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 THE CONCURRENCE
This Week's Consideration of a Famous Opinion
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$ It has often been said that one should not pride him-
r6U on knowledge of Rosicrucian principles but, instead,
on the livine of ihese principles. A word is only as force-
ful as the aftion which it promotes' If the teachin-gs of
ih" Ord"r please but do not invite you to practice them,
Y ;il;y
thev |i^1i; failed in it
have iJgdin their purpose.
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and necessit of the,Practice
p"rpore.. The value and.necessity
lhe in the ferv words below
and application of what we study is veiy clearly brought out
ili#"F;;;A pt",rt"*p5".. and irystic,,'Mi"h"l d" Moitaigne-
Y".1"ry,t[1t-yf?^Ig'
h'#';.;e"i;;"";e;ili';ht;;;s'rph, yo" rvill concurivith th-em ind be very faith-
ffi'; th" &;i;;i your.*p.rirrutitr ,r,iih" application of the laws brought to your
attention.

A man should not so much repeat his lesson as practice it; let him re-
peat it in his actions.we shall discouer if there be in him prudence, bg
his undertakings; if goodness and iustice, bg his deportment; if grace and
iustice, by his speaking; if firmness, by his siclcness,'
if modestg, bU his
recreations; temperance, bg his pleasures; order, by the management of
his affairs; and indifference bg his palate, whether what he eats or
drinks be flesh or fish, wine or water. (Qui disciplinam suam non
ostentationem scientiae, sed legem uitae putet; quique obtemperet ipse
sibi, et decretis pareat.) 'Who considers his own discipline, not as a uain
ostentation of science, but as a law and rule of life; and i[ho obeys his
own decrees, and obserues that regimen he has presqibed for himself .'
The eonduct of our liues is the true mirror of our doctrine. Zeuzidamus,
to one who asked him whg the Lacedemonians did not commit their
constitutions of chiualrg to writing, and deliuer thern to their goung men
to read, made answer that it was because theg would inure them to action
and not to words.
_MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, 1533-1592
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Respected Neophyte:
(The usual opening for aII your study-night meetings should be
used in addition to the instructions given. )
After a few preliminary remarks we will consider in this mono-
graph the increasingly popular subject of thought vibrations. But
first let us talk about something of great importance to every student.
ltlte have received many letters regarding the monographs and are
pleased to find, though our students have read many books and tried to
understand the difference between soul and spirit, mind and body, it
ls not until they have taken the step-by-step instructions of these
teachings that a wonderful understanding of these subjects has been
mad.e possible. In other words, development is slow and necessarily
so, as each student will prove to himself or herself.
Some subjects can be completely and thoroughly mastered through
intellectual comprehension. One of these is the study of law, or, in
other words, the laws of the land. For that reason students of Iaw were
ca1led readers of law, and the more they read and comprehended the
great principles involved, the rulings and decisions of their country
and state, the more proficient they became in the mastery of Iaw. 0n
the other hand., there are subjects which require nore than intellectual
comprehension. A certain amount of personal development, of fund.a-
mental development of the mind and body, must accompany the intellectual
comprehension of the brain. This is true of subjects like music, art,
and mysticism.
You may buy books, in any Iarge music store, that are called.
Complete Courses of Instruction for the Violoncello. Some of these
are written by the most eminent cellists in the world. They have
introductory explanations, photographs, pictures, and diagrams, with
a carefully selected series of exercises and pieces to be played upon
the instrument. I4re do not believe there is a single one of these very
fine books of instruction that would require more than twenty-four
hours ofwords, statements, and phrases used in telling the pupil what
to do. Can you imagine anyone claiming that because he could read the
book through in twenty-four hours he had, therefore, mastered the
course of instruction and was a completely educated cellist, able to
demonstrate what he had studied? It would be absurd. Ihe real student
knows that before anyone could go to the second or third
lesson of such a course he would have to practice the first
exercises and master them and that although the first
lesson required but twenty minutes of reading to comprehend
the instructions intellectually, it would take at least five
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or six days of intensive practice in order to make the fingers and

the fundamental parts or ine body employed in playing become expert
enough to demonsi,rate the instructions given in the first Iesson.
This brings us to the point we wish to make: Thattothe master-
intellectual
ship of certain arts and sciences requires, in addition
comprehension, the development of certain activities and nerve centers'
mr=cte", and actions on the part of the mind and body in order to re-
spond to the commands of the intellect. Ihink of the time you spent in
rbarning to write the alphabet and to compose words.in writing ! Your
eyes shJwed you what you wanted to do by looking at the copy you had in
your noteboolrs. You had everything that would be called intellectual
iomprehension of the first principles of writing. Your in practice was
not for the purpose of making you intellectually smart understand-
ing what you were to do. It was to awaken and develop a certain nimble-
ness of muscles and nerves, and action in your arm' hand, and fingers'
so that your fingers would respond to the impressions of the intellect
and carry out the things you wanted to do'
DEVEIOPING THE When you are deating with mystical laws and
principles,
FiVCXfC FACULTIES you hlve another problem that is seldom given thought.
io, may not need the use of m,scles and nerve centers
so much in dolng netaphysical demonstrations as you need the function-
that
ing ana activiti of certain mental faculties your body andasleep
have been or
dormant. These faculties must be awakened in developed
to an even greater extent than is necessary in the development of the
muscles and nerve centers in your fingers and hands in order to
d.emonstrate a PhYsical ski11.
In performing mystical experiments, the success and efficiency
our muscles and nerve centers as
of what we do depend not so much upon bodies.
upon subliminal psychic centers in our Regardless of how well
,-e may understand the law or principle and how it should be applied'
we must remember that until the proper function or faculty within us
is d.eveloped to a state of responsiveness, we cannot perform the exer-
-accomplish For this reason, Iessons carefully
cises or the thing.
with exercises arranged by masters and teachers
Sr.a"a, starting-a simple
with the Iaws
,ho have spent fif"time analyzing and working in metaphysics and
principles, constitute the only valid instruction or
mysticism.- Such graded lessons and instructions could not be put
lnto one book for i pe""o., to read rapidly and derive therefrom any
good or benefit. For this reason' also, there i" !9 sho-rt or
E"i"x road to the goal. Even- if you could spend three hours
6"""y night of-thJ weeX reading one of the lessons that are
being sent to you, especially the Iessons which follow from
thispoint,yougouldnottakeanewlessoneachnightand
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master it. There are not enough hours in any day for nature to have
an opportunity to develop the iaculties and. functions which must be
aeveiopea between each two monographs'
In the future our lessons will contain, in addition to unrch
valuable information, one or two importa?t points, laws or principles
an6 exercises. ir, =o*a cases, by th-e wording -of the lessons, by the
psycfrofoglcalpresentationofathought,andbyanalogyandillustra-
tilr, we cause the student to meditate upon some inner process' some
minorfaculty'somesubjectivefunction.Thusbydirectinghis
on it and awaken and bring
thought to it we cause him to concentrate dormant for many years'
it into life again after it has been }ying
You are now we}I along in your studies, and the introd.uctory
arguments an6 principfes which-form the foundation for the experiments
that are to foriow i.r ti i= section have been presented to you' 1[e want
youtorealizethevalueofthegradedmonog-raphsandthecarewith
whichtheyareprepareaandpresented,andwhyyoucouldnothavemore
instruction or mor-e of the exercises for each week'
PARI TWO

Wearenowgoingtoconsiderthoughtvibrations.Butfirst'a
-of various ways in which vibrations function is
further explanat"ion thai whenever we use the word viprations
necessary. Let me remind youphysicar nature, and r hope to show you
we mean actual vibrations of a
that thoughts actually produce vibrations of such nature'
vfe often read in magazines or other Iiterature how these
vibra-
tions manifest or whence they come; yet we never find a definite ex-
planation.Picxinguponeofthelatestbooksonnewthought,wefind when we think
in it a paragrail;ii;h =.y": nBy this law we f ind that these vibrations
of health, the thought prod.uces healthvibrations' and
iiow ttrrough the body and produce health' n

Nowwhatdoyoumeanwhenyousayithlnkh.ealthn?lYhatisthink-
llthat is disease? what
ing? what is tiro"eht? what is health?travel are
health vibrations?" How do vibrations through the body? How do
they produce health?
do you find simple
Iret me ask you, Fratres and Sorores' wherewhich and
questions-answers enable
complete .rr"*""= t; such
you'to demonstrate every law and principle?
The true Rosicrucian is very analytical'everyHe is a walk-
ing question mark, as we have said' He wants word'
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every law, every principre explained and demonstrated and made so

plain and simple that he can denonstate these laws to himself and
others.
You wiII find that the schools of medicine and psychotogy-in
the latest forms of thelr teachings-havs proved that there is in the
nervous system of man an energy which they have been trying to analyze.
The greatest scientists have been working on it; they have given a
name to this energy which flows through the nerves. They cal1 it
trelectrical nerve energy. x They added the word electrical because
the energy vibrates rike erectricity, has other properties or condi-
tions like electricity, and flows through the nerves just as electricity
flows through electric wires.
Rosicrucians have proposed for hundreds of years that this nerve
energy exists. More than this, they propose what it is, where it comes
from, and how it functions. AII these things will be realized by you
gradually through the Iessons as you progress in the work.
However, the point which I wish you to keep in mind, and fully
realize, is that this energy in the nerves is the vibratory force we
carl vitar life Force. rt frows to every part of the body and causes
ACTTON in every part of the body. The action is of various kinds and
we wiII take up only one form of it on this occasion.

MESMER, THE Perhaps you witr be interested in the story about

,i/iYSTERY PHYslclAN Mesmer, a viennese physician of the eighteenth
century. People used to hear as much about Mesmer
as we now hear about hypnotism, The day is not far distant when the
popular and theatrical methods of hypnotism will be so little used that
persons hearing the word will probably want to turn to an encyclopedia
and read about it, just as we suggest now that, 1f you have an op-
portunity, You look in some encyclopedia for Mesmer and Mesmerisn. l{e
are not going to cover, at this time, what you may find in the
encycropedia, but we must tell you to keep in mind the folrowing facts
when you read. anything about l,[esmer: He craimed, and no doubt berieved,
that he had discovered a new principle in Iife which he thought was an
invisibre fruid that emanated from persons' bodies and especially
from their finger tips. Mesmer was a student of the Rosicruclan
teachings but had not gone very far in the work; probably not as far
as you have gone in your lessons at the present time-otherwise he
would not have made the mistake he did in regard to his ex-
periments. We can overlook his mistakes because there is
no question about his sincerity, although unjust references
in some of the encyclopedias make him appear foolish, if not
fraudulent.
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Keep in mind that the same thing was done in regard to Harvey
when he first prolxulgated to the scientific world the ldea that the
blood in our bodies circulates. His idea had been known to the Rosi-
crucians for many years, just as Mesmer's ideas had been known to
them. Mesmer, however, believed that he had found a new way to utilize
this fluid that everyone possesses. He soon discovered that many
persons who had what they catled a healing power in their hands or
finger tips had an unusual flow of this fluid energy from their hands;
and he believed that this energy could be concentrated into one central
supply and that it could be directed along thin wires in much the same
manner that electricity is sent out along wires today from a central
point. He had groups of people sit in a roomwith their hands touch-
ing one long wire that went around the room, with the idea that the
fluid energy in their fingers would accumulate in this wire and that
at the end. of the wire a powerful force would be mani-fested.
Now Mesmer was absolutely right in regard to this fluid energy
that we have just been calling the electrical energy in the body, and
whlch we know as a manifestation of the Vital Lrife Force that is in
all living matter. As we continue the work of the various lessons, we
shall Iearn to make a definite distinction between the various forms
of electrical energy and the vital forces called Iife.
In the science of electricity, reference is often made to a
piece of machinery called a generator, which is supposed to generate
electricity. The word generator was given to the machine by the first
man or men who perfected it, and it is corunonly known by that name today,
but every electrical expert and every textbook on electricity will telI
you that it is an unfortunate name for the
machine, because it gives the impression that
\\\n\ it generates electricity whereas it does
nothing of the kind. Man has not found any
way as yet to generate electricity in its true
-\:s'ri
____=__:-=\--'
and pure sense. Electricity is in the air
F=u- everywhere, and a generator is really a con-
'-%'l
-'-t:/2,, verter, a device that converts nechanical
energy into electrical energy and directs it
through the cond.uctors to operate various
mechanical devices.
fHE PHENOMENON OF lYe want to have o ur men-
\ ELECTRICALENERGY bers thoroughly

fr
understand the
n nature of energy without becoming
too technical, at the present time,
in our lessons. 0f course, there is
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the energy generated or accumulated or directed by steam, and also

through wind and other means; but the most common and the most wonder-
ful of aII energy is that called electrical, because it can be mighty
in its force as, for instance, in bolts of li-ghtning. When an attempt
was made some years ago in the great power plant of the General
Electrlc Company at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, to give an artificial
demonstration of a Iightning boIt, it required. many years of work and
an enormous outlay of money to prepare equipment that would give forth
enough electricity to make a lightning bolt long enough to look like
lightning. It was so perfect it would have shattered to almost in-
visible pieces anything it might have hit. Yet the mighty artificial
electric bolt that astounded the electrical world and brought people
thousands of miles to witness was but a small spark compared to the
natural electric bolts that shoot around in space during a thunder-
st orm.
0n the other hand, electrical energy can be utilized in such a way
that it is impossible to sense it with our ordinary obiective faculties.
For instance, in radio and television sets as used today there is an
electrical energy known as high frequency, or radio waves which travel
through space and require delicately adiusted instruments to attune
to them and pick up and transform them into audible sounds or visual
impulses. Yet, as fine and delicate as is a radio wave, it has the
ability to penetrate watls of buildings and deep places in the earth
&s, for instance, the great tunnel under the Hudson River, or the
vaults (hundreds of feet beneath the street level) under bank build-
ings in New York or London.
Delicate galvanometers wiII register the electrical energy flowing
out of the core of an apple and will even show that the energy from
the core is negative in polarity. It is possible to take certain objects
which have been handled by a woman for only two or three minutes and
measure the electrical energy that was left there by the hands of the
woman and to distinguish this energy from that which would have come
from the hands of a man. Thus we see that electrical energy may be very
delicate and so slight that instruments more d.elicate than the parts
which form a watch are necessary to measure it.
Many experiments have been carried out in testing these theories in
recent years. Each year wiII show more and more work being done in this
fieId, and if the trend continues, experiments will confirm the hypo-
theses Iaid down by Rosicrucians over the centuries.
May you experience Cosmic Peace.
FraternaIIY, YOUR CI'ASS MASTER
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IMMBEBSHIP COUNSEI,

lYhen nenbers of your class send their reports'

,,Thcv thatvill not and occasionally their questions, to the
b":;r'"r;[: ;; ;;i Department of Instruction,
Instruction, questio
these questions
bc helped." and comments are read by one of the staff of
:B::i:lli.I'_*lh. that departnent. Appropriate answers or
acknowledgments are then forwarded to the
(Rosicrucian)

member who asked the question or Eade the

report. Some questions are of a general
nature and no doubt the sane ones have occumed to you and to others
of your c1ass. You will therefore find, from time to time, in future
montgraphs, that sone of these answers will be added at the conclusion
of your-regular lessons, thus providing you with the opportunity to
share with the entire class these answers and comrnents prepared by
officers of the Qrder and members of the staff of the Department of
Instruction.
 The Weekly Application
Whatsoeuer thou resoluest to do, do it quickry. Def er not till the
euening what the morning may accomplish.-UNro Tnrr I Gnaur

There are several ways in which you can experiment with the presence of a nerve
energy radiating from your finger tips. Have someone in your family act as the sub-
ject. Then behind their backs, and with their eyes closed, move the fingers of either
hand to different areas of their body, holding them just above their body so that no
part of your fingers or their body is touching. As you move your fingers here and
there, pausing for thirty (30) seconds or so over various positions, have your subject
tell you where your hand is.
Taking deep breaths and directing your conscibusness to your finger tips during
this period will help. You may also try this experiment on yourself. In this ob-
serve the position of your fingers over a part of your body and see if you can"r.",
feel tle
nerve energy.
 Summary of This Monograph
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Below is a summary of the important princjples of this monograph. It contains the essential
statements which you should n6t forget-. Afler you have careTully read the complete mono-
sraph. try to recali as many as you can of the important -this you read. Then read this
-refer points
;11riil# and see if you have foigotten any. Also to summary during the ensuing
week to refresh your memory.

S ffre great body of Rosicrucian truths or mystical teachings have never been put in
book form for public distribution.

I tt e mere reading of any lesson or monograph is not sufficient to give mastery of its
contents.

{ M"rtery arises from practice, and in our work it means the diligent awakening of
the inner faculties, so that their usefulness may correspond with our understanding
of their purpose gained through our studies.

{ et least as much time must be set aside for practice and application of the principtes
as is devotedto the study of them.

{ Vital Life Force fows to every part of the body and causes ACTION in every part
of the body.

$ Etectricity is not generated but is ACCUMULATED. The name generdtor is in'

correctly applied to the electrical apparatus which conducts' or directs, this energy.

Q Every cell of our flesh and bones is infused with energy, and these cells operate and
manifest in certain functions according to the nature of that enerw.