The Rosicrucian Mysteries

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

Literature & Fiction

HEINDEL, MAX

Literary

Old Book Publishing Ltd.

Papus is after a ‘Theory of Everything’, and finds evidence for it in the Tarot and a set of correspondences with everything from the tetragrammaton to numerology and astrology. The Tarot pack of cards, transmitted by the Gypsies from generation to generation, is the primitive book of ancient initiation.  The key to its construction and application has not yet been revealed. The reader will find the explanation of the lofty philosophy and science of ancient Egypt, and will be enabled to practise the use of the divining Tarot, by methods which have been rendered easy herein.

The Tarot of the Bohemians: The Most Ancient Book in the World

Religion & Spirituality

Encausse, Gérard

New Age & Spirituality

Once existed in the Atlantic Ocean, a large island, which was the remnant of an Atlantic continent, and known to the ancient world as Atlantis. The description of this island given by Plato is not, as has been long supposed, fable, but veritable history. Atlantis was the region where man first rose from a state of barbarism to civilization. In the course of ages, it became a populous and mighty nation, from whose overflowings the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi River, the Amazon, the Pacific coast of South America, the Mediterranean, the west coast of Europe and Africa, the Baltic, the Black Sea, and the Caspian were populated by civilized nations. It was the true Antediluvian world; the Garden of Eden; the Gardens of the Hesperides; the Elysian Fields: the Gardens of Alcinous; the Mesomphalos; the Olympos; the Asgard of the traditions of the ancient nations; representing a universal memory of a great land, where early mankind dwelt for ages in peace and happiness. The gods of the ancient Greeks, Phoenicians, Hindoos (archaic spelling of Hindu), and Scandinavians were simply the kings, queens, and heroes of Atlantis; and the acts attributed to them in mythology are a confused recollection of real historical events. The oldest colony formed by the Atlanteans was probably in Egypt, whose civilization was a reproduction of that of the Atlantic island. The Phoenician alphabet, parent of all the European alphabets, was derived from an Atlantis alphabet, which was also conveyed from Atlantis to the Mayas of Central America. Atlantis was the original seat of the Aryan or Indo-European family of nations, as well as of the Semitic peoples, and possibly also of the Turanian races. Atlantis perished in a terrible convulsion of nature, in which the whole island sunk into the ocean, with nearly all its inhabitants. A few persons escaped in ships and on rafts, and carried to the nations east and west the tidings of the appalling catastrophe, which has survived to our own time in the Flood and Deluge legends of the different nations of the old and new worlds. The fact that the story of Atlantis was for thousands of years regarded as a fable proves nothing. There is an unbelief which grows out of ignorance, as well as a scepticism which is born of intelligence. The people nearest to the past are not always those who are best informed concerning the past.

Atlantis:The antediluvian world

Politics & Social Sciences

Donnelly., Ignatius

Philosophy

Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World

MASSEY, GERALD

This book is an exceptional labour that made the author’s life worth living. Comparatively speaking, “A Book of the Beginnings” was written in the dark, “The Natural Genesis” was written in the twilight, whereas “Ancient Egypt” has been written in the light of day. It may have been a Million years ago That Light was kindled in the Old Dark Land With which the illumined Scrolls are all aglow, That Egypt gave us with her mummied hand: This was the secret of that subtle smile Inscrutable upon the Sphinx’s face, Now told from sea to sea, from isle to isle; The revelation of the Old Dark Race; Theirs was the wisdom of the Bee and Bird, Ant, Tortoise, Beaver, working human-wise; The ancient darkness spake with Egypt’s Word; Hers was the primal message of the skies: The Heavens are telling nightly of her glory, And for all time Earth echoes her great story To all lovers of the truth the writer commends the verifiable truths that wait for recognition in these pages. Truth is all-potent with its silent power If only whispered, never heard aloud, But working secretly, almost unseen, Save in some excommunicated Book; ’Tis as the lightning with its errand done Before you hear the thunder.

Istoria Tis Ellinikis Epanastaseos (Greek Edition)

History

Trikoupis, Spyridon

Europe

An o istorikos ka8e e8nous exei ka8hkon na pei thn alh8eia se ka8e kairo, to ka8hkon auto ginetai pio epitaktiko apo ka8e allon kai apo pote allote ston Ellhna pou suggrafei shmera thn istoria ths ellhnikhs epanastashs, gia na deiksei, mesw twn gegonotwn, pros tous omogeneis kai omopistous pou exoun ormhsei olofanera pros thn eleu8eria poia einai ta aksia na katakth8oun kai na epaine8oun, kai poia einai epilhpsima kai prepei na apofeux8oun, "giati an kapote vre8oun sthn idia 8esh, na mporoun, vasizomenoi sta prohgoumena, na kanoun kalh xrhsh twn sugxronwn tous." To tetratomo ergo tou politikou kai istorikou Spuridwna Trikouph, o opoios dietelese kai prwtos prw8upourgos ths Elladas (1828-1829) apotelei thn pio emperistatwmenh mexri tote istoria twn gegonotwn ths ellhnikhs epanastashs. O suggrafeas ontas katagrafeas sugxronos twn gegonotwn apo thn idrush ths Filikhs Etaireias ws thn anakhruksh ths Aneksarthsias, mila me th vevaiothta tou autopth martura kai me mian antikeimenikothta timhtikh gia ton idio. H tetratomh "Istoria ths Ellhnikhs Epanastasews" einai to spoudaiotero ergo tou Sp. Trikouph. Thn xarakthrizei safhneia kai glafurothta ekfrashs kai eusuneidhth prospa8eia tou suggrafea na istorhsei me alh8eia kai akriveia pragmata, proswpa kai gegonota ths Epanastashs, opws autos ta eide kai ta gnwrise. H Istoria ths Ellhnikhs Epanastashs tou Spuridwnos Trikouph ekdidetai se tesseris tomous. O tritos tomos perilamvanei ta sumvanta apo to 8anato tou Dramalh ws kai th deuterh poliorkia tou Mesologgiou.

These volumes, complete in themselves as a series of studies in a definite body of tradition, are intended to serve ultimately as a small contribution to the preparation of the way leading towards a solution of the vast problems involved in the scientific study of the Origins of the Christian Faith. They might thus perhaps be described as the preparation of materials to serve for the historic, mythic, and mystic consideration of the Origins of Christianity, –where the term “mythic” is used in its true sense of inner, typical, sacred and “logic”, as opposed to the external processioning of physical events known as “historic”, and where the term “mystic” is used as that which pertains to initiation and the mysteries. The serious consideration of the matter contained in these pages will, I hope, enable the attentive reader to outline in his mind, however vaguely, some small portion of the environment of infant Christianity, and allow him to move a few steps round the cradle of Christendom. Though the material that we have collected, has, as to its externals, been tested, as far as our hands are capable of the work, by the methods of scholarship and criticism, it has nevertheless at the same time been allowed ungrudgingly to show itself the outward expression of a truly vital endeavour of immense interest and value to all who are disposed to make friends with it. For along this ray of the Trismegistic tradition we may allow ourselves to be drawn backwards in time towards the holy of holies of the Wisdom of Ancient Egypt. The sympathetic study of this material may well prove an initiatory process towards an understanding of that Archaic Gnosis.

Thrice Greatest Hermes: Volume I - Prolegomena

Mead', G R. S.

The history of architecture, as usually written, with its theory of utilitarian origins from the hut and the tumulus, and further developments in that way -the adjustment of forms to the conditions of local circumstance; the clay of Mesopotamia, the granite of Egypt, and marble of Greece-is rather the history of building: of 'Architecture' it may be, in the sense we so often use the word, but not the Architecture which is the synthesis of the fine arts, the commune of all the crafts. Behind every style of architecture there is an earlier style, in which the germ of every form is to be found; except such alterations as may be traced to new conditions, or directly innovating thought in religion, all is the slow change of growth, and it is almost impossible to point to the time of invention of any custom or feature. It will be necessary, not only to examine architecture in the monuments, but the contemporary statements which relate to them, the stories about buildings, and even the mythology of architecture, for such a mythology there is. If we trace the artistic forms of things, made by man, to their origin, we find a direct imitation of nature. The thought behind a ship is the imitation of a fish. So to the Egyptians and Greeks the “Black Ship” bore traces of this descent, and two eyes were painted at the prow. The custom still lingers on the Mediterranean and on the waters of China: the eyes are given; it is said, to enable the ship to see its way over the pathless sea. Tables and chairs, like the beasts, are quadrupeds; the lion’s leg and foot of modern furniture come to us from the Greeks, and, earlier, they were used in Assyria and Egypt. The ritual side of symbolism is entirely neglected here, but there is ample evidence that sacred ceremony, the state that surrounded a throne, and the pageant of war, all had reference to the ritual and pomp of nature; so that man might be one with her and share her invincible strength.

Architecture. Mysticism and Myth

Lethaby, William Richard

One of the finest alchemical emblem books and unique in its own right.Michael Maier's work is richly illustrated with original prints by M. Merian; each of the 50 emblems presented consists of a motto, print, epigram, and a three-part musical setting of the epigram, followed by an exposition of its meaning.

Atalanta Fugiens

Maiers, Michael

Occult & Paranormal

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The Rosicrucian Mysteries

The Tarot of the Bohemians: The Most Ancient Book in the World

Atlantis:The antediluvian world

Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World

Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World

Istoria Tis Ellinikis Epanastaseos (Greek Edition)

Istoria Tis Ellinikis Epanastaseos (Greek Edition)

Thrice Greatest Hermes: Volume I - Prolegomena

Architecture. Mysticism and Myth

Atalanta Fugiens