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Modern Problems in the Light of Ancient Wisdom

A Monthly Magazine
Written, Edited and
Compiled by
MANLY P. HALL

FEBRUARY, 1924
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Books by Manly P. Hall

The Initiates of the Flame.

A book dealing with the seven great branches of occult philosophy as they have been
perpetuated through the Fire Schools of the ancients. Of interest to occultists, Masons and
students of comparative religion. It contains about 100 pages bound in full cloth, stamped
in gold. Profusely illustrated.

The Lost Keys of Masonry.

An occult analysis of the three degrees of the Blue Lodge as they have been preserved
since the time of ancient Egypt. Preface by Reynold E. Blight, lately of exalted position in the
33rd degree of Masonic Lodge. Illustrated with a four-color plate of the Masonic degrees on
the human body and other black and white drawings. About 80 pages, printed in two · colors,
solid board binding, stamped in three colors.

The Sacred Magic of the Qabbalah and the Science of the Divine Names.
A text book dealing with the spirit of the Qabbalah and the great natural laws upon
which it is based. Entirely different from anything of its kind on the market at the present
time. It contains a chapter devoted to the exposition of ceremonial magic and the secret alle-
gories concealed beneath it. Art paper binding, about 50 pages.

The Ways of the Lonely Ones.

This is the last of Mr. Hall's writings, the first edition of which was entirely exhausted
in about three hours of distributing time, and the second edition is being rapidly exhausted.
This is a purely mystical work dealing with the heart side of occult philosophy and ap-
pealing to the intuitive rather than the intellectual mind. It contains a number of occult
allegories expressing the spirit of the ancient philosophies. It contains 64 closely written
pages and is nicely bound in boards and stamped in blue.

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distribution depends upon the cooperation of those desiring them. They are not sold.

Address all orders to MANLY P. HALL

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THE ALL-SEEI ·NG EYE

MODERN PROBLEMS IN THE LIGHT OF ANCIENT WISDOM

Vol. 2 LOS ANGELES, CALIF., FEBRUARY, 1924 No. 4

This magazine is published monthly

for the purpose of spreading the ancient Wisdom Teachings in a practical way that
students may apply to their own lives. It is written, published, and
edited by Manly P. Hall and privately published for
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

POEM --··························································2~. ffl.OCCULT FICTION

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EDITORIALS '' Man Who Found God...........·-···········-·····13
The Philosophy of the Absolute.............. 3 The Dance of the Devas.·------········--·-···-··17
The Homage ·-·---·---··--··---···----··-·--·-----··--··20
General Grump -··········-·········-·················-7
BROTHERS OF THE SHINING ROBE HUMAN INTEREST STORIES
(Continued) ·································-···········- 9 Little Church Among the Flowers·---··--·-26

QUESTION AND ANSWER DEPART- SPECIAL ARTICLES

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Herbs -·-·---------·-··-·------·-------·--·----------·-·------·-24
LIVING PROBLEMS DEPARTMENT__
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 THE CONSTANT THINGS.
By a Prison Poet

AME and wealth may come and go,

F
The lights of splendor flicker low
And sometimes die; but the simpler things-
The sitting-room where the laughter rings,
The mother's smile and her cheerful song-
Are seldom swayed by the moving throng.

These are constant! The man may lose

The place he holds and the world may choose
To flatter the skill of a younger hand,
But the walls of home for him shall stand;
And if he has builded his life for them
He shall still have friends-though the world condemn.

The great may sometimes lonely be

But he has glorious company
Who comes at night to his dwelling place
Where his boys and girls may romp and race;
There-though bitter his fight and grim-
Are loving hearts who believe in him.

He has friends for the night and day,

For the mountain climb or the level way,
Who writes his life in the smiles of those
Who watch for him at the journey's close.
Of all life's friendships these few are
Beyond the sham of the world to mar.
 EDITORIALS
ThePhilosophy
of theAbsolute

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HERE are two kinds of people in the which is not, yet is and ever shall be; their
world-people with a vision and mind is dissolved into unison with the cosmic
people without a vision. Those peo- void and they have attuned their body and
ple with a "vision" who claim to have sur- consciousness to the low pressure area of the
rounded the Absolute are those without a Absolute.
vision. So first of all let us take up an argu- They no longer worry as to what they shall
ment in defense of the Absolute. If any eat, nor what they shall wear, nor how they
human creature knows all there is to know, shall speak nor in whatsoever manner they
the Absolute is not very wise because the shall perpetuate themselves or propel their
more we hear about Him from His disciples personality. Their minds are on the mystic
among men, the more foolish traits, the more ethers of the divine Is-ness-naught else will
idiosyncrasies, and more lopsidedness we interest them nor fill the aching void be-
find attributed to Him. The man who says tween their ears. They are the living contra-
"I know all there is to know" is making either dictors of visible and tangible things, they
a fool out of God or an egotist out of him- have made the solidity of nature a vacuum
self. while they have asphalted the Absolute and
We have a large group of people who are made of the Abstract a solid concrete diety
personal friends of the Infinite, have been as brainless as they are.
properly introduced to the Unknowable and Now let us take a careful analysis of the
spend their week ends (heads) in conflab with mental caliber of the Star-Rover and find
the Definitionless Abstract. There are sev- who composes these seers and sages who have
eral types of people who know this Absolute. left creation to its own destruction and sailed
Some of them are inclusive and some of them to sal~ation on the pinions of their mentality
are exclusive. We have a certain amount of (mostly opinions.) We will analyze the
patience for the inclusive absoluter but the stock which flavors of the divine wisdom of
exclusive absoluter excludes the Absolute. ages, like onions flavor soup-those people
It is this certain group of people who are not who have become tired of terrestial things and
even willing to know what God knows, and who consider the universe to he the divine
have long left such ordinary ignoramuses as failure and they the successes.
the Father, Son and Holy Ghost far in the One of our leading absoluters, who has
rear. They speed by the cosmic Logos in shaken hands with a non-existing entity and
their twelve-cylinder Rolls-Rough with a "Ta! has defined the depth of ls-Not, is Mrs. Pat-
Ta" to the Universal Creation. They glide by ricia Murphy whose husband runs the local
eighty-two thousand hierarchies of Devas, barber shop. Mrs. Murphy was born with a
Chohans, Mahachohans and Rishis without vision. She does not know the occiptal fro;v-
even condescending to consider them, they talis muscle from the Latin word for broom
step from star to star leaving thin trail of handle but in spite of this she has the vision;
blue smoke behind them from the exhaust . of she has not the slightest idea of what God has
their intercosmic velocipede ( said tail stream ever done hut she knows Him personally. She
is now called the Milky Way) . They are has told a number of her friends that she has
headed for the Footstool of All There Is, dis- . traced French pastry hack to the first out-
solved in All That Is Not. They are true pouring and is quite confident that the Abso-
Star-Rovers (with apologies to Jack London). lute' s gray whiskers are made of icing. This
The gods of their fellowmen are pigmies un- is her total idea of the Absolute. She does
worthy to notice; they have found that not know the meaning of any of the episodes
4 THE ALL-SEEINGEYE

that surround her in life, she has been care- ex1stmg emptiness surrounded by its own
ful not to consider them for fear that she outpouring all of which are unreal. The cen-
might be enveloped in the vale of Ma ya and ter of this emptiness is in the middle and
lose her personal touch with the abstract. around the edge while it is bordered by its
Her idea of the Absolute is a large round own commencement." Whereupon said friend
dark hole for she has absolutely nothing in was deeply impressed.
her own brain to fill it with. But she adm its "What does it look like?" he asked then.
that there is such a hole and by so doing be- "In order to see it," was the answer, "you
comes "saved." must close your eyes in a dark room and look
The second member of this celestial trinity at the inside of the lids."
we are considering in our little spasm is Is it intelligent?" asked the friend.
Gluck McFag, a well known disciple of things
"No. no," said Gluck, "intelligence is all
vacuumized. He has come into the light by
illusionary. If it had the power of reason
realizing that there is not any and by so do-
it would be false, if it could see it would be
ing has proved that there is. This is a little unreal."
problem in celestial mathematics based upon
the fact that if you have something, it isn't "Oh-h-h! I think I grasp its import. In
while if you lose it it comes back. (Undoubt- other words, it is but it isn't.
edly Pythagoras would have enjoyed this "Ah-h-h," answered Gluck, "your powers
system). In other words, we glorify God by of erudition are in perfect line with the real-
proving that His manifestations are foolish- ity of things. I talk with the Absolute every
ness, we worship Him as an Individual who night."
spends all His time making mistakes and fill- "How do you do it?" marveled the frief!d.
ing the universe with a series of unnecessary
"Why I come into the realization that what
nonentities that through them we might learn is is not and what's left afterwards is." ·
how good He is ( a:µother mathematical prob-
lem with apologies to Euclid.) But let us re- Said friend was duly impressed, bought a
turn to this error of the mortal mind com- five cent collar button and called it a day.
monly known as Gluck McFag. According to The crowning glory of .our trinity of un-
all the lights of absolute reasoning, Gluck realities is Professor Alpha Episolom t~e
does not exist at all and not being himself is one who has impregnated the community with
capable of being blended into the eternal this divine misunderstanding. l:[e is the
Vacuum. Socrates, we believe, attempted to branch of mistletoe which hangs above the
solve the problem in the same way but finally arch of spiritual wisdom, the original dis-
got so twisted up that he took hemlock so he cover of the Absolute. Someone came along
could have another brain a little later. He and out absoluted him whereupon he blos-
lost the brain he had trying to find a round somed forth with the super-absolute which is
hole in the center of a depthless opening. the dot in the center of the hole in the middle
Gluck is our leading haberdasher and of the blank. If anyone out-supers him he
necktie vend er. He sells collar buttons, arch will probably discover the absolute-absolute
supporters and imported suspenders with which has not been bothered with yet, being
great ease and fluency and is considered a the hole in the center of the dot which is the
leading light in the affairs of earth. He 1~ center of the vacuum surrounded by the
not a very highly educated man. blank of the previous chapter. Prof. Epi-
solom has a falling upper £late and a cellu-
One day a friend came up to him and said, loid collar. When he moves, like Mark
"Gluck, give us your definition of the Abso- Twain, he travels in a cigar box. Prof. Epi-
lute," whereupon he opened the front door solom is the one who can tell you all about
and threw his chest out and with great gusto . something which he admits does not exist and
gave a scintillating description of Henry J. is the only real thing because it does not exist.
Ain't, commonly known as the Absolute. We think our friend Diogenes_must have been
"The Absolute," says Gluck, "is that ever- looking for this a while ago but we understand
 THE ALL-SEEINGEYE 5

his light went our somewhere along the line. base of ever-changing expression, neither
Professor will bring you into union with male nor female nor both, neither high nor
lsn'tness if you will cross his palm with Is, low nor both. This infinite Cause-all, this self·
the exchange of Is benig absolutely important knowing One, who1 yet recognizes Himself
to the realization of Isn't. Prof. Episolom only through His manifestation-this One is
is the keeper of the vinicular at the lower end tjie Absolute. He is to man absolutely unat-
of which we start on our choice journey to tainable for between Him and man's consci-
the upper end which is resting upon a hypo- ousness there is a void, a gap, which eighty-
thetical vacuum. Prof. Episolom is in a po- two thousand hierarchies of celestial beings
sition to express himself upon the reality of cannot span. The gods of solar systems and
things because he has learned to know the the gods of cosmic schemes themselves know
folly of knowledge and his first great instruc- not the Light nor the source thereof.
tion is that to think is excessively dangerous The doctrine of the Absolute is a true one
to the realization of the plan because if pur- but it is one of those truths which is worth-
sued this path will spedily separate you from less at this stage of evolution. There is no
him which would result in a decline in his constructive application for it for there is no
finance. Prof. Episolom is a master of ab- sense of consciousness in the soul of man
straction but the greatest abstraction which he that is capable of even knowing the hem of
is capable of doing is to abstarct money from Its garment, let alone to grasp Its magnific-
a sealed pocketbook. ence.
Now what is the philosopohy of the true If some one told you they had a billion
Absolute? Let us analyze this problem in a pennies and another told you they had five
rational, sensible manner. Every time an in- billion pennies, what picture would you have
dividual has an idea these days he fo1ms a in your mind? All you could say is that one
new religion, every time he has two ideas)t had more than another. Man is incapable of
splits up and fights itself, so nothing reason- mentally differentiating between a million, a
able is ever arrived at. The Absolute is not a billion, a trillion, a septillion or a quintillion.
new discovery and the existence of the Su- It is just "a lot more," that is all.
preme Unformed as the hypothetical base of When we try to realize that in this Kosmos
formation is accepted in every religion of the of ours there are more solor systems, uni-
world. Undoubtedly there is an absolute verses, chains, globes and spheres than there
cause, the perfect base of impermanence £roll} are atoms in the bodies of creation then it
which all things came and to which they shall looks rather big. They are not counted by oc-
return, therein completing the gamut of their tillions they are counted by hundred octillions
existence. The abstract is the divine Atma, of octillions and many times that. The Milky
the definitionless base of all definiable things. Way is made up of universes many times
From the invisible Cause-all pour the shadow- larger than our own, each tiny spark a chain
shapes of effects which play out in the world containing limitless evolving atoms. What
of mortality the divine chess game of the In- child is there born of earth capable of ex-
finite. pressing or knowing or imagining the quali-
Why were these sparks projected into m~t- ties of the limitless Intelligence that governs
ter? Why is the universe peopled with great these things? The human mind is absolutely
Hierarchies of evolving individualities, which incapable of attempting the struggle.
Spencer called the infinite diversities of To try to define the Absolute is to defile It
unity? Is not this the battle-field upon whi_ch and to deny It. The dreaming saviour, saint
man learns to know one little stage, one lit!le or sage is unworthy even to whisper it. Gods
step in his ultimate growth? Who then kno1\'s themselves dare not breath it for even His
the Absolute in fullness save Him who is the Eldest Sons have never lifted the hem of His
master of the gamut of His manifestatio~s? mantle. And yet there are people who might
Who shall know the reality save the Real~ty be respectable burglars (which would be in-
itself? finitely superior to being disreputable bung-
There is an absolute God, the changeless lars which they are at the present time), who
6 THE ALL-SEEINGEYE

rave about that of which they know not, and with his greatest effort, man will only be a
cast lots for garments that Gods dare not shade closer to the Infinite. But that shade is
dream of. With the puny intelligence of a everything, for in eternity time is dissolved
grain of sand they seek to show the stuff that in works.
gods are made of. And still the Absolute remains veiled in the
It is a foolish waste of time and if per- mantle of His own obscurity, untouched, un-
sisted in will inevitably result in insanity foJ fathomed, and undreamed of by those who
the brain is not capable of juggling such tre- call His name but do not know His spirit. He
mendous units of intelligence. slumbers in the infinite void of being, the
There is hut one path by which the Abso- baseless All. In Him the worlds spin and
lute may be reached and that is by following move while man dwells as an atom in His
the winding stairs of human progress, upward formless body. Worlds and universes are
and upward, until finally it achieves union but cells in His endless being and no man
with its source of being. The labors of man shall ever know Him for He is wrapt in the
in this world period are not to produce gods robes of His own omnipotence. 'Tis blas-
but to produce human beings and the student phemy to strive to rend this garment, a blas-
of the Absolute would be far better off if he phemy which gods dare not assail; but man,
would try to be a credit to the human race in- puny in his own strength but great in his ego-
stead of spending his time trying to discredit tism, assails to do that which gods do fear and
the Unknowable. He does the best he can but as a fool to walk the path where wise men
he cannot find in the universe that which he dare not tread. He could walk to the ends
is not, therefore the Absolute becomes full of Chaos and yet the sweeping folds of the
of whims and fancies placed there by those Infinite would remain concealed. His duty is
who seek to know Him but could only reflect not to unveil the Absolute but to nourish and
from His subtle shield their own souls. feed one little spark within his own soul. That
labor is too great for him, why then should
The world needs people to be truly human,
he assail the Wheel from which the Sparks
to learn how to master and express the truly
are born? As he cannot temper the steel of
conc.rete qualities which we are here to build.
his own spirit, why should he attempt to wield
We must have the dreamer and the sage but
the sledge hammers of Vulcan? His own
he must dream dreams to serve his brother
character is more than he can govern, why
man and not try to build with his own feeble
then should he seek to govern the Infinite?
imagination a creature which even gods dare
His modesty is his strongest virtue and those
not to imagine. Our modern thought is wan-
who assail to storm the temple of the Abso-
dering from the field of practical things into
lute are shorn of their virginity and are
the vistas of impracticality. If we are to
gowned in the robes of egotism.
attain the acme of this race, let us rtalize that
to be perfect human beings is the ultimate of Let the Absolute slumber in its death-like
our goal ,and that godhood is not the perfec- stillness, let the Unknowable remain unmoved
tion of human beings. in His meditations, for His meditations are
the universes and worlds dropping as pearls
The most glorious concept in the world to-
from His lips. Let the servant be found
day is the concept of the perfect man. That
among men to carry on the work of keeping
dream is attainable. By labors it may be
these pearls in sanctity and reverence, worry-
made practical, by conscientious living it be-
ing not of their source. For how shall man,
comes a reality, and if people who spend their
with a mind of matter, carry the thoughts of
time quoting the is-ness of Am would leave
eternity and live?
their intellectual stimulants alone and go out
into the world to manifest the is-ness of their Close down the veil lest passing through
own spiritual consciousness by being cleaner, too soon the Flame should destroy all. Teach
better and truer than their brother man, the man to live, to love, to labor and to grow;
Absolute would be perfectly able to take care teach him to better fulfill the labors of the
of Itself. A hundred million years from now, ( Continued on page 11)
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General Grump

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HE scene of this little narrative is in the driveway, General Grump saw a carriage
an old soldier's home and its leading winding up past the stacked muskets which
character is an old Civil War veteran ornamented the front door of the Soldier's
who has for years been known as General Home. There were two people in the carriage
Grump. His pension indicates the fact that hut only one of them is of especial interest
he was never higher than a private in the rear to us and that is Uncle Ben. Of course you
ranks, but his imperious temperment, his hos- do not know Uncle Ben so we will have to go
sitive ways, and his grumpitive personality into details here also.
has gained for him the name and title which Uncle Ben had been a captain in the Civil
he now hears. He has been in the Soldier's War and in that war he had lost one arm, one
Home for many years, stamping around and leg, and both eyes, and in the years since he
complaining-something is the matter all the had gone his way the best he could. Uncle
time. We must try and draw a picture of Ben had not seen the world since 1863 and
General Grump for you. now, more than eighty years old, he was com-
He is about five-foot-ten high and five-foot- ing to the Soldier's Home when the death of
ten wide, he has small heady black eyes set his only child had left him no home in the
under heavy over-hanging brows, he slouches world. With his crutch and cane and the as•
when he walks, and can scarcely open his sistance of his companion, a county official,
mouth without profanity issuing forth. He Uncle Ben slowly climbed the steps and en-
stamps his cane and his white chin-whiskers tered the office of the Home where, in due
stand straight up when anyone around him form and time, he was established. Thus en-
has anything cheerful to say. His favorite tered the most interesting inmate of the Sol-
expre ssion is: "This is a helluva world!" dier's Home.
He is always taking the joy out of life for the It was several days after this that Uncle
rest of the inmates and those quiet, peaceable Ben and General Grump met, both sitting in
old folks who like to gather around the check- broken down easy chairs on the porch. .
erboard or play solitaire are eternally dis-
"This is a helluva life," grunted General
turbed by the General who stalks about,
Grump, "it looks like rain. It has looked
pounding on the floor with his cane, cussing
like rain for the last two weeks-wish to hell
everyone in particular and life in general.
it'd rain!"
Everything seems to have gone wrong with
the General; he is the most abused man that "Does it look like rain?" asked Uncle Ben,
ever lived and admits it; he has always suf- "you know I haven't seen a cloud since they
fered from tough luck and now, as his eighty- gathered over Gettysburg and that was a long
first year draws to a close, we find him with time ago."
a mean disposition as the only product of "I told you it was a helluva life," answered
his life, with various forms of profanity and General Grump, his brows contracting and
tough luck tales as the by-products. the corners of his mouth going down.
In other words, General Grump is a born "I don't know," answered Uncle Ben, "I
grouch, his grandfather had been a grouch ain't had a lot of trouble in my time. I can't
before him, and his father, Silas, had been say its so bad. I have learned many things
known as Hard Cider for years, his name so in these years of darkness and many things
changed to suit his temperament. General that I have not seen I have felt. Now you,
Grump kicks at the beans, swears at the bread, sir-I cannot see you but I know you have a
and cusses the service until he bids fair to kindly face."
out-grouch ten generations of ancestors .. "Well if you do, you're the first feller that
So he is the hero of our little life-drama. ever did," answered General Grump.
One day after rising from the table and "All the world looks kindly to me. In all
pas sing out onto the steps that led down to the years that I have hobbled through life,
a THE ALL-SEEINGEYE

broken and lame, I have always heard kind and everything seems good. In the silence of
words, there has always been someone to my life I have thought for I have had few
help, and the world has been good to me. And companions but my thoughts and the voices
life hasn't been so hard, either. You know, of my children. During all these years when
even though I lost my eyes and one hand, I sleeping and waking all was dark I have
used to get work. They were always willing dreamed and I have dreamed the infinite
to help me--l've been very fortunate. I have dreams. These darkened eyes have seen
been rich in the love of my chilldren who things that mortal eyes shall never see, this
stayed with me and loved me until they too broken form has come closer to living than
were called. Indeed, I have been very for- those who have all. Brother, do not be de-
tunate all these years." spondent. You have so much to make you
"Uh-h! I haven't been fortunate," an- glad, you have so much more than I have
swered General Grump, "treated me like that it ill behooves that I should cheer you.
hell!" And yet, let me tell you this:
"We live in a world of our own making and
"Are you blind too?" asked Uncle Ben.
this world that I have made is just as real to
"Nope." me as it is to you. Through all these years
"Then how fortunate you have been and I have never lost sight of the goodne ss of
how thankful you should be that you went things. On that bloody field of Gettysburg
through that great war. You have heen able where the bursting shrapnel closed my eyes
to see your loved ones. I could only know forever, I saw many things. I then saw the
mine when I ran this hand over their faces. uselessness of hate, the fruitle ssness of di s-
You should be very happy." cord; I saw that man, not God, made sorrow;
and if he made ·sorrow he can make joy too.
"Aw, hell!" Listen, brother, through all these year s of
"Did you lose your arms or legs?" darkness I can still sing the songs I used to
know."
"Nope." And then the old man's voice broke out in
"You were not injured, then?" a tune of long ago, an old plantation song,
the song of the farmer and the workm en that
"Hell, no. I wish they'd killed me." sounded through our nation in the sixties. His
"I suppose it is wrong," said the kindly voice was thin and cracked and, true, there
old man softly, "to be jealous but somehow, was not much tune, but there was a great joy
brother, I envy you. You can see the world in the voice.
and I cannot, you can walk around and I can- "See? I can sing as I used to," and
not, you can work and I cannot. I suppose Uncle Ben's eyeless face broke into a merry
it is human that I should envy you. There is smile. "I can remember how they used
only one thing about you I do not envy and to sing those when I was a boy. How glad
that is your voice. That does not sound pleas- I am that I have memory, for I have little
ant. I fear you are not happy. You have all else! I suppose God has been good to me
that God gave you, and I was broken before and while others' memories fail them, the
the work was well begun, but let me tell you, scenes of my youth grow clearer every day
brother, I have been content. While the world and I can see the blue sky and the singing
outside means nothing to me, I live in a dif- birds." The old man's hand reached out and
ferent world-a world of make-believe, a fumbled for the hand of the other.
world I have made for myself. Wherev~r I "Brother, be glad and smile with me! Our
go the sun is shining, though others tell me time is but a little while. The world will
it rains; whoever I meet is smiling, though smile with you, brother, if you will but smile
others tells me they weep. All the world is too." The old man's face lighted up with
such a wonderful place and I, all these years something akin to inspiration and his very
behind my prison walls, have never been able presence seemed to breathe light and truth.
to rea ch it, but I have made a go out of it ( Continued on page 11)
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Brothers
of The ShiningRobe
CHAPTER EIGHT and the second was an appreciat10n of the
The Return From Glasgow. fact that it had brought me out of this stupor
over which I apparently had no control. I
Three days after my arrival in Glasgow, sat up straight and determined to remain
my work completed, though possibly not as awake the rest of the night, but I had hardly
satisfactorily as might have been desired, I made the resolution before I felt my head
boarded a night train to London. I was the dropping and the fixed objects in the little
only one in the compartment and, as the ef- compartment started to going round and
forts of the previous days had been heavily round, tying themselves into elaborate bow-
exhaustive, I perched my feet upon the seat knots.
across and sought to catch a few winks as the "Here, here," I said to myself, "this won't
train roared through the night. Somehow I do!" I knew enough of things occult to
have never slept very well on trains and this realize that an influence was being exerted
particular evening was no exception to the against something or someone, and that either
rule. I fidgeted and tossed, trying to find a through design or accident I was receiving a
comfortable position while each rut and series of narcotic rays from somewhere in
groove in the track registered throughout my the universe. Even though the realization
whole nervous system like the blows of a was firmly fixed in my mind, it just seemed
sledge-hammer. One foot went to sleep, I that I could not stand up, nor could I move,
got up and stretched, then the other one ceased and slowly the power to think was leaving me.
to function. There crept over me a wave of
decidedly undesirable and far from spiritual With a Herculean effort I rose to my feet,
thoughts, dealing generally with the prin- though I seemed to float rather than to walk;
ciples of misery and especially that phase of I swayed for a second with the lurching of
it which applied to riding in British coaches. the car and then fell in a cmmpled heap, half
on the seat half on the floor of the compart-
About half past two in the morning I could ment. As I fell darkness reached up around
not keep my eyes open for a moment longer, me, and the power of think or to even know
I felt things around me getting more and that I existed slowly departed from me.
more distant in spite of my every effort to
remain attuned to them, and at last with a Just when it seemed the last flickering light
heavy lurch I sank in the corner of the seat was dying out a great flaming bubble burst
into a troubled sleep. I do not know how around me, filling the entire environment with
long I remained in this condition but it could gleaming pink and crimson flashes, and at the
not ha ve been very long before I became in- same instant a voice spoke in my ear:
nat ely conscious of the fact that someone had "Pull yourself together man."
opened the window. A breath of cold air, Then I was grabbed by the nape of the
laden with that ever-present scent of Scottish neck and yanked to my feet by a hand which
moorland s, wa s blown in acro ss my face. I I could not see because of the bleared con-
felt chilled from head to foot and, do what I dition of my senses; an arm braced me and
would, I could not seem to regain sufficient held me for a second, the door of the com-
control over myself to move or even cry out. partment was opened, and I was hurled from
Suddenly, as I lay there in this lethargy, the train out into the night. I struck a
the tra in struck an unusually severe rut. It soft dirt embankme nt where, stunned and
seemed that the car-track mu st have been tied bruised, I rolled to the bottom and lay face
up in a figure eight. It threw me off the seat downward in a thicket of branches. I remem-
and down into the narrow foot-space of the ber faintly the flashing light, the streaming,
compa rtment. This thoroughly awakened me flaming smoke of the locomotive and the
an d I sat up, two feelings uppermost in my rumble of the cars-then all grew dark
mind . The first was of anger against the rut around me.
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When I came to myself I was lying in the est souls that ever came into the world-a
spare bedroom of a small English manor- clenching power that strangles out conscious-
house, aching from head to foot and so dizzy ness and leaves nothing behind but lifeless
that I could not look at any obje ct without it clay-the power of one man's will upon an-
spinning round and round like some gigantic other.
pin-wheel. The room was empty and, as I "When a great master of wisdom suc-
learned afterwards, my nurse, an elderly combs, as one occasionally does through ego-
Welsh woman, had gone out to prepare some tism or selfishness, the result is a godly in-
barley gruel for one who seemed in such a tellect gone wrong, a divine fiend, a super-
critical condition. human devil who, soulless in himself, ensnares
the souls of men that light shall never triumph
As I lay looking upward at pink and white for in the triumph of light is realized the end
baby roses on the wallpaper, trying to piece of the reign of darkness.
together the incidents of the previous day's "People have a great idea that in virtue
experience, the well-known form of the aged alone lies strength, but this is not always true.
Hmdoo adept appeared beside me. I recog- The bull has neither ideality nor a conscious-
nized him, yet in some way he was changed. ness of union with light, and yet his rushing
The long flowing gray robe which I so loved blows and the goring of his horns destro y as
to see him wear had given place to a clean- surely as the bullet. It is the strength of in-
cut modern military uniform. Hi s head, so dividual omnipotence and the power of one
long graced by the turban with its streamer over another that counts. While in the eter-
of silk, now carried a military helmet with a nal plan of things right alway s wins, yet in
long horse-hair plume down the back. But the little world we see around us might rules
the eyes and face remained the same. right with the rod of iron. The one whose
"You have had another very close call," he mental fingers and streams of spiritual force
murmured as he stood beside me for a second. nearly destroyed you last night was once a
"Fifteen minutes after I threw you from that great brother, noble and esteemed of men,
coach last night the entire car was burned up although today he plays the villian in the
by an unexplainable fire in which wood and drama. He is stronger than you are even,
metal s together were melted into a shapeless though his power s be evil and yours be good ;
mass. No hand lighted that fire, it just and were it not that, being true, you are
burned out of nothingness, and the tongues of guided and guarded by the Elder Brothers
flame leaped from stick to stick, fed by the you could not stand for a moment against the
vital body of an unseen presence. In black power of this demented genius for with the
magic there is a law and that law decrees that sheer strength of organic quality he could
all who stand between evil and the accom- swamp you beyond any hope of retaliation.
plishment of its power must he bought off. "But remember, in your work three weap-
frightened off, or killed off. They have tried ons will forever be turned against you and
to buy you but to no avail, they have sought these three you must ever be prepared to meet.
to incriminate you but you stand, firm as a First, you will be lured away from the tasks
thorn in the flesh of tradition. Having failed which you have been appointed to perform
to attain victory through either the power of because the powers of darkness will people
the first or of haunting fear, the black ray the earth with sirens to lure you from your
resorts to destruction in order to silence the labors. · The powers of darkness seldom
power which must some time destroy it. strike from without but usually play upon
Therefore I suggest to you that you not only weak points in the character of the individual
exercise great watchfulness but also surround himself and, through the false power which
yourself by the walls of force which you they gain through the knowledge of that ,veak
have been taught to build in the temple, point, they twist the lives of others to the f ul-
that these streamers of injury may not attain fillment of their own ends. Secondly, if they
their end. A great power was battling with cannot lure you away through thoughtless-
you last night as it has battled with the great- ness or false devotion they will seek to make
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it worth your while through offers of rewards, General Grump

promotion, financial increase or the promise
(Continued from page 8)
of spiritual power. In other words if they
cannot lead you from it they will seek to have General Grump was silent. He could not
you sell your labor for selfish ends. And if help but think back in his own life and see
both the se fail, if you have stood strong for how much joy he had had, how much more
right, for truth, for light, then be prepared he had had than this one who sat beside him.
for the other blow-the one that comes in the "Are you really happy?" he asked.
dark. When neither soft words nor caresses,
"Happy?" asked the old man, "why
this world's goods or those of another cannot
shouldn't I be happy? I have been happy in
tempt you from your appointed way, then you
the realization of duty well done, I have been
must be prepared for the last great attempt
happy in the love of a faithful wife, I have
which will come as the bolt of black magic
been happy in the love of my children, I have
to destroy that which it can neither buy nor
been happy in the love of my God, and for
bend and therefore seeks to break.
many years past I have been happy in the
"In your work this will prove to you a very happiness of others. I can do little for my
useful lesson and, while it will he some days fellow man hut I have tried to make him
before the soreness and pain works itself out happy, to make him forget his cares and
of you from the accidents you have passed fears in the happiness of real living, in the
through, when you are your self again you will happiness of just being where he can hear
be a better and wiser man." the voice of other things."
The Initiate vanished through the check- General Grump tilted his hat on his head
ered pink and white flowers of the wall paper, and looked at Uncle Ben for some minutes.
leaving me to analyse and digest a great yet "How long have you been blind?" he asked.
little understood reality in nature-that Red- "Fifty-three years, I have been blind as I
beard was right when he said that nature's am today, for one shell did it all."
law is the survival of the fittest hut that in "Were you never down on the world?"
the eternal plan of things each one seeks to
"Oh, yes," and Uncle Ben smiled sweetly.
become the one who is fit, and evolution is the
"After it happened I thought there was noth-
fitting of oneself to be the fittest.
ing left to live for, but one day I found that
I hadn't lost anything that could compare
with the thing I gained."
'1'he Philosophy
of theAbsolute The General looked at him for several
minutes and as he gazed into the radiating
(Continued from pa ge 6) face of the old man whose sightless eyes
lesser and leave in the hands of the Infinite stared out into eternity, General Grump
that which He alone can know and master. heaved a little sigh and the corners of his
mouth came up.
These thoughtless words of things we know
"I guess I've been a fool for some time,"
not of brand us only fools, the lightness of
he muttered and he looked down at his hands.
our tone as we speak of nature's deepest mys-
"I've got both of 'em" and at his feet, "I have
tery proves us unworthy of the trust. For
them too. And my eyes. And here I've been
the Absolute is in all, is all, will be all that
moping all these years."
ever shall be. Gods, men and worlds are
whispered words from His mouth wrapped in "Life is a wonderful thing," answered the
the veils of matter. No mortal eye shall gaze old man beside him. "We seldom learn to
upon its depth but as the presence of this be- live it until it is nearly done."
ing draws ever nearer man shall sink into a "That's the hell of it," answered General
depthness sleep and there be one with the Grump, stamping on the porch with his cane.
Father of all whom he may not know but in "Yes sir, that's the hell of it!" And getting
whose arms he shall never cease to be. up he stumped off in irate rage.
12 THE ALL-SEEING EYE

[__ 1_1v_1_N_G_P_R_o_B_L_E_M_s_o_E_P_A_R_T_M
__ l
POWER AND DOMINANCE. must find a way to take. He must be initi-
One of the most difficult things in the world ated by fire and water. He must learn the
is to possess power without exerting it over value of the sun bath which is his physical
another. Apparently the proof of power lies initiation of fire, and the old family tub bath
in domination but this is not so. The true fashioned after the laver of purification.
proof of power is the control of self, all other
things are comparatively unimportant. In
the present European tangle many things ex- RELIGIOUS CLEAN-UPS.
press themselves and this problem along with Every so of ten we hear of the churches and
others. Mercy and consideration ennobles religious organizations launching a campaign
the victor of every fight, while those who against dance halls, theatres, picture shows
grind down victims show themselves of ten and various similar things. While there is
less than the individuals they oppose. Gen- no doubt that there is a certain class of im-
erosity is the privilege of the strong, it is also proper amusement, we beg to call the atten-
their opportunity. When they fail to make tion of the religious people to a truth much
the most of this opportunity they fail to prove more fundamental than the one they are
victors in the battle. There is no glory in seeking to emphasize. It is basicly this: that
spite, no reward in revenge. Many of the the morale of a nation depends upon the finer
nations involved in the late European war spiritual truths which should be implanted
who would have come out of it loved and by the religious organizations of the world.
revered for their noble gallantry sacrificed If the "drives" which ecclesiastical orders are
that reverence and forfeited the esteem of the launching upon the world were turned right
world when they proved that they were gen- back into the the church, they would do a
erous victors and gallant, thoughtful over- great deal more good. Some of the worst of
lords. those whom they attack are shrouded with
serenity and protected by the enfolding arms
of religion. While the religious organiza-
HOLY WATER tions are fussing and stewing among them-
In the ancient tabernacle of the Hebrews ~elves as to who is greatest, splitting up over
was outlined the way of initiation and in the trivials, ,and etc., they are forcing people out
courtyard before the temple gate was the of the church. Many of those whom they
laver of purification, a great bronze bowl in now brand as lost souls were forced into their
which the priests performed their abolutions present position by the heartlessness of re-
before entering the holy place. There is posi- ligion and the injustice of creedal theology,
tively no sarcasm intended but we just want which preaches forgiveness and compassion
to remind some people of the exact position but shows none of it to the sinners of the
of that bowl as it stands before the temple world. The first clean-up which theology
steps, a yawning menace to the poise of many should advocate should begin with the wash-
of our students of the mystical. The old ing of the inside of the cup for while religion
~dage was that cleanliness is next to godli- dickers and bargains, plays favoritism to
ness therefore it seems that the mystery of some and condemns many, it can never meet
that mighty laver must become a part of the the crying need of a world in spiritual pain.
esoteric instructions to students. The church has no right to condemn vices in
It is possible to over bathe but it is not others while its own heart is full of vipers
commonly done except by fanatical indivi- and thieves who pray upon the Sabbath and
duals. All things can be carried to an ex- go out robbing the widows and the fatherless
treme but there are two kinds of baths man on Monday morning.
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TheManWhoFoundGod
HERE is a story told of a great scien- swayed back and forth to any angle, balanced
tist who built a unique laboratory far upon gigantic steel rockers.
from the sight of man where he in- Each day brought the moment of victory
stalled mighty instruments and many won- closer, each day the fire of triumph flashed
drous mechanical contrivances, all to achieve stronger in the aged man's eyes and the cold
a single end-to create an instrument where- blood rushed faster through his veins until-
with he might span the chasm 'twixt man and at last the great day came! The last wheel
God. The years went by and the scientist was in place, the final bearing was tested and
labored tirelessly upon the child of his dream. the great machine stood-a mammoth dream
Wheels and levers were slowly placed and of a man who gives his all to learn that which
after many years the great shape of a loom- he knows not. The great scientist sent into
ing mechanical mystery rose from the floor of the world of men and drew around him the
the laboratory as the completed result. mightiest minds of the time that they might
As a young man the scientist had com- gather in the vaulted room to see and hear
menced his labors. Many years had passed, the marvel ~fa life's labor. They came fr~m
years of consecration to a single end, years all over the country; with hoary heads and
of concentration upon a single work. He had weighty brows, with dignity and age they
never lived in the world of men since a dis- gathered to see the fruitage of a life work.
appointment of his early life which had Twelve in all there were; great astronomers,
broken his trust in his fellow man and the great physicists, masters of logic and philoso-
moving events of earth meant little to him- phy, they gathered from their several ways at
his great machine meant all. So we find the the foot of this mighty instrument.
snow of an ever-gathering winter upon his The time of the experiment was at mid-
bowed head, long lines and furrows mark night and as the clock struck twelve they all
his face, and his piercing eyes sink ever gathered in the domed room with its levers
deeper beneath the massive brows and tawny and its wondrous mechanism. The old scien-
lashes; his body is bent and frail and long tist came and, in his face the exultation of
purple veins show out upon his hands. For youth, told of the mystery he had conceived.
him this span of earth is nearly done, yet in "When I open those great shutters in~
his soul is the same flame of youth which had ceiling, each of the prismatic panes shall
inspired him in the ages gone, the same in- gather in the light of the stars, the light of the
domnible will had never been broken for with- planets, of suns and moons; the intelligences
in him burned the determination to perfect a that rule them shall be concentrated tonight
machine which would connect spirit and mat- upon these sensitized plates, built like the
ter, to finish his great work whereby the veil sense centers of the human organism. Here
should be rent and mystic nature give up her is an ear as fine as that of any man, threads
secrets. so delicate that only a microscope can show
His laboratory was a great domed room them, an organ which can hear all things; here
built like an astronomical observatory. In are vocal cords of slender steel and catgut
the ceiling were a number of trap dors, while wherein sounds of infinite may be reproduc-
the entire room revolved by pulleys, counter- ed; here are eyes of metals and fiber as per-
weight and bearing. He had but to press fect as any organ of human sense; and here,
a button and the floor rose some dozen feet, gentlemen, is the masterpiece of all-a brain
carrying with it the great machine; he need of precious metal, with every nerve and sinew,
but pull a lever and countless windows in the with every force and power. I have built a
dom opened at prismatic angles, casting god, an oracle of matter which is capable of
gleams of light upon the almost shapeless using the light brain of the infinite, one who
mass of wheels; he had but to turn a knob shall speak to us, inspired by the rays of
upon the wall and the great machine itself planets and the stars. This brain will regis-
14 THE ALl...-SEEINGEYE

ter the thoughts of God, these lips shall speak test for fear that the vibration of your voices
His will, these ears shall hear His infinite might derange the currents.
melody, these eyes shall see His wonders. The wise and learned took their seats. The
Seventy years I have been building this ma- gray-browed philosophers leaped back in
chine, far more perfect than any body built their chairs, their gaunt frames at rest but
by man-and tonight I shall qui cken it with their minds tensely centered upon the great
the ray of a hundred million stars, of suns, experiment.
globes and universes, by concentrating "If it succeeds," breathed one, "both past
their endless light through these prisms in and future shall unite in blessing the inven-
the roof, and finally reflecting them all upon tor.
this gigantic sounding-board wherein shall be The inventor gave one last look at the great
given out the mystery of creation. This chair creature of steel and wire-the child of his
is where I shall sit to work the tuning forks hopes, the creation of his dreams, the supreme
and coils that each thought of the Infinite achievement of his life-and then pressed a
mind shall vibrate through this brain. tiny button on the wall. The great electric
"Marvellous," murmured the group of arc-lights went out and the observatory was
scientists gathered around. "Marvellous, but enveloped in total darkness, darkness which
impossible." _ seemed peopled with mystic shapes and
"No, no! It is not impossible!" cried th~ thrilled with a stillness that was audible.
old man vehemently. "Gentlemen, give me Nothing but the low breathing of the watchers
just this night and I will prove that it is not and an occasional slight movement in one of
impossible! Gentlemen, you have little the chairs told that a living creature was any-
trouble to expect from me-if this machine where in that still room.
shall fail, I shall kill myself! I have lived Suddenly there came a grating sound and
alone to create it, with its failure I shall die. the whole room was flooded with a strange,
But it shall not fail! By all the laws of nat- blue-white light filled with rainbow colors
ural dynamics, by all the laws of science, of and dancing, flinging, swirling sparks of iri-
invention, of mechanics, of electricity and of descent hue. The great prisms in the ceiling
nature's subtle forces-it shall not fail! had been thrown in place and a hundred mil-
"Now gentlemen," and he calmed himself lion stars sent their tiny rays down into the
with a mighty effort, "we will raise the ma- room.
chine." He pressed the button on the wall. A gasp went round the circle in the easy
A shudder ran through the floor of the chairs.
building and almost imperceptibly the floor "Marvellous! Marvellous!"
moved upward. The scientists gazed around This opaline light bathed the machine in
in amazement. The entire laboratory was a weird and unnatural glow and revealed the
upon a gigantic elevator which carried work wizard of genius standing by its side, his eyes
room, instrument and men, upward into the turned upward to the millions of sparks r&
dome of the observatory. fleeted upon the prisms in the ceiling and be-
Finally some dozen feet from the dome tween which the dark blue of the sky appeared
the progress of the moving floor was stayed as a piece of plush, jeweled with diamonds.
and then with delicate astronomical instru- Slowly he turned the mighty arm of the crank
ments the scientist arranged his mighty ma- and the prisms moved one after the other un-
chine, tilting it upon its massive rockers un- til the light focus sed into a little spot no
til all pointed to a single ray which was to larger than a ten cent pie ce-one gigantic
be the keynote of the machine-the planet finger of concentrated power. This was turned
Saturn. upon a sensitive organ of steel and silken
"Now, gentlemen, will you please be wire which glowed and gleamed like the
seated?" and the scientist waved his hand to mighty Kohinoor.
a circle of twelve leather easy chairs which The professor sat down, his hand on the
surrounded the instrument. "I am going to tuning fork and coil, and his eye s fastened
ask you to please remain silent during this to the fine dials before him which quivered
 THE ALL-SEEINGEYE 15

like the nerves of a race horse. The air was head seemed well defined and was formed out
filled with a droning, moaning sound which of the gleat ball. The robes and draperies
seemed like the rush of mighty bodies through streamed off into nothingness while the fingers
the sky. Something oppressed the ear drums were hazy streams of flame pointing first in
of those sitting around and a faintness of this way and in that. A great roaring rumble
nausea stole over them; hut still, sturdy filled the air and the ear drums of the old
searchers that they were to whom life meant scientist seemed ready to burst. He could not
nothing and knowledge everything, they re- however keep his eyes from the shining face,
mained in their chairs, gazing at the strangest so terrible yet so magnificient, beautiful yet
sight man has ever witnessed. A gigantic relentless in every part of its being. Great
mad man, a genius possessed of insanity, that streaming eyes of living fire gazed out ser-
dared to build lips of steel for God to talk enely upon the face of the aged man and yet
with! the serenity itself was terrifying.
As the professor sat there, his hand upon "Are you God?" gasped the old man. "Had
the dials, a great chill came over him, he I hut known what you were I fear I would
seemed wrapt in a damp blanket and began to not have dared call you!"
shiver in spite of himself. But his eyes never The great figure shook its head and a voice
left the tiny spot of light, vari-colored and sounded in the man's soul, words which lips
ever-changing, seeming to hiss and sputter as could not frame.
it stru c~ the discs. "No, I am not God. I am the least of His
"I shall soon know all," he kept muttering mesesengers. I it is who have been appointed
to himself, "the mystery shall he unveiled to to unveil to you the mysteries you have waited
me." seventy years to learn. Since time began you
Suddenly the light ray seemed to pass have sought the mysteries that are so
through the discs and spread like a phos- carefully hidden by merciful Diety who con-
phore sent glow all over the great machine. ceals His own power that man may not die
The blazing eye of steel seemed to blink at him from His flame. Man flutters around the
and the nerve wires to twitch. throne of Light like the moth around the
"I shall win! I shall win!" breathed the candle-flame until finally, singed and battered,
scientist. "At last man shall know! at last he falls to rise no more. I stand here as
the infinite shall be attained! The mystery guardian of the earth for you have launched
shall be solved!" upon it a power which could burn it to the
As he spoke the glow of light seemed to core, could throw the planets from their sev-
condense itself into a ball, opal-like in its eral orbits and twist creation into a ruined
formation, its color and shape ever-changing, mass. But this is not the privilege of mortal
its position ever-moving. It hung swaying, man. Therefore, these rays of light-I re-
twisting, and turning in the very center of the ceive them to myself lest passing me they
great machine. Then there unfolded from should destroy you."
it like mighty arms two streamers of wing- "Who are you?" moaned the scientist.
like force which poured out as flaming fins "I am the Lord of the Light Devas. Look."
from the sides of this shapeless globe. And his great flaming hand closed over the
The scientist gazed in awe and amazement discs of steel and celluloid, crumpling them
at the strange phenomena unfolding itself be- to piec~s. 'Tis better that these should per-
fore him. He wanted to call the attention of ish than that man should loose this ray which
the other watchers to it for but some unknown could slay across the universe in the hands
rea son his tongue refused to speak. All he of the foolish and yet can raise the dead. Let
could do was point his finger and gasp. this thing of steel perish and man live. As
The minutes passed and there slowly formed for you, sir, come-I would show you some-
itself out of the flaming mist a great opaline thing."
figure many times larger than a human being, Beckoning to the aged man, the flaming
a great glorious figure surrounded by a halo spectre rose and pointed along the ray of
of light and wings of steely force. Only the light that led to the prisms in the ceiling.
16 THE ALL-SEEINGEYE

This golden ray seemed to form stairs as Eternal Future which no man knoweth, of the
they ascended. ultimate which is concealed, the completion
"Where am I going?" asked the professor. as yet veiled by the density of mortal thought."
"Into cosmos upon the ladder you ha.Ye The Shining One passed slowly on and
formed," answered the guide. Draperies of behind him walked the professor, searching
many subtle substances seemed to brush the and seeking with a new light and deeper un-
face of the scientist, lights danced in the derstanding the answer to the Riddle.
ethers about him, swaying figures surrounded
him, and far off the plants in the sky gazed
* * *
About an hour had passed. The light still
down with the same great faces as the one of shone down from the ceiling but the passing
his guide, only greater and more noble. Cris- of the orbs of night had moved it from the
cross currents which were themselves words dial. The waiting scientists moved uneasily
and sentences of living fire connected the in their chairs.
globes together like cords passing through "Isn't it about time somehting happened?"
beads to make a necklace of the whole. muttered one under his breath.
"Is this God?" asked the scientist in awe. "It seems to me it is," answered his com-
"No, it is not," answered the Deva. "Do panion in an undertone.
you see this great blue haze in which these At last one bolder than the rest spoke, say-
things float in endless pageantry?" ing, "Professor, have we not waited long
"Yes," answered the scientist, "is that enough?"
God?" But no answer sounded.
The Great One shook his head, " 'Tis but "Professor!" he called agam. Still no
the hem of His garment," he answered. "Do sound.
you hear this strange song of wild fantastic One of the watchers reached into his pocket
symphony, mighty roars and tender cadences, and drawing out a match struck it and held
heavy rumbles, and soft purrings as of the it aloft. It gleamed on the mighty instrument
flutter of a bird's wing? Great seething and also upon the figure of the scienti st who
comets and tails of vrillic power-these make sat in the chair, his head upon his chest.
up the creations of the Uncreated, these are "Why he has gone to sleep!" exclaimed
the least of the Great, the unimportant of the one, and rising to his feet he fumbled around
Mighty." until he found the light button which he
"How, then can I gather His power into pressed, flooding the room with brilliance.
my machine?" asked the scientist. "Poor man, he was all tired out by his experi-
"You cannot," answered the Shining One. ment." He leaned over and touched the pro-
"You but take one single sound and upon a fessor's forehead then sharply drew back his
string of steel seek to hear the harmonies for hand. Then he placed his ear to the aged
which all nature alone is not a complete man's heart. Rising, he spoke solemnly to
sounding-board." the other eleven.
"Then I have worked in vain," muttered "The inventor is dead. He died on the
the scientist. night when his supreme achievement was to
"No," answered the Great One, "you have be given to the world, when man through a
only found the way. Many substances must thing of steel should learn to know his God."
sound in harmony before God talks to man. As he spoke there came a humming, dron-
Spirit, mind and matter are alone organs of ing sound-the wheels in the machine were
His speech, the eyes of His vision, the ears of moving. The great lips of steel opened and
His understanding. Long has science failed in a voice, deep and terrible, spoke:
that in earth they seek the things of heaven; "I see, I see, I see-No! No! No!"
in steel, stone, and stick they have sought the At the same instant the machine was gal-
God which rests alone in the infinite. Come vanized by a bolt of electricity. When it had
with me and I will answer your riddle--the cooled again it was welded into a solid block.
riddle of all living things-the riddle of the No whet>l or piston could be moved.
 THE AIL-SEEING EYE 17

The Dance of the Devas

B
CCORDING to a legend that is as the two priests stepped aside, allowing him
old as the rock-hewn temples of the to enter, and then they separated, one going
Himalayas there is far up on the to the right and the other to the left, resting
side of Mount Everest a cave hollowed out of on each side of the cave entrance was a large
the solid rock of the mountain. Its pillars flat stone. Here each took his seat, twisting
and columns are of living stones, their sur- his feet up underneath him and crossing his
faces chiseled into wondrous flowers and palms upon his lap; then slowly the eye-
arabesques. This ancient temple is a mystic balls of each turned upward, eyelids droop-
maze of passageways twisting in and out from ing, and the priests entered into meditation
unknown depths back again into eternity. for strength, peace, and power to the wan-
None ever seemed to know how old this derer.
temple is but it was called the Shrine of In the meantime the youth was entering
the Devas. The average mortal never learns the darkened cave. It was not totally black
of its existence and even the devout Hindoo but a very faint phosphorescent glow was
may search his life through and never learn emitted by the rocks, just enough that he
of its existence. It has one duty, one labor to might not stumble against the pillars nor fall
perform-it is the temple of Temptation by missing the steps. Around and around
where the Eastern Initiates, seeking the life wound the candidate, through the labyrinth
of immortality, pass the test of the astral of the rock-hewn ear, his bare feet making
world. but little sound, and even this becoming a faint
The entrance of this temple is built like rumble in the taut stillness of the cave.
the human ear and far into the earth its pass- At last he reached the end of the spiral
ageways twist and turn like the labyrinth of where this great twisting nautilus of stone
the human ear. Upon its walls are traced ended in a small circular chamber from which
slender filaments like the fine threads of the arches ran in all directions. In this chamber
auditory nerve and to drop a single pin in the was a great tree carved from the solid
depth of that cave is to produce a thundering stone of the mountain. Under this tree
roar, so perfect are the acoustics. with its branching wealth of stone-carved
Many have heard of Diocletian's Ear where leaves was a smooth rock and upon this the
the emperor sat in a cave of stone to listen to candidate seated himself to await the pleasure
the whisperings of his prisoners. But this cave of his God.
in the heart of India is more wondrous far As he sat there, there poured forth from
than this ear of a Roman emperor for it is the subterranean arches streams of shining
the cave of the Devas, the Sound Creatures of gas which wreathed and twisted in the phos-
eternity. One at a time the appointed Chil- phorescent darkness. As these streamers
dren of Light enter into this cave to learn came closer the lights resolved themselves
of immortality, to pass from mortal tribula- into glorious creatures in swaying draperies,
tion to the tranquillity of omnipotence. grea t eyes gazed at the candidate, great
Some years ago a truly great one passed forms came forth, demon shapes whose blood-
through the Ear of the Devas and we will fol- shot eyes gazed at him in blinking terror.
low his wanderings among its carved pillars Slowly these forms swayed back and forth to
and terraced sculptures. Three figures ap- a great rythmic beating like the pulsing of
proached the door, a massive pivot of stone, a human heart. Back and forth they swayed
which swung away when they pressed upon in endless glory, passing round and round
it. Two were old men dressed in yellow the seated figure, performing in the mystic
robes, their heads shaven, and upon their ethers of this subterranean vault the Dance of
foreheads the mark of the illuminated. The the Devas. These forms kept beckoning to
third was a youth who walked in silence and him and from their lips poured forth great
deep aceticism between the two, in the great streams of music, seeking to lull the soul of
repose of the fourth step. Without a sound the candidate.
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Slowly a subtle dream-trance stole over terrifying creatures that raised flaming fingers
him and he felt himself being drawn from his to destroy him. Then came the thought of
rocky coucb to join in that endless chant and his work, and he remained.
mystic dan ce. With a great effort he drew "Thou too art creatures of Maya. What
himself back, crying out, "I take my refuge have I to do with you? How can you harm ·
in Buddha!" Still the figures called him and me if I am at peace with myself? I have
the music as of a thousand stringed instru- naught to fear of you." And closing his eyes
ment and peals like those of mighty organs the youth returned to his deep meditation in
echoed and re-echoed through the Ear of the which these seething forms vanished forever,
Gods. Deafened by the sound, his head sing- and he became lighted by his Buddha.
ing and his body torn, the candidate swayed It was the strangest scene that man ever
in his meditation and sought to launch him- looked upon, in the Cave of the Labyrinth.
self into the endless rythm of the Devas' On a tiny altar of stone, under the shade of
Dance. And then with a mighty effort he a tree of solid granite, sat the yellow-robed
drew back his mind upon Buddhi and re- priest, his legs crossed and his hands folded.
mained in meditation, saying: Around him were three circles of supernat-
ural beings. The first swayed and ·moved
"All these are the great unreality-they
as they passed in endless circle to the right,
shall not lead me from my appointed task.
the second danced their wierd dance to the
Man who serves these Devas and join s in the
left, while the third worked back and forward
Dance shall never attain Nirvana, nor by op-
and as flaming fiends attacked the body of
posing them shall he destroy them, but only
the candidate. This was the Dance of the
through the realization of the Divine Pres-
Devas when the great Beings from other
ence."
worlds tested the courage of the candidate's
From out the carved arches poured another soul.
stream of mystic beings who floated about Slowly he sank into ever deeper meditation
like the beautiful Undines in the ethers of until even the realization of eternity was ob-
the ocean. Streams and rays of light poured literated from his soul and alone in the great
from them and they twisted through the air Ever-Existing the candidate saw nothing,
like winged creatures from other worlds. heard nothing, felt nothing. And there he
They wound themselves around the figure of remained while they danced their weird dance.
the meditating aspirant, they twined their Slowly there radiated from him a glow of
arms about him seeking to lead him from his light that grew ever-stronger until it lighted
meditation. Through half closed lips the the very carved arches with its presence.
youth replied, "All these are of the world of Then like mists the phantom forms dissolved
illusion; you shall not tempt me, Devas of into the shadows and in their place there en-
the Flame Being." tered from the corridor a great stream of
yellow-robed figures.
This whispered, they cried out, and through
the subtle essences of the cave their voices A new door had opened and from the
sounded as music in his ears. But still he realms of Shidda-Loka the saints had come
remained in silence, the silence of deep con- to bless the new-horn Buddha and his work-
templation upon the Body of Brahma. Then ing. Slowly they passed in endless file, a
there issued from the mystic corridors a troop- swaying mystery of phantom forms, until
ing band of fiends, great seething creatures of they too vanished in the gloom of the cave.
demon proportions with the heads of beasts Then through the darkness great faces ap-
and of dragons and the crawling forms of rep- peared, many times the size of human face,
tiles and snakes. These too surrounded him the Great Ones of the seven worlds gazed
and dashed at him, leering and screaming. upon the Initiate. Impelled by an inner urge
The chill of fear crept into the heart of the which he could not understand, the youth
candidate and when it did so these great slimy rose, ascended the altar and passed slowly
forms grew greater and stronger. He outward through the spirals of the Ear.
sought to leave the cave and to escape these {Continued on page 30)
 THE ALL-SEEINGEYE 19

[ QUESTION AND ANSWER DEPARTMENT 1

Where and what are we when asleep? ural law-if we did not suffer we would
Ans. We are exactly the same asleep soon find ourselves destroyed and never
as when awake. We work in exactly the know it. We can live forever if we abso-
same degree of helpfulness asleep as when lutely harmonize ourselves with all the
awake. Those who cannot function con- planes of nature-but it cannot be all in
sciously in the plane of sleep remain in one place. People who live forever would
their astral body, suspended over their get tired of it as they get tired of dying to-
physical body in the shape of a globe. day. You must be reminded that we live
forever now-we never die. We just do
What is it that reincarnates?
not realize it because we have not enough
Ans. The thing that reincarnates in knowledge to see it. We have to evolve
man is the Ego which assumes form after the intelligence to realize that we already
form, these forms being built around cen- have what we are looking for.
ters of consciousness which are called per- What happens when God rests?
manent atoms carried in the brain, the
heart, the lower body, and in the solar Ans. When God rests, all life and spir-
plexus-the centers of our four present it, and the matter which is working through
bodies. These bodies come into form it, is withdrawn into Him. Man, having
through the elements and ether and the no vehicle of expression capable of re-
physical body is drawn around by attrac- maining conscious at that rate of vibration
tion. which is God, sleeps also and does not
come into manifestation again until the
Must Karma created here always be universal reawakening.
worked out on this plane? Explain sex.
Ans. Karma created here is worked Ans. Sex manifests through all the re-
out on one of two planes-the lower plane gions of nature as the two polarities of one
or the astral. nature.
Has every person now living on What was the first cause of evil
earth been reincarnated? among men and women?
Ans. No one can exist who has not been Ans. Perversion . Perversion is the nat-
before. We are just exictly what we have ural result of inexperience. Man is work-
made ourselves in lives we have lived he• ing with vehicles and powers which he
fore. cannot understand, and contending with
What is the cause of walking in the sleep? la ws which he breaks ( thinks he breaks-
Ans. A partial division of bodies in hut the law breaks the man instead of his
which the lower side of the body is partly br e!lkir1g the law.) Man made his first mi s-
in control while the higher vehicle is part- ta ke through crystallization, through the
ly out. abv.se of his powers and continues to make
Can one incarnate into a di/ f erent those mistakes and will continue until he
race of people? ceases to abuse natural powers. The first
and last mistake is the result of ignorance,
Ans. The average individual reincar- and ignorance itself is now a crime. Ig-
nates into a higher race of people. norance and the inability of complete
Can a man live for ever if he will not sin? manifestation through the vehicle is so-
Ans. If man does not sin he will turn called evil. Man is like a little child; he
to stone. Sin produces experiences. What will have to learn through his mistakes,
we call sin and suffering is one of our keep stumbling and falling on his nose un-
greatest friends. We sin and break a nat- til he learns to walk.
 20 THE AIL-SEEINGEYE

The Homage
·QIVILIZATION, with its spreading at the gathering shadows as the shades of
power, dissolves into itself as quick- evening fall. Mayhaps an awkward bear will
silver the wild places of the world. cross the path and waddle along on his short,
Where mighty forests once raised their ungainly legs. It is the joy place of the
crested tops, gloomy buildings, chimneys, and hunter, who, with the glee of the sportsman,
iron girders now darken narrow cobbled ways slays to prove the merit of his aim.
where the natural grandeur of things has been There are many stories told of those moun-
swallowed up in the sordidness of human tains, many legends which the mind of the
concept. Here and there, however, are still ancient Red Man fashioned and the mind of
spots where the devastating hand of man has the jesting white man perpetuates. But there
not rested, where the sound of the axe, the is one legend that is the strangest of all, the
cries of the woodmen, and the rumbling of logs story of the Old Man of the Mountain. It is
. has not broken the primeval stillness. One said that somewhere up in those hills there
by one the savage denizens of the wild, the lived a hermit who had dwelt there many
beasts untamed, have slunk away into these days. As far back as the old hunters could
untrodden places, into the rocky mountains remember, the story was told of how one,
and lonely crags where they gaze out with tired of the world and its shams, had crept
great furtive eyes at the hand of civilization away from all living things of men to go and
which, as it devastates the primeval wilder- live in the mountains, among the crags -whose
ness, strangles out their lives. lofty peaks touched the sky. Once in a great
In a certain land where there is a mighty while someone saw him far in the distance as
range of mountains which raise their rough he stood mirrored in some mountain lake or
and wooded sides like great supplicating in sharp outline against the sky. They knew
arms to the skies. The barrenness of these him as the Old Man of the Mountain, the her-
hills is clothed with the verdant garment of mit of the mighty peaks. Some said he was
tree and shrub. Mighty straggling monarches good, some that he was strange and cruel, but
of the forest toss their branches upward as all loved to tell of him, to guess, and to spec-
though to grasp in their shaky fingers the ulate.
clouds that hover over them. A narrow trail Once, in the course of human events, there
winds up to these mountains, barely a foot- climbed up the mountain path that wound in
path; here and there it leads over loose rocks and out along the rugged sides of the hills a
and broken boulders and from stone to stone whistling youth. Over his shoulder was slung
across some water-fall that descends like a a rifle, a cartridge belt was around his waist,
stream of crystal from the snow peaks far and on his back he carried a pack. He was
above. There is no ·silence in that wood for going into the hills to hunt, with the enthus-
there is ever a swishing, ever a rippling, ever ism of youth he would slay the lion and the
a sighing, as from the mountains pour the bear, the deer and the wolves whose howlings
streams of water or through the tree-tops the he had heard from the valleys below.
wind whispers its message to any ears that Round and round the path wound. The
are there to hear. hours went by, the gloom of evening fell, and
Up this narrow path climbs an occasional still the hunter was far from the crest of the
hunter for the deer still peer shyly out from mighty hill where little scrub pines shown out
the thickets or spring from rock to rock and from the ever-encircling band of snow. The
amid the scrub growth that clothes the walls chill of the mountain was in the air, the val-
that rise on either hand. Here too the moun- ley was long since dark and tiny twinkling
tain lion lurks and at night his shining eyes lights below showed the abode of men. Still
gaze from the darkness at the campfire of the the glow of daylight was on the mountain
hunter. Here also are wolves and foxes and peak and as the youth stood there in the semi-
in the lower valleys dwell coyotes that howl twilight the silence was broken by a cracklin ~
 THE ALL-SEEING EYE 21

sound as of the breaking of twigs and the put his arm around the neck of the stag and
swishing of branches. spoke to it in soft sweet tones. Just a few
Looking quickly around the youth saw sighing sounds, like a pitiful cry, the old man
standing before him a mighty stag. His great made, but the beast seemed to understand,
arched antlers had a span of many feet and its soft nose was turned upward and its eyes
his noble head was raised to catch the pass- looked at him with a tenderness of expression
ing warning of the atmosphere. Two large which moved even the hunter.
mild eyes gazed at the youth who, in the The old man turned to the youth, "Do you
frenzy of the hunter, reached for his gun and still dispute my ownership?" he asked, "do
drawing it rapidly to his shoulder gazed along you still doubt that he is mine and I am his?"
the cold steel sights toward the heart of the "What were the words you used?" asked
stag. Just as his finger was closing upon the the youth in surprise, "how did you talk to
trigger a hand was laid upon his arm. The him?"
youth started, the gun slipped from his al- "I spoke in the words of the forest and the
ready nervous fingers, and he turned in trees," he answered. "That is his language.
amazement to gaze into the face of a stranga He hears the voice of fear in the crackling
being. of the twigs and the stealthy footsteps of the
As he turned he gave a start for sucH a hunter; he hears life and love in the voice of
figure few men have seen. The face bore the the waterfall and the soft swaying of leafy
marks of great age and the snowy locks that branch. These are the sounds of his langu-
bordered it were whiter far than the mountain age and during these many years in the moun-
tops that had stood there since eternity. The tains I have learned to talk with the tongue
figure of the old man, for such it was, was of beast and bird; yes, I have even learned to
draped from head to foot in a cowl of gray talk with the trees and flowers who hear my
cloth and he carried a great wooden staff in voice and shelter me with their love and pr~-
his hand cut from the limb of a dead tree. tection. Listen."
His eyes, however, were the wonder of the
The old man breathed out a soft stirring
picture. Two kindly, twinkling eyes that
sound like the breath of dawn in the treetops
could register even the faintest shade of emo-
and from the shrubs and bushes around an
tion, one moment gleaming with the joy and
answer came, the same soft, stirring sound
youth of life and the next dimmed by the
and voices seemed to whisper.
tears of sorrow, g:azed into the face of the
"They all know me, they all love me, for I
hunter. The old man's hand was resting light-
have lived here eighty years and never once
ly upon his shoulder and his sweet old face
have I injured God's creatures. When I want
held soft rebuke.
food they bring it to me of the ripe fruits of
"You-you-" began the youth, "are you their store. The little squirrels bring me nuts
not the Old Man of the Mountain?" from their harvest, while the trees give me of
The stranger nodded his head and a voice, their fruit, and from their own dried leaves
mellowed by years of goodness, answered they form a shelter which guards me in the
softly and kindly, "Yes, I am the hermit who chill of winter. You have come into these
lives in these hills. But why do you shoot my hills like the spirit of man off times comes into
stag?" the world-to slay and to hate. Not that you
"Your stag?" exclaimed the boy hunter, really care, f 01;in your soul you do not loathe
"how coes it that you own the beast?" the beasts, but to you their souls mean no more
"In this world," the old man answered, than a drop of water from yonder stream. But
"proper use warrants ownership, and those I have learned to look upon with love even ·
who use God's creatures well have the first the drops of water for each one has a mes-
claim upon them." The old man held out his sage; I have lived up here so long that the
hand to the stag and the great beast, though trees and birds and flowers are one with me in
viewing the hunter askance, slowly came spmt. I love them all and truly they love
across the little clearing and rubbed his soft me. Come, young hunter, lay your gun aside
face against the old man's hand. The hermit for awhile for in my eyes, and in the eyes of
22 THE ALL-SEEING EYE

my children of the forest, that gun meam ter nights I have sheltered their young in my
hate and death. You need not fear, leave it little cabin, I have fed the babies that the
here, and I will ~ring you back for it anon." hunters left parentless, and in ·the spring I
The youth lay qown his rifle and taking have loosened them into the world. Many
the hand which the old man held out to him, years ago a hunter climbed these hills and
followed him away from the path and into slew the sire of this wolf, another slew its
the depth of the great green forest wrapped mother and three little cubs; three howling
in evening shades. Mighty trunks rose up fighting, spitting little handfuls of flesh, were
about him and falling leaves descended like left in my hands. I nourished them and
a gentle rain upon him as he passed. guarded them and they played with my
Suddenly the old man stopI>._ed. mountain lions and romped about with the
"Look," he said. From the side of a tall bear cubs that I have in my cabin. The spring
tree a big gray squirrel came and stood pert- time came and they went their way, strong
ly gazing for a few seconds then vanished like enough to protect themselves. This is one of
a little flash of dusky shadow to appear a them, the other two mayhaps we shall see also
second later carrying in his teeth a ripe hazel unless the hunters have slain them."
nut. Scampering down the rough trunk he Then they went on further along the path
climbed up the hermit's gray robe and as the of nature's miracles. The great stag walked
old man opened his mouth the little gray behind them, his arched antlers breaking the
squirrel placed therein the hazel nut, then tree branches as he passed.
hopping onto the old man's shoulder, sat "Look here," the old man spoke, pointing
up there, his little beady eyes darting first in to a crutch in a tree just a little ways ahead.
this way and then in that. The hermit took "In this nest are four little birds. Yesterday
the nut from his mouth and held it out to the the sound of a gun was heard in these moun-
hunter. tains, there was a fluttering of wings, and with
"See how they care for me? But it is no a screeching cry the mother bird fell down-
more tenderly than I have cared for them." ward from this nest. There was a great whirr
He spoke a few soft words to the squirrel of wings and with a hoarse cry of rage the
which darted away like some little tree sprite father bird flew straight into the face of the
into the darkness of the gathering night. He hunters. Another shot was fired and he too
had barely vanished when the youth suddenly was laid low without even a fighting chance.
jumped back in fear and amazeme nt. Now hear the cries in the trees."
Before them on the road stood a grea t wolf, The old man climbed up onto the broken
his tongue lolli ng out and great tusk s ba red. stump and from the encircling arms of a dead
A growling howl broke from the beast. pine he drew a nest, in it several little shrill-
"He does not know you," the old man ex- ing specks of life with ugly featherless
plained, "for whenever he sees men they bodi es and great gaping beaks.
throw something at him, whenever he meets " I shall take these too with me to my cabin,
them he expects the flash of flame that pours and drop by drop I will feed them as I have
from their rifles. Therefore he hates them long ago learned to do. Their mother and
even as they hate him. But come, you are father are gone, slain by one of my race; but
perfectly safe." among the beasts and birds I have tried to
Then he stepped up to the wolf and bending redeem my people and to prove to them that
slightly placed his hand between the beast's in the heart of man there is still a generous
teeth. The wolf drew back its head and spirit."
licked the kindly hand. His soft hand cuddled the tiny birds in
"This," explained the hermit, "has its their nest and with soft cries and little shrill
price. If you essayed this feat, your hand notes he sought to quiet them. In a few mo-
would pay the price and probably your life." ments the cries from the nest ceased and,
"But what have you done for the beasts sheltered by the old man's love, the little
that they should so love you?" hungry birds rested until he could procure
"I have been true to them. In the cold win- them food. The youth marvelled at the sight
 THE ALL-SEEING EYE 23

for he had never supposed that there could be tired the great stag comes and bends his back
among the worlds of men one who so loved that I may ride him; when I am hungry then
dumb creatures. The old hermit pointed ahead from mountains and caves come birds and
through a little ravine that opened before beasts with food for me. I have given up
them and there the hunter saw the peaked roof the world of human things to serve the things
of a tiny cabin surrounded by little fir trees which man abuses, to which he has been
and with an old tile for a chimney. false. These birds, these little creatures that
A quaint, picturesque building of logs but play around my door, even the wolves, the
poorly matched, still this simple structure foxes, and the mountain lions-they are my
was enthroned in a frame more beautiful than brothers and I their father and their elder
words can describe. Down below the valley brother. I ease the wounds that heartless
spread out beneath the endless grandeur of hunters make and they know that while I Jive
the rolling hills, by the side of it the melting in this mountain they have one frtend in the
stream ran, while behind it, up and up, rose world of men who will never be false. All
the peaks of the snow-capped mountains. This, the time that I have lived here I have never
indeed, was a home in the heart of nature. spoken one harsh word to beast or bird, yet
·About the house could be seen a number of they serve me with perfect faith and perfect
animals. A wildcat cub rolled around in the trust."
sunlight, and an old bear was asleep with his A strange feeling came over the soul of
nose between his paws, his tail just a tiny the hunter.
stump that wiggled mechanically as he felt "I shall hunt no more," he murmured, "for
in his sleep the presence of his friend. Birds I have seen the life and love and light in the
were roosting in the trees nearby and within souls of these beasts. I shall be true to it.
a dozen feet of the cabin were two score bird
nests for it seemed the little creatures of the "That is well," said the old man slowly,
air desired to come and build their nests of and he extended his hand. "Brother I am
twigs around the cabin door. proud that you have seen the light which
shall some time take from the world the kar-
The old man invited the youth in. They
mic curse that rests upon all who slay their
entered and sat upon sawed-off ends of logs
brothers. But night is falling in the moun-
which served as stools. The cabin was bare
tains and in the air I hear the cry of the bears
of furnishing save for a rough straw pallet
and lions; I hear the pitiful wail of dying
and the only ornament was a wonderful ivory
beasts and I must go my way, so I will now
crucifix which hung upon the wall. The room
take you back again to where I met you. J
was filled with birds and squirrels and the
am an old man and I have not much longer
young hunter stared in astonishment when he
to stay here but when I am gone will you be
saw that a small humming-bird had built its
true to the beasts whom I have loved and
nest in the arms of the crucifix. He then
guarded and who have loved me so well in
looked about for stove or food but there was
return?"
no sign of either.
"So this is your home?" he murmured, "Yes!" answered the youth, "to me also
"this is where the Old Man of the Mountain the world has ever been an empty place and
lives?" I shall fill that emptiness with the same thing
with which you have filled yours. If you are
"Yes," the hermit answered, "and here he
called I promise that I will come and live in
has lived since the day when he realized that
your little hut and go about as you do to
his brother man was false and that the beast
serve the beasts."
was true. In all th~ world of men I found
never a friend one-half so faithful or one- The old man stood for a few seconds, dim-
half so true as these wild beasts that live ly visible in his soft gray gown, while the
among the hills. When I look back at the youth, lighted by the waning moon, climbed
sorrow of my life and the tears come to my down the twisting path to the world that lay
eyes, my little birds all gather around me and below.
sing their love songs in my ears; when I am (To be continued next month)
24 THE ALL-SEEINGEYE

Occult Qualities of Herbs

The following article is the introduction of containing a complete Method or Practice of
Nicholas Culpeper's "Complete Herbal," Physic, whereby a Man may preserve his
a rare old book, written in 1653 and pub- Body in Health, or cure himself when sick,
lished at London in 1837. It is copied here with such things only as grow in England,
exactly as it was printed then, with all the they being most fit for English Constitutions.'
peculiarities of punctuatidn and sentence This celebrated and useful Physician died
formation. Although this may sometimes at his house in Spitalfields, in the year 1654.
lead to confusion and some difficulty of This book will remain as a lasting monument
grasping the meaning, the old-fashioned style of his skill and Industry.''
of it is so odd and delightfully quaint, it
would seem like marring to change a bit of "Culpeper's
it. Even though the manner of expression of Original Epistle to the Reader
1653 is not so smoothly flowing and elo-
quent as in our days of a more polished All other Authors that have written of the
tongue, still it should enhance rather than nature of Herbs, give not a bit of reason why
detract from the wonderfully deep and beau- such an Herb was appropriated to such a
tifully simple truths, written with such great part of the body, nor why it cured such a dis•
pains and infinite care. ease. Truly, my own body being sickly,
brought me easily into a capacity, to know
But first, here is a short paragraph or two
that health was the greatest of all earthly
about the author's life and manner of living,
blessings, and truly he was never sick that
taken from the preface of his book:
doth not believe it. Then I considered that
"Nicholas Culpeper, the writer of this work, all medicines were compounded of Herbs,
was son of Nicholas Culpeper, a clergyman, Roots, Flowers, Seeds, &c., and this first set
and arand son of Sir Thomas Culpeper, Bart. me to work in studying the nature of Simple s,
He :as some time a student in the university most of which I knew by sight before; and in-
of Cambridge, and soon after was bound ap- deed all the Authors I could read gave me
prenti ce to an Apothecary. He employed all but little satisfaction in this particular, or
his leisure hours in the study of Physic and none at all. I cannot build my faith upon
Astrology, which he afterwards professed, Authors' words, nor believe a thing because
and set up bu siness in Spitalfields, next door they say it, and could wish everybody were
to the Red Lion, (formerly known as the Half- of my mind in this,-to labour to be able to
way House between Islington and Stepney), give a reason for everything they say or do.
where he had considerable practice, and was They say Reason makes a man differ from a
much resorted to for his advice, which he gave Beast; if that be true, pray what are they
to the poor gratis. Astrologi cal Doctors have that, instead of rea son for their judgm ent,
alwa ys been highly respected; and those cele- quote old Authors? Perhaps their authors
brat ed Physicians of the early times, whom knew a reason for what they wrote, per haps
our Author seems to have particularly they did not; what is that to us? Do we know
studied, Hippocrate s, Galen and Avicen, re- it? Truly, in writing this work, first, to sat-
garded those as homi cides who were ignorant isfy myself, I drew out all the virtues of the
of Astrology. Paracel sus, indeed, went far- vulgar or common Herb s, Plants and Trees ,
ther: he declared, a Physician should be pre- &c., out of the be st or most approved authors
destinated to the cure of his patient; and the I had, or could get; and having done so, I set
horo scope should be inspected, the plants myself to study the reason of them. I knew
gathered at the critical moment, etc. well enough the whole world and everything
Culpeper was a writer and translator of in it was formed of a composition of con-
several Works, the most celebrated of which trary elements, and in such a harmony as
is hi s Herbal, 'being an astrologo-physical must needs show the wisdom and power of a
discourse of the common herbs of the nation; great God. I knew as well this creation,
 THE All-SEEING EYE 25

though thus composed of contraries, was one 1. The profit and benefits ansmg from
united body, and man an epitome of it: I it, or that may occur to a wise _man from it
knew those various affections in man, in re- are many, so many that should I sum up all
spect of sickness and health, were caused nat- the particulars my epistle would be as big
urally ( though God may have other ends best as my book; I shall quote some few general
known to Himself) by the various operations heads.
of the Microcosm; and I could not be ignorant First, the admirable Harmony of Creation
that as the cause is so must the cure be; and is herein seen, in the influence of Stars upon
therefore he that would know the reason of Herbs and the Body of Man, how one part
the operation of the Herbs, must look up as of the Creation is subservient to another, and
high as the stars, astrologically. I always all for the use of man, whereby the infinite
found the disease vary according to the vari- power and wisdom of God in the Creation
ous motions of the stars; and this is enough, appear; and if I do not admire at the sim-
one would think, to teach a man by the effect plicity of the ranters, never trust me; who but
where the cause lies. Then to find out the viewing the Creation can hold such a sottish
reason of the operation of Herbs, Plants, &c., opinion, as that it was from eternity, when
by the stars went I; and herein I could find the mysteries of it are so clear to every eye?
but few authors, but those as full of nonsense But that Scripture shall be verified to them,
and contradiction as an egg is full of meat. Rom. i.20: "The invisible things of him from
This not being plea sing, and less profitable the Creation of the World are clearly seen,
to me, I consulted with my two brothers, Dr. being understood by the things that are made,
Reason and Dr. Experience, and took a voy- even his Eternal Power and Godhead; so that
age to visit my mother Nature, by whose ad- they are without excuse." And a Poet could
vice, together with the help of Dr. Diligence, teach them a better lesson:
I at last obtained my desire; and being warned "Because out of thy thoughts God shall not
by Mr. Honesty, a stranger in our days, to pass,
publish it to the world, I have done it. "His image stamped is on every grass."
But you will say, What need I have written This indeed is true, God has stamped His
on this subject, seeing so many famous and image on every creature, and therefore the
learned men have written so much of it in the abuse of the creature is a great sin; but how
English tongue, much more than I have done? much the more do the wisdom and excellency
To this I answer, neither Gerrard nor Park- of God appear, if we consider the harmony
inson, or any that ever wrote in the like na- of the Creation in the virtue and operation
ture, ever gave one wise reason for what they of every Herb?
wrote, and so did nothing else but train up Secondly, Hereby you may now know what
young novices in Physic in the school of tra- infinite knowledge Adam had in his innocence
dition, and teach them just as a parrot is that by looking upon a creature he was able
taught to speak; an Author says so, therefore to give it a name according to its nature; and
it is true; and if all that Authors say be true, by knowing that, thou mayest know how great
why do they contradict one another? But in thy fall was, and be humbled for it even in
mine, if you view it with the eye of reason, this respect because hereby thou art so ig-
you shall see a reason for everything that is norant.
written, whereby. you may find the very Thirdly, Here is the right way for thee to
ground and foundation of Physic; you may begin at the study of Physic, if thou art
know what you do, and wherefore you do it; minded to begin at the right end, for here
and this shall call me Father, it being ( that I thou hast the reason of the whole art. I wrote
know of) never done in the world before. before in certain Astrological Lectures, which
I have now but two things to write, and then I read, and printed, intituled, "Astrological
I have done. Judgment of Diseases," what planet caused
1. What the profit and benefit of this ( as a second cause) every disease, how it
work is. might be found out what planet caused it;
2. Instructions in the use of it. (Continued on page 30)
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·xN LittleChurchAmong the Flowers

the years gone by the sturdy Chris-
tians of a little town banded them-
selves together, giving of their labor
and grooms rode away and into its low door-
way passed the caskets when the greatest of
that city were laid to rest. Every Sunday
and the fruits of their toil to the building of morning snatches of sacred songs were wafted
a temple wherein to worship God-just a out of the open windows or the old bell that
little wooden church with a quaint old fash- called to prayer in 1850 could he heard send-
ioned steeple that ended in a cross of wrought ing out its peals as in the years gone by.
iron. Its walls were white-washed, its floors It was known far and wide as the Little
were bare, and its altar-piece rough-hewn. Church among the Flowers, quaint and sim-
In the years that came after, the plain win- ple, carrying with it the breath of sweet lav-
dows of the little old building were sup- endar and those delicate old-world memories
planted by glorious stained-glass pictures of that are slowly dying out as the generations go
angels and saints. Originally the church was by. Little old ladies, still living in the days of
surrounded by the quaint little homes of the bustle and bonnet, came in each Sunday morn-
villagers, but as the years went by these homes ing holding their tiny black parasols in hands
gave place to stores and buildings until at la:st partly shielded by those fingerless lace mitts
a great city grew up around the village that grandmother used to wear. The old
church. But through the change it remained couples came trotting in, the Romeos and
a quaint little edifice, though towering sky- Juliets of '63, and they remembered the day
scrapers and the bustle and confusion of a when their fathers had swung their axes to
large metropolis grew noisy about. And so hew the logs and their mothers' nimble fingers
today it stands in the midst of a garden of had twisted the yarns on the spinning wheel
flowers among whose waving heads rises the to weave the first curtain that hung in the lit-
old tomb-stones of the village churchyard, tle village church. They remembered the
overgrown with ivy, broken down by age, and first minister of that church, the dear old
mutilated by wind and weather. Trailing doctor who now lay in the churchyard with
creepers had been planted around the church morning-glory vines twining over his grave-
and now its walls were a mass of gree~ stone.
leaves and when the season is right a splash And everyone remembered and loved that
of colored flowers, ;red, white and delicate dear old man, whose pulpit still hung in the
shades of lavender shine out here and there~ ante-room of the church, whose tireless fingers
The sweet odor of the garden blooms were themselves had driven the nails that built the
carried by the wind into the heart of the great pews now blackened with age, and whose tired,
city, so it seemed that this little church was careworn yet sweet face had so many times
an oasis of beauty in the midst of a desert gazed out upon the flock who had gathered
of sordid things. Around it street cars in the years gone by. Father Jackson was
roared and there echoed about it the boom of dead, his successor had also been laid away,
the overhead railway; the newsboys howled and now from a distant place had come a new
their wares and the bootblacks, their little minister to occupy the pulpit of the Little
boxes in their hands, sat along its ancient Church Among the Flowers.
wall. The first Sunday he came to them
From the great church of the small town the congregation was pleased. Both of
this old building had become a delicate those who had gone before him were
memory in the great town. Many other simple men of simple ways whose kindly
churches there were, massive and glorious, message of brotherhood and love had helped
throwing their arches and spires to the very to mold the lives of simple faiths and the
skies, hut somehow this little building still new minister bid fair to follow in their foot-
remained the most hallowed spot in that great steps. The only difference was that he was
city. From between its ancient portals brides very young. As he stood before them they
1 THE ALL-SEEING EYE 27

wondered at his boyish face, but then they Three years passed and the minister had
wondered at several other things also. won his way into the hearts of each one of
As he stood on the simple pulpit in his the simple folks who came there to the same
quiet black suit one old lady whispered to pew where their fathers and grandparents
her friend, as she touched her eyes with a had come for the last seventy-five years. His
little black-bordered handkerchief, "The life was above reproach and in the daily per-
dear minister has suffered much. He looks formance of his ministerial tasks he exhibited
like my son who has been gone for so many a spirit almost divine. Be it night or day,
years." Every one realized and agreed that when he was called he was ever ready; al-
this minister was a very strange man, a ways patient, ever kind, he fulfilled the little
stranger one than had ever gone before. But labors for his flock and sought to lead them
as Sunday after Sunday rolled by and his in the path of godliness.
clear simple message found its way into their When the month of June came around it
hearts, they hung his picture with the other brought, as it always did, orange blossoms
two in the old hallway for in his spirit they and bridal wreathes and the greatest and
seemed to feel the sturdy pioneers of faith noblest of that city came down to the Little
who had led them before. Church among the Flowers to he united in
Let us try and build for you a picture of life's mysteries by the slender band of gold,
this new minister as he stands in the pulpit, but more than that to receive the blessing of
the many-colored lights of the stained-glass Father Huntley who seemed to understand
windows playing upon his slender, intellect- and know these emotions that so swayed their
ual face. Father Huntley was still in his souls. One beautiful morning many rows of
early twenties and his fine face was unmarked carriages and automobiles drew up before
by line or blemish; his brow, high ~.nd noble, the Little Church among the Flowers. Two
met wavy locks of dark brown hair. His of the city's finest families were to be united
form was very slender, almost that of a through the marriage of their children. The
wraith, and long slender fingers turned the little church was gloriously decorated
pages of the ancient Bible, marked and re- with arches of orange blossoms and lillies,
marked with the old-fashioned writing of the the choir was singing and the pews were filled
earnest souls of long ago. with the richest and noblest of the day. The
This young minister had great dark eyes bride, a little society butterfly, was demurely
that seemed to gaze right through everyone hanging upon the arm of her father, while
they looked upon but nevertheless soft eyes the groom, an army captain with clanking
seeming ready to weep all the time. His sword and dress uniform, was surrounded by
mouth, finely chiselled, had a slight droop at a number of his brother officers. It was a
the corners which gave an air of sadness to festive day. Two little flower girls were
his face. His voice, soft and musical, seemed strewing the aisle of the church with roses
ever filled with pathos and he looked like one and the old-fashioned organ that had so many
who, though young in years, had suffered times pealed out its notes filled the air with
deeply and known truly. When Father Hunt- the soft notes of the wedding march. At the
ley told of the simple life of the Master and altar stood the minister, in his hands the open
His apostles there was scarce a dry eye in the Bible, its pages turned to the marriage ser-
church, and then when he spoke of the vice. In his eyes was the same sad look that
finer sentiments of life, of love and friend- so of ten filled them and his white hands were
ship, of diligence and duty, a thrill went over as pieces of marble against the pages befo"'i'.e
his congregation. As the Sundays went by him.
the congregation grew larger and larger un- Down the aisle the solmn procession wound
til each morning dozens who could not enter its way, youth and age together, celebrating
gathered in the courtyard of the church to one of life's most solemn mysteries. Before
listen to the voice which spoke with such the altar they stopped, then in his clear, mu-
strange eloquence and such sincere under- sical voice the minister read the marriage
standing of life's ever-changing sea. service. There was a deep pathos in his tones
28 THE ALL-SEEINGEYE

as he slowly pronounced the words of the there came the sound of a swinging door, a
sacred ritual and when he asked if there were gray shaft of light appeared and framed
any who knew why those two should not he against it stood the figure of a well-built and
united in the holy bond of matrimony it erect man who passed slowly down the aisle
seemed that his voice caught, then he went on. of the church and sank into one of the pews
Placing their hands together he raised one of near the minister. Then the visitor saw Father
his own to heaven pronouncing in clear, Huntley for the first time. He sat for some
distinct tones that thrilled through the whole minutes studying the face of the minister, then
church, "In the name of God the Father, God as the prayers seemed ended, he crossed over
the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, I pronounce and touched the minister lightly on the
you man and wife." shoulder.
There ·was a hush for .a moment, a weight "Reverend sir," he asked, "do you not re-
seemed in the air, and then the organ broke member me?"
the heavy silence. In a few seconds the The minister looked up for a second as if
scene again became one of life and ambition. undecided, then a smile spread over his face
Congratulations, a few previously prepared and he extended his hand, "Yes I remember
sobs from the bride, perfectly timed and rom- you well. You are Captain Hendricks whom
antically performed, showers of rice and old I married in this little church last year."
shoes, the honking of automobile horns, cries "You have a good memory," answered the
of congratulations-and a few seconds later other accepting the hand and clasping it
the chur ch was empty of its throng and all warmly.
that remained was the slender, sad-eyed min- "Yes," in a far away voice as thou gh speak-
ister, hi s face illuminated by a golden light nig with the words of memory, "I rem ember
which shone down through a yellow pane m it well-one of the most beautiful wedding s
the window. that was ever held in the Little Church of the
Flowers. Surely brother, the blessing of God
* * * was upon you that day."
A heavy cloud holding winter rain hu ng The other man's head drooped and to the
over the city in whose heart stood the Little amazement of the minister he sank on his
Church of the Flowers. The gray light com- knees in the aisle. Father Huntley knew that
ing through the window panes sent weird his visitor was crying and his long slender
shadows among the pews and rafted ceiling hand re sted softly on the captain's shoulder
of the ancient building. The pigeons that as he exerted a slight pressure of sympathy.
nested in the bell tower were circlin g around "Have things not gone well with you?" he
the ancient belfry uttering plaintive crie s at asked.
the approaching storm. At first it seemed "Ah, no!" answered the other, as with a
that the church ~as deserted but looking more tremendous effort he shook off the pa ssing
closely there could be seen a figure sitting weakness and rose to fa ce the minister. "N o,
alone in the front pew, his hands clasped in thin gs have not gone well. You rem ember
prayer and his eyes raised to the great gilded the little laughing-eyed girl whom I led to
cross that hung over the altar. No word the altar?"
sounded from the lips of the praying man but "Yes," answered the minister softl y, the
from his heart poured out a great stream of sad look creeping into his eyes, "I remember
feeling which seemed to circle round and her. Has she not been true?"
round the ancient crucifix carved from rock The young captain shook his head.
wood and gilded by the now still hand of "Alas, no. I idolized her, built her into
Father Jackson. the shrine of my soul, but to her I have al-
It was the young minister who sat there, ways been a plaything. A few days ago she
dimly outlined in the pale and uncertain left me, leaving nothing behind but this little
light. He sat as he had many times before, note and a broken heart. In my sorrow there
seeking solace for an unknown emptiness in seemed to come back to my mind that strange
1be cross he so devoutly served. As he prayed, expression on your face the day you married
 THE ALL-SEEINGEYE 29

us and I have come to ask you, friend, both have heard how year after with colored inks
advice and comfort, for I have need of them. and ancient parchments they wrote and il ·
Something tells me you too have suffered luminated words of glory to their God and
deeply and maybe you can give me the king. As I walk in the gloom of this old
strength to go on after the idol of my heart church I seem to feel a cowl fall about my
has deserted me." shoulders and it seems that somewhere in the
The minister placed his hand gently on the distant past, in the brown robe of the mendi-
captain's shoulder and pointed up to the cross cant I wandered amid the arches and pillars
over the altar. of some anci ent mona stary. I wandered into
this world with the body of a man and the
"In life, brother," he spoke sincerely, "each heart of a monk. I sought to leave these gray
mu st take hi s cross. I have had mine, you now walls, not of stone but of the soul, and be
have yours. In the hours of silence I am indeed like other living things in the world without.
alone for it seemed I was born with a broken I saw one who seemed a dream of the age s, a
he art. Through years of lonely youth I face that might have haunted me had I drawn
wandered. There were none who knew and paintings upo'n dungeon walls or matbhed
none who understood so, alone and heavy fine blocks of marble into mosaics as did
hearted, I renounced the world and all that is those of old. When the world has been false
in it, or rather shall I say, I gave up that which to you, brother, come here to me. I came into
I had never had and renounced an unreality I this world for a great lesson and I have
had never known. I imagined that the great learned it-I can aid you in learning yours
Master must have felt as I did so I sought to also.
forget myself by serving others. "What les son came you to learn , reverend
Coming to this little church soon after grad- sir?" asked the soldier respectfully.
uating from the theological seminary, I found "I came to learn to love as God loves," an-
one here who seemed to know and seemed to swered the minister, looking up once again at
understand and the spark which had long been the massive crucifix. "I learned to love and
dead, in fact had never been lighted, burst give that which I loved the most. You think
into flame within my heart even as it must you love, sir, and you weep for that which
have done in yours. I kept an idol in my has left you. I loved but I would have left
dr eams for many years during my service here if the one I had loved had stayed. My rom-
as the minister of this church, I wound that ance was short-lived-a few short words, a
idol into my prayers, I saw in it the glory of merry laugh-but it left in my soul a mark
a madonna, and the face of saint and martyr which ages of loneliness had made hungry for
seemed not so good as that of the idol in my such a token. I dreamed of that day, I lived
heart. But mine was broken even as yours for that day, and on Sunday mornings as I
has been, so I can comfort and console you spoke the soft words of the Master to my
in your sorrow by saying there is a sweetness flock I spoke it to one more than all the rest,
in it all. In losing the world of men one the one who seemd to understand. Your rom-
finds the world of God I live no more in the ance, sir has ended even has mine has ended.
bustle and confusion of life, and, God will- It seems I had waited a hundred thousand
ing, I will stay here in the Church of the years for that day but to have it slip away,
Flowers until some day I am laid to rest with like all things earthly, and leave me alone
those who have gone before, among the morn- again with my God. I am not so alone with
ing-glory vines and honeysuckle in the little Him now for I see and understand better. But
churchyard behind." when that momentous day was over, when my
As the minister spoke a strange light was dream was shattered, I fell at the foot of
shining in his face. yonder altar and would gladly have died
"I have read of the monks in their medi- there for there seemed nothing left in life
tation, how in the prayer and silence great worth while. Three whole nights I lay in
visions came to them that they painted in prayer at the foot of that altar, praying for
crude colors upon the walls of their cells, I death, for anything to take away the utter
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loneliness of my lif e---but, I had to live---a Herbs

voice was endlessly whispering, "Go on, go
(Continued from page 25)
on."
The minister's hands were on the shoulders here thou hast what planet cures it by Sym-
of the captain and his eyes were gazing into pathy and Antipathy; and this brings me to
those of the soldier's who felt in his soul the my last promise, viz:
agony of the other. Instructions for the right use of the book.
"You lost your dream after it was realized, And herein let me premise a word or two.
I lost mine before. Who shall say which is The Herbs, Plants, &c., are now in the book
better? I learned to love and to give up the appropriated to their proper planets. There-
thing I loved and if you love her well enough fore,
you will send her on her way in peace, realiz- First, Consider what planet causeth the dis-
ing that your greatest love, if it he true, rests ease; that thou mayest find it in my afore-
in her happiness." said Judgment of Diseases.
"Father, how can you say that?" exclaimed
Secondly, Consider what part of the body
the captain. "How can you say that if I
is afflicted by the disease, and whether it
love her best I will let her go? Do you not
lies in the flesh, or blood, or ventricles, or
realize I live for her alone?"
bones.
The minister nodded his head.
"I do," he answered, "that is what I say." Thirdly, Consider by what planet the af-
"Alas, father, you have had but little of flicted part of the body is governed: that my
this world's romance," answered the captain. Judgment of Diseases will inform you also.
"But you could not love as I have loved and Fourthly, You may oppose diseases by
then stand by while another steals the idol Herbs of the planet, opposite to the planet
of your dream." that causes them: as diseases of Jupiter by
"I have done that and more," answered Herbs of Mercury, and the contrary; diseases
the minister, "I have stood by and aided in of the Luminaries by the Herbs of Saturn 1
the giving. The laughing, blue-eyed girl to and the contrary; diseases of Mars by Herbs
whom I married you last year was the one of Venus, and the contrary.
who had been the idol of my dream. She Fifthly, There is a way to cure diseases
found happiness in you and I found happi- sometimes by Sympathy, and so every planet
ness in her gladness." He turned quickly and cures his own disease; as the Sun and Moon
walked silently away. At the door that led to by their Herbs cure the Eyes, Saturn the
the little rectory he turned and held out his Spleen, Jupiter the .Liver, Mars the Gall and
hand in benediction to the captain. diseases of choler, and Venus diseases in the
"Goodby, brother," he said smiling soft- Instruments of Generation.
ly. "You will go back to your world again Nich. Culpeper."
but I shall stay here. When you are sad, From my House in Spitalfields, next door
come to me for you will always find one who to the Red Lion, September 5, 1653.
understands here in the Little Church among
the Flowers."
Devas' Dance
(Continued from page 18)
Questions At the gate sat the two priests, still in medi-
Isn't the approaching crisis coming in tation. With his hands folded, the newly
the form of a world war? awakened one passed onward and outward
Ans. It will come to man in the form into the worlds of his activity, worlds that
of the effects of the things he has done. were no longer his because he had unveiled
My suggestion is this: look around you them. So the priest was again in the world but
and see what will be the natural result of not of it for the veil of Maya had been torn
the present causations. It will take many away while the Devas danced in the Lab y-
forms, as our mistakes take many forms. rinth of the Ear.
 THE ALL-SEEING EYE 31

l ASTROLOGICALKEYWORDSl
Sagittarius is one of the most wonderful cause it is eternally aspiring to the highest
of the symbolical signs of the Zodiac for in and the best. It is:
it is concealed the key to human aspiration. Active Bright
It is a double sign, one-half of which is com- Intrepid Hail-fellow-well-met
posed of a horse and the other half of a hu- Generous Usually smiling
man being, and therefore called the Centaur Obliging A promoting type
of the Zodiac. The sign symbolizes the mind Jovial
with its ideals and aspirations rising out of Physical Appearance:
the body of the animal, the liberation of con- Well formed Oval, fleshy face
sciousness from the shell of matter. The Generally tall Fine clear eyes
Archer is shooting his shaft far up among Long in the legs Chestnut colored hair
the star and aspiration is the keyword of Sag- Ruddy complexion Apt to he bald
ittarius. Often it is too hot-headed and seeks Handsome, jovial Face usually appears
to go beyond its ability, but like the pilgrim looking countenance sunburnt
of Longfellow's poem it still cries "Excel- Conformity in the length of arms and legs
sior!" as it carries forward the work of its
As Jupiter rules this sign we find in latter
unfoldment.
life that the mental picture that we held of
A short group of keywords make possible the Greek and Latin god holds good with
a good general understanding of this sign most J upiterian types-broad high foreheads,
and its powers which the student can synthe- massive eyebrows, and of ten given to wearing
size at his leisure: beards.
Fortunate Health:
Hot
Dry Bitter Wherever Jupiter is present, our mutual
Fiery Half-feral friend the liver is in evidence. Jupiter is not
Choloric Southern always moderate in its appetites consequently
Masculine Obeying its ailments are with us wherever the happy-
Diurnal Speaking go-lucky Jupiterian spirit prevails. Sagit-
Eastern Half-human tarius rules the thighs and those born into this
Common Half-mute sign are subject to injures and bruises to
Bi-corporal Long Ascension those parts of the body. Its diseases are:
Four-footed Detriment of Mercury Fevers Gout
Changeable Double-bodied Pestilences Rheumatism
Autumnal r Over heating of the body through exercise,
etc.
Day house of Jupiter and exaltation of the
This sign is also subject to accidents, falls
Dragon's Tail.
and danger from drowning; liability of
broken bones, dislocations and fractures.
General Characteristics: Domestic Problems:
Sagittarius is generally noted for impetu- Our jovial J upitarians are usually success-
osity and for its unwillingness to listen to ad- ful in domestic prQblems hut Sagittarians
vice and counsel. It is also the champion air- will wander and leave all responsibilities be-
castle builder of the Zodiac and has a great hind while they soar to nearby stars. For
deal of the eternal tomorrow in its make-up. this reason they usually find their home miss-
It is subject to brain-storming at times but ing when they return.
still one of the best signs in the Zodiac be- (To be continued next month)
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NEW PICTUREA GREATSUCCESS

Benefit For Bald Headed Club
SOCIETY NOTE. BENEFIT TO BE GIVEN. NEW PICTURE
Shyster Shanks one of Earth's The Bald Headed Angels Club GREAT SUCCESS
400 arrived in Heaven early this has taken the Pearly Gates Opera
morning rehearsing their Easter House and are going to stage a The Pearly Gates Motion Pic-
Songs. Shyster has lodgf)d a com- benefit to assist the members of ture Syndicate has just finished
plaint against the Club for dis- the City Fire Department who had work on a new five-reel earth-
turbing his rest. It will probab _ly their wings singed while fighting quake picture. The original scen-
come into the Pearly Gates Su- a blaze started by a comet who ario is by Algernon Wheeze a man
perior Court and Shyster sued for dropped a few hot ashes from his of many words and some of the
over three hundred dollars. It is tail into the city Post Office a few scenes were supposed to be laid in
very peculiar how fussy these peo- months ago. It was the wo·rst Hell. But as Purgatory was closed
ple on earth are when they are fire we have had in Heaven during for three days while the Devil was
away from home. We have it ·on the last mellineum. at the Sulphur Spring the photog-
good authority that Shyster sold raphers and cameramen with a
papers when a boy and slept . in small staff of specially picked
TROLLEY SUSPENDED IN actors went to the planet Earth
empty piano boxes. ETHERS where they found all the realism
and location they were prevented
Pearly Gates Railway C_ompany from securing in Hell. His Sat-
WELL KNOWN REFORMER have completed construction of new anic Majesty was invited to the
ARRIVES. overhead trolley line. Pearly Gates pre-view at the studios last week.
Railway "Stati'on announces that He threw up his hands in despair
Dr. Bleedum the well known commuting books will cut down and threatened to abdicate feeling
evangelist arrived with several expenses immeasurably. that he had failed to live up to his
other notables at the Pearly Gafes reputation ts chief devil. An-
Hotel this morning. He asked for FALSE STORY STARTED nouncements have been made that
a harp and wings as soon as he Hell will probably be moved to
arrived. They were brought, but A number of people called on Earth where conditions seem more
the Dr. did not know how to make the Lord yesterday to congratu- appropriate. The picture is en-
the wings flap when he got them late him on the arrival of a son. titled "Ten Days in Pandemonium
fastened and he had never taken The story was immediately denied or Life on Earth" and is of an edu-
a lesson on a harp in his life. He and an investigation to find out cational nature, starring Ananias
is going to take lessons from one where it had started. It was in the role of a Wall Street broker.
of our most eminent flying teach- found that it started on the earth, Further announcements later.
ers, while the Pick and Twang where another fool claimed to be
Musical college will instruct him in connected directly with the Lord; POLICE COURT NEWS.
the art of harping. He says it the committee of investigation
will not be hard to learn as he only had to look once at the proph- Our police reporter tells us that
harped on one string all his life et to prove that the entire story a well known comet who refused
on earth, now all he has got to do was false. to give his name and registered as
is increase his field of endeavor. John Doe was arrested last nii;ht
FALSE NOTION. on a charge of intoxication and
disturbing the public peace. The
POPULAR ANGEL SICK. The Pearly Gate board of cen- arresting officer testified that he
sors are a committee formed to de- saw the comet all lit up wabbling
There has been a number of cide as to whether persons from from side to side and endangering
cases of flu in heaven this winter the earth and other planets de- the safety of a number of the
on account of the fact that we serve entrance to heaven. They plants.
have had a cold wave and are un- wish to make the announcement
able to supply any heavy cold that some people are deciding for PERSONAL COLUMN
weather clothes. Jimmy Chilblains themselves this very important
one of our most popular young point without considering Natural Come home, all is forgiven. Dear
men, is reported to be down wl.th Law in any way. The Board Pleades, Number Seven, your six
triple pneumonia. He sat all one wishes to announce that it is send- relatives have decided to overlook
afternoon on a damp cloud and ing straight to Hell all who seek the mistakes of the past if you
then stood in a draft, there is very to make themselves greater than will only return. We have waited
little hope offered of his recov~ry. those chosen to decide these very nearly forty thousand years for
His many friends express t~eir important problems. Papers on you and your husband is getting
deep sympathy. earth please copy. to be quite an old man.
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Booklets and Manuscript Lectures

By

MANLY P. HALL

Special Notice: The following booklets are out of print and can only be secured by advertising:
The Breastplate of the High Priest Questions and Answers, Part I
Buddha the Divine Wanderer Questions and Answers, Part II

A limited supply of the following are still on hand:

Krishna and the Battle of Kurushetra An Analysis of the Book of Revelation
The correlation betw een the Bagavadgita, the great Five lessons on this little understood book as given
East Indian classic , and the Battle of Armageddon to our classes in Los Angeles.
of Christian theology is here presented in a simple,
practical manner. The Unfoldment of Man
A symbolical analysis of the evolution of the body
Questions and Answers, Part III and mind as we find it set forth in the Wisdom
Teachings.
A brief occult explantion of some of the many com•
plicated problems of human life. Occult Psychology
Ten fundamental principles of psychology as under-
Occult Masonry stood in the ancient schools.
A new edition of this booklet which presents the Parsifal and the Sacred Spear
occult interpretation of many of the secret Masonic
symbols is now obtainable. The unfoldment of the soul as it is set forth in the
Grail legends.
Wands and Serpents Faust, The Eternal Drama
A short thesis on the serpent of wisdom and the An ana lysis of the constitution of evil as set forth
serpent of seduction, based upon the Old Testament by Goethe in his mystic drama. Also a brief dis-
legends. Illustrated. cussion of the historical Faust.

Manuscript Lectures
Reproduced from notes of talks given in last few months.
1. Pros and Cons on the Sex Problem. 8. Reincarnation, Part II.
2. The Einstein Theory of Relativity. 9. The Nature Spirits, Part I.
3. Talks to Teachers, Part I 10. The Nature Spirits, Part JI.
4. Talks to Teachers, Part II 11. The Nature Spirits, Part III.
5. Talks to Teachers, Part III 12. List of Suggestive Reading for Occult
6. The Effect of the Total Eclipse of the Students.
Sun. 13. The Masters, Part I.
7. Reincarnation, Part I 14. The Masters, Part II.
The Following are in Preparation.
Talks to Teachers, Part IV. The Masters , Part IV.
Talks to Teachers, Part V. The Philosophy of the Absolute.
Talks to Teachers, Part VI. The Mystery of Marriage.
The Nature Spirits, Part IV. The Mystery of Baptism.
The Nature Spirits, Part V. The Mystery of the Soul.
The Masters, Part III. The Philosophy of Death.
These publications may be secured through voluntary contribution by sending to P. 0.
Box 695, Los Angeles, care of Manly P. Hall.

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