Believe me, Bill, you are exactly the type fo person which can make AMORC the org. is it. I mean that sincerely and seriously.

That website, as many others which do not look beyond recent history, is incorrect in some of its statements. For a true, short historical outline of AMORC, please see this page.

Also, Roger and I have been members for over 25 yeas. Nowhere does it say or have we EVER been told to believe we are controlled by anything other than our ownselves. We do not, nor are we told, to address any diety of any kind. It is the ignorance of sites such as you noted which continue the misconceptions.

AMORC's monographs teach one the scientific application of metaphysical laws. And, before any of you poo=poo that, I woudl ask you to consider the following:

Throughout history a number of prominent persons in the fields of science and the arts have been associated with the Rosicrucian movement, such as Leonardo da Vinci (1452 to 1519), Cornelius Heinrich Agrippa (1486 to 1535), Paracelsus (1493 to 1541), Francoiz Rabelais (1494 to 1553), Theresa of Avila (1515 to 1582), John of the Cross (1542 to 1591), Francis Bacon (1561 to 1626), Jacob Boehme (1575 to 1624), Rene Descartes (1596 to 1650), Blaise Pascal (1623 to 1662), Baruch Spinoza (1632 to 1677), Isaac Newton (1642 to 1727), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz (1646 to 1716), Benjamin Franklin (1706 to 1790), Thomas Jefferson (1743 to 1826), Michael Faraday (1791 to 1867), Marie Corelli (1855 to 1924), Claude Debussy (1862 to 1918), Erik Satie (1866 to 1925) and Edith Piaf (1915 to 1963).

Not exactly your everyday, navel-gazing, empty-headed followers, if you know what I mean.:-)

kat