{{primarysources, date=July 2011 FUDOFSI (french: Fédération Universelle des Ordres, Fraternités et Sociétés Initiatiques), headed by

Constant Chevillon Constant Chevillon (born 26 October 1880 in Annoire ( Jura); died 25 March 1944 in Lyon) was a French occultist who was Grand Master of the Freemasonry Rite of Memphis-Misraïm and head of FUDOFSI and other occult societies. Educations & civil ...

(1880–1944), was a federation of independent

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orders similar to

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, but strongly opposed to the other group.

History

FUDOFSI was established in defense of the

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and other

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that were not involved with

. FUDOFSI was strongly opposed to FUDOSI,

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and his organisation

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(AMORC). Very little information is known about FUDOFSI since neither the organisation or its leader survived the

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(in 1944,

, the head of FUDOFSI, was murdered by the

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First meeting

The first meeting of FUDOFSI took place in Paris in February 1939. List of people present: *

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* Henri-Charles Dupont * Henri Dubois *

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(former member of the FUDOSI) * Andre Fayolle * Nauwelaerts * Laugenier *

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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 *

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* Ordre Kabbalistique De La Rose Croix (different lineage) *

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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 Reuben Swinburne Clymer (November 25, 1878 - June 3, 1966) was an American occultist and modern Rosicrucian Supreme Grand Master of the FRC ( Fraternitas Rosae Crucis), perhaps the oldest continuing Rosicrucian organization in the Americas."Frat ...

(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 on June 5, 1948, in Zürich, Switzerland at the hotel Baur au Lac. The

official biography of

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, son of R. S. Clymer, describes him as ''Supreme Grand Master of FUDOFSI'' after his father's death, so it is possible that the

considers FUDOFSI to have survived later.

History

First meeting

Organisations represented in the first convention of 1939

The end of FUDOFSI

See also