I’m not a Rosicrucian, but this is my understanding of it: This question has several different possible answers, depending on which branch or tradition of Rosicrucianism you choose to join. So this Rosicrucian journey led me by a long and circuitous route to publishing a new edition of The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz. Were these medical professionals alive in our own cultural context, they would no doubt be practicing what we now call “alternative medicine.” Unfortunately, today’s reigning medical archons don’t consider alternative medicine as proper medicine at all, and many insurance providers won’t cover patients seeking these paths; and many alternative practitioners, to be honest, don’t want to fall into the snares of bureaucratic interference in the art of healing, whether it be from the realms of government or corporations. Quite simply, I did not have the experience or knowledge to perform this task. “To cure the sick, and that gratis”: these words strike me with hope, but that hope is compromised by living in a medical culture too ensconced with governmental control and capitalistic desires.

You can hear me talking more about Rosicrucianism on the Post-Structuralist Tent Revival podcast.

However, I do recall the first time I actively sought some concrete information about the mysterious brotherhood.

The proprietor directed me to Rudolf Steiner’s Rosicrucian Esotericism, transcripts from a series of lectures delivered in 1909. RFs teach that man is spirit and body, but the body is improving through a series of existences as the power of God are opened to his life. But that’s how it is with the Brotherhood. This appears both in Henry’s contemplative Metaphysical poetry and Thomas’s often bombastic writings on Natural Philosophy (which are habitually howlingly funny).

Steiner was still addressing an audience in the Theosophical Society, so any information about Rosiucrucians had to be sifted out of the Buddhistic-Hindu jargon favored by Theosophists. Fludd and his German counterpart Michael Maier were also physicians, Fludd a respected member of the Royal College of Physicians and Maier, the private physician of Emperor Rudolf II. I kept plugging away with my Rosicrucian fascination. This ethos also appears in the writings of the German Rosicrucian and physician Michael Maier (1568–1622) and the Vaughans’ own countryman, the physician and Rosicrucian apologist Robert Fludd (1574–1637–I have a chapter on Fludd, “Dei Gloria Intacta: The Wisdom of God in Robert Fludd’s Mystical Philosophy” in The Submerged Reality). Michael’s latest books are an edition of The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutzand Transfiguration: Notes toward a Radical Catholic Reimagination of Everything. 8780 Moeckel Road  Grass Lake, MI 49240 USA, from Daniel Cramer's 'Emblemata sacra' (1624). In those cases, “Rosicrucian” is a glittering generality, a mirror that receives the projected reflection of the ego. Rosicrucianism refers to a belief system with a secret society started by alleged Christian Rosenkruez in Germany that claims to be built upon esoteric truths of the past. In my scholarship, I often write about the Rosicrucian phenomenon that appeared in the first decades of the seventeenth century. What is Freemasonry? This line, probably more than any other, has haunted my imagination for much of the past thirty years or so. In the Fama Fraternitatis, the Rosicrucian manifesto first published in 1614, we find a sketch of the mythic background of the order, a sketch, more importantly, that outlines the Rosicrucian ethos.
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Rosicrucian teachings today are gnostic, and they draw on Qabalah (of ancient Jewish Kabbalah), philosophy, divine magic, alchemy, Christianity, and ancient Egyptian mystery schools. Rosicrucianism began as a Christian Thompson has called “the enormous condescension of posterity” has branded them. What is our time appointed by God? It was a fun study, but people (Anthroposophists are hardly alone in this regard) tend to interpret what they encounter with their own agendas and pre-conceptions. These Rosicrucians and the writers of the manifestos (the Lutheran pastor Johann Valentin von Andreae foremost among them) were not the philosophical oddities that what E.P.

I often contemplate the approaching “appointed time.” Further on in the Fama, we read: “The what secret soever we have learned of the book M. (although before our eyes we behold the image and pattern of the world) yet there are not shewn unto us our misfortunes, nor the hour of death, the which is known only to God himself, who thereby would have us keep in a continual readiness.”. They likewise held, with Goethe, that the reunification of art, science, and religion is crucial to a worldview that accurately reflects Reality. The medical establishment has invested much time and treasure into prolonging life, but it does not seem that it has invested similar resources into prolonging health. Gathering such would take a while. It never would have occurred to me to undertake this project, but a few years ago, a good friend of mine, Don Nagy (who contributed a superb article on Percy Bysshe Shelley as Orphic poet in the latest volume of Jesus the Imagination) told me he’d like to see what I would have to say about the text—but I had no idea it would turn into an entire book! It is also what Henri de Lubac argues in Surnaturel (1946), and what a sophianic encounter with the world discloses.

While we’re waiting, don’t plan on any rigorous journalistic investigation of BigPharma as a matter of course, especially when it comes to using third world populations as human guinea pigs (a “best business practice”), a method darkly illustrated in John le Carré’s book The Constant Gardener, later turned into a film directed by Fernando Meirelles. What are the major world religions in existence today. BigPharma certainly seems to be interested in medicine, but I’m not all that convinced that it’s interested in health. Prove me wrong. Steiner was still addressing an audience in the Theosophical Society, so any information about Rosiucrucians had to be sifted out of the Buddhistic-Hindu jargon favored by Theosophists. These were hardly fringe figures, though the medicine all of these men practiced was deeply indebted to the Swiss medical wonderworker, Theophrastus von Hohenheim, better know to posterity as Paracelsus. Instead, I think they could best be described as a kind of traditionalist, or, better, as adherents of a Radical Orthodoxy avant le lettre. I suspect that their nefarious “research” promoted in the 1970s has much to do with the explosion in Alzheimer’s and dementia sufferers we see today, sufferers like my mother and a beloved aunt. This is not to say that such groups don’t have interesting doctrines; but they don’t obtain as Rosicrucian, at least in the seventeenth-century understanding of the word. Michael's latest book is Transfiguration: Notes toward a Radical Catholic Reimagination of Everything.

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