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Introduction to the Fundamental Teachings of the Rosy Cross
In these
pages and in the many other publications issued by the Fraternitas Rosæ
Crucis and the Philosophical Publishing Company you will find
certain words and phrases whose meaning and interpretation are vital to
the understanding of the fundamental teachings and the instructions
offered. In this Introduction we shall do our best to provide the serious
seeker with a modern definition of the key words and phrases used by the past
and present Initiate teachers and Arcane Masters.
The terms
“Initiate” and “Arcane Master,” as well as many other similar terms used
in arcane literature, refer to an individual who has so lived in harmony
with the Divine Law that he or she has become conscious of the Soul within.
This exalted state of being is now called Soul Illumination. But over the
centuries various other names have been used to describe this spiritual state
of soul development, such as Soul Consciousness, Cosmic
Consciousness, Philosophical Initiation and Mastership. While there are
subtle differences between these various stages of soul development, they
all indicate a specific degree of spiritual attainment from
Illumination onward.
Beginning in
ancient Egypt and India, and continuing to the present, “Mystery Schools” taught
their students the immortality of the soul and how to attain this grand
spiritual summit. Even Jesus referred to these “Mysteries of the kingdom of
heaven.” The most essential keys to an understanding of what the Nazarene
referred to, as the “Mysteries,” are these four terms:
Once the individual is able to attain a working comprehension of the meaning of these four terms, he or she has opened the door to the first of the Mysteries mentioned by the Teacher from Nazareth. While a great many other terms are used in our texts and literature, most of them are either synonyms of these four or various degrees of them.
Everything we do falls under some component of the
Divine Law. It is simply the Law that governs in all things in both Heaven and
Earth. If we learn to live in harmony with it, we will prosper; if we do not,
we will be “corrected” by the reaction of our own attempted disobedience. We
will always reap what we sow.
It
is our earthly mission, through our own efforts and initiative, is to not only
make this a better world, but also to produce a little more than we need so
that those who really cannot help themselves will be helped along life's rough
path. It is our spiritual mission to make every effort to bring into consciousness
the Divine spark hidden within us and which fell into unconsciousness when the
soul left its heavenly estate and fell into an earthly body. In other words, we
are here to be both a server of humanity and a servant of God.
We
must experience and suffer in order to know love and its opposite. We are here
to free ourselves from the taint of hate and its attendant evils by replacing
them with love. As we perform this
process of transmutation, we retain the wisdom gained, and by desire and continued
effort, become like the advanced Celestial beings that God intended us to
become.
The Great Work is our reason for being. This Great
Work, if followed with dedication and persistence, along with daily successful
efforts at transmutation, will eventually lead to Soul Illumination, a state of
spiritual consciousness in which the truth of immortality is made self-evident.
It is a state in which the Soul is in direct contact with its Creator and all
else that is good in God’s Creation. This is not a promise of future health and
happiness; it is an assurance of both- here and now.
You can
explore these fundamental teachings in more detail in the following books
available from the Philosophical Publishing Company:
Divine Law, Mastership by R.S. Clymer, M.D.
The Manisis Chronicles by G.E.
Poesnecker, N.D., D.C.
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