HARGRAVE JENNINGS: THE ROSICRUCIANS, THEIR RITES & MYSTERIES 2ND EDN 1879 OCCULT

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HARGRAVE JENNINGS.
THE ROSICRUCIANS: THEIR RITES AND MYSTERIES, WITH CHAPTERS ON THE ANCIENT FIRE- AND SERPENT-WORSHIPPERS, AND EXPLANATIONS OF THE MYSTIC SYMBOLS REPRESENTED IN THE MONUMENTS AND TALISMANS OF THE PRIMEVAL PHILOSOPHERS.
London: Chatto and Windus.
2ND EDITION.
1879 (1ST WAS 1870).
372 pages.
"UPWARDS OF 300 ENGRAVINGS".
12mo (7 1/4 by 5 1/4 inch) hardcover, 3/4 dark maroon leather with pebbled cloth boards, raised bands, gilt titling & designs to spine, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled.
One minor tear marbled rear pastedown (SEE PIC), small bit of sunfading top front, light wear to leather corners & edges, some minor foxing to prelims only, o/w all hinges & joints firm & tight &
VERY GOOD CONDITION.
A Second Edition of this scarce and coveted work in what appears to be a binding contemporary with publication – a prize-worthy binding but with no prize-label.
The book professes to be about the Rosicrucians but is about almost everything the encyclopedic mind of Jennings could dredge up on any esoteric subject and often has little to do with the Rosicrucians per se.
CONTENTS:
DEDICATION IN THE FIRST EDITION. • PREFACE TO THE PRESENT EDITION. • PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
1.) CRITICS OF THE ROSICRUCIANS CRITICIZED. • 2). SINGULAR ADVENTURE IN STAFFORDSHIRE. • 3.) INSUFFICIENCY OF WORLDY OBJECTS. • 4). THE HERMETIC PHILOSOPHERS. • 5). AN HISTORICAL ADVENTURE. • 6). THE HERMETIC BRETHREN. • 7). MYTHIC HISTORY OF THE FLEUR-DE-LIS. • 8). SACRED FIRE. • 9). FIRE-THEOSOPHY OF THE PERSIANS. • 10). IDEAS OF THE ROSICRUCIANS AS TO THE CHARACTER OF FIRE. • 11). MONUMENTS RAISED TO FIRE WORSHIP IN ALL COUNTRIES. • 12). DRUIDICAL STONES AND THEIR WORSHIP. • 13). INQUIRY AS TO THE POSSIBILITY OF MIRACLE. • 14). CAN EVIDENCE BE DEPENDED UPON? EXAMINATION OF HUME’S REASONING. • 15). FOOTSTEPS OF THE ROSICRUCIANS AMIDST ARCHITECTURAL OBJECTS. • 16). THE ROUND TOWERS OF IRELAND. • 17). PRISMATIC INVESTITURE OF THE MICROCOSM. • 18). CABALISTIC INTERPRETATIONS BY THE GNOSTICS. • 19). MYSTIC CHRISTIAN FIGURES AND TALISMANS. • 20). THE ‘ROSY CROSS’ IN INDIAN, EGYPTIAN, GREEK, ROMAN, AND MEDIEVAL MONUMENTS. • 21). MYTH OF THE SCORPION, OR THE SNAKE, IN ITS VARIOUS DISGUISES. • 22). OMINOUS CHARACTER OF THE COLOUR WHITE TO ENGLISH ROYALTY. • 23). THE BELIEFS OF THE ROSICRUCIANS - MEANING OF LIGHTS AND OF COMMEMORATIVE FLAMBEAU IN ALL WORSHIP. • 24). THE GREAT PYRAMID. • 25). HISTORY OF THE TOWER OR STEEPLE. • 26). PRESENCE OF THE ROSICRUCIANS IN HEATHEN AND CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE. • 27). THE ROSICRUCIANS AMIDST ANCIENT MYSTERIES. THEIR TRACES DISCOVERABLE IN THE ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD. • 28). ROSICRUCIANISM IN STRANGE SYMBOLS. • 29). CONNEXION BETWEEN THE TEMPLARS AND GNOSTICISM. • 30) ROSICRUCIAN ORIGIN OF THE ORDER OF THE GARTER. • 31). ROSICRUCIAN SUPPOSED MEANS OF MAGIC THROUGH SIGNS, SIGILS, AND FIGURES. • 32). ASTRO-THEOSOPHICAL SYSTEM OF THE ROSICRUCIANS – THE ALCHEMIC MAGISTERIUM. • 33). ROSICRUCIAN CELESTIAL AND TERRESTRIAL (MEANS OF INTERCOMMUNICATION. • 34). THE PRE-ADAMITES. PROFOUND CABALISTIC OR ROSICRUCIAN SPECULATIONS. • 35). THE ADAPTED ROSICRUCIAN CONTEMPLATION. INTRUSION OF SIN. RUINS OF THE OLD WORLDS. • 36). INDIAN MYSTERIOUS ADORATION OF FORMS. THE UNITY OF THE MYTHOLOGIES FOUND IN THE BHUDDISTIC AND MOHAMMEDAN TEMPLES. • 37). DOCTRINE AND RATIONALE. THE EMBODIED ‘CHILDREN OF THE ELEMENTS’, BOTH OF HEATHEN AND CHRISTIAN PERIODS. • 38). ROBERT FLUDD (ROBERTUS DE FLUCTIBUS), THE ENGLISH ROSICRUCIAN.
SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES.
1. NOTICE OF AN ANCIENT WORK (1595). • 2). ROSICRUCIAN VIEWS OF THE ARK OF NOAH. • 3). CABALISTIC ILLUSTRATIONS. THE SAN-GREALE, GREAL, OR HOLY GREALE.
CONCLUDING NOTE: REMARKS UPON TWO CURIOUS WORKS.
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A FASCINATING IF ECCENTRIC COLLECTION OF ARCANE LORE CRYSTALIZED AROUND THE MYSTERIOUS MEDIAEVAL & RENAISSANCE ORDER OF THE ROSICRUCIANS IN A VERY HIGH END LATE-19TH CENTURY BINDING.