THE ROSICRUCIAN FELLOWSHIP OPENING HYMN
[1]
Each star that in its orbit goes
Law steadfast and eternal shows
Expressions are the stars of God
Unchangeable as ebb and flood
The marching orbs in circle dance
Through time and space each year advance
The harmony of rolling spheres
Resounds in cosmos through the years
[2]
Man’s ignorance of cosmic law
Caused discord then came death and woe
Now trouble, sorrow, grief must reign
Till harmony prevails again
We’ve met to study nature’s law
We seek eternal truth to know
And with such truth as we may find
We hope to serve and free mankind
[3]
Let’s strive to know that we may do
What lifts, ennobles, is right and true
With love to all and hate to none
Let’s shun no duty that should be done
For knowing how to act aright
And doing it from morn till night
From day to day and year to year
We conquer self and sin and fear
[4]
With reason’s torch we search for truth
To restore the harmony life and youth
For reasons torch when thus applied
In wisdom’s quest is safest guide
If we persist though oft we fail
In time our effort shall prevail
To end the discord and dispel
All evil with harmony’s rhythmic swell
THE ROSICRUCIAN FELLOWSHIP CLOSING HYMN
[1]
God be with you till we meet again
In His love each day abide you
That His wisdom’s light may guide you
God be with you till we meet again
Refrain
Till we meet, till we meet,
Till we meet the Rosy Cross to greet
Till we meet, till we meet,
God be with you till we meet again
[2]
God be with you in your hour of joy
With life’s choicest gifts to bless you
With no sorrow to oppress you
Then may service give you added joy
[3]
God be with you in your hour of pain
When temptations surge around you
With helpful thoughts we will surround you
Till your darkness turns to light again
[4]
God be with you till we meet again
At the Cross with Roses garnished
May our lives be pure untarnished
Till the Rosy Cross we greet again
NEARER, MY GOD, TO THEE
[1]
Nearer my God, to Thee,
Neare to Thee!
E’en though it be a cross
That raiseth me,
Still all my song shall be,
Nearer my God to Thee,
Nearer my God to Thee,
Nearer to Thee!
[2]
Though like the wanderer,
The sun gone down,
Darkness be over me,
My rest a stone.
Yet in my dreams I’d be
Nearer my God to Thee
Nearer my God to Thee,
Nearer to Thee!
[3]
There let the way appear
Steps unto heaven;
All that Thou send’st to me
In mercy given;
Angels to beckon me
Nearer my God to Thee
Nearer my God to Thee,
Nearer to Thee!
[4]
Then, with my waking thoughts
Bright with Thy praise,
Out of my stony grief
Bethel I’ll raise;
So by my woes to be
Nearer my God to Thee
Nearer my God to Thee,
Nearer to Thee!
FELLOWSHIP DAY
[1]
In loving comradeship,
We join on Founder’s Day,
In gratitude and fellowship
For one who leads the way.
[2]
His spirit ever grows,
In love and sympathy,
As though a living fragrant rose
To serve humanity.
[3]
He heard the Brothers’ call
And then from wisdom’s pool
As Teacher true gave forth to all
The Rosicrucian Schools.
CROSS AND ROSES ARE MY GUIDE
[1]
Cross and roses are my guide
On the path to freedom’s light
When the way growths dark and drear
Then the symbol sets me right
Cross and roses are my guide
On the path to freedom’s light
[2]
Cross and roses symbol great
Guiding to eternal light
Man reflects the thought divine
God alone makes all things right
Cross and roses wond’rous guide
On the path to freedom’s light
[3]
Cross and roses joy of joys
What a blessed holy sight
When the power of earthly man
Weakens in this worldly fight
Cross and roses are my guide
On the path to freedom’s light
WHITE ROSES SERVICE SONG
[1]
I pray to Thee, O keeper of Light.
With my eyes on the beautiful rose of white
I adore Thy Holy Name this hour.
Transmute my love to healing pow’r.
Help me to find the Road.
The Glory Road that Jesus trod.
The Road of service, the shortest Road,
safest and most joyful Road.
Teach me to love the Road
that leads to thee, my Father God.
THE ROSICRUCIAN FELLOWSHIP EMBLEM SONG
I am the child of God
With this body of mine
I make the living cross
Each day I must be pure and good
And then I know
That on my cross will lovely roses grow
And I shall weave
The Golden wedding garment into a star
A lovely star, that shines from afar
VERNAL EQUINOX
[1]
Behold the sun in Aries’ sign,
Exalted now on high,
All nature wakes to life anew
O’er sea, the earth and sky
O’er sea, the earth and sky
O’er sea, the earth and sky
[2]
Abundant life fills all the world
At Vernal solstice time
Rejuvenate and thus inspires
The souls that heavenward climb
The souls that heavenward climb
The souls that heavenward climb
[3]
The Cosmic Christ is free once more
Ascending glorified
In world of God He reigns supreme
Extolled and sanctified
Extolled and sanctified
Extolled and sanctified
SUMMER SOLSTICE
[1]
All nature glows in glorious dress,
At summer solstice rites,
The brownies and the pixies sport
With imps and happy sprites:
The woods are gay with elves at play,
The fairies dance all night
In moon-beams through the misty delves,
’Neath stars that glitter bright.
[2]
The undines skip with rippling glee
’Neath dashing, foaming spray,
Their shinning bodies soft with sheen,
Exquisite in their play:
The mermaids skim the waters o’er,
With nymphs of sparkling hue
Transparent in their briny realm,
Translucent to the view.
AUTUMNAL EQUINOX
[1]
Now the autumn Equinox
Bring the Christ once more
To His earthly bondage
Till the winter’s o’er
[2]
Through the sign of Libra
Man and Christ descend
Into earthly darkness
Error to transcend
[3]
Light now shineth ever
In the heart of man
Path to life eternal
Through a timeless span
WINTER SOLSTICE
As the Sun turns on its upward path
the Christ light is born on earth.
The wave of spiritual light shines at
its peak with love and power
Holy night brightest light Oh holy night
As the sun turns on its upward path
the Christ light is born earth
ONWARD AND UPWARD(Aries)
[1]
Onward fellow students there is work to do
Power in activity flows from Mars to you
Power to control thyself!
Through the will Divine.
Daring, doing, marching forward
To the mystic shrine
Chorus
Onward fellow student
Worker do thy part
May the Christ Light ever shine
Deep within thy Heart
[2]
Christ has brooded o'er the earth,
O'er the souls of men
Pleads with each to search himself,
To be cleansed again
Christ who fills the earth with love
Now makes His ascent,
Leaving to His followers
The life force He has spent.
COSMIC HARMONY(Taurus)
[1]
From the sounding of the word
Sprang the building of this world
In pure harmony and joyfully
The echoing was heard
As the silences were broken
By the concord of sweet sound
Venus thrilled to hear the sacredest
The one word spoken
[2]
Since that long, that far off day
It is love that points the way
Even stars do keep their courses
By the power of this ray
When we learn to love each other
When discordant words we stay
Peacefulness shall reign
And bless us and Elder Brother
SEEKING THE TRUTH(Gemini)
[1]
All, all’s from Thee
One life stream ever flowing
From plane to plane, for spirit eyes to see
This hidden stream
Through eons ever going
Springs from Thy heart eternal Majesty
[2]
Yield Thou to me
All knowledge through my reason
Help me attain, nor lose my charity
Let not my mind betray
My heart in treason
That all I am may be of worth to Thee
FROM THE STILLNESS(Cancer)
[1]
Cancer sign of the mother
You are the gateway of every soul preparing
For rebirth this day
And through your portals night and noon
Through phases of your changing moon
Does all creation manifest
Heaven blest
[2]
Nature, our earthly mother,
Great sanctuary Brooding in silent splendor,
rules o’er land and sea
Through spirit she transforms the clod
Through wisdom aspect of our God
Through moon in Cancer she displays
fertile ways
GOD’S LIVING FIRE(Leo)
[1]
Leo, living fires,
within thy centre raying,
Sun flame
Symbol of God’s holy light, displaying,
Riding through the vaulted skies,
Were the Lords of Flame
From the Thrones of Paradise,
To mankind they came.
[2]
Divine, is the love
That from God’s heart is flowing
This love
Keeps the planets in their orbit going
Lord and Ruler of our souls,
Teach us how to love
Hold us in Thy orbit sure,
Here as ‘tis above
SERVING WITH CHRIST(Virgo)
[1]
Golden harvest time in autumn
Nature gathers in her store
Man should reap the spirit’s harvest
Bring it to the temple door
Refrain
Hidden threads join life together
Rock and plant and creature small
Each sustaining every other
Wisely man should govern all
[2]
He that would be great among you
Let him serve with selfless love
Without thought of compensation
Cosmic bank his treasure trove
THE HEM OF HIS GARMENT(Libra)
[1]
As Thou, o Lord art passing by I sense
Thy presence here
The mantle from the autumn sky
It trailing very near
Refrain
O ray of love that blesseth all
Pray enter into my heart
My soul responding to Thy call Of
Thee becomes a part
[2]
Thy light, o Lord, is passing through
This sad old earth again
The scales, Thou holdest them aloft
To balance joy and pain
THE MYSTERY OF LIFE(Scorpio)
[1]
God’s mighty forces through the heavens sweep
He breaths upon the blue waters
Deep secrets of nature revealing
His power From seed now dormant to blooming flow’r
[2]
When man is chase like to a lovely rose
And pure love rules him wherever he goes
When man creates on the highest of planes
Then liberation at last he gains
THE PILGRIM’S SONG(Sagittarius)
[1]
O pilgrim set thy foot on the path
The upward winding way
Where only he who the courage hath
Will find the strength to stay
May aspiration with Thee ‘bide
And angels bright and fair
Ascend the sacred mountain side
Seek treasures hidden there.
[2]
The dark time will cover thee
And fear will have its way
But onward pilgrim, with footsteps free
For light will come with day
To other pilgrims, o be kind
Take time to teach the youth
And joy, o pilgrim
You will find along the way of truth.
CONSECRATION(Capricorn)
[1]
Through self mast’ry we may gain
Many beauties of the soul
And through discipline maintain
Dignity through self control
Concentration gives us pow’r
To direct the wand’ring thought
Consecrating every hour
Till a victory is wrought
[2]
All the world was built by thought
From a marv’lous master plan
Conscious mind remembers not
That the spirit made the man
When old Saturn comes with pain
When the fires have burned the dross
Homeward man will turn again
Roses blooming on his cross
UNIVERSAL LOVE(Aquarius)
[1]
The angels from Aquarius
Send rays of holy love
That all may be harmonious
Below as ‘tis above
With love of justice to each one
Of order, duty too
And love of work together done
We make this old world new
Chorus
So learn to work together
In fair and stormy weather
And soon may we the leaders be
Of all humanity
[2]
A pattern great of unity
We sense in cosmic law
With scope for much diversity
In works without a flaw
The great ones follow this design
This altruistic plan
And their example so divine
Is here for use by man
DIVINE LAW(Pisces)
[1]
Ne’er away would man have strayed
Divine law had he obeyed
He the sower reaps at last
Good and evil of his past
Sign of sorrow, o Pisces
Your sad mission will not cease
Until every foot that strays
Turns to holy Godlike ways
[2]
And would man be free again
From his bondage, from his pain
On the altar he must lay
Low desires that rule his day
At some mystic sacred hour
There would flow through him a pow’r
That will burn each false desire
With a purifying fire.
PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW
Praise God from whom all blessings flow
Praise him all creatures here below
Praise him above ye heavenly host
Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost Amen
HE HEALETH ME! O BLESSED THOUGHT
[1]
He healeth me! O blessed thought,
O words with heav’nly comfort fraught,
What e’er I do, where’er I be;
Still ‘tis God’s love that healeth me.
Refrain
He healeth me! He healeth me!
By His own pow’r He healeth me
His omnipresenct good I see,
For by His pow’r He healeth me
[2]
Lord, I would feel Thy life in mine
To thrill my soul with love divine
To bind me closer still to thee
Since ‘tis Thy love that healeth me.
PATER NOSTER
[1]
Father in heaven, Thee we adore
Thy will be done forever more
Our daily bread supply and may
Thy Kingdom come on earth to stay
[2]
From sin’s allure, pray we be freed
From evil thought and word and deed
And may our faults Thy pardon win
As we forgive each other’s sin
[3]
The kingdom, glory power and praise
Are Thine alone through endless days!
Thy faithful servants o may we be
Through time and for all eternity
THE TEMPLE
[1]
Temple of Christian love
Standing so high above
Turmoil and strife
Here the sad find surcease
The weary rest and peace
Rays from the Temple bring Abundant life
[2]
Holy force doth impel
Under a mystic spell
With healing pow’r
Sorrows and suffering go
New vital ethers flow
Christ light warms ev’ry heart
At vesper hour
[3]
Altar lamps gleaming bright
For faithful ones each night
In silent pray’r
Before the emblem rose
No thought of worldly woes
Disturbs the peace and joy
Prevailing there
WE PRAISE THEE, O GOD
[1]
We praise Thee, O God,
For the Spirit of light,
That has shown us Thy goodness
And scattered our night.
Hallelujah! Thine the glory; Hallelujah! Again!
Hallelujah! Thine the glory; We praise Thee. Amen
[2]
All glory and praise,
For Thy likeness within;
As the sons of the Father,
Our triumphs begin.
Hallelujah! Thine the glory; Hallelujah! Again!
Hallelujah! Thine the glory; We praise Thee. Amen
TEACH US
[1]
Teach us to pray for holy might
That comes alone from doing right,
Teach us to love and serve and do,
All things, O Christ we’ve learned from you.
[2]
Teach us to walk within the light
On pathways that will lead aright,
For we must know the good, the true,
That we may labour O Christ, with you.