The International School of the Golden Rosycross, Lectorium Rosicrucianum

In a mystery school pupils are guided on a path of inner growth and self-knowledge in order to attain Those who follow such a path of initiation become completely different people. Many people have found inner growth and self-knowledge in cosmic mystery schools based both on this collective They want to achieve self-realisation through insight and longing in order to reflect the divine within apostle Paul names them as love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control

That is because you are living in a self-created prison of delusion which has arisen because you have Therefore it cannot be easily understood by everyone but only by the ones who are, in a sense, ‘initiated this book, ‘Mysteries and Symbols of the Soul’, we explore that aspect of ourselves known as soul, Self If you wish to be free, know you are the Self, the witness of all these, the heart of awareness. Called ‘self-observation’ by the esoteric teacher George Gurdjieff, mindfulness is one of the aspects

against one’s lower nature in order to fill this chalice with the ‘Water of True Life’ – the blood of self-sacrifice The Hermetic Path of Initiation of the Grail. (Page 78 ) Read more...

Summary Initially presented as a conference, and now in book form, the authors, Jan van Rijckenborgh with a genuine longing of the heart that is expressed as a new attitude towards life, born through self-sacrifice

“He is a greater man who conquers self than he who kills a thousand men in war. , and all illusive things, and make them conscious of the self that lives with Christ in God. By nature, he is a self-maintainer, one who actually does not want to have anything to do with this unity and is naturally directed toward self-preservation. Life on earth was our initiator and teacher until the birth of John.

Adam and Eve together form the only path to self-awareness and knowledge, as one serpent tempts another unconsciousness, his nakedness, and covers his creative power with fig leaves, symbolising awakening and initiation Humanity is initiated, as it were, into the mysteries of duality. He is as fallen asleep in the slow world of coarse matter, and he cannot express his true self there. Moses, an Egyptian initiate and priest of Osiris, symbolises the knowledge of the Law.

As a result of this entrance the spirit-spark in the heart can be rekindled and then initiate a renewal consciousness of right; he could no longer comprehend the boundlessness of Love; he could see naught but self , and things of self; So that he might be close to man in all the ways of life, that man might comprehend the texts of The Aquarian Gospel and the daily reflections inspired by them have enriched your inner self

There are two selves; the higher and the lower self. The lower self, the carnal self, the body of desires, is a reflection of the higher self, distorted by The higher self is justice, mercy, love and right; the lower self is what the higher self is not. The only devil from which men must be redeemed is self, the lower self. The higher self of man arouses in the lower self the desire to walk a spiritual path.

Humankind has entered a new phase of consciousness development, characterised by a deepening self-awareness , which is the key to the path of self-liberation, leading to the transmutation and transfiguration of Only in self-sacrifice; only in humility and service, can the rebirth from ‘water and spirit’ become This self-awareness is the keystone to a path guided by self-autonomy, a path of self-liberation that Only in self-sacrifice; only in humility and service, can the rebirth from ‘water and spirit’ become

Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy’ , which was issued in English in 1912, under the pseudonym ‘The three initiates This way back can be accelerated by following the path of initiation. The book ‘The Christian Initiation Mystery’ of J. van Rijckenborgh is a masterly, though also very veiled In the book ‘The Christian initiation mystery’ we read: ‘The structural process of death and rebirth, defined as the mystery of initiation, presents three times seven or twenty-one aspects.