The first
time that AMORC published something about Master Kuthumi was in its magazine The American Rosae Crucis, August 1916.
On page 16 AMORC put the following portrait:
Below I put
a zoom of the text where the doodles that appear in the middle are supposedly
the writing used by the trans-Himalayan masters and represent the sign and seal
of the master Kuthumi:
And on the
next page appeared the following biography:
«
KUT-HU-MI, THE ILLUSTRIOUS
Biographical sketch prepared by G. A. Immanuel M. Sykes
The Master Kut-Hu-Mi, the
Ket-Hu-Mata of the Avesta-Zend is Deputy Grand Master of Tibet and of the
Occident and Orient. He is associate head of the Order of the Men in White
Clothing. He was Thutmose 3rd of Egypt and erected the obelisk that now stands
in Central Park, New York. It is one of the Ancient Landmarks of
Rosaecrucianism and Freemasonry.
When Morya resided at Lake Moeris
(Morias), K.H. was his associate and as two of the Three Master Masons they
supervised the erection of the foundation of all the Egyptian Temples and
Landmarks, including the Pyramid of Gizehs. Sakkara, the Sphinx and Rock Temples
of Ahu-Sinhel, Philae, Karnak and Luxor.
Kut-Hu-Mi now resides near
Kichingargha, called variously Kichinjirgha, Kichi-jirg-jargha or
Parcha-jarg-hatba by Tibetans and Sikkinese, the Five Treasures of Snow from the
five peaks of the range.
He is Deputy Chief of the
Magian-Zend-Zorastrian, and Mazda Orders and Schools of Science, Philosophy,
Sociology and Religion, and of the Great White Lodge or Supreme Lodge of the
Order of Men in White Clothing; also known as "the Order of the Immaculate
Conception" or Lodge of Perfection, Lodge of Purity, Lodge of Peace, etc.
White was nheld to represent peace, purity, perfection and immaculate
cleanliness, — hence the Order of Immaculate Cleanliness and the Immaculate Conception.
Kut-Hu-Mi is also associate head
of the Nazarines, Nazarites, Essenes, Hermits, Covenanters, Illuminati,
Strangers, Friends and Faithful Friends, Magi, Abbas, Pioneers and
Mel-Kayi.Zend-ea called by some Melchisedek (Mael-Kai-Zedek). All the Divisions
of the Orders owe allegiance to him and are governed by the Temple Association
of Associates of God, of which, with Moria EI, he is associate head.
The Master is also known as
Kut-Hu-Mata (the Kai-et-Hu-Mata of the Zend-Avesta), transliterated into
English this would read: The Kingly and Good Thought, as the words Hu Mata in
Zend mean good thoughts, just as Hu Hatha means Good Word and Hu-Varashta, Good
Deed. Here is where Faratushtra preceded the New Thought movement by 9,000
years.
He is referred to in the
Avesta-Zend as the abiding place (translated "Land") of the
Brilliant, the Shining Wisdom, the Illuminated or Illuminator, or again as the
River Kethumant (sec Fargard-Vara-Gatta-XIX, — sloka 39, Gatta 129, the River
or Stream of Wisdom. Such is the poetic way eastern peoples have of naming
people and places. He was the King Thutmose (Thoth-mus); this translated into
English would be Thoughtmost (Kai-ja-hu-ti-mios or Kai-Ra-Au-Mata, Kroomata) of
Egypt. He founded the Ra-Zar (Chros); in Avestan Chronology see the accounts of
Vau-Roz (Chros) and Parsi-yan calendar,-it is the New Year or New Rising, Newly
Risen or New Rose or Next Year, and refers to the Beginning of the New Order of
the Ages and the Age of Brotherhood which began January 1, 1915, and 1920 is
reckoned to be the Anno Pax, Anno Rose-Cross and Anno Fraternitas. »
(p.17)
What is said
in this text about Master Kuthumi is 99% pure fabrications and falsehoods, and
I suspect that this text was written by Spencer Lewis, the founder of AMORC,
but he pretended that it was written by a man named George Ambrosius Immanuel
Moryason Sykes (a fictional character) so that if someone later claimed him for
the lies he put forth, Lewis would not be affected.
SECOND APPEARANCE
Later AMORC
published in the first chapter of its book "Rosicrucian Manual" the following portrait:
The text
says:
MASTER KUT-HU-MI, THE ILLUSTRIOUS
D…G…M… OF TIBET (BOD-YUL)
BELOVED HIEROPHANT OF THE R.C.
And also
AMORC added a brief biographical reference:
« The Master K-H-M is
Deputy Grand Master of the Great White Lodge of the Great White Brotherhood. He
was at one time known on earth as Thutmose III of Egypt and at one time resided
at Lake Moeris (Morias). He was referred
to in the Zend-Avesta as the Illuminator and was also known in Egypt as the
Kroomata. (Kai-Ra-Au-Mata) from which comes our Rosicrucian word used in our
rituals and salutations: CROMAAT. (It is interesting to note that if we take
the initials of the title of our Order:
the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, and reverse them, we have CROMAAT.)
The Master K H-M (often called “K.H.”)
passed through a number of reincarnations and was an important character on this
earth many times, and has lived for over a hundred and forty years in each
incarnation. At the present time he abides
on the earth plane again and is at a secret monastery and Temple near Kichingargha,
called variously Kichinjirglui, Kichijirg jargha, or Parcha jarg hat ba by the
Tibetans and Sikkinese. »
(p.135,
1927)
Here AMORC
repeat some of the lies that appeared in the first article, and while the first
portrait of Master Kuthumi was most likely painted by the Austrian painter
Wolfgang Freiherr von Bibra in 1916, the second portrait is claimed to have
been painted by Spencer Lewis who registered the copyright of that work on June
8, 1925 in the property registry with the folio: K195055, R109744.
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