The Rosicrucians teach that all great religions have been given
to the people among whom they are found, by Divine Intelligences who designed each system of
worship to suit the needs of the race or nation to whom it was given. A primitive people
cannot respond to a lofty and sublime religion, andvice versa. What helps one race would hinder another, and
in pursuance of the same policy there has been devised a system of soul-unfoldment suited
specially to the Western people, who are racially and temperamentally unfit to undergo the
discipline of the Eastern school, which was designed for the more backward Hindoos.
The Rosicrucian Fellowship
For the purpose of promulgating the Rosicrucian teachings in the
Western World, the[pg 015]Rosicrucian Fellowship was founded in 1909. It is the herald of the
Aquarian Age, when the Sun by its precessional passage through the constellation Aquarius
will bring out all the intellectual and spiritual potencies in man which are symbolized by
that sign. As heat from a fire warms all objects within the sphere of its radiations, so
also the Aquarian ray will raise the earth's vibrations to a pitch we are as yet unable to
comprehend, though we have demonstrations of the material workings of this force in the inventions which
have revolutionized life within the memory of the present generation. We have wondered at
the X-ray, which sees through the human body, but each one has a sense latent which when
evolved will enable him to see through any number of bodies or to any distance. We marvel at
the telephone conversations across the continent of America, but each has within a latent
sense of speech and hearing that is far more acute; we are surprised at the exploits of
ships under sea and in the sky, but we are all capable of passage under water or through the
sky; nay, more, we may pass unscathed through the solid rock and the raging fire, if we know
how, and lightning itself is slow compared to the speed with which we[pg 016]may travel. This sounds like a fairy tale today, as did Jules Verne's
stories a generation ago, but the Aquarian Age will witness the realization of these dreams,
and ever so much more that we still do not even dream of. Such faculties will then be the
possessions of large numbers of people who will have gradually evolved them as previously
the ability to walk, speak, hear, and see, were developed.
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