Lanterna Rally

Author: R. Swinburne Clymer

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-05

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9781330032770

Excerpt from The Philosophy of Fire The first edition of the "Philosophy of Fire" was issued in 1905 and sold within a few months of its publication. The second edition, rewritten and very much enlarged, appeared in 1907; was well received and highly endorsed by students of the Mysteries and the Higher Occult. Since the issue of this last edition, times have greatly changed, opinions have undergone a mental revolution, and problems and subjects formerly tabooed and shunned by the educated classes, are now being freely discussed. All this we had in mind while rewriting the "Philosophy of Fire" for its third edition, permitting us to give a clearer exposition of the Fire Philosophy underlying all religions, and likewise to extensively hint at the material basis underlying the teaching and training in the Secret Schools of the Ancients. Many well informed readers have labored under the impression that these Schools had in mind merely the greater physical and higher mental development of its neophytes, forgetting for the moment, if they actually ever knew, that in Ancient times, when the greater Initiates ruled, and ruled wisely, even those royally born could not become Kings unless they had been fully trained and thoroughly educated in these Schools. These rulers were termed the Initiate-Kings and while in power the people prospered and were protected in their liberties. It was only after the greater Church became degraded and other than Initiate-Kings ruled, that the masses were exploited by the classes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.