Category: First Temple Degree
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Are Religions Just Dogma Factories?
It should be noted here that in Mandamus 1, AMORC’s view of religion, as “perpetuating dogmas established originally by one or two individuals” could be said to be an over-simplification. For one thing, there are some very real questions- just in regards to Christianity, if any of the dogmas perpetuated…
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Dogma and Religion
In Mandamus No. 1, AMORC comments on the difference between religion and a mystical order. Regarding religion, it says that -is intent upon perpetuating dogmas that were established originally by one or two individuals. When these dogmas reflect the Universal Good, the behaviors dictated by the religion are valid. Yet…
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THE HAPPY POSTULANT
As I return to my roots as a happy postulant, reviewing the first Monograph, Mandamus 1 in the Postulant Section, I begin to understand the springboards of my self-destruction. If one carefully reads The Prisoner of San Jose, it is easy to see that, given the poverty of my family-…
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OPENING THE DOOR
In AMORC Unmasked, I discussed some of the key initiations in AMORC, but I didn’t really talk about the details that take place in the Temple. The following is an accurate summary of the ritual (with some commentary, of course), revealing another side of the profoundly complex ordering of events…
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THE FOURTH POINT
Now, having visited the chilling North, experienced the golden twilight of the West and the scintillating warmth of the South, the travellers have finally (ritualistically, at least) arrived at the fourth point, the mysterious East, home of the Greater Light. Now, despite the fact that the East is the abode…
AMORC Unmasked 