Capítulo VIII Del Cierre de la Instrucción
TÍTULO DÉCIMO QUINTO COORDINACIÓN HACENDARIA
wise, so by serving the gods you may make experience of them, if
they are willing to give you advice concerning things concealed
from men; you will know that the deity is of such a nature that it
sees all things at once and hears all things, and is everywhere
present, and that its providential care is over all at once. To me,
therefore, it seems that intelligent men will abstain from unholy
and unjust and shameful deeds, not only when they are under the
eyes of men, but even if they were in solitude, for they would reflect
that not one of the things they might do would escape the notice of
the gods.
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Beloved Members, Greetings!
Undoubtedly, one of the greatest advantages of psychic or Cosmic Attunement is that it makes you so closely associated with the Cosmic that you become one of its channels for the carrying out
of its great work. As promised in the last monograph, I want to
call attention to certain manifestations of this attunement.
In the first place, there is the matter of health, or let us
say of life itself. Regardless of what the materialistic scien
tists say, life is not just pure mechanics. It is not just a mat
ter of breathing and eating, and sleeping a little, and exercising
a little. We might invent a machine that would consume food and
would breathe in air, and exercise, and move about, but to complete the moving, we would have to supply it with some sort of vital
energy like electricity. Man requires this invisible, vital, cos
mic energy in order to be alive, and to be conscious of his living.
Man's health is simply a degree of his vital living. He may be
living poorly or he may be living abundantly. If he is living
abundantly with the proper Cosmic Attunement, he will have perfect
health. If he is living poorly with little Cosmic Attunement, it
does not make any difference how much food he eats, how much air he breathes, or how much exercise he takes, he will not be well and will soon develop various forms of diseases.
Perfect health means perfect attunement with the Cosmic. It
means a blending of the consciousness of the inner self of the in
dividual with the consciousness of the Cosmic Mind. It means that
the inner self and the great outer self of the universe are so united, so in harmony, so in attunement, that the character, thoughts, mind power, vitality, and consciousness of the one are blended into the other.
ATTUNEMENT We have many excellent illustrations of this sort of
ILLUSTRATED attunement in various material conditions of the
physical world. For example, if one piano string or
violin string is attuned or toned to another, when one is played
the other will vibrate in harmony with it. This is also called
"resonance" by scientists. We can have perfect attunement between
colors in art. There is a natural attunement between red and
green, for instance, so that if you look at one for a long time, and then look at something black or into dark space, you will see
the other. They are called complementary colors as there is a
definite relationship between them. Any painting that contains a
considerable amount of red in different parts of its composition must have some green in it also, in order to make the picture seem balanced, and there must be attunement between the two colors.
Every color has its attunement color and its associated and comple mentary color.
In many chemicals, certain elements will attune with others or properly blend or unite so as to make a harmo-
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nious result, and when two of them that are out of attunement are
put together, there is an entirely different manifestation. But
none of these crude things can begin to equal the fine relationship
that develops with Cosmic Attunement. The person who is cosmically
attuned receives greater and purer health vibrations from the
Cosmic. Every hour that such attunement exists the individual is
receiving new energy, new vitality, new strength. This may not be
easily noticed by you, for your health may be generally good, and you may not feel that you have any more strength or vitality than you ordinarily have, but this Cosmic Attunement with its increased vitality and its increased creative power will make a glorious man ifestation in case of any emergency or any strain, or accident to the body or your health.
Only recently, one of the members of this Degree was hurt in
a serious accident which had occurred through carelessness. The
physicians and doctors at the hospital, and the nurses and everyone else, thought that our frater would be crippled for a long time and might even lose his life, but they were astonished to see how
quickly all the wounds healed and how the blood seemed to carry on its curative work with greater strength and vitality than they had
ever seen in any other case. The good frater himself finally dis
covered that despite all of his injuries he was not as weak as they expected and that his constitutional health and strength were far
beyond anything that he had anticipated. Even pain was absent
except for a few minutes, and this astonished everyone who was in contact with him.
While going about our normal affairs of life, we have no occa sion to be conscious of the reserve strength and the reserve power
that may be in our bodies. We cannot be stronger or healthier than
is normal, and when we are normal, we have no way of knowing
whether or not there is an excess vitality ready for us. It is
only when there is a strain, overwork, an accident, or some need for the application of this reserve vitality that we discover whether we have it.
I think all of us have been greatly impressed by the fact that
the life of Thomas A. Edison was prolonged in his old and worn-out body solely because of the physical reserve, the constitutional
strength and vitality, which he had. I do not mean to say that
this vitality came to him through Cosmic Attunement, although there are many other incidents in his life which show that he was often
in attunement with the Cosmic and received cosmic inspiration. He
was a careful man in regard to his eating and his general living. He avoided excesses and strains upon his physical constitution, and in this way he built up a reserve that served him well when the time came for its manifestation.
Another benefit of this Cosmic Attunement is the fact that it saves us from making many grave errors in judg
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subject that I will talk about shortly, but I want to call your attention to the fact that Cosmic Attunement is something that rounds out a person's life so completely and so perfectly that it is almost impossible for anyone to judge as to what is really going on in the human body, and in all of its secret inner functionings, when Cosmic Attunement actually exists.
The exercises that you have had in the past, and which you should still be doing--especially the ones that you found were most peaceful and inspiring to you— will continue to build up your
Cosmic Attunement and help you to become one with the Universal Creative Forces.
T RIA N G LES The Rosicrucians should always keep in mind the law of
R EC A LLED the spiritual and material triangles given in the les
sons of the early Degrees. Whenever a manifestation of
cosmic power is to occur on the earth plane and demonstrate here on this earth the spirituality of the Cosmic, we must remember that the triangle with the point downward represents such a manifesta
tion. The triangle in this position means that all of the cosmic
energy, the Cosmic Mind and power, are focalized to one point on the earth, represented by the lower point of the triangle, and at this one point there will be a manifestation of all of the power and intelligence that is in the Cosmic.
Now, it is true that the Cosmic can create or manifest mate
rial things on this earth plane very easily. We have seen in some
of our Temple experiments that the Cosmic can produce flowers by utilizing the vibratory energy of the earth that is in the room and controlling and forming it through the focusing of cosmic vibra
tions. When the Cosmic wants to carry out some of its great plans,
however, it does not create a new man and a new woman as instru
ments for each occasion. It will focalize its strength and power
into the consciousness of some properly qualified individuals here
on earth and make them instruments to carry out the good work. In
this way thousands of men and women are being inspired daily to do certain things of a beneficial, humanitarian, creative nature.
They do these things feeling that they have had a good impulse, and never stop to think that perhaps they are the chosen channels of the Cosmic for such special work.
Those who keep themselves attuned with the Cosmic are sure to be the ones to be used here on earth for the special work which the
Cosmic desires to do. If you think for a moment of the thousands
of plans that the Cosmic may wish to carry out in every city, coun try, or community, each day of the year, you will see that thou sands, if not millions, of persons are being inspired daily with little impulses to do some one thing, and do it just the way the
Cosmic wants it done. Very often these persons do only
some little simple thing. On the other hand, sometimes
there are those who are selected to do a very important and tedious piece of work which requires a long time and
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much thought and effort for its accomplishment. The more one is
qualified and prepared to cooperate with the Cosmic, the more im portant will be the work given.
Let us take, for instance, an incident that occurred a few
years ago in a small city in California. A woman of leisure with
some money at her disposal, and a good heart, being spiritually awakened, suddenly felt the impulse to establish a day nursery in which the little children of mothers who had to work to earn a liv ing for their families could be cared for during the day while the
mothers were at work. She made her plans and then talked to one or
two other women and got their cooperation. Finally the day nursery
was started in a vacant house. This woman seemed constantly to
receive inspirations as to what to do and how to add constructive features to her plans until, within a year, the nursery had grown
to be an important institution. After three or four years of oper
ation, this day nursery was taking care of from fifty to eighty children a day, and the parents were paying only a small sum a day for each child, as a helpful contribution so that they would not feel that they were receiving charity.
The children were not only cared for from seven in the morning until six in the evening, but they were fed two or three meals a day with plenty of wholesome food donated by the various wholesale
grocery stores, milk depots, and bakeries. They also had free med
ical attention and were examined by several trained nurses who
volunteered their services. They were entertained each afternoon
by volunteer musicians, or young teachers, from a local teachers' college, who were studying to become kindergarten teachers, and a
variety of games were sent to the place by toy stores. Clothing of
various kinds was also sent by different people in the community. Thus, thirty to fifty women were enabled to go to work each day and earn a living for their families, sometimes because their husbands had been injured and were ill in bed or in hospitals, or because
death had taken the breadwinner from the family. These children
were being cared for much better than if they were left at home, and yet they were not made to feel that they were recipients of charity.
This is a typical example of how the Cosmic uses someone who is qualified for such a thing to carry out its plans and its de
sires. The life of Thomas Edison was typical of how the Cosmic
will use a certain qualified channel to give us specific and neces
sary improvements and conveniences. Great singers and musicians
are thus inspired, but we also often find men and women in the most humble walks of life cosmically inspired to do some little or big thing that constitutes a very valued contribution to the uplift of humanity.
Fraternally,