Living Water and the Divine Field of Life
November 18, 2022
Living Water and the Divine Field of Life……..
“Water is a sublime, universal symbol of the power-radiations of the new life. Just as the ordinary human being lives and moves in the electromagnetic radiation-field of dialectics, so the pupil who, through the sacrifice of the self, has established a liberating link with the spirit of the valley, the God in him, will enter and live in the new electromagnetic radiation-field.
This is the true, living water, which is poured out over him and fills every corner of his existence. In this stream of new power he becomes a new creation, a new creature. He undergoes a new Genesis, a new beginning. This process can be compared with the first Genesis, when the spirit of God moved over the face of the waters and created a firmament in their midst, for when the living water is poured out over the candidate he, too, gains a new firmament. It is the new lipika, a new magnetic system which imparts to him a quite new and different personality consciousness. He is again ensouled by his only God, who works for his salvation.
….Just as the earthly human being experiences and is conscious in the nature of death, so, by the law of analogy, the divine human being must exist in a nature of life, a quite different, divine universe. The life-substance, the radiation substance of that divine universe is living water, the pure, divine, primordial substance. This divine universe, this divine primordial substance, is not separated from us by time or distance; it is here and now, interpenetrating everything, nearer than hands and feet. The living water is everywhere, and there is no place where it is not.
……Now what we are telling you about here, what we are inviting you to share in, is very much an aim of the Rosycross. We are expressing these ideas in the language of the ancients, using the words of the Tao Te Ching as a guide, but our activity among you is as ultra-modern as can be. Though in keeping with the most ancient tradition of all, it is utterly contemporaneous. For what are we suggesting? Nothing else, surely, than reunification with your divine Other One? We are inviting you to celebrate a marriage, a spiritual marriage with the spirit of the valley, the spirit of the primordial atom, the Rose.
……The rosebud in the heart-sanctuary, the true seat of life, the spirit in the valley — that is your bride or bridegroom. And whatever your point of view as regards gender, that spirit is saying to you, in the words of Revelation 22, which are pure, Rosicrucian words:
The spirit and the bride say: Come!
And let him who is thirsty come.
Let him who desires take the water of life without price.
Without price! But the condition is thirst! From a desperate inner need, arising from experience, your soul must begin to thirst. That thirst is yearning for salvation: ‘My soul thirsts for you'.
……No priest, nor any Spiritual School, can stand between you and the valley-spirit, between you and the God in you. That covenant must be forged by you yourself, in self-authority, and the Spiritual School is there to help you in whatever way it can. The School possesses a powerfield, which is filled with the living water, and its purpose is to amplify that call of your only God, which is expressed in the words: `Incline your ear to me'. The School tries to be a guide to your animal-ego. Lost and wandering as you are, it wants to lead you back to true happiness. At the same time, in group unity, as a Living Body, the School actually constitutes a mighty, magical aid to reaching the goal. So if, now, you have reached maturity and are weary of strife, you are free to reach for that absolute happiness. And when you do so, the stream of living water will flood over you from that moment onwards. Thus you will become wise, so wise that others will be able to comfort and warm themselves in the light of your glory. You will become a light on the path, in the service of the Brotherhood, helping the straying and the lonely to find their Lord.”
Extracts from Chapter 8 "The Sage’s Heart is as Deep as an Abyss"
Jan van Ricjkenborgh and Catharose de Petri
