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The Rosicrucians: What They Are, and What They Are Not
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| The Esoteric Codex Alchemy I By Mark Rogers pg 215 |
“The rise of the Christian Church broke up the intellectual pattern of the classical pagan world. By persecution of this pattern’s ideologies it drove the secret societies into greater secrecy; the pagan intellectuals then reclothed their original ideas in a garment of Christian phraseology, but bestowed the keys of the symbolism only upon those duly initiated and bound to secrecy by their vows.”– The Secret Destiny of America by Manly P. Hall
"The Therapeutae of Alexandria was merely another name for a branch of the Essenian Fraternity. Today the order of men then known as the Essenes is termed the Rosy Cross. There never has been the slightest interruption of this secret Fraternity. It has many times changed its name since its foundation, but its instructions remain the same. Thus, from these Orders were derived the Christian Mysteries, preserved in the Secret Archives of the Great Schools, known only to Initiates of the Higher degrees." - The Philosophy Of Fire By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 47
"This is the Basic Fundamental Doctrine of the Rose Cross. "Ye are the temples of the living God." Consequently man must build in, and include within his being, all things." - The Philosophy of Fire By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 24
"The mysterious and elusive 'Rosicrucians' can now be discerned as having played a crucial role in the events leading to the Thirty Years War and to the foundation of the Royal Society in England. The spectrum of 'esoterica' can now be perceived not as mere quaint marginalia of Western history, but as a vital key to any understanding of the Renaissance. If anything, these 'aberrations' constitute more of a 'mainstream' than what is customarily labelled as such." - The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln Pg. 14
"We can see that the esoteric teachings which in Atlantis first, then in Egypt, in Persia, and in Greece, were kept from the ears of an illiterate multitude precisely because it was known that they could not, in their then uneducated and ignorant condition, understand the deeper truth of Nature and of God. Hence, the secrecy with which these pearls of great price were guarded and handed on with slight modifications into the possession of those grand early Christians, the Gnostics, the so-called heretics; then straight from the Gnostic schools of Syria and Egypt to their successors, the Manichaeans, and from these through the Paulicians, Albigenses, and Templars to the Hermetics, the Rosicrucians, and other less powerful Secret Fraternities — these Occult traditions, or rather, Occult Truths, have been bequeathed to the Mystic bodies of our own times. Persecuted by Protestants on one side and by Catholics on the other, the history of Mysticism, outside of the Rosicrucian Fraternity, is a history of martyrdom." - Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 81-82
"The Ancients of Atlantis preserved not less than sixteen distinct Secret Orders, all of which constituted — what was known at the time of the advent of Poisedon to the Kingdom of Atlantis — as the Mystic Brother or the Great White Circle. What is now the Fraternity of the Rosy Cross was recognized as the very highest of these Orders, by virtue of their knowledge of the Secret Forces throughout Nature. This Order of men ruled the Destiny of nations and all Institutions" - Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 84
"the Rosicrucians in their hidden houses used the Rose of Sharon as the symbol of brotherly love, a simple rearrangement of the letters r-o-s-e becoming e-r-o-s, the Greek God of love, Eros. All these groups belong to what is called The Order of the Quest." -The Secret Destiny of America by Manly P. Hall
Religion, Art and Science are the three most important means of human education, and they are a trinity in unity which cannot be separated without distorting our viewpoint of whatever we may investigate...
Nothing short of such an all-embracing teaching will answer the needs of humanity permanently. There was a time, even as late as Greece, when Religion, Art and Science were taught unitedly in Mystery temples. But it was necessary to the better development of each that they should separate for a time.
In the thirteenth century a high spiritual teacher, having the symbolical name Christian Rosenkreuz--Christian: Rose: Cross--appeared in Europe to commence that work. He founded the mysterious Order of Rosicrucians with the object of throwing occult light upon the misunderstood Christian Religion and to explain the mystery of Life and Being from the scientific standpoint in harmony with Religion.
"In his Anacalypsis, Godfrey Higgins writes: "The Rosicrucians of Germany are quite ignorant of their origin; but, by tradition, they suppose themselves descendants of the ancient Egyptians, Chaldeans, Magi, and Gymnosophists." (The last was a name given by the followers of Alexander the Great to a caste of naked Wise Men whom they found meditating along the river banks in India.) The consensus among these factions is that the story of Father C.R.C., like the Masonic legend of Hiram Abiff, is an allegory and should not be considered literally."-The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall
“...enthusiasts who for years have struggled to identify Sir Francis Bacon as the true "Bard of Avon" might long since have won their case had they emphasized its most important angle, namely, that Sir Francis Bacon, the Rosicrucian initiate, wrote into the Shakespearian plays the secret teachings of the Fraternity of R.C. and the true rituals of the Freemasonic Order, of which order it may yet be discovered that he was the actual founder.”- The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall
"The Order of Rosicrucians is not merely a secret society; it is one of the Mystery Schools,..." - The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception By Max Heindel
Rosicrucian and Lucifer
"Lucifer is the greatest mystery of symbolism. The secret knowledge of the Rosicrucians concerning Lucifer is nowhere so plainly set forth as in these plates, which virtually reveal his true identity, a carefully guarded secret about which little has been written. Lucifer is represented by the number 741" - Hall, Manly P. – The Secret Teachings of All Ages
"Those who follow the path of faith or the heart, use water, and are known as the Sons of Seth, while those who follow the path of the mind and action are the Sons of Cain, who was the son of Samael, the Spirit of Fire. Today, we find the latter among the alchemists, the hermetic philosophers, the Rosicrucians, and the Freemasons."- Manly P. Hall, 33rd , "Initiates of the Flame"
"In England there still hangs on a courthouse wall the Round Table of King Arthur. In the very center of the table is a beautiful rose painted in natural colors. This symbol is that of the Rosicrucians, the ancient alchemists, and there is a direct connection between the legend of the British King and the ancient philosopher’s of fire. “-The Initiates of the Flame Manly P. Hall pg. 67,69
"A manuscript of Michael Mayer's still exists in the University Library at Leyden, which sets forth that in 1570 the society of the old Magical Brethren, or 'Wise Men,' was revived under the name of Brethren of the Golden Rosy Cross." - Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 96
"A manuscript of Michael Mayer's still exists in the University Library at Leyden, which sets forth that in 1570 the society of the old Magical Brethren, or 'Wise Men,' was revived under the name of Brethren of the Golden Rosy Cross." - Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 96
"We must not forget Christian Rosencreutz, the Refounder of the Rosicrucian Fraternity, which had previously been known as the Alchemists and Paracelsuians, and the powerful influence his works had on the reformation of the time." - The Philosophy Of Fire By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 47
"the Fraternity now called the Rose Cross was known as the Paracelsians, Alchemists and Illuminated Brethren It has ever been the same Great School under names in harmony with the age and the needs of the peoples." - The Philosophy of Fire By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 30
The Mystery Schools and The Rosicrucian Order
Rosicrucian and Freemasonry
Rosicrucian Movement And Freemasonry
"No matter what the Order, whether Masonry or Mystic Masonry, no matter the name, it has always been found that Rosicrucians had the work in hand." - Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 10
"all the Societies similar to the African Brothers, the Fratres Lucis and others of like calibre, were but the outward manifestations of hidden forces which were attempting to indoctrinate the whole Masonic Body with true spiritual, mental and moral Mystic knowledge, because the Masonic body, as such, had already lost the key to its own symbolism and none but the genuine Rosicrucian Fraternity held this key. The leaders of the Order now known as Ancient and Mystic Oriental Masons were Rosicrucians. " - Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 72
"John Yarker, "Records and Documents of Freemasonry." the Rosicrucians were the real heads of all Masonic bodies." - Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 95
"In the Western World the lotus has been changed to the rose. The roses of the Rosicrucian, the roses of the Masonic degrees, and also those of the Order of the Garter in England, all stand for the same thing, the awakening of consciousness and the unfolding into full bloom of the soul qualities of man. When man awakens and opens this bud within himself, he finds, like the gold pollen in a flower, this wonderful spiritual city, Shamballa, in the heart of the lotus.” The Initiates of the Flame Manly P. Hall pg. 32
The Rosicrucian influence is not only in the Eighteenth Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Rite, but also in the Craft Degrees, especially in the Third Degree.
"There shall be a Literary and Masonic Association connected with the O.T.O., to be known as THE ESOTERIC ROSICRUCIANS. All its official publications shall be issued with the hermetic cypher: ".I . N . R . I ."" - .I . N . R . I . CONSTITUTION of the ANCIENT Order of Oriental Templars article xv section i
"As the members of the Templars who escaped were few in number and died one after the other, the remaining members drew together to form a bond of friendship, to which end they drew up certain rules. This new society appeared in different forms and under different names, Cross Society or Brothers of the Cross, Noaities, and in later days adopted the name of Freemasons."- Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 99
"To the Rosicrucians and to certain German lodges Hiram is Christ, and the three assassins, Judas that betrays, Peter that denies Him, and Thomas that disbelieves His resurrection ."-An Encyclopedia of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey
The Rosicrucians and The Freemasons
Rosicrucian and The Knights Templar
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| Jacques DeMolay, said to be the last grandmaster of the Knights Templar, looks exactly like Christian Rosenkreutz. |
The Mark of Cain
"Ormus and his initiates had taken the red cross as their identifying symbol four centuries before Merovee (founder of the Merovingian Holy Grail dynasty) was born with the red cross birthmark above his heart. The Knights Templar adopted Merovee's red cross six centuries later. To emulate the Templars, the Priory of Sion took the red cross of Ormus as its own emblem, then adopted the title l'Ordre de Ia Rose-Croix Veritas, which means "The Order of the mie Red Cross." This additional name was added at the behest of Sion's Grand Master, Jean de Gisors.Thus, Jean de Gisors is considered the founder of the Rose-Croix, or Rosicrucians." - Scarlet and the Beast by John Daniel
"He (Merovee) was the first in a series of kings called the Merovingian bloodline. It is said that the offspring of Merovee were noted for a birthmark above the heart - a small red cross. This symbol eventually became the emblem of the Guardians of the Grail." - Scarlet and the Beast by John Daniel
Rosicrucian and the Illuminati
"...The rites of the Illuminati became the basis of the curriculum of the later Ordo Templi Orientis, founded in 1902 by Karl Kellner and Adolf Wilbrandt A similar curriculum, with strong Rosicrucian overtones, was in the English Order of the Golden Dawn in 1887. The teachings of the Illuminati hold that all is material, that all religions are of human invention, that God is man, and man is God, and the world is his kingdom. " - Anton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic Rituals, Avon Books 1972
"I feel the weight of the responsibility resting upon me, for in the Illuminati, to preach is a very small part of the duties to be performed." - Fundamental Laws A Report of the 68th Convocation of the Rose Cross Order (1917) by Clymer R Swinburne pg. 121
"A different class were the so-called Illuminati, better know as Rosicrucians, who claimed to originate in 1422, but rose into notice in 1537; a secret society, combining with the mysteries of alchemy the possession of esoteric principles of religion."- Encyclopedia Brittanica, Vol. 14, 1911 page 320
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| The Rosicrucian rose on the right and the Lutheran Rose on the left are virtually the identical. |
Members
Roger Bacon was noted as a Rosicrucian.
Dr. James R. Phelp
Clymer R Swinburne
Max Heindel
George Washington
Alphonse Constant (Eliphas Levi) was a famous Rosicrucian.
“...Sir Francis Bacon, the Rosicrucian initiate...”- The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall
"(Nostradamus) the celebrated Illuminist and Rosicrucian".-The Secret Destiny of America by Manly P. Hall
"Many of the founding fathers of the American Revolution were members of the Fraternity Rosae Crucis as the ideal of freedom from tyranny in order to pursue one’s spiritual vocation was and is a paramount fundamental tenet of the Fraternity. In 1774, the great Council of Three (the Fraternity’s ultimate governing body) was composed of Benjamin Franklin, George Clymer and Thomas Paine.” – The Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, soul.org
"Elias Ashmole, a mystical philosopher, who was probably a member of the Rosicrucian Fraternity."-The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall pg. 77-81
The Georgia Guidestones, is a Rosicrucian monument of standing stones near Elberton, Georgia that envisions The Great Work, as described in the Mysteries Schools.
Learn about The Symbolism of the Rose Cross here.
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