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 By Carlos Z, Overheard on Rosenet

 About a year ago a new planet system was discovered in constellation Cygnus.

 Now, a new diamond planet has been discovered in constellation Serpens:

http://www.space.com/12731-diamond-alien-planet-discovered-neutron-star.html

 The Rosicrucian Brethren wrote in the Fama Fraternitatis [The Confessio manifesto 1610 – 1615]:

 Chapter VII. We declare that God, before the end of the world, shall create a great flood of spiritual light to alleviate the sufferings of humankind. Falsehood and darkness which have crept into the arts, sciences, religions, and governments of humanity–making it difficult for even the wise to discover the path of reality–shall be forever removed and a single standard established, so that all may enjoy the fruitage of truth. We shall not be recognized as those responsible for this change, for people shall say that it is the result of the progressiveness of the age. Great are the reforms about to take place; but we of the Fraternity of R.C. do not arrogate to ourselves the glory for this divine reformation, since many there are, not members of our Fraternity but honest, true and wise men, who by their intelligence and their writings shall hasten its coming. We testify that sooner the stones shall rise up and offer their services than that there shall be any lack of righteous persons to execute the will of God upon earth.

 Chapter VIII. That no one may doubt, we declare that God has sent messengers and signs in the heavens, namely, the new stars in Serpentarius and Cygnus, to show that a great Council of the Elect is to take place.  [editorial emphasis] This proves that God reveals in visible nature–for the discerning few–signs and symbols of all things that are coming to pass. God has given man two eyes, two nostrils, and two ears, but only one tongue. Whereas the eyes, the nostrils, and the ears admit the wisdom of Nature into the mind, the tongue alone may give it forth. In various ages there have been illumined ones who have seen, smelt, tasted, or heard the will of God, but it will shortly come to pass that those who have seen, smelt, tasted, or heard shall speak, and truth shall be revealed. Before this revelation of righteousness is possible, however, the world must sleep away the intoxication of her poisoned chalice (filled with the false life of the theological vine) and, opening her heart to virtue and understanding, welcome the rising sun of Truth.

Chapter IX. We have a magic writing, copied from that divine alphabet with which God writes His will upon the face of celestial and terrestrial Nature. With this new language we read God’s will for all His creatures, and just as astronomers predict eclipses so we prognosticate the obscurations of the church and how long they shall last. Our language is like unto that of Adam and Enoch before the Fall, and though we understand and can explain our mysteries in this our sacred language, we cannot do so in Latin, a tongue contaminated by the confusion of Babylon.

 Chapter X. Although there are still certain powerful persons who oppose and hinder us–because of which we must remain concealed–we exhort those who would become of our Fraternity to study unceasingly the Sacred Scriptures, for such as do this cannot be far from us. We do not mean that the Bible should be continually in the mouth of man, but that he should search for its true and eternal meaning, which is seldom discovered by theologians, scientists, or mathematicians because they are blinded by the opinions of their sects. We bear witness that never since the beginning of the world has there been given to man a more excellent book than the Holy Bible. Blessed is he who possesses it, more blessed he who reads it, most blessed he who understands it, and most godlike he who obeys it.

This illustration shows the alien planet around pulsar PSR J1719-1438, where ultra-high pressures caused carbon to crystallize in the remnant of a dead star. The planet is made of diamond and orbits a dense pulsing star with a radius smaller than that of our sun. CREDIT: Swinburne Astronomy Productions

A newly discovered alien planet that formed from a dead star _._,_.___

 [Editor’s Note:]

The Confessio excerpt (below) that is taken from Ger W’s, Max Heindel and The Rosicrucian Fellowship, Addendum 1, is a more direct translation of these early documents of the Brothers of the Rose Cross (closer to source) whereas the former version is more interpretive.

chapter 7.  So we mortals must be assured of one thing: God has decided the world—which no longer will be submerged. The rotation of the big globe will by degrees slip creation into science to alter the acts and the reigns of men by which the world was mainly darkened. Meanness, darkness and shackles will yield to truth, light and dignity to ease human misery just as God ordered Adam to depart fromEden.

From darkness, an infinite variety of opinions originated; forgery and false doctrine made choice difficult for most people. On one side, the prominence of the philosophers and on the other side, the truth of experience brought confusion. In the event that these things, as we trust, will finally be removed, and we instead will see a constant guideline, we indeed shall have to thank the workers concerned, but the great work in its full extent we must credit to our blessed juncture.

Just as we acknowledge that many outstanding, shrewd thinkers have contributed much to the imminent reformation by their considerations, only to us would such a tremendous task be imposed; yet we take it upon ourselves to forego fame. From the spirit of Christ, our Savior, we testify that we would rather that stones offer themselves than we would lack executers for the Divine plan.

chapter 8.  To make His will known, God sent messengers ahead, namely stars, which appeared in the Serpent and the Swan and such, as great signs in His really grand plan, in order to help us to learn how anything assembled from human discernment would be subservient to His hidden writings. The book of Nature therefore is open to the eyes of all and discloses to everyone, although few can read the whole, let alone understand.

As there are two organs in the human head with which to hear, two with which to see, two with which to smell, and one with which to speak, and it would be futile to desire from the ears, speech, or hearing from the eyes, so there have been times in which one saw, others in which one heard, and again others in which one smelled. It yet remains that within a short time, the tongue will also receive its honor, that what once had been seen, heard and smelled, will at last be spoken, after the world sleeps off the flush of its poisoning and intoxicating cup, and walks to meet the early rising sun with opened heart, uncovered head, and unshod feet, cheering and shouting.

chapter 9.  In the same way that God spread characters and his alphabet in the Holy Script, He has thus, at the wonderwork of his creation, clearly imprinted in the heavens the earth and the animals, so that we, just like the astronomer foresees eclipses, may recognize in advance the obscurations of the Church and the duration.

We derived all of our magic from such characters and on the basis thereof assembled a new language in which we also express the nature of things. It therefore would not be surprising if we would express less well in the remaining languages and in this Latin. For these languages certainly do not sound like those of Adam or Enoch, but were desecrated by the Babylonian confusion of tongues.

chapter 10.  We may not in the least mention that, for as long as some eagle’s feathers somewhat oppose our affairs we urge the exclusive, indefatigable and continuous reading of the Holy Scripture. One who takes great pleasure in this has drawn close to our Brotherhood. Our central rule is this, that in this great wonderwork of the world no letter stands which is not engraved in our memory. They who have only the Bible to center their striving for knowledge as a guideline for their lives and who make with it an abridged summary of the whole world, are the nearest to us and most equal to us.

We do not demand from such men that they permanently have their mouths full of these things, but that they bring the sense of it through all ages to the world. Also, we are not in the habit of dishonoring the divine oracular language, where the number of interpretations are unlimited—some remain devoted to the persuasion of their group, others with old malice mock the Bible interpretations, which are kneadable as wax, because they are concurrently available to theologians, philosophers, physicians and astrologers.

It rather is our duty to testify that from the beginning of the world, humanity was given no greater, more wonderful and more salutary work than the Holy Scriptures. Blessed is one who possesses it; more blessed is one who reads it; the most blessed is he who gets a thorough grounding of it, while the one who understands much and obeys is the most like God.

 

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