SYLLABUS Section One: THE EUROPEAN GRAAL OR HOLY GRAIL TRADITIONS Period: 1st through 12th Centuries Neo-Platonic and Hermetic Mysticism; Mani and Manichaeism; Alchemical Mysticism; Comacine Tradition; Jewish Kabbalah; Celtic Christianity (Arian and Gnostic); Merovingian ?Holy Blood? Dynasty; Carolingian Catholic Holy Roman Empire; Orders of Chivalry; Carolingian Enlightenment; the ?Matter of Brittany? and the Arthurian Legends. Video: Kabbalah Section Two: HERESY Period: 12th-15th Centuries Publicans; Cathari, Bogomiles, Gypsies, Mystics and Other Suppressed Heretical Traditions; the Knights Templar; the Shroud of Turin and Other Grail Relics; Protestantism Video: The Knights Templar; The Shroud of Turin Section Three: THE HERMETIC ENLIGHTENMENT AND ROSICRUCIANISM Period: 16th-17th Centuries Corpus Hermeticum; the Art of Memory; Macrocosm and Microcosm in Art; Kabbalah; Alchemy; the Rosicrucian Movement Video: Alchemy Handouts: The Fama; Rosslyn Chapel and Early Scottish Freemasonry Suggested Book: Frances Yeats, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition Section Four: FREEMASONRY Period: 17th-18th Centuries Lord Bacon; English Rosicrucians; English Lodges; French and European Lodges; American Lodges Video: Freemasonry Section Five: ILLUMINISM Period: 18th-19th Centuries The Illuminati and the Fratres Lucis; the Comte de St. Germain; Cagliostro and Egyptian Freemasonry; Martinezism and Martinism; Rites of Memphis- Mizraim; French Occult Renaissance Handout: Martinism Suggested Book: Isabel Cooper-Oakley, The Comte de St. Germain Section Six: SPIRITISM, SPIRITUALISM, AND THEOSOPHY Period: 19th Century AMERICA: Johnny Appleseed, Swedenborgianism, and the American Frontier; Fox Sisters and the Spiritualism of Lincoln; Mormonism; Science of Mind; Transcendentalism; Blavatsky?s New York Group, the Esoteric Section, and Halcyon, CA EUROPE: Gnostic Ecclesia and Papus; Pope vs. Freemasons; ; Women?s Freemasonry, Rites of Adoption, and Co-Masonry; Blavatsky and the Indian-Tibetan Masters; Mathers and Golden Dawn; Yarker, Reuss, OTO, FRA, SRA, etc. Video: Tour of Halcyon Theosophical Community Suggested Book: Joscelyn Godwin et. Al, The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor Section Seven: BROTHERHOODS AND MYSTERY SCHOOLS Period: 19th-20th Centuries Suggested Book: Countess Constance Wachtmeister, Reminiscences of H.P. Blavatsky and the Secret Doctrine Freemasonry Spawn: Lions, Rotary, Odd Fellows, etc.; Steiner and Anthroposophy; Crowley; Dion Fortune and the Servants of Light; Paul Foster Case and B.O.T.A.; Edgar Cayce; Roerichs and Agni Yoga; Annie Besant, Krishnamurti, Alice Bailey, and Splintering of Theosophy; Priory of Sion; Gnostic Ecclesiae; L.C.C. and Independent Episcopate; AMORC and other American Rosicrucian Organizations; Godfre Ray King and the ?I Am? Movement; Unity Church; Revivals of Templar, G.D., etc.; WICCA; THG; Male-Female Freemasonry Video: Roerich Suggested Book: Kyriacos C. Markides, The Magus of Strovolos Section Eight: THE RE-CONVERGENCE OF EAST AND WEST Period: 20th Century Theosophical Blend of ?Esoteric Buddhism? and Hindu Vedanta; the new spiritual language (karma, reincarnation, nirvana, etc.); the Asian Brotherhood of the Gold and Rosy Cross, OTO, GD, and Other European East-West Blends (tatwas, chakras, pranayama, etc.); The Gospel of Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, and the World?s Fair; Beatniks, Allan Watts, and Zen Buddhism; the Tibetan Disapora and Shambalah Moves West; the discovery of native and ethnic adepts (India, Cyprus, South America, Central America, Philippines, etc.); toward a New World Theosophy and a Twenty-First Century Mystery School

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