Cathedral Contacts[From The Rosicrucian Digest July 1939]
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"Cathedral of the Soul" is a Cosmic meeting place for all minds of the
most highly developed and spiritually advanced members and workers of
the Rosicrucian Fraternity. It is a focal point of Cosmic radiations
and thought waves from which radiate vibrations of health, peace,
happiness, and inner awakening. Various periods of the day are set
aside when many thousands of minds are attuned with the Cathedral of
the Soul, and others attuning with the Cathedral at this time will
receive the benefit of the vibrations. Those who are not members of the
organization may share in the unusual benefits as well as those who are
members. The book called "Liber 777" describes the periods for various
contacts with the Cathedral. Copies will be sent to persons who are not
members if they address their requests for this book to Friar S. P. C.,
care of AMORC Temple, San Jose, California, enclosing three cents in
postage stamps. (Please state whether member or not--this is important.) |
BUILDING A RESERVE
IN OUR modern training there
is quite definitely impressed upon the most of us the necessity of building in
order to have something in reserve. Early in life most of us receive
encouragement to save money, and the word reserve has come to be connected with
finances.
We are encouraged to have
money in various forms, in actual cash or through wise investments in order to
have something available in an emergency or toward making for security at an
age when we may no longer be able to earn. Such an attitude toward saving has
led many people to devote a great deal of their effort toward the accumulation
of funds out of their earnings even to the extent where they deprive themselves
of things which are needed because saving to build a reserve has become almost
an obsession with them.
Saving or the building of a
reserve, however, is not, even in our everyday lives, confined to money. We are
taught to create reserves in our bodies by proper living and eating in order
that an additional reserve of energy and vitality is available to fight against
the possible encroachment of disease. In other phases of our everyday life we
also make it a point to see that certain supplies are in reserve. Few owners of
an automobile would drive far without an extra tire or start across a country
where provisions would probably be scarce without taking extra fuel, oil, and
water. All these illustrations go to show the importance in our lives of
arranging to see that a reserve of various things which we use and depend upon
is available to us in case the immediate supply is exhausted.
To analyze the problem from a
broader point of view, we might ask the question: what step follows in case the
reserves themselves are lost? Many people in directing their time and efforts
toward the accumulation of a reserve of anything in the form of savings have so
built their lives around the acquisition of funds and the intended use of them,
that when the unexpected occurs, as in the case of financial panics when even
the safest and most conservative forms of investments are endangered, these
individuals find that they have no reserve beyond money, nothing to take the
place of this material thing. If the accumulation of this reserve has become so
important that it overshadows all of our lives, then we have had very little
time to work toward the accumulation of any other reserve upon which we may
fall back for support in a time when it is needed.
The human being is quite able
to adjust himself to various circumstances, but the adjustment must be both
physiological and psychological. We must train ourselves to be able to make
either adjustment, that is, the building of vitality and health will lessen the
possibility of our being bound by illness and disease, but unless at the same
time while we have been increasing our physical vitality and resistance we have
also developed mental attitudes that give us a reserve in sound judgment, the
ability to make decisions, and depth of convictions in our ideals which will
add assurance and determination to our efforts and activities; we will find
that in cases of an emergency when health may be gone, when our savings are
lost, when we are deprived of things we love, that we have nothing upon which
to stand. It is important that in addition to the very good habit of saving,
and the accumulation of reserve which we may have, that we also devote a part
of our time to the consideration of those reserves which are not dependent
entirely upon changeable economic and material factors for their existence, but
which produce peace, forethought and wisdom in our own minds and establish for
us those intangible qualities which we have as reserves regardless of what may
be ahead of us.
The purpose of all teaching
which tends to develop the inner man, or the soul as you may choose to call it,
is to assist in bringing about a balanced development so that an individual
life will not base all its dependence upon a physical changing thing. To
exemplify these ideals, and to be a place in which we may approach the
consideration of our immaterial reserves, The Cathedral of the Soul was conceived
and is perpetuated for those who may wish to stop in their daily activities and
give a few moments' consideration to the accumulation of those reserves which
lead to true happiness and peace of mind. Regardless of where you may be or
what you are doing, you are privileged to participate in these activities, and
if you feel that you could well devote a few minutes each day or each week
toward the establishing of a reserve in terms of future happiness, then we
invite you to request, from us, a copy of the book entitled "Liber
777" which explains in more detail the purposes of this Cathedral of the
Soul.
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I have told you of the man who always put on his spectacles
when about to eat cherries, in order that the fruit might look larger and more
tempting. In like manner I always make the most of my enjoyments, and, though I
do not cast my eyes away from troubles, I pack them into as small a compass as
I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.--Robert Southey.
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