Knowing a little bit about the history of AMORC I couldn’t get over the nagging suspicion that that these two groups were somehow connected. I was basically thinking that the Mystic Brotherhood was some sort of schism of AMORC. This feeling was primarily based on me knowing that from 1925-1927, several years before the foundation of the Mystic Brotherhood, AMORC was briefly headquartered in Tampa, Florida. As I tried to explore this angle it became a little odd just how little is known about this particular time period. Wikipedia states the following:
The early AMORC headquarters were located in New York City, San Francisco, and then Tampa. The headquarters moved to San Jose, California, in 1927.
Believe it or not that’s pretty much what every history of AMORC has to state about the subject. One of the most detailed histories of AMORC I’ve ever read was on a Yahoo group and was written by Milko Bogaard . His section on Tampa (besides mentioning the radio station) is so short that Milko asks anyone reading it to send any information they might know about the Tampa period. Considering Milko’s history is so well detailed I’m inclined to believe that if he doesn’t know what happened during this period, then possibly no one does! No one living anyways.
So I was a little stumped until I discovered another ad in (of course!) another issue of the Occult Digest. This one came from March 1931, over a year before the others. Oddly, my first view through this issue I somehow missed it, but after looking through again, there it was!
First I’d like to call attention to the use of the simple (and amazingly ambiguous) name The Brotherhood. The second (AND IMPORTANT) point is that the PO Box is different than that which was on all the material they produced later. If it’s a different address then was this the same group? Well note the name Friar Vasvana, Scribe etc.. Remember that letterhead in the first post? Here’s the signature from that letter:
Up to this point the only address I had for this group was PO Box 439 Tampa Fl, yet they obviously started out with the address in the advertisement above. What’s so important about the address in the ad up above? It ‘s the link between AMORC and the Mystic Brotherhood. Below is a picture from a 1926 issue of AMORC’s magazine of the time “The Mystic Triangle” giving the contact information for different parts of the country:
Did you see it? It’s a little small so let’s zoom in on that very first entry:
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