Divine Immanence

Many Neopagans and Rosicrucians share a belief in divine immanence or pantheism, the idea that God is present in everything that exists. But broadly speaking, the two groups differ on how they think we should approach or connect with the Divine.

If it can be said that there's a default Neopagan view on the subject, it could probably be expressed as a feeling of awe or reverence for the Divine in nature, whereas the Rosicrucian view typically follows Spinoza and his rejection of this kind of religiosity.

Spinoza felt that such reverential attitudes could easily lead to erroneous and superstitious beliefs and practices, and argued that the way we should connect with the Divine was through an intellectual understanding and appreciation of its perceptible modes of existence. The Rosicrucian call to "read the book of nature" is in line with this view.

Of course, in reality, the division is a lot fuzzier. But as a philosophical matter, the distinction may be important, and the prevailing culture within each tradition may account for why people choose to identify as one or the other.