ATTENTION: SRIA leaders are desperate
... to keep you from learning ...
... what I am about to reveal!
The mass exodus of members from the Societas Rosicruciana continues unabated following the exposure of Supreme Magus John Paternoster's activities deemed Satanist by the Anglican church.
The SRIA Satanism scandal this week crossed the Atlantic to additionally implicate leaders of SRIA America...
Why is it that SRIA leadership still has no explanation for the deep involvement of SRIA Anglia Supreme Magus, John Paternoster, in Magick and the Occult - activities deemed Satanism by his Anglican church?
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In the U.S.A. this week, the Supreme Maga of SIRA in America desperately tried to distance herself from the scandal in England, when she wrote on the official SRIA blog:
"The Societas Rosicruciana in America, while including among its teachings the wisdom of several religions, is not interested in its members' religion, race or creed."
This statement does not at all address why the Supreme Maga of SRIA in America, as well as her counterpart in England, professes the Trinitarian Christian faith, yet engage in activities judged as Satanism by Trinitarian churches.
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Despite misdirecting statements about religious tolerance on the SRIA blog, Internet archive documents prove conclusively that the Supreme Maga of SIRA America is also a Grand Officer of the Christian segregationist, Order of the Rose and Cross, whose membership requires Trinitarian Christianity.
Order of the Rose and Cross
Grand Officers
(Original list, captured 6/3/2007, archived here)
Supreme Magus
M.W.Fra. Michael Buckley, IX°
Senior Deputy Supreme Magus
R.W.Fra. John Goodrum, IX°
Junior Deputy Supreme Magus
R.W.Fra. Chris Oversby, IX°
Grand Chaplain
R.W.Fra. Alan Armstrong, IX°
Grand Exponent
Husband of the Supreme Maga of SRIA (America), IX°
Grand Secretary
R.W.Fra. Alan Blackstone, IX°
Grand Treasurer
R.W.Fra. John Goodrum, IX°
Grand Archivist
R.W.Fra. Robert Gilbert, IX°
Grand Tutor
R.W.Fra. Robert Gilbert, IX°
Grand Webmaster
R.W.Fra. Thomas Clarke, IX°
Grand Preceptor
R.W.Fra. Thomas Clarke, IX°
Grand 1st Ancient
R.W.Fra. Dave Winefield, IX°
Grand 2nd Ancient
Supreme Maga of SIRA America, VIII°
Grand 3rd Ancient
V.W.Fra. Nick Farrell, VI°
Grand 4th Ancient
V.W.Fra. Ross Agnew, VII°
Grand Guardian
V.W.Fra. David Williams, VI°
As a Grand Officer of the Christian segregationist, Order of the Rose and Cross, there is no doubt that the Supreme Maga professes to be Trinitarian Christian. This is problematic in turn since, like her counterpart John Paternoster in England, the Supreme Maga also writes extensively on Magick for Occult publishers.
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A biography of the Supreme Maga of SRIA America is found twice on the website of Magic and Occult publisher, Llewellyn Publishing, where all mention of her SRIA involvement and her Trinitarian Christianity are carefully concealed. Her biographies do clearly state, however, that she practices Magick and leads an Occult order.
As a Grand Officer of the Christian segregationist, Order of the Rose and Cross, there is no doubt that the Supreme Maga professes to be Trinitarian Christian. This is problematic in turn since, like her counterpart John Paternoster in England, the Supreme Maga also writes extensively on Magick for Occult publishers.
Written by the "Trinitarian Christian"
Supreme Maga of SRIA America
The Rituale Romanum De Sacramento Paenitantiae
specifically lists the Magic of Cartomancy as mortal sin
and grounds for excommunication! (See below).
As a Pagan, I personally have nothing against the practice of Magick. We Pagans view Magick as an essential aspect of our faith and an extremely powerful tool for spiritual development.
But what about Trinitarian Christian S.R.I.A. leaders who are so deeply involved with Magick and the Occult?
"According to Trinitarian Christianity, all practice of Witchcraft and Magick are regarded as Sins that need to be repented of, confessed, and forsaken."
Anyone who approaches ANY of the Christian denominations and asks if that particular group would allow for ANY form of Magick to be performed as part of an approach to Jesus as God, they would be denied.
If no Christian denomination (including the Anglican church most S.R.I.A. members belong to) will permit the practice of Magick within the canon of their teachings, then why are professed Christian S.R.I.A. leaders so obsessed with controlling MAGICAL orders?
After all:
- The Christian Bible is filled with injunctions against Magick. For example:
- The struggle between St. Peter and the Magician, Simon Magus.
- Leviticus and Deuteronomy prohibit certain kinds of Magick, specifically divination, seeking omens, mediums who commune with the dead, and spell-casters.
- Exodus 22:18 states: "Do not allow a sorceress to live".
- Galatians includes sorcery in a list of "works of the flesh".
- This ban is repeated in the Didache, written during the mid to late first century.
- Martin Luther shared some of the views about witchcraft that were common in his time. In his Small Catechism Luther taught that Magick was a sin against the second commandment.
- The Rituale Romanum De Sacramento Paenitantiae specifically lists Magick and Astrology as mortal sins, and illucidates the following for grounds for excommunication from the Church: "Who adheres to Magical beliefs such as the Magic of Cartomancy (the subject the Supreme Maga's book Tarot Talismans shown above), Astrology, and all esoteric practices or who converts to other faiths such as Masonry or Rosicrucianism.
Evangelical Christian groups, likewise condemn Magick, Numerous Christian groups even go so far as to condemn ANY form of Magick as Satanism.
What would these Christian groups say about people who lead Occult orders that teach Magick or even those who advocate Magick for money and material gain?
Are these not Satanists - when viewed through a Trinitarian Christian lens?
The time has come for the supreme leaders of SRIA in both England and America to end diversionary tactics and honestly address this extremely serious issue.
The time has come for the supreme leaders of SRIA in both England and America to end diversionary tactics and honestly address this extremely serious issue.
SRIA members, both in England and in America, deserve a forthright explanation why their Supreme Magi profess to be Trinitarian Christians, yet are so deeply involved in Magick and Occult activities branded by Trinitarian churches as Satanism!
One thing is certain. As Imperator of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the outer order of the Rosicrucian Order of Alpha Omega, our order is certainly NOT led by Satanists. I am a practicing Pagan, and Paganism sees Magick as an integral and extremely positive aspect Pagan religious practice.
For SRIA and Golden Dawn members the choice therefore is clear.
- Do you want leaders whose religious faith sees Magick and the Golden Dawn as positive, life giving, and full of spiritual potential?
- Or do you prefer leaders who claim to be Trinitarian Christians, yet whose own churches brand their activities as Satanism?
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