History Of The Rose-Croix Sedir - Ordo Svmmvm Bonvm

allowed after three months of training and if they did many operations. They are held to lend
oath. They owe with their maitre obedience until death. Work of the Command is only of
alchemy and magic, with particular secrecies for the brothers. The Command has two
houses where the members meet, one in Nuremberg, the other in Ancône; but these
places are at present exchanges, there because for a few years the brothers have settled
in the Indies, " in order to be able to live quiet " (1). *** a similar inspiration gave rise to
Coelum reseratum chymicum (52) of J G Toeltius, where it is known as that to become
Rosicrucian brotherhood, it is to know the divine magic. It is not any more Christian
Rosencreutz who founded the Rosicrucian brotherhood, it is Friedrich Rose. This character
had been discovered by Pierre Mormius. Already very old in 1620, it lived the border of
Dauphiné. II said itself member of the Rosicrucian brotherhood d' Or that it would have
founded into 1622, composed only of three members, and whose headquarters were in
the Hague. II refused in Mormius, which returned then from Spain, to accept it in this Order;
after long authorities, it took it only as famulus. Mormius brought what it learned in the States
Généraux from the Hague and, as those refused its discoveries, it consigned them, into
1630, in its Arcana. (53) In 1747, Hermann Fictuld (54), who is given like member of the
Company of Lascaris, affirms that the Command of the Rosicrucian brotherhood d' Or
always exists. He gives him like emblème the Golden Fleece, which is the symbol of the
philosopher's stone, and a ritual with multicoloured ribbons, crosses, parchments and signs
*** In the first quarter of XVIIIe century, the Rosicrucian brotherhood used the work of
isolated mystics, such as Jacob Boehme. The shoe-maker-theosophist, who is one of the
most powerful geniuses metaphysics of humanity, never claimed to write new things: all that
he says finds in the Writing and at the school of Nature. Also, to include/understand it, should
be carried out the true religion: to imitate and follow Jesus, " the philosopher Pierre spiritual
", in its sufferings and its death, in order to live again with him. Louis-Claude of Saint Martin's
day had been diverted study of the occult sciences and had been engaged in mystical
sciences by Rodolphe Salzmann which had made known to him the work of Boehme
Jacob. The " unknown philosopher " made of the " teutonic philosopher " his true Master,
the judge of all his doctrines, the guide of his higher aspirations, like says it Jacques Matter.
He spread the writings of Boehme in several countries of Europe. At the same time two
writers made known Boehme in England: his/her friend Joachim Morsius, rosicrucian, whose
pseudonym was Anastasius Philaretus Cosmopolita; and William Law, author of beautiful
mystical works. Another disciple of Jacob Boehme, Jean George Gichtel, mystic-born,
apostle of the renouncement, had the revelation of the celestial Virgin, Sophia, who
confirmed it in christic poverty and made known to him the mysteries of interior and external
nature. To the same phalange belong two mystical writers, one in Germany, Karl von
Eckhartshausen, the other in Russia, Ivan Lopoukhine. Karl von Eckharts aulic, then critic of
the bookshop, then preserving of the files from the electoral house in Munich. Like says it
Doctor Marc Haven, " it wanted and known to keep away from all the secret societies, more
or less mystical, which flowered at its time, while remaining, more than anybody, active
member of this Community of the Light which it describes in so perfect knowledge of cause
in his works " (2) Très good, its life was only one uninterrupted continuation of acts of charity;
it was stripped to reduce the sufferings of the French prisoners in 1795. It wrote 79 works,
of which most known are: God is the purest love (1784) and the Cloud on the Sanctuary
(1819) (55) (3). Ivan Wladimirovitch Lopoukhine (1756..1816), Secretary of State of the
Russian Empire (1797) then senator, left pIusieurs works on Frankly-Masonry and he is the
author of Memories which were published in 1860. Of him we do not know large-thing, if not
that he knew Mrs. de Krüdener and that he succeeds in softening the first persecutions
directed by the government of the Tsar against Doukhobors. Its main work is a work of pure
mystic: Some Features of the interior Church (Moscow 1798) whose Eckhartshausen said: "
a book invaluable and full with wisdom " (4). To these great names let us add those
eminent of Emmanuel Swedenborg, the " prophet of North " (1688-1772) and the large
Polish mystic André Towianski (1795-1878). *** Such were the missionnés last, at least
known of us, whom caused the Rosicrucian brotherhood. Then emerges under its term a