This book explores the work of Joséphin Péladan, his "L’Ordre de la Rose-Croix Catholique" and the legendary “Salons de la Rose+Croix” art exhibitions. Considerable emphasis is placed on the "Rose+Croix de Toulouse", the alleged forerunner of Péladan's Rosicrucian movement. Also included are a number of chapters dedicated to the successors of Joséphin Péladan, most notably Émile Dantinne and the Belgian "Ordo Aureae & Rosae Crucis" [La Rose+Croix Universitaire, La Rose+Croix Universelle] and the Pythagorean "L'Ordre d'Hermès Tétramégiste". The final chapter is reserved for one of Dantinne's successors, Martin Erler and the O.R.A. ["Ordo Rosae Aureae"]. And furthermore..., Édouard de Lapasse, -Firmin Boissin, -Dr. Adrien Péladan, Papus, the Martinist Order, “Groupe Indépendant d’Etudes Esotériques”, Stanislas de Guaita, "Ordre Kabbalistique de la Rose+Croix", Erik Satie, Jean Delville, Lodge KVMRIS, Gustav Meyrink, Alois Mailänder, Karl Weinfurter, the Asiatic Brethren, John Yarker... and many,many others