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In so far as we are able to trace in the authentic pages of history, Egypt was the
birthplace, not of the Rosicrucian Fraternity, but of the Ancient Mysteries and the Secret
Doctrines, which gradually, slowly and almost imperceptibly, throughout the centuries of
time, developed a system which became officially the Fraternity Rosae Crucis in the year
1614. It was Herodotus who claimed that the Egyptians were the first who distinctly
taught the Immortality of the human Soul, not as a Conscious entity, but with the
capability of becoming, or attainting to, such Consciousness.

The Egyptian mysteries of Isis and Osiris were transplanted into Greece by Cadmus and
Inachus; Zoroaster brought them into Persia; Orpheus into Thrace; Melapus into Argo;
Trophonious nto Boeotia; Minos into Crete; Cinyras into Cyprus, and Erechtheus into
Athens. By the time of the Nazarene, the Essenian Community was the only Mystery
School actively functioning. The Gnostics, or early Christian Initiates, kept the Mysteries
alive after the death of the Nazarene.

While it is true that these Secret Mystery Schools of Initiation existed in Egypt, India,
Greece, and other countries and while it is equally certain that these schools had in view
the identical ends of the Rosicrucian Fraternity, nevertheless, the Rosicrusians were
unknown before 1614.
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 Thus, the Rosicrucian Fraternity was not the result of a sudden impulse on the part of any
one individual, whether Paracelsus or Andrea, but was the outgrowth of these Ancient
Mysteries, of the work and teachings of the pre-Rosicrucian Orders such as the early
Pythagoreans, Plantonists, Essenes, Cabalists, Gnostics, Magi, and the mediaeval
Alchemists, Hermetists, Occultists and Paracelsians. All who were members of these
ancient Mystery Schools, had some part in the gestation of the Fraternity Rosae Crucis.
As such, each of many master initiates either added to or subtracted from, the philosophy
and Arcanum which finally birthed the Rosicrucian Fraternity.

John Trithemius (1462-1516), Henry Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486-1535) and
Paracelsus (1493-1541) were the trio of men that became the reformers of Science,
Religion and Medicine of their time. Trithemius laid the structural foundation of the future
Fraternity, Agrippa continued the work where Trithemius left off, and Paracelsus forged
the final product of what in the future was to be the Fraternity Rosae Crucis.

Paracelsus, aka Father Christian Rosenkreutz, is known as the “Father of the Fraternity
Rosae Crucis” as he harmonized all of the many Secret Schools active during the
previous centuries together into the pre-Rosicrusian “Confederation of Initiates.”
Furthermore, it was he who authored the original draft of the Fama Fraternitas which was
not published until 1614. This Confederation finally crystallized into the Fraternity Rosae
Crucis in 1614, 73 years after the death of Paracelsus.

Philosophical Initiates who were interested in the consolidation of the Initiates of all the
Arcane Schools into one supreme unit became members of the “World Council” of the
Confederation of Initiates. Initiates of all schools in all countries belonged to this loosely
joined Confederation and included such names as Aegidius Gutmann, Valentine Weigel,
Simon Studion, Jean Braccesco, Dennis Zachaire, Thomac Charnock, John Fountaine,
Alexander von Suchten, Nicholas Bernaud, Julius Sperber, and Henry Khunrath.

Seven individuals composed the original “co-founders” of the newly formed Fraternity
Rosae Crucis: Berigard of Pisa (France, 1567-1664) John Baptista van Helmont
(Belguim, 1557-1644), Jean D’Aspagnet (France, 1566-1630), Michael Maier
(Germany,1568-1622), Robert Fludd (England, 1574-1637), Henricus Madathanas
(Germany, 1575-1639) and John Valentine Andrae (Germany, 1586-1654). Michael Maier
became the first Supreme Grand Master of the newly formed Fraternity Rosae Crucis and
maintained this position until his death. John Valentine Andrae, was chosen the
“spokesman” for the newly formed Fraternity Rosae Crucis and thus edited and published
the Fama Fraternitas et Confessio Fratrum Rosae Crucis in Germany, December, 1614.
The Fama was subsequently republished in English in 1652 by Eugenius Philalethes
titled “Discovery of the Fraternity of the Most Laudable Order of the Rosy Cross.” The
Fraternity grew and flourished throughout Europe and other countries such as Russia.

The first American Great Council of the August Fraternity was held in Philadelphia in
1772. Many of the founding fathers of the American Revolution were members of the
Fraternity Rosae Crucis as the ideal of freedom from tyranny in order to pursue one’s
spiritual vocation was and is a paramount fundamental tenet of the Fraternity. In 1774,
the great Council of Three (the Fraternity's ultimate governing body) was composed of
Benjamin Franklin, George Clymer and Thomas Paine. Thomas Paine was later
succeeded by Lafayette, who, like Benjamin Franklin, was a member of the Paris
Rosicrucian lodge “Humanidad.” In 1842, the Great Council of Three was revitalized by
the novelist, George Lippard.

During the period between 1854 and 1856, it was decided by Count Guinotti and the
World Council of the Fraternity, then sitting in Paris, that the time had come for a division
of authority; the establishment of a Supreme Grand Master for Europe (England not
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 included) and one for the Western World. Thus in 1858 the Supreme Grand Dome of the
Fraternity met in Paris where Dr. Paschel Beverly Randolph was inducted into his office
as the first Supreme Grand Master of the Fraternitas Rosæ Crucis for the Western World
(North, Central and South America) and the Isles of the Sea. During the Civil War the
Council of Three was composed of Dr. Randolph, General Ethan Allen Hitchcock and
Abraham Lincoln. The need for a visible organization was due to what they saw as the
rise of fraudulent Rosicrucian organizations in the country.

In 1871 Dr. Randolph selected Freeman B. Dowd to be his successor and after
Randolph’s death in 1875, Mr. Dowd assumed his position as the second Supreme
Grand Master of the Fraternity Rosae Crucis for the Western World. Under Mr. Dowd,
James R. Phelps, M.D. (member of the Council of Three and Grand Master, Illuminatae
Americanae) and the initiate Sorona performed the majority of the instruction and training
of the neophytes. Edward Brown was one of these acolytes and was instructed under the
wise guidance of Sorona. Mr. Dowd quickly recognized Edward Brown’s innate abilities
and spiritual qualities and selected him to succeed him. Due to age and infirmary, on April
12, 1907 Dowd resigned his position and on April 15, 1907 Edward Brown became the
third Supreme Grand Master of the Fraternity Rosae Crucis for the Western World with
the title Supreme Grand Master, Temple of the Rosy Cross and Hierarch of Imperial Eulis.
Mr. Brown held this position until his death in 1922.

During this same time period, Reuben Swinburne Clymer, M.D. was accepted as a
neophyte under the authority of Freeman B. Dowd in 1897. He was instructed and guided
by James R. Phelps and was then accepted as of the first degree in November, 1899.
Still under the Fraternal authority of Dowd, he was inducted into the office of Grand
Master of the Fraternity Rosae Crucis in 1905. He was then chosen as the Supreme
Grand Master of the Aeth Priesthood in 1907.

During the time of Dowd, the Fraternity Rosae Crucis was composed of several different
“sub” Orders and Societies all functioning in harmony with the ultimate authority of the
Supreme Grand Master of the Fraternity Rosae Crucis for the Western World. These
included the Order of the Illuminati (Dr. Phelps was the Grand Master), Order of
Melchizadek, Priesthood of Aeth, Ancient Order of the Magi, Sons of Isis and Osiris,
Rosicrucian Brotherhood, Rosicrusian Order, Secret Scools, Hermetic Brotherhood of
Luxor, Elphantes, and Atlantis. During this same time period, “copy-cat” organizations
began to arise without any connection to the Fraternity Rosae Crucis but plagiarizing the
names of these individual Orders and Societies. It was decided by the Brethren in both
Europe, Central and South America and North America that an outer association was
required to protect these already established legitimate bodies.

Consequently, under the Fraternal authority of Mr. Down and then Mr. Brown, Dr. Clymer
began the process of bringing together all of “sub” Allied Orders and Societies of the
Fraternity Rosae Crucis. This process began in 1902 and in 1908-1909 these varied
Orders and Societies of the Fraternity Rosae Crucis consolidated together under the
umbrella appellate The Royal Fraternity Association. Furthermore, in 1908 he obtained
land in Quakertown, PA which was to become both the Shrine and future headquarters of
the Fraternity. In 1910 the building known as “Beverly Hall” was built and the Chapel
followed in 1911-1912. The first Convocation was held in June, 1911 on Beverly Hall
premises. After Edward Brown made his transition from this earth on May 11, 1922, he
named Dr. Clymer as his successor and he held the position of Supreme Grand Master of
the Fraternity Rosae Crucis until his death in 1966.

In 1929 the Royal Fraternity Association became the Universal Confederation of Initiates
and was duly registered in Pennsylvania on July 24, 1929 as the Confederation of
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 Initiates. From 1929 to 1938 the Supreme officers of all the legitimate organizations
based on the Arcane were busily engaged in the formation of plans, the writing of a
FAMA and agreeing upon the methods of procedure to unite all of the World’s Orders that
were legitimately associated with Fraternity Rosae Crucis. Finally, on March 20th, 1939,
in Paris, France, this work was completed and a Constitution was ratified as La
Federation Universelle des Ordes, Societes et Fraternites des Inities or The
Universal Confederation of Orders, Societies and Fraternities of Initiates and so
registered in every country in which legitimate member organizations were active. It was
at this time that Dr. Clymer was presented with many ancient books, manuscripts and
records of the Fraternity prior to the Nazi invasion in which the libraries were decimated
and the Fraternity leaders executed.

The Fraternity Rosae Crucis continues is this form to the present day. It has no
association with any other "Rosicrucian" Order or organization who use this name.

The following texts provide further details on the history and authenticity of the Fraternity
Rosae Crucis currently headquartered in Quakertown, PA.

The Book of Rosicruciae(In three volumes)

Compiled by Dr. R. S. Clymer
The history, philosophy, and symbolism of the Rosicrucian movement through the
centuries are given in this series, together with biographies of great Alchemists and
Hermeticists. The benevolence of the Fraternal ideals and the individuals who loved and
exemplified them are inspiring.
853 pages, three volumes

The Fraternitatis Rosae Crucis

By Dr. R. S. Clymer
When and where did the Fraternity of the Rose Cross have its beginning? By whom was
it originated? Was it always the Rosicrucian Fraternity? Or does it owe its existence to
older organizations? These are among the questions answered in detail as the
Fraternity's Hermetic and Alchemic traditions are highlighted.
221 pages

The Rose Cross Order

By Dr. R. S. Clymer
Differences between the works of Aleister Crowley, a well known black magician of the
early twentieth century, and the Rose Cross are compared. The book also covers the
court litigation between the Fraternity and H. Spencer Lewis, founder of A.M.O.R.C. in
California.
208 pages

Some Vital Information

for Your Spiritual Future
A s one looking for information on the revered and venerated ancient Order of the
Rosicrucians, we felt certain that you would find the following short history of this Order
and its modern representation of value.

The original name of this Order was and is The Fraternitas Rosæ Crucis. It was first
instituted in Germany in 1614 and brought together into one organization the various
associations of individuals known as the Gnostics, Paracelsians, Pythagoreans,
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 Platonists, Hermetists, Alchemists and Magi. Since its inception it has been devoted to
one objective and one objective only–The Process of the Spiritualization of the
Individual.

The Order was from its beginning a Sub Rosa organization. It remained as such until
the early part of the twentieth century when it was forced to come out from "under the
rose" to defend itself from spurious organizations that attempted to usurp the name
Rosicrucian for less than spiritual or humanitarian purposes. Litigation was brought
against the pretenders and they were forced to admit to all that they were "not a
religious organization." The Beverly Hall Corporation, the legal entity that manages the
affairs of The Fraternitas Rosæ Crucis (under its four-hundred-year-old landmarks, The
Fraternitas Rosæ Crucis must remain purely Spiritual in nature and therefore is not
allowed to register as a legal entity), is a religious organization and by the rigid standards
of the Internal Revenue Service is determined to be a tax-exempt church.

In order to prevent such counterfeits in the future it was determined by the Great
Councils of the Order that a physical home for The Fraternitas Rosæ Crucis and its
allied orders should be established in the Northeastern part of the United States of
America. This was done some eighty-five years ago and this center, Beverly Hall, now
consists of thirty-seven buildings and nearly three hundred acres of land in picturesque
upper Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Many of these structures can be seen on this website
and consist of various Temples for the Orders that now comprise The Fraternitas Rosæ
Crucis, a Grand Hall for the Knights of Chivalry Order, a new Magi Memorial Temple,
the Philosophical Publishing Company building, a modern audio-video production
studio and editing center, two medical Healing Research Centers, pyramids
geographically related to those at Giza in Egypt, several facilities for student members to
stay while attending the various instructional sessions held at Beverly Hall, similar live-in
facilities for patients who come from all over the world to be treated at the healing
centers, and finally, residences for our many co-workers.

Once Beverly Hall was fully implemented, there were no further challenges to The
Fraternitas Rosæ Crucis until late in the last century when it became necessary to
expel four Fraternity members, two in the USA and two in Chile, for treasonous activities.
This was the first time in the long unblemished history of the Order that such serious
actions were necessary. Unfortunately, these banished individuals–without shame or
regard for their sacred vows to the Order or their Soul–refused to return to The
Fraternitas Rosæ Crucis the private lessons, books and other materials that belonged
to the Order, but which had been lent to them to use only while they were members of the
Order in good standing.

We now find that these individuals are attempting to sell these contraband lessons over
the Internet and by various other means of dissemination. The nature of these lessons
and instruction is such that they are not only useless to those who are not under the
careful guidance of a legitimate arcane teacher of The Fraternitas Rosæ Crucis, but
can actually be harmful without this guidance. These would-be spiritual merchants are
like the legendary Sorcerer's Apprentice in that they have just enough knowledge of the
Great Work to get themselves, and all who might fall into their web, into situations that
can create severe jeopardy to both body and soul.

In this day and age it is easy to produce a seductive, professional looking web site that
has all the outer appearance of authenticity, but that has no connection to the legitimate
Order described above. However, the thoughtful and insightful seeker after spiritual truth
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 is readily able to discern the diamond from the paste by comparing these attempts to
confuse and defraud to the following facts:

1. The world center for the authentic Fraternitas Rosæ Crucis is now
centered in Quakertown, PA, USA. All the precious documents of the various
Orders in other countries were brought to the United States by Dr. R.
Swinburne Clymer just prior to the hostilities of World War II. They now reside
in secret vaults on the grounds of Beverly Hall in Quakertown.

2. Following World War II and the demise of the European Orders, all authority
for the activities of the legitimate Fraternitas Rosæ Crucis was likewise
transferred to The See at Beverly Hall in Quakertown, PA. Since America is to
be the center of the New Order of the Ages it is obvious that this land will also
be the center from whence all Spiritual wisdom and knowledge will come from
as well.

3. This worldwide Order is overseen by various Grand Councils with an

individual traditionally known as the Supreme Grand Master as the head over
all. The Supreme Court of the United States in case number 97-211
(10/14/97) upheld the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the
Third Circuit attesting to the fact that the present Supreme Grand Master, and
no other, is the only legitimate individual who may lay claim to this office as the
official head of the Fraternitas Rosæ Crucis and all its many allied Orders.
The various spurious groups on the web who claim similar authority are only
vaporware with no valid or legal substantiation except the sound of their own
voice.

4. For the last hundred-plus years all the advanced spiritual training given to
students of the Great Work is mandated to be given by the authentic Supreme
Grand Master. He, and only he, has been carefully and personally trained by
his predecessor for this imposing task.

5. The Fraternitas Rosæ Crucis and Beverly Hall are physical entities–not
virtual, web-only entities. They comprise nearly three hundred acres and thirty-
seven buildings and are constantly expanding. We are told that some
pretenders have photos on the web of buildings and meeting rooms that do not
exist. Any sincere seeker after truth is always welcome to visit us and see for
himself. You need only to call 1-215-536-7048 in advance for an appointment.
None of the want-to-be's dare make this offer. Come and see the truth for
yourself.

6. The authentic Fraternitas Rosæ Crucis has never requested dues or

ongoing payment from its students. The student pays a modest scholarship fee
(which barely covers a lifetime of postage) when applying and that is all. Even
this fee may be paid in small monthly installments without carrying charges.

7. The authentic Fraternitas Rosæ Crucis never attempts to establish a "cult

of the individual." The student is never encouraged or forced to vow allegiance
to any individual or personality. Just the opposite. The student is taught to show
allegiance only to God, his Immortal Soul and his vow to protect the property
lent to him by the Grand Fraternity.

8. In the authentic Fraternitas Rosæ Crucis the student is encouraged to

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organizations the student is frequently thwarted by the organizer for fear that
he, the student, may advance further than this leader, and thus become a rival–
both temporal and spiritual. To accomplish this end the bogus leader frequently
uses fear, in its multitude of subtle aspects, to control and stymie the growth of
his more accomplished students.

9. By its ancient landmarks the authentic Fraternitas Rosæ Crucis is never

allowed to actively proselytize or advertise for students. It may legitimately
make the principles and tenets of the Order known through its books and
dignified statements, such as this website, but no more. The ancient Law is,
“Those who know do not talk, those who talk do not know.”

10. The authentic Fraternitas Rosæ Crucis has published hundreds of outer
public texts for the edification of the general public. As you can see from our
website's book list these are still available to those who may be interested. In
America alone this publishing of guides and textbooks by our Order has been
continued for over one hundred and fifty years. No counterfeit organization can
even come close to making this statement.

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Creator and Creation Are One

In their instructions the Occult Initiates protect their knowledge and secret teachings from the profane by means of
allegorical language and the use of symbols, leaving their veritable meaning to be divined by the really sincere
student with the help of an insight imparted from the developed subconsciously within. They likewise perpetuate their
secrets by means of the Initiation of tested disciples of unquestioned discretion, to whom they liberally lay open the
treasures of their accumulated knowledge.

Seeing that the Creator of all beings, before the foundation of the world and before ever they were brought forth, had
and contained the same in his mind and Wisdom even the little world, man the Microcosm, as well as the greater
world, the Macrocosm, according to the testimony of sacred writings, must not then the world, which is the greater,
as well as the lesser, which is man, have their Creator as their original and beginning within themselves, so that
neither the Creator nor His creature are separate from each other? Seeing, then, that it cannot be said that perfection
is attained before the end has reached its beginning and the beginning united itself with the end in sequence to a new
birth and production, the question is whether both the greater and the lesser world, in order to reach perfection, must
no in al their workings aim at this, that they may return to their beginnings to be united with them?

All the creatures of God, for their melioration and glorification, stand in an endless evolution on the path to perfection
and must be known and comprehended. A thing cannot be known otherwise than by its end and operation or out-
working, as a tree by its fruits, and that the lesser world is the end and comprisal of all creatures and works of god
and consequently an outbirth of the great world or Macrocosm wherein all other creatures are comprised. The
question, then, is whether there can be any other way by which man may attain to a right knowledge of the great
world, with and in all its parts, than in and out of himself? Man, as in the end and abridgement of all things, the
Beginning has manifested itself, for the End is nothing but the Beginning wrought out and the start of something still
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 greater; that is, displaying into act and manifested, so that the End is hidden in the Beginning as the Beginning is
manifested in the End. As a consequence of this, both the worlds have a great affinity and perfect likeness, yea, and
unity one with the other, and they must be wrought out with one another and thereby reach their highest perfection.

We do not deny that many of those who become interested in Alchemical science did so because of Material gain, but
it is clearly indicated that their labors were overshadowed by the portents of a higher achievement and that even their
works read obviously in two ways, literally and transliterally; so also their operations had two objects, and both of
these objects were pursued from the first beginning of the science, and this is both just and right. Physical gain may
be our vocation, while spiritual development be the avocation; there is nothing inimical in this.
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The Law of Nature Is Also the Law of Man

The spiritual interpretation was not an afterthought, not was the spiritual search an aftergrowth. The arcane
knowledge in both instances preceded the arcane literature. The secrets of the ancient Sanctuaries and of the Holy
Assemblies, as the Holy of Holies of the Initiates was known, embraced both the physical and the transcendental. It
was known that one law variously applied obtained in all departments of Nature as regards the development of
species and of the potential energies in all things.

Their acquaintance with the Law enabled the Initiates to develop the latent possibilities of the mineral world, which
possibilities resided not in the different species, but in the common elements, and so chemistry was born. Their
acquaintance with the identical law also enabled them to elaborate the transcendental potencies in man. Thus
Initiation and Soul Consciousness became possible. In the vulgar parlance, they could transmute metals, and they
could likewise transmute or transfigure humanity.
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