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Post by fellowmark on Aug 6, 2009 12:04:05 GMT
The Rosicrucian Fellowship is celebrating one hundred years (100 years) of Service to Humanity (1909 – 2009) on August 8, 2009 at Mount Ecclesia, its International Headquarters in Oceanside California. Follow up: Centennial Celebration (RF Friends) - PDF flyer - Ode to Joy« In ancient temples and in all modern Masonic temples, the two standing columns are crowned with globes called finials, one globe on each column. For some, these globes represent the great lights, the Sun and the Moon; for others, they symbolize the terrestrial and the spiritual dimensions of life. If we were to extend a line through the center of each of our Temple columns from base to capitol, extend that line through the portico roof structure, there, at that point, where the line pierces the roof, we would expect to find the finial, the globes. And so they are, one symbolizing the terrestrial earth we now inhabit, the other the spiritual earth that we shall in time have evolved to and helped make. There are three steps between the columns leading to the Temple entrance. As there are three steps within the Temple Sanctuary, (...) » in The Ecclesia - Temple Symbolism (Part One), pp. 38-43. Please, see also a recent public commentary from a friendly visitor: the RF Gardens. Our fraternal greeting unto you, dear friend, the greeting to each aspiring soul, May the Roses bloom upon your Cross
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Post by fellowmark on Aug 30, 2009 8:28:34 GMT
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