Mirage Archer + [ranged skill with] Living Lightning

I am building a minion focused Witch that uses Bow / lightning mainly to spawn Living Lightning. I have been unsuccessful in getting Mirage Archer to work for me so my theory-crafting has come to a halt.

My understanding [hope] is that the Mirage Archer will be a duplicate of me that does 30% less damage. Having living lightning able to proc on all my ranged lightning powers should mean that when the Archer cast those powers he should spawn additional Living Lightning minions in conjunction to the ones that were created from my use of those skills.

So if you hop into my brain my hope is: After casting four lightning powers that spawn minions I have 20 Living Lightning minions... and the Archer firing off those same powers will spawn HIS OWN Lightning minions on top of what I have (potentially having anywhere from 20 to 40 minions at one time).

Can anyone who has gotten Mirage Archer to work ( and has a ranged power that does lightning damage with a Living Lightning gem slotted ) confirm or deny my theory ???

Thank you in advance and for taking the time to read this.

TLDR: Will Mirage Archer spawn it's own set of Living Lightning minions?