ROSSLYN CHAPEL
Located in the village of Roslin, just south of Edinburgh, Rosslyn Chapel is the sole completed portion of a large church commissioned by William Sinclair,…
Author: Lux Ferre
ROSICRUCIAN FELLOWSHIP
One of the many American Rosicrucian orders of the early twentieth century, the Rosicrucian Fellowship was founded in 1907 by Max Heindel (Carl Louis Grashof),…
ROSENKREUTZ, CHRISTIAN
Legendary German mystic and founder of the Rosicrucians, 1378–1484. According to the Fama Fraternitatis, the first of the Rosicrucian manifestoes, Rosenkreutz was born to an…
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
The largest religious organization in the world today, the Roman Catholic Church claims origins dating back to Peter, one of the companions of Jesus of…
RITE OF STRICT OBSERVANCE
One of the most important secret societies in Germany in the second half of the eighteenth century, the Rite of Strict Observance had its roots…
RITE OF PERFECTION
The first known Masonic body to work the degrees that later belonged to the Scottish Rite, the Rite of Perfection was organized in Paris in…
RITE OF MISRAIM
Yet another of the complex systems of higher degrees born on the fringes of Freemasonry in the nineteenth century, the Rite of Misraim (also spelled…
RITE OF MEMPHIS AND MISRAIM
The most extensive system of Masonic degrees ever worked, the Rite of Memphis and Misraim was the creation of John Yarker, the great promoter of…
RITE OF MEMPHIS
One of the many systems on the fringes of regular Masonry that emerged in the nineteenth century, the Rite of Memphis was one of the…
RIGHT-HAND PATH
A term borrowed into western occult jargon from Indian Tantrism, this phrase originally referred to those Tantric systems that maintain the rules of behavior standard…
