Monday, March 16, 2015

TOWARD A ROSE CROSS MEDITATION PART II - GODS ONCE SPOKE TO MAN – NOW SYMBOLS RESONATE IN US



TOWARD A ROSE CROSS MEDITATION PART II OF IV

WHO AM I?
I am a Rose Cross Meditation. I am based on symbols. My purpose is to take the imperfect elements, experiences, behaviors of your soul and your life, identify them, place them into my symbolic construct, and then transform them. My symbols are the architecture for change – an inner Temple within you.
     The Oracles of the Gods once spoke to man within the Temples of the ancient world. Then, man evolved, could understand and symbolize within. As man’s consciousness evolved, symbols – what were once were the words of the Gods - have remained as powerful triggers to release wisdom within you. They load icons with their power, give novels their depth and offer advertisers a short-hand symbology that make commercial messages powerful. (Aren’t you lucky!)  This is called resonance.
Meditations such as Rudolf Steiner’s (1861-1925) Rose Cross Meditation specifically use symbols because of their power to access and release, or transform what lies hidden within your souls.

WHY AM I HERE?
I am here to make messages live within you on the deepest levels – “in-sights”. Working deeply with symbols can lead you down a deeper path of thinking different from your daily thought patterns. But, you will have to work hard to not slip back into your daily, well-worn thought tunnels. If you can stay with the symbolic construct – the visualization -  and go deep, this may result in new feelings. (C’mon - if advertisers can use symbols in “resonance advertising” to successfully lead you to buy products, you should be able to use symbolic resonance to change your thinking and feelings.)
Here are a few symbols loaded with meanings:

Lion   Eagle   Red    Scarred
Seed   Blood   Black  Root
Scale  Gold    Green  Cross
Love   Hair    Flower Crown
Spirit  Leaf   Woman  Sun

The four major symbols in me, Steiner’s Rose Cross Meditation, are a plant – the Rose; a cross; the color black, the color green and the color red. He says we can build up our own meditations using other, self-selected symbols.

WHAT DO I WANT?
Be aware that the sequence in which the symbols appear in the meditation is as important as the specific symbols.
I hope that this pre-contemplation helps you understand the symbols, the construct and the sequence so that you feel prepared for the immersion into the symbolic visualization.
     Together we’ll just take this objectively, one step at a time, and we will build this up. So, in this instance, the separate, shorter blog posts may be helpful for isolating each step in what is otherwise may seem complex process.

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