Gleanings of a Mystic: A Series of Essays on Practical Mysticism

by Max Heindel

• Abel, man of Lemuria, [23].
• Action, desirability of, [16].
• Action, good, required for soul body, [183].
• A. D. M., red earth, [78].
• Adam, a Polarian, [22].
• Airships of Atlantis, [71].
• Albumen not needed by spiritual, [24].
• Alcohol, action, [83].
• Altar of sacrifice, [96].
• America, the melting pot, [112].
• Angels, humanity of Moon Period, [50].
• lived in etheric world, [50].
• guided man, [32].
• Anglo-Saxons, pioneers of race, [75].
• Animals ruled by group spirits, [108].
• Aquarian Age, science to rule in, [82].
• six hundred years until, [81].
• teacher of, [76].
• Arche-Tektons, Initiates are, [103].
• Ark, airship of Atlantis, [71].
• Aryan Age, invaders of, [80].
• Aryana, national segregation of, [70].
• Assimilation of life experiences, [184].
• Asteroids, remnants of Moons, [60].
• Astrology, value of in marriage, [53].
• Atlantis, destruction of, [180].
• Atlantean epoch, the nadir of materiality, [9].
• Atlanteans aspire to light, [95].
• divinely guided, [69].
• Atlantis, airships of, [71].
• atmosphere of, [69].
• man becomes man in, [25].
• peaceful conditions of, [86].
• Atmosphere, changes of, [180].
• Attainment, method of, [171].
• Baptism, soul’s urge for higher life, [55].
• Black Brothers, increase evil, [106].
• Black Magic, frequent practice of, [101].
• golden, wedding garment protects against, [106].
• practices of, [103].
• Blood hound, follows invisible emanation, [104].
• Born of water and spirit, [80].
• Brain gained at sacrifice of creative force, [32].
• Breathing exercises, danger of, [9].
• use of, [10].
• Brotherhood, all members of, [44].
• Cain, a Hyperborean, [23].
• Candles, tallow, attract elementals, [106].
• Causation, [177].
• Children, training of, [127].
• Chosen people, [95].
• Christ, annual coming of, [171].
• bodily presence of the Father, [98].
• forgiveness of, [57].
• Inhabits central sun, [58].
• man a Christ-in-the-making, [158].
• mission of, [47], [87].
• power of, [158], [159].
• preservation, principle of, [168].
• sacrifice of, [98].
• Christ, see also [Earth Spirit].
• Civilization, evolution of, [111].
• Communication with dead, [113].
• Communion, points to age to come, [55].
• worthy celebration of, [31].
• Conscience gained in purgatory, [184].
• Consciousness result of war between vital and desire bodies, [49].
• Conservation of strength, [122].
• Contentment lengthens life, [51].
• Contrition, importance of, [185].
• Conversion and Initiation, [12].
• inner experience, [13].
• Converts, making of, [132].
• Courage, [91].
• Creation, principle of Jehovah, [168].
• Creative hierarchies guide man, [22].
• Crystalloids aid in evolving vital body, [88].
• Dead, communication with, [113].
• Death, care of body after, [134].
• conquest of, [56].
• price of consciousness, [50].
• Dense body, care of after death, [134].
• crystallized state of, [47].
• raising vibrations of, [10].
• restoration of in sleep, [128].
• spiritualization of, [74].
• under laws of nature, [57].
• Desire body, control of, [128].
• destroys dense body, [49].
• gained in Lemuria, [23].
• reaction of man’s acts, [25].
• Dietetics, albumen not needed by spiritual, [24].
• legumes not needed by advanced, [24].
• Diplomacy and force, [119].
• Dissolution the Father’s power, [168].
• Divine hierarchies work upon man, [22].
• Divine leaders abolish religious errors, [46].
• Divine spirit and physical body, [132].
• Earth conditions cramp humanity, [99].
• crystallization of due to man, [32].
• Earth Spirit body and blood, [31].
• Earth Spirit, see also [Christ].
• Earthly goods, use of, [117].
• Easter, Christ’s liberation, [160].
• vital, force of, [161].
• Effort brings opportunities, [15].
• Ego chooses work of life, [64].
• Egotism, protection from, [19].
• Elder Brothers hierophants of western wisdom teaching, [173].
• high status of, [173].
• not mercenary, [20].
• transmute evil, [105].
• Elementals inhaled with incense, [106].
• Emancipation, God’s purpose, [162].
• Environment chosen by ego, [64], [122].
• power of, [74].
• Epochs, changes of, [77].
• Ether etches pictures on seed atom, [184].
• medium of transmission of light, [184].
• new element, [71].
• Evolution, [177].
• Evolution of man, [35].
• path of spiral, [14].
• Exercises: Breathing practices, [9], [10].
• Experience, a grindstone, [63].
• Extreme unction, [56].
• Faculties, evolution of, [177].
• Fall, unchastity, [62].
• Family, duty to, [127].
• Father, The, dissolution principle of, [168].
• highest Initiate of Saturn Period, [58].
• inhabits spiritual sun, [58].
• Finger nails used in Black Magic, [103].
• Flesh, eating of, difficult to digest, [90].
• material progress result of, [23], [86], [92].
• necessitated by materialism, [23].
• sins of, [90].
• Flood, sun in Cancer, [78].
• Food, significance of, [22].
• Forgiveness of Christ, [57].
• Free Will, [22].
• of Initiate in choice of environment, [64].
• in Atlantis, [25].
• Galilee, melting pot, [74].
• Gill clefts replaced by lungs, [24].
• Gills of early Atlantis, [70].
• Glass of water in Black Magic, [104].
• God, immanence of, [161].
• Golden wedding garment, see [Soul Body].
• Good Friday, [153].
• Gospels formulae of Initiation, [64].
• Grace and forgiveness of sin, [34].
• Grail, see, [Holy Grail].
• Group Spirit, [108].
• Hair used in Black Magic, [103].
• Healing, Rosicrucian method of, [103].
• Help, practical, [133].
• Hierarchies, service of, [135].
• still active, [166].
• Hindu breathing exercises, [73].
• Holy Grail, many orders constitute, [105].
• two forces of, [105].
• Holy Spirit, see [Jehovah].
• Human spirit and desire body, [132].
• Humanity, salvation of, [160].
• slowly progressing, [14].
• Hyperborea, generation in, [49].
• Hyperborean epoch, man plantlike in, [22].
• vital body gained in, [22].
• Hypnotism, danger of, [107].
• I as pronoun, [83].
• Inactivity causes straggling, [16].
• Incense, Black Forces use, [106].
• Inequalities, harmonizing of, [178].
• Initiates, arche-tektons, [103].
• bodies of, immaculately conceived, [64].
• choose own life work, [64].
• purity of, [64].
• may be women, [67].
• Initiation, changes life, [13].
• confers authority, [13].
• free, [13].
• inner experience, [12].
• money cannot buy, [11].
• requirements for, [20].
• spiritual process, [11].
• spiritualizes vital body, [67].
• through spiritual exercises, [11].
• tribulation leads to, [63].
• Initiation fee, impossibility of, [20].
• Inner vision opened, [136].
• Intellectual conception of life, [175].
• Intensity of feeling, [19].
• Jehovah, creation principle of, [168].
• dwells in physical sun, [58].
• highest Initiate of Moon Period, [58].
• race spirit of the Jews, [110].
• regent of various moons, [58].
• warder of creative forces, [56].
• Jesus race body of, [74].
• Judgment, Sun in Libra, [156].
• Justice of life, [175].
• with mercy, [33].
• Knowledge, necessity for, [131].
• Larynx gained at sacrifice of creative force, [32].
• Law, knowledge of, [131].
• Law of Consequence given to Atlanteans, [26].
• Laws of nature and destiny, [25].
• Legumes not needed by advanced, [24].
• Lemurian epoch, desire body gained in, [23].
• Life Spirit and vital body, [132].
• Light, Atlanteans aspire to, [95].
• symbol of God, [167].
• Living church within, [124].
• Lords of Mercury, stragglers of past, [59].
• Lords of Venus, stragglers of past, [59].
• Lord’s Supper, see [communion].
• Lost souls, [58].
• Love endlessly born, [169].
• keynote of coming age, [80].
• of souls, [53].
• transcends sex, [51].
• Lucifer spirits cause body’s crystallization, [32].
• Lungs related to spirits’ freedom, [24].
• Man becomes man in Atlantis, [25].
• mineral-like in Polarian Epoch, [88].
• Marriage necessitated by disintegration and death, [49].
• sacrament of, [55].
• transcends sex, [51].
• Materialism, predominance of, [163].
• Matter, limitation of causes self-confidence, [22].
• Materialization, varieties of, [102].
• Meat non-permanent as food, [82].
• Meat eating, see [Flesh eating].
• Michael, race spirit, [111].
• Milk aid in evolving desire body, [89].
• given in Lemuria, [23].
• Mind, effect of meat upon, [93].
• given during Atlantean epoch, [22].
• given for discrimination, [122].
• link between spirit and matter, [132].
• Minerals, assimilation impossible, [82].
• Moderation in food, [136].
• Mongols, descendants of Atlanteans, [75].
• Moons, discipline stragglers, [59].
• physical vehicles of Jehovah, [172].
• tumors of universe, [60].
• Moses led followers through water, [26].
• Motive, importance of, [101].
• Mysteries, soul body teaches, [136].
• Mystery schools furnish higher teaching, [8].
• Nationalism must pass, [112].
• Nations, rise and fall of, [110].
• Negroes, descendants of Lemurians, [75].
• New Galilee, [135].
• New heaven and new earth, see [Aquarian Age].
• New race, [75].
• Niebelungen ring, [42].
• Nimrod, Atlantean king, [22].
• Noah, [27].
• Noise, evil effects of, [125].
• stirs desire bodies, [126].
• Nucleus in magic practices, [103].
• Orthodoxy, arguments of, [46].
• Panorama etched into desire body, [133].
• Passion, crystallizing power of, [32].
• Periodic flow of earth, [62].
• Philosophy, hidden meaning in, [135].
• Physical body, see [Dense body].
• Pioneers the active workers, [16].
• two classes of, [17].
• Pisces, creed and dogma of, [81].
• Planet, body of Great Spirit, [156].
• evolution of, [41].
• orbit of, [156].
• Poise, necessity for, [125].
• Polarian had only dense body, [88].
• Polarian epoch, dense body in, [22].
• mineral-like state of man in, [22].
• Polygamy, [66].
• Possession cures desire, [93].
• Post mortem experience, [15].
• Post mortem state, [16].
• Preservation, Christ principle, [168].
• Progress, impossible to unworthy, [150].
• Proselyting unnecessary, [132].
• Providence of God, [120].
• Purity, redemption of, [35].
• Race spirits cause racial characteristics, [109].
• high ideals of, [110].
• Racial characteristics, [109].
• Rainbow, advent of, [27].
• emblem of diversity, [70].
• entrance to new age, [180].
• gates to promised land, [69].
• Reconciliation, desirability of, [119].
• Recording angels give religions, [7].
• Religion, happiness from, [126].
• Religion given by Recording Angels, [7].
• suited to nations, [8].
• Religious errors, not long permitted, [46].
• Responsibility not to be shirked, [127].
• Resurrection, Easter Sun symbolizes, [163].
• Retrospection, good gained by, [184].
• importance of, [18].
• Rhine Gold, [42].
• Rosicrucian messengers, [11].
• Sacrament, Hebrew derivation of, [55].
• importance of, [38].
• Sacrifice, evolution result of, [97].
• soul growth from, [165].
• Sanctuary, inner, [124].
• Saints, [17].
• Salt, [185].
• Science becomes religious, [40].
• to rule Aquarian Age, [82].
• Seances, danger of, [107].
• Seasons symbolize diversity, [70].
• Self-Sacrifice, advancement from, [38].
• of Christ, [100].
• Selfishness bane of race, [43].
• Separation of sexes, [32].
• Service builds soul body, [135].
• essential in life, [135].
• the policy that pays, [118].
• redemption of stragglers, [59].
• Sexes, separation of, [32].
• Silence, great help in soul growth, [126].
• Sin must be expiated, [57].
• Sixth sense, [178].
• Sleep, work during gains soul growth, [129].
• Solar system body of God, [59].
• Son, see [Christ].
• Sorrow, keynote of Buddhism, [57].
• Soul amalgamates with spirit, [96].
• Soul body, [54].
• from seed, [73].
• light of teaches man, [136].
• of new age, [181].
• methods of building, [80].
• protects against Black Magic, [106].
• wedding garment of new age, [80].
• Soul growth dissolves crystallized bodies, [96].
• helps in, [126].
• method of, [17].
• Sound, effect of, [124].
• Spinal nerves, animal twenty-eight pairs of, [61].
• man thirty-one pairs of, [61].
• Spirit orbit of, [156].
• Spiritual forces, ebb and flow of, [61].
• Spiritual sight result of war, [112].
• Spiritual world, time non-existent, [169].
• Spring and Earth Spirit, [31].
• Stellar ray, [64].
• Strength, conservation of, [122].
• Sugar beneficial effects of, [83].
• cure of alcoholism by, [84].
• Sun ascends at Easter, [165].
• in Cancer, the flood, [78].
• invisible vehicle of God, [172].
• visible vehicle of Christ, [172].
• Tact, value of, [119].
• Talents of ego, [15].
• Teacher of New Age, [76].
• Temple, way to shown, [136].
• Thought breaks down tissue, [23].
• Time, non-existent in spiritual world, [169].
• Tolerance for our families, [137].
• Tree of knowledge, [32].
• Tribulation prepares for Initiation, [63].
• Trinity, mystery of, [167].
• Unfoldment, three stages of, [55].
• Universal solvent, [168].
• Vegetarianism, advantages of, [91].
• Vegetarian needs no alcohol, [91].
• Virgin spirits enmeshed in matter as egos, [132].
• self-consciousness attained by, [22].
• Vital body charges body with energy, [132].
• constructive energy of, [49].
• evolved by Hyperborean, [22], [88].
• medium of occult growth, [9].
• spiritualized by Initiation, [67].
• stores up power, [128].
• vehicle of love, [51].
• War, spiritual aspects of, [123].
• spiritual intensity of, [104].
• spiritual sight result of, [112].
• Water, Noah and Moses led followers through, [26].
• used in Black Magic, [104].
• Wedding garment, see [Soul Body].
• Western Initiates more advanced, [8].
• Western Mystery Teaching Christian, [47].
• White Magic, unselfish, [102].
• Wine, given in Atlantis, [26].
• self-assertion from drinking, [86].
• stimulates spirit of man, [27].
• Word, cosmic meaning of, [155].
• Workers, the pioneers, [16].
• World, God’s training school, [180].
• World change to come, [181].
• Worry, evil of, [116].
• You as pronoun, [83].

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