Cathedral Contacts[From The Rosicrucian Digest September 1932]
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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 this 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 librarian 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.) |
THE matter published in this department in the August
issue proved to be of intense interest and value to all of our members.
Containing, as it did, the comments of those who have had difficulty in making
contacts with the Cathedral of the Soul and giving helpful hints as to how that
difficulty might be overcome, the article was really a symposium of experiences
and helpful suggestions. We trust that all those who have had any difficulty of
this kind will take the opportunity to read the article in the August issue.
What the Cathedral
Is
It may seem strange to our American members, but the
fact of the matter is that our members in foreign lands and even readers of
this magazine in foreign lands who are not members of the Rosicrucian
Brotherhood seem to have a better understanding of the Cathedral of the Soul.
To them the Cathedral is a spiritual creation resulting from the concentration
of spiritual thoughts and spiritual vibrations directed to one point from the
thousands of minds on earth. In all of the Oriental philosophies and religions such
a focalization of thought and spiritual meditation and contemplation is not
only possible and feasible but a great probability. Those Orientals who turn
their minds several times a day toward the great Mecca of their religion have no question in
their hearts or minds about the influence that is thus created at this earthly
shrine. There are many other similar shrines held sacred by the Orientals who
frankly admit that whatever Divine Power or spiritual efficacy may be found in
these shrines is due to the focalization of this essence by the concentration
of thought of the many who hold it sacred and think of it periodically.
In the more modern religions we find this thought
included and not excluded even though an interpretation of it or description of
it is spiritually different. Jesus understood this power and said that wherever
a number might be gathered together in His name there would He be. Of course,
He did not refer to His personal being in a material sense actually occupying
material space in their midst but He referred to a spiritual emanation of
HIMSELF or of the Christhood within Him reaching down to any point or place
where a number of minds and souls were united in concentration, meditation in
His name or in the name of that which He represented. The early Christian
church and later the great Roman Church created sacred shrines and places that
were acknowledged to be extremely holy and powerful in spiritual energy as a
result of the prayer and thoughts directed to these places by multitudes.
To one who travels a great deal in foreign lands and
enters the holy shrines, temples, synagogues, mosques, tabernacles, cathedrals
and churches of the various religions, there are always some which are found to
be almost vibrant in a physical sense with a spiritual energy that seems to
make one's very being tremble. In some cases the vibrations are so intense that
every nerve center of the human being responds. These places are not surcharged
with any super-natural or special spiritual power emanating from on high in a
unique manner but charged with vibrations that have been centered there as a
result of the sacred thoughts and spiritual attitudes of the many in past
centuries who have paid homage to the place and in its presence poured out the
very life of their souls.
There is no reason for such a sacred shrine to be
located wholly or solely on the earth plane. Such a focalized point of
concentrated thought and prayer may just as easily be above the earth plane as
on it. The Cathedral of the Soul was originated with this thought in mind. It
is an imaginary, ethereal Cathedral, first created in thought and then
sponsored and maintained by thought and it today is a living example of thought
power. Contacting this Cathedral of the Soul in thought is equivalent to
contacting a sacred shrine on the earth plane. When entering the Cathedrals and
mosques and temples of the Holy Land it is not the physical self entering such
a place that is significant but the mind and heart and soul coming within the
range of the vibrations of the place that puts one into attunement with it and
makes for a spiritual blessing. If one could leave the physical body behind and
enter the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem or the Holy Shrine in Bethlehem or any
other sacred place and there dwell purely in soul and spiritual thought one
would have the same response, and same attunement, and same benediction as
though in the physical body. In fact, the more one becomes unconscious of the
physical self when in the presence of such places, the greater is the spiritual
benefit.
In attuning with the Cathedral of the Soul, the
spiritual body cannot be taken into the holy aura of the ethereal edifice. It
can be approached only with the heart, the mind, and the soul consciousness.
For this reason, the response and the effect is greater and the efficacy of the
contact is made more evident.
All of those living in the Western World who do not
have the Oriental concept of these sacred principles would do well to analyze
them and give them deep thought before passing them by in a light manner.
The free booklet called "Liber 777" tells
the story of the Cathedral and if you, as a reader of this magazine, have never
had this booklet it will be well worth your while to send for it as explained
in the box at the beginning of this Department and read it and follow the
instructions in it, whether member or not.
Special Contacts
The Imperator will make special contacts with the
members during the next four weeks as follows: On each Thursday night at 8:30,
Pacific Standard Time, which is equivalent to 12:30 A.M. (midnight), Eastern
Daylight Saving Time, or 11:30 Eastern Standard Time, the Imperator will put
himself in touch with other members and help them to contact him through the
Cathedral of the Soul. For the time being the special contacts according to the
alphabetical list will not be continued until after the summer vacation and
more of the members are at home. All of the regular contact periods of the
Cathedral, as outlined in "Liber 777," will be maintained every day
of the summer as usual.
Make yourself well acquainted with the Cathedral.
Understand the deep principles underlying its very existence and help others to
understand these for the Cathedral is becoming a very marvelous thing in the
lives of many thousands of persons who testify to the unusual benefits in
health and many ways which come from contacts with this Cathedral.
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