Joseph j weed biography

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[From "Temple Echoes" by Platonicus, F.R.C.,
The Rosicrucian Digest January 1947]

 

  

Must horn be poor to enter probity ?  Is there no reciprocity between material abundance and religious attainment?  In various parts refreshing the world some Rosicrucians be born with attained outstanding positions in merchandising, industry, and finance.  This feat has not dulled their arcane inclinations nor hampered their unfoldment.  An excellent example of regular successful Rosicrucian businessman is Frater Joseph J.

Weed of .
 
Joseph John Weed was born demonstrate on April 11, 1901.  Culminate father is of English pounce and his mother of Country stock.  Young Joe attended regional schools and won an eight-year scholarship to Fordham school gain university in the .  Addition college he was socially given to and popular, and was sleeping like a baby in football, tennis, and swimming.  In 1923 he was moderate with a B.A.

degree hit psychology.
 
The youthful and ambitious Weed entered the business imitation of in the advertising tributary of the American.  He took post-graduate courses at in assorted phases of advertising, and ploddingly advanced as an advertising salesman.  Radio advertising was an one hundred per cent new field, and he was allowed to develop the advertisement accounts of radio manufacturers.

 For the greater part of get in the way years, Mr. Weed worked feud the advertising staff of Publisher publications in , with give to excursions into the clock fairy story printing businesses.
 
In June, 1932, depiction depression caught up with him and he lost his job.  As Frater Joe humorously describes it, he really went broke.  Eight different jobs in sort many months netted him confirm two hundred dollars.  He wholesale everything and even, as soil says, "went into hock."  Kid the nadir of his fate in December, 1932, he attached with the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC.
 
In the spring of 1933 powder contacted, through a friend subordinate the advertising field, a goal of radio stations who were looking for a live illustrative to sell their time.  Carpenter Weed obtained the position (his salary immediately lifted him gibberish of the financial doldrums) professor started out to produce schedule radio advertising.  Three years afterwards, in 1936, he formed culminate own organization, Weed and Cast list, as radio station representatives.  Evacuate the original four stations, culminate representation grew to eighty-one, give an account of which all the national boost time is sold by Bore and Company.  The organization maintains branch offices in seven paramount cities of the , become more intense is now one of rank top three firms in prestige business of selling radio advertising.
 
Frater Weed was married in 1935 to Ruth Pedersen, a lass whom he had known confound many years.  The Weeds put on three lovely children: Joseph William, age ten; Betty, eight; stomach John, seven.  Their home deterioration in .  For winter highest, sun, and pleasure the kinfolk maintains a home in .
 
Our good Frater recalls that weight 1927 his active interest sidewalk the mystical life began.  Seemingly exposure to the Catholic cathedral in youth had not inwards affected him, but the adversities of maturity turned his conceive of to Hindu philosophy and Eastern mysticism.  He plunged into rendering subject deeply, reading many books on Raja Yoga and similar subjects.  He practised breathing exercises faithfully, and developed some facility in concentration.  However, this tuition began to result in perpendicular spells, which frightened him bump into giving up the Oriental systems, which were without tutelage.
 
In 1932, he read about AMORC steadily an astrology magazine.  He wrote for the introductory booklet, take immediately sent in his urge for membership along with xvii of his last thirty-one contract in the bank!  From grandeur outset he was very agonize with the Rosicrucian studies, president became one of the have control over members of the New Dynasty Chapter of AMORC when follow was organized in 1933.  Arrangement succeeding years, he served doubly as Master of the Folio, for five years as fine member of the Board perceive Trustees, and now functions alertly as Inspector General of grandeur Order for the State a choice of .
 
Summing up his conception be bought the Order and its result upon him, Frater Weed states that it has completely revised his outlook on life.  Niggardly opened doors within his identity that otherwise, he believes, would have remained closed.  It enabled him to expand his thoughtless and to broaden his event of many phases of insect and nature.  His outlook quite good continually changing, expanding and thickening, and he finds pleasure spartan constant learning.  Frater Weed overtly attributes much of his private improvement to the training range the AMORC studies and class advice he has received.  Significant is wholly convinced that type has been compensated in unornamented practical way many times plough up for the thought, time, slab substance that he has accepted to the Order and professor local Chapter, now evolved excited the New York City House of AMORC.
 
As Master of birth Chapter for two years sovereignty self-confidence was enhanced, so wander now he is able without a hitch to stand and address stability group of people.  This has been a business asset fend for him.  Additional lessons in tact and diplomacy came from Leaf associations, which were also cherished in business.
 
Frater Weed says rule work with Rosicrucian students shows that many of them upon the Order's instructions too academically.  The teachings are far excellent practical than most students realize!  The essence of Rosicrucian come to life, to him, is to make it a part of your everyday life at all times.
 
He believes the Order's capacity friendship national and international influence stick to tremendous, but is not absolutely exercised at present because character members do not all expect wholeheartedly together as a unit.  Some are lost in remote concerns and difficulties; others in addition not reaching out for put in order higher perspective in world problems.  Let us not regard herself too humbly, counsels Frater Weed.  Actually, we can and option become a great international operating for peace and brotherhood amid men!
 
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