The Rosicrucians: Their Rites and Mysteries

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1. 01CHAPTER THE SECOND SINGULAR ADVENTURE IN STAFFORDSHIRE Dr. Plot, who was a very well-known and reliable man, and a painstaking antiquary and writer of...
2. 02CHAPTER THE THIRD EVER-BURNING LAMPS In the Papacy of Paul the Third, in the Appian Way, where abundance of the chief heathens of old were laid, a sepulchre...
3. 03CHAPTER THE FOURTH INSUFFICIENCY OF WORLDLY OBJECTS Ir is a constant and very plausible charge offered by the general world against the possession of the...
4. 04CHAPTER THE FIFTH THE HERMETIC PHILOSOPHERS There was among the sages a writer, Artephius, whose productions are very famous among the Hermetic Philosophers,...
5. 05CHAPTER THE SIXTH AN HISTORICAL ADVENTURE But to return to Signor Gualdi, from whom we have notwithstanding made no impertinent digression, since he was...
6. 06CHAPTER THE SEVENTH THE HERMETIC BRETHREN The following passages occur in a letter published by some anonymous members of the R.C., and are adduced in a...
7. 07CHAPTER THE EIGHTH MYTHIC HISTORY OF THE FLEUR-DE-LIS The maypole is a phallos. The ribbons depending from the discus, or ring, through which the maypole...
8. 08CHAPTER THE NINTH SACRED FIRE The appearance of God to mortals seems always to have been in brightness and great glory, whether He was angry and in...
9. 09CHAPTER THE TENTH FIRE-THEOSOPHY OF THE PERSIANS The Fire-Philosophers, or Philosophi per ignem, were a fanatical sect of philosophers, who appeared towards...
10. 10CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH IDEAS OF THE ROSIORUCIANS AS TO THE CHARACTER OF FIRE Spark surrenders out of the world, when it disappears to us, in the universal...
11. 11CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH DRUIDICAL STONES AND THEIR WORSHIP The monolith, talisman, mysterious pillar, or stone memorial, raised in attestation of the...
12. 12CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH INQUIRY AS TO THE POSSIBILITY OF MIRACLE The definition of a miracle has been exposed to numerous erroneous views. Inquirers know not...
13. 13CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH CAN EVIDENCE BE DEPENDED UPON ? EXAMINATION OF HUME'S REASONING ' Our evidence for the truth oi the Christian religion is less than the...
14. 14CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH FOOTSTEPS OF THE ROSICRUCIANS AMIDST ARCHITECTURAL OBJECTS Thomas Vaughan, of Oxford, a famous Rosicrucian, whom we have before...
15. 15CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH THE ROUND TOWERS OF IRELAND It is astonishing how much of the Egyptian and the Indian symbolism of very early ages passed into the...
16. 16CHAPTER THE EIGHTEENTH PRISMATIC INVESTITURE OF THE MICROCOSM The chemical dark rays are more bent than the luminous. The chemical rays increase in power as...
17. 17CHAPTER THE NINETEENTH CABALISTIC INTERPRETATIONS BY THE GNOSTICS To indicate God's existence, the ancient sages of Asia, and many Greeks, adopted the emblem...
18. 18CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIRST THE ' ROSY CROSS ' IN INDIAN, EGYPTIAN, GREEK, ROMAN, AND MEDIEVAL MONUMENTS Though fire is an element in which everything inheres,...
19. 19CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SECOND MYTH OF THE SCORPION, OR THE SNAKE, IN ITS MANY DISGUISES One of the Targums says that a serpent, tempted Adam, or the first man,...
20. 20CHAPTER THE TWENTY-THIRD OMINOUS CHARACTER OF THE COLOUR ' WHITE ' TO ENGLISH ROYALTY We beg to premise that the following fears are not our belief, but that...
21. 21CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FOURTH THE BELIEFS OF THE ROSICRUCIANS— MEANING OF LIGHTS AND OF COMMEMORATIVE FLAMBEAUX IN ALL WORSHIP From the name of the Temple, now...
22. 22CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIFTH THE GREAT PYRAMID In a very elaborate and interesting book, published in the year 1867, the title of which, at length, is the...
23. 23CHAPTER THE SECOND PRESENCE OF THE ROSICRUCIANS IN HEATHEN AND CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE A question may here arise whether two corresponding pillars, or...
24. 24CHAPTER THE FIFTH CONNEXION BETWEEN THE TEMPLARS AND GNOSTICISM The branch sect of the Gnostics, called Basilideans, who were properly Ophites, arose in the...
25. 25CHAPTER THE SIXTH STRANGE SPECULATIONS OF THE TRANSCENDENTALISTS ' Had Man preserved his original innocence and refused to taste of the means of that bitter...
26. 26CHAPTER THE SEVENTH ROSICRUCIAN ORIGIN OF THE ORDER OF THE GARTER. DEDUCTIONS, AND PROOFS, FROM HISTORICAL AUTHORITIES The natural horns of the Bull or the...
27. 27CHAPTER THE EIGHTH ROSICRUCIAN SUPPOSED MEANS OF MAGIC THROUGH SIGNS, SIGILS, AND FIGURES The Dragon's Head and Dragon's Tail are the points called Nodes, in...
28. 28CHAPTER THE NINTH ASTRO-THEOSOPHICAL (EXTRA-NATURAL) SYSTEM OF THE ROSICRUCIANS — THE ALCHEMIC MAGISTERIUM OR ' STONE ' The letters of all languages are...
29. 29CHAPTER THE TENTH ROSICRUCIAN ' CELESTIAL ' AND ' TERRESTRIAL ' (MEANS OF INTERCOMMUNICATION) ' Conscientious readers will thank the man who states...
30. 30CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH THE PRE- AD AMITES . PROFOUND CABALISTIC OR ROSICRUCIAN SPECULATIONS The monastic or separate (sexual) state, where nature is ignored...
31. 31CHAPTER THE TWELFTH THE ADAPTED ROSICRUCIAN CONTEMPLATION. INTRUSION OF SIN. RUINS OF THE OLD WORLDS The extraordinary philosophy of the Rosicrucians (and of...
32. 32CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH INDIAN MYSTERIOUS ADORATION OF FORMS. THE UNITY OF THE MYTHOLOGIES FOUND IN THE BHUDDISTIC AND MOHAMMEDAN TEMPLES General note on the...
33. 33CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH DOCTRINE AND RATIONALE. THE EMBODIED ' CHILDREN OF THE ELEMENTS BOTH OF HEATHEN AND OF CHRISTIAN PERIODS II est avere pour les...
34. 34CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH ROBERT FLOOD (ROBERTUS DE FLUCTIBUS), THE ENGLISH ROSICRUCIAN It is a reflection on the knowledge of the compilers of all books...
35. 35CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH NOTICES OF ANCIENT AUTHORITIES The following extraordinary work — which is so rare and so valuable (see below) in its original edition,...
36. 36CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH MYSTERIES OF THE ANCIENTS THE ARK OF NOAH Note to Plate ' Mysterinni ' : The explanation of this engraving will be found at a...
37. 37No. 4 at the end gives the mystical idea, or suggestion, of the Round Table of the Knights of King Arthur, which is again typical of the San Greal. The...
38. 38book is a very extraordinary one ; as the design and tendency of it will puzzle most persons who are acquainted with the nature of the antagonistic relations...
39. 39CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIRST REMARKS RELATING TO THE GREAT MYSTIC, ROBERT 1 DE FLUCTIBUS ' The noted mystic, Jacob Bcehm, was born in the year 1575, and is said...
40. 40CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SECOND ALCHEMY. THE POWER OF PRODUCING GOLD AND SILVER, THROUGH ARTIFICIAL MEANS. DOCTRINE OF THE ROSICRUCIANS The persuasion as to the...
41. 41CHAPTER THE TWENTY-THIRD THE OUTLINE OF THE CABALA, OR KABBALAH. ITS MYSTIC INDICATIONS. THE PURPOSE OF THE GREAT ARCHITECT OF THE UNIVERSE IN THE SENSIBLE...
42. 42CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FOURTH, AND LAST CABALISTIC PROFUNDITIES It is an assertion of the occult philosophers that the meaning and purpose of life is altogether...

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