00:05 [Music] thank you for joining Wars of the roses and this is the CRC portrait of rosac crucian Problem by Manley P hall an article taken from the allseeing eye Volume 5 number one October 1930 the CRC portrait of rosac crucian Problem by Manley P hall for several years we
Have been investigating the secret societies of the ancient and medieval worlds these organizations may be divided into three General classes political philosophical and religious during the last three centuries a fourth type of Secret order has appeared namely the Fraternal all 00:47 secret societies were originally Priestly institutions created to perpetuate the mystery
Religion which had been revealed to the first of humanity by the gods knowledge is power declares the Egyptian but knowledge in the possession of such such as have not yet mastered the animal soul is dangerous the mystery schools were created in order that Divine wisdom
Should neither perish from the earth nor yet fall into the hands of the profane the great truths discovered by the alumin were therefore carefully concealed Under abstruse symbols and 01:17 allegories and a man Desiring to know them was compelled to pass through a number
Of tests to prove that he was entitled to this honor Christianity like all the wisdom religions is a three-fold structure consisting of a spirit a soul and a body anti nine Christianity was a school of the Mysteries and as such promulgated a secret teaching concerning
Which the modern Church knows practically nothing the first Christian Mystics were the gnostics but nothing now remains of their cult except a few inscribed gems and an occasional 01:50 literary fragment mutilated almost beyond recognition the Middle Ages found Europe struggling to free herself from the limitations of religious intolerance
Philosophic despotism and scientific ignorance the doctrines promulgated by Galen avisena and Aristotle held the minds of the learned in intellectual bondage it was against this bigotry that the great paracelsus directed his hammer blows liberating the medical profession from the dogmas of avisena centuries after him came Sir Francis Bacon who with the sheer
02:21 transcendency of his genius brought down Samson like the pillars of galin and Aristotle and with their fall the house of arbitrary Notions CCT collapsed we shall probably never fully appreciate the part played by the rosicrucians in the Reconstruction periods of
European thought the rosicrucians constitute the most remarkable organization of the modern world during the 17th century their name was upon every man’s lips but none knew who or what they were in their manifestos published between 1610 and 1620 the rosicrucians declare that their
02:56 purpose was to promulgate the secret teachings which they had received from their illustrious founder father CC Christian rosecross and to heal the sick without pay they were deeply concerned with Alchemy and astrology and their ranks included several great cabalists
And transcendental magicians Elias ashol one of the order declares that two rosac crucian Physicians cured Queen Elizabeth of smallpox and a young Duke of leprosy there are also records that the rosicrucian chemists manufactured gold and furnished it to the British mint
03:33 Raymond LLY probably a member of the fraternity is said to have transmuted thousands of pounds of Base Metals into gold in the Tower of London LLY did this in order that the English might finance a crusade against the muhammadans after describing the purposes of their
Organization the rosac crucians in their first manifestos recount The Adventures of their leader and how he came to establish the society the the story is briefly as follows father c RC was the son of poor but Noble parents and was placed in a Cloister when but five years of age but
04:09 several years later finding the instructions unsatisfactory he Associated himself with a monk who was about to start on a pilgrimage for the Holy Land This brother died at Cyprus and CRC continued alone to Damascus here poor health detained him and he remained some time
Studying with the Physicians and astrologers hearing by of a group of wise men abiding in Damar a mysterious City in Arabia Kiron made arrangements to visit them and arrived in Damar in the 16th year of his life here he was received by the wise men as one long
04:43 expected and remained with them for a considerable time during which he learned the Arabian tongue and translated the mysterious book M into Latin from Damar c c journeyed to Fez where he was instructed concerning the creatures existing in the elements
From Fez the young initiate took boat to Spain carrying with him many rare medicines curious animals and wonderful books he conferred with the Learned at Madrid but they dared not accept his teaching because it would reveal their previous ignorance so deeply discouraged
05:19 he went to Germany where he built himself a house on the brow of a little Hill and devoted his life to study and experimentation after a Silence of 5 years CRC gathered about him a few Faithful Friends and they began to arrange and classify the great knowledge which he
Possessed thus the rosac crucian fraternity was founded new members were later accepted and the Brethren traveled into various parts of the world to give their knowledge to those who were worthy and willing to receive such a boon the first of the order to die
05:50 passed out in England and it was after this that father CC prepared his own tomb in perfect miniature reproduction of the universe none of the order knew when their founder passed on but 120 years after his death they discovered his tomb with an Ever burning lamp suspended from
The ceiling the room had seven sides and in the center of it was a circular Stone under which they found the body of their founder in perfect condition clasping in one hand a mysterious paper containing the Arcana of the order many efforts have been made
06:22 to interpret the symbolism of this alory for it is undoubtedly a myth symbolically setting forth the deepest secrets of the rosicrucians father C the C is to be considered not only as a personality but also as the personification of a power or
Principle in nature this practice of using an individual to set forth the workings of divine power was frequently resorted to by the Ancients the Masonic legend of hyam abff the caldian myth of ishar the Greek allegory of bakus and the Egyptian account of Osiris are all examples of
06:54 this type of symbolism it is not improbable that the entire mystery of Rosicrucianism could be cleared up if the story of Father CRC were properly interpreted during the 16th century many pseudo organizations sprang up claiming to represent the rosicrucian Brotherhood but
The very nature of the teachings they promulgated proved beyond all doubt that they were fraudulent one of these groups after exacting the most terrible Oaths from those joining the society gave each one of the new members a black rope with which he was supposed to
07:27 strangle himself if he broke any of the laws of the order the pseudo rosicrucians were short-lived for after passing through all the degrees of the elaborate rituals and spending considerable sums of money the unfortunate initiates discovered that these organizations
Did not possess the knowledge they claimed to disseminate many false claims were made by charlatans who attempted to capitalize the name of Rosicrucianism but in some mysterious way these dishonest parties were exposed and their plans came to not several years ago
08:00 Arthur Edward weight an English Masonic writer of note published a work in two volumes entitled The Secret tradition in Freemasonry among a large number of plates he reproduced was one he declared to be the supposed portrait of Father CC We examined
The reproduction with great interest but with a certain amount of skepticism in view of the vast number of false claims and documents that have appeared in recent years we had a feeling that somewhere we had seen that picture before and the general appearance of it made us suspect that it
08:34 was a copy of a more ancient painting at last after considerable pains we discovered what we believe to be the original of the picture in the Lisbon Museum there is a famous painting by Albert dura the resemblance to weight’s picture is very marked the position of the
Head the finger touching the Temple of the skull the Hat the reading table the beard and the folds of the cloak are all nearly identical the may say that Dura copied the painting from the supposed portrait of Father c RC but this is most unlikely as Dura was a
09:08 truly great artist and great artists seldom copy the paintings of other men furthermore the dura painting was made about ad 1500 and is apparently much older than the other picture the dura painting is an idealistic conception of St Jerome and Dura has in several other pictures
Shown this saint with the same reading table and a skull is all placed near him in the Harding collection in Chicago is also a portrait of St Jerome by the master of the life of the Virgin which resembles the c RC picture even more closely the only natural
09:41 presumption is that the picture supposed to be that of Father c RC is in reality a copy of St Jerome and not an overly good copy of that Mr weight was careful to make no committal regarding the authenticity of the painting but others more enthusiastic have accepted
The picture as real this is an occur currence which should deter any person not acquainted with the real issues of Rosicrucianism from accepting the wholesale accounts now circulated concerning the historicity of the order the Bonafide rosicrucians are an 10:13 organization of initiates and adepts and only through development of the internal
Spiritual faculties can the true purpose of the order be recognized only when the disciple lives the rosicrucian life can he know that Sublime fraternity whose members so the an declare inhabit the suburbs of Heaven thank you for watching and please don’t forget to
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