Before we go on, let us dwell a moment on the synchronicity we had just discussed about our organic-produce loving shopper, Katie, who had asked God for a simple thing and was rewarded in a very mysterious way. Thinks of the details of the events that answered her prayer.

            Now who arranged for Katie to take that one route that she seldom took to the supermarket that specific day before she went home?

No one really-outside of Katie. She just felt energetic that day.

            And how come that the older woman was outside her house selling exactly what she needed? It was unusually, a one-of-a-kind incident, a day she overslept and had all these extra vegetables?  And how come all those seeming coincidences led to her getting her vegetables and fruits for a small amount of work every Saturday, a work which she actually loved- because she knew that, like her, her customers were grateful for being able to get organic produce at affordable prices.

            The fact is that if Katie had suddenly come into a bunch of money, she probably would not be sure of the amazing source of her new ability to get organic produce.

            Perhaps this is what is behind what Lewis says when he suggests that you very seldom ask God for money. Instead, you ask Him directly what you need. When you receive exactly what you ask for in mysterious ways, it can point to the ultimate source of your good in so much a specific things.

            Now when I was a Rosicrucian, I would ask for things, too. And if I ever got near to getting them, I would thank God for being in AMORC. That is, I would attribute every good thing that happened to me as the result of belonging to the spiritual elite that belonged to this specific organization.  But now I see that I was doing what anti-cult literature refers to as “reframing,” which means taking your experience and twisting it to fit a certain paradigm. In Rosicrucian Principles, Lewis does not claim that these beneficial events, initiated by “commanding” the Cosmic, necessarily comes because you have a membership card in his order.  But when I was a member, that’s exactly where I thought it came from and that was what I was encouraged to think.
So, I like Lewis’ non-cultish explanation of the process of manifestation in his book, Rosicrucian Principles, so much better than what I learned in AMORC.