The Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians. (Continuation.) [Die geheimen Figuren der Rosenkreuzer. (Fortsetzung.)] Franz Hartmann, M.D.[1] For part I, click here. Translation from the German by Robert Hütwohl This document incorporates live notes. Click on a superscripted endnote number in the text to jump to its corresponding endnote; click on the superscripted endnote numeral in […]
The Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians (Part 1) [Die geheimen Figuren der Rosenkreuzer] Franz Hartmann, M.D.[1] Translation from the German by Robert Hütwohl For Part II, click here. This document incorporates live notes. Click on a superscripted endnote number in the text to jump to its corresponding endnote; click on the superscripted endnote numeral […]
Life in the “afterlife” and communication with spirits. (According to the Kabbalah.) Franz Hartmann, M.D.[1] Translation from German by Robert Hutwohl When a person dies, leaving his physical body, what remains of him can be considered a trinity consisting of the following: Neschamah, the true psyche or the celestial soul (anima divina), whose home […]
In the Antechamber of the Rosicrucian Temple[1] By Franz Hartmann, M.D.[2] Translation from German by Robert Hutwohl This document incorporates live notes. Click on a superscripted endnote number in the text to jump to its corresponding endnote; click on the superscripted endnote numeral in the endnotes to return to the original text reference. […]
The Rosicrucian Digest, November 1953. It was in 1908 when, as a boy of only sixteen years, I made the acquaintance of Dr Franz Hartmann, Germany’s then foremost mystic. This meeting occurred in Danzig, where was located at that time, one of the most prospering lodges of the Theosophical Society. Though my retentive faculty is […]
Seven things are necessary for building the Temple of God in Humanity: the material, the foundation, knowledge, devotion, work, experience, and the blessing of the Master. The material consists of the forces with which we are endowed by nature, and which we must learn to control and render subordinate to our design. All these forces […]
Translation from German by Robert Hutwohl [1] “If you are finished, nothing will please you. A person who is becoming will always be more thoughtful.” Goethe. If we descend from the Olympic heights, where the pure light of the knowledge of truth dwells, to this world of appearances and look closely at samsara […]
Note[i] THE question has been asked: “What is the Philosopher’s Stone? Is it something entirely spiritual, or has it a material aspect?” The ancient Alchemists and Rosicrucians speak of that “Stone,” as if it were something substantial or material, by means of which “base metals,” such as lead or copper, could be transmuted into […]
[Das Lebens-Elixier] Translation from the German by Robert Hutwohl[1] Even in ancient times it was the wish of many people to escape death and to make themselves immortal. The alchemists of the Middle Ages sought to find a substance by the use of which one could rejuvenate the body, and their ideal was the preparation […]
Note[1] It will perhaps be asked, why in this enlightened century we desire to call attention to Alchemy, which, by the majority of mankind, is looked upon as an array of vagaries, extravagancies and superstitions, having been repeatedly ex-cathedra declared to bo such by modern scientific authorities. To those who put implicit faith in the […]