Beschrijving

The journey of the Gnosis through Europe and the Near East has had its effects felt in many parts of the world. The spiritual drive behind this work of liberation of the light-soul is revealed through the birth of the modern spiritual consciousness, which has taken shape within the modern Gnosis through the form and the activity of the International School of the Golden Rosycross. This book deals specifically with that beacon of light, and with the new state of consciousness resulting from the liberation of the Spirit, of the other one in the human being.

Inhoudsopgave

Introduction

Part I - Prehistory

1 The Universal Brotherhood

2 Egypt

3 The Druids

HallowedWoods

4 The Essenes

Part II - Times of Change

5 What is Gnosis?

6 HermesTrismegistus

Hermes theThrice Great

7 Mani of Ctesiphon

Hymn of Mani

8 The Brotherhood of the Bogomils

9 A Church of Pure Love

Part III - A New Fundament

10 The Song of the ‘Friends of God’

Meister Eckhart and Johannes Tauler

11 Marsilio Ficino

An Academy for the Soul

12 Theophrastus Paracelsus, the First Rosicrucian

Hermes is the Source

13 Jakob Böhme

14 Jakob Böhme’s Understanding of the Seven Spirits

15 Johann Valentin Andreae

A New Brotherhood

16 Robert Fludd

‘I doe yet fly on mine owne wings’

17 Jan Amos Komensky - John Amos Comenius

Having Assumed the Torch and Kept It Burning

18 Karl von Eckartshausen

Part IV - The Liberation of the Being of Light

19 Antonin Gadal

20 Z.W. Leene, Jan van Rijckenborgh, and Catharose de Petri

Literature for the Individual Chapters 

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