The True Path

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We would now like to speak to those who are consciously preparing for the immediate future, in an awareness of all the coming events. We want to address those who possess a personality whose consciousness is focused upon the magnificent and glorious aim that lies at the foundation of our microcosm. That aim is to awaken from its sleep of death the last remnant of the Original Atom that lies sunken in the microcosm as an Imperishable Seed, and bring it to new life.

This Imperishable Seed in the center of the microcosm is the foremost thing that has been forgotten by present-day man. It is this seed of which the Bible says: "The Kingdom of God is within you", indeed, God Himself lies sunken within you. Having been misinformed for centuries, present-day mankind has forgotten that the Kingdom of God is not to be sought outside himself. And it goes without saying that if one seeks outside what is only present inside, one will never find, and will stray further and further. As a result one will fall all the more rapidly into the power of the anti-man within.

We call the last remnant of the Original Atom  -- the Christ-principle in man -- the "Rose of the Heart". When the personality is born in the microcosm, the Rose of the Heart coincides with the heart of the personality, and it will be able to manifest itself therein, provided the necessary conditions are created. Thus the Rose is not a part the personality and cannot be pin-pointed in it organically. The Rose is an organic part of the microcosm, and it is always at the disposal of the personality that is prepared to accept its high calling, its one, true vocation, and to demonstrate his willingness with action. Then, as we put it, "the Rose is attached to the Cross", to the cross of the personality. The dynamic personality, properly orientated, then receives the seed-grain of renewal in the heart sanctuary and thus becomes a true Rosicrucian.

If a human being takes the decision to place his life in the service of his high, divine calling, and approaches The Path in humility, he comes into contact with the radiation-field of the Universal Gnosis. This exalted radiation-field is cosmic in nature, and in it the Divine Seed, the Last Remnant, can grow and flourish. It is impossible for the Imperishable Seed to germinate in the field of degenerated duality. Anyone who remains in that field and goes on absorbing himself in it so that it claims all his attention will perish; he will go the way of all flesh. Such a person can never be called a Rosicrucian; he can never, with C.R.C., be a Brother of the Red Rosycross.

All who wish to walk the true Path of Liberation need the Light of the gnostic sun, the sunlight, the solar power radiating from the heart of our planet. And yet, the personality of the person who has to carry the Divine Seed to the Light, who must serve and help the Rose for such a long time, is entirely of this dualistic nature.  So it is the person of whom it is said: "Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God" and thus cannot enter it, who must begin to accomplish The Great Work.

This is quite a marvelous situation, is it not? So marvelous that anyone who fully fathoms its significance is, as it were, shot through with joy and gratitude The human being who has fastened the Rose to the Crosss, has temporarily connected duality and the Gnosis, time and eternity. This is clearly a scientific impossibility, a state that cannot be maintained. For that reason, the dualistic personality will devote himself to this impossibility, by serving totally the Rose of the Heart, the Imperishable Seed in him. His devotion and service will be so complete that he begins to prepare himself to die the alchemical death of self-surrender. He fulfills the words: "He who is willing to lose his life for My sake, shall find the life". The person who dedicates himself in this way, in total-surrender to the Rose, enters transfiguration. It is the process exemplified by many Brotherhoods in the past.

The dualistic human being who thus devotes himself to the immortal Rose of the Heart, knows that he is entering a radiation-field which is not his.  He knows that he will be totally consumed by it. So he dedicates himself to the Fire, to the Divine Flame of Purification. Realize the mighty significance, the profound meaning of all those stories about this, which have been handed down to us from the past! For it is just this that is so wonderful: that if we dedicate our entire mortal being to the Divine Fire, that fire means Life for us.

A dualistic person who remains true to his nature, goes the way of death. Eventually, nothing will be left of him. But anyone who walks the path of the endura, in total self-sacrifice, in complete devotion to the Original Man in him, is alchemically integrated into the New Man, Through the fire of his Way of the Cross, he merges alchemically with the new human being that arises from the Imperishable Seed. He is resurrected in the Other One. And in him unfolds a true, alchemical wedding, just like the one C.R.C. describes. His voluntary perishing, his endura, is thus a death unto life, a resurrection into Imperishability, in contrast to dualistic death which is inescapably accompanied by the total destruction of nature.

End Part I

Taken from The Alchemical Wedding of Christian Rosycross - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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It is a bit ironic that it is the undivine human personality that must undertake the task of returning the microcosm to the divine Original, True Man. When viewed in this way, we can understand why the task is so difficult and why so few, relatively speaking, have been able to follow The Path to its completion.

However, it can be done. It has been done, and it shall be done again, by those souls who have matured by way of the hard experience of repeated incarnations in the world of sorrows. The process will continue in the ages to come, until all divine sparks have completed the Great Work and returned Home.

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