L. o. R. reunites old friends and foes C9

Is L. o. R. mentioned in the Bible ? 81
LARYNX.
Cost of the brain and the larynx 7
Larynx; the creative organ of the future 174
LEVITATION.
At spiritualistic seances 126
LIFE.
Origin of Life 171
Relative length of life in heaven and on earth 4
Panorama of past life and suffering in Purgatory 11
What determines the length of our life? 47
Do we meet friends of past lives when reborn? 69
The Tree of Life 86, 104
Necessity for clean life in acquiring Spiritual Sight 138
Do we not take life when eating eggs and fruit 186
LUCIFER.
The light-bringer .86, 104
All who came before me were thieves; I am the True
Light 104
MAGIC.
White and black 140, 175
MALE.
Will the male reabsorb the female? 18
Reasons for change of sex 19
MAN.
The cross a symbol of man 100
Man know thyself 174
Man is the inverted plant 100, 175
Why one man 's meat is another 's poison 23
MARRIAGE.
Race suicide and marriage 21, 28
Soul-mates and marriage , 22
Marriage of first and second cousins 23
Marriage congenial or the reverse shown by stars 24
Intermarriage of negroes, whites and mongols 25
412 KOSICEUCIAN PHILOSOPHY
Question No.
Clandestine marriages of Jews and the flood 26
Why some marriages are barren 29
MARTYRDOM.
The value of martyrdom 117
MASONIC LEGEND.
Cain and Abel 87
MATERIALIZATION.
Accomplished through mother-love 64
Vital body used in materialization 119
Materialization of flowers 126
MATTER.
Christian Science and Materialism compared 172
MEDIUMSHIP.
Difference between a trance Medium, a materializing
Medium and a trained clairvoyant 129
Why mediums simulate 133
Planc'hette-writing 127
Crysral-^azing 148
What leaves the body during soul-flights 120
Materialization and Icvitation 126
Dangers of mediumship 130
How mediumship injures the health 119
MEMORY.
Subconscious memory and loss of memory 54
MEMORY OF NATURE.
Astrology only means of fixing time of prehistoric events. 49
How past lives are read in Memory of Nature 70
Memory of Nature and pscychometry 125
MENSTRUATION.
And tears effects of the positive vital body 8
MIND.
How to cleanse the mind of evil thoughts 17
Mind as a factor in health 37
The subconscious mind and memory 54
MISSIONARY.
The evil of the missionary spirit 181
Go preach the gospel to every creature 118
Missionary efforts of occultists and Labor Unions 182
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 413
Question
MURDER. No.
Effects on murderer and victim in Purgatory 60
Music.
The Harmony of the Spheres 158
Influence of nursery rhymes on health 27
Music and heredity 13
Music and the semicircular canals of the ear 14
MYSTERIES.
What the lesser and greater mysteries teach 55
Eastern and Western methods contrasted 141, 180
Mystery of the Holy Grail 175
NATURE FORCES.
Are intelligent beings. How they work 41
NEBULAR THEORY.
Compared with the Creation recorded in the Bible. . ..76, 156
NEW JERUSALEM.
And Babylon compared 104
NIEBELUNGEN.
Noah, Moses and the Niebelungen 26
Niebelungs hoard and gifts of Wise Men 95
Early Atlantis and Brotherhood of Niebelungen 97
ORIGINAL SEMITES.
Marriage among Original Semites and present day mar- riage compared 21
The Original Semites and the present Jews 26
OBSESSION.
How to diagnose it 124
PANORAMA OF LIFE.
P. o. L. as basis of suffering in Purgatory 11
P. o. L. as factor in producing infant mortality 51, 52
P. o. L. and the subconscious mind 54
PHYSICAL WORLD.
Its mission in Nature 3
PHYSICAL BODY.
Our most valuable instrument 5
Heredity and the physical body 30
Effect on the spirit of deformed body 41
How loss of the physical body causes suffering to suicide. 58
How physical body looked in Lemurian Epoch 85
414 ROSICRUCIAN PHILOSOPHY
Question
PILGRIMAGE THROUGH MATTER. Xo.
Necessity of pilgrimage 1, 3
Ark of the Covenant and pilgrimage SS
Parable of Prodigal Son and pilgrimage 108
PLANETS (see Astrology).
Location of Heaven and Purgatory 61
Are Mars, Jupiter and the other planets inhabited? 155
Good and evil planets 161
The Star Angels and their Ambassadors 162
The Pyramid and the planets 176
PLANT.
Man is the inverted plant 100, 175
POWERS OF DARKNESS.
And their mission in evolution 2, 76
PRAYER.
For the dead 63
Prayers astrologically directed 162
PRECESSION OF THE EQUINOX.
And the Law of Rebirth 14
PSYCHOMETRY 125
PURGATORY.
Not a place of punishment 59
Panorama of Life and suffering in Purgatory 11
The drunkard and tortures of Tantalus 11
Victims of murder ami accident in Purgatory 60
How suicide suffers in Purgatory 58
Purgation compared to process of forming solar system. . 59
Everlasti ng damnation 92
How shortened or eliminated by Forgiveness of Sins. .46, 48
Purgatory and conscience 12
RACE SPIRITS.
As a factor in marriage and blood-transfusion . ... 43
How Race Spirits rule the nations 23
REBIRTH (see also Law of Rebirth).
And the precession of the equinox 14
How to shorten interval between earth-lives 48
Why are we ignorant of past lives 65
How may we prove the doctrine of Rebirth 67
Must a spirit coming to rebirth pass through Purgatory. 71
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 415
Question No.
The doctrines of "Rebirth" and Transmigration com- pared 72
Is the Bible authority for the doctrine of Rebirth? 81
What facilitates the memory of past lives? 139
Do souls from other planets come to birth here and vice
versa ? 1 55
The ethical necessity for rebirth 177
RECORDING ANGELS.
What is the book of the Recording Angels? 54, 12
Are the Recording Angels individual beings? 75
Recording Angels give to each nation an appropriate
religion 118
RELIGION.
Religious of fear, of avarice, of love and of duty 91
Religion, Science and Art a trinity 147
Why Missionaries should be kept at home 118
Christian Science and Materialism contrasted 172
Rosicrucian Philosophy and Orthodoxy contrasted 177
Rosicrucian Philosophy and Theosophy contrasted 178
RIB.
What is the rib taken from Adam 's side? 18, 83
RITUAL.
Compared with extemporaneous sermons 116
ROSICRUCIANS.
Is the Rosicrucian Fellowship movement inspired by Mas- ters? 180
Rosicrucian teachings compared with Orthodoxy 177
Rosicrucian teachings compared with Theosophy 178
SALVATION.
Everlasting salvation and damnation 92
SEED-ATOM.
Seed-atom the key to vibration of body 6
Seed-atom as factor in conception 27
Seed-atom the book of Recording Angels 12
Seed-atom and the subconscious mind 54
Seed atom affecting suicide 58
Seed-atom will be retained by man in Future , 174
416 EOSICEUCIAN PHILOSOPHY
Question
SELF-MASTERY. No.
Our goal and how attained 9
SEX.
Is the soul sexed 8
The reason for the division of the sexes 7, 174
Past methods of procreation 85
Sex and the Tree of Knowledge 86, 104
Sex and sin against the Holy Spirit 110
Immaculate Conception 93
Abolition of sex in 1'uture 174
Mystery of the Holy Grail and sex 175
SLEEP.
Compared to the hypnotic state 33
The cause of sleep 34
SILVER CORD.
In Trance and in Death 113
SOLAR SYSTEM.
Jacob, his wives and sons symbolize Zodiac and Solar
System 159
Purgation accomplished by the same law which governs
formation of a Solar System 59
SOUL.
And sex 8
Soul-mates and marriage 22
Have all souls been reborn or are new ones created every
birth? 66
Adam became a living soul 82
Soiil; one of the gifts of Wise Men 95
Effect of black magic on soul 140, 148
SOUND (see also Word and Music}.
Sound as builder and destroyer 158
SPIRIT.
Does spirit enter boJly at conception? 6
What is the relation of spirit and matter 172
STEAM.
And electricity as factors in evolution 3
TEARS.
And the positive vit-al body of woman 8
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 417
Question
TEMPERAMENT. No.
How it changes 9
Temperament, marriage and the Zodiac 24
TEMPTATION.
Benefit of temptation 12
THOUGHT.
Creative power of thought 3, 152
Are we responsible for our thoughts? 16
How the mind may be cleansed of evil thoughts 17
Have evil thoughts created venomous reptiles? 165
THYMUS GLAND.
and individuality 31, 43
TRANCE.
And Death compared 113
TRANSMIGRATION.
Compared with the doctrine of Rebirth 72
TRINITY.
Explained by light and color 74
Trinity of Religion, Science and Art 147
VAMPIRE AND WEREWOLF 128
VRIL.
The coming force 3
VITAL BODY.
Compared with physical body 5
v. b. negative in man, positive in woman 8
Condition of v. b. in hypnotic sleep 32, 39
v. b. during resuscitation of drowning person 34
Condition of v. b. after heavy meal 42
v. b. leaves dense body after death 52
How premature cremation affects the v. b 53
The tree of Life and the v. b SO
The v. b. exuded in materialization 119
v. b. of " sensitives" compared with v. b. of ordinary
people 129
If an arm is amputated is v. b. also severed? 188
WAR.
As a factor in infant mortality 52
The benefit of bloody wars 101
418 KOSICKUCIAN PHILOSOPHY
Question
WEALTH. No.
A help to advancement or a hindrance? 183
WHITE LODGE.
Its relation to the Kosicrucian Order 179
WOMAN SUFFRAGE 185
WORD.
The lost Word .-. 8
Th Latin Kitual and the lost Word 116
How to find the lost word 174
Joshua and the walls of Jericho 158
Is the Bible the Word of God? 78
AS ABOVE, SO BELOW.
The world, the man and the atom are governed by the same law. Our dense earth is now in its 4TH stage of consolidation. The mind, the desire body and the vital body are less solid than our 4TH vehicle, the dense body. In the atomic weight of the chemical elements there is a similar arrangement. The 4TH group marks the acme of density.
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There was a time, even as late as Greece, when Religon, Art and Science were taught unitedly in the Mystery-temples. But it was necessary to the better development of each that they should separate for a time.
Religion held sole sway in the so-called "dark ages." Dur- ing that time it bound both Science and Art hand and foot. Then came the period of the Benaissance and Art came to the fore in all its branches. Beligion was strong as yet, however, and Art was only too often prostituted in the service of Eeligion. Last came the wave of modern Science, and with iron hand it has subjugated Eeligion.
It was a detriment to the world when Eeligion shackled Science. Ignorance and Superstition caused untold woe, never- theless man cherished a lofty spiritual ideal then; he hoped for a higher and better life. It is infinitely more disastrous that Science is killing Eeligion, for now even Hope, the only gift of the gods left in Pandora 's box, may vanish before Materialism and Agnosticism.
Such a state cannot continue. Eeaction must set in. If it does not, Anarchy will rend the Cosmos. To avert a calamity Religion, Science and Art must reunite in a higher expression of the Good, the True and the Beautiful than obtained before the separation.
Coming events cast their shadows before, and when the Great Leaders of human itv saw the tendency towards ultra-materialism which is now rampant in the Western World, they took certain steps to counteract and transmute it at the auspicious time. The did not wish to kill the budding Science as the latter has strangled Beligion, for they saw the ultimate good which will result when an advanced Science has again become the co-worker of Eeligion.
A spiritual Eeligion. however, cannot blend with a materialistic Science any more than oil can mix with water. Therefore steps were taken to spiritualize Science and make Eeligion scientific.
In the thirteenth century a high spiritual teacher, having the symbolical name Christian Eosenkreuz — Christian: Eose: Cross — appeared in Europe to commence that work. He founded the mysterious Order of Eosicrucians with the object of throwing
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
occult light upon the misunderstood Christian Eeligion and to explain the mystery of Life and Being from the scientific standpoint in harmony with Eeligion.
In the past centuries the Kosicrucians have worked in secret, but now the time has come for giving out a definite, logical and ssquential teaching concerning the origin, evolution arid future development of the world and man, showing both the spiritual and the sr-^ntific aspect; a teaching which makes no statements that are not supported by reason and logic. Such is the teaching promulgated by the Rosicrucian Fellowship. It satisfies the mind by giving clear explanations and neither begs nor evades ques- tions. Jt holds out a reasonable solution to all mysteries — But. and this is a very important "But," The Eosicrucian Christianity does not regard the intellectual understanding of God and the Universe as an end in itself. Far from it. The greater the intellect, the greater the danger of its misuse. Therefore the scientific teaching is only given in order th t man may believe find start to li*)*! the religious life which j .me can bring true Fellowship.
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