e-Pentagram Electronic Bulletin of the Lectorium Rosicrucianum
The Lectorium Rosicrucianum
Contact Information
Public Activities
The World in Which We Live
Gnosis is Simplicity Itself
December - January 2011/12 e-Pentagram
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The Lectorium Rosicrucianum
Contact Information
Public Activities
The World in Which We Live
Gnosis is Simplicity Itself
Volume 5.11 Dec-Jan 2011/12
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here exists a golden thread, which leads out of the labyrinth of our broken reality and towards the Truth. T The Lectorium Rosicrucianum, or International School of the Golden Rosycross, aims to help seekers find and form a living connection with this shining filament, which is woven of love, wisdom, knowledge (gnosis) and action.
Most importantly, this golden thread is a Path that can actual- ly be walked, a Path shown by all religions in their original form. No Master or Initiate can give the Truth to another. It can only be approached by our own efforts, and by persevering throughout all the obstructions and difficulties we encounter on the way. And it can only be reached through an inner process of transformation called 'soul-rebirth', or 'transfigura- tion'. A bonafide School points out the Path of transfiguration and teaches its pupils how to follow it.
It is not the I-central self, or personality, that profits from the process of transfiguration as meant here, but the inner, divine Self, which is awakened and enabled to become increasingly active. This has tremendous results for the personality: he or she becomes an instrument, a servant, of another Order, the Divine Order, the 'kingdom not of this world', and in that state is able to stand right in the midst of the world in the service of every human being.
The Lectorium Rosicrucianum is a modern organization in the sense that its message is adapted to the strongly individualized consciousness of twenty-first century humanity. However, it has deep roots in the past, for it is part of the long and ancient tradition of Mystery Schools, and is a development of earlier impulses of spiritual awakening such as those of the gnostics, Cathars and classical Rosicrucians of the 17th century. CONTACT INFORMATION
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| What kind of world is it, in which we insight into the address wander about every day and marvel? purpose of your We marvel at the sharp opposites of life existence. There are older members and death, health and illness, wealth of the D-group and poverty, good and evil. It is a here, who are still world, in which we have to find our facing the choice way, in whatever way we can.Youthful to become a pupil enthusiasm sparkles from you. But or not. It’s won- every once in a while, some of you with- derful that they draw in order to reflect about the pur- are also here with us during this con- pose of all this apparent nonsense. Why ference. It may be a do people get excited about all sorts of decisive experience things? What is the meaning of this en- affecting the rest tire nervous bustle, of this whole merry- of their life; deci- go-round? sive regarding the course their life will take. You will not find harmony and peace The group of within yourselves if you don’t solve this young pupils con- conflict of never-ending opposites within sists of people yourselves. Today you may shout for joy, who are young and are pupils. Being tomorrow you may be ‘down’.This need young is a given fact, being a pupil is a not just be ‘Sturm und Drang’,or delayed choice you have made. All young pupils puberty. One moment you live intensely, have made a conscious choice. If you per- the next moment you feel a stranger on severe in this choice, you will not be dis- earth. appointed by it. If you do not have this feeling of being A conscious choice is necessary in ‘a stranger’, your pupilship is meaning- order to give direction to your life. Then less. Then the Spiritual School has you have, from all the possibilities in life, nothing to say to you. What is the from all those ways open to you, chosen reason for this? It is because the Spiritual one way, which you will experience as the School ties in with this feeling of being Way. Everyone is searching for a way out unfulfilled. And it gives clear answers to of the labyrinth of suffering and pain, out the questions cropping up and provides of the labyrinth of hopelessness that grabs so many by the throat. Why else are the underlies Heisenberg’s1 theory of uncer- mental homes so full? Why do so many tainty. Einstein’s theoryof relativity states young people commit suicide, for exam- that there exists a fundamental relativity: ple? If, in the past, time seemed to pass neither absolute motion nor rest exists. by slowly (old photographs often give the Systems of co-ordinates move with re- impression that the pushcarts and the spect to each other. Galactic systems people were standing still), nowadays we move with unimaginable speed through often have the sensation that everything is an empty universe. It is a constantly ex- as volatile as mercury. In the past, people panding emptiness. But what is actually knew for sure that matter consisted of expanding? Stars are born and implode small particles. Now it appears to be into all-devouring black holes. From Young people in discussion in waves, a dance, but there is nothing dan- quantum physics,we know about rotating Osnabru«ck, cing this dance. They are only ‘probabil- and spinning particles. ‘Particles’? No, Germany.Photo ity waves’. A fundamental randomness they are not small ‘things’, but particles Pentagram. of energy. Or can we speak of conscious- spiritual movements. Spirituality is the ness, of vibrations with a memory? fashionable word nowadays. Society is Could microcosms also be something ‘buzzing’ with ‘spirituality’ ^ whatever like that? In them, are quantum leaps this may be. Everyone can accept it, into another dimension, or into another because it is a vague concept. New Age universe, another consciousness, possi- appeals to many, because it corresponds ble? What is consciousness, what are par- with an unconscious drive that tears ticles, energies, and electromagnetic humanity loose from old ideas, ideolo- waves? What is memory, what is the col- gies and concepts. lective unconscious? Is there supercon- sciousness? Time to leave
What is a human being? It is the call of Aquarius,which propels humanity onto new paths. Aquarius con- Who are you? Who am I? In earlier veys the call to humanity, which has times everything looked static ^ people dwelled in matter for so long: ‘It is time had time. Now everything is dynamic ^ to leave, to bid farewell to matter and to now no one has time. In the past, people penetrate to the new Life. Matter is no could hold on to morals and standards, re- longer important: a mystery is calling ligion and material science. Things were you.’ predictable; the universe was considered But alas, this urge, this call is misun- to be a machine, an enormous clockwork derstood in all kinds of ways. Humanity that,once God had started it,wasjust tick- is making a mess of it. It is like the prison ing away. If you knew the initial state and tower in the dream of Christian Rosy- Newton’s laws of motion, you simply cross, in which the trapdoor is slightly knew how it would end ^ they thought. lifted. Look how everything is wriggling This is called determinism. Later on, it in the dark and dashing in all directions was detected that uncertainties, in the ^ confusion everywhere. And C.R.C. also form of chance or probability, controlled climbs over other people’s backs to work reality much more than science was ready himself upward and escape the turmoil. to admit. Einstein, a pioneering genius in This means that the beginning of our his thinking, could not accept this. ‘God pupilship is not so lofty at all, but rather does not play dice,’ he said. causes a state of confusion. A ray of light Reincarnation is another great and penetrates into the microcosm and the very ancient concept; it is so logical, but human being is discovered and discovers the churches and science still deny it. As- himself! What is crawling around in the trology, this science of old, studied for hidden recesses of our own self? It is a centuries, has been designated as super- form of awakening which is not pleasant stition by the churches, and modern at all. It requires great courage to face it science calls it nonsense. God, or a and to move on calmly. sublime intelligence ^ ‘I don’t need this Humanity is also beginning to show hypothesis,’ a philosopher once said. In signs of awakening. Sleep in matter be- the past, religion determined the doings comes lighter. Many people begin to stir of the masses. Now that the churches in their sleep, as the day is dawning. We don’t seem to have the answers, these are speaking of awakening from the answers are looked for in all kinds of dream of illusion, the delusion of matter, the delusion of religion, science and tech- An intellectual mentality,which is wholly attuned to nology that humanity has dreamed up for matter,which seeks matter, need certainly not start the so long. This partial awakening is caused work of soul building; it will not have the slightest result. A by the electromagnetic effect of the new person should truly yearn for soul growth, should be ready era, the Age of Aquarius, theWaterbearer for it, and this, in turn, depends on the state of the human who pours his pitcher of living water over blood, on the state of the so-called blood soul. humanity. In short, it all depends on whether a person has reached a This age is generally considered to be a stage, by virtue of his karmic past, of being able to devote ‘New Age’. The movement of the same himself to the seeking and striving for the possession of the name tries to react to it. But what really living soul state. If this desire is present on the basis of the matters is knowledge, the Gnosis, needed karmic past, then, as you will understand, both the heart in order to truly be able to walk the path and the head have arrived at a state of openness. Then the of liberation. Otherwise, Aquarius re- head and the heart are ‘inclined towards each other’; they mains diffuse and not understood. are attuned to each other. What usuallyhappens in this ma- terial world is that there is a separation between the differ- Thinking for yourself ent aspects and activities of the heart and the head. But if the heart and the head begin to show a certain In the past, people were ‘religious’, balance, a directedness on the matters of the soul, then the now they call themselves ‘spiritual’ ^ desire for a glorious progress of both of them lies behind it. whatever that may mean. In the past, There is a desire to become perfect! Thehuman being of this there were well-defined concepts of God world is not a perfect being; he has not yet become a true and dogma: this is what you have to be- human being. It is our mystification that we think we are lieve and not something else, or you go to already Men, but we are only men in the making. We can jail or die at the stake. You don’t have to only speak of a permanent genesis,when we are truly think for yourself, this is what the clergy focused on the building of the soul.2 is for ^ they know! This is no longer ac- ceptable. People have become emanci- pated and use their own thinking faculty. They determine for themselves what ap- commitments? No requirements are im- peals to them in their spiritual quest. On posed. the one hand, this is favourable, because it In the Spiritual School of the Golden shows that humanity is wrestling itself Rosycross it is different ^ this School free from church authorities and has does impose certain conditions. This achieved self-consciousness.This freedom stems from a well-defined knowledge: is absolutely necessary to be able to go the the knowledge of the Path, of the risks on path of transfiguration. On the other the Path, and of the causes why so many hand, this self-consciousness has not yet attempts of spiritual schools in the past received a clear direction. It is like a have failed. One of the main causes is a group of migratory birds which, before lack of commitment and no obligations: undertaking the long journey, are flying Not engaging in commitments concern- around in circles to orientate themselves ing each other and the group, no rules. and establish their course. Thus, the gen- These are the causes for the failures of eral ‘NewAge’ orientation is still without quite a lot of well-intended attempts to proper direction. Everyone is doing his walk the Path. own thing and everywhere it is different. There have to be pure teachings.There Isn’t this wonderful? Without any rules or has to be a mode of life attuned to them and logically resulting from them. There tion to all who have joined in it, in their have to be clear, established rules about struggle against karmic forces. This is what serves the goal and what distracts why we desperately need the group. from it. A ship cannot sail if the crew This is why we joined the group, which does not obey the rules. The Grandmas- forms the Spiritual School, in order to ters have always acknowledged and receive knowledge, which is transformed pointed out the consequences of a lack of into truth and light in our own micro- commitment,of ‘freedom for all’,ofdoing cosm. as you please. Imitation: the method of the world A group is indispensable and strengthens Wehave just stated that our field oflife, in which all beings are imprisoned, always In all initiation schools, certain de- restores and reinforces itself. This is, mands have always been made. All candi- among other things, achieved by the dates had to comply in order to attain power of imitation. In the Gospel of the spiritual awakening. An initiation school Pistis Sophia this power is called the like the School of the Golden Rosycross, power with the lion’s head. It is not the too, is depending onthe strict guidelines it true lion’s power, the solar power of the has been given in order to be able to work Gnosis, but a power which pretends to be with the pupils entrusted to it, and cer- the light of the Gnosis. It is the power, tainly tobe able to execute a world-encom- which is represented by a lion’s head, the passing work of redemption. symbol of deception. The requirements of preparatory pu- There is the call to freedom, the call to pilship, probationary pupilship and pro- liberate ourselves from the wheel of birth fessing pupilship were not invented to and death, the freedom of the kingdom of suppress the pupils and steal their free- the light. This call has been turned into a dom, but to offer a minimal basis on horizontal call for liberty, equality and which they, and the Spiritual School, fraternity, as it resounded during the may hope that their efforts will be French Revolution, and which has victim- crowned with success. Otherwise, the ized thousands. Freedom can also be in- chances for liberation would be non-exis- terpreted as freedom for all people in the tent. sense of ‘doing as you please’.This is the We should not forget that our field of reaction to being suppressed by church, life is the natural adversary of every state and society. First, people have to be- pupil who tries to walk the path of life. come emancipated. But then there is still a Not because this field of life is so bad, long way ahead to the true freedom of the but simply because it cannot be other- children of God. The most important wise! If you make a hole in water, it im- power in the universe is the power of mediately fills up again. The same holds love. On the horizontal plane, this love is true for the field of dialectics. Every in- hardly understood. It is often expressed as fluence contrary to its nature will be sex in all the variations we can think of. neutralised as quickly as possible. There- Commercials, movies, theatre and maga- fore, quite a lot is needed to create and zines propagate the animal love ad absur- maintain a vacuum, a magnetic field dum. How far this is removed from the that is sufficiently pure to offer protec- Divine love! The knowledge of salvation ^ of heal- All of us are still insignificant mortals. We may realise ing ^ is the knowledge needed to fathom something of our primitiveness, but a mighty Divine plan the Divine plan rationally and to perceive, underlies our existence.This fact demands that we fathom to some degree,thePath. However, know- this goal and its cause and attune ourselves to it.The ledge and knowing in our field of life are microcosm,with the flame of the monad, forms the cause associated with what the brain learns in and the purpose emanating from the Divine Father to school; the intellectual knowledge of the place us before our task.The earthly personality is the limited mind. Waking up in the Divine instrument, the apparatus, by means of which the creative nature involves normalizing the lost idea underlying our existence is to be carried out. And as it senses of inner hearing, inner perception, is a Divine plan, and the Divine spark forms the basis, ^ of seeing what happens far away, and of for the monad is a Divine spark ^ the one and absolute being united with all brothers and sisters requirement for the fulfilment is self-realisation, self- in the new life. These are imitated by in- freemasonry. ventions like radio, telecommunication, This fulfilment is not handed to us on a silver platter. We television, mobile phones and the Inter- must carry out this plan ourselves, step by step, no one else net. These inventions are imitations of fa- can do it for us.This is why the course of humanity is a culties that should be developed in development, the development of an instrument,which at humanity. But many people do not even a certain moment will be crowned with an intellectual long for them ^ because the desire for faculty and with a soul vehicle, in which the experiences of them has been removed or suppressed by aeons of time can be taken up as an imperishable imitations in the outside world. However possession, so that on this basis the spiritual flame of the impressive they may be, they are extreme- monad can enter,and hence thehuman being,having once ly poor compared to the faculties of the again become perfect, borne by the flame of the monad, original human being. can proceed as an eternal being from power to power and The Spiritual School casts its power from glory to glory. field as a fishing net in the world, so that many seekers can be drawn up into the new life. One of the answers of the inhabitants of the reflection sphere is the invention of the Internet. This net offers worldwide communication instead of the true unification of soul human beings. It offers worldwide infor- mation instead of the universal know- ledge and wisdom that the reborn human being receives. It turns human beings into slaves of their computer net- works and does not lift them up to the Gnosis and true freedom. 1 The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle This is why it is said to the pupil: see (HUP) is a law of nature that states that impulse through the snares of our field of life! and the placement of a particle cannot be si- Free yourself from delusion, and break multaneously, exactly measured, because both are unstable. When you measure the impulse, all ties that keep you imprisoned. What the place changes, and vice versa. this implies and what this requires of us, 2 The texts in the shaded boxes in this issue we will try to explore, together, during have been taken from: J van Rijckenborgh, this conference. Reveille! Rozekruis Pers, Haarlem, 1963. Gnosis is simplicity itself S econd
| For young people in particular, it is im- too restrictive, because address portant to approach life with open eyes, ‘finding’ and having an and to recognise their place in this answer involves respon- sibility, and who wants world. To have determined this place as to bear this? In a recent clearly aspossible,is already a large step radio broadcast, a distin- in the direction of healing and libera- guished philosopher in tion. Switzerland said re- signedly: ‘Sadly enough Whoever manages to bring light into we must recognise and the darkness, and is also prepared to look acknowledge, that we objectively at what then becomes visible, know nothing... Yes, phi- shows the necessary courage to face the losophy has in fact run facts of life without trying to change aground.’ Already for them to his own liking.This is why we re- centuries, a select group turn to our current life situation, to exam- of scholars has been oc- ine ^ without rose-coloured glasses ^ a cupied with deciphering few burning questions of the seeking the central problems of human being. life. They are trying to The present-day human being is con- unveil the riddles of fronted with questions that have kept humanity and the him spellbound for ages and that drive world, and to penetrate to the plan that him forward in his search. Currently, underlies them. these questions are, more than ever, sur- We can characterise our present time as rounded by hyperactivity and accompa- the era of open questions, for every an- nied by great confusion. For everything swer given by the scholars is the starting there is an answer, offered as if for sale at signal for new questions. Our present the annual fair. How thrilling it is to con- time is characterised by an explosion of jure up answers to those 1001 questions! questions. To create some form of order After all, it is exciting and different when in this jumble, present-day scholars con- you can say whatever you are dying to say centrate on questions such as: What is without anything to stop you, and in so consciousness? How does our brain func- doing, before everything else, leave every- tion? How does gravity function? When thing open. Then it is said: ‘It is good that did life on earth begin? How did the uni- we talked about this.’ Searching is fine, verse come into existence? Do extra-ter- but please do not ‘find’. That would be restrials exist? Is the course of evolution really accidental? Will we ever have eter- ness of a computer, does not distinguish nal life? between beings of flesh and blood and a How difficult the search for the right being of metal, plastic and electrical cir- answer is! On what should we focus? cuits. He says: ‘Once we can converse Where do we find fixed points of orienta- with a computer about everything from tion? Where is our trustworthy power of Kant to the Champions League, what discernment? Finally, where do we find then is the difference between that and an example? the consciousness of a human being?’ In the usual research of the brain, we The consciousness of a machine? are confronted with 100 billion cells which, by means of 100 trillion nodal Youth This is why it is not surprising that David points and 90,000 kilometres of cable, concentrating on Lord Kitchener’s Chalmers, director of the Center for Con- communicate with each other. How Island, Egypt. sciousness Research at the University of should we, in a universe with an estimated Photo Arizona, in his research of the conscious- 70 sextillion suns, (a 7 with 22 zeroes) Pentagram. There are therefore, in fact, two states of life which are linked with each other at a certain moment; one life from the earth and one life from the solar body. Now we ask you, ‘Which of these two is the most important one?’ The answer is not difficult: the solar life of course! But it is obvious that, as these two are joined for a This exploration shows the urgent search mighty purpose,we should not say: ‘This terrestrial life for answers to the most important vital of ours has no meaning at all; it is of no use whatsoever,’ questions, and how complex, and at the because our terrestrial life has to fulfil an extremely same time how limited, the manner of ob- important task in the process of the two that must servation, the principles and the methods become one. So it is clear that, from his very youth, the of human beings are in this search. That earthly human being must prepare himself for his task this urge exists, particularly at the present concerning the inner other one, the solar human being. time, is related to the electromagnetic in- [...] And this is only possible through transfiguration of fluences of the Age of Aquarius. The year the earthly human being.This is a process of which the 2004 is a special year, because now vir- Holy Language says that, in reality, there need not be tually the same cosmic constellation is in death for the earthly human being. the sky as approximately 500 years ago As you know, this is in fact what people in scientific during the Renaissance in Italy. As the circles are seeking so feverishly: the postponement of name indicates, the Renaissance was the death as long as possible, and then...who knows... one time in which something new was born. day... the neutralisation of death. But it was also a period full of question But the neutralisation of the death of the earthly human marks. being has been possible for an unimaginably long time: The same is true today.This year 2004 through transfiguration! The process of transfiguration is a good beginning for fundamental re- enables the solar life,or in other words,eternity,and the newal and change. And now the central earthly life, that is time, to become completely one. questions are: Where is the power of dis- Everything temporary can be taken up into eternity. covery with which all borders can be crossed? What is the instrument ofdiscov- ery that is required for liberation? What is the plan of liberation? And how can lib- look for extra-terrestrial beings? Whoever eration be realised? wants to look for the beginning of life on earth must go back three to four billion Intelligent search years. When, in addition to this, he starts to think about the development of the Crucial inthis search iswhere do webegin universe, he will even have to take 13.7 bil- seeking? Which power of discovery can lion years into account! we draw on? Do we choose the reasoning Astrophysicists, who investigate grav- of the brain or do we choose our central, ity, have come to the conclusion that or- spiritual nucleus? The brain reaches as far dinary matter only comprises four per- as intellectualthinking can go,but further cent of the total mass of the universe. The than space and time it cannot go.The phi- rest is identified as so-called ‘dark matter’, losophy of the Spiritual School, however, about which we know nothing. On the assumes that the spirit-spark is a part of basis of this alone we can ask ourselves: eternity and as such can unlock eternity. What is the value of a theory that cannot It is as simple as that! Yet, the human explain 96 percent of the universe? being bases his search for the secrets of life on the brain-driven mind. He is not School of the Golden Rosycross places a aware that he limits his radius of action reality in this world that far exceeds by this choice, and hence will be ship- space and time, and is above any conceiva- wrecked. Is this not a foolish approach? ble human activity in this world. The This is not the case. Liberation and the Spiritual School has taken up its place in plan behind it can become so real and so the flow of the Gnosis, which has been ac- clear, so present, that they are no mind tive ever since the fall of humanity. It con- game or virtual images, but a dimension tinuously propagates the universal mes- of life that is linked to a practical, passable sage of liberation. It is not merely a com- road. A group of young pupils who have munity of religious people nor does it realised where liberation begins, how it only have a philosophy. It represents can be continued and where it leads to, everything that the Gnosis ^ that is true can, as a group, be a great promise for the knowledge ^ contains. This knowledge is times to come. simplicity itself. Liberation cannot be realised through This may sound a little exaggerated. philosophical discussions and endless How can something be simple, when the conversations, even if we deploy all avail- world and humanity are as complicated able words, emotions and gestures. No and convoluted as described above? Why, word, no sound, no image, no action is then, did the Grandmasters of the Spiri- able to place liberation into this world, or tual School write so many books on so to move us into it.Yet,the opposite is tried many topics? Why, then, are there so with great intensity. Just think of certain many words at public meetings, services music with which young people are con- and conferences? fronted, which is aggressively provocative Nevertheless we repeat: the knowledge, and terribly loud. which is the Gnosis, is simplicity itself. Human beings can be especially influ- And we add: it is so simple that a child enced with music. Music not only acti- can understand it. vates the centres of hearing and move- The reason everything seems to be so ment, but also all the centres responsible complicated that we can hardly grasp it, for learning, memory, concentration, is that our natural personality is the creativity and emotions. Scientific re- wrong instrument for gathering know- search has shown that music can even ledge. The sensory activity and the ordin- alter the brain. This would mean that the ary mind, as major instruments of obser- brain is plastic and pliable. Just try to ima- vation and reflection, are suited for as- gine what this means! similating external knowledge. They can only perceive and deal with the outside Afreedimensionoflifeandthe of something. For example, concerning right set of instruments the human energy centres, they cannot grasp the unifying element, the idea and This is the reason for the urgent neces- the plan. sity to recognise and see through such We can see the countless branches and facts, relationships and outcomes as early leaves of a tree, but not its roots. Wecould as possible. Then understanding, open- also compare the working of the senses ness and longing for a dimension of life and the brain to a paper shredder. The that is free from these limiting influences senses turn a whole into many small can develop. This is why the Spiritual pieces, so that the message is no longer le- gible. As long as we move head over heels the heart ^ initially awakens a new in- through life in this fashion, gathering in- sight, a new faculty of seeing: the ability formation and, in addition to this, want- to think and to observe with the heart, to ing to break the wall of the I, it is unavoid- discern and to know things on the basis of able that the dust we throw up takes our the nucleus,the centre of things. Whoever breath away. thinks and discerns in this reverse way, sees ‘simply’ because he sees the multipli- ‘Kiss’ city of the world and humanity, em- bedded in the idea of the divine unity. In the multiplicity of the world, no one Then he finds himself at the very pulse of can realise a workable method in this life, where true life develops, where a new way. Hence, it is not surprising that world and human history is being writ- many long for a Moses, who descends ten, and that which truly is, happens. from the mountain with his command- Then he is close to God, who is within ments and creates clarity. The so-called him. autonomy and liberty in the multiplicity hasbecome a particularly strenuous affair. Affinity for the truth Human life is a giant puzzle with count- less pieces ^ but the example is missing. This has nothing to do with the closeness The sphere of activity has become more and reality that are sought and suggested cluttered and oppressive than ever before. frantically in this world (and quite suc- Nowhere can a human being still find a cessfully, judging by the sensational news point of reference, nowhere can he see a bulletins and live broadcasts,the so-called principle that fundamentally shows him reality shows). The sensory nearness of the way. ‘Go your own way; after all, you the reality of the world is not the same as are autonomous,’ it is said. But what being close to the truth. The nearness of should we focus on? When complicated the truth can only be attained when the relationships arise in the business world, rose of the heart is awakened. From this, the liberating word is: kiss ^ meaning an affinity for truth arises and from this ‘keep it simple and small’. We say: ‘look an eye for the truth develops. The natural for simplicity’. This simplicity should be sensory faculties and the brain, with its looked for in the root, in the nucleus of observations, allow us to approach the things. This nucleus, hidden in the heart, multiplicity of the visible world on its is the rose of the heart. This is where the naked surface, but at the same time they power of liberation lies. The rose of the remove us from the invisible truth, from heart can lead the seeking human being unity.The senses and the brain create dis- to unity and it has no part in the multipli- tance. And it is precisely with these facul- city of this world. It is a part of eternity ties that we attempt to achieve closeness... and because it belongs to it, it possesses This is why overcoming the I, with its the quality of simplicity, for it is linked senses and its brain and with everything with God ^ who is simplicity itself. This that is linked to it ^ also etherically ^ is rose is simplicity. the decisive factor in the process of libera- A potential power rests in the spiritual tion. We call this victory the endura, the centre of your existence that can be re- ‘method’ of the dissolution of the I, by leased under certain conditions. This which the distance to the truth is dimin- power ^ we speak about the kundalini of ished and the multiplicity is understood in simplicity.This dissolution of the I does dure the light of the Gnosis, the true not mean the discontinuation of your life. knowledge. And certainly also thanks to Onthe contrary! The point here is the dis- the Spiritual School, this liberating light solution of a make-believe life, brought is very close to us. It is born within us about and maintained by the senses and with every heartbeat, countless times! It the brain. And the means to achieve this gives itself to us. It penetrates into the is: light power. group and into each of us, right into the What makes the Spiritual School spe- heart. If we can see and accept this, when cial is that, by decades of concentrated we believe it and surrender to this light, it work ^ ever directed at the power of the can, in this way, also become strongly ac- Supernature ^ it has released so much tive and conscious within us. It can, as we power that a light field has developed. call it, be resurrected within us.This is the It has created a new cosmos in the plan! This is the central idea of creation. world, a protected field. This house, this This is the intention of the ceaselessly house of the light, is equipped with every- driving force in the entire Universe. thing necessary for the renewal of human- When we respond to this stimulus in the ity and the world. It is ‘fully furnished’. correct way, we will truly be able to di- Why do we express it in this way? To minish, and ultimately end, suffering and make it clear that the seeker for liberation sorrow. Go therefore the path of the light and a truly new home, the original divine and fulfil the plan. Carry out that which home, cannot take along anything of his you believe in and realise it through love. ‘furniture’-as-to-this-nature, when he is admitted as an inhabitant. When he can leave behind everything that belongs to the I, he will be welcome as an inhabitant, and he will not lack anything. Everything he needs for liberation will come to him. No rent is required for this new abode. The only price, which is not negotiable, is that the I, everything egocentric, must be relinquished. This is why it is said that a seeker for the truth needs to be ‘naked, poor and free of any I-possessions’. For the new abode consists in and out of the original power.
No words, but power
Eve taking the ‘My kingdom is not in words, but in apple from the power,’ we read in the Bible. The seat of tree of the this power is your heart.This is the secret: knowledge of human beings with an active rose of the good and evil. heart have a very special ‘organ’ at their Sculpture at Souillac in the disposal which, although it is in them, E¤glise St-Marie, does not belong to this world. With this approx.1130. organ, they are, in principle, able to en-