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HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS.
Rosicrucian." The acknowledged fictions of a later period
occasionally introduce the Society to the novel-reading
public. Among these may be mentioned the incoherent
and worthless romance, entitled " St Irvyne ; or, The
Rosicrucian," which was written by Shelley at the age of
seventeen; Lord Lytton's "Zanoni;" "The Rosicrucian's
Story," by Paschal R. Randolph, an American half-breed of
no inconsiderable talent, who translated the " Divine Po-
miander," formed an ephemeral Rosicrucian publishing
company, and crowning a chequered
existence with a
sudden suicide, is still much respected among certain
spiritual circles, occasionally " communicating " with quite
the average veracity of other " controls" performed by the
" choir invisible." The official organ of the English Societas
Rosicrudana has also provided its select and esoteric circle
of " antiquarian " illuminati with " Leaves from the Diary of
a Rosicrucian," a romance of considerable ability by Kenneth
Mackenzie, F.R.C., IX.