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Living Water,
the universal remedy
In our time of great political, social, professional and personal
unrest, outwardly as well as inwardly, humanity is increasingly
confronted with exceptional living conditions and demands. Ever more
people are approaching their physical and mental limits. Where and
how can we find healing?
In all fields of life, the old structures are being broken up. As a
result, human beings feel inwardly torn apart and confused. On both
a physical as well as a soul level, they seek healing and liberation
from their state of deadlock. Utilising various remedies and
therapies for body, soul and spirit, copied and mixed from all parts
of the world, cultures and ages, their promoters promise: ‘You
will become a new person!’
GOOD WATER – remedy FOR EVERYTHING?
Water in all kinds of forms is said to have an excellent,
fundamental healing effect. But in the meantime, the water itself is
ill, and is produced by very old or very new methods (see also the
next article of this issue). Man believes in the beneficial effect
of the ‘fountain of life’ and uses the vivified, ‘living’,
‘good’ water profusely as a remedy for change. However, soon he
must conclude once again that he has not become a healthy, complete
or new person. He becomes aware that his problems in life are of a
different kind. During the last few decades, the Age of Aquarius,
with its specific intercosmic radiation, is breaking up everything
that exists in the world and in humanity ever faster. The decay of
the old structures is reinforced by the purifying effect of the
related vibrations. Just as every person breathes the same air,
nothing and no one is able to withdraw from this fire. The world has
entered an extraordinarily fiery period, a period of fundamental
decisions and fundamental change.
AQUARIUS AND URANUS
Uranus is the ruler of the sign of Aquarius. The Uranus
principle represents intuition, renewal and genius. Uranus is Love.
It is the power of realising and knowing what does not have to be
explained. At one and the same time, Uranus means individuality and
wilfulness, as well as social awareness, unity and freedom, loving
support and the longing and will for what is new, unusual, ideal. On
the one hand, Uranus implies extraordinary dangers for people, and
on the other hand, also extraordinary possibilities for liberation
from this nature-bound state of life. The danger for people is that
they ‘are consumed’ as to their consciousness in the tension
field of their seeking. The liberating possibilities are found in
the rebirth of the New Man who, after a process of healing and
sanctification, can return to his original field of life, the divine
nature. In order to achieve these great revolutions, Aquarius pours
his ‘living water’ over humanity.
THE ‘LIVING WATER’
Some therapies are based on the idea that any illness of the
physical body can ultimately be traced back to a lack of water.
After all, vital processes are not possible without many functions
of water. Continuing this line of thinking, we may also say that
humanity suffers from an existential lack of ‘living water’, of
the true, universal remedy.
What
does ‘living water’ mean to the Rosicrucians and the Gnostics of
all ages? It is the divine building material of realisation, the
pure astral primordial field of the beginning, the ocean of
primordial substance, the receptive mother field, from which the
child of God is born. The living water is pure, gnostic light power,
the light power of eternity. Since primordial times, it has been
described as the universal remedy, as for example in Revelation 7:
‘They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; the sun shall
not strike them, nor any scorching heat. For the Lamb in the midst
of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to
springs of living water; and God will wipe away every tear from
their eyes.’
THE UNIVERSAL remedy
How does the living water, the gnostic light power accomplish
its beneficial work in the fundamentally ill human being who seeks
sanctification? Everything begins with the purity and silence of the
heart, because to the Gnosis, the heart is the gateway to the human
life system. In this silence, Light can enter, and with and through
this Light, the human being can purify his heart. The living water
as light radiation is assimilated by the etheric or vital body, of
the human being. The living water corresponds to the life ether.
Human beings use the gnostic light in order to find life renewal,
and this must take place in and through the etheric body. Life
renewal means soul renewal, that is: (Re)birth and growth of the
‘new’ soul that, after a long alchemical process of change, will
unite with the spirit, the fire principle. The soul is the
intermediary between the water and the spirit. ‘Jesus answered:
“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the
Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.’ (John 3:5)
THE FIVEFOLD SYSTEM OF SANCTIFICATION
The human soul has five aspects or states of being, in which
five fluids work, corresponding with the path of the fivefold
Gnosis.
Each
step of the fivefold system of sanctification leads to purification,
to a change of one of the five soul fluids, and each step influences
all the others to make them suitable for the next stage of
development. Five fluids, stages and effects, on the basis of the
blood, mark the path of transmutation and transfiguration:
1.
The blood fluid – insight into the nature of our field of
life and the awareness of being called to return to the divine
order.
2.
The hormone fluid – the true longing for salvation.
3.
The serpent fire fluid – the surrender of the personality,
of the I, to the realisation of the salvation.
4.
The nerve fluid – a spontaneously arising, new mode of
life, described in the Sermon on the Mount: the new deed.
5.
The consciousness fluid – the completion of this path: the
awakening, the resurrection in the original field of life.
This
fivefold soul fluid, the Star of Bethlehem, the living water, is
poured out generously and abundantly over all of us, particularly
now. A human being has only to open himself to it and prepare
himself for it, that is, make himself suitable for it.
PATH AND GOAL OF SANCTIFICATION
As ‘method’ of sanctification, we can also mention
‘knowing-daring-willing-acting’, the practice of the new mode of
life:
Knowing
which help we receive and why, what purpose this serves and to which
point we are led.
Daring
to accept the accompanying consequences and in complete trust, faith
and deep longing, going the path.
Willing
means: by the will, the whole being is kept in a continuous state of
alertness and is focused on the expected salvation, the
sanctification.
Acting
means: the person then shows a clearly visible, new mode of life.
His life achieves harmony with the Light Radiation of the Gnosis and
the soul will grow.
SYMBOL, RECOLLECTION,
REMINDER
Since primordial times, people have known the way back to the
‘house of the father’. By symbols, they were focused on the
purpose of their earthly existence, on their true task in life. The
grail, a cup, a chalice or basin, the mixing vessel, is such an
ancient symbol. In it, the human being is alchemically transformed
by the living water, the gnostic light power, from matter-born
person to a man of the Light, with spirit and soul living in the
original realms.
In
the Bible, we find many references to the symbol of the living water
like light power, Christ Power, universal remedy: striking with the
staff on the rocks, from which the living water flows, changing
water into wine at the wedding in Cana, the healing of a sick person
near the bath of Bethesda, the healing waters of Siloam, and of
course, the baptism with water preceding the baptism with fire. The
ritual act of the baptism with water – the sprinkling with or the
submersion into or under the ‘water of conversion’, is known in
almost all religions.
The
fountain in the focal points of the Golden Rosycross is also a
symbol of the living water that continuously renews everything. It
encourages the pupil on the path not only to perform his work of the
soul, but also links him with the soul power that enables him truly
to perform this work of the soul.
The
whole world is becoming increasingly unbalanced. However, since
striving for harmony is a law of the spirit as well as of nature,
spiritual and natural forces intervene in a corrective way. This
means breaking-up, but, supported by the activity of Aquarius, it
also intensifies the work of salvation of the Gnosis.
Everything
is mutually dependent, but it also belongs together! It is
solidarity, unity, being one. Any person who is aware of his
fundamental distress, his unholiness, also abundantly receives the
possibility and power of true healing, of sanctification: Aquarius
pours out his never empty pitcher of living water abundantly over
us. The whole creation waits with eager longing for man to finally
use the universal remedy, the living water, to ignite the Light that
is locked in matter.
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