A LECTURE BY ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE SPIRITUAL SCHOOL ABOUT RESURRECTION
a luminous idea Z.W. Leene In this first article of a series about the points of departure of the thinking of the Lectorium Rosicrucianum, written by the founders, Z.W. Leene speaks (in 1929!) about the two principles in the human being that seem to be so paradoxically opposed, but which you may be able to bridge through the liberating power of the inner Christ.
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he fact of the resurrection may be one of the most difficult doctrines of ancient Christianity. If we want to reflect on it in an esoteric sense, we should properly realise that this fact does not depend on a belief in miracles. It is not a kind of magic, a miracle, which once, long ago, occurred in human history. Believing in sorcery is unworthy of thinking, feeling, conscious, positive people. The fact of the resurrection should be based on rational thinking. The primitive human being is a negative, poor soul, who believes in a miracle, because he is unable to understand. This human being is crushed by every event, without being able to fathom the fact of the event itself. Therefore, the thinking human being is the advanced person because, by his own efforts, he not only learns to behold the fact as an event, but also to fathom it. This is why the doctrine of the resurrection becomes an absolute philosophical necessity for him. For the thinking person, the event itself is only the confirmation of a fact that he had already known for a long time. One person stops at the event and becomes its slave, while another breaks through to understand-
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ing and becomes enlightened. The doctrine of the resurrection is a luminous idea, one in which God is victorious but not only in Christ who arises from the dead. It also means the victory of the divine consciousness over nature, which is symbolised by the first fruit of the days, Jesus, man from man, who arises from the death of nature by the conception of the Christ, God from God. This event signifies more than a conjuring trick of God. It signifies much more than a miracle that occurred two thousand years ago; this event is rational. This means order, the highest order. The historic event is unable to make us, people struggling in matter, happy. Primitive peoples recognise in the fact of the resurrection only the feast of the resurrection of living nature. And this is why they sometimes celebrate it exuberantly. Death has passed; there is no death. With the Jews, this turned into a popular feast. And in the West, it is often the same. There, too, this feast is usually considered not more than an energy that surfaces again and awakens everything to new life. Plants react by an enhanced circulation of fluids, the production of leaves, and
