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Source: "The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception" by Max Heindel

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      T H E   R O S I C R U C I A N  C O S M O - C O N C E P T I O N 

                                    OR

                   M Y S T I C  C H R I S T I A N I T Y 


   AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE UPON MAN'S PAST EVOLUTION, PRESENT CONSTITUTION 

                          AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

                         Its Message and Mission:
                                A SANE MIND
                                A SOFT HEART
                                A SOUND BODY

                              CREED OR CHRIST:

No man loves God who hates his kind,
    Who tramples on his brother's heart and soul;
Who seeks to shackle, cloud, or fog the mind
    By fears of hell has not perceived our goal.

God-sent are all religions blest;
    And Christ, the Way, the Truth, the Life,
To give the heavy laden rest
    And peace from sorrow, sin, and strife.

Behold the Universal Spirit came
    To ALL the churches, not to one alone;
On Pentecostal morn a tongue of flame
    Round EACH apostle as a halo shone.

Since then, as vultures ravenous with greed,
    We oft have battled for an empty name,
And sought by dogma, edict, cult, or creed,
    To send each other to the quenchless flame.

Is Christ then twain?  Was Cephas, Paul,
    To save the world, nailed to the tree?
Then why divisions here at all?
    Christ's love enfolds both you and me.

His pure sweet love is not confined
    By creed which segregate and raise a wall.
His love enfolds, embraces human kind,
    No matter what ourselves or Him we call.

Then why not take Him at His word?
    Why hold to creeds which tear apart?
But one thing matters, be it heard
    That brother love fill every heart.

There's but one thing the world has need to know.
    There's but one balm for all our human woe:
There's but one way that leads to heaven above--
    That way is human sympathy and love.

                                 --Max Heindel.

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                            A WORD TO THE WISE:

    The  founder  of the Christian Religion stated an occult maxim  when  He
said:   "Whosoever  shall not receive the kingdom of God as a  little  child
shall  not  enter  therein"  (Mark  X:15).   All  occultists  recognize  the
far-reaching importance of this teaching of Christ,  and endeavor to  "live"
it day by day.

    When  a new philosophy is presented to the world it is met in  different
ways by different people.

    One  person will grasp with avidity any new philosophical effort  in  an
endeavor to ascertain how far IT SUPPORTS HIS OWN IDEAS.  To such an one the
philosophy itself is of minor importance.   Its prime value will be its vin-
dication of HIS ideas.  If the work comes up to expectation in that respect,
he  will enthusiastically adopt it and cling to it with a  most  unreasoning
partisanship; if not, he will probably lay the book down in disgust and dis-
appointment, feeling as if the author had done him an injury.

    Another adopts an attitude of skepticism as soon as he discovers that it
contains something which HE has not previously read, heard, or originated in
his own thought.   He would probably resent as extremely unjustified the ac-
cusation  that his mental attitude is the acme of self-satisfaction and  in-
tolerance;  such is nevertheless the case; and thus he shuts his mind to any
truth which may possibly be hidden in that which he off-hand rejects.

    Both these classes stand in their own light.   "Set"  ideas render  them
impervious to rays of truth.  "A little child"  is  the very opposite of its

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elders in that respect.   It is not imbued with an overwhelming sense of su-
perior  knowledge,  nor does it feel compelled to look wise or to  hide  its
nescience  of any subject by a smile or a sneer.   It is  frankly  ignorant,
unfettered  by preconceived opinions and therefore EMINENTLY TEACHABLE.   It
takes everything with that beautiful attitude of trust which we have  desig-
nated "child-like faith," wherein there is not the shadow of a doubt.  There
the child holds the teaching it receives until proven or disproven.

    In all occult schools the pupil is first taught to forget all else  when
a new teaching is being given,  to allow neither preference nor prejudice to
govern,  but  to keep the mind in a state of calm,  dignified  waiting.   As
skepticism  will  blind us to truth in the most effective  manner,  so  this
calm,  trustful attitude of the mind will allow the intuition,  or "teaching
from  within,"  to become aware of the truth contained in  the  proposition.
That is the only way to cultivate an absolutely certain perception of truth.

    The pupil is not required to believe off-hand that a given object  which
he has observed to be white, is really black,  when such a statement is made
to  him;  but  he must cultivate an attitude of mind  which  "believeth  all
things"  AS POSSIBLE.  That will allow him to put by for the time being even
what are generally considered "established facts,"  and investigate if  per-
chance there be another viewpoint hitherto unobserved by him whence the  ob-
ject referred to would appear black.  Indeed,  he would not allow himself to
look upon anything as "AN ESTABLISHED FACT,"  for he realizes thoroughly the
importance  of keeping his mind in the fluidal state of  ADAPTABILITY  which
characterizes  the little child.   He realizes in every fibre of  his  being
that "now we see through a glass,  darkly,"  and Ajax-like he is ever on the
alert, yearning for "Light, more Light."

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    The  enormous advantage of such an attitude of mind  when  investigating
any given subject, object or idea must be apparent.  Statements which appear
positively  and unequivocally contradictory,  which have caused  an  immense
amount of feeling among the advocates of opposite sides, may nevertheless be
capable of perfect reconciliation,  as shown in one such instance  mentioned
in  the present work.   THE BOND OF CONCORD IS ONLY DISCOVERED BY  THE  OPEN
MIND,  however, and though the present work may be found to differ from oth-
ers,  the writer would bespeak an impartial hearing as the basis  of  SUBSE-
QUENT judgment.  If the book is "weighed and found wanting," the writer will
have no complaint.  He only fears a hasty judgment based upon lack of knowl-
edge of the system he advocates--a hearing wherein the judgment is "wanting"
in consequence of having been denied an impartial "weighing."  He would fur-
ther submit,  that the only opinion worthy of the one who expresses it  MUST
BE BASED UPON KNOWLEDGE.

    As  a further reason for care in judgment we suggest that to many it  is
exceedingly difficult to retract a hastily expressed opinion.   Therefore it
is urged that the reader withhold all expressions of either praise or  blame
until  study  of the work has reasonably satisfied him of its merit  or  de-
merit.

   "The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception"is not dogmatic, neither does it appeal
to any other authority than the reason of the student.  It is not controver-
sial,  but is sent forth in the hope that is may help to clear some  of  the
difficulties  which  have  beset the minds of students of  the  deeper  phi-
losophies  in  the past.   In order to avoid  serious  misunderstanding,  it
should be firmly impressed upon the mind of the student, however, that there

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is no infallible revelation of this complicated subject,  which includes ev-
erything under the sun and above it also.

    An  infallible exposition would predicate omniscience upon the  part  of
the writer,  and even the Elder Brothers tell us that they are sometimes  at
fault  in  their judgment,  so a book which shall say the last word  on  the
World-Mystery  is out of the question,  and the writer of the  present  work
does  not  pretend to give aught but the most elementary  teachings  of  the
Rosicrucians.

    The Rosicrucian Brotherhood has the most far-reaching,  the most logical
conception of the World-Mystery of which the writer has gained any knowledge
during  the many years he has devoted exclusively to the study of this  sub-
ject.   So far as he has been able to investigate, their teachings have been
found in accordance with facts as he knows them.   Yet he is convinced  that
"The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception" is far from being the last  word  on  the
subject;  that  as we advance greater vistas of truth will open  to  us  and
make clear many things which we now "see through a glass,  darkly."   At the
same time he firmly believes that all other philosophies of the future  will
follow the same main lines, for they appear to be absolutely true.

    In view of the foregoing it will be plain that this book is not  consid-
ered by the writer as the Alpha and Omega, the ultimate of occult knowledge,
and even though it is entitled "The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception," the writ-
er desires to strongly emphasize that is not  to  be  understood as a "faith
once for all delivered"  to the Rosicrucians by a founder of the Order or by
any other individual. It is emphatically stated that THIS WORD EMBODIES ONLY
THE  WRITER'S  UNDERSTANDING  OF THE ROSICRUCIAN  TEACHINGS  concerning  the
World-Mystery,  strengthened  by  his  personal  investigations of the inner

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Worlds, the ante-natal and post-mortem states of man, etc.  The responsibil-
ity upon one who wittingly or unwittingly leads others astray is clearly re-
alized by the writer, and he wishes to guard as far as possible against that
contingency, and also to guard others against going wrong inadvertently.

    What  is said in this work is to be accepted or rejected by  the  reader
according to his own discretion.   All care has been used in trying to  make
plain  the teaching;  great pains have been taken to put it into words  that
shall  be easily understood.   For that reason only one term has  been  used
throughout  to convey each idea.   The same word will have the same  meaning
wherever  used.   When any word descriptive of an idea is  first  used,  the
clearest definition possible to the writer is given.  None but English terms
and  the simplest language have been used.  The writer has tried to give  as
exact  and definite descriptions of the subject under consideration as  pos-
sible;  to eliminate all ambiguity and to make everything clear.  How far he
has  succeeded must be left to the student to judge;  but having used  every
possible  means  to  convey the teaching, he feels  obliged  to  guard  also
against the possibility of this work being taken as a verbatim statement  of
the  Rosicrucian  teachings.   Neglect of this precaution might  give  undue
weight to this work in the minds of some students.   That would not be  fair
to  the  Brotherhood  nor  to  the reader.   It  would  tend  to  throw  the
responsibility  upon  the Brotherhood for the mistakes which must  occur  in
this as in all other human works.  Hence the above warning.

[PAGE 1891]

    During the four years which have elapsed since the foregoing  paragraphs
were written,  the writer has continued his investigations of the  invisible
worlds,  and  experienced the expansion of consciousness relative  to  these
realms of nature which comes by practice of the precepts taught in the West-
ern  Mystery  School.    Others  also  who  have  followed  the  method   of
soul-unfoldment  herein  described  as particularly suited  to  the  Western
peoples,  have  likewise been enabled to verify for themselves  many  things
here taught.  Thus the writer's understanding of what was given by the Elder
Brothers  has  received some corroboration and seems to have  been  substan-
tially correct,  therefore he feels it a duty to state this for the  encour-
agement of those who are still unable to see for themselves.

    If we said that the vital body is built of PRISMS instead of points,  it
would have been better,  for it is by refraction through these minute prisms
that  the colorless solar fluid changes to a rosy hue as observed  by  other
writers beside the author.

    Other new and important discoveries have also been made;  for  instance,
we know now that the Silver Cord is grown anew in each life,  that one  part
sprouts  from  the seed atom of the desire body in the great vortex  of  the
liver,  that the other part grows out of the seed atom of the dense body  in
the  heart,  that both parts meet in the seed atom of the vital body in  the
solar  plexus,  and that this union of the higher and lower vehicles  causes
the quickening.  Further development of the cord between the heart and solar
plexus during the first seven years has an important bearing on the  mystery
of childlife, likewise its fuller growth from the liver to the solar plexus,
which  takes  place during the second septenary period,  is  a  contributory
cause  of  adolescence.   Completion of the Silver Cord  marks  the  end  of
childlife,  and  from that time the solar energy which  enters  through  the
spleen  and is tinted by refraction through the prismatic seed atom  of  the
vital body located in the solar plexus,  commences to give a distinctive and
individual coloring to the aura which we observe in adults.

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           MAN'S PRESENT CONSTITUTION AND METHOD OF DEVELOPMENT:

                            THE FOUR KINGDOMS:

|---------|--------|---------------------------|-----------------------------|
|  PURE   |        |          WILL             | THE ONE UNIVERSAL SPIRIT:   |
|         |        |                           |                             |
|         |        |                           |MINERAL|PLANT |ANIMAL| HUMAN |
|         |        |                           | GROUP |GROUP |GROUP |  EGO  |
| SPIRIT  |        |       IMAGINATION         |SPIRIT |SPIRIT|SPIRIT||     ||
|---------|--------|---------------------------|-|   |--|   |--|   |--|     ||
|         |        |                           |7|   | ||   | ||   | ||     ||
|         |        |       ABSTRACT            |-\ - /-||   |-||   |-||     ||
| WORLD   |  EGO   |                           |6| |   ||   | ||   | ||     ||
|         |        |        THOUGHT            |---|---|\ - /-||   |-||     ||
|         |        |                           |5  |   |  |   ||   | ||     ||
|---------|--------|---------------------------|---|------|----\ - /--|     ||
|         |        |                           |4  |   |  |   |  |   ||     ||
|   OF    |        |    THE FOCUS OF MIND      |---|---|--|---|--|---|\ --- /|
|         |  MIND  |                           |3  |   |  |   |  |   |  /^\  |
|         |        |                           |---|---|--|---|--|---|--|||--|
| THOUGHT |        |                           |2  |   |  |   |  |   |  |||  |
|         |        |     CONCRETE THOUGHT      |---|---|--|---|--|---|--|||--|
|         |        |                           |1  |   |  |   |  |   |  |||  |
|---------|--------|---------------------------|---|------|------|------|||--|
|         |        |                           |7  |   |  |   |  |   |  |||  |
|         |        |        HIGHER             |---|---|--|---|--|---|--|||--|
| DESIRE  | DESIRE |                           |6  |   |  |   |  |   |  |||  |
|         |        |       DESIRES             |---|---|--|---|--|---|--|||--|
|         |        |                           |5  |   |  |   |  |   |  |||  |
|         |        |---------------------------|---|---|--|---|-\|/--|--|||--|
|         |        |                           |4  |   |  |   | /^\  |  |||  |
|         |        |             FEELING>>>>>>>|---|---|--|---|-|||--|--|||--|
| WORLD   |  BODY  |                           |3  |   |  |   | |||  |  |||  |
|         |        |          LOWER     >>>>>  |---|---|--|---|-|||--|--|||--|
|         |        |                           |2  |   |  |   | |||  |  |||  |
|         |        |         DESIRES    >>>>>  |---|---|--|---|-|||--|--|||--|
|         |        |                           |1  |   |  |   | |||  |  |||  |
|---------|--------|---------------------------|---|------|-----|||-----|||--|
|         |        |REFLECTING ETHER:MEMORY    |7  |   |  |   | |||  |  |||  |
|         |        |---------------------------|---|---|-\|/--|-|||--|--|||--|
|         | VITAL  |LIGHT ETHER:THE SENSES     |6  |   | /^\  | |||  |  |||  |
|PHYSICAL |        |---------------------------|---|---|-|||--|-|||--|--|||--|
|         |        |LIFE ETHER:PROPAGATION     |5  |   | |||  | |||  |  |||  |
|         |  BODY  |---------------------------|--\|/--|-|||--|-|||--|--|||--|
|         |        |CHEMICAL ETHER:ASSIMILATION|4 /^\  | |||  | |||  |  |||  |
|         |--------|---------------------------|--|||--|-|||--|-|||--|--|||--|
|         |        |GAS:    BREATH             |3 |||  | |||  | |||  |  |||  |
|  WORLD  | DENSE  |---------------------------|--|||--|-|||--|-|||--|--|||--|
|         |        |LIQUID: BLOOD              |2 |||  | |||  | |||  |  |||  |
|         |  BODY  |---------------------------|--|||--|-|||--|-|||--|--|||--|
|         |        |SOLID:  BONE               |1 |||  | |||  | |||  |  |||  |
|----------------------------------------------|--|||--|-|||--|-|||--|--|||--|
                                                  \|/    \|/    \|/     \|/
                                                MINERAL PLANT  ANIMAL   MAN

[PAGE 1893]

                                INTRODUCTION:

   The Western world is undoubtedly the vanguard of the human race, and, for
reasons  given in the following pages,  it is held by the  Rosicrucian  that
neither Judaism nor "popular Christianity,"  but true Esoteric  Christianity
is to be its world-religion.

   Buddha,  great, grand and sublime, may be the "light of Asia," but Christ
will yet be acknowledged the "Light of the World."  As the sun outshines the
brightest star in the heavens,  dispels every vestige of darkness and  gives
life and light to all beings, so, in a not too distant future, will the true
religion  of  Christ supersede and obliterate all other  religions,  to  the
eternal benefit of mankind.

   In our civilization the chasm that stretches between mind and heart yawns 
deep and wide and,  as the mind flies on from discovery to discovery in  the
realms of science,  the gulf becomes ever deeper and wider and the heart  is
left further and further behind.  The mind loudly demands and will be satis-
fied with nothing less than a materially demonstrable explanation of man and
his fellow-creatures that make up the phenomenal world.  The heart feels in-
stinctively that there is something greater,  and it years for that which it
feels  is a higher truth than can be grasped by the mind alone.   The  human
soul would fain soar upon ethereal pinions of intuition;  would fain love in
the eternal found of spiritual light and love;  but modern scientific  views
have  shorn  its wings and it sits fettered and mute,  unsatisfied  longings
gnawing at its tendrils as the vulture of Prometheus' liver.

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   Is this necessary?   Is there no common ground upon which head and  heart
may meet,  each assisting the other,  each by the help of the other becoming
more effective in the search for universal truth,  and each receiving  equal
satisfaction?

   As surely as the pre-existing light created the eye whereby the light  is
seen;  as surely as the primordial desire for growth created  the  digestive
and assimilative system for the attainment of that end; as surely as thought
existed  before the brain and built and still is building the brain for  its
expression;  as surely as the mind is now forging ahead and wringing her se-
crets from nature by the very force of its audacity, just so surely will the
heart find a way to burst its bonds and gratify its longings.  At present it
is shackled by the dominant brain. Some day it will gather strength to burst
its prison bars and become a power greater than the mind.

   It  is  equally  certain that there can be no  contradiction  in  nature,
therefore  the heart and the mind must be capable of uniting.   To  indicate
this common ground is precisely the purpose of this book.  To show where and
how the mind,  helped by the intuition of the heart,  can probe more  deeply
into the mysteries of being than either could do alone; where the heart,  by
union with the mind, can be kept from going astray; where each can have full
scope  for action,  neither doing violence to the other and where both  mind
and heart can be satisfied.

   Only when that co-operation is attained and perfected will man attain the
higher,  truer  understanding of himself and of the world of which he  is  a
part; only that can give him a broad mind and a great heart.

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   At every birth what appears to be a new life comes among us.   We see the
little form as it lives and grows,  becoming a factor in our lives for days,
months or years.   At last there comes a day when the form dies and goes  to
decay.   The life that came, whence we know not, has passed to the invisible
beyond,  and in sorrow we ask ourselves, Whence came it?   Why  was it here?
and Whither has it gone?

    Across  every threshold the skeleton form of Death throws  his  fearsome
shadow.   Old or young, well or ill, rich or poor, all,  all alike must pass
out into that shadow and throughout the ages has sounded the piteous cry for
a solution of the riddle of life--the riddle of death.

    So  far  as the vast majority of people are concerned  the  three  great
questions,  Whence have we come?   Why are we here?   Whither are we  going?
remain  unanswered  to  this  day.   It has unfortunately  come  to  be  the
popularly accepted opinion that nothing can be definitely known about  these
matters  of deepest interest to humanity.   Nothing could be more  erroneous
than such an idea.   Each and every one,  without exception,  may become ca-
pable of obtaining first-hand,  definite information upon this subject;  may
personally investigate the state of the human spirit,  both before birth and
after death.  There is no favoritism, nor are special gifts required.   Each
of us has inherently the faculty for knowing all of  these  matters;  but!--
Yes, there is a "but," and a "BUT" that must be written large.  These facul-
ties are present in all,  though latent in most people.  It requires persis-
tent  effort to awaken them and that seems to be a powerful  deterrent.   If
these faculties,  "awake and aware,"  could be had for a monetary  consider-
ation,  even if the price were high,  many people would pay it to gain  such
immense advantage over their  fellow-men,   but   few   indeed   are   those

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willing  to live the life that is required to awaken them.   That  awakening
comes only by patient, persistent effort.  It cannot be bought;  there is no
royal road to it.

    It  is conceded that practice is necessary to learn to play  the  piano,
and that it is useless to think of being a watchmaker without being  willing
to serve an apprenticeship.   Yet when the matter of the soul,  of death and
the beyond,  of the great causes of being, are the questions at issue,  many
think  they  know as much as anyone and have an equal right  to  express  an
opinion, though they may never have given the subject an hour's study.

    As  a matter of fact,  no one unless qualified by study of  the  subject
should expect serious consideration for an opinion.   In legal cases,  where
experts  are called to testify,  they are first examined as to their  compe-
tency.   The weight of their testimony will be nil, unless they are found to
be  thoroughly proficient in the branch of knowledge regarding  which  their
testimony is sought.

    If, however,  they are found to be qualified--by  study  and  practice--
to  express an expert opinion,  it is received with the utmost  respect  and
deference;  and  if the testimony of one expert is  corroborated  by  others
equally proficient,  the testimony of each additional man adds immensely  to
the weight of the previous evidence.

    The irrefutable testimony of one such man easily counterbalances that of
one or a dozen or a million men who know nothing of that whereof they speak,
for nothing, even though multiplied by a million, will still remain nothing.
This is as true of any other subject as of mathematics.

    As previously said,  we recognize these facts readily enough in material
affairs,  but when things beyond the world of sense, when the super-physical
world is under discussion; when the relations of God to man,  the inner-most

[PAGE 1897]

mysteries of the immortal spark of divinity, loosely termed the soul, are to
be  probed,  then each clamors for as serious consideration of his  opinions
and ideas regarding spiritual matters as is given to the sage, who by a life
of patient and toilsome research has acquired wisdom in these higher things.

    Nay,  more;  many will not even content themselves with  claiming  EQUAL
consideration for their opinions,  but will even jeer and scoff at the words
of the sage,  seek to impugn his testimony as fraud,  and,  with the supreme
confidence  of deepest ignorance,  asseverate that as THEY know  nothing  of
such matters, it is absolutely impossible that anyone else can.

    The  man  who  realizes his ignorance has taken the  first  step  toward
knowledge.

    The path to first-hand knowledge is not easy.  Nothing worth having ever
comes without persistent effort.  It cannot be too often repeated that there
are no such things as special gifts of "luck."   All that anyone is or  has,
is the result of effort.   What one lacks in comparison with another is  la-
tent in himself and capable of development by proper methods.

    If the reader, having grasped this idea thoroughly, should ask,  what he
must do to obtain this first-hand knowledge,  the following story may  serve
to impress the idea, which is the central one in occultism:

    A young man came to a sage one day and asked,  "Sire,  what must I do to
become wise?"  The sage vouchsafed no answer.  The youth after repeating his
question a number of times, with a like result, at last left him,  to return
the  next  day with the same question.  Again no answer was  given  and  the
youth returned on the third day, still repeating  his  question,  "Sire what

[PAGE 1898]

must I do to become wise?"

    Finally the sage turned and went down to a near-by river. He entered the
water,  bidding the youth follow him.  Upon arriving at a  sufficient  depth
the  sage took the young man by the shoulders and held him under the  water,
despite his struggles to free himself.  At last,  however,  he released  him
and when the youth had regained his breath the sage questioned him:

    "Son, when you were under the water what did you most desire?"

    The youth answered without hesitation, "Air, air!  I wanted air!"

    "Would you not rather have had riches, pleasure, power or love,  my son?
Did you not think of any of these?"  queried the sage.

    "No,  sire!   I wanted air and though only of air," came the instant re-
sponse.

    "Then,"  said the sage,  "To become wise you must desire wisdom with  as
great intensity as you just now desired air.   You must struggle for it,  to
the exclusion of every other aim in life.  It must be your one and only  as-
piration, by day and by night.  If you seek wisdom with that fervor, my son,
you will surely become wise."

    That is the first and central requisite the aspirant to occult knowledge
must possess--an unswerving desire,  a burning thirst for knowledge;  a zeal
that  allows no obstacle to conquer it;  but the supreme motive for  seeking
this occult knowledge must be an ardent desire to benefit humanity, entirely
disregarding  self  in order to work for others.   Unless  prompted  by  the
motive, occult knowledge is dangerous.

    Without   possessing  these  qualifications--especially  the  latter--in
some measure,  any attempt to tread the arduous path of occultism would be a

[PAGE 1899]

hazardous undertaking.   Another prerequisite to this first-hand  knowledge,
however,  is the study of occultism at second-hand.   Certain occult  powers
are necessary for the first-hand investigation of matters connected with the
pre-natal and post-mortem states of man,  but no one need despair of acquir-
ing information about this conditions because of undeveloped occult  powers.
As a man may know about Africa either by going there personally or by  read-
ing descriptions written by travelers who have been there,  so may he  visit
the superphysical realms if he will but qualify himself therefor,  or he may
learn  what  others who have so qualified themselves report as a  result  of
their investigations.

    Christ  said,  "The Truth shall make you free,"  but Truth is not  found
once and forever.   Truth is eternal,  and the quest for Truth must also  be
eternal.   Occultism knows of no "faith once for all delivered."   There are
certain  basic  truths which remain,  but which may be looked at  from  many
sides,  each giving a different view,  which complements the previous  ones;
therefore,  so far as we can see at present,  there is no  such  achievement
possible as arriving at the ultimate truth.

    Wherein  this work differs from some philosophical works the  variations
are caused by difference of viewpoint,  and all respect is paid to the  con-
clusions reached and the ideas set forth by other investigators.   It is the
earnest hope of the writer that the study of the following pages may help to
make the student's ideas fuller and more rounded than they were before.

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