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    Francis Bacon Auditorium at Rosicrucian Park

    This year Rosicrucian Park begins its seventy-fifth year as a focus of Rosicrucian activity in North America and the World. In its infancy, the Park consisted of a single lot that Dr. Lewis had no compunction about calling "Rosicrucian Park". According to anecdotes of Frater Harvey Miles, Grand Secretary at the time, when Dr. Lewis was asked how he could call a single lot a "Park" he would reply, "Because that is the way I see it will be in the future." It was indeed amazing that the portion of the city block acquired by the Rosicrucian Order to include the original AMORC Administration Building and Supreme Temple was owned free and clear by the end of 1929. October of that year saw the Stock Market crash and the inception of the Great Depression.

    It is indeed humbling to contemplate what was accomplished at Rosicrucian Park in the depths of such devastating economic hardship. Consider the following: As more of the city block was purchased, Francis Bacon Auditorium (the largest in San Jose for many years) was dedicated in 1931, followed by the first Rosicrucian Egyptian and Oriental Museum in 1932, the Rose-Croix University in 1934, the Planetarium in 1936, the Rose-Croix Research Institute and Clinic in 1938, and the Research Library in 1939. Great public projects had been undertaken at that time under the aegis of the Federal Government, but for a relatively small organization like AMORC to erect several monumental structures was little short of miraculous.

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      Francis Bacon Auditorium at Rosicrucian Park

      1342 Naglee Avenue
      San Jose, CA 95191

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