Our Message And Mission
A Sane
Mind
A Soft
Heart
A Sound
Body
Before entering upon an explanation of the teachings of the
Rosicrucians, it may be well to say a word about them and about the place they hold in the
evolution of humanity.
For reasons to be given later these teachings advocate the
dualistic view; they hold that man is a spirit enfolding all the powers of God as the seed
enfolds the plant, and that these powers are being slowly unfolded by a series of existences
in a gradually improving earthy body; also that this process of development has been
performed under the guidance of exalted beings who are yet ordering our steps, though in a
decreasing[pg 006]measure, as we gradually acquire intellect and will. These exalted Beings,
though unseen to the physical eyes, are nevertheless potent factors in all affairs of life,
and give to the various groups of humanity lessons which will most efficiently promote the
growth of their spiritual powers. In fact, the earth may be likened to a vast training
school in which there are pupils of varying age and ability as we find it in one of our own
schools. There are the savages, living and worshipping under most primitive conditions,
seeing in stick or stone a God. Then, as man progresses onwards and upwards in the scale of
civilization, we find a higher and higher conception of Deity, which has flowered here in
our Western World in the beautiful Christian religion that now furnishes our spiritual
inspiration and incentive to improve.
These various religions have been given to each group of humanity
by the exalted beings whom we know in the Christian religion as the Recording Angels, whose
wonderful prevision enable them to view the trend of even so unstable a quantity as the
human mind, and thus they are enabled to determine what steps are necessary to
lead[pg 007]our enfoldment along the lines congruous to the highest universal
good.
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