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• h of the 'gold' produced, or replies from the French Supreme Council, or even of the implied news article from the New York World , have been produced along with it. If this had been all there was to AMORC's modern Rosicrucian alchemical legacy, it would have been written off as a failed publicity stunt, and ended up as a footnote in the development of American alchemy. Despite the obvious questions re

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• Atlantis, Lemuria, and the creation stories in Genesis . [xvii] [x] Rosicrucian Questions and Answers with Complete History of the Rosicrucian Order by H.Spencer Lewis, F.R.C. Supreme Grand Lodge of AMORC, San Jose, California. 1984. P. 16 photograph, p. 178. [xi] The Rosicrucian Manual , Lovett Printing Co., Charleston, W. V., 1928; and Supreme Grand Lodge AMORC, San Jose, Calif., 1975. [xii] An arti

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• ofit to be made by exploiting such appetites, there is now an entire genre of occultist sensationalism masquerading as fact. A mild version of this was propagated by the inf luential French branch of AMORC (Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis; see chapter 8 for more on the Rosicrucians.) Its French Grand Master and Supreme Legate Raymond Bernard (1923–2006) boasted innumerable other titles and dign

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• 947) was no longer in a position to accept or decline Tomas’s ded - ication. Nor could Roerich confirm or deny Bernard’s implication that he had really worked for Harvey Spencer Lewis, the founder of AMORC. 66 After this superficial grounding in the Planète school of Atlantology, Bernard now received the key to the mystery. The master explained to him that after the fall of Atlantis, the world entered

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• tailor-made for a Rosicrucian order in search of mem - bers. What aspirant could fail to hope that he or she was one of this elect group of souls? A MORC The Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC) was founded in 1915 by Harvey Spencer Lewis (1883–1939). Until the crisis follow - ing the death of Lewis’s son in 1987, it was by far the most successful of the modern Rosicrucian orders, with a gr

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• 230 a Some Independents AMORC had a strong distribution network, and the publication of Lemuria in 1931 caused a worldwide stir. According to an appendix added to the second edition (1935), many people wrote either to corroborate

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• d paraphrased Oliver’s account of Mount Shasta. 50 In the year after the astronomer’s death, Harvey Spencer Lewis (writing as “Selvius”) published an article in the magazine of his Rosicrucian order (AMORC). 51 The bibliography compiled by the nearby College of the Siskiyous calls this “the single most important document in the establishment of the modern Mt. Shasta-Lemuria myth” and quotes the followi

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• s, Written Down for the Hermetic Brotherhood (San Francisco: Hermetic Book Concern, 1903), 7. 65. Wishar S. Cervé, Lemuria: The Lost Continent of the Pacific (San Jose, Calif.: Supreme Grand Lodge of AMORC, 1946; 1st ed. 1931). 66. On James W. Ward, see www.oac.cdlib.org/data/13030/fn/tf8c6009fn/files/ tf8c6009fn.pdf. 67. G. I. Gurdjieff, All and Everything (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1950), 756.

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• National Aeronautic Association;Albany Institute of History and Art; Amen Corner; American Academy in Rome;American Antiquarian Society; League for American Citizenship; AmericanFederation of Labor; Amorc (Rosicrucian Order); Andiron Club; American-IrishHistorical Association; Anti-Cigarette League; Anti-Profanity League;Archeological Association of America; National Archery Association; ArionSinging

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• 225 Leonas Petrauskas’ daughter Krista Petrauskas was also in the Theosophical Society, and closely associated with the AMORC Rosicrucian Order, a Luciferian Freemasonic group attended by Aleister Crowley and praised by Lenin. According to Krista, Rosicrucian Master Bergio Panikian (relative of the current Grand Master of A

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• irhan paused reflectively fo r a moment, then smiled. Then he changed the subject. " After the murder of Kennedy, police searched Sirhan 's room and found a large amount of Rosicrucian (in this ca se AMORC, not the historical Rosicrucians) and other occult r eading material. Sirhan is alleged to have also been acqua inted with a member of The Process group, a Scientology offshoot , and to have attended

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• termed a "human guinea pig farm" by one CIA agent. Dr. Louis Jolyon West, for one, was running a mysterious safe house in the Haight in the Summer of Love. While in prison Manson was connected to the AMORC Rosicrucians, the same group that Sirhan Sirhan had ties to. Manson was also in touch with members of The Proces s, an apocalyptic Scientology spinoff group, and he dubbe d his own group the Final Ch

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• er detail than I have given here. Hubbard's interest in the occult was kindled l ong before he met Parsons . It dates back at least to his membership of the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis or AMORC, in 1940. Hubbard had completed the first two ne ophyte degrees before his membership lapsed, and later there were private complain ts that he had incor porated some of the teachings he had promised

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• le into victims. We can succeed by making victims into people." 86. W hat is Scientology? , Church of Scientology of California, first edition, 1978, p.301. 87. H. Spencer Lewis, Rosicrucian Manual , AMORC, San Jose, 1982. 88. Modern Management Technology Defined , definition of Church of American Science. 89. HCO Policy Letter, Former practices", 1968. 90. HCO Policy Letter, Heaven , 1963. 91. cf Hubb

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• lled Priest s of AEth or Priests of Light. They have Round Table discussions, and an Order of Chivalry, the Knights of the Holy Grail. They are associated with the Martinist Order of Freemasonry. THE AMORC (The Ancien t, Mystical Order Ros ae Crucis) GROUP OF ROSICRUCIANS IS A SEPARAT E GROUP FROM THE CHURCH OF ILLUMINATION The AMORC group of Rosicrucians h eadquartered in San Jose, CA and Sussex, Engl

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• raining is often given sec retly even in our day," and "...today there are numerous me n... receiving instructions from the Great Order unbeknown to their closest friends." 81 (This does not apply to AMORC which is less secret.) Masonry was a brotherhood introducing the occult but not demanding any religious growth from the initiate, while the Rosicrucians have always linked "spiritual growth" to the p

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• owed a clip of a gifted class and PE classes involved in these pagan religious activities. 28. "The Mysticism of Carl Jung" , The Rosicrucian Digest (Jul y, 1970), San Jose.CA: Supreme Grand Lodge of AMORC, pp. 269-270. 29. ibid. 30. DeParre, Paul. Ancient Empires of the New Age, p. 28 31. A Psyc. Instructor of this Author expressed th is. Ancient Empires of the New Age, p. 30 also mentions this and gi

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• low forms of it to the occult groups that they controlled. For instance, the Rosicrucian Order for North & South America in their Vol. 8 of their Rosicrucian Manual (San Jose, CA: Supreme Grand Lodge AMORC) pp. 91-108 deals with the spinal column, nerves, & the influence of color & music on the nervous system, etc. Grand Master Lewis writes on pg. 103, "The Rosicrucians were the first to have a complet

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• hat it even recruits in the medical, chiropractic and osteopathic schools. The Rosicrucians, who like to track their history back to the alchemists, brag about their large numbers of medical members. AMORC indicates that at least 11% of its members are doctors. The Rosicrucians also hint about their secret medical experiments and secret medical knowledge. One Rosicrucian claim to fame is their mystical

• tualswith socialist and esoteric leanings.4 [15_CHAPTER_EIGHT_ESOTERIC_UNDERWORLD.xhtml#SuperscriptNumber442]. The largestand most well known of these is the Ancient Mystical Order of Rosae Crucis (orAMORC, as it is usually called), founded by H. Spencer Lewis in 1915. AMORCtraces its roots back to ancient Egypt, somewhat earlier than theseventeenth-century Rosicrucians who concern us here. The link be

• modern times, ideas such as these have been kept very much alive in thedoctrines of speculative Freemasonry[139] [index_split_036.html#filepos791944]and in the teachings of esoteric schools like the AMORC Rosicrucians ofCalifornia and the Theosophical Society of London and Madras. In addition, fromthe 1920s to the 1940s, almost identical notions were expressed with curiousvehemence by the American psy

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• eda, 1:164, cited in The Arctic Home in the Vedas, p. 168. 19 Frances A. Yates, Girodano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, the University of Chicago Press, 1991, p. 93. 20 Personal communication from AMORC, San Jose, California, November 1994. 21 Leon Comber, The Traditional Mysteries of the Chinese Secret Societies in Malaya, Eastern Universities Press, Singapore, 1961, p. 52. 22 Ibid., p. 53. 23 Gust

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• by statues of amazing abilities.’ 6 In modern times, ideas such as these have been kept very much alive in the doctrines of speculative Freemasonry 7 and in the teachings of esoteric schools like the AMORC Rosicrucians of California and the Theosophical Society of London and Madras. In a ddition, from the 1920s to the 1940s, almost identical notions were expressed with curious vehemence by the American

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• rn to Los Angeles, Sirhan had acquired an interest in occultism that he had never had in the past. A search of Sirhan’s room by the police in the days after the shooting turned up literature from the AMORC Rosicrucian mail order metaphysicians, and it is alleged that Sirhan had become acquainted with a member of The Process, a Scientology o ff shoot group that Charles Manson had also had a brush or two

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• rn to Los Angeles, Sirhan had acquired an interest in occultism that he had never had in the past. A search of Sirhan’s room by the police in the days after the shooting turned up literature from the AMORC Rosicrucian mail order metaphysicians, and it is alleged that Sirhan had become acquainted with a member of The Process, a Scientology o ff shoot group that Charles Manson had also had a brush or two

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• rce for Cayce's and Randall-Steven's revelations concerning these underground chambers: the Ancient and Mystic Order of the Rosae Crucis, "the prominent American Rosicrucian society commonly known as AMORC."20 Founded in the early 1920s by Harvey Spencer Lewis, himself initiated into the Rosicrucian order in Toulouse, France, the AMORC "claimed a pedigree that went directly back to the Mystery Schools

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• l days of the year 1999 - the equinoxes and solstices. The locations have been selected as the major Hermetic sites of the world, including Giza, Alexandria, Stonehenge, and San Jose (headquarters of AMORC).25 Freemasons, MI5, CIA, Rosicrucians, and "Magic 12": a strange mix to be investigating a structure that was, according to the standard theory, nothing more than a tomb for a dead Egyptian king! Ro

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• ce for Cayce's and Randall-Steven's revelations concerning these underground chambers: the Ancient and My stic Order of the Rosae Crucis, "the prominent American Rosicrucian society commonly known as AMORC." 20 Founded in the early 1920s by Harvey Spencer Lewis, himself initiated into the Rosicrucian order in Toulouse, France, th e AMORC "claimed a pedigree that went directly back to the Mystery School

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• days of the year 1999 - the equinoxes and solstices. The locations have been selected as the major Hermetic s ites of the world, including Giza, Alexandria, Stonehenge, and San Jose (headquarters of AMORC). 25 Freemasons, MI5, CIA, Rosicrucians, and "Magic 12": a strange mix to be investigating a structure that was, according to the standa rd theory, nothing more than a tomb for a dead Egyptian king!

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• esh Yod - Tzaddi - Yod - Resh - Heh Bibliography Copies and translations of the "Sepher Yetzirah": Kalish, Isidor ; first published English translat ion, 1877 e.v., includes Hebrew text. Reprinted by AMORC and others. Stenring, Knut ; first published in 1923, later editions exist. Compares several texts, includes "32 intelligences addition." Suares, Carlo ; English translation of the French edition, Sh

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• er Yezirah. A Book on Creation; or the Jewish Metaphysics of Remote Antiquity, with English Translation, Preface, Explanatory Notes and Glossary. New York: L.H. Frank & Co., 1877. Reprinted San Jose: AMORC , 1948, with several reprint editions following; more recently (late ’eighties) reprinted by Heptangle (Gillette) in an overpriced deluxe edition. Kalisch gives a straightforward translation, showing

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• 3 the AMORC edition says, “The service Dr. Kalisch rendered in 1877 by his first English translation of the Sepher Yezirah has grown ever greater with the passing years. Other translations, it is true, have a ce

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• esh Yod-Tzaddi-Yod -Resh-Heh -oOo- Bibliography Copies and translations of the "Sepher Yetzirah": Kalish, Isidor; first published English translation , 1877 e.v., includes Hebrew text. Reprinted by AMORC and othe rs. Stenring, Knut; first published in 1923, later edit ions exist. Compares several texts, includes "32 intelligences addition." Suares, Carlo; English translation of the French ed ition, S

• ho called himself the Beast 666 wereawkward and comically terrifying.I was a 24-year old failed yogi and fledgling western mystic poseur working myway through the monographs of the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC2, the TraditionalMartinist Order3, and the Builders of the Adytum4. I fancied myself a bit of aheretic and spiritual rebel, but I certainly wanted nothing to do with anythingthat smacked of black mag

• irection to my life. Several years prior to this, to address an intensespiritual hunger, I entered the initiatory world of the WesternMysteries—specifically, the degree work of the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC and theBuilders of the Adytum (BOTA).As fascinating as my studies were, they were just that—studies. My life neededchanging. I didn't want to just study magick; I wanted to perform magick—butwhat kin

• —a western equivalent toZen, and I more or less found what I was looking for in the Qabalah.My introduction to the Qabalah was the indirect result of my youthfulinvolvement with the Rosicrucian Order AMORC.4 Encouraged by my older brotherMarc, I had joined the Order in the early 1970s in hopes it would give mesomething spiritual and wholesome to occupy my nervous energy as I transitionedfrom the record

• ostcertainly the friend and confidant of the great French magician, Alphonse LouisConstant (Eliphas Levi, 1810-1875), the father of modern ceremonial magic.As a young member of the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, I was instructed by my elderadepts (in no uncertain terms) that I was to read and study the works of LordLytton, especially his occult story “Zanoni.”8 Written in 1842 (a fullgeneration before the f

• nda’s Self-Realization Fellowship and the Vedanta Society. From 1971 to1975, I studied (via correspondence-course instruction) aspects of the Westernmystery traditions, through the Rosicrucian Order (AMORC),4 the Builders of theAdytum (B.O.T.A),5 and the Traditional Martinist Order (TMO).6Around this time, I became passionately interested in the written works ofAleister Crowley. In 1975 I met Grady Lou

• y which a mancomes to learn that unknown Crown.Aleister Crowley, Liber LXI vel Causae 10I didn’t know what exactly to expect when I mailed my membership application andmoney to the Rosicrucian Order (AMORC) back in 1971, but I was giddy at thethought of becoming a member of an honest-to-goodness occult society of studentsand adepts. My brother, Marc, had joined the organization (which advertised inmaga

• niversity of New York Press, 1989.Kalisch, Isidor, ed. and trans. Sepher Yezirah: A Book on Creation; Or, TheJewish Metaphysics of Remote Antiquity. 1877. Reprint, San Jose, CA: SupremeGrand Lodge of AMORC, 1987.Kaplan, Aryeh, trans. The Bahir. 1979. Reprint, York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser,1989.———. Meditation and Kabbalah. York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, 1982.———, trans. Sefer Yetzirah: The Book of Crea

• el (1865–1919) in California in 1909, and the LectoriumRosicrucianum, founded in Holland by Jan van Rijckenborgh (1896–1968) in 1924.The largest organization, the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC), wasfounded by Harvey Spencer Lewis (1883–1939) after he was initiated into theRosicrucian mysteries in France. In 1915, he opened the headquarters in New Yorkand then moved it to San Jose, Californ

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• ction to my life. Several years prior to this, to address an intense spiritual hunger, I entered the initia­ tory world of the Western mysteries-specifically the degree work of the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, The Traditional Martinist Order (TMO), and the Builders of the Adytum (B.O. T.A.). As fascinating as my studies were, they were just that-studies. My life needed changing. I didn't want to merely st

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• ction to my life. Several years prior to this, to address an intense spiritual hunger, I entered the initia­ tory world of the Western mysteries-specifically the degree work of the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, The Traditional Martinist Order (TMO), and the Builders of the Adytum (B.O. T.A.). As fascinating as my studies were, they were just that-studies. My life needed changing. I didn't want to merely st

• world. For the next ten years or so I didn't do a very good job of it.While trying to figure out what I wanted to do when I grew up, my brother Marcencouraged me to join him in the Rosicrucian Order AMORC. He said they were likemystic Freemasons. I took his advice, and with the United States Postal Serviceas my psychopomp, I took the first initiatory step into the Western Mysteries.My employment and f

• my father died of emphysema a few weeks after seeing Jean-Paultake his first steps. He was only 61. About ten days after his funeral he showedup to deliver a curious message.Since my initiation into AMORC I had set aside an hour or two each Thursdaynight to study the monographs and practice the various outlined “psychic”exercises. For some reason I decided this night I would perform my devotionsbefore

• less inorder, but the importance for doing so will become less and less relevant. Ibelieve it will, however, be helpful to know the following:I became an enthusiastic student of the Rosicrucian Order AMORC's study program.I joined a local lodge and for several years was very active, serving first asNeophyte class master, then as ritual officer in degree initiations and atweekly convocations. I was espe

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• inneapolis, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2017. Kalisch, Isidor. Sepher Yezirah: A Book on Creation, or the Jewish Metaphysics o f Remote Antiquity. New York: L. H. Frank & Co., 1877. Rosicrucian Order AMORC, 15th edition, San Jose, CA: 2002 . Kaplan, Aryeh. tr. The Bahir. York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, •9 9 ° י _____________ . Sepher Yetzerah. York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, •9 9 ° י Lamsa, George M. tr.

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• on by Isidor Kalisch: Sepher Yezirah: A Book on Creation, or the Jewish Metaphysics o f Remote Antiquity (New York: L. H. Frank & Co., 1877). New editions have been published by the Rosicrucian Order AMORC, 15th edition (San Jose, CA: 2002). 3 The Qabalah o f Aleister Crowley (New York: Samuel Weiser, 1973). Retitled 777 and O ther Qabalistic Writings o f Aleister Crowley, in the fifth printing, 1977 (

• mostcertainly the friend and confidant of the great French magician, Alphonse LouisConstant (Eliphas Levi, 1810-1875), the father of modern ceremonial magic.As a young member of the Rosicrucian Order AMORC, I was instructed by my elderadepts (in no uncertain terms) that I was to read and study the works of LordLytton, especially his occult story Zanoni.7 Written in 1842 (a full generationbefore the fou

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• FIG 16 – The Istanlation of the current Imperator of AMORC Christian Bernard (born 30 November 1951) in the Supreme Temple of the Order in the city of San José, California, US. 148

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• e are extremely open, and others are more secre- tive. The secretive Rosicrucians tend to save their hidden teach- ings for the higher degrees of Freemasonry. Probably the most famous organization is AMORC (the Ancient and Mystical Order of the Rosy Cross), who advertise widely, and to date have more than 300,000 members. They offer correspondence courses and hold meetings around the world. The earlies

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• a mouse with her young. From the disgust he felt, the child lost his speech, and seeing him dumb, and therefore innocuous, Covac let him go. The boy was then taken into Munster, to the kingdom of Feramorc, of which Scoriath was king, and remained with him some time, but afterwards went to Gaul, his great−grandmother Kesair's country, where his guards told the king that he was heir to the throne of Ire

• old the king that he was heir to the throne of Ireland, and he was treated with great honour and grew up into a noble youth. But he left behind him in the heart of Moriath, daughter of the King of Feramorc, a passion that could not be stilled, and she resolved to bring him back to Ireland. She accordingly equipped her father's harper, Craftiny, with many rich gifts, and wrote for him a love−lay, in whi

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• scist in inspiration, but her ideas also hold an appeal for ‘‘alternative’’ movements whose inspira- tion is far removed from such sources. In 1954 the Ancient and Mystical Order of the Rosae Crucis (AMORC), America’s leading Rosicrucian occult order, published a sec- ond edition of A Son of God . Founded in 1915 by H. Spencer Lewis (1883–1939), AMORC offers a nondenominational approach to ancient wisd

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• Order , 2d ed. (Wellingborough: Thorsons, 1987), pp. 129–141. 31. Harvey Spencer Lewis, Rosicrucian Questions and Answers with Complete History of the Rosicrucian Order , 15th ed. (San Jose, Calif.: AMORC, 1981; 1st ed., 1929), pp. 52–60, 292–294. 32. J. Gordon Melton, Jerome Clark, and Aidan A. Kelly, New Age Encyclo- paedia (Detroit: Gale, 1990), pp. 16–17. 33. Rudolf Bahro, Avoiding Social and Ecol

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• hical Publishing House, 1946); subsequent editions were published under the title Son of the Sun: The Life and Philosophy of Akhnaton, King of Egypt , 2d ed. (San Jose, Calif.: Supreme Grand Lodge of AMORC, 1956); 3d ed. (London: Hazell Watson and Viney Ltd., 1957); 4th ed. (San Jose, Ca- lif.: Supreme Grand Lodge of AMORC, 1981); 2d printing, 1992. Akhnaton: A Play (London: Philosophical Publishing Ho

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• nhotep IV, pharaoh of Egypt. See Akhnaton American Nazi Party 196, 198–199, 203 Amin al Husseini, Mohammed (Grand Mufti of Jerusalem), 174–175 Amon, 93 Ancient and Mystical Order of the Rosae Crucis (AMORC), 225 Animals: cruelty to, 8; idealization of, 226, 232; rights of, 104–108 Ankh ,95 Antarctica, 3, 211–213, 221 Anti-Apartheid Movement, 189 Anti-Comintern Pact, 64, 72 Antihumanism, 226. See also M

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• en Dawn, founded in England in 1887; the ex- tensive Rosicrucian writings of African-American Paschal Beverly Randolph (1825–1875); and the still-fl ourishing Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC) at San Jose, California, founded by H. Spencer Lewis (1883–1939). The Theosophical Society, co-founded in 1875 by Helena Blavatsky (1831–1891) took some initial inspiration from the secret brotherho

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• en Dawn, founded in England in 1887; the ex- tensive Rosicrucian writings of African-American Paschal Beverly Randolph (1825–1875); and the still-fl ourishing Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC) at San Jose, California, founded by H. Spencer Lewis (1883–1939). The Theosophical Society, co-founded in 1875 by Helena Blavatsky (1831–1891) took some initial inspiration from the secret brotherho

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• ces: Amorah Quan Yin. Pleiadian Perspectives on the Human Evolu- tion. Santa Fe, N. Mex.: Bear & Co., 1996. ———. The Pleiadian Workbook: Awakening Your Divine Ka. Santa Fe, N. Mex.: Bear & Co., 1996. AMORC See Ancient and Mystical Order of the Rosae Crucis Amoymon According to an ancient grimoire, Amoymon is one of the four kings of Hades, of which the eastern part falls to his share. He may be invoked

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• , Muncie, Indiana 47304-3460. Sources: [Bias, Clifford]. The A.M.O.S. Path of Light. 19 vols. Muncie, Ind.: Ancient and Mystical Order of Seekers, n.d. Ancient and Mystical Order of the Rosae Crucis (AMORC) The largest of the several Rosicrucian organizations oper- ating in North America and Europe, the Ancient and Mystical Order of the Rosae Crucis (AMORC) was founded in 1915 in New York City by H. Sp

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• The AMORC sees itself as the continuation of the ancient mystery schools of the Middle East, once headed by Solomon and Amenhotep. According to its own history, the group works in 180-year cycles in which publ

• adquarters complex located in San Jose are popular tourist attractions. The order publishes two maga- zines, Rosicrucian Digest and Rosicrucian Forum, the latter for members only. Website: http://www.amorc.org/. Sources: Lewis, H. Spencer. Rosicrucian Manual. San Jose, Calif.: Ro- sicrucian Press, 1941. ———. Rosicrucian Questions and Answers. San Jose, Calif.: Supreme Grand Lodge of the AMORC, 1969. Le

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• chers College for three years, during which time she married Robert A. Bradley (1949). The Bradleys moved to Texas, where he worked on the railroad and she bore their first child. She also joined the AMORC Rosi- crucians, from whom she received her initial occult training. Bradley began her serious writing during the early 1950s. She published a few pieces of short fiction and finally in 1955, her firs

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• ned clockmaking and the jewelry business by which he was employed as a young man. He also was attracted to occultism, and in January of 1956 joined the Ancient and Mystical Order of the Rosae Crucis (AMORC), the American Rosicrucian group which enjoyed great success in France in the decades following World War II (1939–45). In the late 1960s he became the head of the AMORC lodge in Nimes, France. He re

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• physician and writer, who wrote numerous books and led the fight to le- gitimize the fraternity, whose place was challenged by newer groups such as the Ancient and Mystical Order of the Rosae Crucis (AMORC) and the Rosicrucian Fellowship, both founded in the early twentieth century. The fraternity was headquartered at a rural complex near Quakertown, Pennsylvania. It was headed by a Council of Three an

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• Helena P. The Secret Doctrine. 2 vols. London: Theosophical Publishing, 1889. Cerve, Wishar S. [H. Spencer Lewis]. Lemuria: The Lost Conti- nent of the Pacific. San Jose, Calif.: Supreme Grand Lodge, AMORC, 1931. Churchward, James. The Lost Continent of Mu. New York: Ives Washburn, 1926. Le Plongeon, Augustus. Queen Moo and the Egyptian Sphinx. New York: The Author, 1896. Melton, J. Gordon. New Age Enc

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• , 1940. ———. Heaven Knows What. New York: Doubleday, 1935. ———. Your Greatest Strength. New York: N.p., 1946. Lewis, H(arvey) Spencer (1883–1939) Founder of the Ancient and Mystic Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC), a modern revival Rosicrucian order headquartered at San Jose, California. Lewis was born in Frenchtown, New Jer- sey, November 25, 1883, of Welsh ancestry. He was educated in New York state and rai

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• In 1918 Lewis moved his headquarters to San Francisco, and in 1921 the order received an additional charter from the Ordo Templi Orientis ( OTO ) in Germany. In 1925 the AMORC relocated to Florida, but soon afterward the organiza- tion moved to its present location in San Jose, California. Lewis applied his special talents in advertising to form a worldwide fraternal organ

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• e British lodge was duly launched under the name Mysteria Mystica Maxima. In 1916 Reuss chartered a North American branch, which was organized as the Ancient and Mystical Order of the Rosi- crucians (AMORC), headed by H. Spencer Lewis. In the legal battles between the several American Rosicrucian groups, the connection with the OTO became a matter of great embarrass- ment to AMORC, but while denying an

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• ian Fellowship, 1932. ———. Steps to Self-Mastery. Oceanside, Calif.: Fellowship Press, 1927. Rosicrucian Digest The Rosicrucian Digest, the outer organ of the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC), is one of the oldest occult magazines being published in the Western world, having been established in the early 1920s. The Digest continues The American Rosae Crucis, the original periodical estab

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• ceeded by Gladys Plummer de Witow and more re- cently, Lucia L. Grosch. Also based in the Western occult tradition is the Ancient and Mystic Order of the Rosicrucians, popularly known by its acronym, AMORC. AMORC was founded in 1915 by H. Spen- cer Lewis, and after locating the headquarters in San Jose, Cal- ifornia, in the mid-1920s, Lewis built the order into the largest Rosicrucian organization in t

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• chard. The Truth behind the Legends of Mount Shasta. New York: Carlton Press, 1976. Cerve, W. S. [H. Spencer Lewis]. Lemuria, the Lost Continent of the Pacific. San Jose, Calif.: Supreme Lodge of the AMORC, 1931. Chaney, Earlyne. Secrets from Mount Shasta. Anaheim, Calif.: Stockton Trade Press, 1953. King, Godfre Ray [Guy W. Ballard]. Unveiled Mysteries. Chi- cago: Saint Germain Press, 1934. Walton, Br

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• pe and Quebec. His travels brought him into contact with Di Mambro. Di Mam- bro was a French jeweler and watchmaker who as a young man had joined the Ancient and Mystical Order of the Rosae Cru- cis (AMORC). In 1973, he founded the first of several succes- sive organizations, the Center for the Preparation of the New Age, in Annemasse, France. One of the successor groups, the Golden Way Foundation, in

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• NCIENT MYSTERIES Ancient Mysteries http://www.ancientweb.com/ Atlantis Rising Online http://atlantisrising.com/ Mysterious Places http://www.mysteriousplaces.com/ ANCIENT MYSTICAL ORDER ROSAE CRUCIS (AMORC) Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis http://www.amorc.org/ Rosicrucian Park http://www.rosicrucian.org/ ANCIENT WISDOM Lemurian Fellowship http://www.lemurian.org/ Universal Life–The Inner Religion h

• eb.com/ Atlantis Rising Online http://atlantisrising.com/ Mysterious Places http://www.mysteriousplaces.com/ ANCIENT MYSTICAL ORDER ROSAE CRUCIS (AMORC) Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis http://www.amorc.org/ Rosicrucian Park http://www.rosicrucian.org/ ANCIENT WISDOM Lemurian Fellowship http://www.lemurian.org/ Universal Life–The Inner Religion http://www.universelles-leben.org/ ANGELS Angel Therapy

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• mn-mason.org/ Knights Templar http://www.knightstemplar.org/ Lectorium Rosicrucianum http:///www.lectoriumrosicrucianum.org/ Official Website of the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis http://www.amorc.org/ The Rosicrucian Archive http://www.crcsite.org/ SHAMANISM Ayahuasca Home Page http://www.ayahuasca.com/ Center for Shamanism and Consciousness Studies http://www.csacs.org/ Council on Spiritual

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• ina. Olga Worrall, Mystic with the Healing Hands. New York: Harper & Row, 1975. Cerve, Wishar S. [H. Spencer Lewis]. Lemuria: The Lost Continent of the Pacific. San Jose, Calif.: Supreme Grand Lodge, AMORC, 1931. Ch’u Ta-Kao, trans. Tao Te Ching. London: Allen & Unwin; New York: Samuel Weiser, 1937. Chakravarti, Chintaharan. Tantras: Studies on Their Religion and Literature. Calcutta, India: Punthi Pus

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• e, Calif.: Rosicrucian Press, 1930. ———. Rosicrucian Manual. San Jose, Calif.: Rosicrucian Press, 1941. ———. Rosicrucian Principles for the Home and Business. San Jose, Calif.: Supreme Grand Lodge of AMORC, 1929. ———. Rosicrucian Questions and Answers with Complete History. San Jose, Calif.: Supreme Grand Lodge of AMORC, 1929. ———. Rosicrucian Questions and Answers. San Jose, Calif.: Supreme Grand Lodg

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• ican Vinland Association, 43 American Yoga Association, 43 American Zen College, 44 Amethyst, 44 Amiante, 44 Amityville Horror, The, 44 Amniomancy, 44 Amnomolistics, 1591 Amon, 45 Amorah Quan Yin, 45 AMORC. See Ancient and Mystical Order of the Rosae Crucis Amoymon, 45 Amphiaraus, 45 , 1147 Amulets, 45–46 . See also Fetishism Abraxas, 5 Antiphates, 62 Cambodia, 244 Celts, 260 Central America, 1033 Chip

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• ront Street, Suite 263- m Wh eaton, I L 601 87 USA ). The P.O. N. wa s clo sed down in 1999 . Ru ss Ho use wa s the Presi dent of P.O.N. from 1995-199 9. He form erly taug ht laborato ry alch emy for AMORC' s Ro se-Croix University Internatio nal. T he c ourse s a re still avail able today through T riad Publishi ng (le d by Sue and Russ Hou se), see: http:// www .triad-pu blishin g.com/ • Les Frèr es

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• s interested in Alchemy. Madame Blavatsky had a translation made into English printed in instalments in her Theosophical journal 'Lucifer' in 1891. We believe that the Rosicrucian Fraternity known as AMORC in America have published their own version but we know nothing of its origin. Adam McLean published a version in his Hermetic journal in two parts, the original being the same draft MSS we take our

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• red one of those Rosicrucian ads in the back of a girlie magazine. Of course, the Rosicrucians aren't a front in the simple way that the Birchers and other paranoids think; only a couple of plants at AMORC headquarters are Illuminati agents. But they select possible candidates at random, and we get slightly different mailings than those sent to the average new member. If we show the proper spirit, our

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• the Council of Europe, the European Court of Human Rights, and in which the European Parliament holds regular plenary sessions. (18) Gary Stewart Former Imperator, Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis AMORC is the world's largest Rosicrucian organization. Presently, Gary Stewart is Imperator of the Confraternity of the Rose Cross, Grand Sovereign Master of the British Martinist Order and Knight Commande

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• ght by a certain Frater Albertus during the 1960’s and 1970’s. Frater Albertus began his career as an alchemical tutor with the occult Fraternity known as the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC) in the USA. Eventually he left AMORC, after some tuition problems arose, to found his own school that he called the Paracelsus Research Society (PRS) - later the Paracelsus College. Albertus, throug

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• tellectual and not really internal-practical (speculative). In later years many of Albertus' students looked for the other half of their alchemical interests in other systems such as the Golden Dawn, AMORC, and Freemasonry. Frater Albertus died in 1984, and the PRS, in its home base in Utah, folded soon after. A branch of the work in Europe is said to still exist today (the 1990's). It is not surprisin

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• red one of those Rosicrucian ads in the back of a girlie magazine. Of course, the Rosicrucians aren't a front in the simple way that the Birchers and other paranoids think; only a couple of plants at AMORC headquarters are Illuminati agents. But they select possible candidates at random, and we get slightly different mailings than those sent to the average new member. If we show the proper spirit, our

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• ods for whose existence even the most sympathetic historical scholar worth his name would be very hard pressed to find any significant proof. Actually, it is rather a cheap joke to cite, for example, AMORC`s claims that even good old Socrates or Ramses II (of all people!) were "Rosicrucians". However, the trouble only starts when adepts mistake these contentions for _literal_ truths. "Literal", of cour

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• dead or in exile, or grown old; the movement in America is in shambles. I've seen my best candidates turn against me....Achad, Regardie -- even that gentleman out in California, what's - his - name, AMORC, the one that made all the money.." 1772 "O, bosh, Crowley," Gardner waved his hand impatiently, "all things considered, you've done pretty well for yourself. Why, you've been called the `wickede

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• barely survived during the McCarthy Era, when the late Karl Germer was in charge, and the OTO turned inward for two decades. The famous Ancient and Mystic Order of the Rose Cross (AMORC), the highly successful mail-order spiritual fellowship, was an OTO offspring in Crowley's time. It has been claimed that Kenneth Grant and Aleister Crowley were discussing relatively radical changes

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• of Being. Included in the initiation rites to all of the Great Mystery Schools was just such a rite of Death and Rebirth. Anyone care to reveal their secrets now?<G> OTO'ers? GD'ers? Druids? Wiccans? AMORC? Freemasons? Templars? Illumatti? Assassins? Channellers? Others? The floor is now open. Let's hear the words of Life and the words of Death. Josey Wales faces Ten Bears in the moment of Truth. The g

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• raim seems to have been usually the case up to 1914; it is interesting to note that as late as 1927 the Danish section of the O.T.O., the Danish Rite of Memphis and Misraim, and the Danish section of AMORC (originally chartered by Reuss), all operated from the same address. One of the most interesting recruits to Memphis and Misraim was Rudolf Steiner, to whom Reuss granted a charter in 1906. The Orifl

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• t elixir has been used successfully in the treatment of various illnesses and infections. In the United States, especially from the 1940s onwards, Orval Graves († 1996), a member and librarian of the AMORC [Ancient and Mystical Order of the Rose Cross] and the Rose+Cross University, directed experiments for small-scale seminars, and published articles on alchemy and transmutation in The Rosicrucian Dig

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• se. The latter scarcely occurs in eso- teric currents of the Boehmian type, i.e., in → Chris- tian theosophy, nor in → Rosicrucianism, except for a few 19th and 20th century initiatic orders, such as AMORC. A learned Egyptologist with eso- teric leanings appeared in the middle of the 17th century: the Jesuit → Athanasius Kircher ( Lingua aegyptiaca restituta , 1643; Oedipus Aegyptiacus , 1652/1654), wh

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• Rosicrucian society did not appear in America until 1915, and it included only very few people. It was at this time, according to Lewis, that the denomination Ancient and Mystical Ordo Rosae Crucis (AMORC) had been chosen. In May 1915, this first active Rosicrucian lodge met in New York. During the sessions, Lewis is said to have revealed unprecedented knowledge in physics, chemistry, psychology, biol

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• of the AMORC throughout the World”, he es- tablished the seat of his association in San Jose, California. Toward 1930, Lewis felt a desire to return to sources in Germany, where the Rosicrucian myth had appeared

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• some degree of interaction between → Rosicrucianism and Martinism during the 1920s and 1930s, however. In fact, Martinist divisions also reflected different attitudes towards the Rosi- crucian order AMORC, and the activities of its leader → Harvey Spencer Lewis (1883-1939). In 1934, Lewis promoted the creation of the FUDOSI (Universal Federation of Orders and Societies of Initiation), which was regard

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• ng water, salt, ashes and fire, for blessing ritual dresses and frankincense, and for evoking elementals and nature spirits, are widely used in international Martinist circles and beyond, even today. AMORC’s Traditional Martinist Order is also quite active in Italy, with some two hundred mem- bers. In addition to France and Italy, the largest Martinist groups are found in other French-speak- ing countr

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• in 1952 in a context of paranormal phenomena reputedly observed in the Château d’Arginy, near Lyon. In 1970, Christian Bernard, then Grand Master of the Ancient and Mystical Order of the Rose-Croix (AMORC), founded an Ordre Rénové du Temple after meeting a mysterious “Cardinal Blanc”, in a modern version of the mythical “Unknown Superi- ors.” In the middle of the 1980s, Luc Jouret and Jo di Mambro mon

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• of the occultist and fringe-masonic scene who showed an interest in the OTO. The first and most famous of them was → Harvey Spencer Lewis, the founder of the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC). For some time, Lewis partly based his controversial Rosicrucian claims on the charters he received from Reuss. A second important figure was Arnoldo Krumm- Heller (1876-1949), whom Reuss had alread

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• ine spark remains latent in the heart and calls for a return “home” to the Kingdom of Heaven. Guiding its members in this process of awakening and “transfiguration” is the Lecto- rium’s main purpose. AMORC, the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, insists that it is not a religion, and that it includes members (“students”) from several differ- ent religious backgrounds. AMORC was founded in 1915 by

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• the Rose Cross. The elder Bernard, in turn, dis- tanced himself from AMORC and established a variety of separate organizations including CIRCES (International Committee for Charitable and Social Works), now presented as the humanitarian branch of the Sovereign Order of the

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• rmany. Another case of Lovecraft seeing into the future?Tanzler does not refer to any German or American occult orders or initiations inhis few autobiographical writings. He seems to have belonged to AMORC—thepublisher of the Rosicrucian Digest—and he claims to have lived for awhile inIndia (somewhere in the period from about 1912-1914 or so) and studied yoga andIndian mysticism. His close friendship w

• an operation of the Process suddenly wentunderground.On May 28,1966, a young Palestinian immigrant fascinated with the occult hadattended his first meeting of the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC) atthe society’s Akhnaton Lodge in Pasadena, and was the subject of an experimentin sensory perception, sitting blindfolded while attempting to identify objectsby touch.8 [../Text/ch08.html#filepos13

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• January 2, 1946. In August, 1934, in Brussels, Belgium, Grand Master Chaboseau, with the approval of the Supreme Council, conferred upon Dr. H. Spencer Lewis, then Imperator of the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, of North and South America, the title of Sovereign Legate of the Martinist Order for the United States of America. Dr. Lewis had previously been initiated into the various rites of the Order in Brus

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• zation functioned under the Regional Supreme Council and Synarchy of the U.S. until 1979. At this time, the Traditional Martinist Order was incorporated under the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, AMORC and is now known as the Traditional Martinist Order of the World under the authority of the Sovereign Council and functions under the Constitution and Statutes of the Grand Temple of the Traditional

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• , especially in the jurisdiction of the United States with its See in San Jose, California, under the Grandmastership of Ralph M. Lewis. In 1979 the Traditional Martinist Order was Incorporated under AMORC, the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis and now func- tions as the Traditional Martinist Order of the World governed by the Sovereign Council. -H- Page Four *******

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• experience in Martinism, you are in a position to be of greater service to those who come after you. At this point, in former times, you would have been introduced to the Rosicrucian Order, but nov; AMORC membership is a pre-requisite; therefore the path that is open to you now is to become one of the "(Circle of Unknown Philosophers" and to realize that you have arrived at a certain stage of your dev

• of the Mediterranean. The ghosts of the Windsor house tour onlycontributed to her longing to get the hell out of Paris and go home.”Before she could get back to the UK, she endured a final act of bedlamorchestrated by cocaine addict Dodi—the fatal decision to recruit Henri Paul todrive them away from his father’s Ritz Hotel in Paris.Diana told paparazzi, who watched her and Dodi holidaying during her f

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• y are represented by several branches who ha ve de veloped into one of the most positive o rders and aim to use their knowledge for the spiritual and mental deliverance of the individua l (e.g., the AMORC , Antiquus Mysticus Order Rosae Crusis = Ancient Mystical Order of the Rosy Cross). The Illuminati and the Rosicrucians were the driving force beh ind the religious drive du ring the years of pestile

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• Q UELLENANHANG 21 Q UELLE 4: ILL UMINA TI FRONTGROUPS: Updated 12 Februar y 1999 F reemasonry The Rosicrucians The Golden Dawn O T O AMORC The Great White Brotherhood The Knight T emplars The Theosophists The Anthrosophists The Church of God The Moonies Ishtar The T emple Order of Bahomet K u Klux Klan Microsoft IBM ITT CBS ABC Harvard

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• sencreutz, even to Pharaoh Thutmose III. Broadly, the contemporary Rosicrucians are either esoteric–Christian or para-Masonic, and never the twain shall meet. The Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Cruces (AMORC), the largest of the extant groups, offers open days which are “gentle and informal occasions where people can drop in and meet members of the local Affiliated Bodies. There will usually be a short p

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• ion, mind-control and personality manipulation r esearch and operations has already been alluded to. But how many people know that the murderers Charles Manson and Sirhan Sirhan were connected to the AMORC Rosicrucians, the Satanic sect which is embedded within Scottish Rite Freemasonry and whic h has published a secret document containing instructions on how to summon up the Devil himself? Manson's op

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• ison of Degree titles between the two systems would suggest. Similarly, the 'A. A.' [ = Atlantean Adepts: see above: - Ed.] is a reformulation of the traditional Rosicrucian model (i.e., Golden Dawn, AMORC etc) with a 'new aeon spin' 75 . Note that the speaker cited by Craig Heimbichner here is himself a sorcerer, and that he is implicitly perfectly content with the sexual and other abominations with w

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• inds Aetherius Society Age of Aquarius Aikido Akashic records Alchemy Aliens Allah (a pre-lslamic name corresponding to the Babylonian Bel, also a demon) All-seeing eye Almanacs Altered consciousness AMORC Amulets Ananda Marga Animism Anthroposophy Aquarian gospel Ascended Masters Astral projection Astral travel Astrology Atlantis Augury Aum Auras Automatic drawing Automatic writing Autosuggestion Ba'h

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• Diego:CA, Supreme Grand Lod ge of AMORC, 1929,p.315. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS that it would be inconsistent and improper and, therefore, impossible in the light of his under- standing and development. Several thousand men and women, among the

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• lled Priest s of AEth or Priests of Light. They have Round Table discussions, and an Order of Chivalry, the Knights of the Holy Grail. They are associated with the Martinist Order of Freemasonry. THE AMORC (The Ancien t, Mystical Order Ros ae Crucis) GROUP OF ROSICRUCIANS IS A SEPARAT E GROUP FROM THE CHURCH OF ILLUMINATION The AMORC group of Rosicrucians h eadquartered in San Jose, CA and Sussex, Engl

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• raining is often given sec retly even in our day," and "...today there are numerous me n... receiving instructions from the Great Order unbeknown to their closest friends." 81 (This does not apply to AMORC which is less secret.) Masonry was a brotherhood introducing the occult but not demanding any religious growth from the initiate, while the Rosicrucians have always linked "spiritual growth" to the p

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• owed a clip of a gifted class and PE classes involved in these pagan religious activities. 28. "The Mysticism of Carl Jung" , The Rosicrucian Digest (Jul y, 1970), San Jose.CA: Supreme Grand Lodge of AMORC, pp. 269-270. 29. ibid. 30. DeParre, Paul. Ancient Empires of the New Age, p. 28 31. A Psyc. Instructor of this Author expressed th is. Ancient Empires of the New Age, p. 30 also mentions this and gi

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• er the heading, "Secrets Entrusted to A Few," we find an ancient and worn book with a triangle and cross imprinted on the cover. The Rosicrucians are actually several different Orders. This ad is for AMORC, an American-based Order that is less influential among the elite than European branches. Perhaps the most famous initiate of the Rosicrucians was Benjamin Franklin. Catholic Pope John XXIII was repu

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• t Anton Wilson Some of this literature deserves at least a brief note . Madame Helena P. Blavatsky believed in a hollow Earth, and so did Lewis Spence. She formed the Theosophical Society and he, the AMORC Rosicrucians in San Jose, California (as distinguished from all the other Rosicrucians.) These two groups have so heavily influenced modem occultism that no amount of scientific evidence, now, can ev

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• red one of those Rosicrucian ads in the back of a girlie magazine. Of course, the Rosicrucians aren't a front in the simple way that the Birchers and other paranoids think; only a couple of plants at AMORC headquarters are Illuminati agents. But they select possible candidates at random, and we get slightly different mailings than those sent to the average new member. If we show the proper spirit, our

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• red one of those Rosicrucian ads in the back of a girlie magazine. Of course, the Rosicrucians aren't a front in the simple way that the Birchers and other paranoids think; only a couple of plants at AMORC headquarters are Illuminati agents. But they select possible candidates at random, and we get slightly different mailings than those sent to the average new member. If we show the proper spirit, our

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• so an attempt was made to provide in each lecture material which would provoke though t and a broader understanding on the part of all. Thus, everyone may read them with profit. The Rosicrucian Order AMORC is a teaching Brotherhood. The present active dispensation in the United States was organized in 1915, but the Order itself is very old . Its chief concern is in teaching and training its members to

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• but also a business executive with broad responsibilities. He was president of Weed Television Corporation, and Van Drenthem International Ltd. In 1 932 Mr. Weed affiliated with the Rosicrucian Order AMORC and was continuously active in its affairs, subsequently being appointed Grand Councilor with responsibility for the North Atlantic States. In 1938 he began to lecture on these subjects and delivered

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• rds. In Eulis (edition of 1874, page 47) he writes: "Very nearly all which I have given as Rosicrucian originated in my own soul." Among various publications of the society designated by the initials AMORC, there was a pamphlet entitled Fama Fraternitatis, but it was a strictly modern production, having no connection with the original manifesto apart from the title. The Rosicrucian name flourishes beca

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• 3 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Initiation Dear Fratres and Sorores, We hope that you comprehend the symbolic importance of the Rosicrucian sanctum and that you have determined where you will establish you

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• 4 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Initiation same, sign it, and store it in your records, prefer ably in your study notebook. If you are a companion member, please photocopy the oa th before it is filled out

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• 5 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Initiation PRELIMINARY INSTRUCTIONS Sanctum Preparation: To complete the following initiation ritual it is i mperative that your sanctum be properly equipped as we have said

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• 6 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Initiation RITUAL Class Master: (Read the following in a low voice an d imagine that your Class Master is present and speaking to you on the invisi ble plane.) Beloved Postu

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• 7 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Initiation our innermost beings, are fascinated by the power w hich the flame exerts over us. Have you not noticed how human beings experience pe ace and harmony of thought

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• 8 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Initiation Postulant: (After following the preceding instructi ons, be seated and, after pausing about one minute, continue this ritua l.) Class Master: (Read the following

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• 9 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Initiation Class Master: “Will you go as often as possible int o this sanctum?” (Answer.) Postulant: (After answering each of these questions , meditate a few moments on the

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• 10 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Initiation Class Master: Neophyte, before we part, I must give you the traditional password which is associated with the First Portal you have just passed through. This word

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• 3 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 1 On this day of the R+C path Dear Fratres and Sorores, The initiation you have just carried out in your sa nctum makes you a Neophyte of the Ancient and Mystical Ord

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• 4 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 1 Then light the two candles on your sanctum altar, b eginning with the one on the left. Immediately afterwards say the followi ng invocation either mentally or softl

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• 5 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 1 Dear Fratres and Sorores, You are now in your sanctum, ready to devote yourse lf to a new period of study and meditation. As you read these few line s, keep in mind

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• 6 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 1 always paid attention to the study of matter as it expresses itself on the physical plane, as it is impossible to understand the laws g overning the metaphysical wo

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• 7 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 1 magnets constitutes a good example of the power of repulsion, which poles of the same nature can bring about between them. Ho wever, beyond these few definitions th

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• 8 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 1 different poles in the expression of terrestrial li fe. In other words, they relate to two different and yet complementary energies whi ch, when they are united, ex

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• 9 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 1 that infuses them. From a mystical point of view, t his implies that the atoms composing matter are immortal. Indeed, all of them are particles of Spirit. We shall

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• 13 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 2 Dear Fratres and Sorores, In the preceding monograph we began the study of a very important subject and we suggested that you consult a diction ary or encyclopedia

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• 14 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 2 which propagate themselves through the particular f orm per second. Thus, if it were possible to act on the vibrations of everythin g surrounding us and to make the

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• 15 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 2 everything we interpret in terms of noise or sound, music is nothing more than a body of vibrations. Yet, no one can deny the great influence it exercises on our ph

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• 16 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 2 substance give us the sensation of velvet. Thus, ev erything we can know about a rose and, in general, about all material things, comes from the vibrations emanatin

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• 21 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 3 Dear Fratres and Sorores, Today we shall continue our study of Spirit vibrati ons and we shall examine how we interpret them. In the last monograp h, we learned tha

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• 22 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 3 important, because it enables us to perceive the th ree dimensions of space and the contour of our surroundings with so much precis ion. Moreover, it is due to this

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• 23 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 3 your eyes were submitted to an alteration which is translated by a retinal image to which your brain attributes a blue predomi nance. This very simple example demon

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• 24 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 3 dogs meow, you would call barking what, for others, would be meowing, and yet your misnomer would change in no way the sounds produced by those animals. The dog wou

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• 25 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 3 For example, whether you are awake or sound asleep does not change the appearance of your room, nor the vibrations tha t compose it. This point is very important, b

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• 3 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 12 Dear Fratres and Sorores, The creative power of visualization is not limited to obtaining the realization of a desire or the materialization of a wish that is part

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• 4 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 12 We explained to you in the Postulant Section that e ach human being does not truly have an individuality distinct from other s, because all people are animated by

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• 5 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 12 it, inhale deeply through your nose, hold your brea th for a few moments, then exhale slowly through your nose and say mentally or in a low voice: “This message is

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• 6 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 12 able to determine the source of all impressions it receives. Our subconscious is not limited by either time or space, and it perceiv es instantly the identity of a

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• 7 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 12 additional occasions. Simply pause for at least a h alf hour between sessions. In principle, two or three attempts should be sufficie nt to reach the subconscious

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• 11 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 13 Dear Fratres and Sorores, The subject of the previous monograph compels us to now consider a problem of great importance. Indeed, the method we have taught you for

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• 12 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 13 evil influence of the one casting the spells; rathe r they are under the influence of their own thoughts. Indeed, being convinced that someone wants to harm them,

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• 13 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 13 is certain: All, as Paracelsus stated, have their o rigin in human ignorance and none correspond to the workings of natural or unive rsal law. Let us take a few ex

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• 14 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 13 those who mistreat animals or cause them to endure useless suffering—in the name of superstition or even science—create negativ e karma for themselves. Indeed, whi

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• 15 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 13 human and divine laws without the risk of experienc ing negative consequences. It is evident that this is in total contradiction t o the basic principles of mystic

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• 19 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 14 Dear Fratres and Sorores, The method we have taught you for projecting a ment al message toward a specific person leads us to a very important myst ical law of the

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• 20 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 14 child, while a distinct entity from its father and mother, is genetically speaking a combination of the two. The same principle applies to the material world. A n

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• 21 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 14 to produce an electrical current. As we indicated p reviously, the negative phase is indispensable. In general, every phenomenon or e very manifestation results fr

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• 22 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 14 To conclude our study of the Law of the Triangle, w e must specify that for centuries Rosicrucians have made a distinction betw een its material application and it

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• 3 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 4 Dear Fratres and Sorores, In previous monographs we explained to you that our perception and interpretation of things do not affect what they ar e outside ourselves

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• 4 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 4 none, as most of his ideas had been inspired during his numerous meditations. Moreover, he was very aware of the influence exerte d by religion on popular beliefs a

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• 5 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 4 On a more personal level, it is obvious that you ca n gain access to the knowledge of the Mysteries only if you are able to question yourself regularly and to recog

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• 6 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 4 among them. Placing that unity in evidence will all ow science to determine the boundaries beyond which it should not cross in the application of its discoveries. S

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• 7 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 4 cannot deny that human beings created the concept o f property and made that concept the basis of commerce and of those laws growing out of it. Yet, nature never so

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• 8 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 4 2. Spirit is the basis of the material world, for a ll forms of matter owe their existence to it. 3. All material substances vibrate inwardly and out wardly through

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• 13 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 5 Dear Fratres and Sorores, In previous monographs we devoted ourselves to the study of matter and we saw that it owes its existence to the vibrations of Spirit. We h

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• 14 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 5 originates from the encounter of these two energies , one of which has its source outside of us and the other inside of us. As these two energies are vibrations in

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• 15 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 5 of this monograph, as scientific research is evolvi ng every day in this area. Thus, the currently accepted frequencies are not ab solute, and new discoveries might

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• 16 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 5 are associated with extremely high vibrations. Howe ver, the opposite is true, because an EEG reflects the intensity of our brain activity and not the nature of our

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• 17 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 5 an accident we may lose the use of the right arm or the left leg, or of a hand or a foot, or of a portion of the spinal column—or sometimes, unfortunately, even the

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• 18 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 5 on all levels. However, such periods must not becom e constant, thus leading to indolence, which constitutes in itself a form of pa thology. In our next monograph w

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• 23 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 6 Dear Fratres and Sorores, The Rosicrucian concept of thought allows us to mak e clear certain interesting ideas. Indeed, if we assume that though t results from the

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• 24 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 6 THE POWER OF THOUGHT: The time has come to begin the study of some of the mental faculties most useful to the hum an being. Before doing so, let us consider an impo

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• 25 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 6 were built solely through the power of levitation. It is true that the placement of enormous blocks of stone was facilitated by the use of certain faculties and kno

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• 26 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 6 a specific objective. We distinguish three forms of concentration: physical, mental, and psychic. Physical concentration consists of channeling all o ur muscular en

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• 27 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 6 photograph the objects that are on display. After a few minutes, turn away and enumerate the objects one by one. Verify your succe ss and resume this process until

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• 31 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 7 Dear Fratres and Sorores, In the previous monograph we taught you the princip les for concentrating your objective faculties on impressions linked to o ur material

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• 32 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 7 for this element to become an object of veneration and to serve as a basis for the first primitive religions. We shall soon see ho w religious cults were born and h

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• 33 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 7 religious texts, and they have made fire the symbol of human virtue, or the expression of Divine Perfection. In the Vedas, for example, the Deity is itself cons ide

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• 34 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 7 course of their earthly evolution. Unfortunately, t he statements were corrupted by literal interpretations, thus giving rise to dog mas that were no longer connect

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• 35 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 7 and virtues we must learn to express in each of our thoughts, words, and actions. In that sense, it is the most precious of jewels we have to discover. On the spiri

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• 36 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 7 as regularly as possible during the next few days. In doing this, we ask that you extinguish one of the two candles on your sanctum a nd place the other in the midd

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• 3 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 8 Dear Fratres and Sorores, We hope that you have carefully performed the exper iment presented to you in the previous monograph. As you surely not iced, when engaged

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• 4 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 8 useful to his or her own evolution and to that of o thers. For this to occur, you must cover half of the distance and deploy all your efforts in the study and pract

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• 5 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 8 aura of the candle. Place one of your two sanctum c andles in the middle of your altar and extinguish the other candle. Once th is is done, proceed in the following

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• 6 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 8 As soon as your concentration is at its peak, imagi ne that the candle flame slowly takes the form of a Rosy Cross or, if it see ms easier to you, that a Rosy Cross

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• 11 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 9 Dear Fratres and Sorores, Before beginning the study of visualization, we wis h to review the experiments that were proposed to you in the previo us monograph—espec

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• 12 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 9 corresponding area of the brain, resulting in a men tal perception of that color. For instance, when we concentrate on the col or blue, the area of the brain involv

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• 13 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 9 For mystics, visualization is the faculty whose pur pose is to concentrate on the mental representation of an object, place, p erson, situation, event, or of some p

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• 14 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 9 number of doors and windows; etc. Then do the same with its surroundings and turn your undivided attention to the elements c onstituting them: trees, shrubs, flower

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• 19 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 10 Dear Fratres and Sorores, In keeping with what was explained to you in the pr evious monograph, visualization is not limited to closing our eyes an d seeing again

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• 20 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 10 photograph, some object, or the candle flame, as wa s the case in the “Flaming Rosy Cross” experiment. Now sit comfortably and rel ax for a few moments using the p

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• 21 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 10 visualize this person for about one minute and stri ve to see this person mentally as if you were in close proximity. Shake that perso n’s hand or embrace him or h

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• 22 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 10 In our next lesson we will continue the study of vi sualization and we will explain how you should use this faculty to obt ain the realization of your fondest desi

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• 27 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 11 Dear Fratres and Sorores, The time has come to put into concrete form the stu dies of the previous monographs because, until now, we have primarily de voted oursel

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• 28 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 11 manifestation. We form a mental creation which, und er the impulse of natural, universal, and spiritual laws, will receive the inf lux necessary for its materializ

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• 29 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 11 the contrary. It simply means that you must choose a goal that will contribute to the happiness of others directly or indirectly. Moreover, it is obvious that if w

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• 30 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 11 The mystical process we have just explained to you has a connection with what you were taught concerning meditation. This co nnection is particularly evident for t

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• 31 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 11 Now evaluate your worthiness. If the obstacle to th is trip is purely financial, ask yourself if you did everything possible to save the necessary sum. If you were

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• 32 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 11 Returning to our example, you would be wrong to vis ualize only the money needed for the trip you wish to make, because that would imply that you have made money t

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• 33 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Neophyte Section Atrium 1 Number 11 suggest that it will materialize as if by magic, wi thout any action on your part. Its realization may appear as a gift from heaven; h owever, most often it will f

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• 3 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 1 On this first day of the R+C Path Dear Fratres and Sorores, It is with great joy that we now count you among th e members of our Order and, with all my heart, I we

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• 4 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 1 read them, provided that they are interested in mys ticism and spiritual matters. While reading these booklets, their desire to know more concerning Rosicru- cian

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• 5 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 1 nothing prevents you from doing so at the time you find most suitable between your regular study periods. In fact, it is up to ea ch person to be as organized as p

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• 6 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 1 Dear Fratres and Sorores, Convening a new class of Rosicrucian Postulants is a happy and important event in our Tradition, for it provides proof of th e desire and

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• 7 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 1 Many people have a poor understanding of what the w ord mysticism truly means. This word is too often associated with strange, unusual, and even disturbing behavio

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• 8 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 1 Illumination is not explained to the faithful. Rath er, they are expected to believe what they are told about the life of this Messiah o r Prophet. Mysticism, on t

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• 9 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 1 Just as the existence of magnetism can be proved by observing its effects, it is likewise possible to test the influence that the aura exerts on its surroundings.

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• 10 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 1 monograph, we propose that you conduct the followin g exercise, which illustrates the soundness of this mental technique we may use to communicate with others. Exe

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• 11 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 1 this end, we propose that you perform the following exercise as soon as you have the opportunity. Exercise: As soon as you can, go to a public library and take a m

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• 12 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 1 whether following strenuous physical or mental work , you proceed as follows: Sit comfortably, with your back as straight as poss ible and your feet placed flat on

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• 13 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 1 extend its intonation as long as possible, in this way: OOOOMMMMmmmm . Intone this sound several times and note the impres sions it produces in you. You may note a

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• 3 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 2 Dear Fratres and Sorores, Before beginning the systematic study of the Rosicr ucian teachings we feel it would be useful to give you a general notion of the tradit

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• 4 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 2 Over the centuries the Mystery Schools added a grea ter initiatory dimension to the knowledge they transmitted. Their mystical l abors then assumed a more closed c

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• 5 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 2 the fields of art and culture. Profoundly humanisti c, he dedicated his whole life to fighting against the darkness of ignorance and to the promotion of the loftie

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• 6 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 2 both historical and allegorical, were written by a college of Rosicrucians, the Tübingen Circle, that included Johann Valentine Andreae (1586-1654). A few years la

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• 7 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 2 became the guardian of the Rosicrucian Tradition in all countries where it can freely exercise its activities. In 1990, Christian Bernard, then AMORC Grand Master

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• ngage in some research. In connection with this monograph, we propose to yo u a list of works dedicated to Rosicrucianism, the Rosicrucian Order, or to the Rose Cross, some of which refer directly to AMORC. When you hav e the opportunity, take time to refer to these works, as they constitute a valuable source of information concerning the Rosicrucian Tradition. Academic American Encyclopedia Colliers E

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• signify the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis . The initials A.A.O.R.R.A.C. signify the Latin name that the Order used in the past, namely, Antiquus Arcanus Ordo Rosae Rubeae et Aureae Crucis . AMORC is not designated as an Association, Lectoriu m, Society, Circle, or in other similar terms. The traditional symbol of AMORC consists of a golde n cross with a single red rose in its center. On the t

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• 12 Mandamus No. 3 CONCURRENCE As AMORC favors freedom of consciousness, its teach ings are not dogmatic or sectarian in character. They are propos ed to members as the basis for reflection and meditation, with the aim of pass ing on to th

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• 13 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 3 Dear Fratres and Sorores, Having presented the general outline of our Order’s Tradition and history, we will now give you a glimpse of the subjects you will study

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• 14 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 3 will, karma, and reincarnation. The study of this d egree ends with explanations concerning the way in which Rosicrucians conceive C osmic Masters and the place th

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• 15 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 3 The Fifth Temple Degree is an account of the life a nd work of the greatest philosophers of ancient Greece. Its goal is to fami liarize Rosicrucian students with t

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• 16 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 3 THE ILLUMINATI SECTION: We cannot reveal anything regarding the contents of the Illuminati Section within the scope of this monograph, as it would be premature and

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• 17 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 3 In the next lesson we will begin our study of the f irst subject presented in this section—namely, time. At this point, we inv ite you to meditate on this subject

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• ther since ancien t Egypt. In this regard, the Rosicrucian Tradition perpetuates to the present da y the very foundation of the Primordial Tradition. Consequently, the mere fa ct of being a member of AMORC constitutes a great privilege indeed. With al l our heart, we hope that you will prove yourself worthy of it and that you w ill honor the trust accorded to you. As a Rosicrucian, one of the first qua

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• 21 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 4 Dear Fratres and Sorores, From a philosophical point of view, there exist two methods for approaching the study of divine laws. The first consists of ima gining wh

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• 22 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 4 in no way constitute the material obstacles to whic h many of us believe we are enslaved. We do not wish to imply that we must behave as if t hese two principles e

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• 23 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 4 that as long as we adapt ourselves to the material idea we have formed of time, we will stray from the natural laws which must guid e our existence. Why? Because t

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• 24 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 4 scientifically that our dream periods do not exceed one or two minutes. This example also demonstrates that the notion of time i s arbitrary as it does not always

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• 25 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 4 monographs; you should meditate on their contents, in order to sow within yourself seeds that will, in the course of time, gi ve rise to the noblest of all fruits:

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• 29 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 5 Dear Fratres and Sorores, After having discussed time in the previous monogra ph, we will now examine how human beings perceive space, because th ese two concepts,

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• 30 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 5 need not only visible points of reference, we also need tactile and audible ones to measure the distance between ourselves and what we perceive. As you know, we ar

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• 31 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 5 important that we arrive as quickly as possible so as to carry out our plans as soon as possible. Because of this urgency, we have gotten into the habit of no long

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• 32 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 5 human beings possess a spiritual dimension which ca n and must express itself independently of the constraints that time and spac e usually impose upon our waking

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• 3 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 6 Dear Fratres and Sorores, We have devoted the preceding monographs to the stu dy of time and space because it is important for you to understand well that we deal

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• 4 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 6 sounds whose vibratory frequency is extremely low—a s well as ultra-sounds, which belong by contrast to very high octaves of th e Universal Keyboard of cosmic vibr

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• 5 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 6 two major phases of the cycle that matter follows i n its various processes of transmutation. Thus, even if we are not objectively aware of it, t here is not a sin

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• 6 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 6 our lungs from breathing, our blood from circulatin g, etc. This is because our subconscious does not depend in any way on our obje ctive consciousness to accompli

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• 11 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 7 Dear Fratres and Sorores, In the previous monograph we have seen that humans are endowed with an objective consciousness that includes our five obje ctive senses a

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• 12 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 7 obvious that the current feeding each one of these bulbs is the same and that it comes from a single source, even though the light e mitted by the bulbs differs du

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• 13 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 7 Intuitive impressions are neither limited nor affec ted by our five physical senses, although they are subject to interpretation when translated by our mental proc

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• 14 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 7 it seems strange to you. This will prevent you from getting into the habit of trusting a second or third impression which may occ ur to you. If your replies are in

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• 19 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 8 Dear Fratres and Sorores, This monograph is the last one you will receive as a member of the Postulant Section of our Order. The following bookl et, entitled Neoph

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• 20 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 8 dedicated to religious life. It is possible to medi tate anywhere, whether in a room of a house or outdoors, provided that you have the required tranquility. In th

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• 21 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 8 the establishment of an inner dialogue with the Cos mic Consciousness which infuses the universe as well as our entire being. To help you understand the method to

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• 22 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 8 symbolized by the Celestial Sanctum, after having m ade certain to recite the opening invocation. When you feel that you have rea ched that plane, concen- trate on

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• 23 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 8 In some unusual cases, it comes to us by way of our dreams. What is certain is that any meditation practiced according to the trad itional method that we have just

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• 24 Rosicrucian Order AMORC Postulant Section Mandamus Number 8 a question or a problem of a material, personal, so cial, or purely philosophical nature and submit it to your meditation. In other w ords, entrust it to the Cosmi

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• nd can probably be safely ignored. A more complete English translation of the Geheime Figuren was issued at some point in the first half of the twentieth century by the American ìRosicrucianî society AMORC and has seen a number of reprints; it includes 11 plates of symbolic figures and two short alchemical writings omitted in the present edition. This work is in the public domain. The present e-text co

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• try from P. B. Randolph but whose main guiding force was R. Swinburne Clymer. The most influential of the American Rosicrucian groups is the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (usuall y known as AMORC), founded by H. Spencer Lewis (1883 - 1939). Among these three groups there has been quite a lot of hostility, culminating in a long feud between Clymer and AMORC. Clymer's link with Randolph was via

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• ed in 1906 by a colourful German occultist, fringe mason and adventurer called Theodor Reu ss (1855 - 1924), who gave a charter to Lewis in 1921. After a number of false starts, Lewis's organization, AMORC, became properly established in Florida and later moved to California where it began to build up its large following and where its headquarters have remained ever since. H. Spencer Lewis was credited

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• against Smith with the final result that Smith was enjoined by the court from engaging in any further propaganda against AMO RC. Attacks continued to be made, however, by Clymer and by a disaffected AMORC member called Alfred H. Saunders who had been removed from the editorship of the AMORC magazine some years earlier. Finally AMORC felt impelled to counter - attack in the form of a pamphlet issued in

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• MYSTIC ORDER ROSAE CRUCIS (AMORC) following ancient traditions, worked more or less secretly for centuries to improve the destinies of mankind ... For some years, however, the August Adepts have been inclined to work more openly and

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• Germany. Crowley had in 1912 been given a charter by R euss to operate the O.T.O. in Britain. AMORC stated that the real O.T.O. had nothing to do with black magic. It also went out of its way, in Audi Alteram Partem, to disavow any connection with Crowley. In fact one of the few points of agreement

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• disprove all AMORC claims, we are again, and for the last time , going to test the sincerity of your vaunted statements by challenging you to an open public debate and presentation of evidence. Lewis went on to offer t

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• structure, ritual, and some of the terminology to Freemasonry has no doubt aided its acceptance in America, where Masonry is very "establishment". The insistence that AMORC is not a religion has unquestionably helped many who wo uld feel reluctant to reject their traditional church to accept the Order's teaching and membership - and the alternative reality tradition. In

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• r R. Swinburnt Clymer (Allentown, Pennsylvania, 1916). 1 Ibid. 4Paschal Beverly Randol ph, Eulis! The History of Love (Toledo, Ohio, 1874). 1 Ellic Howe, Urania's Children (London, 1967), chapter 6. 'AMORC, Rosicrucian Manual (San Jose, California, II th edition, 1948), p. 130. 1 Frans Wittemans, A New and Authentic History of the Rosicrucia ns (English translation, London, Rider, 1938), chapter 15. 1O

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• of God, (e) a chronicle of the Christian scriptures, (f) a monument to Osiris and Isis, and/or (g) a Terrible Tabernacle of Human Sacrifice, Nameless Rites, and Unspeakable Orgies. The Rosicrucians (AMORC) solemnly proclaim the Pyramid to be “the cosmic mound, a manifestation of the four-fold nature of light, and of evolution ... a most sacred structure, where communion with God became possible”. And

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• oteps and Thutmosids of the Empire. The only major disruption occurred at the end of the dynasty, when Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten) rejected the Great Ram for the worship of Aton, a minor Sun deity. [The AMORC acclaims Akhenaten as its spiritual founder. Such an affiliation, while unsubstantiated, might not be inappropriate: Invasion, starvation, and civil war marked his reign (1370-1352), and he was fin a

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• of God, (e) a chronicle of the Christian scriptures, (f) a monument to Osiris and Isis, and/or (g) a Terrible Tabernacle of Human Sacrifice, Nameless Rites, and Unspeakable Orgies. The Rosicrucians (AMORC) solemnly proclaim the Pyramid to be “the cosmic mound, a manifestation of the four-fold nature of light, and of evolution ... a most sacred structure, where communion with God became possible”. And

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• oteps and Thutmosids of the Empire. The only major disruption occurred at the end of the dynasty, when Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten) rejected the Great Ram for the worship of Aton, a minor Sun deity. [The AMORC acclaims Akhenaten as its spiritual founder. Such an affiliation, while unsubstantiated, might not be inappropriate: Invasion, starvation, and civil war marked his reign (1370-1352), and he was final

• bol of God, (e) a chronicle of the Christian scriptures, (f) amonument to Osiris and Isis, and/or (g) a Terrible Tabernacle of HumanSacrifice, Nameless Rites, and Unspeakable Orgies. The Rosicrucians(AMORC) solemnly proclaim the Pyramid to be “the cosmic mound, amanifestation of the fourfold nature of light, and of evolution … a mostsacred structure, where communion with God became possible”. And thele

• enhoteps and Thutmosids of the Empire. The onlymajor disruption occurred at the end of the dynasty, when Amenhotep IV(Akhenaten) rejected the Great Ram for the worship of Aton, a minor Sundeity. [The AMORC acclaims Akhenaten as its spiritual founder. Such anaffiliation, while unsubstantiated, might not be inappropriate: Invasion,starvation, and civil war marked his reign (1370-1352), and he was finally

• of the House of Luxor452: Egypt in San Jose47A. Time-Warp Across the Street47B. O.K., Let’s Rubberneck483: Rosicrucian Initiation55A. Roots: From El to “the Cosmic”55B. Origins of Rosicrucianism58C. AMORC Arrives61D. “Sovereign Sanctuary of the Gnosis”64E. Religion or Not?65F. Traditional Rosicrucian Initiation681.Postincarnate Destination682. Time703. The Tree of Life724. Golden Dawn755.Astrum Argent

• ctural Soundness215D. Reconstitution2151.Cosmology2162. Curriculum to Adept2163. Degree Concept and Structure220- 14 -4. Curriculum Beyond Adept222E. Lens222F. IlluminAnX223G. Terminus224Appendices1: AMORC Online Forum Post2272: From Rose-Cross to IlluminAnX243Bibliography257Index269“Faust Freak”: About the Author277[index-15_1.jpg]- 15 -Preface: “An Antecedentand a Horror”Your trouble is you’re still

• se, California. Unlike Luxor it is not acommercial extravagance, but the headquarters of afraternal order of the Right-Hand Path: the Ancient& Mystical Order Rosæ Crucis, aka “the RosicrucianOrder” (“AMORC” for short).This chapter overviews and admires the Park.Chapter #3 examines the ideology and organizationof the Park’s owners, to see whether the Park’simage is substantial or artificial. Will the se

• That said, I cannot recall any avowed Rosicrucian, orR-organization, fulfilling this central exhortation of the FamaFraternitatis either. When this book gets around to itsproposed “purifications” of AMORC, this is why one of themwill be a standing contribution to “Doctors Without Borders”.25 Akhenaten is popularly revered for his supposed Judaism-anticipatory monotheism, with Hollywood portraying him

• k Magic lurksonly on the first two of these, leaving the remaining 142 safefor blissful basking]. (Illuminati Section Monograph)- 84 -vibroturgy 47, radiesthesia48, andinvisibility 49.We conclude the AMORC degree-summaries atthis point, because the subsequent “Illuminati”degrees descend [or ascend, as the case may be] intothe incoherently-jargonistic. The distinctions are:Illuminati SectionIlluminatus

• lid, educationally sound,and personally uplifting and ennobling.Our case-study institution for this research hasbeen the Ancient & Mystical Order Rosæ Crucis: theRosicrucians of San Jose, California. AMORC is notonly the largest and most enduring RHPorganization in existence, but it already possesses aphysical environment well-suited to reformation, inits Egyptian-themed Rosicrucian Park, Library,Museu

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• cultures, such as the Hebrew and Greek "Cabalas," will not be a part of this Order, nor will it welcome or tolerate crude pagani sms (such as Wicca) or insincere, pseudo- Egyptian games (such as the AMORC). The gr ade system based upon th e Hebrew "tree of life," and adapted from the doctrinally-corrupt Golden Dawn, will be replaced by a non-sex- based degree system whose levels of Recogn ition indica

• th Solstice1976 weekend inDecember, for instance, another conclave was held in San Jose, hosted by theBubastis Pylon. Avery pleasant day was devoted to touring the Rosicrucian Park headquarters ofthe AMORC, aremarkable complex of ancient Egyptian architecture, somewhat incongruouslyright in themidst of residential neighborhoods.At this time the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art had also negotiated th

• personally, but the cat wasnow definitely out of the bag where Shasta and Lemuria were concerned.Next to add his 2-cents-worth was H. Spencer Lewis, founder of the AncientMystical Order Rosae Crucis(AMORC) in San Jose.I should pause a moment here to make certain you don't get confused. Lewis gotgoing in occultism in 1909,when he joined one of the splinter-groups of Eliphas Levi’s Ordre Kabbalistiquede

• owley O.T.O.It also provides a good introductionto the older German O.T.O., which is the parent organization of virtually allIlluminati/Rosicrucian societiespresently in existence [such as San Jose’s AMORC, whose founder, H. SpencerLewis, received its charter from theO.T.O.’s Theodor Reuss in 1915]. Present-day Illuminated Rosicrucians willprobably be disappointed to discoverthat the enthusiastic sex-m

• one who could prove himself to me would gain myloyalty. Religion became empty to me,and I became something of a rebel.”Shortly thereafter Anubis decided to investigate certain magazine ads and joinedAMORC. This association wasnot long-lived.During the 1962-65 Army years which followed high school graduation, he had somemedical training. Shortly

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• The mail-order catalogue is very extensive, including a variety of equipment (including custom-made robes). * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * NAME: Alexandria Bookstore *** UPDATED: 20030301 PROPRIETOR: AMORC ADDRESS: 1342 Naglee Avenue; San Jose, CA 95191; U.S.A. TELEPHONE: (408) 947-3600 WEBSITE: http://www.rosicrucian.org/alexandria/amorcbks.html E-MAIL: [email protected] MAIL ORDER: Call for o

• * * NAME: Alexandria Bookstore *** UPDATED: 20030301 PROPRIETOR: AMORC ADDRESS: 1342 Naglee Avenue; San Jose, CA 95191; U.S.A. TELEPHONE: (408) 947-3600 WEBSITE: http://www.rosicrucian.org/alexandria/amorcbks.html E-MAIL: [email protected] MAIL ORDER: Call for ordering information, or to request a catalogue of titles. DESCRIPTION: The “house bookstore” of the AMORC at San Jose’s Rosicrucian Par

• UPDATED: 20030301 PROPRIETOR: AMORC ADDRESS: 1342 Naglee Avenue; San Jose, CA 95191; U.S.A. TELEPHONE: (408) 947-3600 WEBSITE: http://www.rosicrucian.org/alexandria/amorcbks.html E-MAIL: [email protected] MAIL ORDER: Call for ordering information, or to request a catalogue of titles. DESCRIPTION: The “house bookstore” of the AMORC at San Jose’s Rosicrucian Park (worth the trip just to tour the

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• 1723 edition. Restoration of Alchemical Manuscripts Society (RAMS), Richardson, Texas. (RAMS has ceased to exist. The rights to this and other alchemical mss were turned over to the Rosicrucian Order AMORC, San Jose, California. At this time, the manuscript in question is available from them.) — Glauber, Valentine, et al. A Compendium of Alchemical Processes. Kessinger Publishing, LLC, Kila, Montana. (

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• 1723 edition. Restoration of Alchemical Manuscripts Society (RAMS), Richardson, Texas. (RAMS has ceased to exist. The rights to this and other alchemical mss were turned over to the Rosicrucian Order AMORC, San Jose, California. At this time, the manuscript in question is available from them.) — Glauber, Valentine, et al. A Compendium of Alchemical Processes. Kessinger Publishing, LLC, Kila, Montana. (

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• er the heading, "Secrets Entrusted to A Few," we find an ancient and worn book with a triangle and cross imprinted on the cover. The Rosicrucians are actually several different Orders. This ad is for AMORC, an American-based Order that is less influential among the elite than European branches. Perhaps the most famous initiate of the Rosicrucians was Benjamin Franklin. Catholic Pope John XXIII was repu

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• c ondi ti on to anot he r. A c ause i s the com pl ete tr ansform a tio n of one na ture i nto the n ucl eus of a n- ot her . " Dr. H. S. Le wis, T he Sym bol ic Prop hec y of th e Gre at Pyra mi d , AMORC Press, S a n José , CA. Se e AETIO LO G Y CAVITATION: A drop in p ressure on a l iqui d c rea te s poc ket s or bubbl es i n t he li quid - a n i nc rea s e in pre s sure c auses t he s e bubb le s t

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• and Healing the Sick, http://www.rosicrucian.com/rf_fund.htm (accessed January 1, 2012). This is the current website of the Rosicrucian Fellowship that Heindel founded in 1909.26. “Rosicrucian Order, AMORC,” Ancient Mystical Order Rosea Crucis English Grand Lodge for the Americas, www.rosicrucian.org (accessed June 23, 2011).27. Rudolf Steiner, Die Pforte der Einweihung, in Mysteriendramen, vol. 1 (191

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• ece, by “The Three Initiates.”1055TheKybalionhasbeenpublishedmanytimesandtranslatedinvariouslanguages.IamquotingherefromaDutchprivatetranslationofH.L.vanDraanen,distributedbytheRosicrucianorganizationAMORC(Groother-toginnelaan36,2517EH,TheHague,TheNetherlands).1056TheStanzasarereflectionsofwisdomfromtheso-calledBookofDzyan(seeBorisdeZirkoff,“The704

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• e South at Luxor, 2 vols., trans-lated by Robert and Deborah Lawlor, Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions 1998.Schwaller de Lubicz, R.A., Lettres à un disciple de R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz, Collection AMORC, Le Tremblay: Ordre de la Rose-Croix 1990.Schwaller de Lubicz, R.A., Notes et propos inédits, 2 vols., Apremont: M.C.O.R/La Table d’Émeraude 2005–2006.Shaw, Gregory, ‘Neoplatonic Theurgy and Dionysiu

• ng to me, inviting me to sendoff for information concerning the Rosicrucians. I didn’t know what aRosicrucian was, of course, but the memorable detail that sticks in my mind isthe tagline to the ad: “AMORC—not a religion.” I did not then realize that AMORCwas an abbreviation, not a magic word, and that it stands for the macaronicphrase “Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis.” The Rosicrucians claimed ana

• 355, 386, 399; see also Holy AllianceAlfonso de Palacios, 93Allemagne [de l’] (Mme. de Staël), 301Allen, Paul, 131Althotas, legendary ancestor of Cagliostro, 217, 237aludel (alchemical implement), 190AMORC, 115–16Anderson, James, 155Andreae, Johann Valentin, and the Rosicrucian manifestos, 62, 107, 117–25,130–31Anne (queen), 39Anthony, Dr. (neighbor of Greakrakes), 40–41Anthony of the Desert, Saint, 12

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• s úteis No jargão da CIA, um idiota útil refere­se a alguém trabalhando para ela, mas que não se dá conta do fato. Nesta classificação coloco membros de membras da, assim chamada, OTO Americana, FRA, AMORC e outras mais. Algumas dessas, talvez, tenham consciência do que estão fazendo. Neste grupo incluo alguns tarólogos, numerólogos, etc.Nos últimos anos alguns independentes investigadores têm­se pronu

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• essor in the leadership of Theodor Reuss OTO . Using the magical bike Recnartus, Tränker founded Societas Pansophia. Then, he and Lewis create the International Headquarters of the Supreme Council of AMORC, in Berlin. From there, Lewis starts the noise its links with the Rosicrucians fermânicos.Q. How can joining Crowley Order directly at the IX °? Is it not contrary to norms of OTO ?A: No. First, ther

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• ruz. It isnecessary here to briefly explain the reasonfor the prohibition of the use of this name:the balance of forces does not allow it if thename is vocalized for public purposes, as inthe case of AMORC and several other"orders rose cross," legions of forces themost sinister come immediately, as the HolyGrail is the pinnacle of the Mountains to theSea Depths And woe to him who invokes itlacks balanc

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• rattention would turn constantly to the mysterious"Rosicrucians", in which dedicated pesquiza deeply.Later, he contacted the books of Max Heindel, RSClymer and eventually with the organization called AMORC inrelation to which, by the way, has developed trueaversion * 2.Cherished the hope of being admitted to an initiatory school inmolds that described by Arnold Krumm-Heller in the novel "ROSA-CROSS ",

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• lydes was amazed. Had seen that ramen somewhere.Just do not remember where. Marcelo laughed at the reaction of the youngbut said nothing. Days later, Euclydes, remembered: it was the sameLamen ado by AMORC in the booklet called (wrongly) 777 (ACATHEDRAL OF ALMA). Marveled at the fact, and Marcelo confidedthat AMORC was founded by a former member of the OTO Nextshowed him another Lamen, well known forme

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• f the underground cities. But one day this fairytale collapsed. But this way, I can not deny it, much has been learned. Wanting to achieve my dreams, I started working in Freemasonry in FRA [26] , in AMORC, OTO and other more.MY CONTACT Thelema [27]My contact with the Thelemic system occurred in 1962 when reading "Calling The Children of the Sun", the first Brazilian publication dealing openly Law of T

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• sed by the terrible egregore created by cristismo and their bastard sons and daughters. I include here too esoteric systems tainted by this stain cristista: pseudamente orders are called Rosicrucian (AMORC, FRA, etc.) and other "fraternities" or mystical organizations following the same course. Aleister Crowley The English occultist Aleister Crowley, who cognominou THE GREAT BEAST 666, was the most fea

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• gree in business administration. I worked in the family business and in other companies as well, but my passion remained the study of "occult" subjects. I was a mail-order stu­dent of the Rosicrucian AMORC and of Dion Fortune's Society of the Inner Light and Alice Bailey's Arcane School. I studied astrology, Kab­balah, magick, and Wicca. I was also a civil rights and a civil liberties activist in the 1

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• f the National Annual Senior Poets Laureate Poetry Competition for American poets age fifty and older, now in its seventeenth year. Visit her website: http: I I www.amykitchenerfdn .org. Rosicrucian (AMORC) Order. The AMORC has been operating since 1915, and has affiliated lodges and chapters all over the world. The Rosicrucian system is unique-it provides a foundation that ties to­gether all of the di

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• eremonial groups. But, before doing so, we need to distinguish between a group and an association or a community. Many people belong to a society; such as the Theosophical Soci­ety or the Rosicrucian AMORC. Many of these have local lodges or fellowships that present lectures and facilitate study groups and some have members who can officiate at weddings and funerals much like a church. Some have weekly

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• bservation and the opportunity for self-evaluation. Keeping in mind whatever the goal of your procedure, writing down what you did and how it affected you becomes a measure of your work. Rosicrucian (AMORC) Order. AMORC has been operating since 1915, and has affiliated lodges and chapters all over the world. The Rosicru­cian system is unique-it provides a foundation tying together all of the different

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• ermany.Another case of Lovecraft seeing into the future?Tanzler does not refer to any German or American occult orders or initiations in hisfew autobiographical writings. He seems to have belonged to AMORC—the publisherof the Rosicrucian Digest—and he claims to have lived for awhile in India (somewherein the period from about 1912-1914 or so) and studied yoga and Indian mysticism. Hisclose friendship w

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• for twenty years;he did not wantSchlag and hisaccomplices to beable to implicatehim in any false"order." Heunderstood, atleast, why Mr.Germer hadrefused to visit theheadquarters of"AMORC" withhim in California.The photograph ofMotta in this issueof The Oriflammeis the first ever. Itwas taken in 1980e.v., and age hasmade a difference:it would beimpossible toconnect this withthe Schlag

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• raim seems to have been usually the case up to 1914; it is interesting to note that as late as 1927 the Danish section of the O.T.O., the Danish Rite of Memphis and Misraim, and the Danish section of AMORC (originally chartered by Reuss), all operated from the same address.One of the most interesting recruits to Memphis and Misraim was Rudolf Steiner, to whom Reuss granted a charter in 1906. The Orifla

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• the end of the nineteenth century. In the early 1900s, H. Spencer Lewis received a charter from some of these European contacts to form the Ancient Mystical Order of the Rosae Crucis, better known as AMORC. Among other things, they taught laboratory alchemy as it was handed down by earlier Rosicrucian sources. In the early 1940s, one student of these classes was Albert Reidel. Frater Albertus went on t

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• ia Temple of the Hermetic Order of The Golden Dawn in London on this date.April 1, 1915 On this date, or All Fools Day, H. Spencer Lewis founded a spurious and clandestine Rosicrucian body calling in AMORC, The Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis 72

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• inburne Clymer assumed the title of Grand Master of the Rosicrucians on this date after the death of the previous world leader, Edward H. Brown. This Rosicrucian fraternity is not to be confused with AMORC.May 10, 1929 Israel Regardie had previously come across Aleister Crowley’s books and was so awestruck by what he read that he began corresponding with him. Crowley soon offered Regardie a job as his

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• F. L. Gardner and Charles Rosher in which they evoked the great demon Taphthartharath. May 13, 1915 It was on this date that H. Spencer Lewis announced the first ‘official’ Rosicrucian convocation of AMORC to be held in the United States.May 13, 1922 The Baltimore Talking Board Company filed papers on this date with the U.S. Supreme Court in an attempt to over-ride the lower Court’s decision that the O

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• rucis (FRC) in Quakertown, PA in 1912, which he claimed was a movement originally started by Pascal Beverly Randolph in 1856. Clymer devoted quite abit of effort and work to attack Dr. H. S. Lewis of AMORC, which he evidently regarded as an enemy and fraud. June 4, 1604 It was on this date that the magician John Dee petitioned the King to have himself tried for sorcery, hoping to clear his name.June 4,

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• Masters named Koot Hoomi, Morya, and Djwal Khul. Olcott died on February 17, 1907 in Adyar, Madras, India.August 2, 1939 It was on a Wednesday at 3:15pm that Dr. Herbert Spencer Lewis, the founder of AMORC, gave up his earthly vehicle and died. He had been called many things during his life but some believe that he should be remembered by this quote which called him “a boastful, pilfering Imperator wit

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• nceived and beautifully carried out. If there is any higher form of artistic expression than great verse and great music, I have yet to learn it.”October 19, 1928 Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC) was Incorporated in California on this date. Later Aleister Crowley was to write and ask H. Spencer Lewis to surrender his estates at San Jose believing AMORC to be a commercial enterprise of the O.

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• ymer was born. He would later be the co-founder of FUDOFSI, which later recognized the Fraternitas as the authentic Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, or Rosicrucian. He viciously fought most his life against AMORC, which he saw as a bogus Order and published several volumes pointing out AMORC’s connections to the evils of Aleister Crowley and the Ordo Templi Orientis. November 25, 1883 As if irony was smiling,

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• plantelixir has been used successfully in the treatment of various illnesses and infections.In the United States, especially from the 1940sonwards, Orval Graves († 1996), a member andlibrarian of the AMORC [Ancient and MysticalOrder of the Rose Cross] and the Rose+CrossUniversity, directed experiments for small-scaleseminars, and published articles on alchemy andtransmutation in The Rosicrucian Digest.

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• course. The latter scarcely occurs in eso-teric currents of the Boehmian type, i.e., in → Chris-tian theosophy, nor in → Rosicrucianism, exceptfor a few 19th and 20th century initiatic orders,such as AMORC. A learned Egyptologist with eso-teric leanings appeared in the middle of the 17thcentury: the Jesuit → Athanasius Kircher (Linguaaegyptiaca restituta, 1643; Oedipus Aegyptiacus,1652/1654), who was o

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• t, a Rosicrucian society did not appear inAmerica until 1915, and it included only very fewpeople. It was at this time, according to Lewis, thatthe denomination Ancient and Mystical OrdoRosae Crucis (AMORC) had been chosen. In May1915, this first active Rosicrucian lodge met in NewYork. During the sessions, Lewis is said to haverevealed unprecedented knowledge in physics,chemistry, psychology, biology,

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• of the AMORC throughout the World”, he es-tablished the seat of his association in San Jose,California.Toward 1930, Lewis felt a desire to return tosources in Germany, where the Rosicrucian mythhad appeared towar

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• was some degree of interaction between →Rosicrucianism and Martinism during the 1920sand 1930s, however. In fact, Martinist divisionsalso reflected different attitudes towards the Rosi-crucian order AMORC, and the activities of itsleader →Harvey Spencer Lewis (1883-1939). In1934, Lewis promoted the creation of the FUDOSI(Universal Federation of Orders and Societies ofInitiation), which was regarded by

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• ratingwater, salt, ashes and fire, for blessing ritual dressesand frankincense, and for evoking elementals andnature spirits, are widely used in internationalMartinist circles and beyond, even today. AMORC’s Traditional Martinist Order is alsoquite active in Italy, with some two hundred mem-bers. In addition to France and Italy, the largestMartinist groups are found in other French-speak-ing countries

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• reyer in 1952in a context of paranormal phenomena reputedlyobserved in the Château d’Arginy, near Lyon. In1970, Christian Bernard, then Grand Master of theAncient and Mystical Order of the Rose-Croix(AMORC), founded an Ordre Rénové du Templeafter meeting a mysterious “Cardinal Blanc”, in amodern version of the mythical “Unknown Superi-ors.” In the middle of the 1980s, Luc Jouret and Jodi Mambro monopol

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• r as to claim that their roots go way back to ancient Egypt or even earlier and that their traditions have remained unchanged since then. Absurdly it's only consequential that an organization such as AMORC (Anciens Mystica Ordo Rosre Crucis= Ancient Mystical Order of the Rose Cross) would claim in a promotional flyer that even Echnaton and Socrates had been members. Since Western magic has (re)learned

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• el. This group integrated a number of theosophical ideas including the teachings of karma and reincarnation as well as the concept of vegetarianism. But by far the most popular group of the tirne was AMORC, which we already men­tioned. AMORC was fo unded in 1915 by H. Spencer Lewis and its membership grew immensely in just a short time as a result of aggressive newspaper advertising. Lewis, who was an

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• stent theme ran through them all.Schism, is perhaps the best way to putit, or in the language of catastrophe theory we were soon to learn,bifurcation. Thehead of theAncient Mystical Order Rosæ Crucis[amorc] went public with his beliefthat Dee had been instrumental in the creation of the Rosicrucian movement, in a fullpage magazine advertisement, and his order promptly split. Clay and April dissolvedthe

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• s why he bolted from the auditorium thatafternoon. One will be revealed in due course, and the other had to do with occultpolitics. Some of our little group had watched and applauded while the head ofamorcpublicly credited John Dee with significant influence on the Rosicrucian movement,apparently based on the ideas advanced by Frances Yates. For all intents and purposes,that organization ejected him so

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• Second World War. Currently, the Supreme Council of the Traditional Martinist Order is directed and presided over by the Sovereign Grand Master, Christian Bernard, Imperator of the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC. The Traditional Martinist Order goes back through an initiatic transmission which is absolutely authentic, to the purest sources of Martinism. Thus, the Martinist light has been able to shine, sprea

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• toryofMartinistOrdersCurrentlyOperatingintheUnitedStates8ChapterFour:TheTraditionalMartinistOrderandtheMartinistOrderandSynarchy:AnExaminationofClaimsandRelationships21MartinistExcerpts51AppendixA:TheAMORCImperatorControversy54AppendixB:TheTMOProblem62Copyright©1991byTheRose+CroixMartinistOrder,Inc.Revisededitioncopyright©1992byTheRose+CroixMartinistOrder,Inc.ISBN0-932104-02-9PublishedbySt.GeorgePress,

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• crucianForum(p.20),the“initiaticorders”whichconstitutedtheFUDOSIwerethe...OrdredeIaRose+CroixUniverselle;OrdredeIaRose+CroixUniversitaire;OrdrePythagoricien;OrdreMartinisteetSynarchique(formedin1918);AMORC(AncientMysticalOrderRosaeCrucis);20Thischapterisa revisedandupdatedversionofanarticlethatoriginallyappearedinThePhilalethes:TheJournalofMasonicResearchandLetters43(October1990),pp.18-23;43(December19

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• rchoftheMOS;mostofficersoftheMOSaredeacons,priests,orbishopsofthischurch);Soci6t~d”EtudesMartinistes;UnionSynarchiquedePologne;and...theOrdredeIaMilitiaCruciferaEvangelica.TheFUDOSIhasbeenmadefamousbyAMORC’s22reproductioninitsadvertisingliteratureofvariousFUDOSIdocumentswhichattesttoAMORC’sauthenticityasaRosicrucianbody.Indeed,acommoncriticismofAMORCisthatitcontinuestousetheFUDOSIdocumentstoattesttoits

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• ionalMartinistOrderis bothsuccessfulandwidespread,operatingasitdoesunderthesponsorshipoftheAncientandMysticalOrderRosaeCruciswhoseSeeisatSanJoseinCalifornia,USA(andhereafterknownbythefamiliarinitials“AMORC”).WhataretheobjectionstotheTraditionalMartinistOrderthatthe“OrdreMartiniste”(or,“OM”)ofFranceandthe“MartinistOrderandSynarchy”(or,“OMS”)throughouttheworldmake?Toanswerthisquestion,anexaminationoftheo

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• eenlargeenoughtosustainthework.Further,eveniftheTMOSupremeCouncildiddisappearwiththeFUDOSIin1951,therewasafullyfunctioningTMOjurisdictionintheUnitedStates,headedbyaProvincialGrandMaster(RalphM.LewisofAMORC)andaprovincialTMOCouncil(allAMORCofficers).IfallotherjurisdictionsoftheTMOvanished(andthereisnoevidencethatthatwereanyotherTMOjurisdictions),then,ipsofacto,theAmericanjurisdictionwouldbecomeindepende

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• documentattestingthatLewisheldbotha GrandMastershipandtheUnknownPhilosopherdegreewasissuedfromtheMartinistOrderandSynarchyoverthesignatureofVictorBlanchard!ThisDecree,datedJuly9,1937,appearsonpage13ofAMORC’sMartmistDocumentsoverthesignatureof“PaulYesir”(VictorBlanchard’sesotericsignature).ItisclearthatH.SpencerLewisneverheadedaTMObranch.Inaletter(October18,1978)tome,JamesR.Whitcomb,thenSovereignInspect

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• artinism.Wherehekepttheurgicalpractices,Ralphrenamedthemas“experiments”or“demonstrations.”RalphLewis’“demythologizing”wasdetailedandcomplete;itwashewhoreplacedtheterm“God”withthephrase“theCosmic”inallAMORCteachingandliterature.Ofcourse,hedeletedallinvocationsandreferencestoangelicbeingsinMartinist(andother)rituals.(ItmayhavebeenatthistimethattheInitiatorDegreeofUnknownPhilosopherwasdropped,thereby,acco

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• rderwasdisbandedelsewhere,thesurvivingAmericanGrandMasteractedproperlyincontinuingtheTraditionalMartinistOrderandinelevatinghimselftoapositionofSovereignGrandMasteroftheTraditionalMartinistOrder.5.TheAMORC/TMOextendeditsactivitywithoutauthorization.InaletterdatedAugust25,1945,GeorgeLagreze,TMOPrincipalInspector,actingonbehalfofAugustinChaboseau,inquiredofRalphLewisastowhetherornottheAMORC/TMOcouldexten

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• peopleyoumeetwhosaytheyareMartinist...ifyouevermeetanyonewhohasbeenmisledasaresultofsuchfraudulentpractices,pleaseinlovedirecttheseinnocentmasqueraderstothetrueLight.Thereferenceis,ofcourse,totheTMOofAMORC.However,inallfairness,itreallyisn’tstrictlyaccuratetorefertoAMORCasa“correspondenceschool.”AlthoughAMORCdoesofferRosicrucianWaitea“Martinist”andsuggestedthataCharterbeobtainedfromPapusinParis.Waite’s

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• ffectiveonlyinperception,thenthatritualcanbeconferredeitherinpersonorsingly,alone,bymail-ordermethods.Followingthatlineofreasoning,mail-orderinitiationispermissible.However,regularMartinismdoesnotholdAMORC’sviewthatthe“reality”ofaritualis initsperceptiononly;rather,(ascanbeseeninthewritingsofSaint-MartinandofPasqually)regularMartinismholdsthatTheInitiationactuallyconfersapowerandanauthority,i.e.,the“re

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• rtunately,bywithholdingtheDegree,allInitiationseventuallybecomeinvalid,asshowninthefiliationline,above.AnotherMartinistwhowishestoremainanonymoussuggestedtomethatitmightbepossiblethatthehighofficersofAMORCwerepassingtheUnknownPhilosopher(Initiator)Degreeamongthemselves,butnotamongthevariousTMOMartinistswhoneedtheDegreeforvalidInitiations,butbaseduponOliveAsher’sletter,this“passingaround”oftheInitiator’

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• AMARTINISTTaEAsuwiTHETMOANDTHEMOSused,probablytoovercomethedifficultycausedbyJeanChaboseau’slaterattempttodissolvetheSupremeCouncil.ThechartsuggeststhatJeanChaboseaucamebeforethe~‘UDOSImembersandthatAMORC’slineofdescentisthroughJean.Ofcourse,historyshowsthatalineoffiliationthroughJeanChaboseauwouldbeunlikely.Further,thecaptionalsostatesthat“AugustineChaboseauwasGrandMasterandfirstPresidentoftheTraditi

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• tsoftheletterarecoveredinthephotocopy,it appearsthatLagrezewasonceagainappealingtoRalphLewisforfunds.Thecaptiondoesnotmentionthis.Page15:ThisisanothercrucialdocumentshowingthemovementofRalphLewisandofAMORCfromMOSauthoritytoTMOauthority.Thistypewrittenletter,with“OrdreMartiniste”typedasaheading,specificallynamesRalphM.Lewisasa“SouverainDelegueGeneral[SovereignDelegateGeneral]del’OrdreMartinisteTradition

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• AMARTINIsTTREASURYTHETMOANDTHEMOSPage19:ThisletterfromLagreze,datedAugust25,1945,isimportantbecauseitisthefoundationofAMORC’sTMOextensionintoCanadaandSouthAmerica.Previoustothisletter,theAMORC/TMOhadauthorityonlyintheUnitedStates.LagrezemerelyaskedRalphLewis,“DoyouthinkthatwecouldextendouractivitiestoSouthAmerica...orwoul

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• ymadebytelephone.Page24:Thephotosinthebookcometoanendonpage23.Pages24,25,and26areidenticalone-pagehistoriesofMartinismintheEnglish,French,andSpanishlanguagesrespectively.ThehistoriesarewrittenasseenbyAMORC’sTMO.TheentireepisodeoftheTMOtroublesafterthedeathofAugustineChaboseauisomitted,andthehistoryreportsthatRalphLewisreceiveddirectauthorityfromthe“MartinistOrderinEurope”ratherthanfromA.ChaboseauandG.L

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• sicrucianForum:APrivatePublicationforMembersofA1VIORC46.1(1975):19-20.Lewis,HarveySpencer.RosicrucianQuestionsandAnswers:WithCompleteHistoryoftheRosicrucianOrder.SanJose,California:SupremeGrandLodgeofAMORC,1929.Rpr.1979.Lewis,RalphMaxwell.CosmicMissionFulfilled.SanJose,California:SupremeGrandLodgeofAMORC,1966.LodgeOfficer’sHandbook.Barbados:TheMartinistOrderandSynarchy,1989.[Privatelyprintedandcirculat

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• AMARTINISTTREASURYAPPENDIXA.THEAMORCIMPERATORCONTROVERSYFoundedbyHarveySpencerLewisin1915,AMORC(AncientMysticalOrderRosaeCrucis)is,intermsofwealthandmembership,probablythemostsuccessfulRosicrucianorganizationinthehistoryofoccultmovement

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• AMARTINI5TTREA5tJRYHowever,asGrandMasterandthenasImperator,Stewartinstitutedcertainchangeswhichbegantogeneratepowerfulopposition.RalphLewis,afixtureandstabilizingforceatAMORC,hadbeensurroundedwithlong-timefriendsandAMORCRosicrucians,allofwhomacceptedrelativelymodestsalariesfromAMORCandallofwhomlivedsomewhatfrugally.Thefirstof’themajorchangesStewartmadewastoalsosurroundhim

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• providedsmoothtransitionsupportforStewartandwhowouldbetheveryonesStewartwouldneedtomakehisImperatorshipwork:amajorlosswasLamoreKilgore,therespectedandwell-knownRosicrucianwhowasalsoVice-PresidentoftheAMORCcorporation;thenfollowedtheSupremeSecretary,theGrandSecretary-Treasurer,twoDirectorsofPersonnel,theDirectorofPublicRelations,theDirectorofPurchasing,theComptrollerofAMORC,theGroundsSupervisor,theSuper

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• AMARTINI5TTREA5IJRYStewart.Legally,thatsettledthequestion,andtheBoardof Directors(theGrandMasters)electedandinstalledChristianBernard(ofParis)tobeImperator.However,formanyAMORCmembers,thereistheoccultquestionastowhoistrulytheactualImperatorofAMORCandtheSovereignGrandMasteroftheTMO.Manyfeltthatthesepositionsareheld“forlife”andcannotbeafThctedatthediscretionofsubordinateGrand

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• APPENDIXB:THETh1OPROBU~MSincetheAMORC/TMOisnotrecognizedbecauseofabreakinitstheLineofFiliation,thequestionarises:istheTMO/USAlegitimatethroughanunbrokenLineofFiliation?BecausebothTMOsaretightlyboundtogether,Stewart’sTMOcannotbediscussedw

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• cationoftheauthenticityoftheletterisverydifficult,ifnotimpossible,and,therefore,thelettercouldeasilybeaforgery.Ontheonehand,itseemsimpossiblethatRalphLewiswouldallowPooletoserveontheBoardofDirectorsofAMORC’sTMOwithoutbeinga“FreeInitiator”;but,ontheotherhand,RalphLewisdidallowsuchthingstohappeninAMORC,especiallyinrelationtohisTMO,inwhichheheldverylittleinterest.ThebadnewsforStewart’sTMOis simplythis:tod

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• nitiatebecausesheheldnoFiliationorvalidMartinistInitiationofanykindwhatsoever,soher“Consecration”wasasworthlessasthe“permission”Lewisgaveher.HadLewisonlybeenpresentandhadheusedtheConsecrationceremony,AMORC’sTMOFiliationwouldhavebeenfirmlyandincontestablyestablished.Ofcourse,AsherdoessaythattheConsecrationwasconsidered“honorary,”suggestingthatsherealizedthatwithoutRalph,ittrulymeantnothing.But,underthec

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• I—AMARTINISTTREASURYauthenticMartinistteachingwillhavetobefoundorwritten,ataskwhichwillrequirecontactwithagenuineMartinisttradition.TheAMORC/TMOpapersarederivedfromearlyMOSpapersandaresoheavilyeditedtoreflectAMORC’sworldviewthattheirdrynessisuniversallyacknowledged—evenbytheirownmembers.Further,manyoftheAMORCiTMOritualslackbeautyandpoetic

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• wis’sInitiationsandauthoritycamefromtheMOSofBlanchard—andLewisdidnothingtopromotetheMOSintheUnitedStates.10.‘Thus,...theMartinistLightwasabletoshineandincreasewithoutinterruption,undertheprotectionof AMORCanditsleaders.”Fact:ThehistoryofAMORC’streatmentofMartinismhasalreadybeengiven,andthattreatmentconstitutesthesole“protection”themovementreceivedatthehandsofAMORC’sleaders.Itmaybethat,asBernardbecomesa

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• ofciviljurisprudence,towhichheappliedtherulesofcla'iskalIskunkworksonthissubjel:t.TheIin;tsectionconsistsofm:mychaptersanddealsinthefin;tinstancewiththepositionofthepatriarch,whoistheequivalentofthcimamorcllliphinIslamicsociety.ThecapitaldifferenceislhaltheMuslimpositionisbolhreligiousandcivil,whereasthepatriarchaldignityisn:slrkh..'d10IhereligioussurveillanceoftheCopliccommunil)'_Thecivilsoclionoflhis

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• iombas.inprinciple,a lerritoryorwbichitis,ororiginallywas,thenaturalillnguage(cf.GROGIl.A·I'HY.DIALECTAL).ThevlliidityufIhisgcnentlstate-mentisnotafrectedbythefactthaIadialeclele.known10scholarsonlyinamorcorlcs.,advanccdstageornelilralizationisevidem:eOlllsituatiunufcompromise,which,intermsoflogicalandchl'Ol1o-logk:llevolution,isonlysecondary,notprim'lry,asiluationinwhichIhemoreadvallcedIheneutraliza·t

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• on not permitted in other countries—makes necessary the understanding of the following facts (and we trust that every member will refer to these pages in any discussion of the authority and rights of AMORC): • The history of the Rosicrucian ORDER in other lands has been well covered in many books in recent years, though all are warned against giving credence to the statements made in the older editions

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• on coming directly under the guidance of the International Council of the Order instead of under the sponsorship of the French Jurisdiction. And this gave the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC) of North America a representation in the International Council, in its National and International Conventions and Con- gresses, and made the American AMORC a part of the A.M.O.R.C. of the world. The

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• States Gov- ernment protecting the name and symbols of the Order in the United States and throughout the World. The name and symbols are also registered with many other nations of this jurisdiction. AMORC is the only Rosicrucian movement in North America having a patent on the symbol of the Cross with ONE rose in its center, which is the true ancient symbol of the Order in all lands. Therefore, AMORC

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• conclave, and additional charters of authority and recognition were conferred upon the Imperator of AMORC of North America. [The FUDOSI does not now operate objectively.] One of the resolutions of this conclave was that "the A.M.O.R.C. is the only authentic, recognized Rosicrucian organization in North A

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• nd distinct body created and chartered by the Hierarchy of the Supreme Grand Lodge of The Ancient, Mysti- cal Order Rosae Crucis, Worldwide Jurisdiction (hereinafter referred to as the Grand Lodge of AMORC, or as Grand Lodge). Section 2 This Grand Lodge is subordinate to and derives its existence and powers from the Imperator and the Board of Directors composing the Supreme Grand Lodge of AMORC. It is

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• are as follows: Those which include the decision of all controversies between any of the affiliated bodies of the Grand Lodge or between affiliated bodies and the Grand Lodge, or between a member of AMORC and the Grand Lodge, or one or more of the affiliated bodies and a member or members of another body; or between one or more affiliated bodies and one or more members at large; or between members of

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• of the Grand Lodge in San Jose. No Master of any subordinate Lodge or Chapter shall be authorized or permitted to add to the work or teachings or to insert any personal opinion. Other Grand Lodges of AMORC, as those of France and Brazil, issue the monographs in the language of their own countries. Once a week during most of the year, in the Supreme Temple of [42]

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• he Order, and always be watchful for the seeker of knowledge who will greatly appreciate your bringing to his attention the existence of the Order and the means of entering it. The Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, it must be understood, is not secret in the sense of the concealment of either its identity or loca- tion. For example, Rosicrucian Park in San Jose, California, which is the See of the Order, has a

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• MEMBERSHIP All members of AMORC in the Worldwide Jurisdiction (the Americas, Australasia, Europe, Africa, and Asia) are members of the Grand Lodge. Their membership privileges and obligations are formally defined in the Constitutio

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• ion who can visit one of the Lodges have the opportunity of receiving the full, elaborate initiations of the Order. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR ALL MEMBERS The real benefits of Grand Lodge membership in AMORC—as Sanctum Members and as affiliates in an affiliated body—are many. The most important are: (1) Association with a body of men and women of like mind and purposes, ever ready to assist and cooperate

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• . Our members will see, therefore, that of the seven points of bene- fits outlined above, only one, the seventh, pertains to the course of instruction, and that, therefore, to look upon membership in AMORC as being simply studentship in a school, is to ignore many of the more important benefits. It is a fact that the average member, or fully seventy-five out of every hundred, has need every month for m

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• A.M.O.R.C. of the Worldwide Jurisdiction (The Americas, Austral- asia, Europe, Africa, and Asia). In addition to the lectures and study material, all members have the privilege of associating with an AMORC Lodge, Chapter, or Pronaos, where rituals and discussions are part of the group's activity. Members who complete the Ninth Degree are eligible to continue on in the work of the Rosicrucian Order thro

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• aculty of the University. Those who are sincerely interested in desiring to come to San Jose and attend the University and study under these teachers are invited to write to the Registrar, in care of AMORC, and ask for literature pertaining to the University. Certain preliminary requirements are necessary, however, and all applicants must be members of the A.M.O.R.C. in good standing. The idly curious

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• INTERESTING FACTS FOR OUR MEMBERS TO EXPLAIN TO INQUIRERS ABOUT AMORC The following facts are based upon an examination of 1,000 appli- cation blanks taken at random from our files. They are typical, there- fore, of the entire membership. GENERALITIES Males, 51%; femal

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• any foreign manuscripts and ancient documents, is Antiquus Arcanus Ordo Rosae Rubeae et Aureae Crucis. In many countries the Latin is translated into the native tongue, and in most cases the initials AMORC repre- sent the translated term. Ques. Has the A.M.O.R.C. any relation to any other Rosicrucian society? Ans. The A.M.O.R.C. is not a part of, or related to, any other so- called Rosicrucian society,

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• or any of the smaller popular mystical movements throughout the world. The work of the Rosi- crucian Order is distinctly different from the work and teachings of these other organizations, and while AMORC looks kindly upon all activities assisting in the unfoldment and development of man's higher powers and faculties, for the sake of definite understanding, it must be stated that none of the popular m

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• laining in further detail the objects, purposes, and benefits of the Order, may obtain a copy of this very enlightening and helpful booklet by re- questing it from Scribe R. H. M., Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, San Jose, California 95191. ARE ALL SEEKERS WORTHY? This is the big question which every organization such as AMORC must solve. Most organizations attempt to find an answer to the ques- tions throug

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• red rose." The symbol described herein as the true Rosy Cross is registered in the United States Patent Office as the official Rosicrucian symbol, and such patent registration is held exclusively by AMORC. The name and symbol are also registered with many other nations of this jurisdiction. [73]

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• irement. This position afforded him an outlet for the unique combination of his talents—abstraction, cre- ative enterprise, and organization. He was responsible for a number of drastic changes in the AMORC administration policies and the expansion of the Sanctum membership. He advocated a centraliza- tion of all the Order's activities in the Supreme Lodge, with the subor- dinate activities deriving the

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• oon became a school administrator. In this capacity, he helped to institute the first formal courses of study in character education. At this time, he laid a sound foundation for his future career at AMORC by handling school fi- nances, budget problems, and legal matters. Mr. Poole's long-time interest in philosophy continued to expand. Hearing about AMORC through a radio program, he searched li- brari

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• company management training program was interrupted by the offer of a permanent position as field representative for the Order, a position which was immediately accepted. Mr. Piepenbrink's career at AMORC, beginning with his arrival in San Jose on New Year's Day, 1951, includes a year as field representa- tive, seven years as Dean of Rose-Croix University and as Extension Director, and five years as G

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• the summer of 1969 Burnam Schaa left Fresno State University with a rather broad and lengthy education and came to Rosicrucian Park to serve the Order wherever he was needed. He was first employed in AMORC's Shipping Depart- ment before becoming a member of the first AMORC in-house Com- puter Department. This computer system was rather unique on the West Coast and Frater Schaa had to learn from on-the-

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• and The Rosicrucian Code of Life A SPECIAL MANUSCRIPT PREPARED FOR THIS MANUAL BY DR. H. SPENCER LEWIS (First Imperator of the present cycle of AMORC) [143] Part Eight

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• attain- ing this ultimate goal? That, above all else, they be loyal and devoted to the ideals of the Rosicrucian teachings and maintain every physical contact with the physical organization known as AMORC in the worldwide jurisdiction (The Americas, Australasia, Europe, Africa, and Asia), and by similar names in other lands. BENEFITS OF OUR LESSONS The mere intellectual study and comprehension of the

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• nkind. Few members realize, of course, the many ramifications of the Rosicrucian Order, and in its public literature it says very little of this phase of its Great Work. The fact is that not only has AMORC in the Worldwide Jurisdiction (The Americas, Australasia, Europe, Africa, and Asia), for instance, three or four very definite associate organizations under its direction, but it has twelve definite

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• certain branches of our work render the great service which has made the Rosicrucian Order famous as a practical institution of real benefit to its members. MAINTAINING CONTACT The Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, is a fraternity of men and women who through their study and application of natural laws and principles endeavor to promote that harmony and peace which reside within the heart and minds of each per

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• dy, for service, and for personal test. We have said that there are a number of special avenues of work connected with the Order and that there are several allied organizations under the direction of AMORC. Into these the progressing members are directed from time to time without any- thing said as to why. Some members are suddenly called upon [153]

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• be sincere in your studies and practices, and you will find yourself, sooner or later, at the very portal of the Great White Brotherhood, and ready for the Master who is to appear when you ARE ready. AMORC is happy to serve you, and through SERVICE, on the part of both the Order and its membership, is the ultimate Goal attained. THE ROSICRUCIAN CODE OF LIFE The following rules are taken from old and mo

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• nd of the word is harsh and generally less acceptable. Such variations, however, have become traditional with all Rosicrucian subordinate bodies and in all ad- dresses given by officers of the Order. AMORC — AM'-ORK. The last syllable is as in "cork." COLOMBE — Cull-ohm'. FRATER — Fra'-ter. The "a" is pronounced as in "art." (Actually the word should be pro- nounced "freighter," but Rosicrucian us- age

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• e, is not solely a spiritual essence devoid of chemical action. Lodge—A body of Rosicrucian students united for the purpose of working and studying together under the jurisdiction of a Grand Lodge of AMORC. In the Rosicrucian system, active members of a Grand Lodge receiving monographs and carrying on their studies in home Sanctums may further promote the work by organizing Lodges, Chapters, or Pronaoi

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• ich gives omnipotence. Ontology—The study of the utlimate nature of reality. It is the true science of all being. And in perfect accord with this definition and the standard which it involves are the AMORC teachings. Those laws and principles alone can help humanity solve every problem which is universal in character and application. Such must, perforce, be based on divine truths and ideals, not with t

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• tions, teachings, principles, and practical helpfulness of the Order as founded centuries ago. It is known as the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, which name, for popular use, is abbreviated into AMORC. The Headquarters of the Worldwide Jurisdiction (The Americas, Australasia, Europe, Africa, and Asia) is located at San Jose, California. The Order is primarily a humanitarian movement, making for gr

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• - ent-day helpful offerings of the Rosicrucians, you may receive a free copy of the introductory booklet (previously called Mastery of Life), by sending a request to: Scribe R.H.M. Rosicrucian Order, AMORC I 542 Naglee Avenue San Jose, California 95191-0001, U.S.A.

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• : celestiu[m],terrestriu[m] & infernor[um] Rogo te p[er] hee sanctissima lua no[m]i[n]a: Tetragrammaton: Anoal:Com[m]andal: Abaltonal: Ely: Ely: Lamazabathany: & p|erj Amore|m| matris tuc Marie & pro Amorc filij tui d[omi]ni n[ost]ri Jesu chr[ist]i vt mtegre digneris ex tua dextera p[ar]te [p. 48] cum Angel u[m] Onely ad apparendu|m] in isto cristallo coram me in certificans tarn pfer] facta, a[t|q[ue]

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• ir mystical proper-ties,Man Know Thyself(1878), was, for instance, used by folk healers in Trinidad.Behold the Sign: Ancient Symbolism, a small book published by the Ancient MysticalOrderRosæ Crucis (AMORC), founded in the USA in1915, was adopted bysomeObeah-men in Guyana. It contained hieroglyphs and symbols, such as aWve-pointed star ‘held to be a talisman against witchcraft’.65In early-twentieth-cen

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• ues and his reputation was already circulating therebefore the First World War. There was a strong educated interest in foreign occulttraditions, the Kabala and freemasonry in particular. A branch of AMORC wasestablished there in1925, and Western occult literature and charms were adver-tised in the Nigerian press and were available in the streets of Lagos and othertowns.127The circulation of Nigerian m

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• INDEXIllustrations are indicated initalicAMORCseeAncient Mystical OrderRosæCrucisAbra-Melin180,217,230Act for the Suppression of Fortune Telling(Pennsylvania)201–2Adelung, Christoph118–19AVair of the Poisons (France)91,92Africa166–167Delaurence a

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• her)248Batak (Sumatra)2–3,4Baum, Johannes248Baum Verlag (publisher)250Bavaria59Baxter,Richard52Bayonne (France)112–13Beaumont, Nicolas de68Bechtel, Norman210Beckford, William:Vathek266Behold the Sign(AMORC)185Beirut20Beissel, Conrad141Belize239Belloc, Pierre107Beringos Fratres98,99,122Berkeley, Edmund140Bernard,Richard83Bernard, Samuel106Bernardi,Bartholomeo110Bibleand grimoires107and hoodoo214–15New T

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• of God, (e) a chronicle of the Christian scriptures, (f) a monument to Osiris and Isis, and/or (g) a Terrible Tabernacle of Human Sacrifice, Nameless Rites, and Unspeakable Orgies. The Rosicrucians (AMORC) solemnly proclaim the Pyramid to be “the cosmic mound, a manifestation of the four-fold nature of light, and of evolution ... a most sacred structure, where communion with God became possible”. And

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• oteps and Thutmosids of the Empire. The only major disruption occurred at the end of the dynasty, when Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten) rejected the Great Ram for the worship of Aton, a minor Sun deity. [The AMORC acclaims Akhenaten as its spiritual founder. Such an affiliation, while unsubstantiated, might not be inappropriate: Invasion, starvation, and civil war marked his reign (1370-1352), and he was final

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• 110CHAPTER 2 - BACKGROUNDafter Freemasonic societies and which do not engage in religious ormagical activities. I will only discuss a few of the magically orientedbriefly. AMORC (Antiquus Mysticusque Ordo Rosae [Rubeae etAureae] Crucis) is a Rosicrucian18 order founded in the United Statesof America in 1915 by Harvey Spencer Lewis (Arlebrand 1995: 188).The order was establis

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• List of AbbreviationsADFI L’Association pour la Defense des Familles et de l’IndividuAEIMR L’Association d’Etude et d’Information sur les Mouvements ReligieuxAMORC Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae CrucisARC Alliance Rose Croix/Association for Cultural Research ARCHS L’Académie de Recherche et Connaissance des Hautes SciencesCAN Cult Awareness NetworkCESNUR Cent

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• quent legislation (Shupe et al. 2004: 198).Neo-TemplarismThe Solar Temple’s founder, Joseph Di Mambro, had sampled a variety of esoteric groups, including the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC). In the 1960s, he came into contact with several persons who would later play a role in Solar Temple history, including Jacques Breyer, who had initiated a “Templar resurgence” in France in 1952. Se

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• very particular and rather hermetic style.The Renovated Order of the Temple—founded in 1968 with Julien Origas at its head—would follow in the tradition of the Sovereign Order of the Solar Temple and.AMORC.3 (It is interesting to note that, according to Luc Jouret himself, several members of the Solar Tradition had come from AMORC.) Luc Jouret was said to have met Origas (who had also been to the Golde

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• gartha, composed of “Ascended Masters,” which secretly governs the world. Julien Origas was also a member of the world’s largest Rosicrucian organization, the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC), founded in the United States by Harvey Spencer Lewis (1883–1939) and extremely successful in the French-speaking countries. It is in those same French-speaking countries, in fact, that AMORC tried,

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• Ordeal by Fire27community. Due to widespread interest in Martinism, for example, in order to avoid AMORC members seeking Martinist experiences elsewhere, AMORC created its own Martinist order. Around 1970, Raymond Bernard, then “Legate” of AMORC for the French-speaking countries (today he has no more ti

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• der of the OICTS, and Geneva businessman Albert Giacobino, had been members, according to press sources, of Alfred Zappelli’s Sovereign and Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem20 and possibly of AMORC. But according to Jouret’s most secret teachings, the schism that had given birth to the OICTS was not only the mere fruit of disagreements, but was instead according to the will of the Ascended Mast

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• elationship by establishing l’Ordre International Chevaleresque de Tradition Solaire (OICTS) in Geneva, from whence the OTS emerged. Di Mambro, born in 1924, was trained in the Rosicrucian tradition (AMORC), and became leader of La Pyramide which became later, in 1974, the Golden Way in Geneva. A man of romantic and expensive tastes, he was fascinated by ancient Egyptian mythology, loved the opera and

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• o’s successor, but Huguenin (1995) claims that he was appointed, and insists that Jouret was “just like us.”11 Others offered testimonials to Jouret’s extraordinary charisma. Former Rosicrucians from AMORC say they joined the OTS because Jouret “captivated” them in his speeches. One man said, “He put his fi nger on my forehead and I experienced an energy, a sharing of knowledge! Afterwards I felt relax

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• o would launch l’Ordre du Temple solaire, Joseph Di Mambro, moved in this murky world for 40 years. At one time or another, he was closely associated with the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC), and with the Sovereign and Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem, a neo-Templar society. (Both groups deny that he was ever a member.) Tracing the arrows on Massimo Introvigne’s chart, one can

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• rom this world; they did not consider it a suicide in the usual sense of the word. The word “transit” is derived from the vocabulary in use in the Rosicrucian Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC), to which Joseph Di Mambro had belonged from 1956 to the late 1960s. AMORC uses the word “transition” as an equivalent for death—a word which it considers to be inappropriate, since what happens at

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• to have an accredited historical existence: Blavatsky claimed contact with Master Morya and Koot Hoomi (Kut Humi). One Ascended Master who features largely in the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC), as well as several other spiritual groups infl uenced by it, is the Comte de Saint-Germain (c.1710–84). Saint-Germain appears to have been a Portuguese Jew, nicknamed “The Wonderman” on account of

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• Others contend that various ancient Middle-Eastern thinkers, including Plato, Jesus of Nazareth, Philo of Alexandria, and Plotinus, espoused Rosicrucianism. Some branches of Rosicrucianism, including AMORC, suggest that the origins of the movement go back into ancient Egyptian history, especially the Egyptian Mystery Schools of the fi fteenth century BCE, and in particular to the pharaohs Thutmose III

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• are in forms that inextricably intertwine. However, two interrelated organizations are of key importance in the development of the Order of the Solar Temple: the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC), and the Renewed Order of the Temple (ORT).AMORC—the largest present-day Rosicrucian organization—claims to trace Rosicrucianism’s origins back to ancient Egypt, although not in an unbroken physical

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• nication with the Ascended Masters, the star-cluster Sirius as their point of origin, and the apocalyptic elements to which Bailey had attached great signifi cance.Joseph Di Mambro’s connections with AMORC and with Breyer’s movement are well accredited. He joined AMORC in 1956 and remained a member until 1970, by which time he had become associated with the Arginy movement. He had become a teacher of t

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• nce, 1888); The Order of the Catholic Rose Cross (France, 1890); the Rosicrucian Fellowship (USA, 1909); the Fellowship of the Rosy Cross (England, 1915); the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, AMORC (USA, 1915); and Lectorium Rosicrucianum, originally founded under the name Rozekruizers Genootschap (The Netherlands, 1924), to name but a few. Rosicrucian infl uence on the Solar Temple comes prima

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• xperience, but he wanted to return inperson. (2001: 87) To the members of the Solar Temple death was seen as a “transition,” something that Joseph Di Mambro had most likely picked up from his time in AMORC. AMORC was founded by H. Spencer Lewis (1883–1939) in 1915 and quickly became the largest Rosicrucian group in the world. According to one source from 2001, AMORC might have as many as around 250,000

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• all, Jean-Marie, Les sectes de l’Apocalypse. Gourous de l’an 2000 (Paris: Éditions Calmann-Lévy, 1999).Abraham, Lyndy, A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).AMORC, “L’Ordre de la Rose-Croix: Savoir discerner le bon gain de l’ivraie”, Jacques Bugeaud, n.d.Aubert, Raphaël and Carl A. Keller, Vie et mort de l’Ordre du Temple Solaire (Lausanne: Éditions de l’Aire/

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• C) 140, 158–9, 162Alliance Rosy-Cross 140Amenta Club(s) 10, 12, 13, 29, 31, 42, 65, 67, 119, 144American Executive Intelligence Review 34American Millerites 80Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC) 2, 13, 26, 27, 30, 42, 44, 63, 91 n.2, 123, 125, 126, 127, 140, 143“André” 33, 73Andreae, Johann Valentin 124, 139“Angela” 26, 27, 64Angers 12Annemasse 13, 29annihilationism 142anti-sects movement 1

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• vey Spencer 26, 126, 143Lewis, James R. 133, 151Lheureux, Line 57Light Celestial 204 Christ 145, 147, 197 Christlike 158theme of 156Lodge of the Knights of the Cross 21Lodge Louis d’Argent 137Lodges (AMORC) 126 Masonic 20, 63 Secret 178, 187Loge mère de Zurich 157Lovelock, James 107Lully, Raymond 125Lutherans 139Maat 46, 50, 142Macbenac 136Mafi a 40, 46, 63, 78, 80, 186magic ceremonial 23 ritual 138, 1

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• d). The mail-order catalogue is very extensive, including a variety of equipment (including custom-made robes).* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *NAME: Alexandria Bookstore *** UPDATED: 20030301PROPRIETOR: AMORCADDRESS: 1342 Naglee Avenue; San Jose, CA 95191; U.S.A.TELEPHONE: (408) 947-3600WEBSITE: http://www.rosicrucian.org/alexandria/amorcbks.htmlE-MAIL: [email protected] ORDER: Call for orderi

• * * * *NAME: Alexandria Bookstore *** UPDATED: 20030301PROPRIETOR: AMORCADDRESS: 1342 Naglee Avenue; San Jose, CA 95191; U.S.A.TELEPHONE: (408) 947-3600WEBSITE: http://www.rosicrucian.org/alexandria/amorcbks.htmlE-MAIL: [email protected] ORDER: Call for ordering information, or to request a catalogue of titles.DESCRIPTION: The “house bookstore” of the AMORC at San Jose’s Rosicrucian Park (

• e *** UPDATED: 20030301PROPRIETOR: AMORCADDRESS: 1342 Naglee Avenue; San Jose, CA 95191; U.S.A.TELEPHONE: (408) 947-3600WEBSITE: http://www.rosicrucian.org/alexandria/amorcbks.htmlE-MAIL: [email protected] ORDER: Call for ordering information, or to request a catalogue of titles.DESCRIPTION: The “house bookstore” of the AMORC at San Jose’s Rosicrucian Park (worth the trip just to tour the p

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• nt cultures, such as the Hebrew and Greek "Cabalas," will not be a part of this Order, nor will it welcome or tolerate crude paganisms (such as Wicca) or insincere, pseudo-Egyptian games (such as the AMORC). The grade system based upon the Hebrew "tree of life," and adapted from the doctrinally-corrupt Golden Dawn, will be replaced by a non-sex-based degree system whose levels of Recognition indicate m

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• empty to me, and I became something of a rebel.”something of a rebel.”Shortly thereafter Anubis decided to investigate Shortly thereafter Anubis decided to investigate certain magazine ads and joined AMORC. This certain magazine ads and joined AMORC. This association was not long-lived.association was not long-lived.During the 1962-65 Army years which followed During the 1962-65 Army years which follow

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• ee in the brochures, there are many other see in the brochures, there are many other interesting things to do. About 45 minutes’ drive interesting things to do. About 45 minutes’ drive from SC is the AMORC’s Rosicrucian Park, which from SC is the AMORC’s Rosicrucian Park, which is about 4 square blocks’ worth of scaled-down is about 4 square blocks’ worth of scaled-down ancient Egyptian architecture. V

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• pitality room to coffee shops to restaurants to hospitality room to coffee shops to individual rooms to ...] and sightseeing.individual rooms to ...] and sightseeing.A good time was had by all at the AMORC park A good time was had by all at the AMORC park and museum; I was amused to see that Spencer and museum; I was amused to see that Spencer Lewis’ account of Lemuria [see Lewis’ account of Lemuria [s

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• ll out its principles and become an to sell out its principles and become an inconsequential, hollow piece of occult fluff such as inconsequential, hollow piece of occult fluff such as Freemasonry or AMORC-style Rosicrucianism. Freemasonry or AMORC-style Rosicrucianism. Neither are we going to be driven into radical Neither are we going to be driven into radical extremism by the tactics of bigots and h

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• almost You can find authentic occult knowledge almost anywhere - although never where the public is told anywhere - although never where the public is told that it exists. The occult knowledge in the AMORC, that it exists. The occult knowledge in the AMORC, for instance, is not in the colorful show it presents to for instance, is not in the colorful show it presents to members through its ads, Egyptian

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• y O.T.O. It also provides a good introduction to the older German O.T.O., which is the parent organization of virtually all Illuminati/Rosicrucian societies presently in existence [such as San Jose’s AMORC, whose founder, H. Spencer Lewis, received its charter from the O.T.O.’s Theodor Reuss in 1915]. Present-day Illuminated Rosicrucians will probably be disappointed to discover that the enthusiastic s

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• though there had been (and still are) many groups claiming to be Rosicrucian, it is obvious that there could only be one true Order of the Rosy Cross. The result was what I call The War of the Roses. AMORC, the Rosicrucian Order, was founded by H. Spencer Lewis, an advertising man who is perhaps best known for coming up with the saying "See America First." After several false starts, he got AMORC going

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• en the audience could vote on the question of which group was the real Rosicrucians. Clymer's group said that a vote by a public group did not make a mystical organization official. They claimed that AMORC plagiarized books and that the papers recognizing them were fraudulent. Then it got dirty. AMORC referred to the leader of the Brotherhood as "R. Swindle Clymer" and said that he loved to have a seri

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• Sources:Amorah Quan Yin. Pleiadian Perspectives on the Human Evolu-tion. Santa Fe, N. Mex.: Bear & Co., 1996. ———. The Pleiadian Workbook: Awakening Your Divine Ka.Santa Fe, N. Mex.: Bear & Co., 1996.AMORC See Ancient and Mystical Order ofthe Rosae CrucisAmoymonAccording to an ancient grimoire, Amoymon is one of thefour kings of Hades, of which the eastern part falls to his share.He may be invoked in t

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• y Ave., Muncie, Indiana47304-3460.Sources:[Bias, Clifford]. The A.M.O.S. Path of Light. 19 vols. Muncie,Ind.: Ancient and Mystical Order of Seekers, n.d.Ancient and Mystical Order of the RosaeCrucis (AMORC)The largest of the several Rosicrucian organizations oper-ating in North America and Europe, the Ancient and MysticalOrder of the Rosae Crucis (AMORC) was founded in 1915 inNew York City by H. Spence

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• The AMORC sees itself as the continuation of the ancientmystery schools of the Middle East, once headed by Solomonand Amenhotep. According to its own history, the group worksin 180-year cycles in which public

• headquarters complex located in San Joseare popular tourist attractions. The order publishes two maga-zines, Rosicrucian Digest and Rosicrucian Forum, the latter formembers only. Website: http://www.amorc.org/.Sources:Lewis, H. Spencer. Rosicrucian Manual. San Jose, Calif.: Ro-sicrucian Press, 1941.———. Rosicrucian Questions and Answers. San Jose, Calif.:Supreme Grand Lodge of the AMORC, 1969.Lewis, R

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• Teachers College for threeyears, during which time she married Robert A. Bradley (1949).The Bradleys moved to Texas, where he worked on the railroadand she bore their first child. She also joined the AMORC Rosi-crucians, from whom she received her initial occult training.Bradley began her serious writing during the early 1950s.She published a few pieces of short fiction and finally in 1955,her first no

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• earned clockmaking and the jewelrybusiness by which he was employed as a young man. He alsowas attracted to occultism, and in January of 1956 joined theAncient and Mystical Order of the Rosae Crucis (AMORC),the American Rosicrucian group which enjoyed great successin France in the decades following World War II (1939–45). Inthe late 1960s he became the head of the AMORC lodge inNimes, France. He remain

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• ral physicianand writer, who wrote numerous books and led the fight to le-gitimize the fraternity, whose place was challenged by newergroups such as the Ancient and Mystical Order of the RosaeCrucis (AMORC) and the Rosicrucian Fellowship, bothfounded in the early twentieth century.The fraternity was headquartered at a rural complex nearQuakertown, Pennsylvania. It was headed by a Council ofThree and th

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• ky, Helena P. The Secret Doctrine. 2 vols. London:Theosophical Publishing, 1889.Cerve, Wishar S. [H. Spencer Lewis]. Lemuria: The Lost Conti-nent of the Pacific. San Jose, Calif.: Supreme Grand Lodge,AMORC, 1931.Churchward, James. The Lost Continent of Mu. New York:Ives Washburn, 1926.Le Plongeon, Augustus. Queen Moo and the Egyptian Sphinx.New York: The Author, 1896.Melton, J. Gordon. New Age Encyclop

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• :N.p., 1940.———. Heaven Knows What. New York: Doubleday, 1935.———. Your Greatest Strength. New York: N.p., 1946.Lewis, H(arvey) Spencer (1883–1939)Founder of the Ancient and Mystic Order Rosae Crucis(AMORC), a modern revival Rosicrucian order headquarteredat San Jose, California. Lewis was born in Frenchtown, New Jer-sey, November 25, 1883, of Welsh ancestry. He was educatedin New York state and raised

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• In 1918 Lewis moved his headquarters to San Francisco,and in 1921 the order received an additional charter from theOrdo Templi Orientis (OTO) in Germany. In 1925 theAMORC relocated to Florida, but soon afterward the organiza-tion moved to its present location in San Jose, California. Lewisapplied his special talents in advertising to form a worldwidefraternal organiza

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• . The British lodgewas duly launched under the name Mysteria Mystica Maxima.In 1916 Reuss chartered a North American branch, whichwas organized as the Ancient and Mystical Order of the Rosi-crucians (AMORC), headed by H. Spencer Lewis. In the legalbattles between the several American Rosicrucian groups, theconnection with the OTO became a matter of great embarrass-ment to AMORC, but while denying any c

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• icrucian Fellowship, 1932.———. Steps to Self-Mastery. Oceanside, Calif.: FellowshipPress, 1927.Rosicrucian DigestThe Rosicrucian Digest, the outer organ of the Ancient andMystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC), is one of the oldestoccult magazines being published in the Western world, havingbeen established in the early 1920s. The Digest continues TheAmerican Rosae Crucis, the original periodical establis

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• succeeded by Gladys Plummer de Witow and more re-cently, Lucia L. Grosch.Also based in the Western occult tradition is the Ancientand Mystic Order of the Rosicrucians, popularly known by itsacronym, AMORC. AMORC was founded in 1915 by H. Spen-cer Lewis, and after locating the headquarters in San Jose, Cal-ifornia, in the mid-1920s, Lewis built the order into the largestRosicrucian organization in the

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• Richard. The Truth behind the Legends of MountShasta. New York: Carlton Press, 1976.Cerve, W. S. [H. Spencer Lewis]. Lemuria, the Lost Continentof the Pacific. San Jose, Calif.: Supreme Lodge of the AMORC,1931.Chaney, Earlyne. Secrets from Mount Shasta. Anaheim, Calif.:Stockton Trade Press, 1953.King, Godfre Ray [Guy W. Ballard]. Unveiled Mysteries. Chi-cago: Saint Germain Press, 1934.Walton, Bruce. M

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• Europe and Quebec.His travels brought him into contact with Di Mambro. Di Mam-bro was a French jeweler and watchmaker who as a young manhad joined the Ancient and Mystical Order of the Rosae Cru-cis (AMORC). In 1973, he founded the first of several succes-sive organizations, the Center for the Preparation of the NewAge, in Annemasse, France. One of the successor groups, theGolden Way Foundation, in Gen

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• ancientweb.com/Atlantis Rising Onlinehttp://atlantisrising.com/Mysterious Placeshttp://www.mysteriousplaces.com/ANCIENT MYSTICAL ORDER ROSAECRUCIS (AMORC)Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucishttp://www.amorc.org/Rosicrucian Parkhttp://www.rosicrucian.org/ANCIENT WISDOMLemurian Fellowshiphttp://www.lemurian.org/Universal Life–The Inner Religionhttp://www.universelles-leben.org/ANGELSAngel Therapyhttp://ww

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• Edwina. Olga Worrall, Mystic with theHealing Hands. New York: Harper & Row,1975. Cerve, Wishar S. [H. Spencer Lewis]. Lemuria:The Lost Continent of the Pacific. San Jose,Calif.: Supreme Grand Lodge, AMORC,1931.Ch’u Ta-Kao, trans. Tao Te Ching. London:Allen & Unwin; New York: SamuelWeiser, 1937. Chakravarti, Chintaharan. Tantras: Studies onTheir Religion and Literature. Calcutta,India: Punthi Pustak, 1

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• Jose, Calif.: Rosicrucian Press, 1930. ———. Rosicrucian Manual. San Jose, Calif.:Rosicrucian Press, 1941. ———. Rosicrucian Principles for the Home andBusiness. San Jose, Calif.: Supreme GrandLodge of AMORC, 1929. ———. Rosicrucian Questions and Answers withComplete History. San Jose, Calif.: SupremeGrand Lodge of AMORC, 1929. ———. Rosicrucian Questions and Answers. SanJose, Calif.: Supreme Grand Lodge o

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• , 1273American Vinland Association, 43American Yoga Association, 43American Zen College, 44Amethyst, 44Amiante, 44Amityville Horror, The, 44Amniomancy, 44Amnomolistics, 1591Amon, 45Amorah Quan Yin, 45AMORC. See Ancient and MysticalOrder of the Rosae CrucisAmoymon, 45Amphiaraus, 45, 1147Amulets, 45–46. See also FetishismAbraxas, 5Antiphates, 62Cambodia, 244Celts, 260Central America, 1033Chips of Gallows

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• World Order have always been to Freemasonry. Glimmerings of the New World Order strategy can in fact be traced back to the days of their predecessor Rosicrucians—not to be confused with the mailorder AMORC currently seen in UFO and psychic magazines—and such early works as Bacon's New Atlantis. In 1936, Dr. Nolan D.C. Lewis, the Scottish Rite's Field Representative of Research on Demential Praecox (inc

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• , "Sirhan paused reflectively for a moment, then smiled. Then he changed the subject." After the murder of Kennedy, police searched Sirhan's room and found a large amount of Rosicrucian (in this case AMORC, not the historical Rosicrucians) and other occult reading material. Sirhan is alleged to have also been acquainted with a member of The Process group, a Scientology offshoot, and to have attended pa

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• termed a "human guinea pig farm" by one CIA agent. Dr. Louis Jolyon West, for one, was running a mysterious safe house in the Haight in the Summer of Love. While in prison Manson was connected to the AMORC Rosicrucians, the same group that Sirhan Sirhan had ties to. Manson was also in touch with members of The Process, an apocalyptic Scientology spinoff group, and he dubbed his own group the Final Chur

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• ich they make pots of ointments, &c. and poisons, the ordinary articles of commerce a debauchÈe, laquelle il saict paroistre pompeuse, ornÈe de plusiers faux affiquets, et couronÈe en royne, pour amorcer les autres. Donnant aussi une forme affreuse, presque ‡ tous ceux qui sont en cette assemblÈe maudite, les visages desquels, ‡ la fauce lumiËre de ces chandeles de poix qui síy voyant, paroisset tÈ

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• dead or in exile, or grown old; the movement in America is in shambles. I've seen my best candidates turn against me....Achad, Regardie -- even that gentleman out in California, what's - his - name, AMORC, the one that made all the money.." "O, bosh, Crowley," Gardner waved his hand impatiently, "all

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• ternalized OTO that barely survived during the McCarthy Era, when the late Karl Germer was in charge, and the OTO turned inward for two decades. The famous Ancient and Mystic Order of the Rose Cross (AMORC), the highly successful mail-order spiritual fellowship, was an OTO offspring in Crowley's time. It has been claimed that Kenneth Grant and Aleister Crowley were discussing relatively radical changes

• ml#filepos590881]. Crowley also claimed that he owned> £150,000 of property in California. This was based on a claim that H. Spencer> Lewis, Imperator of the Ancient Mystical Order of Rosae Crucis—or AMORC, as it> is generally known—received its charter from the O.T.O. As Outer Head of the> Order, Crowley naturally believed that the extensive property owned by AMORC> in San Jose really belonged to him.

• rles Stanfield Jones), De MysteriisRosae Rubeae et Aureae Crucis. Privately published, date unknown.63 [chap8.xhtml#fn63]. At the time, I was an active member of Abdiel Lodge ofthe Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, in Long Beach, California.64 [chap8.xhtml#fn64]. “Magister Iesus Christus—Deus est Homo—Benedictus DominusDeus Noster qui dedit nobis Signum…”—“beneath is written the Mystic Name of theowner of the

• 27 USNA, MID 9140-808, Biddle to Van Deman, 4 Aug. 1917 and NYPD to commander ofBomb Squad [Tunney], 19 Sept. 1917.28 P. Koenig, “Ordo Templi Orientis, A.M.O.R.C.,”//user.cyberlink.ch/~koenig/sunrise/amorc_en.htm[http:////user.cyberlink.ch/~koenig/sunrise/amorc_en.htm]29 USNA, MID 9140-808, Office of Naval Intelligence [ONI], “German Suspects,” 10July 1917.30 Crowley to Jane Wolfe, 7 July 1919, quoted

• and NYPD to commander ofBomb Squad [Tunney], 19 Sept. 1917.28 P. Koenig, “Ordo Templi Orientis, A.M.O.R.C.,”//user.cyberlink.ch/~koenig/sunrise/amorc_en.htm[http:////user.cyberlink.ch/~koenig/sunrise/amorc_en.htm]29 USNA, MID 9140-808, Office of Naval Intelligence [ONI], “German Suspects,” 10July 1917.30 Crowley to Jane Wolfe, 7 July 1919, quoted from Phyllis Seckler, Continuum.(Oroville CA), Vol. 2, #

• worldly pleasures forspiritual joys.” She had been interested in H. Spencer Lewis36[Kacz_9781583945766_epub_nts02_r1.htm#c13-nts036] and his Rosicrucian group,Ancient and Mystical Order Rosæ Crucis (AMORC), “merrily disdainful of criticismbased on his elementary blunders in Latin and his total ignorance of the historyof the Order which he claimed to rule. The old lady was simple-minded, sincereand ear

• aced each other,and no casualties resulted. Sounding like the 1910 Mathers v. Crowley case, bothsides of the skirmish—the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis (FRC) and the Ancient andMystical Order Rosæ Crucis (AMORC)—deemed themselves the “true” RosicrucianOrder and their opponents “Black Magicians.”The Pennsylvania-based FRC was descended from Paschal Beverly Randolph(1825–1875), whose psychosexual doctrines in

• ican discipleLouis Turley Culling (1894–1973), a member of both OTO andA[images/Kacz_9781583945766_epub_L02_r1.jpg]A[images/Kacz_9781583945766_epub_L02_r1.jpg],helped Crowley seek lawyers to denounce AMORC.14[Kacz_9781583945766_epub_nts02_r1.htm#c21-nts014]Meanwhile, Crowley admitted Arthur Day to the grade of Minerval on August 24; hebecame a frequent visitor and promised to affiliate to the Vo for £1

• renown both during their lifetimes and since their deaths: the TS (H. P.Blavatsky, Annie Besant, Charles W. Leadbeater), Anthroposophy (Rudolf Steiner),the Fourth Way (G. I. Gurdjieff, A. R. Orage), AMORC (H. Spencer Lewis), andScientology (L. Ron Hubbard). Why, then, was Crowley so obscure, somisunderstood? There are several reasons.First, Crowley’s books were expensive productions printed in small q

• ile, Outer Head of the OrderTheodor Reuss, trying to undermine Crowley, sent Jones a charter granting Jonesrights as head of the O.T.O. in North America. This was intended by Reuss tocurry favor with AMORC founder H. Spencer Lewis with whom Reuss hoped to form afinancially advantageous alliance. Lewis didn’t trust Crowley—Crowley knewLewis’s weak spots.On August 28, 1922, Lewis calumniated Crowley. In

• Confessions, awoman who “abandoned worldly pleasures for spiritual joys.” He believed herbeing “simple minded sincere and earnest” accounted for her having taken aninterest in Harvey Spencer Lewis’s AMORC, regarded by Crowley as a Rosicrucianorganization only in name, spuriously supported by a fake charter. He consideredLewis a talented occultist whose fault lay only in skewing the truth of hisauthori

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• 327 BIBLIOGRAPHY Great Pyramid, The, Tom Valentine, Granada Publ. First Published by Panther Books, Ltd in Great Britain in 1977 Great Women Initiates, H. Bernard, Amorc. Inc, San Jose, USA 1984 Glimpses of Masonic History, C. W. Leadbeater, The Theosophical Publishing House, Madras (Undated) Great Secret of Count Saint Germain, The, Dr Raymond W. Bernard, Health Res

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• their access to any * Rosicrucianism is one of the mystic al systems which arose out of Brother- hood teachings. Dr. Lewis's Rosicrucian Order is called The Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis ("AMORC" for brevity). AMORC was founded in the early 1900's. It is best known today for the popular Egyptian Museum it owns and operates in San Jose, California. There is another American Rosicruc ian order

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• rucian bodies switched back and forth between their "outward" and "hidden" phases, it seemed to observers that Rosicrucian Orders were appearing and disappearing in history. According to Dr. Lewis of AMORC, "just why this new regulation was brought into effect is not known." 1 The Illuminati and Rosicrucians were major powers behind a new wave of religious movements during the

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• , p. 99. 7. Ibid., pp. 6-7. 8. Ibid., p. 7. CHAPTER 7: Jehovah 1. Lewis, H. Spencer, Rosicrucian Questions and Answers With Complete History of the Rosicrucian Order (San Jose, Supreme Grand Lodge of AMORC, 1977), pp. 79-80. 2. Ibid., p. 79. 3. Machiavelli, Niccolo (trans. W. K. Marriott), The Prince (New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1935), p. 167. 4. Ibid., p. 169. 5. Stark, Dr. W. (trans. Leslie J. Walk

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• v. insert. 7. Ibid., Dec. 1981, adv. insert. CHAPTER 35: St. Germain Returns 1. Frater Selvius, "Descendants of Lemuria, A Description of an Ancient Cult in California," Rosicrucian Digest (San Jose, AMORC, May 1931), p. 497. 2. Ibid. 3. King, Godfre Ray, Unveiled Mysteries (Chicago, St. Germain Press, 1934), p. 82. 4. Ibid., p. 83. 5. Ibid. 6. Ibid. 7. "Royal Teton, Thou Mountain of Light," The Voice

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• ty Press, Cambridge, 1979 Leslie, Desmond and George Adamski, Flying Saucers Have Landed, The British Book Centre, New York, 1953 Lewis, H. Spencer, The Mystical Life of Jesus, Supreme Grand Lodge of AMORC Printing and Publishing Depart- ment, San Jose, 1957 — Rosicrucian Questions and Answers, With Complete History of the Rosicrucian Order, Supreme Grand Lodge of AMORC Printing and Publishing Departme

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• 476 William Bramley of AMROC Printing and Publishing Department, San Jose, 19th edition, 1981 Lewis, Ralph M., Along Civilization's Trail, Supreme Grand Lodge of AMORC Printing and Publishing Department, San Jose, 1940 Lewis, W. S. (ed.) et al., Horace Walpole's Correspon- dence with Sir Horace Mann, Yale University Press, New Haven, vol. 18, 1954, vol. 20: 1960 —

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• s Sons, New York, 1972 Robison, John, Proofs of a Conspiracy, Western Islands, Boston, 1967 (1st pub. 1798) Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San Jose, displays and exhibits, 1981, 1988 Rosicrucian Order (AMORC), San Jose, telephone inter- view with instructor, 1981 Rutland, Robert A. (editor), The Papers of George Mason, The University of North Ca rolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1970 Sachs, Margaret, The UFO En

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• l. 1 (trans. Leslie J. Walker), Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1950 Sterling, Claire, The Terror Network, The Secret War of International Terrorism, Berkley Books, New York, 1981 Supreme Grand Lodge AMORC, "History of the Rosi- crucian Order" (pamphlet), Department of Publications (AMORC), 1963 —"Mastery of Life" (pamphlet), The Department of Publications (AMORC), 25th edition, undated — Rosicrucian D

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• ountains, 277 423 apron (ceremonial), 88, 92-93, American Medical Association, 128, 283, 318 53n. Aqaba, 429 Americas (ancient), 12—13, Aquino, Benigno, 410-412 172-178 Aquino, Corazon, 412 AMORC, see Ancient and Arabia, 33, 368-369 Mystical Order Rosae Crucis Archaeology and Bible History, Amsterdam, Bank of, 220-221, 136 223, 229 architecture, 90 Anaheim Memorial Hospital, 26 Argosy, 60 Anc

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• ods for whose existence even the most sympathetic historical scholar worth his name would be very hard pressed to find any significant proof. Actually, it is rather a cheap joke to cite, for example, AMORC`s claims that even good old Socrates or Ramses II (of all people!) were "Rosicrucians". However, the trouble only starts when adepts mistake these contentions for _literal_ truths. "Literal", of cour

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• oods for whose existence even the most sypathetic historical scholar worth his name would be very hard pressed to find any significant proof. Actually, it is rather a cheap joke to cite, for example, AMORC`s claims that even good old Socrates or Ramses II (of all people!) were "Rosicrucians". However, the trouble only starts when adepts mistake these contentions for _literal_ truths. "Literal", of cour

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• dead or in exile, or grown old; the movement in America is in shambles. I've seen my best candidates turn against me....Achad, Regardie -- even that gentleman out in California, what's - his - name, AMORC, the one that made all the money.." 1772 "O, bosh, Crowley," Gardner waved his hand impatiently, "all things considered, you've done pretty well for yourself. Why, you've been called the `wickede

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• barely survived during the McCarthy Era, when the late Karl Germer was in charge, and the OTO turned inward for two decades. The famous Ancient and Mystic Order of the Rose Cross (AMORC), the highly successful mail-order spiritual fellowship, was an OTO offspring in Crowley's time. It has been claimed that Kenneth Grant and Aleister Crowley were discussing relatively radical changes

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• of Being. Included in the initiation rites to all of the Great Mystery Schools was just such a rite of Death and Rebirth. Anyone care to reveal their secrets now?<G> OTO'ers? GD'ers? Druids? Wiccans? AMORC? Freemasons? Templars? Illumatti? Assassins? Channellers? Others? The floor is now open. Let's hear the words of Life and the words of Death. Josey Wales faces Ten Bears in the moment of Truth. The g

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• dead or in exile, or grown old; the movement in America is in shambles. I've seen my best candida tes turn against me....Achad, Regardie -- even that gentleman out in California, what's - his - name, AMORC, the one that made all the money.." "O, bosh, Crowley," Gardner waved his hand impatiently, "all

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• ternalized OTO that barely survived during the McCarthy Era, when the late Karl Germer was in charge, and the OTO turned inward for two decades. The famous Ancient and Mystic Order of the Rose Cross (AMORC), the highly successful mail - order spiritual fellowship, was an OTO offspring in Crowley's time. It has been claimed that Kenneth Grant and Aleister Crowley were discussing relatively radical chang