This asseveration
the founder of AMORC stated in his magazine The
American Rosae Crucis, September 1916, where he wrote:
« 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. »
(p.23)
And this
Lewis has been leading his followers to believe over the years.
Since he
founded AMORC in February 1915, Lewis has been assuring that he was initiated
by the French Rosicrucians who commissioned him to resurrect the Rosicrucian
Order in the United States, and that is why in the book Rosicrucian Documents it is written:
« This impressive tower building
in Toulouse, southern France, was at once time the center of the old
Rose-Croix, the French Rosicrucian Order, whose authority chronologically dates
back several centuries. It was here that Dr. H. Spencer Lewis was initiated
into the Order in 1909, and from whence he subsequently received his authority
to reestablish AMORC in America. »
(p.4)
A few months
later Lewis presented his followers with a letter assuring him that he had
received a visit from a leader of the Rosicrucian Order of France to supervise
the development of AMORC in the United States, and that is why in the book Rosicrucian
Initiation (1917) it is wrote:
“
In
September [1915], after the Grand Lodge of America had begun its activities in
New York, Monsignor Jerome T. Verdier, magician of the Supreme Council of
France in Toulouse, visited the Grand Master [Spencer Lewis]. He gave his
approval to the plan for the establishment of state lodges in each State of the
American Union and of local lodges in the main cities. And he also gave final
instructions, seals, and secret documents were hand-delivered to the Grand
Master General of America [Spencer Lewis] after examination of the official
reports. »
(p.16)
Shortly
after Lewis informed his followers that he had received a document from the Rosicrucian
Order of France where that institution sponsored AMORC and legitimized its
founder, and that is why in The American
Rosae Crucis magazine, July 1916, he wrote:
« On September 30, 1915, after a special assembly of
the Supreme Council in France, there was prepared and duly issued
"Pronunziamento R.F.R.C., No. 987432" embodying a Manifesto declaring
that the Supreme Council and Grand Lodge A.M.O.R.C. of France, on behalf of the
Supreme Council A.M.O.R.C. of the World, declared and acknowledged its complete
sponsorship of the Order in America, confirmed the initiation of the American
Imperator [Spencer Lewis] and his appointment as Dignitary Supreme in North
America and verified its issuance of papers instructions, jewels, seals, etc.,
to him.
This very
important document, written on the specially prepared and water-marked paper of
the French Order, was signed and scaled by the present Supreme Grand Master of the
Order in France, his officers and the Grand Master who at one time initiated
the American Imperator [Spencer Lewis] into the Order.
The
signatures, some of them of prominent men in military and governmental affairs
of France, are accompanied by their official "marks," and the seals
of various sizes and designs and verity and attractiveness to this unique
document. Suspended from the paper itself is one of the curious, old-styled
wax-and-paper seals of the Order, bearing its strange, though intelligible,
marks and words.
The document
was enclosed in a light-weight metallic, telescope envelope, which was moisture
proof. It was sealed, and had the French Orders national, or Supreme Council's
seal impressed in the metal of the container, and bore not only the necessary postage
stamps but others of a military and "custom" nature, bearing marks of
approval and examination abroad.
This
document, when received and presented to the American Supreme Council in
October, brought great joy as the sign of approval and endorsement of the work
done here in America by those the French Council had appointed.
The
document, properly framed and preserving the original container, hangs upon the
wall in the Supreme Grand Lodge in New York beside the American Council Charter
where it may be easily seen and read, for it is written in very fair English. »
(p.15)
A few months
later Lewis informed his followers that he had received another document from
the French Rosicrucian Order, and that is why in his magazine The American Rosae Crucis, September
1916, he wrote:
« 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. »
(p.23)
But instead
in 1918 when Lewis was arrested by the New York police for fraud, he denied
that his organization had anything to do with the French Rosicrucians, and this
was witnessed by The Sun newspaper
who in an article published on June 19, 1918 pointed out what:
« From his home In Flushing last night Lewis told a reporter for The Sun
that at no time had his organization –the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae
Crucis– ever clamed to be operating as a branch of the Rosae Crucis
organization in France. "We have never claimed to hold any warrant,
charter, patent or authority from any foreign country," he said over the telephone. »
(p.14)
Which shows
once again the liar Lewis was as just above I have just shown you several
documents and claims that he made that prove otherwise. It just so happens that
when things got serious, Lewis was quick to deny the quackery he had been
wielding to his followers to impress them.
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