Gabriel Ramirez Cifuentes "Hermes" was the representative of the
FRC's Colombian section from November 11th 1979 until 1991. The
Spaniard Manuel Cabrera Lamparter made him legal heir to Krumm-Heller's
work ("legitimos herederos de la Obra") on October 23rd 1988;
though de Paula expelled Ramirez Cifuentes on September 27th 1991.
Krumm-Heller visited Chile via Argentina where Bucheli initiated Oscar
Bravo. Bravo was after Brother Buchelli's death expelled from the FRC
by Clymer. Eventually, Bravo looked for "another environment" and went
into martinism and masonry. He found in Sergio Valdivia his favorite
disciple.
Sergio Valdivia has his Aula (Lodge)
"Rasmussen" in Bacata where he could gather a larger group around
himself.
Clymer visited Bucheli in March 1941. [57] Rosario Carey and Oscar
Bravo exchanged documents with the Spanish branch of the F.R.A., which
were published by Manuel Cabrera Lamparter under the title "Las
Ensenanzas de la Antigua Fraternidad Rosa-Cruz" (Malaga 1987). The
aforementioned Ramirez Cifuentes re-initiated Valdivia in the 1980's.
[58]
Peru
Just as in Rio, so the Lima F.R.A. group (founded on May 27th 1935) was
led by three people from 1936 onward. One member of the triumvirate,
Juan Gonzales "Jinasmar" remained active under both Krumm-Heller and
his son, the other two being Sigmund Sipilesko and Joaquin Duronzo. On
September 27th 1972 the presidency of this branch of the F.R.A. was
taken over by Manuel Garay Requeña (b. 25.12.1897), with the "Autorización"
of the Venezuelan Ana Delia Gonzales, in other words Metzger. Requeña
died on November 10th 1 986, [59] being succeeded in his office by
Paul Chavez.
Ruben Pilares Villa "I.H." (b. 1948) who was initiated into the
Peruvian F.R.A. on August 6th 1974 [60] only to be expelled in 1979,
initiated a correspondence with McMurtry's Californian 'Caliphate'
lodge in early 1977. The organisations accepted each other's
credentials, [61] but without suspecting what they'd both been up to
with Metzger.
"We will one day reach the necessary size for a proper election of
an O.H.O. by Xth Degree National Lodge Heads," or so William Heidrick
"Emt" (the Caliphate's "éminence grise") hoped on October 18th 1977 so
far as Pilares Villa was concerned; a hope which was flatly
contradicted in subsequent Caliphate statutes as they excluded Metzger
and other existing O.T.O. groups.
Pilares Villa's organisation changed into the 'O.T.O. Huiracocha F.R.
Americana' in 1979; on August 13th 1980 Helen P. Smith was addressing
Pilares as "Gran maestro de O.T.O. Sud America"; and by
September 1988 Pilares was calling his group 'O.T.O. Sudamerica-Peru, Societas
Rosicruciana Antiqua' - which was reciproked by the
'Caliphate' that wrote: "the work of R.S.S. [i.e. X°]
Krumm-Heller continues to bear fruit." [62]
Villa was in friendly contact with de Paula in Brazil, and tried to
remodel his own activities along more Masonic lines; but there were
still highly strained relations with the original Peruvian F.R.A.
group. Gary Allan Martin "Kelly", is "padrino" (godfather) to Villa's
daughter Nancy Anael Nuit; Martin was of particular importance to the
present study due to his correspondence with Phyllis Seckler, who was
the oldest living member of the 2nd. Agapé Lodge, and belonged to the
re-founded Agapé Grand Lodge of 1977).
Colombia
Israel Rojas Romero "Joselin" assumed the presidency of Bogota's F.R.A.
on April 27th 1928; [63] Luis Hernandez and Señora Weleda
(Krumm-Heller's wife Carlota?) were also in
this group. 'Huiracocha' gave lectures on the occult in German opera in
the city's Teatro Municipial. [64] In 1938 a Colombian Indian name
occurs in connection with this branch of the F.R.A.; he was called Omar
Cherenzi-Ling, and adopted the motto of 'Koothummi' [65] upon his
initiation, which Rojas performed with enthusiasm. However Krumm-Heller
unmasked the Indian as a fraud.
During the Second World War it was generally believed that the
"superhombre" [66] Huiracocha was dead; in fact the worst thing that
happened to Krumm was that he had his library confiscated by the
Gestapo. [67] After 1945 he ceased contacts with Colombia, [68] while
Rojas had himself officially registered as a corporation (Nº 520 on the
records), [69] and led the Colombian F.R.A. up to his death on June 4th
1985.
After Rojas' death a small number of members elected Jorge Cruz
Toquica (33°) president {see appended anonymous report}. The group was
now large enough to make a success of running a public library in
Bogota, where Krumm-Heller's framed countenance adorned the premises.
Ramirez Cifuentes, who had also settled in Colombia (see section on
Brazil) resisted Toquica, characterising him as a dogmatist "de
segunda clase". [70]
Meanwhile Gabriel Sanchez Gaviria "Reschai", who had parted company
with Rojas, put himself and his camp-followers under the patronage of
Ana Delia Gonzales in Venezuela - and into direct competition with
Toquica & co. Sanchez used warrants to barter with Lamparter's
companion in arms Narcis Pell Alimany in Spain, and in 1985 received a
bishopric by post from the "Iglesia Ortodoxa Apostolica" in Chicago,
which was run by Jorge Rodriguez Villa
- described as "the silliest man in a bishop's mitre!"
[71] Jorge Rodriguez promoted his church in
the Masonic press as the "Gnostic Catholic Church". [72]
Also involved in the Colombian F.R.A. after 1928 were Jose Thome da
Silva Oliveira, Jorge Ranghel, Vincente Rodriguez and Guillermo Frey;
[73] a certain Tobias Ferro is recorded as running an Aula called
'Nenqueteba' in the country.
Victor Manuel Gomez Rodriguez
Gomez Rodriguez (b. 17.2.17) alias 'Samael Aun Weor' alias 'Buddha
Maitreya Kalki' was once a member of Rojas' group; in 1952 he
founded his 'Gnostic Movement' which was firmly based on F.R.A.
material.
His claim that Krumm-Heller consecrated him as a bishop is vehemently
rejected by every F.R.A. group. [74] Gabriel Sanchez Gaviria believed
that 'Weor' was either too young to have ever met Krumm, or else was
living in another part of South America during Krumm's occasional
visits. [75] 'Weor' was supposed to have maintained links with Ana
Delia Gonzales, Metzger's representative in Venezuela. [76]
The Gnostic Movement's sex-magic was based on the avoidance of
ejaculation. [77] 'Weor' died in 1977, and his Movement split in two:
the Mexican branch led by his widow Arnolda Garro de Gomez "Maestra
Litelantes"; and the Colombian branch under Joaquim Amortegui Balvuena
"Maestro Rabolu" - the Rabolu tendency also founded a branch at
Baden-Rütihof in Switzerland. From conversations with Rabolu's Swiss
representative Thomas Pellicioli it seems that the greatest
concentration of their members - some ten thousand - were to be found
in Canada as of October 27th 1986. The Gnostic repertoire of "Magical
Groups", "Drugs", "Sexology", and "Lucifer, the Devil and Satan" was
enriched with one especial insight: that the Ego must be
drained of energy by 'living larvae'. [78]
Elsewhere, the Litelantes party has an offshoot in England, where it
goes under the title 'Gnostic Institute of Anthropology'; they even
asserted in a letter dated May 5th 1992 "that Samael was the
Patriarch of the Gnostic Church and A[rnoldo] K[rumm]
H[eller] was the Archbishop." In Spain the corresponding
body calls itself the 'Gnostic Christian Universal Movement'. [79]
M.R. Motta thought that Oskar Schlag was the secret power behind
'Weor', [80] while F.W. Haack demolished Weor's ideology in his book
"Europas neue Religion" (Zurich 1991, p. 42); nonetheless the
'Christliche Universelle Gnostische Bewegung' is legally incorporated
as an association in Germany. [81]
Mexico
Mexico's F.R.A. was represented in the person of Gabriel Montenegro y Vargas "Zoepiron, Theopilos" born in Zapotlan in 1907.
Montenegro claimed to have received "the highest initiations from
Toltec priests"; furthermore "at 14 years old he left home. In
San Francisco and San Jose he attended institutes of higher learning, and
still young in years, graduated as a Doctor of Medicine from Sierra
State University [...] He was friends with Aleister Crowley, Roy
Leffingwell, Dr. Swinburne Clymer, Heinrich Tränker, Karl Germer,
Arnoldo Krumm-Heller, and many others." [82]
Montenegro told his mistress Helen P. Smith (from the American 2nd
Agapé Lodge) that Krumm-Heller had been operating as "Acting Grand Master
of the O.T.O. for All Latin America", and that he'd been "Grand
Master General for the O.T.O for German Speaking Countries" well before
1947. [83] In about 1948, after long delays, Montenegro was initiated into
the Crowleyan O.T.O. [84] by W.T. Smith, [85] subsequently being held
in high regard by both Jane
Wolfe and Karl Germer. [86]
In 1966 Montenegro paid visits to Oscar Schlag in Zurich,
Anthroposophy's Dornach headquarters, and the estate at Stein, which he
felt was "indeed a little bit of heaven". He considered
Walter Englert from the new German O.T.O. wing "a new-comer in Thelema" [86] with his "renegade" Frankfurt
OTO-IO incorporation, and raised objections over Metzger's "serious
Thelemic errors in "modus operandi"." [87]
After Montenegro's death on July 14th 1969 Paul R. Audehm and
Walter Englert wrote in his obituary that 'Monty' had been IX° in the OTO "and a bishop of
the Gnostic Church associated with this order." Besides this he was
"Supreme Sovereign of the OTO for North and South America [...] 33° of
the Supreme Council 33° of the A[ntient] & A[ccepted]
R[ite] for Mazatlan, a member of 'Crocker' Lodge Nº 454 in Daly City." [88] Referring
to the business of being named as Grandmaster of the O.T.O. for
North and South America by Metzger, Audehm (who was one of the witnesses)
remembered that "'Monty' was so drunk, he obviously didn't have the
faintest idea what was going on." [89]
His remaining family at his death were his "spouse Marguerita, his
daughter Marie Angelica, and his mother Maria Vargas. Montenegro's last
resting-place was in the 'Cypress Lawn Memorial Park'." [90]
Montenegro had told his lover H.P. Smith to destroy all his papers.
By 1970 Metzger had made sure to distance himself from Englert, Grant, McMurtry
and the whole Mexican business. [91]
The origins of the Yucatan MM Temple cannot unfortunately be
ascertained for certain; [92] in 1992 no official F.R.A. lodge could be
found in Mexico.
From Cuba to Florida
Before his death, Krumm-Heller allegedly also named
Johannes Müller Rider "Sar Thelemako" a successor, an invalid who had
spent much of his time seeking a cure at sundry Alpine resorts. (The
documents proving the successorship should be in the hands of
his son Juan Müller in Cuba.) [93]
But it seems that in Cuba 'Thelemako' accumulated enough magical power
to cure himself of cancer with a herb called 'Anamu', and there
established branches of the F.R.A., the GCC, and the Krumm-Heller
rescension of the O.T.O.; as a consequence, he considered himself
entitled to the dignities of 33°, 90°, 97°, X° and that of OHO. Rider was
supposed to be an acquaintance of the German Liberal Catholic Gustav
Ringer, who came originally from Prague, and had been consecrated into
the Mariavite and Jacobite Orders as a priest by the Swede Reinhold
Palminge, while he was in Berlin. [94]
In 1960 Manuel del Pino Hernandez was running a lodge in Havana. [95]
In 1966 Rider appointed Roberto C. Toca (b. 11.1.43 in Cuba) to this
position, and made him a GCC bishop and OHO of the Krumm-Heller
O.T.O. in 1976; [96] the photographs of this consecration show an O.T.O.-type
altar. Toca was regularly described in newspaper accounts as OHO of the
O.T.O., 90°, 97°, and mentioned in connection with the Law of Thelema.
This particular O.T.O. consisted of 12 "grados iniciaticos (3
previos de neofitos) y los 5 posteriores de Illuminatis" (12 "initiatory
degrees (preceded by 3 neophyte degrees) followed by 5 Illuminati degrees.")
[97] A newspaper article of 1986 talks of the 90°, 97°, 12 Rosicrucian
degrees, 17 Illuminati degrees, together with nine degrees deriving
from Krumm-Heller, and Martinist degrees from the 'Papus' tradition.
Toca forsook the Communist régime in Cuba, spending a short time in
Spain; at the time of writing he lives in Florida, where he expounds
his teachings twice a week in Spanish on two private television
stations (Canale 12 and Canale 13). Seventeen apostolic lines of
succession have supposedly been inherited by Toca, who regularly
appears in the Spanish-language press together with his wife. [98]
"The Most Rev. Dr. Sar Mar Roberto C. Toca" was consecrated by the
Dutchman Herman Adrian Spruit (b. 1911) on August 15th 1982, since
when he has called himself "Archbishop Primate of the Catholic Church
of the Antiochean Rite." The EGC, MM, F.R.A. and O.T.O. are all
subsumed within Toca's 'Conclave Universal Iniciatico (CUI)'. [99]
Spain
In 1933 Dionisio Rios Ballester "Aureolus" received a warrant from
Krumm-Heller; the latter passed his documentation on to Rios Ballester
in 1939 on the last two stops of his 'grand tour' at Badalona near
Barcelona and Valencia, before his permanent return to Germany. [100]
After Wolf's death in 1950 Rios Ballester was pushed on his
position in Spain by Parsival Krumm-Heller; although holding onto the
leadership was largely a matter of indifference to Rios Ballester
himself. Parsival demanded the return of the Order's records, which his
father had left behind in Spain. Rios remained largely inactive until
1979, only keeping links and exchanging documents with Chile (Rosario
Carey and Oscar Bravo) and Colombia (Israel Rojas). Neither Metzger nor
Parsival Krumm-Heller maintained any contact with Rios Ballester.
On February 9th 1979 Rios Ballester established contact with
his compatriot Manuel Cabrera Lamparter "Sar Baphomet Tau Priscilianus
I., S.A.T.v.OZ::", who inaugurated the 'Aula Lucis Thelema' in Seville.
[101] On the 27th of that month M.C. Lamparter joined the Spanish
F.R.A.,
receiving a warrant to found a lodge on March 27th. Around this time
Rios Ballester became a member of W.W. Webb's
'QBLH' through Lamparter. Some six moths later, Rios Ballester died on June
26th 1980.
On September 20th 1980 Lamparter confirmed the Ballester-F.R.A. charter
of Narcis Pell Alimany, who had been a priest under Rios Ballester's leadership.
But after various disagreements Lamparter took over sole command of the
F.R.A. in Spain, which meant he had to apply to South America again for
certain F.R.A. documents.
After January 1st 1982 Lamparter was OHO of the Ordo Templi Orientis
Antiqua (or OTOA - a kind of Franco-Haitian version of the OTO with an
alleged succession descending from Encausse "Papus", Jean-Maine,
Bertiaux, and Ward); besides this he had become 'Frater Senior' of
William W. Webb's "Damon" Ordo Argenteum Astrum.
On Christmas Day 1982 Lamparter was appointed as a bishop by Rosa and
David Miller; on August 3rd 1986 he was ratified as "Hierofante
Iniciador y Patriarca de la Iglesia Gnostica Latina (Ecclesia Gnostica
Spiritualis) y O.H.O. de la Serenisima Gran Logia Española de la Ordo
Templi Orientis - Tradicion Maestro Huiracocha" by Roberto Toca, in
a charter that conferred Memphis-Misraim, Martinist and Illuminati
dignities as well. He exchanged documents with Ramirez Cifuentes,
though without taking the latter's dislike of Thelema seriously; this
was one attribute that distinguished the FRC from the F.R.A., even
though Ramirez Cifuentes also promoted the F.R.A.
In 1987 Lamparter published a number of F.R.A. documents, since he
considered the organisation generally superceded by events; his action
produced disquiet amongst all its members in Peru [102] and Venezuela.
Austria
Eduard Munninger
"Medardus" wrote to R. Swinburne Clymer at Quakertown
from his post-box at Burg Krämpelstein (he called it his 'Mater
Ariopa') on May 8th 1951:
"Meanwhile the association with Ill. Brother Hierarch Dr. Krumm-Heller
has become very busy, and I have been lucky enough to receive the
Hierarch's favour and absolute guarantees that he has arranged that I
am his successor in Austria." Since post-war difficulties were "so
great" Munninger also asked Clymer if there were any old clothes he
could spare. Munninger's 'Fraternitas Rosa Crucis Austriæ' later turned
into the AAORRAC.
Germany
Herbert Fritsche "Basilius", "born 14.6.1911 in Berlin [...] qualified
as a biologist (though giving it up soon after he graduated with
honours, shortly before taking up his lectureship); a psychotherapist
with a complete system of analysis; participant, publisher, and editor
of a host of occult, literary and medical journals [e.g. the
Springer-Verlag's Merlin]; and assisted at Dr. Buchinger's
diet-clinic." (Burgdorf-Verlag publicity from 1982).
In 1942 Fritsche was working as an assistant at the health resort at
Bad Pyrmont, where he was warned off Krumm-Heller as an
"unscrupulous adventurer"; so of course Fritsche made a point of getting to know
him. He described this first encounter: "Inherent goodness, absolute
honesty and scintillating humour quickly won me over." [103]
"Dr. Arnoldo Krumm-Heller initiated Fritsche one day in 1947 at Bad
Pyrmont - on a park bench. F. often went to Stein up until his early
death." [104] "The 'spiritual heir of Gustav Meyrink' had a lot
to do with spirits - from a bottle - as they readily attested at Stein. He
had an awful wife who had aged prematurely, and just like Stindberg,
poisoned him - an act against both God and nature [...] F. was
actually the chief of the German vegetarians, but as to being vegetarian himself
- ha-ha!" [105] Fritsche himself said: "Those who ill-advisedly
undertake esoteric training on the wrong path will start to suffer from
spasms in the stomach and digestive tract." [106]
Fritsche himself related that his "superior" in the Stein O.T.O.
"performed black rites" [107] and that "for a year I was
strongly drawn to the demonic." [108] Metzger's obituary of 'Basilius'
rated him as a "celebrated Magus." [109] "He gained admittance to
the Cathar Sacrament of Manisola, [110] was ordained into the
Rite and Convocation of the GCC, undertook the Order's "Exercitions", and
maintained connections with priests from the Eastern Church, as well as
Druidic and Hermetic cults." [111]
Gershom Scholem, who described Aleister Crowley's ideas as "highly
coloured humbug" [112] found Fritsche's enthusiasm for Crowley
"initially problematical, though undoubtedly original, especially in
his striking magical works." [113] Gustav Meyrink's biographer
Frans Smit thinks that Fritsche wrote deplorable nonsense about Meyrink, his
supposed teacher. [114]
Fritsche died on June 20th 1960, and was buried according to the Greek
Orthodox rite. His esoteric progress may be enumerated thus:
1929 (18 years old) 'student' of Gustav Meyrink.
1939 Anthroposophist (first marriage).
1947 Liberal Catholic/Theosophist (second marriage).
1949 Gnostic Catholic, F.R.A.
1960 Buried as a Greek Orthodox.
Fritsche is alleged to have gained possession of the estates of three
astrologers; Fritz Quade (1884-1944), Friedrich Schwab (1878-1946),
Kurt Aram (a.k.a. Hanns Fischer, 1869-1934) as well as that of Arnold
Krumm-Heller.
Letters from Fritsche to Gustav Meyrink are kept at the Bayerischen
Staatsbibliothek (Bavarian State Library) at Munich, together with
other letters to Meyrink from E.C.H. Peithmann, W. Wynn Westcott and
John Yarker. [115]
In 1949 an abusive article about Fritsche appeared in the
Anthroposophical magazine "Die Christengemeinschaft". [116] On his
death an article entitled 'Die riesenhaften Flügel' ('The Gigantic
Wing') by Lambert Binder was printed in "Mensch und Schicksal"; [117]
it claims that Fritsche composed a Last Will and Testament in 1954. He
left one daughter called Sulamith-Niniane. In the South American
F.R.A., O.T.O. and EGC groups Fritsche remained largely unknown.
Switzerland
The inheritor of the leadership for Fritsche's F.R.A. and his Gnostic
Catholic Church, that is to say the 'Eglise Gnostique Universelle',
since Krumm-Heller undoubtedly allowed his superior Constant Chevillon
to ordain him in 1939, was none other than Hermann Joseph Metzger.
[118]
Miffed by Clymer's success in Rio, [119] Metzger now made a vain
attempt to unite all the F.R.A.'s branches under his own jurisdiction.
His advertisement appeared in "Buchelis Astrologischem Jahrbuch", published
by Edition Kier of Buenos Aires. Ana Delia Gonzales "Yedosey" (b. 26.7.1915) in Venezuela reacted to
this.
Venezuela
"My first steps in the Path began in 1937 in the Rosacrucian [sic]
Order of AMORC [...] the Theosophical Society in India
[...] I wrote to [Parsival Krumm-Heller] in March 1949 [...] I was invited to
become part of the movement [...] [120] In July 1952 I received with
surprise a diploma from Parsival." On the strength of this, Delia Gonzales
inaugurated six 'Lucid Halls' (Aula Lucis), and the 'Great Hall of
"Light and Reason".' Parsival Krumm-Heller was operating out of Marburg
in Germany, where he deviated from his father's course according to
his own whims. [121] This was where he took Marcelo Ramos Motta on as
his personal student in 1953, subsequently passing him on to Karl
Germer in the USA. Germer suspected that Parsival was still in touch
with Eugen Grosche as well as the Fraternitas Saturni - a conjecture
that is yet to be documented. "In April 17th 1952 the Frater
Parsival, who was at that time Great Supreme Commendator of the Fraternitas
Rosicruciana Antiqua, authorised me to represent the Order 'in all
interests'." Señora Gonzales went to Spain to get the documentation
(which Krumm-Heller had left there) from Rios Ballester; she wanted to
hand it over to her go-between Julio Serrano. As a result, Parsival
retreated to Australia in 1956, wrapping himself in silence from that
time on. [122] It is still a mystery why Metzger never made any
mention of Krumm-Heller's son.
"In 1960 the Frater Paragranus, recently named Visible Great Head of
the O.T.O. in Switzerland formulated an invitation where all Krumm
Heller disciples were called forth." [123] Señora Gonzales
subsequently visited Switzerland twice, and "received the title of
Council for Central and South American Countries." In December 1963
Señora Gonzales sent summonses to all the F.R.A. groups she knew of,
requiring them to acknowledge her authority. "Nevertheless, my title
was not well seen by the elder directors of the Colombian, Brazilian
and Mexican Halls [...] but the halls of Chile, Peru, Bolivia,
Guatemela, and Santo Domingo continued their membership to our
councilship..." [124] (Letter from Ana Delia Gonzales of 4.3.89,
which enclosed copies of her warrants from Parsival Krumm-Heller (dated
17.4.52 and 21.5.52), and Metzger (dated 20.4.63), amongst others).
Señora Gonzales' "Estatutos" make no reference to the O.T.O., IO, or
EGC. [125]
The reason why Ana Delia generally was not accepted was that a woman
was not supposed to hold a gnostic office [see "Spermo-Gnostics and the OTO"].
As a homeopath, Krumm-Heller followed strictly ascetic sexmagick and
the christian Gnostic book "Pistis Sophia". There are no spermo-gnostic
passages in his Mass, no invocation of Kyrios Phallos or mystic-tantric
re-creation of the universe in the rituals. He explained his
mysogynism: "The prostata is the power of creation while the uterus
is only the vessel: women therefore only imitate the creation."
Also Crowley believed that only "man is the guardian of the Life of God;
woman but a temporary expedient; a shrine indeed for the God, but not
the God."
The endeavor of uniting all FRA-branches failed, as most FRA
groups regard themselves as only spiritually bound to Krumm-Heller
and refuse to accept global leadership. As seen above, even
Krumm-Heller described himself as head of Spain, Latin America, the
Antilles and the Philipines.
"In August [1969] the Abbey was filled with strange, colourful life.
Thirty of our South American brothers had travelled a long way to visit
us. It was a busy, joyful, and friendly fraternal meeting [...]
Even two young children had come along on this trip; one was the
great-granddaughter of an older Sister who represents the Order for us
in South America, and who organised this journey." [126] "Photos
of their Order show an awful lot of members, about a hundred or so. But
that wouldn't have meant much in Brazil [sic], where about 80%
of the population are involved with Afro-American cults (Macumba, Candomble,
Umbanda, Mesabranca)." [127]
In 1952 the 'Aula Luz y Razon' boasted just 14 members, [128] but by
1989 the Venezuelan F.R.A.'s internal newsletter was reporting about
"22 notables discipulos", and considerable activity. "We have
been sent highly gratifying reports from particularly active Order Provinces in
South America, which through their public courses have become
merely well-known, and positively renowned." [129] A total of 14
Lodges and two children's Lodges generated considerable activity.
[130]
In August 1977 Gabriel Ramirez Cifuentes paid Señora Delia a visit,
but she soon sought to distance herself from him.
Metzger died on July 14, 1990, and it remains to be seen what
course of action his successor, Annemarie
Aeschbach, will take with his compilation of orders (O.T.O., IO, FRA and EGC).
In June 1991 Ana Delia Gonzales again visited Stein (131) but, as
rumor goes, she left disappointed.
Extracts from a letter by Gabriel Sanchez Gaviria
"With permission from Theodor Reuss Krumm-Heller founded
Fraternitas Rosicruciana Antiqua Centres in the various countries of
our part of America.
After this he established his Summum Supremum Sanctuarium in Berlin,
from where he penned his letters to the South American brethren. Dr.
Krumm-Heller had received his previous initiations in 1909 in Argentina
and Chile, his Masters being Dr. Girgois and Dr. Arturo Clement (two
Martinist Masters) [...]
During his lifetime the FRA grew even more strongly active. But the
outbreak of the Second World War put obstacles in the way of the
correspondence, so that his efforts often came to nothing; some of his
South American students described Krumm-Heller as a Nazi. During the
War other Rosicrucian organisations were able to maintain themselves
better in South America. The people from AMORC and Clymer's Rosicrucian
Fellowship 'undermined' the FRA and opposed its tradition [...]
Parsival Krumm-Heller's authority lasted from 1949 to 1952. Dr. Henry
Bolt was dispatched to Brazil in 1945 by Clymer, but died at Goyas in
Plano Alto that same year.
In 1963 the Swiss Abbey of Thelema's representative held a meeting
with Ana Delia Gonzales in Turin. Afterwards Señora Ana Delia Gonzales
described herself as sole representative for the Abbey of Thelema in
our continent. Señora Gonzales had supposedly received orders to revive
the FRA. And so the scattered or dormant Centres came to life again
under the new authrity of Señora Gonzales. The Centres in Peru, Bolivia,
the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, and Argentina were thus reactivated,
but this pleasant state of affairs only lasted a short while.
We founded our FRA in Colombia with Señora Gonzales' help in 1973; on
this happy occasion Señora Gonzales' representative visited us, and we
held a large celebration at Maracaibo with other representatives from
all over South America.
We believed in Señora Gonzales' authority and that of the Swiss Abbey
of Thelema. However, we were soon confronted by Señora Gonzales' pride
and arrogance, not to mention the vast favours she heaped on certain
individuals; this was why so many FRA Centres split away from her.
The Venezuelan FRA in Maracaibo was ruined; we informed the Swiss
Abbey of Thelema of our problems, but in answer to our numerous letters
(we even wrote them in German) we received just oneshort reply, and
after that no further response. We came to see that Señora Gonzales
alone was in communion with the highly mysterious Abbey of Thelema. So
in 1984 we resolved to part from her, and to constitute our own
FRA." [132]
LUNCH WITH MARCELO R. MOTTA
A Postscript on Krumm-Heller by Duval Ernani de Paula
Brazil
"On February 27th 1933 G.C. Cambareri, who had been dispatched by Dr.
Krumm, founded the first FRA Lodge in São Paulo. Shortly after on
September 27th the first Aula Lucis Central was established in what was
then Brazil's capital city, Rio de Janeiro. [133]
In 1936 Joaquim Soarez de Oliveira, who was then the FRA's
representative for Brazil, invited Krumm-Heller to visit him. In
gratitude for this, Huiracocha inaugurated the Temple of the Gnostic
Church in Rio's Tijuca district, and made Soarez de Oliveira leader of
the Brazilian FRA. During the celebration of the Gnostic Mass
Huiracocha took the opportunity to solemnise three marriages, one of
which was the wedding of my wife Aida and myself.
During the Second World War Soarez de Oliveira received information
that Master Huiracocha had fallen victim to the hostilities in 1939. On
these grounds Clymer's Latin-American representative Mr. Elias Bucheli
"Mesiter Hagal" appeared, and proposed to Soares de Oliveira that the
Brazilian section of the FRA should put itself under Clymer's
leadership. Thus our Temple adopted new rituals alongside the Gnostic
Mass, while Soarez de Oliveira, previously chief of Krumm's section,
now led Clymer's part.
The Brazilian FRA has never been led by a triumvirate. After the War
Soarez de Oliveira travelled throughout South America, and suggested to
Bucheli that a Rosicrucian Convention be organised. On his way home he
died at Mendoza in Argentina, having appointed me as his successor only
a short time before his death.
Shortly after the War's end Krumm returned and resumed the
leadership, confirming my position as leader of the FRA's Brazilian
Section in succession to Joaquim Soarez de Oliveira in 1947. I informed
Clymer of this, and set up the FRA's Egyptian temple in the same
building as Clymer's FRC.
Luckily, both leaders had accepted the existence and authority of the
other's branch, and worked together in perfect harmony. As soon as
Clymer died in 1966, and his son Emerson claimed that all his father's
offices descended to him directly, all official connections with
Clymer's FRC were broken off.
Wolf[f] and Parsival
Krumm-Heller wrote to me saying that he wished Dr. Albert
Wolf[f?] to be his successor, and that the Summum Supremum Sanctuarium should be
removed to Goyas in central Brazil, where Wolff owned some land. Wolff
came to Brazil, where he gave us many lectures in Rio; shortly before
his death, he opened a homoeopathic pharmacy at Juiz de Fora in Minas
Gerais.
Because his father was ill, Parsival Krumm travelled to Germany to
look after him and to make a definitive claim to the leadership of the
FRA. Dr. Krumm had never mentioned any Herbert Fritsche as heir; indeed
he always talked of his intentions concerning Messrs. Wolff and
Parsival. It really surprised me to hear that Krumm-Heller might have
appointed Mr. Fritsche as his heir. If any document about this turns
out to exist. I'd really like to see a copy of it.
Colombia
Señor Gabriel Ramirez Cifuentes "Hermes" from Colombia used to
correspond with us, and subsequently visited the Brazilian FRA Temple,
where he was ordained as a Gnostic priest. He was entrusted with the
leadership of a Colombian section of our Brazilian FRA, where he made
the acquaintance of Israel Rojas, who had originally led the local FRA.
One day though, a member of our FRA and Gnostic Bishop Jose Maria
visited Ramirez in Colombia, and (to our amazement) discovered a
self-appointed 'Supermaster', without a headquarters, a Temple, much
less a proper room where our rituals could have been performed. As far
as we were concerned Mr. Ramirez was still a novice in our Order, only
holding the highest of the first three grades and the office of Priest.
Unfortunately Mr. Ramirez refused any further support from us, which
obliged us to withdraw our Charter from him on May 27th 1991.
We have also heard of a certain Paolo Fogagnolo in Italy
dispensing Gnostic titles and offices on demand. In Brazil we are of
the opinion that such honours are not worthy of inquiry, save for the
'Unknown Masters' and Adepts making a choice in their own good time -
and not otherwise.
Marcelo Ramos Motta
Motta was initiated into the 1° of the FRA at Rio in 1948. He soon
decided to study further in Europe, so we sent him on to Parsival
Krumm-Heller in Germany.
Following this Motta contacted Crowley's OTO, and once back in Brazil
arrogantly declared himself opposed to us. He wanted to put me forward
for a Section of the OTO, while in return I should put the FRA work
that he'd translated into English at the disposal of the American OTO.
At this time Motta ate lunch at my house together with my family; after
we'd said our ordinary grace, he'd recited his own one.
But apart from all this, I informed Motta that I wasn't willing to
give him advanced FRA material unless he first became a neophyte - that
is, a member of the FRA's 1°. Because of this he apparently felt
himself ill-prepared compared to his master in the US [Germer?],
and started to come out with the most pernicious attacks on our Order.
Shortly afterwards a Masonic Lodge that Motta had apparently applied
to join got in touch with us; remarkably, it was the self-same Lodge
that Motta had defamed (together with the FRA) in his book "Calling the
Children of the Sun". [134] I never did get a proper answer out
of these Freemasons whether they knew about this book's contents. From
then all contact between Motta and ourselves was broken off."
[135]
Motta's reaction to this was merely to accuse de Paula's F.R.A. of
spreading lies. [136] In the Charter negated by Gabriel Ramirez Cifuentes the
title 'F.R.A.' was used as often as that of 'Ecclesia Gnostica'; as a
result, on May 1st 1991 Ramirez declared that all Charters issued by
him were invalid, and invited applications for new ones.
POR EL MEJORAMIENTO INTEGRAL DEL HOMBRE
The following undated essay, whose author
has yet to be identified, has had its ambiguities corrected as far as
possible.
"Jorge Cruz Toquica was born on 8.4.1918 at Viani in Bogota, the son of
a landowner. He was educated at Antioquia and the University at
Medellin. Aged 25, he began a career as an industrial engineer in
Medellin, and became a member of the Fraternitas Rosa-Cruz Antigua in
1944. When Cruz went to Dr. Estrada's house at Medellin in 1949 to
perform a ritual, he was initiated by Israel Rojas. Although the house
had been built according to ancient Egyptian designs to look like a
temple, the FRA's initiation rituals were not held there.
From 1945-56 he led the Rosa-Cruz 'Lucis Pitagoras' Aula, and pursued
his studies. At this stage an utterly impoverished young woman called
Alicia Elorza arrived at the temple, and was given financial support by
Cruz. From his conduct in the temple one might say that he spoke 'ex
cathedra'. He caused difficulties by intcorporating new interpretations
of symbols and his own 'esoteric teachings' into the rituals
[...]
By 1956 Cruz was living in Bogota, where he attended that city's
'Rosa-Cruz' Aula from then on, since he wanted to become a
Freemason [...] [137] As soon as Israel Rojas heard of this he unmasked Cruz
as the sort of person who only wants to join Freemasonry to enrich
themselves. Cruz manufactured spare parts for cars, and fulfilled
contracts which made him millions. He imported vehicles which he sold
on to the government with the aid of a civil servant. When elections to
Colombia's parliament were held h e gave four million to the leaders of
the Liberals.
When Cruz discovered what Rojas had been saying about him, he felt
that his function as a missionary had been betrayed, and resolved that
neither he nor his family would return to the 'Rosa-Cruz' Aula until
Rojas was dead. Nonetheless he still came to Medellin now and then to
give lectures to his brethren. At one of these talks he made an
unwitting lapse: in an attempt to explain the law of Karma, he spoke
scornfully of those who laboured under its toils to keep themselves
from committing crimes. By doing this he had revealed himself publicly
as a sort of Rosicrucian entrepreneur. Cruz deemed Maestro Rojas only
worthy of empty gestures, as he longer believed in him. Rojas had
offered to guide him into a proper initiation, and it is clear that
Cruz didn't accept it - an evasion which was a foundation for his
worries and uncertainties [...] Ironically enough, Cruz had
revealed that the late Arturo Lopez had been 'for' Maestro Rojas
[...] His express opinion of Rojas was downright: "He is unmentionable."
[Rojas died on June 7th 1985.]
On the day of Rojas's memorial service Cruz appeared, spouted a
eulogy of the deceased, and from that moment onwards spoke of Rojas as
'his Master'. This had such an overwhelming effect on Jeremias
Martinez, that he burst out with a shout of "Jorge Cruz! Cruz is our
leader!" Jeremias and his change of heart put everyone there into a
thoroughly emotional state [...]"
On July 7th 1985, according to a special declaration, Cruz was elected
as Lodge President by the unanimous vote of 108 FRA members; though
Cruz's compatriot Gabriel Sanchez Gaviria knew of only 17 people who
voted. [138]
Nhora Cabrales A., Jesus Gonzales B. und Jeremias Martinez R.
expressed themselves in similar terms to the report above, though in
rather more restrained terms, in a 7-page letter dated July 9th 1986.
These successors in the F.R.A. were listed among those entitled to
vote, on the electoral roll for Cruz's election as the F.R.A.'s
President on July 7th 1985. Señora Nhora added that in the meantime Cruz had been
expelled, and that Jesus Gonzales Biassus was now President of the
Colombian FRA. [139]
Notes to Chapter Twelve of "Das O.T.O. Phänomen"
- Krumm-Heller: "Conferencias Esotericas", Mexico 27.3.1909, p. 1.
- "Merlin" Nº 3, Hamburg 1949, p. 39.
- Arnold Krumm-Heller: "Osmologische Heilkunde: Magie der
Duftstoffe", Berlin 1955, p. 110.
- Henri Birven called these "quack-doctoring" in 'Aus dem
Leben Aleister Crowleys', in Metzger's "Oriflamme" Nº 119 p. 1353, Zurich
1072; see also "Merlin" Nº 3 1949, p. 40.
- ibid. p. 39.
- "Programa de Actividad 1986", Maracaibo.
- Krumm-Heller, "Duftstoffe", p. 101.
- ibid.
- "Homelie", Lyons 1908, p. 7.
- Clymer: "Book of Rosicruciæ" Vol. 3, Quakertown 1949, p. 266 "ff".
- "Merlin" Nº 3, p. 39.
- Krumm-Heller, "Duftstoffe", p. 29.
- Extract in "AHA" June 1991, p. 23.
- "Sex and Religion", Nashville 1981, p. xvii.
- Krumm-Heller, "Duftstoffe", p. 134.
- Israel Rojas R.: 'Paso el Umbral"' in "Fraternidad Rosa-Cruz
Antigua" Nº 29, 1949, p. 18.
- For Krumm-Heller's biography, see also Ana Delia Gonzales: "Dr.
Arnoldo Krumm-Heller -Huiracocha-", Maracaibo 1956.
- ibid.
- Krumm-Heller, "Duftstoffe", p. 28.
- Munich 1921. Facsimile in Clymer: "op. cit." Vol II, p. 601.
- Three pseudo-Masonic and four spiritual degrees, that were
possibly finished by the VIII°, IX° and X°.
- Metzger to Grosche, letter of 30.10.50.
- Germer to Crowley, letter of 17.2.1928.
- Crowley to L.T. Culling, letter of 29.5.37.
- "In The Continuum" Vol. III Nº 4, Oroville 1983, p. 36.
- Krumm-Heller, Tränker and Birven thrmselves?
- Heinrich Wendt saw this charter. "Merlin" Nº 3, p 39.
- Henri Birven: "Aus dem Leben Aleister Crowleys", in Metzger's
"Oriflamme" Nº 120, Zurich 1972, p. 1362.
- Mottas' "Oriflamme" Vol. VI Nº 3, Nashville 1983, p. 434.
- Germer to H.C. Petersen, letter of 6.1.1954.
- Krumm-Heller: "Logos", Berlin 1930, p. 45. The book was dedicated
to Tränker, Crowley and 'Basilius' (Peithmann or Patrice Genty from the
'original' Parisian Église Gnostique?)
- Ruben Pilares Villa (FRA und OTO): "Bolletin", Trujillo 15.4.1978,
p. 2. "Merlin" Nº 3, p. 39. The interview that Krumm-Heller held with
Leadbeater was published in "Rosa-Cruz" Vol. IV Nº 3, Berlin 1930, p.
229.
- "Recuerdos de mi peregrinación" in "Rosa-Cruz" Vol. IV Nº 3,
Berlin 1930, p. 232.
- Chevillon to Hilfiker, letter of 18.6.1936.
- "Rosa-Cruz" Nº 10, Texas, 27.1.1937.
- Lodge protocol of 5.3.1948.
- Maria Luisa Elisabeth Frieda Julia von Diringshofen, "Golden
Book", 17
- Krumm-Heller: "Duftstoffe", p. 5.
- "Programa de Actividad 1986", Maracaibo
- In the rituals (extract in "AHA" May 1991, p. 15), and in
Rosa-Cruz" Vol. III Nº 9 & 10, Costa Rica 1930, p. 134.; facsimile in
Koenig/Materialien zum OTO
- Undated circular with a photograph of Parsival Krumm-Heller.
- William Breeze to Norbert Straet (both 'Caliphate' members), quoted
in a letter of 11.3.87.
- Clymer, "op. cit.", Vol II, p. 547.
- "AHA" January 1992, p. 12.
- "Revista Gnosis" Vol. X Nº 5, July 1949. See also de Paula's
letter at the end of this chapter.
- Clymer, "Book" Vol. 3, 1949, p. xxiv.
- Clymer supported Bricaud's widow financially; FBI file on Clymer
Nº 62-62736-2-6318.
- Clymer, ut supra, Vol. 3, p. 199.
- "Rosa-Cruz" Nº 7, 1937, p. 1935.
- "El Rosacruz," San Jose 1953, 5-16 (printed at Marburg).
- "Estudios Esotericos Rosacruces" Nº 6, Medellin 1986, p. 7.
- "Estudios Esotericos Rosacruces," Nº 6, pp. 15 and 17.
- "Estudios Esotericos Rosacruces," Nº 6, p. 1.
- Humberto Fuentes Villalobos, letter of 1.7.92.
- Personal interview.
- Court transcript of McMurtry et alii versus M.R. Motta, California
1985, p. 672.
- Clymer, ut supra, Vol. 3, p. 208.
- Letter of 17.4.90.
- Photograph in "Gnosis" Nº 4, Peru 1991, p. 30.
- Ruben Pilares Villa: "Liber Veritatis", Trujillo 1989, p. 3; and
letter of 20.4.90.
- ibid., p. 9.
- McMurtry's OTO Newsletter 3, Berkeley 1977, 26
- "Rosa-Cruz de Oro", 139, Bogota 1985, 3
- Israel Rojas Romero: "Por los senderos del mundo" gives a detailed
account of Krumm-Heller's lecture on Wagner's "Parsival".
- Significant in Theosophy, and one of the 'discarnate' founders of
the F.R.A.
- "Fraternidad Rosa-Cruz Antigua" Nº 29, 1949, p. 18.
- "Merlin" Nº 3, 1949, p. 41.
- "Estudios Esotericos Rosacruces" Nº 6, Medellin 1986, p. 19.
- "Rosa-Cruz de Oro" Nº 144, Bogota 1989, p. 18.
- Letter of 2.7.90.
- Michael Paul Bertiaux, letter of 29.11.90.
- "Masonic Monthly Bulletin" Vol. 3 Nº 8, Chicago 1985.
- "Rosa-Cruz de Oro" Nº 114, Bogota 1978, p. 3.
- Pilares Villa, "Liber Veritatis", p. 23; Ramirez Cifuentes, letter
of 26.8.90; Pilares Villa, letter of 9.3.90.
- Letter of 7.9.92.
- Gabriel Sanchez Gaviria, letter of 20.10.92.
- 'Samael Aun Weor': "Buddha's Necklace", no place, 1966/67/90, p.
23.
- Course held in the Zurich Volkshaus from October 10th - November
28th 1986.
- Stephan Höller, "Position Paper", p. 2.
- Motta to Sascha Germer, letter of 30.8.63.
- Flyer for 'Esoterik' lecrure in Cologne on 28.5.93.
- "Zion" Vol. I Nº 7, Frankfurt 1.8.69, p. 88.
- H.P. Smith to R. Pilares Villa, letter of 13.9.80. "ITC" Vol. V Nº
2, Oroville 1992, p. 39.
- Lodge protocol of 5.3. 1948.
- "ITC" Vol. IV Nº 6, Oroville 1990, p. 40.
- Montenegro to Naber, letter of 4.10.68.
- Montenegro to Englert, letter of 30.11.68.
- "Zion" Vol. I Nº 7 of 1.8.69, p. 89.
- Audehm, letter of 8.7.88.
- "Zion" Vol. I Nº 7 of 1.8.69, p. 89.
- Metzger's "Oriflamme" Nº 97, p. 1092.
- Visit to Yucatan, November 1989.
- Toca, letter of 29.12.89.
- Bertil Persson, letter of 3.6.93.
- Toca's handwritten annotation to Manuel del Pino Hernandez: "El
Iniciado", no place or date.
- Richard P. Daly: "Iglesia Catolica Del Rito Antioqueno", Florida,
no date.
- Toca to Lamparter, letter of 24.9.85.
- See for instance "El Sol de la Florida", 2.10.1982, p. 5.
- Toca, letter of 3.4.92.
- Lamparter, letter of 21.3.90.
- Lamparter & Krumm-Heller: "Ensenanzas", p. 10.
- Pilares Villa, "Liber Veritatis", 31 pages long.
- "Merlin" 3, Hamburg 1949, p. 37.
- Paul Rüdiger Audehm, letter of 1.7.88.
- Audehm, letter of 8.7.88.
- "Atroposophia" Freiburg 1937/1962, p. 29.
- Herbert Fritsche to Ernst Klett, letter of 18.7.56 in "Briefe an
Freunde," Stuttgart 1970, p. 173.
- "Kleines Lehrbuch der Weissen Magie," Prague 1934, p. 9.
- Metzger's "Oriflamme" Nº 98, Zurich 1970, p. 1096.
- An invocation of the Holy Ghost, together with a laying-on of
hands to the believers' foreheads by the person officiating as priest,
to confer on them the power of the 'Pneuma Hagion' (Holy Ghost).
- "EOL-Mitteilungsblatt" Nº 72, Stein 1960, p. 2.
- Gershom G. Scholem: "Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism", New York
1954, p. 2.
- Gershom G. Scholem: "Walter Benjamin und sein Engel", Frankfurt
1983, pp. 113, 119, & 127.
- Frans Smit: "Meyrink", Munich 1988, p. 189.
- Mohammed Qasin: "Gustav Meyrink", Stuttgart 1981, p. 191.
- p. 147
- Gelnhausen and Gettenbach, October 1960, p. 1.
- Ellic Howe commented on this: "If Metzger claimed to have
'inherited' the headship of this or that Order from Fritsche, it may be
all an invention." Letter of 24.9.87.
- Metzger's "Oriflamme" Nº 37, 1964, p. 444.
- Señora Gonzáles described her "way" in detail in her 130-page
long biography by Sonia Barrios: "Vida y obra de A.D. Gonzales", no
place or date.
- Pilares Villa, letter of 1.2.88.
- "Programa de Actividad 1989", Maracaibo.
- "Anuario Americano Bucheli", 1963, p. 108, where Metzger
advertised as the EGC and Ordo Illuminatorum.
- The reasons for this were claimed to be that a woman could never
operate as a Gnostic, or as the chief of a Gnostic organisation.
- "Estatutos F.R.A.", Maracaibo, 25.11.1985.
- Metzger's "Oriflamme" Nº 96, Zurich 1969, p. 1062.
- Audehm, letter of 8.7.88.
- "Programa de Actividad 1989".
- Metzgers "Oriflamme" Nº 139, Zurich 1973, p. 1595.
- "XXX Aniversario FRA," Maracaibo.
- Ana Delia Gonzáles, letter of 27.2.92.
- Letter of 19.4.1991.
- These Charters carry other dates.
- "Chamando os Filhos do Sol", Rio 1962, where an advertisement for
the O.T.O. also appears.
- Letter of 12.6.1991.
- "Sex and Religion", p. xvi.
- On November 16th 1989 he became a 33° in the AASR.
- Letter of 20.10.92.
- Letter of 10.7.92.
From: "Humberto Fuentes"
To: koenig @ cyberlink.ch
Subject: Hello in touch again after years
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000
After surprising Buchelli's death in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and
having named none as his successor; Dr. Clymer hinself chosed Brother
Emilio Hoechkoepler (member of the council of three in Buchelli's
times; a German-Peruvian Master) as the new Grand Master of the FRC;
"LA FRATERNIDAD ROSACRUZ DE AMERICA DEL SUR". Brother Hoechkoepler'
chosed as his successor to Brother Raul Vargas who took his office
after his death. An Brother Vargas in 1989 -still alive- put his office
as Grand Master of the FRC, LA FRATERNIDAD ROSA CRUZ DE AMERICA DEL SUR
in the hands of Brother Humberto Fuentes (Peregrinus IV). Brother
Vargas passed away just a few years ago -just a few months after
Poesnecker visiting my country by an invitation I sent to him and his
wife for a local Convocation of the FRC in South America. We- Me and my
wife were invited by Poesnecker to meet Ernani Duval de Paula and
Alahir Pereira the year before (1994) in Rio de Janeiro, since they had
written me and Poesnecker wishing to be accepted in the FRC again.
Rosario Carey de Bilbao was one of our most worthy students in the FRC
she had nothing to do neither with the FRA neither with Krumm Heller.
She told me so in my very first years in the FRC. She had been asked a
favor by Oscar Bravo to meet someone in Spain -in one of his trips
there (Her husband was Spanish). She told me of a very horrible
experience with a Black Magician in Spain. She never wanted to do
nothing with that man. She let him know that the blindness of his
daugther was a consequence of the karma of him practicing Black magic.
I writte all this to clear her most beloved memory of that very
developed sister and most beloved friend.
Today the FRC in the world is NOT in any way leaded by Poesnecker
-least in the Spiritual sense. In the profane sense he still might be.
In 1987 he was bereft of all his offices by the Council of seven left
as watch guard by Dr. Clymer himself. This council of seven found him
guilty of several tresspassing of the ancient landmarks of the Order
and so he was removed completely of his possition as Grand Master of
America. But he rebelled against this decision and sued the Council of
seven and took them into the court. This brought the American
Fraternity into a trial that lasted until just a couple of years ago.
Then a judge -not a Rosicrucian authority- contradicting the decision
of the Council of seven put him again to the head of the "Beverly Hall
Corporation" under the watch of custodian appointed by the court.
Today the FRC in America (USA) is divided: The council of seven are
guiding the Spiritual Order in away from beverly hall, Poesnecker is in
charge of the buildings left by Dr. Clymer and guiding somer very new
students -in our concept deprived completely of the Rosicrucian spirit.
These new students doesn't know anything about this story and they are
deprived of this knowdledge. A couple of years ago two student expelled
from the Order here were hired by Poesnecker to help them there. The
members of the Council of seven today guide the true FRC in USA under
the name of "Brotherhood of Light" and the "Paracelsus Group"
In 1994, me and my wife were invited by Poesnecker to Rio de Janeiro,
because Ernani Duval de Paula and Alahir Pereira desired to become
members of the FRC again, - they were disconnected of the Order since
Buchelli's and Soares's Death, since then that privilege had been
denied to them several times by Rev. Clymer and Brother Vargas, my
predecessor. When we were there, we didn't like what we saw. But
Poesnecker saw the chance to make the hundreds of people there to win
to vote in his favor in the case in the court against the council of
seven so he admitted them against our opposition. We were greatly
pressed by Poesnecker to accept them as "Brothers". However this
situation couldn't prosper. In 1998 we decide to stop any conection
with Poesnecker and the FRA of Duval and Alahir. Today we have nothing
to do with them neither we desire to do nothing with Poesnecker and his
commercial Institution he guides in "Beverly Hall". Since 1998 we have
only relationship with Brothers of the Council of Seven in America.
Translated and adapted from a chapter on the O.T.O. Protagonists in
"Das O.T.O.-Phänomen" by Mark Parry-Maddocks -- German original
online. Traduction française: Fraternité Rosicrucienne Antique. This is
also an outline from the English "O.T.O. Rituals
and Sexmagick" (1999). See also Gabriel Montenegro's correspondence with European Thelemites in the 1960s and the section called "Collections of
Re-Collections" where 36 thelemites recall 'how they became member' or remember other experiences with HOOR, the Society O.T.O., the 'Caliphate', the OTOF,
etc.
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