The Temple Artisan

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(Srtisan
JUNE, 1911
CONTENTS
The Scoffer 1
The Message 2
From the Mountain Top 2
The Circuit of the Soul . 3
Dreams B. S. 5
Editorial Mirror 7
Children's Department 8
Social Science—NoRevenge,
Sydney Hillyard 10
Temple Convention Notice 12
Temple Activities and Notices 12
Temple Home Association Notes 14
mysticism, SkIH Scieice Ml etlict

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THE TEMPLE
PRIMARILY, The Temple is a cosmic organic centre, the constituent
parts of which are the units of collective humanity.
Coincident with the original impulse, the first emanation from the Cen
tral Spiritual Sun—the Universal Heart—came into manifestation, the
Father-Mother-Son, the triangular corner stone of The Temple, upon which
is rising, age by age, a geometrically perfect edifice. The cap stones to
the pillars of the porch, and the outer walls are now being laid, preliminary
to the work of the roof-builders—the humanity of the sixth great root-race.
The place of each stone is determined by the law of selection, and the
same law determines the different Degrees and Orders which lead to and
from the great "Stone of Sacrifice which rests upon the pavement of the
Central Square.
The development of outer conditions, planes and personalities must keep
pace with and correspond to the development of the interior man, or evolu
tionary force would be diverted from its proper channels.
When the Craftsman or Apprentice to any Degree has finished his titui
of service, and has mastered all the details of the work, he is "recognized"
by the Master Builder, and raised to a higher Degree, although he may never
be conscious of the presence of that Master, until his apprenticeship is
completed, and he in turn becomes a Master of h lower Degree.
The organization of The Temple, the members of which belong by evolu
tionary right to a certain Degree of Cosmic Life, which Degree is subdivided
into seven Orders, is the continuation and expansion of the work of the
Masters revivified in this country a quarter of a century ago by certain
chelas or disciples.
To the efforts of the Masters is due the impulse which has caused the
great advance in Scientific, philosophical and social endeavor; for they are
the guardians of Ancient Wisdom and Knowledge, in which lies the root
of all progress; and the work of The Temple is to cultivate and embody
the highest principles of all such endeavor in one stupendous living organic
whole.
It is a common belief that the fires on the altars of the Ancient Temples
have been permitted to die out: but "those who know" say this is not true;
that they are but hidden from the view of the masses, awaiting the time
when the veil of ignorance and corruption hanging before the hearts of the
humanity of this transitory period, shall be rent asunder, and the light »f
the ages become manifest to all. The time is comparatively close at hand
when the doors of "The Temple of the Mysteries'* shall once more swing
outward. The Site of that once wonderful structure has been rediscovered,
and when the Lord, the Saviour, the Elder Brother of the human race once
more reappears to claim his own, He will find a place prepared for him by
those who, having heard this call, "Come over and help us," have faithfully
responded, and have taken up their share of the burden of responsibility.
Are you of that numberf
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Behold, T give unto thee a key.
THE SCOFFER
Hast thou chosen tlien? thou pitiful scoffer at Holy Things!
Chosen in Pride and Ignorance, only to awaken one day to sor
row unspeakable !
The earth rises to greet the falling sun when its day is
done, even as the Soul rises to greet its descending (lod when its
little day is done. Night cometh; the night when no man may
uvrk; and, tliou, like unto a bird, must needs seek a resting
pl<iee; but unlike the bird, which seeks wisely
and rrell the top-most branches ofits chosen tree,
thou, the fruit of all past ages! thou, built in
the image of a (lod. taught by the Dei'as of the
higher spheres, thou buildest thy resting place
on the shifting sands of life's mostfitful Ocean;
the sands which that Ocean in its wrath will
surely oi'er/low. and whoseoutgoing tide will bear
thee swiftly downward, outward to extinction.
None can give thee helpfor thouhastdespised the
rocks to which thy kind hath clung since Time
began for man.
Thou hast closed thine ears to the voice of
thy heart.
Thou hast made o/ the Gods a mock and of
their messenger a buff.
Thou hast chosen thy lot when thine was the
choice and must abide therein.
Thou hast bartered thy birthr+ight for a
bauble and the bauble, is broken.
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THE MESSAGE.
Hearken, ye children of the New Dispensation! The time is
near at hand when He who is to come will re-appear among
men for the unification of the races of the earth. Open your
eyes that they may see. Open your ears that they may hear.
And open your hearts that the Son of Man may have place to
lay his head, lest he pass you by and ye know him not.
FROM THE MOUNTAIN TOP.
The Workshop.
"Come apart with me. thou child of my begetting. Come apart
from all the noisy crowd. Come from under the weight of man's
infirmities and sins. Come away from the path of the flood of
women's tears, the pressure of helpless children's cries, those cries
which beat unceasingly upon the ears of tender souls.
"Come thou with Me into the cleft of yonder rock: lie down and
rest, and I will show thee wondrous things which thou mayest bring
to pass on earth, if so thou wilt." Thus spake the Christ.
"Behold the city of a thousand hills—a city white and glorious,
and in the midst thereof see thou the poor in spirit, the lame, the
halt, the blind, the castaways of all the earths the cyclic sweep of
Time hath gathered up. And over all the mighty throng, like out
spread wings above a nest, see thou the peace of God. the glory
shining from His face and sweeping o'er and o'er each worn and
battered form, until that form is lost within the glory to appear
again like unto God.
"Then see then One in simple majesty of form who saith unto
the throng about Him: 'Listen, children of my soul! Lo! ye have
suffered, labored, danced and played these many years on earth,
whence ye are now released. While under glamour of the Jinns
ye have believed that ye were laboring hard and sore bestead,—but
now with Me get ye unto your work—the work of Gods and
Angels.
" 'The glory and the peace that ye have won with me must be
transferred to earth and we must do the mighty work. Breathe
.deep and fill your hearts, and by the strands of Love we weave
thereof, descend to earth and swiftly, silently seek out the rich, the
powerful, the great, the sorely tempted, blind and halt and lame of
soul who know not yet how poor they are, and, throwing off our
breastplates, set free the streams of Love and Peace and Glory now
within our hearts, for sore indeed is now their need.
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" 'The earth will change. There will be no more sea. Heaven
will be brought to earth, the twain be merged in one, and then at
last Love will be justified, Its will be done, when we have loosed
the chains which bind the souls of men.'
"All this will I show thee when thou comest apart with Me, for
know ye now that Heaven is the Workshop of the Gods, and earth
the playground of the Jinns.
"Man must make his Heaven, if he would dwell therein, and he
can only make it as he worketh clay by day with Me, apart from
all. yet one with all." Thus spake the Christ.
THE CIRCUIT OF THE SOUL.
Temple Teachings. Open Series, No. CV.
Do you understand in the least how closely you are related to
and connected with the Universal Lodge centers throughout all
worlds and spaces, when once the divine, the Higher Self, has
commenced to manifest in your soul?
Each such center has as definite a connection with every human
soul as has the wireless electric outfits of great steamships on the
Ocean, with similar outfits on the high places of the earth. Your
inability to realize this fact fully is due to the paralyzing of the sta
tions or centers in your own bodies and souls by long neglected or
ignored opportunities, or by viciously crippling them with evil
thought and action, and though it is no longer possible for you to
consciously and deliberately send forth your messages direct to all
those greater centers, there are many which catch your feeble mes
sages, your aspirations and desires, and answer them, and yet you
do not understand.
Sometimes you think those answers are but fluctuations of your
own mentality. Sometimes you crush them down and out of your
consciousness because they bid you do that which you do not desire.
At other times you stop and wonder how it is that, some totally un
familiar thought or word impinges upon your consciousness, and
you strive to locate the cause.
The whole human race is bound together by a network of sound
and light waves, and the thoughts and words of each person are im
pinging upon the mentality and psychic centers of others with tre
mendous power and activity; but it is only the fully developed occul
tist who can consciously direct the messages borne by these waves
wheresoever he will, for only he has reawakened the once atrophied
centers of brain and body which are requisite to accomplish this.
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Yet any normal person can do this if he is willing to spend the time
and effort, and will put himself entirely under the guidance of one
who is truly able to instruct him in this great and universal science.
Unfortunately for many sincere seekers, there is an ever increas
ing class of pseudo occultists who claim the power to so instruct man,
and only succeed in making mental and physical wrecks of their
victims.
The very first necessity for securing reliable and efficient instruc
tion is such a purification of mind and body as but few among the
races of earth are willing to submit to in this day and age. Of one
thing you may rest assured, that the man or woman who tells you
that he or she individually has the power to develop those long
atrophied centers in you, is invariably deceiving you, for not so will
come your instructor to you, even if you prove yourself worthy.
Your own Higher Self will make known the means and method,
and the teacher when you are ready, for that Higher Self is in con
stant communication with the Higher Selves of others, and only It
is able,to perceive the definite line, the circuit upon which your in
dividual intelligence is located, and make the connection between
you and others on that same line, who may Karmically become your
instructors.
That line or circuit is the Group Soul of which you are a part,
and such communication as I have referred to is only possible in
this age, and with the present human race, with the companion souls
on that one circuit ; but there are enough of those souls to communi
cate with to satisfy the mind of the average man, especially until
after he has gone over that circuit.
In other ages, and with other races, the circuit will be widened,
for there are groups of group souls, among which a wider intelli
gence, vaster experiences, more God-like powers obtain than can
be realized by experience with a single such soul, and the evolu
tion of man will place him in such relations with those grand cen
ters in some future age, as will enable him to partake of their knowl
edge and power.
The possibilities of man are limitless. Then, will you to whom
I speak be content to sit down in idleness, or spend your time in
trivial pursuit, in gossip, or in reckless dissipations, and let your
opportunities pass, because they bring you some measure of sacri
fice or pain, some effort, some endurance? or will you be so care
less of the warnings, the pleadings, of your present teachers as to
risk such opportunities at the instance of some self aggrandizing,
self advertised charlatan and deceiver? You may be enabled to
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choose wisely if you will. The choice is yours, but you must learn
to choose by sacrifice. The currents set in motion by your thoughts
must be strong and pure and able to pass over obstructions as the
light flashes from one pole to another or a condition will arise
which corresponds to the short circuiting of an electric current, and
so long as obstruction is possible by selfish or impure desire so
long will you fail to make the requisite conscious connection be
tween your mind and that of others, who are at the higher centers
of your circuit.
DREAMS.
That experience is the only reliable teacher of life, is a com
monly accepted truth, and in no instance is its verity better illus
trated than in the case of some recognized physicist whose experi
ences of life have been confined to the various phases of a three
dimensional space, yet who attempts to describe the causes and
effects of the phenomena of the fourth dimension, which, as yet
he is hardly willing to accept as a working hypothesis. The Lit
erary Digest of January 11th, quotes from and comments on an
article taken from the Medical Record entitled "The Significance
of Dreams," the data of which is very insufficient to our mind.
It appears that a noted German investigator, Dr. Jung, has ad
vanced a theory and gives a method by which all dreams may be
reduced to a common cause, as follows: "Some unfulfilled wish,"
of the dreamer's. If Dr. Jung had ever experienced some phases
of life in the dream state such as are frequently experienced by
the psychic or sensitive, he would be less certain of his premises
and conclusions. But we should judge that in his case, as with
so many others, that non-acceptance or ignorance of the basic prin
ciple of Occultism, "the seven fold division of the Universe" and
the functioning of the Ego of man upon all of those divisions must
limit his investigations to the three lowest of those seven divisions,
commonly referred to as planes.
All that the noted Dr. says regarding one phase of dream life
is true but it is only true of THAT ONE PLANE which is the
second of the three planes last mentioned, the lower Astral, the
plane of shadows, the substance of which is formed of the reflec
tions from the physical plane, the lowest of the three planes, con
sequently the soul functioning on that plane of shadows as it does
so function in light sleep, could experience nothing but the reflec
tions from the physical plane upon which the minds of the great
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majority of mankind are centered the greater part of the time.
Such dreams are unreliable and are entirely of the present.
As it depends upon the quality and perfection of a mirror as
to how exact a reflection can be cast upon it so it depends upon the
condition of that lower Astral plane at any one time and place as
to how exact are the reflections cast upon it by the thoughts and
deeds of man. The unstable, changeable, tenuous nature of the
substance of that plane makes it almost impossible for a perfect
reflection to be cast upon it, which accounts for the fantastic dreams
we often have, when our waking thoughts and acts seem inex
tricably mixed with those of others.
But the dreams which we experience in deep sleep when the
soul is released from its bondage to the body are altogether dif
ferent. The Soul is then functioning in its own natural environ
ment, the fourth plane, the Higher Astral, and the lower self is
quiescent. It then reaches into the hidden spheres of life and
knowledge and brings back from thence pure pearls of knowledge
and wisdom. All prophetical dreams or symbolic representations
of things that are to happen in the future, come from this plane.
The Soul may not always be able to bring back to physical con
sciousness the details of such dreams, but wdiatever it does bring
back is TRUE, and in most cases an inner consciousness of deep
peace is felt for many days thereafter.
It is by no means certain that man can always interpret such
dreams aright even if he can remember much of the detail and
unless he is a deep student of life he can seldom do so, but that is
due to his failure to make close connections between the physical
and Astral brain centres. It requires great power of concentra
tion and training to accomplish this, but later races will have this
power naturally.
In dreams of this character the soul contacts phases of life
which bear no semblance to anything on earth and therefore could
not be reproductions or representations of earthly objects. It sees
sights, hears sounds, experiences sensations which it never saw,
heard, or felt in waking hours, consequently for which it could
feel no such wish as the doctor formulates.
No theory which excludes real and conscious experience on
the higher planes can possibly explain all phases of dream life satis
factorily, to a.deep student of life's mysteries. Thousands of such
students have had such experiences; it has passed beyond the
phase of theory into the realms of established fact. B. S.
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EDITORIAL MIRROR.
Subsequent fillow antecedents by bond of inner consequences ;
it is no merely numerical sequence of arbitrary and isolated units,
but a rational inerconnexion. And just as things existent exhibit
harmonious co-ordination, so too, things coming into being display
not bare succession but a marvelous internal relationship.
—Alarms Aurclius.
J*
"The Christ Spirit which entered the body of Jesus when Jesus
himself vacated it, was a ray from the Cosmic Christ (or Mercury
Ray). We say that before the coining of Christ he worked upon the
earth from the outside—much as the group spirit works with the
animals from without. There was no indwelling spirit in the earth
prior to the coming of the Christ, but at the time when the sacri
fice was made upon Golgotha and the Christ Spirit had been
liberated from the body of Jesus it drew into the earth and it was
the indwelling Earth-Spirit, which St. Paul says is "'groaning and
travailing, waiting for the day of liberation"; for, contrary, to the
accepted opinion, the sacrifice upon Golgotha was not completed
with the death of Jesus : in fact that event may be said to be only
the beginning; the sacrifice will continue until such time as we
shall have evolved the altruism and love that will liberate the
Earth Spirit from the cramping conditions of material existence,
when the necessity for guiding us shall have passed away."
From "Rosicrucian Philosophy."
If but the pat on the head of a stray dog: if but the withdrawal
of a half extended foot bent on the bestowal of a kick on a like
stray dog, and that is all you have ever seen in the career of a
wayfarer, that would lead you to think he possessed a spark of
human kindness, it is enough to make a strong demand on your
supply of Brotherhood.
If you do not honor that demand by feeding and watering that
one impulse, that one tiny plant, thus giving it a chance to grow
and mature, you have failed in your duty to him, and it may be
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to a far greater degree than he has failed in his duty to the human
race; for to you has been given the power, the knowledge, the
ability, and example to enable you to perceive the possibilities of
the final results of every good or bad action man can perform, and
obedience to a single Divine prompting toward good shows con
clusively that That, the Holy Spirit of Love, is still striving with
that man—shows that the human soul yet enfolds and cherishes
that body, however degraded in your eyes it may appear.
It may be the last chance, the last exterior act which could make
any such demand upon you, and therefor all the more important
to him, all the more important for you, who, if the act is left
unnoted, unrecognized, ignored, will be largely responsible for the
final loss of that soul.
You can never make a mistake in cultivating a good impulse.
You can make a most terrible mistake in leaving such an im
pulse (intended, unnoted.
CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT
Gemple "Builders—jVo. 85
SOME INDIAN LEGENDS.
The following legends are told by the Onondaga Indians, one
of the remaining tribes of the Six Nations of New York State.
They have never been printed before and are therefore of unusual
interest. They contain the same lessons found in legends from
other nations and people.
STORY OF THE INDIAN HUNTER.
A hunter was overtaken by a terrible storm. He went to a white
man's house and asked for shelter for the night. "No," said the
white man, "no Indian can stay under my roof over night."
Time passed by and the Indian hunter was in his own home.
It was winter and a terrible storm was raging outside. The same
white man and his wife were caught in the storm.
The wife was sick and they drove up to the Indian's house
seeking shelter. The Indian recognized the white man but the
white man did not recognize the Indian. The Indian took them