Tag: rosicrucanism
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What is Rosicrucianism all about?
from straightdope.com: Researching the occult is always tricky since you tend to find at least three times as much (oh, let’s be dainty, shall we?) bull excrement as you might expect from one bull. Wiccans claim descent from old world matriarchal religions, while some Masonic writers claim direct descent from God. The history of Rosicrucianism…
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pythagoras, esoteric traditions and numerology
Pythagoras known for his theorem, also, greatly influenced esoteric traditions. Wikipedia’s entry reports, “Pythagoras started a secret society called the Pythagorean brotherhood devoted to the study of mathematics. This had a great effect on future esoteric traditions, such as Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, both of which were occult groups dedicated to the study of mathematics and…