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| author = Wiggin, J. H. | | author = James Henry Wiggin | ||
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| title = Rosicrucianism in New York | | title = Rosicrucianism in New York | ||
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| source title = Liberal Christian, The | | source title = Liberal Christian, The | ||
| source details = | | source details = New York, September 4, 1875, p. 4 | ||
| publication date = 1875-09-04 | | publication date = 1875-09-04 | ||
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... | {{Style S-Small capitals|The}} science of the “Rosy Cross,” we read about in Bulwer’s “Zanoni,” and in various histories ancient and modern. Of late its study has received a fresh impetus. | ||
<center>{{Style S-Small capitals|rosicrucianism claims}}</center> | |||
{{Style P-No indent|that a brotherhood of occultists has existed and still exists, reaching perfection in the far East; hating black magic and encouraging white; that Jesus belonged to it and initiated into it John, who wrote the Apocalypse; that Jesus died at forty-seven instead of thirty-three; that he was an Essene and studied pure magic in India; that in the fraternity’s archives are preserved grand records of truths about men and nature, which shall be revealed to the world when it righteously hungers therefor; that Rosicrucians can work what are falsely called miracles, by their knowledge of the true essence of things; that in Siamese temple-worship the dead are brought to life, the young grow suddenly old and the old young, women dance in the air; that some of the Rosicrucian disciples never die, having the elixir of life; that they possess the philosopher’s stone; that gold rings can be brought today, and are, from rose-buds; that human bodies can disappear and reappear at will; that they can float in the air; that flying is as easy as to dream it; that the fraternity, seen and unseen, control the fate of nations; that its members directed Washington through his few degrees of freemasonry; that they paid the six milliard Prussian war debt of France; that they control the Carbonari, (secret society), of Italy; that all nature is subject to their decrees through their knowledge of divine laws. These claims are set forth in print, as is also}} | |||
<center>{{Style S-Small capitals|the rosicrucian philosophy.}}</center> | |||
{{Style P-No indent|God dwells alone and is unapproachable. Souls pre-exist. They enter bodies at birth for developing discipline. It is the operation of the undeveloped spirits who have not yet been born into this world and have no consciences, that make the vagaries of Spiritualism and their demonized revelations. Only by conformity to God’s law can truth be reached. Only the pure are entitled to it. Prestidigitateurs like Houdin and Hermann have not the true power, but Magicians have it in the farther east.}} | |||
<center>{{Style S-Small capitals|occultism among us.}}</center> | |||
It is a little startling to find oneself associating with those who possess, or claim to possess, such powers, and are linked with Count St. Germain, Cagliostro, Philalethes, Flood, Roger Bacon and a hundred ancient astrologers and worthies, and to hear of superiors and inferiors in the brotherhood. Yet there are the statements put forward by those who constitute what may be called the aristocracy of Spiritualism. {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|1-55}} | |||
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