By Marsha Keith M. Schuchard
This dissertation examines the function of Freemasonry and similar mystery societies within the transmission of the occult traditions in English literary background from the 17th to 20th centuries. The examine attracts upon contemporary Renaissance and Hebrew scholarship to outline these components of vision-inducement and magical theories of paintings which have been constructed into the syncretic Renaissance culture of Cabalistic and airtight symbolism. After the e-book and next suppression of this occult culture in the course of the Rosicrucian agitation in Germany, Rosicrucianism used to be assimilated into the key traditions of Freemasonry in England within the mid-seventeenth century. Many English literary figures, resembling John Dee, Francis Bacon, Elias Ashmole, and John Milton, have been interested in this theosophical, millenial reform stream.
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Those who passed the test were considered worthy to make the "descent" to the Merkabah (the change from "ascent" revealing the psychical nature of the voyage). The visionary journey was prepared for by a period of ascetic practices to discipline the initiate to withstand the hostile planet-angels who would harrass him as he journeyed through the spheres. , "he put his face between his knees" (i Kings 18:42), which when joined with deep meditation is favorable to "the induction of pre-hypnotic auto-suggestion" M T .
P. 209). Every Sephiroth and every word is also a four-fold world, mirroring the four-fold universe. " The most common symbolic representation of this Sephirotic world is the Tree of Life. Each Sephira represents a branch whose common root is unknown and Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. unknowable. But Ain Sof is not only the hidden Root of all Roots, it is also the sap of the tree. B. Yeats's famous lines in "Among School Children": 0 Chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
