Rosicrucian Manual - 1974 Cover
Rosicrucian Manual
By Dr. H. Spencer Lewis
 
      2nd Edition, 1927 
     7th Edition, 1938* 
23rd Edition, 1974 

*The Final Issue Prior to the Death or 
Transition in 1939 of Dr. H. Spencer Lewis

Notable Comparisons or Changes of the Following
as of the 1974 Edition:

1927 Edition (189 pp)
1938 Edition 
1974 Edition (201 pp)
3rd Degree (first sentence): "Initiation Ritual, including demonstration of Alchemical principles and mental phenomena, followed by a series of lectures, covering the following subjects in detail." (p. 71) 3rd Degree (first sentence): "Initiation Ritual, including demonstration of Alchemical principles and mental phenomena, followed by a series of monographs in general, covering the following subjects." (p. 71: Click Here) 3rd Degree (first sentence): "Initiation Ritual, including demonstration of Alchemical principles and mental phenomena, followed by a series of monographs, covering the following subjects in general." (p. 71)
4th Degree: Covers topics from the Nodin Manuscript.  States:  "Very Elaborate Initiation Ceremony introducing the Member into the next stage of the Higher Teachings and illustrating to him the mysteries of Life. Followed by a long series of monographs covering, except when changed by additions or elimination, the following important subjects:"  (p. 71)  4th Degree: Covers topics from the Nodin Manuscript.  States:  "Very Elaborate Initiation Ceremony introducing the Member into the next stage of the Higher Teachings and illustrating to him the mysteries of Life; followed by a long series of monographs covering, except when changed by additions or elimination, the following important subjects:"  (p. 71: Click Here and 72: Click Here)  [Retains important original context of this Temple Degree.] 4th Degree: Covers topics from the Nodin Manuscript. States:  "Very Elaborate Initiation Ceremony introducing the Member into the next stage of the Higher Teachings and illustrating to him the mysteries of Life; followed by a long series of monographs covering, except when changed by additions or elimination, the following important subjects:" (p. 71-72)   [Retains important original context of this Temple Degree.]
Other Branches of Our Studies:

NoteThis section on the "University of the Order" (not referring to the subsequently established RCU) is deleted entirely from the 1934 Edition of the RC Manual.

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Other Branches of Our Studies:

Note:  This section is deleted entirely.

Other Branches of Our Studies:

Note:  This section is deleted entirely.

The Great White Lodge:

"The Great White Brotherhood, on the other hand, is the school or Fraternity, of The Great White Lodge, and into this invisible Brotherhood of visible members every true student on the Path prepares for admission. [End]  (1st full para. on p. 136)

The Great White Lodge:

"The Great White Brotherhood, on the other hand, is the school or Fraternity, of The Great White Lodge, and into this invisible Brotherhood of visible members every true student on the Path prepares for admission. [End]  (1st full para. on p. 140:  Click Here)

Note:  The 1941 Edition, published following the 1939 transition of Dr. Lewis, ended this section as indicated here for 1927 and 1939.

The Great White Lodge:

 "The Great White Brotherhood, on the other hand, is the school or Fraternity, of The Great White Lodge, and into this invisible Brotherhood of visible members every true student on the Path prepares for admission.  The Great White Brotherhood has no visible meeting place.  Its members never physically assemble.  Any physical organization therefore, claiming to be the Great White Brotherhood is false.  (See "Divine Illumination" and "The Work of the Great Masters" on page 148.)  (1st full para. on  p. 143.)

"Divine Illumination" and "The Work of the Great Masters":

The content does not contradict the added statement on 1974's p. 143 that was not in the 1927 edition on p. 136 (above). (p. 143)

"Divine Illumination" and "The Work of the Great Masters":

The content does not contradict the added statement on 1974's p. 143 that was not in the 1938 edition on p. 140 (above). (p. 146:  Click Here)

"Divine Illumination" and "The Work of the Great Masters":

The content words here is the same exactly as in 1938, and does not contradict the added statement on 1974's p. 143 that was not in the 1938 edition on p. 140 (above). (p. 149-150)

Special Help in Development:

"All of these activities--often carried on to a high degree without being known except to a few hundered of America's foremost newspaper editors, scientists, judges, lawyers, physicians, and educators--require trained experts to do the work in secret, funds to meet emergencies, secretaries to keep records, and space for the preservation of the work in our national organization." [End]  (2nd para. p. 141)

Special Help in Development:

"All of these activities--often carried on to a high degree without being known except to a few hundered of America's foremost newspaper editors, scientists, judges, lawyers, physicians, and educators--require trained experts to do the work in secret, funds to meet emergencies, secretaries to keep records, and space for the preservation of the work in our national organization." [End]  (1st partial para. p. 145:  Click Here)

Special Help in Development:

"All of these activities--often carried on to a high degree without being known except to a few hundered of America's foremost newspaper editors, scientists, judges, lawyers, physicians, and educators--require trained experts to do the work in secret, funds to meet emergencies, secretaries to keep records, and space for the preservation of the work in our national organization.  These avenues are only revealed to the individual if it is thought he can and is qualified to serve in one of them."  (1st partial para. p. 148)

Special Help in Development:

"The interests of our members are our interests; their personal problems are our problems; their success and failures are ours also.  The father of a family may be the only one in that family who is a member of our Order, but the problems of that family and each member in it become of vital interest to us as to him..... Likewise his business affairs, his health, his social affairs--all these are of importance to him in his progress through life and MUST, therefore, be of interest to us." [End]  (1st partial para. p. 142)

Special Help in Development:

"The interests of our members are our interests; their personal problems are our problems; their success and failures are ours also.  The father of a family may be the only one in that family who is a member of our Order, but the problems of that family and each member in it become of vital interest to us as to him..... Likewise his business affairs, his health, his social affairs--all these are of importance to him in his progress through life and MUST, therefore, be of interest to us, within our facilities."  (2nd full para. p. 145:  Click Here)

Special Help in Development:

"The interests of our members are our interests; their personal problems are our problems where ever it lies within our power to help them.  ....  Likewise his business affairs, his health, his social affairs--all these are of importance to him in his progress through life and MUST, therefore, be of interest to us, within our facilities."  (2nd full para. p. 148)

Losing Psychic Contact:

"Therefore, to make progress toward the ultimate goal, each member should be jealous of his contact, his devotion, his active participation, with the others of the Order.  No member ever really knows the loss he will sustain in a sudden emergency in his own affairs, or those of his family, by severing the contact, the affiliation, for a day, a week, or a month."  [End]  (4th full para. p. 142)

Losing Psychic Contact:

"Therefore, to make progress toward the ultimate goal, each member should be jealous of his contact, his devotion, his active participation, with the others of the Order.  No member ever really knows the loss he will sustain in a sudden emergency in his own affairs, or those of his family, by severing the contact, the affiliation, for a day, a week, or a month."  [End]  (2nd full para. p. 146: Click Here)

Losing Psychic Contact:

"Therefore, to make progress toward the ultimate goal, each member should be jealous of his contact, his devotion, his active participation, with the others of the Order.  No member ever really knows the loss he will sustain in a sudden emergency in his own affairs, or those of his family, if he severs his contact or affiliation with the Order.  This loss is a result of not having, at such a time, the influence or the power which the Organization could and would give him were he actively associated with it."  (2nd full para.  p. 149)

Images Provided:

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  • Great Seal of Solomon
  • Pentagram of Faust
  • Four Great Kabalistic Names
  • The Chariot of Hermes
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      Ancient Sign of Excommunication
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  • Great Seal of Solomon
  • Pentagram of Faust
  • Four Great Kabalistic Names
  • The Chariot of Hermes
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    • Ancient Sign of Excommunication
    Images Provided: Excluded

    Images that appear in the 1938 Edition are provided in the 1974 Edition, although a few are slightly different depictions of the same image content.  The images listed in the corresponding columns here, however, are not included in the 1974 Edition of the Rosicrucian Manual.


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