BF 1623

R7 J54 1879

Ballantyne Press

BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND co.

EDINBURGH AND LONDON

THE

ROSICRUCIANS

Their Rites and Mysteries

WITH CHAPTERS

ON THE ANCIENT FIRE- AND SERPENT-WORSHIPPERS,
AND EXPLANATIONS OF THE MYSTIC SYMBOLS

REPRESENTED IN THE MONUMENTS AND
TALISMANS OF THE PRIMEVAL
PHILOSOPHERS

SECOND EDITION

REVISED, CORRECTED, AND CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED

BY HARGRAVE JENNINGS

AUTHOR OF THE INDIAN RELIGIONS; OR, RESULTS OF THE MYSTERIOUS BUDDHISM;
"CURIOUS THINGS OF THE OUTSIDE WORLD; ""LIVE LIGHTS OR DEAD LIGHTS

(ALTAR OR TABLE?);" "ONE OF THE THIRTY; ""THE OBELISK
(ITS ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND PURPOSE)," ETC. ETC.

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ILLUSTRATED BY UPWARDS OF THREE HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS.

London

CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY

1879

[The right of translation is reserved.]

"Vnto the very points and prickes, here are to be found great misteries." -Nicholas Flammel, 1399.

"Quod sit Castellum in quo Fratres degunt? Quinam et quales ipsi sint? Cur, inter alia nomina, appellêtur Fratres? cur CRUCIS? cur RosaCRUCIS?" - Gassendus, 1630.

It is somewhat unusual, I believe, for an author to dedicate a book to his publisher; but the unflagging industry of Mr. HOTTEN, in his double capacity of author and bookseller, has always surprised me, and as some testimony to this activity, and to the fact that he has found—or made-time to write or edit some seven-and-twenty different works, I have, without asking his permission, much pleasure in penning the above.

London, January 1st, 1870.

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