Elias Artista

Glauber, Johann Rudolf. The complete works of Rudolph Glauber trans Chris. Packe. Elias Artista. [Richardson (TX)] R.A.M.S., 1983. 3 lp. 

Breger, H. "Elias Artista a precursor of the Messiah in natural science." In Nineteen eighty-four science between utopia and dystopia edited by Everett Mendelsohn and Helga Nowotny, eds. Mendelsohn Everett and Helga Novotny, 49-72. Dordrecht, Boston Hingham(MA) Reidel Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1984. 

Pagel, Walter. The Paracelsian Elias Artista and the alchemical tradition. 

Almost nothing is known of Lascaris, except that he is thought to have come from a noble Greek family. He is said to have taught Bottger, and to have performed a successful double transmutation in Germany on 16 February 1709. Further anonymous transmutations in the Rhineland in 1716, and in Odenwald in 1733 are also thought to have been his work. He is seen by some as one of the incarnations of Elias Artista, the alchemical messiah. 

There are, of course, lots of Rosicrucian essays, over two hundred written between 1614 and 1623, and Eglinus may be just one of many writers excited by the possibility of a Rosicrucian brotherhood, real or imaginary. Yet the closeness of Eglinus to the publication of the earliest Rosicrucian manifestos at Kassel, his earlier encounter with Giordano Bruno, an interest in Paracelsian cosmology and Basilian alchemy, and his prophetic chiliasm set within the tradition of the returning Elias Artista, make him at least a good candidate for admittance into the inner circle of Rosicrucian enthusiasts. 

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