The works of Thomas De Quincey, "The English opium eater"
The works of Thomas De Quincey, "The English opium eater" (1871) Thomas De Quincey,
Publisher: General Books LLC
ISBN: 0217900038
Edition: Paperback; 2009-08-18
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is a tissue of dreams and allegories relating to the cardinal events
of the world and to the mysteries of scripture, as well as of
external nature from its creation to its impending destruction,
contains a great deal of mysticism and prophecy about the rose and
the cross. But the whole has a religious meaning; and the fundus of
his ideas and his imagery is manifestly the Apocalypse of St. John.
Nor is there any passage or phrase in his work upon which an argument
can be built for connecting him with the Eosicrucians which would not
equally apply to Philo the Alexandrian, to John Picus of Mirandula,
to Eeuchlin, to George of Venice, to Francis Patrick, and to all
other Cabbalists, Theo - sophists, Magicians, and Alchemists. Of the
alleged connexion between the Templars and the Eosicrucians, or more
properly with the Free-masons, —which connection, if established,
would undoubtedly assign a much earlier date to the origin of both
orders, —I shall have occasion to speak in another part of my
inquiry. CHAPTER III. OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH GAVE THE FIRST
OCCASION TO THE RISE OP THE ROSIORUCIAN ORDER, AND OF THE EARLIEST
AUTHENTIC RECORDS OF HISTORY WHICH RELATE TO IT. Towards the end of
the sixteenth century,—Cabbalism, Theosophy, and Alchemy, had
overspread the whole of of which St. John says in the Revelations—"I
saw on the right of him who sat upon the throne a book written within
and without, and guarded with seven seals," etc. Western Europe and
especially of Germany. To this mania, which infected all classes—high
and low, learned and unlearned—no writer had contributed so much as
Theophrastus Paracelsus. How general was the diffusion, and how great
the influence of the writings of this extraordinary man (for such
amidst all his follies, he must ever be ac...
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