Chapter IV, wherein it will be proven that his World Council and International

Conventions were faked and that FUDOSI is his scheme and a ridiculous farce. In that chapter we sha‘l show the close connections of Aleister Crowley, the notorious Black Magician, with the O. T. O., which Lewis indignantly denies.
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he knows that this statement is as false as any of his other claims.”
Now, Clymer made no such charge. We did not say that the title of Imperator was invented by Crowley and never used by anyone else but Crowley until Lewis used it. What we said on the subject will be found on pages 29 and 95 of the Brochure, An Exposé of the Imperator of AMORC, and on pages 298 and 366 of Volume I.
“We showed that the title “Imperator” appeared frequently in Dr. Franz Hartmann’s book which Lewis used almost in its en- tirety in his lessons and that the title was also used by Crowley in the O.T.O. and asked if Lewis learned about Imperators from Dr. Hartmann or was the title conferred upon him by Crowley? It was cited as a mere circumstance in a long chain of evidence to show the connection between Lewis and Crowley, who is today the Secret Chief of the O.T.O. and who has been the head of the O. T. O. in all English-speaking countries, including the United States, since 1912, as will be proven in Chapter Four.
Lewis seizes upon and singles out this purely incidental matter, misstates our statement, reshapes and twists it to suit his con- venience and then purports to answer his own twisted and crooked version of our statement by asserting that the title ‘“Imperator” was said to have been used in the Rosicrucian Order as early as 1700 in books by Waite, Wittemans and scores of others.
Remarkable, isn’t it? Verily, there are tricks and stratagems, ways and byways in the art of clever dodging and plausible hood- winking.
He stresses this matter, shows his committee some books using the title “Imperator” and purporting to show that it was used by Rosicrucians before Crowley used it, and makes much ado about it, to avoid the more important and unanswerable proof that con- nects him with the notorious Crowley of the O. T. O.°
It is not our intention to discuss the origin of the title ‘“Imper- ator” or whether it is an authentic title of the authentic Rosicrucian Fraternity, since his so-called R. C. Order is fraudulent and his title of “Imperator” is spurious. Our only purpose here in discussing this matter is to point out to the reader and investigator his superb stratagems in dodging the real issues.
8 See Book V, Volume I, pp. 335 to 391, and Part V of Chapter Four herein.
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Number Six The Squirmer Attempts to Wiggle Out
Under his own Number Six self-stated “charge” he pretends to answer the unanswerable and makes a rather heroic attempt to dig his way out by attempting to completely circumvent the truth. Here is the way he frames his charge:
“Perhaps the most self-contradictory of Clymer’s Not R. C. Teachings. charges is that the Rosicrucian teachings and course ' of instruction, ritualism, secret laws and principles have been taken.from published books, contrary to the claim of Imperator Lewis, who in 1918 offered He Did Not Mean It. a reward for any evidence that might: be submitted to prove that the secret teachings, rituals, laws and principles and demonstration work of the AMMORC system were taken from printed books or public books of any kind.
“To support his claim and charge, Clymer re- We Quoted His . sorts again to manufactured evidence by selecting Lessons as Proof. matter that is unrelated to his charge and willfully attempting to deceive his readers into believing that
it is legitimate evidence.”
The first half of our recent Brochure, dn Exposé of the Imper- _ator of AMORC,’ is devoted to the pilfering charlatanism of Mr. Lewis. This is what he is referring to in his above-quoted charge. However, we submit that we have stated the real charge against Lewis much clearer and defined the issue much better than his scrambled statement hereof, and we respectfully refer our readers to the above-mentioned Brochure, or Book Five, Volume I, wherein we demonstrated beyond all doubt that he lifted a large number of his “Temple Lectures’ in the Eleventh Grade from three well- known books, easily obtainable. We also showed by his sworn tes- timony and reluctant admission that he had used another well- known book, The Hindu-Y ogi Science of Breath, in his First Grade teachings and lectures.t We proved all of this with many fac-simile reproductions of the original documents—not with manufactured or falsified evidence. The ‘‘manufacturing” and “falsifying”? took
9See said Brochure, pp. 10 to 64 inclusive, republished as Book V of Volume I, pp. 279 to 334 inclusive. 1 See said Brochure, pp. 56 to 62, or Volume I, pp. 328 to 333.
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place when Lewis manufactured the lessons by taking them from published books and falsely represented them to be Rosicrucian teachings. We reproduced his lessons as evidence to prove the pilfering plagiarism and the false representations concerning those faked, so-called Rosicrucian lessons or teachings.
Now, Lewis has said that: “If anyone can prove that one or more of our lectures containing our fundamental teachings * * * * were taken from one or more * * * * books, etc. * * * * the Imper- ator will immediately concede the charge as true, incriminating himself as a plagiarist and false pretender,”’ etc.”
Now, Mr. Lewis, what about the material you lifted, took or stole from The Hindu-Yogi Science of Breath and used in your First Grade Lectures—were they fundamental teachings of your spurious R. C. Order and Fraternal Racket?
Witness the Squirming: As the Imperator Defaults on His Own Word
When brought face to face with the facts and the proof required by his challenge, does he keep his word and concede the charge? Of course not! No one who knows him expected him to do that. Fabricators of spurious orders and promoters of fraternal rackets are generally unscrupulous. No—he attempts to wiggle his way out. Witness how he squirms and note the “yellow streak” as evidenced by his own words, viz.:
“Every member of AMORC knows that the se- cret teachings that constitute the regular Temple grades of instruction, ritual and demonstrations end with the Ninth Grade, and that thereafter only
They Are Not supplementary reading, not containing any of the Fundamental fundamental principles, secret laws, rituals or teach- ‘Teachings! ings of AMORGC, is given to the members, for they
receive their teachings in another manner not un- derstood by Clymer and having nothing to do with the printed or typewritten lectures. But Clymer Didn’t Steal Many proceeds to put forward a few of the supplementary Lessons. Less Than lectures, less than forty of them, out of the whole Forty! What an Alibi AMORC course of over three thousand lectures,
2 See Brochure, An Exposé of the Imperator of AMORC, pp. 11 to 15, or Volume I, pp. 280 to 284.
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=-or Is Ita as evidence of his claim. In these few supplemen- Confession ? tary lectures chosen by Clymer he shows that the matter has been extracted from the writings of Franz Hartmann, from Eckartshausen and Bucke. Stolen Lessons Not the But even the extracts which he presents clearly show
True Rosicrucian that they have naught to do with Rosicrucian teach- ‘Teachings. Note the ings, Rosicrucian principles, Rosicrucian laws, Rosi- Admission. Exactly crucian rituals, or Rosicrucian demonstrations. What We Said They are purely dissertations on the history and About Them. biography of Rosicrucians and on the spiritual value
of the Rosicrucian work throughout the world. Certainly no one would call biographical, allegorical or historical sketches a part ‘of the secret teachings
and fundamental principles of Rosicrucianism’.”®
Not Fundamental Teachings
How does he attempt to escape? Very simple—dquite easy for one who has no regard for truth or his own word—who has be- come an adept at contradicting himself. Why, he declares—simply declares—that they are not fundamental teachings—that is all— and that settles it. Isn’t he a marvellous dodger and a most gracious and pious falsifier?
Although the particular lectures that we reproduced in fac- simile are styled* ‘“Temple Lectures” of the Eleventh Grade and notwithstanding that he has declared in those lectures that they are “explanations of the Laws and Principles contained in the Rosi- crucian Studies,’ he now says that “they have naught to do with Rosicrucian teachings, Rosicrucian. principles, Rosicrucian laws, Rosicrucian rituals or Rosicrucian demonstrations.’ Of course it is tragic to see the embarrassment of the great Rosicrucian (?) Imperator as he is forced to contradict himself—‘‘to eat his own words’’—but we are pleased to receive his latest admission, that they are not Rosicrucian teachings. That is exactly what we said about the material he used from the books of Hartmann, Eckarts- hausen and Bucke. They are not Rosicrucian philosophy or teach- mes at all.’
3 White Book D, p. 32.
4See Fac-Simile Reproduction of lectures, said Brochure, pp. 33 et seq., or Volume I, peo set Seq.
“ See said Brochure, pp. 10, 61, 62, or Volume I, pp. 279, 332.
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Just before he proceeded to use all of the contents of the book, The Cloud Upon the Sanctuary, containing Von Eckartshausen’s letters on Mysticism, and presented them as teachings of Rosicru- cian principles and laws, in his introduction to their misuse, in the 89th Lesson, page 3 of the Eleventh Grade ‘““ITemple Lectures,” he made the following gross misrepresentation in declaring:
“Now, we are at a point where some of the
Italics Ours. rarest writings and thoughts of the most highly
recognized Rosicrucian Masters of the past are go- Highest Stages of ing to aid us in our ascent up the mountain and in Development. our highest stages of development and purpose.
Among these great men or great Masters was one whom I want to introduce to you now. His name
was Von Eckartshausen. . . . Von Eckartshausen Rosicrucian Laws wrote a very great deal. Much of his writings and Principles. were simple explanations of the Jaws and principles
contained in the Rosicrucian studies. . . .’®
The Great Consolation Of the Repudiation of a Solemn Assurance
The high members of AMORC, his victims through Ten Grades, having been assured that they were about to receive that which would lead them up the mountain to the highest stages of Rosicru- cian development and having paid for several lectures lifted out of a book on Mysticism that could have been procured at one-fifth the price, it must be exceedingly pleasing and reassuring to his Elev- enth Grade Victims to have their great (P) Imperator completely repudiate his selling argument and solemn assurances of the potent portions and now to be told that those rarest teachings and thoughts of this most highly recognized Rosicrucian Master have naught to do with Rosicrucian teachings, principles, laws and demonstrations and that “they are purely a dissertation on the history and biography of Rosicrucians and on the spiritual value of Rosicrucianism.”
Purely Dissertations In Aid of the Royal Revenues Although AMORC is represented as having twelve degrees of
® See said Brochure, p. 39, or Volume I, p. 309.
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initiation or twelve grades of advancement up the mountain to the highest stages of development, we now know and all members of AMORC (including all special “‘voluntary’’ committees and “unanimous’”’ conventions) know that the secret teachings that con- stitute the regular Temple Grades end with the Ninth Grade and that thereafter only supplementary reading, not containing any of the fundamental principles, secrets, laws, rituals or teachings, is given to members in the form of lectures; that all of the hundreds of “Temple Lectures” in the Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth grades, containing the contents of many books and the dream reveries of a self-constituted Imperator, sold to members at an exorbitant price, when value is considered, and under false pretenses, are not, after all, fundamental teachings—just mere dissertations on this, that or the other thing to add to the Royal Revenues of the Lewis ‘Hierarchy.
Just One—Even One—Only One Just to Remind Him Again
Did not Lewis say in the “Imperator’s Challenge” that if anyone can prove that ONE or more of his lectures containing his funda- mental teachings were taken from one or more printed books he would concede the charge and incriminate himself as a plagiarist and false pretender? Yes, he said just that. Very well, Mr. Lewis, does your Lecture No. 6 in the First Grade on ‘‘Arcane Phil- osophy” that contains matter lifted and stolen by you from the book, Hindu-Yogi Science of Breath, contain any of your funda- mental teachings? Certainly that is an arcane, secret lecture on your arcane philosophy in your First Grade and you admitted under oath in open court that the contents of that lecture were stolen from the aforesaid book.’ Is arcane philosophy no part of your secret fundamental teachings? If not—then, Mr. Lewis, let us have your latest “just created” alibi—your 1936 model.
Pilfering Plagiarism That Gives Credit to Discredit Authorship Evidently the proof of his pilfering plagiarism which we pro-
7 See said Brochure, pp. 56 to 63, or Volume I, pp. 326 to 333.
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duced was very disturbing and unusually annoying. Here is what Lewis has to say further on the subject, as he executes his expiring wiggles:
“Furthermore, Clymer charges that Imperator A Little Bit of Pilfer- Lewis is guilty as a thief and a ‘pilferer’ and
ing Is Not a Sin charges him with ‘plagiarism’ because of these ex- Where There Is So tracts in a mere handful of the many thousands of Much to Steal. AMORC lectures. Yet the extracts which Clymer
publishes show that the lessons give credit to the authors from whom the extracts have been made and to their books. Certainly, it is a unique thing
Plagiarism for a man to be charged with plagiarism when he
Extraordinary. admits that he has extracted matter from the works of others and gives the names of the authors and books.’’®
Unique Plagiarism
Something New—Lewistonian Plagiarism
The plagiarizing of the books in question is a unique and most unusual type—a peculiar species of plagiarism. In fact, it is the worst and most contemptible species-of plagiarism. While he acknowledges, after a fashion, the authorship, yet willfully misrep-. ' resents the contents, its intent and purpose, he falsifies the author’s. works by altering and changing his meaning, and, in some instances, casts doubt upon the authorship to the discredit of the author: for example, after omitting an essential statement from Dr. Hart- mann’s book, Among the Rosicrucians, he informs his members, in Lesson 60, page 2, Eleventh Grade, that: ‘‘We have now finished the wonderful manuscript that I wanted you to have in its en- tirety.” Why call it a manuscript? He was copying from Dr. Hartmann’s book. Why mention ‘entirety’? He had mutilated and deleted it.
And then, after having pilfered, mutilated, deleted, misrepre- sented and misused Dr. Hartmann’s text in his “unique” way, he casts doubt upon its authorship in this manner:
‘‘T have learned lately that there are several versions of this manuscript, probably translated by several differ-
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ent mystics, and that their versions vary only slightly in an occasional word.’’®
Lewis says that the dictionaries define a plagiarist as ‘‘one who steals from the writings of another and passes them off as his own production.” ‘That is just an ordinary plagiarist—but when a par- ticularly slick sophist acknowledges stealing the works of another, misrepresents and misuses them and then under the most plausible deception and clever false pretense sells and remarkets them in the form of Rosicrucian teachings for a price, to augment the Royal Revenues of a Hierarchy of Occult Fraud, it is plagiarism extraordinary. Such plagiarism has not been defined. It probably can not be accurately defined. It is unique; it is Lewistonian Plagiarism.
Not Contradictory Our Position Has Not Changed
And then Lewis further says or pretends to have his five-day investigating, rapid-fact-finding committee say:
“For years, Clymer has claimed that H. Spencer We Have Not Lewis ‘invented and created’ all the Rosicrucian Changed Our Position. rituals and teachings and that they were not re- liable. Now he reverses his claim and says that
they were ‘all stolen from reliable books.’ ”’?
It is remarkable the ease with which this man can misstate the well-defined and perfectly obvious position of others. We have consistently claimed that he has fabricated, manufactured, created or copied all of the teachings of the AMORC;; that they are not the real or reliable Rosicrucian teachings, and that those parts copied have not been copied from reliable Rosicrucian Books. He has both fabricated and copied them, Our position has always been that he fabricated his so-called R. C. Order; that it is without Rosicrucian authority and is fraudulent; that he is not a Rosi- crucian and does not possess the genuine Rosicrucian inner teach- ings, and that his teachings, lessons and lectures are not Rosicru- cian at all, or from authentic Rosicrucian sources, but that he invented, manufactured and fabricated or pilfered, plagiarized and
9See said Brochure, pp. 26, 27, or Volume I, pp. 295, 296. 1 White Book D, p. 33.
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copied them from published books.? He has employed all of these methods and others who assisted him used the same methods to make up the hodgepodge of his spurious Rosicrucian teachings.
Testimony from Within One Who Personally Knows Testifies
Mr. William Riesener, of San Francisco, a former Grand Mas- ter of the Grand Lodge of California, who financed the reorgan- ization of his fraternal enterprise in 1920 to 1925 in San Fran- cisco and who was closely and intimately associated with him for a number of years, in a signed statement, under date of November
4, 1930, said:
“T can state positively that Lewis wrote the Lectures himself. Lewis never claimed in our meetings that the Lectures came from abroad. We knew better. It may interest you to know, that Rev. Chambers, who was a member of our San Francisco Lodge, rewrote most of ‘the Lectures up to the Sixth Degree. Lewis will not deny this under oath.
‘Lewis has a paper which he called his CONFESSIO, in which he states that there is no European or other au- thority connected with AMORC. (Italics ours.) This Confessio he showed to several members and had it signed. I signed it myself.”
And in a recent statement (April 18, 1936) Mr. Riesener said:
“Mr. Lewis is accused of what you call plagiarizing or stealing from other books. That I admit, for many times I have seen him copy from other books. But I cannot object to that, as he has read these books and digested them for me and saved me much work. He has climbed the tree of knowledge, plucked the fruit and husked it, giving me the kernel, which I found sweet. I do not ob- ject to the teachings of AMORC, but it is the unscru- pulous man to whom I object. He would and does lie the blue out of the sky. He knows not honor or gratitude.
‘Three times have I taken the ring which he wears out
2 See said Brochure, p. 17, or Volume I, p. 286.
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of the pawn shop and presented it to him when he needed the money, but he has never paid me back a cent. Two temples did I build and furnish for him in San Francisco and transportation from New York to San Francisco, but he has never recompensed me a penny.”’
Elbert Hubbard On Lies and the Result of Lying
Lewis delights to associate himself with great men and great names. He has often boasted that Elbert Hubbard, the great common sense philosopher of the Roycrofters, was associated with him in his early Rosicrucian (!) work and often quotes from the works of Hubbard, whom he says was a Rosicrucian. No doubt he regards his philosophy as being wholesome and sound—other- wise he would not have honored Hubbard by associating himself with him. However, it is too bad that he did not inculcate more of that beautiful philosophy and follow its simple precepts. Fra Elbert Hubbard said:
“The only safe course is the open road of truth. Lies, once begun, pile up, and lies require lies to bolster them, * * * * * and he who starts out on the pathway of un- truth finds himself treading upon brambles and nettles which close behind him and make return impossible. The further he goes the worse the jungle of poison-oak and ivy, which at last circles him round in strangling embrace.”
The Strangling Embrace In Which Lewis Places Himself
In his unsuccessful attempt to answer our proven charge of pil- fering his lessons and secret teachings, it will be recalled, he as- serted that his secret teachings end with the Ninth Grade; that thereafter the lectures are only supplementary reading not con- taining fundamental secret teachings of AMORC and that the members receive their teachings in another manner, “having noth- ing to do with printed or typewritten lectures.”
However, that is mot true. In Lecture Number Six of his type-
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AN ANSWER TO; EE WIS? Witt 3G) 5 OO written series of lectures for the Tenth Grade, in which he pro- fesses and purports to give the profound (!) secrets of initiation into the “inner circle’ of the Great White Brotherhood Lodge of Tibet, he represents to his Tenth Degree Members that he is giv- ing them the most unusual, deep and inner secrets, the knowledge of which constitutes them members of the “inner circle,’ and that all members up to the Tenth Grade are mere neophytes and are only members of the “outer circle.”
Tenth Grade Lectures
Inner Secrets in Typewritten Form
To demonstrate most surely that Lewis does give secret teach- ings in written lectures after the Ninth Degree, purporting to be fundamental principles, secret laws, rituals or teachings of his AMORC, we quote at length and verbatim his introduction to a series of lectures in his “inner circle’ Tenth Degree, with our mar-
ginal notes, as follows:
TENTH DEGREE
AMORC—Rosicrucian Order TEMPLE MONOGRAPH
fey PaGE ONE Number One
INTRODUCTION BY THE IMPERATOR OF AMORC
All Italics Ours.
Most Important Secrets Ever Given Out. “The Order” Is
the Lewis Family.
See Chapter Six.
If Constitution and | Principles Get in the Way, They Change’ Em Lewis Is the Secret Headquarters—He Compounds “Higher Secret” Teachings from Books and His
Imagination.
“T greet you, my Fratres and Sorores, at this time with one of the most important messages given to our members in North America, or, in fact, in the Occidental world by any occult or mystical or- ganization.
For years, all of us who have advanced through the lower degrees of the Order, and who have been loyal and steadfast in our adoration for the Rosi- crucian Order, and our pledges to its Constitution and principles, have been waiting patiently for the day to come when certain information regarding secret headquarters of the Rosicrucians and the higher, secret teachings might be permitted the proper distribution and examination by those who are worthy.
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Study, Development and Advancement
in What? Occult Fraud and Mystic Fraternal Swindling? How Help Members? By Deceiving and Fleecing “Them?
How Protect the Fraternal Racket?
By Occult Falsehoods, Mystic Chicanery and Subterfuges ?
Information Denied to Worthy. Why? Was He Fearful Lest They Discover ‘Inner Se- crets” of His Noble De- ceptive Arts? And So D’scovering, Was He Fearful That They Would Expose Him and His Racket?
True Seekers Will Search in Vain for
R. C. Teachings in His “Inner Circle.” Attacks and Exposure Have Also Come
from the Inside.
He Need Not Fear, No One Save Lewis Could Make Such Claims, Commercialize and Sell Such Stuff as This “‘Se- cret Teachings of the Masters.”
He Sees Himself in a Thousand Mirrors and Imagines That Every-
formation that is to be given to you in this degree has been in my possession and accessible to me privately, and personally, for my own study and advancement for many years. And I need not tell you that it has been of unlimited, incalculable heip to me, not only in connection with my own studies, and my personal development (for I am still and ever a student, as all Rosicrucians should be) ; but in aiding me to help the members of AMORC in many of their personal problems, through utilizing and demonstrating laws and principles which have not been taught to them, and in protecting our organization against the attacks, criticism, and the scheming of many persons, and groups of persons, who have attempted to injure the Rosicrucian Order and its powers.
Having this information in my possession, and knowing the cry and pleas of hundreds of qvorthy members who were seeking it, and are still search- ing for it, has made my position difficult, and has also made me most anxious in my hopes and desires to bring about the fulfillment of those conditions under which, and because of which, I would be permitted to give to the true seekers that for which they have been searching in vain. ‘The temptations to forget the limitations and conditions surrounding the giving of the Tenth Degree information have been very great. On the other hand, there has been the increasing group of loyal members in AMORC who are ready through study, deserving through devotion, and qualified in every way to receive this information. On the other hand, there have been the attacks and criticisms, challenges and claims of persons, and groups of persons, outside of the or- ganization, who have rushed into print with com- mercialized books and pamphlets, magazine articles, or courses of paid lessons, claiming that they have the secret teachings of the Masters of the Far East, or the real teachings of the Masters of Egypt, or the mystical principles used by the real Rosicrucians. These persons [Who—the Lewises?] have flooded the Occidental world with all kinds of false infor- mation, misinformation, fraudulent statements, and
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body is Doing What He Is Doing.
Real Rosicrucian Teach- ings from Tibet(!) or from San Jose?
Not Taught in Tibet. Has Remained Silent and Permitted Pseudo- Masters and Occult- Fakirs to Mislead His Members—What a Noble, Superb and Gracious Imperator! Then Imagine Lewis Remaining Silent, When He Has Occult “Bunk” and Mystic “Wares” for Sale! Is It Possible? Hardly.
‘The Pseudo-Rosicru- cian Speaks the Fair Language of a Rosicru- cian, but It Is the Voice of Jacob Pointing With the Hand of Esau. It is Jacob Stealing the Birthright of Esau. Let All True Seekers Take This Advice in the Reverse and Refrain from Purchasing His Worthless “Wares” and ‘Mystic Bunk.” Rich Rewards Came to Lewis Because of Their Faith and Patience and the Temptation Was Ever Before Him to Play Em for “Suckers.” But He Did Reveal Just a Little to Save the Situation and the
commercialized schemes which have misled the real seekers, and have brought much grief and sorrow into the lives of real students. ‘These conscienceless persons, and groups, have pointed to the silence of AMORC regarding the real teachings from Tibet, and have said in public and private: “If the AMORC in America, or elsewhere, has any of the additional teachings taught in Tibet, or any of the Masters of the Far East, why do they not issue them and give them to their students?” To all such challenges, | have had to remain silent, and say nothing more than what is said in our Rosicrucian Manual beginning on page 133. I have had to remain silent and see many of our members drawn from the straight path of study into the by-paths of speculation and false instructions, even though I carefully prepared articles for our magazines ad- vising our higher members to wait, to read between the lines, and believe that AMORC had some
motive in remaining silent.
I am glad to say that a majority of our high degree members have waited with that loyalty and faith which is born in a true Rosicrucian from the inner side he develops, and from the intuition which tells him not to listen to the stories of the pre- tenders. And I regret to say of those who were tempted to unite with other movements or pur- chased private or semi-private courses of study found, when it was too late, that they had been tempted into spending large sums of money and received nothing in return. Many of these persons hesitated to ever come back into the AMORC again, because they felt that they had proved them- selves unworthy by yielding to temptation, and therefore those persons may now never know the rich reward of faith and patience. But you can plainly see the temptation was ever before me. One magazine article in “The Rosicrucian Digest,” revealing just a little of the information we had, and stating what was to come some day, would have saved the situation. Personal letters written by me in our magazines, or the groups of persons, explain- ing what we had in our archives, and what facts
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Royal Revenues of the Lewis Hierarchy.
When He Explained What He Had, All Other Fakirs Discon- tinued Commercialized False Teachings.
Promised Whom? His Family—They’re ‘“‘the Order.” When Princi- ples Don’t Work He Changes "Em. Chang- ing Constitutions Is the Magic Key That Un- locked Sealed Doors for His Escape.
See Chapter Six. Special “Occult Bunk” Prepared for Those Who Promise and Won't Forget Even Though the Tempta- tion to Expose Be Strong. Some in Their Indignation May For- get Promises, Procured by Fraud, and
Expose the Fraud.
The Order—the Lewis Family—Have Suff- cient Faith to Take a Chance to Give Free— If All Dues Are Paid. Sacred “Mystic Bunk”’ Must Be Held Secret —the Bunk Dispenser Trusts His Victims and Relies Upon Their Ig-
norance and Credulity.
A Charlatan Who Has Violated Every Sacred Trust and Besmirched
we had to give out some day, would have stopped many of these persons, and groups of persons, from continuing their commercialized false instructions. But I had made a promise, just as you have made promises, and our promises to the Order, and to the principles of the Order, are sacred to us and in the past have proved to be the real magic key that even- tually unlocked more sealed doors to hidden cham- bers than any of the Temptations offered to us by persons, and groups of persons, outside of the Order. And so this special degree of instruction is now being prepared and will be issued and sent to those members whom we believe to be absolutely loyal and dependable. That some of you may in the future yield to temptation and forget your promises and be disloyal in some way to the Order may be possible. You may forget your promises in a mo- ment of extreme temptation, and in a moment of enthusiasm. You may forget your promises in a moment of anger, or regret, regarding something that occurs in connection with the Order, or its activities, that you do not understand, and which, in your lack of understanding, you disapprove of and cannot agree with. But you will always remember this one thing: That at one time the Order and its chief executives had sufficient faith in you, sufficient trust in your loyalty, to extend and offer to you, free from any commercialism, free from any additional expense in the way of fees or dues, those lessons, and that instruction, which was held, and always will be held, sacredly secret for those who assure us of their loyalty and trust, and who were worthy up to the time that the instruc- tion was given to them. Remembering this, you cannot ever feel that you were justified in any act of disloyalty, and that should you yield to temp- tation, you have simply broken faith with those who trusted you the most, and have been disloyal to those who have expected the utmost of loyalty from you.
No man or woman can go happily through life knowing that without any excuse that is humanly conceivable, faith and trust have been cast aside,
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the Vestments of a Priest Makes a Plea for Confidence, Friend- ship and Loyalty.
See Rankin Case, Chapter Three.
But the Imperator Did Yield—Did Betray the Most Sacred Confidence. Did Misuse Information Given to Him in Strict Confidence.
The Order is the Lewis Family. The Great Masters Are Lewis and His Son. Even Though They Defraud You, Never- theless, You Should Sacrifice Your Life for the Order. Over-Precaution Should Be Taken to Protect the Imperator of the Hierarchy of Fraud and His Son in Their Fraternal Racketeering.
Why Take Such Care? No Written Secrets Are Issued After Ninth
Degree.— Lewis.
But the Sacred Secret “Occult Bunk” of the Tenth Degree, Which Is Non-existent on the Material Plane,
Must Be Guarded!
friendship and loyalty ignored, and an unjust and unfair attitude taken. Surely, if not one of the torturous, costly, worrisome, and unkind tempta- tions that have confronted your imperator have ever caused him to yield, and to use in the wrong way the information of the higher teachings, or to give them to persons not deserving, then no temptation that can ever come to you should be great enough to warrant you in turning this information or these monographs over to strangers or the unworthy, or to permit them to become generally known pub- licly, or to be issued in books for publication, sale, or use by persons to injure the Order or the great Masters in their work, or persons in any walk of life. Rather would you burn them than let them fall into hands that are unworthy. Rather would you defend them with the sacrifice of your life than to have them used to hurt the Order, and to even- tually hurt you. Therefore, you will keep them se- curely locked under cover, and if you are going on an extended tour where your lessons cannot be carefully preserved during your absence, or while you travel, you will do them up in a strong package with your name on them, and return them to headquarters with a letter asking us to hold them for you until your return. And you will also make provision, with some letter attached to the package of lessons, in whatever place you are preserving them, to the effect that in the case of your transition the pack- age is to be returned to us with a plea that no one read them, since they are confidential and private. And make arrangements with someone of your family or among your friends whom you can trust, to see that such is done after your transition. And you will not discuss these teachings with other members who have not received them, and with no member who claims to have them unless that mem- ber can say to you: “I am a member of the Tenth Degree which does not exist on the material plane.” Unless a member of AMORC can say that phrase to you in just that way you will know that he has not received this instruction and is not worthy to discuss it.
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Members Who After Due Examination Do Not Prove That They Have the Sacred “Bunk” and Occult Nonsense of the Tenth Degree Should Be Ignored as Unworthy.
Should Deny That There Are Any Secret Instructions in Tenth Degree. Lewis Denies It in White Book D— So Should You! He Sidesteps— W hy
Not You?
These Things Must Not Be Discussed— Someone May Discover That the Great Masters and Great White Lodge of Tibet Are in San Jose and That Secret Teachings of Tibet Are Manufactured and Fabricated in California by the Great - Masters of Deception. Popular Conceptions of Tibet Make It Possible for Them to Vend Their Faked and Worthless Wares.
It Matters Not Where It Leads—lIf It Produces the Cash
and Increases the Royal Revenues of the Family Racket.
Any member who says that he or she “is in the Tenth Degree’ and has had “some of Tenth Degree instruction” simply means that he has com- pleted the ninth Degree and is receiving lessons beyond the ninth, while we are waiting to find out whether or not he is worthy and ready for these secret instructions or not. So no matter what these members say to you about their Tenth Degree membership, or their Tenth Degree lessons, in any Lodge or from Headquarters, you will know that unless they use the precise phrase stated above they are not receiving these special secret lessons, and are not to know that they exist. Therefore, you shall not even say to any member of any grade that there are any secret or special instructions in the Tenth Degree. You shall simply say that you have fin- ished the Ninth and you are still studying with AMORC.
And if any discussion arises regarding the great Masters, seen or unseen, living in Tibet or any- where else, or if any discussion arises in regard to the Great White Lodge and the Great White Brotherhood, or the teachings of Tibet, or the higher teachings of the Order of Rosicrucians, you are never to admit to anyone except to one that you know is receiving the same instructions, that you know anything about Tibet, the great Masters, or the secret teachings. You may admit that you have read something about Tibet as everybody has, but do not attempt to give them the correct information which we are going to give you in these lessons.
t is far better to allow seekers to have their gen- eral and popular understanding of Tibet and its work, than to try to give them the real facts before
Therefore, with this little introduction, and with the full realization that we are now proceeding on a course of study that may last months or years, and lead we know not where, and with an increased sense of our united fraternalism, and devoted affili- ation with the organization of Rosicrucians, I pro- ceed to give you the further information.
In preparing these lessons, J have preferred to
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The Secret Tibet “Bunk” Is Prepared in California by the Imperator in Person, He Being the Rev. Sob- bitha Bikkhu of the Great White Lodge of San Jose and of Course Is Responsible for the
present them as my own instruction, speaking to you in the first person and telling you the facts that are known to me, and giving you the laws and principles as I have had them given to me, thereby making you my personal student in these teachings and assuming the entire responsibility for every statement made, for every principle explained, and every result that may come through the giving of these teachings into your hands. Naturally I shall
Output of Occult Bunk Dispensed— How Do You Like It—Are You
Enthusiastic ?
be glad to have a word from you expressing your appreciation, your continued loyalty and devotion, as well as your enthusiasm regarding these studies. With the kindest of personal regards and fra- ternal greetings, I am Your Eternal Frater, H. Spencer Lewis, F. R. C.
(Imperator )”’
(Signed ) HSL:MF
The Summation The Imperator Hangs Himself
The secret teachings end with the Ninth Grade, thereafter the lectures are only supplementary reading, not containing any fun- damental secret teachings. Above the Ninth Grade, the members receive their teachings in another manner having nothing to do with typewritten lectures. In the Tenth Grade, typewritten lessons or lectures are used, purporting to give the most profound secrets of the inner circle. Members of the Ninth Degree are mere neo- phytes in the outer circle, knowing nothing of the profound inner secrets. Members of the Tenth Degree receive the inner secrets in typewritten lectures, making them the holy and elect. of the inner circle, and the members of the Eleventh Degree receive the rarest thoughts of the most highly recognized Rosicrucian Masters in typewritten lectures, copied from books, to aid them in their ascent up the mountain to the highest stages of development. Perhaps you can make heads and tails of it, but to us it is a jungle of ‘““poison-oak and ivy’ which at last circles the imperator of AMORC round in strangling embrace.
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Number Seven The Mystical Smokescreen
In the occult, seven is a mystical number. Accordingly, Lewis frames this, his charge Number Seven, as a mystical smokescreen to add confusion and to detract attention from the important and serious facts and the truth concerning his fraternal racket and mystic swindle carried on in the sacred name of the Rosy Cross and with the aid of “many Masonic Honors” from abroad. He says:
“Clymer further charges that Franz Hartmann and Von Eckartshausen, from whom the specific extracts were taken by AMORC (italics ours), never were Rosi- crucians, and should not have been quoted. * * * * Mr. Clymer either willfully falsified when he said that Franz Hartmann was never a member of the Rosicrucians, or he knows nothing about Rosicrucian History. * * *’
_ This is unique and wonderful, indeed, although he conceded and confessed under his charge ‘Number Six,” as we have just seen, that the works of Franz Hartmann and Von Eckartshausen, ‘‘from whom the specific extracts were taken by AMORC,” that is, by Lewis, and made into about forty secret lectures, at so much per lecture, and represented in the lectures to be the highest and most profound Rosicrucian teachings, were not and are not fundamental Rosicrucian doctrines and had naught to do with Rosicrucian teachings, principles, laws and demonstrations.
Meneeiie tne face of this, our contradictory, paradoxical Imperator (?) trafficking in Brotherly Love and racketeering in Fraternalism, insists upon asserting, arguing and “‘debating’’ that Hartmann and Eckartshausen were Rosicrucians. To what end and for what purpose? Clearly to divert attention from his fra- ternal racket and Rosicrucian-Masonic swindle by creating a much- ado controversy and confusion upon a side issue, which 18 merely incidental and of relative unimportance. In truth, of little impor- tance, so far as we are now concerned in connection herewith, since Lewis, in his own inimical way, has conceded our point and has admitted that he did take the material for his lectures from the
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books as charged.* tdis. Prooye
To better understand his various methods and the manifold devices employed to perpetuate his Hierarchy of Fraud, let us take. a look at the ‘‘evidence’’ he presents to sustain his erroneous posi- tion. It is: that Von Eckartshausen was a Rosicrucian because “the committee finds from the historical books and other records of Europe that Von Eckartshausen has always been admitted, and called, a Rosicrucian.”’® That is the proof (!)—all the “proof” he offers. Unless it is to be conceded that the egotism of Lewis is omnipotent and “‘the committee” infallible, he has offered no trust- worthy or credible evidence of the truth of his assertion.
As to Franz Hartmann, “The committee also finds that in James Hastings’ Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics Franz Hartmann is mentioned in Volume 10 under the subject of Rosicrucianism as a member of the German and Austrian jurisdictions.” ‘There have been erroneous rumors to the effect that Dr. Hartmann was a Rosicrucian because he wrote a book of fiction under the title Among the Rosicrucians, and edited The Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians,’ and some uninformed writers and investigators have given credence to that rumor, which is untrue and not justified in fact.
The reader will not fail to note—it is so apparent—the tricky and ambiguous way in which the “finding of the committee’ is stated, namely: that Hartmann is “mentioned” by Hastings under the subject of Rosicrucianism as a member of the German and Austrian jurisdictions. Jurisdiction of what? Of the O. T. O., but not of the Rosicrucian Order or Fraternity. It is another subter- fuge—a faked attempt to confuse and to confound. Hastings does not establish the fact—which is not a fact—that Hartmann was a Rosicrucian, and Lewis does not quote from Hastings’ works. He merely gives his own untrustworthy and ambiguous statement—a mere inference to leave a false impression in the minds of his readers.
* See said Brochure, pp. 17 to 51, or Volume I, pp. 286 to 321. 5 White Book D, p. 33. 6 See said Brochure, pp. 17 to 37, or Volume I, pp. 286 to 307.
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* But he does offer some “evidence’’—some falsified evidence. On page 26 of White Book D, marked “Exhibit No. 10,” he repro- duces the cover of Dee Rofentreuzer, a German publication of the O. T. O., which he falsely and cunningly represents to be ‘‘an R. C. Magazine,” and a deleted, marred and mutilated page, that pur- ports to be page 32 of that magazine, wherein the names of Fraters Dr. Karl Kellner, Dr. Franz Hartmann and Peregrinus (Theodor Reuss-Willson), co-founders of the O. T. O., are mentioned and this, he says, is evidence—indeed, conclusive proof that Dr. Hart- mann was a Rosicrucian. Remarkable proof (!) is it not?
In Part Five of Chapter IV hereof, in connection with the dis- cussion of the O. T. O., we will reproduce said ‘Exhibit No. 10” and will show conclusively that Dr. Hartmann was not a Rosi- crucian; that he was a Memphis-Misraim Mason (clandestine in the United States) and a co-founder of the O. T. O., and that the O. T. O. is not a Rosicrucian Order and has naught to do with the August Fraternity. Prior to the founding of the O. T. O. he was a Theosophist,’ as we have shown and as Lewis concedes to be the case.
Number Eight A Plea for Sympathy
Under his own formulated charge Number Eight, he has his voluntary, rapid investigating and fact-finding committee jump at conclusions and declare:
“Clymer furthermore attempts to belittle the Uses Many Cunning Imperator Lewis by claiming that in 1907 he was ‘Tricks to Deceive— only an office boy, working in a ‘magical palace,’ Not a Few Little Ones. picking up a few little tricks, ‘which he now uses to deceive his members at conventions and lodge demonstrations.’ (!) Clymer claims that in 1906 the Imperator Lewis was not only a mere office boy, but uneducated and in no way prepared to go to Europe in 1909 and receive the initiation in the Rosicrucian Order, because he had never graduated from public school.”
This is a plea for sympathy and a self-created opportunity to
“ See said Brochure, pp. 19 to 24, or Volume I, pp. 288 to 293.
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bolster up himself; to tell what a great man he really is and to allege his association with the celebrities, of which he takes full advantage.
The statement is a typical fabrication after his own peculiar style and is falsely attributed to us. We have made no such statements about “Imperator Lewis.’ We have said—and it is a fact—that he has never received Rosicrucian initiation in Europe-or elsewhere and that he is not a Rosicrucian initiate.*
It was alleged in Smith’s answer in the case of AMORC vs. Smith, which he avoided at the price of $15,000,° that he, at one time, worked in a magical store and learned some tricks and furthered his education along the line of expert deception and illusion. It was also alleged that he had not graduated from the public school, nor attended any college or university authorized to confer academic degrees, all of which was alleged to show that the academic degree of Ph. D. (Doctor of Philosophy) which he claims to possess was purely a bogus degree used in furtherance and in aid of his fraudulent R. C. Order and family racket.
The Imperator Well Educated But Educated in the Inverse and Wrong Way
It may be that he graduated from a public grade school and did not complete high school, we do not know; but we do know that we have never said—nor would we say—that he is uneducated, nor would we belittle his many clever, cunning and subtle talents or underestimate his highly developed genius for astute and crafty deception. Indeed, he is highly educated—too well educated, and entirely in the wrong way.
The word educate comes from a root word which means to draw out, to develop that which is within. He has drawn out and highly developed a rare genius for the successful manipulation of all the subtle wiles of the deceptive arts; he has acquired an -astute knowledge of effective eee sank and publicity. With these highly developed talents he has evolved a singular system of high-
8 His faked Rosicrucian initiation and false claims of Rosicrucian-Masonic author- ity for his fraudulent fraternal racket will be studied and discussed at length in Chapters Four, Five and Six hereof.
9 The case referred to and discussed in Chapter One hereof.
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pressure advertising and salesmanship; with genius most unusual he fabricated, instituted and has since successfully maintained a wholly spurious and fraudulent Rosicrucian-Masonic organization, recently (1928-1930) converted into an exclusive family racket.” With his marvellously developed talents for subtle plausibility and ingenious deception, this resourceful charlatan and mountebank extraordinary has deceived, misled and defrauded thousands. He has deceived the most astute editors of authoritative dictionaries, encyclopedias and books of reference, and publishers of high-class newspapers and magazines, as shown in our personal foreword hereto. He has made dupes of them all. And many have per- mitted him to use their publications as free vehicles for his clever yet false and insidious propaganda. Yes, he is highly inversely educated. If such genius and unusual talents had been used for worthy ends, there is no telling how much good he might have accomplished in the field of legitimate fraternalism.
Self-Glorification Tells of His Own Great Importance
It is a common Lewistonian practice to seize upon and to create opportunities for self-laudation and glorification, not alone to satisfy the vanity of his expansive ego, but also as a trick of his trade, to give respectability to his fraudulent enterprise and lead his victims to believe that they are associated’ with a great man of far-famed renown. To this end, and to induce the gullible and credulous to join and support his fraternal family racket, he has associated himself with well-known men and women and has con- tinually praised himself and mythically, by various means, bol- stered up and built himself into the fictitious Sage of San Jose, the self-exalted Most Perfect Master Profundis and the all-important, self-sufficient Imperator of the Hierarchy of AMORC—his re- markably designed family racket and fraternal swindle.
Again he creates, in his recent Book of Deception,’ the oppor- tunity to have his “‘committee” blow his horn and find that:
“Other evidence shows that in 1905 the Im- A Lewistonian perator Lewis was elected President of the New
10 Studied and discussed at length in Chapter Six hereof. 1 White Book D, p. 33.
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Institution. York Institute for Psychical Research because of
his scientific knowledge in the field of metaphysics Associated With and mysticism, and that his associates in that or- Important People. ganization were Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Fra Elbert
Hubbard and Mr. Funk, of Funk and Wagnalls, publishers of the Literary Digest, and many other prominent persons. Other evidence shows that Im- perator Lewis in 1906 was.employed as a special writer and feature writer for the New York Herald and the New York World, and the Com- mittee reproduces herewith a special article written See Statement of at the request of the Editor of the New York William Riesener. World and published in January of 1907 in one of its Sunday editions dealing with the work done by H. Spencer Lewis as President of the New York Lewis’ Racket. Institute for Psychical Research., This Society was composed of several hundred scientists and investi- gators who were studying the subject of psychic and
AMORC Sells telepathic demonstrations and of general metaphysi- Memberships and cal principles. It was a non-commercial organiza- Books. tion selling no membership, selling no books and
having no business features of any kind.”
In connection with the foregoing statement he publishes as his “Exhibit No. 11”? an article he wrote for the New York World entitled: “Greatest Psychic Wonder of 1906,” with a cut of himself, as the President of the New York Institute of Psychical Research. This is to show that he was a young man of some importance. Of course, he was the President—he was. the entire “Institute,” with which he associated names of prominent people; a practice he has continued in connection with the promotion and maintenance of his spurious R. C. Order and fraternal enterprise.
The above-mentioned William Riesener, in his aforesaid recently recorded interview, in speaking of Lewis’ schemes and methods of deception, said that:
Italics Ours. “He would rent the Scottish Rite Hall here in Presumably for San Francisco presumably for a religious service. Religion, but He would then give a free concert with such per- for Propaganda. sons as Beatrice Bowman, of the Metropolitan
Opera; Jan Kubelik or Hoffman (I now forget
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Prominent, Important People.
Honorary Memberships.
Lewis Was the New York Institute for | Psychical Research.
which one) to give concerts. “These cost nothing to the audience. “These services were well adver- tised with their attractions and drew the best kind of people. “They were free, and Lewis would give a propaganda talk on AMORC. After one of these meetings we had seventy-three applications for membership. I recall among them were four who had Doctor of Philosophy degrees, three medical doctors, three lawyers and a number from other professions. Some had no education except in the school of experience. “These members we took in, and it gratified Lewis that he was getting some persons of prominence.
“Membership he gets in many ways. Lewis has a big ego that must be gratified. He must be as- sociated with big names in his organization. “To get that association he gives honorary memberships to prominent people, like he did to Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Elbert Hubbard, Marie Corelli and others. He sends them honorary memberships. Maybe they see them and maybe they don’t. Probably they throw the membership cards into the waste-paper basket. But Mr. Lewis accomplishes his purpose. He has made members of AMORC, has them en- tered on his books as members, and no one can deny that they are members. Just like the Psychical Re- search Society. “That was Mr. Lewis. He was the society; he mentioned some names as other mem- bers, wrote some articles about it, but he was the society.”
Plea for Sympathy Concluded
Pursuing his tactics of attributing to us statements we had not made, and confusing matters as much as possible, he asserts that ‘a complete record of his activities throughout all those years and up to the present time has been verified,’ and concludes his plea for sympathy as follows: !
“Thus Clymer’s stinging, personal, vitriolic slurs against H. Spencer Lewis as a reputable person are negated by indisputable evidence, some of which is re- produced herewith. But why did Clymer have to add
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such a deliberate falsehood to his chain of ‘accurate evidence’? Can anyone believe anything that Clymer says in his charges and claims?’’®
In turn we ask: Why was it necessary for Lewis to attribute to us statements we had not made—which he says are deliberately false, but which may be partly true? Clearly it was for the pur- ose of charging us with the making of a personal attack on him, to create sympathy for himself, to discredit us and to detract atten- tion from our serious charges—the real charges—that he does not —cannot—honestly face, and to which he cannot truthfully reply. Thus, in his cleverness, he would leave the impression that no one can believe “‘anything that Clymer says in his charges and claims.”’
Number Nine Supreme Muddling—Confusion Profound
In restating the charges against himself under Number Nine, the “‘Imperater”’ rises to heights supremely ridiculous. He demon- strates—as one of his many and varied arts used to mislead and deceive—that he is an adept at making confusion profound. Here we have a fair example of his constant practice of misstating facts, confusing the issues, attributing statements to persons who did not make them, and of linking all persons together as “conspirators” who have ever accused him of sharp practices and wrongdoing. He says: | .
“Clymer charges that at no time were the books of AMORC audited until the conspirators demanded an audit in 1934 and that the membership was kept in igno- rance of what had been done with the funds of the organization.’ *
Now, we made no such statement. That charge was made by Mr. A. Leon Batchelor, his former Grand Treasurer, in a letter addressed to him under date of April 5th, 1935, and afterward published. We commented upon this elaborate exposé by a former Grand Officer of his Grand Lodge,’ but those charges were made
3 White Book D, p. 34. 4 White Book D, p. 33. 5 See said Brochure, pp. 123-128, or Volume I, pp. 401 to 407.
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by one of his own Grand Officers, by a man who should know—xnol by Clymer.
We have never made any charge against Lewis until we first had the proof in hand or available. We have made sufficient charges which he has not answered—cannot answer—and, of neces- sity, must ignore, or evade, by one or more of his crafty stratagems. Further he says:
“In fact, all the audits proved that Clymer’s charges that large sums of money had been sent to Europe or personally misappropriated by the officers were abso- lutely false and ridiculous. Why does not Clymer quote one single instance of ‘misuse’ of the funds, since he has had a copy of the auditors’ special examination made for him and his cohorts?”
We made no such charge, nor has anyone, so far as we know, made‘ the charge as stated by Lewis. Here he uses tactics of con- fusion, often and constantly employed, of linking a charge that nobody made with one that was made, but attributing it to the wrong person.
No one made the charge, so far as we know, that “large sums of money had been sent to Europe”’; at least we did not make it. Is the Imperator growing suspicious of himself and making this charge out of his own subconsciousness? Mr. Batchelor did charge that Lewis and his son Ralph had misused and misappropriated the funds.’ He also charged that they used the funds to pay the expenses of themselves and families for many trips to Europe under the false pretense of attending R. C. Congresses and World or International Councils. This is apparently true. These Con- gresses and Councils will be considered at length in Chapter Four.
Lewis also falsely states and intimates in a foot-note, by the use of his favorite and much over-worked term “conspirators,” that we were instrumental in having his books audited, and says that we have had a copy of the audit for ten months; all of which is wholly untrue. Now, based upon this absolutely false premise, he asks: ““Why does not Clymer quote one single instance of misuse of funds, since he has had a copy of the auditors’ special examina-
5 The use and the appropriation of the funds of AMORC by Lewis & Son will be studied and discussed in Chapter Six hereof.
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tion made for him and his cohorts?’ The answer is apparent. He simply will not fairly and squarely meet the issue. He is eternally dodging, resorting to artful trickery and cunning stratagems.
In our proposal for a complete investigation before an impartial and competent tribunal of his and our own Rosicrucian authority, authenticity, teachings, methods and practices, we proposed an audit by impartial auditors of our respective institutions,’ but he refused to submit to such an investigation.
The charge in question, that he and his son had misappropriated and misused said funds, along with many other more serious charges, was made by his own former Grand Treasurer—NOT BY CLYMER, “‘the head of a rival institution’”—who in his said letter (of April 5th, 1935) to Lewis, specifying numerous serious charges, proposed that they be submitted to an impartial com- mittee of five outstanding members of AMORC with “scope of independent inquiry” for investigation. Did Lewis accept that pro- posal—did he submit to a fair and impartial investigation by out- standing AMORC members with full “scope of independent in- quiry’? Oh, no! What did he say? He said in substance: Let’s debate—let’s make a speech, meaning, if you can say meaner things about me than | can say about you—if you are slicker and smarter than I am, you win. In Chapter Seven we will give further con- sideration to his debating obsession and will show why he prefers to publicly debate the issues and charges before a mixed crowd rather than to submit his claims and the evidence thereof to a court or other competent tribunal.
And now, in his White (?) Book D, how does he dispose of Mr. Batchelor’s charges? First: by attributing them to us and de- nouncing us as a “rival’’ who is attempting to destroy AMORC so that our little rival concern conducted from a farm house in Penn- sylvania may grow and profit thereby.* These are clever, foxy and cunning tactics—and effective in misleading many, even though they are as false and as crooked as hell. Second: by having a committee, wholly under his control and deceptive influence, to declare that there is no merit in the charges and that the Lewis Hierarchy is all right.
“See our Brochure, A Challenge and the Answer, pp. 28 et seq., or Volume I, pp. 156 et seq.
8'This will have full consideration in Chapter Three.
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As we have stated, we do not know Mr. Batchelor, we have never had any connection with him, nor any communication from him. : He is not our ‘‘cohort.”” He was a “cohort” of Lewis until he discovered that Batchelor was entirely too honest to be of serv- ice as required and was unwilling to commit perjury in his behalf— then he “fired”? him. The Lewis Hierarchy has the autocratic power to hire and fire Grand Treasurers as well as every officer of AMORC from the highest to the lowest, as we shall see in Chapter Six.
Number Twelve Crooked Ways—Twisted Statements
Under his Number Twelve,’ in a crooked, twisted and false state- ment, he continues his tactics of confusion and, appealing to the prejudices and blind loyalty of his victims or paying members, he says in substance that “Clymer or his associates also charge that the Post Office Department was [1. e. in 1935] conducting serious inquiries looking towards the cancellation of AMORC’s mail privileges.”
Now that is a crooked, twisted statement, made with intent to deceive and mislead—it is another of the many instances clearly showing the crooked ways and crafty, cunning and deceptive meth- ods as well as the designs-and purposes of a crooked, artful and mystic (?) racketeer.
CLYMER DID NOT MAKE THAT CHARGE. It was made by his own former Grand Treasurer in his said letter of April 5, 1935. We made no comment upon that charge as made by Mr. Batchelor because it was our information at the time that the Post Office Department was making no investigation and that Mr. Batchelor had inadvertently confused it with another investigation then con- templated or actually being made by another department of the Federal Government,’ namely, the Federal Trade Commission.
® Lewis’ statement of the charges Numbers Ten and Eleven will be considered in Chapter Six hereof.
1 Official investigations of the Lewis Hierarchy of Fraud and the action the govern- mental officials should take will be considered at length in Chapter Six hereof.
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Post Office Investigation
Lewis Claims Immunity from Governmental Action
He then had the ‘“‘voluntary’’ committee find, in substance, that the Government did make a long and thorough investigation some years ago, after the conspirators had filed a malicious complaint; that the mail was not stopped and that no investigation by the Post Office was then pending.
Most of the alleged findings of the alleged voluntary committee are not true. It is just another one of the typical Lewistonian statements, so framed as to confuse, deceive and mislead.
No complaint was filed by ‘“‘conspirators.”” As we have shown in Chapter One, it was filed in August, 1931, by Miss Myrtle Crane, one of his former members, long before Lewis conceived the idea of using the conspiracy bugaboo as a smokescreen and protective device. It was a serious, meritorious complaint—not a malicious one. She filed with the Chief Inspector of the Post Office Depart- ment a suitcase of documents to prove most of the charges, and gave the names of witnesses by whom the other. charges could be proved, and, taken all in all, it seems that she tendered the Gov- ernment a very good case, with the means and ways pointed out of establishing the fraudulent nature of the enterprise and the deceptive operation thereof.
There was no long and thorough investigation as found by the “committee”; it was merely perfunctory. After the investigation closed Lewis boasted that he knew the way and had the means to forestall and to prevent any serious governmental investigation or action. Perhaps he has; we do not know, and dare not say.
Lewis concludes his remarks under Number Twelve in this wise:
“Thus another very malicious and false charge re- mains for Clymer and his cohorts to wipe away with more manufactured evidence or tricky statements. Or, will they contend that all parts of the Government are incompetent to investigate AMORC, and only the six: conspirators are capable of knowing the truth?”
This involved and ambiguous statement is not altogether clear, but we gather from it that he expects us to follow his methods. Evidently he feels that he has made a perfect answer. We do not
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admire his methods and do not like the suggested alibi. We do not attribute this apparent miscarriage of justice to the incom- petency of the governmental investigation agencies, but to the extreme cunning and exceedingly fine “Mafia” hand of Lewis—of the Hierarchy of Piausible Deception—who has deceived thou- sands—among them the smartest and wisest of mankind, and who has, apparently, thus far fooled the high governmental officials and prevented proper action being taken on at least two adverse reports made by special official investigators.? Yet we feel no dis- couragement but believe that ultimately the whole truth will be known by all citizens; that our high governmental officials will take proper action and exact justice will be done.
“Truth crushed to earth shall rise again— The eternal years of God are hers; But error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers.”’
Number Thirteen Clymer His Evil Spectre
Under his Number Thirteen, Lewis demonstrates to a remark- able degree and with certainty his great desire to present Clymer as his evil ever-present spectre, and relentless persecutor. He says: “Clymer’s associates claim” and proceeds to discuss and misstate, in his usual crooked and twisting manner, a charge made against him by his former Grand Treasurer, with whom Clymer has not been and is in no way associated.
Here we are afforded another example of the great variety of the subtle arts and tactics of this resourceful charlatan.
It also leaves the conviction that he feels that if he could only rid himself of Clymer and destroy the authentic Rosicrucian Order represented by Clymer there will be reasonably smooth sailing - upon his sea of plausible deception for his fraternal family racket and spurious, fraudulent R. C. Order. But ‘“‘the Clymer’ that he fears so much and denounces so vehemently is perhaps the Nemesis of his own subconsciousness (i.e., the image of retributive justice
2 This was revealed and came to light in the trial of the case of Roy W. and A. E. Smith vs. Supreme Grand Lodge of AMORC et al. in the Federal District Court at San Francisco, in February, 1936.
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that constantly haunts him). The authentic order will stand, like truth, unshaken and unaffected by his unholy assaults of miserable misrepresentation.®
The particular charge to which he pretends to reply under his ‘Number Thirteen” with pretentious arguments and ballyhooing ridicule, made by Mr. Batchelor, ex-Grand Treasurer of his Grand Lodge, is as follows: “You have urged the members to purchase certain books, representing them to be published by other firms, whereas these firm names were fictitious, and you and your family profited from the publication and sale of these books.”’. Now read the typically Lewistonian ballyhoo on page 36 of his White (?) Book of Deception, in reply to the foregoing charge, and note the methods employed. They are typical devices, stratagems and sub- terfuges constantly employed by the Imperator of the Hierarchy of Brotherly Love to cast a mantle of confusion about his fraudu- lent operations and to create a smokescreen to hide a fraternal swindle, from which he and his family receive their luxurious sustenance.
Number Fourteen More Confusion and Self-Laudation
In his discussion under Number Fourteen there is a repetition of his oft-repeated statement that “Clymer and his associates” claim and charge, whereas he is undertaking to reply to charges made by one of his former associates, his former Grand Treasurer, not to charges made by Clymer. In fact, he has given very little space in his White (?) Book of Deception in an effort to reply to the basic and serious charges made by Clymer, while every effort has been made to evade them. But he has devoted considerable space in an attempted reply to certain unimportant incidental mat- ters relating thereto, and to those charges of his former Grand Treasurer to which he thought he had a plausible answer. As to the basic charges made by Clymer and the serious charges made by — Batchelor he has maintained a discreet and profound silence.
Under this number it is interesting and illuminating to note that he had his “voluntary” committee find as a fact:
“that the membership of the organization has stead-
® These false representations will be fully considered in Chapter Three hereof.
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Italics Ours. ily increased, even during the years of the depres- sion... that in any month not more than a small
fraction of | per cent of the membership has re-
To Other Reasons, signed from the Order’s activities, and these com- Not Discovery of plete resignations have been due to removals to for- the Fraud. eign countries, inability to keep up the study period
or other reasons, and in only a very small number of cases—less than one-tenth of 1 per cent—do the Take Their Medicine. resigning members make any complaint regarding No Complaint. - the teachings or the activities of the organization Bealics Ours. ... that the organization has had a marvelous and steady growth in every way.”
A Serious Conflict
Committee's Findings Vs. Lewis’ Testimony
The foregoing is the findings of fact of his voluntary (?) com- mittee—in reality Lewis’ statements. Now, let us compare his foregoing statements, made in the name of his committee, with his statements made under oath in the case of AMORC vs. Smiry on June 26, 1933, while the depression was still on. In the above- mentioned case, to show that Smith’s activities had been injurious to AMORC, Lewis testified in substance that there had been a serious loss in membership; that Smith’s activities had resulted in the withdrawal of members and prevented others from joining; that the loss in two years was nearly $60,000; that in 1931 twenty- two thousand members were paying dues, whereas at that time, June, 1933, about ten to twelve thousand were paying dues, and that about five or six thousand had been lost because of the depression.*
Here we have another splendid example of Lewis’ stability, credibility and his regard and respect for the truth. When he deemed it desirable to say through his voluntary (?) committee that the “membership had steadily increased even during the de- pression, and the organization had a marvelous and steady growth in every way,’ why, he simply said it, truth or no truth. When there was a legal necessity to prove loss of membership to make a case against Smith, he stated under oath, if that means anything,
* Lewis’ testimony, Transcript on Appeal, AMORC vs. SMITH, p. 383 and- pp. 515; 516 and 518.
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that there had been a heavy loss in membership, that Smith’s activi- ties had reduced the paying members, in two years, from twenty- two thousand to ten or twelve thousand, and that five or six thou- sand had been lost because of the depression—a perfect picture of the perfected Ananias, a cheerful, ready, artful and plausible Ananias.
Ballyhoo as Proof
Avoiding Real Issues with Confusion
Aside from the various charges of the misuse of funds made by his former Grand Treasurer, which we will study and consider in Chapter Six, Lewis’ reply under Number Fourteen purports to be a reply with much ballyhoo to other charges made by Mr. Batchelor, his former close associate, which are, as follows:
“You have kept the members ignorant of all essential facts concerning the order. You do not allow them to know the number of members, nor do you inform them that the turnover of the membership is about three hun- dred to four hundred per month. ‘This is due to the fact that the so-called Membership Committee is a myth. Through exaggerated advertising, which is against the rules of the order, you have taken the money.and issued membership to anyone who sent in the $5.00 initiation fee. You have reduced the high and dignified plane of the order to the level of a commercial correspondence school with much ballyhoo and falsehood.
“Entirely due to your methods of conducting the af- fairs of the order, it has suffered in public esteem. In all occult, philosophical, fraternal and educational circles, it is held in contempt, and looked upon as a fraud. Here in San Jose, where the activities of the order are centered and you are well known, you are looked upon with sus- picion, considered a clever grafter, a pious racketeer, and a monumental humbug. Thus the work of the order is impeded, and its usefulness circumscribed.” (Italics ours. )
To these charges he replied, as we have noted above, by assert-
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ing, contrary to his sworn testimony, that his family enterprise “has had a marvelous and steady growth in every way’’—even during the depression. And to the serious specific charge that his fraternal swindle, in all occult, philosophical, fraternal and edu- cational circles is held in contempt and looked upon as a fraud and that where he is well known he is looked upon with suspicion and considered a clever grafter, a pious racketeer, and a monu- mental humbug, he replies by showing that the officials and the good people of the City of San Jose have great respect and rey- erence for racketeering in brotherly love and fraternal swindles— even the postmaster recommends it because it increases postal receipts, the hotel keepers and business folks praise it because of its great conventions—the largest ever assembled—bringing busi- ness to the city; and the Chamber of Commerce—to which Lewis or his enterprise belongs and pays dues—pays high tribute to the organization and its manipulators. And, that everybody in all walks of life in all the city looks up to clever grafting, pious racket- eering and monumental humbuggery. with awe and admiration. How does he prove and demonstrate (?) all of this? By having his most unusual “voluntary”? committee make its remarkable findings, as follows:
“The Committee also found that at each Convention various officials of the City have been present and wel- comed the Rosicrucians to the city of San Jose, and have paid high tribute to the organization and particularly to its Imperator and other executives. During the Con- vention this very year, a member representing the City Council and a member representing the Chamber of Commerce were present and in behalf of the city paid high tribute to the organization and its officers.
‘The Committee interviewed newspaper editors, the Chief of Police, the judges of the courts, the City Man- ager, the merchants, principals of schools, the Postmas- ter, and as many other prominent characters in the city as they could find, and found all of them paying the highest tribute to the organization and its officers. In fact, the entire assembly of members and delegates attending the Convention in 1935—the largest ever assembled—found that wherever they went throughout
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the city of San Jose, storekeepers, hotel managers, and persons of all walks of life paid high tribute to the AMORC organization and its officers.’’®
Thus, with such ballyhoo he proves (?) that his fraternal swindle and his pious racketeering in Brotherly Love are held in high esteem in San Jose; that Batchelor’s charges are false and malicious and that Clymer’s charges that his fraternal racket and spurious Rosicrucian-Masonic Order is a gigantic fraud must of necessity be ignored and hidden in a cloud of confusion.
Other Charges Summarily Disposed of With Ease
Having dealt only with the more or less incidental matters re- lating to the real issue and the serious charges; having attempted to reply to those matters only to which he thought he had a plausible answer, and by the use of clever subterfuge and cunning stratagems, he disposes of the real issue, the serious charges, to which there is no real and substantial answer, except confession, without ceremony or delay, by having his “voluntary” and most convenient committee declare that:
‘Thus each and every one of the charges published by Clymer in his pamphlets and subscribed to by his asso- ciates here in California, constituting what is, in our opinion and belief, a group of conspirators, or originated by Mr. Saunders, were found to be absolutely false, and in not one single instance was there any evidence to sup- port even a slight foundation for the charges made. For this reason the Membership Defense Committee herewith presents the summary of the report by the Committee on ‘Administration and Welfare’ which em- bodies the report by the Committee on ‘Grievances,’ with their attestations as to the investigations they con- ducted and the facts as they found them.’’®
Rather remarkable, if not dumfounding—well—it must be admitted that when Lewis writes a certificate for himself he does
5 White Book D, pp. 36-37. 8 White Book D, p. 37
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a good job of it; he is no novice at the art of self-certification and self-laudation.
And then he had twenty-two good and reputable, but highly prejudiced, very credulous and extremely careless men and women sign and swear to that remarkable certificate and ‘“‘fact-finding”’ truth-veiling and guilt-shielding “special and voluntary’ commit- tee’s report.
The great Imperator, after having dictated or written their report for them, having used them as a shield and convenience, having spoken in their names for himself and having filled the report with plausible falsehoods, with all manner of tricky stuff and with bold-faced and outright false statements, had them sign and swear to it. ‘The fact that Lewis had them swear to it indi- cates that in his own mind he was doubtful of it carrying conviction to his readers and members—hence he attempted to give it more force than it carries on its face and more dignity than it deserves by adorning it with the sanctity of the oaths of twenty-two of his deluded and vassal victims.
It requires the superlative genius of an adept and master deceiver, possessed of all the bewitching wiles and the most ex- traordinary understanding of the deceptive arts, and the unique ability to operate them to perfection, to fool good honest people like that; to make them his willing spokesmen and servants to denounce their real benefactors, who would expose the swindle and protect them from the Hierarchal Racket of Lewis & Son.
How can intelligent men and women become so credulous and trust with such blind and careless confidence? How can they be thus deluded and so completely hoodwinked that they refuse to really investigate or to see the truth when it is placed before their eyes?
Questions for the Committees How Well Did They Investigate?
Did the Committee examine and even casually consider our Booklet, The Right to the Exclusive Use of Rosicrucian Names, wherein we give an account of the official proceedings in Pennsyl- vania, in which it was decided that Lewis does not have the right
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to use Rosicrucian names or titles; wherein we proved by his own published statements that he had no Rosicrucian authority when — he fabricated his spurious R. C. organization which he is conduct- ing as a family enterprise? That is the basis of the fraud. Did the committee really consider that booklet—the facts presented and the proof contained therein—before they swore that there is no evidence? Evidently not. Lewis had them conveniently and completely ignore it. Why?
Did the committee make a careful, searching and thorough in- vestigation into Lewis’ alleged Rosicrucian authority and his right to carry on a Rosicrucian organization? Did they carefully ex- amine, carefully check and really ascertain the authenticity of the various so-called charters, certificates and. documents issued to Lewis or made by himself, that he claims confers Rosicrucian authority upon him and gives him the right to conduct a’ family racket and fraternal swindle in the name of the Rosy Cross?
Did they carefully examine the teachings, lessons and lectures to see if they are genuine Rosicrucian teachings? Did they check them in all the grades or degrees to see how much is bunk, manu- factured or copied from published books? And would they know Rosicrucian teachings if they saw them?
Did they look at the papers that Lewis said were auditors’ reports, and did they actually audit the books or check the auditors’ reports with the books? Did they check up and ascertain how much Lewis has paid himself and family during the past five years in the form of salary, travelling expenses, trips to Europe and by other methods? Did they ascertain how much he has spent on various projects to amuse himself and gratify his self-exaltation? Did they find out how much he has paid to lawyers and spent to protect his fraudulent enterprise and to keep in business? Did they find it true that he paid Smith’s attorney $15,000 out of AMORC funds so he would not have to face the proof of Smith’s charges that AMORC is a fraudulent concern? Did they find that only the Lewis family are the Order and that they were not mem- bers of the Order? In short, did they make an honest, good faith, real and genuine investigation to determine the truth of the charges made by their former Grand Treasurer? And when they inter- viewed the former attorney for the Order, and other former members (also alleged to be conspirators), did they report truly
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what they said, and did they embody such statements in their report? If so, why did not Lewis publish it?
Did they examine the document published by Lewis as ‘Ex- hibits Nos. 6 and 8” in White Book D before he deleted and mutilated them? Did they ascertain whether they are what they purport to be or really prove what Lewis claimed? Did they have those “Important Rosicrucian Documents” translated? Did they know what they contain, or did they take Lewis’ word for it? Did they know that all of the “evidence” exhibited to them by Lewis to prove that he has attended R. C. Congresses in Europe and that there is an International R. C. Council was pure “bunk”’ and proved nothing, except that Lewis was hoodwinking and de- ceiving them in a big way?
To be sure, the committee, composed of good men and women, did not know—they were victims of clever deception and expert hoodwinking—however our review of Lewis’ falsified proof, muti- lated documents, misrepresented important charters, manufactured evidence and evasive tactics, as presented in this book, no doubt will prove as illuminating to the “committees” as it will be inter- esting to our readers and all parties interested in exposing and suppressing Occult Frauds and Fraternal Swindles.
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tors amd active managers of the long introduced at a hearing before the Sec-
conspiracy. retary of the Commonwealth of Penn- sylvania again in 1934. Mr. Alfred Saunders At other times he has invented strange
medicines and mystic ‘“‘charms” or amu- lets, and has printed circulars describing 1) and offering for sale strange ‘‘remedies” claimed to do things which medical and
record in England (see the Birmingham Scientific men have proven absurd and Daily Post, Birmingham, England, for idiculous.
Wednesday, July 15, 1903) was not only His latest and most astonishing con- the leader of an alleged clandestine viction about himself and his powers, is Freemasonic body in New York, but he that he is the “successor” to a man by openly claimed and artfully admitted the name of “Dr.” Beverly Randolph, that he had “a Rosicrucian organization” who Clymer says was the originator of of his own, in embryo, and sought to America’s first Rosicrucian organization. introduce it in America under the title As the “successor” to Randolph, this of “Temple of Neith,’ which term he farmer-printer believes that he has in-
used in his correspondence of the past. herited a number of titles which Ran- dolph used only in a novel—a book of
fiction—and never taken seriously by
We have already described this indi- vidual to some extent in the History of the Plot. This man with a serious police
“Dr.” R. Swinburne Clymer any of its readers in the 19th century. { TEE ee , “Dr.” Clymer has, admittedly, suc- / A German or Dutch printer who dis- ceeged in printing and selling about wes
covered years ago that it was more thousand copies of his own “Rosicrucian” profitable to spend all of his time at the }o0xs in which he attempts to give his type case than in farming, and leaving 4 own very poor and unlearned description his hobby of printing to spare-tme in- of the Rosicrucians. His ignorance of dulgences in his amateur préss 8hOp; ancient Rosicrucian “landmarks,” sym- especially when it enables him to foster pois, terms, principles, and ideals is so _ and glorify some of the weirdest notions xtensive and colossal that he actually
3 that a human mind ever harbored. His tareg symbols of old an cults and 7 fondness for titles, for self-appointed ag4opts them, and does Rae how where and self-devised positions of “eminent 5 ¢ontact a single genuine Rosicrucian
authority,” supported by diplomas and enter in Europe. Mea cters of his own creation and print-
rs We ; : . But, “Dr.” Clymer does know how to
S— ihe secordg of the Federal Government. threaten everyone with more of his
& His craze for appropriating or simulat- printed matter in an attempt to add a
’ @ the names and emblems of other few more members to the group of
organizations is second only to his fan- ullible persons who have joined his
tastic love for writing threatening and ‘Rosicrucian” society conducted from
7 “challenging” letters to every person or the little farm house just outside of a Organization that seems to be an ob- Pennsylvania town.
stacle to the impossible goal he has set This is his great delusion: “If I can for himself—“Grand Master of the World break down the faith of thousands who and the Islands of the Sea.” (!) are now members of that organization
known as AMORC, some of them may believe that I am their saviour and ac- cept my claims to Rosicrucian authority and join my classes, buy my books and did have some money, it is alleged by CVentually secure one of my Royal Fra- Ss the American Medical Association in its ternity “Diplomas’.” “Journal” for December 15, 1923. It is Since “Dr.” Clymer has never been a even claimed by this Association that member of AMORC, is unacquainted Mr. Clymer issued to himself a Diploma with its inner workings, claims to have with the degree of “Dr.” sometime be- the “only true Rosicrucian Temple of I¢
fore his “College” was actually func- the whole world in his farm pone. and tioning in a small “Post Office Box.” has been in so much legal iculty in At any rate, the “Journal” alleges the past, his motive in attackin 7
j ioned- and hen the Federal Government closed AMORC may be justly questi Sai fone fraudulent “diploma mills,” &tavely suspicioned by any fair mind—
Mr. Clymer was one of those to be found guilty All of this evidence of fraud was See Photo Exhibits Nos. 2 and 3.
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Years ago he invented (in his mind) great medical colleges or colleges of therapeutics, and offered diplomas to
ose who had no medical training but
This is page 10 of White Book D, with each grossly false statement and ugly unjustified insinuation marked to identify them with the complete answer thereto in the text. It is a concentrate of willful falsehoods, bitterness and envy.
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for all
This is Lewis’ “Exhibit No. 2.” The foreground in upper picture is given the appearance of an unkempt farm, then being cleared to erect the new library. See our “Exhibit I.” (1) is the storage house, probably referred to as the “vacant barn” Temple. (2) is Beverly Hall. See our “Exhibits A. B. C.’ (3) is the Conservatory and Greenhouse. See our “Exhibit B,’ and (4) is our personal insignia, signature or Coat of Arms. There is no barn on the premises. See text.
PERSONAL ATTACKS—COUNTER- CHARGES
Falsified and Manufactured Evidence in an Attempt
to Destroy the Real to Perpetuate a Spurious R. C. Order
Still Another and Other. Stratagems
Thus far we have dealt with two of the major Lewistonian sub- terfuges, devices and stratagems used to avoid the truth that he dare not face, and used by him instead of an honest answer to serious charges based upon the facts. Here we present another of his many stratagems and devices; there are still others to be dealt with in chapters to follow. Here we deal with a common and ordinary stratagem, namely: bitter personal attack and false count- er-charges against a hated “rival,” who has exposed his racket and produced irrefutable proof of his occult fraud and fraternal swindle. The subterfuge of vicious attacks and abusive false counter-charges is a stratagem that involves no cunning cleverness or subtle ingen- iousness. It is commonly and generally used by the crudest as well as by the smartest of mankind. However, the smart never use it except under conditions of absolute necessity and the honorable class of mankind never use it under any circumstances. Its purpose and the necessity for its use are apparent to all—even to the dumbest of mankind.
In connection with the personal attack on Clymer the individual, he also attacks Clymer the Supreme Grand Master of the Authentic Rosicrucian Fraternity in America, and with false statements, falsi- fied and manufactured evidence, he fain would destroy the real Order that his own false and fradulent R. C. Order may survive. Here, also, his sordid purpose and crooked designing are fully apparent to all.
For convenience and study by the reader, we have placed at the beginning of this Chapter fac-simile reproductions of page 10 and “Fixhibit No. 2’ of his Black Book of Deception and Stratagem.’
1 Our reproductions Nos. 33 and 34. 2 White Book D, pp. 10 and 18.
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On page 10 will be found the major portion of his vicious attack, although it is extended throughout the booklet, like mud amid the driftwood and debris lodged against the banks of swollen streams during the storm. In “Exhibit No. 2” will be found a typical ex- ample of the tricky and falsified evidence used by him to sustain his false statements and to justify his fraternal swindle and family racket. The numbers made with pen and by us placed upon these reproductions are for convenience of reference. The numerals preceding the paragraphs in this chapter refer to the numerals on our reproduction of said page 10 and indicate that the subject matter herein refers to similar subject matter in the reproduction’® to which we are replying.
A German or Dutch Printer
(1) His reference to us as a German or Dutch printer and farmer is said in derision, to ridicule, and with bitter hatred. If we were either German or Dutch, we would be proud of our ancestry. They are great races and fine people. You should not speak contempt- uously of them; you know, Mr. Lewis, “you can’t beat the Dutch.” The descendants of the Dutch have been’ known to become presidents of these United States.
Our ancestors were Swiss Mennonites who migrated to eastern Pennsylvania in the early colonial days from Bern, Switzerland. Some came by way of England and other lands of temporary resi- dence. The Clymers have been law-abiding and useful citizens. They have not been without honor to themselves and service to their country. One of the family was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. He was also an early member of the Rosicrucian Fraternity in America.*’ A reasonable modesty dictates that we should say no more on this subject; sufficient has been said to show that they are not renegades or degenerates. Those who are interested will find a general history of the Clymer family and the Mennonites in a _ well-considered book, The Mennonite Immigration to Pennsylvania, by C. Henry Smith, Ph.D., a Professor of History in Bluffton College, Bluffton, Ohio.
3 Reproduction No. 33. *See Volume I, p. 416.
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Printer and Farmer
(2) We are neither printer nor farmer. If we were either we would be proud of our vocation. The farmers are the backbone of the nation. More than half of our people reside on farms and supply food and necessities to our nation. ‘The printer materially aids in the dissemination of information and contributes much to our intellectual well-being. Without the printer’s aid to set the type, and print his fabulous, false, high-pressure advertisements, Lewis could not have built his spurious and fraudulent R. C. Order and family enterprise into the “largest occult organization in the world,” and without the printer’s assistance we could not have exposed it so well and so thoroughly.
As a physician we have earned an honest livelihood by the ethical and honorable practice of medicine and the healing arts. As an author and publisher of several books, we have derived a large income from the sale of such books, all of which we have con- tributed to the support of the Great Work of the Real Rosicrucian Brotherhood in America. We do not draw a salary or royalties from the Fraternity, nor have we sold it our copyright.’ We gave our all freely and without price. We have never indulged in amateur press shop printing to “foster.or glorify some of the weirdest notions that the human mind ever harbored,’ but we have used and are using the facilities of a modern printing plant to prevent Lewis, if possible, from doing that very thing, and to expose him in the glorification of his family racket and the foisting upon the gullible and credulous “the weirdest notions that the human mind ever harbored,” in the nature of an occult fraud and mystic swindle.
Fondness for Titles
(3) It is—to say the least—a strange, fantastic and weird, if not a valid, defense to accuse another or others of doing that which you have done or intend to do and of being like unto yourself.
5 Lewis sold his copyrights to AMORC for $10,000.00, as is shown by the testimony of his son Ralph on February 20, 1936, in the case of Roy W. and A. E. Smith et al. vs. Supreme Grand Lodge of AMORC and the Lewises et al. in the Federal District Court at San Francisco, Official Reporter’s Transcript, pp. 51 to 58. And by his own testimony in the same case, Transcript, pp. 230, 231. Of course, he and his son draw substantial salaries and other substantial sums from their “non-profit sharing” family racket, as we shall see in Chapter Six.
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We suppose that’s why the pot called the kettle black. Lewis has oft-times resorted to the use of such tactics. Now he charges us with a fondness for titles. In modesty we must decline; we are not worthy of such great “honors.” As a physician, we are gen- erally addressed with the title of Doctor and as the official head of the Rosicrucian Fraternity in America we have used the title of Supreme Grand Master in official matters. There are other titles that of right we might use and sometimes of necessity must use in connection with the Great Work of the Fraternity in its different branches and orders, but we only use them when necessary and not out of fondness for them. We are pleased most when our members and students simply address us as “‘teacher.’’ We have never used or exploited titles or “honors” in connect:on with our membership in other fraternal orders or other societies for personal glorification or to build up the real Rosicrucian Order whose ancient landmarks permit of no such practices. Besides, we are not an ego-maniac.
Lewis’ Entourage of Titles
Now as to Lewis, we find his fondness for titles most extraor- dinary—indeed most astounding—and ego-glorification such as to put a strutting turkey gobbler and the vainest peacock to shame.
In hastily looking over the Lewis publications we find that he uses a flock of titles, “high honors,” degrees, fellowships and mem- berships, of which the following are but a few of the many used, viz.: H. Spencer Lewis, R. F. C., 12° Illuminati,.Toulouse, France; Dr. H. Spencer Lewis; H. Spencer Lewis, Ph, D.; Ho spencer Lewis, Doctor of Metaphysics and Psychology; H. Spencer Lewis, Dignitaire Supreme of the Rosicrucian Order; H. Spencer Lewis, Fellow Rose Cross; H. Spencer Lewis, Fellow of the France Ecole R.C.; H. Spencer Lewis, Rex Universitatis Illuminati; H. Spencer Lewis, Grand Master General; H. Spencer Lewis, Imperator; H. Spencer Lewis, Most Perfect Master Profundis; Member of the Supreme Council R. C. of the World; Legate of the Order in France; Minister of the Foreign Legation; Fellow of the Rose Cross College of the Rosicrucian Order; Honorary Consular of the “Corda Fratres,’ Italy; Ordained Priest of the Ashrama in India; Sri Sobhita of the Great White Lodge,® Tibet, and many others.
6 Under the title of Sri Sobhita-Bhikkhu Lewis granted a charter to his confederates in Belgium to institute a Grand Lodge or Sovereign Sanctuary of the Ancient and
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In gratification of his expansive and all-inclusive vanity we sug- gest that there be added to his horde, pack or swarm of titles and “high honors” the following: “Lord High Mogul and Chief High Engineer of the Bogus International Council R. C.”’; “Illustrious Promoter, Illuminated Co-Founder, Most Puissant Manipulator of the Fupost’”’; and “The Most Holy, Most Exalted, Most Illus- trious, Most Illuminated and Most Puissant Baron Munchausen
of the Occult.”
To be sure, it does detract from the signal honors of the famous Baron Munchausen, but seeing that he has been so far outclassed by the Imperator of the Hierarchy of Fraternal ‘Hocus-Pocus”’ for Royal Revenues only, and that the Most Perfect Master Pro- fundis has been so successful with his “International Councils R. C.” and his “Authority Universal for all the Orders and Fra- ternities of the World,” that is to say, his ‘“‘Fupost!,’” yet there are many who seem to think that he should assume—as he has assumed his other titles—the three additional titles and honors above suggested, inasmuch as they appear to be truly descriptive of his splendid achievements, universal authority and superb gentus for racketeering in fraternalism.
But that is not all. His Masonic ‘‘SHonors” and O. T. O. titles
must not be overlooked.
Masonic Honors and O. T. O. Titles
It will be of special interest to all Regular Masons of American jurisdiction to note that he hatches a nestful of highest Masonic degrees and honors and gives a glowing account of them as well as many other honors and extensive authority. In fact, he almost “outdoes” himself with his description of the honors and powers in The Triangle,’ his then official mouthpiece, writing under the headline “Regarding Our Affiliations,’ as follows:
Italics Ours. “One other item may interest our members. A
Primitive Masonic Rites of Memphis and Mizraim, under which many strange and divers kinds of illegitimate and clandestine Rites of Masonry, including Co-Masonry, have been instituted. And under the same august (?) title and non-existing authority he granted a charter to himself and his confederates in Europe, under which he and his cohorts, with the aid of a few misguided and innocent parties, formed the Fupost, as we shall see in Chapter Four, where all these matters will be fully considered.
7 September, 1921, No. 6, p. 1.
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This Refers to His “Important Rosicrucian Document No. 4.”
See Vol. 1, PP. 344, 345, 346. The Docu- ment Is Reproduced on Page 380.
In Chapter Four We Will Print a Translation of This Document Issued by the O. T. O. Which Lewis Claims Is a Charter (!) Confer- ring Rosicrucian Authority Upon Him.
The Translation Shows His Claims to Be False and This Description to Be Fantastic.
large and interesting document was received during the month of August from a Sovereign Sanctum of Freemasonry abroad conferring upon our Imperator [H. Spencer Lewis] the highest Masonic degrees, such as Honorary 33rd and the 90th and 95th Degrees of the Ancient and Primitive Rites of Memphis and Mizraim (under a charter of author- ity issued by John Yarker 33rd, the eminent Masonic authority and historian and Sovereign Grand Master General of England), whereby our Impera- tor is given the Masonic Title of Prince of Memphis
(Egypt), member of the Sovereign Tribunal and
Defender of the Order; and Sovereign Patriarchal Conservator of the Rites, Sublime Prince of the Magi. The Honorary 33rd Degree carries with it the title of Knight Grand Inspector General. ‘The document further makes the Imperator an honorary member of the Sovereign Sanctuary of Switzerland,
- Austria and Germany. These Masonic honors are
conferred under the charter of authority of Grand Orient of Ancient Gaul and Supreme Sanctuary of Great Britain. Also the Ordo Templi Orientis (Oriental Order of the Temple, Fraternity of the Hermetic Light) has conferred its high degrees upon our Imperator with the title of Most Illustri- ous Sir Knight and Frater R. C., appointing our Supreme Lodge in this country as a Gage of Amity for the Ordo Templi Orientis of Europe.” *
“The Supreme High Council of the Universe’ The World Council (!) of the Rosicrucian Order (i.e., Lewis’
spurious R. C. world-wide order), which according to his expansive and all-inclusive claims possesses most extraordinary powers and authority, has, it seems, also conferred upon him, and his fraternal racket, some most unusual honors, titles and powers. Continuing in the same article, he says: |
Italics Ours. High Council of the
“Furthermore, the world council of the Rosicru- cian Order, under its official title (translated) “The
8 For another, different and later description of this same document—charter(!)— see Volume I, p. 345. Then read the translation of the document in Part 5 of Chapter Four and check against his statements.
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Imperator’s Imagina- tion Confers Upon Our Order, i. e., The Lewis Family, High
Honors.
‘The Fabulous, Fictitious Claims of an Inventive and Unscrupulous Charlatan.
This Ambitious and Pretentious Scheme, Born in His Imagina- tion in 1921, Was
to Be Executed in 1934, When He and
His Cohorts in Humbuggery Launched the Fuposi.
With a Comedy Burlesque Called Fupost He Attempted to Give Approval to His Fraudulent Enter- prise. See Part IV, Chapter Six.
Supreme High Council of the Universe, through its Great White Collegium (Lodge) announces its forthcoming annual pronouncements, conferring upon our order some high honors and making our high degree members of the Supreme Grand Lodge® of North America Honorary Members of the Grand Shrine of Egypt and of the Illuminati of India by virtue of the power of the Magister of the Temple R. S. at Calcutta. This Supreme High Council of the Universe has under its immediate direction more than thirty of the Secret Orders of the World* which have existed since the dawn of civilization, which means all the esoteric Orders or Fraternities, including the Essenes, Oriental Theoso- phists, Esoteric Masonry, Rose Croix de Heredom, Krata Repoa of Egypt, Rites of Mithras, Knights of Jerusalem, Oriental Druids, L’Ordre du Mar- tinisme, Oriental Knights of Templar, the Order Rosae Crucis, etc. The practice of all the ancient and primitive rites of these orders, the conferring of their degrees and the establishment of their lodges are under the control of this Supreme Coun- cil, and thereby all are united into one large and cooperative, harmonious, secret organization. Our Imperator is a high officer of this Council and all our members who reach the Twelfth (Illuminati) Degree of our Order will be appointed official rep- resentatives of this Council.
“By all this it will be seen that the AMORC is the only organization, body, society or group of Rosicrucians in America (or in the world for that matter) having the approval, recognition and direc- tion of the Supreme High Council. of all ancient and modern Secret Rites.”
A Monopoly on Titles and Authority
In reading this remarkable array of titles, special and general
°The “high degree members” are Lewis and family, who with their handy-man “Friday” are the sole members of the Supreme Grand Lodge—the Lewis Hierarchy, as we shall see in Chapter Six hereof.
1 The “more than thirty Secret Orders of the World” under the immediate direction of his mythical (non-existent) “Supreme Council of the World” decreased greatly
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“high honors” and “universal” authority, conferred by “The Su- preme High Council of the Universe,” it would seem that all orders and fraternities in America (“or in the world for that matter’’) must discontinue activities for want of authority and all others must die “unhonored and unsung,” seeing that H. Spencer Lewis, the Imperial Imperator of the Lewis Hierarchy of Fraternal Rack- eteering, has had all the high honors and ‘“high-falutin’”’ titles conferred upon him. But no—wait—that is not all. Further pe- rusal of his remarkable literature of self-laudation reveals a few more but less important ‘fellowships,’ high honors and responsible offices in many societies and institutions of learning, art, mus.c and_ science. Some are real, but most of them are fictitious—such as: Vice President of the Bacon Society of England; Fellow of the Rose Cross College of France; President of the New York Insti- tute for Psychical Research; membership in and high honors con- ferred by the International Fine Arts Society in Europe; the Societe Philmatique of Verdun, France; the Internaciona Ciencala Societe of Spain; Societe di Artie Cienci of France, and many titles and honors from other fine arts, literary, dramatic, mystic and fictitious societies of Europe and the world—ad arbitrium (at will) and ad infinitum (to infinity).
After reviewing the Lewistonian array of titles, the reader must be impressed with the conclusion that our fondness for titles, to whatever extent it may exist, must of necessity dwindle into insig- nificance. One wonders why Lewis should ever mention the fondness of others for titles.
Not for Vanity Alone
But Lewis parades his “‘wonderful” titles and august authority (!) not for vanity’s sake alone; it is also one of his devices used to impress and mystify the gullible and credulous and to draw them in as supporting members to produce the Royal revenues for his occult and mystic enterprises, and to the same end, for the same purpose, he has written, fostered and glorified “some of the weirdest
between 1921 and 1934. In 1934 he launched his “Supreme Eminent Authority” to sit in review of all the orders and fraternities of the universe—his ridiculous farce and buffoonery—called the Fuposi, but his latest “Supreme High Council” of eminent universal authority only numbers fourteen orders and fraternities, most of them—like his fraternal enterprise—being clandestine and spurious. See Part V of Chapter Four
hereof.
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notions that any human mind ever harbored” to perpetuate an occult fraud and mystic swindle under the following assumed names or intriguing nom de plumes: Royale Thurston, Royale Thurston, Ph.D; Royale Thurston, formerly a professor of Psychology of. Columbia Scientific Academy; Hatcheup; Ancient R. C.; Ptharos; Veritas 6th Degree; Moderatrix, S. R. C.; Fra Fideles; Peusator; Magus Veritas; Simplicitas; Profundis XII; Rex Lux; Frater Lum- minus; Frater Illuminati; Frater Cosmos; Frater Alexandre; Chev- alier, K. R. C.; Frater Gamui; Frater Selvius, Frater Tammartus; Puritia; Frater Deigne; Factor Luminis; Sri Ramatherio; Master . Amatuof; Agrippa X°-32°, R. C. 8°; Rama, and many others far too numerous to mention—so let’s call it a day.
Charters of “Eminent Authority”
Lewistonian Strategy and Trickery
(4) Lewis further charges that our fondness for titles has caused us to issue charters and diplomas of ‘‘eminent authority” to our- selves for self-devised and self-appointed positions. Here, again, we see the application of the Imperial Lewiston‘an Strategic Rule: “charge others with that which you do yourself, before others charge you with doing it.” We have never resorted to such strategy and trickery; moreover, Lewis fails to cite a single instance or to offer an iota of proof to substantiate his assertions.
However, in view of his own inordinate fondness for titles, his tricky methods of issuing and procuring for himself and his fra- ternal racket false certificates, diplomas conferring bogus degrees, spurious charters and mythical foreign documents, many of which we will later review, it scarcely lays within the mouth of such an eminent sinner and mountebank extraordinary to prefer such charges against others.
Later we will review? his ‘“‘eminent authority’—his “Important Rosicrucian Document No. 2’’—that worthless, spurious, so-called Charter alleged to have been issued by the ‘“Great White Brother- hood Lodge of Tibet” to Lewis—Sri (Reverend) Sobhita Bhikkhu, under which authority (?) and power(?) he has issued charters to his confederates and cohorts in Europe to institute and carry on divers kinds of irregular, illegitimate and clandestine Masonic
2In Chapter Four hereof.
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bodies and organizations, administering strange and alien Masonic Rites and conferring ‘“Masonic” degrees and “‘honors’’ heretofore wholly unknown to Masonry.”’®
As a consideration therefor his European confederates have conferred great ‘‘Masonic honors” upon him; paid high tribute to the Right Reverend and Venerable Sobhita Bhikkhu; have done his bidding and have given him aid and comfort in the perpetration of this fraternal racket and Masonic-R. C. swindle upon the American people.
It was under this same charter from “eminent authority” as High Pontiff of the Universe that he issued to himself and his same confederates in Europe another “charter” under which he and his aforesaid confederates at Brussels in 1934 in world-wide conclave(?) formed and launched the ridiculous farce and unique organization called the Fuposi, which confederates paid high, glowing and affectionate tribute to the great ““American Impera- tor’; conferred unusual “honors” upon the ‘“‘Most Perfect Master Profundis” and strange, as it may seem, initiated him—who is so perfect, who in 1921 controlled more than thirty secret orders— into all their rites—into the profound myster:es of all the odd rites of the aforesaid confederates; gave him “‘large packages of secret books, hand-made manuscripts and documents containing the rit- uals and principal teachings of the other allied organizations, .. . a number of additional charters and manifestoes of authority, [italics ours] and a large box containing the official regalia, robes, jewels and emblems of the different orders.””* Said large packages also containing “the largest leather-bound portfolio of documents, charters, resolutions, official decrees and manifestoes ever presented to one man,’ and who (the same confederates) ‘“‘recognized”’ his fraternal family racket and fraudulent Masonic-R. C. Order as “the only authentic and recognized Rosicrucian Order in North America perpetuating and promoting [especially promoting] the original Rosicrucian rituals, teachings and ideals,” unanimously
a
3'The Masons of Europe are also aware of his chicanery and vicious methods aad
have exposed, protested and vigorously condemned them. See the recent pronounce-
ment of the Supreme Grand Master General of the Sovereign Sanctuary for France,
etc., for the Ancient and Primitive Rites of Memphis and Mizraim, which has been translated and quoted in full in Part 1, Chapter Four hereof.
4 Lewis’ Rosicrucian Digest, November, 1934, pp. 378, 379. His description of the formation of Ais Fupost will be found in this issue of his magazine, pp. 375 to 380.
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declaring him to be “‘the Imperator of Rosicrucianism for South America as well as North America.’”
(5) His obscure and ambiguous reference to “the records of the Federal Government” is not clear to us, unless he has reference to our copyrighting our various works and designs of symbols, etc., to prevent him from legally appropriating and using them as his own; but be that as it may, one wonders, in view of the facts, how it is possible for Lewis to have the brazen gall and shameless audacity to say of anyone, that ‘his fondness for titles, for self- appointed and self-devised positions has caused him to create diplomas and charters for himself.”
Of course, it must be remembered that he is no ordinary man— this Most Perfect Master Profundis—the High Pontiff of the Universe—the Imperator of both Americas Et sic de similibus— who knows all, possesses all, creates all for himself and who is above all law—especially immune from the law of the land or knows how to circumvent it and avoid its just penalty. Hence this may account for his brazen gall and shameless audacity.
Protecting Names and Symbols The Appropriation and Assimilation Thereof
(6) This aspersion, somewhat ambiguous, is absolutely false; again he accuses us of doing that which he himself has done. We have not appropriated or assimilated the names and symbols of other organizations; we have never sailed under false colors. He offers no evidence and presents no proof of his assertion.
On the other hand, Lewis has wrongfully appropriated the names and symbols of the authentic Rosicrucian Fraternity’; assimilated Masonic names, titles, “honors”? and symbols (as we have seen and will further see) ; has created a number of special symbols of his own designing (as we shall also see in Chapter Five) and has even
5 Lewis’ outlandish scheme, called “Fupost,’ to secure recognition of and to create authority for his fraternal swindle, is considered at length and fully exposed in Part V, Chapter Four of this Book.
6 See Brochure, Rosicrucian Names—Exclusive Right to Use, or Book Four, Volume I, to which Lewis has not replied, but has conveniently ignored.
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attempted to appropriate the Black Cross of Aleister Crowley and attempted to register it in the State of Pennsylvania."
We showed that he and Crowley used strikingly similar seals attached to their signatures‘\—Crowley as ‘“‘Baphomet”’ of the A.:.A.+. and the O. T. O., the latter a Masonic organization based upon the Rites of Memphis and Mizraim; Lewis as “Imperator” of AMORC, an alleged Rosicrucian organization. Lewis de- nounced Crowley, denied his connection with him and went so far as to deny Crowley’s connection with the O. T. O.° Then to prove (!) that the seal to his signature as “Imperator” is not the seal of Baphomet and not used with Crowley’s consent, he sets forth three signatures in his “Exhibit No. 9”, White Book D, page 25, with seals afixed somewhat similar to the seals of Crowley and himself, which he says are the seals and signatures of Masons. Assuming that the seals and signatures shown in said exhibit are genuine, which may be a rash presumption, Lewis has succeeded in showing that he its using a Masonic Seal in connection with his oficial signature as Imperator of his alleged Rosicrucian Order. No real Rosicrucian would use a Masonic Seal in official Rosicru- cian matters. Therefore, he has proven, among other things, that he has assimilated a Masonic Seal which he uses “officially” with the Rosicrucian names, emblems and symbols that he appropriated for his fraternal racket.
Threatening and “Challenging”
(7) If it were true that we have occupied our time in writing threatening and challenging letters to everyone who seems to be an obstacle to the impossible goal that Lewis says we have set for ourselves, he should have repented of his sins and reformed his ways before he made the accusation. He is the Prince Alarming at the art of writing threatening letters’ and challenges to all who oppose him or seem to stand in his way. He has challenged every-
7 See Brochure, An Exposé of the Imperator of AMORC, pp. 84, 85, 111, 112, 113 and 114, or Volume I, pp. 335, 336, 383, 384, 385 and 386.
8 See said Brochure, pp. 89 to 94, or Volume I, pp. 360 to 365. 9 This will be considered at length in Part V of Chapter Four.
1See his letter to Mrs. Max Heindle, which was “arrogance personified,’ The Initiates, Volume 3, Number 3, pp. 33 et seq., and our comments in connection there- with.
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one to a public debate who has questioned his methods or preferred charges against his racket. He is a challenging ‘‘Imperator’’; it is one of his devices and subterfuges. He has challenged us to a public debate three times without desirable results.» He has written us several ugly and threatening letters; some anonymous, others over his signature. If he has received sharp and firm replies they have been in response to his own solicitation.
A Red Herring Across the Trail
(8) His reference to the article in the Journal of the American Medical Association years ago is the drawing of a red herring across the trail. It is an insinuation that we are as bad as he, there- fore, we should be discredited. Because we have charged him with fabricating and operating a fraudulent Rosicrucian racket, against which charge he has no valid or substantial defense, he seeks to _defend by intimating that we, years ago, were connected with fraud- ulent and disreputable medical schools. Because he has issued fake diplomas and charters to himself as a fraudulent dev ce for his fraternal swindle he would shield himself by charging that years ago we issued medical diplomas to ourself, falsely stating that the
A, M. A. had so charged.
Not only has he made willfully designing false statements re- garding said article in his Black Book of Deception’ but he has underhandedly circulated multigraphed copies thereof with his own vilifying and calumnious comments thereon through the agency of others. The article in question was a spite article written in a bitter contest between different schools of thought in the medical profession. It was based upon an incorrect statement and con- struction of facts, in which a negative attempt was made by a singular use of insinuations, backhanded implications and subtle innuendoes to connect the writer with medical quackery and dis- reputable medical colleges. It was written for a special purpose and belittled our medical teaching and practice. With scorching sarcasm and vilifying defamation it attempted to pronounce the “last rites’? upon our medical career. The article was as uncom- plimentary as it was untrue and unjust, but did not injure us pro-
2 See our Booklet, 4 Challenge and the Answer, or Book Three, Volume I; also Chapter Seven, this Book.
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fessionally. In fact, it was so obviously unjust that it proved to be very beneficial professionally. It was ignored and no reply was made to it, until the “bigwig’ of the Lewis Hierarchy of fraternal racketeering attempted to misuse it to discredit us and as a device to shield and perpetuate his own insidious swindle.*
(9) Fortunately, we have never participated in any fraud or knowingly encouraged such practices, and, entirely contrary to Mr. Lewis’ statement, we have never been found guilty of anyesuch practices. Nor have we ever “invented” medical colleges and offered diplomas to anyone, as he charges. The American Medical Association, nor anyone, save Lewis alone, has never cla-med that we issued a medical diploma to ourselves. That claim is absolutely false. The reason he has made this, as well as other false, abusive and derogatory charges against us, will become apparent and entirely clear to the reader as we proceed.
No Evidence of Fraud
(10) “All this evidence of fraud” was not introduced at a hear- ing before the Secretary of the Commonwealth of. Pennsylvania in 1934. Lewis caused the A. M. A. Journal Article to begreaa at that hearing as the basis of a bitter personal attack, but it con- tains no evidence of fraud on our part. ‘The Secretary correctly esteemed the article as of no value as evidence of any fact, and disregarded it. If Lewis were not calloused and devoid of shame, he would be ashamed to mention it, especially since this is the only reference in his White Book D made to that hearing and the A. M. A. article was the only “evidence” that he “introduced” in that contest in which he was so signally defeated. That was a contest between .us, as the Supreme Grand Master of the authentic Rosicrucian Organization (The Randolph Foundation of 1858), and Lewis, as the Imperator of AMORC (his spurious, fraudulent foundation of 1915, his present fraudulent fraternal enterprise), for the right to the exclusive use of Rosicrucian names, titles, terms, designations and appellations. Lewis did not appear at the hearing,
4 Lewis and the A. M. A. article that he has attempted to misuse have been answered in full in a forty-six page Brochure issued in February, 1936, entitled: Dr. R. Swin- burne Clymer Replies to “Dr.’ H. Spencer Lewis, The Mystic Swindler and the A. M. A. Article. This Brochure may be had on request by all who are interested by addressing the author, Quakertown, Penna.
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but through his attorneys claimed that he possessed the sole Rosi- crucian Authority in America and was entitled to the exclusive use of Rosicrucian names and symbols. At the request and upon the assurance of his attorneys that he would produce certificates, di- plomas, charters and documents as evidence of and to substantiate such claim, the Secretary kept the hearing open for months, to give him full and ample opportunity to produce the proof to sustain his claim. He possesses no Rosicrucian authority, he has no proof, and none was produced. He did, however, as he indicated, as a weak and miserable substitute for the proof that he does not possess, cause to be read at the hearing said article and used it as the basis of an ugly and vicious personal attack on us.* It was a contemptible, beggarly and low thing to do. However, it seems to be one of his outstanding devices and common artifices which he has followed with deft skill in White (?) Book D, in connection with other practices and methods equally as reprehensible and remorseless.
Since our answer to Lewis, the Mystic Swindler, and the A. M. A. article was so complete and his wrongful and vile use of it was so completely exposed, he has denied to his members, who regard his aforesaid act as being reprehensible and indefensible, that he introduced the article in question at the hearing in Pennsylvania, but claimed the American Medical Association had their attorney read the article at the hearing.’ The aptitude of this High Priest of Fraternal Skullduggery for contemptible, infamous and vicious perversion of the truth appears to be without limitations.
A Priest (2) Who Besmirched the Cloth A Blackbird That Fouled Its Nest
In this connection, as we are considering the ever-ready dispo- sition of this High Priest of Humbuggery, racketeering on the nobler and higher aspirations of men, to besmirch the character and to blast the reputation of anyone—indeed—everyone, to save himself, his fraudulent enterprise and to insure the perpetration
> For a full account of all these matters and all that transpired at the hearing, see Booklet, The Right to the Exclusive Use of Rosicrucian Names, or Book Four, Volume I.
6 Of this we have positive documentary proof, consisting of Lewis’ written state- ments and the written denial of the American Medical Association that it was repre- sented at that hearing or had any connection with it.
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thereof, it is well to discern and note the heretofore concealed lines of baser villainy in the self-executed portrait of himself in- delibly etched thereupon by his outrageous deeds of abject baseness and sordid unscrupulousness in prostituting the noblest ideals of the high office of priesthood to serve his ignoble ends or to gratify his distorted fancy.
As a “Bishop” of the Pristine Church of the Rose Cross, Inc., he ordained priests," performed marriage*® and christening cere- monies, and other priestly acts. Recently, on February 25, 1936, in the Federal District Court at San Francisco, he testified that
the ‘Pristine Church of the Rose Cross” had been abandoned be- cause one of its ordained priests had been abusing his prerogative
and performing marriage ceremonies—that “The organization was never formed for any such thing as that.”® But he did it—the consistent (?) Bishop and Imperator.
As the “Imperator” of an alleged Rosicrucian Order he receives and deals with strictly personal and highly confidential communica- tions from his members in the capacity of a priest. Besides he claims to be a “Sri (Reverend) Sobhita Bhikkhu” of the Great White Brotherhood Lodge of Tibet’ and the High Priest of the
Universe.
7 See our Brochure, An Exposé of the Tee of AMORC, pp. 78 and 110, or Volume I, pp. 349 and 382.
8In The Triangle of June 20, 1921, p. 1, then his official organ, we find the following account of a marriage ceremony performed by Lewis: “On June 9 a similar cere- mony was performed in the Rosicrucian Temple at San Francisco. On this occasion Sister Neva Breeding, a member of the California Grand Lodge, and Brother Walter