Secret Doctrine of the RosicruciansThe Rosicrucians are a truly "secret society" whose philosophy has emerged at different points in history. In the 1600s, they issued a set of manifestos calling for an enlightened revolution that would reshape society into a more democratic ideal. Writing as Magus Incognito, William Walker Atkinson reintroduces a new generation of readers to the Rosicrucian ideals, as well as to a myriad of connections between occult concepts as varied as alchemy,