Winter 2019

Grand Councilor’s Message

There are three principles in the Rosicrucian Tradition that stand at the summit of all mystic mountains: Light, Life, and Love. Many of our members use them at the close of their communications in their shortened form of LLL. Now, as we pass through the season of Light’s return, let us to direct our attention to them.

Light, as the founding principle of the physical cosmos gave us our alpha and omega. It is both our origin and our goal.

The alpha or initial principle is stunning. In the beginning there was Light announces the first chapter of Genesis, and indeed, modern cosmology affirms, there was Light, but this Light was special in so many ways. Perhaps most stunning is its absolutely unique radiance. It did not travel up or down, or to the left or to the right, but only out, out in all directions as time and space were created. This is equally true in the spiritual realm as we create the content of our own spheres of space time. A s the original cosmic radiance was omnidirectional in its radiance, so, too is our personal creative radiance omnidirectional, reaching out in all spatial and temporal directions, even as it changes the meaning of the past in the creative realization of the present.

Like our physical radiance, the radiance of spirit and our realization, constantly expands, creating the physical cosmos in which we live and which it creates. This cosmogenesis is the ongoing self-creating principle of evolution…and evolution is life in both its psychic and physical expressions and planes.

Life then is the second point of creation. Again in concurrence with modern cosmology and shaped by the initial expanse of Light and bound by its internal duality and structure, Light has taken forms, forms that stagger our imagination. Form creates in accord with the fundamental attraction we see on so many physical levels: gravity, the strong and weak nuclear forces, and electrical magnetism. All is in attraction, all is in communion, drawn to itself with perfect precision throughout seemingly infinite panoramas of space and time. Form is the vessel of Light as it expresses itself on the physical plane.

Form invites Light to join in the ongoing work of creation. That attraction of Light to Life by its own inherent precision is what we call love, an attraction between poles, relative opposites that combine in the ongoing self-creation of all that is physically and psychically. Precise attraction governs all. Love governs all. The universe Loves itself.

In this season of the Return of Light, let us appreciate the splendor of cosmogenesis, the continually creative process which the mystic can live and realize in the flesh. It incarnates in each of us. Like the physical cosmos itself, Light continues to expand in all directions, a continual expansion of the circle of Light as it realizes itself in Life and Love, in perfect communion with itself. Thus Light, Life, and Love dance eternally together,

Our part is to spend time each day coming to realize the Light of creation better and better. As we do so, as we come to know the force of Life itself, we come to know how manifold is the attraction of Light to Life and Life to itself, in its unbreakable bond and realization of Love.

Yours in Light, Life, and Love,

John Fowler, PhD. FRC

Grand Councilor, Rocky Mountain Region, AMORC