Cathedral Contacts[From The Rosicrucian Digest June 1935]
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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 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 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.) |
OUR VISION LIFTS US UP
NOT long ago the woman
physician in an institute for the care and treatment of the blind told a story
of a little girl twelve years of age who had been in the clinical department of
the institute for many months and had been released as partially cured of
blindness with an assurance that normal sight would gradually come and remain
permanently.
The little girl had been born
blind through an abnormal condition in the eye which could not be corrected
until approximately the age of puberty. A few minor operations and some eye
exercises, along with the proper psychological care and treatment, gradually
brought the vision of light to the consciousness of the child and finally she
began to see colors in things--something she had never seen before. For many,
many months she had seen a brightness of some kind before her eyes indicating
that the nerves sensitive to light vibrations were being revived or awakened,
but it was not until the sudden change had taken place in the process of the
restoration of sight that colors in all of their brilliancy made a proper and
startling impression upon her consciousness.
The physician said that when
the little girl first approached the window of her room in the clinic and
looked out over the trees and the lawns, she was so happy because of the
variations in colors and the magnificence of nature's painting. It was late in
the afternoon and the western sky beyond the trees was tinted with a variation
of colors such as is often seen only in the Golden West. The full scale of prismatic
spectrum colors seemed to have been painted by the hand of God in a magnificent
pastel blending, for there were the yellows and the blues, the violet and
orange, the deep golden red and the marvelous turquoise greens and emerald
tints of intermediate shades. The child stood fascinated by this marvelous
scene and after a few moments of silence a nurse told the child to come with
her down stairs into the yard and see pretty flowers and the children's faces
and other things she could not see from the window. For several days the little
girl was happy in the new world in the center of which she seemed to occupy a
distinct place. From her descriptions of things she seemed to feel that the
world surrounded her and that she was the pivotal center of all existing
consciousness.
When Sunday came she asked to
be allowed to go with a few others for a ride and then a walk into the valley
surrounding the clinic. After riding in an automobile for an hour the group of
nurses and children stopped at a lawn near the foothills where a picnic lunch
was prepared. The children were allowed to play--to romp and jump, to run and
walk--without restriction on the lawn and between the trees while the adults
prepared the meal. After a half hour had passed it was noticed that Alice and
two of the other children were missing from the group. They said that she had
taken two other children by the hand and that the three of them walking side by
side had started off toward the foothills. Going after them, the nurse and
physician found that Alice and her two companions were going up the side of the
hill, struggling on the steep incline and winding their way between the
boulders and fallen trees with great difficulty. When asked why she chose such
a tiresome and fatiguing walk in preference to the level and softly covered
lawns below, she explained: "I did not know that we were going up the side
of the hill or that it was hard to walk. All the time that I have been out here
in the open space between the trees, I have kept my eyes on the sky watching
the beautiful colors that change in the clouds and in the spaces between and I
wanted to go nearer and nearer to those clouds. I guess it was because I had my
eyes turned upward to the sky that I did not notice that I was going up a hill
instead of remaining on the level ground."
In that explanation the
little girl revealed a fundamental law of life. We unconsciously tend to
approach that toward which we have our vision centered. As we go through life,
we will rise to the heights of our vision or fall to the level of its downward
gaze. If we center our sight and our consciousness on the things that are level
with us, we never lift ourselves up and we never rise above the commonplace of
life. If our vision, our admiration, adoration, and concentrated attention is
upward, we will find that fate as well as our minds and hearts tend to take us
bodily, physically, and spiritually to the heights we see.
By centering our thoughts for
certain periods of the day upon the Cathedral of the Soul, we not only lift up
our eyes, minds, and hearts to the sublime heights of Cosmic space beyond the
earth, but we lift up our bodies, for in all of the daily steps we take and all
of the movements on the trampled paths of life, we find ourselves constantly
tending toward the narrower path that leads upward and onward rather than that
which goes about in circles and ends at the place where we began.
Dwelling in the Cosmic space
above us for a few minutes each day is not only a tonic to the soul and an
inspiration to the mind but a real uplifting to the whole physical self, and
soon we will find that we are approaching not only with an uplifted gaze and a
speculative mind but with our whole being, the place to which we have directed
our thoughts, to the place which holds our attention, to the ideals which
dominate our thinking and to the point that holds us to itself as by some magic
power.
If you have not felt the
benefit or derived the pleasure of periodic contact with the Cathedral of the
Soul, whether a member or not, send for the free booklet, Liber 777, and
follow the schedule of periods when thousands of other individuals in all parts
of the world are attuned to the great Cathedral and meet there spiritually and
mentally en masse. It is this unity of thought, this concentration of
spirituality, this attunement of the better part of ourselves with that which
we hold most sacred that constitutes a dynamic spiritual power in the ethereal
Cathedral of Cosmic vastness. From this spiritualized focal point will radiate
and emanate the reflected thoughts of love, peace, health and power that are
created by the uplifted minds and hearts of those attuned.
Wonderful miracles can come
into your life at such moments of Cosmic contact. Until you try them with all
sincerity, until you dwell in peace and happiness within the Cathedral, you can
never know of its joy and inspiration. There not only the Christ consciousness
will dwell because of those who dwell in His name, but there also the creative
power and the love of God constitute the Shekinah within the temple and bring a
benediction unto all who bow before it.
Come with us and kneel at the
altar in the Temple of the Soul and help to bring into the lives of thousands
the sublime realization of spiritual unity and omnipotent peace and love.
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