Rosicrucian Questions & Answers...

Some things are just black and white...

"Jongeman, eens zul je lid worden van deze Orde".

Wo sind die dann jetzt André, diese Rosenkreuzer von ihnen?
- Commissaire Ménardier in Belphegor

The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it. - Stanley Kubrick

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. - Albert Einstein

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. - Martin Luther King

A READER OF MY BLOG, YES I HAVE ONE, SUBMITTED A NUMBER OF QUESTIONS:

Q: : What lead you to become a rosicrucian?
A: Older people sometimes will tell you the strangest stories, on how they once joined the rosicrucian order. Well, things were so different in these days before the advent of the internet. If you now google the word rosicrucian you will score about 464.000 hits.
How different were things before the internet as you shall soon see, if you hear my story.
Past Dutch GM Eduard van Drenthem Soesman always used to tell us the story that once an old lady on a bus in Canada handed him an AMORC leaflet, foretelling him, young man, one day you'll be a member of that order! Was it precognition or a self-fulfilling prophecy? You tell me!
In 1966 as a young boy I watched a French television series called "Belphegor the Phantom of the Louvre". I could never explain the fear and excitement that I have felt watching this! This was by far the scariest and at the same time the most fascinating serial I have ever watched. It was fantastically well done, even by today’s standards, with a great and unsettling musical score. The series was about a secret of the Rosicrucians! This was the first time I ever learned the word rosicrucian and from that moment on I decided that I wanted to be one. However, where on earth could I find those mysterious rosicrucians? Did they still exist, I just didn’t know…
In the local library I located some very old books of the Rosicrucian Fellowship, which I started studying. Well I couldn’t even have joined them anyhow, since I was still living with my parents and coming from am orthodox Christian family this just wasn’t an option.
In 1974, meanwhile married, I saw in of all places my favourite car magazine, an AMORC advertisement. I watched to logo and I immediately knew that this was what I’d always been looking for. Applied and joined and stayed ever since.
Q: How long have you been a rosicrucian?
A: Since February 1974
Q: What principles did you apply in your life?
A: Probably most, on health, wealth etc. It permeates every aspect of my life.
Q: How can other fratres and sorores find your blog?
A: Well accidentally perhaps, by googling on certain rosicrucian themes. Well of course there’s no such thing as chance. Those who should find it for whatever reason, will find it.
Q: What is the purpose of your blog?
A: It first started as my personal rosicrucian notebook. In stead of making notes and writing them down on a piece of paper, I discovered that I could just as easily put them in a blog. I didn’t ever or don’t care about the number of visitors. If it helps one or two, I’m satisfied.
Gradually it started developing as a counter balance against the vicious and baseless attacks on AMORC so prevalent on the internet. Especially after the unholy Gary Stewart Affair, the true story of which you’ll find on my weblog.
I just don’t mind when ignorant people spread stupid tales on the rose cross, as you’ll also find a lot of nonsense about the Freemasons. But there’s a category of people, who’ve been longer or shorter with AMORC and who therefore ought to know better. They couldn’t live with it and apparently can’t live without it, and who in stead of getting a life of their own use all their energy and spare time to discredit AMORC.
Just to give you an example in this category, this moron Freeman, who wrote the Prisoner of San Jose, and in which he claims that AMORC mind controls and remotely indoctrinates its members! I’ve seen one or two things in life, but never anything as stupid as this one…
This is so unjust, and it perhaps keeps many people from joining who otherwise would, if they’d done so, benefit so much from it.
Right now we’re not just facing a credit crunch. But perhaps the most dangerous crisis we’re actually in, is the spiritual, mental crisis, yes existential crisis of humanity. So many people, who have no direction at all in life and religions are not always able to provide them with the right answers.
This crisis a.o. stems from the separation of science and religion. It is these people who without any spiritual basis for their life, those who hold no moral and ethical code of life and who in their recklessness and blind greed, and with their anti-social and irresponsible behaviour are guilty in the current financial crisis.
Q: How has it changed your life?
A: Yes, it made me so much happier and complete than I otherwise would have been, stronger in every respect.
Q: Have you ever been initiated in a temple?
A: Yes
Q: What is your philosophy of life?
A:Well the rosicrucian of course. There’s an afterlife, but don’t sit and wait for it. Enjoy every day and don’t worry about the things you can’t change. Don’t waste your time waiting for the right time. The time’s never right. TRY.
Q: Frater, can I get your permission to post this interview of a rosicrucian on my radio show blog?
A: You have my blessing bro* and best wishes for Peace Profound!

P.S. This was the scariest serial I have ever seen then and since! I was completely mesmerized with fear and excitement. Modern films cannot be compared to the brilliant 60ies version! So forget about the 2001 remake which is worthless, you can now watch the original 1965 version in its entirely on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCBE5418ED359944E

BELPHEGOR. Paris 1965...

1.Le Louvre (6 mars 1965)
2.Le Secret du Louvre (13 mars 1965)
3.Les Rose-Croix (20 mars 1965)
4.Le Rendez-vous du fantôme (27 mars 1965)