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Initiates, The.
A Rosicrucian Magazine.
Other titles: The Rosicrucian Brotherhood
1908-1910 Monthly
Allentown, PA. Publisher: Philosophical Publishing Co. . Editor: Reuben
Swinburne Clymer.
Succeeds: Rosicrucian Brotherhood Succeeded by: The Initiates and the
People (1912)
1/1, April 1908-May 1910. $1.00 a year, 10 cents a copy. 5 x 9, 24-52 pp.
Reuben Swinburne Clymer (1878-1966) began this journal as a means of
propagating the occult, New Thought and Rosicrucian groups he was in the
process of gathering into his hands. The first issue announced that it was
incorporating the unfulfilled subscriptions of S.C. Gould's The Rosicrucian
Brotherhood, volume 1, number 1 of this journal being called The Rosicrucian
Brotherhood, volume 2, number 6, and the double title continued intermittently
thereafter, despite the fact that Gould's journal continued to be published
through January 1909. See the note under The Rosicrucian Brotherhood. The
Initiates is really an extended advertisement for Clymer's organizations, but it
does reprise the occasional old (and out of copyright protection) occult
standard, such as Charles Mackay's Salamandrine and P.B. Randolph's
genealogy of his Rosicrucian order, and contained much of the occult New
Thought material that was typical of such efforts at the time. It also carried
advertisements for the works of F.B. Dowd,Peter Davidson, and Randolph.
Clymer deserves more serious study than he has received because of his role
in continuing P.B. Randolph's sexual magic and because of his involvement in
the truly bewildering morass of early twentieth-century occult groups and fringe
medical associations and their publications. All of these enterprises are minor
compared with better known groups such as the Order of the Golden Dawn or
the H.B. of L., but their very number made them influential in the two decades
before the First World War and their mail-order lessons were the mechanism
through which better known occult ideas, such as those of P.B. Randolph and
F.B. Dowd, were continued and spread. In addition to this journal and its
successor, Clymer wrote an enormous number of books and in his early days
published in, among others, Henry J. Barton's The Philomathian and was
closely connected with Ira Keperling and his journal, The Egyptian, the organ of
the A.O.F.B.
The Initiates describes itself as the "Official Organ" of the orders exemplified by
the seven emblems placed in the center and at the points of a six-pointed star.
The central place of honor is given to the Masonic "G" enclosing a triangle
surrounding the all-seeing eye and the number "369.036"-the design patent
number of the emblem of Clymer's Ancient and Mystical Oriental Masons, the
then apex of his pyramid of occult organizations, which he later affiliated with
Matthew McBane Thompson's American Masonic Federation. The emblem at
the top of the star is Randolph's emblem of the triangle enclosing a death's
head and winged globe and flanked by a snared anchor surmounting the motto
"Try"-the emblem of Clymer's Priesthood of Aeth. Clockwise from there are the

shield with rose and cross of the Ordo Militia Crucifera Evangelica; an unknown
Rosicrucian medal which may be the Knights of the Rose and Cross of the
Temple of Illuminati; an owl on crescent moon that bears the letters A.O.F.B.
(the Ancient Order of Free Builders) and associated Order of Osiris, both run by
Dr. Ira L. Keperling, in which Clymer was a 38 Exalted Recorded. Next comes
the four swastika-like wings encircled by the Ouroboros, the emblem of the
Hermetic Brotherhood of Atlantis, Luxor and Elephantae of W.P and Mira
Phelon (whose own journal was The Hermetist), and last is a triangle
surrounding a cross on three-stepped platform, the emblem of the Rosicrucian
Order. Clymer is at some pains to explain why, if the Rosicrucians are the
pinnacle of occult knowledge, there is any need for all these orders-and his
answer is less than convincing. In actually, his accumulation of occult orders
(and finally his creation of the Royal Fraternal Organization to house them all)
was the result of his own occult development and participation in other groupswhich he was then compelled to rationalize in a hierarchy and structure that
does great credit to his imagine. Clymer's organizations continue today in
Quakertown, PA, despite several litigations over control of them. In May 1910
the journal announced that it was being suspended because of lecture tours
that would take Clymer away from Pennsylvania, and promised to start up again
in 1911-a promise it almost kept since this journal's successor was started in
September 1912. Memphis Public Library; Southern Methodist University; LOC.