CROMAAT (JOURNAL)

 

It is a magazine that the founder of AMORC, Harvey Spencer Lewis, edited between 1918 and 1919 exclusively for members.

 

The title is the word AMORC spelled backwards plus the letters AT. As subtitle it says: “A monthly monograph for the members of AMORC” (remark: at in the it was not monthly).

 

It was published by the AMORC College Library of New York City, only seven volumes identified with the first seven letters of the alphabet (A-G) were published without date and the price is not specified.

 

You can download the seven volumes of this magazine at this link.

 

The volumes could only be purchased by special subscription; the issues were to remain the property of each lodge's College Library and to be lent to members on receipt of a coupon from their library card showing current payment of dues.

 

The tomes were mainly made up of private articles from AMORC that were to be discussed at lodge meetings. And they also contain short biographical sketches of prominent members of AMORC, novelettes, questions and answers, and some poems.

 

This magazine was succeeded in 1920 by three issues of the earlier magazine The American Rosae Crucis which was temporarily revived, and later in 1921 by The Triangle magazine. These two magazines were for the general public.

 

 

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Cromaat A

(January 1918)

 

·        Biographical Sketches: Pedro del Valle Atiles, p.2

·        An international language for Rosicrucians, p.5

·        Dictionary, p.36

·        Spencer Lewis letter, p.47

·        The garden of the soul (poem), p.49

·        Questions and answers, p.52

 

 

Cromaat B

(February 1918)

 

·        Biographical Sketches: Thyra Kiimalehto, p.2

·        Official manual for officers and members of AMORC, p.5

·        Editorial comments, p.31

·        The work of the Order, p.35

·        Questions and answers about electrons and elements, p.37

 

 

Cromaat C

(March 1918)

 

·        A complete system of natural harmonics by Spencer Lewis, p.3

·        Questions and answers about translations words and Rosicrucian College, p.32

 

 

Cromaat D

(April 1918)

 

·        The village of the devil (a short history), p.5

·        The supreme Matre emeritus raised to the higher realms, p.26

·        The seal of the United States, p.28

·        Questions and answers about soul and reincarnation, p.34

 

 

Cromaat E

(May 1918)

 

·        Biographical Sketches Lewis A. Shoemaker, p.3

·        Cosmic geomancy, p.5

·        The new supreme grand lodge temple, p.43

·        Light, Life, Love (poem), p.50

 

 

Cromaat F

(December 1918)

 

·        The Imperator’s personal message, p.3

·        Miscellaneous notes, p.26

 

 

Cromaat G

(April 1919)

 

·        Official communication from the Supreme R+C Council of the World, p.3

·        The Imperator’s comments, p.6

·        The mystic's love (poem), p.12

·        The truth about electrons, p.13

·        In our Spanish lodge, p.17

 

 

 

 

 

 

OBSERVATIONS

 

This magazine shows the tremendous liar was Spencer Lewis, who made a big spectacle to make his followers believe that these brochures contained very exclusive information when in fact they contain a lot of quackery.

 

For example, in volume D Lewis announces the death of "the Supreme Matre", but it turns out that this is a fictional character invented by Lewis as I show you in this other article (see link).

 

In volume G Lewis pretends to have received a communication from the World Rosicrucian Supreme Council, but in reality that is an imaginary institution also invented by Lewis (see link).

 

And in that same volume Lewis pretends to show that the Rosicrucians knew a lot about electrons, when in fact Lewis is putting his own speculations which are full of errors and lies (see link).

 

 

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And this is one more example of how immensely liar, manipulative and charlatan Spencer Lewis was.