History Of The Rose-Croix Sedir - Ordo Svmmvm Bonvm

notices divergences between the various theories of the famous occultists; work practise
that it undertakes do not give him the results ensured by the handbooks; sometimes even
they are followed unpleasant reactions: bad lucks, accidents, physical or mental diseases,
pecuniary losses, ill will; initiates in whom it had put his confidence do not justify it; their
promises are useless; he sees them succumbing to the same weaknesses as the common
run of people; fraternities in which it hoped to find a light certain are only chitchats; the intrigue
and the scandalmongerings give each other free course to it; it encounters insoluble
discrepancies seemingly: the Invisible one which, at the beginning, often visited it seems to
move away from him and to leave it in the same night when is agitated the majority of men.
The discouragement arrives; the vulgar pleasures take again on its heart their empire, one
shaken moment; comes the dislike, then the land-mark regret of the beautiful hours of
enthusiasm and faith; then the student is in despair and, little by little, the springs of its will
are expanded; it falls into a indifference from surface, of which only knows the close friends
bitternesses and the melancholies full to him with tears. It is then, in this deeper spleen, than
all is saved. It is the grain which corrompt and putrefies in the wet and cold ténèbre of the
covered ground of snow; the germ of light is nourished silently. If it is observed, that which,
presently, will be covered in spirit of the white dress of the neophyte can discover from its
weaknesses or its last compromisings comes each one of its sufferings. Consequently, the
feeling of justice immanente the celandine; it has a presentiment of that all is not lost: it
touches with the gate of the pronaos. How will it open it? We will see it as for the clean
temple of the Rosicrucian brotherhood. The following maxims require, to have all their effect,
to be obeyed the letter, and absolutely; that their apparent simplicity does not reject the
researcher. The simple only one is true; the simple only one is powerful. It is understood
that we speak for the Christian Westerners *** These maxims do not claim to replace the
Gospel, because that which would carry out only some of the precepts of this divine book
would be more than Rosicrucian brotherhood. One will find here only one drive clean to
make the researcher able to feel and include/understand the lessons of this last school. This
drive can be divided into three periods: the recovery of oneself, behaviour towards its
similar, interior culture. A. - First of all, it is necessary you to account for the excellence
superhuman of the type of perfection which offer to us the life, the acts and the words of
Our-Lord Jesus-Christ. Study them as containing all that it is possible to the man to know;
know that the practice is more effective than the theory; uproot in you the impassioned love
of the visible things; appointment counts that they are only the imperfect signs of perfect
Beauté. Flee the reputation; see, in the others, the good and, in you, the evil. No progress
is possible without sincere humility. Examine like all sciences and all human philosophies are
partial, provisional and momentary. If you manage to hear in you the voice of the Verb, you
will connaitrez the truth and you will live in the eternal. For that, it is enough to arrive at the
knowledge of oneself, i.e. to distinguish if the radical mobiles which make us act and think
come from selfishness or the Sky; to that which abdicates its own will God gives true
science. However weigh all things, external and interior. Help yourself and the Sky T reside
especially at that which considers the least and the last. B - Thus serve everyone; but do
not await anything in recognition; would give one his life for his similar which one would have
made only his duty. Do not seek the company, familiarity, the stations; remain where the
Destiny, i.e. God, placed you; the Sky will as well find you in a graver as in a palate, and in
Paris that on the Himalayas. Only speak to say something of useful or encouraging. You
occupy, in the temporal one, only of that with which your state charges you. Fight against
your defects, step by step, as a house builds brick with brick; try never not to yield. Delight
you by the tests, miseries and temptations; the Sky offers of each one to you the means of
making great progress. Never flee the effort, even most vulgar, even that which seems
useless. You do not astonish if the fights morals and material reappear indefinitely; you work
for mankind and God. Take care that spiritual pride or selfishness does not rise in you.
Nourish the brotherly love; support others all it in what it obstructs you; understand that all
the men are not, really, qu only one being. C - never yield to ego, even in the smallest
things. Inform you of work of the servants of God, in the last centuries; have fire in you;