This book explores the work of Josphin Pladan, his "L'Ordre de la Rose-Croix Catholique" and the legendary "Salons de la Rose+Croix" art exhibitions. Considerable emphasis is placed on the "Rose+Croix de Toulouse", the alleged forerunner of Pladan's Rosicrucian movement. Also included are a number of chapters dedicated to the successors of Josphin Pladan, most notably mile Dantinne and the Belgian "Ordo Aureae & Rosae Crucis" [La Rose]Croix Universitaire, La Rose+Croix Universelle] and the Pythagorean "L'Ordre d'Herms Ttramgiste". The final chapter is reserved for one of Dantinne's successors, Martin Erler and the O.R.A. ["Ordo Rosae Aureae"]. And furthermore..., douard de Lapasse, -Firmin Boissin, -Dr. Adrien Pladan, Papus, the Martinist Order, "Groupe Indpendant d'Etudes Esotriques", Stanislas de Guaita, "Ordre Kabbalistique de la Rose+Croix", Erik Satie, Jean Delville, Lodge KVMRIS, Gustav Meyrink, Alois Mailnder, Karl Weinfurter, the Asiatic Brethren, John Yarker... and many, many others
This book explores the work of Josphin Pladan, his "L'Ordre de la Rose-Croix Catholique" and the legendary "Salons de la Rose+Croix" art exhibitions. Considerable emphasis is placed on the "Rose+Croix de Toulouse", the alleged forerunner of Pladan's Rosicrucian movement. Also included are a number of chapters dedicated to the successors of Josphin Pladan, most notably mile Dantinne and the Belgian "Ordo Aureae & Rosae Crucis" [La Rose]Croix Universitaire, La Rose+Croix Universelle] and the Pythagorean "L'Ordre d'Herms Ttramgiste". The final chapter is reserved for one of Dantinne's successors, Martin Erler and the O.R.A. ["Ordo Rosae Aureae"]. And furthermore..., douard de Lapasse, -Firmin Boissin, -Dr. Adrien Pladan, Papus, the Martinist Order, "Groupe Indpendant d'Etudes Esotriques", Stanislas de Guaita, "Ordre Kabbalistique de la Rose+Croix", Erik Satie, Jean Delville, Lodge KVMRIS, Gustav Meyrink, Alois Mailnder, Karl Weinfurter, the Asiatic Brethren, John Yarker... and many, many others