Tradition
Rosicrucianism
Overview
Rosicrucianism () is a spiritual and cultural movement influenced by Esoteric Christianity and Hermeticism that arose in early modern Europe in the early 17th century after the publication of several texts announcing to the world a new secret society. Rosicrucianism is symbolized by the Rose Cross or Rosy Cross. There have been several Rosicrucian (or Rosicrucian-inspired) organizations since the Rosicrucians appeared as characters from literary works, including the Order of the Golden and Rosy Cross (1750s–1790s), the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (1865–present), and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (1887–1903).
Initially, the Rosicrucians were not supposed to be real people. The first "real" Rosicrucians appeared in the 18th century, probably in 1763.
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(3) To proceed, to that which is next in order from God, to spirits: we find, as far as credit is to be given to the celestial hierarchy of that supposed Dionysius, the senator of Athens, the first place or degree is given to the angels of love, which are termed seraphim; the second to the angels of light, which are termed cherubim; and the third, and so following places, to thrones, principalities, and the rest…
Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
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6. The effects produced by harmony and aversion (which is the sixth method) are frequently buried in obscurity; for these occult and specific properties (as they are termed), the sympathies and antipathies, are for the most part but a corruption of philosophy. Nor can we form any great expectation of the discovery of the harmony which exists between natural objects, before that of their forms and simple…
Francis Bacon, Novum organum
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Verily the theologians take this meaning otherwise than do the poets: but, because my intention here is to follow the way of the poets, I shall take the Allegorical sense according as it is used by the poets. The third sense is termed Moral; and this is that which the readers ought intently to search for in books, for their own advantage and for that of their descendants; as one can espy in the Gospel, when Christ…
Dante Alighieri, The Banquet
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Philosophers who discussed Rosicrucianism
Related ideas
- Jesus
- Freemasonry
- Antoine Faivre
- Early modern Europe
- Gnosticism
- Gospel of Luke
- Gospel of Matthew
- Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
- Robert Fludd
- Paracelsus
- John Wilkins
- Johannes Kepler
- Secret society
- John Amos Comenius
- Hermeticism
- Historical Vedic religion
- Metaphor
- Astrology
- Occult
- Lutheranism
- Prague
- Reincarnation
- Protestantism
- Scientific method
Place in the tradition
Part of Western esotericism.