The Rosicrucian, Vol. 1 of 2: Or Curious Things of the Outside World (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Rosicrucian, Vol. 1 of 2: Or Curious Things of the Outside World

It is felt by the authors of this book that some few remarks are necessary, by way of a preface to a work which claims to be one of so unusual a kind. Some of the questions raised in it are the most important in the world. And the whole treats of matters very seldom brought to notice.

These volumes, then, profess to be an attempt to answer certain questions: - First, What is Fire Worship? respecting which no satisfactory answer has yet been given. Next, to afford a true idea of what the system of the celebrated Rosicrucians, or the "Illuminated," or the "Invisible Brethren," should be. Rigorously, however, never passing over that denned, proper limit, beyond winch elucidation would be betrayal. Thirdly - and if not principally, simply because this attainment is bound up in the substantiation of the other two positions - to establish the assurance philosophically of extra-mundane, or supernatural dealing - as a specially different thing to it - with this world which we inhabit.

The books, ancient and modern, and in almost all languages, which have contributed, in their wealth, multitudinous items of authority to build up the substantial truth of this work, we desire only thus generally to glance at.

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