Cathedral Contacts[From The Rosicrucian Digest November 1936]
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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.) |
DIVINE
WORSHIP vs. RELIGION
THERE is a considerable difference between sincere,
Divine worship and the practice of a religion. We may be in error in our
interpretation and understanding, but in the Western World today there is the
general opinion that a religion is a definite code and form of Divine worship
associated with a church and with ritual and limited creeds and doctrines. Divine
worship, on the other hand, can be--and should be--free from creeds or dogmas
and not necessarily associated with any definite form of religion, nor with any
specific sectarian church or temple.
One of the problems that faces the churches of the
world today is how to bring within the portals of the church the millions of
persons who are essentially worshipful of the divinity in man and worshipful of
the omnipotence of God. While it is not true that the individual who follows as
a code of ethics the Golden Rule and lives a clean and noble life in accordance
therewith is a good and worshipful man, it is true that there are millions of
human beings unassociated with any church and not given to any definite form of
religious worship who are essentially good in every religious sense and are
meeting the demands of God and the heavenly hosts to the best of their ability.
The conversion of man from a non-worshipful state in
his youth to a state of fine appreciation of the spiritual values of life is
always much easier than converting a man to a definite religion as specifically
to a set of dogmas or creeds that bear a sectarian label.
Man from his earliest years is essentially worshipful
and naturally seeks to contact that which is Divine and superior to himself.
But he generally associates this appreciation of the spiritual side of life
with the utmost freedom of thought and spiritual or philosophical expression.
In many millions of cases the direct association with a church or institution
of limited or definite creeds and dogmas is a hampering condition extremely
annoying to the young person who looks to find evidence of the spiritual things
of life all around him.
With the broadening of man's consciousness through
the discovery in scientific fields and otherwise of the greatness and
universality of God's and nature's laws, man has become worldly conscious to
such an extent that the limitations and narrowness of certain creeds and dogmas
find no harmonious place in his mind and in his thinking. If God is the creator
of all beings, He is the father and lover of all beings and there cannot be in
the consciousness of God any of the distinctions regarding class of religious
thinking, race, or color that are portrayed to us or represented to us by the
various religious denominations now existing on earth. To the average individual
who is at all conscious of spiritual qualities and of the essential divinity of
all beings, there is one fundamental truth that permits of no distinction and
no division in classification. That fundamental truth is: "There is but
one God and none shall have any other god before Him." This fundamental
truth is the basis of the realization of the fatherhood of God and the
brotherhood of man, and these two realizations are essential if the true spirit
of divinity and the spiritual unfoldment of the kingdom of heaven on earth is
ever to become a reality. But the moment that this one universal God is
distinguished by various races and classes of people by putting on Him at
various times robes of many hues and titles that are in disagreement, the God
of all beings becomes a sectarian God of multiple personalities and principles.
The little child--whose simplicity of religious thought we are always urged to
follow--can think of but one God, the God of all gods, the Supreme Creator. The
moment you attempt to classify that God or distinguish Him as having certain
qualities that place Him in the possession of, or association with, a sectarian
group, you take your God from His universal throne and necessitate His hourly
change into gods of many names and many qualities.
In the Cathedral of the Soul all minds and hearts can
meet in Divine worship regardless of any previous sectarian qualities. The
Cathedral of the Soul is for those who know but one God--the father and creator
of all beings. The Cathedral of the Soul knows of but one race of men
throughout the universe, that race which was created in the image of the one
God and constitutes the human brotherhood of man.
If you would participate in the universal, Divine,
holy spiritual blessings that come from the attunement with the Cathedral of
the Soul, and thus make your life better because of your contact with the
consciousness of God, then send for our little free booklet entitled, Liber
777, which explains the Cathedral of the Soul and its simple form of worship.
(Non-members are especially invited to do so.)
Join with millions of human beings who lift up their
hearts and thoughts to the one God of all and find there mercy, love,
toleration, kindness, and most of all, universal recognition of the spiritual
image which constitutes the real man or woman on earth.
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The
only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom
of God; and this can be done only by means
of the acknowledgment and profession of the truth by each one of us. --Tolstoi.
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