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HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS.
6. Practicus . . or III .
7. Thearicus . . or 11.
8. Zelator ... or 1.
The numbers were doubled in the Metropolitan College,
but these arrangements were practically abrogated by the
admission of supernumerary members until the occurrence
of i( substantive vacancies." A Yorkshire College was con-
secrated in 1877 ; a college in Edinburgh to represent the
East of Scotland had been established some time previously.
The prime mover in this Association was Robert Went-
worth Little, who died in the year 1878, at the age of
thirty-eight ; he was the Supreme Magus, and the actual
revival of the Rosicrucian Order in England was owing to
his instrumentality.
The Honorary Presidentship has been
conferred upon various noblemen, the late Lord Lytton
was elected Grand Patron, and among the most important
members must be reckoned the late Frederick Hockley,
Kenneth Mackenzie, and Hargrave Jennings.
The most notable circumstance connected with this
society is the complete ignorance
which seems to have
prevailed amongst its members generally concerning every-
thing connected with Rosicrucianism. This is conspicuous
in the magazine which they published. Frater William
Carpenter complains that he has not obtained much light
from the work of Frater Jennings, and that he himself is
" an untaught speculator." Frater William Hughan is
acknowledged as an adept, but he does not seem to have
been aware that the "Fama" and " Confessio Fraternitatis "
originally appeared in Germany. Frater Carpenter inclines
to the opinion that the question had better be left to itself,
as " an inquiry into the matter is destined to get every one
who attempts it into an entanglement. He humbly con-