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to prepare for a grand oratorical effort to thrill his
hearers on
Sunday, but spends every day alike in humble endeavor to do
the Mas-
ter's will regardless of outward applause. Thus unconsciously
he works
up toward that grand climax which in the history of the
noblest of
all who have trod this path is spoken of as the "Transfiguration."
The Transfiguration is an alchemical process by which the
.
physical body
formed by the chemistry of physiological processes is turned into a
living
stone such as is mentioned in the Bible. The medieval alchemists
who were
seeking the Philosopher's Stone were not concerned with
transmutation of
such dross as material god, but aimed at the greater goal as
indicated
above.
Moisture gathered in the clouds falls to earth as rain when it
has con-
densed sufficiently, and it is again evaporated into clouds by the
heat of
the sun. This is the primal cosmic formula. Spirit also condenses
itself
into matter and becomes mineral. But though it be crystallized
into the
harness of flint, life still remains, and by the alchemy of nature
working
through another life stream the dense mineral constituents of the
soil are
transmuted to a more flexible structure in the plant, which may be
used as
food for animal and man. These substances become sentient flesh by
the al-
chemy of assimilation. When we note the changes in the structure of
the hu-
man body evidenced by comparison of the Bushmen, Chinese, Hindus,
Latins,
Celts, and Anglo-Saxons, it is plainly apparent that the flesh of
man is
even now undergoing a refining process which is eradicating the
coarser,
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grosser substances. In time by evolution this process of
spiritualization
will render our flesh transparent and radiant with the Light that
shines
within, radiant as the face of Moses, the body of Buddha, and the
Christ at
the Transfiguration.
At present the effulgence of the indwelling Spirit is effectually
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dark-
ened by our dense body, but we may draw hop even from the science of
chemis-
try. There is nothing on earth so rare and precious as radium, the
luminous
extract of the dense black mineral called pitchblende; and there is
nothing
so rare as that precious extract of the human body, the radiant
Christ. At
present we are lavoring to form the Christ within, but when the inner
Christ
has grown to full stature, He will shine through the transparent body
as the
LIGHT OF THE WORLD.
It is an anatomical fact of common knowledge that the spinal cord
is di-
vided into three sections, from which the motor, sensory, and
sympathetic
nerves are controlled. Astrologically these are ruled by the moon,
Mars,
and Mercury, which are divine Hierarchies tht have played a great
role in
human evolution through the nervous systems indicated. Among the
ancient
alchemists these were designated by the three alchemical elements,
salt,
sulphur, and mercury. Between them and upon them played the spinal
Spirit
Fire of Neptune. It rose in a serpentine column through the spinal
cord to
the ventricles of the brain. In the great majority of mankind the
Spirit
Fire is still exceedingly weak. But whenever a spiritual awakening
occurs
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in anyone such as that which takes place in a genuine conversion, or
better
still at the Baptism of the Christian Mystic, the the downpouring
of the
Spirit, which is an actual fact, augments the spinal Spirit Fire to
an al-
most unbelievable extent, and forthwith a process of regeneration
begins
whereby the gross substances of the threefold body of many are
gradually
thrown out, rendering the vehicles more permeable and quickly
responsive to
spiritual impulses. The further the process if carried, the more
efficient
servants they become in the vineyard of the Master.
The spiritual awakening which starts this process of regeneration
in the
Christian Mystic who purifies himself by prayer and service, comes
also of
course to those who are seeking God by way of knowledge and service,
but it
acts in a different way, which is noted by the spiritual
investigator. In
the Christian Mystic the regenerative spinal Spirit Fire is
concentrated
principally upon the lunar segment of the spinal cord, which
governs the
sympathetic nerves under the rulership of Jehovah. Therefore his
spiritual
growth is accomplished by faith as simple, childlike, and
unquestioning as
it was in the days of early Atlantis when men were mindless. He
therefore
draws down the great white Light of Deity reflected through
Jehovah, the
Holy Spirit, and attains to the whole wisdom of the world without the
neces-
sity of laboring for it intellectually. This gradually transmutes
.
his body
into THE WHITE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE, THE DIAMOND SOUL.
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In those, on the other hand, whose minds are strong and
insistent on
knowing the reason why and the wherefore of every dictum and dogma,
the Spi-
nal Fire of regeneration plays upon the segments of the red Mars
and the
colorless Mercury, endeavoring to infuse desire with reason, to
purify the
former of the primal passion that it may become chaste as the rose,
and thus
transmute the body into the RUBY SOUL, THE RED PHILOSOPHER'S STONE,
TRIED BY
FIRE, PURIFIED, A CREATIVE BUDDING INDIVIDUALITY.
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