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AMORC INITIATION-TEMPLE DEGRE 4- THE SECRETS OF THE AZORES

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AMORC’s version of initiations can be somewhat lonely- because, if done in the Home Sanctum, you have one male or female initiate speaking as a Candidate in a regularly-pitched voice, but responding in the initiatic sequence in their own low-pitched voice. This is, of course, true of the Fourth Degree ritual in the Initiate Section.

MY ANSWER TO YUSUSUFF

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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 please?”

I understand Yususuff’s passionate desire for the truth, but I don’t know if the answer is to look for a specific group of any kind, much less a Rosicrucian group. In my book, AMORC Unmasked, over and over again, I point out how the apex, the point, the objective of true spirituality is to make contact with the Divine Presence.

AMORC INITIATION-TEMPLE DEGRE 3 PART IV- GOOD FOOD FOR THE LOWER MIND

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 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 and prestige. Whereas it might be difficult to imagine or measure the degree of advancement of a pupil in regards to his telepathic abilities, initiation spells out where he or she is in the world of the Rosy Cross- immediately.

And- putting aside the disclaimer that the more advanced an adept, the less ego he has- the higher the initiation, in fraternal orders like this, the more the ego is potentially fed. In other words, just like the imagination can create hallucinatory fantasy if unlocked with the power of suggestion through hypnosis, the ego or lower mind can create self-distorting fantasy under the power of pseudo-initiations granted by the false authority of an imagined spiritual hierarchy. Initiations are really good food for the lower mind. 

  

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AMORC INITIATION-TEMPLE DEGRE 3 PART III- BLURRING OF REALITY

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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, on the screen of your consciousness, you will see particular scenes rising from a distant past..

In AMORC UNMASKED, I make this critical point:

The question for someone undergoing very extensive work in imaging while involved with an occult organization is whether they are preparing themselves for higher reality, presumably the world of meditation and higher consciousness on certain levels- or the world of lower reality, the world of illusion and hallucination. Are they, perhaps, be sinisterly inducted into controlled hallucinatory experiences…?

It is quite fashionable to speak about cult personalities these days in exit psychology books, but do many of these writers understand the vast amount of concentrated effort that is made in AMORC’s Mind Control program. In my opinion, people are trained to hallucinate themselves into a very complex, but highly rewarding reality. If you fall into the same rabbit hole that I did, you begin to actually believe it.

  

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AMORC INITIATION-TEMPLE DEGRE 3 PART II- PORTAL TO MADNESS

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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 perpetuate this rite, I asked that you remain seated, relax as much as possible, and try to imagine what could compose this phenomena, which the candidates of the initiation could not understand. If you can make yourself receptive enough, you will attune with the Akashic Records and, on the screen of your consciousness, you will see particular scenes rising from a distant past- even when this ritual took place in the Egyptian temples.

Note how, while performing the ritual, we are given very unsubtle and direct clues to what we should experience, something I believe that is akin to a post hypnotic suggestion delivered in a state of total psychological transference (a state of depending or transferring authority to an outside entity- in Freudian psychology, a parent; in this example, an omnipotent Cosmic Order called AMORC).

Is this something to be worried about?

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AMORC INITIATION-TEMPLE DEGRE 3 PART I-RITUAL AND THE SEARCH WITHIN

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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 and a sense of sacred history.

In AMORC, if you were not near a Lodge, all you needed was your home sanctum, replete with candles, incense and a mirror and your sacred monograph. I remember drinking my glass of water, washing my hands and setting out to perform the Initiation for Degree 3. In the ritual, the candidate is informed that “more than 3000 years ago, the advanced members of the Order, concealed in the temple alcoves, put into practice the psychic faculties they had developed…”

In AMORC UNMASKED, I show often how “Rosicrucian” experiments begin with creating a relaxed atmosphere (note the suggestion of “soft lighting” that preceeds the initiation), then deploys various hypnotic triggers ranging from certain specific sounds, special signs, repetitive phrasing and then proceeds to a certain phase of the hypnotic process, the core of which I shall discuss in my next blog.

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