By the 1700s, most Masonic bodies contained, at their higher levels, "Rosicrucian Degrees" -- while various occult fraternities were associated with, or gave out that they were associated with, some form of Rosicrucianism. In 1866 Robert Wentworth Little and other ranking Freemasons in England formed the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia.
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Tesla Rosicrucian Cross (FUSION) 1908 TUNGUSKA
Nikola Tesla and the Cipher Manuscripts
A variety of theories exist as to the real secret of the Cipher Manuscript Nikola Tesla and some of the more common ones include:
Westcott and Mathers and Tesla created all the Manuscripts and letters themselves, and Tesla created the origin myth of "Rosicrucian Adepts" to give credibility to their new Order.
Mason and clergyman A.F.A. Woodford found the Cipher Manuscript in a secondhand bookstall on Wellington Road in London, and gave it to his friend Westcott to be decoded but these theories are off their mark. Yakutat Bay in 1899 and then Tunguska in 1908 are the key to the universe. To you lames who would see me unsuccessful...
The Sprengel letters were a forgery by Westcott, but the Manuscripts were written by Kenneth Mackenzie and/or other scholars of the S.R.I.A. (to which Westcott, Mathers, Tesla and Woodman belonged to as early as 1881). Fräulein Sprengel was a legend invented by Westcott to give lineage to the newly formed order. Westcott created the mythology of the Cipher Manuscripts' origins, knowing that a more esoteric source would carry weight with occultists of the era.
There was no German order; the first Golden Dawn temple was a project of a secret group within the S.R.I.A. called the "Society of Eight". (By the time Westcott "discovered" the Manuscripts, all the members of the Society were deceased.) Fräulein Sprengel didn't really exist, but the Manuscript itself has true antiquarian origins, traceable to Johann Falk and passed through the hands of Francis Barrett, Eliphas Levi, and eventually to Mackenzie, Woodford and the S.R.I.A. (and the Society of Eight).
There really was a German Rosicrucian order, sometimes referred to as the "Gold und Rosenkreutz," and it already had a branch in London, founded around 1810. Mackenzie was a member of this German order, into which he had been initiated by Count Apponyi of Hungary, and obtained the rituals described in the Cipher from them.
The rituals in the Manuscripts were written by Baron Edward Bulwer-Lytton, honorary patron of the S.R.I.A. and author of an occult novel called Zanoni - A Strange Story, or by Frederick Hockley, the famous Rosicrucian seer and transcriber of occult manuscripts, and thence passed to Mackenzie.
The Cipher Manuscript was legitimate, and the Golden Dawn is a valid offspring of an older Jewish order in Bavaria called Loge zur aufgehenden Morgenröthe, which translates to "Lodge of the Approaching Morning Light" or "Lodge of the Rising Dawn". This Order was founded to allow German Jews to conduct Masonic-style lodges since, at the time, Jews were banned from participation in Freemasonry.
Carbon Fusion Cycle
- Commander-in-Chief, knocks once: If there be any present, with the exception of candidates, who are not Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret, let them depart in peace, that our Consistory may be secure. -
http://books.google.com/books?id=JBbgvm0F9LwC&lpg=PA177&ots=bn8WfV_mtP&dq=matrix%20rosicrucian&pg=PA177#v=onepage&q&f=false
In stars with central temperatures greater than 15 million Kelvin, carbon fusion is thought to take over the dominant role rather than hydrogen fusion. The main theme of the carbon cycle is the adding of protons, but after a carbon-12 nucleus fuses with a proton to form nitrogen-13, one of the protons decays with the emission of a positron and a neutrino to form carbon -13. Two more proton captures produce nitrogen-14 and then oxygen-15. Another neutron decay leaves nitrogen-15. Another proton capture produces oxygen-16 which emits an energetic alpha particle to return to carbon-12 to repeat the cycle. This last reaction is the main source of energy in the cycle for the fueling of the star.
While this process is not a significant part of the sun's fuel cycle, a star like Sirius with somewhat more than twice the mass of the sun derives almost all of its power from the carbon cycle. The carbon cycle yields 26.72 MeV per helium nucleus.
Hans Bethe and the Carbon Cycle
For his role in working out the energy source for stars more massive than the sun, the carbon cycle, Hans Bethe received the Nobel Prize in 1967. Bethe was one of the outstanding young scientists who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930's. One of the fascinating stories about Hans Bethe is that after submitting his article about the carbon cycle to the Physical Review, he became aware of a $500 prize for the best unpublished paper about energy production in the stars. He asked Physical Review to return his paper, proceeded to win the prize and paid a finder's fee of $50 to Robert Marshak who had told him about it. Bethe recounts "I used part of the prize to help my mother emigrate. The Nazis were quite willing to let her out, but they wanted $250, in dollars, to release her furniture. Part of the prize money went to liberate my mother's furniture."
Liturgical objections to the new calendar stem from the fact that it adjusts only those liturgical celebrations that occur on fixed calendar dates, leaving all of the commemorations on the moveable cycle on the original Julian calendar. This upsets the harmony and balance of the liturgical year. This disruption is most noticeable during Great Lent. Certain feast days are designed to fall during Lent, such as the feast of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste. The Feast of the Annunciation is also intended to fall either before Pascha or during Bright Week. Sometimes, Annunciation will fall on the day of Pascha itself, a very special concurrence known as Kyrio-Pascha, with special liturgical practices appointed for such an occurrence. However, under the new calendar, Kyrio-Pascha becomes an impossibility. The Apostles' Fast displays the most difficult aspect of the new calendar. The fast begins on the moveable cycle and ends on the fixed date of 29 June; since the new calendar is 13 days ahead of the traditional Julian calendar, the Apostles' Fast is 13 days shorter for those who follow the new calendar, and some years it is completely abrogated. Furthermore, critics of the new calendar point out the advantage to celebrating Nativity separately from the secular observances of Christmas and New Year, which are associated with partying and alcohol consumption.
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"The last 29 days of the month are the hardest." Nikola Tesla Quotes
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Nikola Tesla was a Serbian scientist. He worked in physics and engineering prominently. These are some of his famous quotes.
A point of great importance would be first to know what is the capacity of the earth and what charge does it contain if electrified?
As a son of my homeland I feel it is my duty to help the city of Zagreb in every respect with my advice and work.
I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device.
We begin to think cosmically.
To achieve this wonder, electricity is the one and only means.
The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man.
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
As I uttered these inspiring words the idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
AN ESOTERIC VIEW OF THE ECCLESIA,
by Asa Thurston Heydon
The "Spiritual Significance of the Ecclesia", also "A Vision from Victoria, B.C." published in the October number of this magazine appeal to me especially.
The "Vision" was an actuality, for in their exaltation the watchers registered the higher vibrations which, reflected from force center to force center, brought to them the cosmic movie of what was occurring upon Inspiration Point, even as mirages are in lower series. What they saw was the charging and awakening to life of the spiritual series of the natural Force Center upon which the Ecclesia is being built. This was accomplished by the combined thought, desire, consecration, and concentration of all present and of those absent who were interested in that Temple of Healing. Even as the rays of that influx of power reached Victoria, so did the power of all interested and sincere souls converge upon that Force Center, and throw into circuit that higher series which inheres in it.
None of them know the Force Center organization as such, although parts are visible in aureolas, halos, and rainbows. Yet the writer accurately described the portion of the Force Center whose vibrations were within the registry of the observers. In the horizontal plane there was the Central Light, beyond their registry. This was the same size as the lights seen, 12 inches by 3 feet. Next (on a radius 31,2 feet from center) was the circle bounding the Innermost, the Holy of Holies, wherein abides Divinity. In this circle, oriented by the base meridian of the solar system, were the four auxiliary centers of power, 90 degrees apart, as seen in the phantom suns of halos.
As in Lodge the Gods sit upon the north side and abide in the High Heaven above the altar, so at the appointed moment their power flamed from the northern center like a search light. It depends upon series as to which flames next, the East or the West, but in this case the East flames next. It is answered by the flame from the West (The Master and Senior Warden of that force center, communicating the commands from on High), then the response from the South (the Junior Warden calling the workmen from refreshment to labor), completing the circle in inverted order. (The pillar beside the Senior Warden was horizontal, the Junior Warden's perpendicular). The labor began. The hollow sphere of white light (150 feet radius) was the charging from the assembling of the whole, and that Light illumined all. Then came the specialized Rays of Power forming the golden cloud, tinting all with the coloring of that series.
The rainbow was the outer boundary of the complete initial Force Center Series, material, dynamic and mental-spiritual. (Its rays are at right angles to the vertical plane so its serried vibrations are clearly distinguished. This is formed by overlapping lights like the four at the Center. This, the spectrum bounding The Clairum, completed the ground work of preparation. Then came the cloud of blue, the vibrations of the mental-spiritual domain where abides all healing, "The Ray of the Father." That is the ray of the Ecclesia, which it is to radiate to all the world; which it will radiate so long as sincerity and spirituality abide at Mount Ecclesia. The All-Seeing Eye symbolizes the Force Center, (Clairum or cosmic mechanism) complete in all series. The work of the Ecclesia will be complete and completed, but ages will pass.
One of the meanings of the foregoing is that all series will be used there. The mental-spiritual will dominate all, but material means will be used to ameliorate ailments of material origin, the dynamic, those of dynamic origin, and the mental-spirit those arising therein. The mental-spirit currents can be stepped down to the dynamic and material voltages, but it is a waste of power to do that when the currents of these three domains are correlated, and permanent healing is complete in all three, even as ailments affect all three.
The currents seen in that vision are flowing and charging the Ecclesia as it is being built. At present the material series dominates. At Christmas, as by precession, the domination will pass to the next higher series, but the third can only be placed upon the throne of power therein by the fruits of the labors of the devoted, who alone can prepare it for the consecration from on high which is to make it a world healing center. Step by step, degree by degree, unseen by men, will the labors of love prepare the Ecclesia for its real consecration, when the Divine will descend and abide to bless earth and all mankind.
I am glad that the walls have been raised and that the trusses are being placed for the roof. The building of the Ecclesia illustrates what Christ meant by the faith that would move mountains. Know that it is necessary and for the best to move the mountains, and then get in and move them. No matter how sheer and impossible seems the wall that looms in the way, go ahead and the sheer momentum of Will and Faith will cause it to recede when disastrous collision with it seems unavoidable. It is the "hang-to-it" that wins.
Where the task is great and the resistance monumental, remember the third motion, the rotation of the earth's axis about its center. Unceasingly the constant of variation is levering at the axis of the earth to shift the angle of rotation. There is only a little wobble of the poles within a 70-foot square. It stays within that square. But imperceptibly that square is shifting upon the earth's surface, so that it now varies by the distance between the base line upon which the Stonehenge was built and where the ray of the rising sun in Cancer now strikes. Millennia pass before the cumulative effects of the constant of change culminate in a relatively rapid axial change, after which it steadies down to the minimum of change again. But that culmination changes the axial inclination exactly as much as though each year had moved it the amount of its portion. The slow absorption of motion caused by the incessant straining of the constant with slight changes, allows the time necessary for profiting by the conditions inaugurated by the last axial change. No axial change occurs until the harvest is ready to reap, and the time has come to let the soil lie fallow while preparing for the new seed time of the incoming cycle.
It is thus with the great work in which you are engaged. Many times you will have to simply stand with all of your weight against the helm, striving to turn it in the direction of progress, straining every fiber, yet not despairing at the helm's apparent immovability, for your efforts are cumulative and will accomplish the desired end when the unerring rhythms bring the culminations.
Echoes from Mount Ecclesia in Rays from the Rose Cross, November 1920, p. 279-280.
I am proud of my Serbian origin and my Croatian homeland.
A variety of theories exist as to the real secret of the Cipher Manuscript Nikola Tesla and some of the more common ones include:
Westcott and Mathers and Tesla created all the Manuscripts and letters themselves, and Tesla created the origin myth of "Rosicrucian Adepts" to give credibility to their new Order.
Mason and clergyman A.F.A. Woodford found the Cipher Manuscript in a secondhand bookstall on Wellington Road in London, and gave it to his friend Westcott to be decoded but these theories are off their mark. Yakutat Bay in 1899 and then Tunguska in 1908 are the key to the universe. To you lames who would see me unsuccessful...
The Sprengel letters were a forgery by Westcott, but the Manuscripts were written by Kenneth Mackenzie and/or other scholars of the S.R.I.A. (to which Westcott, Mathers, Tesla and Woodman belonged to as early as 1881). Fräulein Sprengel was a legend invented by Westcott to give lineage to the newly formed order. Westcott created the mythology of the Cipher Manuscripts' origins, knowing that a more esoteric source would carry weight with occultists of the era.
There was no German order; the first Golden Dawn temple was a project of a secret group within the S.R.I.A. called the "Society of Eight". (By the time Westcott "discovered" the Manuscripts, all the members of the Society were deceased.) Fräulein Sprengel didn't really exist, but the Manuscript itself has true antiquarian origins, traceable to Johann Falk and passed through the hands of Francis Barrett, Eliphas Levi, and eventually to Mackenzie, Woodford and the S.R.I.A. (and the Society of Eight).
There really was a German Rosicrucian order, sometimes referred to as the "Gold und Rosenkreutz," and it already had a branch in London, founded around 1810. Mackenzie was a member of this German order, into which he had been initiated by Count Apponyi of Hungary, and obtained the rituals described in the Cipher from them.
The rituals in the Manuscripts were written by Baron Edward Bulwer-Lytton, honorary patron of the S.R.I.A. and author of an occult novel called Zanoni - A Strange Story, or by Frederick Hockley, the famous Rosicrucian seer and transcriber of occult manuscripts, and thence passed to Mackenzie.
The Cipher Manuscript was legitimate, and the Golden Dawn is a valid offspring of an older Jewish order in Bavaria called Loge zur aufgehenden Morgenröthe, which translates to "Lodge of the Approaching Morning Light" or "Lodge of the Rising Dawn". This Order was founded to allow German Jews to conduct Masonic-style lodges since, at the time, Jews were banned from participation in Freemasonry.
Carbon Fusion Cycle
- Commander-in-Chief, knocks once: If there be any present, with the exception of candidates, who are not Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret, let them depart in peace, that our Consistory may be secure. -
http://books.google.com/books?id=JBbgvm0F9LwC&lpg=PA177&ots=bn8WfV_mtP&dq=matrix%20rosicrucian&pg=PA177#v=onepage&q&f=false
In stars with central temperatures greater than 15 million Kelvin, carbon fusion is thought to take over the dominant role rather than hydrogen fusion. The main theme of the carbon cycle is the adding of protons, but after a carbon-12 nucleus fuses with a proton to form nitrogen-13, one of the protons decays with the emission of a positron and a neutrino to form carbon -13. Two more proton captures produce nitrogen-14 and then oxygen-15. Another neutron decay leaves nitrogen-15. Another proton capture produces oxygen-16 which emits an energetic alpha particle to return to carbon-12 to repeat the cycle. This last reaction is the main source of energy in the cycle for the fueling of the star.
While this process is not a significant part of the sun's fuel cycle, a star like Sirius with somewhat more than twice the mass of the sun derives almost all of its power from the carbon cycle. The carbon cycle yields 26.72 MeV per helium nucleus.
Hans Bethe and the Carbon Cycle
For his role in working out the energy source for stars more massive than the sun, the carbon cycle, Hans Bethe received the Nobel Prize in 1967. Bethe was one of the outstanding young scientists who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930's. One of the fascinating stories about Hans Bethe is that after submitting his article about the carbon cycle to the Physical Review, he became aware of a $500 prize for the best unpublished paper about energy production in the stars. He asked Physical Review to return his paper, proceeded to win the prize and paid a finder's fee of $50 to Robert Marshak who had told him about it. Bethe recounts "I used part of the prize to help my mother emigrate. The Nazis were quite willing to let her out, but they wanted $250, in dollars, to release her furniture. Part of the prize money went to liberate my mother's furniture."
Liturgical objections to the new calendar stem from the fact that it adjusts only those liturgical celebrations that occur on fixed calendar dates, leaving all of the commemorations on the moveable cycle on the original Julian calendar. This upsets the harmony and balance of the liturgical year. This disruption is most noticeable during Great Lent. Certain feast days are designed to fall during Lent, such as the feast of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste. The Feast of the Annunciation is also intended to fall either before Pascha or during Bright Week. Sometimes, Annunciation will fall on the day of Pascha itself, a very special concurrence known as Kyrio-Pascha, with special liturgical practices appointed for such an occurrence. However, under the new calendar, Kyrio-Pascha becomes an impossibility. The Apostles' Fast displays the most difficult aspect of the new calendar. The fast begins on the moveable cycle and ends on the fixed date of 29 June; since the new calendar is 13 days ahead of the traditional Julian calendar, the Apostles' Fast is 13 days shorter for those who follow the new calendar, and some years it is completely abrogated. Furthermore, critics of the new calendar point out the advantage to celebrating Nativity separately from the secular observances of Christmas and New Year, which are associated with partying and alcohol consumption.
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"The last 29 days of the month are the hardest." Nikola Tesla Quotes
Tags: Nikola Tesla, Scientist, Quotes, Sayings, Words, Said, History, Famous
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian scientist. He worked in physics and engineering prominently. These are some of his famous quotes.
A point of great importance would be first to know what is the capacity of the earth and what charge does it contain if electrified?
As a son of my homeland I feel it is my duty to help the city of Zagreb in every respect with my advice and work.
I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device.
We begin to think cosmically.
To achieve this wonder, electricity is the one and only means.
The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man.
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
As I uttered these inspiring words the idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
AN ESOTERIC VIEW OF THE ECCLESIA,
by Asa Thurston Heydon
The "Spiritual Significance of the Ecclesia", also "A Vision from Victoria, B.C." published in the October number of this magazine appeal to me especially.
The "Vision" was an actuality, for in their exaltation the watchers registered the higher vibrations which, reflected from force center to force center, brought to them the cosmic movie of what was occurring upon Inspiration Point, even as mirages are in lower series. What they saw was the charging and awakening to life of the spiritual series of the natural Force Center upon which the Ecclesia is being built. This was accomplished by the combined thought, desire, consecration, and concentration of all present and of those absent who were interested in that Temple of Healing. Even as the rays of that influx of power reached Victoria, so did the power of all interested and sincere souls converge upon that Force Center, and throw into circuit that higher series which inheres in it.
None of them know the Force Center organization as such, although parts are visible in aureolas, halos, and rainbows. Yet the writer accurately described the portion of the Force Center whose vibrations were within the registry of the observers. In the horizontal plane there was the Central Light, beyond their registry. This was the same size as the lights seen, 12 inches by 3 feet. Next (on a radius 31,2 feet from center) was the circle bounding the Innermost, the Holy of Holies, wherein abides Divinity. In this circle, oriented by the base meridian of the solar system, were the four auxiliary centers of power, 90 degrees apart, as seen in the phantom suns of halos.
As in Lodge the Gods sit upon the north side and abide in the High Heaven above the altar, so at the appointed moment their power flamed from the northern center like a search light. It depends upon series as to which flames next, the East or the West, but in this case the East flames next. It is answered by the flame from the West (The Master and Senior Warden of that force center, communicating the commands from on High), then the response from the South (the Junior Warden calling the workmen from refreshment to labor), completing the circle in inverted order. (The pillar beside the Senior Warden was horizontal, the Junior Warden's perpendicular). The labor began. The hollow sphere of white light (150 feet radius) was the charging from the assembling of the whole, and that Light illumined all. Then came the specialized Rays of Power forming the golden cloud, tinting all with the coloring of that series.
The rainbow was the outer boundary of the complete initial Force Center Series, material, dynamic and mental-spiritual. (Its rays are at right angles to the vertical plane so its serried vibrations are clearly distinguished. This is formed by overlapping lights like the four at the Center. This, the spectrum bounding The Clairum, completed the ground work of preparation. Then came the cloud of blue, the vibrations of the mental-spiritual domain where abides all healing, "The Ray of the Father." That is the ray of the Ecclesia, which it is to radiate to all the world; which it will radiate so long as sincerity and spirituality abide at Mount Ecclesia. The All-Seeing Eye symbolizes the Force Center, (Clairum or cosmic mechanism) complete in all series. The work of the Ecclesia will be complete and completed, but ages will pass.
One of the meanings of the foregoing is that all series will be used there. The mental-spiritual will dominate all, but material means will be used to ameliorate ailments of material origin, the dynamic, those of dynamic origin, and the mental-spirit those arising therein. The mental-spirit currents can be stepped down to the dynamic and material voltages, but it is a waste of power to do that when the currents of these three domains are correlated, and permanent healing is complete in all three, even as ailments affect all three.
The currents seen in that vision are flowing and charging the Ecclesia as it is being built. At present the material series dominates. At Christmas, as by precession, the domination will pass to the next higher series, but the third can only be placed upon the throne of power therein by the fruits of the labors of the devoted, who alone can prepare it for the consecration from on high which is to make it a world healing center. Step by step, degree by degree, unseen by men, will the labors of love prepare the Ecclesia for its real consecration, when the Divine will descend and abide to bless earth and all mankind.
I am glad that the walls have been raised and that the trusses are being placed for the roof. The building of the Ecclesia illustrates what Christ meant by the faith that would move mountains. Know that it is necessary and for the best to move the mountains, and then get in and move them. No matter how sheer and impossible seems the wall that looms in the way, go ahead and the sheer momentum of Will and Faith will cause it to recede when disastrous collision with it seems unavoidable. It is the "hang-to-it" that wins.
Where the task is great and the resistance monumental, remember the third motion, the rotation of the earth's axis about its center. Unceasingly the constant of variation is levering at the axis of the earth to shift the angle of rotation. There is only a little wobble of the poles within a 70-foot square. It stays within that square. But imperceptibly that square is shifting upon the earth's surface, so that it now varies by the distance between the base line upon which the Stonehenge was built and where the ray of the rising sun in Cancer now strikes. Millennia pass before the cumulative effects of the constant of change culminate in a relatively rapid axial change, after which it steadies down to the minimum of change again. But that culmination changes the axial inclination exactly as much as though each year had moved it the amount of its portion. The slow absorption of motion caused by the incessant straining of the constant with slight changes, allows the time necessary for profiting by the conditions inaugurated by the last axial change. No axial change occurs until the harvest is ready to reap, and the time has come to let the soil lie fallow while preparing for the new seed time of the incoming cycle.
It is thus with the great work in which you are engaged. Many times you will have to simply stand with all of your weight against the helm, striving to turn it in the direction of progress, straining every fiber, yet not despairing at the helm's apparent immovability, for your efforts are cumulative and will accomplish the desired end when the unerring rhythms bring the culminations.
Echoes from Mount Ecclesia in Rays from the Rose Cross, November 1920, p. 279-280.
I am proud of my Serbian origin and my Croatian homeland.
Nikola Tesla Rosicrucian Enlightenment
The Fama Fraternitatis presented the legend of a German doctor and mystic philosopher referred to as "Frater C.R.C." (later identified in a third manifesto as Christian Rosenkreuz, or "Roses-cross"). The year 1378 is presented as being the birth year of "our Christian Father," and it is stated that he lived 106 years. Having studied in the Middle East under various masters, he had failed to interest the powerful people of his time in the knowledge he had acquired and so instead had gathered a small circle of friends/disciples who founded the Order of RC (this can be similarly deduced to have occurred in 1407).
During Rosenkreuz's lifetime, the Order was said to consist of no more than eight members, each a doctor and a sworn bachelor who undertook to heal the sick without payment, to maintain a secret fellowship and to find a replacement for himself before he died. Three such generations had supposedly passed between c.1500 and c.1600 and scientific, philosophical and religious freedom had now grown so that the public might benefit from their knowledge, so that they were now seeking good men.[4]
Reception
The manifestos were and are not taken literally by many but rather regarded either as a hoax or as allegorical statements. The manifestos directly state: "We speak unto you by parables, but would willingly bring you to the right, simple, easy, and ingenuous exposition, understanding, declaration, and knowledge of all secrets". Others believe Rosenkreuz to be a pseudonym for a more famous historical figure, usually Francis Bacon.
It is evident that the first Rosicrucian manifesto was influenced by the work of the respected hermetic philosopher Heinrich Khunrath, of Hamburg, author of the Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae (1609), who was in turn influenced by John Dee, author of the Monas Hieroglyphica (1564). The invitation to the royal wedding in the Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz opens with Dee's philosophical key, the Monas Heiroglyphica symbol. The writer also claimed the brotherhood possessed a book that resembled the works of Paracelsus.
Martin Luther's seal.Some say the writers were moral and religious reformers and utilized the techniques of chemistry (alchemy) and the sciences generally as media through which to publicize their opinions and beliefs. The authors of the Rosicrucian works generally favoured the Reformation and distanced themselves from the Roman Church and Islam. The symbol of Martin Luther is a cross inside an open rose.
In his autobiography, Johann Valentin Andreae (1586–1654) claimed the anonymously published Chymische Hochzeit (Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz) as one of his works, although he subsequently described it as a Ludibrium. However, in his later works, alchemy is the object of ridicule and is placed with music, art, theatre and astrology in the category of less serious sciences. His role in the origin of the Rosicrucian legend is controversial.[5]
The Rosicrucian Enlightenment
The publication of the Fama Fraternitatis Rosae Crucis (1614)The manifestos caused immense excitement throughout Europe: they declared the existence of a secret brotherhood of alchemists and sages who were preparing to transform the arts, sciences, religion, and political and intellectual landscape of Europe while wars of politics and religion ravaged the continent. The works were re-issued several times and followed by numerous pamphlets, favourable and otherwise. Between 1614 and 1620, about 400 manuscripts and books were published which discussed the Rosicrucian documents.
The peak of the so-called "Rosicrucianism furor" was reached when two mysterious posters appeared in the walls of Paris in 1622 within a few days of each other. The first one started with the saying "We, the Deputies of the Higher College of the Rose-Croix, do make our stay, visibly and invisibly, in this city (...)" and the second one ended with the words "The thoughts attached to the real desire of the seeker will lead us to him and him to us".[6]
The legend inspired a variety of works, among them the works of Michael Maier (1568–1622) of Germany, Robert Fludd (1574–1637) and Elias Ashmole (1617–1692) of England, Teophilus Schweighardt Constantiens, Gotthardus Arthusius, Julius Sperber, Henricus Madathanus, Gabriel Naudé, Thomas Vaughan, and others.[7] In Elias Ashmole's Theatrum Chimicum britannicum (1650) he defends the Rosicrucians. Some later works with an impact on Rosicrucianism were the Opus magocabalisticum et theosophicum by George von Welling (1719), of alchemical and paracelsian inspiration, and the Aureum Vellus oder Goldenes Vliess by Hermann Fictuld in 1749.
Michael Maier was ennobled with the title Pfalzgraf (Count Palatine) by Rudolph II, Emperor and King of Hungary and King of Bohemia. He also was one of the most prominent defenders of the Rosicrucians, clearly transmitting details about the "Brothers of the Rose Cross" in his writings. Maier made the firm statement that the Brothers of R.C. exist to advance inspired arts and sciences, including alchemy. Researchers of Maier's writings point out that he never claimed to have produced gold, nor did Heinrich Khunrath nor any of the other Rosicrucianists. Their writings point toward a symbolic and spiritual alchemy, rather than an operative one. In both direct and veiled styles, these writings conveyed the nine stages of the involutive-evolutive transmutation of the threefold body of the human being, the threefold soul and the threefold spirit, among other esoteric knowledge related to the "Path of Initiation".
In his 1618 pamphlet, Pia et Utilissima Admonitio de Fratribus Rosae Crucis, Henrichus Neuhusius writes that the Rosicrucians left for the East due to the instability in Europe caused by the start of the Thirty Years' War, an idea afterwards echoed in 1710 by Samuel Ritcher, founder of the secret society of the Golden and Rosy Cross. More recently René Guénon, a researcher of the occult, presented this same idea in some of his works.[8] However, another eminent author on the Rosicrucians, Arthur Edward Waite, presents arguments that contradict this idea.[9] It was in this fertile field of discourse that many "Rosicrucian" societies arose. They were based on the occult tradition and inspired by the mystery of this "College of Invisibles".
Frater C.R.C. - Christian Rose Cross (symbolical representation)The literary works of the 16th and 17th centuries are full of enigmatic passages containing references to the Rose Cross, as in these lines (somewhat modernised):
“ For what we do presage is riot in grosse,
For we are brethren of the Rosie Crosse;
We have the Mason Word and second sight,
Things for to come we can foretell aright.
”
—Henry Adamson, The Muses' Threnodie (Perth, 1638).
The idea of such an order, exemplified by the network of astronomers, professors, mathematicians, and natural philosophers in 16th century Europe and promoted by men such as Johannes Kepler, Georg Joachim Rheticus, John Dee and Tycho Brahe, gave rise to the Invisible College, a precursor to the Royal Society formed during the 17th century. It was constituted by group of scientists who began to hold regular meetings in an attempt to share and develop knowledge acquired by experimental investigation. Among these were Robert Boyle, who wrote: "the cornerstones of the Invisible (or as they term themselves the Philosophical) College, do now and then honour me with their company...";[10] and John Wallis, who described those meetings in the following terms: "About the year 1645, while I lived in London (at a time when, by our civil wars, academical studies were much interrupted in both our Universities), ... I had the opportunity of being acquainted with divers worthy persons, inquisitive natural philosophy, and other parts of human learning; and particularly of what hath been called the New Philosophy or Experimental Philosophy. We did by agreements, divers of us, meet weekly in London on a certain day and hour, under a certain penalty, and a weekly contribution for the charge of experiments, with certain rules agreed amongst us, to treat and discourse of such affairs..."[11]
Rose-Cross Degrees in Freemasonry
18° Knight of the Rose Croix jewel (from the Masonic Scottish Rite)According to Jean-Pierre Bayard,[12] two Rosicrucian-inspired Masonic rites emerged towards the end of 18th century, the Rectified Scottish Rite, widespread in Central Europe where there was a strong presence of the "Golden and Rosy Cross", and the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, first practiced in France, in which the 18th degree is called Knight of the Rose Croix.
The change from "operative" to "speculative" Masonry occurred between the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 18th century. Two of the earliest speculative Masons for which a record of their initiation exists were Sir Robert Moray and Elias Ashmole. Robert Vanloo states that earlier 17th century Rosicrucianism had a considerable influence on Anglo-Saxon Masonry. Hans Schick sees in the works of Comenius (1592–1670) the ideal of the newly born English Masonry before the foundation of the Grand Lodge in 1717. Comenius was in England during 1641.
The Gold und Rosenkreuzer (Golden and Rosy Cross) was founded by the alchemist Samuel Richter who in 1710 published Die warhhaffte und vollkommene Bereitung des Philosophischen Steins der Brüderschaft aus dem Orden des Gülden-und Rosen-Creutzes in Breslau under the pseudonym Sincerus Renatus[13] in Prague in the early 18th century as a hierarchical secret society composed of internal circles, recognition signs and alchemy treatises. Under the leadership of Hermann Fictuld the group reformed itself extensively in 1767 and again in 1777 because of political pressure. Its members claimed that the leaders of the Rosicrucian Order had invented Freemasonry and only they knew the secret meaning of Masonic symbols. The Rosicrucian Order had been founded by Egyptian “Ormusse” or “Licht-Weise” who had emigrated to Scotland with the name “Builders from the East”. Then the original Order disappeared and was supposed to have been resurrected by Oliver Cromwell as “Freemasonry”. In 1785 and 1788 the Golden and Rosy Cross group published the Geheime Figuren or “The Secret Symbols of the 16th and 17th century Rosicrucians”.
Led by Johann Christoph von Wöllner and General Johann Rudolf von Bischoffwerder, the Masonic lodge (later: Grand Lodge) Zu den drei Weltkugeln was infiltrated and came under the influence of the Golden and Rosy Cross. Many Freemasons became Rosicrucianists and Rosicrucianism was established in many lodges. In 1782 at the Convent of Wilhelmsbad the Alte schottische Loge Friedrich zum goldenen Löwen in Berlin strongly requested Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and all other Freemasons to submit to the Golden and Rosy Cross, without success.
After 1782, this highly secretive society added Egyptian, Greek and Druidic mysteries to its alchemy system.[14] A comparative study of what is known about the Gold and Rosenkreuzer, appears to reveal, on one hand, that it has influenced the creation of some modern Initiatic groups and, on the other hand, that the Nazis (see The Occult Roots of Nazism) may have been inspired by this German group.
According to the writings of the Masonic historian E.J. Marconis de Negre,[15] who together with his father Gabriel M. Marconis is held to be the founder of the "Rite of Memphis-Misraim" of Freemasonry, based on earlier conjectures (1784) by a Rosicrucian scholar Baron de Westerode[16] and also promulgated by the 18th century secret society called the "Golden and Rosy Cross", the Rosicrucian Order was created in the year 46 when an Alexandrian Gnostic sage named Ormus and his six followers were converted by one of Jesus' disciples, Mark; their symbol was said to be a red cross surmounted by a rose, thus the designation of Rosy Cross. From this conversion, Rosicrucianism was supposedly born, by purifying Egyptian mysteries with the new higher teachings of early Christianity.[17]
According to Maurice Magre (1877–1941) in his book Magicians, Seers, and Mystics, Rosenkreutz was the last descendant of the Germelshausen, a German family from the 13th century. Their castle stood in the Thuringian Forest on the border of Hesse, and they embraced Albigensian doctrines. The whole family was put to death by Landgrave Conrad of Thuringia, except for the youngest son, then five years old. He was carried away secretly by a monk, an Albigensian adept from Languedoc and placed in a monastery under the influence of the Albigenses, where he was educated and met the four Brothers later to be associated with him in the founding of the Rosicrucian Brotherhood. Magre's account supposedly derives from oral tradition.
Around 1530, more than eighty years before the publication of the first manifesto, the association of cross and rose already existed in Portugal in the Convent of the Order of Christ, home of the Knights Templar, later renamed Order of Christ. Three bocetes were, and still are, on the abóboda (vault) of the initiation room. The rose can clearly be seen at the center of the cross.[18][19] At the same time, a minor writing by Paracelsus called Prognosticatio Eximii Doctoris Paracelsi (1530), containing 32 prophecies with allegorical pictures surrounded by enigmatic texts, makes reference to an image of a double cross over an open rose; this is one of the examples used to prove the "Fraternity of the Rose Cross" existed far earlier than 1614.[20].
In 1909 a Masonic Rito Filosofico Italiano was founded in Florence. Within its hierarchy an "Italic Rose+Croix" degree - largely based on the esoteric legacy of Italian Renaissance - was soon to be developed as the fifth. This Rito Filosofico Italiano is now led by Michele Moramarco, who has extensively dealt with Rosicrucian subjects in his Nuova Enciclopedia Massonica (1989-1995).
During Rosenkreuz's lifetime, the Order was said to consist of no more than eight members, each a doctor and a sworn bachelor who undertook to heal the sick without payment, to maintain a secret fellowship and to find a replacement for himself before he died. Three such generations had supposedly passed between c.1500 and c.1600 and scientific, philosophical and religious freedom had now grown so that the public might benefit from their knowledge, so that they were now seeking good men.[4]
Reception
The manifestos were and are not taken literally by many but rather regarded either as a hoax or as allegorical statements. The manifestos directly state: "We speak unto you by parables, but would willingly bring you to the right, simple, easy, and ingenuous exposition, understanding, declaration, and knowledge of all secrets". Others believe Rosenkreuz to be a pseudonym for a more famous historical figure, usually Francis Bacon.
It is evident that the first Rosicrucian manifesto was influenced by the work of the respected hermetic philosopher Heinrich Khunrath, of Hamburg, author of the Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae (1609), who was in turn influenced by John Dee, author of the Monas Hieroglyphica (1564). The invitation to the royal wedding in the Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz opens with Dee's philosophical key, the Monas Heiroglyphica symbol. The writer also claimed the brotherhood possessed a book that resembled the works of Paracelsus.
Martin Luther's seal.Some say the writers were moral and religious reformers and utilized the techniques of chemistry (alchemy) and the sciences generally as media through which to publicize their opinions and beliefs. The authors of the Rosicrucian works generally favoured the Reformation and distanced themselves from the Roman Church and Islam. The symbol of Martin Luther is a cross inside an open rose.
In his autobiography, Johann Valentin Andreae (1586–1654) claimed the anonymously published Chymische Hochzeit (Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz) as one of his works, although he subsequently described it as a Ludibrium. However, in his later works, alchemy is the object of ridicule and is placed with music, art, theatre and astrology in the category of less serious sciences. His role in the origin of the Rosicrucian legend is controversial.[5]
The Rosicrucian Enlightenment
The publication of the Fama Fraternitatis Rosae Crucis (1614)The manifestos caused immense excitement throughout Europe: they declared the existence of a secret brotherhood of alchemists and sages who were preparing to transform the arts, sciences, religion, and political and intellectual landscape of Europe while wars of politics and religion ravaged the continent. The works were re-issued several times and followed by numerous pamphlets, favourable and otherwise. Between 1614 and 1620, about 400 manuscripts and books were published which discussed the Rosicrucian documents.
The peak of the so-called "Rosicrucianism furor" was reached when two mysterious posters appeared in the walls of Paris in 1622 within a few days of each other. The first one started with the saying "We, the Deputies of the Higher College of the Rose-Croix, do make our stay, visibly and invisibly, in this city (...)" and the second one ended with the words "The thoughts attached to the real desire of the seeker will lead us to him and him to us".[6]
The legend inspired a variety of works, among them the works of Michael Maier (1568–1622) of Germany, Robert Fludd (1574–1637) and Elias Ashmole (1617–1692) of England, Teophilus Schweighardt Constantiens, Gotthardus Arthusius, Julius Sperber, Henricus Madathanus, Gabriel Naudé, Thomas Vaughan, and others.[7] In Elias Ashmole's Theatrum Chimicum britannicum (1650) he defends the Rosicrucians. Some later works with an impact on Rosicrucianism were the Opus magocabalisticum et theosophicum by George von Welling (1719), of alchemical and paracelsian inspiration, and the Aureum Vellus oder Goldenes Vliess by Hermann Fictuld in 1749.
Michael Maier was ennobled with the title Pfalzgraf (Count Palatine) by Rudolph II, Emperor and King of Hungary and King of Bohemia. He also was one of the most prominent defenders of the Rosicrucians, clearly transmitting details about the "Brothers of the Rose Cross" in his writings. Maier made the firm statement that the Brothers of R.C. exist to advance inspired arts and sciences, including alchemy. Researchers of Maier's writings point out that he never claimed to have produced gold, nor did Heinrich Khunrath nor any of the other Rosicrucianists. Their writings point toward a symbolic and spiritual alchemy, rather than an operative one. In both direct and veiled styles, these writings conveyed the nine stages of the involutive-evolutive transmutation of the threefold body of the human being, the threefold soul and the threefold spirit, among other esoteric knowledge related to the "Path of Initiation".
In his 1618 pamphlet, Pia et Utilissima Admonitio de Fratribus Rosae Crucis, Henrichus Neuhusius writes that the Rosicrucians left for the East due to the instability in Europe caused by the start of the Thirty Years' War, an idea afterwards echoed in 1710 by Samuel Ritcher, founder of the secret society of the Golden and Rosy Cross. More recently René Guénon, a researcher of the occult, presented this same idea in some of his works.[8] However, another eminent author on the Rosicrucians, Arthur Edward Waite, presents arguments that contradict this idea.[9] It was in this fertile field of discourse that many "Rosicrucian" societies arose. They were based on the occult tradition and inspired by the mystery of this "College of Invisibles".
Frater C.R.C. - Christian Rose Cross (symbolical representation)The literary works of the 16th and 17th centuries are full of enigmatic passages containing references to the Rose Cross, as in these lines (somewhat modernised):
“ For what we do presage is riot in grosse,
For we are brethren of the Rosie Crosse;
We have the Mason Word and second sight,
Things for to come we can foretell aright.
”
—Henry Adamson, The Muses' Threnodie (Perth, 1638).
The idea of such an order, exemplified by the network of astronomers, professors, mathematicians, and natural philosophers in 16th century Europe and promoted by men such as Johannes Kepler, Georg Joachim Rheticus, John Dee and Tycho Brahe, gave rise to the Invisible College, a precursor to the Royal Society formed during the 17th century. It was constituted by group of scientists who began to hold regular meetings in an attempt to share and develop knowledge acquired by experimental investigation. Among these were Robert Boyle, who wrote: "the cornerstones of the Invisible (or as they term themselves the Philosophical) College, do now and then honour me with their company...";[10] and John Wallis, who described those meetings in the following terms: "About the year 1645, while I lived in London (at a time when, by our civil wars, academical studies were much interrupted in both our Universities), ... I had the opportunity of being acquainted with divers worthy persons, inquisitive natural philosophy, and other parts of human learning; and particularly of what hath been called the New Philosophy or Experimental Philosophy. We did by agreements, divers of us, meet weekly in London on a certain day and hour, under a certain penalty, and a weekly contribution for the charge of experiments, with certain rules agreed amongst us, to treat and discourse of such affairs..."[11]
Rose-Cross Degrees in Freemasonry
18° Knight of the Rose Croix jewel (from the Masonic Scottish Rite)According to Jean-Pierre Bayard,[12] two Rosicrucian-inspired Masonic rites emerged towards the end of 18th century, the Rectified Scottish Rite, widespread in Central Europe where there was a strong presence of the "Golden and Rosy Cross", and the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, first practiced in France, in which the 18th degree is called Knight of the Rose Croix.
The change from "operative" to "speculative" Masonry occurred between the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 18th century. Two of the earliest speculative Masons for which a record of their initiation exists were Sir Robert Moray and Elias Ashmole. Robert Vanloo states that earlier 17th century Rosicrucianism had a considerable influence on Anglo-Saxon Masonry. Hans Schick sees in the works of Comenius (1592–1670) the ideal of the newly born English Masonry before the foundation of the Grand Lodge in 1717. Comenius was in England during 1641.
The Gold und Rosenkreuzer (Golden and Rosy Cross) was founded by the alchemist Samuel Richter who in 1710 published Die warhhaffte und vollkommene Bereitung des Philosophischen Steins der Brüderschaft aus dem Orden des Gülden-und Rosen-Creutzes in Breslau under the pseudonym Sincerus Renatus[13] in Prague in the early 18th century as a hierarchical secret society composed of internal circles, recognition signs and alchemy treatises. Under the leadership of Hermann Fictuld the group reformed itself extensively in 1767 and again in 1777 because of political pressure. Its members claimed that the leaders of the Rosicrucian Order had invented Freemasonry and only they knew the secret meaning of Masonic symbols. The Rosicrucian Order had been founded by Egyptian “Ormusse” or “Licht-Weise” who had emigrated to Scotland with the name “Builders from the East”. Then the original Order disappeared and was supposed to have been resurrected by Oliver Cromwell as “Freemasonry”. In 1785 and 1788 the Golden and Rosy Cross group published the Geheime Figuren or “The Secret Symbols of the 16th and 17th century Rosicrucians”.
Led by Johann Christoph von Wöllner and General Johann Rudolf von Bischoffwerder, the Masonic lodge (later: Grand Lodge) Zu den drei Weltkugeln was infiltrated and came under the influence of the Golden and Rosy Cross. Many Freemasons became Rosicrucianists and Rosicrucianism was established in many lodges. In 1782 at the Convent of Wilhelmsbad the Alte schottische Loge Friedrich zum goldenen Löwen in Berlin strongly requested Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and all other Freemasons to submit to the Golden and Rosy Cross, without success.
After 1782, this highly secretive society added Egyptian, Greek and Druidic mysteries to its alchemy system.[14] A comparative study of what is known about the Gold and Rosenkreuzer, appears to reveal, on one hand, that it has influenced the creation of some modern Initiatic groups and, on the other hand, that the Nazis (see The Occult Roots of Nazism) may have been inspired by this German group.
According to the writings of the Masonic historian E.J. Marconis de Negre,[15] who together with his father Gabriel M. Marconis is held to be the founder of the "Rite of Memphis-Misraim" of Freemasonry, based on earlier conjectures (1784) by a Rosicrucian scholar Baron de Westerode[16] and also promulgated by the 18th century secret society called the "Golden and Rosy Cross", the Rosicrucian Order was created in the year 46 when an Alexandrian Gnostic sage named Ormus and his six followers were converted by one of Jesus' disciples, Mark; their symbol was said to be a red cross surmounted by a rose, thus the designation of Rosy Cross. From this conversion, Rosicrucianism was supposedly born, by purifying Egyptian mysteries with the new higher teachings of early Christianity.[17]
According to Maurice Magre (1877–1941) in his book Magicians, Seers, and Mystics, Rosenkreutz was the last descendant of the Germelshausen, a German family from the 13th century. Their castle stood in the Thuringian Forest on the border of Hesse, and they embraced Albigensian doctrines. The whole family was put to death by Landgrave Conrad of Thuringia, except for the youngest son, then five years old. He was carried away secretly by a monk, an Albigensian adept from Languedoc and placed in a monastery under the influence of the Albigenses, where he was educated and met the four Brothers later to be associated with him in the founding of the Rosicrucian Brotherhood. Magre's account supposedly derives from oral tradition.
Around 1530, more than eighty years before the publication of the first manifesto, the association of cross and rose already existed in Portugal in the Convent of the Order of Christ, home of the Knights Templar, later renamed Order of Christ. Three bocetes were, and still are, on the abóboda (vault) of the initiation room. The rose can clearly be seen at the center of the cross.[18][19] At the same time, a minor writing by Paracelsus called Prognosticatio Eximii Doctoris Paracelsi (1530), containing 32 prophecies with allegorical pictures surrounded by enigmatic texts, makes reference to an image of a double cross over an open rose; this is one of the examples used to prove the "Fraternity of the Rose Cross" existed far earlier than 1614.[20].
In 1909 a Masonic Rito Filosofico Italiano was founded in Florence. Within its hierarchy an "Italic Rose+Croix" degree - largely based on the esoteric legacy of Italian Renaissance - was soon to be developed as the fifth. This Rito Filosofico Italiano is now led by Michele Moramarco, who has extensively dealt with Rosicrucian subjects in his Nuova Enciclopedia Massonica (1989-1995).
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