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B. McKay: Ancient-Wisdom Continuity Narratives - Paul Ferguson - 07-06-2026
"his paper traces a specific rhetorical structure — the claim of direct continuity with a suppressed, silence-keeping ancient priesthood, most often located in Egypt — across four independent episodes in Western intellectual history: the 1614 controversy surrounding the Rosicrucian manifestos and Michael Maier's defense of them; Harvey Spencer Lewis's 1915 founding of the Ancient Mystical Order RosaeCrucis; and Elisabeth Haich's 1953 spiritual memoir Initiation."
https://philarchive.org/archive/MCKTRC-3?__cf_chl_f_tk=.nodSGTVUrwefMdDKyuUT8t8m9YpS.iomGJ1D4JGfP8-1783348129-1.0.1.1-rB38Nma_shQlDZY2FDF5R6aMvj.rEoGFMDjxU8_._PI