Rosicrucians

The outer history of the Rosicrucians has been traced back to the publications of the Fama Fraternitatis, Confession Fraternitatis and The Chemical Marriage of Christian Rosenkreutz in the early 17th century, sparking off a great interest in alchemy and spiritual orders more generally. However, the roots of this movement can be traced far further back into Platonic and Egyptian times.

When we look at the history of Rosicrucianism, it can be seen as a movement designed to counterbalance the dogmas of exoteric Christianity and its overemphasis on suffering and sin. Thus, Rosicrucians focused on individual spiritual experience or gnosis. Additionally, the Rosicrucians were trying to prepare a spiritual path for the modern mind, one which increasingly is influenced by the scientific paradigm. The Rosicrucian approach incorporated entering into a deeper relationship with the natural world as a way of connecting to the spiritual world and the use of the mind in the form of study and imagination. We live in the age of the scientific paradigm and so naturally tend to use the mind in study and exploration of the world around us. This Rosicrucian path is designed to use these strengths and to help the spiritual seeker move deeper within by utilizing them in a spiritually oriented manner.

A modern example of a Rosicrucian was Rudolf Steiner and his spiritual science. Goethe was also strongly influenced by alchemical thought and his approach to nature is a Rosicrucian path of spiritual development. And if we look back at western thought, and the great many individualities who served to further our culture - Da Vinci, Hesse, Franklin, Lincoln, Emerson and others, we can see they were either associated with some kind of spiritual movement (Gnosticism, Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, or others) or exhibit the type of thinking that lies within a Rosicrucian path of spiritual development

We study these great thinkers at Educate Yourself for Tomorrow, and hope you'll join us in a self-exploration of your own consciousness, by working with the works of these Masters of the Western Tradition

HUM 202: THE HIDDEN WISDOM OF GOETHE
Learn about Goethe's approach to science and personal development, a method Rosicrucian path of spiritual development.

HUM 204: THE BHAGAVAD GITA, RUDOLF STEINER AND SELF-EDUCATION
Explore the Bhagavad Gita and compare it with Rudolf Steiner's Rosicrucian based path of spiritual development

HUM 102: HESSE AND JUNG: GNOSTICISM IN MODERN FORM
Follow the works of these two modern day alchemists and spiritual teachers. This course explores the thinking of these two men and applies it to our own path of self growth and spiritual development.

HUM 203: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, AMERICAN INITIATE
Learn how Benjamin Franklin was both a Freemason and a Rosicrucian and more about this great man. Explore Franklin's ideas in respect to your own path of spiritual growth and self discovery.

HUM 306: EMERSON, SPIRITUAL TEACHER
Ralph Waldo Emerson, the American transcendentalist, poet, essayist, and reformer has served as one of the founders of America's cultural heritage. But today he can also serve as a spiritual teacher, a guide to the intimate processes of awakening our slumbering organs of spiritual perception. In countless ways, including the example of his life, he showed that "the holy and mysterious sources of life" were available to anyone, at any hour of the day, who can "listen for the right word." Emerson taught that the harmony of one's own mind is the basis for inner development and self-transformation.