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The Path of the Rose Cross
And in the midst of the throne, and round about
the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.
And the first beast was like a lion, and the
second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a
man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.
And the four beasts had each of them six wings
about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not
day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which
was, and is, and is to come.
Revelation 4:6-8
Holiness to the Lord!
Holiness to the Lord!
Holiness to the Lord!
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty,
Which was, and is, and is to come.
The four beasts are the living creatures who
worship the Trinity because they have come out of the Trinity,
born of the One and of the polarity within the One, Alpha and
Omega. The four beasts are for the squaring of the circle of Spirit
that is become the foundation foursquare in Matter of the Great
Pyramid of Life and of the Holy City.
I AM in the four beasts and the four beasts are
in me and we are one. These are the Four Cosmic Forces who hold
the cosmic cross of white fire that designates the quadrants in
Spirit and the quadrants in Matter—fire, air, water, and
earth. They are the four sacred elements who support and surround
the great white throne. They are the within. They are the without.
Whither the Spirit goeth, they go. And they follow the Lamb whithersoever
he goeth in the heavens and in the earth.
They are the guardians of the door that is opened
in Spirit and in Matter. They are the guardians of the twelve
gates of the Holy City. In Brahma/Vishnu/Shiva, they guard the
three gates on the east, the three gates on the north, the three
gates on the south, and the three gates on the west. They are
the foundation of the Twelve Hierarchies of the Sun. They are
the initiators of the hundred and forty and four thousand on the
Path of the Rose Cross.
Now hear the Word of the Lord. The Four Cosmic
Forces sustain the ruby cube whereby the heart of God becomes
the heart of man. Ponder the ruby cube. Meditate upon the flame
of love burning within the center. Trace the twenty-four right
angles governed by the Four and Twenty Elders whereby Spirit becomes
Matter and Matter becomes Spirit. It is the Holy Ghost. The Activator,
the Deactivator. The ruby cube is pure Love, fiery Love, unadulterated,
unselfish Love, perpetually burning all unlike itself. One must
approach with extreme caution. Therefore the Path of the Rose
Cross. Therefore the initiations of the Four Cosmic Forces in
the way of the surrender of the image of the self that the Self
may be All-in-all.
Only the Self may stand in the center of the
ruby cube. All else is self destroyed. Therefore the four beasts,
full of the eyes of Elohim—openings unto the Great Central
Sun—rest not day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy,
Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.” Thus
they intone the sound of I AM THAT I AM, of Elohim, of El Shaddai.
Thus intoning the sound of the soundless sound, they sustain the
vibration of the ruby cube in the white-fire core of a cosmos.
Elohim, Elohim, Elohim. AUM.
Full of eyes before and behind, the Four Cosmic
Forces sustain the vision of the Lord God Almighty as universal
awareness of the Creator within the creation. Full of eyes before
and behind, the Four Cosmic Forces are perpetually stepping down
the light of Solar Logoi, cosmic messengers of Alpha and Omega
positioned in the flaming yods of the galaxies. Thus by their
six wings, the three and three, and the three times three, they
render the light, the energy of the Word, intelligible to electrons
small and great in man and beast, vegetable and mineral. Their
six wings hold the balance of the triad in Spirit and the triad
in Matter, ascending and descending triangles. And they were full
of eyes within.
These are the eyes of Mother caressing the creation
and the Formless One who inhabits his own Form, caressing the
Uncreated One who is in the Created Son, the Created Father, and
the Created Holy Ghost. The eyes within are the eyes of Mother,
delivering the energy of the ruby ray as compassionate chastening,
as conceptualization, as consummation, as bliss, reunion with
the ion of Being. Thus the face of the Great Goddess is veiled
that her children might not wither from the penetration of the
ruby ray. It is life-giving, invigorating, infilling. It is the
alchemy of the heart to every living cell of a cosmos.
Behold the eyes before and behind and the hierarchy
of vestal virgins carrying their ruby lamps with the blood of
the Lamb and the Word of his testimony. They are the initiates
of the Path of the Rose Cross. They have followed the path of
the crucifixion of their Lord and Husband unto the opening of
the temple of the heart and the coming of the Bridegroom. They
have worn his crown of thorns. They have transmuted his crown
of thorns. They have taken him down from the cross. They have
laid him in the tomb of Mother. They have tended his resurrection
within her womb.
They await the ceremony of their crowning with
a crown of gold when they shall become extensions of the Woman
clothed with the Sun who wears the crown of twelve stars. They
hold the ruby figure-eight spiral whereby the souls of the hundred
and forty and four thousand may spiral from the ego-centered life
to the Christ-centered life by the initiations of the ruby cube.
AUM.
The Four Cosmic Forces initiate the Order of
the Ruby Cross. And the first beast was like a lion. He is the
ruler of the north arm of the cross and of the fire quadrant in
Spirit and in Matter. When
the lion roareth, the king of the beasts, the fire of First Cause
proceedeth out of his mouth. And his Word is the endowment of
the Grund and the Ungrund with primal energy. His is the force
of the fiery baptism. He is the King of the inner court, opening
the sacred mysteries of the heart under the hierarchy of Leo.
His key is the key to the incarnate God. When he is the Father
in the Son, he manifests himself as the Lion of the tribe of Juda,
saying, I and my Son are one.
Lo, I AM the open door of the fiery baptism that
is the restoration of the hundred and forty and four thousand
to wholeness through repentance and remission of sins.
Holiness to the Lord!
Holiness to the Lord!
Holiness to the Lord!
As in fire our God is Father, the All-in-all,
so in earth he is the Holy Ghost. And the second beast was like
a calf. He guardeth the door of the Holy Ghost, and no man can
enter except by that door. <1> He is the archetype of the
Universal Christ. He holdeth the west arm of the ruby cross, the
ruler of the earth quadrant in Spirit and in Matter. He doth initiate
the souls of the hundred and forty and four thousand through the
hierarchy of Taurus. His is the eye all-seeing that by obedience
doth the temple build.
He teacheth the children of Israel to make bricks
without straw. He is the great builder through elemental life.
He is the Great Guru, he is the great chela. He is the beast of
burden who beareth the sins of the world. He is the ox that treadeth
out the corn of personal and planetary karma. And “thou
shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn.”
<2> By his ruby figure-eight flow, the Buddha is Guru. The
Mother is chela. By the same ruby figure-eight flow, the Mother
is Guru, the Buddha is chela.
The calf is the slave of Yahweh. He bears His
burden on earth. His initiatic rite is the crucifixion. So is
elemental life thrice crucified through the archetype of the Cosmic
Christ in Taurus—once for the kingdom of the angels of fire
and the angels of water serving the throne of Brahma, once for
the kingdom of the gods serving the throne of Vishnu, and once
for the kingdom of elemental forces serving the throne of Shiva.
The golden calf is the Form of the unformed Yahweh,
his throne as Buddha. He rides him to the victory of the untransmuted
Taurian energies of the children of Israel. The Israelites understood
not the prophet’s vision of the Four Cosmic Forces—lion/calf/man/eagle.
So they fashioned a calf in the image and likeness of their idolatry,
sensuality, and materialism. They were the unaligned. No ruby
cross fixed their identity in the heart of the ruby cube. Therefore
they required a law writ in tables of stone; for by the hardness
of their hearts, that stiffnecked people knew not the law written
in their inward parts. <3>
They said, “We wot not what is become of
this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt.
Up, Aaron, make us gods. We will worship Yahweh when we will.
We do not need the Guru Moses. Besides, he is no Guru but an ordinary
man like ourselves. He is no god-man. Behold, he is mere flesh
and blood. We will create our own god after our own image and
likeness. We will have our rituals without the Guru.
“What further need have we of God’s
messenger, who hath left us here without word in the Sinai desert!
Behold, all the congregation is holy. There is not one holier
than another. We need not the Holy One of God in our midst. We
will rather worship the golden calf who doeth our bidding while
we dance and make merry. We will shut our ears from this Moses
who would take from us the pleasures of life and our enjoyment
of the sacred fire of the Father, the sacred water of the Mother,
the sacred air of the Son, the sacred earth of the Holy Spirit.
We will have our Mater-realization ‘materialization’
of God outside the presence of the Guru Moses.
“We will have our cult—our cultivation
of light—without obeisance to the Person of light. We will
enslave elemental life by our charms and our spells. We will have
reverence only for the golden calf. And no other part of life
will we reverence as the temple of the living God, save the golden
calf.”
But Aaron, the high priest, made proclamation
and said, “To morrow is a feast to the I AM THAT I AM.”
He was an initiate of the Path of the Rose Cross. He knew the
inner mystery of the calf as the archetype of the Christ, sitting
on the west side of the City Foursquare. The calf, the Parvati
of Shiva. Wherever there is Parvati in form, there in formlessness
is Shiva. He knew, as did the children of Mu embodied in the East,
that the calf is the symbol of a Matter cosmos wed to Spirit.
But the people, oh, the people! Though they sacrificed
their gold and gave it to the community, it became the unacceptable
offering; for they worshiped their own sacrificial calf, as a
mighty deed they had done, in the place of Yahweh. And the golden
calf, through their double-minded vision, became the symbol of
their rebellion against the Great Guru.
AUM Buddha. AUM Buddha. AUM Buddha.
And the calf remains crucified to the present
hour, and Christ is nailed to the cross of idolatry, sensuality,
and materialism on the west side of the City Foursquare. The calf
is in the earth and the earth is in the calf and the calf is the
beginning of the initiation of the hundred and forty and four
thousand on the Path of the Rose Cross under the Four Cosmic Forces.
For the many, this is the initiatic rung of the ladder where they
left off their association with the Guru Maitreya represented
in Moses.
Now the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, sons
of Joseph favored by Jacob, are gathering on the west arm of the
cross to resume their soul testings. For unto them is entrusted
the flame of Christ in Western civilization. They carry the law
of the I AM THAT I AM in their inward parts. They must exercise
that law by the power of the spoken Word. They must come forth
and be counted. They must come forth and give an accounting unto
the Lord of their words and their works since the first coming
of Messiah. Lightbearers positioned in the United States of America
and Great Britain are given the key for the turning around of
the downward spiral of the West to the upward spiral of the East
that shall be seen in the image of the man.
Now take down the calf from the cross of idolatry,
sensuality, and materialism that is the perversion complete of
the Trinity in the Mother. Now transmute, transmute, transmute
that untransmuted substance by the all-consuming violet flame.
Now, by a will that is wisdom and a wisdom that is action, God
in action! enter the Path of the Rose Cross.
Valiantly for the victory, I AM
Sanat Kumara
I have led thee from the Beginning. I will lead
thee unto the End.
I AM the Lord.
See Rev. 4:6-8; 5:5; 11:5; 12:1, 11; 14:4; 21:12-13;
Exod. 5:7; 32:1-19; 33:5; Ezek. 1:5.
1. John 10:1-10.
2. Deut. 25:4; I Cor. 9:9.
3. Jer. 31:33.
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