Rosicrucian Beacon Magazine - 2013-03 - AMORC

y Frances Ono, SRC
In a luminous early morning meadow I happened upon a new-born butterfly climbing out of its green, goldspotted
case. “Here is a being changed, transformed”, my mind thought. I remember that I had heard someone say,
“People will not let me change; they expect me to be what I was before, and I am not”. It is as if a caterpillar thought, “once
a caterpillar, always a caterpillar; I will never change.”
But caterpillars of course do change; they transform into a pupa or chrysalis and enclose themselves while they grow
within, later metamorphosing and hatching out more beautiful than ever before. Rosicrucians know that we can and do
change, indeed must change, as we evolve through the daily lessons of life. And within the mind we incubate new attitudes
about ourselves; we in fact change the very motive and purpose of what drives us to do the things we do. Some call it alchemy,
for we learn to rearrange the ‘inner furniture’ whenever the need arises, and we learn never to stagnate. And after much growth
and change within, one day we suddenly emerge anew, like a butterfly, a changed, more perfect person.
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The Rosicrucian Beacon -- March 2013