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The books can be read at several levels: as a history book, as a book of interesting quotations concerning a mystical Order, and as a manual for the aspiring Rosicrucian.
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Esoteric & Occult Orders and their Traditions
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An esoteric group is any gathering of people working toward a goal of mastering techniques that will raise the consciousness of individual group members. Groups provide collective security for people walking the esoteric path. People in the esoteric world are mostly what writer Colin Wilson dubbed “outsiders,” meaning that they are not in the mainstream of society. They are unusual people with extraordinary belief patterns. By coming together, they are reassured by the fact there are others like them. They feel this proves that they are not as weird as they thought.
Like clubs, different esoteric groups fulfill different needs. It is important to decide what you want from an esoteric group before seeking one out.
Groups can be broadly divided into three categories: Hermetic, nature, and mystical. Hermetic groups focus on structure, ordered ritual, and thinking. Nature groups are more about feeling, and have looser structures. Mystical groups are rare, as the path of the mystic is a lonely one; however they can be a mixture of the two others.
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History and Doctrine of the Rose Croix
Esoteric & Occult Orders and their TraditionsThe Rosicrucian Manifestos
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The Rosicrucian Manifestos were two documents of unknown authorship written in the early 17th century in Europe. They purported to announce the existence of a hitherto unknown esoteric order, the Brotherhood of the Rose Cross, to the world. The Fama Fraternitatis and the Confessio Fraternitatis as they were known, caused an immense furore across Europe with their esoteric imagery and call for a universal spiritual and cultural reformation across the continent. To this day controversy continues whether they were a hoax, whether the Order of the Rose Cross really existed as described in the Manifestos, or whether the whole thing was a metaphor or ludibrium disguising a movement that really existed, but in a different form. Since their publication and translation into several different languages the idea of the Rosicrucian movement and the image of the Rose Cross itself have never gone away with many modern Rosicrucian organizations claiming spiritual filiation with the original Order, such as the Rosicrucian Fellowship and the Lectorium Rosicrucianum, or claiming an historical heritage, such as AMORC.The Rosicrucian Mysteries
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In the thirteenth century there appeared in central Europe a great spiritual teacher whose symbolical name was Christian Rosenkreuz or Christian Rose Cross who founded the mysterious Order of the Rosy Cross, concerning which so many speculations have been made and so little has become known to the world at large, for it is the Mystery school of the West and is only open to those who have attained the stage of spiritual unfoldment necessary to be initiated in its secrets concerning the Science of Life and Being.Templars and the Rose Croix
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The survival of the Order of the Temple has haunted our thoughts for a good three and a half centuries. Almost eight years of research and cross-checking between the two principle lineages have allowed us to make a choice. We now present, in these few pages, an attempt to justify this choice to a public fascinated by this perpetuation of the prestigious and passionate Militia.Masonry and Medieval Mysticism
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The series of sketches which are now brought together appeared originally as detached articles in the pages of the Theosophical Review, written, however, with the object of demonstrating to students of Theosophy that a definite design could be traced beneath the apparently disconnected mystic doctrines held by the many occult brotherhoods, heretic sects and mystic associations which cluster so thickly together as we glance along the historical by-ways of religious thought during the Middle Ages. That object becomes clearer when they appear as they do now in closer juxtaposition.
