It is a crime to inflict corporal punishment upon a child at any
age. Might is never right, and as the stronger, parents should always have compassion for
the weaker. But there is one feature of corporal punishment which makes it particularly
dangerous to apply it to the youth: namely, that it wakens the passional nature which is
already perhaps beyond the control of a growing boy.
If we whip a dog, we shall soon break its spirit and transform it
into a cringing cur,[pg 198]and it is deplorable that some parents seem to regard it as their mission
in life to break the spirit of their children with the rule of the rod. If there is one
universal lack among the human race which is more apparent than any other, it is lack of
will, and as parents we may remedy the evil in a large measure by guiding the wills of our
children along such lines as dictated by our own more mature reason, so that we help them to
grow a backbone instead of a wishbone with which unfortunately most of us are afflicted.
Therefore, never whip a child; when punishment is necessary, correct by withholding favors
or withdrawing privileges.
At the twenty-first year the birth of the mind transforms the
youth into a man or a woman fully equipped to commence his own life in the school of
experience.
Thus we have followed the human spirit around a life cycle from
death to birth and maturity, we have seen how immutable law governs his every step and how
he is ever encompassed by the loving care of the Great and Glorious Beings who are the
ministers of God. The method of his future development will be explained in a later work
which will deal with “The Christian Mystic Initiation.”
[pg 199]
Mt. Ecclesia
(Transcriber's Note: This chapter is the series of pages which,
earlier, the author said “had been transferred” to the back
of the book.)
A
Description of the Headquarters of the Rosicrucian Fellowship
Work in the physical world requires physical means of
accomplishment; therefore a tract of land was bought in 1911 in the town of Oceanside,
ninety miles south of Los Angeles, California. Southern California was selected because of the abundance of ether in
the atmosphere there, and this spot was found to be particularly favored in that
respect.
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