The Rosicrucian Enlightenment
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A history of the role that the occult has played in the formation of modern science and medicine, The Rosicrucian Enlightenmenthas had a tremendous impact on our understanding of the western esoteric tradition. Beautifully illustrated, it remains one of those rare works of scholarship which the general reader simply cannot afford to ignore.
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