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"During this period of the developement of my mind, my favourite authors were such men as these — Reuchlin, Mirandola, Picus, Cornelius Agrippa, Helmont, Philo, Origen, Henry More, Kircher, Fludd, Cudworth, Selden, Brocklesby and Ramsay."--A Key to Alism and the Highest Initiations, Sacred and Secular
The complete history of initiations, to which I have paid attention for twenty years, is one of the intellectual requirements of the present age. He who would accomplish it, must refer to the following writers and books, to which I am most indebted .
The Bible, the Cabala, the Apocrypha, the Pseudopigraphia, Enoc, Job, Zoroaster, Fabricius, Reuchlin , Mirandola, Homer, Orpheus, Philo Judæus, Origen, Dionysius, Bacon, Newton, Kepler , More, Cudworth, Fludd, Ross, Helmont, Gale, Brucker, Morell, Oliver, Faber, Bryant, Dupuis, Agrippa, Koran, Delaulnaye, Colquhoun, Zoist, Cicero, Swedenborg, Behmen , Law , Fenelon, Dante, Coleridge, Greaves, Erigena, Mackay, Maurice, Jones, Kircher, Martin , Ramsay, Plato, Taylor, Berrow , Grotius, Selden , Milton, Carlyle, Emerson, Schelling, Fichte, Jacobi, Goethe, Schiller, Mendelsohn, Rittangel, Rust, Glanville, Ashmole, Sterry, Rosencreuz, Poiret, Brocklesby, Parkhurst, Pistorius, Riccius, Herbert, Plotinus, Proclus, Jamblicus, Kant, Porphery, Apuleius, Butler, Digby, Mesmer, Gaffrael, Leibnitz, Dutens, Rosetti, Boys, Townsend, Fourier, Robinson, Barruel, Ripley, Drummond, Vaughan, Hale, Cheyne, Stonehouse, Beausobee, Caramuel, Stilling, Schlegel, and Lavater."--A Key to Alism and the Highest Initiations, Sacred and Secular
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