The Real History of the Rosicrucians Founded on Their Own Manifestoes, and on Facts and Documents Collected from the Writings of Initiated Brethren
- Hardcover
- New York: J. W. Bouton, 1888
New York: J. W. Bouton, 1888. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 446; [22]pp. Octavo [20 cm] Blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine and a gilt stamped design on the front board. Patterned endpapers. Twenty-two pages of publisher's advertisements at the rear. Spine subtly sunned. Spine ends and corners of covers bumped and moderately rubbed. Text block cracked at the center, however book still very sturdy. Very small, minor stains in the fore-edge margins of the terminal leaves. First published in London in 1887, Waite's work collects the mass of material which exists with regards to the Rosicrucians, and depicts the mysterious Brotherhood as they are revealed in their own manifestos and in the writings of those men who were directly or indirectly in connection with them. Subjects include Marriage of Christian Rosencreutz, The Case of Johann Valentin Andreas, Progress of Rosicrucianism in Germany, Rosicrucian Apologists, Rosicrucianism in France, and Modern Rosicrucian Societies.
Brooklyn-born Arthur Edward Waite (1857-1942), a self taught scholar of the occult and major mystic, was one of the major figures of the 'Occult Revival.' Waite's mother brought him and his sister to suburban London at the age of two, after the death of his father. He grew up with little means and not much formal education, and with a strange enthusiasm for the Roman Catholic Church to which his mother had been converted. After the death of his sister in 1874, Waite began to struggle with his faith, to write verse, and to cultivate an interest in occultism. In 1888, this interest flourished further after his failed marriage, and he eventually stumbled upon the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. His later career was consumed with a growing concern for his own secret order, the Fellowship of the Rosy Cross (a Christian mystical Order), with elements combining Masonic, kabbalistic, alchemical, and Tarotic tradition in its rituals.
Citation: Gilbert, R.A. (1985). “The One Deep Student”: Yeats and A. E. Waite. In: Gould, W. (eds) Yeats Annual No. 3. Yeats Annual. Palgrave Macmillan, London.
Brooklyn-born Arthur Edward Waite (1857-1942), a self taught scholar of the occult and major mystic, was one of the major figures of the 'Occult Revival.' Waite's mother brought him and his sister to suburban London at the age of two, after the death of his father. He grew up with little means and not much formal education, and with a strange enthusiasm for the Roman Catholic Church to which his mother had been converted. After the death of his sister in 1874, Waite began to struggle with his faith, to write verse, and to cultivate an interest in occultism. In 1888, this interest flourished further after his failed marriage, and he eventually stumbled upon the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. His later career was consumed with a growing concern for his own secret order, the Fellowship of the Rosy Cross (a Christian mystical Order), with elements combining Masonic, kabbalistic, alchemical, and Tarotic tradition in its rituals.
Citation: Gilbert, R.A. (1985). “The One Deep Student”: Yeats and A. E. Waite. In: Gould, W. (eds) Yeats Annual No. 3. Yeats Annual. Palgrave Macmillan, London.