The Second Hour: Through duality the fishes of the zodiac praise God, the fire-serpents entwine the serpent-staff and the lightening becomes harmonious

“Through duality the fishes of the zodiac praise God”, is the formula we shall have to solve. The symbol for the sign of the zodiac “Pisces” will be known to us: two fish, standing. Linked by a cross. One fish is the symbol for divine man, the other for nature-bound man. By walking in the path of the cross those two must become one. And by that we understand: through the endura the nature-born man must merge with the divine soul ma,

[…] By what may the lower man and the and the divine man be linked, duality becoming unity. By the cross, the divine love which heals all things and triumphs over all things, that being the true soul-spirit-power, the true harmony of life which is rendered possible solely by love’s path-of-the-cross.

[…] Let the First Hour of the Nuctemeron be our foundation. And let us assume that you are living in the peace and unity of the First Hour. You will then know that any desire having the quality and the nature of the field of your sidereal birth invokes an antithesis, arouses an antithesis and, accordingly, hostility and hellish fires. Obviously, therefore, you will no longer foster such desires nor spark them off in an ever-widening range: in fact, you will neutralise them. Engrossed in your higher one-pointedness towards the liberating life of the soul, you will then pass without injury through all the depths of hell, finding harmony by the equality of the antithesis.

[…] When the one-pointedness of purpose of the First Hour has set right the candidate’s magnetic system, his one-pointedness of purpose in the Second Hour in profound longing will bring forth his self-emptying by his self-sacrifice to the Divine Soul, by his fulfilling the path-of-John which is rendered possible by “He must grow and I must diminish”. Thereby the fiery serpents entwine the serpent staff, the lightening becoming harmonious. What does this mean?

In the Universal Doctrine the sidereal fire’s radiations are referred to as fiery serpents, as movements resembling lightening. The serpent-staff is the column of the backbone, and in it circulates the serpent-fire, the sidereal fire that ensouls man, that impels man through life!

In the serpent-staff and around it fiery processes ceaselessly operate. The varying sidereal fire of the pairs of antitheses is ceaselessly shooting its fiery flames into man’s serpent-fire and by way of the serpent-fire and its corresponding nervous system all hose effects make their way throughout the whole system. The variegated blaze of sidereal radiations ceaselessly surrounding the serpent-staff may be seen by the attentive observer; a blaze by turns glaringly white or darkly red and slow of vibration. And writhing in that hellish blaze, man must react!

Tet the human being who is walking in his one-pointedness of purpose, having set to rights his magnetic status, will pass peacefully and inviolably through the hell of dialectic life because his self-sacrifice is one-pointed towards the high purpose of God’s children, towards the resurrection of the soul, the rebirth of the soul by the roses’ path-of-the-cross.

A great miracle then occurs! The desperation disappears from the life of such a human being and great inner tranquillity descends upon him. The intense change occurring in the sidereal fire-processes in and around the serpent-staff accounts for it. “The fire-serpents entwine the serpent-staff and the lightening becomes harmonious” because the sidereal powers of the Gnosis, of the realm of the soul, the world of the soul, of the sixth cosmic region, then begin to sway the serpent-staff. A clear, glowing, balanced, serene fire – a tranquil flame arises, an inextinguishable flame harmoniously sustaining the entire being.’

The International School of the Golden Rosycross, Lectorium Rosicrucianum

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