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THE ROSICRUCIANS: THEIR RITES AND MYSTERIES

 by Hargrave Jennings
4th ed., 1907

Table of Contents:

• Preface to Third Edition
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Preface to the First Edition
• Part I
  • Chapter I. Critics of the Rosicrucians Criticized
  • Chapter II. Singular Adventure in Staffordshire
  • Chapter III. Ever-Burning Lamps
  • Chapter IV: Insufficiency of Worldly Objects
  • Chapter V: The Hermetic Philosophers
  • Chapter VI. An Historical Adventure
  • Chapter VII: The Hermetic Brethren
  • Chapter VIII: Mythic History of the Fleur-de-Lis
  • Chapter IX: Sacred Fire
  • Chapter X. Fire-Theosophy of the Persians
  • Chapter XI. Ideas of the Rosicrucians as to the Character of Fire
  • Chapter XII. Monuments Raised to Fire-Worship in All Countries
  • Chapter XIII: Druidical Stones and their Worship
  • Chapter XIV: Inquiry as to the Possibility of Miracle
  • Chapter XV: Can Evidence be Depended Upon? Examination of Hume’s Reasoning
  • Chapter XVI: Footsteps of the Rosicrucians Amidst Architectural Objects
  • Chapter XVII: The Round Towers of Ireland
  • Chapter XVIII: Prismatic Investiture of the Microcosm
  • Chapter XIX: Cabalistic Interpretations by the Gnostics
  • Chapter XX: Mystic Christian Figures and Talismans
    • Charts 1-3
  • Chapter XXI: The Rosy Cross in Indian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Mediæval Monuments
  • Chapter XXII: Myth of the Scorpion, or the Snake, in its Many Disguises
  • Chapter XXIII: Ominous Character of the Colour 'White' to English Royalty
  • Chapter XXIV: The Beliefs of the Rosicrucians--Meaning of Lights and of Commemorative Flambeaux in All Worship
  • Chapter XXV: The Great Pyramid
• Part II
  • Chapter I. History of the Tower or Steeple
  • Chapter II. Presence of the Rosicrucians in Heathen and Christian Architecture
  • Chapter III. The Rosicrucians Amidst Ancient Mysteries. Their Traces Discoverable in the Orders of Knighthood
  • Chapter IV: Rosicrucianism in Strange Symbols
  • Chapter V: Connexion Between the Templars and Gnosticism
  • Chapter VI. Strange Speculations of the Transcendentalists
  • Chapter VII: Rosicrucian Origin of the Order of the Garter
    Chapter VIII: Rosicrucian Supposed Means of Magic Through Signs, Sigils, and Figures
  • Chapter IX: Astro-Theosophical (Extra-Natural) System of the Rosicrucians
    • The Alchemic Magisterium or 'Stone'
  • Chapter X. Rosicrucian 'Celestial' and 'Terrestrial' (Means of Intercommunication)
  • Chapter XI. The Pre-Adamites. Profound Cabalistic or Rosicrucian Speculations
    Chapter XII: The Adapted Rosicrucian Contemplation. Intrusion Of Sin. Ruins Of The Old Worlds
  • Chapter XIII: Indian Mysterious Adoration of Forms. The Unity of the Mythologies Found in the Bhuddistic and Mohammedan Temples
  • Chapter XIV: Doctrine and Rationale. The Embodied 'Children of the Elements', Both of Heathen and of Christian Periods
  • Chapter XV: Robert Flood (Robertus de Fluctibus), The English Rosicrucian
    Chapter XVI. Notices of Ancient Authorities
  • Chapter XVII. Mysteries of the Ancients. The Ark of Noah
  • Chapter XVIII: Cabalistic Illustrations. The San-Grëale, Greal, or Holy Grëale
  • Chapter XIX: The Round Table is the Rationale or Apotheosis of the Most Noble The Order of the Garter
  • Chapter XX: Remarks Upon Two Curious Books
  • Chapter XXI: Remarks Relating to the Great Mystic, Robert 'de Fluctibus'
  • Chapter XXII: Alchemy. The Power of Producing Gold and Silver, Through Artificial Means. Doctrine of the Rosicrucians
  • Chapter XXIII: The Outline of the Cabala, or Kabbalah...
  • Chapter XXIV: And Last; Cabalistic Profundities
• Plates
  • Plate 1. Ever-Burning Rosicrucian Lamps
  • Plate 2. Sacerdote di Cerere
  • Plate 3. Gnostic Gems
  • Plate 4. The Round Table of King Arthur
  • Plate 5. Plan of the Basilica, St Peter’s in the ''Vaticano.''
  • Plate 6. Temple of Keylas, or Paradise (Ellora, in the East Indies)
  • Plate 7. Mysterium [Noah's Ark]
  • No. 8. Astronomical and Astrological ''Rosicrucian'' Plan
  • No. 9. Mythological Interchange of ''Macrocosm'' and ''Microcosm.''
  • No. 10. Chart A. Cabalistic--Astrological and Astronomical. Chaldaic Mysteries
  • No. 11. Chart B. Cabalistic (Rosicrucian). Mystery of the Interchange of Light and Dark
  • No. 12. Chart C. Cabalistic (Rosicrucian). Production of the Visible Worlds; Generation of the Microcosmos