Rosicrucian Monographs

AMORC's Rosicrucian Monographs

Below is a brief description of what a AMORC students will learn during their future years of affiliation with AMORC.

These teachings are part of the Rosicrucian Monographs.

These are not the only subjects covered by the Rosicrucian system. The list contained here, which should be perceived as unofficial, is adapted from the Rosicrucian Home Study Lessons section of the Web version of the Mastery of Life published by the English Grand Lodge for the Americas.

[edit] AMORC Grade Structure

The AMORC grades, or as they called, Degrees, are arranged into four sections or groups:
Neophyte section - That is the basic section and includes three degrees.
Temple section – That is the intermediate section and includes eight degrees. After the year 2000, there was a reformation of the degrees, and their titles changed as well as the name of this section.
Illuminati section – That is the advanced section and includes four degrees. After the year 2000, their titles changed. For instance, the Illuminati section was split in three sections: The Illuminati proper section, including the 9th, 10th, and 11th degrees.
The Esoteric Hierarchy section, including the 12th degree as an introduction to a new entire new section called the Ordo Summum Bonum

Ordo Summun Bonun section - That section has a subsection entitled the Planes, which includes another set of nine degrees. The “Plane” degrees were created by HSL's son Ralph Maxwell Lewis (1904-1987), initiate name: Sar Validivar, during his period as AMORC Imperator (1939 to 1987). Those degrees are purely philosophical in nature and discuss the nature of the Cosmic and its Natural Laws.

[edit] Neophyte section

Like in ancient times, if a person wanted to study the great mysteries of the world, they would have to petition for admittance as a student and become a Neophyte. The Neophyte would be granted admittance to the Atrium, or reception chamber to the temple. In the Atrium the Neophyte would receive the preliminary instructions and beginning teachings, before they would be allowed entry into the temple. Following ancient times the Rosicrucian monographs are called Atrium lessons, and beginning Rosicrucian students are called Neophytes.

[edit] Introductory lessons

Presents basic Rosicrucian concepts that can be applied in practical ways. One of the first things the students will learn as a Neophyte is that they are a dual being. In addition to the student's five physical senses, the student also has a psychic sense. The exercises in these introductory lessons are designed to gradually awaken and develop the psychic faculty. The exercises allow the students to discover for themselves through direct experience how these principles work. Topics include:
Mystical Sounds
Spiritual Alchemy
Time and Space
Human and Cosmic Consciousness
Meditation
Development of the Intuition
Introduction to: Human Aura, Telepathy, Metaphysical Healing

[edit] First Atrium

The first Atrium explores consciousness as the organizing principle of matter and explains the composition and structure of matter and its vibratory nature. You'll learn how the creative power of thought affects the material world. This power is demonstrated through exercises in the techniques of concentration, visualization, and mental creation. Topics include:
Composition and Structure of Matter
Power of Thought and Concentration
Visualization
Telepathy
Mental Projection
Law of the Triangle

[edit] Second Atrium

The student's understanding of the connection between mind and matter will now be expanded to include the connection between the mind and the physical body. The second Atrium explores how the students' thoughts influence their health, the role of proper breathing in psychic development as well as health and vitality, and Rosicrucian healing techniques. As the students develop their body's psychic centres, the student will gradually awaken psychic faculties, such as the ability to perceive the aura. the student will also experience the mystical effect of sounds. Topics include:
Origin of Diseases
Influence of Thoughts on Health
Mystical Art of Breathing
Rosicrucian Healing Treatments
Perception of the Aura
Awakening the Psychic Consciousness
Mystical Sounds

[edit] Third Atrium

The Third Atrium moves beyond the physical body and the psychic faculties into the realm of the mystical. As the student become more attuned with the inner source of wisdom, they will become more receptive to the subtle inner prompting of intuition, inspiration and illumination. These lessons also explode the nature of Soul and spiritual evolution, reincarnation and karma, and the cycles of the soul. Topics include:
Reincarnation
Karma
Free Will
Good and Evil
Intuition Inspiration and Illumination
The Great Religious Movements
The Nature of Soul
Purpose of our Spiritual Evolution

[edit] Temple section

Having completed the lessons of the Neophyte section, the student stands at an important milestone in progress along the mystical path. the student are now ready to enter the Temple. The studies in the Neophyte section established the foundation for the lessons of the Temple Degrees. The students have been introduced to the various elements of the Rosicrucian system and had the opportunity to practice many of the principles presented through simple experiments. Now the Temple Degrees will further develop these elements, providing additional depth and practical applications of the principles.

[edit] First Temple Degree (Zelator, later "Juniorius" and currently "Studiosus")

The First Temple Degree introduces the concept of polarity and its relationship to the subatomic world and its differing rates of vibration. It introduces the full spectrum of physical and non-physical manifestation. An understanding of these subjects gives the student an appreciation for the system and order of the universe, the interconnectedness of all nature and how everything is governed by natural law. Topics include:
Structure of Matter
Positive and Negative as Vibratory Polarities
Electricity, Magnetism, Electromagnetism and their Rosicrucian definition
Subatomic Particles
Elements
Material Alchemy

[edit] Second Temple Degree (Theoricus)

The Second Temple Degree explores the workings of the mind. Students will learn how to use various mental faculties to strengthen will, eliminate bad habits and establish good ones, tap into the levels of the subconscious, reason more effectively, and integrate principles of psychology and mysticism to achieve their personal goals. Topics include:
Cosmic Consciousness
Our Objective and Subjective Consciousness
Mental and Sensory Illusions
Imagination and Memory
Physical, Psychic, and Spiritual Influences on the Subconscious
Psychology and Mysticism

[edit] Third Temple Degree (Practicus)

The Third Temple Degree explores the meaning of life on many levels, including living and "non-living" matter, life on the cellular level, the mysteries of death and rebirth, and the eternal nature of the Soul. Topics Include:
Cosmic Purpose of Life
Vital Life Force and Reproduction
Cellular Life
Living and Non-Living Matter
Incarnation of the Soul
Transition of the Soul
Initiatic Aspects of Death

[edit] Fourth Temple Degree (Philosophus)

The Fourth Temple Degree introduces Rosicrucian ontology (the study of the nature of being), and lays out the cosmological framework for all creation. It explores the meaning, understanding and use of symbols as the language of the subconscious. Topics include:
Noumena and Phenomena
Natural Symbols
Artificial Symbols
Mystical Symbols
Sacred Architecture
Vital Life Fource and the Living Soul
Cycles of Life and the Constant States of Flux

[edit] Fifth Temple Degree (Adeptus Minor)

A mystic, by nature, is fundamentally a philosopher. In the Fifth Temple Degree, the student will study excerpts from the works of classical philosophers. The student's exploration of the ancient roots of Rosicrucian philosophy will demonstrate the timelessness of these principles. Thoughts of the following philosophers are presented:
Thales
Solon
Pythagoras
Heraclitus
Democritus
Empedocles
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle

[edit] Sixth Temple Degree (Adeptus Major)

The Sixth Temple Degree presents the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual components of health and disease. You'll learn specific Rosicrucian healing techniques. Topics include:
Spiritual Dimension of Food
Breathing and Respitory Health
Composition of Blood
Cell Consciousness and Cellular Health
Rosicrucian Therapy and Self Healing
Druids and Fixes
Personal Treatment to Restore Psychic Equilibrium
Autonomic Nervous System
Physical and Mental Prevention of Disease
Emotional and Spiritual Prevention of Disease
Self-healing

[edit] Seventh Temple Degree (Adeptus Exemptus)

The exercises and experiments of all the previous Degrees have contributed to gradual development, providing the student with the necessary foundation for the advanced techniques of the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Degrees. In the Seventh Degree, the students will learn how to accomplish psychic projection (Astral Projection), how to develop their personal aura and perceive other people's auras, and how to further develop psychic centres and perception. Students will also receive a thorough explanation of the physiological, psychic, and spiritual influence of specific mystical sounds. Topics include:
The Psychic Body (compare with: Subtle body and Astral body)
The Psychic Centres (compare with: Chakra)
Nature and Symbolism of Dreams
Psychic Projection (experiments) (compare with: Astral projection, out-of-body experience)
Perception of the Aura (experiments) (compare with: Clairvoyance)
Mystical Powers of Vowel Sounds and Mantras

[edit] Eighth Temple Degree (Magistericus Templicated)

The Eighth Temple Degree explores indepth the theme of immortality - the mysteries of birth and death, reincarnation and karma and the evolution of the soul personality. The goal is to learn the constituents of the human soul and how it evolves from incarnation to incarnation.

Topics include:
Universal Soul and Human Soul
Divine Consciousness and Self Consciousness
Spiritual Evolution of Humans
Mastery of Karma
Reincarnation of the Soul
How to Remember Past Incarnations (experiments) (See Reincarnation)
The Mystery of Birth and Death
Help to the Dying, Before and After Death
The work of the Adept
Psychic contact with the Great Intelligences
Prayer
Psychic development using vocalic sounds (mantras)
Vibroturgy

[edit] Nineth Temple Degree (Magus)

To learn the high principles of spiritual alchemy deriving benefit from the student divine nature acting not only different levels of the human being but also in the visible and invisible environment. These practices are regarded as the alchemy of matter, consciousness and life.

The ninth degree is a long and careful ascent that gives the student every opportunity to put into practice what has been learned in the preceding temple degrees.

Among the topics covered are:
Macrocosm and Microcosm
The Four Principles: Earth, Water, Air, Fire
Symbolism of the Cross, Triangle, Square, Circle, Rose-Cross
F.U.D.O.S.I.
Mental Alchemy
Experiments on Telepathy, Telekinesis, Vibroturgy, Radiesthesy, Invisibility, Attunement with the Cosmic Consciousness
The Triangle of Lights
The power of will
The Circles of Protection and Harmonization and the 3 planes of consciousness
The Cosmic Plane
Developing the cloud of invisibility and using the cosmic cloud and the Cosmic Spiral as the gateways to other realms
The Invisible Masters
The “Lost Word”
The Assumption of individualities and the Cosmic Assumption

[edit] Illuminati section

[edit] Tenth Temple Degree (Magus, later "Ipisissimus", currently "Illuminatus Minor")

To learn to walk on the path of the Masters. Introduction to the religious doctrines which the Masters gave birth to and understanding the beliefs that have been available to us for centuries and how humanity is evolving towards a Universal Religion and the student part on it.

Subjects:
Introduction to Zoroastrism
The Tibet
Ancient Mystery Schools of Atlantis, Egypt and Essenes
Introducing Master Moria-El
The RigVeda
The Great White Brotherhood* Exercises of Materialization
Telepathy
Psychic Projection (advanced)
The esoteric concept of Sin
Reincarnation
The psychic senses
The ritual magic
Astrology
The human Aura
The Pineal Gland and the 4th dimension
The nature of the electrons of spirit
Sufi mysticism
Psychic Harmonization

[edit] Eleventh Temple Degree (Illuminati, currently "Illuminatus Major")

To learn the student’s journey through the great traditions those have marked the spiritual history of humanity. This journey began in Atlantis and completed this phase through the Martinist movement in France in the 19th Century. It is also the threshold for admission to the Ordo Summun Bonum (the Order of Highest Good). Subjects:
The heritage of CRC
The Khunrah method
The Dark Night of the soul
The Gateway Keeper
The Regeneration
The Invisible Fraternity
The Rosicrucian Inner Circle
The Holy Spirit* The Mystical Egypt
The Cosmic Harmonization
The Cosmic Consciousness
Development of the Third Eye* The signs of the psychic development
Mantras
The effects of the Cosmic Consciousness
The Cloak of Invisibility (advanced)
Esoteric foundation of the religions
Esoteric teachings of Jesus
The Christus* Programming the next incarnation
Esoteric formulae
Using the Water
The “Lost Word”
Contacting the Invisible Masters
The Rosicrucian Hierarchy

[edit] Twelfth Temple Degree (Illuminati, later "Esoteric Hierarchy", currently "Illuminatus Exemptus")

Those who have attained the Esoteric Hierarchy become, in fact, intermediaries between the Cosmic and the Imperator (…) placed in a position to periodically commune with the Cosmic and receives inspiration and illumination which one should pass to the Imperator for what he may make of the knowledge of the Order.

To learn how to contact the sacred Esoteric Hierarchy to serve the Order as described above. Also to learn how to develop the Body of Light to be used to attain high states of divine communion.

Subjects:
Christian Rosenkreuz and the Rosicrucian teachings
Contact with the Masters (El Morya, Danius, Saint Germain)
Esoteric Hierarchy
Celestial Hierarchy
Mystical Silence
Cosmic Consciousness* The fundamental note or vibration tone
Cosmic Harmonization techniques
Planetary influences (Moon cycles, Sun cycles and the planets)
The Cosmic counter part
The Vibration spectrum
Rosicrucian Ethics
Alchemy of Water (Cagliostro)
Benefits of the Cosmic Harmonization (regeneration)
Master’s chambers
Alchemy of Fire
Cosmic Harmonization techniques
Astral projection
Principles of Cosmic Harmonization
Psychic currents
Assumption technique and its applications (distance healing)
Rosicrucian Manuscripts (Michael Maier and the Libber H)
Esoteric Principles
The Dark Night of the Soul and the Golden Dawn
Astrology* External influences
Procedure to recall past life experiences
Development of the Inner Voice
The Rosicrucian Method
Using the Cosmic Forces
The mystic life of Harvey Spencer Lewis
The Templars
Cagliostro and the Rose Cross
Developing the Body of Light (New)

[edit] Ordo Summun Bonum section

[edit] Thirteenth Temple Degree (Ordo Summun Bonum) (New)

This section is considered by AMORC as a totally separate Order, but the student automatically starts to receive the monographs related to that degree or section as soon as they finished receiving the previous degree (the 12th).

That section was conceived to go more in depth into philosophical questions about the deity, the Laws of Nature, moral and ethics applying the Summun Bonum principle; the principle of a common understanding of the basic experiences of human life. Each Plane represents a group of certain principles and experiences of life, which jointly, the student needs to study and understand.

[edit] Plane 1 to 9 Degrees

Metaphysical lectures related to the Rosicrucian ethics and how to achieve the summum bonum.

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosicrucian_Monographs