The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, or Christian Occult Science (1910) - Page 19

CONTENTS.

Birth of the Individual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Separation of the Sexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Influence of Mars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
The Races and Their Leaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Influence of Mercury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
The Lemurian Race In this context, a reference to a hypothesized ancient continent and race in esoteric history. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
The Fall of Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
The Lucifer Spirits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
The Atlantean Epoch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
The Aryan Epoch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
The Sixteen Paths to Destruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

CHAPTER XIII. Back to the Bible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

CHAPTER XIV. Occult Analysis of Genesis.
Limitations of the Bible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
In the Beginning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
The Nebular Theory The scientific and esoteric theory that the solar system formed from gaseous clouds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
The Creative Hierarchies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
The Saturn Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
The Sun Period, the Moon Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
The Earth Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Jehovah and His Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Involution, Evolution, and Epigenesis Epigenesis: the theory that new forms and structures emerge during development that were not previously present. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
A Living Soul? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
Adam’s Rib . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Guardian Angels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
Mixing Blood in Marriage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
The Fall of Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
Diagram 13. The Beginning and End of Sex . . . . . . . . . . . 364

PART III.

MAN’S FUTURE DEVELOPMENT AND INITIATION.

Diagram. The Seven Days of Creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
The Evolution of Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Jesus and Christ-Jesus The author distinguishes between the historical person Jesus and the cosmic Christ spirit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
Diagram 14. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit . . . 377
Not Peace but a Sword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
The Star of Bethlehem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
The Heart an Anomaly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
The Mystery of Golgotha Golgotha: the site of the crucifixion; here used to discuss the spiritual significance of that event. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
The Cleansing Blood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

CHAPTER XV. Christ and His Mission.
Diagram. "As Above, so Below" original: Sicut superius, sic inferius—a central tenet of Hermetic philosophy suggesting a correspondence between the macrocosm (universe) and microcosm (humanity). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

CHAPTER XVI. Future Development and Initiation.
The Seven Days of Creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
Diagram 15. The Symbolism of the Caduceus original: Caduces; the staff carried by Hermes/Mercury, featuring two snakes winding around a winged pole. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Radiates, Mollusks, Articulates, and Vertebrates . . . . . . . . 416
Spirals within Spirals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420