CONSILIUM FRATERNITATIS ROSAE CRUCIS
CONSILIUM
FRATERNITATIS ROSAE CRUCIS
In Veritate et Opere
An Esoteric Order of the Hermetic Tradition
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The Philosophical Foundation
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The Consilium Fraternitatis Rosae Crucis is built upon an operative and initiatory principle: Solve et Coagula. Dissolve and reconstitute. This is the living law of the tradition, enacted in the laboratory, in the initiatory chamber, and within the person of every initiate who passes through
our Orders.
The tradition recognises three stages through which all genuine initiation passes, whether the initiate enters through the philosophical or the operative path. These stages are not scheduled events. They are the unavoidable interior reality of genuine contact with the Work
The Nature of the Work
The Work of the fraternity is conducted on two levels, as it has always been in the genuine Hermetic tradition: the operative and the philosophical.
On the operative level, members engage in the practical sciences of the tradition - the laboratory arts, the study of natural philosophy, the disciplines of the body and the attention.
On the philosophical level, they engage with the accumulated wisdom of the Western esoteric corpus through study, discourse, guidance, instruction and structured contemplative practice.
These two levels are not treated as separate endeavours, even though they are two sister orders: Rosa Aurea & The Hermetic Order of Spagyric Alchemists.
The Hermetic axiom that governs the Work: Solve et Coagula, dissolve and reconstitute, applies equally to matter worked in the laboratory and to the interior life of the practitioner. The adept who cannot make the connection between the two has not yet understood either.
What takes place within the initiatory chambers of the fraternity is not described here. It is sufficient to say that the Work is genuine, that it produces genuine results in those who undertake it seriously, and that it makes demands commensurate with what it offers.
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Those Who Are Called
The fraternity does not solicit members.
Those who find their way to this page have generally done so through their own inquiry, and that inquiry is itself a form of qualification.
Membership is considered by invitation following a period of correspondence and mutual assessment. There is no application form in the conventional sense. There is a conversation - conducted in writing, at whatever pace the candidate and the fraternity find appropriate - through which both parties determine whether the relationship is fitting.
If you have read the foregoing with recognition rather than mere curiosity, you are invited to write to us.
State your name, something of your background and experience and current employment, and what has brought you to this inquiry.
Nothing more is required at this stage.
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In Veritate et Opere
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