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Issued through the United Organizations of the Rose Cross
ANCIENT MystTicaL Orper Rosat Crucis (AMORC) BROTHERHOOD OF THE Rose Cross FRATERNITATIS HERMETICA LUCIS Orpo TEmMPLt ORIENTIS CoLLEGIUM PANSOPHIA SOcIETAS PANSOPHIA
This 1s the Second Official FAMA issued by the Original Fraternity Rosae Crucis since the Seventeenth Century
This is the title page of the “SEconD Fama,” issued from Berlin, Germany, 1930, by the International Headquarters of Supreme Council of AMORC composed of Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC) and Brotherhood of the Rose Cross, one and the same, represented by Lewis, i.e., Profundis, and Fraternitatis Hermetica Lucis and the Ordo Templi Orientis (O. T. O.), one and the same; the Collegium Pan- sophia and Societas Pansophia, one and the same, represented by Franker, i.e., Recnartus. This document is “absolutely unique and unequaled in authenticity” and issued by two pseudo-occultists of “unquestionable integrity.” See preceding text.
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8. They seek to bring to recognition the philosophy of the Brothers of the Rose Cross as the Alpha and Omega, the foundation and content of all sciences, arts, laws, order, and manifestations of world-life.
9. They admit that the highest aims of the Brotherhood of the Rose. Cross at the present age can only be attained by a few; however, they declare it can be of great wisdom and benefit to strive for such attainment within the order.
10. They know the perfect construction of the Magnum @pus; they pos- sess all plans to the Lapis Philosophorum; and they offer, without deceit or fal- sity, the Summum Bonum to the whole world.
11. They have wonderful inner schools and grades of instruction and illumination for everybody; they make no distinction in race, faith, place, age. or sex. ALL comes from the ONE; ALL goes to the ONE; Alone through the ONE.
12. They announce by this outer symbol, sign, and seal, to all other fel- lowships, that they are the true and only heirs to the all-embracing wisaem, ine SApsterium Magnum,and to the NEW FORMULA of the AUGUST HOLY INITIATOR OF THE PLANET
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The English version of this document, accompanied by an official copy of the original, duly signed and sealed, was delivered into my hands by the Legate representing the International Secretary, with an Authorization to have it printed and distributed among English speaking nations.
All inquiries or proposals from fersons or groups feceiving this copy of the document should be addressed only to: H. SPENCER LEWIS, F. Rc Vice-Pres., International Council, AMORC TEMPLE, San Jose. Caine
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This is the concluding page (8) of the “SEconD FAMA” by Profundis and Recnartus and published November, 1930, by H. Spencer Lewis as a fraudulent device to pro- mote his fraternal swindle. Note the Masonic seals of Profundis Vice-President and Recnartus as the “unknown head or chief” of the International Supreme Council. Fra Recnartus signs “In the Bonds of the Order,” 33°, 90°, 96° Masonic Rite M.-M. and X° of the O. T. O.* This is a remarkable Pronunziamento for the salvation of the World and all the inhabitants thereof by a unique Masonic-R. C. pretender and an unscrupulous Masonic-R. C. racketeer.
* Note the Masonic seal which precedes the signature.
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SIGNATORIES TO THE INTERNATIONAL ROSICRUCIAN COUNCIL
Jurisdiction Jurisdiction Jurisdiction Jurisdiction Jurisdiction Jurisdiction Jurisdiction Jurisdiction Jurisdiction Jurisdiction Jurisdiction Jurisdiction Jurisdiction Jurisdiction Jurisdiction Jurisdiction Jurisdiction Jurisdiction Jurisdiction Jurisdiction Jurisdiction Jurisdiction Jurisdiction
of Germany,
of Northern France,
of Southern France,
of Austria,
of Great Britain,
of Canada,
of Scandinavia,
of Belgium,
of Greece,
of Egypt,
of India,
of Gold Coast, West Africa, of Nigeria, West Africa,
of Russia and Northern China, of Southern China,
of Australasia,
of Dutch East Indies,
of Hawaii,
of Central America,
of Chile,
of Argentina,
of British Guiana,
of The Antilles, the Spanish Coun-
tries of South America, and Mexico,
Jurisdiction
This is the last cover page of the “SEconp Fama,” setting forth the alleged “Signa- tories” who never signed a covenant forming this mystical, non-existent International Rosicrucian Council that vouches for the “unquestionable” authenticity (!) of Lewis’ fraternal swindle. See text. We shall now proceed with the consideration of the Fupos!, the latest fraudulent device for the perpetuation of the notorious Lewistonian
Masonic-Rosicrucian fraud.
of North America, including Alaska, and others
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UNIVERSAL FEDERATION—F-U-D-O-S-I
“Eminent” Council of Self-Constituted Authority
Maintaining the business of a fraternal racket at high efficiency as a money-making project and supply it—a spurious Masonic- R. C. fabrication—with important documents having the appear- ance of charters and universal, international and world-wide councils to make a plausible showing of authority, regularity and authenticity is a matter of eternal vigilance.
The Lewises were not long in reaching the conclusion that their alliance with “Recnartus,”’ his Societas and Collegium Pansophia and their International R. C. Council of Berlin could not and would not stand the test of scrutiny, for reasons that have been made obvious in Part Three, supra. Hence we find them in Belgium reviving their ‘‘ancient Rosicrucian Order” in that country. In 1931 or 1932, with the aid of Lawyer Jean Mallinger, the rapid-growth Mason,' and his ‘‘adepts,”’ they created the Rose Croix University of Belgium. The reason and the necessity for the creation of this so-called Rose Croix University, in the Lewis scheme, will pres- ently become apparent. It was in the beginning of 1933 that they began the outward process of “the bringing forth from silence into public activity” of their “ancient and mystic” device in Belgium.
In the same issue of their magazine in which they made the announcement repudiating and denouncing ‘‘PANsoPHIA,” quoted a few pages back in Part Three, they made a partial announcement of the results that had been accomplished by their scheming and contriving with the Masons of Belgium and notably with Jean Mallinger. The impressive method to be used for the making of this “interesting announcement” was very cunningly planned and effectively executed. It was arranged for the “Venerable Master and Dean of the Universitaire’ and JEAN MALLINGER, “secretary of the Rosicrucian Order in Belgium,” to write Imperator H.
1 See the French exposé of Mallinger’s clandestine Masonic activities and his rapid rise to the highest positions and great honors thereof in Part One of this chapter, pp. 242 to 255, supra.
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Spencer Lewis imposing letter-like documents, under stately seals, © to be the harbingers of the great revival and coming-forth process of the order in Belgium, which the Lewises claim “is of very old lineage and establishment,’ that is to say, fabricated in 1931 to 1934, anno Domini.
They had made a dismal failure of the revival of their ancient and mystic device in Germany, so with that impressive and bitter experience fresh in mind, they planned as aforesaid, with greater cunning and devised a different method of announcement. .The arrangement was, as aforesaid, that Jean Mallinger, the “Mason of 33 degrees of the Egyptian Masonic Rites,’’ and the Venerable Master and Dean of the University—an innocent puppet under the deceptive control of Mallinger—should make the announcement of the results of their scheming and that the Lewises would use the letters as the basis of their announcement to their credulous mem- bers and the gullible victims they hoped to ensnare. Accordingly, they published a fac-simile of parts of these letters’ as the “‘tangible evidence”’ for their announcement in America. Only a small portion of each letter is reproduced; however, the signature to each is sealed with a Masonic seal and the letter of John Mallinger is under the seal of the Rite of Memphis-Mizraim.
The announcement was made by Ralph M. Lewis, the Grand Secretary, in The Rosicrucian Digest for April, 1933, at pages 90, 91 and 92 as follows:
ANOTHER INTERESTING DOCUMENT
OUR MEMBERS WILL BE INTERESTED IN THIS COMMUNICATION FROM BELGIUM
BY THE GRAND SECRETARY
“In the latter part of January just past we received another inter- esting and important document from Europe. Because of the interest shown in previous documents from foreign countries and announced in The Rosicrucian Digest, we are warranted in believing that our members will be greatly interested in this recent one.
“This new communication and document consists of a letter writ- ten by the Secretary of the Rosicrucian Order in Belgium, which is
2 The Rosicrucian Digest, April, 1933, p. 91. See our Reproduction No. 48A for a fac-simile of these letters as exhibited by Lewis in connection with his propaganda article on the resurrection of his AMORC and the Rose Croix University in Belgium.
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of very old lineage and establishment. ‘The Secretary is an Advocate in the Court of Appeals in Brussels and holds the 33rd degree of the Egyptian Masonic Rites as well as high degrees of the Rosicrucian Fraternity. The letter is accompanied by a document signed by the Venerable Master of the Order in Belgium, who is also the Dean of the Rose Croix University in Brussels.
“Both are addressed to our Imperator, H. Spencer Lewis, and both express the high appreciation of the officials and members of the Order in Belgium for the work being done by the AMORC in North America and state that after having analyzed our work and known of our activities for many years they desire to express their affiliation with the International Organization, of which we are a part, and become in Europe our American representatives and co- workers. The letter from the Venerable Master and Dean of the Universitaire closes with the statement, ‘We would be very honored to collaborate in the activities of AMORC, and I send you our sen- timents of greatest respect and devotion.’
“The letter from the Secretary reads in part as follows: ‘For some time we have been operating in this country very quietly and SUB ROSA. We now desire to extend our activities in a wider and more public manner, and we will be honored to enter into regular reports with our brethren in North America. We would be very greatly honored to be accorded your representation in Belgium.”
(Our italics. )
The Scheme Revealed
Here we have, with the slight variation of method herein before noted, the same typical propaganda with which the Lewises have introduced all of their schemes and prepared the way for their execution. These typical methods and this distinctive Lewistonian type of preparatory propaganda always reveal their schemes and are—as we have repeatedly pointed out—one of the distinguishing Badges of Fraud of their family racket and fraternal swindle. Let us pay particular heed to this suave, fulsome, vaunting praise and braggadocio concerning their own importance—the superior stand- ing of AMORC, how other orders are seeking affiliation with it, the great work it has accomplished and, of course, the unusual, most interesting and important document just received. Note the studied effort to build the myth of greatness and superiority around their confederates and co-schemers. They introduce the propaganda by saying that, because the members have shown so much interest
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in sO many important, interesting and unusual documents, they are quite sure they will be interested in another. As usual, these letters, called documents, are addressed to “Our Imperator.”’ Indeed, the one shown is addressed to ““The August Thrice Illustrious Spencer Lewis, Imperator,’’* and express high appreciation of the officials, the Lewis family, of the work done by the AMORC, and the desire of their Belgian confederates to affiliate with the “International Or- ganization,’ of which the Lewises are a part—indeed, the major part.
Like their own recent fabrication, the order in Belgium that they are bringing forth “‘is of very old lineage and establishment,”’ and the Secretary, who writes with such ringing praise of the Lewises and their fabrication, is a man of great importance in Brussels. He is ‘‘an Advocate in the Court of Appeals.’ That sounds big and important, but in reality there is nothing extraordinary about it. After all, he is just a lawyer and lawyers are permitted to practice in the Court of Appeals. The Secretary, Jean Mallinger, “holds the 33rd degree of the Egyptian Masonic Rites.” It will be recalled that from 1933 to 1934 he advanced very rapidly in Masonry of the clandestine and spurious variety.*. Here we note another of the numerous attempts of H. Spencer Lewis to use Masonry to bolster his fraternal racket.
“Venerable” and “Sub Rosa’
The Master of the Order is Venerable’ and being of great learn- ing is the “Dean of the Rose Croix Universities.”’ There seems to be more than one. ©
Now, observe that it is this Venerable Master and Dean® and the unusual Masonic Secretary who make known their fervent desire to be associated with Lewis, to become active and to be the representatives of AMORC in Belgium.
As we follow through, we shall see the manner in which the
3 See top letter in our Reproduction No. 48A.
4 See Part One of this chapter, pp. 242 to 225, supra.
5 Later on we shall see how he became the Venerable Imperator of Europe. See The Rosicrucian Digest, November, 1934, p. 376.
6 Later on we shall reveal the identity of the “Venerable Master and Dean” and show, although he is a good man, that he is a weakling and only a puppet in the hands of Lewis and Mallinger.
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Lewises and their Lawyer-Masonic friend contrive to bring AMORC of Belgium out of silence into public activity. The prop- aganda continues:
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“The reference to their operations in a quiet, SUB ROSA manner implies that the Belgian organization has been passing through its silent period and is now ready for the outer revival and activities that come to each jurisdiction at certain periods of its history. For many years we have known of the quiet Rosicrucian power that existed in Belgium. One hundred years ago or more and several centuries before that the activities of Rosicrucianism in Belgium were intense and of international value. While many who are not in- itiates of the organization labored under the belief that Rosicrucian- ism had passed out of existence in Belgium, we knew from the tra- ditions of the Order and its rules and regulations that this was not so and that where the greatest silence is there may be the greatest power. Some years ago one of their most active members and leading lights, Fra Witteman, who is a Senator in the Belgian Senate, wrote a complete history of the Rosicrucian Order’ in French and in Dutch. In this history, which became a standard reference book throughout the world, the AMORC of North America was given a very high place with high recommendations. The issuance of that book tended to offset many of the erroneous impressions regarding international Rosicrucianism and the existence of the Order in many countries prior to the popular revival in Germany in 1614. It also clearly established the connection of Sir Francis Bacon with the or- ganization and many other eminent characters and proved the exist- ence of Rosicrucian manuscripts and the operation of Rosicrucian Lodges and Chapters in Europe as far back as the twelfth and ear- lier centuries.
“We knew by the issuance of that book that the Rosicrucian or- ganization in Belgium was on the verge of coming forth from its public inactivity, but we could make no announcement until the officials in Belgium were ready to make such an announcement, and we are happy to be the first in this country to make the matter a subject of public knowledge.” (Our italics. )
The Silent Pertod—Outer Revival
Just as Lewis brought forth his own fabrication in America,
7 This “history” of the Rosicrucian Order is on a parity with the “authentic and complete” history of the Order written by Lewis. Neither is reliable or trustworthy— both are without merit as historical Rosicrucian documents.
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after a long period of silence, so also he schemed to bring forth the spurious and fabricated AMORC of Belgium by bringing it forth from its ‘“‘silent period” into “outer revival and activities.” This is his favorite method, often employed, to introduce his frau- dulent devices and to set up his fabrications as going concerns. It will be recalled that he was not so successful with his German revival of the Original Foundation and it will be observed that he, in the article quoted, abandons the German Foundation as the original source of Rosicrucian authority, citing the spurious Rosi- crucian historical work of Fra Wittemans as sustaining his early erroneous contentions that Rosicrucian Lodges and Chapters ex- isted in Europe prior to 1614, when the Rosicrucian Order was founded in Germany and ‘‘as far back as the twelfth and earlier centuries.’’* No doubt Lewis collaborated with Wittemans in writ- ing that “history,” because it contains the Lewistonian fiction of _international councils’ and gives AMORC of North America “a very high place with high recommendations.”
Of course, and to be sure, the Lewises knew by the issuance of that “history” book that the Rosicrucian organization in Belgium was on the “‘verge of coming forth from its public inactivities,”’ and although there was no Rosicrucian Order there, yet the Lewises knew from the traditions and rules and regulations that it was there, but, of course, they ‘“‘could make no announcement until the officials of Belgium were ready to make such announcement.” How- ever, they were very happy to be the “first in this country to make the matter a subject of public knowledge” in 1933. All of which seems very strange to us, because, in 1930, Lewis announced the “Belgium Jurisdiction” as one of the “Signatories” to his Interna- tional Rosicrucian Council.*° That was a lapse of memory—he for- got that he had publicly announced the activities of the “Belgium Jurisdiction” three years before in this country and here, in this new propaganda, he has them begging to be made their representa- tive in Belgium and expressing their desire to affiliate with the
8 Occult orders existed in Europe, Egypt and Asia for many centuries that were amalgamated and consolidated into the order in Germany about the year 1614, but prior thereto none of them was known as Rosicrucian—it was the amalgamation of these orders that constituted the Rosicrucian Fraternity. Prior thereto there were no Rose Cross Orders and no Rosicrucian Fraternity.
9 See our Reproduction No. 47B, being the back cover page of the “Second Fama,” setting forth his fictitious council, “Pansophia,” of Berlin.
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“International Organization.’ Propagandists for fraternal swin-
dles must be very careful and check themselves very closely, other- wise they reveal the falsity of their claims and pin Badges of Fraud on their cherished and noble institutions, racketeering in brotherly love and trafficking in the higher aspirations and ideals of mankind.
A Very Important Matter
Continuing with the propaganda for the “bringing forth of the order in Belgium”’ and the scheme to hold a Universal Congress in Brussels in 1934 to create the Fupos! to recognize their fam- ily racket as the only legitimate and authentic R. C. Order in the Americas, we are told that:
“Another very important point is the fact that it reveals in a defi- nite way and to the public the fact that Rose Croix Universitaires do exist in Europe and have been existing for some time. This fact is not generally knozun and has seldom been mentioned in connec- tion with Rosicrucian history [except when Lewis has mentioned it] simply because in the past it has been deemed a matter of no concern to the public. However, we believe that because of so many mis- statements that have appeared in public histories about the Rosicru- cians, it should be known that the Rosicrucians do maintain univer- sities and colleges in various parts of the world for the exclusive association of the most learned scientific, literary and artistic minds of the world. The first such university in modern times was estab- lished by Sir Francis Bacon and his associates, and in order to keep it a secret it was named The Invisible College. To this institution gathered the leading lights of the English-speaking world. The name of the college was changed several times and became known as an Academy in 1660, but finally Charles II in 1662 granted the royal charter in the name of the Rosicrucian Academy. This later evolved into what is now known as the Royal Society of England and is acknowledged to be the most exclusive society of learned men in the world. In other countries the Rosicrucian Universities are of similar type, and as conditions permit in the future we will speak of others.” (Our italics. )
For many years Lewis had been doing much talking about the secret and hidden Rose Croix Universities. He had long been in need of tangible proof of the existence of those non-existent fictions of his imagination. However, he produced the plausible tangible proof by creating an ‘‘ancient’’ Rose Croix University in Belgium
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about the year 1931 or 1932 in the manner above suggested and hereafter to be fully shown, and the parts of letters’ reproduced and exhibited, at last, were his ‘“‘proof.’’ The “very important point is the fact that it [the ‘proof’] reveals in a very definite way and to the public that Rose Croix Universitaires do exist in Europe and have existed for some time.’’ Now, “this fact is not generally known” because it is not a fact. Such a contrivance as Lewis created with the aid of Mallinger in Brussels under the name of the Rose Croix is not a university in any meaning of that term—it is simply a fraudulent device to promote his fraternal enterprise in America and incidentally, if not primarily, to serve as a subterfuge to confer a fake “honorary degree of Doctor of Psychological and Hermetic Sciences”? on H. Spencer Lewis, the Imperator of the Lewis Hier- archy and to make—if that is possible—a “Doctor” of some kind out of a fraternal racketeer.
The alleged historical dissertation on Rosicrucian universities above quoted, and the ridiculous and wholly false statement that “the Rosicrucians do maintain universities and colleges in various parts of the world for the exclusive association of the most learned scientific, literary and artistic minds of the world,’”’* may be pru- dently disregarded as fulsome propaganda with a definite design and for a specific purpose not altogether praiseworthy.
The conclusion of this remarkable article of still more remark- able propaganda to prepare the way for the sham Congress of Brussels in 1934 for the creation of a spurious power and an au- thority for clandestine Masonry and Rosicrucianism, called the FuposI, is as follows:
Preparing the Way for the Fuposi
‘We have said before in articles appearing in this magazine that 1932, 1933 and 1934 would see the widest development of Rosicru- cianism throughout the world that it has ever had, simply because more of the inactive periods in different countries terminate during these years than at any other time in the past history of the Order,
1 See our Reproduction No. 48A showing these letters as reproduced by Lewis as a part of his article.
2 Some eminent men of science, art and letters have been members of the Brother- hood, but this overdone and colorful statement finds no justification or foundation inebacts
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and with the many that are already active it will mean the largest number of active jurisdictions that have been in operation at the same time.
“Future communications or documents from the Belgian or other jurisdictions will be announced in our magazine from time to time, and we know, that all of our members in North America will re- joice in realizing that. their membership carries with it the contact with so many active jurisdictions.” * (Our italics.)
The often-promised and much-flaunted world-wide revival and development of spurious Lewistonian Rosicrucianism failed to ma- terialize. Instead, he developed several meandering bands of clan- destine Masons; corralled them in Brussels in August, 1934, and with them as his puppets—aided by a few innocent bystanders who did not know what was going on under cover—held the Congress of Clandestinism, by and through which he created the Fupos1— his extraordinary power (!) and all-inclusive Rosicrucian authority for his brotherly love enterprise and fraternal business.
Nothing is or could be more ridiculous and further from the truth than the statement repeatedly made and so often inferred by Lewis that the Fraternity of the Rosicrucians has regular stated and fixed periods of inactivity and activity of 108 years each, or of multiples thereof, of silence and ‘“‘coming forth”’ into glorious activity under flaunting banners of high-pressure publicity and commercialized fraternalism—such as he has produced and carries on under the Holy Name and Sacred Symbol of the Rosy Cross. During most of its history, the existence of the August Fraternity has been hidden, its work has been secret and it has eschewed publicity. There have been times, of course, when its existence and activities in different countries have been known. It is, therefore, upon this simple state of facts that he bases his false propaganda concerning such periods of inactivity and activity of silence and publicity, and the foregoing falsified statement that 1932, 1933 and 1934 would see the widest development of his spurious brand of Rosicrucianism the world has ever seen, simply because more of the “inactive periods” in different countries would terminate during those years than at any time in the history of the order (AMORC) which began in 1915. And, to be sure, with the
“many already active’ by 1934, “the largest number of active
3 The Rosicrucian Digest, April, 1933, pp. 90, 91 and 92.
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jurisdictions” will exist that have ever been in operation at the same time.
That is his story. He needed “‘active jurisdictions” and spurious organizations of prima facie plausible existence to hold his “Great European Conclave” for the creation of his Fuposi. We readily understand why that had to be his. story, when we recall how he and his lawyer friend, Mallinger, held that “Great Conclave” in Brussels in August, 1934, principally with clandestine and discred- ited Masons, as shown in Part One of this chapter. We shall also see the true purpose of that propagandistic article and how clearly it foretold and revealed his aforesaid scheme and plans as we proceed.
Necessity the Mother of Invention
Somewhat in the background but forming important links or basic parts of the structure of his scheme of universal all-inclusive authority for his commercialized fraternal enterprise and the ne- farious invention and creation of the FUDosI to give specious but entirely falacious certification to the authenticity of an occult and mystic swindle, are two spurious documents purporting to have been issued by a sham R. C. University and a fictitious Great White Lodge of Tibet. These fake and bogus documents Mr. Lewis designates as his ‘Important Rosicrucian Documents,” Nos. 1 and 2 respectively. It will be interesting to review these “documents” and to study their purpose and antecedents before we give exten- sive consideration in detail to the Fuposi. |
As in the useful arts, so also in the fraudulent arts “necessity is the mother of invention.” Early in his career as a fraternal and occult racketeer, Mr. Lewis appended a. “Ph.D.” to his name and began to call himself “Dr.” Lewis. He tried “Doctor” of this and that, but finally decided to be a Doctor of Philosophy.
In an early autobiography published in The American Rosae Crucis (then his official organ), for February, 1916, at page 27, after describing his unusual accomplishments, his extraordinary self, and his rare ability to analyze and present the laws and prin- ciples of science, he says of himself:
“Tt is not remarkable, then, that even as a young man his work should have attracted the attention of men of science—especially
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Rosecrucians—in Europe. He was unanimously* elected to Honorary Membership to the Society Philomatique of Verdun, France, and to the International Ciencala Societo of Spain and the Soceto di Arti e Cienci of France. In 1904 he was made a Fellow of the Franco Ecol R. C. and given the degree of Doctor of Psychology, and in the following year the same college conferred upon him the title of Doctor of Philosophy and proposed him as a Dignitaire Supreme of the Rosgcrucian’ Order.” (Our italics.)
Doctor of Philosophy
To be a Doctor of Philosophy seemed essential to him for two principal reasons. First, to gratify his expansive vanity and to satisfy the constant craving of his ego for titles and worldly honors.° Second as a device to be used in the promotion of his fraternal racket, to deceive his victims and to lead them to believe that they were becoming associated with and placing themselves under the eminent leadership of a great and profound man, learned in ancient wisdom and of vast modern erudition. The fact that no institution of learning of any standing or authorized to confer the degree of Doctor of Philosophy has conferred such a scholarly degree upon him, taken in connection with his much-flaunted and constant use of the assumed title of “Dr.” and his sham “Ph.D.” degrees, constitutes them Badges of Fraud.
Since the “Franco Ecol R. C.’ could not be located and existed only in his prolific imagination—highly proficient in the ready pro- duction of fraudulent devices—he soon abandoned his degrees of Doctor of Psychology and Philosophy from the fictitious French School of the Rose Cross and went in search of an institution of potential existence that issued degrees of Doctor of Philosophy, or whatever you desire, at a reasonable price per degree. In far-off mysterious India, in the land of the fakirs, he found a “diploma
4Italics are ours. This is a favorite term of “Dr.” Lewis. Everything that he does or causes to be done is “unanimously” done. Note this fact and keep it in mind. It will become conspicuously apparent in Chapter Six.
5 Note peculiar spelling of the word Rosicrucian and see Volume One, p. 210, et seq., for his explanation and reason therefor.
6 See Part One of this chapter, p. 269, and Chapter Three, pp. 133 to 139, supra. See also Reproduction No. 50 at the end of this part. Note the titles he attaches to his name beneath his published photograph, and note particularly that he declares himself to be a “Ph.D.,” Chancellor of the Rose Croix University and King Universal of. Illumination.
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mill’? which issued all manner of high-sounding and scholarly like degrees, made to order, for a few pence in silver. He, therefore, became Harvé Spencer Lewis, Ph.D., by reason of an honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy conferred by the “INDIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES,” a notorious “diploma mill” dealing in fake honorary degrees of higher learning.
In the case of AMORC vs. Smith, on June 26, 1933, in response to questions propounded by his counsel, “Dr.” Lewis testified as follows:
“Q. What credentials have you received as a result of your activities in this work?
‘“A.7 We have papers of recognition, Charters, Certificates of foreign jurisdictions, especially from the Sovereign Sanc- tuary of the Order in Switzerland.*
“Q. What personal credentials have you?
“A. Degree of Ph.D. from India Academy of Scicncetl and recently again Ph.D conferred on me by University of Belgium. (Our italics.)
“Q. Belgium? ‘““A. Yes, I have the certificates here.*
“Q. Is there any other recognition been accorded to you through official channel through any quarter than those you have mentioned?
“A. Yes, I was given special reception in the Grand Lodge of Paris, France, making me Honorary Member and special Legate of the French Organization. I am special Legate of the organization in South America and in pene Germany and England.’
7 The answers, marked “A,” are by “Dr.” Lewis.
8 This refers to his “Important Rosicrucian Document No. 4,” translated in Part One of this chapter, our Reproduction No. 40, pp. 281-282, supra.
9 This claim is recited in his “Important Rosicrucian Document No. 2,” dated Octo- ber 20, 1920. See our Reproduction No. 51 at the end of this part.
1This refers to his “Important Rosicrucian Document No. 1,’ which we shall presently review. See our Reproduction No. 49 at the end of this part. Note carefully the translation of this certificate of “honorary degree,” to be presently set forth in the text.
2This is typical of the general claims he makes to Rosicrucian authority, which shows no authority at all.
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“Q. As I understand, the organization has been function- ing almost exclusively under your direction?
‘A. In this country. These other organizations in Europe and elsewhere, some have been in existence—like the one in Belgium—for over 100 years without a break in activities.
(Our italics. ) “Q. Any other recognition of you and your work? *
“A. Well, I have had honorary degrees and honorary membership.
oO 2Where? sac In: Europe. “Q. What part of Europe?
‘“A. Well, in Switzerland, Geneva and Basel and in Paris and down in Egypt.”*>
“Important Rosicrucian Document No. I”
Since his entire business is that of conducting a so-called Rosi- crucian Order, and whereas he has boasted so loudly and written so voluminously concerning his exclusive, most unusual and all- inclusive authority, it is reasonable to presume and only natural to expect that his ““Document No. 1,” the first of the five “important documents” to be published to the world in fac-simile, would be a Rosicrucian Charter, of unquestionable authenticity; but such 1s not the case. His vanity, his desire for self-glorification is first in order of publication and obviously more important in his own mind than his alleged Rosicrucian authority, because his “Important Rosicrucian Document No. 1” is a certificate of the action of a fabricated and counterfeit Rose Croix University of Belgium con- ferring upon him “the honorary title of ‘Sar’ or Doctor of Psy- his testimony was given June 26, 1933. Compare this statement with his state- ments in the article in The Rosicrucian Digest, April, 1933, quoted, supra. ‘There he was bringing the “Belgian Order” back into activity; here he has it active for “over 100 years without a break in its activities.”
4 His general claims to Rosicrucian recognition and authority will be further re-
viewed in Chapter Five. 5 AMORC ws. Geo. L. Smith, Transcript on Appeal, pp. 512 to 514.
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‘chological and Hermetic Sciences.’ ment’’®
This vastly “important docu- is freely translated as follows:
SOVEREIGN. ORDER OF THE OCCULT AND GOLDEN ROSE CROSS
RC University of Belgium, Free Faculty of the Philosophy of Initiation GREETINGS on all points of the triangle and respect to the Order.’
“We, Rector and Professors of the free Faculty of Philosophy of Initiation of the Rose Cross University of Belgium, after delibera- tion, WHEREAS, F.-.:.SPENCER Lewis, F.R.C., residing in the val- ley of San Jose, has manifested in the interest of humanity his per- fect knowledge of the Philosophy of Initiation of the Ancient and particularly of the Hermetism of the Egyptians, of the Occult and Kabalistic science and of Ritualistic Magic,®
“WE DECLARE that F. Spencer Lewis, F.R.C., has received the honorary degree of Doctor of Psychological and Hermetic Sciences and is hereby authorized to use the title of ‘Sar’ or Dr. in the phi- losophy of initiation.
“The present Diploma having been signed, registered and de- livered the 12th day of March, 1933, of the Vulgar Era and dated 12th of March of the year 55 of CHR..R..K.. our V..M.. in the
Valley of Brussels. Witnessed by us, Rector of the Signature of bearer: Faculty, Sar Sapiens, F.R.C. (No signature ) Witnessed by us, Grand Archon
Witnessed by us, Imperator of Europe. and Secretary of the Order, (Signature unintelligible )—perhaps, Sar Elgim (John Mallinger)® Sar Hieronymus—(Danthine) .
° For this certificate as published by Lewis in The Rosicrucian Digest, August, 1933, opposite page 276, see our Reproduction No. 49.
* This is the greeting used by Masons of the Rites of Memphis and Mizraim. See Part One of this chapter, page 242, supra.
8 This is certifying to a great deal. It reads as if Lewis had written it—or at least had informed his Belgian confederate, John Mallinger, concerning the most unusual achievements and extraordinary ability of the “Imperator” of North America. —
* Preceding each of the signatures to this certificate is a Masonic signature seal. See our Reproduction No. 49.
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“Sar” Lewis describes’ this unique certificate or diploma confer- ring the rare and singular title of ‘‘Sar,” i.e., ‘‘Doctor of Psycho- g ingul y
logical and Hermetic Sciences,” as follows:
“IMPORTANT ROSICRUCIAN DOCUMENT NO. 1”
“’The above is a small photograph of the large diploma issued by the SovEREIGN SANCTUARY?’ and Rose Cross University of Bel- gium to Imperator H. Spencer Lewis, recognizing his American jurisdiction® and conferring upon him the degree of Doctor of Psy- chological and Hermetic Sciences.* The diploma is signed by the officers of the Rosicrucian Order of Belgium (of great antiquity”) and by the faculty of the University. It also bears the special signa- ture [which cannot be read or deciphered] of the ‘IMPERATOR pour VEurope.’® Other unusual documents will be published from time ‘to time.”
“Ph.D.” or What?
It will be recalled that ‘Sar’? Lewis sat in the witness chair on June 26, 1933, with this certificate or “diploma” in his hand, and under oath testified that it conferred the degree of Ph.D.—Doctor of Philosophy—upon him. The degree of Ph.D. is, as everyone knows, a degree conferred only by scholarly institutions of higher learning of recognized standing having standardized curriculums. So far as we are aware, no secret school, fraternity or order—authentic
1 The Rosicrucian Digest, August, 1933, p. 277.
2The “Sovereign Sanctuary” is, as we have seen, a Grand Lodge or Grand Juris- diction of the Freemasonic Rites of Memphis-Mizraim. By this statement he reveals and recognizes the Rose Croix University of Belgium also as a Masonic institution.
3 In what manner and how the foregoing “diploma” recognized “his American jurisdiction” is not revealed upon the face thereof; however, since Lewis, aided by his family, is the American jurisdiction, perhaps he regards this signal recognition of himself as recognition of “his American jurisdiction.” This is typical of the “many recognitions” of which he so loudly boasts.
4 “Sar”? Lewis testified on June 26, 1933, that this diploma confers the degree of Ph.D., but in August, 1933, he says it conferred the unique degree above stated. How- ever, since it is an unheard-of and “phony” special honor conferred upon him by a fabricated “R. C. University” and clandestine Masonic Sovereign Sanctuary, it matters not what kind of an alleged degree it may be. It is, after all, of no importance.
5 Recall or re-read his description of the Belgium Order, supra, The Rosicrucian Digest, April, 1933, p. 90.
6 We shall presently understand who the “Imperator of Europe” is and his impor- tance in the Lewis-Mallinger scheme.
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or spurious—has ever before attempted to confer such a degree or any other synthetic or fabricated degree carrying the title of ‘Doctor.’ No doubt the reader noticed that he also testified that the degree of Ph.D. was conferred upon him by the University of Belgium, which, of course, would be a degree of recognized stand- ing. But the degree conferred was not conferred by the University of Belgium and it was not the well-known and universally recog- nized degree of Ph.D., but the new, novel and heretofore unknown degree of ‘Doctor of Psychological and Hermetic Sciences” con- ferred by a sham, counterfeit and spurious University, paraded under the name of the Rose Croix University of Belgium." Were it not for the conspicuous fact that most of his statements about himself and concerning his fabricated R. C. Order and fraternal racket abound in tricky plausible deception, we would be inclined to the view that his testimony, that his degree of Ph.D. had been conferred by the University of Belgium, was a mere slip of the tongue. However, the record which he has written and made for himself during the past twenty years is replete with similar “‘slips of the tongue’’ and designing deception. Since he had been success- ful with such tactics before the public for so many years it is not at all unlikely that he concluded that he could use the same methods in and before the court. The reason for his success, with such tac- tics, before the court has been made obvious in Chapter One, supra.
Those “Rose Croix Universities” of Lewis and Mallinger
Webster defines the university to be ‘‘an institution organized for teaching and study in the higher branches of learning and empowered to confer degrees in special departments, as theology, law, medicine, and the arts.’’ This is the common and universal understanding today of the university as an institution which con- fers degrees, as Doctor of Philosophy.
The Rose Cross Order is a school of spiritual training that teaches a philosophy, as we have often stated herein®* and in vari- ous publications heretofore issued, but the Fraternity is in no proper sense a college or university as those terms are generally under-
7 See letterhead of this alleged institution in our Reproduction No. 48A. 8 See Chapter Three, p. 187, supra.
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stood and commonly used. It is well known to all Rosicrucians that at no time in the long history of the Order of the Rosy Cross has it maintained colleges and universities conferring academic degrees or the degree of “Doctor of Psychological and Hermetic Sciences.” That such ideas are entirely foreign to the essential nature of the Rosicrucian Fraternity and Brotherhood should be obvious to every thoughtful student who 1s at all informed upon the nature and purpose of the August Fraternity. Therefore, such unusual claims as made by Lewis and his Belgian confederates concerning fabri- cated Rose Croix Universities conferring unique degrees with the title of “Sar” or “Doctor” must be viewed with grave suspicion by all real students and serious investigators, of the Rose Cross and Rosicrucianism. Indeed, such a claim so boldly and ground- lessly asserted is a Badge of Fraud, and the Ph.D. which Lewis has in various ways vainly attempted to create for himself and which he often, wrongfully and deceptively, appends to his name is a device to mislead the credulous and the gullible. In fact, it has become the trade mark of his fraternal racketeering enterprise by virtue of long and constant usage.
The illusion of the Rosicrucian Order being a college or univer- sity for the teaching of the professions and liberal arts and confer- ring of degrees, “special” honors and titles or that has anything to do with such matters, is a fallacy begotten by ignorance of Rosi- crucian fundamentals and conceived in the distorted imagination of the promoter of a spurious’R. C. Order. On April 24, 1919, soon after he had fabricated his R. C. Order, which he first modeled after and in imitation of the Masonic Order, Lewis incorporated in the State of California the AMORC CoLiece oF THE UNITED Srates oF NortH America, the object of which, as set forth in the charter, is stated to be as follows:
“For the purpose of promoting and cultivating the study and teaching of, and instruction in, Practical Chemistry, Applied Psy- chology and Psycho-Analysis, Chiropractics and the principles of Osteopathy, Hygiene and Eugenics, Biology and Ontology, Com- parative Religion and Theology, Harmonic, Special Methods and Principles of Dietetics, Child Culture and Training, as well as all or any other sciences or studies usually or sometimes prescribed in the curriculum of colleges, universities, seminaries or other institutions of learning; such teaching, instruction and study to be imparted and re- ceived either orally and in person or by written correspondence trans-
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mitted through the mails or by both methods combined ; and ‘to issue and grant to the graduates of this college, after due, proper and con- scientious examination of each subject and course of study, an appro- priate and official diploma of graduation in specified subjects, said diploma carrying with it and conferring upon the graduate certain honorary titles and degrees of proficiency and graduation as are proper, consistent and conforming with general regard for the value of such honorary titles of proficiency.” ® (Our italics. )
From the beginning he has conducted his fabrication as a com- pound mystery of an order, fraternity, brotherhood, lodge with a system of subordinate lodges, and as a college and university with the college or university idea given prominence,’ and when he incor- porated his Supreme Grand Lodge of AMORC on November 15, 1928, he incorporated it as a college or seminary “to provide for instruction in such branches of learning as are taught in universities, colleges and other educationals,”’* as we shall see in Chapter Six.
Therefore, it should be apparent to all from what has been said and shown that “‘Sar’’ Lewis’ ideas of Rosicrucian colleges and universities are all his own, totally unknown to the Rosicrucians until they were advised thereof by this charlatan and fraternal rack- eteer in the year of our Lord, A. D. 1919; and that, in truth, the same is a total and wholly ignorant misconception of the basic genius and sacred purpose of the Rosy Cross. Certainly the Rosy Cross, as an institution, has had nothing to do with the teaching of “Chiropractics and the principles of Osteopathy,” to say nothing of several other subjects and ideas foreign to the Rose Cross Order embraced within the curriculum of his AMORC College and Rose Croix University of North America.
As in the matter of his “‘International R. C. Councils and World Congresses” he was put to the necessity of proving the prior exis- tence of ‘‘Rose Croix Universities’’ as established Rosicrucian insti- tutions. However, since none such had ever existed he set about in his own unique way to create such an institution of ‘‘ancient lineage” and “‘of great antiquity.”
9 Quoted verbatim from a certified copy of the charter of the AMORC College of the United States of North America.
1 Note carefully his letterhead used from 1920 to 1925 at San Francisco, reproduced in our Reproduction No. 66, at the end of Chapter Five.
2 Quoted from a certified copy of the charter of the Supreme Grand Lodge of AMORC.
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The Rose Croix University of Belgium
At or about the time he and his son Ralph were in Germany forming their alliance with Fra Recnartus and constructing their International Council Pansophia of Berlin, they contacted the young lawyer and M. & M. Mason, Jean Mallinger, of Brussels, with whom they also formed an alliance international for the benefit of AMORC and the promotion. of Lewistonian fraternal racketeering.
Under the benign influence of the Lewises and the unlimited charter granting powers of Sri (the Reverend) Sobhita Bhikku of the Great White Lodge of Tibet—“ordained Priest of the Askrama in India,” Lawyer Jean Mallinger during the latter part of 1931 or the early part of 1932 began the fabrication of the Rose Croix University of Belgium and the AMORC of Belgium, with the ‘Imperator for Europe” as its ostensible head. With the as- sistance of his newly created Masonic friends and ‘‘adepts,”’ about which we learned in Part One of this chapter, he established in the year 1932 the “ancient” Lewistonian R. C. Order and the sham Rose Croix University ‘“‘of great antiquity” in Belgium.
Not only did Mallinger and his newly created Masonic ‘‘adepts”’ create an alleged Rosicrucian Order in Belgium and this magnificent university of high standing (!) and great antiquity (!), but they conferred upon themselves great honors and the title of “Sar” or Doctor, gave unto themselves counterfeit initiate names or aliases, and signed all “‘official documents” with the seals of high Masons of the Freemasonic Rites of Memphis and Mizraim,* and then to show their appreciation for the great inspiration and assistance of Sri Sobhita Bhikku, they made him a “Doctor of Psychological and Hermetic Sciences’”’ and issued to him, their magnificent bene- factor, his “Important Rosicrucian Document No. 1,”* which is neither Rosicrucian nor important.
Imperator for Europe Danthine, Alias Hieronymus
In the scheme for the fabrication of the AMORC of Europe
and the Rose Croix University for Belgium, “Dr.” Lewis, alias
3 See our Reproductions Nos. 49 and 52 and note said Masonic Signature seals pre- ceding each signature. 4See our Reproduction No. 49.
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Sar Alden, and his lawyer-Masonic confederate, “Dr.” Mallinger, alias Sar Elgim,’ needed a personage around whom they could build the myth of the Venerable “Imperator pour l'Europe.” They found the right material, as if made to order for their purpose, in a Mr. Danthine, a file clerk librarian in the town of Huy, Belgium, having a population of about 14,000. He is a credulous, timid and hesitant individual—rather effeminate and of the extremely negative type. Having always taken orders from others, he expresses no opinions of his own and does as he is told to do without questioning or hesi- tation. He is not an occultist or mystic, although he is well read and has acquired considerable information from books. He is a stay-at-home body, excludes himself and is seldom seen at public functions. In recent years he has only appeared at three meetings or gatherings, one at a reunion of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, when he paraded with Mallinger and received the honors — of the Column of the North. Another time he appeared at a meet- ing of the AMORC in Brussels, where he undertook to announce that all political views would be foreign to the organization, and finally at the Congress of Clandestinism, held in Brussels in August, 1934, at which time and place the role assigned to him was to sing the praise of the “Great Imperator of America,”’ which, according to all accounts, he did very well. This is the man whom Lewis and Mallinger selected to be the mythical and venerable head of their recently fabricated and spurious R. C. Order and sham Rose Croix University in Belgium. They gave him the title of “Sar” and the nom de plume of Hieronymus and introduced him to the world as the Venerable Imperator of Europe and the Dean of the Rose Croix University of Belgium. However, all the affairs and busi- ness of the fabrication are arranged and attended to by Mallinger and their venerable myth is discreetly kept in the background and is inaccessible except when he has been schooled and carefully in- structed for the occasion and the function he is to perform.
Mr. Danthine is a good man. Within himself he is harmless and is respected by his neighbors. However, he is of the negative, credulous type and in the hands of Lewis and Mallinger, his lawyer associate, he has become their willing and passive tool, without realizing they have made a myth of him and are using him as
5 In Part One of this chapter, p. 251, supra, Jean Mallinger’s nom de plume is er- roneously stated to be Sar Elgin. It should be Elgim as above stated.
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‘“window dress’’ for the accomplishment of their nefarious schemes and infamous purposes.
When the University was fabricated, it consisted of Mallinger, Danthine and six of Mallinger’s ‘“‘quick-made’’ Masonic adepts. These constituted the personnel and faculty of the Rose Croix University and the supreme council of the spurious AMORC of Europe.
_ This, briefly, is the background and the beginning of the Lewis- tonian AMORC in Europe and accounts for the origin of the Rose Croix University of Belgium, which issued the “Doctor’s Degree’”’ to Lewis, which he exalteth much and publishes as his Important Rostcrucian Document No. 1.
There Were No Rose Croix Universities
The reader will recall in the article quoted, in the beginning of this part, from The Rosicrucian Digest,’ published under the name of Ralph M. Lewis, the Grand Secretary, that the claim was set forth therein that Rose Croix Universities had existed for centuries in foreign lands as a part of the activities of AMORC, and that they exhibited certain letters’ from the newly fabricated Rose Croix University of Belgium as proof that such universities had so existed and do now exist in foreign countries, the same as their own fabricated and sham AMORC and Rose Croix Colleges and
Universities in this country.
However, the statements made in said article concerning the great antiquity of those ancient universities are not true, according to the testimony of Ralph M. Lewis, the Grand Secretary, in the United States District Court at San Francisco, on February 20, 1936. After testifying that $69,600.00 of AMORC’s funds had been set aside to the account of the Rose Croix University; that a similar sum had to be set aside to the account of the International Council, and that these funds were administered by himself and his father, Dr. Lewis, as trustees, he testified, quoting from the official record, as follows:
“When the Rose Croix University Fund was established there
6 April, 1933, pp. 90 et seq. 7 Shown in our Reproduction No. 48A.
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was a Rose Croix University of the organization in this jurisdiction for subordinate research work, but there was no Rose Croix Uni- versity of the Order in the foreign jurisdictions to carry on the work of the organizations in those jurisdictions. It was our intention to establish a fund to further it there.’ (Our italics. )
“THE Court: Where is this fund?
“A. It is in San Jose, California.
“QO: Intact?
“A. Yes.
“Q. Where?
“A. In the Bank of America.
“Q. How long has this fund been established ?
“A. Oh, I think about four or five years. It has grown and accu- mulated since it was first started.” §
Therefore, it appears that no such university existed in Belgium four or five years prior to February, 1936, or in the early part of 1931, but it does appear that the Lewises are determined to create, fabricate and maintain their subterfuges and devices of “Rose Croix Universities” abroad and “International R. C. Councils” at all hazards and at any cost. To that end they have set aside two separate cumulative funds, each for $69,600.00, now aggregating more than $139,200.00, to maintain such subterfuges and devices in Europe for the promotion of their fraternal business in America. These huge funds for propaganda and the creation and maintenance of fraudulent devices are in the hands and under the exclusive and unrestricted control of H. Spencer Lewis and his son, to be spent in the manner and at such time as they deem it for their own best interests and as will best serve and promote their family racket.
They Are and Are Not Universities
In testifying in the United States District Court in the same case on the 25th day of February, 1936, H. Spencer Lewis® explained their reason for setting aside those huge funds and that their so-
8 Case of ROY W. AND A. E. SMITH vs. AMORC AND THE LEWISES, Re- porter’s Transcript, p. 64. See also pp. 62, 63, 65 and 85. 9 Same case as in Note 8, Reporter’s Transcript, pp. 210-211.
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called universities are not universities after all, but ‘“‘an association of activities,’ just ‘‘a system of investigation and studies.’ His illuminating explanation, quoted from the official record, is as follows:
“My pledges and promises to the organization in Europe were that whatever possible profits came out of dues or books or from any source of revenue were to be kept in reserve funds to help the other organizations in the same manner that France had helped me.* The Council of the organization in France spent considerable money in having copies made of manuscripts and other things to give me and to send to me from time to time, and so we promised to keep the reserve fund in the name of the International Council, upon which they could draw. and from which we could use money to help, which we have done at times, to help other delegates go to world conventions. And we were asked to maintain a Rose Croix Univer- sity Fund, in the sense that the word ‘Universitatis,’ the Latin word, is used over there, not in America. In the sense that it is used in the Latin form by the organization, ‘universitatis doesn’t mean a building. It means a people of scientific or learned activities. And the Rose Croix University of Europe is not a group of buildings or a group of students, but an association of activities, a system of in- vestigation and studies. And so I promised to set aside some of our reserve funds for that purpose, in addition to what funds we had set aside for our own future activities, and it was understood that neither myself nor any officer nor any member could ever use any of those reserve funds; that if we drew anything it must be on a salary” basis exclusively.” (Our italics.)
It is obvious that this explanation is a subterfuge. The real purpose of these huge funds and the use for which they are intended is apparent. Let us note carefully and keep in mind his explanation and definition of his sham and counterfeit Rose Croix Universities. They are not buildings but people of scientific or learned activities, that is to say, learned in intricate schemes and scientific racketeering. “And the Rosae Croix University of Europe [i.e., of Belgium] is not a group of buildings, or a group of students, but an associa- tion of activities, a system of investigation and studies.”’
One may wonder and ponder how, for what reason and under what authority such ‘‘an association of activities’ and a “system
1 We shall consider the manner in which France helped him in Chapter Five. 2 The salaries of the Lewises shall receive consideration in Chapter Six.
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of investigation and studies’ confers academic and other singular or unique titles and degrees and what virtues they possess, their ultimate value or intrinsic worth.
That Strange R. C. University “Does Have Buildings and Students”
But, according to another of his versions, also given under oath, that strange and unique Rose Croix University—of the Lewises, Mallinger and their ‘Masonic adepts” in Belgium—does occupy buildings, have students and courses in the various sciences and arts. Moreover, it has been operating one hundred years, and is recog- nized as a college.
On the 26th day of June, 1933, in the Superior Court of Califor- nia at San Jose, in the case of AMORC vs. Geo. L. Smith, H. Spencer Lewis testified as to the nature and character of said uni- versity. Let us carefully compare it with his testimony in 1936 in. the Federal Court above quoted. His testimony in 1933 is as follows:
“OQ. Now, in regard to all the various degrees given you, you said you received Ph.D from the Rose Croix University of Belgium?
‘A. Yes, sir, have the certificate.
“OQ. In what city is it located?
‘““A. Brussels.
“Q. How many students?
“A, I don’t know.
“Q. Has any buildings?
“A. It has been operating 100 years.’
“QO. It is recognized as a college?
Fv eNeted LA a Wh ce
“OQ. What courses do they give?
‘A. Various sciences and arts."
3 Compare this statement with the statements in the article quoted beginning of this part of this chapter.
4 Compare this statement with his explanation of the nature of this “University,” with his explanation of such universities made in the Federal Court above quoted.
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“Q. Isn’t that a fact it is a Rose Crucis organization?
‘“A. All officers and directors are Rose Crucians the same as a Roman Catholic University might be all Roman Catholics.
“Q. It is not like Stanford or University of California?
‘A. I don’t know that.
“Q. What is that?
“A. They have students who are not Rose Crucians.
“Q. Can you go and get B.A. four years’ course in this college?
‘““A. You can take any of their courses, yes.
“Q. As a matter of fact, Doctor, isn’t it a Rose Crucian organization such as you have here that gives degrees to their members as they see fit?
mAs INO, 4f 15. not. “Q. Did you pursue any course of study? ‘“A. No, it was an honorary degree, stated it as such.
“Q. If we were to write to Belgium, to that town, we would get a reply from the University?
‘““A.- Absolutely, quite a few letters. “Q. It has buildings and a faculty?
‘““A. I am not sure whether they own or rent buildings; they have a large organization; must have some place in which they meet.
“Q. You don’t know how many students they have? PANO; Sif. “Q. Don’t know they have one?
“A. I am in correspondence with thirty; they have that many, anyway.”* (Our italics.)
Inconsistent Subterfuge
It is truly remarkable how brazenly inconsistent these fraternal racketeers can be—yet still stay in business and prosper financially at the expense of the gullible and credulous! We have shown when, how and why the sham Rose Croix University of Belgium was fab-
5 AMORC vs. Geo. L. Smith, Transcript on Appeal, pp. 519, 520 and 521. 421
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ricated and have quoted at length some of the major inconsistent statements made by the Lewises, relating to this sham University and concerning their so-called Rose Croix Universities, so that the reader may clearly see that there are no Rose Croix Universities such as claimed by them, except their own spurious fabrications. Hence, it must be obvious that said title of ‘‘Sar’ or “Dr.” and the degree of ‘Doctor of Psychological and Hermetic Sciences’”’ con- ferred upon H. Spencer Lewis by said spurious fabrication is a Badge of Fraud; that certificate thereof—his “Important Rosicru- cian Document No. 1’’—is a delusion and snare, and that they are using the sham Rose Croix University of Belgium as a fraudulent device to promote their fraternal racket and to perpetuate their Masonic-Rose Croix swindle.
Tibet—the Far-Off Mythical and Unknown
Grand, glorious, mystical and unknown Tibet, how many occult frauds and mystic swindles have been committed in thy name and under the shadows of her majestic and inaccessible mountains! Ah, how many mystic mountebanks, fake yogis, pseudo masters, fraternal racketeers and occult swindlers have traveled, in their imagination, to Mount Everest and dwelt, in their glowing description, in the very heart of the Gobi desert of Mongolia to receive their inspira- tion and “‘authority”’ to go forth to deceive the world and to swindle the unwary and gullible population thereof and to sell their priceless secrets and mystic pearls of great price to anyone who has the price, in lump sum or on the installment plan of $5.00 down and $2.00 per month.
Manly P. Hall, of Los Angeles, California, a distinguished stu- dent of philosophy, mysticism and occultism, eminent lecturer and author on such subjects, being aware of the frauds and swindles that have been committed with Tibet for their background and unsubstantial foundation, in 1933 wrote and published a warning article on this subject, that is to warn all who would take heed and profit thereby. The article, which was published in his magazine, The All-Seeing Eye, April, 1933, at pages 218 to 221, both inclu- sive, constitutes such an appropriate introduction to the subject matter with which we are here and now dealing, that we take the liberty to quote Mr. Hall’s article in full, as follows:
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The American Mahatma
“The Swamis and Yogis of years gone by have suggested another method of exploiting the American grass widow with an inhibited yearning for romance. Comes, therefore, a group of American carpet-baggers posing under such elegant-sounding appellations as Super-Yogi, Maha-Swami, Para-Guru, to say nothing of such in- significant terms as Rishi, Arhat and Mahatma. Aware, with true Occidental perspicacity, of the financial possibilities of Oriental oc- cultism, the American fakirs decided to cut in on the Asiatics and run them out of business. The result is that there sprang up all over the white man’s world queer-looking persons, each of whom was the ‘only white man who has ever been initiated into the ulti- mate secrets of the East Indian adepts.’ This idea of a seven-day wonder who had enjoyed an exclusive interview with a demi-god caught the fancy of thousands who had grown tired of the ouija- board, and we now have an exceptionally choice exhibit of over- initiated Americans who are expounding profound methods of Hindu spiritual culture that no East Indian ever heard of. (Our italics.)
“May we introduce you to an American Mahatma per se. If you can imagine some five feet of baldheaded importance utterly incapa- ble of speaking the English language or any other, who pompously announces himself as the only individual with spiritualized intelli- gence since Christ, you will have a full-length portrait of the self- styled Sovereign Supreme Pontif of the very secret and mysterious Brotherhood of Perfection Plus,® with headquarters right in the center of the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. This gorgeous example of manhood studied for nineteen years under Swami Yogi Guru Ma- hatma Dyana Chohan Hyranagharba Ishwara, etc., who has a hut hidden away right on the peak of Mount Everest. This most worthy, non-existing Seer one day happened to see the American Ma- hatma strolling by—he always walked up Mount Everest before breakfast—and called out to him in words like this: ‘I haven’t spoken to anyone for ninety-nine years, but I think you have an hon- est face and, therefore, for no reason whatever I’m going to tell you all I know, so that you can go to America with it and sell it to any-
6 The italics are ours. Does not that part of Mr. Hall’s description in italics accu- rately describe our Most Perfect Master Profundis; Rex, Universitatis Illuminati; Ordained Priest of the Ashrama of India, and Sri Sobhita Bhikku as Prelate and Secret Chief of the Great White Brotherhood Lodge of Tibet? See pp. 136-137, supra, for Lewis’ descriptions of his Supreme High Council of the Universe of the Great White Lodge.
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one who has the price. I dub you Sir Mahatma. Go forth and “gyp” the earth.’
“Filled with a holy zeal and a number of good business ideas, the new Mahatma ran down Mount Everest and, returning to this country as fast as he could—that is, if he ever left it—started out on his triumphant march to fame and wealth. He arrives in our fair city. Five unknown persons have written testimonials substantiating his claims, and he is willing to share his beatific consciousness with a select number of pupils at fifty dollars a complete course, including miscellaneous charts and stunning, impelling portrait of the ‘adept.’ This same person informs us incidentally that he is founder of the Perfection Plus Clubs all over this country and is only remaining in America long enough to pick up the available small change before he returns to Mount Everest and ‘divvies’ up with the centenarian on the top. Lest we fail to note his exceeding dignity, the American Mahatma incidentally is an honorary member of the Transvaal Biochemic League, the Punjam Society of Master Mystics, the An- cient and Honorable Order of Lhassa Lamas and a charter co- founder of the Secret Kneuf Councils of Heliopolis. If the truth of the matter were sifted out, it might be revealed that the ‘Ma- hatma’ was in reality a veterinary who, finding his practice suffering through the activities of Henry Ford, read two books on Yogi by a resident of New Jersey and started out in quest of easy money.
“Tf by some unforeseen chance the American Mahatma should meet someone who ‘knew him when’ and who consequently was in a position to disprove his numerous claims, the conversation that would ensue might be something like this:
“Stranger to Mahatma: ‘Why, hello, Joe, what’s this I hear about you being in Tibet? Why, you’ve never been anywhere nearer Tibet than Hoboken.’
“Mahatma to Stranger (in icy tone): ‘Why will you never un- derstand the secrets of the soul? Of course, I was in Tibet, but it was in the astral body.’
“There are East Indian adepts who claim to have disciples in America, but they are never represented in this country by these self- termed Apostles of Perfection. (Our italics.) One old Hindu that I met in Calcutta told me that no one was worthy to study with a Mahatma until he was capable of contacting this exalted intelligence telepathically while in meditation. The only way that the ‘Ameri- can Mahatma’ can perform telepathy is to buy the little code book for two dollars which describes the famous Anna Eva Fay method of conveying the answer to a question by code arrangement of words used in asking it.
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“No Hindu ‘adept’ is complete unless he has a brand-new way of ‘raising the Kundalini.’ This is the foundation of nearly all the so- called secret instructions. Trick breathing may also be included in the repertoire, but this is not as popular as it used to be because too many of the Mahatmas have destroyed their own health-giving dem- onstrations of their method.
“Fancy, hemstitched breathing is regarded as having peculiar vir- tue and sometimes, if greatly aided by the morbid imagination, pro- duces results commonly termed ‘very spiritual.’ If these various mis- cellaneous ‘Mahatmas’ would only confine their activities to raving, ranting and demonstrating, about the only thing they would do would be to exterminate themselves, which would be no great loss. They pass their nonsense on to others, however, and in some cases this becomes serious.
“People come to me all the time, seeking relief from desperate conditions brought on by foolish attempts to become spiritual by a patent process. Some of these cases are quite hopeless, and only death can liberate the sufferer from the results of his indiscretions. Insan- ity claims quite a few, and nearly all are shattered nervously and physically. They have hallucinations and even, under some condi- tions, a state resembling epilepsy. The nervous system is also so. badly deranged that a state of supersensitiveness arises which brings on a general decrease in physical efficiency, morbid fears, inferiority com- plexes and many other equally lamentable conditions. ‘To disturb the natural rhythm by abnormal methods of living, thinking, breathing, meditating or concentrating on hopeless and meaningless abstractions is to unbalance the whole system and bring the body and mind to a common ruin. In the meantime the victorious Mahatma, finding complications beyond his control, is conveniently called by his Mas- ter to a new field of activities, leaving the wreckage to drift to what port it can.
“Once upon a time there was a sort of ‘Mahatma’ of this calibre who attempted the most daring ‘gyp’ of all. He decided to take his whole group over to India to meet his Master, so he made an ar- rangement with a transportation company by which he got a com- mission on each passage booked and trotted his herd of followers to an out-of-the-way place where they were to see great and wonderful things. Of course, the Master didn’t show up, and the pseudo- Mahatma was profuse in his apologies and, strange as it may seem, his followers swallowed his excuses, came home like nice little chil- dren and kept on believing in him. On another occasion a ‘Master’ was actually produced, but he was arrested afterwards when it was proved that his whiskers were false and that he had been hired and
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coached for the part. And, wonders to excess, the ‘Mahatma’ is still believed in by people who insist that they saw him and conveniently forgot the exposé that followed.‘
“Tf anyone in the ordinary walks of life should take people on a wild-goose chase under false promises and misrepresentation, costing each one several hundred dollars, he would be arrested for promoting a swindle. But because the swindle centered around a non-existing Master it came under the general heading of the dark and mysterious ways of ‘faith’ wholly beyond the comprehension of ordinary mor- tals. When you see some of the things that people believe in it is difficult to imagine how humanity has survived as long as it has. The salvation of men lies in the hands of the God who protects fools from their own foolishness.” (Our italics.)
Another Fake Hierophant of Great White Brotherhood Lodge
A few years prior to 1919 there arrived in San Francisco a wan- dering Persian, who alleged that he was the Pontiff of the Buddhist Church of the Dharma and Grand Hierophant of the Great White Brotherhood Lodge in the sacred mountains of Tibet, for the “Occidental World’’—whatever that means. As the Pontiff of his alleged and pretended church of the Dharma he called himself Bishop Massananda, as the Grand Hierophant, Pontiff, Prelate and Secret Chief of the mythical, non-existent Great White Brother- hood Lodge of Tibet, signed himself by a long, imposing, unread- able signature,® with flourishes, which may be abbreviated as Sri E. L. A. M. M. Kahn. This Oriental Fakir was roundly de- nounced and pronounced an Arch-Impostor by genuine Buddhists in the Orient as well as in the Occident, in Europe as well as in America. That he was a Fakir and pretender is true beyond all
doubt. The Great White Brotherhood Lodge of Tibet, wholly
7In 1929, Lewis took a large number of his members on a wild-goose chase on a “Mystic Tour” to Egypt, the Holy Lands and Europe at a cost of $975.00 each, plus. incidental expenses. In Egypt he and they were “initiated” into higher mystic Rosi- crucianism by a non-existent, non-appearing, etheric, cosmic Master. In this way he established his Egyptian Lodge. Since then he has boasted often and loudly of his super-Rosicrucian initiation in Egypt and has used said Egyptian Lodge as a device. Miss Myrtle Crane, of Detroit, and others who went on this Mystic excursion to the Cosmic resigned and denounced it as a hoax. See p. 41, supra.
8 See his signature on Lewis’ “Important Rosicrucian Document No. 2,” shown in our Reproduction No. 51.
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unknown in Tibet or the Orient, is a myth and a spurious fabrica- tion, made in America, and hatched out in the warm, sunny clime of Golden California. It has likewise been denounced and declared to be a non-existent entity, a fabulous fake and an extravagant myth by occulists, mystics and Orientals in both hemispheres.
On August 17, 1920, “Bishop Massananda,” alias ‘Sri Khan,”’ ordained H. Spencer Lewis a Priest in his alleged Buddhist Church and conferred upon him the nom de plume of Sobhita Bhikku, which—if he really were a Bhikku—would make him a member of the Order of Buddha, a novel and singular honor to confer upon a Methodist.° However, Lewis cherished the “honor’’ and has adopted the title as his own.*
The fake Buddhist Bishop and the convert to his spurious Bud- dhism, the newly ordained Priest, became very chummy and in their idle hours and in their imaginative moments together they fashioned, fabricated and manufactured a strange and unique document which purports to be a charter of the Great White Brotherhood Lodge of Tibet, conferring upon Harvé Spencer Lewis, Ph.D., as the “Be- loved and Respected Reverend” Sobhita Bhikku, in the “Occidental Section,” all the rights, powers and privileges of the “Oriental Sec- tion’ —which were ni/—but to be effective and exercised only after the transition of Sri E. L. A. M. Massananda Khan, the original fakir and impostor. This marvelous (!) document and charter ( ?) was signed, sealed and delivered on the 20th day of October, A. D. 1920, in the presence of three then members of AMORC, who signed it as witnesses. This fabrication Mr. Lewis esteems highly, and declares it to be his Important Document No. 2.”
“Important Rosicrucian Document No. 2”
In his official organ, The Rosicrucian Digest, September, 1933, at page 317, H. Spencer Lewis, “Ph.D.,”’ published a fac-simile of the fabricated charter issued by the ‘‘Venerable Sri Khan,” the
® Lewis has often declared himself to be a Methodist. See his biography, Rosicrucian Manual (1934), p. 129.
1 See his statement beneath his photograph in our Reproduction No. 50.
2%t will be recalled that the “document” conferring the degree and title “Sar” or “Doctor” is a very important thing and is his Important Document No. One. See our Reproduction No. 49 at the end of this part.
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fake Heirophant of the faked and non-existent Great White Broth- erhood Lodge of Tibet, which we have also reproduced in fac- simile herein.* This unique and “very large document”’ reads as
follows: G-W-B-L SALUTATIONS
“Tn the name of Kar-Gya-Pa, the Venerable Founder of the G:.-W-.:B-.:L-:.: in the sacred mountains of Thibet, and in the name of his apostolic successors, as Narpa, Mira-Ba-Pa, OmM-RAH Mau, Kar-Ma-Baksut, Kar-Ma-P4, et al.
“By this Proclamation be it known that, in accordance with in- structions, decrees, powers and mandamuses issued unto me by the V enerable Head and Pontiff of the G. W. B. L., whose secret mark and name are revealed and concealed within this document, and with the right, authority and sole permission, as Prelate, Master and Secret Head for the Occident of the World, 1, the undersigned, as a Messenger of Light, and we, as such as are sealed and signed hereto and hereas, institute and establish in the Occident of the World for and during the Aquarian Cycle, the Occidental Section of the G:.:W:.:B:.:L-.: to be and to continue to be an active body with all the privileges as of the Oriental Section to accept and admit members who have been duly tried through the grades of the recognized and approved Order, to confer upon them the rights and powers of the G-.-W-.:B:.:L:.: and to affiliate them with the Oriental Section of the G-.-W-.-B-.-L-.: [Note the inverted points. |
“And by this document is also proclaimed the appointment of the Beloved and Respected Reverand* Sobhita Bhikku, ordained by me August 17, 1920, in California, U. S. A., known to the world as Harvé Spencer Lewis, Ph.D., so titled and honored by the Indian Academy of Sciences, India, to be the successor in apostolic succes- sion to us as Prelate and Secret Chief of the G°.:W-.-B-.°L:.: after the transition of the undersigned. [For signature see our Re- production No. 51.] Dated: October 20, 1920 A.D., 2508 A.B.— 3273 R.C. in San Francisco, Calitérnia, U..S. A. (Quritaliess)
“WITNESSED BY: Maud Moore, Willard C. Moore, Colombe H. Reisener.””
3 For a fac-simile of this Important Document No. 2, see our Reproduction No. 528 at the end of this part.
# Spelling as in the original. See our Reproduction No. 51.
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Did Not Trust Sri Khan
It will be observed that this outrageous fabrication is witnessed by Maud Moore, Willard C. Moore and Colombe H. Reisener.’ It is evident that the Reverend Sobhita Bhikku, Ph.D., did not trust the Venerable Sri Khan. He was afraid that the ‘“‘Venerable”’ Impostor might renege on him and denounce this important fabri- cation as being spurious. Therefore, to prevent such an unhappy ending to their little game of make-believe and to prove the authen- ticity of this ‘‘most interesting document,” he had it and the “‘signa- ture thereto” duly witnessed by three of his own members. By three witnesses, we suppose, because it appears to be the last Will and Testament of the Venerable Impostor Ancestor and did not take effect until after his death. But, except for the suspicion of Sri Sobhita Bhikku, Ph.D., to have it witnessed at all seems to be entirely unnecessary, for is it not “denominated in the bond”’ and clearly set forth in the instrument that it is all done “in accordance with the instructions, decrees, powers and miandamuses’’ of the “Venerable Head and Pontiff of the G. W. B. L., whose secret mark and name are revealed and concealed within this document ?”’ Does that not prove its high authenticity and make it unimpeach- able and unquestionable? Then of what virtue is the sheer witness- ing signature of a mere mortal? Certainly this is the best joke of the twentieth century thus far, at least.
In all the annals of occult orders, mystic societies and fraternities the unique procedure and method of having charters, official com- munications and documents witnessed by third parties not officers or Secretaries thereof is unparalleled and wholly without precedent.
5 The daughter of William Reisener, of San Francisco, who was financing Lewis’ activities at that time. See Chapter Two, pp. 96 and 97, supra. Concerning Lewis’ ordination as a priest in the alleged Buddhist Church, Mr. William Reisener, in a recent interview, stated: “When he became a priest in the Buddhist Church, I and my family were very much disgusted. I do not know this Sri E. L. A. M. M. Khan. Maybe that is some name he gave, but I do not know. Mr. Lewis was made a priest in the Church of the Dharma by Bishop Massananda, who headed one of the Buddhist sects. Lewis was given the name of Sobhita, or something very similar. I do not remember the exact day, but it was some time in the early 1920s. I and my family were present at the ordination ceremony. Mr. Lewis said whenvhe first took up this church work that he wanted to be able to do like other priests and ministers—some- thing good for humanity—visit the sick, help the fallen, and so on, and at first I believed him. But in time the real truth came out. He wanted to use it and he did use it for propaganda purposes for AMORC.”
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Charter and official documents of secret orders, societies and fra- ternities are not witnessed in such manner. Authentic fraternal documents require no such subterfuge as being witnessed in such fashion.
The fact, per se, that Lewis had this alleged charter and “impor- tant document”’ witnessed in the manner aforesaid makes a very sus- picious instrument more suspicious—it is a Badge of Fraud pro- claiming the spuriousness of this so-called important document. He could not have made this clearer, unless he had written in bold, black letters across its face, ‘‘Witness: This is a Delusion and a Fraud.”’ However, that was not necessary, because, upon its face, it appears to be a fraud. Here fraud lights a candle for justice to see the truth. Presently we shall take a close look at this ““Charter”’ and point out its prima facie BADGES OF FRAUD.
As Described and Explained by Lewts
Beneath the fac-simile reproduction of the foregoing “‘very large document,” in reality a monstrosity, Lewis describes and explains it in these words:
“The above is a greatly reduced photograph of a very large docu- ment on parchment issued by the Venerable Sri E. L. A. M. M. Khan, Hierophant of the Great White Brotherhood Lodge for the Occidental World by authority of the Pontiff of the Great White Brotherhood Lodge of Tibet. It is issued to the Imperator, H. Spen- cer Lewis, conferring upon him the Brotherhood name of Sri (Rev- erend) Sobhita Bhikku and appointing him to be the successor in apostolic succession to the position and power of the Venerable Sn Khan after the transition of the latter, with all of the rights. and authorities to ‘institute and establish in the Occident of the World, for and during the Aquarian Cycle, the Occidental Section of the Great White Brotherhood Lodge, to be and to continue to be an active body with all of the privileges as of the Oriental Section, to accept and admit members who have been duly tried through the grades of the recognized and approved Order, to confer upon them the rights and powers of the G. W. B. L and to affiliate them with the Oriental Section of the G. W. B. L.’
“The document is signed and witnessed on the 20th day of Octo- ber, 1920 A.D. (2508 A.B.—3273 R.C.). The Venerable Sri Khan passed through transition in December of 1931, from which time the powers conferred upon the Imperator of AMORC became active.
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This charter [?] and unique document [so it is!] establishes the po- sition of the Rosicrucian Order of AMORC in North America as the ‘recognized and approved Order’ for the preparation and train- ing of those Adepts who may become affiliated with the G. W. B. L. This is one of the most interesting of the many documents that we will illustrate from time to time.”® (Our italics. )
The Awful Power of an Impostor
Conferred by an Impostor Upon an Impostor
The foregoing description of the “Venerable Sri” (Reverend) Khan, fake Hierophant of the mythical Great White Brotherhood Lodge of Tibet for the “Occidental World,” by Sri (Reverend) Sobhita Bhikku, Ph.D., is a trifle overdone. ‘Venerable’ and “Reverend” are practically synonymous. Giving this arch-pretender and counterfeit Heirophant of a non-existent entity a double coat of Veneration and Reverence is not an attempt to gild a lily, but to make a monk out of a devil, and to establish himself a fitting and apt successor in apostolic succession—or occult racketeering— to the position and power of an Oriental impostor. Water poured on a duck’s back is without effect, so, also, too much and fulsome praise bestowed upon a questionable and precarious predecessor by his over-ambitious and megalomaniacal successor is often a Badge of Fraud of the first magnitude.
This spurious charter by its terms and according to Lewis’ under- standing, as above stated, did not confer any of the alleged and pretended power, rights or authority of Sri Khan upon Sri Bhikku until after the death of the former, which did not occur until De- cember, 1931. However, that fact, if it was a fact, and that pro- vision of the spurious Charter were promptly disregarded by Lewis, for we find him assuming full “powers and authority” long before the sod had grown over the grave of Sri Khan, and in September, 1921, declaring himself to be the recipient of the most unusual honors and powers from “‘the Supreme High Council of the Uni- verse’ and making the most startling announcements through his “Great White Collegium Lodge,’ by which he established (!) “that AMORC is the only organization, body, society or group of Rosicrucians in America (or in the world, for that matter,) having
6 The Rosicrucian Digest, September, 1933, p. 317.
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the approval, recognition and direction of the Supreme High Coun- cil of all ancient and modern Secret Rites.”’* This action on the part of Lewis and his assumption of all powers of Sri Khan’s fabrication show that he had no respect for the ‘“‘Venerable Sri Khan” and no regard for the provisions of the spurious charter. He knew it was spurious, he acted accordingly and his actions betray his words and reveal the spuriousness of the document which he thought was concealed therein with the secret mark and
the name of the Venerable Head and Pontiff of the G. W. B. L.
A Sham U pon Its Face
Let us make a critical examination of this alleged charter said to be granted by a fabled and non-existent lodge in far-off Tibet— this spurious document which Mr. Lewis claims to be Rosicrucian and important. Will the reader kindly refer to the fac-simile re- production of this document, being Reproduction No. 51 at the end of this part, and follow closely as the discrepancies, fallacies. and badges of spuriousness are pointed out.
To the average person in America who knows nothing of sym- bolism; who knows not the difference between the symbols of the Jews, Egyptians, Christians and Buddhists; who does not recognize the symbols of Black Magic; who does not know the fundamental differences between the teachings of the Rosicrucians and the Bud- dhists, and who has not read this document, as published by Lewis, with a magnifying glass, it may appear to be a charter, an important Rosicrucian document and an impressive picture of Lewistonian greatness and his ultra-supreme authority and power. Such persons. are likely to swallow all of the false and foolish statements made by Lewis about this counterfeit charter with gullible smiles and credulous satisfaction. But to those who know—-who have even an elementary knowledge of the subjects above mentioned—this so-called charter appears upon its face to be a snare and a delusion. It carries its own intrinsic proof of its invalidity and requires no extrinsic evidence to show that it is a poorly constructed and make- shift counterfeit.
7 The Mystic Triangle, September, 1921, p. 1. For full quotation of his claims under this charter and through the “Great White Lodge,’ as published in said Mystic Triangle, see Chapter Three, pp. 136-137, supra.
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It purports to be a Buddhist document. How do we know? Well, it purports to issue from an alleged Lodge having its abode “in the Sacred Mountains of Tibet,’ wherein reside the high Bud- dhist Order or Orders. It makes, or rather pretends to make a full- fledged Bhikku out of the Imperator of the Lewistonian Hierarchy of Occult Racketeering. Lewis says that it confers upon him the “Brotherhood name of Sri (Reverend) Sobhita Bhikku.” If that be true, then it makes him a member of the Order of Buddha, and that, 7f true, should be sufficient to establish the Buddhistic nature of the document. However, those who know Lewis and his habits of life know that he has never conformed to the discipline of a Buddhist, which is essential to membership in the High and Sacred Order of Buddha. Besides, membership in that Order is never conferred as a “‘special honor,’ especially upon an occult pretender and mystic racketeer. To become a Buddhist, like unto becoming a Rosicrucian, one must follow the teachings and live
the life.
In the beginning of the document are given the supposed-to-be names of several Tibetan personages, as ‘‘the founder” and ‘“‘apos- tolic successors” of the alleged and mythical Great White Brother- hood Lodge of Tibet. All of this establishes, beyond doubt, that the fabricators of the aforesaid document intended it to be, or to purport to be, a Buddhist “‘Charter” of a Tibetan Order. But most of the names are misspelled and are given out of their historic sequence, which is only one of the several things which shows that it is a spurious Buddhist document.
Whereas, it is intended to be a Buddhist ‘‘Charter,” one would expect to find the Elephant upon this supposedly Buddhist charter and as a part of its symbolism, since the Elephant, as is well known, is the symbol in Buddhism of endurance and solitary strength.* It is too bad the Elephant was omitted—it needs a symbol of endur- ance and strength to bolster it.
Misconceived Symbolism
The symbolism of this supposed-to-be Buddhist document was conceived in ignorance and it was fabricated and executed with foolish and child-like skullduggery. Let us take into consideration
8 Story of Buddha and Buddhism, Brian Brown, p. 208. David McKay, publisher. 433
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the jumbled symbols, so unfittingly messed up and inappropriately used. At the top is a conspicuous inverted triangle and in the body the mitial letters of “G:.-W-.:B:.-L-.-” are separated by inverted points. These are the signs and symbols of Black Magic. No genu- ine Buddhist Order or organization ever practiced Black Magic or used these signs or symbols. In the inverted triangle at the top is a Christian Cross, with a Mosaic serpent upon it. The symbol within itself is entirely proper,’ but upon a supposed-to-be Buddhist docu- ment it is inappropriate and out of place. No real Buddhist ever inserted a Christian Cross with a Mosiac Serpent entwined around it within an inverted triangle. That is obvious and certain. Every- one should know that the Buddhists do not use Mosaic or Christian symbols. Such mixed-up, inconsistent and repugnant symbolism is the handiwork of ignorant charlatans and pseudo occultists. Im- posed upon the body of the document is a poorly executed, exag- gerated and elongated Egyptian Crux Ansata, which is entirely foreign to Buddhist symbolism and which, it is certain, no Tibetan Order or Buddhist organization ever used or would use on any of their documents. The document is ornamented and decorated with a series of supposed-to-be ‘mystical’? Hebrew letters or characters that are impressive to the eye but which have no meaning at all. And, finally, it is sealed with the Jewish seal of Solomon and wit- nessed by three American members of Lewis’ ‘Tibetan-Masonic- Rosicrucian fabrication—now his family racket. Aside from the fact that it is written in atrocious English, the stupidity of its flag- rant mistakes and foolish inconsistencies, the conjured contradictory symbols and the inappropriate use thereof on this alleged Buddhist Charter of a mythical Tibetan Lodge, upon its face, shows it to be faked and entirely spurious. Thus “Counterfeit” in bold design is written fully across its face so that all who care to read may know that Lewis’ “Important”? Buddhistic ‘‘Rosicrucian Document No. 2” is a farcical delusion used as a fraudulent device to promote and
9 Tt will be remembered that Lewis criticized the author severely and without justi- fication for the proper use of this symbol. See Chapter Three, pp. 173 to 178, and our
Reproductions Nos. 35, 36 and 37, pp. 207, 208 and 209. Here it is inserted in a symbol ©
of Black Magic and most inappropriately used on the second most important of his most important documents.
1 We have submitted this Hebrew lettering to several Rabbis and Hebrew scholars, who inform us that the arrangement of these Hebrew letters show utter ignorance of the Hebrew and that the words attempted to be formed have no meaning. It is a crude trickery that tells its own story.
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to perpetuate his Great White Lodge-Masonic-Rosicrucian Swindle.
The Great White Brotherhood
The aforesaid fake charter was willfully designed as issuing from a “Great White Brotherhood Lodge” so as to secure the advantage of the impression which the similarity of names would most likely and naturally leave, to wit: that it issued from a lodge which is a component part of or closely associated with the Great White Brotherhood, as if the Great White Brotherhood were an apostolic system, a physical entity, or an existing physical organization, of- ficered by a Hierophant and a complete roster of executive officials dressed in full regalia and issuing pronouncements and edicts for the government of the occult, mystic and fraternal world, and granting charters of all-inclusive powers and authority, to a self- appointed megalomaniac-Imperator, who thereunder issued a spuri- ous Masonic Charter to a clandestine Freemasonic Grand Sovereign Sanctuary” and to organize thereunder a comical federation of spurious and clandestine orders, with the participation of one or two misled orders, called the Fuposi, controlled by a Supreme Triangle (or a Council of Three), composed of three so-called Imperators, who, with egotistical buffoonery, presumed to pass upon the regu- larity and authenticity of all the initiatic orders, mystic societies and fraternities of the world, of which Lewis—the Chief Imperator of the immaculate three,*® has said: ““No more competent body of judges of initiatic orders could be formed anywhere in the world. Its decisions must be final... .”* (Our italics.)
Since the GREAT WHITE BROTHERHOOD is held in sacred rever- ence and spoken of with supreme respect by initiates of all occult orders; by mystics of all mystical societies, and by members of all fraternities and religious orders and organizations, and being of
2See Part One of this chapter, pp. 249-255, supra, where it is shown that Lewis issued a spurious Masonic charter to a group of clandestine Masons who helped him hold the great Convention of Clandestinism for the formation of his Fuposi. All of which is supposed to have been done with the sanction of the alleged Great White Brotherhood Lodge or “Great White Lodge.”
3 See our Reproduction No. 52 at end of this part.
4 These claims are made by the Lewis Hierarchy of Fraternal Racketeering in The Rosicrucian Digest, November, 1934, pp. 375 to 380. The quotation will be found on p. 380, last paragraph. This article and these bombastic claims are to be presently reviewed at length.
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highest standing and coming under the universal tongue of good report, therefore, occult pretenders, arch-impostors and mystic swindlers diligently endeavor and persistently. pretend to be con- nected with it, as a device, for the furtherance of their nefarious schemes, exactly on the same theory and for the same reason that “the devil a monk would be” to better accomplish the evil designs of their fraudulent business. :
Lewis has long associated his operations as a fraternal racketeer, pseudo occultist and mystic swindler with the Great White Lodge of the Theosophists; with the ‘Great White Brotherhood Lodge of Tibet,” purely mythical, and with the Great White Brotherhood, a universal institution of high esteem among mortals and celestial beings. Since the date of said fake charter in 1920, he has made many confusing claims concerning his ‘‘affliations,” but always in the manner so as to confuse the mythical-fabricated “Great White Lodge of Tibet’’; the White Lodge of the Theosophists and the Great White Brotherhood, and with the design to leave the deep and sure, but utterly false, impression that his despicable fraternal racketeering and malicious swindling has the sanction of and is under the protection and guidance of the Great White Brother- hood. Thus he designs and pretends to give uprightness and digni- fied goodness to that which is so bad as to shame the devil and make him envious.
What Is the White Brotherhood?
It can best be understood by considering what it is and what it is not. To the Mystic and Occultist it is that band, body or associa- tion of Invisible Masters and Elder Brothers who have finished their pilgrimage on earth and in material realms, and who, from celestial realms, govern mystic societies and occult orders on earth. To the Rosicrucians it is those Invisible Initiate Masters, no longer in the body of flesh, who have perfected, illuminated and immortal- ized their souls, who constitute the Invisible Hierarchies of the Fraternity and Brotherhood and who direct the order by and through conscious contact with the initiates and masters of the order and brotherhood on earth. To all systems of esoteric religions it is the angels, archangels and invisible powers who assist the Almighty God or Divine Providence in the government of the Universe and
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direct the destinies of mankind.
The Mystic knows and his follower on the path believes that all Mystic Societies are governed by the invisible Elder Brothers. The Initiate Occultist knows and all neophytes on the way to initiation believe that all occult orders are governed by the invisible Masters or Hierarchies. And all religionists believe that their Church and the destinies of man are governed or in some way affected by the action of angels or invisible creatures or powers. All mystic, occult and religious literature confirms this knowledge or belief. There- fore, Mr. Lewis has designed to take full advantage thereof by attempting to establish himself, assisted by two other so-called and bogus Imperators, as the “Supreme Triangle” of the Fuposi for the government of all the Mystic Societies and Occult Orders of the world, under the alleged auspices of the mythical “Great White Brotherhood Lodge of Tibet,” by virtue of said spurious charter of the Arch-Impostor, Sri Khan.
In a general sense, the Great White Brotherhood is that invis- ible, immaterial and intangible entity or association of Masters, Elder Brothers, Hierarchies, Angels or Powers, who, individually, in groups or as a whole, direct and govern all institutions which teach White Magic, that strive to show The Way to better and holy things and that direct mankind along the Upward Path as distinguished from the Black Brotherhood that practices Black Magic and points to the alluring downward path of destruction.
In a still more general and material sense, the Great White Brotherhood is understood to be and is often referred to as being the spiritual recognition and feeling of good will which exists be- tween all White Magic organizations. It consists of fraternal greetings, spiritual recognition and moral support. Thus an order, society, movement, fraternity or church which is recognized by all other White Magic organizations as being worthy, working for the uplifting of mankind, as teaching true doctrine or wholesome philos- ophy and as promoting the ultimate brotherhood of mankind, with peace on earth and good will to men, is said to be of the Great White Brotherhood.
Therefore, it is obvious that it is not a physical organization; that it is not a grand lodge or sovereign sanctuary of Masonry; that it does not issue written edicts and pronouncements conferring special honors on fake Imperators of fabricated Rosicrucian
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Orders; that it does not issue spurious charters under the hand of a presumptuous, self-created Hierophant, to confer the ‘Brotherhood name of Sri Sobhita Bhikku” on a pseudo occultist, brazen, ego- tistical charlatan and mystic racketeer thereby and automatically creating him a member of the Order of Buddha, of enlightenment and wisdom; that it has nothing to do with the non-existent “Great White Brotherhood Lodge of Tibet’? or the spurious “Important Rosicrucian Document No. 2,” issued in imitation of its name by the “Venerable” arch-impostor, Sri E. L. A. M. Khan to the “Be- loved and Respected Reverend” Harvé Spencer Lewis, Ph.D., creating him a Hierophant of mystic chicanery and occult fraud, and, certainly, that it has nothing to do with his fraternal racketeer- ing and mystic swindling. If it is not yet clear in the reader’s mind, as we proceed, it will become more and more certain and self-evi- dent that the Great White Brotherhood did not sponsor and had naught to do with the ‘“‘Great Conclave,” that Congress of Clan- destinism, held at Brussels in August, 1934, which fabricated and sponsored the Fuposi, the Federation of Universal Directing Orders of Societies of Initiation—with its thrice-great “Supreme. Triangle” of three Venerable and very Illustrious, but very pre- sumptuous, self-sufficient Imperators, of all-wisdom and with all- seeing eyes, pretending to determine the regularity and authenticity of the initiatic orders, societies and fraternities of the world, to govern the same and to prescribe the rules and regulations thereof.
Lewis’ Rosicrucian Authority and the Sources of His Fraternal Recognition
Before we proceed with the further consideration of the FupDos! may we not here parenthetically note that we have reviewed in the preceding pages of this chapter all of the five “Important Rosi- crucian Documents,” as published by Lewis and which he claims to be charters and documents, showing Rosicrucian authenticity and _ authority, foreign affiliations, recognized authority and sponsorship for the Rosicrucian work of AMORC in this country, but which, as we have seen, show nothing of the kind, whereas, they are, in fact, mere shams, snares and delusions, used as fraudulent devices in furtherance of his family racket and fraternal swindle.
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which he prevented the truth being proven at a cost of $15,000,° and his seeming “‘victory”’ over the “conspirators,” that is to say, over those who had told the truth and exposed his fraudulent scheme and swindle. He became careless of statement; began to brag unduly about his Rosicrucian authority, charters and docu- ments, and in his great jubilation and misconceived position of security, he published those worthless documents to the world with much ado and ballyhoo. Concerning his action and reason for doing so, in The Rosicrucian Digest for November, 1933, at page 380, he said:
“Over a year ago we could have said many things in this maga- zine that would have greatly enlightened our members and the pub- lic in regard to those points that seem to be mysterious and dark. Certainly, we could have published years ago® the photographs of the various documents that are now appearing monthly on one of the last pages of this magazine shcwing the authenticity and chartered, recognized authority possessed by this organization. “These docu- ments and charters [?] have been shown year after year to the mem- bers and delegates assembled here at our annual Conventions, and various committees at those Conventions have been voluntarily formed to communicate with foreign persons of recognized standing to verify the nature of those charters [?] and documents, and many of our members in visiting foreign lands have made it their business to contact various authorities who could verify these charters [ ?] and other documents. But we did not want to place into the hands of the conspirators such matters, photographs, wordings of char- ters [?], names and addresses as would have enabled them to aug-
* ment their malicious work of misquoting these things and extending their annoying activities into the .domains of other peaceful and happy jurisdictions.‘ But, as I have said above, cur silence in regard to these things led these conspirators and some self-appointed leaders of other organizations to contend and publicly claim that AMORC did not have, did not possess, could not reveal any charters, docu- ments, any foreign affiliations, any recognized authority or sponsor-
5 See Chapter One, supra.
6 This seems impossible. “Important Documents Nos. 1 and 5” were not issued, according to their dates, until 1933. The Imperator is very careless with his state- ments. See our Reproductions Nos. 41 and 49.
* The only “peaceful and happy jurisdiction” here referred to are those which Lewis has established under his own spurious authority to form his “International Council” and to send him documents and to confer degrees and honors on the Imperator of North America. But they have not been peaceful or happy jurisdictions.
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ship for the work of AMORC in this country.’* (Our italics.)
We have quoted the foregoing statement because it is a typical and fine example of his deceit and is characteristic of all his state- ments concerning his Rosicrucian charters, authority and authen- ticity. As always, it contains the usual number of misrepresentations to the running inch. After an examination of his charters (?) and ‘“Tmportant’’ Documents, and in the light of the truth and the facts shown in this work, especially in this volume, one wonders how he could have the courage or bold audacity to publish a statement so utterly false and grossly misleading.
The International R. C. Council in the Process of Formation
Although he had formed (?) the International Council of Pan- sophia, with headquarters at Berlin, and had published that fact to the world in 1930, as we have seen in Part Three of this chapter,” however, we find that at about that time his attorney made an examination of his representation and documents relating to his so-called International Council and advised him “‘that it would be inadvisable to reiterate those representations” because they “could not be maintained,’ whereupon Lewis instructed his said attorney to begin work on the formation of an International Council. In December he began correspondence with European lawyers, es- pecially one H. S. Bergier, of Lausanne, Switzerland, whose name he had received through the U. S. Consulate Service, in relation to the formation of a corporation in Switzerland that “was to be the International Council of the Rose Crucis Order.” The efforts to create said International Council began in December, 1930, and much time, effort and discussion were devoted to it in the following two years, but nothing was accomplished except to draft a pro- posed constitution for it.’ And nothing definite had been done about
8 This, of course, has reference to Rosicrucian authority, authenticity and recogni- tion, since he claims that AMORC is the only authentic R. C. Order in America. However, in characteristic manner, his statements are made broad enough to cover most everything, including Clandestine Masonry and spurious “White Lodge” af- filiations.
° See our Reproductions Nos. 47, 47A and 47B.
1 These facts were revealed by the testimony of Alfred Aram on February 28, 1936, in the Federal Court at San Francisco, in the case of ROY W. AND A. E. SMITH
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it up to the spring of 1933, when said attorney wrote “Dr.” Lewis the following letter:
March 28, 1933. “Dr. H. Spencer Lewis, “AMORC College, “My dear Dr. Lewis: “Yesterday's Mercury Herald reports that this summer you expect to attend the annual meeting of
All the Italics Are the Baconian Society in London and you expect to Ours. visit Belgium also.
“Let me urge again the advisability of giving the A Council Still International Organization a more definite form. A Without Form and central organization with control over the various Void. jurisdictions, perhaps, is not what is desired, but
rather a federation of independent jurisdictions with central officers to provide the means of enforcing uniformity, defining recognized jurisdictions and provide for periodical consultations.
“JT consider this of very great importance, and if you concur in my views, steps ought to be taken immediately to prepare the ground so that the actual
Of Such Importance organizing work may be done while you are in as to Justify Any Europe. :
Expense of Time or “It is my view that the end will justify any ex- Money. pense of time or money.
“Very sincerely yours,”
NAT Ge
Mr. Lewis did go to Belgium in the summer of 1933 and with his lawyer-Masonic confederate, Jean Mallinger, began to lay the plans for the ““Great Conclave’ in Brussels, in August, 1934, for the creation of the Fuposi—his present so-called International Coun- cil. In his report of the above-mentioned conclave,* which resulted from the schemes and plans of himself and Mallinger, he gives expression of deep appreciation to Dr. Jean Mallinger’s assistance.
As soon as the report of the Congress of Clandestinism, directed
Vs. AMORC AND THE LEWISES. See official report of the testimony, Reporter’s Transcript, pp. 285, 286 and 287.
2 Being “Plaintiff's Exhibit 40,” ROY W. AND A. E. SMITH Vs. AMORC AND THE LEWISES, Reporter's Transcript, p. 346.
3 Reported and published under the name of his daughter-in-law, The Rosicrucian Digest, November, 1934, p. 380.
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by Lewis and Mallinger, and of the formation of the Fuposi was available, we denounced the Congress as being irregular and clan- destine, and the Fuposi as being a mere subterfuge, void and of no effect as a Rosicrucian Council. We said that the Congress was not a Rosicrucian Congress; that Lewis had never attended an International Rosicrucian Convention or Congress in Europe or elsewhere, and that he was merely imposing upon and deceiving his members. To enable him to make a more plausible reply to our charges and to meet them with his characteristic stratagems and subterfuges,* he confused and misstated them under his statement
of charge Number Three in his White Book D, as follows:
Number Three Confusion to Hide the Truth
Italics Are Ours. “Clymer charges, and goes to great length to ar- Not a Rosicrucian gue, that when the Imperator of AMORC said he Congress at All. attended a great congress of Rosicrucians [?] and
other mystical societies in Brussels, Belgium, in July® of 1934, at which time a union or federation of all the Rosicrucian [?] and mystical societies was formed, endorsing AMORC and refuting Clymer’s He Did Deceive claims, that the Imperator of AMORC was lying His Members. and deceiving his members, and that no such fed- eration as the ‘Fuposi’ was formed, that there was no congress or convention, and insinuates that the Imperator did not attend any such convention. He
But the Magazine claims also that no reputable magazine or historical
Was Also Deceived. 7 record published in Europe or America contains any report of such a congress being held in Brussels. in 1934.” ®
From the light of truth and the facts revealed herewith and in Part One hereof, it is apparent that the “great Congress of Rosi- crucians’’ was a hoax, pure and simple—the congress, if it can be so called and dignified—was composed principally and overwhelm-
4 These subterfuges have been treated at length in Chapter II. This particular section of his reply is considered here because it deals with the subject matter we are here and now considering.
5 Should be August.
6 White Book D., p. 30. Here by a footnote he refers to his “Exhibit No. 7,” which will be seen in our Reproduction No. 48, which we shall presently discuss.
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ingly of charlatans, pretenders and clandestine Memphis-Mizraim Masons. In no proper sense could it be called an R. C. Congress and a “union or federation of all Rosicrucians’’ was not formed. That is perfectly obvious, and it is crystal clear that Lewis was deceiving his members, as well as creating a fraudulent device for his Masonic-R. C. swindle.
The Rose Croix magazine, the official organ of the Alchemical Society of France, edited by the eminent, worthy and highly re- spected F. Jollivet Castelot, did publish what purported to be an account of the congress and the formation of the Fupost, but it was a deceptive and false account—it was a low and despicable trick and Mr. Castelot was deceived and overreached, just as Lewis has deceived and overreached some of the most eminent and high- class American editors and publishers.’ All of this will be clearly shown as we proceed with the examination of the facts and the revelation of the truth.
Typical Lewtstonian Subterfuge Proving (2?) One Fact With Evidence of Another
Then, to disprove the charges as confused and misstated by him- self, he has his ‘“‘voluntary” committee say:
“The committee has examined passports of per- Italics Are Ours. sons who attended the convention, records of ho- tels where delegates from various countries stopped
for over a week in Belgium, newspaper reports pub-
This Committee a lished in Europe regarding the convention, certifica- Contrivance and tion of radio announcement of the convention that Convenience for was made over one of the principal radio stations in Hiding the Truth Brussels, moving pictures that were taken of the and Concealing officers and delegates at the convention and other the Facts. matters, including signed documents that have been
verified by cable dispatches and by inquiries made by newspaper men and other unbiased authorities. Refers to His “In addition thereto, the committee publishes “Exhibit 7.” herewith part of a magazine called ‘The Rose Croix, published in France as the official publica- tion of the Rosicrucian Alchemical Society of France Base Stratagem and of the AMORC of France. The magazine is in
7 See Personal Foreword, pp. 20 to 23, supra.
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Deceived Editor, Then its fortieth year and under the directorship of the Took Full Advantage eminent scientist and alchemist and Master Rosicru- Thereof. cian, Jollivet Castelot. The fact that the magazine has been published for forty years shows the age of the organization in France and the reliability of its It Does Not Contain a statements. It contains a full report [?] of the Full and Fair Repott, Brussels convention and of the formation of the fed- But One Designed eration called ‘Fuposi,’ guaranteeing the genuineness to Mislead. and authenticity of AMORC ‘as the only authentic Rosicrucian Order in North and South America perpetuating the ancient and true organization of Rosicrucians and their genuine principles and laws.’
This Remarkable All of this evidence [?], which the committee veri- Proof (!) to Hide fied, unquestionably disproves Clymer’s charges and the Truth. refutes his statement that the Imperator, H. Spencer
Lewis, has deceived his*membership in America and that there are no reports of the ‘Fuposi’ convention to be found in any European or American records.” ®
This remarkable evidence (?) does prove that some kind or sort of a meeting was held in Brussels in August, 1934, and, contrary to Lewis’ designing, it does prove that he has deceived his members and grossly overreached and tricked his ‘“‘Voluntary’’ Committee. All of this undue preparation and precaution to provide “‘the evi- dence” as certification of radio announcement, moving pictures, hotel records, newspaper accounts, etc., and to have them verified by his confederates and co-conspirators in Europe, overcasts his actions with a cloud of suspicion. Honest men who attend authentic congresses for worthy ends are never suspicious of themselves, and they never provide themselves in advance with alibis and the proof thereof. Honesty and authenticity do not hold aloft a torch to pro- claim the truth of their existence, nor do they need to be labeled, verified and certified. On the other hand, chicanery and fraud carry their own earmarks and badges of condemnation for’ the
ultimate discovery of the truth. All the precautions and advance -
procurement of many bits of insignificant and inconclusive evidence, verified and certified, to prove the authenticity and worthiness of the Mallinger-Lewistonian Congress of Clandestinism in Brussels, August, 1934, become and are a notable Badge of Fraud, pointing to the fact that the whole affair was, as we are discovering, a gigantic
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cunning scheme to create a fake “International Council” or alleged “Power” for Lewis, to certify to the false and fraudulent statement, that AMORC, his fraternal racket and Masonic-R. C. swindle, is “the only authentic Rosicrucian Order in North and South America perpetuating the ancient and true organization of the Rosicrucians, and their genuine principles and laws.”
Deceiving the French Editor Using His Publication for Their Own Ends
The Rose Croix magazine is a well-known French occult publica- tion of value, that has been published for forty years, is the official organ of the Alchemical Society of France, under the responsible editorship or directorship of the well-known scientist and occultist, F. Jollivet Castelot, who is a very busy man, deeply absorbed and occupied with alchemy. He is the very best type of the highly reputed occultists, who can best serve schemers and give dignity, support and favorable commendation to their wicked enterprises. Being a deep student and fully absorbed in other matters and his own affairs, it was easy to deceive and overreach him, and to secure the benefit of his tacit approval of their scheming by lending his organ and publishing their “‘stuff.”
For a time Monsieur F. Jollivet Castelot did patronize the AMORC of France, but that was before it was shown to be a part of the AMORC of Europe, that is, of Belgium, with branches in Switzerland and France, and before it was known that the AMORC in Belgium, France and Switzerland were fabrications, parts of the Mallinger-Lewis scheme and operating under the spurious author- ity of AMORC of the U. S. A. as a part of Lewis’ grand scheme of the International AMORC.
For a time Monsieur Castelot declared his magazine to be the organ of AMORC, which gave it undue and undeserved prestige in Europe, but he was deceived when he did it. Certainly Lewis has taken every possible unfair advantage of it. They also secured his co-operation in the Congress of Brussels—he did not attend, only sent a representative, but his name gave unto that assembly of clandestinism a dignity which it did not deserve. And he published a supplement attached to his magazine, written in German, in January, 1935, purporting to be an account of the Congress of
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Brussels in August, 1934, and its lofty and noble purposes.
Therefore, taking full advantage of the situation as above out- lined, Lewis published a cut of La Rose >K Croix, with the supple- ment containing the so-called report of the FUDOsI imposed upon it in a tricky and designing manner so as to give a certain notably false impression, as we shall later point out. This exhibition of trickery he labeled as his ‘Exhibit No. 7,”° concerning which he said:
‘The above photo shows the cover and one inside page of France’s most dignified and respected occult publication. Note that it is the official publication of the Rosicrucian Alchemical Society of France and the French AMORC. Note also that its director-owner and editor is the very eminent F. Jollivet Castelot. This photo proves that it reported the Fupost convention and issued a new “Fama about it.” (Our italics. )
The upper part of the Exhibit, marked “A” in our Reproduction No. 48, is the first or cover page of the La Rose > Croix. The first article in the magazine is entitled “Fama Fraternitatis,” which in no manner deals with the Congress or Brussels or ‘“The Fuposi con- or is it in any way, to any degree, related to it. Beneath the title, Fama Fraternitatis, Lewis has imposed the publication of the article of Frater Amertis and Herr Marc Lanval, of “the Fuposi convention,” so as to leave the entirely false and wholly
vention,”
unjustified impression that they relate to the same subject. Then taking and pressing the advantage of the false impression created by his cunning and detestable trickery, he willfully made the claim, the utterly false claim, that in addition to publishing said report the Rose Croix magazine and Monsieur F. Jollivet Castelot “issued a new ‘Fama’ about it.” Such petty and base trickery—so infinitely small and low—becomes a big and outstanding Badge of Fraud telling the story of an international fraudulent scheme, a foreign fraudulent device, to carry on and perpetuate a detestable and flagrant swindle in America.
9 White Book D., p. 23. For his “Exhibit No. 7” and his claims concerning the same, see our Reproduction No. 48.
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The Report of the Fudosi As Published in La Rose *k Croix
To get the true perspective and to fully understand how Lewis and his European confederates deceived the editor of La Rose *k _ Croix and to appreciate the extent of the advantage Lewis has taken of it, as well as the infamy of the false representation he has made about such publication of the report and the tacit approval of the Fuposi as the result thereof, it is necessary to know what the so-called report contains. A translation of it into English, when read in the light of other facts herein shown, will be illuminating on many dark points, which have enabled Lewis to give plausibility to his false representation.
The report was prepared and published in the German—why it should have been published in German in a French magazine is a mystery that we have not solved. It may not be important, or it may be accounted for by the fact that the report was prepared by August Reichel, signed with his initiate name or nom de plume, Frater Amertis, a German refugee in Switzerland. He is a mem- ber of a number of secret societies and enjoys a high fraternal standing in Europe. He was the secret “undercover’”’ representative of Sar Hieronymus, Imperator of Europe, in fact, the secret repre- sentative of Jean Mallinger and H. Spencer Lewis, although he did not know it, and in his ignorance of his undisclosed principals he was being used to carry out and further their scheme and to promote the organization of the AMORC in other countries in Europe, especially in France and Switzerland. Possessing a frater- nal standing and being an occultist of some worth, he was the type of man most useful to them to promote and carry out their crooked plans and questionable schemes, but to use him and to secure the benefit of his services, it was necessary to mislead and deceive him. He thoroughly disapproved of Lewis’ commercialized methods and fraternal racketeering. Our last information was to the effect that he was becoming suspicious of the whole layout. When he is disillusioned he will repudiate the whole rotten scheme and de- nounce it. The said article, published in the La Rose >*K Croix, which he wrote, shows conclusively that he knew nothing of the dark inner scheme of ‘“‘the Fupos! convention.”
A free translation of the above-mentioned article as published in
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La Rose *k Croix, interspersed with our comments and observations, is offered‘ for the careful consideration and study of the reader, and also to be compared with the claims and published statements of Lewis made in this country, as follows:
RH ESRUDO Si.
“FEDERATION UNIVERSALIS DIRIGENS ORDINES SOCIETATESOUE INITIATIONS]
(Federation Directing Orders of Societies of Initiation)
“The storm whips the sea in the dark of night to its deepest depths. The Bride of the Winds cannot allay the mounting flood or remove a drop from the elements!
“In the same way the most revolutionary external events—the most disturbing deeds of violence—cannot entirely rob humanity of its inherent consciousness of cohesion and confraternity—its feeling of solidarity. It is true that cur present generation is not yet ripe for a realization of the present economic ideas of a Bellamy!
“Nevertheless, despite all, a great, insatiable longing rushes through the soil and the spirit of nations, urging on to constructive co-operation—to joint collaboration—free from all pressure of ra- cial, national and religious differences.
“And who is capable of experiencing this undeniable nostalgia more intensively than the Thinker, the ‘Initiated,’ who, with thoughts turned introspectively inward, radiates externally the re- sult of his inward consciousness, advances with the times and is net retarded by any anti-social prejudices, regardless of whether he is a member of a certain school or follows any special theory or teaching of traditional, secret or esoteric organization, or who prefers to go his way alone, obeying only his aroused inner guide or master!
“Tt is, therefore, not surprising that the prevailing conditions had necessarily to serve as a pretext and stimulation to strengthen a powerful, material group comprising all previous, isolated pro- tagonists of human ideals and all those orders and fraternities which aspire toward spiritual goals, all of whom worked individually and singly in the past—in silence—for themselves and their followers.”
Brotherhood
This is the statement of the ideals of universal brotherhood in terms-so general and broad as to arouse the objections of no one. Everybody, every White Magic Order, society and fraternity can
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and does subscribe to the above-stated doctrine and ideals, and no publisher of an occult or mystic publication could find the slightest objection to publishing such a statement. The article or report continues:
“As early as 1908 an attempt was made to combine a majority of the different directions of thought into such joint collaboration. The well-known French occultist, Dr. Papus (Enceusse), Grand Mas- ter of the Order Martinists and an active member of so many wrongly termed ‘Secret Societies,’ took the initiative in this connec- tion, and the result would probably have had great spiritual impor- tance in every regard if the world conflagration of 1914 and the re- sultant national psychoses had not brought to naught the optimistic efforts of the parties who were interested in this work at the time.”
This refers to the Masonic Congress of Paris, 1908, discussed in Part Two of this chapter, which, it will be recalled, Lewis incor- rectly claimed was a Rosicrucian Congress—as he claims this Congress of Clandestinism and deceit to be a Rosicrucian Conven- tion. The report continues:
“Veterans who took part in this movement more than twenty-five years ago and younger idealists and fighters for ideals have now suc- ceeded in re-creating the desired ‘community of the spirit’ and in making a new start toward the contemplated world-wide association of all organizations with spiritual aims.
“The attempt this time was inspired by the ‘Universitaere Rosen- kreuzerbund’ (Universal Rosicrucians), although for more than a century they had deemed it a sacred duty not to appeal to the public. Its present head, Frater Hieronymus, as Imperator, broke the silence in view of the agony of the world, which could hardly be measured.”
(Our italics. )
Rosicrucianism—True and False
The writer of this article or report is, at least, acquainted with the true tradition and ancient landmarks of the Rosy Cross, as is shown by his statement that the Fraternity has ‘deemed it a sacred duty not to appeal to the public,” but he labors under a serious mis- apprehension of the truth and the facts when he states or infers that Frater Hieronymus is the present head of the ‘‘Universal”’ Rosicrucians. He is, as shown herein, the mere figurehead of the Lewis-Mallinger fabrication in Belgium, and like the author of
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this report, Hieronymus (Danthine) may not realize or know what it is all about, yet he is the instrument of Lewis, his undisclosed Master, directed by Mallinger for the faithful carrying out and execution of his dark scheme and fraudulent device. The breaking of the “silence” in that instance was not exactly what it appeared to be to August Reichel, alias Frater Amertis, or perhaps to Dan- thine, alias Sar Hieronymus, yet, in reality, it was a daring attempt —through the instrumentality of innocent men—to introduce and establish in Europe the Lewistonian, ‘““American-made”’ brand of spurious Rosicrucianism, with all of its highly commercialized methods of high-pressured advertising and publicity. Let us con- tinue with the report:
“Fourteen organizations obeyed the call and sent their delegates to Brussels, where, from August 8 to August 17, 1934, an ‘Inter- national Convent’ was held, which probably reminds one of a Con- vention of the F. M. (Freemasonic) Rosicrucian Lodge held in the same city in 1888, the purpose and aims of which (this conven- tion), however, must be considered as very much more universal in scope.
“Tt is merely indicated here that, in addition to the Synarchic Martinist Orders, the Order of the Unknown Samaritan, the Order of Hermes T. M. (Pythagoreans) and that of French Masons, Freemasons of the Memphis-Mizraim Order, seven other branches of the Rosicrucian Order were represented. We mention in par- ticular, furthermore, the participation of the French Alchemist So- ciety and that of the Clairy Lodge.” (Our italics.)
The Participants
A Version Contrary to Lewis’ Version
We have seen that Synarchic Martinist Orders, represented at this so-called Congress by Victor Blanchard, is not the Regular Martinist Order.’ We shall later show that the so-called Rosicru- cian Orders are not Rosicrucian Orders, but self-constituted organi- zations, fabricated by Lewis and his confederates in Europe. It has been shown by Monsieur C. Chevillon* that this Congress was held principally, indeed, almost entirely, by Clandestine Masons pretending to be of the Order of Memphis-Mizraim. This report,
+See Part One of this chapter, pp. 259 to 261, supra. 2 See Part One of this chapter, pp. 242 to 255, supra.
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purporting to be official, sustains the statement and charge of Chevillon and squarely contradicts Lewis’ statement,*® denying the connection of alleged Masonic organizations with the congress and the Fuposi. In the light of the record the reader will experience no difficulty in appraising the value and determining the truth of the claims of Lewis and his statements relating to said congress and the Fupost.
To keep the record straight, let us record that the eminent scien- tist and occultist, F. Jollivet Castelot, the head of the Alchemical Society of France, did not personally participate in the congress. He and his society were represented by another person, by what the French call a “power of attorney.’’ However, the fact that the eminent leader of the highly reputed Alchemical Society had given his sanction to the movement and had sent a representative to participate in the congress gave dignity and prestige thereto, which caused the few occultists representing genuine occult orders and mystic societies to believe, just as Monsieur F. Jollivet Castelot was deceived and misled into believing, that it was a genuine move- ment with the high ideals of universal brotherhood directing a united effort to promote the well-being of mankind, as stated in the beginning of this published report of its declared purposes, and not —as it in fact was—a mere scheme for the promotion and perpet- uation of a fraternal racket and occult fraud in America.
Mr. August Reichel, who signed this report as Fra Amertis, who, no doubt, believed that it was a worthy movement to carry out the ideas as stated in this report and who knew nothing of the cunningly wicked, concealed and undisclosed corrupt purposes and dark schemes that lay back of and beneath its well-arranged “‘front” or exterior appearances, records and stresses with particular empha- sis the participation of the French Alchemical Society.
And Lewis, the master mind and super-schemer, with an ‘‘axe to grind” and a sinister object to be accomplished, appreciating full well the dignity and confidence which the name of F. Jollivet Caste- lot gave to his crooked project and the prestige and status which the participation of the Alchemical Society of France gave to his cunningly camouflaged brummagem congress of clandestinism, has taken full advantage thereof and has designingly used the name of that eminent Frenchman and French Society to bolster the Fupost,
®° For Lewis’ statement see Part One of this chapter, pp. 257 to 259, supra.
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and as an aid for the promotion of his fraternal racket.*
Lewis refers to said Alchemical Society as the “Rosicrucian Al- chemical Society of France,’ which is misleading. Although the esoteric teachings of the Rosicrucians deal with alchemy and not- withstanding that the official magazine of that society is published under the title La Rose >K Croix, yet, nevertheless, the Alchemical Society of France is not, strictly speaking, a Rosicrucian Order. However, all Rosicrucians hold the leaders of that organization and the society in highest esteem, and so esteeming them and their organization, they never attempt to misuse them or to make capital out of their good names. Genuine Rosicrucianism is not like that, and real Rosicrucians never do such things. Now, let us continue with the report:
“To discuss the many problems which were taken under consid- eration on the occasion of this conference under the direct inspiration of the Inner and Invisible Rosy Cross would lead too far. Let it, therefore, suffice to call attention to the actual, practical result, namely, the founding of the FEDERATION UNIVERSALIS DIRIGENS ORDINES SOCIETATESQUE INITIATIONIS! (International Association of Mystic Orders and Fraternities F.U.D.0.8.1.)° |
“What can and what shall be understood by this title? Perhaps a purely idealistic and ideal association of the most diversified organi- zations of the old and the new world, as approximately effected about the year 1900 under the influence of French Occultism, with- out being able to show, however, direct, practical results?’ (Italics are ours. )
The Invisible Inspiration
As a matter of solemn truth, the congress and the Fuposi were not ‘‘under the direct inspiration of the Inner and Invisible Rosy Cross.” We now know, and most of the sincere but greatly deceived individuals who participated in that conference have discovered, the ‘invisible’ and sinister inspiration for the formation of the Fupost and also that which brought it into existence.
4 See our Reproduction No. 48. 5 Mr. Reichel translates the adopted name into the German as here set forth, but such a free translation is hardly justified in view of the truth and the facts herein
shown. The FUDOSI is far from being an association of Mystical Societies and Fraternal Orders.
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The authority of the report, Mr. Reichel, most likely understood and the public were led to believe that it was a “‘purely idealistic and ideal association of the most diversified organizations.”’ That was the way in which Lewis and his confederates made it appear, but it was pure Lewistonian camouflage. Lewis returned to America and claimed that it was an association of all the Rosicrucian Orders in the world, and their allied orders, thereby attempting to make it appear as an authentic Rosicrucian Power which had pronounced and certified to his family racket and fraudulent R. C. fabrication to be the only authentic Rosicrucian organization in the Americas.
Continuing with the report, the author says:
“We shall try to appraise properly the importance of the Fupost.
“This Association aspires toward the grouping of all mystic or- ganizations for an intensive working toward all clearly defined goals, which shall be considered more thoroughly. The ideal and adminis- trative management is a triumvirate, consisting of one representative each from Europe and America and a third representative for the protection of the actual traditions of the East and West. Those per- sons first selected for this purpose, whose names for the time being will not be made public, belong to the leaders of Esoterism and Mys- ticism both in theoretical and in organizing regard. The said Tri- umvirate enjoys supreme competency in all matters relating to the Lodge.
“In executive regard there is available to the Supreme Manage- ment of the Association the services of an International Secretary whose duties do not merely consist in maintaining regular connec- tions with and toward all related organizations, but to whom there is also entrusted the collecting and working of all possible docu- ments. Furthermore, the issuance of semi-annual report on the ac- tivities of the affliated orders and fraternities is contemplated, which will be delivered to all members together with suggestions and regu- larly scheduled demands.”
The Supreme Triangle
The triumvirate set up for the management of the Fupos! has been designated in English as ‘““The Supreme Triangle” in the cer- tification of the proceedings furnished to Lewis by Marc Lanval.® The personnel of the Triangle set up for the control of this decep- tive joke and ridiculous farce was to be a dark secret, to be closely
6 See our Reproduction No. 52, which we shall presently quote at length in the text.
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guarded and hidden from the-world to show their “supreme com- petency in all matters relating to the lodge” and “in organizing regard.’ That the reader may get the true perspective and arrive at a perfect understanding of the “invisible inspiration” that formed the Fupos1 and worked out this vicious and fraudulent scheme, we shall presently reveal the names of the Triumvirate, or “Supreme Tmangle 7
This published report, signed by August Reichel as Fra Ameriis, was no doubt prepared in collaboration with Marc Lanval and Jean Mallinger, confederates of Lewis—both of whom were on the inside as manipulators and wire-pullers for the master schemer—who pulled the wool over Brother Reichel’s eyes. Inasmuch as he was then a recent refugee from Germany and not so well acquainted with the three ‘“‘Imperators,” it was, no doubt, an easy matter to secure his assent and signature to a report, asserting that the man- agement was ideal and that the three “Imperators”’ belong to the “leaders of Esoterism and Mysticism, both theoretical and in or- ganizing regard,” especially in organizing regard; and that “the said Triumvirate enjoys supreme competency in all matters relating to the lodge,” especially in organizing spurious powers and fake bodies to certify to the regularity of clandestine lodges, fabricated orders and fraternal rackets. This is all in accordance with Lewis’ ideas, who has said, as noted before but repeated in this connection, in speaking of the Supreme Triangle—which is the Fupos! in truth and in fact—that “No more competent body of judges of initiatic orders could be formed anywhere in the world. Its decisions and decrees must be final, since there are no other groups or individuals outside of this new Federation which can impeach or even question the high competency of knowledge or unbiased attitude of such a conclave.’’” (Our italics.) As to the “competency” of the three Imperators who set themselves up as dictators of all Initiatic Or- ders, whose decisions and decrees must be final, the reader will be able to determine from the facts herein shown and to appraise such “‘competency”’ as well, as the audacity and imprudence of the three Imperators—or maybe it is one—the master schemer, speak- ing for three, the other two being under his deceptive domination or control.
7 The Rosicrucian Digest, November, 1934, p. 380. We shall later discuss this ridi- culous and foolhardy claim. '
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Toe: “Three Imperators” and the Scheme of One Imperator
It was, as we have heretofore said, the scheme of the Impera- tor of the Lewis hierarchy of fraternal racketeering to hold a great conclave, or what had the appearance of a great convention in Europe to give fraternal recognition to and to bolster and aid his occult fraud and Masonic-R. C. swindle in America. Let us see how the scheme was worked out so as to give the convention the plausible appearance of genuineness. First, with the cunning assistance of his lawyer-confederate, Jean Mallinger, they fabricated the spurious Rose Croix University of Belgium, “Ruler of the Sciences and Arts’*® as the AMORC of Europe and appointed a simple and credulous man of good repute, with dignified appearance, by the name of Danthine, alias Sar Hieronymus, under the control of Mal- linger, as Imperator of Europe, with jurisdiction over the spurious AMORC fabrications for France and Switzerland. They also cre- ated spurious orders of the Freemasonic Rites of Memphis-Miz- raim.” And then Mallinger invited a few genuine occultists and orders of good standing—those that could be deceived and misled— to participate in the “great conclave’’ to form a Universal Federa- tion of Occult Orders and Mystical Societies to hasten universal brotherhood, with peace on earth and good will to men.
The Congress of Brussels was held in August, 1934, with the delegates or representatives of clandestine Masonic bodies, other clandestine orders and spurious so-called Rosicrucian Orders (all under the guiding control of Mallinger) in the great majority, and with a few real occultists and representatives of genuine orders and organizations of good standing—present and laboring under the duress of deception—to add dignity to the occasion and prestige to the conclave.
The Lewis scheme—the dark, crooked scheme that lay beneath the whole affair—was to have three Imperators as the Triumvirate, or the “Supreme Triangle,” with an International Secretary to act for and really control the Federation, ostensibly with general and unoffensive powers as outlined in the published report; but in
8 See the letterhead and the translation of it as shown by our Reproduction No. 48A. ° See Part One of this chapter, supra.
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reality to certify to the genuineness of his fraternal fraud in Amer- ica. Of course, the idea was proposed by another. The scheme was adopted ‘unanimously’ without anybody, except the master schemer and his confederates and inside ‘“‘wire-pullers” and manip- ulators, knowing what it was all about or what had really been accomplished.
In the light of the foregoing it, indeed, will be interesting to know who were appointed to form the SUPREME TRIANGLE, the ‘““competent”’ dictators of all initiatic orders and the dispensers of the Wisdom. Here they are: From Europe, the ‘Imperator for Europe,” Mr. DANTHINE, alias Sar Hieronymus; from America, the ‘Imperator of the Americas,” Mr. H. SPENCER LEwis, alias Sar Alden, Sri Sobhita Bhikku, Rex Universitatis Illuminati, etc., and the third Imperavor, “for the protection of the actual traditions of the East and West,” Mr. Vicror BLANCHARD, alias Sar Yesir, representing several clandestine orders, as the Synarchic Martinist Order, “Ordre Kabbalistique de Rose Croix de France,” etc., and this is the “Supreme Triangle,’ with supreme competency and unquestionable jurisdiction over all the initiatic orders and mystic societies of the world!
How did Lewis “put it over” the Great Conclave? How did he put his scheme into execution and certify—through Marc Lanval, International Secretary,’ to his own glory and the authenticity of his fraternal racket? Well, you see, it was this way: Mallinger controlled Sar Hieronymus, the “Imperator of Europe’; Lewis controlled Mallinger and Lanval, the International Score was a friend of both—they were a majority—so they did it “unani- mously.”’? Blanchard, Sar “Yes-Sir,” was not a “yes” man and was not so easily controlled. On several occasions he has protested and refused to go along with the Lewis- Mallinger scheming, but he was only an insignificant minority. And that is the way, the how,
and the why the ‘Supreme Triangle” of the Fuposi determined and certified that Imperator Lewis’ fraternal racket is the only au-
1 The certificate shown in our Reproduction No. 52, which is to be quoted in full in the text and discussed presently.
2 See The Rosicrucian Digest, November, 1934, pp. 277, 278.
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thentic Rosicrucian Order in the Americas.
Let us further consider the published official report of the “Great Conclave.” It continues as follows:
THE PURPOSE OF THE FUDOSI
“The purpose and goal of the Fuposr can be briefly summarized:
“1. The bringing together or association of all mystical and occult
orders and fraternities in a joint work for the improvement of
mankind. [That is a worthy object! |
The combating of all causes of discord and misery, of a religious,
political or social nature, which might cause conflict between na-
tions and races. [ That is a noble purpose! |
“3, The synthesis of all teachings and aspirations into their funda- mentally like identity of truth, despite differences in rites and ex- ternal forms. [And that seems good also! |
“Aside from the points of this joint program, the organizations join-
ing the association retain complete liberty of action. ‘Their member-
bership in the Fuposi merely constitutes an honorary decoration—a
blue ribbon, so to speak, which shall firmly entwine all organizations
and lead towards a mutual promotion of their joint ideals and goals.”
[To wit: the Brotherhood of Men. ]
cd ae
Up to this point, the official report has dealt with the aims and objects of the federation in generalities and in the broadest possible outline. However, we now have a more specific statement purport- ing to define the purpose and limit the scope, powers and authority of the Fuposi. The purpose was, therefore, to associate all mysti- cal and occult orders and fraternities in joint activities for the im- provement of mankind, by combating all causes of conflict between creeds, nations and races. This, it was contended and proposed, could be accomplished by the synthesis, or the bringing together for review, of all their teachings, which would show that they are all fundamentally the same—each teaching the same truth and aiming at a common goal, despite differences in rites and external forms. ‘Hence, to accomplish this purpose, we have been told in the last preceding paragraph of this official report, that a Triumvirate— “The Supreme Triangle’—had been appointed with the assistance of an International Secretary, whose duties are to maintain regular connections with all related organizations, ‘‘the collecting and work- ing of all possible documents,” and the issuances of semi-annual reports. |
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The Concealed Trickery of the Dark Lewistonian Scheme
The stated purposes summarized under Nos. 1 and 2 are inno- cent objects to which no upright man and no worthy order or fra- ternity could possibly object. Indeed, all worthy orders and fra- ternities are organized for the improvement of mankind and the promotion of Brotherhood by combating discord and misery arising out of the differences of race, creed and social status. However, within the third numbered paragraph of the summarized purposes, so vaguely and curiously stated, providing for “the synthesis of all teachings,” is concealed the deep, dark scheme of Lewis to create ‘the International Council” to certify to his Rosicrucian regularity and exclusive authority in the Americas. It was under the pretext of synthesizing or unifying of the teachings of the several clan- destine bodies and the few regular but misguided orders and socie- ties represented at said Congress, that Lewis and his controlled ‘Supreme Triangle’ and his ‘International Secretary’? usurped the right and presumed, with audacious pretensions, to pass upon the regularity of all Mystic Societies, Occult Orders and Initiatic Fraternities of the Universe and to certify to the Rosicrucian authenticity of his commercialized Masonic-Rosicrucian fabrication in the new world. |
But to better camouflage and to conceal the real purpose and the dark, crooked design from the well-meaning and upright occultists, August Reichel and F. Jollivet Castelot, who had to do with making and publishing in Europe, for home consumption, of this strangely contradictory, vaguely uncertain and specially designed report,® it was declared that: aside from the joint activities in the promotion of the Brotherhood of mankind, the organizations joining the Fu- DOsI retained ““COMPLETE LIBERTY OF ACTION”; that, after all, MEMBERSHIP Was Nor BINDING ON ANYBODY OR ANY ORDER OR SOCIETY, and that ‘“THEIR MEMBERSHIP IN THE Fupost MERELY CONSTITUTES AN Honorary DECORATION—A BLUE RIBBON, SO
TO SPEAK—WHICH SHALL FIRMLY ENTWINE ALL ORGANIZA-
8 Designed by Mallinger and Marc Lanval, who collaborated with Reichel in the preparation thereof—and designed to fool Reichel as well as Castelot and the public.
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The Supreme Triangle Shorn of Its Powers and Ousted
There is an old adage which says, ‘“‘You cannot have your cake and eat it.’ Now, therefore, when they declared in this official report—to deceive the upright occultists of Europe and to retain their co-operation and adherence to the Fuposi to give it dignity and prestige—that each organization retained complete liberty of action, that nobody and no organization is bound by the action of the Fuposi, and that membership therein is only honorary or a “blue ribbon” decoration, they ate their cake and took away from the ‘Supreme Triangle” all its alleged rights, powers, authority and jurisdiction to pass upon the regularity, authenticity or frater- nal standing of the associated members thereof; because, it 1s obviously idle, foolish and meaningless for the three most compe- tent Imperators of the ‘Supreme Triangle” to determine, adjudi- cate and decree anything or any matters relating to any of the members, societies, orders or fraternities of the federation when and whereas said members are not bound thereby and such findings, adjudications and decrees are without effect or binding force. And, whereas, they are without right or power to pass upon the regu- larity and authenticity of their own members, it is, of course, most presumptive, indeed, for them to pretend to pass upon and under- take to regulate all of the initiatic societies, orders and fraternities of the world not affiliated therewith nor parties thereto.
Therefore, it is made most manifest—truly most obvious— that the alleged findings and adjudications of Lewis and his per- fectly controlled ‘Supreme Triangle’’ and the certification thereof by his over-friendly ‘International Secretary” of his “Fupost,”’* that his spurious AMORC and fabricated family racket is “the only authentic and recognized Rosicrucian Order in North America per- petuating and promoting the original Rosicrucian rituals, teachings and ideals,” is without force or effect, null and void for want of authority and jurisdiction to determine anything about any order that is binding on anybody. Hence the reader will experience no
4 See the Certificate of the Fuposi shown in our Reproduction No. 52, which we shall presently set forth and discuss in the text.
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dificulty in promptly appraising such certificate to be worthless, except as a fraudulent device.
“TRUE. PICTURE OF EUDOSI¢ The official report further tells us that:
“Tt will be proper to explain here for the layman the definition adopted by the Fuposi for the words: ‘what is understood by mystic orders or fraternities ?’
“According to the Fuposr, there is understood as ‘Mystic Order or Fraternity’ every organization in which the member by ordination or initiation is acquainted with certain cosmic, transmitted and secret truths and facts while being admonished at the same time, by means of a solemn oath, to protect the secrets of the Order towards outsiders and also to lead a worthy life and to co-operate in the spiritual upbuild- ing of humanity.
“In order to enlarge its scope the Fuposi will endeavor so far as lies in its power to convene periodically International Conventions. There is likewise contemplated the publication of treatises and works sent in by members and considered valuable.
“It has been endeavored in the foregoing to give a true picture of the nature and goal of the Fuposr. The fact that importance can and may be attached to this movement is proven by the circumstance that several further organizations have joined it since its foundation. And we may confidently expect that its field of activity will be further en- riched in the future by increasing its membership, for are the activities of the association not conducted under the symbol of Peace, of Tot- ERANCE, of BROTHERLY Love and of TruTH? Is there any higher aim more worth while?”
We are not particularly interested in the proposed periodical meetings or the publication of treatises and works of the members, nor in the definition of mystic orders which seems to have been formed in terms so broad and general as to admit into the mem- bership most any order or so-called order, regular or irregular, genuine or spurious, ancient or modern, so long as its members are bound by an oath to keep its secrets. However, it must be said and so recorded that this official report, in the face of the record and the known facts, fails—utterly fails—to give a true picture of the nature and goal of the Fupost.
The official report, with its fair words, self-acclaimed virtues, asserted high ideals and noble purposes, and shining, shimmering
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symbolic phrases of Peace, of Tolerance, of Brotherly Love, and of Truth, is designed, like the Fupost, with gilded and cunningly camouflaged superstructure and lily-white exterior, to deceive and mislead the world and all who are attracted thereto or have any dealings or connections therewith. And, above all, the Fuposi and the official report were designed to conceal the dark schemes and fraudulent devices for the commercialized fraternal racketeering of H. Spencer Lewis, as is revealed herein, which is now generally known in Europe and there thoroughly exposed and relentlessly con- demned.°
The Official Report Concluded
With a bit of Lewistonian high-pressured salesmanship, repre- senting its ramifications as extending over the broad domains of “seventeen different countries’; with an affectionate bid to the German brethren, to please and soothe Brother Amertis, who signed the report; with a cunning reference to the spiritual or higher plane; with a disclaimer of political aims and with an invitation to all mystical organizations to join the Fupos!, the official report concludes as follows:
“The organizations which are members of the association, to- gether with their ramifications, cover more than seventeen different European and overseas countries. It must, it is true, be greatly re- gretted that the purely German fraternities dedicated to occultism and the so-called ‘Secret Sciences’ cannot as yet be considered as participants. But their absence from our midst can unfortunately not be attributed to any other reason than compulsion resulting from the German regulations, by means of which all German spiritual movements are restricted in their freedom, development and activi- ties both in their internal and external relations.
“The sincere wish is expressed here that our German brothers may be ‘brothers in spirit’ to us on a higher plane even though this may not be true today in the organizing sense of the word!
“In order to avert any erroneous interpretation, may we empha- size here that neither the purpose nor the aim of the Fuposi are involved in any way in active political work or counterwork in exert- ing pressure or in sponsoring anything political.
5 See Part One of this chapter, supra, and especially the Exposé of the Sovereign Sanctuary for France of the Freemasonic Order of Memphis-Mizraim.
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‘To promote human aims and values by a knowledge of human beings—that is the slogan of the association which was founded in Brussels in August, 1934. May this report serve as a friendly, fra- ternal invitation for co-operation to all interested mystical organi- zations.
‘“T HERE IS NO GREATER RIGHT THAN THAT OF TRUTH. FRA AMERTIS (4August: Reichel)”
The Postscript by Secretary Marc Lanval
“P.S. In order to avoid any misunderstanding or misinterpreta- tion, it is mentioned here that the Rosicrucian organizations appeal- ing to the public must not be confused with the ‘inner and invisible’ Rosy Cross nor with the esoteric fraternity. The former fraternities, who appeal to the public, act and work without exception under the inspiration of the ‘Most Worshipful and Illuminated Inner Fra- ternity.’
“Secretary of the Fuposi, Mr. Marc Lanval, Engineer and
Author, 25 Rue des Allies, Brussels, Belgium.”
The Postscript added by the “Secretary of the Fuposi, Mr. Marc Lanval, Engineer and Author,” of strange and queer sex ideas,® is the saving grace of the official report. There, in accord- ance with Lewis’ scheming and designing, his humble servant and willing confederate attempts to make the Fuposi a Rosicrucian movement or organization by the subtle and indirect suggestion that it is working under the inspiration of the “inner and invisible Rosy Cross,” to carry out and give effect, as is now known, to the Lewis- tonian deeply laid plot to organize the Fuposi, to create his self- controlled “Supreme Triangle” as a fraudulent device to certify to the Rosicrucian authenticity of his spurious R. C. Order and Masonic-R. C. swindle in America. If there still remains any doubt in the reader’s mind that such was the scheme, plan and device, that doubt will be completely dissolved and banished when we shall presently review the bombastic claims of the Lewises and their own over-glorified and greatly exaggerated report of the Fupos! as
published in America for home consumption and the deluded paying members of AMORC.
® See our Reproductions Nos. 53, 53A and 53B and the discussion of Mr. Lanval’s professional activities in the text to follow.
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The Saving Grace
It was gracious, most considerate of the “International Secre- tary’ and, indeed, most fortunate and just for him to point out and stress the fact that the ‘‘Rosicrucian Organizations appealing to the public’’—that is, the spurious—must not be confused with the INNER AND INVISIBLE Rosy Cross—that is, the Real and Authentic Rosy Cross. That is the saving grace of the report, and it is most revealing to the thoughtful and those who know the real history and true facts concerning the Rosy Cross and genuine Rosi- crucianism.
As we have so often pointed out, the Real Rosicrucian Fraternity has never appealed to the public; it has never resorted to commer- cialized high-pressured national advertising to secure members to provide the “Royal Revenues” of a Family Hierarchy,‘ and it has never used insidious propaganda to glorify its own existence, nor has it ever published a constant, everlasting flow of exorbitant, excessive or extravagant praise of any of its Supreme Masters to satisfy and appease their unquenchable thirst for worldly glory and unlimited power. Indeed, megalomania is quite the opposite and further extreme of genuine Rosicrucianism.
Ignorance Betrays
Now, therefore, such being the case, it is most apparent that those “fraternities who appeal to the public” do not “act and work with- out exception under the inspiration” of the Rosy Cross. Besides, the “Illustrious” Secretary, like this ‘““Thrice-[lustrious” Master, Sri Sobhita Bhikku, has mixed and confused the titles and descrip- tive words of his clandestine Masonry with the titles and descriptive terms of his spurious Rosicrucians. No Rosicrucian ever heard of the “Most Worshipful” inner or outer Rosicrucian fraternity. There simply is no such thing and no such appellation or descriptive phrase is ever used by Rosicrucians or in the Rosy Cross. That is distinctively and most exclusively a Masonic term. When a Rosi- crucian desires to speak of the Rosy Cross in terms of exaltation, he will invariably refer to it as the ‘“Great”’ or “August” Fraternity. When a sex-enthusiast and advocate of Nudism departs from his
7 See Chapter Six, wherein we shall consider Lewis’ Family Racket and the Royal Revenues of the Lewis Hierarchy of Fraternal Racketeering.
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favorite hobby to assist a pseudo occultist in racketeering in the name of the Rosy Cross and who himself in his ignorance of Rosi- crucian affairs assumed the Masonic title of ““The Most Worshipful Grand Master General’ of America,® it behooves the obliging secretary to use his terms aptly and with understanding so that his ignorance will not raise questioning suspicion and expose the scheme he would promote, and betray the charlatan he would serve. But, then, a pseudo Rosicrucian Master, entirely uninformed on real Rosicrucianism, is wholly incapable of properly instructing the serv- ant in such matters, hence no one need be surprised if the blundering Secretary displays a common ignorance of elementary Rosicrucian affairs and lets the ‘Black Cat” out of the bag. Verily, by the fruit of their ignorance they are known!
Marc Lanval, Engineer The International Secretary of the Fupost
Now, since the very Illustrious Frater Marc Lanval, in the exercise of his most extraordinary powers and prerogatives as the Grand International Secretary of the Fuposi, has certified—as we shall presently see—to the profundity of the Lewis Hierarchy; to the great love and deep affection felt by the European brethren for the Illustrious Imperator of the aforesaid Hierarchy, and to the authenticity and regularity of the great American Masonic-Rosi- crucian swindle, it will be of interest to know more about this im- portant personage of the occult world and of the mystic realms who ‘‘certifies”’ to so much, and does it so well.
As will presently appear, the Very Illustrious Frater Marc Lanval was proposed and upon the recommendation of his bosom friend, H. Spencer Lewis, was elected or made Grand International Secretary of the FuposI, probably on account of his occult engineer- ing ability, possibly by reason of his unusual and unsurpassed ability to “‘certify,”’. and maybe because of outstanding reputation as a sexologist. Anyway, be that as it may, Marc Lanval has acquired a well-deserved reputation as a sexologist and as a notorious advo- cate of Nudism and queer, strange and unusual sex practices and perversions. He is the Editor of “Light-Liberty,’ the official
8 See Lewis’ First Charter, Rosicrucian Initiation (a propaganda booklet, 1917,), p. 7, which we shall quote and discuss in Chapter Five.
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organ of the Belgian League of Helrophile Propaganda, which advocates Nudism and all the queer variations and quirks of “natu- ralism” under an exaggerated and forced construction of the law of liberty, which has a striking resemblance to the notorious Black Magic law of Crowley, which reads, “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole law.”
We have reproduced the heading of the Lanval publication of October and November, 1933, in which his article on the notorious and abominable sex practice of “LA KareEzzA’’ is discussed and approved, together with parts of the same paper showing the be- ginning and end of the article in question.”
Karezza—A Sex Perversion
The article of Lanval, under the heading of “La Karezza es- telle perversion sexuelle?” (Is the Karezza a Sex Perversion?), deals at length with this pernicious and notorious sex perversion in such a bold and crude manner that a translation may not legally be published in this country. It is sufficient to say that he approves and advocates the practice of “‘Karezza,”’ which was first introduced in the United States by Dr. Alice Stockham, of Chicago, whom the Government prosecuted and convicted. Upon her promise to dis- continue such activities, a fine of $1000 was remitted and sentence suspended.
The notoriety of Lanval’s perverted, dangerous, degrading, de- generating and obnoxious sex doctrines which he persistently and enthusiastically advocates, are on a parity with the notorious and infamous Black Magic sex doctrines of Aleister Crowley. Lanval, the sexologist, has become notorious, yet this is the friend and high ‘Gnitiate’’ who Lewis selected to be his Grand Secretary of his Fuposi and to certify to the superior virtues of the Illustrious Imperator of America!
The public denunciation by Lewis of Crowley and matters in connection with his occult racket, in contrast with his close private connection with Lanval, his “Tnternational Secretary” of the Fupos1,
and Aleister Crowley, his “Secret Chief” of the O. T. O., the two
9 See our Reproductions Nos. 53, 53A and 53B at the end of the text of this part. Reproductions Nos. 53A and 53B show the beginning and end of the Lanval article on Karezza.
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most notorious sexologists in Europe, indeed, presents a strange and queer situation which we shall discuss more at length as we proceed.
The Lewistonian Report of “The Great European Conclave”
It will be interesting to read the Lewistonian version or report of the Fupos!I, to compare it with the foregoing official report pub- lished in the Journal of the Alchemical Society of France. When the striking generalities and fair pretensions of the foregoing official report prepared and published in Europe to deceive and satisfy the Old World is carefully compared and contrasted with the report of the same so-called Congress or ‘Great Conclave” as prepared by Lewis and published in America, setting forth specifically the aims, purposes and results thereof, for New World consumption, to further deceive and exploit the paying members of his Hierarchy of Fraternal Racketeering and to be used as a fraudulent device to further promote and perpetuate his Masonic-R. C. swindle, then the scheme and plot of Lewis to create and use the Fupos! for that purpose and as such a device becomes exceedingly clear and obvious.
Let us, therefore, review and carefully consider the report of the Fuposi which the “Great Imperator of America” prepared and published under the name of the wife of his son, Ralph, in The Rosicrucian Digest for November, 1934. In view of the great laudation, extreme praise and extraordinary glorification of “our Imperator, Dr. Lewis,” to which a large portion of the report is devoted, it is apparent why the same was published under the name of his daughter-in-law.
The Congress of Clandestinism, held in Brussels in August, 1934, for the ostensible purpose of forming a Federation of Mystical Societies and Occult Orders, to promote and foster Universal Brotherhood, but for the actual purpose of creating a spurious but well-designed ‘International R. C. Council” of plausible appear- ance and seeming authority and power to give deceptive credibility to the false claims which Lewis has been making for years con- cerning International R. C. Councils and Rosicrucian Congresses and to make false, but nonetheless fair spoken and credible, cer- tification as to the authenticity of his spurious R. C. Order, con-
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ducted in America as a family racket and fraternal swindle, as reported by the Lewises and published in their official organ, with its headlines and our comments thereon and marginal notes thereto,
is as follows:
THE GREAT EUROPEAN CONCLAVE
IMPORTANT NEWS
BY SOROR GLADYS H. LEWIS,
Italics Are Ours. Lewis Had Planned It for Some Time. It Was a Great
Surprise!
Over-Selling Is a Badge of Fraud. “Our Imperator” an Important Factor. The Lewis Family Is
the Supreme Council.
Father Lewis and Son Ralph Run the Affair.
All the Family Went Abroad That Summer Except Son Ralph, Who Stayed to Collect the “Royal Revenues” of the Family.
FOR EVERYONE
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“When the manifesto came last fall announcing the date and place of the long-anticipated European Conclave of Rosicrucians and allied organizations and inviting AMORC of North America to send three of its Supreme Lodge Officers and two of its Canadian Officers as delegates I had no idea that | would be one of the fortunate ones to participate in the astonishing [1], illuminating [!!] procedures of such a world-wide [?] convention.
“Our Imperator, Dr. Spencer Lewis, received a special invitation from the Venerable Imperator of Europe, and it was expected that Soror Lewis, the wife of the Imperator and member of the Supreme Council, would be one cf the three, but because the Supreme Secretary, Ralph Lewis, could not be ab- sent from San Jose at the same time, the /mperator decided that since I was the wife of the Supreme Secretary and a member of the Board of Directors, I should be the third official delegate, and Frater Merritt Gordon, Grand Master of Canada, and his wife should be the fourth and fifth delegates. In accordance with these plans, the Imperator, his wife, their son Earle and daughter Colombe Madeleine, Frater Gordon, his wife, their son Vernon and my- self, all members of AMORC, left San Jose, Cali- fornia soon after the annual convention in July and journeyed to New York, where we sailed on Au- gust the first on the S. S. Washington for Paris.” — The Rosicrucian Digest, November, 1934, p. 375.
Thus the Imperator, who is mentioned many times in this report,
set out on the serious business of putting into execution his scheme for the creation of his International R. C. Council and the actual
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holding of a European convention, whether Rosicrucian or other- wise, and to really attend a conclave of his own planning—so long anticipated. But despite all claims and attempts to create appear- ances to the contrary, it was not a meeting or conclave of “Rosi- crucians and allied organizations.”
And the rest of the Lewis family, save Ralph alone, who stayed in America to attend to the family business, and their friends set out on a summer vacation and pleasure trip to Europe, which was enjoyed by all at the expense of the paying members.
Over-Inflation Prima Facie Contradictions
Over-Inflation Is “About the same time there were Rosicrucians a Badge of Fraud. and members of fourteen other mystical, Oriental Hermetic and alchemical societies leaving cities in all parts of the world to be present at the same
great [!] convention. “This was not to be a mere huge assembly of in-
Not So Huge After itiated members of the world’s oldest mystical All. Only a Meeting groups. On this special occasion only the highest of the “Higher-Ups.” — officers—Imperators, Hierophants, Grand Masters
or members of the Supreme Councils—were to come together to meet with representatives of the Great White Brotherhood [ ?]
“Such a great convention or congress had been
Decreed by Whom? anticipated. It was decreed for this cycle of the
world activities many years ago. The first attempt Other Important in 1914 [before Lewis fabricated his family racket] Congresses That was purely of a preliminary nature, merely continu- “Our Imperator” ing the preliminary efforts of 1908 and earlier.t In Has Attended (?) 1921 and 1926 larger preliminary sessions were
held in which our Imperator participated. In 1931 various national conventions in Europe crystallized the plans for the 1934 congress, and again our Im-
perator was an important delegate.” (Jd., pp. 375- 376.)
Rosicrucians and members of fourteen mystical and other socie- ties were not leaving from all parts of the world. Excepting Lewis’
1 This reference is to the Masonic Congress of Paris, 1908, discussed in Part Two of this chapter, supra.
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large family delegation, most of the so-called delegates were in Belgium, with a few from France and Switzerland. The world did not converge on Brussels to hold this Lewistonian-Mallinger-Lanval congress of clandestinism. Besides this over-inflated ballyhoo about delegates coming from all over the world is not at all consistent with his advance notice thereof quoted on pages 240 and 241, supra, or with the next paragraph, which advises that it was to be only an assembly of “Imperators, Hierophants, Grand Masters and Members of Supreme Councils” —most of whom were self-consti- tuted leaders of fabricated R. C. Orders, clandestine Masonic bodies, or other spurious and questionable organizations. The Al- chemical Society of France was represented by proxy or a “‘Power of Attorney’ and August Reichel represented his organization, the Order of the Unknown Samaritans. With the exception of a few—very few—real occultists present, laboring under the cunning deception of Lewis, the assembled delegates were pretenders who held a congress of clandestinism and hocus-pocus chicanery, carefully dressed up as mysticism and occultism under the guidance of the Great White Brotherhood. And these self-constituted Imperators, Hierophants, Grand Masters, and members of non-existent Su- preme Councils were to meet the representatives of the Great White Brotherhood, who was none other than Sri Sobhita Bhikku of the non-existent and fabled Great White Brotherhood Lodge of Tibet, with his ‘Important Rosicrucian Document No. 2,” the bogus charter of Sri Khan in hand to create all necessary hiero- phants and to give the assembly the pretended blessing of the “Great White Brotherhood.”
Efforts to connect the White Brotherhood with the Congress of Brussels and the creation of the Fupos! are vain, indeed. Certainly it is obvious that the White Brotherhood could never have inspired such a meeting and would not give its sanction thereto.
The effort is here made, as in the official report, to tie this meet- ing into and connect it with the Masonic Congress of Paris by reference and inference. There was, however, no connection. The other alleged preliminary meetings in 1914, 1921 and 1927 are very good fillers of space and assist in the camouflage, but in the meeting in 1931 with Mallinger and his associates, the plans for the 1934 Congress were crystallized and “Our Imperator,” Dr. Lewis, Ph.D., as stated, was an important delegate. Just as it has
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been shown, the Rose >K Croix University of Belgium and the AMORC of Europe, with branch offices in France and Switzerland, were fabricated in 1931 and plans were made for the holding of the Congress to create the FuDosI—to that extent the Lewis report is correct. However, it cannot escape our notice that it is next to impossible for Lewis to set forth his alleged facts or to tell his story without prefacing it with references to himself or to the glory of AMORC, which is the Lewis family, plus the paying members.”
The report continues thus:
A Lewistonian Show Starring “Our Imperator”
“Our Imperator” and
“Our AMORC.
Just from Europe—
Not All the World. Italics Are Ours.
Special Room. Large Committee.
Long and Important! Great Convention?
Mythical Members of the Mythical R. C. Int. Council Did Not Attend—They Wrote, So All the World Was Represented !
“But I had no idea of the high esteem in which our Imperator and the AMORC of North America were held until I witnessed the official sessions of the convention in Belgium during the week begin- ning August 13th.
“When we arrived at Paris on August 8th we found other delegates awaiting us at our hotel, and during the next few days others arrived from vari- ous parts of Europe. It was a merry but tense party of individuals who traveled together from Paris to ~ Brussels on August 13th and settled in a Jong suite of rooms in one of the foremost hotels, where a special room had been set aside for /arge committee conferences. Here the Rosicrucian delegates from the United States, Canada and various countries of Europe held a number of long and important dis- cussions between the official sessions of the great [!] convention, often lasting until the wee hours of the morning.
“Those members of the International Rosicrucian Council who lived in very distant lands, such as Aus- tralia, Japan, China and South Africa, sent special letters of endorsement of the proposed recommenda- tions to be voted upon or offered suggestions for adoption. Fifteen nations of people were represented by the Rosicrucian delegates in person, and eleven other countries were represented by special com- munications or proxies.
“These Rosicrucian conferences were, however,
2 See Chapter Six to follow.
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R. C. Only an Ad- solely an adjunct to the great [!] convention which junct. Expelled Masons opened its sessions Tuesday morning, August 14th, Were the Most in the Symbolic Temple of the Rose Croix Univer- Important Factor. sity? in Belgium. During all the preceding week
the highest officers—Imperators, Hierophants, Grand The High Meeting of Masters, Grand Secretaries, Archivists [ Librarians, the Mighty—But probably Danthine—Sar Hieronymus] and special Mighty Suspicious. delegates from all parts of Europe, representing the
Supreme Councils or Hierarchies of fourteen differ-
ent mystical or ‘Initiatique’ orders and societies of Greatly Overdrawn. ancient origin—had been arriving and holding pre-
liminary conferences in the various lodge rooms or
committee rooms. But at 10 A. M. all those came Great Assembly of together in one of the most impressive assemblies the Chosen Few. one could ever hope to witness.” (Jd., p. 376.)
A Great Convention Also a Great Myth—W onderful Fiction!
This all reads more like the report of the preliminaries to a convention of one of the major political parties in America, with the continuous arrival of delegates in advance, with special commit- tee rooms and “‘grave’’ preliminary and long conferences lasting far into the night, than of a solemn, simple meeting of “Imperators, Hierophants, Grand Masters or Members of the Supreme Coun- cils,”” with the ‘“‘representatives of the Great White Brotherhood.” However, it is a great fictitious story of the immense preparations made for the holding of a great conclave that was far greater on paper and in the pages of fiction than it ever was in reality. But the mathematics of the story are bad. There were entirely too many countries represented by the so-called Rosicrucians—“‘fifteen nations of people” in person and “eleven other countries” by proxies, mak- ing twenty-six countries represented—while only “‘fourteen different mystical or initiatique orders and societies’ were represented. Let it pass. Why try to figure it out? It was part of the scheme to make this a “‘“Great Rosicrucian Convention” and the story does it very well! The story continues with over-much and fulsome praise of ‘Our Imperator,” thus:
3 Which has no building and no classrooms, according to the testimony of Lewis in 1936 before the Federal Court heretofore noted and discussed in this part. Perhaps that is why it is described as the “Symbolic Temple.”
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The Importance of “Our Imperator”
Italics Are Ours. “Our Imperator”
and
“Our Imperator,” sD rae bewis
and
“Our Imperator.”
Gilding the Lily— Creating a Myth! For the Truth About Hieronymus, See Preceding Text.
“Our Imperator.”
The Venerable Imperator Honored “Our Imperator” and
Our Imperator Answered.
Marc Lanval (Sar Helios)
“Upon entering the Temple anterooms, our Im- perator and his American and Canadian delegates were given a very cordial greeting, and it was a happy moment of my life when I found that we were the specially selected ones to sit with our Im- perator, Dr. Lewis, on the platform with four other very high officers; and I am sure that it would have given each of our North American members a real thrill to have seen the cordial, hearty greetings and embraces given to our Imperator by the Venerable Imperator of Europe.
“The European Imperator, in keeping with Eu- ropean traditions, is known to the outer world only as Hieronymus. He is a tall, stately and majestic man of perhaps sixty years, with a long white beard, fine forehead, deep-set magnetic eyes, a gentle mouth and a voice that is as spiritual as it is musical. He is one of Europe’s most learned linguists, an author of many books dealing with Oriental literature and a professor of languages in one of the leading col- leges, as well as being President of the Rose Croix University of Belgium.
“He was beautifully robed in a symbolical gown and presided over the opening session of the great convention. Side by side in the very center of the platform sat our Imperator and the Venerable, fac- ing the large [?] assembly of learned men—and some women—ot the fourteen organizations.
“The opening address made by the Venerable Im- perator was translated into English, and it con- tained many and elaborate compliments to our Im- perator and the work he has accomplished in North America. This speech was answered by our Im- perator, but 1 will not take space or time in quoting from these two long addresses. “They are covered in brief form in the official report of the convention made by Frater Lanval, of Brussels, who was elected International Secretary of the Federation.”
The extraordinary effort made in this article and supposed-to-be report of the “great conclave” to stress the importance of ‘‘our Imperator,” to gratify his infinite vanity and boundless longing for
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praise and overshadowing importance, ceases to serve its intended purpose and becomes a Badge of Fraud, and proof sufficient to sustain our contention that the whole affair was a Lewistonian scheme, well-designed plot and cunningly concealed device to create a fictitious, entirely fabricated and spurious “International Council R. C.,” to give plausible and surface-like appearances of reality to his many false claims concerning such councils and to certify to the authenticity of his fabricated-spurious R. C. Order. Indeed, upon its face and with its many Badges of Fraud so obvious, this over- done effort to build up the mythical greatness of ‘‘Our Imperator”’ and his confederates and associates in this diabolical scheme and plot to create the Fuposi as a fraudulent device for the promotion and perpetuation of his fraternal racketeering and Masonic-R. C. swindle in America, becomes apparent and clear to all who dare to think or can see ‘‘the handwriting on the wall.”
The Venerable Hieronymus
“Imperator of Europe’
We have heretofore commented on the scheme of Lewis and his confederate Mallinger to create a mythical “Imperator of Europe”’ as the outwardly appearing moving spirit of the “great conclave”’ and the creation of the Fuposr as a cover for the black plot of sinister designing that lay beneath the whole affair. We have shown who Hieronymus, ‘the Imperator of Europe,” really is, and how and why they were able to use and take advantage of him to carry out their said scheme and plot. Here, in this very much overdrawn report of the affair by Lewis, we have concrete proof thereof.
The reader will not fail to note—and surely will become sus- picious and adversely impressed by the studied and systematic efforts of Lewis to build the myth of greatness and the mysterious occult mastership around the simple, inoffensive, innocent but most convenient and usable Mr. Danthine, the index clerk-librarian in the library at Huy, Belgium; not only to promote his scheme afore- said, to create his said fraudulent device, but also to recognize the superior and extraordinary work and accomplishments of ‘Our Imperator” in America, and to sing his praises with “elaborate compliments.”
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When Fulsome Pratse Is in Vain
However, the fulsome praise and the elaborate and misleading description by Lewis of the mythical “Imperator of Europe”’ is vain and futile in the face of the record and known facts. Although the effort has been made, unsuccessfully, to make an Oriental scholar and mystic out of Mr. Danthine, he is neither; nor is he ‘“‘one of Europe’s most learned linguists, author of many books on Oriental literature and a professor of languages in one of the leading col- leges.’ He is none of these. Like most Europeans who are well read, he can speak more than one language, but, after all, he is a retiring gentleman, a file clerk-librarian earning an honest liveli- hood, whom Lewis and his lawyer confederate have misled, used and abused, for their own purposes, by making him the “President” or “Dean” of their fabricated, make-believe ‘‘Rose Croix Univer- sity” and the ‘Imperator of Europe” as the ostensible head of their also fabricated and spurious AMORC of Europe.
We are not condemning Mr. Danthine. We are exposing the wicked scheme of Lewis and his confederates. If Lewis can suc- cessfully deceive such men as the editor of the Encyclopedia Britan- nica and the head of the Alchemical Society of France and use them in furtherance of his schemes and fraudulent devices, then simple men like Mr. Danthine become easy prey, and should be held blame- less, because he is an innocent victim of the scheming and not a wilful party thereto. The report of the glory that was his, of the fulfillment of his hopes and the accomplishment of his scheme con- tinues, with its elaborate details, as follows:
Important Professtonal Men Their Use and Necessity
Italics Are Ours. “Each high officer in’ turn made an impressive High Officers— address in French or English, and each was trans- High Objects? lated or interpreted. The high objects of the con-
vention were stressed and urged by each speaker. Everyone Was - Among these were Fra Wittemans, a member of the Eminent or Well Belgian Senate, an eminent law authority and a well- Known or Famous! known author of a very complete history of the
Rosicrucian Order, published in several [?] lan- guages. There was also one who is a high officer
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in the Belgian Court of Appeal [Mallinger]; one who is a well-known Advocate [also Mallinger] ; one a famous physician; one a professor in a leading university ; one an eminent scientist ; one an eminent
Every One of the author. Every one of the great professions or walks Great Professions of life were represented by these delegates from Were Represented ! many lands. (Id., pp. 376-377.)
It is a characteristic weakness of Lewis, constantly appearing in his promotional literature and falsified propaganda for the perpet- uation of his fraternal racket and swindle to bolster and give it dignity by claiming the association of prominent people, scholars and professional men with himself and his projects.* So, also, in true Lewistonian style, using another typical device, so often em- ployed, he reports the “Great Conclave” of mystics as being com- posed of all the great professions, scholars, scientists, authors, professors, doctors and lawyers instead of mystics, occultists and leaders of fraternal movements as it would have been if it had been a genuine congress as represented.
However, since the whole affair has been exposed, the facts have become known and the sinister scheming and dark plotting revealed, it would seem that there was present at least one doctor and one lawyer too many, namely, “Doctor” Lewis and Lawyer Mallinger, the first and second mates, who sailed the Mythical Federation across the sea of deception, under cover of darkness on a short-lifed voyage, only to see it wrecked on the dawning of light upon the rock of ages in the harbor of truth—notwithstanding the loudly acclaimed noble purposes and holy aims of the Fupos! with which the report deals, in striking camouflage, to wit:
The Noble Purposes Stated Suspiciously
‘The principal objects of this convention—long the dream of all those who were present—were the
A. Ancient, joining together in one Federation all the ancient, Time-Honored. time-honored, mystical, learned, initiatic orders and Like AMORC, societies of the world; to work along co-operative Fabricated 1915. lines for the advancement and protection of the
great secret wisdom possessed by these bodies; to
4See Chapter Two, pp. 111 and 112, supra.
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work more efficiently for the higher evolution of man; to exchange the knowledge gained by each of Noble Objects Worthy’ them through Cosmic revelation; to establish a
of Gods, But Never truly universal brotherhood of man; to seek an im- the Real Objects of mediate ending of international wars and strife and Arch-Impostors. to work together for a wider promulgation of the
newer decrees of the Great White Brotherhood, under whose direct guidance all of the fourteen or- ganizations are functioning. [Lewis’ italics. |
“In the soft lights of the Temple and under the
A Little Too Much spell of the intense spiritual vibrations of love and “Muchness” Is a Big good will, it was not surprising that at various inter- Badge of Fraud. vals during the day the various Great Masters of
the Great White Brotherhood made themselves quite manifest and gave approval to what was being considered and voted upon.” (Jd., p. 377.)
The object and aim of every occult, mystical and religious organi- zation of White Magic, upon this earth, forming the Great White Brotherhood of the material realms, is to aid and bless mankind; to help them realize the divinity within them; to point the Way to immortality; to direct them along the Path that leads to higher states of spiritual realization which will ultimately bring about the realization of universal brotherhood, with peace on earth and good will to men. Therefore, no one who would help his fellow men; who desires to see the races of men advance, or who would have the Kingdom come on earth as it is in Heaven, could or would have the slightest objection to the formation of a federation of worthy organizations for the purposes and objects above stated, if such were true and the claims were honestly made. But when the pro- moters of dark schemes and wicked plots propose a federation of spurious orders; of questionable organizations and clandestine bodies of well-known fraternities, with only a few worthy societies and upright organizations; when they acclaim too loudly and too persistently the nobility of their high aims, and when they assert that ALL of such organizations—including the spurious one—are under the direct guidance of the Great White Brotherhood, then we become suspicious and begin to look beneath the surface to dis-
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cover the truth and to find the ‘‘mouse in the widow’s meal barrel.”
But when we read in this exaggerated, excessively amplified and highly colored report of this convention for the formation of such a federation, that “the various Great Masters of the Great White Brotherhood” of the celestial realms “made themselves quite mani- fest and gave approval to what was being considered and voted upon,’ then we know that it is a hoax and we experience no trouble in locating the ‘‘mouse in the meal barrel.”’
International Archives Additional Teachings
Not only has ‘Dr.’ Lewis had trouble in securing Rosicrucian authority for his alleged R. C. Order and in proving the authen- ticity of his family racket, but he has also experienced considerable difficulty in securing authentic teachings for the promotion and perpetuation of the “laws and ideals of the original Rosicrucians”’ in America. Time and time again he has made announcement of his induction into various secret orders, the securing of their teachings and rituals, and the receipt of countless ancient manuscripts which are to be released to the paying members of AMORC.
Although he has been doing this same thing for years, we find that he received further ‘“‘initiation,’’ more ‘‘secret teachings” *® and also many new Rosicrucian manuscripts at this convention, of which the report gave an account in this manner:
Italics Are Ours. “For several days the sessions continued with ritualistic initiations in the late afternoons or eve- nings.
“Our Imperator” “Our Imperator, already a member of several of
Much Initiated. the ancient mystical organizations represented at the
convention, was initiated into the secret rites and ceremonies of the others. All of the Rosicrucian delegates from America, and others, were witnesses Many High Honors. to the many high honors that were conferred upon Dr. Lewis. Over and over in our Rosicrucian con-
5 See Chapter Three, pp. 136-137, supra, for his claims, made in 1921, to all the teachings of all the ancient and modern rites under the direction of the Supreme Council of the Universe.
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ferences between the sessions of the great conven-
Benefit to AMMORC tion, he said that the honors and powers conferred
(The Lewis Family). upon him were truly of benefit to AMORC of North America, because they permitted him to re- lease to our members many of the secret teachings of these allied bodies and also many new Rosicrucian manuscripts and monographs obtained from the in- ternational archives.” (Jd., p. 377.)
Here we have a new and novel misrepresentation concerning Rosi- crucian archives. We are now told that while in Europe attending the “Great Conclave” he also secured many new Rosicrucian manu- scripts and monographs from the “international archives.’’ While it is true that each Order of the Rosy Cross has its own archives, there is no such thing as “the international archives.’ Therefore, the representation is false and altogether fantastic. It is a shame— if not a scandal—for him to make such grossly false written repre- sentations and to publish them under the name of his daughter-in- law.
We now come to the most interesting part of Lewis’ report of the convention and the alleged accomplishments of the Fupost. Of course, the “putting-over” of his plan or carrying out of his scheme by the convention in the election of the Lewistonian-con- trolled “Supreme Triangle,” which accomplished the desired and cunningly designed ‘results,’ interested him most. We shall con- sider one by one the eight direct ‘Results of the Convention,” as reported by Lewis to his paying members and the gullible Ameri- cans whom he hopes to convert into paying members, as follows:
Results of the Convention
“The Unanimous Decision”
“Of the many direct results, the following are the outstanding ones of special interest to all our
Italics Are Ours. members:
“Unanimous.” “(1) The unanimous decision of the Rosicrucian When and How Did and other orders of Europe that the AMORC of They So Decide? North America, under Dr. Lewis and his Supreme
Council,® [i.e., the Lewis family] is ‘the only au- thentic and recognized Rosicrucian Order in North
® See Chapter Six hereof.
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America perpetuating and promoting the original Rosicrucian rituals, teachings and ideals.’”’ (Jd.,
pashls)
If we needed further proof that the so-called Congress of Brus- sels was a Lewistonian affair and the Fuposi his pet scheme, we have it in the paragraph (1) above set forth. Everything that is done by organizations which Lewis controls is done unanimously. The word “‘unanimous”’ has been used so much by him in connection with his fraternal business and family racket that it has become an earmark of his handiwork and a Badge of his Fraudulent scheming.
Jurisdiction Greatly Extended The Merited Recognition of “Dr.” Lewis
“(2) That because of the excellent work accom-
He Extends His plished by Dr. Lewis and his Supreme Council in
Jurisdiction the past twenty-five years [?], he was unanimously
“Unanimously.” declared to be the Imperator of Rosicrucianism for South America as well as North America.” (Jd., Dieori.)
The ‘Supreme Triangle” erred when it based its award upon twenty-five years of excellent work accomplished by “Dr.” Lewis and his ‘Supreme Council’”—now his family—because he did not fabricate his spurious R. C. Order until February 8, 1915, and his “Supreme Council” was not formed until on All Fools’ Day, April 42,1915." As a matter of fact, in 1934 Lewis and his Supreme Council had been carrying their fraudulent accomplishments only nineteen years. However, this is not his first deceptive attempt to date his so-called R. C. activities back to the year 1909. The fallacy of such an attempt was exposed in Book Four, Volume I, pages 198 to 204, both inclusive.
Rosicrucian Term and Titles All Awarded (?) to Lewis!
“(3) That the terms Rosicrucian Order, Ordre They Belonged to the Rose-Croix, Rosicrucian Fraternity and Brother-
7 See Volume One, p. 202.
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Genuine Order, But hood, and similar terms in various languages and the He Tcok Them and symbols used by AMORC in North America, were They Belonged the exclusive and time-honored property of the genu- to Him! ine Rosicrucian Order, of which the Supreme Coun-
cil at San Jose, California, was the only authorized and recognized custodian in North America and South America and the dependencies or countries
under them.” (Jd., p. 377.)
It was entirely correct for the Fuposi to find, if it did so find, that all Rosicrucian terms, titles and the several variations thereof in all languages are the exclusive property of the genuine Rosi- crucian Order, because that is true. But it was presumptive and very wrong for it to find, 7f it did so find,® that the AMORC, or the Lewis family, possessed the exclusive right to use such terms and that they are the sole custodians thereof in America. However, this presumptuous finding by Lewis himself is of no great impor- tance, and of no effect, since that very issue has been officially deter- mined in America in a proceedings in Pennsylvania in 1934, to which the Authentic Rosicrucian Fraternity in America and AMORC were parties, in which Lewis participated and in which every issue was decided against him, and the authentic Rose Cross Order—the Randolph Foundation—was found to have and pos- sess the exclusive right to the use of all Rosicrucian names, terms and appellations. All of these matters and the official proceedings in relation thereto have been fully discussed in Book Four of Vol- ume One, pages 176 to 267, both inclusive. Nothing further need be said here, except to note that Lewis in his White Book D, which purported to be a reply to Books Two, Three, Four and Five in Volume One, very discreetly avoided any reference to said Book Four or said proceedings.
“Exclusive Controllers’ of Most Everything
“(4) That Dr. Lewis and the Supreme Council
of AMORC at San Jose, California, are the exclu-
Represents All the sive directors and controllers of the authority, rites, “Ancient” Organiza- rituals and teachings in the jurisdiction of North
8 The alleged finding was not made by the Convention or the FUDOSI, as we are here led to believe, but by the so-called “Supreme Triangle,” absolutely controlled and manipulated by Lewis, or most likely by Lewis, Mallinger and Lanval in the name of and on behalf of said so-called Supreme Triangle.
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tions of the World. and South America, of the organizations represented at the convention. This includes the Rose Croix University, the Rose Croix Kabbalistique of France, the Martinist Order, the Brahmanist Order, the Egyptian Rites and many others.” (Jd., pp. 377- 378.)
That “Dr.” Lewis and his family, composing the Supreme Coun- cil of AMORC, control the authority, rites, rituals and teachings of the Rose Croix University of Belgium, if it has any, no doubt is true, because they fabricated it—it belongs to them by right of in- vention. But, as to their right to control and present in America the authentic rites and teachings of the genuine Rose Croix Kabbal- istique Ordre of France, The Martinist Order, a real Brahmanist Order, the Egyptian Rites, i.e., the Freemasonic Rites of Memphis or of any other authentic order may be successfully and properly
denied.
The Lewis Family
“A Self-Perpetuating Hierarchy’ Perpetuating a Swindle as a Family Racket
“(5) That AMORC of North and South Amer-
ica, as a part of the only genuine Rosicrucian Fra-
The Lewis Family ternity of the world, shall maintain and govern it- a Self-Sufficient, self as an independent jurisdiction, under an auto- Self-Perpetuating cratic law with the present Imperator as Supreme Institution. Magus ad vitam, and the present Supreme Council
[the Lewis family] constituting a self-perpetuating hierarchy, in accordance with all ancient Rosicru- cian traditions and practices.” (Jd., p. 378.)
This small paragraph abounds with evidence and contains an abundance of proof of the most cunning designing; of the meanest duplicity, and of the boldest chicanery to manufacture a “reason”’ or to build up an excuse for having converted AMORC—the Lewis- tonian fraternal swindle—into a Family Racket, which becomes perfectly clear when the full import of its meaning and its true design and real purpose is fully understood.
In 1928 Lewis took the first step to convert his Masonic-R. C. swindle into a Family Racket by placing AMORC in the hands of
his immediate family, therefore, under his complete domination.
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In 1930 he and his son Ralph completed the arrangements for the conversion of the same into a family affair. We shall deal with this phase of the fraudulent activities of the Lewises at length in Chapter Six.
As a part of his aforesaid treacherous scheme, in 1930 he issued the insidious and guileful propaganda concerning Rosicrucian au- thority by “Blood Transfusion”; the ‘““Royal Family of the Rosy Cross” and the descent of the Imperatorship or Grand Mastership from father to son “‘in the blood line,”’ with which we have dealt at length in Part Three of this chapter, supra.
A Perfect Absurdity
Here, in 1934, in a further strenuous and foolhardy effort to create a further excuse or seemingly plausible reason for having taken AMORC over as a private business and a family racket, he pretends and boldly—aye, brazenly—asserts that the Fupos1— that assembly with clandestinism and spurious orders in the most ‘unanimous’ majority, under the complete domination and manipu- lation of designing charlatans and scheming fraternal mountebanks —found, determined, settled and certified that he, H. Spencer Lewis, the present Imperator, is and shall be the Supreme Magus, ad vitam® and that the Lewis family is a “‘self-perpetuating Hier- archy” under an ‘‘autocratic law in accordance with all the ancient Rosicrucian traditions and practices.”
That is childish, nonsensical, laughable absurdity, and buffoonery
raised to the Nth power or to the ultimate degree of ridiculous rashness | |
In the first place, the Fuposi had no more jurisdiction over Rosi- crucian or Masonic affairs than the imps of hell have over the Great White Throne of High Heaven!!
In the second place, the so-called finding and certification was made, if made, by the “Supreme Triangle” controlled by Lewis, therefore made by him—it is, at the most, merely a self-certification.
In the third place, every one knows. who knows anything about the Rosicrucian Fraternity, that there is no such “autocratic law” and that a self-perpetuating family hierarchy is not “in accordance
94d witam” is Masonic terminology. It is a term used by Masons of the Rites of Memphis-Mizraim and is never used in Rosicrucian affairs.
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with the ancient Rosicrucian traditions and practices.”’ Therefore, and verily, the assertion of such an obviously false and absolutely untrue statement, whether made willfully or ignorantly, is a bright star-like Badge of Fraud of the first magnitude and proof sufficient, within itself, of his fraudulent operation. Indeed, and in truth, such an idea is entirely contrary to the noble precepts of the Rosy Cross—such a misconception is an absolute antithesis to the funda- mental and elementary ideas of fraternalism. True occultism and genuine fraternalism know no such folly and from the very nature thereof it is obviously impossible. Moreover, and verily, there is sufficient proof in this single brief paragraph alone to convict the self-made Imperator of a family hierarchy of the most daring and damnable fraud!
The Supreme Advisory Council of the “Fudoest” “(6) That two of the highest officials of each of
the fourteen organizations represented at the con- vention shall constitute the Supreme Advisory
“Dr.” Lewis Only Council of the Federation, to be known as Fu- an Advisor? DOESI (Federation Universalle des Ordres et Socie- Verily, He Made ties Initiatique). Dr. H. Spencer Lewis, Imperator, the Fuposi! and Frater Ralph M. Lewis, Supreme Grand Sec-
retary, are the two officials representing FUDOESI exclusively in North and South America.” (Jd., Ds 3783)
In this hastily made and ill-advised preliminary Lewistonian report of the Fuposi, which indicates that the federation might be governed by a “Supreme Advisory Council” of twenty-eight mem- bers, which gives it the appearance of a mutual and democratic association, while the real facts and the whole truth were designedly concealed concerning the governing council, the “Supreme Triangle,” composed of three “Imperators” controlled, cunningly but abso- lutely, by “Dr.’’ H. Spencer Lewis, “Imperator.”
Here it is said that the Federation is to be known as ‘‘FUDOEsI,”’ but later, for some reason, the ““E”’ was dropped out and it became the Fuposi.” If the “I’’ had been dropped, instead of the “‘E,” there would have been no federation, because in reality and as a matter of fact, the much overpraised and overworked device, miscalled a federation, was composed of “I,” Dr. H. Spencer Lewis, Ph.D.,
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Imperator, his cohorts and a few grossly deceived and wholly misled associates.
Of course, ‘‘Dr.’’ Lewis, the Imperator, and his son Ralph, the Supreme Grand Secretary, are the two “representing FUDOESI ex- clusively in North and South America.’ Let us remember this as we consider the next, i.e., the seventh claim or preposterous propo- sition, the meaning of which it may be difficult to ascertain or determine:
“Full Autocratic Authority” of Frater Gordon
“(7) That illustrious Frater Merritt G. Gordon, of Vancouver, Canada, is authorized to represent the North American jurisdiction as Grand Master of Canada, and to represent the International Rosi- crucian Council, with full autocratic authority under the new consti-
tution of the Order for North America.” (Jd., p. 378.)
This alleged finding of the FuposI appears to be in sharp conflict with finding number six above set forth. There, the illuminated Fuposl, according to this report, found, and it is so certified, that the Lewises are the ‘‘whole show” in the Americas, which includes Can- ada. Here it is certified that Illustrious Frater Merritt G. Gordon is authorized to represent the North American jurisdiction, as Grand Master of Canada. How can that be, when the North American jurisdiction is represented by the Lewises? And, further, it was found, and it is so certified, that Frater Gordon is “‘to repre- sent the International Rosicrucian Fraternity as a member of the International Rosicrucian Council, with full autocratic authority under the new constitution of the Order for North America.”
Now, if we can put any faith in the Fuposi and believe these several certificates, then it would seem that the Federation greatly exceeded its authority and unduly encroached upon the exclusive rights and “‘autocratic’”’ prerogatives of Lewis, for was it not found, and so certified, in paragraph five above set forth, that AMORC is an independent self-governing jurisdiction and that the Lewises are a self-perpetuating hierarchy under an “autocratic law’? Of course. Then what right did the Fuposi have to appoint Brother Gordon ‘‘to represent the North American jurisdiction” or to be a “member of the International Rosicrucian Council” and to repre- sent the “International Rosicrucian Fraternity,” with full autocratic
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authority under the new constitution of the Order for North America”’?
Well, after all and despite the confusion, there is no real conflict. The conflict only “seems to be”’ and exists solely in the confusion of names, stratagems and devices. Lewis is the ‘‘Fuposi’’;. he is the ‘“North American Jurisdiction’’; he is the “International Rosi- crucian Council,” and he is also the “Full Autocratic Authority” that appointed Frater Merritt G. Gordon, Grand Master of Canada, member of the International Rosi rucian Council and delegate to the Fuposi. Lewis claims and verily asserts the autocratic authority to “hire and fire’ Grand Masters as well as clerks and secretaries when they please or cease to please him.* Thus, the Black Cat slips out of the bag and another Badge of Fraud appears to tell the tale of this autocratic-brotherly swindle.
“Exclusive Repository” “Allied Organizations”
“(8) That the Supreme Council of AMORC at
It Never Was. San Jose, California, shall continue to be the ex- How Can It clusive repository for North and South America of Continue to Be? the get:uine and authorized rituals, rites, teachings
and findings of the Rosicrucian Order or Fraternity and its allied organizations.” (Jd., p. 378.)
This is the last of the enumerated “unanimous decisions of the representatives of all of the Rosicrucian and other orders of Eu- rope.” In substance it is a summation and reiteration of the ‘‘find- ings’ set forth in paragraphs (1), (3), and (4).
However, it will be recalled that in Paragraph (4) Lewis stressed his exclusive control in America of the authority, rites, rituals and teachings of several of the “allied organizations,”’ in- cluding the Martinist Order and the Egyptian Rites. In Part One, supra, we quoted his declared intention of creating a Supreme Coun- cil of the Martinist Order in America. Here we have the repeated reference to “allied organizations.’’ And further on in this report, which we shall presently review, he attaches much importance to
1See Rosicrucian Forum, December, 1934, pp. 69-70, also Chapter Six, where we shall quote Lewis’ statement here referred to and discuss his alleged ‘Autocratic powers and authority.” See paragraph (1) heretofore set forth.
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the ‘charters,’ rituals and teachings which he procured from the other or allied organizations.
Is all of this reference to the other or allied organizations not significant and full of meaning? It is—and it is most significant. He knows full well that he has no Rosicrucian authority and that he has no right to transact the business of his fraternal racket under the name of the Rosy Cross as a Rosicrucian, and anticipates that soon or ultimately, he will be forced to discontinue the use of Rosicrucian appellations, and to seek green pastures for his enter- prise. Therefore, in his foresighted cunning and ever-alert design- ing, he is attempting to place himself and his self-perpetuating hierarchy of fraternal fraud in a position to carry on in the name or under the guise of another or other orders. Can you not see his planning and scheming written all over the surface and between the lines of this, his “official,” report of his ‘“Great European Con- clave’? It is reasonable, is it not? If he really has Rosicrucian authority and teachings, as he claims, and which he says embrace all of the ancient and modern wisdom and learning,” then why does he need the authority and teachings of other orders or organiza- tions? Is the answer not obvious—and can you not see his cunning written on the face of this report, which proclaims that: “Jf you drive me from my spurious Rosicrucian claims, I will carry on under the Martinist Order and with the Egyptian Rites of Mem- phis’? Thus, he proposes to perpetuate his self-perpetuating hier- archy of perpetual fraternal fraud.
“Momentous Decisions” “A New Fama and Manifesto”
Italics Are Ours. “T cannot hope; in this limited space, to outline Momentous all of the momentous decisions [!] that were reached Ballyhoo! at this great [?] convention. These are officially
embodied in reports, charters [in charters?] and cer- tificates signed and sealed by every representative at- tending the convention.
“One of the decisions provides for the issuance
This Report Is in America, in the near future, of a new Rosicrucian His “Fama” and ‘Fama’ and Manifesto, proclaiming to ‘all the people Manifesto” of the Western World’ the official rulings and de-
2 See his “Official Publication Number Two,” p. 9, also Chapter Five to follow.
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crees of this conclave. Then the important facts
will be set forth in detail.” (Jd., p. 378.)
_ Obviously, judging from this report, there were but two “‘momen- tous decisions” made at the convention. One was that AMORC, the fraternal racket of the Lewis Hierarchy, is the only Rosicrucian Order in America. The other, and major ‘momentous decision,” was that ‘‘Dr.”’ H. Spencer Lewis is the greatest man and the most appreciated and best loved benefactor to mankind that has ever lived, or, perhaps, ever will live on this earth. As to these two “momentous” decisions, space was not limited, but for the ‘‘minor”’ matters such as the dark schemes and the detestable trickery that lay beneath and produced the “momentous decisions” the space was limited, however, not sufficiently to crowd it out entirely, for the story of Lewis’ chicanery is written in this report for those who care to read and who can see behind the smiling mask of craft, of self-constituted authority and self-glorification.
Besides being embodied in this official report, these momentous decisions are embodied in “‘charters” and “‘certificates” signed and sealed. If they are of no more “moment’’ than those “important charters’ which we have reviewed, then they may be disregarded. In this connection, however, it is pertinent for us to note that the other ‘‘official’” report published in Europe, which we have just reviewed, omitted entirely to mention these momentous decisions, which, to be sure, was a grave omission.
Lewis’ first attempt at issuing ‘“‘famas,’ which he called the “Second Fama,” or Pronunziamento, was not altogether successful, as we have shown in Part Three hereof. However, it seems in 1934, as indicated by this report and encouraged by his success in forming the FuposI, that he decided to try the issuance of another and ‘‘New Fama” and ‘“‘Manifesto,” proclaiming to “all the people of the Western World” the great deeds and momentous decisions of the convention of Brussels, but the Fupos!i was not altogether successful, either, and the ‘‘New Fama and Manifesto”’ remains unissued. Like the ‘Second Fama”’ it has been assigned, no doubt, to the limbus of forgotten things.
A Portfolio of Charters To Honor “Our Greatly Loved Imperator”
Italics Are Ours. “T do know, however, that our Imperator is bring-
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ing back to America the largest leather-bound port- folio of documents, charters [?], resolutions, official decrees and manifestoes ever presented to one man. We never dreamed that our Imperator was so well known, so greatly beloved and honored by so many organizations and individuals in Europe; and all of these were anxious to express in speeches and beau- tifully prepared resolutions their endorsement of his
work in America.” (Id., p. 378.)
Remarkable!
Too Many Charters May Be So Many Badges of Fraud!
Still, the flood of charters, documents and manifestoes that have been showered upon Lewis in an endless stream since first he became a fraternal racketeer, continues without abatement, and the most unusual recognitions and signal honors continue to fall around and over him like a robe of celestial glory. It is the typical and per- sistent false propaganda which he has used to promote his shady business since he fabricated his spurious R. C. Order and, as we have before pointed out, it is an outstanding Badge of Fraud which shrouds his shameful trafficking in brotherly love and fra- ternal swindles like the apparition of justice that will not perish until righteous judgment shall prevail.
This propagandistic and promotional report continues fulsome praise and honors galore for “Dr.” Lewis, “Our Imperator,” as follows:
The Special Banquet
Italics Are Ours.
“Dr.” Lewis Greatly Lionized Myth of His Own Creation. With All the World Bow- ing at His Feet, Took All the Honors and ‘Triumphantly Returned to America to Tell the Great Story of His Glory. But the Glowing Honors May Turn to Ashes and Be Only
“On the second night of the convention a special banquet in honor of Dr. Lewis and his delegates from North America was held in a large banquet hall and tendered by the officers of all the other or- ganizations. The special address of the evening was made by Fra Wittemans, of the Belgian Senate. It was a long and hearty toast to Our Imperator. This was followed by glowing toasts and speeches to the same effect by Illustrious Frater Blanchard, Grand Master of the Ordre Kabbalistique de Rose Croix de France, by the representative of the Alchemistic Society of France and many others. To all of these our Imperator was requested to make replies, and at the close of the banquet a large manifesto was pre- sented to him containing the greetings and signatures
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Badges of Fraud! and seals of all of the scores of persons present. “Our Imperator was also asked to grant an inter- view before the microphone of the Jarge interna- tional radio station in Brussels, and the introductory remarks made by two of the representatives of other organizations were highly complimentary to the
work of AMORC in America.” (Jd., p. 378.)
We are in constant communication with the Kabbalistique Rose Croix Order of France. Therefore, let us keep the record straight and record the fact that Frater Victor Blanchard is not the Grand Master of that order. This done, let us read the report of
The Second Banquet “In a Veritable Fairyland”
Italics Are Ours.
The Swiss AMORC Inspired by Lewis.
A Mystical Setting Made Specially by God and Man to
Honor “Dr.” Lewis.
Honors, Honors, More Honors !—and High Esteem! August Reichel and Frater Amertis Are One and the Same.
“At the end of the week our North American delegates journeyed with our Imperator to Lau- sanne, Switzerland, where the Swiss Jurisdiction of Rosicrucians [?], under the Grand Master, the eminent Dr. Berthelot, and the Martinist Order and a number of others, had planned another initiation for Dr. Lewis and a banquet on the lawns of the Temple adjoining the edge of Lake Geneva! This was unquestionably the most mystical and gorgeous setting we have ever witnessed. Beautiful lawns, flower beds, fountains, winding walks, wide stair- ways leading to the water’s edge, drooping trees, marble statuary, festoons of electric lights, the beams of the moon, little tables grouped here and there and a score of Switzerland’s most eminent leaders of thought. It was like a banquet set in a veritable fairyland.
“After the banquet we retired to the old man- sion converted into a gorgeous home for the Rosi- crucians [ ?] living there, and amid symbolic fixtures another ceremony of honor to our Imperator was conducted, and many speeches of greeting and high esteem were made by Illustrious Frater Reichel, Grand Master of the Order of ‘Unknown Samari- tans’; Dr. Berthelot, President of the ‘Societe d’Etudes Psychique’ of Switzerland; Frater 4 mer- tis, Grand Master of the Martinist Order of Swit-
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More Charters or Mementoes, Also
“Signed” and “Sealed.”
Animal Magnetism, Not Rosicrucianism. More Honors and More Manuscripts and
High Membership.
Great Inventors Also Honor Our Imperator and Also His Delegation.
This Tall Story Is Also a Gem.
zerland, and others. At the close of this wonderful session a large certificate was given to Dr. Lewis as a ‘Memento Souvenir de la Reception de Frater Dr. H. Spencer Lewis,’ and signed and sealed by the officers and members of all the organizations rep- resented.
“Dr. Berthelot also gave us an illustrated lecture dealing with his astonishing discoveries and practices in the field of animal magnetism and presented Dr. Lewis with a certificate of Honorary Membership in the Swiss society, of which he is President, and a number of manuscripts dealing with this important subject. Dr. Lewis was also given a certificate of high membership in the Swiss jurisdiction of the Ordre of Martinists.
“Likewise, we were thrilled with a moving-picture demonstration by one of the Fraters showing his latest invention whereby ordinary black-and-white moving pictures taken of every conceivable subject were turned into natural colors on the screen at will by the use of a very simple device.
“We shall never forget the wonderful hospitality of the two Rosicrucian Sorores and the others whe made this visit to Lausanne a never-to-be-forgotten
gem in the events of this summer.” (Jd., pp. 378- 379.)
Sifting the Facts
Besides the praise of Mr. Lewis for “Dr.” Lewis, which persists
in abundance throughout this “official”? account of the Fuposi, the banquet to honor him in the most mystical and gorgeous setting in a veritable fairyland, and the old mansion converted into a gorgeous home for the Rosicrucians (?) living there; the alleged facts scat- tered and sprinkled throughout this gorgeous tale of the festoons of glory of “our Imperator” need to be sifted, and kept straight and correctly recorded for the sake of the record.
Dr. Ed. Berthelot, whose nom de plume in the Lewis-Mallinger
set-up of the AMORC of Europe is Sar Heb. Ailghim Si—a title.
and name conferred upon him by the Rose Croix University of Belgium—has recently been induced to accept the Grand Master- ship of the AMORC of Switzerland of very recent origin, and this
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is the evidence which Lewis presents to sustain his claim that the AMORC has existed there for years. Dr. Berthelot is a substantial citizen and highly respected in his country. He is the head of an organization known as the Societe Vandoise d’ Etudes Psychiques, interested in modern psychology, physical phenomena, animal mag- netism and kindred subjects—subjects in which the Rosicrucians are not particularly interested. He is the type of a respectable and respected individual whom Lewis needs most to further his schemes and to set up his fraudulent devices in Europe to foster and pro- mote his swindle in America.
As we have before shown, the AMORC of Switzerland is a part of the AMORC system fabricated by Lewis and Mallinger with the aid of a few clandestine Masons of the spurious Belgian Sanctuary of the Rites of Memphis-Mizraim, which had its origin in and has grown out of the fantastical, burlesqued fabrication, styled the “Rose Croix University of Belgium,” which, with imbecilic stupid- ity, claims to be the “Ruler of the Arts and Sciences.’’®
No doubt Dr. Berthelot was deceived and overreached when he was induced to lend his good name to the Lewis-Mallinger fabrica- tion; to sponsor and build up Lewis’ fraudulent device in Switzer- land. Verily, Lewis has not been slow nor remiss in taking full advantage of his Grand Mastership of the alleged Swiss AMORC. In February, 1936, Lewis published Dr. Berthelot’s picture as a Frontispiece to his official organ,* stating that it is an “excellent likeness of our beloved Grand Master in Switzerland,” who was “elected to his high office in the Rosicrucian Order several years ago by the members in his jurisdiction.”* As a matter of fact, he was only recently appointed by the Lewis-Mallinger fabrication in Belgium and he has been grossly deceived and the most undue ad- vantage has been taken of him. Lewis has taken many advantages of him other than the grievous advantage he took of his genteel hospitality.
At one time the also-deceived August Reichel was the agent or representative of the much-hidden “mystical” and mythical “Imper- ator of Europe,” and, therefore, his ambassador to the French and
3 See our Reproduction No. 48A. 4 The Rosicrucian Digest, February, 1936.
5 This is rather inconsistent with Lewis’ doctrine of “Blood Transfusion” and Grand Mastership by descent from father to son. See Part Three of this chapter, supra.
49
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Amertis, one and the same person, were present on the occasion so bombastically and fantastically described, and that many speeches of greetings and high esteem of ‘“‘Dr.’’ Lewis, “‘our Imperator,” were made by Frater Reichel; by his nom de plume, Frater Amertis; by Dr. Berthelot, and others. It is a trick to honor ‘‘our Imperator,” as, also, was the conversion of the ‘“‘old mansion into a gorgeous home for the Rosicrucians living there.” In the same magazine in which this report appeared, the picture of Dr. Berthelot’s residence, or perhaps of the ‘“‘old mansion’”’ mentioned above, is published as a Frontispiece,* with the statement that it is the Rosicrucian Temple of the Grand Lodge (AMORC) of Switzerland. Verily, verily, “our Imperator’ has used Dr. Berthelot’s connection with the spurious Swiss AMORC to the fullest extent and advantage to promote his fraternal family racket in America !
An Old Rosicrucian Village and a Few More Charters, Etc.
Italics Are Ours. “After touring to an old Rosicrucian village [?] and gathering more historical data [!] and visiting other sources of R. C. knowledge [!], we returned
The Meeting of the to Brussels, where, at a final session with the officials
Supreme Triangle. of the Federation, our Imperator was given large packages of secret books, hand-made manuscripts and documents containing the rituals and principal teach- ings of the other allied organizations into which he
More Charters and had been initiated, a number of additional charters
Badges of Fraud. and manifestoes of authority and a Jarge box con- taining all of the official regalia, robes, jewels and
emblems of the different orders.” (Jd., p. 379.)
In his first ‘‘authentic’” history of his fabricated AMORC under the subtitle: ‘“A Pilgrim’s Journey to the East,” Lewis tells of his visit to the ancient Rosicrucian city of Toulouse,’ France, where he received his Rosicrucian “initiation”? and “illumination”? almost instantaneously, in a single night. Here he is bringing that ancient myth down to date in-the description of his recent European travels.
6 The Rosicrucian Digest, November, 1934. 7 The American Rosae Crucis, May, 1916, pp. 12 to 27. We shall review his strange story and unique initiation in Chapter Five.
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Such villages and cities are myths, pure and simple, existing only in the imagination—separate and distinct Rosicrucian villages and cities have never existed in fact. But, of course, a pseudo Rosicru- cian pretender should visit “‘sources of R. C. knowledge” and gather *“‘more historical data,” it is useful in the promotion of spurious
R. C. Orders!
The return to Brussels and the meeting referred to as ‘“‘a final session with the officials of the Federation” was the meeting of the “SUPREME TRIANGLE,” at which time and place Lewis and his convenient Secretary, Marc Lanval, designed the ‘“‘hand-made manv- script” certifying to the authenticity of the Lewistonian Hierarchial Racket, shown in our Reproduction No. 52, which we shall presently review.
It is truly remarkable the immense number and vast quantity of manuscripts, documents, rituals, manifestoes of authority, char- ters, and additional charters, and the large boxes of official regalia, robes, jewels and emblems of the different orders, that Dr. Lewis, “our Imperator—Ph.D.,” has been able to collect. If he had devoted his time and collecting genius to legitimate art of “de la antiques, beyond doubt he would have been the premier antique collector of his day! Instead, he elected to follow the shady busi- ness of collecting unique, spurious charters—that, in reality, are just so many Badges of Fraud!
On to London and the Third Banquet
“Going on to London, we found that our AMORC legate in London, Frater Arthur Roberts, . had co-operated with the Grand Master of England, AMORC of England Illustrious Frater Raymund Andrea, and Frater Is a Lewistonian James in planning a banquet at the Hotel Washing- Fabrication. ton for Tuesday evening, September 11th, to be fol- lowed by a meeting of the Rosicrucians of England,
with Frater Roberts as the host. “Here, again, our Imperator was greeted most Cordially Greeted. cordially and his work highly praised by those offi- Greatly Honored. cers who are doing a great work in the British Isles. “During our visit in London, Dr. Lewis was in- vited to speak before the monthly assembly of the Bacon Society of England, of which he is Vice- Italics Are Ours. President. He was given a hearty welcome and
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made a profoundly impressive address on ‘Bacon’s