Frater Robert
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Honoured to be speaking at the Hermopolis Symposium next month - first time in Egypt and with such inspiring company! 🤲🌅
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Paid our respects to Joséphin Péladan today 🙏🌹
The role of the Adepts is to ensure there will always be colour, despite all that seeks to dull our sight.
Excited for the New Hermopolis Conference in October! Blessed to be in the company of so many inspiring people.
I’ll be speaking on the resurgence of sacred imagination and how we can learn from the alchemical tradition to bring about new forms of utopian society.
Onwards! 🙏🌅
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The Work of the Moon and the Operation of the Sun 🌙 🌞
Scala Philosophorum showing both the Lapis and Elixir, alongside the Arbor Philosophorum 🙏🌹
Per the pseudo-Lullian alchemical texts depicted in Mellon MS 12, Yale University Library (c.1500)
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There are many who seek to slip their ego beyond the veil of time; but few who act to bring eternal love into temporal being. 🙏🌹
After experiencing so much on the trail of Julius Sachse and his accounts of early theosophical communities in Pennsylvania, it was genuinely moving to visit his resting place…
…among many family members inc. the Sadtlers, a generational dynasty of ‘renowned chemists’ 🙏🌹
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Wonderful manuscript in the PA Grand Lodge, a rare French precursor c.1760s to the Geheime Figuren… or ‘Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians’.
This version is a link between the DOMA and Geheime documents, with its own unique pages showing the symbolism of alchemical birds. 🙏🌹
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Have to say, the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania has the most impressive lodge rooms I’ve seen anywhere in the world… putting aside the Grand Temple at UGLE 🙌
Wonderful tour and more on the library visit soon! 🌅
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Spent today in the woods around the Wissahickon, visiting the cave of 17th century alchemist and mystic Johannes Kelpius.
Unlikely to be the specific cave he would meditate in, but you can feel their spirit still resides here, surrounded by the streets of Philadelphia. 🙏🌹
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Ephrata is an early theosophic community in the American colonies, founded 1732.
Mixing monasticism and households, a key example of radical pietism. Also said to harbour a secretive order of angelic theurgists…
We made our blessings at dawn under the planetary alignment. 🙏🌅
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20 years after founding Harmony, George Rapp founded a third (and final) community Economy in 1824.
Three alchemical labs were on site and Rapp had a personal copy of Paracelsus’ Opera (shown) as well as Welling’s Opus mago-cabalisticum et theologicum.
Next stop, Ephrata… 🙏🌹
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The spirit of Sophia watches over the town of Harmony, PA
Founded by Lutheran pietists in 1804, over 100 community members are buried in an unmarked cemetery without names. Defined only by the revolving stone gate between worlds.
Even in death they live on in community. 🙏🌹
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Beginning a two week journey through Pennsylvania w/ @kausch on the search for experiments in theosophical utopia.
Starting with the curious community of Roycroft, driven by their founder Fra. Elbertus (Elbert Hubbard) to present beauty through Arts & Crafts design 🌹
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Excited to be part of this conference to reinvigorate the role of ancient wisdom in our institutions today!
I will be speaking on the formation of Society as the Philosopher’s Stone, and our need to resanctify the Imagination.
Much to learn on this Hermetic return to source. 🌅
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Everyone living in a PKD gnosis on the timeline right now ✨💓✨
Rosicrucian blessing of a quarry 🙏🌹
The stillness in here is immaculate.
“From it the Sages derive their science, and through it they attain the Heavenly Gift, which is called the Philosopher’s Stone…”
An auspicious greeting today, usually only see one per year! 🦎🔥
Good sign for the final phase of an alchemical publication currently underway 🙏🌹
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The Major Arcana of Austin Osman Spare 🌞🌛
Austin Osman Spare tarot is here! Fantastic quality, well worth the wait. ✨
Thank you past-me for this wonderful gift that has arrived on our doorstep.
A stunning and complex deck. 🙏🌅
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