The AMORC
leaders have tried to hide this fact, but the evidence found by various
researchers is irrefutable and shows that Harvey Spencer Lewis, founder of
AMORC, had great admiration for Mussolini, the fascist dictator of Italy. And
this admiration peaked when they met in Rome in 1937, after which Lewis praised
the fascist dictator highly in newspaper interviews and in his own
publications.
But we
should not be surprised by this admiration since it is consistent with the way
of thinking that Lewis had who praised the system of government where one
person concentrates all the power and which is called: autocracy.
For example,
in his first magazine The American Rosae
Crucis, to explain why he had all the control of AMORC, Lewis wrote:
« It is right that this should
be so. Even nature finds the power of autocracy to be the only power making for
success in her realms. Every law of nature is an autocratic law, immutable,
inconsiderate of all else except the one purpose and one goal to which she is
dedicated, and determined that all should bow to her laws and decrees.
Nature is
likewise constructive in purpose, and resorts to seeming destruction only to bring
about greater progress. So can all forms of autocratic government be constructive
and for the final, ultimate, good of all.
There seems
to be a general impression that autocracy means tyranny, suffering, death. Nothing
is further from the truth. Autocracy, tempered with love and the consciousness
of the divine permission which makes possible the opportunities to direct and
serve out fellowmen, means the uniting of many minds, many hearts and many
hands in a more efficient service or more productive work, whatever it may be. »
(December
1917, p.248)
Many
philosophers and guides disagree with Lewis's thinking. But in addition
Mussolini claimed to be the new Emperor of Italy, and Lewis named himself
Emperor of AMORC. So as you can see, these two individuals had very similar
ideas.
And this
similarity of thought makes us understand the statements Lewis made to the San Jose Mercury Herald newspaper after
his visit to Italy in 1931.
« According to what Mr. Lewis
told us, his visit to Italy took place under more pleasant conditions than in
previous years. He has told us that the streets were cleaner, there were no
beggars, the hotels were better cared for, with fixed rates, the trains ran
regularly and seemed to be running properly under the supervision of fascist
agents. The ships were better managed and more carefully maintained than
before.
Mr Lewis
claimed that such changes are due to Mussolini's government, and neighboring
countries fear him because Mussolini has shown that in his own country at least
business is being better managed than the others countries, concerning certain
aspects. »
(October
1, 1931)
But in a
dictatorship it is easy to maintain order at the cost of implementing terror.
How could the Italian trains and ships not be
"better" functioning if they were controlled by fascist agents?
How could there be beggars on the streets if there was
a fascist law forbidding public begging, and Mussolini's black shirts were in
charge of enforcing it on the unfortunate beggars?
How could other countries not fear Mussolini, if they
saw that they could lose their freedom as the Italians had already lost it?
The fact is
that Lewis, delighted by the "achievements" of Mussolini's fascist government,
during a trip he made to Europe in 1937 and where he took with him more than a
hundred members of AMORC, he took the opportunity to visit Italy again and on
this occasion he was received by Mussolini on March 5.
This meeting
was publicized by the Italian newspapers and below you can see the cover of the
newspaper Il Messaggero of the
following day:
On the first
page the newspaper put a photo where Mussolini appears receiving the AMORC
group.
And below is
a zoom of the photo where to the right is Mussolini and to the left is Lewis.
The title says:
"American Rosicrucian tourists are greeted by the
Duce"
And the text
below the photo says:
« Professor Spencer Lewis, who
led the group of tourists (members of AMORC) visiting Italy, has declared
himself happy and extremely honored to be able to present the Duce the tribute
by the group that accompanied him, and has stated in the name of they that each
one of the Americans who had enjoyed this brief stay in Italy, had been able to
verify with their own eyes what had been accomplished in the peninsula thanks
to the will of Mussolini, and has concluded by saying that each visitor, after
returning to his country, could testify in the name of the truth what he had
seen. In short, he warmly thanked the Duce for having granted him this audience
and for having granted this honor to his group. »
Historian
Robert Vanloo notes that Mussolini dedicated the entire day to receiving the
"Venerable Rosicrucian Imperator" and offered a sumptuous reception
at the Palazzo de Venezia to the 120 visitors from America.
AMORC
members overjoyed at the lavish reception of the fascist dictator, in an article
that appeared in the official AMORC magazine, Rosicrucian Digest, they said:
« The reception to the
Rosicrucians by Mussolini was splendid, the magnificent speech he gave in
recognition of our Imperator Lewis, as well as the Supreme Officers of AMORC,
the magnificent things he said about the Rosicrucians and our organization. »
(August
1937, p.267)
But at the
same time that Lewis and his entourage were delighted by the meeting they had
with the fascist dictator, the members of AMORC were blind to all the
atrocities that this dictator was committing this
same year:
- Mussolini
had banned esoteric democratic organizations, such as Masonry, and which Grand
Master in Italy, the illustrious Torrigliani, had been arrested and confined in
the Lipari Islands, where he died blind due to lack of medical care.
- Mussolini
had invaded Libya and also Abyssinia, which earned him the unanimous
condemnation of democratic countries.
- Mussolini
was helping General Franco with troops and weapons, who had taken up arms
against the legitimate and democratic government of the Spanish Republic.
- Mussolini
was giving all his military and political support (together with the German
dictator Adolf Hitler) to General Franco who banned esoteric democratic
organizations and imprisoned and killed thousands of Freemasons and hundreds of
thousands of Democrats.
- Mussolini,
like Hitler, were testing their new weapons in the Spanish Civil War for use
them later in the Second World War that those dictators were already preparing.
- And when
the genocide began, Mussolini authorized the deportation to German
concentration camps of thousands of Italian Jews, where they died in the most
abject of misery.
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And this is further proof of the enormous hypocrisy of
Spencer Lewis who claimed to be the heir to the Rosicrucians, who were deeply
spiritual occultists, while Lewis was a great fascist admirer of bloodthirsty
dictators and the utter lack of freedom.
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