Rosicrucianism in America

The material in this book, first published in 1990, provides important documentation for the first generation of Rosicrucianism in North America, especially the still vigorous Rosicrucian Fraternity. These chapters reprinted here are so necessary to the understanding of this most occult organization, and are otherwise difficult to locate and read.

J. Gordon Melton is the director for the Institute for the Study of American Religion in Santa Barbara, California, and is a research specialist with the department of religions studies at the University of California. He is the author of more than twenty-six books, including several encyclopedias, handbooks, and almanacs on American religion, new religious movements, and directories of churches, synagogues, and other houses of worship. He is also an ordained elder in the United Methodist church and a member of the American Academy of Religion, the Society for the American Study of Religion, the American Society of Church History, the Communal Studies Association, and the Society for the Study of Metaphysical Religion.

Introduction. 1. The Grand Secret; or Physical Love in Health and Disease Paschal B. Randolph 2. The Book of the Triplicate Order, Rosicrucia, Eulis, Pythianae Paschal B. Randolph 3. The Master Key of Love and the Psychology of Human Behaviour Harry O. Saxon 4. Rosicrucian Symbology KHEI 5. Regeneration F.B. Dowd 6. Rosikrucianism Sergius Rosenkruz