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ER +
Wat buten maat bestaat,
donderdag 21 augustus 2008
IT, ER +, TORRENTIUS, Eques Rosae Crucis:
a drama of tolerance & repression in the Dutch "Golden Age".
ER +
Wat buten maat bestaat,
int onmaats qaat verghaat.
"Alwaer de broederschap vergaert van 't roode kruis".
“Wat is Godt, kendt ghy Godt wel, hebt ghy hem gesien, wat voor een dincxken es Godt?” - Torrentius
Men moest tot elken prijs Torrentius onschadelijk maken. - Bredius
Wel mijnheere, alleenelijck het lichaem is wat gemarteliseert... - Torrentius
Years ago, during my first visit to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, ....I came upon a canvas by a painter unknown to me....How to describe this inner state? A suddenly awakened intense curiosity, sharp concentration with the senses alarmed, hope for an adventure and consent to be dazzled. I experienced an almost physical sensation as if someone called me, summoned me. - Zbigniew Herbert
Ick en schildere op geen esel noch en gebruycke geen pinceel, maar mijn paneelen leggen pladt neder ende Ick en ben niet die schildert, maer Ick heb daar een andere wetenschap toe, daer compt een soet musicael geluyt over het paneel, alsof er een swerm byen recht daerboven sweeffden. - Torrentius
'Ik verga in het onvergankelijke' - IT
Some simple lines in old Dutch from an era long gone. Old Dutch, much more similar btw to Zuidafrikaans (Zuidafrikaans originated from the 17th century Dutch language) than modern day Dutch lingo! Most present day Dutch wouldn't understand these lines very well...
The first line is written on the only known painting of a Dutch painter "Emblematic still life with flagon, glass, jug and bridle".
(T 1614) by Johannes Torrentius (1589-1644), oil on canvas, 52 x 50,5 cm. (old name Matigheid/Temperantia)
Surprisingly since the only known Torrentius painting with the seal of King Charles I on it C(arolus) R(ex) was discovered by J.J. van Deinse in a grocery store (J.F. Sachse - van Essen) in the eastern Dutch town of Enschede, were it had served as the lid on a barrel sultanas!
"Alwaer de broederschap vergaert van 't roode kruis".
“Wat is Godt, kendt ghy Godt wel, hebt ghy hem gesien, wat voor een dincxken es Godt?” - Torrentius
Men moest tot elken prijs Torrentius onschadelijk maken. - Bredius
Wel mijnheere, alleenelijck het lichaem is wat gemarteliseert... - Torrentius
Years ago, during my first visit to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, ....I came upon a canvas by a painter unknown to me....How to describe this inner state? A suddenly awakened intense curiosity, sharp concentration with the senses alarmed, hope for an adventure and consent to be dazzled. I experienced an almost physical sensation as if someone called me, summoned me. - Zbigniew Herbert
Ick en schildere op geen esel noch en gebruycke geen pinceel, maar mijn paneelen leggen pladt neder ende Ick en ben niet die schildert, maer Ick heb daar een andere wetenschap toe, daer compt een soet musicael geluyt over het paneel, alsof er een swerm byen recht daerboven sweeffden. - Torrentius
'Ik verga in het onvergankelijke' - IT
Some simple lines in old Dutch from an era long gone. Old Dutch, much more similar btw to Zuidafrikaans (Zuidafrikaans originated from the 17th century Dutch language) than modern day Dutch lingo! Most present day Dutch wouldn't understand these lines very well...
The first line is written on the only known painting of a Dutch painter "Emblematic still life with flagon, glass, jug and bridle".
(T 1614) by Johannes Torrentius (1589-1644), oil on canvas, 52 x 50,5 cm. (old name Matigheid/Temperantia)
Surprisingly since the only known Torrentius painting with the seal of King Charles I on it C(arolus) R(ex) was discovered by J.J. van Deinse in a grocery store (J.F. Sachse - van Essen) in the eastern Dutch town of Enschede, were it had served as the lid on a barrel sultanas!
(Uit het Land van Katoen en Heide, part I (1925) by J.J. van Deinse, article "Een merkwaardige vondst", page 466 - 477.
Well definitely amazing, considering the fact that Enschede almost burned to the ground in 1862!
Jij was de gevreesde, snelstromende.
Uit de grote brand van Enschede gered
je sinistere ‘Stilleven met breidel’,
dienst doend als deksel op een krentenvat.
ER + Wat buten maat bestaat, int onmaats qaat verghaat.
'That which exists out of measure perishes in evil immeasurably'.
ER + means: Eques Rosae Crucis, Knight of the Rose Cross.
The other sentence is written on a rosicrucian caricature by Pieter Nolpe, Dutch etcher, engraver and draughtsman. Most likely figures shown on this engraving are: Joost van den Vondel, Constantijn Huygens, Torrentius, Roemer Visscher, his daughter Maria Tesselschade Visscher, Theodoor Rodenburg and Pieter Cornelisz Hooft. Members of the illustrious Muiderkring.
'Alwaer de broederschap vergaert van 't roode kruis'
Where the brotherhood of the Red Cross meets!.
The Muiderkring nothing but a bunch of Rosicrucians!?
Most of them were btw also members of the Rhetoricians (Rederijkers). The Chambers of Rhetoric arose out of religious or secular brotherhoods at the beginning of the 15th century in Flanders, under French influence. This particular Chamber was called d'Eglantier "Sweet Briar", but it was also often referred to by its motto In Liefde Bloeyende "Blossoming in Love". In fact Roemer Visscher was the leader of the Dutch rosicrucians and in the year 1614 it was decided that Torrentius would become, upon Visscher's death in 1620, his successor! Roemer Visscher hid the ER+ signature in the "Elck wat Wils +" emblem on the title page of his Sinnepoppen (1614).
Both pieces are now in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
"There is no country in the world more suitable than Holland for the Brotherhood of the Rose-Croix, and where those who have the secret of the great work have more freedom. Wrote Sorbière"
De rozekruisers, die zijn voortgekomen uit de mengelmoes van anabaptisten, en die vergeefs pronken met hun verschillende kunsten en wetenschappen, de alchemie, de veredeling van goud en soortgelijke dingen om zo de ongelukkigen en de onbedachtzamen te verleiden en degenen die zich tot deze merkwaardige zaken voelen aangetrokken, aan de duivel uit te leveren. – Laurentius Beyerlinck (1578 – 1627)
The Netherlands, however, did not long deserve this praise for the hospitality which the Rosicrucians had initially enjoyed. Protestant orthodoxy simply did not tolerate the freedom of investigation of the Rosicrucians, nor did they accepte their philosophical theories alien to the Bible.
And thus soon an investigation was made in 1623 against the Fraternity of the Rose-Croix by the assembled Councils of Holland, Zealand and Friesland and the Faculty of Theology of Leyden was asked for their opinion. This opinion stated, in sum, that certain persons calling themselves Brothers of the Rose-Croix, who have had their residence in the City of paris, had now come to the United Provinces and that they were occupied in matters very detrimental to the interests of the State, and that their sect is very unorthodox.
Their decision was communicated to Magistrates of Haarlem with a request that a certain Torrentius, as one of the principal adherents of the sect, be particularly watched!
Johannes Symonsz van der Beeck (1589 - 1644) a.k.a. Torrentius,
Dutch painter. Active in Amsterdam, Leiden and Haarlem. In 1627, Torrentius and his friend Coppens were take prisoners. Torrentius was tortured and sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment for impiety and blasphemy. His paintings were burned. Undoubtedly his membership of the Rosicrucians played a most important role.
A.J. Rehorst in his book on Torrentius (1939) established beyond doubt that he was a Rosicrucian, just like Rehorst himself. Johannes Torrentius, who claimed that his Rosicrucianism gave him magical powers as an artist. He most likely used a camera obscura made by the Dutch physicist, inventor and fellow Rosicrucian Cornelius Drebbel.
This Cornelis Drebbel b.t.w. is a very fascinating figure who seriously deserves further investigation! There's two mesmerizing theories surrounding the Dutch Da Vinci. One is that Julianus de Campis is a Drebbel alias! Where Dr. Carlos Gilly (Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica) rejects this theory, Dr. Govert Snoek in his excellent study "De Rozenkruisers in Nederland" considers this possibility, Susanna Åkerman (Rose Cross over the Baltic) has already accepted this theory!
Karl Wideman tells us that Johann Oswaldus from Montbéliard reveals to him in the presence of Adam Haselmayer (Antwort An die lobwürdige Brüderschafft der Theosophen vom RosenCreutz N. N. ) anno December 1621 at Augsburg, a series of Rosicrucian pseudonyms one of them being: Julianus de Campis, sonsten Cornelius Trebel genanndtt. It's very obvious that this concerns Cornelius Drebbel of Alkmaar!
The second theory perhaps even more mind-blowing is Richard Santa Coloma's assumption that the enigmatic Voynich Manuscript is nothing but Drebbel's lost note book!
(Provided the recent carbon dating's been done correctly, the Drebbel/Voynich theory can be ruled out: University of Arizona researchers have cracked one of the puzzles surrounding what has been called "the world's most mysterious manuscript" – the Voynich manuscript, a book filled with drawings and writings nobody has been able to make sense of to this day.
Using radiocarbon dating, a team led by Greg Hodgins in the UA's department of physics has found the manuscript's parchment pages date back to the early 15th century (1404 - 1438), making the book a century older than scholars had previously thought. This radiocarbon dating also rules out other possible candides like Da Vinci, Roger Bacon and Edward Kelley.
Van Drebbel heb ik slechts een glimp mogen opvangen, de geleerde die oogde als een Hollandse boer, maar spreken kon als de wijzen van Samos en Sicilië tezamen -Constantijn Huygens
Now back to Torrentius. The Dark Forces behind this conspiracy must have been quite powerful, since not even Stadtholder c.q. Prince of Orange Frederik Hendrik's personal intervention could save Torrentius!
The Prince of Orange must have known Torrentius very well, since the Rosicrucians of Holland held their meetings in his own Palace at the Noordeinde Street in The Hague.
"Alwaer de broederschap vergaert van 't roode kruis" .
After having been notified by Sir Dudley Carleton, the British ambassador in The Hague, Charles I of England also intervened and brought about Torrentius's release in 1629 again with the strong support of the Prince. Torrentius went into exile in England.
His life there, we have not the means of following accurately. He appears to have resumed his former profession of a painter...though without his former success. According to Walpole in his "Painters in the Reign of Charles I: "giving more scandal than satisfaction".
Twelve years later he saw Holland again just to die there, as a broken man…
In the year 1615 the Dutch translation of the Fama Fraternitatis by Abraham von Hoberweschel was published (though some mention the name of Roemer Visscher). The early translation clearly demonstrates that Rosicrucianism struck a cord in the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.
In the 17th century the Dutch Republic developed into a world colonial empire far out of proportion to its resources, emerging as a centre of international finance, trade and a cultural capital of Europe.
The Netherlands are and always have been known because of their liberal, tolerant and openminded character. But liberal and tolerant in comparison to what?
Where some of its above mentioned leaders and scientists, were indeed very liberal and tolerant the majority of its people simple were not and were indeed rather calvinist.
In the beginning of this anti-rosicrucian movement, the persecution only expressed itself in humbling criticism. In 1622 a booklet was published "Spieghel der Broeders van den roose kruysse", by a lover of the truth or "liefhebber der waerheyt", telling us that in the town of Warmond there were a bunch of people calling themselves Rosicrucians and Torrentius "die geseit wort wel eenen van de principaelsten ten wesen der voorsz. secte." And of which Torrentius allegedly was one or perhaps the most important member. They were of course, blasphemers, heretics and worshipers of Satan. Similar criticism was found in 1624 in Nicolaes Van Wassenaer's "Historisch Verhael".
Torrentius who it must be said, was a libertine, blasphemer and womanizer. A more prudent approach c.q. behaviour might have prevented this predicament. In his haydays he behaved much like a modern-day pop star or guru, always and everywhere showing up with his own entourage:
“hy wist hem selven te insinueeren in de gunst van voorname burgers, die veel van hem hielden, alle mans vrient, die het vrouvolck wonderbaerlick wist te believen en lief-locken, die dagelycx sijn huis frequenteerden, en konden daar niet van daan blijven al spleten en barsten haar mans" .
As an artist Torentius was very highly praised for his still lifes by such high sources as the secretary to the prince of Orange, Constantijn Huygens (who rated him even better than Rembrandt!). As to his art, I find it difficult to restrain my use of words in asserting that he is, in my opinion, a miracle-worker in the depiction of lifeless objects and that no one is likely to equal him in portraying accurately and beautifully glasses, thing of pewter, earthenware, and iron so that, through the power of his art, they seem almost transparent, in a way that would have been impossible until now… Torrentius exasperates skeptics as they look in vain for any clues as to how he uses, in some bold manner, colors, oil, and if the gods desire it, his brushes.
But Huygens also mentions his atheism and how he ridiculed the Bible, but he says as far as his life and morals are concerned: "I will not like Cato judge him". However, wasn't Torrentius' so-called "atheism" and the mystery mongering he liked so much, not just his grossly misunderstood and weird sense of humour!?
The second theory perhaps even more mind-blowing is Richard Santa Coloma's assumption that the enigmatic Voynich Manuscript is nothing but Drebbel's lost note book!
(Provided the recent carbon dating's been done correctly, the Drebbel/Voynich theory can be ruled out: University of Arizona researchers have cracked one of the puzzles surrounding what has been called "the world's most mysterious manuscript" – the Voynich manuscript, a book filled with drawings and writings nobody has been able to make sense of to this day.
Using radiocarbon dating, a team led by Greg Hodgins in the UA's department of physics has found the manuscript's parchment pages date back to the early 15th century (1404 - 1438), making the book a century older than scholars had previously thought. This radiocarbon dating also rules out other possible candides like Da Vinci, Roger Bacon and Edward Kelley.
Van Drebbel heb ik slechts een glimp mogen opvangen, de geleerde die oogde als een Hollandse boer, maar spreken kon als de wijzen van Samos en Sicilië tezamen -Constantijn Huygens
Now back to Torrentius. The Dark Forces behind this conspiracy must have been quite powerful, since not even Stadtholder c.q. Prince of Orange Frederik Hendrik's personal intervention could save Torrentius!
The Prince of Orange must have known Torrentius very well, since the Rosicrucians of Holland held their meetings in his own Palace at the Noordeinde Street in The Hague.
"Alwaer de broederschap vergaert van 't roode kruis" .
After having been notified by Sir Dudley Carleton, the British ambassador in The Hague, Charles I of England also intervened and brought about Torrentius's release in 1629 again with the strong support of the Prince. Torrentius went into exile in England.
His life there, we have not the means of following accurately. He appears to have resumed his former profession of a painter...though without his former success. According to Walpole in his "Painters in the Reign of Charles I: "giving more scandal than satisfaction".
Twelve years later he saw Holland again just to die there, as a broken man…
In the year 1615 the Dutch translation of the Fama Fraternitatis by Abraham von Hoberweschel was published (though some mention the name of Roemer Visscher). The early translation clearly demonstrates that Rosicrucianism struck a cord in the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.
In the 17th century the Dutch Republic developed into a world colonial empire far out of proportion to its resources, emerging as a centre of international finance, trade and a cultural capital of Europe.
The Netherlands are and always have been known because of their liberal, tolerant and openminded character. But liberal and tolerant in comparison to what?
Where some of its above mentioned leaders and scientists, were indeed very liberal and tolerant the majority of its people simple were not and were indeed rather calvinist.
In the beginning of this anti-rosicrucian movement, the persecution only expressed itself in humbling criticism. In 1622 a booklet was published "Spieghel der Broeders van den roose kruysse", by a lover of the truth or "liefhebber der waerheyt", telling us that in the town of Warmond there were a bunch of people calling themselves Rosicrucians and Torrentius "die geseit wort wel eenen van de principaelsten ten wesen der voorsz. secte." And of which Torrentius allegedly was one or perhaps the most important member. They were of course, blasphemers, heretics and worshipers of Satan. Similar criticism was found in 1624 in Nicolaes Van Wassenaer's "Historisch Verhael".
Torrentius who it must be said, was a libertine, blasphemer and womanizer. A more prudent approach c.q. behaviour might have prevented this predicament. In his haydays he behaved much like a modern-day pop star or guru, always and everywhere showing up with his own entourage:
“hy wist hem selven te insinueeren in de gunst van voorname burgers, die veel van hem hielden, alle mans vrient, die het vrouvolck wonderbaerlick wist te believen en lief-locken, die dagelycx sijn huis frequenteerden, en konden daar niet van daan blijven al spleten en barsten haar mans" .
As an artist Torentius was very highly praised for his still lifes by such high sources as the secretary to the prince of Orange, Constantijn Huygens (who rated him even better than Rembrandt!). As to his art, I find it difficult to restrain my use of words in asserting that he is, in my opinion, a miracle-worker in the depiction of lifeless objects and that no one is likely to equal him in portraying accurately and beautifully glasses, thing of pewter, earthenware, and iron so that, through the power of his art, they seem almost transparent, in a way that would have been impossible until now… Torrentius exasperates skeptics as they look in vain for any clues as to how he uses, in some bold manner, colors, oil, and if the gods desire it, his brushes.
But Huygens also mentions his atheism and how he ridiculed the Bible, but he says as far as his life and morals are concerned: "I will not like Cato judge him". However, wasn't Torrentius' so-called "atheism" and the mystery mongering he liked so much, not just his grossly misunderstood and weird sense of humour!?
Or to quote just another admirer the German goldsmith and engraver Michel Le Blon:
“… so en weet ik ter wereld niets dat hierbij vergeleken mach worden, en niet ‘t onrechte bij eenige van de voornaamste schilders voor Toverije geoordeelt … so en siet men nergend eenighe verheventheyt van verwen, begintsel noch eynde aent heel werck en schijnt meer gewassen off als eenen waesem daerop geschildert”
Conclusion:
Upon assessment of the entire Torrentius Case, of all the parties involved, the places and the time in which this took place, one’s left with an unsatisfactory and unsettled feeling that an enigma still remains and that the case has not been fully resolved.
Picture the situation: a highly successful and very popular painter with friends in very high places, some of them his followers and members of the same fraternity is sentenced in an almost inquisitorial Process. The verdict was excessive, even by 17th century standards.
Yes he was a libertine, a “radical Rosicrucian preacher” as Susanna Akerman referred to them (o.a. Adam Haslmayer, Philip Ziegler, Matthias Pfennig and Torrentius ), but considering the situation in Holland anno 1627 with a reasonable amount of freedom (Synodus van der conscientien vryheydt 1582) this doesn’t fully explain this conspiracy.
In his process no attention was given to witnesses for the defense. No possibility for an appeal was offered.
Though it should be the subject of further investigation one’s left with the feeling that Torrentius was crucified and sacrificed on the altar of personal ambition and Dutch political factions in the young Republic and of which as an imprudent libertine he was just an easy victim. Wer sich zu grün macht, den fressen die Ziegen!
The reason to post this article is twofold. My very personal interest in Torrentius and 17th century Dutch Rosicrucianism of which he was the leader ("Keizer" c.q. Imperator), but now perhaps even more so the unanticipated links between the English and Dutch Rosicrucians. Cornelis Drebbel knew King Charles. Prince of Orange Frederik Hendrik, the Dutch Stadholder was Holland's elected head of state. Prince Frederik Hendrik’s son William II married Mary Stewart, daughter of the English King Charles I. Constantijn Huygens who was Frederik Hendrik’s First Secretary knew Francis Bacon (Bacon used Drebbel's inventions for his New Atlantis, not surprising of course considering the fact that they shared rooms at Eltham Palace) and Descartes. Huygens's father warned his son against Drebbel, suggesting that Drebbel probably had dealings with the devil...
Upon assessment of the entire Torrentius Case, of all the parties involved, the places and the time in which this took place, one’s left with an unsatisfactory and unsettled feeling that an enigma still remains and that the case has not been fully resolved.
Picture the situation: a highly successful and very popular painter with friends in very high places, some of them his followers and members of the same fraternity is sentenced in an almost inquisitorial Process. The verdict was excessive, even by 17th century standards.
Yes he was a libertine, a “radical Rosicrucian preacher” as Susanna Akerman referred to them (o.a. Adam Haslmayer, Philip Ziegler, Matthias Pfennig and Torrentius ), but considering the situation in Holland anno 1627 with a reasonable amount of freedom (Synodus van der conscientien vryheydt 1582) this doesn’t fully explain this conspiracy.
In his process no attention was given to witnesses for the defense. No possibility for an appeal was offered.
Though it should be the subject of further investigation one’s left with the feeling that Torrentius was crucified and sacrificed on the altar of personal ambition and Dutch political factions in the young Republic and of which as an imprudent libertine he was just an easy victim. Wer sich zu grün macht, den fressen die Ziegen!
The reason to post this article is twofold. My very personal interest in Torrentius and 17th century Dutch Rosicrucianism of which he was the leader ("Keizer" c.q. Imperator), but now perhaps even more so the unanticipated links between the English and Dutch Rosicrucians. Cornelis Drebbel knew King Charles. Prince of Orange Frederik Hendrik, the Dutch Stadholder was Holland's elected head of state. Prince Frederik Hendrik’s son William II married Mary Stewart, daughter of the English King Charles I. Constantijn Huygens who was Frederik Hendrik’s First Secretary knew Francis Bacon (Bacon used Drebbel's inventions for his New Atlantis, not surprising of course considering the fact that they shared rooms at Eltham Palace) and Descartes. Huygens's father warned his son against Drebbel, suggesting that Drebbel probably had dealings with the devil...
Ik ben naar de Nieuwe Kerk gegaan om de blauwe zerk te zien waaronder Torrentius of wat er van hem over was begraven ligt. Mijn vriend, ik heb daar gestaan, op die ijskoude dag, in die ijskoude kerk, met de kou van de dood in mijn hart. En ik heb getwijfeld en bijna vertwijfeld. Wat is de zin van alles wat ons wedervaart, of proberen we zelf er een zin in te leggen? Wat moet al het lachen en het schreien, het liefhebben en het haten? Leven we door een noodwendigheid of alleen door puur toeval? Waarom begaan wij, mensen, zoveel onmenselijkheid? Als ik nog ergens om bidden moet, dan om gerechtigheid op aarde en voor mijzelf een standvastig gemoed. Reinout Schoorel, doct.jur. - AD 1644
vrijdag 1 augustus 2008
Jesus of Nazareth; the City that Never Was!
TruthAMORC: the Mystical Life of Jesus & his Secret Doctrines...
Als je oog helder is, is je hele lichaam verlicht - Lucas 11:32
"Historia docuit quantum nos iuvasse illa de Cristo fabula".
Pope Leo X to Cardinal Bembo
Jesus, son of Mary (on whom be peace) said:
"The world is a bridge; pass over it, but build no houses upon it".
"The world is a bridge; pass over it, but build no houses upon it".
"Jezus is op aarde gekomen om te laten zien dat we allemaal zonen en dochters van God zijn." - Sir Isaac Newton
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” - Mahatma Gandhi
"Jesus said to them, When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside, and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the female one and the same, so that the male be not male, nor the female female... then you will enter the kingdom."
We are guilty of believing that Jesus Christ chose only those of His own race to be his 12 disciples, and that he did not go out and choose two Chinese, two blacks, two Indians, two Arabs, two women or two homosexuals, therefore he would be called a Supremacist, Racist and Bigot by today’s worldly standards.
All of the secret schools today which are classified as initiatic (because the students within them must first be prepared and made ready, and then spiritually and esoterically initiated before receiving the Truth) are associated in one secret organization or federation for the exchange of helpful suggestions and ideas relating to the ways and means not only of perpetuating the secret doctrines which Jesus taught but the manner of selecting the final Disciples and Apostles who shall go forth, not to destroy the faith and religions of the world, but to carry out the great mission for which Jesus was preordained and predestined to become a Son of God incarnate.
- H. Spencer Lewis, "The Secret Doctrines of Jesus", 1937
Tot al degenen die, in orthodoxe oprechtheid, veel van wat dit boek biedt zullen verwerpen, kan ik alleen maar zeggen: "Houd vast aan het goede". Als uw geloof, uw kenns en uw overtuiging omtrent christelijke zaken u voldoen en u hebt geen innerlijke drang om acher de sluier te kijken, doe het dan niet! Sta niets toe uw aanbidding en verering voor hem die uw redder en heer is te verzwakken of te verminderen! - H. Spencer Lewis
About this time there lived Jesus, a wise man, for he was a performer of wonderful deeds, a teacher of such men as are happy to accept the truth. He won over many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles. When Pilate, at the suggestion of the leading men among us, had condemned him to the cross, those who had loved him at the first did not forsake him; and the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct to this day. - Flavius Josephus: Antiquitates Judaicae
Jesus the Nazorean, rather than Jesus of Nazareth!?
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” - Mahatma Gandhi
"Jesus said to them, When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside, and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the female one and the same, so that the male be not male, nor the female female... then you will enter the kingdom."
We are guilty of believing that Jesus Christ chose only those of His own race to be his 12 disciples, and that he did not go out and choose two Chinese, two blacks, two Indians, two Arabs, two women or two homosexuals, therefore he would be called a Supremacist, Racist and Bigot by today’s worldly standards.
All of the secret schools today which are classified as initiatic (because the students within them must first be prepared and made ready, and then spiritually and esoterically initiated before receiving the Truth) are associated in one secret organization or federation for the exchange of helpful suggestions and ideas relating to the ways and means not only of perpetuating the secret doctrines which Jesus taught but the manner of selecting the final Disciples and Apostles who shall go forth, not to destroy the faith and religions of the world, but to carry out the great mission for which Jesus was preordained and predestined to become a Son of God incarnate.
- H. Spencer Lewis, "The Secret Doctrines of Jesus", 1937
Tot al degenen die, in orthodoxe oprechtheid, veel van wat dit boek biedt zullen verwerpen, kan ik alleen maar zeggen: "Houd vast aan het goede". Als uw geloof, uw kenns en uw overtuiging omtrent christelijke zaken u voldoen en u hebt geen innerlijke drang om acher de sluier te kijken, doe het dan niet! Sta niets toe uw aanbidding en verering voor hem die uw redder en heer is te verzwakken of te verminderen! - H. Spencer Lewis
About this time there lived Jesus, a wise man, for he was a performer of wonderful deeds, a teacher of such men as are happy to accept the truth. He won over many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles. When Pilate, at the suggestion of the leading men among us, had condemned him to the cross, those who had loved him at the first did not forsake him; and the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct to this day. - Flavius Josephus: Antiquitates Judaicae
Jesus the Nazorean, rather than Jesus of Nazareth!?
The beginning of the Lie!
And it came to pass that in those days Jesus came from the Nazarenes of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. - Mark 1:9
And it came to pass that in those days Jesus came from the Nazarenes of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. - Mark 1:9
Of all the books and numerous articles written by H. Spencer Lewis two are my all time favourites:
The Mystical life of Jesus (1929)
ISBN-10: 0912057467 ISBN-13: 978-0912057460
The Secret Doctrines of Jesus (1939)
ISBN-10: 0912057912 ISBN-13: 978-0912057910
It may be that you'll be quite surprised at what you'll read in these books, since it does not exactly reflect the doctrine propagated by the Christian church. You remain however, in line with the open and tolerant character of our Order, as always, completely free in your opinions in this area. In that respect our role will be limited to transferring the ancient knowledge which the Rosicrucian tradition has been passing on this subject.
They are a fascinating, non-sectarian treatment of the unknown life of Jesus, based on records preserved in the archives of ancient monasteries of the Essenes and the Rosicrucian Order.
Of all the books I’ve ever read about Jesus, and I’ve seen one or two in my life such as the weird but fascinating “Jésus ou le Mortel Secret des Templiers” by fellow martinist Robert Ambelain, these two are still by far the very best and will give you a credible insight in what really happened 2000 years ago.
Ever heard of the Essenes? Well, back in 1929 Lewis did.
He wrote at length of the Essene sect and in great detail.
And consider this: The Dead Sea Scrolls that mentioned the Essenes for the first time in modern history were not discovered until 1945! This is easily verified and cannot simply be summarily dismissed by even the most obstinately entrenched of scoffers or dogmatists.
These books will either thrill you or completely shock you!
(Dr. Lewis himself issued a warning to his orthodox readers,
NOT to read the books!), but when you do read them, and which I recommend, you will never think of Jesus the same way again!
So read the books, “THINK”, and then decide for yourself.
The evidence for a 1st century town of Nazareth does not exist – not literary, not archaeologically, and not historically.
Deze dingen verklaar Ik u, die deel uitmaakt van de innerlijke cirkel; maar tot hen van de voorhof spreek Ik in gelijkenissen. Dat zij horen, die oren hebben om te horen. – Het evangelie van de heilige twaalfen.
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