APRIL 2024 ROSICRUCIAN MASS SERMON: BECOMING

In this sermon, we talk about elements in our Doctrine of the Four Yods; found in our Rosicrucian Mass service (Integrity and Intuition). Becoming follows the natural ontology of being that starts immediately at birth. And we might add to this that the wonder and awe of our infancy is not only the starting point of this ontology, but is the very reason that we can declare that life is pure joy, as noted in Liber AL vel Legis. The struggle of becoming is that joy, as we derive meaning for our lives through this developmental process. But note that the maturation process often causes us to forget this, and getting back to it is what becoming is all about.

MARCH 2024 ROSICRUCIAN MASS SERMON: THE MAGICKAL CHILDE

The Magickal Childe That we adore the Biune God in our Rosicrucian Mass refers to the dual natured disposition of the Supernal L.V.X. Of this is the Great Mother and the Great Father that mate and produce the Magical Childe that is Adonai; the Holy Guardian Angel of Tiphareth; expressed as the Adam Kadmon and the Shekinah. The implied sexual force has become lost to the Abrahamic world, and has developed a dysfunctional taboo that won’t allow the sexual force to in any be connected with that which is considered holy. Though indeed, it is the holy force of the Divine itself.

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FEBRUARY ROSICRUCIAN MASS SERMON: THE BLACK SHEEP

The Black Sheep of the family or the community is oftern the prophet, art and Genius. He or she goes beyond the boundaries of life; dancing on the edge of the fire (Spirit) to return with the fire of the gods. The world rejects such people at first; sending him or her off on a hero’s journey. And the virtue of this is so very well shown in Patti Smith’s remarkable poem: Konya the Shepherd. Here is the perfect ideal of American Transcendentalism for your consideration.

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DECEMBER 2023 ROSICRUCIAN MASS SERMON: SILENCE

Silence, the 4th Power of the Sphinx indicates to us the substrate or unconscious layer of our psyche. Language and words are a secondary attribute and not the whole of consciousness. Words help us bring what’s in our psyche to function in the outer world and to communicate with each other. But it is the images and symbols of the psyche that emerge out of the ‘silent will.’ These are the source of our creativity.

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NOVEMBER 2023 ROSICRUCIAN MASS SERMON: METAPHYSICS

Metaphysics is a confusing subject for the beginner. In populist-oriented social media it takes on more the idea of a supernatural exploration to personal power through the medium of producing miracles. But the Gnostic has no regard for such superstition. Rather, the Gnostic studies the philosophical tradition of metaphysics that started with Greek philosophy and moves through German Idealism into Existentialism. Understanding this speculative science is a certain key to psychic growth.

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OCTOBER 2023 ROSICRUCIAN MASS SERMON: SUPERSTITION

History’s integral importance to our understanding and its revelation of the collective human Spirit, marks a description of an important part of our Gnosis; our awareness. If we don’t know where we’re from, or where we’re really going, how can we know anything about where we are? And its the study of our Being that is in the here and now that makes our understanding whole. Superstition appears with its nihilism when all of this is forgotton or ignored. Ignorance then reigns supreme.

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SEPTEMBER 2023 ROSICRUCIAN MASS SERMON: TELEOLOGY

AL:II.62 “I am uplifted in thine heart; and the kisses of the stars rain hard upon thy body.” The individual is responsible for creating him or herself, as much as to create a Soul, or what is called the Body of Light. But the force that animates the body initially, is called a teleological force; that which comes to Earth vertically from the Universe of stars of above. Yet it is an undifferentiated force that produces nothing individualistic in any being it inhabilts; individualization being that Soul that must be produced by what one does and produces in the world.

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AUGUST 2023 ROSICRUCIAN MASS SERMON: THE HUMAN CYCLE

It is the Earth that we know; we come from the Earth, as we’re born and we return to the Earth when we die. This life cycle seems to extend itself through a series of lives that we live through. And maybe it is that as we’ve evolved, we’ve lived the lives of rocks, plants and animals. If there’s any way to determine this, it would have to be found in the sensibility of our being; whether that be an individual or collective sensibility. Short of being able to do this, we can but speculate and ruminate, which is the best we can do at this time.

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JULY 2023 ROSICRUCIAN MASS SERMON: ROSICRUCIAN AMERICA

Competing influences came from Europe to the American continent, but most important for us was the Rosicrucian Enlightenment that was in full swing at the time. That they were up against the Calvinist Movement is significant; the Rosicrucians being the Spirit of Light, Life, Love & Liberty, and the Calvinists being the body of what would become American wealth and prosperity. And actually, both were lost to the empire that we would become, though our empire would become the fulfillment of a triptich of empires: Egypt, Rome and America.

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MAY 2023 ROSICRUCIAN MASS SERMON: NON-ATTACHMENT/DETACHMENT

To keep one’s focus on life, one has to remove such attachment as that which holds our fears and weaknesses. For example, the fear of death keeps us from living out our lives; some get absorbed with Heaven, Hell and Reincarnation. When life’s focus gets subjectively fixed on this, one has alienated themselves from themselves, when rather, they should learn to step back and see their lives from an objective distance. This kind of detachment will help us to discover meaning for our lives and bring us to an inner state of wonder and joy.

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