Cathedral Contacts[From The Rosicrucian Digest May 1938]
| The
"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 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.) |
REACHING GOD
PRACTICALLY all of us were
taught when we were children that we could easily reach God with our simple
prayers and that He was ever listening and ever ready to answer our prayers if
our requests and desires were good. Throughout life our religious studies and
our church instruction have taught us the same idea. Those of us who are
Christians have the excellent example set by Jesus Himself as to how to pray
and to whom to pray. Every mystic, every spiritual philosopher, knows that
there is great efficacy in the attunement with God and in the reverent,
prayerful attitude in communing with God and expressing our desires and wishes,
and in petitioning Him in behalf of ourselves and others.
But when we were children
there was something about the religious instruction that we received which
created in our minds the idea that God as a Being sat upon a throne in some
special place adorned with gold and pearls and ivory, and with a host of angels
supplying the heavenly music. Some way or other there was created in our minds,
as children, the idea that God lived or existed in a palace of considerable
material quality and that God was limited in some way to this palace or this
throne, and that we had to reach up to this unseen palatial residence in the
heavens and with timidity and humbleness approach His presence as we would
approach the most austere king or ruler on earth.
The mystics of today--as
those of the ancient times--know that God exists everywhere and that His
principal place of abode is in the heart of man. They know and feel that when
they attune themselves with God they are attuning the outer self with the inner
self, and through this means communing with the God Consciousness within them.
For this reason they have always been inclined to think of God as dwelling in
the holy temple that is a temple of the soul. It was this idea that prompted
the plan of having thousands of sincere and understanding individuals sit in
meditation and attunement at the same hours and direct their thoughts to the
same invisible and immaterial temple which we call the temple of the soul.
Through such concentration and attunement there come joy and peace and harmony
to the soul of man, and there come strength and tonic to the body. If you have
not experienced the sublime ecstasy of such spiritual attunement, spiritual
peace and power, send for our little book called Liber 777 and learn how
you can enter into this prayerful, spiritual attitude at various hours of the
day and night and without any obligation, without any material restrictions,
without any limitations of creed or dogma, become one with God and one with
God's Consciousness in a sentient manner, and experience the real joys of
divine communion.
|