Rose is a symbol of life and joy, happiness and love, cross on the contrary represents death and suffering, pain and burden. Our view of life is one-sided if it is merely "worldly", care-free, if it only seeks for sensual pleasures and considers death with horror; but it's just as one-sided if it considers earthly life as a valley of sorrow and misery, hating its innocent pleasures, lurking for sin in its most beautiful feelings. In previous case it's asking for roses of life but not the thorns of life and in later case it is not willing to see nothing else than the cross of death everywhere.
Rosicrucian world view seeks to connect the two extremes, to unite a rose to the cross, looking for the golden way in the middle, from the border of joy and sorrow rising over joy and sorrow to the peace that overcomes the world. Rosicrucianism is the renessance of the spirit. It does not support the monk-ascetism of the Catholic Church, but neither the materialism of the worldly people.
It won't seek for joy nor run away from suffering but greets the both as natural gifts of life.
Esotericly it interpretes the symbol of the Rosy Cross like this: When a man takes his cross (both his outer and inner destiny) to carry - and to carry without complaining, even with pleasure, then the rose will bloom upon the cross, a rose of love that brings forth the peace and bliss unto his life. Then the rose has been formed of his heartblood. And the blood is the blood of Christ that has bleeded from his heart when the cross as a sword has been striken in it.
Rosicrucian world view seeks to connect the two extremes, to unite a rose to the cross, looking for the golden way in the middle, from the border of joy and sorrow rising over joy and sorrow to the peace that overcomes the world. Rosicrucianism is the renessance of the spirit. It does not support the monk-ascetism of the Catholic Church, but neither the materialism of the worldly people.
It won't seek for joy nor run away from suffering but greets the both as natural gifts of life.
Esotericly it interpretes the symbol of the Rosy Cross like this: When a man takes his cross (both his outer and inner destiny) to carry - and to carry without complaining, even with pleasure, then the rose will bloom upon the cross, a rose of love that brings forth the peace and bliss unto his life. Then the rose has been formed of his heartblood. And the blood is the blood of Christ that has bleeded from his heart when the cross as a sword has been striken in it.
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Wonderful text!
It surely would be great to have this work by Pekkas translated into English in its entirety.
J.J.
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