This book was first published in
1918 and its author was William Atkinson who used the pseudonym “Magus
Incognito”.
Original cover and front page
MY OPINION ABOUT THIS BOOK
This book has almost nothing
Rosicrucian and William Atkinson just gave it this title to make it more
striking, it is a compendium of what Atkinson had studied and which is a
mixture of New Thought, Theosophy, and Neo-Theosophy (and nothing of
Rosicrucianism). Which bothers me a lot because if he intended to reveal the
doctrines of the Rosicrucians, at least he could have studied them a bit.
And another thing that I also
dislike is that Atkinson frequently puts texts saying that they are from a
writer or an occultist, but he does not say who this writer or this occultist
is, and even less does he put the references.
However, when one investigates,
one realizes that most of the time this writer is Atkinson himself who is
simply copying what he had already written in one of his previous books. And
for me that is a sign of big laziness, since why is he going to tire of
expressing this idea in a different way, when it is much easier to simply
re-copy what he had already written previously.
But then why republish this bundle, if he had
already published it numerous times before?
Because you must know that he had already published more than a hundred
books saying the same thing before publishing this book!!!
And why claim he that it is now a
Rosicrucian secret teaching, when previously he had already claimed that it was
a secret yogi teaching, an arcane secret teaching and a hermetic secret
teaching?
And this lack of respect for the
readers, as well as its tendency to quackery and the number of errors that this
book contains, make me not recommend studying it. But if you want to do it, I posted
this book on the blog detailing the falsehoods and mistakes that I have found
in its content.
The thirteen chapters can be read in the following links:
Chapter 1. The Rosicrucians and their Secret Doctrine
Chapter 3. The Soul of the World
Chapter 4. The Universal Androgyne
Chapter 5. The One and the Many
Chapter 6. The Universal Flame of Life
Chapter 7. The Planes of Consciousness
Chapter 8. The Three Higher Planes of Consciousness
Chapter 9. The Sevenfold Soul of Man
Chapter 10. Metempsychosis (1st part)
Chapter 10. Metempsychosis (2nd part)
Chapter 11. The Soul's Progress (1st part)
Chapter 11. The Soul's Progress (2nd part)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART
I
THE ROSICRUCIANS AND
THEIR SECRET DOCTRINE
The Legendary Rosicrucians. Truth
and Error Regarding Them. Counterfeit Rosicrucian Orders. Who Are the
Rosicrucians? "The Brothers of the Rosy Cross." The Early History of
the Rosicrucians. The Legend of Christian Rosenkreutz, and the Truth Behind It.
"Look to the East, Whence Comes All Light." Lifting the Veil of
Secrecy. Why the Esoteric Teaching Always Is Secret. The Higher Alchemy.
Contrasting Methods of Orient and Occident. "The Secret Doctrine of the
Rosicrucians." An Age-old Wisdom Teaching. Found in Egypt, Indian, Persia,
Chaldea, Medea, China, Assyria, Ancient Greece, and in the Ancient Hebrew Secret
Teaching. The Basis of Great Oriental Philosophies. The Secret Doctrine of
Atlantis, Its Real Source and Origin. Pythagoras. Gautama, the Buddha.
"The Seven Aphorisms of Creation." The Secret Symbols of the
Rosicrucians. The Explanation of the Symbol of the Rosy Cross.
PART
II
THE ETERNAL PARENT
The Sleep of the Cosmic Night.
Before the Rekindling of the Flame of Spirit. Before the Advent of Time. Before
the Beginning of Change. The Infinite Unmanifest. The Symbol of Infinite Space.
That Which Was Before the Universe Was. The Cosmic Days and Nights. "The
Days and Nights of Brahm." The Essence of the Flame of the Spirit.
"The Dark Flame." Duration Without Time. Pure Duration. Formless
Existence. Absolute Motion Identical With Absolute Rest. Existence Without
Qualities. Superconscious Existence, Not Unconscious Existence. The One-All
Without a Second. The Immeasurable Infinite, The Fathomless Abyss.
PART
III
THE SOUL OF THE WORLD
The Germ Within the Cosmic Egg. The
Formless Takes on Form. The Flame Is Rekindled. The Beginning of Time. The
Commencement of Action. The Manifestation of the Pairs of Opposites. The Birth
of the World Soul. The Dawn of the New Cosmic Day. The Appearance of the
Demiurge. The Presence of the Anima Mundi. The Manifestation of the World
Spirit. The Production of the Logos. The First Born of the Infinite Unmanifest.
The Cosmic Egg. The First Cause. The "Golden Egg of the Kalahansa."
The Symbol of the Egg, in the Secret Doctrine. The Teaching Concerning the
Logos. The Doctrine Respecting the Demiurge. The Universal Will. Plastic
Nature. The Will-to-Live. The First Manifestation. The Garments of the World
Soul. The Thrill of Life in the World Soul.
PART
IV
THE UNIVERSAL ANDROGYNE
The Birth of Sex. The Neuter Becomes
Bi-Sexual. The Cosmic Hermaphrodite. The Universal Androgyne. Bi-Sexuality in
the Universal Manifestation. The Inner Teachings. The Ancient Mysteries.
Phallicism, the Shadow of the Truth. The Symbol of Universal Bi-Sexuality. The
Cross and the Circle. The Phallic Cross. The Swastica. The Rose Cross. The Male
Universal Principle. The Female Universal Principle. Sex Manifest on All Planes
of Existence. The Positive and the Negative Poles of Being. Sex Activity in
Electricity and Magnetism. Sex the Secret of Chemical Affinity. How Love Makes
the World Go Round. How the One Becomes Two, and the Two Becomes the Many.
PART
V
THE ONE AND THE MANY
How the One Becomes the Many. How
Unity Becomes Diversity. How the Identical Becomes Variety. No Separation
Possible to Unity. The Manifold Reflection of the One Reality. The Falling
Raindrops. The Jars of Water. The Ocean of Being and Its Bubbles. Absolute
Being Is One. Relative Being Is Apparently Many. Monism. Involution and
Evolution. The World Soul and Its Material Garments. The Descent into Matter.
The Ascent from Matter. The Spiral Stairway of Being. Sub-Mineral Forms.
Mineral Forms. Plant Forms. Animal Forms. Human Forms. Superhuman Forms.
God-like Forms. How the One Apparently Becomes Many, and Yet Remains One to
Reality. The Paradox of Being.
PART
VI
THE UNIVERSAL FLAME OF
LIFE
The Sparks of the Flame of Life. The
Rosicrucian Symbol of the Flaming Fire. The Fire of Spirit. The Essence of the
Spiritual Flame of Life. Life Is Universal. There is Nothing Without Life in
the Universe. The Universe Is Not Half-dead, but All-Alive. The Living
Universe. Life in the Ether. Life in All Matter. The Universe a Living
Dynamism. Life in the Atoms. Life in the Chemical Elements. Life in the Mineral
World. Life in the Plant World. Life in the Animal World. Life in the Human
World. Life in the Superhuman World. Life in the Divine World. Living Crystals.
Scientific Proof of Life in the Inorganic World. Marvelous Reports of Modern
Science. Metallic Vegetation. How Modern Science Confirms the Secret Doctrine
of the Rosicrucians.
PART
VII
THE PLANES OF
CONSCIOUSNESS
The Seven Planes of Consciousness.
Life the Essence of Spirit. Consciousness the Essence of Life. Everything Is
Conscious. Nothing Is Unconscious. The Plane of Elemental Consciousness. Mental
Action in the Atoms and Electrons. How the Occultist Works "Magic" by
Knowledge of the Elemental Consciousness. The Plane of Mineral Consciousness.
The Presence of Consciousness in the Crystals. The Secret of Cohesion and
Mineral Organization. The Plane of Plant Consciousness. How Plants Manifest
Intelligent Action. Plants Exhibit Consciousness Pertaining to Nutrition,
Nervous Organization, and Thought Processes. Intelligence in Plants. Wonderful
Reports of Modern Science. Rosicrucian Secret Doctrine Corroborated by Modern
Science. The Plane of Animal Consciousness. The Evolution of Mind in the Animal
World. A Fascinating Story.
PART
VIII
THE THREE HIGHER PLANES
OF CONSCIOUSNESS
The Plane of Human Consciousness.
The Dawn of Self-Consciousness. The "I Am I." The Inward Mental Gaze.
Simple Consciousness versus Self-Consciousness. The Psychology of
Self-Consciousness. The Mystery of the Sense of Selfhood. How Man Pays the
Price of Self-Consciousness. The Mastery of Mind. The Plane of the
Consciousness of the Demi-Gods. The Light from Above. Mystic Experiences.
Illumination. Cosmic Consciousness. At One with the Universe. Testimony of the
Poets, Mystics, and Seers. Recognition of the Oversoul. The Phenomenon of
Cosmic Consciousness. Beings Who Function Habitually on the Plane of the
Demi-Gods. Legendary Beings of the Ancients. The Planes of the Consciousness of
the Gods. Transcendental Knowledge. Exalted Beings "Like Unto the Gods."
The Secret of the Archangels. The Truth of the Symbols. The Riddle of the
Symbol.
PART
IX
THE SEVENFOLD SOUL OF MAN
The Soul Is One in Essence, Yet
Wrapped in a Sevenfold Veil. Veils Which Conceal, but Yet Reveal. The Elemental
Soul. The Pattern of Form. The Etheric Double. The So-called Astral Body. The
"Ghost." The Mineral Soul. The Spirit of the Chemical Processes in
the Laboratory of the Body. The Plant Soul. The Spirit of the Vegetable
Processes of Growth in the Body. The Animal Soul., The Spirit of the Animal
Functions of the Body. The Truth About the Animal Passions and the Physical
Processes. The Human Soul. The Spirit of Intellectual Activity and Reasoning
Processes. A Plane of Great Trials and Struggles. The Soul of the Demi-Gods.
The Spirit of the Altruistic Emotions and Activities, and of Cosmic
Consciousness. The Higher Planes of the Soul. The Soul of the Gods. The Spirit
of the Divine Faculties of the Soul. Summary of the Spiritual Evolution from
Element to God-hood.
PART
X
METEMPSYCHOSIS
The Occult Doctrine of
Metempsychosis, Reincarnation, or Transmigration of Souls. The Most Ancient of
the World's Beliefs Concern the Soul. The Teachings of the Ancient Egyptians,
Chaldeans, Persians, Hindus, and Greeks, and of Many Other Ancient Peoples. The
Teaching of the Great Philosophers of All Times. How One Knows for Himself the
Truth of Metempsychosis. Hidden Memories Awakened. Past Events Brought into the
Field of Consciousness. Infant Prodigies, and Their Explanation. Remarkable
Instances of Memories of the Past Life. The Law of Attraction Determines
Rebirth. The Life After Death, and Its Incidents and Phenomena. The Astral
World. The Mystery of the Soul Sleep. The Astral Planes and Sub-planes. Life on
the Astral Planes. How a Soul Is Reborn on Earth. The Current of Rebirth. The
Power of Desire in Determining the Character of Rebirth.
PART
XI
THE SOUL'S PROGRESS
The Chain of the Seven Planets. The
Spiral Stairway of Spiritual Progress. The Ascending Tide of Life. The
Spiritual Wakes. The Seven Rounds. The Seven Races in Each Round. The Fourth
Round on Earth. The First Race. The Second Race. The Third Race. Life in
Lemuria. The Destruction of Lemuria. The Fourth Race. Life in Atlantis. The
Doom of Atlantis. The Atlantean Survivors. The Dawn of the Fifth Race. The
Racial Cataclysms. The History of Modern Man. The Rise and Fall of the
Egyptians, the Persians, the Chaldeans, the Grecians, the Romans, and Other
Great Nations. History Repeats Itself. The Races of the Future. A Fascinating
Tale from the Pages of the Secret Doctrine, Describing the Travel of the Souls
from Planet to Planet, in Successive Rounds; and the Story of the Seven Races
in Which the Soul Incarnates in Each Round on Earth. The Key to Many Historical
Mysteries.
PART
XII
THE AURA AND THE AURIC
COLORS
The Human Aura or Psychic
Atmosphere. The Astral Colors of the Aura. What the Aura Really Is. The Characteristics
of the Aura. Table of the Annie Colors. The Blacks, the Greens, the Grays, the
Reds, the Browns, the Oranges, the Yellows, the Blues. The Infra Reds and the
Ultra Violets. The Manifestation of the Auric Colors by the Individual. The
Effect of Emotion Upon the Auric Colors. The Auric Colors, and How They Reveal
the Mental and Emotional States. How the Clairvoyant Reads the Character of the
Person by Means of the Auric Colors. The Three Primary Auric Colors. Key to the
Auric Colors. Important Teachings Concerning the Effects of Colors Upon Mind
and Body. The Therapeutic Scales of Colors. The Protective Aura. The Color
Secret of Personal Magnetism. Personal Atmosphere, Mental Influence, etc.
PART
XIII
THE SEVEN COSMIC
PRINCIPLES
The Principle of Correspondence.
"As Above, So Below." "From One, Know All." The Rosicrucian
Law of Analogy. The Principle of Law and Order. The Universe Is Governed by
Law. There Is no Chance. Nothing Happens Without Cause. What Chance Really Is. Causation
versus Fatalism. The Principle of Vibration. Everything Vibrates. Vibration,
the Secret of Differences. The Science of Vibration. The Principle of Rhythm.
Everything Beats Time. The Universal Swing of the Pendulum. The Rise and Fall
of the Universal Tides. The Principle of Cycles. Everything Moves in Circles.
Circles and Spirals Constitute the Road to Progress. The Principle of Polarity.
Everything Has Its Opposite. The Pairs of Opposites. The Antinomies. Facts of
Polarity. Mental Alchemy. Balance and Poise. The Principle of Sex. Sex in
Everything. The Masculine Principle. The Feminine Principle. Mental Sex. Sex,
the Secret of Mental Influence. Suggestion, Hypnotism, etc. Sex on the
Spiritual Plane A Startling Presentation of an Important Occult Truth.
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