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The Temple Artisan

Vol. XXXII. November and December, 1931. Numbers 6,7

Behold I give llnto thee a key

THE STAR OF CHRIST

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Rise up and sing for joy, ye peoples

of all lands, for over you now shines the
Light poured forth in golden glory from
His Star, the Star of Christ. new born,
to bring to you fulfillment of the hope of
days gone by, when first He came tq
claim His Heritage of Love.

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THE TEMPLE AH.T1SAN 10fi
"The Tripie Star"
Temple Teachings. Open Series No. 263.
My Dear Children:
The glimpse of an isolated truth serves as a good illustration to
explain lhe fact that so many false coneepts are formed in thr minds
of psychic8 from the failure to relate one phenomena to anothE'r of
which it ja apart, and from the fact that to psych'ic vision i~ opeoed
at one time a eertain related state or plane, i\nd at another time a dif­
ferer.t plane, and the psychic is thus unabJe to relate isolated
glimpses of tru th, one to the other, for the reason that the eonsei ousness
is nol able to reuch a plane above pereeived phenomena on the astral.
- Only the trained psychic who ean contaet the highest mental plane
in full consdousness can aecept what may be eaught in separated
glimpses, as it. were. and relate one to another in its proper relation.
As an example, the isolated fact perceived of the Blue Star glowing
with a blue aura--simply beeause at that instant of time connection
was made with this vibration and 'the ~fmseiousneEs thereby carried to
a higher plane-the "star of blue" was pereeived glowing in its heauty.
To avoid undue importance being given to this glimpse of a blue
star, I explain to you the reason for that particular point being ob­
Berved by psychie vision. It gives an opportunity further for you to
enlarge your mental concept of the beauty and glory of the star of
which each individual furms a glorified ray.
Conceive if you ean ()f a vast Star of Light whose synthetie color
correspond!! to the Ray of Mercury. Each poi nt in that large star flames
with a Bpecialized ray synthesized in eaeh point to one of the seven
colors. Each point in that star is again synthesized into one of the
Beven colors and gives out in turn vibrations of the seven, forming a
most glorious point of light and color.
You are individually sub·divided into Reven H.ays, but your aura
gives a synthetie color vibration, although continually changing by
thought emanatIons, and by regularly recurring synlhetic vibrations
conveying the color waves whieh constitute you apart of that special ray.
With this Blight explanation I ask you to try to conceive of the,
Gentral or more interior "Tri pIe Star" as a YeJlow Star, glowing and
flashing with synchronouB vibra! ions its glowing mass of color and light.
Next coneeive of the great Blue Star, each point scintillating, vi­
brating and sending out into . 'the darkness of the great aby!'s" living
Iines of light and beauty.
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Again go outward and encircle in consciousness the outermost
Points of the great Re,d Star glowing in its turn if\"eaeh point with a
gn,at central gem of beauty and light. .",
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Concdve of the wh oie in rotary motion, from the Gentral to the':
Outer. from eadz ]101'';'11 'ln endt SMr and each Star ifZ eadz Point, and '
you may have a very faint conception of the radianee and beauty th~e'
Iiving Stars form from our plane of consciousness. Tha beauty 'and'
glory and power of the Star ia only that of Love, Will snd Wi8pom,,~r
Aspiration, Devotion and Illumination in your individual' auras. ":;.,,
My Children, you are also a star of glowing light and bea:t;lty, "
When you give out your brightest fiashes, you do so only through'the '
exercise of these lhree powers. Losing the uplifting aod expansive
force. the light flame isdown, ftickers, almost goes out, and tha ·out':. "
reaching energy and force through whieh you touch olher Iives and
bless and help humanity is lost. ,li'
See to it, my ehildren, that your light fiashes high; that the thre!,!
colors flame stead ily upward forming the Point whieh sends out straigql:
into the Darkness the direct creative power of spiritual force and en~
ergy potent on all r.lanes. ' ' , >:
The key to thill ereative power I havegiven you i8 thought eontro!.
And now, bless ydu, my loved ones present and a bsent. '1 sm ever
near you.
tO~tober 23, 1908,) HILARION. -t!
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The" Beautiful Mantram :~ <"'*.
, :;"
"To light a fire" fills.a place appreeiated by those who realize the
sacredness and beauty of fire. The lighting of a fire, in whatever form
it may be, always sends a thrilI through the conseiousness. Whether it
be a glowing open hearth, the jet that boils the kettle, the ODe within
enclosed slove upon which the supper is cookei, the softcandie' that
helps to sanetify the altar, or the light that floods room or streetj not
to !-1peak of the rising of the heavenly light that adorns the skies.
Each and alt call for our aspirations and reverenee if we are at-.,
tuoed to the meaning and place of fire in the universalscheme. There­
fore we hope you' will learn this mantram along with llS arid give
thanks to the Brothers of the File Mist whenever you light Ii tire, für
much blessinl;! will come to y(1U if you do.-J. B.. ' ','.
1 am anollt to light a fire,
Unt') YOll, 0 Brothers of the Fire Mist,
Lords ()f the Sacred Flame, and of Fire,
l\nd all your servants, J oITer deep gratitllde.
May. the homeless find a hume.
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Darkness, deep darkness covers the earth as a pali; darkness
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that e1ings like viscid mud to the soul struggling Iike a bild in its
EDITORIAL MIRROR
Throughout all Nature in every department of Life the Fires of
Purification and Regeneration are surging, sweeping and deansing
with unerring accuracy until the process is thoroughly completed.
These fires either purify or consume. lt is a fiery baptism to
dear the path for the advent of the Radiant Son whose rays shine
on aB alike.
As a result the opposite pole has been aroused to a frenzy
against the constructive forces of Love, Light and Power.
When the house deaning is over, the dross of the lower nature
burned away, when men's hearts are purified, when nations,
countries and individuals settle their disputes, differences, by
reasoning, counsel and mutual understanding, then can the Shining
One usher in the New Day, the dawn of Universal Brotherhood.
F or protection horn these fiery blasts and consuming heat the
Master gives the answer :
"I have said to those who Abide in the Secret Places, in the
Inmost Presence of the Mighty Ones, 'No harm shall come to
them. The fires shall sweep, but they shall not be consumed.
They shall know the Rames, but they shall not be burned' . . . I
say unto those who would trifle, would play with or make light
of the Flames that now scorch the farthest horizon, the Fiery
T ongues shall pierce until there be naught left whereby to see or
hear or know, until they make restitution for their tampering by
utmost endurance of the heat they have called horn rightful paths
through fiery use and abuse of the T ongues of Flames within their
own natures. Man meddles with Law; God exacts in perfect
justice. Mercy comes through suffering and appeal. Compassion
never gives deaf ear to hirn who asks aright."
Trifle not with the flames of purification, but become One with
the "Flame of Purified Life."
P. F. D.
FROM AN INTERVIEW WITH MASTER HILARION
before, humanity can hinder if it will, but it cannot always hold
AND MASTER MORYA
back that great day. Humanity is doing all in its power to hin der
"My Brothers, it is said of one whom we all revere, "He came
unto His own and His own received Hirn not." The same words are
applicable today. Those who have reached up the hands of their
soul to me for help will not accept the help that comes unless it
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IS dressed in the e10thing they themselves would put upon it.
They have asked for T ruth; they are not able to recognize
T ruth when it appears; they have asked for me; they have been
meshes. Only when the spiritual beils make a rift in that black­
ness can a ray of light enter into the souls of men.
My Brothers, e1ing e10se together, for when the darkness is
passed hom you there will radiate a light that may lighten the
world.
When the Central Pool becomes so deep that no wind can
ruffle its waves, then and not until then can true spiritual reflec­
tions reach the outer banks of that Pool.
You who are the heart of this present attempt of ours to break
through these terrible conditions, look to it that you do not think
lightly of any word that comes to you from us, for these words
mean the salvation or destruction of the star on which you dweIl.
I will come to you again with my Brother...
. Morya.
"My Children, be not dismayed or discouraged at what may
seem too dark to you. Remember that I have never ceased warn­
ing horn my first entrance into this house of the dark days that
were coming. They have commenced. They may and will
grow darker and dark er at times, then the light will break through
again. None of you save B. S. has realized sufficiently that each
soul that entered The Temple must do so by fire. There is no
other way. Each must be tried in the furnace before he is able
to per form the work that is asked of him. There is no need for
discouragement, for those of you who realize that you are warriors
indeed will feel that there is a victory to be won, and knowing in
your souls that you have truth and right behind you, you will go
forth with courage for the hay. Remember that the success or
fai!ure of the movement does not matter to you. Y ou are each
to do your duty in your own appointed place and leave the results
to us and the Law . . .
. . . If we wished, we alone could put an adept in the presi­
dential chair. It is for the sake of humanity that we offer to let
them help us, that they may have the right to the opportunities
of the Golden Age when it appears. Remember that I have said
today, and still I say the time is fast coming when what I have
prophesied will take place. I have before told each of you that
until the foundation of the Temple was complete we could do
nothing with the outside world . . . Again are being fought the
battles of the 16th century, only on a higher plane. They will
reach to the lower plane and be fought out there, if we cannot
save them by the means we have employed." . . .

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Question : "Oid H. P. B. leave any written or spoken word to
any person now Iiving, which would be accessible to all of us as
so-called "external" evidence concerning you and your relation to
Master M.?"
"She did not leave any evidence that is accessible to doubters.
There is plenty of evidence for those who trust and believe."
Question : "Is there anything more we can do to change present
conditions? ..
"You are doing the best you can under the circumstances. Y ou
cannot see as we do what you are fighting against, but that does
not matter . . .
... A new movement is on foot in different parts of the country
the members of which were prepared by myself for this move­
ment. They have misconstrued their directions, and one by one
they will realize how useless it is to continue without real direc­
tions . . . It is harder work than we anticipated, and we did not
take fully into account tbis terrible Karma that has been let loose
at this critical time. But we hoped, with All our work and all the
aspirations of the hungry souls of the earth, that we would be able
to save our own horn what must come now. If they would take
the truth we offer. would prepare conditions, we could tide this
critical period over without much loss, but they are rendering that
impossible . . . There are hundreds of them who are going into
what they call a new movement who were meant to see the light
that shines in this . . .
. . . Directions to be pure and tTue must come horn the heart;
directions horn the head alone would always lead one astray.
When the heart is filled with love to Cod and love to man, no
human soul can go very far astray. They may make mistakes. but
they can easily be corrected. It is only when the heart is pure
that soul language can be understood . . . Put down into your
heart any question you wish solved, and the answer will come
horn him to whom you put that question . . . I know you are all
coming to a realization of that very principle. You are growing
eloser together. Y ou are more able to understand each other.
If you continue. you will have reason to be very thankful. . . . This
is what happens whenever a heart in perfect sympathy with us and
with the Infinite reaches up in aspiration: A ray of light or force
is sent into that darkness, reaches the heart, destroys the power
of the darkness and gives the soul a chance to get into the light.
That is what all those flashes of light that B. S. is seeing constantly
mean. They are rays horn the Creat White Throne sent down in
answer to aspiration. . . . "
Question : "Was this 16th century Karma engendered by the
The predictions made by psychics by means of glimpses int.
crusades ?"
"It was first by the action of the so-called heathen, and then
by the so-called Christians. Each tried to outdo the other in
cruelty, and the consequence is one of the blackest Karmas that has
ever fallen on man."
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"Because it was a religious aHair?"
"Yes. . . . The crusades lasted hom the 12th to the 16th
century and were filled with bloody butchery and crime."
"Is this concerned also with the Inquisition?"
"It iso That ended it, or rather put the cap to All that had gone
before."
"Are most of those people on earth today?"
"They are all on earth today. or have been within the last
century. Its Karma was held back as long as it could be held."
"Is . . . . . . influence to be feared? ,.
"No more than that of the other churches. CREEDS
DISAPPEAR-IT IS HEARTS THATREMAIN. . . .
I also would like to call your attention to another thing that
I have written you personally before, and which I wish put out
very emphatically. I said distinctly that there would be no display
of occult fireworks. 1 meant it. I repeat it now. Such things
may come occasionally to you at the center, possibly to others
outside. It is not necessary. It would do hurt. It would con­
vince no one of the truth; and it i5 the truth that we want to
bring horne to the hearts of the people-the truth that men are
brothers instead of wild beasts, the truth that there is such a thing
as Infinite Love that watches over the hearts and destinies of men;
the truth that unless man turns to that light he must die of soul
starvation. . . .
. . . 1 must leave you now, as we all have other work to do
tonight. There will be many sad catastrophes in the next 48
hours. We All have much to do. Hold together in rhought, in
harmony. Throw out good, kind, loving thoughts to all men.
Hold yourselves as elose to the center as possible, and watch. )
will say Cood Night, my children."
December 6, 1898. Hilarion.
PROPHECY
Temple T eachings, Open Series, No. 298
The laws governing all Prophecy are as scientifically exact a:
are the laws of Attraction and Repulsion. The energy, direction
and scope of a given cause will invariably determine the effect 0
that cause.
A Master, or so-called Prophet, can predict an event more 0
less accurateJy, according to the knowledge he has acquired of th.
, laws governing potential force. An exact prediction is a solutio!
of a universal, mathematicalor geometrical problem.
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the astral envelopes of the earth can never be depended upon;
such glimpses may be reflections of past or future events; or they
may be but thought-forms generated in the mind s of man kind.
T 0 correctl y determine the final result of a particular cause,
the prophet must be able to estimate correctly the force of the
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them, the very life of the group would be threatenecl. Espedally
would this be true if the retention of those treasures wa:> d;;pen­ of students of occultism, for stronger fore es are playing through
dent upon continuous adherence to the principles of tmi'lersal bro­ such a body, and the effects are correspondingly more potent for
good or ill.
therhood and sex purity.
The Temple of the People as a body, or any distinct group of I
that body, would be recreant to the trust placed in !t if it deliberate­ H-[I]
ly chose either one side or the other of those engnged in the present
great world struggle for exploitation or endorsement. Such choos­
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(The above was given during the late World War. -Editor.)
ing would be outside the purpose for which it was created. and by
so doing it might deprive itself of the guidance of the Gronp Spirit
t
which is so necessary for its growth and expansion.
How could it be possible for a group composed of members of
many nationalities and religions to greet as a brother the stranger
within its gates who had been forced by any one of a number of OUR DAILY PRAYER
contending nations into seeking refuge in such a body, mayhap as Father-Mother-Son in One,

his only chance for continuous life, and that group could only offer From our inmost hearts we plead

him a share in the same spirit of disruption which had torn his for­ For power to love unselfishly,

mer home and heart center apart. In such an instance it is not a For wisdom to perceive aright,

question of racial, national, or international policy or right. It is For courage to pursue a righteous course,

only a question of the principle of human brotherhood and the pur­ For determination of purpose, and

pose of the Group Soul to enforce the action of the law. For will to act according to Thy will.

Make no mistake in this. I am not suggesting that individual

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reason or intuition should be stultified by refusal to consider any
question of life or policy, or the individual right to form opinions H-(!J
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or methods of action therefrom. These are effects of normal ratio­
cination and are individual processes .
If a body of disciples pledged to action upon the highest prin­
ciples known to them have decided to tread a certain clearly defined
path to a desired end and to accept the guidance of those who have BLAVATSKY DEPARTMENT
trodden that path to its end, that body of disciples as a whole owes
allegiance, support, and obedience to those guides and owe brother­
ly love and help to their fellow disciples. The more they may differ This department will be confined to the teachings of H. P. Blavatsky. In

personally in opinions or methods of action in other fields of life, it will be published, so far as possible. the views expressed by H. P. B. on any

the greater should be their efforts to refrain from jeopardizing the
life and usefulness of the group as a whole, which depend upon ad­
herence to the principles upon which the group is formed. If unable
to successfully make such effort, there is but one honorable course
for any unit of that group to pursue, i. e., withdrawal from the
group, both for his individual good and for the best good of the
group, even if it be but a temporary withdrawal until adjustment
may be made.
A door for the entrance of the Disintegrator is left open if
there is strong opposition to the accepted principles of the majority
of a group, however innocent of wrong intent the opposing ones may
be, and the combined opposition of the majority of the group would
seriously affect the others. While this is more or less true in the
case of any organized body, it is far more true in an organized bodr
given subject.
Our readers are requested to oond in any questions on any subject which
they wish to have elocidated, and we will endeavor to search through the writ­
ings of H. P. B. and publish her teachings on such subjects.
Conducted by Ernest Harrison, Temple Scribe. Address, Blavatsky De­
partment, Temple Artisan, Halcyon, California.
EVOLUTION (Continued)
The question will naturally occur, in what manner does this
force, impalpable, incomprehensible, throw the material universe
into form? and perhaps by analogy we may gain some inkling of
the process. Let us take, for example, a block of ice and follow the
elements of its composition through the seven sub-planes of the
physical plane, reaIizing as we do so that this analysis applies only
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EDITORIAL MlRROR
"The effectuaI fervent prayer of a righteous
much.'·
The above was written many centuries ago, and it is just as
powerful today as when first written.
Throughout the ages earnest and sincere prayers, streaming
from the heart of man, have been one of the means of intercom~
munication between man and God.
There are selfish prayers, and there are unselfish prayers. But
those high entities back of evolutionary law and all life respond
to man' s prayers according to the power and attitude of the
sender: those prayers go forth into the realms of inner planes
where they are answered in accordance with their inherent power.
In the occult realm, forces of energy are interchangeable in
varying degrees, and true prayer is created as a result of the com­
bination of the forms of energy of thought and words, and is sent
forth to the highest realms of being where the Masters of Love and
Compassion hear and respond according to the power and force of
the supplicant.
A heart filled with love and faith, in renunciation of self,
invoking the highest impersonal forces and praying in the spint of
"Not my will but Thine be done," leaving the results to the Great
Law of Divine Wisdom, is answered for the greatest good of aU.
A selfish prayer with motive of personal gain does not go very
far, because "it meets on an interior plane other forms of the same
energy, the desires of which are in opposition to it, and one neutral­
izes or destroys the other, and the consequence is neither desire
reaches those who have the power to answer...
All doubts would vanish if man could see the exquisite color
and light generated by the return wave of true prayer, and the
most skeptical would be convinced of the great love of the Master
in His desire to help those afflicted and sorely tried.
With the wOTld fuH of hatred, evil. fear, destruction. and great
suffering, there is a constant stream of prayers and supplications
going out to the Creat Healer. and same day these results will be
seen in greater measure as many prayers are offered to God. The
combined prayers of those beseeching help and relief will inevitably
change existing conditions. These radiating forces of light will
help to harmonize the discordant elements. making a wedge in
the iron wall of selfishness that is trying to gain power. Then will
man be enabled to practice true brotherhood. Men, nations, and
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races will live as brothers. Justice will rule. and the spirit of free­
dom will prevail over the earth.
B. 5., a Great Soul of Light, who suffered with humanity in its
tragedies. sorrows. and loneliness. who touched the heights and
depths of life. wrote the following prayer:
"We offer Thee. 0 God. Thou who gavest us so lavishly of
Life and Love and treasure past all telling. we dare to offer Thee a
heart divided against itself-the broken links of that vast golden
chain of hope and faith. obedience and trust. the chain Thou gavest
us in youth.
"We offer Thee a wor.ld gone mad with lust and cruelty and
selfish greed. 0 God; we offer these. but offer them with faces in
the dust. with hands outstretched in pleading that no Hps would
dare to utter.
"We offer them with eyes bedewed with tears and penitence
past power of speech, upon Thy Holy Altar. that refining fires may
search them till Thou findest in their ashes once again the precious
gold we lost at parting of the ways.
"We plead for opportunity and power to see the right-hand
path ~here lies the gold which glitters not-Humility and Selfless
Love.
F or the Listener of All Life ever responds to the pleas and
prayers of His children-whatever way answered. partial fulfiU­
ment or in whole--and acts according to Divine Will. for the
greatest good of all.
P. F. D.
THE POWER OF LITTLE THINGS
Only a soul that is capable of apprehending and using the
minutiae, the small details so unbearable to one dass of humanity.
and utilizing them as a chess player uses his knights and pawns for
the winning of agame. can by any possibility reach for and grasp
the true infinite Potency. F 01', first of aIl. it is power over little
things that leads in the end to power over the great.
T 0 live on the spiritual plane means to keep one' s self constantly
in touch with all sweetness. all purity. all love. The man or woman
who is discourteous, unkind. and selfish toward the least of the
little ones of Christ is obstructing the very Christ-currents in his
own aura and making it impossible for the potency therein to mani­
fest itself.
No truer estimate of a great soul can be made than by watehing
its attitude toward the small vexations of daily life. those trivial
things which are capable of tearing down the walls we may have
made about ourselves and leaving the soul naked in the silence that
falls upon it after the stress and stonn of those battering, disinte­
grating little wornes and cares which pile up like a pathless moun­
tain thickly covered with brambles and briers that sting and tear till
the mind grows desperate in contemplation.
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PRAYER
Almighty God, Father-Mother of all that lives, in deep thanks_
giving for all the mercies Thou hast shown mankind through aeons
past, we venture to plead for help in these, our hours of Supreme
trial.
Lighten the darkness of our ignorance and bring us to know­
ledge of our duty toward those other fragments of Thyself who are
now swiftly passing 0' er the bridge which separates the fields of
death hom the fields of Lfe Immortal-those other souls who,
with ourselves. have plunged the earth in sorrow past all telling.
Help us willingly to bear our part of the crucifixion of the
Christ and not to shrink horn the Gethsemane which awaits the
penitent.
Help us, 0 God, to strive to open wide the path to Devachan
for those now thronging its threshold, that so they may pass un­
scathed to realms of peace. Help us to keep elear the path by
which they may return to US, if such be Thy will, all the wiser,
stronger, purer for their bath of fire.
Weak and helpless though we seem to be in the face of the
colossal issues before the whole human race, yet 'have we faith to
believe that, because of our relationship to Thee, Th ou canst use
us to Thy glory and our eternal good.
Truly are we Thine. 0 Father-Mother of mankind. T 0 The be
praise and honor evermorel e
8.S.
THE FORTY -FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDA nON
tomorrow evening. . . . Y Ou cannOE enter upon that service with
OF THE TEMPLE OF THE PEOPLE
You have reached that hour and won its privileges through great
November 15 marked the F orty-First Anniversary of the F oun­
dation on this plane of The Temple of The People. lt was com­
memoTated in BIue Star Temple in the 36 meeting on Tuesday,
November 14, by reading of some of the early papers and notes
on Interviews which the Master Hilarion had with the group be­
fore and after the Initiations founding the Temple. Th ey strongly
conveyed to aJl assembled the high powerful spiritual vibrations
that prevailed at that time. Among the papers which were
read were the following excerpts hom notes on Interviews with
the Master:
"The Temple was organized on
November 15, 1898, at 8
P. M., in Hiawatha Hall, Syracuse,
the Three and the Seven were held. N. Y., where Initiations of
",t Al.t-~ .. r.....~'(.i! ... Ll:.. A.t~ ll,::,r... :""
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"The Master informed the group before the Initiations that
the Temple work should not start and nothing be sent out unbl
after the Initiations.
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lines up now where we laid them down. . . . These lines were
laid here thousands of centuries ago, and have been taken up or
added to every century since.'· . . .
"I want you all to try to realize how, sacred, and great
a privilege you are having. I cannot show you now it means,
for it means so much more than human tongue could utter. Keep
your rninds firmly fixed on the Christ." . . .
'''fry to realize what it should be, what true brotherhood
means. It 1S not an empty word, but every letter pregnant with
eternal truth." . . .
"Use some part of that day specially by yourselves, in looking
over all your past life in this incarnation. See wheTe you have
made mistakes, lifting your heans to the highest and asking help
tor the tuture, for you will need it sorelyin the years to come."
"'fhe very effort we are making to blast the powers of dark­
ness will bring them forth with all the venom and hate it is
possible to conceive, and they will try to hurt in every way those
who are trying to change these conditions. But with clean
hands and a pure heart we can do a1l things." . . .
"At that very hour the three greatest Initiations in the Cos­
mos take place. Y ours is small beside the others. The third,
which I have not mentioned before, is the entering into Nirvana
of a Great Soul, which means many, many human lives."
Question. "Do you mean a planetary spirit Is bornt"
Answer, "Yes, and the whole movement goes on because of
that." . . .
"1 have need to irnpress upon your minds very strongly the
importance of the service which will take place on holy ground
too much preparation. lt is the holiest hour of your series of lives.
trial and suffering in the past. It has been won by your own souls'
travail." . . .
"When that Initiation takes place there:will be another at
the center of the earth. . . . After the cereIIlony of the Initiation
is finished that One Who is the White Star will talk to you and
bless you all and you must listen to Him, revel'ently. He is the
synthesis of the Universe. . . . lf we accomplish what we are try­
ing to do, we will bring about that condition of pure blessedness
of the Golden Age."
This is the charge givenon the night of the Initiation:
"Warriors of Light, Warriors of T ruth, I salute you in the name
of the Great White 8rotherhood. Go forth to battle with the
powers of darkness, armed with the Sword of the Spirit of God,
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the Breastplate of Righteousness. the Heimet of Eternal T mth.
See to it that no stain rests upon that armor, no rust on that
sword, that ye may become One With Us on that Great Day BE
WITH USo The biessing of God the F ather Almighty, of Christ
the San, und of the Holy Spirit, be with you now and forever­
more."
The first Order formed after the Initiation of the Seven and
the Three was the Order of the 49; this was followed b y the
Order of the 36. For a time the Order of the 49 was secret, but
after the Order of the 36 was formed, the Order of the 49 be­
came public. Then at Halcyon the Order of the 28 was fOTmed,
also the Order of the 14.
Exc:erpts from Interview with Master Hilarion
fore you is all that is necessary for you to know about.
April 6. 1899
Always use your reason, intuition and judgment as far
The traits which make it possible for me to reach you or
that tend to foster YOUT rapid development make you far more
amenable to the influence of apparent trifles, and as it is tme
of each one of you it is tenfold more so in the case of B. S. owing
to the present condition of the physical and astral matter con­
tained in that organism. . . .
Y ou must help me, my children, to keep this link intact. lt
is impossible for you, who see almost nothing besides the mere
shell of what to you apparently is B. S., to imagine anything about
that entity. You see comparatively nothing but the littleness of
it, the careless word, the carelessly expressed thought, the caTeiess
dress or actions. You see nothing of th e soul that has stood at the
stake, that has been under the knife, that has been strangled, that
has endured what it would take weeks to enumerate.
f have told you before when speaking of the law of supply and
demand that you would get horn that entity just what you de­
manded. 1f you will demand through her, and help her to ex­
press what 1 have to give through her, you will do as much to­
wards the saving of this planet as I or she can do. F or we are
an bound together. we must all rise or fall together. T ry to put
away horn you the hunger of heart that calls for physical or
mental or psychic experience. Realize the immensity of the stake.
Realize that the saving of this planet hangs on you as much as
on any one else, that the time will surely co me when all that
you have longed Jo r and hoped for will come to you if you do
your duty now.
Question. How is the disciple to measure his tTue status in
the evolutionary scale?
Answer. He has no need to measure his status, it is a hindrance
and a great one to be constantly thinking of where one stands,
whether one is above or below some entity; it is a wrong stand­
point. Remember. we are all one. there is no high. no low. When
the moment comes that the soul has attained its true growth
it will break into blosso m as the bud !rom a plant, and from
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pUTe impulse. One has nothing to do with it, so to speak. lt is
governed by law. lt cannot be kept back any more than a child
can be kept in its mother' s womb after it is ready to be born.
Question. How can one find the void in hirnself?
Answer. As long as one has anything to be filled in his nature
the void is there.
Question. Are we to find our "own fullness of form or force"
in another personality consciously on the physical plane before
conscious growth is attained?
Answer. At some time one will meet with that complement;
that is a necessary thing. lt may not be in this age, but it surely
will be in another, and time is nothing. The day' s work be­
as they will possibly take you. This is a sure guide, usually, for
you must remember that you are protected as far as may be
possible, but up to a certain point you are absolutely free, other­
wise you could not grow. You cannot be bound in any way;
you must use judgment, intuition and 'leason, for it is by them
that you do grow to astate where the spiritual powers begin to
develop.
Excerpts frorn Interview with the Master, February I, 1900
My Children, I wish to impress upon you most earnestly the
necessity for confidence, power and strength in yourselves. There
is now all oveT the earth a demonstration of a most fearful reality.
I desire to have you hold constantly in mind not only your own
need, but the needs of all others, for you should be a unit in this
respect. Y ou can do much, even little handful that you are, in
warding off some of the calarrlities that are bound to come with­
out yourhelp, in addition to that of others. F or the time is fast
approaching that has long been prophesied when famine, pesti­
lence and war shall devastate the earth. That time is now here.
By holding yourselves in a firm, strong attitude, realizing that the
Real You cannot be hurt or harmed, whatever may come, you
may do much to aid yourselves and those whom you love. This
confidence of 'which I now speak is of far more consequence to
you than you can now realize, it is a force in itself that will aid
more in your own development than any other, and without which
you will be helpless. T ry to realize that there can be no failure,
as far as you are concerned, if you can attain to this confidence
of wh ich I speak. Do not be afraid of the attitude which some
call prayer. I do not mean a begging to an imaginary God. but
aspiration and keeping in the heart the true love for all humanity
and the desire to aid all. Hilarion
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TUE TEMPLE
fern ~OSMICALL~ ne T eQJ.ple ofthe People'cQfJesponds t4?the
The Temple Artisan

p e of HWDlUlltY.... . '" .... " , "" ,.,_ .".

VOLUME XL OCTOBER-NOVEMBER, 1939 Nos. 5, ~

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THE TEMPLE -of H~anity consiatsof '.11' hutiläJls'who, hav­ -~---

ing awakened into a knowledge of th~ir own divinity. have und«;:r_

taken to tread the Path, lind of those who. dev.ote.t.b.eir lives totAe
unselfish service of inankind. . HEHOLD, I GIVE UNTO THEE A KEY

SPECIFICALLY The Temple of the' People is one of the

bodies or vehic::les for the manifestatiQn .,of tlte Avatar or Christoa
for the New Dispensation. the dawn of the Nevt Civilization for th e
races oE the earth. lt was founded in New York State in the second
eyc:le of the Great Ladge movement in November. 1898, by three
Masters assisted by othen for the laying of tt;.e mental. physical
ASYEJUDGE
and spiritual foundations of the coming Sixth Race. Bear wen in mind the truth that itis only'
according to our ability to forgive our brothers'
THE OBJECTS of the Temple are: offenses against us that the Higher Self of each
First: Ta fotmulate the truthe of J;eligion a8 the fundamental one can gain the power to forgive the offenses
factor in the evolution of the human race. And this does not mean of the lower seH against its divine nature, Love.
the formulation' of a c:reed. .. " ., ', ' When we have come to a realization of that
Second: Toset forth a philosophy af life that is in accord fact we will be inclined to rid our hands and our
with natural and divine law. ' pockets of the stones we have gathered and
Third: T 0 promote the atudy of tbe adences and the funda­ hold ready to f1ing at aoy offen der. and to
mental facts and laws upon which the acienc:es are batled whic:h say to such a one, "1' cannot save you horn the
will permit ua to extend our belief and knowledge from what is effects of the cause you have set up. but I ..:an
known to tbe unknown. and will help you to bear those effects, for I. too,
am guilty in your guilt.··
F ourth: T 0 promote the study and practiee of Art on funda­
mental liDes. showing that Art is in reality the application of No man can sin or suffer alone. There is
knowledge to human good and welfare. and tbatthe Christos can but one spirit, one soul, one body.
speak'to humanity through Art as weIl as through any other funda­
mental line of manifestation. "As ye judge, so shall ye be judged", is a
decision constantly being handed down by Di­
Fifth: Tbe promotion of a knowledge of true sodal acience vine Justice and rendered according to inevoc­
based on im;m.utable law~ showing the relationship between man able law.
and man. and man and God 8,Iid nature.When these relationships
are understood we will inatinctively formulate and follow the law Man is continually trying to revoke th.. t
of aue brotherhood. law, or to twist the decision into meaning 'Jome­
thing, anything, save its seH-evident interpre­
REUGION, SCIENCE, AND ECONOMICS, these are the tation, until he fa ces his own soul and realizes
foundation stones of The Temple. There un be no true religion that the decision affects hirn primarily.
without its sci~tific basis. and there can be no right ~onomic
system not based on a sclence that is religioua and areligion that
is acientifie.' '

Address THE TEMPLE OF THE PEOPLE, Halcyon. Calif.

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10 THE TEMPLE ARTISAN
physical principle unknown to our planet. These, united with nega.
tive·positive 60 of the eighth Solar Hierarchy, constitute the Cosrnic
Word of One Hundred and Twenty syllabi es. Like procedure gives
for the ninth planet, that of the vegetable kingdom, the figures 68
whieh, with the 68 of the ninth Solar Hierarchy, gives the Cosmie
Word of One Hundred and Fifty·Two syllabies.
Our Masters have learned from the Higher Kumaras. and they
in turn from a higher source, that in the crowning tenth Solar Hier.
achy occurs another subdivision, affecting the outmost and as yet
"undiscovered" worId, one farthest removed from the unüying Will
of Jupiter and yet the polar opposite of that kingly sphere. On the
remote horne of the mineral evolution the outcome of final sex-sub­
division is indicated by the figure 152, whieh, united with the Sup­
reme Positive of the Tenth Solar Hierarchy, gives for our Solar Sys­
tem the all·inclusive Word of Three Hundred and Four syllabies.
Strictly speaking, the Great Word is of Three Hundred syllab­
les plus their four connectives. those of Spiritual Will, which link
our Suns and Planets to the next higher systems in the Cosmic
chain.
H. P. B.
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Theosophy, Temple Teachings, and New Thought.
There is, at times of a recrudescence of New Thought, Christi­
an Science, and Mental Healing, a tendency frequently noticeable to
confuse these issues with Theosophy.
New Thoughtism and Theosophy are not the same. l\Iary Ba­
ker Glover Eddy and Helena Petrovna Blavatsky are two entities a;:;
different as are their philoRophies. And their disciples, apostles.
and martyrs are different. Occasionally an Eddyite slips over thc
H. P. B. camp, and less frequently a Theosophist who has a sciatica
that she can't get rid of, or who has all too easily got rid of her mo­
ney and wants it back again, will go over to the Mary Baker camp.
But, taken by and large, the difference between the two forces per-
Brochures or even tomes might be written on this differente'.
nut let UR boil them down 10 crux, a quintessencf'. an epitomr
wh at that distinction is ano h,uye it at that.
The Divine-:.I.lental-Chrisiian-Sdence, ~pw Thought, group"
u:;c mental anrl spiritual forces für certain specifie end:;:
THE TEMPLE ARTISAN 1l
The Theosophist groups use mental and spiritual forces for
certain specific ends:
''''hat are those ends?
(1) New Thought offers, through a \'ast literat ure, thousands
of churches, innumerable and successful teachers, reward for work
done on the spiritual plane.
(2) So does Theosophy.
(1) New Thought offers health and wealth,-a successful
body and a successful environment. From them is supposed to bow .
a successful world.
(2) Theosophy does not.
(1) The New Thoughter may and is encouraged to utilize an
the spiritual powers he can control or buy for the purpose of attain­
ing for hirnself those ends whieh he hirnself thinks that he needs
for hirnself for his own advantage, happiness, and success.
(2) To the Theosophist all this is forbidden.
Without taking the time and space to quote from the shiploads
of New Thought literature, "Science of Health", "Unity", "Nauti~
lus", and all the rest of them, let us take it as given that this litera­
ture preaches every kind of success to be acquired by the student
through psychic and spiritual praetice. Anyone who does not rea·
lize this may open any page of any New Thought publication, turn
to any paragraph, and begin reading. He may continue reading till
he has read the whole fifty-year literature, and he will still be read·
ing that same paragraph. Any man who has read two distinctive,
exegetic paragraphs from one Christian Science or New Thought
book has read them an.
H was said that Robert Ingersoll spent his life threshing the
same straw. So did Henry George. But they threshed it. So did
the New Thoughters. They said it an on the first page, and then
they said it over again through forty libraries full of books.
The material of Theosophy is inexhaustible, and with the dis­
covery or comprehension of the Fourth Dimension its literature may
be said only to have made a good start. A man may read in "The
Secret Doctrine", "Isis Unveiled", in the works of the mystics, oc­
clllti8tS, Rosicrucians, Theosophists, in the Temple Teachings, or in
thc New Physics for a wholc life-time and hardly read the same
thing twice. New Thought 18 one trail, a trailleading to a comfort­
able bungalow, a Buick, and sound lungs. TheoHophy i8 every road
on this planet and on all our sister planets und bespeaks and leads
to the E\'olution of }lan.
lt takes half an ho ur to hear everything' 01' con:;equence that
New Thought has to say. To hear aB that Thco:,:ophy has to say
takes one complete .\ram'antara.
But this is not enoug-h. lt remain:s abo tu Ix' ;;aid that the two
or "c:ience;-.;, lead in opposite direction,;.
Buddhi"t, Hcrmetic, 01' Chri:;tian .'.l:-;"tk rnay nfJt g-d rich

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using occult power
Christ'::; persecutors, while they watched Him die, summed up
the difference between M. B. E. and H. P. B. in one succinct sen­
tence:
"He saved others: Himself He cannot save 1"
M. B. E. wore an eight hundred dollar ermine cloak. H. P. B.
died in poverty. She would have died in poverty years sooner hut
for her friends. New Thought has made thousands of successful
realtors, salesmen, lawyers, and speculators. Theosophy, Christ,
and the service of the Lodge have hrought countless people to the
Potter's Field.
It is said that W. Q. Judge ne ver permitted Theosophy, occul­
tism, or religion to be talked in his office nor thought about such
things in office hours. This means that he never used spiritual pow­
er or Lodge forces to help him "get business". New Thought attor­
neys practice occult methods in their profession all the time and
boast of the business it brings them.
The president of the U. of C. Theosophical Club said to the writ­
er: "I am going to be a sehool teacher because that's where I can
get over my message".
The same day a New Thought lecturer in Berkley said, "By my
method I can make you nationally and internationally famous in
your profession".
The last I heard of number one he was still getting over his
message. The last I heard of number two she had cleared up twen­
ty thousand dollars in Oakland from Bay Cities business men who
wanted a better automobile and a bigger house. . cruel condition under which millions of our brothers have to spend
New Thought said to Jesus, "Cast Thyself down, and I will give
Thee all the kingdoms of the earth". J esus repIied, "Get thee be­
hind me, Satan!"
"Unity" oifers to sell your real estate at a profit. Jesus had
not where to lay His head. "Nautilus" will make you rich. The
Temple Teachings won't. The medieval Rosicrucians took the oath
of poverty: the Los Angeles mental science men take the oath of
wealth.
This is not an argument for poverty. Poverty is . unscientific,
immoral, and disgusting. Let us all be rieh. We shall be when the
Aquarian Age has begun the ordination of a new race, when co-op­
eration and economic fraternity have taken the place of New
Thought get-rich-quick sehemes.
Another point.
There is that old confiict between emironment and .Man. New
Thought says that all environment comes from thought and con­
sciousness. Materialism says that Man and his thought and con­
sciousness come from environment. Theosophy says that Man and
his environment are two halves of one contemporaneous and organic
'."hole. When the New Thoughter says, "All your environment 1S
THE TEI\lI'LE r\RTISA~ 1:)
the result ()f your thought." and when the radical determinist ~ays,
"All your thoughts and con"ciousness are thc real result of your en­
vironment," both are \yrong.
Theosophy says: "Your though ts rcact in environment; your
environment reacts in thought. Neither had a beginning; neither
will ever end."
Let us take two instances of en\'ironment acting on eonscious­
ness. Henry Ford found his workmen spitting tobacco juice into
the corners of his factory rooms. Did he preach to them or try to
change their consciousness? No. He painted every corner in his
factory a pearly white. Men don't spit on a pearly white fioor.
That end~d it. A change in the men's environment changed them.
In the Ghetto of Prague the Jewish men wore long braids. The
orthodox Russian J ewish women in the Ghettos of the Ukraine wore
wigs. The Chinaman wore a pigtail. In New York these baards,
wigs, and pigtails are discarded, and rou have young Jewish and
Chinese Americans who ehew gum, dance tangos, and take Ph. D's
at the University of New York. These beards, wigs, and pigtails
had persisted for thousands of years. If environment had not
changed they would have been worn forever.
Instances like these could fill all the shelves of the Halcyon li­
brary. Enough to say this: Thought will change environment up to
a certain point. Environment will change consciousness up to a cer­
tain point. Theosophy and the Temple Teachings teach us to
change our thoughts and to change, if possible, all the untoward
circumstances under which we and our brothers live. About the
their lives New Thought and Christian Science say nothing, nor how
to change such conditions. The Temple does.
The :Master who organized the Temple placed it upon two bases:
The Teachings and the Land. If either fails, so does the other. He
says so. Let us quote Him:
Lesson 16: "Unless the Temple can be made the refuge of the
thc resting place of the weary, the home of the homeless, it
must fall in its mission ........ "
Lesson 32: "He, the chela, must have learned how to reach out
a brimming cup of compassion to all others in need, but he m'Jst
deny himself a draught from the same cup and remain comfortle~s,
unless some other traveler on the same path intuitively feels and
supplies his need."
Lesson 12: "Some of you are frequently asked why mental heal­
ing is not openly advocated by Temple members. As weIl might they
ask a 8choolboy why he does not perform a difficult (surgical) oper­
ation or take upon himself the care of a case of typhoid fever."
LesBon 3: "It seldom occurs to the advocates of modern mental
~cience that the exercise of the affirmative power ...... may result
dlsastrously to themselyes as weIl 80S to such ignorant and innocent

14 THE TEl\lPLE ARTISA~
pupils as an, not eonlent wi th natural c\'olutionary methocls."
"If, by thc eXercifl€ of the power of affirmation, a man has
. ":dcc,pedecl in drawing to himself a large share (Jf the wealth of the
'wor!d. the positiv!:' fore es aroused by the amassing of that wealth
will bring into action thc opposing or negative forees, and these will
take from hirn something in his nature whieh is exaetly equivalent
to the wealth tlC b88 seeured."
"Ir une Will::; ".'ealth, fame, or any oth~r E 0 ealled treasure bv
the method whic-h natural evolutionary law w:ll teaeh him,that i8 bv
labor Otalks are [;1 i:le), the same forees man; F-::st, but in a far le;s
dallg'erOLis nmllner.·'
"Thl;! occult meaning of the sentenee, 'Tby will be done', ma.y be
summed up in thc \\'ord 'Indifferenee' as usPrl hy learned' mystics.
On(~ great cau"e of dHnger in the exercise of the power ,'lf affirmat~on
lies in the elimination of this principle and in thu putting in it::; place
thc most intense de:sire."
Lesson 4: "No where in literature may the two qualifications for
chelaship be found more clearly defined than in the Sermon on the
JHount: The poor in spirit; the sorrowing ones ; the meek; the mer·
eiful; the peaeemakers; the persecuted ; the pure in heart. These
are the children of God, the chelas of the Masters."
-Sydney Hillyard, Halcyon, Calif.
SECRET DOCTRINE SYMBOLISM
I half of the male Cain. From this standpoint what would be the
"And Adam--begat a son in his own likeness, after his own
image, and ealled his name Seth."
After which he begets other sons and daughters, thus proving
that Cain and Abel are his own allegorical permutations. Adam
stands for the primitive Human Race, especially in its eosma.si­
dereal sense--The compound name of Jehovah, or Jah·Hovah,
meaning male life and fern ale life--first androgynous, then sepa­
rated into sexes-is used in this sense in Genesis from Chapter V.
onwards."
"The original meaning of Enos, the son of Seth, was the first
Race born in the present usual way from man and woman, for Seth
is no man but arace. Before hirn humanity wa::; hermaphrodite.
While Seth is the first result (physiologically) after the 'Fall', he 1S
o.lso the first man; henee his son Enos is referred t(1 ss thc 'Son of
':Han'."
THE TETvIPLE ARTISAN IS
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"The 'Lcml' i:-; Adam Kadmon. the 'Faiher' of Yo(i.Hev;1., 'Ad·
u.n-Eve' or Jehovah, thc son of sinful thought, not; h,: progeny of
flesh and blood."
I
l "Cain --is the son of the 'Lord' not of Adam." "Seth, on thc
other hand. is the leader and progenitor of the Races of thc Earth;
for he is the son of Adam, exoterically, but esoterically he i3 ihe
progeny of Cain and Abe!. since Abel or Hebel is a female, the coun­
terpart and female half of the male Cain, and Adam is the eolleetive
name for man and woman. 'Male and female created He them-­
amI called their name Adam'.'"
"Verse 26 of Chapter IV. of Genesis, when read correctly, would
alone give them such a right. for it calls the new Race of men­
sprung from Seth and Enos-Jehovah, something quite different
from the translation adopted in the Eible."
"The verses in Genesis from Chapters 1. to V. are purposely
mixed up for Kabalistic reasons. After the 'Man' of Genesis 1:26,
and Enos. the Son of Man, of IV:26 after Adam, the first Andro­
gyne; after Adam Kadmon-the sexless (the first) Logos-Adam
and Eve onee separated, come finally Jerhovah-Eve and Cain-Jeho­
vah. These represent distinct Root-Races, for millions of years
elapsed between them."
The above are excerpts from "The Secret Doctrine"! VoL lI.,
pages 132 to 135 inclusive. They are rieh in symbolie meaning, as
the reader's intuition must diseern. .
Take, for instance, the symbolie significanee of the feminine
and masculine eomposition of Abel and Cain-Abel as the femalo
meaning of the murder of Abel by Cain. Regarding this entity as
arace, it could only mean the killing out of suppression of the femi­
nine or intuitive instincts in that raee by the masculine powers eom·
ing into dominating existenee as intellection or reason. And is not
thc "mark of Cain" whieh the Lord put on his forehead simply the
sign of development of the front part of the brain, which is the
reasoning or intellectual part, and which exeessive development has
killed out or stifted the intuitive or finer feminine impulses, which
know without the elaborate processes of intellectual reasoning?
It will be noted that Adam and his progeny stand as symbo1s
for races. Up to the latter part of the Third Root Race, these were
all androgynous. Beginning with the race designated by the term
Enos the two sexes came into manifestation, and the processes of
generation accordingly ehanged.
There is apart of the human organism that repres ents , and is,
the Third Root Race. This is the brain. wh ich is an androgynom;
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unto thee a key

old I give

THE GREAT PEACE

place my heart upon your oWTI that you maY be welded together
~.Let nothing come near to disturb through these days of the
Peace. You climb from opposite points of life, but it is the
stairway, the final mount of which will a1ways bring you to­
gether in every effort or problem. Never halt
on any less than the topmost step through
doubt or fear. Such alone can separate you
and blacken the step on which you halt.
Whenev er difficulty of understanding falls
upon you, always climb higher unti1 you reach
the broader landing at the top on which opens
the door of the House of Wisdom and Learn­
ing, the Temple of your oWTI Souls and Hearts,
the Horne of the Master and all most dear to
Hirn and you. There alone can you find peace
and happiness. The light from that House
shines dear and wide to help you in that
dimb; the fire on that hearth burns bright to
warm and cheer you when you enter.

July 26, 1926.

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HELENA PETROVNA BLAV ATSKY.

T aken by Beardsley oE Ithaca N.Y. in 1875, at the

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for a higher step, it will remain in the Upper Astral. The soul that
was manifested in two bodies on the lower plane would have but one
on i ts return.
A Group Soul may be represented by a seven-pointed star, seven
times seven, or forty-nine. There are other figures that would rep­
resent it on its return better than those I have mentioned that I ('an­
not give now. There is one on the Temple Pavement that represents
I
it pefectly, and that you will see some day. The whole is represented
in the pryamids of Egypt, particularly in the one ealled "Great".
The development of all Jives is like the progression of geometri­
cal figures, as thay are called, though of course such illustrations
l!,,;
convey no adequate coneeption of the truth, for those lines are in
reality living entities. Those geometrical figures, 80 called. are
really composed of substance in astate of unfoldment, as is all
Matter, Force, and Consciousness. Every spiritual being is a line.
There is a certain individuality in every atom in manifestation.
H-ep
INDIANS HAD THE FIRST "LEAGUE"
Washington, May 5. (By Universal Service.)
Nations of today str"iving for universal peace might weil study
the anclent pact. of the Iroqouis Federation of five nations of New
York State Ind the Smith,wnian Institution has declared.
The federation of five natiuns was formed about 1570 between
the Mohawk, Onondago, Oneida, Cayuga and :)eneca Nations, J. N.
R. Hewitt of the Bureau oE American Ethnology said. It was based
on three sets of "double" princ~iples - health and peace, righteous­
ness and justice, authori ty between man and man. The Iroquois
were in the stone age wnen the peace plan went into effect, but it
endured through centuries.
The league set a legal tender price on human life so that the
death of a man, eitber by accident or design, would cease t() bring
in its train an endless series of revenge deaths. A male lif~ was
paid for by 20 strings of wampum, a female iife by 30, and there
the matter enden.
Women of the various clans e\<:'cted the members of the council
of chiefs whieb govcrned the leag Je.
(Quoterl from San Francisco Exarniner, May 6,1927.)
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BLAVATSKY üI11t"\.ft-rMENT
This depnrlment will be WHlfineu to the tPllehings of H. 1'. Hla,·atsky. In
lt will be published, so far as pwsible, the views exp~l"sseti hy H. P. B. on any
Clven sulJject.
Our readers are requested to l!end in allY <luestions on llUY subjed which
tbey wish to have elucidated, und we will enaea \'Of to search through the writ·
ings of H. P. B. tl.ud publish her teachings on such Kubjects.
Conrlllcted h~' El"Il('st Hnrrisoll. H. TIH'OS" Tpmple Serihe. A(lllress, Bln­
vat~ky DeparllllPnt. Tell.ple Artisllil. Hnkyoll, l'alifofllia.
The following brief articles are from H. P. Hlavat,ky' s Own
pen, reprinted from "Lucifer", September and October, 1887:
WILL AND DESIRE
Will is the exclusive possession of man on this our plane of con­
sciousness. It divides hirn from the brute in whom instinctive desire
is active.
Desire, in its widest application, is the one creative force in the
un i verse. In thi~ sense it is indistinguisb&.ble from Will; but we me:1
never know desire under this form while we remain only men. There.
f(,re Will and Desire are here considered as opposed.
Thus Will is the offspring of the Divine, the God in man; De­
sire the motive power of the animal life.
Most men live in and by desire, mistaking it for will. Hut he who
would achieve nlUst separate will from desire, and make his will tbe
ruler; for desire is unstable and ever changing, while wi 11 is steady and
constant.
Both will and desire are absolute crC/ltors, forming the :nan him­
self and his surroundings. Hut Will creates intelligently---desire blind­
ly and unconsciously. The man, therefore. makes hirnself in the image
of his desires. unless he creates hirnself in the likeness of the Divine
thorough his will, the child of light.
His task is twofold: to a waken the will, to strengthen i t by use
and conquest, to make it absolute ruler within his body. and,
with this, to purify desire.
Knowledge and will are the tools for the accomplishment of this
puri fica ti on.
DESIRE MADE PURE
When desire is for the purely abstract ,when it has lost all trace
ür tinge of "self" -- then ;t has become pure.

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is self-engraved upon th,;-ßtral fluid, whieh is the receptacle
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75 THE TEMPLE
The first step toward this purity is to kill out the desire for
the things of matter, since these Ctlli only be enjoyed by the scparated
personality. The second is to cease frOHl desiring for one=elf even such
abstractions as power, knowledge, love, happiness or farne; for they are
but selfishness after alL
Life itself teliches this lesson; for in all such objects of desi re are
found Dead Sea fruit in tbe moment of attainment. This rnuch we know
from experience. Intuitive perception seizes on the positive truth that
!
satisfaction ia attainable only in the Infinite; the will makes that eon­
viction an actul.l fa.ct of c01s:!iou;mess, tdl at last &11 desire je centered
on the Eternal.
SELF KNOWLEDGE
The first necessity for obtaining self-knowledge is to become pro­
foundly conscious of ignorance; to feel with every fibre of the heart
that one is self-deceived.
The second requisite ia the still deeper conviction that such know­
ledge -such intuitive and certain knowledge-can be obtained byef­
fort.
The third and most irnportant is an indomitable determination to
l
n
so to say, the mirror of all thc manifestations ai The sig
expresses the thing: the thing is the (hidden ur oecult) virtue of the
sign. To pronollnce a word is to evoke a thought and make it present.
)
The magnetie potency of human speech is the eornrnencement of every
\, mut:ifestation in the occult world. To utter a name is not only to
I. deIine a Bein!:; (an Entity), but to place it under, and condemn it
thruugh the emission of the Word (Verbum) to the influence of one
or more occult potencies. Things are, for every one of US, that which
\
it t the Word) makes whil naming them. The Word ( Verbum) or
the of every man iso quite unconseiously to himself, a
or a (.·urse. This ie why our ignorance about the properties and
attributes of the idm, as weil as about the attributes and properties
of matttr, ia often fatal to USo
names land words) are either belle/icent or 1Jttlüficmt. They
are, in a eertain sense, either venornuus or health giving, aecording to
the hidden influence attached by Supreme Wisdom tü their elements.
I{.. that is to say. to the Id/ers whieh eompuse thern, and the uumben eor­
relati ve to theSe letters.
This is strictJy true as an esoterie teaching ace?pted by all tlw
Eastern Schools of Oeeultism.

-" The Secret Doctri ne .,

obtain and face that knowledge.

Self knowledge of this kind is unattainable by what men
call "self-analysis". It is not reached by re9.soning or any brain pro­
cess, for it is the awakening to consciousness of the divine nature in PSYCHISM.
man. Psychisrn the power ta see, hear and feel the touch of il1lwr
18
To obtain this knowledge is a greater achievement than to corn­ plane~. "Trie hwest degret' of C();ls(~iousness is on the fourth
rnand the elements or to knl'w the future. Ka:na-:\fana3ic T'l,! high2r de.;;rees of thc seven on thiOl
Harmony is l1:e Il'w of life, discord its shadow. whence springs <.:re Tbe Se\ien d,·g-rees are from instinctual to c. Th,~
eUliscicu,;n"ss takes in th,~ i\lanas1c, (Ir mental-emotion,,]
suffering, the teacher, the awakener of consciousness.
eon';Cimll1E's,;. thi" p:ane Manas stretcbes u:> tu the Hi
Through joy and souow, pain and pleasure, the soul comes to a r.'1~~r;c".~ l~lH~(lhic (Y~' ~:)it'ituaj-8nlntinjT"d c,-)n:,;c'ir!!JS:ll:'SS, th~: ph'.,h'
knowledge uf itHelf; then begins the task of learning the laws 01 Iife, ;d Budilbi. F'rtl:l1 tb~':, COljSc{uusne;~;-:: g.-{J(:S tll Lf1V I~'Llth(~I· 11; FI(~a';-
thflt the discords may be reso]ved, and the harmony be restaren. <::1 .\trna reflecting aii tÜten' is in ttw Auri:: E:1Vdopc."
The e)es of wiEdtm are Iike the ocean • there is neither
T~'Ji? :\~"1r.~:~~·.~~t"ij'1a, bj'it":g'i'~ hct\Y(~t-,':l thl~ r-.r.i:d"!i.1r :.\;1d lo\ver
;i"';
or
joy ncr SOHew in them; therefer the soul of the occultist must be­
:'ti~~- 'k' if t~1
come stronger than joy, and greater than sorrow. ]'t--

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WORDS ',\-; th n:':t~ W t1
The words spaken by, as weil as the name of, every individual
1)(H1'
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largely determine his future fate. Why? Because: When our soul
(mind) creates or evokes a thought, the representative sign of that
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145 THE TEMPLE ARTISAN
"Yes, you are beautiful when you are seeing that which is beauti­
ful all around you and not thinking of yourself."
"Beautiful light?"
"Yes."
"Let's go riding round and see them . "
"All right."
"The bird beautiful?"
"Yes."
"Flowers beautiful?"
"Yes."
"Narcissus hiding in them, Mama?"
"Yes. Now have you found Narcissus? Do you hear hirn?
Do you see hirn ?" .
"Yes,' I see, I find, I hear. Narcissus sings when the bird sings?
Narcissus sings when I sing, Mama?"
"Yes, Narcissus sings when anyone sings beautifuIly."
"Does Echo know?"
"Yes, Echo knows too whenever anyone finds Narcissus. So
if we want to help Echo we must always find the beautiful our­
selves."
Narcissus and Echo are like two children going to school.
Some days they work nicely, play nicely together, and when they
go to bed at night they think of all the happy things that happened
that day. They talk about them as they go to sleep, and next mor­
ning they wonder what kind of a day they will have together. If
they have had a good day the day before and have tried to make
things go right, studied their lessons and worked weIl, they may be
sure the next day will be happy too, for one day calls to the next
day and is answered by the other, just like Narcissus and Echo call
and answer . When you are busy and do your work well at school
you receive a gold star. It is 'put on to your paper, and you bring
it horne. When you are late or do not behave as you should your
name is written on the board. Whenever you look at the gold star
you are happy and you echo a song. When you look at your name
on the board you are sad, and you echo unhappiness.
You see; Narcissus and Echo both live within ourselves. They
are ourselves, the way we work and live. Narcissus is a beautiful
fairY within us, and Echo the voice that speaks to us night and
morning when we are alone and teIls us what kind of a day we have
spent. You know that voice. You often call 'Good girl, Mama 'r
after you have gone to bed.
EverYthing we think or do is written down somewhere, on pa­
per, on the board, in the sky, inthe air, in a flower, in a little girl's
face, in the grass, some way, and some time we will have to read it
a11, think about it. Every child has a Guardian Angel who writes
down everything that happens to the child in a Book of Life. So if
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THE TEMPLE ARTISAN 146
you want a beautiful book to read you must find the beautiful in
everYthing and help others to find it too. Then you may be sure
vour book will be beautiful. You belong, you know, to the 'I Will
Try' Class."
"I will try, Mama, I will try."
"When you grow older you will hear some big words, like
Karma and Reincarnation. When you hear people using them, re­
member to hunt up your story of Echo and see if you cannot find
the meaning of these words in the secret of Echo's story and learn
it wen."
(Concluded)
A LETTER FROM B. S. TO A MEMBER
Referring to certain questionable books on occult philosophy
and certain organizations promoting the same, the following is
quoted:
"They are hot-beds for the propagation of Spiritualism and
money making. " ..... They are a11 selling all those things which
work for psychism and black magie.
The world is facing the worst danger it has ever faced since
the sinking of Atlantis and bringing on another era of witchcraft,
for a large section of the people have gone mad over psychism,
and the orthodox churches are getting frightened. Theconditions
are being made for just such devilish work as has been done in pre­
vious ages of witchcraft. The trained Theosophists are breaking
up into little groups, so they are not prepared to meet the organized
bodies of the orthodox churches, who are opposed to Theosophy in
any form.
You see a11 these first mentioned organizations have taken the
teachings of the Master in the "Secret Doctrine" and "lais Unveil­
ed" for their philosophical basis; but instead of bearing on the dan­
gers of psychic methods, they are increasing the desire in their stu­
dents for the use of such methods by advertising the sale of magie
mirrors, Ouija boards, crystal balls and other things and showing
. how to use them.
They claim the free distribution of their teachings but ask for
free will offerings to pay for printing them. What is the difference
between them and others who ask for adefinite sum for the pur­
pose? .
If a11 real believers in Theosophy as it was taught by Blayats­
ky and J udge in the original Theosophical Society could only drop
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147 THE TEMPLE ARTISAN -------------------
That, however, is a spiritual matter and has nothin.lif to do with
their grievances, real or personal, and combine to fight a11 this psy­ the fear of death as a dissolution. I had no dread of all unknown.
chic and spiritualistic rot now being taught a1l over the world, there Life all about me was, and is, too eloquent with saying that its ans­
would be some hope. But the more I see of the spread of such lite­ wer to itself is forever, "More Life." Hut that·I . migRt IlJthink of
rature as is that of the books and teachings before mentioned, and death as a thing joyouS I was yet to havean experien,c~ .... , "!fJ~.
the more I hear of the groups forming for the practice of what is There lived in our community a dear old saint, trulY a warrlOr
actually black magie, the more alarmed I am. of the soul who had been awal"IT/Y nurse'in the Civil Wal"; and' had
Perhaps you will remember that Master once warned us of the battled and toiled and loved andserved her fellows. Aged and
danger of an era of witcheraft in the present age; and certain un­ bent, with crooked hands and snow-white hair, twinkling blueey~
progressed orthodox bodies might easily be grouped together by and the soft, fresh skin of a child, she tended her fiowers and trees
fanatic urge to inhibit religious Iiberty and independent thinking, about her cottage and kept it spotles~ly cle~n inside. And she
and would not hesitate to burn and torture anyone classed as a would make pies now and again for the bachlelor men of the ~om­
Theosophist, if publie antipathy were awakened against those in­ munity who were not supposed to know how to eook for themselves.
dulging in the before mentioned praetiees. Sinee Master has warn­ But one day she fell ill. And when the Doctor was called in he
ed us of the danger of bringing on such aperiod of witehcraft as found she had a bad eold with a threat of pneumonia; but.tt w~s not
has existed in former ages it is easy to see just how it is being done. very serious, eertainly not suggestive of anythingnesessarily fatal,
The Orthodox Chureh that is behind all the repressive laws whieh the Doetor told her. ,But she said to hirn, "Doetor, you might
now being made against the liberties of the people, such as free just as weIl say the words ovar me for I am gaing." And no amount
speech, Prohibition, Sunday observanees, etc., is preparing to eom­ of reassurances or protestations by the Doctor made any differenee.
bat psyehism; and the first thing we know even Theosophists will She had made up her mindtliat it was her time to pass over. She
be thrown into prison and tortured for their beliefs in and practices was going, and with as sweeta disposition and no more to do about
of black magie as is being taught by a lot of those self advertised it than if she were going doWn town .
teaehers. When they are not fraudulent, thesespiritualistic sean­ She sat on the edge of her bed propped in pillows for three or
ees a11 eome under the head of black magie, and the extent to which four days while the Light wentoüt:' I went to see her toward the
they are being held. especially sinee the war. is remarkable. last, but she did not know me. And when 1 'went -4ome I' entered
Feeling aU this as I do, you cannot wonder that I feel it is up to my study and went into the silenee to assist her in the step over, if
us Templars to refrain from eountenancing the efforts of all those sO I might, when, Qf a sudden, I was there in the presence of Death.
suddenly sprung up teachers of psychic phenomena to a totaUy un­ And, 0, what a glory, what a peace Qnspeakable, what a place of
prepared people looking for sensation." Light, what a time of joy! .
(Signed) B. S.
Have you ever stood in the wilderness at the coming of morn­
February 21, 1921.
ing? Have you ever feit the exquisite touch of the night becorning
day? Have you experieneed the alluring mystery. the wonder,
the wide-eyed expectaney of the day being born; watched the hills
creeping out of the dark, shedding the shadows behind thelll ;rßnd:
reaching up and up with aspiring bands to. cateh. the. Ljg:Qtdl .and
then beheld the glory of the bursting Light as if it were the glory
of the First-Born; seen it risingwith the songs of birds and the
THE GREAT CHANGE laughter of waters as if there had never been a morning be fore ?
Weil, that is Death. . ,­ ~_ ( ,.' ~ T
Death , i1 -F. W: . ~1> , ;
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At that time when I gained a larger eonsciousness of the mean­ .. I.~':­ 1-,,:' . " ';) , , 1. "
ing of life I used to say that I was not afraid of death. I eould die )11 J.11: ·l .....HJ . ~lr
as the philosopher, assured that a11 is weIl. As the philosopher I ..:~ ~.
r '. ,C;., .
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could think of only one thing that might, nay probably would give IL ~J.
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me pain and fear at the doorway of the departing, and that would ~ t -..:~ ~l :",J.O[~~", ;; \
be that I could look back and see my life strewn with aU too many sr!,,...tGf
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failures, blotted with the sins of omission and commission.
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THE TEMPLE OF THE PEOPLE
.Name and Objeets:
The Dame of thls Soeiety ilI: .J_
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Th~_remp~e Artisan
,\XGL'S'r-SEPTE~IBER. J')3,
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TBE TEMPLE GF TBE PEOPLE 'i,,~~&~, ~umbt'r"" "nd-l

The Soeiety of THE TEMPLE OF TRE PEOPLE 12 an auto~'1' .'.

contlnuous part of the THEOSOPHICAL MOVEMENT organized byl. '

BIi:HOLD. I GIVE
Petrovna Blavatsky, lnNew York City, 1875 A. D. . " . ,~:.::
UNTO THEE A KEY

The declared objeets of the Soeiety of THE TEMPLE Oll' THEPEOfl.Jii~

FIrst:-To establlsb a nUeletl2 and a vehicle .for too essential UNI'.l'Y~,a.;;.~

Ufe. '. " _,: /:~'i~~

. Sceond:-To bring about a greater understandlng of UNIVERSALBRO'rB::;:i\

ERBOOD and the enllghtenm~nt of aU poopJe. ......:;,';;.
Thlrd:-To promote a universal understanding and tOleratlon of TRlP.l'iI.~~ik,;.
dillgent 8tOO7 of comparative rellgkm, makjng selenee reUglous aBI"
Ion sc1entlfie. Slnce TRUm 18 an integral part of tha Dature .ana
of aU WORLD RELIGIONS, there never can be, ~pt b,. tault.T,:
standing a wnfUct between the religions of the worla.-
The S'oclety owes no aUeglanee or subordlDation to. the aütiiÖl'it;y ofäni~
er, body or offlee outside lts own sphere 'of administration, vested :in tbeGi
dlan-In-Chief. exeeptthat due respeel: is declared for everyreq~
ctvll law. . - : '
The Temple Gf 'lbe Poople: situate !91the. Count,. of San Lnis ~>
State of Callfornla, U. S. A., shatt lie known as International ~:
quarters of the Society of THE TEWLE Oll' TRE PEOPLE.~_;
shall be establ1sbed the permanent relJldenee of the Gwmllan-In-C_,·
anti members of the Teplple Synod. ..
MEMBEBSBlP
Members·A&-Large:-Sball eonslst of all whO':"".~ -have 81~ an ~~,
blank for admlttance 1nt(} the TempleOf The Peo;ple, and pa,. ~.
dues of six dollars. Thesemembers Are consldered in the llght.t
tioners ,for the Order o'fthe '36. ' '" " the Swan, the Bird of Life, the symbol of poise
Templars:-:-Sball conslst of those memberswho have eerved the
(not lass than one year) as members-at-large, and have been a·
the Order of The 36, or EsoterIe SectiOJiof the Soclety, upon the:ä
of the Guardian-In-Chief. These members areknown as t u n '
.... THE HEIGHTS SUPERNAL
I stand on the Mount supernal of my Spiritual.
Divine Self. myheart free from hatred for any
creature or being, from fear of any state or
condition, my soul given in service, consecrated
to God and mankind. Faith, love. compassion,
r beauty, wisdom, truth, the light of Ufe Eternal
stlrround and pervade me, Mingled with these
as One in Rhythmic Essence, , await the Voice
of the Master, which shall thrill through my being
in tones unmistakable and point me to duty un,
- with power and joy in abundance. That
, not overcome by the immensity of sound
that sweeps through me, or blinded by the gran,
deur of the Light that breaks upon me, I will seat
myself in for a spell "nd fix my gaze upon
of the Ancients, ever balanced, ever directed
arigh! as it wings its course of ad;ustment through
the diffe;ent elements,

members. The aunna! dues are Beven dollars.

Temple-8quare-Members :-8haU conaist of those membera wbo ar& Iti, mu>:t allow YOllrselves to open the inner
dent at Beadquarters, but aetive full-partieipatlng mem1lers ot th. ear more devoutly to the Silent Language of the
through il chartered Temple Square..... , _. Blessed One, Those who and Vvho learn
Temple Square :-S'even memaers may make appllcatlon for a Charter .,. to hear and res pond in gladness have their own
ize a Temple-Square.. . interior reward. --·loJ/J1/71'" I, 1<;31,
bmer-OrdenJ:-There are vadous Inner-Orders öf the Soe!ety.
regll.rdlng these Orders Is not glven out publicly..;;~,
(The abo'-e Information 18 from the By-Laws of The Temple Of The ~

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re-orgaDized in Syracuse, New York, 1898 A. D . ) · ,..r<,

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(TM Soeiety of The Temple 01 the Poople is not reISJ)OIl8IhIe ler _~

mmt in th;s Magazin!", "n~eAA ma..i!e offieially.)

Address THE TEMPLE


T HE TE M P L E A!{ '1' 1 ;:, H. .,
or state of matter is just beyond the solid, liquid and ,gaseous
thc !hysical plane. It is much rarer :md more subtle than any
of the last name states of matter. Thc etheric double is attached to the
grosser forms of matter, atom by atom, molccule by molecule, but the at­
tachment is so slight that it is easily broken and the etheric double may be
withdrawn and, under certain circumstances, appear at some distance from
the physical body. Much of the phenomena produced at spiritualistic seances
is brought about by the etheric double of the medium, when the phenomcna
is genuine. Its substance is very fluidic and can be elongated and expanded at
the will of the medium. It will reflect the image of any picture in the mind
of the medium, when it has been withdrawn at the instance of a highly de­
veloped will, even while the senses of the physical body are stilled as in
sleep or in trance. A trained psychic can reflect the images of each one in a
room fuH of people, on his own etheric double and so deceive them into be­
Iieving they have seen some deceased relative Or f riend.
The Etheric Double has no will nor mind apart from the will and mind
of the physical man. It forms a medium of cornrnunication bctween the soul
and body of man similar to that of the etheric waves set in motion between
wireless telegraph stations. It is this etheric double that is sometimes seen
hovering over the grave of a body recently buried. It cannot entirely leave
the place until all the gross matter of the body has disintegrated and returned
to the elements, and it is primarilr for this reason that many Occultists insist
on cremation. However, this belief does not universally obtain for the reason
that the process of disintegration, however accomplished, is the work of the
fiery elementals and, if undisturbed, they will do it in nature's own way;
otherwise through cremation there may be an interference with karmic action.
The etheric body has a certain life of its own and the average man is not wise
enough to know whether he has a right to take that life any more than he has
the right to take the life of the physical body. He does not know just what
part the etheric double may play in the regeneration of the soul. It was the
persistence of the etheric double after the death of the physical form that led
the ancient Egyptians to preserve the latter.
(End of Part One)
SELECTIONS FROM A PRIVATE MESSAGE
GIVEN BY MASTER H.
Divine Justice and Compassion are thwarted and killed in the he art that
harbors a sense of injury. Tbat heart cannot render justice when it is filled
with thoughts of injustice toward others.
Man cannot be tme to God if he is not tme to the White Lodge, which
is God in manifestation, nor tme to his solemn obligations to the same. It is
a travesty on the world Law for one to demand that the Law shall mle when
the fundamental action of that Law, which is centralization, i5 ignored :md
set aside.
If one party to a controversy persist in ignoring any means which might
prove his adversary in the right, and so persists because he desires to carry
some personal desire or opinion into effect, he not only wrongs his adversary
but he build5 up a wall between hirnself and his God.
Nothing will excuse the repudiation of an established Lodge Center by
a disciple. Tbe edicts of Law are built up by centralization.
If you believe in the fulfillrnent of Divine Law you know that the Lodge
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T II F. TEMPLE ART ISA N J 59
capable of removing l recreant exccutive or leader when the Karr.u
one is full; but no aet of that rul(.>r justilies the breaking of an ob!i­
to such a and what is of even more importance is the dangtr
of breaking such obligation because of the unproveJ alle,~ations of others.
Nothing justifies thc repucliation of the \'OW5 and promises of one person
because of real or imagined wrong done to another.
You came into the world and must go out of it-alone. You ca me into
each degree of the White Lodge alone. You will go thru every initiation of
your 10n,1:i line of incarnations alone.
If you are great cnough in soul to acknowledge whatever wwng you may
haye committed, whether intentional or unintentional, make an honest self­
examin:ltion; prove your boasted desire for justice by being just to each other;
prove your love and compassion for humanity by being loving and compas­
sionate to each other. Prove your willingness to serve God by serving the
God in each other. Prove your ability for discipleship by obeying the laws
of discipleship. Turn to and help U5 prepare for the Coming of the Blessed
One, instead of making it impossible for Hirn to come among you.
If you will do these things rou will be swept on in the Rood tide of the
White Lodge force to final success.
If you will not do these things you will go down and out of incarnation,
the world no better for YOUf having been in it, your opportunities wasted,
disaster following in your wake.
It is yours to choose. We cannot choose for you.
Selected B. S.
THE IMPROBABILITY OF FLYING SAUCERS
The ideas presented in this paper are possibly controversial, but their
presentation is basecl on material summarized by one point of view. Tbis
point of view is offered with no authority or sanction either from Tbe
Temple Te1chers or the entities who may be arriving he re from outer space.
Interpretation and logic are very apt to be wrong as right. There is much
more emphasis on the printed Teachings than on the popular conception of
an idc:l summarized by the words "Rying saucers."
The Prophet Ezekiel, "looking toward the north beheld four wheels like
unto the color of beryl, and they four had one Iikeness, and their appearance
:lnd their work W:lS as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheeI." Preceding
and subsequent descriptions of these wheeIs make it quite dear that all was a
\"ision, carrying with it, nevertheless, an immense impact of conviction and
reality on the thoughts of men who Iived aftcr Ezekiel.
The wheels that h:lve been reported in the skies since the time of Ezekiel
(and his were not the first) have probably also been visions, sincere, for the
most part, strictly realistic to the observer, and frequently corroborated at the
time of visibility by other obseryers. Time will tell as to whether there is any
valid prophecy or influence, spiritual or material of these viewings.
To date there has been no evidence except hope, belief, and faith, of
mlterial visitations of other self-conscious, self-controlled entities, arriving
on this planet earth by way of physicaI sense perception for any purpose,
however arbitrary Of exalted. Volumes have been documented and an arm}'
of witnesses, recruited from all walks of life, to verifr the idea that other
entities are arriving on this planet. Tbeir physical size, color and anatomy
are as va ried as their reasons for here. Total destruction, curiosity
:lnd total salvation are the objectives.
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THE CHRISTMAS TREE

Q1.qri!)f.5 ilay t At the foot of the Christmas Tree stands the Christ Child. Ahove
hang the branches. laden with berries, yea, weighted almost to the
ground, so futl, SI) heavy are they. Upward reach the baby arms in ef­
Beloved, the days and nights are one

fort to climb the tree and grasp the berries in the Iittle hands. But
To the heart that is centered within the Sun,

each time the hands clasp the limbs, instead of finding support hy
That radiant image of God's own face,

which to rise, not only do the branches yield to that gentle grasp, but
Dispenser of Life and Light and Graee.

the tree itself inclines, loosen!! at the root, and would fall upon the
Eaeh Christ day draws us still nearer the trail
Little One, did it not leave hold, discouraged, frightened, bewildered.
Up which we must climb to the Holy Grail.
But still the brightness of the berries lures its gaze upward, and it tries
But every day is a Christmas day
again and yet again, with similar result, until strength begins to fail.
To the soul that has sought and found- Tltt Way.
Behold, what else has happened? As the tree root loosens more and
Dee. 25, 1908 B. S. more, unabl€ to sustain the baby efforts to climb, the tree gradually
loses its bedeeked glory and wears, instead of its gay adornment, a
+ mass of bronzed, browned, withered foliage, betok€ n il"g likEnees to
FROM MIDNIGHT COMMUNICATlON twig, braneh and limb. For the Iife tlO longe} flows through root from
earth to limb, braneh, berry. Color, vitality are gone. The spirit of
The days since you were last assembled as eommon body, in sched­ the tree has fled. Personality, selfishness, form remain. Yet still at the
uled hours of convention. have been so overcharged with opposing. de­ foot of the tree stands the Christ Child, sad, cold, alol"e.
vitalizing forees of discouragement, physical incapacities, entrance of Hurrying, scurrying like bees maddened in swarm, like ants
weakening and disrupting elements permitted in instanees, along with thwarted in building, run men, women, ehildren, in the midst of the
meritorious and wortbier endeavor to persist in face of seeming defeat, Christmas season, in wild haste for gain, love, pleasure, endeavoring
that I have feIt called to stop with you at this important Thanksgiving to hold the form of things, ignoring, refusing, unable to aid the help­
hour to definitely revitalize you, to charge you with actual life essence less, the tender, the ~spiring standing 'neath their own Home Tree,
for the coming months-to help you accomphsh and to remind you seeking to reach the beauties of its branches want only carelessly
that depression is never more than temporary unI eiS you will it so. to adorn the outer selves in desperate effort for vaingiory, bedazzling
Ways and means will be found by you; you will ignore the ignobl!:! the eyes of the innoeent, falsely calling "Merry Christmas!" to passers
designs of the enemyand we will encourage and help in every way by, with hatred, malice, insincerity at heart, caught in the swerving,
possible. swirling currents, from which they cannot es cape nor extricate them­
Beloved Children, be brave; you are not without our deepest love selves-~f()rgdting, thinking- not, rememberlng never that it ia ,,>pirit
and care. Keep fast hold of the rock on which you have builded. alollp that Jives. that sur'vh"es, and tllat all the mad stal1lllede of mind
My Thanksgiving thought to you is: Look up-look up to me and and b'A1Y will soon be Jlushed out of way, elloed. dropped, as withered
smile. Carry it for others also. The smile upon your face today may berdes on brONn and brittle lirnbs oi trl'es tnat wnult! not, could not
save a desperate, stricken one whom Y0U pass by and you may never gi\~e it~l'lf tu tbe Chrü;t in jlJy, support. encouragenwnt, beeause (Jf in­
know. security Ili fUOt.
Do you not feel my hand, my heart with you now? Eut tbe Chri»tmafl tree, the YJ.!:df'18il, tbf~ TrE'e of Hands,
Thy Father-Brother, and shall L'\'cr stand. t'resh, J.!:rel!n, fiu\,'ering. baci< (Jf al! outer furm,
November 29. 1932. HlLARION. the !')(lse!l(>d !'out, the rubr bel'ry. !Ja,,!,; of the Ci~ i 1<1 i tselt'. Y(:3, back

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of the particular Christ sent to any horne, individual or race, stands
the Cosmic Christ, enveloping, enfolding, transmuting, encouraging,
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vitalizing Tree of Life itself, causing it to ever break forth in beau­
ties which shall never die and be a constant Bright and Merry
Christmas to aB who w0uld stand beneath it8 branches.
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+ for spiritual food to save their starving spirits. You are in luxury
CLOSER CO·OPERATION WITH THE OVERSOUL
Try to understand the meaning of what you are going through.
First of all it i3 a world condition in which y'JU are involved and which
must be borne in mind constantly if you are to have any intelligent
outlook and be able to control situations cr keep them within com·
mand.
There is a world house cleaning in process, a most thorough one
indeed. Every room, doset, corner, crevice and shelf in every depart·
ment of lire is being overhauled.
The very vessels and articles for carrying on the process must be
cleansed themselves before the WO! k can fully go on. Tubs, piled one
within the other, but partially drained, must be upturned, scrubbed,
Rcalded, sunned and made ready for fresh, sanitary waters, to be used
lavi8hly otherwise.
Here again care and wisdom must be brought to bear. Certain
skill, born of interest, concentration and devotion to higher principles
must be used rather than anything gained br outer skill and discipline
by technical instruction or command. In other words, the Key must be
turned that opens up the current of interior observation and situations,
and ways and means will come directly before your attentiou for your
immediate helpful service and thoughtful. practical care.
For instance, rare articles are needing preservation in various
places. Some are bei ng destroyed by wear and tear, of exposure to
dust, climatic eonditions and neglect. You have pas~ed them by so many
times without seeing-have brushed against them so repeatedly-have
shoved or shuffled them out of sig-ht. or rnind uotil tomorrow that it
would be doing you a wrong to speeify in particular just what theyare
and where they are to be found. You must call up the aetidties of
your own ioherent mental faculties, your ;-;0 highly important, so hUl'd·
ly achieved powers--and apply them where most needed that the re­
construetive forces of the Lodge be injected into the work with power,
rather than alJow the straining of Their souls to find you in the dark.
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Jerk yourselves into spiritual activity. Feed the hungry souls
standing on every side, pressing against you with wide-opencd m0uths
compared to these. Feed them through your own persistent, incessant,
determined faith, courage and eheer; your positively promised knowl­
edge that Light Will Come, the Darkness be vanished; Power, Possi.
bilities and Opportunity present. Patience and Endurance must be
used unto the end, and in repeated JU'W bt'giJlllil1,I;S if efforts fai I you
temporari ly.
Failure in elfort is only temporary. Truer and better beginnings­
renewal of elfort, greater and more efficient union with the Divine,
eloser Co-operation with the Over Soul of the Raee-Purer alignment
and adjustment with the Master Forees of your lives, with the Great
Lodge of which you are in reality a neeessary and integral part, with.
out whom can not he accomplished the complete and perfected work,
which ever eonfronts you and the race in alJ cycles of time.
[For the New Year, 1933.] HILARION.
THE LESSER LIVES
Temple Teachings. Open Series No. 259.
Only a fragment of Time, as the Gods count that. great illusion,
lies between you now and that day when out of the slimy ooze of the
underworld rose the elementary lives which en masse have built the
rupas you now 80 proudly drape in cloth of gold and deck with preeious
stones-those ehanging forms you place in the seats of the Gods, buHd
golden altars before, and call aloud to your fellowmen to refuse at
their peril to kneel down and worship, forgetful of the way and means
by which those furms (similitudes of the real selves. the expanding
mentalities elothed in eternal substance) have reached their present
status; forgetful that the way and means of thair ascent are still open
for their descent; forgetfui that the horrog-eneous bodies may again
become the heterogeneous elementaries, if 80 be they cannot serve the
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another sense, the feminine principle.... Venus-Aphrodite i5 the personified
Sea."
Akasa is Spiritual Substance one remove from the Absolute, or again, it
is the SpirituaJ Essence from the Absolute impregnating primordial substance,
the great eternal Mother. This Breath from the Absolute moving on the
ocean of space churns its waters into foamy biUows, whence anse the beauti­
ful forms. colors and harmonious sounds which become Iater the music of
the spheres which are typified in the character of Venus.
J. H. Scotford
the gift from the heart unites the giver in loving sympathy with the Master's
CHRISTMAS GREETING
I salute you. I am your feiend, and my love for you gees deep. There is
nothing I can give you which you have not got; but there is much, very much,
that while I ca.nnot give it, you can take.
No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. Take
heaven! No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this pres:ious little
Soul of which you are apart, you stand obligated to give a11 yout time, means
instant. Take pea.ce!
The gloom of the wodd is but a shadow. Behind it yet within our reach
is joy. Tbere is radiance and gIory in the darkness, could we but see, and to
see we have oo1y to look. I beseech yau to look.
Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by their coverings.
cast thecn away as u~ly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will
find beneath it a living splendor. woven of love, by wisdom, with power.
Welcome it, grasp it, and you touch the angers band that brings it to you.
Everyth.ing we caIl a triaJ, a 50rrow. or a duty, believe me, that angers band
is there; the gilt is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing 'presence. Out
joys too: be not content with them as joys. They too conceal diviner gifts.
Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty beneath its cover­
ing that yon will find earth but doaks your heaven. Courage then to claim it:
that is aIl! But courage rou have; and the knowledge that we are pilgrims
togethet', wending throu.gh unknown country out war harne.
And so at tbis Christmas time I greet you. Not quite as the world sends
greetings, but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for yon now
and forever the day breaks and the shadows fiee away.
On December 14l1.farjorie Jorissen and David MalIory were married in
Fra Giovani, A. D. 1513.
THE OFFERING OF CHRIST
Cethil Mallory of Halcyon.
All that thon canst take, and I have power to give, of that I prize above
all eIse, I offer thee this holy day in token of the love the greatest Friend of
Man hath freely given thee and me.
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HELPING HAND
Thc Hclping Hand Departm<:nt of Thc T(;mplc of thc Pcoplc was es­
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tablished years ago by the Master for the sustainment of important phases
of the Temple work-printing, correspondence, office cquipment, etc.-that
the Teachings may be disseminated far and near and our obligations freely
J met-
Any contribution, large or small, is greatly needed and appreciated, and
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sacred work.
ll1e following is guoted from a Hclping Hand Message sent out by B.S.:
"The message sent to a member by tfle Master years ago is just as applic­
able to every other member of The Temple at the present time:
:1 .. 'As to your duty. your question indicates ignorance of the fact that a
duty is not a matter of inclination. It comes as the result of an action of
irrevocable law. Where a duty develops, there is a debt to be paid. By your
pledges to the Great White Lodge, by the Master's acceptance of you as a
personal disciple, by the striking of the keynote in the scale of the Group­
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and Jabor to the service of the Lodge and the group to which you belong.
You stand obligated to sustain and defend the trust placed in yau. These
obligations are not merely forms, they put you in line with all the great souls
of the Red Ray, and as the latter are laboring for your protection and help
on the most vital field of your being, so it is your privilege to do the same '
for your physica1 and spiritual kin on lower lines.'
1 "We ask you as Comrade to Comrade engaged in the fiercest struggle of
this c.ycle to stand by us and help in Out efforts to carry out thc Master's
directions and to do it in a regular and system.atic way."
TEMPLE ACTIVITIES AND NOTICES
Meetings and classes of Inner and Outer Orders and the Temple Builders
have been held regularly. The Feast of ,Fulfillment, the Communion Service
of Tbe Temple, and the Devotional Service are held on the first Sunday of
each month. Tbc Choral Service with prayers for Universal Peace is held
on the last Sunday.
The speakers in the Sunday aftemoon services durinS the moDth of Oe­
cember were: December 8, Cethil Mallory, whose speech was entitled "ne
House of the Masters." December 15, Herbert Lent%, wbo read a paper from
the Ocean of Theosophy.
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The Temple. Officiating priests were Ebba Whitney and Harold Forgostein.
t The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hermann Schmidt, Temple memo
bers in Germany. The' groom is the son of Temple members, Mt. and Mrs.
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December 22, at 10:30, the Temple Builders held their Cbristmas cele­
bration in The Temple. In the aftemoon the Temple choir sang Ouistmas
carols. On Christmas Day, at 11 a.m., the holy Feast of Fulfillment was cele­
] brated. At 5 pm., a Olristmas dinner was served for the group and friends
in Hiawatha Lodge.
January 19 marks the birthday anniversary of Blue Star, Francia A. La
Due, our nrst Guardian in Uief, who was appointed in 1898 by the Master
Hilarion to found the Temple work.