HARGRAVE JENNINGS: THE ROSICRUCIANS, THEIR RITES & MYSTERIES * CIRCA 1907 OCCULT

Description: HARGRAVE JENNINGS. THE ROSICRUCIANS: THEIR RITES AND MYSTERIES. London: George Routledge & Sons, Limited. / NY: E. P. Dutton & co. 4TH EDITION REVISED. No date (c.1907). 464 pages + 12 FULL-PAGE PLATES AT REAR + "UPWARDS OF 300 ENGRAVINGS". Large octavo (9 by 6 inch) hardcover, re-backed in leather preserving the original boards, printed paper label to spine, top edge gilt. Light wear & light bump to corners, some light foxing to prelims only, boards very slightly bowing, very slight damp odor, o/w VERY GOOD RE-BACKED CONDITION. Marked on the Title page as "FOURTH EDITION REVISED" and containing prefaces from the first three editions. I believe it was published in or around the year 1907. This copy has been re-backed in leather matching the original and preserving the original boards. It is somewhere below a professional job and above that of an amateur and is certainly adequate to the task. The book professes to be about the Rosicrucians but is about almost everything the encyclopedic mind of Jennings could dredge up on any esoteric subject and has little to do with the Rosicrucians per se. CONTENTS: PART I. I.) CRITICS OF THE ROSICRUCIANS CRITICIZED. • II). SINGULAR ADVENTURE IN STAFFORDSHIRE. • III.) EVER-BURNING LAMPS. • IV.) INSUFFICIENCY OF WORLDLY OBJECTS. • V). THE HERMETIC PHILOSOPHERS. • VI). AN HISTORICAL ADVENTURE. • VII). THE HERMETIC BRETHREN. • VIII). MYTHIC HISTORY OF THE FLEUR-DE-LIS. • IX). SACRED FIRE. • X). FIRE-THEOSOPHY OF THE PERSIANS. • XI). IDEAS OF THE ROSICRUCIANS AS TO THE CHARACTER OF FIRE. • XII). MONUMENTS RAISED TO FIRE WORSHIP IN ALL COUNTRIES. • XIII). DRUIDICAL STONES AND THEIR WORSHIP. • XIV). INQUIRY AS TO THE POSSIBILITY OF MIRACLE. • XV). CAN EVIDENCE BE DEPENDED UPON? EXAMINATION OF HUME’S REASONING. • XVI). FOOTSTEPS OF THE ROSICRUCIANS AMIDST ARCHITECTURAL OBJECTS. • XVII). THE ROUND TOWERS OF IRELAND. • XVIII). PRISMATIC INVESTITURE OF THE MICROCOSM. • XIX). CABALISTIC INTERPRETATIONS BY THE GNOSTICS. • XX). MYSTIC CHRISTIAN FIGURES AND TALISMANS. • XXI). THE ‘ROSY CROSS’ IN INDIAN, EGYPTIAN, GREEK, ROMAN, AND MEDIEVAL MONUMENTS. • XXII). MYTH OF THE SCORPION, OR THE SNAKE, IN ITS VARIOUS DISGUISES. • XXIII). OMINOUS CHARACTER OF THE COLOUR WHITE TO ENGLISH ROYALTY. • XXIV). THE BELIEFS OF THE ROSICRUCIANS - MEANING OF LIGHTS AND OF COMMEMORATIVE FLAMBEAU IN ALL WORSHIP. • XXV). THE GREAT PYRAMID. PART II. I). HISTORY OF THE TOWER OR STEEPLE. • II). PRESENCE OF THE ROSICRUCIANS IN HEATHEN AND CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE. • III). THE ROSICRUCIANS AMIDST ANCIENT MYSTERIES. THEIR TRACES DISCOVERABLE IN THE ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD. • IV). ROSICRUCIANISM IN STRANGE SYMBOLS. • V). CONNEXION BETWEEN THE TEMPLARS AND GNOSTICISM. • VI). STRANGE SPECULATIONS OF THE TRANSCENDENTALISTS. • VII). ROSICRUCIAN ORIGIN OF THE ORDER OF THE GARTER. DEDUCTIONS AND PROOFS FROM HISTORICAL AUTHORITIES. • VIII). ROSICRUCIAN SUPPOSED MEANS OF MAGIC THROUGH SIGNS, SIGILS, AND FIGURES. • IX). ASTRO-THEOSOPHICAL (EXTRA-NATURAL) SYSTEM OF THE ROSICRUCIANS – THE ALCHEMIC MAGISTERIUM OR STONE. • X). ROSICRUCIAN CELESTIAL AND TERRESTRIAL MEANS OF COMMUNICATION. • XI). THE PRE-ADAMITES. PROFOUND CABALISTIC OR ROSICRUCIAN SPECULATIONS. • XII). THE ADAPTED ROSICRUCIAN CONTEMPLATION. INTRUSION OF SIN. RUINS OF THE OLD WORLDS. • XIII). INDIAN MYSTERIOUS ADORATION OF FORMS. THE UNITY OF THE MYTHOLOGIES FOUND IN THE BHUDDISTIC AND MOHAMMEDAN TEMPLES. • XIV). DOCTRINE AND RATIONALE. THE EMBODIED ‘CHILDREN OF THE ELEMENTS’, BOTH OF HEATHEN AND CHRISTIAN PERIODS. • XV). ROBERT FLUDD, THE ENGLISH ROSICRUCIAN. • XVI). NOTICES OF ANCIENT AUTHORITIES. • XVII). MYSTERIES OF THE ANCIENTS: THE ARK OF NOAH. • XVIII). CABALISTIC ILLUSTRATIONS. THE SAN-GREALE, GREAL, OR HOLY GREALE. • XIX). THE ROUND TABLE IS THE RATIONALE OR APOTHEOSIS OF THE MOST NOBLE THE ORDER OF THE GARTER. • XX). REMARKS UPON TWO CURIOUS BOOKS. • XXI). REMARKS RELATING TO THE GREAT MYSTIC, ROBERTUS DE FLUCTIBUS. • XXII). ALCHEMY. THE POWER OF PRODUCING GOLD AND SILVER THROUGH ARTIFICIAL MEANS. DOCTRINE OF THE ROSICRUCIANS. • XXIII). THE OUTLINE OF THE CABALA, OR KABBALAH. • XXIV). CABALISTIC PROFUNDITIES. 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