Category: Third Temple Degree

  • GAINING PEACE OF MIND THROUGH REGULATING MENTAL DESIRES

    A Commentary on Monograph 3 of the First Plane             In Monograph Number Three of Plane One, one of those coveted monographs that are obtained after one has graduated from the Twelfth Degree, the highest degree in the progressive Rosicrucian Order of ranks through initiation, the idea of Peace of…

  • PROPAGATING AND EXPANDING THE UNVERIFIABLE

    The honest truth is, despite everything I have said about dogma propagated by the Rosicrucians, the fact that it is so very poorly propped up by acceptable reality, does not disprove their hypotheses. In fact, since I believe, there actually is real perceptual foundations for “occult” experience, for a more…

  • THE FIFTH ELEMENT OF THE IMPROVABLE

    Before I fancifully speculate on the Fifth Element of Improvable Dogma, let me return to the Cell as discussed in Degree 3, No. 4 of the Initiate Section. On page 7 of the Master Monograph pamphlet, we see a nice little diagram, which contains a picture of the cell from…

  • THE ELEMENTAL CATEGORIES OF THE IMPROVABLE

    In my last blog Occult Dogma Love it or Leave it , we looked at three elemental categories of belief: THE FIRST THREE ELEMENTS OF DOGMA 1) Air: a dogma that is proliferated only hypothetically. It floats on nothing-on air- but is proposed to “probably” be real. In this manner…

  • OCCULT DOGMA- LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT?

    When AMORC says, as in Master Monograph, Degree 3, No. 3, the Initiate section- It is easy to understand that simply eating and drinking is not enough to maintain life. Breathing is also an essential function, as it enables us to draw the positive polarity of Vital Life Force from…

  • GOOD FOOD FOR THE LOWER MIND

    We have focused on initiation as a portal to another level of illusionary reality, but in a sense- let’s face it, so are at least 75% of the AMORC experiments. The difference, though, between an exercise in visualization or telepathy and initiation- is that the idea of initiation involves advancement…

  • BLURRING OF REALITY

    In reviewing Initiation 3, I commented on how, at a certain point after the ritual has advanced to a certain point, the candidate is told to imagine how the initiations took place thousands of years ago. By doing this, the monograph says, -you will attune with the Akashic Records and,…

  • ONLY A TRANSITION

    We return to the idea of the first breath in, Degree 3, No. 9 of the Initiate Section, which is fixated on the idea of death. AMORC says in a section labeled “The Last Breath”- You now know that at the moment the fetus inhales for the first time, these…

  • A HARRY POTTER EXPERIENCE

    As we mentioned, Degree 3, No. 9 of the Initiate Section, talks about educational ideals for children and the need for special sensitivity when the child is young. Still, despite the fine talk about how a child is closer to the spiritual realms than he is in latter stages of…

  • PROPOUNDING AN EDUCATIONAL IDEAL

    We have seen how AMORC clearly wishes to establish that the first breath corresponds to the moment when the soul enters the human body. This point of view is commenced immediately at the opening of Degree 3, No. 9 of the Initiate Section, when it says, From the moment infants…