Encyclopedia - Rosicrucian: Encyclopedia Ii - Rosicrucian - Origins
According to a legend published in the 17th century Rosicrucian manifestos, the Rosicrucian Order was founded in 1407 (the early 15th cen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rosicrucian Fellowship: Encyclopedia Ii - Rosicrucian Fellowship - Origins & Foundation
In 1908 its founder, Max Heindel, was reported to have been chosen and prepared by the Elder Brothers of the Rosicrucian Order to reveal ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rosicrucian Fellowship: Encyclopedia Ii - Rosicrucian Fellowship - Rosicrucian Mission
It is referred that the mission of the Rosicrucian Order (Western Mystery School), working through The Rosicrucian Fellowship, is to prom...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rosicrucian: Encyclopedia - Rosicrucian
The Rosicrucian Order is a legendary and secretive Order dating from the 15th or 17th century. It generally is associated with the symbol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rosicrucian Fellowship: Encyclopedia - Rosicrucian Fellowship
The Rosicrucian Fellowship was founded in 1909/11 by Max Heindel as herald of the Aquarian Age and with the aim of promulgating the Rosic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Illuminati: Encyclopedia - Illuminati
The Illuminati is the name of many groups, modern and historical, real and fictitious, verified and alleged. Most commonly, however, The ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hargrave Jennings: Encyclopedia - Hargrave Jennings
Hargrave Jennings (1817-1890) was a British Freemason and amateur student of comparative religion. In several voluminous works, Jennings ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biblical Cosmology: Encyclopedia - Biblical Cosmology
The Bible says very little about cosmology, such as the position of the earth in the universe, the nature of the fixed stars and planets,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Esoteric Christianity: Encyclopedia - Esoteric Christianity
Esoteric Christianity refers to the occult study and the mystic living of the esoteric knowledge related to what adherents view as the "i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chymical Wedding Of Christian Rosenkreutz: Encyclopedia - Chymical Wedding Of Christian Rosenkreutz
The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz (Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz anno 1459), ISBN 0933999356, was edited in 1616 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rosicrucian Fellowship: Encyclopedia Ii - Rosicrucian Fellowship - Philosophy Teachings
Rosicrucian Fellowship - Life as a School: doctrine of Rebirth and Law of Cause and Consequence. These teachings advocate the dualistic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Illuminati: Encyclopedia Ii - Illuminati - The Bavarian Illuminati
Illuminati - History. A movement of freethinkers that were the most radical offshoot of The Enlightenment — whose adherents were...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Illuminati: Encyclopedia Ii - Illuminati - Origins
Since Illuminati literally means 'enlightened ones' in Latin, it is natural that several unrelated historical groups have identified them...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biblical Cosmology: Encyclopedia Ii - Biblical Cosmology - Background
Much of what the Bible says concerning cosmology is couched in terminology whose definitions are uncertain and disputed by Hebrew scholar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biblical Cosmology: Encyclopedia Ii - Biblical Cosmology - Sky Sun Moon And Stars
The sky, the abode of the stars, is described as a "raqiya'" (rakia, Hebrew for a plate); that is, a rigid, broad, solid plate possessing...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biblical Cosmology: Encyclopedia Ii - Biblical Cosmology - Stars As The Hosts Of Heaven
Several Biblical passages refer to “hosts” around God and in the heights above. This phrase is commonly taken to refer to angels or o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biblical Cosmology: Encyclopedia Ii - Biblical Cosmology - The Bible And The Big Bang
Current scientific views of the Big Bang basically say that the universe had a specific beginning, starting incredibly small and massivel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biblical Cosmology: Encyclopedia Ii - Biblical Cosmology - Modern Day Biblical Cosmologies
The Catholic Church after having rejected scientific cosmological endeavors during the Copernican revolution, has in the last century bee...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biblical Cosmology: Encyclopedia Ii - Biblical Cosmology - Sky, Sun, Moon And Stars
The sky, the abode of the stars, is described as a "raqiya'" (rakia, Hebrew for a plate); that is, a rigid, broad, solid plate possessing...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Esoteric Cosmology: Encyclopedia Ii - Esoteric Cosmology - Neoplatonism
Although under Plotinus, Neoplatonism began as a school of philosophy, the teachings of later Neoplatonists such as Iamblichus and Proclu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Esoteric Cosmology: Encyclopedia Ii - Esoteric Cosmology - Kabbalah
Kabbalah combines orthodox Judaic, Neoplatoinic, Gnostic, and philosophical (e.g. Aristotlean) themes, to develop an elaborate and highly...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nuwaubianism: Encyclopedia Ii - Nuwaubianism - Introduction
Nuwaubu is a collection of religious teachings and cultural philosophy and a way of life that is multifarious and ever-changing. It has i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nuwaubianism: Encyclopedia Ii - Nuwaubianism - Introduction
Nuwaubianism is a collection of religious teachings and cultural philosophy that is multifarious and ever-changing. It has influences and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Order Of The Solar Temple: Encyclopedia Ii - Order Of The Solar Temple - Founders Of The Solar Temple
It is stated that the OTS absorbed another neo-templar organization called Foundation Golden Way, which was led by Joseph Di Mambro (1926...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Paul Foster Case: Encyclopedia Ii - Paul Foster Case - Whitty And Alpha Et Omega
In 1918, Case met Michael Whitty, who was the editor of the magazine Azoth (and would become a close friend) Whitty was serving as the Ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nazi Mysticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Nazi Mysticism - Suppression Of Secret Societies
The Nazi party actively discouraged certain mystical secret societies, in fact interning, and sometimes executing, a number of high-ranki...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nazi Mysticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Nazi Mysticism - Suppression Of Secret Societies
The Nazi party actively discouraged certain mystical secret societies, in fact interning, and sometimes executing, a number of high-ranki...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Phrygian Cap: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Phrygian Cap
PHRYGIAN CAP Conical cap with top turned forward. It is red to signify circumcision and is the origin of the bishop's mitre and the Ro...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Masonic Druids: Pagan Paganism Dictionary Ii On Masonic Druids
Masonic Druids: Members of several Masonic and Rosicrucian fraternal orders founded in the 1700’s (and since) in England, France...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Rosicrucians: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Rosicrucians
Rosicrucians [from Latin rosa rose + crux cross]   Rosy cross or rose cross, referring to the cross of the rose, the general medi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Rosicrucianism: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Rosicrucianism
Rosicrucianism (Literally the “Rose cross”) The name was first given to the disciples of an adept known as Christian Rosen...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Atalanta Fugiens: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Atalanta Fugiens
Atalanta Fugiens (Latin). A famous treatise by the eminent Rosicrucian Michael Maier; it has many beautiful engravings of Alchemic sym...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Anthroposophy: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Anthroposophy
ANTHROPOSOPHY A movement of illumination, split from Theosophy. Lit. "Knowledge of Man" as opposed to "Knowledge of Div...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Igne Natura Renovatur Integra: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Igne Natura Renovatur Integra
Igne Natura Renovatur Integra (Latin) By fire nature is restored in purity, or pure matter is restored by spirit; the medieval Rosicru...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vidya-dhara: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Vidya-dhara
Vidya-dhara (Sanskrit). And Vidya-dhari, male and female deities. Lit., "possessors of knowledge".   They are also cal...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Illuminati: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Illuminati
Illuminati (“Enlightened Ones”) A rationalistic society founded in Germany soon after 1776 by Adam Weishaupt, a professor ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Antisemitism: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Antisemitism
ANTISEMITISM Why is the occult sometimes accused of anti-semitism?   Since the occult comprises a huge number of different arcane...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Knights Templars: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Knights Templars
Knights Templars A religio-military order, a brotherhood in arms, founded in the 12th century by Hugh de Payens and Geoffrey de St. Om...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Labarum: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Labarum
Labarum (Latin) Labaron (Greek) The standard carried by armies under the Christian Roman emperors, consisting of a pike from whose cro...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vidya-dhara: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Vidya-dhara
Vidya-dhara (Sanskrit) A possessor of magical knowledge; a kind of ethereal being almost always of astral habitat,   "also c...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kabalist: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Kabalist
Kabalist. From Q B L H, KABALA, an unwritten or oral tradition.   The kabalist is a student of "secret science", one w...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Masonry: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Masonry
Masonry Operative masonry, the art of building in stone; speculative and emblematic Freemasonry, called such since 1717 when four Engl...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alchemists: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Alchemists
Alchemists; From Al and Chemi, fire, or the god and patriarch, Kham, also, the name of Egypt.   The Rosicrucians of the middle a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rosicrucian: Encyclopedia Ii - Rosicrucian - Reference Literature
Essays Alexandre David, Fama Fraternitatis - Introdution, [15]. Corinne Heline, The Seven Jewels and the Seven Stages of Initiation , [1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rosicrucian: Encyclopedia Ii - Rosicrucian - Influence On Freemasonry
According to Jean Pierre Bayard, two rites of Rosicrucian inspiration emerged from the end of 18th century. One was the Rectified Scottis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rosicrucian: Encyclopedia Ii - Rosicrucian - The Manifestos
If one abstracts from the symbolic associations of the rose and the cross, which have been visioned by many since ancient epochs, it is k...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rosicrucian: Encyclopedia Ii - Rosicrucian - History
It is on the foundation of these teachings that Rosenkreuz conceived the plan for simultaneous and universal religious, philosophic, scie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rosicrucian: Encyclopedia Ii - Rosicrucian - Modern Groups
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, various groups styled themselves Rosicrucian. Almost all claimed to be authenti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rosicrucian: Encyclopedia Ii - Rosicrucian - Rose Cross: Alchemy And Divine Sciences Of Healing & Of The Stars
The alchemy in the laboratory (the ancestor of modern chemistry), where the ultimate goal was understanding of the laws of Nature in orde...   » Read the article