In his writings, Harvey
Spencer Lewis, the founder of AMORC, noted that there were several Rosicrucian
lodges in Egypt.
THE LODGE LOCATED IN LUXOR
The city of
Luxor is located in the south of Egypt and in ancient times this place was the
capital of the pharaohs during the 16th to 11th centuries BC.
Well, Spencer
Lewis gave to his students who reached the fourth grade a diploma with the
following text:
ROSE-CROSS OF EGYPT
Sovereign Sanctuary and Grand Orient
Friendship Guarantor of the Rosicrucian Adepts
Be it known
to all:
That the Beloved Adept [i.e. the student of AMORC] whose signature is inscribed below has been inducted into the Fourth Grade
of the universal rites of the Rosicrucian Brotherhood. Therefore, the said
Adept is recorded in our Archives as an Affiliate Member of the AMENHOTEP LODGE
originally instituted in the Temple of Luxor in the Valley of the Nile, and is
entitled to all of benefits and considerations guaranteed to such affiliated members
by virtue of their registration in this Sanctuary.
By Sovereign Sanctuary
Signature of the Grand Master of
the Lodge Amenhotep .................
Signature of the Archivist of the
Lodge Amenhotep .................
Complet Signature of the Adept
......................
How true is this lodge?
Most likely
it was one more lie from Lewis because he never gave any proof of the existence
of that lodge and no one outside of him spoke of that lodge, and when some
members of AMORC wanted to go visit it, Lewis told them that this could not be
done (despite the fact that they were supposedly already affiliated members).
And later
AMORC to not have more claims modified that diploma removing all this history
of the Egyptian lodge and simply in his new diploma it says that the person who
receives this document is registered in the archives of AMORC as an associate
member of all the Grand Lodges of AMORC and therefore is entitled to all the
benefits and considerations that are guaranteed to such members by virtue of
their active membership.
THE LODGE LOCATED IN MEMPHIS
If the Luxor
Lodge is ridiculous, the Memphis Lodge is even worse. The ancient city of
Memphis is located in northern Egypt and was the capital of the Ancient
Egyptian Empire between 3050 and 2250 BC., before Luxor was.
And in his
magazine The American Rosae Crucis, September
1916, Lewis wrote the following:
« On Tuesday,
October 17, the Supreme Secretary General of the Rosicrucian Order in America
[Thor Kiimalehto] received by mail an official document with various seals and
official marks, sent from France by the French Rosicrucian Order in which he is
informed that:
. . .
At a Lateran
High Council of the Rosicrucian World Council held in Egypt at Memphis on July
20, 1916 AD, Rosicrucian year 3269, the Rosicrucian territories of the world
were re-administered in contingency with necessary readjustment after the
termination of the war activities of the Rosicrucians. nations of Europe and
Asia, and in anticipation of a certain reorganization at the beginning of the
year 1911 AD, said Council decreed a division of territories as conceived in
the map and the letter that constitutes an official part of this document.
In
accordance with the foregoing, we hereby give official notice to you, and
through your respected offices to the Supreme Council of America, that there
are now eight Jurisdictions replacing the original Seven, and that the
Jurisdiction of America has become an Official Jurisdiction that it is no
longer under the protectorate of any other jurisdiction, but directly under the
direction of the Supreme Pontiff Perfect High Ancient Shekah, EI Moria Ra of
Memphis.
The official
notice accompanied by the Gold Seal of the Rosicrucian High Council will be
mailed directly to your Most Perfect Master "Profundis" [Spencer
Lewis] when said gold seal with your name and new title has been completed in
the Grotto Atelier of Memphis.
. . .
By this
document it is thus decreed that the Most Perfect Master, H. Spencer Lewis, is
appointed Counselor of the World. Likewise, you, Highly Respected Gentleman
[Thor Kiimalehto], are appointed Councilor to the World and in the hands of
both of you the appointment of the third Councilor will rest and said
appointment will be duly informed to us so that we can inform the High
Archivist in Memphis.
. . .
The name of
the highest Officer of the Order in the world is not Moria El as some have it
to market some facts, but it is EI Moria Ra, a very different name with a very
different meaning, and he resides in Memphis. »
(p.23-24)
We see that
in Memphis there is supposedly another Rosicrucian lodge that is extremely
important, since there is a grotto with an atelier where the Gold Seals of the
Rosicrucian High Council are made, and it is also the place where resides the
highest Official of the Rosicrucian Order in the world which is called EI Moria
Ra, and it is also where the Supreme Rosicrucian Council reorganized the
territories of the world in the meeting held on July 20, 1916.
And how true is that lodge?
It is as
unlikely as the previous one since Lewis also did not give any proof of his
existence, nor did he ever show the notice and the stamp that he claimed they
were going to send him, and nobody knows this "EI Moria Ra". And that
document supposedly sent by the French Rosicrucian Order, Lewis never showed
and was never heard from again.
CONCLUSION
This is one more example of how immensely charlatan
and liar Spencer Lewis was.
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