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You are bidding on a very rare and seldom seen or heard of esoteric Masonic book.MASONIC COMPENDIUM TO THE SACRED BOOKS-AND EARLY LITERATURE OF THE EAST- Being A Digest of All References And Allusions To The Antiquity,Archeology, And Ceremonial Forms Of Freemasonry-With A Guide To Masonic Research- By George Winslow Plummer 32 SRIA * see below.---ISSUED, FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY, BY ORIENTAL FOUNDATION NEW YORK 1918 1ST ED. 67pp.. measures 9.25x6.25" inches. This reference book is for the Masonic Rosicrucian and will be an important addition to your library. Hardcover,light wear to boards,scuffs. Gilt embossed cover. Binding tight,foxing extensive,
* Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (SRIA) founded around 1860-1865 by the freemason Robert Wentworth Little [1840-1878]. He claimed to have encountered some «Rosicrucian documents» deriving from the authentic august order. Albeit its Rosicrucian design, the SRIA operated as a tailored alternative to Freemasons. One of its important members, was Kenneth Mackenzie [1833-1886], who assisted Little in running the society. Mackenzie was allegedly in contact with a "Count Apponyi" of Austria-Hungary, and is said to have received a lineage from him. The most probable source was the Societas Rosicruciana in Scotia which gradually went dorment at the end of the last century. Many well-known individuals of the 19th cent. held membership in the SRIA; John Yarker, P.B. Randolph, A.E. Waite, E. Bulwer-Lytton, Dr. W.W. Westcott, Eliphas Levi, Theodor Reuss, Frederick Hockley [1809-1885], William Carpenter [1797-1874], and many many more. The SRIA was originally nothing but a study group, and did not work rituals. It did spread abroad, for instance they got a body in Canada, under the British jurisdiction, with the name Societas Rosicruciana in Canadiensis. Likewise, in Pennsylvania, a charter was given in 1879 to establish the Soc. Ros. in the USA. A bit later, the Canadian branch chartered the honorable freemason Albert Pike, to run a branch in the USA, unaware of the previously existing branch deriving from the U.K. These two distinct efforts of operating the SRIA in USA, was not very successful at the time, and it appears that one of them gradually went into sleep, while the other one still exists under the name SRCF. The SRIA still have their headquarters in England, and have kept a low profile, only offering membership to Master Masons (third degree in «blue masonry»). Societas Rosicruciana in Civitatibus Foederatis *Societas Rosicruciana in America (SRIA) is the name of yet another offspring from the English SRIA. A third group of masons was very eager to maintain an American body of the SRIA, so they eventually were chartered in Philadelphia 1878, and later it spread throughout the States. After some years in function as a literary society with banquets, this American branch named Soc. Ros. in America, reformed and reoganized their body in 1889, and renaming it to the Societas Rosicruciana in the United States of America (SRIUS). Unfortunately, also this society had problems in surviving. However, in the Boston body, a certain Sylvester Clark Gould [-1909] was initiated into the society. He was a very productive member, publishing magazines, and studying the old Rosicrucian tradition. Eventually, with the dream of transforming the SRIUS into a modern representative of the true Rosicrucian Order, he contacted the authentic brethren in Europe in 1909, represented by a Count Aponnyi. But alas, Gould also passed away that year, hence his project died with him. Some of Gould's followers continued the society, and restructured it in 1912 under the original name: Societas Rosicruciana in America. One of their leaders was Mr. George Winslow Plummer [-1944], the author of many esoteric books under the pseudonym «Frater Khei». Gould had cooperated to some extent with Westcott from 1906 and onwards, and it was the latter who originally had guided Plummer to Gould when Plummer had requested Westcott for admission into the SRIA. After Goulds death, Plummer continued to seek guidan...

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