Chapter I. On The State Of Mystical Philosophy : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], p. 26 p. 27 HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS. CHAPTER I. ON THE STATE OF MYSTICAL PHILOSOPHY IN GERMANY AT THE CLOSE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. THE traditions of the Neo-Platonic philosophy, with its elaborate theurgical system...
Chapter Iv. The Confessio Fraternitatis : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], p. 85 CHAPTER IV. THE CONFESSION OF THE ROSICRUCIAN FRATERNITY, ADDRESSED TO THE LEARNED OF EUROPE. THE translation of this manifesto which follows the Fama in the edition accredited by the great name of Eugenius Philalethes...
Title Page : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], THE REAL HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS FOUNDED ON THEIR OWN MANIFESTOES, AND ON FACTS AND DOCUMENTS COLLECTED FROM THE WRITINGS OF INITIATED BRETHREN. BY ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE, AUTHOR OF "THE MYSTERIES OF MAGIC: A DIGEST...
Chapter Xv. Connection Between The Rosicrucians : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], p. 402 CHAPTER XV. CONNECTION BETWEEN THE ROSICRUCIANS AND FREEMASONS. PROFESSOR BUHLE affirms as the "main thesis" of his concluding chapter that "Freemasonry is neither more nor less than Rosicrucianism as modified by...
Chapter Ix. Progress Of Rosicrucianism In Germany : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], p. 246 CHAPTER IX. PROGRESS OF ROSICRUCIANISM IN GERMANY. THE immediate result of the "Fama" and "Confessio Fraternitatis" in Germany has been so well described by Professor Buhle that I cannot do better than transcribe this...
Chapter X. Rosicrucian Apologists. Michael Maier : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], p. 268 CHAPTER X. ROSICRUCIAN APOLOGISTS: MICHAEL MAIER. THIS celebrated German alchemist was born at Ruidsburg, in Holstein, about the year 1658. In his youth, says the "Biographie Universelle," he applied himself...
Chapter Xi. Rosicrucian Apologists. Robert Fludd : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], p. 283 CHAPTER XI. ROSICRUCIAN APOLOGISTS: ROBERT FLUDD. THE central figure of Rosicrucian literature, towering as an intellectual giant above the crowd of "souffleurs", theosophists, and charlatanic professors...
Chapter V. The Chymical Marriage Of Christi. Part 05 : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], "The Third Day." As soon as the lovely day was broken, and the bright sun, having raised himself above the hills, had betaken himself to his appointed office, my good champions began to rise and leisurely make themselves...
Chapter Xiii. Rosicrucian Apologists. John. Part 05 : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], "Apologue for an Epilogue". I shall here tell you what Rosie Crucians are, and that Moses was their Father, and he was ; some say they were of the order of Elias, some say the Disciples of Ezekiel; others define them to be...
Introduction : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], p. 5 INTRODUCTION. "In cruce sub sphera venit sapientia vera."--"Hermetic Axiom". "La rose qui a t de tout temps l'emblme de la beaut, de la vie, de l'amour et du plaisir, exprimait mystiquement toutes les protestations...
Chapter Xiii. Rosicrucian Apologists. John. Part 03 : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], "A very true Narrative of a Gentleman R. C., who hath the continual society of a Guardian Genius". 1 Oblation of itself was such a sacrifice to God, that a good and holy man could offer no greater, as appears by...
Chapter V. The Chymical Marriage Of Christi. Part 07 : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], p. 100 "The Chymical Marriage of Christian Rosencreutz". "Anno" 1459. "Arcana publicata vilescunt, et gratiam prophanata amittunt". "Ergo: ne Margaritas objice porcis, seu Asino substernere rosas". THE FIRST BOOK. "The First...
Chapter Xii. Rosicrucian Apologists. Thom : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], p. 308 CHAPTER XII. ROSICRUCIAN APOLOGISTS: THOMAS VAUGHAN. EUGENIUS PHILALETHES, the author of the renowned "Introitus apertus ad occlusum Regis Palatium," the "Entrance opened to the Closed Palace of the King," is so far...
Chapter V. The Chymical Marriage Of Christi. Part 03 : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], "The Fifth Day". The night was over, and the dear wished-for day broken, Obambulatio antelucana. when hastily I got me out of bed, more desirous to learn what might insue than that I had sufficiently slept. After I had put...
Additional Notes : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], p. 434 ADDITIONAL NOTES. NUMBER I. (P. 17). ACCORDING to the "Kabbala Denudata" of the Baron Knorr de Rosenroth, the Rose signifies the Shecinah. The reason is given in the Zohar, sect. mor., "Quod sicut Rosa crescit ad...
Appendix Of Additional Documents : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], p. 440 APPENDIX OF ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS. By an error of transcription the preface to the "Fama Fraternitatis" was omitted from the text of the present revised version. It is addressed to "the wise and understanding reader."...
Chapter Iii. The Fama Fraternitatis : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], p. 64 CHAPTER III. THE FAMA FRATERNITATIS OF THE MERITORIOUS ORDER OF THE ROSY CROSS, ADDRESSED TO THE LEARNED IN GENERAL, AND THE GOVERNORS OF EUROPE. THE original edition of the "Universal Reformation" contained...
Chapter V. The Chymical Marriage Of Christi. Part 02 : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], p. 171 "The Sixth Day". Next morning, after we had awaked another, we sateDefine ort dubi opiniones. together to discourse what might be the wont of things. Some were of opinion that the corps should all be inlivened ag...
Chapter Xiii. Rosicrucian Apologists. John. Part 06 : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], p. 315 CHAPTER XIII. ROSICRUCIAN APOLOGISTS: JOHN HEYDON. THE last of the line of apologists who has any claim on our notice is the extraordinary Royalist mystic and geomancer, John Heydon, who, in the preface to "The Holy...
Chapter V. The Chymical Marriage Of Christi : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], "The Seventh Day". After eight of clock I awaked, and quickly made myself ready, being desirous to return again into the tower, but the dark passages in the wall were so many that I wandered a good while before I could find...
Chapter Xiii. Rosicrucian Apologists. John. Part 02 : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], "John Heydon encounters the Spirit Euterpe". Walking upon the plains of Bulverton Hill to study numbers and the nature of things one evening, I could see, between me and the light, a most exquisite divine beauty, her frame...
Chapter V. The Chymical Marriage Of Christi. Part 06 : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], "The Second Day". I was hardly got out of my cell into a forrest when methought the whole heaven and all the elements had Tripudium Creaturarum ob nuptias.trimmed themselves against this wedding. Even the birds chanted more...
Conclusion : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], p. 431 CONCLUSION. "THERE is a point," quoth a grandiloquent pseudo-Rosicrucian in an impressive and tragedy voice, "there is a point," he repeated in the conventional whisper of the unexplainable mystic, "beyond which we...
Chapter Xiii. Rosicrucian Apologists. John. Part 04 : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], "The Rosicrucians in England". At this day the Rosie Crucians, that have been since Christ, say their fraternity inhabits the west of England, and they have likewise power to renew themselves and wax young again, as those...
Chapter Viii. The Case Of Johann Valentin Andreas : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], p. 217 CHAPTER VIII. THE CASE OF JOHANN VALENTIN ANDREAS. MOST existing theories as to the authorship of the Rosicrucian manifestoes are founded upon plausible assumptions or ingenious conclusions drawn from the doubtful...
Chapter Ii. The Prophecy Of Paracelsus : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], p. 34 CHAPTER II. THE PROPHECY OF PARACELSUS, AND THE UNIVERSAL REFORMATION OF THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD. PARACELSUS, in the eighth chapter of his "Treatise on Metals," gave utterance to the following prognostication:--"Quod...
Chapter V. The Chymical Marriage Of Christi. Part 04 : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], "The Fourth Day". I still lay in my bed, and leisurely surveighed the nobleAutor longiuscule dormiens expergesit. images and figures about my chamber, during which, on a sudden, I heard the musick of coronets, as if already...
Chapter Vii. Antiquity Of The Rosicruci : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], p. 210 CHAPTER VII. ANTIQUITY OF THE ROSICRUCIAN FRATERNITY. THE antiquity of the Rose in symbolism and of the Cross in symbolism, as I have already said, is no proof whatsoever of the antiquity of a society which we find...
Chapter V. The Chymical Marriage Of Christi. Part 08 : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], p. 99 CHAPTER V. THE CHYMICAL MARRIAGE OF CHRISTIAN ROSENCREUTZ. THE whole Rosicrucian controversy centres in this publication, which Buhle describes as "a comic romance of extraordinary talent." It was first published...
Chapter Vi. On The Connection Of The Rosicruci : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], p. 197 CHAPTER VI. ON THE CONNECTION OF THE ROSICRUCIAN CLAIMS WITH THOSE OF ALCHEMY AND MAGIC. THE guise of antiquity being almost indispensable to the pretensions contained in these singular documents, I have preferred...
Chapter Xiv. Rosicrucianism In France : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], p. 387 CHAPTER XIV. ROSICRUCIANISM IN FRANCE. WHEN the documents of the Fraternity were first published, Professor Buhle tells us that France "had greatly the start of Germany and England" in general illumination, that she...
Untitled : * This is Arthur Edward Waite's study of the elusive Rosicrucians, a secret society of which the first public notice was in early 17th century Germany. Was this an actual organization, or just a fantasy? No actual Rosicrucians ever surfaced, but there was plenty of documentation about them...
Preface : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], p. 1 PREFACE. BENEATH the broad tide of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depths the changes that take place upon the surface. These societies have...
Chapter Xiii. Rosicrucian Apologists. John : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], "Voyage to the Land of the Rosicrucians". We travelled from Sydmouth for London and Spain by the south sea, taking with us victuals for twelve moneths, and had good winds from the East, though soft and weake, for five...
Chapter Xvi. Modern Rosicrucian Societies : * "The Real History of the Rosicrucians", by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887], p. 408 CHAPTER XVI. MODERN ROSICRUCIAN SOCIETIES. IT is an opinion entertained by the elect in modern theosophical circles, that the true Rosicrucian Brotherhood migrated into India, and this notion is said to be...