Real History of the Rosicrucians
Edition: Facsim.of 1887 Ed edition
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: September 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780766101036
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Occultism & quasi-religious beliefs; Unexplained phenomena; Spirituality - General; Alternate Spirituality; Religion; Rosicrucianism
First sentence: THE traditions of the Neo-Platonic philosophy, with its elaborate theurgical system, were to some extent perpetuated through the whole period of the Middle Ages, for beside the orthodox theology of the great Latin Church, and amidst the clamour of scholastic philosophy, we find the secret theosophy of the magician, the Kabbalist, and the alchemical adept borrowing, directly or indirectly, from this prolific fountain of exalted mysticism.