December 1999
Rosicrucian
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Rosicrucian Fellowship, Oceanside - California
My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
John: 15,12
We are on the shores of a
new millenium and of a new year, likewise we are living in a period were the
beautiful spiritual energies of the divine love of Christ are pearmeating our
earth, so that we may be able to live and be reborn. We all need to be reborn
to ever new love, freedom , joy and life through His help.
At present there is a great
need of true friendship between all of us, we need relationships that touch our
hearts and that help us to progress in every way. Sympathy that arises in our
beings in the contact with others should and can develop with our right
attitude and comprension to the nearness of divine unconditional love.
This energy and natural essence that comes into being by sharing love will help everyone to realize his true nature, so that each of us will be willing to go the way of service and self perfection with stronger and stronger will.
Beauty lies in giving and in
expressing love through constructive acts, through material, emotional,
intellectual or spiritual help wherever it is needed or asked for. Friendship
brings the souls together and makes them see and manifest the clarity of light.
Divine friendship unveils the true brilliance of our souls, the truth of the
oneness of God in everything that exists and the unity of all souls in this
universe. We have to bring this all longed heaven to earth through brotherhood.
For the greek philosophers
love was described as Eros, that is, life energy seeking union with a
gratifying object. When love becomes infused with consciousness and will, love
is best defined as Agape, then the life energy is being directed toward the partner in an intentional act of healing.
When we learn to see each other without distortion, to value each other as
highly as we value ourselves, to give
without expecting anything in return, to commit ourselves fully to each other’s
welfare, love moves freely between us. The word that describes this mature kind
of love is not „eros“ ,not „agape“ but yet another Greek word „Philia“ ,
which means love between friends.
In every field of science we
have developed wonderful achievements, but if we are not able to touch the
hearts of our neighbours and give and accept love in an exchange which is the
spiral of life, all our achievements do not have any value, but instead lead us
only to destruction as we could see and observe with our regret if we watch the
history of mankind.
Whatever we do unto others
we also do it to ourselves, our spirits and our unconscious minds do not
diferentiate between the „others“ and „us“, but both are perceived largely as
the same, as our expanded selves.
We should expand our
friendship to every creature and even to
our enemies, because in them also lies hidden the Beloved, even if this
implies a long and painful process. By drinking the waters of creative wisdom,
and by permanent contact with the Lord we may be able to put aflame the light
of divine compassion in the heart of others, which nourishes and give us life
every moment of our lives.
International meeting of the
Rosicrucian Fellowship in Hohenwart Forum,
Schönbornstraße 25 – 75181 Pforzheim-Hohenwart, Deutschland.
Tel.: (+49)07234/6060 und Fax: (+49)07234/60646. E-mail:
info@hohenwart.de
from Thursday 10th of August
to Sunday 13th of August 2000.
The theme is: „Our heavenly helper“
Please announce yourself for the meeting, as soon as possible ( until the end
of February). If you have any questions, please write to: Johanna Plein,
Triffelstrasse 10
D-67346 Speyer Tel: (+49) 06232/79608 Fax: (+49) 06232/621519
E-mail: Johanna. Plein@t-online.de
Please send your reservation to:
„International European –RCF- Meeting 2000“ by „Hohenwart Forum“ with the above address. How do you get there:
Excerpts
from Letters to Students, p. 9, The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception p. 352, 360,
398-399 and Ancient and Modern Initiation p. 94 by Max Heindel:
In a religious movement it is customary to address one another as
„sister“ and „brother“ in recognition of the fact that we are all children of
God, who is our common Father. Brothers and sisters are not harmonious at all
times, however. Sometimes they are even misguided enough to hate one another,
but between friends there can be no feeling but love.
Christ came to prepare the way for the emancipation of humanity from
the guidance of the differentiating Race and Family-spirit, and to unite the
whole human family in one Universal Brotherhood.
The threefold spirit in man, the Ego, is the God within, whom the
personal, bodily man must learn to follow. Therefore did Christ say that, to be
his disciple, a man must forsake all that he had. His teaching points to the
emanation of the God within. He calls upon man to excercise his prerogative as
an individual and rise above family, tribe and nation. Not that he is to
disregard kin and country. He must fulfill all duties, but he is to cease
identifying himself with part and must recognize an equal kinship with all the
world. That is the ideal given to mankind by the Christ.
The ideal of Universal Brotherhood, which identifies itself with
neither country nor race, is the only path which leads to emancipation.
Christ came to reunite the separated races in bonds of peace and good
will, wherein all will willingly and consciously follow the law of love.
Man is inherently a virgin Spirit, good, noble and true in every
respect. All that is not good is from the lower nature , that illusory
reflection of the Ego. The virgin Spirit is always giving wise counsel. If we
could only follow the impulses of the heart-the first thought- Universal
Brotherhood would be realized here and now. The mind and the desire body
frustrate the designs of the spirit by taking control and, as they lack the
spirit’s wisdom, both spirit and body suffer.
It is only by complete emancipation, through Love, that man can rise
above the law and become a Law unto himself. Having conquered himself, he will
have conquered all the World.
We know that a stove which is filled with burning fuel cannot help
heating the surrounding atmosphere; neither can the Christian mystic help
radiating the divine compassion which fills his heart to overflowing, nor is he
in doubt whom to love or whom to serve or where to find his opportunity. As the
stove filled with burning fuel radiates heat to all who are within its sphere
of radiation, so the Christian mystic feels the love of God burning within his
heart and is continually radiating it to all with whom he comes in contact. As
the heated stove draws to itself by its genial warmth those who are suffering with
physical cold, so the warm love rays of the Christian Mystic are as a magnet to
all those whose hearts are chilled by the cruelty of the world, by man’s
inhumanity to man.
While a large crowd
was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from town after town, he told
this parable: „A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the
seed, some fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds of the air
ate it up. Some fell on rock, and when it came up, the plants withered because
they had no moisture. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and
choked the plants. Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up and yielded a
crop, a hundred times more than was sown.“
When he said this, he called out, „ He who has ears to hear, let him
hear.“
His disciples asked him what this parable meant. He said: „The
knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to
others I speak in parables, so that, „though seeing, they may not see; though
hearing, they may not understand.“
„This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God. Those
along the path are the ones who hear, and then the devil comes and takes away
the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved. Those on
the rock are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it , but
they have no root. They believe for a while, but in the time of testing they
fall away. The seed that fell among thorns stands for those who hear, but as
they go on their way they are choked by life‘s worries, riches and pleasures,
and they do not mature. But the seed on good soil stands for those with a nobel
and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a
crop.“
* * *
Thoughts
The calmness and eagerness
with which all of us permit, that something, because it was long wrong and
reverse never should be put aright, is one of the ominous sources of misery and
crime under which the world suffers.
Ruskin
Diligence is the mother of
good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of
any of his best wishes.
Miguel de Cervantes
Cry easily like a little child. Lets body- needs dwindle and soul-decisions increase. Diminish what you give your physical self. Your spiritual eye will begin to open.
Jelaluddin Rumi
Aquarian art
Till
the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.
Walt Whitman
Mary’s
song:
“My
soul glorifies the Lord
And my
spirit rejoices in God my savior,
for he
has been mindful of the humble state of his servant.
From
now on all generations will call me blessed,
for
the Mighty One has done great things for me
holy
is his name.
His
mercy extends to those who fear him,
from
generation to generation.
He has
performed mighty deeds with his arm;
He has
scattered those who are proud in their inmost thoughts.
He has
brought down rulers from their thrones
But
has lifted up the humble.
He has
filled the hungry with good things
But
has sent the rich away empty.
He has
helped his servant Israel, remembering to be merciful
to
Abraham and his descendants for ever,
even
as he said to our fathers. „
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