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The seeker today is confronted with overwhelming amounts of information that can leave one feeling confused and even lost as to where to begin their search for the Truth. In The Elementary Philosophy of the Modern Rosycross, Jan van Rijckenborgh addresses many of the fundamental questions the seeker experiences on their path, providing a clear and constructive foundation for walking a practical spiritual path.

Questions such as: From an esoteric perspective, how should we understand the idea of the human being as a microcosm, a 'miniature world'; what is the spiritual significance of vegetarianism as a practice of life; how some forms of esotericism can potentially endanger the seekers progress?

Have you in your spiritual seeking, become aware of the 'Cosmic Duality' that acknowledges the fundamental differences between men and women, yet also recognises the balance and harmony of the masculine and feminine expressions of the activity of the Universal Seven-Spirit in our nature order? These and many other elementary, and often very practical questions relevant to the seeker of Truth are addressed in this profound book.

Beschrijving

In their search for Truth, a seeker will find a multitude of insights and methods under many denominations. In the Elementary Philosophy of the Modern Rosycross, Jan van Rijckenborgh explains the dangers that arise when the seeker wishes to go the way of inner transformation. The author comments on the implications of magic and initiation, involution and evolution, birth and death for the candidate on the Gnostic path, sketching a clear image of the path to true life, and its consequences for the seeker on either side of the veil of death (the reflection sphere).

Inhoudsopgave

Preface

I The three faculties that must be aroused

II The Christ-Hierarchy or Spiritual School

III Magic

IV Initiation

V What will be initiated?

VI Involution - Evolution

VII The wheel of birth and death

VIII Microcosmic reincarnation

IX The structure of the earth and the dialectical life-field

X The threefold, ninefold and twelvefold composition of man

XI The seven-branched candelabrum and the human temple

XII The process of regeneration and salvation of the world

XIII The new world brotherhood and the dangers of the church

XIV Spiritualism (I) 

XV Spiritualism (II)

XVI Spiritualism (III) 

XVII Hypnotism, magnetism and imposition of hands 135

XVIII Attitude of life and vegetarianism .......................... 143

XIX Attitude of life, nicotine, alcohol and other narcotics

XX The cosmic dual unity (I) 

XXI The cosmic dual unity (II) 

XXII Our relationship to state and politics 

XXIII Our relationship to esotericism

XXIV Prayer

XXV The Bible

XXVI The Golden Rosycross

Glossary 

Appendix

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