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ROSICRUCIAN PHILOSOPHY
QUESTION No. 173.
You said in a previous lecture that the earth is the body
of a spirit which gives its life for the dwellers upon the
surface. Why does it give flowers and fruit to some and
earthquake and famine to others?
Answer: During the interval between death and a new
birth, the discarnate spirits who have reached the Second
Heaven where the archetypes of everything are, build their
future environment in which they reap what they have
sown. If they have been diligent in past lives, if they have
tilled the soil and made two blades of grass to grow where
there wa p
only one, they will build for themselves a still
more fertile land which will yield greater fruits for less
labor. If they have spent their time thinking of Nirvana,
a heavenly place of rest and indolence, and have loved
more to enter into metaphysical discussion than to look
after material things, they will continue to do so in the
Second Heaven, and in consequence their land will be arid
when they come back to earth life. They will then experience
famine, flood and earthquake, so that they may
realize the necessity of providing for material conditions.
Thus they will in time learn their lesson and strive to con-
quer this world as we have done in the West, for, of course,
the inquirer has reference to the people of the East who
suffer from flood and famine. They are our younger
brethren, behind us in evolution, and must follow in our
footsteps. They must learn to forget, for a time, the
spiritual worlds in order to attain the development which
only the material world can give them. Thus, there is a
ideep purpose in the famine which is at present their lot