Fall 2015

Grand Councilor’s Message

Greetings to all Members and non-Members alike!

On July 29 of this year I had the rare and considerable privilege of attending the World Convention of the Rosicrucian Order AMORC in San Jose, California. Nearly twenty-two-hundred members were in attendance and all that I met were in exceptionally high and tangible spirit.

The event commemorated the 100th anniversary of Rosicrucianism in North America. From an organizational perspective the convention was a huge success. Convocations and discourses were offered in French, English, and Spanish and likewise translated so all attendees were able to hear diverse and profound messages on a broad range of topics, ranging from the indigenous Ainu of Northern Japan, to stimulating the psychic centers, cosmology and our place in an emergent universe. The gathering was rife with new information, some of which will be shared with Rosicrucians early in 2016.

Most important was the spiritual success and radiation of the event. The energy and intention of those gathered was clear and unmistakable. The luminous look in so many eyes alerted me to the increased attunement of members with the cosmic mind and all those who serve it, thus making the event far more than a reprieve from the dally chores of social life; it was a gathering , creating ,and increase of the forces which are part of the evolution and uplift of the human race and all the multitudinous forms of life on our fair planet. Personally, every event was a realization unto itself, an influx of cosmic energy and wisdom that was as unmistakable as it was varied, a series of what former imperator Ralph M. Lewis so often called an afflatus, an elevation of the personality to a new height of cosmic realization.

In closing this brief message, I would like to draw attention to what was formerly called the Akhenaton Shrine and more recently the Imperator’s Shrine, a splendid and special place of attunement awash with both the spirit of Harvey Spencer Lewis and his son Ralph, but with the deeper sense of peace that they had realized, what Rosicrucians know as Peace Profound. A brief twenty minutes in that hallowed space could well have served as an entire convention, so profound was its sense.

The shrine is open on a daily basis and is a destination all members should reach while visiting Rosicrucian Park.

With all best wishes for your most profound peace,

John Fowler, FRC

Colorado Region Grand Councilor