Rebirth of the Soul - Conclusion

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May we just ask you: "Do you actually know what soul-birth really means?" Our literature talks about virtually nothing else, but its full import may still have eluded any of you.

Who or what are we as nature-born beings? We are nothing but bodies! Or, in the terminology of Hermes, we are only animal-beings. So the reality of birth of the true Rosicrucian cannot simply be applied to us without due consideration. The signature of the true Rosicrucian is expressed in the words: "Ex Deo nascimur", "We are born of God".

Are we, beings of this world, also "born of God"? No, we are born of nature, of the earthly process of preservation and consequently we possess a body which cannot be compared in any respect with the body born of God. We, as nature-born beings of the present human race, possess nothing but an emergency-order body, laden with the burden of sin, the karma of our parents, of our ancestors and or ourselves.

So if the vital principle, the soul, serves the emergency-order body, as is the case for the majority of present-day mankind; if the fire-principle of our state-of-life devotes itself to the lower nature, it is obvious what will happen: the soul will bring about a new incident in the process of dissolution. For then man, or the soul, is trying to make insoluble what can and must be soluble.

What does Hermes mean by 'the process of dissolution'? He means an ideally-operating metabolic process in which exhausted forces and substances are continually replaced by new ones. As a result, the mantle of the soul, which exists immortally in an everlasting, radiant youth and is always subject to a process of Transfiguration, proceeds from glory to glory. However, if the vital principle devotes itself to nature, it causes an incident in the process of dissolution. Then the metabolic process is disturbed and crystallization develops more quickly than the process of replacement.

However, if the soul does not sin but begins to understand and serve the One Aim of its existence, it receives the signature of the true Rosicrucian; then it is "born of God". It will then surround itself with a mantle, a vehicle which meets the requirements of the principle Harmonious Dissolution, and that which is born of nature will be used by the soul as a  "servant in the house", as a basis. If someone does not have lodgings, he will be happy to receive a shack or a ruin to begin with. He will be able to change quite a lot in this dilapidated house and furnish it according to his taste. The nature-born body is likewise able to form a working basis for the soul, a servant in the house who will help the soul to reach Higher Possibilities by which, ultimately, the indissoluble will be annihilated. Then the soul of the one who has been born out of the Divine Nature will proceed to Higher Good.

So once the soul has been born and has clothed itself with the first aspects of the New Vehicle of the Soul, one needs not be afraid of another submersion in duality when the time comes for the earthly body to die. If the New Soul has begun to develop, one will proceed from strength to strength.

In essence, Soul Rebirth means the reconstruction of the Original Vehicle of the Soul, which results in victory over birth in this nature. So pupils of the young Gnosis should first devote themselves to the Rebirth of the Soul. However, the crowning of this Rebirth must be brought about by the soul itself. After the Rebirth of the Soul comes a Rebirth by the Soul. We would like to discuss this in the following chapter.

From "The Rebirth of the Soul" - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol II - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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It all begins when we let go of this natural life and begin yearning for Something Higher. Each one must decide for himself or herself whether they are truly weary of what passes for "life" here on earth. For if one is not ready, if one has not "counted the cost", then one may be just wasting one's time in trying to walk The Path.

We have been given insight into the true nature of our predicament. From that insight must arise a longing, a deep yearning to be liberated from this Soul-prison. Only then can we hope to light the fires that will lead us to Soul-Rebirth.

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