Lives of alchemystical philosophers: To which is added a bibliography of alchemy and hermetic philosophyWaite, Arthur Edward
Philosophy
Lives of alchemystical philosophers: To which is added a bibliography of alchemy and hermetic philosophy
Waite, Arthur Edward
Alchemists -- Biography; Alchemy -- Bibliography; Alchemy -- History
=THE REAL HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS.= Founded on their own
Manifestoes, and on Facts and Documents collected from the Writings of
Initiated Brethren. By ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE.
“We desire to speak of Mr Waite’s work with the greatest respect on
the points of honesty, impartiality, and sound scholarship. Mr Waite
has given, for the first time, the documents with which Rosicrucianism
has been connected _in extenso_.”--_Literary World._
“There is something mysterious and fascinating about the history of
the Virgin Fraternity of the Rose.”--_Saturday Review._
“A curious and interesting story of the doings of a mysterious
association in times when people were more ready to believe in
supernatural phenomena than the highly-educated, matter-of-fact people
of to-day.”--_Morning Post._
_Crown 8vo, cloth, with Frontispiece, price 7s. 6d. Third Edition,
revised and enlarged._
=MAGIC, WHITE AND BLACK; or, The Science of= Finite and Infinite
Life, containing Practical Hints for Students of Occultism. By FRANZ
HARTMANN, M.D.
“Dr Hartmann’s ‘Magic,’ as compared with ‘Light on the Path,’ is a
bulky tome; and in its closely-printed pages students of occultism
will find hints, ‘practical’ and otherwise, likely to be of great
service to them in the pursuit of their studies and researches. It was
not the author’s ‘object, in composing this book, to write merely a
code of Ethics, and thereby to increase the already existing enormous
mountain of unread moral precepts, but to assist the student of
occultism in studying the elements of which his own soul is composed,
and to learn to know his own physical organism. I want to give an
impulse to the study of a science which may be called the “anatomy and
physiology of the Soul,” which investigates the elements of which the
soul is composed, and the source from which man’s desires and emotions
spring.’ Dr Hartmann’s compendium is ‘an attempt to show the way how
man may become a co-operator of the Divine Power, whose product is
Nature,’ and his pages, as described by himself, ‘constitute a book
which may properly have the title of “Magic,” for if the readers
succeed in practically following its teaching, they will be able to
perform the greatest of all magical feats, the spiritual regeneration
of Man.’ Dr Hartmann’s book has also gone into a third edition, and
has developed from an insignificant pamphlet, ‘written originally for
the purpose of demonstrating to a few inexperienced inquirers that the
study of the occult side of nature was not identical with the vile
practices of sorcery,’ into a compendious volume, comprising, we are
willing to believe, the entire philosophic system of occultism. There
are abundant evidences that the science of theosophy has made vast
strides in public estimation of late years, and that those desirous
of experimenting in this particular and in many respects fascinating,
branch of ethics, have leaders whose teaching they can follow with
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