildren abroad, and upon the assembly of young mentogether."2

And there is invariably found some human beingwho, because of his prominence and because of hishabit of opening his mind to the insinuating flatteryand fatuous promises of great attainments or perhapsto world dominion from the astral leaderswhom theBible refers to as "the rulers of the darkness of thisworld"becomes the executor or mouthpiece of thestored-up evil forces or the channel through whichthey find expression in the physical world, as for in-stance, Nero, the Borgias, and others in later eras.In this way the evil and unredeemed Karma of theRace is adjusted so as to permit the good aspect of theforces involved to be extracted, just as ore is crushed

2 Jeremiah, vi, 19, also vi, 11.


tween the 'Sons of God' and the Sons of the DarkWisdomour forefathers; or the Atlantean and AryanAdepts. The whole history of that period is alle-gorized in the Ramayana which is the mystic narrativein epic form of the struggle between Ramathe firstking of the Divine Dynasty of the early Aryans andthe agent of the white forcesand Ravana, the sym-bolic personification of the Atlantean (Lanka) Raceand the agent of the Black Forces. The former wereincarnations of the Solar Gods; the latter, of theLunar Devas. This was the great battle between Goodand Evil, between White and Black Magic, for thesupremacy of the divine forces over the lower terres-trial, or cosmic powers." 8

The sinking of the continent of Atlantis which fol-lowed that Armageddon was the balancing of theaccounts of the entire Fourth Race. It was a neces-sary preparationthrough the purifying action of thesalt water4 of the continent for a future Race, theSixth.

The survivors of that cataclysmthose who weresufficiently spiritualized, awakened and obedient stofollow their Divine Rulerswere picked out, separatedand trained by the Masters long before the sinking ofthe continent, and so became the seed of the presentFifth (Ayran) Great Race, just as certain people arenow being chosen and trained for a similar function.

Ere this present Fifth Race ends some thousands ofyears hencefor we are now just entering upon its

'The Secret Doctrine, Blavatsky, ii, 520.'details see The Voice of Isis, Curtiss, Chapt. xxxi.

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sixth sub-race 5a similar adjustment of its RaceKarma must take place, and it has now already begunits physical manifestation. The great World War nowraging offers a focal point through which the Karmaof the fifth sub-race of the Aryan Race can be pre-cipitated upon the physical plane and adjusted. Andin Emperor William of Germany a leader has beenfound who could be so deluded and as to beused as the tool of the dark forces. But we must re-member the words of Jesus: "It must needs be thatoffences come; but woe to that man by whom theoffence cometh." Therefore, while we must condemnhis acts we must also pity and pray for the man.

Europe is the first focal point for Armageddon be-cause it was in Europe that the greater part of thatKarma was engendered, i.e., through the many bitterpolitical wars which drenched jts.soll.in blood; throughthe sectarian wars carried on in the name of theChurch, but which perverted religion and made priest-craft a curse; and through the intolerance, selfishnessand mental and spiritual blindness of the religiousleaders which manifested in the mental war whichfinally culminated in the most inhuman persecutionsthe civilized world has ever knownthat religiousfrenzy known as the Inquisition.

To-day we are reaping especially the Karma sownby the unspeakable cruelties practiced by the Inquisi-

5T1,e Voice of isis, Curtiss, Chapt. xvii.6Since this was written various officers of the Kaiser's household

have testified that they have frequently seen him "under control"or obsessed, speaking in a strange voice and claiming to be themouthpiece of Cod.


tion; for it stands as the great crime of the fifth sub-race. While it is true that Christians were burnedand tortured in the earlier centuries by Nero andothers, even what are called pre-Christian atrocitieswere but the. spawn out of which the Inquisition washatched, and from that can be traced almost all tiledegrading crimes of the later days, especially intoler-ance and hatred and their results. We are apt to asso-ciate the Inquisition with Spain, yet Spain and herwestern colonies did not institute the Inquisition untilthe year 1232, while in Italy, France, England andGermany it was in full swing, with intervals of cessa-tion, from early in the sixth century. Especially inGermany, with Conrad of Marburgcalled the "Ter-rible"as chief inquisitor, the cruelty was prosecutedwith such extreme zeal and horror as even to exceedthe wishes of the Pope. The Inquisition was alsoestablished on the high seas in all galleys and ships.There the cruelties and punishments were beyondbelief.

While this present conflict seems wholly evil, it isnot entirely so for the Race; for not only will manyof the old karmic debts be adjusted, and thus allowthe contending nations to enter into a federation inwhich the independence of each nation and people willbe guaranteed Tas brothers, some older, someyounger, in the great social familyand thus preventwar for a long period, wipe out at least part of thekarmic debt and enter the new era with a clean slate,as it were, but the war is developing in the Race as a

TFulfiUed in the League of Nations.


whole an enormous amount of the feminine qualitieslove, compassion, sympathy, devotion, unselfishnessand service 8_SO necessary as the Race enters theAquarian or Woman's Age, "the sign of the Son ofMan in heaven."

Among the contending nations the English, Frenchand Germans have reached the zenith of their cyclesas nations and hence must be tested ere they can enterthe new cycle. They are classed among the nationswhich represent the highest stage of modern civiliza-.tion, culture, intellectual and material advance on theplanet to-day, but they must now prove the truth oftheir proud boasts; must prove whether their civiliza-tion and culture is the result of true spiritual growthor whether it is the mere veneer of intellectual and ma-terial attainment, founded in cruelty and intolerance,and without corresponding spiritual unfoldment.9

Has their so-called advance in civilization broúghttheir people into a greater realization of the spiritualbasis of oil manifestation? Has it led them to strivefor a more conscious communion with the realms ofspiritual consciousness as a daily and personal experi-ence? Has it taught them the folly of seeking to satisfythe ceaseless craving of the Soul for union with itsSource, through The gratification of the senses or thepossession of material things? Has their scientific

8Exemplifie'j in charities to stricken nations on a scale never be.fore known in the history of mankind.

Since the above was first published America entered the war asa full-grown youth now assuming the great responsibilities of man-hood. Hence America and her institutions must also be tested andproved by fire.


study of the wonderful cooperation and brotherhoodexisting among the cells, tissues and organs of everyunit of organized life led themif for no other reason,as a matter of efficiencyto follow the same law andexpres greater tolerance, coOperation and brotherhoodamong themselves as members of the great body ofhumanity? Have their studies led them to recognizethe true position of woman as the Priestess of theHousehold, the complement and co-worker with man;the spiritual head of the family, as man is the material;the inspirer and leader in all spiritual, ethical and moralproblems?

In time of emergency, stress and strain, when thereis scarcely time for thought, will the culture of thesenations enable them instinctively to display more love,compassion, self-sacrifice and humanitysimply be-cause man is manthan the less cultured nations wouldunder similar conditions? Or will they relapse to thelevel of the uncultured animal man who fights solelyfor self? This is the test whkh their civilizations muststand. And those nations which show most conclu-sively that these higher qualities have been built intotheir national consciousness must be the ones to domi-nate and manifest these qualities more perfectly inthe world's arena during the coming cycle of the NewAge.

The Slavonic nations, on the other hand, have notreached thienith of their evolution, but are on theupward arc. Hence, the more primitive qualities oftheir civilization may be used by the Great Law asinstruments with which to accomplish the testing of


the more advanced nations, and to make possible theinauguration of the New Era.

When the physical conflict is over a terrible mentalrevolt against all forms of restraint, both in govern-ment and religion, will burst forth.1° It will be a periodof extremes, extremes of individualism; a period whenthe opposition to all systematized or organized spiritualteachings, which is even now manifesting under variousdoctrines of religious and so-called "soul freedom,"will find extreme expression.

It will be a period both of extreme agnosticism andextreme individualistic teaching, when any fantastictheory, even without a rational or philosophic basis,will find a hearing and followers. At the same timethere will be a strong feeling upon the part of thosewho cling to the old conceptions that it is their duty tohumanity to enforce the old religious ideals.1' Thiswill be a great test as to whether religious intolerancehas been outgrown; for there can be no permanentpeace until the minds of a majority of mankind havebeen sufficiently developed, broadened and spiritualizedto banish it forever.

Hence, all churches, orders, movements and societiesprofessing a spiritual basis will on the one hand haveradicals whose extremes will bring them into disrepute,while on the other hand they will have those who willlaugh at, ridicule, discredit, oppose and persecute them.

j0nce this was first published (1914), it has already begun itsfulfillment through the action of the Bolsheviki, but they will notbe the only ones.

"Fulfilled in the strife between the Fundamentalists and Modern..ists, the Scopes' and other "evolution trials," etc.


And the same fire that has manifested as physical warwill again sweep tile world as a mental, spiritual andpsychic conflict, and it is always those nearest and dear-est or those companions who helped us create theKarma, who are used by the Great Law to test us andadjust the Karma.

It will be a time when all spiritual movements willbe under a cloud; when spiritually "The brother shallbetray the brother to death, and the father the son:and children shall rise against their parents, and shallcause them to be put to 12 Therefore, it will bea period of great testing; a period when every heartwho has realized the reality of the spiritual worldand its forces must be securely grounded in thephilosophy, and stand firmly and unshakably for hisor her beliefs, even though to do so involves ridicule,persecution and mental suffering. For every sys-tem of teaching not founded upon the rock ofDivine Reality and expressed in terms suitable to thenew conditions must pass away to make room for thenew.

These conditions will be so terrible that they willlast only a very few years, perhaps only two or three,for we are told that "for the elect's sake those daysshall be shortened. . . . And except those days shouldbe shortened, there should be no flesh saved." Theonly way that the "elect" can prove themselves is bytheir sincerity, their steadfastness, their trust and theirdetermination to hold calmly to their spiritual idealsand to rely absolutely upon their divine inner guidance,

12 St. Mark, ill, 12.


while they pray without ceasing that these days beshortend.

Words and rguments will be of no avail. The truthof their beliefs can be proved only by living them.All such will be like bright and shining lights in thisperiod of mental and spiritual darkness, or more cor-rectly, blindness. It will not be until after the closeof this period that the long-expected Great Teacher,the Avatar, will appear to reassure distracted humanityof the spiritual basis of all manifestation, and to out-line a new and higher conception of the spiritual lifeand its forms of expression.

The battles of the physical world are fought on thephysical plane with physical weapons, but the trueBattle of Armageddon must be fought first upon theastral plane with thoughts and psychic forces forweapons, the conflict now raging being but a pouringout of the evil and a gathering together of the forcesof Good for the final battle on the higher planes.

This battle has already begun. And during the entiresixth sub-race of the present Fifth Great Race we mayexpect more or less unettled conditions. For this isthe time of adjustment; the time of struggle to over-come the evils which the Race as a whole has outlived,yet which it has not fully conquered and redeemed.The number 6 is both the number of the Christ13 andalso of unrest. It symbolizes the mighty struggle ofthe Christ-force to penetrate into and transmute theevil and manifest itself. Hence, only as humanity en-ters into the seventh sub-race will it have true and

13 For details see The Key to the Universe, Curtiss, 195.


lasting peace and rest, although groups here and theremay have it before that time; for God blessed the sev-enth day and hallowed italso the seventh Race, andeach seventh sub-race, is especially blessedand duringthat period rested froni His labors.

Therefore, the progress of the sixth sub-race intowhich we are now entering will be marked by tre-mendous disasters precipitated upon the physicalplane 14wars, earthquakes, cyclones, volcanic erup-tions and meteoric showers, floods, etc.of more orless severity until the final battle and cataclysm inwhich the battlefield and the defeated army will beswallowed up and a new and purified land shall ariseout of the waters, during the sixth sub-race, for thenew Sixth Great Race to inhabit. The victors willremain as the seed of the New Race to people the newland.

The "final battle" does not refer to the end Of thispresent war of nations, but to the close of the trueBattle of Armageddon of which the present war is butthe first phase. The cataclysmic changes in theEarth's surface will result in the rising out of thewaters of the Pacific ocean the ancient Lernurian conti-nent which, during the entire seventh sub-race, willpass through the various steps15 necessary to make ita fit dwelling place for the Sixth Great Race.

Just as these changes must take place for the planet,so must they take place in humanity through bloodywars, strikes and other conflicts which will continue

l4Ffrst published in 1909.15 For details see The Voice of isis, Curtiss, 388.


until all conflicts of man with man, and man's re-sistance to the Divine, are swallowed up, and out ofthe waters of affliction there shall arise a new andgreater humanity with true Brotherhood, Love, Peaceand Harmony as its watchword.

The time has now come when the accumulated massof old Race Karma must be definitely met and con-quered ere humanity can enter upon the new sub-race,its next step in evolution. This accumulated Karma,in a measure, is to the world what the Dweller on theThreshold is to the neophyte. And, as with theneophyte before each important step is taken, it mustbe met and conquered. For just as the neophyte,through his evil thoughts, words and acts, has createdan entitized form of evilhis individual Dwellersohumanity has been pouring out its evils throughout itslong cycle until they have become entitized as a "darkplanet" with a living Ruler, the Anti-Christ, whodeflnitelyworks through those who give themselves upto his guidance or obsession. This dark planet may becalled the Dweller on the Threshold for humanity as awhole.

The astronOmers of Harvard University have alreadydiscovered the influence of this dark planet 16the Dc-

je This prophecy has recently (1917), been strikingly confirmedby Dr. W. W. Campbell, Director of Lick Observatory who, inexplaining why there were sudden black gaps or "holes" in the giantstar clusters around which there was "a high density of star distribu-tion right up to the sharply defined edges of the holes and yet leavethe holes empty of stars," stated in his remarks on the Nebulæ that"he was inclined t assume, with Barnard and others, that the starsare actually there and that they are invisible, because Invisible ma-terlais between us and the stars are absorbing or hiding the light


stroyerwhich, if encountered, means the destructionof the Earth. Astronomer Serviss is quoted as sayingthat the Earth and this whole solar system has goneastray and is trailing off away from its path aroundthe great sun Alcyone in the Pleiades, toward the con-stellation Andromeda in the Milky Way. These arebut astronomical confirmations of the fact that wehave entered the sixth sub-race, and that the hosts arerapidly gathering for the great Battle of Armageddon.The Earth is being driven through space in this newdirection by the character of the thought-force of itscollective humanity.

But there is another planet, not yet recognized byscience, which is a bright planetthe Redeemerto be drawn into whose aura means salvation. Thesetwo planets may be called the camping groundsof the opposing forces, with the Earth as the battle-ground.

But back of and within the outer cause, as the pro-pelling power, will be the preponderating force of goodor evil thoughts engendered by humanity. Therefore,the real battle is to be fought on the mental and astralplanes with thoughts and psychic forces, good and bad,as weapons, and later will be reflected and precipitatedon and in the Earth. Hence, all advanced studentswho consciously determine to make Love, Brotherhood,

which the stars are trying to send to us." . . . The so-called newstars afford interesting evidence on this point. These are stars whichsuddenly flash out at points where previously no stars were knownto exist . . . a temporary star is seemingly best examined on thetheory that a dark or relatively dark star travelling rapidly throughspace has met with resistance."

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Purity and Peace their standards of life, thus enrollthemselves among the Hosts of the Lord and becomeSoldiers of the Cross.

The Earth, also humanity, is purified alternately bywater and fire, and both are now passing through abaptism of fire. Every soldier in the armies, as well asevery munition worker and helper behind the lines, ishelping the Great Law to bring this purifying processinto manifestation. Hence, each one is a servant ofthe Divine Flame and is helping to work out a cosmicevent in the evolution of mankind, whether he or sheknows it or not.

The Dragon of the text quoted at the head of thischapter symbolizes the synthesis of the world's per-verted thoughts of sex and is commonly called theDevil. The three unclean spirits like frogs whichcome from his mouth symbolize the three great ex.-pressions of the dragon-force, i.e., (a) sex impurity,suppression and perversion; (b) the creation of diseaseby such perversion, and (c) extreme cruelty, fright-fulness and insanity or psychic obsession resulting fromastral entitiesor individual Dwellers on the Thresholdutilizing sensitive but negative victims through whichthey can satisfy their desires.17

The Beast is a symbol of Mammon or greed, ex-pressing through the Money Power. The three evilspirits issuing from his mouth comprise all the miseriesand sorrows that arise as a result of greed and injusticein their threefold expressions of (a) war, prosecuted

full details as to obsession and its prevention and cure andall after-death conditions see Reahns of the Living Dead, Curtiss.


for territorial or commercial expansion, stimulated andfinanced by the Money Power; (b) poverty, resultingfrom the unjust distribution of wealth, which distribu-tion is controlled by the Money Power; and (c) all thetrain of evils resulting from bodily and industrialslavery.

The False Prophet symbolizes all false teachingswhich have been given out in the name of religion orspiritual teaching to justify and uphold both the Dragonand the Beast, but which have misled humanity andheld it back from manifesting Peace, Love andBrotherhood. From his mouth come forth the threefrogs of (a) materialized religion, priestcraft, temporalpower and world dominion; (b) spiritual pride; and(c) intolerance and its handmaiden, religious persecu-tion.

This conflict of pride, intolerance and persecutiondid not die out with the Inquisition, but is still activeto-day. It is now directed not so much against thephysical bodies of its victims, but is conducted mentallyand psychically through the slanders, scandals and ma-licious misrepresentations carried on through variouspublications and commonly called "brutal journalism."All these factors, as the Bible passage quoted plainlytells us, work for King Desire and his allies and theircohorts.

One of the first rules impressed upon the spiritualaspirant is that to attain at-one-ment by the Path ofLove and Purity he must lay down all carnal weapons.Jesus emphasized this rule when He said to Peter:"Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they


that take the sword shall perish with the sword."18Yet we find the disciple spoken of as a Soldier of theCross and commanded to array himself as a fightingfactor in the world's salvation. Jesus also said: "Icame not to send peace, but a 19 Behind thisparadox lies a great truth, the understanding of whichis necessary ere any decided conscious advance inthe spiritual unfoldment of either the individualor the Race can take place, i.e., the conquer-ing must take place on the plane where the causeswere engendered, and the weapons are Love andPurity.

This means that thoughts and prayers of Love andPuritý must be sent out in such numbers and with suchpositive spiritual force that they will surround andtransmute the impure and antagonistic forces, follow-ing the same tactics as the white warrior cells (phago-cytes) of the blood use in meeting an invasion of diseasegerms, i.e., not deny the evil, but sufround and trans-mute the evil into good. The Voice of the Silence tellsus: "Strive with thy thoughts unclean before they over-power thee. Use them as they will thee, for if thousparest them and they take root and grow, know well'these thoughts will overpower and kill 20 If youfind them persistently clinging to you, send out an armyof pure and loving thoughts to absorb and transmutethem.

Science recognizes the fact that, during epidemics ofdisease, the mere thinking and talking about the disease

18 St. Matthew, xxvi, 52.19St. Matthew, x, 34.20The Voice of the Silence, Blavatsky, 12.


will make negative persons more susceptible to it.This does not mean that all disease is merely mentalthe fact that animals are swept with infectious diseasesdisproves thatbut that by negative thoughts we opena door in our aura through which the disease canenter. This effect is still more evident in moral epi-demics and in the epidemics of war-thoughts whichsweep over nations, or unconsidered action sweeps amob. I Therefore, the spiritual aspirant, while fightingsteadfastly for Justice and Righteousness, should laydown all carnal thoughts of hatred and revenge or hewill surely "perish with the sword," overcome by thehosts of evil thought-forms he has drawn into hisaura.

Applied to warring nations this principle indicatesthat we should not waste time and force in directingour prayers and thought-forces to specific Europeannations that they shall cease fighting, for they areacting under the tremendous urge of long pent-upkannic readjustment which must take place, and theycannot respond to our prayers until after the karmicreadjustment has been worked out. As well might wesit down and pray that a dirty room might be sweptand cleaned without any action on our part. The re-sult can be accomplished only by the power of thehousemaid's broom.

There is only one efficacious way to pray for peaceand that is to pray that the Will of the Father shallbe done on Eartheven as it is done in heaventhrough those who can understand, respond to andexecute that Will.i That divine Will is Love first, last


and all the time. And having prayed thus we mustbelieve and know that this Divine Love is back of theentire world of manifestation, and that it is everworking to bring about the reign of universal Love,Peace and Harmony, even though it be neces-sary to sweep from its path all that opposes thatreign.

The terrible conditions which prevail to-day arenot the Will of the Father, but are the creations of man;the result of his resistance and opposition to the DivineWill; the creations of unbrotherliness, ambition, self-ishness and greed, not altogether on the part of thoseinstrumental in precipitating and now participating inthe present conflict, but the accumulation of selfishnessand greed of the Race, all of which must come up foradjustment now at the close of the cycle of the fifthsub-race, which is also the end of the old Pisceandispensation, just as the rash must come out inmeasles, scarlet fever, etc., ere the real healing canbegin.

Therefore, while we pray that these days be short-ened, know well that Peace and Righteousness mustfirst come in the hearts of the people of all the nationsinvolved and of the whole world. Arms and amuni-tion are but harmless and inert physical things andwithout the power to initiate injury or destruction; itis only man's will to use them for such purposes thatmakes them dangerous.

Try not to think of individuals except in compas-sion, knowing that the Great Law will adjust their con-

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ditions in its own good time. Those who are dyingfor their ideals, even those whose ideals are but of localpatriotism and loyalty to an earthly ruler, are in ameasure redeemers for the Race; for they are dyingthat the Race may be purged from the war-thought,the war-ideal and the curse of militarism. Hence, intheir next incarnation they will receive the just rewardfor their sacrifice.

By their suffering and dying they have brought theworld to a greater realization of the utter folly andneedlessness of war if the Divine Will were followed;for there is nothing that so counteracts the idea of waras to have a dearly loved one killed in such a war. Bytheir sacrifice they have wiped out much of the indi-vidual and racial Karma and will receive their com-pensation by being enabled to incarnate the next timevery quicklyeven now, perhaps through the samemothersand under far more advanced conditions ofcivilization than they could have experienced had theyremained a few years longer in the present life. Thosewho die with hatred in their hearts and while con-sciously opposing the reign of Righteousness will re-main out of incarnation for a long, long cycle; infact, until the Race has learned bow to deal withthem.

Send your forces of Love, Peace and Brotherhoodinto the higher realms where they will aggregate into amighty force which will swallow up all future thoughtsof national selfishness and aggrandizement and be apowerful factor in forming a federation 22 of Euro-

22 Partially fulfilled in the League of Nations.


pean nations on the grounds of common humanity andbrotherhood which shall make it impossible for theambitions or passions of a few to plunge nations intobloody and needless conflicts, and which should be animportant factor in preparing for the coming of theAvatar.

All persons who are sensitive have realized for sometime that there is a terrible commotion in the mentaland astral worlds which is now intensified by the physi-cal conflict going on in Europe, and also by the thou-sands of Souls which have suddenly been thrown outof incarnation, some of whom carry with them all theexcitement, antagonism and hatred which animatedthem as they fought.28 This composite force is like atension or a steady pressure upon all humanity, tend-ing to make all persons more irritable and excited.Therefore, it is the duty of every advanced student totake special pains to see that he does not make anopening in his aura through which such forces canmanifest by giving way to impatience, irritation andemotion or to partisanship, race- and class-antagonism.Instead, he should consckusly strive to make himselfa center from and through which the constructiveforces of Peace, Harmony, Love and Brotherhood canradiate in his family and immediate environment andon out into all the world. *

Arrayed against the hosts of evil stand the thought-creations of Love, Harmony, Justice, Righteousness,Purity and upliftment of the Race sent out in a steady

23 For a full explanation of all after.death conditions see Realms oftile Living Dead, Curtiss.


stream by the Lodge of Masters and by all GreatTeachers since the world began, as well as by all per'sons who have been able to think vitalized thoughts ofLove, Purity, Harmony and Brotherhood. All human-ity have added and are still adding their quota to oneside or the other.

It is the destiny of this fifth sub-race to see the be-ginning of this great and decisive battle between Goodand evil or, to be more explicit, between Purity andimpurity, selfishness and unselfishness. Hence it istime that all who desire the salvation of the Race andthe planet should awaken to the grave conditions wehave outlined herein, and determinedly array them-selves on the side of Good by sending their individual,pure and vital love-thoughts to swell the Hosts of theLord. For you cannot say a loving word or do a lovingdeed, even to an animal or plant, without having aloving thought behind it. And every loving and peace-ful thought adds strength to the Army of Good. Asthe Christ says: "Inasmuch as ye have done it untoone of the last of these my brethren, ye have done itunto me."

The pure Hosts of the Lord are mustered in serriedranks according to natural law and order, while theforces of evil, being a perversion of nature and abnor-mal, are not organized in the astral world except intoindividual bands loosely held together only by selfishinterest and ready at any moment to turn upon eachother. A well-known principle of warfare is that asmall but well-organized army can overcome a muchlarger force that is unorganized. And as evil and im-


pure forces are sent out by haphazard impulse theymay be compared to an unorganized mob, whilethoughts of Good, because they require will and inten-tion, are consciously created and can be gathered to-.gether by the Masters and formed into a well-drilled,well-disciplined and well-officered army, always ingood fighting condition. Good is stronger than evilbecause it is constructive and immortal and works inharmony with the Great Law.

The Masters of the Great White Lodge,24 althoughfew in numbers as compared with the multitudes ofhumanity, are, nevertheless, able to engender and con-sciously use a far greater degree of creative force onthe side of Purity, Peace, Love and Brotherhood. Buteven They must work with the Law as Karma, andmay not forcibly prevent a Race or sub-race from ex-periencing its karmic retribution and readjustment.But Their efforts, being consciously directed and wiselyapplied, weigh heavily in the scale. They do not acton the physical plane, however, except through Theirdisciples and those who respond to Their inspiring cur-rents of force. Hence, Their great need to-day is ofthose who will consciously make themselves centers ofPeace, Purity, Harmony and Love and be more orless conscious instruments through which They canwork.

Therefore, instead of devoting all your efforts to-ward unfolding your own faculties and developing yourown personality, set to work earnestly and consciouslyto create warrior thought-forces for the Army of the

24 description see The Voice of isis, Curtiss, 53, 187.


Lord to the end that not only you, but the Race andthe planet itself, shall be saved from destruction.25(Written in May, 1909. Revised Sept. 30th, 1914,and Sept. 15th, 1917.)

25fluring the World 'War, after The Order of Christian Mysticsbad inaugurated a world-wide noon-day prayer service for peaceamong its students throughout the world, the idea was taken upby many churches and other organizations and within a few weeksthe lust for war and the will to fight of the Central Powers wasneutralized and overcome by the Will for Pea thus consciouslygenerated. The Central Powers then made overtures for an armis-ti, not because they could not have fought on for months, as faras guns, ammunition and supplies were concerned, but because of aso-called "loss of morale," both in the ranks and at home. Thiswas purely a psychological reaction to deliberately and consciouslygenerated mass-thought action which produced the concrete resultwhich saved millions of human lives and reshaped history and humandestiny.

CHAPTER VII

THE REMEDY

"Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in abook, that it may be for the time to come for ever, and ever:that this is a rebellious people. lying children, children that winnot hear the law of the Lord: which say to the seers, See not;and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speakunto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: get you out of the way,turn aside and out of the path, cause the Holy One of Jsxael tocease from before us." Isaiah, m, 8-11.

"0 Earth, that is sobbing, like a child in its sleep!0 Brother, who suffers with pain fierce and deep!Stand still in the ruin your passions have wrought.Take count of the guerdon greed and sorrow have brought.If your heart sinks despairing in the mystical cairn,List to God's choir; its echoes bring balm.The fire but purifies; strife ends in peace.Hosanna! hosanna! the carnage must cease.Lift up your voices, the day is at hand.No more of sorrow to this happy land."Harriette Augusta Curtiss in Realms of the Living Dead, 176.

Prayer is an innate instinct in the human Soul andcommon alike to the savage and the most cultured andintellectual of mankind. It is, therefore, as naturalfor man to prayespecially in times of crisis whichtranscend the power of man to cope withas to breatheor think. According to the circumstances and the in-tellectual and spiritual development of the individual,prayer may mean intercession, protection, consecra-tion, devotion, thanksgiving or appeal. In this case

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we are asking our readers to unite in prayer, not be-cause they have been frightened at the prospect of thecoming changes, not to save their own lives nor eventheir Souls, but to help generate such a constructivespiritual power as will counteract the evil and destruc-tive forces and thus help to save humanity from thesuffering through which it must pass if the destructiveforces are not neutralized. If the united prayers of acommunity can produce rain and break a disastrousdrouth, as has been proved generation after generationfor untold ages,1 why not apply the same law of mass-prayer to avert other and more overwhelming calami-ties?

In the previous chapters we have outlined the lawsof the cyclic changes of the Earth's surface, and alsothe effects of the vibrations of humanity's thought-forces upon those changes, sufficiently for the readerto realize the responsibility of mankind for the condi-tions of suffering through which we all have to pass.But if our unchecked and unregulated thought-forcesare capable of producing such terrible results, howgreat is the power of our thought-forces, prayers andaspirations when consciously used in a constructive

1 "LeSS than twenty-four hours after the residents of Rockhifl,S. C., had joined in the last of a series of prayer meetings to implorerelief from drouth, a fifteen-minute shower fell to-day. It was thefirst time rain had fallen here in sixty-five days." The WashingtonPost, June 13, 1926.

On June 24, 1924, the Authors attended the dance to invoke rainheld by the Indians of the pueblo of San Juan, N. M. Althoughthe sky was cloudless when we arrived and there had been no rainfor many weeks, after only the first of the series of three dances thefirst shower fell, turning the heavy coat of dust on our auto into acoating of mud!

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manner! And especially when concentrated upon themanifestation of certain high and constructive ideasdeliberately held at the same time each day by hun-dreds and thousands of earnest thinkers in all partsof the world! It is in the effort to arouse such a world-wide coordinated thinking and praying concentratedupon the one idea that these days shall be shortenedthat this little volume is put forth in the simple faiththat it will accomplish much towards the desiredend.

The great point is that while these changes areinevitable ultimately, they can take place gradually andharmoniously, giving mankind time to adapt itself tothem without too great loss, or they can take placerapidly and destructively, according as harmony andcooperation or inharmony and antagonism is the key-note sounded by mankind as a whole.

As we said in The Philosophy of War: 2 "In thebiblical description of those days through which theplanet is passing, it is written that 'Except those daysshould be shortened, there should be no flesh saved:but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.'Who are the Elect for whose sake these days of tribu-lation and retribution shall be shortened? They arethose Souls who, while recognizing the terrible karmicconditions through which humanity and the globe ispassing, nevertheless bravely give of all they lmve, theirloved ones, their treasure, their help in every way, witha realization that there is a power given them to shorten

2 The Philosophy of War, Curtiss, 9, 17-18, 2nd Ed., 6 (now out ofprint).


these days. What does this mean? for it has a mightymystic power. It is the power of your prayers, ofyour interest, of your life, of your full comprehensionof that which is transpiring. . . . If you raise yourhands in supplication day after day and night afternight, never forgetting the terror the world is passingthrough and the power of the Christ to conquer all con-ditions when truly invoked, these days shall be short-ened. But you must elect yourselves to be the short-eners of these days.

"For the world is going mad, one class ignoring thesuffering of another class; one class mad with suddenwealth, gaiety and frivolity; another class mad withpoverty, sacrifice, suffering and horror. Keep yourminds balanced and poised, and keep others fromgoing to extremes. Pray for the sanity and normalbalance of the world. Talk it. Preach it. Pray forit."

And to-day pray for Brotherhood, Cooperation andWorld Harmony between individuals, classes, nationsand peoples. As one student wrote us: "Thus moreand more do we gain the realization, through yourTeachings, of these- grand truths, and more and moredo we see that much depends upon us who would electourselves to become the Disciples of the Living Christto shorten the time of His coming."

That the power of public prayer cannot only bringrain in time of great need, but that the aroused publicmind can quickly bring about the settlement of greatnational problems is evidenced by the speedy settle-.ment (May, 1926) of the great general strike in Eng-

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land. And the same aroused public opinion could justas quickly settle the matter of the injustice done theIndian in this country, as well as the internal con-flicts now raging in other countries, and thus speedilystop the terrifically destructive forces generated byclasses and whole nations conflicting in selfish andpetty strife while the fate, not only of nations, but ofall humanity and the planet itself, hangs in the bal-ance!

While we do not care to prophesy in the field ofpolitics we may say in general that changes in govern-menteven in this countrywill naturally follow thecataclysms and will be quite as widespread and sur-prising. Already at the time of this writing (June 1st,1926) three revolutions are in full swingin Poland,Portugal and Chinawith a ministerial crisis in Egypt,and there is scarcely a stable government in Europe;scarcely a premier and cabinet whose tenure of officeis secure.3 Therefore, of all times in history, this is notime for further conflicts and wars, but a time forpeace, prayer, harmony and cooperation among na-tions if they would not destroy themselves. Striving

3"Today, eight years after the armistice, we are living amid con-ditions essentially like those before the war. There has not been asingle peaceful year since the peace treaty was signed. Instead, therehas been fighting in Russia, China, Poland, the Balkans, Africa, andAsia Minor. And it is even said that at one time just after thegreat war 2 small wars were being waged simultaneously.

The fact that small wars are still occurring on an average of fouror five a year and that it is still possible to predict another greatwar after the close of the greatest and most disastrous war inhistory is in itself a very alarming fact. It shows that humanityhas learned very little. it is clear evidence that the causes of warhave not been uprooted. John Bakeless, in The Washington Star,July 11, 1926.


for national aggrandizement and supremacy4 must bechanged into striving for universal accord, peace andgood-will, each helping the others to make the most oftheir resources, location and abilities for the good ofall, instead of the reverse.

As the Master recently told us: "The time has comewhen the power of cooperation and harmony amongnations; when real Brotherhood and Divine Love mustand shall rule and the mind and its ambitions shallobey; when Divine Love shall be dominant; when theillumined mind shall be Its servant and eager to do Itswill. The powers Of destruction are preparing to mani-fest in a tremendous way on the Earth's surface. There-fore, special efforts must be put forth to radiate Peace,Harmony and Brotherhood in such floods of radiantenergy that it shall neutralize the evil and minimizethe destructive character of the coming changes. Ifthis great lesson can be really learned and manifestedand put into daily practice by even a small portion ofhumanity the whole world can pass through the cominggreat crossing over of the Earth's forces and reallyenter the Aquarian Age quickly and without one-halfthe catastrophes and destruction that will be abso-lutely necessary if this great lesson remains unlearned."

With the thought clearly held in mind that thesedays shall be shortened we can work toward that defi-nite end. Realize that prayers thus consciouslý andunderstandingly used are not mere sequences of piouswords, but are a definite means of invoking SpiritualFire and providing channels through which it can mani-

See page 50.

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fest in humanity. Even Divine Love cannot be im-posed upon humanity. Man, made in God's image,ha within him the possibilities of manifesting all theGod-powers, but he, himself, must open the doorsthrough which they can manifest on Earth. Ther-fore, Divine Love can find expression on Earth only asthe hearts of mankind voluntarily open themselves toits influx and manifestation. No need to ask God tosave humanity from the results of its own creating. Itis humanity itself that must save itself through themanifestation of its God-powers which are alwaysready at hand to be invoked and used by those whowill make the effort, else humanity could never gainself-mastery.

In September, 1922, at a time when there was anacute and almost hopeless crisis in the world's affairs,we sent broadcast throughout the world a little leafletentitled A Prayer for World Harmony, and in this con-nection we cannot do better than to reproduce whatwe said therein.

A PRAYER FOR WORLD HARMONY

"From the present (1921) outlook of world conditions wemay calculate that the first period of readjustment, 'an hour,'will see the readjustment of capital and labor, which is quitelikely to come to a tremendous crisis soon . . . the secondphase, 'a day,' may well be the struggle for the political and socialreadjustments now taking place. . . . The third phase, 'a month,'will embrace the great upheaval, and consequent strife andstruggle which is unavoidable in the overturning and readjust-ment of religious conceptions, teachings and thoughts on spiritualsubjects."The Message of Aquaria, Curtiss, 242-3.


The whole world is to-day passing through a densesmothering cloud of karmic dust which has accu-mulated through ages of wrong thinking and acting,wrong conceptions of the Law of Life. And, alas, manyare letting this dust so blind the eyes of their under-.standing that they believe that only through extremeselfishness, retaliation and revenge can they end theirinjustice and suffering; that only as the Earth isdrenched with the blood of their fellow men can peace,brotherhood, justice and prosperity reign. This ideais being so systematically propagated among the un-thinking masses that unless some positive.effort is madeby those who know the Law of Life (harmony and co-operation), those who see and feel and know that allsuch separative and destructive ideas will only resultin a prolongation of the same conditions from whichmankind has suffered so long, together with all thosewho desire better conditions, all united in a persistenteffort to make a firm stand on the principles of har-mony and interdependence, which we see exemplifiedamong the various organs of our bodies, the world isdestined to rehearse once more the terrible drama ofdestruction, death and suffering unspeakable which ithas already passed through in so many previous cyclicperiods of revolution inaugurated in the name of free-dom and reform.

Since man's material evolution has steadily increasedhis ability to intensify the punishment he metes out tohis brother manand hence ultimately to himselfinthe name of "brotherhood," and since the very dust of

5Kar,na, the Law of Cause and Effect.

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the Earth cries out, "How long, 0 Lord, how long?"we call upon all well-wishers of humanity throughoutthe world, especially those who are beginning to sensethe chill breath of the coming terror, to unite with usto "lift up their gates" and let in the King of Glory,that through the outshining of His radiance they mayhave power to help transmute the douds of inharmonynow hanging over mankind and avert the disasterswhich otherwise will naturally follow; for conditionsnever right themselves, they are righted only throughthe definite constructive action of certain persons orgroups of persons who understand and unite to workwisely toward definite ends.

Firstly, we must systematically spread the idea thatit is wrong principles and rules of life we are to com-bat, not persons or peoples; that we cannot reform an-other person or nation until we have carefully searchedin our own hearts and in our own nation for our faultsand have recognized and shown a willingness to correctthem. We must also continually spread the idea thatforce, coercion, revenge, hatred, cruelty, even the repe-tition of and clinging to the memory of wrongs we havesuffered, are destructive forces which can only add toand never heal the wounds from which all the world isgroaning together to-day.

The first to work definitely with the Spiritual Powerswhich are seeking to lift up the gates of ignorance andinculcate the constructive principles of the Law ofLife should be those advanced students whose con-sciousness can grasp and realize this Law andits applications, as they have been set forth by


The Order of Christian Mystks in the wide scopeand variety of its philosophical and spiritual books andteachings.

Just as during the Great War we were the first toinaugurate a world-wide daily Noon Prayer-service forthe triumph of right and justice, which we feel had agreat psychological effect in shortening the days ofcarnagefor it was largely a psychological breakdownor loss of morale which brought the war to such a sud-den endso we again ask our students in all parts ofthe world, together with all who are willing to join withthem, to repeat morning, noon and night, or oftener,but at least at noon each day, the following Prayer forWorld Harmony with a deep heart-felt realization ofits significance and a scientific understanding of itsdynamic psychological power to awaken and stimulateinto action every germ of good in the hearts of man-kindthe love, the compassion, the justice, coÖpera-tion and all constructive forces, and thus neutralize andtransmute the evilthat the terrible rising tide of un-rest, selfishness, racial and class antagonism, labortroubles and religious bigotry and intolerance, amongindividuals, classes and nations, may be so transmuted,or at least turned aside, that it will not find expressionin a new series of armed conificts and bloodshed, ordestructive cataclysms.

The uniting of thousands of hearts and minds to thisdefinite end should generate a great current of dynamicspiritual force sweeping continuously around the worldfor it is noon somewhere every minute of the daywhich like a refreshing breeze should cool the heat of

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conificting interests and blow off the karmic dust of thepast which is settling upon and blinding individualsand nations to the Law of Lifeharmony and co-operation. Thus shall we be of practical psychologicalhelp in opening wide "the everlasting doors" and pre-paring for the quick coming of the King of Glory, notonly into our own hearts and lives, but into the lives ofnations and humanity as a whole.

Remember that the battle which is still raging in theworld is a battle of principles, and that the Law of Lifemust ultimately prevail. But it will prevail only afterterrible calamities and renewed suffering to individuals,classes and nations unless they unite to lift up theirgates and permit the King of Glory to come inand help them transmute the clouds of karmic dustand inharmony into peace, brotherhood and coÖpera-tion.

See the Radiance which this Prayer invokes, dis-pelling the clouds of inharmony as the Sun dispels thefog, and stimulating the growth of the good in eachheart as the Sun stimulates the growth of the sproutwhen the fog has been dispelled and the Sun can carryon its constructive work.

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PRAYER FOR WORLD HARMONY

Glory and honor and worship be unto Thee, 0Lord Christ,0 Thou who art the Life and Light ofall mankind!

Thou art the King of Glory to whom all thepeoples of the Earth should give joyful allegianceand service.

Inspire mankind with a realization of trueBrotherhood.

Teach us the wisdom of peace, harmony and co-operation.

Breathe into our hearts the understanding thatonly as we see ourselves as parts of the one bodyof humanity can peace, harmony, success andplenty descend upon us.

Help us to conquer all manifestations of inhar-tnony and evil in ourselves and in the world.

May all persons and classes and nations ceasetheir conflicts, and unselfishly strive for peace andgood-will.

Bless us all with the Radiance of Thy divineLove and Wisdom that we may ever worship Theein the beauty of holiness.

In the Name of the Living Christ we ask it.Amen.

°Meaning the highest spiritual Ideal, which aU nations wor-1uthler one name or another.


It is understood, of course, that The Order of Chi'is-tian Mystics does not attribute to the Prayer for WorldHarmony entire credit for all the constructive stepstoward international cooperation and world harmony,but those results following so quickly as an apparentfulfillment of the very points mentioned in that Prayer,and we having had ample proof of the reality and powerof the mental and spiritual forces generated by such aPrayer, especially when directed by this Order, we feelperfectly justified in assuming that the Prayer forWorld Harmony, repeated daily by hundreds of stu-dents in all lands, did have an important psychologicaleffect upon the minds and hearts of those leaders ofnations who achieved the above results, sometimes bya change of front over night. And even if the NearEast Conference should fail entirely and the karmicFlame of War mentioned in the Prophecy of the Kingof the World should sweep from East to West and af-fect every country, even then we will have done ourbest to arouse mankind to generate the spiritual forcesnecessary to neutralize and counteract such a disaster.So let us not be discouraged at any set-backs or ceaseour efforts for the salvation of mankind from such acatastrophe.

As we said in our Prayer for the Allies in 1917: "Theconcentration of the minds and hearts of thousands ofadvanced students in many lands who understand thepower and reality of the currents of force generated bythought, aspiration, love and will for righteousness,will cause such an outpouring of creative thought- andlove-force that it shall rise like incense into the higher

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realms and rain down upon the hearts and minds ofhumanity with such quickening power as to fructifyevery mind capable of grasping and respOnding to theidea which the Prayer embodies, and vivifying theminto action."7

In a recent message from the Teacher of Tile Orderof Christian Mystics we are told that:

"This is the day given you to prepare. Cry it fromthe housetops to those who know and can understand.The Day is at hand. Shall it be a day of great peace,of wonderful illumination? a majority of Christ-illu-mined ones? or shall it be another cycle of darknessmore terrible than any that has passed in the world'shistory? For much has been given to mankind andmuch will be required. Even to the worldly ones muchhas been given: great understanding has been pouredforth. Out of mighty tribulation much is sensed andcomprehended, hence much is required.

"If this generation fails, then the whole system mustpass once more down into the darkness from which solaboriously it is emerging. A blank ignorance will op-press humanity. Cruelty and a deliberate turningfrom the Light will wipe out all that civilization hasattained. Chaos will reign among people. Thismighty land, called the land of the free, will be a landof slaves. Art and literature will be destroyed andforgotten. Great inventions that are only waiting forproper conditions to come forth for the benefit of hu-manity will be smothered in birth. . . . Look on the

TThe Philosophy of War, Curtiss, 2nd Ed., 6 (now out of print).


two pictures and decide where you stand. It is asthough you were called to follow the colors. What willyou do to save the world? Remember, it is not yourown Souls, but the world you must save.

"There is great power in the faith of even a fewrepeating the words. Say, 'The more I believe a thing;the more I repeat it; the more I send it out and themore people see and follow it, the more the powers ofthe universe . . . will carry it to the ends of theearth.' Send out your thoughts like living fire that willpenetrate into every crevice and cell in the body of thenation. . . . But you must be earnest and constantand daily, always at the same hour if possible."

By such invocations we are filling not only ourselves,but also the reservoirs of the Earththe vast cavernsand the arched passagewaysfull to overflowing withSpiritual Fire whose radio-active emanations will neu-tralize and consume the inharmonies and evils thatmankind has generated and thus shorten the days oftribulation. Mourn not, therefore, for the Earth or itsinhabitants, knowing that whatever comes is but theresult of the Divine Flame bursting through our limita-tions and resistance to bring to us a new realizationthat only Divine Love, manifesting as true Brother-hood, Harmony and Cooperation, can bring peace, hap-piness and perfection.

The above prophecy presents the picture as it standsto-day on the Screen of Time, but we are told that forthe Elects' sake these days shall be shortened. Theresults depend upon the reaction of humanity and theactivity of the Elect. Worry and fear only add to the

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world's misery, while every happy, trusting heart sowsseeds of happiness and trust in the hearts of others.Those who elect to help shorten these days should sendout their aspiration, love and compassion in constantprayer.

Therefore, we ask all who will to use some suchprayer as our Prayer for World Harmony morning,noon and night, and spread this idea as widely as pos-sible that its vibrations may affect and inspire thehearts of all mankind, and particularly the leaders ofnations. The use of this Prayer or mantram will notonly have a psychological effect, according to the men-tal and spiritual force we put into it and the persistencyand positive will with which we repeat it, but it willalso form an avenue in the body of humanity for themanifestation of the hierarchies .of Divine Ones whohave charge of the ushering in of the coming New Agethrough which They can reach the minds and heartsof men. But remember that it is not merely repeatingthe words that brings the power, but repeating themwith all the aspiration and spiritual power implantedin us by Eternal Being in the beginning. It is not lip-service the Holy Ones ask of us, but sincere effort andunderstanding prayer.

Pause after each sentence and meditate upon it,visualizing its radiance going out to all mankind, con-suming all evil and stimulating all good. For it is onlythrough softening the hearts of mankind, through thespread of the warmth of Divine Love and the power ofthe Living Christ, that the evil can be overcome andthese days be shortened.

A

Age, Aquarian, 23, 39, 80; golden,47-8; jazz, 48; Woman's, 85.

Alaska, 32.Ambition, of nations, 50, 99, 108.America, blot upon, 67; can save

the world, 73; compassion of,66, 85; destiny of, 65-6, 70-2;Heart of the World, 76; in-justices of, 68-9; place of, 70.

Ammunition, harmless, 77.Andromeda, 72.Animals, antedeluvian, 34.Anti-Christ, 91.Armageddon, Battle of, 22, 79;

meaning of, 79; weapons of,89.

Asiatic Union, Pan-, 37.Astronomers, quoted, 91-2.Atlanteans, 67, 73, 81.Atlantis, 40, 67, 81.Avatar, the coming, 23, 71;

comes to protect, 72; whencoming, 89.

Axis, Earth's, tilting, 37-8, 40-7.

B

Baraduc, Dr., experiments of, 43.Beast, the, 93.Beasts, Men and Gods, quoted,

34.Blavatsky, Mnie., quoted, 25.Brotherhood, of Nations, 78.

C

aduceus, 49.

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California, 34, 64-5.Catadysins, close, 17, 18; close

cycles, 81, 90; from tilting ofaxis, 37-8, 40-7; regions of, 21,37-8-9, 58; relation of planetsto, 21-5.

Centers, recognize each other, 74.Century Magazine, quoted, 55.Chamber, the Upper, 73.Changes, how they should come,

42-5; planetary, 40.Chaylor, quoted, 23.Civilization, result of failure, 116;

tests of, 85-6.Clock, the cosmic, 42.Collier, Capt., quoted, 33.Continents, Atlantis, 40; first, 40;

second, 41; Lemuria, 34.Cooperation, in Nature, 86, 110.Cromer, quoted, 21.Cross, Soldiers of the, 95.Cycle, of Earth-change, 74; of

Hate, Madness, Destruction,24; of Nature, 42-7.

D

Dablak, Mala, pirate, 36.David-Noel, Mme., quoted, 56.Death, is no, 52.Devas, lunar, 82.Disease, follows war, 18, 31,

95.Diseases, not all mental, 96.Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, quoted,

18-9.Dragon, the, 93.Dweller, on Threshold, 91-3.

EEarth-children, 60-1.Earth-currents, crossing of. the,

49.Earthquakes, close cycles, 90;

Japanese, 36; Mediterranean,38; Santa Barbara, 34.

East, Kings, of the, 22; mustmeet West, 73; Wise Men ofthe, 25.

Elect, the, 88; who are the, 103,117.

England, coast line eroding, 35.Enoch, quoted, 20.Epidemics, 95.Europe, nations of, 83; to be in-

vaded, 20-3, 50-6-7.Ever-Living One, 46.

FFaith, power of, 117.Fear, have no, 52.Flame, of Purification, 57, 62;

walldng in the, 63.Forbes, Mary, quoted, 19.Frogs, 93-4.

G

Galileo, heresies of, 42.Gods, the Solar, 82.

HHeart, of the World, 63; America

is the, 76.Heart, the fetal, 77.

IIdeals, dying for, 98.Incarnation, immediate, 98.

Indians, injustice to the, 68-9;origin of the, 67; powers of the,69; Prayer for the, 70.

Inlet, Cook, 32.Inquisition, the, 83-4.Intolerance, religious, 87.Islands, new, 33-6.

JJeremiah, quoted, 43.

KKarma, 45; definition of, 110;

dust of, 109, 110; Lords of, 80;of America, 70; of Lemuria,51; Race, 91.

King, of the World, messagesfrom the, 45, 54-7; who he is,59.

LLemuria, 34; karma of, Si; ris-

ing, 90.Life, Law of, 110.Lodge, the Great White, 101.Loriet, steamer, 35.Lilsitania, steamer, viii.

M

McCormick, Senator, quoted, 60.Magic, black and white, 86.Mammon, 93.Marburg, Conrad of, 84.Master, messages from the, 66,

108, 116.Masters, the Lodge of, 100.Millenium, a Buddhist, 23.Monastery, Narabanchi, 54.Montebello, steamer, 33.

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NNations, brotherhood of, 78;

European, 85; League of, 71,98; Slavonic, 86; tests of the,86.

Notional Pictorial, Monthly,quoted, x.

Nature, radio-activity of, 42.Nero, 80.Nobles, Dr., quoted, 37.

0Occult Review, The, quoted, viii.Ocean, Arctic growing warmer,

32-3; Atlantic rising, 35-6; Le-inuria out of, 90; Pacific seeth-ing, 34; new, 38.

Ossendowski, Prof., quoted, 54-S.

PPlanet, the Dark, 91; the Re-

deemer, 92.Prayer, an instinct, 103; effect of,

47, 70-8, 89; effect of public,106-7; for nations, 96; forrain, 104; kinds of, 103; mustbe sent out, 95, 108; that thedays be shortened, 97.

Prayer for the Allies, 115.Prayer for World Harmony, 114,

118.Prophecies, The, 17; object of

these, ix.Prophecy, of Blavatsky, 25; of

Chaylor, 23; of China, 20; ofCromer, 21; of Doyle, 18, 19;of Enoch, 20; of Forbes, 19;of King of the World, 37, 54-7;of Ocean Wave, 27; of Sagane,21; of Storm Wind, 26; ofljndine, 26; of War, 22.

Prophecy, value of, vii, viii, 25.

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Prophet, definition, vii.Prophet, the False, 94.Pyramid, a new, 76; how built,

74-5; measures, 22-3; symbolof, 76-8.

RRace, Aryan, 63, 82-9; seventh,

18; sixth, 90.Radio-activity, 43-7, 117.Rama, 82.Ramoyana, the, 82.Ravana, 82.Ray, the death, the life, 22.Remedy, The, 103.Restraints, revolt against all, 87.

S

Sacrifice, results of, 98.Sagane, quoted, 20.Salt, purifies, 65.Savior, the, 71.Shadow, The, 24.Shekina, The, 22.Simmons, Capt., quoted, 33.Six, number of, 89.Skotograph, 43.Society, Pan-Asiatic, 57.Storms, cause of, 43-4-S.Strike, English general, 106.Sub-race, fifth, destiny of, 100;

length of a, 64; seventh, 90;sixth, 28, 63-5, 83.

Sun, the Logoitic, 71-2.Sword, perish with the, 95-6.

T

Teacher, the World, 21-3; whencoining, 89.

Tears, effect of, 65.Tests, of nations, 85-6; of re-

ligions, 88.

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124 INDEXThought, causes storms, 43;

drives Earth, 92; effect of, 43,79, 92-5-9, 111; in epidemics,95; in stopping war, 102, 111;photographed, 43; radio-active,47.

Tornado, cause of, 45.Tribulations, results of failure,

116; shortened, x, 88, 97, 105-8; time of, 22.

V

Vi.ion, of Mrs. Curtiss, 58, 71.Voice of the Silence, quoted, 95.

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War, the World, casualities in,Si; caused by, 50; new great,22; not Armageddon, 81, 90;philosophy of, 105; predicted,xii; reaction from, 87; religiouspredicted, 78-8, 99.

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