The Temple of Mysteries: A Key to the Secrets of Life

The Temple of Mysteries was originally published as Teachings of the Temple in 1925. Cover design by Sahidul.

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Table of Contents

A Master

In the Heart of God

Preface

To My Beloved

Temple Aphorisms

A Few Qualifications

From the Place of Silence

The Message

Lesson 1: Manifestation of Substance — Matter

Lesson 2: States of Consciousness

Lesson 3: Power of Affirmation

Lesson 4: Qualifications for Chelaship

Lesson 5: The Christos

Lesson 6: Illusions and Ideals

Lesson 7: The Etheric Universe

Lesson 8: True Brotherhood

Lesson 9: The Law of Balance

Lesson 10: Shields of Nucleoli

Lesson 11: Knowledge and Power

Lesson 12: The Phenomena of Sleep and Death

Lesson 13: The Cosmic Laboratory

Lesson 14: Dangers of the Astral Plane

Lesson 15: Karmic Law

Lesson 16: Unselfish Love

Lesson 17: The Meeting of Extremes

Lesson 18: The Substance-Force of Love

Lesson 19: Failure

Lesson 20: The Control of Life Forces

Lesson 21: Prayer

Lesson 22: Energy of Reflection and Refraction

Lesson 23: Orient and Occident

Lesson 24: Radioactivity

Lesson 25: Selflessness, the One Thing Needful

Lesson 26: The Essence of Consciousness

Lesson 27: To the Faithful

Lesson 28: The Evils of Distrust

Lesson 29: Building in Accord with Natural and Divine Law

Lesson 30: Unto the Third and Fourth Generation

Lesson 31: The Creative Word

Lesson 32: How Long, O Lord!

Lesson 33: Fire and Blood

Lesson 34: Fulfillment

Lesson 35: Breath Culture

Lesson 36: Divine Love

Lesson 37: The Effects of Color

Lesson 38: The Deflection of the Earth’s Axis

Lesson 39: The Power of Thought

Lesson 40: Woman

Lesson 41: Our Natural Birthright

Lesson 42: Chelaship Versus Mediumship

Lesson 43: Ideation

Lesson 44: Windows of the Soul

Lesson 45: The Seven Rays of Evolution

Lesson 46: Love’s Apotheosis

Lesson 47: Right Application of Law

Lesson 48: The Path of Light

Lesson 49: The Value of Correspondences

Lesson 50: Zones of Color

Lesson 51: The Suicide of the Soul

Lesson 52: Astral Wreckage

Lesson 53: The Evolution of Will

Lesson 54: Karma — Action and Reaction

Lesson 55: The Symbol of the Serpent

Lesson 56: Creation in Unity and Trinity

Lesson 57: Initiation

Lesson 58: The Substance of God

Lesson 59: Transmutation

Lesson 60: Ideals of God

Lesson 61: The Camel’s Back

Lesson 62: The Murder of Ideals

Lesson 63: The Mountain Heights

Lesson 64: Let There Be Light

Lesson 65: Some of the Heroes of Life

Lesson 66: The Planes of Reflection

Lesson 67: Love of Ideals

Lesson 68: The Power of the Central Cell

Lesson 69: The Eternal Query

Lesson 70: God and Christ

Lesson 71: The Glory of the Lord

Lesson 72: The Revelation

Lesson 73: The Way

Lesson 74: The True Path

Lesson 75: The Mysteries

Lesson 76: Lest We Forget

Lesson 77: Value of Religious Instinct

Lesson 78: Sound Vibrations

Lesson 79: The Heresy of Separateness

Lesson 80: Chemical Action

Lesson 81: Speech in Music

Lesson 82: The Measure of Truth

Lesson 83: Action and Reaction of Forces

Lesson 84: Mothers of the Christ-Child

Lesson 85: Will and Law

Lesson 86: Law

Lesson 87: The Mystery Language

Lesson 88: Spiritual Heredity

Lesson 89: Character

Lesson 90: Misuse of Power

Lesson 91: The Overlapping of Cycles

Lesson 92: God and the Devil

Lesson 93: The Constructive Forces of The Temple of The People

Lesson 94: The Soul Redeemed

Lesson 95: To My Daughters

Lesson 96: The Holy Places

Lesson 97: The Occult Sciences

Lesson 98: Questions Answered by the Master

Lesson 99: The Middle Point

Lesson 100: Poison

Lesson 101: Color and Disease

Lesson 102: The Light from the Lodge

Lesson 103: His Coming

Lesson 104: The Coming Day

Lesson 105: My Brother’s Keeper

Lesson 106: The Minutiae of Life and Effects

Lesson 107: Stored-Up Memories

Lesson 108: The Great Temple

Lesson 109: Chemical and Alchemical Affinity

Lesson 110: Heredity

Lesson 111: The Human Race

Lesson 112: The Divine Spark

Lesson 113: Mental Healing

Lesson 114: The Lower Astral or Ka

Lesson 115: The Law of Primogeniture

Lesson 116: What Is Love?

Lesson 117: The Circuit of the Soul

Lesson 118: The Place of Power

Lesson 119: The Law of Opposites

Lesson 120: The Source of Evil

Lesson 121: Your Keynote

Lesson 122: The Phosphoric Plane

Lesson 123: The Responsibility of Leadership

Lesson 124: Determination of Sex

Lesson 125: White and Black Magic and Magicians

Lesson 126: Commentaries on Centralization

Lesson 127: Preparation for the Avatar

Lesson 128: The Wise Man

Lesson 129: Hands

Lesson 130: The Conservation of Lodge Force

Lesson 131: Devachan

Lesson 132: Sincerity

Lesson 133: Radical Action

Lesson 134: The Intermediate States of Consciousness and Man’s Relation Thereto

Lesson 135: Blood Sacrifice

Lesson 136: To Those Who Suffer

Lesson 137: Preparedness

Lesson 138: The Eternal Tragedy

Lesson 139: Cosmic Consciousness

Lesson 140: The Neutral Center

Lesson 141: Cosmic Pictures

Lesson 142: The Individual Soul

Lesson 143: Unity

Lesson 144: Only One Will

Lesson 145: Stimulants and Narcotics

Lesson 146: Soul Memory

Lesson 147: Thought Transference

Lesson 148: A Letter from the Master

Lesson 149: Self-Examination

Lesson 150: The Measure of a Man

Lesson 151: Multiple Planes of Being

Lesson 152: The Umbilicus

Lesson 153: Pledge Fever

Lesson 154: The Power of Light

Lesson 155: Inner Realms

Lesson 156: War

Lesson 157: The Windows of the Soul and the Fire Elementals

Lesson 158: Truth Versus Falsehood

Lesson 159: The Purpose of Life

Lesson 160: Righteousness

Lesson 161: Atonement

Lesson 162: Fresh Air

Lesson 163: Sound and Light

Lesson 164: The Cross of Balance

Lesson 165: Genius Versus Madness

Lesson 166: Lodge Agents

Lesson 167: Condensation and Diffusion of Matter

Lesson 168: The Law of Rhythm

Lesson 169: The Fourfold Wave Motion of Matter, Force, and Consciousness

Lesson 170: The Twelve Gates

Lesson 171: The Ætheric and the Etheric Screens

Lesson 172: Vibratory Changes

Lesson 173: Sex

Lesson 174: Peace on Earth

Lesson 175: The Higher Love

Lesson 176: Motion and Vibration

Lesson 177: The Multitude

Lesson 178: Imagination Versus Fancy

Lesson 179: Fire

Lesson 180: The Great Mystery

Lesson 181: The Gift of Healing

Lesson 182: Some Mysteries of Light

Lesson 183: Life Sparks

Lesson 184: No God

Lesson 185: Whom Will Ye Serve?

Lesson 186: Egoism Versus Egotism

Lesson 187: Dissonance

Lesson 188: War and Peace

Lesson 189: Universal Law

Lesson 190: Some Chief Causes for Failure in the Domain of Occultism

Lesson 191: Self-Deception

Lesson 192: His Line Hath Gone Out

Lesson 193: Why Waste Is an Evil

Lesson 194: As a Grain of Mustard Seed

Lesson 195: The Junction

Lesson 196: Self-Responsibility

Lesson 197: The Avatar

Lesson 198: The Number Seven

Lesson 199: Healing

Lesson 200: Liberty and License

Lesson 201: The Separation of the Sexes and the Modern Theory of Twin Souls

Lesson 202: The Vision

Lesson 203: The Third Cycle

Lesson 204: Magnetic Personalities

Lesson 205: The Betrayer

Lesson 206: The Great Question

Lesson 207: The Coming Avatar

Lesson 208: The Momentous Question

Lesson 209: Interrelation, Interpenetration, and Correlation of Matter

Lesson 210: The Yoke

Lesson 211: Power of Choice

Lesson 212: Undeveloped or Unused Centers of the Brain

Lesson 213: Automatic Revelations

Lesson 214: The Lords of Karma

Lesson 215: Karmic Adjustment

Lesson 216: The Witness of God

Lesson 217: The World’s Travail

Lesson 218: The Wave of Psychism

Lesson 219: The Curse of the World

Lesson 220: Crystallization

Lesson 221: The Karma of the Nations

Lesson 222: The Betrayal of the Christ

Lesson 223: The Basic Law

Lesson 224: Dangers of Mediumship

Lesson 225: The Seed of Life

Lesson 226: The Etheric Planes

Lesson 227: Religion

Lesson 228: Hero Worship

Lesson 229: Ruling Your Star

Lesson 230: A Supreme Being

Lesson 231: The Unknowable

Lesson 232: The Relationship Between Teacher and Chela

Lesson 233: Mundane Electricity

Lesson 234: Vibration — a Synopsis of Creation

Lesson 235: Recognition of Limitations

Lesson 236: Inner Robes of Light

Lesson 237: The Fifth Breath

Lesson 238: The Great Silence

Lesson 239: The Master’s Touch

Lesson 240: The Sixth Breath

Lesson 241: The Seventh Breath

Lesson 242: The Dual Power

Lesson 243: The Still Small Voice

Lesson 244: The Cause of Failure

Lesson 245: Cause and Effect

Lesson 246: The Curse of Mammon

Lesson 247: The White Brotherhood and Its Connection with the Temple

Lesson 248: The Ten Rules of Discipleship of the 4th Degree of the Great White Lodge

Lesson 249: My Father’s House Is a House of Prayer

Glossary

About the Author

Dedicated to Humanity

A Master

A Master is one who has become as a little child, who has entered the Eye of the Triangle in the Square within the Seven, and who, by sore travail of Soul, has won his Robe of Immortality, which Robe he must keep unspotted, not for fear of the spotting, but lest the mud thrown against that Robe rebound and strike the thrower.

H—Ф

In the Heart of God

Forget not that there are no little things. The hand outstretched when the need is great pulls hard on the heart-strings of him who is down, and the heart-strings of the fallen are fastened in the Heart of God.

H—Ф

Behold! I give unto thee a Key.

Preface

The teachings contained in this volume were first given to the world through the pages of The Temple Artisan, a monthly publication and the official magazine of The Temple of the People, an organization having its headquarters and central activities at Halcyon, San Luis Obispo County, California.

This organization was called into being in 1898 at the behest and under the direction of the Master Hilarion, one of the Masters of the Great White Lodge¹ working to lift humanity to higher levels by a direct outpouring of force and teachings, fulfilling the need of the time as rapidly as humanity was able to receive and assimilate such teachings and higher vibrations.

As published in the magazine referred to, these lessons appeared under the head of Open Series as distinguished from esoteric² teachings given to inner groups of students. In the present volume no attempt has been made to group the lessons under any definite classification, but they appear in the sequence in which they were given to the Temple by the Masters — in most instances, no doubt, being called forth by the law of supply and demand spiritually operating at the time. The lessons open up so many marvelous mines of spiritual richness and helpfulness that The Temple of the People sends out this work to the world in order that a more universal benefit may be derived from a wider dissemination of the same.

The Temple is a continuation of the work inaugurated by H. P. Blavatsky and is inspired and ensouled by the same great cosmical forces having their source in the Masters of the Great White Lodge who are ever guiding the evolution of worlds, races, and the affairs of men. While the Masters of the White Lodge are many, yet their work is one.

The Masters are those beings who, by sore travail of soul, by vast experience, suffering, and sacrifice, have advanced to a degree of evolution far beyond ordinary human beings.

Their consciousness is not limited to any one plane of life, as is the case with ordinary men and women. A Master is one who has conquered the limitations of matter, as that term is usually understood, and is able to function consciously and at will on more than one plane of being, according to the degree to which he has attained. In other words, a Master is one who has entered the Eye of the Triangle in the Square,³ and who henceforth functions in wider spheres of action, where he becomes and is a conscious factor, force, and agent in helping on the evolution of worlds and races.

The Masters are not Gods; they are men, and if necessity requires, they can work on the physical plane in a physical body. Their greater work is done, however, in their Nirmanakaya body,⁴ the robe of conscious immortality, which they have won through pain and sacrifice endured age upon age.

The Lodge of Masters is synthesized in the Central Spiritual Sun, which is composed of all the Masters of the Right-Hand Path.⁵ This Central Sun is interchangeable with the Christos who is the perfected Son (Sun) of Infinite Love.

At cyclic periods one or more Masters may seem to take a more particular direction of forces affecting the evolution and development of humanity, but this is because karmic and hierarchical law so ordain.

The Masters are, in a sense, the Higher Self of humanity and watch over, protect, and guide its unfoldment. They cannot interfere with Karmic law,⁶ but have the power, at crises, to hold back to some extent the action of accumulated karma that otherwise might destroy civilization or shatter the planet itself. But in the end every iota of Karmic law must be fulfilled. Devastating epidemics, great wars, destruction of cities in past or present times with their toll of death, the sudden breaking up and submergence of continents, as in the case of Atlantis,⁷ are instances of karmic forces operating on a large scale, and where such forces could be held back no longer by the administrators of nature’s laws, the Masters of Wisdom, lest a greater spiritual damage be done to the people of those cities, nations, or continents affected. Where spirituality and morality have departed beyond a certain measure, humanity can only be brought back to a recognition of its spiritual foundations by some great shock or series of shocks driving the personal consciousness inward to the eternal verities, to its inherent divinity, and so preventing a further descent into the lure and glitter of outer falsities and sense illusions.

We have been told by Those Who Know that it is not an uncommon occurrence for a planet to be riven into fragments by retributive forces when the inhabitants of some world have misused high spiritual powers persistently, thus accumulating an excess of destructive forces, outweighing the balance of constructive energies and finally culminating in the destruction of the planet itself. In our solar system we have evidence of such a happening. Astronomers had noted the wide gap between Mars and Jupiter in which no planet was found, and for years they looked in vain to find a body that ought to be there. Finally over two hundred asteroids were discovered. These are very small planets, some of them not over twenty-five miles in diameter, moving very close one to another all in the same direction between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, as would be the case if they were shattered fragments of a once large planet.

A similar fate threatened our own world in 1899; but it was saved at that time by many Masters of high degree and power assembling from other planets at certain zones on and in the earth centers and holding the balance for the time being. The Dark Star⁸ was saved for the time, but for how long? Who can tell? Since that time there has been a great advance in scientific knowledge, invention, and attainments, and we are harnessing nature’s finer forces more and more to our personal and commercial uses and pleasures. But these forces are forces of Life Itself — rays of Deific Energy from the very Heart of God and of Nature, and unless rightly used in the spirit of unselfish service and for the good of all, there is bound to be a reaction, due to the inversion of divine qualities, with terrible consequences to humanity, endangering the very existence of the planet itself upon which we live. Like unto a brotherhood of worlds in the celestial spaces, so must there be a Brotherhood of Nations on the earth and a true spirit of Universal Brotherhood without distinction of race, age, color, or creed among all the peoples of this earth, in order that such a cosmical catastrophe may be averted.

The teachings given out in this volume are ensouled by very high spiritual forces — the forces from the Lodge of Light itself — and in sending these teachings into the world the Temple will radiate into the hearts of the people a light and an influence that must powerfully promote the ideal of the Brotherhood of Man. Because of the great inner Light and Love back of these teachings, every person who loves his fellow men and who opens his or her mind in attunement to the fundamental truth contained in this volume will inevitably receive an uplift in consciousness and a help that will be entirely independent of the teachings themselves. He will receive the touch of Infinite Love and Compassion from the Master’s hands, warming the heart of every true and earnest seeker for light and giving greater opportunity to help the world. The cosmic lilt of Life Itself may then be heard by the inner ears once more attuned to the initiating sounds of primal Consciousness, that Consciousness which is divine and reveals the concealed unity of the One in All and All in One.

The Temple of the People

[Guardian-in-Chief]

Halcyon, California

January 1925