The Son of God. The mystical teachings of the masters

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Foreword

Among the foremost teachers that America ever had, stood Dr. James R. Phelps, he who is now passed to the Beyond.

Not only on account of his learning, his knowledge of the dead languages and of the Ancient Teachings, but also on account of his absolute honesty and sincerity was he one of the foremost teachers.

In a letter, which he invariably wrote to the beginner who came under his training, he said :

"My authority — and I dislike that word — goes back for years, and was conferred by honored brothers now resting from their labors. For reasons of my own, when I affiliated with the Order Illuminati — of which Count Giounotti, (then here he mentions the names by which the Master is known,) was the Hierophant — I doubted my ability to take any prominent position in its activities, and they assigned me to the care of the back door, to take charge of those who, fainting by the way or discouraged by the apparent obstacles in the way, were giving up in despair. They called

me ' ,' or 'the Keeper of the Door.' I

found out in time that there was but one door to The Temple, and that entrance and exit were the same. Our Master says : ' I am the door, by it any man enter in he shall be safe, and go in and go out, and shall find pasture. '

"Now, my dear brother, divert yourself of any idea you may have that my position confers on me any superiority over you. That is the rock on which many a pseudo teacher has gone to pieces. ' Call no man your Master on earth, for One is your Master, the Christ, and all ye are brethren. ' ' '

This will show more clearly than any words of mine as to the worth of this grand teacher. No man would he allow to call him Master ; but the student might call him Teacher or Guide.

And this was the man from whom I received much of my training and from whom I learned much of the Sublime Mysteries concerning the Soul and its Powers.

In my interpretation I therefore come to you with knowledge received through a training of nearly eighteen years, much of which was under men who claimed nothing for themselves except that they were laborers in the vineyard of the Master and desired no praise, but desired that all praise should be given to the Master.

Brotherly Given,

The Author.