The Three Pillars

 

 

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The ancient Universal Teachings being offered in our time are, living and in unveiled words, transmitted to true Seekers by the modern Rosycross. These ancient teachings rest upon three fundamental insights, upon Three Pillars. They are:

• knowledge of the two nature-orders; a Divine one and a degenerated one;
• knowledge of the two natures of man as a perishable personality in an imperishable microcosm
• knowledge of the liberation of man from the cycle of reincarnation, via Transfiguration

The Two Nature-Orders

When Jesus speaks about the Kingdom of Heaven, and the Buddha about Nirvana, or Lao Tzu about Tao, they are not referring to the reflection-sphere 'hereafter' where the so-called dead sojourn. Earthly life and the hereafter are the two inseparable halves of this fallen nature-order, of dialectical nature. In this un-divine nature, instability and continuously alternating pairs of opposites rule. Whatever originates on earth, its opposite is simultaneously generated. By being, non-being is invoked.

Everything created is perishable. Nirvana is the non-being of this world of opposites; of earthly-being and non-being. Eternity simply is. Whoever exists in this Divine field is not subject to perishability, decay and death. He lives in harmony with Creation, in freedom, as a creative fellow worker. All messengers, all great Sons of God and all Holy Scriptures, like the Bible, in which the words of these messengers are recorded and passed on, testify to this Divine Kingdom. People usually do not believe the Divine message because they cannot see the Divine Kingdom with their natural senses. They turn away from, or even against, the redeeming Word as long as their distress does not give them ears to 'hear' and as long as the state of their own inner being is not a testimony to the Truth of this message, contrary to all external manifestations of willfulness.

The Small Human World

The human-being is a part of the earthly un-divine nature-order, for he has been created from it. His biological body has been built with the atoms of the nature-order of death; his astral and etheric bodies have been shaped from the more tenuous substances of this nature-order. Nothing of this natural baggage has eternal value. The second pillar of the Universal Teachings concerns the teachings of human nature and explains them.

All Messengers of the Light reveal to us that the human-being carries a spark of the eternal Light within him. Jesus called it the Kingdom of God within you; oriental philosophy speaks of the Jewel in the Lotus; the Rosicrucians speak of the Spirit-spark atom or the Rose of the Heart. The theosophists characteristically call it the Last Remnant of the Divine Human-Being.

The Microcosm Tumbles Through Space Out Of Control

The Original Fatherland of the human-being is not the dialectical nature-order, but the Kingdom of Heaven. There, he was created as one of the Sons of God, meant for a life in the eternal Divine Order. He was a shining microcosm, the expression of all powers and possibilities of the Divine Microcosm. The Universal Teachings state that I-centrality caused his fall. The lights of the microcosm were extinguished; the Divine Nucleus withdrew from the fallen being; the Divine Soul sunk into a deep sleep and the out-of-control microcosm tumbled aimlessly through chaos.

In order to save the fallen Children of God, the earthly human-being was built from the forces of nature and implanted into the microcosm as a living, ensouled and conscious being. With the help of this implanted, mortal human-being, the microcosm was able to acquire a certain form of life and consciousness and gain experience. In this unbalanced pairing of microcosm and earthly human-being, only the Lotus or Rose, the sleeping primordial principle, is still Divine. Due to the Rose, the earthly human-being is gifted and plagued. It torments him, it disturbs his peace in the world, but it also grants him the possibility to understand the Divine Word.

After an endless chain of incarnations, the microcosm becomes tired of its journey far from home. The Soul-Nucleus wakes up, and through the Original Atom's longing for its Divine Fatherland, the human-being is disturbed and driven on until he answers its Call, begins to Seek, and one day will be standing before the gate of the New Life asking to be admitted. The whole dialectical nature-order was developed to help people, to enable them to listen to the awakening Soul and, by obeying this Inner Voice, purify their microcosm.

Breaking Through The Cycle Of Life And Death

The teaching of the transformation of what is mortal into what is Immortal is the third pillar of the Universal Teachings: the knowledge of the Liberation of the human-being from the cycle of birth and death, the gospel of the resurrection of what is Eternal in a human-being. The earthly, physical human-being has been entrusted with the great task of liberating the microcosm he inhabits. Without his insight and cooperation, this Liberation is not possible. But when a human-being surrenders, and thus becomes a servant of the process of Salvation, he is taken up into what is Immortal through the process of Transformation: Death is swallowed up in Victory, Paul says.

The process of transformation, Transfiguration, means the destruction of the old temple and the construction of a new one in three days, as Jesus promises. Through this process, the whole microcosm with its Spiritual form, its Soul form and it Bodily form is renewed and becomes Immortal. He becomes an inhabitant of the Kingdom of Heaven again and a brother of the Children of God. This tremendous process can only be accomplished in the power-field of a Spiritual School, because this power-field makes available the forces and possibilities for the birth of a New Human-Being.

He who decides to walk this Path and devotes himself to it with all his strength , will withdraw his attention and longing from the earthly world and will focus ever better on the New Genesis. His longing for the New Life will give him the strength to neutralize his old being and, in this way, the New Soul will be awakened out of the dormant Divine Spark. Through the neutralization of the "I", the microcosm is purified and withdraws from the influence of the rulers of the dialectical world order (the archons and the aeons). The previously extinguished lights of the Original Microcosm will shine again as in a new firmament. The Spirit can again link itself to this renewed system. When the alchemical wedding has been celebrated, and the Spirit has been reunited with the renewed Soul, the microcosm has been saved and has returned Home. He who enables this Homecoming has sacrificed his mortal, un-divine soul in this process. He is taken up in the New Soul and at death he discards his physical body as a dead leaf.

From "The Three Pillars of the Eternal Truth" - Rosicrucians Through The Ages - K. Dietzfelbinger

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That's basically it, in a nutshell.

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