THE ROSICRUCIANS Their Rites and Mysteries WITH CHAPTERS ON THE ANCIENT FIRE- AND SERPENT-WORSHIPPERS, REPRESENTED IN THE MONUMENTS AND SECOND EDITION REVISED, CORRECTED, AND CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED " + BY HARGRAVE JENNINGS AUTHOR OF THE INDIAN RELIGIONS; OR, RESULTS OF THE MYSTERIOUS BUDDHISM; 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 miste -Nicholas Flammel, 13 "Quod sit Castellum in quo Fratres degunt? Quinam et quales ipsi Cur, inter alia nomina, appellêtur Fratres? cur CRUCIS? cur R CRUCIS?" -Gassendus, 16 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. |