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Name: The Rosicrucian Enlightenment
Author: Frances A. Yates
Year: 1972
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Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Philosophy, Religion

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Winner of the Wolfson History Prize in 1973.

A history of the role that the occult has played in the formation of modern science and medicine, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment has had a tremendous impact on our understanding of the western esoteric tradition. Beautifully illustrated, it remains one of those rare works of scholarship which the general reader simply cannot afford to ignore.
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