Rosicrucianism and Modern Initiation

CONTENTS

1. RESEARCH INTO THE LIFE OF THE SPIRIT DURING THE MIDDLE AGES
   Inward experience of Ideas during the ninth, tenth and eleventh centuries. Change from the experience of spiritual beings to an experience of the natural elements only without the spiritual in them

   4th January, 1924

2. HIDDEN CENTRES OF THE MYSTERIES IN THE MIDDLE AGES
   An example of Rosicrucian initiation in early middle ages (Raimundus Lullus). The experience of the mountain — astral body expansion — leads to an encounter with the spirit of the youth (religious revelation), the experience of the cave — compression of the astral body — leads to the experience of the spirit of old age (understanding of nature). Lullus ‘ars magna.’

   5th January, 1924

3. THE TIME OF TRANSITION
   The transition from clear spiritual knowledge to an instinctive feeling in the 15th–18th century. Revelations in Symbol — The Founding of Rosicrucianism, the brotherhood of 7 — The Sacrifice of the Star-Knowledge and the Impulse to Freedom.

   6th January, 1924

4. THE RELATIONSHIP OF EARTHLY MAN TO THE SUN
   Heart-Knowledge and the Attitude of the Rosicrucian Schools — Intelligence and the Earth-Demon — Lost Manhood — The Dawn of the Michael Age

   11th January, 1924

5. OCCULT SCHOOLS IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND FIRST HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
   Rosicrucian Figures and Symbols — Inner Experience of the Bones and of the Marrow in the Bones — The Relationship of the Spinal Marrow to the Moon — Substance and Form.

   12th January, 1924

6. THE TASKS OF THE MICHAEL AGE
   Writings in the Astral Light and Evolution-Memory — The Principle of the Rosicrucian Initiation — The Secret of Modern Initiation — The Principle of Initiation as a Principle of Civilisation

   13th January, 1924