The Rosicrucian Fellowship Emblem The Rosicrucian Fellowship (TRF) ('An International Association of Christian Mystics') was founded in 1909 by with the aim of heralding the and promulgating 'the true Philosophy' of the. It claims to present mysteries or, alluded to in 13:11 and 8:10, to establish a meeting ground for,, and and to prepare the individual through harmonious development of the mind and the heart for of humanity.
The Rosicrucian Fellowship conducts Spiritual Services and offers correspondence courses in, philosophy, 'spiritual ' and interpretation. Its headquarters are located on in, and its students are found throughout the world organized in centers and study groups.
Its declared mission is to promulgate a scientific method of development suited particularly to the Western people whereby the 'Soul body' may be wrought, so that humanity may hasten the. The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, In 1908 Max Heindel started, in, the work of rewriting a previous draft in of teachings ostensibly written under the instruction of Elder Brothers in their temple near the border of and Germany. Heindel moved to, where he finished the typescript about September 1908. The work, called, was revised and printed in November 1909. The first edition of 2500 copies, printed in, was exhausted in six months but it was learned that 2000 of these had been given by the publisher as payment of the debts of the publishing house to other publishers. Immediately, a large second edition was ordered: a first payment was made to the with the help of Augusta Foss, who would become Max Heindel's. This time two booksellers bought one-third of the imprint before it was off the press.
Rosicrucian Manual.
The Rosicrucian Fellowship's formal constitution occurred on August 8, 1909, in,, at 3:00. The first Rosicrucian study center had been already previously formed in, on November 14, 1908, where Heindel lectured and taught for a number of months. After each lecture he distributed free copies to the audience; those twenty lectures were printed in 1909, along with the first edition of Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, under the title. The Columbus Center was followed by centers in North (November 1909),, and (February 27, 1910), the city where Heindel reencountered his friend Augusta Foss. In Los Angeles, Max Heindel gave conferences three times a week to audiences of nearly one thousand people from November 29, 1909, till March 17, 1910. On October 28, 1911, the organisation's international headquarters, still used today, were opened at Mount Ecclesia in. The ceremony of ground-breaking consisted in planting a large Cross with the initials C.R.C.
(for, the legendary head of the original order) painted in gilt letters on the three upper ends and with a climbing rose. The, called The Ecclesia, was erected for the purpose of affording more powerful means for the healing of disease, and dedicated on December 25, 1920. Spiritual meetings are held there each day. According to Max Heindel, the invisible Order of the Rose Cross exists in the, was founded in 1313 and is composed of twelve great presented as belonging to human evolution but already advanced far beyond the cycle of. Their mission is explained as aiming to prepare the whole wide world for a new phase in that includes awareness of the and the and safe guidance in the gradual awakening of man's latent faculties: 'to prepare a new phase of the Christian religion to be used during the now at hand.' Admission into the Rosicrucian Fellowship is free of fees and is funded.
The Fellowship recognizes seven, but its study is primarily based upon a system of three grades: regular student, probationer and disciple. After a two-year term of being a Regular Student of the Fellowship, a person who abstains from all,, mind-altering, and may apply for. When the Probationer has complied with the necessary requirements and completed the term of probation he may send request for individual instruction. Access to the Disciple grade is granted upon; once admitted into subsequent unfoldment of the advanced soul within the Order of the is conducted through the process of the nine Lesser.
Teachings [ ] The school's teachings hold that man is a with all the powers of, powers that are being slowly unfolded in a in a gradually-improving body, a process under the guidance of exalted Beings ordering our steps in a decreasing measure as man gradually acquires. For this purpose we live many lives of increasingly fine texture. Through the 'Law of Cause and Consequence' we constantly set new into operation which will create new destiny to balance and improve the old destiny brought from the past. All causes set into action in one life cannot be ripened in one existence but 'Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap'. 