FUDOFSI

FUDOFSI ( _fr. Fédération Universelle des Ordres, Fraternités et Sociétés Initiatiques), headed by Constant Chevillon (1880-1944), was a federation of independent esoteric orders similar to FUDOSI, but strongly opposed to the other group.

History

FUDOFSI was established in defense of the Orders of Lyon and the other societies that were not involved with FUDOSI. FUDOFSI was strongly opposed to FUDOSI, Harvey Spencer Lewis and his organisation Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC). Very little information is known about FUDOFSI due to the Second World War. Like so many other occult societies, FUDOFSI is considered to have disappeared during the war. In 1944, Constant Chevillon, the head of FUDOFSI, was murdered by the Gestapo.

Some FUDOFSI members were known opponents of Harvey Spencer Lewis, the Imperator of Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC). The Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, was considered a business and a fraud by FUDOFSI. Conversely, FUDOSFI was considered a business and a fraud by FUDOSI.

The First Meeting of FUDOFSI

The first meeting of FUDOFSI took place in Paris, France, in February 1939.

List of people present in the first meeting of FUDOFSI:
* Reuben Swinburne Clymer
* Alfred I. Sharp
* Count Jean de Czarnomsky
* Constant Chevillon
* Henri-Charles Dupont
* Henri Dubois
* Raoul Fructus (former member of the FUDOSI)
* Andre Fayolle
* Nauwelaerts
* Laugenier
* Camille Savoir

Hans Rudolf Hilfiker-Dunn and Arnoldo Krumm-Heller joined FUDOFSI later.

Organisations represented in the first convention of 1939:

* L'Ordre Martiniste-Martineziste de Lyon
* L'Eglise Gnostique Universelle
* Order of Knight Masons Elus Cohen of the Universe
* The Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis Mizraim
* Ordre De Saint Graal
* Ordo Templi Orientis (Switzerland)
* Fraternitas Rosicruciana Antiqua
* Fraternitas Rosae Crucis
* Ordre Kabbalistique De La Rose Croix (different lineage)
* Rite Ecossais Rectifie
* Brotherhood of the Illumined Brethren of the Rose-Croix

The End of FUDOFSI

FUDOFSI ceased to exist at some point during World War II. However, in 1947 some of its members contacted each other and tried to establish a new organisation. Hans-Rudolf Hilfiker and R. Swinburne Clymer (1878 - 1966) tried to create a "Worldwide Alliance of Rosicrucian Orders". In Rio de Janeiro, Clymer successfully merged his organisation with Krumm-Heller's. Hilfiker and Clymer had a meeting on May 7, 1947 and also in June 5, 1948, in Zürich (Switzerland) at the hotel Baur-au-lac. The Fraternitas Rosae Crucis official biography of Emerson Myron Clymer, son of R. S. Clymer, describes him as "Supreme Grand Master of FUDOFSI" after his father's death, so it is possible that the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis considers FUDOFSI to have survived later.

ee also

* FUDOSI
* Esotericism
* Mysticism
* Occultism
* Freemasonry
* Rosicrucianism
* Secret society

External links

* [http://users.pandora.be/marcel.roggemans/milko.htm Article containing information on FUDOSI and FUDOFSI]
* [http://www.soul.org/Pilgrimage.html Fraternitas Rosae Crucis on FUDOFSI (Official Fraternitas Rosae Crucis publication)]
* http://fratreslucis.netfirms.com/Fudosfi.html