Max Heindel (EN) Teachings of an Initiate

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confusion with tradesmen and the roar of Chicago about my ears, sometimes almost reaching the limit of
nervous endurance. Still I kept my faculties together and wrote many new points into the R.C-C. Had it not
been for the support of the Brothers I must have gone under. It was their work, however, and they saw me
through. All that I was expected to do was to work to the limit of my endurance and ability and leave the rest
to them, yet I was almost a wreck when the strain was past.
Now, perhaps you will understand my attitude towards the "Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception." I admire and
marvel at its wonderful teaching more than anyone else, and can do so without violating proper modesty for
the book is not mine it belongs to humanity. It does not even seem as if I have written it, I feel so absolutely
impersonal in the matter. My office is only to see that it is properly published, and the copyright is simply to
protect it from being garbled. But as soon as it is possible to find dependable and qualified trustees, the
Rosicrucian Fellowship will be incorporated and all my copyrights turned over to them together with all else
that belongs to me, for it was a part of the agreement with the brothers that all profit accruing from the work
must be put right into it again, a condition to which I willingly assented, for I care naught for money save as
needed to further the work, and neither does Mrs. Heindel. The blessed work is the greatest recompense to us,
more precious than any material reward.
Among all the foolish nonsense which has been published about the Rosicrucian Order there is one great
truth that they aimed to heal the sick. Earlier religious orders have sought to advance spirituality by
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castigating and abusing the body, but the Rosicrucians exhibit the tenderest care for this instrument. There are
two reasons for their healing activities. Like all other earnest followers of Christ they are longingly looking
for "the day of the Lord." They know that abuse of sex prompted by the Lucifer spirits has caused and is
responsible for disease and debility, and that a sound body is indispensable to the expression of a sound mind.
They have therefore aimed to heal the body that it may express a sane mind, and pure love instead of
perverted love, for conception under such conditions hastens the Kingdom of Christ by producing bodies of
finer and finer texture to replace the "flesh and blood (which) cannot inherit the kingdom," because
physiologically unfit.
Christ gave two commands to his messengers: "Preach the gospel" (of the coming Age) and, "Heal the sick."
One is as binding as the other and, for the foregoing reasons, as necessary. To comply with the second
command the Elder Brothers have evolved a system of healing which combines the best points in the various
schools of today with a method of diagnosis and treatment as certain as it is simple, and thus a long step has
been taken to lift the healing art from the sands of experiment to the rock of exact knowledge.
On the night of the 9th of April, 1910, when the new moon was in Aries, my Teacher appeared in my room
and told me that a new decade (cycle) had commenced that night. The night before, my work with the newly
formed Los Angeles Fellowship Center had terminated. I had traveled and lectured six out of seven nights a
week and several afternoons besides. Since my Chicago publishing experience I had been sick and was
withdrawing from public work to recuperate. I knew it was very dangerous to leave the body consciously
when ill, for the ether is then usually attenuated and the silver cord breaks easily. Death under such
conditions would cause the same sufferings as suicide, so the Invisible Helper is always cautioned to stay by
his body when it is suffering. But at my Teacher's request I was ready for the soul flight to the Temple, and a
guard was left to watch the sick body.
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PART II
As we have stated previously in our literature, there are nine degrees of the Lesser Mysteries, of whatever
school, and the Rosicrucian Order is no exception. The first of these corresponds to the Saturn Period, and the
exercises having to do with it are held on Saturn's day at midnight. The second degree corresponds to the Sun
Period, and that particular rite is celebrated every Sunday. The third degree corresponds to the Moon Period
and is held on Monday at midnight; and so one with the remainder of the first seven degrees. Each
corresponds to a Period and is held on the day appropriate thereto. The eighth degree is celebrated at the new
moon and the full, and the ninth degree at the summer and winter solstices.
When a disciple first becomes a lay brother or sister, he or she is introduced to the rite held upon Saturday
nights. The next Initiation entitles him also to attend the midnight services at the Temple on Sunday nights,
and so on. It is to be noted, however, that while all lay brothers and sisters have free access in their spiritual
bodies to the Temple during all DAYS, they are barred from the midnight services of the degrees which they
have not yet taken. Nor is there a visible guard who stands at the door and demands a password of each as he
desires to enter, but a wall is around the Temple, invisible yet impenetrable to those who have not received
the "open sesame." Every night it is differently constituted so that should a pupil by mistake or through
forgetfulness seek to enter the Temple when the exercises are above his status, he would learn that it is
possible to bump one's head against a spiritual wall and that the experience is by no means pleasant.
As already said, the eighth degree meets at the new and full moon, and all who have not attained are debarred
from that midnight service, the writer among them, for this degree is no mere mummery to be obtained by the
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payment of a few paltry coins but requires a measure of spirituality far beyond my present attainment, a stage
to which I may not attain in several lives, though not wanting in effort or aspiration. You will therefore
understand that on the night of the new moon in Aries, 1910, when the Teacher came for me, it was not to
take me into that exalted gathering of the eighth degree, but to another session of a different nature. Besides,
though this session was held in the night as it occurs in California, the time is different in Europe. The
exercises of the new moon had been held in Germany hours before, so that when I arrived at the Temple with
my Teacher the sun was already high in the heavens.
When we entered the Temple some time was devoted to an interview with my Teacher alone, and in it he
outlined the work of the Fellowship as the Brothers would wish to have it carried out. The keynote of it all
was to refrain from organization, if possible, or at least to make organization as loose as we could. It was [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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