The Divine Heart Of The Microcosm

The Microcosm and the Rose

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In the mythology of most races there is a story of a Fall, a story of how original, divinely created human beings chose to deviate from the plan underlying creation, and to live in a way that separated them from God, and from Paradise. This story is found in the traditions of so many cultures that one can’t help thinking there must have been some kind of truth behind it. Have you ever wondered what that truth might have been? Have you ever wondered what the Fall from Paradise really was, and what really happened?

Well, one of the cornerstones of Rosicrucian teaching is an explanation about what the Divine Human Being was, what happened at the time of the Fall from Paradise, and how human beings came to be as we know them now. We want to tell you about this explanation, but we are very mindful of the fact that what we are saying is only a model, a much-simplified representation of something far beyond anything we could imagine or express with our limited consciousness. Our only reason for giving you this model is because we hope that, when you understand it, it will be clearer to you what you need to do, here and now. Just like a map, the model we are going to give you is only useful as a guide, and a basis for action. So, don’t hold onto the form of what we are going to say. Just let its essence work on you.

So let’s start by describing the divine human system, the human system as it was intended to be in the divine plan of creation. The Rosicrucians speak of the human system as a ‘microcosm’, or cosmos in miniature.

You could imagine the structure of the divine microcosm as being rather like a kind of spherical energy-transforming station. In the centre of the sphere there were two main foci of energy rotating around each other. One of them was negative, feminine, receiving, and the other one was positive, masculine, radiating. And there was a third focus of energy rotating in a wide orbit around the other two. This third one was neutrally charged and its function was to keep the whole microcosmic system together and act as a balancing factor.

So the whole system worked by receiving divine energy, transforming it in keeping with the divine law underlying the system, and then radiating it out again. And that process of receiving, transforming and radiating filled the microcosm with life, so that it literally became a cosmos in miniature, a whole kingdom, in effect, so that one could rightly say of the microcosm as a whole: ‘Behold, the Kingdom is within you’.

In the Bible, this Kingdom, this manifestation, is called ‘the Kingdom of God’. But when you hear this, you shouldn’t think of lots of individual microcosms, all of them gods, and all of them separate wholes. For every divine, microcosmic system was part of a greater whole, in just the same way as a cosmos does not exist by itself, but belongs to a macrocosm, a group of cosmoi.

So the divine microcosm’s consciousness was not focused inwards, on a certain point, like ours is, but outwards. And it was not centripetal, like ours is, but centrifugal, and therefore absorbed in the greater whole, so that the divine microcosm lived in a state of self-forgetful service to the whole. And this self-forgetful service was not

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Lectorium Rosicrucianum - Contact Letter - November 2012
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