Plates. Plate 4. The Round Table Of King Arthur : No. 4. THE ROUND TABLE OF KING ARTHUR. From the Original, preserved in the Court-House of the Castle at Winchester. 'SANGREALE'--Or 'HOLY GRAIL.' Tradition, that Judas Iscariot left the Table at the words of the Saviour--"What thou doest. do quickly!" and had "no portion" in the Last Rite. (Refer...
Part Ii. Chapter Xiii. Indian Mysterious : p. 390 CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH INDIAN MYSTERIOUS ADORATION OF FORMS. THE UNITY OF THE MYTHOLOGIES FOUND IN THE BHUDDISTIC AND MOHAMMEDAN TEMPLES GENERAL note on the "Sacti Puja". POWER means the good goddess, "Maya Maia" (i.e. Delusion). She is also called Bhagala, Vagula, Bagala-mukhi. She h...
Part I. Chapter Xvii. The Round Towers Of Ireland : p. 156 Fig. 24-30 CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH THE ROUND TOWERS OF IRELAND IT is astonishing how much of the Egyptian and the Indian symbolism of very early ages passed into the usages of Christian times. Thus: the "high cup" and the "hooked staff" of the god became the bishop's mitre and crosier;...
Part Ii. Chapter Vii. Rosicrucian Orig : p. 314 CHAPTER THE SEVENTH ROSICRUCIAN ORIGIN OF THE ORDER OF THE GARTER. DEDUCTIONS, AND PROOFS, FROM HISTORICAL AUTHORITIES THE natural horns of the Bull or the Cow--both which animals were deified by the Egyptians, and also by the Indians, who particularly elected the Cow as the object...
Part Ii. Chapter Iii. The Rosicrucians Amidst : p. 263 Templar Banner CHAPTER THE THIRD THE ROSICRUCIANS AMIDST ANCIENT MYSTERIES. THEIR TRACES DISCOVERABLE IN THE ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD THE. 'Collar of Esses' is supposed always to be a part of the Order of the Garter. The coupled 'S.S.' mean the 'Sanctus Spiritus', or 'Holy Spirit'...
Part Ii. Chapter Xii. The Adapted Rosicruci : p. 379 CHAPTER THE TWELFTH THE ADAPTED ROSICRUCIAN CONTEMPLATION. INTRUSION OF SIN. RUINS OF THE OLD WORLDS. THE extraordinary philosophy of the Rosicrucians (and of the Rosicrucian system) is best explained (though it is all erroneous as to the true meanings of the Brothers of the 'R. C.')...
Part I. Charts 1 3 : p. 184 CHARTS 1-3. HERALDIC AND FIGURATIVE CHART, ACCORDING TO THE OLDEST HERALDIC SYSTEMS (NO. 1) (Musical Notes also) REGION ELEMENTARY Y. 1--Violet (Red and Blue)--"Most Refrangible Ray" Sanguine. Sardonyx Dragon's Tail Matter qualified by Light 3--"Cherubim" W. 2--Indigo (Opaque Blue) Purpure...
Part Ii. Chapter Viii. Rosicrucian Supposed : p. 329 CHAPTER THE EIGHTH ROSICRUCIAN SUPPOSED MEANS OF MAGIC THROUGH SIGNS, SIGILS, AND FIGURES THE Dragon's Head and Dragon's Tail are the points called Nodes, in which the ecliptic is intersected by the orbits of the planets, particularly by that of the moon. These points are of course shifting...
Part I. Chapter Xvi. Footsteps Of The Rosicrucians : p. 148 CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH. FOOTSTEPS OF THE ROSICRUCIANS AMIDST ARCHITECTURAL OBJECTS THOMAS VAUGHAN, of Oxford, a famous Rosicrucian, whom we have before mentioned, and who in the year 1650 published a book upon some of the mysteries of the Rosicrucians, has the following passage. His work is...
Part I. Chapter V. The Hermetic Philosophers : p. 24 CHAPTER THE FIFTH THE HERMETIC PHILOSOPHERS THERE was among the sages a writer, Artephius, whose productions are very famous among the Hermetic Philosophers, insomuch that the noble Olaus Borrichius, an excellent writer and a most candid critic, recommends these books to the attentive...
Part Ii. Chapter Xx. Remarks Upon Two Curious : p. 427 CHAPTER THE TWENTIETH REMARKS UPON TWO CURIOUS BOOKS THE following old book is a very extraordinary one; as the design and tendency of it will puzzle most persons who are acquainted with the nature of the antagonistic relations which were supposed to exist between the Church of Rome...
Plates. Plate 7. Mysterium : LUGDANI BATAVOAUM. (Engraved in the year 1593.) MYSTERIUM. [Noah's Ark] ROSICRUCIAN SYSTEM. Structure (Symbolic) of the "Argha," or "Arc." Also-- (Forms--exterior and interior--of the Place of the "Escaped" Signs. "Ark of Noah," from the description of Moses.)
Part Ii. Chapter Xviii. Cabalistic Illustrations : p. 420 CHAPTER THE EIGHTEENTH CABALISTIC ILLUSTRATIONS. THE SAN-GRALE, GREAL, OR HOLY GRALE THE engraving No. 4 at the end gives the mystical idea, or suggestion, of the Round Table of the Knights of King Arthur, which is again typical of the San Gral. The romance of Guyot, or at least...
Part Ii. Chapter Xiv. Doctrine And Rationale : p. 401 CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH DOCTRINE AND RATIONALE. THE EMBODIED 'CHILDREN OF THE ELEMENTS', BOTH OF HEATHEN AND OF CHRISTIAN PERIODS IL est avr pour les Thologiens et les Philosophes, que de la copulation de l'homme, mle ou femelle, avec le Dmon, naissent quelquefois des hommes. Et c'est de l...
Part I. Chapter Xix. Cabalistic Interpretations : p. 167 CHAPTER THE NINETEENTH CABALISTIC INTERPRETATIONS BY THE GNOSTICS To indicate God's existence, the ancient sages of Asia, and many Greeks, adopted the emblem of pure fire, or ether. 'Aerem amplectatur immensus ther, qui constat exaltissimis ignibus' (Cicero, "De Natura Deorum", lib. ii. c...
Part Ii. Chapter Iv. Rosicrucianism In Strange : p. 280 Vertical Arch: Early Norman (Temple Church) CHAPTER THE FOURTH ROSICRUCIANISM IN STRANGE SYMBOLS IN the following part of our book we supply, in a series of figures, the succession of changes to which the most ancient head-covering--in itself a significant hieroglyph--the Phrygian cap...
Part I. Chapter Iv. Insufficiency Of Worldly : p. 17 CHAPTER THE FOURTH INSUFFICIENCY OF WORLDLY OBJECTS IT is a constant and very plausible charge offered by the general world against the possession of the power of gold-making as claimed by the alchemists, who were the practical branch of the Rosicrucians, that if such supposed power were...
Part I. Chapter Ix. Sacred Fire : p. 63 CHAPTER THE NINTH SACRED FIRE THE appearance of God to mortals seems always to have been in brightness and great glory, whether He was angry and in displeasure, or benign and kind. These appearances are often mentioned in Scripture. When God appeared on Mount Sinai, it is said 'The Lord...
Part Ii. Chapter Vi. Strange Speculations : p. 309 CHAPTER THE SIXTH STRANGE SPECULATIONS OF THE TRANSCENDENTALISTS 'HAD Man preserved his original innocence and refused to taste of the means of that bitter and condemned knowledge (or power of recognition) of good and evil, as then there would have been none, of that physical deficiency...
Part I. Chapter Vi. An Historical Adventure : p. 33 CHAPTER THE SIXTH AN HISTORICAL ADVENTURE BUT to return to Signor Gualdi, from whom we have notwithstanding made no impertinent digression, since he was eventually suspected to be one of the strange people, or Rosicrucians, or Ever-Livers of whom we are treating. This was from mysterious...
Part I. Chapter Xxv. The Great Pyramid : p. 225 CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIFTH THE GREAT PYRAMID IN a very elaborate and interesting book, published in the year 1867, the title of which, at length, is the following: "Life and Work at the Great Pyramid", by C. Piazzi Smyth, Professor of Practical Astronomy in the University of Edinburgh...
Plates. No. 11. Chart B. Cabalistic. Mystery : No. 11 CHART--B. Cabalistic (Rosicrucian.) 'Natural Supernatural. Light--Dark.' 'Dark--Light:' (The Mysteries of 'Their Interchange.') "N.B."--The references to Nos. and Chapters are to those corresponding in very ancient Rosicrucian Tracts or Charts--(adduced here to prove authenticity.)
Part I. Chapter Xi. Ideas Of The Rosicrucians : p. 86 CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH IDEAS OF THE ROSICRUCIANS AS TO THE CHARACTER OF FIRE SPARK surrenders out of the world, when it disappears to us, in the universal ocean of Invisible Fire. That is its disappearance. It quits us in the supposed light, but "to it" really darkness--as fire-born, the last...
Preface To The First Edition : p. x PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION 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)...
Part I. Chapter Viii. Mythic History : p. 45 CHAPTER THE EIGHTH MYTHIC HISTORY OF THE FLEUR-DE-LIS THE maypole is a "phallos". The ribbons depending from the discus, or ring, through which the maypole pierces, should be of the seven prismatic colours--those of the rainbow (or "Rgne-beau"). According to the "Gnostics and their Remains...
Part Ii. Chapter I. History Of The Tower : p. 233 THE ROSICRUCIANS PART II CHAPTER THE FIRST HISTORY OF THE TOWER OR STEEPLE WE have asserted, in an earlier part of our book, that the pyramidal or triangular form which fire assumes in its ascent to heaven was, in the monolithic typology, used to signify the Great Generative Power...
Part I. Chapter Xii. Monuments Raised : p. 98 CHAPTER THE TWELFTH MONUMENTS RAISED TO FIRE-WORSHIP IN ALL COUNTRIES WE think that we shall be able fully in our succeeding chapters to place beyond contradiction an extraordinary discovery. It is, that the whole round of disputed emblems which so puzzle antiquaries, and which are found...
Part I. Chapter Iii. Ever Burning Lamps : p. 13 CHAPTER THE THIRD EVER-BURNING LAMPS IN the Papacy of Paul the Third, in the Appian Way, where abundance of the chief heathens of old were laid, a sepulchre was opened, where was found the entire body of a fair virgin swimming in a wonderful juice, which kept it from putrefaction so well...
Part Ii. Chapter Xvii. Mysteries Of The Ancients : p. 418 CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH MYSTERIES OF THE ANCIENTS THE ARK OF NOAH NOTE "to Plate" '"Mysterium"': The explanation of this engraving will be found at a previous page. The ancient volume from which it is taken is very rare, and bears the following title: "Antiquitatum ludaicarum" LIBRI IX: "...
Part Ii. Chapter Xix. The Round Table Is : p. 424 Round Table (Mythical) 1. ROSE 'Crucified' 2. ROSE 'restored to Life' 3. 'CONSUMMATION' CHAPTER THE NINETEENTH THE ROUND TABLE IS THE RATIONALE OR APOTHEOSIS OF THE MOST NOBLE THE ORDER OF THE GARTER HONI-SOIT QUI MAL-Y-PENSE THE Round Table of King Arthur is a Grand Mythological Synthesis...
Part Ii. Chapter V. Connexion Between : p. 295 CHAPTER THE FIFTH CONNEXION BETWEEN THE TEMPLARS AND GNOSTICISM THE branch sect of the Gnostics, called Basilideans, who were properly Ophites, arose in the second century, deriving their name from Basilides, the chief of the Egyptian Gnostics. They taught that in the beginning there were...
Part I. Chapter Xxii. Myth Of The Scorpi : p. 195 CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SECOND MYTH OF THE SCORPION, OR THE SNAKE, IN ITS MANY DISGUISES ONE of the Targums says that , a serpent, tempted Adam, or the first man, and not , Eve, his wife. Here we have the object of adoration of the Ophites--the female generative power--the Destroying...
Plates. Plate 6. Temple Of Keylas, Or Paradise : No. 6. TEMPLE OF KEYLAS, or PARADISE (Ellora, in the East Indies) THE INSULATED TEMPLE OF KEYLAS, OR PARADISE, "Hewn out of Ellora Mountain" A. Linga-Yoni (combined) This Plate (with the previous) illustrate the parallel between Heathen and Christian architectural forms. (N.B.--The period...
Part I. Chapter Ii. Singular Adventure : p. 6 CHAPTER THE SECOND SINGULAR ADVENTURE IN STAFFORDSHIRE DR. PLOT, who was a very well-known and reliable man, and a painstaking antiquary and writer of natural history, in his "History of Staffordshire", published by him in the time of Charles the Second, relates the following strange story:...
Preface To Third Edition : p. v PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION THE words 'Third Edition' to a work of this character, which, it will readily be confessed, prefers claims to being quite sui generis, excite mixed feelings on the part of its Authors. The present edition has been carefully revised, at the same time that it h...
Part I. Chapter Xiii. Druidical Stones : p. 115 CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH DRUIDICAL STONES AND THEIR WORSHIP THE monolith, talisman, mysterious pillar, or stone memorial, raised in attestation of the fire-tradition, and occupying the principal square or place, Forum, or middle-most or navel-point of the city in ancient times, is...
Part Ii. Chapter Xvi. Notices Of Ancient : p. 416 CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH NOTICES OF ANCIENT AUTHORITIES THE following extraordinary work--which is so rare and so valuable (see below) "in its original edition", that we have reason to believe the Authors of the 'Rosicrucians' can congratulate themselves in being the possessors, in all...
Part Ii. Chapter Xxi. Remarks Relating : p. 429 CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIRST REMARKS RELATING TO THE GREAT MYSTIC, ROBERT 'DE FLUCTIBUS' THE noted mystic, Jacob Bhm, was born in the year 1575, and is said to have died in the year 1619. He was undoubtedly acquainted with the volumes of Robertus de Fluctibus, known as the 'English Rosicrucian'...
Plates. No. 10. Chart A. Cabalistic Astrological : No. 10. CHART--A. Cabalistic--Astrological and Astronomical. Chaldaic Mysteries. "N.B."--The references to Nos. and Chapters are to those corresponding in very ancient Rosicrucian Tracts or Charts--(adduced here to prove authenticity.)
Plates. Plate 3. Gnostic Gems : No. 3. GNOSTIC GEMS GNOSTIC GEMS. Talismans, Magical Charms, and Invocations. (Strictly "Rosicrucian.") This Plate is illustrative of the Mysteries of the Gnostics. "ABRAXAS," or the Chief Deity in his Manifestations.
Part Ii. Chapter Xxii. Alchemy. The Power : p. 432 CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SECOND ALCHEMY. THE POWER OF PRODUCING GOLD AND SILVER, THROUGH ARTIFICIAL MEANS. DOCTRINE OF THE ROSICRUCIANS THE persuasion as to the possibility of the convertibility of the metals, and as to the existence of a master-means of improving and intensifying generally...
Part Ii. Chapter Xxiv. And Last. Cabalistic : p. 454 CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FOURTH, AND LAST CABALISTIC PROFUNDITIES IT is an assertion of the occult philosophers that the meaning and purpose of life is altogether mistaken:--necessarily--that is, in the 'Necessity of Things'--mistaken. That, inasmuch as "he lives", man is incapacitated...
Part I. Chapter Xv. Can Evidence Be Depended : p. 137 CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH CAN EVIDENCE BE DEPENDED UPON? EXAMINATION OF HUME'S REASONING 'OUR evidence for the truth of the Christian religion is less than the evidence for the truth of our senses; because, even in the first authors of our religion, it was no greater. It is evident it must...
Part I. Chapter Xiv. Inquiry As To The Possibility : p. 131 CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH INQUIRY AS TO THE POSSIBILITY OF MIRACLE THE definition of a miracle has been exposed to numerous erroneous views. Inquirers know not what a miracle is. It is wrong to assume that nature and human nature are alike invariably, and that you can, interpret the one by...
Part Ii. Chapter Xi. The Pre Adamites. Profound : p. 360 CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH THE PRE-ADAMITES. PROFOUND CABALISTIC OR ROSICRUCIAN SPECULATIONS THE monastic or separate (sexual) state, where nature is ignored and its suggestions and the indulgence of the seductive individual "appetite" is held to be ruinous (to the spiritual aims of the hum...
Part Ii. Chapter Ii. Presence Of The Rosicrucians : p. 254 CHAPTER THE SECOND PRESENCE OF THE ROSICRUCIANS IN HEATHEN AND CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE A QUESTION may here arise whether two corresponding pillars, or columns, in the White Tower, London, do not very ingeniously conceal, masonically, the mythic "formula" of the Mosaic Genesis, 'Male...
Part I. Chapter Xxiii. Ominous Character : p. 199 CHAPTER THE TWENTY-THIRD OMINOUS CHARACTER OF THE COLOUR 'WHITE' TO ENGLISH ROYALTY WE beg to premise that the following fears are not our belief, but that they are educed from old traditions--old as England. It is a very ancient idea, derived from the highest antiquity, that the colour...
Part I. Chapter Xviii. Prismatic Investiture : p. 162 CHAPTER THE EIGHTEENTH PRISMATIC INVESTITURE OF THE MICROCOSM THE chemical dark rays are more bent than the luminous. The chemical rays increase in power as you ascend the "spectrum", from the red ray to the violet. The chemical rays typified by the Egyptians under the name of their...
Part I. Chapter Xxi. The Rosy Cross In Indi : p. 187 CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIRST THE ROSY CROSS IN INDIAN, EGYPTIAN, GREEK, ROMAN, AND MEDIVAL MONUMENTS THOUGH fire is an element in which everything inheres, and of which it is the life, still, according to the abstruse and unexplained ideas of the Rosicrucians, it is itself another element...
Part I. Chapter Xxiv. The Beliefs : p. 209 CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FOURTH THE BELIEFS OF THE ROSICRUCIANS--MEANING OF LIGHTS AND OF COMMEMORATIVE FLAMBEAUX IN ALL WORSHIP FROM the name of the Temple, now Stonehenge, comes the name of Ambresbury, which stands a few miles from it. This is called the 'Ambres of the Abiri'. It is two words...
Title Page : THE ROSICRUCIANS THEIR RITES AND MYSTERIES FOURTH EDITION, REVISED "BY HARGRAVE JENNINGS" AUTHOR OF 'THE INDIAN RELIGION; OR, RESULTS OF THE MYSTERIOUS BUDDHISM'; 'PHALLICISM'; 'ONE OF THE THIRTY', ETC. ETC Illustrated By Upwards Of Three Hundred Engravings And Twelve Full-Page Plates E.P. Dutt...
Part I. Chapter Vii. The Hermetic Brethren : p. 38 CHAPTER THE SEVENTH THE HERMETIC BRETHREN THE following passages occur in a letter published by some anonymous members of the R.C., and are adduced in a translation from the Latin by one of the most famous men of the order, who addressed from the University of Oxford about the period...
Part I. Chapter X. Fire Theosophy Of The Persians : p. 76 CHAPTER THE TENTH FIRE-THEOSOPHY OF THE PERSIANS THE Fire-Philosophers, or "Philosophi per ignem", were a fanatical sect of philosophers, who appeared towards the close of the sixteenth century. They made a figure in almost all the countries of Europe. They declared that the intimate...
Part I. Chapter I. Critics Of The Rosicrucians : p. 1 THE ROSICRUCIANS PART I CHAPTER THE FIRST CRITICS OF THE ROSICRUCIANS CRITICIZED THAT modern science, spite of its assumptions and of its intolerant dogmatism, is much at fault--nay, to a great extent a very vain thing--is a conclusion that often presents itself to the minds of thinking...
Part Ii. Chapter X. Rosicrucian 'celestial' : p. 354 CHAPTER THE TENTH ROSICRUCIAN 'CELESTIAL' AND 'TERRESTRIAL' (MEANS OF INTERCOMMUNICATION) 'CONSCIENTIOUS readers will thank the man who states accurately that which they agree with, but will be almost equally grateful to the man who states clearly what they most dissent from. What they want...
Part Ii. Chapter Xv. Robert Flood , The English : p. 408 CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH ROBERT FLOOD (ROBERTUS DE FLUCTIBUS), THE ENGLISH ROSICRUCIAN IT is a reflection on the knowledge of the compilers of all books treating of the history and topography of Kent, that perhaps the most remarkable man born in it--because his pursuits lay out of the beaten...
Plates. No. 12. Chart C. Cabalistic. Producti : CHART--C. Cabalistic (Rosicrucian) Production of the 'Worlds--Visible.' 'Generation' of the 'Microcosmos.' "N.B."--The references to Nos. and Chapters are to those corresponding in very ancient Rosicrucian Tracts or Charts--(adduced here to prove authenticity.)
Part Ii. Chapter Ix. Astro Theosophical System : p. 338 CHAPTER THE NINTH ASTRO-THEOSOPHICAL (EXTRA-NATURAL) SYSTEM OF THE ROSICRUCIANS-THE ALCHEMIC MAGISTERIUM OR 'STONE' THE letters of all languages are significant marks or symbols, which have the 'Twelve', or rather the original 'Ten Signs' of the 'Zodiac' for their beginning. Of these...
Part I. Chapter Xx. Mystic Christian Figures : p. 178 Moorish Arch. Cathedral of Cordova CHAPTER THE TWENTIETH MYSTIC CHRISTIAN FIGURES AND TALISMANS OUR engraving borrows from the West Front of Laon Cathedral, France, a Catherine-Wheel (or 'Rose') Window. The twelve pillars, or "radii", are the signs of the Zodiac, and are "issuant" out...
Preface To The Second Edition : p. vii PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION THE Authors of this important Book--such must obviously be the fact of any work speaking with authority in regard of that extraordinary Brotherhood the 'Rosicrucians'--feel assured that it will only be necessary to penetrate but to the extent of two or three...
Part Ii. Chapter Xxiii. The Outline : p. 442 CHAPTER THE TWENTY-THIRD THE OUTLINE OF THE CABALA, OR KABBALAH. ITS MYSTIC INDICATIONS. THE PURPOSE OF THE GREAT ARCHITECT OF THE UNIVERSE IN THE SENSIBLE AND SPIRITUAL WORLDS (NATURAL AND SUPERNATURAL), AND THE CHARACTER OF THEIR RECIPROCITY, AND DOUBLE-WORKING WHAT is more dream-like...
