Once someone has drunk the Kool-Aid so to speak, it becomes increasingly difficult to challenge their ingrained beliefs. True believers will simply reinterpret conflicting information to make it fit into their existing world views. In other words, when science and rationality doesn’t work, there’s always mysticism and magical thought to fall back on.

Few people want to be challenged. Most of us are looking for outside evidence that strengthens and protects our sense of self. If that sense of self is built on the basis of Rosicrucian Order AMORC’s teachings, every piece of external data simply becomes another question that the Rosicrucian Order can answer.

In the postscript of this manifesto, Christian Bernard makes mention of the following:

“We wish to stress that the manifestos do not express the official position of our Order on the subjects discussed, but are solely views of their authors. This explains why certain topics may be approached from certain perspectives which differ from the explanations found in the monographs”

It’s an explanation that poses several questions.

First of all, if Rosicrucian Order AMORC doesn’t support the views of these manifestos then why publish them under their banner in the first place?

Secondly, who are the authors of these manifestos? Are they, as Imperator (Emperor)says, simply keen members of the Order, or is this a clever ploy to create a sense of objectivity in the teachings?

If it’s the former, then how aware are these authors of the manipulations they’re selling?