Bill, which Rosicucian order is this? Did these posts come from a website,
and if they did, could you share the URL with us? (Please note that I'm not
criticizing you--this is useful material, esp. if it can be followed up with
some of what's known about the historical origins of the Rosicrucians.)
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> CHAPTER I
>
> THE ORDER OF ROSICRUCIANS AND THE ROSICRUCIAN FELLOWSHIP
> OUR MESSAGE AND MISSION
>
> A SANE MIND
> A SOFT HEART
> A SOUND BODY
>
>
>
>
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> --
>
> Before entering upon an explanation of the teachings of the
Rosicrucians,
> it may be well to say a word about them and about the place they hold in
the
> evolution of humanity.
>
> For reasons to be given later these teachings advocate the dualistic
view;
> they hold that man is a Spirit enfolding all the powers of God as the seed
> enfolds the plant, and that these powers are being slowly unfolded by a
> series of existences in a gradually improving earthy body; also that this
> process of development has been performed under the guidance of exalted
> Beings who are yet ordering our steps, though in a decreasing measure, as
we
> gradually acquire intellect and will. These exalted Beings, though unseen
to
> the physical eyes, are nevertheless potent factors in all affairs of life,
> and give to the various groups of humanity lessons which will most
> efficiently promote the growth of their spiritual powers. In fact, the
earth
> may be likened to a vast training school in which there are pupils of
varying
> age and ability as we find it in one of our own schools. There are the
> savages, living and worshipping under most primitive conditions, seeing in
> stick or stone a God. Then, as man progresses onwards and upwards in the
> scale of civilization, we find a higher and higher conception of Deity,
which
> has flowered here in our Western World in the beautiful Christian religion
> that now furnishes our spiritual inspiration and incentive to improve.
>
> These various religions have been given to each group of humanity by
the
> exalted beings whom we know in the Christian religion as the Recording
> Angels, whose wonderful prevision enables them to view the trend of even
so
> unstable a quantity as the human mind, and thus they are enabled to
determine
> what steps are necessary to lead our unfoldment along the lines congruous
to
> the highest universal good.
>
> When we study the history of the ancient nations we shall find that at
> about six hundred years B.C. a great spiritual wave had its inception on
the
> Eastern shores of the Pacific Ocean where the great Confucian religion
> accelerated the progress of the Chinese nation, then also the religion of
the
> Buddha commenced to win its millions of adherents in India, and still
further
> West we have the lofty philosophy of Pythagoras. Each system was suited to
> the needs of the particular people to whom it was sent. Then came the
period
> of the Skeptics, in Greece, and later, traveling westward the same
spiritual
> wave is manifested as the Christian religion of the so-called "Dark Ages"
> when the dogma of a dominant church compelled belief from the whole of
> Western Europe.
>
> It is a law in the universe that a wave of spiritual awakening is
always
> followed by a period of doubting materialism; each phase is necessary in
> order that the Spirit may receive equal development of heart and intellect
> without being carried too far in either direction. The great Beings
> aforementioned, who care for our progress, always take steps to safeguard
> humanity against that danger, and when they foresaw the wave of
materialism
> which commenced in the sixteenth century with the birth of our modern
> science, they took steps to protect the West as they had formerly
safeguarded
> the East against the skeptics who were held in check by the Mystery
Schools.
>
> In the fourteenth century there appeared in central Europe a great
> spiritual teacher whose symbolical name was
>
>
>
> CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUZ
>
> or
>
> CHRISTIAN ROSE CROSS,
> who founded the mysterious Order of the Rosy Cross, concerning which so
> many speculations have been made and so little has become known to the
world
> at large, for it is the Mystery School of the West and is open only to
those
> who have attained the stage of spiritual unfoldment necessary to be
initiated
> in its secrets concerning the Science of Life and Being.
>
> If we are so far developed that we are able to leave our dense physical
> body and take a soul flight into interplanetary space we shall find that
the
> ultimate physical atom is spherical in shape like our earth; it is a ball.
> When we take a number of balls of even size and group them around one, it
> will take just twelve balls to hide a thirteenth within. Thus the twelve
> visible and the one hidden are numbers revealing a cosmic relationship and
as
> all Mystery Orders are based upon cosmic lines, they are composed of
twelve
> members gathered around a thirteenth who is the invisible HEAD.
>
> There are seven colors in the spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green,
blue,
> indigo, and violet. But between the violet and the red there are still
five
> other colors which are invisible to the physical eye but reveal themselves
to
> the spiritual sight. In every Mystery Order there are also seven Brothers
who
> at times go out into the world and there perform whatever work may be
> necessary to advance the people among whom they serve, but five are never
> seen outside the temple. They work with and teach those alone who have
passed
> through certain stages of spiritual unfoldment and are able to visit the
> temple in their spiritual bodies, a feat taught in the first initiation
which
> usually takes place outside the temple as it is not convenient for all to
> visit that place physically.
>
> Let not the reader imagine that this initiation makes the pupil a
> Rosicrucian, it does not, any more than admission to a high school makes a
> boy a member of the faculty. Nor does he become a Rosicrucian even after
> having passed through all the nine degrees of this or any other Mystery
> School. The Rosicrucians are Hierophants of the Lesser Mysteries, and
beyond
> them there are still schools wherein greater Mysteries are taught. Those
who
> have advanced through the Lesser Mysteries are called Adepts, but even
they
> have not reached the exalted standpoint of the twelve Brothers of the
> Rosicrucian Order or the Hierophants of any other Lesser Mystery School
any
> more than the freshman at college has attained to the knowledge and
position
> of a teacher in the high school from which he has just graduated.
>
> A later work will deal with initiation, but we may say here that the
door
> of a genuine Mystery School is not unlocked by a golden key, but is only
> opened as a reward for meritorious service to humanity and any one who
> advertises himself as a Rosicrucian or makes a charge for tuition, by
either
> of those acts shows himself to be a charlatan. The true pupil of any
Mystery
> School is far too modest to advertise the fact, he will scorn all titles
or
> honors from men, he will have no regard for riches save the riches of love
> given to him by those whom it becomes his privilege to help and teach.
>
> In the centuries that have gone by since the Rosicrucian Order was
first
> formed they have worked quietly and secretly, aiming to mould the thought
of
> Western Europe through the works of Paracelsus, Boehme, Bacon,
Shakespeare,
> Fludd and others. Each night at midnight when the physical activities of
the
> day are at their lowest ebb, and the spiritual impulse at its highest
flood
> tide, they have sent out from their temple soul-stirring vibrations to
> counteract materialism and to further the development of soul powers. To
> their activities we owe the gradual spiritualization of our once so
> materialistic science.
>
> With the commencement of the twentieth century a further step was
taken.
> It was realized that something must be done to make religion scientific as
> well as to make science religious, in order that they may ultimately
blend;
> for at the present time heart and intellect are divorced. The heart
> instinctively feels the truth of religious teachings concerning such
> wonderful mysteries as the Immaculate Conception (the Mystic Birth), the
> Crucifixion (the Mystic Death), the Cleansing Blood, the Atonement, and
other
> doctrines of the Church, which the intellect refuses to believe, as they
are
> incapable of demonstration, and seemingly at war with natural law.
Material
> advancement may be furthered when intellect is dominant and the longings
of
> the heart unsatisfied, but soul growth will be retarded until the heart
also
> receives satisfaction.
>
> In order to give the world a teaching so blended that it will satisfy
both
> the mind and heart, a messenger must be found and instructed. Certain
unusual
> qualifications were necessary, and the first one chosen failed to pass a
> certain test after several years had been spent to prepare him for the
work
> to be done.
>
> It is well said that there is a time to sow, and a time to reap, and
that
> there are certain times for all the works of life, and in accordance with
> this law of periodicity each impulse in spiritual uplift must also be
> undertaken at an appropriate time to be successful. The first and sixth
> decades of each century are particularly propitious to commence the
> promulgation of new spiritual teachings. Therefore the Rosicrucians were
much
> concerned at this failure, for only five years were left of the first
decade
> of the twentieth century.
>
> Their second choice of a messenger fell upon the present writer, though
he
> knew it not at the time, and by shaping circumstances about him they made
it
> possible for him to begin a period of preparation for the work they
desired
> him to do. Three years later, when he had gone to Germany, also because of
> circumstances shaped by the invisible Brotherhood, and was on the verge of
> despair at the discovery that the light which was the object of his quest,
> was only a jack-o-lantern, the Brothers of the Rosicrucian Order applied
the
> test to see whether he would be a faithful messenger and give the
teachings
> they desired to entrust to him, to the world. And when he had passed the
> trial they gave him the monumental solution of the problem of existence
first
> published in THE ROSICRUCIAN COSMO-CONCEPTION IN November, 1909, more than
a
> year before the expiration of the first decade of the twentieth century.
This
> book marked a new era in so-called "occult" literature, and the many
editions
> which have since been published as well as the thousands of letters which
> continue to come to the author, are speaking testimonies to the fact that
> people are finding in this teaching a satisfaction they have sought
elsewhere
> in vain.
>
> The Rosicrucians teach that all great religions have been given to the
> people among whom they are found, by Divine Intelligences who designed
each
> system of worship to suit the needs of the race or nation to whom it was
> given. A primitive people cannot respond to a lofty and sublime religion,
and
> VICE VERSA. What helps one race would hinder another, and in pursuance of
the
> same policy there has been devised a system of soul-unfoldment suited
> especially to the Western people, who are racially and temperamentally
unfit
> to undergo the discipline of the Eastern school, which was designed for
the
> more backward Hindus.
>
>
>
> THE ROSICRUCIAN FELLOWSHIP
> For the purpose of promulgating the Rosicrucian Teachings in the
Western
> World, the Rosicrucian Fellowship was founded in 1909. It is the herald of
> the Aquarian Age, when the Sun by its precessional passage through the
> constellation Aquarius, will bring out all the intellectual and spiritual
> potencies in man which are symbolized by that sign. As heat from a fire
warms
> all objects within the sphere of its radiations, so also the Aquarian ray
> will raise the earth's vibrations to a pitch we are as yet unable to
> comprehend, though we have demonstrations of the MATERIAL workings of this
> force in the inventions which have revolutionized life within the memory
of
> the present generation. We have wondered at the X-ray, which sees through
the
> human body, but each one has a sense latent which when evolved will enable
> him to see through any number of bodies or to any distance. We marvel at
the
> telephone conversations across the continent of America, but each has
within
> a latent sense which when evolved will enable him to see through any
number
> of bodies or to any distance. We marvel at the telephone conversations
across
> the continent of America, but each has within a latent sense of speech and
> hearing that is far more acute; we are surprised at the exploits of ships
> under sea and in the sky, but we are all capable of passage under water or
> through the sky; nay, more we may pass unscathed through the solid rock
and
> the raging fire, if we know how, and lightning itself is slow compared to
the
> speed with which we may travel. This sounds like a fairy tale today, as
did
> Jules Verne's stories a generation ago, but the Aquarian Age will witness
the
> realization of these dreams, and ever so much more that we still do not
even
> dream of. Such faculties will then be the possessions of large numbers of
> people who will have gradually evolved them as previously the ability to
> walk, speak, hear, and see, were developed.
>
> Therein lies a great danger, for, obviously, anyone endowed with such
> faculties may use them to the greatest detriment of the world at large,
> unless restrained by a spirit of unselfishness and an all-embracing
altruism.
> Therefore religion is needed today as never before, to foster love and
> fellow-feeling among humanity so that it may be prepared to use the great
> gifts in store for it wisely and well. This need of religion is specially
> felt in a certain class where the ether is more loosely knit to the
physical
> atoms than in the majority, and on that account they are now beginning to
> sense the Aquarian vibrations.
>
> This class is again divided in two groups. In one the intellect is
> dominant, and the people in that class therefore seek to grasp the
spiritual
> mysteries out of curiosity from the viewpoint of cold reason. They pursue
the
> path of knowledge for the sake of knowledge, considering that an end in
> itself. The idea that knowledge is of value only when put to practical
> constructive use does not seem to have presented itself to them. This
class
> we may call OCCULTISTS.
>
> The other group does not care for knowledge, but feels an inner urge
> God-ward, and pursues the path of devotion to the high ideal set before
them
> in Christ, doing the deeds that He did as far as their flesh will permit,
and
> this in time results in an interior illumination which brings with it all
the
> knowledge obtained by the other class, and much more. This class we may
> describe as MYSTICS.
>
> Certain dangers confront each of the two groups. If the occultist
obtains
> illumination and evolves within himself the latent spiritual faculties, he
> may use them for the furtherance of his personal objects, to the great
> detriment of his fellow-men. That is black magic, and the punishment which
it
> AUTOMATICALLY calls down upon the head of the perpetrator is so awful that
it
> is best to draw the veil over it. The mystic may also err because of
> ignorance, and fall into the meshes of nature's law, but being actuated by
> love, his mistakes will never be very serious, and as he grows in grace
the
> soundless voice within his heart will speak more distinctly to teach him
the
> way.
>
> The Rosicrucian Fellowship endeavors to prepare the world in general,
and
> the sensitives of the two groups in particular, for the awakening of the
> latent powers in man, so that all may be guided safely through the
> danger-zone and be as well fitted as possible to use these new faculties.
> Effort is made to blend the love without which Paul declared a knowledge
of
> all mysteries worthless, with a mystic knowledge rooted and grounded in
love,
> so that the pupils of this school may become LIVING exponents of this
blended
> soul-science of the Western Wisdom School, and gradually educate humanity
at
> large in the virtues necessary to make the possession of higher powers
safe.
>
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