Rosicrucians, German

Redrawn from a German manuscript which Manly Palmer Hall suggests has Rosicrucian connections... 

This is the key document on which the Rosicrucian phenomenon was based. It was first published in 1614 in German and in 1615 in Latin, though there are some manuscript copies in existence dating from about 1611"... 

Madathanus, Hinricus. Secret symbols of the Rosicrucians an exact reproduction of the original but with the German text and terms translated. Chicago (IL) Aries P,... 

Theoricus Degree. Rosicrucian, masonic alchemical script. [Edited by Hans Nintzel.] Translated from French and German by Leone Muller. Edited by Hans Nintzel. Translated by Leone Muller, n.p. , 1985. 125p. 

McIntosh, Christopher. "The Rosicrucian revival and the German counterenlightenment." DPhil thesis, Univ of Oxford, 1989. 

Very significant book. Early seventeenth century Rosicrucianism represents the influx of the alchemical tradition into the Hermetic-cabalist one. Links with Dee, German... 

The Golden Dawn was founded on a claimed connection with a German Rosicrucian order of the same name. There is no evidence of the older order, however, and it is believed that Westcott made it up. Although it was based on the Rosicrucian model, the Golden Dawn... 

As is well known, the Lutheranism of the Germanic countries delayed the reception of Humanism. This is why the Corpus Hermeticum, which arose out of Humanist culture, penetrated less into Germany than elsewhere. But in the Germanic countries, other esoteric currents (theosophy of Weigel and Boehme, Paracelsism, Rosicrucianism) compensated in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for this absence. Germanic theosophy scarcely ever alludes to Hermes Trismegistus. 

We now return to our Rosicrucian investigations. Very little information exists about the German Rosicrucian before their arrival in England. Even today, they are silent on the subject. Masons described the Rosicrucians in 1883 as follows ... 

One of the very early irregular groups struggling to make the leap from Jewish alchemy to German Rosicrucianism was the Order of the Golden and Rosy Cross founded by Sigmund Richter in 1710. With uncertain beginnings, the Order quickly collapsed because it °... 

The tentative revival of alchemy then became a veritable flood in the late eighteenth century with the popularity of Freemasonry in England and Rosicrucianism among German Masonic-alchemical groups. It is at this time that we see the emergence of groups with remarkable names such as the Brothers of the Boiled Dew. 

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