The Rosicrucians: Their Rites and Mysteries - Softcover

Jennings, Hargrave

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1770830685 ISBN 13: 9781770830684

Publisher: Theophania Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. THIS book, which now leaves our hands, concentrates in a small compass the results of very considerable labour, and the diligent study of very many books in languages living and dead. it purports to be a history (for the first time treated seriously in English) of the famous Order of the 'Rose Cross', or of the 'Rosicrucians'. No student of the occult philosophy need, however, fear that we shall not most carefully keep guard, standing sentry (so to speak) not only over this, which is, by far, the preeminent, but also over those other recondite systems which are connected with the illustrious Rosicrucians.An accomplished author of our own period has remarked that 'He who deals in the secrets of magic, or in the secrets of the human mind, is too often looked upon with jealous eyes by the world, which is no great conjuror.'How is it that, after centuries of doubt or denial, how happens it, in face of the reason that can make nothing of it, the common sense that rejects, and the science which can demonstrate it as impossible, the supernatural still has such vital hold in the human, not to say in the modern mind? How happens it that the most terrible fear is the fear of the invisible? this, too, when we are on all hands assured that the visible alone is that which we have to dread! The ordinary reason exhorts us to dismiss our fears. That thing 'magic', that superstition 'miracle', is now banished wholly from the beliefs of this clear seeing, educated age. 'Miracle', we are told, never had a place in the world, only in men’s delusions. It is nothing more than a fancy. It never was anything more than a superstition arising from ignorance. What is fear? It is a shrinking from possible harm, either to the body, or to that thing which we denominate the mind that is in us. The body shrinks with instinctive nervous alarm, like the sensitive leaf, when its easy, comfortable exercise or sensations are disturbed.

About this title

Book Description:

Despite contemporary criticisms, Jennings' work is accepted as authoritative in its field. Alongside his history, the book's discussions extend to the Kabbalah, Gnosticism, the Druids, and ancient and medieval cultures. The work is invested in revealing the presence and philosophy of the Rosicrucians across times and cultures.

About the Author:

About the Author:

"Hargrave Jennings (1817-1890) was a British Freemason, Rosicrucian, author on occultism and esotericism, and amateur student of comparative religion.

In several voluminous works, Jennings developed the theory that the origin of all religion is to be sought in phallic worship of the Sun and fire, which he properly called "phallism."

In addition to the works to which he affixed his own name, Jennings is thought by some researchers to have written a number of anonymous volumes in the privately printed "Nature Worship and Mystical Series" series, and possibly also to have written under the pseudonym "Sha Rocco."

As Jennings made clear in several of his books, he used the word "phallic" in its non-gendered sense, meaning "having to do with the sexual organs"; thus he included worship of the female genitalia under the heading of "phallic." In later editions he reluctantly acceded to popular (although incorrect) usage and called his subject "phallicism."" (Quote from wikipedia.org)

About this edition

• Publisher: Theophania Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1770830685
• ISBN 13: 9781770830684
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 422