In his
magazine The American Rosae Crucis of
May 1916, Lewis narrated that in an old tower located in the French city of
Toulouse and used (according to him) as a file cabinet by the Rosicrucians, he
observed the following:
« I saw the last Oath of the
Order made by Lafayette before he came to America, the first Rosaecrucian from
France to come here. May his name ever remain sacred to the Order in America. »
(p.26)
In the book Rosicrucian Manual (1918) it is written:
« Mrs. May Banks-Stacey was a
member of the English Branch which sponsored the first movement in America,
Mrs. Colonel May Banks-Stacey, descendant of Oliver Cromwell and the D ’Arcy’s
of France, placed in his hands such papers as had been officially transmitted
to her by the last of the first American Rosicrucians. »
(p.133)
In his book
"Questions and Answers " (1929), Lewis repeated it saying:
« The delegate from India [Mrs.
Stacey] handed me the documents and jewels that had been preserved from the old
Rosicrucian Foundation in Philadelphia.
During the
years from 1909 to 1915 the Council met several times in my house or in the
house of other members, with the attendance of individuals descended from the
old Rosicrucians, and also of a few initiates in France from 1900 to 1909. »
(p.146-7)
In the
eleventh edition of that book (1973) the following was added:
« As the editor of many esoteric
magazines, I had become acquainted with various Rosicrucian manuscripts and had
discovered that I had ties to the descendants of the first Rosicrucians in
America who had settled in Philadelphia in 1694. This gave me access to many of
his ancient papers, secret manuscripts and teachings. »
(p.174)
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We therefore
confirm that Spencer Lewis asserts that the Marquis de La Fayette was the first
Rosicrucian to go to the United States and there he founded the first
Rosicrucian Order in America, the most important lodge being the one established
in Philadelphia.
But for
reasons that Lewis does not specify, thIS first Order ceased to exist and that
is why the Rosicrucians of France commissioned Lewis in 1909 to revive the
Rosicrucian Order in America for a second cycle of existence.
And that is
why during the years from 1909 to 1915 Lewis held several meetings attended by
individuals descended from the ancient American Rosicrucians.
HOW TRUE IS ALL THIS?
There is no
evidence to show that the Marquis de La Fayette was a Rosicrucian, it is known
that he was a Freemason but only attracted by the revolutionary aspect that the
Freemasons promoted and not at all by the esoteric aspect of which the Marquis
de La Fayette never saw himself interested since all his life he was involved
in politics and the military, but instead never once did he show any interest
in the occult and therefore most likely he was not a Rosicrucian.
And there is
also no evidence to show that the Rosicrucians went to the United States, and since
the big charlatanism that Spencer Lewis showed, it is most likely that this was
another of the many lies that individual invented.
This is
confirmed by the fact that Lewis was not careful when it came to inventing his
lies, which we perceive in the story he put up above since if the Marquis de La
Fayette was the first Rosicrucian to go to the United States (and that did in
the year 1777) then it doesn't make sense that the supposedly most important
Rosicrucian lodge in the United States was established in Philadelphia in 1694
because that was a century earlier.
Nor does it
make sense that if there were individuals descended from the ancient American
Rosicrucians, none of them would have taken charge of keeping active this first
Rosicrucian Order that supposedly already existed in the United States.
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And this is one more example of the numerous
falsehoods that Spencer Lewis invented.
OBSERVATION
A member of
AMORC told me that the Marquis de La Fayette would have been the first French
Rosicrucian to go to America, but that there were already Rosicrucians in this
territory who would have arrived earlier, sponsored by the English Rosicrucian branch.
Suppose that
is so, but then where is the evidence?
There is no
historical document that shows that this statement is true and we only have the
affirmation of Spencer Lewis who proved to be a tremendously deceitful man and
therefore someone who cannot be trusted.
