The Principles of the Yoga-Philosophy of the Rosicrucians and Alchemists.
This formed an appendix to Franz Hartmann's In the Pronaos of the Temple of Wisdom (1890), the body of which was a short, diffuse, inaccurate and mystifying work purporting to be an historical account of the "Rosicrucian" phenomenon. Hartmann represented this appendix as having been originally intended to form the basis for a work titled A Key to the Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians (see previous post) which project was abandoned. These two chapters appear to comprise an interpretation of Rosicrucian and Alchemical symbolism from the point of view of the theosophical schools of the nineteenth century; Hartmann's involvement in the German occultist circles from which the Ordo Templi Orientis emerged, and Reuss' various favourable references to him (he was for example cited as a Saint in a version of Crowley's Gnostic Mass which Reuss issued in German translation) suggests that this work may also shed light on how this symbolism was viewed in the early O.T.O.
The "Roscicrucian" section has been published on its own as a pamphlet under the title "Rosicrucian Symbols."
The Public Contents of the Book of Shadows.
An edition of the collection of Gardnerian Wicca rituals from ca. 1949-1961 as compiled by Aiden A. Kelly which has been doing the rounds of the net since the mid-90s. Only really scores over (?) the many existing copies (a dozen at least were on scribd already, most deriving from the HTMLs on sacred-texts.com) by slightly neater presentation, gratuitous use of the "Mason" typeface for headings and a number of pedantic or sarcastic footnotes by yrs truly.
Now re-set all of part I of A New Era of Thought, but that was the easy part (no complex tables and very few diagrams).
The "Roscicrucian" section has been published on its own as a pamphlet under the title "Rosicrucian Symbols."
The Public Contents of the Book of Shadows.
An edition of the collection of Gardnerian Wicca rituals from ca. 1949-1961 as compiled by Aiden A. Kelly which has been doing the rounds of the net since the mid-90s. Only really scores over (?) the many existing copies (a dozen at least were on scribd already, most deriving from the HTMLs on sacred-texts.com) by slightly neater presentation, gratuitous use of the "Mason" typeface for headings and a number of pedantic or sarcastic footnotes by yrs truly.
Now re-set all of part I of A New Era of Thought, but that was the easy part (no complex tables and very few diagrams).
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