If you could get people to study the Rosicrucian teachings about death and the life after, you would feel it important that they should also know about the silver cord remaining unbroken for a period approximating three and one-half days after the spirit has left the body, and that it must be left undisturbed while the panorama of its past life is being etched into the desire body to serve as arbiter of its life in the invisible world. You would like them to know all about the spirit’s life in purgatory—how the evil acts of its life react upon it as pain to create conscience and keep it from repeating in a later life the acts that caused the suffering. You would have them know how the good acts of life are transmuted into virtues usable in later lives as set forth in our philosophy. You have no doubt been surprised at the assertion that a knowledge of the great twin laws is unessential. Probably the next assertion that it is immaterial whether others learn about the constitution of man as we know it may have scandalized you; and you will undoubtedly feel shocked to have it stated that the Rosicrucian teachings concerning death and the passing of the spirit into the unseen worlds are also comparatively unnecessary to the purpose we aim to accomplish. It really does not matter whether your relatives understand or believe in these teachings. So far as your own passing is concerned, an earnest request that they leave your body quiet and undisturbed for the proper period will probably be carried out to the letter, for people have an almost superstitious regard for such “last requests”; and if any of your friends pass over, _you_ are there with your knowledge and can do the right thing for them. So never mind if they refuse to take up that part of the Rosicrucian teaching. But the student may say, “If a knowledge of the before mentioned subjects which seems of such practical value is immaterial to advancement, then it follows that study of the Periods, Revolutions, World Globes, etc., is entirely so. That disposes of everything taught in the ”_Cosmo_,“ and there is nothing left of the Rosicrucian teaching which we have embraced and to which we have pinned our faith!” _Is nothing left?_ Yes, indeed, ALL IS LEFT, for those things mentioned are only the husks which you must remove to get at _the meat in the nut_, the kernel of it all. You have read the “_Cosmo_” many times perhaps. Maybe you have studied it and feel proud of your knowledge of the world mystery, but _have you ever read the mystery hidden in every line_? That is the great and essential teaching, the one teaching to which your friends will respond, if you can find it and give it to them. The “_Cosmo_” preaches on every page THE GOSPEL OF SERVICE.