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.BACON'S "SECRET SOCIETY": THE EPHRATA CONNECTION
SECTION II — SLIDES AND RESEARCH ON EPHRATA
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SECTION II — SLIDES AND RESEARCH ON EPHRATA
by Linda S. Schrigner, et al
39
 Note: A universal law functioning within an equal set of conditions in different places, will function with the same resulting effect in all such places. This paraphrases in common language, the kind of universal law referred to as "God's immutable laws", upon which true mystical principles arise. And so it was, amongst the Reformation and Renaissance Rosicrucians whose movement it was to bring further spiritual enlightenment to humanity. |
Johannes Kelpius [1673-1708] synthesized
a personal approach of Christian mysticism specifically for non-Rosicrucians
in Philadelphia, in introducing some of the greater mysteries of life,
that went beyond literal interpretations of words in the Christian Bible.
"The kingdom of God is within," and the admonishment that perhaps is most
quoted in the Christian Bible, of Jesus: to "look within," to "seek
ye the kingdom of God within," is based upon one of the most important
principles of mysticism, given to the World by the greatest Mystic Teacher
of Christianity; a mystical premise, it was a statement that
is based upon the universal law of universal Oneness, and, therefore, the
connectedness of all Nature, wherein, the Voice of Conscience speaks truth
to one's heart, without requiring the services of an intermediary human,
priest, or minister of God.
In the writings of Jacob Boehme [1575-1624], as in writings of Cartesian philosophers and scientists (and many other mystics of the Renaissance and Middle Ages), Boehme expressed in "Church" language, the tenets of the immutable mystical laws and principles, that would help the literate individual who could read his words. Kelpius continued to introduce others in America to the spiritually enlightening ideas of Christian mysticism and Rosicrucianism. |
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