The Golden Builders

Churton's history of and analysis of the Rosicrucian age is the finest yet to appear in print.

Preface

vi

Acknowledgements

viii

Introduction

ix

PART ONE THE HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY

Hermes - Star of Alexandria

3

(14)

The Vision of Hermes

7

(7)

Neoplatonism and the Hermetic Tradition

14

(3)

Alchemy

17

(9)

Zosimos of Panopolis

21

(5)

Hermes meets Islam

26

(18)

Gnosis in Harran and Baghdad

27

(1)

Thabit

27

(4)

Thabit and the Gral

31

(3)

The Sabian inheritance in the west

34

(4)

Alchemy in the middle ages

38

(2)

Sir George Ripley (c.1415--1490?)

40

(4)

The Hermetic Reniassance

44

(18)

The Mercurial Spirit

45

(4)

Lodovico Lazzarelli - born again gnostic

49

(5)

At the Hermetic bowl

54

(4)

In the Sun

58

(4)

The Hermetic background to the first Rosicrucians

62

(19)

Paracelsus (1483-1541)

64

(3)

The Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom

67

(14)

Notes to Part One

70

(11)

PART TWO THE TRUE STORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS

The Fame of the Fraternity

81

(11)

The Fama

81

(1)

The myth of Christian Rosenkreuz

82

(2)

In the House of the Holy Spirit

84

(4)

Haslmayr and Paracelsus

88

(2)

Plotzkau

90

(2)

The New Age

92

(15)

Apocalyptic

92

(4)

John Dee: Apocalyptic Prophet

96

(3)

Saving the world

99

(1)

The Fiery Trigons

100

(1)

The breaking of the seals

101

(2)

Tobias Hess and the apocalyptic numbers

103

(4)

Hess and Andreae

107

(20)

Andreae and radical reform

115

(1)

Caspar Schwenckfeld (1489-1561)

116

(3)

Sebastian Franck (1499-1542)

119

(2)

Piety & Mysticism

121

(2)

Christoph Besold (1577-1649)

123

(4)

The Greatest Publicity Stunt of all Time

127

(30)

The Rose

127

(3)

The Furore begins

130

(1)

The Stone falls

131

(6)

The Devil in Paris

137

(3)

The Assassination of Truth

140

(12)

Andreae calls Time

152

(1)

Johann Valentin Andreae and History

153

(4)

Others have Laboured

157

(34)

Hit by the Stone

159

(2)

The Stones in Action

161

(1)

Comenius (1592-1671)

162

(2)

A new Court at the Hague

164

(4)

The Royal Society

168

(2)

The Return of the Fama

170

(1)

Witch Hunt

171

(4)

Haunted by Dee's Spirits

175

(16)

Notes to Part Two

178

(8)

Illustrations

186

(5)

PART THREE ELIAS ASHMOLE (1617-1692)

A Mighty Good Man

191

(14)

His Life

193

(4)

Restoration

197

(8)

Elias Ashmole and the origins of Free Masonry

205

(27)

The Mainwarings

208

(4)

Warrington - what happened?

212

(6)

The Old Charges

218

(4)

The Lodge is in the Head - The Acception and the London Masons Company

222

(10)

Notes to Part Three

232

(4)

Bibliography

236

(6)

Index

242

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