Chapter LY, Part Vhree, pp. 355 to 359.

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AN ANSWER ‘TO.LEWIS* WHITE. (@;) BOOK. De
F. R. C., Ph.D —AMORC has ESTABLISHED® or affiliated with Grand Lodges or Regular Lodges’ in all the principal cities and countries of the world; that the Fraternity—his international or- ganization—is operating under its AMORC charters or charter from its Supreme Council of the World, which was fabricated under his ‘‘capable direction.”
THUS IN THIS WRITTEN AND PUBLISHED STATEMENT HE AD- MITS AND PUBLICLY CONFESSES THAT HE CREATED, FABRICATED AND ESTABLISHED THE SO-CALLED INTERNATIONAL AMORC AND ITS ALLEGED SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE WORLD WITH AND ON NO GREATER OR BETTER AUTHORITY THAN HIS OWN AND THE SPURIOUS R. C. AUTHORITY OF HIS AMERICAN FABRICATION.
As to the American fabrication and his fake international Rosi- crucian organization and the spurious Supreme Council of the World, in the same bombastic promotional booklet, Rosicrucian Illumination, he tells still another and quite different story—but a more accurate story in some particulars of its origin—as follows:
“The Present Head of the AMORC
(71) ‘The Imperator of the AMORC in America and oTHER JURISDICTIONS, Harve Spencer Lewis, F. R. C., Ph.D., devoted many years to study and research in preparation for his contact with the highest officers of the Rosicrucian bodies in Europe, and in the year 1909 he journeyed to France where, in the southern provinces, he found a number of the older officers who maintained the archives and records of the early Rosicrucian bodies of Europe; and to this day the most important documents and historical papers are preserved in secret places of that country.” (Rosicrucian Illumination, p. 7. The capitals and italics are ours.)
®In The Mystic Triangle, February, 1926, at page 14, he established an AMORC Lodge in China by a member of his Supreme Lodge in California, who went to China for that purpose, as follows: “A recent letter from Harbin, China, which is just outside of the boundary line of Siberia, indicates that there is a very large and enthusiastic Lodge of AMORC in that city. It was originally started by one of the AMORC members of the Supreme Lodge in San Francisco, who went to Harbin for that purpose. It numbers among its members many of those who were formerly Officers of the Order in Russia before the war. We understand that they have com- pletely translated all of the English or American AMORC tteachings into the Russian and Chinese languages and that the leaders of both countries are very en- thusiastic over the very moneda and helpful way in which these mystical teachings are presented in this country.”
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Peeoemer alvin, OF Rok C AUTHORITY REVIEWED
Apparently, for the time being at least, he had determined to abandon his spurious and doubtful claims of Rosicrucian authority and to boldly strike out as the reviver and re-establisher of an “ancient” R. C. Order that was sleeping or had ceased to be active in these times. To this end he declares himself to be not only the Imperator of AMORC in America, but in other jurisdictions as well—perhaps King-Imperator of the rest of the world, as we have just seen.
He apparently bases his alleged rights to revive and re-establish the Order—his AMORC—throughout the world “in its present form,” not on any alleged authority or charter from a competent and authentic Rosicrucian body, but upon his years of study and his “research in preparation to contact” the highest officers of sleeping R. C. bodies in Europe and his alleged finding of a ‘‘number of the older officers” in the southern provinces of France who, he says, “maintained the archives and records of the early Rosicrucian bod- ies of Europe.” Therefore, having learned about the early Rosi- crucian bodies of Europe from the archives and records in France, he set about to revive and re-establish the Fraternity and to fab- ricate the AMORC in its present form.
Although the Rosicrucian Fraternity was active in Europe and especially in this country when Lewis fabricated and “established” or “re-established” his spurious R. C. Order, yet this fabled story and far-fetched theory or basis for his fabrication is far more plausible than his other stories of jewels, seals, papers, sponsorship, insignia, pronunciamentos, devices and authority by reincarnation or by inoculation through blood transfusion. However, none of them is true, and all of them are so many fraudulent devices used for the promotion of a fraternal swindle.
A New Story of Organization Repudiating and Contradicting All Other Versions
In this revised version of the organization of his AMORC he did not call together nine men and women, as in quotation (27), or nine men and women who had spent their lives in occult research, as in quotation (49), or nine men and women representative of the various schools of advanced thought, as in quotation (63), but here he called Rosicrucians together to revive and re-establish. the
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AN. ANSWER TO LEWIS’ WHITER) OO ie
DORMANT AND SLEEPING FRATERNITY. His revised and strangely new version of the organization of his fabrication is as follows:
“Rosicrucians Called Together
(72) “After being duly prepared and inducted into the princi- ples and powers of Rosicrucian activities, this American proceeded to call together other Rosicrucian students and workers in America, and in the Spring of 1915, after the customary six years of announce- ment, investigation and test,’ forty-eight men and women selected from many branches of activities covered by the AMORC Olan held a special session for the purpose of arranging a mass meeting.
“Rosicrucian Mass Meeting
“A few weeks later such a meeting was held in New York City, and over three hundred well-known occultists, metaphysicians, sci- entists and students of Rosicrucian work® were present. ‘To these Dr. Lewis presented his plans together with certain resolutions drawn up at the previous organization sessions and also cable mes- sages and letters received by others present, verifying the statements® made in the plans for organization. After three hours of further de- liberation a committee of sixty men and women was appointed to secure such additional verification of the plans as was found desir- able and to call another meeting within sixty days.” (Jd., p. 9. The italics are ours.)
In this revised version the all-important question of authority— the power and the right to establish another so-called Rosicrucian organization in this country was not considered. The fact that the authentic Rosicrucian Fraternity was active and functioning in this country was completely ignored. This, too, despite the fact that
“The “investigation and test” here referred to is obscure. Perhaps he refers to his own “investigation” for fabrication purposes and his /ist of victims for his plan as evolved.
S As usual with all his claims, stated in confusing generalities, he would leave the impression that students of Rosicrucianism reorganized the dormant or sleeping -order—but he fails to indicate how many. As a matter of fact, no Rosicrucians participated.
° Here, as usual, he has his statements verified by letters and cable messages from abroad. His voluntary committee, whose report he published in his White