The Thought of the Month
THE CATHEDRAL OF THE SOUL
By The
Imperator
[H. Spencer Lewis]
[From The Rosicrucian Digest January 1930]
IT SEEMS fitting that in the
issue of this magazine for the beginning of the year 1930 and at practically
the twenty-first year of our Rosicrucian activities in America under the
present cycle, I should have the opportunity to announce the existence of a new
and beautiful star in the Cosmic, which will hereafter be known as the
Cathedral of the Soul.
Fourteen years ago, the first
foundation stones of this invisible immaterial yet not intangible cathedral
were laid by me with due ceremony and reverential consideration for the part I
might be taking in a work that seemed to be Cosmically directed and divinely
decreed. Having prayerfully received and considered the instructions for this
great work for seven years, it was my joy to bring the inspiration into some
form of earthly manifestation and thus fourteen years ago, the plan that was
decreed seven years previously became a living Cosmic reality.
Our members are to hear much
about this Cathedral of the Soul in the near future, and at present I wish
merely to announce its name and present to you a brief picture of what it is.
This cathedral is that great holy of holies and Cosmic sanctum maintained by
the beams of thought waves of thousands of our most advanced members, who have
been prepared and trained to direct these beams of thought at certain periods
of the day and the week toward one central point, and there becomes a manifest
power, a creative force, a health giving and peace giving nucleus far removed
from the material trials and problems, limitations and destructive elements of
the earth plane.
While men have been busy
planning, building, and directing great spires and towers of earthly cathedrals
that would reach high into the heavens and become the material abiding place
for those in devotion and meditation, we have been creating this cathedral of
prayer and illumination, Cosmic joy, and peace high above every material plane
and ascent into the Cosmic itself.
In this cathedral there will
be the music of the spheres and the chimes of Cosmic rhythm, there will come
from its spire the call to worship at various hours of the day and week
throughout the years to come, and our prepared and advanced members will reach
this cathedral with their thoughts and their soul consciousness and dwell
therein and carry on the great work of bidding others welcome, touching them
with the hand of fellowship and the heart of sympathetic understanding. From
its high altar will go forth the illuminating words of Cosmic inspiration and
divine illumination. Into this great cathedral we will call those who are
seeking for the first portal of the Cosmic Assembly. Hereafter, it will be our
ambition and our pleasure to direct the sincere and the devout, the worthy and
the needy to this great cathedral. The story of what it is and what it means
will be issued in a beautiful booklet to aid those who are starting on the path
with their gaze turning upward, away from the desire for knowledge of a
material nature, and seeking the more glorious life giving, soul inspiring
illumination of the Cosmic hosts.
The Cathedral of the Soul
shall be your Cathedral and mine, and the dwelling place of the great masters
of the past and future.
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