Rosicrucianism Essays

  • Rosicrucian Religion

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    Rosicrucian Religion Although some people believe that the Rosicrucian following is relatively new considering other much older beliefs, Rosicrucians claim much earlier beginnings for themselves than can be documented. One group even claims ties to Thutmose III, about 1500 B.C. in Egypt (Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, 1915). Their founder is generally claimed to be Christian Rosenkreuz, supposedly born in 1378 and died in 1484 (Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, 1915). However, the Encyclopedia

  • The Fraud of Modern Psychiatry

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    The Fraud of Modern Psychiatry The word "psychology" is the combination of two terms - study (ology) and soul (psyche), or mind. The derivation of the word from Latin gives it this clear and obvious meaning: The study of the soul or mind. This meaning has been altered over the years until today, this is not what the word means at all. The subject of psychology, as studied in colleges and universities, currently has very little to do with the mind, and absolutely nothing to do with the

  • William Blake "The Visionary"

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    eidetic imagery, a capacity which a number of other poets and artists have manifested. Longinus, for example, wrote of Euripides," the poet here actually saw the fairies with the... ... middle of paper ... ... was false. He studied Behmenism, Rosicrucianism and other esoteric ideas, which came from Neo-Elatonism, Gnosticism and other well springs of profound, if often confused speculation. This reading conformed him in his confidence in the validity of his own experience. This is, in Blake, that

  • Misconceptions about Satanism

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    Misconceptions about Satanism Most religions like Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam have well defined meanings, one exception is Satanism. Most people have their own definition for Satanism. Some people feel that non-Christian religions and all Christian denominations other than their own are forms of Satanism. This would imply that all Buddhists, Hindus, Moslems, and Jews. In fact at least 75% of the world's population would be Satanists. Others feel that all religions other than

  • Yeats and India

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    sources such as nineteenth century English poetry, French symbolists, Imagism and so on so forth. Some of the major influences on his poetry include Irish mythology and folklore, European and Eastern mysticism, the occult and magic, the Caballah and Rosicrucianism, French symbolist and Romantic poetry, theosophy and Hindu philosophy. It would be useful to learn about Irish tradition’s consistent interest in and response to India and some cultural conditions that reciprocated the responses of Ireland and