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TEMPLE OF THE ROSY CROSS

Gbe Soul

ITS POWERS, MIGRATIONS, AND TRANSMIGRATIONS

FOURTH EDITION

Revised and Enlarged

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By F. B. DO WD

Rogers, Arkansas

" For these things that appear delight us, but make the things
that appear not, hard to believe ; or the things that appear not are
hard to believe," - - Hera:es.

1901

EULIAN PUBLISHING CO.

SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS

THE LIBRARY OF
CONGRESS,

Two Cores Received

AUG. 15 1901

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1CLASS Ct^XXc. No.

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In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

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BOSTON, U.S.A.

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TO

JOHN HEANEY,

OF BUCKLEY, IROQUOIS COUNTY, ILLINOIS,

HIM OF THE GREAT SOUL, LOFTY MIND, AND LOVING HEART,

" DOOR OF THE TEMPLE OF THE ROSY CROSS,"

ARE THESE PAGES MOST RESPECTFULLY AND LOVINGLY

DEDICATED, BY THE AUTHOR.

PREFACE.

To provoke thought, and thus lift the world out
of the rut into which it has fallen, the following
pages have been written. The soul is no common
or vulgar thing ; and all approximation thereto, in
thought, must be transcendental. This work claims
to contain the fundamental principles of all religions
— the philosophy of manhood, and the road lead-
ing to a true life and immortality, here, on this
poor, much abused earth. " This is a matter-of-fact
age," and "the day of miracles has passed." That
is, those things which unaccountably happen, which
were formerly ascribed to God, have come a little
nearer home, and are now ascribed to nature. What
satisfaction there is in a name, especially to children !
The superstition of the past, and of the stars, nar-
rowed down to that of "the ape " and "the mud ! "
Instead of the facts of observation, I have attempted
those of logic and common sense. Darwin and
Huxley have narrowed the mind down to a contem-
plation of the mud ("protoplasm "), but I call you to
a contemplation of man and his possibilities. / came,
and found this beautiful earth fanned by the breath
of deadly poison, which men, in the very agony of
breathing, call life. / go ; but in going, I would

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leave it a little purer for having been here. I am
satisfied that man is the architect of himself, and of
all conditions, from "protoplasm " up; and it has
been my effort to stir him upward to the creation of
things worthy of himself. This year, 1881, is the
close of an epoch in the world's history. It will,
indeed, be sad, if we follow in the bloody track of
our forefathers downward. We have now an oppor-
tunity, next year, of cutting loose the shackles that
chain us to the corpse of the past. Let us make
the attempt.

It is not claimed that this work is wholly Rosi-
crucian. The sublime principles of this fraternity
are not conveyed in this manner ; but enough is
given to enable the thoughtful and earnest searcher
after truth to get a glimpse of the glory hidden, even
now, as in the past. It is not the loud sounding bells
of a sabbath morning, nor the roaring of organs and
voices ; neither is the high-toned oratory of the offici-
ating priest, true worship ; neither is it the rneans,
however charming and gratifying, which move the
infinite to the answering of prayer. Remember,
"silence is strength;" noises confuses. It is "an
empty sound," which silence comprehends not, or in
the comprehension of it, loses it. The unwavering,
persistent, incomprehensible (by us) thought, is the
sustaining and noiseless moving power of the uni-
verse ; and he who hath most of it is the most prayer-
answering God, and in and by virtue thereof he is
the greatest prayer. f. b. dowd.

PREFACE TO ENLARGED EDITION.

No preface to this edition is necessary further
than to say that the book since its first publication
in 1882, having gone through three editions, and
being now out of print and still sought after, is con-
sidered worthy of an enlarged and revised edition.

To this end many changes have been made ; not,
however, in ideas, but in expression and in elaboration.
By the addition of two entirely new chapters, one on
heredity and one on the psychic senses, it is
hoped that the value of the work will be further en-
hanced.

F. B. DOWD.

CONTENTS.

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Introduction. — The Supernatural n