I wanted to bring something to someones attention. If you can't do
anything about it maybe you pass it along to someone that can. As you
know more and more people get there information from the Internet.
Wikipedia is a trusted and well known on-line resource and I was
surprised their article on “Martinism” was inaccurate in it's
description of “ The Traditional Martinist Order” Please, look at
the follow link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinism#List_of_Martinist_orders
This reads:
“Traditional Martinist Order (TMO), which operates under the aegis of
AMORC. This has attracted controversy from other Martinist groups, as
the TMO purports to offer a Self-initiation into Martinism
correspondence course. This is criticized by other Martinists on the
grounds that (it is alleged) properly speaking, one can only receive
the true Martinist initiation in person from an initiator who has a
chain of succession linking back to Saint-Martin.
Note: AMORC states to members that Initiations can only be conferred
in Temples, but does offer a home study course, without initiations.
Thus explaining you will not experience Martinism in full.”
This statement is inaccurate because it fails to talk about Initiation
in the Temples of Hepdats and Ateliers thus allowing TMO the
opportunity to provide “ the true Martinist initiation in person from
an initiator who has a chain of succession linking back to
Saint-Martin” to it's members.
Also, I would like to draw attention to the fact that Wikipedia
doesn't have a article entitled “Traditional Martinist Order”. Someone
should write such a article. I have the technical knowledge to do so
but lack Scholarly expertise and authority to do so. Also, I have the
technical knowledge to correct the error in the “Martinism” article
but in order to do so I need to be able to site my references.
Sincerely
Richard Robey
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