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- Holy_Order_of_Mans abstract "The Holy Order of MANS (HOOM, pronounced "HOME") was a Mystery School (see Western esotericism and Esoteric Christianity ) and holy order, that was grounded in what it viewed as the esoteric teachings of "The Great Christ" through "The Master Jesus", which clearly identifies it as New Age (see "A Christian reflection on the New Age"). It has been identified as a cult by mainstream Christian organizations. The founder, Earl Wilbur Blighton, a retired electrical engineer and mail-order minister, who uses the honorific Rt. Rev. and is also known as Master Paul, and founder of the Science of Man, followed the tradition of many mystery schools and taught from a variety of sources. A number of his previous religious associations included the Roman Catholic Church, Spiritualism, Masonry, New Thought and the Rosicrucian Order. The stated mission and purpose of the Holy Order of MANS was to guide all mankind and the churches of Christ to union with the Divine Self of God within, the Divine Spark. According to Blighton, the Christ is returning now, in this new age, as the Golden Force—the vibration of the atmosphere of the entire planet is rising, and this action will cause violent reactions, including death, in those who do not know the God Self and have not mastered their body. A willing intellectual and emotional assent to religious doctrine or dogma was not enough. Full experiential knowledge (gnosis) of God beyond merely intuitive spiritual insight was true redemption. The principal means of effecting this was by the praxis of theurgy and bhakti.The Holy Order of MANS was described as "apostolic catholic", in its claim of possessing received esoteric apostolic doctrine without the necessity of canonical ordination in the line of Orthodox Catholic apostolic succession, or some used the term ″Pauline catholic″. It is a matter of record that Blighton claimed to be Paul the Apostle come back: "We receive our Apostolic rights the same as many other churches have, and the same as Paul did: through revelation. And if this isn't sufficient, let me add this little bit to it, that I am Paul, and I have come back to bring the churches of Christ together." "We are not political. We are not an 'ism' or a church." "I care not what doctrine you have or have decided on. But while the world argues over the theological discussions of doctrine, sin, apostolic succession and others, we will remove from the people their problems and give unto them the ray of hope and reality which our Lord Jesus commissioned us to carry forth as Christians and disciples of the Word and the works and the Light and the love of God. Amen.—Earl W. Blighton, Purpose of the Order (emphasis original, on tape)"It has been, down through the centuries, one of the great idiotic errors of man not only in the Christian Church or Christian school but in every mystic school and occult school that has existed. That man, as quick as he starts to learn of the infinite power and word and the working of the Spirit through him, immediately starts to say 'Well, I'll do it' and he forgets that it is from the great love of the Creator that he's doing it."—Earl W. Blighton, Sermon "Omniscience of God in Man" (emphasis original, on tape)"We are surrounded by churches and people of the world. There are millions in darkness."—New Moon Service. Holy Order of MANS."The Order is the second manifestation of the Body of Jesus Christ."—Earl W. Blighton. The Book of Order, Chapter 4 "The Order"While a non-accredited educational curriculum was provided to students, which included intense bible study, basic science courses, comparative religions, religious history, astrology, tarot, and psychology, the Order strongly emphasized the necessity that each individual actually experience the mysteries which included Initiations of Illumination and Self-realization. Prescribed liturgy was used for the sacraments. The HOOM hierarchy consisted of Master Teacher, Brother or Sister Teacher, Priest, Minister, Life-vowed Brother or Sister, First-vowed Brother or Sister, Novice, Discipleship member and Christian Community member. Placement in each category was determined upon a combination of initiation, revelation, and accomplishment. The Order priesthood included women as priests—they were never called "priestesses". Men and women were given equal status and did rise in the ranks to the Master Teacher level. Initiations and Ordinations were conferred by shaktipat through laying on of hands. Individuals who applied for membership in the Holy Order of MANS, and were approved after a three-month Novitiate, were vowed to Obedience, Humility, Service, Purity, and Poverty. Masters, Priests, Brothers, Sisters, and Novices, lived a semi-monastic communal lifestyle in HOOM Order Houses, Brother Houses, and Sister Houses.Blighton emphasized the absolute necessity of selfless service to mankind. Cities and towns were provided with street missions and service to the general public, teenagers, the homeless, battered women, people from all walks of life. Shelters for needy and abused persons were established. Free bible classes were offered, and Sunday worship services were open to the public and featured open communion. Ordained Holy Order of MANS ministers, priests and Master Teachers were duly registered as legitimate clergy in most states and validly licensed to perform public weddings and funerals, but HOOM ordinations were not recognized as canonically valid by other religious bodies. Critics said the HOOM masqueraded as a Christian group by design, to draw upon Christian respectability and gloss over a thoroughly non-Christian content. See Contrasts and contradictions and Spiritual Initiation.Several years after the death of its founder in 1974 (and subsequent to the 1980s cult-scare generated by the hundreds of deaths at Jonestown on 17 November 1978), in an effort to distance itself from association with the New Age in the mind of the public, beginning in 1984 the HOOM gradually changed, through adoption of daily spiritual practices common in Orthodox Christianity, which prompted the departure of some members. Then in 1988, after little more than two decades of existence, the HOOM dissolved. Since 1988 it has splintered into many groups including the Science of Man in Oregon, which was led by Blighton's wife Ruth until her death in 2005, and the Gnostic Order of Christ, founded by HOOM "Master Timothy" Delbert Harris. In 1988, after denouncing what they perceived as heresy in the fundamental doctrines of the Order, many of the remaining members and hierarchy of the HOOM joined a non-canonical group of the Orthodox Church under the new name Christ the Savior Brotherhood (abbreviated CSB). Under the terms of the merger, the group continued to have a great deal of autonomy. Members who took second vows within the group still wore robes and clerical collars. Legal ownership of HOOM property and assets was retained by the CSB but remained incorporated under the name Holy Order of MANS. Many Orthodox say the Christ the Savior Brotherhood continued to pretend to be something it is not.In 1991, "Master Andrew" Vincent Rossi, who had finally succeeded Earl Blighton in 1978 four years after his death, and who was also called "Father Andrew", resigned as director-general of the CSB under pressure from the hierarchy within the brotherhood. The CSB agreed under the terms of his resignation to fund the departure of himself and his family, and with them he travelled to England with sufficient CSB financial support to pursue a doctoral degree in Orthodox studies at the University of Oxford under Kallistos Ware. During the 1990s to about 2000, many members of the CSB individually joined canonical jurisdictions of the Orthodox Church. In 1992 Orthodox church leaders said the Christ the Savior Brotherhood had dwindled to about 500 members. In 2000, after removing itself from non-canonical autocephalous Orthodox affiliation, the CSB with its people, parishes and monasteries, having claimed to have replaced esoteric mystical New Age practices with mainline Orthodox doctrine and practice, was fully received into canonical Orthodox jurisdictions. In 2002 the CSB officially changed its corporation name from Holy Order of MANS to Christ the Saviour Brotherhood, and changed its New Age corporate by-laws to newly worded corporate by-laws that reflect Orthodoxy. Many former members of the original Holy Order of MANS who had departed in the 1980s, who have not become Orthodox Christian and are not associated with the CSB, claim to have preserved the original teachings and practices of the Order and made them available through development of internet online sites.Further information: Orthodox Church: Holy Order of MANS/Christ the Savior Brotherhood.↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ 18.0 18.1 ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ 22.0 22.1 ↑".
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