| Temple
of the Rosy Cross
The Soul: It's Powers and Migrations (1897) by F. B. Dowd |
| "This
work claims to contain the fundamental principles of all
religions."
excerpts from "The Temple of the Rosy Cross" , Kessinger Publishing company, pp. 18-19
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| "We
grasp a little knowledge, a little of life, a little of spirit by the
five senses, but the vital principles of science and of human action are
only grasped by the loftiest reason. This is intuition. Are
you a reasonable being, and yet limit God by denying him{Her}. If
so, your reason is of the lowest order; it is destructive; it is
not God{dess}-like and creative. Analyze matter in the crucible of
thought - dissect all forms with the scalpel of reason, and then when
you are done with your work tell me what you know. If your work
has not inspired you with a love of the unknown mystery surrounding and
dwelling within all things, you are an egotist. [....]
Are you an artist? Then take your inspirations from one who works eternally, and never makes a failure. Are you a mechanic? Go study the suspension bridges the spider makes, and the comb of the honey bee, or the mechanics of a tree. I need not multiply words. Whatever you are, and whatever you aspire to be, the power is waiting for you - the patterns are spread out for your study. The supernatural is in all, and all is subservient to our wishes. But it is our work to make conditions - these have no limit. There is no interference - you can be just what you like to be; but growth is slow. why hurry? Is not eternity for us? It is the hurry and worry of life that destroys power. Trouble and vexation destroy health and pleasure, and these area all there is of value. All things are suggestive, for they are ideas; they call us out of ourselves to revel in the infinite. is there no suggestion that comes to you, kind reader, of the supernatural? Is there no intuitive feeling that speaks to you of immortal undying power? Do you not, in your better moods, long to drink at the fountain of life, pleasure and individuality? If not, I am sorry for you. Ideas give fullness of life and pleasure - the greater the idea, the greater the fullness and the power. What idea is greater than the supernatural? We talk glibly of the laws of nature, as if they were fixed and immutable; but they are set aside by every habit which disgraces the race. Furthermore, modern times are rife with accounts of the dead appearing to the living, and of the living appearing as the dead; of levitation and the moving of substance without a motive power, etc., etc.. The suspension of any one law of nature proves beyond all question that all are subject to the same power, and all MAY be suspended or rendered inoperative." |
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