That our Earth is a living creature, a member of a family of giants inhabiting the sky, has been touched upon in "Arcane Science," Page 186, and in "The Heart of Things," Page 69. Concerning the Earth Entity, much is known that for sufficient reasons is withheld from all but initiates of high degree. Were certain secrets generally accessible, their use might bring catastrophe to whole areas of the Earth's surface, and death to the dwellers there. As it is, enough of these secrets have become known to the hordes of darkness to keep the hosts of light on the alert.

Having proved himself wholly trustworthy, Christian Rosenkreuz was empowered to initiate certain others into the mysteries relating to the Earth Entity. His order, in imitation of which many spurious ones have since arisen, had for central purpose the bringing about of better and better terrestrial conditions through the influence which these initiated ones could bring to bear upon the Earth Entity. The Rosecrucian Order, in conjunction with its ancient Eastern original, would establish throughout the known world branches at those many force centers concerning which Rosenkreuz had been fully informed.

Rosenkreuz claimed instruction direct from the great head of the order, Jesus the Christ, who, on the Cross of Calvary, received that final initiation which made him the ruler of this World, and the mightiest influence in it to bend the Earth Entity to his bidding, which influence would be greatly augmented at his second coming, and finally made complete during a certain astronomical cycle; one indicated by John the Revelator. Already during his life, Jesus had controlled the winds and waves, and afterwards, at his death, the shuddering Earth Being had revealed its displeasure by the phenomena mentioned in Matthew 27: 51-53.

Rosenkreuz taught his initiates that, like man, the Earth is a trinity of body, soul, and spirit, and that should man keep pure his own bodily temple, the Earth would respond with fairer and fairer conditions; but should man defile that temple, the Earth would respond with drought, and famine, and pestilence. Should men unsheath the sword of war, the soul of the Earth would raise within her, and flood, and earthquake, and volcanic outburst would result. Evidently the Rosecrucian Order had much in common with that founded by Melchizedek, the object of which was the bringing about of permanent world peace.

Rosenkreuz taught his high initiates that each component of the Earth trinity is itself a trinity, even as is each component of the trinity called man. In an age of Christ worship, he announced the divinity of Jesus the Christ, but not his deity. While limiting the authority of the Master to this planet, Rosenkreuz held that ultimately his influence would extend to the limits of the solar system. No wonder that, in an age of persecution, an order holding such hetrodox views was a secret one.

Concerning the New Jerusalem seen of John, Rosenkreuz taught many things; for instance, that it symbolized the purified Earth, the future abode of the perfected and therefore deathless human race, each member of which would possess the Christ body; and that this purification would result from seven causes: first, the purification of man; second, the maturing of the Earth Entity, now in the youth of its fourth incarnation; third, the influence of the great Sun Entity upon it; fourth, the lesser influence of the planetary entities; fifth, the zodiacal influence; sixth, the stellar influence upon the Earth as it accompanies the Sun in his stupendous orbit around a magnetic center which Rosenkreuz believed to be the Pleaidic seven; and, seventh, the influence of that remote Star Group.

Rosenkreuz made the human influence upon the Earth Entity the most potent of the seven, and this influence he symbolized as the "philosopher's stone" able to transmute the baser metals into gold. Every Rosecrucian knew that this change should begin with man himself, and that the baser components of the physical earth could be refined and made indestructable only as a whole. Hence to the initiated, the alchemist's crucible was known as a mere blind to protect the central mystery of Rosecrucianism from the world at large.

We have revealed somewhat of the deepest teachings of Rosenkreuz, because to-day multitudes are fit to profit by them. Never in its entire life has the Earth undergone such a cleansing as now it is experiencing. Those who at the end of the next decade look back to the year 1914, will realize that then began the greatest advance ever known in the history of this planet.