NOVEMBER 2016 ROSICRUCIAN MASS SERMON: GENIUS & THE HOLY GUARDIAN ANGEL

Genius becomes manifest, as the highest achievements in human thought, consciousness and physical performance; indeed, in all that we do with passion and discipline.  It is a lust for life that knows no boundaries that can’t be broken and dares go where angels fear to tread; genius being the attainment of godhood.  We are all meant to find this; eventually.

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OCTOBER 2016 ROSICRUCIAN MASS SERMON: SAINTS & HEROES

The image here is meant to imply that we choose our saints and our heroes by the reverence that the elders of our society, in council bring to people who have lived remarkable lives.  These champions of our society, through their great deeds and the legends of their great deeds bring enoblement to us all.  They connect us all together, as their stories and myths come upon our collective psyche, descending as if the holy Schekinah or the pentacostal fire of the Holy Spirit; visited upon us all, through them.

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SEPTEMBER 2016 ROSICRUCIAN MASS SERMON: TRUTH & BEAUTY

Truth or the truth is not something that can be objectified.  As beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is truth.  And so the truth may set you free; but you have to be free to choose.  This requires a clarity of mind and not one that is so completely conditioned by television and the Internet in our consumer culture.  With the anti-intellectual movement, thought is no longer considered to be elegant and the images of Madison Avenue have determined for us, our idea of visual beauty.  We’ve replaced Truth & Beauty with glamour and commercialism.

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AUGUST 2016 ROSICRUCIAN MASS SERMON: HISTORY & VIOLENCE

In is ‘Introduction to Metaphysics,’ Heidegger shows how history is intimately connected to racial ‘being.’  It is not merely the mark of the human race ‘being’ on the planet, but the essence of the human race ‘being’ on the planet.  And even with our very first breath, we violently displace the air and take up space.  This is done by the force of ‘being.’  History and violence cannot be separated from our ‘beingness.’  What does this say for the evolutionary ideal of peace?   Peace and violence seem to have a cyclic nature with the evolution of our society.  Though the consideration of violence, as a part of the human ideal seems very counter-intuitive.

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JULY 2016 ROSICRUCIAN MASS SERMON: SUPERSTITION & ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM

There is a darkness of the mind that pervades those who entertain superstitious ideas and affirm them to be true.  This is the way of the Black School of Magick, as its rank and file are made to serve its hierarchy.  From the perspective of the White School, the symbols are turned upside down and the people are ruled by ‘the fear of God.’  And in a society of these dark minds, it should not be surprising that a strong anti-intellectual movement will have its day.

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JUNE 2016 ROSICRUCIAN MASS SERMON: DUTY

The nature of the Will involved in the Thelemic motto: ‘Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law’ is that we are not talking about ‘do what you want’, but of an important responsibility to come to the Gnosis of who and what you are.  We each have a duty to ourselves, our families, friends and employer, as well as our neighbors and our community.  This all needs to be well-thought out and acted upon.

APRIL/MAY 2016 ROSICRUCIAN MASS SERMON: PRAYER & RITUAL

The twice-lost sermon is presented here.  In both April and May we tried to broadcast our monthly Rosicrucian Mass, with the Internet failing us.  And because of no broadcast, we offered the same sermon to our attending congregation; both sermons not being recorded because of the broadcast failure.  So looking into a camera on my desk, I recorded this sermon for our archive.

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MARCH 2016 ROSICRUCIAN MASS SERMON: THE CREATION OF SELF

Consciousness emerges in the human being, which immediately continues to establish its beingness.  The evolution of the individualized consciousness grows our bodies and forcibly takes itself into a physical, social and astral space.  If the key to Will is action, then it is this action that is the evidence for Self.  To get to an intimate awareness of this human function is the key to meaning in our lives, which connects us to a Universe of Love.  And as poetic as that sounds, we add to the poetry by describing this experience as the Knowledge & Conversation of thine Holy Guardian Angel.

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FEBRUARY 2016 ROSICRUCIAN MASS SERMON: THE THREE AGES

The confusing of time with the ontological unfolding of consciousness is difficult for many to grasp.  Even great minds will forgo an understanding of this in order to build a dogmatic structure that is counter-Gnostic.  But when one understands Aeons, not as markers of time, but markers of human consciousness, one opens one’s mind to a greater understanding of both the self and the Universe we live in.

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JANUARY 2016 ROSICRUCIAN MASS SERMON: MYTHOS, PARADIGM & EGREGORE

An egregore complements the concepts of mythos and paradigm.  The egregore is a thought-form that is usually generated by a society of minds and generates various gods and the cultures that form for a society of minds.  Mythos is also developed to help both the society and the individual to understand itself; him or herself.  Together they generate the operational paradigm that facilitates social interaction.

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