AMORC - What of Tomorrow?

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Issued by

The ROSICRUCIANS( A M O R C )

San Jose, California. U . S. A.

Copyrighted 1942 by

The Supreme Grand Lodge of

A M O R CSan Jose, California, U . S. A.

P R I N T E D I N U . S . A .

R O S I C R U C IA N P R E S S , L T D . , S A N J O S E , C A L I F .

IntroductionV V V

The present is the most transient of thethree actual and imagined states of our con-sciousness. This changing present is everadding to the growing past, and the future is a shadow cast by it. The indistinctnessof the future, to our minds, confers upon ita vastness and a realism it does not actually possess. Since the past can only be reveredor despised, and the present is constantly

wanin g, men are ever drawn to the future.It is something yet unrealized, and in astrange sort of way men hope to perceive itfrom afar . Thus they seek to choose fromit, in advance, what they want, and discard

what they do not like, as a housewife select-ing fruit in a market place.

Rather than admit, however, that the stuff of which the future is made is in each mo-ment of the present, men think the visionthey need is possessed by a chosen few. Intheir search, they turn to the vagaries of allkinds of methods of prognostication, over

which seers and prophets preside, often infalse majesty. Th at some of the prognosticators are amazing in the accuracy of theirpredictions is not so much evidence of aspecially endowed faculty to pierce the veilof tomorrow, as it is a tribute of their keen analysis of today. For analogy, the man who, upon studying a barometer, announcesthe coming of a storm tomorrow, hasn’t hada vision of the future, rather he has be



ome aware of a cause existing in the pres-nt. Most men trample beneath their feetn earth those substantial signs of futurevents, for which they stretch their neckso scan the heavens.

Out of the Present

The greatest prophet of all is the prevail-g times. If you would know what the

omorrow should and will bring forth, re-erse your point of observation, place self n the indeterminate future, then look backpon the present. So let us assume thisosition and, looking upon the things withhich we are familiar, let us do a kind of

ealistic predicting, for out of the presentise those needs which shape the future.

The following, therefore, are the changesoday s international involvement will pro-uce in the world in the immediate future** nd in the decades to come. In presaginghese events, the Rosicrucian Order is usingothing more mysterious than the immanentculties of observation and abstraction

hich all men possess, and a unique method f analysis of the present trends.

Part I

At Conclusion of War Events to Follow Immediately

A t the outstart we have one confident pre-sumption. The United Nations will be vic-torious. This should be qualified by thestatement that they will be as victorious asany nation can be after a gruelling and ex-

hausting war. In theory, each of the con-feree nations will be motivated by the sameidealism which they now represent in theprosecution of the war.

The direction in which the conference wi ll move, will be to grant concessions toformerly “insignificant” and lesser powers,now partners in a victory. This will givethem a degree of equality without seemingto lessen the status of the prewar big pow-ers. This will not be a stroke of diplomacy for the great powers, for in fact it will bethe beginning of the end for some of them,at least insofar as their tremendous sphereof influence is concerned. These concessions

will take the form of a redistribution of thespheres of influence. W hat w ill be the na-ture of this allottment? W ho will partially benefit, at least for the moment, and who

will be required to make the greatest sac -rifices?

RUSSIA

Russia will be one of the first to raise her voice —• and it will be the loudest. She willhave come into a consciousness of a strength

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that surprised even her. She will have dis-played, besides an unexpected, colossal, mili-ary might, an industrial ingenuity and or-

ganization which were unsuspected.

Russia’s demands will take the form of nsistence upon:

Voice and vote in any future decisions which will affect the new balance andorder of things, which the victorious con-

ferees may decide upon.She w ill arrogate and receive a slice of Eastern Ruman ia and Bulgaria. Theseportions will constitute the eastern end of the Black Sea. This will assure Russiadomination of the Black Sea on threesides. It is necessary to her for an easy access to the Dardanelles, important gate-

way to the Mediterranean, and the Suez waterway to the Indian Ocean.

She will also demand and receive a voicein the future actual international controlof the Suez Canal.

A further concession which she will rele-gate to herself will be a mandate in Man

chukuo. This will permit the Soviets tocome further south, behind Japan. This

will give protection to Rus sia’ s Siberianport of Vladivostok, and prevent possiblefuture invasion through her Siberian backdoor by any power.

She w ill demand and receive the occu-pation of such territory as will be equiva-lent to a corridor southward through thelittle Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia,

Lithuania, and that part of Germany which now projects into the Ba ltic . This will give her unquestioned domination of the Baltic Sea.

• Russia w ill further demand and eventu-ally receive a corridor across the northern-most tip of Finland, which adjoins herKo la Peninsula. This will have the de-sired effect of pushing the Russian fron-tier to Norway.

CHINA China’s voice, for the first time in modern

history, will carry weight at a conference of world powers. There wi ll be an evergrow-ing national spirit among the millions of Chinese people capable of being influencedby signs of progress.

However, the Chinese national element wi ll insist at the conference on complete sovereignty for China. No voice of protesttation will be raised against this demand. A ny attempt to oppose it might fan thedangerous spark of racial rivalry betweenthe Asiatic and Western powers into flame.

• China will rule China. China will makeplain that a mandate over Thailand is of value to her national sovereignty. She will propose and eventually receive a cor-ridor through Burma or French IndoChina, to have better supervision overher back door.

INDIA

India will again demand absolute, uncon-ditional, national independence through her





adjacent to the approaches of the PanamaCanal. There are other strategic pointsequally near the Canal which are theterritory of other powers. However, forthe United States to insist upon estab-lishing bases upon them might cause cer-tain Central and South American nations *to point a finger at her and cry “ imper-ialism. ' (AI so see particulars in Part II.)

TALY In the light of Italy’s striking lack of

pirit in her military campaigns, there will bessumed to have been a reluctance on the

part of the Italian populace to participate inhe war. In other words, it will be affirmedhat the Italian people were not sympathetico the war, into which their government pre-ipitated them. A t least, this reasoning will

have a tendency at the conference table tomitigate the otherwise harsh discipline sev-eral of the conferee nations will be disposedo impose on Italy.

The boundaries of Italy proper will re-

main intact.She will be obliged to sacrifice her A fri -can possessions, and will forfeit her em-pire.

Britain will demand and establish a pro-tectorate over Libia. The proximity of Libia to Egypt and to the Suez Canaland the ability of a power holding theformer to menace the latter will motivateEngland.

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• Italian Somaliland will also become aBritish mandated territory, its proximity to the Gulf of Aden and the Red Seacausing Britain to insist upon this dom-ination.

• England, France, and Russia will requirethe demobilizing of the military strengthof Sicily, that steppingstone betweenItaly and the North African coast.

• Italy will be kept an ineffectual sea and

air power in the Mediterranean, which,however, will not affect her commerce inthe region.

GERMANY

The Versailles Treaty will appear innocu-ous by comparison to the new protocol which

will be drawn concerning this nation. Inother words, a spirit of attrition toward her

wi ll prevail. Th is attitude will not only bemanifest by several of the victorious con-ferees, but also by her former allies.

® The first act will consist of the restora-tion of the sovereign and territorial rightsof those nations invaded by Germany.

• Tremendous indemnities will not be ex-acted from Germany, as occurred after

W or ld W ar I. Such a method, it wi ll bereasoned, unites a people by their com-mon plight ^ and makes them bitter and vengeful.

• Germany will be decentralized. Each of the states which compose the GermanReich, such as Bavaria, Saxony, and Si-lesia, will be politically severed, utilizing

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its own name exclusively as when it wasa separate kingdom.

Prussia w ill be the exception. To the world, Prussia wi ll seem to symbolizeGerman military might and spirit. It

will, therefore, be subject to a divisionof its territory between the other states,such as Bavaria and Saxony.

Each of these states, then, will have pro- vincial governments. In other words, each will be organized as a separate provincegoverning itself under the supervision of a United Nations Commission.

England w ill receive a further concessionto fortify and occupy certain zones on thecoast of former Northern Germany. En g-land will see in this the need and oppor-tunity to push Central Europe furtherfrom her shores and to ameliorate Rus-sia’s sphere of influence on the Baltic.

A PAN

The disposal of Japan’s status as a nationwi ll compel the greatest diplomatic discre-

ion. It wil l need to be made very apparento the other Oriental powers, especially those

who are victorious allies , that the impositionsre in consideration of Japan s war conduct,nd not with the intention of reflecting any acial superiority upon the part of the vic-orious white race powers.

The Koreans will think that they see in Ja pa n’s postwar plight an opportunity tohave, their previous independence restored.

In this, they will be disappointed, for it will not be.

• Jap an will be relieved of only that terri-tory which she has acquired through ag-gression since the beginning of her cur-rent war with China. She will, however,as mentioned elsewhere in this booklet,

•I be deprived of those islands over whichshe was given mandate after W orld W arI. The United States and England, in

particular, will be aware that to furthercompress Japan into a smaller territorialarea, by repartitioning the lands they pre-

viously acquired through the decades of their aggression, would be to engendermore quickly an undesirable condition be-cause of excessive population.

• Jap an w ill be reduced to a minimum, ora thirdrate military power.

• Japa n will resort to an intense campaignof winning the friendship of her Asiaticsister nations ^ China, Burma, Malaya,and the Indonese peoples in general. Inother words, this campaign will consistof segregating peoples according to their

racial psychology.• The propaganda will be entirely different

from that which Japan has heretofore ex-pounded. It will not advocate an Asia ticunion of the nations of the East, with

Japa n as the motivating nucleus or the protective element. Rather, it will advo-cate the need to preserve the soul of Asi-atic culture against the inroads beingmade by Western civilization:



Part II

The World and You V V V

STANDARD OF LIVING

This problem of the standard of living wi ll eventually resolve down to the ques-tion of how much luxury shall the indi-

vidual enjoy, or rather, have easy access to.

Radios, telephones, refrigerators, aircooling systems, even the automobile,

which are commercially considered andadvertised as necessities in America areheld to be luxuries elsewhere. V ery fewnations of the world are so internally

wealth y in resources as to provide theirown materials for the manufacture of thesethings.

W hat of the nations that have but one commodity to export, and that in competi-tion with similar exports throughout the world ?

The immediate course of action will beto keep the price level of luxuries up by

taxation in those nations where they havebeen comparatively easy to procure. This

will not make it impossible for individualsin the luxury nations to obtain such com-modities, but it will make them consciousof their luxury content.

Effort will likewise be made to cut downthe cost of production of such articles, sothat they may be sold in foreign marketsfor appreciably less than they are obtain-

able in the domestic markets. Since thebuying power of most of the foreign mar-kets for such items will be less, the num-ber of people throughout the world beingable to acquire such luxuries will be pro-portional, namely, equalizing the standard of living.

TRADE, BUSINESS

A n international trade pool will be

formed. Eve ry nation which exports goodsmay, if it so desires, have a representa-tive on the commission that will super-

vise this trade pool. Each nation, regard-less of its size, its wealth, or the volumeof its exports and imports, will have anequal vote in the determining of policiesand the appointment of the executive of-ficers of the trade pool.

A nation having a surplus of cotton,for example, which it has been unable tosell on the world market, will sell it tothe trade pool. The basis of purchase willbe the actual cost of production at the

wage level absolutely essential to main-tain the comparative standards of livingof that nation. The purchase will alsoallow a fixed per cent of profit which allnations alike will enjoy, by selling theirsurplus goods to the trade pool. Thisamount will not be paid in gold or inmonetary units by the trade pool to theseller nations, but rather that such pur-chasing power will be credited to each of such nations. Thu s, if a nation sells tothe trade pool $5,000,000 worth of sur-



plus cotton, it can then draw on the poolin purchases for that amount. The goodssold to it from the pool will be at prevail-ing market prices.

The nations selling their commodities tothe trade pooh will be obliged to make acorresponding amount of purchases fromit within the same year, in either one oras many commodities as they need.

CAPITAL AND LABOR

Some nations will have little or no com-modities to export, but will have an abun-dance of fafcor^namely, millions of people

who could work and earn a livelihood if they had something to work upon. Thecommission of an organized trade pool,however, will adjust this circumstance.They will provide qualified labor in num-bers of thousands. They will see that it is

voluntarily sent from the country of sur-plus to the country needing it. It wi ll beused for emergency projects where such work will not detrimentally affect the laborbalance of the country which the workersenter, and in which they will remain for atemporary period.

The nation receiving such labor willfeed and house both the men and theirimmediate families in military or barrackstyle domiciles. The cost of this will bededucted from a daily wage scale receivedby the workers. This scale will be de-cided upon by the commission and basedupon an average for such labor through-out the world. The balance due the work

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ers will be set up as a credit in the tradepool, to the nation providing the men.This nation can then obtain the productsit needs in that amount from the tradepool. It can sell them or use them in sucha way as to compensate its laboring men,

when they are returned to their own land,for the labor they have expended.

In the new social philosophy of tomor-row, man will come to look upon his work-

ing hours as not just serving him alone,but as a contribution to civilization. He

will come to realize that each industrious individual is actually not just working foran employer or even himself, but for hisgovernment as well, even though he isnot on the state’s payroll. He works not

just to subsist, but also to enjoy that life which his kind of government affords him.

The present relationship between cap-ital and labor will be greatly altered by this new social philosophy. The state it-self, not the worker or the capitalist, willfix the minimum hours required to carry on a program of production of essentials

and nonessentials. The state will realize f that any number of hours below such a

minimum will jeopardize the standards of living which the people themselves want.

\EDUCATION

In the sphere of education, we will notsee the cessation of private universities orcolleges. Public universities and collegesfor which no fees for attendance will be

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required of the student, will, however, beincreased throughout the world. Strictentry examinations, a rigid curriculumand study requirements will eliminateovercrowding in the fields of specializa-tion. Governmen ts will compel vocational analysis, which will be a highly developedand dependable science, instead of themaladroit system now in use.

No individual will be permitted to study

for a profession, if he is not intellectually or temperamentally suited to it. To pre-

vent overcrowdin g an d consequent cor-ruption, for which certain of our profes-sions today are noted, quotas will beplaced upon all professions.

SCIENCE

Fo r science, we predict that the astro-nomical scale of distances will becomecompletely revolutionized, revealing errorsin our present theory as glaring as thosein the long since abandoned Ptolemaiccosmogony. Th e great telescopes withtheir costly, stupendous lenses now used

in astronomical observations will come toappear as crude instruments, particularly because the entire principle upon whichthey are constructed will be discarded.The magnification of objects by the use of *lenses in astronomical telescopes in thegreat observatories will give way to astartling device employing electro m agneticprinciples. This device will electrically polarize wave bands of light, so that they

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have an electrical property and can thusbe magnified as tremendously as we nowamplify the electrical impulses producedby sound waves through presentday in-struments. Vast stellar spaces will be re-duced to the capacity of human percep-tion i—>a universe now undreamed of, incomparison to what we now can visually perceive, will be disclosed to the knowl-edge of man.

There will be instruments developed wh ich wil l discover for man another na t-ural, yet an almost dormant faculty which

will cause him to enjoy a perception of existence not now imagined possible forthe human consciousness. Th is new fac-ulty of perception will reveal intelligences existing elsewhere in the universe, whichnow we h ave no means of discerning. If this seems fantastic, conceive our presenthuman race without the faculty of hearing,trying to become cognizant of a reality

which wo uld exist only as soun d. Su d -denly given hearing, would not their reali-zation of the new realities be startling to

them?NEW RELIGION

A mystical pantheism will be the re-ligion of tomorrow. Th e central doctrineof this religion will be that a Universal Intelligence as a series or concatenation of causes, creative and perfe ct in its whole,pervades everywhere and everything.Though it be absolutely impersonal, itprovides in its perfection for a faculty in

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man through which he can draw upon itto prevent and remove any discordance

wi th in hims elf or the spheres of his li fe ’sactivities.

The creed of this religion will expoundthat all things in essence will be united

with man, and of him, and he with al lelse. It w ill not alone be a faith in thebrotherhood of man, but a brotherhood of being. It will also proclaim that man can

be no closer to this Universal Mind thanhe can come to self. It will further teachthat if he finds himself in the shadows,it will not be because he has been for-saken, is being punished, or must be re-deemed, but that intentionally or inad-

vertently he has turned from the inner light. There will not be churches, but achurch. There will not be sects, but de-grees and grades of comprehen sion. Fromone to another will man advance as he

proves himself competent. No men willhave absolute comprehension of this U n i-

versal M ind, for they wou ld have to beaware of all of those things which it

comprises. Lik ew ise, therefore, no man will have a wrong conception of it, foreach state of consciousness will be relatedto the individual’s personal attainment.

INTERNATIONALISM, POLITICS

Out of the prevailing necessary attitudeof extreme nationalism there will arise,after the present war, a new social con-sciousness. This will take the form of atrue internationalism, which will touch

all classes of society. It w ill be unlike any internationalism which the world has everbefore experienced.

The returning warrior will have foundthat the peoples of the remote lands,

whether of the East or W est , taken by and large, as individuals have the samedepth of character as himself. He willhave learned that they place the samemoral validity upon truth, loyalty, friend-

ship, and the sanctity of the home thathe* does. Th e warrior w ill ha ve foundthat the immorality which exists in theseplaces, the promiscuity, and the perversity are more often not of the character of thepeople but of the individu al just as they are among his own fellow citizens. C us s-edness is not a racial or national charac-teristic, but an individual human faultconfined to no one people alone.

Change in Courts

The system of jurisprudence will be-come completely reorganized, rather trans-cend the present obnoxious imperfections.

Ju dge s of the C iv il and Crim in al courts of zones will be selected by examination andunquestionable qualifications. Such qual-ifications will not merely include a knowl-edge of the science and philosophy of law,but as well an intellectual breadth, whichcomes from a freedom from any allegiances

which might bias a decis ion . Ju ries w illlikewise be appointed upon examination.The fallacy of the traditional belief in theirpeership will be abolished.



Part III

Can You Stand the Shock . . .

of The Next Ten Years!

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W het her you are a butcher, bak er, orcandlestick maker, your life isn’t going tobe the same. Th e most astounding trans-formations unexpected changes are go-ing to alter your ways of living within thenext few years. Million s have been wan tinga change but few will be ready for it.A vo id the inev ita ble co nfus ion and di si llus-ionment that will come.

A ll around you are those wh o say: W henthe wa r is over I w ill do thus and thus /—always with the presumption that life willcontinue right where it left off before thepresent conflict. W h at a rude awake ningsuch individuals will have. You w ill experi-ence tremendous changes in your monetary system and in your methods of buying andselling, for example. W h at you once thoughtthe inviolate sanctity of your home, will beentered upon decisions will be made by the state, which formerly were left to you.AH of this wil l ultim ately be to your ad-vantag e as a citizen of the new era. Butunless you prepare for it, enlarge your vision,expand your comprehension of the purposesof life and your true relationship to society^the civilization of tomorrow ^ you will be

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continually disturbed and in a state of un-rest.

The Age of Individualism

Not only the men and women of the de-mocracies, but millions of people now in

« servitude, within the next few years will ex-perience a freedom unlike anything they havedreamed. This ne w freedom wi ll requiremen and women to be true individualists

to enjoy it fully. It wi ll not be a questionof doing just what you please, but of know-ing the efficiency of selfliving.

You must have a rational understandingof wh y you live. Yo u must know the truerelationship of your mind and body. Youmust be able to remove your fears, and,above all, to know how to avoid creatingthem. It will no longer be sufficient to say,as an excuse to self, that this or that isGod’s will —>or that the state or some or-ganization or society should do this or thatfor us. If you prepare, if you truly learn toutilize your Godgiven faculties, your innateprocesses, and live like an individual and

not just as a member of human society, theT years just ahead w ill result in the most pro-

found happiness and the greatest security and achievements of your whole life.

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PART IV

The Rosicrucians

The Amazing Things They

Can Do For You

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W h o are the Ros icru cian s? A centuriesold, world wide body of philosophers. Doe sthat sound like a group of benign old gentle-men sitting about propounding complexproblems, which have naught to do with theaffairs of toda y? Le t us see. Ha ve you everasked yourself: ‘ Just what is my mission inlife? W h y must we suffer pain and hard-ship, and surrender all at death? W h y must we be born, in fact? Have you won -dered about the cycles of life and death, of the seasons and tides? Ha s the law of du-ality ever caused you to wonder as to itsreal purpose, that is, why there are men andwomen, negativ e an d positive conditionssuch as the contraries of good and evil, lightand darkness, etc.? A re you quite sure wh atis the real in life? W ou ld you say that every-thing is just as you see and hear it? If light, heat, and sound are vibrations s whatthen is the true essence of matter and thephysical world? W h y do some people havecreative ability, are able to make a placefor themselves and others must be fittedinto whatever exists for them like cogs in amachine? W h y are some born in fortunate

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circumstances and others not? C an sucha condition be explained by Divine justice? Yo u have thought of these things ma ny times, an d w hen you did , you, too, were p h il -osophically minded.

The Rosicrucians, however, are men and women just like yourself, bu t for centuriesthey have, as a fraternity, done more thanask themselves these questions. They have made a careful investigation of these so

called mysteries of life. Their discoverieshave been startling and are recorded as his-torical fact. W ith w hat they have learnedby disclosing nature s secrets, men and w o-men of every wa lk of life have come to realizetheir fondest dreams by the use of suchknowledge.

The Rosicrucians disprove the existenceof luck, chance, and fate, and show the in-dividual how to bring about intelligently

wha t once he had ju st hoped for. It isamazing how simple this knowledge is tounderstand and to apply, and how many millions fail to recognize these principlesof life about them. Once you know your-

self, your attributes, and your capabilities, wh ich the Ro sic ru cian s will point out, youbecome po ised , selfre lia nt , as su re d ^ the

wo rld becomes your true dom inion ins teadi of just a shifting, changing realm of un-

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