FUDOSI
The FUDOSI or FUDOSI (French acronym for Fédération Universelle of Ordres et Sociétés initiatiques German. International Association of inauguration orders and societies) was in 1934 by Harvey Spencer Lewis founded merely to be of her an authorization certificate for the legitimacy also founded by him AMORC exhibit allow. Immediately after the founding meeting, the association had fulfilled its purpose and officially existed until 1951.
Reason for foundation
The most important reason for the foundation of FUDOSI was the fierce criticism of competing Rosicrucian groups, to which the AMORC was exposed, in particular through the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis founded by RS Clymer . The object of hostility was Clymer's denial of the historical continuity of the AMORC, which its founder Lewis claimed for himself. In addition, Clymer had found out that the alleged historical Rosicrucian wisdom of the AMORC was plagiarism and forgeries, which Clymer demonstrated meticulously by comparing the original quotes with the AMORC writings.
Legitimation of the AMORC's claim to sole representation
In order to challenge the Rosicrucian sole representation claim for the American market, which Clymer claimed for himself from exposing the AMORC, the AMORC founded FUDOSI in order to strengthen its authority and legitimize itself. The AMORC's claim to sole representation was ultimately to be documented by a certificate issued by the 14 "friendly" initiate orders grouped together in the umbrella organization of FUDOSI. In this document, the AMORC was identified as the only authorized, genuine old Rosicrucian society that guarded the true traditions and principles of R + C in North and South America. Rosicrucian groups and initiate orders that were not members of FUDOSI were subsequently classified as inauthentic orders that were not part of any traditional chain.
Members
From August 8 to 16, 1934, a FUDOSI founding convention took place in Brussels. According to the French list of members, the following orders were listed as members until the dissolution of FUDOSI on August 14, 1951:
- Confrérie des Fréres Illuminés de la Rose-Croix (Brotherhood of the Illuminati of the Rose Cross)
- Eglise Gnostique Universelle
- Fraternité des Polaires
- Ordre de la Militia Crucifera Evangelica
- Ordre de la Rose-Croix intérieure
- Ordre de la Rose-Croix Universitaire (Belgian Order of the Rosicrucians )
- Ordre de la Rose-Croix AMORC (American Rosicrucian Order )
- Order of the Samaritain Inconnus
- Ordre Kabbalistique de la Rose-Croix de France (French Order of the Rosicrucians )
- Ordre Martiniste et Synarchique
- Ordre Martiniste Traditionel
- Ordre Occultiste d'Hermès Tétramégiste (Belgian Hermetic Order)
- Ordre Pythagoricia
- Ordre Rose-Croix de Suisse (Swiss Order of the Rosicrucians )
- Société Alchimique de France (French alchemical society)
- Société d'Etudes et de Recherches Templières
- Société d'Etudes Martinistes
- Union Synarchique de Pologne
Criticism and founding of a competing association
It is characteristic of the AMORC to want to prove its legitimacy through documents from parent companies. In the case of FUDOSI, however, there were serious inquiries about its credibility, because the FUDOSI founding procedure was not very convincing, as the FUDOSI's authority itself was unfounded. FUDOSI met with strong criticism from the excluded initiate orders early on. In 1939, these esoteric groups, under the leadership of Clymers Fraternitas Rosae Crucis , founded a competing association called the "Fédération Universelle des Ordres Fraternités et Sociétés des Initiés", or FUDOFSI for short . In this way one could in turn confirm one's own legitimate descent.
See also
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- Faubert, Serge: Le vrai visage des sects , 1993
- Sabah, Lucien: Une police politique de Vichy: le Service des Sociétés Secrètes . Paris: Klincksiek, 1996
- Roggemans, Marcel: History of Martinism and the FUDOSI lulu.com, ISBN 978-1-4092-8260-0
Web links
- Bogaard, Milko. FUDOSI
Individual evidence
- ^ Tobias Churton: The Invisible History of the Rosicrucians: The World's Most Mysterious Secret Society. Inner Traditions Publishing, Rochester, Vermont 2009. pp. 506-507. ISBN 978-1594772559 .
- ↑ Horst E. Miers : Lexicon of secret knowledge. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-442-12179-5 , p. 228.
- ↑ Harald Lamprecht : New Rosicrucians. A manual. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-56549-6 , page 106
- ↑ Harald Lamprecht: New Rosicrucians. A manual. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-56549-6 , pages 104-106
- ↑ Harald Lamprecht: New Rosicrucians. A manual. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-56549-6 , p. 106.
- ↑ Harald Lamprecht: New Rosicrucians. A manual. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-56549-6 , pages 92