IV. I will ; I move ; and the form or image of it

appears. This is evidence that I produce things from
myself by the use of the four powers — in all of
which I exist — gradually evolving some part of my-
self into objectivity. These four powers are: — I.
Desire. II. Thought. III. Will. IV. Motion.
These powers correspond in number and function to
four of the five senses : Hearing, Seeing, Tasting,
and Smelling, — which correspond to the four sea-
sons, four elements, four quarters of the globe, and
the four points of the compass.

This is the "Divine Quarternary" of the soul, by
the use of which the ego projects some portion
of itself outwardly and at the same time draws to
itself things it discovers and desires.

For be it known that man is suspended between
two opposing powers of Darkness : on the one hand
by material darkness, which contains only the perish-
able, changeable substance of which things are made :
on the other hand, by spiritual darkness in which is
hidden life and all inconceivable powers. Now bear
in mind that feeling is not included in the quarter-
nary, although it is the most important of all the
senses.

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As explained elsewhere, feeling is the focus of all
the senses : they come together in it like four great
rivers emptying their contents into one vast whirl-
pool, to be carried down to unknown regions of the
soul, there to be transformed into matter, and carried
outward through the processes of growth, to become
the flesh, bone and muscle of these bodies.

Sound is thus transformed into matter. The eyes
carry that which becomes a part of us, to the soul.
The aura of things that we smell is as important as
the food which we taste.

Feeling is a vortex leading to the soul ; and ob-
noxious elements, by accumulating there, produce
heat or desire, which brings both pain and pleasure,
and evolves thoughts of approval or of disapproval,
thereby giving quality to the matter created, and pro-
ducing discord or harmony, health or disease.

In this manner do we create, momentarily and
without ceasing, new atoms of these bodies, — making
them from the things which draw near to us in the
darkness which covers all action.

We call from the abyss of nonentity that which,
too often, makes the soul sick. They come — dis-
cord, malaria, crime, disease, and death — because
we desire too many material things, and because our
thoughts and wills move us outwardly, carrying our
souls into violence and war.

Greed is a monster of darkness : and those who
think most of wealth carry him down in sight and
sound, in smell and taste, to the soul itself, there to

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become flesh and blood reeking with the poison of
insanity and crime.

Ignorance is darkness, and the material side of the
sense of feeling is a dark side, while the spiritual or
mental side is lighted up by the rational mind.

Mind also has a quarternary of senses, correspond-
ing to the material side. These are called the Psychic f
senses, because they build the Divine body and
mind. They connect with the north, south, east
and west of spiritual darkness, which in silence awaits
the vibrations of a desire for improvement, and the
projection of a thought of other than material glory
or possession. It is in spiritual darkness, sin and
misery, that glory and immortal life are concealed,
waiting for Desire to draw the elements of an organi-
zation suitable for their indwelling, into the soul,
there to be fructified, to grow and to be born in due
season, master of all.

Desire is not "The Father" so often referred to
by the loving Jesus, saying " no man can come unto
me except the Father draw him." Desire is the
Mother of both materiality and mentality. It is for
us to choose which we will be, mind or matter. We
cannot be both.

Mind is within the body and the ego is in the
mind, — a prisoner in dark matter. The Psychic
senses of light, of sight and of thought, illuminate
the body, and the ego finds his way out of prison, —
or the body becomes a fire body> and free.

Desire is not the ego, since it is something I pos-

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sess, a something within, which becomes outward in
motion, which I govern so long as it remains within,
but which governs me when it becomes external.
That is the case with desire ; it moves by the force
of the will, upon the wings of thought, materially or
spiritually, in either case to become the controlling
influence of our lives.

The senses are dual — " male and female " — and
so all creation is sexual action. Jesus in talking
with Nicodemus about being born again, likened the
spirit to the wind that "bloweth where it list eta."
Now the sense of smell has direct reference to the
spirit or aura of things — as has the nose to the
" wind" we breathe : and the air in passing into the
lungs, divides itself in the nostrils, ■ — becoming pos-
itive and negative, — one supporting the male, the
other the female, which is within. Between these, a
constant creative or generative action is kept up,
wherein spirit becomes matter.

Man has within himself the four great quarters of
the globe, both materially and psychically : so also
has he the great sensitive equatorial region, where
the soul or seat of consciousness is located. This is
the region of feeling wherein occurs the division of
sense into the quarternaries of pain and pleasure, and
good and evil.

Cold corresponds to the region of the north and
south poles, while heat corresponds to the centre
or soul under the equator. The masculine is in the
north, the feminine in the south. In man, as in the

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north, is cold, sleeping force. There lies Death,
which means division and loss of power by the out-
ward rush of energy toward whatever attracts him ;
and that which attracts him most of all is the femi-
nine.

Man gives ; woman receives ; he is the father, she,
the mother. She is affectionate, and receives his
passion, which she infolds as her own, returning in
exchange therefore, her gentle and tender affection,
which makes him human.

He is spirit — a moving force — which, like the
north wind blowing south, carries with it a smell
which begets in the south a host of living things.

The sense which corresponds to the north is ma-
terially', that of smell ; psychically, it is that of intui-
tive perception, a psychometric sense which is detec-
tive of and ferrets out hidden things.

The sense of smell — the male sense — projects
the spirit or breath, the scent or aura of things or of
action, into the female sense of taste, where it ges-
tates, like a child in embryo, to be born into
the world as judgment, perception, conclusion of
sense, etc. It inhales the spirit and the aura of
things as the nose does the atmosphere, projecting
them on the other hand, as light projects its rays into
darkness. For the senses of smell and of sight are
both masculine and contain and project the fecundat-
ing principle into the feminine senses of taste, which
is of the south, and of hearing, which is of the west.
Smell aggravates taste ; and food drops into the dark

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abyss of an empty stomach, as drops the ovarian egg
into the womb, there to receive the fecundating prin-
ciple and to digest or ge state into vitality.

The east is the region of light or mind whence the
ego sends out a flame to illuminate the universe,
while the west is the region of darkness, of ignorance,
of mystery, the unknown, the mother of all things,
the receptacle of light, the womb wherein thought,
the fecundating principle of mind, explodes and gives
birth to the first of creation, that sound of God's
voice which breaks the awful silence where thought
is not, — saying, " let there be light." Sound ap-
pears, before light, even as the wail of an infant is
prior to its thought. That which kindles the fires of
intelligence is a breath, whose sound is heard in the
still night of creation before the eye perceives the
motion thereof, A breath which made " Adam a liv-
ing soul." A breath whose vibration was "The
Word," which St. John says was "in the beginning
with God and which was God." A breath, like " the
wind that bio wet h where it listeth," of whose home,
form, or coming and going, we know not, yet which
we breathe, hear and feel. This is the spirit which
finds voice in preaching, praying, and in songs of all
kinds. This Psychic sense of hearing is at the foun-
dation of all culture and of all power.

The low, soft lullaby of a mother's love reaches the
soul of a fretful infant and lures it to sleep and for-
getfulness of its pains.

Ah, who can estimate the power of suggestion ?

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There is magic in sound. It creates more things than
can be enumerated. Who knows to what depths of
woe a sensitive soul can be hurled by angry words, a
scolding tongue or eternal fault-finding, and who
knows to what heights of ecstasy and bliss one can
be carried by gentle words or sweet songs.

The quarternaries are the means by the use of
which man becomes great or small. They are the
hands, the feet and the head, whereby he takes hold
upon the north and the south, thus standing firmly
and with self reliance upon matter, while his head
associates with the stars.-

There is a Divine Man and Woman in each and
every son and daughter of Adam.1 She stands with
Her back to the night of the west, with upturned
face to the rising sun and with outstretched arms and
open fingers toward the north and south ; while He,
facing the night and Her, with his back to the light,
stands with outstretched hands, and with strength,
in the force of his physical manhood, to pull down
the stars and remodel the earth.

So standing, they approach and recede. As they
approach, her form and face glow with the supernal
radiance cast over him from the rising sun, while his
face grows soft and tender with the reflection of her
beauty. The glory increases between them and

1 There is sexual arcana in the Quarternaries which I can barely touch upon
in this work. It is the great Rosicrucian secret, — i.e., "The Mystery of the
Serpent" so skilfully guarded in the Scriptures. — which embraces the cult of
the entire religious world. Of this I purpose to write in the near future.

F. B. D.

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shadowy images, floating in the twilight of being, flit
away from between them and are lost or swallowed
up in the darkness before the man. In receding
from each other the darkness falls, deeper and even
more dense, as they grow apart ; while the nearer
they approach, the more beautiful and radiant do
those images appear, disappearing in his shadow as
the reflection from her increases and envelops him
with power and gentleness. These images, which are
evolved from the action of the masculine with the
feminine within, are principles of sense. Seven of
them lead man backward from the feminine within,
and the light which shines through her to the loneli-
ness of his half being and the darkness and weakness
of matter : but there are seven other principles which
lead man forward towards her and the light of his
own soul, to the completion of being and to a divine
marriage within of which outward marriage is only a
symbol.

These mental and psychic images which are
evolved by the action and reaction of sense, have
names, a few of which are given as the steps are
taken.

The motor or power which prompts the first step
towards the soul, is a desire to become better.

This desire is the prompting of the soul that there
is something lacking — a deficiency — an empty void
— a hunger and thirst for something that is possessed
by neither the male nor the female within. The soul
expands with hunger, and the greater the longing,

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the greater will be the expanse of soul between them,
the male and female.

S Across the dim vista of the soul, each — standing
as described — sees vaguely an object which resem-
bles himself or herself. The female attracts the
male, and he must approach her. He must take the
steps ; he must make his way through the twilight
and the wilderness, amid the trials of life, along a
way where no feet have trod. He is weak and un-
certain of himself, and as he makes the first step he
totters, but, struggling with himself, he gains confi-
dence and establishes the determination to try again.

This first step is experience from which follow suc-
cessively step after step in an increasing ratio of
ascending power and glory till he meets her and she
meets him, in the soul, which is common to them
both. In this union is begotten, conceived and born
into the world, the sunshine, the flowers, the delights,
the patience, the charity, and all that ennobles and
beautifies human character. In this interior marriage
or blending of the two opposing principles of being
into one soul, is immortality achieved, and death for
that person is a mere matter of will and desire.

Seldom is this union perfected on earth because
one, becoming tired of the ceaseless struggle of
going forward or of opposing the outward trend
of thought and action, loses sight of the other half,
by the passing shadow of a doubt or of fear, and
more easily takes steps backward and downard into
ever increasing obscurity, ignorance and death.

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