tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.comments2020-04-20T03:20:28.522-05:00A Thirteen Petalled Rose, a Cup of Blessing.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-67243429082561451942018-07-10T23:11:36.699-05:002018-07-10T23:11:36.699-05:00Jason,
Universal awakening, coming to know one&#...Jason, <br /><br />Universal awakening, coming to know one's own self as a rational soul, is very much a Platonic ideal. I am here purposefully reading the R+C as inherently being Platonic in nature, which from the Fama and Wedding I think is justifiable. That said, it is my interpretation of the material and not something explicit in it.<br /><br />The notion of fulfillment sound very Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-42000091095393431882018-07-08T09:32:48.624-05:002018-07-08T09:32:48.624-05:00Reading through this - and as somebody who barely ...Reading through this - and as somebody who barely knows enough about what you're talking about to be dangerous - I'm struck by the commonality of the end goal being a universal awakening. I'm curious about your thoughts regarding the possible application of Mazlow's Hierarchy of Needs as guidelines, considering its similar end-goal of self-actualization.<br /><br />It's Wolfemannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00006811744865678493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-45777182844484395352018-07-07T20:37:50.491-05:002018-07-07T20:37:50.491-05:00That’s a question that I have been making to mysel...That’s a question that I have been making to myself from many years ago until today. As a result of my reflections and meditations it came up that the ultimate goal of a Rosicrucian is the change in consciousness as only them Healing will be a requirement and harmony with others it’s consequence.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14832023257828057126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-53753622845134167702018-07-07T13:20:51.245-05:002018-07-07T13:20:51.245-05:00Absolutely, Alex, and thank you. What you describe...Absolutely, Alex, and thank you. What you describe is the basis of Daoist and Confucian political theory, too. Become an outstanding person in your community and the people in your community, seeing how you live, will strive to do the same.<br /><br />-JeffreyAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08784188787025736678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-33588844249797969642018-07-07T13:01:54.731-05:002018-07-07T13:01:54.731-05:00first of all its to say that I enjoyed your text M...first of all its to say that I enjoyed your text Mr. Kupperman. I had the thought, that the activity of healing others, as the only profession of a true rosircucian, may have consequences as far as the society, in which it occurs on a daily and regular basis, extends.<br /><br />If people with an internally and externally harmonious character, with elements that support and regard each other Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15286289428874516061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-62082665844690327312018-07-06T20:01:28.980-05:002018-07-06T20:01:28.980-05:00A note on the R+C and theurgy:
While the Fama and...A note on the R+C and theurgy:<br /><br />While the Fama and other original R+C texts do not have a significant emphasis on theurgy, the similarities between the goals of R+C PolySci and theurgic demiurgy are striking. This demiurgy, or the theurgic partaking in the work of the Divine Mind as it orders the generative cosmos, ultimately has the same goal as theurgy, theosis, and the Platonic Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-91063440804776023602015-05-10T00:34:16.232-05:002015-05-10T00:34:16.232-05:00Lol..
There are a few folks thinking about startin...Lol..<br />There are a few folks thinking about starting one that fit's today..<br />http://conspiro.net/groups/order-of-the-rosy-cross/Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10938191709323747410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-67875940734985386052015-03-08T18:21:54.007-05:002015-03-08T18:21:54.007-05:00Good stuff! It's nice to see Platonism rendere...Good stuff! It's nice to see Platonism rendered in everyday terms.<br /><br />I'm not sure what happens once the projection is over either. As a side note, Proclus claims that our individual soul requires a body in-order to continue to exist. So even when our physical body is decomposing in the ground, our soul continues with what he calls the perpetual body or a vehicle (ochema) of soul.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-23657734353839331022015-02-18T16:11:09.579-06:002015-02-18T16:11:09.579-06:00Life is the initiation. When the work takes on a l...Life is the initiation. When the work takes on a life and timing of it's own, when you give up control, when ritual is not needed to slip into that state of awareness, when you talk to god like a friend...when strangers cant help but smile at you is when you know (and this is totally disregarding the psychosomatic effects of theurgy).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-89939512908391268442013-04-04T01:58:53.547-05:002013-04-04T01:58:53.547-05:00Personally I think #2 "time" is the only...Personally I think #2 "time" is the only reason I would never want to start my own rosicrucian order. I really don't have the time to sit around and write long winded diatribes about how my order is better than every other order and my order is more legitimate than every other order and everyone involved in every order but mine is really part of the black botherhood trying to Worlock93https://www.blogger.com/profile/03750508137525448549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-70987135388240471042013-03-24T19:55:42.338-05:002013-03-24T19:55:42.338-05:00Under no circumstances.Under no circumstances.Tony Silviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12867004388755235198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-15165756101147978442013-03-24T08:21:36.036-05:002013-03-24T08:21:36.036-05:00I would disagree. He was the impetus for a society...I would disagree. He was the impetus for a society, or many such societies, to form, and he brought together the people who, including himself, made up that society. But if he were just standing around by himself on Abiegnus, he would not have been a society. All I'm saying is that I'm not standing around by myself. Of course, I'm also not an allegory concerning, amongst other things,Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-49858318861467551452013-03-24T00:58:03.565-05:002013-03-24T00:58:03.565-05:00Christian Rosenkrutz did.Christian Rosenkrutz did.Monsignor Scott Rassbachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11685549734111626335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-66754068357455656632013-03-18T12:18:11.987-05:002013-03-18T12:18:11.987-05:00Quite possibly. The question remains: What is bein...Quite possibly. The question remains: What is being covered up? I'd vote for Nazi-fighting Rosicrucians, but NBC cancelled that show.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-68124362328355438602013-03-18T12:13:10.668-05:002013-03-18T12:13:10.668-05:00We all know that this is just an elaborate cover-u...We all know that this is just an elaborate cover-up.<br /><br />-DDean F. Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17228365620469003139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-22132711115290805792013-03-14T15:26:03.226-05:002013-03-14T15:26:03.226-05:00Are communion wafers sliced? ;-)
Seriously, part ...Are communion wafers sliced? ;-)<br /><br />Seriously, part of this might be the "angry (ex-)Catholics" thing: feeling bitter that one's (ex-)church hasn't yet reformed. It's hard to walk away from that. It's especially hard if one is still in the church in question, and it's still hard if one felt forced out, either by conscience or by the church's leadership.HilbertAstronauthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11443786031975040593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-29453529218083006862013-03-14T13:42:04.896-05:002013-03-14T13:42:04.896-05:00I'd go with "death threats" but that...I'd go with "death threats" but that probably wouldn't bother me.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-56206547954530039832013-03-14T13:36:48.868-05:002013-03-14T13:36:48.868-05:00I'm going to need some better reasons. ;)I'm going to need some better reasons. ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-91459444280013903492013-03-14T12:51:33.479-05:002013-03-14T12:51:33.479-05:00Shh...Shh...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-73905326954807980912013-03-14T12:45:35.623-05:002013-03-14T12:45:35.623-05:00So.... no Initiator Jayne hats?So.... no Initiator Jayne hats?MysticalMundanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02471469049852211850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-44063235714586653692013-03-07T22:09:57.986-06:002013-03-07T22:09:57.986-06:00As long as I don't end up hidden in some sarco...As long as I don't end up hidden in some sarcophagus in a lost vault for 120 years.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-76012849698647693502013-03-07T22:06:28.814-06:002013-03-07T22:06:28.814-06:00"That, anyway, is something like what a Rosic..."That, anyway, is something like what a Rosicrucian Order would look like if I were to start one. Which I'm not."<br /><br />Funny how these things work; you probably just did.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-38636659239788512622013-03-07T21:19:55.630-06:002013-03-07T21:19:55.630-06:00Germany from 1600s to WW1 is all about comparing o...Germany from 1600s to WW1 is all about comparing oneself to France, i guess ;-)<br /><br />i agree about Neoplatonism. It's about the only religious framework i can stand at this point.HilbertAstronauthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11443786031975040593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-45098728583303266842013-03-06T08:19:02.379-06:002013-03-06T08:19:02.379-06:00You are correct, at least if we are taking the Fam...You are correct, at least if we are taking the Fama and Confessio as original, some posit a significantly older origin. At any rate, the Fama has elements of early German nationalism and very particular anti-Catholic, or at least anti-Papal, views. Neither of which may necessarily be appropriate for today's practitioners but make sense when you look at the social context from which these Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-8422658905345012302013-03-05T22:26:53.690-06:002013-03-05T22:26:53.690-06:00i'm not an expert at all, but my sense of the ...i'm not an expert at all, but my sense of the "original Rosicrucians" was that they were heavily invested in a program of religious and political unity. It would be tricky to execute this in modern times.HilbertAstronauthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11443786031975040593noreply@blogger.com