Book D and present herewith a complete answer thereto, insofar

as it relates to us, to the authentic Rose Cross Order or purports ‘to be a reply to our charges, for the benefit of those who do not know the facts but who desire to know the truth and for those who have not the means of ascertaining the whole truth. In this answer White Book D is stripped of all camouflage and is revealed to be a Black Book of Deception filled with the same character of plausible falsehoods, manufactured and falsified evidence, and de- leted or mutilated documents—typically Lewistonian—employed by him in the fabrication of his spurious R. C. Order and in the organization of his fraternal racket. With the same wicked decep- tion and the use of the same crafty methods and cunning devices he has been and is now carrying on and conducting one of the most unique and despicable frauds and mystic swindles of these times— indeed, of all times.
What Is This “White Book’ D”?
It purports to be Mr. Lewis’ reply to several booklets,’ which have had wide circulation under popular demand, in which we exposed his fabricated and spurious Rosicrucian organization, his family racket, his fraudulent practices, his swindling arts, his Black Magic connections and in which we also pointed the Way to the Door of the authentic TEMPLE OF THE Rosy Cross.
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How Does He Reply?
Did he make an honest reply? Did he face the facts, and make a fair, frank answer to the serious charges made against him? He pip Not! He cannot answer with truth. His whole scheme was conceived in falsehood and fraud, born in iniquity and matured into a fraternal racket and a wicked, perverse swindle. He cannot face the facts. The facts prove his guilt. He cannot stand four- square. His scheme is not on the square, and his racket is crooked. He cannot make an honest, straightforward answer. Such an answer would be a confession. In such a situation what did he do? He substituted ingenious stratagems and cunning artifices in a plausible reply for honest answer. And what were the subterfuge he used instead of an honest, straightforward answer based upon the truth and the facts?
First: The Convention and Committees
Like a dishonest debtor who schemes to beat his honest debts by carrying his property in his wife’s name, he hides behind the so-called “‘joint activities” of “‘voluntary”’ committees and a “‘unani- mous’”’ National Convention—absolutely dominated and completely controlled by himself—through which self-constructed mouthpiece he praises and exalts himself and declares himself innocent and duly acquitted. However, knowing full well the true nature of the aforesaid ‘‘voluntary’’ committees and the “unanimous’’ con- vention, the compulsion, duress, deception and illusion under which they acted, or purported to act, and being fearful that the camou- flage might not be sufficient—like a patent medicine vendor of quack cure-all remedies—he had the “Defense Committee” offer a reward of One Thousand Dollars to anyone who can prove that the committees did not exist and that they did not render their report to the effect and in the manner described, etc. Thus he finally acquits himself by offering an award—rather subtle evidence of guilt to keen minds and all seeing eyes—is it not?
Like a dexterous promoter of a fraudulent organization, when confronted by the accusing finger of truth and who is in danger of being seized by the hands of justice, he turns to his deceived and defrauded victims and cries: ‘‘Defend me, defend me, lest I and our great brotherhood and splendid order perish!” The charges are against Mr. Lewis, not against his members, who with his
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deceptive arts and clever scheme he has misled and victimized, many of whom are still under the blinding influence of his cunning arts of deception, and so by the cleverest of crafty and adroit manipulations he leads his deceived and deluded victims to believe that they have been attacked and thus uses them as a bulwark for his safety and as an instrument for his defense.
His unscrupulous methods and the trickery employed to deceive and induce his committees to defend and whitewash him will ap- pear, in their naked ugliness, throughout this book. The value of the findings of the ‘“‘Defense Committee,” the persuasive force of the ‘Unanimous Convention” will be specifically dealt with in Chapter Six in connection with the fraudulent nature and true status of his family racket.
Second: The Alleged Conspiracy
Feigning, as the guilty often do, the martyrdom of an innocent *“‘victim”’ of vicious and wicked persecution, he makes the counter- charge of a terrible plot and an awful conspiracy to expose his swindle and to destroy his family racket. By this ingenious ruse of destructive and all-consuming conspiracy—behind this frail man of straw, constructed by himself for his temporary security—he hopes to hide, like an ostrich with its head buried in the sand, until the fury of the rising and increasing storm of righteous protests
of his wronged and defrauded victims blows over.
We reply in Chapter One to this makeshift contrivance used by him to create sympathy for himself and with the hope of diverting attention from the facts so as to prevent serious consideration of the truth of charges upon their merits.
Third: False Issues and Confusion
Being unable to meet the real charges, the essence of which is that he fabricated a spurious R. C. Order and falsely represented it to be a genuine Rosicrucian Order which is a fraud and a swindle, he resorts to the bewildering disguise of setting up false issues, of misstating all issues and of singling out immaterial issues to which he makes plausible replies which he regards as being fully answered and shown to be false. He anticipates this clever stratagem in his
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“Important Foreword’ wherein he argues that if the one who is making the charges is found to have been incorrect or to have falsified in one or two of his statements, then all of his evidence should be disregarded and the charges must by reason thereof be ignored. ‘Thus he prepares his readers so that the trickery he employs will be successful and have the desired and intended effect.
To make doubly sure that the issues and the serious charges will be ignored or forgotten, he sets up a smoke-screen by resorting to every known artifice to confuse, confound, bewilder, bamboozle and nonplus his members and the public with the hope of escaping the wrath of those he has wronged and circumvent and forestall a just verdict based upon the facts in the case.
These matters and the clever methods of this cunning proprietor of a fraternal racket, although noted throughout this entire Book, are given special consideration in Chapter Two.
Fourth: Personal Attacks and Counter-Charges
To save himself and to perpetuate his spurious R. C. enterprise and family racket he makes unjustified attacks and false counter- charges against the Supreme Grand Master of the authentic Rosi- crucian Fraternity in America. These attacks and his counter- charges he supports by falsified and manufactured evidence. It is apparent that his purpose is to discredit us that he may escape the charges we make against him and to destroy or render impotent the authentic Rosicrucian Order in America, that his fraudulent R. C. enterprise may be recognized and regarded as the authentic order. His efforts to destroy the authentic Order, to discredit its ofhcial head and the detestable methods employed to accomplish his unworthy purposes are fully considered in Chapter Three, where his despicable methods and deplorable tactics are exposed. The low degree and the extreme limits to which this unscrupulous fabricator, promoter and proprietor of this fraudulent R. C. enter- - prise and fraternal racket has stooped and_will go to save himself and to perpetuate his mystic swindle, conducted under the guise of brotherly love and in the spirit of fraternalism, are fully demon- strated by his own acts and wanton methods as is shown in this chapter and also in Chapter Four.
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Fifth: Petty Chicanery
Particular and studious attention is directed to Chapter Four, wherein Lewis’ claims of Rosicrucian authority from and through Clandestine Masonry and his claims of authority by, from and through various World Councils and International R. C. Councils are completely refuted. His emphatic denial of any connections or relations whatever with Aleister Crowley, the notorious Black Magician, whom Lewis denounces and severely arraigns, and his denial of Crowley’s connections with the O.T.O. (Ordo Templi Orientis), from which he claims to hold a Charter granting Rosi- crucian authority to him, are shown to be absolutely false.
All of his mythical claims of authority from non-existing World and International R. C. Councils having failed, his latest and final claim of authoritative recognition by the FUDOSI (Federation Universelle des Ordres et Societes Initiatiques), which he claims guarantees the genuineness and authenticity of his family racket “as 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,” is shown to be a huge and monumental hoax and hocus-pocus perpetrated by Lewis, with the assistance of a few of his European confederates, to give plausibility to his spurious claims of Rosicrucian authen- ticity.
In this Chapter his “holier-than-thou”’ attitude and the sincerity of his vehement denunciation of all sex teachings by occult and mystic schools in connection with the mysteries are shown to be inconsistent and in sharp contrast with his close association and affiliation with Black Masters of degraded sex practices, with sex perverts, with leaders of Nudist cults and with teachers of de- graded and dangerous sex teachings.
Faced with the necessity of admitting that his claims of Rosi- crucian authority from the International R. C. Councils were false and of admitting his connection with Crowley in and through the O.T.O., he resorted to the unholy and dangerous expediency of attempting to prove the false to be true and to sustain his unten- able position by the publication of falsified and manufactured evi- dence and mutilated documents.
In this and also in Chapters Five and Six, students and investi- gators of fraudulent Orders and fraternal rackets will find excellent
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material for the study of one of the cleverest and most successful swindlers, traficking in brotherly love and exploiting the nobler instincts and higher ideals of mankind. Perhaps the Post Office Department and the Federal Trade Commission will also find the. material of interest, because—after all—inducing men and women to part with their money and to join a spurious order and fraternal racket on false representations is just as fraudulent—yjust as rancid and pernicious—as any other fraudulent commercial scheme pawn- ing off bogus stocks, worthless bonds or rotten potatoes on unad- vised and credulous people. In truth and in fact, it is far more pernicious and mischievous, since it robs its victims not only of things material, but exploits their nobler impulses and robs them of their higher ideals.
And all readers will be astonished, if not dumfounded, at the clever trickery, the cunning devices and the subtle artifice employed to promote and carry on this swindle, and the depraved tactics and shocking chicanery resorted to by the master mind of the Lewis- tonian Hierarchy of Fraud to save himself and to perpetuate his fraternal racket.
Sixth: Shifting Claims of Authority
The various and conflicting claims as to the source or sources of authority made by Lewis for his spurious R. C. Order and fraternal enterprise are not generally available. Therefore, to make such material available for all interested parties and to pre- serve a compiled record thereof, a supplemental review of the hodgepodge claims of the claptrap authority asserted by him from time to time during the past twenty-one years, is to be found in Chapter Five.
There is an abundance of other evidence to prove that his so- called R. C. Order is spurious and counterfeit. However, the various, different, conflicting, improbable and impossible claims of authority; the changing and shifting from one source of alleged authority to another; the suspicious statement so often made that his claims have been investigated by so many different committees and found to be genuine, showing that he knows their inherent weakness and feels the need of having them bolstered up by certif- cation from outside sources; and the contradictory statements, the self-impeaching explanations and the “‘puffed-up”’ fabulous, unrea-
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sonable claims made by Lewis for his spurious R. C. Order are proof sufficient, within themselves, and most convincing to un- biased, incredulous, and ungullible men and women of average intelligence, when fully reviewed, compared and analyzed. Out of his own mouth and by his own published statements, he convicts
himself. Seventh: Public Debate
Having employed every known artifice, cunning machination, clever stratagem, bewildering disguise and depraved chicanery, and after ignoring for more than a year and a half our sincere offer for a fair, dignified, complete and decisive investigation by a competent tribunal,* made in response to his second challenge for a public debate, and refusing to join in such an investigation, because he cannot face the facts before a competent tribunal, therefore, he concludes his Black Book of Deception—miscalled White Book D— by publishing and discussing the third challenge to a public debate. We reply to this—one of his often-used and overworked subter- fuges—in the Seventh and concluding Chapter of this Book.
Arrangement of Contents
This answer to White Book D naturally and conveniently divides itself into seven principal sub-divisions or chapters. Hence as a matter of convenient and logical treatment this answer is presented under seven general headings and Chapters, as follows: