Met wat over de Rozekruisers te lezen is, kon ik niets beginnen. Ik moest mijn eigen geschiedenis over de Rozekruisers schrijven. Dat duurde lang – en ik heb vaak gedacht dat het maar beter zou zijn om de hele rommel te laten voor wat hij is...- Will-Erich Peuckert
"Il y a deux histoires: L'histoire officielle, mensongère, qui nous est enseignée, et l'histoire secrète où se trouvent les vraies causes des évènements, une histoire honteuse." - Honoré de Balzac
Le mystère de la Rose-Croix n'a pas encore été percé. La légende se mêle étroitement à la vérité historique... L'Ordre de la Rose-Croix est une confrérie de savants, d'alchimistes et de chercheurs en ésotérisme qui se manifesta au XVIIe siècle. Les adeptes étaient liés d'une manière très informelle, mais la légende qui les entourait fut et reste très prenante.
The Rose-Croix is one of the manifestations of the Providence of God.
The Order of the Crucians
relies not on outward weapons,
but on the Word of God and tongues of fire!
MAGNA EST VERITAS...
Benedictus Dominus Deus noster, qui dedit nobis signum…
The Fool living in the Forest or Errors, who embarks upon the Promethean and thankless task of trying to reconstruct the Corpus Rosicrucianum, is faced with sheer unabridgeable problems.
The number of books written by so-called rosicrucian writers to solve the mysteries, secrets and riddles of these invisible ones could well fill a library.
But in the end they all appear to be based on the very few standard works, which in their present form are neither agreed upon nor shed a great deal of light on their real mysteries, and in the end raising more questions than answering them. Forlorn Hope! Project Mayhem!
In fact they're all parroting earlier writers, due a lack of factual information. I've put this to the test, by posting some crackpot theories in so-called rosicrucian forums, which were, very soon reiterated by the followers and presented by these ignorami as the ultimate rosicrucian truth!
"Da steh' ich nun, ich armer Tor! Und bin so klug als wie zu vor".
Most and very prominent scholars have agreed upon the rosicrucian enlightenment to commence by the dawn of the seventeenth century, very conveniently and (un)intentionally ignoring some very pressing facts.
The truth is however that Rosicrucian wisdom has existed since the Atlantean times, but it only became known by this name in the fifteenth century. History tells us very little about the real Rosicrucians because in the past it was required of initiates that they work quietly, whilst living ordinary lives. The lessons learned from the burning of the Cathars and the destruction of the Templar Order had been well learned.
L'Ordre des Frères c.q. Rose + Croix d'Orient was founded in 1054 by Michael Psellus, great scholar of Constantinople and modelled in 1090 in Constantinople under the patronage of emperor Alexius Comnenus. The full title of the Order was "Order of the Knights and Brethren of St. John the Evangelist from Asia in Europe."
The Order of the Unknown Philosophers was said to be descended from L'Ordre des Frères d'Orient. This Order was reputed to have included such luminaires as; Heinrich Khunrath, Alexander Sethon, Sendivogius, Jacob Böhme and Rudolph Salzmann. who was initiated in the Elus Cohens. Rudolph Salzmann initiated Louis Claude de Saint-Martin in 1788 in the Sociéte des Philosophes Inconnus.
In 1629 when the rosicrucian craze was at its zenith, French historian the Abbé of Gisors, Robert Denyau, explicitly stated that the rosicrucians were founded A.D. 1188 by Jean de Gisors.
The first public announcement of anything close to a rosicrucian order is the story of Omnis Moriar in 1115. A very similar Swedish legend avers that eighty-one Rose Cross brothers came from the Orient between 1118 and 1188 under the care of Garimont, Patriarch of Jerusalem. The allegedly went to the Archbiship of Upsal, where they entombed the Corpus Rosicrucianum in a marble tomb, placed in a subtrerranean vault.
Jacques-Etienne Marconis de Nègre ‘Le Sanctuaire de Memphis’1849 : En 1150, quatre-vingt-un d’entre eux arrivèrent en Suède, sous la conduite de Garimont, et se présentèrent à l’archevêque d’Upsal ( Upsala ), qui reçut d’eux le dépôt des connaissances maçonniques. Ce furent ces quatre-vingt-un Maçons qui établirent la Maçonnerie en Europe.
And according to its own statutes the "Ordre des Frères Aînés de la Rose + Croix", was founded on 2 December 1316 by Guy de Montanor, Gaston de la Pierre Phoebus, Pierre le Bon de Lombardie and Richard l'Anglois. Shrouded in "nuit et brouillard" Les Gouliards, the medieval clerks and print-makers whose mystical and heretical watermarks so fascinated Harold Bayley, are also pointed in this direction.
Another source testifies that subsequent to the battle of Bannockburn, Bruce and the St. Anthony Templars founded the new Order of the Elder Brothers of the Rose Cross in 1317 --- from which the Kings of Scots became the hereditary Grand masters, with each successive Stewart King holding the title of "Prince Saint Germain".
René Guénon thinks that the "true origin of Rosicrucianism are the Orders of Knights, who in the Middle Ages, forged true intellectual links between the East and the West".
Others again consider the Fede Santa a.k.a. Fedeli d'Amore (Faithful of Love) as the precursors or even the instigators of the rosicrucian movement. It is obvious that Dante, who was one of their leaders, immersed his Divina Comedia with templar and rosicrucian symbolism. The Fede Santa wrote their papers in a coded language (parlar cruz), language of love (hence the name Fedeli d'Amore) to obscure it for "la gente grossa". In their texts the word Rose really means Fede Santa and Love corresponds with their ideals and philosophy. The Court of Love was their Temple. Woman equalled Intelligence, Lover = initiate, fool = wise. We find allusions to a widow who is no widow, the Madonna Intelligenza. It is thought that de Fedeli d' Amore was an outgrowth of a confederation of the Ismaili Sect of the Faithful Ones of Love having connections with the Knights Templar.
Hole Roman Emperor Frederick II was a member too, so it is not surprising that he was excommunicated twice!
Regrettably very little reliable information on this secret society is available in the English medium.
While living in Europe, Francis Bacon was initiated into the mysterious Order of the Knights Templars and learnt a very special secret. Before he returned to London, he travelled to France, Italy, Germany and Spain and at the age of 20 completely devoted himself to the study of law. From his understanding of the secret information he had learned during his initiation into the Knights Templar, he conceived the idea of reactivating various Secret Societies and in 1580 founded the secret Rosicrosse Literary Society in Gray’s Inn. Later in the same year, he founded the Lodge of Free and Accepted or Speculative Masons, also at Gray’s Inn.
Simon Studion (1543- ), who founded the Militia Crucifera Evangelica in 1598 at Nuremberg, continued the work of Joachim de Flore and Paracelsus ; and the "Chemical Wedding" of Andreae continued the thread from the thoughts and work of Studion. It was out of the work of Studion and his Societas Cruce Signati (those marked by the cross), that the Tubingen Circle with Andreae and his friends, the renewed Order of the Rosicrucians grew and evolved.
Simon Studion author of the Naometria, claims that the Militia Crucifera Evangelica were the true source of the Rosicrucians and it indeed appears that one of the earlier titles used by the Rosicrucians was Militia Crucifera Evangelica.
In 1555 the seer Nostradamus fortold the externalization of the rosicrucians in century III 67 which is often and i.m.h.o. wrongly associated with Hitler:
Vne nouuelle secte de Philosophes,
Mesprisant mort, or, honneurs et richesses:
Des monts Germanins ne seront limitrophes,
A les ensuyure auront appuy & presses
Of course this was no big deal for Nostradamus since he and secretly so, was the (acting) head (Nautonnier) of the Prieuré de Sion (Ordre de la Rose + Croix Veritas). : " Mais ce n'est qu'en 1556 que, devenant Grand Maître de l'ordre, ce grand secret luit fut confié… C'est à Turin, que Nostradamus est initié au grand secret des temps à venir… "
The first known historical reference to a Rosicrucian Fraternity with a head called Imperator appears in a treatise: Compendium totius philosophae et alchymiae Fraternitatis Roseae Crucis, ex mandato Serenissimi Comitis Falkenstein, imperatoris nostri, anno Domini MDLXXX.
POST CXX ANNOS PATEBO A.D. 1604 (1484 + 120 = 1604)They asserted that their laws had been found inscribed in a golden book in the tomb of Rosencreuz, and that the required six times twenty years from his death expired in 1604. They were consequently called upon, from that time forth, to promulgate their doctrine for the welfare of mankind.
1604: this is indeed a very convenient date to agree upon, because it frees the scholar of the inoperable task of delving much further into the mysterious and secretive vaults of ancient rosicrucian history. One Rosicrucian Confraternity even had the audacity to rewrite its own history.
In a awkward attempt to anticipate further unsettling questions they have united the Mystery of Rennes-le-Château with the itinerarium of their alleged imperator (Achessel = HSL). Esotérisme de Supermaché!
Pater Cathare is b.t.w. of the opinion that there does actually exist a link to this unsolved mystery, but brothers eh pardon me fratres, certainly not in this way, and definitely not in this manner!
There is a document, authenticated by a notary, which shows that Saunière attended a Martinist meeting in Lyons on May 11, 1900. His lodgings were two doors away from that of Joanny Bricaud a prominent Martinist. Bricaud (aged 18) met Papus and joined his Martinist Order in 1899, one year before Saunière’s documented attendance. In the pages of the Lodge Minutes book of the Martinist Order of Lyon it says:
Dans la registre de la Très Révérente Loge Martiniste à l'Orient de Lyon, "La Haute Philosophie"... et sur la liste le présent "d'honneur": L'Abbé Saunière.
ET IN ARCADIA EGO...
Many have denied the existence of such a personage as Rosencreuz, and have fixed the origin of this sect at a much later epoch. The first dawning of it, they say, is to be found in the theories of Paracelcus and the reveries of Dr. John Dee, who without intending it, became the actual, though never recognised founder of the rosicrucian philosophy. Others assert this Rosaecrucius was alive and well under the name of Roesgen von Germelshausen.
At any rate, the story of his life, published in the manifestos, gave the name and the ideals of rosicrucianism the most comprehensive airing of any "secret society" in history.
...ET PREVALEBIT
End of Chronicle # 1
