Holy Order of MANS

The Holy Order of MANS was a religious order grounded in what it viewed as the esoteric teachings of "The Great Christ" through "The Master Jesus", which identifies it as New Age. The order was founded in the 1960s "in the culturally innovative milieu of San Francisco", US, and over time grew into a more traditional Eastern Orthodox sect, finally renaming itself "Christ the Savior Brotherhood" (CSB); according to religious scholars, the group provides a "paradigmatic example" of the kind of development that such groups experienced.

The founder was Earl Wilbur Blighton, a retired electrical engineer and mail-order minister, who used the honorific Rt. Rev. and was also known as Master Paul. 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.

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