The rose cross and the age of reason : : eighteenth-century rosicrucianism in Central Europe and its relationship to the Enlightenment / / by Christopher McIntosh.
The Rose Cross deals with the interaction between two movements of thought in eighteenth-century Germany: the philosophy of the Enlightenment, and the complex of ideas known as Rosicrucian. Dating from the early seventeenth century and drawing on Pietism, Freemasonry, Kabbalah and alchemy, the Rosic...
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| Superior document: | Brill's studies in intellectual history, volume 29 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, New York : : E.J. Brill,, 1992. |
| Year of Publication: | 1992 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
v. 29. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (217 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER ONE: THE ENLIGHTENMENT, THE AUFKLÄRUNG AND THEIR OPPONENTS
- CHAPTER TWO: ROSICRUCIANISM FROM ITS ORIGINS TO THE EARLY 18TH CENTURY
- CHAPTER THREE: THE MASONIC PHASE
- CHAPTER FOUR: THE WORLD OF THE INITIATE
- CHAPTER FIVE:THE ALCHEMY OF THE GOLD- UND ROSENKREUZ
- CHAPTER SIX: THE POLEMICAL STANCE OF THE GOLD- UND ROSENKREUZ
- CHAPTER SEVEN: A ROSICRUCIAN ON THE PRUSSIAN THRONE
- CHAPTER EIGHT: THE AUFKLÄRUNG REACTION AND THE DECLINE OF THE GOLD- UND ROSENKREUZ
- CHAPTER NINE: ROSICRUCIANISM IN POLAND AND RUSSIA
- CHAPTER TEN: THE ASIATIC BRETHREN
- CHAPTER ELEVEN: CONCLUSION
- A NOTE ON SOURCES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- ILLUSTRATIONS.