SEEKING WITH THE LIGHT
armchair illumination? ‘Do we, as Rosicrucians, experience illumination?’ If a spiritual seeker asks me this question, I hesitate for a moment before answering. Here, someone does not ask a theoretical or philosophical explanation, but a very personal answer.
GRIMM’S FAIRYTALE OF MOTHER HULDA
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an I answer him in the I-form, as ‘I’ and ‘illumination’ do, after all, not go together, and are mutually exclusive? On the other hand, this question asks for an exchange between two people, for a common conceptualisation by two souls. Here, I am addressed as a seeker, as someone who struggles to find the truth. I answer: Yes, it is my deepest conviction and my experience that illumination continuously occurs in this special field of the Spiritual School. I do not experience illumination as something spectacular, as something exalted, or as something tremendous. I rather experience illumination as a hidden power stream. My ordinary thinking hardly ever notices it. Yet, almost unnoticed, an inner change occurs that quite often surprises me, when I become aware of it. Something began to flow; something has changed. New ideas, new views on a certain problem arise in my consciousness. armchair illumination? 15
