The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, or Christian Occult Science

INTRODUCTION.

The Western world is undoubtedly the vanguard of the human race, and, for reasons given in the following pages, it is held by the Rosicrucian A member of a secret spiritual society (the Order of the Rose Cross) devoted to esoteric wisdom and healing. that neither Judaism nor "popular Christianity," but true Esoteric original: "Esoteric"; meaning intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest. Christianity is to be its world-religion.

Buddha, great, grand and sublime, may be the "Light of Asia," but Christ will yet be acknowledged the "Light of the World." As the sun outshines the brightest star in the heavens, dispels every vestige of darkness and gives life and light to all beings, so, in a not too distant future, will the true religion of Christ supersede and obliterate all other religions, to the eternal benefit of mankind.

In our civilization the chasm that stretches between mind and heart yawns deep and wide and, as the mind flies on from discovery to discovery in the realms of science, the gulf becomes ever deeper and wider and the heart is left further and further behind. The mind loudly demands and will be satisfied with nothing less than a materially demonstrable explanation of man and his fellow-creatures that make up the phenomenal original: "phenomenal world"; the world as it appears to our senses, as opposed to the world of things as they are in themselves. world. The heart feels instinctively that there is something greater, and it yearns for that which it feels is a higher truth than can be grasped by the mind alone. The human soul would gladly soar upon ethereal wings of intuition; would gladly bathe in the eternal fountain of spiritual light and love; but modern scientific views have shorn its wings and it sits fettered