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Rosicrucian Digest Vol 86 No 2 2008 Each issue of the Rosicrucian Digest provides members and all interested readers with a compendium of materials regarding the ongoing flow of the Rosicrucian Timeline. The articles, historical excerpts, art, and literature included in this Digest span the ages, and are not only interesting in themselves, but also seek to provide a lasting reference shelf to stimulate continuing study of all of those factors which make up Rosicrucian history and thought. Therefore, we present classical background, historical development, and modern reflections on each of our subjects, using the many forms of primary sources, reflective commentaries, the arts, creative fiction, and poetry. This magazine is dedicated• to all the women and men throughout the ages who have contributed to and perpetuated the wisdom of the Rosicrucian, Western esoteric, tradition. May we ever be •worthy of the light with which we have been entrusted. In this issue, we• listen to the echoes from Delphi, its Oracles, and its Mysteries, across the ages. Active for more than a thousand years, its Temples and Priestesses connected the Divine and Human worlds, often with profound results which still powerfully resonate in our day. We open our hearts and our minds to these ancient voices once again. No. 2 - 2008 Vol. 86 - No. 2 Delphi 2 Official Magazine of the Grand Master Julie Scott, S.R.C. Worldwide Plan and Reconstruction of Delphi 6 Rosicrucian Order C. Pappas Established in 1915 by the Supreme Encounters at Delphi 9 Grand Lodge of the English Language Rosicrucian Library Research Staff Jurisdiction, AMORC, Rosicrucian Park, San Jose, CA 95191. Just Beneath the Surface: 17 Copyright 2008 by the Supreme Grand Transdisciplinary Fume Research at Delphi Lodge of AMORC, Inc. All rights Elisa Cuttjonn, S.R.C. reserved. Republication of any portion of Rosicrucian Digest is prohibited without prior written permission of the I Was a Priestess at Delphi 21 publisher. Defenstrix, S.R.C. ROSICRUCIAN DIGEST (ISSN #0035–8339) is published bi-annually Socrates Impoverished and Enriched 23 for $12.00 per year, single copies $6.00, Roger Lipsey by the Grand Lodge of the English Language Jurisdiction, AMORC, Inc., at 1342 Naglee Ave., San Jose, CA Oracles of Delphi 30 95191. POSTMASTER: Send address Members of the Ancient Mystery Schools Classes changes to ROSICRUCIAN DIGEST at 1342 Naglee Ave., San Jose, CA 95191–0001. Across the Millennia: 38 Applying “Know Thyself” to Daily Life Antonietta Francini, S.R.C., M.D., & B. Taciturnus, F.R.C. Know Thyself 45 ∆ελφοί Michael Shaluly, F.R.C. The Undiscovered Country 48 Ella Wheeler Wilcox Gnothi Seauton (Know Thyself) 49 Ralph Waldo Emerson The Charioteer of Delphi 50 Pausanias, Albinia Wherry, Edward Cook, & Richard G. Geldard, Ph.D. An Echo of Delphi: The Pythian Games 52 Steven Armstrong, F.R.C., M.A. Delphi Grand Master Julie Scott, S.R.C.. All people of good will should consider themselves citizens of Delphi. UNESCO1 ew traditions in the history of the also included contests in art and music. The world have exercised greater influence Omphalos, a conical shaped stone, marked F in their time or inspired more intrigue the navel or center of the world, which throughout the ages than Delphi. the ancient Greeks believed was located in Delphi. The Greeks always kept their sacred For centuries, kings, generals, philoso- flame burning in the Holy of Holies in the phers, and common people consulted the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. More recently, Oracles of Delphi before making any major one of the most fascinating transdisciplinary decisions. The injunction “Know Thyself,” scien tific inquiries into the ancient world inscribed on the wall of the ancient Temple centered around Delphi. of Apollo at Delphi, still inspires many people today. Socrates invoked the words This issue of the Rosicrucian Digest of the Oracle of Delphi at his trial, in order explores these remarkable aspects of the to make the point that ultimately ended his ancient Delphic tradition and more. life. Every four years (on off years between To begin, let us consider the site. Delphi the Olympian Games) a truce was called is perched on the southern slope of Mount so that the ancient Greeks could gather Parnassus, one of the holy mountains of in Delphi for the Pythian Games, which Greece. The surrounding cliffs were called included not only athletic competition; they the “shining ones” by the ancient Greeks. Rosicrucian Digest No. 2 2008 Map of Greece and Asia Minor Page 2 The partially reconstructed Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia. The oldest goddess figurines were discovered underneath this sanctuary. Photo from the Rosicrucian Archives. Delphi is 110 miles (180 kilometers) and Uranus), goddess of divine order; then northwest of Athens and 6 miles (10 Phoebe, a sun goddess; and finally Apollo, kilometers) north of the Gulf of Corinth. the sun god and god of music, poetry, art, Before the Olympian gods invaded cures, and prophecy, who arrived in the area Greece, an Earth Mother tradition existed some time before the eighth century BCE.4 in Delphi for centuries, possibly millennia. There were many temples dedicated to The word Delphi comes from the Greek Apollo around the ancient Mediterranean word delphus, meaning womb.2 The world, and at least four temples were Omphalos, or navel (symbolized by a carved built for Apollo at Delphi. The ancient stone), was placed at the location the Greeks travel writer Pausanias reported that, “the believed was the exact center of the world. first temple of Apollo was made of laurel (What closer connection have any of us had branches, the second temple of beeswax and to our mothers than through our navel?) feathers, and the third one of bronze.”5 The Terracotta figurines of female deities or priestesses (including some seated on three-legged chairs) dating to 1600 BCE were found in the area, and in the nearby Corycian Cave thousands of “knucklebones” were found. These “bones” are the hooves of sheep and goats that were used to draw lots or to obtain yes/no answers. They date from the even earlier Neolithic period (5000- 3000 BCE).3 There were at least four phases of worship in Delphi. First, there was the The Omphalos at Delphi. worship of the Earth Mother, Gaia (or Photo from the Ge); followed by Themis (daughter of Gaia Rosicrucian Archives. Page 3 there) that was more than fifty feet (fifteen meters) in height. In the pronaos of the temple, leading to the Holy of Holies, were inscribed at least two sayings: “Know Thyself” and “Nothing Too Much” (or “Nothing in Excess”). There may have been other sayings as well. In the southwest corner of the temple was the adyton, the Holy of Holies where the Oracles presented their prophecies. Pausanias described the Oracles’ inner sanctum. Just outside was a waiting room for petitioners. The Sibyl’s Rock. Photo from the Rosicrucian Archives. Inside there was a human-size statue of Apollo made of gold, first temple was probably a hut. The second the Omphalos with gold eagles, the grave and third were sturdier structures later of Dionysus (also important in the Delphic destroyed by a fire and an earthquake. The tradition), the temple hearth (the ever final Temple of Apollo was grand beyond burning flame), laurel, and the Oracle seated all imagination. atop a tripod. The temple complex included the The outdoor Theater of Delphi was “Sacred Way,” a path lined with thousands up the mountain from the temple and the of statues that had been donated to Delphi stadium was beyond that. in gratitude for the advice or protection the The Delphic tradition, which began in Oracles had given wealthy petitioners and the mists of time, ended in 394 CE with city/states. There were also at least a dozen Roman Emperor Theodosius’s edict that treasuries on the path leading up to the prohibited the practice of ancient (pagan) Temple of Apollo. Each treasury would have traditions. In 397 Romans were given been packed full of riches sent in thanks permission to use materials from the old to the Oracles and Apollo. Before entering Greek temples for public works projects, the Sacred Way, guests would bathe in the and by 435 any extant temples were forced nearby Castalian Spring, where the Oracles to close. also prepared themselves separately. Little by little the debris from Mount About halfway up the walkway to Parnassus buried what had once been one of the temple, one can still see the craggy the most important and revered sites in the Sibyl’s Rock (see photo above), the place world. Eventually Delphi was lost and a new where the earliest Oracles presented their town, called Kastri, sprouted up on the site. prophecies. Later the Oracles moved By the sixteenth century no one even knew inside the great temple. Just beyond the where the old sanctuary had been. Then, in Sybil’s Rock was a thirty-foot (ten meter) 1676, two travelers recognized an inscription column that supported the famous Naxian (DELFOI) carved on a stone that by then Rosicrucian Sphinx6 (see photo, page 5). In front of stood in the kitchen of one of Kastri’s Digest 7 No. 2 the temple stood a colossal statue of Apollo residents. The location of old Delphi had 2008 (now missing, although the base is still been rediscovered. Page 4 Still, excavation was slow. The Turks had occupied Greece for centuries, and Greece was at war for much of the next two centuries, struggling to gain its independence. In 1861 the French Archaeological Society began digging around Delphi. In the late 1880s, in a series of fascinating (and somewhat questionable) maneuvers, the French and Americans competed for the prestigious right to officially excavate the The Naxian Sphinx.
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