The Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz

CONTENTS

FOREWORD: MARIE STEINER

THE DAWN OF OCCULTISM IN THE MODERN AGE I

Spiritual Science in historical evolution and its pivot in Rosicrucianism — Mention of 3^rd April, 33 A.D. — The period of darkness in the thirteenth century and its ending — The occult mission of the Twelve Wise Men and their work in connection with the youth who in Initiation became Christian Rosenkreutz — The crisis in the world of the demons — Salvation through cultivation of the powers of the “I.”

Kassel, 27^th January, 1912

THE DAWN OF OCCULTISM IN THE MODERN AGE II.

Three categories of experiences in the life of soul — Chance and Necessity — Blows of fate and intimate occurrences in life — Fading memories in the life of thought and ideation; permanent memories in the life of feeling; these are transformed into impulses of will — through such impulses of will we can recognise the beckoning sign given by Christian Rosenkreutz to those chosen by him.

Kassel, 29^th January, 1912

THE TRUE ATTITUDE TO KARMA

The nature of karma as destiny — The “wiser being” within us — Study of karma and how karma is experienced in the world — Happiness and joy are experiences bestowed by Grace.

Wien, 8^th February, 1912

INTIMATE WORKINGS OF KARMA

Exercises for the development of memory belonging to the life of feeling — The consequences of experiences in the spiritual world — The condition of darkness in the twelfth-thirteenth century — The resurrection of the ancient forms of sacred wisdom in the souls of the Twelve in the thirteenth century A.D. — Into this “College” of the Twelve, a Thirteenth is taken.

Wien, 9^th February, 1912

THE CHRIST IMPULSE AS LIVING REALITY

The work of the Bodhisattvas — The office and rank of Buddha-hood — The successor of Gautama Buddha — Prophetic anticipation of the Christ Mystery in the Schools of the Essenes — The Christ Mystery presented in the form of pictorial enactment's in the ancient rituals — Jeshu ben Pandira and Matthew — The Matthew Gospel describes the stages of the old Initiation up to the point where Jesus becomes the bearer of Christ — The content and substance of the Mysteries are enacted on the physical plane as a reality of world-history — During the middle years of life a great transformation takes place in the soul of one who is destined to receive the Bodhisattva into himself — In about 3,000 years from now the Bodhisattva will become the Maitreya Buddha, the Bringer of the Good through the power of the word — Vision in the astral sphere of the Christ in His Ether-Form; later on, this Form is revealed in the aesthetic and then in the moral spheres — The sources of Christianity and the spiritual preparations made by the twelve wise men in the thirteenth century — The manuscript of the Matthew Gospel translated by Jerome.

München, 18^th and 19^th November, 1911

“THE STARRY HEAVEN ABOVE ME — THE MORAL LAW WITHIN ME”

The Akasha Chronicle of the Sun — Journey through the heavens of the fixed stars; thence the return through the planetary spheres to the next birth.

St. Gallen, 19^th December, 1912

THE MISSION OF CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUTZ

Copernicanism and the revolutionary change in human thinking — The illusory character of this new form of knowledge — The relation of Christian Rosenkreutz to Gautama Buddha — The Mystery-Centre by the Black Sea where Buddha taught, in his spirit-form — His work is subsequently continued by his pupil, St. Francis of Assisi — The anxiety among occultists as to the threatened separation of men into two categories — Christian Rosenkreutz sends Buddha, his closest pupil, to Mars — The purification of Mars through Buddha's deed of sacrifice — The Mars-forces, now radiating peace, work into the souls of men between death and a new birth.

A potent and effective Meditation is to picture the deeds of Christian Rosenkreutz in the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries — Christian Rosenkreutz in the midst of the Twelve — Buddha is sent by him to perform a cosmic deed of sacrifice on Mars — Reference to the Sermon at Benares.

Neuchatel, 18^th December, 1912

A CONCLUDING INDICATION