Product Description

Book Description:

"Franz Hartmann was a 19th century Bavarian physician, theosophist and writer. He emigrated to the United States, and became an American citizen, practicing medicine in the then-frontier areas of the Midwest, including Missouri and Texas. He became interested in Spiritualism, and joined the Theosophists in 1883 at their enclave in Madras, India, a refuge similar in spirit to the one he pictures in this book. He became somewhat disillusioned with Blavatsky, however, and returned to Europe two years later. He remained skeptical of her methods, and in his later years tended toward western rather than eastern esotericism. Personally, however Hartmann remained on good terms with Blavatsky, and was the first to translate The Secret Doctrine into German.

This, the third of Hartmann's books, and the first with a fictional setting, begins with a journey in the Alps. The narrator meets a mysterious dwarf. The dwarf takes him to an Adept who resides in a hidden Rosicrucian colony high in the mountains. This Adept proceeds to expound for a hundred and fifty pages on the Rosicrucian way, including Alchemy, Elementals and the acquisition of psychic powers. There is a demonstration of the transmutation of silver into gold using a red powder. The narrator also meets some of other residents, including two mysterious women who have vivid memories of their past lives, and the doppelganger of the Adept, who sends the narrator on a hallucinogenic night journey to the Indian ocean where he consorts with water spirits.

On the whole, the book is a very straightforward read, unlike some of the other Rosicrucian tales; this is because the framing story is simply a fictional setting in which to examine the ideas, rather than a dense allegory. This book serves as a very compact introduction to this eternally fascinating subject of the 'invisible college'." (Quote from sacred-texts.com)

Table of Contents:

Publisher's Preface; Preface; The Excursion; The Monastery; Unexpected Revelations; The Refectory; Recollections Of Past Lives; The Alchemical Laboratory; The Higher Life; Black Magic; The End; Appendix. A Rosicrucian Institution In Switzerland

About the Publisher:

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, Esoteric and Mythology. www.forgottenbooks.org

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1837351 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-10
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 134 pages

About the Author
About the Author:

"Franz Hartmann (1838 - 1912) was a German physician, theosophist, occultist, geomancer, astrologer, and author of esoteric works. He wrote esoteric studies and a biography of Jakob Bohme and of Paracelsus. He translated the Bhagavad Gita into German and was the editor of the journal Lotusbluten. He was at one time a co-worker of Helena Blavatsky at Adyar. In 1896 he founded a German Theosophical Society. He also supported the Guido-von-List-Society (Guido-von-List-Gesellschaft)," (Quote from wikipedia.org)

Customer Reviews

Great Rosicrucian Work
This fictional tale, paths many truths and hidden gems throughout it's pages. It's a great book for anyone interested in Rosicrucianism, or anyone interested in a fictional spiritual story with a strong ethical and supernatural overtone.

Get This. Read This
Finished the book a little bit ago. It is blowing my mind and has since I picked it up on clearance at a spiritual store. It doesn't matter how Franz Hartmann received the context for this particular work; only that the information is authentic and helpful. Without a doubt it is both and much more.

With Adepts had an inspiring effect on me. It helped me to experience superior emotion. I could feel the words and the content from which the message was coming. Their are some books, (very few), that lift you UP, so you put the book DOWN and feel, and imagine, and contemplate what your receiving in that very moment.

I suggest someone that's new to Rosicrucianism to read and study- Elphas Levi, Blavatsky, Rudolph Steiner, Dion Fortune, Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, and particularly Samael Aun Weor, who synthesized all of them. What's said in With Adepts, which is about 180 pages, is talked about in-depth in these other authers.

Caution: Public Domain Books Being Sold at $9.99
This book was placed on the Kindle books inventory today for $9.99. It should be at the minimum Kindle price of $.99, since it is a novel by the noted 19th century hack Bulwer-Lytton, available widely for free on the Internet.