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M E S S A G E D

0 often our friends and

students ask: "What can
1 do to help with the
work?" and so it is my
intention to deal with
several of these recur
ring questions that your inquires on
this subject may be answered.

by adverse circumstances and bias

ed ideas that unhappiness or even
despair have resulted, we will
give full consideration to your
recommendation, and admit them as
students if our analysis shows
that they are prepared for advance
ment.

"Is there anything I can do to

help with the great Work?" Yes,
there is....much.You can assist in
various ways, but first of all,you
may help both your fellow-travellers
and those not yet identified with
the Path by mental and spiritual
cooperation, and by demonstrating
the helpfulness of Occult standards
in your own life. In short,so live
that others observing your life will
be inspired to emulate it, for the
principles of Truth are reflected
not only in the sacred Books, but
they are most commandingly pictured
in the living testament off daily
life.

Others ask: "If I am to ob

serve the Occult
principle of
Silence, does that mean I am nev
er to speak of my beliefs to others,
and never teach them?" No, not at
all. The principle of Silence re
fers to refraining from discussing
promiscuously the intimate contacts
of the Inner Planes.As the Candid
ate progresses farther and far
ther along the Path, he or she ex
periences a raising of conscious
ness and a close attunement with
Higher Plane forces.These contacts
whether they beIntellectual,Astral,
or Spiritual, are personal, they
concern the Candidate and no one
else. We may speak of their beau
ty and message only to advanced
students, or to the Masters guid
ing our efforts, certainly these
sacred revelations are not to be
publically advertised. But there
is much that can be done in the
way of direct teaching.... were
this not so,neither you nor I would
have received Illumination. Each
Traveller must learn from another
in advance of himself, thus there
may be a niche waiting for you to
fill as a Guide and Teacher.

Many students inquire:"Would

you object to my recommending the
Brotherhood to a friend?" No, we
feel that the students who work with
us are cognizant of the kind of in
struction and assistance of fered and
would not suggest the organization
to those who would unworthily use
the Spiritual Mysteries. If your
friends have demonstrated directly
or indirectly that they are seek
ing for something finer and higher
than they had before, or if you
perceive that they are old souls
awaiting another opportunity to
continue their development, or if
their lives have been so tangled

If you are uncertain as how

to proceed and are anxious to serve
others directly,the Special Train-

ing Course will afford you the

instruction you need. There are
numerous occasions when you may
encourage someone in trouble, when
you can advise one so deeply in
volved in a problem that his own
judgment is warped, and too, often
a bit of technical assistance is
needed in solving a philosophical
problem. The
Special
Training
Course has been arranged to advise
you on these and similar questions
that you may avoid many of the disasterous errors inexperience often
brings.
Countless letters with this
question have been called to my at
tention: "Many times I have wished
to include an additional amount in
ray lunar envelope, but hesitated
feeling that perhaps the Brother
hood has no need for an amount in
excess to the usual Offering. It
is true that as far as the adminis
tration of the work is concerned,
we do not request that more than
the stipulated amount noted in the
Craftsman Booklet be forwarded by
any student.... that amount is ap
plied to his or her personal tuitionary expenses. But we do ac
cept additional amounts in the in
terest of those students who are
experiencing financial difficulty
in the continuance of their work.
There are many calls for us to
write those in dire circumstances,
many calls for us to distribute
the Messenger among unhappy and
destitute souls who have no other
source of Light and Spiritual in
struction, many times we wish to
continue the Lessons schedule of stu
dents sincere and worthy, who are
not able to send in their Dues for
several months..... all of these
demands must be supplied out of
funds other than those employed
in furthering the usual activities
of the organization. We do not
consider these services as acts
of Charity, they are simply "aids"
to help our comrades over a few
difficult situations. So if you
want to help in this way, you may

do so, designating clearly in your'

letter your intentions as to the
application of the amount you for
ward
All of these are practical
ways in which to help and serve,
and all may be done in reverential
memory of the loving Giver of all
Good Gifts.
-- Sri Cariot, M.B.
Keep a smile on your lips; it is
better
To joyfully, hopefully try
For the end you would gain than to
fetter
Your life with a moan and a sigh.
There are clouds in the firmanment
ever
The beauty of heaven to mar,
Yet night so profound there is
never
But somewhere is shining a star.
Keep a song in your heart; it will
lighten
The duty you hold in your hand;
Its music will graciously brighten
The work your high purpose has
planned.
Your notes to the lives that are
saddened
May make them to hopefully yearn,
And earth shall be wondrously gladened
By the songs they shall sing in
return.
Keep a task in your hands; you
must labor;
By toil is true happiness won;
For foe and for friend and for
neighbor,
Rejoice, there is much to be done.
Endeavor, by crowning lifes duty,
With joy-giving song and with smile,
To make the world fuller of beauty
Because you were in it awhile.
-- Nixon Waterman
A A A
Be not conformed to this world;but
ye transformed by the renewing of
your mind.

ALL FAITHS LOOK TO THEE

(compiled by Kedernath

Das Gupta)

and blessed was the Deed of the

Holy One. Purity is the best gift.
Happiness is to him 7/ho is pure for
the sake of purity.

-- Invocation -Benediction
Teach us, 0 Lord, to see Thy
Life in all men and in all the peo
ples of thine Earth.
Christian: Our Father who art
in Heaven,hallowed by Thy Name.Thy
Kingdom come, Thy Will be done on
earth as it is in Heaven.
Jewish: Here, 0 Israel, the
Lord is our God, the Lord is One.
Blessed by His Name whose glorious
Kingdom is forever and ever.
Buddhist:All praise be to the
Lord,the Holy One, perfect in Wis
dom.I go to the enlightened One for
refuge,I go to the Law for refuge,
I go to the Brotherhood for refuge.
Confucian: Oh, revere !0h,revere!
God is glorious. Help me to bear
this burden on my shoulders,and show
me the glorious virtue and conduct.
Hindu.Let us meditate upon the
adorable Light of the Divine Vivifier; may He direct our minds.
Jain: Adoration to the Lord,
the destroyer of foes, the Supreme
God,the King of those who have at
tained victory.
Mohammedan; There is no deity
but God. All praise be to God, the
Lord of all the worlds, the? Merci
ful, the Compassionate, the Master
of the Day of Judgment.
Shinto:
All ye men wno dwell
under the heavens;regard all beings
as your brothers and sisters. You
will then enjoy this Divine Country,
free from hate and sorrow.
Sikh; The One Supreme Being,
v/hose Name Eternal Truth, the Crea
tor, the Spirit,devoid of fear and
enmity,immortal,unborn,self-exist
ent, the Enlightener, the Bestower
of grace, Glory to Him.
Tao: To know the eternal is
enlightenment. The Divine Way is
the asylum of all things, the good
mans treasure, the bad man*s last
resort.
Zoroastrian:
Blessed was the
Thought, and blessed was the Word,
3E PT E M B E I L

1935

From unreality lead us

to
Truth, from darkness lead us
to
Light, from death lead us to
Im
mortality .
PAGANISM
Orville Leonard
The true God is in me -Even as he is
At the heart of the universe And when I grow above this world,
There is a something emanates from
me -An outgrowth from my earthly life,
But greater than that life -That cannot die.
So even must God gro7/,
Because of that outgrowth in me,
Greater than my life,
That I add to the heart of the
universe.
He is ever changing,
Even as I change,
And if the spirit in me
Outgrows its earthly vehicle -As it must -Then God must grow through me
Because of what I -- and myriad
others -Add to the volume of his spiritual
force.
For God is spiritual force
And, since I am a part of Him,
I ll not be trammelled
By ary creed or dogma,
For he who calls not to a distant
God
But ever talks as to his closest
friend,
With his own highest self,
And rests on that -Nor seeks a fanciful prop to stay
His mental or his moral weariness-Is the only strong, free man
In all the world.
PAGE

THR.EE

VIBRATION
The most familiar contacts
with vibration consist of our con
stant apprehension of light and
sound.
Vibration is defined as oscil
lation; in other words, rapid mo
tion. Everything is in a constant
state of vibration. The material
universe is composed of atoms and
molecules which are never still,
but are moving at astonishing rates
of speed at all times.
Reduced speeds produce solid
objects which can be seen and touch
ed.In water,for instance,there are
three distinct rates of vibration;
the highest speed constitutes steam,
the middle speed constitutes the
liquid state of water,and the low
est speed manifests as ice.
It has been
estimated by
Science that molecules in air of
average temperature travel at a
rate of about 500 yards a second.
Sound is a disturbance which one
molecule passes on to another when
it collides with it, rather like
relays of messengers passing mes
sages on to one another. The "mes
sage of the molecules is their
rate of vibration.lt is apprehended
by each molecule in turn. For in
stance, when a musician strikes a
note on the piano, the molecules
immediately adjacent to the piano
string are raised or lowered in
vibration to a particular pitch.
That vibration is immediately pas
sed on to the next molecule until
the sound" is diffused thruout the
entire room. It is manifested on
the ear drum and the message which
it contains is transmitted to the
conscious brain being interpreted
as a musical note.
Light, however, travels at a
very much higher rate of speed about 186,000 miles per second.Sir
James Jeans has given us a very apt
illustration to distinguish and
contrast the differences in speed
between light and sound: "Light
travels with the same speed as
wireless signals, because both are

waves-of electrical disturbance.In

cident ly, this speed is just about a
million times that of sound. The
enormous disparity in the speeds of
sound and of electric waves is vi
vidly brought out in the ordinary
process of broadcasting. When a
speaker broadcasts from London his
voice takes longer to travel three
feet from his mouth to the microphone
as a sound wave, than it does to
travel 550 miles to Berlin, or
Milan as an electric wave.Wireless
listeners in Australia hear the
music of a broadcasted concert soon
er than an ordinary listener at the
back of the concert hall who relies
on sound alone. They hear it a
fifteenth of a second after it is
played."
Light,and other forms of vib
ration distribute energy from a cen
tral point.If it were possible for
us to move the arm at a high rate
of speed we could, by swinging it
back and forth rapidly,produce the
very musical note which is sounded
by the piano.If we could move it at
even a greater rate of speed,it is
possible that the swinging oscilla
tion of the arm could produce a ray
of light. Furthermore every color has
a different vibration,just as every
musical note has a different one
also. ,It has been estimated that
about thirty vibrations per second
are the smallest number which will
product a musical sound. Around
fifty vibrations per second is equal
to a low note produced by an organ,
and about 8000 vibrations per second
is the maximum which can be appre
hended by the physical ear.The same
thing is true of colors. The vi
bration of light waves Is just as
varied as the differences between
low notes and high notes in sound.
Light waves which are receptive to
the physical eye extend all the way
from the red light to the violet
light,which,when it is seen by the
eye, Indicates that 800 million
million waves of light are entering
the eye each second. Of course,
the waves of light which are per(Concluded on Page 8)

THE CHILDRENS CORNER

requently parents have
asked for instructive
Occult material
they
might transmit to their
young children, and so
we give
you several
Prayers of proven helpfulness in
the consecration of young souls
to the Pathway of Truth and Light.
First is the familiar Prayer of
the four Angels:
Four corners to my bed,
Four angels 1round my head,
One to watch and one* to pray,
And two to drive all harm away.
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John,
Bless the bed that I lie on.
Jesus, hear my hopeful prayer,
Tender shepherd of thy sheep,
Let thy kindness and thy care,
All our souls in safety keep.
Gracious Master, source of love,
With light and comfort from above,
Be thou my guardian and my guide,
And o ver every thought and step
preside.
Master of my guiding star, help me
these three doors to cast ajar,
each imprisons a treasure rare,
and all I would with others share;
first, the door of my body to per
fect Health; second,the door of my
mind to perfect understanding, and
last, the door of my heart to per
fect love.
Order my footsteps by thy words,
And make my heart sincere;
Let error have no dominion,Lord,
And keep my conscience clear.
May all my heart and all my days
Be devoted to the Lightened Ways.
Affirmation
God,the good,is ever present with
in me and ever manifests Himself
as good in my life, filling ray con
sciousness with knowledge,joy, and
harmony.

THE DWELLER ON THE THRESHOLD

Various
writers of popular
material on Occult subjects invest
the Dweller with a certain nameless,
terrible and supernatural power,
describing it very much as they
would a fearsome monster waiting to
devour hapless victims.That is not
quite the understanding of this mat
ter which we wish our students to
have, and so thru analysis, let us
determine exactly what the Dweller
is.
First of all,remember that it
has no separate shape,identity, life,
or energy of its own, but it is
simply the composite picture of all
our failings, all of our errors,
weaknesses, and inherent evil in
clinations. It is the synthesis of
all that which travelling the Path
way overcomes, and therefore its
formidable nature grows less menac
ing as its power is destroyed step
by step thru advancement .No soul is
strong enough at the first moment
of dedication to higher principles,
to master all negative aspects of
consciousness in one grand revision
of character...we improve gradual
ly. And because of that, each step
of our journey is one in which we,
figuratively
speaking, wage war
against the Dweller, learning thru
experience how to master its re
strictions .
It can destroy--yes. But only
when it has voluntarily been given
full control of ones life. This
adversary within is more persis
tent than any exterior enemy, for
it strikes at our weakest moments,
and if we permit it to do so, robs
us of will
power, courage and
strength, In other words, our own
vices bring untold despair and
grief when we yield to them, but
their power to harm is mitigated
in ratio to the influence exerted
by the Christ consciousness.
Those who aspire to enter in
to the Divine Temple of Wisdom,
must necessarily pay the price,and
that supreme price is the Mastery
of the Dweller.

DEFINITIONS
In response to the requests
for Occult definitions of various
words employed in the Lectures, we
shall include in the Messenger each
month an explanation of the
key
words more frequently used.If there
are words you would like to have
defined here, speak with your In
structor concerning them.
ARUPA:
A compound word mean
ing "formless":however,it does not
mean the entire lack of cohesion,
but rather it means that type of
form associated with the spiritual
worlds,the etherical "forms" of the
higher planes.
LOKA: An Eastern term refer
ring to place or locality, or, as
used in Occult literature, a plane
or sphere. It is frequently com
bined with such adjectives as Arupa,
thus "Arupa-lokas"meaning "Spirit
ual worlds."
TANTRIK:Refers to the Tantras,
or the numerous religious discus
sions and formulae consisting of
dialogues between Siva and Durga.
Many of the Tantras are not sanction
ed by genuine Occult scholars as
they bear rather strongly on the
subject of witchcraft and bLack magic.
ASAT: A Sanskrit word meaning
that part of manifestation which is
"Unreal" as opposed to the "Real".
In other words, the negative phase
of existence,or the first principle
of latency which precedes and is
higher than active manifestation.
MATRIX:That which gives shape,
a mold.
ANIADA; The term employed by
Paracelsus to denote the activities
caused by Astral influences,or the
activity of imagination and phan
tasy.
NISAN: The seventh month of
the Hebrew year, corresponding to
March and April, commencing with
the new moon of the former.
ASTRUM: a Term often used in
stead of Astral Light.
LIPIKA:The recorders of Karma,
the entities who know the Karma of
every man, and who assist in the

regulating of the Karmic experiences

so that the greatest benefit possi
ble is derived from each life-span.
MITER: The head covering of
the clergy of high rank.If Jewish,
it is usually in the shape of a cap,
gathered around the forehead with-a
band upon which are inscribed the
letters of a sacred verse.The Chris
tian miter of the Bishop is conical
in shape, with peaks in front and
back decorated with various holy
symbols.
ARES:A god of the a.ncient*n
fact it is the Greek word for the
Latin Mars. He was the god of war,
the son of Jupiter and Juno.In the
esoteric interpretation, Ares is
used to Indicate the spiritual prin
ciple, the character of each ob
jective thing.
SAMADHI: Literally,"to direct
toward", used in regard to the
trance-state in which the mind is
absorbed in the object of its men
tal pursuit so that all awareness
of the physical is forgotten.lt is
intense contemplation, with the
mind directed to spiritual objec
tives. Among the yogis it is said
to be the highest type of meditation
as it implies union with the Spirit
ual Monad,being the highest of eight
graded stages and possible only to
the Adepts.
ME PLUS ULTRA: A Latin phrase
meanink, "Nothing more beyond."
SUPRA: The name of the lowest
caste in the ancient Indian system.
It is the laboring class, which is
entitled to only a small portion of
the privileges, social and political,
allowed other castes. The other 3
castes are Brahman,Kshattriya and
Vaisya.
NEOGALIA: Festivals, without
wine, celebrated in honor of the
lesser deities.
PHARMA:A Sanskrit word meaning
the right religion, or the right
philosophy, justice, equity, right
conduct,etc.In other words, moral
and spiritual law. It is also frequent
ly used to mean duty,or the things
which it is right and natural that
any given individual should do.

THE HUMAN

TOUCH

ut in the pan-handle of
Texas lived an old man
and his wife who had
lived together for more
than fifty years.
The
wife a very
devout,
faithful church worker ;the husband,
a rancher who had busied himself
since the early eighties with the
duties of farming and cattle rais
ing.
If you were raised as was I,to
believe that unless you followed the
dicates of the clergy you were doom
ed to everlasting punishment, you
will probably get a better under
standing of this epistle than those
of you who were given more rein and
liberty of conscience.
Time came when the husband and
father was no longer able to carry
on,a heart affliction had kept him
in his room for some months and in
his haste to regain strength he had
experienced a relapse.A severe at
tack one evening left him in a very
weakened condition and he realized
for the first time that recuperative
powers were not able to restore his
youth and vitality .Taking his wife1s
hand in his,he looked at her for a
minute, then with a smile on his
face, said, ffMother,I dont like to
leave you, but it looks like I'm
headin for the last roundup. Her
countenance became serious and for
a minute or two she seemela in a
daze,then looking at him she said,
"Jacob,have you made peace with the
Lord? For a moment he was the man
of yesterday, gripping her hand in
his,a broad smile lighting up his
face,he said. "Mother,Me and the Lord
aint never had no trouble!"
Folks who knew him said he had
a kind heart, was humane to his
beasts and an excellent neighbor.
All of his life he had followed the
rule of, "Do unto others as you would
have them do unto you."
If you and I as students of Oc
cultism were to think of nothing
but living at peace with God,I won
der to what heights we would reach?

An emphasis on lip service is, in

my opinion, the least we can offer
to those who have a right to expect
something at our hand. The law is,
"Be ye doers as well as hearers."
And the law which is above all law,
"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart and with all
thy mind and thy neighbor as thy
self" implies a service to our fel
low men.
When I was told the above incid e n ^ i t called to my mind the 23rd
Psalm. David, in his latter days,
when his physical strength waned,
must have realized that the end of
this incarnation was near,but as a
true Son of God,he felt the comfort
that comes with a service well ren
dered. MYea tho I walk thru the val
ley in the shadow of death,I shall
fear no evil,for Thou art with me.
Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort
me.
It seems to me the old man
must have felt that comfort and
tho he lacked words to express it
as David did, the meaning is the
same.
To me this incident is a re
velation. In this day when the
pious gird their loins to do ver
bal battle with the devil, and go
into long winded, meaningless ora
tions to condemn sin, I sometimes
wonder, were they hitched in the
harness of the ordinary man and
compelled to earn their bread at
the forge and the daily grind of
the laborer,would they retain some
of the ideals they expound from
their cushioned seats of ease and
gesticulate with uncalloused hands?
The impractical idealists and
those who make much ado about no
thing,of course fill a place in the
world, but it does seem to me that
the time is at hand when we should
put into practice the teachings of
the Master Jesus, who said, "In as
much as ye do it unto the least
of these,ray brethren,ye do it unto
me." Those whom conscience con
demns have lost or misused the
human touch.
-- Old Joe.

THANK

YOU

We wish to thank all those

who sent us information concerning
a certain book of reference men
tioned in the August Messenger. We
received scores of replies, and
were overjoyed at the whole-heart
ed response this request brought.
The need has now been suppli
ed through the kindness of one of
our students,and we wish to thank,
not only the donor, but all those
who so earnestly engaged in our
search for this volume. Your as
sistance and interest were appre
ciated.
THE LARK AND

HER YOUNG ONES

There was a brood of young Laiks

in a field of corn which was just
ripe, and the mother,looking every
day for the reapers,left word when
ever she went out in search of food,
that her young ones should report
to her all the news they heard.One
day, while she was absent,the mas
ter came to look at the state of the
crop."It is full time,"said he,"to
call in all my neighbors and get my
corn reaped."When the old Lark came
home, the young ones told their
mother what they had heard,and beg
ged her to remove them forthwith.
"Time enough, said she; "If he
trusts to his neighbors, he will
have to wait awhile yet for his
harvest."
Next day, hov/ever, the owner
came again, and finding the sun
still hotter and the cornmore ripe,
and nothing done,
"There is not a
moment to be lost,"said he;"we can
not depend upon our neighbors: we
must call in our relations;" and,
turning to his son, "Go call your
uncles and cousins, and see that
they begin to-morrow."
In still greater fear, the
young ones repeated to their mother
the farmers words. "If that be
all, said she, "do not be fright
ened, for the relations have got

harvest work of their own: but

take particular notice what you
hear next time,and be sure you let
me know." She went abroad the next
day,and the owner coming as before
and finding the grain falling to the
ground from over-ripeness,and still
no one at work,called to his son.
"We must wait for our neigh
bors and friends no longer; do you
go and hire some reapers to-night,
and we will set to work ourselves
to-morrow." When the young ones
told their mother this
"Then,"
said she, "it is time to be off
indeed:for when a man takes up his
business himself, instead of leav
ing it to others, you may be sure
that he means to set to work in
earnest."
-- from Aesops Fables.
Vibrations (Concluded from page 4)
ceptible to the physical eye are
not the only rates of vibration,
nor are they the highest rates of
vibration in existence. There are
many types of vibrations beyond that
of the brightest light of which the
eye is ignorant. For instance, the
well known X-Ray which penetrates
thru flesh, but which is oscillat
ing so rapidly that the eye cannot
apprehend its motion,is an example
of such vibration.
In addition, there are the
Gamma-Flays, which are just beginn
ing to attract scientific attention.
And to continue still further,those
vibrations of an even higher pitch
than has been discovered ty scient
ists, correspond to the pitch of
the Astral Plane; becoming sensi
tive to Inner Plane
Actuality
means the "raising of vibrations".
Just as the musician practices
to distinguish each note in the
most complicated chords, so does
the Occultist, thru practice,learn
to receive these Higher Vibrations
thru exercising his psychic fac
ulties. They are beyond the re
active ability of the five senses,
being received only by that more
subtle body,the psychic vehicle.

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