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| Introduction |
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Lectorium |
There exists a golden thread, which
leads out of the labyrinth of our broken reality and towards the
Truth. The Lectorium Rosicrucianum, or International
School of the Golden Rosycross, aims to help seekers find and
form a living connection with this shining filament, which is woven
of love, wisdom, knowledge (gnosis) and action. |
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The Path
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Most importantly, this golden thread
is a Path that can actually be walked, a Path shown by all religions
in their original form. No Master or Initiate can give the Truth to
another. It can only be approached by our own efforts, and by
persevering throughout all the obstructions and difficulties we
encounter on the way. And it can only be reached through an inner
process of transformation called 'soul-rebirth', or
'transfiguration'. A bonafide School points out the Path of
transfiguration and teaches its pupils how to follow
it. |
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Divine Order |
It is not the I-central self, or
personality, that profits from the process of transfiguration as
meant here, but the inner, divine Self, which is awakened and
enabled to become increasingly active. This has tremendous results
for the personality: he or she becomes an instrument, a servant, of
another Order, the Divine Order, the 'kingdom not of this world',
and in that state is able to stand right in the midst of the world
in the service of every human being. |
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Tradition
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The Lectorium Rosicrucianum is a
modern organization in the sense that its message is adapted to the
strongly individualized consciousness of twentieth and twenty-first
century humanity. However, it has deep roots in the past, for it is
part of the long and ancient tradition of Mystery Schools, and is a
development of earlier impulses of spiritual awakening such as those
of the gnostics, Albigenses, Cathars and classical Rosicrucians of
the 17th
century. |
