History Of The Rose-Croix Sedir - Ordo Svmmvm Bonvm

CHRISTIAN ROSENCREUTZ In 1616 appeared, without name of author, the Weddings
Chymiques de Christian Rosencreutz (30). Jean-Valentine Andreae, in his Autobiography
(31), declares that it composed this book whereas it was fifteen years old, that is to say
towards 1601. In its letter, this treaty is a talk of metal work, rather detailed; in its spirit, it
describes the rise of the heart, degrees in degrees, towards the illumination. This book is
allotted to Christian Rosencreutz who would have written it into 1459. It tells, in seven days,
the marriage of the king, then his decapitation and finally its resurrection. It is on an invitation
which the king addresses to him to assist with his weddings that Rosencreutz gets under
way, in the major feeling of his unworthiness. In remembering Christ, it ties in cross a red
ribbon on its dress of bore-hole; it pricks four pinks with its chapeau (15) and takes as
money of the bread, salt and water. At the entry of the forest it distinguishes three ways:
short, but dangerous; the second is the royal way reserved to the elected officials and third
is pleasant but very long. It is prevented that once selected the path, it will not be able to
return any more behind. It asks God, who makes him take the second path. This one leads
it to the royal castle built on a mountain. There, a character who asks him for his name, it
answers: Brother of the red Rosicrucian brotherhood. The many candidates with the
weddings of the king " are weighed " (16). Rosencreutz is purest; it is received with all the
honors, one gives to him the Fleece of Or (17) decorated with a flying Lion. As for the
intruders, a cut their is given, filled of the breuvage of lapse of memory before they are
driven out, with the command not to return more to the castle of the king during their life.
Follow other tests symbolic systems; and the representation of a comedy in seven acts. In
front of the queen is a large book containing all the science joined together in the castle. The
elected officials are nine and they hold each one a banner carrying a red cross. Finally the
duty is notified to the elected officials to think of God and to work for his glory and for many
men. Then the royal couple is decapitated, like four kings and queens present. The six
people are buried and their blood is collected in a gold mud. Maure which carried out the
execution is decapitated in its turn and its head brought back in a linen. It is known as to the
elected officials that: " the life of all these beings is between their hands and which they must
keep a fidelity stronger than death ". The night, the six coffins are carried by ships. The
elected officials attend the funeral symbolic systems of the sovereigns and are invited to
seek the drug which will return the life to the kings and to the queens decapitated. Long
alchemical operations are described. The king and the queen ressuscitent. Its will work with
the elected officials with the triumph of God. The king names those " knights of the Pierre d'
Or ", with the capacity to act on ignorance, poverty and the disease. As for Rosencreutz, it
will have still other tests to surmount before arriving at the end. It was tell to him: " You
received more than the others; thus endeavour to more also give ". The signature of each
one is required. Our written hero: Highest science is nothing savoir (18)
Brother Christian Rosencreutz Knight of the Pierre d' Or. Year 1459.
*** the author of the Weddings Chymiques, Jean-Valentine Andrea (1586-1654), was
one of the most erudite men of his time. His/her Jacob grandfather had been one of the
most famous theologists of XVIe century and one of the authors of the " Formula of
Harmony ": it was called " second Luther ". Jean-Valentine was always very proud to go
down from such an ancestor. Early it lost his father and made, under very difficult material
conditions, solids studies with the seminar of Tubingen. It acquired a rare culture in the old
and modern languages, mathematics, the natural science, the history, the geography, the
genealogy and theology. It left a considerable work and a great reputation. It is subject to
deeply the influence of sound maitre Jean Arndt (1555-1621), the large mystical preacher,
spiritual disciple of Jean Tauler, influence which confirmed and deepened his/her very close
friends Christophe Besold and Wilhelm Wense whose life wanted to be an imitation of
Jesus-Christ. Nourished large mystics whom we mentioned, they preached, by reaction
against dogmatism and the ritualism of the official Church, the need for a life very of spirit and
love, uprightness, the obstinate fight against the bad tendencies, the integrity of the spirit,