Charles Weber Reports on the Appeal Hearing
The same majority which had accused
me of vilifying Max and Augusta Heindel in the illegally held meeting of
November 23, 2003, rejected my appeal in the Board Meeting of January 10 , 2004.
It was almost a foregone conclusion. I was represented by a good lawyer who was
both astonished and frustrated at the majority's close-mindedness and dogmatic
intention to realize a predetermined objective--my expulsion from the
Grounds.
Twenty-two persons testified on my behalf, including the former
President, Allen Edwall, who has known and worked with me for six years; Jean de
Galzain, former Esoteric Secretary, who has known me for twenty-five years;
Patricia Tinker, a minister of Corinne Heline's New Age Bible Center and teacher
at the Fellowship's Summer Schools; Marie Jose Clerc, past Board
member and executive officer; both Ruth (former Chairman of the Board) and Manny
(nominee on last year's ballot for Board Members) Winocur; and a number of other
persons. Shirley Sharpe, past Board Member and long-time head of the Healing
Department and Elizabeth Ray, recently resigned Esoteric Secretary, sent in
written testimonies. Gloria Hayes also testified,stating that at an earlier time
she had wanted to get rid of me because she was influenced by others. Then she
saw what I was trying to do in my Study, the Heindel-Steiner Connection, and
came to my office two years later to apologize and say that she realized that my
admiration and respect for Heindel never ceased.
Two of the Board
Members, Danielle Chavalarias and Virgilio Rodriguez claim they heard me say
that the Cosmo comes from Rudolf Steiner in an Executive Council of November 4,
2003. Alexandra Porter, the Spanish Section Head, also claimed she heard me make
this statement, while Allen Edwall and Madeline Burgess both had
no memory of my having made such a statement, a statement which I emphatically
and repeatedly denied. Peter Costanza, stated that I had told him in 2000 that
Heindel had received the Cosmo from Rudolf Steiner, which I also denied. I have
always maintained that I believe Max Heindel when he says in his dedication of
the first edition of the Cosmo that he received much valuable information from
Steiner, but I also affirm that the more far-reaching body of Teachings
contained in the Cosmo must originate from the Elder Brother, both because
Heindel states this and because the Cosmo's has information not otherwise
available in the public domain or available without supersensible perception of
an advanced degree.
During the long appeal proceedings
I read about twenty emails written over the course of the last four years in
which I state clearly and definitely that Max Heindel received the teachings
from the Elder Brother.
I read many emails from persons and centers
testifying both to my pro-Heindel, and pro-Fellowship activities. Many other
persons have sent emails and letters testifying to my character and love for Max
and the Fellowship. All this, however, fell on deaf ears.
You may be
interested to know that the majority had called the Police Department saying
that their might be violence at the Fellowship, so there was a sheriff outside
the Business Office. Here is guilt and fear working in the minds of those few
persons who knew that not only was their action unpopular, but they were
projecting their own sense of threat based on doing what they knew was unfair.
Witnesses were treated like convicts and not allowed to leave a small room. A
sentinel was placed outside the door. Each person who made their testimony had
to leave the entire building before another was called. Some witnesses were
treated as if they were on trial.
My lawyer read the letter of Paco
Nacher to Elizabeth Ray written in December 2002, in which he sought to persuade
her to join Danielle Chavalaria and Virgilio Rodriguez as candidates for the new
Board so they could purge the Fellowship of Charles Weber, Marie Jose Clerc,
Shirley Sharpe, Gloria Hayes, Michael Lissona, Allen Edwall, and "others."
Charles was the first of this group, the one who had to go first because he is
most active and a candidate for the next Board, and therefore stands in the way
of achieving this "housecleaning," which is intended to favor a majority of
Hispanic members. In other words, Weber must be expelled, regardless, and no
amount of evidence or testimony of his good character will prevent Nacher and
Chavalarias from realizing their goal.
This may be the goal of several
Board members, but is it the goal of the general membership? I think
not. The Board serves the membership, and not vice versa. I see the
majority's decision and objectives, including the reformulated Bylaws, as
regressive and contrary to the spirit of the Rosicrucian Fellowship's Teachings
and Max Heindel's intentions.
I am deeply grateful to the many persons
who have supported me and the Fellowship's health and integrity, and I know
that in time all will work to benefit the Fellowship's mission.
In Christian
Fellowship,
Charles Weber
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