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“The Mystic Triangle”

Covers the W orld

The Official, International Rosicrucian Magayne of the
World-Wide Rosicrucian Order

V O L. V III A PRIL, 1930 No. 3

Contents
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Thought of the Month ................................................................... B y the Imperator
Cosmic Interpretation of the Lord’s Prayer ..............................................
.......................................................By Soror Marion Foster W otherspoon
Mysticism Versus M ystery .......................... ~............... By Frater H. Maxwell
The Financial Situation in America ........ By Frater Royle Thurston, F.R.C.
An Indisputable Cosmic Law By Frater Thomas B. Yeager, F. R. C.
Cathedral N otes .................................................................................................
W as Bacon Shakespeare? By the Imperator
Human Consciousness ......................................By Dr. Bernard Feldman, F.R.C.
Strange Egyptian Traditions B y Frater Royle Thurston, F.R.C.
Cagliostro, the M ystery M ystic ............................ By the Imperator

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 The Thought of the Month
M A N IS N O T SUFFICIENT U N TO HIMSELF
By T h e Im p e ra to r
V V
H E great sessions and con­
gresses of minds being held
in many parts of the world
today for the purpose of
mutual discussion of man’s
needs and man’s require­
ments show that there is a
growing consideration of the fact that
man, as an individual or a group of
men as a nation cannot exist indepen­
dently of other individuals or groups.
W e have those groups of high offi­
cials now considering disarmament and
the abolition of war. W e have other
groups considering ways and means of
establishing eternal peace. W e have
other groups considering methods for
the establishment of a universal lan­
guage and universal cooperation in busi­
ness affairs. W e have still other groups
considering the ways and means for
the prevention of strikes and strifes in
business and the prevention of panics
and financial troubles. All of these show
a desire on the part of peoples and na­
tions to come together and reason.
No longer can the individual find
peace, security, prosperity, and happi­
ness without due consideration for the
peace, happiness, and prosperity of
others. W e are reminded of the phrase
in the popular song, “ I want to be hap­
py but I can’t be happy unless you are
happy too.”
All that man possesses today in the
enjoyment of life and liberty is the re­
sult of the heritage passed on to him
by those who have preceeded him and
T he who thought of the future generations,
Rosicrucian or is resu^ts other peoples and
other nations at the present time think­
D igest ing of those beyond their political and
A pril racial lines. The Universal Brotherhood
1930 of man is gradually accumulating
V
strength, power, and most important of
all, recognition. W here religion has
failed to unite nations and races into
one Universal Brotherhood, science will
show the way and Cosmic Illumination
will inspire the action.
Since the announcement of the C a­
thedral of the Soul in the passages of
this magazine, we have heard from hun­
dreds of our members in all parts of the
world who have awaited the establish­
ment of such a central point for the
unification of their love, their ideals,
and their hopes and aspirations. They
report that by lifting their thoughts as
well as their gaze to a point high above
the earth plane and free from the phys­
ical limitations of natural and political
boundaries, all men of all races can now
unite in one place at one time and find
the essential element of universal broth­
erhood beautifully expressed.
As we lift our thoughts and minds
above the earth plane, all thoughts of
strife and contest and of racial or politi­
cal differences fall like cloaks of many
colors from our spiritual beings. There
is no need for these things the moment
our feet leave the dust of the earth and
we rise into the Cosmic realm. And it
will always be that as man lifts his
thoughts above the material, mortal,
changing, limited, sordid things of life,
he will find peace, happiness, content­
ment, and universal understanding. It
is only as we step down from the moun­
tain heights into the quagmires of the
earth, into the valleys, that we find the
divisions that separate love and peace,
and reveal their shadows of hate and
strife. In the Cosmic we find that we
are all one and of the same God, of the
same soul, and of the same mind.
In the Cathedral of the Soul our
members report that they find music, in-
spiration, laughter, peace, happiness,w masters and the great teachers, while
and a vitalizing power that brings health *4 others have found illumination and an
and strength. Many letters have c o rn e l answer to problems that could not come
to my desk showing that just one con-!f |i n any other way.
tact at a communion in the Cathedral j l | A s these congresses lift their gaze
has caused a long standing illness to # a b o v e the sordid things of life and
leave the body, not to return. O thers||.carry their problems and their hopes
have reported that unpleasant conditionsJF into the Cosmic, they will find more
in the home have been changed as if byM unity, more peace, and the touch of uni­
magic through one contact with th e j| versal brotherhood and therein they will
Cathedral. Others have met there them also find a solution for their problems.

V V V V V

Cosmic Interpretation of the Lord’s Prayer

By S o r o r M a r io n F o s t e r W o th e r s p o o n

U R F A T H E R W ho art in For as Thy winters try us with cold,

Heaven”
Source of all Being —
Being Supreme—W ho fill-
est all Space and all Time;
and whose laws are made
manifest in the circlings of
Thy suns, in their births
and transitions and their giving births,
living cells in Thy wondrous body.
“ Hallowed be Thy name.”
Thy nature is holy—it is whole and
perfect—it is One.
“ M ay Thy Kingdom come, Thy W ill
be done, on earth as it is done in
Heaven.”
M ay Thy perfect Law—Thy perfect
W ay of Existence — prevail upon this
planet, which is our home, as it pre­
vails with all Thy suns and planets in
the sky.
“ Give us this day our daily bread,”
As Thy sun’s seasons perfect our
grains and our fruits and endlessly
bring forth forms of life to feed other
forms of life.
“ And forgive us our trespasses as we
forgive those that trespass against us.”
For in our ignorance we struggle
against Thy law, hurting ourselves and
others; and knowing our own ignorance
we understand and forgive the ignor­
ance and self-will of those who hurt us.
“And leave* us not in temptation, but
deliver us from evil.”
and Thy summers with heat, Thy spring­
times with flood, and Thine autumns
with drouth, while yet all give life and
strength to seed and fruit, so are trans­
ition, sin, and sorrow a part of Thy Law
for the perfecting of our souls’ experi­
ence. When those dark days are upon
us, leave us not to face them in our sepa­
rate consciousness but by making known
to us Thy Presence in Evil, deliver us
from terror and despair.
“ For Thine is the Kingdom and the
Power and the Glory forever and ever,
Amen.”
For Thou, the Spirit of the Living
Universe, in Whom our spirits live and
move and have their being, art the One
Ruler ond the One Power. Thou art
the life of all that live, the thought of
all that think, the goodness of all that
love; and through whatsoever agency
Thou dost act, whether through Man,
or Nature, or Law, Thine is the Glory
that shineth through. Amen.
V V V
The effect of the habitual repetition
of this prayer is to recall to man’s con­
sciousness, too much absorbed with af­
fairs of this earth only, his real union
*I n some old translations of the Prayer, the w ord leave
is used instead of lead.
 with the Great Life of the whole cosmos.
In his limited earth-bound consciousness
man is the helpless victim of self-cre­
ated fate. The farmer may plant his
crops ever so cunningly; he cannot con­
trol cyclone or untimely frost. W hat­
ever care man may take of his health,
he cannot escape change and transition.
So much is he the result of heredity
and environment that many thinkers
deny him any free will at all — yet a
spirit within him urges him ever to make
essay to control his fate. Apart from
God, and knowledge of and obedience
to Nature’s laws, which are G od’s laws,
he is, indeed, helpless. But because his
inmost being is one with the Supreme
Being, he partakes of the freedom of
V V
Mysticism Versus Mystery
THE DIFFERENCE BETW EEN THESE TW O FACTO RS OF LIFE
By F rater
H E R E is a tendency in the
| Western world today to con­
fuse mysticism with the mys­
terious, yet there is absolutely
no relationship and no reason
for this confusion except the
fact that the two words have
a similar syllable. There, the similarity
begins and ends.
When one comes to analyze the beau­
tiful transcendental field of mysticism,
one walks in a Path that is directly
away from all that is mysterious and all
that mystery implies. The study of mys­
teries and the mysterious leads one into
the subjects of magic and of the con­
cealed, deceitful, contrary things of life.
True there is a difference between white
magic and black magic, and the word
magic, itself, originally meant the wis­
T he dom and knowledge, the art and the prac­
Rosicrucian tice of the M agi or the wise men of an­
cient times. It did not mean or imply
D igest trickery or the confounding of the
A pril senses by deception or the use of sub­
1930 terfuge. Such forms of magic are now
that Supreme Being. He cannot, by his
own efforts, and to further his own ends,
alter one jot or one tittle of the Law;
but he can, to some extent, adjust him­
self to it. The method of such adjust­
ment is two-fold: by knowledge of the
Law; and by training the consciousness
to oneness with it. The first is the way
of science; the second the way of prayer.
Jesus taught the above prayer to his
disciples; but He did not use it to try
to escape His crucifixion. The habit of
mind it inculcates enabled Him to bear
the crucifixion in such a way that it led
inevitably to the resurrection. Every
cell of his body knew itself to be not
merely under the law of nature, but an
ever-living part of the ever-living Body
of God.
V V V
H. M axw ell
rightfully called black magic, and white
magic is still that art and practice of the
learned wise men of the orient. Even so,
mysticism is not related to these.
During the month of February of this
year a great congress of religious princi­
ples was held in St. Thomas’ church,
Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street, New
York City, at which a number of emi­
nent leaders of religious thought ex­
pressed themselves. The most interest­
ing statements were made by the Right
Reverend Ernest Milmore Stires, an
Episcopalian Bishop. He made plea in
behalf of mysticism most eloquently. His
talk reminds us of the address made at
one of the Episcopalian conferences two
years ago when one of the leading Epis­
copalian clergymen of New York made
an address which was cabled all around
the world. The key number of his thrill­
ing appeal to the Bishops and clergy­
men assembled before him was that
every effort should be made in the Epis­
copal church to return to the true and
pure mysticism of the original Christian
church. He emphasized the fact that by M an’s greatest achievements have not
the elimination of mysticism from reli­ been in the physical world nor has he
gion we were eliminating the very heart accomplished his greatest good for him­
and soul of religious thought and prac­ self and for others through the function­
tice. Bishop Stires now comes forward ing and the faculties of his body and
and says that it is discouraging to him brain. M an’s greatest accomplishments
and to others to find that it is necessary in the domain of radio whereby he can
to hold a special meeting to discuss the hear speakers at great distances and see
essential principles of Christianity and them speak and move regardless of the
to bring forth the fact that mysticism miles that separate the one from the
is the basic element of the Christian other, and man’s accomplishments in the
faith. fields of medicine, surgery, the sciences,
W e may appreciate the high under­ and the arts are insignificant things com­
standing the Bishop has of the real na­ pared to what he has accomplished in
ture of mysticism when he says that the the redemption of his own being and the
vital question of the day was "Shall the advancement of his personal, inner mas­
living spirit be crushed by the machine tership. When man learned how to pray,
it has made or shall it be strong enough he learned a greater art than any that
to dominate and control the machine?" the universities of science or industry
He dwelt upon the fact that today the have yet taught him in all the ages that
average person is trusting his life and have elapsed since the first primitive
success for future happiness, his ad­ man lifted his thoughts and his voice in
vancement, and development to human an appeal to the God of all beings.
power or to the physical and mental When man gradually learned how to
power of the physical side of man’s be­ attune himself with the Cosmic forces
ing. He admitted that this power was and to find peace, strength, content­
becoming a mighty factor in civilization ment, and understanding through such
and that man’s physical and mental attunement, he accomplished more than
prowess was a tremendous force for when the eminent engineers were able
good as well as evil. But said he, "W e to harness the greatest power produced
are the Creator’s children and it is not by the terrific force of the falls at N i­
remarkable we have inherited the crea­ agara. When man learned that he was
tive spirit. But not yet have we learned essentially good and not essentially evil,
to connect all this human power of ours and that he might hope for life eternal
to work toward the realization of the through regeneration and salvation, he
soiritual possibilities that lie before us.” laid a greater foundation for the birth
Then he added, "A modern fallacy is of new races and a new kingdom of man
the idea that people have bodies and on earth than was ever laid by the
souls, when really, thouqh they have greatest of monarchs in the most ambi­
bodies, they are Souls.” The Bishop con­ tious periods of national aggrandize­
tinued to argue that when man lived a ment.
purely physical and material life, he was Man is now just learning that the
only half living or giving expression to mind in his inner self is a more perfect
half of his being. The real, essential part master and a more perfect director of
of man is the inner self or the soul. Its matter than his most illuminated brain
powers and possibilities are so far and mental faculties could ever be. He
greater than the power of the body and is learning that not only his own physi­
brain that there is no comparison. The cal body and the functioning within it
world in which the soul or the inner but all of his environment and all of the
influence without his body are subject
consciousness can exist and operate and
to control, and he is discovering that he
manifest and accomplish things is an can sweep the material obstacles of life
unlimited world, whereas the world in into submission and free himself from (o\
iw w i
which the physical body and brain of the slavery that has held him in bondage
man must accomplish its desires is so for so many ages. He is learning that
limited as to be microscopically small in there is an unconquerable, domineering
comparison with the other. superman within his own being moving \L v.
 restlessly and anxiously, ever seeking an
opportunity to take hold of the reins of
life and lead the body to its ultimate
success and power. No greater force, no
greater mind power than this resides
anywhere in the universe and it is freely
given and rightfully possessed by even
children and by everyone with a normal
natural desire for this great power.
Mysticism is the study of man’s inner
self and of the relationship man has to
God and the relationship existing be­
tween God and all living things on this
earth. Bishop Stires pointed out what
would happen in that wonderful day
when all men and women would have a
proper understanding of mysticism and
would properly apply its principles to
their personal development. Then would
come a time when it will be possible for
us “ to have real visions, to see the in­
visible, to hear the inaudible, and to
touch the intangible.’’ W hat the Bishop
says is what the Rosicrucians have said
and talked and practiced for many cen­
turies. On every hand, we find a widen­
ing and increasing interest in the subject
of mysticism and the spiritual things of
life. The libraries report that more books
are being read on this subject today in
one month than were read in a period of
a year in the past. In every examination
and investigation of the reason for the
reduction in church attendance, we find
the questionnaires reporting that the
average man or woman is tired of
churchianity and theological doctrines
and now desires pure religion. More
books have been published in the past
two years dealing with the doctrines and
teachings of the eminent messengers of
God and the Avatars of the Light of
men than ever before in the history of
civilization. And when we question the
readers of these books, many of which
have editions running into a million
copies, and when we question those who
attend discourses and lectures outside of
the church, we find that what they are
really seeking and what they really want
is that knowledge, that understanding,
that inner spiritual comprehension which
The is exclusively included in this field of
Rosicrucian mysticism. It was the mysticism of a
D igest primitive nature in the early religions of
A pril Egypt, Persia, and India that appealed
1930 to the intellectual and cultured classes
and evolved the great religious move­
ments of those lands. It was the mysti­
cism of a slightly higher and more tran­
scendental nature in the religion of the
Hebrews that inspired them to greater
effort in search of a kingdom of their
own and lead to the foundation of their
wonderful nation. It was the still higher
and more sublime mysticism in the
teachings of John the Baptist and of
Jesus the Christ that laid the foundation
for that part of the Christian religion
which is still a living power in the lives
of millions, regardless of their church
affiliation or church rejection. It was
the phases of spiritual mysticism in the
teachings of Buddha that made his life
so noble and his doctrines so soul satis­
fying, even to those who knew not the
existence of an ever living God. It was
the mysticism in the ethical doctrines of
Confucius, of Amenhotep, and of hun­
dreds of other divine messengers in the
past that enabled them to lift their fol­
lowers many steps higher in the devel­
opment of civilization and open a new
world to their vision and widen the hori­
zon of life's possibilities. It is the mysti­
cism pure and undefiled in Christian
Science that makes its peculiar, contra­
dictory, and negative principles useful
and uplifting to so many thousands of
persons. It is the little tinge of mysti­
cism in the New Thought movement
and in the preachments of modern psy­
chology that make these two new move­
ments helpful and pleasing to so many.
It is pure mysticism that will save the
churches from becoming crushed by the
machine they have created and save
them through the direction of the spirit
that created all things.
Mysticism, therefore, with its great
searchlight and its beams of illumination
bringing understanding to the hearts
and souls of the inner man, will be the
regenerating principle in the salvation of
the races to come. As man’s conscious­
ness evolves and he rises higher and
higher in even his mental and physical
conception of things, as they are. it is
mysticism alone that is capable of evolv­
ing to his standard and leading him on­
ward in his search. Theological doc­
trines, church rituals, creeds, and dog­
mas of man’s making become obsolete
and are cast aside as they have been in
every age and period of civilization, but
mysticism remains the eternal truth and
is never disqualified by time, by evolu­
tionary force, by mental and physical
development, by the advancement of sci­
ence, by the accomplishments and
achievements of human power, or by the
mastership that man attains. The mys­
tical principles of life are the only ones
which give man that conviction and that
assurance that he can keep pace with
the onward march of the material world
and remain the dominating character in
life’s great drama. Mystical principles
alone enable man to see beyond the veil
V V
The Financial Situation In America
COSMIC CYCLES SHOW CAUSE A N D PERIODICITY
By F rater R o yle
V V
U R I N G the p ast six
months our correspond­
ence has been heavily
laden with reports of
financial depression and
unemployment in practi­
cally every part of the United States
with the exception of the Pacfic Coast.
The serious situation once again illus­
trates the stability of business and finan­
cial conditions in California and other
Pacific Coast states, and very little of
the depressing effect has been felt here
in the W est. At times it is very hard
for those living in California enjoying
health, happiness, and the necessities of
life to appreciate the fact that conditions
are as bad in eastern cities as some per­
sons report them.
The one important outstanding con­
sideration of the entire situation, how­
ever, is that the financial depression and
business situation which reached a crisis
in the latter part of 1929 was strictly in
accordance with the cycles of business
and the fictitious limits of Space and
Time. There is no magic in all of this,
for magic and trickery are the play­
things of man’s physical senses, whereas
mysticism is the dependable revealer of
Cosmic knowledge. There is no mystery
in mysticism, for its every principle un­
veils the hidden, searches out the occult,
and reveals the unknown. It is mysti­
cism that will develop in man the divine
heritage which was given to him at birth
and which will bring him closer and
closer into contact with the God con­
sciousness and enable him to evolve
where he will become the living image
of his Creator.
V V V
T h u r sto n , F. R. C.
V
and financial conditions for the country.
Perhaps few of our members have real­
ized that a nation of people has its
Karma and is affected by the cycles of
life the same as the individual. Our
records at headquarters are replete with
the notations regarding the trials and
tribulations that have come to nations
and races of peoples in the past years
in accordance with the law of Karma
and the cycles of life, and it is possible
to outline for many years in advance
the rise and fall of the trials and tribu­
lations of every nation and country in
the world.
Just as the life of each individual is
affected by the cycles of seven-year
periods, so is a nation affected in various
ways. Each nation, like each individ­
ual, has its cycle of health, its cycle of
business, its cycle of fear, of war, and
strained diplomatic relations, its cycle of
scientific achievement and advancement,
its cycle of joy and happiness, and its
cycle of sorrows and griefs through the
passing of prominent individuals whose
 interests affect the hearts of the nation.
Those of you who have recently pur­
chased copies of “ Self M astery and
Fate with the Cycles of Life” have
learned the surprising facts relating to
the individual’s cycles of life. That book
is now in its second edition and the
thousands of letters being received at
headquarters from those who purchased
the first edition and have tested the
cycles in it on personal affairs prove
how exact and helpful that book has
been in helping them govern their lives
in accordance with Cosmic conditions.
I have seen hundreds of letters from
persons who have said that a large
financial deal or an important business
matter was saved from ruin by the ap­
plication of one of the laws in that book.
And there are many eminent business
men who have written to us that they
are governing their daily actions in ac­
cordance with the principles outlined in
the book and have found this to be the
most helpful system they ever used.
In regard to national affairs, we
notice at once that the financial crisis
which culminated in the latter part of
1929 was in accordance with the cycle
of seven years, and if we go backward
over the history of this country, it is
easy to see where the cycle has made
many definite manifestations in the past.
The previous financial and business de­
pression covered part of the years of
1921 and 1922, the preceding one was
at the beginning of the war in 1914 and
1915; thus we can trace the definite
working of the business cycle in the
nation’s financial and business affairs.
The same is true in regard to the na­
tion’s health and the various epidemics,
in regard to disease, pestilence, storms,
and destruction of crops and produce.
The important thing that our mem­
bers should keep in mind is that these
cycles and their periodic effects are
dealing with Cosmic tendencies and
urges, and that man alone is responsible
for the ultimate fulfillment of these
urges. The Cosmic influences could not
T he and would not produce a financial de-
R ntirrurian Pression* ^ is simply that these higher
influences tend to arouse in man’s mind
D igest a fee]ing Qf unrest and of investigation
A pril regarding business and financial condi-
1930 tions, and man misinterprets this to be
a fear of the stability of conditions and
he rushes into drastic action and precipi­
tates a crisis. None of the financial
panics or business depressions in the
past history of this country could have
become manifest if the will of man had
attempted to prevent them and if an
understanding of the conditions had
been constructively applied. There really
was no warrant or reason for the pres­
ent crisis in business and finances ex­
cept that over a course of a number of
years men and women had been fran­
tically indulging in speculations because
of prosperity and a false feeling of
security. All rational precautions and
all common sense applications of busi­
ness laws were thrown aside with the at­
titude that business is good and will re­
main good. Such actions on the part of
mankind can go only so far when there
is bound to be a breaking point. The
result of such a crisis is an inevitable
adjustment and it is at this time that the
Cosmic laws and principles step in and
not only teach man a valuable lesson
but serve him in rebuilding and read­
justing the financial affairs of the coun­
try. Those of our members who guide
their lives in accordance with the tables
in the book called “ Self M astery” could
not and would not be caught in the
crash that comes every seven years to
those who do not observe the Cosmic
principles.
The present crisis and depression is
about over. In another month or two
employment will rapidly increase and
before the first of June most persons
will have forgotten about the present
crisis. During the month of March thou­
sands will go back to their former em­
ployment and a million or more persons
will begin to feel the increase of pros­
perity. It is at this time of readjustment
that the will of man and his thinking are
very important. A s each individual
thinks now and plans, so will the future
be. The pessimist who thinks that the
present conditions will continue and
that all business has gone to the dogs
will help to make his own life miserable
and will help to delay the coming of a
more prosperous period. The optimist
will help to create better conditions and
will be the first to benefit by the inevit-
able changes. W e are in a very line
position to sense the pulse of the nation,
and while we are located on the Pacific
Coast and in a territory where the de­
pression is always the least, on the other
hand, speaking from a purely business
point of view, our financial affairs are
the result of the financial conditions of
thousands of members, most of whom
are scattered east of the Rocky Moun­
tains. Therefore, we were among the
first of large organizations to feel and
sense the financial depression of the men
and women throughout the nation, and
we have had to readjust our activities
and our affairs in accordance with those
of our members. For this reason our
optimism is not based upon any lack of
effect from the situation but in spite of
the effect it has had upon us, we are
familiar enough with the laws and prin­
ciples to know how to advise and plan
for the rapid readjustment that is close
at hand.
V V
An Indisputable Cosmic Law
HOW COSMIC PRINCIPLES WORK, IN A LL TH INGS
By F rater T homas
T IS nothing short of astound­
ing to find what a little care­
ful searching of corelated
facts will reveal. No one can
appreciate this quite as well
as a Rosicrucian, for he is
trained in all of the sciences
and reasons with an open, unbiased
mind. T o him realization opens up vis­
tas of facts and actualities that do really
exist, but are ignored and not appreci­
ated by the many who feel that truth
^nust be forced upon them, and that
search must end in vain.
Let us, for a few moments, analyze
the spiral, its relationship and symbol-
ogy. T o the mystic it reveals evolution,
reincarnation, progress, improvement,
and development, from its winding cir­
cles of ever-increasing diameter. He
learns that all manifestations are from
The more quickly our members real­
ize that they must maintain their con­
tact with the organization and adhere
to the laws and principles, the more
quickly will they learn that there is a
security and a protection against pass­
ing changes in their fives. Those who
became frightened and fearful of their
personal affairs and broke their contact
with the organization or permitted it to
become secondary while they devoted
their attention to trying to fight a con­
dition which they thought was perma­
nent were among the first to suffer most
heavily from the situation. By follow­
ing the cycles of fife and guiding your
daily and monthly activities in accord­
ance with the rules in that book and
then using the principles taught in our
organization to control your affairs, you
will make your future a more definite
and assured condition in accordance
with your plans and desires.
V V V
B. Y eager, F. R. C.
the center outward and upward through
each expanding cycle, on and on with
ever-increasing propensity. He recog­
nizes in its symbology that there is no
death, no stagnation, no transmigra­
tion to a lower level; but that the spiral
points the way to a more high, more
grand, more sublime goal from which,
eventually, no one can escape.
Science has devised and coined vari­
ous terms to fit manifestations of the
same force; for instance, certain evi­
dences of the spiral law it calls centrifu­
gal and centripetal forces, meaning cen­
ter outward and center inward respec­
tively. The Rosicrucian knows them to
be the same forces we call attraction and
repulsion. As has been said before, this
multiplicity of names shows lack of co­
ordination between various scientific
bodies and schools, which also tends to
mystify the student, and adds greatly
 to a complicated system of forces, out
of which the neophyte is expected to
extricate himself. T o further illustrate
this point, think for a moment of the
multitude of terms we possess such as
osmosis, saturation, capillary attraction,
atomic affinity, molecular formation,
magnetic density, personal magnetism,
chemical affinity, motive incenta, mobile
embodiments, etc. By a careful diagno­
sis of these and various other named
forces, the earnest student will come to
realize that they are all merely manifes­
tations of the dual forces of attraction
and repulsion, the study of which will
explain all the others, regardless of the
elaborate adjectives used to describe
them or the technical names they bear.
It is small wonder that the average
seeker after light who has not contacted
with the Rosicrucian Order, finds him­
self lost in a maze of intangible clues,
and ends the circle about where he
started it, with the feeling, “ It is too
deep for me.” This circle need not take
the place of the ever-increasing spiral,
which never ends, but becomes more
beautiful, more truthful, more under­
standable, more workable, and lovable
throughout each expanding cycle.
No man begins his system of cycles
as a perfect being. W e can not there­
fore expect perfect results, immediately,
in any of the works of man. If we could
attain instantaneous perfection, it would
be the end. The circular spiral ordained
in the Cosmos would cease; stagnation
and retrogression would set in, and the
very purpose of our existence would
pass into oblivion. Thanks to Divine
Wisdom the reverse is true. The con­
stant never ceasing harmonies of Cosmic
Vibrations never end, on and on they
go through each expanding cycle, each
revolution being grander and better, for
as we learn we evolve.
From casual observation it would at
first appear to the neophyte that in the
instance of matter materia or inanimate
physical manifestations, the cycle of
evolution tends to spiral inwards instead
of outwards. For example automobiles,
T he engines, radios, and so forth, wear out,
Rosicrucian disintegrate and eventually become
D igest worthless. If we examine a little deeper
A pril into the subject, we find that the uni-
2930 verse and man have profited by this ap­
parent visualization and experience. In
other words we build year after year
better automobiles, better engines, and
better radios. Thus the depreciation is
only temporary and each step is but an­
other mile stone passed in that great
outward upward spiralistic movement.
The Arcane Intelligence or Divine
Cosmic Mind has ordained such laws of
marvelous wisdom that exemplify in
practice the conservation of matter, evo­
lution being thereby brought out
through systematic harmonization of vi­
bratory forces, in an ever-increasing
repetition of spiraled cycles. Hence
there is not a single electron that is ever
lost, wasted, destroyed, or uselessly ex­
pended. In fact these infinitesmal units,
termed electrons, by the twin forces of
attraction and repulsion, evolve towards
a cycle of producing a habitat or suit­
able physical body that will afford and
support life throughout the three king­
doms. W e may prove this by observing
the formation and behavior of cell life.
Of course it is a long step from the
cell fision of bread mold and bacteria, to
the complex system of cell grouping and
aggregations of functional units found
in the human and animal realms, but we
must agree with the wise thinker who
said, “ The mills of the gods grind
slowly, but they grind exceedingly
fine.”
From the astronomer and scientist we
have the Nebula Hypothesis propound­
ed by Emanuel Swedenborg, tested and
accepted by Pierre Laplace and Sir
William Herschel, proved in this day by
the spectroscope. This is no longer a
theory for it has been adopted in full by
the majority of scientists as the true
cosmogony of all interstellar planitary
formation. In brief, the fact is that huge
masses of incandescent gases at a tem­
perature far beyond the conception of
the human mind, are traveling through
space at terrific speeds, arranging them­
selves in spiral forms. Thus we see new
worlds in their embryonic stage. Mil­
lions of years ago the earth we inhabit
and all the planets obeyed that same law
in the same way.
Every year the sun crosses our equa­
tor a few feet further outward on a spi­
ral path, showing a gain over the pre­
ceding year. This fact accounts for the
receding of our glaciers.
 From a botanical viewpoint the spiral
and its many ramifications is equally im­
portant. The age of the giant sequoias
and redwoods of California, some of
which were large saplings during the
lifetime of the Master Jesus, two thou­
sand years ago, is determined by the
spiral presented by their cross-section,
as is the age of every tree.
The little snail of the ocean’s shore
builds more to its spiral home each year.
Our solar days ascend the spiral as they
lengthen and descend as they shorten.
A s each year rolls by we expand the
cycle and improve, thus symbolizing the
spiral. Each incarnation makes us big­
ger and better as we evolve and improve
in obedience to that sublime spiral Law
of God. Many ionic manifestations are
spiralistic in form. The serpent which
was regarded by the ancients as a sym­
bol of wisdom, coils spirally to strike,
and it also assumes a similar position
when hatching eggs. From the meteo­
rologist’s viewpoint, water spouts and
tornadoes, whirlwinds, and so forth, are
spirals in form. The homing pigeon spi­
rals its way aloft before darting on its
journey. Liquids whirled in a container
obey the same law.
The heavy crude petroleum, taken
from the bowels of the earth in our oil
producing districts, is pumped spirally
through huge pipe lines to the refineries.
This spiral motion was not inaugurated
in this instance by man, but the law
asserted itself in spite of him. Today
many spiral pipe lines are being built to
work in harmony with that law.
Electricity travels spirally along its
conductors more on the surface than in
the center. The magnetic lines of force
adiacent to any current carrying con­
ductor, can be traced on their spiral
path by means of a small compass.
W atch a steam locomotive for the spiral
assemblage of gases found in its wake.
Observe the spiral upward march of all
the climbing vines. W ho indeed is it
that has not seen a whirlpool, rapids, or
even spiralistic eddies in still water? E x ­
amine any human finger print, or an
animal’s foot, and note the spiral whorls
in evidence among the capillary ar­
rangements of the skin. The same is
known to exist in hair follicles of both
human beings and animals. Cow horns
is another example. The semi-circular
canal, located in the medulla cavity of
human and animal skulls, is the organ
that transforms sound vibrations so that
the auditory nerves may convey the
sense of sound to the brain. Its form is
spiralistic. A man lost in the woods will
travel in a spiral path, unconsciously.
The unfoldment of the rose (the
soul) upon the Karmic cross is symboli­
cally a spiral.
The ebulition of liquids when heat is
applied regardless of whether it be
water, molten metal, or chemical com­
pounds, is spiralistic. The resultant
gases of such a process obey the same
law, which is: negative electrons thrown
off by the mobile mass describe a circu­
lar arc instead of a tangent, and these
electrons are repelled by other protons
and electrons. When a union takes
place a different average rate of vibra­
tions ensues, in accordance with the
scale of the Cosmic Key Board, thereby
creating a new manifestation which may
be entirely different in character and
nature from the original constituents.
It will be noted that in the above case,
the application of heat raised the rate of
vibration of the liquids: attraction
(chemical affinity) was broken down,
and the electrons thereby released or
spirally propelled into space by the
force causing the dissolution. In this
way new elements or gases are formed,
and we say evaporation has taken place
as the liquid diminishes in volume. By
no means has anything been destroyed;
it has merely been transposed by differ­
ent vibrations to other manifestations.
An able illustration of what changing
rates of vibration will do, is found in the
ordinary soda and water type of hand,
fire extinguisher. This form comprises
three elements, sulphuric acid (H 2So4)
water (H 2 0 ) and common baking soda
(N a 2 C 0 2 ) which is an alkali. The acid
is extremely active and will attack skin,
fabrics, and many metals. W hen the
device is placed into service, the enu­
merated ingredients are mixed in proper
proportion, producing a gas which
forces the compound mixture out of the
container under pressure; and also the
vibratory rate has been so changed that
no injury will be in evidence to skin or
to the finest and most delicate fabrics.
 Scientific chemists inform us that the
hydrogen atom is the simplest of all the
known atomic combinations, so simple
in fact, that it is used as a unit in calcu­
lating all other atomic construction. It
is given the value of one in most tables,
yet this same simple atom possesses a
kinetic power beyond the range of man's
abilities to fathom or release from its
ties at this time. To the Rosicrucian this
is another example of attraction, and
illustrates the power of Cosmic Forces
little appreciated or understood by man.
W e may now look at the other ex­
treme. Take the radium atom, it being
the most complex in construction of any
known atom. The speed and force of
electrons given off from a mass of ra­
dium is so great that actual photographs
have been taken showing these electrons
flying through a thick steel plate appar­
ently unhampered, inscribing spirals as
they journey. Thus is shown an exam­
ple of the law of repulsion.
The rifling in a gun barrel is spiraled
to give the bullet a whirl which insures
accuracy. In mechanics spiral watch
springs keep our time and spiral bed
springs ease our rest. Geographically
speaking, spiral roads wind their way to
the mountain apex. In the standard and
rotary drilling rigs used to drill wells,
spiralistic features are employed. The
centrifugal pump imparts force to liq­
uids by its spiral principle. The symbol
of medicology, called the caduceus, em­
ploys a spiral design. The leaning tower
of Pisa (one of the seven ancient won­
ders of the world) was built like a spi­
ral. The labyrinth of the ancient Cre­
tans was built to illustrate the Law of
the Spiral.
The ancient progenitors of our nu­
merical system, known as the Arabic
system, were evidently familiar with
these laws which the symbology of the
numbers tends to indicate; for instance
the figure 3 (the symbol of the law of
the triangle) is two half circles joined
together at one edge, the two halves
making a whole or complete cycle; 6
and 9 (multiples of three) higher in the
T he scale of vibrations, are composed of a
Rosicrucian c*rc^e an appendix, emphasizing a
spiral. This connection shows system,
A .f rhythm, harmony, and coordination be-
A p™ tween several of G od’s great Cosmic
1930 Laws, namely: The Law of the Trian­
gle, The Law of the Spiral, The Law of
Rhythm, Vibrations on the Cosmic Key
Board, and repetition of cycles by scale,
all of which are essential to manifesta­
tion on either the material or immaterial
planes.
A few years ago at a mechanics’ con­
vention in Philadelphia, the question
was asked, “W hat is the most profound
principle used in the trade?” The an­
swer unanimously accepted, was the
screw. Every mechanical device known
to man employs the screw in some way,
such as machine screws, wood screws,
lag bolts, bolts with nuts, pipe threads,
worm gears, and so forth. This princi­
ple is a modified spiral.
In our application of electrical laws,
we have solonoids, relays, choke coils,
artificial magnets, transformers, and so
forth, all employing spiral windings of
copper wire, and also reactive resistors
and inductances will not function in any
other form. Spirally wound capacitive
condensers are rapidly replacing the old
tin foil plate method.
In the familiar lead battery, the active
lead is formed into a ribbon, then wound
spirally into little rosettes before being
pressed into the plates.
In the famous Electric Squirrel Cage
Induction Motor (the most universally
used motor in the world today) the spi­
ral is predominantly in evidence, and
the constant, ever changing, magnetic
forces within the motor are rapidly ro­
tating spirally. The core must be built
up of laminated iron to prevent mag­
netic spiral eddies from forming which
would dissipate heat, thereby causing
loss of energy.
Modern water tube boilers, by means
of baffles, deflect the hot gases of com­
bustion in a spiral path upward around
the tubes.
The aviator resorts to the spiral in
gaining altitude.
The propellers on steamships have a
spiralistic constant, as did the windmills
of olden times.
The modern trend of engineers who
have to deal with conversion of power
or prime movers, is to avoid reciprocated
movement and to design rotative motion
in cycles, that comply with the law of
the spiral. T o many of them this spells
efficiency, while in reality it is evolution
in compliance with the wisdom of the are all here waiting for us to mold them,
Cosmic Forces. but ere we do so let us be sure our plans
A s we look and learn, improve and are in accordance with Cosmic Laws.
evolve, we are forcibly reminded again It quite frequently happens that we
and again that “ The only laws that man judge the merits or demerits of certain
can break are the laws that man can phases of life, from an exoteric stand­
make.” point; and in so doing, we are apt to
The casual observer seems to imagine realize only the features presentable to
that the entire scheme is steeped in a the objective senses, which are known
deep mystery of intangible theories, de­ to be subject to gross errors. Now then,
void of logical form or factor, and that if we are to comprehend the intrinsic
these are beyond the realm of his com­ and corelated values, we must investi­
prehension and far from his ken. The gate the esoteric version as well. W e
Rosicrucian Masters have understood have from the Master Jesus a worthy
and realized this tendency, and their admonition which illustrates this point,
life works have been to emphasize and “ He that hath an ear to hear, let him
bring into our lives a workable, and hear.”
practical system, whereby the simplicity This seems to apply equally well, re­
and relative merits of these Great Cos­ gardless of the subject. No opinion
mic Laws and Forces can be applied by should ever be formed until both sides
humanity as a boon to aid in dissemi­ have been studied, for to do otherwise
nating and complying with the Laws is to harbor bias, to court error and
and Powers of God, and in so doing probably failure. The ancients were
will we alleviate much of the Karma of adept at exercising the virtue of a thor­
suffering mankind anywhere and every­ ough investigation before forming con­
where. A s an illustration of this point clusions. For instance the Rosicrucian
it may be said that an automobile driver student knows there is much wisdom in
who understands and knows the various that old saying, “W ise, were the kings
functions of his car,their purposes and de­ who never chose a friend 'til they had
tails, will make a far better chauffeur than unmasked his soul and had seen the
the one who merely pushes levers and bottom of his deepest thoughts.”
buttons because someone told him to. Truly it is a great pleasure to realize
Reading and preaching of all the the stage of advancement we have
laws known to man will not bring about reached, but the most work lies ahead.
one iota of good unless we lay aside the W e have merely scratched the surface
mask that all men wear, namely, fear, of progress; only the most fragmentary
superstition, egotism, and self-satisfac­ rudiments of wisdom have been touched.
tion together with obligations to set A marvelous future lies in store for him
ideas and creeds. W e must be broad in who will seek with reverence, patience,
vision, we must adopt and incorporate and persistence.
into our very lives every tenacle of the While we are so busy revealing na­
Great Divine, Laws. The more perma­ ture’s secrets, applying them for pleas­
nently and effectively we do that, the ure and profit, comfort and gain, earn­
greater good we can do and the larger ing for our time thereby, the caption
will be our measure of success. “ The metallic age,” let us not forget
Down, through the ages, from the an­ that we have sadly neglected that finer,
cient Rosicrucian Masters, have come higher, virtuous knowledge from which
the guide posts pointing out the way flows, “ that Peace which passeth un­
and illuminating the path, that all may derstanding,”— Attunement with the
profit thereby. The materials and forces Arcane Cosmic Mind.
“ JU S T A P O IN T O F IN F O R M A T IO N "
Occasionally there is some delay in the return to you of your due card, properly
receipted for your monthly dues. This, you will understand, is due to the fact that we
receive thousands of pieces of mail of all kinds, and it is impossible to alw ays send
the card back as promptly as we would like, as perhaps the next lecture or lesson
intended for you has just been mailed before we received your due card. So, if it is
time for you to make your contribution of dues, and you have not received the card/
from headquarters, send in your remittance regardless, and when it is received a receipt will
be sent to you, which you can then attach to your due card when it has been returned.
 Cathedral Notes
SPECIAL PERIODS FOR C O N TA CTIN G COM M UNIONS IN
THE CATH ED RAL OF THE SOUL
V V
U R IN G the month of April
there w ill be many special
services and c o m m u n i o n
periods for those who are
makina daily and weekly
contacts with the Cathedral of the Soul.
Those who have not yet made the
contact should not be discouraged for
there is a time and a condition for each
person when this contact will suddenly
come about and thereafter future con­
tacts will be a simple matter. Those who
are trying to make the contact should
make as many efforts to do so as possi­
ble following the periods of regular
communion services as outlined in the
special book called Liber 777, which ex­
plains the origin and purposes of the
Cathedral of the Soul. If any one of
our National Lodge members has not
received a copy of this book during the
past month it is suggested that he write
a letter to the Supreme Secretary asking
for a free copy of the Cathedral book
No. 777. This book is for those mem­
bers who are not affiliated with any
lodge and who must, therefore, enter
into these services in order to make con­
tacts with other members and officers in
general assembly.
Many wonderful letters have been re­
ceived in the past month highly praising
the Cathedral plan, and if you have
V
made any contacts that are interesting
and have not reported them, please do
as instructed in the book in that para­
graph dealing with the subject of re­
ports. Our members may show these
Cathedral books to their friends who
might be interested in such matters and
let them realize what a beautiful service
the Cathedral affords.
During April, the Imperator will be
present in the Cathedral communions
during the third period of each Sunday
and during the third period of each
Thursday. Mark these special periods
on your calendar and enjoy the contact
with the Imperator at these times. A
special service of psychic development
will be conducted by the Imperator dur­
ing the third period on W ednesday,
April 23rd. M ark this special date on
your calendar. Every member should
have a calendar or a small diary in
which he can mark in advance the spe­
cial periods that will be announced in
this magazine. Unless you have received
the book No. 777, you will not under­
stand what is meant by the third period
or second period, or any other period of
the services held in the Cathedral; so
be sure to secure a copy of the book if
you are a member of the National Lodge
and wish to participate in this special
work.

" A N IN T E R E S T IN G P L A N ”
W e announced in our February issue that we had a plan which we felt sure would
interest a great many of our members, and which consisted of acting as a representative
for the A M O R C Supply Bureau in the handling of various books and publications. The
representatives of the Supply Bureau are permitted an attractive commission on the books
which they sell, and it affords the Organization the opportunity of introducing its works
to thousands of sincere seekers.
If you are interested in the details of how you may represent the Supply Bureau in
The the handling of our various books, write a letter to the Secretary of the A M O R C
Supply Bureau, San Jose, California, and ask him to send more details of the plan
Rosicrucian whereby you may bring our books before the attention of many seekers. Those who
D igest have tested the plan say that they find hundreds of persons in every community who
are delighted to come in contact with such books as "Th e M ystical Life of Jesus,”
A pril "Self M astery and Fate with Cycles of Life," A Thousand Y ears of Y esterdays,” etc.
1930
 Was Bacon Shakespeare?
PROOF T H A T BACON W RO TE THE FAM OUS PLAYS
By T h e Im p e ra to r
V V
s*§HNCE again the world wide
interest in the Bacon-Shake-
speare controversy has been
revived by the discovery of
some new proofs found in
the original folios of the first Shake­
spearian plays.
It has always seemed peculiar to those
who have examined all of the evidence
that anyone should hesitate in coming
to two very logical conclusions. First,
that Shakespeare could not have written
the plays attributed to him, and second,
that Bacon is the man who wrote them.
O f course, if one can come to the first
conclusion as a conviction, it is easy to
discover sufficient evidence for the sec­
ond conclusion. The great difficulty with
the average Shakespearian student is
that admiration for the plays and adora­
tion for the mythical superiority of the
Shakespearian character prevents him
from ever believing that Shakespeare
did not write all of the plays and other
matter attributed to him. Those of us
who have spent many years in a careful
study of this controversy and who en­
tered it without bias or prejudice one
way or the other have discovered that
the average defender of the Shake­
spearian authorship is moved to this at­
titude more by a sense of worship of
the man than through any other motive
and it is probably true that more Shake­
spearian students are worshippers of the
man as an idol than they are worship­
pers of the literature attributed to him.
I do not mean to say that regardless of
what he wrote or in spite of what he
did not write, these persons are all wor­
shippers at the feet of an idol, but I do
mean to say that their love for the
Shakespearian plays and their love for
good literature has created in their
hearts and minds an adoration for the
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supposed author, and to them the name
and personality of Shakespeare repre­
sent a glorious character whom they are
reluctant to dethrone or see dethroned
by any controversy. Otherwise what
difference does it make to the real stu­
dent of the Shakespearian work whether
Bacon wrote the plays or this unknown
actor wrote them? W e have not shown,
universally, so much regard for other
authors during controversies regarding
their works, so why should we be so
reluctant to dethrone an author in this
case?
For years a controversy raged re­
garding the writings of Poe and when
some of his writings were finally attrib­
uted to others there was no world wide
protest and the same thing can be said
regarding the writings of many other
authors. In all these cases the writings
have stood of and by themselves, and
while it was interesting to learn who
wrote them, the essential adoration and
admiration was given to the work itself
rather than to the author.
I have attended a number of meetings
of Shakespearian students and at the
least mention of the Bacon-Shakespeare
controversy, these enthusiasts have gone
wildly into protest against the very idea
that any person other than Shakespeare
could have written them. O f course, we,
who have been students of the subject
for many years and have no bias or prej­
udice one way or the other, are placed
in the peculiar position of having to
prove our contention. The Shakespear­
ian supporters vehemently demand that
we prove that Shakespeare did not write
all that is attributed to him. This is more
difficult to do than one supposes, even
with the mass of evidence in hand. But
there is a far more difficult problem
associated with the entire controversy,
 and one which the Shakespearian enthu­
siasts entirely ignore. That problem is
to prove that Shakespeare did not write
all that is attributed to him. O f course,
since the controversy is like a case in
court and the Baconian supporters are
plaintiffs, it is up to them to prove their
case, whereas the Shakespearian sup­
porters do not really, from a legal point
of view, have to put in any defense at
all. The time is coming, however, when
the Shakespearian supporters will have
to defend themselves, and then they are
going to find that their demand that
proof be submitted is a tight fitting shoe
on another foot.
After all, what proof is there that
Shakespeare ever wrote anything out­
side of a few scraps of paper that have
nothing to do with literary matter? In
other words, if none of the original
folios of the Shakespearian plays had
Shakespeare’s name upon them and if
the popular belief that Shakespeare
wrote them did not exist and the plays
and manuscripts were still anonymous,
the Shakespearian supporters today
could not come into any court of inves­
tigation with any tangible evidence to
prove that Shakespeare had anything to
do with the authorship of them. In such
an investigation or trial, it would have
to be shown that, first of all, Shake­
speare was qualified to write such plays
and such manuscripts. His literary abil­
ity would have to be shown together
with a preparatory education giving him
the knowledge to compose such master­
pieces of English literature. Even if the
manuscripts were in Shakespeare’s own
handwriting, it would have to be shown
that he had not copied them but had
actually composed them. T o prove that
he could coflipose such masterpieces, it
would have to be shown that he had the
knowledge, the ability, the training, and
the intimate contact With the facts re­
vealed in these manuscripts to make pos­
sible such compositions and originality
of expression. Here the Shakespearian
supporters would positively fail to prove
The their case. The few known examples of
Rosicrucian Shakespeare's handwriting show an ig-
D igest norance and degree of illiteracy in writ-
A pril ing that is astonishing for a man who
1930 admittedly memorized so much good lit­
erature and was able to speak and play
the parts. He was not even sure of the
spelling of his own name and resorted
to using a cross as a signature rather
than attempt to spell out his name as is
shown on some scraps of legal papers.
His library of reference books, as listed
in an authentic legal paper, was so small
as to be of no value to even a modern
short story writer, and certainly defi­
cient in the hundreds of books that the
author of Shakespearian plays must
have used in the preparation of the
manuscripts, unless he was a genius in
more ways than we are willing to credit
to even Bacon. The known schooling
of Shakespeare was exceedingly limited
and he had neither the opportunity nor
facilities for accumulating that knowl­
edge through travel, and through the
study of foreign languages and the sci­
ences which the author of the plays most
certainlv did have. There is nothing
in the life of Shakespeare which indi­
cates that he was in any way prepared
to have any degree of the schooling nec­
essary for the authorshio of the Shake­
spearian manuscripts. The best investi­
gators and students have delved deeply
into Shakespeare’s life and have failed
to bring forward one iota of evidence to
show that his training would have en­
abled him to possess the knowledge to
compose one of the plays bearing his
name.
But as I have said, up to the present
time, the Shakespearian supporters have
not been called upon to prove that
Shakespeare wrote the plays, but have
simply stood pat in their defensive atti­
tude and demanded that the Bacon sup­
porters prove their case. The Shake­
spearian supporters simply claim that in­
asmuch as the first folios or printed cop­
ies of the plays state that they are the
plays of Shakespeare, that is sufficient
evidence that he wrote them. That
claim is similar to stating that if Mr.
Sothern, the famous Shakespearian
actor, were to leave a batch of manu­
scripts or copies of the plays he had
played during his life and they were
published as the plays of Mr. Sothern,
it would mean that Mr. Sothern had
composed them. This in a brief way is
the contention of the Shakespearian
supporters. On the other hand, the evi­
dence that is rapidly accumulating to
prove that Bacon wrote the plays is of
a nature that is not accidental or cir­
cumstantial but absolutely positive. I
refer not only to the cipher codes
throughout the plays which reveal
Bacon’s name and which the Shake­
spearian supporters say is merely co­
incidence, but I refer to the Rosicrucian
watermarks that appear in the original
manuscripts and which are identical
with the Rosicrucian watermarks that
appear in Bacon’s acknowledged writ­
ings and publications. Furthermore,
there are Rosicrucian emblems in some
of the decorations made for the Shake­
spearian books which could not have
been put there by accident and which
are similar to the Rosicrucian symbols
appearing in Bacon’s books. It is known
that Bacon was a Rosicrucian and it is
known that Shakespeare was not.
In many of the plays attributed to
Shakespeare there is not only scientific
and legal as well as historical knowledge
and linguistic ability not possessed by
Shakespeare but there are references to
Rosicrucian symbology, Rosicrucian
principles, and Rosicrucian secrets which
Shakespeare knew nothing about, but
which Bacon used in some of his other
works which bear his name.
I do not suppose that the average
Rosicrucian of today knows that origi­
nally the story of King Arthur and the
Knghts of the Round Table was a ritual
used in the Rosicrucian lodges of Eu­
rope as an initiation ceremony. After
the ritual and its symbolical stories be­
came very popular through having been
used with so many persons, it was aban­
doned because of its widespread under­
standing, and it then became a story. If
Rosicrucians will read the real story of
the quest of the Holy Grail, they will
find that it is after all a ceremony con­
ducted by a master of a lodge putting
the candidates through a series of tests
to prove their worthiness to come before
the holy altar and receive final initiation.
Throughout the story, there are phrases
and symbolical references which prove
that none other than a Rosicrucian could
have composed that story. The veiled
symbology in it is too cleverly obscured
and too beautifully veiled to have come
into such artful phrasing by chance or
by any person who was not thoroughly
familiar with the secrets and knew what
could be freely expressed and what must
be symbolized. The same is true of many
of the Rosicrucian points included in
the Shakespearian plays.
One of the common criticisms of the
contention that Bacon wrote Shake­
speare is that if Bacon had such beau­
tiful ideas and such wonderful knowl­
edge as is shown by the plays how came
he to live such a life of deceit and fraud
as led to his confession and conviction
of the acceptance of bribery and the
mismanagement of the high office he
held in the British government. These
persons overlook the fact that Bacon
was a confidential diplomatic represen­
tative of the queen and of other high
powers and that it was his place to be
what we would call today the “ goat.”
It was his business to accept the respon­
sibility for all errors and all mistakes
made by the queen in her decisions or
rulings whose voice and mind he repre­
sented as a confidential secretary. His
confession of his life revealed that de­
spite his confessions and the grand show
of condemnation, he was afterwards
freed of all responsibility and held in
high esteem by the queen and the high­
est authorities. Bacon, aS an official of
the government, was one character rep­
resenting a part of the machinery of the
government, and Bacon as an individual
was another character. There is nothing
in his personal, private life to warrant
the condemnation that has been univer­
sally put upon him, and there is noth­
ing that has been revealed regarding
him to warrant the belief that he was
guilty of the things charged to him and
to which he freely and frankly con­
fessed in order to close the investigation
of these matters and direct the public’s
thoughts toward other matters. The real
life of Bacon, as revealed in many books,
is much different from that given in
those books which attempt to picture
him as a weakling and an acceptor of
bribes.
However, his personal life and his
position with the government have no
bearing upon the controversy of author­
ship of the plays. The Baconian Society
 of America, of which I am a member,
is rapidly increasing in membership
throughout the world and the evidence
being accumulated by the Society and
by hundreds of independent researchers
will some day prove what the Rosicru-
cian records have always proved;
namely, that Bacon wrote the Shake­
spearian plays but because of his inti­
mate association with the government
and because play acting was considered
to be a continuation of what had always
been looked upon as a sordid thing, he
found it necessary to keep the author­
V V
Human Consciousness
FOURTH PA RT OF A SERIES OF LESSONS
By D r . B ern a rd F eld m
V V
C IE N C E has been forced to
admit the fact that man has
a psychic body. W e will
show later that this body has
a nervous system (the sym­
pathetic) within the physi­
cal body whereby man's
psychical attributes are made possible.
Man is a two-fold being. His physical
organism with his animal instincts and
desires can be traced back to their anal­
ogies in the lower kingdoms of nature.
But his essential consciousness and his
Self come from a divine source which
links him with the Divine. This source
is the absolute consciousness of diety
(H . P. B.).
The occultist feels that he is no less
scientific when he prefers man’s divine
origin to the moneron or the slime on
the ocean floor. The occultist claims that
man started in a body, described so
The beautifully by St. Paul, as “ a house not
Rosier ucian made with hands, eternal in the hea­
vens.” Primeval man issued from the
Digest body of his divinely fireless progenitors,
A pril the “ Bnei-Elohim” of Genesis, described
1930 as aeriform and devoid of compactness.
ship of these plays veiled until such time
as the merit of the plays themselves and
their high educational value should lift
them from the category of the trashy
productions so popular in Europe at the
time they were written. But Bacon made
proper provision for when the time
should come that the plays would be
properly valued and appreciated and the
authorship known. Then the internal
evidence carefully conceived in cipher,
symbolical designs, and watermarks
should serve as sufficient evidence of the
real authorship.
V V V
an , F. R. C.
V
(H . P. B.). His evolution from the high­
est down to the lowest (a veritable
D E S C E N T must continue unceasingly
in nature’s C Y C L E until the nadir is
reached, when the upward urge will
cause the lowest to return finally to the
highest, once again.
Psychic evolution proceeds on paral­
lel lines with physical evolution in ac­
cordance with the law of polarity. The
two go together from eternity to eter­
nity, for they are inseparably inter­
woven. To get a more rational idea
of the theory of evolution, science will
be forced to supplement its materialistic
viewpoint by adding the balancing psy­
chical aspect of the problem. Unless
there were this psychical aspect to
counterbalance the physical aspect, of
the evolutionary program, everything
would be in a chaos. In the Cosmos,
the equilibrium and harmony must be
preserved. The operation of the two
contraries produces harmony, like the
centripetal and centrifugal forces which
are complimentary to each other. If the
one is arrested, the action of the other
will immediately become destructive.
 Harmony is one of the universal laws;
in conformity to it, man’s psychic body
must be the balancing aspect of his
physical body; the two bodies M U S T
be destructive aspects of the O N E
SE L F . Each body M U S T vibrate at its
own distinctive rate; each must have its
distinctive polarity and each M U S T
seek to unite with its opposite in a reg­
ular septenary manner.
C O N S C IO U S N E S S IS S E P T E N A R Y
Nature never works simultaneously;
never proceeds by leaps or bounds. She
must have time regardless of what world
she is working in. The divine life that
is cabined within the form ever presses
outwards, gently but constantly. In
every form, be it mineral, vegetable, ani­
mal, or man, this expansive energy is
ceaselessly working. This is the evolu­
tionary force, the lifting within the
forms, the rising energy which science
glimpses but knows not whence it comes.
But science can easily notice that it pro­
ceeds in its D U A L evolution cyclically
and septenially. There is a septenary
law in nature, in which the seventh,
fourth, and first members play a distinct
and specific part in the Cosmic scheme.
W e can employ this law as a Key to
reveal the truth of human consciousness.
Human nature within man and all na­
ture without are alike seven-fold.
Therefore, there are seven times seven
states of consciousness which define the
fruits of human consciousness. Further­
more, human consciousness has its three
PR IM A RY vehicles and four subsidiary
ones which compose the entire gamut of
vibrations that compose the one life in
man. The self in man can work up and
down this Cosmic keyboard because
each of the seven states of consciousness
correspond with each of the seven
planes of nature with their character­
istic vibratory rate. The Self can ex­
press itself as a conscious entity, on all
the different levels of nature when all its
vestures are in vibratory attunement
with them.
THE I AM I
The individualized Self is the actor
in every vesture he wears; it is his pres­
ence that gives the feeling of “ I am I”
alike to the body and mind. The "I am
I” is that which is self-conscious, and
which, by illusion, identifies himself with
that vehicle which he is most actively
energizing. T o the earthly man of the
senses, the "I am I” is the physical body
with its earthly desires; to the scholar
the “ I am I” shows himself as the intel­
lectual vesture, for it is in its exercise
that most of his life’s joy and interest
are concentrated. T o only few people
(like the mystic and philosopher) who
rise to abstract heights, will the Self feel
itself in its own fiery, or superelectrical
environment.
The unfoldment of the self and its
fiery vesture is but the progressive mani­
festation in him of vital energy derived
from the sun and its divine source. Its
voltage can be raised within the nervous
system into supersensible energy (vi­
tality, conscious electricity) of incred­
ible voltage, hardly comparable to the
form of electricity known to the physi­
cist. This force can be governed by man,
but its secret has been carefully guarded
from the profane. Constant aspiration
will liberate this living flame and arouse
the dormant nerve centers which have
become atrophied from disuse. When
regenerated, they reveal to the aspirant
the superphysical states of conscious­
ness. The highest and most sublime form
of consciousness is the Nirvanic con­
sciousness in which existence is raised
to an inconceivably intense vividness.
Man then becomes god on earth and he
returns to the divine source from which
he originally started in his round of evo­
lution as the eternal pilgrim or Self.
This Self is the real man, his body is
but a temporary form which disinte­
grates to its physical elements. But the
Self is immortal and his consciousness is
never lost. Its psychical and physical
components fluctuate but the Self re­
mains constant during all time as it is
eternally immortal. It is the thread of
each man’s Self, always a living Self.
No more than death does birth mean
any break in the Self’s consciousness.
So-called death is in nature’s program in
order that the Self may progress ever
onwards and upwards to its goal.
 T H E E X T E N S IO N S O F
C O N S C IO U S N E S S
Human consciousness is not tied
down to but one physical plane but can
be extended through forty-nine grada­
tions from the waking to the Nirvanic.
Very few people can attain to the higher
planes; so we stop at the fourth stage
since it is seldom that one can go be­
yond it with any degree of certainty
(H . P. B.) The Nirvanic stage is alle­
gorized in the fiftieth Jubilee year fol­
lowing the Sabbatical Sabbath (Levit.
xxv). By a series of progressive awak­
enings, there is an upward progress of
the Self from the physical plane. The
higher senses latent in man begin to
function while the Self remains at its
loftier height and it can master the
secrets of sounds and colors that are in-
accessable to the physical plane. With
the gradual approach to the One Con­
sciousness, there is a gradual approach
to the oneness of sense and feeling.
There is something very strongly sug­
gestive in the fact that the waking phys­
ical consciousness can be gradually ex­
tended to higher realms. At the opera,
we are subjected to the vibrations of
SO U N D , and we are carried “beyond
ourselves” until we forget our surround­
ings and we live for the moment in the
world which the artists are creating for
us. Their feelings are our feelings, their
emotions are our emotions. W e are
clothed in our tabernacles of flesh but
actually we feel and live as if we were
outside ourselves.
W e go to the art gallery and we revel
in the glorious C O LO R productions of
the master artist. W e are similarly car­
ried away by them to the extent that
we forget where we are and we are liv­
ing in the environment depicted on the
canvas.
So too we can take a certain drug and
its chemical vibrations transport us into
ecstasies unknown to the normal con­
sciousness.
The When we go to sleep, we live in a
Rosicrucian different world and our dreams carry
D igest us into vivid experiences in which we
A pril use all sense faculties; yet we are ac­
1930 tually lying inert and subconscious.
T H E S E L F IS A L W A Y S A C T IV E
Dreamless sleep is but one of the
expanding states of consciousness in
which the Ego can function. The uni­
versal law is that under normal condi­
tions, rest must alternate with work in
all vital processes or phenomena; other­
wise speedy exhaustion and death surely
will follow. All forms of bodily activity
cause an exhaustion of energy which
must be replenished. This renewal of
psychical force and physical rest are
provided by nature through the subcon­
sciousness in sleep.
The Self is never asleep and knows
no rest. While the objective faculties of
the sleeper are held in abeyance, the
Self is intensely active in guarding the
vital processes, and brooks no interfer­
ence to them. It is self-evident that an
intelligence outside the brain must keep
up the heartbeats and the breathing
while the brain is temporarily discon­
nected from external stimuli. There is
life present and something must control
this precious life. If nothing unforeseen
happens to break asunder the super-
electrical threads which connect the Self
with the physical body, the person re­
turns to his waking consciousness.
As evidenced by the mystic, the Self’s
waking consciousness is centered in
even a higher degree of consciousness.
This is the Self’s proper sphere of func­
tioning, and the Self strives to live in it
by getting rid of the lower planes which
are obstacles to his climbing to his goal.
T H R E E P R IM A R Y F O R M S
The entire consciousness in man is,
therefore, manifested through a septe­
nary gradation of principles, in which
the first, fourth, and seventh are called
its PR IM A R Y vehicles.
W e shall, therefore, consider only
these three PR IM A R Y types of con­
sciousness and differentiate them as (1)
the waking, (2) the subconscious, and
(3) the supraconscious.
The waking or objective conscious­
ness acts upon the objective things
through the objective senses. The closer
attention paid to these objective things
at each moment, the clearer will they be. ness must be working on one or more
It is only a very small part of our whole planes of nature. It is only when man
consciousness since it is limited to the reaches the Nirvanic consciousness that
definite extent that the physical brain he loses his human identity and becomes
and its five senses can answer certain divine. The term unconsciousness is,
vibrations which fall within a certain therefore, a misnomer, since there can
range. Its mechanism is confined to the be no total cessation of consciousness.
cerebro-spinal system which controls the A more truthful expression would be
V O L U N T A R Y actions of the body “ expansion of consciousness,” since the
SO L E L Y . waking expands into the subconscious
The subconsciousness is the Self’s and the subconscious expands into the
acting through the subjective (inner) supraconscious on this plane. The
and the objective (outer) phases of man. whole gamut is not tied down to the
Its mechanism is the sympathetic nerv­ physical plane but it extends much
ous system which controls B O T H vol­ farther so that man can think and live
untary A N D involuntary actions of the on seven planes of being.
body. It includes not only the vital func­ From the supraconsciousness come
tions but all those strange and dim relics the promptings of the genius and of the
of our past which have come down to master. It is not more commonly appar­
us from our ancestry. ent because materialism has become so
Supraconsciousness has to do with dominant that it has shut our bodies
the abstract things which the Self is from these superfine vibrations; but su­
continuously engaged with, only occa­ praconsciousness lies latent in every
sionally projecting them upon the mir­ man. Man must develop his solar body
rors of the objective consciousness. For to have the Self's waking consciousness
example, the mystic is known to have become his supraconsciousness. This is
his body so trained that he can normally the purpose of human evolution. The
extend his consciousness to planes in­ coarser bodies of flesh and bones must
accessible to the average individual. His eventually be cast off which will unfold
Self is functioning through the parasym­ to him again his pristine Self. Always
pathetic. retaining the inherent psychical powers
Let it not be supposed that there are which he possessed at the start of the
T H R E E distinct consciousnesses: there cycle and round, it is decreed that man
is but one which manifests in three dif­ shall cast off all physical limitations
ferent degrees or ways. Just as there is which are enmeshing the Self and hold­
but one Self, so there is but one con­ ing it in bondage.
sciousness, for the Self is consciousness A s Hermes says, “ At the beginning
which manifests periodically as intuitive, was Self. Now the Self builds the mind
rational, and intellectual (reason) LIFE . out of stuff like itself but less pure; Self
C O N S C IO U S N E S S C O N T IN U O U S and mind together build the Soul; Self,
Since life and Self are immortal, as long mind, and Soul build the patterns for
as the human being IS, his conscious­ the various bodies.”
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 Strange Egyptian Traditions
SOME COM M ENTS ON THE R EC EN T TRA N SITIO N S
OF EGYPTIAN EXPLORERS

By F rater R o yle T h u r sto n , F. R. C.

V V V
H E recent transition of an­ tombs have been violently opened and the
other one of the eminent contents violently removed, the explor­
men associated with the ex­ ers have suffered early death and unex­
ploration of King T ut’s pected illnesses of a fatal nature. The
tomb has again revived in­ Egyptians point out that this strange in­
terest in the old tradition fluence has manifested itself for hun­
that the early Egyptians dreds of years and that it is an unwrit­
had placed a “ curse” upon those who ten law that never fails to operate.
dared to enter their sacred tombs with Scientists smiled at these stories some
any other motive than that of sincere years ago, but w'hen the very eminent
reverence. and healthy persons forming the explor­
The newspapers here in America vie ing party of King T ut’s tomb became
with one another in inventing weird afflicted, science thought it was time to
stories and grotesque explanations of make some investigation and offer a
the strange course of events which have rational explanation. The idea of a
made it appear that there is some fatal “ curse” was tabooed by science as a
power or influence resident in the early superstition and unworthy of any con­
tombs and which manifests itself by sideration or investigation. But the fact
bringing death to the body of each per­ remained that persons were being afflict­
son who enters these tombs. According ed and suffering from some peculiar ill­
to the most popular story and the one ness as a result of their visit to the inner
which is commonly believed, the ancient secret parts of these sacred tombs. The
Egyptians sealed their tombs and placed only explanation arrived at by science
on each sacred door a symbol and by was that either the odors and germs cre­
this token established a strange influ­ ated in the tomb by the presence there
ence which would destroy any person for so many years of a mummy or life­
or group of persons who entered the less body or germs contained in the
sacred tomb except in accordance with tomb by some chemical placed there
the ancient religious rituals used by the when the tomb was sealed were respon­
Egyptians. sible for the strange illnesses contracted
It is a fact that nearly all of those by the explorers. This explanation is
who were engaged in the expedition not satisfactory, however, inasmuch as
that broke open the sealed tomb of King in those cases where tombs have been
Tut, have passed through transition be­ entered and nothing removed or nothing
cause of an unusual form of illness that taken from the tomb for commercial
came upon them one at a time. The profit, nobody has suffered any illness.
leader of the expedition was the first to This one point would indicate, therefore,
be stricken with the strange malady and that it is not the mere entrance into the
since then, every year has seen one or tomb or the fact that the tomb is opened
two of the party succumb to an unusual and visited by these explorers that brings
T he or peculiar form of fatal illness. W hen upon them the serious malady but the
Rosicrucian the first one was thus stricken, the news­ motive back of such visitations to these
papers of the world called attention to tombs is important. And this is precisely
D igest the fact that once again the old “ curse” what the ancient traditions of the tombs
A pril was at work because in nearly every predict. The oldest of these traditions
1930 case in past centuries where sacred plainly states that “ he who shall pilfer
or rob the sacred chambers of a tomb
shall have the curse of the Egyptian
gods upon him.”
From our own personal experience
we know that there is a great difference
in the motives back of some of the ex­
plorations made in recent years, and
A M O R C is well acquainted with exca­
vations and explorations made in Egypt.
For many years, A M O R C has been in­
terested in the excavating of more secret
and sacred chambers and tombs than
any of these exploring parties have been
associated with, and our contact with
the Egyptian Rosicrucians and members
of the secret brotherhood of Egyptians
enables us to understand just what oc­
curs in connection with some of these
so-called scientific explorations.
When the marvelous tombs, temples,
and home of the Pharaoh Amenhotep
the fourth along the banks of the Nile
were located by some German scientists
many years ago, the scientific world was
made extremely happy because of the
rare knowledge that was sure to result
from any excavations made in that local­
ity. Since then the A M O R C has helped
to finance the excavations of the sacred
temples and tombs of this great Pharaoh
and in its museum in San Jose it has
some of the rarest relics that have ever
come from Egypt, including the famous
benediction stone, which was a part of
the lentil over the doorway of the Pha­
raoh’s temple and under which Moses
stood when he received the famous ben­
ediction that enabled him to take the
tribes of Israel out of Egypt into Pales­
tine with miraculous assistance. Not a
single one of the scientists associated
with the excavating, opening, and ex­
ploring of those very sacred places has
ever suffered from the so-called “ curse”
of Egypt and those who have in recent
years spent much time in exploring these
places are still living and are healthy
and hopeful of continuing their work for
many years to come. Out of the explo­
rations made at Amenhotep’s city have
come the famous Roseta stone, the fa­
mous Armana tablets and many other
important scientific relics and out of the
sacred temple of this Egyptian king have
come many sacred, mystical relics that
are in our own A M O R C Egyptian mu­
seum in San Jose and in a few other
similar museums in other parts of the
world. When these sacred places were
explored by the scientists engaged in
the work, there was no thought on the
part of the explorers to commercialize
their activities and to turn the whole
operation into a money-getting, profit-
making scheme. In fact, the excavations
were financed by such organizations as
A M O R C and by such museums as ours
solely for the purpose of voluntarily
contributing to the advancement of sci­
ence without any hope of material or
financial remuneration. Therefore, the
motive back of the explorations in such
a case were non-commercial, sacred, and
scientific.
Such was not the case, however, with
the exploration of King T ut’s tomb.
From the very start the exploration was
planned to be a purely commercial ven­
ture. Money was raised for the cost of
operations much like the selling of stock
and shares of interest for the financing
of a new oil well or copper or gold mine.
Everything found in the tomb was to
be sold to the highest bidder and all
who were members of the profit-making
corporation were to have dividends re­
turned on their investments. Few of
those who bought shares of stock or
contributed their money were interested
in either the sacredness or scientific na­
ture of the tombs and their contents.
Therefore, the venture was purely com­
mercial and it constituted the pilfering
and robbing of a sacred place solely for
the sake of money, in the view of
the Egyptians. Therefore, the ancient
“ curse” was surely destined to be upon
those who participated in the venture.
The Egyptians in Egypt call attention
to the fact that not even due respect and
reverence for the sacredness of these
tombs was shown by any of the com­
mercial explorers who have extracted
valuable things from so many places in
Egypt. The Egyptians say that these
commercial explorers break into the sa­
cred doors and enter the sacred cham­
bers much like a gang of thieves would
break into an empty palace. And with
no more respect for the antiquity, sa­
credness, and unquestioned sanctity of
the place than one would expect to find
at the hands of robbers, these explorers
have seized hold of everything within
the tombs that had been placed there
 in accordance with sacred rituals, with tiful revelations of spiritual and natural
a prayerful hope that they would remain law?
there eternally. W ell may we ask as to the nature of
How different were the explorations the “ curse” that the ancient Egyptians
conducted by those men who entered placed upon their tombs. O f this we
the sacred places of Amenhotep’s city! may never know anything except that it
These men went reverently about their was of no material nature, no chemical
work, realizining that they were going composition, or no form of disease
into places that had been held sacred germ. They claimed that it was a Cos­
and holy for many ages by devout men mic agreement made through their gods
and women who had every reason to and holy contacts. According to the an­
believe that the places they had built cient interpretation of such a statement,
and the things they had put into them it means that they established a Cosmic
would remain safe and intact as are the agreement that the temples were to re­
altar, paraphernalia, and sacred things main intact and the sacred things in
in our modem cathedrals. In describing them preserved for the future to be used
to us the manner in which the sacred only for sacred or educational purposes,
relics were taken from Amenhotep’s and that whosoever would violate the
temple and shipped to our museum in sanctity of these places would bring
San Jose, the leader of the exploration upon himself the wrath of the Cosmic
committee told us how they stopped at or the wrath of the hosts of their gods.
the threshold of the sacred temple, paus­ Whether we, of today, can agree with
ing for a moment in reverence and ask­ their understanding of how such a con­
ing the God of all beings to be with dition could be established or not, there
them in their search for that illumina­ is one thing that we are in agreement
tion, that knowledge, and scientific data with so far as the whole matter is con­
which the Egyptians said they were pre­ cerned. W e know that when we build
serving in their tombs for future races mausoleums and tombs today in which
of man. They tell in their letters how we place the remains of those we loved
they went about their work in quietness and honored, we look to God and all of
and with deep emotion and how they the Cosmic laws to help us protect these
covered their hands with gloves and laid sacred things from unholy intrusion and
cotton batting around each sacred ob­ any form of commercial pilfering. W e
ject before they picked it up so that its would not be surprised if we read that
ancient vibrations might not be contami­ those who had wrongly forced their
nated by the touch of their flesh and way into a sealed tomb of the present
how these things were laid reverently time had suddenly suffered the attack of
into boxes and carefully packed to ship some strange disease and found the
to us and to a few other places without hand of retribution changing their living
price and without any commercial fea­ bodies into those of lifelessness. W e
ture attached to the entire process. The would say it was not the wrath of God
artists in the party copied the paintings but the will of God and that He had
from the walls with no intention of sell­ made manifest His displeasure at such
ing their pictures but of preserving for unwarranted procedure. Should we be
the future the beauty and richness of called superstitious for believing thus in
the new art and the grandeur of the these modern times? Then why should
story being told. In the heart and mind we feel that the ancient Egyptians were
of each person being engaged in the ex­ superstitious or that the present day
ploration there was continuous respect Egyptians are superstitious when they
and admiration for the sacred beliefs proclaim that the ancient injunction
and customs of those who had built the against entering these tombs shall not
temples and tombs and had placed the be violated except with the penalty of
T he rare relics therein. Is it any wonder then sudden transition? T o the ancient Egyp­
Rosicrucian that none of these explorers suffered tians their religion, their sacred rituals,
D igest from the so-called “ curse” ? And is it their holy beliefs were just as divine and
A pril any wonder that they have learned from just as heavenly as our religions and be­
1930 their expeditions some of the most beau­ liefs are to us today, and it is no less a
violation of the sanctity of the holy
places to enter an ancient tomb and rob
it of its religious relics than it is to enter
a modern cathedral or church and dis­
robe it of its adornments and its caskets.
The law of Karma knows no creed, no
race, no nationality, and no other law
than the law of justice and neither time
V V
Cagliostro, the Mystery Mystic
NEW EVIDENCE PROVES T H A T HE W A S N O T THE
NOTORIOUS BALSAMO
By T h e Im p e ra to r
V V
O R almost a hundred and
fifty years the name and
character of Cagliostro has
been blackened and be­
smirched with ill fame until
he has become a historical figure repre­
senting every phase of charlatanism,
fraud, and Black Magic. In dictionaries
of synonyms, in Mawson’s “ Thesau­
rus” and in similar reference books the
word “ Caglistro” is synonymous with
satanic evils and persistent deceit. T o
attempt, therefore, to come to the rescue
of such a character and prove that he
has been unjustly wronged and wilfully
misrepresented to the public is a pro­
digious task, but since much of the Rosi­
crucian literature of the past hundred
years has contained references to the
erroneous record of this man, I feel that
it is only fair and just that the A M O R C
in North America should be the first of
the Rosicrucian jurisdiction to reveal the
real facts of his life and restore this man
to his true place in civilization. Every
deep student of Rosicrucian or mystical
literature sooner or later becomes fas­
cinated with the story of Caliostro. A s
a character he has been used by many
novelists and for play writers his life has
afforded a wonderful opportunity. The
lists of books published in the past hun­
dred years that have contained refer­
nor location make any difference in such
matters. W hat was once holy and sacred
to the human mind remains so eternally
and the passing of time does not trans­
fer the lordship of holy places from
those who were rightful owners to those
who autocratically seize hold of that
which does not belong to them.
V V V
V
ences to him would make a large cata­
logue. The most popular of these books,
of course, are “ The Memoirs of a Phy­
sician” by Alexandre Dumas, but there
are others such as “ The Diamond Neck­
lace” by Henry Vizetelly, “ Count C ag­
liostro” by Carlyle, novels dealing with
the life of Marie Antoinette, and the life
of “ The Cardinal de Rohan” and hun­
dreds of similar books. The stories in
all of these reveal a wonderful combina­
tion of elements in a character that
greatly puzzles the student of person­
ality, and constantly creates the impres­
sion that the real story of this strange
man has never been told. A s one an­
alyzes the stories published about him,
one is impressed first that he was an un­
usually highly developed mystic, most
certainly in constant contact with the
Cosmic consciousness and possessing
remarkable powers. Then one is im­
pressed with the diabolical side of a
nature that could not be associated with
divine inspiration. Then one finds him
to be a marvelous alchemist producing
gold and diamonds at will and setting
many nations afire with his unlimited
wealth and his magnificent gems, then
one finds him poor and practicing medi­
cine, devoting his services to poor peo­
ple without pay. And, one finds him
associating with a queen, a king, a car­
dinal, and the wealthiest people of Paris,
 Lyon, Marsielles, Bordeaux, and other
cities of Europe. Then one finds him
accused of being implicated in the rob­
bery of the queen’s necklace and in a
plot that separated queen and king and
brought scandal throughout Europe.
One finds him riding in golden chariots
and then in the most humble fashion.
One finds him being preyed upon by the
rich and the poor, by the noble, and by
the political powers. Then one finds him
tricking others and resorting to unnec­
essary deceit and vile Black Magic. One
finds him the most talked about and the
most popular figure in the eyes of the
public for many years, then one finds
the police unable to locate him, and un­
able to identify him when he is found.
One finds him conducting demonstra­
tions that startle groups of learned men
and women and then, unable to even
prove a single principle involved in his
long list of astounding claims. One finds
him imprisoned in Paris and yet carry­
ing on his work with the public by using
an underground passage way that had
been built for him from the prison to his
beautiful palace. On the other hand,
one finds him accused of being confined
in the prison and dying from starvation,
darkness, and want of attention. One
finds him prophesying and predicting
national events with such precision that
the fulfillment of his predictions brought
about a national claim that he was re­
sponsible for the fulfillment while on the
other hand he is accused of having
never made a prediction that was reli­
able. One finds him in the confidence of
the highest and most prominent charac­
ters in Europe, and then in his troubles,
alone with everyone claiming never to
have heard of him. Certainly such con­
tradictions and inconsistencies cause the
student of the life of this man to believe
that something is wrong somewhere in
the stories that have been told and that
the truth about him would be stranger
than the fiction.
It was in the summer of 1926 when
my wife and I were touring Europe in
connection with official Rosicrucian af-
T he fairs that I had another opportunity to
Rosicrucian visit Cagliostro’s old palace and temple
D igest in company with a few Rosicrucians of
A pril Paris who had access to this hidden and
1930 little known shrine. I saw mementoes
and articles possessed by him, many of
which were the result of his alchemical
handiwork and the ability revealed in
these things and the culture and refine­
ment manifested in the evidence relating
to his private life told a story incon­
sistent with that published in most of
the novels and books dealing with his
life. I was tempted, therefore, to delve
more deeply into the real history of this
man and for many days and weeks my
wife and I made a careful study of rec­
ords and papers, documents and mate­
rial evidence revealing the real life of
Cagliostro. Since that time I have con­
tinued the research and I have found
the real story that is more astounding,
more fascinating, and more mysterious
than any that has been published.
T o understand the injustice that has
been done this man and to understand
the stories that are popular about him,
one must first become acquainted with
another character with whom he was
wrongly associated. Nearly every writer
on the history of Cagliostro has ap­
proached the subject with bias and prej­
udice and with the assumption that the
name Cagliostro was unreal and a mere
fiction for the purpose of deception. All
these writers agree with the statements
still found in all the encyclopedias to
the effect that Cagliostro was none other
than Giuseppe Balsamo, a Sicilian ad­
venturer born in Palermo between the
years 1743 and 1748. Since Cagliostro
was to always suffer under the accusa­
tion of being Balsamo in disguise, it is
interesting to have the facts of Bal-
samo’s life as known to the police and
revealed in certain governmental rec­
ords of an indisputable nature.
There were a few points about the
lives of both Cagliostro and Balsamo
that aided certain persons in deliber­
ately concocting the story that the two
were the same person. Later on, I hope
to reveal to you why this plot of asso­
ciating one man with another was in­
vented and what great purpose is
served. The coincidences were these:
The wife of Cagliostro was born in
Rome; so was the wife of Balsamo. The
maiden name of both wives was Feli-
ciani, both were married while still un­
der fifteen years of age. Both wives
claimed that they had never had suffi­
cient education to be able to write. The
handwriting of both men were much
alike. Balsamo, who was unquestion­
ably an ignorant man and given wholly
to a life of deceit and fraud, blackmail,
and treachery, had used various ficti­
tious names to hide his identity and one
of these names was that of Count Cag-
liostro. This was not assumed because
he knew of the real Cagliostro, in whom
we are interested, but because he had a
great-uncle whose name was Giuseppe
Cagliostro, and he used this name be­
cause it was familiar to him. Both C ag­
liostro and Balsamo spoke the Sicilian
dialect and Balsamo had often used
magic in his swindling operations solely
because during the years of his nefari­
ous work, the whole of Europe was hav­
ing its attention directed toward occult
and mystical subjects.
W e must admit that these coinci­
dences or similarities were sufficient to
warrant the superficial investigator in
believing that the Balsamo who had
suddenly disappeared from sight and
the Cagliostro who then appeared in
Paris were one and the same person. But
that the police, newspaper editors, royal
investigators, and specialists should have
been continuously deceived by this
assumption and by these coincidences
seems unbelievable in the face of the
following interesting points. Even
though both wives were Romans and
had the same name “ Feliciani” and both
married young, and neither could write,
the fact of the matter is that the name
"Feliciani” was a very common name
among Romans and it was a common
thing for women to marry at a young
age and for such women to have little
schooling. The similarity in writing
when carefully analyzed appears to be
only a superficial similarity entirely set
aside by certain definite characteristics
that distinguish one from the other. One
of the peculiar points that first attracted
my attention was that none of the police
officers and none of the editors or in­
vestigators who identified Cagliostro
with Balsamo had ever seen Balsamo. A
description of Balsamo, however, se­
cured from Roman police records
showed some points of difference as well
as some points of resemblance, for while
both were short and had dark complex­
ions and bright eyes, Balsamo was al­
ways recorded as having a fierce, un­
pleasant, criminal and deceitful expres­
sion, whereas Cagliostro was always
known for his genial, pleasant, cultured,
smiling countenance, and the pictures
and paintings of Cagliostro still in ex­
istence reveal nothing of the criminal
characteristics recorded of Balsamo.
Balsamo’s record was a notorious one
before Cagliostro became a character
known to the public in any way. Bal­
samo had lived in London in 1771 and
his conduct at that time brought him
under police observation. Thereafter, he
and his wife went to Paris and in the
year 1773 their activities brought them
before the police again. It was not until
six years after this that Cagliostro and
his wife appeared in Paris and none of
those who had known Balsamo and
were searching for him recognized in
Cagliostro any resemblance. It was not
until later in Cagliostro’s life that the
misleading and wilfully concocted iden­
tification was purposely made in order
to betray and imprison a man who had
done no harm. It is peculiar, indeed,
that a man like Balsamo who had spent
four months in jail and was wanted by
the police in London and Paris and who
had been notorious in both of those cities
should have been suspected by the po­
lice as being Cagliostro while Cagli­
ostro was so active in Paris and London
and other great cities in his great work.
It would be strange, indeed, to assume,
as have the novelists, that all of those
persons who had known Balsamo and
were searching for him in the years 1771
and 1773 should have died and passed
away before Cagliostro appeared on the
scene.
Let us see, therefore, what there was
in the lives of both Balsamo and Cagli­
ostro that could lead anyone to assume
that they were identical persons. Re­
member it was during the inquisition
when the church and a few political
characters had reason to persecute all
who were interested in mystical and Ar­
cane subjects that the false identification
was made. However, we have access to
records in the archives of Paris, and in
 the records of Rome and other parts of
Italy which give us many real facts re­
garding the lives of both of these per­
sons,independent of the false record pre­
pared by the inquisition. The Roman rec­
ords printed in the Chambre Apostolique
in 1790 and then published again in 1791
under the auspices of the inquisition fur­
nish us with many interesting facts.
Balsamo boasted noble birth and as­
sumed many noble titles to fit his opera­
tions. The only fact known of his father
was that he was a petty tradesman who
became bankrupt and died a few months
after the birth of Balsamo. Balsamo was
uncouth, rebellious, and troublesome
even as a child for he ran away from
the seminary of San Rocco many times
and was finally placed in the charge of
a religious brotherhood devoted to the
healing of the sick and when he was
thirteen years of age was placed in some
part of a convent to complete his edu­
cation. This displeased him and he
planned to secure release from the
brotherhood and finally wore out the
patience of the long-suffering monks
and he was finally dismissed as incor­
rigible. Thereafter, his family and oth­
ers were unable to control him and to
guide his actions and he spent most of
his time in company with the worst
characters in Palermo. According to the
police records there was no fight or
street brawl of a large character in
which he was not involved, and he was
constantly suspected of every large theft
or robbery in the city. He became a
leader in a band of desperadoes, many
of whom eventually became prisoners
and even murder was attributed to this
gang. Balsamo was, therefore, gener­
ally classified as an Apache destined
sooner or later for the gallies or the gal­
lows. He had robbed his own uncles,
had forged letters and papers, and
stolen from many. Blackmailing became
one of his general processes for raising
money. This lead into forgery and he
became well known as a proficient forger
causing continuous trouble and anxiety
in the police departments. His educa­
t e tion, however, was so poor and his men-
p - .- M • „ tal development so low that he rapidly
descended the scale of crime until he
Vtgest was known as a petty and cheap crimi-
A pril nal being willing to commit any form of
1930 villany for a fifty centime piece and was
ignored by the more successful and pol­
ished criminals. He had many perver­
sions of natural instincts that made him
unclean and even filthy in his personal
habits, and he was, therefore, ostracized
by even low grade criminals. He had
resorted to crystal gazing and various
forms of magic in order to deceive peo­
ple at public places and in private se­
ances, but he never demonstrated that
he knew any of the laws or principles
of occultism, but simply used the outer
form of these things to further his plan.
He even went so far as to carry with
him bottles of oil which he claimed had
been blessed by priests and with which
he could cleanse persons of the devil
within them. About this time in his ca­
reer he married Lorenza Feliciani, a
fourteen year old daughter of a smelter
or copper, who lived in an alley way
close to the church of the Trinita in the
poorest section of Rome. The marriage
took place according to police records in
April 1769 in the church of San Salva­
tore in Campo. He had noticed the girl
for her beauty and feminine attractive­
ness, and immediately after his marriage
he used the charms of his wife for his
support by forcing her to support him
through her activities on the street and
very shortly she was known to the police
as a woman of the street selling her
charms to any bidder. In this way, Bal­
samo lived for many years, going from
city to city, and forcing his wife to live
a life of crime and shame to secure the
money which he desired. They went to
Germany and to other countries and left
a record of crime and shame behind
them until her beauty was gone, her
charms no longer interested anyone, and
both were reduced to beggery as their
only means of existence. They finally
reached London in 1771 and after living
for a while in Leadenhall Street moved
to New Compton Street, Soho. Here
they lived in extreme poverty and re­
sorted to blackmailing as the only possi­
ble means of securing money. One of
their famous attempts at blackmailing
was practiced upon a Quaker who was
a disciple of William Penn and the rec­
ord of this case pictures Balsamo as a
character worse than any ever portrayed
in novels. His wife helped him out of
this notable predicament through other
criminal acts. They went from London
to Brussels and finally to Paris and Bal­
samo changed his name and became
Marchese Pellegrini for a few weeks
and under this disguise made an ac­
quaintance with a disreputable prince.
They then went to Palermo again and
continued their criminal practices. They
went from Palermo to M alta and Spain
where again their criminal practices are
recorded. Balsamo was notorious at this
time as an uncouth, uncultured, hard
looking character suspected by everyone
and trusted by none.
This is the picture then, taken from
actual records of the life of Balsamo and
his famous wife. These are the two per­
sons suspected of being Count Caglios­
tro and his beautiful wife a year or two
later. In the next installment of this
story I will present the picture of Count
Cagliostro, as he appeared on the scene
in Paris in Europe at about the same
time. All the historians and novelists
in the past, drawing their story from the
false records at the inquisition trial have
asked us to believe that the smiling,
highly educated Cagliostro and his
beautiful, youthful, charming wife, asso­
ciating with the highest and best char­
I
V V
acters of Paris and other parts of
France a few years after the disappear­
ance of Balsamo were the same man and
woman as I have just pictured from the
facts taken from records which are still
accessible. I ask each of my readers to
look upon the mystery of this story and
to ask himself whether he thinks that
two persons admittedly as attractive and
educated as Cagliastro and his wife are
pictured by even his enemies could have
been the two persons who lead such
lives of crime and debauchery. Is it any
wonder, therefore, that in hunting up
the records of the life of Balsamo I
should have come to the conviction that
there was something wrong in the popu­
lar biographies of Cagliostro and that
the truth was worth discovering? There­
fore, in my next installment I will give
you a picture of Cagliostro and his wife
as taken from not only the official rec­
ords of the police departments and other
authentic accounts but from the Rosi­
crucian records recently brought to light
in order to reveal this man in the true
light.
The next installment of this story will
appear in the M ay issue.
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rence, K. R. C., Grand Master, 118 E ast 46, A M O R C T E M P L E , 3 1 6 ^ W est Pico
59th Street. Street, Dr. J. C. Guidero, Master. Inquiry
B oston , M ass.: Office and Secretary, Suite 813, New Or-
M ass. Grand Lodge, Mrs. Marie Clemens, pheum Theatre Building.
S. R. C., Grand Master, Lodge Building, 739
Boylston Street. S a n Jo s e , C a lif.:
W aterbu ry , C onn.: Egypt Lodge No. 7, Mr. A. Leon Batchelor,
Conn. Grand Lodge, Grand Secretary, P. O. K. R. C., Master, Rosicrucian Park.
Box 1083.
P ittsb u rgh , P a .: F lin t, M ich.:
Penn. Grand Lodge, Dr. Charles D. Green, Michigan Grand Lodge, George A. Casey,
K. R. C., Grand Master, P. O. Box 558, Grand Secretary, 1041 Chevrolet Avenue.
N . S. Dimond Street Branch.
P h iladelph ia, P a.: C h icago, 111.:
Delta Lodge, A M O RC, 767 North 40th St. The Illinois Grand Lodge, Chas. M. Banta,
H a rtfo rd , C onn.: F. R. C., Grand Master. Information Bur­
Isis Lodge, A M O RC, Mr. W . B. Andross, eau, Room 715, Lyon & Healy Building, 64
M aster, Box 54, South Windsor, Conn. E . Jackson Blvd., Telephone: Harrison 0460.
T a m p a , F lo rid a :
Florida Grand Lodge, Mr. L. H. Sawin, S a lt L a k e C ity, U tah :
K. R. C., Grand Master, 904 Twenty-sixth Salt Lake Lodge, Catherine S. Boes, Grand
Avenue. Master, 20 W est 24th Street South.
S a n F ran cisco , C a lif.:
Calif. Grand Lodge, Mr. H. A. Green, K.R.C., P o rtlan d, O regon :
Grand Master, A M O R C Temple, 1655 Polk Oregon Grand Lodge, E . L. Merritt, K.R.C.,
Street. Grand Master, 19 E . Killingsworth Avenue.
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 W ashington, D. C .: S a n A nton io, T e x a s:
Columbia Grand Lodge, Mark I. Hanan, T e x a s Grand Lodge, Mrs. C. Wanblom,
K. R. C., Grand Master, 213 Second St., S. E . S . R. C., Grand Master, 1133 So. Laredo St.
C leveland, Ohio:
Ohio Grand Lodge, Mrs. Anna L. Gaiser,
S. R. C., Grand M aster, 15804 Detroit St.
O T H E R A M E R IC A N B R A N C H E S
Chartered Branches and Groups of A M O R C will be found in most large cities and towns
of North America. Addresses of local representatives given on request.

P R IN C IP A L C A N A D IA N B R A N C H E S
V an cou v er, B. C .: W innipeg, M an .:
Canadian Grand Lodge, Dr. J. B. Clark, A. G. Gaillard, P. O. Box 681.
K. R. C., Grand Master, A M O R C Temple,
560 Granville Street. L a sh b u rn , S a sk .:
M ontreal, Q uebec: Mr. V . W illiam Potten, Master, P. O. Box
A M O RC , English Division, Albert E . Poad, 104.
K. R. C., Master, Apt. No. 4, 1431 M ackay
Street. New W estm in ster, B. C .:
Mr. A. H. P. Mathew, Master, 1313 7th Ave.
M ontreal, Q uebec:
Societe d ’etude d’A M O R C (French Section). V icto ria, B. C .:
E . G. Clossey, K. R. C., Master, 3702 St.
Secretary, A M O R C , Box 14.
Denis Street.
V erdu n , Q uebec: Edm onton, A lta .:
Mr. R. A. Williamson, Master, 3809 W ell­ Mr. James Clements, K. R. C., Master, 9533
ington Street. Jasper Avenue, E.

SP A N ISH -A M E R IC A N S E C T IO N
This jurisdiction includes all the Spanish-speaking Countries of the New World. Its Supreme
Council and Head Office are located at San Juan, Puerto Rico, having local Representatives in all
the principal cities of these stated Countries.
Hon. Manuel Rodrigues Serra, F. R. C., Supreme Grand Master, P. O. Box 702, San Juan
Puerto Rico.
Armando Font de la Jara, F. R. C., Secretary General, P. O. Box 36, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The name and address of other Officers and Branch Secretaries cannot be given general pub­
licity, but may be obtained for any information or special purposes, through the Head Office at San
Juan, Puerto Rico.
A LL CORRESPONDENCE SHOULD B E A DDRESSED TO T H E SEC R E TA R Y G ENERAL

A F E W O F T H E FO R E IG N JU R IS D IC T IO N S
E n g la n d :
The A M O R C Grand Lodge of Great Britain,
Mr. Raymund Andrea, K.R.C., Grand Master,
41 Berkely Road, Bishopton, Bristol, England.
S can d in avian C o u n tries:
The A M O R C Grand Lodge of Denmark,
Commander E . E . Anderson, K. R. C., Grand
Master, M anogade 13th Strand, Copenhagen,
Denmark.
N eth erlan ds:
The A M O R C Grand Lodge of Holand, Mr.
F. A. Lans, K. R. C., Grand Secretary,
Schuyststraat 244, The Hague, Holland.
The A M O R C du Nord, Mr. Charles Levy,
Grand Secretary.
G erm an y an d A u stria :
Mr. M any Cihlar, K. R. C. Grossekretar der
The A M O RC .
C hina and R u ssia :
Kostcructdn United Grand Lodge of China and Rus­
D igest sia, 8/18 K avkazasaya St., Harbin, M an­
churia.
A pril A u stra lia :
1930 The Grand Council of Australia, Adelaide.
In dia:
T he Supreme Council, A M O R C , Calcutta,
India.
D utch E a s t In d ies:
W . J. V isser, Grand Master, Bodjong 135,
Semarang, Java.
E g y p t:
The Grand Orient of A M O R C , House of the
Temple, Grand Secretary, Nasreih, Cairo,
Egypt.
A fr ic a :
The Grand Lodge of the Gold Coast,
A M O R C . Mr. Stephen H . Addo, Grand
Master, P. O. Box 424, Accra, Gold Coast,
W est Africa.
B ritish G u ia n a :
Mr. Frederick E . Charles, Master, Victoria
Village, Demerara, British Guiana.
C o sta R ica:
W illiam T . Lindo, F. R. C., Grand Master,
P. O. Box 521, Limon, Republic of Costa
Rica, C. A.
The addresses of other foreign Grand Lodges
and Secretaries cannot be given general pub­
licity.
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The Joy of Every Rosicrucian and a Guide to Every Seeder

A A N E W BO OK

R o sicru cian Q uestions an d A n sw ers W ith C om plete

\ H istory of the Order
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