History Of The Rose-Croix Sedir - Ordo Svmmvm Bonvm

visions which appeared with them as of the first drop, found that the potion had less power
to save them than did not have any the fight and tearings of nature to destroy them. Thus,
for which is not prepared, the elixir is purely a mortal poison. Among the guards of the
threshold, it is also which exceeds in heinous mischievousness all its race, of which the eyes
paralysed most intrepid and whose power on the spirit increases in exact proportion of the
fear. Is your courage shaken? " (8). It is known that the hearts of the men incarnent a great
number of times and that their deaths are only the points of transition between two
successive lives. It is still known that these multitudes of existences have an end, which is
rehabilitation in celestial Adam. The tradition also teaches that at the time of each death two
angels come to take the heart to lead it to the court of the judgement; but, at the end of the
last incarnation, when the heart finally will taste the absolute life, it is Azraël which comes it to
seek, by calling it by its true name (9); and the place of the universe where it must then die
definitively in the life created is the place even where it is descended for the first time.
Because the hearts have a mysterious name which indicates their place of origin, their work,
and the quality of the light acquired during their probation. As a heart is the king of a portion
of the universe, it involves with it its subordinates by the acts which it achieves, and with the
place where it undergoes its last natural death are brought together all the inferiors who had
been given to him to control at the time of his first descent. Those are then joined together
with it with always, and a portion of the consequences of the original fall is at the same time
unobtrusive. In short, all that we have just quoted refers to the human side, voluntary and
accessible from initiation. Further comes a painful test between all. If one succumbs, one
enters the path of left; if one is victorious, one enters the way of which we will try to indicate
the direction now. OF GOD. 1. - That the disciple recognizes God for higher and more
invaluable than all the richnesses of this world. 2. - That it believes in a God firmly and of all
his heart. 3. - That, by fear of God, it is due to his thanks and its favour more than with all the
friendship of the men. 4. - That it endeavours to like and fear God of all its heart and to
preserve a pure conscience towards him and the men. 5. - That it is convinced that the Lord
will reward the goods and will punish the malicious ones. DIVINE WORD. 1. - That it
considers all that is given in the Writing like divine word, highest and the most indubitable
truth. 2. - That it adds more credit to the divine word than with the human word; that it never
gives up this divine school for the lessons of a man. 3. - That it is persuaded that the word
of God will make him conceive, according to the interior and secret direction, much of great
mysteries, which will pass unperceived from those which stick to the direction external of the
Writing. OF THE INTERIOR MAN. 1. - That it believes, according to the teaching of the
Verb, that the interior man, or the heart, is much more perfect than the body; and that
consequently one must hold more with his heart that with the whole world and all the
terrestrial goods. 2. - That it estimates kind not only safety eternal and the bliss of the heart,
but still its culture and its illumination during this terrestrial life. FUTURE AND ETERNAL
LIFE. 1. - That the disciple believes in a future, better life and without end. 2. - That, in this
eternal life, there are differences between the elected officials. DIVINE WISDOM. 1. - That
it relies on the divine promise which says to us that, if one seeks in all sincerity Wisdom, we
will obtain it according to the will of God. 2. - That it wishes with zeal this Wisdom and all its
advantages. 3. - That it holds, opposite divine Wisdom, human wisdom for a madness. 4. -
That thus it sticks to divine Wisdom, and it prefers with wisdom, the philosophy and arts of
this world. 5. - That, in these studies, it does not keep in mind the temporal honors, but only
the culture of its Heart and its eternal and temporal illumination. 6. - That it prefers the celestial
treasure with all the terrestrial treasures. 7. - That it endeavours to detach its heart of the
temporal businesses more and more, to deliver it entire to the study divine Wisdom and to
subject themselves to it absolutely. 8. - That it does not worry if, by obedience with this
Wisdom, it attracts itself rized of wise of this world and that it passes in their eyes for insane.
WHAT CAN BE GIVEN Ego is this stone rejected by the manufacturers and who became
the keystone. Death of Christ on the cross is the mystical death of the égo. (France
Hartmann). It is firstly necessary to recognize Christ and to trust, secondly to call him Marie.
Neither Aristote, neither Luther, neither Rome, nor the monks will be used for something in