September 1999
Rosicrucian
We are associated with The
Rosicrucian Fellowship, Oceanside - California
Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.
Matthew: 25,13
How much light and music do we allow in our life? How
often do we contact the light or music within? Are we daily visualizing the sun
or focussing our attention in it, letting it work in our bodies, planet, solar
system and universe until everything like a symphony of joy, harmony and love
is melted in one great light?
Our lives are a play of shadows and light of God on
different levels and we could evolve through our constant efforts to a greater
state of consciousness and awareness of music and light. We have to experience its giving, beautiful
and living qualities in order to transform ourselves. We don't need to believe
blindly, that we can remember that knowledge of divine truth in us without
reading books, discussing it with others or even being told about it. You can
experience it alone; in a way that is growing from within and by attracting the
divine love and energy of Christ and God by the way of your life.
We need nothing, but only to be open to receive and share
the love of God. The qualities of a living spring and also of timelessness and
stillness are approaching and calling us to a travel into the infinite realms.
The music of the spheres is the way in which our supreme creator created all
the existing worlds. And through this music, which is divine love HE sustains
them. In HIM they "all live and move and have their being", and by
that same music of the spheres they ultimately return to their source of being.
It's soul's life, joy and spiritual food. It's omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient.
It's your eternal companion and with it we are never lonely, nor alone. We have
to become one with it and become absorved in it, because it's the honey that
feeds the soul.
In Italy, in the Residence of Costagrande, near Avesa and Verona, on
the top of a hill, a place in which the light of the sun is very strong and
transparent and the warmth of the earth and its fructiferous powers are very
charming and splendid, an European International Seminar took place with about
50 participants from all over the world. Persons who are learning from the
Rosicrucian Teachings.
One can not express with words the beauty of the hearts of Italian
people, they are, as one can say, givers and have got the warmth and wonder of
nature and of the sunlight in their beings. The main subject was how to conform
ourselves to the annual cycle of the christic ray. This theme was worked on by
groups under the biblical, philosophical and astrological aspects. There was
time for devotional services, for learning from each other and for personal
contacs. There was felt a strong energy of love, which spread its rays and
touched the hearts of everyone. We know that each one of us will share the
gifts of love which we received with anyone we meet in our own countries and
environments.
Excerpts
from The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception p. 122-124 and from Gleanings of a Mystic
p. 124-155 by Max Heindel:
Here the first awakening brings to the spirit the sound of "the
music of the spheres". In our Earth life we are so immersed in the little
noises and sounds of our environment that we are incapable of hearing the music
of the marching orbs, but the occult scientist hears it. He knows that the
twelve signs of the Zodiac and the seven planets form the sounding-board and
strings of "Apollo's seven stringed lyre". He knows that were a
single discord to mar the celestial harmony from that grand Instrument there
would be "a wreck of matter and a crash of worlds."
When it is said that this is the world of tone, it must not be thought
that there are no colors. Many people know that there is an intimate connection
beween color and tone; that when a certain note is struck, a certain colour
appears simultaneously. So it is in the Heaven World. Color and sound are both
present; but the tone is the originator of the color. Hence it is said, that
this is particularly the world of tone, and it is this tone that builds all
forms in the Physical World. The sound or tone which pervades this region, and
is everywhere apparent as color, is his instrument, so to speak. It is this
harmonious sound vibration which, as an elixir of life, builds into the
threefold spirit the quintessence of the threefold body, upon which it depends
for growth.
There remains, therefore,
only one safe method for us, namely, to stay in the din of the battle field of
the world, endeavoring to wrest from even the most unpromising conditions the
material of soul growth by unselfish service, and at the same time to build
within our own inner selves a sanctuary filled with that silent music which
sounds ever in the serving soul as a source of upliftment above all the
vicissitudes of earthly existence. Having that "living church"
within, being in fact under that condition "living temples", we may
turn at any moment when our attention is not legitimately required by temporal
affairs to that spiritual house not made with hands and lave in its harmony. We
may do that many times a day and thus restore continually the harmony that has
been disturbed by the discords of terrestrial intercourse.
The divine creative "Word" has a mesage and a mission. It was
born to "save the world" and "to give its life for the
world". It must of necessity sacrifice its life in order to accomplish the
rejuvenation of nature. Gradually it buries itself in the earth and commences
to infuse its own vital energy into the millions of seeds which lie dormant in
the ground. It whispers "the word of life" into the ears of beast and
bird, until the gospel or good news has been preached to every creature.
The Pharisees heard
that Jesus was gaining and baptising more disciples than John, although in fact
it was not Jesus who baptised, but his disciples. When the Lord learned of
this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.
Now he had to go
through Samaria. So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot
of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there, and Jesus,
tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth
hour.
When a Samaritan woman
came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink? His
disciples had gone into the town to buy food.
The Samaritan woman
said to him, "You are a Jew and I
am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink.“ (For Jews do not
associate with Samaritans.)
Jesus answered her,
"If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you
would have asked him and he would have given you living water."
"Sir", the
woman said, "You have nothing to draw with and and the well is deep. Where
can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave
us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and
herds?"
Jesus answered,
"Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks
the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will
become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
The woman said to
him,"Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep
coming here to draw water":
He told her, "Go, call your husband and come back."
”I have no
husband", she replied.
Jesus said to her, "You are right when you say you have no husband.
The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband.
What you have just said is quite true."
"Sir", the
woman said, "I can see that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshipped on
this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in
Jerusalem."
Jesus declared,
"Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father
neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do
not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when
the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are
the kind of worshippers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshippers
must worship in spirit and it truth.“
The woman said,
"I know that Messiah (called Christ) is coming. When he comes, he will
explain everything to us."
Then Jesus declared,
"I who speak to you am he."
Thoughts
The things we have to learn
before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
Aristoteles
Heaven knows how to put a
proper price upon its goods.
Thomas
Paine
I already feel a world within opening its gates and in it all the real substances of which these in the outward world are shadows which pass away..
William
Blake
Aquarian art
He is
the entire vineyard,
and
the orchard too, the fruit, the trunks,
a
growing wisdom and joy that doesn't need to devour.
Jelaluddin Rumi
you
are the open field in the glance
silence
and fantasy
Look!
every instant a humble miracle without words
tender
ecstasy
sensible
expansion of the sea in our chests
songs
and caresses to the infants
our
thirst and its pour
you
are presence
the
peace and inspiration of conscience
the
sorrow of man falls drop for drop
wounds
after wounds
bloody
is the horror and misfortune of the dream
but
that grace permeates us, sweet presence
thunder
of light
rain
after the sunny day
you
fructify the fields
and
this infinite yearning of light in our hearts
lifts
us to the source
In reference to the Newsletters of September 1998, and to its article
about music we would like to offer to you 90 minutes music cassettes with
classical music in each tonality which correlate to each zodiacal sign. We can
give to you, whether one or various music cassettes or the whole set of 24 of
them. If you are interested please write to us.
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