The Rosicrucian Fellowship endeavors to prepare the world in
general, and the sensitives of the two groups in particular, for the awakening of the latent
powers in man, so that all may be guided safely through the danger-zone and be as well
fitted as possible to use these new faculties. Effort is made to blend the love without
which Paul declared a knowledge of all mysteries worthless, with a mystic knowledge rooted
and grounded in love, so that the pupils of this school may become living exponents of this blended
soul-science of the Western Wisdom School, and gradually educate humanity at large in the
virtues necessary to make the possession of higher powers safe.
Note:—
Pages
19 to 26 inclusive, describing Mt. Ecclesia, have been transferred to the back of the
book.(Transcriber's Note: They are pages 191
through200.)
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Chapter II. The Problem of Life and Its
Solution
THE PROBLEM OF LIFE.
Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each
individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone—Death!
No matter what our station in life, whether the life lived has been a laudable one or the
reverse, whether great achievements have marked our path among men, whether health or
sickness have been our lot, whether we have been famous and surrounded by a host of admiring
friends or have wandered unknown through the years of our life, at some time there comes a
moment when we stand alone before the portal of death and are forced to take the leap into
the dark.
The thought of this leap and of what lies beyond must inevitably
force itself upon[pg 028]every thinking person. In the years of youth and health, when the bark of
our life sails upon seas of prosperity, when all appears beautiful and bright, we may put
the thought behind us, but there will surely come a time in the life of every thinking
person when the problem of life and death forces itself upon his consciousness and refuses
to be set aside. Neither will it help him to accept the ready made solution of anyone else
without thought and in blind belief, for this is a basic problem which every one must solve
for himself or herself in order to obtain satisfaction.
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