The Rosicrucians: Their Rites and Mysteries

by Hargrave Jennings

Hargrave Jennings was a nineteenth century English writer and occultist. His vision of the inner knowledge of the Rosicrucians in this book is, at its core, very similar to that of the left-hand Tantric path. Jennings believed that the doctrines of the Rosicrucians were derived from ancient phallic worship, and to a lesser extent fire and serpent worship. In this book, Jennings constructs elaborate and constantly shifting sets of correspondences. He tries to interrelate huge sets of symbols and objects in his search for the elusive Rosicrucians. This edition is a facsimile reproduction of the text from the 1887 John C. Nimmo edition.

Genres: History, Occult, Religion, Philosophy, Spirituality

314 pages, Paperback

Published September 30, 2009

About the author

1817?-1890

Reviews

[Nox Prognatus · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a Must read if you are interested in the Rosicrucians, Alchemy, and related esoteric subjects. JENNINGS puts together a lot of ancient wisdom and pantheon, to describe the alchemical nature of the bible, Gnostics, Templars, Cabalists, to put it all together in the history of the Rosicrucians is fascinating.

I found the part relating to king Arthur, the holy grail, and blood royal interesting, and deserving of more research. I have read Laurence Gardner's work on this, and this book touches on this subject.
Nox

[Lucas · Rating 2 out of 5]

We get it, tall buildings are giant phalluses. Anyway, some really interesting concepts were brought up by the author at times, but as a whole it could have been presented better.

[Joe · Rating 3 out of 5]

I only read about half of this one as it wasn't as interesting as other Rosicrucian writings I have read.

[Averill · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pure Rosicrucian propaganda lol. It was an ok book.

[Richard · Rating 3 out of 5]

Now I can see where Blavatsky's hermeneutic comes from.