{"id":1080,"date":"2009-09-22T18:09:53","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T01:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2009-09-23T23:17:59","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T06:17:59","slug":"the-brothers-of-the-rose-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/?p=1080","title":{"rendered":"The Brothers of The Rose Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong>The Brothers of the Rose Cross<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>A Chapel Talk of the Rosicrucian Fellowship <\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>August 9, 2009<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>By Jean de Galzain<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>\u00a0<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1096\" href=\"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/?attachment_id=1096\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1096\" title=\"Jean Lecturing\" src=\"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Jean-Lecturing-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jean Lecturing\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Jean-Lecturing-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Jean-Lecturing.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This morning I want to talk about the Elder Brothers of the Rose Cross and their work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We are very privileged to be on this mountain, celebrating 100 years of service with the inspiration of the philosophy of The Rosicrucian Fellowship, which was given to us by the Elder Brothers of the Rose Cross.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The work of the Elder Brothers is to explain to us the whole process from creation to involution to evolution to divine realization.\u00a0 They worked with our founder, Max Heindel, to bring about this monumental work called The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception that is very rich in spiritual meaning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Back in the fourteenth century, in the year, 1313, Christian Rosenkreutz, a high initiate of the Christian mysteries, founded the Rosicrucian Order.\u00a0 He chose twelve brothers, all adepts and initiates of the higher mysteries whose mission it would be to expand the Christian mysteries through the Rosicrucian mystery school, and to further man\u2019s evolution, particularly in the Western World.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now, what do we really mean by initiation?\u00a0 Initiations are internal experiences that first connect us to our past in a phase of involution, then to the present day, and finally they move us through the steps of our future evolution.\u00a0 Initiation involves an expansion of human consciousness and the conscious activation of closest relationship with our spirit within which we call \u201cour higher self\u201d and it includes also the practical development of our divine creative faculties on a daily basis.\u00a0 \u00a0This ultimately leads to the realization and activation of our divine omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence.\u00a0 During the cosmic involution\/evolution part of our journey, we attune ourselves to the spirit, the higher self, through right living.\u00a0 Right living consists of practicing right action, right feeling, right thinking, and right intention\u2014and actually living a life of service to others in the light of love and selflessness.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Such spiritual experiences are the dominion of, the power of, and are supervised by the mystery schools.\u00a0 What are mystery schools?\u00a0 I brought with me a little diagram to try to illustrate what I mean.\u00a0 It looks like a flower, if you will.\u00a0 There are 12 mystery schools on earth and they are each represented by a little circle here around the big center.\u00a0 These mystery schools are not on the physical plane like regular schools on earth are in a school district.\u00a0 They actually are in the invisible plane, and they are sub-divided into seven lesser mystery schools, of which The Rosicrucian Fellowship is one.\u00a0 These schools cater to the needs of spiritual aspirants through the process of working through nine lesser initiations.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So, as there are seven mystery schools of the lesser mysteries, there are five greater mystery schools, up here, that work with aspirants who have already completed the nine lesser initiations through the work of the lesser mystery schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Each of the mystery schools is actually an order of twelve brothers (and I have represented them by little sticks) twelve brothers around their head which is the thirteenth member and is represented by the little red stick.\u00a0 \u00a0One of the purposes of the mystery schools is to provide esoteric training to all aspirants who enter the path of light, in order to accelerate the process of their own evolution and in order to accelerate the evolution of our planets, guiding them from within to enter the golden gate of the inner etheric temple where initiation really takes place.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1099\" href=\"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/?attachment_id=1099\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1099\" title=\"Twelve Around One\" src=\"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Twelve-Around-One1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Twelve Around One\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Twelve-Around-One1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Twelve-Around-One1-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Twelve-Around-One1.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 Why thirteen?\u00a0 This is based on the universal mathematical principle of sacred geometry, the relationship of particles of cosmic matter in space.\u00a0 To best illustrate this, I will give you the following example.\u00a0 If you take a box of ping-pong balls, all of the same size, and you take one, and want to hide it from view by placing other balls around it, how many balls would it take?\u00a0 It would actually take twelve to hide the one.\u00a0 It is an example, a mathematical ratio, something you can\u2019t argue for or against.\u00a0 It\u2019s a fact of the universe.\u00a0 The Rosicrucian Order has twelve brothers around Christian Rosenkreutz who is the thirteenth and august head of the Rose Cross. <a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1100\" href=\"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/?attachment_id=1100\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1100\" title=\"Jean Lecturing2\" src=\"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Jean-Lecturing22-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"Jean Lecturing2\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Jean-Lecturing22-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Jean-Lecturing22.jpg 685w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now, each of the twelve mystery schools has a thirteenth member.\u00a0 I can explain it here if you can imagine that each of the red sticks is the head of a mystery school, and when the twelve heads gather together they form a higher level of school that you could say is called the central council of the White Brotherhood.\u00a0 It is centered (so they gather here, these little red \u00a0thirteens all gather in the White Brotherhood around its thirteenth which is the head of the planet, who we will call the planetary spirit of the earth and who is presently, since the crucifixion, overshadowed by The Christ Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The process of evolution as indicated in the Bible, or the process of creation in Genesis, takes seven days.\u00a0 Max Heindel and the Elder Brothers explain that these seven periods are periods of manifestation that include creation, involution, and evolution.\u00a0 So, in the book of Genesis, God the Spirit within the Universe, makes his creation through seven cosmic steps.\u00a0 These cosmic days last through eons of time.\u00a0 They\u2019re not like 24-hour days.\u00a0 They are vast expanses of time; actually beyond time.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When you deal with these periods, you actually have to deal with a scale that is beyond time and space.\u00a0 It\u2019s in the abstract worlds.\u00a0 But, let\u2019s give it a shape so that we can relate to it.\u00a0 We have a concrete mind that needs to have something to see, to touch, and to attach ourselves to.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So, in the first phase of evolution, (we call it the Saturn period) this phase was involved with the creation of the physical body.\u00a0\u00a0 In the next phase (or the Sun period) God created the \u201cvital body\u201d or etheric body.\u00a0 In the third phase (the Moon period) we created the \u201cdesire body\u201d or emotional body.\u00a0 And in the first half of the Earth period (the Mars half of the Earth period) we went through the process of creating the mind (and I say \u201cwe\u201d because God and his creation cannot be separated).\u00a0 We are part of his creation and we are also part of God.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Actually, our bodies are not ourselves.\u00a0 They are just instruments which we use to gather wisdom and to experience the divine faculties.\u00a0 The real part of us is the flame of spirit which is invisible to most and which actually has no beginning, no end, and lives forever.\u00a0 It stands as a driver inside the body as we try to meet our experiences.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We are presently at that stage of creation.\u00a0 Commencing from this point on, we are now starting the phase of evolution.\u00a0 When we came down from the Saturn period and we had created these bodies, we were moving from the spirit of God into the material world.\u00a0 Now that we\u2019re in the material world, we\u2019re starting to undo all of this and go back to the spirit.\u00a0 This process is called evolution.\u00a0 So, the second half of the Earth period is involved with perfecting the mind and assimilating all of the qualities and powers of the physical body into the mind \u2013 learning the laws of the physical world.\u00a0 Now, with science and the guidance of spiritual philosophy and the experiences of the heart we can penetrate more and more so that we can understand why we are here, where we have come from and where we are going.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The next period is the Jupiter period in which we will be involved with the creation of the body for a human spirit or abstract mind which is the lower state of spirit.\u00a0 In the Christian religion, we refer to spirit as a three-fold being.\u00a0 We talk about the Holy Spirit, the Son, and the Father which basically represents three cosmic energies \u2013 all in the one spirit.\u00a0 In the Jupiter period we will create a body that can use the power of the Human Spirit or the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the next period, the Venus period, we will be involved with creating a body for the Life Spirit or for the spirit of love and imagination which represents the body for the Son part of the spirit.\u00a0\u00a0 We will assimilate all of the information from that body into the mind.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 From there we go to the next phase which is the Vulcan period, the final day of creation, in which we will create a body for the Divine spirit, or the Father aspect of our spirit and spiritualize our mind and assimilate all of these qualities, so that we will have a three-fold body of spirit and a spiritualized mind which will help us to become creators.\u00a0 By the end of the Vulcan period, which is the last day of creation we will have become creative Gods.\u00a0 We will have reached divine omnipotence with the full development of our creative powers, we will have achieved omniscience with the full development of our conscious knowledge of the five rungs of evolution, and we will have achieved omnipresence with full consciousness into the realms that are involved in this phase of evolution.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0So, this is a very long and broad process.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In order for us to accelerate this process, we are given the opportunity to go through the nine lesser initiations.\u00a0 The first vow of the initiate is \u201csilence,\u201d which means that there\u2019s not much information available about initiation.\u00a0 This is an internal process that has been individualized.\u00a0 Each one of us goes through it in his own way, at his own time, and therefore it is difficult to describe to somebody else something that they haven\u2019t gone through themselves, but Max Heindel and the Elder Brothers gave us a few pointers that we can actually talk about to give us a better idea of what initiation involves.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Aspirants to the nine lesser mysteries are esoterically trained through the seven lesser mystery schools.\u00a0 The first four lesser initiations lead the aspirant through a recapitulation of the four previous periods in evolution.\u00a0 The Saturn period, when we built the physical body, the Sun period when we built the etheric body, the Moon period when we built the emotional or desire body, and the first half of the Earth period when we built the mind.\u00a0 The fifth of the lesser initiations leads to the present period or the Mercury half of the Earth period.\u00a0 The last four lesser initiations lead to matters dealing with future development through the end of the Earth period.\u00a0 All nine lesser initiations culminate into the first greater initiation that summarizes the entire Earth period.\u00a0 After that there are three more greater initiations dealing with a state of consciousness of the next three days of evolution, the Jupiter period, the Venus period, and the Vulcan period which eventually lead us to liberation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now, we mentioned \u201cadepts,\u201d and what do we mean by an adept? \u00a0An adept is a person who has graduated from the first greater initiation, meaning that he or she has successfully experienced the nine lesser initiations internally and is continuing toward the four greater initiations.\u00a0 When the adept goes through the first greater initiation (which is an internal experience, of course) he undergoes an alchemical process that includes a biological transmutation that changes the relationship between his physical and vital bodies as well as the emotional and mental bodies, using the full power harnessed in the Golden Wedding Garment of super vital body, I would say.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 By spiritualizing the mind with spiritual practices, with positive mental discipline, with uplifting thoughts and other constructive uses of the mind, they mold their abstract and concrete minds to process more spiritual light.\u00a0 By purifying and uplifting the desire body, that body through which we express feelings and emotions, we connect with the higher regions of the desire world, activating nobler, more compassionate, more selfless feelings to create a deeper soul connection with others and the universe.\u00a0 By activating more etheric energies with good daily habits and intentions, better hygiene, responsible use of the creative force, and repetition of good things; we supercharge the two higher ethers of the vital body, namely the light ether and the reflecting ether.\u00a0 They are involved with sense perception, mental cognition and activity, and memory; and they enable us to do greater work on the inner planes as conscious invisible helpers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 By keeping a healthy body with a minimum of physical exercise, by following appropriate nutrition, and assimilating sufficient amounts of phosphorous into our physical bodies, by engaging in positive, constructive activities, and a highly spiritual lifestyle; when ready, adepts consciously initiate an alchemical transmutation\u00a0 of their biochemical structure from a carbon base to a phosphorous based chemistry.\u00a0 Carbon has four valances, phosphorous has five valances; therefore the chemistry base is changed.\u00a0 Such a process is, in essence, the way they render themselves invisible, allowing them to navigate between the visible and invisible realms at will.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They then have the ability to materialize and de-materialize their physical bodies at will.\u00a0 This allows them to be of greater service to mankind as they act as invisible agents or helpers in the guidance of world governments, as scientists, artists, philosophers, inventors, thinkers and other creative individuals.\u00a0 They help promote the advancement of the greater culture in areas of art, science, and spirituality or religious philosophy.\u00a0 The order of the Elder Brothers consists of twelve around Christian Rosenkreutz, and one of these brothers is specifically connected with The Rosicrucian Fellowship, because it is a preparatory school of the Rosicrucian mystery school on the inner planes.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is why the teacher (that brother that we mentioned earlier) promotes the development of a sane mind, a soft heart, and a sound body as well as the daily full training and development into a super vital body, the etheric body that we call, the Golden Wedding Garment, which is necessary for the transition to conscious living on the inner planes.\u00a0 By analogy, imagine the super vital body as the space suit of the astronaut.\u00a0 His body is used to travel in a different country, one which is an invisible sea of energy that surrounds us but which at this point we have very little perception of.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Following the Lemurian period, into the watery Atlantean period when the atmosphere had much water and we were breathing with gills, like fishes, we needed to build lungs. Several Atlantean floods precipitated the water into oceans and we then needed the ability to breathe fresh air.\u00a0 The floods came in a series.\u00a0 There was not just one flood; there was a series of them over a very long period of time.\u00a0 The last flood dates back about 10,000 years when the Sun was crossing by precession into the sign of Cancer.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So, those were the pioneers of Aryana, which is our present age. \u00a0\u00a0They would gather themselves together and climb into the highlands above the mists and the water and they had already developed lungs and could breathe the rarefied air.\u00a0 But, the people who were living in the low-lands were still in this watery atmosphere and had to learn to build those lungs, because they were still breathing with gills.\u00a0 When the various series of floods became infrequent, those who did not build the lungs could not survive.\u00a0 At the present time we still have 85 percent water in our bodies, but when we enter the Aquarian Age, about 500 years from now, the water will eventually evaporate and be replaced by ethers.\u00a0 Those who have not trained their vital bodies will not be able to survive in the higher etheric atmosphere in the Age of Aquarius.\u00a0 Therefore, it is important that we develop our vital bodies now.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Elder Brothers provide esoteric training for each generation of Western seekers that emphasize the building of a super-strong vital body. The Elder Brothers do much work to overcome the destructive effects of materialism, of nationality, of greed, of selfishness, of negative thinking.\u00a0 Every night at midnight they perform a midnight service in the etheric temple.\u00a0 They attract these types of negative energies in order to transmute them into pure love, benevolence, altruism, positivism and high spiritual aspiration which they eventually send back into the world in order to uplift and encourage all good.\u00a0 Were it not for their powerful spiritual vibrations, the forces of materialism would have crushed all spiritual efforts by now.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Therefore, it is imperative that we help them by learning to do this work \u2013 that we help them by doing the work ourselves \u2013 meaning, practicing in our daily lives the positive principles they teach us. \u00a0So, every time you find yourself thinking a negative thought, you\u2019ve got to stop and think about that.\u00a0 You\u2019ve got to try to retrospect it and see how you can change it, emphasizing the more constructive.\u00a0 When you bump into situations where people do something bad to you and you start nurturing resentments and ill feelings you have to look at that too, because this makes you sick, anyway.\u00a0 Not only does it destroy your ethers, it burns your inner energy, so it is important to learn to forgive, to learn to practice Christ\u2019s principles, because all of the Christ\u2019s principles are alchemical principles that change the energies within and without. Everything we do has an effect.\u00a0 If you think a thought, that thought affects your internal functions and it also affects your environment.\u00a0 It affects your aura, of course, but it also affects the soil and affects the energies around you and affects other people.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s the same thing for your feelings.\u00a0 If you have ill feelings for things that you have difficulty dealing with emotionally, you have to focus on them to try to find a solution, a way to transmute those negative feelings into something more constructive.\u00a0 It\u2019s the work of alchemy.\u00a0 It\u2019s a conscious process that demands a certain amount of effort.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s the same thing for your intentions, your motives.\u00a0 What are your motives?\u00a0 Are they universal?\u00a0 Are you trying to do something good for the whole, or are you just sticking to yourself and wanting just to help yourself.\u00a0 If that is the case, you\u2019ve got to rethink them, because we are all in the same boat \u2013 on one planet here and everything we do affects everybody else.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If we start generating positive thoughts, positive feelings, positive intentions; and by consequence we generate positive action, we will change our planet and make it a better world for everyone.\u00a0 Not only do we have to strive to practice this positive philosophy, but we also have to go out and teach it to the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Unlike others, we don\u2019t proselytize.\u00a0 All we have to do is be an example of what we believe.\u00a0 When we show, by our own works, the principles of our philosophy we are actually teaching it.\u00a0 We are to be living examples of what we believe.\u00a0 We are to\u00a0\u00a0 educate the world about living the life, a positive way of life that harms no one, that respects all life, that nurtures our planet, that protects our resources, and that loves and respects our brothers and sisters.\u00a0 When I say brothers and sisters, I don\u2019t just mean human brothers and sisters.\u00a0 I also mean our animal brothers and our respect for the plant kingdom and for the earth itself, the mineral kingdom.\u00a0 We must put into practice the cosmic principle of universal love and compassion that Christ gave us 2000 years ago.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0As the Age of Aquarius dawns on earth, a Golden Age of conscious living and spiritual light, we will abolish all wars and eliminate disease. \u00a0Men and women of good will shall share in love and peace for 1000 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It is our responsibility to care for the earth and its people; we are our brothers\u2019 and sisters\u2019 keepers.\u00a0 We are to practice love as taught by Jesus Christ in deed and in truth, not just in words, and we are to strive for universal brotherhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brothers of the Rose Cross \u00a0A Chapel Talk of the Rosicrucian Fellowship August 9, 2009 By Jean de Galzain \u00a0 \u00a0 This morning I want to talk about the Elder Brothers of the Rose Cross and their work.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We are very privileged to be on this mountain, celebrating 100 years of service with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,9,27,5],"tags":[79,80,82,81],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapel-talks","category-history","category-lecture-notes","category-philosophy","tag-brothers-of-the-rose-cross","tag-rose-cross","tag-the-christ","tag-twelve-around-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1124,"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions\/1124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}