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Why I Am a Rosicrucian Why I Am A Rosicrucian BY MA" HEINDEL R osicrucia n i ali orn a . Ocea nsid e, C f P r in ted in U. S . A. T H E R o s i c ru c i a n My s t eries An Elemen ta ry Ex po sition o f Their Sec ret Teachings MA" HEINDEL Au th o f: Th e R c uc i a m c e t i Th e R c u c a or osi r n Cos o Con p on . osi r i n Ph l h i ue ti a n d we Th e R o sic ru i osop y n Q s ons Ans rs . o f h i t a t R a s c ia n In t e rp ret a t ion C r s i ni y . y m h e R e et c f t . ro os Cross , P R ICE 75 CENTS Nep R O SICR UCIAN FELLOWSHIP o c a M unt Ec le s i . O CEANSID E, CAL IF O R NIA. ' h Co pyrlg t. 1 9" By ° All ri ht inc ludxn uw lotio n m ed but erm“ g s. g . p to copy a mmlu e arill be readi ly given “Po. ER CHAPT I . TH E ORDER OF R OSIOR UOIANS AND THE ROSICRUCIAN FELL OW SHIP A NewS tep Mo un t Eccles ia E CHAPT R II . THE P R OBLEM OF LIFE AND ITS SOLUTION 27 Three Theories of Life 34 Ar e Etern l th e We a . ( Poem by Auth or) ER III CHAPT . TH E V ISIBLE AND THE INVISIBLE WORL D 54 The Chemica l R egi on 54 Th e Etheric R egi on 61 The D esi re World 74 Th e Wo rld of Th o ug ht 95 reed o r h ri t o m C C s . ( P e by the Author) H ER IV C APT . TH E CONSTITU TION OF MAN Th e Vita l Body The D es i re Body The Mind E V CHAPT R . LIFE AND DEATH Invis ible H elpers a n d Mediums D ea th The P a nora ma of P a s t Life The F i rs t H ea v en Th e S econd H ea v en The Thi rd H ea v en Bi rth a n d Child - Life Th e M ter Li ht l nd y s y of g , Co or a Cons ci ous nes s Educa tion of Children CHAPTER I . l Elie Gbrhrr nf Enzirmriana AND THE R O SICR UCIAN FELLOW SHIP O UR M ESSAG E AND MISSIO N A Sa ne M i n d A Soft H ea r t A Sou n d Body Before entering upon an explanation of i of th e the teach ngs Rosicrucians , it may be well to say a word abo ut them and about the place they hold in the evolution of humanity. F or reasons to be given later these teach ings advocate the dualistic view ; they hold that man is a spirit enfolding all th e powers of o d th e G as the seed enfolds plant, and that these powers are being Slowly unfolded by a series of existences in a gradually im proving earthy body ; also that this process o f development has been performed under the guidance of exalted beings who are yet ordering our steps , though in a decreasing 5 6 TH E ROSICRUCIAN MYSTERI ES i measure, as we gradually acqu re intellect h h nu and will . These exalted Beings , t oug h s h seen to the p y ical eyes , are nevert eless ff f l potent factors in all a airs o ife , and give to the various groups of humanity lessons whi ch will most efficiently promote the growth of their spiritual powers . In fact, the earth may be likened to a vast training school in whi ch there are pupils of varying age and ability as we find it in one of our th e es own schools . There are savag , living and worshipping under mo st primitive con h dition . s , seeing in stick or stone a God T en, as man progres s es onwards and upwards in the of scale civilization, we find a higher and of d ow higher conception Deity, which has ered here in our Western Wo rld in the bean tiful Christian religion that now fu rnishes our spiritual inspiration and incentive to improve . These various religions have been given to each group of humanity by th e exalted beings whom we know in the Chris tian reli h s won gion as the Recording Angels , w o e d erful previs ion enable them to view th e trend of even so unstable a quantity a s th e h s h n to human mind, and t u t ey are e abled determine what steps are n ecessary to lead TH E ORDER OF R OSIOR UOIANS 7 our enfoldment along the lines congruous to i the h ghest universal good . we study the hi story of the ancient -When nations we shall find that at about six hun dred years B . C. a great spiritual wave had its inception on the Eastern shores of the Pacific Ocean wherethe great Confucian R e ligion accelerated the progress of the Chi nese nation, then also the Religion of the Buddh a commenced to win its millions of adherents in India, and still further West we have the lofty phi lo s ophy of Pythagoras . Each system was suited to the needs of the particular people to whom it was sent . Then came the perio d of the Sceptics , in Greece, th e m r and later, traveling westward sa e spi itual wave is manifes ted as the Christian “ ” religion o f the s o -called Dark Ages when the do gma of a dominant church compelled belief from the whole of Wes tern Europe . It is a law in the universe that a wave of spiritual awakening is always followed by s h a period o f doubting materiali m, eac phase is necessary in order that the spirit f and ma y receive equal development o heart intellect W ithout bein g carried to o far in Th e o either direction . Great Beings af re for s al mentioned, Who care our progre s , 8 TH E ROSICRUCIAN MYSTERIES ways take steps to safeguard humanity an d h o against that danger, w en they f re s aw the wave of materialism whi ch com menced in the sixteenth century with the birth of our modern Science , they took s teps to protect the Wes t as they had for merly safeguarded the Eas t against the Sceptics who were held in check by the My s tery schools . In the thirteenth century there appeared in central Europe a great spiritual teacher whose symbolical name was Christi an Rosenkreuz . or Christian Rose Cross . who founded th e mysterious Order of the o n n m R osy Cr ss , concer i g which so any spec ula tion s have been made and so little has o o become kn own t the w rld at large , for it is the Mys tery school of the West and is only open to those who have attained the stage of spiritual unfoldment necessary to be initiated in its secrets concerning the f Science o Life and Being. If we are so far developed that we are able to leave our dense physical body and take a soul flight into interplanetary space we shall find that the ultimate physical atom TH E ORDER OF ROSICRUCIANS 9 is spherical in Shape like our earth ; it is a ball . When we take a number of balls of n o n even size and group them arou d e, it will take just twelve balls to hide a thirteenth within . Thus the twelve vi sible and the one hidden are numbers revealing a cosmic re la ti onship and as all Mys tery Orders are based upon cosmic lines , they are composed of twelve members gathered around a thir teenth hea d who is the invisible . There are seven colors in the spectrum red n , ora ge, yellow, green , blue , indigo and violet . But between the violet and the red there are still another five colors which are invisible to the physical eye but reveal themselves to the spiritual sight . In every Mystery Order there are al s o s even brothers who at times go out into the world and there perform whatever work may be neces s ary to h advance the people among w om they serve, but five are never seen outside the temple They work with and teach those alone wh o have passed through certain stages of spir itu al unfoldment and are able to visit th e temple in their spiritual bodies a feat taught in the first initiation which usually takes place outs ide the temple a s it is not 1 0 TH E ‘ ROSICRUCIAN MYSTERIES convenient for all to vi s it that place physic ally. Let not the reader imagine that this initi on m th e l o o s ati akes pupi a R s icrucian, it d e n ot a n mo n m s s H h , y re tha ad i ion to a ig h Sc o ol makes a b oy a member of th e faculty .
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