On closer consideration, students of the Confessio will realize that this old document is not a confession of faith in the ordinary sense, not a dogmatic exposition of what does and does not agree with the convictions of the Rosicrucians, but a tremendous piece of prophecy.

After seven days of ceremonies and tests, Christian Rosycross is dubbed a Knight of the Golden Stone. But not selfishness, deception and pride allowed him to win, but his great humility and self-knowledge. In the end, his credo is: The highest knowledge is that we know nothing. In the afterword, Jan van Rijckenborgh gives a scenario of the future.

Amongst other things, it explains what the concept 'Rosycross' signifies. The 17th-century brotherhood is placed against the background of its time and concepts like the Trigonum Igneum, the fiery triangle, a key to the everyday spiritual mode of life of the Rosicrucians, are extensively explained.

A treasure always nearby. Sublime.

Written down some 2600 years ago, the Tao Te Ching is a brief text consisting of only 81 short chapters, yet it is so charged with meaning that it contains everything the seeker of liberation needs to know.

In The Coming New Man, Jan van Rijckenborgh describes the human being as a system of bodies enclosed by a microcosm. The divine nucleus is located at the center of this microcosm, the center of the original human being we once were. The central issue is: who were we, who are we, and where are we going?

The Book of Mirdad, a much loved classic tale which has touched the hearts of so many readers, continues to show new generations how it is possible to expand one's consciousness, to uncover God in man by dissolving man's sense of duality.

The 'Tradition' and the fate of Maier's thought.

A thoughtful look at the role of the alchemist in the 17th and 18th centuries, as depicted in a selection of paintings from the Eddleman and Fisher Collections.

Delving into a rich variety of alchemical writings from Aquinas to Zoroaster and a wide range of literary texts, the Dictionary supplies ample evidence for the myriad ways in which alchemical thinking and imagery entered into the broader culture of early modern Europe through poetry, drama, and literature.

A general introduction discusses the contexts of alchemical poetry--historical, scientific, and literary--and provides a rationale for the study of this heretofore neglected genre.

Historians of alchemy from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds will welcome the fine contribution to a prestigious series.

Contents: Hermetic Philosophy; Seven Hermetic Principles; Mental Transmutation; The All; the Mental Universe; Divine Paradox; "The All" in All; Planes of Correspondence; Vibration; Polarity; Rhythm; Causation; Gender; Mental Gender; Hermetic Axioms.

The second volume of 'The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis and Its Call in the Eternal Present' describes the requirements and stages of the path to liberation in detail. It includes the texts of the third through ninth books of the Corpus Hermeticum with extensive esoteric commentary, a full color illustration by Johfra entitled 'The Arch-Mother' and a 6 page glossary of Gnostic and Rosicrucian terms.

Volume 4 of 'The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis and Its Call in the Eternal Present' describes the results of the path of liberation. The heart and mind of the candidate are purified by truth, by the holy spirit. This leads to freedom from karma. A new consciousness and a new thinking, which experiences and recognizes the truth, develop. Life can then be lived in harmony with truth.