alex you KNOW??
- Skinny 2-01-2002 6:36 pm

Alex this also came up as the book was bound by Rabbi Zoroasters
- Skinny 2-01-2002 6:57 pm [
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Rosicrucianism was a genuine phenomenon in its time, and a self-mythologizing affair from the start. By now it's become another of those banners under which all sorts of wacky new-agers and such try to position themselves. I think it's best understood as the mystical consequence of the Reformation; Traditional esotericism finding a new manifestation in the context of mystery-poor Protestantism. It is true though, that "rosicrucian" ideas were an important backdrop for the beginnings of what we now call the Enlightenment.

Though not really a Rosicrucian, or even an alchemist, perhaps the greatest figure associated with these Hermetic trends was Jacob Boehme, who's mystical dialectics had a deep (though often overlooked) effect on Western philosophy. This is clear in Hegel, and through him, Marx. Thus even the liberal, scientific, materialist tradition has roots deep in visionary insight.

- alex 2-01-2002 7:04 pm [add a comment]



well i dont remember this 1 PR (1 year Pre Ryley) post but we do have 2 of his books, nothing like the one at the Rubin, so love has come home in so many ways
- Skinny 4-26-2010 4:38 pm [add a comment]





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