Chapter VI.

‘ This is a repetition of the false representation to which we have directed particular attention a few pages back.
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“Therefore, AMORC repeats again its statement: It is a part of the International Rosicrucian Order, most jurisdictions of which use the same name except for a slight variation due to translation in foreign languages. It is a part of the ONE and ONLY Rosicrucian ORDER that is truly international. It is the only Rosicrucian move- ment, society,? or body in North America having membership and representation in the ‘Conseil Internationale, Antiqum Arcanum Ordinis Rubeae Rosae et Aureae Crucis’ with its international “Siege social and Secretariat general’ in Europe and its sacred Sanc- tums and monasteries in India and other lands in the Orient, with the Holy Assembly of Masters in Tibet.1 The AMORC of Amer- ica, therefore, is duly represented in the International Congresses and Conventions held at stated periods in Europe and adheres to the
ancient traditions and customs in all of its standards and practices. ea - (lds pp. 6-7 Lhe italics-are ours. )
Here he resorts to the last and desperate trick and artifice of fraudulent promotion, that of overwhelming and disarming the prospective victims of exploitation by bold and unequivocal claims of genuineness, stated in the language and mode of absolute con- fidence so as to completely awe and throw the unwary entirely off their guard. Such propaganda, without any substantial supporting facts, is an eloquent Badge of Fraud.
The Fuposi—A Fraudulent Device
Created to Establish the Genuineness of a Racket
Revising the 1934 edition of his Manual so as to bring all of his artifices and devices down to date, we find him asserting that:
(91) “In August of 1934 in Brussels, Belgium, a special conclave of the highest officers of the fourteen outstanding mystical, arcane and metaphysical movements of the world was held. The object of the conclave was to perpetuate, by the forming of an international organization, the traditional rituals, teachings, laws and principles
° Here he refers to his fabrication as a “society,” contradicting and repudiating his former statements that it had naught to do with Rosicrucian movements calling them- selves societies. See Volume I, p. 210.
‘It is strikingly strange that he should have omitted Egyft from this sweeping, bold, false statement to which he still takes his deluded members on junkets to receive the “higher cosmic initiations.” These false representations relating to Tibet have been completely exposed in Chapter IV, supra.
° The part omitted here from the above quotation is quoted on p. 562, supra.
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of each of the respective organizations, and to establish such rules and regulations and method of procedure as would identify each of these outstanding organizations as being authentic and genuine,® as distinguished from the number of movements of a clandestine nature throughout the world.
- Each of these fourteen organizations trace their origin authen- tically for centuries into the past. The AMORC was the only organization of North America officially recognized at this conclave. The various bodies represented formed what is termed the ‘Federa- tion Universelle des Orders et Societies Initiatique’.* Various honors were conferred upon the highest officers of the AMORC represented at this conclave, and additional charters of authority and recognition were conferred upon the Imperator of AMORC of North America.
-“One of the resolutions of this conclave was that the AMORC is the only authentic, recognized Rosicrucian organization in North America as decreed by the unanimous decision of the Imperators and Grand Masters of the fourteen ancient mystical groups assem- bled in convention at Brussels, Belgium, August, 1934.” (Jd., pp. 6-7. The italics are ours.)
The ‘‘Federation Universelle des Ordres et Societies Initiatique”’ (Fupos1) has been considered in Parts One and Four of Chapter IV and fully exposed as a fraudulent device. We shall not consider it further in this connection, other than to point to the fact, as shown by the foregoing statement, that he continues to use the FuDosI as a fraudulent device to promote and perpetuate his fraternal swindle.
8 This statement removes all doubts that it was his intention and purpose in forming the Fuposi to create for himself a device to establish the “authenticity and genuine- ness” of his fraudulent scheme called the AMORC.
4'This is the Fupost—the eminent fraudulent device. In 1934 H. Spencer Lewis, the Imperator of the Family Racket, attended a Great European Conclave when the device called Fuposi was instituted in Brussels. He was initiated in all the worth- while clandestine orders of Europe. See Part Four of Chapter IV. In 1936 Ralph