Rosie Cross

Extract from Waite Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross... 

Heydon, John. The wise-mans crown or, the glory of the Rosie-Cross., 1641. 

Heydon, John. The wise-mans crown or, the glory of the Rosie-Cross. Shewing the wonderful power of Nature, with the full discovery of the true Coelum Terrae, or the first matter of metals, and their preparations into incredible medicines or elixirs that cure all diseases in young or old with the Regio Lucis, and holy houshold of Rosie Crucian philosophers. Communicated to the world by.. .. A servant of God, and secretary to Nature. .. London Printed for the author and are to be sold by Samuel Speed at the Rainbow in Fleetstreet, 1664. vp. 

This is the preface written to the English translation of the Rosicrucian manifestos, The Fame and Confession of the Fraternity of R C commonly, of the Rosie Cross. With a praeface annexed thereto, and a short declaration of their physicall work. By Eugenius Philalethes London J. M. for Giles Calvert. 1652"... 

Andreae, Johann Valentin. Confessio Fratemitatis, or The Confession of the laudable fraternity of the most honorable order of the Rosy Cross, written to all the learned of Europe. rhttp //www.sacred-texts. com/eso/confesio.html. 2001. 

Cramer, Daniel. The Rosicrucian emblems of Daniel Cramer the True Society of Jesus and the Rosy Cross here are forty sacred emblems from Holy Scripture concerning the most precious name and cross of Jesus Christ / by Daniel Cramer translated from the Latin by Fiona Tait introduction and commentary by Adam McLean. Edited by Adam McLean. Translated by Fiona Tait. Edinburgh Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks, 1980. 77p. 

Eglinus, Raphael Iconius. Ara Foederis Theraphici. Altar of the Theraphic Brotherhood Fratemitatis Crucis Roseae dedicated to the Assertion of the Fraternity of the Rosy Cross. rhttp //www levitv. com/alchemy/ara feed.htmll. 

Maier, Michael. [Extract from The laws of the Fraternity of the Rosie Crosse ]. 

Themis Aurea. The Laws of the Fraternity of the Rosie Crosse. Written in Latin by Count Michael Maierus, And now in English for the Information of those who seek after the knowledge of that Honourable and mysterious Society of wise and renowned Philosophers... London, Printed for N. Brooke at the Angel in Comhill 1656." First 9 chapters... 

Akerman, Susanna. Christina of Sweden (1626-1689), the Porta Magica and the Italian poets of the Golden and Rosy Cross. rhttp //www.levitv.com/alchemv/queen christina.htmll. 

Christianity. The course of the alchemical mystery is followed from the Near East through the Byzantine Empire and into Europe. During these travels many pioneers in this field are met, including Roger Bacon, Raymond Lully, and Nicholas Flamel. The letters of Sendivogius to the Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross, almost completely unknown to the modern world, are discussed"... 

Appended is an extract from a Rosicrucian document on the seven metals (from Waite Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross)... 

Clymer, Reuben Swinburne. The book of Rosicruciae a condensed history of the Fraternitas Rosce Crucis or Rosy Cross, the men who made the order possible, and those who maintained the Fraternity throughout the centuries, together with the fundamental teachings of these men according to the actual records in the archives of the Fraternity. Philosophical Publ Co, 1946-1948. 3 vols... 

A curious document copy of the admission of S. Bacstrom, M.D. into the Society of the Rosy Cross, by the Count du Chazal. The Island of Mauritius, September 12th, 1794. Rosicruc Mason Dig [ns], no. 4 (Oct 1876) 149-151. 

Golden and Rosy Cross, r http //www.levitv.com/alchemv/geheime.htmll. 

McIntosh, Christopher. The Rosicrucians. Wellingborough Crucible, 1987. Almost 120 years after his death, the body of Father Christian Rosenkreutz was discovered perfectly preserved in a seven-sided vault. So runs part of the legend concerning the birth of the Fraternity of the Rosy Cross, with its mysterious founder Christian Rosenkreutz, forerunner of the many "Secret Masters" who have had such a profound influence on the course of the Western Esoteric Tradition. Alchemy, Freemasonry, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and important literary works have all been enriched by the legend and symbolism of Rosicrucianism. 

McIntosh, Christopher. The Rosy Cross unveiled the history, mythology, and rituals of an occult order. Wellingborough Aquarian P, 1980. 160p. 

Prinke, Rafal T. Early symbolism of Rosy Cross searching for link with tradition. Hermetic J, no. 25 (Autumn 1984) 11-15. 

Waite, Arthur Edward. The brotherhood of the Rosy Cross being records of the house of the Holy Spirit in its inward and outward history. London William Rider ... 

Waite, Arthur Edward. Fratres Lucis. rhttp //www.hermetics.org/brc-l 8.html . Chapter 18 of his The Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross (Rider, 1924)... 

While seen as almost an exclusively Christian symbol, the cross has existed since the dawn of the mysteries. The Egyptian tau and anhk, the Cross of Christ s Passion, the Rosy Cross of the medieval and Rennaissance alchemists, to the post-Vatican Two cross of the Resurrected Savior, all are historical variations of the same symbol that has lead a large part of humanity on its path to God. 

Roberts, Marie. Gothic immortals the fiction of the brotherhood of the rosy cross / Marie Roberts. London Routledge, 1989. 239 p. ISBN 0415023688... 

Foster, David. The Adventures of Christian Rosy Cross. Penguin, 1986. 

Like Hermes Trismegistus and his supposed writings, Christian Rosy-cross was also a fabrication of a later period. The story and the writings were a product of the early seventeenth-century manifestoes. As Frances Yates was to... 

Catholic Order of the Rosy Cross of Temple and Grail. And in 1892, he even established a series of annual Rosicrucian salons to promote art, music, and theater, arguing in his 1894 L Art ide aliste et mystique that From year to year the Rosicrucian idea wins over both artists and the public (quoted in McIntosh 1972, 174). The Theosophical Society opened a branch headed by Lady Caithness, Duchesse de Pomar, who felt that she was the reincarnation of Mary Queen of Scots (McIntosh 157). 

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