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One of the main initiatory rituals of the HOGD [the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]’s Second Order took place in a seven-sided vault based on that in which Christian Rosekreuz’s uncorrupted body is supposed…
Read more of David V. Barrett (& Gareth Knight) on the active imagination
It cannot be seriously doubted that that there was some form of causative link, direct or indirect, between the Rosicrucians and the early speculative Freemasons. Freemasonry appeared shortly after the Rosicrucians, who grow out of…
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Was there actually a body called the Rosicrucians? It seems very unlikely. The life-story of their founder and leader, Christian Rosy Cross, was very obviously allegorical. It has even been suggested that the Fama could…
The nature of the order of being as it is given, together with man’s place in it, is obliterated: the being of world and ego is restricted to the knowledge of the immediate or existent;…
A valuable subsequent statement came in a reported conversation in 1976 in which Voegelin replied to a question, in part as follows: I paid perhaps undue attention to gnosticism in the first book I published…
Some time in the latter half of the eighteenth century the Rosicrucian movement was revived in Germany. There is disagreement about exactly when it took place – some say 1757, some 1777, others give a…
Read more of Glenn Magee on the Rosicrucians vs. the Freemasons & Illuminati
As [Eric] Voegelin sees it, Joachim [de Fiore]’s great innovations were to conceive of history as having an eidos, a formal structure, and to “immanentize the eschaton,” to hold that the end of time will…
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On the surface, it appears that all Hegel has in mind by “magic,” and by the “magic” of magnetism, is simply psychological control. As we have seen, he speaks about magnetism being made possible by…
Yates devoted a chapter in her The Art of Memory to Lull and attempts to locate him withing the tradition of ars memoria. However, she notes that Lull’s art is devoid of the dramatic images…
Like Moses (according to legend), Hegel is the recipient of Kabbalistic wisdom, only it is a Christian Kabbalah, and it is received not directly from God but from Böhme, Oetinger, and the tradition of speculative…