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1939. With Prologue, Notes, and Epilogue to this philosophical and spiritual novel by Clymer, head of the oldest Rosicrucian fraternity in America. The prologue is a report of Clymer's travels to Europe. The story unravels the mystery of the Great Fraternity-Life, Light, and Love. As elsewhere in Dr. Randolph's writings, the focus is on man's search for his own soul. An interesting and revealing read. See other works by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The novel climaxes with a long-anticipated episode in which Beverly is made to undergo the "sacred slumber of Sialam Boaghiee," a trance in which he utters assorted prophecies. This “sleep of Sialam” recurs in Randolph’s occult instructions, and seems to have been taken up from there by the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, along with mentions in Blavatsky’s Isis Unveiled. It is evidently the same “infinite sleep and lucid, the sleep of Shi-lo-am” in Aleister Crowley's Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente.
Ravalette explicitly allows for the sort of Rosicrucian immortality described in Bulwer-Lytton's Zanoni, but the novel is premised on an epic tale of reincarnation, where Beverly is redeeming and accomplishing the work of ages through a series of embodiments on the material plane. It is thus in the vanguard of a micro-genre of reincarnation romance that became popular In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Ravalette is also a seminal instance of fictionalized occult autobiography. Later examples that appear to be indebted to it include Maria Naglowska’s Sacred Rite of Magical Love and Franz Bardon’s Frabato the Magician.