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Title: The Rosicrucian Enlightenment Revisited by John Matthews, Paul Bembridge, Joscelyn Godwin, Goodrick-Clarke, Christopher Bamford, Rafal Prinke, Robert Powell, Christopher McIntosh ISBN: 0-940262-84-3 Publisher: Lindisfarne Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good, but not great selection of essays.
Comment: In light of recent documentary discoveries in a number of European archives, I had high hopes that this volume would further the body of research into the Rosicrucian movement. Ultimately, it did, but in ways I did not anticipate.
There are some essential works here (Joscelyn Godwin's excellent meditation on Michael Maier and Rafael T. Prinke's article on Michael Sendivogius immediately spring to mind: both of which demonstrate the varities of meaning Rosicrucianism took on to those who sought to perpetuate the movement in different contexts) but also much filler. Too many of the contributions collected in this volume re-state a body of knowledge familiar to all students of the subject. Due to the original format of these contributions (i.e., speeches) this knowledge is -understandably- not communicated in a particularly useful fashion.
Having said that, this volume is worth its price of entry. However the content is certainly a mixed bag.
Lastly, the translations of the Rosicrucian manifestos contained in this volume are those of Thomas Vaughan's mid 17th century edition of the Fama and Confessio .
Rating: 5
Summary: Enlightenment is eye opening
Comment: Before the 'New Age' there was the "Rosicrucian Enlightenment". At the beginning of the 17th century, a new awakening was heralded throughout Europe, announcing the universal reform of all known areas of human activity - religion, science, art, and society were to become one being. The chief proponents of this great awakening were the mysterious "Rosicrucians". Nearly 400 years after the first seeds of this movement were planted, over 100 students, authors, and scholars of traditional Western esotericism, of which Rosicrucianism is the foremost exponent, gathered in the medieval town of Czesky Krumolv in the Czech Republic, to discuss, explore, and in someway, reopen the 'Vault of Christian Rosencreutz' once again.
"The Rosicrucian Enlightenment Revisited" contains nine essays on the early Rosicrucian movement presented at this landmark conference sponsored in part by The New York Open Center, and copies of the first two Rosicrucian Manifestoes, the "Fama" and the "Confessio". It is a great read and ideal for anyone interested in what is truly the heart and soul of Western esotericism - the Rosicrucian Enlightenment.
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Title: Rosicrucian Enlightenment (Routledge Classics) by Frances Amelia Yates ISBN: 0415267692 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 09 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age (Routledge Classics) by Frances Amelia Yates ISBN: 0415254094 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances Amelia Yates ISBN: 0226950077 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: February, 1991 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Hermetica : The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation, with Notes and Introduction by Brian P. Copenhaver ISBN: 0521425433 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.00 |
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Title: The Masters Revealed: Madam Blavatsky and the Myth of the Great White Lodge (Suny Series in Western Esoteric Traditions) by K. Paul Johnson, Paul K. Johnson ISBN: 0791420647 Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr Pub. Date: January, 1995 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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