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By Christopher McIntosh

The order sticks out as some of the most attention-grabbing and influential of the high-degree Masonic and Illuminist teams that mushroomed in Europe from the eighteenth century onward. lively ordinarily within the German-speaking lands, it recast the unique Rosicrucian imaginative and prescient and gave it renewed energy. At one element it grew to become politically influential whilst the Prussian King, Frederick William II, used to be a member of the order. Historians have frequently perceived the Golden and Rosy pass as having had a conservative, anti-Enlightenment time table, yet this study—drawing on infrequent German sources—shows that the problem used to be extra advanced. The contributors of the order practiced alchemy and operated a level approach that was once imitated via later orders, corresponding to the Golden sunrise. just like the latter, the Golden and Rosy move exerted a large and enduring cultural impression. either the alchemy of the order and its robust ritual process are insightfully defined in Christopher McIntosh’s transparent and compelling variety.

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Such was the climate at the time of the early Rosicrucian movement. But by the time the new Rosicrucianism made its appearance the scientific revolution of the 17th century had taken place. , Kurzgefaßte Geschichte der Rosenkreuzer (no place of publication indicated, 1784), Preface, pp. i-v. 18 Op. cit. (Princeton University Press, 1966), pp. 105-6. wEvans, Rudolph Hand his World, p. 243. 30 ROSICRUCIANISM FROM ITS ORIGINS Platonism but by the mechanistic system of Descartes and his followers. As Keith Thomas writes: "The essence of the revolution was the triumph of the mechanical philosophy.

In 1615, the year following the first edition of the Fama, a second Rosicrucian manifesto was published, also in Kassel and again with no authorls name. It was called the Confessio Fraternitatis. This time the text was in Latin, though a German version soon followed. 8 Throughout the Fama and Confessio the Christian, and specifically Protestant, nature of the brotherhood was constantly emphasized. What sort of world did the authors of these manifestos wish to bring about? The opening pages of the Fama rejoice in the fact that a new divine dispensation is evident, which has made possible an increased knowledge of Christ and of Nature.

Thus Rosicrucianism, as a transition between the Renaissance and the scientific societies of the 17th century, forms a point of crystallization. , p. 12. 15Michael W. Fischer, Die Aufklärung und ihr Gegenteil (Berlin, Duncker und Humblot, 1982), pp. 34-5. 35. ROSICRUCIANISM FROM ITS ORIGINS 29 Although the later Rosicrucianism, as embodied in the Gold- und Rosenkreuz, came to be linked with the anti-Außlärung, there remained in the 18th century some apologists for the older form who regarded the Gold- und Rosenkreuz as imposters and betrayers of the true spirit of Rosicrucianism.

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