The Rosicrucian Fellowship

A medium uses their abilities to connect with the spiritual world, while a clairvoyant uses their abilities to obtain information or help others.

But how can we protect ourselves against obsessions? Max Heindel, founder of the Rosicrucian Fellowship, taught simple methods to protect ourselves from the influences of discarnate entities.

He recommended that individuals maintain a pure and elevated mind, avoiding negative thoughts and feelings.

practicing prayer and meditation to strengthen the connection with the higher spiritual world, and using the power of love by radiating love and compassion to all beings, including obsessing spirits.

The date everybody gives for his first lecture is February 1938.

A notice in the Rosicrucian Fellowship magazine puts him on a platform in Cleveland in 1931.

Billed as a visiting lecturer from New York, two talks, the study center's secretary wrote up his rich voice and his deep knowledge and had it printed.

He was 26, speaking under Max Heindel's banner out in Ohio.

Says, "This chapter is the series of pages which earlier the author said had been transferred to the back of the book." Okay.

"A description of the headquarters of the Rosicrucian Fellowship.

Work in the physical world requires physical means of accomplishment, therefore, a tract of land was bought in, uh, uh, in 1911 in the town of Oceanside, 90 miles south of Los Angeles, California.

Southern California was selected because of the abundance of ether in the atmosphere there, and this spot was found to be particularly favored in that respect.

"But at the present writing, January 1921, the final work upon it, uh, is just being completed.

The esoteric work of the fellowship will be carried on here.

We have also built a two-story administration building to house the general office, the book department, the correspondence school, and Christian mysticism, which links headquarters with students all over the world, and the editorial offices of our monthly publications, notably The Rosicrucian Fellowship Magazine and Rays from the Rose Cross.

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Chapter 1 Initiation, What It Is and Is Not Part 1 It is no rare occurrence to receive questions relating to initiation, and we are also frequently asked to state whether this order or that society is genuine, and whether the initiations they offer to all comers who have the price are bona fide.

For that reason it seems necessary to write a treatise on the subject so the students of the Rosicrucian Fellowship may have an official statement for reference and guidance in the future.

In the first place let it be clearly understood that we consider it reprehensible to express condemnation of any society or order, no matter what its practices.

It may be perfectly sincere and honest according to its light.

There are many orders in the West which profess to initiate anyone who has the price.

Some of these orders have names closely resembling our own, and we are constantly asked by students whether they are affiliated with us.

In order to settle this once and for all, please note that the Rosicrucian Fellowship has constantly taught that no spiritual gift may ever be traded for money.

If you bear this in mind, you may know we have no connection with any order which demands money for the transference of spiritual power.

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but even they have not reached the exalted standpoint of the twelve brothers of the rosicrucian order or the hierophants of any other lesser mystery school any more than the freshman at college has attained the knowledge and position of a teacher in the high school from which he has just graduated a later work will deal with initiation but we may say here that the door of a genuine mystery school is not unlocked by a golden key but is only opened as a reward for meritorious service to humanity and any one who advertises himself as a rosicrucian or makes a charge for tuition by either of those acts shows himself to be a charlatan the true pupil of any mystery school is far too modest to advertise the fact he will scorn all titles or honors from men he will have no regard for riches save the riches of love given to him by those whom it becomes his privilege to help and teach in the centuries that have gone by since the rosicrucian order was first formed they have worked quietly and secretly aiming to mould the thought of western europe through the works of paracelsus boom bacon shakespeare flood and others each night at midnight when the physical activities of the day are at their lowest ebb and the spiritual impulse at its highest flood tide they have sent out from their temple soul-stirring vibrations to counteract materialism and to further the development of soul powers to their activities we owe the gradual spiritualization of our once so materialistic science with the commencement of the twentieth century a further step was taken it was realized that something must be done to make the religion scientific as well as to make science religious in order that they may ultimately blend for at the present time heart and intellect are divorced the heart instinctively feels the truth of religious teachings concerning such wonderful mysteries as the immaculate conception the mystic birth the crucifixion the mystic death the cleansing blood the atonement and other doctrines of the church which the intellect refuses to believe as they are incapable of demonstration and seemingly at war with natural law material advancement may be furthered when intellect is dominant and the longings of the heart unsatisfied but soul growth will be retarded until the heart also receives satisfaction in order to give the word a teaching so blended that it will satisfy both the mind and heart a messenger must be found and instructed certain unusual qualifications were necessary and the first one chosen failed to pass a certain test after several years had been spent to prepare him for the work to be done it is well said that there is a time to sow and a time to reap and that there are certain times for all the works of life and in accordance with this law of periosity each impulse in spiritual uplift must also be undertaken at an appropriate time to be successful the first and sixth decades of each century are particularly propitious to commence the promulgation of new spiritual teachings therefore the rosicrucians were much concerned at this failure for only five years were left of the first decade of the twentieth century their second choice of a messenger fell upon the present writer though he knew it not at the time and by shaping circumstances about him they made it possible for him to gain a period of preparation for the work they desired him to do three years later when he had gone to germany also because of circumstances shaped by the invisible brotherhood and was on the verge of despair at the discovery that the light which was the object of his quest was only a jack-o'-lantern the brothers of the rosicrucian order applied the test to see whether he would be a faithful messenger and give the teachings they desired to entrust to him to the world and when he had passed the trial they gave him the monumental solution to the problem of existence first published in the rosicrucian cosmo conception in november nineteen o nine more than a year before the expiration of the first decade of the twentieth century this book marked a new era in so-called occult literature and the many editions which have since been published as well as the thousands of letters which continue to come to the author are speaking testimonies to the fact that people are finding in this teaching a satisfaction they have long sought elsewhere in vain the rosicrucians teach that all great religions have been given to the people among whom they are found by divine intelligence who designed each system of worship to suit the needs of the race or nation to whom it was given a primitive people cannot respond to a lofty and sublime religion and vice versa what helps one race would hinder another and in pursuance of the same policy there has been devised a system of soul unfoldment suited specially to the western people who are racially and temperamentally unfit to undergo the discipline of the eastern school which was designed for the more backward hindoos the rosicrucian fellowship for the purpose of promulgating the rosicrucian teachings in the western world the rosicrucian fellowship was founded in nineteen o nine it is the herald of the aquarian age when the sun by its processional passage through the constellation aquarius will bring out all the intellectual and spiritual potencies in man which are symbolized by that sign as heat from a fire warms all objects within the sphere of its radiations also the aquarian ray will raise the earth's vibration to a pitch we are as yet unable to comprehend though we have demonstrations of the material workings of this force in the inventions which have revolutionized life within the memory of the present generation we have wondered at the x-ray which sees through the human body but each one has a sense latent which when evolved will enable him to see through any number of bodies or to any distance we marvel at the telephone conversations across the continent of america but each has within a latent sense of speech and hearing that is far more acute we are surprised at the exploits of ships under the sea and in the sky but we are all capable of passage under water or through sky nay more we may pass unscathed through solid rock and raging fire if we know how and lightning itself is slow compared to the speed with which we may travel this sounds like a fairy tale to-day as did jules verne's story a generation ago but the aquarian age will witness the realization of these dreams and ever so much more that we still do not even dream of such faculties will then be the possessions of large numbers of people who will have gradually evolved them as previously the ability to walk speak hear and see were developed therein lies a great danger for obviously any one endowed with such faculties may use them to the greatest detriment of the world at large unless restrained by a spirit of unselfishness and an all-embracing altruism therefore religion is needed to-day as never before to foster love and fellowship among humanity so that it may be prepared to use these great gifts in store for it wisely and well this native religion is specially felt in a certain class where the ether is more loosely knit to the physical atoms than in the majority and on that account they are now beginning to sense the aquarian vibrations This class is again divided into two groups.

In one, the intellect is dominant, and the people in that class therefore seek to grasp the spiritual mysteries out of curiosity from the viewpoint of cold reason.

They pursue the path of knowledge for the sake of knowledge, considering that an end in itself.

The idea that knowledge is of value only when put to practical constructive use does not seem to have presented itself to them.

This class we may call occultists.

the other group does not care for knowledge but feels an inner urge godward and pursues the path of devotion to the high ideal set before them in christ doing the deeds that he did as far as their flesh will permit and this in time results in an interior illumination which brings with it all the knowledge obtained by the other class and much more this class we may describe as mystics certain dangers confront each of the two groups if the cultist obtains illumination and evolves within himself the latent spiritual faculties he may use them for the furtherance of his personal objects and to the great detriment of his fellow-men that is black magic and the punishment which it automatically calls down upon the head of the perpetrator is so awful that it is best to draw the veil over it the mystic may also err because of ignorance and fall into the meshes of nature's law but being actuated by love his mistakes will never be very serious and as he grows in grace the soundless voice within his heart will speak more distinctly to teach him the way the rosicrucian fellowship endeavors to prepare the world in general and the sensitives of the two groups in particular for the awakening of the latent powers in man so that all may be guided safely through the danger zone and be as well fitted as possible to use these new faculties effort is made to blend the love without which paul declared a knowledge of all mysteries worthless with the mystic knowledge rooted and grounded in love so that the pupils of this school may become living exponents of this blended soul science of the western wisdom school and gradually educate humanity at large in the virtues necessary to make the possession of higher power safe chapter two the problem of life and its solution the problem of life among all the vicissitudes of life which vary in each individual's experience there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone death no matter what our station in life whether the life lived has been a laudable one or the reverse whether great achievements have marked our path among men whether health or sickness have been our lot whether we have been famous and surrounded by a host of admiring friends or have wandered unknown through the years of our life at some times there comes a moment when we stand alone before the portal of death and are forced to take a leap into the dark the thought of this leap and of what lies beyond must inevitably force itself upon the thinking person in the years of youth and health when the bark of our life sails upon seas of prosperity when all appears beautiful and bright we may put the thought behind us but there will surely come a time in the life of every thinking person when the problem of life and death forces itself upon his consciousness and refuses to be set aside neither will it help him to accept the ready-made solution of any one else without thought in blind belief for this is a basic problem which every one must solve for himself or herself in order to obtain satisfaction upon the eastern edge of the desert of the sahara there stands the world-famous sphinx with its inscrutable face turned toward the east ever greeting the sun as its rising rays herald the new-born day

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