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Solstice Event Dates, New Phone Number, Video Discussion Format: May Updates

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Save the Date: June 21 Weekend Solstice Gathering
Spring is in full bloom, and we are a getting ready for the Summer Solstice. We are planning on having a two-day event at the Maryhill Stonehenge replica this year on the weekend of June 21. Last year we had a fantastic one-day event with a picnic and about 25 Rosicrucians and their friends from Washington, Oregon, and California coming together at this beautiful location.

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Last year’s Solstice gathering at Stonehenge. Photo by Frater Kris

Details for the event are still coming together, so be on the lookout for more in our update email, this blog, and social channels. If you’d like to volunteer, please email us.

Calling all Beta-testers, pioneers, and tech-friendly members

We are rolling out a new experimental forum for members in Southwest Washington and Oregon. If you are a member and would like to talk with other members (just text, no video or voice), you will be able to do so on the new ESP Slack site.  Slack is just like Facebook, but it will only be open to local Rosicrucian members. This was an idea suggested to us by one of our members, way out on the Oregon/Idaho state line.

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Mystical Anxiety: Getting Behind on your Monographs

On By Oregon AMORCIn Core Teachings, News4 Comments

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We recently spoke with a half dozen members in different parts of the state as part of our new online discussion group project. The one thing everyone had in common no matter when they joined AMORC or what part of the state they lived in was a feeling of anxiety about keeping up with their monograph readings.

In regards to this issue, the current Pronaos Master Anjala writes:

“This is an unpleasant situation that happens to all members.  In 40 years of being a member, I have never met someone who always reads their monographs every week, without fail.  

An administrator from Grand Lodge once told me that most members drop out in the 7th Degree.  If you have kept up reading your monographs, whenever you could, and you are past the 7th Degree, please accept my congratulations for you are not ordinary! When Grand Lodge was extensively staffed, back in the 1990s, I called my then Class Master and confessed to being a year behind in my monographs.  She was very soothing and said I should simply double up and read two monographs at a time until I had caught up.  She was very understanding.

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Convocation: Experiment 2 on Visualization, 2 pm, Portland 5/26/19

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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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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:

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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?” →