Rosicrucian Beacon Magazine - 2013-03 - AMORC

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Atonement An excellent exercise at the close of each day is to review the day’s events, particularly those in which you took some action or made a decision, or in which you could have done so, but didn’t. It will be encouraging to remember that you handled some situations pretty well; but in others you fell short. What could you have done better, more in line with your overall purpose and ideals This kind of review isn’t meant to castigate yourself for your errors, but to anticipate how to do better the next time. We learn from our shortcomings only when we recognise them as shortcomings; and that in itself is the principal ingredient of atonement. Atonement, which means putting ourselves right, isn’t the same as punishment or expiation. What about those errors or offenses of which we aren’t even aware We’re not immune from their results are we The Atonement, which means putting ourselves right, isn’t the same as punishment or expiation. ancient idea of a sin offering was not meant as expiation, but as a token of acknowledgment that we have other shortcomings of which we aren’t aware, and also that redress has not always been possible for those of which we are aware. In fact, we don’t perceive fully the divine law of cause and effect, what we call Karma. Acknowledging this is the first step in asking for more enlightenment. It’s not our further responsibility to punish ourselves; that has been decreed otherwise: “Retribution (not vengeance) is mine, saith the Lord”; which is to say that retribution is built into the Cosmic system. Expiation, when we’ve harmed or offended someone, depends on redress or restitution to them, or alternative deeds of merit that can balance the scales to some extent. Asking further that our errors be remitted to us, that means be handed back to us, isn’t asking for punishment ‘in kind’, but rather that we may have the opportunity to do it over, this time correctly or to make adequate amends. This is fulfilling the law. Negation There are other ways where we stand in our own light, or stand in shadow when we could be in the sun. These ways are many, but it may help to point out one rather common element. We have had a tradition of self-denial, of foregoing things we want, and especially things that are pleasurable. It’s surprising what we can do without when everything we think we need, must be carried or pulled in carts. However, it’s also been fostered in other circumstances as self-discipline. On the plus side, at least in theory, self-denial compels people to reshuffle their priorities and discover what’s most important and most enduring. But, it has also been used as punishment, and it can become a fetish. Most of us have done without something when we couldn’t afford it. But there are other things we do without out of choice, or omit intentionally, not knowing what we’re missing. Negative thinking shuts many doors to us that positive thinking would open. True, we’re beset by a barrage of negative expectations, such as health hazards, inflation, corruption in high places, and so on. But not exercising whatever spiritual competence we have, and not counteracting these negative expectations, we only leaves ourselves in want, not enjoying the available Cosmic benefits of health, happiness and achievement. If we stand in the shadow, how can we be warmed by the sun If we turn away from the fountain, how can we quench our thirst In these ways, unwittingly, we create sombre karma now, while brighter karma is only a step away. by Richard Beardsley, FRC If I walk alone Without a friend In search of Truth, Along the path of life Which has no end; How can I be sure That what I find is real Unless my inner self can feel And Cosmic Consciousness reveal The true reality of Truth 22 The Rosicrucian Beacon -- March 2013
y Raymond Schuessler n 1836, Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, a young professor of natural history, began to investigate glaciers in his native Switzerland. Camped on the ice of the Aar Glacier in the Jura Mountains, he noticed stones and massive boulders alien to that locale and wondered how they could have got there. They were larger than a river could possibly have carried down; nor could a river place some so high up. He wondered too, why when a man fell to his death in a glacial crevasse, his body would be found emerging at the melting end of the glacier at some future, almost predictable date. Could the huge glaciers move and be responsible for depositing these boulders, and could they have moved great distances in the past To test his theory he placed stakes in the snow in the valleys and matching stakes in the snow on the mountainsides. Checking them every few days, he discovered that the valley stakes had moved! From this observation was born The Rosicrucian Beacon -- March 2013 23
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