An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians
Boston: Occult Publishing Co., 1890. Octavo, 188, [4] pages, recently rebound in green pebbled cloth covered boards. Franz Hartmann’s An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians is an important late-nineteenth-century esoteric narrative combining Rosicrucian philosophy, Theosophy, mysticism, alchemy, occult initiation, and spiritual development within the framework of a visionary adventure. Hartmann, a physician, occultist, and prominent early member of the Theosophical movement, uses the narrator’s encounters with a secluded brotherhood of Rosicrucian adepts to explore such subjects as hidden wisdom, the Philosopher’s Stone, reincarnation, astral existence, self-mastery, spiritual regeneration, Christian mysticism, and the relationship between material and higher states of consciousness. First published in 1887, the work occupies an important place in the nineteenth-century occult revival and reflects the intellectual world shared by Hartmann, Helena P. Blavatsky, and contemporary students of Western esotericism. An appealing and collectible work for readers of Rosicrucianism, Theosophy, Hermeticism, alchemy, occult philosophy, mysticism, metaphysics, and secret-society literature. Numerous tape repairs, previous owner's ink stamp and pencil inscription, underlining and marginalia throughout, else in good condition. Item #540
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