Editor’s Note: This document summarises some of the principles of the Rosicrucian Order. It is sourced from one of a series of pamphlets produced in the 1930s by the Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship (ROCF). Like many, if not all, of the Order’s publications, it was written by the Supreme Magus of the Order, Dr Sullivan, writing as Aureolis. Dr Sullivan was Peter Caddy‘s first spiritual teacher and Caddy was a member of the ROCF in the 1930s.

R. O. C. F.

THE MYSTERY SCIENCE
OF THE AGES
AUREOLIS.

OUTER COURT.
Second Series No. 2/2.

The Study of Language is dependent upon Memory; Memory is the Storehouse of Knowledge, Knowledge when applied to the Laws of Life becomes Wisdom.
Wisdom is the acquired and highly prized possession of the Fratres of the Rosy Cross.

The Frater of the Rosy Cross reads from the Memory of Nature but he has had to learn the method of reading that memory.

There is a saying that like attracts like, then it is through his trained memory that the Frater reads the Memory of Nature.

The Fratres pour their wisdom into the Rosicrucian Order, therefore any student who is fortunate enough to be allowed admittance into the Order is assured of an excellent training into the Mysteries.

The Fratres give out to their students Knowledge which is the result of their investigations into the Secrets of Life.

When one realises the the European side of the Fraternitie was inaugurated during the 13th century and has had an Unbroken Succession since then, it must be evident to the enquiring mind that the Archives of the Fraternitie are well filled with Knowledge of the most vital and useful kind.

The training of the Order is not only a Conscious one, it is also a Sub-conscious one. Through the Conscious Mind the Student is drawn towards the Great
Sub-Consciousness which is his storehouse of information concerning the present and the past.

The past has produced the present, the present produces the future, therefore the Acme of Rosicrucian training and unfoldment is Knowledge of the three times, the past the present and future.

All thought, all sense, all action, in fact all life persists in the three times. Through the three times, all life (Thought, Sense and Action) is known and recorded.

One outstanding truth in the lives of most men and women is the lack of remembrance. The inability not only to remember past experiences of exhausted centuries, but also the further inability of being unable to remember most experiences of childhood.

Hence, it is of importance that every individual should remember his past experiences so that he might use them to map out and plan his future.

As we all find a milestone or finger post of great importance to us when we journey along a road, so do we find memories of the past our greatest help, inasmuch as glimpses of past memory indicate the present and future.

In our present phase of existence we oft-times realise how awkward it is when we cannot remember, at any moment, things which are so essential.

There are psychological moments when we would give anything to remember, it may be a name, a colour or a form. Whatever it is, it is vital that we remember it at that moment, but it does not come. It may come a few hours later, or the next day, then we find it is too late to be of use to the purpose for which we required it.

All learning is fundamentally dependent upon memory, and we have seen already that to remember is to Know.

The Rosicrucian Training helps the student to remember because he is taught to remember as he lives. As he thinks, acts and uses his five senses he links up his thinking and actions with life itself. He realises why he thinks and acts.

Many people in the world to-day think and act, but they never ask themselves why they do so. The Rosicrucian student must reason the why and wherefore of everything. He develops the enquiring mind, he looks for results but more than that he follows the birth of a thing to its ultimate.

Everything is for a purpose, therefore given a thing, the Rosicrucian student will seek to fathom out why it is a thing—the reason for it.

If he begins at the beginning he will seek himself and then the reason for his own existence as he is himself.

“Man know thyself,” is an axiom which must be realised as truth in life. Every person is of importance in this work, but that importance is realised only in the practical realisation of knowing oneself.

Knowledge of Self, the place the Self has in this evolving life is the great study of the Rosicrucian student. This brings him into an understanding of life in toto. Such knowledge leads him into an understanding of the Invisible as well as the Visible Life. He sees and knows life just as much in the past as he does in the present, and that knowledge helps him to pave the way for the future.

Right truly is the Rosicrucian Science a Mystery Science for it leads the student unto the unexplained Laws of life and phenomena. It teaches him secrets of the body, soul and spirit, and yet those secrets should be the possession’ of every man. That they are not his possession lies in the truth that he does not remember, he does not discipline himself that he might remember.

The Rosicrucian Mystery Science when taken up as a study supplies the Discipline, and as a result of that Discipline the student makes progress. For his life is not only regulated but it is also subject to an economy of waste, action and thinking. and helps the student to conserve his forces. The Study of the Rosicrucian student is Man and the Universe.