A Call to the "Awakened" from "The Unseen and Unknown" for an Esoteric College and for G ... E Dept. No. 1, by Vidya-Nyaika

A CALL TO THE "AWAKENED" FROM "THE UNSEEN AND UNKNOWN," FOR AN ESOTERIC COLLEGE, AND FOR G.....R DEPT. NO. 1.

SPECIAL MESSAGE From the "Interior of the Inmost," OF G.....R Department No. 1, UNDER ADHY-APAKA.

Kind Reader, if you have fully conquered the evils, and have gained the right desires, and are desirous of assisting others in doing so, through the medium of an organization operating by concerted and systemized action; and if you feel interested in the organization of a College wherein such teaching and training can be properly given, in the midst of proper social surroundings and congenial environments: and if you feel that such a community would promote not only the higher life of the individuals composing it, but also aid in the general elevation of humanity; then you are respectfully invited to associate your efforts with ours in whatever way may be dictated by the promptings of your Inmost.

You are doubtless doing the world a great good by your own efforts, and you have your own sphere of special use, and your own objects in view; but do you not believe that you can accomplish more by the organized effort and the associated will power of a body of people working to the same end? If you have banished from your life the evils and the attendant consequences, do you not think you can attain a higher soul growth and a more perfect mental action, in a place where most of your energy will not be expended in maintaining your serenity against adverse circumstances and influences? Will not your intuitions have a more perfect presentation to your mind in a community where the adverse psychisms are eliminated? Will not your soul attain a more healthful growth in a place where there are no moral infections, and no atomolic contagions? Those indistinct ideas which have a birth within your own mind, through the action of the forces coming to you from other minds (called Sammadhi), will attain a greater precision and continuity if you are placed in the midst of minds harmonious with your own. Those higher emotional and mental states produced upon your own mind by the action, not of other minds upon the earth, but of those intelligences inhabiting the ether globe in which this system of galaxies is floating (called Sambudhism), will be more intense and definite, if your nervous system is not constantly disturbed by discordant sonities, sounds, and sonisms; and this high mental state will acquire definite presentation in thought, if the brain is not constantly invaded by the adverse sympathetic action of neighboring minds and psychisms, and if the vibratory influence acting upon your atomolic brain is not constantly antagonized by the discordant action of improper thermism, radiant energy, and chemism.

If the energy of your body is not wasted in eliminating the drug effects of the impurities found in all drinking waters, and if the tissues are not hardened by the deposition of these solid materials preventing osmosis and endosmosis of the liquids of the system, will there not then be more energy to spare for the more important functions concerned in organic involution? The air in our cities is loaded with carbonic monoxide and dioxide, coming from thousands of stoves, furnaces, lamps, and human lungs; and the inhalation of this poison lowers the vitality of the system, benumbs the mind and thickens the blood. Its effect is not only the lowering of all the vital energies, but it deadens all those sensibilities upon which so much of the finer concepts depend — concepts required for the interpretation of the intuitions and sambudhisms. But the air is loaded with vapors more poisonous than carbonic gas, it holds in diffusion all those exhalations of a gaseous nature coming from every pore of diseased people, and from every breath they exhale. These produce moral infection and soul contagion. The loaded air of a city, screens by selective absorption from the sun's rays, those which are most needed for the higher kinds of mental action and nerve health; and its humidity constantly discharges from the body its electro-static potential, requiring a waste of energy to maintain a sufficient electro-static charge, for the processes of intellection in connection with sambudhism, and for the more important purpose of warding off the influences of disembodied intelligences.

Have you ever estimated how much of your strength is wasted every day by the above-mentioned conditions? If you are so situated that you cannot enter a city permanently, wherein those conditions are obviated, are you not interested in aiding the building of such a city for the good of others? The local magnetic intensity of various portions of the earth is of such a character as to be discordant to the action of the higher sambudhistic processes; and what is worse, this local magnetism is of such a variable character, that one no sooner adapts this mental condition to the requirements, than it changes. The Laws demonstrate that the overtones of the pitches of magnetism, directly affect sambudhism and mental serenity; and that to any given class of people, there is one proper pitch of Magnetism and Induction favorable to the production of rapport with the collective intelligences of this ether globe. Do you not think that if by means of accurate instruments this magnetic condition can be measured and maintained, that it will be conducive to important results in the acquisition of knowledge and spiritual growth?

Have you studied the effects of color upon your mental condition? Inharmonious colors are often more deleterious to the sensitive, than even imperfect ventilation. There is a science of color, of direct value in therapeutics and hygiene; but the more important colors, from the standpoint of mental pathology, are not visible to the eye, and the sanitary regulation of the non-luminous rays, will be an important feature in the prospective College Esoteric. Nothing more directly affects the mental and moral growth than proper foods. All stages of imperfect assimilation directly influence the mental and emotional temperament. Indigestion not only wastes energy already supplied by the system and fails to supply the additional force needed, but it builds up a bodily structure out of imperfectly organized cells. Many of the nutriments required by the system in carrying on the processes of thought, are not furnished by the foods in common use. The odors and flavors are often more valuable nutrients to the nervous system, than the coarser elements of the foods. The materials of which the body is built should be pure and capable of easy assimilation, and should be incapable of conveying into the system the elements of infectious diseases. Animal foods contain important elements not readily procurable from other sources, but to depend upon animals is to run the risk of eating meats filled with disease. It is known for instance that about four per cent of all cattle have tuberculosis. Is it desirable to infect our system with the debris deposited within those tissues? Are not all organisms liable to be diseased? Have not all living things more or less atomic and atomolic karma? Is it not an important fact that all animal foods can be grown from natural products without the disease incident to the organization of cells into tissues? Department No. 1 and the Esoteric College have in their possession a secret by which they will be enabled to prepare all the animal foods and all possible animal nutrients by a direct process of growth — utilizing air, water and sunshine without degenerating the purity of the substance, by its organization into organs and tissues capable of being diseased; and without being required to kill any living thing. The ethical value of this fact is of prime importance to all those who desire to make the covenant with all created existence. The murdering of animals in order that we may eat them is becoming morally repulsive to all those who are trying to live the higher life, and shocks the finer senses of all those who are trying to develop the intuitions. To those who are trying to make attainments, it is necessary to avoid the killing of any living thing; and to avoid eating the karma of animals. All vegetable products are made by the same general process, without agriculture, and the production of the foods required by the Association will be limited to the use of the Association. The first necessary condition to those who are trying to acquire certain stages of growth is the time for rest and meditation; and that time spent in acquiring food and shelter can be spent in other pursuits. It is known that these foods cannot be grown except under certain conditions; and that their production will be limited to those who would otherwise be busy did they not have to perpetually labor for their sustenance.

The question of proper foods is one of the very greatest importance, and the Department has also methods of raising all kinds of vegetable foods by horticultural processes upon an improved plan capable of developing within them all the elements needed by the system under all circumstances, and for the protean requirements of the many classes of minds that will be brought together when "the people shall be called up into the Mountain." Many people starve certain organs of the mind and body because their accustomed diet contains none of those special elements needed by those functions which are most constantly used by them in carrying on their particular line of work or of thought. Different mental conditions require different foods; and all these foods must be supplied in proper quantity to those who are expecting to reach certain conditions. Do you not think that in a community where there are no people filled with the infection of animals, and where the people eat nothing impure and improper, that you will more easily and more perfectly maintain the conditions you desire for the perfection of your own special line of thought and action? Will not your sambudhism be more perfect when there are no interfering magnetic conditions produced by the action of innumerable telegraph, telephone, and electric light wires, placed in improper positions, and running in improper directions? Will not properly constructed houses aid you in the healthier and higher living? Angry, malicious, revengeful, and passionate people give off from their bodies a vapor, and certain rays of vibratory force capable of producing chemical effects upon saturated papers placed within the same room. Melancholy people give off a different vibratory force and a different chemical vapor. Unhappy people saturate their rooms with vapors of a different nature than either of the others mentioned. All the mental states produce results of this kind, corresponding to the state; and these vapors and rays given off by people during these conditions are capable of producing similar mental, bodily, and spiritual effects upon other people placed in the same room or in their presence. The experiments of Prof. Jaeger of Jena have been much extended by a knowledge of the new laws, and it is demonstrable that a room in which unhealthy, unhappy or immoral people have lived is forever unfit for the habitation of those who are purer and better, and slowly diseases the body, mind, and morals of those dwelling in it. All these conditions will be eliminated from the precincts of the college. As soon as a person becomes unhappy or diseased or inharmonious they will be taken to a hospital, removed from the neighborhood of the sanctuary and out of the village. No one person has any right to destroy the growth and conditions of others. If you have attained complete emancipation from the effects of the evils, and have gained the right desires you will be able to do a greater work for yourself in those conditions and also for others; we ask your co-operation in any way you see fit to give it.

If you are still under the tyranny of the Evils, and have not gained the right desires; if you are groaning under the weight of misdirected conduct in consequence thereof; and if you sincerely intend to conquer their influence, now is the time to commence. You must entirely conquer them before you will be able to enter Department No. 1. You must have dedicated your life to this battle before you can enter the college; and you must give evidences by your conduct that your actions are founded upon irrepressible determination to succeed. Training, in the conquering of the evils, may be had at the Society Esoteric. There are good reasons why the preliminary training should be done under such circumstances, apart from the fact that there must be a sifting process, separating the prepared from the evil and the immature, and that reason is this: one of the most formidable evils to overcome is Pride and its associated devil, Ambition, and the best place to commence to conquer them is in a place where all kinds of people meet. There are those who will not assist in any movement that does not possess the attractions of a certain aristocracy of pedigree, and others who will not visit a place that is not the embodiment of the aristocracy of wealth. Some will not be seen in a place that is not fashionable. Some will not attend a meeting where all classes are liable to come and where all kinds of people often drop in. We must lift the heavy karma of the world, and we must be ready to do it at any cost to pride and ambition, nay, we cannot commence to do it until all pride and ambition have been forever killed. If you are too proud to come where your less wealthy neighbors and brethren are liable to come in search for light, then you are also too proud to enter our work. True dignity is not weakened by a momentary contact with those who are more in need of light than you are. If you have not conquered THE EVILS, WHY HAVE YOU NOT? Are you aware that Anger is a detriment to your success in any undertaking whatever, and an injury to your mental and moral disposition? In all of its stages from a slight irritability to that of the madness of King Lear it thwarts the judgment and perverts the guidance of your conduct, just in proportion as it is intense and frequent. If you ever have under its influence been led to do that for which you were afterwards sorry, then there may come conditions in which you might do so again, and therefore if you do not at once proceed to eliminate it from your mind, you are knowingly and deliberately denying the highest guidance you have, and rejecting the highest possibilities of your life; and you will not deserve success. If you can conceive of conditions which might make you angry again, and under the influence of the vitiated judgment, do that which you would not do under calm thought, then you are in need of a definite training, and you are in duty bound to exterminate it from your life, or you will relinquish the right to respect your self, and you will deny the promptings of the highest within you. Are you capable of seeking revenge for an injury done you, or are you capable of acting under the promptings of malice? Do you at present hate anybody? Have you ever hated anyone? Do you think there are conditions which might be able to develop within you hate for anybody or anything? Do you ever have the feeling of contempt? Are you willing to allow your soul to form the body and train the mind under the influence of these mental conditions? Have you any right to hate anything that Yahveh has formed for a special purpose? Do you believe that these passions are wrong, and that they prevent your highest development?

If the concept has formed in your mind that these things are wrong and detrimental to your highest interests, and prevent the proper growth of your mind and soul, then there must come with it an impulse to eradicate their influence from your life, and this impulse and motive is unquestionably the command of the Most High, and if you do not obey it, you are denying the promptings of the Spirit, and you are running counter to the purpose of the Infinite All. Do the evils ever modify the action of the inmost in guiding your conduct? Have the promptings of sexual passion ever led you to do that for which you were afterwards sorry? Has fear of any kind ever diverted you from the course of right you had marked out for yourself? Has ambition ever led you to seek a place or a position for which you felt you had not the merit and ability? Has pride ever prevented you from doing that which you actually thought it best to do? Has love of ease ever led you to neglect that which you knew you ought to do. We ask you, for the good of your own present and future interests, to consider these things carefully, and if you know that these evils have ever hindered your life and are liable to do so again, then it must be your duty under the best guidance you can get, to eliminate them forever from your life.

It will aid you in accomplishing your victory over yourself, if you teach and aid others in doing the same thing. Perhaps it may please you to give personal or other aid to the Department and the College, one of whose purposes it is to offer systematic aid in this great work.

If you intend to remove the evils, when are you going to do so? If you believe this world and all of its affairs are under the control of the INFINITE ALL, and that you can only aid in carrying out the purpose of individual and race evolution by following the highest light you have within you, then you are interfering with your own and others success if you do not devote all your time to this work in the way which you think best, and if co-operation with a systemized movement seems to you to be the best plan for the expression of your own duties, then let us know as soon as possible. If you do not possess any of those powers of which we have spoken, are you not omitting one of the opportunities of your life? If you possess them and are not trying to cultivate them, are you not doing a wrong to yourself and society. If your senses have not revealed to you all the knowledge that you would be capable of using, are you not doing more than personal wrong? Are there any phenomena about your own body of which you are ignorant, and about which you have wrong notions? Are not these imperfect and false concepts liable to mislead you? Has the best part of your nature revealed itself?

Systematic effort will be made in the Esoteric College, according to the highest knowledge we can attain, to eliminate by direct training all the evils, and to gain the right desires, and to develop the intuitional and sambudhistic faculties by love and devotion; and to create conditions wherein inspirations, sambudhism, and intuitions may be rendered definite and accurate, to be used under the guidance of the inmost, towards the attainment of a higher life, and for the accomplishment of definite purposes, by means of the prayer of right desire continuously applied, by the aid of intensified will, unmodified by the evils, adverse conditions, and circumstances. All that pure air, water, and foods can do towards the creation of conditions will be supplied. Adverse forces will be prevented. Regular studies will be necessary, and a full curriculum presented and taught by the ablest men the world affords.

The city will be constructed by the highest aid modern science can give, in accordance with the Laws, so as to produce surroundings congenial to the full growth of all sensibilities and powers.

The Department and the College have special functions to perform. They will be the guardians of an important secret, enabling them to supply material wants, and giving them time to devote to other purposes than that of laboring for a living — but the labor required will be much greater than that required for self support. Activity is the law of life. The object of reincarnation is the acquisition of experience and knowledge; and do not think the great Schoolmaster will send you to this earth-school and allow you to be promoted before you have learned all the earth has to teach you. Knowledge, mental and soul capacity, are the measure of the place you occupy in the great course of evolution. There will be developed and cultivated in the Esoteric College all those powers which cannot be developed in a mixed society. The College has placed in its hands, industries that will be devoted to the maintenance of the work, and these industries will be started as soon as a few more men can be found willing to aid in locating the buildings and supplying the necessary things to start operations.

The College will be devoted to the training and teaching of the esoteric principles and the matters above mentioned. It will ultimate the organization of a body of people in accordance with Messianic Principles, as governed by the higher light of the present age. In unison with this object, Department No. 1 of the G.....R will contribute knowledges, methods, means, and will seek to gather through this source experimental knowledge relating to sambudhisms, intuitions, desires, prayers and will power, and the principles of devotion and love, in accordance with that of the Messianic Cycle. The object of Department No. 1, is the collection of the sum of knowledge relating to this subject, under head of the Messianic Cycle, for the use of the College Esoteric, and for the use of the Archives of the G.N.K.R. The Department also hopes to get through this source, a few men for active work in the Department, apart from the College, but in unison with it.

The Society Esoteric has demonstrated that its culture cannot well be carried beyond a certain point under the influences of a mixed society, in a city in the midst of all kinds of miasms, diseases, psychisms, and all adverse influences. "Westward the course of empire takes its way," and westward, upon the mountains, the Esoteric College will find its location, and will embody the highest culture of the Messianic Cycle, under the immediate tuition of teachers raised up for the purpose by Yahveh. The College will possess its library, where will be found all the religious teachings of the past; its laboratory where will be carried on daily interrogations of the Infinite, for newer and higher knowledge; and its class rooms, where will be taught and practiced the results of such teachings, and its sanctuary wherein will be kept the secrets, and where the higher devotions will be performed.

Such a body of men, free from the influences of the evils, and filled with the right desires, and acting according to the promptings of the Omnipotent as revealed within their own consciousness, and fulfilling the requirements of the laws of the operation of the human will, and subject to the most subtile of the intuitional and sambudhistic influences, will acquire a power for good, and gain access to a kind of knowledge about which it is a mere waste of words to speak. The systematic study of all that relates to a higher health and devotion, and the practical application of these knowledges to the good of the individuals composing the community, and to the good of the human race, will certainly be a work in which you can co-operate, even if you are not quite worthy in your own estimation; and it is a work which you can aid even if you are not ready for personal co-operation, and even if you are not in full theoretical sympathy with all the present teachings. Have you ever felt the need of a more perfect love between man and man, and a more perfect fellowship between the members of a community? Do you think that conditions of harmony, such as are herein so briefly and imperfectly described, will conduce to the higher culture and to the benefit of humanity, and that more can be done in this way than by independent action?

There will be a Preparatory Department connected with the College Esoteric, wherein young men and women will be taught the general elements of science and philosophy from an experimental standpoint; the curriculum, arranged with special reference to the development and the comprehension, of the principles taught in the College. It will offer practical aid to those who desire to overcome the evils, and will prepare young men to enter the Esoteric Course, wherein will be taught the higher philosophies' practices and devotions. The young men of the world are eager for such training, and are anxious to comprehend the mysteries of life, and to acquire the larger growth.

In order to understand the mental and emotional states, and to cultivate the intuitions and the higher soul-powers, and to remove the higher culture from the domain of empiricism, the necessary scientific knowledge will be experimentally inculcated, for the purpose of acquiring the concepts necessary for the interpretation of these conditions, and the knowledge and skill necessary for their application. Nothing so misleads as an intuition or a sambudhism, for which we have not the necessary facts to comprehend or the necessary knowledge to apply. A false conception of the natural objects with which we are surrounded, and of the forces and the laws operating in nature, will often entirely misdirect the practice of the best intuitional and sambudhistic people in the world. We may in sammadhi or in sambudhism, see a truth, but if our knowledge of natural phenomena and of the materials of thought be limited or inaccurate, we will be unable to give it presentation to our own mind, explain it to others, or apply it to practice correctly in our own lives. The language of the sambudhist is always abstract and indefinite, and the images forming within his own mind are incapable of graphical presentation and definite formulation, for the want of an accurate knowledge of the phenomena of nature. The College Esoteric will teach science in such a manner that accurate concepts will be had of those phenomena necessary for the comprehension of the general principles and the practical details of the Culture Esoteric, and of the Messianic principles. The physical, pathological, pathognomical, anatomical, physiological, chemical, structural, histological, intellectual and spiritual phenomena, and conditions of the evils, will be studied from the physical standpoint, and the laws applied to the systematic elimination of their effects from the life of the pupils. The forces operative in the production of the evils, and the forces necessary for their eradication will be studied in the same manner as we now study the laws of electricity and thermo-dynamics. The laws and the conditions necessary for the understanding and the practice of yoga, for the acquirement of the right desires, and for the reception of peace, will be understood as well as we now understand the laws of digestion and hearing. The physical causes of sambudhism and intuition will be as well understood as the causes of the deposition of the salts of silver upon the sensitive plate in the photographer's camera.

Young men desiring to acquire a more accurate knowledge of the sciences, than can elsewhere be obtained, relating to the general subjects of occultism, theosophy, and the acquirement of the higher sambudhistic and intuitional powers, will be brought into this College and taught all that is necessary for the practice and the comprehension of the duties and the principles of the Messianic Cycle. There will be connected with the College a complete library, a complete scientific laboratory for the elucidation and experimental demonstration of the new order of phenomena and of the forces concerned in the production of the powers and the conditions of the culture. Early impressions are the most lasting, and youth is the proper time for the inculcation of the practices of the higher culture. The unlearning of much that is taught in the schools of the day will then not be necessary. When improper mental habits have once been formed, it is extremely difficult to eradicate them; it is much easier to eradicate the evils if they have never been practiced. Habit is a tyrant. A general course in the ordinary elements of education will be given under the new classification, in such a manner that the knowledge obtained will directly lead to a higher understanding of the moral principles involved, and the corresponding duties. The location of the preparatory department will be somewhat remote from the Esoteric College proper. It will aid all those wishing to conquer the evils by direct instruction in the scientific and practical principles involved, and will prepare them not only in the general elements of complete practical and theoretical education, but will prepare them for entrance into the College Esoteric. Before they can enter there, they must have acquired an understanding of the dedication involved in the Covenant, and of the philosophical principles implied. They must also have conquered the evils and acquired the necessary knowledge for the understanding of the instruction therein to be given.

The College Esoteric will be devoted to the principles before described, and to the scientific study of the phenomena connected with the faculties commonly called Intuition, Sammadhi, Sambudhism, Inspiration, and development of the conditions necessary for the production of a unison with other minds and with the universal Sensorium. There will also be studied the forces therewith connected, and the scientific principles necessary for the understanding of the mental and emotional states produced by these conditions. The application of the knowledge thus acquired will be made directly to the devotions, desires, prayers, and to the development of the higher condition of life. The College will possess its own grounds, laboratories, studios, buildings, and in the centre of which will be the Temple containing the Sanctuary.

To have conquered the evils and to have made the dedication is all that will be necessary for entrance into the College proper. Therein will be learned the practices necessary, and taught the habits essential to the gaining of the right desires, and for advancement towards the higher studies and attainments.

At this stage pupils will be eligible for admission into the higher and more secret studies and departments of the Esoteric College and Culture; or for membership into Department No. 1 of the G.....R, according as predilections and capacities may lead them.

SPECIAL NOTICE.

This book was published neither for sale, amusement, nor instruction: — it was published for the purpose of inducing people to aid us in taking the preliminary steps necessary for the immediate building of the College Esoteric, in a western locality, for the purposes specified. It is not an exhibition of the work and philosophy of the G.N.K.R, or of the G.....R; but is issued under the auspices of the latter for the use of Department No. 1 in aiding the founder of The Society Esoteric in the establishment of a College, and for aiding Department No. 1, in the building of a Laboratory in connection therewith, as a foundation of the enterprise to be donated by the G.....R to the College. The said College and Culture to be under the auspices of the ADHY-APAKA of Department No. 1, — the founder of The Society Esoteric; and to whom is to be entrusted the management of the enterprises connected therewith. The supply of the knowledges, methods and means, and the Laboratory from which they are obtained and in which the experimental researches and collections of knowledges is to be carried on, will be under the auspices and control of VIDYA-NYAIKA or his representatives.

The G.....R, through their representative, have legally placed in the hands of the Founder of Esotericism in Boston (The ADHY-APAKA) of Department No. 1, of the G.....R and the Originator of the College Esoteric, such industries as will, if put into operation upon a business basis, defray all the expenses of the Department, the College, and the preliminary work; and will repay to the donors who assist in accomplishing the preliminary work, more than the usual percentage of interest upon invested moneys. The donation of one of the industries, subject to the condition that it shall be fully and efficiently operated within two years from date, has already been legally made from VIDYA-NYAIKA to ADHY-APAKA of Department No. 1, the proofs of which can be seen in the hands of Prof. Hiram Erastus Butler. As soon as the men and means are ready for the establishment of the industry, more will be given, according to the capacity to utilize, and to the needs of the movement.

The first and the most immediate need is the practical operation of the enterprise upon which the employment and the support of the members will depend; and the immediate location of the necessary buildings in the vicinity of the College; and the collection of the materials, equipments, and instructors from the occult associations of the Orient. In order to be ready at the specified time, commencement must be made at once. Can you assist us?

If you have made no attainments in the direction herein indicated, if you are still ruled by the evils, and if you have not the means or the opportunity for direct assistance, in any manner best known to yourself, will you kindly bring this pamphlet to the attention of someone in the circle of your acquaintances who may be likely to interest himself in the establishment of the industry, from which the expenses are to be defrayed, in the preliminary work connected with the organization of the College? Perhaps you may be able to notify us that you will begin at once to conquer the evils, and to prepare yourself for entrance into the preparatory Department of the College, as soon as it is ready for the admission of students. If you know anyone that is likely to become a member of such a college will you kindly notify us of their address? Will you devote some of your time to the subject and endeavor to induce others beside yourself to commence the work of self-control, and to prepare themselves for work in the new movement?

If you are ready to dedicate your life to the guidance of the Inmost, and to work in harmony with the processes of the Infinite as exhibited in the general plan of evolution, and as revealed to your own consciousness, by knowledge and intuition; if you are ready to devote the rest of your life to the promotion of the work which accords most nearly to that which is the highest ideal of right in your own mind; if you are determined to act out the highest light you can get, at any expense or sacrifice, will you notify us that you have enlisted in the great battle for the eternal truth? Can you or any of your friends give us the desired assistance in making the preliminary steps, necessary to obtain the industry, which if operated, will furnish a revenue sufficient to establish a college such as has not been before established? We ask any assistance you can offer, manual, financial, mental, or any contribution whatever. That which is most immediately desirable is the necessary means for the building of the shops and machines necessary for the manufacture and the production of the articles and commodities which will be placed in our hands, if we are ready to operate them within two years from the date of this pamphlet. This is a very great opportunity, and we hope you will assist us in taking advantage of it at once. Whatever money you or your friends may invest, cannot be lost. The investment is one offering strong inducements, but we desire that the capitalists who may thus interest themselves will do so from philanthropic motives, and with a desire to assist in the general elevation of the human race. The College Esoteric desires to reserve the right to purchase the interest of the investor in the said industry before the expiration of three years, at a price double that of the amount invested, and if not done within that period of time the investor shall permanently hold his interest.

Full opportunities will be given the proper parties for investigation, from a business, or from a scientific standpoint; and the matter will be placed upon a basis entirely removing it from the domain of speculation, — for such it is not, and placing it upon the basis of a legitimate industry, promoted for the good of the work to which it has been freely given by the G.....R.

In order to effect the embodiment of the College, the Culture, and the Department, it will be necessary to start the enterprise immediately; and that those who have its organization in charge, shall commence at once the collection of the materials, methods, processes, assistants; and that they visit, according to promise, the occult schools of the Orient, and obtain therefrom the additional instructors, secret knowledges, and the necessary alliance for the proper presentation of the Culture. Practice in the higher mind powers, and methods of soul culture, require definite connections with persons at a distance, working in harmony with us. There are those in the Orient who have awaited for long centuries, the opportunity for occidental alliances and connections; and VIDYA-NYAIKA has the promise from those who always fulfill, that the Messianic Department shall have the assistance of those who have valuable occult knowledge to communicate, to those who are ready to receive, and prepared to practice.

The embodiment of the Messianic Cycle and the formulation of the Esoteric Culture connected therewith, will soon be ultimated. The Society Esoteric was promised by its founder, that, as soon as they were ready, there would be furnished the necessary knowledges, methods and means for the ultimation of their desires — that promise has been fulfilled. There exists in the world an association ready to supply all these requirements as rapidly as men can be found to utilize, and to commence to utilize. The significance of the esoteric work will not be realized until a few years; for the present, it is the duty of the Society to prepare the necessary steps leading toward the fulfillment of its objects, which, all ultimate in the College and the community connected therewith.

The time for the calling of the people up into the Mountain has not yet arrived; the place must previously be prepared for them, and then there will be a man raised up for the purpose. Apart from all other purposes, the establishment of an institution for the definite teaching of the occult knowledge of this world from the Messianic standpoint, will be of value and importance greater than can be estimated. There is at present no place upon the earth where the practice and the principles of sammadhi, "sambudhism" intuition, yoga, the elimination of the evils, gaining of the right desires, strengthening of the Will, and the performance of the higher devotions, are systematically and understandingly taught, as a subject of scientific and experimental investigation, and in accordance with well ascertained laws. We ask you to conform to your highest guidance in considering your duty towards this movement. If you wish to enter the College, or the Esoteric Culture, you will be eligible for membership if you conform to the requirements appended herewith. To enter the preparatory department, all that will be required is to agree to eliminate the evils and to follow the highest light you have. To enter the College you must make the covenant. To enter The Society Esoteric you must follow the requirements for membership given in the following pages. To enter the higher courses of the College or to enter Department No. 1, you must have made certain attainments in knowledges and powers, regarding which all proper persons will learn in due time.

P. S. For all particulars regarding The Society Esoteric, or the College Esoteric, address Prof. H. E. Butler, 478 Shawmut Avenue, Boston Mass. For all particulars regarding Department No. 1 of the G.....R, address ADHY-APAKA, Care C. H. Mackay, 478 Shawmut Avenue, Boston, Mass., and the communication will be duly forwarded, if he is absent. All communications relating to investment in the industries, or to co-operation financially in the building of the College, must be addressed as follows: — Prof. H. E. Butler, ADHY-APAKA of G.....R, No. 1. Care C. H. Mackay, 478 Shawmut Avenue, Boston Mass.

P. S. — Neither Prof. Butler nor The Society Esoteric are responsible for the philosophical opinions and statements expressed by VIDYA-NYAIKA in the foregoing pages; neither are the G.N.K.R and the G.....R or VIDYA-NYAIKA, responsible for the philosophical or religious opinions expressed in the pages following these, by Prof. Butler, the Founder of The Society Esoteric in Boston, and the Originator of the Esoteric College, who has been appointed ADHY-APAKA of Department No. 1 of the G.....R. This Dep. No. 1, The Society Esoteric and the College are one in purpose, belief, method, and philosophy, and are working for the immediate building of the College, in accordance with the statements of the special message from the "interior of the innermost," and the following pages. The Society Esoteric is not responsible for the dictum of the G.....R or vice versa.

Prophecy, peering through the clouds of the Present into the wide expanse of the Future, has ever been busy picturing Golden Cities, Elysian Fields, Utopias, Gardens of Hesperides, and Olympian Mountains. The tide of time has at last washed from out the great ocean of Possibilities the methods, knowledges, and materials, wherewith to construct and maintain the "silent city" wherein the followers of Yahveh can taste the Nectar in the Chalice of every pure experience, feed upon Ambrosia, feel the peace and the joy of the universal sensorium, and commune with the Infinite Love.

May all high hopes and right desires, co-operating with intensified human Will and purified human Love, under the Guidance of Yahveh, crystallize into an immediate embodiment and incarnation of the principles of the Esoteric Culture and the Messianic Cycle, is the earnest prayer of your humble servant.

May the Justice and Peace of Om reside within you.

Om, mane, padmi, AUM!

By VIDYA-NYAIKA.

Lag m-ig! ozp, ikkf, Nobi Orn Snon gzi, hhng kgx jngl, mjkh! Ki-f mro T-ij Jo — kllon, smgh mmls ki-f G.....R. lion, 1890 Smlu uug Tjkm Uzu Tkky uhop, myr kus smog mlln, o-me, jimg smls mlln, J-m kgx uloig, mnm lm-g O-1 nokm 1888, 1888.

G .. VIDYA-NYAIKA... R;G.N.K.R.

Rhu wop uug rkog, xla Smgr olmd Tkhp mphn Smgr nlii n-g pjnq Im-g Isaiah II, 2, 3, 4,; Jer. 50, 5. Mllg G.....R gig R-lt o-me, Yahveh kgw Kkgw Deut. XXXIII, 19. 1890 hklj 1900 xl&.

The Society Esoteric.

We announced in the first number of The Esoteric (July 1887), the object of the magazine, and of our labors in The Society Esoteric; and also that there were wiser ones than we who were controlling and governing the whole work. We have now been recognized and accepted by them, in a way surpassing our highest expectations at that time, notwithstanding many of our friends said to us then: "Your expectations are too high, they can never be realized." It will, before long, become evident to the most skeptical that we at least did not overstate the truth, and that preparations are being made upon a scale more than commensurate with our anticipations, and that the work will be so arranged that every true honest soul can participate.

First: — The Esoteric Magazine is, and will continue to be, an instrumentality for the education and instruction of all those who desire to conquer the "evils" and wish to learn the methods. All such persons can be united with us in doing all they can for others around them; and those who feel so prompted from within, can be financially interested in the College; and will thereby become in many ways partakers of its advantages.

We desire the names and addresses, and if possible, the Day, Hour, Month, Year, and Place of Birth, of all who in any way are interested in conquering the evils, in themselves, or in aiding others in doing so.

We wish it to be thoroughly understood that while this work is for the highest order of humanity, yet its objects are for the good of all, and its purpose and capacity will be such that it will be a help to all, to whatever extent they are able to receive the good offered them. The College will embrace two Classes; one Department for young men and women, wherein they will be educated in all knowledges they are capable of receiving and willing to study, so as to promote in them the highest possible order of manhood and womanhood. The course will give them a knowledge and a culture that will place them in a position to be more to themselves and others, than by any method now taught; and then, after having had placed before them the higher realms of knowledge and usefulness, they will be free to choose their own course in life.

The second class are those who have, through soul-growth, reached a point in their experience where they are thoroughly tired of all that this age has to offer, and of all this life has to give them, and wish to dedicate their life to higher uses under the Divine Guidance: — to such the College will be open, where they can receive instructions of a character peculiar to their faculties and needs. There will be ample provision made, in houses suitable for each, where they can have their own home conditions, favorable to their needs, — and all the needs of the body and mind will be abundantly supplied. (Further explanation in this, and kindred matters, will be given when we are ready for the gathering).

There are two classes of minds that will be gathered; one class having faith in the guidance; the other having an understanding of the Laws, and Methods of Creation, and the ultimates toward which all Nature is being driven. The first is the feminine mind, whether in the male or female; the other is the masculine mind, through whichever sex it may find expression. The latter class will find in the following statements, "The Objects of Creation," the key from the intuitive side to the laws of evolution, and to the Christian Bible. Before any one from the intellectual side of the religious movement can intelligently dedicate their lives to this work, they must have an understanding of what the work is to which they dedicate themselves. There are those who feel prepared for this work, and are not in reality. There are others who feel that they have no preparation at all, but who are really ready to enter into the most sacred temple. Jesus of Nazareth was very wise when he said: "Not every one that saith unto me Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven, many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity." Mat. VII, 21-23. "Then shall the King say unto them on the right hand, Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was ahungered and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger and ye took me in: naked and ye clothed me: I was sick and ye visited me: I was in prison and ye came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer him saying: Lord when saw we Thee ahungered and fed thee? or thirsty and gave thee drink," etc.. Mat. XXV, 34-37. Jesus here clearly sets forth the great truth so overlooked by too many of his professed followers, that it is not words but deeds; not so much those who think they are ready, but on the contrary those who do not know they have done anything for God, but who have a love for helping and elevating humanity. This work is indeed a work, it is not going away to have an easy time, but to make conditions that will enable the above class to do more for humanity than they could possibly hope to do by any other method, — for therein, awaits the sum of human knowledge to be utilized by the coming men and women for the good of all. Could our thinking honest-hearted men and women realize what a wonderful storehouse is being prepared for them, they would with one accord dedicate all they have and are to the accomplishment of this work without delay. And, considering all that we have received since we made the dedication, we are convinced that God has a people who truly love him. "And if we love not our brother whom we have seen, how can we love God whom we have not seen." How can we say we love God and humanity, when there is such abundant provision ready for us and we disregard it.

Some of our Christian friends may say that this is a Buddhistic movement; but if you will take the trouble to examine it, you will find it far more a Christian work, than that of all the Christian churches together, and that its teachings are those of your own Bible, in its true meanings. We are prepared to demonstrate that the Bible is a grand store of scientific knowledge, and that we believe its teachings more fully than any Christian minister in our land, because we have received instructions in its real teachings, as well as in those of the other systems of religion, and we are prepared to say, that God is the Author of all true religious thought, and wherever there is an honest, devout soul, there God's Angels are sent with a knowledge of the truth — no matter whether it is Christian byname, Mohammedan, Brahman, Buddhist, or a native Indian.

According to the need, and the capacity to receive, God always supplies. Jesus did not say that to be called a Christian, or to call him Lord, Lord, would save: but he did say, "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." John, VIII, 32. Yes, it is a knowledge of the truth we want — "Thy (God's) word is truth." ''By the word of God the worlds were made": hence to know the Laws and the Methods of the Creative Mind is truth, it is scientific knowledge. All we have and are, is the result of that creative word, therefore a knowledge of Self and of all the Laws of Life and Nature, and to have right conceptions of them, is the Truth that alone can save.

THE OBJECTS OF CREATION.

In order for people to unite their aims and efforts there should first be a clear conception in each mind as to what the object to be attained is, and also as to whether it is attainable or otherwise therefore we will state in brief our own settled convictions and beliefs of what we regard as self-evident truths.

1st. We believe in a Supreme Controlling Mind that has brought into existence all that is, and that all individual intelligence is derived from that One.

2d. We believe that it is evident that there was a definite object in the mind of the Creator in creating man, and that this object was to develop in him knowledge and capabilities that will put all the affairs of life under his control, through conquering Selfishness, Hate, and Passion, and uniting in an aggregate body in common effort for the good of all.

3d. The laws of evolutionary development have two prime factors, one is that of obtaining knowledge from experience, the other is the refining process of transmutation whose chief factor is in the law of sex, viz., generation and regeneration, by which man has passed through all forms of experience, and knowledge has been gained in pursuance of the original purpose of the Creator.

4th. We believe that the original purpose of the Creator in its operation upon all Nature, is that which has been recognized and called "the Laws of Nature," and that these unchangeable laws direct the processes that control the actions, feelings, and thoughts of all persons and planets, suns, and systems, and that all qualities of mentality are by virtue of the stage of development attained, and that no person can be conscious of anything with which they do not possess something in common, and, further, that development means the refinement of organic qualities to an attunement with the higher spheres of the laws, or mind-forces of the Creator. We also perceive that by conquering the law of the generation of flesh and stopping all waste in that direction we are enabled to take control of the regenerative laws and accelerate the processes of transmutative refinement of the qualities of our own nature, so that in a few years, more progress can be made than in many thousand years of development under the controlling influence of evolution, without acceleration.

5th. We have many reasons to believe that we can, by controlling the generative principle, refine the organic qualities to an extent that we can become conscious of the Original Mind in all its relatedness to human existence, and that those who come into that consciousness will perceive the wisdom in subordinating all personal thoughts, desires and objects to the One Original Mind and its object; for it is the manifestations of that Original Mind that constitutes the Laws of Nature, which Laws enter into, and comprise, the anatomy and physiology — physical, mental, and spiritual — of our nature. Therefore, to the extent we live in harmony with them, we are healthy, happy, and useful; and to whatever extent we are out of harmony with them, to that extent are we unhappy, unhealthy, and have failures, disappointments, disease, and death. As this Original Mind is one having varied forms and methods of expressing itself in its different instruments (men), it follows that all who become conscious of that Original Mind and live under its control and guidance, will become harmonious members of one body; and as there is no inharmony in the Original Mind, there could be none in the body formed and controlled by it. Again a united consciousness of the One Mind would be a consciousness of each others' mind; for it is self-evident that, if there were one hundred, or "one hundred forty and four thousand" of such persons together, all their aggregate brain and will-power would be one, and as the consciousness of one would be the consciousness of all, the capacity of each and all would be increased in the ratio of one to one hundred, or one to one hundred-forty and four thousand. And that again would be increased over the power of the man of our present order, at least tenfold, for it usually takes nine tenths of all the mental capacity of each to maintain his own personal standing in existence, therefore only one tenth is now available for progressive effort. Thus all the capacity of consciousness, knowledge, wisdom, understanding, and power, would be increased not only 144,000 times, but ten times that, and such a body could become the expression of the mind and will of the Creator, and ultimate all that was embodied in the words attributed to have been recorded in the Bible by the prophet Moses, Genesis I. 26. (See the October Esoteric, pages 158 to 160), and was elaborated by the Angel that gave the vision to John, see Revelation, chapters XXI and XXII. Truly "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what God hath prepared for those that love him," and we cannot truly love him unless we love all his ways and methods which are Nature's Laws expressed in all life.

The object of the Society is to secure a knowledge of the purpose of God in creating man; and its members, therefore, are expected to have a willingness to dedicate their all of self, without reserve, to the attainment of that knowledge and the ultimation of that purpose.

This requires us first to answer, in a general way, the question: What is Man? and to comprehend his relations and duties as a living soul.

God is Spirit, the all present, unchangeable essence and source of all things. "The Everlasting Father" is the free Spirit: God "the Everlasting Mother" gathers and forms that Divine Essence into a body, and the unchangeable Spirit is the life thereof; its consciousness is not individual, but universal; therefore, as a primate, man is not. The form being only a thought-form of Deity, man through experience obtains knowledge of his limited sphere of service; this individualizes him and forms out of the original elements a soul made up of knowledges gained by experience. Thus the man is the experience, and the experience is the man. The life is the God that animates and serves the man; the knowledge is derived by experiences from God; for all things are of God, and all law is only the methods of the Infinite.

God is one, but has many methods of expression, and every individual is only a part of the whole. There is no inharmony in God, and, therefore, all apparent inharmony in man comes only from his methods for obtaining knowledge. For illustration, if one who never saw a watch had to learn how to make one from a sample being placed in his hands, he would first have to take it all apart and then put it together after carefully examining every part; thus stopping the watch he would have to cause disorder while the knowledge was being gained. So man, — the Son of God — while he is examining God's laws — or methods — causes confusion and inharmony, until he has learned them (and therefore the inharmony that now exists among men). Then he puts them back into order by his own intelligence; for he knows what the original maker know about it, and can make one like it. This is what Jesus meant when he said "All that the son seeth the father do that he doeth."

The only rational conclusion from this is that the original object for creating man was to develop knowledge like that of the Everlasting Father and to have the work of creation placed in his hands to govern.

Thus even if we reject (as some do) the authority of the Bible, the statement in Gen. I. 23, appears reasonably true, where it says "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." This language must have meant to apply to man as a race, not to one man; for it says "let them," not him, and the common idea that it referred to Jesus only, cannot be true. The "beloved " disciple John said: "In the beginning (evidently referring to Gen. l. 26.) was the word ("Let us make man like us etc.") and the word was with God (IX. power) and the word was God (power). Verse 14 says: "And the word was made flesh (it was personified) and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the father, full of grace (i.e. favor) and truth (i.e, knowledge of facts of laws and methods). This tells us that the man Jesus was the first personified expression of that creative word in the beginning of the creation of the world concerning man as a body.

The masters and mystics of every age and nationality have united with the biblical idea that all men are members of one body and that each is a part of a whole. This fact is scientifically demonstrated by Solar Biology, where it is made evident to any reasonable mind that the true order is for man to come into a conscious realization of that oneness. The means that will make this possible is now fast becoming manifest in the world. Our literature is full of the ideas and facts of the capacity for "mind-reading," and thought-transference from one to the other without words. These powers are fast growing among the people, and those who have them are greatly oppressed and burdened with a consciousness of the evil thoughts and deeds of the masses, and also feel and suffer from the diseased and oppressed condition of the people. A way out of this is now becoming an absolute necessity for them in order to save their life; for many are dying from the continued effect of such experiences, after a period of suffering more terrible than the suffering of the rack and thumb-screw in the dark ages of tyranny. And further these are the purest and most highly developed men and women of our world. The only way to save these grand souls is for them to unite their means and efforts to build a city separate from the evil disposed classes where they can have time and opportunity to learn the laws governing these things, and to arrange methods according to Divine law for the education and elevation of all, and thereby, relieve the earth from its present state of oppression.

There is another reason for such a move. If, as already accepted, all men are members of one body, then the life that animates one part of the body must also flow through, and be under the joint control of all members. That being so, the conserved potency of the few pure and good is at the disposal of the many lustful and depraved, and these draw from the others and are thereby strengthened in their lusts and kept from reaping the reward of their errors and from realizing the necessity of restraining their passions; and thus, instead of healing any by remaining with them, the opposite obtains. True are the words of the prophet Isaiah, XXXVI. 10. "Let favor be shown the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of Yahveh." If this is true then it would be for the greatest good to all to "come out from among them and be separate"; for if we do really reciprocate with them as is very apparent to all sensitives, then two evils are being enacted by the effort to remain with and help them; first, they feel the restraining influence and go to the other extreme; second we feed them with a life-element too fine for them, which sets on fire all their lower nature, and thus we hinder those who would reform. The other evil is that we are in our mental and spiritual nature beclouded so that we cannot know and do the will of the Spirit, neither can we rise into conditions of usefulness to ourselves or others. But what can be done by going out and building a city of order and harmony? First, each person must have developed in himself an understanding of the laws, methods, and objects of Creation (see in Practical Instructions in the October number of The ESOTERIC). From that it becomes apparent that all nature is working toward the one object i.e, to develop in man the knowledge and ability to become the controller of all God's works and to be the light of the world by whose guidance the nations will be instructed in all that is requisite for their well-being — physical, mental, and spiritual.

By each person dedicating his life to God, and inspiring the Spirit, and conserving the generative fluids — thus increasing the quantity and refining the quality of his life — they can so refine and sublimate their organism that it will become a vessel to receive and contain the Spirit, and thus enable them to sense the Spirit and thereby be received into its consciousness. Whereas in the present practice of human life the qualities are so gross, or coarse, that the Spirit cannot touch them and they can have no consciousness of It. Thus it becomes evident that the capacity is within our own body to obtain a consciousness of the one Spirit. Then all the spiritual faculties, such as have been known to be possessed by the ancient masters, "Jesus of Nazareth" included, will be possessed by all, and the one faculty, now becoming quite common, of thought-communication will give each a perfect knowledge of all, and of all the intents and purposes of each heart, so that there would no longer be secrets among the members of that body, and all misunderstanding and deception would disappear. Any one member of such a body of people out of harmony with them could not exist in association with them, and thus the greater part of the liability for discord would cease, and the balance would be overcome by the controlling desire of all "TO KNOW AND DO THE WILL OF GOD PERFECTLY." That would make such a place altogether undesirable for any one that had not that desire. Thus it becomes possible with proper care to bring together, first a few, and when they have arrived at the above harmonious conditions then to admit others, subject to the conditions already established; but none are eligible to membership of such an organism until they have a clear and definite conception of all the plans, methods and conditions of such a society, and a willingness to surrender all that now constitutes the desires and aspirations of life in the world as it now is, to the controlling mind and will of God, without the slightest reservation in any direction.

OBJECTS AND METHODS OF THE SOCIETY ESOTERIC.

The objects and the methods cannot be expressed clearly to the intelligence in the space we have, neither would the reader have time for its consideration. The Esoteric Magazine is an organ for that purpose. It aims to collect all the knowledges useful to the world, and screen them from the errors and ambiguities of a less enlightened age. It seeks to apply laws and methods to increase consciousness and the capacity of the human mind and body, by well-known laws which have been elucidated, in their primary principles, in the "Practical Instructions" given in the successive numbers of The Esoteric. The requirements are, that each member live up to their own highest ideal of right, that they should seek guidance from their innermost, and desire above all things to know the truth and utilize the knowledge thus gained, for the good of all as far as they are able. And when made conscious of a higher mind than their own, to seek guidance from that mind, and promise absolute obedience to the knowledge received therefrom. And when they are able to understand the fact that there was a well-defined plan and object in the Supreme Mind in creating the world and all there is therein, and a clear conception of what that object is and was, and of the methods used in carrying out that Purpose; then to dedicate all they have and are to be a co-worker in the carrying that out to the best of their means and abilities, and to apply any and all knowledge to increasing our capacity to know and to do service in that direction. When this is understood it will then be the axiom of our life that "Use determines all qualities, whether good or evil."

"There is no religion higher than truth." Truth is vital, and no religious or other organization can exist without the two vital principles in them, viz., — Use and Truth. Therefore, we do not antagonize anything, but we are convinced that the time has arrived and matured the mental capacity, that will enable us to collect and formulate all that is known, and organize it into an instrumentality of valuable service to the world. We know that there are two distinct classes in the world, the Religious and the Scientific. The religious predominates; but religion without science is blind and ignorant, science without religion is cold and heartless. Religion is the feminine mind, science is the masculine — they must marry, and the wife must be a helpmeet to the husband, and the husband the head, in the intellectual sphere, then, they together, will dwell in an eden superior to anything that has preceded it. None can permanently profit by belief alone, therefore all must act from their highest ability to know, and earnestly desire to know more, and if all will do the best they can, then are they fully justified, for Angels can do no more. Thus it is apparent that each individual must judge themselves by their capacity, and every person will be most happy when they occupy the place they are best fitted for. The College Esoteric will be organized for the purpose of teaching known laws and methods for the highest possible attainment; while the G.....R Department No. 1 will be engaged in experimentation, and obtaining new facts and methods for the general use of all classes of humanity to which such knowledge may be useful. The College will from the time of its completion be supplied with all knowledges now possessed by the Masters of the world, and if there is anything necessary to the people's development not now known, it will be in position to immediately receive it as soon as needed. The following extracts from The Esoteric will suffice to briefly indicate the general nature of a few of our teachings.

Devotedly your servant,

Hiram Erastus Butler.

Peace be unto You.

EXTRACTS FROM THE ESOTERIC.

"In the effort to obtain knowledge the world has gone through many cycles of labor, sorrow, and death. At the end of each cycle there has shone out the sunlight of knowledge in a particular sphere, only to leave the earth again clouded, to descend into darkness, to rise again at the end of another cycle." (Vol. I., Page 11.)

"But we find that, as man gets a glimpse of this divine Sophia, he becomes conscious of the laws of creative life. He realizes that life has its periods which are governed from the regularly organized and perfectly orderly system of our sun or centre; but, in considering these laws which control not only systems of worlds, but the race upon our earth, both in general and in detail, we are led to observe some of the reasons why mankind have not as yet reached the unit of true progress. And one especially is, that man has endeavored to travel alone, isolated, distinct, and separate from his sister woman. This as a rule is the way the ancient sages have endeavored to make attainments, not being able to grasp the idea of unity through God's presence in this dual relation; but Jesus, the great Master, came with higher light and deeper perception regarding the sphere of woman, teaching that in the beginning they were not two but one, and thus in a fuller degree was inaugurated a religious system which placed man and woman side by side at the altar of spiritual communion; and thus in the new cycle of progress, in the new temple of humanity, woman must have her true and coequal place with man, as the two in spiritual oneness become the true and essential unit of higher evolution." (Vol. I., Page 11-12.)

Force, then, is first, negative conservative magnetism, and is a principle of bondage or binding. It is a principle that, when carried into the realm of mind or matter, binds, restrains; and thus all men to-day are bound and held by woman. Every man is bound by her, — confined within the sphere of her limitations, out of which he cannot go without a struggle and effort of his own will; this, however, is not the voluntary action of her will, but is the magnetic potencies generated through her, and, as he cannot wholly escape limitations, neither can he advance save as she advances with him. Here then is laid the arena of combat, — of a struggle between the two great forces of creation which we now see active in domestic life, the positive and negative, between the effort of man to become spiritual and like his Creator, and the effort of the negative principle to hold and bind in the gestative sphere. The interior of woman is masculine. And it is incumbent on woman, at the present time, that she pause and think. Now this is contrary to her outward nature, which does not pertain to thought, but love; therefore she must think from the interior, the intuitive. She is magnetic, holding, binding, restraining the object of her love, to keep it within the limits of her own sphere; this is her outward nature; when she stops and thinks interiorly, reasonably and logically, she will find a place of higher usefulness where she can be free and become spirit, like the author of being, and thus advance with man....

Now the mother-nature, considered as a distinct principle, has no reason. The law of order in the pure mother-principle has no place. The feminine principle, as manifested in the higher order of womanhood, is not a reasoning principle, but it acts from the spontaneous soul, from within. It acts from the law of its nature, and we call it intuition. Intuition, when governed by cohesion, struggles against human progress. If you have a son, and that son has an inclination to a life that is not according to the life your father lived, not according to that you yourself are living, you at once condemn it, and at once begin to struggle against it. If a man or woman attempts to live on a different plane of existence from that on which you are, you condemn it, and do all in your power to hold on to that friend, and bind him in the sphere of your own existence. These are thoughts that we ought to think about, because we are in the time of progress....

The office of this mother-principle is to preserve and hold spirits in material bodies. That is why the ancient philosophers said it was impossible for woman to become a master, because her nature was that which took hold of, and bound all things in the flesh, and would not admit of that unfoldment that led into the spirit and the transmutation of the flesh. Therefore, they said, it was an absolute necessity that woman should go down to the grave and return as man in the second incarnation; for it was so believed by them. (For instance, you who today are here as women, the next time you will return as men. Again, you pass away and return as women, and so on, alternately. This is in harmony with the law of reincarnation. In connecting these subjects I am necessitated to throw out many things that may seem vague and unreasonable to those who have not thought deeply on such subjects, too great to expound in a single lecture. This is a new field of thought to the Occident, but not to the Orient.)

Woman has got to stop and think and try to unite her soul with the great Mother of the Universe. She has got to begin to look at herself and her companion, not as flesh, not as body, or as mere material. As long as she does, just so long will she be an adversary, and so long she herself will be bound in earth and will know nothing of the higher life, and the object of her love, because of that flesh she loves and clings to, will struggle against her, and slip out of her hands, and she will be found deserted and alone. The time has come when that mother-love must begin to take higher form. The divine Mother loves all her children alike, and so woman has to consider all as her children, all as objects of her special care and protection, and the husband as counterpart of her spirit, and not merely of the flesh, and that this spirit is a part of her spirit and as such it must be the object of her love, the object that she must try to aid, to unfold, and to free from its encumberings of earth. That, you see, at once reverses all the action of the old love-life. That is a question that she must consider. For as long as the action of her present life is that manifestation that belongs to cohesion alone, it is holding the persons she loves; it is binding their thought, consequently hindering their action, and keeping them just as they are.

Should this principle of cohesion have sway from this time, all would stop thinking and acting. Everything would be at a dead stand-still. We bless that divine principle; we should, and do admire and adore the mother-love. Yet, while it is good, it is good only while it is useful. There is nothing permanent that does not serve a use. Keep this maxim ever before you, that the great law of the Infinite Mind is that the use of a thing determines whether it is good or not. Now, when as mothers, as wives, those of you whose natures are overflowing with that divine maternal principle, and who have looked higher, deeper, more into the real man and the real woman, have discerned that a man is not the flesh, but the spirit, the soul, then will you begin to find that your relation to him is the relation of one-half of his being, and that Paul had in mind a law which is beyond that understood today when he said, "The man is not without the woman or the woman without the man in the Lord." Therefore the first thing to do is to conquer self, conquer this maternal nature in its lesser manifestations. Mothers and sisters, conquer yourselves! Men and brothers, rise above it; do not allow it to hinder your progress!

-- The Seven Creative Principles, by Hiram Erastus Butler

"There already exists in the heavens souls that have perfected their lives upon this and other worlds. They have formed the temple of the infinite after the pattern of the grand man of the universe, and are known as the Solar Circle. These grand souls who have greatly perfected their lives are now the agents and expressors of the mind of the Controller and Creator of this system; and the knowledge of their formula has been given that we on earth may fulfil the object and purpose that was announced at the time that Moses was commanded to build a temple, and commanded, as Paul says: "See that thou make all things after the pattern that was shown thee in the mount ... which is the pattern of the heavens." (Vol. I., Page 13.)

"Thus we see that in the generative function is not only the beginning of life, but also its means of perpetuation; for it not only creates, but recreates, containing, as it does, the basic element of immortality itself. But while the law of procreation is dominant it allows the body barely enough vitality to run the machinery, and when its own force is exhausted it dies out and carries down the body with it. Therefore if we would have higher life, or even a proper measure of physical life, we must take control of this function, and not allow it to use us, exhaust itself, and carry the body down to death. To control life and its generative forces involves the reversal of the present currents of nature, and to do this requires more effort than would at first appear. Men and women are now held and bound by its fascinating sway; it is the prime factor of our present social and domestic life, and on these does the very structure of government itself rest, and to do anything that affects changes in domestic habits involves a probable change in everything else.

I called attention to the fact that there are two laws of generation, the one in the procreation of children, the other that of the regeneration of one's self; but habit is such that this function is not content with what would be considered its natural use. And physiologists have presumed to encourage this unnatural waste, on the ground that it was necessary to the health of the body. But ask the physiologist if celibate animals do not reabsorb this vital principle, and physically profit thereby? Was not that the method of all the great masters of antiquity? Was this not the secret of their greatness? Certainly it was. It has been demonstrated in all ages by the few who became masters over themselves and the forces of nature. We see this in the example and masterly powers of Jesus, he also being a celibate; so we see that it was not only possible, but necessary, before great attainments could be made." (Vol. I., Page 34.)

"This brings us to the question of self-culture. That we may enter upon such culture and move towards our ideal where shall we begin? We must begin to increase the quality of the life-essences. Whatever will improve that will bring us more into the interior, and thereby bring us into more intimate relations with ourselves as well as into a knowledge of what we really are. On this account I have in my previous lectures emphasized the importance of controlling the reproductive principle, of conserving the life-essences, in order that they may be transmuted into the highest spiritual energy. I have striven to impress on your minds the necessity of such conservation, because it appeared to me that in that way only could man refine the essences of his nature, move forward in the direction of his destiny and towards a perfect oneness with his God." (Vol. I., Page 46.)

"Now, there is a method by which we can be refined and made more capable; for the spirit of God is a consuming fire and burns on the altar of reproduction, and in this way this power may be so transmuted, its essence so directed into higher spheres of utility, and the quality of this life-power so improved, in consequence, as to supply us with the ability by which we can cognize divine realities and attain to a realization of God." (Vol. I., Page 47.)

"I presume there has never been a time when there was so much dissatisfaction as exists to-day, and I presume that seven-eighths of the people that are thus uneasy and dissatisfied with their present conditions and surroundings, are entirely unconscious of the real underlying cause of their dissatisfaction. But we see, as this wave — for it is like a tidal wave of spiritual and soul aspiration towards these higher truths — sweeps over the land, it effects all life. It is in the life-essences of the ether; and as man inspires from that divine life-essence according to his quality, this dissatisfaction is produced upon different persons according to their degree of spiritual unfoldment." (Vol. I., Page 79.)

"The wise Brahman said, 'I came not to teach men that which they do not know, but to teach them those things which they do know.' This is the wisdom of a teacher of the esoteric science. Every man or woman that has come in any degree, into the consciousness of the Universal Soul, reaches out for a higher order or plane of life. But the life principle that I began to speak of a few moments ago, is only obtainable when all these barriers, thrown up by the peculiarities and idiosyncrasies of one's nature, are broken down by the only way that has ever existed or will exist to free ourselves from them, namely, by a Covenant with God. We have heard old people, when we were children, talking about witches selling themselves to the devil. I know I used to hear old people talking about these things when I was a boy. There is truth in this thought. A person has to virtually sell himself, soul, body and spirit, to whatever sphere of life he desires to become eminent in. While men and women stand in their own ego, and through their own will-power manifest their selfhood, they will find that they are in a constant struggle, a struggle that it is impossible for any man or any woman that ever lived or will live, probably, to maintain themselves in, and remain consistent with their own highest reason. Such struggles put up barriers against the unfoldment of the divine life that would otherwise flow in and take possession of them.

"When a man or woman has meditated upon Life, has seen the great truth that it has mind, consciousness, all that has been attributed to God, and that our ideas of a conscious Deity are absolutely true, that there is an independent thinking, conscious intelligence that takes cognizance of, and reciprocates with every sympathy, every emotion, and with all human intelligence as well as with life everywhere, then when a man enters into a covenant with that divine intelligence, he at once rests in that covenant. He says, 'I desire more now than all else in the world to be an instrument under the controlling power of that divine Mind.' This mind will be according to your own highest thought, let it be what it may, for every man makes to himself a God, whose nature and character are according to his own highest quality, by virtue of which he will when he lives up to his ideal, inspire constantly from that just a little above himself. And when he has entered into the covenant and feels like resting in it, he sells himself and belongs to God, and then will come the consciousness that that divine Being does take control of his life. It will lead him, will instruct him, illuminate his intelligence and he has only to perform the duties that are laid before him day by day." (Vol. I., Page 81.)

"I have often heard the quotation, 'As a man thinketh, so is he.' That is true. Whatever a man thinks, that he is, providing he believes it with all his heart, for whatever we believe without a doubt, we are. Now this belief that has no doubt in it may lead us to wonderful extremes. We have no idea and cannot have until we investigate the world of mind, to what extent that may lead us." (Vol. I., Page 81.)

"The ultimate to which we are calling your attention, towards which we are laboring, is to bring about a new world where the people will be prepared to live under the controlling influences of the infinite Mind, having conquered selfishness, hate and passion. When these are conquered, every cause of inharmony and combat, man with man, every struggle in life will have been destroyed. This ultimate will be a people of whom we may say, in order to bring it to the comprehension of the ordinary mind, that they will be as it were 'psychologized' by the infinite Mind. That is, their whole thought, their whole desire, and all that they are or hope to be, will be so linked to the Will of the universe that their wills and the will of God will be absolutely one." (Vol. I., Page 83.)

It is by the power of will that we are enabled to move a hand. If a more powerful will takes control of ours, — psychologize us, as we say, — it can prevent us from moving even that, notwithstanding our own will may desire so to do.
-- The Seven Creative Principles, by Hiram Erastus Butler

"To whatever extent we have matured spiritually, to that extent we sense the touch of the divine essence of being, and are thereby conscious of the realities of the existence of God, the spirit and soul of the universe. Before obtaining this consciousness, — which no one can do save by set rules and methods through which life may be developed, spirit consciousness matured, interior consciousness refined, concentrated, and ultimated into a consciousness of God — no man can intelligently and effectively pray to God." (Vol. I., Page 149.)

''The Universal Mind is causing many to realize that the time for a higher order of life on this planet has come and the best people of the land are responding to it." (Vol. I. , Page 412.)

"There are many who, as soon as they get one new idea, want to come before the public at once and begin to teach, when they really need to be taught. Those spiritual subjects are of grave import, and to teach them one should know all about them from personal experience; we need to do as the oriental sages, withdraw from the world and live quietly where the powers of comprehension and understanding can traverse freely the realms of knowledge and experience, bask in the sunlight of Divinity; then heaven would begin on earth, and a heaven surpassing that of ancient Eden might be enjoyed here. We know that if we can get the mind of the people to look into those laws that govern their own beings, and begin to develop their own powers; in a single seven years, many of these mature minds before me this afternoon might reach that state, where, if they should go out from the world and dwell in that spiritual thought, they would have obtained mental powers, so that such isolation would enable them to return to the people with all the abilities needed to lead others in that same divine harmony and heaven: whereas in remaining here among the people, subject to all their vicissitudes, they could never become conscious of the divine harmonies enough to enable them to lead others also into them." (Vol. I., Page 441.)

"Those having been faithfully complied with and the point gained where all waste of the vital fluids is stopped, we are ready to seek methods to escape the IMPRISONMENT IN THE NARROW CONFINES OF THE PHYSICAL BODY. Then it will matter but little where the body is, for we shall be free to go where and when we please, and then we shall find that there are many others even in the physical form who have attained like freedom and with whom we may come into the most harmonious and loving sympathies. There are many living on this planet who have made not only this attainment but far greater ones, and live in the full effulgence of Divine Light.

"Now the methods by which such a state may be obtained.

"This consciousness of the soul must be regarded as the essential self; that arising in the physical senses must be held in absolute subordination. We must constantly keep in mind the difference between the two states, soul and body. Remember, you are soul and you formed the body for your own use, and, that being so, you can re-form and control even the sensations of the body." (Vol II., Page 19.)

"We must remember that whatever our sympathies are, that sphere of consciousness will be the one that will open before us first; notwithstanding, we need not expect to come to this without many temptations and trials." (Vol. II., Page 99.)

"What we want most of all, is, to know our relations to the universe and the ultimate towards which everything tends, by virtue of an absolute and undeviating law. This knowledge obtained, will place us in harmony with all the forces; so that truth will appear true, and the understanding will be orderly, and as soon as a fact is suggested the mind will at once apprehend its relations and uses in the economy of God's great nature." (Vol. II., Page 159.)

"This again necessitates another belief, viz. that there are ages of development through which time all souls — or all but those who through occult knowledge make the superior attainments — must reincarnate, until the end of the age, when the planets will come into positions that will produce mental conditions that will turn the minds of the most mature toward the Divine laws and methods of attainment, and will give them a desire to reach the high goal. And all those who do, will be gathered together in one place where they will form one body in perfect harmony and unity of thought, feeling, and action; and through the spiritual powers and knowledge possessed by them they will never die, but when their body is sufficiently refined they can transmute it to soul-force and leave the earth at will." (Vol. II., Page 161.)

"There is another way of expressing a truth, proverbial among the masters of all ages: that a time of darkness and trial is sure to come to all. The Egyptian neophyte had seven years of preparation, before he came to the door of the sacred temple; and then, after receiving salutations, encouraging words, and words of the gravest warning, and preparation for death itself, he went first into a dark cavern where the sunlight could not reach him. There he came to judgment, when every wrong act of his life was called up before him in accusation, and he had to remain there until he had, by severest trial, worked out all his "karmic conditions" i.e. until he had been tried to the uttermost in all his weakest points of character; and never need he expect to get out of that cavern until he had overcome all and reached safely the other end of the dreary passage which opened into the gorgeous temple at the far end; but if he failed he died there.

"We have to enter that dark and dreary passage, and sometimes it takes us years of hard struggle before a ray of light will reach us. Your humble servant was seven years in that cavern because of so many failures; and if at any time he had concluded to return to his former conditions, he would have found them all swept away and nothing left but to take other spirits more wicked than himself and to sink down into conditions seven-fold worse than the first, until literal death had relieved him. The path to the high goal inevitably leads through this dark and trying passage; even Jesus had to pass through it. Now, do not flatter yourself that you are going to get into that glorious Temple of Light unless you pass 'the narrow and dangerous passage': (See II Esdras chapter 7).

Apocrypha: 2 Esdras Chapter 7

1 And when I had made an end of speaking these words, there was sent unto me the angel which had been sent unto me the nights afore:
2 And he said unto me, Up, Esdras, and hear the words that I am come to tell thee.
3 And I said, Speak on, my God. Then said he unto me, The sea is set in a wide place, that it might be deep and great.
4 But put the case the entrance were narrow, and like a river;
5 Who then could go into the sea to look upon it, and to rule it? if he went not through the narrow, how could he come into the broad?
6 There is also another thing; A city is builded, and set upon a broad field, and is full of all good things:
7 The entrance thereof is narrow, and is set in a dangerous place to fall, like as if there were a fire on the right hand, and on the left a deep water:
8 And one only path between them both, even between the fire and the water, so small that there could but one man go there at once.
9 If this city now were given unto a man for an inheritance, if he never shall pass the danger set before it, how shall he receive this inheritance?
10 And I said, It is so, Lord. Then said he unto me, Even so also is Israel's portion.
11 Because for their sakes I made the world: and when Adam transgressed my statutes, then was decreed that now is done.
12 Then were the entrances of this world made narrow, full of sorrow and travail: they are but few and evil, full of perils,: and very painful.
13 For the entrances of the elder world were wide and sure, and brought immortal fruit.
14 If then they that live labour not to enter these strait and vain things, they can never receive those that are laid up for them.
15 Now therefore why disquietest thou thyself, seeing thou art but a corruptible man? and why art thou moved, whereas thou art but mortal?
16 Why hast thou not considered in thy mind this thing that is to come, rather than that which is present?
17 Then answered I and said, O Lord that bearest rule, thou hast ordained in thy law, that the righteous should inherit these things, but that the ungodly should perish.
18 Nevertheless the righteous shall suffer strait things, and hope for wide: for they that have done wickedly have suffered the strait things, and yet shall not see the wide.
19 And he said unto me. There is no judge above God, and none that hath understanding above the Highest.
20 For there be many that perish in this life, because they despise the law of God that is set before them.
21 For God hath given strait commandment to such as came, what they should do to live, even as they came, and what they should observe to avoid punishment.
22 Nevertheless they were not obedient unto him; but spake against him, and imagined vain things;
23 And deceived themselves by their wicked deeds; and said of the most High, that he is not; and knew not his ways:
24 But his law have they despised, and denied his covenants; in his statutes have they not been faithful, and have not performed his works.
25 And therefore, Esdras, for the empty are empty things, and for the full are the full things.
26 Behold, the time shall come, that these tokens which I have told thee shall come to pass, and the bride shall appear, and she coming forth shall be seen, that now is withdrawn from the earth.
27 And whosoever is delivered from the foresaid evils shall see my wonders.
28 For my son Jesus shall be revealed with those that be with him, and they that remain shall rejoice within four hundred years.
29 After these years shall my son Christ die, and all men that have life.
30 And the world shall be turned into the old silence seven days, like as in the former judgments: so that no man shall remain.
31 And after seven days the world, that yet awaketh not, shall be raised up, and that shall die that is corrupt
32 And the earth shall restore those that are asleep in her, and so shall the dust those that dwell in silence, and the secret places shall deliver those souls that were committed unto them.
33 And the most High shall appear upon the seat of judgment, and misery shall pass away, and the long suffering shall have an end:
34 But judgment only shall remain, truth shall stand, and faith shall wax strong:
35 And the work shall follow, and the reward shall be shewed, and the good deeds shall be of force, and wicked deeds shall bear no rule.
36 Then said I, Abraham prayed first for the Sodomites, and Moses for the fathers that sinned in the wilderness:
37 And Jesus after him for Israel in the time of Achan:
38 And Samuel and David for the destruction: and Solomon for them that should come to the sanctuary:
39 And Helias for those that received rain; and for the dead, that he might live:
40 And Ezechias for the people in the time of Sennacherib: and many for many.
41 Even so now, seeing corruption is grown up, and wickedness increased, and the righteous have prayed for the ungodly: wherefore shall it not be so now also?
42 He answered me, and said, This present life is not the end where much glory doth abide; therefore have they prayed for the weak.
43 But the day of doom shall be the end of this time, and the beginning of the immortality for to come, wherein corruption is past,
44 Intemperance is at an end, infidelity is cut off, righteousness is grown, and truth is sprung up.
45 Then shall no man be able to save him that is destroyed, nor to oppress him that hath gotten the victory.
46 I answered then and said, This is my first and last saying, that it had been better not to have given the earth unto Adam: or else, when it was given him, to have restrained him from sinning.
47 For what profit is it for men now in this present time to live in heaviness, and after death to look for punishment?
48 O thou Adam, what hast thou done? for though it was thou that sinned, thou art not fallen alone, but we all that come of thee.
49 For what profit is it unto us, if there be promised us an immortal time, whereas we have done the works that bring death?
50 And that there is promised us an everlasting hope, whereas ourselves being most wicked are made vain?
51 And that there are laid up for us dwellings of health and safety, whereas we have lived wickedly?
52 And that the glory of the most High is kept to defend them which have led a wary life, whereas we have walked in the most wicked ways of all?
53 And that there should be shewed a paradise, whose fruit endureth for ever, wherein is security and medicine, since we shall not enter into it?
54 (For we have walked in unpleasant places.)
55 And that the faces of them which have used abstinence shall shine above the stars, whereas our faces shall be blacker than darkness?
56 For while we lived and committed iniquity, we considered not that we should begin to suffer for it after death.
57 Then answered he me, and said, This is the condition of the battle, which man that is born upon the earth shall fight;
58 That, if he be overcome, he shall suffer as thou hast said: but if he get the victory, he shall receive the thing that I say.
59 For this is the life whereof Moses spake unto the people while he lived, saying, Choose thee life, that thou mayest live.
60 Nevertheless they believed not him, nor yet the prophets after him, no nor me which have spoken unto them,
61 That there should not be such heaviness in their destruction, as shall be joy over them that are persuaded to salvation.
62 I answered then, and said, I know, Lord, that the most High is called merciful, in that he hath mercy upon them which are not yet come into the world,
63 And upon those also that turn to his law;
64 And that he is patient, and long suffereth those that have sinned, as his creatures;
65 And that he is bountiful, for he is ready to give where it needeth;
66 And that he is of great mercy, for he multiplieth more and more mercies to them that are present, and that are past, and also to them which are to come.
67 For if he shall not multiply his mercies, the world would not continue with them that inherit therein.
68 And he pardoneth; for if he did not so of his goodness, that they which have committed iniquities might be eased of them, the ten thousandth part of men should not remain living.
69 And being judge, if he should not forgive them that are cured with his word, and put out the multitude of contentions,
70 There should be very few left peradventure in an innumerable multitude.

And you can expect that the first few years of this road may be bright and encouraging, but remember that the opposite will come, and when it does, then know you have finished all your work on this plane of life and there actually remains nothing for you but to go through, trusting Divine mercy; for then, you have reached the junction of two ways, one this dark and trying passage, the other, death of the body; and if you choose to turn back at this point, then great darkness and many evils will follow, and early dissolution, preparatory to coming back into the body again, as a child under very unfavorable conditions, where darkness will be intensified many-fold. So there is no escape.

"Every one that comes into the world has a certain amount of use to perform, and the teachings that we are giving, are for the purpose of accelerating these developments and hastening on that period that is inevitable for all, sooner or later; and as soon as you have lived out your former karma, you are ready and must meet your present life's karma, that is, you must meet, and live out, and conquer all the conditions that you have created in yourself during this life; for it is an inevitable law that we reap that which we sow; and how much better is it to meet them as brave men and women and conquer them, now that we know what they are, than to delay the work for another life!

"Life is as though we were placed in a long corridor, impregnable walls on either side (composed by the limits of our capacity), forcing circumstances behind us — which are the needs and conditions of life. The inevitable destiny for which we were made lies at the far end of the corridor; circumstances, like an army of spears, force us on slowly, but with ever-present persistency. Now we can choose in this state whether we will move forward only as we are forced by the point of the spear, rush blindly against the walls and injure ourselves, or place our eye on the inevitable end, and make all haste in reaching it." (Vol., II. Page 206.)

Some Reasons for Building The Esoteric College.

1st, — Thousands of the most highly developed people all over the land are suffering and dying for the want of quiet and harmonious surroundings, wherein their real natures can find development and expression.

2nd, — Many are being destroyed by the impure and poisonous emanation from vicious people; and all sensitive natures are being constantly diseased in mind and body, by the radiation from those who are mentally and morally diseased.

3rd, — Good men and women are constantly pained by the lack of proper education amongst those with whom they come in contact; the lack of knowledge prevents their understanding and practicing those matters which would contribute most directly towards the prevention of poverty, disease and crime.

4th, — Under present social conditions, those who possess means, and who desire to be philanthropic, and to help the needy by direct contributions, find their help is more frequently a curse instead of a blessing.

5th, — Those who use their wealth to endow institutions of learning, hospitals and homes, frequently find them used for selfish purposes, and that the learning and training received, fails to touch the moral and spiritual nature, and that their efforts have failed in accomplishing the good intended.

6th, — The possession of the necessary wealth to properly equip and endow an institution of the kind contemplated, is becoming extremely hazardous in the present social condition, and precautions must be taken for the protection of such an institution from all possible encroachments by vandalism and riot, and this is what the College can promise its investors.

7th, — Great attainments are almost impossible to the majority, in the present unhealthful conditions of the air, water, soil, foods, and society; the College will obviate these difficulties.

8th, — There will be no discordant noises, pitches, forces and conditions to disturb studies and contemplations; there will be no opportunities for students to indulge in bad practices or habits during their College life, they must lead an absolutely chaste life free from all vices. A few years free from excitement, evils, impure air, water, foods, and in the presence of pure people will do wonderful things for the good of the young men and women of the land.

9th, — A full course in all the Arts and Sciences, and in all the knowledge of the world will be given to all classes that are willing to receive and able to utilize, from the preliminary culture, to the highest attainments that can be made by man.

10th, — The College will from the first, have connected with it the Laboratory of Department No. 1. G....R; and if proper facilities can be obtained it will in due time become the general G.....R Laboratory and Department, through which the Esoteric Movement can have access to materials and wealth proportionate to its needs and utmost uses, to an extent of which it is at present unwise to speak except to those who are to become interested in the work.

11th, — The College will possess the combined knowledges of all ages past, and as soon as in good working order can control, by new and startling inventions and discoveries, all the methods of civilization and give to the world a system of ethics which will remove war and strife; but of this we are not at liberty to speak further than to say that it can control the world's food-supply, not by monopolizing or interfering with the present sources of supply, but by offering a new and perpetual source of edibles and nutrients containing all the elements needed for the growth and maintenance of the body and mind, — one that will do away with the slaughtering of animals, and the eating of improperly preserved foods, diseased meats, and partly decayed vegetables.

Any person who desires to be engaged in such work should call upon or address us, and we will guarantee to convince them of the truth of the above statements.

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May the God and Father of all the Living, so guide and control the mind of his prepared ones, that they will act in this all important matter, not only for their own eternal well-being, but for that of all.

Cause them, O God of love, wisdom and power, to realize the facts herein stated! Thou hast made provisions for the answer to the oft repeated prayer, — "Let Thy kingdom come, and Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven;" and may they be caused to realize that herein. Thou, in Thy bountiful goodness hast made provisions for them, which will more than justify the words: — "Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive what God has prepared for those who love him." O God, into thy hands have we committed all we are, all we have or will ever be entrusted with, to be used for thy beloved children, asking naught for self; and if we are permitted to see thy people enjoying the good Thou hast prepared for them, we shall be satisfied. Now into Thy hands we commit the result of this our effort. Do Thou dispose the people according to Thy wisdom, for the work is Thine, the people are thine, and we Thy servants to be commanded, and we will obey.

Amen.

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