History Of The Rose-Croix Sedir - Ordo Svmmvm Bonvm

otherhood; the Neo-Platonism of Alexandria, preserved by the Arabs, would have also
had a share in their doctrines. The philosophy of Islam exerted, towards the end of XVIe
century, time when was made up the legend of Rosencreutz, on the lovers of the mystery
same attraction as made today the philosophy of India. The study of the language and
philosophy Arab was registered with the programs of official science. Mackenzie, in his
Encyclopaedia, speaks in these terms about hermetic Fraternity about Egypt - but have
does a relationship with the Rosicrucian brotherhood? -: " It is a Fraternity which was
propagated until our days and whose origin goes back to one very moved back time. It has
its officers, its secrecies, its passwords, its particular method in teaching of science,
philosophy and the religion... If one believes his current members of them, the
philosopher's stone, the elixir of life, art to make itself invisible, the capacity to communicate
directly with the other world would be part of the heritage of their Company. I met three
men only who affirmed me the current existence of this religious corporation of philosophers
and who let me guess that they formed of it part themselves, I did not have reason to
doubt their good faith. They did not appear to know each other, they had an honest ease,
an exemplary control, austere manners, almost ascetic practices. They appeared old to me
of forty with quarante-cinq years, to have a vast scholarship, to have a perfect knowledge of
the languages... They never remained a long time in the same place and from went away
without drawing the attention ". Karl Kiesewetter, in an article of Initiation, gives the following
information: " In Theatrum Chemicum (ED of 1613, p. 1028), a bishop of Trier, the count de
Falkenstein, is named, at the sixteenth century, illustrissimus and serenissimus princeps and
pater philosophorum. However he was a senior officer of the Rosicrucian brotherhood, as
he currently results from the title of a manuscript in my possession, and than here:
Compendium totius philosophae and alchymiae Fraternitatis Roseae Crucis, ex mandato
serenissimi comitis of Falkenstein, imperatoris nostri, anno Domini 1574(7). " This
manuscript contains alchemical theories in the direction of this time and a collection of
invaluable processes for the knowledge of practical alchemy. II would not be necessary to
seek there a philosophy or theosophy in the direction allotted nowadays in these terms; the
word philosophia is taken there only in the meaning of alchimia or physica. However, this
manuscript still offers a particular historical interest in what this count de Falkenstein for the first
time is appointed there by this title of Imperator, which was to remain through the centuries,
and especially because the denomination of Fraternitas Roseae Crucis appears there for
the first time too. It is probable that the secret Fraternity of the Alchemists and the Magi had
devoted his denomination by the symbol, if frequent in this time, of Rosaria, as wrote it
Arnaud, Lulle, Ortholain, Roger Bacon and others still. It is that which is illustrated by the
Rosette where the plenitude of the magnificence is added to the symbol of the Christian
faith: the Cross ". Robert Fludd quotes a declaration of Clutched (1486-1533): " There are
today some men filled with wisdom, of a single science, endowed with great virtues and
great capacities. Their life and their manners are just, their prudence without defect. By their
age and their force they would be capable to render great services in the consultings for the
public thing; but the courtiers scorn them, because they are too different from them, which
do not have for their science, like the perfidy their prudence, and the superstition their
religion ". Fludd sees in this association a prefiguration of the Rosicrucian brotherhood; but
the words of Clutched are too general so that one can base on them the certainty of a
filiation. Von Murr had between the hands a chemical correspondence between Crollius,
Zatzer, Scherer and Heyden, chamberlain of the emperor Rodolphe II, extending from
1594 to 1596. One mentioned any Company there rosicrucian (11). In 1608, the alchemist
Benedict Figulus, in Thesaurinella chymica aurea tripartita, dedicated to the emperor
Rodolphe II, inserts an elegy into Jean-Baptiste de Seebach, alchemist, in whom it
prophesies, after Paracelse, the arrival of Elias Artista. Event which it regards as very first
importance, because it adds: " Then Christ will establish on the ground a new state of affairs
". the Apology (12) shows that before 1600 or 1603 one connait companies or fraternities
hermetic, but not of Fraternity rosicrucian. Stanislas de Guaita bases himself on a
resemblance between the symbols rosicrucians on the one hand, a pentacle of