I am in the process of looking backwards on the earliest part of my experience of AMORC and trying to explain how the Mind Control element begins. This is in response to many of my readers, often members or ex-members of AMORC, who questioned my claims of Mind Control.

I mentioned three experiments- one picking up vibes from a book or a magazine, another one trying to make quick telepathic contact by thinking of someone and a third, trying to change the color of a candle.

Ah, a candle! Just a simple candle! And, where does this exercise take place? In a specially constructed setting, designed for the sincere, obedient student- the Home Sanctum. There you have candles, the altar, the sacred monographs, a mirror and other Rosicrucian paraphernalia.

Equipped with the monographs, you begin to concentrate on the candle. It is probably at this point, you begin to pass into the first stages of a trance state, generated by the relaxing setting, the authoritative voice of the monographs and the firm belief that you are performing rituals and prayer fully consonant with the Will of God.

If you do manage to “change” the color of the candle’s aura, as the exercise describes- I would say that clearly suggests you have gone down fairly deeply. If not, you are probably in a light hypnotic trance- more suggestible, but not in any kind of hallucinatory realm.