Abstract
WE have since the receipt of this work for review endeavoured to ascertain what notions existed ir the brains of our acquaintances on the subject of the Rosicrucians, and have posed the question “Who and what were they?” to many sorts and conditions of men The minds of many were absolute blanks on this subject: some thought it was the name of a benefit society—some that it was a kind of freemasonry. One gentleman knew Rosicrucian as “the winner of the Alexandra Plate at Ascot in 1871” and but few had any intelligible notion on the matter. We do not estimate our neighbours at a much lower rate than the average; and it may therefore be granted that there is a large section of the British public to whom the Rosicrucians and their doings are unbroken ground, and that there is ample justification for the appearance of a book which is calculated to dispel the prevailing ignorance.
The Real History of the Rosicrucians.
By Arthur Edward Waite. (London: George Redway, 1887.)
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The Rosicrucians . Nature 37, 193–195 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/037193a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/037193a0
