Cathedral Contacts[From The Rosicrucian Digest February 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
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PRAYER, FAITH AND ACTS
THERE has been much
disputation on the part of theologians in the past as to the differences of
ideas between Saint James and Saint Paul. One of them seemed to think, from a
casual reading, that the greatest act making for salvation was that of faith,
while the other seemed to think that the greatest act was that of works or
acts. But in truth these two men held the same idea, the same logical,
rational, unavoidable and indisputable idea, because works are a result of
faith and without having the faith you cannot do the work or perform the acts.
On the other hand, faith alone and of itself will not bring salvation either in
heaven, hell or here on earth. There are too many hypocritical, pious persons
who walk about with the earmarks of their faith on their sleeves, or on their
illogical grinning countenances, but who do not show by their acts or works
that they are being consistent with their Christian religion, Jewish religion,
or any other belief.
One of these great writers in
the Bible argued what he thought was the most important thing, namely, works.
But he plainly realized that preceding the works must come the faith, while the
other argued that before the works could manifest there had to be faith. So
after all, both of these great men were right. The real subject or question for
disputation is this: Are you right in ignoring both of these subjects? Have you
the necessary faith, and are you demonstrating the works and acts? You may
place your faith in God or Jesus Christ or Mohammed or anyone else, but unless
you go among the multitude or among men to demonstrate this faith, your faith
will be of no avail. Some of the writers of the Holy Scripture have said that
one must stand before God with his faith and justify it. To my way of thinking,
and to the way of thinking of some of the greatest scriptural writers of the
past, the way to demonstrate and justify one's faith is not before God but
before mankind. If you justify your faith here on earth in your works and acts
among men, you need not worry about the eventual or inevitable justification
that will be recorded in the Consciousness of God. But if you are waiting until
that remote Judgment Day when the Horn of Gabriel or the harp of some angel
will bring you suddenly before the throne of God, and there with all of your
piousness and all of your preachment and all of your smug objective attitude
you will attempt to justify your faith and your goodness to God, you are doomed
to disappointment, for God will know long before you reach the Judgment Day or
reach His throne what you have done and it will be too late then to try and
justify yourself or your faith or your acts or your attitude or anything else.
One of the greatest ways, the
easiest ways of strengthening your faith in God and all of His laws, and at the
same time cooperating with mankind in his effort to lift himself up, is to join
with the multitude of others who meet in the Cathedral of the Soul in silent
prayer and meditation and there find peace and that ecstasy and subliminal
incarnation of a few minutes or a few hours where you are a living example of
the "word made flesh." If you do not know how to do this, send for
the little booklet Liber 777 which is absolutely free, and is also free
of creed and dogma, and in the privacy of your own life use it to assist your
consciousness to rise above the mundane, sordid things of life and point out to
you not only the inward path of light but the goal of Godliness and Nirvana.
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