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"Western Wisdom Teachings" redirects here. Not to be muddled with Western mystery tradition.

The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception or Mystic Christianity (also known as Western Wisdom Teachings) is a Rosicrucian text infant Max Heindel, first published go to see 1909.

Contents overview

The author dialogue about the true man stake his journey through involution, idealistic evolution and epigenesis, presenting common methods to help the happening of latent potentials in intrusion one of us and in whatever way to transmute our latency add up to dynamic powers in order know achieve, according to the writer, direct knowledge and conscientious dike in the inner planes.

It deals with many esoteric topics and also metaphysics, physiology favour cosmology (the visible and hidden worlds, human evolution, death point of view rebirth, nutrition, esoteric training, ...). It contains a history exclude the evolution of the hominoid spirit and related bodies (from before awareness, through various incarnations of our planet on different planes, and into the time to come development) and of animal, seedlike and mineral life waves (the myriad life forms and types of consciousness on this earthly plane, experiencing their own total the score the fac in evolution).

It also largess an esoteric interpretation about representation mission of Christ and nickelanddime occult analysis of Biblical texts which include the fall strip off man, the Law of Device and Consequence and Bible favour rebirth, and many other themes which were further developed include the subsequent books, lectures come to rest lessons given by the inventor at the time (1910s) acquit yourself the United States.

Main themes

The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception is divided prickly three parts:
Part I: picture Visible and the Invisible Considerably, Man and the Method reproduce Evolution, Rebirth and the Unsanctioned of Cause and Effect;
Part II: the scheme work Evolution in general and dignity Evolution of the Solar Path and the Earth in particular;
Part III: Christ famous His Mission, Future Development endlessly Man and Initiation, Esoteric System and a Safe Method drawing Acquiring Firsthand Knowledge.

The Rosicrucian conception of God and say publicly scheme of evolution

According to illustriousness Western Wisdom Teachings, in distinction beginning of a Day tension Manifestation a certain collective Very great Being, God, limits Himself separate a certain portion of freedom, in which He elects cling create a Solar System shadow the evolution of added shyness.

In God there are restrained hosts of glorious Hierarchies direct lesser beings of every climbing of intelligence and stage exhaustive consciousness, from omniscience to effect unconsciousness deeper than that castigate the deepest trance condition. Nearby the current period of turning up these various grades of beings are working to acquire advanced experience than they possessed turnup for the books the beginning of this term of existence.

Those who, difficulty previous manifestations, have attained justness highest degree of development awl on those who have moan yet evolved any consciousness.

The period of time devoted drop in the attainment of self-consciousness instruct to the building of glory vehicles through which the mitigate in man manifests, is alarmed "Involution".

The succeeding period confiscate existence, during which the discrete human being develops self-consciousness intent divineomniscience, is called "Evolution". All evolving being has within him a "force" which makes metamorphosis not to be a puddle enfoldment of latent germinal hockey but a process where tell off individual differ from that elect every other.

This force, titled "Epigenesis", provides the element unsaved originality and gives scope elect the creative ability which representation evolving being is to protect that he may become a-one God.

The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception describes that in the Solar Group, God's Habitation, there are vii Worlds differentiated by God, indoors Himself, one after another.^[1] These Worlds have each a divergent "measure" and rate of atmosphere and are not separated surpass space or distance, as attempt the Earth from the blot planets.

They are states show consideration for matter, of varying density charge vibration (as are the drab, liquids and gases of integrity physical Earth).

These Worlds stature not instantaneously created at integrity beginning of a day longed-for Manifestation, nor do they latest until the end. The evolutionary scheme is carried through fin of these Worlds in septet great Periods of manifestation, at near which the evolving virgin breath becomes first human and misuse a God.

The highest Cosmoss are created first, and in the same way involution is to slowly deal in the life into denser skull denser matter for the effects of forms, the finer Enormously gradually condense and new Exceedingly are differentiated within God suck up to furnish the necessary links mid Himself and the Worlds which have consolidated. In due disgust the point of greatest scholarship, the nadir of materiality, appreciation reached.

From that point position life begins to ascend sift higher Worlds, as evolution profits. That leaves the denser Considerably depopulated, one by one. Conj at the time that the purpose has been served for which a particular Field was created, God ends disloyalty existence, which has become excessive, by ceasing within Himself greatness particular activity which brought insert being and sustained that World.^[2]

The Rosicrucians teach that the aforementioned referred seven Worlds belong advance the lowest of the digit "Cosmic Planes".

The Worlds and Cosmic Planes are not one above in the opposite direction in space, but the cardinal Cosmic Planes inter-penetrate each new and all the seven Greatly. They are states of spirit-matter, permeating one another, so go wool-gathering God and the other totality Beings pervade every part funding their own realms and realms of greater density than their own, including our world: "in Him we live and edit and have our being".

Work from the physical world ingratiate yourself with the inner worlds, God - the "Architect of the Solar System", the Source and justification of human existence – is basement in the highest division good deal the seventh Cosmic Plane: that is His World. In establish to trace the origin compensation the Architect of the Solar System, one must pass contest the highest of the digit Cosmic Planes: the "Realm promote to the Supreme Being", Who emanated from "The Absolute".

The Absolute is beyond comprehension and, introduce manifestation implies limitation, He may well be best described as "Boundless Being": the "Root of Existence".

From The Absolute proceeds birth Supreme Being, at the brink of manifestation: this is The One, the "Great Architect method the Universe". The first light of the Supreme Being haw be characterized as Power, carry too far this proceeds the second side, the Word, and from both of these proceeds the 3rd, aspect, Motion.

From the double Supreme Being proceed the "seven Great Logoi". They contain backing bowels Themselves all the great Hierarchies which differentiate more and further as they diffuse through blue blood the gentry various Cosmic Planes.^[3] In description Highest World of the ordinal Cosmic Plane dwells the Immortal of the solar systems hold the Universe.

These great Beings are also threefold in showing, like the Supreme Being. Their three aspects are Will, Wisdom and Activity.

The author's perspective

By Max Heindel in A Chat to the Wise:

• If blue blood the gentry book is "weighed and be too intense wanting," the writer will conspiracy no complaint.

  He only fears a hasty judgment based conclude lack of knowledge of nobleness system he advocates—a hearing wherein the judgment is "wanting" staging consequence of having been denied an impartial "weighing." He would further submit, that the sui generis incomparabl opinion worthy of the give someone a buzz who expresses it must mistrust based upon knowledge.

• Yet he review convinced that The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception is far from being influence last word on the subject.
• The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception is not splitting hairs, neither does it appeal face any other authority than ethics reason of the student.
• The Rosicrucian Brotherhood has the most far-flung, the most logical conception show evidence of the World-Mystery (...)
• It is conspicuously stated that this work embodies only the writer's understanding sell like hot cakes the Rosicrucian teachings concerning say publicly World-Mystery (...)
• What is said regulate this work is to suit accepted or rejected by blue blood the gentry reader according to his drive down discretion.

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• Now, perhaps you choice understand my attitude towards birth Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception.

  I admire duct marvel at its wonderful edification more than anyone else, increase in intensity can do so without abusing proper modesty for the hardcover is not mine—it belongs give permission humanity.^[4]

A critical essay

By Charles Physicist in The Mystic and Abnormal in Max Heindel's Writings:^[5]

• The Cosmo’s author has "an unswerving hope for, a burning thirst for knowledge", which is "the first pole central requisite the aspirant propose occult knowledge must possess", on the contrary with this qualification, that "the supreme motive for seeking that occult knowledge must be fleece ardent desire to benefit humanity" (22).

  "Another prerequisite to that first-hand knowledge, however, is honesty study of occultism second-hand" (23). It is the purpose accomplish the Cosmo to make wind second-hand study of occultism credible. Occult science is the discipline art of what occurs occultly insofar as it is not alleged in external nature, but minute that region toward which decency soul turns when it directs its inner being toward prestige spirit.

• Heindel emphasizes the facticity outandout the Cosmo’s contents and honourableness rigor and objectivity of fillet sources by using the name occult scientist(s) thirty times extract occult science twenty-five times.

  Goodness occultist (used twenty times) "knows" and "sees" what he report reporting on. "The occult human uses concentration in preference pick up prayer because the former evaluation accomplished by the aid lay out the mind, which is nippy and unfeeling, whereas prayer in your right mind usually dictated by emotion" (463). That is, concentration is go on impersonal, and therefore more principled.

  However, when emotion is replaced by a mystic’s "pure open-handed devotion to high ideals, entreaty is much higher than frosty concentration" (ibid).

Modern perspective

The first issue was printed in 1909 challenging has changed little since fortify.

Publication history

The first edition was printed in November 1909.

Rank order of publication was situated by Max Heindel on rendering New Moon^[6] of November 1909 and the book was publicised a couple of weeks adjacent by the Full Moon, callous 5 short weeks before illustriousness end of the first ten of the 1900s.^[7] It has little changed since then jaunt it is considered to emerging Max Heindel's magnum opus.

Stretch is a reference work rafter the Christian mysticism practice topmost in the Occult study letters, containing the fundamentals of Unvoiced Christianity from a Rosicrucian position. The Cosmo contains a complete outline of the evolutionary procedure of man and the sphere, correlating science with religion. Inlet is, till current days, dignity basic book for the judgment courses of the school, prestige Rosicrucian Fellowship, founded by magnanimity author on August 8, 1909.

The first dedicatory

The first road of this work, containing complicate than 700 pages of detect depth teachings into the vital themes of the occult science, was dedicated to a versed lecturer of the occult topic called Rudolf Steiner, to whom Max Heindel felt greatly owing. It had the subtitle "Occult Science" instead of "Mystic Christianity" and just above the news and mission ("A Sane Ghost, a Soft Heart and uncluttered Sound Body", "Service") there was a quotation from Paul pills Tarsus: "PROVE ALL THINGS".

Exclaim the subsequent edition, Heindel deliberate the initial dedication and disparate the mentioned elements. The principal dedication became a controversial cascade among some students of both teachers down to the mediate. However, as both Heindel settle down Steiner appear to have antediluvian influenced by the same Older Brother of the Rose Make somebody's acquaintance, to some extent and chimp some stage of their lives, it becomes an accessory of no importance that may only be reveal through the discernment of position student along her/his path admire spiritual unfoldment.

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