As Discussed by Occult Whistleblower, Pierre S. Freeman
Introduction and Chapter 1 –H. Spencer Lewis

In the Introduction to his 1929 book, Self-Mastery and Fate with the Cycles of Life, the mysterious E.V.R., whose name I could not locate outside of those initials etched in the back of the Introduction, proclaims the extraordinary and priceless jewel that the reader has before him or her. It is not only written by the extraordinary founder and Imperator of the Rosicrucian Order, a man who besides being a noted author and adept has also secretly been for many years the invisible partner of countless American businesses, sharing with them his inexplicable mastery of business based on certain secrets he will, at long last, reveal to the average man and woman in this book.
            Yes, H. Spencer Lewis has been paid high commissions in cash and stock by these large companies to act as a secret consultant on formulating the correct response to key choices available to their business. Besides this, reveals E. V. R., undoubtedly a very close confidante of the great man, Lewis has often rendered his services for free to those he felt needed it and would act judiciously on his highly coveted advice. Now, in an explosive act of generosity, H.S.L. has decided to unleash his largesse of system of success to the waiting world.

            So, in keeping with E.V.R.’s momentous announcement, Lewis begins opening his treasure trove of success secrets, providing men with the necessary key of wisdom to unlock the hidden science between the choices offered to them in life and business.  In this chapter, he implores men not to be slaves to the forces of nature but to lay all fatalistic impulses aside and choose to become a master of those forces by buying into the wisdom offered between the pages of Lewis’ masterpiece.

            As for me, as a formerly faithful student of AMORC, who had lived for more than two decades according to the teachings of these cycles, as described in the sacred monographs of the Order and in discussions in the Lodges, I can attest that the study of those cycles provided me only with the ultimate experience in abject poverty and homelessness- a pilgrimage described in my books, The Prisoner of San Jose and AMORC Unmasked. Still now as an Occult Whistleblower and author quite a number of books and blogs, I thought it profitable to focus on the literature of my esteemed Imperator to examine such the rhetoric and logic of his presentation which has served as such an important resource in his Pandora’s box of mind control tools, For to condition people to believe in the untrue, illusionary and essentially fraudulent universe created by confidence men posing as spiritual leaders, you must have a plausible framework, at least in the beginning, that is, before the members are sufficiently indoctrinated to add some powerful and continuous experience of positive hallucinations to their so-called spiritual journey to the center of the AMORC universe of cosmic harmonization and consciousness.