See this first H. Spencer Lewis: Master of Hypnosis.

         The words that I write about Harvey Spencer Lewis are not academic. I spent twenty-six years undergoing a full transformation of my personality under the mind control platform set out, to some extent, in Lewis’ book, Mental Poisoning. I experienced the magical thinking, the hallucinations, the blind acceptance of a made-up occult traditions and the authority of the Imperator and its leaders. In other words, my normal personality was transformed to a cult personality, one manipulated by the leaders of AMORC who over decades created and perfected the mind control platform of which I am speaking.

         I am implying here that the writer of Mental Poisoning obviously had a deep interest and experience with hypnosis and a profound understanding of what the mind could do to a person- even without the formality of hypnosis.
         H. Spencer Lewis was originally in the advertising business but apparently was fascinated by the paranormal. As I related in AMORC Unmasked, he went to a great deal of trouble to help found the short-lived FUDOSI, an organization of various initiatic organizations, claiming ancient origins, to give AMORC the “authenticity” it needed to promote its ancient roots that continued to the present day. Just his work to establish and become one of the Imperators of FUDOSI was a remarkable feat, much less to create the foundations for his cash cow, AMORC, an organization, which he did almost a 100 years ago, with the effects continuing to affect thousands of people even today.

         What I am trying to explain here is that Lewis has an intense desire, the knowledge, experience and background to create a mind control platform, as partially evidenced by his book, Mental Poisoning. If you read beneath the lines, Lewis is kind enough to reveal a lot of the psychological underpinnings of the very techniques he used to create a form of conditioning largely based on provoking his would-be disciples to believe in the authentic history and legitimacy of mind control.

         Then all his efforts and power became focused on creating mind control subjects out of naïve seekers out of higher reality, preying on the weaknesses of the human mind he so aptly describes in Mental Poisoning. Once deeply hypnotized, they become fodder for a monthly retainer, weekly unlimited voluntary contributions to a collection box for Lodge members and perhaps a nice fat legacy in their will.

         The monographs, which are the main feeding trough for his hypnotic pyrotechnics, become the fountain pen which magically transforms the innocent seeker into a person who can see auras, talk to cosmic visitors, travel to strange places in a golden cloud and receive prophetic visions of the future. These special powers collectively are Spencer’s red hot iron which is, in reality, the member’s mind transformed from a simple, logical and rational human being, sitting in a lonely room at night, reading a few words from less than twenty sheets of paper a week, the notes for which, prior to printing, probably flowed like water from the fountain pen of H. Spencer Lewis.