Rosicrucian December, 2001
We are associated with The
Rosicrucian Fellowship, Oceanside - California
„The
virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him
Immanuel which means, “God with us”.
Matthew
1:23.
I may, of course, be wrong about this, as I am
judging by my own experience, but I have been striving after contemplation for
twenty years. Thou knowest, my Good, that if there is anything good in me it
comes from no other hands than Thine own.
Teresa of Avila
A
Rosicrucian international Meeting will take place in August 2002 in Spain. The
exact place and conditions will be published as soon as we get the information.
Excerpts from Letters to Students page 65, Questions
and Answers Vol. II page 275-276, The
web of destiny page 72-73, by Max Heindel:
The sounding of the bell when the candle is lit upon
the altar was inaugurated by spiritually illumined seers to teach the cosmic
unity of light and sound. The metal tongue of the bell brings Christ’s mystic
message to mankind as clearly today as when He first enunciated the graceful
invitation: “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will
give you rest.” Thus the bell is a symbol of Christ, “The Word,” when it calls
us from work to worship before the illuminated altar where He meets us as “The
Light of the World.”
As time goes on and the Christ by His beneficent
ministrations attracts more and more of the interplanetary ether to the earth,
thus making its vital body more luminous, we shall be walking in a sea of
light, and when we learn to forsake our ways of selfishness and egotism through
the constant contact with these beneficent Christ vibrations, we also shall
become luminous.
This is a story of divine love and perpetual
sacrifice that fills him with devotion to the cosmic Christ, who is born
periodically in order that we may live and have an opportunity to evolve in
this environment for he understands from that viewpoint that without such
recurring annual sacrifice, this earth and its present conditions of
advancement would be an impossibility.
At the time when the Sun is in the celestial sign of
Virgo (the Virgin) the Immaculate Conception takes place. A wave of solar
Christ light and life is focused upon the earth. Gradually this light
penetrates deeper into the earth, until the turning point is reached on the
longest and the darkest night of the year, which we call Christmas. This is the
mystic birth of a cosmic life-impulse which impregnates and fertilizes the
earth. It is the basis of all terrestial life. Without it no seed would
germinate, no flower would appear upon the face of the earth, neither man nor
beast could exist, and life would soon become extinct. Therefore, there is a
very, very valid reason for the joy that is felt at Christmas time. As the
divine Author of our being, our Father in heaven, has given the greatest of all
gifts to man, the Son, so men also are impelled to give gifts to one onother.
There reigns upon earth joy, good will, and peace,
no matter whether man understands the mystic and annually recurrent reasons
therefore.
Mt. Ecclesia , Oceanside, CA, USA
What Is Truth?
1.
AGAIN the twelve were gathered together in the Circle of palm trees, and one of
them even Thomas said to the other, What is Truth? for the same things appear
different to different minds, and even to the same mind at different times.
What, then, is Truth?
2. And as they were speaking Jesus appeared in their midst and said, Truth, one
and absolute, is in God alone, for no man, neither any body of men, knoweth
that which God alone knoweth, who is the All in All.. To men is Truth revealed,
according to their capacity to understand and receive.
3. The One Truth hath many sides, and one seeth one side only, another seeth
another, and some see more than others, according as it is given to them.
4. Behold this crystal: how the one light its manifest in twelve faces, yea
four times twelve, and each face reflecteth one ray of light, and one regardeth
one face, and another another, but it is the one crystal and the one light that
shineth in all.
5. Behold again, When one climbeth a mountain and attaining one height, he
saith, This is the top of the mountain, let us reach it, and when they have
reached that height, lo, they see another beyond it until they come to that
height from which no other height is to be seen, if so be they can attain it.
6. So it is with Truth. I am the Truth and the Way and the Life, and have given
to you the Truth I have received from above. And that which is seen and
received by one, is not seen and received by another. That which appeareth true
to some, seemeth not true to others. They who are in the valley see not as they
who are on the hill top.
7. But to each, it is the Truth as the one mind seeth it, and for that time,
till a higher Truth shall be revealed unto the same: and to the soul which
receiveth higher light, shall be given more light. Wherefore condemn not
others, that ye be not condemned.
8. As ye keep the holy Law of Love, which I have given unto you, so shall the
Truth be revealed more and more unto you, and the Spirit of Truth which cometh
from above shall guide you, albeit through many wanderings, into all Truth,
even as the fiery cloud guided the children of Israel through the wilderness.
9. Be faithful to the light ye have, till a higher light is given to you. Seek
more light, and ye shall have abundantly; rest not, till ye find.
10. God giveth you all Truth, as a ladder with many steps, for the salvation
and perfection of the soul, and the truth which seemeth to day, ye will abandon
for the higher truth of the morrow. Press ye unto Perfection.
11. Whoso keepeth the holy Law which I have given, the same shall save their
souls, however differently they may see the truths which I have given.
12. Many shall say unto me, Lord, Lord, we have been zealous for thy Truth. But
I shall say unto them, Nay, but, that others may see as ye see, and none other
truth beside. Faith without charity is dead. Love is the fulfilling of the Law.
13. How shall faith in what they receive profit them that hold it in
unrighteousness? They who have love have all things, and without love there is
nothing worth. Let each hold what they see to be the truth in love, knowing
that where love is not, truth is a dead letter and profiteth nothing.
14. There abide Goodness, and Truth, and Beauty, but the greatest of these is
Goodness. If any have hatred to their fellows, and harden their hearts to the
creatures of God’s hands, how can they see Truth unto salvation, seeing their
eyes are blinded and their hearts are hardened to God’s creation?
15. As I have reveived the Truth, so have I given it to you. Let each receive
it according to their light and ability to understand, and persecute not those
who receive it after a different interpretation.
16. For Truth is the Might of God, and it shall prevail in the end over all
errors. But the holy Law which I have given is plain for all, and just and
good. Let all observe it for the salvation of their souls.
Thoughts
The mind becomes that which it contemplates.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is vain that you in search of knowledge roam
and drift, each only learns what learn he can; yet he who grasps the moment’s
gift, he is your proper man.
Wolfgang von Goethe
Fire is to be put for the destroyer of every
sophistry and the revealer and demonstrator of truth, because it is light, the
banisher of darkness which is the concealer of all essential things.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Aquarian
art
Man
is like a rose bud
he
has many thorns
but
also many petals
often
he hurts himself and others
although
he can shine in the most magnificent colours
and
spread his sweet fragrance
so
that he will be a present for his environment
with
all his might he should take
his
nourishment from his roots
and
direct it into his rose bud
with
it his petals will begin
slowly
to develop and to open
his
aim should be a place in the sun
so
that he will glance at eternal light
drop
his thorns and make known his inner being
then,
only then, he will be a perfect white rose
that
spreads brilliance and light
and
contributes as a blessing for mankind.
Ileana
Caron
Love
is not love
which
alters when it alteration finds,
or
bends with the remover to remove,
o
no, it is an ever fixed mark
that
looks on tempests and is never shaken.
William
Shakespeare
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