Rosicrucian Order AMORC, Southern Cross

31/08/2026

The warning in Revelation 16:3 is symbolic, not religious. It describes what happens when people ignore their responsibility to the world around them. When water becomes contaminated and life dies, it reflects the consequences of selfish or careless behavior.

Religion applies to the whole world, not just to faith communities. The core message is simple: don’t act holy in public. God sees you in private. Real faith is personal and quiet — a private relationship with God.

Environmental damage, like red tide from coliform contamination, is a real‑world example of what happens when responsibility is ignored. true religion is to remind us not to ignore responsibility to divine creation

30/08/2026

The AMORC term “So Mote It Be” is an injunction, a command, expressing the will that what has been affirmed should become so. Will is about power: the power to direct consciousness towards an intention and to act upon it. Willpower is the inner force required to sustain that intention until it is accomplished.

What we do in little things we will do in big things. AMORC gives exercises and experiments for the development of both the will and intentions. Do them. Then the “so mote it be” becomes a decree, a command, a manifestation.

So mote it be – only four words. Just words. A dream. The student is sometimes perceived to be feeling plaintive: “Why didn’t it work?” “I tried so HARD.” I did everything exactly as outlined in the exercise and did not get the result I visualised.”

What happened?

Nothing happened.

The student had the will but not the power.

So here’s the secret, the “magic” if you like:

You have to train your will.

1. Do what you say you will do, be impeccable with your word.

2. Keep promises

3. Show up

4. Do the dishes

5. Clean up after yourself

6. Be punctual

7. If you decide to stop smoking, stop

8. If you decide to stop gambling, drinking, or keeping the wrong company, stopping

9. Be kind

10. Find a way to serve humanity, your community, your family. Find a way and do it.

It is only by the daily doing of duty, the ordinary chop wood and carry water days, the things that appear to have nothing at all to do with being a mystic, an AMORC student, that build up your muscle – the power of the will.

Be honest. Keep your word. Be reliable. Live the Master’s life for an hour or a day. Attend to the task at hand.

You cannot see what this has to do with the great promise given to us students? Do it anyway. What a drag! Right? Yes. Until ...

Until there is an emergency, a crisis.

You see clearly what needs to be done, your perceptions and discernment now well developed through the studies. You visualise. You breathe. You project your intent

13/08/2026

"The thoughtless man bridleth not his tongue; he speaketh at random and is entangled in the foolishness of his own words. As one runneth in haste, and leapeth over a fence, may fall into a pit on the other side, which he doth not see; so is the man that plungeth suddenly into any action before he hath considered the consequences thereof, and the compensation which The Law will exact." Unto Thee I Grant

06/08/2026

27/07/2026

Grand Master Julie Scott shared some of her own initiation experiences in the

Rosicrucian Digest (2024, Number 1). Here are some excerpts:

*Initiation and ritual are some of the most important aspects of my experience as a Rosicrucian and in my life. The first time I went to a Rosicrucian event was at the St. Louis Lodge. It was a lodge convocation… We began the convocation and intoned the vowel sounds. This was something new for me—we were all chanting together. And, at one point, a bolt of energy shot up my spine out the top of my head and I was in this fountain of indescribably beautiful white light.*

*That was my initiation as a Rosicrucian.*

*Initiation is beyond what we typically experience on this plane, beyond what our five senses typically allow us to perceive and experience, and this happened during a lodge convocation; it was not an initiation, but it was my initiation.*

*After that, I participated in the First Temple Degree initiation. This is always presented in two parts, and we are excused between Part One and Part Two and encouraged to observe silence. So, I went home. I spent some time in a park. It was a full moon, and I was just being bathed in the moon, not really on purpose; I was just in the park, observing silence, and then my awareness shifted until I was the moon. My awareness was at the level of the moon. I had not planned this. This was not in the Rosicrucian temple and what occurred in the temple prepared me for this. The initiatic ceremony and the vibrations of the temple prepared me for the experience of attuning with another plane of awareness…*

*Sometimes I would ask newer Rosicrucian members: How are your your studies going? I changed the way I phrase that now because our goal with setting up our sanctums and having our having regular sanctum periods, is to set the conditions for mystical experiences, to set the conditions for attuning with other planes of consciousness. Studying is not a profound enough term for what we do as

23/07/2026

"The Mystical Path proposed by Rosicrucian mysticism does not intend to fuel the idea that a person, in their personal quest, should turn away from life, family, and friends, and become a recluse. Far from it. Rosicrucian mysticism is like a continuous breath of fresh air, its purpose being to reignite the fire that is partially extinguished. This fire can ignite certain aspects of our personality, purify those aspects and restore those energies that are an inherent part of us." Claudio Mazzucco