For centuries, many people have searched for the secret to eternal youth. Even today, there are many kinds of products on sale, or health regimes offering us the chance to prolong youth and vitality. The search for eternal youth goes back a long way. For example, the ancient Greeks expressed their longing by endowing their […]
What role do symmetry and balance play in our lives? When we dig deep into the subject, we find that these two aspects of our existence underpin everything from our environment to our physical well-being and even the mechanics of our entire universe. They may sound like concepts relevant only to the field of science […]
Karma is a Sanskrit word connected with the Hindu and Buddhist religions. Since it was introduced into the English language, some misconceptions have arisen around its meaning. We may have developed ideas of our own which are along the similar lines, and these are easily and often confused with the original doctrine of Karma. One […]
Any attainment toward a more perfect meditation is first determined by the attributes of consciousness. These attributes comprise our highest emotions and sentiments, our so-called moral sense, and those distinctive attitudes and dispositions which clearly indicate cosmic endowments. These qualities are innate, implanted within as an intangible part of our nature, existing as an unseparated […]
Any thought, however rich in content and potential in design, must be supported by an active and purposeful endeavour in order to surpass the state of wishful thinking and find expression as a noble realisation.
As seekers of greater spiritual realisation, we are seeking union with an inner form of perfection known to Rosicrucians as the Master Within, a template of perfection which already exists, fully formed, within every human being. The Taoists, those sages of traditional China, loved saying over and over again that those whose occupation was nearest […]
What is Illumination? As a process, it can be likened to a journey spanning many lifetimes, with an overall target or destination, and with each way-station or rest-stop entailing the discovery and internalisation of something requiring ever higher forms of knowledge and understanding. All desires and efforts towards knowing and understanding the things we presently […]
Within each of us there is considerably more than complex chemistry. There is more than mechanistic existence, more than the need, wish, or “instinct” to survive. No one desires to merely exist in a psychic vacuum. We wish to survive for something. What person would be happy spending the rest of his or her days, […]
We are all aware that we are living in particularly difficult times. Listening to the news make us swiftly aware of the turmoil and strife which exist in many parts of the world, and it is natural that we, as Rosicrucians who strive for a better society, one where people can live in peace and […]