Chapter V herein, will prove revealing, indeed, and tell something

more of this remarkable story of fraternal racketeering and fraudu- lent exploitation.
The Irresistible Conclusion
We shall conclude this volume by repeating that which we said in its introduction. No thoughtful person can contemplate the use and publication of falsified evidence, DELETED papers and MUTI- LATED documents or false testimony in court. No careful person can examine the so-called “important Rosicrucian documents,” the self-made and spurious ‘‘charters”’ falsely represented to be war- rants of Rosicrucian authority. No discriminating person can con-
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sider the false, fabulous and conflicting tales concerning interna- tional, world and universal councils, congresses and conventions. No casual or careless person can read the many different false and contradictory claims of Rosicrucian authority. No one can witness the way in which the complete control and use of the concern has been reserved to the family. No one can review the gross misrep- resentations, the endless chicanery, the unscrupulous trickery and ‘the numerous devices and artifices of fraud used to promote the scheme. In short, no one can read this work of two volumes with- out having the abiding feeling and firm conviction—indeed, with- out reaching the irresistible conclusion—that the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis—the AMORC—is a spurious Rosicrucian Order; that it is a fraudulent scheme and that it is a nefarious fra- ternal swindle, operated as a family racket.
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