Published Monthly by THE SUPREME COUNCIL of AMORC Rosicrucian Park, San Jose, California (Crnytghy it by aOR) MAY, 1928 ‘VOLUME VI, No. + The Imperator’s Monthly Message Visitors to the State of California usually comment very enthusiastically about the wonderful school buildings located in even the remote rural district ‘They are always large, exceedingly ar- tistic, and with wide lawns, attractive court yards with beautiful fiowers and shrubbery. It would seem that not only the state and city officials, other beautiful schools. ‘Why? That is the question which is asked by those who study the situation. Why do the parents and the children seem to take more interest in these mat- ters in California than in any other part of the country? We are not always sure of the best answer to give to this question, but we have found one answer that certainly casts some light upon the ‘mental attitude of the children. Here in San Jose, where we are lo- cated, the schools are notably modern and exceptionally large and beautiful. ‘One of them, known as the Hester School, occupies a whole city block fac- ing the main highway, and it is not a High School. ‘The principal who used to be in charge passed away a few years ago and there now hangs in the main lobby a portrait of him put there by appreciative parents who still pay hom- age to him Beneath the picture there is a table and upon it a large vase. Every morn- ing before school commences some chil- dren place fresh flowers in water in that vase. Never 2 day passes, even on Sat urdays and Sundays when there are no sessions, but that some child, or several of them, rush to that shrine to be the first to place flowers there. "For dear old Me. Trace,” is all they say, and they say it with a tenderness and a keen note of personal loss. ‘That from children averaging eight to four- teen years of age! ‘When children can_adore and reverent homage to a principal, a teacher, now passed out of their lives, they must hhave 2 real valuation of the service he haas rendered as a teacher, and the friend- ship he offered as a guide and com- panion, With such appreciation for these two elements, is it any wonder that the children want, and the parents plan, better schools with picturesque and smiling surroundings? It is the spirit of California that creates this attitude of mind, and when created in the lives of children it will last the whole life through. How many of us remember our teach- ers of our childhood, our pastors, our guides, the many who have helped us in our youth? Have we a shrine to which we may go with living, smiling, fragrant blossoms? Appreciation is the mystic key that unlocks the door to Cosmic gifts. Let us all be like unto the children of the school in San Jose.The Mystic Triangle May 1928 fof atavism forced upon the mind of Man as color and form through the de- velopment of the organ of seeing, which has established this phenomenon upon the consciousness. IIL. ‘The same mental faculty which is capable of dealing with the phenome- non of Light through the eye and the mind can be utilized in the world of Phenomena ia another element, the aic, and through another sense organ, the fear, because in principle it is the same faculty which pertains to both pheno- mena. TV. Natural causes during vast pe- riods of time have, from the foregoing principles, evolved the subconsciousness to the point of willing color and form before the human mind: but these same causes have not obtained the same phe- nomal results in the realm of sound which they have in the domain of light. ‘Therefore, the normal mind does not apperceive the precise. movements of tonal-pitch, which, between air, ear and mind, are equivalent to the precise move- ments of light-waves between ether, eye and mind. Yet, applying the laws of correspondence and analogy to this same principle, which conforms to the law of vibration, that which has developed one natural phenomenon: subject to vibration will develop the other. V. One prime cause can produce two kinds of phenomena if the natural law which governs the one governs the other. Therefore, since Color is a natural, spontaneous and involuntary act of the mind governed by one prime cause, 50 Tone, governed by the same prime cause. can become one and indivisible with Color. vvvv9 Pre-Christian Ethics A Reliable Account of Early Mystic Principles f |AVING mentioned the Essenes, who in all respects selected for their admiration and for their especial adoption the practical course of life, and who excel in all, of ‘what perhaps may be a less unpopular and invidious thing to say, in most of its parts, I will now proceed, in the regular order of my subject, to speak of those who have embraced the speculative life, and I will say what ap- pears to me to be desirable to be said fon the subject, not drawing any_fic- titious statements from my own head for the sake of improving the appearance of that side of the question which nearly all poets and essayists are much accus- fomed to do in the scarcity of good actions to extol, but with the greatest simplicity adhering strictly to the truth itself, to which I know well that even the most eloquent men do not keep close in their speeches, Nevertheless we must make the en- deavor and labor to attain to this virtue: itten by Philo Judaeus in the Year A. D. 12) for it is not right that the greatness of the virtue of the men should be a cause of silence to those who do not think it right that anything which is creditable should be suppressed in silence: but the deliberate intention of the philosopher is at once displayed from the appellation given to them; for with strict regard to etymology, they are called therapeu- tides, either because they profess an art of medicine moge excellent than that in general use in cities (for that only heals bodies, but the other heals souls which are under the mastery of terrible and almost incurable diseases, which pleas- tures and appetites, fears and griefs, and covetousness, and follies, and injustice, and all the rest of the innumerable mul- titude of other passions and vices, have inflicted upon them), or else because they have been instructed by nature and the sacred laws to serve the living God, who is superior to the good, and more simple than the one, and more ancient than the unity with whom, however, who is there of those who profess piety Four Hundred Fortythat we can possibly compare? Can ‘we compare those who honor the ele- ments, earth, water, ait, and fire? to whom different nations have given names, calling fire Hephaestus, because of its kindling, and the air Hera, Timagine because of its being raised up, and raised aloft to a great height, and water Poseidon, probably because of its being drinkable, and the earth Demeter, because it appears to be the mother of all plants and of all animals. TT, But since these men infect not nly their fellow countrymen, but all that come near them with folly, let them remain uncovered, being mutilated in the most indispensable of all the out- ward senses, namely, sight. Tam speak- ing here, not of the sight of the body, but of that of the soul, by which alone truth and falsehood are distinguished from one another. But the therapeutic sect of mankind, being continually taught to see without interruption, may well aim at obtaining a sight of the living God, and may pass by the sun, which is visible to. the outward sense, and never Ieave this order which con- ducts to perfect happiness. But they who apply themselves to this kind of worship, not because they are influenced to do so by custom, nor by the advice ‘or recommendation’ of any particular persons, but because they are carried away by a certain heavenly love, give way to enthusiasm, behaving. like s0 many revellers in bachanalian ot cory- bantian mysteries, until they see the ob- ject which they have been earnestly desiring, ‘Then, because of their anxious desire for an immortal and blessed existence, thinking that their mortal life has al- ready come to an end, they leave their possessions to their sons or daughters, or perhaps to other relations, giving them up their inheritance with willing cheer- fulness: and those who know no rela- tions give their property to their com- panions or friends, for it followed of necessity that those who have acquired the wealth which sees, as if ready pre- pared for them, shouid be willing to surrender that wealth which is blind to those who themselves also are still blind in their minds When, therefore, men abandon their property’ without being influenced by Four Hundeed Forty-one any predominant attraction, they flee without even turning their heads back again, deserting their brethren, their childcen, wives, their parents, their numerous families, their affect- jonate bands of companions, their native lands in which they have been born and brought up, though long familiarity is a most attractive bond, and one very well able to allure any 01 And they depart, not to another city 4 those do who entreat to be purchased from those who at present possess them, being either unfortunate or else worth- Tess “servants, and as such seeking a change of masters rather than endeavor- ing to procure freedom (for every even that which is under the happiest laws, is full of indescribable tumults, and disorders, and calamities, which 20 fone would submit to who had been even for a moment under the influence of wisdom), but they take up their abode outside of walls, or gardens, oF solitary lands, seeking for a desert place not because of any ill-natured misan- thropy to which they have learned to devote themselves, but because of the iations with people of wholly di similar dispositions to which would otherwise be compelled, which they know to be unprofitable and mischievous. TIT. Now this class of persons may be met with in many places, for it was fitting that both Greece and the country of the barbarians should partake of whatever is perfectly good: and there is the greatest number of such men in Egypt, in every one of the distrits, or nomi, as they are called, and especially around Alexandria; and from all quar- ters those who are the best of these therapeutae proceed on their pilgrimage to some most suitable place as if it were their country, which is beyond the Mareotic lake, lying in a somewhat level plain a little raised above the rest, being suitable for their purpose by reason of its safety and also of the fine tempera- ture of the ai For the houses built in the fields and the villages which surround it on all sides give it safety: and the admirable temperature of the air proceeds from the continual breezes which come from the lake which falls into the sea, and also from the sea itself in the neighborhood,