Cathedral Contacts[From The Rosicrucian Digest February 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.) |
CATHEDRALS OF THE PAST
RECENTLY some of our friends
have stated that this special department of our work known as "The
Cathedral of the Soul" is not a wholly new idea, nor exclusively original
with us. They claim that in ancient times the same idea was used somewhere in
the Rosicrucian organization, or at least among some of the mystical
philosophers of the Middle Ages.
We have never thought of the
Cathedral of the Soul as an idea that was so wholly new and original that its
counterpart, or even an exact and perfect form of it could not be found
somewhere in the mystical writings and especially in the Rosicrucian teachings
and principles of the past. We have always known, for instance, that among the
mystical philosophers and Rosicrucian adepts of the higher grades in the past
centuries, there were occasions when a large number of them would unite and
create mentally and psychically for the time being a great cathedral into which
all of them would project their thoughts and meet in silent communion as in a
mental world or spiritual world far above the mundane things of life. We knew
also that many of the Rosicrucian mystics of the past have referred rather
indefinitely or vaguely to their Cosmic contacts with other Great Masters in a
holy place that resembled a cathedral.
But at no time in the past
history of the Rosicrucians or of mystical philosophers did any organization or
group of officers plan a symbolical and allegorical Cathedral of the Soul into
which thousands of persons were invited to place their minds and hearts in
simultaneous communion at various fixed periods of the day and night. This was
the part of the plan that was original with us in this country.
It is as though in the past
centuries various small groups of mystics or occasional triangles of members
did agree to meet mentally, despite their distant locations, in a temporary,
sacred place in the Cosmic, which we might liken unto a small chapel or a holy
grotto where in mental seclusion and spiritual privacy they might contact the
minds and souls of one another for temporary understanding and exchange of
ideas; and it is as though we here in America took that little Cosmic chapel
and rebuilt it into a magnificent cathedral ample to enclose the minds and
inner selves of thousands, and opened its doors daily and hourly to the
reception of those who were sick or despondent, or perplexed, or in sorrow, and
who would be sure to contact at almost any hour of the day or night others who
came there in rejoicing, in thankfulness, and in appreciation for Cosmic
blessings, and were ready to administer inspiration, cheer, and good fellowship
to the others.
There is hardly any phase of
our Rosicrucian activities, the counterpart of which to some degree cannot be
found in the teachings and practices of the Rosicrucian mystics of the past,
and even of some eminent mystics who were not affiliated with the organization.
Truth is eternal, and has never belonged to any one sect or classification of
individual, and the great truths contained in our teachings and practices may
be found in shadowy form or in part, or perhaps just in symbol or inexpressed
thought in the lives and practices of illuminated characters through all the
ages.
If you have not set aside a
few moments of your daily life to lift your thoughts upwardly and outwardly to
a point where you can feel that Cosmic Blessing, that Divine energetic
infusion, and that magnificent music of the spheres which we appreciate with
the Cathedral of the Soul, then you have missed one of the benedictions of the
day, and one of the greatest opportunities of your daily life for relaxation
that is tonic, inspiration that is beyond mundane limitations, and joy that is
beyond earthly imitation.
Whether or not you are a
member of our organization, you are privileged to enjoy the great blessings of
the Cathedral of the Soul. Irrespective of your religious faith, or the creeds
and doctrines of the church and religion to which you are devoted, you can
strengthen and encourage the spiritual side of your nature by allowing it to
soar on divine wings to great heights of the transcendental Cosmic
Consciousness and there dwell in ecstasy for a few moments. It will cause you
to forget for a while your earthly trials and tribulations, your material
problems, your human ailments, and your personal limitations, weaknesses, and
tendencies. You become but a living soul in all of its pureness and undefiled
expression. You become what God made you and intended you always to be, a
living soul in His Divine Image.
In the Cathedral of the Soul
you will find no creeds or dogmas except those that you take to it as your
Rosary and guide in life, and you will find that your Rosary is symbolical of
all of the spiritual truths. You will find no intolerance, no
misunderstandings, no quibblings over non-essential things, but simply the
magnificence and subliminal purity of soul. It is like a journey to the unknown,
with the unknown becoming known while the known of the earth is completely
forgotten. You will return to your worldly affairs and worldly consciousness
encouraged and inspired, happy and at peace with the world. You will have had a
taste of what the spiritual life must be in the great period that is yet to
come. You may sense but dimly, but nevertheless comprehendingly, a bit of that
afterlife when you shall be freed entirely for a time from the physical form
and physical obligations. The few moments spent in this way will bring greater
strength and health to the body and mind than hours of sleep and relaxation.
If you have not secured from
our organization the mystical book entitled "Liber 777," be sure to
send for it today as suggested in the introductory paragraph at the beginning
of this department. Share with us one of the great joys which the ruler of the
earth and the decrees of man cannot take from us, and which the trials and
tribulations and suffering of the earth cannot destroy.
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