In The Pronaos Of The Temple Of Wisdom Containing The History Of The True And The False Rosicrucians

Hartmann authored In the Pronaos of the Temple of Wisdom, serving as what he hoped would be an introduction to hermetic philosophy. Hartmann explains in the preface, Truly occult and Theosophical books ought to be prayers and poems; calculated to lift the heart and the mind of the reader up to the highest regions of thought, and aiding him to descend into the innermost sanctuary of his own being; so that he may become able to open the senses of his interior perception and grasp himself those divine ideals which are beyond the understanding of the semi-animal intellect; for spiritual truth cannot be brought down to that level; it requires, for its recognition, the rising up in the spirit to its own plane; neither can any man reveal to another the light, if the light does not reveal its presence to the investigator; all that a book can do is to aid the reader in opening his own eyes. This edition includes a Table of Contents