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Home Home Rosicrucian Texts The Rosicrucians: Their Rites and Mysteries Plate 5. Plan of the Basilica, St Peter’s in the ''Vaticano.''

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Plate 5. Plan of the Basilica, St Peter’s in the ''Vaticano.''

Plate 5. Plan of the Basilica, St Peter’s in the ''Vaticano.''

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Part I, Chapter 18
Preface to Third Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Contents
Chapter I. Critics of the Rosicrucians Criticized
Chapter II. Singular Adventure in Staffordshire
Chapter III. Ever-Burning Lamps
Chapter IV: Insufficiency of Worldly Objects
Chapter V: The Hermetic Philosophers
Chapter VI. An Historical Adventure
Chapter VII: The Hermetic Brethren
Chapter VIII: Mythic History of the Fleur-de-Lis
Chapter IX: Sacred Fire
Chapter X. Fire-Theosophy of the Persians
Chapter XI. Ideas of the Rosicrucians as to the Character of Fire
Chapter XII. Monuments Raised to Fire-Worship in All Countries
Chapter XIII: Druidical Stones and their Worship
Chapter XIV: Inquiry as to the Possibility of Miracle
Chapter XV: Can Evidence be Depended Upon? Examination of Hume’s Reasoning
Chapter XVI: Footsteps of the Rosicrucians Amidst Architectural Objects
Chapter XVII: The Round Towers of Ireland
Chapter XIX: Cabalistic Interpretations by the Gnostics
Chapter XX: Mystic Christian Figures and Talismans
Charts 1-3
Chapter XXI: The Rosy Cross in Indian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Mediæval Monuments
Chapter XXII: Myth of the Scorpion, or the Snake, in its Many Disguises
Chapter XXIII: Ominous Character of the Colour 'White' to English Royalty
Chapter XXIV: The Beliefs of the Rosicrucians--Meaning of Lights and of Commemorative Flambeaux in All Worship
Chapter XXV: The Great Pyramid
Chapter I. History of the Tower or Steeple
Chapter II. Presence of the Rosicrucians in Heathen and Christian Architecture
Chapter III. The Rosicrucians Amidst Ancient Mysteries. Their Traces Discoverable in the Orders of Knighthood
Chapter IV: Rosicrucianism in Strange Symbols
Chapter V: Connexion Between the Templars and Gnosticism
Chapter VI. Strange Speculations of the Transcendentalists
Chapter VII: Rosicrucian Origin of the Order of the Garter
Chapter VIII: Rosicrucian Supposed Means of Magic Through Signs, Sigils, and Figures
Chapter IX: Astro-Theosophical (Extra-Natural) System of the Rosicrucians--The Alchemic Magisterium or 'Stone'
Chapter X. Rosicrucian 'Celestial' and 'Terrestrial' (Means of Intercommunication)
Chapter XI. The Pre-Adamites. Profound Cabalistic or Rosicrucian Speculations
Chapter XII: The Adapted Rosicrucian Contemplation. Intrusion Of Sin. Ruins Of The Old Worlds
Chapter XIII: Indian Mysterious Adoration of Forms. The Unity of the Mythologies Found in the Bhuddistic and Mohammedan Temples
Chapter XIV: Doctrine and Rationale. The Embodied 'Children of the Elements', Both of Heathen and of Christian Periods
Chapter XV: Robert Flood (Robertus de Fluctibus), The English Rosicrucian
Chapter XVI. Notices of Ancient Authorities
Chapter XVII. Mysteries of the Ancients. The Ark of Noah
Chapter XVIII: Cabalistic Illustrations. The San-Grëale, Greal, or Holy Grëale
Chapter XIX: The Round Table is the Rationale or Apotheosis of the Most Noble The Order of the Garter
Chapter XX: Remarks Upon Two Curious Books
Chapter XXI: Remarks Relating to the Great Mystic, Robert 'de Fluctibus'
Chapter XXII: Alchemy. The Power of Producing Gold and Silver, Through Artificial Means. Doctrine of the Rosicrucians
Chapter XXIII: The Outline of the Cabala, or Kabbalah...
Chapter XXIV: And Last; Cabalistic Profundities
Plate 1. Ever-Burning Rosicrucian Lamps
Plate 2. Sacerdote di Cerere
Plate 3. Gnostic Gems
Plate 4. The Round Table of King Arthur
Plate 5. Plan of the Basilica, St Peter’s in the ''Vaticano.''
Plate 6. Temple of Keylas, or Paradise (Ellora, in the East Indies)
Plate 7. Mysterium [Noah's Ark]
No. 8. Astronomical and Astrological ''Rosicrucian'' Plan
No. 9. Mythological Interchange of ''Macrocosm'' and ''Microcosm.''
No. 10. Chart A. Cabalistic--Astrological and Astronomical. Chaldaic Mysteries
No. 11. Chart B. Cabalistic (Rosicrucian). Mystery of the Interchange of Light and Dark
No. 12. Chart C. Cabalistic (Rosicrucian). Production of the Visible Worlds; Generation of the Microcosmos
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