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Wisdom of the Mystic Masters

The late Joseph J. Weed was a lifelong student of esoteric philosophy. While still a student, he became interested in mysticism and the occult, and continued to study the teachings of the Agni Yoga Society and the Arcane School. In 1938 he began to lecture on these subjects and delivered nearly 200 lectures to audiences in cities throughout the United states and Canada.

“Here, tight in your hands, are the most awesome secrets ever known to man – ready to be used by you. By using the staggering power of these age-old secrets, jealously guarded by the wealthiest and most influential people in history, you quickly discover how to release the flood of riches into your life.” – Joseph Weed

In all, nearly a quarter of a million copies of his books have been sold. As the former President of Weed Television Corp. and Van Drenthem International, his duties required almost constant travel and contact with people all over the globe.

In the early 17th century, the manifestos caused excitement throughout Europe by declaring the existence of a secret brotherhood of alchemists and sages who were preparing to transform the arts, sciences, religion, and political and intellectual landscape of Europe. Wars of politics and religion ravaged the continent. The works were re-issued several times and followed by numerous pamphlets, favorable and otherwise. Between 1614 and 1620, about 400 manuscripts and books were published which discussed the Rosicrucian documents.

The peak of the so-called “Rosicrucianism furor” was reached when two mysterious posters appeared on the walls of Paris in 1622 within a few days of each other. The first said, “We, the Deputies of the Higher College of the Rose-Croix, do make our stay, visibly and invisibly, in this city (…)” and the second one ended with the words, “The thoughts attached to the real desire of the seeker will lead us to him and him to us”.

The legend inspired a variety of works, among them the works of Michael Maier (1568–1622) of Germany; Robert Fludd (1574–1637) and Elias Ashmole (1617–1692) of England; Teophilus Schweighardt Constantiens, Gotthardus Arthusius, Julius Sperber, Henricus Madathanus, Gabriel Naudé, Thomas Vaughan, and others. In Elias Ashmole’s Theatrum Chimicum britannicum (1650) he defends the Rosicrucians. Some later works with an impact on Rosicrucianism were the Opus magocabalisticum et theosophicum by George von Welling (1719), of alchemical and paracelsian inspiration, and the Aureum Vellus oder Goldenes Vliess by Hermann Fictuld in 1749.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, various groups styled themselves Rosicrucian. The diverse groups who link themselves to a “Rosicrucian Tradition” can be divided into three categories: Esoteric Christian Rosicrucian groups, which profess Christ; Masonic Rosicrucian groups such as Societas Rosicruciana; and initiatory groups such as the Golden Dawn and the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC).

Esoteric Christian Rosicrucian schools provide esoteric knowledge related to the inner teachings of Christianity.
The Rosicrucian Fellowship, 1909/11. Teachings present the mysteries, in the form of esoteric knowledge, of which Christ spoke in Matthew 13:11 and Luke 8:10. The Fellowship seeks to prepare the individual through harmonious development of mind and heart in a spirit of unselfish service to mankind and an all-embracing altruism. According to it the Rosicrucian Order was founded in the year 1313 and is composed of twelve exalted Beings gathered around a thirteenth, Christian Rosenkreuz. These great Adepts have already advanced far beyond the cycle of rebirth; their mission is to prepare the whole wide world for a new phase in religion—which includes awareness of the inner worlds and the subtle bodies, and to provide safe guidance in the gradual awakening of man’s latent spiritual faculties during the next six centuries toward the coming Age of Aquarius.

According to masonic writers the Order of the Rose Cross is expounded in a major Christian literary work that molded the subsequent spiritual views of the western civilization, The Divine Comedy (ca. 1308–1321) by Dante Alighieri.

Other Christian-Rosicrucian oriented bodies include:
Anthroposophical Society, 1912
Lectorium Rosicrucianum, 1924
Archeosophical Society, 1968

Freemasonic Rosicrucian bodies providing preparation either through direct study and/or through the practice of symbolic-initiatic journey.
French Rite, 1786
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, 1801
Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia, 1866, in Scotia (SRIS; Scotland), in Civitatibus Foederatis (MSRICF/SRICF; United States) etc. This Masonic esoteric society reprinted the Rosicrucian manifestos in 1923. A well-known member was Arthur Edward Waite.

Initiatory groups which follow a degree system of study and initiation include:
The Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, incorporated in the U.S. in 1915
Rosicrucian Order of the Golden Dawn, a California based Order.

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One Response to “Wisdom of the Mystic Masters”

  1. Nic says:

    No mystic Master but a quick muse..

    The Cutting Edge of God:

    Non material Dimensions, the spiritual laws that make up existence are strong, they guide & we do not need to understand them. We can be internal, not understanding yet interacting in a way that give eternal cartwheels of joy & bliss.

    – The thought of the external from the internal is matter -

    Out here in the material dimension the spiritual laws shape existence but it is at a relatively un-layered creation point, non-spiritual laws shape as well. When we are internal, our creation shapes the external more than it shapes us, yet we are still in creation. Non-spiritual laws are nothingness, so here at the cutting edge, internal of itself only is getting more and more lost in creating nothing if we don’t understand/respect the external laws (the fruits).

    This is the outpost of the cutting edge of God.

    – Here it is in the thought of the internal from the external that matters – in building matter, & ourselves, back to the non-material dimensions. All of which, points towards perhaps, the guidance & building of the third eye ,but from the perspective of building matter, for greater than 3d consciousness when in material considerations – karmic or whatnot.

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