The ghost of H. Spencer Lewis must be rolling over in his grave in joy at knowing that his book, Mental Poisoning, was still being read seventy-seven years after it was written. Spencer died only two years after its publication in 1939. The proximity of the publication to his death makes me wonder if Spencer, who was personally responsible for the mind control system that imprisoned me for twenty-six years, could possibly have written this as a kind of signal to the world to unveil the secret reason for the marvelous mind control system he had fashioned and implemented so lucratively since 1915 in the form of AMORC, a Rosicrucian cult that successfully recruited me while I was a student of engineering in Haiti.  There is no doubt that in any business person’s mind, from a financial standpoint, AMORC was a rollicking success, amassing students for their mind control regime disguised as an authentic Rosicrucian order.  But would anyone really know what an achievement that was unless its creator, H. Spencer Lewis, left a trail of bread crumbs behind? For the great genius of AMORC’s ruler, called Imperator (the Latin name for emperor) was not the adventure of founding an international order in America that was, in essence, an organization, thousands of years old, reconstituting itself in a new form. No, it was nothing like that. AMORC was not old; its “traditions” were based on a deceptive esoteric order Lewis helped founded a few years before and its exercises were not truly portals to truth and celestial freedom but rather to mental enslavement and emotional captivity by an order whose chief goal was a hefty bottom line through the loyalty of a largely retained membership who dolled out their monthly fees with gratitude and consistency. But how could its Imperator, whose funding depended on this great deception, leave even one bread crumb to testify to his brilliance, not as a spiritual teacher, but as a master hypnotist, a Master of Mind Control?  I believe that is why Lewis found a way by leaving behind him, in his last two years, a book that exalted his expertise in hypnosis and gave able evidence of his ability to understand the laws of the human mind that allowed for hyper-suggestibility, positive hallucinations and unbridled surrender to a supposed authority by AMORC’s membership, based on unquestioning belief due to a regular dose of a monthly hypnotic protocol of chanting, breathing, visualization and reading, the diet of all loyal AMORC members, including me. Read between the lines and those who know what AMORC is- will see why H. Spencer Lewis created this book to serve as his bragging rights- for a small percentage of his readers who might, in the far future, figure it out and know what a great genius he was. I am giving this book the highest rating for its unerring accuracy of mind control in the form of hypnotic techniques, its brilliant exposition of the underlying reasons that AMORC’s exercise regime works, its euphemistic but pointed discussion of the truly benign nature of the universe that would never really permit the existence of such a thing as black magic to control people, but still manages to create quirks in the nature of human thought processes to lure them, unsuspecting into the magical thinking of spiritual cults. Perhaps this is a strange reason to give such a high rating to a book formulated in the swirling mists of unrestrained egotistic psychopathy, but really, if you think about it, who pulled the wool over so many eyes more tightly, more completely and more carefully than H. Spencer Lewis, author of Mental Poisoning? Doesn’t he deserve a sturdy, long-lasting passage down the mighty River of Amazon? Because as a prisoner of AMORC for so many years, I would like many other people- both potential and actual members- to know exactly how and why Lewis built his organization- so that he can finally get the credit and recognition he deserves- for the right reasons.