Harvey Spencer Lewis (the founder of AMORC) had great admiration for Benito Mussolini, and that is why on the tourist tour he organized in 1937 to visit Europe with numerous members of AMORC, Lewis took the opportunity to have a meeting with this dictator in the capital of Italy: Rome.
After the atrocities of World War II, AMORC leaders went to great lengths to conceal this meeting to avoid bad publicity.
And so for example, while Lewis's son, in the biography he wrote about his father "Cosmic Mission Fulfilled", dedicates an entire chapter to the tourist tour that Lewis made with members of AMORC in 1929, he says nothing about this tourist tour in 1937.
But unfortunately for AMORC leaders, the historical documents show that this meeting did take place. For example, the Italian newspaper "Il Messaggero" published on March 6, 1937, an article mentioning that Mussolini had received the AMORC delegation the day before:
On the front page they put a photo of Mussolini receiving the AMORC group.
And below is a zoom of the photo where Mussolini is on the right and Lewis is on the left.
The title says:
“American Rosicrucian tourists are received by the Duce”
And the text below the photo says:
« Professor Spencer Lewis, who was leading the group of tourists (members of AMORC) visiting Italy, declared himself happy and extremely honored to be able to present the homage to the Duce on behalf of the group accompanying him. He stated on his behalf that each of the Americans who had enjoyed this brief stay in Italy had been able to see with their own eyes what had been accomplished on the peninsula thanks to Mussolini's will. He concluded by saying that each visitor, after returning to their country, would be able to testify in the name of truth to what they had seen. Finally, he warmly thanked the Duce for granting him this audience and for granting this honor to his group. »
Historian Robert Vanloo notes that Mussolini devoted the entire day to receiving the “Venerable Rosicrucian Imperator” and offered a sumptuous reception at the Palazzo Venezia for the 120 visitors from America.
AMORC members, filled with joy at the lavish reception of the fascist dictator, in an article that appeared in the official AMORC magazine of that time, Rosicrucian Digest, said:
« Mussolini's reception of the Rosicrucians was splendid, the magnificent speech he gave in recognition of our Imperator Lewis, as well as the Supreme Officials, the magnificent things he said about the Rosicrucians and AMORC. »
(August 1937, p.267)
But at the same time that Lewis and his entourage were delighted by their encounter with the fascist dictator, the members of AMORC turned a blind eye to all the atrocities that the dictator was committing this same year:
- Mussolini had banned democratic esoteric organizations, such as Freemasonry, and whose Grand Master, the illustrious Torrigliani, had been arrested and confined in the Lipari Islands, where he died blind due to lack of medical care.
- Mussolini had invaded Libya and also Abyssinia, which earned him the unanimous condemnation of democratic countries.
- Mussolini was providing troops and weapons to General Franco, who had taken up arms against the legitimate and democratic government of the Spanish Republic.
- Mussolini was giving all his military and political support, together with the German dictator Adolf Hitler, to General Franco who banned democratic esoteric organizations and imprisoned and shot thousands of Freemasons and hundreds of thousands of democrats.
- Mussolini, like Hitler, was testing his new weapons in the Spanish Civil War to use them later in World War II, which those dictators were already preparing.
- And when the genocide began, Mussolini allowed the deportation of thousands of Italian Jews to German concentration camps, where they died in the most abject misery, their only crime being having been born Jewish.
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And this is further proof of the enormous hypocrisy of Spencer Lewis, who claimed to be the heir of the Rosicrucians, who were deeply spiritual occultists, while instead Lewis's behavior shows that he was a huge fascist, admirer of bloodthirsty dictators and the total absence of freedom.
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