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Rosicrucian History and Mysteries by Christian Rebisse 3 Originally published as Rose-Croix histoire et mystères. Translation from the French by Richard Majka. © 2005 Supreme Grand Lodge Of The Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis. All Rights Reserved. This publication is for your personal, private use only, and may not be used for any commercial purpose. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, displayed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without the express and prior written permission of Supreme Grand Lodge Of The Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in reviews. For permission requests, please contact: Supreme Grand Lodge Of The Ancient And Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, Inc., Rosicrucian Park, 1342 Naglee Ave, San Jose, California 95191. 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We would also like them to be educated and informed completely, not only on such or such a point, but also on all that will allow them to achieve their essence integrally, to yearn to know the truth, not to be deceived by pretense, to love good and not to be seduced by evil, to do what should be done and to keep from What should be avoided, to speak wisely (and not to remain silent) about everything with everyone when it is necessary; lastly, to always treat things, men, and God with prudence and not lightly, and to never stray from their goal: happiness. — Comenius, 17th-century Rosicrucian 5 CONTENTS Illustrations Chronology Introduction 1. Egypt and the Primordial Tradition The Primordial Tradition • The Greeks and Egypt • Thot- Hermes • Alexandria • The Corpus Hermeticum • Pax Romana • Alchemy, Magic, and Astrology • Neoplatonism • The Christians Before Hermes • The Sabaeans • Idris- Hermes • The Emerald Tablet • Arab Alchemy • Magic and Astrology • Eastern Theosophy 2. Hermeticism and the Philosophia Perennis Islam in Spain • Alchemy in Spain • The Picatrix • The Qabalah • Astrology • The Expulsion of the Jews • The Academy of Florence • Philosophia Perennis • Natural Magic • Angelic Magic • The Voarehadumia • De Verbo Mirifico • Harmony of the World • Occult Philosophy • Giordano Bruno • Alchemy and Nature • Paracelsus • The Death of Hermes 3. The Crisis of the European Consciousness The Infinite Universe • The Catalogues of the World • Human Anatomy Revealed • The Reformation • The Revolts • The Counter-Reformation • The Wars of Religion 6 • The Imitation of Christ • The Mystic Wedding 4. The Naometria and the Age of the Holy Spirit Simon Studion • The Age of the Holy Spirit • The Naometria Nova • The Third Elijah • The Lion of the Septentrion 5. The Echoes of the Rose Cross The Advertisements from Parnassus • Apollo’s Reform • The Fama Fraternitatis • Arabia Felix • Fez, City of Gold • The House of the Holy Spirit • The Tomb of Christian Rosenkreuz • Paracelsus and Rosenkreuz • Adam Haselmayer • Hermes and Rosenkreuz 6. The Confessio Fraternitatis The Monad • The Confessio Fraternitatis • Millennialism • The Liber Mundi • The Bible • Alchemy and Reforms • The Fortress of Truth • The Sources • The Tübingen Circle • Johann Arndt • Tobias Hess • Johann Valentin Andreae • An Initiatic Narrative 7. The Emerald Land The Spiritual Filiation • The Imaginal World • True Imagination • Initiatic Narratives • Perfect Nature • The Old Sage • The Friends of God • The Green Island • The Fravartis • Spiritual Knighthood • The Ages of the World • The Paraclete • Hierohistory 8. The Chymical Wedding 7 Johann Valentin Andreae • The Story • A Baroque Opera • Inner Alchemy • The Spiritual Wedding • The Castle of the Soul • The Seven Stages • Knight of the Golden Stone 9. The Rose in Bloom Michael Maier • Robert Fludd • Johannes Kepler • Frederick V • The Defenestration of Prague • White Mountain 10. The Philosophers and the Rose-Croix René Descartes • The Three Dreams • The Placards in Paris • Polybius the Cosmopolitan • Holland • The Alchemical Temptation • England • The Faerie Queen • Francis Bacon • The Theosophists • Novum Organum • The Bee • New Atlantis • The Royal Society • Comenius • The Pansophy • The College of Light 11. Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry Rosicrucians and Freemasons • Brother I.O. • Anderson’s Constitution • Hiram and Rosenkreuz • The Egyptian Mysteries • The Noachite Religion • The Golden and Rosy Cross • The Golden Fleece • The Golden Rosy Cross of the Ancient System • The Essenes and Templars • Initiated Knights and Brothers of Asia • The Rose-Croix Degree • Spiritual Knighthood • The Enlightenment and Illuminism 12. Magnetism and Egyptosophy The Enlightenment • Sensationalism • Man as Machine • Magnetism • The Society of Harmony • Art and Egypt • 8 The African Architects • Primitive Religion • Cagliostro • The Condemnation of Magnetism • Somnambulism • The Pyramid of the Tuileries • Napoleon and Egypt • The Friends of the Desert • The Memphis Rite • The Rosetta Stone • The Society of Magnetism • Between Science and Tradition • The Society of Spiritualistic Magnetizers of Paris • The Church and Magnetism • Jesus the Essene 13. In Search of the Psyche Hypnosis • Spiritualism • Allan Kardec • Zanoni • The S.R.I.A. • Helena Petrovna Blavatsky • An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians • The H.B. of L. • Psychic Researches 14. The Rose Garden of the Magi Monte Verità • The Templars of the Orient • The Golden Dawn • Joséphin Péladan • The Rosicrucians of Toulouse • The Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Croix • The Rose-Croix of the Temple and the Grail • The Magic of Art • Symbolism • The Magnificents • The Rosicrucian Salons • The Confraternity of the Rose Window • Count Falkenstein 15. The First “Rosicrucians” of America The First “Rosicrucians” of America 144 Pietism • Boehmism and the Qabalah • Millennialism • The Philadelphian Society and English Millennialism • The Departure for America 16. Harvey Spencer Lewis 9 The Mystic Awakening • New Thought • The Kybalion • The New York Institute for Psychical Research 17. The Journey to the East The Orient • The Manhattan Mystic Circle • Egypt • The New Ontology • A Mystical Experience • The Journey to France • Toulouse, the Rose-Red City • The Initiation • The Secret of the Origins 18. The Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis The Philomathic Society • The Martinist Project • The Visit of an Old Lady • The Birth of AMORC • The First Rosicrucian Lodge • An Alchemical Demonstration • H. Spencer Lewis, Freemason • The First Rosicrucian Convention 19. International Alliances Theodor Reuss and the O.T.O. • The TAWUC • The Rosicrucians of France • The Journey to France in 1926 • André Lebey and the League of Nations • A Reception at the Grand Orient in Paris • The Beginnings of Rosicrucianism in France • Nicholas Roerich and the World Council • The Polaires • The FUDOSI • The Triangle of the FUDOSI 20. The Contemporary Era The Teachings of AMORC • AMORC in the World • The Fourth Rosicrucian Manifesto Conclusion Notes Thematic Bibliography Index of Personal Names viii Illustrations 10