Greetings, Fratres, Sorores and Friends of AMORC!

I hope this message finds you healthy, happy, and at harmony with the world! All three of our Region’s AMORC Affiliated Bodies (AB), plus the TMO AB, have resumed events for Members as well as some public events. Mountain Rose Pronaos, however, is only having online meetings until they can locate a new more economical location. I invite you to include MRP in your meditations to help visualize a perfect space for Rosicurcian students, and seekers, to meet. I also invite you to attend any in-person or online events that you can. AB’s are a terrific way to enhance your AMORC experience. The AB’s appreciate your support and, much as many candles together illuminate a larger space than does a single candle, they shine all the brighter with your support.

“To go into prayer with the idea or belief that God does not know what we need or even what we want, or what is best for us, and that we must advise Him, argue with Him, stress our viewpoint and convince Him, or at least urge Him, to adopt our ideas and decisions and grant what we plead for, is to make the most serious mistake in the process of praying.

“In the first place, the process of prayer is a transcendent method of communion with God. It is the most intimate, personal contact that human beings can make with their Father, the Creator of all beings. This sublime period of communion should be approached with clean thoughts, but most of all with a clear understanding of our privileges and a total absence of any feeling that we have any right to petition God to grant our wishes.

“Learn how to pray, and make prayer the real pleasure of your life, for it brings you in closer contact with the great Ruler of the universe than you can ever approach Him while living on this earthly plane of existence. Make your Holy Communions frequent. Thank God for the breath of life and the return of consciousness when you arise in the morning. Silently thank Him for every morsel of food at mealtime. Express your appreciation for every pleasure, every worldly gift, every moment of happiness, and every rich reward of your efforts or the efforts of others. At the close of day, enter into Holy Communion of prayer and express your faith and trust in His divine guidance of your soul and consciousness throughout the night, and again be thankful for the day and all the opportunities it contained to carry out your desires and ambitions, and to enjoy the divine blessings. Make prayer the transcendental and sublime pleasure of your inner self—more important, more enjoyable, more uplifting and benefiting to your entire being than any other of your earthly experiences.”

-- H. Spencer Lewis, from the Introduction to “Mystics at Prayer”

How often do you find yourself praying with, as Dr Lewis says, a serious mistake in the process? If we approach Prayer with an attitude of Communion with deity, an attitude of thanks and appreciation for every gift that life brings all the time, then our awareness of these gifts will increase. If our thoughts, words, and deeds have the same quality as true prayer, and are an expression of Communion with deity, will we not increase our awareness of the blessings that deity places before us all the time? The mystic has this knowledge, and to pray with any other attitude is merely to apologize or to ask for favor in the mistaken belief that Deity does not already know what we need.

Sincerely and Fraternally,

Bill Hallett

Grand Councilor, Rocky Mountain Pacific Northwest Region AMORC

ColoGC777@gmail.com

"We draw cosmic light, understanding, and love to us as we, properly and with the purpose of service, use the attributes of imagination, imaging, visualization, perceiving, and feeling. These qualities are then reflected throughout our true nature. The soul and spiritual self will radiate divine light through us, revealing attributes of their nature, as we use these attributes in services to ourselves and to others."

--Lonnie Edwards, Spiritual Laws that Govern Humanity and the Universe

Beloved Fraters and Sorors,

As part of our task as Rosicrucians to facilitate the spread of Light, Life, and Love in this world, we must keep in my that our thoughts and our actions contribute to the Great Work we are trying to achieve. Indeed, they determine the direction and the results which we can achieve. Each of us must ask ourselves, ‘What have I done personally, to advance my spiritual evolution?’ Is your devotion to the teachings being demonstrated by your works? Nothing happens by accident. Alchemy, personal or collective, requires labor, exertion, and sometimes even discomfort and inconvenience. If this work was easy, it would have no value.

As I write this, we are in the process of finding a new home for Mountain Rose Pronaos. There are several challenges to this: the high cost of rent, the suitability of available facilities to our needs, the state of our finances, the capacity of our membership to lend their time, talents, and resources to the task, among others. It is a difficult task, but not an impossible one.

This is not the only task we are working on. We are also in the process of reshaping our region, including other states and regions, which formerly stood alone, but which we are embracing as a community within AMORC.

It requires the participation of the regional membership as a community to make these things happen. The English Grand Lodge has provided tools to help, but the call for individual service has never been more urgent and necessary. Service to meaningful cultural and spiritual advancement is the highest calling. As Rosicrucians claim to be in the service of humanity and the world. There is always something more we can do. Challenge yourself to see what that may be.

The next events on the annual calendar are the Festival of Lights and TMO in December. It will be wonderful to be able to meet together in a beautiful and inspiring temple. I challenge all the Colorado membership to help make that happen, through whatever capacity you can manage.

In the Bonds of the Order,

Ed Hanson, CO Regional Monitor and Mountain Rose Pronaos Master

Here, if we use half our income for necessities, we can then divide the other half into five equal portions of 1/10th of our income for each:

1. 1. Giving (no strings attached) to whatever inspires you

   2. Having fun

   3. Saving for some expensive item or items

   4. Educating yourself (with hopefully a significant portion on how to invest)

   5. Investing

By using this or a similar money management model, people can continue to grow their wealth, their standard of living, and possibly their ability to serve others.

Calling this a time management model can help us manage our time, so we can have the time to enjoy our life. Call it an energy management model, and you can see how it now becomes a way to enhance your health and well-being.

Finally, let’s relate this to our energy or personal development on a spiritual or mystical level. How often do you use your mystical Rosicrucian tools to help you with your necessities, or everyday life? How often do you just have fun with mysticism? I have heard of at least one Cosmic master who had the wildest sense of humor. How often do you simply do nothing, saving your energy for something important? How often do you use your mystical tools and exercises to help others? How much time do you devote to learning some new mystical principal? How do you then invest your mystical understanding in ways that make your consciousness grow?

Can you see that tools like this one can be used successfully on both a mystical as well as a physical level? As above, so below! Either way, these concepts can be used to enhance our lives, and the lives of those around us!

With all good wishes for Peace Profound, I am

Dave Wheeler

Pikes Peak Atrium Group Leader

My Sisters and Brothers, Sorores and Fraters:

We are asked in our AMORC studies to be “walking question marks.” What does this mean in trying to apply it in our lives? Let’s investigate the possibilities.

First of all, we all know that we have been trained by our parents, our schoolteachers, our siblings, our priests/ministers/rabis, and such to think, believe, and act in a certain manner. We also know that people are fallible and that errors creep into this instruction. We must carefully and objectively examine this instruction to determine if it is accurate. It is possible (and even probable) that we have been misled in many areas of life and corrections need to be made. This is one interpretation of being a walking question mark.

But let’s broaden the interpretation. In our AMORC studies we are introduced to the concept of the difference between Reality and Actuality. Reality is what we perceive with our physical senses and what we interpret from those impressions using past experience – including what others have told us about such an experience. Actuality is what is really out there, what is causing us to perceive something – it is the true source of whatever we are experiencing. Our perception (reality) may, or may not, be giving us a true picture of what is really going on in the universe (actuality).

The consequence of this fact is that if we want to get a true understanding of the physical universe (and its relation to the spiritual universe), we must question whatever we perceive and interpret – thus be a walking question mark.

To try to keep an open mind and to question many aspects of daily life I like to keep an attitude of “I wonder”.

I wonder about our AMORC teachings that say there is more in the air we breathe than just oxygen and that this is the real source of the life force. I don’t question it; I just wonder about its nature.

I wonder about the sun. Is it possible that it is much more than just a source of energy for our solar system? Could it be a multi-dimensional portal whose effects on each of us is much greater than we realize?

I wonder why water is unique in that it expands and becomes less dense as it freezes thus forming ice that floats on top of lakes allowing the fish and other life to live under the ice rather than the normal process for other matter of becoming more dense and sinking and freezing from the bottom up threatening the aquatic life.

I wonder why humanity continues to go to war even though we all know it causes terrible suffering and death.

There is so much to wonder about, in the physical world and in the spiritual world. As long as we are seeking answers and not being satisfied with conventional wisdom we will be growing and finding more about ourselves and our place in this universe.

Be the walking question mark and wonder about everything you experience. The Divine mind is always talking to you and instructing you in everything and every person you experience. Be open to the inspiration, look for the hidden message, and interpret beyond the conventional wisdom. Always remember that whatever we think we understand, THERE IS SO MUCH MORE!

May you ever dwell in the Eternal Light of Divine Wisdom!

David Schloegel, S.I., F.R.C.

Provincial Master, Traditional Martinist Order

The Autumnal equinox signals the point at which the Northern latitudes shift from warmer, high-growth seasons to the cooler Fall and Winter seasons, which allow plants in these climates to rest and regenerate. Although trees and plants appear to be inactive, they use the quiet time to gather the nutrients needed to burst forth with fresh growth when Spring conditions return. In fact, the proper time to fertilize many plants is late summer and fall right before they enter dormancy.

So it is also with seekers of Light and Truth. We cannot always be in a high-growth phase and must occasionally rest, relax and just allow ourselves to be surrounded in the peace of Divine Light and absorb the regeneration that it has for us.

Similarly, the Rocky Mountain Atelier is a quiet period between our bi-annual cycles. Having initiated nine brothers and sisters into higher degrees at the conclusion of the last cycle (with three more initiations pending), our classes are active, vibrant and a beautiful mix of harmonic energies. We have brothers and sisters joining us from coast to coast. The resulting conventicles are amazing enlightening opportunities for all.

While we are in this quiet period between cycles, we are gathering the energy and enthusiasm to burst forth in the coming cycle. This will begin with the Ieschouah Ceremony (celebrating the Cosmic Christ) on December 17 at 10:30 am, immediately followed by new office installations. Martinist of all degrees are welcome to participate in this important, moving ceremony; please put it on your calendars.

The initiation for new Associates will be in January 2023. If you have been thinking about joining TMO, this is the ideal time. For more information and an application, please contact our Provincial Master, David Schloegel.

In the meantime, I invite each of you to use this quiet period for your own regeneration. Consider an outside meditation to breathe in the cool, Autumn air and interact directly with the beauty of nature. Regenerating now will certainly prepare each of us for the high growth opportunities that will be forthcoming.

May we all ever dwell in the Eternal Light of Divine Wisdom,

Phil Goodwin, Deputy Master

Rocky Mountain Atelier of the Traditional Martinist Order