MASTER KUTHUMI DESCRIBED BY AMORC

 

 

 

The first time that AMORC published something about Master Kuthumi was in its magazine The American Rosae Crucis, August 1916.

 

On page 16 AMORC put the following portrait:

 

 

 

Below I put a zoom of the text where the doodles that appear in the middle are supposedly the writing used by the trans-Himalayan masters and represent the sign and seal of the master Kuthumi:

 

 

 

And on the next page appeared the following biography:

 

«

KUT-HU-MI, THE ILLUSTRIOUS

 

Biographical sketch prepared by G. A. Immanuel M. Sykes

 

The Master Kut-Hu-Mi, the Ket-Hu-Mata of the Avesta-Zend is Deputy Grand Master of Tibet and of the Occident and Orient. He is associate head of the Order of the Men in White Clothing. He was Thutmose 3rd of Egypt and erected the obelisk that now stands in Central Park, New York. It is one of the Ancient Landmarks of Rosaecrucianism and Freemasonry.

 

When Morya resided at Lake Moeris (Morias), K.H. was his associate and as two of the Three Master Masons they supervised the erection of the foundation of all the Egyptian Temples and Landmarks, including the Pyramid of Gizehs. Sakkara, the Sphinx and Rock Temples of Ahu-Sinhel, Philae, Karnak and Luxor.

 

Kut-Hu-Mi now resides near Kichingargha, called variously Kichinjirgha, Kichi-jirg-jargha or Parcha-jarg-hatba by Tibetans and Sikkinese, the Five Treasures of Snow from the five peaks of the range.

 

He is Deputy Chief of the Magian-Zend-Zorastrian, and Mazda Orders and Schools of Science, Philosophy, Sociology and Religion, and of the Great White Lodge or Supreme Lodge of the Order of Men in White Clothing; also known as "the Order of the Immaculate Conception" or Lodge of Perfection, Lodge of Purity, Lodge of Peace, etc. White was nheld to represent peace, purity, perfection and immaculate cleanliness, — hence the Order of Immaculate Cleanliness and the Immaculate Conception.

 

Kut-Hu-Mi is also associate head of the Nazarines, Nazarites, Essenes, Hermits, Covenanters, Illuminati, Strangers, Friends and Faithful Friends, Magi, Abbas, Pioneers and Mel-Kayi.Zend-ea called by some Melchisedek (Mael-Kai-Zedek). All the Divisions of the Orders owe allegiance to him and are governed by the Temple Association of Associates of God, of which, with Moria EI, he is associate head.

 

The Master is also known as Kut-Hu-Mata (the Kai-et-Hu-Mata of the Zend-Avesta), transliterated into English this would read: The Kingly and Good Thought, as the words Hu Mata in Zend mean good thoughts, just as Hu Hatha means Good Word and Hu-Varashta, Good Deed. Here is where Faratushtra preceded the New Thought movement by 9,000 years.

 

He is referred to in the Avesta-Zend as the abiding place (translated "Land") of the Brilliant, the Shining Wisdom, the Illuminated or Illuminator, or again as the River Kethumant (sec Fargard-Vara-Gatta-XIX, — sloka 39, Gatta 129, the River or Stream of Wisdom. Such is the poetic way eastern peoples have of naming people and places. He was the King Thutmose (Thoth-mus); this translated into English would be Thoughtmost (Kai-ja-hu-ti-mios or Kai-Ra-Au-Mata, Kroomata) of Egypt. He founded the Ra-Zar (Chros); in Avestan Chronology see the accounts of Vau-Roz (Chros) and Parsi-yan calendar,-it is the New Year or New Rising, Newly Risen or New Rose or Next Year, and refers to the Beginning of the New Order of the Ages and the Age of Brotherhood which began January 1, 1915, and 1920 is reckoned to be the Anno Pax, Anno Rose-Cross and Anno Fraternitas. »

(p.17)

 

 

 

What is said in this text about Master Kuthumi is 99% pure fabrications and falsehoods, and I suspect that this text was written by Spencer Lewis, the founder of AMORC, but he pretended that it was written by a man named George Ambrosius Immanuel Moryason Sykes (a fictional character) so that if someone later claimed him for the lies he put forth, Lewis would not be affected.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SECOND APPEARANCE

 

Later AMORC published in the first chapter of its book "Rosicrucian Manual" the following portrait:

 

 

The text says:

 

MASTER KUT-HU-MI, THE ILLUSTRIOUS

D…G…M… OF TIBET (BOD-YUL)

BELOVED HIEROPHANT OF THE R.C.

 

 

 

And also AMORC added a brief biographical reference:

 

« The Master K-H-M is Deputy Grand Master of the Great White Lodge of the Great White Brotherhood. He was at one time known on earth as Thutmose III of Egypt and at one time resided at Lake Moeris (Morias).  He was referred to in the Zend-Avesta as the Illuminator and was also known in Egypt as the Kroomata. (Kai-Ra-Au-Mata) from which comes our Rosicrucian word used in our rituals and salutations: CROMAAT. (It is interesting to note that if we take the initials of the title of our Order:  the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, and reverse them, we have CROMAAT.)

 

The Master K H-M (often called “K.H.”) passed through a number of reincarnations and was an important character on this earth many times, and has lived for over a hundred and forty years in each incarnation.  At the present time he abides on the earth plane again and is at a secret monastery and Temple near Kichingargha, called variously Kichinjirglui, Kichijirg jargha, or Parcha jarg hat ba by the Tibetans and Sikkinese. »

(p.135, 1927)

 

 

 

Here AMORC repeat some of the lies that appeared in the first article, and while the first portrait of Master Kuthumi was most likely painted by the Austrian painter Wolfgang Freiherr von Bibra in 1916, the second portrait is claimed to have been painted by Spencer Lewis who registered the copyright of that work on June 8, 1925 in the property registry with the folio: K195055, R109744.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE THEOSOPHICAL MASTERS PORTRAITS THAT AMORC WAS SELLING

 

 

 

 

Master Morya's portrait was published on, The American Rosae Crucis magazine, June 1916, page 16:

 

 

 

 

Then Master Kuthumi's portrait was published on The American Rosae Crucis magazine, August 1916, page 16:

 

 

 

 

 

 

AMORC leaders were a bit hesitant to publish Kuthumi's portrait for the reasons they stated at the beginning of this magazine:

 

«

PUBLISHER'S ANNOUNCEMENT

 

In this number of the American Rosae Crucis revue we publish the picture of Deputy Grand Master Kut-Hu-Mi of Tibet, India. In doing so we feel a word of explanation is necessary, because we did not publish this picture in the July number as promised in the biography of Master Moria-EI.

 

Many letters have reached us requesting an explanation why these pictures are given such open publicity, bordering on a sacrilege. It is not our intention to hurt the feelings or devotional delicacy of anyone or any set of philosophic students, congregations or assemblies.

 

It is not regarded a sacrilege by those of us who accept Jesus, the Christ, as the Savior of the world, to Have his picture in our possession, nor to publish the same for the eyes of those who want to study the features, whether these are idealistic or actual. Therefore we can not regard the publishing of these two pictures as a sacrilege, especially when the pictures were given to us for the express purpose of publishing. In connection herewith it is probably not out of place to explain the circumstances that led up to this publicity.

 

There came to our office a man who gave his name as George Ambrosius Immanuel Moryason Sykes, who stated that when in Tibet and India, he had, met in the flesh Master Moria-EI and Deputy Kut-Hu-Mi, both members and heads of our Order Rosae Crucis, and a number of other organizations unknown to us, that he had been selected as the personal representative of these Masters with authority to give a set to our order as the true R. C. Order in America, and to publish, give away or sell these pictures and others of a religious and occult nature, ,and that theses pictures were properly signed in the Zend Avestan language and were the only authoritative pictures in existence, that he intended to have the same reproduced and offer them to the general public or societies, etc.

 

We have published the pictures in this magazine as interesting and instructive to our readers. The biographical sketches written by Mr. Sykes are certainly the most weird and astounding ever published in any American publication and since they pertain to the work of so many occult organizations we were assured that they would be appreciated by readers who were and were not members of the Order Rosae Crucis. The publication of the pictures and biographies has surely brought forth much correspondence from our readers and many personal calls to our editorial offices. We have heard and read much praise of the man and also some condemnation. We have been called upon to verify the statements made and in the absence of any proof in our possession (and which we never claimed to have) we have asked Mr. Sykes to give us in writing his guarantee that these pictures are just what he claims them to be.

 

To this end we reproduce his written statement. It is broad, complete and covers every possible point and we trust that it will answer the many questions put to us by those who believe that the publishers have voluntarily unearthed these pictures with the intent to offer them in an unauthorized manner. The following statement, therefore, clearly proves that Mr. Sykes is ready to assume the full responsibility for both pictures and biographies and that he maintains his proper authority for their existence. The publishers invite any who have other information to write to them and the matter will be given to Mr. Sykes who is anxious to prove his claims to us and to all others.

 

_______________________

 

Guarantee to publishers

 

“I issue the following statement and warning: the pictures of the Masters which I offered to the American Rosae Crucis for publication with biographies are issue under the order and by the authority of and signed by the Masters themselves in their own Zend-Zar (Sen-Zar) script (see S.D. and H.P.B., Vol. 1, Page. 26), and have their signs and seals issued.

 

They are copyrighted by their duly authorized agent. They are issued in compliance with the Temple Law. All other pictures of these Masters now in possession of others, made in the past or capled from unauthorized and unsigned portraits of them, or purporting to be of them, are made contrary to Temple and copyright  law and are unwarranted and illegal and are subject to confiscation whenever and wherever found; and all sueli infringements will be carefully and thoroughly guarded against by the Agent and Temple Association and brotherhood both here and abroad.

 

Therefore I caution the public against unauthorized portraits of the Masters. The Brotherhood will prevent by all their resources any attempt to wrong or cheat or defraud them or the public.

 

G.A.I.M. Sykes, M.A., N.Y. City. August 17^th, 1916. »

(p.2)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OBSERVATIONS

 

Numerous members of AMORC complained about the publication of the portraits of these two trans-Himalayan masters, since they considered this an offense against the Christian Rosicrucians.

 

And in response to these claims, the leaders of AMORC responded that these two masters are part of the World Rosicrucian Order (which is false), and that a man named George Ambrosius Immanuel Moryason Sykes was also in Tibet and India where he met in person with those two masters, and that they gave him those portraits and authorized him to promote them in the West through AMORC.

 

But that is also false because in reality those two portraits were painted by the Austrian painter Wolfgang Freiherr von Bibra who was then living in New York (where AMORC's headquarters were also located at the time).

 

 

This was confirmed by his great-great-grandson and is also demonstrated by Morya's portrait, since at the bottom left it is written "copyright, 1916, by W. VON BIBRA".

 

 

 

Mr. Bibra was based on the portraits that the German painter Hermann Schmiechen made of the theosophical masters in 1884.

 

Portraits of the Masters painted by Hermann Schmiechen in 1884

 

 

Portraits of the Masters painted by  Wolfgang Freiherr von Bibra in 1916

 

 

 

And it is very disconcerting the huge emphasis AMORC puts on the fact that their portraits of the Mahatmas are copyrighted and they are the only ones authorized by the masters to be sold.

 

At the end of their magazine they put a price list:

 

 

This appeared in the June, July, and August 1916 issues, and reads:

 

«

PORTRAITS OF THE MASTERS

 

(Signed in Zen-Zar)

 

The Temple Supply Association, 101 West 126th St., New York, has secured the rights to reproduce and sell portraits of the Masters of the East. During the last 25 years travelers and students of Theosophy visiting the Far East have brought back to United States copies or paintings of these authorized originals, but it is only recently the Temple Supply Association has secured the rights to reproduce the same in United States.

 

MORIA-ELI The Illustrious

KUT-HU-MI, The Illuminator

ZAR-ATUSHT-RA, The Magian

JESUS, The Na-zar-ene

 

At the present time the following reproductions are ready for delivery in different sizes, black and white or hand colored.

 

The Temple Supply Association

101 WEST 126TH STREET

NEW YORK.

 

Send Express Money Order or P. O. Money Order to G. A. I. MORYASON SYKES, M. A. 101 W. 126th St ., New York City, U. S. A. »

(p.31)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONCLUSION

 

All this indicates that the leaders of AMORC hired Wolfgang Freiherr von Bibra to paint these two portraits of the Masters for them, since they wanted to own the copyright and sell those portraits to their followers, but when they found that many members of AMORC were offended, they inventing a fictitious character whom they called George Ambrosius Immanuel Moryason Sykes to whom they attributed all the responsibility, and took the farce to the point of publishing a supposed guarantee given by that individual assuring that what he affirmed it was true.

 

 

And this is one more example of how deceitful and commercial this organization is.