586 ROSICRUCIANCOSMO-CONCEPTION
MATTER
Is negative spirit substance; crystallized space
or spirit .............................................................120, 187, 247
Relation of force and matter illustrated ...................................121
The Seven Worlds are states of matter ..................................... 29
All physical matter is homogeneous in the ultimate .................. 31
Matter is devoid of true feeling ............................................... 31
Ether is physical matter; the field of operation of force
which acts upon the gases, liquids and solids ..................... 30
Desire stuff is the matter of the Desire World, which causes
feeling and compels motion ............................................... 39
Mind stuff is the matter of the Region of Concrete thought
which we use to embody and concrete our ideas ................. 30
The use of desire stuff in our thought-activity .......................... 89
The reason for the spirits pilgrimage through matter ................ 87
How its original divine All-consciousness is obscured
by the three veils of matter ...............................................216
Spirit and matter merge in Chaos; only the seed atoms
of the World-globes persist ...............................................247
The Bible does not say the earth was created from “nothing.”
It names a basic substance ................................................322
How the homogeneous primordial matter is formed
into several Worlds ..........................................................375
STORIES AND ILLUSTRATIONS
A sure method of attaining wisdom ......................................... 21
Clairvoyant sees worlds as invisible to most people
as the light and color we see is to a blind man .................... 24
The existence of Invisible Worlds, interpenetration
of Physical World (frostflower, freezing water) .................. 27
Relative reality and permanency of visible and invisible
worlds shown by architects house ...................................... 28
The purpose of visible world as school of right thought illustrated
by Inventors machine ........................................................ 33
Necessity for occult training, babe and blind who has acquired
sight, must learn to see here ............................................... 41
Always look for the good Christ and dead dog ......................... 44
Three men and dog show operation of twin feelings and twin
forces of Desire World ...................................................... 46
Sponge, sand and water show interpenetration and extension