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salome
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posted February 05, 2006 10:13 AM
 
the One is the Flame of Life. the Many are the Sparks in the Flame. the Flame once lighted kindles everything within its sphere. the Fire is everything and everywhere; there is nothing dark or cold within its sphere.IP: Logged |
salome
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posted February 05, 2006 10:29 AM
this is the fifth Aphorism of Creation in Rosicrucianism. it is the Life of the World Soul, permeating everything everywhere within its existence. this concept of the World Soul as a Flaming Fire of Life, abiding in the entire Universe in all of its parts, is represented by the Rosicrucians by the symbol of a circle filled with a flaming fire....the Eternal, Universal Fire, or Flame, which kindles ever all that presents itself to its influence, yet ever remains unchanged and undiminished in its Essence... ...the Flame while ever remaining the same, yet is never composed of the same particles or sparks for even two consecutive seconds. the Flame, itself, in its Essence, ever remains the same and unchanged, yet its Manifestation is always accompanied and correlated to the appearance and disappearance of innumerable tiny particles of material substance which it kindles into sparks, then destroys by the process of combustion, and then replaces by others of similar nature. and so it is with the Universal Life. It ever persists unchanged and unaltered in its Essence, yet constantly manifesting itself through and in countless material forms which come and go and are in turn replaced by other forms. The form appears, is consumed, and perishes -- yet the Flame abides and survives all change. from the Rosicrucian Doctrine ------------------
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salome
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posted February 05, 2006 10:38 AM
Flammarion has said: "the universe is a dynamism. Life itself, from the most rudimentary cell up to the most complicated organism, is a special kind of movement, a movement determined and organized by a directing force. Visible matter, which stands for us at the present moment for the universe, and which certain classic doctrines consider as the origin of all things -- movement, life, thought -- is only a word void of meaning. the universe is a great organism, controlled by a dynamism of the psychical order. mind gleams through its every atom. there is mind in everything, not only in human and animal life, but in plants, in minerals, in space."IP: Logged |
salome
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posted February 05, 2006 11:41 AM
cosmic consciousnessthe Soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after...we live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One. and this deep power in which we exist, and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing, and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subect and object, are One. we see the world piece by piece, as the sun and moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are the shining parts, is the soul. emerson,
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