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Muse

I have been a student of Rosicrucianism for over two decades. I remember the attitude of seriousness I had for those first mailings. I knew I was going to embark on a journey such as one could not quite experience in mundane reality.

Whatever an individual's religious indoctrination, it helped, in my case, as preparation for the understanding of intitiatic ritual. Attending a few seances in early adolescence didn't hurt either.

There was a time, as I emerged from my teenage years when I took a fancy to the subjects of Zen and martial arts. Zen was easier. What I appreciated about Zen was the idea of paradox. Winning by yielding rather than an all out rush to a clash.

The Rosicrucian Movement exists to offer humanitarian aid. A member of the movement is provided with lessons designed to awaken latent attributes of consciousness. I have grown to understand that the "psychic" phenomena in esoteric studies is not the be all and end all on the Path. Naturally, at first, a young neophyte is attracted to the novelty of such ideas. What I've experienced through my personal affiliation is a feeling of confidence that has made possible for me to persevere in the vicissitudes of life.

Somewhere along the first three Temple Degrees there is an initiation wherein the candidate is given a name. This name describes an inclination the initiate has. One begins to "know thyself." Oftentimes we are oblivious to how we do certain things. We just do them.

Conscience and self-reliance are fostered by way of a compelling series of instructions over time.

Without the concept of reincarnation, life appears senseless. Without any system of keeping memories of experience, in some level of consciousness, how would evolution proceed?

It may be that this concept is latent within all of us, understood inwardly. And if that is so, could it be the driving force propelling us onward through life, sometimes without our awareness?

--Pensator

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