THE FIVEFOLD WAY OF THE SPIRITUAL SCHOOL
the star of hope and fulfilment Catharose de Petri Over the years, the working places and focal points of the Spiritual School of the Golden Rosycross, needed for the work in order to be able to accomplish the great plan underlying everything, have been activated. The School of the young Gnosis is now able to completely fulfil the task assigned to it. However, the following may help us understand what this means for all of us and which tremendous consequences are involved in it.
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irst of all, it is necessary to acquaint the reader with the fact that all Brotherhoods, constituting the universal gnostic chain, are fully-fledged brotherhoods. This means that they, in their time of service, not only fulfilled their evangelic mission by calling people to the liberating life and leading the way, but that they were also able to bring their harvest safely home in the realms of liberation. To this end, all these Brotherhoods obviously had to pass through a period of development of a longer or shorter duration, depending on the ability of the brotherhood concerned to fulfil its tasks. As long as this fullness had not yet been attained, every brotherhood was assisted in the fulfilment of its tasks by the preceding brotherhood which, obviously, was in this way impeded in its own progress, because a preceding brotherhood cannot be taken up into a new field of work until the succeeding brotherhood is fully able to take over the work in this nature. For taking over this work, it is necessary that the succeeding brotherhood will or can be a fivefold brotherhood
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in the full sense of the word. Or to express it mystically: the succeeding brotherhood should be able to make the star of Bethlehem radiate over the dark lands of this nature. What now is, in a practical sense, a fivefold gnostic Brotherhood? Firstly, such a community should possess (and should have sufficient manpower for) an institution that is able to make contact with the seeking public and, therefore, is able to fish people from the sea of life. We possess this institution in our public work. Secondly, the Brotherhood must possess an instrument through which all who approach the School can and will systematically be introduced to the knowledge of salvation. This should be done in such a way that even a mediocre pupil will no longer see any other way out than entering the path of liberation through self-surrender. In the Lectorium Rosicrucianum, we possess such an instrument. Thirdly, the Brotherhood should have an organic instrument at its disposal to guide all those who truly want and prove this, to selfsurrender, to I-lessness within the shortest
