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Authorized Instruction
in Rosicrucian Philosophy
(Selection of paragraphs published under the above title over several Mercury issues)

Luciferians, Fear
(Mercury, February 23, 1920)

When man assumed rulership over his own knowledge, he made the Astral Body the starting point. This made the Ego to be in future largely dependent upon the Astral Body and opened Man to the temptations of his lower nature. This lower nature was greatly influenced by the "irregularly evolved" Moon-spirits known as the Lucifers or Luciferian Spirits. These spirits endowed man with freedom and latitude of activity in his individual consciousness and by this very endowment created the differentiation between good and "evil." With this freedom came less of original clairvoyance and the consequent uncertainty of the future, and this uncertainty was the primary initiation of Fear in the humanity-in-the-making, for fear is "a direct result of error."

Permancy of Love and Fear
(Mercury, February 23, 1920)

It is a long step from lost Lemuria to the present day, but the advent of these primal emotions of Love and Fear into the then developing humanity and even in its still more tenuous existence in the Panic Times, shows the permanence of the elements which were built into the progenitors of the human species, for today these two, Love and Fear, are the basic elements of human emotionalism. We seek to develop the first to its spiritual status of idealistic perfection; the second we hope to conquer, but the struggle is long and arduous and success comes only to those who are willing to live the life originally intended for all humanity, which at present, means a life of trial, suffering and often crucifixion.

Interpretation of Karma
(Mercury, March 8, 1920)

The evolution of consciousness from its primitive states, and its secondary attribute, conscience, brought about the establishment of another condition or state, known as Karma. This principle, Karma, we term the primary attribute, as it is really the first resultant upon the attainment of full waking consciousness. Waking consciousness may be termed the cause, Karma the effect. Conscience, as the secondary attribute is the means by which the humans may modify the effect.

Law of Cause and Effect
(Mercury, March 8, 1920)

Karma, which is now known as distinct Law of Life by all schools of genuine occultism, is often defined as the "Law of Cause and Effect" and in its operation is explained by the saying, "as ye sow, so shall ye reap."

Personal Responsibility
(Mercury, March 8, 1920)

Karma is the personal responsibility for acts committed:-

A - Consciously
B - Unconsciously

How Operative
(Mercury, March 8, 1920)

Every act we perform, or thought we conceive, or word we utter has a direct and an indirect result. If the thought, word or deed is good, the result will be principally for good, allowing for a certain amount of error in judgment due to human fallibility.

If the thought, word or deed be wrong, the result will be wrong with a still smaller latitude for human error in judgment.

Guardian of the Threshold
(Mercury, March 8, 1920)

It is this very Law of Karma that brings us face to face, as it were, with the GUARDIAN OF THE THRESHOLD, that principle so frequently mentioned by occultists and mystics, yet, regarding which, so many conflicting theories and explanations have been offered.

The Guardian of the Threshold is not necessary met with by those who simply develop spiritual clairvoyance, unless they chose to do so, and if they are at all instructed, it is a condition, which few care to undertake to meet willingly.

When Met

Generally speaking, there are two distinct occasions when the Guardian of the Threshold is encountered:

1st--- After death, if the individual is sufficiently advanced
to understand spiritual conditions. Otherwise it comes
to such as a demoniacal influence in accord with the evil
powers commonly taught by popular theology.

2nd--- As a test in REAL initiation, not the initiation of degrees
in a mortal school, but the inner, spiritual initiation into
the actual mysteries.

What the Guardian Really Is

The Terror or Guardian of the Threshold IS THE EPITOME OR KARMIC ACCUMULATION OF THE CONCRETED THOUGHT FORMS OF OUR INDIVIDUAL BAD KARMA, and takes the form principally developed by the major aspect of our hidden thoughts. If the thoughts have been sensual, the Guardian will be a sensual monstrosity, and similarly according to whether our thoughts have been vicious, brutal, malicious, revengeful, envious, covetous or idolatrous.

Importance of Being Able to Meet the Guardian Successfully

No amount of study or theorizing will enable the student of the mysteries to successfully encounter the Guardian. Only the Life of Right Thought, Right Action, and Right Feeling will put him in a condition and position to do so. This passing is the hell that we must all experience, but to whosoever is dully prepared will come the bright and powerful assistance of the spiritual forces that guide and govern man in his long journey through the ages of evolutionary process and the gradual unfoldment of his consciousness to higher and higher states and planes of comprehension and understanding.