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The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis THE EGYPTIAN ARCH-GNOSIS THE EGYPTIAN ARCH-GNOSIS AND ITS CALL IN THE ETERNAL PRESENT NEWLY PROCLAIMED AND EXPLAINED FROM THE TABULA SMARAGDINA AND CORPUS HERMETICUM OF HERMES TRISMEGISTUS BY J. VAN RIJCKENBORGH PART 3 1994 ROZEKRUIS PERS HAARLEM THE NETHERLANDS International School of the Golden Rosycross Lectorium Rosicrucianum Bakenessergracht 11-15, Haarlem, The Netherlands Translated from the Dutch second revised edition 1985 Original title: De Egyptische Oergnosis en haar roep in het eeuwige nu ISBN 90 6732 120 6 © 1994 Rozekruis Pers: Haarlem, The Netherlands - London, U.K. - Bakersfield, U.S.A. The Gate of Saturn Saturn is the ruler of matter and the cause of all processes of crystallisation. As such he is the power of obstruction, deterioration and decline. It is also Saturn’s task to reveal everything the human being has created. That is why he is sometimes depicted as the man with the sickle and the hour-glass, as the hierophant of death. For he brings all the values of dialectical and satanic man, all the results of selfishness and the rampant lover life into the light of day, at a psychological moment. Saturn is Father Time, Chronos, who orders: Thus far and no further’. But Saturn is also the one who initiates. Those who walk the path of life-renewal to live again in harmony with the great, universal law of life, will meet Saturn as the one who reveals everything that has become new: the imperishable values secured within the soul. Saturn, the envoy of death in transient nature then becomes the herald of the resurrected, immortal man. The first edition of this book appeared in 1962, a Saturn year in which mankind was placed before a clear choice: either to go on following the path of the old Saturn, which leads to grinding and death or, aided by the light-forces of the universal Gnosis, to walk the path of liberation, which leads through the gate towards the new life, the Golden City, the new Jerusalem. Contents Preface .......................................................................... 15 I Tenth Book: That The Good is to be Found in God Alone and Nowhere Else .................................. 17 II The Mystery of The Good ............................................. 21 Human good and evil ...................................................................... 22 Love also is to be found in God alone ............................................ 23 Stand in detachment ........................................................................ 24 III The Path of Self-Surrender ............................................ 26 Aesclepius, the seeker and healer-to-be .......................................... 29 The academic sea and the journey to the isle of Caphar Salama, the land of peace ................................................... 32 Self-surrender ................................................................................. 33 Group unity: the soul community ................................................... 34 IV The One Path to Liberation ............................................ 35 The ark of the young Gnosis ........................................................... 36 The path to the Only Good ............................................................. 37 The essence of the soul ................................................................... 38 The birth out of passion .................................................................. 38 Human goodness and its opposite ................................................... 40 V The Delusory Goodness of Evil ..................................... 43 Pessimists and optimists ................................................................. 44 Why man forgets so easily .............................................................. 45 The sensorial state is unsuitable for perceiving the Only Good .................................................................................. 46 A twofold burden ............................................................................. 46 The need to experience the path ....................................................... 47 Help is available in abundance ......................................................... 49 VI The Redeeming Song of Repentance ............................. 50 The state of detachment .................................................................... 50 The sevenfold heart .......................................................................... 50 The song of repentance .................................................................... 52 VII Eleventh Book: About the Mentality and the Senses 54 VIII The Mind and the Senses ............................................... 60 Earthly man's bondage to nature ...................................................... 61 The refinement of the mentality ....................................................... 62 What is purely human ...................................................................... 62 The self-unmasking of natural passion ............................................. 62 IX Astral Influences ............................................................ 66 What happens during sleep .............................................................. 66 Hereditary and karmic predestiny .................................................... 67 The influences of the universal Gnostic Chain ................................. 69 The way most pupils come to the School ......................................... 70 Who shall liberate me from the body of this death? ......................... 72 X Black Demonism ............................................................ 73 The earth and the world .................................................................... 74 Reason and mentality ...................................................................... 75 The drama of our lives ..................................................................... 76 Counternatural sexuality .................................................................. 77 The result of misusing astral forces ................................................. 78 Black demonism and the liberating path ......................................... 79 XI The Formula of the Path to Life ..................................... 82 The divine seed ................................................................................ 82 The light shines in the darkness ....................................................... 83 The law of sin .................................................................................. 83 He who persists in living according to the flesh, will die ................ 85 Hermetic virtue ................................................................................ 86 Hermetic moderation ....................................................................... 88 Hermetic godliness .......................................................................... 88 XII The Earth, Womb of the World ...................................... 90 Man's cognitive faculty ................................................................... 92 The disruption of the divine order ................................................... 92 Christ, the Planetary Spirit .............................................................. 94 The most powerful hermetic advice ................................................ 95 XIII Receive All Things, Relinquish All Things and thereby Renew All Things ...................................... 97 The divine dialectics of the world ................................................... 98 The avenging dialectics of the earth .............................................. 102 XIV Man's One and Only Aim ............................................. 103 The world's cyclical rhythm ......................................................... 104 The proof of sin is the law ............................................................ 106 The experiences of the Cathars and Bogomils in relation to the law ..................................................................... 107 XV Our Way of Life and Present-Day Circumstances 110 The ancient Brotherhoods’ method of work ................................. 111 The garment of the country where we live ................................... 112 The necessity of the living soul-state .......................................... 112 Mercury, the god of merchants and thieves .................................. 114 Professional practice and the new way of life .............................. 115 Education and the new way of life ............................................... 116 XVI The Circulation of the Gnostic Light Forces ................ 119 Blessed are those who yearn for the spirit .................................... 119 The tenfold process of the retrograde movement ......................... 120 The four roses on CRC’s hat ........................................................ 121 The outpouring of the Holy Spirit ................................................ 121 XVII Twelfth Book: The Key of Hermes Trismegistus 123 XVIII Seek First the Kingdom and Its Righteousness 136 The Only Good ............................................................................. 136 A comforting certainty ................................................................. 137 Two aspects of the fundamental nature ........................................ 138 Desire and volition ...................................................................... 138 The face of unholy desire ............................................................
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