Wednesday, September 12, 2007
WHAT DO THE ROSICRUCIANS BELIEVE ?
The organization is secretive and so it isn't always easy to answer that question. A review of the book MYSTICAL LIFE OF JESUS by H. Spencer Lewis, at an ebay website describes the contents.
Lewis was Imperator of the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC until his death in 1939. According to the review the book claims to reveal the early life of Jesus including the belief that Jesus accepted reincarnation as did the Early Church, and as the Jewish community still does. It claims that Jesus survived the crucifixion. He was one of many Christs who have appeared through the pages of history. He was possibly a Gentile since as a Jewish Rabbi he would have been required to marry. Lewis claims that the custom of releasing a prisoner at Passover never existed. The book, and thus one presumes the Rosicrucian Order, covers a lot of the current heresies floating around.
A question that has been going through my mind a lot recently is whether Rosicrucianism is nothing more than the beliefs of the first century Jewish Christians disguised in a form that would permit them to be passed down through an underground organization in order to escape persecution.
