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| Preface to the Reader's Edition | |
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| Preface to the Diamond Jubilee Edition | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Ancient Mysteries and Secret Societies Which Have Influenced Modern Masonic Symbolism, Part I | |
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| Ancient systems of education | |
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| Celsus concerning the Christians | |
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| Knowledge necessary to right living | |
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| The Druidic Mysteries of Britain and Gaul | |
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| The Rites of Mithras | |
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| The Mithraic and Christian Mysteries contrasted | |
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| The Ancient Mysteries and Secret Societies, Part II | |
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| The Gnostic Mysteries | |
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| Simon Magus and Basilides | |
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| Abraxas, the Gnostic concept of Deity | |
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| The Mysteries of Serapis | |
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| Labyrinth symbolism | |
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| The Odinic, or Gothic, Mysteries | |
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| The Ancient Mysteries and Secret Societies, Part III | |
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| The Eleusinian Mysteries | |
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| The Lesser Rites | |
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| The Greater Rites | |
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| The Orphic Mysteries | |
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| The Bacchic Mysteries | |
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| The Dionysiac Mysteries | |
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| Atlantis and the gods of Antiquity | |
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| Plato's Atlantis in the light of modern science | |
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| The Myth of the Dying God | |
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| The Rite of Tammuz and Ishtar | |
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| The Mysteries of Atys and Adonis | |
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| The Rites of Sabazius | |
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| The Cabiric Mysteries of Samothrace | |
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| The Life and Writings of Thoth Hermes Trismegistus | |
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| Suppositions concerning identity of Hermes | |
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| The mutilated Hermetic fragments | |
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| The Book of Thoth | |
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| Poimandres, the Vision of Hermes | |
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| The Mystery of Universal Mind | |
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| The Seven Governors of the World | |
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| The Initiation of the Pyramid | |
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| The opening of the Great Pyramid by Caliph al Mamoun | |
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| The passageways and chambers of the Great Pyramid | |
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| The riddle of the Sphinx | |
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| The Pyramid Mysteries | |
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| The secret of the Pyramid coffer | |
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| The dwelling place of the Hidden God | |
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| Isis, the Virgin of the World | |
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| The birthdays of the gods | |
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| The murder of Osiris | |
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| The Hermetic Isis | |
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| The symbols peculiar to Isis | |
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| The Troubadours | |
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| The mummification of the dead | |
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| The Sun, a Universal Deity | |
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| The Solar Trinity | |
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| Christianity and the Sun | |
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| The birthday of the Sun | |
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| The three Suns | |
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| The celestial inhabitants of the Sun | |
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| The midnight Sun | |
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| The Zodiac and Its Signs | |
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| Primitive astronomical instruments | |
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| The equinoxes and solstices | |
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| The astrological ages of the world | |
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| The circular zodiac of Tentyra | |
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| An interpretation of the zodiacal signs | |
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| The horoscope of the world | |
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| The Bembine Table of Isis | |
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| Plato's initiation in the Great Pyramid | |
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| The history of the Bembine Table | |
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| Platonic theory of ideas | |
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| The interplay of the three philosophical zodiacs | |
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| The Chaldean philosophy of triads | |
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| The Orphic Egg | |
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| Wonders of Antiquity | |
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| The ever-burning lamps | |
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| The oracle of Delphi | |
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| The Dodonean oracle | |
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| The oracle of Trophonius | |
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| The Seven Wonders of the world | |
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| The initiated architects | |
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| The Life and Philosophy of Pythagoras | |
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| Pythagoras and the School of Crotona | |
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| Pythagoric fundamentals | |
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| The symmetrical solids | |
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| The symbolic aphorisms of Pythagoras | |
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| Pythagorean astronomy | |
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| Kepler's theory of the universe | |
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| Pythagorean Mathematics | |
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| The theory of numbers | |
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| The numerical values of letters | |
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| Method of securing the numerical power of words | |
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| An introduction to the Pythagorean theory of numbers | |
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| The sieve of Eratosthenes | |
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| The meanings of the ten numbers | |
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| The Human Body in Symbolism | |
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| The philosophical manikin | |
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| The three universal centers | |
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| The temples of initiation | |
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| The hand in symbolism | |
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| The greater and lesser man | |
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| The Anthropos, or Oversoul | |
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| The Hiramic Legend | |
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| The building of Solomon's Temple | |
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| The murder of CHiram Abiff | |
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| The martyrdom of Jacques de Molay | |
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| The spirit fire and the pineal gland | |
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| The wanderings of the astronomical CHiram | |
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| Cleopatra's Needle and Masons' marks | |
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| The Pythagorean Theory of Music and Color | |
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| Pythagoras and the diatonic scale | |
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| Therapeutic music | |
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| The music of the spheres | |
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| The use of color in symbolism | |
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| The colors of the spectrum and the musical scale | |
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| Zodiacal and planetary colors | |
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| Fishes, Insects, Animals, Reptiles, and Birds, Part I | |
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| Jonah and the whale | |
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| The fish, the symbol of Christ | |
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| The Egyptian scarab | |
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| Jupiter's fly | |
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| The serpent of wisdom | |
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| The sacred crocodile | |
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| Fishes, Insects, Animals, Reptiles, and Birds, Part II | |
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| The dove, the yonic emblem | |
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| The self-renewing phoenix | |
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| The Great Seal of the United States of America | |
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| Bast, the cat goddess of the Ptolemies | |
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| Apis, the sacred bull | |
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| The monoceros, or unicorn | |
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| Flowers, Plants, Fruits, and Trees | |
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| The flower, a phallic symbol | |
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| The lotus blossom | |
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| The Scandinavian World Tree, Yggdrasil | |
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| The sprig of acacia | |
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| The juice of the grape | |
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| The magical powers of the mandrake | |
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| Stones, Metals, and Gems | |
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| Prehistoric monuments | |
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| The tablets of the Law | |
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| The Holy Grail | |
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| The ages of the world | |
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| Talismanic jewels | |
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| Zodiacal and planetary stones and gems | |
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| Ceremonial Magic and Sorcery | |
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| The black magic of Egypt | |
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| Doctor Johannes Faustus | |
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| The Mephistopheles of the Grimores | |
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| The invocation of spirits | |
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| Pacts with demons | |
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| The symbolism of the pentagram | |
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| The Elements and Their Inhabitants | |
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| The Paracelsian theory of submundanes | |
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| The orders of elemental beings | |
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| The Gnomes, Undines, Salamanders, and Sylphs | |
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| Demonology | |
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| The incubus and succubus | |
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| Vampirism | |
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| Hermetic Pharmacology, Chemistry, and Therapeutics | |
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| The healing methods of Paracelsus | |
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| Palingenesis | |
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| Hermetic theories concerning the cause of disease | |
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| Medicinal properties of herbs | |
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| The use of drugs in the Mysteries | |
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| The sect of the Assassins | |
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| The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel | |
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| The written and unwritten laws | |
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| The origin of the Qabbalistic writings | |
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| Rabbi Simeon ben Jochai | |
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| The great Qabbalistic books | |
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| The divisions of the Qabbalistic system | |
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| The Sepher Yetzirah | |
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| Fundamentals of Qabbalistic Cosmogony | |
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| AIN SOPH and the Cosmic Egg | |
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| The Qabbalistic system of worlds | |
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| The Qabbalistic interpretation of Ezekiel's vision | |
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| The great image of Nebuchadnezzar's dream | |
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| The Grand Man of the universe | |
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| The fifty gates of life | |
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| The Tree of the Sephiroth | |
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| The thirty-two paths of wisdom | |
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| The Greater and the Lesser Face | |
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| Kircher's Sephirothic Tree | |
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| The mystery of Daath | |
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| The three pillars supporting the Sephirothic Tree | |
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| The four letters of the Sacred Name | |
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| Qabbalistic Keys to the Creation of Man | |
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| Gematria, Notarikon, and Temurah | |
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| The Elohim | |
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| The four Adams | |
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| Arabian traditions concerning Adam | |
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| Adam as the archetype of mankind | |
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| The Early Christian Church on the subject of marriage | |
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| An Analysis of the Tarot Cards | |
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| The origin of playing cards | |
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| The rota mundi of the Rosicrucians | |
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| The problem of Tarot symbolism | |
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| The unnumbered card | |
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| The symbolism of the twenty-one major trumps | |
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| The suit cards | |
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| The Tabernacle in the Wilderness | |
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| Moses, the Egyptian initiate | |
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| The building of the Tabernacle | |
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| The furnishings of the Tabernacle | |
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| The Ark of the Covenant | |
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| The Robes of Glory | |
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| The Urim and Thummim | |
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| The Fraternity of the Rose Cross | |
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| The life of Father C.R.C. | |
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| Johann Valentin Andreae | |
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| The alchemical teachings of the Rosicrucians | |
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| Significance of the Rose Cross | |
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| The Rosicrucian Temple | |
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| The adepts of the Rose Cross | |
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| Rosicrucian Doctrines and Tenets | |
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| The Confessio Fraternitatis | |
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| The Anatomy of Melancholy | |
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| John Heydon on Rosicrucianism | |
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| The three mountains of the wise | |
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| The philosophical egg | |
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| The objects of the Rosicrucian Order | |
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| Fifteen Rosicrucian and Gabbalistic Diagrams | |
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| Schamayim, the Ocean of Spirit | |
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| The Seven Days of Creation | |
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| The symbolic tomb of Christian Rosencreutz | |
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| The regions of the elements | |
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| The New Jerusalem | |
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| The grand secret of Nature | |
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| Alchemy and Its Exponents | |
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| The multiplication of metals | |
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| The medal of Emperor Leopold I | |
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| Paracelsus of Hohenheim | |
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| Raymond Lully | |
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| Nicholas Flammel | |
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| Count Bernard of Treviso | |
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| The Theory and Practice of Alchemy, Part I | |
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| The origin of alchemical philosophy | |
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| Alexander the Great and the talking trees | |
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| Nature and art | |
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| Alchemical symbolism | |
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| The Song of Solomon | |
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| The Philosopher's Gold | |
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| The Theory and Practice of Alchemy, Part II | |
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| The alchemical prayer | |
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| The Emerald Tablet of Hermes | |
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| A letter from the Brothers of R.C. | |
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| The magical Mountain of the Moon | |
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| An alchemical formula | |
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| The dew of the sages | |
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| The Chemical Marriage | |
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| Christian Rosencreutz is invited to the Chemical Wedding | |
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| The Virgo Lucifera | |
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| The philosophical Inquisition | |
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| The Tower of Olympus | |
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| The homunculi | |
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| The Knights of the Golden Stone | |
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| Bacon, Shakspere, and the Rosicrucians | |
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| The Rosicrucian mask | |
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| Life of William Shakspere | |
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| Sir Francis Bacon | |
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| The acrostic signatures | |
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| The significant number thirty-three | |
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| The philosophic death | |
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| The Cryptogram as a Factor in Symbolic Philosophy | |
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| Secret alphabets | |
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| The biliteral cipher | |
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| Pictorial ciphers | |
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| Acroamatic ciphers | |
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| Numerical and musical ciphers | |
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| Code ciphers | |
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| Freemasonic Symbolism | |
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| The pillars raised by the son of Seth | |
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| Enoch and the Royal Arches | |
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| The Dionysiac Architects | |
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| The Roman Collegia | |
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| Solomon, the personification of Universal Wisdom | |
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| Freemasonry's priceless heritage | |
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| Mystic Christianity | |
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| St. Iranaeus on the life of Christ | |
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| The original name of Jesus | |
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| The Christened man | |
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| The Essenes | |
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| The Arthurian cycle | |
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| Merlin the Mage | |
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| The Cross and the Crucifixion | |
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| The Aurea Legenda | |
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| The lost libraries of Alexandria | |
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| The cross in pagan symbolism | |
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| The crucifixion, a cosmic allegory | |
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| The crucifixion of Quetzalcoatl | |
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| The nails of the Passion | |
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| The Mystery of the Apocalypse | |
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| The sacred city of Ephesus | |
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| The authorship of the Apocalypse | |
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| The Alpha and Omega | |
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| The Lamb of God | |
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| The Four Horsemen | |
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| The number of the beast | |
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| The Faith of Islam | |
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| The life of Mohammed | |
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| The revelation of the Koran | |
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| The valedictory pilgrimage | |
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| The tomb of the Prophet | |
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| The Caaba at Mecca | |
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| The secret doctrine of Islam | |
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| American Indian Symbolism | |
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| The ceremony of the peace pipe | |
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| The historical Hiawatha | |
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| The Popol Vuh | |
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| American Indian sorcery | |
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| The Mysteries of Xibalba | |
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| The Midewiwin | |
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| The Mysteries and Their Emissaries | |
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| The Golden Chain of Homer | |
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| Hypatia, the Alexandrian Neo-Platonist | |
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| The "divine" Cagliostro | |
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| The Comte de St.-Germain | |
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| The designing of the American flag | |
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| The Declaration of Independence | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |