The Rosicrucians

Jennings' history joins the nineteenth-century debates that sought to determine the relationships between modern science, religion, and the supernatural.

Preface; 1. Critics of the Rosicrucians criticised; 2. Singular adventure in Staffordshire; 3. Insufficiency of worldly objects; 4. The Hermetic philosophers; 5. An historical adventure; 6. The Hermetic brethren; 7. Mythic history of the fleur-de-lis; 8. Sacred fire; 9. Fire-theosophy of the Persians; 10. Ideas of the Rosicrucians as to the character of fire; 11. Monuments raised to fire-worship in all countries; 12. Druidical stones and their worship; 13. Inquiry as to the possibility of miracle; 14. Can evidence be depended upon? ¿ Examination of Hume's reasoning; 15. Footsteps of the Rosicrucians amidst architectural objects; 16. The round towers of Ireland; 17. Prismatic investiture of the microcosm; 18. Cabalistic interpretations by the Gnostics; 19. Mystic Christian figures and talismans; 20. The 'Rosy Cross' in Indian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and mediaeval monuments; 21. Myth of the scorpion, or the snake, in its many disguises; 22. Ominous character of the colour white to English royalty; 23. The beliefs of the Rosicrucians ¿ meaning of lights and of commemorative flambeaux in all worship; 24. The great pyramid; 25. History of the tower or steeple; 26. Presence of the Rosicrucians in heathen and Christian architecture; 27. The Rosicrucians amidst ancient mysteries and in the orders of knighthood; 28. Rosicrucianism in strange symbols; 29. Connection between the Templars and gnosticism; 30. Rosicrucian origin of the Order of the Garter; 31. Rosicrucian supposed means of magic through signs, sigils, and figures; 32. Astro-theosophical system of the Rosicrucians ¿ the alchemic magisterium.