The vision of Sodalitas RosaeXCrucis & Solis Alati is to bring together
the essence of the core streams of the western hermetic tradition;
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The
Rosicrucian tradition,
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The Martinist tradition,
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The Gnostic tradition,
and
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The inner alchemy of Egyptian
Freemasonry;
under the apophthegm of the Rosicrucian ideal as stated in the Fama and
Confessio:
a brotherhood, working in secrecy, focused on a sincere inner development
of its members, thereby affecting the world at large, without any interest
of financial gain. This inner development is possible as a result of building
up and balancing the two pillars of magic and mysticism by initiations and
personal work, thereby taking the advantage of both the more rapid processes
of magical work and the more introspective processes of mystical work.
Even though we focus much on the roots, care has also been taken to spread
an atmosphere of pragmatism; the various traditional rituals and the underlying
philosophy, although studied from many perspectives, must be allowed to flourish
and be personalized in each member’s sphere of sensation. Thereby is
the bone structure, as provided by the tradition, made into a living flesh
and body by the individual work, and the inner inspiration becomes a life-giving
and vitalising blood.
Furthermore, the political turbulence that has accompanied the hermetic tradition
in so many of its various societies, where fights over “true”
lineages, high grade secrets and even more secret Orders behind the secret
Orders, is something we by all means try to avoid. The focus should be, on
all levels, on the inner developments and the Great Work and not on trivial
disputes.
Also, the Order is never to have one Chief or leader with total authority
and who alone holds the various lineages. History has shown too many times
what that tends to result in. Instead, the authority, leadership and lineages
are shared by a Grand Council of the College of Adepti, who together lead
the Order.
