The Societas Rosicruciana In America is a non-profit membership corporation founded in 1909 and incorporated in 1912 by George Winslow Plummer. This Society is the American organization formed by properly qualified initiates to propagate the Ancient Wisdom Teachings in the western world.

Our organization is also known as the Society of Rosicrucians, Inc. and as the Most Holy Order of the Ruby Rose and Golden Cross (RR et AC), and is part of the world-wide, age-old Rosicrucian Fraternity.

Tradition ascribes the origin of Rosicrucianism (but not under that name) to Egypt, some centuries B.C., as an organization among the Egyptian priesthood and its Hierophants. Shortly after A.D., the Christian ministry found that the truths of the Ancient Wisdom Religion foreshadowed the New Dispensation, and the two blended in the thoughts of small groups, which became the resort of the more mystical members of the Christian clergy.

Thus the Fraternity, comprising these groups, as it came down to the Middle Ages, was an organization of clerical members, men who were living the spiritual life and given to spiritual meditation and ecstatic experiences. These men, true Initiates, devoted their lives to research in the arcana of nature, applying natural laws and their analogous spiritual laws to the problems of human life.

The sole object of our Society is the spiritual, moral and intellectual development of its members, and, indirectly, of all mankind. This is accomplished through teachings which correlate Religion, Science and Philosophy, particularly in connection with Mystical Christianity and Hermeticism. It emphasizes the Sage's exhortation: "Man, Know Thyself." The Society, while including among its teachings the wisdom of several religions, is definitely not interested in its members' religion, race or creed. Recognizing the value that inheres in every form of religious expression, it seeks, among other things, to show each member the true, inner meaning of whatever has been taught as religion.

Our Society's syllabus of lessons includes: Rosicrucian Series, Hermetic Series, Alchemical Series and Spiritual Fundamentals.