Do you have something you'd like to share?

To submit material, please email it to colorado@amorc.rosicrucian.org. Material should be related to AMORC teachings, and will be published after review and approval. Inspiring quotes, poetry, original thoughts, questions to ponder, and images are all welcome.

Member Reflections

“The time has come when merely reading about the mystical life has lost its value. We must become involved and dedicate our lives to some useful purpose or the opportunities of a cycle will pass us by. Whatever our goal in life, whatever our desires for achievement might be, the mystical life can make these possible. Living in harmony with the Cosmic reveals talents and abilities we little realized we possessed. We find that our minds and consciousness are uplifted and charged with a power and desire to succeed in all we do, and our hearts and total beings will be filled with a spiritual love for all humanity. Our thinking will be broader and our sympathies and feeling of compassion will grow stronger. Life will bring greater joys and happiness and we will sense a divine purpose for our mission in life which will bring the greatest gift of all.”

Rosicrucian Manuscript

Science and Learning

The noblest employment of the mind of man, is the study of the works of his Creator.

To him whom the science of nature delighteth, every object bringeth a proof of God; everything that proveth it, giveth cause of adoration.

His mind is lifted up to heaven every moment; his life is one continued act of devotion.

Casteth he his eye towards the clouds, findeth he not the heavens full of his wonders? Looketh he down to the earth doth not the worm proclaim "Less than omnipotence could not have formed me!"

While the planets perform their courses; while the sun remaineth in his place; while the comet wandereth through the liquid air, and returneth to its destined road again; who but thy God, O man! could have formed them? What but infinite wisdom could have appointed them their laws?

Behold how awful their splendour! Yet do they not diminish: lo, how rapid their motions! yet one runneth not in the way of another.

Look down upon the earth, and see her produce; examine her bowels, and behold what they contain; hath not wisdom and power ordained the whole?

Who biddeth the grass to spring up? who watereth it at its due season? Behold the ox croppeth it; the horse and the sheep, feed they not upon it? who is he that provideth it for them?

Who giveth increase to the corn thou sowest? who retumeth it to thee a thousandfold?

Who ripeneth for thee the olive in its time? and the grape, though thou knowest not the cause of it?

Can the meanest fly create itself? or wert thou aught less than God, couldst thou have fashioned it?

The beasts feel that they exist, but they wonder not at it; they rejoice in their life, but they know not how it shall end: each performeth its course in succession; nor is there a loss of one species in a thousand generations.

Thou who seest the whole as admirable as its parts, canst thou better employ thine eye, than in tracing out thy Creator's greatness in them: thy mind, than in examining their wonders?

Power and mercy are displayed in their formation; justice and goodness shine forth in the provision that is made for them; all are happy in their several ways, nor envieth one the other.

What is the study of words compared with this? In what science is knowledge, but in the study of nature?

When thou hast adored the fabric, inquire into its use; for know the earth produceth nothing but may be of good to thee. Are not food and raiment, and the remedies for thy diseases, all derived from this source alone?

Who is wise then, but he that knoweth It? who hath understanding, but he that contemplateth it? For the rest, whatever science hath most utility, whatever knowledge hath least vanity, prefer these unto the others; and profit of them for the sake of thy neighbour.

To live, and to die; to command, and to obey; to do, and to suffer; are not these all that thou hast further to care about?

Morality shall teach thee these; the economy of life shall lay them before thee.

Behold they are written in thine heart, and thou needest only to be reminded of them; they are easy of conception; be attentive and thou shalt retain them.

All other sciences are vain, all other knowledge is boast: lo, it is not necessary or beneficial to man; nor doth it make him more good, or more honest.

Piety to thy God, and benevolence to thy fellow creatures, are they not thy great duties? what shall teach thee the one, like the study of His works? what shall inform thee of the other, like understanding thy dependencies?

-Unto Thee I Grant-

Return Home

Report abuse