CHAPTER XII.

Conclusion.
The creative power of man is due to the sexual nature, from whence his being is derived. Here, behind the Veil of the Temple, from whose altars the incense of virility rises, we enter in silence and secrecy the glorious presence of Creative Power. Here the antagonisms of sex cease, and souls merge in the unity of creati\ e bliss. Crea- tive of what ? Of many things, — of all things. Of much of which the creator soon afterwards be- comes sorely ashamed, — for it is an erroneous idea that the sex nature exists only for the propagation of the species. God is not limited to the creation of his own kind, or such beings only as bear his like- ness ; neither is man.
Whence come the loathsome diseases which afflict mankind, and the crimes that spring from sexual abuses ; the tyranny of the stronger positive over the weaker negative, the brutal supremacy of man over woman ? They are as much the crea- tion of virile power as the child which springs from the loins of man to gestate in the womb of woman.
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piration, and all the graces attendant on friend- ship and love. The energy of the soul pours through the sex nature, and the volume of energy is in proportion to the capacity of the nature through which it flows, being drawn from the limitless ocean of energy with which the soul is connected.
The intellect plays an important part in Regen- eration. An idiot can not be regenerated, neither can an animal, because they are without the power of projection of spirit. Learn to use the spirit, for it will do the bidding of the potent if they know how to command it. The spirit of a person will mold and fashion whatever he or she may will The magic which Jacob worked with his father-in- law's cattle, was the polarizing of Spirit by peel- ing the rods he placed in the watering troughs of the cattle. If he had intrusted that part of the business to another, there would have been no re- sults, for it was not the peeled rod which did the work, but Jacob's spirit, which, in obedience to his will, enveloped the rods, and by its potent en- ergy influenced the passive cattle.
Prayers not winged with spirit are the forever unanswered prayers. Thought alone does not heal the sick, or work miraculous changes in any condition. It is only the chariot in which spirit goes forth to do the bidding of the will potent to charge it with the necessary power.
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Anger and disgust burden the thought with poisonous emanations, which affect not alone the one toward whom they are directed, but the per- son whose spirit is charged with them. So the energy which is forced from the sex nature to feed the passions of hatred, jealousy, envy, fear, covetousness, and kindred evils are destructive of health and life.^
Human nature is above all other forms of nature because it is free to create or to destroy. As God, being All that is, must make out of his sub- stance, all things that are, so man being in his image must create out of himself, — must work within himself, fashioning his substance into pat- terns of his own choosing. If he desires Immor- tality he must fashion himself into an Immortal.
The legend of the Fall of i\Ian, rightly inter- preted, is the descent of the sexual nature to the plane of division which is the plane of propaga- tion. In propagation man's spirit divides, but does not lose connection with the Infinite Spirit ; but in Regeneration the creative energy must tend upward from the propagative plane, instead of downward to a plane below it. Propagation is a great creative plane dividing ''the above from the below." Above is Creation without Division, the soul becoming greater and greater by gradual
1 See the Temple of The Rosy Cross, p. 215, for the definition of Spirit.
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absorption of the Infinite Spirit ; while below that plane the division of spirit continues until man divides himself into the vilest passions and vices, scattering himself — for he is that which he cre- ates — into all the lusts of propagation. He has created hell here and now, filled with care, anxiety, toil, and the baleful progeny of competition, greed, and war.
Do not misunderstand ; Man is now on the propagative plane and the law of being requires his full use of himself in every attribute and func- tion, but to the end that he shall rise into the heavens instead of sinking into the hells. Let him see to it that the blossoming spirit sends its fragrance upward instead of downward, for in the Spirit he knoivs that another use can be made of creative energy than that of propagating the species.
The right use of the sex activities attracts the energy which brings peace, pleasure, and happi- ness. In the course of time these activities will cease to be expressed physically, but the attractive power will remain, and the energy so attracted will serve to hold together the Spirit-body ges- tating within. The disuse of any organ of the body, or faculty of the mind, dismembers and maimiS that spirit-body, and therefore has no place in the work of Regeneration. It is true that Jesus said : " If thine eye offend thee, pluck it
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out ; " and it may be that some faculty of mind, or body, may be so degraded, so utterly ruined that the surgeon's knife is the only resource, but ''that body which shall be" will carry through the ages of eternity the distinguishing mark of the lost faculty — the buried talent. Any effort toward improvement is laudable ; but destruction is not improvement when it entails a blemish on the fair work of God.
Potent sexuality is not sensuality ; the one creates, the other destroys. Out of the former blossoms the deepest love and the highest respect of man for woman, and the profoundest tenderness of woman for man, while the latter breeds only monsters of the slime. We have here the antithe- sis found throughout nature of right use and abuse. Because the power of love in fullest recognition and realization tends ever to the highest harmony ; its misuse plunges the soul into the depths.
Celibacy is a war against nature and the race ; a sure way to decrease power rather than to add to it. Power is not in excitement, but in quiet calm. To war with the functions of nature is to be involved in turmoil and unrest until the nature is permanently maimed. Excitability in any form is an evidence of weakness. There is more power in the still sunshine than in all the tornadoes that ever swept over the earth.
The soul that has passed diligently and patiently
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through this training-school of God — learning the lessons, performing the duties, passing from grade to grade, growing naturally from plane to plane — is already mounting upward from the tasks, toils, and pleasures of Generation into the purer air, freer activities, and sublimer consciousness of Regeneration.
ADDENDA
[Readers responsive to the teaching set forth in this volume will be interested in the followfng Rosicrucian Manifesto which appeared originally in The Temple for July, 1897, and is here reprinted by permission.]
THE ROSY CROSS
The origin of the Rosy Cross is known only to the oldest initiates of the order. Its symbols are as ancient as the Egyptian Mysteries and its principles underlie all religions, ancient and modern. In modern times the names of Chris- tian Rosenkrutz, Robert Fludd and Francis Bacon have figured prominently in its literature ; but his- torically, there are few exoteric landmarks of the Order.
Rosicruciae is spiritual, not material ; a Fra- ternity, rather than an Order. Its members are gathered from the East and the West, from among the lofty and the lowly, the learned and the unlearned, wherever there are free souls, and sympathetic and aspiring natures. It embraces
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all ages, races, and climes, and reaches from the visible far into invisible realms of being. Silence, secrecy, and unpretending good works are its char- acteristics, and one member may pass his life next door to another and neither be aware of the bond between them miless some stress of need draw the curtain aside. The law of Silence is particu- larly emphasized ; obedience to the injunction to ''enter into the closet and shut the door" being imperative on all who would have access to the sources of power.
Each age calls for restatements of truth, spe- cially adapted to its understanding and use, and the present age is no exception. That which was hidden from the ignorant and vicious under sym- bols and figures in the past is emerging from its outgrown shell so that he who runs may read. The veil of Isis has become a misty cloud, des- tined to disappear in the broader light of the coming century, and while the Rosy Cross has its lodges, passwords, and signs, these external forms are regarded with indifference by the genuine Rosicrucian, who is aware that he can become a complete epitome of the Order only through de- velopment of its principles within himself.
While the Rosy Cross has no creeds or dogmas to which the initiate must subscribe, there are cer- tain principles which all true Rosicrucians accept. Among them is belief in the impartial Fatherhood
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of God and the universal Brotherhood of Man, thus recognizing the Unity of Spirit in all mani- festations of Life.
Reincarnation is generally accepted as a truth, and salvation is the freedom of the soul from suc- cessive embodiments in earthy forms, wherein pain and pleasure alternate ; where the glow of genius is dimmed by the darkened understanding of age, and the flame of passion is quenched by the chill of disease and death.
Humanity desires happiness, but none ever fully attains it, because it is sought in individual condi- tions and possessions, while it can be gained only through the uplifting of all souls everywhere. Life is homogeneous, and perfect rest will come to the individual soul only when the soul of the race is at rest. Therefore, whatever makes for the kingdom of heaven among men is the way to happiness for the individual. Men and women are born free and equal, but each one comes im- mediately into conditions destructive of freedom and equality, — conditions which man himself has created in the evolutionary processes of thought and life. He binds himself with creeds, forms, and codes of action which divide man from man, create the iron bondage of caste, and limit free- dom of thought by fear.
The recognition of universal brotherhood, and of the truth that all are entitled to equal rights
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and privileges in the house of the Common Father and Mother is an important step in the path the soul must travel toward the perfected life.
The cult of the Rosy Cross embraces the cul- ture of the whole man, and this is carried on through vibrations set up in the emotional or soul nature by the Will. These vibrations exalt and expand the energies of the soul, and this culture is the zvork of salvation, which is not freedom from consequences, but deliverance from evil de- sires and tendencies. That which is recorded cannot be erased, but a new record may be made which will cast the old into the limbo of forgotten things.
The past belongs to God, with all its failures and sins ; but the future is man's to mold and fashion as he will, for himself and for the race.
Vibrations may be indefinitely transferred by oral or mental suggestion, and the instructed soul consciously arouses, excites, and directs the thoughtless and ignorant through vibrations. Ig- norance unguards the soul, furnishing conditions of receptivity to good and evil suggestions, which uplift or degrade. Mind responds to mind, soul to soul, spirit to spirit, through vibrations in the ether.
The invisible world of spirit is drawing near to the earth-plane, and the souls of men respond wherever they are sensitive to etheric vibrations.
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The Rosy Cross has long sensed this incoming spiritual tide and confidently expects the breaking away of the clouds of ignorance which have long obscured the light of the inner heavens. The pyramids, the buried cities, the tombs and moun- tain retreats of the old world are giving up their long hoarded secrets to the push and enterprise of the age : but their wealth of knowledge and wisdom, though grand and wonderful, sinks into insignificance when compared with the treasures of the kingdom concealed in the soul of man ready to be revealed for 2ise. This is the Kingdom of Heaven w^hich is taken by force, — the force of persistent desire and effort.
Thoughts are not things — they are greater than things. Thought is the energy, the inherent force of things, and comes from the Primal Intelligence which is above and beyond all things. The mind is an instrument manipulated by unseen, but not altogether unknown forces. Its energies do not belong to us ; they are lent for use, and the only merit which we can claim because of superior adaptability of the instruments is in the quality of their use.
The power to project this force or energy of the soul is inherent in human nature ; and our de- partment of the Rosy Cross culture is devoted to instruction and training in its use. To vibrate the etheric atoms of the body is to set in motion
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the ether of space ; to exercise the Will in breath- ing is to connect with the space of Will, charging the body with electricity, power, and life • but the fervent desire to attain to any condition sets in vibration the finer essences of spirit that connect with the over soul of the universe — the Infinite Love. Every aspiring soul reaches some plane in spirit that corresponds to itself, and which it can absorb and use.
There are Seven Spaces of Spirit corresponding to the Seven Great Powers, — four Mundane and three Spiritual, or psychic. Those corresponding to the Mundane Powers are, — Mineral, Vegetable, Animal, Human; the Spiritual Spaces are, — Faith, Will, and Love. All the spaces are filled with So- cieties, Orders, Associations, Brotherhoods, which correspond to every condition possible to man. Connection with the beings inhabiting these spaces may be attained by systematic training and effort. This is not mediumship, so called, but the entering into and possession of the knowl- edge and power of the space contacted. Man, body and soul, is the Temple of the Infinite Spirit, and in him are etheric atoms belonging to all spiritual states and spaces ; some active, some latent. Those which are active connect the indi- vidual with the space with which he has the closest afifinity, and the influx from it is largely unconscious. To illustrate : Beethoven was by
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nature affiliated with the Musical Societies and, being a fine instrument attuned to the inspira- tion of that space, he holds the world entranced by superhuman melodies. Socrates contacted the Philosophical space. Napoleon, the Strategic ; but the full soul of the Prophet of Galilee came forth from and breathed the inspiration of the most interior space — the space of Love.
To aspire is to become, in time and in eternity ; for aspiration connects the soul with the spaces of spirit vibrating with immortal energies. Man makes and unmakes himself ; ** he fails, sickens and dies through feebleness of will." Physical life is only a series of vibrations whose intensity may be greatly increased by persistent use of spiritual forces.
Degrees of soul-force depend on the rapidity of the vibrations of the flame uniting the three powers which constitute the human ego. This trinity of Intelligence, Will, and Love is a mani- festation of the Divine Trinity in Unity, making of man a microcosmic God.
The soul is a glowing spark in an Infinite Flame.
The vibrations of these triune forces develop heat, which is generally diffused throughout the body as a gentle warmth. This heat may be pow- erfully increased and drawn to a center in the breast, where it burns with a pure and conscious
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flame. This is the baptism with fire and the Holy Ghost {Geist, Spirit) and is typified by the fire kept burning on the altars of the ancient temples. It is also the transmuting fire of the Rosicrucians, which certain of the old alchemists misunderstood and materialized to mean the trans- mutation of the baser metals into gold.
This flame in the breast is an evidence of the Christ-union, the seal of immortality, and is possi- ble only to the pure in heart. To the impure and unholy, the increase of spirit vibrations fills the soul with an unquenchable thirst and an insatia- ble hunger, which destroy soul and body by a slow combustion of unrest, impure desires, disease, and death. This flame is the point of contact with the source of all power and knowledge, and sometimes it finds a voice. With Moses it objec- tified in the form of a burning bush, and the "still small voice" of spirit became audible to the external ear.
Referring to this flame the great Persian sage, Zoroaster, says, "When you see the fire, listen for the voice of the fire."
This inner fire burned with conscious power when the disciples walked with the risen Jesus on the way to Emmaus. " Did not our hearts burn within us, while he spake to us on the way V
It has well-nigh ceased to burn on the altars of human hearts, but the Rosy Cross has preserved a
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spark of it and now calls to the wise virgins, whose lamps are trimmed and burning, to unveil the light for the illumination of the world.
Love is the only antidote for Evil ; force will suppress, but will not prevent it. The peaceful, gentle, forgiving vibrations of love open the invis- ible spaces from which descends purifying and re- generative power. Through the vibrations of love, war will cease, crime and its vindictive punishment will pass away, and practical help will supersede sermons, prayers, and the legal restraints with which society now ignorantly strives to protect itself. Crime should be prevented rather than punished ; criminal tendencies should be detected, undermined, and destroyed ; the transmission of criminal instincts rendered impossible. All this may be done through spiritual vibrations, and this is one of the fields of work which especially engages the attention and efforts of the Rosy Cross.
The concentration of effort and the union of many minds in one vibration creates societies, sects, governments, on the plane of its action ; in the same way, spirit, by projection, creates and de- stroys. Spirit individualized in a human body is no less spirit than when disrobed. There are conclaves in the spaces of spirit in which the souls of men and women who are still of the mundane world take part, equally with those who have cast off the body. Convocations are held where the
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interests of earth-life are represented by those in earth-bodies, who, in soul projection, are in the spiritual spaces, and questions touching human in- terests most nearly are considered. Such a con- vention, giving exclusive attention to the applica- tion of the great principles of sex, has long been in session. It has removed the ban of silence from woman, and caused her equality with man to be recognized in many ways ; but the projection of this truth into the external world has been diffi- cult, owing to the prejudices and superstitions of men.
Rosicruciae invites woman's co-operation, and has made her eligible to its councils and helpful influ- ences on the same terms as her brothers ; it now boldly proclaims the feminine principle as em- bodied in woman to be the Saviour of the Race. Being the most spiritual, she is the vibratory center between God and man. Through her elevation in the thought, will and love of man, the influx of crime, lust, and disease from the lowest hells will be checked, and the incarnation of lofty and pure souls will be facilitated. This can only be accom- plished by the co-operation of the visible world of souls with the invisible.
Sex is of the body, soul, and spirit, and is as eternal as is the Creative Power, for by and through its principles all things exist. Its activ- ities are always creative, for generation on one
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plane creates another plane similar but a little higher. Vibrations of the body are the result of vibrations of spirit, which they involve, and all vi- brations are creative in accord with their plane of activity. Sound vibrations reach the ear, thought vibrations the mind ; but the powerful and far- reaching vibrations of emotion move the soul, and the motion is infinitely sustained.
Love is the creative center and the vibrations that harmonize the conditions, interior or exterior, of each individual are generated at that center. It is the love of one, not of many ; for all sincere and genuine Rosicrucians are monogamists.
Love in the physical, has its correspondence in the spiritual nature, — it is one, for Love is Spirit, and all its vibrations are creative. What we name matter is an effect produced by spirit transforming itself through vibratory motion.
Nature makes no mistakes ; she is the word of God to which nothing can be added or taken away by man, except to his own hurt. The separation of the masculine and feminine in thought, emo- tion, or physical life, is destructive, not construc- tive. In their perfect blending on all planes, lies the secret of power, and the Lost Word is unity — one.
The natural use of the organs of the body, as of the faculties of the mind and powers of the soul, is an imperative duty to all who would perfect the
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Jvuman nature. The orderly exercise of mind and will is required to preserve the harmonious balance of being, so that life on all planes shall march to- gether in orderly sequence.
To be self-poised and perfect in rhythmic motion, like the worlds swinging in space, is the preroga- tive of every human being ; but only those who have found the center, and lighted the flame on that altar, approach that condition. It is not at- tained by ignoring the selfhood or in disuse of the functions of body or mind.
The Rosy Cross makes no noise ; it loves the Infinite Silence, and works through vibrations of Thought, Will, and Love. It is ready to point out the path and to clasp hands with any who desire to work for the advent of the new civilization. To this end, the fraternity desires souls rather than money ; earnest, active, sincere students and work- ers. Not all who knock can enter. Before one can become a member of the visible Fraternity, he or she is already enrolled among the Invisibles.
" Not everyone who saith Lord, Lord, can enter into the kingdom," saith the Christ ; and one be- fore him affirmed '' ]\Iany are the wand-bearers but few are the true Bacchanals."
Those who can recall the conditions of life fifty years ago will appreciate the gigantic strides man has made along the lines of progress. The twi- light of the stage-coach has broadened into the
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noonday of steam and electricity; the inspiration of books has largely given place to scientific cer- tainties, to ascertained truths and facts of things, thus widening and deepening the scope of free thought.
Dr. Franklin ushered in a new age, — the age of electricity, when he called forth a message from the shadow of God which pronounced the death sen- tence on the limitations of matter, annihilating time and space by putting ** a girdle around the earth in forty minutes," as prophesied by Shake- speare's tricksy sprite. As the age of crude force merged into the electrical age, bringing with it everything worth preserving, so the wires and dy- namos and circuits, which now witness to the ex- ternal activities of man's restless intelligence, will give place to the simpler methods of the mental age, when the possibilities of mind will become manifest. The present laborious processes of edu- cation will become obsolete, and telepathy will take the place of the old, cumbrous methods of instruc- tion in the imparting of knowledge.
Daguerre pictured the outside of things fifty years ago ; modern photography reproduces the inside y and it is only a question of a little more time and a few more experiments when mental states will be photographed, and man's nature will be mapped out, as physical geography maps the surface of the planet. The swamps and lagoons in
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human nature which send up the malaria that gen- erates crime, disease, death, will be located, as will the life-giving seas and breezy, moral mountain- tops. Mind will be generated, rather than adipose tissue, and God will be enthroned in the heart of the world, rather than in some far-off anachronistic City of Gold. Speed characterizes the electrical age ; let us move quickly to help God save the world.
Recognizing the value of organization for cer- tain work which is before us, the Western Cult of the Rosy Cross has established a bureau of in- struction, where those who desire to learn and work with the Fraternity may apply.
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