63. Document from Barr, Alsace II

During the first half of the 15th century, Christian Rosenkreuz went to the Orient to find a balance between the initiation of the East and that of the West. One consequence of this was the definitive establishment of the Rosicrucian Order in the West after his return. In this form, Rosicrucianism was to be the top secret school for the preparation of what esotericism would have to take on publicly as a task at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, when external natural science would have come to a preliminary solution to certain problems.

As these problems, Christian Rosenkreuz described

1) The discovery of spectral analysis, which revealed the material constitution of the cosmos.

2) The introduction of material evolution into the science of the organic.

3) The realization of the fact of a state of consciousness other than the ordinary one through the recognition of hypnotism and suggestion.

Only when these material insights have matured within science should certain Rosicrucian principles be passed on from the field of secret science to the public.

For the time being, the Christian-mystical initiation was given to the West in the form in which it was given by the Initiator to the “Unknown from the Highlands” in St. Victor, Master Eckhart, Tauler, etc.

The initiation of Manes, who in 1459 initiated Christian Rosenkreuz, is regarded as a “higher degree” within this whole current: it consists in the true knowledge of the function of evil. This initiation and its background must remain hidden from the masses for a long time to come. For wherever even the slightest ray of light from it has found its way into literature, it has caused disaster, as with the noble Guyau, whose disciple Friedrich Nietzsche became.