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Hargrave Jennings

d. 1890

Best known for writing about Rosicrucians, comparative religion, and Victorian occult ideas, this curious and controversial 19th-century author helped shape later interest in esoteric thought. His books mixed scholarship, speculation, and symbolism in ways that still fascinate readers of the strange and mystical.

2 Audiobooks

Phallic Worship A description of the mysteries of the sex worship of the ancients, with the history of the masculine cross. An account of primitive symbolism, Hebrew phallicism, bacchic festivals, sexual rites, and the mysteries of the ancient faiths.

Phallic Worship A description of the mysteries of the sex worship of the ancients, with the history of the masculine cross. An account of primitive symbolism, Hebrew phallicism, bacchic festivals, sexual rites, and the mysteries of the ancient faiths.

by Hargrave Jennings

Phallic Miscellanies Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India

Phallic Miscellanies Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India

by Hargrave Jennings

About the author

Hargrave Jennings was a British writer of the 19th century, active as a miscellaneous man of letters and remembered chiefly for his books on occultism, symbolism, and comparative religion. A Dictionary of National Biography entry describes him as being born around 1817, notes that he began publishing very young, and says that for many years he worked as secretary to Colonel Mapleson in the management of the Italian Opera.

He is most closely associated with works such as The Rosicrucians, Their Rites and Mysteries, which helped build his reputation among readers interested in secret societies and esoteric traditions. Modern reference sources consistently describe him as a British Freemason and Rosicrucian writer whose subjects included mysticism, religion, and symbolic interpretation.

Jennings died in 1890. Although many of his theories were highly speculative and controversial even in his own time, his writing remained influential in the wider Victorian revival of occult and esoteric interests, and he is still read today by people exploring the stranger corners of religious and symbolic history.