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265. The History of the Esoteric School 1904–1914, Volume Two: A. W. Sellin to Rudolf Steiner 14 Dec 1904, Berlin

However, there is no protocol evidence for this, since it was strictly forbidden to make any written records of the meetings or of membership of the masonic and rosicrucian bodies that cultivated the tradition of the Knights Templar. The evidence available for this connection with the Templars is only communicated to initiates.
266II. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes II: 1910–1912: Esoteric Lesson 12 Feb 1911, Munich
Translator Unknown

But it gradually became necessary for men to tread the inner and outer paths simultaneously, and that's why the Rosicrucian, esoteric schools that taught both ways rose in the 11th and 12th centuries.
266II. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes II: 1910–1912: Esoteric Lesson 12 Jun 1911, Berlin
Translator Unknown

Many errors will also creep in with the new wise things that have been given to our age, and so it's our holy duty to check every thing we hear with our healthy human intellect. This has always been emphasized in all Rosicrucian esotericism. But we should be tolerant towards people who make mistakes here, and we should always tell ourselves: if what we have is really the truth, it'll remain true by itself.
266III. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes III: 1913–1914: Esoteric Lesson 16 Mar 1913, Berlin
Translator Unknown

One is entirely in the other being and works from there; one has united with it completely. The ten words of the rosicrucian verse are arranged in such a way that the letters are also of importance. In Ex Deo nascimur we have the mood that we can feel on awaking with respect to our body, e e o a i u.
266III. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes III: 1913–1914: Esoteric Lesson 08 Jun 1913, Stockholm
Translator Unknown

A man really loves Lucifer and Ahriman. As a protest against this fact we have our rosicrucian verse: Ex Deo nascimur In Christo morimur Per Spiritum Sanctum reviviscimus
Foundations of Esotericism: Glossary of Indian-Theosophical Terms
Translated by Vera Compton-Burnett, Judith Compton-Burnett

Rudolf Steiner, Lecture, Berlin, 25 October 1909 in The Christ Impulse and the Development of the Ego-Consciousness. See also The Theosophy of the Rosicrucian, The East in the Light of the West, Macrocosm and Microcosm, >Man in the Light of Occultism, Theosophy and Philosophy.
127. The Spiritual Guidance of the Individual and Humanity: The Mission of the New Revelation of the Spirit 05 Jun 1911, Copenhagen
Translated by Samuel Desch

Though this tolerance is an inherent characteristic of the Rosicrucian movement, it may not be obvious at first glance, because it lies in its depths. You will find, therefore, that people who confuse tolerance with the one-sided acceptance of their own opinions, principles, and methods are particularly likely to misunderstand our movement.
People who have familiarized themselves in more detail with what Rosicrucian theosophy has to say about this know that the physical body of Jesus of Nazareth had to be very complicated to accommodate the powerful individuality of Christ.
113. Goethe Celebration 28 Aug 1909, Munich

Goethe represents the various religions in the twelve personalities who gather in the mysterious monastery, on which the Rosicrucian cross can be seen, indicating what the Rosicrucian cross has to do, namely to unite the various religions, after they rising above themselves — point to the great unity of spiritual life, which is represented by the Thirteenth, who is the leader and has risen to such perfection that he is described in the most beautiful words, that he is described to us from the outset at the moment when he is touched by death.
It would take much, much time to go into the details; but even if I make a few suggestions, you will recognize how this poem is created out of the entire Rosicrucian-spiritual, spiritual substance of the West. We are told about the thirteenth one who leads the others, who in his soul can have the tendency that leads the individual worldviews beyond themselves to a great unity.
96. Original Impulses fo the Science of the Spirit: Spiritual Insight Offering Greatest Liberation II: The Mission of the Spiritual Science Movement 08 Oct 1906, Berlin

Whether they were the disciples of Hermes or the pupils of the Eleusinian mysteries, occult schools in Egypt or Christian Gnostic schools, or the Rosicrucians in Europe—in every case, small, carefully defined brotherhoods were a major influence. Modern people with their intellectualized science know nothing, or practically nothing of this, but it is a fact that all cultivation of the mind and through this also all material civilization came from such brotherhoods.
You will therefore find study of our world one of the first things you are directed to do in Rosicrucian schooling—devoted, dedicated study of the world. When we started our theosophical movement, some people said: ‘The things he is telling us can be found in any book on science.
Take what follows as an important fundamental truth—it has always been considered to be such in Rosicrucian occult schooling. The sense-perceptible world presents itself in the way our external physical senses are able to perceive it.
237. Karmic Relationships III: The New Age of Michael 28 Jul 1924, Dornach
Translated by George Adams, Dorothy S. Osmond

Looking down from the spiritual world, on to the earth, one could see how that which had belonged to the realm of Michael was now unfolding down below, outside of his dominion, for it was unfolding in the beginning of the dominion of Gabriel. The Wisdom of Initiation—the Rosicrucian wisdom which was going forth at that time—consisted in this, that one had a certain clarity of understanding for these facts.
It was in the first third of the 15th century, in the time when behind the scenes of modern history the Rosicrucian School was founded. Ordinarily when one looks down to the earthly realm from the life between death and a new birth, one sees the deeds of the Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones taking place in a uniform and steady way.
In the age when men were conscious of the earthly historic convulsions only,—when the Rosicrucians were going forth, when all manner of remarkable events were happening of which you can read in external history,—in that age the earth appeared, to the spirits in the super-sensible worlds, surrounded by mighty lightnings and thunderclaps.

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