Gleanings of a Mystic: A Series of Essays on Practical MysticismHeindel, Max
Religion
Gleanings of a Mystic: A Series of Essays on Practical Mysticism
Heindel, Max
Rosicrucians
Once more we have reached the final act in the cosmic drama involving
the descent of the solar Christ Ray into the matter of our earth,
which is completed at the Mystic Birth celebrated at Christmas, and
the Mystic Death and Liberation, which are celebrated shortly after
the vernal equinox when the sun of the new year commences its ascent
into the higher spheres of the northern heavens, having poured out
its life to save humanity and give new life to everything upon earth.
At this time of the year a new life, an augmented energy, sweeps with
an irresistible force through the veins and arteries of all living
beings, inspiring them, instilling new hope, new ambition, and new
life, impelling them to new activities whereby they learn new lessons
in the school of experience. Consciously or unconsciously to the
beneficiaries, this outwelling energy invigorates everything that has
life. Even the plant responds by an increased circulation of sap,
which results in additional growth of the leaves, flowers, and fruits
whereby this class of life is at present expressing itself and evolving
to a higher state of consciousness.
But wonderful though these outward physical manifestations are, and
glorious though the transformation may be called which changes the
earth from a waste of snow and ice into a beautiful, blooming garden,
it sinks into insignificance before the spiritual activities which run
side by side therewith. The salient features of the cosmic drama are
identical in point of time with the material effects of the sun in the
four cardinal signs, Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn, for the most
significant events occur at the equinoctial and solstitial points.
It is really and actually true that “_in_ God we live and move and have
our being.” Outside Him we could have no existence; we live by and
through His life; we move and act by and through His strength; it is
His power which sustains our dwelling place, the earth, and without His
unflagging, unwavering efforts the universe itself would disintegrate.
Now we are taught that man was made in the likeness of God, and we
are given to understand that according to the law of analogy we are
possessed of certain powers latent within us which are similar to those
we see so potently expressed in the labor of Deity in the universe.
This gives us a particular interest in the annual cosmic drama
involving the death and resurrection of the sun. The life of the _God
Man, Christ Jesus_, was moulded in conformity with the solar story,
and it foreshadows in a similar manner all that may happen to the _Man
God_ of whom this Christ Jesus prophesied when He said: The works that
I do shall ye do also; and greater works shall ye do; whither I go thou
canst not follow me now, but thou shalt follow me afterwards.
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