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I can't say whether the author's experience is typical or not. I'm sure that susceptibility counts, and his marginalization economically and culturally clearly contributed to his susceptibility. However, in my very short experience of AMORC, I found that the information was very light- weight esoterically, as well as oriented to self-aggrandizement. Also, when I publicly questioned the quality of the material I was encountering, I was subject to an instant, cult-like exclusion.
My conclusion: AMORC may be more benign than some other groups that hook people in with promises of psychological and spiritual power, but you aren't going to get much for your money if you really want esoteric training. AMORC, despite its claims, is not in the Rosicrucian tradition in any real sense, for true Rosicrucianism is a spiritual world conception. The goal of understanding the relationships within and between macrocosm and microcosm is much bigger than personal power. The goal is self-knowledge and the resultant ability to serve the spiritual beings you wish to serve in full conscious understanding of the implications.
AMORC appears to me to be primarily a business - just another of the many groups or charismatic personalities that build a lucrative schtick catering to people's desires for fraternity, personal power, invincibility, and comforting spiritual rituals. If that rings your chimes, and you've got bucks to burn, go for it.
COMMENTARY:
Dear Readers- in 2012, I am hoping to unleash another program, exposing the underbelly of AMORC. I ask you to be patient with me in the meantime.
I believe that this reader has a good grasp of what AMORC is and what Rosicrucianism, if it exists as a real phenomenon, should be. AMORC has taken whatever Truth might exist in such teachings and warped them to feed the lower mind, the human ego. I think the reader is right in saying it is “primarily a business,” a business that does not mind earning its keep by brainwashing its members and thereby depriving them of an honest quest for a real life and real answers to their most primal questions. I am now trying to catch up by attempting, again, to answer mine- while I help tear down the artifice that blocked me from finding out my own real answers for over two decades.
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The Open Letter to Christian Bernard Venerated Imperator of the Rosicrucians is available in French, Portuguese and English
French http://www.theprisonerofamorc.com/lettre-a-christian-bernard/
portuguese http://www.theprisonerofamorc.com/carta-aberta-a-bernard
English http://www.anopenlettertochristianbernard.com/
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