Rosicrucianism and Christian utopianism
The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz
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The third and most complex of the original Rosicrucian manifestos. Presented as an alchemical romance, it describes the seven-day journey of Christian Rosenkreutz to a royal wedding, serving as an allegory for the spiritual transformation of the soul. Each day presents symbolic trials, alchemical imagery, and initiatory experiences. The narrative combines Christian mysticism, alchemical symbolism, and Hermetic philosophy in an elaborate allegory about death, resurrection, and spiritual regeneration. Most enigmatic and literary of the Rosicrucian texts.
Also known asChymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz · Rosicrucian Wedding
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EditionOriginal German publication 1616, English translation by E. Foxcroft 1690. Public Domain EPUB Integration
RosicrucianismAlchemical TransformationChristian Rosenkreutz legendSymbolic laboratory operationsAlchemical meditationChristian alchemyAlchemyAlchemical InitiationAlchemical symbolism
Contents25 chapters
- 01CHAPTER I. ON THE STATE OF MYSTICAL PHILOSOPHY IN GERMANY AT THE CLOSE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
- 02CHAPTER II. THE PROPHECY OF PARACELSUS, AND THE UNIVERSAL REFORMATION OF THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD
- 03CHAPTER IV. THE CONFESSION OF THE ROSICRUCIAN FRATERNITY, ADDRESSED TO THE LEARNED OF EUROPE
- 04CHAPTER I. Whatsoever you have heard,
- 05CHAPTER II. Concerning the amendment of philosophy, we have
- 06CHAPTER IV. Now concerning the first part, we hold
- 07CHAPTER V. If there be any body now which on the other side wil complain of our discretion, that we offer our treasures so freely and indiscriminately, and
- 08CHAPTER VI. We could here relate and declare what all the time from the year
- 09CHAPTER VII. One thing should here, O mortals, be established by us, that God hath decreed to the world before her end, which presently thereupon shall
- 10CHAPTER VIII. God, indeed, hath already sent messengers which should testine His will, to wit, some new stars which have appeared in Serpentarius and Cygnus,
- 11CHAPTER IX. These characters and letters, as God hath here and there incorporated them in the Sacred Scriptures, so hath He imprinted them most manifestly on
- 12CHAPTER XI. Now, whatsoever hath been said in the Fama, through hatred of impostors, against the transmutation of metals and the supreme medicine of the
- 13CHAPTER XII. For conclusion of our Confession we must earnestly admonish you, that you cast away, if not all, yet most of the worthless books of pseudo
- 14CHAPTER XIII. What think you, therefore,
- 15CHAPTER V. THE CHYMICAL MARRIAGE OF CHRISTIAN ROSENCREUTZ
- 16CHAPTER VI. ON THE CONNECTION OF THE ROSICRUCIAN CLAIMS WITH THOSE OF ALCHEMY AND MAGIC
- 17CHAPTER VII. ANTIQUITY OF THE ROSICRUCIAN FRATERNITY
- 18CHAPTER VIII. THE CASE OF JOHANN VALENTIN ANDREAS
- 19CHAPTER IX. PROGRESS OF ROSICRUCIANISM IN GERMANY
- 20CHAPTER X. ROSICRUCIAN APOLOGISTS
- 21CHAPTER XI. ROSICRUCIAN APOLOGISTS
- 22CHAPTER XIII. ROSICRUCIAN APOLOGISTS
- 23CHAPTER XIV. ROSICRUCIANISM IN FRANCE
- 24CHAPTER XV. CONNECTION BETWEEN THE ROSICRUCIANS AND FREEMASONS
- 25CHAPTER XVI. MODERN ROSICRUCIAN SOCIETIES
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E. Foxcroft (1690)translator
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