The Rosicrucian Cosmo-conception: Or, Christian Occult Science; an Elementary Treatise Upon Man's Past Evolution, Present Constitution and Future DevelopmentRosicrucian fellowship, 1910 - 542 pages |
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Abstract Thought active animal Archangels Aryan Races aspirant Atlantean Epoch attained awakened become blood brain build cause Chemical Region Christ clairvoyant Concrete Thought consciousness Cosmic Night creative Hierarchies death dense body desire body Desire World diagram Divine Spirit Earth Period Elohim Epigenesis Etheric Region evolution evolving existence experience faculty feeling force germ Globe group-spirit heaven higher Worlds human spirit idea incarnation individual Initiation Jehovah Jesus Jupiter Period kingdom knowledge Lemurian Epoch live Lords man-the man's manifestation material matter means memory of nature mind mineral Moon Period nature necessary occult scientist organs pain Physical World plant possessed present Race Race-spirit Region of Concrete religion Rosicrucian Rosicrucian Cosmo-conception ROSICRUCIAN FELLOWSHIP Saturn Period seed-atom seven Solar System soul stage stragglers stratum Sun Period teaching things threefold spirit tion trained clairvoyant vibration virgin spirits vital body Vulcan Period wave Wisdom
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Page 306 - If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Page 315 - For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward; how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation...
Page 116 - Lo, it is I, be not afraid In many climes, without avail, Thou hast spent thy life for the Holy Grail; Behold, it is here, — this cup which thou Didst fill at the streamlet for me but now; This crust is my body broken for thee; This water his blood that died on the tree; The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need; Not what we give, but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor,...
Page 437 - And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks : nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more, But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree ; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.
Page 159 - Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap forlorn! From thy dead lips a clearer note is born Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn! While on mine ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings: Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving...
Page 115 - But he who gives but a slender mite, And gives to that which is out of sight, That thread of the all-sustaining Beauty Which runs through all and doth all unite, — The hand cannot clasp the whole of his alms, The heart outstretches its eager palms, For a god goes with it and makes it store To the soul that was starving in darkness before.
Page 115 - The leper raised not the gold from the dust : "Better to me the poor man's crust, Better the blessing of the poor, Though I turn me empty from his door ; That is no true alms which the hand can hold ; He gives nothing but worthless gold Who gives from a sense of duty...
Page 158 - Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Page 389 - Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born And not within thyself, thy soul will be forlorn. The Cross on Golgotha thou lookest to in vain Unless within thyself it be set up again.
Page 334 - Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee ? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia : and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come. But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth : and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.