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The Initiates of the Flame.

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THE ALL-SEEING . EYE

MODERN PROBLEMS IN THE LIGHT OF ANCIENT WISDOM

Vol. 2 LOS ANGELES, CALIF., MARCH, 1924 No. 5

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

POEM .................................................... 2 OCCULT FICTION

EDITORIALS The Homage, Chapter 2..................21
The Economic Problem .................... 3 The Chair of Doom..........................27
Our Demi-Gods ................................ 7
HUMAN INTEREST STORIES
BROTHERS OF THE SHINING The Man Who Laughed ....................18
ROBE ..................................................10
SPECIAL ARTICLES
QUESTION AND ANSWER DE-
PARTMENT ..........................17-31-32 The Wine of Lif e ................................13
Sibly's "Key to Physic" ..................23
LIVING PROBLEMS DEPART-
. MENT ................................................16 ASTROLOGICAL KEYWORDS ........29
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VANITY OF REGRET
Nothing in this world of ours
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Flows as we would have it flow;
What avail, then, careful hours,
Thought and trouble, tears and woe?
Through the shrouded veil of earth,
Life's rich colors gleaming bright,
Though in truth of little worth,
•> Yet allure with meteor light.
> Life is torture and suspense;
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Thought is sorrow-drive it hence!
With no will of mine I came,
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With no will depart the same.

> All we see-above, around-

Is but built on fairy ground:
All we trust is empty shade
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To deceive our reason made.
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Tell me not of Paradise,
Or the beams of houris' eyes;
Who the truth of tales can tell,
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Cunning priests invent so well?
He who leaves this mortal shore
Quit s it to return no more.

In va st life's unbounded tide

They alone content may gain,
Who can good from ill divide,
Or in ignorance abide-
All between is restless pain.
Before thy prescience, power divine
What is this idle sense of mine?
What all the learning of the schools?
What sages, priests, and pedants?-Fools!

The world is thine, from thee it rose,

By thee it ebbs, by thee it flows.
Hence, worldly lore! By whom is wisdom
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> The Eternal knows, knows all, and He alone!
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I EDITORIALS
The EconomicProblem
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HE problem of human equality is
ever confronting us. The Master ethical and social reformer does not rest upon
Jesus said, "The poor ye have with these conditions at all. His cry is for oppor-
you always," and technically this is true. tunity, for the true philosopher realizes that
There will never he a time in nature when all opportunity is the divine birthright of all liv-
things shall he equal. The only equality is ing creatures, and he also knows that the
when things are equal to themselves. Just as modern economic situation does not give
there is childhood, manhood, and old age,- every man an honest opportunity. The aver-
birth, growth and decay-so there are three age reformer, however, becomes bolshevistic.
stages in the progression of consciousness He is not satisfied with an opportunity but de-
through matter, there are three grand divis- mands affluence as his birthright, and the
ions of organic quality in bodies. Two things average soap-box orator along these lines
are necessary for expression in matter and all would be more arrogant and despotic than
expression is limited by these two things. those he condemns if the goddess of finance
First, organic quality; and second, size. Size ever smiled upon him. The sweat-shops, child
is the measurement of power, all things being labor, and similar institutions, are depriving
equal; size without high organic quality pro- man of his birthright and as such should go,
duces the brute and organic quality without and with them depart the greatest curse of
size produces those sensitive individuals who modern civilization; but the abolishment of
seldom live to great age because the fine these things will not equalize human intelli-
grained quality cannot he supported by a gence. The thing it will do is give man an
small, undeveloped body. As long as there is opportunity to unfold himself according to
difference in organic quality and size there what he is, hut he is always limited in two
cannot he equality in mental or social position ways. First, by surrounding environments;
because man's expression in this world is the secondly, by organic quality.
direct result of the power which consciousness Man's greatest hinderance is not a heartless
is exerting over matter. Where the organic world but a useless body. Useful bodies are
quality is low, consciousness is low and the not built in days or years but in ages and
brain is incapable of fine discriminating lives. Organic quality cannot he improved
thought. Such persons must follow instead by politics; it can only be improved by man
of lead for the very structure of their organ- as an individual when he makes the most of
ism inhibits intelligent leadership. When such every opportunity to improve himself mental-
individuals do rise to power we have the ly, spiritually, and physically while he lives.
Marat, the Rohispierre, the Napoleon, or the There is a caste system in nature. In the uni-
radical who is incapable of reflective thought verse there is the upper and the lower set, di-
himself and refuses to credit reflective thought vided from each other by the ideals and works
in others. of life and by the conscientious effort of each
Man has an impossible golden dream which individual.
he has fostered for a long time and that is Man must learn to be contented to live in
that he is going to tear down the so-called accordance with what he is and yet at the
caste system and that the man with the pick same time he ambitious to improve his lot.
and shovel is going to sit in meditation with The hope of the universe is not in ranting and
the sage while the brick layer is going to re- raving for equal rights but in the burning of
cline in the carven chairs of arrogance. This the midnight oil. When we see the laborer
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come from his labors, tired, surrounded by the means of which they can intelligently com-
crying needs of family and friend, but who bat conditions.
sits alone under the light, studying to improve When we look carefully into the problem of
himself, working with tired, chapped fingers economics we strike one phase that is well
roughened with toil to become a man among worth our consideration. Those individuals
men, to learn the things which divide ignor- who now spend their time trampling on the
ance from wisdom-such a one is the hope of poor were in nearly every case poorly born
salvation, such a one will become in the due themselves. They did not come from homes
course of nature's time a spiritual aristocrat of wealth and many of them never went to
and, naturally, there will come to him his school. Some of our greatest millionaires
birthright of being a thinker, a doer, and a today were newsboys without a chance, others
superior. Then we see his companion in shined shoes and started in with a hundred
labor, one who does not take the sombre percent less than the average failure starts
course of study and thought but throws bricks with. The heel of the capitalism of their day
at the houses of aristocrats, hating them be- was upon their throats and yet with the sheer
cause their skins are white while his are tan- force of mental power, indomnible will, and
ned, their voices soft while his is harsh. He perfect faith in themselves, they rose out of
curses and spits at them, suffering in his hate the mud and became masters of world affairs.
-such a one will never be the thing he longs Now, those left behind shake their fists at
to be cause the difference lies in quality and them, while the energy they use in railing
not in the strength of the bull or the beast would lift them also from the rut if it were
within. exerted as their opponents exerted it.
If you entered two horses in a race, the one Man must learn to capitalize upon himself;
a dray such as is used to pull milk wagons his brain, his heart, and his hand are the most
and the other a fine Arabian stallion, which valuable assets he possesses. Incessant ef •
would win the race? Just so, it is the same fort should be made to increase the efficiency
in the race for success. The dray horse is of these assets for in that alone lies liberation
hampered by its own weight; and while it from the rut. When to this is added the reali-
may dash forward madly with all the strength zation of limitation, and the gradual unfold-
that is in it, it simply cannot race. No mat- ment of powers as the means of liberation
ter whether it is dragging a milk wagon or is from this limitation, we have the man or
a pedigreed horse, it is that type and there is woman who is going to be a success.
no hope for it. But the Arabian stallion, The caste system of the world is as follows:
without an effort outdistances it with ease and
1. The lowest phase is opposition, material-
grace and leaves it far behind.
ism, and the battling of beast instincts. In
Man believes that with the power of his this world they are the ones chained by ages
hand he can rule the world. He cannot. All of thoughtlessness, or recent diff erentation
he can do is tear civilization up by the roots from lower races, to the lower physical side
and leave it for another thinker to repair. of life. Those who dwell in it are chained by
We will not deny that the poor have cause for like and dislike, by _passions and appetites;
dissension just as they had during the French they deify matter and know no god or consci-
revolution for the mere fact that a man has a ousness outside of it; they settle their disputes
fine, executive brain does not prove that he is with bullets and sandbags or with fist encoun-
a humanitarian, a philanthropist, or an honest ters; they are an ever muttering horde and in
man, nor does organic quality necessarily in- · the last analysis are absolutely powerless.
dicate virtue. But one thing it always does Their only weapon is firebrand or dagger and
give and that is power. It may be that an as- these things have no force outside of physical
sasin's bullets will slay a few but in the end substance, and as true consciousness is inde-
the power of mentality wins over the battle of pendent of substance the most they can do is
brawn and the only hope for those who are destroy their own world. The mere idea that
trampled on is to reach mental efficiency by such individuals could rule the universe is
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beyond reason or logic. They cannot do it consciously attained this degree. They are
for there is not within their own beings the great reformers, the great occultists and
enough self control to rule themselves. There thinkers of our world who have realized the
is no law or logic in them, and as the uni- oneness of things and have come to an under -
verse is ruled by law and logic only those standing of the fact that while all cannot at-
who have developed it are capable of govern- tain in one life the acme of their ideals, still
ing. They cry out in their agony that they man should not impose upon the weak but
are imposed upon-and they are, for man
rather should champion them and assist them
has not yet gained that consciousness which
to a fuller and more adequate position.
enables him to be superior without becoming
domineering. The reason, however, why they We have an idea that we are living in civ-
are imposed upon is not necessarily because ilized times but this idea is eternally being
their opponents are strong but because they shattered by every evident example of barbar-
themselves are weak. ism. Voltaire said, "I know I am among
The idea that this problem can be solved men because they are fighting; I know t..1.ey
without intellectual growth on the part of this are civilized because they fight so savagely."
great mass is absurd. Their overlords real- Our so called evolved and developed peoples
ize that in this ignorance lies the power which are at each other's throats; our great inven-
they have over them, therefore it seems that tors spend all their time learning how to kill;
every day the higher oppress the lower more and competition has been crowned the life of
severely to prevent them from attaining light. trade. This is purely because man has ac-
But this oppression should only stimulate cepted the science of economics as the worth-
those oppreseed to greater and more inelli- while thing in life. It is undoubtedly the
gent effort. world's most foolish decision.
The world must have those who work with Man must not deify this problem as he does
their hands but these will always have to because in nature it holds the least important
serve the man who works with his head, while place. Neither must we reject the economic
both must bow together before the one who problem. It is to be neither ~ccepted nor re-
is expressing the qualities of his sipirt. jected and under no conditions assumed. It
is merely here as an examination or test of the
2. The second stage is intellectualism and consciousness of man; in other words, it exists
it spends most of its time preying upon ma- only to be solved. The wonderful Hindoo
terialism. These are the minds that juggle the race as a nation has never accepted the eco-
finance of the world, that lead, govern, and nomic problem as worthy of consideration
direct the mass, and regardless of what they and of course they did not have to in the time
may like or dislike those who would lead or of their glory for economics have always been
govern must join this second class. The great a secondary consideration in the Orient. The
curse of intellectualism is oppression for modern problem did not confront the ancient
there are very few capable of realizing their races and yet they were far better able to
power over others with attempting to exert it. meet it than we are. The Masters did not live
This is the main cause of the sorrow of the in the day when caste was king. They needed
masses. In other words, man's inhumanity only to seat themselves upon the ground and
to man. The intellectual individual should their people gathered around them; when
appoint himself as guardian and protector of they wanted a house they built it where they
those incapable of functioning o~ that plane, chose and lived in it, while if they were tired
but instead of so doing he now harnesses them of the bustle of the world they entered a cave
to his chariot and loads their backs with bur- in the hills. If they possessed no sandals, it
dens. The only remedy for this is to awaken was perfectly fashionable to go barefoot and
in him the realization of his responsibilities. they never met the great inconveniences of
3. The third division is that of the spirit• modern congestion. As a result of their free-
ual man which is the principle of altruism dom we find primitive brotherhood, many ex-
and selflessness. There are but few who have amples of which are far more beautiful than
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the products of our modern ethics. made it the most highly educated country in
The Masonic school symbolizes the stages the world. During his youth, provision was
of unfoldment as the three ages of man- made for his life, he was prepared to think
youth, maturity, and old age. The ages of for himself in a rational and sensible way;
the soul are the same. There are in the world then came the second twenty-five years during
today young souls in old bodies and old souls which he married and brought up his children,
in young bodies. Youth goes out to conquer b~ging them to a position where they could
the world, manhood is content to have suf • take care of themselves, and saving up suf-
ficient for his needs, while old age renounces ficient to provide for his own old age and
the world as an illusion. We may call youth those dependent on him; then during the third
the material man, adultness the intellectual part of his life he retired from the bustle of
man, old age the spiritual man. Applying the commercial world and devoted his entire
the economic problem we may say: to the ma- time to study and philosophy and the solution
terial man it is all, to the intellectual man it is of life's problems, supported either by that
a problem, to the spiritual man it is an il- which he had saved or the assistance of his
lusion. children.
To the ancients the economic problem was
The entire economic problem of the phy-
a phase, to the modern mind with its greed
sical universe is an expression of matter and
and ambition it is an all-absorbing reality.
the solution to it can be found in human an-
The young soul starts out on its journey in
matter as an egotist and the keynote of its atomy where three worlds of consciousness
consciousness is to acquire; regardless of cost express themselves in the menta1, emotional,
it must own, master, and break all other and physical centers of the body. A civiliza-
things. This •is the key to the economic prob- tion based on the lower man would express
lem which in the average mind becomes mere- all the qualities of the animal instincts. For
ly a series of processes for acquirement. The example: a carving from Mexico linking this
old soul has no economic problem for it has country with ancient Egypt, accompanied by
ceased to desire to acquire, for eyes growing a marvellous description from the pen of a
dim to material things have begun to see the famous geologist, was presented to a news-
reality hidden behind the veil. The old soul paper for publication. It was thrown into
realizes that we are here to master problems the waste-basket while ten columns were given
as they are presented by nature, and are to a murder because the human animal reads
never to dally with them but to go straight only that in which he is interested and while
through to a successful conclusion. man is so attuned he is interested only in the
There are over a thousand solutions to the loves, joys, hates and fears of animal consci-
modern economic problem but when applied ousness. The same is true on each one of the
they are all at best only partial solutions and three planes. We see all things with the eyes
the great key problem remains unsolved. built of the organic quality of our vehicles.
Many of us would like to wander with Plato In man's anatomy there are four elements
and Aristotle over the mountains of eternity -earth, water, fire and air-carbon, hydro-
but we are forcibly drawn back again into gen, nitrogen and oxygen-mediums through
the world by the economic needs; we are which the universe manifests concretely. In
forced to leave our philosophy and go back the economic problem there are four ele-
into the world, both as teachers and pupils to ments-land, transporatio'rl, exchange and
earn the money for our daily bhread. India integrity which are the basis of economics.
solved the problem of education in the face of Land corresponds to the physical body of man
economic difficulties by dividing the life of or the principle of earth and is the skeleton
man into three epochs. The first twenty-five of economics; the second or water element
years he was supported by his parents and corresponds to the etheric body of man and in
usually graduated from one of the many uni- economics is the problem of transportation
versities which, in the days of India's glory, which consists of the drawing of raw mater-
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ials to advantageous markets; the third ele- and mastered individually.

ment of fire or medium of exchange is the Power remains in the hands of those who
astral body, with the heart in its center, and are able to wield it, whether for good or ill,
the Christ, the sun principle, is its lord, ruling and the surest way to equalize power is for
through the metal gold which is at the present each human being to prove worthy of that
time the medium of exchange. The fourth power. When all men have earned the right
element is air, the mental quality, and in the to think they can think, but there is no glory
economic problem the integrity of the buyer in attacking the thinker of today save in one
and seller. These four constitute the body way-the thoughts of the modern thinker are
of the economic problem. Man tries to solve selfish, egotistic, and enslaving. Let the new
the problem of this body by placing one part thinkers, born out of the darkness of their
over the other as master, while the intelligent, present sorrow, turn not around and oppre ss
spiritualized individual realizes that all of the oppressor, which is the temperament of the
these are vehicles for the expression of some- best, but let them show the superiority which
thing else. they have gained by being charitable where
There will be no end to the economic dif- others were not, by being noble where others
ficulties until the quality of the soul rises out were not, by being true where others were
of the four elements of body and transmutes false, and in this way fulfill the dictates of
the present masters into the servants that they true civilization. This universal understand-
should be. There is no cure-all to apply to ing, based upon the realization of universal
any world problem; these great tests of the need, is the only permanent answer to any
intelligence of man must be met individually great problem.

Our Demi-Gods

B
0R some apparently unknown reason member of everything, and a leading author-
this year's crop of Initiates is an ex- ity on a large variety of subjects. He spends
ceptionally large one, hut with the quite a percentage of his time preparing for
increase of supply there is a tremendous de- his degrees and the rest of the time getting
crea se in market valuation and really at this over them. He admits that he is an Initiate
time the supply of Initiates greatly exceeds and can show you check book stubs to prove
the demand. It must be a grand and glorious it. He bestows initiation himself by the lay-
feeling to be an Initiate, so far, far above the ing on of hands and exhorting the most ter-
rest of humanity that only occasionally the
ribly binding oath to the Lords know what.
world is seen through a rift in the clouds;
From all over the surface of the earth people
but we fear it must be rather chilly and lonely
up there and the rarified atmosphere must be come to gain wisdom at his feet. Mr. Dubh
trying upon the lungs of our en1ightened. It came from Arkansas, Mr. and Mrs. Simp
may be this mental or spiritual strain that is from Rhode Island, Betty Boob from North
responsible for some of the peculiar things Dakota, and Willie Itt from Utah. All of
they do. these entered into the occult path under the
There are at the present time a number of guidance and guardianship of our much al-
high priests of sundry and varied shrines, phabeted friend Prof. Sourdough. Profes-
cults, isms, oxys, etc., who bestow upon you sor writes books, meets with an inner circle
various initiations for various considerations. and is perfectly willing to be admired. But
Let me introduce to you the fruitage of one really, this person has read a few good books
of these marvellous processes-the Right Hon- and is capable of delivering a rational lecture
orable Ciomedes Sourdough, C. 0. D., F. 0. on several subjects, but when a careful an-
B., S. 0. S., R. F. D., P. 0., R. S. V. P., I. 0. alysis is made of him and the acid test ap-
U., B. V. D. This individual is an Initiate of plied, he turns green. He would have been a
I. the first water, exceptionally brilliant, a very successful teacher and a great help to
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humanity if two things had not occurred. way, is not a legitimate spiritual aim but is
First, some one told him he was an Initiate, only legitimate as the result of the living of a
and secondly, he believed it. pure life). But this individual gives the fol-
There are several of our leading occult lowing process for the attainment of this
schools that have installed spiritual mimeo- supernatural vision, the unfoldment of soul
graphs in order to keep up with the ever ad- qualities, and so forth: Take a mirror and
vancing and unfolding efficiency system, a hang on your wall so that when you are sitting
sort of an occult sausage machine into one end down the center of the mirror is on a level
of which are poured perfectly respectable with your eyes. You are to put a lighted
citizens and out the other end of which comes candle on each side of the mirror and then
a never ending stream of over stuffed saus- gaze into it until something happens.
ages. A trip to Europe or some distant coun-
try is almost certain to result in an initiation, This is an exceptionally choice piece. What
especially if you go to the right parties, and would the shades of the immortals have to
within the last few years thousands of prom- say about it? If you look into this mirror
ising students have been turned into self-con- long enough you will see things. One stu-
ceited puppies by a set process of initiation. dent tried it, became hypnotized by his own
Briefly, it is as follows. eyes, could not look away from the mirror,
and finally, frothing at the moutYl,fell in con-
An individual who does not know tells an-
other individual what he doe~ not care any- vulsions. This is purely the result of the blind
thing about, then amputates one extremity leading the blind, but people have done it
from t~e bank roll; and this constitutes the and are doing it. They sit down every night
essence of the ceremony. and gaze in a piece of glass because the per-
son who outlined the instruction claimed to
Initiate number one is a dope fiend, an in-
be the one and only true Initiate, the Lord
venerate smoker, and one of his best pictures
High Mogul of this, that and the .,ther thing,
shows him tenderly embracing one of the
and the Lord Emir Most Everything.
vestal virgins of his temple. Number two
has been tied up in so many scandalous enter- Leaving this one to gaze in his magic mir-
prises that it is absolutely impossible to list ror, we pass on to the next one. Henry Brown
them separately, but suspect him of anything was a promising boy, and a marvellous stu-
you want to and you are sure to hit it. Initi- dent of things supernatural; his lectures were
ate number three carries a side line in oil clean-cut and interesting, his work was filled
stock. Initiate number four is wanted for with promise and there was no reason to doubt
bigamy in three states. Initiate number five that one of these days in the noraml tenor of
is wanted on sundry strange charges; while things he would become at least an Initiate
Initiate number six will have to explain sev- of the lower orders. But this person was
eral things to the government which does not talked out of his straight and narrow way by
care much for him nowadays. Go right one of those near-Initiates who received him
straight down the calendar of the Ten Com- into some deep and mysterious order which
mandments and we can produce, with very he "swallowed whole." He now returns to
little research work, an initiate who is morally the field of his labors absolutely useless, hon-
if not physically breaking each one of them. estly believing that he is an Initiate. All that
And oh the advice with which they delight the we have now of our once promising possibil-
heart of the seeker; and oh the esoteric in- itY. is a narrow-minded, highbrow fop who
structions which they launch upon an unsus- looks down with benign condescension upon
pecting world! the world at large.
Let us cite some examples of it. In the And so it goes wherever we look. Every
esoteric instructions to pupils written by one little while someone comes up to us and points
of these deluded individuals we find the fol- out some long-eared bewhiskered individual,
lowing suggestion as a very excellent means whispering confidentially in our ear, "Sh-h-h!
of developing clairvoyance ( which, by the he is an Initiate!" When we mildly ask who
 THE ALL-SEEINGEYE 9

told them so they usually answer, "Oh, he ad- ing do not have to live up to anything in order
mits it." Of all the occult teachers who have to be true to their claims, but when they stand
come to the world in late years there are two before the world as examples of finished
who admitted before the world that they were products, what happens to our scintillating,
just students, hoping with their own pupils Royal Dresden Initiate? Their faults show
that some day they would attain to the divine all the more because they claim to be without
light. It would not be well to name them here them and they are all the more ridiculous be-
but they were great because they claimed cause of their scantimonious hypocrisy.
nothing for themselves and only worked si- It is only one person's opinion of course,
lently, quietly, and simply for the good of the but we admit freely we do not have much use
cause. for them. When we see our leading Initiates
All over the face of the earth strange in- concentrating upon nice juicy heafsteaks or
dividuals are being attacked with illusions, surrounded by cigaret stubs we are convinced
delusions and confusions. The reincarnation of one of two things-either that occultism
of the Holy Ghost is now loose while there are is a joke or else they are. We prefer to think
hundreds preaching the one and only Truth- it is die latter. We do not say, necessarily, that
all different. Each one is being sponsored they should live any better-that is their
by a Master, and each one starts in by making problem. But this we do say: if they do not
a liar out of all the rest. And so it goes. We intend to live any better, they have no right
are producing in occultism a generation of to claim to be that which they obviously are
delir ious demi-gods who will never be of any not and in this way bring reflection against a
real good to anybody until they get down off noble cause.
their high horses and come back to earth We are very fond of retiring Initiates who
where they are chained by every possible tie. obliterate their presence in bashful retic-
If students could only learn to realize that ence, but when they come out with brass bands
to be a good student is as worthy as to be an and a torchlight parade we are inclined to be
Initiate and that when they live honestly with a little skeptical. When the world applauds
themselves they are far closer to the light than them we are quite confident that they are no
when they put on long robes, chant mantrams, good hut when they applaud themselves we
and act like a lot of ten-year-old children on gird up our garments and depart for such is
Hallowe'en! They are disgracing the very not done in the better regulated circles. There
thing which they should be defending as may be one or two Initiates out of the thou-
above human comparison. The greatest in- sands who claim to be, but we doubt even that
sult that the average man can heap upon oc- percentage. The real Initiates will always be
cult science is to claim to understand it, and found to be men and women without claims,
lea st of all to represent it. When Mr. Gotten- and we have no knowledge of ttle fact that
berg claims to be an Initiate, while his rela· LlJ.eyever bestowed a degree upon anyone.
tives and friends know positively that he has The average worker in occult lines is only
not taken a bath in five years, that he chews · expressing an opinion and he does not know
toba cco, is seldom sober, and is eternally whether that opinion is so or not. It is his
mixed up in domestic problems, and several privilege to express that opinion but it is not
similar things, he is not glorifying himself by his privilege to use the name of the Initiates
his claims but is simply making a joke out of for the furtherance of said opinion. Such
the thing he claims to be and is literally if not action is forgery.
intentionally advertising the fact to the world The Masters do not retaliate to these in-
that intemperance is the path to mastery and sults; they remain silent and unknown, in this
that being a sot is necessary to immortality. way proving their mastery, while the psuedo-
The whole thing is a joke but it is a very lnitiates spend all their time accepting glory.
crude one, a blasphemous one, and the aver- The true Teachers are willing that they should
age self-ordained Initiate is a living lie, both receive it, but must smile to themselves when
to himself and the great doctrines which he they see the self-conceited egotists accepting
claims to represent. Those who claim noth- the laurels of another man's work.
10 THE AIL-SEEINGEYE

Brothersof the ShiningRobe

(Continued)
CHAPTER NINE. her pale, fair face and guessed that she was
Dreams. Patricia, the name so suited one so noble
looking.

B
OR many days I lay helpless in my
bed, recovering from the cuts and "How is the patient, Mariah?" she asked
bruises I had received in the unac- the nurse, ignoring my questioning look, and
countable accident. This enforced rest she was gentle-voiced.
proved to be of untold value for it had been From the moment she had entered the door
many months since I had completely relaxed. a calm, soothing restfulness seemed to per-
The strain and stres s of my ever growing work vade the room and at the sound of her low-
had been more of a pressue than I had re- toned voice I had a sudden desire to sleep.
alized, for my struggle to advance and show Slowly a peaceful drowziness crept over me
the way to others and at the same time resist and I dropped into a deep, healing slumb er.
those at my back who would hold me behind
had been a fight both way s. So in my weak- And this was the beginning of a series of
ened physical state I had many hours in which wonderful dreams. Each time I awak ened
to reflect upon the pa st months that had from one of these calm, restful sleeps I could
whirled by so quickly and to also ponder remember a beautiful dream, a dream that
some upon the future. seemed to be a wonderful object lesson pl ayed
out in picture-like detail for my observa tion.
After a day or two of the most considerate It was as though I took no part in them and
and solicitious nursing, I was restored yet the central figure in each, who pa ssed
enough to take more notice of my surround- through so many adventures, seemed to be
ings and wonder to whom I owed such gener- my own soul.
ous treatment. So far I had only been dream-
ily conscious of the presence of someone bus-
* * * *
As my eyes closed sleepily, a thin path
ily performing their duties and had only seen stretched out like a ribbon, winding thro ugh
passing back and forth before my eyes the valleys and over hills, around great ma sses
motherly figure of the old Welsh woman but of broken rock, and through dark forestti
as soon as I was able to formulate my where singing birds fluttered across the
thoughts and collect my words enough to gloomy arches. This road wound through
make myself heard, I began asking que stions the veil of form and onward and upward _to
of my companion. Not that I felt at all wor- an end that no man knows, for none who have
ried or anxious, for I was too comfortably walked that silver thread have come ba ck to
at rest, but with the half indifference of semi- tell of the mysteries that lie over the edge of
consciousness I just lazily questioned her. the hills of eternity.
She proved to be rather noncommittal but I Along this path a pilgrim wound his way,
soon gathered that I was on the estate of Lady leaning upon a palmer's staff. Ever now
Patricia March, a young noblewoman who and again he would shade his eyes with his
lived alone in this small country manor-house hands, searching for the end of that twisting,
with the old Welsh woman as her only com- winding path. For many years he had walk-
panion. When I asked what phystcian had ed that road and seen its forks where others
attended me the reply was still rather unsat- joined it, tiny paths, mere footways seldom
isfactory, but by piecemeal I gathered that walked, were they. But the pilgrim knew
there had not been one and that Lady Pat- that all these narrow ways led to the Mighty
ricia was herself quite proficient in the art Road for which he was searching, the one
of healing. that had no name or parting and wound on-
During this rather enforced communication ward into the very sky itself.
the door opened softly and a young woman On and on the pilgrim went, stopping now
entered the room. I stared wonderingly at and again at some wayside shrine where he
 THE ALL-SEEINGEYE 11

knelt in prayer. Over the top of mighty path continuing.

mountains, through the depths of valleys bor- "What place is this?" he thought as he
dered by towering cliffs and broken crags, gazed upon the shrine whose soft white cur-
the pilgrim journeyed, and at last one after- tains were closed, concealing he knew not
noon as the sun was sinking, a ball of flam- what. As if in answer, a voice replied:
ing light amid the fleecy clouds of the west, "This is the Shrine of the Bleeding Heart."
he rea ched the foot of a lofty cliff. Here he
saw a fine, white path winding along its The pilgrim turned and behind him stood
mighty sides to the very top. He stopped and an old man, his white hair encircled by a
gazed in awe, then fell upon his knees, for in- band of shining gold and his grey beard fall-
stead of ending on the mountain top the wind- ing upon the robe he wore. His garment
ing road kept right on-up, up, into the hung from the shoulders and was of the same
heave ns it twisted and wound like a mighty colorless white as the temple around him.
spiral thread. The pilgrim fancied that it "What mean you, master?" asked the pil-
pas sed from star to star until finally lost in grim, bowing humbly at the feet of the aged
the infinitude of eternity. man.
Eagerly he pres sed onward, longing to "This" answered the Shining One, "is the
trave l that mystic way leading upward to the Place of Tribulation. Many there are who
hea vens. Slowly the shadows grew around walk the way of silver light that you have
him as he entered another grove of sacred come, but few have passed beyond this point.
tr ees. A chill weighed upon the wanderer's Before you the winding path which marks the
heart ; those mighty ones of the forest that way of immortal life goes upward to the feet
ro se above him seemed like great ghosts or of the divine, but he who would walk it
pr iests of old standing in silent adoration, must find the key that is hidden in this chapel.
rea ching their branches heavenward in silent See the door that is open before you-how
pra yer. As he listened, the swaying of the small it is and how low? Like the eye of the
wind among their leafy crests seemed like needle is this pathway and none may pass
the chant of a mystic choir and a great still- save tho se who bow. You now stand at the
ne ss entered his being. Moving on, scarce doorway of immortality for those who pass
brea thin g, he finally reached a mighty arch this portal go on into the infinite and are of
of white stone which barred his _way. The earth no more. Come let me show you the
roa d pa ssed under the ar ch with its gates of shrine."
iron and seemed to end in a wondrous white The aged man led the mortal one acro ss the
cha pel that nestled like some jewel of snowy room and as they came near the silken cur-
cry stal amidst the dark carbon of the forest tains parted and a great ray of glorious light
As the pilgrim stopped before this gate, blinded the seeker. As he grew accustomed
wondering how he could go on, a low creak- to the brilliance and dared to gaze into the
ing sound was heard and the massive portal mystic recess he saw, quivering and pulsating
swung open as though moved by unseen hands in the sacred niche, a living heart from which
and a great inspiration drew him onward, poured streamers of golden light.
leading him through, and up the marble steps
"Master, what is that?" asked the pilgrim
that led to the mystic chapel. The door of
1n awe.
thi s swung open also, and in awe and rever-
ence the pilgrim entered and stared around. "That, my son, is the Bleeding Heart, the
He stood in a circular chamber, all fin- Guardian of the Sacred Doorway. None
ished in pure white marble; the floor of in- shall pass this point save they be annointed of
laid stones and mosaic seemed like trodden the drops of blood that pour from this mystic
snow, and from it rose pillars of pure Carrara shrine. You cannot approach the door for
which upheld the mighty dome. Before him the light will blind you. So this guardian
rose a shrine and under the shrine a little stands; and to you, oh man of earth, if left
doorway scarce higher than his waist anct the riddle-how to pass this mystic shrine."
through this open portal the palmer saw the The pilgrim sought to press forward but
12 THE AIL-SEEINGEYE

the light drove him back and the great glow- ure upon the cross echoed back his words:
ing, pulsating Heart seemed to grow greater "Alone with none to give a word of cheer,
as he sought to near the Infinite. with none to understand, oh God! must it be
"Master, I cannot pass! Where shall I forever?"
find the key to this mystery?" As the pilgrim knelt there, his heart broken
The old one shook his head. and bleeding, a tottering form slowly ap-
"That is for you to know and not mine to proached the shrine and, falling, stretched
disclose," he answered kindly. weak hands towards the crucifix that it con-
tained. He was an old man and his raiment
As the wanderer stood, his head bowed in
was torn and tattered, his face deeply lined
sorrow that his path should end thus, a strange
with sorrow turned in despair to the cross,
dizziness came over him and the room swayed
and slowly dragging himself along he reached
and rocked, things grew dim about him, and
the foot of the tiny shrine ..
the old man's face seemed to swim in a sea
of light. Slowly shadows fell, the white "This is the end," he murmured. "It
temple faded away, the mountain with the seems ages that I have sought, but I can go
path into the stars dissolved, and the pilgrim on no more. And here, brother, when I am
found himself standing upon the same end- gone, lay me to rest-here beneath the cruci-
less road that stretched for miles before him fix."
and was lost in the shadows behind. The young one turned and a feeling no
"What way shall I go now to reach the mortal man can express filled his soul as he
Light?" he murmered gazing around in sor- gazed at the dying form.
row. "No, no, my brother!" he cried, "have
From somewhere a voice seemed to whis- courage! I too have wandered long and suf-
per: "Go on, go on." And slowly he began fered much-I know what you have been
agam that endless wandering to the very fur- through and how the miles seem without an
thermost part of creation, praying that he end, for I have walked them also. But cour-
might again find the point where the road age, brother, for I see now what I never saw
passed into the stars. His torn, bleeding feet before. Something within me that has cried
leaving their tracks of blood upon the path many a long year is loosened, something
the pilgrim wandered on, and at last fell fo; whispers that has long been silent. My heart
a moment's rest beside another wayside too was broken but as the iron fingers closed
shrine. upon it a new world opened to me for out of
"Is there no end to these wanderings?" he it escaped a gleam of light that shows me the
mutely asked, gazing up at the Crucified One way of the wise. Come, brother, let me help
h~ng in the little alcove. From the Dying you and we shall yet find the light-for see
Figure came the echo to his question: "Is there round yonder curve a gleam of light appears
no end?" -I am sure that this indeed is the end of the
way."
"For years I have walked the way faith-
fully and truly; each turn of this road whis- The old man looked and a new hope fill ed
pers that the end is near but when I reach the his eyes. "Indeed I see it al so!" he whis-
bend it stretches out as endless as before. pered, "come, let us go on."
Everywhere I have sought my God and His He rose and his tottering steps seemed
light, everywhere I find a promise that fades strengthened for a moment as he pressed for-
as I approach. Many a night I have seen a ward towards the light, but just as he rea ched
wondrous city shine out from the skies on the the curve, with his hands outstretched, he fell
top of some distant mountain but when I climb forward upon his face and lay still. The pil-
its lofty sides and fall exhausted the vision grim himself, rushing towards that glea m,
fades away only to be built again upon some stopped and wavered for a second and then
other distant peak. Alone, with none to give turned back to the form that held out a hand
a word of cheer, with none to understand- weakly.
oh God! must it he forever?" Again the Fig- ( Continued on page 26)
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The Wineof Life

O
EAR the close of the 11th century at Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit
Naishapur, in Khorasan, there lived Of This and That endeavor and dispute;
a poet-philosopher- Omar Khay- Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape
yam. Little is known of his private life and Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.
history, but today the verses of Omar, called
the Rubaiyat, live as they have never lived For "Is" and "ls-Not" though with Rule and
before. He was the first great writer of Per- Line,
sia and has been read and studied through And "Up-and-down" by Logic I define,
all these hundreds of years in his native land, Of all that one should care to fathom, I
but it does seem like a strange twisting of Fate Was never deep in anything but-Wine.
that he should be so alive in this ultra-modern
world of ours and that his piquant, old-world Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring
philosophy should ring so true today. How- Your winter-garment of Repentence fling:
ever, there is probably no more widely mis- The Bird of Time has but a little way
understood writer in all the annals of litera- To flutter-and the Bird is on the Wing.
ture than Omar, for the peculiar phraseology
Just the rambling fantasies of a drunkard,
of his work is very deceiving, and his mean-
nothing more nor less than beautiful poetry
ing is usually directly contrary to the state-
about drink and intoxication. And that is
ment made. But a careful analysis of his
what the average individual sees. Others say,
writing will show the observant thinker that in
no, no, there is something deeper behind it,
every case there is a deep underlying mean- and so lay it aside. They are willing to be-
ing that bespeaks of great philosophical un- lieve that it is inspired perhaps, but how and
derstanding. Nor did his genius stop at verse why, or what it really means, is nothing at
making, for he was the foremost mathematic- all to them. However, it is a known fact that
ian and scientific astronomer of his day and Omar talked a great deal more of his wine
much of the calender system we use now was than he drank of it, and though his entire
brought to its present state by his efforts. philosophy is centered around the brimming
And it does not seem fitting that one who so cup, he means something else.
lived the life of a sage and mystic should
have written light and meaningless things. The Rubaiyat is a conversation or sililoquy
delivered by the human soul to its divine
But that is the way of the world, they only
spirit, referring to the body as the Clay Cup,
see with the eyes they have. It is just the
in some instances as the Loaf of Bread, and
same with our Bible: the historians read it as
to the life in man as the Red Wine:
history; the imaginative read it as romance;
the astrologers read it as astrology; the al-
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
chemists read it as alchemical; and the ma-
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse-and Thou
terialists-well, to them all the spiritual
Beside me singing in the Wilderness
scripture of the world is just so much useless
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
tommyrot, consequently they condemn, de-
stroy, and paint darkly everything of such na- For thousands of years the juice of the
ture with which they come in contact. And grape has been used to represent the life es-
that is just why most of the ancient books of sence in man because it is the closest thing in
a religious nature were written as they were, nature to human blood and it contains the
in allegory, hidden from the eyes of those sun's vitalizing rays in a greater amount than
who are not ready to know. anything else for the sun is the base of its
Reading the following verses of the Ru- fermentation. And as the human brain with
baiyat through the eyes of the rank material- its many convolutions resembles a bunch of
ist, what have we? grapes, it is called the Bough or Grape, while
14 THE ALL-SEEINGEYE

this essence or spiritual life of man is in the Ah, my Beloved, fill the cup that clears
brain centers and is the ref ore the Juice of the To-day of past Regret and future Fears:
Grape. To-morrow!-Why, To-morrow I may be
And so Omar says that the Wine of Life is Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n Thousand
all there is and all else is a lie. Speaking of Years.
his search for some other thing worth while Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,
and the uselessness of it all, he says: Before we too into the Dust descend;
Myself when young did eagerly frequent Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie,
Doctor and Saint and heard great argument Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-
About it and about: but evermore sans End!
Came out by the same door where in I went. And of the hopelessness of human destiny
Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd he speaks:
Of the Two Worlds so learnedly are thrust
Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to In to this Universe, and Why not knowing,
scorn Nor Whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing;
Ar e scatter'd, and their Mouths are stopt with And out of it, as Wind along the Waste,
Dust. I know not Whither, willy-nilly blowing.
And who has not heard, as he did, the What, without asking, hither hurried Whence?
saints and sages discus sing? We have a And, without asking, Whither hurried hence!
number of them right in this city. They Oh, many a Cup of this forbidden Wine
gather on the street corners and in halls, Must drown the memory of that insolence!
shouting in all directions. One will say: Ec-
Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh
toplasm is the base of all thing s. Another
Gate
will answer: No, it is protoplasm! Then: I rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate,
You, fool! it is ectopla sm! And they rip, And many a Knot unravell'd by the Road;
and rant, and roar. It was thi s that Omar en- But not the Master-Knot of Human Fate.
joyed and said of them: "They are foolish
pro phets" and "In the end their mouths are There was a Door to which I found no key;
stopped with dust." And it is true, for that There was the Veil through which I could not
is the end of all; the ranters and roarers die see;
hard but there is only one ending-death Some little talk of Me and Thee
stops it all. There was-and then no more of Thee and
And so Omar preferred not to speculate Me ..
upo n the beginning nor the hereafter, he deals Earth could not answer; nor the Seas that
not with where we came from, where we are mourn
going and why, but only with what we are do- In flowing Purple, of their Lord forlorn;
ing today. His sentiments are "If I do that Nor rolling Heaven, with all his Signs
which is good today, tomorrow will take care reveal'd.
of itself; if I made a mi stake yesterday, it And hidden by the sleeve of night and morn.
does no good to worry about it now."
Omar realized that all living things are
Stra nge is it not? that of the myriads who Pieces on a great Gameboard, all moved by a
Before us pass' d the door of Darkness though Mystic Player in the way that they should go.
Not one returns to tell us of the Road, This Mysterious Player is the spirit of man
Which to discover we must travel too. and the Checkerboard is Life and the Pieces
Alike for those who for To-day prepare, on the board are the living problems which
And those that after some To-morrow stare, confront us. And we are the mystery of every
A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness game we play; but most of us get so wrapped
cnes up in our game that we become enslaved to
"Fools, your reward is neither Here nor our own selves instead of being masters of the
There." chessboard.
 THE ALL-SEEINGEYE 15

We are no other than a moving row this mystic Wine. When man lives properly
Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go and is vitalized by this life, the food he eats
Round with this Sun-illumin'd Lantern held and the sun he absorbs, he gathers into his
In Midnight by the Master of the Show; being a spiritual essence, extracting it from
all of the base elements that constitute his
Impotent Pieces of the Game He plays bodies. And this essence of life is the basis
Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days; of all energy, and the whole secret of this
Hither and thither moves, and checks, and mystic wine is in the conservation of energy
slays, and its expression through creative channels.
And one by one back in the Closet lays. Wherever energy is used it should produce
The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes something equal to the amount expended, and
But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes; if man would only realize this, he would be
And He that toss'd you down into the Field, less likely to waste the precious motive power
He knows about it all-He knows - HE of life in riotous living for he would know
knows! that when he expends it constructively he
would gain constructively and when he uses it
The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, destructively he loses twice as much. A per-
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit son who gets violently angry and cannot re-
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, strain himself is intoxicated with this life
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. energy and the essence is fermented through
pervers10n.
And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky,
It is when this energy is turned upward into
Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die,
the brain that it becomes creative and when
Lift not your hands to It for help-for It
turned downward into the generative system
As impotently rolls as you or I.
in perversion that it becomes destru ctive.
And as though to lessen or counteract the When this subtle substance, the Wine of Life,
utter hopelessness of this, he brings the power vitalizes the brain and all the energies at.e
of human individuality to bear: turned into the upper room, then man truly
drinks of the fruit of the vine, and partakes
I sent my Soul through the Invisible, of the substances he has transmuted. And
Some letter of that After-life to spell: Omar says if you are living on this fruit of
And by and by my Soul return'd to me, the vine you have secured all this world has
And answer'd "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell." to give, symbolizing the great life-giving
qualities of the wine:
Heav'n but the Vision of Fulfill'd Desire,
And Hell but the Shadow of a Soul on fire,
The Grape that can with Logic absolute
Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves,
The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute:
So late emerg'd from, shall so soon expire.
The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice
And then of the responsibility of the soul, Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute:
perhaps a hint of Re-incarnation, he writes
the following, and gives the urge to live in the Why, be this Juice the growth of God, who
To-day and drink the ever-present Wine of dare
Life: Blaspheme the twisted tendril as a Snare?
A blessing, we should use it, should we not?
Yesterday this Day's Madness did prepare And if a Curse--why, then, Who set it there'?
To-morrow's Silence, Triumph, or Despair:
Drink! for you know not whence you came, I must abjure the Balm of Life, I must,
Drink! for you know not why you go, nor Scared by some After-reckoning ta'en on
where. trust,
And so the entire philosophy of the Ru- Or lured with Hope of some Diviner Drink,
baiyat twines round the Vine of Life and the To fill the Cup-when crumbled into Dust
key to the whole is in learning how to drink ( Continued on page 20)
16 THE ALL-SEEINGEYE

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CORRECT BREATHING. of disease except accidents and those are not
Man's lower bodies receive nourishment strictly excluded as a person can twist their
and vitalizing pow~~ in three general ways. ankles on high heels without half trying. Yes-
First, through the direct rays of the sun pass- terday we passed down the street behind a
ing in through the crown of the head or the pair of two and a half inch heels and the
spleen; secondly through food from which he ankles above were rolling like chips in a
extracts the vital element; and third from heavy sea while the party above the ankles has
breathing by which he oxygenizes his bodies. been wondering why she has had a general
Oxygen is absolutely necessary to the unfold- delibility for years. Any man who makes a
ment of man's consciousness. The average chimney out of him self has no right to be
individual has no idea either of its importance healthy and will not be and tho se of our dear
or of how to do it, thus he overlooks a valu- friends who insist upon their nice juicy beef -
able opportunity for health. Everyone should steaks should be tickled to death when uric
sleep in well ventilated rooms with the win- acid gets them because they have been invit-
dows open and should spend five or ten min- ing it to come. The mystery is not that we c:,,
utes every morning in deep breathing. The not live longer, the mystery is we live at all.
more one breathes the less one will have to If we continue to wear tight fitting clothes
eat until finally it is possible to practically which will not allow the body to breathe we
maintain onself on oxygen. Man only uses will keep right on having all the diseases that
about one third of his lung capacity; he medical science has differentiated and some
should at least double the quantity of his in- more they have not found yet.
halation. The corresponding out-going breath So mought it be ..
frees the body from carbon dioxide, the great THE ETERNAL EXCUSE.
death dealing element in man. If he will When it is gently hinted to an individual
breath twice as much, he can divide his ill that he is not living up to the best that is in
health and substract one-half. him, could be doing better, etc., there is one
FURTHER LIGHT ON THE HEALTH excuse that will almost always come back to
PROBLEM you-well, I am doing about as well as you
When suffering from the follow- are--1 am as honest as the next fellow-or
ing ailments, do not go to a doctor just similar expressi~ns. Man is eternally excus-
knock your head against a wall. If ing his own weaknesses by pointing out sim-
your corns ache it is not nature's fault; ilar short-comings in his companions. He
leather shoes would bring corns out on a boot- considers this to be a clinching argument
jack; and as a very powerful nerve center is while in reality it is no argument at all. The
in the sole of each foot and leather shoes pro- virtue of sin cannot be proved by its mere
hibit the feet from breathing, do not be sur- existence, neither can our short-comings be
prised if you are sick. Any gentleman who sanctioned because our brother man ex-
wears a tight fitting hat must not be surprised presses them also. Many times we go out to
if he develops a furless pate for you cannot put a slick deal over on our brother, excus-
strangle hair roots and have them live any ing ourselves by saying, "he'll do it to me if
more than you could go into an air-tight room I don't get to him first."
for several hours and come out alive. Any All these things are excuses to cover hu-
of our dear lady friends who insist upon man weakness. Man should strive to attain
walking around on stilts (French heels) are the best and allow no comparison to deter
subjecting themselves to over forty diseases, him from attaining individual mastery. His
including spinal ailments, kidney trouble, duty is not to be just as good as the world but
nervousness, general lassitude, paralysis, to be perfect and he must attend to the ac-
stomach trouble and nearly every known form complishment of this end.
 THE ALL-SEEINGEYE 17

[ QUESTION AND ANSWER DEPARTMENT ]

Please name some occult literature that is the way that leads to constructive acts. If
good for the beginner to study. we do not purify the bodies and make the
Ans. "The Brother of the Third De- glass clean we can never be sure where in-
gree" by Garver; "The Dweller on Two spirations come from.
Planets" by Philos; "Miriam of the Mystic Can we get anything we want by
Brotherhood" by Howard; "The Romance wishing for it?
of Two Worlds" by Barabas; "The Sorrows Ans. Yes, if we wish to work.
of Satan" and "Life Everlasting" by Marie Why are we born with so many
Corelli are as good fiction as can he secured imperfections?
on the subject. The writings of Jacob bo- Ans. Because when we finished our last
heme, Andrew Jackson Davis and Emanuel visit here there were many little things and
Swendenborg are excellent from the mystic a few gre·at ones that we had not completed.
standpoint: Sibley, Raphael, William Lil- There were many things which . we did
ley and Nicholas Culpeper are good in wrong and for them we are suffering. We
astrology. "The Secret Doctrine," "Isis Un- start in this time where we left off before.
veiled" and "The Key to Theosopohy" by What is the best way to free oneself
Madame Blavatsky; "The Cosmo Concep- from the clutches of a hypnotist?
tion" by Max Heindel are of the best oc- Ans. There is only one posihle way and
cult works of modern times. Spencer, that is the developing of a positive will
Huxley and Plato lead in scientific re• power and making it stronger than that of
search and philospohy, while H. G. Wells the operator. Outside aid is only a crutch
has written an excellent history of the and the victory over this enemy of mental
world. freedom is only possible through the divine
When can we tell that a past debt help of the God in man, the individqal con-
has been paid? sciousness within.
Ans. When we met an unpleasant prob- How long and how often should one fast
lem and master it. We never have to pay and pray for spiritual growth?
the same debt twice. If it still bothers us Ans. Next time you decide to do this,
we have not met it. take a vacation, roll up your sleeves and
How can we change our environment? go to work to help someone who neds some-
Ans. Our environment is created with- thing and fast in your spare time. In your
in ourselves and if we would see harmony fasting, let your lower emotions starve for
we must build harmony within, for we see lack of nourishment and let your prayer
all the world through our own eyes, our own be a life lived well twenty-four hours a
failings, likes and dislikes. day.
Why does the Lord's prayer say: "Lead Is the anthropoid a degenerate human or a
us not into temptation?" ls this highly evolved animal?
not a blasphemy? Ans. Neither. He is the result of the
Ans. This part of the Prayer is directed inability of a certain percentage of the last
to the lower emotions, asking in the name life-wave to advance to human conscious-
of the divine that they lead us not into ness.
temptation. It is not addressed to God, What effect has cremation on the spirit?
but to the lower man in the name of God. Ans. Cremation about three days after
When should we be guided by our death, immediately destroying the body,
intuitions? severes the last tie between the higher or-
Ans. When we have proved by experi- ganisms and its form and in that way frees
ence that our spiritual natures have un- the spiritual bodies to go on with their
folded to that degree that they guide us in work. (Continued on page 31)
18 THE .ALL-SEEING
EYE

TheManWhoLaughed
N sunny Sicily beneath the towering gation will prove that the heart of man breaks

X height of Mount Etna, under whose just as easily as the heart of a woman. But
mystic pile, so legend tells, the Vul- a man hides it more carefully and receives
cans hammer out the weapons of Jove on the little sympathy for the ache that the world
anvil of the gods, there lies a little village. does not see. Thornton was one of those men
Sicily is dotted with many lovely little ham- who could neither conceal nor for get, and he
lets, looking like bright nosegays set in frames carried his sorrow with him wherever he went,
of green and brown. One of these little vil- his mind was always obsessed with one
lages nestles close in the arms of Etna, and thought, and he lived entirely in the years
many of its buildings reflect the whims of the that were past.
volcano. Far above it, a little dot on the The tale of woe of this man was a long one,
mountain, one can see the great observatory and al so an old one. It fills the lives of thou-
and below rolls the blue waters of the Medi- sands all over the world for there are none
terranian. A picturesque little town it is, just who can hurt us as much as those we love and
as the mind of the dreamer loves to create and trust. It was simply the story of one who cared
as in imagination the homely old-fashioned and another who simply played, and with the
peasant life is still lived. carelessness of a child broke a human heart.
On a wall built from the rocks of the flam- That was years ago, in the days of la ce and
ing mountain sat a native guide who looked lavender, and the thoughtless one had lain
not unlike a brigand, and was dressed in ac- asleep these many years in a little village
cordance with his personality. His ears were cemetery. All the world had forgotten save
pierced and in them hung heavy golden rings, one, all the world had forgiven save one; but
his hair was controlled within the bonds of a even as the •grey shadows began to fall on
red bandanna handkerchief, and his drooping the life of Henry Thornton he remem bered.
black mustache was carefully and fiercely His hand some face would cloud and his jaw
combed adding a swagger note to his eccen- set tighter as he vainly sought for somethi ng
tric figure. Beside him stood George Wash- upon which to wreck hi s venom, a poison long
ington. By way of explanation, we may add brewing in a heart that hated happine ss be-
that George W. was a long-eared, tii·ed look- cause it was not happy too.
ing Sicilian donkey who would always lie As Thornton stood beside the guide, leaning
down when you wanted him to stand up and over the old wall, his eyes fe]l upon a littlP
stand up when you wanted him to lie down. garden some twenty feet below him, a pretty
Washington and his master were part of the place filled with rustic chairs and tables where
natural scenery of the village and strangers the town folk came to sup their sour wine and
passing through on their ride around the i's- tell the stories of the day. It was deserte d
land were shown the village church, the cave save for a few children playing in a corn er
of the saints near by, and George Washington. and one figure that sat huddled in a brown
Leonardo, the guide, had a peculiar distinc- robe at one of the tables. The children were
tion; he spoke the best English for miles playing some strange game and every few
around and therefore was always watching for minutes they would tumble over each other
an opportunity to commercialize his intelli- in a mad whirl of bare arms and legs and the
gence. At the time our story opens he had Sicilian dust rose in a cloud about the scene.
Henry Thornton at his mercy. The figure at the table raised his head and a
Thornton was a man with a past-not the long peal of deep-throated laughter sounded
kind that men are ashamed of but the kind up to the two men above. Thornton's face had
that some men are broken by. It is said that been composed but as this merry sound broke
the world is filled with heartless men but this upon his ears his jaw set, his eyes became
is not essentailly the case, and careful investi- slits, and he hissed out three words with all
f~~r~~~iS.,,. ..._~L:i.,~~:_..:-:-C:;:-,_;;;.
...._..-~~..:L...:.... -t-.:.,.,._
4:_ ...,:~.· ..-.•_ _ , __-,;. - _c=•,...:.;§~
 THE ALL-SEEINGEYE 19

the bile of years of acidity. the years of loneliness I have come through,
" Damn that man!" how I might have listened to the laughter of
The guide looked at the American in my own children, and in my old age been
amazement and then followed his eyes to the peaceful in the realization of life's dream.
little scene below. He quickly crossed him- That, sir, is why I hate people that laugh, and
self, but made no audible reply although he revile the God who gave me the heart to love
murm ered something under his breath. and then doomed it to be broken-Bah! there
Thornton continued to gaze at the little he laughing again !-Oh, damn that man-I
group, and then feeling that he must make a shall go mad if he does not stop !-I would
confidant of someone he turned to Leonardo: give all I own to be he this day, just so that I
"Come sit down on this wall I want to tell could laugh."
you something-I will explain my attitude "Surely, Signior, you are jesting. You do
for it must seem very strange to you." not mean to say that you would like to change
"Si, Signior," answered the guide, and with places with Fra Angeleco, the old man who
a look to his mule he seated himself upon the sits down there at the table? Surely yon
wall, perfectly willing to let the American jest."
talk as long as his pay went on .. "No, Leonardo, I am in deadly earnest. I
Thornton took out a cigarette case and gave would give all I own if I could laugh as he
the Italian a smoke, then closing the case, sat laughs today."
gazing at it for several seconds, and then "Signior, you have told me a story, now
turned it so the guide could see the little oil let me tell you one-the story of the old man
pai nted miniature beautifully done by some who sits there at the table, laughing at the
ma ster 's hand upon an inlay of purest ivory. children who play around his feet. May I
The Sicilian looked at the fa ce for several tell it to you?"
seconds and then raising his eyes and opening "Yes, go ahead, I do not care when I get
his hands he muttered, "She is a beautiful back to the hotel, I would not be sorry if I
fa ce." never did."
"Ye s, she was beautiful in the days gone "All right, Signior, I shall proceed. It was
by," answered Thornton staring out into the -let me see," and the Sicilian counted on his
di stant haze that hung over the Mediterranian, fingers, "three, four, five, six,-yes six years
"b eaut iful but thou ghtle ss; she played with ago that Antonio had his little market in
hear ts as children play with dolls, and mine Aderno. He had a beautiful little farm up
was broken in the game. That was nearly on the side of Etna-you see where that black
forty years ago in America's sunny southland streak is? Well, Antonio's farm was just :i
where beauty is nature's order and gallantry little to the right of that heap of boulders.
her decree-Oh, God, t.liat I could forget like Signior, that was in the year of the eruption-
other s do !-but I cannot-I have gone from down the sides of our mountain the lava came
one end of the earth to the other but ever that in a great fiery stream and Antonio was in the
fa ce haunts me. I have never laughed since market-place at the time. Like a mad man he
that da y unless it was in a mad delirium. I rushed home, but when he got there all he saw
have taken the path of forgetfulness, but there was a great fissure in the earth, with sulphur
is no peace; in the opium smoke she haunts fumes rising from its depths. All in a few
me, in drink she dances in my wine-glass, seconds-his wife whom he adored, his
breaking my heart again and again as she did mother whom he worshipped, and his five lit-
that day. My hair turned white in just a few tle children whom he cherished more than life
short months and I have lived in sorrow and itself were swallowed up by the flaming moun-
sadne ss these many years. That is why I hate tain. Well, Signior, we saw little of Antonio
to see people happy-why should they be so for many months! he wandered like a mad
when I am not? Did God send me into this man among the hills and even the brigands
world to wander my life in agony? When I grew afraid of him, he climbed among the
see these children playing in happiness and rocks, wild-eyed and crazy. But at last, he
hear the glad laughter I go insane to think of grew quiet again, and feeling that he had
20 THE ALL-SEEINGEYE

nothing left to live for he climbed up yonder walking about with nothing in them but ashes.
hill to the little monastary. There he took Inside they are cremated by the fires of de-
holy orders and gave his life to the service of sire, hate and fear, and the flames of passion,
Christ and the Blessed Virgin. Antonio van- burned out. The Vine is dead and all that re-
ished from the world and there appeared in mains is just an urn filled with ashes.
his place Fra Angeleco who has lived ever And so, if you will read Omar Khayyam's
since to try and help others." beautiful verses, taking the human soul as the
"Did he really go through all that?" asked vine, the bread as the bodies, the wine as the
Thornton in amazement. blood or life-giver, and Omar as the spirit,
"Si, Signior, and much more in his heart you will find something very useful. The
that no man shall ever know." bunch of grapes as the brain has been the
"And yet he can laugh! Oh, how I envy symbol of life for ages for in it is contained
such a man as that! Why did God give him the life forces which make possible every ex-
courage to laugh and me only the weakness to pression of energy man has. And mastery
cry? Leonardo, I am more jealous of that and initiation is the complete control of it and
man than of any other living thing in the uni- the turning of it into the development of the
verse--! would give anything to be as happy." spiritual organism. It is suffering, sorrow,
"Surely, Signior, you do not mean that? philosophy, art, science and study which grad-
You are not jealous of poor Fra Angeleco ?" ually attain to that end, but the greatest means
"Yes, I am jealous of him; he is able to known to man are purification and balan ce.
laugh and forget." Purification of life and motive turns this
"He cannot help laughing Signior, nor can energy from all destructive application and
he help forgetting. The good God has taken the absolute poise of mastery prevents its ex-
his mind away from him: the poor father has pansion into useless pursuits. All depends
been mad these many years. Surely you upon the individual; when he lives the life
are not jealous of a babbling idiot, nor would he shall know the doctrine.
you curse a man whose sorrow has taken away There are many, many more wonderful
his mind? In this world, Signior, it is well and deeply mystic truths brought out in this
to be careful whom we envy, for those who beautiful classic and in this article we have
laugh often are sadder than those who cry." only touched a few of them lightly. ~ 'b ile
lack of space prevents going into it ver se by
Wine of Life verse and giving it the interpretation it de-
serves, still this brief summary will give some
( Continued from page 15)
idea of the great import of this deeply -re-
0 threats of Hell and hopes of Paradise! ligious poem.
One thing at least is certain,-This Life flies; The whole work is based upon the knowl-
One thing is certain and the rest is Lies; edge of man's duty to the life forces within
The Flower that once has blown forever dies. him. And death means that this ener gy is
And so this transmutation of the life ener- gone, and therefore Omar says that whoever
gies is the greatest alchemical mystery the has inverted the Cup is dead; and so ends the
world has ever known. If the Cup be empty poem with these verses:
there is no philosophy and the argument of Yon rising Moon that looks for us agai n-
sage and seer means nothing. The path that How oft hereafter will she wax and wane;
the individual walks through years and lives How oft hereafter rising look for us
of experience, the growth, the gains by prac- Through this same Garden-and for one m
tical labor, mental, spiritual, and physical, vain!
are the basis of the Wisdom Teachings, and
there is no other way. And when like her, oh Saki, you will pa ss
Omar says that life is Wine poured into a Among the Guests Star-scatter'd on the Grass,
Jug and that a broken Jug is of no use to any- And in your blissful errand reach the spot
one, for there is nothing in it. And we have Where I made One-turn down an empty
with us and all around those broken jugs, Glass!
 THE ALL-SEEINGEYE 21

a great stream was coming-a stream of liv-

The Homage ing creatures. Stately stags and meek-eyed
( Continued from last month) does, surrounded by their young, broke
CHAPTER 1WO. through the forests in silent majesty, great
lumbering bears came also, not one but many.
It was about four years after when the
The air was filled with the humming, droning
youth went again up into the mountains, four
of the wings of birds and even the steely light
years of sunshine and of rain, four years
was shadowed by the multitude of their wings.
that changed the affairs of man but left the
mountains just the same. The green grass, From the forest came the wolves and foxes
the lofty pines and the great belts of whitened and in the little pool by the cabin door fishes
snow had apparently not changed at all. of many colors gathered, swimming to and
fro, so many that the water seemed one living
One morning as the sun arose a strange
scene confronted the eye. Over the moun- mass. Then it seemed that the great heads of
tain there hung a great, gray cloud which the pine trees were bowed, their branches bent
twisted, turned, and seethed in a million ever- low, and from the mountain tops a great
changing folds. The whole atmosphere in cloud of leaves and fine pine needles de-
the mountains was hushed and still and a scended like a rain upon the cabin. All
great leaden silence hung over nature. nature was united in a strange sad song, even
Hunters and trappers whispered that never the very earth itself seemed joined in a sob-
before in all-the years they had lived among bing melody.
the hills had they ever seen such a strange In awe and fear the youth crept to the
mystery before. As the day wore on the dark cabin door and gazed within. There on his
cloud became deeper, a low moan broke out pallet of straw lay the Old Man of the Moun-
from the heavens, it rose and fell with the tain, his hands folded upon his breast, his
passing of the winds, a great sighing sound
white heard spread upon his cowl, and his
as that of the dying. Each tree seemed to
eyes closed. Without entering in, the youth
pick it up, reverberate and echo it from their
crests and branches. Little shrubs and hushes knew the tragedy. The hermit was dead. At
seemed also to bow their heads while the the foot of the rough wooden pallet stood the
arms of the lofty pines hung drear and dismal great arched-antlered stag, his hea:d down
in the steely light. Up among the rocks great so that his soft nose rested on the edge of the
groaning sounds came and masses of boulder couch. In the hollow of the old man's arms
and dirt became thundering avalanches upon sat the little gray squirrel, trying to force a
the mountain sides. The snow upon the crest hazel nut between the cold white lips. Little
turned gray and everything seemed to hang birds were shrilly crying as they circled
in awe and suspense during nature's agita- around his head and the great wolf lay like
tion. a watchdog before the body of the one he
loved. The soft scent of the forest came in
That day the youth was impelled to climb
through the door which stood ajar for in the
again that mountain and so he wound in and
old cabin that door was never closed. Little
out along the little path and, following intui-
baby birds in their nest cried for the hand
tional guidance, branched off from it and
which could feed them no more.
after a short walk reached the point where
the valley began and the mountain peaks left A thin stream of tears poured over the
off. There among the rocks, half hidden by youth's face as he gazed upon the scene.
the darkness, stood the little cabin as he had Nature knew it had lost its truest friend. In
seen it before. But now everything seemed all the world that taunted, one alone had loved
different. He shrank back in wonder for them; in a world that slew and hated and
coming out of the mountains, out of the very thoughtlessly robbed them of their right to
earth itself, out of the skies, and up out of live, they had found one who understood.
the waters of the river that flowed by the door, And now the cold fingers of eternal night had
22 THE ALL-SEEING EYE

closed his eyes and the chilly voice of the ing. No sham is here, no pretense, each one
mountain peaks had whispered in his ear. of these beasts to its very soul adores the
Who could they go to now when their friend thing it pays its homage to. Each of these
was dead? Soon again the rude hand of the little furred and feathered things would glad-
huntsman would have no sweet voice to offset ly die for that one, each tree and stone woul9-
it. The beasts knew this and were sad. give of its fleeting life the fullest and the ut-
most. When man has a friend among the
The youth stood for several seconds, un-
beasts and birds, that man is good, for there
able to take his eyes from the scene. A great
is no guile in their lives, no subtleness in their
something welled up in his soul and he re-
adoration."
membered the promise he had made-his
The youth was overcome and sinking upon
promise to he true to the furred and feathered
friends. He passed slowly through the cabin his knees gazed out at that endless stream of
faces--great sorrowing eyes that could not
door. The great wolf looked at him hut did
speak but with lowered heads and drooping
not move-just a low howl like a groan of
bodies whispered the emotions of their souls.
despair broke from the beast's throat.
The great strong trees, even the blades of
As he touched the still cold form of the grass, bent .their heads, for the one who loved
hermit the little squirrel raised his eyes, them all had gone away.
heady bright eyes like sparks of fire, and two "This is my task," murmured the youth,
tiny paws reached out to cover the face of "and I will fill it. What greater proof has
the master he had loved. The youth stroked man of the depth of his sincerity than that a
the little beast's shiny body as it lay stretched ring of faces such as these should pay devo-
out across the form of the hermit and, biting tion to him? I am not going back into the
his lip to hold in check the pain of his soul, valley again-I am going to stay and serve
the hunter of the days gone by stepped again these beasts and birds as the Old Man did."
to the door of the cabin and gazed out. He The shades of night fell over the mountain
started back from sheer amazement-such a but they were alight that night with a million
sight as met his vision had never before con- fires. A million flaming altars sent up their
fronted man nor probably ever will again. sacrifices and through the night gleaming
As far as the eyes could reach in every coals of fire, the eyes of the silent watchers,
direction the mountains and valleys were row after row, stretched out into an infinity.
alive. Each tree branch bore its weight of The next morning when the sun rose there
feathery life, in each glade and opening was a new hermit living in the mountains.
stood some stately beast, not hundreds nor Under a cross of rocks the body of the aged
thousands hut it seemed all nature was gath- man was laid to rest while his spirit inter-
ered there. The mighty gray clouds over the ceded before a greater throne for the beasts
mountains rumbled and moaned and lurid that he had loved. The great cowl was worn
flashes of lightening rent their hazy depths. by another, the staff strengthened another's
A gentle rain was pouring down, pattering hand.
among the leaves, and the youth, looking at So through the years that went rapidly by,
the form on the couch, murmured, "Indeed in his love for nature, the one who once had
blessed are the dead that the rain raineth slain nursed the wounds that he had made.
upon." The birds and beasts learned to know him
A voice within him spoke, saying, "When also and soon they gathered around his door
has such homage been done to living man? to whisper their secrets in his ear and tell
Has emperor or king had such a cortege as their love stories to his soul. And some there
this? Many great ladies and grand men were who slowly learned to forget the other
march in the funerals of the great, many one and to love him anew in the one he
there are who come and pay respects to a na- had awakened. Down in the village no man
tion's dead, and ofttimes they do not know knew what had happened, they did not know
and do not care, but each one who stands in that the hermit of the pines was dead for still
this great cortege is true to the soul of its be- ( Continued on page 26)
 THE ALL-SEEINGEYE 23

A Keyto Physic and Occult Sciences

In last month's issue we reprinted from an fessions of Divinity, Physic and Law.
old edition an exerpt from Culpeper's famom It rarely happens that the want of intellect,
old "Family Herbal." This was the first of a or natural endowments of the mi1!._d,are the
series of articles we are going to run each rocks on which men split in their professional
month, reprinted from the rare fin;t e<litions character. Indocile and unapt indeed must
of the 15th, 16th and 17th century books on that man be whom education, experience, ob-
the sacred sciences, for the benefit of tho5e servations, reading, or inquiry, will not set
who cannot obtain these volumes. The fol- generally right in his progress through life.
lowing article is taken from Dr. Sibly's "Key Yet, without industry and an anxious desire
to Physic and the Occult Sciences": of knowledge and improvement, neither edu-

m
* * * *
ISDOM is the light of Reason, and the
cation nor all the advantages of natural abil-
ity can save us from the wreck of error or the
bond of Peace. It affiliates Man disgrace of ignorance. Obstinate men, though
with God, and elevates his minrl of the first capacity in the world, are a for-
above unworthy pursuits. It is the principal lorn hope and often irrecoverably lost, by un-
excellen ce which distinguishes him from advisedly pursuing the phantom of their own
brutes, and the chief ornament that dignifies brain; whilst others, enriched by dignity of
his character. Whatver is founded in Wis- sense, and qualified by depth of under stand-
dom's laws, defies the mouldering hand of ing, so form the brightest characters among st
time, and ranks with immortality. Hence it is society, surrender up their talents for dis-
that a thirst after knowled ge is natural to cernment and enquiry, and content them selves
man; and if the care s and follies of this with taking upon trust whatever they see or
world could be estranged from his concerns, hear; particularly in the practice of physic;
his desire of information would be insepar- in the law; and in the church. The mischiefs
able from his existence. Ignorance and sup- attendant on this general conduct of mankind
erstition may be considered as the curse of are great and many; for by thus implicitly
God, which chains its votaries to unworthy subscribing to the vague notions and fal se
objects; whilst, on the contrary, wisdom and doctrines of others; by shutting their eyes
understanding provide us with wings where• against the light of reason and enquiry and
by to soar above the earth; to contemplate the refusing to receive the conviction of their own
works of creation-to discern the mysteries senses, they transfer error from one genera-
of divinity, and converse with angels. tion to another until the unlettered multitude,
The beautiful description given by Solomon dazzled by the splendid ignorance of the
of his acquirements in wisdom, is highly de- learned few, become disciples to their mis-
serving the attention of all men; but particu- takes and make error and enthusiasm an
larly of those who profess the science of hereditary disease.
physic and the cure of souls. "I prayed," says Hence, then, we see the necessity of consult-
Solomon, "and understanding was given me; ing our own reason and employing our own
I called upon God, and the spirit of Wisdom understanding in the discrimination of all our
came to me. All good things came with her, temporal and eternal affairs; and of acting
and innumerable riches in her hand." What and judging for ourselves on all occasions
greater reward could any one desire? And which immediately regard our health, our
though the intellectual faculties of all men happiness, or our life; and under all tho se
are not alike strong and apt for occult spec- afflictions and misfortunes wherewith we
ulations, yet it is manifest that all persons struggle in this world, in our passage to a bet-
are capable of deriving great improvements ter; to one more glorious and permanent; the
from reading; and that it is not so much the ultimate end and reward of all our labours!
want of natural ability as of industry and ap- Our senses, on these occasions, are ever ready
plication that so many men disgrace the image to support our endeavors and perform their
of the Deity, and degrade the venerable pro- office; and it is unquestionably the duty of all
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men to exercise, to improve, and employ them. species; of the occult properties implanted in
Yet it is astonishing in general to see how all created beings; and the end for which they
distrustful we are of those very faculties Na- are and were created!
ture has given us for our guide, and how
To such enquiries all men are alike com-
fondly we submit to the opinions of others,
petent, and may boast the same pretentions,
whose nerves cannot feel for us, and whose
unless obstinacy, or indolence, are substituted
judgment is of ten founded upon erroneous
to prevent them. There is certainly im-
principle, and sometimes on no principles at
planted in the human mind a power which
all. This, however, is a conduct by no means
perceives truth and commands belief in all
fitted to the dignity and off ice assigned to
the occult prope1ties of nature, not by the
men; who being placed at the head of all
force of argument nor learning nor science;
God's works upon earth, walking in his image,
but by an instantaneous, instinctive and irre-
and exercising dominion over his creatures,
sistible impul se, derived neither from educa-
is bound to improve that intellect of reason tion nor from habit; but from the peculiar
and understanding, whereby he is to govern gift of Providence, acting independently of
and direct them, according to the dictates of our will, whenever these objects are presented,
truth, of justice, and of mercy. For this pur- bearing evidence of their reality, even when
pose he ought, like Solomon, to study the oc- the pride of our external deportment, and our
cult properties and qualities of all things: very words, affect to deny them. This is an
"from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon, even intellectual sensation, which I will venture -to
unto the hyssop that springeth out of the affirm, is felt more or less by all mankind;
wall;" with whatever relates to a proper and I know the hearts of all my readers, if
knowledge of himself, "and of beasts, and of not their tongues, will admit the fact. It is
fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes" therefore evident that the humble cottager,
-not to worship the sun, nor the moon, nor the classical curate, the regular physician and
the stars, nor any of the host of heaven; but the village doctor, stand on the same level in
to consider, to admire, and to investigate their this respect. The study of Nature's laws, of
characters, fixed by the hand of God for the occult properties in medicine, and in the
signs, for seasons, and for days and years. frame and temperature of our bodies, is no
They, in fact, contain no more than what every less simple than important to our welfare; and
man ought to be acquainted with, to the best without knowing these, we know nothing that
of his abilities; because they lead to a com- can place us beyond the sagacity of the brute
prehensive idea of those occult causes and ef- creation. We can neither foresee danger, nor
fects which act the most, though they are the shun it when it is near-we are subject to mis-
least seen; and whereby the human under- guided treatment, and mistake, in our medical
standing is enlightened and improved, and the applications and advice-we receive intuitive
mind enriched with those divine precepts, signs and tokens of misfortune or advantage
which lead to a manifestation of that First without knowing how to benefit by the admoni-
and omnipotent Cause, to whose power all tion-In short, without this study, our en-
second causes are subservient, and operate quiries are vain-our preceptions are clouded
but as the agents of his Will; and under whose -our views limited, and all our pursuits are
provident care and sufferance we see, feel, vanity, vexation and disappointment. The
move, speak and have our being! The ten weakness of our reason, and the avocations
thousand blessings which result from this arising from the infirmities and necessities of
study, are found in our enquiries after truth, our situations require the most powerful in-
and the mysteries which surround us; of the structions, and the clearest perceptions of
astonishing sympathy and antipathy betwixt heavenly and earthly things, for the perserva-
heavenly and earthly substances; of the won- tion of our souls and bodies, and for the il-
derful harmony and construction of the celes- lumination of our minds; advantages that can
tial bodies; of the nature and qualities of our- in no wise be more completely obtained than
own existence, and the propagation of our by an intimate acquaintance with the Occult
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Sciences, or, in other words, by a contempla- fallibly find in our own constitutions, our rea-
tion of son leads us to the knowledge of this certain
GOD and NATURE. and evident truth, that there is an eternal,
Though God has given us no innate ideas of most powerful, and knowing being, which
himself, yet having furnished us with those whether any one will call God, it matters not.
faculties our minds are endowed with, he The thing is evident; and from this idea, duly
hath not left himself without a witness; since considered, will easily be deduced all those
we have sense, perception, and reason, and other attributes we ought to ascribe to this
cannot but want a clear proof of him, as long eternal Being.
as we carry any thought of ourselves about us. From what has been said, it is plain that we
To show, therefore, that we are capable of have a more certain knowledge of the exist-
knowing, that is, being certain that there is a ence of a God than of anything our senses
God; and how we may come by this certainty, have not immediately discovered to us. Nay,
I think we need go no farther than ourselves, I presume I may say, that we more certainly
and that undoubted knowledge we have of our know that there is a God than that there is
own existence. I think it is beyond question anything else without us. When I say, we
that man has a clear perception of his own know, mean there is such a knowledge within
being: he knows certainly that he exists, and our reach which we cannot miss, if we will
that he is something. In the next place, man but apply our minds to-that, as we do to other
knows, by an intuitive certainty that bare noth- mqmnes.
ing can no more produce any real being than It being then unavoidable for all rational
it can be equal to two right angles. If, there- creatures to conclude that something has
fore, we know there is some real being, it is existed from eternity, let us next see what
an evident demonstration that from eternity kind of thing that must be. There are but
there has been something; since what was not two sorts of beings in the world that man
from eternity had a beginning; and what had knows or conceives; such as are purely ma-
a beginning must be produced by something terial, without sense or perception; and sen-
else. Next it is evident that what has its bein'g sible perceiving beings such as we find our-
from another, must also have all that which is selves to be. These two sorts we shall call
in and belongs to its being from another too; cogitative and incogitative beings, which, to
all the powers it has must he owing to, and our present purpose are better than material
received from the same source. This eternal and immaterial.
source of all being must be also the source
If then there must be something eterml,
and original of all power; and so this eternal
it i~ very obvious to reason that it must neces-
being must be also the most powerful.
sarily be a cogitative being; because it is as
Again, man finds in himself perception and impossible to conceive that bare incogitative
knowledge; we are certain then that there is matter should ever produce a thinking intelli-
not only some being, but some knowing intel- gent being as that nothing of itself should pro-
ligent being in the world. There was a time duce matter. Let us suppose any parcel oJ
when there was no knowing being, or else matter eternal, we shall find it in itself un-
there has been a knowing being from eternity. able to produce anything. Let us suppose its
If it be said there was a time when that etern- parts firmly at rest together; if there were no
al being had no knowledge, I reply that then it other being in the world, must it not eternally
is impossible there should have ever been any remain so, a dead unactive lump? Is it pos-
knowledge: it being as impossible that things sible to conceive that it can add motion to it-
wholly void of knowledge and operating self or produce anything? Matter then, by
blindly and without any perception should its own strength, cannot produce in itself so
produce a knowing being as it is impossible much as motion. The motion it has must also
that a triangle should make itself three angles be from eternity or else added to matter by
bigger than two right ones. Thus, from the some other being more powerful than matter.
consideration of ourselves and what we in- But let us suppose motion eternal too; yet mat-
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ter, incogitative matter, and motion, could ening. The superstit10us cross themselves
never produce thought. Knowledge will still and say that the Spirit of God Himself walked
he as far beyond the power of nothing to pro- the hills that day. They never knew nor will
duce. Divide matter into as minute parts as they ever know that this was Nature's hom-
you will, vary its figure and motion as much age, Nature's only way of showing its rever-
as you please, it will operate no otherwise ence and its love for the old hermit in the
upon other bodies of proportionable hulk gray cowl who lived in the little cabin where
than it did before this division. The min- the valley meets the hills.
utest particles of matter knock, repel, and re-
sist one another, just as the greater do, and
that is all they can do: so that if we suppose Brothersof the Shining Robe
nothing eternal, matter can never begin to he: (Continued from page 12)
if we suppose bare matter without motion "No, brother, I will not leave you. I have
eternal, thought can never begin to be: for it suffered as you have suffered and will stav
is impossible to conceive that matter, either with you, for well I remember the agony I
with or without motion, could have originally went through when none would stop."
in and from itself, sense, perception and
Reaching the side of the old man he knelt
knowledge, as is evident from hence, that then
down and, lifting the aged head upon his
sense, perception and knowledge must be a
knee, tried to sooth the sufferer, unheeding the
property eternally inseparable from matter,
and every particle of it. Since, therefore, fact that but a moment before he had himself
been dying of a broken heart. As he knelt
whatsoever is the first eternal being must
there, he did not see that the great trees around
necessarily be cogitative, and whatsoever is
first of all things must necessarily contain in him with their massive pillars were slowly
turning white; he did not realize that the
it and actually have at least all the perfections
swaying branches that linked overhead were
that can ever after exist; it necessarily follows
turning into a dome of marble; hut as he
that the first eternal being cannot he matter.
knelt the figure before him slowly faded away
(To be continued next month.) and with a cry of amazement the pilgrim rose
to his feet and gazed around. He was again
in the temple, hut this time alone. He looked
The Homage towards the Shrine of Bleeding Heart. It was
( Continued from page 22) empty. The little door below it was open be-
his gray cowled figure wandered among the fore him and a voice seemed to tell him to go
hills. They used to say, "How is it that a on. Reaching the little gate, he knelt down,
man should be willing to live with beasts?" and bowing in humility passed through. Be-
The old hermit had known the secret and the fore him the path led up to the stars and with
younger one was fast learning it. hands crossed upon his breast he started up a
path that seemed like jewels and diamondi
And so, the legend says that to this day in glistening in a spiritual sun.
the heart of those hills there lives an insane
Gazing down at his garments he found that
old man, broken by some earthly sorrow, who
they were not those that he had been wearing
has given up the benefits of earthly affection
but were of white.
to live in the mountains like a beast. They
laugh about him in the village and they lay Obeying an impulse, he raised his hands to
wagers as to who shall find his bones, hut in look at them. They were covered with blood,
the same voice they tell you of that wonder- and twisting and gleaming between his fingers
ful day years ago when the mountains grew was the Bleeding Heart which had been on
dark and the beasts flocked together and the the shrine while behind him stretched a fine
great miracle took place in the hills. That thread of blood that marked the path he had
story will never die in the little city at the been walking.
base of the mountains. In awe they tell you A voice said: "That is the key."
of the thunder and of the majesty of the light- (To he continued)
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The Chairof Doom

X
T was in the summer palace of the the same water fall which had sounded in his
Emperor-where cherry blossoms ears when he had played his love song in the
filled the air, little bridges led across gardens years before.
water-ways filled with fishes of gold and sil- And the Emperor was sad, sad with the re-
ver, and little dwarfed fir trees scarce higher membrance of loves and joys lost forever.
than your waist edged the rowed and parked So he sat in his chair, moody and silent, while
lawns of the summer garden. In the midst the glorious sun sank down in the endkss
of this beauty was a little pagoda where the West as his own life was fast sinking in the
Emperor used to come and sit and in it was endless West of eternity. And in this way
a glorious chair of carved ebony, its back the Emperor fell asleeQ_in his garden of
cut to resemble an ancient tree through which
cherry blossoms and there he slept forever.
flew ho-ho birds with little eyes of gleaming
When dawn came they found the spirit gone
mother-of-pearl. The Emperor used to love
and the body asleep in the Pagoda of Dreams.
to come here and sit in the midst of his sum-
mer garden to laugh and smile with nature, The years went by and another king sat
but as the years went by and the step of the upon the throne but none would enter the
Emperor grew halt, the cares of state resting garden for it was there the Emperor had gone
heavily upon him, he came less often to his to sleep. So a story came down through the
chair in the garden. ages that told of the Chair of Endless Sleep
in the Pagoda of Golden Dreams. It was
One who was close to him and beloved of
warned that whoever went into the garden of
him came to the Emperor one day and said,
pleasure would some time go back again and
"Sire, you have been sad these many days
enter the rest eternal in the garden of their
but the sun shines in the sky and the garden
dreams. So the new king never went there
is in bloom. Come out once more to the Pa-
for fear that he too would fall asleep in the
goda of Dreams as you used to do in days
gone by." enchanted chair. He had a mighty wall built
around the garden that none might enter for
The Emperor was silent for his mind went he had been told by a reader of the stars that
back over the years beyond recall and he he would go to asleep as his father had in
dreamed of the hours he had spent in his this Pagoda of Dreams. So he issued orders
garden of cherry blossoms. Then leaning on to all the world that none should go into that
the arm of this one whom he trusted he went garden and none should ever speak to him of
into his garden where he had not walked for that garden for he had vowed in his soul to
many years, and there, with but few to at- live forever as a ruler of his people. Thus
tend him or to break the solitude of his for a hundred years the old chair stood alone
thoughts, he sank as a weary pilgrim into his in the garden of wild cherry blossoms and
chair in the garden. the old king swore a new oath every year to
outlive the curse.
For years none had sat there. The chair
was dusty and streaked with age and the Now it seems that there came into this land
glinty eyes of the ho-ho birds had fallen out. the foot of the white man, coming as it so
But the Emperor did not care, for in the hours of ten did-not to lift but to rob, not to serve
he sat upon it he lived in the long ago--in but to pillage. One of these white men
the days when in youth and carelessness he learned of the Pagoda of Dreams and the
had lived in his garden of dreams. Still the sacred chair that was in it and one night when
same chrysanthemums raised their many col- all was stilljie climbed over the high old wall
ored heads and danced in the sun, still the to steal this treasure. Passing through the
golden fishes leaped in the pools and the white darkness of the night, amid the little arches
storks with their crimson crests balanced in and bridges and altars of granite, he finally
silent majesty in the watery rills, he heard came to rest at the gate of the Pagoda of
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Dreams. The hinges were rusty and old, the and seated himself, eyes still closed, in the
golden lattice work was tarnished and broken, Chair of Doom from which none might rise.
the lanterns that had lighted the garden were As he sat there the American started in sur-
but skeletons of wood from which the gay prise-across the floor of the pagoda a
silks had long since rotted, the little fish no strange creature was crawling, its hard shell-
longer played in the stream for it was dried like claws grating on the stone! He stood
and their hones were mixed with the sand. as though fascinated and watched whifo a gi-
The chrysanthemum; beds were filled with gantic scorpion, like a small crab or lobster,
weeds and the palms were overgrown wit;h crept slowly towards the seated figure of the
hushes for none had entered it since the day sleeping Emperor. With his eyes fixed upon
the Emperor had died. the insect the American stood as if spell-bound
The American, with his hand on the hilt as the thing climbed up the robe3 of the Ori-
of a revolver, broke the lock of the pagoda ental as he sat sleeping in the chair.
door and passed in where the pale rays of The moon glided for a second behind a
the moon hut dimly entered through the gap- great wall of clouds that had risen from the
ing holes of a decaying roof. There, in the valley and hung like a shade around the crest
center of an inlaid floor, stood the Chair of of the distant mountains. When it passed
Doom. It was a broken thing that had once from behind the clouds and shed its cold
been the resting place of an Emperor, and beams again into the Pagoda of Dreams, a
overgrown with a tangle of weeds and cob- strange sight was revealed.
webs where spiders had built their nests in
its carvings .. The Emperor lay in the chair where his
father had died and on the ground beside him
The American stood for several seconds the crushed body of the scorpion. Over the
viewing this broken chair, dreaming of the
two stood the American ·who gazed in aston-
fortune it would bring in the Western world ishment as the light came ·on. Seeing the dead
when they knew of its secret history. As he insect he shook the quiet form. The body
stood there in the night he heard a footfall be-
swayed as he shook it and would have fallen
hind him. Turning he saw coming towards
from the chair had he not drawn it back.
him an Oriental robed in a wonderful gar-
Then as he looked more closely he saw on
ment of embroidered dirycantehemums and
the hack of the dead hand two tiny marks,
lotus flowers. This figure walked slowly for-
like a pair of lips, where the kiss of the scor-
ward with his hands out-stretched before him.
pion had fulfilled the ancient prophecy.
The American looked fixedly at his face and
saw that his eyes were closed. "So," murmured the American, "that is
"What can it mean?" he muttered creep- the Chair of Doom. Well, I'll leave it for-
ing back into the shadow. ever where it stands in the orchard of cherry
blossoms-twice it has fulfilled its pledge."
The robed man walked up to the battered And slowly he passed out from the pagoda
gate and then slowly round and round the pa- and to where the great wall surrounded all.
goda, in the same measured tread, with eyes
closed and hands extended. At last the truth Suddenly a figure appeared from the dark-
flashed into the mind of the American-the ness-a long, thin, hollow tube was placed to
figure was that of the ancient Emperor and its lips. Then through the night a shaft of
he was walking in his sleep! The ideas and tufted steel shot from the mouth of a blow-
thoughts of his life had become so fixed in gun. The American turned, swayed for a
his mind with the dread of the chair of gloom second, and slowly crumpled up at the foot
that night after night, when his body was in of the wall, just a few feet from the pagoda.
resi~tless sleep an unknown and unnameal?le When morning came they found the Em-
force drew him into the garden to the Pagoda peror asleep in the Chair of Doom and by the
of Dreams amid the scent of the cherry blos- wall the body of a foreigner, in his hack a
soms. poisoned dart.
Slowly the Oriental entered the pagoda (Continued on page 32)
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l ASTROLOGICALKEYWORDSl
Capricorn is considered to he a very General Characteristics:
ambitious sign also particularly anxious There is always something peculiar about
for worldly honors and social aspiration be- Capricorn people. They seem to stand a lit-
cause it is the natural ruler of the tenth house tle different from all others because of certain
which has to do with the public fortune of the eccentricities. Their physical appearance
native. Capricorn, being ruled by Saturn, is always draws attention to them as they are
sometimes cold, sarcastic and suspicious. It clifferent and while sometimes good mixers
is a very long life sign and under it are born are generally poor company until the higher
those sprightly old people who swing around and finer side of their nature is awakened.
at eighty-nine or ninety with the speed and The general characteristics are:
alacrity of youth. Capricorn people usually
have two codes of ethics, one for the world
Love of social honor Liable to melancholy
and the other for their immediate families;
Ambitious Subject to curious
they are gracious and smiling with strangers
Bound by heredity dreams
but of ten cold and irritable at home. A well
Family pride Usually mystic
developed Capricorn however is a very lov-
Sometimes crahy Carry the air of vener-
able person, true, faithful and always willing
Usually thrifty ation
to help in any way possible.
Subtle Scientific
Economical Given to boasting
We find a great deal of loneliness among Stubborn but not al-
Witty
Capricorn people, especially the old folks. ways strong-willed
Changeable
They are of ten imposed upon by others or at
least imagine that they are, therefore their
Physical Appearance:
old age is not always a happy one.
Dry constitution Weak knees
Slender Long legs
The keywords of Capricorn are:
Long thin face Voice weak and effem-
Cold Four-footed Thin hair or beard inate
Dry Changeable Dark hair Loose jointed
Earthy Unfortunate Long neck Angular
Nocturnal Crooked Narrow chin and
Melancholy Hoarse breast
Feminine Night house of Saturn
Southern Exhaltation of Mars If Saturn is posited in Capricorn it adds to
Obeying Arid the aged appearance of the body which how-
Weak Sign of the winter ever is usually much stronger than it appears
Movable tropic to be. Young Capricorn people are usually
Cardinal Detriment of Moon judged older than they are while very old
Tropical Fall of Saturn Capricorn people are judged to he much
Domestic younger than they are.
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Health: of the Twelve Prophets, Mah um; of the

Twelve Apostles, Thomas; of the twelve
Capricorn is subject to diseases of a cry- months, December 20th to January 20th; of
stallizing and drying nature, also especially the twelve plants, dock; of the twelve stones.
to the ailments listed below: chrysophrasu~, onyx, moonstone; of the
Sprains Cutaneous eruptions twelve principle members of the body, the
Dislocations Cold chills knees; of the Twelve Degrees of the Damned,
Broken limbs Disorders of the chest the witches. Capricorn rules lead because of
Melancholia and lungs Saturn its planet.
Hysteria Dry coughs

Domestic Problems: ( Continued from last month)

Capricorn being a barren sign is not always
Countries Under the Influence of Sag ittarius:
as fortunate in these matters as might be. It
is also liable to broken homes through ex- Arabia-Felix Moravia
cessive melancholia and a Capricorn who Spain Dalmatis
does not know better of ten fills their home Hungary
with blues and despondency. If they can be
made to see the brighter side of life their Cities Ruled by Sagittarius:
home becomes as radiant and cheerful as it Cologne Budapest
once was depressing. Avignon
Countries Under the Influence of Capricorn: Colors:
Part of India Saxony Light green Olive
Macedonia Albania
According to Ptolemy the stars in the point
Thrace Bulgaria
Part of West Indies of the arrow of Sagittarius have influence
Part of Greece
similar to that of Mars and the Moon. Those
Mexico
in the bow and at the grasp of the hand act
Cities Under Control of Capricorn: like Jupiter and Mars. The nebulae in the
Macklinburgh Oxford face is like the Sun in Mars. Those in the
Wilma Cleves waist and in the back resemble Jupiter and
Brandenburgh also Mercury moderately. Those in the feet
Colors: Jupiter and Saturn. The four-sided . figure
Dark brown Black in the tail is similar to Venus and in some
degree to Saturn.
Very dark indigo
Henry Cornelius Agrippa says that of the
Ptolemy says that the fixed stars in the Twelve Orders of Blessed Spirits, Sagittarius
horns of Capricorn are similar in nature to rules the Angels, of the Twelve Angels rul-
Venus and partly to Mars. The stars in the ing over the Twelve Signs, it is ruled by Ad-
mouth are like Saturn and partly like Venus. nachiel; of the Twelve Tribes, Napthali; of
Those in the feet and stomach are the same the Twelve Prophets, Zephaniah; of the
as Mars and Mercury while those in the tail Twelve Apostles, James the Elder; of the
are like Saturn and Jupiter. twelve months, November 20th to December
Henry Cornelius Agrippa, listed the fol- 20th; of the twelve plants, pimpernel; of
lowing in his tables concerning Capricorn: of the twelve stones, hyacinth; of the twelve
the Twelve Orders of Blessed Spirits Capri- principal parts of the body, the legs between
corn is ruled by the Innocents; of the Twelve the thighs and knees; of the Twelve Degrees
Angels over the Twelve Signs, Capricorn is of the Damned, Sagittarius rules the Temp-
ruled by Hana el; of the Twelve Tribes, Gad; ters and Ensnarers.
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Questions and Answers-Continued

Are earthquakes and the sinking of continents What are the real dangers of psychic
nautral causes or are they effects of the development?
inharmony among those who
inhabit them? Ans. The first great danger is negative
Ans. They are caused by the inharmon- development which results in mediumship
ious thoughts of those who inhabit the and obsession. The second great danger is
planet. Emotion is attuned to fire, and seeking to unfold spiritual powers before
fire is the cause of all the changes in the the body has been properly purified to sus-
earth. Our thoughts affect our bodies as tain the strain.
we know. We are the cells of the Body
Cosmic, cells with a very bombastic tem- What is the meaning of the word "occult"
perament, and we are continually causing and how is it to be used in connection
aches and pains to our planet. However with spiritual sciences?
all is progression, all is moving and work-
ing fonvard.
Ans. The word "occult" means hidden.
Can the mind image anything unreal? An occultist is one who through the powers
Ans. It is impossible for a human mind of reason is trying to lift the veil of alle-
to create or image anything that does not gory from science and religion and find
exist somewhere on one of the many planes the germ of truth and unity concealed in
of nature. their diverse, complex, and literal explan-
Is the power of communication with the ations and teachings. The occultist is the
astral spirits a sign of development? eternal seeker, seeking eternal truths.
Ans. Not necessarily. Development is
a positive step forward while many be- Who is a mystic and how does he differ
come conscious of superphysical things from the occultist?
through a retrogression. Crystal-gazing,
Ans. The mystic is one who is seeking
magic mirrors, and all those things are not
to gain the same truth and lift the same
developments but are degenerations which
will destroy us if we continue them. veil by developing the heart side of his
nature and to gain by intuition what the
What did Christ mean when He said "In
occultist searches for by reason. It is the
my Father's house are many mansions?"
Ans. One translation of this paragraph union of these two paths the mystic and the
says "In the Father's house are many rest- occult, that gives the seeker the balance
ing places" and the "mansions" undoubt- that is necessary before the higher initia-
edly refer to the different planes of nature tions are possible. When action of the
where the spiritual consciousness lives and proper kind is added to this and the stu-
rests in its progression towards perfection. dent applies his theoretical knowledge, then
the eternal triangle is perfected and bal-
What is the best cure for an inf lamed
anced in man.
stomach?
Ans. Fasting, non-irritating diet and a
What is the true object of all the Wisdom
purifying of the entire system are the only
Teachings?
means by which treatment of a permanent
nature can be carried on. Ans. Their purpose is to show man his
Is there a healing for so-re and aching feet? true position in the great plan of creation.
Ans. It is amazing what a marked con- They explain to the student the responsi-
nection there is between a disturbed stom• bilities of life, and, through the knowledge
ach and sore feet, but if people will keep that they give him, prepare him for the
their general system in · good order much Great Work that awaits all when their days
foot trouble can he eliminated. of schooling _are over.
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How should we regard a religion? truth behind the allegory), is visible. All
Ans. A religion is a phase of truth at- religions are steps in the unfoldment of
tuned to the states of consciousness of them one truth and they only clash when their
who are evolving through it. It is the doc- spiritual ideals are crystallized into ma-
trine, part of a still greater doctrine, to terial forms.
which we are drawn by the f acuities we What is a miracle?
have developed and the spiritual sight we Ans. A miracle is an effect, the cause of
have unfolded within ourselves. It is a which is unknown. The. cause, however,
changeable point. As we grow in experi- must he as great as the effect it produces.
ence and understanding, our religion and If the student wants a miracle to happen
religious concepts should broaden with us. to him, he must set in motion causes great
Every living being changes, or should enough to produce the desired effect. Our
change in some way, his religion with each universe is governed by law and order in
e:xpe:tjience and unfoldment which 'daily spite of what many persons believe.
life brings; if he does not do this he is Who is God?
standing still. When we are inclined to Ans. God, as He is now generally un-
look down upon creeds or religions that derstood, man, and the universe are various
seem primitive to us, we should remember stages in the concrete manifestation of the
that they are all steps in a great plan that Absolute. The God we know is the indivi-
must be passed through before the Planner dualized part of this Unknowable One.
can be revealed. When we have passed who through the unfolding of conscious~
through and reached a more elevp.ted ideal, ness has become the ruling spiritual intel-
our broadened, spiritual intellect should ligence of a solar system. Man is eternal-
help us to realize the need of all of the ly making adjustments of bodies within to
other steps, and the fact that a doctrine planes of consciousness without, and God
exists at all on this plane of nature is proof is relatively perfect on a plane of consci-
certain that it is helping someone who would ousness where man as yet has not evolved
fall without the protection and inspiration vehicles of expression. Man, however,
that it gives, for nature supports nothing contains within himself, in germinal es-
any great length of time that is not of use sence, powers which will give him later,
in the plan. when evolved, the consciousness he now
What is a creed? worships in the Logos or God.
Ans. Creeds are steps in the unfold-
ment of religious truth which have on this
Chairof Doom
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plane of nature drawn around them forms A new law was passed in that land and a
which we call denominations. Creeds are great crew was turned into the garden. For
incarnations of spiritual truth, functioning many days and nights they labored to destroy
in ever better vehicles furnished by the con- a superstition. They tore up the bridges and
sciousness of those souls who are evolving the shrines, fiHed the stream-beds with dirt,
through them. they burned the pagoda and with it-the
Which religions are occult? Chair of Doom. And now another world
Ans. All religions have a hidden or eso- stands in that garden of dreams--a wonderful
teric side. The same may be said of all building of brick and stone with an elevator
the divisions of a religion. The esoteric running up and down! The busy purr of an
doctrine we see in a religion depends upon East, awakened by the hand of the West,
the esoteric eyes we have developed in our stands where once the cherry blossoms
own spiritual natures. They who look swayed. •
through the eyes of form can see only form · The legend of the Chair of Doom is nearly.
and in religion only the history of people forgotten but hidden away in the records 'of
now dead and countries now unknown~ a mysterious people is the old story of the
while to them who have evolved the spirit~ Pagoda of Golden Dreams in the enchanted
ual sight, the life behind the form ( the garden of the Emperor.
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