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SPENCER LEWIS AFFIRMS THAT AMORC IS PROTECTED BY THE FRENCH ROSICRUCIANS

 
 
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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