S. R. PARCHMENT

Founder of the Rosicrucian Anthroposophical League in 1932,

S R Parchment was born on the 1stof February 1881 in Ewarton, Jamaica. He came in contact with Max Heindel, the great Western Mystic and founder of the Rosicrucian Fellowship. It is believed that S R Parchment became a student of Max Heindel and worked with him. He led the San Francisco Center of the Rosicrucian Fellowship in the 1920s, and after Max Heindel’s death, he founded the Rosicrucian Anthroposophical League in 1932, departing from the Fellowship and formed an independent organization out of the former fellowship center in San Francisco. Parchment is best remembered as the author of a classic textbook, Astrology, Mundane and Spiritual,which was used by many astrologers not affiliated with the league and later reprinted by the American Federation of Astrologers. He also wrote a number of booklets that became league texts: The Just Law of Compensation; The Middle Path, the Safest; Ancient Operative Masonry; and Steps to Self-Mastery.

The league strove to investigate occult laws, to practice the brotherhood of man, to disseminate spiritual truth, and to facilitate the attainment of self-conscious immortality by its members. During Parchment's lifetime, league centers developed on both coasts, but in recent years little has been heard of it. Its present status is unknown. In the 1970s the New York League became the independent Ausar Auset Society.

Sources:

Parchment, S. R. Ancient Operative Masonry. San Francisco: San Franc

"Hearkening back to the influence of Rudolf Steiner on Max Heindel, S.R. Parchment, a former member of the Rosicrucian Fellowship, formed the Rosicrucian Anthroposophic League in San Francisco in the 1930s. Parchment wrote a series of books to expound his version of the Rosicrucian teachings:
The Middle Path, Steps to Self Master, Operative Masonry, and The Just Law of Compensation. Parchment offered a variety of correspondence courses using the texts. The League also published a magazine, Rosicrucian Quarterly.
"The occult basis of the League is spelled out in its objectives:
"Investigate the occult laws of nature and the superphysical powers of man.
Promote the principles which will eventually lead to recognition of the truth of the universal brotherhood of man, without distinction as to sex, creed, race or color.
"Acquire, disseminate, and exemplify a knowledge of spiritual truth as given to the world by the Elder Brothers of the White Lodge.
"Study and teach ancient religion, philosophy and astrology in the light of modern needs.
Encourage the study of science and art in the hope that religion, art and science -- which are a veritable trinity, the equilateral triangle which has always been used as a symbol of the Divine -- may again be recognized as portals through which egos must pass in attaining to the mastery of self.
Attain to self-conscious immortality which is the crowing feat of evolution.
Like Heindel, Parchment had a prime interest in astrology and wrote an astrological classic, Astrology, Mundane and Spiritual. Since his death, the book has been kept in print by the American Federation of Astrologers.
Recent information about the status of the League had been unavailable."