book containing the ritual of this organization and

other books containing its by-laws and regulations and other books containing a record of its activities.
“What we wish to say about it is that its claims are ones to be gravely considered before being ac-
2? Mrs. Aimie Besant founded a Co-Masonic Lodge, which was recognized and after- wards chartered by the O. T. O. See our Reproduction No. 57Q and the translation thereof in the text of Part Five of this chapter.
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Hot and Cold on This Subject.
Our Italics. It Is Clandestine the World Over.
Freemasonry Is Restricted to Male Sex for Definite Reasons. The Rose Cross Is Open to
Both Sexes for Another Valid Reason. Therefore, It Is Wrong for Lewis to Misuse and Abuse Both Masonry and Rosicrucianism in
His Fraternal Business Racket.
All This Is True. Then Why Does Lewis Use It and Masonry to Promote His Masonic-R. C. Fraternal Racket?
Freemasonry and
cepted. It claims to be all that recognized Free- masonry is, and it claims to accept women into its organization on an equal basis with men, thereby making them Co-Masons. These claims are natu- rally denied by recognized Freemasonry throughout the world, and certainly the established and recog- nized Freemasonry of America can justly refute any intimation that those who belong to Co-Masonry are Freemasons in any sense. Recognized Freemasonry throughout the world is restricted to the masculine sex. This is not because Freemasonry takes any stand regarding the equality of sexes in all other matters, but because the craft of Freemasonry was designed for certain definite purposes, and these pur- poses have naught to do with the activities of women or their interests.
“A fraternity of musicians may exclude artists or engineers, lawyers or physicians, not because they consider them as unworthy of any companionship or any high place in the social world, but because the fraternity of musicians was designed for certain pur- poses and limited to certain persons. Therefore, we feel that this word of warning to the effect that so- called Co-Masonry is not a part of Freemasonry at all should be sufficient.
“We might say, incidentally, that it is beyond our conception how any benefit would come to any woman to be united with such an organization, ex- cept in a purely social sense, for the ideals and pur- poses of Freemasonry could not possibly be carried out in an organization of mixed membership. ‘The average woman would, therefore, find disappoint- ment in any preconceived ideas she might have about the benefits of being connected with regular Free- masonry through her membership in this organi-
zation.
“Tn the second place, Co-Masonry is not like Rosi- crucianism in any sense. Neither regular Free- masonry nor Co-Masonry conducts any classes or sys- tematic schooling for the education of their members along certain definite lines, and Co-Masonry most certainly contains no graded system of instruction like that contained in the Rosicrucian organization.
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Rosicrucianism Are Freemasonry is a system of moral and ethical educa- Different, But Lewis tion of the highest type, but it is not a graded system Confuses Them and of instruction covering hundreds of subjects like the Makes Them the Basis Rosicrucian system, and it does not claim to be. Its of His Masonic-Rose work is quite definite, and in its field of activity it Cross Racket and has no equal for its moral force and power of uplift Fraud. among men.
“For women to join an organization devoted
mostly to social activities and the working of a
philosophical ritual, without any definite instruction
or practical benefits, may be satisfactory for some,
but wholly unsatisfactory for those who are seeking
It Is a Serious Matter that which the Rosicrucian organization contains.
When They Seek Furthermore, the present propaganda directed to in- Lewis’ Paying terest and solicit Rosicrucians on the basis that Co- Members! Masonry is identical with Rosicrucianism is unfair
as well as untrue.” (The Rosicrucian Forum, April,
1932, pp: I55'and!156.)
It Makes a Difference
When the movement of Co-Masonry was established in the United States by the Theosophical movement under the leadership of Madam Aimie Besant, under a charter from the O. T. O., and threatened to make inroads upon the paying membership of his fraternal racket and Masonic-Rosicrucian* swindle, he was quick to condemn it—yet he claims Rosicrucian authority was granted to him by the O. T. O. In 1934 at the Congress of Brussels, when he needed the assistance of discredited Masons, sponsoring Co- Masonry, to establish the Fupost, to recognize his fraternal racket ‘‘as the only genuine R. C. Order in America,” he joined the Con- gress in the ratification of Female-Masonic Lodges. You see, he needed an “International Rose Cross Council” so badly that he was willing to do almost anything within reason, even to going to the extent of approving Co-Masonry to get it.
So, also, in 1935 when he was hard pressed for proof of R. C. World Congresses and International R. C. Council Meetings to justify the many trips of himself and family to Europe to attend the same, at the expense of the members of AMORC, and having
* See our Reproduction No. 40 of his O. T. O. charter (?), “Important Rosicrucian Document No. 4.”
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no such proof—but needing it very much—why, he just picked up an announcement of the O. T. O issued in 1918 announcing the formation of an “International” and ‘Universal’? Co-Masonic organ- ization and said to his voluntary investigating committee: ‘““Now, there is the proof that the Rosicrucians in Germany in 1907 issued a call for a great International R. C. Congress to be held in Paris famt3- © Lhen he picked up another O. T. O.;paper and said: “See? Here is the report of that great International R. C. Con- gress which concluded its deliberations in Paris on June 9, 1908. It is signed by Papus and Teder, former Grand Masters of the Martinist Order; by Blanchard, the present Grand Master of that Order, who participated in the Fuposi Congress in 1934, and, moreover, by Theodore Reuss, Supreme Magus of the Rosicrucians and the O. T. O.”’ The committee, unable to read French and Ger- man, were well pleased and fully satisfied that it was all true. The ruse and deceptive trick worked so well on the “careful” investi- gating committee that he decided to publish those documents— somewhat altered, deleted and mutilated in White Book D as “Ex- hibit No. 6” and fool the rest of the gullible and credulous world. That was a vain and fatal error. There are some who can read French and German and also who know when and where Rosicru- cian international convocations have been held. Of course, as the immortal Lincoln said: ‘“‘You can fool some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
These Other Documents
Let us give consideration to the other documents marked “B” and “‘C” in our Reproduction No. 43 of “Exhibit No. 6,” which Mr. Lewis says is a mimeographed copy of the proceedings of a Rosicrucian Convention to form an international alliance con- cluded in Paris, June 9, 1908. The top part marked “B” appears to be the heading to an O. T. O. document and is in printed char- acters, whereas the lower part is in typewriter type. There is noth- ing to indicate they are parts of the same document, except that they are shown in the same picture and exhibited together with a lot of ink smeared upon and between them. They may be parts of two separate documents, the head of one and the tail of the other. However, be that as it may, it is not material or very important.
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The important fact is that, whatever it may be, it is not the official report or a copy of the proceedings of a Rosicrucian Congress or Convention concluded in Paris, June 9, 1908, and that Mr. Lewis’ representations to that effect and his statements and all implica- tions concerning the Congress of Paris that concluded June 9, 1908, are false.
There was a Congress held in Paris that concluded on the ninth day of June, 1908, under the call and leadership of Papus (Dr. M. Gerard Encausse), but it was not a Rosicrucian Congress or Con- vention and had naught to do with the August Fraternity.
Masonic Congress of Paris June 7, 8 and 9, 1908
There was a Spiritualistic Masonic Congress held on June 7, 8 and 9, 1908, in the Palace of the Scientifical Societies and the Tem- ple of Human Rights under the Presidency of Dr. Papus, the offi- cial proceedings of which were published in 1910! by the Hermetic Library of Paris. It was a Masonic Congress. It dealt with spirit- ualism, which Lewis has so strongly condemned of recent years, although he publishes as his “Exhibit No. 11’’* an article written by himself in 1906. Its speakers discussed other subjects, none of which were or are Rosicrucian or had to do with esoteric Rosi- crucian doctrines or teachings. Although several subjects, such as spiritualism, magnetism and associated esoteric sciences and spirit- ualistic Masonry, were discussed, no action was taken on any of these subjects except matters purely Masonic dealing with Rites under the ‘‘Ancient Constitutions of G. A. D. L. U,” such as the Rites of Memphis and Mizraim and other Freemasonic Rites, and resulted only in the formation of a, Masonic Convent of Spiritual- istic Rites and what was said to be the Universal Masonic Fed- eration.
That all may see the exact nature and accomplishments of that Congress; that there may be no misunderstanding or misinforma- tion on the subject and to the end that Lewis may not deceive and mislead others on the subject, we publish herewith fac-simile repro- ductions of the title page of the Hermetic Library (1910) and other
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pages of the official report of that Congress, with translation thereof, as follows:
ier PAGE HERMETIC: LIBRARY Our Reproduction No. 45
SEIRELUALISTIC “CONGRESS OF JUNE, 1908 Under Presidency of Dr. Papus
REPORT OF WORK IN CONGRESS AND OF.THE SPIRITUALISTIC MASONIC COVENANT
Spiritualism, Christianism and Sciences Annexed to Magnetism, Spiritualistic Masonry
PARIS
Library Hermetique (Hermetic Library) 4 Rue de Frustenberg, 4 1910
Translation of Page 7 Our Reproduction No. 45A
The first part of this page concludes a statement of the pro- posed arrangements for the Congress and concludes by telling of the response made to the call for the Congress by Dr. Papus and gives the personnel of the temporary organization committee as follows:
‘“‘Numerous personalities of the occultist World, spirit- ual or magnetic, adhered immediately to the proposition of Doctor Papus, namely, Messrs. Beaudelot, Ernest Bosc, Courrier, Edmond Dace, Gabriel Delanne, Leon Denis, Henri Durville, Albert Jounet, the Commandant Mantin, Phaneg, etc. And soon after the temporary
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Comite d’Organization (organization committee) of the Spiritualistic Congress and of the Masonic Covenant was definitely constituted.
Composition of Comite d’ Organization Provisiore
(Members of the Temporary Organization Committee) “President: Dr. Papus.
“Members: Messrs. Beaudelot, Dr. Biagini, Charles Blanchard, Bonnet, H. Brouillou, E. Dace, Desjobert, ‘Charles Dubourg, Durville sons, Faugeron, Genty, R. Guenon, Etienne Garin, Albert Jounet, Merle, Al- bert and Leon Noel, Phaneg, Schmid, Teder and Thomas.
“Secretary: Mr. Victor Blanchard. ‘Assistant Secretary: Mr. Paul Veux. “Treasurer: Chacornac.”
Translation of Page 211 Our Reproduction No. 45B
MASONIC COVENANT OF SPIRITUALISTIC RITES
“Tt is not possible, because of indiscretions (curiosity of outsiders) for us to go too deeply into details on the composition of the covenant.
“At the first appeal of the organizers, seventeen Ma- sonic Orders and three affiliated orders answered by send- ing special delegates. The Hiram Review gave the fol- lowing list: 1. The Grand Orient and 33rd Sovereign Sanctuary of the German Empire. 2. Arabian Masonry (The Sons of Ismael). 3. The Supreme Universal Counsel of the Mixed Masonry. 4. The Grand Span- ish Symbolic Lodge (National Spanish Rite). 5. The Sovereign National Grand Counsel Iberique. 6. The Ancient and Primitive Rites of Masonry (England and Ireland). 7. The Swedish Grand Lodge of England.
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8. The Grand Portuguese Delegation of the National Spanish Rite. 9. The Grand Lodge of the Green Cap. 10. The Blue Rite of the Argentine Republic. 11. The Grand Lodge of the Ancient and Accepted Masons of the State of Ohio. 12. The Grand Lodge of St. John of the Ancient and Accepted Freemasons of the State of Massachusetts. 13. The Provincial Grand Lodge of Germany of the Rite of Swedenborg. 14. The Grand Swedenborg Lodge of France. 15. The 33rd Supreme Counsel of Mexico. 16. The Supreme Counsel of the Oriental Masonic Order of Mizraim and Egypt for Italy. 17. The Order of the Illuminates of Germany. 18. The Order of the Esoteric Rose Croix. 19. The Martinist Order. 20. The Kabbalistic Order of the Rose Croix. (Our italics.)
“Fourteen others were represented, but it was decided that these would not be made public. ‘Their delegates ar- rived June 9th.”
Even though it is obvious beyond the shadow of a doubt that the Congress of Paris, held in 1908, was a Masonic Congress, that had to do with Masonry alone; that it had naught to do with the Rosi- crucian Fraternity, and notwithstanding that the authentic official report of that Congress, as above set forth, shows that the dele- gates present and participating represented seventeen Masonic Or- ders and three Orders affiliated with Masonry and interested therein, yet there may be someone who might be led to believe— but incorrectly so—that the Congress had to do or in some way dealt with Rosicrucian matters, because of the two Orders listed as numbers, 18, 19 and 20, and printed in italics in the above list of Orders represented, use the words “Rose Croix’? as a part of their name and the other has been incorrectly spoken of or rep- resented to be a Rosicrucian organization. We have heretofore dealt with the Martinist Order and have shown it to be basically Masonic and closely affiliated with Masonry. Nothing further need be said with reference to that Order in this connection.
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meager membership, restricted entirely to Masons, much like the English Masonic Rosicrucian Societies discussed in Part One of this chapter. The membership of this Order composed almost entirely of Ancient and Primitive Masons, most of whom were members of the O. T. O., was organized for the deeper study of the esoteric and spiritualistic aspects of the Rites of Mizraim, Memphis and other esoteric and spiritualistic Masonic Rites. It was, therefore, purely Masonic in its purpose and every aspect, fashioning its name after the highly spiritual and deep esoterical Rose Croix Degree in Masonry. Its delegates to the congress were all members of the O. T. O., which was also represented, all of whom are now de- ceased. The Esoteric Order of the Rose Croix has given no signs of life since 1914 and is now non-existent.
The Kabbalistic Order of the Rose Croix, also interested in the spiritualistic and esoteric aspect of Masonry, was organized by Stanislas de Guaita, who died in 1897, primarily and almost exclu- sively for the study of the Kabbala and related symbology and sci- ences. However, Kabbalistic Orders are not, strictly speaking, Rosicrucian Orders, although several great Rosicrucians have been deeply interested in the Kabbala and have written ee and interestingly on its doctrines.
Neither of the above-mentioned Orders were Rosicrucian Or- ders. Therefore, let no one be misled or permit themselves to be misled by the deceptive appearance of names or the cunningly de- signed deceptive tactics of those who would convert Masonic Con- gresses into Rosicrucian World Councils to serve a desperate need as evidence to sustain a false position and a fraudulent device of a Masonic-Rose Cross swindle.
But aside from the fact that said two Orders with names that might prima facie or on the mere surface leave the impression that Rosicrucian Orders participated in that Congress, the object de- clared by the Congress, the proceedings thereof and that which was done and accomplished by the Congress are the best evidence of the purpose and nature of the assembly. Let us, then, consider pages 218, 219 and 220 of the Hermetic Library, containing that part of the official report of the Congress wherein its purpose and its accomplishments are fully set forth, as follows:
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Translation of Pages 218, 219 and 220 Our Reproductions Nos. 45C, 45D and 45E
(Page 218)
“His speech finished, F.-.Teder gave the vows to the Organizers of the Covenant. After a short discussion of details of no importance, the following resolution was unanimously adopted:
“INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF FREEMASONRY CALLED FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ONE UNIVERSAL MASONIC FEDERATION UNDER THE ANCIENT CONSTITUTIONS OF THE Grae Dla),
“1. The Universal Masonic Federation is for the union and progress of all the Masonic Rites of which it is composed.
‘2. Each Federal Rite conserves its complete au- tonomy, its interior organizations and its statutes without the aid of the Federation.
“3. Each Federal Rite engages itself only to receive fraternally the members of other Federal Rites and to establish fraternal relations with all the Rites of the Fed- eration.
“4. To organize and centralize the efforts of the Uni- versal Masonic Federation, a central office is to be estab- lished in Paris (France) under the title of Secretary of the Universal Masonic Federation.
“5. The Universal Masonic Federation will group the new elements which may be constituted around the Fed- eral Rites existing in a country.
‘6. When no Federal Rite exists the Universal Ma- sonic Federation reserves the right to establish forma- tions (i.e., branches or orders) attached to any one of the Federal Rites without regard to the protest of the non-Federal Rites already established.
‘“7, When a Masonic Rite refuses to enter into rela- tion with the Universal Masonic Federation, the said
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Federation reserves the right to establish in the same place the formation of a Federal Rite.
“8. The Secretary of the Federation exercises the fol-
lowing functions:
‘“(a) He keeps up to date the register of the Masonic Rites pertaining to the Federation (beginning of page 219). All Masonic Rites possessing at least three Lodges at the moment of its demand to affiliate can be- come part of the Universal Masonic Federation by simply adhering to the statutes of the Masonic Federa- tion. Until further orders, joining the Federation will not entail expense.
‘““(b) The Secretary organizes courses and studies on the History, the Symbolism and the Degrees of the Free- masonry.
“These lessons will be written and communicated to the Federal Rites. Each Federal Rite will take especial care to conserve the communications (teachings) for its par- ticular use and not communicate (disclose) to the non- Federal Rites.
‘““(c) Each Federal Rite adhering to the Federation will name a delegate who reports to the Secretary.
‘““(d) The Secretary will submit to the best reputed Masonic writers the questions of instruction that are given out for study and will publish, if necessary, the ad- vice of these writers on each question.
“The Congress of Paris, June 9, 1908.
“Considering:
“1, That discussions have arisen for a long time be- tween certain Masonic Rites that pretend to be regular and that do not want to recognize the regularity of the
other Masonic Rites, often of very ancient constitution;
“2. That the impartial history of Freemasonry proves that at the origin of each of the Rites, as actually prac- ticed in the different civilized countries, there are such elements of irregularity that none of the Rites can pre- tend authority or dominate others on the subject;
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‘3. ‘That, before 1690, a Masonic body existed in Eng- land; that its statutes were violated by the Masons called Orangists and later in 1717 by the founders of the Grand Lodge of London, which, therefore, shows the evident manner of the irregularity of the Orangist Ma- sons and the Grand Lodge of London, now called the Grand Lodge of England;
“4, That it is practically impossible for the Grand Lodge of England, since the Archives do not date back further than 1723, to prove the regularity of its origin (beginning of page 220), and history proves, without doubt, its irregularity according to the viewpoint of Primitive Masonry;
“5. That the Grand Orient of France cannot furnish any document to justify its regularity when it pretends that the first Grand Master in France was the Count of Derventwater, who never had any power or rights from the Grand Lodge of England, and that its second Grand Master was a Count d’Harnouester, who has never ex- isted;
“6. That, consequently, if the Grand Orient of France is founded on a historical lie, it is necessarily irregular to its first head or since its beginning;
“7. That the Grand Orient of France was founded in 1773 by a rebellion of certain members against the Grand Lodge of France, then under the Ancient Constitutions, which was organized by factious Masons officially driven or expelled from the Masonic Fraternity, and which be- came more irregular when in 1877 it retired or seceded from the Universal Masonry;
8. That, if the English founders of the Grand Lodge of London in 1717, failing in their duty and vows, took the right to found a new Masonic body—said to be mod- ern—then this right belongs equally as well to all those who are not held by any obligations;
“OQ. That, if the Grand Orient of France was founded on irregularities and historic impostures, then all men, free of all obligations or attachments, have the right to found such Masonic Rites which may please them, and
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such Rites will be certainly more regular than those of the Grand Orient of France.
‘The members unanimously decided to constitute in Paris a Supreme Grand Council and Grand Orient of the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Masonry for France and its dependencies and to accept from the Sovereign Sanc- tuary and Grand Orient of Berlin the constituting or foundation Patent, and also to establish a Central Bureau or office under the title of Secretary of the Universal Masonic Federation.
“Paris, June 9.1908) Ps vaee
“After the vote that resolution was transcribed under form of verbal process in the Golden Book of the Grand Master General of the Sovereign Sanctuary and Grand Orient of Berlin, present at the Convent.”
It Is Obvious and Certain
It is obvious that the Congress of Paris, concluded on June 9, 1908, was purely a Masonic Congress; that all of Mr. Lewis’ rep- resentations concerning it—especially that it was a Rosicrucian International Council—are altogether false; that, judged by his own standard, quoted at the beginning of this part,’ all of his statements concerning his fabricated AMORC are unworthy of be- lief, wholly discredited and must be looked upon as cunning de- vices to deceive, and that the publication of the parts of deleted, muti- lated and falsified documents in his ‘‘Exhibit No. 6,” as shown in our Reproduction No. 43,° was done with his back against the wall and under circumstances of sheer necessity to sustain a perpetual falsehood maintained since he fabricated his spurious order in 1915 and to perpetuate his fraternal racket and Masonic-Rosicrucian swindle. |
In that Lewis has no Rosicrucian authority for his fabricated AMORC and, in fact, is not a Rosicrucian or a Mason, although he has made false pretensions to being both and has wrongfully and fraudulently used the good name of both of these great fra-
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ternities to promote his vicious fraternal fraud. Yet, nevertheless, in the final analysis he has relied upon fictitious, non-existent R. C. World and International Councils :’ first as sanctioning his French R. C. “sponsorship’’® and, lastly, that he has been a member of such councils since 1915—-of which he has fictitiously created sev- eral—which have recognized the “authenticity” of his fraternal enterprise and family racket. Before considering the Fupost, his latest fictitious and fraudulently created R. C. Council, which we shall consider in Part Four hereof, let us next consider an Inter- national Rosicrucian Council which he created but a few years ago that failed utterly and “went sour” on him, inasmuch as it is an- other characteristic example of his infinite and cunning trickery to promote and perpetuate his fraudulent Masonic-Rosicrucian scheme.
7 By this we do not mean to say that there is not an International Rosicrucian Coun- cil, but that all of Lewis’ so-called International R. C. Councils are fictitious and non-existent.
8 See Chapter Five hereof.
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Notes on Reproduction No. 43
Particular attention is directed to our reproduction of the Lewis ‘Exhibit No. 6.”” Note that he represents the upper paper, marked “A,” to be an announcement issued in 1907, inviting members of the Rosicrucian Order to participate in a Congress or Convention to form an international alliance. IT Is WILLFULLY AND VICIOUSLY FALSE! To hide the miserable misrepresentation, he deleted the “T)”’ from the word Dames in the fourth line. In French, ‘‘Dames”’ means ‘“‘Ladies,’’ whereas ‘‘Ames’’ means Souls. So he made the line read (translated) : ‘International Alliance of the Souls of the Rose Croix.” If WAS BASE TRICKERY! The announcement in ques- tion was a call by the O. T. O., a Masonic organization, to the women of all nations to form an International Alliance of Co- Masonry—to establish Female Masonic Lodges, which is world- wide clandestine Masonry. Moreover, it was not issued in 1907, but in 1918, after the World War, as shown by the context of the announcement, and did not relate to the Congress of Paris conclud- ing June 9, 1908. See our Reproductions Nos. 44 and 44A of the entire document and the translation in the text.
The Congress of Paris, concluding June 9, 1908, was not a Rosi- crucian Convention, as Mr. Lewis would have us believe; it had nothing to do with the Rose Cross. It was a Masonic Congress, as shown by our Reproductions Nos. 45 to 45E, both inclusive, of pages from the official report of that Congress, translated in the text. See the preceding text for still other gross deception prac- ticed in connection herewith. The deliberate trickery shown in his “Exhibit No. 6” is almost as despicable as the cunning mutilation and vile deception shown in his “Exhibit No. 8.” (See our Repro- duction No. 54 and our Exhibit N.) These Exhibits Nos. 6 and 8 are conspicuous, self-luminous BADGES OF FRAUD. These exhibits containing the crafty work of petty trickery supply evidence in abundance of LITTLE FRAUDS TO CONCEAL A GREAT FRAUD AND TO PERPETUATE A HUGE SWINDLE.
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AbbIANCE INTERNATIONALE es DAMES DE LA ROSE -+- CROIX”
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9 Ir Alliance Internationale des « Dames de la Rose =[= Croix» est une organisation auxiliaire de la Fédération Universelle des Templiers.
Le Sécrétariat de la Fédération donne la déclaration suivante sur le but de l’or- ganisation
Nous représentons, et nous aspirons a la réalisation de la réconciliation universelle des peuples sans distinction des races et des religions sur la base du gouvernement au- tonome de tous les peuples politiquement murs...
Ceci constitue, pour ainsi dire, notre politique extérieure. Et sans nous fixer sur les détails, nous qualifions ainsi l’idée fondamentale qui nous gouverne dans nos rélations avec tous les peuples.
Nous suivons cependant aussi une sorte de politique intérieure, en aspirant au ni- vellement des grands contrastes sociaux régnants dans tous les pays. Nous vOtons pour toutes Ics mesures sociales capables de soutenir le bien étre de toutes les classes tra- vaillantes, productrices et industrielles. Nous aspirons a la transformation et au dévelop- pement des conditions financiéres, économiques et productives des différentes commu- nautés des états, basée sur un fondement de lignes directrices vastes, larges, tolérantes, altruistes, cooperatives ct internationales. Nous cherchons, par tous les moyens possibles, 2 #pive—prévaleir..de.facon pratique notre convinction, que.l’art de toutes._ses. branches est l’unique moyen pour guérir les plaies infligées par cette guerre. Soit qu’efleg sé manifestent par un abaissement du niveau moral, ou par Ja dépression de leurs Ames, ou par un détournement de toute foi en Dieu. L’art, toutes les conditions étant favorables, peut guérir ces maux physiques et moraux. La musique surtout ést faite pour ramener Vhomme a Dieu. L’art est le porte-voix, Yannonciatrice par excellence, de |’Harmonie. La récompense qu’attend ceux qui croient en Dieu est se dissoudre dans |’harmonie, car la divinilté elle-méme est l’éternelle harmonie. ;
Puisque Dieu, ou le créateur des mondes, ou la Loi éternelle cosmique, a donné les femmes ‘comme symbole de la beanté au monde humain, et que tout art doit étre beau pour pouvoir avoir un efiet harmonieux, nous considérons la femme comme symbole °
On this and the next page is a reproduction in its entirety of the circular (in origi- nal French) used by the O. T. O. in 1918 inviting women of all nations to organize Female Masonic Lodges and to form an International Alliance of Co-Masonry, which Lewis says was a call for a Rosicrucian Convention held ten years prior thereto in Paris in 1908. Note that it is addressed to Dames (Ladies), mot AMES (Souls) of DE LA ROSE > CROIX, as it appears in the Lewis “Exhibit No. 6,” after the deft hand of a fraternal racketeer cunningly and willfully deleted and obscured the “D” in the French word Dames. None, save only Mystical Swindlers, possessed of the deceptive powers of the Black Arts, could make such a remarkable transformation as this. By a simple stroke of a pencil “Ladies” are transformed into Souls.”
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personnifié de l’art et de la beauté, comme représentante principale et annonciatrice de notre but de la réconciliation des peuples. Car ta réconciliation des peuples fait aussi supposer I’harmonie et un accord des mes, que les femmes sont surtout appelées a évoguer par l'art dans ses différentes branches, et 4 l’attiser comme une flamme et a la conserver. Nous engageons donc en premier lieu les femmes de tous les pays, a s’allier au tentatives de notre Ordre pour réaliser une réconciliation des peuples, ct d’organiser des synodes ou des loges de notre Ordre et & faire une propagande ardente pour I’Har- monisation des Nations qui encore se combattent, et se salissent avec une rage toute A fait déraisonnable. De méme que l'art, le symbolisme est également un moyen conduisant A l’harmonie. Il a la faculté a faire résonner des accords, communs 4 tous, dans les peuples les plus différents, et & nouer des licns d@’amitié autour d’eux. Notre Ordre commence donc a initier ses membres dans les mystéres des symboles sacrés des Anciens. Il se servira é ce but d’une forme adaptée aux buts annoncées de l’Ordre, et il donnera aux femmes | une instruction adaptée A les faire des apdtres des arts sacrées, afin qu’elles puissent partout, et toujours, étres actives comme missionnaires du nouveau message de salut. Tous les symboles de salut de tous les peuples et de tous les temps se rencontrent dans le’symbole de la Rose Mystique Crucifice Tous nos membres doivent done tacher d’étre recus dans la communauté de ceux qui réconnaissent ce symbole de la Rose Mystique. Mais, avant de pouvoir étre recu dans le Centre Esotérique des Initiés, ils doivent d’abord acquérir les connaissances élémentaires.de tout symbolisme, en. passant-partes 3degrés de la Maconnerie Symbolique. Car la compréhension de tous les symboles mystiques se ' base sur cette connaissance. Des Femmes de bonne famille désirant se joindre a l’Alliance sont prides d’écrire 4 VAdministrateur de 0. T. O., M. Reuss-Willsson, Professeur Hon. de I'cole Supérieure des Sys Médicales Rpplignees de Paris (Université de France), Casella Postale sBla O @.
Le Secrétaire. de l’Ordre LABAN DE LABAN in a" oh
IN. MEMORIAMY The Host Pulssadt and Wost f1istr, Sovereign Grnad Master Gen of the £ntient & Primitive Rite of Masonry for France Bro.
Charies Henri Détré (TED ER )33. 9% X
our mest dserly beloved Friend and CoeFounder of our 0.T,O0-
From the translation of this circular given in the preceding text, it appears that it relates exclusively to Female Masonry and that it had nothing to do with any, con- vention of the Rosicrucians. At the time of issuance Reuss-Willsson, head of the O. T. O., was in Paris. The heading of the circular—mutilated and published by Lewis—was the same circular published in German, retaining the French headline: Alliance Internationale des “Dames de la Rose %« Croix.’ It takes a wizard of the Black Arts to transform an invitation of the O. T. O. to Ladies to join Female Masonry into a call for a Rosicrucian Convention which im fact was a Masonic Con- gress held ten years prior to the issuance of said invitation to the ladies.
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This is the title page to a volume publishing the complete official report of the pro- ceedings of the Congress of Paris, concluded on June 9, 1908, under the presidency of Dr. Papus, published in 1910 by the Hermetic Library. We reproduce herewith a sufficient number of pages from this volume to demonstrate with certainty and beyond all doubt that it was a Masonic Congress and mot a Rosicrucian Convention, as rep- resented by Mr. Lewis. See translation in the preceding text and the fac-simile reproductions of the five pages from this volume of the proceedings of this Congress which immediately follow. They tell the true story, which may be compared with the deleted and mutilated documents in Lewis’ deceptive “Exhibit No. 6” and his false representations regarding the same.
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bés maintenant, le Voile d@Isis va centraliser, sous la direc- tion du jeune Chacornac, toute la partie administrative du futur Congres.
: L'Initiation va présider au groupement des Ecoles Occul- istes.
Le Journal du Magnétisme va s’occuper de la Section Ma- gnétique du Congrés, sous la direction de Durville.
La Revue Hiram organisera le Convent Maconnique en faisant appel aux Suprémes Conseils amis et aux autres 4 ]’occasion.
Enfin, nous ferons d’ici un mois les démarches en vue de Y’appui d’un ou de plusieurs journaux spirites.
Pour le moment nous ne voulons aucune souscription. Selon nos habitudes, nous organiserons tout 4 nos frais, pour commencer, et nous ne ferons appel a nos lecteurs que lors- que nous aurons la certitude dune réussite & peu prés cer- taine.
PAPUS.
De nombreuses personnalités du Monde occultiste, spirite ou magnétique adhérérent aussitét a la proposition du Doc- teur Papus. Citons notamment MM. beaudelot, Ernest osc, Courrier, Edmond Dace, Gabriel Delanne, Léon Denis, Henri Durville, Albert Jounet, le commandant Mantin, Phaneg, etc. Et bientdt apres, fut définitivement constitué le Comité d’Or- ganisation provisotre du Congres spiritualiste et di Convent Maconnique.
Composition du
Comité d’Organisation provisoire.
Président: M. le Docteur Papus.
Membres: MM. Beaudelot, docteur Biagini, Charles Blan- chard, Bonnet, H. Brouilloux, E. Dace, Desjobert, Ch. Dubourg, Durville fils, Faugeron, Genty, R. Guénon, Etienne Garin, Albert Jounet, Merle, Albert et Léon Noél, Phaneg, Schmid, Teder et Thomas.
Secrétaire: M. Victor Blanchard.
Secrétaire adjoint: M. Paul Veux.
Trésorier: Chacornac.
Fac-simile reproduction of page 7. (See translation in the preceding text). Here we have the names of those who responded to the call of the Congress by Dr. Papus, also the composition of the temporary organization committee. ‘These are names of well-known Masons adhering to the Rites of Memphis-Mizraim and other Masonic Rites—called the Spiritualistic Rites of Masonry. For that reason they called the Con- gress “The Spiritualistic Congress of June, 1908,’ and the agreement entered into or the results accomplished was the “Sfiritualistic Masonic Convent.” None of the men named were Masters or representatives of Rose Cross Orders. It was a Masonic Congress, notwithstanding Mr. Lewis’ false representations that it was a “Rosicrucian Convention.”
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Il ne nous est pas possible, afin d’éviter les indiscrétions, d’entrer dans trop de détails sur la composition du Convent.
Au premier appel des organisateurs, 17 puissances ma- conniques et 3 ordres affiliés avaient:répondu en envoyant des délégations spéciales. La revue Hiram en a donné la liste que voici:
1° Le Grand-Orient et Souverain Sanctuaire 33° de VEm- pire d’ Allemagne; 2° Magonnerie Arabe « Les Fils d’Is- maél; 3° Le Supréme Conseil Universel de la Magonneria Mixte; 4° La Grande Loge Symbolique Espagnole (Rite Na- tional Espagnol); 5° Le Souverain Grand Conseil National Ibérique; 6° Le Rite Ancien et Primitif de la Magonnerie (Angleterre et Irlande); 7° La Grande Loge Swedenborgienne d’Angleterre; 8° La Grande Délégation portugaise du Rite National Espagnol; 9° La Grande Loge du Cap-Vert; 10° Le Rite Bleu de la République Argentine; 14° La Grande Loge des Magons Anciens et Acceptés de Etat de VOhio; 12° La Grande Loge Saint-Jean des Francs-Magons Anciens et Aec- ceptés de VEtat de Massachusetts; 13° La Grande Loge pro- vinciale d’Allemagne du Rite Swedenborgien; 14° La Grande Loge Swedenborgienne de France; 15° Le Supréme Conseil 33° du Mexique; 16° Le Supréme Conseil de VOrdre Magon- nique Oriental de Misraim et @Egypte pour Ultalie; 17° L’Ordre des Illuminés d@’Allemagne; 18° L’Ordre des Rose-
Croix ésotériques; 19° L’?Ordre Martiniste; 20° L’Ordre_Kab- balistigue de la Rose-Croiz.
D’autres puissances, au nombre de 14, se firent également représenter, mais la décision a été prise qu’on ne les ferait pas connaitre publiquement. Leurs délégués arrivérent le 9 2uin.
Fac-simile reproduction of page 211. (See translation in the preceding text.) Here we have the beginning of the report of the Masonic CONVENT of the SPIRITUALISTIC Masonic RITE, giving a. list of the Masonic organizations and Masonically afhliated orders represented at the Congress. Two of these orders (Nos. 18 and 20, underlined), having the term “Rose Croix” in their name, may appear prima facie on mere appear- ance to be Rose Cross Orders, but such is not the case. See text. Pages 212 to 217, both inclusive, contain discussions of the convent for the establishment of a Universal Masonic Federation. Page 218, next reproduced, shows the Masonic Covenant entered into by the Masonic Orders represented at the Congress.
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aes unis sur ce point: l’universelle Fraternité et non pas la Praternité limitée aux bornes étroites d’uné coterie »...
Son discours terminé, le F.", Teder donna lecture des veux des organisateurs du Convent. Aprés une légére dis- cussion portant sur quelques détails sans importance, la ré- solution suivante fut adoptée & UV’unanimiteé:
ConGRES DES FRANCS-MAgoNS INTERNATIONAUX pour Véta- blissement d’une Fédération Magonnique Universelle sou-
mise aux anciennes Constitutions reconnaissant le G.’. VANS. Dig ate:
1, — La Fédération Mag.-. Universelle a pour but Vunion et e progres de tous les Rites Maconniques qui la compo- sent.
2. — Chaque Rite fédéré conserve son autonomie com- plete, son organisation intérieure et ses statuts, sans que la Fédération ait & s’en occuper.
3. — Chaque Rite fédéré s’engage seulement a recevoir frat.". les membres des autres Rites également fédérés et & établir des relations frat.*. avec tous les Rites de la Fédé- ration.
4, — Pour organiser et centraliser les efforts de la Fédé- ration Mag.’. Universelle, un Bureau Central est établi a Paris (France) sous le titre de Secrétariat de la Fédération Mac.’. Universelle.
5. — La Fédéralion Mag.*. Universelle groupera autour des Rites fédérés existant dans un pays les nouveaux élé- ments qui pourront étre constitués.
6. —— Quand aucun Rite fédéré n’existe dans une contrée, la Fédération Mag.’. Universelle se réserve le droit d’établir des formations rattachées & V’un des Rites fédérés, sans avoir a tenir compte. des protestations des Rites non fédérés établis dans ladite contrée.
7. — Quand un Rite Mae.", établi dans une contrée quel- conque refuse d’entrer en relations avec la Fédération Mac.: Universelle, ladite Fédération se réserve le droit d’établir dans ladite contrée des formations d’un Rite fédéré,
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8. — Le Secrétariat de la Fédération exerce les fonctions suivantes:
a) Il tient 4 jour le Registre des Rites Mag.’. faisant parlia de la Fédération;
Fac-simile reproduction of page 218. (See translation in preceding text.) Here we have the report of the Covenant adopted by the “INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF FREE- MASONS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ONE UNIVERSAL Masonic FEDERATION UNDER THE ANCIENT ConstiTuTIoNS oF G. A. D. L. U.” Is there any doubt—can there be any doubt—in anybody’s mind that this was a Masonic Concress, notwithstanding the assertion of the Past Master of Cunning Devices, Petty Trickery and Expert Decep-
tion that it was a Rosicrucian Convention?
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Tout Rite Mag.’. possédant au moins trois Loges au mo- ment de sa demande daffiliation peut faire partie de la Fé- dération Mag.. Universelle en adhérant simplement auz Statuts de celle-ci;
Jusqwa nouvel ordre, Vadhésion n’entraine aucuns frais ,
b) Le Secrétariat organise des Cours et des Etudes sur V’Histoire, le Symbolisme et les grades de la Franc-Magon- nerie;
Ces enseignements seront ensuite écrits et communiqués auz Rites fédérés.
Chaque Rite fédéré prendra soin de conserve, ces travaux nour son usage particulier et de ne pas les cummuniquer auz Rites non fédérés.
c) Chuque Rite fédéré nomme, en adhéra ¢ & la Fédéra- tion, un délégué qui se mettra en rapport av. le Secrétariat.
da) Le Secrétariat soumetira aux écrivains Mag.’. les plus reputés chacune des questions d’instruction qui sont mises a lVétude, et il publiera au besoin Vavis de chacun de ces écri- vains sur chaque question.
——QY - Lr Conaris DE Paris du 9 juin 1908.
Considérant:
14. — Que des discussions se sont.élevées depuis long- femps entre divers Rites Mag.". qui prétendent chacun étre yéguliers ef qui ne veulent pas reconnaitre la régularité des autres Rites Mag.’., souvent de constitution trés ancienne ;
2. — Que l’Histoire impartiale de-la Franc-Magc.’. prouve qua Vorigine de chacun des Rites actuellement pratiqués dans les divers pays civilisés, il y a de tels éléments d’irré- gularité qu’aucun Rite ne peut prétendre régentur les au- tres a ce sujet;
8. — Qu’antérieurement a 1690, une Maconnerie a existé en Angleterre dont les Statuts ont été violés par les fonda- teurs de la Maconnerie dite Orangiste, et, plus iard, en 1747, par les fondateurs “¢ la Grande Loge de Londres — ce qui montre d’une maniere évidente l’irrégularilé de la Maconne- riedite Orangiste et de la Grande Loge de Lendres appelée Grande Loge d’Angleterre;
4, — Qu’il est matériellement im,wssil.¢ a la Grande Loge d’Angleterre, dont les Archives ne resmontent pas au Geli de 1723, de prouver la régulari¢? de son origine, alors
Fac-simile reproduction of page 219. (See translation in preceding text.) Begin- ning on page 218 and continuing to the middle of this page, the duties of the Secretary of the Federation are set forth, he being the officer in charge of the central office of the Universal Masonic Federation established in Paris by the Congress, as shown on page 220. -
Beginning at the middle of this page and continuing on page 220 is recorded a dis- cussion of the regularity of Masonic Rites in which we are in no way interested. These pages are reproduced and translated to show that this was a Masonic Congress and zof a Rosicrucian Convention.
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que les faits historiques prouvent, sans réplique possible, sa parfaite irrégularité au point de vue de la Maconnerie Pri- mitive ;
5. — Que le Grand-Orient de France ne peut fournir au- cun document justificatif de sa propre régularité, alors qu'il prétend que le premier Grand-Maitre, en France, fut un comte de Derventwater, lequel n’a jamais eu aucun pouvoir de la Grande Loge d’Angleterre, et que le deuxiéme Grand- Maitre fut un comte d’Harnouester, lequel n’a jamais existé;
6. — Que, par conséquent, si le Grand-Orient est fondé sur un mensonge historique, il est forcément irrégulier au premier chef;
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7. — Que le Grand-Orient de France est né, en 1773, d’une vébellion contre la Grande-Loge de France, alors soumise aux anciennes Constitutions; qu’il a été organisé par des Macons factieux chassés officiellement de la Fraternité Ma- connique, et qu’il est devenu davantage irrégulier, quand, en 1877, il s’est retranché de la Macgonnerie Universelle ;
8. — Que si les fondateurs anglais de la Grande Loge de Londres, en 1717, se sont reconnu le droit, tout en man- quant a leurs devoirs et a leurs seyments antérieurs, de fon- der une Magonnerie nouvelle dite moderne, ce droit appar- tient d’autant mieux a tous ceux qui ne sont tenus par au- cune obligation ; ~9. — Que si le Grand-Orient s’est greffé sur des irrégu- larités et des impostures historiques, tous les hommes libres d’attaches ont le.droit de fonder tel Rite Mac.’. qui leur plait et que ce Rife sera certairement plus r4égulier que celui du Grand-Orient de Franre:
A DECIDE, a l’unanimité de ses membres, de constituer & Paris un Supréme Grand Conseil et Grand-Orient du Rite Ancien et Primitif de la Maconnerie pour la France et ses dépendances, d’accepter du, Souverain Sanctuaire et Grand- Orient de Berlin la Patente constitutive, et d’établir un Bu- reau Central sous le titre de Secrétariat de la Fédération Ma~ gonnique Universelle.
Paris, ce 9 juin 1908, Ba Viet:
Apres le vote, cette Résolution fut transcrite, sous forme de procés-verbal, dans le Livre d’Or du Grand-Maitre Gé- néral du Souverain Sanctuaire et Grand-Orient de Berlin, présent au Convent.
Fac-simile reproduction of page 220 (see translation in text), continuing with the discussion of regularity of Masonic Rite and showing the establishment of a central office of the Universal Masonic Federation in Paris.
After reviewing the foregoing authentic document it is obvious that said “Exhibit No. 6” is a “concocted” contrivance crudely constructed of deleted, mutilated and falsified Masonic papers and designedly misrepresented under the desperate necessity of proving that he did not lie when he said there have been Rosicrucian Conventions, but principally as a fraudulent device to sustain his Masonic-Rosicrucian fraud and to bolster a vicious and precarious Fraternal Swindle.
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It will be remembered that the basis of the notorious Thomson Masonic fraud was his self-constituted and wholly spurious Grand Council of Rites of Scotland, and that the heart of the Lewis fra- ternal racket and Masonic-Rosicrucian swindle is a_ fictitious ‘World Council” or “International R. C. Council.”” He has cre- ated several of these faked councils in his imagination and in printer’s ink. In his desperation recently he has made two notable but wholly unsuccessful attempts to create with plausible outward appearances such a council. The first of these fraudulent devices, the Pansophia International R. C. Council, fabricated in Germany in 1930, will be considered and exposed in this part of this chapter. The others, the Fupos1—the International Masonic Scandal, de- signed in San Jose and set up with expert cunning and bombastic arrogance in Belgium in 1934—will be considered in Part Four of this chapter.
Twenty-one years ago Lewis launched his fraternal racket under the alleged “‘sponsorship” of the French R. C., with the “approval of the International Council,” which he then located in France. Later he made claim to Rosicrucian authority from a High Lateral Council of Egypt (see Chapter V) as the Most Perfect Master Profundis under a curious and spurious document described as “Pronunziamento F. R. C. No. 987,601,” as shown in Chapter V, to follow. But when the police of New York City seized the aforesaid curious and spurious Pronunziamento the “‘World Council” moved again, this time to Switzerland, and he asserted a brand-new claim to Rosicrucian authority for his reorganized enterprise trafficking in brotherly love under a Charter (!) which he called his “‘Impor- tant Rosicrucian Document No. 4,” issued by the O. T. O working under a Masonic Patent.‘ However, Switzerland is not very large, and Masonic authority for Rosicrucian enterprise is not so good
1 See Volume I, pp. 345-346 and pp. 135 to 137, supra, this volume, also discussion of this document and Lewis’ claims thereunder in Part One, supra, this chapter.
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nor entirely appropriate. Therefore, he then decided that such a cunningly designed fraudulent scheme should have an all-inclusive Council to grant to him authority, power and titles without limita- tions. Accordingly, under a bogus Charter of the non-existent Great White Lodge of Tibet,’ he proclaimed the existence of th mythical ‘Supreme High Council of the Universe” as sponsoring his great work in fraternal racketeering and as granting unto him authority and power galore with all the sublime, ultra-secret, long- lost and otherwise unknown initiatory rites that have existed for- evermore. He located the aforesaid Universal Supreme High Council everywhere and anywhere in the great nowhere. It is now located in the secret closet in San Jose, reposing peacefully with the skeletons of other abandoned ‘“‘Councils’” and spurious sources of Rosicrucian authority.
German R. C. Authority
Although in the careless days of his. youth and in perfect ig- norance of well-known Rosicrucian facts he had declared that the original R. C. Fraternity, which was born in Germany, was a mere branch of the French R. C. Order,’ and after asserting various spurious claims of Rosicrucian authority derived from fictitious “councils” from France via Egypt and Switzerland to the Univer- sal High Council of everything, everywhere, perhaps it did occur to him that, after all, as a matter of fact, a Rose Cross Orderuae establish its authenticity, should be able to trace its authority back to Germany, to the original Fraternity—the fountain-head of au- thority from whence came and originated all authority under which every legitimate Rosicrucian Order has since existed and exists to- day; and that even a fabricated, spurious R. C. Order must be able to show some plausible, ostensible connection with the original Order, which first made its appearance in Germany about the year 1614 under the original name of Fraternitatis Rosae Crucis; and that was made known to the world about that time and for the first
2See our Reproduction No. 51 of his “Important Rosicrucian Document No. 2” and his description of this Council, p. 137, supra, this volume.
3 See Authentic and Complete History of the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, by H. Spencer Lewis; The American Rosae Crucis, March, 1916, p. 23, also Rosicrucian Questions and Answers With Complete History of the Rosicrucian Order, H. Spencer Lewis, second edition, 1932, p. 75.
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time by the issuance of the Fama Fraternitatis, issued by Johann Valentin Andrea under the name of Christian Rosencreutz, if said spurious order expected to continue in the fraternal racketeering business under a Rosicrucian trade name.
Well, be that as it may, about the years 1928 and 1929 we find Mr. Lewis traveling to Europe to attend International R. C. Coun- cils, so he says, but in reality laying schemes and making plans to procure for his spurious R. C. Order a plausible appearance of authority issuing from the original Rosicrucian Order in Germany.
As usual, as soon as his plans were formulated and gave prom- ise of success, he began to prepare the way, the public mind and the minds of his members for their fulfillment.
A close and scrutinizing reader of Lewis’ propaganda and pro- motional literature may see in his preparatory statements and prophecy of what is to be the complete outline of his schemes be- fore the event and which, taken in connection with that which he accomplishes, gives complete pictures of his subterfuges and fraud- ulent devices. These are, as we have said, Badges of Fraud which point the index finger of truth to the heart of the fraudulent scheme of his fraternal swindle.
Revives R. CG. Order in Germany
There being no authentic R. C. Order in Germany that he knew of or was able to contact, due to the fact that he had never become a Rosicrucian, his plan was to establish a spurious R. C. Order and give it the appearance of the resurrection of the original R. C. Order of Christian Rosencreutz. With this scheme formulated and well under way, we find him making his usual preparatory an- nouncement in The Rosicrucian Digest, March, 1930, pages 56 and 57, as follows:
GERMAN ROSICRUCIANS: ARE HAPPY A Few Words Regarding the Work of the Order Abroad By the Imperator
‘We have received during the past two months a very large number of official communications from various cities in Germany and Austria showing that many thou-
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sands of Rosicrucian students are celebrating the year 1930 with great joyousness because it is the beginning of a new cycle of 108 years of Rosicrucian activity for them. For many years the descendants of highly advanced mem- bers of our Order in Germany have been hoping that they might live long enough to see this cycle begin, and they have been slowly teaching their children the ideals and principles of the organization, preparing manuscripts and building up a foundation for the new cycle. During the years 1928 and 1929 many secret manuscripts were pre- pared and some private books published in anticipation of the great need for these things the moment the mystic bell was sounded and the hour of new activities would be an- nounced.
‘“We here in America have been patiently and secretly corresponding with those who were arranging the founda- tion plans, and we have been in personal contact with anum- ber of the very prominent leaders of the revived move- ment in Germany and Austria.* All of the members of the International Rosicrucian Council of the world living in various jurisdictions have been in touch with the Ger- man and Austrian officials, encouraging them in their plans and aspirations and assuring them of their hearty co-operation. The AMORC in America has derived so much benefit in the past from the helpful suggestions of those in Germany, who have so many rare records in their possession, that we have always felt obligated to render every assistance possible in this important event.”
“We have received letters from mayors and other prominent officials of city and country in Germany and Austria® who assure us that they are ready to fulfill the
4The “very prominent leaders of the revival movement in Germany” refers to Heinrich Franker, alias Fra Recnartus, with whom he formed the International Council Pansophia. See our Reproductions Nos. 44, 44A and 44B, to be presently discussed.
5 In view of the great debt which he acknowledges to the Germans, he should not have made those derisive and sarcastic statements about the Dutch farmer-printer in Pennsylvania. See pp. 132, 133, supra, this volume.
6 You may be at a loss to know what the “officials” of Germany have to do with Lewis’ scheme, except it may be well for you to know that it is part of his general
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position assigned to them as officials of the new Rosicru- cian cycle in their country, and we have received other communications from prominent persons outside of Ger- many or Austria who are related to those others and who want to render every service possible. In some communi- cations received we learn that in certain sections of Ger- many as many as two thousand especially prepared men and women are waiting beneath the Rosicrucian banner for formal initiation and acceptance into the Order this year. Temples have been planned and are partly under construction. Official magazines and other publications are being prepared, over five hundred active workers have been enlisted to carry on certain definite activities of the Order and large conventions and congresses of members will be held before the year is past.
“To aid in this great work, AMORC has the pleasure of contributing in many ways, and it was my personal pleasure to select one of our best qualified American members to go to Germany during the month of Febru- ary as the delegate of AMORC in America and to open an office and establish a library and reception and consul- tation rooms in Munich, from which point our represen- tative can direct the assistance which AMORC of Amer- ica will give to every part of Germany and Austria dur- ing the year. It is also our plan that when our members are traveling through Germany next Spring on the Egyp- tian trip that we shall meet this delegate and the highest German officers in a special convention in either Cologne or Heidelberg.
“Our recent books and many of our lectures and les- sons are now being translated in Germany and Austria for use by the officials of the new cycle, because they have found that our teachings and lessons here in Amer- ica are the most highly evolved and advanced (!) of any issued in any of the Rosicrucian jurisdictions.
“This revival of the work is taking place not only in Germany and Austria, but in one or two other sections of
scheme to connect himself with “officials,” especially in this country. Along with President Roosevelt, he is a distinguished member of the American Flag Association.
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the world, and in future articles we will keep our mem- bers advised of the beginning of these cycles and an- nounce the new activities. I am sure that all of our mem- bers will rejoice in the fact that the work will be greatly helped in all lands by the experiments, investigations, tests and trials made by the thousands of members in Germany and Austria who will now participate in the in- ternational affairs.” (All italics are ours.)
Propaganda Per Se Window Dressing Galore
The foregoing article is pure propaganda, wholly untrue and made with a definite design. It is a “stage setting’ for the an- nouncement of his spurious authority from Germany and his al- leged connection with the original: Rosicrucian Fraternity, also to prepare the way for the fake “International R. C. Council,” with headquarters in Germany and Austria, which he and his confeder- ates were fabricating or had fabricated at that time, which he an- nounced in November, 1930. It was also “‘window dressing’ for an appeal to his members for funds to be sent to his confederates in Europe to finance the shady projects of creating spurious R. C. Orders and a fake International R. C. Council to be used as fraudu- lent devices in the promotion of his fraudulent scheme and the perpetuation of his fraternal swindle, as will presently appear.
The fabulous, ‘“‘pufted-up”’ promotional tone of the entire article shows upon its face its true character and real purpose. The state- ments concerning the interest of “prominent officials”; the unprece- dented widespread interest with ‘‘as many as 2000 especially pre- ‘pared men and women” standing in line ready to be initiated into the Order; the issuance of official magazines and other publica- tions; with over five hundred active workers enlisted to carry on certain definite activities; with temples planned and partly under construction and Jarge conventions and congresses to be held be- fore the end of the year 1930—all are ridiculous and improbable in view of the fact that Germany at that time was passing through the depths of depression, and her officials and people were think- ing more of feeding starving women and children than of building temples, issuing magazines and reviving the old R. C. Order to give
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Lewis authority to carry on his fraternal racket in America. The waiting lists of 2000 for ‘“‘formal initiation and acceptance into the Order” in certain sections of Germany more accurately describes the bread lines that existed in Germany at that time.
That all of the foregoing article was propaganda with a definite purpose clearly appears from his “follow-up article, published in The Rosicrucian Digest for August, 1930, beginning at page 212 and ending on page 215, as follows: -
MNT OPPORPUNILTY PO HELP OTHERS Goop News ror Our Enruusiastic MemBers EVERYWHERE. By Frater Royale Thurston, F. R.C."
‘“‘T am sure that our enthusiastic members, who are al- ways anxious to aid in the greater and broader work of the Rosicrucian organization, will welcome the follow- ing information, which points out a real opportunity to help in many ways.
“Some time ago we announced that the work of the Order in foreign lands was again becoming publicly ac- tive, and we explained how our organization here had sent a special legate to Europe to represent the AMORC of North America in all of its conferences, committee meetings and congresses (our italics) held in various cit- ies, and to aid in the reorganization work in those coun- tries by offering the assistance of our North American jurisdiction. Wonderful reports have come from this legate, and many expressions of high esteem and grati- tude for our unselfish services in this regard have been expressed in various cities and countries of Europe.
“The Supreme Secretary has just returned from his official visit to a number of cities in various countries in Europe, where he attended special committee meetings and conferences, and further pledged the co-operation and service of Headquarters to modernize their work
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with which he has performed so much’ magic and under which he has sent forth waves of. promotional propaganda for his fraternal racket. It is an admitted Pen Name, about which there is no question.
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(our italics) and bring it up to the present-day stand- ard. (!) The disastrous effects of the World War, which caused many of the jurisdictions involved to cease their official activities or modified them to a very insignificant degree, and the periodical inactivity of one or two juris- dictions left the European situation more or less quiet in certain localities, which plans were made for the re-estab- lishment of outer activities once more.
‘During these quiet periods many wonderful manu- scripts were released from the archives and the secret vaults of the organization in Europe and were translated ; in preparation for the present cycle, and much official work was accomplished*® while the thousands of members in each jurisdiction carefully prepared themselves for the great campaign of practical application of the principles. In a psychic and intellectual sense most of the jurisdic- tions of Europe were more active during the past ten or twelve years than they have been for a long time, but in their outer, material and physical activity, and in the ap- plication of their principles to the assisting of those who require instruction and guidance in their search for light, the work was more or less inactive.”’
Revealing the Scheme
It is remarkable how seriously the Lewises have taken upon themselves the task of “modernizing” the Rosicrucian work in Europe as well as in America. If ultimately they are as successful in “modernizing” the Rosicrucian work—which needs no revision, especially by pseudo-Rosicrucians—as they and their confederates in Belgium and France were in “modernizing” and “reforming”’ the Ancient and Primitive Masonic Rites of Memphis and Miz- raim, then the claim that they—that is, AMORC—are perpetuat- ing the teachings of the ancient Rosicrucian Order and the ancient rites of all initiatory orders of the universe will have to be aban-
8 Throughout his promotional literature Lewis hammers on the constant flow to him of wonderful old manuscripts of Rosicrucian teachings, which he claims, in revised form, constitute the “ancient” teachings of AMORC; whereas, in fact, most of his. teachings are copied from books combined with matters supplied by himself and are not Rosicrucian teachings at all.
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doned by them, and their fraternal racket will reveal itself in its true light as a fraudulent scheme based upon spurious, modernized teachings and reformed rites of the ‘Ancient’? Rosicrucians and Masons.
Thus in this article the immediate scheme of establishing their connections with the original R. C. Order in Germany and of set- ting up a fake “International World R. C. Council’ reveals itself as we follow through and continue with this “follow-up” article.
International World R. C. Council
The scheme which led to the formation of the alliance with Heinrich Franker, alias Tartarus, and Frater Recnartus, of Ger- many, a pseudo-Rosicrucian and Masonic pretender, and the forma- tion of the spurious ‘‘Pansophia International R. C. Council’ an- nounced later in the year 1930, is revealed in the next two para- graphs of this article, as follows:
“Our Supreme Secretary became especially interested in the great revival of the work of our organization that is taking place in Germany, Austria and parts of France. Some few years ago we aided the English jurisdiction to enlarge its outer activities, and it has been successfully enlarging those activities to a point where it cannot fur- ther increase these activities until all of the other juris- dictions that are passing through a physical change have completed their plans and are ready to work in public unison.
“The recent selection of a new International Secretary for the International Rosicrucian Council of the world, who will hold office for a certain number of years, and the appointment of a few additional members to the Inter- national Council round out the membership of that Council to the magnificent number of twenty-six Interna- tional Councilors, representing twenty-six jurisdictions of the organization throughout the world, which are now active and most of which have been active for many years or centuries. A few countries are still in their inactive
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periods in the physical or outer work, such as Japan, Russia and Italy. The recent decision on the part of Mussolini, permitting the Freemasons and Rosicrucians of Italy to hold lodge sessions and to conduct their work again under a national council composed of their own members and officers, will result in a rapid revival of the work in Italy, and we will be glad to offer our assistance at once to that jurisdiction. In Russia and Japan political conditions will probably prevent the outer activities for some little time.”
Here we have a reference to the “‘Pansophia International Ro- sicrucian Council.”” The council formed rounds out the member- ship to “‘the magnificent number of twenty-six International Coun- cilors representing twenty-six jurisdictions of the organization throughout the world.” If the reader will turn to our Reproduc- tion No. 47B at the end of this part, which is the last page of the pamphlet issued in November, 1930, by Lewis, announcing the alliance with Pansophia and the establishment of the ‘International Headquarters of the Supreme Council of the Ancient and Mystic Order Rosae Crucis” at Berlin, Germany,’ it will be seen that the ~ ‘‘Pansophia’”’ Council was composed, according to Lewis, of twenty-six jurisdictions, as follows: (1) Germany, (2) Northern France, (3) Southern France, (4) Austria, (5) Great Britain, (6) Canada, (7) Scandinavia, (8) Belgium, (9) Greece, (10) Egypt, (11) India, (12) Gold Coast, West Africa, (13) Nigeria, West Africa, (14) Russia and Northern China, (15) Southern China, (16) Australia, (17) Dutch East Indies, (18) Hawaii, (19) ‘Central America, (20) Chile, (21) Argentine, (22)sBrten Guiana, (23) the Antilles, (24) the Spanish countries of South America, (25) Mexico, (26) North America, including Alaska. Thus it appears that the article reveals the scheme of the forma- tion of the spurious council of “Pansophia.”’ But the actual num- bers of “signatures” to that shady pact were two: Heinrich Franker and H. Spencer Lewis, to which Lewis added twenty-four of his own spurious orders existing, in fact or on paper, in the jurisdictions named to bring the Supreme R. C. Council of ‘‘Pan- sophia” of Germany to the ‘magnificent number of twenty-six.”
® See our Reproduction No. 47 of the title page of the pamphlet or announcement.
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Changing the Tune
As we now continue with this ‘‘follow-up” article, we will note a change in tune—decidedly so. Conditions in Germany and the facts
as stated in the previous article were very much overdrawn and
misrepresented. This article continues, as follows:
“Tn Germany the situation is intensely interesting to us here in America for one excellent reason. The present Imperator or Grand Master General’ of the Rosicrucian Order for Germany is a direct descendant of the Grand Masters of preceding cycles. True to the tradition of the organization which calls for each succeeding Grand Mas- _ ter General or Imperator to be a son of the preceding one if properly qualified, the authority of the organization in Germany has continued in the same family for many gen- erations, and it is well known in Rosicrucian History that the organization in Germany has an unbroken existence and historical record of activity ever since the revival un- der the name of Christian Rosenkreutz in 1614.’ Unlike the situation in America, there is but one organization calling itself the Rosicrucian Order in Germany, for the name is so highly regarded there,’ and the history of the true organization so well established in an unbroken line for so many centuries, that no pretenders to Rosicrucian authority have ever ventured to operate a commercial scheme of any kind in that land. (Our italics.) . . . But it is not only a fact that the present Supreme Lodge of the Order in Germany is one of the central archives for most of the valuable Rosicrucian manuscripts still pre- served in Europe, as well as true that this German Su-
1 This is a title used by the Ancient and Primitive Masons and never used by real Rosicrucians. Later we shall see why Heinrich Franker, founder of the Collegium and Societas Pansophia, a spurious German R. C. Order, used the title of Grand Master General.
2 This is propaganda in aid of his futile attempt to establish his connection and the connection of his fraternal racket with the original R. C. Order born in Germany about the year 1614.
3 The reader will be both interested and enlightened by referring to an article on the same subject published in The Rosicrucian Digest, March, 1933, issue, p. 60, and quoted later in this chapter.
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preme Lodge is the central storehouse of the ancient documents coming down from the original Christian Ro- senkreutz period, but it is also a fact that it was out of this jurisdiction that the first colony of Rosicrucian stu- dents, masters and workers came to America* to establish Rosicrucianism on these shores in 1694. This gives all of us here in America an especial appreciation of the work accomplished in the past by the German jurisdiction, and although our present organization was assisted in its re- vival by the French jurisdiction, the Rosicrucians of North America can never forget the great work accom- plished by the German Rosicrucians who helped to estab- lish so many cultural and educational movements in the first American colonies and contributed so liberally to the establishment of many of America’s first important scien- tific. humanitarian, educational and religious institutions.
“Tt is for this particular reason that we are anxious now to help the German and Austrian jurisdictions to carry on the great activities which they are planning to carry on and through which the other jurisdictions in Eu- rope will be greatly helped and enabled to co-operate so as to make most of Europe one solid unit in co-operative work.
“T suppose it is needless for us to say that while the spirit of Rosicrucianism is high in Germany and while they possess invaluable manuscripts that, from a commer- cial point of view, are worth fortunes and while their hearts are filled with enthusiasm and in every way they are anxious to serve humanity and help the world-wide activity of the Rosicrucian Order, they are handicapped by the national financial situation, which makes it impossi- ble for them to do many things that are absolutely neces- sary within the next twelve months. Many, if not most, of the officers of the organization there have sacrificed - their personal fortunes, their large estates and homes and all of their personal interests to maintain the con- tinuity and necessary activity of the organization, while
4 See pages 84 to 87, supra, this volume, where this subject is discussed and Lewis is shown to have disclaimed all connection between that colony and his AMORC.
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all of the members have contributed to the utmost of their ability.”
An Abbeal for Funds
Based upon the foregoing and the following propaganda and misrepresentations, Frater Royale Thurston, F. R. C. [Imperator H. Spencer Lewis, Ph.D.], makes an appeal for funds to carry on his aforesaid scheme. The article concludes as follows:
“We here at Headquarters are going to aid them in every possible financial way, as well as in the spirit of the work, but I know from the letters received during the past few months, since we first announced the great re- vival in Germany, that hundreds of our members who appreciate what the German jurisdiction of the Order has accomplished in the past for the rest of Europe or, in fact, for the entire world, as well as for the first colonies of America, are anxious to help the present German juris- diction with their voluntary donations and financial con- tributions. When you stop to realize that a single dollar of American money represents a considerable amount to these persons in this country across the ocean, and fur- ther realize that with each dollar a great amount of world-wide good can be accomplished by the German or- ganization, I am sure that most of our members will be willing and happy to contribute some small amount to a special fund which we wish to send in monthly amounts to the International Secretary in Europe, to be applied to the German and Austrian jurisdictions. As soon as the German jurisdiction can arrange to do so, it intends to publish a small monthly magazine in the German lan- guage, and I am sure that many of our German members here in North America will want to subscribe to that pub- lication. Many other private matters will be published by the German jurisdiction for distribution exclusively among Rosicrucians in various parts of the world, giving them the benefit of valuable manuscripts heretofore held in the archives’ awaiting the right year for official re-
5’The manuscripts here referred to were not secret manuscripts of the R. C. Order.
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lease. In the meantime, however, these voluntary dona- tions toward a general fund are desirable, and our mem- bers can help in this regard by sending their donations of any amount, small or large, from time to time, to us. Ac- knowledgment of these donations will be properly made, and to all those who send a donation of $50 a certificate of honorary membership in the German organization of long and honorable existence will be sent, bearing the signature of the International Secretary and Imperator of the German jurisdiction. But all small donations of a dollar, or even less, will be greatly appreciated and put into the general fund. If our members will send these to us from time to time, beginning as soon as possible after the receipt of this magazine, giving only such amounts as they can easily and freely spare from their own blessings and in no way jeopardizing their present obligations, we will be glad to transmit this money in monthly amounts to the International Secretary and.acknowledge each con- tribution.
“Please note the following: Make your checks or money orders payable to AMORC Funds, or send your cash in small or large amounts in a registered letter, but please address your envelope to Mr. Royale Thurston, and in your letter state that the money is to be placed in _ the Foreign Donation Fund, so that we will thoroughly understand that the remittance is not for the Cathedral Welfare League, or for the general Welfare Department of our organization or for any other purpose. Now let us see what we can do to show our love, appreciation and true Rosicrucian spirit. The Cosmic must use physical, material channels to obtain the physical, material things of this earth to carry on its physical, material work. The Cosmic cannot create money in the material form, but must use earthly channels for this purpose.
“If you volunteer to make yourself one of these chan- nels to aid the Cosmic, you assure yourself of Cosmic
In reality he is referring to the unusual collection of old Manuscripts and rare books collected by Heinrich Franker, some of which he published under the title of “Col- lection Pansophia,” as we shall presently show.
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benediction and recognition that may serve you well at a time when you need more than anything else the help of the Cosmic.”
Money Under False Pretenses
Under the foregoing false representations that the money re- ceived would be used to revive or re-establish the original German R. C. Order, which was the original or mother body of the Rosi- crucian Fraternity, he solicited and collected funds from his mem- bers which he used to establish a plausible, spurious connection with the original order and to set up and fabricate the short-lived bogus International R. C. Council—‘‘Pansophia’’—with the assistance of another Masonic-Rosicrucian pretender who founded the Collegium or Societas Pansophia, another spurious R. C. organization.
The honorary membership in the spurious German R. C.—.e., Collegium Pansophia—at fifty dollars each, to bear the signature of the International Secretary and the Imperator (before referred to by Lewis as the Grand Master General) of the German juris- diction, when taken in connection with other evidence, shows that the newly created German jurisdiction and Lewis’ newly fabricated sham International Council were one and the same thing—if not, then two spurious sprouts shooting from the same deceptive and fraudulent root. :
At this point and in this connection it will be interesting to divert for a short time from the consideration of Pansophia and the said sham International Council, to consider another daring attempt and cunning hoax of Lewis to establish a connection with the origi- nal source of Rosicrucian authority and to make a plausible show- ing for his fraudulent claim of such authority from the original Rosicrucian Fraternity.
“Important Rosicrucian Document No. 3” A Charter (!) from Original German R. C. (?)
In The Rosicrucian Digest for October, 1933, opposite page 256, Mr. Lewis published a fac-simile of a rather impressive certificate which he says is his Important Rosicrucian Document No. 3 and which he alleges to be a charter issued through the authority origi-
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nally granted by the Venerable Grand Master, Christian Rosen- kreutz. A reproduction® of this document is printed herein and will be found at the end of this part. It is executed on a litho- graphed form in Latin script and printed characters. The main part of the certificate is in Danish script. Beneath his reproduction of this certificate and concerning the same he makes a rather re- markable statement, but not at all unusual for a fraternal racketeer whose swindle is based upon false claims and spurious or misrepre- sented documents. His statement is as follows:
‘The above is a photographic reproduction of one of the most important and interesting charters (?) ever is- sued in foreign countries to any organization in North America. It was issued by the ‘Suprenum Consistorium Rosae Crucis’ at its Sovereign Sanctuary and Collegium for Germany (?) and parts of Scandinavia. The char- ter (?) is issued through the authority originally granted by the Venerable Grand Master, Christian Rosenkreutz, representing the original German jurisdiction of the fa- mous Rosenkreutzers. It authorizes H. Spencer Lewis, F. R. C., of North America, to represent the original German Foundation of Rosicrucianism and assures him of the co-operation of all the existing officers of the true Rosicrucian organization in Germany. It makes the Rosicrucian Order of North America a recognized and empowered branch of the only true and original Rosicru- cian Order of the World and carries with it the power and authority through an unbroken line of succession in the Hierarchy of the fraternity." Such a charter has never been issued to any other individual or organization in any part of North America and, therefore, this charter is absolutely unique and unequaled in authenticity and un- questionable integrity.” (The italics and inserted ques- tion marks are ours.)
In passing it may be noted that in the foregoing statement made
6 See our Reproduction No. 46 for a fac-simile reproduction of the Lewis reproduc- tion of this certificate.
7 See Rosicrucian Digest, November, 1930, p. 295, from which we shall later quote substantially the same statement.
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in 1933 Mr. Lewis recognizes the German Foundation as the origi- nal source of Rosicrucian authority, and that by the making of this claim to authority from the original Fraternity—the German Foundation—under this document, which he says is a charter, he tacitly admits that prior thereto he possessed no Rosicrucian au- thority and that all his claims and pretensions to such authority through the French R. C.; through the Egyptian Order, under Pronunziamento Ff. R. C: No. 987,601” ;? through “The Supreme High Council of the Universe,” under the charter of Great White Brotherhood Lodge, his “Important Rosicrucian Document No. 2,”° and through the “Supreme Magnus and Frater Superior of the Ancient Rosicrucian Order for Switzerland and Germany,”’ under the certificate from the O. T. O., his “Important Rosicru- cian Document No. 4,’*° as well as all other claims made prior thereto, were false. However, this tacit admission is of little or no importance in view of the overwhelming proof presented in this and Volume I of this work, showing that at no time has he pos- sessed any Rosicrucian authority from any legitimate source.
Not a Charter Grossly Misrepresented
A charter, as generally understood and as especially understood in fraternal circles, is a document issued by a power or an author- ity within each order or fraternity to a person or group of persons conferring power and authority to institute and conduct a lodge, body or some type of organization within or in connection with such order or fraternity. Therefore, the Lewis “Important Rosi- crucian Document No. 3,” which he says is “one of the most impor- tant and interesting charters,’ is not a CHARTER at all. Like his “Important Rosicrucian Document No. 4,” it is a mere certificate of honorary membership, and it does not purport to confer, nor does it confer, any Rosicrucian power or authority. The entire document, its purpose and its purport are grossly misrepresented.
8 See our Reproduction No. 64 and the discussion of his early claims to Rosicrucian authority, Chapter V hereof.
9 See our Reproduction No. 51 and Lewis’ claims, p. 136, supra, this volume.
10 See our Reproduction No. 40, Part One of this chapter, and pp. 380 and 381 of Volume I of this work. —
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Every statement and every inference contained in his foregoing description of the document under consideration is false—abso- lutely false. No extrinsic evidence is required to establish the facts. The document itself shows upon its face, when translated, that all statements he has made and all inferences intended to be made con- cerning it are willful and gross misrepresentations.
We offer a free translation of said document, omitting at this place the formal Latin heading in the lithographed portion of the certificate and translating only the essential part or the certificate itself in Danish script, as follows:
THE DANISH ROSE AND CROSS ORDERS BROTHERHOOD
Copenhagen—Light! Life! Love !—Denmark (Great Fraternity of the Rose and Cross, Golden and Strong)
Our Greetings With Three-Pointed Triangle, Rose and Cross ‘Under Rose and Cross!
“By this Certificate and Diploma, the Undersigned, the - Rosicrucian Grand Master, Basil Valentinus, as the Su- preme Authority for the mentioned Order and Brother- hood, by virtue of its Charter, certifies: This day we have admitted the worthy and very enlightened Brother of the Rose Cross, Spencer Lewis, of San Jose, California, as a Corresponding (Honorary) Brother and faithful Prior Member of our Order’s Brotherhood.
Copenhagen, Denmark (Date Deleted)
Under our hand and seal. (Signed) Bast VALENTINUS, Rosicrucian Grand Master. ‘Seals of the Order and Brotherhood.”’
It is, therefore, obvious that his ‘Important Rosicrucian docu- ment No. 3” is not a charter; that it is not important at all; that it confers no Rosicrucian authority on H. Spencer Lewis from the “original German Foundation” or otherwise; that it does not make
the Rosicrucian Order (AMORC) of North America ‘‘a recog- 342
nized and empowered branch of the only true and original Rosicru- cian Order of the world,” and it is not a charter that “is absolutely unique and unequaled in authenticity and unquestionable integrity.” The only thing unique and unequaled about the certificate and the whole affair is Lewis’ daring and brazen, false representations con- cerning this certificate and his bold attempt to deceive—indeed, it is his audacity—not the “‘charter’’—that is unique and unequaled! Never before in the history of cunning frauds and fraternal swin- dles has any fraternal racketeer, promoter of fraudulent Masonic or Rosicrucian Orders or mystic swindler been so daringly auda- cious nor so brazenly bold. Compared with Harvey Spencer Lewis, “Most Perfect Master Profundis” of fraternal swindles, Pandolfo, Ponzi, Horatio Bottomley, M. P., the notorious English swindler, and Matthew McBlair Thomson, the notorious American Masonic swindler,** were all mere pikers and novices at the game of making unequaled false representations and creating unique fraudulent devices for swindling in a big, bold way.
Unequaled in Authenticity
Mr. Lewis claims the Danish Rose Cross Order which issued to him this certificate of honorary membership is a Sovereign Sanctu- ary’ and Collegium for Germany and parts of Scandinavia, repre- senting the original German Foundation with power and authority through an unbroken line of succession in the Hierarchy of the fra- ternity, and that the certificate which he falsely represents to be a charter is unequaled in authenticity and of unquestionable integrity.
Well, despite what Mr. Lewis says about it, the certificate was issued in Denmark, not in Germany, and by a Danish order. Lewis has created many spurious AMORC organizations in Europe and abroad—many of them purely fictitious, mere paper organizations, but a few of them were actually organized and functioned—to give plausible appearance to his claims of the world-wide activities of his spurious AMORC and to create the membership for his fic-
11 See The Thomson Masonic Fraud, p. 3. Read the entire book and compare with Lewis’ daring exploits in fraternal racketeering and Masonic-R. C. swindling.
1 “Sovereign Sanctuary” is the title of a Supreme Grand Lodge of the Ancient Primi- tive Masons. Rosicrucian Grand Lodges or Supreme Grand Lodges have never been so designated. The title is distinctively Masonic, mot Rosicrucian.
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titious and bogus International R. C. Councils and World Con- gresses.
He has created under his own spurious Rosicrucian authority AMORC organizations which actually functioned with a few mem- bers in England, Canada, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark and perhaps in a few other countries. These constituted his Fake International Rosicrucian Council.’
Let us look at the record as made by Lewis in the case of AMORC. vs. George L. Smith and see what we can find out about the Danish Order that issued this certificate of honorary member- ship to “‘the very worthy and very enlightened Brother of the Rose Cross, Spencer Lewis, of San Jose, California.”
In the above-mentioned case Mr. Lewis attempted to prove that there is or was an International R. C. Council to which his AMORC belongs, and of which he is a member, by the introduc- tion into evidence of about a dozen letters which he testified that he had received from members of the International R. C. Council. Of course, they didnot prove the existence of such a council. They were not read to the court, merely introduced into evidence. When the case was decided in the trial court he withdrew them, and when the record was made up by the clerk he refused to reproduce them to go into the record on appeal, because he knew they were mere subterfuges and would not bear close scrutiny. After much delay caused by Lewis’ refusal to produce the original letters,* the record on appeal was made on proof of copies and certified to by the trial judge.
We shall quote his testimony and the letter he introduced (Plain- tiff’s Exhibit 8) relating to the Danish R. C. Order, because it has direct bearing upon the subject matter we are considering and upon Lewis’ Danish certificate of honorary membership.
In response to questions asked by his attorney in the above-men- tioned case, Mr. Lewis testified as follows: “Q. I will ask you if you recognize that document. Tell us what that is. ; “A. That is a letter from the member of the Interna-
2 See our Reproduction No. 47B at the end of this part. ® See Chapter I hereof and p. 70, supra, this volume.
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tional Rosae Crucis Council in Denmark. “Q. And is there a jurisdiction, Rosae Crucis jurisdic- tion, in Denmark?
Atay es;
“Q. Recognized by the same International Council ? nie ad és.
“Q. Is this the envelope in which it was received? PAGES:
Soyer vice itam: e\Ve Oller this in evidence, your Honor. (Marked Plaintiff’s Exhibit 8.) *
Plaintiff’s Exhibit 8, the letter, identified by Mr. Lewis and intro- duced into evidence, is as follows:
LAGE SEE eOHARTITY!
Copenhagen O, th: 21/6 1931 Njerringgade 33, Denmark “To the President and Imperator of the Rosicru- cian Society and Order: “AMORC: “Valley of North America, AMORC Temple, Rosi- crucian Park, San Jose, California, U. S. A.
Note These Letters “From the secret and closed Sanctuary of: Carefully Compare IY Gaze tal Rey CRke Fe eae With Lewis’ Danish Ordo Aures & Rosae-Crucis, og [of] Kabalistic Certificate. Order: of the Rose Croix.
“Headquarter: Hgerringgade 33,0. “Copenhagen, Denmark.”’
From the foregoing letterhead, upon which the following letter is written, it appears that the Danish order which issued the Lewis certificate of honorary membership is not an order of the original German Foundation of the Rosy Cross, but a Kabbalistic Order of the Rose Croix. Note the secret identification letters: M.-.S.-. Rem Va ay) Oa. 1.75. 7..0n the letterhead. These same secret identification letters appear on the certificate of honorary member- ship’ (upper central portion) of that awful “Important Rosicru- cian Document No. 3.’ Compare carefully and you will conclude
*AMORC vs. George L. Smith, Transcript, p. 400. ° See our Reproduction No. 43. Compare it carefully with this letterhead.
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that the “Important” certificate was not issued by a regular R. C. Order, and the reading of the letter will confirm your conclusion.
Our Italics.
Note: Dr. Andersen and “Dr.” Lewis Established the
R. C. Organization in Denmark.
He Knows True Rosicrucianism Is Not Found in Great Lodges.
Old Martinist
and Mason.
Only Interested in Real
Occultism and True Rosicrucianism.
French Schools.
ANOTHER TELL-TALE. DED BER From AMORC vs. Smith®
“Most dear Grand-Master & Frater & Fellow in Spirit Spencer Lewis!
“Tt was surely to me a surprise and a pleasure: on once in my life to get a letter from a old boy of , old days, like myself, which I very much good have knowed pr distance, and through a doubtful Dr. Mr. Kay Andersen, years ago, here, and which then have been Your co-operative fellow, in the youth of the Rosicrucianism here in Denmark. ‘Then—in_ the
_ start of the lodge here, I was very interested in
Your Rosicrucianism, but causa: thath the lodge not could tell me, a old Esotericien, on my many ques- tions, and causa troubles in the lodge, I and more brethren tyled ourself. Now I knows as an old Rosicrucian Frater and Friar: thath true Rosicru- cianism is not to find ina great lodge or Order, only in: a minor Fraternitas, and thence: I am no more interested in great Orders & Societies, and no more I am fascinated by the many Seals and more. Grand College of Rites! Yes, as Grand-Commander & Grand National masonic Master I represented also here: a College of Rites, but... ! Also I am old Martinist, yes 1 am old General Dologue & Pro- vincial pro Denmark, gnostic Primas, and Provincial of mere masonic Rites pro Denmark, but all this: I have for the most part: tyled. Only a english frac- tion of Rosicrucianism, and the very old german: Ordo Aurea & Rosae Crucis, and the french: Or- der cabbalistique de la Rose Croix, the continuation of Ordre Martiniste, created by the Marquis Stan- islas de Guaita, I represent and workes in for the time, in a minor secret and closed faternitas lodge here. Further I am old Occultist (in origin: learned in the first french schools of occultistes (Papus, Sedir, Stanislas de Guaita and more, all: eminent
6 See Chapter I, p. 63, supra, this volume.
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Jean Bricaud.
Gomerc Lodge Lewis’ AMORC
of Denmark.
Our Emphasis. Lewis’ Fraternal
Business and R. C.
Racket Frightens.
Rite of M. and M.
Mason.
Teder Jean Bricaud, names years age), Astrolog, Alchemiste, Rosicrucian, Gnostic, and judaic Cab- baliste. Now: only Rosicrucian, Astrolog, Alchem- ist and high learned semitic Cabbaliste.
“Yes, many titles, charges and patents I have (but only: few penni in the purse.) I knows very well: the Master-Frater in the: Gomerc Rosicru- cian lodge here: Peter Erichsen, as he has been my disciple or pupil in his first esoteric school. The name of the mother of the lodge; Mrs. Charlie An- dersen’ (And Commander Andersen) I also remem- ber, but I, as also the most men her cannot sympa- thize with this woman, causa her caracter. Interest for Rosicrucianism has only few people here, and the AMERICAN BUSINESS IN ESOTERIC SCHOOL-SYSTEMS IS FRIGHTENED, and only real trained and learned men is here respected. Enclosed you will find a Horoscope & as I have made Years ago, Your Horo- scope and which tell me the caracter and more of a little corpulent man in a certain age. { Here he dis- cusses the horoscopes of Lewis and himself, of no particular interest in this connection.] With this I will close, and I send You now a Heartly Martinist- Masonic and Rosicrucian greeting!
“With highly respect Your truly Frater C. W. Hansen-Kadosh 33,90; & 90 3201-P.:C. F. RC. Grand.
“Enclosed: 2 Horoscopes. “T wait seenly to hear more from You! “C. W. Hansen-Kaposu.” ®
The Story the Letter Tells
Well, you cannot blame Lewis for not wanting this letter to be made a matter of public record. It was all right to swear that it was written by a member of his faked International Council, to go through the formal motion of introducing it into evidence, unread,
‘In The Rosicrucian Digest, September, 1933, p. 120, and in many Digests prior and subsequent thereto, this same lady, Carli Andersen, S. R. C., is listed as the Grand Secretary of the AMORC Grand Lodge of Denmark, with address at Manogade 13th, Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark.
SAMORC ws. Geo. L. Smith, Transcript, pp. 685 to 689.
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and promptly withdrawing it, but when it came to making it a mat- ter of public record that was where the boot began to pinch. The reason is apparent.°
This letter, although in poor English, is written by a real oc- cultist, without pretensions. It tells the same general story of Lewis’ strange operations and fraudulent scheming in Europe to give his fraternal racket the appearance of world-wide institution and to give plausibility to the existence of his non-existent Interna- tional Councils and World Congresses. As usual, we find him mix- ing with Masons and mixing up their Masonry. He tells us that Lewis and a doubtful Dr. Kay Andersen founded an AMORC organization in the youth of Rosicrucianism in Denmark; that at first he was interested in Lewis’ spurious brand of Rosicrucianism, but, being an old occultist, he soon found that there was nothing to it; that very few are interested in Rosicrucianism in his country; that Lewis’ business methods in connection with his Danish R. C. Order and racketeering in fraternalism have frightened his coun- trymen and that only trained and learned occultists are respected in Denmark. Apparently he knows about Lewis’ great love for high-sounding titles, many seals, great orders and grand colleges of rites. However, he tells him that he is no longer interested in the outward glamorous show of such things and, being an occultist of the First French School of Papus, Teder and Bricaud, he is now interested only in Martinism, the French Kabbalistic Order of the Rose Croix and the very old German and English branches of the Golden and Rosy Cross. From Lewis’ Horoscope, which he en- closed, he finds that he will be a “‘little corpulent man at a cer- taimagce.:
The reader will find much more in this letter. But where is the proof in this letter that the writer thereof was a member of the Lewis International Council? If he found the Lewis-Andersen
®° Mr. Lewis and his son Ralph carry this letter and the other letters introduced in evidence in the above-mentioned case around with them on their lecture tours in a “specially prepared portfolio” and exhibit them to their audiences as proving the world-wide scope of AMORC and the existence of an International Council, AMORC. They prove nothing of the kind. They only prove trickery and chicanery. They are “specially prepared” devices of fraud. If space permitted, we would republish all of them in this volume and show their true nature and design. If occasion demands, we may publish them at a future day with other data, not contained herein, that we have collected relating to his bogus ‘International R. C. Councils.”
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AMORC lodge to be devoid of real occultism, do you suppose he would have served on a bogus International Council? And do you suppose that Lewis fooled the writer of this letter into issuing his “Important Rosicrucian Document No. 3” or was it issued by his good friends, the Andersens, of his AMORC Grand Lodge of Denmark? Well, it matters not—is of no great moment. After all, it is anunimportant document. It is only a certificate of honor- ary membership. The only important thing about it is that it has been grossly misrepresented and used as a fraudulent device.
The German R. C. Pansophia
Let us return to the consideration of Pansophia, the Interna- tional Headquarters of the Supreme Council of AMORC, Berlin, Germany, and the various things and matters that came forth from that spurious source.
Mr. Lewis, in his wide travels in search of an ‘“‘eminent author- ity’ for his fraternal racket, through his intimate contacts and scheming with charlatans, pretenders and notorious international fraternal and mystic mountebanks, came in contact with one Hein- rich Franker in Germany, another Masonic-Rosicrucian pretender, and formed an alliance with him which resulted in the formation of the International Headquarters of the Supreme Council of
AMORC in Berlin, Germany, in 1930.
Heinrich Franker is almost illiterate, with only meager rudimen- tary education. However, he had an unusual love for old books and ancient manuscripts—a love shared by his co-pseudo-occultist friend, Lewis. He succeeded in collecting more than 30,000 vol- umes of rare books and old manuscripts—mostly Masonic—of great value. He knew nothing of the contents of these rare books and manuscripts so rich in mystic and occult lore, but he could give the dates and the titles of each from memory. About 1920 or 1921 he bought a small printing shop at Leipzig and reprinted a few of these old books under the title of ‘Collection Pansophia”’ and organized a spurious so-called R. C. Order under the name of “The Collegium Pansophicum” or ‘“‘Pansophia.” At that time he and his wife constituted the whole collegium. By the illegitimate use of his old Masonic manuscripts he secured a few followers in Europe.and America, but his spurious R. C. Order attained no such
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following and achieved no such financial success as the spurious R. C. Order of his erstwhile friend in America.
In 1925 he invited Aleister Crowley, then in Tunis, Africa, to visit him in Germany. The two promptly quarreled and Crowley brought several lawsuits against him because of the unlawful re- publication of his (Crowley’s) books. Franker lost all of these suits and was forced to sell his printing shop and most of his library to pay the judgments and expenses of litigation. However, he saved a few of the rare and most valuable books and the Masonic manuscripts. He then took refuge in Berlin. There he published the ‘“‘Pansophia Review,” the contents of which were somewhat childish, and it was viewed with universal derision by all real oc- cult students.
He separated from his wife—the other half of his Collegium Pansophia—and took unto himself a young mistress, by whom he had two children. His abandoned wife denounced him as a false Rosicrucian—a pretender to Masonry—and exposed him as prac- ticing detestable sexual perversities. The police interfered and the affair became scandalous and notorious.
Purchased Masonic Charter
In 1924 Theodor Reuss-Willsson died; he was the First Head, Caput Ordinis and Secret Chief of the O. T. O. organized under Masonic charter of the Ancient Primitive Rites of Memphis and Mizraim issued to Reuss and his successor by John Yarker in 1902, Sovereign Grand Master General of the Sovereign Sanctuary of Great Britain and Ireland. The widow of Reuss offered this char- ter for sale for one thousand Swiss francs. To be sure, it was worthless, except to the rightful successor of Reuss as the head of the O. T. O. Several occultists and Masons were approached, but looked upon the offer with contempt. Charters cannot be bartered and transferred in that manner. But Franker, having no ethical fraternal scruples or compunction of conscience, purchased the John Yarker-Theodor Reuss charter; and although he was not a Mason nor a member of the O. T. O., he assumed, without any right whatever, the titles of 33rd, 90th and 96th degrees of the Rites of Memphis and Mizraim and the X degree, Caput Ordinis, of the O. T. O., formerly used by Theodor Reuss. It is quite prob-
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able that the purchase of this charter entered into the quarrel with Crowley, who was the rightful successor of ‘Theodor Reuss as the
Outer Head and Secret Chief of the Onl: ©:
The Collegium Pansophia was such a vast joke that no real stu- dent of the occult sciences gave it a serious thought, and all real occultists and serious mystics laughed at Heinrich Franker—he had made himself so ridiculous. It was Theodor Reuss, in ridiculing and poking fun at him, who gave him the name of Recnartus, which he uses most, although he sometimes uses the name Tartarus. The name ‘‘Recnartus” means ‘‘Fox,”’ which Reuss fully understood and intended to make the application.
European scholars of the occult sciences and men of high fra- ternal standing all report Heinrich Franker, alias Tartarus, alias RECNARTUS, to be a vain, underhanded, unscrupulous pre- tender, but with sufficient cunning to deceive and secure a few fol- lowers whom he has exploited. When Recnartus and the Most Per- fect Master Profundis met they saw each other coming; they dealt with each other at arm’s length, each with his own idea of advan- tage in mental reserve. They formed the International Headquar- ters of the Supreme Council of AMORC at Berlin, which was com- posed of the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC) and the Brotherhood of the Rose Cross, one and the same, being Lewis’ fraudulent R. C. Order; the Fraternitatis Hermetica Lucis and the Ordo Templi Orientis, one and the same,’ under the: pur- chased Masonic charter of the O. T. O.; and the Collegium Pan- sophia and Societas Pansophia, one and the same, being Franker’s bogus “original” German R. C. Collegium. And they also drew up and composed a “Second Fama,” which they agreed would be ‘“‘the Second official Fama’ issued by the original Fraternity Rosae Cru- cis since the Seventeenth Century.’
Recnartus vs. Profundis
It was a racketeer’s game, being played by two cunning masters of unscrupulous deception. Profundis, being the more cunning and the most skillful, left Recnartus holding the bag. Lewis departed
1See Part Five of this chapter, also our Reproduction No. 40, supra. 2 See our Reproduction No. 47 at end of this part.
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with some of Franker’s manuscripts, the “Second Fama,” sealed with a Masonic Cross (such as Crowley uses with his signature of Baphomet*), and under the signature of “Fra Recnartus 33°, 90°, 96°, X° in the Bounds of the Order,* etc.,”” and with a “Charter” from the original German Rosicrucian Order known as the “Rosen Kreuzer,’”’ issued by a “‘lineal descendant and blood relative of the original Christian Rosenkreutz.”’ Well, to make a long story short, Lewis, the Most Perfect Master Profundis, outwitted Franker, Brother Recnartus—the Fox; exploited his spurious Collegium Pansophia unscrupulously, then denounced the Societas Pansophia as being no part of the R. C. Order® and banished Brother Recnar- tus into oblivion from which he should never emerge. And though he may not have the power of resurrection and may not save him- self, he may still possess sufficient ‘drawing power” to pull Pro- fundis into the grave of oblivion—into the grave that the crafty Profundis dug for the foxy Recnartus.
The “Pansophia” Scheme Revealed
It remains to be seen how Lewis used, or attempted to use, and exploited “the most important documents” sent to him “by the Imperator and Supreme Council in Germany” and also the exclu- sive, unprecedented and unimpeachable authority from the original Rose Cross in Germany granted to him by a blood relative and direct lineal descendant of the original ‘Rosen Kreuzers”’ through the novel process of “blood transfusion,” and the Second Fama signed and sealed Recnartus.
As usual, we can discern and perceive the entire scheme of ex- ploitation from the statements and publications of the Lewises. They had much to say in their publications about these matters during the years 1930 and 1931. However, a few quotations from articles published by them will be sufficient to tell the story of their daring, insolent, imprudent and unsuccessful attempt to exploit and “nut across” the pernicious and depraved scheme and foul, fraudu-
3 See our Reproductions Nos. 30 and 31, Volume I, pp. 362 and 363. 4 See our Reproduction No. 47A at end of this part.
5 See statements of the Lewises in Rosicrucian Digests, September, 1930, p. 34, and November, 1930, p. 295, to be presently quoted and discussed.
6 See The Rosicrucian Digest, April, 1933, p. 92. We shall presently quote this. statement of Lewis, denouncing and repudiating the “Pansophia.”
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lent device ‘‘made in Germany” with the aid of Recnartus— the fox.
In July, 1930, they held a convention in San Jose, California, composed of a few of their local members and representatives of their lodges in the United States, which they called an International Convention, at which time Lewis, in a glowing account, told his credulous, deceived and deluded members then and there assem- bled of the great things they had accomplished in Germany; showed the ‘‘documents and records which proved (?) that AMORC throughout the world is one solid, universal organization’; re- vealed to them the wonderful (yet wholly improbable) thing that had happened to him in Germany and assured them, with the as- surance of one who knows or boldly pretends to know, that they need entertain no further doubts as to the Rosicrucian authority of AMORC or as to his Rosicrucian authority, because of his in- direct relationship’ to ‘‘C. R.-C.”’ and his recent blood transfusion from a direct lineal descendant of Frater ‘Christian Rosenkreutz”’ —all because the original Rosicrucian German’s blood now courses through his Welsh veins!
The proceedings of this ‘International Convention” were pub- licly reported in The Rosicrucian Digest, September, 1930,° by “The Convention Secretary,’ which may have been Lewis or his son, from which we quote as follows:
“Among the highlights of important matters that were settled by the Convention are the following: First, the presentation of documents and records showing that the AMORC throughout the world is one solid, universal organization without any di- visions other than geographical ones. “These docu-
After Fifteen Years, ments and papers proved the long existence of many Still Seeking of the foreign jurisdictions,’ authorized the sponsor- “Sponsorship.” ship and universal recognition of the American juris- A Typical Badge diction and warranted the exclusion of other Rosi-
7 Lewis claims to be a Welshman, not Dutchman. See his autobiography, Rosicru- cian Manual (1934), p. 129. But, judging by his recent denunciation of the author whom he referred to as a German and a Dutch farmer-printer, one would not believe that he esteemed very highly his Rosenkreutz blood.
8 Pp. 224 to 227, both inclusive.
9 These foreign jurisdictions are spurious organizations, fictitious or real, created by Lewis, and all of them are younger than his own spurious organization.
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of Fraud. crucian movements in America which claimed to
Our Italics. have been a part of the ancient organization, but have absolutely no foundation for their claims what- soever.”?
“Sponsorship” and “Recognition”
At this point and in this immediate connection may we point out and emphasize that Lewis launched his fabricated, spurious R. C. Order in 1915 under the alleged “Sponsorship” of a mythical R. C.
Order in France, as we shall show in the following chapter? Since ~ then he has had his “‘documents, papers, charters, jewels, seals, au- thority and authenticity’’ examined and re-examined and approved and reapproved by numerous committees, councils and conventions. Each year he has been gathering in more and more “important” documents, marvelous charters, unique papers and proof (?) of authority from sources divergent and wide, too numerous to men- tion, and has had them examined and approved by voluntary com- mittees and unanimous conventions—over and over, again and again—and has exhibited them to countless audiences and laid them on ‘“‘the table’ all over this fair land,? which should be sufficient proof, if his claims were provable. Yet, in 1930, after fifteen years of strenuous efforts to prove with countless papers, manifestoes, pronunciamentoes, charters, documents, deceit, devices, stratagems and every possible method—except the right way and correct method—we find him still having his convention settle that unset- tled question.
Badges of Fraud
Since 1915, even unto this day, he has been constantly feeding his members and the public on this type of viciously false propa- ganda, and with it, as one of several fraudulent devices, he has swindled thousands of our citizens.
Now, it must be reasonably plain to any thoughtful person with an elementary knowledge of fraternal affairs generally that Lewis
1 Thomson, to promote and perpetuate his notorious Masonic Fraud, made the same type of claims with reference to Regular Masonry in America.
2See The Rosicrucian Forum, April, 1933, pp. 133-134.
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needed but one charter—just one—ONLY ONE CHARTER or a wart- rant of authority from one authentic Rosicrucian Power to estab- lish a Rose Cross Order in America, provided, of course, that the territory was not occupied by an existing Rose Cross Order— which was and is the case.
And it must also be doubly clear that he does not possess a char- ter or warrant of authority for any authentic Rosicrucian body; that he is without Rosicrucian authority; that AMORC is not an authentic R. C. Order, and that his scheme is a swindle, pure and simple.
And it should be obvious even to a man up a tree with the wool pulled over his eyes that this eternal palavering and so much idle talk about so many important documents conferring such superior powers and authority—from so many sources that need to be ex- amined and pronounced authentic so many times—are grave grounds for serious suspicion and so many Badges of Fraud \abeling it the worst fraternal racket and biggest fraud that has ever been permitted in these United States for twenty-one long years to carry on its swindling enterprise through the public press, the best maga- zines and with the misguided aid of some of our best publishers and publications.
Weleme Fully Proven
However, the proof of his scheme is overwhelming. Let us con- tinue with the report of the Lewistonian convention and consider one of the most ridiculous and utterly stupid claims that was ever made or ever will be made by any pseudo-Rosicrucian pretender or fraternal mountebank, as follows:
Was It a Charter “The most important of the documents in this re- from Recnartus? gard was one sent here for this Convention by the Imperator and Supreme Council of the Order in Germany. The Rosicrucian Order there, known as
A New “Ancient” the Rosen Kreuzer, has an unbroken existence for R. C. Landmark— many centuries, for it has adhered to the ancient Keeping It All principles of the Order whereby each Supreme in the Family. Grand Master is succeeded by one of his sons* or a
3This is part of the scheme of the Lewises, in the process of execution about that time, to make a family racket out of AMORC. See Chapter VI this volume.
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Wisdom Imparted by Transfusion of Blood.
A Stupendous, Extravagant Buffoonery—
Preposterous ! Ridiculous!
Utterly False!
No Record of Any Such Manufactured “Rela- tionship” in the History of the Fraternity. Lewis’ “Authority” by Way of Blood Trans-
fusion from Recnartus?
Sealed and Countersigned.
brother of his blood. In some countries where such succession has been made impossible because the Grand Masters had no offspring or relatives the lineal descent through blood relationship has been maintained by the transfusion of blood from the body of the existing Grand Master to the new and suc- ceeding officers before the transition of the former. In every case where an Imperator has been ap- pointed for a new Jurisdiction, after a period of in- activity where there were no direct descendants in the interval, the new Imperator has always been se- lected from among those persons who were the near- est relatives to the last Grand Master. Such se- lected person journeyed abroad and in a high coun- cil meeting, in the presence of the other Masters, was acclaimed as the nearest in direct line; and later the blood of the highest Master in direct line was transfused into his body to give him the actual blood relationship to the direct line. Thus, in all of the active jurisdictions today the highest officer has received through transfusion the blood of C. R.-C. and is a direct successor to this eminent character whose original identity is so carefully concealed. The C. R.-C. of Germany who became so well known in the seventeenth century was one of those descendants of the original C. R.-C., and rr May BE OF INTEREST TO OUR MEMBERS TO KNOW THAT OUR IMPERATOR HERE IN NortTH AMERICA HAS ALSO RECEIVED THE TRANSFUSION OF DIRECT BLOOD BECAUSE OF HIS ACTUAL RELATIONSHIP, INDI- RECTLY, TO RELATIVES OF THE ORIGINAL ROSEN KREUZERS OF ANCIENT TIMES. The German docu- ment sent here was not only signed and sealed by the head of the organization in Germany, but coun- tersigned and sealed by the highest officers of the German Government, and is an indisputable docu- ment and finally countersigned and sealed by the American Consul General in Berlin.” (Our italics and capital emphasis. )
Bombastic Inflated Ignorance
The fraternal enterprise of Lewis & Son began to succeed in a
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substantial way in 1928. It was then that they saw visions of Gold, Power and Luxury. When those visions take command of the im- aginations of otherwise cautious and cunning fraternal racketeers, pretenders and charlatans, the baser parts of their avaricious na- tures and greed for gold and the hunger of their expansive egos for temporal Power and worldly Glory cause them to scheme to take unto themselves all the Gold, Power and Glory, to forget brotherly love and fraternalism, to abandon caution and to throw discretion to the wind. That is what happened to the Lewises dur- ing and between the years 1928 and 1930. They schemed and at- tempted to execute their scheme to make their fraternal enterprise a Family Racket and to place it within the complete control and under the domination of the Lewis family even unto succeeding gen- erations, as we shall see in Chapter VI, to follow.
In their scheme to perpetuate their mercenary ‘‘Rose Cross” business as a family institution they encountered two major prob- lems. First:*the serious question of their Rosicrucian authority. They knew that they had no authority; that all their many ‘‘char- ters,” ‘““manifestoes”’ and “papers” were worthless; that their Inter- national Councils were without substance, and that they faced the constant danger of being exposed and left without any plausible - proof of authority whatever. Accordingly in their cunning schem- ing they determined to set up a source of authority so strangely unusual, so bafflingly intricate and so intriguingly mysterious, not dependent upon parchment certificates, waxen or golden seals or visible International Councils or otherwise, so that no one could trace or deny the “indisputable” source of their “incontestable” authority. Second: the serious objections that the members would have to their making a family affair and a family business out of a “supposed-to-be”’ fraternal Rosicrucian Order, with all succession _ in office and control running to son Ralph or with the Lewis blood. Accordingly, they schemed to make their shady enterprise and spu- rious R. C. Order an imperialistic kingdom within the mystic realms of brotherly love and an all-powerful, monopolistic empire within the occult world of fraternalism, with succession by divine or mystic right from father to son and within the Royal Family of
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the Lewis Hierarchy.
Ancient Authority by Inoculation Through Modern Blood Transfusion
As the result of their profound scheming, in total ignorance of Rosicrucian ideals, principles, practices and landmarks, they an- nounce the utterly ridiculous, absolutely preposterous, unheard-of and wholly fallacious doctrine of Rosicrucian authority through blood or by blood transfusion and the succession of Supreme Grand Masters from father to son or to brother of the blood—natural or by transfusion.
And then, after telling the strange, fictitious and ‘‘phoney”’ story of how new Imperators and the highest officers of all active juris- dictions of today journeyed abroad and in a “high council meeting,” presumably in Germany, having had transfused into their bodies the ‘‘actual’’ blood of the highest Master, presumably Recnartus, of ‘‘actual blood relationship to the direct line” of the original Christian Rosenkreutz, the mythical father and founder of the Rosicrucian Fraternity, so as to get the full benefits of their mar- velous chicanery and fallacious Rosicrucian doctrines, they an- nounced that ‘Our Imperator here in North America has also re- ceived the transfusion of direct blood because of his actual rela- tionship, indirectly (very indirectly) to relatives of the original Rosen Kreuzers of ancient times.’’ Asif there were more than one Christian Rosenkreutz and as if the original Father Christian Ro- senkreutz was an actual person, instead of a mythical, fictitious character used by Johann Valentin Andree, Founder of the Fra- ternitatis Rosae Crucis and author of the Fama Fraternitatis and Chymical Marriage of Christian Rosenkreutz!
Betrayed by Ignorance
In their haste to perpetuate their profitable, fraudulent R. C. enterprise as a family racket and to establish their spurious Rosi- crucian authority by an entirely new, novel and fantastic method they betrayed themselves by their ignorance of Rosicrucian funda- mentals and, for that matter, of simple, elementary and basic con- ceptions of fraternalism.
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Rosicrucian authority. to found an Order of the Fraternity in unoccupied territory is never conferred and has never been con- ferred upon any person because he was a blood relative of a Rosi- crucian Grand Master, and succession of the Grand Mastership in orders established has never been and is not now by blood from father to son or to a brother of the blood. ‘The August Fraternity of the Rosicrucians is not now and never has been a family affair of any man’s family. It is not now nor has it ever been a wealth- garnering, power-accumulating, ego-satisfying or worldly ‘“‘show- off” contrivance for the material luxurious support and self-glorif- cation of any man, his son or their families. It is not a self-con- stituted aristocracy of imperialistic royal families, of exclusive “blue bloods” with the Royal Revenues* provided by their gullible victims. And, most of all, this August Fraternity, which has long existed. as a praiseworthy institution among men held in high es- teem by all who know its true worth and honored by the association and membership of some of the most distinguished men of highest character of all times, of all nations of the earth, is not a free- booting band of fraternal racketeers, trafficking in brotherly love | and profiting by the debauchery of the highest ideals and noblest aspirations of mankind.
The Order of the Rosy Cross
It is, as we have repeatedly pointed out,’ an unselfish, patriotic, charitable, profoundly religious, yet non-sectarian, and Holy Or- der, composed of Rosicrucian initiates adhering to the doctrine of the fatherhood of God and encouraging the brotherhood of man with peace on earth and good will to men. It has to do with the uplift and regeneration of the race,° the development of man in body, mind and soul and the inculcation of the highest ideas of un- selfish and useful service to all mankind in all the avenues of every-
4 See Section 3 of Article IX of the Constitution of AMORC, 1934, which provides for the Royal Revenues of the Lewis family.
5 See The Rosicrucians, Their Teachings; The Fraternitatis Rosae Crucis, Philo- sophical Publishing Company, Quakertown, Penna.; The Temple of the Rosy Cross, by Dowd; Evolution of Immortality, by Rosicruciae (Dowd); Ravalette—the Rosi- crucian Story, by Dr. P. B. Randolph. See Volume I, pp. 225 et seg. and other authen- tic Rosicrucian literature.
® See Race Regeneration, by Clymer, Philosophical Publishing Co., Quakertown, Penna.
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day life. Its philosophy is practical, dealing in a common-sense way with the realities of everyday life in the material and temporal environment of the soul residing in a physical body. It does not condemn the possession of gold; it recognizes its value as a useful medium of exchange and as a symbol of service. It does not frown upon the acquisition of material things or the accumulation of power, wealth and those things that go to make a well-rounded, happy and useful existence upon this planet, but it does instruct in the proper use and against the abuse of all things and the dissipa- tion and harmful use of power. It points to the true Standard of Values and teaches the relative values of the temporal and spiritual, the fleeting and the everlasting and the eternal fitness of all things. It knows that nothing that exists can be destroyed and teaches its neophytes how to transmute the bad into the good, the gross into the noble and the base metals into the philosophical gold of the alchemist of old. Under the system of training, its neophytes de- velop self-control, equilibrium of the emotions, mind power, will power and the peace that surpasses ordinary understanding. Through the proper application of the law of love and spiritual experiences they realize their immortality and develop the highest faculties of the soul or the gnosis, which is initiation and the attain- ment of mastership.
It makes no distinctions between sex, race, creed, blood, family or previous conditions. All sincere seekers are welcome, and none who are worthy are denied. In the authentic fraternity of the Golden and Rosy Cross, as founded by our mythical Father, “Christian Rosenkreutz,’ the humblest neophyte may become the most distinguished and exalted Supreme Grand Master—and his name need not be Lewis; he need not be of royal lineage nor have the transfused blood of a Recnartus coursing through his veins.
Supreme Grand Masters How Made and Selected
No one has become a Rosicrucian and consequently a Rosicru- cian Master because of his family, blood, social standing, wealth, worldly attainments, scholarly achievements or through any of the extrinsic things of life. One becomes a Rosicrucian by. treading the Path, living the Life and performing the Great Work. It is in
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this way and in this way only that one may achieve illumination and attain unto the Wisdom. These cannot be conferred upon anyone, and wisdom and spiritual illumination cannot be bought or sold nor conferred as a favor or bestowed as a blessing upon any favored person. Indeed, the Rosicrucians are not respecters of persons; they could not be if they so desired. Becoming a Rosicrucian is at best a slow process of achievement. The attainment unto Wisdom and Mastership by the opening up of new states of consciousness and inner spiritual experiences may require many years—a life- time. It may be likened to the acquirement of a classical and schol- arly education through the preparatory school, the college and the university, except that such a course of study deals with a different class of subjects and develops knowledge and the faculties of the mind, whereas the spiritual teachings and training of the Rosicru- cians deal with the occult sciences, develop Wisdom and the higher, all-inclusive faculties of the Soul. It must, therefore, be perfectly apparent to all that men become Rosicrucian Masters only under proper training and guidance by their own efforts; that they earn the right to serve and guide others, and that the experience gained by traveling the Path and performing the Great Work which at- taineth unto the Wisdom which is Mastership cannot be conferred upon or granted to anyone as a special favor or kingly act.
To Whom Authority Is Granted And Why Granted
A Grand Master is appointed by the Grand Master of another jurisdiction and given a warrant of authority or he has the right to institute and establish the Order in unoccupied territory because he is a Rosicrucian Master; because he has tread the Path, performed the Great Work and attained unto Wisdom and because he is duly prepared and fully qualified to properly carry on the work, to teach the doctrine, to assist and guide others on the Path and to serve and sacrifice as only a Rosicrucian Master must serve and sacrifice for the good of the Order and the well-being of mankind.
The Rosy Cross, an inner school of Spiritual training and Eso- teric teachings, may inculcate some of its general teachings in classes and with graded lessons, but the inner and secret training imparted and given to its neophytes must of necessity be individ-
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ual, because each neophyte is at a different stage of development, and no two individuals develop at the same rate or in the same way, hence each neophyte is under the personal direction of the Supreme Grand Master or a Master teacher under his personal direction. The neophyte reports to the Grand Master directly or through his teacher, hence no one, save the Supreme Grand Master alone, knows the exact stage of development achieved by each stu- dent, neophyte and initiate of the Order and Brotherhood. It is for this reason, this reason of necessity, from the very nature of the Order and its work, that the Supreme Grand Master is required to assume all responsibility and is given supreme authority in all matters. Therefore, he is charged with the necessary responsibility of training and appointing his successor in office as the next Su- preme Grand Master of the Order. Inasmuch as no one except a high initiate and Master, in fact, is capable and qualified to be the Supreme Grand Master, and whereas the student body, neophytes and initiates generally cannot and do not know and the Supreme Grand Master alone does know, it is, therefore, logical and necessary, because of the inherent nature of the inner affairs of the Order, that each Supreme Grand Master shall appoint his successor. The power of the appointment of his successor and the supreme governing powers of the Supreme Grand Master are not imperial- istic, autocratic powers, but responsibilities and powers of necessity to be exercised with wisdom under the law of love. Therefore, the government of the August Fraternity of the Rosicrucians is not an arbitrary, imperialistic and autocratic government, as Lewis con- tends as an excuse for converting his spurious R. C. Order into a family racket, but it is a government of justice and wisdom under the law of love and under conditions of necessity. It is an efficient government based upon the superior qualification to govern with that understanding, wisdom and purity of heart to govern wisely and justly. It will, of course, be interesting to the public to know, according to the history and tradition of the Order, that no Supreme Grand Master has ever violated his sacred obligations, failed in his full duty or attempted to abuse his powers or to govern arbi- trarily, unjustly or tyrannically. Hence, this type of government
has become a fixed Law and Landmark of the Fraternity and has proven eminently and entirely satisfactory to all Rosicrucian neo- phytes, initiates and members of the Order and Brotherhood.
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Successors—How and Why Appointed
Since Lewis has made so many misrepresentations and told so many fantastic tales concerning the selection of R. C. Supreme Grand Masters, it is well that the interested and uninformed pub- lic should know how the successors of Supreme Grand Masters are selected and the provisions made and the precautions taken to pre- vent a vacancy in that high and responsible office in any and all events. There is within the Fraternity a high Council, composed of the Supreme Grand Master and other Rosicrucian Masters and high initiates, any one of whom is fully qualified and entirely capable of succeeding to the Supreme Grand Mastership. ‘The Su- preme Grand Master designates more than one Rosicrucian Master to be his successor in preferred order, so that in the event the first or another in the order of designation cannot or will not act for any reason, another designee can and will act, so that there shall be no vacancy and no possibility of that high office being occupied by one not duly prepared and fully qualified.
In view of what has been said, there is, to be sure, no logical or tenable objection to a father being succeeded by his son as the Su- preme Grand Master of the Order, providing always and, of course, that the son is the best qualified Rosicrucian Master in the Order to take the great responsibility and perform the sacred du- ties of that high and most responsible office. It was the hope and laudable aspiration of one of the eminent Supreme Grand Masters of our American jurisdiction that his son might succeed him, but the son failed to reach that stage in his development and initiation to make him the best qualified for the position, and his father, true and loyal to the sacred duties of his office, appointed another, truly qualified, to be his successor. Such is the Rule, the Landmark and the unviolated Law of the August Fraternity.
We have deemed it best to take the space to state in some detail —perhaps in unnecessary detail and repetition in different ways— the facts concerning these matters, so that the uninformed reader may see for himself how utterly fantastic, crude and false the state- ments and representations of the Lewises are on these subjects and
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all related matters.
Most Important Document Countersigned by Highest German Officials
Referring to the quotation, we are told that “‘the most important document” was the one sent by the “Imperator and Supreme Coun- cil of the Order in Germany,” and that it was not only “signed and sealed” by the head of the organization in Germany, but “‘counter- signed and sealed” by the “highest officers of the German Govern- ment”’ and finally ‘‘countersigned and sealed”’ by the American Con- sul General at Berlin, and that it is an “indisputable document.” We are not told what kind of a document it is—perhaps the con- vention never found out—but we are assured with much bombastic language and over-inflated assurances that it is a most important, much-signed, countersigned and sealed and, above all, an indis- putable document. The fact and point to which we direct attention is that this is the customary, usual and typical Lewistonian descrip- tion of all of their R. C. papers, fraternal communications, char- ters, documents, etc., by, with and through which they attempt to prove their Rosicrucian standing, authority and authenticity. Their voluminous propaganda literature abounds with such selling arguments. Indeed, with them they are stereotyped expressions constantly employed and used to describe the most insignificant and worthless scraps of paper. Now, the over-emphasis of the great importance and the constant and consistent reiteration of the im- portance and incontestability of all such papers and documents create a grave doubt in the minds of all persons as to the integ- rity and authenticity of the same. They are “fishy,” smell to high heaven and they are very suspicious, to say the least.
Anyone can pass a paper, letter or document through the com- mercial offices of a foreign government and through the Consular offices of our government located within the territory of such for- eign government and for a small fee have it stamped or “‘sealed,” as Mr. Lewis delights to say. All of which shows that it passed through said offices and came from said country—only that and nothing more. Certainly, no government undertakes or will cer- tify to the authenticity of any fraternal charter, communication or document. In the name of common sense and the simple fitness of
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things, what does Lewis hope to gain by having governmental and Consular stamps placed upon his “important papers’’—and, after all, what does it prove? Nothing at all, except that they are sus- picious and most likely spurious. Fraternal communications, char- ters, documents, etc., passing between the citizens of one country to another are private matters in which each order and fraternity only is interested, with which governments have nothing to do and with which they seldom interfere.
The Truth Revealed By Their Telltale Actions
As a matter of fact, the Lewises know that all their so-called “important” papers, charters, documents, etc., are spurious, ques- tionable and worthless to prove their Rosicrucian authority and authenticity. Therefore, to bolster them up and to give them a plausible but deceptive appearance of genuineness, so that they may use them to deceive their victims and to mislead them into the be- lief that they do prove the genuineness of false and spurious claims, the Lewises invariably have had them “sworn to’’ or otherwise “Verified,” signed and countersigned, and signed some more, sealed, resealed and decorated with seals and have foolishly attempted to give to them the appearance of a deceptive governmental sanction —which does not exist.
Now, everybody knows that a genuine document proves itself. The genuineness thereof appears upon its face. Only forgeries, spurious and otherwise suspicious documents need extrinsic evi- dence, over-certification and extraordinary authentication to prove their genuineness. Therefore, in their over-anxiety and through the fruit of their guilty consciences, viz., by over-selling, puffed-up de- scriptions, unnecessary certification, surplus of seals, with too great an abundance of documents and the over-stressing of the unique- ness, rarity, importance, incontestability and unquestionable integ- rity of their alleged “proof” of their Rosicrucian authority and the authenticity of their fraternal family racket, the Lewises have suc- ceeded in convincing all thoughtful people who have given any thought to the subject that all of their documents are questionable or spurious; that all of their claims are snares and delusions and that their entire fraternal enterprise and so-called R. C. Order is a
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fraudulent scheme and a vicious, shocking swindle.
From Switzerland to Germany
International Headquarters Transferred
Continuing with the same article from the September issue, 1930, of The Rosicrucian Digest, page 235, the “Convention Sec- retary” tells us that:
‘Perhaps the most interesting of all the announce- ments made at this Convention was one to the effect that, as a result of the International Convention of Rosicru- | cians held in Europe this past summer, which was at- tended by our Supreme Secretary and his wife from America, announcement can now be made of the names and addresses of all of the members of the International Rosicrucian Council of the world, representing every na- tion but two or three. In a few nations the Order is not publicly active at the present time, although the high off- cers in such lands are descendants of the ancient bodies and are carrying on their work in secrecy. The present International Secretary of the International Council has been transferred from Switzerland to Germany for the next few years. The Swiss jurisdiction was represented at the Convention, but the transfer of the International seat of the Order from Switzerland to Germany, however, does not close the activities in Switzerland. Hereafter, those of our members who are going abroad to visit in foreign lands may secure from the Imperator the address of the International Councilor or officers in these foreign lands, and very likely the list of these representatives will be furnished to every Grand Master or high officer of the American jurisdictions within a few months. It was also pleasing to our American members to learn during the Convention that our Imperator, H. Spencer Lewis, had been made one of the two vice-presidents of the Interna- tional Council. The unknown C. R.-C. still remains president of the International Council, as in the years and centuries which have passed.” (The italics are ours. )
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The New International Council With Headquarters in Berlin
This is a lot of superficial ballyhoo about a phoney “‘Interna- tional Convention” that was never held. At most it was only a _ dignified name for a meeting of Rosicrucian and Masonic pretend- ers conspiring to set up a fake “International Rosicrucian Council of the World” in Germany, which did not last long and which they pretended to move from Switzerland, where it had no substantial existence. As announced on the last page’ of the “Second Fama’ —a ‘“‘Pronunziamento to All the World,” published in November, 1930—they give a list of the jurisdictions of all the world that are alleged, to compose said fake council. The English version of the “Second Fama’ was issued by H. Spencer Lewis, as vice-president of the International Supreme Council,* to which high office he had just prior thereto been appointed by his son, Recnartus and Pro- fundis, all in accordance with the aforesaid propaganda.
Continuing with this same type of propaganda in one of their now famous promotional “follow-up” articles on the same sub- jects, we find one of the Lewises writing, as ‘Secretary, Depart- ment of Extension,” under the title of “Interesting News from For- eign Lands,” a long dissertation on the revival of the R. C. in many lands, arguing that there is an International Council simply be- cause, from the very nature of their own misstated facts, there must be such a council telling something, but nothing very reliable, about the origin of the Rosicrucian Fraternity in Germany and the issuance of The Fama Fraternitatis in 1614. In writing of the German organization, but certainly not of the Rosicrucian Frater- nity that originated in Germany in 1614, they make further refer- ence to their unique doctrine of Ancient Rosicrucian Authority by
Inoculation through the modern methods of Blood Transfusion, as follows:
“The organization itself provided for its continuance through the transfer of authority from father to son on behalf of the original founders, and this transfer has been continued throughout the centuries and is a fundamental
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law of the organization to this day. (!) It has main- tained the authority and controlling operation of the or- ganization in each jurisdiction within the families of the preceding directors of the work, (!) or to those who have received such authority by the transfusion of blood or through the inheritance of the blood in as direct a line as possible. In the case of foreign jurisdictions being re- established, the leaders for such new cycles must be either descendants of some of the ancient rulers or must have a transfusion of blood to place them in the ‘blood line’ of authority or receive a special form of regeneration and rebirth in a spiritual sense. Each active father of the Or- ganization in each jurisdiction prepares and qualifies his successor long before the time of his transition.
‘It is interesting to note, therefore, that in Germany the direct line of succession has not been broken for many centuries, and the original archives, documents, papers, secret teachings, manuscripts and powers of authority have continued in an unbroken line to the very present Vea: «(| Oursitalicss)
Strange and Fantastic
We have seen that this strange, fantastic delusion or ridiculous hallucination of a delirious or disarranged imagination of a des- perate pseudo-Rosicrucian pretender has nothing to do with the authentic Rosicrucian Fraternity. However, Lewis must have been deeply impressed with his fantastic and grotesque invention of au- thority, fundamental laws and landmarks for his fraudulent R. C. business or else he relied a great deal upon the gullibility of his member-victims and the public, because this same odd doctrine of authority by blood transfusion and by descent from father to son in “blood line of authority,” as the basis of his fraternal swindle and the means of the perpetration thereof in his family from gen- eration to generation, was included in his propaganda pamphlet, The Light of Egypt'—‘The Strange Story of the Rosicrucians”— which, according to the Lewis version, is a “strange story”—
° The Rosicrucian Digest, November, 1930, p. 295. 1 Official Publication Number Fifteen, March, 1931, p. 23.
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strange and fantastic beyond all rhyme or reason.
It is interesting to note, according to these fantastic claims to Rosicrucian authority, that Mr. Lewis did not receive his ‘‘blood transfusion” from the royal veins of Recnartus—the fox—until the year 1930 or possibly 1929. Now, since one must have “‘the blood” to be an Imperator and to have the authority to open up an R. C. business, and Lewis did, not get in the “blood line of author- ity” until 1929 or 1930, the question naturally arises: Upon what authority did they operate their R. C. racket from the year 1915 A.D. to 1930 B.L. (blood line) ? The serious answer is that their authority before they entered the “blood line of authority’ was just as good as it has been since. They have never possessed any Rosicrucian authority at any time.
“Valuable Books and Manuscripts”
Well, we have seen how the Lewises acquired their ‘‘Rosicru- cian authority.’ In the same article we are told how the ‘Supreme International Council” works and how it supplies them with ‘“‘many valuable manuscripts and books” from which they get their ‘‘Rosi- crucian teachings.”’ It is in this way:
“. .. Gradually the various representatives of the Su-
preme Council of the Organization have come together im correspondence or in person to compare their plans and adjust their proposals. Copies of these transactions and the correspondence have come to us officially signed and sealed and often accompanied by governmental seals and attestations of high authority. Our own Supreme Secre- tary participated in a very important conclave in Ger- many during the early part of this year, and since then we have received many valuable manuscripts and books through the personal call of a legate for America who was appointed by the International Secretary in Europe.
“T wish that we could tell our members at the present time of the many valuable books, manuscripts and papers of rare teachings and marvelous knowledge that are now revealed to us and to the rest of the world from the ar-
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chives’ and ‘tomb’ of the original C. R.-C. foundations.
“Commerctialism and Misuse’
Many of these will be immediately translated and made available to members in various parts of the world, in- cluding our members in North America, but not until many other important matters are settled, beyond any dis- pute, for we must guard these new releases of teachings and knowledge very carefully and protect them from commercialism and misuse.* Many of these manuscripts and documents of rare instruction have been preserved for over three hundred years, waiting for this particular cycle and this very year, and the knowledge contained in them has never been given to others than the original founders of the Organization and their successors.’* (Italics ours. )
Again we note that the “correspondence” between the members of the ‘“‘Supreme Council’’ of this international band of pretenders is ‘‘officially signed and sealed” and “often accompanied by gov- ernmental seals and attestations of high authority.’ ‘This is be- coming a huge joke—it is so ridiculous—but it is or should be a serious matter for the Lewises. All this repeated ballyhoo about governmental seals and attestations, to bolster spurious documents and worthless papers, as we have shown, are Badges of Fraud, labeling a huge swindle which will some day become apparent even to governmental officials. |
Incidentally, it may be noted that this short excerpt from said article tends to sustain our charge and the charges of the members of AMORC that there is no such thing as the “International Coun- cil” and that the Lewises and their families have been spending the funds of the members principally on pleasure jaunts to Europe, under the false pretense of attending International Councils. This shows that they have spent part of their time and part of the mem- bers’ money in collecting from the book marts of Europe “old
2 That is, from library—Collegium Pansophia—of Recnartus.
3’This is remarkable! Think of the Lewises protecting anything from commercial- ism and abuse!
4 The Rosicrucian Digest, November, 1930, p. 296.
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manuscripts and books” from which they get part of the hodge- podge of their teachings.” However, as we have seen and shall further see, much of their time and the members’ money has been spent of recent years in Europe in vain endeavors and desperate attempts, in co-operation with other pretenders over there, to es- tablish in Germany, then in Belgium, an International Council.
The Infamous “Second Fama’ Modeled After the Original Famous Fama
The development of this story of the adventures of a fraternal racketeer and his contacts, relations and transactions with certain European (to say nothing of Hindu or Persian) pretenders is be- coming intriguing. It seems, after Lewis received the “blood trans- fusion” and entered “‘the blood line of authority,” that he had an- other hallucination—or shall we call it ‘‘an inspiration’? Well, anyway, he decided that the world was in a bad way, that he could save it and that what it needed most was a “Second Fama.’’ (Per- haps his racket needed it most of all, but we will pass that.) Ac- cordingly, he—the Most Perfect Master Profundis—and_ the scholarly and illuminated Recnartus set themselves to the task of _ the preparation of Lewis’ remarkable plan for the reformation of the world—and, incidentally, the consolidation, by invitation, but under, their control, of all the worthy fraternal organizations of the world.
After this master plan of Profundis had been drafted and duly ‘signed and sealed” by Recnartus, the Imperator of North Amer- ica conveyed the message of the “glad tidings of good things’’ to his deluded members and the gullible world in these words:
“What will probably interest all of our North Ameri- can members more than anything else is the fact that, after 316 years (which is equal to two [?] periods of 108 years), the original authority of the Rosicrucian or- ganization, which expressed itself through its representa- tive in the Famous ‘Fama’ that was published in 1614, now expresses itself again in its Second ‘Fama,’ issued in Europe in August, 1930, and to be published in all parts
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of the world before the close of the year 1930. This new ‘Fama,’ the second ever to be issued on behalf of the same high authority, is called a ‘Pronunziamento’ to all the world or, in other words, a message for all the world. It is divided into three parts and, like unto the original ‘Fama,’ presents a plan for the reformation of the WOTLA a eee
‘The issuance of this new ‘Fama’ is not a surprise to us or to our members. For several years we have an- nounced in our magazines and literature that a great re- vival and re-establishment of public activities of the or- ganization would take place during the year 1930. And some months ago we called attention to the fact that we were then anticipating (as if they didn’t know all about it) the public announcements that were sure to come from Europe in the presentayeat. >. 7
“Our printing department is busy at work in printing an English translation of the new ‘Fama’ in beautiful form so that one copy of it, at least, can be sent to every Secretary and every trusted officer or representative of our Organization. In this way its message will reach every member in due time. Within a year the message will have reached every possible seeker for Rosicrucian light in every part of the world. It will be followed by other important announcements and by a universal or world-wide conference® of all the present members of the International Rosicrucian Council.’ (All the italics
are ours. )
The “Second Fama’—A “Pronunziamento” The “Superb Message’ to All the World
The International Council of All Wisdom, 7.e., Pansophia, was not as successful as had been anticipated. The master plan for The Universal Reformation of the Whole World did not work so well,
6 We suppose that adverse circumstances deferred this conference until 1934 and that it was finally held in Brussels in 1934 when and where Fuposi, another fake council, was created.
7 The Rosicrucian Digest, November, 1930, pp. 295 and 296.
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and the ‘“‘Second Fama”’ was a complete failure in all of its de- signs, failing disastrously in all of its “noble” purposes, as we shall presently ascertain.
This document, with, its superb message of the ‘‘glad tidings of good things,” is now out of print and has been suppressed so far as is possible by the Lewises. Therefore, to the end that it may not be lost to posterity we have reproduced the title page, the con- cluding page (8) with the signatures and the back cover, giving a list of all the ‘Signatories to the International Rosicrucian Coun- cil by fac-simile reproductions,* and we shall reprint pages 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 so as to preserve its valuable (!) contents for succeeding generations. The well-designed front cover in white, red and black announces in hand lettering that it is a “Pronunziamento to All the W orld.” Following the title page (our Reproduction No. 47), the ‘Second Fama” is set forth on pages 3 to 7, both inclusive, as follows:
iI MANIFESTATIO
PACIS, TOLERANTIS, VERITAS: Insomnia Punctis ~ Triangulum: Salutem et Benedictio ad Omnis!
“THE GREAT SYNEDRIUM of the Brothers of the ANCIENT MYS- TIC ORDER ROSAE CRUCIS assembled on Mount Abiegno, inter- prets the ‘GREAT SIGN OF THE TIMES,’ revealed to them, as a com- mand to exert new efforts through concentrated spiritual forces, in order to overcome illusions, falsehood, lies, darkness, and dissension now controlling the souls of men.
“J. THE UNIVERSAL REFORMATION OF THE WHOLE WORLD pre- pared by the forces of light, working through the Brothers of the Rose Cross, enters into a new phase of manifest activity.
“2. The betterment of all things, the ennoblement of all hearts, the spiritualization of all lives, efforts made centuries ago, died in their in- ception through the personal limitations, self-imposed through egotism, and through the suppression of natural justice.
“3. The will of the illustrious Brothers of the Rose eae living in secret union with the ALL-WISDOM, 1.e. PANSOPHIA, is directed toward every soul reaching out to liberation, Light, Life and Love.
“4. The WORLD-SOUL, its order, its plan, its truth, can only be comprehended in the light of the universal harmony of all things; the
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GREAT CONCORDANCE taught by the Brothers of the Rose Cross is no illusion.
“5. The universal contempt for this vital law and the consequent aberration from the truth has caused in the manifest world all social evils and revolutions, all hatred and all destruction, even the destruction of human life.
“6. The healing of the nations, every aid, sure advice, immense _ treasures of active force, old crystallized experiences—all these things are stored up in the secret wisdom of the Brothers of the Rose Cross, to be given to all who sincerely seek at the Portal.
“7. Tilumination of the mind, ennoblement of the heart and per- fection of character are the tasks for the aspiring spirit; they are the inner and practical work leading to freedom and happiness of all think- ing Beings. (End of page 3.)
“8. The highest miracle of salvation of all mankind and of all things has been demonstrated in all its spiritual significance and prac- tical application in the Sanctuaries of the Brotherhood of the Rose Cross: indeed, it is one of the MysTIC ARCANA of the Brotherhood.
“9. All religions of the world, all beliefs, all arts and sciences, all national and political aims, all commercial and social problems, all ethical and personal views are truly founded, solved and harmoniously developed in the MAGNUM OPUS, which is worked upon by all initiates of the Rose Cross according to definite and certain rules.
“10. A new and better age, a new and happier civilization, a new and truly universal religion, a new and nobler culture, a new and greater humanity, united in love and knowledge, cannot come to pass without the full understanding of the true laws of pure reason, pure heart and pure will, as taught by the Brotherhood of the Rose Cross.
“11. Encompassed by superstitions, fanaticism, indifference, preju- dices, and sorrows—weighty factors that disturb the balance of human happiness—the path that leads to the lost Light in the center becomes rough, difficult, and well-nigh impassable to the aspirant.
“12. It is for these reasons that the Brotherhood of the Rose Cross has systematized its teachings, by degrees, to lead, slowly but surely, the weak and erring seeker upward to the heights of True Being; to become an Elect Iltuminated Spirit; to approach the pure Cosmic flame burning upon the altar in the Temple of the S.:.S.°.S.°.
“13. The Holiest Grail is open. The table of the Lord is spread. The gifts of the spirit await the needy. Justice, Wisdom and Love stand guard. The High Priests, bearing their insignia, the Rose and the Cross, bless all who seek, ask and knock sincerely.
“Blessings to you, also, my brother or sister! Pause in thy haste!
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Heed the Cosmic call! Seek what ye have lost! Pray for the right path! Knock at the right portal! Contemplate the Great Symbol: The hard, thorny Cross, with one glorious Red Rose— THEARGANA SAPIENTIAE Approach ye all! Then enter! (End of page 4)
NE INVITATIO
“The complete close union and authentic affiliation of the orders and societies which are signatories to this document shall become of important consequences to all other centers, lodges, orders, and brotherhoods work- ing in the true spirit of C. R.-C., yea, even to all human kind.
“2. Let this invitation go forward to each and every organization, be it ever so small, be it ever so distant, that works secretly or openly under the true symbol or name of the Rose Cross. We ask all of them to communicate with us.
“3, Hitherto the
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following ancient traditions, worked more or less secretly for centuries to improve the destinies of mankind collectively and individually.
“4. Por some years, however, the August Adepts have been inclined to work more openly and visibly. Taking advantage of this powerful impulse and publicity, numerous organizations throughout the world, during the past twenty-five years, have adopted a symbol and name similar to that of the true Rose Cross. So far, they have not been authorized by the one true, genuine ancient Order of the Rose Cross; their organizations and teachings are not in accord with the constitution and secrets of the true Order; indeed, they have no connection there- with. For behold, in the past the secret teachings of the Order of the Rose Cross were transmitted from father to son, from teacher to pupil, by private, personal instruction and never by printed public books.
“5. To the end that error and falsehood may not spread, also that worthy seekers of the Light now within the fold of the latter-day organizations and fraternities shall not be delayed and discouraged, the teachers and guardians of the secrets of the true Order of the Ross Cross have empowered certain competent persons and officials in Germany and America to undertake a purification of all these younger organizations which are truly longing for the genuine teachings of the Order of the Rose Cross. Though many organizations, there shall be but one Light,
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leading the aspirant to the higher degrees of the unified teachings of the Order of the Rose Cross with but one system of education and perfection for becoming a brother of the Rose Cross sanctioned by the ancient Mas- ters of the Order. (End of page 5.)
“6. You may know all true and genuine organizations of the Rose Cross by their name and the particular symbol used as its traditional seal: “A Cross, as the Wheel of the World (the sun-wheel) with “One seven-leaved red rose in the center;
or, for the higher degrees: “One forty-nine-leaved rose above the cross. -
“7. The true Order of the Rose Cross is ready to affiliate and recog- nize any movement or organization of correct Rosicrucian teachings, provided such organizations declare themselves in accord with the Mani- festatio, Invitatio and Proclamatio of this document, and are qualified to receive from us and to adopt as their own the above international seal of the true ancient Order of the Rose Cross, the one Red Rose with the wheel-cross, thus manifesting to the outside world that their affilia- tion has been completed.
“8. Each individual, group, society, lodge, order, nation or race, willing to work for the progress and happiness of Mankind in the true spirit of the Brotherhood of the Rose Cross, should send us his, her or its assent or dissent, together with relevant reasons, in order that possi- ble differences may be adjusted in Justice, Wisdom and Love, thereby guaranteeing a
WORLD CONFERENCE OF ALL RITES AND SYSTEMS OF THE ROSE CROSS to be called at some future date.
“The highest aim of the Brothers of the Order of the Rose Cross is the union of all brothers throughout the world for the good of all and each, knowing that its realization will bring us to the threshold of
AUREUM SAECULUM PATEFACTUM (Official correspondence may be in English, German or French.)
(End of page 6.) BEE: PROCLAMA TIO
In the Name of the Re-Initiator Amen
“The Brotherhoods and Orders, affiliated and united in the name, symbol and international seal of
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ANTIQUAE MysTICAE ORDO ROSAE CRUCIS (Ancient Mystic Order Rosae Crucis) proclaim herewith that: In constitution, laws, teachings, traditional aims and purposes they are identical with and perpetuate the original order, 1.e., the organization announced to the world by C. R.-C. as the
DEUTSCHEN ORDEN VOM ROSENKREUZ in the first public proclamation tn the seventeenth century, and that they prove it by the following keys:
“1. They trace their origin in a direct line to the old masters, the Fathers of the Brotherhood of the Rose Cross who founded the organi- zation centuries prior to the first public proclamation.
“2. They possess the original true teachings of the order, the esoteric as well as the exoteric.
“3. They are real, active institutions and as such are in actual con- tact with the secret, ever-active center of the innermost circle.
“4. They adhere in principle to the laws of the order, working to- ward the brotherhood of man, his ennoblement and spiritualization, and they put the truth above all religions.
“5. They employ their knowledge and power in the universal reformation of the world, both spiritual and material, to liberate the individual from personal limitations and to raise the soul to the con- scious oneness with the ALL-SOUL.
“6, They proclaim the great secret concordance of Spirit and Body, God and Man, Eternity and Time, etc., as necessary to all progress.
“7 They see in the ERGON AND PARERGON the two poles of all puls- ing life united in the Temple SPIRITUS SANCTUS of the Rose Cross as ALL-WISDOM PANSOPHIA.”’ (End of page 7.)
Paragraphs 8 to 12, both inclusive, of the “Proclamatio” and the conclusion of the ‘Second Fama,” with the signatures of Pro- ‘fundis and Recnartus, the authors and Re-initiators for the coming new age, are to be found in our fac-simile Reproduction No. 47A, which is page 8, and the concluding page of the “Second Fama.”
Preposterous Paronomasta
The ridiculous and extravagant play on words in the spurious “Second Fama,” the depraved purpose it was intended to accom- plish and its outstanding nature as a fraudulent device for the pro- motion of Lewis’ fraternal swindle are obvious—so obvious to all as to require no further comment. However, it is well to point out that, although Profundis “stole the show” from Recnartus and 1s-
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sued the ‘“‘Second Fama”’ in the name of the ANCIENT MysTIcaL ORDER RosAE Crucis (AMORC), the title of his American and International Masonic-Rosicrucian swindle, yet, nevertheless, he did mention the PANSOPHIA, the spurious and fabricated order of Brother Recnartus, because, you see, Pansophia was the continua- tion down to date of the original German Foundation of Father Christian Rosenkreutz, the source of his “blood line of authority” and the subterfuge around which he built his fake “International Rosicrucian Council of Berlin.”
It should also be noted that, although he used the spurious Col- legium and Societas Pansophia as the basis of his fake “Interna- tional Council’ and the blood of Brother Recnartus as the source of his authority, yet he—Profundis—as the Vice-President of the “International Council,’ proposed to be the “head man” of the international operations and to secure all benefits of the “Second Fama” for his own private fraternal racket. And “‘why should he not,” he reasoned? ‘‘Was it not his scheme and his fraudulent con- trivance to promote and sustain his own fraternal racket?” Cer- tainly. So, accordingly, he directed that: “All inquiries or pro- posals from persons or groups of persons receiving this copy of the document should be addressed ONLY to H. Spencer Lewis, F. R. C., Vice-President, International Council, AMORC Temple, San Jose, California, U.S. Av
Progress of International Council
The Lewises experienced considerable difficulty in keeping up appearances and in maintaining the plausible or apparent existence of their non-existing German or subterfuge International Council. The organizations which they started in Europe under their own spurious authority failed to prosper, and they could not maintain peace and harmony with the pretenders and charlatans with whom they schemed and whom they attempted to use for their own ends. This situation required much explaining and many propaganda ar- ticles during the years 1931 and 1932 to'keep the truth from be- coming known. At the close of 1932, in The Rosicrucian Digest,
9The “Second Fama” was not published in Europe—only by Lewis in English. The whole scheme went to pieces very quickly and never amounted to anything. See our Reproduction No. 47A for the above quotation.
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December, 1932, at pages 416 and 471, under the headlines of “/n Important Announcement from Europe,’ we find the Supreme Sec- retary (Ralph M. Lewis) explaining the difficult situation, as follows:
‘For several years we have stated from time to time in our publications that the various countries of Europe were having considerable difficulty in either reviving or maintaining the Rosicrucian activities which were so greatly upset during the World War period. The change in national boundaries, the elimination of some old coun- tries as independent nations and the creation of new alli- ances with new political controls, rules and regulations broke the former Rosicrucian map of Europe into so many dislocated segments that putting the pieces to- gether again is very much like trying to put together the pieces of a puzzle picture when a number of pieces are missing
‘England was fortunate enough to be the first to sys- tematize her work, and this was accomplished by the very keen mind of Grand Master Andrea. France, on the other hand, was not long in adjusting her affairs and in quickly establishing a harmonious alliance and association of her various districts, and today we find Grand Master Gruter’ in Southern France, in co-operation with his sec- retary in Paris, carefully working out the details of the future growth and development of the work in that coun- try. Sister Santi (mentioned in last month’s issue of the Digest) has evidently maintained a very definite organi- zation in the several countries under her jurisdiction, and some other countries of Europe are fairly well organized, while Russia is completely disorganized.
“The Difficulty in Germany”
“Germany, always a very enthusiastic Rosicrucian dis- trict, in association with Austria, which is now an inde- pendent jurisdiction under the International Secretary at
1 Grand Master Gruter is one of the expelled and discredited Masons heretofore referred to in Part I of this chapter.
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Vienna,’ has had considerable difhculty in recent years in re-establishing the unified system of Rosicrucianism which existed in her country before the war. All of the other countries of Europe have offered their services to Germany to enable her to reorganize her work with one hundred per cent efficiency, and out of the German Jjuris- diction has come many valuable manuscripts and very valuable contributions to the work, and many very rare and unusual archives and libraries of Rosicrucian manu- scripts and landmarks are still concealed within her boundaries.”
“The difficulty in Germany has been the growth and development of Neo-Rosicrucianism. Within the past ten years a number of unofficial Rosicrucian organizations have developed in her land, bringing confusion and dis- appointment to the seeker and the student alike. For some strange reason there has developed in Germany a large body of supposedly good-thinking men and women who have taken an atheistic viewpoint of all religious. matters, and the promulgation of these ideas has led to a host of persons who have organized various mystical socie- ties promulgating anti-religious and truly pagan ideas. Some of these organizations have been bold enough to call themselves Rosicrucian, and some of them have bor- dered so closely on Bolshevik political lines as to become obnoxious to the German Government and dishearten- ing to the true Rosicrucians who have remained in the background, silent and bewildered.”’
The German Swan Song
This, as we shall soon understand, was the beginning of the German swan song. The revival of the original German Rose Cross was a subterfuge, pure and simple, from the beginning. The International Council Pansophia, with seat in Berlin, had been a miserable failure, and the “Second Fama” had failed to produce
2 The International Council of Berlin failed, so in 1932 the International Secretary is located in Vienna, Austria.
° Profundis did not succeed in getting all the books, manuscripts and landmarks of Recnartus, so we are told that there are many still concealed in Germany.
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the desired result. There had to be some excuse for all these fail- ures. The excuse is as given above: “The growth and develop- ment of Neo-Rosicrucianism’’; spurious orders, anti-religious and pagan ideals and Bolshevism in Germany, which, of course, pre- vented Lewis from reviving the true and ancient Order. Those who had contributed the funds for the revival of the ‘True Ger- man Foundation,” of course, found the foregoing explanation en- tirely satisfactory. It had to be. It was the only “way out” for the Lewises.
Finally, in the March issue, 1933, of The Rosicrucian Digest, page 60, the Supreme Secretary, writing under the title of “The German Rosicrucian Situation,’ concluded the German swan song and gave the final explanation, as follows:
‘So many hundreds of our members in North America are interested in the progress and development of the re- organization of Rosicrucianism in Germany that we feel that it is necessary to make some announcement regarding the present situation of the developments. ‘The several different Rosicrucian societies that have existed in Ger- many during the past twenty-five years as a result of the silent period of the Internationa] Brotherhood are still contending that each and every one of them is ready to carry on the revival of the true Order for its next cycle of activity.* This is the same confusion that has existed for a long time, much to the regret of every Rosicrucian student born in Germany. In Austria there is no such con- fusion, and at the present time we are unable to make any definite announcement regarding a definite plan instituted in the German jurisdiction. We are not anxious to do more than lend a helping hand and assist to some extent in a financial way, and we have no desire to usurp any of the power and authority of competent Rosicrucian leader- ship in Germany. We have organized among German- speaking persons, especially those born in Germany and now living here in America, a committee known as a Ger-
+It is of supreme importance that the reader should refer to what was said on this very subject in The Rosicrucian Digest for August, 1930, where it is definitely stated that there is but ome organization calling itself Rosicrucian in Germany, etc. Read this and compare and be enlightened.
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man Advisory Council to assist us in translating the cor- respondence from Germany and in making recommenda- tions. If each of the present Rosicrucian societies in Germany can establish its rights to the successorship of the International Organization for the new period, we shall be happy to meet its requests for our continued help and fraternal co-operation. More in this regard will be published or announced when there is something of inter- est to all of our members.” (Italics are ours.)
International Connection Doubted Members of AMORC Were Raising Serious Questions
The explanations had not explained sufficiently. The German propaganda and the “Pansophia International Council” had failed, hence at the beginning of the year 1933 we find many of the mem- bers of AMORC dissatisfied and entertaining serious doubts as to Lewis’ Rosicrucian authority and international connection with the Rosy Cross. In an article in the Rosicrucian Forum, page 133, a publication for AMORC members only, we find Imperator H. Spencer Lewis attempting to allay their fears, to satisfy their doubts, by explaining “Our International Connections,” as follows:
‘It does seem peculiar to have to go into this subject again, but I am going to save our various departments a lot of correspondence and perhaps set a lot of our mem- bers straight again by dealing with this subject once more.
‘Certain rumors are afloat to the effect that some time between 1930 and the present time the AMORC in North America was dissociated with the International Rosicrucian Order and with the various ancient branches of Rosicrucianism in Germany, France, England and many other countries.
‘All of these stories and rumors are absolutely false, unfounded and undoubtedly made with malicious intent, as I shall point out in a moment. In 1930 we issued a pamphlet in which we listed, for the benefit of our officers and special representatives throughout North America, the various jurisdictions affliated with the International
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Rosicrucian Organization. For the sake of those mem- bers who naturally had no access to this pamphlet’ and to whom it would not come because of its special nature, I will read here again the list of those International Juris- dictions that constitute the International Order and are ‘Signatories’ to the International Rosicrucian Council. They are the jurisdictions of Germany, Northern France, Southern France, Austria, Great Britain, Canada, Scan- dinavia, Belgium, Greece, Egypt, India, Gold Coast, West Africa; Nigeria, West Africa; Russia and North- ern China, Southern China, Australasia, Dutch East In- dies, Hawaii, Central America, Chile, Argentine, British Guiana, the Antilles and the Spanish countries of South America and Mexico and the jurisdiction of North Amer- ica, including Alaska.
“The AMORC of North America is a part of all of these other jurisdictions by affiliation and by membership in the International Council. The AMORC of North America has not been lessened in its contact, afhliation, recognition or support one degree so far as these other jurisdictions are concerned, despite any statements to the contrary. The AMORC still uses and has every right to use the international seal and emblem on its documents, and is from time to time being called upon to vote upon international matters on equal standing with every one of the other old-time recognized Rosicrucian organizations of the jurisdictions mentioned above. Nor has the Impera- tor or a single officer of the Order of AMORC in North America been suspended or dethroned in any degree of membership, recognition or support by these other for- eign jurisdictions, despite any statement to the contrary.
‘“A new Fama will be issued some time soon, by author- ity of the International Council, in which all of these statements will be made again.”’
By the beginning of 1933 the Lewises had abandoned all hopes of convincing their credulous members and even the gullible public that an International Council really existed. Accordingly, they
- >The pamphlet referred to is the “Second Fama,” and the list of members given
here are the same as those shown in our Reproduction No. 47B.
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were laying their plans for the formation of the International Council Fuposi and the Congress at Brussels in Belgium, 1934, which has been discussed in Part One, supra, and further discussed in the next part of this chapter. The “New Fama” referred to by Lewis was issued by the Fuposr at the Congress of Brussels.°
Continuing in the same article on pages 133 and 134 in his at- tempt to expel all doubts as to his Rosicrucian authority, which was being so seriously questioned by his members, he explains that:
RARE DOCUMENTS PROVE THESE PACTS
“Very fortunately the Supreme Secretary, who is at the present time (February 17, 1933) on a lecture tour throughout the whole United States with talking moving pictures, has with him a very rare bound volume of inter- national correspondence plus a leather pouch containing the most valuable Rosicrucian charters and papers ever gathered together in one jurisdiction; and, very fortu- nately for thousands of our members, he refers to these documents and papers in his lectures and offers to spread — them out on a table for close examination and study at the close of each one of his lectures, and up to the present time thousands of our members have seen them, read them and discussed them. These papers and documents constitute indisputable proof of the existence, activity, lineage and history of all of the jurisdictions mentioned above. They contain not only the seals of these foreign jurisdictions, but the seals of the officials of the country in which they were issued, and the seals of the United States Consulars living in those countries attesting to the genuineness of all the other seals and signatures on them. There are letters from the highest Rosicrucian officers of all parts of the world addressed to the Imperator and other officers of the AMORC, bearing indisputable seals and signatures, with the envelopes attached, and with other means of unquestionable verification. These show
the high esteem in which the AMORC of North Amer-
6 See our Reproduction No. 48 and the complete text of this “New Fama” in Part Four of this chapter.
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Imperator and to AMORC generally.
“Exhibited’—It Is a Trick!
“These same documents have been exhibited for three or four years to all of the members attending the Inter- national Conventions here in San Jose, and at each con- vention the members have had the privilege of copying the confidential names of the representatives of these foreign jurisdictions and cabling to them, even at our ex- pense if necessary, for verification of the statements contained in them. The good Brother who made the valuable chest that was given to us at our last convention actually wrote to each and every one of these foreign branches, asking for pieces of wood to be sent to him for the chest; and he preserved all of the Rosicrucian corre- spondence that came to him in connection with that mat- ter written on Rosicrucian stationery and bearing Rosi- crucian seals from all of these foreign lands, and this cor- respondence he bound into a book which is shown here to our members freely whenever any question regarding our foreign connections is made an issue.”’
We have selected and quoted the foregoing excerpts from Lewis’ voluminous, bombastic and verbose writings relating to their alleged international relations with other Rosicrucian Orders, their sham International or World Councils, the sources of their spuri- ous Rosicrucian authority and the proof (?) thereof, because they embrace and contain the gist of their sham and fraudulent claims. They are fine examples of typical Lewistonian falsified propaganda and exaggerated ballyhoo. In these excerpts, as well as others quoted in this work, the reader may see for himself the false foun- dation upon which they have constructed their house of cards and built their temple of the Golden Calf from which they carry on their fraternal racketeering and fraudulent operations.
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Pansophia Abandoned
An American representative of the German Society, Pansophia had located in California who was threatening to make inroads upon Lewis’ membership, which could easily have been accom- plished in view of the fact that Lewis had previously claimed the “Societas Pansophia” was closely allied with AMORC and was a member of the Pansophia International Council of Berlin.’ Mr. Lewis is very jealous of his membership; they supply the Royal Revenues for his Family Racket... Therefore, to head off any possi- ble inroads being made upon his membership by an American branch of said German organization, in the same article, on pages 334 and 335, he denounced ‘‘Pansophia’ in this fashion and in these words:
SPANSOPEHITA..
‘‘Why is any question being raised as to AMORC’s in- ternational connections? I will tell you why. It is because a group of occult students in Germany who were not ad- mitted into the International Council of Rosicrucians as a part of the Rosicrucian Order are now anxious to form a Rosicrucian organization of their own, and they have la- beled it with the name Pansophia and called themselves the Society of Pansophia. Some of them were Rosicru- cian students and some were not. There are many socie- ties in Europe, the members of which are also members of the Rosicrucian Order, but this would not make their small, individual societies a part of Rosicrucianism. Many of the world’s leading Theosophists are members of the Rosicrucian Order, and in some countries groups of Theosophists have formed a Rosicrucian circle in their cities or towns for the purpose of studying Rosicrucian- ism as members of the Rosicrucian Order. This would not make their little group of Rosicrucian students a branch of Theosophy. In some cities Theosophical stu- dents and Rosicrucian students have formed a mutual study group and called themselves Theosophical stu- dents, but because they were also Rosicrucians would not
7 See our Reproduction No. 47 and the “Second Fama.”
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make their little circle or their little group an official part of Rosicrucianism. Pansophia in Germany has perhaps one hundred or more students. It is trying to spread its work into America under its own name of Pansophia, but one or two who are trying to help it grow in this country are misrepresenting it to our members and to others by claiming that Pansophia is a recognized part of the Rosi- crucian Order. It positively is not a part of the Interna- tional Rosicrucian Order, nor even of the recognized Rosicrucian Order of Germany. We have here in our files a definite letter in definite words written by one of the officials of the Pansophian Society, stating that it is not a part of the International Rosicrucian Order and most certainly not a part of the work of AMORC, and anyone representing the Pansophian Society making a statement contrary to this is simply misrepresenting both organi- zations.
‘The study of Pansophia has no relationship to Rosi- crucianism. It is a philosophy and a spiritualistic study that has no practical application to the everyday affairs of life and no purpose except that of the intellectual study of philosophy. Even the philosophy itself is not broadly philosophical, but limited to certain subjects of a very involved nature, difficult for English-speaking per- sons and especially those living outside of the German Empire or Republic to understand. We are not saying this by way of criticism of Pansophia, for it may be per- fectly satisfactory for some-people of Germany, but we are saying it in justice to our own organization and in fairness to those English-speaking persons who may be tempted to take up the study with the thought that it is a broad and complete occult philosophy. As soon as we find that the North American representatives and a few students of Pansophia living in North America will dis- continue trying to give the impression that Pansophia is a part of Rosicrucianism, we will discontinue our comments as to the difference between the two, for we do not wish to quarrel over such an unimportant matter, nor do we wish to continue being placed in a position where we
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must make comparisons or criticisms.”
Here we have another impressive example of how Lewis em- braces and even praises organizations, genuine and spurious alike, when he finds use for them in the promotion of his fraternal racket and Masonic-R. C. swindle and how quickly and readily he de- nounces them when those same organizations threaten to make in- roads upon his membership. The reader will recall his similar action with reference to Female or Co-Masonry shown in Part Two a few pages back in this chapter. Such insincere, inconsistent and unstable conduct tells its own story too plainly to be mistaken or misunderstood. Such action on his part is one of the many Badges of Fraud which label and earmark his swindling operations.
Pansophia—“Out the Window”
Following a propaganda article concerning the revival of the “ancient R. C. Order” in Belgium, “building up” for and prepara- | tory to the Congress of Brussels and the formation of another In- ternational Council, the Lewises finally disposed of the ‘“Interna- tional Council of Berlin,” the ‘Second Fama”’ and Brother Rec- nartus by making an announcement printed in a box in The Rosi- crucian Digest, April, 1933, page 92, as follows:
PANSOPHIA
“We wish to advise all of our members that the so- called Pansophia society, a new and recently promulgated movement from Europe, has absolutely no connection with the Rosicrucian Order anywhere in the world. Its teachings are not Rosicrucian, but wholly unrelated and unimportant to any Rosicrucian student; and any claims that the AMORC of North America or other lands is a part of the Pansophia movement are absolutely errone- ous, as proved by correspondence from the officials of Pansophia. Misinformed persons are being misled by the exaggerated statements of a few enthusiasts who seek to
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separate some of our members from their present studies and lead them into something that does not have the slightest connection with the teachings, aims and purposes of our organization.”
With “Pansophia” thrown out of the window, with all bridges burned and with all previous “International Councils” abject fail- ures, the Lewises devoted their time, energy and propaganda and incidentally spent the funds of AMORC tto establish for them- selves and their fraternal racket and Masonic-Rosicrucian swin- dle, a brand-new “International Council”? of ‘incontestable and unquestionable authority.”
The spurious Masonic-Rosicrucian Congress of Brussels, 1934, which we considered in Part One of this chapter, supra, was the result of their efforts, and the Fuposi was the sham by-product of that illegitimate and notoriously irregular congress of clandestin- ism, which we shall now consider in Part Four immediately fol- lowing.
Notes on Reproduction No. 46
Translation of “Important Rosicrucian Document No. 3”
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Mr. Lewis says: ‘‘. . . and, therefore, this charter is absolutely unique and unequaled in authenticity and unquestionable integrity.” (Our italics.) The translation of this “important” (?) document reveals its “uniqueness” as a charter and shows unquestionably “the unequaled authenticity and unquestionable integrity’ of Lewis’ spurious claims to Rosicrucian authority—to say nothing of the
integrity of his statements and representations:
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This charter (?), freely translated, is as follows:
GREAT FRATERNITY OF THE ROSE AND CROSS, GOLDEN AND STRONG ORDER ECCLESTASTIGARs (ChURGE:
STATUS SUPREME CONSISTORY M(agnum) S(odalitium) R(osea)
C(rucis) A(ures) and V(ires)
O(rdo) E(cclesia)
S(to)
Royal Art and Body of the (3 Omni) |
Hermetic Science Trinity and Rose Cross
THE DanisH ROSE AND Cross ee BROTHERHOOD
Copenhagen—Light! Life! Love!—Denmark (Great Fraternity of the Rose and Cross, Golden and Strong)
Our Greetings With 3-Pointed Triangle, Rose and Cross PYTHAGORA. Kine Numa****
Under Rose and Cross: “By this Certificate and Diploma, the Undersigned, the Rosicrucian Grand Master, Basil Valentinus, as the supreme authority for the mentioned Order and Broth- erhood, by virtue of its charter, certifies: This day we have admitted the worthy and very enlightened Brother of the Rose and Cross, Spencer Lewis, of San Jose, Cali- fornia, as a corresponding (honorary) Brother and faithful Prior Member of our Order’s Brotherhood. Copenhagen, Denmark (Date Deleted) Under our hand and seal. (Signed) BaAstt VALENTINUS, Rosicrucian Grand Master.” Seals of the Order and Brotherhood. COMPARE THE FOREGOING CERTIFICATE OF HONORARY MEMBER- SHIP WITH THE FOLLOWING SfTATEMENT MADE BY LEWIS CONCERN- ING THIS, his:
8Jt is to be borne in mind that Mr. Lewis emphatically claims in all his literature and advertising that AMORC is Nor a religious organization.
FAC-SIMILE REPRODUCTION No. 46
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IMPORTANT ROSICRUCIAN DOCUMENT No. 3 (Reproduced from The Rosicrucian Digest, October, 1933, p. 357.) Observe the signature of Mr. Lewis in the left margin and note particularly that
he claims to be a ninety-seventh degree Mason of the Rite of Memphis-Mizraim. See notes and translation on opposite page.
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IMPORTANT ROSICRUCIAN DOCUMENT No. 3
“The above is a photographic reproduction of one of the most important and interesting charters ever issued in foreign countries to any organization in North Amer- ica. It was issued by the ‘Suprenum Consistorium Rosae Crucis’ at its Sovereign Sanctuary and Collegium for Ger- many and parts of Scandinavia. The charter is issued through the authority originally granted by the Venerable Grand Master, Christian Rosenkreutz, representing the original German jurisdiction of the famous Rosenkreut- zers. It authorizes:’ H. Spencer Lewis, KH. RavC* son North America, to represent the original German Foun- dation of Rosicrucianism and assures him of the co-opera- tion of all of the existing officers of the true Rosicrucian organization in Germany. It makes the Rosicrucian Or- der of North America a recognized and empowered branch of the only true and original Rosicrucian Order of the world and carries with it the power and authority through an unbroken line of succession in the Hierarchy of the fraternity. Such a charter has never been issued to any other individual or organization in any part of North America and, therefore, this charter is absolutely unique and unequaled in authenticity and unquestionable integrity.” (The Rosicrucian Digest, October, 1933, open)
and judge for yourself of the “unequaled authenticity” of his Ro- sicrucian authority to operate his fraudulent R. C. Order and the ‘unquestionable integrity” of his false representations, promo- tional propaganda and over-inflated ballyhoo.
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Internationales Hauptquartier von Obersten Rat des Alten Mys- tischen Ordens Rosae Crucis
International Headquarters of the Supreme Council of the Ancient Mystic Order Rosae Crucis
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Berlin. Germany
(tend E20 Official Communication to all Humanity