THE AMERICAN ROSAE CRUCIS (JOURNAL)

 

The American Rosae Crucis was the first magazine of AMORC created by its founder, Harvey Spencer Lewis.

 

As subtitle it says: “Monthly magazine dedicated to science, philosophy and religion. It is the official publication of the Ancient and Mystical Rose-Cross Order”.

 

You can download all the volumes of this magazine in this link.

 

It was published in New York by the Culture Publishing Company, and its main publishers were Spencer Lewis, Thor Kiimalehto and Alfred H. Saunders.

 

It began to be published monthly from January 1916, but due to delays in its preparation it was not published in March, April and May 1917, continuing the publication in June 1917 until December 1917.

 

In 1918 Lewis was very busy, first because he moved his "Temple" to another building in New York, and later because the accusation of fraud that several members of AMORC made against him and forced Lewis to move to California, so it is logical that during that year and the following he stopped publishing this magazine.

 

In these two years Lewis limited himself to publishing seven pamphlets entitled Cromaat "exclusive to members of AMORC".

 

And finally Lewis briefly revived this magazine by publishing three more volumes in April, May and June 1920.

 

Lewis then stopped publishing magazines for a year and resumed publishing in March 1921 with his new magazine called The Triangle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE ASSOCIATED EDITORS

 

In the first volumes of this magazine, The American Rosae Crucis, Lewis put the following list of publishers who he pointed out were in different parts of the world and were supposedly associated with his magazine:

 

 

 

·        Wm. P. M. Sims, U. S. A.

·        Luke Boctor, Lower Egypt.

·        Emanuel S. Camilleri, Upper Egypt.

·        Prof. C. Magala Desai, Bombay, India.

·        Chavakar Annasame Rao, Madras Presidency, India.

·        Mohamed Ismail, I.G.O.H, Ceylon.

·        Sir N. Irnathellickerjo Lemindar, Bengal.

·        Prof. George Brown, New Zealand

·        Miss M. Earsman, Australia.

·        Lady Ida Brooks, China.

·        Miss Anna Brew, South Africa.

·        Mr. Thomas Hahn, West Africa.

·        Sir William Samuel Grant, East Africa.

·        Jacobus Muir, Germany.

·        Raynaud E. de Bellcastle-Ligne, France.

·        Lady Florence Burgess, England, UK.

·        Mary A. Baker, Scotland, UK.

·        John José de Macedo, Y;B.S, Spain and Portugal.

·        Miss Louise Aitcheson, British West Indies.

·        Miss C. ArrhenIns, Central America and Mexico

·        Mme. Ellen Clemenston, Panama and Costa Rica.

 

 

But later Lewis stopped publishing that list.

 

 

For what reason?

 

 

The newspaper The Sun in the article published on June 18, 1918, gave the answer to this question, explaining the following:

 

« The monthly magazine called "The American Rosae Crucis," carries on the first page the names of a number of associate editors in various parts of the world. These, it is represented, make up the Supreme World Council of the Order.

 

Among the dozen or more are such names as these: Emanuel S. Camilleri, Upper Egypt; Prof. C. Magala Desa, Bombay; Mohamed Ismail, I.G.O.H., Ceylon; Sir N. Irnathellickerjo Lemindar, Bengal; Lady Brooks, Shangai, China; Sir William Samuel Grant, Natal, East Africa; Lady Florence Burgess, London, England; Raynaud E. de Belcastle-Ligne, Toulouse, France, and several others.

 

A more definite address is not given in the copy of the magazine, but THE SUN reporter yesterday saw a dozen of more such letters that had been sent to addresses furnished by a former member of Lewis's organization, all of which came back with the notation "No such person known," or "No such address". »

(p.14)

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Spencer Lewis invented all these fictional characters simply to impress his readers, and this is one more example of the enormous charlatanism that the founder of AMORC had.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

January 1916

 

·        Introduction 1

·        The Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis 2

·        History of the Order 3

·        The Secret of the Sphinx 14

·        Mrs. May Banks-Stacey 16

·        Is Theology Teaching Christianity? 18

·        Occult Sciences of Ancient Egypt 20

·        Woman's Work 22

·        Nature and Numbers 24

·        The Significance of the Zodiac 25

·        Romances as Seen in Nativities — Byron 26

 

 

February 1916

 

·        Editorial 3

·        A Rosicrucian Interpretation of the Genesis 5

·        American Place in the Sun in 1920 7

·        Rosicrucian Map of the World 8

·        The Planetary Influence on Human Life 9

·        In Lighter Vein 11

·        Romances and Seen in Nativities 13

·        H. Spencer Lewis, F.R.C. 16

·        The Constitution of Matter 19

·        Nature and Numbers 20

·        History of the Order Rosae Crucis 21

·        America's First Inhabitants 24

·        The Truth in Verse 25

·        The Burden of the Cross 27

·        Work of Order 28

·        Questions and Answers 30

·        A Civilization 11’500 Years Ago 31

·        Book Review 32

 

 

March 1916

 

·        Foreword 3

·        The True Key to Self-Development 5

·        Reincarnation in Barbaric Egyptian Splendor 7

·        First Rosicrucian Temple in America 9

·        The Planets' Influence on Human Life 10

·        The Brahman and the Three Rogue 12

·        A Rosicrucian Temple in Egyp 13

·        Rosicrucian Hymns 15

·        Alfred H. Saunders 16

·        The Butterfly and the Caterpillar 18

·        New Year's Greeting from Our Imperator 20

·        History of the Order Rosae Crucis 21

·        A Study of the planets Uranus and Neptune 26

·        Questions and Answers 30

·        Publisher's Notes 31

 

(I'll complete it later)

 

 

 

 

 

 

OBSERVATIONS

 

This magazine shows how tremendously liar was Harvey Spencer Lewis, because apart the example I gave you above with the fake associate editors, there are many others examples of his quackery.

 

For example, in the January 1916 issue, Lewis introduced his readers to Mrs. May Banks-Stacey, supposed be co-founder of AMORC, but it turns out that she is a fictional character invented by Lewis as I show you in this other article (see link).

 

In the July 1916 issue, Lewis reported that he had received a Manifesto from the French Rosicrucian Order legitimizing AMORC, but this document turned out to be completely fraudulent as I show you in this other article (see link).

 

In the September 1916 issue, Lewis claimed that the World Rosicrucian Supreme Council had reorganized the world's territories by giving AMORC great privileges, but in reality this is an imaginary institution also invented by Lewis (see link).

 

In the November 1917 issue, Lewis published a photo of a street where a French Rosicrucian Lodge was supposedly located, but an analysis shows that this photo was manipulated by Lewis (see link). [later I put the link]

 

 

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And so there are many more examples that demonstrate how an immense liar, manipulator and charlatan Spencer Lewis was.