smw
I still wonder why Regardie included the Rose Cross ritual in the One Year Manual without some form of banishing as a preliminary. The R.C. ritual is essentially an invocation. Without some sort of clearing rite prior to it's performance it's kind of like the magical equivalent of eating freshly cooked food off a dirty plate.
at step 5 before he comes to the Rosy Cross ritual (step 7) he says
"the previous exercises should have resulted in the acquisition of some degree of peace and quiet. A sense of well being and inner assurance will arise from within. It is in the tranquillity and calmness now developed that permits, as it were, the mind to open up and receive the influx of the Holy Spirit."
perhaps this version of the RCR is in context within the 12 step programme as a balancing and purifying system in itself... it is kind of confusing though, especially as other accounts of the RCR are that it is a powerful ritual only given to those at 5:6 degree in the inner order of the Golden Dawn and not for novices, where the energies are too strong for those not ready.
He also uses an invocation from the bornless ritual, that (I think) Crowley uses in Liber LXV 'the heart girt with a Serpent 'and in Liber Samekh to invoke his HGA. hmm...