Cathedral Contacts[From The Rosicrucian Digest October 1932]
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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 this unusual benefit 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 librarian 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.) |
THE little talk given last month in this Department
regarding the spiritual nature of the Cathedral may be supplemented at this
time with a few other interesting comments.
Too many persons of the Western World seem to look
upon churches, cathedrals, and temples as places that have been made holy or
sacred by some ritual performed by the priests or clergy, or perhaps made
especially sacred by some unique benediction performed by God and centered upon
the material edifice.
The truth of the matter is that any holy or sacred
place is made such by the thoughts and prayers, the mental attitude, and the
benedictions of people of the earth plane who hold such a place in deep and
sacred respect.
In this regard the early temples and shrines of the
pagans, the heathens, the Orientals, and even of the first Christians, were
made holy and sacred by the prayerful attitude and devout worshipping of those
who looked upon these places as the center of their spiritual contacts. The
early pagans who erected a sacred stone in an open space and carved upon it the
symbols of their religious thought and then gathered around this stone at
certain periods of the day and the month and the year for prayer and song and
worship, soon made of this place a sacred shrine that emanated a spiritual
essence or sacred influence that was keenly felt by the devout ones and, of
course, never realized by those who were scoffers and doubters. The Orientals
who were accustomed to having one room in the center of their homes as a sacred
shrine and who never entered it without a prayer and who never stepped into it
without being clean of body and clean of mind and who used the room for no
other purpose than spiritual communion, soon created in such a room an essence,
an energy, a power, and an influence that was keenly felt by even the first
Christians who entered such rooms without knowing what they had been used for.
There is one temple in Egypt that had been used as a very
sacred place by the Egyptians for many years. The spiritual vibrations in it
and emanating from it were so intense that when the early Christians went to Egypt
and invaded the little temple they were held almost in a paralyzed state by the
overcoming influence of the vibrations. So many of them were affected in this
manner on different occasions that they decided to occupy the temple and turn
it into a Christian place of worship and for a hundred years it was a Christian
temple before being seized again by the Egyptians and used by them. The Egyptians
found no difficulty in attuning themselves to and enjoying the spiritual
vibrations of the place that had been used by the Christians any more than did
the Christians find difficulty in attuning themselves to the spiritual
vibrations that had been created in the place by the Egyptians. After all, the
sacred thoughts of man's heart and mind are identical when unexpressed in
symbols or unexpressed in terms of religious creeds. That which is highest and
super-natural, Divine and sacred to the pagan in his soul meditations, is
identical in real nature with that which is sacred to the Christian, the
Hebrew, and others. It is only when man attempts to voice his inner thoughts in
terms of material words and material ideas that he runs away from the pure line
of his true soul expression and creates artificial things to depict what he
thinks are the distinguishing features of his sacred emotions.
The Cathedral of the Soul calls for no material
expressions of any kind. It has no creeds and no dogmas and it has no sectarian
features of religion. It is a place for the soul. It is a dwelling place for
the soul essence and soul consciousness of all men whether they be Orientals or
Occidentals, whether they be of the Hindu, of the Mohammedan religion, of the
Christian or the Hebrew belief. If you believe in the existence of God and the
existence of a soul in man you can contact the Cathedral of the Soul and dwell
in its spiritual benefits regardless of whether you have been able to accept
the creeds and dogmas of some church or not.
If you have not learned what the Cathedral of the
Soul will really do for you by entering it in a wholehearted manner and without
bias or prejudice, then you should read "Liber 777," which you may
obtain freely in the manner described in the box at the beginning of this
Department.
Take to the Cathedral of the Soul all of your earthly
trials and tribulations but do not take to it your physical body. Take your
heart and mind and soul and lift them up to the greatest heights of the
Cathedral of the Soul where from a Cosmic or Divine plan[e] you can look down
upon the earth with its trials and tribulations and see the earth as a stage in
which all of us are playing a part and yet none of us acquainted with the final
acts of the great drama know what may be the real portent of the part we are
playing, but in the greatest heights of the Cathedral we can all dwell in a
spiritual form and there bask in the illuminating and scintillating light of
God's consciousness and become strengthened and helped and qualified for our
greatest missions in life.
Be sure to get "Liber 777" and follow all
of the periods during the next month or two when all of us will come together,
and then you will find why it is that thousands upon thousands of our members
and readers in all parts of the world are making this invisible, ethereal
Cathedral the real church, the real synagogue, the real temple of their worship
and sacred adorations.
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