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CHAPTER XIX

CHRISTIANROSENKREUZ AND THEORDER OFROSICRUCIANS

Ancient Truths in Modern Dress

aving encountered among the public a
widespread desire to learn something of the
Order of Rosicrucians, and as there is a lack of
understanding of the important place occupied by the
Brothers of the Rose Cross in our Western civilization, even
among our students, it may be well to furnish authentic
information upon the subject.
Everything in the world is subject to law, even our
evolution is thus encompassed; spiritual and physical
progression go hand in hand. The sun is the physical light
bringer and, as we know, it apparently travels from east to
west bringing light and life to one part of the earth after
another. But the visible sun is only a part of the sun as the
visible body is a small part of composite man. There is an
invisible and spiritual sun whose rays promote soul growth
upon one part of the earth after another as the physical sun
promotes the growth of form, and this spiritual impulse also
travels in t he same dir ection as the physical sun; from east to
west.
Six or seven hundred years B.C., a new wave of spiri-
tuality was started near the western shor es of the Pacific
Ocean to give enlightenment to the Chinese nation and the
religion of Confucius is embraced to this day by many
millions in the celestial kingdom. Later we note the effect of
this wave in the religion of Buddha, a teaching designed to

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