‘The eternal wisdom, our brotherhood teaches, is supported by four pillars. Four pillars support the house of the eternal stream of the Sophia that, since Adam’s fall, accompanies Ahasuerus – that is the human being on his eternal quest. Four streams of holy life values accompany this person; like living water, they compel him to enter the young, still pure field of development of humanity.

[…] Four pillars support the eternal wisdom. The first pillar is the unfathomable depth of the Unknowable One, the beginning of which is lost in a Nothingness, an Abyss, in a non being. There, in this ‘pure light of the emptiness’, the traces of our origin are also lost, and our sparks slip by as thoughts of God, into one indivisible non being which is, simultaneously, eternal – and a sole reality. The ancients called it Brahman, or Dao. It is the Abba, the Father- Mother of the first Christians, the Amon-Ra of ancient Egypt – and the cosmic, heavenly man, full of Light, Love and Life comes forth from this divine eye of eternity, as divine thoughts, – ex Deo nascimur.

The second pillar is the indescribable joy, as of a merciful exaltation of our being that it is possible to fathom this exalted, incomprehensible, yet knowable Nothingness, the groundless eye of eternity because it gives itself away: in Light, in the spirit of the Light Spark. It is neither a power of the head, nor of the heart, but it generates the inner Light in an intuitive unity. And what is it that steps to the fore in this Light? It is what is knowable, what is never separated from ‘the depths of wisdom’ as the Psalmist says: the son, Adonai, the generated Light in the eternal creation. It is Christ, if it concerns the human being. What appears, are the properties of the Light, radiant sparks, the thoughts of God, emanating, but never separated from the Father-Mother, which eternally perfect themselves.

Just as the first pillar generates the unknowable Logos, and the second pillar eternal Spirit in eternal matter – just as Adonai and Christ, which manifest the divine creation as Light from Light – the third pillar of the eternal Sophia accomplishes the deep understanding of the same principle in the human being. The human duality is the most exalted miracle of creation, deeper than the knowledge of the angels and archangels. It grants the wave of human life its specific place in the universe. It is the body, this rather weak and fallible vehicle that is the most holy, although it is transient.

There is no initiation outside the body; it exists thanks to the body and it is with an absolutely conscious body that we partake of a higher consciousness, of the community of the luminous energy. There the immortal ones, the exalted guardians, stand at the borders of time. Their Light is beckoning us. They grant us the traditio as the fourth pillar, the eternal transfer; they beckon us, they awaken us; they overwhelm the Light Spark of the Spirit with Love, imperishable nourishment and bread, and make us inexpressibly happy with the wine of the Spirit. And in this exaltation, far from the senses, the beneficial warmth of an inner sun awakens a spirit of love as a reaction.’

The International School of the Golden Rosycross, Lectorium Rosicrucianum

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