ARTICLE 7
PROVIDE OCCASIONAL REAL WORLD CONTACT

Arrange that occasional meeting or peer group the members can support. This can even be done now through conventional media or the Internet.

People are social. There is no getting away from that. And even though, it was possible to create a great deal of control simply through the distribution of the monographs, buoyed up by the members’ participation in the hypnotic platform of the Home Sanctum, AMORC needed some kind of social environment to siphon off the social needs of its members.

I described the convocations and lodge membership in Miami in The Prisoner of San Jose-

Convocations at the lodge are something like formal church services but even more like the ritualistic meetings of Freemasons. Officials wear certain specific uniforms. Incense and candles are burned. Processions follow a prescribed structure.  Although I felt awkward at the Lodge, it was nice to be part of something again and I felt the warmth of belonging to something.