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...partner had conceived as "a business of conducting rituals, ceremonials, lessons, instructions and the sale of books and periodicals . . ." They founded AMORC, she says, "as a device to disseminate information, lessons and instructions to others for a profit." The take, she contends, is good. According to Widow Kiimalehto, the AMORC membership is now around 2,-000,000 (which Rosicrucian officials claim is a gross exaggeration...
This successful blend of faith and finance, according to Myra Kiimalehto, was at first administered jointly by Thor, her slight, pince-nezed Swedish immigrant husband, and ex-Methodist Harvey Spencer Lewis, former president of an "Institute for Psychical Research." Together they applied modern U.S. selling methods to a potpourri of lore derived from the ancient esoteric Rosicrucian cult which dates back beyond the isth Century. In 1928, the Lewis-Kiimalehto brand of Rosicrucianism found in San Jose a happy combination of favorable weather and favorable authorities. There Lewis incorporated it as a nonprofit organization, and settled down to be "Imperator...
Lewis died in 1939, Kiimalehto in 1948. Mrs. Kiimalehto, who has not been a practicing Rosicrucian for four years, says that she is not interested in money but in rescuing AMORC from the control of Lewis' son, daughter-in-law and widow. Last week Rosicrucian leaders filed their answer to Widow Kiimalehto's suit: the Kiimalehto-Lewis team, they said, had not been a business partnership. Meanwhile, the checks and money orders continued to roll in from those who yearn to learn about "the system of metaphysical and physical philosophy intended to awaken the latent faculties...
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