B. McKay: Ancient-Wisdom Continuity Narratives

[Paul Ferguson]

"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...DjxU8_._PI