Leading From Within

My First Book of the Rosicrucian Mysteries

I started The Rosicrucian Mysteries in 1990, over thirty years ago — but the idea began in 1989. It was very clear in my mind that there needed to be a new teaching, for everyone. For me, it had to be different from anything else I knew or had learned. It had to be special, and not known elsewhere.

I wanted to create a teaching that exemplified the joys of working with my inner Spiritual Configuration — known through a secret knowledge of inner seeing. What struck me very clearly was this: after visiting many spiritual communities (I lived in Järna, Sweden for seven years) I found they were lacking in skills to support an individual on a higher path — in my case, a musical path. They were not able to maintain and support the correct spiritual atmosphere needed to promote the Aether Body and bring it into a higher state. Let’s just say a higher-caliber musician requires a very special environment.

This meant that human beings, in general, could not advance further — because music is a special gift of Nature to the human being. The question that posed itself to me was this: if human interference caused a delay in the powers of Nature to work in a person, then human beings were standing in the path of higher development, and blocking it.

It is people who stand in the way of human progress.

Once a proper social environment is achieved, then the spiritual forces begin to move from within. Imagine this like water: drip, drop by drop, creating a pool, then cutting a small channel until it forces its way into another, until a stream forms. It all made sense. I needed to surround myself with a group of supportive people, and the magic of Nature would take over. And it did. I found my place to write, and over time outgrew one stage after another — in the interim seeking a new place to land once I could feel the foundation shift. That was the telltale sign. I timed it, and moved myself accordingly to a new habitat.

A human being is more than what he appears on the surface, and unfolding the inner self is to acknowledge the arising of a greater power within — hidden, even, and concealed. It is a great challenge, for it means the old personality will be shattered, and eventually nothing will remain of it.

Just watch a moth come from a cocoon, and you can imagine the strange and at first frightening sight: the once docile but gigantic fifty-legged green worm, beautiful, then restfully turning black, nested inside a silky house. Inside it the creature loses its eyes; the legs shrivel; the head severs; it turns black as night. Stillness. Nothing. Then it appears — underneath the skin, shadows of colors through the smoky outside. A creature is inside. An unknown one. It stirs, then breaks the skin. In a flash of a moment, the blink of an eye, she sits fully formed — a goddess of Nature, proud, eyes focused. A mind fully concentrated, evidenced in the emanation of its life, streaming and pulsing as pressures of air are drawn in through the body’s pores and fill it with power. Her eyes display the powerful surge of energy. She slowly pumps her wings. When the night comes, she will be ready to fly in cosmic spaces.

A writer of the spiritual states of Man is no less important to understand — and so few writers, if there ever were any, could comprehend Nature enough to push aside all preconceptions about what can emerge from the soul of a man. Why this? A man is not a creature; he has a soul to inform him of the steps and stages of creatures — but a man does not know anything about his invisible being. He simply does not see it. I understood that what men were unwilling to see caused them to cut themselves short of the next stage of human development. From that point of view I began writing the chapters in The Secret Teachings of the Lost Land of Eden.

There are secrets in this book about Man and Nature not found anywhere else. If you feel attracted to my work for the reasons above, then you will not be able to put my book down. It is what it is. What it is not? It is unique among Rosicrucian books.

You are probably asking, then — why Rosicrucian? Well, it is quite natural for anyone to understand. In my youth, the idea of music and sound explained everything (see the works of Hermann Hesse, for example, in the 1960s), and this was echoed in the 1970s philosophies of the new musicians, who drew on the idea of the number seven: seven colors, seven tones, and so on. The Rosicrucians were exemplary, and fully acknowledged as the theoreticians of the Seven Spiritual Bodies, the Seven Hidden Realms, the Seven States of Mind, the Seven Upper Zodiac Signs, the Seven Proteins, and so forth.

Everything in the Rosicrucian system — which is the oldest traditional science of Europe — and if one adds the Pythagorean system of numbers as the foundation for Descartes, Pascal, and Saint-Hilaire, but also the system of J. S. Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Vivaldi, and Monteverdi, one can in this way see the fine and delicate weaving of human thoughts as a veritable musical instrument of Nature. The mind itself is the musical instrument of the unknown and unrecognized Spirit of Nature that no one seems able to ascertain. Why? Because they cannot see the power of Sound.

Sound is invisible.

My book, then, is really a Philosophy of Sound. It is Rosicrucian in that it draws on the traditions of Pythagorean musical mathematics — which is eminently Rosicrucian, because of the special adoration of the form of the Rose as a five-pointed star, and the Cross as a quadrant. These are properly interpreted as the properties of .5 and .25. When one adds, multiplies, or divides these, one has the entire frequency bandwidth of Nature. They are the rhythm and the sequences of creation. In the East, it is called the dance of Nataraja with Shiva. One must see how to use them.

In the same way a man uses a flute to blow out beautiful tones, the soul can be so configured to ‘sound’ thoughts too — not just receive them. So the art of a human soul is a new musical training. That is the secret of my book, The Rosicrucian Mysteries and the Lost Teachings of Eden. And I have added much to my initial first book — created very much more, to add to your inner thirst. Let yourself enjoy and grasp my foundation work, and write me.