ROSICRUCIAN COSMO-CONCEPTION

...and mute, unsatisfied longings gnawing at its tendrils as the vulture gnawed at the liver of Prometheus. In Greek mythology, the Titan Prometheus was punished by Zeus for giving fire to humanity; he was chained to a rock where an eagle/vulture ate his liver daily.

Is this necessary? Is there no common ground upon which the head and the heart may meet, each assisting the other? Can they not each, by the help of the other, become more effective in the search for universal truth, with each receiving equal satisfaction?

As surely as the pre-existing light created the eye by which the light is seen; as surely as the primordial original: "primordial"; meaning existing from the very beginning desire for growth created the digestive and assimilative system to attain that end; as surely as thought existed before the brain and built—and is still building—the brain for its expression; as surely as the mind is now forging ahead and wringing her secrets from nature by the very force of its audacity; just so surely will the heart find a way to burst its bonds and gratify its longings. At present, it is shackled by the dominant brain. Some day it will gather strength to burst its prison bars and become a power greater than the mind.

It is equally certain that there can be no contradiction in nature; therefore, the heart and the mind must be capable of uniting. To indicate this common ground is precisely the purpose of this book: to show where and how the mind, helped by the intuition of the heart, can probe more deeply into the mysteries of being than either could do alone; where the heart, by union with the mind, can be kept from going astray; where each can have full scope for action without doing violence to the other; and where both mind and heart can be satisfied.

Only when that cooperation is attained and perfected will man attain the higher, truer understanding of himself and of the world of which he is a part. Only that can give him a broad mind and a great heart.