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The Stone of the Philosophers Edward Kelly           Though I have already twice suffered chains and imprisonment in Bohemia, an indignity which has been offered to me in no other part of the world, yet my mind, remaining unbound, has all this time exercised itself in the study of that philosophy […]

The true history of mental science JULIUS A. DRESSER (1887) Preface The facts given in the following address have been held for many years, until there should be such a general demand for them that they would receive a willing and an unprejudiced ear, and an appreciation in accordance with their merits. Portions of this

Initiations         Paul Sédir (Yvon Le Loup) (1908) “There were some Greeks among them that came to worship God at the feast. They approached Philip, who was of Bethsaida in Galilee and made this request: “Sir, we would see Jesus.” Philip went and told Andrew and both went to tell Jesus. He

The Mysticism of Masonry         Reuben Swinburne Clymer Introductory In placing this volume, which is the revised edition of the book first issued under the title, Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry, I do so without the thought of an apology, owing to the fact that the first edition was received by the earnest

The Book of Lambspring, A Noble Ancient Philosopher, Concerning the Philosophical Stone; PREFACE I am called Lambspring, born of a Noble Family, and this Crest I bear 
with Glory and Justice. Philosophy I have read, and thoroughly understood,
The utmost depth of my teachers’ knowledge have I sounded.
This God graciously granted to me,
Giving me a heart

THE PATH OF INITIATION Max Heindel The transition of the adept from the dominion of death to the realm of immortality was foreshadowed in the daring leap of hiram abiff, the grand master-workman of solomon’s temple, into the seething sea of molten metal and his passage through the nine arch-like strata of the earth which

PSEUDO-ROSICRUCIANS — IMPOSTORS AND FOOLS Franz Hartmann The fool’s paradise is the world of self-created illusions, without the recognition of the underlying eternal truth. The Devil is God inverted. Falsehood is truth perverted. The spirit produces the form to be its true image; but, for all that the form does not always represent the true

ALCHEMY Franz Hartmann Quae sunt in superis hac inferioribus insunt; Quod monstrat coelum, id terra frequenter habet. Ignis, Aqua et Fluitans, due sunt contraria; Felix talia si jungis, sit tibi scire satis. Alchemy is that science which results from a knowledge of God, Nature, and Man. A perfect knowledge of either of them cannot be

AMONG THE “ADEPTS” Franz Hartmann (1901) A belief in the existence of persons endowed with abnormal or extraordinary psychic faculties or magical powers, by which they can produce wonderful effects, such as are not to be explained by the commonly accepted theories of external science, is nothing new. The Bible and the “Acta Sanctorum” are

of passion and the source of worlds. Love became the universal parent, when the Deity, before remote and inscrutable, became ideally separated into the loving and the beloved. And here again recurs the ancient difficulty; that, at whatever early period this creation occurred, an eternity had previously elapsed, during which God, dwelling alone in His