Cathedral Contacts[From The Rosicrucian Digest August 1934]
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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.) |
PEACE
AND POWER
THROUGHOUT the world today there is increasing need
for moments of relaxation from the turmoils of life and moments for
contemplation and meditation, during which the mind may properly view the
events of the past and present and with the right perspective comprehend life's
problems in their correct relationship.
The man or woman whose mind is worried and heart
tormented with problems that seem difficult to solve and with unknown elements
constantly interfering with the plans of life, needs that inspiration and that
peace and power that will help to conquer the enemies of happiness and
contentment.
It is not until we separate ourselves from our very
close relationship with our personal problems that we are able to judge them
correctly. It has always been said that no problem in human affairs can enslave
us after we once understand it, for with the proper understanding comes a
logical revelation of the solution. But it is also true that no problem in life
can be understood so long as we are so close to it that we are a part of it and
its seeming magnitude and overpowering greatness awe us and inhibit our
rational thinking. Our proximity to the problem distorts our mental vision of
it. No magnificent work of art can be properly appreciated when the eyes of the
beholder are so close to it that only a portion of it nearest to him is visible
at a time. Music can deafen us instead of pleasing us by its overwhelming
volume if we are too near to its source.
Have you ever gotten down on your hands and knees on
the floor and crawled about in such a position that your eyes would be on the
level with those of the little child playing in your home? Try it on the lawn
or some place out in the open and notice what a distorted view the little child
has of the world around him. Even an adult passing by seems like a giant and
the wheels of an automobile seem surprisingly high and those of a wagon appear
to be enormous. Think of the impressions and distorted view of worldly things
that are made upon the mind of the kitten and of the infant. The closer we are
to the earth the less comprehension we have and the less correct our visions of
the thing that are of greatest importance in life.
By lifting our consciousness and our vision to great
heights we see things in their real proportion and in their real relationship.
By entering the Cathedral of the Soul for rest, meditation, and contemplation,
we not only have a higher view-point but we have contact with the universal
mind and the Cosmic consciousness. This brings peace and power to our souls.
Here we find inspiration coming as the voicing of the mind that knows the
solution to all problems and knows the ultimate end of all things. We are given
strength, fortitude, endurance, the ability to persist and carry on, to overcome
obstacles, to meet conditions face to face and be fearless. The attunement
brings even peace to the physical body and harmonizes the vitality and Cosmic
powers surging through our being, thus quieting inner turmoil and acting as a
tonic to our bodies it alleviates pain and disease and brings health and
regeneration.
This is no theory and no unprovable doctrine. You can
enter the Cathedral of the Soul and in sincerity offer your own life as an
example for the Cosmic powers to guide and protect. You can learn through your
own personal experience what may be accomplished by a lifting of your
consciousness to the great heights and the resting for a while in harmonious
attunement within the ethereal Cathedral of the universal soul.
Make it a daily practice in your life to spend a few
minutes in meditation and contemplation in the silence where all of the
restrictions of time and space can be cast aside and your soul consciousness
can rise to unknown heights. Just as sleep and rest are needful for the body,
and food and drink needful for the nourishment of it, so a few minutes of
spiritual or Cosmic meditation are absolutely necessary for the harmonizing of
the great universal forces within your body and around you and for the tranquillity
of your heart and mind.
In all history and in all the lives of the great men,
we find that peace and power have come through silence, through meditation, and
through relaxation, contemplation of the greatest factors making for success or
failure, happiness or sorrow, peace or strife. It is impossible to carry into
the Cosmic realm the earthly annoyances and the petty problems that perplex and
torment. No matter how great they may seem to be and how unconquerable, from
the earthly view-point, they fall into insignificance and fade into the
nothingness of mortal illusions when the mind and consciousness are lifted up
into the great, peaceful halls of the Cosmic Cathedral.
Each morning for a few minutes before beginning the
daily tasks and each evening for another few minutes before closing the day's
activities, take yourself apart from all worldly contacts, closet yourself in
isolation from others and from all the phantasmagoric impressions of the
world's ceaseless activities, and in a relaxed mental and physical state allow
your soul to express itself in its great flight toward Cosmic heights carrying
with it your consciousness and your power of discernment and understanding. For
a little while the world will be lost to you, but a new kingdom will be opened
and new vistas, new visions, will spread before your inner eyes and you will
feel the tingling through your body coming from the vitalizing energy of the
Cosmic rays and Cosmic powers.
Follow the periods given in the Cathedral book called
Liber 777. Preserve your book carefully and make it a daily companion
for consultation in the hours of need. You will find these periods the greatest
blessing that man has in his earthly life.
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