I assure you, AMORC would NOT want me in their midst! ☺

And 'religion' or ≠ religion, it is, like 'folk', a matter of how wide you set your definitions. It certainly has some of the characteristics, if not the defining one of "Supreme Being who made & controls us".

It IS discussed on the website I noted before. I suppose that members (or is it Internal Revenue?) have the last word about 'official' classification, but when I read about a set of carefully set out, organized and protected metaphysical beliefs and practices, the distinctions blur.