A.M.O.R.C. / O.T.O. / disputed documents

Robert Vanloo

Is the A.M.O.R.C. an offspring of the O.T.O. or not?

Harvey Spencer Lewis 1916 — Harvey Spencer Lewis, 1916. [Colored with AI]

After losing a court case against the A.M.O.R.C. (Antiquus Mysticus Ordo Rosae Crucis), Reuben Swinburne Clymer published his tomes The Rosicrucian Fraternity in America and Book of Rosicruciae from 1935 onwards, in order to prove that Spencer Lewis, founder of the A.M.O.R.C., had falsified documents in his books.

The dossier opens with a claim and a pile of paper.

Clymer’s examples included the O.T.O. invitation, issued in the name of Laban de Laban, to an “International Meeting of the Dames de la Rose+Croix” in 1917, and the O.T.O. Constitution of the same year.

Many of the documents in the articles below are from Clymer’s books. Also, visit the occult gallery context.

Koenig

Peter-R. Koenig: Harvey Spencer Lewis and Theodor Reuss and Aleister Crowley and Heinrich Traenker. An outline from Der O.T.O. Phänomen RELOAD.

A.M.O.R.C.

A letter from A.M.O.R.C. to Peter-Robert Koenig: H. Spencer Lewis and Theodor Reuss.

Version française: H. Spencer Lewis et Theodor Reuss.

Vanloo

Robert Vanloo: Is the A.M.O.R.C. an offspring of the O.T.O. or not?

Version française: L’Ancien et Mystique Ordre de la Rose-Croix dérive-t-il de l’Ordre du Temple Oriental?

Archive note

These pieces belong to the same documentary knot: A.M.O.R.C., O.T.O., Rosicrucian self-legitimation, and the long shelf-life of suspect facsimiles.

Letters, Verdier, and the Vanloo file.

Front page of Robert Vanloo’s book on Les Rose-Croix du Nouveau Monde, Paris 1996 edition.

Robert Vanloo, Les Rose-Croix du Nouveau Monde, Paris 1996

Correspondence

A.M.O.R.C.’s letter to Robert Vanloo [word document]
Vanloo’s letter to A.M.O.R.C. [word document]
Verdier’s letter

Verdier

Robert Vanloo: Monsieur Verdier, a “Rose-Croix” from France? [word document]
Version française: Monsieur Verdier, un Rose-Croix français? [word document]

Clymer’s reproductions: blurred, accusatory, useful.

Spencer Lewis A.M.O.R.C. Pronunziamento RFRC — Blurred copy of the Pronunziamento RFRC 987, 432.

Reuben Swinburne Clymer, The Rosicrucian Fraternity in America, Book of Rosicruciae, Spencer Lewis, A.M.O.R.C., Theodor Reuss, Peregrinus, Ordo Templi Orientis, O.T.O., Constitution 1960, 1917 — Reuben Swinburne Clymer: *Rosicrucian Fraternity in America*, II: Lewis’ O.T.O. forgery I, pages 592/93.

Reuben Swinburne Clymer, The Rosicrucian Fraternity in America, Book of Rosicruciae, Spencer Lewis, A.M.O.R.C., Ordo Templi Orientis, Fraternitas Lucis Hermetica — Reuben Swinburne Clymer: *Rosicrucian Fraternity in America*, II: Lewis’ O.T.O. forgery II, pages 315–17: document 1.

Reuben Swinburne Clymer, The Rosicrucian Fraternity in America, Ordo Templi Orientis, O.T.O., International Meeting of the Dames de la Rose+Croix, Alliance Internationale des Dames de la Rose + Croix, Laban de Laban — Also in Lewis’ *White Book “D”*, document 2.