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Contents
T h ou g h t o f th e M o n th ......................................... B Y ^
ImPerator
W h a t is th e M e a s u r e o f Y ou r
F a ith ?..........................................B y Dr. Arthur B. Bell. F .R .C .
T h e M en ta l C u re o f D is e a s e ...........B y Frater A. Leon Batchelor
Descendants o f
L em u ria.......................................
Frater Selvius
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AMORC-THE R O S IC R U C IA l^ O R D E R ^ ^ ^
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W hat
r IS refreshing to know
that some of the popu
lar and widely recom
mended new systems
of the day are not so
new as to be untried
a n d unproved. W e,
who live here in the
W estern W orld, are
naturally reluctant to
adopt any ancient methods of living
and with all of our respect for the
great wisdom of the master minds of
the Orient in the past ages, we rightly
feel that we have achieved such mar
velous progress in our W estern W orld
civilization that the ancient methods
and beliefs of any nation or group of
people can hold but little help for us.
On the other hand, while we admire
and greatly value the progress that the
arts and sciences and education have
The
made in the W estern W orld, and we
R osicrv cian are more than anxious to keep abreast
D igest
of this progressive spirit, wre are like
M ay
wise reluctant to adopt every new and
every unique belief or postulation that
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Descendants of Lemuria
A Description of an Ancient Cult in California
B y F rater Selvius
E S T L E D at the foot of
a partially extinct vol
cano, protected from the
hot sun o f mid-day and
chilling breezes of the
Pacific by the towering
mountain, there exists
the strangest mystical
village in the W estern
Hemisphere, without equal, perhaps, in
the whole world.
The last descendants of the ancient
Lemurians, the first inhabitants of this
earth, find seclusion, protection, and
peace, in this unique village of their
own creation.
It seems hardly possible that there
could be in America, and in California,
a place, a village, a community of
homes and industries, so secluded, so
guarded, and so difficult to locate, that
in a hundred or more years only four
or five strangers have passed within the
sacred confines of the A rm aiti, or in
visible protective boundary of the vil
lage.
For fifty years or more the natives
of Northern California, and tourists,
explorers, and government officials have
contributed facts, and some fancies, to
the accumulating mass of evidence
proving the existence of the mystic
village
(a name used by common
agreement) and supplying the most
astounding facts ever attributed to
human beings.
Tradition and the romantic tales of
romantic California alone, will not a c
count for the stories told by persons
who witness strange sights in the vicin
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W I L L Y O U H E L P U S?
N M A N Y of the ancient
teachings or rather tra
ditional beliefs passed
from generation to gen
eration by word of
mouth, habit is consid
ered an institution of
the evil spirit or the
devil, to use a more
modern term for the same idea. In a
rare manuscript of the ancient Parsee
teachings, which I am busy translating
into English, and which may some day
be permitted print in America for the
first time, I find this old idea expressed
many times.
T o an Oriental who has become ac
customed to the broader and truer oc
cidental view-point, these ancient ideas
are too inadequate to meet the reason
ing of the mind. The most important
point about the old teachings, however,
is their lack of practical application.
In too many instances our acts, our
functionings, our thoughts, are ex
pressed in negative terms and seldom
is anything said to assist us in chang
ing any part of our nature or thinking.
In the case of habit, the ancient teach
ings merely stated that all evil or bad
habits were the result of control over
our minds or actions by an evil spirit,
or one of several of them. W e were
impressed by many proverbs and ideas
The
that once an evil habit became our
Rosicrucian
possession, it was there to stay, unless
Digest
a miracle happened, or through invo
May
cation and magic some other great
spirit or god removed it for us.
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T h e modern Occidental view-point
of such things is unquestionably broad
er and more scientific. W e have learned
how habits are really formed; we have
learned their origin and process of ma
turing; and we have learned how they
may be changed or denied expression.
In the Christian doctrines of today
we have but one personification of evil,
called, as I have said, the devil, or
satan. In the days of old and in most
Oriental teachings, there were many
evil principles or powers in existence,
in some schools of thought, the evil
powers outnumbering the good ones.
In many cases these were personified.
Every conceivable and inconceivable
act that was destructive, unkind or
m ysterious, was attributed to these evil
spirits or gods.
T h e Oriental mind can see. however,
a very close relation between the an
cient teachings and the more modern
statements of fact. T h e former can be
safely considered as symbolical of the
facts of nature. Thus, there is in the
world an actual, not speculative, god
of evil, especially of evil habits and
thinking, and that god, I wish to re
veal. is the small god that resides with
in our own brain.
Habits, whether good or evil, are of
our ovra making. In the A M O R C
teachings there is an axiom that habit
is the unconscious result of a law, etc.,
and this is true in a psychological
sense. M ost certainly habits, as such,
are generally unconscious acts; that is,
they are unconscious tendencies. W e
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V
E A R E living in a per
iod of life when men
and women are be
coming more practical
in their thinking and
reasoning than they
have been in any other
period of the progress
of civilization.
T h e very advance
ment of womens rights and privileges
in the business as well as the scientific
and art world indicates the practical
turn of thinking on the part of all men
and women. M an has come to realize
that woman can be practical in her
thinking and reasoning and in the ap
plication of her talents and that she
has a practical place in life as well as
a theoretical and philosophical one.
Woman, on the other hand, has come
to realize that the practical life is not
only the more efficient but the more
enjoyable, and she has demonstrated
that she is willing to sacrifice some of
the shallow things and the purely in
active and philosophical phases of life
for the more interesting and enjoyable.
In religious matters this trend toward
practicalism manifests itself very def
initely, much to the consternation of
those who try to hold all religious
thinking and teachings on the basis of
ethereal and esthetic philosophy. F or
tunately, man finds that the greatest
avatars of all ages, including Jesus the
Christ, exemplified this very idea by
the practical application of the religious
doctrines. T h a t religion or that system
of religious thought, which is not sus
ceptible to practical application in the
practical affairs of our lives, is doomed
to future oblivion. It is not what a man
thinks in his heart or what he believes
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The
T h e Bridge of Life
Some Day All of Us W ill Cross This Mysterious Bridge
B y The I mperator
V
P R E S U M E
that suffering. O ften these bridges that are
many have read that the most difficult to cross and which
unique book called constitute real problems in our lives are
found to be bridges which we have
"T h e Bridge of San
Luis R ey . If you built or created for ourselves and we
have not read it you are the sole traversers and the only
will find it in the pub ones whose feet are heard in a tedious
lic library and if you journey across. Other bridges have
cannot find it there been built for us by those who would
or do not know how test and try us or who would attempt
:o secure a copy of it, you may write to crucify us and we find some of
o us to our Editorial Department and these untravelled except by ourselves.
ve may be able to tell you how to
Then again we find it necessary to
Ind a copy. It is a story in fiction cross bridges which are upon the great
orm but pointing out one of the myshighways of life and which are being
erious occurrences in life.
approached by multitudes who sur
W hat I want to say at the present round us in our journey and who share
ime, however, does not pertain to with us the difficulties, the problems,
his particular bridge but to the bridge the trials, and sufferings of our trip
vhich was symbolized by this story. across the bridge.
Ml of us will pass over the bridge
Each bridge is of a different nature
hat separates this life from the next
nd spans the great chasm that divides and as we stand in the center of some
his country from that which lies be- of these bridges and look upon those
ond. I wonder sometimes how many who are crossing with us we may spec
f our members and readers think of ulate upon what different paths in lives
he many forms in which this bridge have brought so many diversified na
made manifest to us and in what tures and characters to the one bridge
trange ways we proceed to cross it of similar experience at the same time.
nd what unusual companionships we
W e are often tempted to think that
may have when the time comes to start the individual paths upon which we
the crossing.
are journeying in life are strange paths
As we journey through life we pass never travelled by humans before and
over many bridges and some o f these created by some black magic or evil
we approach with joy and happiness, mind solely for the purpose of causing
feeling sure that the bridge will carry us to suffer and to have unnecessary
us safely and giving no thought to the tribulations. W e are often tempted to
possibilities that may be ready to mani think that our individual journeys
fest at any moment. O ther bridges through life are so unique that only
we approach with reluctance and often one person in the whole world could
with forebodings of trouble, sorrow, or have such an arduous path fraught
Five hundred five
Men and women of different tongues, day at this time in order that they
K ostcru cian o t different
in life, of differ
might cross the bridge together.
D ig est
ent character, and personalities, of dif
T h e same instance is brought to our
M ay
ferent religious beliefs and indulgences,
of different social and financial stations, attention through the sudden wrecking
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sectarian. fraternal body of men and women devoted to the investigation, study, and practical
application of natural and spiritual laws. T h e purpose of the organization is to enable all to live
in harmony with the creative, constructive, Cosm ic forces for the attainment of health, happi
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America, and all other lands, constitutes the only form of Rosicrucian activities united in one
body having representation in the international Rosicrucian congresses. T he A M O R C does not sell
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S. R. C , Grand M aster, Lodge Building. 739
Boylston Street.
Waterbury, Conn.:
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Box 1083.
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N. S. Dimond Street Branch.
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Portland, Oregon:
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