. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . y are called, does not seem very alluring in the re-cital, though I think one might get considerable funat the initiation, when asked by the rigid examiner : Enumerate thy attractions and thy Sar Peladan was no end of a farceur^ hedeemed himself the ally of Ruskin, Rossetti, andBurne-Jones, and he was fortunate enough to in-terest and annex another very great painter, Puvisde Chavannes, whose temperament, as shown in hiswork, must have made him a
. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . y are called, does not seem very alluring in the re-cital, though I think one might get considerable funat the initiation, when asked by the rigid examiner : Enumerate thy attractions and thy Sar Peladan was no end of a farceur^ hedeemed himself the ally of Ruskin, Rossetti, andBurne-Jones, and he was fortunate enough to in-terest and annex another very great painter, Puvisde Chavannes, whose temperament, as shown in hiswork, must have made him a ready listener; still,he did not linger long a groom. A less-knownbut charming French painter, M. Aime Jean, wasalso a convert, and contributed to the RosicrucianSalon his exquisite Reverie. M. Khnopff joined theband and gave his painting of beauty and mystery,/ lock my Door upon Myself. Besides the pictureexhibition, lecture courses were given — dull, ofcourse ; and plays also. One, Le Fils des Etolies, wascalled a wagnerie, and I am sure I know not whatthat wa3. Concerts, too, at which a woman, whose The Rosicrucians 377. Queen Eleanors Cross, Northampton. From an Old Print, 1760. name was seriously given as Mme. CorrylangeMogenboom, performed what were termed incan-tations on the piano. 378 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday It is held by the believers in Rosicrucianism thatEdward I was initiated into the mysteries of thesociety in 1296 ; that the degree of Rose Croix wasconferred on him by Raymond Lully (the friend ofJohn Cremer, Abbot of Westminster, and thatdelightful old English alchemist, Roger Bacon).Edward made the crusade to Palestine and broughtback to England with him Guido dalla Colonna andthis same Raymond Lully, who coined six miUionsof nobles for him, as I have recounted at lengthin another chapter. Lully was a contemporary ofDante and of Arnold of Villanova. All were perse-cuted exiles. Lully was accused of heresy, and atlast took recourse in the language of c
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