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Golden Rosycross
Glossary
The Golden Rosycross is a modern Gnostic Spiritual School, and the most recent link in the long chain of Spiritual Schools throughout the ages. The Gnostic teachings and Universal Language found in our literature are those used by the founders of the Golden Rosycross, who often adopted terms and descriptors used by previous Gnostic Schools.
This Glossary aims to assist in clarifying the meaning of many of the terms we use today.
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Endura
the path of I-demolition, through self-surrender of the I to the Other One, the immortal man, the Christ within us. It is the path of John, "who makes straight the paths for his Lord". It is to put into practice the words: "He - the heavenly Other One - must grow and I must diminish, I must perish so that the heavenly Other One may live in me." The path of the Endura is the way which has existed throughout all times, and by which fallen man ascends, by means of the purifying fire of a total reversal of his life, to his true, immortal being and returns to the Father.
Ephesian
the seeking human being who, in his desire for true sublimation and purification of life, goes the path of goodness in this plane of existence and will sooner or later discover that this path has a definite culminating point, an absolute boundary that cannot be crossed by an earthly human of this world. The Holy Language calls the seeker, who has penetrated to this borderland, an Ephesian. Such a human being is confronted with the great choice of freeing himself from the limitations of dialectics by a fundamental change of life, or of remaining chained to the turning wheel and undergoing the anguish of the decline, which is inevitable by the law of nature.
firmament
represents the whole of the powers, values and bonds that are the result of the lives of the various personality-apparitions in the field of manifestation. All these powers, values and bonds together constitute the lights, the stars of our microcosmic firmament. These lights are magnetic foci which with their nature, determine the quality of the magnetic spirit field; that is to say: determine the nature of the powers and substances that are attracted out of the atmosphere and absorbed into the microcosmic system and, therefore, also into the personality, so that the personality is quite in accordance with the nature of these lights. Therefore, the change of the nature of the personality must be preceded by the change of the nature of the firmament, which is possible only through the self-sacrifice of the I-being, through the total I-elimination.
field of manifestation
the direct field of power in which the life of the personality is possible. Also referred to as the respiration field. This field connects the aural being with the personality and is absolutely one with the personality in its effects of attraction and repulsion of powers and substances for the benefit of the life and the preservation of it
gnosis
God's breath of Love, the fulness of Radiation emanating from the Logos, the Source of all Things, in and through which man may fulfill the great plan of salvation. This fulness of Radiation imparts to the seeker all Wisdom, Love, and Power needed, if he turns to the Light in all sincerity. Also, the Universal Brotherhood, as the bearer and the manifestation of the Radiation field of Christ. Also, the living knowledge which is of and with God and becomes part of all those who enter the light-birth of God, the pymandric state of consciousness, through the rebirth of the soul.
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