Download or read book Thomas Vaughan and the Rosicrucian Revival in Britain written by Thomas Willard and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-09-19 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Vaughan’s challenging books on alchemy, magic, and other esoterica make better sense in the context of the Rosicrucian ideas he introduced to English readers in the seventeenth century. This is the first scholarly book on his life, sources, writings, and subsequent influence.
Download or read book Thomas Vaughan and the Rosicrucian Revival in Britain written by Thomas Willard and published by Aries Book. This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the first book-length study of Thomas Vaughan (1621-1666), Thomas Willard builds on recent scholarship in Western esotericism to show that his curious books offer much more than the lively quotations extracted from them. Treating more than alchemy and the Hermetic tradition, they develop themes from the synthesis of alchemy, magic, and Christian cabala, associated associated with the Rosicrucian movement that Vaughan introduced to English readers. His books respond to a moment in history when the breakdown in book censorship during the English Civil War allowed books with radical ideas to circulate, while political upheaval in the universities created audiences for new ideas. This book will be of interest to students of early modern religion, philosophy, science, and culture as seen by an intelligent and eloquent outsider"--
Download or read book Globalism in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age written by Albrecht Classen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-09-04 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although it is fashionable among modernists to claim that globalism emerged only since ca. 1800, the opposite can well be documented through careful comparative and transdisciplinary studies, as this volume demonstrates, offering a wide range of innovative perspectives on often neglected literary, philosophical, historical, or medical documents. Texts, images, ideas, knowledge, and objects migrated throughout the world already in the pre-modern world, even if the quantitative level compared to the modern world might have been different. In fact, by means of translations and trade, for instance, global connections were established and maintained over the centuries. Archetypal motifs developed in many literatures indicate how much pre-modern people actually shared. But we also discover hard-core facts of global economic exchange, import of exotic medicine, and, on another level, intensive intellectual debates on religious issues. Literary evidence serves best to expose the extent to which contacts with people in foreign countries were imaginable, often desirable, and at times feared, of course. The pre-modern world was much more on the move and reached out to distant lands out of curiosity, economic interests, and political and military concerns. Diplomats crisscrossed the continents, and artists, poets, and craftsmen traveled widely. We can identify, for instance, both the Vikings and the Arabs as global players long before the rise of modern globalism, so this volume promises to rewrite many of our traditional notions about pre-modern worldviews, economic conditions, and the literary sharing on a global level, as perhaps best expressed by the genre of the fable.
Download or read book Sublime Cosmos in Graeco Roman Literature and its Reception written by David Christenson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected in this volume examine manifestations of our sublime cosmos in ancient literature and its reception. Individual themes include religious mystery; calendrical and cyclical thinking as ordering principles of human experience; divine birth and the manifold nature of divinity (both awesome and terrifying); contemplation of the sky and meteorological (ir)regularity; fears associated with overpowering natural and anthropogenic events; and the aspirations and limitations of human expression. In texts ranging from Homer to Keats, the volume's chapters apply diverse critical methods and approaches that engage with sublimity in various aesthetic, agential and metaphysical aspects. The ancient texts epic, dramatic, historiographic and lyric treated here are rooted in a remote world where, within a framework of (perceived) celestial order, literature, myth and science still communicated profoundly, a tradition that continued in literary receptions of these ancient works. This volume honours the intellectual legacy of Thomas D. Worthen, a scholar whose expertise and insights cut across multiple disciplines, and who influenced and inspired students and colleagues at the University of Arizona, USA, for over three decades. Beyond clarifying temporally and culturally distant contemplations of the human universe, these essays aim to inform the continuing sense of wonder and horror at the sublime heights and depths of our ever-changing cosmos.
Download or read book Nature in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Times written by Albrecht Classen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of pre-modern anthropology requires the close examination of the relationship between nature and human society, which has been both precarious and threatening as well as productive, soothing, inviting, and pleasurable. Much depends on the specific circumstances, as the works by philosophers, theologians, poets, artists, and medical practitioners have regularly demonstrated. It would not be good enough, as previous scholarship has commonly done, to examine simply what the various writers or artists had to say about nature. While modern scientists consider just the hard-core data of the objective world, cultural historians and literary scholars endeavor to comprehend the deeper meaning of the concept of nature presented by countless writers and artists. Only when we have a good grasp of the interactions between people and their natural environment, are we in a position to identify and interpret mental structures, social and economic relationships, medical and scientific concepts of human health, and the messages about all existence as depicted in major art works. In light of the current conditions threatening to bring upon us a global crisis, it matters centrally to take into consideration pre-modern discourses on nature and its enormous powers to understand the topoi and tropes determining the concepts through which we perceive nature. Nature thus proves to be a force far beyond all human comprehensibility, being both material and spiritual depending on our critical approaches.
Download or read book The Rosicrucian and Alchemical Works of Thomas Vaughan written by Arthur Edward Waite and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03-30 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1800's Edition.
Download or read book The Magical Writings of Thomas Vaughan written by Thomas Vaughan and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-21 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an essential book for anyone interested in Rosicrucian philosophy, esoteric philosophy, alchemy, and alternative interpretations of the Bible. This edition has a new typeset, and preface. It contains Anthroposophia Theomagic, Anima Magica Abscondita, Magia Adamica, and Coelum Terrae.
Download or read book The Occult World written by Christopher Partridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents students and scholars with a comprehensive overview of the fascinating world of the occult. It explores the history of Western occultism, from ancient and medieval sources via the Renaissance, right up to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and contemporary occultism. Written by a distinguished team of contributors, the essays consider key figures, beliefs and practices as well as popular culture.
Download or read book The Real History of the Rosicrucians written by Arthur Edward Waite and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Real History of the Rosicrucians, by British poet, occultist, mystic and co-creator of the Rider-Waite tarot deck, was originally published in 1887.The work is Waite's masterpiece history of the elusive Rosicrucians, a mysterious secret society which came to public attention in early 17th century Germany. Despite there being much literature written about this order, no confirmed members were ever proven to exist. Over the centuries a mythology grew around the Rosicrucians, and groups dating back to the 19th century claimed the name. Themselves claiming to go back further to ancient Egypt or Atlantis.Waite presents complete translations of the core texts in the Rosicrucian canon, including the Fama Fraternitatis, the Confessio Fraternitatis, and the Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosencreutz. The Chemical Wedding is a dream text as a thinly-veiled alchemical allegory. Nobody knows the true authorship of these documents, though the German theologian and writer Johann Valentin Andreas is given as one possibility. Waite also looks at Rosicrucian literature from successive centuries, including quotes from authors who wrote about the Rosicrucians such as Michael Maier, Robert Fludd, Thomas Vaughan and John Heydon. Waite also includes Heydon's Voyage to the Land of the Rosicrucians, which is very similar to Thomas More's Utopia, in its entirely.
Download or read book The Rosicrucians written by Hargrave Jennings and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jennings believed that the doctrines of the Rosicrucians were derived from ancient phallic worship, and to a lesser extent fire and serpent worship. In this book, Jennings constructs elaborate and constantly shifting sets of correspondences. He tries to interrelate huge sets of symbols and objects in his search for the elusive Rosicrucians."--Sacred-texts.com
Download or read book The Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross A History of the Rosicrucians written by Arthur Edward Waite and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross - A History of the Rosicrucians” is Arthur Edward Waite's study of the elusive Rosicrucians, a secret society which the first appeared to the public in Germany in the early 17th century. Arthur Edward Waite (1857 – 1942), more commonly referred to as A. E. Waite, was an American-born British mystic and poet. He wrote profusely on the subject of the occult and esoteric matters, and is famous for being the co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck. His work arguably constitutes the first attempt to systematically studying the history of western occultism, which he viewed more of a spiritual tradition than proto-science or pseudo-religion, as was the more common conception. Contents include: “Mythical Rosicrucian Precursors”, “Militia Crucifera Evangelica”, “Alchemists And Mystics Symbolism”, “Of The Rose And Cross”, “Fama Fraternitatis R C”, “Confessio Fraternitatis R C”, “The Chemical Nuptials”, “Authorship Of The Chemical Nuptials”, “Development Of Rosicrucian Literature”, etc. Other works by this author include: “The Alchemical Writings of Edward Kelly” (1893), “Turba Philsophorum” (1894), and “Devil-Worship in France” (1896). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.
Download or read book The Real History of the Rosicrucians written by Arthur Edward Waite and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2012 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author has essayed to collect the mass of material which exists for the elucidation of this curious problem of European history, and to depict the mysterious brotherhood as they are revealed in their own manifestoes. The work is clear in statement and replete with learning, and affords the first complete' and trustworthy account of the origin, development, and decay of Rosicrucianism ever published in English. This is the Fellowship Edition including an essay by Rosicrucian critic H. Gruber. Contents: Preface. Introduction. Chapter I. On The State Of Mystical Philosophy In Germany At The Close Of The Sixteenth Century. Chapter Ii. The Prophecy Of Paracelsus, And The Universal Reformation Of The Whole Wide World. Chapter Iii. The Fama Fraternitatis Of The Meritorious Order Of The Rosy Cross, Addressed To The Learned In General, And The Governors Of Europe. Chapter Iv. The Confession Of The Rosicrucian Fraternity, Addressed To The Learned Of Europe. Chapter V. The Chymical Marriage Of Christian Rosencreutz. Chapter Vi. On The Connection Of The Rosicrucian Claims With Those Of Alchemy And Magic. Chapter Vii. Antiquity Of The Rosicrucian Fraternity. Chapter Viii. The Case Of Johann Valentin Andreas. Chapter Ix. Progress Of Rosicrucianism In Germany. Chapter X. Rosicrucian Apologists: Michael Maier. Chapter Xi. Rosicrucian Apologists: Robert Fludd. Chapter Xii. Rosicrucian Apologists: Thomas Vaughan. Chapter Xiii. Rosicrucian Apologists: John Heydon. Chapter Xiv. Rosicrucianism In France. Chapter Xv. Connection Between The Rosicrucians And Freemasons. Chapter Xvi. Modern Rosicrucian Societies. Conclusion. Additional Notes. Appendix Of Additional Documents. A Rosicrucian Allegory. The Rosie Crucian Prayer To God.
Download or read book The Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross written by Arthur Edward Waite and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fame and Confession of the Fratenity of R C Commonly of the Rosie Cross written by Fama Fraternitatis dess Löblichen Ordens des Rosenkreutzes and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mackey s History of Freemasonry written by Albert Gallatin Mackey and published by Chicago : Masonic History Company. This book was released on 1921 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Henry Vaughan the Achievement of Silex Scintillans written by Thomas O. Calhoun and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an extensive study of Henry Vaughan's use of the sonnet cycle. Calhoun attempts to interrelate major historical, theoretical, and biographical details as they contribute to Vaughan's craft, style, and poetic form. This study takes into account Vaughan's work over two decades, approximately 1640-1660.
Download or read book The Rosicrucians written by Christopher McIntosh and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 1998-09-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scholarly work traces the mysterious Fraternity of the Rosy Cross, from its inception upon the discovery of Father Christian Rosenkreuz's perfectly preserved body in a seven-sided vault to present-day organizations in America. McIntosh includes a survey of Rosicrucianism in America, exploring the latter day survivals of Bacon's New Atlantis. Perfect for students of the Western Mystery tradition who want an introduction to Rosicrucianism, with good resources for further study.
