The Phoenix by Manly P Hall Audiobook (With Illustrations & Photos)

The Phoenix by Manley p as the repositories of an Universal sacred learning the sanctuaries of the pagan gods were protected and served by hierarchies of illumined priests who consecrated to the spirit of Truth labored unceasingly to acquaint evolving Humanity with the Dual mystery of human origin and Destiny these ancient temples have

Crumbled away the holy orders of that day have vanished from the earth and new priestcraft serves the gods and in new le gathers at the clanging of the great bronze Bells the mysteries of antiquity have seemingly perished the faith however of the Golden Age the first religion of man can never wholly

Die in all its pristine Purity it is preserved even to this day and may be recovered by everyone who will devote his life to this supreme and holy task it is not decreed that man should be so easily deprived of that which is his own for even in this this generation which

Is a stranger to the gods he who will follow in the footsteps of the neopit of old may still receive the Priceless Heritage of truth and light amid the bustle and confusion of our great economic era there are still Mystic Master Builders like Paul and initiated philosophers like Plato and

These in common with the priests of an older world still Serve and Protect the sacred fires of aspiration burning upon the high altars of humanity unrecognized and unappreciated in a generation motivated by personal interest both these doctrines and their Priestly keepers have preserved an inviolable secrecy the Divine traditions still

Survive and the wise of one generation still pass on to the wise of the next that body of Mystic truths which is the Le of civilization and for lack of which mankind must inevitably perish as we turn to the voluminous pages of History we read in glorious rubricated lettering the record of

Nations that have passed away of Heroes who lie unknown and unhonored Graves of conquerors beded with the trappings of the mighty and wearing the Laurel wreath of Victory marching down the corridors of time all these have vanished in a common Oblivion we paused for a moment to pay

Homage to the Grandeur that was Egypt the magnificence that was Greece and the glory that was Rome as upon moldering headstones we read the epap of their rise and fall how each in turn bowed its Noble head to the inevitable and went its way from this graveyard of dead

Ambitions we turn to the nations of today each are proud people each intoxicated with the power that has brought what we choose to term a measure of success yet no one of these nations knows which will be the first to draw the somber Robes of its shroud about it

And join the ghostly order of people that are dead like guests at some borgian Feast they sit with treason in every heart and poison in every Cup every historian consequently should be a philosopher for only the philosopher is able to see the immutability of that universal law by

Which the actions of men are regulated there is a destiny Which shapes our ends causes invisible produce their effects and these effects in turn becoming new causes reap fresh harvests according to their kind the patience and serenity with which the wise face life Springs from their deeper comprehension

Of these fundamental issues the wise can be patient because that which cannot be wrought in time can be fulfilled in eternity the discernment of the sage can see beneath the chaos of competitive ethics and the babble of vanity the presence of a Divine Justice though repeatedly outraged nature is ever sufficient to the

Achievement of her own ends One By One The citadels of Injustice are stormed by the inevitable and fall amid confusion and cidis scopic change stands the immovable one to whose measureless existence comings and goings are but incidental he is the pillar envisaged by the samian sage which

Rising from the depths of space is the strong support of the universe the altar of the Everlasting one is lifted up in the midst of the world and upon it flickers throughout all duration the flame of his Covenant if we we study the history of vanished

Races we will discern the cause of their destruction when a nation ceases to serve the beautiful it has already begun to die when a cause departs from truth that cause has already failed when glutted with success and tyrannical with power like the fabled princes of Atlantis men no longer love the

Beautiful and serve the good they are destroyed by the weight of their own iniquity the old writings tell us that black magic overshadowed Egypt perverted and lentu the priests served the great specters invoked by their incantations they called upon Monsters by their spells and fabricated false gods who were but demons in

Disguise the Heavenly light upon the temple altars grew fainter and and fainter for truth became less evident as error increased in power lust and pride likewise undermined the solidarity of Greece and wild debauchery caused the streets of Rome to run with blood and wine being but men the priests of the

Temples were infected with the common plague and lost the Mystic word of power the name ineffable though an almost infinite diversity of Creeds has come into manifestation since the Primitive doctrine of the First Ages these Creeds have all sought to achieve a single end I.E the restatement of that

Primitive Revelation which according to the doctrines of the cabala was revealed to the Patriarchs by the Angelic schools a htic philosoph phos opher writing anonymously in the 16th century declared in his interpretation of the book of The Seven Seals that there existed in the heavens above the circles

Of the earth a university of divine knowledge a sort of college of celestials before his relapsed State Adam himself had studied in the school of God and when later he was banished to wander in the Corporal sphere he was privileged by a benign Providence to preserve a faint remembrance of those

Transcendental doctrines that had been imparted to him by the Heavenly Host having inclined themselves towards material concerns Adam’s descendants became tillers of the fields and Builders of cities these natural Enterprises established new orders of learning concerned with the institutions of of the material world the wisdom of God and

His hosts and the secrets of spiritual philosophy slowly faded from the conscious mind of the race to remain however permanently impressed upon the subconscious intellect the Divine Arts and Sciences thus came to be forgotten and in their place was erected the structure of the liberal arts sciences and crafts thus a

Upon the footings of worldly wisdom Empire was established the sages no longer retired Into the Wilderness to receive that Heavenly wisdom with which The Messengers of that most high nourished the hungering soul in the terms of the same quaint philosopher quoted but whose name has not been preserved the Angels still

Attended the celestial school with appropriate humility and contribution but men in their pride rejected the Divine instruction were expelled from the University of the elect and set up a false knowledge upon the Earth in defiance to the Eternal truths they could no longer comprehend such Traditions while of

Dubious authenticity still embody a germ of Truth which though ridiculed by the sophist will not be rejected by The Scholar who can deny that mankind has defied the laws of universal order and sought to set up the supremacy of his own mandates we have all ear from the path

Of wisdom as is well witnessed by the misery everywhere apparent in Mortal Affairs men of more exalted Vision than the rest have sensed the real cause of human unhappiness and in every age the strongest of these have gone forth as reformers sages seers and Prophets seeking to impart to a thoughtless world

The Priceless Treasures of understanding but the path of reformation is hard and martydom is the reward that a deluded World Mets out to those who would waken it from the coma of its materialism if we turn to the lives of the great philosophers and Sages we will

Discover them to be bound together in a common fraternity of purpose we will furthermore discover that these men were initiates of secret societies either Pagan or Christian and that their Revelations soall were but restatements of the Sacred doctrines expounded by the Mysteries the rose secution rose was

Martin Luther’s Crest the comp de s Germain initiated his disciples into the doctrines of the Illuminati and Freemasons in caves along the rine Claude s Maran the unknown philosopher received his light if we are to believe the authorities from the Bohemian Brothers in the dark fastnesses of the Black

Forest then came the Divine kagali Ostro defined by Pike as the agent of the Templars and well called by Brother Evans the Masonic martyr over a 100 years have passed since cagliostro languished in the dungeon of San Leon but the Prejudice which destroyed him Still Remains fleeing from the wrath of

Enthroned ignorance and living in cellers and Garretts the htic philosophers of the Middle Ages preserved as a sacred trust for a better day those do doctrines that had been entrusted to them from remote Antiquity vilified by such epithets as Sorcerer And Necromancer these venerable adepts perpetuated at enormous personal

Sacrifice the mysteries of the Pagan fire philosophy destined by the gods never to pass away the names of these ancient Masters are revered by us today we are amazed by the powers which they possessed we humbly bow before their erudition we are fascinated by the adventures which befell them in the

Fulfillment of their trust we Marvel at the profundity yet magnificent Simplicity of their beliefs and the almost Divine patience with which they tended the flame of philosophy and bore the burden of an afflicting age Roger Bacon Nicholas Flamel Paris elus helvetius Von Helmont Francis Bacon ellias ashol Robert Flood John Hayden

Eugenius philis and a host of other patrons of the Arts and Sciences men of deep learning and wide experience these illustrious men as adepts of the magnum opus look to their more fortunate Brothers of this less hazardous Century for a fuller measure of of accomplishment and devotion the adepts of the past have

Come to be regarded as almost mythological personalities whose lives and words fantastically distorted have been woven into fairy tales for the amusement of the children of the race what is folklore but a history of mysterious happenings which historiographers fear to include in their praic records of a

People yet in spite of a definite and almost untiring effort to obliterate them from the memory of the world everything pertaining to the mystery of magic or the super Sciences the ghosts of the ancient theurgists cling tenaciously to the substance of our imaginations we are obsessed by these

Elder Spirits they refuse to be forgotten they demand their due for their very Works sake and In Spite of Ourselves we not only remember them but also the broad measure of their accomplishments we shudder even in the smugness of our materiality when we realize that our present civilization

Rests upon the broad shoulders of demigods and heroes half Divine even as the substance of our history is established upon the ephemerality of myth and Legend and so we stand together in all the Splendor of our various disc confites miserably educated distressingly cultured oblivious to all that is essential to right living and

Painfully ignorant of those vital Essentials which only philosophic Insight can reveal each of us is a 20th century fa gira’s hero speaks for each of us in The Immortal lines and here I stand with all my law a fo no wiser than before why must we continually reject

Those Sublime truths preferred to us out of the past why do we turn our backs with scorn upon those Splendid doctrines of other ages declaring only the present to be real and the past but idle Superstition when Plato affirms the inner mysteries of Life what modern upstart in his shallowness dares to

Refute him when Cicero Bears witness to the efficacy of the Mysteries who of this generation is qualified to say him nay when the superlative intellects of all ages have United in a common Adoration of the secret Doctrine ring above all other men those initiated into its Mysteries how can we

In the vanity of our own conceits ridicule our superiors and then go on living worse than The Men We scoff at it is fitting that we should honor those whose illumined intellection has brought wisdom out of the obscurity of the First Ages and preserved The Unbroken chain of philosophic tradition

Through all the vicissitudes of changing time nor should we honor them by words alone but rather by so living and serving the great truths of life that the sacrifices of the first philosophers should not be in vain there is but one appropriate propit one acceptable offering and that is right

Use these seers and sages of antiquity established the institutions in which the mysteries of philosophy were revealed they demonstrated to mankind the true way of all permanent achievement they led the neopit to the Gateway of that intellectual sphere where truth dwells in the midst of the wise after souring with Humanity for

Their allotted span these Ministers of The Sovereign good closely Drew their robes of gold about them and passed into the inner Sanctuary that aditum of the Everlasting house from which none cometh out again they not only taught but because they were adepts they lived their doctrines and their lives as well as

Their words reveal the fullness of their understanding the dying Buddha declared to his disciples that he left behind him three jewels and that through contemplation of them all men might achieve to the Supreme blessing these Heavenly gems radiant with an indwelling Splendor were the life of the

Buddha the word of the Buddha and the Order of the Buddha while these Jewels continue upon the Earth the monk in his saffron robe shall not be left without hope of achievement the Buddha established the way and in his footsteps Millions have walked the path of attainment the Buddha

Has entered his nana the Christ has departed to his father zarathustra has returned to his flame they have all gone each to his own end as determined by his works but their accomplishments endure they were wise in the truest sense of that word they were Builders of a Divine

House architects of a lasting civilization Artisans skilled beyond all other men time may pass away history be swallowed up in eternity Nations crumble the world itself vanish into the flame from whence it came but if there be anything that will endure the conflagration which marks the boundary of duration it is

Understanding if any man have a hope understanding is the substance of that hope if there be immortality understanding renders its achievement possible Perfection of understanding is Ultimate Perfection understanding is eternal incapable of Destruction or change therefore these masters of understanding will never cease to be but

As N9 and 40 Flames will gather as a blade amazing oral about the Sovereign fire which burns forever invoke by your contemplation the Shadows of the Master Builders who have gone before in your dream behold the marching conquerors passing triumphantly down the Royal arches of time there is

The dark skinned orus his face illumined with a radiant ecstasy as he draws from the seven stringed liar symbolic of the harmony of his own own being the measureless harmonies of the Spheres beside him is the Egyptian Hermes the Thrice greatest the beloved Son of wisdom bearing in one hand the

Caducus whose Waring serpents have ceased to struggle and holding aoft in the other hand the glistening and gleaming Emerald table bearing the revelation of the immutable law in this Vision out of the past behold dimly the blue Krishna the Beloved child of the flute and K shell who on the battlefield of kuruk

Chetra leaned from his Heavenly Chariot and delivered to Arjuna Prince of men the bhad Gita the song of the everliving Lord behind Krishna and leaning on an Ironbound staff stands the sublime Buddha with yellow robe and shaven head Lord of humility and the perfect perfect way Asia’s light and The Giver of the

Good law behind gaama stalks grave Pythagoras his head bent over and his long beard upon his breast there also is the Syrian Master Jesus his brow Serene with the calm of self-mastery but his face saddened by the sins committed in his name his shade appears for an instant and is gone again

After him cometh a host of others confucious the sage of China Walk side by side with loud sea the Mystic of too and the perfect way great thundering Odin follows holding High gungir the spare cut from the branches of the tree of life and high is flung The Black

Banner of Muhammad planted by him in the courtyard of the ca after after he had overthrown the 360 idols and reconsecrated Mecca to the Living God far at the unknown beginning is the half distinguishable Spectre of zarathustra lying with the spare wound in his back and Moses the strong man of

Israel alone in death upon the dreary Hills of Moab the line is endless these masters of other days they were men above Creed and Clan nobler than those distinctions with which we separate the common aspirations of humanity they served not Idols but ideals theologies grew up about them yet each

Was greater than the order which he founded from the same place they all came forth the spirit of their doctrines was identical and each finally mingled his own smaller self with the common accomplishment among the great teachers of humanity there was neither superiority nor inferiority there was simply difference

Not difference of purpose but of method not Divergence of end but of way hand in hand they marched down the ages each revered the other for all true greatness loves greatness and only littleness hates that same overshadowing Consciousness that had made them truly great had revealed to them not only the

Brotherhood of all life but more than this the identity of all life as never before the secret doctrines of the Ancients Intrigue the philosophically minded the insufficient Creeds and dogmas that survived the Renaissance are fast crumbling before the crushing force of rationalism and men who are once of

Different faiths are now United in the common questing of a more reasonable code of living though the objects of his veneration may change man remains essentially a religious animal he may break away from the limitations and futilities of ecclesiastical schisms but he cannot escape from the inherent urge to venerate his

Creator ever surrounded by irrefutable evidence of an abiding Destiny the thinking man is powerless to resist that dominating impulse to propitiate in some appropriate manner the mysterious Spirit Abid iding in the furthermost and the innermost throughout the first ages of humanity certain divinely instituted Mysteries were the intermediaries between man and his

Maker these August institutions were the custodians of a superior learning by which the human mind was inclined toward the way of Truth and understanding but as Nations Verge towards materialism and the peoples of the earth ceased to venerate The Sovereign good so these sacred schools gradually became corrupted those which through compromise

Escaped utter Annihilation remained as perverse spirits to impede their very progress which they had once sponsored politically we are disillusioned as to the divine right of temporal monarchs and ecclesiastically as to the apostolic succession of the spiritual elect thus disheartened by the sophistry of an unenlightened age we turn from

Vagaries to renew our endless search for the substance of Truth we would follow in the footsteps of those prophets of earlier days who ascending the mountaintops of wisdom beheld their makers face to face in the midst of the Lightnings and heard the Deep Rumble of his voice even Above The

Far-flung Echoes of the thunder in his Rocky Cavern upon the slopes of Mount Hira Muhammad the prophet of Islam prayed that the pure religion of the first Patriarchs might again be revealed to a Humanity bowed down in sackcloth and Ashes by the weight of numberless afflictions the strong man of Arabia

Stretched forth his arms into the darkness and pled with the night that the wisdom which abides in space might again come forth to lead men from idolatry back to the worship of that one God who is a spirit and who must be served in spirit and in

Truth too long have we wandered in the veil of Shadows groeling before Phantoms of our own creation and worshiping ghosts and specters too long have we been afraid to lift our eyes to the radiant countenance of our creator lest we be blinded by the awful light of Truth too long have we prostrated

Ourselves abjectly at the feet of gilded men bestowing upon Mortals The homage reserved for the gods alone too long has the shortness of our vision made gods of men and men of gods the darkest pages of History are those upon which are traced the record of men’s

Faiths in the great March of Nations and beliefs death has ever ridden in the Vanguard loosing upon the Earth the horrors described by Milton men have sung their hymns of hate and in their hearts they have tired of gory Splendor enough of The God Who marches with the arms of ambition and stands

Upon the battlefield surrounded by the bodies of the slain a disillusioned Humanity we of its own mistakes turns again in despair to the mysterious emptiness about it an emptiness which seems to be the Abiding Place of a mighty spirit in all this Panorama of confusion and error space alone seems capable of gentle

Comprehension in extremities such as now confront mankind the ages have demonstrated that it is natural for the more seriously minded individual to depart from Commerce and Industry and turn to philosophy verging from material possessions he inclines his mind to all satisfying reason there is scant solace in our

Ducats when the real issues of Life are at stake the wise man knows that the glammer of so-called Fortune but complicates the many uncertainties of temporal Affairs there is much of paos in that Envy with which we gaze upon the Placid face of the sage how is it that but a

Few achieve to the composure of the wise while utter misery is the lot of the many what is the essence of that mysterious learning which not only enables man to discover peace but also endows him with such surpassing attributes that we are prone to accredit him with qualities but little inferior to a

God by what procedure is that wisdom acquired which not only reveals the end toward which all Natures are being swept by an irresistible Destiny but also transfigures the human soul with the light of an all pervading good there is a science real to the few and mythical to the many preserved from

A remote age for him who has become what John Hayden the rosaran calls a servant of God and a secretary of nature in an Egyptian ritual the book of the master it is written that ultimately death is swallowed up in light and through the disciplines of philosophy Humanity can be caused to

Rise Phoenix like from the dead ashes of materiality to mingle its lesser mind with the Eternal reason the elements of such an accomplishment constitute the natural religion of man that an Unwritten Doctrine which has ever been the spiritual bread of the wise and of which

If a man should eat he will never hunger again the ladder of souls in discussing the mystery of birth or the entrance of the ego into the generating sphere the calans and after them the Egyptians and Greeks describe the Descent of the Soul through the various spheres which constitute the body of the

World when they symbolized the Divine man as a glorious creature whose body is covered with a multitude of stars they did not depart greatly from the facts for robed thus in the ninefold Universal Essence man becomes in truth a universe and like the universe which is reproduced in his Parts he is A

Diversity circumscribed by unity of this mystery Julius Ficus maternus the platonic philosopher writes it is requisite to know in the first place that The God Who is the fabricator of man produced his form his condition and his whole Essence in the image and similitude of the world nature pointing out the way

For he composed the body of man as well as of the world from the mixture of the four elements these of fire water air and Earth in order that the conjunction of all these when they were mingled in due proportion might Adorn an animal in the form of a Divine

Imitation and thus The demures exhibited Man by the artifice of a Divine fabrication in such a way that in a small body he might bestow the power and essence of all the elements nature for this purpose bringing them together and also so that from the Divine Spirit which descended

From a Celestial intellect to the support of the Mortal body he might prepare an abode for man which though fragile might be similar to the world on this account the five stars and also the Sun and Moon sustain Man by a fiery and eternal agitation as if he were a minor

World so that the animal which was made in Imitation of the world might be governed by an Essence similarly Divine above the seven planetary spheres forming the ladder of the world stretches what the htics call the firmament of the fixed stars in their esor instructions the Egyptians distinguished three conditions

Or aspects of this Imperium which together they refer to as the Thrice deep Darkness the highest division was the ocean of Eternity which diffused itself throughout all space and through which were scattered innumerable masses of un germinated Stars this was the scum of the cabalists the heaven of fiery water the

Middle division was the Milky Way the seed ground of Souls and the last division was composed of the fixed Stars which were 1,122 in number and symbolized by the Syrian Mystics as a circle of cherubim filled with eyes these three departments of the imperion are equivalent to the three divisions of a s

In the cabala and the three hypostases of Atman in Oriental metaphysics it is from this three-fold firmament that the lowest circle of the firmament formed the wall of Heaven known to the Greeks as Mount Olympus and to the Hind Hindus as Mount meu when in the exoteric classification

Of Tommy the mundane sphere is divided into seven concentric circles which are regarded as the orbits of the planets the emperion is not included in as much as it is in no way a part of the inferior World being the Abode of principles and not of vehicles paracelsus terms it the spirit

Of the world to distinguish it from the seven planetary Rings which are the soul of the world and the four Elemental substances which are the body of the world enclosed within the firmament as a fruit within its rind are the concentric orbits of the planets which the philosophers refer to as the seven

Governors of creation and which together constituted the demiurgic force or power from the substances of these spheres the soul of man is derived therefore the thoughts and emotions of all creatures are rendered in constant by the circumambulations of these Sky Wanderers which together constitute the Sevenfold astral nature of the

Universe the seven bodies vestments or or divisions of man’s objective nature so often referred to in occult teachings are conferred upon the ego by the fiery Governors or planetary looy this is beautifully expressed by Hermes in the Divine Pander for the Milky Way is the seed ground of Souls

And from it they drop into the Rings and to the Milky way they return again from the wheels of Saturn in his commentary on the tus of Plato procus in explaining the natures of the planets which are the causes of the energies of the soul ascribes to

Saturn the highest of The Seven Rings all Gnostic attributes to Jupiter vital powers of which he is the common cause to Mars all IRAs ible emotions to the sun everything which is sensible or demiurgic in consequence of it being the cause of sight and visibility to Venus the epithetic appetites or those pertaining

To desires to Mercury the Motions of the fantasy or of the imaginative Essence itself and to the Moon which which is the lowest of the seven the causes of mortality birth and generation as being herself the visible statue of fontal nature in the theosophical systems of the moderns this General scheme is

Preserved but the correspondences between the planets and their microcosmic principles in man are considerably changed thus Saturn is made to represent kamama Manas or the lower mind Jupiter the atomic aura or the oric Egg Mars Kama or the desire body the sun Prana or Vitality Venus buddhy Manas or the higher

Mind Mercury buddhy or the intuitional sheath and the Moon moon lingaa or the vital body Hermes describes the negative aspects of the seven Governors from which man must liberate himself to regain his lost spiritual estate upon the first ring sits the moon and to it is returned the ability to

Increase and diminish upon the second ring sits Mercury and to it are turned minations deceit and craftiness upon the third ring sits Venus and to it are returned the lusts and passions upon the fourth ring sits the Sun and to this Lord are returned Ambitions upon the fifth ring sits Mars

And to it are returned rashness and profane boldness upon the sixth ring sits Jupiter and to it are returned the sense of accumulation and riches and upon the seventh ring sits Saturn at the Gate of chaos and to it are returned falsehood and evil plotting Pythagoras believed that the

Empire of Pluto began downward from the Milky Way because Souls falling from then appear to have already receded from the gods and to have entered into an impermanent state macrobius in his commentary on cio’s dream gives a somewhat incomplete picture of the processes of generation as conceived by the

Philosophers the soul therefore falling with this first weight from the Zodiac and Milky Way into each of the subject spheres is not only clothed with the accession of a luminous body but produces the particular motions which it is to exercise in the respective orbs thus in Saturn it energizes according to a

Ratiocinative and intellective Power in the sphere of Jo according to a practic power in the orb of the Sun according to a sensitive and imaginative nature but according to the motion of desire in the planet Venus of pronouncing and interpreting what it perceives in the orb of

Mercury and according to a plantel or vegetable nature and a power of acting on body when it enters into the Nuna globe and this sphere as it is the last among the Divine orders so it is the first in our terrain situation for this body as it is the

Dregs of divine Natures so it is the first animal substance from the cedural world with its seven spheres the generating Soul next descends into the elemental complex which was divided by the Ancients into four parts and represented by a quarted circle the use of the Cross as the symbol of matter

Unquestionably gave rise to the ancient belief that the world had Corners these Corners being simply the extremity of this Elemental cross in the Tibetan system four demon Kings guard these angles of the world and by their ferocious mean as wardens of matter seek to intimidate those who would escape from the sublunary

State as the world is the body or vehicle of the Supreme agent so the elements are called by the cabalists the marava or quadruple Throne of the deity as described in ezekiel’s Vision this Throne is supported by four beasts the fixed signs of the zodiac which were employed by the calans as

Symbols of earth water fire and air the four General divisions of physical matter in his rosu Anatomy Robert flood shows the entire concatenation of worlds upon the head and torso of a human body the three states of the Imperium were assigned to the divisions of the head the seven planetary spheres to the

Thoracic cavity and its contents and the four Elemental parts to the abdominal cavity according to this system which is truly cabalistic the ocean of Eternity or first division of the world fills the highest part of the skull of arik and pin the great Universal Man and the element Earth not the planet corresponds

To the phus of macroprosopus considering the Imperium as one plane or state and adding to it the seven planetary spheres and finally the elemental sphere likewise regarded as a Unity a ninefold division of the universe is obtained this corresponds exactly with the most secret teaching of the illusi

Mysteries which divided the periods of The Descent of the soul to correspond with the nine months of the prenatal Epoch declaring that during his fetal period man recapitulates in the elemental substances the whole drama of in Carnation the second birth or acceptance into the aditum of the temple was

Consumated after a 9-day ceremonial during which the priests graphically portrayed the passage of the Soul through the nine states of Consciousness the ceremonial of the Eighth Day set forth the state of the Soul while in the lunar sphere when it hung suspended in humidity thus immersed the rational principle was

Declared at this point to drink of the Waters of leth the moon’s Vapors of forgetfulness so that thereafter it retained no memory of its supern state but entered hopelessly into the consciousness of mortality the moon was the ancient symbol of death because its emanations Intoxicated The Reason which is the

Probable origin of the word lunacy consequently every individual who has forgotten that he is essentially a divine creature is a lunatic or one made mad by the moon as the eighth month of the period of gestation is under the power of the Moon it was asserted that

No child born in the eighth month could live a child born in the seventh month however may be born and survive because such a one has not passed through the moon’s Mist it was presumed to possess some clear or extraordinary Vision hence the number seven was regarded as

Fortunate because it was less than the delirium of the Moon the number eight after birth which is the beginning of separative existence in the generative sphere life moves along ascending as it were the rungs of the ladder and passing through the terrestrial aspects of the cidal forces these aspects are what

Shakespeare refers to as The Seven Ages of man and are completed by the infirmity of the saturnian state which is the last and most crystallized condition of the body before dispersion of its parts into the imperian state these accidental ages of man however do not bring him liberal ation from

Terrestrial limitations for only from the mystery schools does he receive the disciplines necessary for his release from Material Illusions the gnostics celebrated nine lesser Mysteries through the Perfection of which the rational part gained complete control over generation becoming capable of building bodies by will power as practiced by the first

Race called the Sons of will or yoga who precipitated their shapes by meditation these nine initiations represent the development of specific States Of Consciousness whereby through the Perfection of virtue and integrity the ego escapes from the karmic forces emanating from The Starry Guardians for as Hermes also notes the great spirits

Seated upon the Thrones of the Stars control the world through Destiny a collective term for the three departments of karma the cedural forces hold man because of their likenesses within him and when through the Mastery of his appetites and emotions he subdues or transmutes the planetary qualities

The Regents of the world lose dominion over him he then escapes from their clutches to the Heavenly spheres Arabian writers on the subject of the Great Pyramid are now accused of indulging in a long FL of fancy when they declared that it contained seven Chambers Each of which

Was dedicated to one of the seven planets so that the building taken together was an accurate figure of the world these same authors then go on to explain interpreting Egyptian metaphysics with the keys of Islamic mysticism that the soul of the Dead in leaving the mummified body was forced to

Pass through each of these seven Chambers finally reaching Liberation at the apex of the pyramid here the Spheres of the planets have several interpretations not here to for generally noted for instance they become the races through which the egoic evolution of man takes place they are also the continents supporting these

Races and which in the Hindu system are arranged like the points of a hexagram to surround the central dot or first and indestructible land here also are the seven senses which are so to speak the facets of the Soul by which the light of the logos is reflected into the sensory

State Plato distinguished two aspects of the Soul one Divine and the other animal the animal Soul was Inseparable from the body and must remain as the anima or animating principle The Divine soul was not so bound but motivated by the impulses of enlightened reason could achieve Liberation from the mortality of

The flesh without the lower personality even being aware of this fact thus the Ancients including the Chinese record circumstances where a Pious man passing out of life meets upon one of the higher ples of the invisible worlds his own soul which had preceded his body into a state of enlightenment

This higher or spiritual soul is the embodiment of Virtues even as the lower or animal soul is the embodiment of excesses the latter becomes the guardian of the threshold and call the dweller in the bulon zanoni while the former is the celestial demon it is destined that every

Individual shall Wonder in a relapsed State until he has mastered the Eight Powers of the Soul even as the universe must endure in its present condition until the souls of the seven planets are united in the Messianic soul of the world when theology seized to teach the rationale of Salvation substituting for

Metaphysical truths the blanket dogma of redemption through grace alone not only the purpose of life itself but the method of its completion was hopelessly obscured men forgot that the ladder of the worlds was the very framework of the religious philosophy that its understanding was the beginning of metaphysical realization when we have

Come to see clearly as the Ancients saw the spirits ascending and descending the ladder we shall then understand those premises which underly what is now called divine revelation such documents as the Genesis of Enoch the apocalypse and the vision of Hermes are meaningless until the mind can Envision the nine Royal arches built

By Methuselah as the first temple this Temple patterned after the macrocosm was devised in order that men might worship their creator by recapitulating the very processes by which Cosmos was engendered bod Dharma the patriarch of Zen arriving at the place called the vulture’s peak gaama Buddha seated himself and surrounded by his disciples

And the creatures of the seven worlds discoursed upon The Prana paramet or the elements of transcendental wisdom these discourses given at Raj gria are preserved as among the most important doctrines of the Mahayana school which is now called the Great vehicle as the illumined one thus sat revealing the doctrine of

Enlightenment a brah maraja approached bowing low before sakyamuni he placed in his hands a glorious Golden Lotus Blossom beseeching the eternally enlightened one to preach the Dharma or the good law thereupon the gathered disciples and even the Saints in heaven bent forward and listened attentively for the words

Of Priceless wisdom but the Buddha remained silent gazing serenely at the lotus flower after several moments the Aged and venerable disciple mahakasyapa smiled slightly he had sensed the mystery buha turned instantly to mahakasyapa saying I have have the wonderful thought of Nirvana the eye of the right law you

Alone have perceived this and to you I now transmit the whole treasury of Dharma be thou also enlightened in this way so tradition declares the sect of Diana the order of Silent instruction was established it is the one division of Buddhism which by refusing to become contaminated by word or symbol

Has preserved throughout the centuries the true Spirit of the great instruction from mahaka the first patriarch of Diana the Dharma descended from Sage to Sage along an unbroken line of meditating Masters each presumed to have communicated the law to his successor without word or outward sign until

Finally at the beginning of the 6th century it was entrusted to the keeping of the patriarch patara a teacher of rare gifts and attainments of patara a curious incident is told he was invited to an ancestral Memorial Feast that the assembled guests might hear and profit by his words to

The amazement of those present he did not follow the accepted Buddhist custom of reading from the scriptures but simply remained silent when questioned as to the reason for his unusual conduct he replied neither the breath which I draw in nor that which I exhale produces any effect upon material things nor would my

Breath Laden with words have any greater Merit since my heart and body are always with Buddha sleeping waking or work working I am constantly receiving his influence and have no need to read his words it was the patriarch patara who in the Stillness of meditation revealed the mystical Doctrine to Bod

Dharma who thus became the 28th patriarch and the greatest exponent of Diana or the science of Enlighten meditation it was body Dharma often called the militant Monk and the blue-eyed Brahman of princely birth who brought Diana to China from whence according to tradition it reached Japan

In the 7th Century where it is known as Zen the meaning of the word zen according to the master himself cannot be understood even by those possessed of wisdom it implies a mystery which can only be revealed to those who have achieved it to the exoteric the term

Must always remain simply a word conveying the thought of the discovery of self and the contemplation of that reality which is the foundation of every illusionary nature men do not study Zen they achieve it through the actual process of becoming it it is not taught as we understand teaching but it is

Communicated as a state from those who possess it to those who are capable of receiving it Zen is a meditation for the becoming of self bod Dharma was in every respect an extraordinary personality his body of huge and ungainly proportions was rendered more pronounced by his hay me and commanding gestures two great

Piercing eyes blazed out from under Shaggy brows and he affected a short Grizzly beard and heavy golden air air Rings his strange proportions and menacing manner lent a fearsomeness to his whole appearance by older writers bod Dharma has been likened to an awkward growling bear who spent his time sitting in some

Desolate spot mumbling and grumbling to himself he has never depicted as smiling or happy but as gloring upon the world from behind the BS of his cape in spite of all this however if his face be carefully studied there is evidence of a deep kindliness and a gentle understanding concealed beneath the rough

Exterior like many of the other Patriarchs who have renounced worldliness for the realities of the contemplative life bod Dharma was utterly indifferent to his personal appearance his body was covered with a tattered robe usually shown as either saffron or red in color although the traditional robe of the Zen patriarch is

Green never before had such an apparition been seen crossing the mountains separating India from China there are differing accounts regarding his mode of travel According to some traditions he walked the entire distance to bring the law of Enlightenment to the Chinese again he is referred to as the

Navigating Brahman and is supposed to have arrived there on a ship regardless of his mode of travel however the conation caused by his arrival coming to the attention of the Imperial house he was summoned to the Palace it is in no way amazing that the emperor woo the Mortal son of immortal

Heaven a good man and a Pious Buddhist should desire to meet and Converse with this most remarkable Sage we therefore next discover bod Dharma in the Imperial audience chamber of the emperor of China standing before the high gold and lacered Throne veiled by its silken curtains no ingratiating priest was bod

Dharma groeling for Royal favors he retained his aggressive and uncivil attitude answering gruffly and indifferently the question of the Imperial one in his resolution to humiliate this personification of Imperial power the emperor speaks most reverent sir we have built temples caused copies to be made of the Holy scriptures and

Ordered monks and nuns to be converted is there any Merit in our conduct no merit at all growled bod Dharma from somewhere in the midst of his rags though unaccustomed to such answers the emperor continued what then is the whole truth or the first principle again the patriarch growled enigmatically the first principle

Transcends all there is nothing holy it then seems that the emperor reasoned thus to himself before speaking if there is nothing holy what then is the state of this saint who confronts us so he spoke once more who are you then who stands before us and for the last

Time before turning his back upon the palace bod dama muttered I do not know who I am metaphysical distinctions such as these were utterly beyond the comprehension of the Imperial mind weighed down with the cares of state and to whom the state must have seemed very very real so bod Dharma realizing that

His teachings were too profound to receive Imperial favor and support resolutely turned his back upon the Forbidden City and retired into the distant sha Lin Monastery where he sat in meditation for nine years in a small courtyard with his face turned towards a blank wall for this achievement the patriarch

Earned earned for himself the name of the wall gazing Brahman but bod Dharma was not there for the sole purpose of meditation he was awaiting the perfect working out of the law he knew that di was the royal road to selfhood and that men in their desire to attain truth would ultimately

Discover him it was merely a matter of patience and realization what a strange picture is conjured up when one thinks of this grim-faced saint bundled up in his robes gazing fiercely day in and day out at an undecorated wall and kicking out of his presence with appropriate snorts and

Grunts anyone who dared to interfere with his meditations day after day he mumbled and grumbled and these nine years have become the subject of numerous Legends many of a most profound nature according to One account he remained seated in one position so long that spiders spun their

Webs all around him and rats made nests in the folds of his cloak according to another story he remained without moving for such an extended amount of time that he entirely lost the use of his legs which withered away in commemoration of the latter incident Dharma is now depicted by

Japanese artists with a body in the form of a sack Sands all trace of legs his dled Visage peering out accusingly upon the world from the neck of the sack body Dharma has been styled the Chinese St Anthony because during this long period of meditation every form of Temptation and discomfort was visited

Upon him after he had been sitting alone for approxim 3 years gazing at the wall he is said to have become so tired that without realizing it he fell asleep his Slumbers were disturbed by astral visions and the sorcery of evil creatures conjured up by Mara the Lord of

Unrealities at last the elemental creatures bothered him so much that he awoke with a start and discovering that he had been asleep a weakness most unzen likee he cut off his own eyelids as a Penance in some pictures this peculiarity has been carefully noted when he cast his eyelids upon the ground

Tradition affirms that they became tea plants having thus strengthened himself by his Penance bod Dharma remained awake and in meditation for 5 years more when again fatigue overtook him casting about for something to dispel his drowsiness body Dharma noted the tea plants growing thereby leaning over he picked a few

Leaves from one of them and after chewing the leaves discovered that they removed his sense of fatigue since that time tea has been widely used by Zen monks as well as other holy men who desire to remain awake during long periods of meditation at last the patriarch was

Rewarded for his long vigil a man sorely perplexed hearing of the meditating Sage came to him in search of knowledge but bodh who realized that the path of achievement was only for the strong refused to receive the visitor and gruffly ordered him to depart the man however was not thus

Easily discouraged and remained standing for days in the snow refusing to leave until the interview was granted after waiting a long time and receiving no invitation this pilgrim cut off his right arm and sent it to Bod Dharma the patriarch instantly realized that the stranger possessed the sincerity and consecration necessary to

The great achievement so he ordered him brought into his presence and there received him as a disciple bestowing the discipline upon him the UN prepossessing exterior which which many of the old zen priests developed was cultivated for one purpose alone to discourage those who aspired to become

Disciples only the one who possessed the Discrimination to pierce through external appearances and discover the underlying reality was regarded as worthy to receive Enlightenment bod Dharma therefore accepted Those whom he could not frighten away kick away or repel by surliness or abuse Zen was for the strong and not for

The weak for the Resolute and not for those who could be easily intimidated the Essential Elements of Zen Buddhists have been summed up under six General headings a brief survey of which will reveal the high integrity of the discipline number one the practices of Zen are fully as old as Buddhism some

Believe much older for the method of practicing Diana or meditation as cultivated by these monks has descended from the teachings of the most ancient recluses of India the origin of these spiritual processes is hopelessly obscure number two in spite of its great Antiquity and its even more astonishing

Profundity the doctrine of Zen is particularly applicable to present day conditions it is distinctly a practical rather than an abstract cult for this reason it has unquestionably come to be so highly favored by the best educated and cultured people of Japan number three Zen rejects in Toto the importance of scriptural Authority

Or tradition affirming that truth can never be communicated by any outward method but must be realized internally by the mind when when the mind of the teacher is an rapport with the mind of the disciple the Mysteries are silently communicated and in this way alone has the esotericism of Zen been transmitted

For over 26 Centuries with its rejection of the scriptures Zen also rejects prayer fasting and the observance of monastic rules those who perform such acts are worshiping Only The Phantom of Truth number four Zen also rejects the historical existence of Buddha declaring that there can be no such person as Buddha in as

Much as personality itself is an illusion to the true Zen Buddha is a state of consciousness not a man nor are the Buddhas regarded as gods or Supermen in fact the Zen monks sometimes speak pityingly of the Buddha as a man who was in bondage to the golden chain of belief

In enlightenment there is an absolute in the teachings of Zen into which all personalities are absorbed the contemplation of this is the greatest good number five Zen is not an idolatrous Doctrine and like the original buddhistic system of gaama preserves such an exalted concept of deity that less enlightened minds are

Inclined to view the entire system as a philosophic atheism Tania who was a zen teacher in the 9th century is said to have warmed himself when he was cold by making a fire out of statues from a nearby Temple to him symbols had nothing to do with spirituality or truth

But hopelessly confused The Elements by encouraging men to accept the image for the real number six Zen has a curious method of expressing profound realization or some deep deep religious Insight by an odd or inconsequential gesture or act Zen monk May symbolize the achievement of some high State of Consciousness by

Lifting a brush from a rack by tapping with his fingers upon the back of a chair by some gesture of his hands or even by slapping a man in the face it has been said that Zen monks have roundly boxed the ears of Emperors there is a story in UST rative

Of Zen teachings recorded in Robert Cornell Armstrong’s recent publication Buddhism and Buddhists in Japan a temple official once asked IU a famous Zen monk if there was such places as Heaven and Hell the priest replied in most abusive language calling the official a fool who lived off the temple but was ignorant of

Its teachings he even went so far as to call him a robber and a brute and unworthy to be a samurai the official being a man of Honor refused to take such abuse even from a priest so drawing his sword he ordered IU to explain himself or be cut down the

Priest who had retired out of danger laughed at the angry official exclaiming you ask where is Hell your mind is hell I see hell in your face the samurai sent ing the lesson became conscience strict and regained his former amiability whereupon the priest noting his Placid features

Remarked you ask where is Heaven your mind is heaven now I see heaven in your face in his Buddhist art M anisaki writes of Zen the chief effort of this sect was directed towards the attainment of spiritual enlightenment through personal experience erience in contemplation and the effects of this

Practice were shown in manifestation of strong individuality at the same time a feeling for the Tranquil beauty of nature produced a Serene air rhythm of transcendence over the incidence of human life unlike most of the Oriental metaphysical disciplines Zen is not a negative procedure it is the achievement

Of Tranquility in strength rather than in weakness and because of the peculiar Vitality of the teaching nearly all the Patriarchs of the order have enjoyed extraordinary health and lived to Great age it has well been written that the obliteration of matter by the exercise of absolute knowledge is the secret of

Zen zazen the Tranquil session or method of Zen meditation is thus described by Kazan In zazan yoin k a range seat of matting at a suitable place and lay a cushion upon it then sit down cross-legged placing the right foot upon the left thigh and the left foot upon

The right thigh put on robes and a girdle not too tight and preserve this their symmetry then put the right hand Palm upward on the calf of the leg lay the back of the left hand upon the palm arm of the right hand and let the tips of

The two thumbs touch each other sit thus keeping the body erect inclining neither to the right nor to the left bending neither forward nor backward let the ears be just above the shoulders and the nose be directed toward the abdomen lay the tongue against the roof

Of the mouth and keep the lips and teeth closed the eyes should be kept open the breath should should flow gently through the nostrils when the bodily position is thus established exhale a deep breath then remain seated after having examined the posture by swinging the body slightly to the right and left there

After proceed to the contemplation of what is beyond thought the eccentricities of body Dharma and his enigmatical method of teaching endeared him to the few who understood the workings of His Brilliant mind as in the case of Pythagoras most men however hate Mysteries and the patriarch made many enemies among those

Unable to comprehend his metaphysical speculations like Socrates this grand old master of Zen was loved by the few hated by the many and feared by all alike on at least three different occasions Priests of rival sects made efforts to poison body Dharma but in each case his great knowledge enabled

Him to frustrate their designs it is not amazing therefore that he was regarded as being divinely protected and the ignorant assumed that he possessed some magical secrets for the indefinite extension of his life wisdom however does not bestow freedom from law but rather Freedom under law like the great who had gone

Before him the blue-eyed Brahman passed from the scene of mortal action when after a long and intense life the time came for bod Dharma to depart into the law we discover him the same Fierce appearing but mysterious old man still huddled in his voluminous cloak and surrounded by the monks and

Nuns whom he had converted to Diana the doctrine of meditation with his great rumbling voice he speaks thus and now the time of my departure is at hand say unto me one and all how do you understand the law then reverently the assembled Brethren spoke each in turn summarizing

What he had gained from the teachings one disciple T Fu answered to me it seems that the law does not lie in the letters nor yet is it separated from the letter but it works bod Dharma nodded Gravely and replied by your realization you have obtained my skin then

Anon sui spoke up saying as Ananda the Beloved disciple of the Buddha achieved the firmness of thought but once or twice so I understand the law bod Dharma nodded slowly as though pondering in the words and then replied and by your realization you have attained to my

Flesh another to speak was T Yu a great student his words were thus the four elements are unreal from the first nor are form perception Consciousness action or knowledge really existent all is emptiness according to my view again B Dharma inclined his massive shoulders mumbling in his cloak by your

Realization you have acquired my bones the last to be called upon for his understanding of the law was wh Cole who after making a most polite obeisance sat at a little distance and assuming the position of meditation gazed silently at bod Dharma for several minutes the Aged patriarch was very

Still also and then leaning forward he whispered by your realization you have in silence attained to my marrow bod Dharma then took the great green cloak of Zen and spread it over H quo’s shoulders proclaiming him the next patriarch of Zen and pouring into the vessel of his soul

As into a new piture the Everlasting Waters of the law 3 years after his death a strange story began to be circulated concerning body Dharma some peasants from the Hill Country had seen the fierce looking philosopher plodding on his way amid the Western mountains of China his face resolutely turned towards

India he was was barefooted but for some inexplicable reason was carrying one shoe in his hand the number of persons reporting this circumstance so greatly increased that the story caused such consternation that it came to the attention of the emperor of China who to settle the

Matter caused the tomb of bod Dharma to be opened to the amazement of everyone the grave was empty except except for one shoe the mate to the slipper that bod Dharma had carried away on the strength of this story it has been affirmed that the great Zen

Monk never really died at all but having completed his labors in China employed the spuge of death as a convenient method of disappearing in Japan are found many curious images of bod Dharma or or DaRuMa in some he is shown with his clenched fists raised above his head in a posture of utter

Exasperation in others he is depicted walking with stately tread carrying the much discussed shoe ins still other carvings he is shown standing on a milet stalk some say a great Leaf of the asy tree the latter picture refers to the account probably apocryphal of bod dharma’s visit to

Japan he is declared to have crossed the straight of Korea either walking upon the waters or standing on this Leaf which had become an enchanted skiff bod Dharma is often used in Japan as a pattern for children’s toys no other great philosopher seems to have suffered so many indignities at the

Hands of the public as this old zen Monk and yet there there is something very profound behind it all in kite flying season his strange staring face gazes down from countless paper birds Among The Familiar toys modeled from him are the little tumbling egg-shaped figures sometimes called by American children Humpty

Dumpies these are weighted at the bottom so that no matter which way they are knocked about they always Bob up serenely by their peculiar faculty of writing themselves under all conditions these tumbling dolls strangely enough are very appropriate symbols of the Zen tradition Zen is the doctrine of equilibrium

Demanding a balancing of all the elements of Life as a prerequisite to spiritual understanding students of metaphysical subjects will do well to emulate the Zen attitude of Silence towards esoteric matters for not the least important of body dharma’s teachings is that very evident fact that the true secrets of Life can under no

Circumstances be communicated from one person to another and that all who try to express outwardly the secrets of the law expose themselves as ignorant of these secrets Nagina Likens man to a tree the branches and leaves of which are moved by The Winds of excess which disturb the

Tranquility of the outer life the trunk of the tree is the mind which the wind cannot move let us use naga’s own words the branches of a tree are shaken by the storm but the trunk remains unmoved in like manner as the mind of the arhat is

Bound to the firm pillar of samadi by the cord of the four paths it remains unmoved even when the body is suffering pain Zen teaches that the immovability of reason is the hope of man for while the outer senses and perceptions are hopelessly inconstant the Mind within is

Capable of being so established on the Eternal foundations of realization that the vicissitudes of the outer life have no effect upon the serenity of the inner existence when the Dead come back those opposed to the belief that man’s intellectual faculties survive the disillusion of his physical body Advance

As proof of mortality that the dead do not return the phenomena of spiritualism are not accepted by the materialist as evidence of this survival because of the difficulty of establishing by physical means the Integrity of such manifestations it is a mistake however to suppose that the vistas of the

Invisible world can be charted by Clairvoyance alone men have died and have lived again for returning from the veil of Shadows they have described with minute detail that which they experience and beheld in most cases they were not even Believers in the metaphysical before their miraculous death and Resurrection they were

Addicted to intemperance and success but after their return from the Subterranean Realms of Hades they became men of exemplary morals having been shocked into a new life of piety by the awesomeness of their experiences by the irreligious death is viewed as the final dissipation of both life and intelligence by The Devout it

Is held as the beginning of a spiritual state where woe ceases and All Things become miraculously perfected to the rationally minded it must be evident that both these extreme viewpoints are to say the least illogical if there be either reason or consistency in nature order in the world

Or Justice in the divine plan then all things must persist in harmony with themselves that which is to come must be justified by that which precedes it ends must be determined by appropriate means and all conditions must generate their similars when a man disappears from his circle of physical associations this

Circumstance is scarcely sufficient to Warrant the conclusion that on the one hand he has utterly ceased to be or that on the other hand he has become apotheosized if men would cease to live anticipating some unreasonable postmortem metamorphosis and live now as though they were to continue as

Themselves throughout all space and time there would be a greater incentive to the Improvement of present conduct we are apt to overestimate the importance of death as an incident in life death is regarded as a change of condition when in reality it is only a change of place such change can produce no

Appreciable difference in either the moral or ethical status as in life so in death a man is no better and no worse for where he is but rather for what he is a person passing from one room to another does not change his temperament at the doorway nor does he cast off his

Attitudes with his garments life and death were terms employed by the Ancients to symbolize PLS of human consciousness by death should be inferred that condition of ignorance which results from the encroachments of the material impulses upon the province of the rational Nature by life should be inferred that stimulation of the

Energies of the Soul by which man is emancipated from bondage to the illusions of materiality to paraphrase the platonic arguments of platonus when the soul is merged with body so great a part of it sleeps or is obscured that the stimulation of the sense perceptions is its only employment Resurrection therefore is not

The elevation of the dull mass of the body but rather the elevation of the reason Above This Mass any phenomenal change from life to death or from Death to life if in accompanied by spiritual enlightenment is only a transmigration from sleep to sleep from dream to dream

Like a man passing in the dark from from bed to bed all real change must take place in the Soul by which in turn the body is tinctured the vicissitudes of the body such as its comings and its goings while they have no direct influence upon the

Quality of the soul may by indirection affect it as the Mind through the contemplation of phenomena is led to an analysis of realities having been liberated by Death from the limitations of the body man gains one advantage over his incarnate State he has come to function in and

Become a part of that subjective world of which our objective sphere is but the shadow certain mechanisms of creation are therefore uncovered to his View and if his understanding be sufficient he may gain a better estimate of comparative values and degrees of truth it follows that the more he has

Perfected his faculties during physical life the greater will be his appreciation of the Mysteries revealed to him while in the invisible World plutar declares that when a man dies he passes through the same experience as those who have had their Consciousness increased by the ceremonials of the Mysteries thus death is an initiation

And every initiation is a form of death but as the Mysteries refused admission to those who had not qualified themselves to receive the Arana so the invisible World denies entrance to the Unworthy who must remain in the shadow land between place and Eternity until it is appointed for them to return again

Into the dimensions of body and physical life thus to the informed death imparts further instruction but to the uninformed it renders issues more confused there is no greater good than to behold and understand that which is beheld and there is no greater grief than to be in the presence of wisdom and

Through the poverty of the faculties be incapable of partaking of the good thereof when Cicero declared that the Mysteries taught men how to die he intimated that the initiates were prepared to interpret correctly the phenomenon of death death is not only an experience but also an opportunity as the majority of people

However profit but little from these factors in this life they can scarcely be expected to do better in the next so for the many existence there is but a continuance of their existence here with the purposes of life as obscure in the one as in the other from an examination of the

Philosophic attitude towards death we learn that at the end the soul disentangles itself from the Mortal skin and retires into its own source being a super physical Essence Soul can insinuate itself into body and depart there from unperceived being recognizable only through the consequences which these acts engender

It is also possible for the soul to separate itself temporarily from the body and afterwards return th to while its vital agent is thus absent the body must remain inert but when the psyche returns it can lift the physical lump again into a state of action under such conditions the soul

Retains its hold upon the body by certain magnetic threads so that the vital functions are preserved returning along these threads the soul again penetrates the Labyrinth of matter and reanimates the frame if the threads by which body hangs suspended in Soul are broken however then death is complete the body becomes

A derelict upon the Sea of matter and soul no longer can affect or control the empty shell that the Ancients experimented in these wonders instructed themselves in all the aspects thereof is attested by procus who in a manuscript commentary upon the 10th book of the Republic of Plato

Writes that it is possible for the soul to depart from and enter into the body is evident from him who according to clerus used a soul attracting wand on a sleeping lad and who persuaded Aristotle as clerus relates in his tree TI on sleep that the soul may be separated

From the body and that it enters into the body and uses it as a lodging for striking the lad with the wand he drew out and as it were LED his soul for the purpose of evincing that the body was immovable when the soul was

At a distance from from it and that it was preserved uninjured but the soul being again led into the body by means of the one after its entrance narrated every particular from this circumstance therefore both The Spectators and Aristotle were persuaded that the soul is separate from the

Body the most famous of those who have returned from the dead to a more sober and constructive existence is arus of solai of whom plutar learned from his friend protogenes in the vision of aridus GRS me gives an account of this extraordinary happening with useful commentaries aridus who was a man of

Great wealth and even greater profligacy stopped at no villainy and gained the unenviable reputation of being one of the greatest Scoundrels of his time he seemingly grew wary of evil and went so far as to ask the Oracle of anilus if there was any probability of his being

Able to improve the latter part of his life the Oracle is reputed to have answered with the enigmatical statement that he would do better after he was dead whether this answer prayed upon his mind or whether Providence turned defender of Prophecy is not known aridus met with an accident however and

Although seemingly uninjured the shock brought on a semblance of death there was complete suspension of Animation which deceived the cleverest Physicians 3 days later just as the plans for his funeral had been completed he rose from his couch of death and recovering entirely from his strange experience

Narrated to a few of his closest acquaintances the strange things which happened to him during the period of his temporary decease after this unpleasant experience writes me aridus became an entirely reformed character of quite exemplary virtue aridus explained the amazing change in his mode of life and thought

By what he had seen and experienced plutar immediately recognized the Integrity of the vision because of its agreement with the ceremonials of initiation aridus explained that when his Consciousness escaped from the body he experienced a sensation similar to that of a sailor who had been swept overboard into deep

Water after a little time he seemed to breathe in every part of him and to see in all directions at once as though the single Eye Of the Soul had been opened he was in space and no objects were visible save the Stars which were at enormous distances from each other and

Of great size and poured forth marvelous radiations of color and sound the most significant statement in the vision is that concerning the souls of the Dead which rose in flam like bubbles auras these bubbles find finally broke and human forms the astral bodies emerged he then described the confusion

Of those who passing into death unenlightened face eternity Terror stricken and move in panic-driven herds later he discovers others who are shining with Radiance and peace and move through the higher reaches of space aridus then wanders through an Inferno not unlike that painted by The Genius of Dante an inferno that exists only

Through the Fair complexes in the minds of human beings at last having come to the end of his vision he felt himself as though sucked through a tube by a terribly strong and violent in breath he let in his body Awakening just in time to prevent himself being buried

Alive relying upon earlier sources for his evidence procus supports the general platonic Viewpoint as to the power of the soul to depart from and enter into body either by will or by accident he gives five examples of persons who having apparently died were called back from the shadow to Bear witness to the

Super physical mysteries of Life the first was cleonymus of Athens a man who was given to attending philosophic discourses he was thrown into a despair through grieving over the death of a friend and seemingly died after he was laid out and prepared for burial a gentle breathing was perceived and his interment was

Halted cleonymus after a short time was restored to physical Vigor and described in detail what he had seen and heard heard while his soul was absent from his body he related how his soul or rational part was as though liberated from bondage so that it soared up from body

And having ascended above the Earth came into places of various figures and colors with rivers unknown to man still ascending he came to a region sacred to Vesta and was brought into the presence of the Gods of indescribable forms his narrative reminds one of the worlds described by Socrates in his last

Discourse an aerial sphere wherein beings dwelt along the shores of the atmosphere even as men dwell along the shores of the sea the story of cleonymus is vouched for by clerus who was a disciple of Aristotle the second example draws from the historian nus and is concerned with one

Polyrus a prominent citizen among the aians polyrus returned to life after being dead or in a state of suspended animation for 9 months coming forth out of his tomb he joined in a general assembly of the prominent citizens Consulting with them as to measures to be adopted for the Improvement of the

Community this circumstance was so extraordinary hio the Ephesian and other historians testified as to the truth of it sending a statement of the facts to the King antigenes after returning from his wandering in fourth-dimensional Vistas polyrus seemed to have increased in wisdom to a marked degree from from

Which it was evident that he had found favor with the gods the third example is that of Uranus of nicopolis who was buried for 15 days after which he had revived and described many wonderful things he had seen and heard while under the Earth the details of which however he was forbidden to

Relate he had descended through a strange Subterranean Labyrinth and while his body lay peacefully in the vault his rational energies had explored the mysteries of Tartarus it is recorded of this man also that his conduct was more just after his initiation than before the fourth example is that of the

Thessalonian priest Rufus Who Rose from the couch of death after 3 days and performed certain sacred ceremonials attendant upon his office having thus fulfilled a vow to perform these ceremonies he laid down and died for the second time and from his death there was no return the philosophers declared that

The soul of Rufus being bound to the terrestrial sphere by the weight of an oath could not depart but was held by the sense of an unmet obligation the soul then returned to the body reanimating it for a second time to perform the rights according to its vow whereupon released from further

Entanglement in matter it retired into a spiritual State the last example given by procus is Fila a lady who lived under the reign of Philip she died and 6 months later came to life again died a second time and was reborn once more even to the third time her strange actions during

The periods of her reanimation she declared to be according to the will of terrestrial demons or Spirits it seems that her body was occupied by Elemental entities who caused it to appear as though animated fania also described strange beings existing in The Invisible worlds who conversed rationally with her on profound and varied

Subjects like the others she interpreted the substance of the transcendental spheres in terms of light and color also glorious Symphonies and harmonies which thrilled through the subtle Essences like some vast orchestration American Indian mythology is embellished with numerous accounts of priests and heroes who have penetrated

Into the ghost land or spirit world and returned alive usually the Ghost Land is Subterranean and reached only after an arduous journey through dark passageways infested with monsters and filled with natural dangers returning from the spirit world the courageous Warriors described the adventures which befell them this intercourse between the worlds

And this power to pass from one to the other was cultivated by nearly all ancient or primitive peoples in the myths of the North American Indians Le Spence writes in many Indian myths we read how the shamans singly or in companies seek the spirit land either to search for The

Souls of those who are ill but not yet dead or to seek advice from supernatural beings these thical practices were usually undertaken by three medicine men acting in concert falling into a trance in which their souls were supposed to become temporarily disunited from their bodies they would follow the track of

The sick man’s Spirit into the spirit world the order in which they traveled was determined by the relative strength of the Guardian Spirits those with the strongest being first and last and he who had the weakest being placed in the middle if the sick man’s track turned to the left

They said he would die but if to the right he would recover from the trail they could also divide whether any Supernatural danger was near and the foremost priest would utter a magic chant to avert such evils if they came from the front while if the danger came from the rare the

Incantation was sung by the priest who came last generally their sojon occupied one or two nights and having rescued the soul of the patient they returned to place it in his body Not only was the shaman endowed with the power of projecting his own astral body into the land of Spirits by

Placing Cedarwood charms in the hands of persons who had not yet received a guardian Spirit he could impart to them his Clairvoyant gifts enabling them to VIs visit the spirit land and make any observations required by him The Souls of chiefs instead of following the usual route went directly

To the seashore where only the most gifted Chans could follow their Trail the sea was regarded as the highway to the supernatural regions a sick man was in the greatest Peril at high water but when the tide was low the danger was less the means adopted by the medicine

Men to lure a ghosts away from their pursuit of a soul was to create an astral deer the ghosts would turn from hunting the man’s soul to follow that of the Beast among some of the southwestern tribes we find the magic carpet ceremony the body of the deceased is placed upon

A small black and white blanket this blanket carries the soul of the Dead through all the mysteries of the Underworld the Indians believe that man originally issued out of the earth and that he would return to his original home after finishing his wanderings in the Mortal

Sphere the red men expect to go back again under the earth when they die this is a significant link with the initiation ceremonies of the Egyptians and Greeks for the Lesser Mysteries were invariably conducted in Subterranean Crypts to signify as the classical writers have testified the relapsed

State of the human soul the Indians recognized not only the underworld wherein exists the Ghost Land but also the superior World far above the clouds where dwelt the Manos or gods in American Indian mysticism are found many parallelisms with the old caldan metaphysics thus life and death become merely the objective and subjective

Expressions of one state departing from the outer body of the world men retire into the inner body of the world but in life and death are abound to the terrestrial sphere hence birth and death have no significance except when accompanied by a release of spiritual consciousness perfected Souls

Do not wander in the ghost land in the Egyption system amenti was the nocturnal sphere of the Dead while the true heaven was far above the North Pole the Ghost Land is really nothing but the invisible body of the earth wherein The Souls of men vested only in

The more subtle garments of eal and astral substance continue their existence after shuffling off their mortal coil from the ghost land they are reborn again to live and die repeatedly until the soul energized by the reason dedicates itself to the escape from matter and through high purpose and

Great accom M SES upward into the world of the Gods to return no more to the illusions of matter as the initiation ceremonies of the Mysteries constituted what was called the philosophic death and the philosophic birth the rights contained numerous Illusions to death and in the higher degrees the more advanced pupils

Actually passed through the experience of death an experience created for them by the wisdom and Ingenuity of this priestcraft many of the initiated heropants and adeps were profoundly versed in mesmerism and hypnotism they could cause artificial catalepsy and by their own knowledge of natural law temporarily Force the soul

Out of their body that it might gain the actual experience of passing into the invisible world narcotic drugs were used to produce temporary Clairvoyance and were noted by salver who adds that the Christians drugged the communion cups to create visions and ecstasy charms talismans and fetishes were employed spells and mantras recited

And Elemental forces invoked and in the lonely passageways of the ancient temples all these agencies conspired together to acquaint the neopit with all the profundities of mortal and Immortal existence hence it was well said that a man was born again when he had passed through the

Initiations he was held as one who had returned from the dead who had approached the threshold of Prine and had seen the Gates of Hell swing open to receive him every initiate of the ancient world had been out of his body at least once usually aided by the priests this

Experience entirely changed the perspective towards life for it enlarged The Horizon and established A New Concept of values today we firmly believe that when we are dead we are very dead indeed but in reality when we are dead we are very much alive terms are often given undue

Emphasis we take words too seriously death seems add dismal and ultimate expression when it actually signifies simple transition and is in no way concerned with a belief in a beginning or a fear of end if the ancient Mysteries could be reestablished upon the Earth and every

Man could die at least once during this life and come back again he would like the classical personages described by procus return to a better ordered and more justly inative life having passed through such an experience we could not again be the same as we were before this single circumstance is

Largely responsible for that Indescribable interval which separated the philosophers of antiquity from Mankind in general the philosophers were of a race apart a strange dignity a commanding Simplicity had been conferred upon them by the Mysteries as the Oracle of anilus said to aridus we in turn

Might say of every man that they would do better after they had died at least once Albert Pike The Plato of Freemasonry in this article it is not our purpose to write over Albert Pike the Aransas G man nor of Albert Pike the shrewd and successful jurist nor again

Of Albert Pike the American poet nor shall we enlarge upon his military career which elevated him to the rank of a brigadier general nor the high Merit of his literary style and the numerous honors bestowed upon Him by Freemasons and Freemasonry in all parts of the Civilized

World men who knew him intimately and sat under the spell of his personality and words are better fitted to enlarge upon his many virtues we shall only speak of his rare abilities as far as is necessary to establish the main subject of our discussion the memory of Great Men lives

After them but their wisdom is interred with their bones we worship at The Shrine of the illustrious but seldom emulate the qualities for which they came to be so elevated we recognize the Merit of achievement yet ourselves make small effort to attain it there is a forgotten Albert

Pike Pike the platonic philosopher the hermetist The Alchemist the cabalist and the transcendentalist it is to rescue this genius from the Oblivion of forgetfulness that we have framed this essay Albert Pike was the Great American Freemason he found the organization in a log cabin and left it in a palace he

Took all its numerous vicissitudes upon himself and labored unceasingly through a long and industrious life for the Perfection of masonic ideals for 32 years he was The Sovereign Grand commander of the Supreme Council of the 33 degrees for the southern jurisdiction of the United States with such dignity that at his death William

Oscar room asked who will dare aspire to fill his chair now vacant at the time of his passing to this Masonic Prometheus was paid the following magnificent tribute Albert Pike was a king among men by the divine right of Merit a giant in body in brain in heart and in

Soul so Majestic in appearance that whenever he moved moved on highway or byway the wide world over every passer by turned a gaze upon him and admired him 6 ft 2 in tall with the proportions of a Hercules and the grace of an Apollo a face and head massive and leonine

Recalling in every feature some sculptor’s dream of a grassian god while his long wavy hair flowing down over his shoulders added a striking picturesque effect he was in himself the highest and grandest embodiment of the virtues and Graces of Freemasonry a living exempli cation of the exalted and exalting principles of

Your great world embracing Brotherhood he ran the whole gamut of Earthly honors he climbed fame’s glittering ladder to its loftiest height and stepped from its topmost round into the skies Henry R Evans Inspector General honorary of the Supreme Council 33rd degree thus describes this grand old man of

Masonry I often saw him on the streets of Washington his Snow White hair falling about his shoulders like the man of a lion his broad expansive forehead his Serene countenance and his powerful frame awoke thoughts in me of some being of a far off time the conventional dress

Of an American citizen did not seem suited to such a splendid personality the costume of an ancient Greek would have been more in keeping with such a face and figure such a habit as Plato wore when he discoursed upon Divine philosophy to his students Among The Groves of the academy at Athens beneath

The brilliant sun of Greece who knows but what Albert Pike was a Reincarnation of Plato walking these 19th century streets of ours Fred w elop in his book Albert Pike a biography says of Pike that he was visited and consulted by important persons from all over the world and

While not otherwise engaged he sat and dreamed and delved in ancient law as was his W smoking his long mearm pipe and watching his pet birds in the Centenary souvenir of his birth published in 1909 are contained a number of tributes to Albert Pike from Men high in Masonic circles James D

Richardson Sovereign Grand Commander calls Albert Pike freemasonry’s greatest son adding that he stands without arrival in the hearts of all Masons of the ancient and accepted Scottish right throughout the world The Sovereign Grand Commander also pays a direct tribute to Pike’s Scholastic achievements he had been a fine Greek and Latin scholar had

Taught himself many languages and a great number of dialects among them the Sanskrit Hebrew Old Samaritan caldan Persian and American Indian from these he went on to a study of the Pari and Hindu beliefs and traditions and of the rigveda and zand Vesta he left 15 manuscript volumes of

Translations and commentaries of these Aryan writings George F Moore 33rd degree Grand prior made this beautiful statement it was Pike the Mason who by the Divine Alchemy of the love of his fellow men transmuted all his mental possessions into the pure gold of wisdom poety patriotism and law and embodied

Them in our Scottish right rituals as they were revised and spiritualized by him many endearing titles have been bestowed upon Pike by those who knew and loved him he was called albertus Magnus the great Albert the Homer of America the master builder the real master of the veils the Oracle of Freemasonry and

The zoraster of modern Asia this is the man who is identical in his purposes and ideals with the highest aspect of freem masonic thought the man who taught himself Sanskrit after he was 70 years of age and whose unpublished manuscripts in the library of the Supreme Council represent together with

His published writ ings the most important known collection of research work into craft symbolism in time these manuscripts will be published for the good of The Craft and the world in every sense of the word Albert Pike was a self-made man as a May youth he desired

Education above all things too poor to pay his matriculation fee at Harvard young Pike set himself the task of self-education how well he succeeded in this labor of of Love Is Well attested when in later life Harvard bestowed upon him the honorary degree of master of arts in

1859 Pike declined the honor with thanks saying that when he was penniless and needed an education the doors of the institution had been closed to him and that he cared nothing for the Deferred degree from the forgoing it is evident that Freemasonry not only accepts Albert Pike as a standard of masonic Excellence

But by the dignities showered upon Him gives official recognition to the systems of thought which he inculcated upon the rituals and symbols of the craft to Albert Pike Freemasonry was synonymous with scholarship having searched as few men have searched into the hazy background of freemasonic tradition Pike is undoubtedly the best

Qualified authority to whom one can turn in the effort to discover the essential elements of Freemasonry let us then consult this Splendid Oracle Gathering from his own words the essentials of freemasonic philosophy it is neither necessary nor especially desirable that all men should hold similar beliefs concerning the

Nature of God or the substances and purposes of the world nor is it harmony with the Sovereign good that any should VI ly revile or denounce the beliefs of their fellow men the occult and metaphysical Sciences are the oldest known to this race and Freemasons of the higher degrees who

Ignoring the importance of the transcendental branches of learning viciously criticize those who have discovered their importance not only reveal their utter ignorance of the text of their own textbook morals and Dogma but also of that fundamental Masonic tenant which gives to each man the guarantee of unperson symbolism Albert Pike naturally

Turned as all Scholars must ultimately do to those ancient institutions of learning from which has descended to this age the whole Bounty of rational good nor does Pike hesitate through any false Pride to acknowledge the origin of his illumination in the mysteries of siries and prene at

Ulses of Isis and Osiris in Egypt of atis and Adonis in Syria of the druses of Lebanon and The Druids of Britain of the persecuted gnostics and the reviled cabalists as well as a score of others he finds the roots of that great tree which was to grow up Through the Ages on

Under the name of Freemasonry and spread its branches over the modern world he who denies this denies Pike the rituals and the evident for the wealth of Freemasonry lies in those Traditions with which it is bound to the great cultural systems of antiquity members of The Craft proudly

Refer to their brother Pythagoras as an illustrious example of ancient initiation but do they remember that this brother was a transcendental magician possessed of all the supernatural Powers which moderns ridicule and immortalized because of the superlative quality of his Edition Pike sensed a deeper dignity a fuller meaning and a higher purpose he

Was A Man Apart one of a small race of rational Giants to whom it is given to see beyond the narrow sphere of personal interest into that broader Vista of high purpose and unselfish end when we say that Albert Pike was a cabalist we say no more than he himself

Maintains in morals and Dogma he is to be found the following statement one is filled with admiration on penetrating into the sanctuary of the kabala at seeing a Doctrine so logical so simple and at the same time so absolute then necessary Union of ideas and signs the consecration of the most

Fundamental realities by the Primitive characters the Trinity of Words letters and numbers a philosophy simple as the alphabet profound and infinite as the word theorems more complete and luminous than those of Pythagoras a theology summed up by counting on one’s fingers an infinite which can be held in the

Hollow of an infant’s hand 10 ciphers and 22 letters a triangle a square and a circle these are all the elements of kabala these are the elementary principles of the written word reflection of that spoken word that created the world if more evidence be necessary consider the 235 pages of manuscript

Commentary on the cabala in Pike’s autograph now in the library of the Supreme Council nor should we forget that in his Masonic writings Pike Drew considerably from the books on transcendental Magic by elus Levi a cabalist and a magician whose Concepts Pike must have highly admired since he quoted them so

Frequently there are hundreds of references to cabalism in the magnum opus and the legenda of the degrees from the 4th to the 32nd any Freemason studying these carefully could not but become acquainted with the leading tenants of cabalistic tradition as these are derived from the seha yatera and the seph

Hoha as a hermetist pike is an equally distinguished exponent of primitive Revelation in his lecture on the KN of the Sun or Prince Adept Pike Reveals His intimate knowledge of the Arcanum the htic art is therefore at the same time a religion a philosophy and a

Natural science as a religion it is that of the ancient Magi and the initiates of all ages as a philosophy we may find its principles in the school of Alexandria and the theories of Pythagoras as a science we must inquire for its processes of paracelsus Nicholas Fel and Raymond

L Pike then hazards all by a magnificent occult statement none of that race of philosophical metaphysicians whom materialists despise so heartily ever soar more gloriously into the Hermetic Heavens the science is a real one only for those who admit and understand the philosophy and the religion and its process will succeed

Only for the Adept who has attained the sovereignty of Will and so become the king of the element world for the grand agent of the operation of the sun is that Force described in the symbol of Hermes of the table of emerald it is the universal magical power the spiritual

Fiery Motive Power it is the ode according to the Hebrews and the astral light according to others therein is the secret fire living and philosophical of which all the htic philosophers speak with the most mysterious reserve the universal seed the secret whereof they kept and which they represented only under the figure

Of the caducus of Hermes this is the grand hermetic Arcanum what the adepts call dead matter are bodies as found in nature living matters are substances assimilated and magnetized by the science and will of the operator Pike binds hermeticism to Freemasonry and th demonstrates the line

Of its descent the htic science of the early Christian ages cultivated also by gber alphar rabius and others of the Arabs studied by the chiefs of the Templars and embodied in certain symbols of the higher degrees of Freemasonry May by accurately defined as the cabala in active realization or the magic of

Works Pike’s High admiration for Plato as well as his cultivation of the orderly rational procedure of the platonic philosophers entitle him to be regarded as a legitimate exponent of platonism in morals and Dogma Pike distinguishes Plato as the greatest of human revelators and in another places declares that Plato drew his doctrines

From the East and from the Mysteries in his lecture on the grand elect perfect and Sublime Mason the grand Commander summarizes the philosophical aspects of the craft in the following words it is philosophical because it teaches the great truths concerning the nature and existence of one supreme deity and the existence and immortality

Of the Soul it revives The Academy of Plato and the wise teachings of Socrates it reiterates the maxims of Pythagoras confucious and zoraster and reverentially enforces the sublime lessons of him who died upon the cross Pike’s summary of The Path which men must walk for the achievement of

Immortality or the greatest good is essentially platonic and the same which was obscurely depicted in the ceremonials of the ancient Mysteries especially in the death and resurrection of the martyred son God he declares that the noblest purpose of life and the brightest duty of a man are to strive

Incessantly and vigorously to win the Mastery in everything of that which in him is spiritual and divine over that which is material and Central this is the inevitable moral conclusion which Pike arrived at after analyzing the confused anthropomorphism of of ancient peoples in accepting Plato as Supreme among the revealers of Truth Pike

Aligned himself on the side of metaphysical philosophy as opposed to the Natural philosophy of the aristotlean we have yet to speak of Albert Pike The Alchemist or rather we shall let him speak for himself the htic gold is not only a true Dogma a light without Shadow a truth

With without alloy of falsehood it is also a material gold real pure the most precious that can be found in the minds of the earth whatever is matter contains salt and all salt Nitra may be converted into pure gold by the combined action of sulfur and Mercury which sometimes act so

Rapidly that the transmutation may be effective Ed in an instant in an hour without fatigue to the operator and almost without expense at other times and according to the more refractory temper of the atmospheric media the operation requires several days several months and sometimes even several years

By the foregoing we believe it has been amply demonstrated that to the enlightened vision of Albert Pike Freemasonry was a repository and perpetuator of the most precious and essential doctrines of mankind his impetus to Freemasonry was an uplifting one calling the brothers to their dignity and estate and rescuing from the

Confusion of misinterpreted symbols the principal elements of the Arcane doctrines to this Grand Soul Freemasonry must be adorned with the Insignia of learning in all its various departments his life and actions reveal that Freemasonry was Albert Pike’s religion not Freemasonry in its outer sense but in a rified aspect in

Which all the rights and degrees blazed forth with the light of divine wisdom and Authority we have but to study the life of the man to discover that through the symbols to the interpretation of which he devoted his life Pike found his creator and was brought face to face

With that Living Word which is the consumation to all Masonic travel Albert Pike was great because he recognized greatness he is Immortal because he refused to accept mortality he was a true Master Mason because he refused to see in Freemasonry less than the most sacred and most

Profound of all Mortal tradition in his legenda of the degrees of the Scottish right Pike sets forth a masonic Creed his Masonic Creed and this is epitomized the grand Commander’s philosophy of Life believe in God’s infinite benevolence wisdom and Justice hope for the final Triumph of good over evil and

For Perfect Harmony as the final result of all the Concords and discords of the universe and be charitable as God is towards the unfaith the errors the folies and the faults of men for all make one great Brotherhood this brings up a most muted question one which has perplexed Masonic

Scholars in particular and the craft in general for a goodly number of years is Freemasonry a religion The Superficial Freemason is likely to answer in the negative studious investigation however will reveal that as the outer symbols are in the main derived from the religious symbols of ancient Nations it

Naturally follows that the inner traditions of The Craft are concerned with the esoteric interpretation of those symbols an interpretation which must inevitably deal with the various aspects of sacred Sciences if we turn to our Oracle once more we find the answer in the opening sentence of the legenda

For the 19th degree where Pike declares masonry has and always had a religious Creed it teaches what it deems to be the truth in respect to the nature and attributes of God as the loving and beneficent father of all mankind as a supreme and perfect intelligence as not

In any wise the gigantic and distorted image of a man reflected upon the clouds his fullest statement upon this subject however is to be found in his essay on Masonic symbolism where he writes but those who framed its degrees adopted the most sacred and significant symbols of a very remote Antiquity used

Many centuries before the Temple of the king of Solomon was built to express to those who understood them while conceding from the profane the most recondite and mysterious doctrines in regard to God the universe and man and those who frame the degrees and adopted these symbols used them as expressions of the same

Sacred and holy Doctrine and interpreted them quite otherwise than they are now interpreted in our lodges I have at least arrived at this conviction after patient study and reflection during many years I entertain no doubt and am ready to give the reasons for my faith that the principal symbols of Freemasonry all

That are really ancient concur to teach the fundamental principles of a great and widespread religious philosophy and hieroglyphic Express certain profound ideas as to the existence manifestations and actions of the deity the harmony of the universe the creative word and divine wisdom and the unity of the Divine and human the spiritual

Intellectual and material in man and nature that have reappeared in all religions and have been expounded by great schools of philosophy in all the ages the ancient symbols of Freemasonry teach I think the profound religious truths and doctrines that in reality are Freemasonry I am so far from being one

Of those who think that it teaches no religious Creed or doctrines as that I firmly believe that it consists in the religious philosophy that it teaches and that he only is a true Freemason who correct ly interprets for himself the symbols here Pike commits himself in no uncertain manner to the fundamental

Premise of metaphysics and occultism namely that under the outer symbols and dogmas of religion there exists an esoteric key to the secrets of Nature and the purpose of human existence the point which Pike is trying to make is that Freemasonry is not a religion but the Rel religion

Freemasonry does not align itself with any individual institution of faith that seemingly exists largely for the purpose of confuting some other cult Freemasonry serves and nurtures man’s natural impulse to worship and venerate God in the universe and good in the world it interferes with the Creed

Of no man for it is above Creeds calling its members from vain wrangling over jot and title it invites them to unite in harmonious Adoration of the universal Creator it calls men from Theory to practice from vain speculation to the application of those great moral and ethical Truth by which the Perfection of

Human nature is wrought in Masonic symbolism however Albert Pike senses something more exalted than even the ethical and moral virtues speaking of the ancient schools the prototypes of modern Freemasonry Pike notes it is certain that something in the ancient initiations was regarded as of immense value by such intellects as Herodotus plutar and

Cicero The Magicians of Egypt were able to initiate several of the Miracles wrought by Moses and the science of heropants of the Mysteries produced effects that to be initiated seemed mysterious and Supernatural Pike even invites the studious Brethren to discover a new those recondite philosophies through the understanding of which man becomes an

Adept not by name alone but by virtue of his transcendental Powers the Freemasonry of Albert Pike is too vast and Grand a thing to be grasped by those who have not spread the pinions of their inspiration and soared upward into to the rational sphere Albert Pike was a real Masonic

Initiate he felt the dignity and profundity of the work he knew the High Calling to which Master Builders are dedicated piercing the veil of Futurity with his prophetic eyes he dreamed with Plato and bacon of a world ruled by wisdom and the return of the Golden Age Ponder well this prophetic

Utterance let the most absolute science and the highest reason again become the appanage of the chiefs of the people let the sacal art and the Royal art reassume the double scepter of the ancient initiations and the world will yet again emerge from chaos by the passing of Albert Pike into

Those greater mysteries of which the Earthly Lodge is but the outer symbol Freemasonry was deprived of one of its staunchest Defenders and noblest exponents the period of Pike’s Administration was the Golden Age of masonic Enlightenment a Renaissance of those great institutions of the ancient world rendered luminous by the exalted

Personalities of orus Pythagoras and Plato the Triumph barate of enlightened learning wary with his labor bowed but never broken by the responsibilities of his office and the misunderstandings of an unbelieving world this Noble Soul passed his dreams to the keeping of others and drawing the folds of his

Robes about him laid down to rest over his mortal remains Splendid even in death was spoken the funeral service of the kadosh words he himself had framed and bestowed as a Priceless Legacy upon the graft death is the inable Creditor whose Indulgence nothing in the world can purchase every moment that sees a

Newborn child laugh at the light sees also a man die and hears the Cry of a breaking heart and the Lamentations of those who sit lonely and in the desolation of Affliction no longer seeing the faces of dearly loved ones round the little island of our being on

Which we follow our various Pursuits of toil or craft of usefulness or mischief throbs the illimitable ocean of Eternity upon which round the aisle a broad circle of impenetrable Darkness brooding lies but beyond that zone the outer ocean Sparkles and its white crested waves dance in the light and somewhere

In the distance the islands of the Blessed Are Dreaming girdled by the Peaceful Waters the spirit of Albert Pike still guides Freemasonry to higher honors and Fuller understanding the impetus he gave to a clearer realization of spiritual and ethical values will continue in ever widening circles like the ripples of

Water from the stone thrown in the pool the whole world has been enriched by the memory of this philosopher whose words are known to comparatively few but whose genius has tinged the lies of the multitude in closing this tribute to the master builder we would like to leave

With the reader the same message message which he left with the Brethren of The Craft though Cults and Creeds may come and go upon the eban flow of the universal tide the Freemasonry of Albert Pike will endure as a monument throughout the ages to the vision of a true Prince of the royal

Secret so religions Decay into idle forms and the Mumy of meaningless words the symbols remain like the sea shells washed up from the depths motionless and dead upon the sandy beaches of the ocean and the symbols are as voiceless and lifeless as the shells shall it always be so with

Masonry likewise or shall its ancient symbols inherited by it from the Primitive faiths and most ancient initiations be rescued from the enthrallment of commonplace and trivial misinterpretation be restored to their ancient High State and again become the holy oracles of philosophical and religious truth their revelation of divine wisdom to our thoughtful

Ancestors and thus make true and real the immense superiority of Freemasonry over all the modern and ephemeral associations that ape its forms and character its symbolism sorcery of Asia strange stories is from the inscrutable East stories telling of magic and sorcery and the extraordinary powers which a man May develop by rigid

Mental and physical discipline of course such Tales are ridiculed by the worldly wise or branded as infernal by the theologically minded the rumors persist however and with the evidence piling up caus the unpleasant realization that there are stranger things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamed of in our

Philosophy there is scarcely a community in Asia which does not boast of at least one fak or wonder worker who occasionally exhibits his magic and who is suspected by the town’s folk of possessing Powers little inferior to those of a god this magician of indeterminable age and unkempt

Appearance dwells on the outskirts of the village his person an Oracle and his presence a benediction the children of Asia grow up in the presence of these holy men they understand the psychology of these recluses and the motives which turn them from the world of ordinary men to become

Adepts in unseen forces thus the growing child not only comes to believe in magic but through the evidence of his senses and the whole background of an ancestral law he knows magic to be true not withstanding the vehemence of ocidental unbelief the Oriental has learned to know and is content in the

Realization that as paracelsus so wisely put it the beginning of wisdom is the beginning of Supernatural power let us take staff in hand and starting forth walk up and down the dusty roads of Hindustan climbing the high mountains to the north and dipping into the torrid Plains of the South

While we study the roadside wonders of this ancient people some will ask for proof of these stories and how we know these Strange Tales to be true our answer is simple take your staff in hand and join us on the Indian Road then you too will learn

If you will not do this and come with open mind to examine all the factors in the case then pass no harsh opinion but rather give a truly Islamic shrug and say anything might happen and anything might be true the great Monastery of C boom in CIFA Li lies near the Western

Frontier of China it is a rambling group of buildings in the midst of which Rises the somewhat impressive double roof over the temple here preserved for the veneration of the Faithful is the remarkable Tibetan alphabet tree sometimes referred to as the tree of the 100,000 images the tree itself is short

And thick through with low branches in a somewhat shapeless Mass the ab hook a Roman Catholic missionary who was struck off the list of missionaries at Rome and had his work on travels in Tibet and China placed on the Roman index thus describes the tree of sacred

Letters at the foot of the mountain on which the lamisi stands and not far from the principal Buddhist temple is a great Square enclosure formed by brick walls upon entering this we were able to examine AT Pleasure The Marvelous tree some of the branches of which had already manifested themselves above the

Wall our eyes were first directed with Earnest curiosity at the leaves and we were filled with absolute consternation of astonishment at finding that in point of fact they were upon each of the leaves well formed Tibetan characters all of the green color some darker some lighter than the leaf itself

Our first impression was suspicion of fraud on the part of the llamas but after a minute examination of every detail we could not discover the least deception the characters all appeared to us portions of the leaf itself equally with its veins and nerves the position was not the same in all in

One leaf they would be at the top of the leaf in another in the middle in a third at the base or at the side the younger leaves represented the characters only in a partial state of formation the bark of the tree and its branches which resemble those of the

Plain tree are also covered with these characters when you remove a piece of old bark the young bark under it exhibits the indistinct outlines of characters In a germinating State and what is very singular these new characters are not infrequently different from those which they replace We examined everything with the

Closest attention in order to detect some trace of trickery but we could discern nothing of the sort and the perspiration absolutely trickle down our faces under the influence of the sensations which this most amazing spectacle created to this description we will append a few words of commentary by HP

Blavatsky we will add to M Hook’s narrative the statement that the characters which appear upon different portions of the C boom are in the Sansa or language of the sun characters ancient Sanskrit and that the sacred Tree in its various parts contains in extenso the whole history of the

Creation and in substance the sacred books of Buddhism nor was this mystery nor was this the only mystery that AB hook discovered in far off tarty he found a tiny child declared to be The Reincarnation of Buddha conversing profoundly on metaphysical issues and describing in detail things which had occurred to him

In a previous life facts which were known to those gathered about him but which at his age he could have learned in no ordinary Manner and then AB hook came in contact with a very unusual painting hanging on the liser wall it was simply done upon rough canvas depicting a moonlit scene strange

As it may seem the ab declares that the moon painted on this picture was continually changing its size and appearance to conform with the phases of the moon in the sky he examined the picture with minute care but there was no mechanical device of any kind there

Was in truth a real moon moving on a canvas background it is easy to realize how such Tales as these when they reached robe proved the undoing of the naive Abbe who was not sufficiently acquainted with Western attitudes to recognize that most men do not want to know facts but

Merely desire to have their own prejudices confirmed and maintained at all cost we will now turn our faces India would to visit an old muhammadan fak who lived lived at mudla East of jubil this learned man practiced an art extremely disconcerting to the followers of Newton in the presence of many witnesses

This fakir levitated himself and sat in the air about 6 in from the ground without any support or mechanism whatever he could remain in this position for about 15 minutes and then sank slowly back to Earth previous to this exploit he carried on for about 2 hours a certain process of contraction

And expansion of the abdominal and thoracic muscles and for about half an hour suspended the breath which latter process is known as kumaka it is not difficult to imagine the conation which would occur among the sants of this era if in chancing to walk down the street someday they should come

Upon a man sitting in the air yet levitation has been practiced in India for thousands of years and the old man at M in no way represented the highest type of proficiency in the art um Cham mukari who beheld the jble PO forare also saw a yogi in the kakam

Mandala Hills Seated on a wooden plank some distance above the ground the plank was without any support or rope but hung as though from the sky near a banion tree Lise jao Chief Justice of shandur French East Indies and of Tahiti oceanica devoted many years to an investigation of the pretensions of

Oriental F and yogis after examining all the evidence and being witness of a great array of phenomena he arrived at the following conclusions I am convinced that there are in nature and in man who is a part of nature immense forces the laws of which are yet unknown to us I think that

Man someday will discover these laws that things that we now regard as dreams will appear to us in the future as realities and that we shall one day witness phenomena of which we have now no conception in the world of ideas as in the material world there is

A period of gestation as of birth who knows whether this psychic Force as the English call it this force of the ego according to to the Hindus which The Humble fakir exhibited in my presence will not be shown to be one of the grandest forces in nature in his amazing book occult

Science in India Jacko Leo describes a score or more of examples of transcendental magic performed in his presence and which he analyzed as to the possibility of fraud two of these are concerned with levitation and confirm the evidence of other writers in this subject the first account is substantially as follows taking an

Ironwood cane which jaon had brought with him from Salon the fakir who was without garments save for a meager loin cloth seated himself cross-legged upon the ground and leaned heavily upon the stick resting his right hand above the handle after appropriate incantations and still leaning upon the cane with one

Hand the fakir Rose gradually about 2 feet from the ground his legs were crossed beneath him and he made no change in his position which was very like that of those Bronze Statues of Buddha for more than 20 minutes Jack oo examined the fakir attempting to

Discover how the man could thus fly in the face and eyes of no laws of gravity the stick gave the fakir no visible support and there was no apparent contact between the stick and his body except through his right hand in another place jaot described the feet of levitation

Without any stick which was also performed in his own apartment as the fakir was about to leave me he stopped in the Embraer of the door leading From the Terrace to the outside stairs and Crossing his arms upon his chest lifted himself up gradually without any apparent support

Or assistance to the height of about 10 to 12 in I was able to determine the distance exactly by means of a point of comparison which I had fixed upon during the continuance of the phenomenon behind the faker’s back there was a silken hanging which was used as a portier striped in gold

And white bands of equal width I noticed that the fak’s feet were on a level with the sixth band at the commencements of his Ascension I had seized my chronometer the the entire time from the moment when the fakir commenced to rise until he touched the ground again was more than 8

Minutes he remained perfectly still at the highest point of elevation for nearly 5 minutes frier recold in referring to the metaphysical powers of the Hindu bakis describes them as persons of deep wisdom well conducted and of the gravest morals for instance one of eminence among them was said to fly the truth

However was it as it proved that he did not fly but did walk close to the surface of the ground without touching it and would seem to sit down without having any substance to support him Colonel Sir Henry Ule also makes the following comment on this feat this last performance was witnessed

By IB batuta at Delhi in the presence of Sultan Muhammed tlak and it was professedly exhibited by a Brahman at Madras in the present Century 1903 a descendant no doubt of Those brahans whom appolloni saw walking two cubits from the ground it is also described by the worthy Francis Valentin

As a performance known and practiced in his own Day in India it is related he says that a man will first go and sit on three sticks put together so as to form a tripod after which first one stick then a second then the third shall be

Removed from under him and the man shall not fall but shall remain sitting in the air another extraordinary practice of Hindu magicians is that of suspended animation this must not be confused with accidental theatrical efforts to duplicate the illusion upon the stage while a similar effect can be secured by

Mechanical means the genuine Yogi descends to No Such sauge Frank G Carpenter writes of the Indian holymen others claim that they can remain alive though buried on the ground for long periods they declare that they can seal the lungs by putting the tip of the tongue in the windpipe

And then they allow themselves to be interred not all these cases appear to be frauds reliable Witnesses report they have seen the yogis dug up alive after such burials some report that the men go into a state of hibernation like that of bears in winter in Isis unveiled HB

Blaty thus describes the almost unbelievable details of this amazing exploit according to Napier Osborne major laws Queen oier Nikki fich and many other modern Witnesses f are now proved to be able by a long course of diet preparation and repose to bring their bodies into a condition which

Enables them to be buried 6 F feet under the ground for an indefinite period sir Claude Wade was present at the court of ranit Singh when a fakir mentioned by The Honorable Captain Osborne was buried alive for 6 weeks in a box placed in a Cell 3 ft below the

Floor of the room to prevent the chance of deception a guard comprising two companies of soldiers had been detailed and for century were furnished and relieved every 2 hours night and day to guard the building from intrusion on opening it says sir Claude we saw the

Figure enclosed in a bag of white linen fastened by a string over the head the servant then began pouring warm water over the figure the legs and arms of the body were shriveled and stiff the face full the head reclining on the shoulder like that of a corpse

I then called to the medical gentleman who was attending me to come down and inspect the body which he did but could discover no pulsation in the heart the temples or the arm there was however a heat about the region of the brain which existed in no other part of the body

Exhibited regretting that the limits of our space forbid the quotations of the details of this interesting story we will only add that the process of resuscitation included bathing with hot water friction the removal of wax and cotton plets from the nostrils and ears the rubbing of the eyelids with ghee or

Clarified butter and what will appear most curious to many the application of a hot Wheaten cake about an inch thick to the top of the head after the cake had been applied for the third time the body was violently convulsed the nostrils became inflated the respiration ensued and the limbs

Assumed a natural fullness but the pulsation was still faintly perceptible the tongue was then Anointed with ghee the eyeballs became dilated and recovered their natural color and the fak recognized those present and spoke it should be noticed that not only not only had the nostrils and ears been

Plugged but the tongue had been thrust back so as to close the gallet thus effectually stopping the orifices against the admission of atmospheric air while in India air told us that this was done not only to prevent the action of the air upon the organic tissues but

Also to guard the deposit of the germs of Decay which in case of suspended animation would cause was decomposition exactly as they do in any other meat exposed to air there are also localities in which a fare would refuse to be buried such as the many spots in Southern India

Infested with the white ants which annoying termites are considered among the most dangerous enemies of man and his property they are so voracious as to devour anything they find except perhaps metals as to Wood there is no kind through which they would not borrow and even bricks and mortar offer but little

Impediment to their formidable armies they will patiently work through mortar destroying its particle by particle and air however holy himself and strong his temporary coffin would not risk finding his body devoured when it was time for his resuscitation no description of Oriental conjury would be complete without that

Of the famous boy in the basket or basket murder trick while in the majority of the cases this may be regarded as representing the conjuror skill at Deception still examples are recorded of such astonishing import as to imply that on rare occasions it assumes the proportions of sorcery the equipment for the exhibition

Consists of a large bask somewhat square and with a circular opening in the top a cover containing a round hole which fits closely over the opening in the basket a pointed steak which passes through the hole in the cover a square of canvas or native cloth a long sharp sword and a scantily

Clothed native boy generally about 14 years old in the particular instance which came under our observation an net was added to the general equipment the trick is performed on the open ground with the audience completely encircling The Conjurer this worthy first seats himself cross-legged upon the ground and

Plays several notes upon a strange flute like instrument after a few moments the native boy appears generally clothed only in a loin cloth the lad was securely tied up in a net which was apparently drawn so tightly about him that he could not move in any direction

And then was forced into the basket which was barely large enough to contain his body in fact his head and shoulders extended considerably above the top of the opening the magician then spread the cloth over the basket the cloth did not reach entirely to the ground but hung

Over the rounded sides of the basket the lid was next placed in position but would not entirely go down because of the protruding head and shoulders of the boy which could be seen through the folds of the cloth leaving the basket sitting in the midst of the audience The

Conjurer again seated himself playing a weird and pathetic Melody upon his flute after a few seconds the lid of the basket slowly dropped into position allowing a short interval to pass the magician then Rose and going over to the basket inserted the steak in the opening

In the lid and with a quick move drove it straight through to the bottom of the basket the boy had apparently vanished withdrawing the steak the juggler then took his sword and thrust it through all parts of the basket and taking off the lid he jumped into the basket and

Stamping around demonstrated its emptiness finally he reached under the cloth and Drew forth the net which had enclosed the boy after a few moments he replaced the net returned the cover to its proper position and sitting down again played upon his flute as soon as the first note

Was struck the basket began to heave and move and the lid rose again upon removing the cover and canvas the boy was again found tied up in the net and it required the assistance of two other men to extricate him from the basket of almost equal interest is the

Famous Oriental illusion of the mango trees an experiment in what may be termed intensive Horticulture there is scarcely a country in the world where the story of this trick has not been told yet strange to say the intimate details of it are seldom described the preparation for the trick

Consists in securing three sticks about 4T in length and of the thickness of canes which are arranged in the form of the poles of an American Indian Tepee this framework is covered with a large white cloth the whole constituting a small tent one side of this covering

Opens to permit The Spectators to watch what is going on inside The Conjurer next produces a large oblock long mango seed which he passes around for examination afterwards requesting one of the audience to carve his initials into the Pod this having been done the magician next produces an

Empty flower pot which he fills with Earth and in which he plants the seed he then thoroughly Waters the tree with a Sprinkling Can and placing the flower pot with its contents inside the TPP like tent drops the flap sits down nearby and plays upon the inevitable

Flute after about 5 minutes he rises lifts the side of the tent and there protruding from the earth in the flower pot is a tiny green Chute closing the flap again he continues to play after another interval he once more lifts the flap and a mango Bush about a foot in

Height is seen growing out of the pot some 3 minutes later when the tent is again opened the mango bush has reached full growth and is in bloom more playing of strange Tunes upon the Reed then the tent is removed entirely and the mango tree is revealed covered with ripe

Mangoes which are picked off and tossed into the audience then with a sudden gesture the magician tears up the plant and shaking off the dirt shows the open pod still clinging to the roots and bearing the initials inscribed there on at the beginning of the experiment the entire growth of the tree

Requires not to exceed 15 minutes even more astonishing accounts of the miraculous growth of plants and trees have been described by Asiatic Travelers one fakir said to have grown a full-sized palm tree in less than 30 minutes and there is an account of a juggler having planted the seed so close

To the edge of the porch that when the tree grew up it took off one corner of The Veranda kovind dasmi who performed the mango tree illusion for M joot evidently used no conjury in the production of the growing tree he permitted the Frenchman to choose from

Over 30 types of plants the one which he would care to have grown the fakir required 2 hours to grow a young poor po 8 Ines in height Ken Damey further explained that it would take him8 days to grow the popour to the point of flowering and

Seven more to perfect the fruit such Feats challenge belief but it is equally difficult to doubt the statements of Honorable Men by Nature skeptical who have been converted by evident fact while in India HB blavatsky was chosen as the referee at a trial of skill between a holy fakir and a

Sorcerer each of whom claimed to be the possessor of superior spiritual Powers she writes we were taking our Noonday rest beside a small Lake in Northern India upon the surface of the glassy water floated innumerable aquatic flowers and large shining leaves each of the contestants plucked a leaf the fakir

Laying his against his breast folded His Hands Across it and fell into a momentary trance he then laid the leaf with its surface downward upon the Water the juggler pretended to control the water Master the Spirit dwelling in the water and boasted that he would compel the power to prevent the pitrus from

Manifesting any phenomena upon the fak’s leaf in their element he took his own leaf and tossed it upon the water after going through a form of barbarous incantation it at once exhibited a violent agitation while the other Leaf remained perfectly motionless after the lapse of a few seconds both leaves were recovered upon

That of the fakir were found much to the indignation of the juggler something that looked like a symmetrical design traced in milk wied characters as though the juices of the plant had been used as a corrosive writing fluid when it became dry and an opportunity was afforded to examine the

Lies with care it proved to be a series of exquisitely formed Sanskrit characters the whole composed a sentence embodying a high moral precept the F let us add could neither read nor write upon the juggler’s leaf instead of writing was found the tracing of a most hideous impish face each Leaf

Therefore bore an impression or allegorical reflection of the character of the contestant and indicated the quality of Spiritual Beings with which he was surrounded Madame blavatsky’s position as a world traveler and student of Oriental religions and philosophies is so well established that we cannot turn from her writings without noting one

More example of Oriental fism the story is concerned with the depredations of a Bengal Tigress which had thrown the whole population of a small village not far from Daka into a panic two men and a child had already become her victims when an aged fakir bent on his daily round emerging from

The Gate of the Pagoda saw the situation and understood it at a glance chanting am manum he went straight to the Beast which with flaming eye and foaming mouth crouched near a tree ready for a new victim when at about 10 ft from The Tigress without interrupting his

Modulated prayer the words of which no Layman comprehends he began a regular process of mesmerization as we understood it he made passes a terrific howl which struck chill Into the Heart of every human being in the place was then heard this long ferocious draing howl gradually subsided into a series of plaintive

Broken sobs as if the bereaved mother was uttering her complaints and then to the terror of the crowd which had taken refuge on trees and in the houses the Beast made a tremendous leap on the holy man as they thought they were mistaken she was at his feet rolling in the dust and

Writhing a few moments more and she remained Motionless with her enormous head laid on her Four Paws and her bloodshot but now mild eyes riveted on the face of the fakir then the holy man of prayers sat beside the tigress and Tenderly smoothed her striped skin and patted her back

Until her groans became fainter and fainter and half an hour later all the village was standing around this group the fak’s head lying on the tigress’s back as a pillow his right hand on her head and his left thrown on the sod under the terrible mouth from

Which the long red protruding tongue was gently licking it the Feats of the fak and the yogis are too numerous to describe in anything like adequate detail through their peculiar training they are brought on rapport with forces or beings who bestow upon them the most unbelievable

Gifts in Tibet there is a college for the education of magicians and throughout Asia the occult Arts are cultivated as more or less essential to the Fulfillment of the requisites of a spiritual life we have saved the most miraculous exploit for the last for of all Oriental conjury The

Mystery of the boy who climbs up into the air along a rope suspended from nothing finally to vanish altogether is the most inexplicable because it is so rarely performed many persons believe this trick to be a myth in his notes upon the book of Sir Marco Polo

Which work he translated from French and copiously annotated Colonel Sir Henry Yu RS CB kcsi already mentioned gathers several fragments of evidence relative to the Supreme demonstration of sorcery as most persons seeking information on this subject would not be likely to turn to Marco Polo although this great traveler makes numerous

References to such matters we feel it advisable to quote somewhat freely from the commentaries of Colonel Ule IB batuta Amore visiting China in the year 1348 was present at an entertainment given at the court of the Viceroy of kza where he beheld a miracle which is best described in his own

Words that same night a jugler who was one of the Khan’s slaves made his appearance and the Amir said to him come and show us some of your Marvels upon this he took a wooden ball with several holes in it through which long thongs were passed and laying hold of one of

These slung it into the air it went so high that we lost sight of it altogether it was the hottest season of the year and we were outside in the middle of the palace Court there now remained only a little of the end of the thong in the

Conjurer’s hand and he desired one of the boys who assisted him to lay hold of of it and mount he did so climbing by the thong and we lost sight of him also The Conjurer then called to him three times but getting no answer he snatched

Up a knife as if in great rage laid hold of the thong and disappeared also by and by he threw down one of the boys hands then a foot then the other hand and then the other foot then the trunk and last of all the head then he came down himself all

Puffing and panting and with his clothes all bloody kissed the ground before the Amir and said something to him in Chinese the Amir gave some orders in reply and our friend then took the lad’s limbs laid them together in their places and gave a kick when presto there was

The boy who got up and stood before us all this astonished me beyond measure and I had an attack of palpitation like that which overcame me once before in the presence of the Sultan of India when he showed me something of the same kind they gave me a cordial however which cured the

Attack the Kazi afarin was next to me and qu he wah it is my opinion there has been neither going up nor coming down neither Maring nor mending is all Hocus Pocus Edward Melton an Anglo Dutch traveler witnessed a similar performance in Batavia about the year 1670 he

Writes but now I am going to relate a thing which surpasses all belief and which I should scarcely venture to insert here had it not been witnessed by thousands before my own eyes one of the same gang troop of conjurers took a ball of cord and grasping one end of the cord

In his hand slung the other up into the air with such force that its extremity was beyond the reach of our sight he then immediately climbed up the cord with Indescribable swiftness and got so high we could no longer see him Melton then describes the arms and legs tumbling down and later uniting

Themselves and the magician Rising uninjured he goes so far as to say after beholding this wonder that he no longer doubted but that the men performed the trick by the aid of the devil the emperor jangar relates a like performance given before him by a troop of Bengal jugglers he writes they

Produced a chain of 50 cubits in length and in my presence through one end of it towards the sky where it remained as if it fastened to Something in the Air a dog was then brought forward and being placed at the lower end of the chain immediately ran up the chain and

Reaching the other end immediately disappeared in the air in the same manner a hog a panther a lion and a tiger were successively sent up the chain and all equally disappeared at the upper end of the chain at last they took down the chain and put it into

A bag no one ever discovering in what way the different animals were made to vanish into the air in the mysterious manner above described the last account given by Colonel Ule is quoted from the weekly dispatch for the 15th of September 1889 quoting the times of India one sidash M writing to the

Kolkata pap gives a thrilling account of a conjurer’s feet which he witnessed recently in one of the Villages of the Huli District he saw the whole thing himself he tells us so there need be no question about the facts on the particular afternoon when he visited the village the place was

Occupied by a company of male and female jugglers armed with bags and boxes and musical instruments and all the mysterious paraphernalia of the peretic jadugar while sidur was looking on and in the broad clear light of the afternoon a man was shut up in a box which was then carefully nailed up and

Bound with cords weird spells and incantations of the style we are all familiar with were followed by the breaking open of the box which to the unqualified amazement of everybody was found to be perfectly empty all this is much in the usual style but what followed was so much

Superior to the ordinary run of modern Indian jugglery that we must give it in the simple Cure’s own words when everyone was satisfied that the man had really disappeared the principal performer who did not seem to be at all astonished told his audience that the vanished man had gone up to the

Heavens to fight Indra in a few moments says sidash he expressed anxiety at the man’s continued absence in the aerial regions and said that he would go up to see what was the matter a boy was called who held upright a long bamboo up which the man climbed

To the top whereupon suddenly lost sight of him and the boy laid the bamboo on the ground then there fell on on the ground before us the different members of a human body all bloody first one hand then another a foot and so on until complete the boy then elevated the

Bamboo and the principal performer appearing on the top as suddenly as he had disappeared came down and seeming quite disconsolate said that Indra had killed his friend before he could get there to save him he then placed the mangled remains in the same box closed it and tied it as

Before our wonder and astonishment reached their climax when a few minutes later on the box being again open the man jumped out perfectly hearty and unhe hurt many explanations have been Advanced to account for the miracle of the rope trick some declare that the trick is performed under a tree in the

Branches of which a Confederate is hidden who under cover of the darkness of night light Cates the rope and holds it while the boy climbs up on the branches and apparently disappears some believe the Rope to be a trick in other words to be braided over bamboo joints

Which can be formed into a rigid pole by pulling on a cord concealed within this pole which would carry the weight of a monkey it is generally admitted however could not sustain the weight of even a small child if the trick be performed in daylight in an open place where mirrors and similar

Devices are out of the question there is no possible explanation for it to be found in the secrets of ocidental conjury efforts have been made it is said to photograph the trick but the plates always come out blank which has led to the conclusion that the whole Miracle is simply an hallucination a

Spell cast by the hypnotic power of The Conjurer this explanation however is not adequate for a man capable of hypnotizing on mass a large audience would be a greater Wonder than the trick itself for as is well known many persons cannot be hypnotized and in every audience there

Would be some who would complain that they could not see the trick two forces conspire in the production of these Illusions the first is the willpower of The Conjurer himself this is not used to hypnotize the audience but to cause appearances or forms to be materialized from the subtle

Forces of The Ether the magician thinks so intensely that he can cause his thoughts to take on form and appear as real objects to the uninitiated the second factor is the elemental Spirits they are called pitus and are presumably attached to the persons of enchanters of all kind kinds

These Elemental beings are responsible for the motion of otherwise inanimate objects the moving of Articles from one place to another they hold the rope in the rope trick and like the familiar demon of fa are ever ready to serve the purposes of their Master the Hindus themselves know that

The wonderful Feats ascribed to the yogis and fak are referable to their ability to control what we call the forces of nature concentration and retrospection for years students of occultism in America have been searching for a safe and sane path of discipleship most methods Advanced by metaphysical teachers are unsatisfactory

And even hazardous uncounted disasters may be traced to unwise efforts to awaken latent super physical forces nearly all the yogas with the possible exception of Raja yoga have been so diluted with tantric sorcery that to attempt their use is to become unpleasantly involved in Black Magic Raja yoga is the princely

Discipline but without the constant guidance and closest confidence between disciple and master tragedy is almost inevitable the American public has gone through a terrible orgy of trick breathing eye rolling and blank thinking our lack of knowledge of Eastern metaphysics has made the perpetration of fraud so simple that scarcely a

Community has escaped the reaction is now towards more intelligent directionalize nearly everyone realizes that he lacks proper control of his faculties and has little or no influence over his impulses and appetites the desire for self-improvement being Universal it is natural that the question should be asked how order can be brought out of

This chaos of conflicting emotions and elements in the body before it is possible to Advance a solution it is necessary to carefully analyze the problem presuming for the sake of argument that which cannot always be presumed in fact namely that the occult exercises now in Vogue for development purposes are authentic esoteric

Instruction we have an in congruous situation individuals with no understanding whatsoever of the fundamental principles of metaphysics are dabbling promiscuously with the most dangerous of all sciences that of operative occultism these exercises create distinct vibratory rates so radically different from those of the individual who is attempting to superimpose them

Upon his organism that the result is physical disorganization man’s normal functioning results from a fine equilibrium between his Parts in the average person there is no faculty or part either so much higher or lower than the rest that this balance is destroyed in other words our eating

Is on a level with our thinking our actions synchronize with our desires and our ideals while generally the highest part of us are still in reasonable relationship to the whole true there is Discord in the body but for the most part this Discord isn’t a minor key

Nature affects the growth of the Soul by achieving through gradual environmental modifications the Improvement of the entire nature where we are is determined by what we are and each is placed in a world not too far beyond his capacity to understand it is then that ult EX exercises intriguing the Mind lead to

Excesses which may bring down the life in ruin a right thing is only really right when it is in the right place and methods of development which may bring a properly qualified Chella to the Dignity of an arat will destroy the reason and well-being of the person who has not

Received the necessary preliminary instruction this instruction is seldom given in American metaphysical circles because of the spirit of haste which is our national disease it is little short of crime in fact it is Criminal to collect a group from the streets to whom even the term occultism is a stranger and then

Promise these same people that through some Asiatic technique they can acquire control of the psychical forces of their lives in 10 simple lessons etc etc the rationale of nature is thus violated the laws of Life are put at variance with life’s purpose and the fast rapidly turns into

Tragedy as we have suggested all other things being in themselves honest the fault lies in the attempt to storm the Gates of Heaven or to force upon oneself a state inharmonious with the qualifications of the nature the average individual is not fit to contemplate the profundity of universal Mysteries and

When he attempts to do so he simply sprains his intellect it is absurd for men and women with no comprehension of the meaning of life about them to attempt to visualize or feel Nirvana when the uninformed goes into samadi he is not like to return because

Not knowing how he got there he would not be able to find his way back metaphysical distances and intervals are very real and it would be easier for a small child lost in the heart of Africa to find its way to civilization than for the unqualified student to return from

Those invisible worlds which are separated from this Earth by immense intervals of quality and Consciousness enthusiasts of course assert that it is otherwise but enthusiasts are not wise enthusiasm is one of the emotions that is not permissible among the elect our attitudes toward life create their invisible counterpart in the

Subtle substances of the causal spheres becoming powerful factors in a cult development the Orient and the occident are not only separated from each other by vast oceans but by even wider intervals of attitude the East is metaphysical the West is physical the East is athetic the West is materialistic the East has extraordinary

Powers of concentration and continuity the West very little of either the East has all all eternity in which to accomplish the West regards 5 minutes as a period long enough for almost any attainment these variances in racial attitudes and beliefs render it absolutely necessary to modify Eastern occult exercises before they can

Possibly serve the needs of Western students most asiatics in this country have never made such changes and modifications and therefore they cannot understand why the majority of their students fail and why the most sincere die within a short time in their philosophic intercourse with India and Persia the Greeks brought

Most of the Oriental exercises into the helenic states prior to the Christian era Pythagoras the greatest of the Greek School having been initiated at aora and elephanta was unquestionably instructed in the esoteric practices of the brahans if other evidences be lacking the fragments of his esoteric disciplines that have survived support this

Viewpoint we find that the Greeks modified the Asiatic disciplines bringing them into harmony with the great body of Western thought through platonism the Oriental Traditions were widely disseminated and per pated to this day in reasonably complete form although Plato has not been properly interpreted for many centuries the Greeks devised a positive

Approach to truth instead of the universe absorbing man as in the Asiatic mode they conceived man absorbing the universe Pythagoras taught Perfection through the glorification of self that is through release of all the potential powers of self whereas the orientals taught Perfection through the debasement and renunciation of self and the denial

Of all individual existence it is not difficult to see that to the Western mind individuality is the Cornerstone of life in the last analysis however both schools have the same ultimate both achieve perfection and the state itself is identical in both system however the psychology of the approach is entirely different and this

Difference is not only an intellectual one but expresses itself through every nerve and fiber of the ocidental organism to deny this expression is to throw the whole life out of harmony with both its environment and its racial plan hence when that which is naturally positive attempts to become negative

Discord begins becoming more acute as the sacred premises of accidental development are violated the question then naturally arises what are the disciplines peculiarly suitable to the ocidental world where can those disciplines be found and how can they be applied in an effort to accelerate the Perfection of the organism

Before taking up these questions one other point must be made clear though ult development can produce permanent results which in any way compromises the laws of Life there can be no growth apart from growing nor can any individual improve more rapidly than he can grow growth

Does not imply a sudden spurt in any One Direction it involves the symmetrical expansion the increase of all parts in harmony with the law of natural unfoldment in other words true spirituality cannot in any way exist apart from a spiritualized condition of the whole Constitution mental spiritual and

Physical a man cannot be spiritual in his right hand and physical in his left nor can one organ exceed another in virtue because all partake of the diffusion of Life permeating the whole and cannot minister to one apart from the rest a man can no more overreach

Himself spiritually that he can be truly virtuous on Sunday and sinful the rest of the week Sunday piety is not virtue we know nor can any false stimulation of a single part which is not justified and substantiated by the testimony of all other parts be considered legitimate spiritual

Growth our attitudes toward life our capacity to learn our value sense and our morality these are all chemical products of the separate parts of ourselves combined to form ethical compounds hence our ability to see intellectually is indivisible from what we are and no matter how hard we try we

Simply cannot be more than the sum of ourselves nor appreciate qualities with which our whole being is not on Rapport the student who feels that he will become spiritual in spite of himself has a rude awakening ahead for he can only gain true metaphysical power because of himself even the simplest exercises

Which can be designed for the Improvement of man’s physical state cannot therefore be successfully performed unless the whole disposition is placed under an increasingly rigid discipline by this discipline we do not mean to infer inhibition but simply realization of the inter relationships existing throughout the human Constitution the simple exercises herein

Outlined involve no extreme asceticism nor is any radical departure from the natural order of life either necessary or desirable the discipline is concerned largely with attitudes and those disquieting fluxes which destroy the harmony of the inner life mental peace and emotional Poise should be first cultivated these will result in a

Greater degree of Corporal Harmony which Harmony provides the proper environment for the directionalize its success is seriously jeopardized by intemperate attitudes as the bhagwad Gita so aptly puts it only the man balanced in pain and pleasure is fitted for immortality many believe that peace will result from the cultivation of a

Spiritual State when in reality the spiritual State results from the development of Peace Perfection is the end and not the means perfection is the consummation of enlightened effort and bestowed only upon those who have greatly achieved in other things when the mind is torn with Discord and speeded up to an abnormal

Intensity by uncontrolled nerve impulses or the emotions are rendered intemperate by grief fear or hate no illumination can result from the performance of occult exercises only disaster can follow unbalanced effort or effort supported only by unbalanced functioning so East and West alike warn their disciples that

Before they put their feet upon the path of wisdom they must Place their own beings in a state of order concentration is the first exercise which we will take under consideration concentration is simply the pointing of mental effort the focusing of the mind so that the object

Of the attention shall be an undivided interest concentration involves the coordination of the intellectual Parts under the Dominion of the will the function of the will being to contribute intensity and continuity to mental effort the average person has poor continuity he cannot carry a train of thought to its logical destination in

Other words he cannot think things through impulses foreign to the subject intrude themselves and the sequences are lost the untrained man is also superficial as to the degree of his mental effort his thoughts are not sharply delineated nor given proper values but are so blurred or slurred

That they produce little if if any effect upon his code of action the purpose of concentration is to begin the organization of the mental Powers so that the Mind actually becomes that which it was designed to be an instrument for the discernment of relative values and realities concentration as an exercise

Cannot be inous if practiced with moderation and not allowed to obtrude itself upon the resp responsibilities of daily life it should be carefully noted however that concentration as an exercise is in no way a substitute for labor or action but is primarily designed to assist the individual to gain from experience those precious

Truths which are the beginning of wisdom and understanding in approaching the practice of concentration it is first necessary to remove the sense of effort involved for effort brings with it tension and this tension instead of clarifying the Mind upsets the nerves and often results in serious discomfort man is a bundle of tensions

The life that he lives is so filled with false intensiveness that nervous debility and deterioration afflict a large part of the race as a philosopher iCal discipline concentration must be performed through the gentle application of Will and not by browbeating the thought into a state of groveling cility many are unpleasantly surprised

When attempting concentration at the unruliness of their faculties the Mind pays but little attention to the will and our thoughts wander promiscuously Through The Ether of of the brain after a few unsuccessful efforts many become discouraged and develop inferiority complexes while some become so enraged at their inability to think

That their emotional reactions render them incapable of concentration discouragement disgust annoyance and other destructive reactions can prove serious hindrances to the objective to be reached while the one who faces even failure gracefully by his very gesture achieves a considerable measure of success the Ancients established the desirability of Performing concentration

In the early morning hours preferably upon Awakening and before Rising the advantages of this time are first that the super physical entity which is out of the the body during sleep has but just returned there too and its functioning is least impaired as the activities of the body have not yet

Obscured the subtle impulses of the Soul then again there is less tension in the body at this hour for the objective mind has scarcely reassumed the burden of daily cares and distractions finally the Vitality which has been stored up during sleep bestows additional strength to the Enterprise in every respect therefore

The individual is at his best in his efforts at self-improvement regularity is also a vital Factor as far as possible concentration should be practiced at the same time and under similar conditions each day this establishes a rhythm and the changes wrought by occult exercises upon the super physical nature of man

Are nearly all achieved from continuous repetition over a long period of time as our habits are the product of repeated impulses so our temperaments may be molded into noer proportions by such repetition under no condition should a person who is concentrating Begin by making his mind a blank such a procedure must inevitably

Thwart the end which concentration seeks to achieve on the other hand it is equally undesirable to use any physical object as the focal point for the mental faculties because such objects lead almost invariably to self hypnosis the idea involved is that of an active directionalize medium Mystic or to permit extru

Influences from any level to usurp the seat of Reason thus such objects as crystal balls magic mirrors lights and reflecting surfaces are excluded nor is it desirable to burn incense or use perfume in the effort to provoke results Pythagoras suggested to his disciples that their concentration

Should be upon some natural fact such as the flight of a bird the growth of a tree or The Wonder of the human soul it might even be directed to the contemplation of action analysis of motive or the visualization of a place or thing one of the primary ends for which

The Greeks developed these exercises was for the Improvement and ultimate Perfection of memory which they regarded as in indispensable to the acquisition of knowledge by memory however they intimated a faculty which not only perpetuated the forms and circumstances but also analyzed motive and causation so that the incident in all

Its aspects could be recalled at will by the mind for analysis by the reason of the values involved the average person when beginning the practice of concentration will have the greatest measure of success if he will start by visualizing some simple familiar object which involves the elements of symmetry Beauty

And high symbolic significance the Lotus Blossom or some other beautiful flower would be appropriate flowers bring a reaction of peace and nearly every temperament responds responds constructively to the beauty which they have captured in their parts and colors the Lotus brings with it a wealth of symbolism for it signifies the soul

Floating upon the surface of life’s ocean with its hidden Roots deep in matter but with its glorious heart turned upward to the light the rose is the Lotus of the West with similar significance representing by the opening of its buds the flowering of the ideals of humanity having chosen some such

Appropriate figure the Mind should be given the task of envisioning it and the practice continued until the image can be invoked AT Pleasure and held an indefinite period of time it may require from 2 to 5 years of daily concentration to capture the elusive shape and hold it

Securely but the strength bestowed by why this exercise upon the faculties is of inestimable value the flower should be envisioned as about 2 ft in front of the face hanging as it were in space and after the concentration is sufficient to retain it there the blossom may be given animation

Opening from a bud to a full-blown State at the same time that the faculties of visual ization are projecting the outer semblance of the flower the Mind should be contemplating the qualities of the plant and seeking to Fathom the universal Mysteries revealed through the blossoms structure under normal conditions a

Beginner will not be able to perform this feat with any marked measure of success if he could retain the image for 20 seconds he may consider himself as unusually successful within 6 months to a year however he should be able to lengthen the time to a full minute under

No condition or at any time should the exercise be extended however Beyond 5 minutes the average person cannot concentrate for a full 5 minutes upon any subject or object without seriously depleting the mental energies one particular bit of advice should be borne in mind when in the process of

Concentration the image has been created and then some disturbance destroys it do not attempt to force it back but consider the attempt finished for the day and never perform the exercise more than once a day most of the unpleasant effects of concentration results from effort to bring back through willpower

And force the fleeting shape of the object this is always disastrous and is the real reason for the nerve of which many people complain who have attempted concentration without long practice to strengthen the faculties all occult exercises should be performed sparingly always aiming to do too little rather

Than too much in metaphysical subjects it is much easier to prevent trouble than it is to bend the damage afterwards if performed as herein suggested the exercise can cause no harm to any normal person but if there is super sensitiveness subnormal Vitality or abnormal condition present these

Should be corrected as far as possible before any metaphysical exercises are undertaken as concentration is primarily intended to order the thinking equipment and is the first step towards development of true cair voids it has no direct effect upon the chakras or Psy PSAL centers of the body and therefore

Cannot create a condition beyond the control of the individual concentration strengthens the mind and the mind endowed with greater powers of discrimination and discernment in turn impels the life to more worthy ends thus a circle is established in which each mutually benefits the other and the entire Outlook is ennobled

As concentration is distinctly a morning exercise so retrospection is the proper discipline of the evening having completed the labors of the day the body exhausted by its efforts seeks rest in the Peace of that Twilight which divides labor from Repose our thoughts instinctively turn towards the actions

Of the day past the discipline of retrospection was designed to serve two purposes first first to instruct the individual to analyze the consequences arising from his daily activities everything that we do becomes a causal point from which flow innumerable effects and retrospection is intended to reveal the true order of these outflowing

Effects again retrospection is also an additional stimulus to the memory for it causes the individual through the association of ideas to live over again the day that is passed from this detached Viewpoint of an observer the Obscure issues are clarified and mistakes made evident like concentration the practice of

Retrospection should be governed by the laws of order and repetition the process should be the last waking Act of the day when the mind has begun to release its hold upon worldliness and retire into itself again there should be no effort the events of the day should be allowed

To flow through the mind like the passing incidents of a panorama the course of the picture however should be reversed the Mind should work backwards through the day beginning with the last act and ending with the first the goal should be a smoothly flowing recapitulation of every

Incident and so circumstance of the day by placing the effect before the cause as is done in retrospection we introduce an entirely new element the perspective is changed and what we call facts we find are largely matters of perspective by approaching the matter from the opposite end of The

Happening new values are discovered and the errors in decisions become apparent retrospection is a very good cure for insomnia having many advantages over the archaic method of counting sheep dashing through a break in the fence the average person cannot remain awake through a period of retrospection he often goes to sleep

Before he has recalled one tenth of the actions of the day this however is not a cause for discouragement since once the rhythm of retrospection is established the process continues throughout sleep retrospect ction is the greatest organizer of life ever discovered and after practicing it for a short time an

Improvement will be noticeable as the Mind grows accustomed to think upon the result of action it begins to Reason by anticipation and the decisions necessary to our daily existence are thus made with gradually increasing ease and accuracy 5 years of faithful performance of retrospection will lift the indiv

Idual from the haphazard state of the majority to the level of the philosophic few for it is impossible to contemplate sincerely upon action without instinctively Desiring to improve that action and render it more meritorious in the sight of self which must always be the Supreme judge persons with a bad

Memory which simply means one that has never been developed or has been broken through abuse often complain that they are incapable of performing an accurate retrospection at the same time most of these people bewail the deficiency of their retentive faculties and wish there were some way in which they could improve their

Memory retrospection will accomplish this end but the correction must necessarily be gradual little by little the ability to remember will increase and in time the smallest incident can be recalled at will nothing is ever really forgotten but very few can tap the storehouse of memory and draw forth there from the thought

Pictures accumulated there retrospection gives control of these pictures and a person who has achieved High Proficiency in the exercise can go backward not only over the previous day but over the entire life recovering each detail and Distilling wisdom from every apparently accidental occurrence retrospection should not be extended unduly and if the individual

Does not fall asleep in a short time the effort should be discontinued until the following day in a dream a person can live over a whole lifetime in a few moments the same is true true in retrospection a minute analysis of even a well filled day should not require

Over 10 minutes and to lengthen retrospection Beyond this point may cause an unpleasant sense of fatigue nor should one permit any irritation over inability to rescue some desired thought from the Oblivion of forgetfulness that which cannot be accomplished is best passed over with no emot accept a sincere desire to do

Better the next time one other point is involved in the exercise of retrospection namely the moral or ethical aspect when the exercise has revealed some complex of action the individual should make a definite effort to order the circumstances and determine what he should have done under the conditions he may feel

A certain pleasure from the contemplation of a distinctly righteous act he should also honestly criticize himself without however any sense of pettiness where he feels that he has been delinquent in some Duty retrospection includes not only the living over of the day but also putting it in order picking up the broken

Fragments and loose ends and preparing the whole temperament for more constructive Endeavor in the future every retrospection should bring the life up to date summarizing that which has been accomplished and to a certain degree sensing the direction of future accomplishment when concentration and retrospection are practiced daily the

Entire life will reflect the Improvement which right thinking confers these exercises is giving the proper stimulation to the whole nature will finally bring the student to the path of discipleship if followed as here suggested they prepare the conscious nature for its new duties in the larger Vista and are absolute prerequisites of

A spiritualized state and most important of all they do not jeopardize the Integrity or endanger the health and efficiency of those who practiced them the compt Des Jaan the Wonderman of Europe the pomidor was content Louie the 15th had found a new amusement in fact

She had found it for him the Kings and we was dispelled without an Intrigue or a new mistress compt theant jamman was his new divertis Louie was amused and thrilled by turns never before had so extraordinary a person tro the sacred precincts of V the whole Court was Topsy Turvy and

Miracles were the order of the day courtiers of depleted fortunes envisioned the magical multiplication of their old and Grand Dames of Uncertain age had dreams of Youth and favor restored by the mysterious counts fabled Elixir had he not taken flaws from precious stones for the king and even

Rolled several small diamonds into one big one and as to his Panacea for age did he not give some of this remarkable medicine to the Countess Dei and was she she not now called the old Everlasting Countess whom death must have certainly forgotten upon the Earth here was a man worth

Cultivating of course a person who thus completely eclipsed even the notables about him could scarcely fail to create jealousy certain courtiers hated him heartily but they had to keep their feelings to themselves for the King was championing the illustrious count and would tolerate No criticism either of his person or

Conduct if s Jamon had been given to Amor it would have gone hard with him for the bitterest enmities of that period grew out of such irregularities but as he remained aloof from all entanglements and was always the patron never the patronized he maintained his POS position secure amid the crumbling of

Empire from Souvenir de Marie anet by Madame la compes de Adar we have an excellent description of the count whom Frederick the great refer to as the man who does not die it was in 1743 the rumor spread that a foreigner enormously Rich judging by the magn of

His jewelry had just arrived at V where he came from no one has ever been able to find out his figure was well knit and graceful his hands delicate his feet small and shapely legs enhanced by well-fitting Silk Stockings his nether garments which fitted very closely suggested a rare Perfection of form his

Smile showed magnificent teeth a pretty dimple marked his chin his hair was black and his glance soft and penetrating and oh what eyes never have I seen their like he looked about 40 or 45 years old he was often to be met within the Royal private Apartments where he had unrestricted admission at

The beginning of 1768 it was in the court at veray that CT danant jaman was brought face to face with the Aged Countess Dori upon beholding the celebrated magician the aged lady stepped back in amazement and the following well authenticated conversation thereon took place between the

Two 50 years ago the cter said I was Ambassador at Venice and I remember seeing you there looking just as you do now only somewhat riper in age perhaps for you have grown younger since then bowing low the count answered with dignity I’ve always thought myself happy

In being able to make myself agreeable to the ladies Madame Dei then continued you then call yourself the Marquee baletti the count bowed again and replied and Countess G’s memory is still as good as it was 50 years ago go the Countess smiled that I owe to an Elixir you gave

Me at our first meeting you are really an extraordinary man son jaman assumed a grave expression did this Marquee baletti have a bad reputation he asked on the contrary replied the Countess he was in very good Society the count Shrugged his shoulders expressively saying well as no one

Complains of him I adopt him willingly as my grandfather the compes diar was present during the entire conversation and vouches for its accuracy in every detail the reference to the Marque bti is a reminder of the many names and titles affected by this polyonymous individual Mrs Cooper Oakley discovers

Him under such various appellations as Marquee de Mont farat comp bamar or count Amar at Venice chevier shaing at Pisa chevier won at Milan and leig compt salikov at Genoa and Leghorn graph zogi at schwalbach and testorf Prince rosi at Dresden and comp desant Jon at Paris to the above list it

May be added that he has been connected with the mysterious count D gabali who appeared to the ab Villas and delivered several discourses on sub mundane Spirits nor is it impossible that he is the same as the remarkable senor gualdi whose exploits Hargrave Jennings recounts in his book The rosicrucians their rights and

Mysteries it is also of interest to note that in his Memoirs Casanova indirectly links sa jaman with the activities of a society of the Rose cross which was intriguing the minds of the Curious during his day the smallest doings of so so unusual a person as s jaman would of

Course be meticulously noticed so we discover some interesting and amusing notes relative to The Establishment maintained by him in Paris he had two valet the shamb one of whom had been in his service for 500 years a circumstance that raised the eyebrows of the Skeptics the other was a Parisian engaged for his

Knowledge of the city and other useful local information besides this his household consisted of four Lackey in snuff colored Livery with gold braiding he hired a carriage at 500 Franks a month as he often changed his coats AED waste coats he had a rich and expensive collection of them but nothing

Approached the magnificence of his buttons studs watches Rings chains diamonds and other precious stones of these he possessed a very large value and varied them every week the valet of long apprenticeship is heard from on one occasion the comp was relating an anecdote regarding his own experience at

Some remote time and suddenly failing to recollect clearly what he considered a relevant detail he turned to the valet and said am I not mistaken Roger the good man replied mon LOM forgets that I have only been with him for 500 years I could not therefore have been present at

That occasion it must have been my predecessor from this General outline of the Parisian activities of The Eccentric but illustrious count we turn to a consideration of those rare personal gifts through the exercise of which he gained so wide a sphere of influence even his most Relentless detractors

Admit that the comp desant jaman was possessed of almost incredible attainments in every Department of learning Madame deodor extols The Genius of s jaman in the following words a thorough knowledge of all languages ancient and modern a prodigious memory IR addition of which glimpses could be caught between the Caprices of his

Conversation which was always amusing and occasionally very engaging an inexhaustible skill in varying the tone and subjects of his Converse in being always fresh and in fusing the unexpected into the most trivial discourses made him a superb talker sometimes he recounted anecdotes of the court of the valoir or of princes

Still more remote with such precise accuracy in every detail as almost to create the illusion that he had been an eyewitness to what he narrated he had traveled the whole world over and the King lent a willing a to the narratives of his voyages over Asia and

Africa and to his tales about the courts of Russia turkey and Austria he appeared to be more intimately acquainted with the secrets of each Court than the sh the Affairs of the king in his Memoirs the Italian Adventurer Jack K Casanova did s g makes numerous references most of them of a

Somewhat slighting nature to his acquaintance with s jaman even he admits however that his Adept of magic was a skilled linguist musician and chemist who won the favor of the ladies of the Court not only by the General Air of mystery surrounding him but by his surpassing skill in

Preparing pigments and cosmetics by which he preserved for them at least a shadow of Swift departing youth we can well understand how so fascinating a character could relieve the boredom of a king who had spent his life as a martyr to Royal Fashions and was deprived by his position of the

Pleasure of honest work then again rulers become victims to the fans of the moment and Louie himself was dabbling in alchemy and other ult arts true he was only a diletant whose will was not strong enough to bind him to any lasting purpose but son jaman appealed to several qualities in the Royal

Nature throughout his long career in the political centers of Europe comp Des jaman was renowned for his honesty and outspokenness one day at V when son Jamon and the King were walking through a long Gallery the comp spoke to entertain any esteem for any man sire he

Said one must not be either a Confessor a minister or yet a lieutenant of police you may well add count replied Louis I 15th or a king do you know why sire the magician asked did your majesty see the thick fog which prevailed yesterday in Paris well the fog which false friends

And ministers cast around a king is thicker still sa Jon’s jewels and his consumate skill in matters of art both as a technician and a Critic also endeared him to the king the pomidor writes he enriched the cabinet of the King by his pictures by Vasquez and Marino and he

Presented to the Marquee the most precious and Priceless gems for this singular Man passed for being fabulously rich and he distributed diamonds and jewels with astonishing liberality as an art critic he could instantly detect the most cleverly perpetrated forgeries in music he was equally a master while at vay he gave

Concerts on the violin and on at least one occasion during his eventful life conducted a symphony orchestra without a score he was constantly assisting his friends and found time in his busy life to instruct Anton Mesmer in the rudiments of mesmerism and initiate comp D cagliostro into the Egyptian right of

Freemasonry as cagliostro himself testifies in his Memoirs authentique to convince his friends that he actually possessed the alchemical powder of projection by which it is possible to transmute base Metals into gold he actually performed this feat on at least two occasions as attested by the writings of contemporaries the Marquee de valel

Visiting sa Jamon in his laboratory found the Alchemist busy with his furnaces he asked the Marquee for a silver six Frank piece and covering in with a black substance exposed it to the heat of a small flame or furnace M de valel saw the coin change

Color until it turned a bright red some minutes after when it had cooled a little the Adept took it out of the cooling vessel and returned it to the Marquee the piece was no longer of silver but of purest gold the transmutation had been complete the compes DI Adar had possession of this

Coin until 1786 when it was stolen from her secretary Casanova records a similar incident in which s jaman changed a 12 Souls piece into a pure gold coin being a doubting Thomas kasanova declared that he felt sure that San jaman had substituted one coin for another he intimated so to son jaman who

Replied those who are capable of entertaining doubts of my work are not worthy to speak to me and bowed the Italian out this is the last time that kasanova ever saw the comp both of these writers of Memoirs fail to tell us whether the denomination stamped upon

The coins was changed by The Alchemist iCal process or whether only the metal was affected if the denominations of the coins remain the same and only the metal changed the possibility of substituting a gold coin for the silver one would be negated unless it be supposed that a

Counterfeit gold coin had been prepared in a mold made from a silver one to assure that the dates and general appearance of the coins should match and thus make the substitution unnoticed is presuming a greater degree of skill on the part of s jaman than the actual transmutation of the metals would have

Entailed there are too many authentic cases of metallic transmutations to condemn s jaman for such a feat the Leopold Hoffman medal which is still in possession of that family 2/3 of which was transformed into gold by the monk Wenzel sailor leaving the rest silver which was its original state is the most

Outstanding example of the transmutation of metals recorded in this case fraud was impossible as there was but one copy of the medal extant the ease with which we condemn as fraudulent and unreal anything which transcends our understanding has brought unjustified calumny upon the names and memories of many illustrious persons nearly all

Writers on the life of s jaman have noted his peculiarities with regard to eating he was frequently a dinner guest Casanova notes of Madame deori coming to the table upon the arm of this mysterious man sonan jaman however seldom if ever ate but throughout the entire meal entertained the other guests

With Tales of magic and sorcery unbelievable adventures in remote places and intimate episodes from the lives of the Great kasanova goes so far as to say that he followed the Count’s example being too engrossed in listening to touch his own food in one of his tales concerning vampires son jaman mentioned in an

Offhand way that he possessed the wand or staff with which Moses brought water from the rock adding that it had been presented to him at Babylon during the reign of Cyrus the Great the Memoir writers admit themselves as at a loss as to how many of the Count’s words could

Be believed common sense as the word was then defined assured them that most of the accounts must be fashioned from Whole cloth on the other hand his information was of such precise nature and he was so learned in every respect that his words carried both weight and Authority the

Popular belief that comp desant jaman was merely an adventurer is not supported by even a shred of evidence he was never detected in any spuge nor did he betray even to the slightest degree the confidence entrusted to him his great wealth for he was always amply supplied with this world’s Goods was not

Extracted from those with whom he came in contact every effort to determine the source and amount of his fortune was fruitless he made use of neither Bank nor Banker but moved in a circle of unlimited credit which was neither questioned by others nor abused by himself referring to the attacks upon

His character HB blavatsky wrote in the theosophist of March 1881 do charlatans enjoy the confidence and admiration of the cleverest state men and Nobles of Europe for long years and not even at their deaths show in one thing that they were undeserving some encyclopedist see new American Encyclopedia 24

266 say he is supposed to have been employed during the greater part of his life as a spy at the courts at which he resided but upon what evidence is this superos based has anyone found it in any of the state papers in the secret archives of

Either of those courts not one word not one Shredder fact to build this base Calum upon has ever been found it is simply a malicious lie the treatment this great man this pupil of Indian and Egyptian Hants this proficient in the secret wisdom of the East has had from

Western writers is a stigma upon human nature no one questioned the noble birth of comp dant jaman his whole personality bore the indelible stamp of gentle breeding he moved graciously and gracefully with perfect Poise and self-confidence in the midst of the excl exclusive and aristocratic circles he

Was eccentric yes but a gentleman always only centuries of culture and high breeding could have produced a man so utterly poised and to the Mana born a London publication makes the following brief analysis of his ancestry did he in his old age tell the truth to his protector and enthusiastic

Admirer PR Charles of hessi Cassel according to the story told by his last friend he was the son of Prince Roki of Transylvania and his first wife a teeli he was placed when an infant under the protection of the last of the medich Gian Gaston when he grew up and heard

That his two brothers sons of the princess hessie rafels of Rothenberg had received the names of St Charles and St Elizabeth he determined to take the name of their holy brother sa Jus what was the truth one thing alone is certain that he was the prote of the last medich Cesar

Canu librarian at Milan also substantiates the Roki hypothesis adding that s jaman was educated in the University of Sienna Casanova describes a meeting with s jaman which occurred in Belgium under most unusual circumstances having arrived at Tor Casanova was surprised to see some Grooms walking spirited horses up and

Down he asked to whom the fine animals belonged and was told to the CT D jaman the Adept who has been here a month and never goes out everybody who passes through the place wants to see him but he makes himself visible to No One this was sufficient to excite the

Curiosity of Casanova who wrote requesting an appointment he received the following answer the gravity of my occupation compels me to exclude everyone but in your case I will make an exception come whenever you like and you will be shown in you need not mention my name nor your

Own I do not ask you to share my repast for my food is not suitable to others to you least of all if your appetite is what it used to be at 9:00 Cova called and found that the comp had grown a beard 2 in long this circumstance is enlarged upon by

One writer to the following proportions the Cavalier Des G Casanova finds the count in an Armenian robe and pointed cap with a long beard descending to his waist an ivory wand in hand in fact the complete makeup of a necromancer it seems that the growth of the Count’s Whiskers was indeed greatly

Stimulated by the pen of this writer Casanova reports that son Shaman had a number of rorts before him filled with chemicals in VAR stages of digestion the count stated that he was experimenting with colors for his own Amusement possibly completing the experiment commenced by him at Shambo in the laboratory constructed and equipped

For him by Lou the 15th he was so successful that van Lou the French artist begged him to divulge The Secret of his brilliant colors but he refused so jaman is also accredited with having secured astonishing results in painting jewelry by mixing powdered mother of pearl with his

Pigments what occurred to his Priceless collection of paintings and jewels after his death or disappearance is unknown continuing his discussion with kasanova the now bearded count explained his presence in Belgium by stating that count kenzel Austrian Ambassador at Brussels desired to establish a hat factory and that he was taking care of

The details upon his telling son jaman that he was suffering from an acute disease the count invited Casanova to remain for treatment saying that he would prepare 15 pills which in 3 days would restore the Italian to perfect health Casanova writes then he showed me

His magistr which he called aor it was a white liquid contained in a well stopped file he told me that this liquid was the universal Spirit of Nature and that if the wax of the stopper was pricked even so slightly the whole of the contents would disappear I begged him to make the

Experiment he thereupon gave me the file and the pin and I myself pricked the wax when low the file was empty Casanova being somewhat of a rogue himself doubted all other men therefore he refused to permit sonan jaman to treat his malady he could not deny however that

Son jaman was a chemist of extraordinary skill whose accomplishments were astonishing if not practical the Adept refused to disclose the purpose for which these chemical experiments were intended maintaining that such information could not be communicated from the memoir deor TOS of Charles landgrave of hessie Cassel we gain several particulars concerning the

Last years before the death or disappearance of the Hungarian Adept Charles was deeply concerned with occult and Masonic Mysteries and a secret society of which he was the moving Spirit held occasional meetings upon his estate the purposes of this organization were similar to if not ident iCal with

Cagliostro Egyptian right in fact after studying the fragments left by the landgrave cagliostro contention that he was initiated into Egyptian masonry by S jaman is proved Beyond A Reasonable Doubt the Wonder Man as s jaman had been termed attended at least some of these secret meetings and of all whom he met

And knew during life he confided more in Prince Charles than in any other man the last years of s Jamal’s known life were therefore divided between his experimental research work in alchemy with Charles of Hess and the Mystery School of laund in schleswig where philosophic and political problems were under

Discussion according to popular tradition it was on the estate of Prince Charles that sent jaman finally died at a date given out as 1784 the strange circumstances connected with his passing led us to suspect that it was a mock funeral similar to that given the English Adept Lord bacon again

Quoting from HP blavatsky is it not absurd to suppose that if he really died at the time and place mentioned he would have been laid in the ground without the pump and ceremony the official supervision the police registration which attend the funerals of men of his Rank and

Notoriety where are these data he passed out of public sight more than a century ago yet no Memoir contains them a man who so lived in the full blaze of publicity could not have vanished if he really died then and there and left no Trace behind moreover to this negative we have

The alleged positive proof that he was living several years after 1784 he is said to have had a most important private conference with the Empress of Russia in 1785 or 1786 and to have appeared to the princess dilal when she stood before the tribunal a few minutes

Before she was struck down with a Billet and a busher boy cut off her head and to Jean duari the Mistress of Louie the 15th as she waited on her scaffold at Paris The Stroke of the guillotine in the days of Terror of 1793 it should be added that the comp

The Shalon on his return from an embassy to Venice in 1788 said that he had conversed with comp desant jaman in the square of St Marks the evening before his departure the compest de Adam also saw and talked with him on after his presumed decease and the encyclopedia britanica notes

That he is reported to have attended a masonic conference several years after his death had been reported compt desant jaman has unfortunately left but two or three literary fragments he is known to have had a copy of the Vatican manuscript on the cabala presumably the finest work of its kind

Extant and the biblo the tro contains a manuscript L trophi which has been attributed to the pen of this extraordinary man this manuscript is beautifully written and Illustrated with 12 Miniatures in colors and is regarded as a unique and Priceless document in M the Sor by gillo De appears the

Following note on this manuscript which is described as a book of calized alchemy this volume artistically written was brought at one of the sales in Messina and Carries at the head of IT a note of a philosopher whose name is IBC Phil who announces that this manuscript

Want belonged to and is the only existing copy of the famous trophi of count dant Jamon he adds that cagliostro had also possessed this volume at one time but that the Inquisition seized it in his home at Rome when he was arrested at the end of 1789 cagliostro and his wife had been

Visiting the count desan jaman in the Chateau of Holstein the true purpose for which son jaman labored must remain obscure until the dawn of a new era Homer refers to the Golden Chain by which the gods conspired to bind the Earth to the Pinnacle of Olympus in each age there appears some

Few persons whose words and actions demonstrate clearly that they are of an order different from the rest of society humanity is guided over critical periods in the development of Civilization by mysterious forces such as were personified in The Eccentric comp desant Jamon until we recognize the reality of

The occult forces at work in everyday life we cannot grasp the significance of either the man or his work to the wise s jaman is no wonder but to those who are are limited by belief in the inevitability of the common place he is indeed a magician defying the laws of

Nature and violating the smugness of the pseudo learned the cycle of transmigration the Mahayana or great vehicle of Buddhism was advanced as a compromise to the extreme austerities of the Primitive Faith the founder of the sect is unknown but the celebrated monk nagar Juna is its most distinguished exponent and

Promulgator nagar Juna studied at the famous nalanda university the chief School of Buddhist Theology of his time the 2 Century ad this patriarch declared that he had discovered the previous ly unknown writing of gaama Buddha called The Prana paramita which may be roughly interpreted as the method of arriving at

The distant side of wisdom nagar Juna held that Buddha had concealed these traditions because the world in his day had not yet earned the right to receive such Superior instruction he had therefore entrusted the doctrine to the keeping of the Naga de gods or serpent Kings who in turn

Upon the dawn of a more enlightened era gave it into the custody of nagar Juna the Mahayana system softens the austere philosophic atheism of Buddha clothing the simple truths in elaborate symbolism and evolving a tradition calculated to impress with its intricacy and Splendor the mind of priest and Layman alike

Mahayana is termed the middle path an approach to the state of Nirvana broadened to admit those of every class and sect even assuming the possibility of those not belonging to holy orders achieving to the highest or Buddhist state it would not be erronous to say that the tenants expounded by nagarjuna

Turned Buddhism from a philosophy to a religion he was a sort of Oriental St Paul who elevated words above works so that salvation became more or less a matter of Orthodoxy rather than of Integrity on the other hand it would be unfair not to emphasize the high order of nagaj juna’s metaphysical

Speculations he created out of the moralism of sakya Muni a complex transcendentalism which shows a strange blending of brahmanic and buddhistic interests it is evident that GA Buddha built his philosophy upon the foundation of the Brahman vas and puranas the major deviation is in the matter of the Gods

Who in the Buddhist system lose their creative attributes and become the Servants of law rather than arbitrary despots the Mahayana School appealed to the highly cultivated imagination of the easterner he was accustomed to view the universe as a battlefield of gods and demons and hence found no difficulty in visualizing three-faced brahmas or

Seven-headed nagas nagarjuna converted all the Locas and talas together with the creatures inhabiting them to the Buddhist way of thinking so the old system continued Under New Management the hiana or the little vehicle the imperfect way as it came to be called by comparison could bring but a small number of mankind to

Perfection the purely philosophic aspects of gaama Buddha’s teaching could no more be expected to attract the rank and file of the Orient than could be metaphysical speculations of Plato Intrigue the great Pro proletarian class of the West most men think with their hands contemplate with their eyes and venerate with their

Lips the Mahayana School turned northward to find its stronghold amid the snowcapped peaks of Tibet and the more severe and simple hinana School turned Southward to meditate amid the gently swaying bions of of Salon no clear line of demarcation however can be drawn as between northern and southern Buddhism as each division

Has been more or less tinctured with the attitudes of the other the pundit Hara Prasad kastri has analyzed the differences between the two schools in substance as follows the hinana commences the practice of all meritorious acts for the control for the peace and for the extinction absorption of their own

Souls this is not the noblest end to which a high-spirited bod satva should strive he should not only desire to place himself in truth but should also strive to place all other sentient beings in truth thus the hinana seeks achievement for self alone and the Mahayana for self

Only that it may lead and serve others the pundit continues when a man knows everything he knows the miseries of the world and therefore cannot enter Nirvana without stretching a helping hand to the suffering Millions all around him while securing his own Prospect of emancipation he delays accepting it for the good of

Others there have been many Buddhas who by their preaching emancipated emancipate and will emancipate innumerable sentient beings but none of these stands as high as avalo kitus Vara who has vowed not to enter the Blissful region while there is a single sentient being unemancipated the bahaya school therefore regards accomplishment per se

As a selfish and unworthy motive for Action accusing the hinana of lack of idealism the hinana in turn accused the Mahayana sect of having departed from the more auster virtues to the confusion of issue and the worship of chimeras the Buddhism of Tibet is also further adulterated by the tantric

Cults tantrism sprang from the shiven worshippers and is responsible for the highly complicated Pantheon of lism especially in regard to the great number of demons Incorporated therein tantrism also clouded the issues by assigning to each of the various Celestial entities a saaki or female counterpart it is not improbable that

The worship of Shiva in India antidesma and Vishnu shiv belongs to the Primitive previc folklore of India even as in Scandinavia the god Thor or the thunderer was Far older than the pantheon led by Odin of which he later became a part before the Advent of Buddhism Tibet was a cannibalistic

Country the people worshiping in the most primitive and barbaric fashion divinities no better than demons and Pro ating them with infernal necromancy and Human Sacrifice this old faith is now referred to as the bond although it has almost ceased as a separate institution it still survives as a more or less

Degraded element in trans Himalayan Buddhism the black hat llamas in particular as well as Sorcerers of all classes still mingle Bon sorcery with their Buddhist magic this also probably counts to some degree at least for the streak of Cruelty in itself utterly un buddhistic which persists among the less educated followers of

Lism many of the lamaseries of little Tibet and Mongolia are hot beds of dukas’s Sorcerers of the left-and path who control the elemental spirits and practice demonolatry in the the north therefore we see the simple moralism of gaama Buddha involved in a complex ceremonialism the books containing the sutras of

Enlightenment now lie on the altars with a wand fashioned from a human thigh bone on one side and a prayer wheel inlaid with beans on the other to those who find difficulty in Discerning True Values the tantric confusion now called lism would appear utterly hopeless there is however a magnificent order beneath

The chaos not altogether evident at first there is in it a Hess great enough to enclose the Discord the doctrines of Tibet are unspeakably rich in metaphysical and philosophical varities while the arhats and mahatmas have for the most part deserted the temples of lism sages still gather there whose

Wisdom is the hope of the world the inscrutable llama as he sits spinning his wheel or saying the well-worn beads of his Rosary has one metaphysical finger on the pulse of the world accidentals with all their worldly wisdom could make neither head nor tail of the thoughts moving behind that wrinkled Mongolian

Countenance yet the old man has a private wire from the infinite and he senses aspects of universal law holy beyond the comprehension of the money grabbing multitude before undertaking a detailed study of the Buddhist Wheel of Life it is necessary to establish the substance and nature of that identity which though

Ever Changing in its condition and state is unchanging in its intrinsic being to understand transmigration or the satvic movement of Buddhism is indeed to understand its greatest Doctrine a fabric which has been reared to the astonishment of all who have sought to learn its intricate architecture its fine moldings or its delicate

Workmanship see Journal of the Buddhist text Society of India what then is a satva and what is the satvic movement a satva is a conscious being or entity which exists from all all time to all time being in every sense utterly Immortal until it enters Nirvana where

It is merged in eternity a SATA moves from one state to another but must always be in some State these motions or movements of the satva are termed transmigrations in that they do not constitute a passing from body out of body but rather a continuous passing from one body to another all animate

Creatures are primarily satas in that the satva is the real substance of their animation and all creatures are bound together by this common satvic relationship recognizing that the experiences of Life exist only through these relationships the enlightened sanctify such relationships seeing in all beings Kindred entities Co Eternal with

Themselves the satva then is the subject of transmigration even as Nirvana is the object the Mahayana School writes Siri Sarat chandras teaches that neither Spirit nor substance nor law nor organized life is self-created all such phenomena are in mutual relation and exist only by virtue of such relationship explaining how things which

Seem to have an actual existence have only a relative one this learned author uses the example of a house what is a house he asks is it the door the roof the pillar or is it the sum of all of them he answers his own question by

Saying that it is neither the parts separately nor the parts together for house is simply a came to signify the relation of these parts Siri Sarat chandras arrives at the following conclusion consistent with this Doctrine Buddhists do not believe in the existence of a Creator so there can be

No creation according to them the world has existed from eternity the living beings in it also existing from eternity and so spirit and substance are co-eternal the indivisible Spirit like absolute matter or atom cannot cease to exist their quantity cannot be diminished or increased it follows that as nothing can

Be added to or taken from then all forms are merely relationships of Eternal principles nothing which is real can be annihilated nor can anything which is unreal be rendered permanent life then in all its aspects is simply the satva or self moving through spheres of relationships the not

Selves as being in substance unreal and wisdom lies in the realization of this supreme truth we can now turn to a specific discussion of the Bava chakra or the wheel of transmigratory existence the two examples published with this essay show the wheel in both a square as well as a round form the

Circular chart is from the frescos of the Tashi ding Monastery at sikim and was published by Dr wadell in the Buddhism of Tibet the square drawing was obtained from Lassa and belongs to the Yellow Cap school it was published in volume three of the Journal of Buddhist text Society of India

We are also reproducing Dr wardell’s key to the circular chakra as a valuable commentary to the material involved in both cases the wheel is held by a horrible red monster called dagin in tibetan this figure represents to the Mahayana mind the horror of egoism as the most deplorable state of

Selfishness the wheel of birth birth and death is supported by egoism by belief in the reality of illusionary things altruism is the release from egoism it is the destroyer of the monster who supports the illusion it is another form of the statement that he who saves his life shall lose it and he

Who loses it for the sake of righteousness shall find it again belief in matter binds man to matter belief in the reality of phenomenal experience binds him to the phenomenal world the Spheres of the bod satas and Buddhas are not included in this wheel because they are outside the boundary of

Egoism they live not for themselves but for others and in departing from their personal interests they depart also from the sphere of misery misery and destruction it would be natural to ask what makes the wheel go around or possibly more correctly what makes the satva go around the wheel the answer is

Karma all beings or satas are continually creating karma in other words they exist in action and action presupposes consequence consequence in turn in gender consequences and the nas or Consequences of action are established an animate sentient being writes one author in contradistinction to an inanimate object has reactions for doings called in

Sanskrit Karma which are coexistent with it from eternity karma is is therefore Eternal and Inseparable from the satva or the satvic existence Karma has been interpreted as fate or destiny but these terms generally imply some providential agency Beyond human control karma is the inevitable reaction of action its

Substance is the merits and demerits of the life Walt Witman indulged in buddhistic fatalism when he said that which is mine own shall know my face Karma then moves the satva upon the wheel changing the environment to meet the Merit of the ACT Karma may be good

Or evil or a combination of both It generally manifests in the latter confused state where contradictory impulses result in the Discord and confusion of Earthly life while one who has achieved the Dignity of a body satva or enlightened being has by thought an action exhausted all Bad Karma and has

Through realization come to a state wherein he ceases to accumulate the causes of misery he is designated a Buddha in such a one all evil has ceased as a cause of reaction and he is said to step down from or release his hold upon the spinning wheel of trans

Migration with the exception of a Buddha all other satas have complex Karma where good and evil are mixed up in varied proportions Bad Karma is the element of change in a satva while good karma is the element of Purity one contaminates and degrades the satva the other purifies and

Elevates on account of their Bad Karma satas are changeable immortality or more correctly the undefinable term Nirvana lies therefore in the continual practice of good and mortality in the perpetuation of error through unbalanced attitudes mixed Karma causes the being or self to vaccinate erratically from one state to another through thousands

Of lives and millions of years and to experience in these immense periods alternations of happiness and misery the degree of happiness is measured by the intensity of the accumulated virtue and conversely the degree of Misery by the intensity of the accumulated Vice by his revelation of these Mysteries to

Mankind gaama Buddha gained for himself the title of the great benefactor as expressed in the vineya texts of all objects which proceed from a cause the tagatha has explained the cause and he has explained their sensation also this is the doctrine of the great sa in the Mahayana Dharma chakra here

Pictured the central sections are divided into six major compartments these divisions represent the six possible States or conditions of phenomenal activity and together constitute the samsara chakra or the wheel of worldly existence in reality they are the domains of the Six States of karma a satva or being must continually be in

One of these Six States until through buddhahood is liberated from its migrations as the platonists might say that a thing must always be in a place so the Buddhists affirm that a being must always always be in a state the nature and substance of this state being determined by

Karma two planes are emitted from these diagrams one of which consists of those Elemental forces which have not yet developed a satvic or conscious being the other the Abode of the enlightened where those dwell who are completely emancipated from the wheel of birth and death karma is ever built buing bodies

In the six compartments of the wheel which should be regarded as planes of life in reality the six planetary continents which emerged from the central Sun or the six bodies through which Consciousness passes on its road to Perfection the SATA must pass from one of these bodies to another until all

Evil karma has been expiated as in Egypt Typhon swallows those who are found one ing in the ceremonial of the weighing of the Soul so in Tibet the dagin monster swallows up or immerses in various states of matter the satas that have not achieved the body satvic Tranquility in both the square and

Circular diagrams the Inner Space is divided horizontally into an upper and lower section together these two constitute the samsara or the circle of worldly influences the upper and the lower halves are devoted respectively to the illusions of happiness and the illusions of misery being called suti and durgati those satas whose Good Karma

Promises them a favorable rebirth expect to reside in the upper or suti hemisphere while those of a depraved spirit will be confronted with the misfortunes of the infernal or or durati state the three divisions of the suti state are called sural Loa the Abode of the Gods Asura loo the Abode of the

Demigods and Nara Loca the Abode of men in the Square drawing the sphere of the naras or human beings is located in the central or highest part the sphere of the gods or Divas is upon the left and that of the asuras or demigods upon the right in the circular figure the human

Sphere is at the left that of the Gods under Indra in the upper Center and that of the asuras or Titans at the right in the interpretation of these three states it should be borne in mind that the human state was regarded as more desirable than that of the gods or

Demigods the highest good other than Nirvana to which the Tibetan can look forward is to be immediately reborn in the human state for it is in the human state only that he can achieve buddhahood this according to Sri Sarat Chandra Das is the most desirable of all

The states the great benefit of being born in the man’s state is that in this state if the good karma be sufficient and the will rightly directed the way may be seen the first Ray of Buddha lights upon the satva and he becomes a buddy satva hence forward he enjoys all

The Privileges of a buddhis satva he has undergone the great renunciation and ascends through the various stages of sainthood to the border of the worldly existence having renounced all even good works he attains Merit by meditation he has a knowledge of his past births all the circumstance ances of which have

Been carefully noted in the diary he is allowed to let his prayers and merits Prevail for others the less fortunate satas in the other five states at length he passes beyond the bounds of worldly existence to become a Buddha and enjoy endless Bliss in Nirvana special attention should be

Given at this point to a little recognized element of Northern Buddhist metaphysics as already intimated Budd reduced the status of the divinities until Gods ceased to possess really Divine attributes becoming merely vehicles for the merits of the transmigrating satas godhood therefore is but a reward for good karma and far from being permanent

May be lost at any moment the Buddhist monk fears to be incarnated as a god lest this circumstance prevent him from achieving buddhahood to be born in surra Loa is the reward of having earned by action terrestrial power and Bliss in this aspect the gods are but symbols of various constructive Ambitions less

However than the highest ambition that of Liberation the SATA establishes those consequences which entitle it to a period of existence in inures heaven and as karma draws the being to rebirth here so draws it to rebirth in the paradisical sphere where it remains as long as the merits continue by which it was

Established there when these merits become exhausted or Dem merits destroy the karma which binds the satva to the heaven Worlds the being falls like a plummet to some lower level to which the new Karma has brought it the position of the Gods and the duration of the period

Of their Bliss are determined as in the case of human beings by the extent of their moral merits that is to say the merits they showed when they lived as men on Earth or in some Sphere not heaven thus The Wheel of Life turns Indra Brahma and others who were once

Gods in heaven May today be ordinary mortal men in exalted or in lowly sphere of life and vice versa the turn of the Great Wheel which one day exalts men to God in heaven and another brings down Gods to be men on Earth explains two great truths one of which is frequently

Lost sight of We Believe pretty generally what all scriptures teach namely the Divinity of man or the god upon Earth but we do not so generally believe in the often equally necessary truth viz the humanity of God after the exhaustion of of the merits with which terminates his Celestial Bliss he has to

Revert to his for and position or to a worse state in this world therefore it is foolish on the part of man to lay out so much of his merits in the wrong direction instead of utilizing the same to the right end ensuring his attaining to the state of body or

Enlightenment C Journal of the Buddhist text Society of India all the Departments of the wheel have opposite States the lower have their opposites above to which the merits of the satas cause them to ascend the higher also have their opposites in the lower to which their demerits force

Them there is no permanence in any of the Six States for although existence in them may be extended over a vast period of time and the happiness or misery may seem interminable the satvic motion flows from one to another Without End but the satva when he sees the prospect

Of a happy life before him which is good doings Karma have secured for him forgets the true secrets that underly the worldly existence and holds firmly to the vanishing unrealities which plunge him into the sea of continual suffering he should therefore not count much upon the pleasures of the heaven of

Indra or the longevity of Brahma yoka which however long it may appear is nothing but less than a second in the ocean of Eternity for when the effects of his Good Deeds come to an end he is sure to suddenly fall headlong into the state of durgati I.E the bottomless

Pedition while the satas continue in this blessed though transient state of humanity they should exert themselves both by action and by meditation to apply the merits that have already been amassed by them till now and that are still to their credit for the attainment of that state of spiritually enlightened

Existence called buddhahood in this world’s health wealth power Etc which constitutes our happiness are transient lasting for a month a year or more they delude us like the pleasures of a dream therefore without aspiring to the state of bliss on Earth or in heaven we should

In this life Endeavor to get out of this sea of samsara and to possess those spiritual accomplishments and resources which are essential for the attainment of the most perfect state of supreme Enlightenment compiled from the Tibetan Buddhist Works s lamim Sho and pakam tiu the human is the median State

Between the pleasures of Heaven and the miseries of hell when the satva is in the infernal worlds its powers of discrimination and discernment are destroyed by the miseries of retributive Karma and while the SATA is in the Heavenly State its perspective is quite as effectually ruined by the

Blissfulness of its state and the Beautiful Illusions which surrounded human existence is a bending of all the Locas or conditions whether Joy or sorrow only in the human State therefore is the SATA capable of rationally determining that which is the greatest good hence the bod satva must arise

Directly from the human State and naral Loa becomes the vestibule of Nirvana an interesting story is told that throws considerable light upon the Heavenly State there was once a very wise King named Manata who earned so much good karma for himself that he reincarnated in surra

Loa as the god Indra himself now there were several satas who also reached such Heights of achievement that six of them were likewise reborn as Indra this demonstrates a very important Doctrine namely that the gods are not personalities but States Of Consciousness and therefore more than

One person may be of that state at the same time and consequently be that God after a Time King madata began wishing that he was the only Indra some very bad karma resulted and like a bankrupt in the hands of his creditors he was ruined his satva relapsed into an infernal

State where he had time to meditate upon the retribution wrought by the demerits of Envy Even Heaven is not a place of security and satas stay there only while they remain worthy of its Bliss the lower hemisphere of the Great Wheel of transmigration is likewise divided into three unfortunate states of

Which the worst is naraka or Hell in both the figures this is located at the nadir of the wheel on the circular diagram proni or the ghost State Tartarus is to the left and tyak Yoni or the animal state is to the right of this lowest hell in the Square figure the animal

World is on the left and the ghost State on the right a satva whose demerits are too great to permit its birth in the upper hemisphere but not great enough to Warrant its commitment to the lowest hell May temporarily exist in the sphere of ghosts as an elementary demon

Hobgoblin imp or other invisible creature or it may take upon itself one of the animal forms of the TYC state in both these spheres there is a choice governed by karma for some invisible creatures are of higher order than others as some animals are of a nobler

Order than the rest the SATA may be capable through its efforts in these inferior conditions of regaining its human estate in the not too remote future aichi the deepest hell is reserved for those whose infamies require the longest to erase the figures in the various compartments of the wield

Represent satas enjoying the Bliss or suffering from the agony their karma has earned for them the there is an interesting correspondence which we cannot fail to note between the Dharma chakra as pictured and fragments of the Gnostic tradition the gnostics are generally admitted to have been in contact with the

Orient in the Gnostic fragments there appears a despotic creative agent yalo the demiurges of the world and he locks the Gates of Heaven in an effort to prevent men escaping from bondage to himself and his son Creations is not yalo boath the monster holding the wheel and the symbol of

Illusionary existence and are not the six planes or States his offspring for all the compartments of the wheel are generated from ignorance the wheel is the mundane Globe which all the initiates regarded as a sphere of Illusion escape from which by philosophic means constituted the greatest good in the Center of both the

Square and the circular diagrams are to be seen three creatures holding on to each other’s tails and forming a sort of endless chain these represent the Motive Power which keeps the great chakra rotating the hog symbolizes stupidity the dove lust and the serpent anger these qualities are always opposed

To the steadfastness and high principle through the expression of which Nirvana is achieved thus the wheel continually turns upon this triple axis for the world only exists as a reality for those who choose to accept it as such it would be a mistake to view the wheel as intended to set forth literal

Teachings the whole concept is purely metaphysical dealing with the invisible and super physical planes in their relationship to the physical universe the Dharma chakra does not reveal places but conditions and the small figures ornamenting the compartments are not intended to portray literal facts but to intimate the conditions of Consciousness

By which the well-being of the satva is determined it might not be a Miss to insert at this point the formula of Escape by which a SATA bound to one of the infernal spheres can hope hope for release there from the forces which can contribute to the Improvement in its

Condition are four in number one when it has completed the karma by which it is bound to that ioka it will immediately depart there from into another state usually penitence ensures that the SATA leaving one of the infernal spheres will Ascend to a nobler state two under certain conditions when a SATA

Does voluntary Penance it is released from the lower World by the expiration of the period which it has allotted for itself three a SATA may be temporarily released from Karma and given an opportunity for enlightenment by the prayers or intercession of a body satva or perfected Soul four by the merits directed upon

The satva by others in the same state as itself in other words the love and devotion and gratitude of Those whom we benefit become vital forces in our own Redemption as a border to both the square and circular wheels are the 12 nidanas these represent the concatenation of circumstances or causes

From effects themselves in turn engendering causes and moving inevitably from birth to death the figures on the two charts differ somewhat as to detail but the doctrine is identical in both cases the doctrine of nidanas reveals the inevitability of consequences causes flowing into effects Etc thus birth which is the first nidana

Inevitably presages death which is the 12th and the causes of being follow each other in Unbroken sequence from beginning to end then onto beginning again add infinum the First nidana on conscious will is called aidia and is typified by a blind man or ignorance in the human

Life cycle it represents a satva passing from Death to rebirth the second nidana conformations is called sisara and is typified by a Potter and his pots in the human life cycle it represents the SATA shaping the formless material of its mental and physical Natures the third nidana Consciousness is called

Vigana and is typified by the restlessness of a monkey in the human life cycle it represents the rise of conscious experience the fourth nidana self-consciousness is called n Rupa and is typified by an arc containing a man woman and animals in the human life cycle it represents the rise of

Individuality the distinction between the self and not self the fifth nidana sense surfaces and understanding is called chadana and is typified by an empty house containing doors and windows in the human life cycle it represents the dawning realization of the possession of sense surfaces and understanding with reference to the outside

World the six nidana contact is called sparsa and is typified by husband and wife embracing each other in the human life cycle it represents the exercise of sense organs on the outer world the seventh nidana feeling is called vidana and is typified by delusive pleasures and pain shown by an

Arrow entering a man’s eye in the human life cycle it represents the development of mental and physical Sensations the eighth nidana desire is called trishna and is typified by a man drinking wine and a woman holding a wine jug in the human life cycle it represents desire as the experience of

Pain or delusive pleasure the ninth nidana Indulgence is called upana and is typified by a man collecting fruit in a basket in the human life cycle it represents the clinging to worldly wealth and greed the 10th nidana Fuller life is called Bava and is typified by conception in the human life cycle it

Represents temporal life in a fuller form as expressed through the obtaining of an air the 11th nidana the birth of an air is called jati and is typified by birth from the womb in the human life cycle it represents the maturity by birth of the air or the Fulfillment of responsibility

Through offering rebirth to another satva the 12th an Decay and death is called jarana and is typified by a dead body being carried to the cemetery on the back of a Ki in the human life cycle it represents maturity leading to death and Decay after the 12 nidanas comes the

First again and so on indefinitely until the life of Enlightenment takes the place of the householder’s existence in the Square chakra the two forms of life are represented by the figures in the central circle upon the left side the figures rise to Enlightenment while on the right side they descend to

Pedition in concluding the description of the Bava chakra it should be noted that in each of the Six States of illusionary existence is to be seen a figure of the Buddha his body surrounded by a double Nimbus out of his compassion the Buddha manifests simultaneously in the sixth states of

Existence a thought found in the Christian gospels where Christ descends into hell to convert the demons in every state mercy and compassion are thus established and through his forms in the different worlds he who is perfected in virtue invites all satas to join him in the beautitude of liberation the 10th

Avatar mes karamchand Gandhi with all his goats milk loin cloths and hand looms and inner voices threatens to dissipate with one simple gesture the whole illusional structure of modern selfishness and exploitation a land of myth and Legend India has produced a reality more amazing than any of her fables the holy

Man sits in the councils of State an emaciated athetic confounds the worldly Wise from the bruised and battered body of this Jane shines out the leading Spirit of the World by a curious twist of fate a man who calls himself a beggar dominates a generation which worships wealth alone a humble

Hindu has been EX exed above the princes of the Earth in an age of materiality a little Bombay lawyer has become a God in the bhavat Gita the Brahman Book of Psalms the Lord Of Love gazing down from his High Throne beyond the heavens uttered those words of prophetic

Splendor which for countless centuries have comforted and assured the heart of Asia when virtue fails upon the Earth then I come for four nine times has virtue failed and nine times has the preserver concealed his glory within a mortal shape and redeemed his people again virtue fails once more Integrity as at

Its even now civilization is destroying itself in a frenzy of exploitation and abuse the worms of Destruction are knowing at at the roots of the world tree the very existence of the race is threatened and unless mankind is turned from its present course by some spiritual impulse some rational urge

Some new vision the whole order of which we are a part must inevitably perish in a holocaust of competition and War this is the caluga the black age the period of universal dissolution when the bonds which hold orders and systems together rot away and the parts fall back into chaos the world is

Oppressed with a great fear the wing of impending disaster overshadows the Earth an Epoch is closing old laws and premises are insufficient Thrones topple and Nations perish in the void the rule of gold is at an end now must come the golden rule in the confusion occasioned by the

Crash of Empire men have raised their arms to the heavens and turn their eyes to the hills from whence cometh their help the old scriptures are once more remembered the need is great will the lord of the world come as he did before will the prophecy of the 10th Avatar be

Fulfilled when he who is the substance of the world’s desire shall come riding down the sky of upon a white horse crowned with power and bringing with him the hosts of wisdom does Vishnu hear the calling of the Nations does he incline himself to The Plea of his suffering

World will he come Mother India has brought forth another son the dusty roads where the gods have trod are walked by another Saint who is this little dark- skinned man with a a white cloth about his middle a Shaw over his head and under his arm a spinning

Wheel there are some in India who think they have sensed The Mystery of the great magician they have beded his pictures with flowers and offered prayers to this beggar Saint who comes to them in the spirit of the ancient law is Mahatma Gandhi the Heavenly medicant

For whom Asia has waited so long some believe some wonder and some do not know yet no man will deny that behind the frail exterior of this emancipator there stands an indominable Spirit nor can any deny that through this humble Hindu a great part of the world speaks even

Gandhi’s enemies admit that he is a champion of human Integrity The Brute power of the world force in all its aspects greed and destruction all these malevolent agencies are opposed by the sole power of a single Hindu athetic yet so great is this Soul power that the titans of policy cringe before

It India realizes that Mahatma Gandhi is no ordinary man he is supported in his mission by agencies quite evident to the Oriental but rather vague to the less mystically inclined peoples of the West yet for the most part the West recognizes and admires this Hindu Saint all do not

Understand yet the sympathy of the greater part of humanity goes out to the little Jane athetic whose dream is to build a world that shall be bound together by no tie other than the silken cord of Love by religion gandi is a Jane that devout group noted for their piety and

Integrity and the most respected of citizens in his program of nonviolence Gandhi is true to the highest tenants of his faith his father and mother devoted their lives to charity and social reform and when his legal practice brought Gandhi into contact with the numerous instances of unfair legislation

Afflicting his people he gave up a successful practice as well as all the Comforts bestowed by wealth and station to share the lot of the outcasts and uphold the cause of the voiceless Millions so far he has been able to lead the vast body of his followers in Paths of

Peace as though by Magic he has United the divergent factions of a cast bound race into one body with a single purpose Brahman and musulman stand side by side for Liberty old feuds are forgotten temporarily at least Gandhi is the common denominator of Indian thought

Is it a Wonder then that this man who has accomplished in a few short years the miracle of consolidating India should be called mamaji Gandhi Gandhi the great magician there are fakers who charm snakes and yogin who walk in the air but Gandhi is a wonder worker

Greater than all of these for he has Charmed The Soul of India Awakening it from the sleep of Ages as far back as 1922 Gandhi was India’s national hero his name was upon every man’s lips and quoting one faithful son of the Prophet who keeps a rug store in

Jaur as Islam counts its years from the Hijra so India shall measure its time from the Advent of Gandhi 100 years from now man shall say oh that occurred 50 years before Gandhi and another referring to other circumstances will remark this happened a thousand years before Gandhi to his millions of

Followers Gandhi is the focal point of time and place the ages Circle about him and the flower filled Gardens of the ashrama where he sits plying his Loom are the very center of the universe those who live in this age are privileged to witness the deification of

A man most of the Gods we worshiped lived in the long ago thousands of years have passed since zarathustra tended the sacred fire and Moses ascended sin’s lofty Peak 26 centuries separate The Devout Buddhist from the lifetime of the enlightened one and 1900 years have elapsed since the holy Nazarene preached in

Galilee but now the chemistry of our times has produced a man for whose sake this Century will be remembered even as we watch The Humble man becomes a saint the saint a god Gandhi is as significant to the ocient as to the Orient he is establishing a new standard of world

Integrity he is not a ruler placed upon the throne by heredity nor a dictator maintaining himself through Force of Arms as a Brahman pundit expressed it Gandhi is not a man he is a Force he is not a Hindu he is India he is not a good

Man he is the good in every man he is the expression the personification of the hopes and aspirations of uncounted Millions through unnumbered ages Gandhi is the spirit of a new order a new civilization a new world he is truth triumphant humility exalted peace Victorious to the non-hindu this may seem

Hyperbole many will say that such things cannot be yet they are 300 million human beings have found in Gandhi the very substance of their own souls he is the thing they have longed to be doing the thing they have longed to do even today gism is a reality it is an endless

Marching Army of half- naked figures following the little frail man whose will shall March triumphant down the ages the world is tired of hate of Bloodshed and of conflict it is wary with plotting and scheming falseness and Sham weigh heavily upon the bruised soul of humanity the world Longs for the

Simple things for gentleness kindliness and understanding power no longer intrigues and wealth has proved but an illusion tempting men to their own destruction tired of the pretense and the outer show wey with accumulation the world awaits a nobler impulse to lead it on disillusioned and disheartened Humanity has discovered in Mahatma

Gandhi a new ideal the almost childlike Simplicity of his nature brings a sense of release to lives in bondage to the complexities of an artificial culture Gandhi is strong Frank and natural picture the little Hindu wondering lost in the complicated Passage ways of the court of St James

Pairing through his thick lensed glasses and carrying his Theros bottle and bag of dates in his hands no pomp no ceremony no show of power but a holy man traveling steerage and sharing with the ship’s cat the bench on which he slept at night yet there is no person in World

Diplomatic circles who takes Mahatma Gandhi lightly it requires no God of honor to impress the Statesman with the extreme significance of Gandhi’s presence Mahatma Gandhi’s strength lies both in the integrity and intensity of his conviction he has communicated this conviction to his followers his spirit moves in them welding the hopes and

Dreams of Hindustan into a driving force for thousands of years Asiatic sages have preached the doctrine of nonresistance they have preached the victories of Peace declaring only such Nations and institutions to be permanent as are established in love and maintained by enlightened reason governments founded upon the sword Shall

Perish By The Sword but that government founded without violence shall Ure when the karmic reactions of Destruction have Swept Away the Waring factions of Earth greater strength and courage are often required to hold back a blow than to strike one Gandhi does not desire war and has made every effort to prevent

Outbreaks and violence he has a vision however that extends even beyond the imminent problem of Indian independence appearing as he does at this critical point in the history of civilization his is a message of worldwide import no man is actually free so long as selfishness is the motivating force of human

Activity those not in bondage to some petty Overlord are in servitude to their own desires and opinions many a man proudly says I own this or I own that when in truth this or that owns him the rich do not possess things things possess them rich and poor alike

Struggle through life in the vain effort to find happiness and Power in accumulation and competition the world is obsessed by a system of exploitation it is striving to maintain a despotism of wealth it has even come to believe that the universe itself is a sometimes benevolent plutocracy and that

The Gods on high Olympus are what spray calls incarnations of fat dividends it is the theory of selfishness that Gandhi assails as a New York World telegram writes he is challenging the whole Western machine civilization if Western Civilization digs its own grave with destructive competition and Wars maybe another

Century may see some gandhian or Christian reign of peace and nonone resistance Sovereign over the world the Mahatma sees the disillusion of all those unnatural bonds which now bind Nations together and in their place a World Partnership Consolidated in Friendship not in force if men will be

Just in their weights and measures if Nations will be honest with each other if the world will be true to the good that it knows war and suffering are not only at an end but out of the ruin of the past shall arise A New Earth conceived in love and in truth and

Dedicated to the proposition that the practice of right is sufficient to ensure the well-being of all living things Mahatma Gandhi believes in right he affirms the inevitable supremacy of right this gives calm conviction to his words and acts This truly holy man calls upon Humanity to unite in his purpose to

Build with him a new world to be ruled over by that inner Spirit against which none of the forces of evil can Prevail the law that governs brute creatures is not the law that should guide the human race declared Gandhi recently and it is the ever increasing realization of this

Truth that is forcing the whole world into a revolt against materialism Mahatma Gandhi demands every statement of spiritual and ethical values God has let loose an honest man and all the Worlds at Hazard the wheel of Pythagoras of interest to students of numerology is this ancient fragment which descending from the dim and

Uncertain past was revived by the necromancers of the Dark Ages according to Charles singer in his recent publication from Magic to science a manuscript of the 9th century probably the earliest medical text by an English hand describes the method of determining by this Pythagorean sphere whether a sick person will

Recover the same author continues the sphere of Pythagoras is a recognized magical device it is possibly of Egyptian origin but it certainly spread to Europe through Greek intermediaries it is translated from Greek and is known in that language from a third Century papus leaden 5 and in

Latin from a large number number of early manuscripts from the 8th Century onwards during the dark and Middle Ages this diagram is common in the English manuscripts where it is variously attributed to hypocrates democratus Ulus apollonius Pythagoras colum be petosiris nepo and Plato quite a number of specimens date from Anglo-Saxon

Times Pythagoras is known to have practiced divination and to have instructed his disciples in the development of such Arts eilus declares that on the ground premonitions are conveyed to Men by demons and heroes Pythagoras honored divination as not the least of The Sciences by which men could interpret the benevolence of

The Gods he qualified his statement however by declaring that only The Godly and those properly qualified through a realization of the mysteries of nature could successfully practice the art to the rest it was Folly for the Immortals would only commune with those of upright spirit and worthy motive eilus further declared

That the list of Wonders and miracles attributed to or performed by Pythagoras exceeded 10,000 not a few being associated with his forn knowledge of events either to persons or in nature plutar also mentions the extraordinary ability of the sage of Samos to interpret Omens affirming that Pythagoras approved of all forms of

Ories except such as involved the sacrifice of living creatures for this reason he renounced extispicy the entrails of sacrificed animals and ichom mancy the entrails of sacrificed fishes which methods were widely practiced in his day poery relates that the philosopher practiced divination by frankincense and smoke determining the nature of

Approaching events by the destiny of the fumes and the direction in which they were carried by the wind according to Cicero Pythagoras foretold events from the flight of birds and from the voices of the Gods as heard in the sounds of nature diogenes lus also records that he

Predicted by clanism I.E by the euphony of words and by observing The Accidental speeches of those about him he maintained that harmonies and inh harmonies of speech were produced by the governors of the world and that circumstances affecting nature were reflected into the unguarded utterances of men it is well known that Pythagoras

Interpreted dreams an art which according to poery he learned while studying with ancient Hebrews sages he was also able through hypnotic or mesmeric powers to cause artificial sleep in others which sleep he caused to be filled with dreams the latter being interpreted the same as at the Oracle of

Tronus Pythagoras also communed with the shades of The Departed but did not overestimate the value of such a source of information a disciple once came to the master declaring that in a dream he had talked with his departed father when asked regarding the importance of such a conversation Pythagoras answered that it

Portended nothing and was of No Greater interest than conversation with a living man in that death caused no change in the degree of the intellect upon the authority of appolus we are assured that the saman was well-versed in judicial astrology Having learned the science of the stars from

The calans Who had informed him as to the number of the planets their stations revolutions and effects upon the nativities of men and the world for this reason it has sometimes been claimed that the original wheel of Pythagoras was a horoscope a close examination reveals that this could not have been

The case in as much as the wheel was primarily concerned with numbers and letters and not with planets and signs it is quite possible however that the wheel or sphere by which the sage explained all Mysteries was in reality but a symbolical name for the world itself which contained within it all

Questions as well as their answers sent Augustine upon the authority of varro notes that Pythagoras was skilled in hydromancy which he had learned from the Magi of Persia the latter method is thus described by celus who attributes it to the Assyrians they take a basin full of

Water convenient for the demons Gods to glide into the bottom the Basin seems to make a noise as if it’s breathed the water in the Basin in substance differs in no way from other water but through the virtue infused there into by charms is much more excellent and made more

Ready to receive a prophetic spirit this is a particular demon terrestrially attracted by compositions as soon as he Glides into the water he makes a little sound in articulate which denotes his presence afterwards the water becoming agitated runs over and there are certain Whispers heard with predictions of the future

This kind of spirit is very wondering because it is of the solar order and such Damons purposely speak with a low voice although from the foregoing sufficient evidence might be adduced to affirm that Pythagoras was addicted to Divination in its several forms there is no direct connection between him and the

Wheel circulated under his name during the Middle Ages even if Pythagoras actually employed some such device it has certainly come down to us in a badly mutilated and imperfect state yet if any element of Truth exists in the principles involved it should be possible to reconstruct through study and application the original

Principle it should be noted that this Pythagorean sphere is not reproduced here with as a genuine fragment but as a medieval curiosity while there is no absolute proof that the device is genuine there is conversely no absolute proof that it is not we know that magical devices were employed by the

Egyptians and even earlier races and that Pythagoras was deeply versed in the occult Sciences of nearly all ancient Nations as he himself affirmed however it is not sufficient to memorize their methods or answers prophecy is a Divine gift bestowed only upon those who have a prophetic spirit this gift is the reward

Of consecration to principle and Truth The Great Seer then must in all other respects be equally enlightened for the the ability to predict particulars must arise from a profound knowledge of generals let us now turn to a heavy and curious old volume profusely Illustrated with strangely conceived and intricately executed symbolic figures in

Copper this book dog AED almost Beyond Redemption passes under the modest title of utus cosmi maoris silet atoris meta phys phys at teia hisor IND volumi Diva the author was Robert flood whose name is now identified with most of the rosan and freemasonic activities of the early 17th century after passing over several

Hundred pages is devoted to obscure opinions upon the origin and disposition of the universe The Music of the Spheres the establishment of the Arts and Sciences armaments Mechanical Devices Etc we find wedged in between abstruse mathematical theorems and an essay on pipe organs an extraordinary account of

The wheel of the sages which as one enthusiastic old writer has declared was approved and affirmed by the science and reason of Pythagoras himself as prefatory to his description of the Pythagorean wheel flood reproduces from older authors a number of opinions current in his day upon the subject of Pythagorean arithmetic and

Owing to the Rarity of such information we are reproducing herein the Salient features of his treati we can discover no direct connection or similarity between the systems set forth by flood and those of the classical philosophers from which the information is presumably derived this does not necessarily detract from its value

However as it is reasonably certain that the Greek initiates possessed a learning concealed from the profane which never found its way into their published writings as a Ross AC crew and a man of exceptional learning flood may have had access to records and documents not available to the

Uninitiated it is hardly to be presumed that he would have included the chapters on philosophical mathematics if he did not consider the subject in some way relevant to his rosicrucian interpretation of the mysteries of nature in the section the numero at he sets forth what are presumably the Pythagorean numerical correspondences to

The letters of the alphabet the seven planets the days of the week and the signs of the zodiac if this table be authentic it is obviously the most valuable numerological fragment extant in floods system the numerical correspondences to the letters of the alphabet differ according to the purposes for which they are employed

This is probably due to the fact that the rosicrucian drew his information from several ancient sources each method being consistent with itself but not necessarily with the rest the first problem described by flood is to discover the ruling planet by a computation of the numerical value of the Christian or first

Name the method is to add together the numbers corresponding to the letters of the personal name in its most complete spelling this sum is then divided by seven and the remainder is the number of the planet which will be found in the foregoing table if there is no remainder then the

Number is seven the numerical value of the letters however must be determined from the following alphabet designed primarily for this purpose and differing radically from the first noted the second problem involves the discovery of the ruling zodiacal sign from the numerical value of the letters of the given name the numerical value of

The name is found by the same method as in the first problem but the sum in this instance is divided by 30 the remainder signifying the zodiacal sign according to flood’s first table thus one as a remainder signifies Aries 18 Libra 30 Pisces Etc when there

Is no remainder from the division 30 is the significant number the special alphabet used in this calculation follows the third problem is to determine which of two contending persons will be victorious over the other the given names of both contestants should be reduced to their numerical values according to flood’s

First table and the name which represents the larger sum will be victorious imminent happenings can be predicted by ascertaining from this same table the numerical equivalent of the first name of the party involved dividing it by seven and referring the remainder to the planets as previously described the circumstance will be of

The nature of the planet as indicated by astrological keywords from these curious calculations of which flood publishes a considerable number we turn to his discussion of the Pythagorean wheel or globe in introducing the subject flood writes apollonius illustrates a way of divining by the use of the Pythagorean Doctrine

Saying that future things can be determined by the use of a certain kind of globe invented by Pythagoras which seems to solve an infinite number of problems such as Life Death the whereabouts of fugitives litigation victories Etc on the composition of this wheel and the true positions of the numbers upon

It the older authors have written so variously that the correct composition cannot be surely known but only conjectured I have INSP ected the Spheres composed by these authors and following those that agree most closely have drawn the accompanying figures in Conformity with the original wording and design according to their own

Doctrine the first wheel that of Pythagoras contains in the second Circle the letters of the alphabet in the third their numerical values in the fourth the planets and in the fifth several numbers unexplained the interior of the wheel is divided into an upper and a lower half by a horizontal line the numbers

Contained above this line are propitious and affirmative while those below are unfortunate and negative in other words if after you have arrived at the significant sum the same number appears in the upper half of the inner section of the wheel the question will be answered by yes if in the lower half of

The Wheel by no it follows that all questions must be so formulated as to be susceptible of either an affirmative or negative answer in some manuscripts the numbers are written on Scrolls and in one instance are in a diamond shaped Arrangement accompanied by the figures

Of life and death the letter J does not occur and I should be substituted for it the letter V must also be substituted for U two methods of interrogating the Oracle have come down to us from Antiquity we shall reproduce here with only the method given by flood in as

Much as it is the more scientific of the two procedures first ascertain the numerical value of the Christian name of the person with whom the question is concerned referring to the wheel of Pythagoras substitute for the letters given in the second ring their numerical values as shown in the third muring and

Add these together then find from the first table of Pythagorean numerical correspondences the number corresponding to the day of the week upon which the incident under discussion will take place also find from an almanac the number of days of the moon’s age for the particular day under

Consideration add the sum of the letters of the given name to the numerical equivalents of the day of the week and the age of the Moon dividing their sum by 30 the fractional remainder then becomes the significator turn to the central section of the wheel and ascertain whether the

Number represented by the remainder from this division appears in the upper or the lower part of the wheel if in the upper the question is answered in the affirmative if in the lower in the negative for example suppose you desire to know if it is fortunate to take a

Trip upon a certain day your name is Henry turning to the Pythagorean wheel we find H equivalent to three e to 25 n to 25 R to 14 and Y to 19 the sum of these letters is 76 you desire to start your journey upon a Saturday which from the table of

Pythagorean numerical correspondences is equivalent to 24 on that particular Saturday you also discover from an almanac that the Moon is in its 15th day you then add the latter two numbers to the 76 first obtained which gives a total of 115 after dividing this number by 30 there is a remainder of

25 referring to the Pythagorean wheel we find the number 25 in the right hand column below the meridian line the answer is therefore in the negative advising against the journey and warning that it will not be profitable when the question is concerned with an indefinite matter for

Which the day of the week and the moon cannot be calculated then use the significant name that of the person involved and the day of the week and the moon upon which the question is asked flood also publishes what he terms the sphere of Plato and

Aulus the use of which is identical with that of Pythagoras with one exception after calculating the numerical value of the given name find how many times 30 goes into the sum and to the remainder add the number of the day and that of the Moon the sum thus obtained is to be

Once more divided by 30 the remainder thus obtained becoming the significant number if it appears above the center in the inner panel of numbers on the wheel the question is answered in the affirmative if Below in the negative a careful examination of these Pythagorean Wheels shows that the order and arrangement of

The numbers has been changed at various times to say the least there are minor differences in nearly every edition of the work during the so-called Dark Ages the Medical Arts were closely identified with magic and most forms of healing with the exception of bleeding and purging smack of

Sorcery this wheel is frequently found in a certain class of medical books where its application is thus described after determining the day of the week and of the moon on which the patient fell sick and also the numerical value of both his Christian and surname according to the numbers and letters on

The Outer Circle of the wheel add these together divide by 30 and consider the remainder as before if the sum remaining is in the upper part of the wheel the patient will recover if in the lower he will die we can detect only an occasional mathematical sequence in the numbers on

The wheel which seem to be placed in a more or less arbitrary manner a circumstance which leads us to suspect that the true order has been lost it is in no way unreasonable that Pythagoras himself had discovered the Rel relationship between number and incident a relationship which most certainly

Exists in nature that the wheel must have some Merit is evident from the persistency of its survival and the faith reposed in it by the Learned of other ages it is at least a curious relic of the now virtually Lost Art of numbers the practice of meditation the world is a valley deep

And mysterious wherein men live together amid ever deepening Shadows the light of a superior reason gilds the distant Peaks but its Rays cannot pierce the impenetrable Gloom in the veil below a few of stronger vision gaze upward and behold the glow that is reflected from the sky tossed

Summits the many however like those who dwelt in Plato’s symbolic cave have no realization of the vistas of light beyond the precipitous Cliffs above and around them living thus under the shadow of intellectual limitation each must of necessity remain patient until by the natural unfold mment of super physical

Faculties his intolerable lot is revealed to him with the dawn of intelligence therefore we turn first with Ingenuity and afterwards with reason to the Glorious task of liberating our true selves from the abysmal depths of physical perspective the real history of mankind is the record of a magnificent struggle for enlightenment

A struggle however whose significance is seldom sensed man has climed from unfathomable depths from the very slime and ooze of chaos impelled by an incomprehensible but irresistible urge he has raised himself from state to state from place to place from world to World until at last a few in the

Vanguard of the great procession can now Glimpse upon the heights as yet unscaled flashes of that light which they have quested from the beginning though all humanity is responsive to a single longing only a few are able to define the impulse which has relentlessly propelled them through

These vistas of time and space for the rest the stigan darkness is still impenetrable what is the real substance of that confusion which today obsesses mankind which circumscribes all human efforts so that we live together in a Discord of cross purposes is not this confusion and

Reality the surging of a Divine will in bondage to a chaotic State the irrational quest for reality the exerion of undirected forces to the achievement of an undefined mind end in this little span of years which in their ignorance men have misnamed life realities are hopelessly obscured false Concepts have fashioned

False codes and these in turn have precipitated Humanity into a whirpool of fallacies each may try conscientiously to live the life which he has come to believe is in harmony with truth blunted however by the sophistry of a perverted cultural system human faculties no longer able to serve as an instrument for the

Accumulation of knowledge have become the helpless purveyors of false Notions living thus in a fantasmagoria of conceits a Black Sabbath of irrationality and excess we lose all perspective and become the victim of the most Insidious hallucinations we regard misery as inevitable Discord as a Divine edict and confusion the

Dominant note of the world swept on inexorably through the various phases of temporal existence the unenlightened are drawn irresistibly into the seething Maelstrom of annihilation through ephemerality like some strange moth-like Phantom of a dream Dante esque Souls Circle fascinated about the angry red flame of Desire their wings singed by

The flame one by one they perish three Flames Blaze at the core of material existence and it is their LD light rendered flickering by the passing Winds of chance which caused the Fantastic Shadows of Desire upon the far walls of space the false flame of egoism the false flame of possession the false

Flame of Desire these three must die out or rather be snuffed out by enlightened reason before the human soul can escape from the labyrinthine sphere of its uncertainties as the great Buddha so wisely taught Nirvana is the dying out of the Three Fires of the eye the realization that there is no permanence

Of reality in creation but that creation together with all its moods and modes is itself circumscribed by an absolute and indefinable existence which of all things alone is real in every life there must come that Supreme moment when For the First Time The Soul recognizes its kinship with the

Greatness which lies Beyond material conception C the moment of this realization is actually the moment of birth previous to this state there is only an animal existence but the true self comes into being conjured up by that realization which recognizes the necessity for that self in every age a

Few awake from the troubled sleep of materiality and by Awakening discover mortality with all its attendant consequences to be but the figment of a dream it is impossible to live well without a rational perspective on life life therefore seems hopeless and purposeless to the great body of humanity true knowledge must be that

Knowledge by which we come to know the reason for the circumstances which make up our mortal span realization is the Supreme intellect ual faculty for by realization we come to know of the existence of reality but only through a still Superior discipline which the mystics have come to designate

Meditation can one identify himself with those realities which heret for he has only mentally recognized and accepted metaphysical philosophy divides all mankind into three orders the first and lowest those who do not know and cannot see second those who know a little and see a little but have very limited

Understanding third that small group of enlightened ones who knowing and seeing have identified themselves in Consciousness with that which they have known and seen only the latter are truly wise and in them the law is perfected meditation then is the power to become identical with or to mingle one’s Consciousness with the object

Meditated upon it is the rational annihilation of the objects and attributes of the transitory sphere through the internal statement of Universal values or more correctly the contemplation of those values it is the realization of our identity with the transcendental realities of existence it is escape from the limitations of

Material perspective by a power which confers a knowing with acceptance through positive intuition it is The Conjuring up of the mood of limitlessness through meditation the not self is temporarily mingled with the infinite to find in this mingling the true substance of all aspiration it is the ident identification of the Soul with

Consciousness in absolute suspension meditation dispels the clouds which obscure the purpose of life even as the clear rays of the sun dissipate the Mist through it is achieved the restatement of purpose the reconsecration of action and the rededication of soul to the will of the Cosmic Self at the climax of meditation there

Is the Supreme moment when the unthinkable is thought when the unknowable is known when eternity is circumscribed with an all sufficient mood meditation should never be regarded as an escape from the responsibilities of physical life such a Viewpoint outrages the Integrity of the divine plan for evasion can never be interpreted as

Accomplishment nor should meditation or other occult exercises be permitted to interfere in any way with those duties and relationships which constitute man’s karmic inheritances and accumulations there is also the fine distinction that while meditation does release Consciousness from imminent limitations it is not intended to liberate the soul from The evolutionary Cycles

If properly performed it may bring about such a general Improvement that the soul may be released into a higher cycle of being occultism teaches that the only permanent Escape From Any undesirable state is to lift oneself there from by the strength of positive achievement the true purpose of meditation is to supply through

Broadened realization the impetus to Fuller and greater effort brought into contact with higher and more perfect aspects of universal truth man is moved like plonus to seek a permanent Union with this newly discovered Sublimity to those who live in this material Veil oppressed by the circumstances of physical life the

Responsibilities and problems of the day are often extremely heavy this is especially true of those who have begun to sense the note of impermanence characteristic of our Diversified activities the dreamers and thinkers of the world are of a rate apart and for the most part a lonely and misunderstood

People his interests and Visions separate them from the petty concerns with which the masses busy themselves the effort to remain true to principle in the face of the organized opposition of society is not a little dis discouraging and could the wise not retire into another world utterly beyond

The reach of the profane their state would be a sorry one indeed most of the intervals of Life are intervals of understanding and those who have understood even in small measure the purpose of the universal plan must dwell apart from the rest in a universe of their own to gain their support and

Courage from the contemplation of ideals they have learned what the body of the race must discover with heavy cost namely that ideals are the only realities meditation is a temporary release from the considerations of matter and its practice enables the mystics of the world to escape for a little time the weight of

Misunderstanding and persecution from this Escape results a new strength and a fuller determination to conquer through understanding ing environmental unrealities the goal of meditation then is to find in the depths of space that strength and fortitude which the physical world cannot bestow to sense for a moment that infinite benevolence

Which is so completely obscured by finite malevolence eternity is more gentle than time and in the vastness of infinite Vistas all things find their place when denied expression in the realm of Shadows strengthened by contact with that Perfection which supports all things and which will ultimately tincture all imperfection with its own

Nature the Mystic returns once more to the dimensional state to gather up with renewed courage and insight the scattered elements of his corporeal existence as our bodies must be fed to preserve bodily strength so must the few who would become wise feed the beauty and ideality within themselves and by the

Enrichment of these Divine faculties sustain more successfully the burdens of the illusional state who then is qualified to perform that meditation which is the Attunement of the part with the whole the merging of the Lesser self into the greater self what is the mystery surrounding those who have discovered the technique

Of dissolving the ego in the ocean of Eternity so that it becomes utterly diffused throughout that sea and feels every wave and ripple as part of itself he who has discovered the mystery of meditation is qualified to perform it he who finds in truth the supreme goal of existence

Is qualified to be possessed by truth for no man can possess truth he who turning from Petty purpose to the achievement of great purpose beholds the full virtue of that purpose such a one is entitled to realize his ideal true meditation is impossible save for those who are qualified

For the rest it is inconceivable that a man should find peace in the forgetfulness of self the intellectuals who have deified though can conceive of no higher Force than mind they have not learned the meaning of the Oriental adage that the mind is the Slayer of the real only

Those therefore who have earned through ages of Labor and longing the right to know May may discover what nagarjuna so poetically terms the other shore of Life those who ask what is the practice of meditation and how is it performed forget that the inconceivable can never be reduced to words or even captured

Within the cage of the mind that which eternity itself can scarcely contain shall never be caught within the nature of the un illumined thinker of the very substance of meditation nothing can therefore be written but about it and about some few words may be said we will suppose that though you are

A valley dweller living your physical life in the shadow of matter yet with the penetrating faculty of realization you have come to know of that larger World which lies beyond the encircling Hills you have learned that somewhere yes everywhere a Divine Radiance is diffusing itself a Radiance which from

Its very nature is the substance and Perfection of all things while Bound by body with its impulses and instincts to the humidity of the inferior sphere you may yet yearn for a fuller consciousness with this mood strong upon you and enriched with reason the alchemical gold of thought

You make the effort to retire a little while into the subjective and eternal State there to seek that peace which surpasses all Mortal understanding as you begin to meditate upon the beauty nobility and profundity of that Eternal existence which is greater than all the little distorted fragments we call life as your soul

Conjures up the realization of these things as you strive to know the very substance of the peace which stretches out beyond the stars a miracle occurs at least it seems miraculous when we think great thoughts when we live in great ideals little things disappear and Petty issues are

Forgotten our minds and souls are filled with the glory of the whole the walls of life’s narrow Valley retire the world grows vaster and more magnificent and all its parts are toned with a new nobility you find that your very mood has picked you up and brought you on rapport with the universal

Mood as selfishness and the narrowing Concepts which bind the masses to their wheel of pain are erased from your awareness forgotten in the thrill of Truth you become a citizen of a new world you are one with universal Vistas your soul thrills as though touched by the vibration of a Celestial Harmony and

Through every part of yourself you feel that same pulsing which radiates from the unnumbered stars of Heaven the little planet which men call Earth grows smaller and smaller beneath you until it ceases to be even a speck in chaos all the things which once seemed so great to the physical perceptions become as

Inconsiderable as the fading sphere itself life is newly found all relationships are readjusted by the greater vision and the broader view those small concerns which in our ignorance we have given false emphasis now revealed in their true proportions dominate us no more still upward and onward lifted high

Upon the wings of our meditation we Ascend beyond the stars farther and farther until even the flickering lights of the heavens utterly vanish in the immensity of being nothing remains but eternity itself there is neither coming nor going neither now nor then neither me nor thee only endless extending

Endlessly and in the midst of all this wonder is the tiny bubble of human consciousness thrilling amid the infinitud of duration its thin walls ready to shatter in the inconceivable vastness all Concepts and conceptions alike are gone things are a forgotten dream there is nothing but you and space

Swirled even Beyond ecstasy then per chance if it is permissible to descend to symbolism and thus attempt to describe that which is in its very nature Indescribable you may perceive faintly so very faintly the almost indistinguishable outline of that vast power which reposes forever upon the serpent couch of space enthroned upon

The very fastnesses of infinity there you shall perceive The Unborn and undying Lord seated above the whole mystery of the worlds and supporting by the Slender thread of his contemplation the vast pageantry of existence the little atom which is you Thrills into the very presence of the

Unaging one as you gaze upward into that great face immovable throughout all time the expressionless face which changes not but is ever inscrutable lifeless and deathless The Last Vestige of self is swept away you are utterly lost in your contemplation you cease but the contemplation goes on then for a moment

At the very climax of meditation there may come to those who have mastered the mystery of the law that inconceivable instant that moment that lasts forever that forever which is only a moment you cease you melt into the very being of the Eternal meditator you are identical with the

Dreaming lord of the world his eyes are your eyes his parts and members are your parts and members his meditation is your meditation and apart from him you have no existence in this instant of identity you are the world time and space are within you eternity is captured

Circumscribed as it were by the awareness of your meditation you are all that is that was or ever shall be your realization is perfect your being is no longer an atom d ing in the midst of the world now the world is an atom dancing

In the midst of you you are the very Lord whose sleeping is creation you are also this Lord when he awakes and by this very act dissolves that creation which is but an infinite dream when this dreamer which is now you and this you which is now the dreamer shall awaken

From this last sleep even being and not being cease the very circumstances of your own accomplishment are but the Phantoms of asleep and Beyond even the vast Circles of meditation lies an immensity that neither is nor is not in meditation one does not think these things one knows

Them and by the very nature of the discipline is capable of an internal comprehension of that which is known the substance of this discovery cannot be communicated and every effort to capture it in terms of mortal sense perception produces but a distorted and meaningless shadow that in no way reveals the

Actuality how inadequate Must ALL efforts be to describe that Victorious moment when the substance of all things and the ultimate of all Endeavor are realized nor can it even be intimated but those who find it have learned what it is and those who have not found it cannot understand then

Comes the test of high purpose and true Integrity for from this luminous sufficiency we must return again into the narrow bondage of the flesh it is difficult to come back to material oppression to descend from that condition of Attunement with the all wall and be cramped into the small state

Of some terrestrial creature clinging desperately to the moist body of the earth to return from the infinite to the finite from the broad sweep of universal light to the dull routine of mortal existence is like pouring the very stars of Heaven into a Yogi’s water vessel we have grown too large for our

Small body and with with a sickening sensation we try to fit our New Perspective into the Mortal coil but this is in reality The Mystery of the Incarnation of the universal Spirit into matter the will reasserts itself purpose is defined and like a plummet the soul plunges downward through the rings of

The world and we find ourselves once more in our mortal humdrum World a street corner in chaos surrounded by that endless Confusion by which life’s struggle for existence is depicted yet although we have fallen again into the Mortal State and the hills having enclosed once more our narrow Valley

Some of the Grandeur of the vision survives we can never be quite what we were before where meditation Has Lifted the soul up into the very presence of dimensionless truth that Soul can never descend quite so low again in the scale of matter but through all the ages

Unborn must preserve somewhere in its Fabric in part at least the substance of that glorious extension thus meditation brings into our material existence the substance of a new courage and a higher purpose and in this it accomplishes inconceivable good doubts are gone contradictions are cleared away enriched with the Supreme

Realization that the ultimate Destiny of each is to become all life flows inevitably into the infinite we know that in the end the imperfect parts will be mingled in a common Perfection and lifted above all Disaster by this knowledge we March triumphantly down down the ages to that

Great day when our Union with reality will be perfect and eternal at the end of a cycle of human labor there comes what philosophers call the great day it is also referred to as the last day it is a day that Dawns with all the glow of the sunrise but it has

No night it is the day that comes but never goes for upon on that day we are mingled in the realization of our maker and thus perfected in this perfect identity with the Sovereign cause the long ages of our wanderings are over all paths end and immovable in truth we have

Returned to our father’s house to go no more out the Russian Sphinx every age has its riddle Helena petrona blavatsky was the Enigma of the 19th century the publication of her letters and also those of the mahatmas Moria and cumi cast a new and Fuller light upon her extraordinary

Personality she is revealed as a woman in the memory of the living not as a half mythical Cil from some distant age or the pithia of some ancient Oracle though but 40 years have passed since Madame blavatsky departed from this life hers is already a name to

Conjure with she is the third person of a bewildering Triad son Jamon cagliostro and blavatsky as though by Common consent Humanity attacks viciously and relentlessly anyone who assails the infallibility of the mediocre dare to preach or even presume that order Reigns behind the chaos of life that anything in the universe other

Than man has Intelligence and an outraged Society shows its Clause but partly hidden by the semblance of our culture oppose the knowledge of the few to the ignorance of the many and morons are provoked to a frenzy of resentment a large port of mankind has been baptized in the faith of the Common

Place stupidity is the Vogue and all men dread to be out of style the fear is not that the occultist may be wrong the fear is that the occultist may be right to the criminal we may give the benefit of the doubt to the occultist never the criminal violates only our laws the

Occultist qua DIA violates our sacred opinions like children incapable of the emotions of maturity we are pitifully deficient in our grasp of spiritual values indifferent to the light given us and the efforts made for our Improvement we permit our petty Ambitions to overshadow higher issues we tolerate

Every form of error but are utterly intolerant of Truth we are generous towards any state but that of wisdom which when recognized we swear to destroy occultism is regarded as a synonym for imposture and the philosopher can hardly expect a better fate than Hemlock or the rude in an age

When the Learned are too busily engaged in condemnation even to investigate the object of the a misunder understanding is for the most part lack of understanding this is particularly true in the world’s attitude toward Madame blavatsky she fearlessly voiced beliefs that contemporary thinkers dared not entertain even in the sanctum sanctorum

Of their own Souls one materialistic scientist voiced the scorn of all his tribe when he declared that the 19th century began in science but ended in Superstition he fails to explain how it was that so Noble a beginning came to a so sorry end the closing quarter of the last century

Witnessed a metaphysical revolt against the crassness of a physical science fascinated by phenomena lost in the efforts to ascertain whether man ascended or descended from the ape learning became so absorbed in determining where we had come from from that it had no time to left to perceive either where we are

Going or how we are to get there to many scientists religion is linked with Superstition and Newton is the only true Avatar of force or matter depending upon the school the sophists industriously building their structure of facts upon premises have overlooked however certain equations in human nature they forget that men grow more

Rapidly from the contemplation of ideals than from the memorization of scientific Dogma reduced to famine Straits by The Emptiness of scientific thought the soul hunger ever present in human nature Demands a more nutritive food if the occult Sciences be classed as heresies by the cists the latter have only themselves to

Blame for if material learning had not relegated God to the limbo of discarded Notions it would not be necessary for men and women of heroic Vision to rise up and reinstate the Creator upon his Universal Throne upon the night of July 30th 1831 at E catarinos Law HP blavatsky

Then manoel Han was ushered into the world amidst coffins and desolation due to the plague of Cera then raging throughout Europe as an omen this circumstance was further augmented by the strange fact that the Robes of the Greek Catholic priest hastily called for the baptism caught fire during the

Ceremony and several persons were more or less seriously burned from the records of the Han family we learned that the child from her tenderest years was constantly in an atmosphere of curious Legends and peasant fancies Russian folklore is rendered so rich and Vivid by contact with Asiatic Traditions that she could

Not recall a time when she did not possess not only a firm belief in the existence of super physical worlds with their super mundane inhabitants but a somewhat accurate concept of the roles enacted by these invisible beings in the lives of Mortals such environmental conditions during these impressionable years

Released the occult potentialities thus preparing a suitable foundation for that which was to follow from her earliest childhood writes her aunt she was unlike any other person very Lively and highly gifted full of humor and of most remarkable daring she struck everyone with astonishment by her self-willed and

Determined actions her restless and very nervous temperament one that led her into most unheard of ungarish Mischief her unaccountable especially in those days attraction to and at the same time feir of the Dead her passionate love and curiosity for everything unknown and mysterious weird and Fantastical and foremost of all her craving for

Independence and freedom of action a craving that nothing and nobody could control all this combined with an exuberance of imagination and a wonderful sensitiveness or to have warned her friends that she was an exceptional creature to be dealt with and controlled by means as exceptional each passing year found Mel

Han a more stormy Vortex of occult forces she moved in an atmosphere of unrealities and in her presence nothing seemed impossible in her temperament were mingled the profundity of a Merlin and the Mischief of a puck it was as though a troop of Sprites were in constant attendance ever mindful of her

Bidding her uncanny prophetic Powers by turns amazed and discomforted visitors for looking them intently in the face like some pythoness of Deli in half formed childish words she would solemnly predict the place and time of their death AP sinate has noted that her prognostications were so correct that

She became the terror of the domestic Circle nothing could be concealed from her that she desired to know she could read the most hidden thoughts and motives and was instantly aware of circumstances occurring at a distance her a adds that the little Mystic was both sistic and

Squant she would hold in her sleep long conversations with unseen personages some of which were amusing some edifying some terrifying for those who gathered about the child bed on various occasions while apparently in an ordinary sleep she would answer questions put by persons who took hold of her hand about

Lost property or other subjects of momentary anxiety as though she were a Cil entranced those acquainted with the mysteries of the invisible worlds realize that the medium Mystic Mel Han would have been world to her destruction by the forces of the astral light had she not been protected and overshadowed

By a strength and intelligence greater than her own in later years Madame blavatsky herself commented upon this declaring that in every crisis of her life she sensed an imminent protection on several occasions she was saved from almost certain death by the ministrations of an unseen friend the significance of whose protection was not

To be fully understood until future years among the strange forces and entities which intruded themselves upon her sensitive psychic organism was one utterly different from the rest and which remained constant to the end at times she sensed the almost continuous presence of a tall Majestic white robe figure whose great benign

Eyes gazed down upon her this glorious Oriental luminous in his astral nature was the master of her dreams and as the passing years brought organization and purpose to the young woman’s life there came also the ever increasing conviction that when the time was ripe she would come to know objectively this Adept

Whose influence had so definitely molded the substances of her subjective life the year 1851 was of extraordinary significance to the Russian Mystic Madame blaski was now 20 years of age and was visiting in London it being the season of the international Exposition she had already broken the

Bonds of family and Country and stood at the very threshold of her adventurous life as she was walking with her father one day she saw approaching a number of orientals part of a group at that time visiting the court of Queen Victoria in the midst of the Hindus was

One of surpassing height and dignity as her eyes turned toward him a wave of astonishment swept over her her heart almost stopped beating for she recognized in this Hindu of grave demeanor the strange protector of her childhood Visions the one whose glorious countenance had Shone down upon her from the invisible

Worlds her first impulse was to rush forward to speak to him to fall at his feet but with princely gesture he bade her remain where she was and give no sign so helpless under the spell of his power she stood still until he had passed by to the uninitiated the

Handsome Oriental was merely a rajut prince but to Madame blavatsky he was the master Moria one of the world’s great souls and an Adept of the trans Himalayan Brotherhood whose members are dedicated to the service of the spiritual needs of mankind it was the evening following her first physical meeting with the Mahatma

M that M blavatsky impelled by a force she could not then understand strolled slowly through Hyde Park she was lost in revery turning over and over in her mind the almost unbelievable adventure of the day suddenly she looked up and there before her stood the very person who had

Formed the subject of her revery Madame blaty was a creature of Destiny and as the steel is drawn to the loadstone so the Russian Mystic was impelled by fate into the way prepared for her in London by the serpentine wrote Madame blavatsky in her diary I met the

Master of my dreams concerning the rajput Adept very little information is available although known to Madame blavatsky as the Mahatma Moria who seems to have also used the name aha zulama or the blue teacher and according to the conservative records of the day was 125

Years of age at the time of this visit to England the portrait of Mahatma Moria here published for the first time was painted under the direction of Madame blavatsky who seemed to have been satisfied with the accuracy of the likeness the Mahatma visited Paris in the latter part of the 19 century and

Was also in America for a short time he traveled however in great secrecy accompanied by Oriental attendants and met but few people 3 years before her meeting with Mahatma Mel Han when a girl of 17 was married on a dare to General Nissa for blavatsky who gave his age as 50 but who

Was probably considerably older they remained together but three tempestuous months at the end of which the high-spirited young woman gathered up her belongings and departed for Tiff her marriage is only significant in that she gained there from the name which was to become the most important in the field of modern

Occultism then began a period of wanding covering approximately 10 10 years during which time the young Countess forced onward by her craving for knowledge and Adventure visited the most inaccessible corners of the earth her travels carried her through Central Asia India South America Africa and Eastern

Europe at one time she was exploring the ruins of the Mayan civilization at Chichen andal at another delving into the archives of the library of the Tashi Lama in the Grim old Monastery of Tashi huno according to safarel she was wounded five times while in some way

Involved in the fortunes of Garibaldi in Italy she also attended secret meetings of the voodoo in the Negro District of New Orleans examined the rights of the dervishes and the jerus and was presumably initiated into the latter order and explored the mysteries of the yamabushi of Japan in the early ‘ 50s

She Revisited the United States and crossed the Rocky Mountains to San Francisco in an immigrant train from java and the Straits settlements to Berlin Vienna and Paris traces can be found of search during this entire period for those fragments of ancient and forgotten truths which when

Organized By the Light which came to her in later life became the foundation of her amazing literary Works no sketch of Madame blavatsky’s life however brief could be considered complete without mentioning the occult phenomena with which she was continually surrounded until she turned definitely ly there from in the closing years of

Her life she discovered that the astonishment produced by her Miracles was not a healthy reaction the Great and the small gathered to witness phenomena but for the most part without sensing in any measure the occult principles inv involved man cannot be truly converted by that which he sees or feels with his outer

Senses Enlightenment is an inner conviction a realization of spiritual values and as a general rule those interested in mystery or Marvel are unsuited for profounder issues worse still Madame blavatsky’s transcendental Powers ridiculed by the worldly wise gained for her only a reputation for imposture the Curious came not to

Discover realities but to detect fraud and no amount of facts can shake Minds closed by fixed predetermination the intelligencia she was to discover were not interested in philosophy but her Miracles were always amusing yes perplexing and even irritating from childhood Madame blatsky moved in an atmosphere of the miraculous objects appeared and

Disappeared as though at the whim of some prankish pixie bells tinkled in the empty air and soft music issued from nowhere these phenomena gained for HPB as she was affectionately called quite an astonishing reputation as a medium a distinction which she vigorously disclaimed from the beginning the very persons who insisted upon

Demonstration of her occult Powers made every effort possible to convict her of chicanery anyone acquainted with the natural limitations of leure Deon however must admit that many of her demonstrations were holy beyond the possibility of fraud though bewildered by Madame blavatsky’s peculiar Powers the Skeptics remained a dant the

Mysterious Madam took an Exquisite Delight in discomforting these unbeliever who refused to accept that which they themselves knew to be true take for example the young Professor who attended some of the Gatherings of sensation seekers in Madame blavatsky’s apartment rappings had been heard upon the walls and Furniture but he was a

Doubting Thomas pairing about in search of Hocus Pocus HPB was Seated on the far side of the room apparently indifferent to the depreciatory remarks of her unconverted guest suddenly to the professor there occurred a most unscientific thing the rappings localized themselves upon the inside of his eyeglasses becoming so

Strong that the spectacles were thoroughly lifted off his nose leaving him overcome by mingled confus confusion and fear on another occasion a very Vain and sophisticated lady brought upon herself a sharp reprimand for her unbelief she had been asking some foolish questions attempting to show superiority by the flippancy of her

Attitude as the incident is described by cinate she suddenly became very pale and jumping up from her chair covered her mouth with her hand her face was actually convulsed with fear and astonishment those gathered about looked at each other significantly for previous even to her own confession they realized

That she had felt the spirit tappings in her own mouth as she herself admitted afterwards there was a most violent commotion issuing from the gold of her artificial teeth at a hotel in Alex Andria Madame blaty and a friend were Seated on a sofa talking before them on a small taburet

Was a tray bearing a bottle of liquor some wine a wine glass and a tumbler as the gentleman raised the glass to his lips it was shattered in his hands Madame blavatsky gleefully remarked that she not only had a dislike for Liquors but could hardly tolerate those those who used them too freely

Although Amazed by the circumstance her companion lied like a gentleman declaring the glass to be thin probably cracked and the whole Affair of no moment it being quite ridiculous to infer that she had been any party to The Happening all the time he knew that the

Glass had been strong and thick but he wanted to draw Madame out to discover if possible some of her Mysteries HPB became very serious and her eyes flashed at the covert challenge in the inference of her friend’s words what will you bet she asked that I do not do it

Again if you do was the retort I will be the first to Proclaim you are true magician if not we will have a good laugh at you or your spirits tomorrow at the consulate with these words the Challenger half filled the tumbler with wine and lifted it slowly to his mouth

But just as the glass touched his lips he felt it so violently shattered between his fingers that his hand bled cut by a broken piece of glass as he instinctively gripped the tumbler when he felt it slipping from his grasp in spite of the years that have elapsed

Since hpb’s passing new testimonials of herac cult power continue to be brought to light not long ago a man who had been a janitor in a house where she had lived passed on in one of our old Soldiers homes to the end he preserved a vivid recollection of the notes in different

Handwritings on slips of very colored paper which he had seen falling in showers from the scen of her room he had watched her gather up these slips sort and arranged them and apparently derive there from information for her numerous books and articles it was his duty as janitor to

Gather the slips she discarded and burned them in the furnace another incident quite as remarkable was also recalled from the dim memory of the past by a lady when brought face to face with the photograph of Madam blatsky which is reproduced as the frest piece of this

Article HPB sat huddled on a park bench in a well-known American city suddenly from around a Bend there approached a tall Oriental which in the words of the amazed witness was totally invisible from the waist down The Apparition conversed with the Madam for a few moments and then glided away as it had

Come it is difficult to believe that such things can really happen in the prosaic atmosphere of America in the 19th century in her thousand one nights amid the enchantments of old Baghdad shahazad never spun Tales more fantastic that Madame blavatsky had in some unaccountable way contacted the

Occult soul of Asia cannot be doubted she was in every sense an Orient m al occultist a faithful disciple of Eastern Masters her peculiar personal qualifications were recognized by those illumined adepts whose task it is to perpetuate the esoteric philosophy and at the same time guard its sacred truths from the

Profane no other non-hindu woman has ever penetrated so far into the aditum of brahmanism concerning Madame blavatsky’s achievements in Orient Al learning Ray BK leeri wrote is it not sufficient for the westerners to know that a proud Brahman who knows not how to bend his body before any mortal being in this world

Except his superiors in relation or religion joins his hands like a submissive child before the white Yugi of the West the open sesame by which HPB caused the door of Eastern wisdom to swing open before her was her keen and unfailing realization of values she fitted

Together the parts of Ault law as no other thinker in modern times has done dividing with a sure hand relevancy from irrelevancy she CED and collated and by the Artistry of her genius enshrined her precious findings in a pagoda of golden thoughts GRS me refers to madame blavat

‘s temperament as racy and Bohemian what he really intends to infer was an extreme unconventionality and utter indifference to the opinions of others in a day when gentle women rode Sid saddle HPB would Gallop as stride her mount to the general dismay of her decorous kinsfolk on a coach in England the

Passengers also made it their special concern to pass by her chair in order to gape at the unprecedented spectacle of a lady of noble birth rolling and smoking Russian cigarettes in public her detractors have tried to interpret her idiosyncrasies to the detriment of her character and work yet with all they

Have been unable to discover any evil or viciousness anywhere in her nature utterly true to the principles she believed quick in the defense of Those whom she considered to be in the right generous in Victory and philosophic in defeat she went on her way to paraphrase

Kipling doing the thing as she saw it for the god of the things as they are Madame blatsky was not a paragon of metaphysical Perfections in most respects she was a perfectly normal human being subject like other Mortals to the reaction of Pleasure and Pain of optimism and despair high-spirited and

Impulsive she shaed under the vicissitudes of Fortune and though outwardly Brusque and Manish was gentle at heart and almost pathetically feminine her psychical activities were such a continual strain upon her health that advancing years found her physical body broken as it was by the hardships of her younger years unequal to the

Demands placed upon it by her indomitable will the Mahatma K in explaining the tension under which she worked called her a psychological he added that this condition resulted from the fact that one of her invisible bodies or principles was held in the temple wherein she had received her

Instructions this was done one to form a link between her herself and her teachers and two in order that she could never give out or betray certain secrets in other words part of her own nature was held as hostage for her Integrity although the Mahatma says no

More upon the subject the conclusion is that it was necessary to do this in as much as HPB herself was not an Adept and therefore did not have the freedom of action accorded to those who have passed all the necessary test tests or initiations those who recognize the

Extraordinary knowledge of HPB and the importance of its dissemination to the world gladly overlooked the IRAs abilities and inconsistencies of her temperament serving not the woman personally but through her the Masters who had sent her forth as the most suitable vehicle for their purposes at that time procurable not not infrequently is the

Question asked what were the peculiar qualities which so eminently fitted HPB to be entrusted with the difficult task of introducing the ancient wisdom to the modern world she had the true attitude toward the relation of pupil and teacher she was utterly consecrated to the consummation of the task which had been

Given her every personal activity being subservient to this end she was uncompromising where matters of principle were involved one of the Masters said of her that much of her difficulty sprang from her inability to assume even the semblance of dissimulation she was also utterly unselfish seeking no personal glory and

Continually sacrificing her own comfort and security for what she felt to be the greatest good HPB was in every sense a dominating personality her enthusiasm was contagious she was indifferent to her own Spiritual Development being perfectly satisfied to act as the amanuensis to be a pen in the hand of a

Ready writer one of the mahatmas in commenting upon her temperament declared that she was too emotional to achieve the highest degree of Illumination but it is this same emotion which impelled her to forswear like aalo kvara her own Perfection and come back with a message of Hope and Enlightenment

To a world which she loved in spite of what it did to her sincerity conviction unselfishness these were integral elements of hpb’s nature and these were the elements that justified the Master’s Choice add to these her qualities her psychic sensitivity and the high order of her literary skill and it will

Be evident why the great school chose her as its mouthpiece Madame blavatsky’s literary style was as vital and dynamic as her personality she supported herself by journalism for a number of years and although many of her early articles have never been translated from the Russian enough have found their way into English

To establish the brilliancy novelty and individuality of her style nor is wit lacking when the need arose hers was a sharp pen indeed VI particularly Isis unveiled and a modern panan the nightmare Tales also established her reputation as a capable writer of f although the heavy responsibilities of her occult labors left little

Opportunity to indulge this Talent Madame blavatsky did not suffer from that ponderosity of literary style which afflicts most profound thinkers even the most technical pages of her textbooks have a Fascination which holds the reader to the end she was a prodigious worker and while engaged in the preparation of the secret Doctrine would

Arise daily at 5: except on rare occasions when her health did not permit and had finished quite a sheath of manuscript before breakfast she kept no hours but interruptions permitting would work far into the night the abstruse nature of the subject matter often necessitated several rewritings before her Masters would approve the

Material her financial condition did not permit any extensive library and she never at any time had in her possession most of the volumes quoted in her writings as she herself explained it the books seemed to appear in the air before her so that she could read from their Reflections in the astral

Light Madame blavatsky’s greatest Miracles are her books and by her writings she is elevated far beyond the reach of her calumniators her literary accomplishments and not materialized Teacups are the Hallmark of her genius the combined intellectual abilities of all her detractors is insufficient to approach let alone duplicate the achievements of one woman

Given up as Dying by her Physicians who else in the last thousand years has had the knowledge or the courage to restate the spiritual varities which the world had believed lost forever buried beneath the crumbling temples of classical Antiquity the secret Doctrine and Isis unveiled are Madame blavatsky’s gifts to

Humanity and to those whose Vision can pierce the menacing clouds of imminent disaster it is no exaggeration to affirm that these writings are the most vital literary contribution to the modern world no more can they be compared with other books than can the light of the

Sun be compared with the lamp of the glowworm the secret Doctrine assumes the Dignity of a scripture for in its Pages Eternal Mysteries are clothed in ancient and modern terms and to those who have eyes to see the Ageless wisdom is revealed we like to think of the secret

Doctrine as a magnificent agglomeration of strange facts circumscribed and insul by an overwhelming realization of the most recondite principles of Life Madame blavatsky has been accused of plagiarism that the words of countless writers embellish her text is not to be denied but the old words are in new patterns

And the previous writers are made to support premises of which they themselves had never conceived words must always be old the greatness of the secret Doctrine lies in the pointing or focusing of the facts contained therein for out of the mass of old material is

Fused a new idea after the ashes of dead beliefs once more Rises the deathless Phoenix the book which the Master’s precipitated through their faithful Chella has become so distinctly a part of of the literature of the race that neither criticism nor indifference can ever detract from the measure of its

Power for this age then the study of the secret Doctrine is The Logical approach to Occult Philosophy compressed between the covers of this book is to be found the essence of an indefatigable research for the student of mysticism seeking auth authentic information on the transcendental Sciences this book is

The best available Authority on the subject nearly all books on occultism written subsequent to the secret Doctrine are in some way derived there from unfortunately however few of the later writers correctly interpret the material which they borrowed to take liberties with procus we may say that the secret Doctrine is the summit of

Occult literature and that from it like the ineffable blossoms of the neoplatonists depend an innumerable multitude of Cults and isms having no luminance in their own right but existing solely by virtue of the light diffused from this single achievement from this point of view the secret Doctrine should not be regarded

As a monument to the personal learning of HPB but rather to those those adeps whose presence constitutes a far higher source of information than is available to the average author the secret Doctrine is a book within a book or as the cabalists would have termed It illuminous soul obscured

By an outer vestment of words the first and smaller part of the book The Soul of the whole work is the truly occult portion the second and more voluminous part the vestment of many words consists of hpb’s commentaries thereon to the uninitiated reader whose faculties of discrimination are undeveloped these two

Distinct works are mingled in seemingly hopeless confusion however the Sut trma or the soul thread upon which the beads of commentary are strong winds in and about an almost terrifying mass of corroborative and explanatory text primitive ideas are traced through countless ramifications and applications until the intellect becomes dazed in the

Effort to follow the many divergences of perspective fugitive ideas intrude themselves only to escape before they are apprehended for this reason the secret Doctrine is for too many occultists a text book in name only the occult dilatant who seeks to acquire the veneer of wisdom does not linger long

Over its pages but soon discouraged transfers his attention to less weighty material no one unable to understand the elements of the secret Doctrine can expect to achieve the heights to which it beckons true scholarship those who find it beyond their comprehension should realize that the fault is not with the book but with

Themselves spiritual truths can never be brought down to the level of the unenlightened masses failure has crowned every such effort in the past there is but one alternative by his own efforts man must lift himself up to the level of Truth he must develop the faculties which enable

Him to appreciate the profounder aspects of learning truth cannot descend but man can and must Ascend only through the release of his own potential Divinity does the initiate become qualified to comprehend the great Arcanum the multitude of issues found in the several Departments of the secret Doctrine all diverge from certain

Fundamental premises and having revealed their forms and purposes finally reconverge to these original premises the mahatmas through whom the teachings were given being self admittedly of buddhistic persuasion and the stanzas of Dian the skeleton of the whole work being a commentary on the Buddhist scriptures it must be evident

That the Viewpoint of the writing is essentially buddhistic the book however is inclusively rather than exclusively buddhistic as a philosophy Buddhism is primarily concerned with the dissipation of ignorance through a knowledge and realization of the illusionary state of all material substances Natures interests and attachments in this respect Buddhism

Reflects the essential tenants of nearly all great religious and philosophical institutions as a book The Secret Doctrine affirms the existence of a primitive knowledge perpetually uated from age to age and race to race by institutions of illuminant thinkers these illustrious Mortals have been overshadowed and guided by adepts or initiates members of certain

Hierarchical orders to whom the destiny of humanity has been entrusted for certain period of its development if this premise be accepted and the book itself is irrefutable evidence of a learning transcending that professed by the moderns then that which follows is quite evident and consistent in the secret Doctrine the

Sanctuaries of the ancient Mysteries are made to give up many of their most precious Secrets concerning the nature of the world and the human soul the enlightened philosophers of every age contribute to the completeness of the book The the evidence adduced in support of the occult Sciences is undeniable and

It must become evident even to those of narrow Vision that the great religious systems whose voies have been in Conflict since the beginning are in reality restatements of a single occult tradition whose Beginnings were coal with the human race great purposes are always opposed by the inherent in human

Nature but the secret Doctrine is an irresistible Force sweeping aside smugness and conceit and forcing the Mind into honest ways afraid to open his eyes lest that which he sees will conflict with that which he believes the textualist that bourbon of the world of thought to paraphrase Huxley who learns

Not neither can he forget Rebel BS against the vastness the majesty and the Sublimity of its Concepts occultism in the western world owes all that it is to the pioneering of HP blavatsky to her tiess efforts are referable in no small measure the freedom and tolerance accorded metaphysical speculations in this

Century remove HP blavatsky and the structure of modern occultism Falls like a house of cards the secret Doctrine contains practically all that is known on the subject of occultism that it is permissible to print and every page is a veritable Treasure House of esoteric law that the secret Doctrine could have

Been produced in the 19th century is well nigh incredible it is utterly different in both spirit and substance from the products of the racial Trend produced in an era of Crash materiality this extraordinary document rescues spiritual values from Oblivion restating them in this caluga of science HP blavatsky herself realized that her

Writings were out of sympathy with the age and that the full significance of the secret Doctrine could not be fully recognized until the Advent of a more auspicious time it was to be the occult textbook of the 20th century to stand without addition or subtraction until

The coming of the next Emissary of the Masters which according to HPB was to be about 1975 Muhammad well said that each age has its book and the secret Doctrine is unquestionably the magnum opus of the literature of the modern world madame blatsky died on May 8th 1891 in the

Words of Isabelle Cooper Oakley she passed away like a sentinel at his post in the armchair in which she taught and wrote the best and truest of teachers the most faithful and untiring of Messengers she continued her writing to the last and the night before her

Passing she remained for a short time at her desk arranging her papers and struggling with a half finished editorial she retained possession of her faculties to the end and though suffering much in her final illness her last moments were peaceful and those supporting her scarcely knew when she ceased to

Breathe what more fitting termination to this article on the Russian Sphinx than her own admonition should this be my last word I would implore you all as you have regard for the welfare of mankind and your own Karma to be true to the society and not

To permit it to be overthrown by the enemy fraternally and ever yours in life and death HP blavatsky the universe in stone upon the kedu plateau psalm mil from the stolid Dutch community of J Jakarta guarded by four Sentinel volcanoes stands The Boro budur one of the largest and most impressive

Religious monuments of all times a vast complex of lava rock the blocks fitted together without cement its surfaces resplendant with carvings this huge reliquary Bears witness to a long vanished mood of Eastern artism although certain aspects of its magnificence are evident to even The Superficial Observer it is only after a painstaking examination

That the full significance of the structure becomes apparent like most Buddhist remains in Java the borab budur stood for many centuries in a desperate state of dilapidation when as the spiritual impulse of java the native mind turning to the new belief neglected the shrines of the older Doctrine falling into Decay the beauties

Of these religious edifices collapsed in a common ruin the hand of the vanal however has proved more unkind than the elements as the rows of headless figures and chipped carvings testify fragments of Javanese art are to be found in museums and private collections all over the world and the

Empty niches which once housed them only remain as mute accusers of the sacrilege in 1896 his majesty Chula long Kon king of say was invited to help himself to any little bits which might please his fancy and as sh tea notes he was considerate enough to be satisfied with only eight

Cartloads when funds permitting he might have had the whole building in this day when the vasas are building temples to their own conceits they but imitate the Burmese who see little Merit in preserving the shrines of Olden Gods but even deserted temples have their day tourists and

Scholars from the four corners of the earth now come in reverent pilgrimages to this ancient pile though their emotions may be undefined all are profoundly impressed not only by the external Mass but to some measure by the Sublimity of the doctrines which it embodies these blocks were raised not by

Tools alone but by the heroic vision of the builders and even in this late age when the stones themselves have been deeply scored by the vicisitudes of time a little of the Builder’s Vision still lingers about the fast dimming glory in the Afterglow the intricate freeze work becomes alive the dim outlines assume

The likeness of a multitude of people gathered upon the side of a hill their hands raised as though in prayer and their eyes turned upward toward the lofty dagoba signified by the presence of the ash ases of a perfect man the physical dimensions of the Boro Buu are

Impressive Even in our day of great architectural achievement the shrine is built over the crest of a low Hill crowning it with a coronate of points and arches the structure is roughly square but without juttings on all four sides the foundation is a little over 500 ft square and the height of approximately

150 ft the edifice rises in seven Terraces of which the lower four are square and the upper three circular the carvings upon its walls if placed end to end would exceed in length three linear miles the panels of sculpturing and reliefs are 6 feet in width and of such

Intricate workmanship that there is an average of nine human figures to every square yard a broad staircase case ascends each face of the shrine which is roughly pyramidal and these converge to a platform about 50 ft in diameter upon which stands the central dooba or the reliquary proper in keeping with its

Dignity their reliquary is without ornamentation save for some sacrilegious inscription of a late date like the famous panel placed by lepsius over the entrance to the Great Pyramid calling attention amid the Splendor of a thousand ages to the merits of the King of Prussia relative to the circumstances

Which dictated the erection of the borrow budor no information is available authorities differ widely as to the date of its building but James Ferguson a leading Authority on the subject of Buddhist monuments places the time between the 6th and 8th Century ad probably NRA I 6 this gentleman’s

Praises of the Ancient Temple are unstinted he speaks of it as the highest development of Buddhist art an eperm of all its art and ritual and the culmination of the architectural style which originating in barut a thousand years before had begun to decay in India at the time the colonists were erecting

This masterpiece of the ages in the heart of java the work unquestionably required a vast expenditure of time and energy for the carvings which run riot here were not chiseled in a single day but by many carefully selected artists over an extended period in fact evidence has been discovered indicating that the

Building was erected during several periods between which were intervals during which the labor was discontinued for reasons unknown there are also grounds for for the assertion that the shrine never was actually completed the work being abandoned as some conjecture owing to the disastrous activity of marapi the nearest of the neighboring

Volcanoes During the period of excavation a considerable quantity of volcanic ash was found clogging the passageways and sifted in through the apertures in the great Stone Bells this Lent Credence to the volcanic Theory as well as certain sagging in the walls quite possibly due to earthquakes in the year 264 BC the

Emperor ahoka the Constantine of Buddhism in his Zeal to bring the great Enlightenment to all parts of the earth caused the ashes and sacred relics of the Buddha which were gathered after his cremation to be exhumed from the eight places of their interment he then divided these relics

Into 8 4,000 Parts enclosing each part in a receptacle of appropriate value and dignity these the Buddhist monks were to carry with them all over the Earth building temples and shrines to hold them so that the whole world might be rendered fortunate by the presence of

Some part of the physical remains of the light of Asia while it is not possible to connect the Boro badur with this program it is reasonable to believe that the structure was designed to enshrine one of these 84,000 portions of the Sacred ashes when the dagoba was opened however

Its two compartments were found innocent of such content of the great wonders of the world that remain to us the Bor badur will probably be the first to disappear all things reach the end of their span and vanish of themselves in spite of every every effort for their

Preservation in recent years a world repentant for its neglect has tried to make amends but it is too late and another hundred years will’ll find the carvings of the Bor budur if not obliterated at least so dim as to be but Shadows of their former Grandeur during the early periods of

Excavation the workmen failed to clear the drainage channels which the original Builders had wisely provided for and as a result the tropical storms in a country where rain is an hourly occurrence played Havoc with the masonry the water seeped into the cracks unprotected by cement weakening and washing away the very foundations upon

Which the building stands the lava rock also soft and powdery with age is easily eroded by the elements Stern faces that 25 years ago were rich in Inspiration are today but flat protuberances so that while future Generations May gaze upon the outlines of the building the wealth of its detail

Must pass away within our lifetime viewing the Bor budur as a whole one is unfailingly impressed with the realization that the shape of the building and the arrangement of its parts have a definite symbolic significance it is not too much to affirm that this Shrine is a complete

Embodiment as one writer has said of the mAh branch of Buddhism a careful inspection demonstrates the logic of this statement and even more the borad is a miniature of the world devised by a cunning Craftsman who dared to carve the finite into the likeness of the infinite the borad is the universe in

Stone that the borad should be an embodiment of metaphysical speculations need not be considered either improbable or fantastic I as ample precedent is found among the religious structures of the Mahayana sect the cers or funeral monuments of the Tibetans with few exceptions depict by their form the divisions of the world

And the five elements into which the body is resolved by the phenomenon of death the universe of the Buddhists is divided into three regions or qualities each merging into the other all finally to mingle their Essences in the nirvanic state the Bor so accommodates itself to such classification as to convict its

Builders of such premeditation the building proper consists of three parts which may be increased to four if the broad platform surrounding the base be considered as a separate element from this platform the structure rises in force square and three circular Terraces the bell- like reliquary standing in the midst of the

Latter in Greek metaphysics the seven Terraces or platforms might well represent the Spheres of the seven sacred planets this number is increased to the ever significant nine by adding the square platform below which would correspond to the earth and the dooba above which by its shape and internal

Division might well typify the Ms of the imperion or Heaven in the Buddhist adaptation of this old idea which has come down from the first Arian Traditions the square platform constituted the region of Desire kadu itself divided into two major parts of which the lower is the

Physical Earth and the higher davala the Abode of the Divas or terrestrial Gods the circular platform forms are the region of form Radu sometimes referred to as the heaven of Brahma and consisting of 16 worlds divided into regions called spheres of contemplation the tower at the top would

Then become the region of formlessness arabu which is that nearest to Nirvana In the terminology of the western philosophers these worlds from above downwards are the Supreme sphere the superior sphere and the inferior sphere of Plato and Pythagoras also the heaven Earth and Hell of the Christian theologians they represent also the

Three major divisions of man the spiritual or essential part the intellectual or rational part and the physical or irrational part in nearly all occult tradition the same symbol is susceptible of a number of interpretations according to the aspect of the doctrine under consideration there can be little doubt

However that the three higher and circular platforms with their meditating Dias represent the Trinity or three-fold causal aspects of both the universe and man while the four square platforms below symbolize the four-fold phenomenal aspects of the universe and man it is interesting to note at this point that the life-sized sculptures figures

Seated in the niches which ornament the square platforms are looking outward possibly intimating by their position that in the lower world that of form the vision of man is objectified and his attention turned to the contemplation of externals the three Circles of Buddhas on the upper platforms signify by their

Position the more exalted state in which they exist they are all seated with their backs to the outer World facing the Dome shaped structure which is the symbolic axis of this Monument from the bells Each of which symbolizes part of a Lotus the 72 laws of light or Witnesses

Contemplate in Rapture the ever existing reality which stands in their midst a most extraordinary circumstance in connection with the Bor budur is the fact that for some unknown reason the image discovered within the central mote was never finished remaining but the shadow of a form a half visible in the

Obliterating rock some believe this to have been accidental but those better acquainted with the subtleties of Oriental occultism believe that they have discovered the reason the figure in the central tower was too high an aspect of Universal reality to be imaged in the usual way three answers to the riddle

Have been Advanced according to the first The Unfinished statue represents the recondite and inscrutable nature of Truth according to the second it represent DTI the sixth Buddha who had not yet come and whose form was therefore unapprehended for the figure is not separating itself from the stone but

Rather Fading Into Universal reality and losing thereby all physical definition in its outward State the four staircases leading up through The Terraces upon which are depicted the mysteries of incarnation the whole recapitulation of the Holy life like the four vas which issued from the four mouths of Brahma or the four

Principal yogas signify the paths by which MOA or Perfection may be attained from the four corners of the illusional state ruled over by the demon kings men in quest of Liberation and Perfection converged toward the ever sacred Mountain the Eternal Maru of which borobodur is a type like the pyramidal

Ladders of the Babylonians or the Mystic Mazes of the American Aborigines this structure is a symbolic antichamber to Eternity its steps leads upward from Earth to heaven and those who sensing the inner import of the shrine as they slowly Mount amidst the meditating Immortals find themselves actually transported into the Spheres typified by

The various Departments of the building only certain initiates are fully aware of the universal mysteries comprehended in the symbolism of the Diana Buddhas those moods of meditation which are the true elements of the universal chemistry all worlds beings and conditions are suspended in and composed of the meditations of the seven

Immortals of which five are revealed and two concealed life itself is but a mode of meditation in their niches upon the walls of buo budur the Dias reveal by their mudras that they are aspects of that one Eternal principle which descending out of its own infiniteness becomes Universal

Life The theas Who gaze outward from the Eastern walls have their hands in the posture of witnessing a sort of affirmation of reality those facing the West are in the posture of meditation those in the South signify by their pose that they are bestowing great good while those in the north are

Blessing with fearlessness above these four groups called the Buddhas of the angels are the three Circles of meditating figures in the bells the latter called the Buddhas of the Zenith and each depicted as turning the wheel of the law or giving the great instruction in the

Doang it is written that when the last of the great Buddhas shall come the universe itself will not be large enough to serve as a shrine for his relics the boru then Intimates the universal diffusion of Buddhist wisdom the sacred relics of the Buddha exoterically considered are the few bits

Of bone and Ash remaining after the sacred flame had consumed the Avatar of such classification is the supposedly sacred tooth of Candi well nigh large enough for a Mastadon esoterically the relics are practically identical with the jewels of Buddha namely the words of the master the order which he founded and the

Example of his life if preserved with proper veneration within the heart and applied with discrimination and Industry these relics incline The Devout into the way of Truth according to the sacred writings with the passing of the enlightened one the whole world wept for by the transcendency of his wisdom

Buddha was one with the Soul Urge of All Creatures he was in truth the substance of the universal desire the embodiment of the Ageless Quest for Peace and wisdom a night with the borrow bodor writes JF Shela is a night of purification when amaba offers the Lotus

Of the good law and the gift is accepted when the wonderful edifice rising to to the Star Spangled Sky unfolds Terrace after Terrace and gallery after Gallery between the domed and pinnacled walls as his flower of ecstatic meditation spreads its petals opens its heart of beauty to the fructifying touch of

Heaven when tranquil love descends in waves of contentment unspeakable satisfaction the loses its sharp bold outline and melts into boundless space a vision of fading existence in consummation of wisdom a mysterious voice proceeding from the shrine urges to search out the secret it hides the summons cannot be resisted and going up

Trusting to the murky KN mounting the steps to the first gate as in Som ulistic trance the seeker of Enlightenment discerns the path Guided by his quickened perception when the voice dies of its own sweetness The Fragrant Stillness appeasing the mind and extending promise of pity for passion and fleshly desire

The Garment of sin Left Behind surely it was the Supreme wisdom forgiving all things because it understands which inspired a human intellect to devise directed human hands to achieve in the delineation of Mercy such powerful architectural Unity sustained by such sublimely beautious ornament pondering upon this supreme

Wisdom and seeking to analyze the nature of that sense of elevation which is bestowed by the building the occultist goes out in the Afterglow to lose him himself for a little while in the Majesty of the ancient ruin as he stands gazing up at the Symphony of points and parapets he feels

Himself caught up in the swirl of a mighty mood By the Light of the soul the old lava rocks find a new Splendor and all imperfections Melt Away lost in the glory of the whole the full significance of the great architecture natural complex Dawns upon the understanding but eludes the

Dimensional limitations of the Mind the building glows throughout vibrant with the pulse of a vast motive The Terraces and platforms extend themselves until the whole universe is filled and nothing remains but a mountain of light its base supported by woven Thunderbolts while the great dagoba upon its Summit

Lifts its slender Point beyond the stars in the several Departments of this Vision are the radiant form of the illuminant all seated in the invariable posture all gazing with the same measure of repose towards the pillar of light hovering like the she’s Glory about the reliquary suddenly it seems that the

Very heavens open and from the depths of space issues forth the Flaming face of ADI Buddha the Eternal one rises from his Lotus Throne from the flower whose petals are all the worlds and descending like a blazing sun gathers his Radiance about him and seats himself within the upper chamber of the

Dagoba light superal flashed from the hallowed place the seven worlds were blinded by the radiance so that the Saints dared not gaze upon it but bowed their shaven heads to the light which extended even beyond the bounds of space then from the midst of the sanctuary from the Blazing heart of the universal

Life there shot forth seven Flames these were swirled about until each assumed the appearance of a son their Glory was but little less than that of The Sovereign flame and the seven sons of Light assumed the seven sacred postures and protiated their cause and the meditating sages Knew by an inner

Realization what had occurred but they dared not gaze upon the mystery for the glory of the world was too great for even the enlightened and the Seven Sons called unto the Deep bidding their Shadows come forth and they lighted the Shadows with their own light and the faces of the

Shadows glowed each with a different color and the Shadows became alive and bowed before the seven sons and meditated upon the mystery thus were fashioned the Dias the Buddhas of the boundless and they faced the cause and they knew the self because they received the light of the cause and were filled

With the reality of the self such is the mystery that took place upon the three circular Terraces of the Aged house now from the four circular worlds below there ascended a prayer and it arose from the creatures of the darkness whose faces could not reflect the celestial luminance the illusion out to the

Reality saying impart yourself to us that we too may be real and the Seven Dias that sat in meditation upon the rings of Truth heard the call and each one became as it were two for there issued out of him a mlike semblance of himself and it arose and descended but

The Glorious part remained in contemplation of the Eternal Light and the Shadows or the ghosts of the Dias were the super Celestial body satas and they descended to the first Square Terrace and they lighted the Terrace with their glory and the substance of the Terrace rejoiced and was full of

Light and the super Celestial bodh satas became also divided and the Lesser Shadows which departed out of them descended onto the next step to Rejoice the substance of that world and Enlighten the creatures that dwelt therein and these were the bod satas of the next order the celestial redeemers

And they in turn called to the Deep which was below them the worlds as yet unenlightened by their presence and out of these lesser worlds there arose seven holy men filled with the realization of and prepared to receive the Dharma and the Shadows of the celestial bodhisattvas entered into the seven holy

Men and these men became Buddhas and they went forth into the lowest worlds to bring the good law to every being that dwelt in the wide presence of the world and the terrestrial Buddhas and the arhats sat upon the lower steps of the mystery and Creation in its every

Part adored the light and the seven sons of Light who dwelt together in the first mystery and the light descended upon the steps which are on the four faces of existence and like four streams springing from an inexhaustible Fountain diffused itself throughout all time and space the moon arose from behind the

Great pile of half ruined masonry the Coe of the Java night was strangely peaceful after the fierce Heat Of The Day The Vision was gone only the shadow remains but it is a shadow which after all these ages Bears certain witness to the law of Life Kizmet the khif had dreamed three times

Had the same strange Vision Disturbed his Slumbers so sorely troubled was the son of the Prophet that he dispatched Riders immediately to bring to the Palace a certain holy dervish deeply versed in the mysteries of the stars and all other magical Arts that his dream might be interpreted now the astrologer was a

Most venerable man who lived in a cave on the side of a Windor cliff and beholding The Horseman Al light before his Retreat he came forth to wish them peace and make inquiry as to their mission the messenger bowed humbly before the Aged hermit saying oh most holy man my illustrious Master the

Prince of this country has been sorely afflicted by Phantom shapes that have beset his sleep and he bids me bring you to him that you may set his soul at rest and reveal the meaning of his haunting vision and so it happened that the dervish gathered up the instruments of

His art and rode in state into the city finally to stand before the Divan of the khif then spake the prince oh thou so greatly beloved of Allah that he has bestowed upon thee all knowledge of that which is passed or Is Yet To Come interpret for me my dream Thrice have I

Seen a bright star shining from the blue haze of the desert night it Rose serenely to the Zenith and from this high point its pulsing light illumined the world below then came a cloud a black mysterious mass in the midst of which glowed a flaming sword relentless

LLY the cloud obscured the light of the star and a lurid Red Shadow spread over the face of the night what strange disaster doth this evil Omen portend for I perceive it to be a most malicious one the astrologer spread forth his charts covered with strange figures in

Several colored pigments he opened great books and read them Gravely and and at last after weighty calculations he returned his gaze to the face of the prince at length he spoke oh leader of the faithful Thou Art indeed destined to an unhappy end for I

Find it written by the sages of old that he who three times sees that which thou Hast seen Shall Perish miserably at the hands of one whom he doth honor greatly and Trust implicitly furthermore by most profound calculation I perceive that this shall occur when next the moon is full oh miserable

Prince thou Hast but 20 days to live the khif bowed his head his features sorely troubled and even the flashing jewels in his turban dimmed by the evil Tidings as the dervish was about to depart the prince called after him stop you are the wisest of all men tell me

How may I avert this fate can you suggest Nothing by which I may turn the tide of Destiny and Escape so tragic a Circumstance the astrologer shook his head no more will the Stars change in their courses than will the Waters of the sea cease their EB and flow it is Kismet

Now the khif was a man of great wealth and strong temper and he swore by Allah that he would not die but would cheat even Destiny of its victim he further swore that on the day after the fall of the Moon he would be alive to quarter

This astrologer who had thus dared to bring such palpitation to his Royal heart oh hateful dervish if I die Thou Art an an honest man but if I live Thou Art in every sense a Nave he then summoned his Builders and spake thus to the Chief Architect today even this very hour Thou

Shalt take 1,000 men and they shall build me a refuge wherein even the Rays of the Stars cannot enter Thou shalt build it as a great cube of stone and the walls shall be 20 ft thick and they shall be lined upon the inside with lead

And The Refuge shall be great enough so that the air within the cube shall suffice for 24 hours there shall be but one door and when I have entered in it shall be sealed after me with stone to the thickness of the wall so that neither the powers of Heaven Nor Hell

Can follow me and no one shall be with me in this room but this holy d derish who shall bring in his instruments and a water clock so that I shall know when the Fatal moment has passed and outside the cube shall be another man with a

Similar water clock and when all danger is passed Thou shalt unblock the entrance and I will come forth and laugh at the stars and at all the ories of the heavens the Chief Architect bowed humbly answering Master it shall be done and left with great haste to execute his master’s

Bidding upon the day appointed there stood within the ample Courtyard of the palace under the very minettes of the mosque the cubicle Retreat complete in every part slaves were entering and coming forth again bearing instruments the khif himself had thoroughly inspected every workmanship that there were no cracks between the

Sheets of lead or openings in the mortar of the wall the mathematicians had computed every movement of the heavenly bodies and convinced that he was Secure in every possible way the khif and the astrologer entered the cube swinging slowly the great door closed behind them soon were heard the

Sounds of the Masons as they laid the blocks of stone behind the portal these gradually grew fainter and soon there was only the silence broken by the steady drip of the water clock well then holy dervish the khif said are we not well isolated from astral influences even Luna’s baleful influence

Can scarcely reach us here how long before the full fullness of the moon shall be complete the astrologer examined his charts in one hour Master when Yonder red ring is above the water the crisis comes clenching the hilt of his golden Scimitar the khif watched the water level fall in the

Kedra the dervish stood near his eyes closed and leaning on his forked staff as the minutes passed the tension became almost unbearable the prince moistened his dry lips with his tongue his eyes achd with the intensity of his stare not only his own life but the whole Heavenly order

Hung in the balance slowly the water fell now whispered the khif the dervish leaned forward the Moon is This Moment full before the blocked up entrance to the cube stood a table on it a set of instruments similar to those within the cube The Keeper of the Royal Observatory

A roton person Rose clumsily to his feet and raised his hand it is 2 hours since the moon was full and according to our master’s orders it is now time we should clear away the entrance that he may come forth and confound the universe with his living presence the Workman hurried forward

Stone and mortar were quickly cleared away and three unics with concerted strength swung open the great Leen door and bowed low in anticipation of the khalif’s appearance but no sound came from within the cube the grand visier pompously pushed by the slaves that he might be the first to congratulate the prince he

Stopped in amazement at one side of the cubicle compartment stood the dervish his eyes closed still leaning on his staff on the floor with a dagger in his back lay the khif amidst the wreckage of the water clock turning to the meditating dervish the grand vizier exclaimed what has

Occurred what has befallen our master the holy man replied he died at the full of the Moon as the Stars decreed the grand vizier drew his sword then wretched one he cried thou Hast killed him thou can’t not touch me replied the dervish for the prince himself decreed

That if he lived I died and if he died I had prophesized correctly and in me there was no fault holy men for centuries the government of Asia has been a Theocratic medany as Medieval Europe was overridden by begging Friars so India is impoverished by its holy men and Tibet

By its llamas even Martin Luther was forced by his order to strap on a Beggar’s purse and go from door to door soliciting arms in the name of God for the richest Church in the world this impec osity became more or less of a profession among certain classes in Merry

England able-bodied men with a disinclination for hard work cultivated a Pious mean and rolling their eyes heavenward said solicited funds for a legion of existent as well as non-existent ends begging so depleted the country’s resources that Henry VII found time amid his marital distractions to rid with one

Grand gesture the land of this nuisance when religion approves of mendicancy it does so on the presumption that those who are poor for the glory of God shall dwell in a state of poverty and humility and that their lives shall be passed in fasting and prayer and the

Generous doing of good deeds in Europe however the professional mendicant was too often plump and comfortable with a well-filled gullet and a wine cell running over smug in attitude and safely ensconced behind the fair name of the church he enjoyed the best things in life his useless existence made secure

Through the generosity of the industrious poor this old man of the sea has now ceased to be a weighty equation Among The Accidental peoples who have cast off church and clergy together to seek God individually each according to his own light in Asia the problem is

Still acute for in India holy men are numbered among the millions and their convocations such as those held periodically at alahabad are attended by tens of thousands in Tibet it has been estimated that every fourth member of the population belongs to some religious order which means in the majority of

Cases that he is not self- sustaining aside from his purely religious routine his Chief duty is to descend from the high lamaseries which overshadowed most Tibetan Villages for the purpose of collecting the religious taxes imposed upon every farmer and shopkeeper this onus of tribute has not only impoverished Tibet but weighs

Heavily upon China many of the Tibetan Buddhist colleges and monasteries have as many as 10,000 monks housed in their cell life Chambers we will not say that they are extravagantly supported for in most cases their wants are comparatively few in comparison with the wealth of the country however their maintenance is wholly

Unjustified is the Indigent monk or holy man a legitimate exponent of religious principles or more important still is he valuable enough to the world as a religious recluse to justify his support by Society the irr religionist will instantly reply in the negative the athetic is unquestionably an equation in society

The chemistry of life conspires to produce certain types who simply do not belong to the popular order of things but by virtue of their composition must live and dream and die apart from the masses however the number so destined by nature or karma is negligible in comparison with the aggregate of those

Who are exploiting the theory at the present time a Brahman pundit once told us that out of the several million holy men in India there were probably a few hundred or at most a few thousand who by virtue of their peculiar spiritual attainments were justly entitled to public support the rest were divisible

Into two classes the first consisted of sincere but misguided men who felt that their religion demanded a miserable existence as indispensable to spirituality the other class was composed of work Dodgers Beggars and thieves the true Mystic is not a liability to the community which in some cases must assist him into temporal

Matters because his ideals and Visions are to a great degree the basis of racial growth measures have been proposed both in this country and Europe for State support of genius and this unquestionably is a most commendable measure the great artist musician philosopher scientist or a aesthetician is seldom a Provident man his physical

Needs must be protected if the World At Large is to benefit from the rare qualities of his mind the world will never become bankrupt from its support of creative minds for herein lies the real wealth of the world there is a wide interval however between the protection

Of superior types and the doing out of vast sums to perpetuate chronic uselessness take for instance our present economic depression Premier musolini estimates that there are approximately 20 million wage earners out of work in Europe and America at the present time this constitutes an international crisis and nearly every individual fortunate enough

To have steady employment feels called upon to assist the unfortunate to the limit of his means this worthy motive has been exped exploited in a number of disgraceful ways the last two years have been the Golden Age of begom and professional vagrancy the sympathy aroused by the pressure of adverse circumstances

Ensures public generosity and thousands are receiving assistance daily who have neither desire nor intention to improve their present State industrious Humanity has always supported parasites and certain classes have always gained their substance by praying upon the sympathy and generosity of honest folk in this article we shall confine

Ourselves entirely to that class of holy men who lacking that genius which would warrant their maintenance by the community are still utterly sincere in their belief that their poverty and self-inflicted misfortunes improve their standing in the sight of God Oriental mendicants differ from those of the oxidant in their cultivation of

Discomfort although the Christian clergy has practiced flagellation it has never turned to the mortification of the flesh with the widespread enthusiasm found in India the underlying theory is the same in the west however there is a wider interval between the theory and the practice Christian missionaries in India

Discovered that the recital of the sufferings and death of Jesus produced but little effect upon the Asiatic mind a pied Hindu once said that the martyrdom of one Jew could scarcely be considered of cosmic import when in India there were hundreds of thousands of devout men torturing themselves to

Death inflicting upon themselves every conceivable Agony all for the glorification of of their spiritual State the sufferings of the Nazarene moreover are equaled if not surpassed by the ingenious tortures which these holy men perpetrate upon their own bodies if pain and suffering actually achieve salvation then Heaven should be filled with

Hindus a learned Brahman once sadly shook his head saying the wise know that the way to perfection is not through pain but the unenlightened cannot realize this and their reward will be measured by the sincerity of their motive pain is the prayer of India referring to the austerities

Practiced by Eastern holy men Frank G Carpenter writes their methods of torture our Legion I have seen some who have sat or Stood Still until their bodies have stiffened and they have lost the use of their muscles and Joints some hold their tightly clenched fists overhead until

The fingernails grow into the Flesh of their palms there are yogis at Benares who never sit down and others who lie on beds of iron spikes or upon masses of broken Stones this is not half the story walking along the guts steps on the back of the Ganges one can witness in the

Course of a day a pitiful array of mutilated Humanity the human pin cushion a holy man who has pierced his body with so many sticks that he resembles a porcupine another whose arms are entirely withered off leaving only bony stumps a third who hangs downwards from a specially prepared brace until he

Becomes unconscious from the rush of blood to his head a fourth who has blinded himself with Red Hot Irons a fifth who has walked with his head turned backwards until it has grown that way and he can take no food except a few drops of liquid at a

Time one cannot but ask what these men’s concept of God must be if they imagine that the all merciful father taking Delight in such sights many of these holy men are performing Penance in experation for some sin they are becoming pure by becoming useless What A peculiar Viewpoint to

Consider that one may become valuable to the deity by becoming useless to himself and a drag upon his world many Hindus worship deity in the shape of the great mother but what parent could GAE without tears at her deformed children especially if she realized that they had deformed themselves for love of

Her the only way that such practices have been Justified is the claim that they were steps to self-control and that the mendicant achieved the firmness of Will by demonstrating over the pangs of the flesh even this is scarcely a sufficient explanation for the truly enlightened have found God in Beauty in service and

In the consummation of high ideals while we honor all such voluntary sufferers for the right motive which inspires their deeds we look forward to that age when men shall worship God joyously and not miserably religion has few laws and they are simple and generous theology has innumerable laws cruel and complex

Burdened with the weight of inhibitory statutes throughout the centuries men have mistaken discomfort for virtue consider the rulings of s coloman a holy man of Ireland who ruled that any monk who did not say Amen at Grace who talked in the refectory or who coughed at the

Beginning of a Pam was to be given six lashes with the monastery whip for other offenses varying from hiccups to forgetfulness at confession he might be punished with lashes up to 200 which were to be administered lustily by some zealous cleric not long ago we heard an enthusiastic man of God bewailing the

Discontinuance of the practice of flagellation he considered horse whipping a useful method of impressing Humanity with the glory of God going so far as to intimate that the present tendency toward backsliding in religion was largely due to the discontinuance of this enlightened form of instruction the church during the Middle Ages proved

That if it whipped a man long enough he could be made to say almost anything that his tormenters desired him to in his lives of the fathers Butler describes one instance of penitential piety Peter of Alcantara who died in 1562 in order that his eyes might be

More easily kept under the government of reason and that they might not by Superfluous curiosity break in upon the interior recollection of his mind put them upon such restraint that he had been a considerable time a religious man before he knew that the church of his Monastery was

Vaulted the truth was that he had never lifted his eyes to the ceiling he lived four years in a monastery without taking notice of a tree that grew near the door RS Hardy goes on to say that this monk told St Teresa that he had lived three

Years in a house of his order without knowing any of the Friars but by their speech as he never lifted up his eyes if he did not follow the other Friars he was unable to find his way to many places that he had frequented here is a man who spent a

Lifetime looking at other men’s heels fearing that if he lifted his eyes to their faces his consciousness of the glory of God would evaporate it never occurred to him that if he would raise his face and gaze out upon the world about and into the heavens above he could behold far more

Advantageously the wonders of his creator what a strange psychology for a man to be afraid to look at life lest his God Escape life of course may be disillusioning but scarcely to that degree since Simon stylet was another notable example of suspended industry after he had worn out the top of a

Pillar in the Libyan Desert he was finally carried to his reward and his pedestal was immediately occupied by another Enthusiast who sat there longer than St Simon did even 60 ft of pillar could hardly lift s Simon Beyond contamination so he forbade any person with special emphasis upon those of the

Opposite sex to approach within 100 ft of his isolated column what did the good man fear was he afraid of others or was he afraid of himself historians do not tell us but we know that he sat there selfishly hugging Divinity to himself while his disciples sent his food up to him in

Buckets such actions indicate weakness rather than strength most men can remain in this world fighting the problems of life and retain at least a reasonable amount of virtue but even on the top of his pillar since Simon had a hard time keeping his Integrity intact if he had studied

Socrates he would have realized that spirituality does not depend upon where you are but upon what you are this brings us to the more practical problem of the moment the attitude of the modern student of philosophy and occultism towards the the responsibilities of life we have so long

Been taught the Merit of evading worldliness that the spirit of the Eternal mendicant is still within our bones nearly everyone interested in the development of his own potential Powers bewails the fact that imminent responsibilities bind him to some temporal environment there is also a survival of that pentious belief that there is

Something uncomfortable about piety very few people approach the problems of religion with a normal Viewpoint many come disillusioned with the whole Vista of Life as a lady once said to us my life has been one long Misfortune and so at last discouraged with it all I am

Turning to God the belief that deity is a sort of last Refuge is a more or less pentious belief for it is highly improbable that those who have never been able to find themselves will somehow at once discover God religion is not an escape from life

And to the few to whom it has such significance it is a blasphemy religion is a completing of life it is the realization of the sacredness of every aspect of being it is the Divinity in the part rising gloriously to a recognition of the Divinity in all it is not a matter of

Symbols nor again of words or forms but rather the natural instinct to venerate realized through intelligence and action spirituality is a realization of values and these values cannot be established except through contact with life the man who cannot be spiritual where he is and under the conditions now confronting him cannot be spiritual

Under other conditions unless he improves the quality of his own Consciousness the religion of the average person is selfishly concerned with the release of his own life from bondage to mediocrity monotony and effort and even among those who know better or should know better religion is still regarded as a justification for

The evasion of temporal responsibilities the world is filled with people seeking Enlightenment but eating the food provided for them by the unenlightened we have a tendency to allow others to perform those labors which we feel ourselves too highly evolved to undertake yet we accept and use the efforts of their labors as the

Abstract ideal of the race every individual must achieve to the position of self-sufficiency in other words he must Supply himself with that which is necessary for his count Contin there is a certain compensation in nature a philosopher who is really a philosopher has come to the realization of the

Impermanence of all material things therefore he does not need and should not desire either wealth or position his maintenance therefore is no great problem for satisfied with little he stores up his treasures where there are neither bank robberies nor gang wars but philosophers are comparatively scarce and most people desirous of heavenly

Riches are also desirous of accumulating as much as they can of this world’s Goods Buddha permitted his disciples to practice mendicancy but limited it to such a degree that the idea could not be exploited successfully for example the Buddhist monk may not ask for alms by word of or sign

But may accept it if it is given to him without any solicitation on his part if he desires to achieve to the highest state of virtue he may accept no arms other than such as are necessary for his immediate wants he has not permitted any form of accumulation he may accept

Enough rice for his meal but not enough for the next meal and he must go hungry until the innate generosity of some Pious person supplies the next next meal in this way begging became hard work and its exploitation difficult as the holy man was also the village physician and

Constantly employed in administering to the physical or metaphysical needs of the community he earned his support every itinerant Buddhist monk had a daily round not to exceed seven miles leading through Villages and hamlets he ministered to whatever needs arose in these communities enlightening or encouraging all who were troubled or

Confused he was consequently a very useful person justifying his modest needs today however religions are large Economic Institutions maintaining elaborate organizations owning valuable real estate and meeting heavily padded payrolls High altars worth half a million vestments embroidered with 22 karat gold and places of worship that

Dwarf the Palaces of kings are the order of the day all this panap supported by the thrift of the world is deemed necessary to the teaching of the Golden Rule and the Redemption of the human soul from its relapsed condition in our wanderings about we have discussed this matter with many persons particularly

Those of metaphysical inclinations especially among those who teach occultism or psychology there is the feeling that no worldly possession is too good to be conferred for such instruction in other words the public should pay well this good old theological attitude has one erous concept within it the world has been

Paying well for religion for at least 10,000 years and the best better it pays the less it gets a philosopher or spiritual teacher is not entitled to exploit the gullibility of the masses if he gives his life to the instruction of the public he is entitled to sufficient

To meet the needs of the moment but religion does not justify nor expediency sanction the great fortunes made off the beliefs of mankind this does not mean me that poverty is necessarily a virtue for if economics be taken as a gauge the highest virtue would be the intelligent

Application of wealth it simply means that holy men and students of spiritual matters have no right to consider themselves as the salt of the earth or to feel that the world treats them unjustly if it does not choose to support them in affluence religious and philosophical orders were primarily established to

Serve the spiritual needs of the race in this late day however it is too often the race that has served or even become enslaved to the monetary needs or extravagances of theological institutions since the decline of the Pagan mysteries in the early centuries of the Christian era the secret Doctrine

Has disappeared from the temples of the western world and even in Asia it has been obscured almost Beyond recog nition by the rise of disconnected and discordant Cults empty of their wisdom the sanctuaries have become blind alleys roads leading to nowhere and those who devoutly walk in one of the several

Paths reach the end only to discover that they have been cheated of the instruction and Enlightenment they have struggled so ously to obtain if there be one cause more responsible than another for the decay of religious instit ions it is the economic urge sermonizing piously upon the virtue of storing up

Heavenly treasure these organizations have gladly compromised their Celestial standing and sacrificed their Birthright in heaven for a bowl of very material pottage the shrines of the gods are most truly ornamented when adorned with the righteousness of the Believers no jewel is more precious ious than a noble life

And there is no higher altar than that of the human heart religions teach this and then put their own faith in guilt edged Securities and City bonds with the Advent of money as an equation into spiritual Affairs corrosion set in asop the great fabulist was murdered

By the priests of Deli because they were afraid that would expose the corruption that had crept into that institution the vast treasure accumulated as the result of the gifts of the faithful had turned the heads of the priests until only the rich and Powerful could obtain access to the

Sanctuary noting this fact asop remarked upon it and the attendance of the Oracle in their Panic lest he reveal their sacrilege to the world had him put out of the way in time Apollo deserted the oracular vent for the gods will be no party to the perversions of men the gods

Have turned from more than one Faith but invariably because in the first place that Faith turned from them some shortsighted person whose name is as well forgotten caused unending confusion and misunderstanding by dividing the universe into a SA acred and a profane part he conceived deity to prefer some

Parts of the world to others and also to hold equally definite opinions as to men’s labors and attitudes certain Pursuits came to be viewed as more commendable than others and those who performed these tasks gained social distinction thus it was more worthy to milk a sacred cow than

Just an ordinary cow and there was a higher reward for sweeping the steps of the temple than sweeping the steps of your own house it gradually followed that it was more desirable to live near a temple than a market and greater Merit ensued from conversing with priests than with Tradesmen these distinctions between

Some things and the rest of things were all a ghastly mistake for which Humanity has paid and must continue to pay until it realizes that there is no difference between sacred and profane objects or Pursuits other than a psychological one even this difference is an illusion that

Has no reality until thinking creates an unreal semblance of reality the real separation lies not between the various tasks of life but rather between the motives and methods by which these tasks are accomplished all constructive and creative action is sacred even as all parts of the universe are equally the

Parts and members of God the priest is no more sacred than the scrub woman and in heaven as a state of reward the charwoman may have the higher reward of the two there can be no true odor of sanctity apart from well-directed industry and consecration to the Fulfillment of

Responsibility the holy man who considers asceticism a substitute for labor must sometime discover the error of his ways when the priests of antiquity began selling salvation the mystery temples were doomed and today where anything other than Merit is accepted as a substitute for merit disaster impends let us consider the experiments

Made by men in their efforts to escape from conditions which they have been unable to master the religious community is an outstanding example Pythagoras is regarded as the originator of the idea of people coming together pulling their assets and sharing alike Pythagoras met his death most of his disciples were

Murdered and his school was burned by a disgruntled ex-member all subsequent efforts of this nature have been true to this illustrious precedent the difficulty is obvious it is possible to get away from World temporarily but it is impossible to get away from your own self even momentarily the

Story may run something like this a group of proletarians who are not doing very well in the administration of their Earthly Affairs arrive at the conclusion that this failure is the result of overs spirituality in other words they cannot stand the low vibrations of their present environment

So they go off somewhere and work up a new set of vibrations infinitely worse than those they attempted to escape from there is no Cesspool of human Intrigue in the most congested areas of our delinquent civilization where more cruelty can be devised and executed than where a group of so-called spiritually

Enlightened persons start running a small Universe of their own on some 100 acre tract people can be where they are this does not matter greatly it is what they are that counts and the centuries of religious dishonesty behind us bring to each of us such a Heritage of false

Notions that it is the most difficult thing to so live down our theology then we can really find our religion analyzing the psychological reactions of Motion Picture fans a writer once said that people attend the theaters in order to live vicariously under circumstances which they will never be able to actually realize in

This life the poor clerk watching the society drama is for a short time in a beautiful mansion with smartly dressed people projecting himself into the intrigues of the envied Rich the nobody forgets that he is a nobody and under the spell of the spinning cellular is a person of great consequence a

Certain type of religious thought produces an almost similar result listening to the smooth tonged orations of some paror Adept glial folk forget the oty of their present State and feel transcendental Powers within their reach they see themselves projecting their astral bodies and prying into each other’s private lives or as one

Occultist once said Counting the eggs in some other man’s basket they imagined themselves transformed almost instantly into the very personification of wisdom all sorrow and Misfortune vanish peace power and plenty hang as a mirage in the air and before the Mist clears away some very foolish things are usually done in

Theory we can be anything but in prac practice we are limited by our capabilities and the general level of our development it is useless to renounce the world unless with it we renounce worldliness wisdom as a state is seldom the motive which inspires the average accidental in

Occultism wisdom is too abstract we do not know what the word means nor do we know what the state of being wise actually is the the real goal for which most seek is in some way related to worldly affluence and the powers developed are visualized as being used

To prove our superiority in some test of temporal Affairs take the community idea departing from the wickedness of our commercial system 30 or 40 people make a gesture of renouncing the world which in reality they are delighted to escape from died in worldly however they have no more than formed

The community than a battle of wits begins to determine who shall run it and as a religious war is fought according to no rules the biting and scratching continues until someone forecloses the mortgage on the property and the pious are forced back into the delinquent Society of which they never ceased

Ethically to be a part the world needs holy men at the present time but by the term we mean to imply persons Sanctified to high purpose and consecrated unselfishly to the intelligent service of a suffering Humanity India views Mahatma Gandhi as such a holy man there are thousands who

Would be glad to receive the recognition that Gandhi has gained but there are few that would have the strength and courage to persevere as he to what regards as a high principle his body battered with blows several times left foot his body battered with blows several times left for dead imprisoned

For long periods and constantly exposing his frail body to hardships which would daunt the courage of the physically fit this little man has carried on through the selfishness of his purpose and and the power born of absolute conviction a Hindu scholar speaking of Mahatma Gandhi at a dinner given in

Honor of the birthday of India’s great holy man said in opening Gandhi is a real Mahatma a great Soul who has found his work in this concrete world of suffering Humanity as we have said before this world needs holy men yes and holy women not the kind that clench their hands until

Their fingernails grow through their palms or swear not to bathe until the Millennium nor again those who wear out rickety chairs listening a life away and forgetting all they hear no not even those who feel called upon to found little groups of six or eight persons and share some imaginary illumination

With them we need holy men and women to go out into life and spend the years equipping themselves to guide this country through the dark years which lie ahead to assist in the establishment of higher standards of right and wrong to amend unjust laws on our statute books

To become the patrons of broader and nobler educational ideals to Foster the cause of World Peace to Aid in the attainment of economic Justice and most of all to provide the millions of this generation with a workable livable philosophy of life this modern era is philosophically bankrupt there is nothing to bind

Society to the attainment of any end more exalted than personal selfishness there is no vision inspiring our activity we are a ship without a Roder or more correctly without a Helmsman yes we need holy men we need someone to take a firm grasp upon the great Spinning Wheel of the ship of

State we need a strong Helmsman who with a spray dashing upon his face and waves of circumstance beating down upon him will stand true and guide the Airing multitudes into a safe haven this is no time to get down on one’s knees and pray

This is the time to get up on one’s feet and work the god of hosts marches with the Working Man giving skill to his hammer and strength to his arm this is no time for those who believe they see the light to go out in the desert and

Bite their nails over the sins of men this is the time for those who have found in occultism and philosophy an inspiration to Higher Achievement to go forth into the world and work bringing to society the strength which they themselves have found only through the unselfish cooperation of each with all

Can the modern world be saved unless this end is accomplished the fall of Empire is inevitable only the wise can be unselfish only the illumined can cooperate the time has come for them to rise from their beds of spikes and take their places as practical exponents of philosophy and ethics before a world

Which like some tiny plant in a darkened corner is fading away for lack of light and Truth apollonius the Antichrist among the extraordinary personages who have enriched the ethical systems of the world the name of apollonius of Tiana stands out with exceptional luster the Delian Oracle had

Declared that he would be remembered to the end although always calumniated did the entranced pytha for see apollonius anathematized as the Antichrist simply because too many Pagan Miracles trespassed upon the infallibility preserves of the Christian clergy the anti-an father Justin Mar describes how it feels to be tossed

About upon the horns of such a dilemma how is it he asks that the talismans of appolloni have power in certain members of creation for they prevent as we see the fury of the waves and the violence of the Winds and the attacks of wild beasts and whilst our Lord’s Miracles

Are preserved in Tradition alone those of aalon are most numerous and actually manifested in present facts so as to lead astray all beholders thus we see that appolloni is accredited even by his enemies with all the supernatural Powers attributed to him by his friends the latter affirmed

His miracles to have been wrought by Divine agency while the former considered him an instrument of the Prince of Darkness who through the person of this apparently Pious man r IED the true miracles of the Nazarene and his disciples aalon was born in the capian city of tyana about ad16 and from Early

Childhood exhibited exceptional mental Powers even at 14 he has so out distance his teachers that he was sent away to complete his education at 16 he was attached to the temple of aij where he was performing remarkable Miracles by the aid of the Gods who dwelt in the temple so greater

Reputation did he acquire that whenever a man of celesia was noted hurrying along the streets it was common for the towns folk to call out and ask if he was off to see appollonia at the age of 16 he took the Pythagorean vows he had discovered the

Teachers of his day to be insufficiently informed and their method too pedantic therefore his own teacher said of him that he soared into the Pythagorean life in harmony with the old Pythagorean teachings the young tanian assumed the 5-year Silence abstained from all animal food rejected leather even for sandals

And declared that wine rendered turbid The Ether of the Soul as he grew to manhood appollonia was of most impressive and commanding appearance he was tall and of magnificent proportions with features as perfectly chiseled as those of a Greek god he never cut his hair which hung in soft ringlets upon

His shoulders and down his back and he clothed himself in white linen Robes of excellent quality so stately was his carriage and so powerful the forces of his mind that he quelled a corn Riot without speaking a word being at that time still on his vow of silence he afterwards caused

Tables to be brought to him upon which he wrote out the solution to the problem like Pythagoras appollonia traveled extensively in every part of the near East even going as far as India where he was received and welcomed by the Brahman priests as one who had been expected the monastery where he stopped

Was probably in what is now called Nepal in Isis unveiled HP blavatsky declares that the story of his travels in the far east as narrated by his constant companion damis to be also an allegorical record of his initiation into the ancient mysteries of several schools of which he was an illustrious

Adept this narrative is perpetuated in the pho Stratus a work compiled under the patronage of the empress Julia domna wife of Septimus seis at that time the entire Imperial house was concerned with the occult sciences and held aalon as little less than a God it is written of seus that he

Placed the statue of appoloni in his oratory together with those of Jesus Christ Abraham and orus and was accustomed daily to perform religious ceremonies before for them see lamus appolloni influenced the Destinies of the Roman Empire through five of its rulers with whom he came in personal contact namely Nero Vespasian Titus

Diishan and Nova he was in Rome at the time Nero issued his famous decree forbidding philosophers to remain in the city during this stormy period appolonia used extreme care never to become involved in the political intrigues which were corrupting the Imperial state in those days no one was Secure however

And TI Linus Nero private Inquisitor caused the philosopher to be arrested and thrown into prison on the charge of treason against the person of the emperor the war of wits between these these two men must have been sharp indeed for tigellinus did everything in his power to force the tanian to

Compromise himself like Jesus appollonia was faced with dangerous questions and like the Nazarene he answered them too well for the Roman State tigellinus finally hoping to forced the Pythagorean into some damaging admission asked pointedly I onius what do you think of Nero The Crafty Inquisitor waited for

The answer he knew appolloni could not honestly speak well of the Imperial deoi yet if he in any way belittled him his life would be the forfeit the answer given by appolonia was exemplary my dear tigellinus I think better of him than you do for you think

That he ought to sing and I think that he ought to remain silent at last the charges against apollonius were duly drawn up he was brought before the judicial body and his accusers came forward unrolling the scroll of the complaints upon which the detailed account of all his presumed

Treasons had been carefully noted and dishonestly padded but abalonus outwitted them all for when the SC was opened and presented to the court the words suddenly faded from view leaving it blank and the court dismissed the case for lack of charges the philosopher however decided discretion to be the better part of

Valor by departing from Rome immediately afterwards and resuming his travels among the various centers of learning in Greece and Egypt in Alexandria he met vaspian and and discussed with him the responsibilities of State later the emperor Titus sent him a message requesting the privilege of conferring with him at Tarsus the

Highest tribute ever paid appolloni was bestowed by this same Titus soon after his elevation to the throne Titus received a letter from appoloni in which he counseled moderation in the government of Rome the new emperor replied in my own name and in the name of my country I give you

Thanks and will be mindful of those things I have indeed taken Jerusalem but you aalon have captured me when nearly 80 years of age aalon returned to Rome to confront the emperor deian whom he regarded as a tyrant and unfitted in every way for so high and responsible station almost immediately

Upon his arrival in Rome aalon was thrown into prison again this time accused of being an enchanter or sorcerer while in prison it is recorded that one of his jailers asked the philosopher how long it would be before he was liberated it will be tomorrow if I depend upon the judge replied appoloni

But this very instance if I depend upon myself with these words he drew his arms through his fets without opening them and smilingly remarked you see what a great measure of Liberty I enjoy he then replaced the fets and seating himself sank into a philosophic Ry oblivious

Both of time and place the following day he appeared before the tribunal the emperor himself was present gazing with mingled fear and awe upon the Majestic person of the sage again he was questioned and each time his answers were of such lofty nature and spoken with such strength and

Character that the emperor Rose in his seat and declared that appollonia had committed no wrong and should be acquitted of every charge against him among the questions asked by the tribunal were the following abalonus why do men call you a God because answered the philosopher every man who is good is

Entitled to that appellation then another question aalon how did you forel the plague at Ephesus by living on a lighter diet than most other men replied the sage detian ordered apoloniusz expressed his regrets at not being able to remain facing the emperor he drew his cloak around him saying you can detain

My body but not my soul and I will add not even my body having uttered these words aalon vanished in a flash of light from the midst of the tribunal which Miracle he performed in the presence of several thousand witnesses an hour later he met some of his friends in the cave

Of pooli near Vesuvius at that time a full 3 days journey from Rome commenting upon the aerobatic Feats of aalon HP blaty thus explains his disappearance investigation would have shown that that his physical body having become invisible by the concentration of akassa about it he could walk off

Unperceived to some secure retreat in the neighborhood and an hour afterwards his astral form appeared at pooli to his friends and seemed to be the man himself appolloni was at Ephesus at the time of the assassination of ditian philostratus tells us that he was in one

Of the small Groves in the environs of the city discoursing upon the mysteries of nature when suddenly he stopped speaking and starting forward three or four Paces cried out in a loud voice strike the Tyrant strike it was later ascertained that domitian fell at the very instant that apollonius beholding

The act at Ephesus narrated it to his disciples after the death of ditian aalon as being of advanced age seems to have disappeared from the pages of History he sent his disciples away on one pretext or another even causing the faithful damis to depart on an errand

While thus alone he vanished from the sight of men and entering into his tomb closed the wall behind him according to others he was translated into the presence of the Gods without death apollonius of Tiana should be remembered not only as a magician but as a truly great philosopher whose life and works

Produced a profound impression upon the world of his day while in Asia he was evidently instructed in the secrets of the Oriental adepts he possessed a great mantle made of the finest wool and when he desired to project himself from one place to another or release his astral

Body he would either stand or seat himself so that both of his feet were in the middle of this mantle he would then draw the Woolen covering up over him the ceremony being accompanied by strange invocations well known to Oriental students when the mantle covered his

Head and face the soul would depart out of him and travel in distance places at his bidding so that he brought back words and descriptions as well as appeared to people in distant Parts while in India apollonius was also presented with a set of seven Signet

Rings one for each of the seven planets and their corresponding days of the week he changed his ring daily and gained great virtue and strength from wearing the stone of the proper Planet at its proper time we are also told that appollonia was not a medium but that in

Every sense of the word he was an Adept or initiate for it is known that in Antiquity mediums were not admitted into the mystery schools this is said to be the reason Socrates was not permitted to enter sacred orders appolloni as did not await the pleasure of the Demons but instantly

By his own will and purpose achieved whatever end he desired like nearly all the great ponus had a strong sense of humor and a marvelous ability to estimate human nature on meeting a glutton who seemed very proud over nothing at all he remarked why this manner of Pride when your only claim for

Notice is your chance of bursting in closing this article we cannot do better than to quote from a letter written by appolonia to the consul Valerius on the event of the loss of his son there is no death of anyone but only an appearance even as there is no birth

Of any save only in seeming the change from being to becoming seems to be birth and the change from becoming to being seems to be death but in reality no one is ever born nor does one ever die it is is simply a being visible and then invisible the former through the density

Of matter and the latter because of the subtlety of being being which is ever the same it’s only a change being motion and rest see appollonia of Tiana by GRS me the Great Pyramid Supreme among the wonders of antiquity and unequaled by the achievements of subsequent Architects and

Builders the Great Pyramid of Giza Bears mute witness to an unknown civilization that having endured its predestined span passed into the dim Oblivion of prehistoric times who were the illumined mathematicians who planned its parts and dimensions the master Craftsman who supervised its construction the cunning Workman who Tred its

Stones eloquent in its silence inspirational in its Majesty Divine in its Simplicity the Great Pyramid is indeed a a sermon in stone its awesomeness Beggars description its magnitude overwhelms the puny sensibilities of man and among the shifting sands of time it stands as a fitting emblem of Eternity

Itself the Great Pyramid is the unsolved riddle of the ages years have been devoted by eminent Scholars to the study of its many Mar s but no matter how profound these intellects have been the pyramid has proved itself to be still more profound one learned egyptologist after

Devoting the best years of his life to its study declared that a complete understanding of the pyramid’s true purpose would require a perfect knowledge of not only every Art and Science now known to mankind but also many others of which present human humanity is unaware our race has turned to the goal

Of objective attainment it is Conquering the visible tangible Universe which surrounds it and of which it is a part it is flying through the air and sing Under the Sea it is exploding electrons and projecting magnificent units of electrical energy through the invisible vistas of space it is manufacturing guns that will hurl

Tons of metal 70 to 80 miles it is reaching out into the unknown elements of nature in search of destructive forces which if discovered will jeopardize the destiny of the planet itself yet with all this knowledge man is hopelessly ignorant of himself he is ignorant of the cause which brought him

Into being the reason why he is a manifesting creature and the ultimate towards which he is is being swept with irresistible Force whereas we explore the visible Antiquity explored the invisible whereas we construct machines to do our labor they called upon the elements and with that power possessed by primitive

Peoples controlled the air the Earth the fire and the water and made servants out of the Winds what is more they accomplished all this without following that circuitous route by which modern civilization seeks to attain the same end we declare the Great Pyramid of Giza to be the imperishable Monument of

Ancient achievement a Divine Legacy from the unknown past constructed at the cost of infinite labor and infinite patience that all posterity may know the will of the Gods and the path of attainment in its measurements man May read as in a book that secret Doctrine which the first civilizations of antiquity bequeathed to

Their hears successes and assigns in view of the numerous eminent authorities who have written concerning the physical dimensions and composition of the Great Pyramid it does not seem advisable to spend much time on ground already thoroughly covered we will therefore merely touch on a few highlights of its construction and then

Pass onto a consideration of its philosophical significance while not the tallest of structures the Great Pyramid is undoubtedly the largest building in the world it has a ground area of a trifle less than 13 acres covers nearly three times as much space as the Vatican at

Rome and is over 150 ft higher than St Paul’s Cathedral the Baseline of each of its sides is over 750 ft in length and its vertical height is about 482 ft the weight of the Great Pyramid is estimated to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 5,273 1834 tons while the Earth is

Estimated at 562 73 quintilian pyramid tons it is noteworthy that the first four figures in each calculation are the same the age of the Great Pyramid has been the subject of much speculation and dispute up to recent years it would have been Stark heresy to declare a building to be

More than 7,000 years old at the utmost because science controlled by theology dared not disagree with the Orthodox findings of bigoted theological historians but as that day has passed and estimates now place the age of the Earth at over 300 million years it is possible to approach much closer to the

Probable facts than it was in the last century the prevalent idea that the Great Pyramid was built by a few thousand years BC is controverted by all the evidence at hand distinct marks of erosion are now to be seen high up on the sides of the Great Pyramid which to some

Authorities is proof that in the infinite past the waves of a great sea nearly 300 ft in depth broke against its ancient walls there is no record of any such flood in historic times even biblical historians are prone to admit that the Great Pyramid was erected

Before the Flood and that it was the dele of Noah that left the erosion marks upon its walls the Great Pyramid is at least 25,000 years old it is much more likely to be from 60,000 to 100,000 years old it stood long before the Egyptians established their post

Atlantian Empire it was the house of God one scientist after estimating with great care the intricacies of its construction bowed his head and said none but God himself could have built it it was not the work of man we affirm however that man did build it but we

Declare it was not the man that modern science advances as representative of the human race 100,000 years ago it was no panthropologie no stone Hatchet Man worked out its mathematical equations no cave dweller mixed its indestructible morar its achievements were the achievements of a race of Supermen excelling in Pursuits

Of which modern civilization is comparatively ignorant is it possible that somewhere in the dim past this Earth was peopled by a mighty race as resplendant in scientific achievement as it was profound in philosophic precept a myopic science will most likely answer absurd impossible yet the fact remains that the

Builders of the Great Pyramid were well acquainted with both the mysteries of universal Dynamics and the nature of the human soul all the wisdom possessed by the Ancients seems to have been epitomized in the structure of the Great Pyramid and he who solves its riddle must necessarily be as wise as he who

Contrived it the Great Pyramid is the perfect emblem of divinity the absolute symbol of humanity the complete type of Nature and the image of Time Eternity and existence in one simple geometrical figure constructed according to an eternal principle is set forth the secret of all things all processes all laws and all

Truth using the pyramid measurements as a basis Mr William Petrie computed the distance of the sun from the earth as 91,8 40,000 Mi which was about 3 and 1 12 million miles less than the accepted mean distance several years later the distance was recalculated by an international Gathering of astronomers

Who estimated the true mean distance to be 91,500 th000 mi in all probability the Great Pyramid measurement is more accurate than even these later findings it is therefore evident that the men who built the Great Pyramid were not only astronomers but that their skill in Computing Celestial distances was at

Least equal to our own while it is undoubtedly true that many of the pyramids were used as tombs it is quite certain that the Great Pyramid of Giza was never intended as a spal vault no mummified body was ever found in it and the sarcophagus in the king’s chamber is suspected of having

Been constructed for any one of a dozen purposes ranging from a baptismal font to a grain bin leaving the materialist to flounder in the midst of incalculable sums and endless contradictions let us examine the form and composition of the Great Pyramid in the light of the Egyptian esotericism the secret doctrine of the

Priests the Great Pyramid stands with its four faces to the four cardinal angles the entrance partway up the side is the North and so cleverly concealed that it is practically invisible from below the entrance consists of a square surmounted by a triangle thus signifying that the Earth is surmounted by Spirit

The entrance is hidden to signify that the way of light is difficult to find and narrow is the gate that leads to eternal life and none may enter except he bow his head to the inevitable the square base of the pyramid in the Mysteries signifies its sure Foundation

Upon Earth for nature is the base upon which must be raised the Divine house the structure of wisdom must have a solid foundation in the laws of nature as the word pyramid signifies light and fire it is a material edifice built in the symbolic form of a flame with its Point

Upward this point may be considered as an indicator that wisdom is above and ignorance is below the square base further represents the four elements and the sides of the four Spirits which guard the angles of the world among the ancient Egyptian the triangle or pyramid was symbolic of

Immortality for it was a point rising out of a square thus signifying the resurrection of spirit out of matter the one out of the four the five points are the number of the priest and also the secret Pythagorean emblem of man the five is the initiator the dragon slayer

He who attains to self by the destruction of the not self in substantiation of our belief that the Great Pyramid was the sacred House of the Mysteries we quote from that eminent Authority on Masonic symbolism Albert churchwood we contend that the Great Pyramid of Giza was built in Egypt as a

Monument and Lasting Memorial of this early religion on true scientific laws by divine inspiration and knowledge of the laws of the universe indeed we may look on the Great Pyramid as the first true Masonic temple in the world surpassing all others that have ever been built this thought opens up a great

Field of speculation was the Great Pyramid the true House of s om on was the architect of that house The Immortal ham abith whose name means our father chiram or the creative fire where the stones for the Great Pyramid cut by bronze SS with teeth made

Of diamonds or were they cut by means of cosmic Fire or the Shamir with which Moses cut the jewels for the breastplate of the high priest what was the Shamir the sacred stone which disintegrated anything it touched was it the great magical agent of the universe focused upon a point

Prepared according to the secrets of the Mysteries we favor the idea that the Great Pyramid was the real Solomon’s Temple we know the allegory has been sadly distorted and while to the modern Mason it may seem incredible that the Great Pyramid could be the birthplace of

His craft we would ask him to answer two questions what building greater than the pyramid has any architect or any Craftsman executed upon the face of the Earth for the administration of the 3 degrees of blue Lodge masonry what structure more fitting than the Great Pyramid could be found with its three

Appropriate Chambers and a sarcophagus ready at hand in the king’s chamber for the giving of the master Mason’s degree Egypt has always been regarded as the land of mystery of architectonics chemistry and astronomy she is looked upon as being the Cradle of Science and philosophy and while we know comparatively little concerning the

Exact nature of Egyptian culture we are continually confronted by evidence of its superiority in fact we know a great deal less about Egypt than we care to admit and being fundamentally materialistic most egyptologists have given little consideration to the religious equation the Supreme element in the history and civilization of all ancient

Nations in spite of all evidence to the contrary we shall yet discover that the Rosetta Stone is not the key to the Egyptian hieroglyphics we shall yet realize that the true meaning of the Egyptian ideographs has never been revealed we are totally ignorant of the knowledge possessed by the better minds

Of the ancient Egyptian world for a very simple reason the Egyptians like all other enlightened races divided their knowledge into two parts exoteric and esoteric the exoteric was that portion of learning revealed to the many and the esoteric that part reserved for the illumined few and never reduced to

Writing save in the form of hieroglyphics and symbols which were meaningless without that key which was the treasured possession of the initiated priest craft the Egyptian culture with which we are conversent is only the exoteric part revealed to the uneducated multitudes of the ancient empire that finer culture the real

Wisdom of the Egyptians was preserved for the elect and our world is far too gross and materialistic to comprehend the subtleties of Egyptian esotericism therefore we grope blindly amidst images and emblems which finding no meaning for them we pronounce meaningless according to the secret teachings the Great Pyramid was the tomb

Of Osiris the black god of the Nile Osirus represents a certain phase of solar energy and therefore his house or tomb is emblematic of the universe within which he is inomed and upon the cross of which he is crucified thus the Great Pyramid is not a lighthouse an observatory or a tomb but

A temple W marsham Adams calls it the house of the hidden places and such indeed it was for it represented the inner sanctuary of Egyptian wisdom or perhaps it would be more accurate to say pre- Egyptian wisdom Hermes was the Egyptian god of wisdom and letters the Divine Illuminator worshiped through the

Planet Mercury and ancient references to the effect that the pyramid was the house of Hermes emphasize and knew the fact that it was in reality the Supreme Temple of the invisible and supreme deity in all probability the Great Pyramid was the first temple of the Mysteries the first structure erected as

A repository for those secret truths which are the certain foundations of all Modern Arts and Sciences the Great Pyramid says the secret book is the perfect emblem of the microcosm or man and the microcosm is the inversion of the macrocosm the macrocosm is the universe without consisting of unnumbered stars

And planets encircled by the mighty egg of of cosmic space all that is in the macrocosm is to be found in miniature in the microcosm as man is the image of God so the Great Pyramid is the image of the universe and what is more it is scientifically correct as an image of

The universe many authors have treated of the physical marvels of the Great Pyramid but the modern world is is still so ignorant of ancient super physics that it fails to grasp the subtle import of primitive symbolism and religion we know that such structures as the Great Pyramid the creeton Labyrinth and the

Delian Oracle were erected to conceal and yet perpetuate certain definite scientific and philosophic theorems the policy of the ancient world was concealment knowledge was never revealed except through Parables and allegories facts were never directly expressed they were hinted at planets were personified as gods and goddesses

The sun was a shining faed man with flowing golden locks the Earth was the great mother her true nature concealed under veils and robes that only the illumined might remove elements were personified the universe was was an egg force was a dragon wisdom was a serpent evil was a grotesque image part

Crocodile part hog the absolute was a globe the three-fold creative power was a triangle and the four-fold universe of material substance was a square or again Spirit was a point manifestation was a line intelligence was a surface and substance was a solid thus it is evident that symbolism

Was the universal language of the Ancients we may laugh at their Curious myths and accuse them of idolatry and ignorance but we are the ones that are ignorant and superficial when we assume that the great minds of antiquity the founders of the Arts and Sciences and the patrons of learning were ignorant of

Of the true State and nature of divinity and Humanity somewhere in the dim forgotten ages primitive man still responsive to the subtle influences of Nature and still without the separating power of individual thought carved in stone or preserved as tradition and Legend a certain rudimentary knowledge he may

Have secured this knowledge by a process of natural receptivity or from some previous race that inhabited this Earth before the coming of present Humanity after the lapse of Ages this unknown people became the fabled gods who walked the Earth and talked with man in the first days of his

Existence many of the platonists believed that existence was eternal that the Universe had never been constructed and would never be dissolved that the worlds had always always been and that over the face of them swept periodic waves of force and power while modern science refutes the theory and produces

Evidence that universes came into being and go out of existence still the world is very old and humanity is very young no one knows who our progenitors were it may be true that man rose up from the marck and meire of the prehistoric f that first he appeared as mosses and

Lens leaving no record on the molten surfaces of the azoic Rocks but the true origin of life is spiritual not physical and it is also quite certain that side by side with the growing forms of men and beasts there has advanced a mysterious and secret culture whose outward expression we recognize as

Religion philosophy science and ethics and in its innermost sense as knowledge wisdom and understanding man has never been without knowledge of his origin and the purpose of his existence those Divine Powers who regulate the destiny of creation whose manifest Works bear witness to the reality but whose form no man has seen

Have always had their Covenant with men they have always been represented among Humanity by certain sages and Prophets The temples were the houses of these Gods dedicated to their worship protected from all desecration and cleansed of all evil that to these Sanctified areas in the midst of a world

Of sin and strife the gods might come and their deliver to the leaders of their tribes Nations and races those laws and mandates necessary to human survival while the world has made rapid progress in scientific lines it can claim but little religious growth in thousands of years we are still unstrung

By the battles of sectarianism we are still pushed and pulled by contending theological factions and as the Supreme proof of our spiritual ignorance we still have a number of contradictory schools of religious thoughts in other words our little Backyard World Harbors scores of little backyard Creeds it therefore has

No True Religion for it is quite evident that Divinity is a unity and therefore can only be worshiped in unity and not in diversity while it is undoubtedly necessary that there be numerous forms of religion adapted to racial limitations National attitudes and geographical environments still it is equally true

That those religious must comprehend their own fundamental unity and realize that their differences are not in essentiality but in triviality while the ignorant masses worshiped at the altars of this God or that God the wise men of antiquity were not feted by religious Prejudice but recognized in these hosts of divinities

The personified emanations and attributes of one supreme father accordingly the Greeks went forth in search of wisdom and their Quest LED them into the temples of every faith and doctrine of the world did the religion of the Greek philosopher limit him to Zeus rehea Hermes or the numerous other

Deities whose marble images sat in the Magnificent temples Rising on the brow of the Acropolis assuredly not the Greek initiates were received into the mysteries of Egypt Persia Cala Babylonia Phoenicia and India returning home again they were not considered as Heretics false to their own Gods but as illumined

And venerable sages almost worthy of worship the Greeks esteemed the Excellence of Brahman thought and likewise the brahmans knew that the calans and Phoenicians were not unlearned in natural law they exchanged freely with each other the knowledge they possessed for Brahma was but the name of a nameless

Principle and if the Greeks wished to call their deity Uranus Kronos or Zeus What mattered it it was the principle not the name that was worshiped it was the wisdom not the terminology that was worthy of study so among the initiates of antiquity there prevailed a great broadness and depth wellfully lacking in

The worldly wise men of today in certain Sanctified localities were erected temples not to this cult or to that Creed but to the world mystery religion the one faith of mankind the all inclusive doctrine that sometime again must be recognized as the dominating religious Institution of the world from

The East the West the North and the South came the Learned of all Nations seeking acceptance into these sacred houses which stood as gateways between the mysteries of visible nature and the mysteries of the causal Universe the pyramid was such a sacred edifice dedicated to the God Hermes the

Personification of universal wisdom to gain admission there a man need not be of Egyptian blood blood nor of any particular race or Creed there were but two requisites he must be clean in heart mind and body and he must desire wisdom with a desire stronger than that for

Life itself so from every part of the ancient world Seekers after the truth came to the house of the Hidden Plains to learn of God and nature and to discover that Arcane Doctrine which may be revealed only to those who have passed successfully the tests and ordeals constituting the initiation rituals of the

Mysteries we have said that the great mind is the symbol of the world it is also the symbol of material existence for physical life is a series of incidents taking place in certain environments and largely influenced by the environments in which they occur thus it is evident that the various

Chambers and parts of the Great Pyramid signify esoteric Al the divisions and avenues of life as the creton Labyrinth contained within it the minor or Bullman whose name in The Secret Language of the Mysteries means the Beast mind and which devoured each year the quota of youths and maidens

Exact exacted by it as a tribute so Earthly life is a winding Labyrinth of Mystic passageways and chambers within which dwells the minor toric beasts Temptation sorrow suffering and death recall the story of Dante’s descent Into The Inferno or the wanderings of anus through the underworld under the guidance of the Kaman

Cil Hades the underworld of the Greeks and Egyptians is not as generally supposed the sphere of the Dead in reality Hades is the material physical World in which we live our material physical lives though we believe ourselves to be alive we but dwell in the Underworld of the Greeks for its

Torturous Subterranean passageways symbolize that span of Earthly existence stretching from the Cradle to the Grave according to the Ancients there are two gates two Mighty doors one leading into the house of life and the other leading out man enters at the Gate of cancer the ancient symbol of the world mother

And the emblem of birth after wandering his appointed span among the hollows and glooms of Hades or The Inferno he passes into the heaven of the Gods through the celestial gate of Capricorn by the side of which stands Saturn the reaper symbolic of time and age thus the two gates of the underworld

Are respectively the womb which leads in and and the tomb which leads out in the Underworld anus and Dante beheld the Sorrows of the Lost Souls the agony of the Damned and the curses of sin lust and degeneracy according to the Mysteries these are the self-generated sufferings which man must endure because

He permits himself to be controlled by his own lower nature all this Inferno is a dream and an illusion like the Buddhist wheel to which man clings although he would be free if his mind could but let go Hades is therefore the sphere in which those creatures dwell

Who are under the domination of the senses their Agony is the agony of hopeless desire useless selfishness and the sorrow which results from the vain struggle after a mirage Hades is the dwelling place of those who have never discovered themselves who have never realized reality who have never attained

Self-consciousness for when man finds himself he rolls away the stone of his sepher and ascends from the Realms of death the word death is a misnomer as we generally use it those are not dead who have laid aside this Mortal coil they really are dead who do not know

Themselves death is ignorance for those who are ignorant are buried in the cold stone coffin of their own limitations knowing nothing appreciating nothing realizing nothing achieving nothing the Mindless have never lived life is not merely animated existence life is thought life is achievement life is appreciation life is recognition life is

Realization life is aspiration and most of all life is understanding to those those who understand life there can be no death to those who do not understand the purpose of our SoJO here there can be no life the Mysteries taught that there are two kinds of men those who are

Awake and those who are asleep so according to the Mysteries the ignorant lie sleeping sleeping through all eternity sleeping as worlds are made Sleeping as worlds perish again sleeping as nations rise sleeping as Empires fall surrounded by infinite opportunity and part of a plan based upon infinite

Growth those who are not initiated into the mystery of reality sleep in their narrow coffins of egotism selfishness and unawareness through all the eternities of time and being those who are awake live in a world of infinite light infinite wisdom infinite Beauty infinite opportunity and infinite progress to such all things are

Good to such There Is No Death and gradually they ascend that ladder of stars leading to the foot stol of divinity itself to these awakened ones the universe’s home and the myriads of stars and heavenly bodies are Kindred hosts of celestial beings all the world is a laboratory of

Experimentation every stick and stone preaches a sermon every living thing teaches a lesson but to the sleeping ones the world is a cold and dismal place every man is an enemy every plant is poisonous or thorny every Beast snaps and howls every stone is sharp every problem is a disaster always the clouds

Obscure the face of the sun and the Heavenly lights are darkened life itself is a futile struggle against the inevitable and the grave its closing episode immortality is not the perpetuation of the body it is an innate realization of the perpetuity of spirit once man gains consciousness of

Self he can never lose it once he has learned to live he cannot die though his form may change life is the realization of life and death is the lack of that realization could Plato initiated into the nothingness of death ever die could Socrates ever cease to be who knew that

By drinking the hemlock he was but liberating himself from the bonds and limitations of a world which could not understand he realized that the fleshy house was not his real self but that he changed his body as he changed his garments having arrived at the realization of Truth he was

Immortal but what is truth whence comes the Power which when it is established in the soul of man answers all things solves all things Reveals All Things and supplies all things what is that Indescribable Elixir which when poured into the human soul makes of the

Weakling a hero of the poor man one of indescribable wealth of the ignorant a divinely illumined sage and of a man a God we hear much of Truth it is a word on Every Man’s Tongue but in few men’s Hearts can it be revealed by one to another is it tangible intellectual

Reality or is it an Indescribable recognition of the relationship between the individual self and the universal self what is this mysterious Doctrine which lifts a man from the ranks of the mediocre and Carries him to the very foot stol of divinity what is it that makes the Marty

Die with a smile upon his lips and with blessings for his executioners what is it that inspires the artist to paint pictures which illumin the world what is it that sounds as soft music in the ears of the Great composer what is it that moves the pen

Of the author that he may write books which will live forever in the hearts and souls of humanity the symbol of that great power is the crooks anat the cross of Life The Golden Key which unlocks the mysteries of self that golden key which all too often becomes a cross for the

Crucifixion of the illuminant and yet those who have this golden key smile at death laugh at torture and retiring into the sanctuary of themselves are sufficient for all their needs this great and mysterious power this power of divinely revealed truth is what man gained when he was accepted into the

House of the hidden places for it is said that the Mysteries either found a good man or made one and though he started upon the road a scoffer he ended amazed and silenced true religion is not a mass of idol mamies contentions and debates it

Is not a series of codes to be accepted in spite of better judgment it is not an institution obeying the dictates of God by damning unbaptized infants and burying its elect in Hallowed Ground these things are the shaff that that shall be tossed to the winds these are the false doctrines meaningless and

Useless serving only as hindrances in the search for truth true religion is that institution established by Antiquity for the purpose of so unfolding the heart and mind and hand of man that he may gradually grow into that Divine realization which confers immortality the real purpose of religion is to inspire into activity and

Objective existence that subjective power of understanding which lies latent in the hearts and souls of unilluminated humanity and as The Seekers after truth came from all parts of the ancient world they beheld the mighty pyramid Rising before them as a looming miracle in stone a glorious house man’s Supreme offering to that

Definition Divinity that gives him the power of recognition the Great Pyramid was built as an imperishable Monument to the Divinity which lies buried in humanity it is the tombstone of God lying dead in nature awaiting the day of Resurrection it marks the grave of the

Builder it is the sprig of Acasia and he who entered its ancient portal was consecrated to the task of raising the dead God to life again in himself there is a God sleeping in the soul of every man this sleeping God is his own Divinity a spark of universal

Divinity imprisoned in a sarcophagus not only of material clay but the clay of Earthly thoughts Earthly desires and wormlike attributes here in the The House of the hidden places man was instructed how to awaken the sleeping God how to summon into manifestation those latent potentialities which when trained and unfolded produce the perfected

Man the unfolding of man’s spiritual nature is as much an exact science as astronomy medicine or jurisprudence it is not a haphazard procedure based upon a non too certain Faith the secret process whereby the divine nature of man may be resurrected and enthroned as the ruler of the human

Life this is the secret science this is the Divine Doctrine this is the Supreme Arcana of all ages and of All Peoples it is to this end that all religions have been established and out of religion have come science philosophy logic and reason as methods whereby this Divine Purpose might be

Attained religion therefore represents the Tree of Life the Garden of Eden is the house of the Mysteries in the midst of which grows this tree and knowledge and understanding are the fruit of the tree and he who eats of that fruit shall be a god having eternal life but lest

This fruit be stolen lest the foolish attemp to steal the prize belonging to the wise the Supreme mystery is concealed under the emblems and symbols meaningless to the uninitiated for being the most priceless of all human possessions truth is guarded more sedulously than any other secret what is there in the world that

Is is equal what more can man possess than understanding all other things are impermanent but understanding endures all other things may be lost or destroyed but understanding belongs forever to him who once possesses it through the Mystic passageways and Chambers of the Great Pyramid therefore passed the illuminant of antiquity as

Men they entered its portal as gods they came forth again it was the place of the second birth the womb of the Mysteries and wisdom dwelt in it as God dwells in the heart of man somewhere in the depths of its recesses there resided an unknown being who was called the initiator or

The illustrious one robed in blue and gold and bearing in his hand the Sevenfold key of Eternity this was the lion-faced hierophant the Ancient of Days the Holy One the master of Masters who never never left the house of God and whom no man ever saw save he who had passed

Through the gates of preparation and purification it was in these chambers that Plato he of the broad brow came face to face with the wisdom of the ages personified in the master of the secret house but what does this mean to the material scientist what does this solve

For the geologist who with his little Hammer chips at the casing stones and tries to solve the problem of all ages with a microscope and a pesle what does this mean to the biblical historian whose brows are knit over the problem of who built the world’s great structure long before Adam

And Eve must have been even remote conceptions in Jehovah’s mind or what does it mean to the Theologian Who Dares not pear over the edge of the King James Bible for fear of endangering his eternal salvation only minds trained in the free range of philosophic thinking uncurbed

By Creed or Dogma unfettered by the bonds of theology or the limitations of Science and whose God is a non sectarian deity can face the problem without prejudice and appreciate the magnitude of True Religion as herein revealed who was the master of the Hidden house whose many rooms signified the world’s

Ins space whom none might behold save those who had been born again he knew the secret of the pyramid but he has Departed the way of the wise and the house is empty the hymns of Praise no longer echo in muffled tones through the chambers the neopit no

Longer passes through the elements and wonders among the Seven Stars the candidate no longer receives the Word of Life from the lips of the Eternal one nothing remains but the shell the outer symbol of the inner truth and Men call the house of God a tomb the Great Pyramid is not the only

House of God worthy of that appalation eager to receive this Divine Boon the candidates accompanied by the silent voice the unknown Watcher climbed the ancient steps which must have originally led up to the entrance of the Great Pyramid what lay within he did not know whether he would ever come out again he

Did not know he only realized that if he failed to meet the requirements of the Mysteries he would forever vanish from the sight of men but within that Mighty pyramid of stone gleaming in the Egyptian sun he knew there dwelt a sacred and Sanctified one The Keeper of

The royal secret he was resolved to reach that one and secure that secret or die in the attempt the time of his trial had come his previous life his Devotion to study his sincerity of motive his cleanliness of heart all these had been thoroughly established as he approached

The tiny gate the solid wall before him parted a great stone door hung on in invisible hinges of granite swung open before him and he passed into the darkness of the secret house the tests began surrounded by the Gloom and cold of the Sacred place he passed through in

Succession the chambers and passageways which typified all the forms and experiences of mortal existence thus the labors of a lifetime were recapitulated in a few hours in the Great Pyramid Mysteries strange creatures confronted him Temptations were ever about him but at last his soul ascended as a bird up

The chimney like passageway leading to the place of light he passed through The Dwelling Places of the spirits of the Gods the Earth Shook and Thunders r humbled about him at last the grand staircase of the seven breaths of the Seven Stars was reached and far above in the still

Unexplored Pinnacle of the building was the dwelling place of the secret God the unknown one whose name could not be spoken whose nature could not be conceived and whose thoughts could not be interpreted the details of the ceremonials are entirely a matter of speculation for nothing is actually known concerning

Them save to a few and they are not permitted to speak but as far as can be ascertained the king’s chamber was the scene of the great climax of the initiatory drama here crucified upon the St Andrew’s cross the candidate was suspended like the solar God upon his

Cross of the equinoxes and the solstices after the solar cruci fiction had been performed the candidate was laid in the great Stone coffin and for 3 Days his Spirit freed from its mortal coil wandered at the gateways of Eternity his car as a bird flew through the spiritual spheres of space he passed

Upward through the seven Gates and stood before the mighty Throne of the Imperium he discovered that all the universe was life all the universe was progress all the universe was eternal growth he also realized himself to be an integral part of this eternal plan that

No more could he cease to be than the sun and the moon and the stars could cease to be he conversed with the Immortals he was then brought into the blinding presence of the Living Word and then realizing that his body was a house which he could slip out of and returned

To without death he achieved actual immortality it is probable that peculiar atmospheric conditions the temperature of the king’s chamber and the dull cold of the coffin formed an important Link in the chain of circumstances which permitted the consciousness of the neopit to escape from his body and come

Into the presence of the great Illuminator at the end of 3 days he returned to himself again and having thus personally and actually experienced the great mystery he was indeed an initiate one who beheld and one to whom religion had fulfilled her Duty by bringing him into the light of God the

New initiate wearing the Insignia and symbol of his accomplishment was now brought into the presence of the great Illuminator the master of the secret house he beheld the August patriarch whom no eyes ever saw save those who had passed through the mystery of the philosophic death and who had been born

Again out of time into eternity mystically there are two births in physical birth man is born from eternity into time and through the span of his Earthly struggle battles desperately against inevitable conquest by time in the Mysteries there is the philosophic death and the second birth

Out of time back again into eternity and the new initiate no longer struggles against the corroding influences of time but dwells in the perfect realization that past and future are gone and that in the Mysteries there is but one time and that of infinite duration eternally posited in the ever present now

By this Sage Illuminator the master of the secret house the technique of the Mysteries was unfolded the power to know his Guardian Spirit was revealed to the new initiate the method of disentangling his material body from his Divine vehicle was explained and to consumate the great work the Divine name the secret and

Unutterable designation of the Supreme deity by the very knowledge of which man and his God are consciously one was solemly revealed with the giving of the name the new initiate was himself a pyramid within the chambers of whose Soul numberless other human beings might also receive Enlightenment having

Achieved the great work having accepted the heropants of the secret house as his spiritual father the one who had given him the light which is the life of men and having made the final offering his own life to the service of the secret house the initiate was ushered forth

Again into the glare of the Desert Sun when he entered he had gazed up at the mystery of the great Stone pyramid and now he gazed again but no longer at a mystery he beheld a great stream of Light which descended from the heavens upon the pyramid he saw it break up into

Numerous paths and coming down the walls in all directions diverged like the branches of a tree he realized that he himself was a branch he was actually a fruit of the pyramidal tree so Pythagoras likee he took the three seeds of the tree which was within the fruit

Of his own soul and going forth he planted them and another tree grew up from the seeds which tree also bore the golden fruit of life and all who partook of it lived so we still chip at the walls of the pyramid filled with wonder why men

Should have built such a structure and what great urge inspired the Herculean labor we hear men say it is the most perfect building in the world that it is the source of weights and measures that it was the original know as Ark that it is the origin of languages and alphabets

That it is the origin of the scales of temperature and humidity that it is the only structure upon the face of the Earth that actually squares the circle and that it stands as the absolute dividing line between the land and water surfaces of the earth we wonder at all

These things but if we really understood the purpose for which this Mighty House was built we would wonder still more or more likely we would scoff for it seems incredible to this generation that there was ever a time when men knew more than men know now though the modern world may know a

Million Secrets the ancient world knew one and that one was greater than the million for the million Secrets breed death disaster sorrow selfish fishness lust and avarice but the one confers life light and Truth the time will come when the secret wisdom shall again be the dominating religious and philosophical urge of the

World the day is at hand when the Doom of Dogma shall be sounded the great theological Tower of Babel which its confusion of tongues was built with bricks of mud and the mortar of slime out of the cold ashes of lifeless Creeds however shall rise Phoenix likee the ancient

Mysteries no other institution so completely satisfied the religious needs of humanity for since the destruction of the Mysteries there has never been a religious edifice wherein Plato could have worshiped the Dying God shall rise again the secret room in the house of the hidden places shall be rediscovered the pyramid shall yet stand

As the ideal emblem of solidarity aspiration inspiration resurrection and regeneration as the passing Sands of Time bury civilizations beneath their weight the pyramid shall remain as the visible Covenant between that Eternal wisdom and the world the time May yet come when the chance of the illumined shall be heard

Again in its ancient passageways and the master of the Hidden house await in the silent place for the coming of the Seeker after that spiritual truth which the modern world needs so badly and of which it knows so little in an ancient fragment accredited to Hermes but by some supposed to have

Been written by appus is a remarkable prophecy concerning the future of Egypt Hermes is the speaker and aspius the one addressed the work from which this extract is taken is called the Asian dialogue which has never been completely translated into English are you ignorant oh aspius that

Egypt is the image of heaven or which is more true a translation and Descent of everything which is governed an exercised in heaven and if it may be said our land is truly the Temple of the whole world nevertheless because it becomes wise men to forn know all things it is not lawful

That you should be ignorant that the time will come when it may seem that the Egyptians have in vain with a Pious mind and sedulous religion paid attention to Divinity and all their holy veneration shall become void and of no effect for Divinity shall return back to Heaven

Egypt shall be Forsaken and the land which was the seat of divinity shall be destitute of religion and deprived of the presence of the Gods for when strangers shall possess and fill this region and land there shall not only be a neglect of religion but which is more

Miserable there shall be laws enacted against religion piety and divine worship they shall be prohibited and punishments shall be inflicted on their voies then this Most Holy Land the seat of places consecrated to Divinity and of temples shall be full of seers and dead bodies oh Egypt Egypt fables alone shall

Remain of thy religion and these such as will be incredible to posterity and words alone shall be left engraved in Stones narrating thy Pious Deeds the syian also or Indian or some other similar Nations shall inherit Egypt for Divinity shall return to Heaven all its inhabitants shall die and thus Egypt

Bereft both of God and man shall be deserted I call on thee oh most holy River and predict to thee future events Thou shalt burst forth with a torrent of blood full even to thy Banks and thy Divine Waters shall not only be polluted with blood but the land shall be

Inundated with it and the number of the Dead shall exceed that of the living He likewise who survives shall only be his language be known to be an Egyptian but by his deeds he will appear to be a stranger why do You Weep oh aspius Egypt shall experience more ample

And much worse evils than these though she was once holy and the greatest lover of the Gods on the Earth by the desert of her religion and she who was alone the reductor of sanctity and the Mistress of piety will be an example of the greatest cruelty then also through the weariness

Of men the world will not appear to be an admirable and adorable thing this whole good good a better than which as an object of perception there neither is nor was nor will be will be in danger and will be Grievous to men hence this whole world will be despised and will

Not be beloved though it is the immutable work of God a glorious fabric a good compounded with multiform variety of images a machine of the will of God who in his work gave his suffering without envy that all things should be one it is also a multiform collected

Heap capable of being venerated praised and loved by those that behold it for Darkness shall be preferred to light and Death Shall be judged to be more useful than life no one shall look up to heaven the religious man shall be accounted insane the irreligious shall be thought

Wise the Furious Brave and the worst of men shall be considered a good man for the soul and all things about it by which it is either naturally Immortal or conceives that it shall attain to immortality conformably to what I have explained to you shall not only be the

Subject of laughter but shall be considered as vanity believe me likewise that a capital punishment shall be appointed for him who applies himself to the religion of intellect new statutes and new laws shall be established and nothing religious or which is worthy of heaven or Celestial concerns shall be

Heard or believed by the mind there will be a lamentable departure of the Gods from men noxious angels will alone remain who being mingled with human nature will violently impel the miserable men of that time to war to rape kind to fraud and to everything contrary to the nature of the Soul then

The Earth shall be in a pronatural state the sea shall not be sailed in nor shall the heavens Accord with the course of the Stars nor the course of the Stars continue in the heavens every Divine voice shall be dumb by a necessary silence the fruits of the Earth shall be

Corrupted nor shall the Earth be prolific and the air air itself shall languish with its sorrowful torpor these events and such an old age of the world as this shall take place such irreligion in Orin and unreasonableness of all good when all these things shall happen oh as

Lepus then that Lord and father the God who is first in power and the one governor of the world looking into the maners and voluntary Deeds of men and by his will which is the benignity of God resisting vices and recalling the error arising from the corruption of all

Things washing away likewise all malignity by a deluge or consuming it by fire or bringing it to an end by disease and pestilence dispersed in different places will recall the world to its ancient form in order that that the world itself may appear to be an adorable and admirable production and

God the fabricator and restorer of so great a work may be celebrated by all that shall then exist with frequent solemn praises and benedictions this concludes Phoenix by Manley P hall 1931

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