Egyptian Arch-Gnosis Vol. 2
by Jan van Rijckenborgh
Book Description:
The second volume of 'The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis and Its Call in the Eternal Present' describes the requirements and stages of the path to liberation in detail. Chapter titles include: Karma-Nemesis and the way to redemption, The realization of God's plan, The primordial law of the gnostic mysteries, The imitation of Christ, The mystery of the Holy Grail, The key to purification, The holy Mother Earth, and The restoration of perfect equilibrium. It includes the texts of the third through ninth books of the Corpus Hermeticum with extensive esoteric commentary, a full color illustration by Johfra entitled 'The Arch-Mother' and a 6 page glossary of Gnostic and Rosicrucian terms.
About the Authors:
The two main authors whose works are published by the Rosycross Press, Jan van Rijckenborgh (1896-1968) and Catharose de Petri (1902-1990), devoted their lives to forming the School of the Golden Rosycross. Their goal was the formation of a group of people in whom the I-central consciousness had been shifted from its position as 'king' in their inner being, and restored to its proper role: that of 'servant' to the growing Spirit-Soul, the true Self or inner Christ. However, they were faced with the difficult task of building a bridge of understanding between this goal and the minds of people who, though they had a deep interest in the hidden side of life, saw it largely through the lens of the separative, I-central ego.
Throughout all the many hundreds of talks they gave, and the books they wrote, it is clear that their aim was to cut through the conditioning of the ego so as to give their pupils a distinct vision of what was required of them. To do this they expressed the essential teachings of Spirit-Soul rebirth in all kinds of different ways and considered them from countless angles. Often they found it necessary to speak in a rather emphatic way, and to depict in stark, bleak outlines the depth of human imprisonment in the material world. Always, they used texts, stories and symbolism drawn from all times and all places to illustrate their points, and to show that the transfiguristic path they were teaching was not new, but has been handed down - though often in veiled form - ever since the dawn of human development.
Thus, although the methods they taught were adapted to modern times, their teachings were essentially the same as those of earlier groups such as the Essenes, the Christian Gnostics, the Manichaeans and the Cathars, to name but a few.
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