The Kabbalah Unveiled — S. L. MacGregor Mathers (from Knorr von Rosenroth's Latin) (1887)
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Contents: — Introduction — Chapter I. Facts establishing the existence of the posthumous personality in man — Its various modes of manifestation — II. Facts establishing the existence of a second personality in the living man— Its various modes of manifestation — III. Facts establishing the existence of the personality in animals, and concerning a posthumous animality — Fluidic form of vegetables — Fluidic form of gross bodies — IV. Character of the posthumous being— Its physical constitution — Its aversion for light — Its reservoir of active forces — Its ballistic— V. The nervousfluid — Electrical animals — Electrical persons — Electrical plants — VI. The mesmeric ether and the personality which it engenders—' The somnambule -The sleep-talker — The seer — VII. The mesmeric ether and the personality which it engenders ( continued— The turning-table— The talking-table — The medium — VIII. The mesmeric ether and the personality which it engenders [continued)— Miracles of the ecstatics IX. The mesmeric ether and the personality which it engenders (continued)— Prodigy of magic — X. The mesmeric ether and the personality which it engenders (continuecf \ — The incubus— The obsessmg spirit— XI. Causes of the rarity of the living phantom — Causes of the rarity of the trans-sepulchral phantom — Resemblance between the phenomena of spiritism and the phenomena of the posthumous order — Lycanthropy — XII. Glance at the ghostly fauna — Their pre-occupations— How they prolong their existence — The posthumous vampire.
THE HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS. Founded on their own Manifestoes, and on Facts and Documents collected from the Writings of Initiated Members. By Arthur Edward Waite, Author of “ The Mysteries of Magic : a Digest of the Writings of Eliphas Levi.” In crown Svo, 450 pp., with Illustrations and Historico-symbolical binding. 7 s. 6 d.
The facts and documents concerning the secret and mysterious fraternity of the Rose- Cross, or of the Golden and Rosy Cross, are absolutely unknown to English readers. Even well-informed people will learn with astonishment the extent and variety of the Rosicrucian literature which hitherto has lain buried in rare pamphlets, written in the old German tongue, and in the Latin commentaries of the later alchemists. The stray gleams of casual information which may be gleaned from popular encyclopaedias cannot be said to convey any real knowledge, while the essay of Thomas De Quincey on “The Rosicrucians and Freemasons,” though valuable as the work of a sovereign prince of English prose composition, is a mere transcript from an exploded German savant, whose facts are tortured in the interests of a somewhat arbitrary hypothesis.
In our own day, a few writers on mystical subjects have ignorantly connected the Rosicrucians with Phallicism and Serpent Worsliip, and by this connection have ascribed to them an antiquity which has no historical foundation, and which their most authoritative documents themselves disclaim.
GEORGE RED WAY, 15 York St., Covent Garden.
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The profound interest now manifested in all branches of mysticism, the tendency, in particular, of many cultured minds towards those metaphysical conceptions which are at the base of the alchemical system, the very general suspicion that other secrets than that of manufacturing gold are to be found in the Pandora’s Box of Hermetic and Rosicrucian allegories, make it_evident that the time has come to collect the mass of material which exists for the elucidation of this curious problem of European history.
In the present work every important and available fact has been carefully collected , and the manifestoes and other documents of the Fraternity are republished in revised versions. The Rosicrucians, as represented by themselves , are therefore offered to English readers for the first time in the literature of the subject. The task has been performed by a sympathetic but impartial writer, purged from the bias of any particular theory , and above all uncontaminated by the pretension to superior knowledge which claimants have never been able to substantiate.
The history of the Rose in symbolism and of the Cross in symbolism, with the secret significance of their union, is exhaustively discussed in the Introduction, which is followed by a brief review of the state of Mystical Philosophy in Germany at the close of the sixteenth century, and just before the first appearance of the Fraternity in Europe.