The Invisible History of the Rosicrucians: The World's Most Mysterious Secret Society

by Churton, Tobias

• ISBN13: 9781594772559
• ISBN10: 159477255X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-09
• Publisher: Inner Traditions

Summary

For nearly 400 years, incredible myths and stories have been woven around the invisible Brothers of the Rose Cross, the Rosicrucians, It is said that they possessed the secret of man and God, that they could turn lead into gold, that they governed Europe in secret, that theirs was the true philosophy of Freemasonry, and that they could save -or destroy-the world. In The Invisible History of the Rosicrucians, Tobias Churton, a perfected Knight of the Rose Croix and the Pelican (18th degree, Ancient and Accepted Rite), presents the first definitive historical and philosophical view of this mysterious brotherhood.

Author Biography

Tobias Churton is a lecturer in Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry at Exeter University, which offers Britain’s only master’s program in Western Esotericism. The author of Gnostic Philosophy, The Magus of Freemasonry, and Freemasonry: The Reality, he lives in England.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
My Rosicrucian Adventure	p. 6
The Stars	p. 13
The Importance of Revelation	p. 14
The Reformation	p. 18
The Last Light	p. 20
Johannes Kepler and the New Stars	p. 22
A Conjunction on the Pont Neuf, Paris	p. 26
Tübingen and the Universe	p. 33
The Science	p. 38
Rays	p. 40
Abu Ma'shar al-Balki	p. 44
Röslin versus Kepler	p. 50
Grebner and Studion	p. 56
A Prince of Utopia	p. 59
Interrogation	p. 66
Enter the Genius	p. 69
The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreuz	p. 71
The Whirlpool	p. 76
A Gang of Conspirators	p. 79
The Alchemical Wedding of Johann Valentin Andreae	p. 83
Who Was behind the Fama Fraternitatis?	p. 86
Augustus, Prince Elector of Anhalt	p. 91
Enter the Rosicrucians	p. 98
Fama Fraternitatis, or the Brotherhood of the Most Commendable Order Roseae Crucis	p. 99
Damcar and the Safaians	p. 103
The Strange Case of Dr. Adam Haslmayr	p. 137
The Search for the Brotherhood	p. 142
A House in the Languedoc	p. 153
The Decameron	p. 154
Montpellier and Maguelone	p. 158
François Rabelais and the Rosicrucian Brotherhood	p. 160
The Reformation of the Whole Wide World	p. 165
Raphael Eglin	p. 170
Hesse-Kassel	p. 174
The Signifying Fish	p. 176
Alchemical Politics	p. 178
The Splash	p. 181
The Second-Known Printed Response to the Manuscript Fama Fraternitatis	p. 186
The Motive for Publishing the Fama Fraternitatis	p. 188
Jesuit Conspiracy	p. 190
The Confession of the Fraternity	p. 192
John Dee and the More Secret Philosophy	p. 212
Rosymania I: The Furor and Its Aftermath	p. 226
Julius Sperber and Aegidius Gutmann	p. 229
Philip Ziegler, King of the Rosicrucians	p. 231
Count Michael Maier	p. 236
Robert Fludd	p. 249
Rosymania II: Educating the World	p. 259
Sir Francis Bacon	p. 259
Bacon's New Atlantis and the Fama Fraternitatis	p. 263
Rene Descartes and the New Mathematics	p. 268
Descartes and Faulhaber	p. 272
Joachim Morsius	p. 278
Abraham von Franckenberg	p. 283
Comenius and Hartlib	p. 286
Andreae CosmoXenus	p. 296
De Christian Cosmoxeni genitura Judicium	p. 301
Chymische Hochzeit: Christiani Rosenkreuz. Anno 1459	p. 305
Turris Babel sive judiciorum de Fraternitate Rosaceae Crucis chaos	p. 309
Mythologiae Christianae sive virtutem et vitiorum vitae humanae imaginum libri tres	p. 311
Institutio pro magica curiosis (Education for those curious about magic)	p. 320
The Societas Christiana	p. 327
The Rose Cross in Britain	p. 330
Andreae's Image of the Christian Society in England	p. 336
Rosicrucians Are Crazy	p. 343
Fasciculus chemicus	p. 349
The Philosopher's Stone Revealed	p. 355
The Way to Bliss	p. 356
Poor Robin's Intelligence	p. 357
Robert Samber and a Lost Rosicrucian Free Masonry	p. 359
Conclusion	p. 363
The Revenge of the Curiosi	p. 366
What Is a Rosicrucian?	p. 366
The Invisible House	p. 384
The Enlightenment	p. 388
The Age of Reason	p. 391
Samuel Richter	p. 391
Hermann fictuld	p. 396
Dom Antoine-Joseph Pernety	p. 398
The Masonic Eighteenth-Degree Rose Croix	p. 401
Martines de Pasquatty	p. 404
Baron Karl Gottheif von Hund	p. 409
Jean-flaptiste Willermoz	p. 414
Louis Claude de St.-Martin	p. 416
Hans Heinrich von Ecker und Eckhoffen and Bernhard Joseph Schleis von Lowenfeld	p. 423
Alchemy Among the Gold- und Rosenkreiuer	p. 430
Social Idealism	p. 443
Nikolay Ivanovich Novikov	p. 446
The Age of Progress	p. 451
Bernard-Raymond Fabre-Palaprat	p. 451
Antoine Fabre d'Olivet	p. 454
Joseph Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre	p. 462
Paschal Beverley Randolph	p. 465
The Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn	p. 473
Stanislas, Marquis de Guaita; Joseph-Aime (Josephin) Peladan; Gerard-Anaclet-Vincent Encausse, or ôPapusö	p. 481
The Age of Insanity	p. 488
Rudolf Steiner	p. 488
Le Comte de Saint-Germain	p. 490
Max Heindel (Carl Louis Fredrik Grashof)	p. 496
Harvey Spencer Lewis	p. 500
The Lectorium Rosicrucianum	p. 509
Full Circle	p. 525
Noces	p. 542
Bibliography	p. 547
Index	p. 550
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