THE CONCURRENCE

This Week's Consideration of a Famous Opinion

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{lThe terms cohes ion and adhesion will not seem mys-
terious to you-i,r you carefully- study the simple and
descriptive- weekly-monographi being'sent to you. One
of the world's great scienlist!-and,,ie are proud to say,
a Rosicrucian-was Michael Faraday. It was he who
/ contributed much to the w-orld's knbwledge of the Iaw of gravitation
and its forces, cohesion and adhesion. Below we quote fio- , portion ofin;;] hi,
lectures on the force of cohesion.
- Before -you read it, however, it is advisable that you study this week's monoqraoh
thoroughly-. You will then see how it concurs with ihe new knowledge you ,r" rfoglr-
ing through the Rosierucian teachings.

And here is a bar of iron; why, it is onlg because the different parts of
this iron are so wrought as to keep close together by the attractionktween
the particles that it is held together in one rnass. It is kept together, in
fact, merely by the attraction of one partiele to another, and that is the
point I want now to illustrate. If I take a piece of flint, and strike it with
a hamrner, and break it thus [breaking off a piece of the flint] I have
done nothing more than separate the particles which cornpose these two
pieces so far apart that their attraction is too weak to cause them to hold
together, and it is only for that reason that there are now two pieces in
the place of one. I will show aou an experiment to proue that th'is attrac-
tion does still exist in those particles; for here is a piece of glass (for what
uas true of the flint and the bar of iron is true of the pi.ece of grass, and
is true of euery other solid-they are all held together in the lump by the
attraction between their parts), and I can show you the attraction be-
tween its separate particles; for if I take these portions of glass which I
haue reduced to uery fine powder, aou see that I can actwllg build them
up into a solid wall by pressure between two flat surfaces. The power
which I thus haue of building up this wall is due to th,e attraction'of the
particles forming, as it were, the cement which holds them togetherj and
so in this case, where I haue taken no uery great pains ti bring the
particles together, aou see perhaps a couple of ouncei of
finety poinded
glass standing as an upright wall; is not this attraction most iinilerful?
That bar of iron one inch square has such power of attraction in its
particles-giuing to it such strength-that it will holi up twenty tons,
weight before the little set of particles in the small spaie equal-to one
diuision ocross which it can be pulled apart will separate.
_MICHAEL FARADAY, 1791.186?
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Respected Neophyte:
In our last monograph we began a discussion of a very important
subject. We asked you then to look up the subjects of cohesion,
adhesion, attraction, repulsion, and magnetism. I{e presume that most
of you will have done this, not simply because we asked it-yet we
would appreciate your giving very strict attention to any suggestions
of this kind-but because your interest in our work will surely make
it worth while to look up these and other subjects from time to time.
later when you read about them in other references you will be able
to figuratively read between the lines snfl-kns\a,ing the real inter-
pretatlon of such principles-discover the truth which others do
not find.
14re have told you that the energy which manifests itself in aII
matter in such a way that science calls it adhesion at times, and
cohesion at other times, and attraction or repulsion at other times,
is SPIRIT. We have told you that spirit exists in a1I space, in aII
things.
NATURE OF The Rosicrucians hold that spirit, as a great energy
VIBRATIONS pervading all space, is a vibratory energy which travels
through space in the form of vibrations. This vibratory
energy goes through space much as the ripples or waves travel on the
face of a smooth lake. Lret us, for instance' think of a smooth lake'
quiet on the surface, without a ripple' Now, drop a large stone into
the center of this lake. There will radiate from that place a series
of waves on the surface of the water in the form of circles or concentric
rings. Ihese circles of waves will spread out, becoming larger in
diameter untj.l they reach the shores. (See illustration below. )
Now, if we had something in the center
of the lake moving steadily up and
down in the water, we would send out a
continuous stream of waves over the
surface until the lake would be covered
with these vibrating waves. If we
moved the article in the center rapidly
and violently, the waves would be
Iarger, closer together, and would
travel more rapidly over the water.
If we moved it gently and
sIowly, the waves would be
farther apart and would move
slowly over the water.
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Lret us consider the vibrations of spirit as being like waves

floating in the air. No matter what it is that the spirit vibrations
travel on or through, the point to make plain Just now is that the
vibrations of spirit are rike waves on the surface of the water,
traveling in all dlrections. This means vibrations of various kinds,
fast and slow and different in rate. with such an idea in mind the
nature of spirit vibrations is more easlly grasped.
In our work we count these spirit vibrations by their nunber
of vibrations per second,; that is, we count them by counting how
many of them touch a certain point in a second. Ihis is called freouency.
14re discover that some vibrations travel at the rate of five trGaiEE-
impulses per second, and. some at the rate of many thousands per second.
Here is where the science of numbers comes into work, for the existence
of aII matter and its expression, or manifestation, depend upon the
number of vibrations per second of spirit energy. rn our previous
monographs we have rearned that the third point of the triangre rep-
resents that which comes into matter to nake it manifest to our
consciousness on either the objective or subJective rever. The num-
ber of vibrations, then, is what makes matter manifest in its form.
This means that the difference in one kind of matter and any other kind
is a dlfference in the nunber of vibrations per second.
vfe must have a good understanding of this, and r cannot, there-
fore, pass over it light1y. some of our Fratres and sorores may
understand quickry this law of vibrations, which represents one of
the missing trkeysr in the secret of the composition of matter; others
may not understand so quickly and, therefore, art must bear with us
patientry while we dwelr on this point. rt is one of the most im-
portant laws you have to rearn in these earry ressons and you wilr
arways use this knowredge in the highest Rosicrucian work you might
ever undertake.
THE coMPoslrloN Have you ever stopped to think what is the real
oF MATTER difference between grass and. wood, stone and water,
earth and air? 0r, to make it more vital, what is
the rear difference between a piece of glass cut rike a diamond and a
real diamond? As far as some qualities of each of them are concerned,
they both seem to be glass. rhey are transparent, look rike grass, shine
like glass, etc.; but one has a brilliancy, a quality, that the other
does not have, and one is harder than the other.
Ihis latter fact, the hardness, led researchers to believe
they could make diamonds. So they tried to make glass or
some minerals hard by heating them to a great temperature.
The result after years of experimentation ]ed them to
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believe that the true difference between a diamond and a piece of glass
is a difference of the vibrations in the electrons which compose the
piece of glass and the diamond, or the difference in vibrations between
pure carbon and glass. Artificial diamonds made from carbon are
costly; the method is difficult. Such artificial diamonds are also
not considered to be so desirable in aII their qualities as those
formed in nature.
Ihe important point here is to realize that the difference be-
tween one kind of matter and another is a difference in the vibrations
in the matter. Metalworkers know that steel can be hardened by a
heating and cooling process, thereby increasing the number of vibra-
tions in the steel and the attraction between the particles.rrhandi-
Since
fire is an agent for changing vibrations, it was the great
workertr of the early alchemists.
Ihe art of baking bread or cake illustrates the point very weII.
Lret us suppose that we had but two ingredients to bake with-flour and
water. Now every woman knows that we can take flour and water and mix
them in several different ways so as to produce several kinds of dough,
without the addition of any other element. After we have mixed three
or four kinds of dough out of the same flour and water, we can bake
them in different ways, so that some are baked a long time, some a
short time, some through and through, and some only on the outside,
and with slow or quick fires. Now, if we consider flour and water as
the primal elements of spirit, and the variations of their arrangement
being like the difference in number of vibrations, we will have a
good illustration of the general composition of a}l matter from spirit,
It is spirit and its vibrations which causes matter to have dif-
ferent finished manifestations. It is the spirit vibrations which
make all forms of matter known to us. If it were not for the vibrations
of spirit affecting our minds in a natural expressj-on, we could not
distinguish one form of matter from anothei'.
fn our next lesson we will study how spirit vibrations manifest to
us, how they are transmitted to us, and through our senses nake things
exist to our consciousness. In this way we come to realize a great
Rosi cruc ian principle. It is this: Mattor exists only because of spirit'
and there is nq matter without spirit.
PART IWO
I wish, however, to revert again to the subject of the tri-
angle as spoken of in a previous monograph. Therein you vuere
told that the triangle is a symbol of perfect manifestation'
or perfect creation. The symbol is used this way in many of
the sciences and we can briefly review the law as follows:
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One, alone, represents a mere beginning, a portion, a start' a

something that requires the opposite of itself in order to make itself
manifest. We can think of one as being like the sun, which would not
manifest for us if there were no darkness, or we can think of one as
being daylight, or daytime, which would not be a distinct entity or
manifest itself as a thing if there were no darkness or nighttime by
which the day would be distinct from the night. One always represents
the half of a dual, existing thing, and aII things must be dual in
nature in order to manifest.
Two, on the other hand, represents duality iust referred to. It
is through one and its opposite unit, or its associates, that we have
the thing manifesting in its dual nature both positive and negative.
On the other hand, two makes its uranifestation at a third point. Lret
us say that one is seeking for its otherhalf, or companlon, number two'
and that when they come together, or come into relationship with each
other, they produce a third condition which is the result of their
coming together. This three is the point of manifestation or symbol
of perfect creation.
It is advisable to draw these symbols in your notebooks in the
form of two triangles, one with the point downward and one with the
point upward. Draw them so that each one of the three sides of the
triangle is two inches in tength-in other words, a triangle with
two-inch sides. When you have drawn these triangles, one with the
point downward and one with the point upward, you should put the follow-
ing titles und.er them:
Under the triangle with the point downward put nTriangle on the
Psychic, Subliminal Plane.r' Under the triangle with the point up-
ward put I'Triatrgle on the Material, Qbiective Plane.r Refer now to
the first triangle with the point downward. At the upper corner,
toward your left hand, put the word trSpirit.r' At the upper corner,
toward your right hand, Put the word ilSoul. tr At the lower
n
point of the
triangle put the words trConsciousness and Realization. Referring
now to the second triangle with the point upward, PUt the word trSpiritn
at the upper point; at the lower corner, toward your left hand., put the
wordtrElectrotrsrr; and at the lower corner toward your right hand put
the word trAtoms.rl

You will see that in regard to things that manifest to us sub-

Jectively we have a symbol that guides us in ourunderstand-
ing. It is as though the upper line of the first Triangle
represented the plane of the psychic world. where Spirit
and SouI meet at a pivotal point and unlte and produce the
manifestation in us which we know as consciousness and
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realization. On the other hand, in regard to material manifestations

and the position of matter and alL material, physical things, the
triangle with the point upward makes us realize that, from the one
central source of aII energy and spirit, vibrations bring about the
manifestation of electrons and atoms. Ihis spirit energy also is dual
in nature, having both negative and positive fields. Therefore' the
behavior of matter is the result of the duality of the essence of
spirit.
Ihese symbols will help you to understand many other problems
throughout our whole work, and by having them drawn where you can
easily turn to them you wiII help yourself in understanding new
principles from time to time. You will also find, throughout your ex-
periences, that whenever some important event occurs, by the time you
are conscious of what is occurring you are already at the second point
of the triangle. In other words, the second. stage of the event has
come about. By a little analysis you can figure out what the first
stage or first point of the triangle was, and you can see that the
whole thing will not be completed until the event has reached the third
stage, or the stage of perfect manifestation represented by the third
point of the triangle.
You will come to learn after a while not to depend upon any eventts
being permanent, serious, completely formed and settled, as Iong as it
is only at the second point of the triangle or in its second stage.
Therefore, you wiII wait and watch for the third stage, which will be
completion. Many have noticed this in the past and it is responsible
for the old statement that everything comes in threes, and that if
you see two things you will see a third one; if you have two pieces or
incidents of good luck you will- have a third, etc. 0f course, that
was a form of superstition, based upon the material observation of
some events but without understanding the law.
The same is true in regard to any psychic experiment that you may
be performing. You must always have the first two points' parts' or
elements of your experiment weII united before you can expect the third
or perfect manifestation point to come to you. We will touch upon this
to a very great extent as we go on through the monographs.
MEANING OF It is also well to have in mind the Rosicrucian int er-
THE CROSS pretation of the cross. Some members are apt to confuse
our use of the cross with some sectarian or
religious application of it.
the cross, as a symbot' was used thousands of years
before the Christian period. We find upon the temple walls
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and obelisks of Egypt the cross as we p5e if-fwo Iines intersecting

each other with a flower or an emblem of a flower in lts center. This
cross was made by the ancients to symbolize the body of man, with the
rose representing man's soul unfolding and evolving through the tests
and trials of bodily experience. Jesus was not the first man to be
crucified. It was merely an arbitrary thing for the Christian church
to select the cross with the body of Jesus on lt as a symbol of
Christianity. They expressed an entirely different meaning of the
cross when they placed a body on it as a symbol. Wo, today, in the
Rosicrucian Order do not use the cross in the Chrlstian sense or in
any other way except as a philosophical symbol upon which only the
rose can be placed.
Therefore, when you are asked to employ the Rosy Cross in your
experiments or exercises it has nothing to do with the religious form
of symbolism whatsoever. 14re are sure that your intelligent reasoning
wiII enable you, as it has thousands of other members throughout the
world for the past hundreds of years, to realize that aII forms of the
cross are not the sane and do not mean the same. However, if you still
feel you cannot, with justification and a clear conscience, use the
Rosy Cross as a symbol, then you are at liberty to ourit lt from your ex-
periments. WhiIe it wiIl affect the results somewhat and perhaps
give you a different understanding of some things than you should have,
on the other hand we feel sure that in time your experiments wiII lead
you to see the broad, humanitarian, and true symbolism of this ancient
symbol. You will come to love it for its mystical arrd philosophical
meaning as do aII the Fratres of the Rosy Cross who have laid aside
sectarian limitations and. misunderstandings.
In closing 1et us assure you of our personal interest in your
studies, and we hope you will write to us from time to time in regard
to your problems if you do not understand any point in the lessons;
but please keep in mind that practically every point that is brought up,
and which arouses questions in your mind, will be answered eventually
in the future monographs. We have your very best interests at heart and
aII of us connected with the great work assure you of our cooperation
and the companlonship that wiII mean a great deal in your life as the
years go by.
Fraternally,
YOUR CIJASS MASTER

(sEE ovER)
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NOTE: The following reveals the evolution of the cross and its various
adaptations. For complete reference see the Rosicrucian Manual,
obtainable fron the Rosicrucian Supply Bureau.

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 The Weekly Application
Whatsoeuer thou resoluest to do, do it quickly. Det'er not till the
euening what the morning may accomphsft.-UNro Tnr,r, I GnaNr

During the week, try the following experiment. First, obtain some waxed paper, similar to
that commonly sold for preserving food. If such wax paper is not obtainable, then we suggest
the following' Obtain a piece of ordinary plain white paper (not tissue) about four inches square.
Next, saturate a small-wad of common absorbent cotton by dipping it into olive oil. Then,
with the cotton, coat or smear this oil on one surface of the paper until the paper is quite im-
pregnated with it. The oil, however, must not lie in pools upon the paper, and no cotton
must adhere to the paper.
Now discard the cotton. Dip one of your fingers in cold water and let a few small drops of
water fall from it separately on the waxed pafer or on the oiled surface of the paper.-Note
how the drops roll about freely if you tilt the paper slightly. If you bring tle particles or
drops of water together-that is, within their sphere of attraction-you will see how they soon
become one.
What you are witnessing is not adhesion as, for example, water attaching itself to some
other subitance, but rathei cohesion, the result of the attraction of the particles. In our
Physics Laboratory at the Rose-Croix Unrversity, we have used other materials for this
exieriment. such is mercury and lead. The latier was often used in the experiments of
Friter Micirael Faraday, but the above experiment is sufficient for your home demonstration.
 Summary of This Monograph
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Below is a suErmary of the important principles of this monograph. It contains the essential
statements which you should not forget. After you have carefully read the complete mono-
graph, try to recall as many as you can of the important points you read. Then read this
summary and see if you have forgotten any. Also refer to this summary during the ensuing
week to refresh your memory.

$ SpUt is a gteat force pervading aII space, and it is a vibratory force. ft is an en-
ergy which travels through space, in the form of vibrations.
Q w" count the vibrations of spirit by the number of vibrations that touch a certain
point in a second.
$ tt" existence of all matter and the expression, or manifestation, of all matter depend
on the number of vibratio'ns per second that go through and come out of mattef,.

{ fhe triangle alludes to the numeral three, which represents the law of perfection.
One alone is always the start, or beginning, of anything. Two is its opposite half. One
is never complete; it is necessary for one to unite with two, and then we have three
or perfection-the application of the Law of the triangle.
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