Mysteries of the Rosie Cross Or, the History of that Curious Sect of the Middle Ages, Known as the Rosicrucians; with Examples of their Pretensions and Claims as Set Forth in the Writings of Their Leaders and Disciples

We shall now call the attention of our readers to the third of the books we spoke of as published simultaneously about the year 1610, "the substance of which," says De Quincey,...

A remarkable work was published at Strasbourg, in the year 1616, entitled, "The Hermetick Romance: or the Chymical Wedding. Written in High Dutch by Christian Rosencreutz." This...

On a former page we referred to a book which at one time achieved considerable notoriety under the title of "Count Gabalis; or the Extravagant mysteries of the Cabalists," the f...

As we have frequently to mention works of that "extraordinary Royalist, mystic and geomancer," John Heydon, who wrote so much respecting the Rosie Crucian Mysteries, and so loud...

The questions which present themselves on the threshold of this enquiry are:--Who and what were the Rosicrucians? When and where did they flourish, and what influence did any pe...

We now proceed to speak of some of the more prominent of the Rosicrucian leaders and teachers, and to call attention to the literature from which we obtain our only reliable inf...

In Notes and Queries for Nov. 15th, 1886, we find the following:--"In the Student's Encyclopaedia, published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1883, I find the following twofold statem...

So mysterious a sect were the Rosicrucians, and so involved in doubt and obscurity are most of their movements, practices and opinions, that nearly everything connected with the...