Fiat rosa florere super crucem tuam May the rose bloom upon your cross
“Is not this Symbol to be found upon the breast of all true Brethren of the Rosie Cross? Holdfast to this Jewel and treasure it as thy Life itself, for many and great are its virtues…” - Frater Achad (Charles Stanfield Jones), De Mysteriis Rosae Rubeae et Aureae Crucis.
Rosae Rubeae et Aurea Crucis
The Red Rose and Golden Cross
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Arms spread open wide, baring the heart to the world The Death, and the blooming of the red rose of love in the center of the chest, in the heart, that mystic rose which is the flowering of that which is immortal….
The Cross is the Tree of Life. The Grail is ,,,, The Rose is it’s flower
The Meaning of the Rosy Cross
The Rose in mysticism and the Hermetic Philosophies is a profound symbol of consciousness and the soul personality. It symbolizes consciousness projected into the material form. Consciousness is symbolized in a very apt and beautiful way as a flowering process and an unfolding manifestation. This flowering , blooming and unfolding of its petals in a perfect mandalic symmetry, represents man's divine inner consciousness being revealed as layers of his being open up to reveal its ever becoming center, the Inner Self. To the Rosicrucians the symbol of the Rosy Cross is sacred. The Rose crucified on the cross is the symbol of the true divinity of humanity. The cross represents the four cardinal points of being in a balanced state. The crossing of the vertical and the horizontal lines represent the conjunction of the opposites. The vertical, upright, being the spiritual, creative, positive and active aspects of being, conjuncts the horizontal, the material and the passive aspects. It is at this conjunction point, representing balance and harmony, that the rose flowers and unfolds itself. The cross also represents the body of man with outstretched arms as his whole earthly plane and his heart, his soul, being again at a conjunction between the superiors and inferiors, head in heaven, feet on earth, he is also between left and right as opposition between the forces of light and darkness, life and death. To the initiates this symbol of divine consciousness crucified or infused upon and in his physical body is a most profound and sacred mystery of the incarnation of the soul. A beautiful Hermetic Dictum of the Rosicrucians is, "Ad Rosam per crucem, ad crucem per Rosam." To my Rose by way of my cross, to my cross by way of my Rose. - Steve Kalec
The Cross with the Rose in the Heart
The Crucifixion - such a deeply pregnant symbol of being sacrificed with arms wide open upon the cross of matter
Resurrection - that the Real never dies and is reborn THROUGH the death of the Corpus and relinquishment of the last vestige of separation
The Cross
Axis of Worlds — The vertical beam: the path of Spirit, the infinite descent and ascent between God and Man. The horizontal beam: the field of Matter, the realm of time, relationship, and mortality. At the heart, the axis mundi, the still point between Heaven and Earth.
Incarnation & Crucifixion — In the Christian mystery, the Cross is where the Divine takes on flesh, suffers, dies, and rises. It is the trial of the initiate: the nailing of the soul to the lessons of the physical world, the willing embrace of limitation so it may be transfigured.
Four Elements / Directions — The beams stretch to the four quarters: Fire, Water, Air, Earth. Spirit is the invisible fifth, dwelling at the heart where they intersect. The Cross is the alchemical quaternio, the laboratory where transformation occurs.
Sacred Geometry — The Cross is the cube unfolded — the material cosmos laid bare, ready for the planting of the rose.
The Rose
Heart of the Mystery — At the center of the cross blooms the rose: the awakened soul, the flowering of consciousness, the Love that conquers Death. It is the secret within the form
Sacrifice into Beauty — The rose grows upon the wood of the cross. Pain and limitation are transmuted into beauty, fragrance, and nectar. Its petals spiral in sacred proportion, showing the mathematical harmony of nature and spirit.
Blood & Love — The red rose holds dual symbolism: the life-blood of sacrifice and the flame of divine love. In alchemy, red is the Rubedo — the completion of the Great Work, the stone transfigured into the living heart.
Thorns — No true love is without its trials. The thorns are the ordeals and purifications that are experienced in the garden of the Grail. The Crown of Thorns one must wear before donning the Crown of Light.
Western Lotus — The lotus rises from the mud to bloom in the East, the rose blooms upon the cross in the West. Both are symbols of the soul’s emergence from the conditions of the world into the light of the Eternal.
A Marriage — Spirit (vertical) and Matter (horizontal), Masculine and Feminine, Eternal and Temporal. The rose is the child of this union.
the Rose-Cross is the mystery of Golgotha inwardly understood: the transformation of pain, suffering, incarnation in matter into the flowering of the soul - into forgivneess, love, atonement.