Cathedral Contacts[From The Rosicrucian Digest March 1939]
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"Cathedral of the Soul" is a Cosmic meeting place for all minds of the
most highly developed and spiritually advanced 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 if they address their requests 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.) |
EARTHLY CATHEDRALS
MANY centuries ago in the
southern part of France, known as Gaul, there was built a very beautiful and
impressive cathedral in which the provincial men and women who were more or
less living in serfdom might worship. The greatest architects, artists and artisans
of the period gave much of their time and effort to making this particular
cathedral not only magnificent but eternally beautiful with the thought that it
might last throughout the centuries as a place for the worship of God and the
Heavenly Hosts. It was hardly completed when the strife and dissension among
sects of people over religious doctrines brought about earthly warfare, and
during the course of the strained conditions, the cathedral, being so large and
centrally located, was invaded by the hosts of war and the beautiful choir
stalls and central nave were used for the keep of horses and cattle, and the
magnificent carvings on wood and metal were battered and ruined by the warring
hosts, thus desecrating the very purpose and intent of the cathedral.
The people were forced to do
their worshipping at home, in privacy or in hiding, oft-times under bushes and
boughs in the fields, or in underground passageways, solely for their physical
protection. But they found God there nevertheless, and they learned that
although the beautiful cathedral still remained with its spires pointing
heavenward, their consciousness could be lifted even higher than the highest
spire. And in due course of time the cathedral became vacated even of priests
and clergymen for they found it safer to commune with God in privacy than in
such aggrandized form. The cathedral stands to this very hour as an historical
monument of man's misconception of the proper approach to God.
The Cathedral of the Soul is
another conception. Its lofty place beyond the world, easily reached by the
consciousness of man, its silence, its protection against desecration and
defilement, make it a continual place of peace and rest. And those whose souls
are longing for the ecstasy of subliminal communion and divine contact approach
and reach this Cathedral of the Soul daily, almost hourly, and find therein
health, strength, and all that is tonic to both body and soul.
If you have not enjoyed the
privilege and benefit of this communion, regardless of sectarianism, creed or
doctrine, and with all of the mercy, love and justice with which God can
ensconce man, send for the little booklet Liber 777 and learn how you may start
at once without obligation, without earthly dictation, without worldly
limitation, without discrimination of race, color or creed, to commune with God
and the Heavenly Hosts in the privacy of your own home by lifting yourself and
your consciousness to this great cathedral for moments at a time.
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