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RO SICRU CIA N ORDER

AMORC
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Supplementary Monograph
PRINYCO IN U. S. A.

T h e subject m atter of this monograph must be understood by the reader or student

of same, not to be the official Rosicrucian teachings. These monographs constitute a series
of supplementary studies provided by the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, both to members
and nonmembers, because they are not the secret, prívate teachings of the Order.
The object of these supplementary monographs is to broaden the mind of the student by
presenting him with the writings, opinions, and dissertations of authorities in various fíelas
of human enterprise and endeavor. Therefore, it is quite probable that the reader will
note at times in these supplementary monographs statements made which are inconsistent
with the Rosicrucian teachings or viewpoint. Rut with the realization that they are mere-
ly supplem en tary and that the Rosicrucian Organization is not endorsing or condoning
them, one must take them m erely for their ir prima facie valué. Throughout the supple-
m entary series the authors or transíators of the subject will be given due credit whenever
we have knowledge of their identity.

R O S IC R U C IA N P A R K , S A N JO S E , C A L IF O R N IA

"Consecrated to truth and dedicated to every Rosicrucian"

S P E C IA L S U B J E C T LECTURE NUMBER

NINTH SPECIAL

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APPLYING ROSICRUCIAN PRINCIPIES TO DAILY LIVING

By Thor Kiimalehto, Past Grand Master, AMORC

Your life can be immensely simplified if you utilize every

principie at every opportunity that presents itself. For example, let
us say that some great want exists in your life. Suppose that part of
your unhappiness is due to resentment and a tendency to self-pity. If
you would take the point of view that your efforts must eventually be
crowned with success, and that there are good and sufficient reasons
for the delay, much of the pain would disappear. This change in atti-
tude raakes the situation easier to endure and the problem easier to
handle. If you can erase the resentment and the self-pity, you will
become more cheerful and more agreeable. People, thereupon, will feel
more comfortable in your presence.

If you suffer frequently from accidents and mishaps, you have

set going a negative, des tructive wave of influence. The only way to
combat this is through concentrating on harmony for a few days.
Vrite the word on a card. Place it in your purse. Place it on your
desk. Place it on your dressing mirror or where you can see it. Let
the thought sink into your innermost consciousness and become part of
your natural feeling and awareness; the negative vibrations will be
transmuted into positive, and the mishaps will cease.

If you suffer frequently from colds, fevers, and illness, be

patient. First, you must not be alarmed. Fear intensifies a con-
dition. Second, you must know that nature heals. Nature can take
care of most of our ailments provided we do not put obstacles in her
path. Analyze your habits. Do you observe the minimum essentials of
health? Are you regular in your physical habits? Do you have a
reasonable amount of fresh air, sunshine, exercise, raw food, vegeta­
bles, and water? Do you have sufficient relaxation and sleep? Is
your system clean? Is your blood stream puré? If you can answer in
the affirmative, you have nothing to fear from any condition. You can
throw practically everything off provided you go to bed when you feel
ill so that the healing forces of the body can concéntrate on their
task. Everything in nature is relativo to cause and effect, and we
very often suffer from negative effects of which we ourselves have
created the cause.

My experience is that he who sincerely tries to live the Rosi­

crucian life, who tries to do his duty to the best of his ability,
and who tries to be a channel for cosmic forces is given the vitality
he needs to do his work. Unaided nature can never give a man the
amount of strength that the Cosmic awakens in him through the Rosicru­
cian training and the Rosicrucian life. There are hidden stores of
energy in every human being. It may take several years before the
results are apparent. These results, however, are an absolute, de-
monstrable fact. Anyone who is patient and persistent, who endures
the tests and triáis of life that accompany every step of the way, will
find when he reaches the higher Degrees that regeneration is an ab-
solute fact. Even before this degree of development is attained, the
exercises and principies will strengthen the visión, overcome fatigue
and headaches, help throw off colds, and g.enerally strengthen the
body. Applying Rosicrucian principies, however, does not mean neg-
lecting or ignoring the human needs of the body, which is the Temple
of the Soul. It does not mean ignoring rest periods or vacations.
Rest is both a divine principie and a principie of nature. The
systole and the dias tole of the heart are alternating periods of ac-
tivity and rest. The Bible tells us that the seventh day of the
period of creation was a rest period. In emergencies strange things do
happen, but the law of emergencies must not replace the orderly move-
ment of life.
Another result of the exercises is a remarkable strengthening of
the ability to concéntrate. One soror writes that she has been able to
become utterly oblivious of noise and distractions. No matter how
many guests she may have to entertain, she can mentally make her plans
for the day and the week. In a noisy lunchroom, with the radio going
full blast, she can peacefully read a book or an article.

Another soror tells that even as a young girl it was difficult

for her to sit up late. If she wanted to feel thoroughly rested in
the morning, she had to go to bed at nine o'clock. After several
years of the Rosicrucian work she finds that the des iré to go to sleep
at nine has left her. Consequently, her day is longer and more enjoy-
able. At nine o ’clock she can relax, read or study, or do whatever
else she wishes. Only people who have suffered from limited vitality
know what a boon it is to be able to attend a lee ture or to go to a
concert. She also states that her movements have become much more
rapid so that she is able to accomplish more in the same amount of
time. She is able to complete her household tasks before noon so that
there is plenty of time and energy for community and social activities,
and study. Previously, after a strenuous morning of housework, she had
to rest several hours in the afternoon. Now her strength is un-
diminished, and when her home duties are completed, she can start a
new eyele of activity. Is it not unusual for a woman of forty to find
her body functioning more smoothly and her physical movements becoming
more rapid?

To live the Rosicrucian life, to become a channel for cosmic

forces and purposes, is to put oneself in alignment with the great
cosmic streams of energy and power. As the years go by, as the Rosi­
crucian life becomes habitual, one achieves a sense of perfect securi-
ty, a feeling of being at home in the world. Tasks come which you can
do. People come who need what you have to give. Opportunities come
such as you require. Changes occur, the purpose of which is to initi-
ate one into a new type or field of activity. To the average indivi­
dual, changes are perplexing and confusing. The mystic student knows
that they are purposeful and to be welcomed. The Rosicrucian student
lives in the NOW and concentrates on the task nearest at hand. He
realizes the importance of TODAY as no average individual possibly can,
and he realizes the significance of even the most trivial duty of his
daily life. He therefore does not waste his energy or scatter his
interests. He has found his center, and every task, every interest
takes its place around that center.

Most people waste time and energy worrying about whether they
have taken the right course of action and whether some other course
might not have proved more successful. The Rosicrucian student knows
that every bit of experience is valuable. Whatever he learns about
life, about people, and about conditions is bound to prove valuable
and helpful. The smallest job has itspurpose and can prove to be a
stepping-stone to something better. Nojob is insignificant. Any
córner may prove to be a fulcrum to move the world. Walt Whitman
studied life in the busses and on the bridges of New York. John
Masefield, the poet laureate of England, did not scorn to sweep a bar-
room in Yonkers. Eugene O ’Neill, the well-known dramatist, was a hand
on a tramp steamer.

Another source of irritation in daily life is our emotional

reaction to the tactless remarks and actions of people. As Rosicru-
cians, we learn to look upon people as children of a larger growth.
We realize that inopportune remarks and clumsy actions are the
results of a limited understanding and emotional inadequacies. We no
longer take personal offense. We realize that it is children who
speak, who know no better. We are no longer hurt. Rather, we must
try to help them and forgive them. In a quiet and pleasant way, with-
out rancor or complaint, we can help them change their viewpoint, or
overcome a prejudice, or become less personal in outlook. We must
walk among men as teachers and helpers, but unobtrusively and sympa-
thetically. People must open their hearts to us naturally. They must
feel the universal love in our hearts. In a world of suffering and
blindness, we can bring understanding and enlightenment. So many
human beings are passing through the Dark Night of the Soul that we
can have no more blessed task than to lend a helping hand to those
people being tried in the crucible of firé. We can sustain their
courage with our assistance.

Think how exhilarating life becomes when you have conquered

worry, when you no longer feel resentment or self-pity, when you know
that your most important concern is the task nearest at hand, when you
know that the time and strength for your task will be given to you,
that what you need for your work will come at the right moment, that
the promises of the Bible are literally true. Think how far your
income can be stretched, even though not one dollar would be added,
when throughout a year only a minimum, or nothing at all, has to be
spent for illness. One member said that for the first time in his
life he did not have to spend one dollar for the dentist or doctor.

The Cosmic sustains him who lives for others. Think how much
more pleasure you can get out of life when you know that you have a
right to enjoy the good things of life; that asceticism is a false
doctrine; that nature, music, laughter, and art are to be enjoyed. We
take our place in the brotherhood of men. We offer our services and
our talents, but our personal lives are not meant to be barren, cheer-
less, and unadorned. Nature manifests not only Wisdom but great
Beauty. The more highly developed we are, the more sensitive we are
to the inspiration of beauty. We becomemore appreciative of what is
noble, inspiring, and beautiful. The undeveloped human being has
little pleasure outside of the satisfaction of his appetites, sees
little beauty in life or nature, and has appreciation of only the
crudest virtues in human character. The developed human being sees
beauty everywhere and appreciates a widerange of human qualities and
types of personalities. Only the mystic can appreciate hoi^ beautiful
life is and how good G-od is. Nature becomes a living mantle of the
living God. Every blossom, every insect, becomes a symbol of Divine
Wisdom and Life Everlasting. Whatever the Pather has is for his
children if they would fulfil the simple requirements--to live joyous-
ly, to love, and to serve. What a sad spectacle the human race must
make in the eyes of its Father--hugging selfishly what it thinks
belongs to it, permitting no one else to get a share, and pitifully
crying for more.

The most wonderful gift that life can give one is a great cause
to serve, noble altruistic souls to work with and to inspire one, and
a philosophy of life that makes every day eventful and every incident
meaningful. When one has tasted the joy of service, how res trieted is
the average life confined to one little home, and frequently to but
one individual! Such a life is the seedling from which the larger
life in turn must blossom. We can truly say that only the mystic
understands life, appreciates what life and this world have to offer,
and lmows what true joy is.
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It has been a pleasure to bring this message to you. I sincerely

hope that I will have opportunity to continué your instruction and to
guide you into and through the higher esoteric teachings of the Order.

Knowledge is unlimited, and while you have had many of the funda­
mental principies which serve as the foundation of the Rosicrucian
philosophy, there is still an unlimited fieId of esoteric knowledge
and application of the principies which you may have the opportunity
to gain. Therefore, allow me to suggest at this time that you renew
your affiliation with the Order. Sign your ñame, key number, and
present address in the space provided on the next page and send it
with one month’s dues, which will be all that is necessary for you to
forward to have full privileges of membership resumed immediately.
Not only will you receive these higher instructions in the form of
weekly monographs, but all of the other privileges of membership will
be available to you from all of the departments of the organization,
as well as the monthly magazine, the Rosicrucian Digest.

I-lay I hear from you soon?

Sincerely and fraternally,

YOUR CLASS MASTER

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Tuesday

To You of the Higher Degrees

Respected Member:

Does it seem good to you to receive this gray envelope again?

Haven't you missed this regular contact with the Rosicrucian Order?
The special monograph enclosed is for your thoughtful consideration.

We are sure that everyone who has advanced to the higher teach-
ings has felt their valué in his life and has made use of the princi­
pies presented. Por some reason, however, it was necessary for you
to withdraw from the Order. Although you have not received these
monographs regularly in recent months, the organization wishes you to
know that you are welcome to share again the benefits to be derived
from these higher degrees of the Order. Since you have already laid
the foundation for the use and application of the principies to be
presented in future monographs, you would find continuing study es-
pecially helpful.

I ara sure you will be Ínterested in the words of a former Grand

Master who prepared the discourse contained in the enclosed monograph,
It is a consideration of practical aspects of the Rosicrucian philoso-
phy. Read it carefully to avail yourself of the truths and applica-
tions it contains. Imagine that it is a regular monograph, such as
you studied in the past. It is to be hoped that it will be possible
for you to resume your study and particípate actively once more in
the work of the Order.

With all good wishes for Peace Profound.

Sincerely amd fraternally,

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