Cathedral Contacts[From The Rosicrucian Digest April 1937]
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"Cathedral of the Soul" is a Cosmic meeting place for all minds of the
most advanced and highly developed spiritual 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 by addressing their request 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.) |
A FAITH TO LIVE BY
MAN HAS sought a faith to
live by since the light of reason dawned in his mind. As thinking man evolves
he finds it all the more necessary to formulate a philosophy of life as a
springboard of action. Today the desire for harmony of mind and soul is just as
insistent as it ever was, even though the effect has been complicated by social,
economic, and political factors. More than ever do we need a faith to live by.
We need to know that God exists. We need to know that somewhere there is rest
and peace, that we are not merely grains of dust or a chemical conglomeration.
We need to know that we are not doomed to exist for only a short period of time
during which span we suffer painful experiences and learn costly lessons, only
to have death come along and erase all signs of our moral and mental progress.
We need God as we never did before, and we need a philosophy of life, for that
is of the utmost importance to health, happiness, and contentment.
A philosophy of life is as
necessary to thinking man as a chart to the mariner or a blueprint to the
engineer. Man today is desperately seeking a lamp by which to guide his feet, a
light to illumine his path in life. Modern man is restless, unhappy and
maladjusted. Sex is not the solution of the problem, as Freud would have
us think. Political nostrums and social panaceas are not the
solution as the Communists and Fascists would have us believe. Material
prosperity does not make man happier. The return to orthodox religion
that Dr. Henry C. Link advocates will not satisfy the man with a cosmopolitan
outlook upon life. Philosophy, as its foremost advocates admit, has no
constructive program, no message of hope for the generation of today. Science,
with its kaleidoscopic change of basic ideas, leaves the layman bewildered.
If you try to be guided by
the conflicting theories of science, as Aldous Huxley puts it, "Ye shall
know the truth, and the truth shall make ye mad." In short, modern man has
reached a point where he wants a working plan of life to which his reason can
give full assent.
Civilization advances in
spiral form. While we may return to religion and faith, we shall never return
to orthodox religion with its cramped sectarianism and conflicting creeds.
Mankind is ready for a new revelation, and that revelation is the wisdom of
the ages entrusted to a few from generation to generation. This beautiful
and inspiring philosophy that we give our members, the intellect can
unreservedly accept and the heart can warmly embrace. As Rosicrucians we
believe in that stately and majestic verse in Genesis 27: "So God created
man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female
created He them." We do not only accept these ideas, but if we are truly
to be Rosicrucians we must use them in our daily lives and manifest the
understanding of universal love and service under the guidance of God, Creator
of Heaven and Earth. We must make evident that we are Sons of God and
brothers through divine parentage.
Despite the fact that every
religion accepts these precepts our understanding makes them revolutionary in
their implications. If every parliament, every legislature and judicial body,
every human being having authority over other beings, were to act in this light
what a tremendous revolution would be accomplished without shedding a drop of
blood. We acknowledge in our belief that a true Son of God acts according to
the divine light within him. We endeavor to show in our conduct that we love
and obey God and that such obedience is evidence of our faith.
God is our Father and we are
His children. We are co-existent and co-eternal with the Father. Each soul is a
tangible manifestation of divinity and a point in which all forces and powers
are centered. Man is capable of infinite development. Each one of us is a
tremendous mystery, all having unfathomable depths and infinite heights. It is
the work of ages to study our own souls and the souls of our fellowmen. When we
have unlocked the secret of ourselves we shall have penetrated the mysteries of
God.
God, the Absolute, is the
source to which our souls long to return. This is the hidden desire of our
hearts; this is the pilgrimage of the ages although we may not be consciously
aware of the fact. This longing is achieved through love, and the Cathedral
contact is one medium through which we can get into attunement with God and our
fellowman. Love is the most sublime emotion of which we are capable. Love is
the key that opens the gates of Heaven. Love is the greatest light in the
Universe.
The mystics of the ages have
felt this call of the soul and have expressed this longing in beautiful verse:
"The living God is my desire,
It carries me on wings of fire
Body and soul to Him aspire."
--Solon ibn Gabiorol.
We are all seeking God; we
seek God everywhere. We seek God all the time. We seek God far away and yet He
is within. "He is closer than breathing, and nearer than hands and
feet." In nature, in everything, in everyone, God is manifested. By
lifting our consciousness and our vision to God, to the higher realm, through
the Cathedral contacts we see things in their real proportion and relationship.
By entering the Cathedral of the Soul for rest, meditation and contemplation,
we not only gain that broader viewpoint but we also come into attunement with
the Universal mind and the Cosmic Consciousness. There is peace, health, and
power.
If we make it a daily
practice to devote a few minutes morning and night in silent meditation,
without disturbance from without, we thereby attune our bodies and minds with
the great and powerful Cosmic force of health and harmony. At any of the
Cathedral hours listed in the free book, "Liber 777," there are
thousands of persons all over the world sitting in silence and extending their
consciousnesses in the thoughts of peace, power, health, and strength toward
this one Cosmic point. United effort in any direction is of untold value and
especially at this time when all the world is sharpening the plowshares into
death-dealing instruments and greed and fear walk rampant in our midst.
We need God as we never did
before. We need faith and conviction that love, truth, and justice shall
prevail. We need the universal harmony and love attainable only in the
attunement with the Absolute. Let us of the White Brotherhood lead the world in
eliminating fear and greed from the human consciousness.
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