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Convocation: Experiment 2 on Visualization, 2 pm, Wilsonville 5/12/19

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Come to Convocations this month only if you wish to become more proficient in the art of Mental Creation.  Using the three skills of Concentration, Contemplation, and Visualization, a Rosicrucian can take ideas from the mental plane and bring them to the plane of Actuality.  

Come to Convocations only if you wish to shape the way your world works, instead of letting life happen to you.

Come to Convocations because you may have picked up part of our vision of a fun and full Enneadic Star Chapter and you want to take this vision and bring it into Actuality. 

All this year we are tailoring Convocation discourses and Exercises to the twin goals of making you a more powerful and skillful adept, and to making our group a more powerful, skillful and loving place to share our lights with you.

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Advice on Manifesting a New Pronaos

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Philae Temple – painting by David Roberts 1838.

We’ve been talking a lot about how we can improve the Pronaos.  We recently set a goal to not only improve how we serve the members but to grow the Pronaos into a Chapter. That’s an ambitious goal, and it will take a lot of creativity, energy and help from the members and the Cosmic to manifest.

Below is a letter about how they reinvigorated a Pronaos written by a past master in Canada. Please take some time to read this and visualize higher energy and vital life force flowing to our group in a way that benefits all beings.

If you have an idea on things that the Pronaos could do or could do better to serve the members, email us.

Below Written by Fr. Bernie Cook [Edited for length]

Disharmony manifests in many ways. It could be strife between members, low attendance numbers, low bank balances or even struggling to get people to attend Open Meetings and convocations. Even not having the right people taking on positions of leadership, will reflect an imbalance. It is often not even considered, but every business, organization or country has its own “birth date” and date of transition. With it comes its own karma. The affiliate body that you are a part of has its own birthday and end date, but we can prolong the life span of our affiliated body by “feeding” it energy. If not fed with sufficient power, symptoms such as those listed above will reveal themselves.
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Updates for April: Online Discussion Group testing, Workshop Volunteers

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Online Discussion Group

We’ll begin testing out our new online discussion group and meditation this month. This group is designed to connect with members who are too far away to attend convocation. In these sessions, we’ll be doing simple meditations like the overall exercise and other visualizations and talking about topics from the Rosicrucian monographs.

We’ll be using the Zoom platform. All you’ll need is an email address, a computer with a microphone and video camera and a reliable broadband connection. We’ll be sending out notes to folks who have expressed an interest in the project. We’ll set up times for you to meet online and test the equipment. We plan to offer a regular schedule of online meetings (hopefully) in May.

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New Year’s Vision: Rebuilding Our Wonderful Temple

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The Spring Equinox on March 20 welcomed in the Rosicrucian New Year 3372 which commemorates the birth of Pharaoh Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV), the ancient Egyptian pharaoh who is the spiritual founder of our order.

This new year is a very exciting time for AMORC members here in Oregon/Southwest Washington and for the Enneadic Star Pronaos. We are embarking on an ambitious new project, and we want your help!

Our vision is to grow the local group from a Pronaos to a Chapter! A Chapter is a much larger group that brings it with new rituals, new officer positions, and new services for attending members. To create a Chapter we will need more members to attend convocation. How many? Well, we’ll have to have 30 members in attendance at a convocation, at least three times this year.  It’s an ambitious goal. But it’s one of the best ways we can better serve you, the members, initiates, and seekers of this region.

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March Updates: Postcards – Alchemy Workshop Planning Volunteers Needed -Get Initiated!

On By Oregon AMORCIn Alchemy, News2 Comments

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We have a few short news items for the members this March:

Initiations
If you didn’t know already, we are now authorized to do Pronaos initiations. This is an essential ritual for members, and you must apply for it after attending three Pronaos meetings.  A Pronaos initiation teaches you how to ritually behave in a Pronaos, what the rules are, and what a lot of the symbolism means.   The Pronaos initiation is quite different from a degree initiation, which can only be done at a Lodge. This ritual solidifies your relationship to the local group and helps strengthen your bond with the egregore, or spiritual and energic collective, of our group.

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Overall Exercise draws Rosicrucians for meditation, visualization, snacks

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IMG_0296If you were unable to make it to our last open class, we’re sad to say; you missed out on a great time.

On Sunday, Jan. 27. about two dozen Rosicrucians and half a dozen inquirers gathered at the Kenton Masonic Lodge in Portland for public teaching on the Overall Exercise visualization.

We usually hold a members-only ritual (convocation) on every other Sunday of the month. But in January we held two rare public teachings on fundamental Rosicrucian mystical practices.  Earlier that month we had an open class on the intonation of the Vowel Sounds at our Wilsonville ritual location. The good news is that if you missed it, these classes have been so popular we’ll probably have more in the coming year.

At the Kenton event, we gathered in the library among the dusty tomes of Masonic rituals and the exotic artifacts of that organization. Typically, we’d have events in the main temple, but because of a renovation project, that area was not entirely mystical feeling. But the library had a very venerable and cozy quality to it.

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What is Rosicrucianism, AMORC and the ESP?

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Our tradition weaves through many ancient movements including the hermetic schools of Egypt and the Essences of Palestine. [Image from Sacred History of the Rosicrucians. See below.]
For those of you who are just starting to learn about Rosicrucianism, here is a little more about who we are. We are the Enneadic Star Pronaos (ESP), a local membership group preserving and transmitting the Rosicrucian tradition of the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC), here in Portland, Ore.

Rosicrucians are syncretistic and metaphysical societies that study a wide variety of subjects such as meditation, inner alchemy, telepathy, and energetic healing– however, we are not merely involved in a grab bag of esoteric novelties. We teach that these disciplines are practical applications of an underlying Natural Law that determines the operations of the universe. Study of Natural Law, with a rigorous grounding in ethics and scholarship, is the core pursuit of the order. We seek self-knowledge and betterment for humanity in a way that takes us into the profound spiritual reality beneath the visible phenomena of the physical world. Continue reading “What is Rosicrucianism, AMORC and the ESP?” →

Members Say What They Like Most About AMORC, Pronaos (Survey Results)

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Grand Masters of two countries plus the Imperator, join members at a gala dinner during the 2016 Rosicrucian tour of Eygpt.

Over the last month and a half local AMORC members have been responding to our online survey, and now the results are in.

Thank you to all who took the time to complete the online form or for speaking with me over the phone. The feedback we got is invaluable. You helped us to see what is most important to you as a spiritual seeker and as a member of AMORC. [You can still take the survey here.]

So, what did everyone say?

To date, 42 members responded to the survey. Most of them were members who have not attended convocation in 6 months or more. More than, anything else those who answered the call indicated that a sense of community is the most important single quality that ESP can provide. Continue reading “Members Say What They Like Most About AMORC, Pronaos (Survey Results)” →

Curious About Rosicrucian Mystical Practices? Come to Public Vowel Sounds Class

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hyroglyphs.vowel.soundsThe Enneadic Star Pronaos will hold a class on the Rosicrucian vowel sounds, on Sunday, January 13. The event is a rare teaching that is entirely open to the public. We’re very excited about it.

The event will be great for people who want to learn more about Rosicrucian mystical techniques and a good way for our current members to practice in a group and connect with others.

We’re Into the Group Thing

We encourage all to attend. Rosicrucian techniques are powerful, and they can have a greater impact when practiced in a group.  The vibratory energy released the vowel sounds in a group is something everyone should experiences. Many of us have had incredible experiences intoning vowels sounds at Rosicrucians convocations, seminars or other large gatherings of Rosicrucians.

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Enneadic Star Pronaos launches new blog

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IMG_4255[Above: The Kenton Masonic Lodge. This is where we meet in Portland for our pronaos rituals and peace meditations. We also meet at the Wilsonville grange hall.]

Welcome to the new blog of the Enneadic Star Pronaos. We are a local AMORC group for Oregon and SW Washington. On this blog you will find lots of cool information about the Rosicrucian tradition, local pronaos events and rituals, news, and information about mysticism in the AMORC tradition.

We especially want to hear from you, our members. We invite you to contribute to this blog. Send us your photos, art, videos and writings about the mystical subjects and things you are most passionate about. We’d love to get book and article reviews and stories about your mystical experiences. There are over 100 of you in our area and we would love to hear from you all.

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