History Of The Rose-Croix Sedir - Ordo Svmmvm Bonvm

templière (2). In addition there is an unquestionable relationship between Dante and the
Moslem tradition, to which, we will see it, the tradition rosicrucian was related. Miguel Asin
Palacios (10) underlined very interesting bringings together between the Divine Comedy
and the theses of one of the Moslem great writers, Mohyiddin ibn Arabi. The year even
(1265) where was born Dante, Jean Clopinel says Jean de Meung continued the Novel of
the Rose which had begun Guillaume de Lorris forty years before. Under its feather,
beautiful and delicate " Art to like " imitated of Ovide which had sung its predecessor
became an encyclopaedia where follow one another of the considerations on all kinds of
subjects, since the origins of the world, the love, fortune, nature, art, astronomy, alchemy,
until the religion and morals. With a truculent liveliness Jean de Meung pourfend
superstitions, hypocrisies, known as their fact with the commands beggars, the nobility,
even with the royalty. It wants that one follows the natural laws; to the practices of the monks
it opposes the laic virtue, the very simple Christian life. But, if Jean de Meung is
incontestably a powerful poet, if it handles the satire with beautiful and frightening control, iI is
not an artist. Between Dante and him there is an abyss, However it occupies a honourable
place in the phalange of those, which fought against the hypocrisy and excesses and which
recommended a honest and healthy life. Eliphas Lévi, seeking the terrestrial, human roots of
the Rosicrucian brotherhood, is expressed as follows: " the pink, which was, from time
immemorial, emblème of the beauty, the life, the love and the pleasure, mystically
expressed the secret opinion of all the protests expressed with the Rebirth. It was the
flesh revolted against the oppression of the spirit; it was nature declaring girl of God, like the
grace; it was the life which did not want to be sterile any more; it was humanity aspiring to a
natural religion, very of reason and love, founded on the revelation of the harmonies to be it,
whose pink was for the initiates the alive and flowered symbol. " the pink, indeed, is a
pentacle... The conquest of the pink was the problem arising from initiation with science,
while the religion travailIait to prepare and establish the universal triumph, exclusive and final
of the cross... " To join together the pink with the cross, such was the problem arising from
high initiation... The religion is the revelation and the satisfaction of a need for the hearts.
Nobody invented it; it was formed by the needs for the moral life; it is fatal at the same time
and divine. Therefore the true natural religion, it is the revealed religion. " It is on the basis of
this rigorously rational principle that the Rosicrucian brotherhood arrived at the respect of the
dominant, hierarchical and revealed religion. They could not, consequently, be the enemies
of papacy more that legitimate monarchy and, if they conspired against popes and kings, it
is that they personally regarded them as apostates of the duty and supreme instigators of
anarchy " (9). Stanislas de Guaita insists on this point from which the importance will never
escape nobody " the Rosicrucian brotherhood did not disavow Catholicism... They (so
attached to the Christian symbols that they named their supreme college Chapelle of the
Holy Spirit and Liberté of the Gospel one of their more occult handbooks) did not have
guard of méconnaitre in sovereign pontiff the incarné principle of the alive unit... But the
abuses papacy found them pitiless... In the pope the Rosicrucian brotherhood
distinguished two powers, incarnées in only one flesh: Jesus, César, and, when, describing
as Antichrist the successor of Pierre, they threatened to break its triple crown, they aimed
only the temporal despot of the Vatican " (7). One generally does not know up to which
point the world and the Church laymen were worked by occult currents. The catharism had
penetrated very front in the clergy of the Middle Ages. Albert the Large one, his holy pupil
Thomas d' Aquin, Pierre Lombard, Richard de Saint-Victor, saint.françois.d'.assise, holy
Claire, the third entire command professed gnostic doctrines " the Third Command still lasts;
but it had to lose - and, indeed, it lost its first character completely. At the origin, such as holy
François organized it, such as the emperors of Germany fought it, it was not only one pious
brotherhood intended to join together in the same prayer some hearts of elite, it was a
gigantic association, which embraced all Italy, then soon all Christendom, and in which the
members, in demanding on some rare religious practices, asserted themselves before all
the obligation to work vigorously and joint with work politique (3). And, indeed, one can say
to many regards that in fact the Third Command overcame feudality, that it is of the Third