2018 number 2

Wisdom, Light
of the Rose

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tribute to the rose as a universal symbol of unselfish
love which has been the highest ideal of any Rosicru-
cian and the focal point of his contemplation through-
out the ages.
We explore this symbol on the basis of her beauty and
the inspiration she has given the poets through the
ages, eliciting their most beautiful songs.
What is it that allows the rose to exhibit her most deli-
cate beauty, such as the silky texture of her petals, and
to create a glimmer of hope in human hearts? And
why then her thorns that make it difficult to approach
her beauty?
Her perfect symmetry is hidden in the irregularity of
her leaves; she camouflages her essence in her rose
fragrance. Her thorns are equally interesting, and the
cross of her stem also points to timely needs and to
the great privilege of being human.
O magic symbol of the unattainable! Sublime contra-
diction in a single flower! Perfect image of the striving
human!
Only the noble bee which collects her nectar and the
person who dares to press her thorn to his heart are
able to see the world of which she testifies.

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Index World images Tchier de Borée

4 
The hymn of love
Johann Valentin Andreae

6 Eternal rose

14 The other reality of the rose

18 The Aquarian conspiracy revisited

27 Wisdom, the Light of the Rose

28 The rose of reason

36 Rose, o pure contradiction

39 To start all over again

Lecture Month of the Spirituality 2018

46 Everything vibrates

54 When I tried to think, staccato

Inner monologue: Which awareness does
the twenty-first century need?

62 Rumi, Ryokan, Yeats

Three poems

64 Organ donation – the state of affairs

Essay

74 
The mystery around Francis Bacon
Jaap Ruseler
Books

76 What you see is yourself ‘As above, so below’ - The text of the Tabula Smaragdina, attributed
to Hermes Trismegistus, carved into one of the modern ‘menhirs’, the
spiritual calendar of the universe. On the relatively flat surface, seventy
stones - many think of them as menhirs – form twelve triangles and
Column seventy stones on the plateau of Tchier du Borée. The monumental work seven squares: the geometric shapes that together determine the eight
of art on the plateau just above Borée in the Ardèche forms one big proportions of the divine ratios.
World images [3, 13, 45, 61]

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 I Naught is better here on earth
than matchless, noble love,

The hymn of love

whereby all sorrow flees us and
we’re made like God above.
Therefore, let us praise the King,
that all the sea thereof may ring.
Now we shall ask; you answer.
From The Alchemical Wedding of CRC
II What unto Life has brought us?
anno 1616, day V
‘Twas Love.
Johann Valentin Andreae What unto Grace restored us?
‘Twas Love.
What was it gave us birth?
‘Twas Love.
How were we lost on earth?
Without this Love.

III What brings us forth and bears us?

‘Tis Love.
What succours and consoles us?
‘Tis Love.
What do we owe our parents?
‘Tis Love.
What gives them their forbearance?
‘Tis Love.

IV Through what power do we conquer?

Through Love.
How can we Love discover?
Through Love.
On what are good works founded?
On Love.
How are the two united?
Through Love.

V So loudly we’ll sing;

let our praises now ring
in Love’s honour profound,
that Love may abound
in our Lord, the King
and his Consort the Queen,
whose souls have gone hence,
though their bodies are seen.

VI As long as we live,
to us God will give
the power His Love to convey,
and in service aspire,
in the flames of Love’s fire,
Filippino Filippino Lippi, Tobias and the Angel, ca. 1475-1480 the two to conjoin once again.
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
VII Then shall this great sorrow be
Deep joy eternally,
And this holy happiness
many young hearts shall bless.
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The hymn of love 5
 Eternal rose

E
There is no plant or very afternoon Rainer Maria gnostic groups; and since the event on
Rilke, accompanied by a Golgotha, also often in conjunction with
flower that is more con- lady-friend, went for a walk the cross.
nected to the concept in the vicinity of his house, Already with the Manicheans, we find
of love than the rose. which was in Paris at the the curious ‘tree of life’ graves, cruci-
People often express time. In doing so, they passed a beg- form-shaped with a rose in the centre.
gar-woman in the same place each time. Mani spoke of a ‘Cross of Light’, and
their deepest affection The lady accompanying Rilke always put in Ireland there is a monastery called
for someone with roses; a coin in the thin outstretched hand, but Clonmacnoise where, against the wall,
it is the most beloved Rilke never had any money with him. there is a stone pillar with a rose carved
flower in love. In the One day he said, “We should give her in the centre of a cross. Clonmacnoise
heart something, and not just her hand.” was an old Christian centre for spiritual-
hidden Christianity the A few days later he bought a beautiful ity, founded in the year 546 by a certain
heavenly rose stands red rose and put it in the beggar-wom- Ciarán; [See picture]. Further reference
for the Sun-logos or an’s hand. She stood up wordlessly, to the rose is found in the canon of cur-
kissed Rilke’s hand, and left. It was not rent Celtic-Irish music, which draws on
Christ, Jacob Boehme until a week later that she was back at a spiritual past, and in which is found a
speaks in this con- her usual place. Rilke’s companion asked song called ‘Rosa Mystica.’
nection of the Rose of him: “What would she have lived on all
Sharon, Goethe about that time?” After some thought, Rilke Music of the rose
replied, “On the rose.” The rose is also found repeatedly in the
the mysterious roses The ‘queen of flowers’ can indeed have world of music.
that are wound around a special effect on a person. Tradition- The Masonic opera Die Zauberflöte, the text
the trunk of the cross. ally, roses have attracted, fascinated and of which was written by Schikaneder,
inspired humanity: its wonderful form, has been excellently put to music by W.
A walk through world its colour, its delicious fragrance; even A. ​​Mozart. The commentator Tjeu van
literature, looking for the a blind person likes this flower for its den Berk shows in a fascinating way that
‘queen of flowers’. scent. Unconsciously or consciously, she the text of this entire opera is inspired by
is the symbol of what moves us in the the Chymische Hochzeit CRC. (the Alchemical
deepest part of our heart. Wedding of CRC) He says: “When Pa-
The most striking characteristic of the mina meets Tamino, just before the big
rose is its petal arrangement: its petals fire and water test, and they are allowed
spiralling around a common centre. As a to hug each other for the first time, she
symbol of purity, of love, of high spirit- says about the arduous journey ahead of
uality, the rose symbol is found among them:
musicians, poets, visual artists, mystics, ‘Everywhere I will be
in some fairy tales, and above all in many by your side.

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I myself will guide you.
Love leads me!
where you can still find many stone Stecci,
or carved crosses, and crosses with roses. That the world is created for Love,
She may put obstacles on our path,
but, like rose thorns,
Then, in the twelfth century, connections
were established between the Bogomiles the roses and the nightingales bear
they will always be accompanied by ros-
es.
and the Cathar communities, which were
mainly situated in the Pyrenees. There, witness, Hafiz
At the beginning of the last century, Erik too, we find in this powerful landscape
Satie was interested in the phenomenon and on the walls of the caves several
of the Rosycross in his own way. He wondrous crosses and cross forms that
wrote a piano composition in three parts testify to their creation and use in the
under the name: ‘Sonneries de la Rose et past.
Croix’.
A bit later, the composer Gustav Mahler, From Mani’s Light Treasure we quote:
who had an immense admiration for Today we present You our Rose
Mozart, recorded in his second sympho- as a fruit-producing tree,
ny a song called ‘Urlicht’: that she may become an aureole
O roses red! that You may place on our head.
Man is in dire need!
Man is in the greatest agony! Further east, in Persia, India and Pakistan,
[...] in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries,
I am from God and want to return to we meet the famous Persian Sufi poets
God! Hafiz and Rumi.
The good God will give me a little light, Hafiz says: “That the world is created for
will lift me up into the Light, to the Love, the roses and the nightingales bear
eternally blessed Life! witness”, and another Persian poet from
(First and last stanza) that time, Mahmoeb Shabistari called his
poetry collection The Hidden Rose Garden, of
The East which he says:
In the third century of our era, Mani and I picked this bouquet of fragrant flowers
the Manicheans were specifically orien- from that garden
tated towards Gnostic Christianity. They and I have called it ‘The hidden rose garden’.
saw Jesus as both the only-begotten Son In there, the roses bloom from the se-
of God, and at the same time as our true crets of the heart
inner self, the Light-I. Mani called Him that you have not heard before.
the highest Rose of the Father, meaning the The tongues of the lilies all sing within
perfect man. and the eyes of the daffodils behold
After centuries of activity in Eastern and everything, far and near.
North African countries, this Gnostic Look silently at them all, with the eyes of
Christian community disappeared from your heart,
view because of many kinds of opposi- till all your doubts melt away.
tion. However, this movement actually The Indian Sufi master of the beginning
continued as smaller Gnostic communi- of the last century, Hazrat Inayat Khan, who
ties in the movements of the Paulicians during his stay in the Netherlands point-
and the Bogomiles in Asia Minor, Bulgaria ed out the dunes of Katwijk as a suitable
and the neighbouring Slavic countries, place for a Sufi temple, says in poetic
such as current Bosnia Herzegovina language:
Rose Valley, Bulgaria

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The rose offers me Your message of love. In ‘The Universal Gnosis’, J. van Rijcken- of the story, to gain in the the still presence of the centre, Spieghel invited him to become a mem-
Let my heart bloom in Your love as the borgh indicates that Dante can be seen end the Candida Rosa (the natural law will of itself stay close. ber of these Brothers. Other members
Rose. as the struggling microcosm awakened white rose), the highest in- The gold of this Rose of eternal life grad- were playwrights and poets such as Von-
by the call of the Gnosis; in that view, sight, the sight of the divini- ually opens and spreads a scent in which del, Hooft and Bredero.
Italy Virgilius is his dialectical self, the I-self, ty, the visio Dei. Beatrice pulled me upward with her ... This group did not call themselves Rosi-
Dante Alighieri lived from 1265 to 1321. striving for relief, and Beatrice is the new Before this happens, he meets The rose also was a symbol of love for crucians, but what is in a name? – evidence
In the thirteenth century he wrote his soul, the reborn man. Beatrice. Dante travels with the Fedeli d’Amore (The Lieges of Love, or suggests they were. For example, witness
Divina Commedia, in which many gnostic In the storyline of Dante’s poem, the Virgilius on a spiral way The Faithful of Love), a group of trouba- their emblem showing a seven-petalled
elements can be found. Heavenly Rose belongs to the Empyreum, through the Inferno and then dours that was active at the same time in red rose with a thorny cross underneath,
The Commedia contains three stages: the the highest sphere of heaven that en- the Purgatorio, finally arriving Italy. Working from within the church, around which both bees and spiders are
Inferno (hell), the Purgatorio (the puri- closes all nine previous spheres. Dante, at the highest peak of the they tried to keep alive the universal active - the exact same emblem that we
fication mountain) and the Paradiso (the together with Beatrice, traverses these ten purification mountain. There esoteric Christianity in Italy, and at the encounter a bit later with the Englishman
Her Eyes are with Her Thoughts and
kingdom of heaven). spheres or dimensions in the third stage Virgilius stays behind and same time to effect a spiritual reform of Robert Fludd, who openly called himself They are Far Away, Lourens Alma
Dante goes on to meet Bea- church and state. Besides the rose, they Rosicrucian. He may well have taken over Tadema, 1897
trice, with whom he contin- also displayed the cross and the eagle on this emblem from the Brothers Blooming
ues his journey (again spiral- their banner. in Love.
ly) through the nine heavenly They propagated chivalrous ideas (in- In southern Germany, Tobias Hess, with
spheres to the all-enfolding cluding courtly love) to improve society. his kindred spirits such as J. V. Andrea,
Empyreum. On his way there, From the old Arabic Sufi poetry forms, was also aware of the existence of this
he first enters the sphere of they adopted the image of the Beloved, Amsterdam group. He admired their uni-
Mars, where an immense “for the pure light of the One is too versal view of Christianity, and a number
shining cross appears before much to endure.” Ficino and other mem- of typical Rosicrucian elements matched
his eyes. Along the beams of bers of his Academy considered their their thoughts. It is possible that the
the cross, there is a constant poems to be “a supreme declaration of rhetoricians influenced the works of the
coming and going of souls love” in the sense of Plato. As a closed Tübinger Circle, and it pleased them that
and angels. brotherhood, they sought harmony be- their viewpoint was being propagated,
After finally seeing the Heav- tween the human sides of their nature not only literally, but also in the form of
enly Rose (on whose petals and their spiritual and mystical endeav- theatre and allegories. After all, it was a
the transfiguring souls suc- ours, unlike the mendicants, who tried time when all these figures of spiritual
cessively rise to ever greater to suppress the former. Their system of nobility were in contact with each other
delights) he knows from internal degrees in six stages corresponds internationally: they often knew each
that moment on it is of the to the six guides from Dante’s Divina other’s works, and figures such as Joa-
essence to stay in the middle Commedia. chim Morsius visited them and so kept
of the cosmic movement, as In the Low Countries a few centuries the connections alive. For all of them the
in the hub of a wheel, and he later, when Luther and Calvin established symbolism of the rose and the cross was
testifies to this with the fol- their authority, there was a similar group profound, and well known. In this sense,
lowing words: active, also working from within the the conclusion is justified that behind
When the smallest step al- church. That was in the sixteenth century the appearance of esoteric groups or in-
ready spans and this organization, which operated dividuals such as Dante, the Order of the
such a powerful Light, how from the Amsterdam chamber of rhetoric Rosycross was, and remains, an invisible
wide then must spread d’Eglantier (the wild rose), called itself source of inspiration throughout the
the Light to the rose of vast “De Broeders in Liefde Bloeyende” (“The Broth- ages.
infinity? ers Blooming in Love”). This was at the Christ, the Solar Logos, is also denoted
There is no near or far, no time of Dirck (Theodore) Coomhert, and as the Heavenly Rose and the seven-
down or up, after he had received a publication ban teenth-century poet and engraver Jan
because where God maintains from the Haarlem authorities, his friend Luyken, who was inspired by Jacob Boe-

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 World images Tchier de Borée
The desert rose is also a striking symbol: it can remain
closed for years, seemingly lifeless, but once the rain
water comes to her, it blooms beautifully. It is the Rose
of Jericho, and it symbolizes resurrection and eternal life.

hme, called Christ the Rose of Sharon. Above each chair was hung a special shield, Divine world are looking forward to
A few centuries later, Johann Wolfgang von Thirteen in all the number he espied. the flourishing of the human soul.”
Goethe clearly shows that he, too was in- They seemed to be important, purposeful, The beginning of that process
spired by the 17th century Rosicrucians. No boast of ancestors in shallow pride. of blooming is a moment of
Witness his long poem “Those Secrets.” And brother Mark, with longing all aglow, consciousness, as we read in
We quote some striking couplets. Desired to learn what secret they did hide: the ‘Commemorative Volume dedi- Every stone on the plateau of Tchier du Borée is numbered and
sculpted, and each stone conveys its own message. The visitor
In verse 6 and 7, the pilgrim Marcus Lo, in the middle one the mystic sign, cated to Catharose de Petri: “When recognizes the symbols that have been depicted according to
hurries to a fine building that scintillates The cross which clustring roses do entwine. our consciousness experiences this his insight and knowledge of the cosmic, historical and myth-
ological references they contain. When you enter the circular
ahead of him, and where, while he has distress and sighs for liberation, and boundary, you are thrown back and forth between surprise and
to wait at the closed gate, he sees a puz- The Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa was its cry vibrates out into the unknown, admiration.
zling image. also fascinated by the Rosicrucian writ- the Rose receives, as it were, a mag- ‘We want to help people recognize these and similar places that
are so full of history, and at the same time we try to connect
ings, as evidenced by a fragment from netic shock, which causes it to send them with the world of the imaginary - a world as interesting as
Couplet 8 then reads as follows: one of his poems, freely translated from the echo of the soul’s cry of distress to that of the intellect’, according to the artists.
The sign he sees erected here on high Portuguese: the sternum, as a kind of reflex re-
That brings consoling hope to all mankind, action. In this way, the power of the
Which many thousands pledged their lives to shield, ... but if the soul espies an error in itself, Rose effects an opening in the heart
To which in fervour prayed the human mind, which is in essence only shadow, sanctuary….It is on this beginning
That has destroyed the bitter powers of death, she at the other side will see The Word that every child of man needs to
On victors’ banners fluttered in the wind: that is The Light in this world ‘s meadow, build…”
A stream of comfort permeates his being, Both human and anointed, and then overawed: In the progress of this pro-
He sees the cross and bows his head in seeing. The perfect Rose, crucified in God. cess, as Antonin Gadal once
wrote, “The black cross, sign
Couplet 9 In Bulgaria there is a region around the of sin, penance and death,
He feels anew the faith of all on earth, city of Kazanlak, where two river val- will change into the white
The power of salvation streaming thence; leys converge to form the beautiful Rose cross of Light, the radiant
But as he looks, he feels his very soul Valley, the Rozova dolina. The valley has sign of the Resurrection,
Pervaded by a new and unknown sense: been famous for centuries for its rose oil from which the roses of
Who added to the cross the wreath of roses? essence industry with close to fifty per- eternal love descend, living
It is entwined by blooming, clusters dense, cent of all rose oil in the world extracted roses that are fragrant like the
Profusely spreading just as though they could there. Every year festivals are celebrated breath of angels.”
Endow with softness e’en the rigid wood. with roses and rose oil, and the people And another faithful brother
know the symbolic power of this flower of the Rosycross once fin-
In verse 33 and 34, Marcus is led to a of flowers. ished his speech with:
room with a mighty cross-vault rising Peter Deunov, the patriarch of the Bulgarian ‘One will ask: does Love have
high, and along the walls he sees thirteen White Brotherhood once said: “One of the a fragrance? Yes, it is the fra-
seats. most important events in the cosmos is the bursting grance of Roses! “
Then verse 35 reads: of the flower bud of the soul; all higher beings of the

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The Other Reality of the Rose

Fragrance?
Maybe that is where it starts.
It’s possible, why not?
In Rennes, Brittany, France, one
finds the largest rose garden in
Europe, laid out in concentric circle
segments.
It´s an extraordinary rose expe-
rience to spend some time there;
the smells are overwhelming, even
though there are varieties of roses
that have hardly any perfume.
Certainly, sniffing and even smell-
ing the central flower can be a
good start for ‘the rose reality’.
No matter how real it is for the
sense of smell and for the brain,
for many the beginning is like a
dream, often a dream of Venus,
of a symbol of love.
© Sony World Photography Awards ‘Lonely Tree’. Tom Jacobi (Germany) in the category Professional Landscape

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s this the reason why Paul Biegel her beauty, as a result of which he is fined. But that´s another story. hands, shout unintelligible things, pull
introduces the reality of the rose him to the table, push him into a chair,
in his story ´Sleeping Beauty´, So, suddenly life has sprung up into the rose story, through the love of put a plate in front of him, pour a glass
from the collection ‘The Last Gerrit, by the fast beating of his heart, by giving in to the attraction of of wine for him, tie a napkin around his
Stories of the Century’, in a beauty. This is an important stage in exploring the reality of the rose: neck and call: ‘Nam zili, nam gli, nam
dream environment in which the hero, through the desire for her, life arises - and what kind of life it is! volozia pinex!’
sailor Gerrit, has found himself. Via an Because those present in the castle hall now discover Gerrit, they discov- No, Gerrit does not understand this
immense hall with a tiled floor and a er in their own turn the principle that becomes aware of the rose reality! either, but he understands that he is
pyramid-like ceiling, he enters a stone And they almost throw themselves en masse upon him. welcome, even very welcome. They are
corridor, leading on to a room. He steps backwards, tries to flee. But they grab him by the arms, by his apparently looking forward to his pres-
A room full of people. But no one ence.
speaks, no one moves. Is there no life in
that room, with all those people? It is a next step in exploring the rose life for it – in order to learn to understand the words and meaning of the
reality. Undergoing life, love and joy but language of that other reality.
Silencing ... in an unintelligible language!
An important aspect of that first explo- The nobility of the other realm in you is This is perhaps most unrealistic for understanding the other reality:
ration of the reality of the rose is that of well disposed towards you, but does not that one is willing to allow another reality for the heart, or at least the
the static, the absolutely silent situation. speak your language yet. Or you don´t willingness to purify the heart. Only then will the alienating effect of the
Does it remain that way? Does the the speak hers. Yet it is special if you already new heart-environment reveal its incomprehensibility and we will learn
reality of the rose, which is so close, hear the inner voice, experience the the language of love, which is the same as the language of the rose. And
remain so silent, so without life? working of the rose, if you undergo its what seemed to be a crucifixion, then becomes an alchemical feast. The
vibration: the principle of knowing the sailor finally manages to kiss the beauty, after which she says in his own
Life other reality has already been brought language: ‘Are you there? I left you alone, you were sleeping so soundly!´
In the story of Paul Biegel, Venus strikes to life.
once again: Gerrit sees a young woman How is this going to continue? Because Biegel calls the other reality ‘enchantment’. That is what happens to
in the company, indescribably beautiful, undergoing this life and this joy in an Gerrit: ´Instead of breaking the spell with his kiss, he himself had fallen
so beautiful that his sailor’s heart starts unintelligible language surely can´t be under the spell and had become one of them.´ That is why he can under-
to beat faster. But she, too, does not the end of the development. stand her now.
move, does not speak - and the tableau Outside of our time and space, as the story indicates, is the location of
vivant becomes something spooky, Thorn the castle. It can´t be determined geographically and time there is also
because of the deathly silence and the Actually, the ability of the self starts different. But sailor Gerrit lives on in that reality, according to the story.
rigidity in which everyone sits. afterwards; the self-surrender that also ´One day every year he walks with his beloved princess through the
Gerrit slowly walks towards the fem- Oscar Wilde describes in a story. Wilde magnificence of fields and woods [...] and flower beds full of roses - and
inine beauty and wants to put a hand goes so far, that the thorn of the rose one night he sleeps next to his princess in that wonderful castle the loca-
on her shoulder. And then it happens: itself must be pressed into the heart: giv- tion of which nobody knows.’
suddenly the room is full of buzzing ing life to the rose is a crucifixion. One
voices, cheerful laughter and talk. The will, figuratively speaking, be prepared
other reality of the rose suddenly be- to let the thorn open one’s own heart.
comes full of life, through the focus on And in another story by Paul Biegel,
beauty, actually through the infatuation ´The Last Rose´, he expresses it as fol-
of the hero. lows: the dedication to the rose becomes
In the `Alchemical Wedding of Chris- so great that one is willing to give his
tian Rosycross` we see a similar scene,
when the curious researcher from the
seventeenth century, Christian Rosycross, Expectations,
beholds the naked figure of Venus in all Lourens Alma Tadema, 1885

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The Aquarius conspiracy
revisited. A repositioning.
The well-known Dutch novelist Hella S. Haasse begins her mod-
ern work’ De Meester van de Neerdaling (The Master of the
Descent) (1973) with the following introduction:
‘Satan is not just called the ruler of this world – in fact, that’s exact-
ly what he is. He rules this world. We will not conquer an enemy
if we try to look beyond its danger.’
The first part of the novel is called ‘De duvel en zijn moer’ (The
devil and his mother) and is characterised by an exciting game of
truth and imagination. It becomes especially impassioned when it
is revealed how an existing hierarchical order abuses the energy
of young boys for self-serving so called ‘spiritual’ goals. It is for the
reader to judge whether these goals are indeed truly spiritual.

S
ince the release of Marylin more likely to turn into their opposites
Ferguson’s famous book The in this dialectical world. Ferguson’s aim
Aquarius Conspiracy almost to make a contribution to ‘personal and
forty years ago, the basic societal transformation in the eight-
values of the astrological era ies’ failed during that decade, a decade
of Aquarius have been diluted under the which was critical to social transfor-
influence of an aggressive economic cul- mation potential. On the contrary, the
ture. Nothing much has been realised of eighties saw the beginning of a strength-
the flower power impulse of the sixties ened and deepened free market economy
and seventies, for this impulse could not following a neo-liberal discipline (Rea-
be commercialised. gan-Thatcher) that does not show the
On the contrary, values such as these are least Aquarian element. Thereby, socially, © Perlaki Martón

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“the dawning of the Age of Aquarius” approach the world and other human Media and manipulation sometimes a prohibition on conspiracy
was darkened and eventually evaporated. beings from a perspective of empathy The idea that companies, religious thinking cannot hide the facts. What
At the same time, the subject of con- and a willingness to help, but from organisations, security services, national- happens then?
spiracies and their likelihood has had a perspective of fear and caution that istic institutes and power conglomerates Hella S. Haasse, the great Dutch novelist,
the same fate as the idealistic Aquarius cannot serve the vision of all-embracing are innocent until a possible negative has shown what could happen in her
values, especially from a cultural-so- Love in any possible way. role played by them is proven, gives no book ‘De Meester van de Neerdaling’
cial-philosophical perspective. It is fair opportunity to unmask coherent (The Master of the Descent): the facts
socially unacceptable to ‘believe’ in Common sense networks or potential complots, because shared by the person who unmasks the
conspiracies. It is seen as a sign of im- These are all factors that have had an of the manipulative involvement of the truth are not only denied, but the person
maturity to see reality from the per- immunizing effect on ‘reality’ and on media against this sort of argument. is also ridiculed and finally even declared
spective of a conspiracy, even though social-economical processes and ac- Examples are the crash of airplane Flight insane with the help of the Church. And
the evidence may be found all around tualities during the last few decades: MH17, the tobacco-lobby, Trumpism, this is not only fiction, but it is a classi-
us. This is because the foundation of it social reality has been made immune to weapon trade, the pharmaceutical indus- cal phenomenon that repeats itself time
is seen as a craving for a simplistic and conspiracy theories, which have always try and organ trade. And those are only and time again. It is a form of power
straightforward explanatory model of been refuted by the media, by prevalent ‘material’ examples. politics based on despair.
reality, which stems from fear. It con- social-economic theories and ‘sophisti- It might look like the publication of
sists of a black and white thinking about cated’ forums. hundreds of millions of emails (e.g. the Eliminate
forces and powers that are experienced ‘I do not really believe in conspiracy Panama-papers or Wikileaks) can reveal It is an almost universal pattern: ignore,
in reality. This sort of thinking is often theories’ is a widely heard and socially links of fraudulent practices and conspir- impeach, ridicule. It is shown today
seen as immature. ‘If it were that sim- acceptable statement. With the conno- acy tendencies, but the counter-meas- through open opposition through the
ple…’ is what people respond. Moreo- tation of: ‘You are naive and do not use ures carried out by states, companies media, the use of fake news, and even
ver, our knowledge about the complexity your common sense if you do believe and institutions, supported by powerful the elimination of the whistle blower.
of global processes makes us question in them’. This apparently healthy ra- politicians, is not to be taken lightly. Ghandi describes this process. And it
simple theories that are discrediting or tionalization resembles the methods of Conspiracy theories that discuss invisible will not be a surprise that the Cathars
offending certain population groups, the fighters of quackery, with its scepti- or non-material powers (for example as well as the Manichaeans met with
classes or income categories. Another cism about all that cannot be proven in the angels in the air mentioned by Paul such a fatal, physical ending. In the
important reason is that the ultimate fuel accordance with the strict rules of a sci- in the Bible) have no plausibility in the Hermetic texts this process is described
for conspiracy theories, the dichotomy entific-philosophical system – a system face of the materialist paradigm, which in the following way: ‘That is why they
of the cold war, has dried up since the that does not have the a priori sole right dismisses anything that cannot be seen who possess the Gnosis are not popular
end of that war around 1989. to the truth anymore. Ridiculing and with the physical senses. Hence, within with the masses, and vice versa. Mass
denying the existence of conspiracies – that paradigm, these theories are seen as opinion would have the possessors of
Interpretation including the denigration of all thoughts totally speculative. the Gnosis stigmatized as crazy, and
An important reason to ignore conspira- in that direction – can lead to a closed- Sometimes it is possible to justify these laughed at. They are hated and despised,
cy theories stems from the mathematical mind that increasingly limits someone’s assumptions in the material world. And and perhaps even killed. The fact is, evil
field of science, which rejects proof by ability to perceive (an other) reality.
contradiction: you could try to fit signs Because the past ages have made this
and situations from reality into your much clear to us: conspiracies have
own theoretical model, but this can
very easily lead to self-deception. Proof
always existed. In a time of globalisation,
the free-market, free trade agreements
Especially in this era, the evidence for con-
by contradiction goes against ‘common
sense’, especially when it comes to con-
et cetera, you definitely cannot exclude
conspiracy theories when considering
spiracy theories abounds, for example, about
spiracy theories about the unseen pow-
ers, which are theories that talk about
the principle of freedom for all and hu-
man rights. On the contrary, especially
multinationals or cartel arrangements
forces from the non-material world as a in this era, the evidence for conspiracy
single strong cause for ‘dystopia’. theories abounds, for example, about
Besides, this way of thinking does not multinationals or cartel arrangements.

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 necessarily needs to dwell here on earth, beings, in the Gnostic teachings in the gospel of the Pistis Sophia, which
because this is evil’s domain. The adver- is confirmed by Hermetic writings. And it is of huge importance that we
sary’s domain is the earth, not the cos- look at these aeonic and archonic powers objectively and from the per-
mos, as some will blasphemously argue’ spective of our own time: how do they manifest themselves right now?
(Corpus Hermeticum IX). J. van Rijckenborgh, in the book Unmasking, has set himself the task of
If anything is an unmasking force, it is revealing the nature of these ‘powers and principalities in high places’,
the light of the Gnosis. This means that as the Bible calls then, using terms and words that might now be slightly
the light of the Gnosis is inseparably dated, but which may nonetheless be seen in the spirit of the Gnostic
bound to the appearance of those not- heritage: the deluded and self-willed powers in the air will not hesitate
light forces which collaborate together to use all visible and invisible devices, all technological, psychological
If anything is an unmasking force, against the eternal forces of fullness. It
also means the final impossibility of the
and mental tools, to guarantee their self-maintenance by feeding on
human energy.
it is the Light of the Gnosis complot to ‘win’.
What, then, does this era do with the
Also, Rudolf Steiner set forth a prophecy about ruling spirits in the
non-material realm: he said that in this era the materialistic Ahrimanic
‘signs’ and ‘evidence’ that clearly points powers will siphon off than 90% of the energies, but they will nev-
to a complot, in a world where it be- er manage 100%: it is impossible for them to gain the last percentile,
comes more and more clear that there because of the necessary balance that must always be struck with its
are organized power complexes that dialectic opposite, the diffuse Luciferic powers. Because of this necessary
steer and control our ways? balance the Christ-impulse can manifest itself atmospherically, as a third
On many levels there are unmaskers, influence. Steiner also describes the emergence of the disruptive and
revealers and whistle-blowers who ex- strongly explosive Asuric powers that can influence every microcosm in
pose those organised structures based on a negatively plutonic way by insinuating themselves into the Ego con-
money, power, suppression, addictions sciousness soul, and siphoning off its energy.
and politics. Moreover, there are satanic The role that prophecies play in the era we live in is of course impor-
powers that will use all the tools avail- tant, because prophecies are mental images given before time, mostly in
able to try to disguise or even disarm order to warn humanity to prepare for a threatening future (dystopia),
such revelations of the truth. After all, or sometimes to reassure them of an ideal future (utopia). With the
this world is the domain of evil, Hermes unmasking of all mental images as projections from a certain time, the
teaches us. In fact – suggests Hella S. value of prophecy seems to be diminishing in this current period; a pe-
Haasse – Satan is the Master of this riod in which is needed, not speculative imaginings, but concrete, usable
world. To make this clear on a psycho- strategies and tools. Jürgen Habermas maintains that a highly conscious
logical-physical level, to name the real energy in the microcosm, a need for action, is central.
powers beyond it, and to describe pro-
cesses that maintain or even expand the Intuitio Dei
satanic sphere of influence, is not easy. The production of images concerning a future, no matter which one,
Besides, why would you do that, why seems to be unreliable speculation according to Krishnamurti, because
would you want that, since it is widely our thinking is not based on the values of the eternal: looking at the light
accepted that paying attention to these of eternity as Spinoza proposes is not possible for us in a rational sense,
powers means feeding them, strength- with our common-sense pragmatism, that, in addition to all its other
ening them and thus making liberation limitations, keeps looking for hidden profit.
from them more difficult. Our Intuitio Dei, our pure and impersonal intuition, as a basis for that
elevated way of looking at the light of eternity, has disappeared, or has
View soberly even never existed. Some English philosophers and also the Dutch scien-
Still, we find a very important analysis tist Vincent Icke already look to delete the 5th chapter of Spinoza’s Ethics.
of the ‘impure’ spirits, the degenerated Icke does not take Spinoza’s concept of eternity seriously, but finds it to
entities that live off the energy of human be a scientific misstep.
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But does this also immediately mean an material and non-material reality. In the- market was everywhere, thus also in the who do not want to acknowledge the
unmasking of all conspiracy theories? ory, the world would have to conform temple. And now, during this last centu- necessity for a raising up of Aquarian
Many conspiracy theories are dependent itself to that as well. But here is a puzzle, ry, this regulatory system has become a values, in the face of incriminating and
on mental imaginations, whether they for Lao Tzu’s message about the endless ruling system that ignores human values. sometimes offending unmaskings!?
are plausible or not, which are – as we wilderness stems from the same era as The world has become a wilderness, It is not a necessity to focus on Satan,
have already seen – easily made ridicu- the Greek period! and, once again according to Krishna- the adversary; rather, we can be mindful
lous and put aside by rulers, institutions, Also, the analysis of the Gnostic and murti, in the middle of this wilderness of its presence, while we focus on our
social media and so on. Can we then not Hermetic material regarding the rule of we find a madhouse. In this paradigm of Gnostic magic and self-surrender to the
find these structures of power forces, Archons and Aeons in the spiritual world insanity, freedom in any form can only workings of the light. Thus, we look
manipulation techniques, hierarchies, stems from only a little bit later. Here show its creative powers within a model beyond the head of Medusa, whose gaze
social constructions and other dialec- Gnosis and Pleroma stand in the vertical of revenue raising. would turn us to stone. We know that
tical processes in the space-time of the plane to these horizontal powers, and But has modern humanity, with its Satan rules the world, but he does not
human life-wave? Are there not actual pierce straight through their vibrational neo-conservative agendas imposed on persuade us because we have made our-
conspiracies that are not foretold by pre- appearances. Gnosis obviously does not the world around us, made a structure selves immune to his temptations.
dictions and prophecies that attempt to take part in the hierarchical system of that can be found in the interconnected
shine some light on our sublunary sys- the Archons. parts of the madhouse? Is there still logic No consolation, but insight
tem? Or is reality in all its complexity by to be found that rules over the Saturnian, But is that really so? Have we really cel-
its nature indefinable, like the Apeiron of Anchor Archonic forces? And if this is the case, if ebrated that victory so easily? The Greek
the Greeks? Is chaos totally unfettered, During the Old Testament era, the this coherence can be defined in a power world-view does not give us comfort,
and, if so, is it hindering any order or parallel pre-Christian period needed an play that includes spiritual cartels, lists only insight. According to Marjoleine de
structure whatsoever? Is that the mean- anchor in time: Chronos, the hierar- of agreements, and codes of conduct, Vos ‘this insight reveals that a human life
ing of Lao Tzu’s saying ‘The world is a chical power of God, was ideal for that. could this be called a conspiracy!? No might be miserable, but that nothing is
wilderness without an ending?’ Is that He would establish top-down patterns prophecy, no complot theory, but a true more delightful than to see the light of
the revelation of Aquarius, and is that all like a true Saturn, and would ‘regulate’ conspiracy? And could we name these the sun. To live! ……. and to help others
we will get? If it is said that ‘all that is proportions in time. Plato had decid- conspirators in the visible, as well as in to live’.
not built on Light will be swept away’, ed upon that ideal in the same way: the invisible realms? So how do we approach the subject of
does that mean that structures, patterns Chronos brought order in the Cosmos If all of this could be possible, who evil? Or is a human life not miserable
and orders can only be temporary? for everyone. Chaos would be limited would be helped by it? Which path of when there is resigned acceptance of this
Yet Greek mythology shows that it is not and freedom would be tamed in such a progression would be supported? Which worldly fate? Marjoleine de Vos agrees
so much chaos that rules space-time, way that it would be manageable. Artistic way to empathy and impersonal love that there should be consolation, because
but, on the contrary, it is structure and creativity was not a primary concern would benefit from it? And – in the long there is so much incredible injustice in
order that rule the cosmos. It is not for Plato. In addition, money could be term – which self-realisation would this world that people want to believe in
Uranus that rules, but Saturn/Chronos, regulated through systems and laws, become possible? Which victory, in the a better life, if not here, then in an after-
who gives structure and stability to the and traders could enter the temple. The spiritual sense of the word, would offer life. The repression and its compensation
humanity a perspective of an eternal that we see here, could be called the Spi-
light-filled realisation, * a permanent noza-criterion; the afterlife as a consola-
clearing of the consciousness? Which tion, as a reward that you kept up with
If it is said that ‘all that is not built on Light will path would lead to a harmonious tran-
scendence of space-time, or a positive
the game while in the earthly world. But
an ‘eternal now’ which is postponed in
be swept away’, does that mean that structures, dematerialisation (which is the same),
in a Now-experience that does not harm
time is of course not a ‘now’, just like
a prophecy cannot bridge the reality in
patterns and orders can only be temporary? the creation and all that was created?
It is understandable that there are many
time. Yet the Christian revelation talks
about a victory in the world, in and be-
who think such a Gnostic analysis is not yond time, in all bodies.
an inevitable necessity, but rather, is only Hella S. Haasse says about the Satanical:
speculation. Are these not the same ones ‘You will not conquer an enemy if you

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try to ignore his danger’. Humanity and Aquarian being can conquer his ene-
free creativity are obstructed when that my, namely by becoming an initiate of
danger shows itself as Saturnian ex- Uranus. This means that the first and
ploitation by those who have cast them- 2nd Sevenfold Circles, referred to in that
selves as authorities – social, financial, book, have to be walked through and
and economic hierarchies, top-down lived through. ‘An initiate of Uranus
pyramidal psychological hierarchies that possesses all the mystical creative powers
seek the enslavement and repression of of eternity that have to be exercised in
youthful subjects, and compulsive profit time, till they reach a resurrection or a
maximization with its impact uncaring- fall’.
ly passed on to a brainwashed public… These mystical creative powers more
and, as was recently discovered, this even than match all Archonic powers in their
involves universities: is this the begin- electric and magnetic ways of work-
ning of Big Macuniversity!? ing, and thus lead to the fulfilment of a
Thus, the transformation to an Aquarian powerful, impersonal Love reality. Those
soul becomes problematic. Possibly the Saturnine and hierarchical structures
most evil of these social contrivances which we have discussed exist in a fallen
is the use of the energy of youth for temporality, and this will also be lifted
the maintenance of the hierarchies in in its entirety.
the visible and the invisible worlds. A Does this Aquarian human being not
true Archon economy is at work here. need any structure at all then? A lot of
The root word of both ‘hierarchy’ and freedom and liberation can stem from
‘archon’ is the same ancient Greek ‘arch’ the need to use the chaotic space to
for a good reason. ‘Arch’ is a very old escape force and slavery. The Chronos
word which means ‘original’ or ‘primal’, reality allows for this, with its discern-
and it refers, in part, to the original ible nature of limitation and predicta-
negative interference with the world and ble structures and dynamics, it can be
humanity by Saturnian forces. worked according to its own laws.

Wisdom, the Light of the Rose

By going through the first two Sev-
Gnostic texts say that Archons try to en-Circles, a soul-configuration can
possess the human spirit and manipu- develop that guarantees a clear and
late its perceptions. They also show how dynamic structure, and safeguards the
Archons stay hidden in another frequen- Uranian initiate from the old Archonic

F
cy range, and from there can manipulate patterns. Then these patterns do not have
appearances and influence values. ‘You any grip on the liberated soul that now, or all who seek the Light of cates itself to those who understand. It is this touch-of-Light that awakens
will not conquer an enemy if you try to through his or her self-realized efficacy the liberating truth, it is of the deep desire in man.
look beyond his danger’. and orientation, is itself conducting the the utmost importance to One of the first features of this illumination is a change of consciousness.
maintenance of the form, of the liberat- reflect thoroughly on the As soon as these new possibilities of our consciousness are activated, the
Uranus initiation ed structure, spontaneously. Gnosis. rational thinking will recede to the background, and wisdom is born.
That is exactly the reason why J. van An Aquarian conspiracy as personal The Light that reappeared with the won- This wisdom is born in the heart, from the rose of heart, from Bethlehem.
Rijckenborgh has warned and even transformation has then become man- derful birth of Jesus. It comes to maturity where true Reason is given access to the head; and
prophesised that many an aspirant of the ifest through the impersonal reality of The Light that has touched us all. she is sent out - not unlike love - with our whole being as a radiation of
Way will fall for the illusions and manip- Love. The Light that leads and guides us on our high frequency.
ulations of the Archons. May this not path of life. And a human being may thus experience it.
come to pass! In his book ’Dei Gloria * see J. van Rijckenborgh, The Christian Mystery of Initiation The Light that so generously communi- So, focus your heart on this Light and know it!
Intacta’, he shows how the potential of the Holy Rosycross for the New Era Dei Gloria Intacta.
Image: Peder Severin Kroyer, Roses, or
the artist’s wife in the garden at Skagen.

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The rose of reason

Also in our time, there

is a great need for an
insight that can recon-
cile us with reality.
The philosopher Hegel
called reality ‘dialectical
and paradoxical’ and
also for himself he be-
lieved that such a rec-
onciliation with reality
should take place, other-
wise, he said, we would
have nothing left but
an unquenchable thirst
for God. How Reason
corresponds to the rose
of roses, placed on the
cross of this present is
indicated in the follow-
ing.
The roses of Heliogabalus by Lourens Alma Tadema (1888). The Roman emperor Elagabalus is depicted trying
to smother his unsuspecting guests under an avalanche of rose petals

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‘To understand Reason as a rose on the cross of the present and thus to rejoice in thing you do not understand.’ awareness:
her, that reasonable understanding is the atonement with reality, which provides Essential to the peace of mind in the In his writing The Expulsion of the Triumphant
philosophy to those who have the inner urge to understand ...’ Hegel awareness of the dialectical imperma- Beast, Bruno clothed the journey of man
nence is that our soul is not struck off from his earthly existence to his true
balance, that the soul is not affected by destination in the following beautiful

W
an identity crisis and we as alienated image. He compared man with a swan
hen Georg Wilhelm
Friedrich Hegel
that exaggeration of externality, the
so-called dialectical world that can be
beings, as messed up and panic-stricken
chaotics, can ultimately only be balanced
which deeply feels grief and repentance
because of her imprisonment in the dia-
A cross with roses
wrote this a little brought to a high degree of perfection by tranquillizers. lectical earthly existence. is man’s final destiny.
over two hundred with technological innovation, does not What is needed is an adult soul which ‘This sorrow is the stimulus of repentance and It is a life of riches, it
years ago, he as- give us peace of mind, because every restfully carries the insights inside and repentance may be called a virtue. The repentance
sumed that Reason and the rose could be anchorage to it nails us on the wheel of does not lean on others for support. is like a swan. She does not dare to exalt herself, is God’s gift to thee.
equated, because of certain derivations temporality and thus on the wheel of The problem of the transience of literal- because the consciousness of humiliation holds her Not roses separate-
in Greek.
Especially since Hegel, reality is dialec-
death. ly everything is not new. Spiritually great
people from the Middle Ages such as J.
on the ground. That is why she turns away from
the earth and seeks the water. The water is the tear,
ly and not a cross
tical - consisting of opposites - thus: Urge to understand van Ruusbroec and Thomas á Kempis shed from remorse. And in that water the swan alone,
every thesis evokes an antithesis and
thus forms a new synthesis. This new
Therefore, we are troubled by the exag-
gerated appearance, because of a mem-
have indicated beautiful mystical bona
fide directions from a deep religious
tries to cleanse herself to become the pristine white
innocence.
But both in Love
synthesis then evokes an antithesis, after ory of a real perfection in which that conviction, to be able to live in this The swan or the soul turns in to herself. She re- united the two-in-one
which a new unity is formed. For He- dialectic, in which that movement of the transient world through a mystical con- members her lofty heritage and starts, at first are shown *
gel, reality in time moved according to opposites, was in absolute rest or in a sciousness. hesitantly, to abandon all the bad things. Again, her
a spiral of ever newer insights in which higher elevation, for a moment existed Ruusbroec even suspected the outcome plumage grows, she rises, is warmed by the sun and
these dynamic forces do not stop. There without friction. of a spiritual process, as witnessed by ignites in love to the divine. Thus, she becomes ethe-
is therefore no static unity of opposites And a strong inner urge for understand- his wonderful work The Spiritual Marriage, real and changes into her own original being. Even
possible. ing arises. That inner urge to understand a prelude to the later Alchemical Wedding of though error and sin were the cause of repentance,
According to the modern Rosycross, reality and that worry, that lack of peace Christian Rosycross. now I call the soul the purple rose, growing between
‘dialectic’ means that it cannot claim of mind, was, and still is, the classic But since the Renaissance, there has pointy thorns. I call her a spark of light that, beat-
sustainability, but ultimately moves in starting points for the blooming of the clearly been a plea for a soul base that en from hard gravel, rises to the sun with which she
the direction of its opposite. rose, for revealing the true man, for the is not merely mystical. The inner urge is closely related.’
The world of phenomena - and for human being who lives from Reason. to understand became ever greater and Thus Giordano Bruno.
many that is the reality - is not perma- people began to experience the limita-
nent, is not sustainable. Some say, there- ‘To understand Reason as a rose on the cross of the tion of one-sided mystical insights. Inward and outward understanding
fore, that it is a false world in which we present and thus to rejoice in her.’ In those days, too, much had to be The classical Rosicrucians chose - in
exist, a world that constantly seems to fought on - among other things - the order to meet the need to come to inward
be something, which later on can no Was there peace of mind at the time of calcified views of an encapsulated con- understanding - to proclaim undenia-
longer be found. the Greeks or in the old China or in In- sciousness; the new knowledge and the ble principles and to demonstrate the
The background for that thought is dia, you might wonder? new self-consciousness were extremely spiritual treasures in their Manifestos in
already age-old. In India people knew Of course, people in ancient times dealt dangerous and it was better not to pro- such a way that they were (and stayed)
the concept of Maya and the Greek Her- with it in a proverbial classic way and claim too openly that you were strug- hidden for the eyes of the profane, that
aclitus, by whom Hegel was inspired, preached renunciation and the Wu Wei, gling with the inner urge to understand. is, the human beings with an exclusively
rendered us the famous ‘Pantha Rei’, letting go, but seen from Western stand- Galileo and Giordano Bruno are striking outward urge to understand.
everything flows. Even better is the idea ards, it is often an inscrutable inspira- examples of the dramatic consequences.
of transience and appearance represent- tion. The life practice of Pythagoras, laid ‘To understand Reason as a rose on the cross of the * De Genestet, in: S. Griffioen, De Roos en
het Kruis; De waardering van de eindigheid
ed by the strong image, also of Heracli- down in the Golden Verses, comes clos- The purple rose of Bruno present and thus to rejoice in her.’ in het latere denken van Hegel (The Rose
tus, that one cannot wade through the est to our Western mentality. Yet with Bruno, we see the rose in and the Cross. The acknowledgment of the
same river twice. But that appearance, For example, his rule: ‘Never do any- connection with an awakened mystical After René Descartes had been able to infinite in the later thinking of Hegel)

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bring the starting point back to that nothing either good nor bad, [...] I of Reason, strives to help others and to In the analysis given by J. van Rijcken-
Reason, Spinoza managed to give such finally decided to investigate whether connect with them in friendship.’ borgh of one of the Hermetic writings,
a royal interpretation as a solution to there was anything that was really good, And from the perspective of the divine the sequence in which Spinoza indicat-
modern human problems, that justice something that one could partake of and nature the soul then rejoices in the ed the true way of knowledge, literally,
was done to all bona fide spiritual in- by which the soul could be fulfilled by wisdom, the love and the power of the comes to light:
sights: the mystical, the classical, the rejecting all else.’ revelation of the perfect good that is in ‘When thoughts are awakened in us that
moral, the reasonable and the religious. On the basis of that insight of insig- Reason. are born of God, then we can listen to
Together they form an open gate for nificance and vanity of ordinary life, The divine nature reveals itself because the voice of the soul or, mystically spo-
strengthening and renewing the soul the soul seeks and desires fulfillment the soul enters into its Love, guided ken, to the voice of God.’
that is indispensable for the develop- through the true good and finds it in by Reason. God is everything, the only, So, there is a phase in the dialectical
ment towards a truly God-human state Reason. true, unlimited and necessary substance; consciousness in which a new way of
of being. The call comes down to this: By living according to the insights of an existence that cannot be conceived or thinking can be fed by the forces of uni-
Reason, the soul grows to a criterion, to denied in any way, because this would ty of the original nature.
Build your essence and knowledge development in the highest form of knowledge: the Love make the thinker and his thought him- Spinoza, as one of the few Western
God and overcome your disorders by understanding for God, the divine intuition. In that love self something inconceivable. The fact thinkers, consciously recognized and
how everything works in nature. for God, the rose of knowledge flourish- that God is unique and everything, experienced this criterion.
es amid the thorns in ordinary life. immediately removes any customary The new thinking now does not just
This is possible because the divine na- The name Spinoza refers to the thorns divinity that resides on the projection of endure good and evil in nature, but also
ture can connect with man through of that rose. You could say that Spinoza’s human qualities in a superhuman crea- necessity and beauty, at least as long as
thinking, because logic is not in conflict motto ‘Caute’ - be careful - encourages tor, a director. she, the new Reason, breathes in the
with it; the divine nature works through you to take into account the reality of Reason makes it logically possible to divine or fundamental nature.
the logic. those thorns. spread the fragrance of divine thoughts.
This interpretation of Spinoza can be When the rose of love for God blossoms,
understood from a seventeenth-century the soul is strong enough to cope with
perspective, but also in the twenty-first alienation, identity loss, but also irra-
century it is more current than ever, pre-
cisely because the logic (that is not root-
tionalism. After all, pure Reason irradi-
ates the soul that rejoices in it. Reason makes it logically possible to
ed in the divine nature) is locked up and
bites itself, as it were, in the tail.
Jan van Rijckenborgh states in his com-
mentary on the Nuctemeron of Apollonius of spread the fragrance of divine thoughts
In their famous work The Dialectic of the Tyana that in that soul quality one can
Enlightenment, the sociologists Adorno and talk of a ‘marriage’ of the dialectical
Horkheimer even speak in this connec- counterparts: ‘Good and evil, light and
tion about the destruction of Reason! dark, love and hatred, these opposites,
How, then, does the path of knowledge when they are experienced, are carried
begin that makes the connection with by the soul in balance. In this way the
the divine intuition possible? soul, but only the soul, exceeds the dia-
lectical world.
Spinoza’s rose is the core of Reason Spinoza did not see the soul as a cold
In Spinoza’s famous salutation of the and impersonal objective force, but as
Ethica, we find a beautiful example in a clear empathic and reasonable being,
which the clear sense of the relation- radiating a noble generosity in this
In order to be able to display
ships in the world resounds: world. In his remark on proposition 59 the rose petals as accurately
‘After the experience had taught me of part 3 of the Ethica, he wrote about as possible, Alma Tadema had
that everything that happens in ordi- this kind of generosity: ‘By generosity, ordered rose petals to be sent
from the French Riviera to
nary life is vain and void and I saw that however, I mean that desire by virtue of London for four months for
everything which I feared contained which everyone, only on prescription this painting.

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To understand Reason as a rose on the cross of the present and thus to rejoice in her … heart, the reasonable-moral conscious- afterlife, but the emphasis on the current moment of spiritual labour, the
For many people, Spinoza’s statement ‘The human being that is touched ness, to the immediate truthfulness here-and-now. The points of reference in the perfect centre are joy and
by the Reason in his Centre, will never experience anything other than in the human being itself, that is true freedom, in unity with the original nature.
feelings of joy and intense desire’. This is a rational mystical handhold intuition. It is a continuity of a life with
that can be tested at any moment, especially if we place proposition 63 Christ, it is about the rose on the cross To understand Reason as a rose on the cross of the present and thus to rejoice in her.
of part 4 behind it: ‘Whoever is led by fear and thus does good for fear of the present.
of evil, is not guided by Reason’. Spinoza remarked in On the Improvement Joy and desire
Spinoza clarified this last proposition in part 5, in which he stated that of the Understanding that the concepts of Contrary to what Hegel thought, it is not philosophy, not the endless
the confessors and those who believe in an afterlife as a reward for piety good and evil are used only in a relative contemplation of the dialectic that provides understanding and joy, but
are not guided by Reason. sense. One might say that the tree of the the new soul, the renewed mind that lives according to the Ethica, in the
knowledge of good and evil brings us desire to be filled with the absolutely Good. That thirst can indeed be
Eternity insight but not automatically a life of a quenched from a reasonable-moral, the thinking-feeling consciousness.
It is all about understanding Reason as a rose on the cross of the present. divine nature. The ‘moral’
This is a true Gnostic doctrine from the Hermetic scriptures that glori- Spinoza longed to fill the soul with the part of the equation being the thinking-with-the-heart.
ously sounded forth in the seventeenth century. highest good. His Ethica can therefore be In the peace of this mind the power of Reason appears and only there is
Eternity can only be endured in the present now through the perfect Rea- regarded as a hermetic manual for the Freedom.
son, through the Reason that is in the Centre. growing soul on the way to eternal di-
Spinoza also indicated that eternity has no connection with time, for vine knowledge, wisdom and love. In the Alchemical Wedding of Christian Rosycross, more specifically in the eso-
instance when he stated that the spirit cannot be determined by time or It is this very Spinozistic colour that in teric analysis of it, the development of consciousness and the changes
by duration. Yet he also said at the same time that the human spirit pos- the twentieth century has moved the that take place by the action of the spirit in the head are described, so
sesses adequate knowledge of the eternal and infinite being of God. modern Rosycross to synthesize the that the understanding, the Reason, ultimately changes our entire being
Therein lies the possibility of approaching that Eternity, for Spinoza sees esoteric and exoteric in the current time and even affects our I-state.
our personality as a temporary transitory mode of existence, which de- of man; what is needed is a new soul as With the result: ‘only feelings of joy and desire’. The Light of God then
pends on our bodily impressions and is destroyed with the body. well as a new mind. reveals Itself from the mystery, where spirit and soul have been able to
Moreover, Proposition 23 teaches us that the human mind is not simul- The esoteric deepening has a double unite, in:
taneously extinguished with the body but that that which remains is meaning: firstly, to realize that knowl- a demonstrably liberating action oriented life, a complete helpfulness; a
eternal. edge apart from wisdom and love is new soul state, and thirdly: the outcome of this body and soul: develop-
That means that every thinking in rewards, every representation in space misleading and secondly that Gnosis, ment: the new Reason, the new thinking, which is the god-human state,
and time that carries away from this here-and-now, lacks the immediacy that is the true knowledge connected the Golden Wedding garment. That is true Enlightenment. Then the rose
that Reason has in eternity in God, in the time-free space of true Being. with Reason, needs an instrument, a bed on the cross is fully part of the present.
We hear in Spinoza’s rejection of the idea of heaven as a reward for a wherein it can flow, to be able to express
good bourgeois existence and his plea for eternity in the now of the hu- love to God and to realize thought.
man mind also more or less the echo of the Gnostic Valentinus, who at J. van Rijckenborgh and Catharose de
the beginning of the era already let it be recorded: ‘Those who say that Petri have formulated new ethics for this
they will die first and then rise up, are mistaken. If one does not receive road during conferences and in many
the resurrection during life, one will not receive anything in death.’ publications. They set up a creative syn-
The answer to the failure of this separational I-thinking is provided in thesis to develop this new instrument,
Spinoza’s Ethica and given by the modern Rosycross in the Gnostic pro- the garment of the soul, as a guide to
cess of the development of a reasonable-moral consciousness to the pure the new mind.
intuition. This ethic is very congruent with the
This proposes a development from the summarized thinking-with-the- Ethica of Spinoza. No projections to an

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Rose, o pure contradiction
On the cemetery of the castle church St Romanus in Ravon, Oberwallis (Switzerland)
there is an inconspicuous wooden cross with the initials R.M.R.: Rainer Maria Rilke.

F
the quintessence of his insights, the essence of a life that develops, like the
or his grave, he chose an
life of all people, between eternity and time? A life between on the one
enigmatic epitaph that has oc-
hand the Rose of the heart, of the true Self, fundamentally awake, and on
cupied the thoughts of many
the other hand the ego that lies as an eyelid over the ‘eye of the heart’ and
people.The words of this
often closes over it, so that man may fall asleep with regard to his true
inscription can be found, as it
Self? The visible rose is an image of this contradiction between the eternal,
were, on the border of the ineffable. The
awake, true Self and the transient ego, which as an eyelid closes off the
German text reads:
process of becoming conscious of Eternity.
Rose, o reiner Widerspruch,
The rose of the world
Lust niemands Schlaf zu sein
It becomes even more clear, if we consider the rose as the rose of the
Unter soviel Lidern.
world, as the soul of humanity. Its calyx is opened like an eye for the
spiritual sun, always awake, ‘no-one’s- sleep’. The Christ-Self of humanity
This can be translated literally as:
is awake, but the many petals of the rose, the sub-personalities of the
Rose, o pure contradiction,
earthly human beings, close this awakened eye like ‘so many eyelids’. They
Which desire to be no one’s sleep
obscure for him the Sun of the Spirit.
Under so many lids.
In spite of this, it is the ‘Lust’ (the desire) of this true Self to be awake,
to be ‘no-one’s-sleep’, even if all sub-personalities in his system were to
But it can also be interpreted spiritually
lie over him like closed eyelids. The desire of being awake, the longing to
as:
be awake, can be transmitted from the world soul to the (eye)lids. It can
The rose, contrariwise,
stimulate these lids to be raised and to admit the light of the Sun into the
does not intend to fall asleep
eye of his soul. Every ego, every member of the rose of humanity can be
under life’s burdens.
touched, and can open up and thus contribute to the awakening of all of
humanity by this longing of the soul to be awake. Rilke was such a human
The observer has to decipher it for
being: he was a ‘lid’ that opened up, and in that way made ‘being awake’
himself and so must bring the message
possible. By his poems, he also helped others to wake up.
contained in it to life.
The day will come that all closed, sleeping lids will be raised again,
What did the poet mean to express here?
in other words that all personalities will be transfigured and be awake
What is this ‘pure contradiction’? What
collectively. Then the contradiction will have been solved. Then the spirit-
is the ‘desire’? And what does ‘Fall asleep
souls – the calyx of the rose and the new personalities of all people, the
under so many burdens’ mean? Rilke has
lids, united in being awake, will recognise the Spirit and live from it.
had spiritual insights, and many of his
poems are efforts to express them. Could Leonid Pasternak: Sketch for an oil painting
it be that the epitaph he chose represents of Rainer Maria Rilke © DLA Marbach

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 To start all over again
In The Netherlands ‘The Month of Spirituality’ (January 2018) was this
year dominated by the art of making a new start, and on their website the
organizers wrote: ‘How do you do that, letting go of what has happened
and giving yourself a new chance? Every year in January, some people
give themselves a blank page, but certainly not everyone believes in the
power of a completely new start. This is unfortunate, because whoever
makes a new start, forgives himself for his mistakes and thus creates new
opportunities. Beginning again requires courage, but can be useful for
everyone.”

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Starting again, yes, how do you do that?
How can you start anew? How ‘new’ in fact is this ‘new beginning’ then?
We are only too happy to let go of the past, but it seems as if the past does not want
to let us go of us; it seems to keep influencing us.
Even a newborn baby can hardly be called a blank sheet; let alone ourselves in Janu-
ary. We are born within circumstances, within a family, with certain talents or with
the lack thereof, with great or little intelligence, with a healthy body or with severe
physical limitations, mentally sound or with a predisposition to all kinds of psycho-
logical difficulties. So we had better speak of a restart. But when turning the key in
the ignition it is always that same engine that starts humming; perhaps with even
more luggage in the trunk. To where does this lead us?!
As far as the ‘human machine’ is concerned, neuroscience tells us that during an
evolutionary development process our brain has admittedly become increasingly
complex, but that the sensory perceptions still enter the oldest, most primitive part
of the brain first. We have that in common with reptiles. There, in a first rough scan,
it is determined whether something is safe or dangerous, edible or if it sees you as
prey. On the basis of this first, general perception, a primary reaction is then set in
motion in the same primitive part of the brain. Avoid, or not avoid? And in a devel- Bremen, Germany, © Eskimo

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opmental psychological sense you could achieved in the past, as well as on tal- cesses occur unconsciously. In fact, we a swing to the pendulum and everything
say that from thereon humans have con- ent. These can be traced back to merely cannot act differently. Our conscious- turns as it always has done. We start
tinued to build on this primitive brain. wanting to survive certain situations, or ness is reflective at best. It only has the over, again, and again, and again, and
wanting to experience a high degree of possibility of stopping an already initi- again ...
As a sequel to an experience, there is a happiness or well-being. ated reaction, or not, as in ‘count to It always goes differently than you think,
corresponding emotional reaction, with Painful experiences from the past lead to ten before you say or do something’. and eventually everything returns to a
an accompanying hormonal response in great alertness for similar situations. However, this requires a mindfulness kind of zero point, in an endless repeti-
the limbic system, which is that area in And as such you will discover them ev- and self-control that most of us cannot tion of more or less the same on the
the brain that we have in common with erywhere. maintain every second of the day. basis of the shards of the past. ‘You win
the mammals. The general perception of the world A little bit of self-control, a little refin- some, you lose some’.
This pattern is anchored in the memory around you automatically rings the ing of your behavioral patterns is not And at the end the same ending awaits
at an unconscious level. As a reflex, the alarm bells and the primitive part of the wrong, of course, but you may wonder
hormonal response is linked to and trig- brain directs your tendency to avoid- whether it is so healthy to correct and
gered by similar experiences, so that ing certain behavior, which may result hold yourself in an imposed pattern all
this form of response in time becomes in shyness, mild fear of groups, or to day long. You do have certain tendencies
a permanent pattern of behavior: a con- people in general, to ever-wishing to and talents; or not. Suppose we would
ditioned response. We therefore behave ‘please’, to act lovingly, or just wanting succeed in becoming permanently dif-
on the basis of conditioning that has to take care of yourself, perhaps too well, ferent, then we would only be some-
been formed in our personal past. We up to and including aggressive outbursts one else with another pattern, and that
perceive situations through this con- or compulsive neuroses. In essence, these would in principle make no difference
ditioning as through a filter, with the reactions are all based on desire for exis- whatsoever.
result that, through sensory perception tence, survival, or fear of death.
we can only see what we expect to see, There is no value judgement here. It is Twist
and what we therefore already know. just how our biological system works. There is so much extreme and unspeak-
And then in a neuropsychological or But we can be very disturbed by it, and ably terrible psychic and physical suf-
biological sense there is a closed system the people in our immediate environ- fering in the world. It is incredible what
of fully automated conditioned reaction ment sometimes even more. people do to each other and to them-
patterns, which work fully automati- Of course, you can also use this prin- selves, not to mention all the suffering
cally 99% of the time. By means of brain ciple of the conditioned behavioral re- in the animal kingdom. But let’s not
scans it has been amply demonstrated sponse to bring about certain behavioral focus on this. Rather, let us try, in our
that behavior has already started well changes. That is the underlying principle silent despair, our ‘quiet desperation’
before it reaches our consciousness, of education and cognitive behavioral as the English call it, to give it a posi- us all: old age, illness and death. The
and that, in our neocortex, we become therapy. By consistently training cer- tive twist, for without that life would three things that caused Prince Sid-
aware of the possibility of choosing this tain behavior, by using it sufficiently be unbearable. Because fortunately dhartha Gautama, later the Buddha, to
already started behavior, or not. Neuro- consciously and repeating it frequently, there are also a lot of beautiful things leave his palace to reflect on liberation
science is more and more of the opinion there arises at a given moment an estab- in life, which, if you have an eye for it, from this wheel of rotation. Because if
that free will does not exist at all, and lished conditioned behavior pattern. can make you wonderfully happy for a you also believe in karma and reincarna-
that there is only the illusion of choice. moment, or move you because of their tion, then on the basis of that, you will
Moreover, how happy we feel, apart And this underlying structure from the beauty. Moments full of love, warmth later on start a new life, and then again
from extremes, is hardly determined by past is not easily relinquished, for it is and connectedness...indeed, what a another, and then another. Disappoint-
circumstances but primarily a matter of supported by our hormone manage- wonderful gift this life can be! ment, disillusion, endless repetition: all
biological predisposition. ment in such a way that, in a biological And that is exactly what happens often. is vanity and chasing after the wind. And
The form in which our reactions express sense, it is almost impossible to break Even though our heart has been broken so we had better not talk about it... Be-
themselves is therefore, unlike the inter- loose from it. We are therefore lived, and we remain behind disappointed, cause, yes, we do have to go on...
est on stock-shares, absolutely depen- for a large part, through our biology. desperate and disillusioned, we collect But today, for this once, we do want to talk about
dent on successes or pain experiences Because the vast majority of these pro- ourselves and start again. Again, we give this!

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Not with the intention of talking each law of cause and effect. In addition, there

But today, for this once, we do want to

other into a depression. (But rather, just are also all kinds of subtle and invisible
talking about apparent entrapment and entities and energy formations.

talk about this!

despair immediately evokes its opposite These immaterial powers drive us to
– that there is another perspective to be thought and action, and feed off our en-
discovered, and there is a path of lib- ergies, both individually and collectively.
eration possible.) But really, we would They want to maintain the illusion and
not have begun talking about this if delusion under which mankind lives,
there was no liberation path possible, because they have an interest in it and
if there was no other perspective to be even depend on it for their survival.
discovered. So there is indeed a conscious control
Because fortunately, there is indeed a imposed on us, influencing life on earth
liberating perspective, if only we would from the subtle realms.
choose it and will it! There is nothing truly spiritual in it,
For, whatever neuroscience claims, there nothing exhilarating to discover in it, no
is indeed a free will! By this we do not matter how beautiful it might appear to
mean the ‘free’ will to choose whether us. As the Buddha puts it: it is all Māyā,
we want to enact a certain behavior or which literally means ‘illusion’ or ‘mag-
not. No, we are referring here to man’s ic’: delusion and illusion.
ability to keep his conscious attention, Māyā is a spiritual concept that in-
spontaneously, increasingly, and ulti- cludes:
mately continually, focused on the verti- ‘that which exists, but constantly chang-
cally inflowing light of the Spirit, rather es and therefore is spiritually unreal’.
than on the horizontal life, as is more The “force or principle that hides the
common. true character of spiritual reality.’
That is what we want to talk about to- And yet in Buddhism Māyā is also the
day: about truly ‘starting over’ again, in name of the mother of Gautama Bud-
the context of ‘the month of spiritual- dha, the enlightened one; so apparently
ity’, and so on the basis of ‘spirituality’. illumination can be born out of Māyā.
Spirituality comes from the Latin word Closely related to the concept of Māyā is
Spiritus which means spirit, spirit power; in Sanskrit the word ‘Māra’.
not for a month, but for the whole life, The word ‘Māra’ stems from the Proto-
and even thereafter. Indo-European root ‘mer’, which means
First, and for the sake of clarity: to die. ‘Māra’ in Buddhist mythology
The biological prison of which we is the personification of all forces that
spoke is indeed very real, but contrary resist the enlightenment, and the de-
to what materialistic and self-pro- mon who tried to seduce the Buddha
claimed modern science would like us with visions of beautiful women. In
to believe, we proclaim that this is not various legends, these women are often
the whole picture. It is even worse! Mara’s daughters, who are associated
We are being lived even more, and are with death, rebirth and desire. And even
imprisoned even more, than we may though it involves such heavenly crea-
have thought. We are all literally connect- tures and apparitions, it is all part of the
ed with each other and with the world
around us, through all kinds of immate-
rial threads, and through karma and the First ride of the ICE-S in Theuern, Germany © DB

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To start all over again 43
same horizontal rotating wheel of activ-
ity and illusion.
es the first hesitant leaves of the lotus stem, and slowly they find their
way up through the murky water and break through the water surface to World images Tchier de Borée
Do not let yourself be talked into any- unfold their radiant flower crown. If only we can leave it for a moment
thing; do not let anything deceive you. to stir horizontally in that mud again.
A truly new beginning always starts And that is the Rose-and-Cross, the Rosycross!
from within, from inner recognition, an That cross - that is you and me.
inner reflection of the vertical light that That cross, that golden cross, symbolizes the vertical light that wants to
beckons us from the heart - a heart that break in into our horizontal poverty and inadequacy.
has become quiet in its brokenness…. a The horizontal and vertical bars intersect each other in the heart of the
heart that has truly opened up ….a heart cross. And there a rose can start to bloom. In you and me, in your and
that has been dulled by life, by karma, my heart, the horizontal and the vertical, the spiritual and the biological-
for ages, until it can do no more than earthly, come together. The symbolic rose on the cross is still just a bud.
surrender itself in acceptance of defeat But then, if we succeed in leaving the mud of the horizontal life “alone”
and in silent resignation. and let it sink to the bottom to finally create clarity in the pond within
That does not necessarily have to take a us, that rose will open up and bloom; then the lotus radiantly reflects the
seriously dramatic form. It may be that vertical Light.
you simply don’t have the energy any This rose bud is to be found in the heart of the cross, thus in your own
more to give life another positive spin. heart. Only there is the possibility for real renewal. Real, intimate, for
You have surpassed illusion and delu- and in yourself. And where people start to live again from that inspira-
sion; you are disillusioned. tion, from that renewed soul, based on this vertical inspiration, and join
Dis-illusion; the magic of illusion and together on that basis, a focal point for the Light develops, in which
delusion is unmasked - disillusioned. It everyone who desires this can really be lifted from the mud, from the
was all Māyā. And for now, there is just horizontal to the vertical. And then, charged with the Spirit power that
no answer anymore. always shines like the vertical light of the sun, descend again into the
But just then the heart looks for a mo- horizontal plane to help others do the same.
ment through a different window, to
something completely different; some- That is the Rosycross.
thing that - elusively subtle - lies beyond A veritable new start from a totally different source: the love radiations
the horizon of the known. And the heart of the Spirit.
can open up to it, and wants nothing
more! Here is something unprecedent-
‘The upright stones are full of allegories. We refer to a multitude of ar- writers. A long-forgotten salvation wells up in your inner space, and you
ed, something unsuspected, concealed chetypes - think of the sky, the movement of the sun, the constellations’, might recognize historical, mythological and poetic references in the
in a hidden moment, a secret thought say the artists. Different themes, derived from the great traditions, can be sculptures to the rich history of southern France. ‘Tchier du Borée is an
that we hardly dare to think, let alone found here. The stones evoke forgotten memories, they let you sink into attempt to restore a lost world’, said Serge Boyer.
the reflections of philosophers, travellers, astronomers, cartographers,
speak. And it is now easy to understand
why Paul writes in his letter to the He-
brews: So do not harden your hearts, as it hap-
pened in the bitterness in the days of temptation in
the wilderness;
For it is precisely during that period -
the days of the temptation in the desert,
the days of bitterness and defeat, before
we have managed to reclaim ourselves
or given our life a new spin - that the
mud of life gradually sinks to the bot-
tom of the lake. The vertical light reach-

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 everything vibrates
Aurora, Randy Walker

46 Everything vibrates 47
Modern science confirms what the Ancients always knew: everything is development around 1600 and new Heisenberg. It is a revolution in the sci-
worlds were discovered, using a micro- entific thinking but, as said, many scien-
vibration. The sage studies man with his various vehicles as a complicated scope and a telescope. The false miracle tists do not want to accept it as yet. Sci-
combination of vibrations. In science, we can now measure the ‘vibratory was unmasked: gradually people saw a entists such as Erwin Laszlo, Ken Wilber,
number’ of man in different states of mind and its effect on his environment reasonable explanation for reality. The Peter Russell, Fred Alan Wolf, Masuru
and ultimately on the whole earth. This article follows the idea that every theologians were no longer believed, Emoto, Bruce Lipton, who have also
and finally the child was thrown away made a study of ancient Eastern wisdom,
human being matters and is important in the process of co-resonating with with the bathwater. There was no more came to the conclusion that what sci-
the higher vibrations, on the way to the great transformation of conscious- miracle, no divine power was needed ence had discovered, was known already
ness of life on planet earth. anymore. Only matter existed. Man pen- thousands of years ago. Everything is
etrated ever deeper into it, with elec- vibration because everything is energy,
tron microscopes, all the way inside the and energy is always in motion.
atom. And he was convinced that what These vibrations manifest themselves in

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he did not yet know, he would still find many forms, which exist thanks to many
here is a widely used forming our body, collaborate in unity out. This attitude has brought science far, complex vibrational patterns. When the
example to show you how to keep our system running. They all but meanwhile the soul of man withers movements cease, the manifestations re-
insignificant we are as a know exactly what they have to do, the from lack of spiritual food and longs for turn back to the Unity, the original state
human being: you lie on cells in the blood, in the kidneys, the real wisdom. of rest. The creation, the universe, exists
your back in the sand of stomach and the intestines, in the lungs, as an infinite frequency spectrum. With-
the Sahara Desert and breathlessly you in the brain, in the muscles. Everywhere Opposites in this, the various levels of reality differ
look at the myriad of stars above your it is the cells that make sure everything At the same time this world submits to from each other in vibration frequency
head. The longer you look, the more works, they all contribute to serve the the law that everything turns into its degree or energy density.
stars you see. But you see a reality that whole. That which is big, corresponds opposite. The moment came when sci- The Unknowable Unity is the highest
does not actually exist. Science says, that with that which is small. Like the mac- ence could no longer sustain the theory vibrational frequency, an infinitely fast,
these stars are situated in four hundred rocosm, so is the microcosm. Here too, that there was only matter. No, matter very thin, subtle energy. Matter has the
billion galaxies, but in fact they are four you become humble toward this wonder was actually energy, everything was vi- slowest vibrational frequency, the dens-
billion different points of time; nobody of harmonious unity. bration, in higher or lower frequency. est form of energy. A physical object or
really understands it. At one glance, you And vibration is information. Man even organism is a conglomerate of many
see only what has been. But it remains Coincidence? abandoned the idea of the speed of light different, harmonically tuned vibrational
a sight at which you, as a little puny Now there are scientists who say, both as the highest possible speed. frequencies. We usually become aware
human in that big sandbox, become about these big and about the small It was a paradigm shift, a new way of of the lowest frequencies only, of matter.
silent inside. Occasionally you also see a wonders, it is all coincidence. Out of no- thinking, just as drastic as 400 years But this does not mean, that all those
falling star, but otherwise the whole fir- where came the Big Bang, and by chance ago, when the idea was born that not higher frequencies would not exist.
mament radiates majestically. And when evolution took place. Life is pointless, the earth but the sun was the centre of
you consider that everything revolves evolution only aims at survival of the our solar system. The pioneers of this Harmonic resonances
and circles in one gigantic, super-precise fittest and the reproduction of life. Why? thought were burnt at the stake. Even Now, linked to the fact that everything is
system, a perfect wheel-work that also There is no why. now pioneers of a new paradigm have vibration, there are different principles.
includes our galaxy, our solar system In such an approach to life there is a hard time with the material believers. The law of vibration says that there is a
and our earth, with the planets and the no place for the miracle of a guiding, Just think of the opposition that home- permanent influence between the differ-
star constellations that form the zodiac meaningful force in the universe to opathy experiences, a method of heal- ent levels of reality, called the Principle
signs, you become humble toward this which people in human history gave all ing, based on information, vibration. of Harmonic Resonance. Almost identi-
wonder of harmonious unity. sorts of names; a force they have always It became clear that everything in es- cal patterns or structures tend to vibrate
venerated and worshipped in all kinds sence is potential, is possibility. How with each other.
Unity of forms. Until everything changed, four energy is converted into matter, wave The second principle is the permanent
A human being is also a miracle of uni- centuries ago. or particle, is determined by the viewer. transmutation of energy. Higher vibra-
ty. All those trillions of cells, together Science went through an important This is called the uncertainty effect of tions have the ability to transform lower

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 life is possible without light. This is other or reinforce each other again.
about harmonic vibrations. Each tone is People have - or actually are - a complex
a vibration frequency, and as long as it whole of many different vibrational
is being fed, it resonates and continues frequencies, each with its own, unique
to work harmoniously. We are able to vibration pattern. We observe in an as-
receive only a limited spectrum of these cending degree of transparency: our
harmonic vibrations or tones with the physical body, the etheric body, the as-
human ear. We can also perceive those tral body and the mental body. All bodies
harmonic vibrations indirectly with the with lower vibrational frequencies are
eye. For example, we experience the permeated by the non-physical bodies
golden ratio in plants or in architecture with higher vibrational frequencies.
as harmonious. Thus, our thoughts and emotions are
Pythagoras also spoke about these vibra- completely entwined with our physical
tions as the ‘harmony of the spheres’, body. The constant flow of subtle life
for example when it comes to the pro- energy also flows through us, and the
portions between the vibrational fre- more our different bodies are in harmo-
quencies of the various planets. From ny with each other, the better we can
astrology we know that the vibrational sustain ourselves, stay healthy, and feel

Take time
frequencies of each planet and its com- connected to ourselves and everything
binations have their own effect on every else.

to go into
human being.
We mentioned the Law of Love earlier,

your inner self

The principle of resonance means that namely that higher vibrations can trans-
identical or almost identical patterns or form lower vibrations. The higher fre-

occasionally.
structures resonate with each other. A quency of Love will transform the lower
simple example are two violins. If you frequency of fear. The expression “Love

Find
strike a tone on one violin string, the conquers all” is one of the greatest mys-
same string will vibrate on the other teries of creation, but perfectly logical in

connection!
violin. And because the frequency of this the light of the Law of Vibration.
string, just as with any physical object If our souls could vibrate on the high-
or organism, is in fact a conglomerate of est frequency and could permeate all
Loris Cechini. Wall wave vibration, 2012 many different vibrational frequencies, our other bodies in this way, then our
also many higher frequencies associated soul would form our connection with
vibrations, but the special thing is that is connected with everything. This is called qi or chi, or prana, tao, di- with this, the so-called overtones, start universal Love and universal wisdom.
conversely lower vibrations can never vine energy or spirit. That is what gives living things its life. to vibrate, to resonate. Therefore, many mystics consider the
change higher vibrations. Because of The first pure vibration, with which the universe was created, is found Everything is vibration, so everything is soul as the key to the Truth.
this one-way law, evolution will even- in the Bible as ‘In the beginning was the Word’. This vibration causes a connected with everything in the uni-
tually make progress in the direction of creative energy in the primeval ocean of pure potential. Also in creation verse: physical objects, thoughts, feel- Energy fields are important
the higher vibration. This is known as stories of other peoples one finds a similar beginning of vibration, or ings, psychic phenomena, non-physical So far, this is a positive view on the vi-
the Law of Love, because universal Light sacred sound (Sanskrit: Nada Brahma, the world is sound). levels of reality, it is all connected, based brational laws. What does modern sci-
and universal Love have the highest fre- on the principle of harmonic resonance. ence say about this?
quency. From this highest vibration, Love and wisdom as information, as Light, And whatever deviates somewhat from Some 75 years ago quantum physi-
The third fact of the Law of Vibration is the whole universe arises, from the subtlest highest frequencies to the the original vibration pattern will still cists recognized that everything in the
that a constant stream of subtle life ener- densest patterns, and eventually the physical world appears: stars, planets vibrate by the principle of harmonic universe was essentially energy. Using
gy flows through everything. As a result, and all forms of life. And all of this essentially still consists of vibrations. resonance - which means: the vibrations modern techniques, one can measure
everything is maintained and everything So, you can say that the essence of everything that exists is: Light. No will again come into phase with each the electromagnetic aspect of the unique

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vibrational patterns of many things in network of our physical body is in fact a complex energy-interference become chaotic, blocking certain activ- Love wins under that starry sky in the
the universe. Measurements show that pattern that is permeated and surrounded by organizing energy fields. ities in the brain. Incompatible waves And now it appears that although the Sahara, but now you look at
each of us has his or her own unique In this way vibrational frequencies can change the physical properties of are not in phase, so we then experience average consciousness of people on earth it differently. Creation and
vibratory pattern, and also that there is a molecules. For example, the energy of thought can activate or block the a destructive interference and weaken vibrates below 200 (in 2009 this was humanity are one, yes for
relationship between our frequency pat- cell function of producing proteins through the mechanism of construc- ourself. This, too, can have its physical the case in 78% of people), the collec- sure, seven billion stars - also
tern and the nature of our perception. tive and destructive interference. effect on us. tive consciousness of humanity exceeds counting those that are still
Modern science considers energy and Cell biologists can measure the unique molecular frequencies of organic 200! How did that happen? Dawkins flickering and occasionally
energy fields to be more fundamental substances, such as the four different DNA amino acids. It has become Scale of love? explains that this is caused by the other weakening to nearly extin-
than matter; unbounded fields are con- clear that healthy cells, tissues and organs transmit a frequency spectrum Therefore, the most important conclu- 22%, because one person vibrating at guishing. But soon all will
sidered to be the basic element of an en- that differs from corresponding diseased cells, tissues and organs. sion of this whole picture is: the level of love (500 on this scale) of- twinkle and radiate in the
ergy-based universe. Matter and energy Love and compassion, as the highest fers a counterweight to 100,000 people highest frequency, in Love.
are just two different types of vibrational Every person therefore has his own unique vibration pattern. Every vi- frequency, are capable of transforming under the 200-line.
frequencies of energy. David Bohm calls bration, each specific frequency and wave height (amplitude) creates lower frequencies that go together with, The scale rises logarithmically, which
matter a condensed consciousness, ac- specific shapes or patterns. As frequency and amplitude change, new for example, fear and anger. If this in- means that every subsequent point on
cording to the formula: mass = energy patterns emerge; first you see chaos arise and then new, seemingly stable formation becomes common insight, if the scale means a giant leap in force.
= consciousness. and more complex structures form. more and more people become aware of One enlightened person, who achieves
Waves meeting each other can erase each other, which is called destruc- this and draw the consequences, it will 600 or 700 on this scale, can compen-
On the basis of the principle of harmon- tive interference, but if waves reinforce each other, this is called con- bring about enormous changes. sate for 10 and 70 million people! So,
ic resonance, one arrives at the logical structive interference. Only the latter can maintain itself, stay in shape The psychiatrist and mystic David there is a great collective interest in
coherent interaction between, for exam- and contribute to our survival. Hawkins has designed a consciousness everyone’s individual spiritual devel-
ple, body cells, and thus it turns out that During dozens of years, measurements have been made in the electro- scale from 0 to 1000. This involves opment, says Dawkins, because when
in fact much more organisation becomes magnetic field around the human body. The ELF (extremely low frequen- measurable vibrational frequencies, destructive behaviour starts to win, then
possible than was thought. cies, 0-250 Hz) are involved in the biological processes and appear to be based on muscle tests, of the levels of it´s over with humanity.
Consider, for example, the ‘collective fairly constant for all people, but the EHF (extremely high frequencies, human consciousness, which appear
memory’ in fields at all levels of com- up to 200 000 Hz) are very varied; it is our personal signature and the to correspond with human behaviour, It is often said, that humanity is on
plexity, that Rupert Sheldrake has de- height has to do with our state of consciousness - this is clear from re- something he has measured in thou- the verge of making a quantum leap
scribed in his fascinating theories on search. sands of people. in consciousness, from an ego-direct-
morphogenetic fields. Information can ed consciousness to a human-centred
be transferred non-locally from one or- Higher frequencies appear to coincide with an ability of perception by This schematic can be found on the in- consciousness, guided and carried by
ganism to another. Birds, fish, mammals which other levels of reality can be observed, for example by mystics. ternet under ´scale of consciousness´. the Light of Unity. Because everything
know where to go over the earth, cells Change of our focus changes our frequency pattern. At the very bottom of the scale we find is connected with everything, we are
in the body know what they have to do. The state of consciousness of an individual can be read from the vibra- 20 as the vibration of shame, 30 as the indeed one humanity - but not united
How this can be done, becomes clear tional frequencies of his or her energy field. The higher the frequency, vibration of guilt, and it goes up through as yet.
now. It is all information based on vi- the wider our awareness and perception. When the information, that this apathy and grief to 100, the vibration of You yourself can contribute to the in-
bration. Carl Jung also talked about the person has access to, has the essence of age-old wisdom, great truths and fear. Then it goes on through anger and creasing of our vibratory number and
collective subconscious, and the brain spiritual knowledge, his vibrations are in the area with the highest vibra- pride to 200, the vibration of courage. thus contribute to that Law of Love. Find
specialist Karl Pribram concluded that tions. (The numbers on the scale are arbitrary, connection! Develop a new focus. Take
memories are stored in a field on a level as is the case with degrees Celsius, it time to go into your inner self occasion-
of reality beyond space and time. In- There seems to be a connection between the frequencies of our aura, the concerns a mutual inter-relationship). ally, let the heart lead in a way that the
deed, a whole new paradigm. frequencies of our brain waves, our consciousness and our perception. At 200 there is a first turning point, a head must follow. The power of the Uni-
More and more research indicates that this is completely coordinated by change from destructive and harmful ty brings gnosis, inner knowing in your
And what is the influence that energy our heart. The cardiac field provides a synchronizing signal for the entire behaviour to constructive and beneficial being. Your consciousness will transform
fields have on our physiology? The cell body. behaviour. A second turning point is 500, into an All-consciousness. Then there is
biologist Bruce Lipton shows that ener- Measurements have also shown that emotional vibrations such as anger, the vibration of love. All vibration below love for everything and everyone.
gy fields have a far-reaching regulating frustration, fear and insecurity are incompatible with the vibrational 200 is weakening, everything above this And then you are back in the Unity we
effect on our physical body. The cellular frequency pattern of the heart. The signals that are emitted by the heart frequency is reinforcing. talked of at the beginning of this article,

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When I tried to think,
Inner monologue:
staccato
Which awareness does the twenty-first century need?

Shiprock storm

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We are Wonderment Perturbation
What is consciousness? And what is - as All animals have that too, an environmental awareness. At the same time it Questions to the head: Questions to the heart:
we mention in this article - the “gnostic is a self-preserving consciousness. But is this all, the reality of the conscious- And is something needed? Are we satisfied with what it is?
possibility” in the consciousness? Animals cannot survive without that consciousness. ness as described above? First and foremost: are we satisfied, happy with and within ourselves?
First of all, the sensory consciousness A baby cannot survive without feeling hungry and reacting to it. Shouldn´t we be amazed, be wondering? Are we happy, satisfied with how we think, feel and respond?
dominates within us. We are a refined animal species, equipped with a sense of intelligence. What is the source of our consciousness, Can something like our “conscience” accuse us?
Through the senses we are aware of an Much of the human behaviour can be explained from this self-preserving is that we, ourselves?
environment, of a reality and of ourselves. consciousness. Are we that which causes our conscious- Of course we are not satisfied, nor happy with ourselves and our environ-
How is this consciousness built up? The struggle for existence, the survival of the fittest. ness? ment.
A baby, opening his eyes, seems to be But what then is nurture, culture? Can we maintain our consciousness our- And we are fighting to change that. From that I-consciousness that never
looking through and past us, as it were. You could say that this self-preserving consciousness is often not pleasant selves? has enough.
The eyes do an excellent job, but the for another person. Where does our consciousness actually But is there another voice within us, which begins to get tired of that
meaning of the information, imparted We recognize this in a toddler screaming on the floor in the supermarket, begin? I-consciousness?
by the eyes to the consciousness, is not because he or she is not granted its desire. So this is upbringing: an intense The I separates itself from reality by ob- And in the big picture? What do we read in the newspaper ( numerous
interpreted yet. battle. All parents know this. serving it. examples )?
From the building blocks, suggested by The assignment for them is that they must somewhat temper that primary As if it could stand apart from that cos- Does not a great crisis or suffering come to our inner being?
the senses and stored in our memory, self-preserving consciousness via intelligence and feeling. On a larger scale mos of complete reality, from the whole. How does it affect us? In what way do we respond?
we form an image, a representation of a we call that culture, civilization and this also works with rules and regula- Isn´t there a desire for true Love, Unity, Freedom within us?
reality within our heads. And of ourselves tions. But is it not part of reality, creation or We would call that ‘the gnostic possibility’ in our consciousness.
within this reality. This creates an I-aware- Of course something is always lost, compromised, pushed aside, repressed. cosmos then? This possibility lies in the heart, in the consciousness of the heart.
ness. Science is also based on this sensory And besides, the ´me and you´, the ´we and they´ come into play. And then And what actually is this reality? Does it She speaks of Love, Light, Freedom, Infinity. And she cannot find it here.
consciousness. it becomes even more problematic. exist? A soft silent voice. An inner knowing of something we do not really have
What we have perceived, is true for us. Especially if science is able to replace tools, such as a stick and an axe, by We all have our own interpretation of words for.
What has not been perceived, is specula- atomic weapons. reality and they all differ, but is there
tion. With this we can make our reality a Just think of the current field of tension between the USA and North Ko- actually one reality? If we call the first possibility, the sensory consciousness, the consciousness
bit more comfortable. rea. One day somebody asked the question: relative to a part of the whole, the I-consciousness, we could call this sec-
Because all those sensory experiences But reality, the cosmos, also remembers. If a tree in the forest falls over and there ond possibility, consciousness relative to the whole, the All-consciousness.
affect our inner being. Everything the I does to reality through action, thought or emotion is not is nobody present, is there any sound This is the core of the recognition of the gnostic story:
There is also a feeling consciousness. without imprint. heard? Within us is a Spirit spark, a primordial atom in the heart.
Experiences are pleasant or not pleasant, We are creators bound to our own creations. Consequences return in space The answer may be: No, sound is some- It remembers a different reality within us. A reality of Love, Freedom and
agreeable or not agreeable. and time as events to the senses. thing caused by the senses in the head. It Unity.
The sensory experiences are immediately In terms of eastern wisdom this is called Karma. is a subjective reality. Recognition also of what the Buddha stated: all suffering comes through
filled in, coloured by a feeling. This is also the case in the world of emotional energies. All animals have a very different kind of the self.
We also are able to remember this. Feelings, emotional tensions created by us are also remembered. reality or environmental awareness. And now the way back. The turn, the return from the single-pointed I-con-
For example, we have our central heating They remain stored and come to us through what is called the subcon- For example, a pigeon sees two additional sciousness to consciousness in respect to everything, All-consciousness.
system, we buy prepared food from the scious. colours.
store, we can contentedly read our morn- As a result, our emotional experience is strongly coloured. And would our experience of reality be
ing newspaper. Or we entertain ourselves Tendencies, moods. Not really explainable from life-experiences after birth. the complete reality?
by our eyes and ears through the internet We do not come into the world as a blank sheet.
and TV.

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The deed Harry Potter-like states
Does that matter, does it make any differ- program: we are probably the first con- There is still a lot of praying done. This is how change is implored from
ence: another consciousness? sciousness to emerge in this cosmos. our reality, especially if that reality is not so pleasant. Think of diseases,
The question we are asking here is: Does natural disasters. Then the prayers increase.
reality cause consciousness or is con- And our behaviour? Yes, that is our brain. For example, a farmer asks for rain and a beach club owner a few miles
sciousness caused by reality? We are our brain, grey matter in our away asks for good weather.
When science tried to unravel matter in heads. What do you think that the cosmos, or the deity, must now do?
gigantic particle accelerators, in which We are as we must be. Cultivated animals At 100%, it would be an incredible chaos. The mess that we cause now
atoms appeared at almost the speed of with a self-preserving consciousness. with our I-consciousness, with all our physical strength in the material
light, a special worldview arose. Culture, civilization is useful. And if our sphere alone, would then be disastrous.
Everything is radiation, energy. And if we behaviour leaves something to be desired, Placebo effect: A glimpse of the original divine power.
want to take hold of it, make it concrete, if we break the decency laws, then this is Our concrete sensory reality is a consequence of our consciousness being
we cross a border, an indeterminacy. Real- a mistake within our brains. Maybe we separated from the whole.
ity occurs as an infinite number of prob- will some day find a solution to deal with Separation, splitting of the whole, symbolically expressed in separation
abilities and possibilities. Ultimately, the this. between good and evil.
observer, the consciousness, determines We know more and more about it. The Forms in time and space, circumstances, are the result.
which concrete form reality takes. blessings of medical science are already And consciousness that has come to live within it.
numerous.
We are still creators from our conscious- Again: we assume that consciousness The separation of the whole, of life, causes the experience that everything
ness, we are responsible for our own creates reality. else is threatening and hostile.
reality. A concept we often hear nowadays. By This creates struggle, duality and death.
In a larger context: The reality of the hu- thinking differently, we can influence our But - and now again the gnostic story - : There is also another reality, the
manity known to us is the reality of the health. reality from the consciousness of humanity with the “All-consciousness”.
collective consciousness of this humanity. Scientific research teaches us that the pla- There are more cosmic areas. There are as many realities as there are states
Reality, the cosmos or whatever you want cebo effect is 30%. So 30% will get better of consciousness.
to call it, reflects back to us what we our- just by thinking that we are getting better And in our hearts we know that. We recognize this reality in the heart in
selves are and what we ourselves cause. from a certain medicine or treatment. symbolic language.
And so the sensory I-consciousness or Why not 100% actually? What would There love is the creature and the creator itself. The kingdom-not-of-this-
the “scientific” consciousness sees a cold happen if the placebo effect was 100%? world. A new heaven and a new earth. The original divine creation.
and lonely universe: There is only matter, And the powers: The original God-created human was ruler over a divine
bound by harsh laws of nature. creation. One with the Father, one with the Law of Love. Wisdom, Love
A big bang out of nothingness, and it and Power in harmony.
was just there. Splashing into matter and We recognize the capabilities of this human being: Receiving everything,
energy particles. They condensed into renouncing everything and renewing everything as a result.
suns, planets. And in the mud or primor- These powers immediately are returned to us when we have learned to
dial soup of a small void planet, life by recognize and follow the Law of Love in the heart.
chance arose, including awareness of that
environment. Lorna Simpson, Head on Ice, 2016. Courtesy Artsynet.
As a well-known scientist recently ex-
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 World images Tchier de Borée

The process
And is that possible? Another consciousness?
Can we just step into the non-self, into the now, into non-duality?
The answer is simple: try it.
The resistance that comes up then, finds its cause in the past.
The sensory reality that thrusts itself upon our consciousness. A reality as a result of
our past.
And an emotional reality, our subconscious, also a result of the past.
Tendencies and moods which we do not like, which we do not want, these pull us
down.
We cannot resist them with our willpower.
This would only mean a temporary repression.

And then we recognize the gnostic story again.

This really only recognizes a defeated I.
An I, tired of the struggle within existence against existence, against all existence.
And especially against the struggle within itself against itself.
The ego who has tried to realize love, freedom and unity in this world of the senses.
A human with a high culture. He / she can begin to recognize the process.
And that begins with recognition of that power in the consciousness of the heart.
The power of the primordial atom, that other power in our consciousness, can start
the process of the way back.
A force, not of this world.
The Unity, the Word shines in the darkness. And hopefully we are like John who will
understand this Word and make the paths straight for that other consciousness which
is born within our hearts: The Christian initiation mystery of the new century, and the
Sic mundus creatus est…
new consciousness in the new reality.
The Tabula Smaragdina is Hermes’ alchemical essay full of hope to man Depicted are the final sentences from the Tabula Smaragdina: ‘That is
and humanity. In this rock on the plateau of Tchier du Boré a part of the how the world was created. This is the way that wonderful changes will
text has been carved out as an invitation to climb the three steps and arise. That is why I am called Hermes Trismegistus because I possess the
open the gate to the cosmos: `Proceed as the Tabula teaches you and all three parts of the philosophy of the whole world. This is what I had to
the darkness will give way, while you will acquire the glory of the world.’ say about the operation of the Sun.’

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Gone to the Unseen - Persia Wild roses - Japan To the Rose on the Cross of time - Ireland
At last you have departed and gone to the Unseen. Plucked from fields Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days!
What marvelous route did you take from this world? Full of croaking frogs: Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways:
Beating your wings and feathers, Float them in your wine Cu Chulain (1) battling with the bitter tide;
you broke free from this cage. And enjoy every minute! The Druid, grey, wood-nurtured, quiet-eyed,
Who cast round Fergus (2) dreams, and ruin untold;
Rising up to the sky Dewdrops on a Lotus Leaf: And thine own sadness, whereof stars, grown old
Zen Poems of Ryokan.
you attained the world of the soul. John Stevens, Boston 1996
In dancing silver-sandalled on the sea,
You were a prized falcon trapped by an Old Woman. Sing in their high and lonely melody.
Then you heard the drummer’s call Come near, that no more blinded by man’s fate,
and flew beyond space and time. I find under the boughs of love and hate,
In all poor foolish things that live a day,
As a lovesick nightingale, you flew among the owls. Eternal beauty wandering on her way.
Then came the scent of the rose garden
and you flew off to meet the Rose. Come near, come near, come near—Ah, leave me still
The wine of this fleeting world A little space for the rose-breath to fill!
caused your head to ache. Lest I no more hear common things that crave;
The weak worm hiding down in its small cave,
Finally you joined the tavern of Eternity. The field-mouse running by me in the grass,
Like an arrow, you sped from the bow And heavy mortal hopes that toil and pass;
and went straight for the bull’s eye of bliss. But seek alone to hear the strange things said
By God to the bright hearts of those long dead,
This phantom world gave you false signs And learn to chant a tongue men do not know.
But you turned from the illusion Come near; I would, before my time to go,
and journeyed to the land of truth. Sing of old Eíre (3) and the ancient ways:
Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days.
You are now the Sun -
what need have you for a crown?
You have vanished from this world - Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (1989)
what need have you to tie your robe? (1) Cu Chulain, powerful Irish freedom fighter from the mythological
Ulster cycle. He was seen as ‘incarnation’ or ‘son of Lugh’, the sun
god, not unlike Herakles as son of Zeus.
I’ve heard that you can barely see your soul. Pouring down like the rain of heaven (2) Fergus, noble monarch who took Cu Chulain under his wing and
But why look at all? - you fell upon the rooftop of this world. taught him the martial art.
yours is now the Soul of Souls! Then you ran in every direction (3) Eíre is Ireland.
and escaped through the drain spout . . .
O heart, what a wonderful bird you are.
Seeking divine heights, Now the words are over
Flapping your wings, and the pain they bring is gone.
you smashed the pointed spears of your enemy. Now you have gone to rest
in the arms of the Beloved.
The flowers flee from Autumn, but not you -
You are the fearless rose Rumi – In the Arms of the Beloved
that grows amidst the freezing wind. Jonathan Star New York 1997

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 essay

Organ
donation:
the state of
affairs
The suffering of people (and their families) on the
waiting lists for transplants is great: many sick
people die before an organ becomes available to
them. There are long waiting lists. Many religions
consider the gift of organs after death a praise-
worthy humanitarian deed. In Belgium, France,
Croatia, Austria, Portugal, Spain and Sweden, and
recently in The Netherlands, the law stipulates
that you are automatically a donor when you die,
unless you have been actively unsubscribed. But
what must a transfigurist know about this subject?

Robert Rauschenberg, Combine 1954-1964

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 Organ recipients often only want a donor who they know has consciously given up
his organs. This agrees with a point of view that such a drastic decision must only
be taken in full consciousness. The House of Commons is already considering a law
that would rule that everyone who has not been registered in the donor-register as a
non-donor shall automatically become a donor.

I
Through advances in health sciences, the group of people who qualify for a donor
organ steadily increases. In 2016 there were 1,266 transplants in the Netherlands.
At the end of 2016 there were 1071 people on the waiting list. They live under
heavy pressure.
While the need grows, less and less suitable donors become available due to:
1. the increased traffic safety and
2. the better treatments for brain haemorrhages (SAB) and heart attacks.
Understand well: an organ donor must be deceased in a hospital and preferably in
intensive care. This means that only a small number of registered donors actually
If one immerses oneself in the harrowing experiences of the people on the transplant become donors.
waiting list one is struck in the heart. He who reads how unbelievably grateful and The donation of an organ is a charitable deed. It is also a sacrifice. Out of respect
happy recipients – and their families – are, gladly presents himself as an organ donor. for anyone’s decision, it is important that those concerned, also experience it this
For those who in that sense are involved in the suffering of the sick person whose way. Recipients of an organ often initially have a feeling of guilt, because someone
entire life suffers under a lifelong dialysis with a good chance of premature death or else had to die before they could live. But after this, a lifelong deep-rooted grateful-
who, through liver, heart or lung failure, sees death’s approach, it is clear: let every- ness grows toward the donor.
one become a potential donor, intensively recruit for donors and create better laws. For the donor’s family, it is a great consolation that the deceased has given a new
When you are dead your body is of no use to you anyhow, so give a sick or perhaps a lease of life to one or more (to a maximum of eight) people.
dying person, through your willingness to part with your organs, a new lease of life. In many countries donor and recipient are not allowed to know each other. Yet
Many organs and many tissues of a dead body can be used for this. The age of the sometimes one is successful in tracking the donor; in the U. S. A. there are no donor
deceased is in this connection of lesser importance; and for that matter some organs secrets. A strong family connection may grow between the families of the donor
do remain usable till ripe old age, even though the deceased may have had all sorts and the recipient, who sometimes live far away from each other. The blessings of an
of ailments. Thus, donor requests come to us ever and again via recruitment drives. organ donation, the joy of receiving an organ and the solidarity between giver and
They touch us with sympathy, neighbourly love, social duty or moral duty. recipient then is established in form and content. Thus, organ donation confronts us
Every year, in The Netherlands, there is an action week where everybody is asked with being human, with fellow human beings and being a social entity.
whether they are yet registered as a donor. You may without warning even be pene- When choosing not to donate organs to a fellow human being for whom that would
tratingly questioned regarding it. Young people on their eighteenth birthday receive be lifesaving, while the opinion prevails that those organs are no longer needed after
a donor registration-form in the mail, youth and school projects invite them to talk death, one obliges oneself to have a well-grounded point of view for himself and
and think about it. ‘Make a sacrifice to your fellow human being, be not afraid to society.
think about your own death, do not be afraid to think beyond your own death. De-
cide for a yes or a no but do make a decision.’ In our countries transplant medicine presently treats the body of a dying person
with care and is reasonably careful with his or her family. Nevertheless, the profes-
Why is there so much commotion in society about organ donation? sionals connected with transplantation are, on the basis of the world they live and
Because of the increasing demand, the decreasing supply and the importance for the work in, transplant-directed and their ethical objections will be subservient. They
people on the transplantation waiting list for whom it concerns no less than their life do indeed take into account the human emotions, which are of course unavoidable
or the escape from the burdensome experience of lifelong dialysis or the certainty of and understandable, but these can be dealt with by a correct approach of the trans-
a premature death. Organs may only be obtained from another human being, who plant team. In their opinion, there should be better information available so that
hopefully has given permission for this and preferably at a moment when he is still people understand how meticulously the medical doctors apply themselves to deter-
in the best of health. Descendants may also give permission for an organ donation, mine death and that brain-dead is truly really dead.
but in two thirds of cases they refuse. Some descendants encounter emotional prob- There is a tendency to ascribe objections against organ donation through fear, igno-
lems after they have agreed to the donation but later find that there are viable counter rance and lack of understanding; to resolve emotional arguments with good infor-
arguments. mation. Opposition to organ transplantation is systematically brushed aside.

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 The commission of Brain-dead-criteria poses: ‘brain-dead is death. In society, there
is some controversy regarding it but this is really unnecessary’.
The one who is brain-dead receives oxygen, his heart pumps and his blood circu-
lates. The technical term for this is an oxygenated material remains.
The person concerned is declared medically dead, but actually dies completely on
the operating table from the removal of his organs. He is returned dead to the fam-
ily.
The brain-dead person no longer has a consciousness but the entire biological sys-
tem functions normally. There are brain-dead women who have given birth to chil-
dren, and there are even brain-dead people who have returned to a normal life.
A well-known example is the America neurosurgeon Eben Alexander who became
brain-dead from a cerebral infection. He has later written a book on this and gives
presentations concerning his journey through life and a life after this life: a so-
called near-death-experience.
From all of this, one can conclude that brain-dead is a theoretical concept. The
reality in connection with this subject is according to each person’s own point of
view and consciousness.

How do religions and philosophies of life regard organ donation?

A Buddhist expresses it as follows:
One would prefer not to disturb the dying process. But a mature practitioner could One would
well choose, as an exercise of altruism, to consciously experience the unrest that
the removal of the organs shall cause, as an offer and thereby spiritually perform a prefer not
humanitarian deed. As long as the donation is the true wish of the dying person,
the consciousness that is leaving the body shall in no way be damaged. to disturb
The images are from
Also Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism and Hinduism view organ donation as a
deed of the highest possible self-sacrifice. As a Hindu priest put it: ‘the soul re- the dying
process
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spiritual leaders.
Organ donation is possible from three kinds of donors:
- people who donate an organ while living; The transfiguristic doctrine presents an image of what happens around and after
- brain-dead donors with a failing but beating heart; death. From this point of view, organ donation disturbs the dying process in such
- heart-dead donors with an arrested heartbeat, dying at a First Aid station or in the a manner that the result of the life that is now past is not harvested or to a rather
hospital, after an unsuccessful resuscitation. lesser extent. This has fatal consequences for the advancement of the microcosm
on its pathway after death.
Brain-dead Max Heindel referred to this (paraphrasing) with the following:
It is important to understand the brain-dead concept. This concept was defined The human being sows, grows and blossoms. Then the Grim Reaper appears. His
shortly after the first heart transplants in 1967. In 1968 the Harvard Commission skeleton shows what is left of the person on earth. The hourglass indicates the end
was established. Its task was to determine how to obtain transplant organs. Further- of life. A life that ends in harmony with the immortal laws. The sickle symbolizes
more, a definition was needed for a brain-dead situation in order to make organ the gathering of life’s harvest. When the moment of death has come, a separation
donation possible. of vehicles takes place. The life-body, the astral and the mental body leave the phys-
Brain-dead is ical body via the head, via the cranial sutures. The physical body remains on earth.
- the absence of: consciousness and pain stimuli, of independent breathing and of The departing subtle vehicles were up to that point connected to the body by the
electrical brain activity (EEG). thread of life.

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This cord is attached inside the body to a dense-material atom, which is situated
in the left heart ventricle: it is called the ‘seed-atom’. In this atom the experiences
of the life that has passed are stored, for as far as they relate to the material body.
Out of the seed-atom a silver-coloured thread runs to the three other seed-atoms:
the seed-atom of the life body, of the desire body and of the mental body. The

At the
seed-atoms of these subtle vehicles are successively situated in the solar plexus, the
liver and behind the frontal bone in the forehead.

At the moment of death the thread of life detaches from the seed-atom in the heart moment
of death
and takes the therein present life experiences along. In a next incarnation, possibly
after many hundreds of years have passed, these forces form the basis for the con-

the thread
struction of the new physical body. At the moment that the seed-atom detaches
from its connection with the heart, the heart stops. The silver thread still remains

of life
intact, so that for the time being the ether body and the astral and mental bodies
stay connected to the material body.

From that moment on, the etching-in of the past life-panorama takes place on the detaches
from the
thin electro-magnetic layer between the etheric and the astral vehicle. This gener-
ally takes about three days. When this has taken place, the thread of life breaks and

seed-atom
only then is the human being really dead. He is therefore only really dead a few
days after the moment he died for his survivors.

In the first phase immediately after death, a human being sees a panoramic over-
view of his life. This panorama is chronicled in his etheric body. The deceased
in the heart
sees, as if in a movie, all the important events of his life pass by, only in images,
but without the feelings that then accompanied it, and in reverse mode. His life kind of memory belongs to which organ. The author Hans Stolp writes in detail
gets literally unwound. about this:
When this phase has passed, the astral and etheric body continue in the reflection “When a certain organ is removed, the organ-memory connected with it also leaves the donor and that part
sphere. That is a phase of an emotional reliving of all the events of his past life. of the donor’s memory is passed on to the recipient.”
In this phase, each feeling from the past life is relived and as well all the pain and
suffering is felt that has been done to others. What is described above is easy to understand when we realize that the memory
The deeper the images from the departing ether body are, which are thus being is situated in the ether body and that a part of the ether body accompanies the re-
etched, the more valuable and effective they are upon the following emotional re- ceived organ. In this case it concerns the memory of the present life but also the one
lief. The mistakes of the former life are more deeply understood, the lessons better of prior lives, in other words the karmic memory.
learned. In the next incarnation the events have disappeared, but the associated
feelings remain. That feeling will, if necessary, clearly raise its voice and shall pre- For the donor, this means that with the withdrawal from the body of the informa-
vent the personality from falling into the same mistakes. The deeper the etching in tion of the past life, that which was stored in the memory of the organ is now lack-
the days following death has been, the more powerful the voice of experience will ing. Looking back and the reliving of the past will be disturbed through this lack,
speak in a later incarnation. Once more we see the importance of the three days when we speak about the consequences for the continued life of the microcosm. A
of absolute rest for the deceased and the guarding of that rest: only with complete part of the donor has thus not died but lives on in the recipient.
rest the result of the life that was lived can be harvested in the best manner. Since a donor may donate up to eight recipients he both lengthens and splinters his
Organ removal and vivisection are seen from this perspective as a disaster. The re- continued existence. He establishes connections with eight individuals that contin-
living of the past life gets irreparably disturbed and the microcosm sustains severe ue to live with his organs after his death. Hans Stolp describes experiences of pa-
damage. tients who underwent a heart transplant and experienced a total change of character.
There is one more aspect: He writes in the periodical de Heraut (the Herald) in 2013:
Organs have their own place in the memory. We shall pass by the details of what All the members of the described group of persons who received a heart transplant, viewed their new heart

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as a representative of another being who now also lived within them. They had the strong feeling that foreign liver will certainly have influences on the gnostic process. There is actually
someone else lived in bodily companionship with them whom they had to take seriously. They all also a constructive side to the receiving of an organ:
experienced radical changes in their personality. Living with a sick organ, and with the decision to accept a donor organ, the expe-
He draws the conclusion that the progress of the donor on his path in life after rience of the transplant, will afterwards lead to a life full of medical interventions
death has been temporarily brought to a standstill. which makes for a lifelong existential experience in close connection with those
near and dear to the recipient. For the patient and his surroundings, this will
For the organ-recipient the preceding means: mean an intense awakening, of great value on their path of life.
Firstly: that within his personality a part of the donor lives on. His original task On the other hand:
in life and his karma get mixed with those of the donor. He who dedicates himself with all his energy to the path of transfiguration knows
This is called soul-entanglement. that this process encompasses all aspects of the personality, certainly also the sub-
Secondly: the recipient receives an organ that consists of tissue that is foreign to the tler, invisible aspects. The new soul is a vehicle that is erected in the ether vehicle,
body. At a physical level the consequences are that the received organ cannot be the ‘body in the middle’.
fully accepted. For the entire remainder of life, the received organ is viewed by The donor organ penetrates the etheric body of the recipient and brings in other
the immune system as an intruder, thus the body persistently wants to reject it, forces and vibrations, which do not always correspond with the higher vibrations
even if this means the death of the recipient. that the transfigurist strives for. This, together with the severe and violent work-
To counter that rejection lifelong radical medication is needed. That medication ings of the immune suppressing medication, can have great effects on the path
suppresses the immune system. The immune system is the biological basis for
our individuality on the physical level and on the level of the nature soul and na-
Organ toward transfiguration.

ture spirit.
Also, our immunological identity is affected. Intruders are, because of this, no
receivers Dutch Constitution article 11
Everyone, subject to or by virtue of restrictions dictated by law, has the right of
longer seen as foreign to the body, and as a result the recipient becomes more
sensitive to infections and to developing tumours. On top of that, this leads to a
experience inviolability of his body.

gradual decomposition of all physical tissues. radical

Through immune repressing medication and import of foreign personality char-
acteristics, a mixing of characteristics of donor and recipient evolves. The unique
changes
personality of the recipient becomes modified, at the material, etheric and astral
levels.
in their
At the etheric level, the vibration level of the ether regulates itself to equal the one
of the giver. The ether of the giver is mixed with the one of the recipient and thus
personality
a part of the memory of the giver enters that of the recipient.
Moreover, the personality changes in the direction of the recipient’s. Finally, a
powerful solidarity between donor and recipient develops: soul-entanglement.
The nervous system that belongs to the organ cannot be transplanted as well.
Some experts hold that moral values of the recipient are no longer transmitted to
the organ, and that the evaluation of the deeds during the reliving after death are
thus incomplete. The dying process of the donor becomes unnaturally lengthened
or shortened by the transplant procedure. This obstructs the birth process in the
new world. For the family, the results after the donation are also sometimes de-
pressing.

The twofold function

We have not yet discussed the twofold function of the organs.
Practically every organ is indispensable in our life on earth, but each organ plays
at the same time a role in the process of building the new soul. For instance, the
liver processes natural astral forces as well as forces of the new life, whereas a

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 books
The mystery around Francis Bacon - Jaap Ruseler

Already since the seventeenth century there has

been speculation who was actually the author of
the Shakespearean plays and sonnets. These are
still being performed and read, and of course not
without reason. Qualitatively, this work stands on a
lonely, high level in European cultural history.

Certainly, there was an actor William Shakspere in Stratford-up- same with the French lan- that has realized the unity of
on-Avon, but could such a common man have the education, guage, in the Netherlands the head and heart, such as Portia,
the erudition, the linguistic virtuosity, the knowledge of the clas- Rederijkerkamer (Rhetoricians) Prospero, Horatio. Each play
sics and the psychological insights that were essential in creating In Liefde Bloeiende (Blooming has an underlying pattern, is
such masterpieces? For many people, this has always been a big in Love) redefined the Dutch a representation of life itself.
conundrum. language. A striking fact. The The book shows that the es-
The mystery around Francis In this book, after 28 years of investigation, the author brings influence on the German Rosi- oteric wisdom traditions form
Bacon – Was he Shakespeare? together what all those researchers have uncovered over the past crucians is unmistakable. the basis for all Bacon’s work.
Did he influence the thinking of five centuries and found out about the real writer and the author The author even suggests in These universal values also ap-
the classic Rosicrucians?
By Jaap Ruseler arrives at the inevitable conclusion that it must have been Francis chapter 9 that Bacon must peal to us now and that is why
ISBN: 9789077944141 Bacon, the illegitimate son of Queen Elisabeth I. also have been the author of the plays are still being per-
Bound and illustrated, approx.
350 pages
First of all, the author describes England and the English royal the Rosicrucian Manifestos. Jo- formed. They mirror us, call us
Edition of De Morgenster family at the time around 1600, an incredible snake pit of in- hann Valentin Andreae indeed to change ourselves, from the
trigues. He also clarifies why the lineage of Bacon had to remain repeatedly denied that he was most important starting point:
secret: the queen represented the Virgin Ideal within which the author, and the texts in the law of Love transcends the
(illegitimate) children did not have a place. (Bacon also had two the Fama are often the same, law of karma.
brothers). In spite of this, Bacon received an excellent upbring- literary-wise, as in the earlier Francis Bacon at the age of eighteen A chapter of the book also
ing, fitting his status. work of Bacon. is devoted to the Sonnets,
All the above-mentioned qualities are present in Bacon. He trav- In 1611 also, the Bible-author- in which many layers can be
elled among European royal houses, had many international con- ized translation of the Bible act, etc. Thus the Renaissance the spear that Pallas Athena identified as well.
tacts and (according to the researcher Peter Dawkins) was the was published, the so-called period in England and Europe carries, more than ten others The above summary is a mini-
founding father of the Rosicrucians and Freemasons in England. James’ Bible, which is still used at the end of the 16th and have been discovered. He has mal attempt to describe what
He had a seat in the House of Commons as well as in the House today. Liber T and Liber M (the beginning of the 17th century always predicted, through Jaap Ruseler has uncovered
of Lords, was prosecutor general and adviser to the Crown, but book of God and the book of comes to life for us as a very secret writing in his own work of the almost incomprehensi-
besides and above that he had a great calling, a great renewal the world) are both equally im- special time of renewal. and in the works under various ble breadth and depth of the
plan, which he recorded in The Great Instauration (1605). This portant to get to know God, An important element in the pseudonyms, that after his figure of Bacon and his work.
encompassed a general reform of science, just like the German both in the work of Bacon and evidence for the pseudonyms death all secrets would be de- To actually taste its richness,
Rosicrucians advocated in their Manifestos, the first of which in the Fama. used by Bacon is his knowl- ciphered, and there are many the best recommendation is to
appeared nine years later. And author Jaap Ruseler de- edge and use of various secret proofs of this to be found in read the book itself.
There are many more similarities with issues that occurred scribes more striking similari- codes. For in addition to the this book.
simultaneously on the mainland. Bacon has added thousands of ties: Hermetic thinking, Love pseudonym Shakespeare, i.e. There are many “layers” in the
new words to the English language. In France the Pleiade did the in Action, Love is the highest Spear-Shaker, referring to plays. There is always a figure

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ESSAY
• Organ donation - the state of affairs
COLUMN
• What you see is yourself
BOOKS
• The mystery around Francis Bacon
Was he indeed Shakespeare? Did he influence
the thinking of the Rosicrucians?