Letter To A Friend- Rosicrucian- Amorc

LETTER TO A FRIEND Personal reasons why I joined the Rosicrucian Order AMORC (Translated from Spanish) I’m copying this message received from my friend, Luis Victoria, to extend his clear explanation and to make it available to the friends that didn’t get it so they can put an eye on it. Me too, originally a non-believer and atheist, got to the same “alma mater” he mentions; there I was nurtured with clear and non-dogmatic notions, without prohibitions on what or not to do; or what or not to read, but with a “Look everywhere, find the Knowledge and apply it” approach; and notice I put “Knowledge” in capital letter. Life has made me move in a different direction, I’m no longer in the same path of my fellow companions, but neither in a completely different one. I will never stop being grateful to the Rosicrucian knowledge, which got me out of darkness and the lethargy of living life without the answers to the ancestral questions that my friend herewith presents. In there (Rosicrucian path), there is no danger in going wrong or wasting your time. How you will notice my friends, this communication between Luis and his friend Oscar is recent, spontaneous, authentic and sincere. Chauu! (Bye!) Vidal

-----Original Message----From: Oscar Valenzuela García [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 8:35 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Pregunta. (Question) Luichy, sorry for insisting, but what originally got you to that Order (AMORC) and what has kept you there for so many years? Oscar

From: Luis Victoria [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 6:32 PM To: 'Oscar Valenzuela García' Oscar, Since very young I was always seeking for answers to questions like; what or who we are? Why are we here? Why do we die or get sick? Why some people are born or live

in wealth and others not? Why some are born sick, blind, mentally challenged and others not? What do all this really mean? I resisted the notion that we were the result of mere chance. I liked to read books about the subject and honestly Religion didn’t satisfy many of my questions, neither could explain many of its contradictions, like for instance; God is Love, but it punishes us; if you don’t receive Jesus you won’t be saved (what about those who lived before his time? What about those who are born in India and never get to know him?) Why did God select the Jewish people as the chosen ones; what about the rest of humanity? God is everywhere and created everything, thus creating good and evil or Satan (is he playing with us?). I couldn’t understand any of this under the concept of a God of Love and Justice. It seemed to me that these concepts where not coming from God’s wisdom, but from the human interpretation of its mysteries. Logically you could understand that I had my times of pseudo-socialist and atheist. But this didn’t last long. Eventually I understood that there should be something greater than us, something that would sustain in harmony the execution of the whole universal concert working as a perfect musical composition. By looking around you’ll marvel on how everything in existence is impregnated with intelligence; you as an agronomist, observe the plants, also the animals and even the planets. By observing your body, you’ll be in awe on the perfect execution of all its biological functions, in which you, as an objective being don’t have any participation whatsoever. The idea, in the Rosicrucian teachings, about a universal and impersonal intelligence, which doesn’t judge or prefer, neither punishes; became an attraction to me. The idea that within God’s intelligence all its creatures are like pieces of a whole that we call the Universe, in which there are no favorites, also attracted me. The notion that by having self awareness we are the most developed beings on this planet; that we have all the potential that exists in the Universe within us and by exercising our free will we have the opportunity to self direct our lives to create our own pathway towards those things that we mostly desire; that, attracted me. The fact that evil doesn’t exist as an entity but as the absence of goodness and that through many opportunities and the teachings that this earthly existence provides us, we can evolve into superior beings, similar to a coarse coal extracted from earth which the crucible of life polishes and makes into its finest expression as a diamond stone; was another reason. But the main reason that really caught my eye, and I’m being honest here; is that through the study and understanding of the Universal Laws and the conscious application of its teachings we can get to rule our lives and circumstances therefore becoming the masters of our own destiny.

The Rosicrucians offered me all this and much more. It was like a balm of knowledge that stroke a note in my hearth. Anytime I studied a new concept I told to myself; “I always knew…” even though nobody would have ever told me before. The Rosicrucian Order has changed my life, it has made me a much more tolerant and spiritual human being with a clearer vision and has helped me find the power within to help me go further in life. How Father Gomez (Catholic priest) wrote to us in a voluntary High School assignment that few students in class did and that I had the privilege to carry out with my friend Felipe Ditren; “Sursum Semper” (towards the summit, always). These words I remember at all times and have become the light of my life. Thanks to the Rosicrucian Order I have found that path towards the summit. I must clarify to you that it is not the only path, there are many others, but to me it is the best I have found. Hugs, Luichy