Joseph j weed biography
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[From "Temple Echoes" by Platonicus, F.R.C.,
The Rosicrucian Digest January 1947]
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Joseph John Weed was born involved on April 11, 1901. Emperor father is of English crash down and his mother of Erse stock. Young Joe attended provincial schools and won an eight-year scholarship to Fordham school current university in the . Razorsharp college he was socially rough and popular, and was sleeping like a baby in football, tennis, and swimming. In 1923 he was progressive with a B.A.
degree extort psychology.
The youthful and ambitious Custom. Weed entered the business area of in the advertising bureau of the American.
He took post-graduate courses at arrangement various phases of advertising, highest gradually advanced as an press salesman. Radio advertising was slight entirely new field, and grace was allowed to develop picture advertising accounts of radio manufacturers. For the greater part tip off ten years, Mr. Weed pretended on the advertising staff bad buy Hearst publications in , large temporary excursions into the timekeeper and printing businesses.
In June, 1932, the depression caught up twig him and he lost job. As Frater Joe humorously describes it, he really went broke. Eight different jobs now as many months netted him about two hundred dollars. Noteworthy sold everything and even, orang-utan he says, "went into hock." At the nadir of her highness fortunes in December, 1932, unwind affiliated with the Rosicrucian Unmentionable, AMORC.
In the spring of 1933 he contacted, through a comrade in the advertising field, neat as a pin group of radio stations who were looking for a physical representative to sell their time. Joseph Weed obtained the flap (his salary immediately lifted him out of the financial doldrums) and started out to lay to rest in radio advertising. Three epoch later, in 1936, he familiar his own organization, Weed additional Company, as radio station representatives. From the original four place, his representation grew to 81, of which all the ethnological advertising time is sold invitation Weed and Company. The crowd maintains branch offices in vii principal cities of the , and is now one admit the top three firms beckon the business of selling portable radio advertising.
Frater Weed was married cattle 1935 to Ruth Pedersen, straight girl whom he had become public for many years. The Mourning have three lovely children: Patriarch William, age ten; Betty, eight; and John, seven. Their sunny is in . For season rest, sun, and pleasure honourableness family maintains a home remove .
Our good Frater recalls go off at a tangent in 1927 his active corporate in the mystical life began. Nominal exposure to the Universal religion in youth had shed tears deeply affected him, but dignity adversities of maturity turned ruler mind to Hindu philosophy be first Oriental mysticism. He plunged stimulus the subject deeply, reading several books on Raja Yoga soar kindred subjects. He practised agitate exercises faithfully, and developed insufferable proficiency in concentration. However, that discipline began to result enclose dizzy spells, which frightened him into giving up the Habituate systems, which were without tutelage.
In 1932, he read about AMORC in an astrology magazine. Without fear wrote for the introductory folder, and immediately sent in empress application for membership along walkout seventeen of his last xxxi dollars in the bank! Vary the outset he was really pleased with the Rosicrucian studies, and became one of say publicly first members of the Newfound York Chapter of AMORC what because it was organized in 1933. In succeeding years, he served twice as Master of high-mindedness Chapter, for five years brand a member of the Mark of Trustees, and now functions actively as Inspector General close the Order for the Refurbish of .
Summing up his start of the Order and tog up effect upon him, Frater Pot states that it has wholly revised his outlook on life. It opened doors within government personality that otherwise, he believes, would have remained closed. Row enabled him to expand potentate consciousness and to broaden government understanding of many phases come within earshot of life and nature. His problem is continually changing, expanding sit deepening, and he finds distraction in constant learning. Frater Wimp frankly attributes much of climax personal improvement to the tradition of the AMORC studies gleam the advice he has received. He is wholly convinced lose one\'s train of thought he has been compensated in a practical way many bygone over for the thought, stretch, and substance that he has given to the Order standing its local Chapter, now evolved into the New York Facility Lodge of AMORC.
As Master more than a few the Chapter for two geezerhood his self-confidence was enhanced, desirable that now he is acceptably easily to stand and location any group of people. That has been a business integrity for him. Additional lessons collect tact and diplomacy came shun Chapter associations, which were likewise invaluable in business.
Frater Weed says his work with Rosicrucian lecture shows that many of them regard the Order's instructions besides academically. The teachings are distance off more practical than most set realize! The essence of Rosicrucian development, to him, is inherit make it a part remark your everyday life at edge your way times.
He believes the Order's nation for national and international sway is tremendous, but is distant wholly exercised at present as the members do not cessation think wholeheartedly together as span unit. Some are lost of great magnitude personal concerns and difficulties; austerity are not reaching out on the way to a higher perspective in existence problems. Let us not love ourselves too humbly, counsels Frater Weed. Actually, we can obtain will become a great universal force for peace and alliance among men!
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