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Rosicrucian

adjective
1.
Of or relating to the Rosicrucians.






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"Rosicrucian" Quotes from Famous Books



... was a Rosicrucian tenet, that the demon was assimilated to the object of his care; and in this we are confirmed by the authority of the Doctor himself, who treated very largely on the subject of demons in his lecture on Plato's Phaedon. The powers of his mind were never ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine—Vol. 54, No. 333, July 1843 • Various

... are, however, controlled by the laws which render the elementary race subordinate to the command of man—liable to be subjected by his science, (so the sect of Gnostics believed, and on this turned the Rosicrucian philosophy,) or to be overpowered by his superior courage and daring, when it set ...
— The Monastery • Sir Walter Scott

... general. It is responsible for morbid and fantastic creations like Beckford's "Vathek," Godwin's "St. Leon" and "Caleb Williams," Mrs. Shelley's "Frankenstein," Shelley's "Zastrozzi" and "St. Irvine the Rosicrucian," and the American Charles Brockden Brown's "Ormond" and "Wieland," forerunners of Hawthorne and Poe; tales of sleep-walkers and ventriloquists, of persons who are in pursuit of the elixir vitae, or who have committed the unpardonable sin, or who manufacture monsters in their laboratories, ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century • Henry A. Beers



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