[Rosicrucians. Aphorismi. Late 18th Century.

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  • Reference
    • GB 247 MS Ferguson 22
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1797
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • 40 folios. 25x15.2 cm

Scope and Content

Rosicrucians. Aphorismi. Late 18th Century.
1. f6r-12v Copy of the Original Admission of Count de Chazal.
2. f14r-19r In the Name of [Tetragrammaton Elohim] the true and only God, manifest in trinity.
[Testimony of initiation of Alexander Tilloch into Bacstrom's Rosicrucian Society, signed by Bacstrom and dated London April 5, 1797.]
3. 22r-40v Aphorisms and Process. Aphorismi Operis Maximi Antiquorum Sapientium. [In English.]
[Signed and dated at end]: 'Above I have faithfully communicated our Aphorisms - Sigismund Bacstrom M.D., F.R.C., London, 5 April 1797.'
[See MS. 320 Item 5, for a few folios which seem to relate to the 'Aphorisms and Process'.]
With bookplate of William Gordon of Fyvie

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