L. Smith,° in which he reveals the scheme, as follows:

All Italics Are Ours. AMORC Perpetuat- ing Rosicrucian Teachings!
Grand Bodies of the Masonic Rites of Memphis-Mizraim Regulate and Control Rosicrucianism! That
Is His Claim.
AMORC Supreme Authority for North America!
Of Masonry or Rosicrucianism
or Both?
His World Supreme Council and Sovereign Sanctuary of Masonic Rite M. & M. of Austria Are One
and the Same.
“Plaintiff order [i.e AMORC] is devoted to -
the perpetuation of the scientific, ethical and moral teachings, philosophies, and theories of the Ancient Rosicrucian Brotherhood, which came into being in Ancient Egypt, and has continued to date. That for the past centuries the Sovereign Sanctuaries of
the Ancient Rites of Memphis and Mizraim have
been and now are the Grand Conservators of the integrity and ideals of the recognized and accredited Rosicrucian Brotherhood through the world. Plain- tiff has been in the past and now is the recognized and accredited Supreme Authority and the repre- sentative of the Rosicrucian Brotherhood in the North American jurisdiction, and has and does now maintain fraternal relationship and communi- cation with other recognized and accredited supreme representatives of the Rosicrucian Brotherhood of other jurisdictions throughout the world. As such accredited and recognized representative of the Rosicrucian Brotherhood of North American juris- diction, plaintiff is a member of and participates in the convocations and deliberations of the World Supreme Council of the recognized and accredited supreme jurisdictions of the Rosicrucian Brother- hood. The central office of the World Supreme
Council is now in Vienna, Austria.’’”
Thus he asserts the baseless and fraudulent claim in court under
the sanction of the oath of his son, that the Sovereign Sanctuaries of the Ancient Freemasonic Rites of Memphis and Mizraim are the Grand Conservators of the integrity and ideals of the Rosi-
6 This case was discussed at length in Chapter One of this volume. 7 AMORGC ws. Geo. L. Smith, Transcript, pp. 334-335. See also our Reproductions Nos. 42 and 42A. ’ 236
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crucian Brotherhood, and he represents and claims that the Sov- ereign Sanctuaries of the Freemasonic Rites of Memphis and Miz- raim control Rosicrucianism and that they are the “‘World Supreme Council of the recognized and accredited supreme jurisdiction of the Rosicrucian Brotherhood.”’
Now, it is very interesting and important to understand that there is no “World Supreme Council’ of Memphis-Mizraim Masons or of Rosicrucians, or of both. There being no such coun- cil, he undertook to make and set up a “World Supreme Council,” as an authority for his fraternal swindle, under a most unusual charter, issued by himself to clandestine and discredited Masons of the Rites of Memphis and Mizraim in Belgium, which brought forth the vigorous protests and condemnation of the Sovereign Sanctuary of France of the Rites of Memphis and Mizraim, as will later appear.
A Base Scheme Without Limitations
To further this base scheme and fraudulent device by over- reaching the court in the manner set forth and described in Chap- ter One hereof, he secured the Judge’s signature to a judicial finding of fact supporting his aforesaid false and spurious claim, notwithstanding that there was no justification for it in fact, and no evidence to support it.
To make this clear, we will quote the court’s finding of fact and Mr. Lewis’ subsequent admission in a higher court—the Su- preme Court of California—that there was no evidence to support it. Paragraph Three of the Court’s Findings of Fact® is as follows:
“The Court finds that the Rosicrucian Brotherhood is devoted to the perpetuation of the scientific, ethical and moral teachings, philosophies and theories of The An- cient Rosicrucian Brotherhood; that the Brotherhood came into being in Ancient Egypt, and has continued to date; that for the past centuries the Sovereign Sanctu- aries of the Ancient Rites of Memphis and Mizraim have been and now are the Grand Conservators of the integ- rity and ideals of the recognized and accredited Rosi- crucian Brotherhood throughout the world. The Court
8 AMORC vs. Geo. L. Smith, Transcript, pp. 355-356. Zou
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finds that Plaintiff has been in the past, and now is the recognized and accredited Supreme Authority and repre- sentative of the Rosicrucian Brotherhood in the North American jurisdiction, and has in the past and does now maintain fraternal relationship and communication with other recognized and accredited Supreme Authorities and representatives of the Rosicrucian Brotherhood of other jurisdictions throughout the world. As such accredited and recognized representative of the Rosicrucian Broth- erhood in the North American jurisdiction, plaintiff is a member of and participates in the convocations and de- liberations of the World Supreme Council of the recog- nized and accredited supreme jurisdictions of the Rosi- crucian Brotherhood throughout the world.”
Admits Findings Not Supported
When called upon to defend the foregoing findings of fact on Appeal, he was forced to admit that they were not justified, where- upon he stipulated, through his attorneys, in the Supreme Court of California, that they be stricken from the record. We quote from pages 43 and 45 of the Reply Brief, filed by his attorney in said Supreme Court, as follows:
“This finding, describing plaintiff as the supreme authority in the Rosicrucian Brotherhood of North America, would naturally meet with considerable objec- tion from other philosophical organizations. . . . We desire to be fair and we are willing to admit that no evidence was introduced below nor was any attempt made below to introduce evidence to support this find- ing, and, in fairness, we hereby stipulate that it may be stricken from the record.
‘Tn appellant’s discussion of this point, he makes ref- erence to a finding of this kind as an attempt to set up plaintiff's organization as over and above that of Ma- sonry. We can only comment that that is an attempt to prejudice the court against plaintiff [i. e., AMORC or the Lewises]. It is ridiculous to think that an authority on Rosicrucianism would be an expert or authority on
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Masonic Rose Croix degrees. Most Rosicrucian experts know nothing about Masonic degrees. In fact, all Ma- sonic writers and authorities state in various Masonic encyclopedias that there 1s not the slightest connection or even resemblance between the Masonic Rose Croix degree ritualism and the ritual and teachings of the Rosi- merucran-Order.... (Our italics).
- “Point five of the objection to findings, page 28 of appellant’s opening brief, we have already taken care of by the above stipulation to strike out paragraph three of the findings.”
Always Anticipates Himself
It is a uniform custom of the Imperator of AMORC to pre- pare the public and his members for the execution of his schemes prior to the final) consummation thereof. Indeed, it has become a fixed habit with him, in one cunning way or another, to give notice of that which is to happen, when his schemes and plans shall have been consummated and put into full operation. His practice in this respect has been so habitual and uniform that those notices anticipating what he intends to do have become telltale “badges of fraud,” pointing the finger of truth to the heart of his schemes and invariably reveal them.
For years he has falsely claimed that he was a high and influ- ential member of a Rosicrucian World or International Council, from and through which he had received the authority for his fra- ternal enterprise. He had made several attempts to create such a council for himself, as, for example: ‘‘Pansophia’—the Inter- national Rosicrucian Council, which we shall consider in Part III of this Chapter. Still no such council existed, or ever had existed —but it is necessary for his fraudulent enterprise that it should exist, if not in fact, at least ostensibly so, or in plausible appear- ance, so that it may be successfully dramatized and made to pass for such a council. |
He had made many trips to Europe to attend (?) the meetings of the Rosicrucian World or International Councils that did not exist, but he had contacted in Belgium a certain group of Mem- phis-Mizraim Masons, and, in particular, a Belgian lawyer by the
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name of Jean (John) Mallinger, with whose skillful and cunning aid he organized, at least on paper, the Rose Cross University of Belgium, which gave him an honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy (as we shall learn in Part IV of this Chapter), and with whom he conspired to set up, under his own authority, a spurious and illegal Grand Lodge of the Freemasonic Rites of Memphis and Mizraim, however, all the time planning to use them as pawns to establish for himself an International R. C. Council under the alleged sponsorship of ‘Ihe Great White Lodge of Tibet,’”’ also non-existent, except as a fraudulent device. When his plans were matured and Lawyer Mallinger had worked out all the details for him and had made all arrangements for the calling together of their ““Masonic’”’ henchmen (most of them dis- credited or expelled Masons) to be assembled in a great inter- national convention, Mr. Lewis then made the claim in court, as above set forth, that the “Sovereign Sanctuary of the Ancient Rites of Memphis and Mizraim have been and now are the Grand Conservators of the integrity and ideals of the recognized and accredited Rosicrucian Brotherhood throughout the world,” and in The Rosicrucian Forum for December, 1933, Vol. 4, No. 3, page 79, gave notice of the Congress of Brussels, to be held in 1934, and foretold what would happen and that which did happen,
as follows:
GREAT WORLD CONVENTION
All Italics Ours. “Next year, according to a recent notice, will see another of the great international conventions held in Europe when the true leaders and officers in all
Who Properly of the properly authorized [?] occult and mystical
Authorized? organizations of the world will come together. At that convention it is expected that the culminating acts of international consolidations will be per-
He Had Planned This formed and agreed to by the delegates from each
Convention for 20 country after twenty years of planning. We have Years and Spoken of spoken of this coming convention on many occasions it So Often. and in much of our literature we have hinted at
the fact that throughout the world a great revival and regeneration would take place in regard to spiritual and mystical matters. Now the plans ap- Plans Now Complete. pear to be almost completed for this marvelous
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To Be a Very Quiet Sub-Rosa Affair—A Conspiracy of Clandestinism!
He, Himself, is the Great White Lodge. He Knew What He In- tended to Do And
He Did It!
AMORC on List— Those Unauthorized by Lewis to Be For- bidden to Deceive the Public.
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international congress. There are to be no outer or public displays of pomp and ceremony, and there will be no hordes of men and women in parade and in bombastic performances of mysterious ses- sions according to the plans. There will be the quiet, dignified, conscientious discussion of the world problems and of the great work that now lies before the Great White Lodge and all of its author- ized activities throughout the world [!] There may be [will be and was] issued at the close of the convention a list of the genuine organizations spensored by the Great White Lodge and united under its banner. “The Rosicrucian Order of AMORC in America and other lands will be on this list as it has been for many years, and all other persons and groups of persons UNAUTHORIZED to solicit students from among the public seekers for Light will be condemned and forbidden to con-
tinue to deceive the public of any country.”
From the foregoing stated object of the Congress of Brussels— that ‘Great International Convention” of Clandestinism—the pur- pose of which was faithfully executed, it would appear that it was intended to be, and in fact was, an illegal and clandestine con- spiracy in restraint of fraternal racketeering—to form a monopoly in occult and mystic fraud and to provide the ways and means to prohibit all persons and groups of persons, not authorized by them, from soliciting students from among the public seekers of Light, and to forbid anyone and everyone—except themselves—to con- tinue to deceive the public of any country.
With the assistance of his European allies—some willing and knowing conspirators, others acting under deception or misappre- hension—Lewis proposed to form for himself and the “inner” real conspirators a monopoly in fraternal racketeering and fraudu- lent occultism, together with the exclusive right to deceive the public anywhere or any time, under the exclusive and all-restrictive
covenant of the Great White Lodge of Tibet.
Let us follow through and see how well and with what cunning stratagem he executed the scheme according to his foregoing an- nouncement.
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Creating a Spurious “World Council”
Now, as above related, prior and subsequent to the time when he secured from the Court the foregoing false findings of fact, he had been contriving and so continued to contrive and conspire with said discredited, expelled and clandestine Belgium—and also French— Memphis-Mizraim Masons to create for himself as a device for his fraudulent enterprise a spurious Rosicrucian ‘World Supreme Council,’ which resulted in the Congress of Brussels, August, 1934, and the creation of Fuposl, the ‘supreme authority,” which recognized it as the only authentic Rosicrucian organization in the Western Hemisphere. We shall deal at length with Fuposi as an alleged Rosicrucian Council and authority in Part IV of this Chapter. However, for the present and in this connection, let the French Memphis-Mizraim Masons reveal the facts and expose the duplicity, trickery and fraudulent device as it was worked out and executed by Mr. Lewis and his European con- federates.
On March 1, 1936, the Sovereign Sanctuary of France and her dependencies of the Masonic Order, Ancient and Primitive Rites of Memphis and Mizraim, issued and later published a Brochure,’ which, translated, reads as follows:
BP, 2 Ure WON © Wet, We BRS '>.,
On All Points of the “Masonic Order Ancient and Primitive of Memphis Triangle Is a Masonic and Mizraim. Sovereign Sanctuary for France and Greeting Used by her Dependencies.
Lewis As If It Were Rosicrucian. See His “Important R. C.
“GREETINGS ON ALL POINTS OF THE TRIANGLE RESPECT TO THE ORDER
Document No. 3.’ “To ALL THE Masons WuHo WILL READ THESE PRESENTS: “STRENGTH POWER WIspoM
“Very Dear Brothers: All Caused by Lewis “Since the year 1933, regrettable events, capable
1 Copies of this Brochure, in French, at fifty cents each may be obtained by address- ing C. Chevillon, 42 Rue des Bernardins, Paris, 5°, France.
2 See our Reproduction No. 46 at end of Part Three, this chapter.
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