The Rosenkreutz School of Spiritual Light

To listen for the calling of the spirit is a challenge. To answer the call is another thing.

Little advancements in one person add up when everyone is gripped by the spirit of accomplishment. Spirits of Fear and anxiety will ultimately wear down the soul and leave it it in a state of will-less-ness and weakness. One needs a keen eye to see these things and assist in the work of nature - even on human nature.

It is no surprise the man of wisdom overcomes his fear of death.

He remembers well how much more difficult it was for him to enter into the physical world.

The man of spirit finds joy in work as a creator. Going back into the spirit is a celebration for it comes after his work on the earth as a man of wisdom.

He sees ahead how the good and wise spirits of heaven welcome him.

‘Love…is the highest and vastest freedom. All exists through love. Spiritual love is a drunkenness and a balm; those who are anointed by it rejoice.’ Gospel of Philip

Knowledge finds meaning through love,  knowledge without love has much more to know.

From the Book of the Wise

May your day be filled with Wisdom today, May your words express the wisdom of the spirit,

May your eyes, ears and hands touch the source of all that is good, and dispel any hindrances to the Wisdom of the spirit that seeks to express in your world.

Fill this Wisdom with loving thoughts so as to brighten the light that shines about you and others who may see the wonder of your love in being.

Magic is the universally accepted name for those phenomena whose noumena are unknown to the ordinary herd. But magic is of two kinds, which, however, have this quality in common: they receive their impulse from the will of the magician, somewhat in the way that ripples on the sea receive their impulse from an oar; and if his will lack strength, or if his understanding fail him, he must receive the effect of his magic hurled back on himself with force redoubled by the impulse of his adversary.

He who is known as a white magician—he, that is, who takes the right-hand way and whose knowledge is exerted solely with a beneficial and unselfish purpose—need not dread that repercussion more than fish need dread the sea, because he is employing Life itself—the very Life in which he lives.

But the black magician—he who takes the left-hand way, whose purpose and whose power are malevolent—is not so fortunately situated. Death is his employer and employee, so that the greater his immediate success, the more certain is his ultimate annihilation.
—Fragment from The Diary Of Olympus.

The student asked the teacher:  The universe , all matter , is the furthest away from the divine. Can you explain?

The material universe and all that is contained there-in is the closest to the Divine as possible without being it.

How shall we understand this?

Human beings are beings of perspective. Because of mathematical knowledge we have discovered that perception is 'subjective' and perhaps fits the concept 'distant from the divine'. What supports this concept is the assertion that matter is 'atomic' and that the weight of 'atoms' is a number. Thus we arrive at this idea: atoms are mathematical, and mathematical is an abstraction (as point line or cube) of reality. So now we have this question: is mathematical perception actual, does it fully embrace all reality, or is it a 'part' and being part then it has a relation of 'far' or 'near' to the divine? If math is nearest to the divine, then matter is nearest too, to the divine. If mathematics is 'external' to the spirit, then it is not calculable, and there-for it is true of all that uses mathematical calculations i.e. atoms, mass, etc, are abstractions of another reality that is not expressed. Please notice this separation: matter is not atoms, nor mass, it has an unexpressed relation of quality above that which is calculated - and this makes it closer in relation to the divine as it represents that which was acted upon, but it is now 'frozen' or immobile. When the time element is added to our concepts, then we can discover this: what is frozen was once mobile, fluid, and perhaps alive. So now we have the amazing contradiction of New and Old - of dead, and potential - of matter and anti-matter as inseparable aspects. Without time, dead, with time - it is definitively imponderable i.e. you see it when it is not, and when it is, then you can't see it. And that is the closest to the Divine as possible without being it.

Brooding heat prepares the lightning strike

Reading without meditation is dry. Meditation without reading is subject to error . Prayer without meditation is lukewarm. Meditation without prayer is fruitless. Prayer with devotion leads to contemplation whereas contemplation without prayer happens rarely or by a miracle.

The Ladder of Monastics - Guigo II

The four moments of prayer associated with Lectio Divina.