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 […]
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, […]
One of the greatest assets we can have is true friendship – friendship we’ve earned with a few precious individuals we trust implicitly with everything, including life itself. The dictionary definition of friendship is: “Showing kindly interest and goodwill; the state of being friends.” For those fortunate enough to have true friendships, this description seems […]
Of all that I’ve learnt, that which I really know doesn’t come from what I accumulated in my brain, but from the most profound depths of myself, during the short or long moments of pure silence. Those moments where all is quiet in oneself, where it seems we’re enveloped by an ethereal veil, and where […]
When we think of the word “heritage” we might immediately think of material values that may have been received from the past or handed down to the future. However, mystically speaking, it is possible to inherit not only that which still does not exist on the earthly plane, but also to build in the present […]
What is the purpose of mystical philosophy? First, it must be realised that mysticism and its philosophical aspects are not ends in themselves. Mysticism’s ideas and teachings are but instruments to achieve certain specific objectives. The greatest emphasis or stress has been placed on the so-called spiritual values of mysticism; in other words, a full […]
When people use the word ‘order’, they often misunderstand its meaning and regularly confuse it with the idea of constraint or inhibition. For some people, order suggests a rigid and fixed state of affairs which prevents any kind of spontaneity, creativity or innovation. But nothing could be further from the truth. If we take time […]