Volume 16 (2022)

Editorial

Letter from the Editor

A Look at This Year's Cover: Nicomedes Gómez's The Cathedral of the Soul

Submissions 

Online Transpersonal Meditation as a Method for Confronting the Pandemic: Traditional Knowledge in Dialogue with Psychology
by Luiz Eduardo V. Berni

Reckoning the Number of the Beast – A New Approach
by Pedro Carvajal

Provençal Troubadours, the Love of Beauty that Exalts the Poet, and the Wandering Arabic Minstrels of Islamic Spain
by Christopher Eriksson

Carpocratian Philosophical Magic
by Gerhard Lechner

Parallels among the Carpocratians and Ebionites and the Works of Sebastian Franck
by Gerhard Lechner

Mystical Astrology Behind Self-Mastery and Fate with the Cycles of Life
by Anne Nordhaus-Bike

Cover Image: This image is titled La Catedral del Alma (The Cathedral of the Soul), painted in 1963 by Nicomedes Gómez.

 

Volume 15 (2021)

Editorial

Letter from the Editor

A Look at This Year's Cover: Nicomedes Gómez's The Cosmic Keyboard

Submissions 

A Imaginação Ativa de Carl Gustav Jung e a Criação Mental de H. S. Lewis: Um Breve Estudo Comparativo
by Luiz Eduardo V. Berni

English version of the text from the Review Process:
Carl Gustav Jung's Active Imagination and H. S. Lewis's Mental Creation: A Brief Comparative Study
by Luiz Eduardo V. Berni

Alchemical Symbols on Stećak Tombstones and their Meaning ("Lapis Philosophorum")
by Amer Dardağan

Shakespeare in Tune with Nature and the Universal Rhythm of Life - Birth of “The Fair Youth” of the Sonnets
by Christopher Eriksson

Synthesising Concepts Underlying Increase in Flow, Self-development, and Reflection with Application to the Creative Process
by Daniel Harris

Rose of the Occult, Cross of the Revealed: Esoteric Evidence in the Work of Claude Debussy
by Raul Passos

Currents

Solving the Mystery of Vlad Dracula’s Diadem
by Douglas Meyer

Cover Image: This image is titled El Teclado Cósmico (The Cosmic Keyboard), painted in 1961 by Nicomedes Gómez, and is used here with permission from the government of Cartagena, Spain, the owners of the work.

 

Volume 14 (2020)

Editorial

Letter from the Editor

A Look at This Year's Cover: Robert Fludd's Three Lines of Vision in the Body

Submissions 

Adler and Shakespeare – Life Coach, Visionary, Leader
by Christopher Eriksson

Shades of Skin, Shades of Power: Social Constructionism as the Grand Theory for the Structure/Agency and Reality/Identity Conundrums
by Yuri Tertilus Jadotte

Liposomal Vitamin C as a Vindication of an Old Idea
by Lucie Kotlarova

An Examination of the Association of Subjects’ Exposure to Contact Healing Treatments to Selected Physiological Outcomes: A Pre-test/Post-test Study Design
by Sixth Degree Research Team, Rosicrucian Order AMORC (Nosa Orobaton; Hugh McCague; Bryan Young; and Shelley Higgins)

The Alchemical World of Oz
by Timothy J. Ryan

The Brain-Mind as a Networked Entity: A Medical Case Study in Consciousness
by G. Bryan Young

Currents

Tibetan Sand Mandalas: Creating a Harmonic World
by Dottie K.H. Alt

Volume 13 (2019)

Letter from the Editor

A Look at This Year's Cover: Robert Fludd’s Rose and Cross

Submissions

The Gnostic Coptic Apocalypse of Paul: A Powerful Gnostic Witness
by Steven A. Armstrong

A Green Fairy in a Monastery Garden?
by Peter R. Bindon and Jean-Paul Raynal

The Voynich Manuscript: A New Perspective on a 600-Year-Old Mystery
by Chris Kunferman

P.D. Ouspensky and Esotericism in the New Testament
by Douglas J. Meyer

The Widespread Implications of a Nano-Bio Communication System
by Seppo Vainio

Defining the Psychic Body
by G. Bryan Young; Ingrid A. Hutchinson-Young; Hugh McCague; and Peter C. Blanco

Currents

Shakespeare’s Veiled Advocacy of Religious Tolerance in Twelfth Night
by Maureen Richmond

Cover Image: Photo of the mural of Robert Fludd's Rose and Cross at the Rosicrucian Cultural Center in New York City. Photo by AMORC. All Rights Reserved.

Volume 12 (2018)

Editorial

Letter from the Editor

A Look at This Year's Cover: Michael Maier’s Atalanta Fugiens

Submissions

De la fermeture des écoles d’Athènes au Concile de Constantinople II : la répudiation d’une tradition antique
par Thierry Guinot

English version of the text from the Review Process:
From the Closure of the Schools of Athens to the 2nd Council of Constantinople: Repudiating a Tradition Dating Back to Antiquity
by Thierry Guinot

On the Mysteries of Organic Organisation: The Microcosm and Macrocosm
by Daniel Harris

Fourier Analyses of Certain Mystical Vowel Sound Intonations using PRAAT software
by James Schwonek; Ranjie Singh; Olisa Okanime; and Nancee McCraw

Musical Scales from Pythagoras to Dr. H. Spencer Lewis
by Robert Waggener; Lawrence Murray; and Doss McDavid

Currents

Bulwer-Lytton’s Zanoni: A Victorian Adventure in Consciousness
by Maureen Richmond, MA

Cover Image:  Colored image of Emblem 21 from Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens (c) 2018 by Adam McLean. All Rights Reserved.

Volume 11 (2016)

Editorial

Letter from the Editor

A Look at This Year's Cover: The New Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz

Submissions

The Perfect Fifth -- The Science and Alchemy of Sound
by John Beaulieu

The Roots of a Science of Consciousness in Hermetic Alchemy
by Dennis William Hauck

The Pattern That Connects
by Eleanor MacGregor

The Use of Virtual Reality as a Meditative Neurotechnology
by Ranjie Singh; Paula Rayo; and K. Nirvana Singh

Currents

The Scientific Method and Psi Research
by Patricia Downes; Shelley Higgins; Frank Hutchinson; Allen Jackson; Sara Petty; Othel Rolle; and Ranjie Singh

Volume 10 (2014)

Editorial

Letter from the Editor

A Look at This Year's Cover: The College of the Fraternity

Papers

Searching for the Cosmic Quintessence: How Alchemists Meditated in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
by Dennis William Hauck

Preliminary Experiments on Contact Healing, Breathing Exercises, Sounds and Their Responses
by the Sixth Degree Research Team, Rosicrucian Order, AMORC
(Hugh McCague and Bryan Young, with contributions from Donna Bella, Shelley Higgins, Wendy Keslick, Nosa Orobaton, and Dave Stein)

The Non-dual Root of Science and Religion
by Thomas J. McFarlane

Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Secret of the Holy Grail
by Douglas J. Meyer

Cardiovascular Disease in the Western World – an Overlooked Risk Factor
by Raymond A. Schep

Cover Image: The Invisible College of the Rosicrucians,Theophilus Schweighardt Speculum sophicum rhodo-stauroticum, 1618. Color version copyright © 2014 Adam McLean. 

Volume 9 (2012)

Editorial

Letter from the Editor

Papers

Medical Pluralism and the Quest for Therapy: The Dilemma of HIV and AIDS Patients in Zimbabwe’s Rural Gandanzara Area
by Godfrey Museka

A Review on Antigravity, Levitation, Resonance, and Devices Inspired by the Ouroboros Serpent
by Christopher G. Provatidis

Deriving Maxwell's Equations From An Inspiring Walk In The Hills
by Robert Watson and Thomas L. Selby

Rebuilding the Bridge Between Science and Mysticism
by Paul J. Werbos

Volume 8 (2011)

Editorial

Letter from the Editor

A Look at This Year's Cover: Hidden in Plain Sight

Papers

Discovering the "Effective Text": A Method of Esoteric Text Transmission
by Jeffrey S. Durham

Magic and the Binary Code: Renaissance Christian Kabbalah and Buckminster Fuller’s Tensegrity Structures
by Kathryn LaFevers Evans
Slide Show of Images

How Rosicrucian Friends Concealed and Revealed Shakespeare’s Secrets with Symbols, Clues, and Ciphers
by Helen Heightsman Gordon

Materia Prima: The Nature of the First Matter in the Esoteric and Scientific Traditions
by Dennis William Hauck

"Divine Angels" and Vadzimu in Shona Religion, Zimbabwe
by Takawira Kazembe

Gnostic Imagery from the Beginning of our Era to Today
by Katherine Schaefers

Esoteric Elements in Russian Cosmism
by George M. Young

Mons Philosophorum
Berg der Philosophen
by Zoran Perowanowitsch

English translation from review process

Currents

The Sacred Dance and the Numinous 
by Luiz Eduardo V. Berni

Cover Image: Hidden in Plain Sight © 2010 Rosicrucian Order, AMORC

Volume 7 (2010) 

Editorial

Letter from the Editor

Papers

The Transdisciplinarity Connection: An Introduction to an Epistemological Approach to Improve the Dialogue between Science and Tradition
by Luiz Eduardo V. Berni

The Magnetic Characteristics of Intuition 
by Shelley Higgins

Shona Traditional Gatherings
by Takawira Kazembe

Currents

Pure Colors and Form in My Journey
by Dana Puchnarová

Cover Image: Frontispiece to an Eighteenth century German work, The Compass of the Wise. Color version copyright © 2009 Adam McLean. 

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Volume 6 (2009)

Editorial

Letter from the Editor

A Look at This Year's Cover: Rosicrucian Secret Symbols

Papers

Changing the Exchange
by Diane Dean-Epps

La synchronicité : Une cartographie de la coïncidence
by Pierre Grégoire

The Relationship between God and People in Shona Traditional Religion
by Takawira Kazembe

Tabula Smaragdina Hermetis: Die Weisheit und Aufgabe der Rosenkreuzer
by Zoran Perowanowitsch 

English translation from review process

Chromoacoustics: The Science of Sound and Color
by John S. Sultzbaugh

Currents

Magnetic Energy of the Brain 
by Michael Bukay and George F. Buletza, with modern commentary 

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Editorial Volume 5 (2008)

Editorial

Letter from the Editor

Papers

Consciousness, Mind, And Intelligence: Some Research And Notes 
by Antonietta Francini

Trans-Temporal Collaboration: How a Thirteenth-Century Cabalistic Exercise by Abraham Abulafia Inspired a Contemporary Piece of Meditative Music 
by Johann Friedrich Wolfgang Hasler

Score of HaShem
by J.F.W. Hasler

Audio file of HaShem 
by J.F.W. Hasler

Some Cultural Aspects of Traditional Medicine, Traditional Religion, and Gender in Zimbabwe
by Takawira Kazembe

Martinès de Pasqually et la Gnose Valentinienne
by Alain Marbeuf

Tristan und Isolde: der Mythos des Christlichen Abendlands 
by Françoise Saint-Onge

English translation from review process

Version française par l’auteur

Essene Ethnicity
by Katherine Schaefers

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Volume 4 (2007)

Editorial

Letter from the Editor

A Look at This Year's Cover: Rosicrucian Secret Symbols

Papers

Shakespeare’s Rosicrucian Revelations in the Dedication to the Sonnets
by Helen Heightsman Gordon

Insights on the Evolution of Religions and Interreligious Dialogue: Past, Present, and Future 
by Linda Groff

The Effect of Magnetically Shielding a Dowser
by Shelley Higgins

Traditional Medicine in Zimbabwe
by Takawira Kazembe

Les deux mariages en Alchimie
by Emmanuel Le Bouter
(English version from the Review Process)

Voices of Fire - Spiritual Entities and Personality
by David K. Stolowitz

Towards a Unified Theory of Forces
by Pieter C. Wagener

Causality, 4-Geons and Dark Energy: A Radical View Of Space-Time
by R.E.S. Watson

Currents

On the Relationship of the Physiology of the Brain to Spirituality
by Stuart J. Malkin

Health, Happiness and Disease
by G. Bryan Young and Ingrid A. Hutchinson-Young

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Volume 3 (2006)

Editorial

Letter From Editor 

Papers

Tierschutz & Mystik aus der Perspektive Einer Rosenkreuzerin 
by Dr. Françoise Saint-Onge

Brief Report - Ethnomedicine: The Sweat Lodge Healing Experience: An Integrative Medical Perspective 
by Steven KH Aung

Harmony as a Strategy for Beneficial Change
by Richard A. Schultz

Full Circle: West meets East
by Susan Driehaus

The Sistine Chapel: A Study in Celestial Cartography
by William John Meegan

Five and Fifty: A Proposed Solution to "The Virgin" Name Riddle in the Rosicrucian Document, The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz
by Theodore Trenn William

Book Reviews

The Oracle: The Lost Secrets and Hidden Message of Ancient Delphi by William J. Broad
Reviewed by Julie Scott

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Reviewed by Richard A. Schultz

The Gospel of Judas edited by Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer, and Gregor Wurst.
Reviewed by Steven Armstrong

Currents

The Short Lunar Cycle and Rainfall 
by Joel Rosenbaum

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Volume 2 (2005)

Editorial

Letter from Editor

Papers

Entanglement, Causality and the Cohesion of Spacetime 
by Michael A. Amaral

Exploring the Efficacy of Vowel Intonations
by Melanie Braun

Rosicrucian Landmarks Preserved in Greek Isopsephia (Gematria) 
by Doss McDavid

Réflexions sur l'atome, la gravitation et l'énergie 
by Michel Myara

Practices Supporting Dzogchen – The Great Perfection of Tibetan Buddhism 
by Neal J. Pollock

Newton and the International Year of Physics
by Pieter C. Wagener

Proposing a New Approach to Mind, Consciousness and Reason 
by Robert E. Watson

Meditation from Neurological and Rosicrucian Perspectives 
by G. Bryan Young

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Premiere Issue (2004)

Editorial

Letter from Editor

Papers

On the Feasibility of Time Travel and Its Implications 
by Michael A. Amaral

The First Generation of Manichaeans and Other Communities in the Egyptian Deserts: Methodology, the Available Evidence, and Conclusions
by Steven Armstrong

Science et Connaissance 
by Michel Bénot

Mind-Body-Spirituality and Health Interactions 
by Lonnie C. Edwards

Book Reviews

Spirituality for the Skeptic: The Thoughtful Love of Life by Robert C. Solomon
Reviewed by Karen Wark

Rethinking “Gnosticism”: An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Category by Michael Allen Williams
Reviewed by Steven Armstrong