Karl R.H. Frick - Die Erleuchteten [1] / Licht und Finsternis [2] I + II [= complete!]

Karl R.H. Frick - Die Erleuchteten [1] / Licht und Finsternis [2] I + II. Gnostisch-theosophische und alchemistisch-rosenkreuzerische Geheimgesellschaften bis zum Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts [...] / und freimaurerisch-okkulte Geheimgesellschaften bis an die Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert / Wege in die Gegenwart - Graz - Austria - Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt - 1973-1978 - 1st edition - 3 volumes - [xii], 636; [x], 346; xii, 582pp - Cloth bindings with dust jacket - 19,5 x 28 cm.

Condition: Good complete set - from the library of Dutch astrologer / alchemist Jacob Ruijling with his signature on the first free endpapers.

Thorough three-volume reference work on the substantive history and origin of secret and occult societies in (mainly) Europe; the Alchemists, the Rosicrucians, the Illuminati, the Order of Freemasons, etc. Illustrated with black and white reproductions and 'family trees'. With bibliography and index. Text in German. Hardcover edition.

¶ Indispensable standard work with attention for Gnosis, Plato, Pythagoras, Marsilio Ficino, black and white Magic, Astrology, Hermetics, Hermes Trismegistus, Mercury, Kabbalah, Alchemy, Theosophy, Helena Blavatzky, Jakob Böhme, Christian Rosenkreutz, 'Freimaurerei', Hiram Legend, Occultism, Parapsychology, Spiritism, Alchemical Freemasonry, Philipp Samuel Rosa, the Naumburger Lodge, Johann August Starck, Baphomet, Karl Friedrich Eckleff, Samuel Richter, Emanuel Swedenborg, Eastern Esotericism, Religious Sexuality, Yoga, Erotica, Tantra Sex , sacral orgies, heretics, Inquisition, King Solomon, 'Jachin & Boaz', Symbolism, the mystical High Degrees in 'Freemasonry', the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, Horus Ra-Hoor Khuit, Rudolf Steiner and Aleister Crowley.