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Evolution of Immortality
BY
ROSICRUCI^E
Author of " The Rosy Cross," "Principles of Nature and of Life," etc.
We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it. — Phillips Brooks.
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TO THE
QUEEN OF THE ROSY CROSS,
"SHE WHO IS NAMELESS,"
Whose Symbol is O — the Mystic Guardian of the "SACRED SEVEN,1'
ARE THE FOLLOWING PAGES MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY
THE AUTHOR.
PREFACE.
The following pages have been written primarily for the benefit of the free-thinking, fearless members of the Rosy Cross, who despise the world's way of hiring its thinking done for it ; and secondly, for those who would think for themselves if the impetus to do so were once given. As for the great mass of non-thinking cowards who form the debris of mankind, out of which comes the bloody work of war, the festering crimes, and the diseases of the present age — for them there is no present hope for immortality.
There are good and noble souls who, still matter-bound, will claim that I am " dancing in the air," which opinion I shall receive as a compliment, since he who can dance in air is dancing in spirit, and is nearer to freedom than they who, tree-like, are rooted in the solid earth.
To such I commend the consideration of the soul as a seed enveloped in matter, the fruit of which is immortality.
We have not eaten freely of this fruit because the way to the tree of life has been, and is still, guarded by the "flaming sword " of fear, which sends forth forked tongues of the flame of divine wrath from every conventicle, church, mosque, and cathedral throughout the whole wide world.
In much love,
THE AUTHOR.
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