Seek. Live. Know.

The following is in response to a recent comment.

You are a Seeker, as are many of us. Our seeking inevitably brings us to a borderland, a ring-pass-not. Having seen everything else the natural world has to offer we are left frustrated, confused, jaded and cynical. The world's spiritual supermarket offers us nothing lasting, nothing true. We sigh in despair, ready to throw up our hands in defeat.

It is at this point of abject disillusionment that we are most susceptible to the touch of the Gnosis. The heart knows that there is "something" out there. It is when we are through chasing on the horizontal level that the heart takes a step towards That Which Is True.

How do we know that the Universal Doctrine is not just another New Age scam or flavor-of-the-month spirituality? First off, one must do his or her due diligence. The School of the Rosycross has always maintained that insight is the first step of the Fivefold Gnostic Path. This means that a certain amount of study is in order. The Seeker must learn the true nature of the world to which he or she has been bound for thousands upon thousands of years. This is why Jan van Rijckenborgh, a Sent One, went to great lengths to expose the workings of the reflection-sphere, as well as the archons and aeons of this nature-order. The transfiguristic process was carefully explained in The Coming New Man.

The Gnosis is nothing new. It has been with man since The Fall - many millions of years. Although most of the recent writings (by recent, we mean the last 75,000 years or so) explaining the Gnosis and the Path of Liberation have been destroyed or hidden away by those who wish to keep us ignorant, important works managed to survive primarily because humans do not recognize what they are reading when confronted with it. van Rijckenborgh had the ability to translate these ancient works so that the modern Seeker could understand. Indeed, that was a major part of his mission during his incarnation. Some examples:

Egyptian: The ancient Corpus Hermeticum is interpreted and explained by JVR in four volumes of The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis.

Chinese: The Tao Te Ching is interpreted and explained in The Chinese Gnosis.

Gnostic Christianity: The gnostic gospel Pistis Sophia is interpreted and explained in The Gnostic Mysteries of Pistis Sophia.

Insights into the workings of this nature-order are explained in Elementary Philosophy of the Modern Rosycross.

The Transfiguristic process is explained in The Coming New Man.

These works were not written for monetary gain or personal fame. They were written for you, for all those future Seekers who, after endless wandering in the night of the world, would cry out in despair for the Truth that had eluded them for so long.

So the advice here is to begin at the beginning. You must do the work. Gain insight into Man's plight and Man's path to salvation. After doing so, something within you will decide whether what you have been exposed to rings true or not. You will either walk away in disappointment or you will move joyfully to the second step of the Fivefold Gnostic Path - a deep yearning for salvation. But first, you must gain the proper insight.

Seek the Truth. Once found, Live the Truth. It is by living the Truth that you will come to Know the Truth.

Seek. Live. Know.

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