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For many seekers after Truth, there arise the questions surrounding the idea of contact with what they seek: is this possible or even necessary; if so, how does it manifest; what form does it take, and how is it maintained, and even beneficial?
These important questions are addressed by Jan van Rijckenborgh, taking the reader through the methodical steps that lead to such a connection with the 'Light of the Gnosis'. From the starting point of the longing of the heart, through the structural needs of building a spiritual 'house' in this world, to that moment of the union of the new soul with the spirit, the seeker is given a deeper insight into how the Universal Gnosis manifests and operates, not only within themselves, but also within this world, for the benefit of all mankind.

Using the Universal Language of all times to highlight the one message that has always accompanied mankind, the author places before our consciousness the activity of the Gnosis. Our attention is directed to the fundamental essence that is always present within the Universal Teachings - a presence that always has a philosophical component (appealing to the head - the thinking), a mystical element (appealing to the heart – the feeling), and a very practical spiritual help (appealing to the hands - the action).
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All the original religions, authentic Christianity included, have built up a field of contact and encounter between the spiritual and the transient world, which enables people with a receptiveness for it to ascend to that spiritual world or supranature. The Gnosis in present day manifestation describes how such a force field has been established in our time, within the Spiritual School of the Golden Rosycross. It is a Living Body, which is consciously maintained by joint alignment with the spiritual world, thus nourishing everyone.

Inhoudsopgave

PART I THE NEW PERIOD OF MANKIND

I STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS IS STATE OF LIFE

A new period of mankind

What is consciousness?

The intercosmic magnetic field

Two magnetic fields

Two groups of people

II TWO KINDS OF DISPENSATION; TWO KINDS OF LAW

Two kinds of religion

Under the law

Religious duty

Religious acquiescence

The New Testament

New religiousness

The fourth Gnosis: the selfliberating deed

The period of forty-eight years

III THE NEW ATTITUDE OF LIFE

Rational-moral acceptance

Liberating faith and life

7Blessed are they who know themselves poor in spirit

Living from faith

The fivefold universal Gnosis

IV THE NEW LAW OF THE HEART 

Saying and doing

The law in one's own heart

V THE REBIRTH OF THE SOUL 

The fivefold universal Gnosis

The sign of the Son of Man

The rebirth out of water and Spirit

The separation of the two types of man

The years of harvest

The five aspects of transfiguration

The five soul fluids

Is there reincarnation after all?

PART II THE REBIRTH OF THE SOUL

I RATIONAL-MORAL CONSCIOUSNESS

The acceptance, confession and serving of Christ God does not forsake the works of His hands

The magnificent task of the image bearers of God

The task of the Spiritual School

The moral emotion

The rational-moral insight

8The twofold magical ministration

The necessity of the intervention of the Spiritual School

II THE PROCESS: THE WAY OF THE ROSE AND THE CROSS

Three states of consciousness

The split condition of the pupil Not peace, but a sword

The bridging consciousness

The classical ferryman and the crossing

The impetus to a definite decision

The red Rosycross

Jesus the Lord and Herod

Jesus' walk begins 

In safety

The Vacuum of Shamballa, the heavenly lodge

Jesus the Lord, a radiation-power unto life 

III THE PUPIL'S VOCATION: SANCTIFICATION

From the first Epistle of Peter

Tranquility, understanding and joy through the experience of the gnostic stream of grace 

IV THE NEW GENESIS OF THE SOUL

The twofold state of the Spiritual School

The significance of the material sphere for the deliverance of mankind

The impotence of the reflection sphere

The microcosm whole again

The embryonical forming of the immortal soul being

The two magnetic poles of the personality

The development of a new basis for the immortal state of the soul

The three original nuclei of life

A sleep in Jesus the Lord

The resurrection of Jesus the Lord

The new breakthrough of the consciousness in the present

The coming confluence of the two aspects of the Spiritual School

V THE GLORIOUS RESURRECTION

Not to be damaged any longer by the second death

John the Baptizer, the precursor

The necessity of conquering the world

The task of the combating church on earth

The glorious resurrection

Microcosm, cosmos, macrocosm

The relationship of the two working-fields

The necessity of the breakthrough of the consciousness

Illumination and sanctification

The kindling of the new light of the soul Inner self-activity

The resurrection on the third day

The new period

VI THE HEAVENLY LODGE

Intercosmic radiation

The light that shines in the darkness

The origin of the Vacuum of Shamballa

The creation of the magnetic sphere

The new link in the universal chain

Meeting the Lord in the air

The thirteenth aeon

Without me you can do nothing

PART III THE MAGNETIC SPHERE OF THE TWOFOLD SPIRITUAL SCHOOL

I CONQUERING THE WOR D

The rational-moral touch of the Spiritual School

The Vacuum of Shamballa and the Spiritual

School on earth

The work once begun is continued

The path of the pupil of the Rosycross

The world must be conquered

Becoming free of karma

The seven-branched candelabrum that stands before God

The bonds of fate

Quality and purpose must tally

The magnetic sphere; north pole-south pole

The signature of a gnostic church

The development of the magnetic sphere

The reason why continued watchfulness is imperative

II THE VOCATION OF GODS IMAGE BEARER

The seven phases of development of the magnetic body

The great struggle

The emergency plan of dialectics

The emergency order is the order of death, unless ... 

He who will lose himself will retain it

The vocation of the image bearer

The logic of the fulfilment

The conquest of evil

In the power of Jesus Christ

Bide your time

Death swallowed up

Blessed are they who yearn after the Spirit

All who accept Him . . . 

The entrance into the wedding chamber

The necessity of an attitude of life according to the Sermon on the Mount

The new heaven-earth 

The removal of the veils Jacob and the heavenly ladder

III UNA SANCTA

Shankara the elevated

All wisdom teaching is one in the Gnosis

The sword only in one's own soul

IV THE GENESIS OF THE LIVING BODY OF THE SPIRITUAL SCHOOL

The formation of the group

The development of the gnostic force-field

Attraction and repulsion; the rotation

The seven phenomena of manifestation

The seven cosmic radiations

The electromagnetic radiation-field

Feeding and assimilation

The development of the gnostic radiation-field

Insight, yearning for salvation, self-surrender

The new attitude of life: the life according to the Sermon on the Mount

The Aurora

V THE NEW ATTITUDE OF LIFE 

Crimes and sins against the Gnosis

The token of the children of disobedience

The happiness of salvation and guiltless elevation

A real perspective of life

In group-unity

VI FROM FORCE-FIELD TO LIGHT-FIELD

The necessity and privilege of gnostic group-unity

The ever repeating sacrifice of the light

Let there be light and there was light

The manifestation of the Vacuum of Shamballa 143

An important consequence

The bond with the universal magnetic chain

The heavenly ship; the ark

In the beginning was the Word

The new life-field

The return of Christ

Out of the light is the life

The regenerative working of the light of Christ

Live in accordance with the Sermon on the Mount

VII THE DESCENT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Work out your own salvation in fear and trembling

The summons of the sevenfold Power

Transmutation and transfiguration

The mysterious name of God

Uttering the holy name of God

The river of God, the gulf-stream of divine breath

Primordial-substantial transmutation

The manifestation of the transfigured body

PART IV THE BIRTH OF THE LIGHT IN THE MAGNETIC BODY OF THE SPIRITUAL SCHOOL

I THE TEMPLE OF THE TOMB OF C.R.C.

The necessity of group-unity

The birth of Jesus Christ in time

The necessity of absolute renunciation of everything that is of this world

My Kingdom is not of this world

The wonderful manifestation of the light

The reason why a free gnostic workshop is necessary

The true freemason 

The primary requirement for admission into the School

The legend of Hiram Abiff

To stand on the carpet

The entry into the tomb of C.R.C.

The continuity of the transfiguristic work

The gnostic integration 

The Gnosis

The outer circle around the heart of the Gnosis

The influence of the gnostic magnetic body on the outer circle

II THE PATH TOWARDS CHRISTMAS EVE 

The door to the temple vault of C.R.C.

The noble, unviolated body of C.R.C.

The first manifestation of the Comforter

The birth of the light

After 120 years I shall open

III THE SELF-SURRENDER OF THE I-MAN

Transfiguration: demolition and rebuilding, death and new life

While living, I have made this summary of the universe unto my own grave

The first ray of the sevenfold light The cerebro-spinal system and the chakras

He who is seized by the Gnosis

Group-unity, love of mankind and service of mankind 175

The light of the fourth candlestick The banishment from the magnetic body

The results of the attitude of life according to the Sermon on the Mount

At what does the new attitude of life aim?

The self-sacrifice of the I-man Christmas: the integration of the soul in God

The manner in which the soul opens itself to the sanctifying Spirit

The five soul-fluids

The self-surrender to the Gnosis

IV THE SURRENDER OF THE WILL 

The magic soul-attribute 

The key to the light-birth in God

No new wine in old wineskins

Making the will subordinate to the consciousness

V THE BAPTISM OF FIRE: THE LIGHT-BIRTH OF GOD

The necessity of the independence of the consciousness

Domination of thought and will

The forming of habit, the compulsion of habit

The positive decisive power of the consciousness

How karma is created

Consciousness, the seat of the soul

The longing of the soul and the answer from the Gnosis

The beginning of the purification of the heart

The light in the tower room

Authades and John the precursor

The baptism with the water of life

Make straight the path for your God

The doom of the grip of nature

Really baptized Christians

Use the faculty received

When the way is cleared

Bethabara, across the Jordan

John sees Jesus coming towards him

The birth of Christ in the soul

VI THE PURIFICATION OF THE HEART 

The barrenness and unfruitfulness of the heart

Purity of heart is a condition of pupilship

The help from the rose of the heart

VII THE MYSTERY OF PROGRESSION 

The seeking of mankind; the way of experience

The secret of success on the path

How the gnostic sevenfold power is made free

The mystic-magical and the philosophic-magical directedness

The magical importance of the co-operation of the sexes 

The functioning of the pituitary gland

The binding of the fundamental stream of the

Gnosis to the group 198

For each other, by each other, with each other: in the service of mankind

Consciously-carrying, knowingly-responsible

pupilship 199

The prevention of dangers to the magnetic body 200

The new fundamental gnostic stream in the world 201

A new day of manifestation awaits us

VIII THE PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL 

The coming developments of the proclamation

The fishing of souls out of the ocean of life

Proclaiming the Gospel

To believe and be blessed

PART V TRANSFIGURATION OF THE SOUL AND THE BODY

I FAITH, HOPE AND LOVE 209

Transfiguration: result of the outpouring of the Sevenfold Spirit

Exodus and parting

The classical task of the ferryman

Hora est!

The parting from the world

God or Mammon

Lose yourself

Seek first the Kingdom of God

We now see darkly

Three steps to climb

Unconditional faith

The light of hope

Love, unification with the Gnosis

II THE PERISHABLE AND THE IMPERISHABLES

The second stream of the Holy Spirit - Awaiting the light-birth - Rational sight and real sight Illusive-light and real light - The bell in the tower room - The pituitary gland and sex organs - The occult way and its dangers - The central principle of sin - The imperishable seed of the Rose of the heart

The marriage between the soul and the Rose of the heart

III THE WAY TO THE LIGHT-BIRTH OF GOD 

Two kinds of seed; two kinds of purity

The narrow and the broad way

The dangers of I-centrality

The third faculty of consciousness

The impotency of the I

Looking up to the hills from where the help will come

The straightening of the axis of the heart

The rose is attached to the cross-of-life

The shadow on the right-hand side

The new serpent-fire and the chakras

The temptation in the desert

The serpent of the kundalini destroyed

The breakthrough of the light

The transfiguration on the Mount

The phase of contemplation

Light, nothing but light

IV THE ENDURA

The transfiguration begins

To walk in the light

New consciousness, new sensory perception

The entry into the new life-field

The new soul in the old house

The endura, the neutralization of the self

The Gospel of Truth

The threat of the false rumour 242

What the endura is 243

The rebirth of the soul

Death swallowed up in victory

What is the mortification of the I

The golden wonder-flower

The heavenly abode

V THE RESURRECTION FROM THE GRAVE 

The vital body

State of soul and the etheric body

A new system of force-lines

The four Christ-ethers 249

The health of those who stand in the new soul-birth

The new vital body

The glorified material body

PART VI ECCLESIA PISTIS SOPHIA

Ecclesia Pistis Sophia

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