Holy Order of MANS

The Holy Order of MANS was initially incorporated in July 1968 by its founder, Earl Wilbur Blighton, a retired electrical engineer and minister, who used the honorific Rt.

A number of his previous religious associations included the Roman Catholic Church, Spiritualism, New Thought and the Rosicrucian Order.

Full experiential knowledge (gnosis) of God beyond merely intuitive spiritual insight was true redemption.

Mrs. Rigney was intrigued by the first Raphael House, located on Gough and McAllister Streets in San Francisco and started by the Holy Order of MANS, a non-sectarian group of volunteers dedicated to service to the community.

Needing more space to house families together, they moved to the current location at 1065 Sutter Street, formerly a private hospital.

[9] In 1988, the remaining members and hierarchy of the Holy Order of MANS joined the Eastern Orthodox Church under the new name Christ the Savior Brotherhood (abbreviated CSB).

[13] In February 2012 the Holy Order of MANS was incorporated in the State of California as a religious non-profit in California and maintains two websites and a YouTube channel where the original Order curriculum[14] of study, a calendar of classes, including on Zoom, and events, and literature for sale may be found.