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| Teachings |
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Two |
The teachings of the Lectorium Rosicrucianum are founded on the concept of the 'two nature orders'. First there is the nature order known to us, which includes the dead as well as the living. Everything in this nature order is subject to the cycle of being born, living, dying and being born again. Secondly there is the original, divine order. The first domain of existence is the world of perishability, of rising, shining and fading, or 'dialectics'; the second is the world of imperishability, or 'statics', which in the Bible is called 'the Kingdom of Heaven'. A last remnant, a divine spark or 'spirit-spark atom' of the latter is latent in the heart. In many seeking people this principle arouses an indefinable sense of yearning, a kind of homesickness for a long lost original state, the state of being one with the Father, with God, in the realm of immortality. |
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| Awakening of the inner Christ |
One of the aims
of the Lectorium Rosicrucianum is to inform people about the real
source of this sense of yearning, and to explain the need for a
return to the divine nature order by the process of 'rebirth from the spirit' (John 3:8),
which was taught, for instance, by Jesus to Nicodemus. This process
of rebirth, or 'transfiguration', is made
possible through our 'daily dying',
as Paul calls it (1 Cor. 15:31). What dies is the old nature, the
I-consciousness, and what must awaken is the divine nature, the
inner Christ. The Lectorium Rosicrucianum not only teaches this
process, but also helps and supports its pupils in their efforts to
realize it in their lives. |
| Trans- figuristic Precepts |
The
transfiguristic precepts taught by the Lectorium Rosicrucianum are
embedded in the teachings of all great religions. For instance, in
the Bible, the concepts of the two nature orders, the divine
principle in the human heart, and the path of transfiguration, can
be traced in the following quotations: 'My Kingdom is not of this
world' (John 18:36), 'the Kingdom of God is within you' (Luke 17:21)
and 'He must increase, I must decrease' (John
3:30). |
| The
Human Being as a Microcosm |
Another
fundamental Rosicrucian concept is the idea of the human being as a
microcosm or world in miniature - a system of visible and invisible
vehicles surrounded by a magnetic field and bounded by a
'microcosmic firmament', or 'lipika.' This idea is in accordance
with the hermetic axiom, 'as above, so below.' |
| Five
main stages on the path of transfigu- ration |
The path of
transfiguration comprises five main stages:
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