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conditional of limitation in time and space, and the All is
illimitable, or, as the English metaphysician has phrased it
unconditioned. Likewise, with die minor integers of the All ;
—of them neither create nor uncreate can be predicated.
Their experiences are from chaos unto their re-association
with the Divine. Until, therefore, the solemn moment of
apotheosistic concomitance, the passage of the soul through
the ever-changing vale of circumstance goes on. So that the
Rosicrucian may exclaim, in the words of the stern Roman
general,
“ Through what variety of untried being,
Through what new scenes and changes, must we pass !”
To the mage, each leaf rustling in the breeze, each blossom
perfuming the sunlight, each fish swimming beneath the wave,
each reptile crawling in the marsh, each animal in the forest,
each bird in the air, share with us the pulsations of the
Unknown, which men call Life, and is with us the microcosm
emanating from the macrocosm.
This sacred truth led the Nilotic Rosicrucians to express
the emanations and the spheres in. the sacred tree, bird, bull
and serpent, and to create a hieroglyphic geometry, whose
grandeur and meaning have baffled all time, appearing and
reappearing in Etruscan jewelry, Greek architecture, Roman
astrology, Gothic and Saracen art, Mediaeval witchcraft, and
modern Free-Masonry.
O ! preachers and teachers of Christianity, who rail at
Egypt, and call their colossal doctrines animal-worship ; who
pass imbecile jokes upon the Buddhist and Brahman sages ;
who laugh to scorn the Assyrian and Chaldean philosophers,
—know ye not that your own little learning was proclaimed
by us when you, sunk in obscene barbarism, were torturing
and slaying our own elect?—that your own semi-Semitic faith
was one-half taken from the Nilotic universities by many
men, whom ye ignorantly condense into one being, Moses,
and the other half a poetic repetition of the principles of the
Rosy Cross, the growth of fifty centuries ?
To the novice and adept, alike, one principle applies.
“The Rosicrucian becomes and is not made.” The lesson of
the Rosy Cross is not to be learned by the ignorant or lust-
ful, the grasping or the ambitious. “To him who seeks the
truth, the truth will come.”
The possession of truth is not knowledge, but wisdom, and
wisdom is neither bought nor sold, nor gained by instruction
nor lost by time. The lesson of the Rosy Cross may contair
facts, and these facts may be learned in the school-room or
the midnight-study; but these facts are no more Rosicru-
cianism, than are so many bricks and stones the facade of a
mighty cathedral. The scholar must glean from history and
literature, and, above all, from the sciences, the truths, one
by one, which, together, will make him an elect. Therefore it
was that, unlike any sector institution the world has ever seen,
the brethren of the Rosy Cross neither made nor attempted
to make any converts. Contented that their lore must remain a
sealed book until distant generations, when ignorance and
pride, bigotry and lust should become evanescent and dis-
appear ; satisfied that the individual must become, and not be
guided into, the real man ; knowing that their mysteries, if
divulged, would produce mere confusion and death ; and
seeing, above all, that,
“God is still God.
And his love will not fail us.”
— they toiled on in their labors, and left the world alone,
to ripen on in nature’s lengthy course toward the happy age.
But, to re-assure the yearning and wistful seeker after
truth, they chiseled in everlasting rock the symbolisms of
their faith, and left, for coming years to wonder at and study,
the monoliths of Stonehenge, the giant-pillars of France and
the Mediterranean, the fire-towers of Assyria, and highest of
all, the pyramids of Egypt. These they bequeathed to all the
future, not alone as pregnant with wisdom, but more as tokens
of truth and love for the unborn children of man.
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[From the New York Evening Post, 3d.]
ROBERT DALE OWEN.
MR. ROBERT DALE OWEN’S many friends in this city ar[…]
aware that he went a few weeks ago to a water-cur[…]
called the Home on the Hillside, at DanSville, in Weste[...]
New York, where he put himself under the charge of t[...]
superintendent, Dr. James C. Jackson, for purely physic[...]
ailments, which had been troubling him for two or three years
past, and manifested themselves chiefly by indigestion. They
will be startled by a letter which appeared in the Rochester
Express last evening, and announces that he has been taken
to his home in Indiana as insane. We are reluctant to be-
lieve that the inferences of the writer are correct as to the
cause of Mr. Owen’s mental disturbance, if the allegations of
insanity are indeed well founded. We have conversed with
him personally, within a few weeks, concerning the “ Katy
King business,” and the imposture which was practised on
him with regard to it, and no one possibly could have talked
with greater simplicity and candor of the error of another^
than he of his own deficient observation in his experiments
in Philadelphia, and of his earnest desire to correct the im-
pression of the authenticity of the “ Katy King ” manifesta-
tion, so far as he had been the cause of its acceptance by
anybody. But at the same time he earnestly avowed that his
faith in the doctrines of Spiritualism was not impaired by his
own error. Nor was his self-depreciation excessive. It was
frank, but moderate and reasonable and was consistent with
the devout tenor of his character. With these few words
we print the letter, which bears date at Dansville, Juue 30 :
“ For some time Dansville has been the stopping place of
a distinguished visitor, Robert Dale Owen, the well-known
writer and Spiritualist. He came here hoping by freedom
from care and trouble to recuperate and repair his shattered
energies, and to enable him to continue his literary labors.
Occupying his time mainly with recreation, for a time nothing
unusual was observed in his conduct, and he was pointed out
as a rather eccentric old gentleman. An upholder of Spirit-
ualism and a writer of acknowledged merit, his society was
sought after, and his conversations were coherent and instruc-
tive. Invitations to lecture were occasionally accepted, and
some of your readers will, no doubt, remember the lecture on
‘ Spiritualism,’ delivered by him not long since in your city.
If any one at that ttme considered him insane, they failed to
give others the benefit of their judgment. During the past
week, however, his eccentricities increased to such an alarm-
iug extent that it became painfully evident to those that knew
him that the great mind of Robert Dale Owen had lost its
reason. His wild, excited actions on Friday last at the
grounds of the Dansville Driving Park Association were
clearly those of an insane person. Driving furiously among
a crowd of carriages, accosting strangers and gesticulating
violently, he was a source of annoyance to his friends and a
surprise to strangers. His son was telegraphed for immedi-
ately. He reached here Sunday night, and on Tuesday morn-
ing started for his home in Indiana with Mr. Owen.
“ Mr. Owen is a man over seventy years of age, apparently
strong and healthy, being especially active for a man of his
years. As to the immediate cause of his insanity we can
only conjecture. His life has been one of toil, ana any one
who read his chapters of autobiography published from time
to time in the Atlantic Monthly, though they are remarkably
free from offensive individuality and egotism, will plainly see
that his life has not been void of results. On him as a sup-
porter of Spiritualism the severest strictures have been
placed, and there seems something of plausibility in the re-
port now current that the loss of faith in his religion conse-
quent upon the Katie King ‘expose’ was the immediate cause
of his insanity, and this theory is supported by facts from his
life. Prior to his embracing spiritualistic doctrines, he was
an atheist, and, as every atheist must, became dissatisfied
with himself and his position. As a relief from this unfortu-
nate condition, he fell into a belief in Spiritualism, and in its
doctrines his whole mind and soul became engrossed. To-
gether with Judge Edmonds, he has for years been pointed
out as the great decider of Spiritualism in this country.
Though his position was often assailed, yet he defended his
cause nobly, and to the time of Katie King had answered
every objection in a manner satisfactory to himself, if not to
the great mass of the reading public; and his success may
be judged of by the rapid increase of Spiritualism in this coun
try. But his unfortunate statements were not so easily ex
plained, and it was perfectly apparent that his own explana-
tions never satisfied himself; he tried in vain, and could see
no way out of his difficulty. Robert Dale Owen was a man
who believed in reasoning, and what he could explain to his
own satisfaction by reasoning, that he believed in implicitly;
and it is fair to suppose that it was a great blow which caused
him to lose faith in the belief which he had so long and faith-
fully advocated and defended’ and was thereby chiefly instru-
mental in dethroning reason in his great mind: but however
that may be, and whatever may have been his religious belief,
the world will lose in him a strong mind, an able reasoner,
and the purest writer of the English language which she has
seen for vears ”
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vol. 3, p. 240
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vol. 3 (1875-1878)

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Editor's notes

  1. ↑ Robert Dale Owen by unknown author. From New York Evening Post


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