book indicates that it is a Book of Deception—although, it may

prove to be the Book of the Damned who victimized his fellow. creatures in the name of brotherly love and under the protecting guise or mask of fraternalism.
“Great Delusion”
It is one of his many clever tricks and stratagems to draw the attention of interested parties away from the serious charges which we have made, by making the counter-charge that we are only exposing him that we may secure his members for our own organi- zation. Thus he seeks to hold his membership, notwithstanding the proof of his fraudulent practices and swindling racket, with his ‘‘scarecrow” device of the self-interest and wicked purposes of envious rivals, thereby falsely creating in their minds the blind- ing prejudice that Clymer is merely exposing Lewis so as to get the members of AMORC tto join his insignificant Rosicrucian society, conducted from a little old rickety farmhouse and barn just outside of a Pennsylvania town. Indeed, he has over-worded this stratagem and subterfuge to discredit the real Rosicrucian Order in America that he may perpetuate a spurious one. :
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Let us put that “great delusion’ and convenient “bugaboo” to sleep and at rest for all time, and thus deprive the master strategist of one of his most affective devices and stratagems.
Contrary to all plausible appearance that he has been able to lend to that clever ruse and stratagem, we are not now, and never have been, motivated by a desire to secure members from his organ- ization. The authentic Order of the Rosy Cross does not implore, entreat, proselyte or use crooked means or alluring advertisements and high-pressure sales methods to secure members from any source. In truth, and fact, the real Fraternity does not seek members by any methods. It desires only those as its neophytes and members who are earnest and sincere, who are ready and who seek the light and the way to the Temple. It is an occult truth, recognized and known by all occultists, that “when the neophyte is ready the teacher will appear.” For that reason, genuine occult orders and societies do not seek or solicit members. In the simplicity of modesty they make their existence known, extend the hand of fellowship to all true seekers and deny the wisdom to none who are worthy.
Until he appeared upon the scene with his fabricated, so-called R. C. Order, promoting it with plausible deception and far-flung advertisements and modern high-pressure salesmanship, the true Brotherhood remained almost in seclusion. It could not be con- tacted directly. It was Lewis and his methods that forced the genuine Order to come into the open to expose a fraud and to prevent a commercial enterprise being perpetuated and carried on in its sacred name—thereby dragging its holy precepts and high ideals into the mire and muck of sordid commercialism and making it necessary for its Grand Master to hold aloft a guiding star to point the Way of sincere seekers to the Real Temple of the Rosy Cross. This we have declared again and again to be our only motive in exposing the fraudulent practices used in the promotion of his fraternal racket as a Rosicrucian Order. In the true spirit of fraternalism and with all the sacred meaning of a binding oath, we so declare again.
He has charged that we are seeking to wreck the real Rosicrucian organization (AMORC) that we may profit thereby. This is only a crafty stratagem and clever device to avoid and sidestep the truth of our exposure of his fraudulent practices and swindling racket. We are not seeking to wreck the real Rosicrucian Order. .We are endeavoring with all our might to preserve it in its pristine purity,
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to protect its sacred reputation and its holy name against the pernicious and wicked misuses to which he has subjected it.
Not Seeking AMORC Members Would Purge But Not Wreck the Organization
We have declared—so say again—that we are not seeking mem- bers from his organization. With his sordid methods, he has disgusted thousands with the name Rosicrucian or Rose Cross. Very few, if any, of his members—victims, when they are dis- illusioned and realize the full truth about his swindle and family racket—will care or dare to have anything further to do with any organization calling itself by a Rosicrucian name or appellation. Thousands have joined his fraternal family racket and commercial enterprise and of their own accord have abandoned his organiza- tion. None of these, so far as we are aware, have applied for affiliation with our organization. Therefore, few, if any, of his victims, when disillusioned, will seek affiliation with the authentic order.
We are not seeking to “‘wreck”” AMORC, as an organization. But we are intent—in dead earnest—upon stopping and preventing, if possible, a fraudulent racket and occult swindle being carried on in the name of the Holy Rosy Cross. If he will discontinue the wrongful use of Rosicrucian names and appellations, which he has no right to use and which he uses fraudulently, and will conduct his organization honestly as a mystic or occult organization without misrepresentation according to recognized fraternal law and usage, or in any form as a fraternal organization, then we shall be pleas to give him our support and tender our fraternal recognition.. We would encourage all good and worthy mystic, occult, fraternal and
1 There is little or no hope that the Lewis Hierarchy will reform and purge theig own family racket. We understand that some of his former members have made an attempt to purge this organization, but Lewis has charged that those members are not acting for the good of the Order, but have personal and financial motives back of their activities. (See White Book D, first column, p. 11.) We.do not know, but if such be the case, we are not in sympathy with their activities. Their success would result in supplanting one bunch of fraternal racketeers with another. However, we do know that there are many high-minded, noble-hearted and right-thinking members of AMORC who can and who should reform their organization; purge it of fraud and racketeering in brotherly love, and drive the money-changers from their Temple. If and when such reformation and purging take place, we shall be happy to join others in welcoming it into the circle of lofty and genuine fraternal relationship.
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upbuilding organizations. May their numbers multiply and their usefulness to mankind be broadened and greatly enhanced.
Our Exposé Is Not a Personal Attack
It may be difficult to differentiate between a man and his acts, to consider the act as something separate, impersonal and apart from the actor. If our readers can make this differentiation, they will be able to understand that we are not attacking Mr. Lewis personally. We are not fighting men as such, but their wicked prac- tices and the evil resulting from crooked methods. Although in exposing and fighting the practices, methods, acts and transactions we have found it necessary to denounce the actor as well as his acts, they are so closely allied, yet our denunciation of Mr. Lewis has been wholly impersonal and without malice.* As stated in our Personal Foreword to this Book, we have in our files an abundance of evidence purely of a personal nature that could be used, if we were desirous of making a personal attack, but we have not released such evidence or heretofore referred to it in our publications. It is only mentioned in this answer to his counter-charges to show that we have no desire to deal in personalities, purely and simply, as such. We have repeatedly stated the reasons that have motivated our exposé of this family racket and fraternal swindle. They need not be restated.°
Royal Fraternity Diplomas And Inner Workings of AMORC
(15) It may be interesting to Mr. Lewis to know, contrary to his own supposition, that the Royal Fraternity Association never
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issued ‘“‘Diplomas.”’ It performs an entirely different function. Its original object was to protect the authentic order against clandes- tine and spurious bodies and the misuse of its name, appellations
and symbols. Its present function is to hold the title to property
2 See Foreword to Booklet, Rosicrucian Names, etc., pp. 12 to 16, or Volume I, pp. 179 to 183, also Personal Foreword to this Book.
3 Also see Preface to Brochure, An Exposé of the Imperator of AMORC, pp. 5 to 7, or Volume I, pp. 275 to 278.
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of the Order and subordinate bodies in States other than Penn- sylvania.*
It is true, as stated, that we have never been a member of AMORG, nor in any way associated with his fraternal racket, but we are not unacquainted with its “inner workings.” As a matter of fact, we are well informed upon its so-called inner teachings. The Rosicrucian Foundation has in its vaults complete sets of all lessons and lectures as well as all rituals issued to date.’ That is one of the reasons why we are in a position to state positively—-as we have so often stated—that AMORC is not a Rosicruc:an or- ganization, and that it imparts and gives to its members no real Rosicrucian training and that it does not possess the inner teachings.
(16) The contemptible and scoffing reference to’ the ‘“farm- house”’ as the Temple of the authentic Rosicrucian Order will have proper and sufficient consideration a moment later when we deal with his ‘‘Photo Exhibit No. 2” and his tricky, manufactured and falsified ‘‘evidence”’ set forth therein.
Legal Difficulties
(17) His sneering, bantering statement that we have been in so much legal difficulty in the past does not deserve but shall nave passing attention; if for no reason other than to make this answer complete, as well as to direct attention to and fully disclose his many petty tricks, devices, contrivances, stratagems and subterfuges to avoid facing the truth of our serious charges.
The statement and its inferences are entirely false and mislead- ing. We have never had “much” or any serious legal difficulties. Some years in the past, we were involved in a certain minor legal proceeding, entirely personal, that did not adversely reflect upon our character, and that in no way concerns or relates to the matters and issues now under discussion. ‘The only legal matters in which we have been involved that do concern the matters under discussion
4See Pamphlet, Rosicrucian Names, etc., pp. 22, 23, or Volume I, pp. 189, 190.
> His “teachings” and “inner workings’ have been revised and changed like the alleged and pretended sources of his authority. Since he organized the Fuposi as his latest fake R. C. International Council, the present source of his alleged authority, which we will discuss in the next chapter, he proposes to add to the teachings of his aforesaid racket the teachings and initiatory ceremonies of several of the organizations alleged to be associated with the Fuposi, including the Martinist Order, as is shown by his announcement on page 98 of the April, 1935, issue of his Rosicrucian Digest.
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and issues here involved were the legal proceedings before the Sec- retary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1934 with him, in which he was signally defeated. In those proceedings we tried the issue as to whether Lewis, his commercial enterprise and fra- ternal racket, or the authentic Rosicrucian Order in America (the Randolph Foundation of 1858) had and possessed the legal right to the exclusive use of all Rosicrucian names and appellations. Every issue was decided in our favor and against him.’ Of our complete victory, and his signal defeat, Lewis has nothing to say in White (?) Book D, except to refer to the personal attack he made on us as we have noted in Chapter Iwo. Huis stratagem is to accuse us of being in the same situation in which he finds himself, no doubt, to detract notice and attention from his own serious legal difficulties that he has heretofore and is now experiencing, as well as cases pending in relation to and involving his fraternal racketeering enterprise.
He Who Ratses an Issue Must Abide Results
It is quite clear, if not now, it will soon appear, that he refers to the legal difficulties of others solely to create a smokescreen to shield his own difficulties of a kindred nature, all of which relate to his aforesaid family enterprise. Indeed he is a much-litigated and litigating man and boasts that: AMORC and its officers (mean- ing himself and family) have been victorious in each court issue and decree up to the present time.’ In the light of these statements and in view of the smokescreen with which he attempts to shield his legal ailments and chronic litigation, it will be interesting to briefly review the legal troubles of the Lewis Hierarchy and its fraternal enterprise.
The Thomas Case
In 1930, Lewis, in the name of his incorporated enterprise, sued E. E. Thomas in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, California. On the trial of the cause, January 5, 1931, on cross- examination, he was forced to make such damaging admissions and
5 See Booklet, Rosicrucian Names, etc., or Book Four, Volume I. 7 See White Book D, middle second column, p. 3.
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was being pressed so hard that he dismissed his suit and ran away.” This is one case in which the Family enterprise and its “high officers” were not victorious.
The Smith “Persecution”
In 1932, he had his own private attorney appointed as a Special District Attorney, made a complaint against George L. Smith, one of his former members who accused him of running a fraternal racket, and had him arrested on the charge of criminal libel. He testified against Smith and his own attorney prosecuted him. Smith pleaded the truth in justification of the things he had written and published about Lewis and his aforesaid racket. The jury believed the charges to be true and refused to convict Smith. The case was dismissed. Here is another instance in which his R. C. enterprise and its Hierarchy were not victorious.°
The Rankin Case
The Lewises fell out with Virgil L. Rankin, a former advertis.ng agent for their fraternal racket. He knew entirely too much about their hierarchal swindle and was threatening to tell. It was deter- mined to put him out of the way, or at least in jail to disgrace and discredit him. Accordingly, as high officers of the said lofty hierarchy, they preferred a charge of embezzlement against him and had him thrown in jail, where he remained for 39 days. The charge was dismissed for insufficient evidence. Mr. Rankin sued their aforesaid fraternal enterprise of brotherly love for malicious prosecution, false arrest and imprisonment. He did not feel that it was a brotherly thing for the high officials of a noble hierarchy of fraternalism and loving charity to do. A jury of their neighbors in San Jose did not think so either, and awarded Mr. Rankin $21,000.00. damages,’ said to be the largest verdict ever returned in a similar case in the State of California. This is another case in which the Lewis Hierarchy and its “high officers were not alto-
8 See Brochure, An Exposé of the Imperator of AMORC, pp. 59, 60, 61, or Volume 1, pp. 329, 331, 333. 9 This is the same case described at length in Chapter One, pp. 42, 43.
1 This case was referred to a few pages back in this Chapter. In this connection, keep in mind the facts there stated concerning this case.
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gether successful. Perhaps the Rankin case will cause a rancor in the hearts of the lofty hierarchy of love and fraternalism when the sheriff departs with $21,000.00 of the Royal Revenues of the family enterprise, plus court costs—to say nothing of litigation expenses and attorneys’ fees.
The Smith Booty Cases
In June, 1933, the case of the Lewis Family Enterprise against George L. Smith was tried.” Rather than to face his accuser and have the truth proven, he paid $15,000.00, ostensibly in the settle- ment of another case. Application was made for an appeal. He did everything possible to prevent the appeal being granted and perfected; he had withdrawn all the ‘“‘wonderful”’ exhibits that he introduced into evidence which he claims prove the rare ancient vintage of his modern racket; refused to return them to the court and never did produce them. In that way he delayed the record being made up by the court officials for six months or more. The record was finally completed by the proof of copies of said exhibits. When the appeal was finally perfected after much delay, he made a motion in the Supreme Court to dismiss it on technical grounds to avoid a hearing of the case on appeal on its merits. That motion was overruled, and the case is, at this writing, before the Supreme Court of California, to be decided upon its merits.
“But what good came of it at last ?’ Quoth little Peterkin, iW ehy. that I cannot tell’, said he;
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‘But ’twas a famous victory’.
The $15,000.00 Pay-Off Case
There is pending in the Superior Court at San Jose a suit by a member of AMORC to recover from the Hierarchy of AMORC the $15,000.00 of AMORC funds which they paid in the Smith case, as we have seen in Chapter One, to prevent the truth being proven in that case about their fraternal racket and fraudulent enterprise. ‘This, no doubt, appears to be a strange lawsuit to
2'This case has been discussed at length in Chapter One herein.
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the Lewises. Since, according to them,* their victims are not mem- bers of the “Order Rosae Crucis,” they belong to the “Rosicrucian Brotherhood,” which is quite a different thing from the Order Rosae Crucis, consisting of the Lewis family—the Hierarchy. The members have no rights, except to pay their dues and receive their lessons or lectures, falsely alleged to be the perpetuation of the original Rosicrucian teachings, principles and laws. The Lewis Hierarchy are “the Rosicrucian Order (AMORC).” Why should not their member-victims be delighted to regularly contribute to the Royal Revenues for their regal support and amusement,* even though the lectures and teachings are “‘Rosicrucian bunk”? ‘The members of the “Brotherhood” pay, the Lewises of the “Order” receive and disburse according to their royal hierarchal prerogatives —and as they will.
It may be that they have arranged the legal corporate set-up of the Supreme Grand Lodge—the Lewis Family—so that, and in accordance with the higher ethics of fraternal racketeering, they have the “perfect legal right” to pay $15,000.00 out of the funds that they claim to “‘hold in trust for the perpetuation of the original Rosicrucian Order,”’ to prevent the truth being proven in court about their fraternal racket and brotherly swindle, fraudulently carried on in the sacred name and under the holy symbol of the Rosy Cross. However, it appears that the final disposition of this case will depend largely upon the outcome of another case, at this writing being tried in the Federal District Court at San Francisco, of which we will now take brief notice.
The Federal Court Case
There is now being tried, as this is written, in the Federal District Court at San Francisco a case styled, Roy W. Smith and A. E. Smith vs. Supreme Grand Lodge AMORC et al., in which certain mem- bers have raised the serious question of the right of the Lewises to incorporate the Supreme Grand Lodge of AMORC and to amend its charter so as to make the Lewis family the only members thereof, thereby converting the “Order” into a family racket, with
8 See their testimony in the case of Roy W. and A. E. Smith et al., vs. the Lewises and AMORC in the Federal District Court at San Francisco, to be discussed at length in a later chapter.
4See Chapter Six hereof.
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absolute control of all the funds and properties in their hands, as Lewis, his son Ralph, the former attorney, the former Supreme Grand Treasurer and other members have testified. “The members opposing the Hierarchy have asked the Court to declare the actions of the Lewises in taking complete control of AMORC illegal, and to permit all the paying members to elect directors or trustees of the Supreme Grand Lodge, instead of permitting the Lewises to elect such directors or trustees and who have elected themselves. The Court has asked all parties to settle the controversy by agree- ment under the supervision of the Court. At the time this is written, the Lewises are frantically sending out powers of attorney to the members to perpetuate themselves in power.
This case and the testimony of the Lewises will be considered at some length in Chapter Six to follow. The case is here briefly considered to show in this connection that it is a troublesome bit of litigation for the Lewises, in which their assumed prerogatives have been seriously questioned, and their family racket is revealed.
Other Lawsuits
There are pending in the Superior Court of California for Santa Clara County in San Jose, at the time this was written, several suits against the Family Racket of the Lewis Hierarchy. Among them the following notable and interesting lawsuits may be men- tioned: two lawsuits by a member, one questioning the right of the Lewis Hierarchy to appoint Mr. Clement Le Brun as Grand Mas- ter of the Grand Lodge and another questioning the right of the Imperator or the Hierarchy to excommunicate or expel him; two other suits by the same member, who was the former personal attorney for the Lewises and their fraternal enterprise. In one suit he is suing for $25,000.00 attorneys’ fees and in the other suit pending in the Superior Court of California at San Francisco he is suing them and their “Order” for $200,000.00 damages for libel- ous and slanderous statements alleged to have been made and pub- lished in White Book D—Audi Alteram Partem (Hear the Other Side). There is another suit by the former Supreme Grand Treas- urer for salary alleged to be due from the Hierarchy to be paid from the royal revenues.
Inasmuch as these suits were brought by members, an attorney and a high officer, who were close to the Lewises and on the “inside,”
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it may be that we will “Hear the Other Side” from the inside. At any rate, enough has been shown concerning their lawsuits, to say nothing of the numerous suits threatened and in the offing of the seething sea of litigation, to show that legal ailments have become chronic with the Lewis Hierarchy of Fraternal Racketeering and that lawyers’ fees, detective fees, litigation expenses and court costs have become a heavy drain upon the Royal Revenues. It is, therefore, apparent that Lewis mentions the lawsuits of others to detract from his own. And when these, his cheap and crooked stratagems, are thus exposed and stripped of all subterfuge, one wonders how he has the brazen audacity to mention the lawsuits or legal troubles of another or others. 7
Destroy the Real to Establish the False
Although thousands of his paying members have from time to time discovered the spurious nature of his so-called ‘““R. C. Order” and have withdrawn in humiliation and silence, many others have openly charged him with fraud and conducting his so-called “Order” as a family racket, some of whom he sued for making the charge and then spent $15,000.00 to suppress the truth and to keep the charge from being proven.’ And although we have made the same serious charges against him and have established them by genuine and irrefutable proof—yet, notwithstanding all of that, he evidently still hopes and apparently believes that he can yet succeed with his fraudulent fraternal enterprise if he can destroy the authentic Rosicrucian Fraternity in America and discredit its official head, who has so completely exposed him and his fraternal swindle. But how does he hope to accomplish his depraved and vicious purpose? Not by fair means, to be sure, but by crooked methods and un- scrupulous falsehoods to which he gives prima facie plausibility with tricky photography and falsified exhibits of wholly misleading pictures of the headquarters of the authentic Rosicrucian Order.°
“Manufactured and False Evidence”
He complains bitterly that we have proven our well-laid charges against him with “‘manufactured and false evidence’’—so he says,
5 Referring to the AMORC vs. Smith, described in Chapter One. 6 See his “Exhibit No. 2,’ our Reproduction No. 34, at the head of this chapter.
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but offers no real or genuine evidence to prove the falsity thereof. Thus complaining, he makes sarcastic references and implications and the ridiculous false counter-charge that the authentic Rosicru- cian Order in America is an insignificant organization, conducted from a shabby farmhouse with a vacant barn as its Temple.
To prove (!) his counter-charge and to make plausible his slurring innuendoes, he reverts to his old and often-used smoke- screen and stratagem of accusing others of doing what he intends to do, and proceeds to manufacture a couple of tricky and grossly misleading photographs of buildings on the estate of the authentic Order which he produces as “Exhibit No. 2” on page 18 of his Black Book of Despicable Chicanery.’
As a convenience in the study of the diabolism and skullduggery of an unscrupulous mountebank and promoter of fraternal swindles we have reproduced said “Exhibit No. 2” and placed it at the beginning of this Chapter.®
GENO TEINO: 20 The Trickery of “Profundis XII”
Let us examine closely the pictures in ‘‘Exhibit No. 2.” They are blurred and carry upon their face evidence of ‘trick’? photog- raphy and “special” treatment in the hands of a cunning trickster. For convenience of discussion, we have designated the buildings meienethie numerals “1,” “2” and “3. Number “2” is Beverly Hall, the central building of the picturesque headquarters of the authentic Order of the Rosy Cross, which he sarcastically refers to as the “farmhouse.” Now look at our Exhibits A, B and C, reproductions of photographs honestly made, faithfully and cor- rectly showing two views of the “farmhouse” as it was when he had his trick picture made, and another as it is since remodeling. In the foreground of the top picture is a temporary brush heap piled during the clearing of the grounds for the construction of the new library and Council Chambers shown in our Exhibit I. Par- ticular prominence is given to this brush heap to leave the impression of a run-down and unkempt farm.
The lower picture of the rear of Beverly Hall was so taken as
7 White Book D. 8 Our Reproduction No. 34.
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to give a grossly false impression—the impression of a dilapidated farmhouse with a lean-to shed, indicated by number “3,” whereas in reality this is a modern greenhouse where rare specimens of beautiful and tender lilies are wintered over—a thing of beauty— not of neglect and dilapidation. See our Exhibit B, make com- parison and draw your own conclusions.
The Vacant Barn
The building marked ‘“‘1”’ in the top picture, which is probably the building he refers to as the ‘“‘vacant barn,” by trick camera work is made to appear as an unkempt, rickety, leaning structure, whereas, in truth, it is a well-built, modern structure in good state of repair® that formerly housed the printing plant and publishing headquarters of the Philosophical Publishing Co., now used for storage of publi- cations and for other useful purposes. ‘The present headquarters of the Philosophical Publishing Company, where this book was printed and produced in a modern—not an “‘amateur’’—plant, is_ shown in our Exhibit G.
Of these buildings, thus falsified and grossly misrepresented by trick photography and deliberate falsehoods, in his ‘“‘Exhibit No. 2,” he says that they are, ‘““The farmhouse and barn in Pennsylvania, owned by Clymer—‘Grand Master of all Rosicrucians’ for all the World! The house is his only ‘headquarters’ for his ‘large organi- zation.’ The vacant barn is pointed out to visitors as the ‘Supreme Temple’ of his organization. These photos were taken in July 1935... . They tell the truth about Clymer’s claims for a great organization, temples, grottoes, large conventions, conclaves, etc.” No, they do not tell the truth about the organization of the authen- tic Rosicrucian Fraternity in America; that is apparent. But they do tell the truth about the petty, low, contemptible trickery and despicable deception to which the Imperator of fraternal racketeer- ing resorts to throw a smokescreen about and to hide his swindling operations in brotherly love and high ideals. That, also, is apparent.
The Vacant Barn Temple
The ‘“‘farmhouse”’ is not owned by Clymer, although at one time we owned the land whereon the headquarters of the Fraternity are
9 See our Exhibit B. It is the building at the rear of Beverly Hall and to the right.
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situated—it was our home— but we gave it, as we have given our all, for the Great Work. There is no barn on the premises—vacant or otherwise. When this fact is taken in connection with the fur- ther fact that there is a Temple on the permises,”’ erected in 1911, used semi-annually for the All-Souls’ and June Rose Festival Ser- vices and for many years constantly in the service of the Order, it is not at all likely that anyone at any time pointed out a “‘vacant barn’ as the Supreme Temple of the authentic Rosicrucian Fra- ternity in America. Mr. Lewis knew these facts; therefore, his deliberate falsehoods and gross misrepresentation are unforgivable and proclaim his base villainy to be of the lowest order. _ However, in this connection, may we point out that it would be no disgrace to the Order of the Rosy Cross if its Supreme Temple had been or is located in a ‘‘vacant barn.’’ One of the greatest Masters of Men was born in a manger, and true Rosicrucians, having divested themselves of false pride, would feel no humility in meeting in a barn or having their headquarters on a farm and conducted from a farmhouse.
The True R. C. Temple
As a matter of sober truth, this continual harping about Tem- ples and the advertising of gawdy headquarters by this promoting fraternal racketeer are just so much ballyhoo, specious propaganda and cunning artifice, to attract the uninformed, gullible and credu- lous victims he hopes to ensnare. Real Rosicrucians are not greatly interested in material, worldly temples, built of masonry, stucco, etc., with columns gilded with ‘‘22 carat paint.’ They are more concerned with the true R. C. Temples not built by hands and with- out the sound of hammers. The true Temples of the Rose Cross are to be found in the hearts of men and women. They are the temples of the initiates, who have found the “kingdom of Heaven within’ and erected the true and lasting Temples of the Rosy Cross within their illuminated Souls.
European R.C. Temples
Lewis, the ego-obsessed pseudo-Rosicrucian, pretender, haughtily alleges that the Supreme Grand Master of the authentic Rosicru-
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cian Fraternity in America “does not know where to contact a single genuine Rosicrucian center in Europe” and glibly talks about non-existing or unauthentic World Councils and spurious European R. C. Orders with their marvelous temples with which he claims to be in contact, and from which—after claiming author.ty from a dozen other different bogus sources-——he now claims “recognition” and authority to carry on his mystic racket and occult frauds.* Yet, he does not know, not being a Rosicrucian he could not know, that the three oldest Rosicrucian organizations in Europe. viz.:L’ Orient, L’Hermetica and Heart of the Rose, each having a continuous existence since the seventeenth century, do not possess a visible or fixed temple in which to meet. No one can belong to either of these high orders of the Rosy Cross until he or she has passed at least the second degree and have made conscious contact with the in- visible Hierarchy of the Fraternity, and then only upon invitation, which in no event is ever extended to pretenders.
These real, authentic and unpretentious orders of the August Fraternity could have been possessed of the most magnificent, ornate and imposing buildings in which to meet and from which their Masters could have conducted their affairs. However, accord- ing to the ancient landmarks and true Rosicrucian ideals, they have preferred to be unknown except to their own initiates, seldom meet- ing in the same place. These high orders b> ~g composed of those who have attained, who have become, are truly the Masters of the’ Ages. They are no longer bound or attached to material posses- sions and worldly goods. They are content to meet in the lowly hut of their humblest member. They are real, true, genuine Rosi- crucians. Their Masters do not organize closed corporations to hold their worldly goods, with all the voting power and offices held closely and solely within their families with all the funds, temporal powers, changeable “landmarks,” flexible principles, convenient ideals and accommodating laws within their absolute and arbitrary control. They are Rosicrucian Masters, not Imperator Racketeers; they are not “Most Perfect Master Profundis” of the plausible falsehood and the black deceptive arts of Mystic Swindling. They
1 All of these matters will be considered in the next three chapters,
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do not conduct fraternal rackets, occult frauds and mystic swindles in the names of Holy Orders. They are Rosicrucian Masters, going quietly about the Master’s business, without advertising their greatness to the world or making publication of their photographs in regal robes.
Our Regrets
Never before have we published photographic views or made mention of the unostentatious, yet altogether sufhcient, headquar- ters of the authentic Rosicrucian Order in America, located in the countryside of the main highways. We regret that it has become necessary to do so now, to completely refute the ins-dious lies and tricky manufactured evidence of an unprincipled impostor and to show the despicable methods of the most unscrupulous and danger- ous charlatan and mystic swindler of all times. To do this effec- tively, we have published photographs of the principal build-ngs and views of the grounds of the headquarters of the authentic Order as our Exhibits A to M to be found at the end of this Chapter. Compare these with the photos published in Lewis’ “Exhibit No. 2” and his statements made concerning our head- quarters, form your own opinion and judge him and his crooked, detestable methods accordingly.
Lewts and His “R.C. Temples’
As a component and necessary part of his fraudulent scheme, as a means and a device in aid of its successful promotion, he has had much to say about Rosicrucian Temples. Indeed, in his falsi- fied, puffed-up promotional propaganda, he has from time to time published illustrations of three separate, distinct, “First Rosicrucian Temples” in America.” He has always laid great stress on the material ‘“Temple”’ constructed of wood, stone and stucco, of gawdy, vulgar appearance, to boast about and use for advertising and propaganda purposes. During his sojourn in Florida, he erected a small replica of an ancient Egyptian Temple, at Tampa,
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illustrations of which he effectively used for propaganda purposes.* With such propaganda, plausible deceptive advertisements and high-powered cunning salesmanship, he has succeeded in fleecing the gullible and the credulous out of millions of dollars, part of which he has used to erect in San Jose, California, on a plot of ground called “‘Rosicrucian Park,” a magnificent array of Egyptian- like structures, which he says are The Rosicrucian Temple, Labora- tory, Museum, Press and Administrative Buildings. He publishes gawdy illustrations of these on his letterhead and in numerous cleverly designed booklets and folders. To these, he has given wide and promiscuous circulation as effective propaganda in his constant high-pressure campaign for new, paying and supporting members for his Hierarchal Fraternal. Racket. Boastingly, he advertises these buildings as: ‘““THE INstiruTION BEHIND THIs ORGANIZATION BacK OF THE ADVERTISEMENT,’ —all of which is contrary to the noble precepts and high ideals of Rosicrucianism.
'Twas Not Always Thus
Mr. Lewis started his checkered career as a fraternal racketeer with superb ideas of material grandeur for his fabricated and spurious R. C. Order. He dreamed of great temples, magnificent grounds and a marvelous institution of marble and alabaster, of gilt and glamour, to glorify his name; to satisfy his vanity; to afford him the luxury of ease—and, of course, to point to in his fabulous propaganda as “‘the institution behind the advertisement.”
But ‘twas not always thus. He had read in the books about the humility of Rosicrucian Masters whom he fain would emulate, or rather imitate, and of the secluded and modest headquarters of the Order. He had heard that foxes have their holes, but the Great Master of men had not a pillow of his own upon which to lay his head. Accordingly, in the turbulent year of 1918—turbulent and full of woes for the Master of Fabrication and his spurious R. C. Order—when he saw his organization breaking to pieces on the rocks of his own iniquity; his dream of glory and material
3 See our Booklet, A Challenge and the Answer, Introduction, pp. 8 and 9, or Vol- ume I, pp. 136 and 137. While in Florida he boasted that he had completed plans for a $13,000,000 headquarters, and stated that he had been granted permission to draw on the funds of the Great White Brotherhood. The Mystic Triangle, June issue, 1926, Daoo-
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greatness vanishing into the blue; when money was scarce and after a night spent in jail on a charge of selling worthless bonds,* sold to keep up a pretentious worldly show; after he had been hauled down from his perch of worldly ambition and foolish vanity; after he had been humbled unto the dust, and after he felt and experi- enced something akin to the spirit of true humility, he wrote an article and published it in Cromaat F, under the title of “Introspec- tion,” from which we will presently quote.
When his fabrication went to smash, the ‘‘Most Perfect Master Profundis” knew that he had made a mistake by trying to operate a so-called Rosicrucian Order on a material and commercial basis, but he would not admit it—no, not he—so he put the blame on beners. But he did decide, at least for the time being, that he would make his spurious order more like the real and that by better imitating Rosicrucian Masters he might save himself and something from the wreckage to reorgin ze his R. C. enterprise.
Let us review his lamentations in the vexatious day of his worldly woes and humility, which tell their own story, as follows:
All Italics Ours.
Danger of Lewis Falling Into Materialism!
The Material Allured Others but Not a Part of Lewis’ Scheme— Oh, No! Of Course Not.
He Saved the “Order’”’ by Dematerializing and Spiritualizing It.
So Remarkable—the Spiritualization Came So Suddenly and Quickly Departed.
“x * * * Very soon we shall retire, exoterically and physically. For a few months during the past year we were in danger of falling into the quagmire of materialism. The rapid growth [!] of the Order had brought with it greater material possessions and needs; to some the material body of the Order be- came so attractive, so alluring, that it predominated in some of the schemes of the plans for the future. The realization of this danger became so apparent, finally, that immediate steps were taken to prevent such a catastrophe for our Order. All would have been proper and appropriate for other similar move- ments, but not for us. So, we have arisen from the valley of temptations of materialism long before one fatal step was taken; and, today, we are stronger spiritually than ever, and less, much less, susceptible to the temptations of our materialistic environ-
Chica fae
4See Chapter Five for further particulars and an account of his arrest in New
York City in June, 1918.
5 Cromaat, p. 21. A private publication in which the Imperator delivered his per- sonal messages to his members, and sold publicly for fifty cents each for cash.
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These are the words of cunning of an arch-pretender, a shrewd promoter of mystic frauds and racketeer in spirituality—all sub- sequent acts in connection with the promotion and operation of his fraternal enterprise belie those fair words and noble expressions. Truly he knew the high ideals, spiritual aspirations and non-com- mercial nature of the Order of the Rosy Cross—so he placed the blame of his materialistic failure on others and, by fair pretensions, proposed to better imitate the true order and its Masters. But there is more that is equally astounding—and also as disgusting. Continuing his swan song of failure and his eftorts to rebuild his
fraternal swindle on the ashes of despair, he says:
For the Present He Would Be Modest— Humble—Meek—
Like Real Rosicrucians.
Shakes Off the Shackles of
Enslaving Materialism.
Spiritually Assumed for Good of All.
Disgustingly Remark- able—Compare These Statements With His Statements Today, Such as “The Insti- tution Behind the Advertisement.”
The Imperator Turns His Back on Great Material Temples Forever! Capital Emphasis Ours.
6 Cromaat F., p. 23.
“We shall not attempt, for the present, to buy or build a Supreme Temple or national headquarters. We will, rather, confine all our efforts to making more efficient any suitable executive offices or work- rooms we can secure at the most nominal expense. In this way, we shall unburden ourselves of the present material shackles and remain free of the limitations and enslaving conditions of materialism. Every effort will be put forward to grow stronger spiritually and esoterically so that the greatest good to the greatest number may result. * * *
“Can this be said of an elaborate structure, its greatest assets being material things which can be enjoyed only by those who contact them personally ? Is it right that the Supreme Headquarters should involve such an expense and consist of such assets as are wonderful to view, inspiring to think, and impressive from a worldly point of view, without even supplying the executives therein all the com- fortable and efficient means to do the greatest amount of good work for the greatest number of members?
“Such is the monument to material growth that some have desired for us, and the IMPERATOR HAS TURNED ALL SUCH PLANS ASIDE AND WITH ONE SWEEP HAS CAST INTO OBLIVION FOREVER SUC IDEAS OR PLANS.” °
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Ideas of Great Temples “Cast Into Oblivion”
In those days when he was casting great material temples into oblivion and also casting off the limitations and shackles of material- ism, he visioned in his imagination and penned a picture of a real and typical Rosicrucian headquarters, far from the madding ma- terialism of cunning schemers in seething cities—money-mad by day and pleasure-wild by night—where a real Rosicrucian Master might humbly conduct the affairs of the Order for the greatest
good of the greatest number.
Could It Be Possible— The “Imperator” Secluded in a Humble Structure Befitting His Humility? Impossible for a Fraternal Racketeer!
The Capital Emphasis Is Ours.
This is a Splendid Description of Beverly Hall and the Head- quarters of the Rosi- crucian Fraternity in America—Compare This With His “Exhibit No. 2,” the “Temple Barn” and “Farmhouse” Statements.
Pictures Himself as a Rosicrucian Master— But His Worldly Ambitions, Love for Show and Deception Spoiled the Picture. Such Pilgrims Come to Beverly Hall, the Home of the
Order in America.
The Temple of Alden Js Now in the City of
Liereris tie) picture:
“Soon the Imperator’s study and workroom, like unto the workrooms of his associates, will be off in some secluded place, in a humble structure befitting the humility of spirit and nature predominating in all our thoughts and acts. [Think of it! ! !] Pic- TURE THE HUMBLE, LOWLY STRUCTURES OF WOOD, NESTLED CLOSELY TOGETHER ON ONE OF Gop’s WONDROUS LAWNS OF GRASS AND FLOWERS, FAR FROM A CITY'S NOISE AND COMMERCIAL ACTIV- ITIES, WHERE QUIET AND PEACE’ ABOUND, WHERE THE SONGS OF BIRDS AND SWAYING OF BOUGHS OF THE TREES SOFTLY ADD A NOTE OF LIFE TO THE STILLNESS OF A TEMPLE’ S SACREDNESS. HERE, WITH NAUGHT ELSE TO DO OR THINK OF BUT THE MESSAGES OF JOY AND WORDS OF LIGHT TO BE PREPARED AND SENT BROADCAST TO OUR MEMBERS, THE GREATEST EFFICIENCY IN SPREADING THE GREATER LIGHT WOULD EXIST. With those whose lives are associated with us, sacrificing the former worldly pleasures, foregoing the conventional homes and social practices and living in communion with God and nature for the good of our fellow beings, this and nothing more is appropriate, neces- sary and efficient for the cause [i.e., for real Rosi- crucians and the true Order of which he speaks correctly but imitates poorly].
“To such a haven of Peace and work will come, from time to time, those Pilgrims of Light who reach the degree of full understanding and perfect attune- ment.
“In each State will be the Grand Lodge of ex- ecutives caring for the worldly matters of the Order,
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San Jose, Where the while at the Temple of Alden, on the green hill,
Royal Revenues of twenty-four hours’ travel, perhaps, from the nearest the Family Racket railroad, will dwell the esotéric workers with their Are Received. small sanctum, laboratory and library.
How Different Now. “How different a picture from that painted by
our over-ambitious zealotors!’’ 7
Hypocrites and Vipers
How different the picture today as painted in the reality of shame and fraud by the over-ambitious racketeers in brotherly love and spirituality! What shall we say of this creature who in 1918 described his ‘“Temple of Alden on the green hill,” a small sanctum, far from city and railroad; who in 1928 erected a Temple to Mammon, in the name of a Holy Order and dedicated it to fra- ternal racketeering; and who, in his mad idolatry for the Golden Calf, completely refutes and casts into oblivion forever his fair Temple of Alden and with calumnious sarcasm refers to the modest secluded headquarters of the authentic Order, situated on a hill, nestled closely together on one of God’s wondrous lawns of grass and flowers, as the “farmhouse” with a barn for a Temple? What shall we say? Words fail us.
Perhaps it was such creatures that the Great Master of Galilee referred to as the ‘‘scribes and Pharisees,’’ who had usurped the seat of Moses and of whom in his r-ghteous indignation he said:
‘Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the plat- ter, but within they are full of extortion and excess, ... for ye are like unto white sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. ... Ye serpents, ye generations of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?””®
7 Cromaat F., pp. 23, 24. 8 Matthew, 23:25, 27, 28, 33.
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Concerning Pagan Symbols
On page 10 of White Book D, at the place indicated by ‘‘14”’ on our reproduction,’ he says that we have taken symbols of old pagan cults and adopted them. In his “Exhibit No. 2” he shows our signature or the symbol of our house, marked ‘‘4,” on our reproduction of his said exhibit, and says: ‘““‘Who ever heard of the Satanic snake being entwined around the Divine Rosy Cross, or the Eyptian Beetle taking the place of the sacred Rose, on the Cross?” It matters not to him how inconsistent nor how ridicu- lously inaccurate he may be—these are of minor importance, if he can discredit Clymer and destroy the true Order of the Rosy Cross in America, and save himself and his racket. Yes, anything dirty or low, crooked or detestable, deceitful or otherwise to save himself, to protect his egotistical, specious vanity and his fraternal enterprise.
Such statements concerning the cross, snake, rose and gyptian beetle, we should expect from a pseudo-occultist, unlearned in the deeper mysteries and also from a Master of the Black Arts of deception, self-laudation, self-aggrandizement, and self-enrichment. However, his comments above quoted become interesting in view of the fact that he has repeatedly declared that his so-called R. C. Order and family enterprise is not a religious organization and that:
“The cross has no religious significance, as it was used as an ancient symbol before Christianity. Its true mean- ing is the material body of man with arms outstretched in salutation.”
Profoundly illuminating, truly enlightening and worthy (?) of acceptance by all who seek salvation; that is, regeneration and immortality. Thus Lewistonianism and profundity become one— that is how he became ‘‘The Most Perfect Master Profundis.” At last the secret is out!
9 See Our Reproduction No. 33 at the head of this chapter. 1See Our Reproduction No. 34, at the head of this chapter. 2 The Wisdom of the Sages, p. 18, one of his propaganda booklets.
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He claims to be, by foreign initiation or by honorary member- ship, a 33° Scottish Rite Mason, and beyond that up to the 97° of the Rites of Memphis and Mizraim. Jf he is a Mason, then his brethren of the Rose Croix degree of the Scottish Rite, the most Christian of all Masonic degrees, will no doubt feel highly honored and greatly enlightened by his learned and truly wonderful inter- pretation of the true significance of the Cross. And when the Knights of the. Brazen Serpent® are informed that he has charged us with using a “pagan” symbol like unto their own they will-be highly gratified and, no doubt, will rise up as one man, pay homage to the Sage of San Jose and declare that a Daniel has come to pro- nounce judgment and deliver us from our ignorance!
The True Significance of the Cross
The Cross is a Christian symbol, symbolizes the same great truth in Christianity which it has always symbolized in the Ancient Wis- dom, the Mysteries and all Secret Schools of Initiation, ancient or modern. Its meaning has never changed. It is and ever has been the symbol of salvation; that is, regeneration by which we change or transmute the gross and unworthy to the finer or the good. It sym- bolizes the raising of the carnal man to the God-like man or Christic being. In ancient Egypt it stood for salvation where Moses learned its true meaning—and, so, its significance never changed, until Lewis changed it. However, before that, the Rosicrucians had adopted the Christian as well as the ancient interpretation in its most esoteric meaning and significance.
Esoteric Interpretation
The Cross is the symbol of the One Eternal God, the Supreme Being, Infinite and Absolute. The upright I symbolizes God, the Absolute. The cross-arm, all that 1s besides God. The Cross has the same meaning to the Christian that the Staff of Hermes had to
3 See Symbol of the Knights of the Brazen Serpent, our Reproduction No. 35, lower left, at the close of this chapter.
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the Egyptians. The two Serpents on the Staff* symbolize Positive and Negative—Male and Female—the Action and Reaction in all Nature, which must be brought to work together, harmonized, to Act and React and to ultimately transmute the lower nature and RAISE IT UP and unite it with the One Central God. The Upright, Central Pole of the Cross or Staff is the indivisible, indestructible Number 1 or the one, from whence everything has come and to which everything must return. It is Unity in Divinity—the Sublime Fountain of Everlasting Life, Love and Light of the Rosicrucians.
The Satanic Snake
' Mr. Lewis says that we have adopted the Satanic Snake as a part of the symbol of our house. Well, of all the living, he should best know exactly what a Satanic Snake is—and he does know. His daily life is full of them and they writhe and crawl and hiss within his fraudulent enterprise and mystic swindle. The Serpent, like the Cross, is widely used in symbolism—when it crawls on its belly in the dust, or is indicating the downward trend, like the inverted tri- angle, it becomes and is a satanic snake.’ When the serpent is entwined upon the Cross with its head upward, it is a symbol of salvation: Perhaps he forgets® that an Egyptian Initiate, one of the Masters of the Wisdom, raised “The Brazen Serpent’ in the wil- derness to save the children of Israel, when they had been guilty of worshipping the ‘‘serpent creeping in the dust,” ‘ that is, misusing or carnally using their creative and regenerative forces.
Since our learned master loves “‘ancient” things and simply goes into ecstasy over ‘‘ancient manuscripts” from which he has obtained his teachings—well, possibly a few of them—may we not quote
+See Hermetic Symbol Messenger of Peace, lower right, our Reproduction No. 35, at the close of this chapter.
5 See our Reproduction No. 36 of the Satanic Snake crawling on its belly in the dust beneath the Rosy Cross as used by Lewis.
6 Although the time was when he well knew the significance of the Serpent in sym- bolism or should have known, because he published an article under his pen name ‘“Hatcheup” in the American Rosae Crucis, July, 1917, on the subject of the Serpent which we will presently quote at length.
7 See our Reproduction No. 37, at the end of this chapter.
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from an Ancient Manuscript:
Moses, the “Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, Egyptian Initiate. We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Raise Ir Up. Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that
he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. Who Has Sinned— “And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a i. €., Defiled Himself. fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole; and it shall come to pass, that everyone that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
THE SERPENT “And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it Upon a Cross. upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent, Italics Ours. had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of
brass, he lived.’ ®
The Savior W hen Lifted Up
Thus we see that the serpent lifted up, upon a pole, rod, staff or cross, 1s symbolical of the healing force and salvation. It is the sym- bol of the Healer as it is also the symbol of the savior—this must be true, since healing and saving are synonymous.
Perhaps he has forgotten, or never fully appreciated, the lesson taught in the incident that occurred when Moses and Aaron. appeared before Pharaoh to prove their power. There we see Moses casting a stick upon the ground and it became a creeping serpent. It was the uplifted serpent that gave Moses the leadership over his people and enabled him to take them out of bondage from — the “land of Egypt,” here used symbolically for the™ state mon ignorance. It was, therefore, the symbol of salvation or freedom.
/Esculapius, the Greek God of Medicine, existed in symbols cen- turies before the Christian era; even then the serpent on the cross was the symbol of healing. However, the serpent as a symbol of both degeneration and of regeneration had an origin far beyond the ken of history. It is, therefore, possible that the symbolism of Moses with his serpent upon the Cross is a modification of the staff and the two serpents which was the insignia of A‘sculapius— now the symbol of the modern physician.
8 Numbers, 21:7, 8, 9. This reference to the verses in the same Chapter of the Book of Numbers was made by Lewis in the article which we shall presently reproduce in full.
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Lewis Knew Better
When he reproduced the symbol of our house or our signature in his “Exhibit No. 2” and made the abusive remarks and nasty insinu- ation about us using a Satanic Snake entwined around the Divine Rosy Cross, he knew better and, so knowing, his actions were entirely without justification. Several years ago he collected from various publications and authentic sources considerable interesting data relating to the Symbolism of the Serpent, which he published ‘under one of his many nom de plumes in his then official organ. The article, in full, with our marginal notes, is as follows:
Italics Ours. “Probably the most universally used symbol is the Divine as Well serpent. We find it in all countries and either as a as Satanic. good or evil emblem.
“The origin of this animal as a symbol is found to be the constellation Scorpion, which by the ancient astrologers was regarded as the harbinger of Dark- ness and Winter. In the mythology of the ancients, the scorpion, or serpent, was representative of the
An Ancient Symbol destructive period necessary to regeneration, and no of Regeneration and true advancement was possible without first con- Illumination. quering the ‘serpent, and through it attain illumina-
tion. The Adept Kings of Egypt bore upon their
foreheads the uraeus, or sacred serpent, signifying Messiah, 7.e., Savior that they had achieved this end. In the Cabbala we and Uplifted Serpent find that the number of the word Messiah and word Are Identical. serpent are identical, i.e., 358. Read the verses 5-9,