Hartmann - Cosmology (Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians)

April 25, 2017 | Author: Celephaïs Press / Unspeakable Press (Leng) | Category: N/A
Share Embed Donate


Short Description

Cosmology or Universal Scince -- Cabala -- Alchemy &c. &c. &c. (Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians), butcher...

Description

COSMOLOGY OR

Cabala.

Universal Science.

Alchemy.

CONTAINING

THE MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE, REGARDING

GOD NATURE

MAN,

THE

Macrocosm

and

Microcosm

ETERNITY and TIME EXPLAINED ACCORDING TO

THE RELIGION OF CHRIST BY MEANS OF

THE SECRET SYMBOLS OF THE

ROSICRUCIANS OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES.

, COPIED AND TRANSLATED FROM AN OLD GERMAN MANUSCRIPT, AND PROVIDED WITH A DICTIONARY OF OCCULT TERMS BY

FRANZ HARTMANN, M.D. —————————

BOSTON OCCULT PUBLISHING COMPANY 130 TREMONT STREET 1888

The bulk of this book is translated from a German work published at Altona in two parts in 1785 and 1788 (Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer aus dem 16ten und 17ten Jahrhundert). The 25 plates of symbolic figures with accompanying text are taken from this (much text has been omitted, and eleven plates from the original work left out altogether), as are the texts making up the first half of Part II. The introduction (which says practically nothing about the work to which it is prefaced) and “Vocabulary of Occult Terms” are by Hartmann, as are the annotations to the alchemical and allegorical texts. Texts OCRed and proofed, and figures re-set by Frater T.S. from scans of photocopies of the 1888 edition. Further proofreading may be necessary. Colours on the plates are in many cases conjectural or random, although the original scheme of elemental colours has been retained (according to information in Waite, Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross). By an editorial error, a section of the ‘Glossary’ (from a note to “Macrocosm and Microcosm” through to “Materia Prima”) was placed out of sequence in the print edition; this has been corrected. With this exception, pagination and layout of the text sections has been retained. The alchemical and allegorical texts in Part II were translated by Hartmann, and somewhat rearranged and hacked around, from the Aureum Seculum Redivivum (Golden Age Restored) and Tractatus Aureus (Golden Tractate), two German alchemical tracts of the early 17th century, which prior to their appearance in the Geheime Figuren had been translated into Latin and published in the Hermetic Museum (1625, “restored and enlarged” edition 1678). The Aureum Seculum Redivivum appears pretty much in its entirity (under the titles “Preface” and “Allegory”), although mixed up with extracts from the Tractatus Aureus and with its title page put at the start of Part I for no clear reason. The main part of the Tractatus Aureus, a technical-alchemical treatise bulked out by citations of authorities (about 16 pages at the same page and type size used here) is replaced by a garbled two-page synopsis mis-titled “Introduction.” The untitled foreword “to the Disciple who desires to learn the Hermetic Art” and the “Parable” in Part II are from the Tractatus Aureus. The emblems heading the texts are taken from entirely unrelated works and their descriptions are by Hartmann. Given that German was (as far as I am aware) Hartmann’s first language I have no idea why he made such a mess of the translation; but there are various facts (documented by Manly P. Hall in Codex Rosæ Crucis: D.O.M.A.—which volume incidentally contains a reproduction and English translation of a MS. copy of a German alchemical-Rosicrucian text which was a major source for the Geheime Figuren) suggesting dishonesty rather than—or in addition to—incompetence on Dirty Franz’s part in connection with this publication (for starters, the statement on the title page that it was translated from a manuscript is a lie). A more or less complete English translation (by George Engelke, according to Hall) of the Geheime Figuren was issued in 1935 by the American “Rosicrucian” society AMORC and has seen a number of reprints; it includes much material omitted in the present edition. To be brutal about it, the main reason I prepared the present e-text at all is that Engelke translation is still in copyright and I don’t want to pick a fight with AMORC; whereas the present work is in the public domain. (On further investigation, it turns out that the substantial omission at least is explicable. Some copies of the Altona printing were bound in three parts rather than two, and the omitted plates and texts correspond to the undated “drittes und letzes Heft,” which in other copies, such as those from which Engelke and Hall were working, formed the first half of the “erstes Heft.”) Release 1.01 – 24.08.2009 (fixed a problem on one plate; added remark re omission)

Celephaïs Press Ulthar – Sarkomand – Inquanok – Leeds

celephaispress.blogspot.com

PART I.

AUREUM SECULUM REDIVIVUM or

The Ancient Golden Age, which has disappeared from the Earth, but will reappear; whose germ is beginning to sprout, and will bear blossom and fruit,

by

HENRICUS MADATHANUS THEOSOPHUS, Medicus & tandem, Dei gratia, aureæ crucis frater.

RAB MI

B

S

!

S

N

CEN T NO

CE

ILIA : D EU

RI

TRUM I

!

U

N

IRGO : TRIN V US ET

TRIA S

T N

ET

US UN

!

!

Translated from the German.

O HOM : MA T ER ET TRIGO

“If there is one among You who is deficient in wisdom, let him pray to the spirit of truth, who comes to the simple-minded, but does not obtrude upon any one, and he will surely obtain it.”—Jacob. Epist. v. 5.

——————————————————————— SYMBOLUM AUTHORIS: Centrum Mundi: Granum Fundi.

THE SECRET SYMBOLS OF THE ROSICRUCIANS. ———>
View more...

Comments

Copyright ©2017 KUPDF Inc.
SUPPORT KUPDF