# Anybody Ever Read "The Mastery of Life"?

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**Created:** [February 28, 2012, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-read-the-mastery-of-life/614250 "2012-02-28T13:55:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-read-the-mastery-of-life/614250/1 "2012-02-28T13:55:53Z")

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Its that free book you get if you answer the Rosicrucians ad in magazines.  
When I was a kid, magazines like “Mechanix Illustrated” had those ads for the Risocrucians. if you sent a self-addressed envelope, they would send you a book called “The Mastery of Life”.  
Seemed like a good deal to me-anyway-if you contatced these people, would they wind up hounding you (like the $cientologists)-was AMORC a cult of some kind?