Bøger af Hargrave Jennings

A history of ancient and modern crosses and their connection with the mysteries of sex worship, also an account of the kindred phases of phallic faiths and practices. This work is taken up in the middle epoch of history and shows the relationship of the things we deal with in regard to prevailing phallic faiths and practices.

Illustrations of the rise and development of the phallic idea, or sex worship, and its embodiment in works of nature and art. This volume describes a number of the most celebrated monuments, consisting of towers, pillars and stones connected with phallicism. It exhibits and illustrates many of the peculiar features of that singular worship and the wide extent of territory over which it prevailed.

The aim of this book is to make religion real and consistent, to supply real reasons for it. The author strives toward the literary expression of the harmony, in a new view, of mystic and realistic dogmatic teaching, relative to the personality of the Savior in the Holy Sacrament. This book offers its illustrations in deductions from the intentions of the ancient builders as proven in the mystic meaning of every part of a Christian Cross Church.

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An Account of the Rites and Mysteries Connected with the Origin, Rise, and Development of Serpent Worship in various Parts of the World, Enriched with Interesting Traditions, and A Full Description of the Celebrated Serpent Mounds and Temples, Forming An Exposition of One of the Phasks of Phallic, or Sex Worship.

Notices of the origin, purpose and history of obelisks. Jennings discusses the origin, meaning, purpose and history of not only obelisks, but monoliths in general. He talks of the principle obelisks and monolithic votive stones and their transport to several sites, as well as the connection of these stupendous monuments with the religions of antiquity and with faith in general.

Hargrave Jennings' 1870 work joins the debates of the nineteenth century that sought to determine the relationships between modern science, religion, and the supernatural. A prolific writer and an occultist, Jennings (1817-1890) had previously published on the religions of India. He spent two decades researching and writing this work, which is the first history in English of the Rosicrucians. As he states, his 1858 Curious Things of the Outside World first asserted the ideas he elaborates in this text, and he is not a member of the Rosicrucian sect, simply a historian of it. This was his best-known book, in which the discussion extends to the Kabbalah, Gnosticism, the Druids, and ancient and medieval cultures; five editions were subsequently printed, and it was translated into German in 1912. It will interest scholars of the history of ideas, of the relationship of science and magic, and of the occult.