Cathedral Contacts[From The Rosicrucian Digest March 1936]
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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.) |
SOME great thinker once said that if there had been
no God of the universe, man would have created one. This was said with no
feeling of irreverence for it clearly conveys the fact that man is essentially
worshipful and ever seeks in his normal, natural thinking state to find that
power, that intelligence, that something that is greater than himself and which
he can adore, admire, respect, honor, and emulate.
It has often been noticed that the little child who
has not been taught any creed or dogma naturally leans toward the worship of
the invisible and the omnipotent. As the little child grows to the stage where
he is able to express his wonderment, to manifest his meditative thinking, and
to ask analytical questions in their simplest form, he reveals that he is
seeking to learn about something external to himself, something external to his
parents, that is greater or more magnificent or more majestic in some sense.
Such children are easily led into the path of religion and worship. And they
seldom doubt the existence of an omnipotent, omnipresent God as do older ones
who allow their objective minds to deceive them with erroneous premises in
their reasoning.
It has been said by many that this tendency on the
part of the child to want to worship something beyond and greater than himself
and external to his own consciousness is either an inherited tendency derived
from his parents or ancestors, or an acquired tendency created out of the
practices in his environment. But this is not true, for there are sufficient
instances on record of this tendency on the part of children born to parents
and in a direct ancestral line where there have been no such tendencies. If it
is an acquirement, it is not from external conditions or influences, but rather
from internal ones, for the love of worship is in every sense an emotion of the
soul and not an urge or emotion of the external self or objective
consciousness. The greatest tendency on the part of the external, objective
consciousness is to aggrandize oneself and to lean toward the admiration of the
ego. This is the basis of the human emotion known as vanity. There is therefore
in all average normal human beings a conflict of emotions between the outer
self and the inner self, the one seeking to find what must be a greater and
more majestic self external to the individual, and the other seeking to
establish the idea that there is nothing greater nor more majestic, omnipotent,
and wise than the outer self of the individual. Even in those cases where the
outer self has been fictitious to the extent that an exaggerated opinion of the
ego and an extreme case of vanity is made manifest, there are in the silent,
meditative periods of that individual's life many occasions when a form or
sense of worship to an external power is secretly indulged.
The tendency for man to believe in the existence of a
Supreme Being, a Father above all fathers, a Mind and Intelligence above all
minds and intelligence, is so fundamentally a part of the evolving beings on
earth that even primitive man in the earliest stages of evolution gradually
created symbols of what that majestic, external, omnipotent Being resembled and
to which symbols or resemblance he might express his adoration and obeisance.
The building of a great cathedral on the earth is but
a form of man's continued desire to express in the greatest grandeur possible
his realization of the inspiration of divinity. But each and every such attempt
is limited by the earthly elements and earthly conditions. The most lofty spire
that was ever conceived for the greatest of cathedrals finally found its apex
far below the heavens toward which its creators hoped to extend it. The most
marvelous and beautiful forms of art expressing the beauty of divine
consciousness were limited by man's ability in the handicrafts and arts. Man
has never been able to build out of the concrete, material things of this earth
anything that sufficiently represented the heights of his divine conception and
the glory and beauty of his spiritual comprehension.
In the Cathedral of the Soul, however, we find time
and space and the elements of earthly existence no bars to the loftiness and
beauty of man's conception. The Cathedral of the Soul rests upon no earthly
footstool and is formed of no material elements or limited in form, size,
weight, and nature, and its beauty is not of the geometrical patterns determined
by the crystals of earth's matter. The Cathedral of the Soul is built of
spiritual things in a spiritual kingdom which has neither foundation nor limit
to its height; that has neither breadth nor width, nor any of the dimensions
which determine and proscribe man's earthly creations.
The Cathedral of the Soul is a place for the
worshipping of the soul and not for the objective consciousness of man. It is a
place where the spiritual part of man may abide and rest and find peace, and
not a place for his physical body to enter and comply with physical laws. It is
a place for that part of human existence that is not classified in experience,
or sex, race, color, education, social standing or worldly wealth. It is not
regulated by time and it is always available and never closed to the seeker.
Its inspiring messages and thoughts are not limited by the vocabulary of man's
brain or by the oratorical delivery of man's trite methods in speaking. Its
messages come direct from the consciousness of God and are spoken into the
perfect understanding of the soul of man. Its music, its vibrations of
happiness and contentment are of the pristine emanations of the mind of God
and, therefore, are free to all, and immediate in effectiveness.
We invite all worshippers of all creeds and
denominations of all lands and all races to join with us in our worship in the
Cathedral of the Soul. If you have not read the booklet called, Liber 777,
which tells the story of the Cathedral of the Soul, send for a copy today. You
may have it without any obligation and with the benediction of the Cosmic and
the best wishes of our organization.
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