Ebook: The Secret Stream: Christian Rosenkreutz and Rosicrucianism

The Secret Stream was a excellant series of essays on Rosicrucianism and Alchemy, and also the esoteric history of mankind.
To the nominal reader, it may be overwhelming, but to those interested in profundus, the deep rather than the superficial or materialistic wont, and having some experience with the concepts of Alchemy and Rosicrucianism, the book has quality even if its not taken by faith alone, and I do not believe anything taken on faith alone reflects much on the reader who seeks veritas or truth.
It is a series of essays by Stiener, who is a German Scholar in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and invested great effort in the idea of spiritualism[though under many nomen], or the idea that, matter being a receptive apparent quality that is founded upon a more active essential component and is transcendent or rather transcends the superficial, apparenent sensually.
Stiener writes as a scholar, and thinks as a scholar, and one of the themes, as there are many is that, around the late parts of the 13th century, mankind embraced materialism, the separation of science and religion and the devaluing of essential thinking, which had ramifications inwardly, or created a threshold of experience which limited total percipience but fomented the maturation of the facility of reason within man, thus it was neccessitated.
In that scheme, Rosicrucianism and ALchemy were fomented actively, intentionally, to develope a modality of integrating love into knowledge or knowledge to the cross respectively, or rather balancing the apathetic tendancies of pure reason with its balance compassion.
It also considers Rosicrucion methodology as Steiner saw it, investigated Geothe and some of the initial documents of Rosicrucianism and its symbology.
A good book, I do not quite do it service it is due, as it's been a month since I finished it.