March 2000
Rosicrucian
We
are associated with The Rosicrucian Fellowship, Oceanside - California
I am the living bread that
came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live for ever.
John: 6, 51
We
have in ourselves the essentialities of perfect joy, beauty and love.The Spirit
within us, the Christ in us is looking through our eyes into the universe, is
hearing through our ears all sounds and it is feeling, thinking, expressing
through us, but it is our duty and work to practice and realize this knowledge
every moment of our lives through our positive attitude and consciousness.
It
is like being a King or a Queen, but not beeing conscious of it, but when the
Queen has been awaked with the kiss of the beloved, she, the soul, will come to
life and live in her palace.
To
make this knowledge a living experience it requires a total transformation and
regeneration of ourselves, of every part of us and also the transformation of
our unconscious mind. All these parts of us owing to our own ignorance and
mistakes and owing to our heredity,
education and the conditions of our contemporary life have brought to us a
lot of negativity. It is also necessary
that all our faculties and energies will come gradually under our dominion, so
that we may be able to be masters of ourselves constantly and with this
realization let the sun shine by itself for ever, letting Him manifest through
us in all we do, say and think. This is a condition of joy and thankfullness in
which we may become with his grace true servants of Christ.
In
spite of all obstacles we have to advance and rise by courage, perseverance and
activity until the time comes that everything in us will express only love,
peace and wisdom. No obscurity of any kind will exist, because all in our
consciousness will be melted in light.
Excerpts from The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception p. 171,
181, 216-217, 397-398, and Rosicrucian Philosophy in Questions and Answers Vol.
2, p. 96-97 and Occult principles of health and healing p. 160, 200-201 by Max
Heindel:
Christ differentiates between the physically
blind body of the man and the God within, which is the Higher Self. Paul says,
„ know ye not that ye are Gods?“ and he refers to the human body as the „temple
of God,“ the indwelling spirit.
The Sun is the nearest approach we have to a
visible symbol of God, yet it is but a veil for That which is behind. What That
is cannot be uttered publicly.
Thus the virgin spirit is encased in a
threefold veil, (Divine Spirit, Life Spirit and Human Spirit) and as its
outermost veil, the human spirit, effectively blinds it to the oneness of Life,
it becomes the Ego by entertaining the illusion of separateness contracted
during involution. Evolution will gradually dissolve the illusion, bring back
the All-consciousness, and Self-consciousness will have been added.
There are in the head three points, each of
which is the particular seat of one of the three aspects of the spirit, the
second and third aspects having, in addition, secondary vantage grounds.
The seat of the human spirit is primarily in
the pineal gland and secondarily in the brain and cerebro-spinal nervous
system, which control the voluntary muscles.
The life spirit has ist seat primarily in the
pituitary body and secondarily in the heart, which is the gateway of the blood
that nourishes the muscles.
The actionless Divine Spirit -The Silent Watcher- finds ist material
expression in the passive, inert and irresponsive skeleton of the dense body,
which is the obedient instrument of the other bodies, but has no power to act
on ist own initiative. The divine Spirit has its stronghold in the impenetrable
point at the root of the nose.
In realitiy there is but one Spirit, the Ego,
but looking at it from the physical World, it is refracted into the three
aspects, which work as stated.
All the „affirmations“ of Divinity are in vain
unless accompanied by actions of a divine character. Deeds will prove our
divinity as words never can.
It is of the utmost importance that we set the
sails of the barque of our lives as we want and never scruple about interfering
with fate. But, thank God, there is one chance which is not shown in the
horoscope, namely, that the human will may assert itself and frustrate fate.
We set the force going which has now ripened
into destiny, and having made it, we certainly have the right to change it in
so far as we are able. In fact this is the hall mark of divinity, to rule
ourselves.
God is light. Each time we sink ourselves in
these three words we lave in a spiritual fountain of inexaustible depth, and
each succeeding time we sound more thoroughly the divine depths and draw more
closely to our Father in heaven.
A camel and an ox and a ram were ambling along
a road, when they saw a fresh tuft of barley grass that they all wanted. They
stopped, and the ram said, „ If we divide this, none of us will be satisfied.
Let us do as the Master advised and give to the eldest, honoring his superior
experience.
No one honors their elders these days without
some ulterior motive. The young invite them to taste the food first only when
they suspect it‘s too hot. They invite them to cross the bridge ahead of them
only when they see dangerous cracks in the arches, and no one bows to a Teacher
in these times without some scam in mind. So let us each declare his age and
settle this matter.
As for me, I don’t know my exact years, but I
was once pastured with that ram that Abraham sacrificed instead of Isaac.“
The ox, „ Well, I can beat that! I was yoked in
the team that Adam plowed with when he left Eden.“
The camel listened silently to their amazing
lies, reached his long neck down, plucked the luscious tuft, and as he held it
over their heads and ate it, he said, „I don’t know much about this chronology,
sweethearts, but I know I‘m taller than you two, and that has obvious spiritual
significance.“
Thoughts
The
highest wisdom has but one science – the science of the whole – the science
explaining the whole creation and man’s places in it.
-Leo
Tolstoi
Love
is like a magnet; it draws us into and makes us one with one we love.
- Van der
Leeuw
One can acquire everything in solitude – except
character.
- Stendhal
Aquarian
art
I have known it in glimpses, and its fitful breath has
come upon me,
making my thoughts fragrant for a while.
I will meet one day the joy without me that dwells
behind the screen of light
And will stand in the overflowing solitude
Where all things are seen as by their creator.
Plays of Light
I’m happy to see you
You my sweet ray of sun
I’m happy to shine with you
Till the wide eternity
Your clear light shines
And sings in magic, it rejoices
The bells did resound
The oneness is here
Immersed in silence
I discover your face
Your sweet smile shines
Like a sun in my heart
I’m happy to see you
You sweet magical sun
You give love to all
And we are one in light
In reference to the Newsletters of September
1998, and to its article about music we would like to offer to you 90 minutes
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zodiacal sign. We can give to you, whether one or various music cassettes or
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