Category: Third Temple Degree

  • BELIEF VS “KNOWING”-PART I

    AMORC pretends towards extraordinary knowledge- of healing, of past history, of the power to telepathically communicate over great distance, to heal, to control the thoughts and feelings of others. In the same manner, they also present their members with a very comprehensive belief system. I go into how these beliefs…

  • “Nothing” as a Dogma

    I believe that, as stated in my last blog, the Rosicrucian affirmation that “Although some scientists are still pondering the questions of extraterrestrial life, the Rosicrucian teachings have affirmed for centuries that life may be present on other planets” functions in a valuable way to influence the members of AMORC’S…

  • EXTRATERRESTIAL AFFIRMATIONS AS A HYPNOTIC TOOL

    In my last blog “Nothing as a Dogma”, I began a discussion of how cult dogma is used to back engineer the cult personality by progressively influencing and deepening the belief system of the Rosicrucian member.  To this end, I brought up an  example from the Initiate Series of Monographs,…

  • BACK ENGINEERING THE CULT PERSONALITY

    In most of my discussions in this blog, which I have also discussed at length in AMORC Unmasked, I have focused on the hypnotic conditioning in regards to using Mind Control to create various hallucinatory phenomena- on one level or another- to confirm the initiatic advancement of the Rosicrucian adept.…

  • THE SUN KING

    In the Concurrence in Master Monograph, Degree 3, No. 3 in the Initiate Section, the famous occultist, Gerard Encausse (1865-1916) propounds his own concept of planetary evolution. He begins by saying that, Life is concentrated in a sun at the center of the system, and the planets receive more of…

  • FAITH AND KNOWING

    It is one thing to say you are a person of faith and believe that your faith will unlock the door to an absolute knowledge of God and His purposes. It is another to say that everything you believe is founded on verifiable logic and experience and say that the…

  • INITIATION: PORTAL TO MADNESS

    In my last blog, we discussed the set-up for the Initiation I carried out in my home sanctum for Temple Degree 3. After meticulously creating conditions for a very powerful hypnotic platform, as described in both the Prisoner of San Jose and AMORC UNMASKED, the candidate is then told: To…

  • RITUAL AND THE SEARCH WITHIN

    There is probably nothing more external than a ritual. Although it may embody some kind of symbolic reality, although it may suggest awakening, the ritual itself is an ever-repeated set of movements, chanting, invocations, perhaps singing in an atmosphere dressed with special costumes, candles, incense, often veiled in deep mystery…

  • AMORC’S VIEW ON THE ASSUMPTION OF MARY

    In my last blog, I continued my discussion of the concept of immortality as developed by the Rebirthers. In their writings, the Rebirthers distinguish between “deathists” and “immortalists.” Deathists believe in the death of the physical body. Immortalists believe in life everlasting, even for the physical body. They believe that…

  • A DIFFERENT VIEW OF TRANSITION

    I am discussing different views of what AMORC calls “transition” and what common humanity calls “death,” not to proselytize a viewpoint but to counteract the specific dogmas propounded by AMORC to its members, who are encouraged to stay closely within the informational borders of the only true existing and living…