Nr 5, year 2

NEWSLETTER

The vernal equinox 2022 (73 Aqu.)

”He who walks the path exists not for himself, but for others.”

– Pythagoras

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Dear reader!

You are now reading the fifth newsletter from the association Knowledge for the Harmonious Development of Man. The purpose of the association is "to in Sweden and internationally spread and promote the knowledge about reality, the esoteric world and life view, especially Pythagoras' doctrine of knowledge, hylozoics, as it has been produced by Henry T. Laurency and Lars Adelskogh".

The purpose of this newsletter is primarily to inform about news on the association's website (www.veidos.org) and about newly published esoteric life science books from the association's publishers, Dodekaeder Publishing House, as well as other things of interest regarding the association's activities. The intention is to publish a quarterly newsletter in connection with the equinoxes and the solstice.

The Website

On the English version of our website, we have now published the text Longer presentation, which is a translation of the Swedish Longer presentation of the esoteric worldview. Thus, all of the Swedish online texts are now translated into English and also published. Our intention is to continue to publish the online texts in both Swedish and English, even though it may not always be possible to do so at the same time.

The Library

The work of developing the library continues unabated. At the moment the focus is primarily on digitizing valuable books. Progress has been made regarding the optimization of the scan results and to further improve the scan results there is an investigation of suitable finishing programs. The work to date indicate that it will be possible to obtain high-quality facsimile copies of the original books. As we wrote in previous newsletters, the intention is that some of these books will be published in reprint, while others will be available only as searchable digital editions in pdf format. We also plan to develop a more advanced search function for the digital books. Hopefully this will be possible to complete before the end of the year.

Dodekaeder Publishing House

We also in this newsletter want to mention our latest printed editions, namely the second edition of Lars Adelskogh's Förklaringen (The Explanation) and the first edition of his book Vägen och dess vandrare (The Way and Its Wanderers). Both books are printed in Swedish and can now be purchased in the new online store which can be accessed via the following link: www.dodekaeder.se

This year, too, there is full of activity in the publishing business. Two books are scheduled to be published during the year, the first book sometime in the summer and the second at the end of the year. Formatting and proofreading are in full swing.

Worth reading

There is a lot worth reading on the association's website. Below is an excerpt as well as the introduction to the compilation The Knowledge of Life - From Secret to Public.

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”When sufficiently many such originally esoteric ideas have been generally accepted, more and more people will be interested in knowing their source and will study esoterics. This has been possible for more than a hundred years already, for in the year 1875 the knowledge formerly kept secret began to be publicized.”

Historians, like philosophers, too, nowadays (being ignorant of the past), assume that the knowledge of reality is a result of natural research and that in prehistoric times people did not possess that knowledge. They are certainly right in saying that mankind has been profoundly ignorant of reality, even physical reality, has been the victim of the superstitions of its ignorant leaders. It is understandable that they reject everything old without examining it as though it were useless superstition.

What historians cannot know, however, is that individuals possessed of knowledge have always existed, although they were obliged to keep what they knew to themselves. But they have always been able to teach something of their knowledge of the healing powers of plants, for instance. Ancient methods of medical treatment testify to such influences. Therefore, it is unwise to reject everything old without examining it.

Historians do not know that at all times, for twenty million years, men were guided by individuals who have come much further in their evolution than humans (the planetary hierarchy) and, as soon as humans were able to comprehend and understand, received as a free gift as much knowledge as they were able to grasp. For about forty-five thousand years, tuition has been given in secret knowledge orders to those who were able to grasp it, could be silent about what they had learnt, and could keep their pledge of not using the knowledge that confers power for their own good or without special permission. The knowledge is always distorted by those not understanding it and abused by egoists.

It is true that the knowledge has always been available to those who were willing to sacrifice all to find it. But it could not be given out to ignorance, injudiciousness, hatred, mania for persecution, and reckless abuse of power. The symbols protected the knowledge from discovery and were of course misinterpreted. The wise men whom we admire in history were all of them initiates, and the little they could tell still had such an effect.

When, some time in the future, the esoteric history will be publicized, it will appear that all those whom the esoterician counts among the great ones in mankind, those who have furthered consciousness development and brought the educable closer to unity were once initiates of some esoteric knowledge order.

It is only in our times that mankind has evolved so far that it has been able to acquire knowledge of physical reality on its own and, within certain limits, been able to realize that it is not in a position to solve the problems of superphysical reality. Thereby mankind has come to its senses and reached the possibility of self-determination, a triumph for the guides of mankind’s development. Thereby mankind has gained solid ground beneath its feet and is able to take the next step in evolution, namely gratefully accept the superphysical knowledge that the planetary hierarchy is willing to give to mankind, and also to realize that this superphysical knowledge is the true one. This has hitherto been impossible.

Thanks to esoterics, men have finally been given a world view and life view acceptable to common sense, clarifying the meaning and goal of life, a firm basis for further thought and action. The publication of esoterics marks a turning-point in the history of mankind. Henceforth nobody need to walk in the false world of illusions and fictions.

The esoteric knowledge that was communicated in the secret knowledge orders (hermetics, gnostics, hylozoics, for instance) has never been allowed for publication and probably will not be made generally known until all mankind has reached the stage of ideality. That knowledge can be taught only to those who are unable to use the power for their own good. What has been made public thus is just a small part, the part that, so to speak, makes up the very skeleton of the system with the most basic facts requisite to afford a vision of the meaning and goal of existence.

This publication of the esoteric knowledge, formerly kept strictly secret, is in fact the most important process now going on in mankind. It is influencing unconsciously far more people than those who consciously profess their adherence to esoterics. Imperceptibly, originally esoteric ideas penetrate into customary human views, bringing them closer to the real, raising and ennobling them.

human rights, having their esoteric foundation in the laws of life. Another example is the increasing interest shown by scientists in the consciousness aspect of everything, also the seemingly lifeless. A third example is the understanding gaining ground more and more that “children are old souls”, individuals having their unique characters and the right to be spared the ideologies of their parents or of the community they grow up in.

When sufficiently many such originally esoteric ideas have been generally accepted, more and more people will be interested in knowing their source and will study esoterics. This has been possible for more than a hundred years already, for in the year 1875 the knowledge formerly kept secret began to be publicized.

The Knowledge of Life - From Secret to Public

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Worth thinking about

In conclusion, here is a thought-provoking quote from the good thinker Confucius (551-479 BCE):

”The ancient wise, that wanted to cultivate his own human being, first corrected his own mind. In order to correct their mind, they first sought to be true in their thoughts. In order to be true in their thoughts, they increased their knowledge to the extreme. They increased their knowledge by exploring reality. After reality was explored, knowledge became perfect. After knowledge was perfected, thoughts became true. After the thoughts became true, the mind was corrected. After the mind was corrected, man was cultivated. From the supreme leader to the mass of the people, everyone must regard the cultivation of his own human being as the root of everything beyond that. It never happens, if the root is neglected, that what grows from there should be well cared for. It is not so that what is of great importance may be given little consideration and that at the same time what is of little importance should be given great consideration.”

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We wish you a joyful spring with inspiring and rewarding studies of the books of Henry T. Laurency, Lars Adelskogh and other esoteric authors.

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The Association Knowledge for the Harmonious Development of Man
Bank account: 9670-203 83 82 (JAK-banken); BG: 5588-5776
Publisher: Dano Kostovski

www.veidos.org