Rose Cross and the Age of Reason Eighteenth-Century Rosicrucianism in Central Europe and Its Relationship to the Enlightenment

Name: Rose Cross and the Age of Reason Eighteenth-Century Rosicrucianism in Central Europe and Its Relationship to the Enlightenment
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ISBN: 9781438435596

ISBN-10: 1438435592

ISBN-13: 9781438435596

Edition: 2011

Authors: Christopher McIntosh

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Book details

List price: $80.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 1/1/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 220
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Christopher McIntosh is a faculty member at the Centre of the Study of Esotericism, University of Exeter, England. He is the author of The Rose Cross and the Age of Reason: Eighteenth-Century Rosicrucianism in Central Europe and its Relationship to the Enlightenment, also published by SUNY Press.



Preface


Foreword to the Second Edition


Introduction



The Enlightenment, the Aufklï¿½rung and Their Opponents



Rosicrucianism from Its Origins to the Early 18th Century



The Masonic Phase



The World of the Initiate



The Alchemy of the Gold- und Rosenkreuz



The Polemical Stance of the Gold- und Rosenkreuz



A Rosicrucian on the Prussian Throne



The Aufklï¿½rung Reaction and the Decline of the Gold- und Rosenkreuz



Rosicrucianism in Poland and Russia



The Asiatic Brethren



Conclusion


A Note on Sources


Bibliography


Index


Illustrations