Evening star., 1922-03-12

SO that we can grasp the Great Truth
receive these beautiful vibrations"
How wonderful to be upon the
higher planes" murmured Mrs. Spar
hawk ecstatically.
/ The loving thoughts are neve"
| lost" said the swami Il am about
! to write a book Of cosmic poetry.
based upon absolute. faith and trus.
and love. Perhaps your niece will
| come to the temple every mornins
and help me? l believe you said she
could typewrite--
| Isn't that rather material?" asked
Enid, smiling. The swami laughed
| frankly.
"Oh, no-our atmosphere must be
! impervious to the material. To think.
you see. is only to create from astral
material We must bear in mind the
hermatic axioms. 1t is only nineteen
and a half millions of years since the
i Sons Of Mind came to earth to train
| the embryotic mentality of the earth
+! born. We are not yet free of the
earth condition. BY the way. Mrs.
| Sparhawk. shall devote my next lee
| ture to the recent gift you have made
! L
! of it's exact ego and karmatic SYM
| bolisnl-.
/ Mrs. Sparhawk was much gratified.
! Enid Sparhawk came. as aforesaid,
/ from Michigan. where the doctrines
! OF higher thought and the spherical
basis of higher thought and the
; spherical basis of the ego had not as
vet penetrated very deeply. She was
a healthy girl. not at all worried
| whether she got anybody's vibrations
or not, and the infatuation of her
| aunt with Swami Lars teachings
struck her-at first-as rather good
| joke.
After a few days her amusement
lessened considerably.
i Enid was well equipped to help the
= swami get his book of cosmic
! poetry into shape, and Mrs. Sparhawk
thought it would be beautiful. educa-
J tional and uplifting work. The dear
man had had so many sorrows in
life! A little comprehensive sympathy
was what he needed. Not that he
really needed anything, Of course.
| since he was on a Higher Plane and
his eyes were opened to the Thirty
| two Paths-still, it would do Enid
good.
! At length Enid accepted the astral
lob, for reasons of her own. Chief
among these reasons was the weekly
] check her aunt handed Swami Lal.
She announced her acceptance. her
/ ;v
and that evening they attended the
lecture. Enid at once found that she
was in bit over her depth, but there
| was no drawing back now.
The temple was placed in the big
living room of a bungalow out on
Sunset avenue. Enid was one of twen-
ty-nine devotees gathered together,
and twenty-eight were women. The
twenty ninth was young man with
red hair, who looked bashful. Some
one found that his name was Paracel-
sus Grumbine, that he was a member
of three Rosicrucian brotherhoods.
and that he loved the occult. Rosi-
crucian or not, he looked very hard
at Enid Sparhawk
| Within two minutes p. Grumbine
| was HOluiH6 d ICSCpliOil Y" II.
Twenty-seyen women crowded around
him gleefully. Swami Lal himself
came out and welcomed the visitor
with much JUNCTION. and Paracelsus
made a hit.
Now the ritual. The swami and his
two helpers-nee "ragheads"-pulled
aside a curtain emblazoned with the
cabalistic Tree of Life, to reveal a fine
gilded Buddha. There was a hyran
about Karma and the Holy Grain and
unripe lives, then great burning of
incense and a prayer came from the
| swami. A really Intellectual lady, a
professor of occult science, gave a
rendering from Comte de Gaalis,
which was followed by another hymn.
| Then Swami Lal arose. and placed
a chair between the ice chest and
Lord Buddha, and asked Miss Spar
hawk to come forward. She obeyed.
her cheeks rather red. Swami Lal
| welcomed her as the new priestess of
light. and said q lot Of things-Enid
really could not remember Just what.