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In this RosicrucianTV presentation, Hugh McCague continues the series On the Laws of Life with the Law of Vibration, which he describes as always at work within us and all around us. He opens with a guided meditation built around Robert Fludd's 1624 image of the Temple of Music, then explains vibration technically: wavelength, amplitude, period and frequency, with examples such as the heartbeat, brain waves, hearing ranges and the electromagnetic spectrum. He links these ideas to Pythagorean experiments with the monochord and hammers, to the Rosicrucian concept of harmonium, and to the music of the spheres. McCague demonstrates practical experiments, including a ripple tank, a can-and-membrane device that magnifies voice vibrations, a string telephone, and Chladni plate patterns made with sand and a violin bow. He connects vibration to the prologue of the Gospel of John, the five phases of the mystical life, crystal radios and cosmic attunement, and cites H. Spencer Lewis's cosmic keyboard and cycles of life. The session closes with a silent healing council and a descent visualization.
Key points
- The Law of Vibration is described as always at work within us and all around us.
- Pythagoreans used the monochord and hammer experiments to show number and geometry underlie creation.
- Waves are explained through wavelength, amplitude, period and frequency, measured in cycles per second or hertz.
- Rosicrucians use the term harmonium for harmonious relations of body, environment and cosmos.
- Simple experiments include a ripple tank, a can-and-membrane voice device, a string telephone and Chladni plate patterns.
- The prologue of the Gospel of John is presented as structured in a vibrational, mirrored way.
- H. Spencer Lewis's cosmic keyboard is described as having 60 octaves in 1923 and later 140 octaves.
- The session ends with a silent council radiating love and well-being to those requesting healing.
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greetings everyone it's great to be with you great to be learning again with you our presentation today is entitled on the laws of life nine the law of vibration now the law of vibration is always at work within us and all around us the pythagoreans realize this through their experiments with vibrations including the monoc and that number and geometry underly all creation we'll consider how the law of vibration is applied in some of the key Ros acution exercises to help bring us into the enriching and healing state of harmonium now to begin we'll have a meditation first as our custom will use a a particular image and a slide that uh I think you'll find quite conducive uh to our work today and quite relevant in
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the history of the Ros acuan order I'll get it up here in a moment there what you'll be seeing before you now is the Temple of Music um from Robert flood's book itria Kami cosmi Historia from 1624 in a way it's a wonderful Pur of force uh exemplifying the law of vibration you'll see many many different aspects to do with vibration in it in music music is fundamentally about vibration as is all uh phenomena throughout the Arts you'll notice in the upper level here in the power that uh there's Apollo and he has his leer from ancient times he said to have had a seven string lar to do with the seven
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Cadence of the universe the Sevenfold Cadence of the universe and there's a monocord here that I alluded to before in regard to the pythagoreans a very simple demonstration that we can do in our homes as well as the taunts uh string when it's plucked whether it be uh made could be made of various materials and you'll notice that uh the U Notes here but also moving up into higher uh octos with the G's as a doubling of vibrations similarly here we have a demonstration of an early Pythagorean experiment has come down down to us uh to do with the pounding of hammers and the sounds that are made thereof again following number and geometry of uh underlying music the loot that Robert flood was greatly taken with is a wondrous music he actually wrote a a a text on the
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Temple of music I'll give you a reference in our resources that'll be given to you later from Professor Jon uh Godwin uh on this particular uh work the Temple of the music and the larger text that it is uh part of in a way this was a memonic device that is a memory device where you could place different pieces of information in architectural space either real or uh visualized that allows you to remember various facts and uh figures and theoretical considerations and applications associated with the form of architecture scene here the Temple of Music in a way we'll rise up in the temple of music when we have our meditation uh period uh today uh to prepare for our meditation I invite you to uh if you're seated to get comfortable in your chair if you're lying down to get
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uh comfortable and take a little more time to have a look at the Temple of music you notice the application of num number here various proportions that are associated with uh with with music similarly um as a string was shortened by half it would go to the upper the next upper octave for example where a string was plucked with uh in half or thirds or quarters would determine harmonics rosans have a beautiful term harmonium to describe the music on all levels of our being in an environment the harmonious relations of the part of the whole of the uh
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body as organs mooved together what would be called traditionally a musah human which flood was aware of and part depicts in the temple of music but also the uh music instrumentalist the music of instruments uh that are exemplified here on various in the six instruments exemplified here as well as the the loot and the Lear um there's also the um uh music that is associated with the uh Harmony of the Spheres the music of Mandana and ultimately the music deina entire music of of God encompassing all forms of music that we seek to attune with to fulfill our true natures and be one with so with these inspiring thoughts and vision before us may wish to close your eyes now and we'll begin our meditation period just enjoy the gentle rhythm of
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the breath which is part of the music of the body and it's a vibration the incoming and the outgoing of the breath forms a wave and as a particular period and frequency we'll discuss more about those Concepts later in the presentation and you may wish to extend the exhalation to stimulate the Vegas nerve one of the many nerves that we learn about in the rosan weekly monographs and teachings when the vagus nerve is stimulated by the prolongation of our outgoing breath the relaxation response occurs relaxation is fundamental to Healing it's a necessary part of healing
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when we're we're stressed we cannot heal or not heal well when we relaxed it hastens the healing process I think you may find too that there's a special tingling in your extremities your body and your hands fingers toes and your feet a vital life force the VF we toing some traditions as The Prana others as the chi flowing through the body again our Ros acution lessons teach us about it how it's on a much higher octave what Ros actions call The Cosmic keyboard vibrations all part of the law of vibration when we understand the law of vibration its applications we more able to be sensitive and aware to know how to heal and how to perform our Ros acution
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exercises such as visualization metaphysical Aid the sending of healing how to attune in meditation just continue to enjoy the gentle Rhythm of the breath if you find your mind wandering just lovingly and gently bring it back to the discipline of the breath very simple act but a very profound one or as we in cruly understand the great laws and principles of life we're astonished by their Simplicity and when they're applied in Myriad ways it leads to the great diversity out of the unity we see all around us in creation and throughout the Holy Temple of the body these inspiring conceptions let us just continue focus on our
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breath in a way that Stills the outer mind so we can go deeper and deeper within ourselves the divine within the master within our true nature and guide in life now having applied the law of vibration the law of Duality and the law of purification I invite you to Ascend to the heights of the celestial sanctum apply the law purification one more time through the following prayer and ification which I invite you to say along with me May the Divine Essence of the cosmic
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and fuse my being and cleanse me of all impurities of mind and body that I may enter the celestial sanctum and a tune in pureness and in worthiness so M it be now frers and sores and participants let us use all our inner psychic faculties and imaginative capacity to rise up through all the vibrational levels octaves of the cosmic keyboard let us visualize oursel rising up above our home or dwelling or building see it below us and continue to rise up in your surrounding neighborhood and then above the city or town or geographic area where you are and then up over your Province and state and see the weather systems and land forms below they Beauty and Grandeur of the Temple of the Earth all this phenomena of vibrating so
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we can sense it it both inwardly and outwardly psychically and physically let us continue to rise up and feel the exhilaration of the ascent over our great nation or country and now the hemisphere where we dwell and now the beautiful blue Jewel of the Earth the great sphere of a blade spheroid see the all the Waters of the oceans and seas great weather systems Browns and greens of the continents revolving about its axis which in a way is a vibration with a particular period and frequency as the moon revolves about the Earth we continue to rise up higher and higher creasing sensing the great range of vibration psychically and physically going faster and faster way beyond the speed of light taking in the entire solar system its vibrations from the
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planets radiating back to them psychically what they're directing to us psychically all part of the harmony of the Spheres the musica Mandana let us continue to rise up past the great fiery ball of the Sun the various Cycles it follows through its sunspots and other ways let us continue upward enjoying the exhilaration of the ascent sensing the entirety of the cosmos vibrating the rosac crucians have a beautiful term it's used as a noun and an adjective the cosmic to signify the universal intelligence back of the cosmos its great system and order but all natural and spiritual laws which we are applying including law vibration now that has continue to rise up higher and higher right out of our great home the milkyway Galaxy looking back at its beautiful
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motions and colors and higher rates of vibrations that we pick up psychically on OCT to the eboard is of the cosmic need to rise up seeing Myriad Stars rogue planets and Interstellar gases and nebuli and black holes help balance the universe see not only individual galaxies and stars but the great clusters of galaxies revolving about their axes and not only clusters of galaxies but many many clusters of G galaxies together astrophysicists and astronomers call superclusters hence the spectacular system and order as we speed at at a tremendous weight Way Beyond the speed of light transcending space and time enjoying this great vibrational experience everything being sensed to us
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through vibration which is ultimately number and geometry emphasized by the pythagoreans mystics of Time immemorial start increasingly to sense not only the vibrations of the cosmos but it's revolving of its own frequency imp period about a great Cosmic axis take in this stupendous Harmony and Order of the cosmos As We rise up higher and higher we applaud the law of Correspondence As Above So Below as we go higher and higher we go deeper and deeper within ourselves to the infinite plane mirrors the finite plane As We rise up into the cosmos the outer experience of the cosmos allows us to attune the higher rates of vibration on
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the cosmic keyboard and ultimately sense the infinite plane of which the finite plane is but an expression or a projection into space time and vibration where as Dr a Spencer Lewis pointed out the fourth dimension can be viewed as vibration or if you wish to include time can be viewed as The Fifth Dimension as a vibrational rate that's present that location is based on that particular expression whether it be minerals organic material the human body and so forth as we've risen up higher and higher s now the great Cosmic axis and moved to its
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midpoint we reach close to it slow up and enjoy all around you great vibrations wave likee actions of the cosmos different wavelengths different frequencies all one great harmonious ho and here let us ply the structions of the booklet Libra 777 and visualize our own personal Celestial sanctum our own Sacred Space maybe an inspiring place in nature that Temple of music that we saw depicted through the book of Robert flood or maybe some inspiring temple on Earth such as the grand Temple of Grand Lodge at rosan Park in San Jose California fill in all your impressions of your Sacred Space may wish to picture those on this conference call with us Grand Lodge officers of the rush Amor
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the Supreme Grand Lodge officers Grand Masters and the imperator maybe conducting a special Convocation at the heights of the celestial sanctum at this time the visible and invisible Masters maybe you sense incense rising up just like we rise rised up in the Cosmic Rising up different levels of the cosmic keyboard octave after octave after octave I should see beautiful stained glass or other artwork symbolizing mystical laws and principles of the rosac [Music] Cru When we filled in all the impressions of your Sacred Space the heights of the celestial sanctum the
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center of the cosmos the center of your being release you your visualization vibrational form through the subconscious into the cosmic and dwell in peace profound as we apply the law silence for a period silence is very enriching to the very depth core of our being the wondrous vibrations enriching
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and ennobling us now FRS and sores and participants let us again apply the law vibration the law of Attunement is that the cosmic level the law of cosmic atun but also now the law service I invite you to participate in the work the silent Council in conjunction with the Council of soless the Grand Lodge of the Rish Ram workk by radiating love and well-being to all those who have petitioned the Grand Lodge for healing and guidance sense it is the great vibrations of love and well-being emanating out from your mind and your heart in the depths of your being
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through the divine within to all those who' petitioned so and all those you know who are in need of guidance and healing and radiate love and well-being to them as well as to all who have petitioned our affiliate bodies of the Rose Chuan order for love and guidance and to all those sentient beings throughout the cosmos are need of love and heal healing radiate the vibrations of love and well-being to them through our mind and hearts the depths of our being gradually surrender and let the divine within overtake this spiritual operation just as we felt the
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exhilaration Rising the height celestial sanctum feel now the exhilaration this flow of vibrations of the highest order going through us to all in need a certain point I think you'll find that the radiation speed up and you know it's reaching those in need the need is great but the resource is infinite on the finite from the finite plane going into the infinite plane or tapping into at a certain point I think you'll no longer need to make any conscious effort the divine within take over completely as we surrender be receptive to it
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soon we'll formally close this period of metaphysical but we'll continue our meditation as we close we'll be assured that this is a way of life and part of our mission radiate love and wellbeing at all times as a way of life we've kindled the fire now but will let it burn throughout our day in night formally conclude I invite you to say with me it pleases the cosmic it is done so mod it be now let us continue to apply the law Cosmic doent meditation a while longer let your mind expand to fill the cosmos just as we radiate love and
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well-be out let your mind absorb become one with the cosmic mind shift from a finite plane to the infinite plane further in this way continue to surrender be the cosmic mind experiences the cosmic mind experiences assume the cosmic mind now soon we'll formally conclude this period
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of of meditation assured that its effects both immediate and cative will continue to enrich and en Noble us up heal us and all those we come in contact with as a way of life most deepest and most meaningful way before we descend from the heights of celestial sanctum fors and sores and participants we may wish to invoke the law of gratitude thank though those who have taught you well who sacrificed for your well-being on your behalf who have loved you well who set a great example that
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behooves us to follow for the rest of to our lives to the guidance of the divine [Music] within let us begin our descent tremendous Speed Way Beyond the speed of light that's the wondrous display of superclusters of galaxies having within them clusters of galaxies within them Myriad galaxies and stars and Stellar phenomena and nebula sensing as do the great vibrations of the music the Spheres tremendous system and Order and interconnections throughout the cosmic keyboard on all its octaves let us see in the distance the super cluster that is our home let us plunge into it feel the exhileration of the
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tremendous speed and the beauty and harmony see the Myriad clusters of galaxies revolving about within it and see in the distance cluster of Galaxy that is our home enter into it the Myriad stars and galaxies around it you see in the distance the Milky Way galaxy are great home spiraling and enter into the Milky Way galaxy past the Myriad stars and quazar and pulsars R planets and planets and asteroids black holes balancing Universe see in the distance the wondrous Beauty and elliptical orbits of our solar system great fiery ball of the sun beautiful blue Jewel Temple of the earth as we approach the hemisphere we left off now the
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continent the great nation or country province your state city or town geographic area we can say together applying the law of vibration law gratitude and the law of purification and the law of cosmic Attunement may God of my heart sanctify the tumin of self with the celestial sanctum soot it be let us continue down through our neighborhood the building or dwelling or home where we left off back in the room in a seat or bedroom situation where we are feeling remade rested re-energized rejuvenated all the more ready for the work and worship the order in our mission in life and you may wish to stretch and open your eyes we'll continue our presentation PS and SS and participants thank you
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let us continue to discuss the law of vibration you'll see it before you now as an undulating keyboard artist has given both the sense of the cosmic keyboard but also the great vibrations that are associated with the cosmic keyboard and a way the Mastery of life is about being a master penist being able to access the different octaves that we need for whatever we need to do in our lives to be of service and fulfill our mission in life indeed our weekly lessons of the rosac crucian monographs is to this very heart and purpose let us consider a little more technically the nature of vibration and waves you'll see before us here something I think you recall maybe from high school physics possibly a sinusoidal curve the curve going up and down in his beautiful motions the tops is the crest the lower parts technically
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the trough from trough to trough like one trough to immediate other is the wavelength same with one Crest to other that's the wavelength you'll find there's the rest position in the middle a straight line and above it that's the amplitude Mount below is also the amplitude the axis all on the right is the time the axis the vertical axis is the displacement whatever phenomenon that we're dealing with the time may be measured in seconds or some other unit it still is equivalent related to this as well there some other Concepts that are valuable to know and that are covered in our rosac crucian monographs that is the concept of a period That's the time to complete one full cycle for example how long did it take to go from the crest to the Crest is it 1 second like if your heartbeat is 60 cycles per second for uh 60 cycles per minute I should say then it's one cycle per minute I should say one cycle
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per second then frequency is the number of cycles per second sometimes it's a fraction of cycles per seconds or many hundreds or thousands cycles per second depending on the phenomena um I'll give you some resources about this but uh we know that uh the uh phenomena of cycles per second is also technically referred to as Hertz cycles of second and so various things to do with visible light or hearing or the hour month the number of seconds in them or the lifespan of a human and so forth these are all related to different frequencies and different periods that we U learn about in our Rose etion studies that you may have studied in physics or engineering or through your own interests we also know through F phenomena that
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uh Bally been known for Mystics for centuries through a sensitivity of our psychic nature that there's vibrations that of a much higher rate we think about the heartbeat as I mentioned before is one cycle per second but um some brain waves are around 10 uh cycles per second depending on the type um human hearing it it ranges uh from depending on the phenomenon and the person uh can go from 100 cycles per second up to um 10,000 cycles per second but then there's also radio uh waves and microwave and infrared and visible light and UltraViolet and x-rays and gamma rays Beyond even higher up on the octus of cosmic keyboard um that we can subtly censors psychic fashion now these
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matters can also be viewed as very slow U VI vibrations for example cycles of the Earth in its rotation of approximately 24 hours you can view that as a very slow vibration but also L loner month is a very even slower over approximately 28 days um or the year orbiting around the Sun or the 11year sunspot cycle and so forth the great periods of geological age and so related all of these are very inspiring nature but understood fundamentally through this phenomena that we see before us the wave and the frequency and the period now waves can be very simple we learn about s and cosine waves in high school um but they can also get sumed together you know so longer wavelength
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than the one one here but the same notice the same uh amplitude if they're sum together or they uh uh they they can actually take on this form that you'll see here you'll notice that the parts that are higher here together tend to get here and here as they match up they may they become even higher than the amplitude of one unit here but there's also places where they cancel you notice here and here or become even lower here from here to here so many of the phenomena that we experience all around us physically and psychically uh are more complex way phenomena like this I know some of you have studied physics and Engineering or applied math or pure math know about 4A series and tells about how any type of of function wave phenomena whether or it
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looks like a wave or not can be a sum through 4 a series of signs and cosiness and it's a very beautiful formula here very imaginative very creative the sigma here is a summation notation of whole whole numbers going from one to Infinity that is sign signed up coins of various nature to mean what the multiply here here is of n from whole numbers and also various features to do with the uh uh length L here this here is a very simple addition we only needed two types of Co signs and cosiness here as exemplified here Express as a sign or cosine this is another sign or cosine I didn't have to have an infinite number of su of cosin sign but what's a very important message to get from this is
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that any function can be expressed as a sum SS or cosine or be expressed as the sums of wave waves so that's how we understand that all all is vibrational in a way it's beautifully expressed in this various concise uh law and formula you notice here I think you'll see the action of two waves coming forward and going right through each other but at a certain point they're super position just like we meditated together it can be a raising of vibrations and raising of impact of energy they don't they're not cancelling each other out they go through each other in a very beautiful beautiful way this is something to keep in mind uh when we attune with the cosmic with others or come into a very sacred place okay we're in a large convocation while there's an increased energy in Attunement with the cosmic here's another wave likee phenomenal I
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want to show you for Simplicity purposes we'll keep this one wave uh fixed in the image and the relative motion compared to this middle wave to it you notice as they are summ together at a certain point they cancel each other out and they're at rest and this lower wave matches pins itself onto this the uh straight line below or they cancel out but there's certain points the wave Rises up higher again and there's an actual adding of the two ways together Crest to Crest match up or the trough to trough um match up like here you'll see it but when the crests the trough match up here for example we have the flat these are very special phenomena to be aware of and that I'll describe in uh further detail DET and how we apply them in our rosu studies and
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exercises another way I want to show you about here is some of you may recall in high school physics doing experiments with a ripple tank and there's simple ways you can make a ripple tank at home if you like here's some uh special instruments that are provided for a uh high school or University Physics lab you notice there's the light above here and we have piece of wood or other material that vibrates on top of a a shallow pool of water that causes way this vibrating up and down this wood piece here a different you can make it go at different rates you can set it set it for by the instrument over here fast or slow uh for example adjust how it's uh plunging in and out of the water uh that causes these standing waves or this Ripple effect occur here the light up
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above is used because down especially when you have a darken room you'll see this much more easily on the floor below these lines I remember doing this as an demonstrated experiments at Ros acuan affiliate body we turned the lights off in the uh L large pus room and uh I had set up on a table uh a glass pie plate that was you could see through and underneath that pie plate uh was a flashlight stood up and the pie plate was held up over uh the uh Flashlight by being in held in a cardboard box with a circular hole at the top that the PIP plate that could sit in and then as one touched or vibrated the water even lightly up on the top of the of the ceiling you can could see these large waves moving about
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you could even test out other forms of vibrations for example with fowel sounds that I'll talk about in a moment I remember once though and this is where it's helpful to have this knowledge of physics that I that uh when past Grandmaster U Robert E Daniels was giving a Stress Management workshop for the order as a public event that when he spoke to us and this was in a large Ballroom in a hotel and often the lighting conditions in barro in ballrooms and hotels are are quite conducive to seeing the human aura with the finite plane and and the infinite plane merge and there were there was various times when he spoke he could see this beautiful enriching purple Aura well extended from him and as he moved as he talked you could see the aura move gradually to catch up with his physical body and the Beautiful purple Aura of course is associated with one that is highly spirit spiritualized in their
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nature quite conducive to the experience and the expression of wisdom but I also saw during that time when he presented during the day quite a surprising thing that I worked to Fathom through for years and it was that at times there was as he stood and presented like you're seeing these standing waist there was large bands that were vertical and they were on the same beautiful purple as his Aura but they were moving out at a tremendous Pace out out from them um these these bands or vertical rectangles the spaces between them it was years later that I realized part of what was going on and the tremendous but this was a phenomena I had seen in a physic lab but much further up the the cosmic keyboard and octaves but that evening he was about to assist as a grandmas to raise a chapter to the status of a large Affiliated body and the rose order and that he was raising the vibrations for that event for all that would
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participate in it it would come through him as a divine within and be assisted by the imperator and others so it's not the self-aggrandisement of any individual but these are the things that we come into realize when apply the law of vibration truly how remarkable it is to be a human being especially when we ATT tune with the cosmic now in a fun way I want to show you now another application of vibration it's also associated with our mystical laws and principles here for example we have a fun experiment that you can do at home but I've also done it amark affiliate bodies where you can take for example a can it could be a big tomato juice can yes we're being very down to earth here and you can uh uh cut out the top and the bottom so you still have this uh open cylinder and then you can take a membrane you can stretch over it could be a large balloon and stretch it very tight and hold it on like with elastic bands or some other medium and
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so you've got like a tight drum here and then you can glue on a reflective piece it could be like the reflective piece of Lum foil or a mirror and then set it on a table very have it very still and don't let it get pushed or moved and in the room have a flashlight that reflects onto that mirror a reflect a reflective piece and then is reflected off on the wall and then when one speaks and vibrates uh the membran by speaking into the can you see that the motion that's on the me the membrane from the vibrations of our voice are greatly magnified by their reflection on the wall because just a slight movement of the mirror of the mirror here by Vi the membrane vibrating inside from the can is greatly magnified up here and it's very interesting in experiments we did in affiliate bodies with different sacred vowel sounds or mantras you may
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know them as of the order uh such as om they have different ways of vibrate vibrating the membrane and hence the beautiful geometric action that's on the wall here I I should you may wish to try this at home or in your affiliate bodies it's something of great import and interest here's another experiment to do with vibration many of them are from our childhood a stretch spring that's taunt between two cans two persons now it could be much further apart than this it could be 60 feet apart or 30 feet apart the string could be waxed even to help with the advance and that you have the a hole punched in the bottom of the can but it's open at the other end you tie the string through with a knotted inside P Taun and as one person speaks inside the can lo and behold the vibrations of voice complex vibrations some like we saw some by the for a series will then
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go through vibrating the string and the person at the other end will then actually be able to hear those vibrating strs string translated into hearing the human voice and you can do interesting things like trying a larger can here on the left and on the right and see how that changes things I know as a child this experiment made a very deep impression of me but we could then appli later certain mystical laws and applications of the rushan order and work here's another uh exemplification we've done in our affiliate bodies but also uh there in the earlier Ros acution manuals that CH played after the fsus told me here you can take a plate that could be metal or it could be glass or some other stiff medium and you can have it well fixed in the center so it isn't dampen so much around its edges or elsewhere and take a violin bow and draw it on it and you can have some particulate substance like sand or sugar or salt here the demonstration is fixing
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points here with the uh the thumb and a finger and that then causes those points to be nodes or places of rest and so as you vibrate the string the random what appears to be the random or evenly spaced uh sand on the on the plate looks like it's almost growing as it vibrates and it goes into these different geometric patterns depending how where we where we're damping it on the edges and sides and you get Myriad patterns like this this is a way is like our thoughts going out from ourselves the thoughts have wings in our in our order and various vibrational phenomena our body going into two Dimensions earlier we looked at the waves and like a vibrating rope and thinking of it more like onedimensional along the string though in certain sense it's two- dimensional and it's amplitude going up and down but here an extent in the width and the length the wonderful different shapes and beautiful phenomena that are in a way phenomena like this are all around us um and our as our body
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vibrates in phenomena around is vibrate I wanted to show you a profound mystical application of this I remember at a conference I was at at the University of durh Durham 20 years ago it was about the an the 900th anniversary of the beginning of building of Durham Cathedral that medieval Cathedral and there was a various presentations to do with that medieval culture from around that time and person gave a presentation talking about a poem about Durham but he also mentioned as part of it that the D that poem was following uh earlier precedents for example in medieval literature in the Bible that for example the prologue to the Gospel of John 1 1:5 speaks about the dynamic word going forth to form creation just like the chy plate being vibrated uh it and forms these different geometric patterns like we see throughout Us in
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creation here the the very text that prologue of the Gospel of John is set up in a vibrational phenomena way you see in the beginning was the word we have in English we'll have in Greek we'll have in Latin and various particular English translation um but the original Greek is followed here in the English was set up that when the text was read or even chanted or sung it would suggest the vibration of creation like a microcosm that we are mirring the creation as the macrocosm and if something would be stated and then restated in oppos opposite order say in the beginning with the word the vibration it's going forward and the Word was with God and God was the word he was in the beginning but you notice a here this first statement A1 is is mirrored in a prime in the beginning in the beginning with God you know and it
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goes throughout that from two and two prime four and the and the word the word so we have this the state profound statement made and then it's said again in reverse order but this is like the rising of the vibration and the coming down of the vibration and then the rising of the vibration again coming down uh and similar like all things done through him were made and without him was made not one thing so you see the statement and the reinstatement and similarly what was made in him life and life was the light of men and the light in the darkness shines and the Darkness has not overcome it so the very expression conceptually was vibrational but also the very saying of it and its construction was vibrational a harmonize we noticed too in another profound mystical way that the traditional five phases of the mystical life that we've had presentations on in
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rosac crucian TV that I'll give you a reference to if you wish to find that are like great wave action over the course of our life the a wake The Awakening period that we go through a new idealism intill but the pration and the self-discipline period to just as we had verified ourselves to rise up into the cosmic for illumination that period of self-discipline learning and growing and studying helps leads us to illumination rising up again like a great wave action over the course of our years of our life and then the great challenges and purification the darkness of the Soul or the Obscure night again a great period of purification a rising up so we can then recently surrender to the divine within and be one with and one in mystical Union and have that constant rapport with the cosmic you see here's another profound way of all of vibrations assist us and our our lives in the universe are permeated with
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vibrations are of the great way we make connections another thing I think you may have done in childhood and made a strong impression of me to help understand mystical laws and principles and psychic phenomena was the crystal radio no battery is needed and it works with a crystal that in itself is quite profound applies the law of vibration the law of Attunement you may remember if you made one you wrapped copper wires around and around a tube many many times and it was hooked up in this way with ground a detector headphones an antenna maybe outside one's home or going out one's bedroom window here's an older uh uh crystal radio set and you can see the wound uh coil uh oil here here as we move the uh the slide along here we actually attune with different rates of vibration in the AM radio dial and I thought that was quite fascinating because that's what we
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do when we do cosmic atun where we tune with psychic phenomena we're like on the radio tuner we're shifting it along to get at a different rate of vibration and we move up the the uh Cosmic keybo board octaves in that fashion again I know H Spencer Lewis was imp parator uh of our order he was a master electronics and applications electricity and often would give us as his students um descriptions uh with electrical apparatus to help our odor Minds understand more inly what was going on these are not only analogies but they're way they applications at a much higher rate of vibrations much higher rates of vibrations on the octave just like a c Noe on one octave there a c Noe much higher up in the octaves but it's still the same type of vibrational phenomena that's at work you'll see here an early version of
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The Cosmic keyboard I'll give you a reference from this from 1923 it has on it 60 octaves and it's drawn in a circular fashion associated with a 12-fold design with a zodiacal signs that as and per H Spencer Lewis tells us about our associate with those different uh o octaves later the cosmic keyboard would have 140 octaves on it in the 12 12 squared quite be fitting in the 12 for full Cadence of the of the universe but these vibrations we learned to work with in all levels um you know it striking this in one of the apocryphal acts of John has the master Jesus the master Yeshua with his disciples stand around him him at the center and they recite certain hymns including ending with uh Al men associated with the V sound om and there's a tremendous building up
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super of waves we've uh conducted as a Ros acuan exercise in some of our affiliate bodies and I'll give you a reference on it if you're inclined to try it if haven't already it's one of the various ways that mystical phenomena are vibrational in nature in our uh Ros acution studies and also the associated Rose qua Journal uh there was a very intriguing article recently by Roger France entitled The the grand hourglass of time a unified view of vibrations and here we see before the design he's propo proposed to extend the cosmic keyboard the sun symbol here that you're Associated you know about and and the Earth symbol here to to symbolize different rates of vibration from very very tiny fractions cycles per seconds to a very large number of of vibrations
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per cycles per second of the different phenomena we discussed ear earlier from the physical through the psychic to the mystical this diagram can be used in meditation to move through the cosmic keyboard in a tune with the cosmic similarly to it um there are various um applications of Cycles in our order I know many of you have very much enjoyed um the uh the book by Pastor imperator H Spencer Lewis that's entitled uh self-mastery and fate with the cycles of life and n and an nous bike in a article in the Rose Squad Journal talks about the mystical astrology behind self-mastery and fate with the cycles of life going to see more of VI vibrations over our uh uh over the uh various time periods in our life such as the
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um course of our day course of the week uh over the year over the course of our life and so forth another article I mentioned the uh uh Rose quad Journal uh before we finish up uh is um actually by Christopher Eric a inspiring article entitled Shakespeare in tune with the Symphony of nature in a single note the birth of the fair youth where Rel relates Cosmic Consciousness and the principle of resonance with vibration in a wonderful way that may be of interest to you now by way of concluding and we'll have some time for some questions and comments um I'll also give at this time Karen can post for you the resources in the chat both that I think it'll require three Pace but also which I think you may find easier as a PDF document a two-page uh document you're so inclined that you may wish to consult after this um by way of
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concluding I'd like to say that we've looked at various ways the law of vibration is applied in Ros ofu exercises and that this law is very enriching one that helps bring us into a state of harmonium which is healing in all levels of our being and all our surroundings and helps us attune with the cosmic we've mentioned the hymn of Jesus and how it applies the law of vibration also we spoken a vibration of visualization how we send forth uh an image this as a vibrational phenomena that will interact with other vibrations to bring into manifestation we've talked about the human aura as a vibration and psychic sensitivity on the different octaves that we can attune with like in a crystal radius that selector we've also talked about meditation is attuning ATT tuning with the cosmic the highest rates of vibration for our well-being also of metaphysical Aid of sending out vibrations from the depth of our being and the applications of Val sounds and
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how they can be used as a vibrational phenomena that has impact ourselves and our surroundings and also the cycles of Life Book these and many more exercises are done in our weekly teachings of the uh Rose of the rosac crucians ultimately this is all towards we continued R secution laws and principles and their application for self-mastery service thank you very much for joining us today
Questions
AI-generated, and answered only from the transcript.
What is the Law of Vibration according to the presentation?
McCague says the Law of Vibration is always at work within us and all around us. He connects it to Pythagorean discoveries that number and geometry underlie all creation.
What is harmonium in Rosicrucian terms?
Harmonium is described as a beautiful Rosicrucian term for the music on all levels of our being and environment. It refers to the harmonious relations of the parts of the whole, including the body's organs moving together.
What is the period of a wave?
The period is the time to complete one full cycle, such as from one crest to the next. McCague gives the example of a heartbeat at one cycle per second when it is 60 cycles per minute.
What experiment with a can and membrane is described?
An open cylinder is covered with a tightly stretched membrane and a reflective piece is attached. A flashlight reflects off it onto a wall, and speaking into the can makes the voice's vibrations visible as magnified motion.
How does the presentation connect vibration to the Gospel of John?
McCague says the prologue of John is set up so statements are made and then restated in reverse order. He describes this as a vibrational, mirrored pattern suggesting the vibration of creation.
What is the cosmic keyboard?
The cosmic keyboard is a Rosicrucian concept associated with H. Spencer Lewis. McCague says an early 1923 version had 60 octaves, and later versions had 140 octaves.
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