{"id":1187,"date":"2009-08-08T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2009-08-08T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T15:14:00","slug":"all-great-men-were-rosicrucians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1187","title":{"rendered":"All Great Men Were … Rosicrucians?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s the 100th anniversary of modern Rosicrucianism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For all their concern about tracing lineage, however, it is possible to find beneath the umbrella of modern Rosicrucianism just about any belief, philosophy or superstition you might care to name \u2013 pantheism, reincarnation, alchemy, psychic power, astral out-of-body travel, telepathy. There are Cosmic Ray Coincidence Counters and Sympathetic Vibration Harps. And you can corral just about any historic hero \u2013 Plato, Dante, Descartes, Newton \u2013 into secret membership of the movement (unbeknown, of course, to the dull minds of conventional historians).<\/span><\/p>\n

For all the snarkiness, at least one serious historian of esoteric movements is quoted in the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s the 100th anniversary of modern Rosicrucianism. For all their concern about tracing lineage, however, it is possible to find beneath the umbrella of modern Rosicrucianism just about any belief, philosophy or superstition you might care to name \u2013 pantheism, reincarnation, alchemy, psychic power, astral out-of-body travel, telepathy. There are Cosmic Ray Coincidence Counters and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10,89,72],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-american-religion","tag-esotericism","tag-magick"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-j9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":992,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=992","url_meta":{"origin":1187,"position":0},"title":"Pomegranate 9.2","author":"Chas S. 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