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Meditation, Prayer, and Daily Rhythms the Harvest of Human Experience the Higher Stages of the Passion—Cross-Bearing Evolution As Shown in the Zodiac “A Sane Mind, A Soft Heart, A Sound Body” NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1999—$5.00 MEDITATION, PRAYER, AND DAILY RHYTHMS THE HARVEST OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE THE HIGHER STAGES OF THE PASSION—CROSS-BEARING EVOLUTION AS SHOWN IN THE ZODIAC A CHRISTIAN ESOTERIC MAGAZINE THREE KINGS Three kings, appointed to be guides of men, You bring the Christ gold, frankincense, and will always help you to achieve your goal myrrh, for Him to use as spiritual gifts. in cosmic worlds, from plane to higher plane, You bow your head and will no longer err. and ever deeper regions of the soul. You fold both hands upon your breast and lift And should you only glimpse them from afar, your heart to heaven. You sink on bended knee, know this: The earth will turn into a star. and whom you lead will walk erect and free. A golden star, just like the little child, If after death he wander into hell, to whom they bore their birthday offerings, he still would reach his sure angelic goal; so that the relics and all sacred things and were he forced to live in chaos as well, kept in the temples might stay undefiled. he yet would bring forth Heaven from his own soul. Who rescues them? The God, who on the earth For Melchior, Caspar, and Balthazar, true, came to know death. They recognized His birth. and good, and beautiful, dwell deep in you. —Albert Steffen Above: mosaic of the three wise men, Sant’Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna. Steffan poem translated by Rex Raab, from The Power for Resurrection’s Flight, Adonis Press, Ghent, NY 12075 Front cover: The Annunciation, Botticelli (1446-1510), Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Planet Art. Back cover: Crystal formations, Paramount Professional Photos This Issue... Feature Word Made Flesh...Kathleen Raine ......................................................................2 Editorial Behold, I Make All Things New ...........................................................................3 A Christian Mystic Light Esoteric Magazine Meditation, Prayer, and Daily Rhythms...Friedrich Rittelmeyer ..........................4 The Harvest of Human Experience...C. W............................................................9 Symbology of Christmas...Katherine Hillwood Poor .........................................14 Established by The Higher Stages of the Passion—Cross-Bearing...Valentin Tomberg.............17 Max Heindel From Max Heindel’s Writings June 1913 The Mystic Message of Christmas......................................................................20 Readers’ Questions Volume 91, No.6 A Shortcut to Heaven? ........................................................................................22 Mother Love and Materialization; Post-mortem Fate of Vivisectors .................23 November/December—1999 Western Wisdom Bible Study USPS 471080—ISSN 0744-432X Miscellaneous Interpretations—Part Three...Max Heindel.................................24 Subscription in U.S.: one year, $20.00; two Astrology years, $38.00. 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At Sunrise (Poem)...Irene Stanley.......................................................................15 Our Blessing (Poem)...Ella Wheeler Wilcox ......................................................55 Telephone: (760) 757-6600 Fax: (760) 721-3806 “A Sane Mind, E-mail: [email protected] A Soft Heart, Internet: A Sound Body” www.rosicrucian.com ©1999 The Rosicrucian Fellowship Feature The Of fering of the Wise Men from East, Die Bibel in Bildern, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1789-1853) Raine’ s poem from Selected Poems Word Made Flesh Word whose breath is the world-circling atmosphere, Grammar of five-fold rose and six-fold lily, , Lindisfarne Books, Hudson, NY Word that utters the world that turns the wind, Spiral of leaves on a bough, helix of shells, Word that articulates the bird that speeds upon the air, Rotation of twining plants on axes of darkness and light, Word that blazes out the trumpet of the sun, Instinctive wisdom of fish and lion and ram, Whose silence is the violin-music of the stars, Rhythm of generation in flagellate and fern, Whose melody is the dawn, and harmony the night, Flash of fin, beat of wing, heartbeat, beat of the dance, Word traced in water of lakes, and light on water, Hieroglyph in whose exact precision is defined , 12534. Used by permission Light on still water, moving water, waterfall Feather and insect-wing, refraction of multiple eyes, And water colors of cloud, of dew, of spectral rain, Eyes of the creatures, oh myriadfold vision of the world, Word inscribed on stone, mountain range upon range of stone, Statement of mystery, how shall we name Word that is fire of the sun and fire within A spirit clothes in world, a world make man? Order of atoms, crystalline symmetry, —Kathleen Raine 2 RAYS 99 EDITORIAL Behold, I Make All Things New S THIS YEAR, this century, and this What can we do to staunch the flow of bile and millennium conclude with the national blood, to defuse the explosive charges of anger that festival of Thanksgiving and the world fracture the bonds of human relatedness? festival of the Christian Nativity, we A line from Aeschylus’ Agamemnon is not amiss reluctantly must admit that all three here: “He who learns must suffer. And even in our Asegments of time have been notable for the suffering sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon brought about by man’s inhumanity to man—be it the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, two thousand years of “Christian” warring; twentieth comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.” century pogroms in Stalinist Russia, Hitler’s We know what the Elder Brothers of the Rose Germany, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, and tribal Africa, or Cross do. They bare their hearts to the hurt and harm most recently, in Kosovo-Serbia; and domestically, in the world and take it on, sop it up, suffer it into in the random acts of often gratuitous violence, such harmlessness, love it to death. This is nothing short as those that have stunned the school communities of of incredible. These are hearts that beat not for their Littleton, Colorado, and Jonesboro, Tennessee. private selves but for the world. They bless the world None of these or other acts of mayhem and while wounding themselves for love. brutality should have taken place, but they did. Man The Rosicrucian path is the path of knowledge— should not slay and maim and offend his brother, but knowledge which, when truly taken to heart, inspires he does. acts of potent sacrifice, intimate and anonymous The Lord of love gave his life to atone and provide instances of world redemption. an antidote for humanity’s self-inflicted pain and Do we seek wisdom? Here is where it takes us. Are cruelty. The Virgin Mary was told by the seer Simeon we ready? Let us start with what we can, but let us that a sword would pierce her own soul, the sword of start, now—and not stop. suffering sustained by our apparent powerlessness to This is birth time. Christ’s life is baptizing a new prevent acts of anger and fratricide. year, a new century, a new millennium, building We wonder at these atrocities, these acts of indi- toward the New Jerusalem—the new, the abiding, vidual and collective rage, or worse, the calculated, the real inner Peace. Our passions must go to the heartless canceling of holy human lives. How can cross and know the real Passion. Our knowledge impulses so radically
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