Greetings from all points of the triangle!

The Rosicrucian concept of God is one of our Order’s most beautiful and revealing notions. With our first imperator of the current cycle, we hold that, “to Rosicrucians there is but one, God, everlasting, ever present, without limiting attribute or definite form of manifestation-it is the God of our hearts, a phrase found throughout our rituals and meditation exercises.”

This God is unlimited because our realizations are unlimited, not unlike the traditional notion of God handed to the history of western thought by St. Anselm of Canterbury, as that which none greater can be conceived. Like the deity of St. Anselm, the Rosicrucian definition of God cannot be limited by a set of physical dimensions which can be easily outstripped by a longer, higher, wider object. If the tallest person in the world is seven feet six inches tall, it is easy to imagine (if not find?) a person a quarter inch taller, and then again another quarter inch taller than that, and on and on.

According to the Rosicrucians, God is not like that. The Rosicrucian concept of God is indwelling and therefore its meaning dependent on the realization or perceptive experience of each individual. Philosophically the nature of God is more a question of meaning, than one of observation as so often valued in empirical and publically verifiable science. The God of which we speak has therefore a very large family of meanings that surround and express its potential. We may, of course still talk about more or less complete personal experiences, realizations or illuminations. The depth of this meaning is capable of being evaluated by both the individual and her or his peer practitioners of the science of mysticism. The various expressions of its infinite potential are the source of our vast appreciation of the realizations of that God by so many and in so many forms by poets, visual artists, novelists, architects, shoemakers, peasants, saints, biologists, animal lovers, naturalists, politicians, rich and poor, old and young, and on and on.

All of these types and no doubt more than I could conjure on this early spring afternoon, are but some of what we might call the many faces of God, the infinite forms of expression that wait to be realized as they surround and remind us of the miraculous life of the indwelling God, the God on which very beat of every hearts depends, the God of a love equally indescribable, equally immanent, and equally transcendent.

Surely that God awaits, always ready to offer you its blessings.

John Fowler, PhD. FRC

Grand Councilor Colorado Region, AMORC