The following document is known by
AMORC as "Pronouncement of the Rosicrucian Order of France number
981601", which Spencer Lewis never showed but transcribed in his magazine The American Rosae Crucis, September
1916, p.23-24, where he added some accompanying explanations:
The
text says:
Up to the: present time, and from
its inception and establishment in this country, the Order Rosae Crucis in
America has been under the protection of the Order Rosae Crucis in France which
had issued a paper of sponsorship for the Order here.
A PRONUNZIAMENTO FROM FRANCE
On Tuesday the 17th of October the
Supreme Secretary-General of the Order Rosae Crucis in this country [Thor
Kiimalehto] received by mail an official document bearing several seals and
official marks, mailed from France. The document consisted of a paper 28 inches
long and 10 inches wide, carefully engrossed and written and containing a
specially made map of the world in the centre of its text. It reads as follows:
PRONUNZIAMENTO
Republic Francaise. R. C., No. 981,601.
A la Occident:
Le Secretaire-General. Respected Knight Thor Kiimalehto, Ancient R. C., Greetings
Before the Sign of the Cross:-
At a High Lateran Council of the Council R. C. of the World held in
Egypt in Memphis on July 20, A. D. 1916, R. C. 3269, the R. C. territories of
the world were readministered in contingency of the necessary readjustment
after the termination of the warring activities of the nations of Europe and
Asia, and in contemplation of the certain reorganization early in the year 1911
A. D., the said Council decreed a division of territories as conceived on the map
and chart which constitutes an official part of this document.
In accordance therewith we officially notify you, and through your
respected offices the Supreme Council of Amerique, that ·there are now Eight
Jurisdictions in substitution of the original Seven, and that the Jurisdiction
of Amerique has been made an Official Jurisdiction no longer under the protectorate
of any other Jurisdiction, but coming directly under the direction of the Pontif
Supreme Perfect High Ancient Shekah, EI Moria Ra of Memphis. Official notice
accompanied by the Gold Seal of the R. C. High Council will be mailed direct to
your Most Perfect Master "Profundis" [Spencer Lewis] when such gold
seal bearing his name and new title shall have been completed in the Atelier of
the Memphis Grotto.
(Chart and Map)
As a result of the position your territory now occupies, and since your
Jurisdiction is now the largest in the world, your Council is privileged with
the honor of twenty-one of the forty-eight votes on the Council of the World to
which dignity your Jurisdiction is elected by its allotment to separate
Jurisdiction.
FURTHERMORE, by this decree, and by this document it is so decreed, the
Most Perfect Master. H. Spencer Lewis, is made a Councilor of the World,
likewise you, Most Respected Knight [Thor Kiimalehto] are appointed Councilor of
the World and in the hands of both of you shall rest the appointment of the
third Councilor and such appointment is to be duly reported to us that we may inform
the High Archivist at Memphis.
May Peace and Power crown your noble efforts and those of your Most
Perfect Master [Spencer Lewis] to whom you shall transmit these decrees, so
mote it be!
Signed and given to seal on the 20th day of September, A. D. 1918. R. C.
3269 in the …….….'t France.
J………. J……….
Archivist.
(Seal)
Subscribed,
M.M. de la L…………
Secretary. (Seal)
Approved,
L………. (Official Seal of-the Supreme Council of France)
(Lewis
added the following comments)
The map on the above document shows
that the whole North American Continent, from the Republic of Panama to the
most Northern point of the continent, forms the American Jurisdiction, and
includes all above and all below the United States as well as the Hawaiian and Philippine
Islands. Other very important changes on the map will be shown in our next
issue when possibly the map itself will be reproduced. One of the most
important changes, however, is that not only has the Dominion of Canada come
under our Jurisdiction, but Australia is now under the Royal Jurisdiction of
Egypt; and the British Isles, once powerful in the Order, are now without any
power whatever, their Jurisdiction having been taken from them because the
Order there limited its membership for many years to men in an attempt to make
it semi-masonic. Until the Order in England again admits women on an equal
basis with men it will be denied the right to assemble, to hold Lodge meetings
or to have the secret work or teachings.
The document itself gives to our Order
here not only a greater field, — the largest Jurisdiction of all, but
gives us the voting power of almost one-half of the Council of the world, with three
World Councilors, each having seven votes.
This is indeed a wonderful
compliment to the work we have done and the success we have attained. It
refutes many statements made by those who would weaken our power and justifies
the high expectations of those who have become intimately acquainted with the
inner workings of the Order.
(The name of the place, city, and
officers at the close of the document is purposely left blank in this public
printing of this document for it would furnish additional information to those
who have been trying to personally and commercially benefit through the Order.
One very important fact stands out boldly and that is that the name of the
highest Officer of the Order in the world is not Moria EI as a few would have
it in order to commercialize some facts, but is EI Moria Ra, a very different
name with a very different meaning, and he resides in Memphis, not Tibet.)
ANALYSIS OF THIS DOCUMENT
This
document begins with some French words to imply that it was written by a French
person, but those words are so misspelled that for anyone who knows French,
those misspellings have the opposite effect, since:
·
Republic
Francaise is spelled correctly République Française.
·
A
la Occident is spelled correctly Pour l'occident.
·
Le Secretaire-General is spelled correctly Le Secrétaire général.
French people
are very picky about spelling and every educated Frenchman would make such
mistakes.
But in
addition, the rest of the text is written in impeccable English, which implies
that this supposed Frenchman, who does not know how to write his own native
language, on the other hand, does know how to write English very well.
Then the
document reports that in Egypt there was a meeting of the Rosicrucian World
Council where the world's territories were readministered by this council. But
that doesn't make any sense, first because great occultists like Helena
Blavatsky pointed out that the Rosicrucians are not of Egyptian origin and
therefore the Rosicrucians have nothing to do with Egypt. And secondly because
the real Rosicrucians were a congregation of European occultists that existed
until the end of the 18th century, so they have nothing to do with reorganizing
the world's territories.
It is also
very suspicious that AMORC benefits greatly from this reorganization because
its territory has now become an independent Jurisdiction with almost half the
votes.
And it is
further reported that the official notice accompanied by the Gold Seal of the
Rosicrucian High Council will be mailed directly to Spencer Lewis when such
gold seal bearing his name and new title shall have been completed in the
Atelier of the Memphis Grotto.
This sounds very crazy and it should be noted that neither that
notice nor that seal was ever shown, nor did Lewis mention them again.
And
it is also very puzzling all the megalomania names given to Spencer Lewis who
is called:
-
The Most Perfect Master Profundis.
-
The Most Perfect Master.
- Your
Most Perfect Master.
And he is
also named along with his friend Mr. Kiimalehto: "Counselors of the
World", and they had to appoint a third party although they never did.
And at the
end Lewis wrote:
"The name
of the highest Officer of the Order in the world is not Moria EI as a few would
have it in order to commercialize some facts, but is EI Moria Ra, a very
different name with a very different meaning, and he resides in Memphis, not
Tibet.”
What Lewis
says is false, he adopted the theosophical masters because a former instructor
of the Theosophical Society Adyar, Marie Russak, was the one who elaborated the
first rituals for AMORC (see link).
But as
usual, Lewis distorted the information inventing falsehoods. It was the
metaphysicians who began to call one of these teachers incorrectly "El
Moria", and Lewis, wanting to associate everything with Egypt, added the
term Ra because in ancient Egypt Ra is the name of the solar god. But in
Theosophical literature this master is simply designated by the name of Morya.
And it is
also false that this master lived in Egypt because there are documentations
that shows that he indeed lived in Tibet (see link).
_ _ _
All this leads me to conclude that this document was
prepared by Lewis himself.
ANECDOTE
In June 1918
Spencer Lewis was arrested on charges of defrauding his followers and the
police broke into Lewis's offices to seize various documents, one of them being
this document.
This event was
mentioned by The Sun newspaper which in an article published on June 19, 1918
noted that:
« Grand Imperator Lewis was arrested on Monday night in a spectacular raid
on the headquarters of his organization in the old Lily Lantry house at 361
West Twenty-Third street. Two or three dozen of his followers tried to get
ball, but the Grand Imperator had to spend the night in a cell.
. . .
Among the papers seized in Lewis'
desk on Monday night is a piece of parchment, headed "Pronunziamiento R.
F. R. C. No. 987601". The document is adorned with a number of crude
seals, dated Toulouse, France, September 20, 1916, and signed by one Jean
Jordin.
After the signature follow a series
of hieroglyphics. In the body of the document addressed to Le
Secretaire-General, Thor Kiimalehto, appears the announcement that a separate
jurisdiction of the Rosae Crucls order has been established in America under
the supreme pontiff High Ancient Shekah El Morla Ra of Memphis and that the
official seal is being forwarded to the Most Perfect Master Profundls, H.
Spencer Lewis at New York. »
(p.14)
The seized
documents were later returned to Lewis, but he never mentioned this document
again, nor did he show the map it contained, and perhaps this is because he
became aware that this document was too delusional and preferred not to speak
further to respect.
CONCLUSION
This document is yet another of the many fraudulent
documents that Spencer Lewis produced to impress his followers, showing how charlatan
this individual was.
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