In The Vahan magazine (April 1912) appeared the following note:
« The Temple of the Rosicrucians. — It is founded this institution dedicated to the study of the Mysteries, Rosicrucianism, Kabbalah, Astrology, Masonry, Symbolism,
Christian Ceremonial, Mystical and Occult Traditions of the West. Trust that such a work serves as a preliminary to the restoration of the
lost Mysteries of Europe with the decline of Rome. Details can be obtained from H.H.L, 19, Tavistock Square, London W.C.,
please include an envelope with your addressed and stamped to reply. »
In The Vahan magazine (May 1912) appeared the following note:
« The foundation of the Temple of the Rosicrucians. — Referring to the previous publication in which the news of the
constitution of this new Order was given, more extensive details are now communicated. The Council of the Order is today composed by twelve brothers deeply
interested in everything that refers to Ceremonial Occultism and Archaic
Mysteries, and who hope to form a useful instrument, under the inspiration and
help of Master Rakoczi, to resurrect the Ancient Mysteries and prepare the arrival of the Master of the World. It is useless to draw the attention of our readers and of every Theosophist
to the capital importance of this foundation. Details may be requested from H.H.L., 19, Tavistock Square, London, W.C., please
include a stamp for the reply. »
(Master Rakoczi does not exist, he was a Charles Leadbeater’s invention,
which already indicates to me that this "Rosicrucian temple" is very
fraudulent.)
In The Theosophist magazine (May 1912) appeared the following information:
« NEW T.S. SUBSIDIARY
ACTIVITIES
The Temple of the Rosy Cross
Those who look with long-sighted vision over the reaches of history, may
notice that some special thought dominates an era of history, and then fades
away, giving place to another. Mediaeval England rejoiced in splendid ceremonial,
raised noble temples, brightened the daily lives of the people with masque and
miracle-play. Then the glow and the color paled and vanished away, and the dull
hard regime of the Puritan supplanted
the statelier and gorgeous rule of Rome. The Freemasonry of the eighteenth
century revived ceremonial beauty and stateliness in its Lodges, and, even through
industrial grayness and Victorian ugliness, its ritual breathed of fairer
customs and of gentler ways. The self-conscious Englishman wore his regalia
with some shyness, and defended his ceremonial somewhat apologetically in the
outer world; yet, while attacking ceremonial in the Church, he enjoyed it in
his own silent way in the Lodge, and, while objecting to candles unneeded for
lighting on the altar, he admitted them as symbols in the Masonic Temple.
Now, the demand for stately ceremonial and significant symbol is rising
on many, sides with reiteration and urgency, and the hunger for beauty
expresses itself with insistent force. In the Theosophical Society there are
many who find the fittest expression of their highest spiritual emotions in stately
and rhythmical ceremonial, men and women who in past lives trod the mystic measures
of the solemn planetary dance, filed in long procession through the Temples of
the Gods, studied the symbols of the Egyptian and Chaldean Mysteries, and are haunted
by memories of that past.
One of the Masters of the Wisdom, who, ere He reached that stupendous
height, had oft been priest and hierophant in archaic mysteries, and who, in
later days, had guided movements in the West wherein the Wisdom was veiled in
symbols. He —Christian Rosenkreuz, Francis Bacon, St. Germain— had ever found
in such symbols apt means of deepest teaching.
(It
was Leadbeater who invented the lie that the Earl of Saint-Germain in his past
life had been Francis Bacon and previously had been Christian Rosenkreuz.)
Many of His ancient and
mediaeval followers are with us now, and turn naturally to the old ways,
desiring to form a channel for His force along the old lines, and to serve as helpers
to prepare by these means for the Great Coming for which He —and, indeed, all Masters—
are working now.
(For the supposed coming of the
"Lord Christ Maitreya, the World Teacher", but that was just another
lie invented by Leadbeater.)
These are founding in His name the Temple of the Rosy Cross, an Order
which will be devoted to the study of the Mysteries, Rosicrucianism, Kabalism,
Astrology, Freemasonry, Symbolism, Christian Ceremonial, and the mystic and
occult traditions found in the West. While recognizing that there is but one true
Occultism, they will seek to find it in its western manifestations, in order to
enrich, not to supplant, its eastern aspects. They trust that their work may
lead up to the restoration of the Mysteries withdrawn from Europe with the decay
of the Roman Empire, and even, per chance, in time, to the restoration of
teachings once given by the ministry of Angels, and even by the Master of
Masters, after His cruel murder in Judaea, in the circle of initiated disciples.
Only those who sympathise with this hope, this study and this method,
should become Templars, for in the Temple of the Rosy Cross there must be one
mind, one heart, one body. Applications for information or admission should be
sent to H.H.L., 19 Tavistock Square, London, W.C.
H. H. L. »
(p.311-312)
(H.H.L. are the
abbreviations for Herakles, Helios and Lomia, the "mystical" names that
Charles Leadbeater gave to Annie Besant, James Wedgwood and Mary Russak.)
Josephine
Ransom wrote:
« On July 4, 1912, Mrs. Besant went to London to preside the Annual
Convention of the English and Welsh Section, of which Mr. James I. Wedgwood was
the Secretary General, and who made a public recognition of the help that Mrs. Russak had given to the Section during that year. »
(History
of the TS, p.396)
In The Theosophist magazine (September 1912) appeared the following note:
« We have had a wonderful Convention, large in numbers, varied in nationalities,
perfect in joy and harmony. Members came flocking to London from the 11th July,
and on the 12th the first regular assembly of the Temple of the Rosy Cross was held;
all those admitted were from Scotland or the Continent, preference being given
to those who had travelled from afar, and the ceremony was very long, there
being no fewer than sixty-three Fellows who became Templars. The membership is
restricted to F.T.S. (members of the Theosophical Society). »
(p.791)
In the American Theosophist and Theosophic Messenger magazine (May 1913) appeared
the following informations:
« Will you define the
relation of the Temple of the Rosy Cross to the Order of the Star in the East?
There is no direct relation. The
O.S.E. is an organization open to all who believe in the Coming of a World-Teacher,
with our muchloved Alcyone at its head, and he has round him his own special
band, forming the highest grade of that Order.
The T.R.C. is confined to members
of the Theosophical Society, who find in ceremonial a congenial expression of devotion
and who definitely seek the World-Teacher in their ritual; they desire to study
the Symbolism and Mysticism of the West, and to aid in the restoration of the Lesser
Mysteries. Herakles is its head, with two colleagues, Helios and Lomia.
The two bodies are thus distinct
organizations, seeking to prepare the Way for the Coming Lord along two very different
lines. There must be much sympathy between them, since both have the same object
—to prepare His way— and there cannot be any rivalry, because their methods are
utterly different — one working by lectures, pamphlets, magazines and carrying
on a public propaganda; the other working privately, expressing its devotion
through ritual, and making no appeal to the public.
A. B. [ANNIE BESANT] »
(p.677)
Information of the General
Secretary (A.P. Warrington)
« It may interest Theosophists generally to have a word about the work of
the Temple of the Rosy Cross and its relationship to the Theosophical movement.
The Temple has nothing whatsoever to do in an organic sense with the
Theosophical Society. Both are quite distinct and apart from one another, and
each works in a different field and in a different way. But the work of the
Temple is of such nature that only Fellows of the Theosophical Society are
eligible for membership in it. It is not a Theosophical activity, in the
technical sense, and there is no call upon any Theosophist to labor in that
field, unless the call should come from within himself. Having myself worked in
the Temple for many weeks at Krotona, and having carefully observed the nature
of its activities and the force it wields for fraternal love; and realizing what
a great spiritual electrode it has be come for telepathing to the minds and hearts
of the people in general the great truths for the sake of which it has its existence;
and observing, as I have done, the exaltation that seems to pervade the natures
of the Templars for days after the meetings, I am convinced that the Theosophical
movement is blessed in an unusual way from having this activity with it.
I am not myself by inclination a ceremonialist, yet the impressive
beauty and spiritual power of this ceremonial has rather removed my previous
lack of interest in forms and ceremonies. Of the auxiliary movements in
association with the Theosophical Society, I know of none whose promise for
good is greater than this.
The founders and supreme heads are Herakles, Helios and Lomia. The
following has been issued by the heads:
The Temple of the Rosy Cross
Those who look with long-sighted vision over the reaches of history, may
notice that some special thought dominates an era of history, and then fades
away, giving place to another. Mediaeval England rejoiced in splendid ceremonial,
raised noble temples, brightened the daily lives of the people with masque and
miracle-play. Then the glow and the color paled and vanished away, and the dull
hard regime of the Puritan supplanted
the statelier and gorgeous rule of Rome. The Freemasonry of the eighteenth
century revived ceremonial beauty and stateliness in its Lodges, and, even through
industrial grayness and Victorian ugliness, its ritual breathed of fairer
customs and of gentler ways. The self-conscious Englishman wore his regalia
with some shyness, and defended his ceremonial somewhat apologetically in the
outer world; yet, while attacking ceremonial in the Church, he enjoyed it in
his own silent way in the Lodge, and, while objecting to candles unneeded for
lighting on the altar, he admitted them as symbols in the Masonic Temple.
Now, the demand for stately ceremonial and significant symbol is rising
on many, sides with reiteration and urgency, and the hunger for beauty
expresses itself with insistent force. In the Theosophical Society there are
many who find the fittest expression of their highest spiritual emotions in stately
and rhythmical ceremonial, men and women who in past lives trod the mystic measures
of the solemn planetary dance, filed in long procession through the Temples of
the Gods, studied the symbols of the Egyptian and Chaldean Mysteries, and are haunted
by memories of that past.
One of the Masters of the Wisdom, who, ere He reached that stupendous
height, had oft been priest and hierophant in archaic mysteries, and who, in
later days, had guided movements in the West wherein the Wisdom was veiled in
symbols. He —Christian Rosenkreuz, Francis Bacon, St. Germain— had ever found
in such symbols apt means of deepest teaching; many of His ancient and
mediaeval followers are with us now, and turn naturally to the old ways,
desiring to form a channel for His force along the old lines, and to serve as helpers
to prepare by these means for the Great Coming for which He —and, indeed, all Masters—
are working now.
These are founding in His name the Temple of the Rosy Cross, an Order
which will be devoted to the study of the Mysteries, Rosicrucianism, Kabalism,
Astrology, Freemasonry, Symbolism, Christian Ceremonial, and the mystic and
occult traditions found in the West. While recognizing that there is but one true
Occultism, they will seek to find it in its western manifestations, in order to
enrich, not to supplant, its eastern aspects. They trust that their work may
lead up to the restoration of the Mysteries withdrawn from Europe with the decay
of the Roman Empire, and even, per chance, in time, to the restoration of
teachings once given by the ministry of Angels, and even by the Master of
Masters, after His cruel murder in Judaea, in the circle of initiated disciples.
Only those who sympathize with this hope, this study and this method,
should become Templars, for in the Temple of the Rosy Cross there must be one
mind, one heart, one body.
The Founding of the Temple of the Rosy Cross
For some time past there has been the desire in the hearts of various
people to form a body through which the Master Rakoczi could function, while performing
His special mission in aid of the coming of the Christ. The desire culminated a
short time ago in the founding of such an Order by Mrs. Besant, Mrs. Russak and
Mr. Wedgwood — H:H:L:. As no Temple of the Rosy Cross is complete in numbers
without twelve Brethren working directly under its Head, nine other
Theosophists, also deeply interested in Occultism, Ceremonial and the Ancient
Mysteries, were invited to join the three mentioned, and these, together with
the three Founders, constitute the governing Council of the Order.
To recall the words in the
original article signed H: H: L:
-
“In the Theosophical
Society there are many who find the fittest expression of their highest
spiritual emotions in stately and rhythmical ceremonial, men and women who in
past lives trod the mystic measures of the solemn planetary dance, filed in
long procession through the Temples of the Gods, studied the symbolism of the
Egyptian and Chaldean Mysteries and are haunted by memories of that past.”
We quite understand that there are many who are not sympathetic with
ceremonial, and these may not realize how literally true these words are; but
those who work close to the heart of the Theosophical Society, meeting with
many people in various lands, can testify to their truth, and also to the fact
that very many such egos are groping about unsatisfied in numerous fields of
research, simply because they are endeavoring to find the true channel of their
highest spiritual inspiration. For these egos the line of ceremonial is the way
of the least resistance, inasmuch as it is the line of evolution which
experience has carved for them in the past.
H.P. Blavatsky stated that the Theosophical Society would have to pass
through three phases of evolution — the physical, intellectual and spiritual.
To some extent the three are contemporaneous, but the predominant periods of
the physical and intellectual are easily recognized by those cognizant with its
history; and many believe that we have recently definitely entered upon the
spiritual era. The varied needs of spiritual expression of its members must be recognized
and provided for, otherwise its all-inclusiveness will be marred. There are
many whose temperament inclines towards the inner or esoteric line of
development on the line of ceremonial, and H.P.B. certainly recognized this
fact, inasmuch as The Secret Doctrine
and Isis Unveiled are replete with
teachings concerning the Mysteries, in which ceremonial played so great a part.
Up to the present time, however, there has been little opportunity in the Theosophical Society
for the study of ceremonial and the Mysteries. It is therefore the desire of
the Founders of the new Order to synthesize the scattered teachings in the
Theosophic literature on this subject, as well as those in other available
literature. They will add to these valuable occult researches of the present,
and will endeavor to reach, if possible, the inner shrine of each one’s being,
to there nourish into new life the smouldering fire on the altar of spiritual
aspiration, around which a temple has been builded in the ages of the past.
Each incarnation of the Bodhisattva in the past has brought with it a
distinctive keynote of spiritual truth with which He has endeavored to harmonize
and develop the souls of the people with whom He dwelt. The teachings encircled
that keynote, and often clothed its expression in Mysteries which were participated
in by the people. With each successive incarnation of the Great One the chord
grew richer, the harmonies deeper, and the various Mysteries became one
symphony of beauty.
Many of the egos of the present were taught in the language of those
Mysteries while sitting at the foot of the Teacher, and are now striving to
view and understand them once again, to have the veil which temporarily obscures
the past torn aside once and for all. The motive for this striving is in no
sense a selfish one, since it is felt that we can better understand the deep
new note of Truth which the Bodhisattva is to sound, if we grasp in greater fullness
that which He has previously taught, which lies hidden in the long night of the
past. We feel that this is part of the ground in which the seed of the past has
been planted, and from which is to spring forth a rich harvest for the future.
By the study of these Ancient Mysteries and, in time, the endeavor to perform
some of their attendant ceremonial, we hope to bring about this better understanding
of those teachings of old, and thus to prepare, not only ourselves, but others to
receive the new teachings, which are the old in a new form. Step by step, with
the aid of the Master Rakoczi, we hope to trace the Mysteries from their birth
in far ancient times in Lemuria down to the present time, and to clothe them in
a new garment woven by our active endeavor, earnest devotion and lofty aspirations,
while offering ourselves as servants for the new Day of the Coming of the World-Teacher.
In choosing the name “The Temple of the Rosy Cross,” the Founders had in
mind various ancient organizations. One was the famous Order of the Knights
Templar, formed to protect pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land, and to defend
the Mysteries of the Christian Faith.
(Whoever
wrote this has very confused ideas because the Templars were ruthless
murderers, so associating them with the Rosicrucians is truly sacrilegious.)
He who is now the Master Rakoczi was connected
with this body, as well as with some supposed offshoots of that Order, one of
which existed later in France under the name of the “Ordre du Temple,” He was
also connected with the “Rite of the Strict Observance.” In like manner the
present Templars of the Rosy Cross desire that they may prove worthy to gather
round the Bodhisattva when He comes again, and to defend the Mysteries with the
sword of the Spirit.
The chief body with which the present Order is in occult relationship is
a mediaeval body founded by the same Messenger of the White Brotherhood, who a
little later assumed the mystical name of Christian Rosenkreuz. At that early
date the Brothers of the Order had specially incarnated together for the
purpose of assisting in the great work of restoring the Occultism of the
Mysteries, and of clothing them in a Christian garment. Each had charge of a
special department pertaining to one form of them, his peculiar mission being
to search the occult records of the past, and endeavor to reestablish the Mysteries
of a certain previous race and time. The Order served its purpose and was a beacon
light of Truth, which succeeded in dispelling much of the darkness and ignorance
of the Middle Ages. Three of that ancient inner Order now exist in physical bodies,
and from time to time certain outer but secret Orders have been formed, which
endeavored to carry on the work of the original body.
As Francis Bacon, the same great messenger founded in Elizabethan
England a Rosicrucian Order, knit, like the first, through Himself, to the
White Brotherhood. This did not wholly perish, even in the physical world, and
the author of Zanoni was later among its Initiates. In the last century various
efforts, too often misdirected, were made to establish a modern Rosicrucianism,
and those efforts still continue under various names and forms. The great Messenger
to the West —who is now a Master, the “Hungarian Adept,” the Master Rakoczi— has
bestowed His benediction on this new effort to reestablish the original
teachings of the ancient Order and to endeavor as far as possible to purify it —
to free it from the superstitions and misconceptions with which it is now beclouded.
We know also that as far back as the end of the thirteenth century the
same great Being incarnated amidst a body of twelve such Brothers, who had banded
themselves together with the same object as that of the present Temple of the
Rosy Cross. The Holy Grail is not such a myth as it seems, and, mystically
speaking, that ancient Brotherhood formed the Chalice containing the twelve
drops of blood from the heart of the Christ—symbolical of the twelve lines of
the Mysteries.
The time is ripe for us once again to form this Chalice of the
Mysteries, that the world may partake of the Sacrament.” »
(Supplement, p.701-703)
Organization associated with the Theosophical
Society
« Temple of The Rosy
Cross in the United States: Address the Grand Chancellor of the T.R.C., Krotona, Hollywood, Los Angeles,
California. »
(p.716)
OBSERVATIONS
All
this speech that the founders of this "Temple" wrote, is pure verbiage that only served to further manipulate the members of
the Theosophical Society Adyar into accepting this new spurious organization
that would also focus on the lie of the prompt arrival of the Lord Christ
Maitreya.
"The Order of the Temple of the Rosy Cross" was the actual name and Marie Russak had an extremely accomplished life. Your commentary is innocuous at best and under researched at worst.
ReplyDeleteSorry if my words offend you, but historical data shows that Marie Russak was a very deceitful and ignorant person.
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