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DISCOURSES
<The light of our beloved order> <The Hidden Grandeur of Man>
The LIGHT of our Beloved Order
Light as we know is a type of energy that comes in many different forms. Visible light is the most common type which consists of the millions of colors we see daily. X-rays, microwaves, radio waves, gamma rays, radar waves and cosmic rays are all different types of light.
The Light of our Rosicrucian Order, OHGRC is cosmic light with immeasurable wavelength ranges, quintillions vibratory frequency and pertains to the following: the greatest light representing knowledge or total freedom, endless light depicting life, its magnificence representing purity and its enormous brilliance signifying the Cosmic or God-power. Henceforth, during convocations and intensive meditations, the light we pertain to is the Light of the God of our hearts who dispels the darkness of ignorance and which illumine the path to higher consciousness and total freedom. The flame of this light is the supreme effulgence of wisdom, the secret key to immortality.
During convocations, the vigil light depicts the presence of the Beloved Invisible Masters. The light at the lectern symbolizes cosmic guidance to the presiding master. The light at the Beloved Order’s symbol reminds us of the very nature of our Order which is Light, and the candle lights at the shekinah represent the attributes of Rosicrucian, OHGRC light: tolerance, stability, humility, sincerity, contentment, compassion, and truth which the members should strive to live up to.
This is the Light which the officers during their installation sworn to protect as guardians of Light and which every member must contribute in spreading its brilliance and strive to keep it alive in their hearts. True guardians of the Rosicrucian, OHGRC Light protect the brilliant light from being extinguished through voluntary dedicated and sincere services for the Order. For instance, an ideal master of a lodge must ensure the sacredness of his/her conduct of convocation rituals keeping in mind the value of early preparation, meditation prior to convocation and timeliness in the appointment with God.
Any member can contribute to the brilliance of the Order’s Light by being devoted practitioner of the Rosicrucian, OHGRC techniques – meditating intensively, serving humanity with joy in his heart, awakening his body of light, moving his power centers or chakras and who can easily be recognized with his unmistakably shining and magnetic body, truthfulness in words and deeds, simplicity in his ways and love for everyone and everything existing.
Let us contemplate for a while – ask yourself if you as a privileged member of our Beloved Order is living a life of Rosicrucian Order, OHGRC light. If yes, how bright or how dim is the Rosicrucian, OHGRC light in your life. Is it easy for you to maintain a constant or continuous bursting Rosicrucian, OHGRC light in your daily life? Is it hard to keep the sun rising in each body parts? Certainly you would not prefer being in the dark where ignorance and suffering abound. Some members at times wonder why they still suffer or live in a storm of fire despite being in the Rosicrucian Order, OHGRC and we often remind them of the workings of karma and the needed purification through those sufferings and that there are no trials nor punishments coming from God.
Visualize the candle light at the Invisible master’s station, bearing in mind its brilliance, perfection, purity, power, life, love and other attributes of God. If you were a candle, how would you picture yourself compared to the vigil light in the Invisible Master’s station? You may picture yourself as a candle that is dirty white, with black spots, with dim light, or filled with impurities – far beyond or near the qualities of the vigil light. The good thing is – you are blessed being a member of an authentic order of Light – you have the esoteric knowledge of dissolving your bad karmas and who can someday possibly possess the qualities of the vigil light or even be united with the vigil light and start living in complete harmony, peace ,joy and love.
My final guiding and enlightening question is – would you rather prefer to suffer and remain groping in the dark? Or suffer while you purify yourself with the guidance and egregore of the Order’s light and eventually become a pure light?
Continuously live your life filled with Rosicrucian Order, OHGRC Light, help spread the Order’s light and with your True light burning in your heart and luminously shining from each of your body parts, they will know that you are a Rosicrucian – a warrior of light. For you have become a body full of the Order’s Light.
Fraters and Sorors, let us keep ablaze with the Light of our Rosicrucian Order, Order of the Hermetic Gold and Rose+Cross.
Let your motto be: “I shall add my light, my light, and my light unto yours!”
The Hidden Grandeur of Man
Without doubt, man is the crown of God’s creation. In physical build, he may not be the strongest and sturdiest but with the awesome might of his mind, he is without equal. And using his unique abilities and powers, he has established lordship over all the visible creatures of the earth. Ruler of the earth, king and governor of nature –to these positions of power, man has assigned himself.
Yet in spite of the elevated imperial stature occupied by man among all creation, he still exists basically as a forlorn and lonely being. The American writer, Henry David Thoreau had said, “Men lead lives of quiet desperation.” This is not far from the truth: Mostly, man’s existence is spent in dejected pursuit of a certain elusive Something, Perfection, Happiness, Love, Realization – many are the names which he has assigned to this Something that he valiantly struggles to find. And many mortal man finds it not, even up to the time he takes his final breath.
Why is this so? With man’s unequalled prowess, why is this life such a tale of despondency and melancholy? The answer lies in the misdirection of man’s attention and energies.
The ordinary man is directed outward, outside of himself. He studies the substances and phenomena of nature outside of him- such as the stars and the planets, germs and bacteria, thunder and lightning, events and celebrities, and endless others. Yet, has this preoccupation led him anywhere? Has he attained any knowledge that propels him toward true self-evolution?
Of course, undeniable are the benefits of Western science, and one should not, at any cost, belittle or condemn them. But let’s be realistic. Western science, at its present stage, has fallen short of providing man with any true understanding of even the very things it purports to concern itself with. What it has done is merely to assign names and labels to observable matter and phenomena. For instance, science has evolved words such as “gravity” and “electricity” but does anyone, even the scientist, truly understand the workings of gravity or electricity?
Man’s hope lies in gaining re-acquaintance with and understanding of his inner Self. His true magnificence, his wondrous grandeur, his unsurpassed powers, all lie inside him. For the microcosm of man is but a shrunken replica of the whole world around him. Understand the universe of the inner man and you gain an understanding of the outer universe as well. Going deeply inside us, we also evade the traps and labels that delude those seeking outside. For in the inner journey, words have no place. Actual experience is the key. It is the one true, valid knowledge.
Many have already started on this trek inwards of man. In the forefront are mystics, hermeticists, and transcendental seekers. They are those who make it their serious business to study the Self through methods evolved throughout the centuries – secret practices and disciplines which mainstream science is only beginning to gain knowledge and respectful acceptance of.
In this inward journey, some of the initial landmarks that herald the grandiose glory and treasures within man are the so-called psychic abilities. These include clairvoyance, telepathy, heightened sensitivity and intuition.
Surpassing the level of the psychic, higher illumination encompasses the awakening of man’s inherent goodness, compassion, and humanity. Accompanying this is the profound experience of joy, tranquility and bliss, and the certainty that things are just perfect as they are. Every act, every deed, for the benefit of others is performed with a gladness of heart, with lightness of spirit, with joy even. This universal kinship, this oneness, is captured wonderfully in the beautiful words of Emerson:
“The heart in thee is the heart of all…one blood rolls uninterruptedly in endless circulation through all men, as the water of the globe is all one sea.”
Or in the words of Marcus Aurelius,
“All being is one, all law is one and all truth is one.” Gone is the mortal perception of a diverse, multifarious world. Instead, all is now seen as Unity. And also banished, dispelled forever is the haunting feeling of meaninglessness, of alienation, of not belonging, that once burdened man. For he is now an intrinsic part of the wonderful Unity that is being perceived beautifully and blissfully. He belongs! He is one with the majestic flow of the universe! He is one with the Ultimate, the one Something that previously eluded him, and that he now perceives everywhere, joyously and vitally present in all things and in the hearts of all men."