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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| My Rosicrucian Adventure | |
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| The Stars | |
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| The Importance of Revelation | |
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| The Reformation | |
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| The Last Light | |
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| Johannes Kepler and the New Stars | |
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| A Conjunction on the Pont Neuf, Paris | |
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| T�bingen and the Universe | |
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| The Science | |
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| Rays | |
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| Abu Ma'shar al-Balki | |
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| R�slin versus Kepler | |
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| Grebner and Studion | |
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| A Prince of Utopia | |
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| Interrogation | |
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| Enter the Genius | |
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| The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreuz | |
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| The Whirlpool | |
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| A Gang of Conspirators | |
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| The Alchemical Wedding of Johann Valentin Andreae | |
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| Who Was behind the Fama Fraternitatis? | |
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| Augustus, Prince Elector of Anhalt | |
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| Enter the Rosicrucians | |
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| Fama Fraternitatis, or the Brotherhood of the Most Commendable Order Roseae Crucis | |
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| Damcar and the Safaians | |
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| The Strange Case of Dr. Adam Haslmayr | |
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| The Search for the Brotherhood | |
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| A House in the Languedoc | |
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| The Decameron | |
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| Montpellier and Maguelone | |
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| Fran�ois Rabelais and the Rosicrucian Brotherhood | |
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| The Reformation of the Whole Wide World | |
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| Raphael Eglin | |
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| Hesse-Kassel | |
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| The Signifying Fish | |
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| Alchemical Politics | |
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| The Splash | |
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| The Second-Known Printed Response to the Manuscript Fama Fraternitatis | |
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| The Motive for Publishing the Fama Fraternitatis | |
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| Jesuit Conspiracy | |
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| The Confession of the Fraternity | |
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| John Dee and the More Secret Philosophy | |
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| Rosymania I: The Furor and Its Aftermath | |
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| Julius Sperber and Aegidius Gutmann | |
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| Philip Ziegler, King of the Rosicrucians | |
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| Count Michael Maier | |
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| Robert Fludd | |
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| Rosymania II: Educating the World | |
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| Sir Francis Bacon | |
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| Bacon's New Atlantis and the Fama Fraternitatis | |
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| Rene Descartes and the New Mathematics | |
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| Descartes and Faulhaber | |
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| Joachim Morsius | |
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| Abraham von Franckenberg | |
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| Comenius and Hartlib | |
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| Andreae CosmoXenus | |
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| De Christian Cosmoxeni genitura Judicium | |
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| Chymische Hochzeit: Christiani Rosenkreuz. Anno 1459 | |
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| Turris Babel sive judiciorum de Fraternitate Rosaceae Crucis chaos | |
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| Mythologiae Christianae sive virtutem et vitiorum vitae humanae imaginum libri tres | |
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| Institutio pro magica curiosis (Education for those curious about magic) | |
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| The Societas Christiana | |
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| The Rose Cross in Britain | |
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| Andreae's Image of the Christian Society in England | |
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| Rosicrucians Are Crazy | |
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| Fasciculus chemicus | |
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| The Philosopher's Stone Revealed | |
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| The Way to Bliss | |
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| Poor Robin's Intelligence | |
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| Robert Samber and a Lost Rosicrucian Free Masonry | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Revenge of the Curiosi | |
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| What Is a Rosicrucian? | |
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| The Invisible House | |
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| The Enlightenment | |
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| The Age of Reason | |
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| Samuel Richter | |
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| Hermann fictuld | |
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| Dom Antoine-Joseph Pernety | |
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| The Masonic Eighteenth-Degree Rose Croix | |
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| Martines de Pasquatty | |
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| Baron Karl Gottheif von Hund | |
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| Jean-flaptiste Willermoz | |
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| Louis Claude de St.-Martin | |
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| Hans Heinrich von Ecker und Eckhoffen and Bernhard Joseph Schleis von Lowenfeld | |
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| Alchemy Among the Gold- und Rosenkreiuer | |
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| Social Idealism | |
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| Nikolay Ivanovich Novikov | |
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| The Age of Progress | |
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| Bernard-Raymond Fabre-Palaprat | |
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| Antoine Fabre d'Olivet | |
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| Joseph Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre | |
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| Paschal Beverley Randolph | |
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| The Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn | |
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| Stanislas, Marquis de Guaita; Joseph-Aime (Josephin) Peladan; Gerard-Anaclet-Vincent Encausse, or �Papus� | |
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| The Age of Insanity | |
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| Rudolf Steiner | |
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| Le Comte de Saint-Germain | |
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| Max Heindel (Carl Louis Fredrik Grashof) | |
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| Harvey Spencer Lewis | |
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| The Lectorium Rosicrucianum | |
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| Full Circle | |
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| Noces | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |