The Rosicrucians: Their Rites and Mysteries

PDF | ISBN 1564591182 | Year 1870 | 398 pages | English | 3.74 MB

An exhaustive study of the Rosicrucians and their beginnings. An important work and an excellent resource..

With chapters on the Ancient Fire and Serpent-Worshippers, and Explanations of the Mystic
Symbols Represented in the Monuments and Talismans of the Primeval Philosophers.
Contents: Critics of the Rosicrucians Criticized; Singular Adventure in Staffordshire;
Insufficiency of Worldly Objects; The Hermetic Philosophers; An Historical Adventure;
The Hermetic Brethren; Mythic History of the Fleur-De-Lis; Sacred Fire; Fire-Theolosophy
of the Persians; Ideas of the Rosicrucians as to the Character of Fire; Monuments Raised
to Fire-Worship in all Countries; Druidical Stones and Their Worship; Inquiry as to the
Possibility of Miracle; Can Evidence be Depended Upon?-Examination of Hume's Reasoning;
Footsteps of the Rosicrucians Amidst Architectural Objects; The Round Towers of Ireland;
Prismatic Investiture of the Microcosm; Cabalistic Interpretations by the Gnostics; Mystic
Christian Figures and Talismans; The "Rosy Cross" in Indian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and
Mediæval Monuments; Myth of the Scorpion, or the Snake, in its Many Disguises; Ominous
Character of the Colour "White" to English Royalty; The Beliefs of the Rosicrucians-Meaning
of Lights and of Commemorative Flambeaux in all Worship; The Great Pyramid; History of the
Tower or Steeple; Presence of the Rosicrucians in Heathen and Christian Architecture;
Rosicrucians Amidst Ancient Mysteries and in the Orders of Knighthood; Rosicrucianism
in Strange Symbols; Connection Between the Templars and Gnosticism; Rosicrucian Origin
of the Order of the Garter; Rosicrucian Supposed Means of Magic Through Signs, Signals,
and Figures; Astro-Theosophical System of the Rosicrucians-The Alchemic Magisterium.