Category: Third Temple Degree

  • REBELS

    For those interested, Krishnamurti may have come to rather strong ideas about education, but he is remembered as a spiritual teacher who rebelled against his Theosophical Masters. As a child, Krishnamurti, an unknown Indian boy, was chosen by Anne Besant, the successor to Madame Blavatsky, the controversial founder of Theosophy…

  • PEDAGOGUE

    Continuing our look at the Initiate Section, we now turn to Degree 3, No. 9. This monograph begins with a Concurrence of long quote from Krishnamurti, who is described as a “great pedagogue.” According to the Houghton Mifflin dictionary a “pedagogue” is a schoolteacher; an educator with a secondary meaning,…

  • THE IMPACT OF THE FIRST BREATH THEORY

    As I describe in The Prisoner of San Jose, my earliest ambition was to become a Catholic Priest. As I say in the book- Acceptance into the Catholic seminary was an almost perfect ticket out of poverty and into an Ivy League school.  Many young boys and girls were coached…

  • THE DIVISIVE LITTLE BREATH

    An infant breathes for the first time? Is that the beginning of life? AMORC insists it is, yet as cited in the The Master Monograph from the Initiate Section, Degree 3, No. 8, AMORC actually developed a prenatal course, called THE CHILD CULTURE SERIES. Why bother so much if the…

  • WHY ABORTION?

    I now will try and speculate a bit about why AMORC makes such a big deal out of defending an argument about the beginning of life that would justify abortion. This had baffled me for awhile- because there is such an emphasis on the life beginning with the “first breath”…

  • THE MYSTERIOUS ARCHIVES

    As I proceeded through the monographs for the first time, I was always awed by the rich mystery traditions that were represented their foundation. In the last monograph, we were told that the Rosicrucian archives clearly show that serious involvement with creating positive pre-natal influence was found in the Greek…

  • LIFE AND DEATH OF THE FETUS

    In the summary of Master Monograph, Degree 3, No. 7 in the Initiate Section, AMORC says- While in the mother’s womb, a fetus may be considered one of her organs, except that it develops by following a perfectly pre-established process worthy of the greatest respect and admiration. AMORC’s assertion is…

  • POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE UNVERIFIABLE

    As we proceed to Degree 3, No. 6 of the Initiate Section, we now move towards the consequences that theoretical ideas might have. I think this is most dramatically demonstrated in AMORC’s attitude towards abortion. According to AMORC, unlike most religious creeds that “state the life should enters the embryo…

  • MY ANSWER TO YUSUSUFF

    Yususuff R. Olaniyi  responded to my blog, “Good Food for the Lower Mind,” in which I spoke cynically of the Initiatic Degrees in AMORC, said, “Ok Mr. Freeman, I am actually someone looking for true spirituality and I am sure there are true Rosicrucian groups around. Could you recommend any…

  • BELIEF VS KNOWING -PART II

    In our last blog, we spoke about AMORC’s doctrine that animal flesh contains the memory of human cruelty in memory of their killing by human beings. In the Golden Bough by George Frazier, a landmark in early anthropological writing, Frazier says about the Aino (or Ainu) tribe in Alaska and…