Introduction
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Image: Salon de la Rose+Croix poster
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Tuning Your Health with the Cosmic
H. Spencer Lewis, FRC
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Images: H. Spencer Lewis playing cello, Piano keyboard, Violin player, Young drummers, Indian man playing flute, Buskers in a park, Vinyl record player
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Music That Moves Us
Grand Master Julie Scott, SRC
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Video: Music That Moves Us
Images: Jogging woman, RC-1070, RC-1686 - Bell and flute, RC-1681 Castanets, Mahalia Jackson
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Debussy’s Musical Alchemy Through Water
Grand Master Raul Passos, FRC
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Images: Claude Debussy, Paul Bril: Fauns in a Wooded Landscape, John William Waterhouse: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, Water and lotus flowers, Waterfall in autumn, Hokusai: The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Man walking on ice, Page from the “Sirènes” manuscript, Claude Monet: Impression, Sunrise
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The Alchemical Wizard of Oz
Timothy J. Ryan, FRC
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Images: The cover of the first edition of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum with a group of children, Dorothy catches Toto first edition illustration, Dorothy and Toto in Kansas movie still, Dorothy lands in Oz movie still, Dorothy meeting the Cowardly Lion first edition illustration, The four main Oz characters movie still, The Emerald City first edition illustration, Dorothy meeting the Wizard first edition illustration, Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz in his hot air balloon movie still, The good witch Glinda, Dororthy's ruby red slippers movie still, Dorothy wakes up in Kansas movie still, The last page of the first edition of Oz
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As You Go Through Life
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, SRC
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Image: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Hand in Hand
Michael Shaluly, FRC
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Images: Upon a Quiet book cover, Father holding the hands of children at sunset
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The Sacred Circle Dance and the Numinous
Luiz Eduardo V. Berni, FRC
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Images: Chuvash ritual round dance, “The Dancer” in Gabillou Cave, Guarani women singing, Kecak dance, Specialization of dance diagram, Circle Dance: contemporary division diagram, Kolo dance postcard, Findhorn circle dance, Samba de Roda, Native American children dancing
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Clemence Isaure: The Rosicrucian Golden Isis
Grand Master Julie Scott, SRC
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Images: Henri Martin: The Appearance of Clemence Isaure to the Troubadours, The Troubadour Singing to His Love, The First Meeting of the Jeux Floraux, H. Spencer Lewis in 1915
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The Mystical Art of Nicomedes Gómez: Peace on Earth and Goodwill to All
Hugh McCague, PhD, FRC
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Images: Nicomedes Gómez: Peace on Earth and Goodwill to All, Liber 777 cover, The Kabbalistic Tree of Life, Nicomedes Gómez: Manos, Bust of Nicomedes Gómez
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Awakening Your Intuition Through Art
Josh Green, FRC
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Images (artwork by Josh Green): Azoth, Recrystallization, The Artist’s Journey, The Platonic Solids, Contemplation of Self
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Coloring Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians
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Images: Rose and Cross, Tabula Smaragdina Hermetis, Speculum Divinum
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Work Inspired by a Vision of a Heavenly Cosmic Rose Garden
Ginny Brown, SRC
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Image (artwork by Ginny Brown): Transitions
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Navajo Sandpaintings: Sacred Healing
Pensator
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Images: A Navajo sandpainting, A Navajo sandpainting photographed in 1905 by Edward S. Curtis, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, A Navajo rug in the style of a sandpainting
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Work Inspired by Azoth of the Philosophers
Nikki Schiro, SRC
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Images (artwork by Nikki Schiro): Dissolution: An Operation Taking Place In The Innermost Parts, Androgenous Azoth, Azoth or The Way to the Hidden Gold, Calcination: Igniting the Fire of Introspection, Fermentation: You Will Discover
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Ma’at’s Feather and the Art of Transformation
Anne Nordhaus-Bike, SRC
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Images: Anne Nordhaus-Bike: Ma'at's Feather, Ma'at in the Tomb of Nefertari, From the Book of Coming Forth by Day: The heart of Hunefer is weighed against the feather of Ma’at
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Supplemental Materials
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Mountain of the Adepts
Peter Bindon, FRC
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Images: "Mountain of the Adepts" colored by H. Spencer Lewis, Woman with three orb drawing from Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians
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Robert Fludd’s Rose and Cross
Peter Bindon, FRC
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Images: Robert Fludd’s Rose and Cross mural at the Rosicrucian Cultural Center in New York City, Beehive, A bee on grapes
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Orpheus Remembered: The Rediscovery of Orpheus During the Renaissance
Alexander J. Broquet, FRC
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Images: Alabaster Orphic Bowl, Statue of Orpheus with the lyre, Bas-relief with Orphic, Mithraic, and Christian imagery, Orpheus in a bas-relief on a Pyx, Albrecht Dürer: Death of Orpheus, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot: Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld, A Roman mosaic depicting Orpheus, Orpheus-Christus from the Catacombs of Marcellinus and Peter, Tapestry depicting Orpheus playing lyre to Hades and Persephone, Franz Caucig: The Lament of Orpheus, Orpheus amongst the Thracians, on a red-figure bell-krater, Poster for the movie Black Orpheus
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Art and Human Development
Joan May Campbell, SRC
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Images: Hall of Bulls in Lascaux cave in France, Gabarnmung archaeological site in Australia, Tibetan monks working on a sand mandala, Paul Cézanne: Montagne Saint-Victoire, Franz Marc: The Foxes, Jean-Michel Basquait: Untitled (Skull)
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The Dinner Party
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Images: The Dinner Party, Hatshepsut Place Setting, Hildegard of Bingen Place Setting, Sojourner Truth Place Setting
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Pythagoreans and Sculptors: The Canon of Polykleitos
Hugh McCague, FRC
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Images: Doryphoros, Leonardo da Vinci: Vitruvian Man, Michelangelo: David, Doryphoros study images, Michael B. Jordan, Augustus of Prima Porta, Doryphoros recreation in the Pushkin Museum
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Pythagoras and Music
Melanie Richards, SRC
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Images: Gregor Reisch: Arithmetica, Monochord, Franchinus Gaffurius: Theorica musicae, Detail from The School of Athens by Raphael showing Pythagoras, Nicomedes Gómez: The Creative Word, Pythagorean Table (Lambdoma), Bust of Pythagoras
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Sonnets to Orpheus
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Images: Virgil Solis: Orpheus with Lyre and Animals, Leonid Pasternak portrait painting of Rainer Maria Rilke
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Rosicrucian Mystic and Muse: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Karen Schulz, SRC
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Images: Ella Wheeler Wilcox holding a book, Cover of the first edition of Poems of Passion, Swami Vivekananda, Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s poem plaque in San Francisco's Jack Kerouac Alley, Geronimo, Ella Wheeler Wilcox playing the harp, Cover of the first edition of Poems of Power
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