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Rosacruces
El nombre entra en la imprenta con un manifiesto, y las voces que lo estudian coinciden en la fecha. Faivre la da con ciudad y formato: «The first known printed texts dealing with the Rosy-Cross appeared at the beginning of the seventeenth century. It all began in 1614 at Cassel with a small, anonymous, 38-page manifesto in German, the Fama Fraternitatis "of the praiseworthy order of the Rose Cross," addressed "to all the learned of Europe.» «Faivre — Access to Western Esotericism (1994) · p. 75». Yates cuenta los textos por su número y sus dos años: «The so-called ‘Rosicrucian manifestos’ are two short pamphlets or tracts, first published at Cassel in 1614 and 1615, the long titles of which can be abbreviated as the Fama and the Confessio» «Yates — The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (1972) · p. 59», y nombra al personaje que los encabeza: «The hero of the manifestos is a certain ‘Father C.R.C.’ or ‘Christian Rosencreutz’ who is said to have been the founder of an Order or Fraternity, now revived, and which the manifestos invite others to join» «Yates — The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (1972) · p. 59». Stevenson pone el arranque antes de la imprenta: «The Rosicrucian movement emerged from previous obscurity in a work known as the Fama which was published in Germany in 1614. It had been circulating in Germany at least since 1610, and evidently originated in the work of Lutheran esoteric mystics at the end of the sixteenth century.» «Stevenson — The Origins of Freemasonry (1988) · p. 117». Y Faivre fecha el uso de la palabra misma, con sus primeros usuarios: «the "Rosicrucian" movement (ca. 1610-1620). Henceforth the word will be used often, e.g., by Johann Georg Gichtel and Gottfried Arnold.» «Faivre — Access to Western Esotericism (1994) · p. 38».
Lo que la fraternidad dice de sí misma se lee en el apéndice con que Yates cierra su libro: «The Fama and the Confessio (the abridged titles by which we shall continue to refer to the two Rosicrucian manifestos) are printed in an English translation in the appendix to this book,1 where the reader may study for himself their stirring announcements of a dawn of enlightenment, and the strange romance about ‘Christian Rosencreutz’ and his Brotherhood in which the announcements are wrapped up.» «Yates — The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (1972) · p. 75». La filosofía que ese texto se adjudica no se declara nueva: «Our Philosophy also is not a new invention, but as Adam after his fall hath received it, and as Moses and Solomon used it.» «Yates — The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (1972) · p. 327», y no admite segunda: «No other Philosophy we have, than that which is the head and sum, the foundations and contents of all faculties, sciences, and arts,» «Yates — The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (1972) · p. 330», con el criterio de verdad puesto fuera de la filosofía: «It shall not be said, this is true according to Philosophy, but true according to Theology.» «Yates — The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (1972) · p. 327». Del oro, el deslinde con que la Fama termina: «We therefore do by these presents publicly testify, that the true philosophers are far of another mind, esteeming little the making of gold, which is but a parergon;» «Yates — The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (1972) · p. 328», «which is but a parergon; for besides that they have a thousand better things. And we say with our loving father R.C.C. Phy: aurum nisi quantum aurum» «Yates — The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (1972) · p. 328». Sus arcanos no se abren: «but withal we signify so much, that our Arcana or secrets will no ways be common, and generally made known.» «Yates — The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (1972) · p. 332», y su casa se declara fuera del alcance del mundo: «Also our building (although one hundred thousand people had very near seen and beheld the same) shall for ever remain untouched, undestroyed, and hidden to the wicked world.» «Yates — The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (1972) · p. 329».
El texto se dice cristiano, y por ahí pasa la decisión de esta ficha. La Confessio condena en un mismo gesto a dos: «we do condemn the East and the West (meaning the Pope and Mahomet) blasphemers against our Lord Jesus Christ,» «Yates — The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (1972) · p. 329». El libro hallado en la mano del fundador se mide contra la Biblia: «In his hand he held a parchment book, called I., the which next unto the Bible is our greatest treasure, which ought to be delivered to the censure of the world.» «Yates — The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (1972) · p. 324», y la divisa que lo cierra nombra a las tres personas: «At the end was written Ex Deo nascimur, in Jesu morimur, per spiritum sanctum reviviscimus.» «Yates — The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (1972) · p. 326».
Si la fraternidad existió es lo que las voces de fuera no concilian, y esta ficha no las concilia tampoco. Yates recoge la palabra con que Andreae nombraba el asunto: «The Latin word which Andreae uses most frequently when mentioning the Rosicrucian movement is ludibrium. Of the manifestos he uses expressions like ‘the ludibrium of the vain Fama’, or ‘the ludibrium of the fictitious Rosicrucian Fraternity» «Yates — The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (1972) · p. 85», y niega la verdad literal del relato: «No serious person can now believe in the literal truth of the Rosencreutz story, and the view that a real secret society of Rosicrucians existed and was, as it were, veiled in the myth was questioned by Paul Arnold in his book published in 1955» «Yates — The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (1972) · p. 280», aunque deja dicho el límite de su propia pesquisa: «whether there were any, the doubt and uncertainty which beset the seeker after the invisible Rose Cross Brothers are themselves the inevitable accompaniment of the search for the Invisible.» «Yates — The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (1972) · p. 16», y acota el sentido en que usa la palabra: «The fact is that I am using ‘Rosicrucian’ in a strictly limited historical sense, and I am not using ‘Enlightenment’ in the usual strictly limited historical sense. The period covered by the book is almost entirely the early seventeenth century, though with excursions before and after. It is concerned with certain documents published in Germany in the early seventeenth century, generally known as ‘the Rosicrucian manifestos’, and with the historical setting of those documents. Later movements calling themselves ‘Rosicrucian’ up to, and including, the present, are entirely excluded» «Yates — The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (1972) · p. 12». Hanegraaff lo dice sin reserva: «Although he invited his readers to join the Society, it is practically proven now that in his era, a Society of the Golden and Rosy Cross did not in fact exist.» «Hanegraaff (ed.) — Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism · p. 438». Faivre invierte el orden de los términos y hace de la creencia la causa: «Second, the belief that a Rosicrucian society actually did lie behind these manifestoes caused real societies to spring up. The explosion of initiatory societies in the Western world from the seventeenth century onward was a direct result of this.» «Faivre — Access to Western Esotericism (1994) · p. 76». El furor no esperó a que la cuestión se resolviera: «The ‘Rosicrucian furore’ which arose in response to the stirring announcements of the manifestos soon became inextricably confused through the large numbers who tried to join in without inside knowledge of what it was all about, being merely attracted by the exciting possibility of getting into touch with mysterious personages possessing superior knowledge or powers, or angered and alarmed by the imagined spread of dangerous magicians or agitators.» «Yates — The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (1972) · p. 143», y el cartel de París se anunciaba de los dos modos a la vez: «We, being deputies of the principle College of the Brothers of the Rose Cross, are making a visible and invisible stay in this city through the Grace of the Most High, towards whom turn the hearts of the Just.» «Yates — The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (1972) · p. 156».
De qué se compone lo dicen tanto los manifiestos como sus estudiosos. Yates lo resume en tres palabras: «‘Rosicrucian manifestos’ are an expression of this phase, representing, as they do, the combination of ‘Magia, Cabala, and Alchymia’ as the influence making for the new enlightenment.» «Yates — The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (1972) · p. 13». Stevenson da por obvia su base: «The fact that Rosicrucianism was largely based on Hermeticism is obvious.» «Stevenson — The Origins of Freemasonry (1988) · p. 118», y le suma la otra mitad: «These changes reflect the other main influence which shaped the Rosicrucian literature, Lutheranism.» «Stevenson — The Origins of Freemasonry (1988) · p. 118». Faivre lo pone como rama de otro tronco: «In its place we find a form of theosophy whose original stem was Paracelsism, and whose main offshoots were such intellectual currents as Boehmenism or Rosicrucianism.» «Faivre — Access to Western Esotericism (1994) · p. 72». Newman lo data y lo compone en el mismo tramo: «he Rosicrucian movement began in Germany in the early seventeenth century with the publication of the now famous Rosicrucian manifestos, the Fama, Confessio, and Chymical Wedding. With undeniable Kabbalistic and alchemical leanings, Rosicrucianism was directly influenced by German mysticism, Paracelsian philosophy, and especially the works of the "Teutonic Philosopher," Jakob Böhme, and Elizabethan adviser, Dr. John Dee. In fact, not only is the year provided as the discovery of C.R.'s tomb in the manifestos, 1604, the same year of the Elizabethan magus' death, but Dee's symbol of the Hieroglyphic Monad, published in his Monas Hieroglyphica, also appears on the very wedding invitation mentioned in the third Rosicrucian manifesto, Johannes Valentinus Andreae's Chymical Wedding. As we have already seen, both Dee and the Böhmist theosophers were preoccupied with red, alchemical powders and tinctures.» «P. D. Newman — Angels in Vermilion: The Philosophers' Stone, from Dee to DMT (2021) · p. 134».
Después del manifiesto hablan otros en primera persona. The Rosicrucian Secrets adjudica a los rosacruces su doctrina de la generación de los metales: «Now the Rosie Crucians141, who without controversy were the wisest of people, when they discourse of the generation of metals tell us it is performed in this manner.» «The Rosicrucian Secrets (atribuido a Dee) · p. 32», y llama suyo el oro potable: «It makes an old man young, as our Rosie Crucian Aurum Potabile will do; it preserveth health, strengtheneth nature and expelleth all sickness of the body.» «The Rosicrucian Secrets (atribuido a Dee) · p. 63». La History Lecture de la Golden Dawn traza de ahí su descendencia: «They received indeed and have handed down to us their doctrine and system of Theosophy and Hermetic Science and the higher Alchemy from a long series of practised investigators whose origin is traced to the Fratres Roseae Crucis of Germany, which association was founded by one Christian Rosenkreutz about the year 1398 A. D.» «Regardie — The Golden Dawn (1937), ed. inglés 1937 · p. 11», y a la vez niega que ese sea el origen: «The Rosicrucian revival of Mysticism was but a new development of the vastly older wisdom of the Qabalistic Rabbis and of that very ancient secret knowledge, the Magic of the Egyptians, in which the Hebrew Pentateuch tells you that Moses the founder of the Jewish system was ‘learned’, that is, in which he had been initiated.» «Regardie — The Golden Dawn (1937), ed. inglés 1937 · p. 11»; en la bóveda, lo que se muestra al aspirante es la tumba: «Escorted into the Vault, the Aspirant is shown the lid of the Tomb of Osiris, the Pastos, wherein is buried our Father, Christian Rosenkreutz, and on that lid is a painting which brings fulfilment as it were to the narrative of the preceding diagrams.» «Regardie — The Golden Dawn (1937), ed. inglés 1937 · p. 58». Regardie, treinta años después, toma el saludo por propio: «So, to close this Introduction, I must use the ancient Rosicrucian greeting, and the close of a Golden Dawn ritual» «Regardie — The Philosopher's Stone, ed. anotada de los Cicero (2013) · p. 22». Frater Albertus da por viva la fraternidad: «Members of the age-old fraternity of Rosicrucians are still very actively engaged in alchemy as part of their occult and mystical work.» «Frater Albertus — The Alchemist's Handbook (1974) · p. 58», y deslinda dentro de ella: «However, one must discriminate between pseudo-Rosicrucians who may outwardly belong to one of several organizations making use of that name, and real adepts who comprise the inner core of the circle of the Order, which still exists throughout the Occident and the Orient.» «Frater Albertus — The Alchemist's Handbook (1974) · p. 58».
Las negativas son tantas como las declaraciones, y van aquí con el mismo peso. Yates consigna dos: «Though both Fludd and Maier denied that they were Rosicrucians, they both spoke with interest and approval of the Rosicrucian manifestos, and their philosophies are, roughly speaking, in line» «Yates — The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (1972) · p. 114». De Vaughan, que imprimió los manifiestos en inglés en 1652, dice Waite: «Thomas Vaughan the Silurist denies specifically his connection with any Rosicrucian Brotherhood ;» «Vaughan — The Works of Thomas Vaughan, ed. Waite (1919) · p. 30», mientras Hanegraaff apunta los dos hechos editoriales que lo acercan: «Vaughan dedicated his first published work to the Brothers of the Rosy Cross [> Rosicrucianism], and he republished two Rosicrucian tracts with a substantial preface.» «Hanegraaff (ed.) — Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism · p. 582». Dubuis publica textos de aquellas sociedades —«It is our intention to offer, in this way, several, little known texts having their origin in the Rosicrucian societies which were functioning before the French Revolution.» «Mineral Alchemy II (Dubuis) · p. 39»— y cuenta a la vez su propia salida: «After the ill success of books, I became a member of groups of Rosicrucian or Martinist spirit. I did not find really useful elements there. Their habit of illegitimate secrecy led me far from these groups.» «Mineral Alchemy II (Dubuis) · p. 3». Y Hanegraaff niega la cadena entera: «No Rosicrucian Orders in the r9th and zoth century could rightly claim a direct connection to 17th century counterparts.» «Hanegraaff (ed.) — Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism · p. 442».
en la biblioteca: 4 obras adscritas · 6 autores vinculados
Obras adscritas
cada adscripción se consigna en la ficha de su obraQué dicen de ella las obras
cómo la define cada obra, con su pasajeFrater Albertus — The Alchemist's Handbook (1974)
P. D. Newman — Angels in Vermilion: The Philosophers' Stone, from Dee to DMT (2021)
Asprem — Arguing with Angels (2012)
Asprem y Granholm (eds.) — Contemporary Esotericism (2013)
Gold of a Thousand Mornings — Armand Barbault (traducción inglesa de Neville Spearman)
Bartlett — Real Alchemy (2009)
Bartlett — The Way of the Crucible (2008)
Blavatsky — Essential Works (siete obras reunidas, 1877–1892)
Clulee — John Dee's Natural Philosophy (1988)
The Rosicrucian Secrets (atribuido a Dee)
De Jong — Atalanta Fugiens: Sources (1969)
Drury y Skinner — The Search for Abraxas (1972)
Dubois — Fulcanelli and the Alchemical Revival (2006)
DuQuette y Shoemaker (eds.) — Llewellyn's Complete Book of Ceremonial Magick (2020)
Faivre — Access to Western Esotericism (1994)
The Dwellings of the Philosophers — Fulcanelli (OCR de circulación libre, 2011)
Guénon — The Esoterism of Dante (Sophia Perennis et Universalis)
Hammer — Claiming Knowledge (2004)
Bogdan y Snoek (eds.) — Handbook of Freemasonry (2014)
Hanegraaff — Esotericism and the Academy (2012)
Hanegraaff (ed.) — Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism
Hauck — The Emerald Tablet (1999)
Hornung — The Secret Lore of Egypt (2001)
Hutton — The Triumph of the Moon (2.ª ed., 2019)
Karpenko, Purš y Žemla — Khunrath in Context (Brill, 2025)
Kripal — Authors of the Impossible (2010)
Regardie — The Golden Dawn (1937)
Regardie — The Philosopher's Stone, ed. anotada de los Cicero (2013)
Stevenson — The Origins of Freemasonry (1988)
Szonyi — John Dee's Occultism (2004)
Vaughan — The Works of Thomas Vaughan, ed. Waite (1919)
Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (Ashmole, 1652)
El Umbral de la Consciencia (2026, en curso)
Weidner y Bridges — The Mysteries of the Great Cross of Hendaye (2003)
Woodward — Prospero's America (2010)
Yates — The Art of Memory (1966)
Yates — The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (1972)
Autores vinculados
Afirmaciones
102 entradas«The so-called ‘Rosicrucian manifestos’ are two short pamphlets or tracts, first published at Cassel in 1614 and 1615, the long titles of which can be abbreviated as the Fama and the Confessio» — [AFIRMA] las dos fechas de publicación.
«The hero of the manifestos is a certain ‘Father C.R.C.’ or ‘Christian Rosencreutz’ who is said to have been the founder of an Order or Fraternity, now revived, and which the manifestos invite others to join» — [AFIRMA] Rosencreutz como héroe de los manifiestos, en la fórmula cautelosa de la fuente.
«The Fama and the Confessio (the abridged titles by which we shall continue to refer to the two Rosicrucian manifestos) are printed in an English translation in the appendix to this book,1 where the reader may study for himself their stirring announcements of a dawn of enlightenment, and the strange romance about ‘Christian Rosencreutz’ and his Brotherhood in which the announcements are wrapped up.» — [AFIRMA] su procedimiento editorial: imprime los dos manifiestos traducidos al inglés en el apéndice, para que el lector juzgue por sí mismo el anuncio del amanecer y el romance de Christian Rosencreutz que lo envuelve.
«‘Rosicrucian manifestos’ are an expression of this phase, representing, as they do, the combination of ‘Magia, Cabala, and Alchymia’ as the influence making for the new enlightenment.» — [AFIRMA] que los manifiestos son la expresión de esa fase porque combinan Magia, Cabala y Alchymia como influjo de la nueva ilustración.
«The Latin word which Andreae uses most frequently when mentioning the Rosicrucian movement is ludibrium. Of the manifestos he uses expressions like ‘the ludibrium of the vain Fama’, or ‘the ludibrium of the fictitious Rosicrucian Fraternity» — [AFIRMA] el uso del término por Andreae.
«No serious person can now believe in the literal truth of the Rosencreutz story, and the view that a real secret society of Rosicrucians existed and was, as it were, veiled in the myth was questioned by Paul Arnold in his book published in 1955» — [AFIRMA + REPORTA] y la negación de historicidad, con la objeción de Paul Arnold de 1955 que Yates recoge.
«The fact is that I am using ‘Rosicrucian’ in a strictly limited historical sense, and I am not using ‘Enlightenment’ in the usual strictly limited historical sense. The period covered by the book is almost entirely the early seventeenth century, though with excursions before and after. It is concerned with certain documents published in Germany in the early seventeenth century, generally known as ‘the Rosicrucian manifestos’, and with the historical setting of those documents. Later movements calling themselves ‘Rosicrucian’ up to, and including, the present, are entirely excluded» — [AFIRMA] el alcance declarado del término.
«I should like to try to persuade sensible people and sensible historians to use the word ‘Rosicrucian’. This word has bad associations owing to the uncritical assertions of occultists concerning the existence of a sect or secret society calling themselves Rosicrucians the history and membership of which they claim to establish . . . The word could, I suggest, be used of a certain style of thinking which is historically recognizable without raising the question of whether a Rosicrucian style of thinker belonged to a secret society» — [AFIRMA] el manifiesto metodológico, que Yates se cita a sí misma de una conferencia de 1968.
«whether there were any, the doubt and uncertainty which beset the seeker after the invisible Rose Cross Brothers are themselves the inevitable accompaniment of the search for the Invisible.» — [AFIRMA] su límite final, en frase que abre diciendo que no sabe exactamente qué era un rosacruz ni si los hubo: la duda y la incertidumbre le parecen acompañamiento inevitable de la búsqueda de lo Invisible.
«Though both Fludd and Maier denied that they were Rosicrucians, they both spoke with interest and approval of the Rosicrucian manifestos, and their philosophies are, roughly speaking, in line» — [AFIRMA] la distinción que no borra: ambos negaron ser rosacruces, y aun así hablaron con interés y aprobación de los manifiestos, en cuya línea corren sus filosofías.
«The Rosicrucian ‘silence after noise’, the withdrawal into invisibility after the loud trumpeting of the manifestos, is the theme of Michael Maier’s Silentium post clamores.» — [AFIRMA] qué nombra el título de Maier: el silencio tras el ruido, la retirada a la invisibilidad después del trompeteo de los manifiestos.
«The ‘Rosicrucian furore’ which arose in response to the stirring announcements of the manifestos soon became inextricably confused through the large numbers who tried to join in without inside knowledge of what it was all about, being merely attracted by the exciting possibility of getting into touch with mysterious personages possessing superior knowledge or powers, or angered and alarmed by the imagined spread of dangerous magicians or agitators.» — [AFIRMA] cómo se enturbió el asunto: al furor se sumaron multitudes sin conocimiento interno, y con ellas la sospecha de magos peligrosos o agitadores.
«We, being deputies of the principle College of the Brothers of the Rose Cross, are making a visible and invisible stay in this city through the Grace of the Most High, towards whom turn the hearts of the Just.» — [REPORTA] el texto mismo del cartel parisino, que se declara estancia visible e invisible de los diputados del colegio.
«The Rosicrucian movement is aware that large new revelations of knowledge are at hand, that man is about to arrive at another stage of advance, far beyond that already achieved.» — [AFIRMA] la conciencia que define al movimiento: revelaciones grandes de conocimiento están al alcance y el hombre va a pasar a otra etapa de avance.
«The most striking aspect of the Rosicrucian movement is the one to which the title of this book gives expression, its insistence on a coming Enlightenment.» — [AFIRMA] el rasgo que da título al libro: la insistencia del movimiento en una ilustración por venir.
«And this illumination shines inward as well as outward; it is an inward spiritual illumination revealing to man new possibilities in himself, teaching him to understand his own dignity and worth and the part he is called upon to play in the divine scheme.» — [AFIRMA] qué clase de luz es esa: alumbra hacia dentro tanto como hacia fuera, y le enseña al hombre su propia dignidad dentro del plan divino.
«The Rosicrucian Enlightenment included a vision of the necessity for a reform of society, particularly of education, for a third reformation of religion, embracing all sides of man’s activity—and saw this as a necessary accompaniment of the new science.» — [AFIRMA] qué abarcaba esa ilustración además de la ciencia: una reforma de la sociedad y sobre todo de la educación, y una tercera reforma de la religión.
«Although hitherto we (who were the latest) did not know when our loving father R.C. died, and had no more but the bare names of the beginners, and all their successors, to us, yet there came into our memory a secret, which through dark and hidden words, and speeches of the 100 years, brother A., the successor of D. (who was of the last and second row and succession, and had lived amongst many of us) did impart unto us of the third row and succession.» — [REPORTA] la ignorancia que el manifiesto confiesa de su propia historia: no sabían cuándo murió el padre R.C. y solo tenían los nombres de los fundadores.
«Now as yet we had not seen the dead body of our careful and wise father, we therefore removed the altar aside, there we lifted up a strong plate of brass, and found a fair and worthy body, whole and unconsumed, as the same is here lively counterfeited, with all his ornaments and attires.» — [REPORTA] el descubrimiento del cuerpo bajo el altar de la bóveda, con todos sus ornamentos.
«In his hand he held a parchment book, called I., the which next unto the Bible is our greatest treasure, which ought to be delivered to the censure of the world.» — [REPORTA] qué sostenía el cuerpo en la mano: un libro de pergamino que el manifiesto declara su mayor tesoro después de la Biblia.
«At the end was written Ex Deo nascimur, in Jesu morimur, per spiritum sanctum reviviscimus.» — [REPORTA] la divisa con que cierra ese libro: de Dios nacemos, en Jesús morimos, por el Espíritu Santo revivimos.
«Our Philosophy also is not a new invention, but as Adam after his fall hath received it, and as Moses and Solomon used it.» — [REPORTA] la genealogía que el manifiesto se da a sí mismo: su filosofía no es invención nueva sino la recibida por Adán tras la caída y usada por Moisés y Salomón.
«It shall not be said, this is true according to Philosophy, but true according to Theology.» — [REPORTA] el criterio de verdad que el manifiesto impone: no verdadero según la filosofía sino según la teología.
«We therefore do by these presents publicly testify, that the true philosophers are far of another mind, esteeming little the making of gold, which is but a parergon;» — [REPORTA] el deslinde con que la Fama responde a eso (es su cierre: la Confessio abre en la plana siguiente, «by the foresaid Fama»): los verdaderos filósofos estiman en poco la fabricación de oro, que es apenas obra accesoria.
«which is but a parergon; for besides that they have a thousand better things. And we say with our loving father R.C.C. Phy: aurum nisi quantum aurum» — [REPORTA] cómo remata la Fama el punto: tienen mil cosas mejores que el oro, y la máxima del padre R.C. que solo estima el oro en su propia medida (verbatim extraído por programa con citar-fuente.py, 2026-09-06).
«Also our building (although one hundred thousand people had very near seen and beheld the same) shall for ever remain untouched, undestroyed, and hidden to the wicked world.» — [REPORTA] la promesa de invisibilidad que da el texto: su edificio quedará intacto y oculto al mundo malvado aunque cien mil lo hayan visto de cerca.
«Whatsoever is published, and made known to everyone, concerning our Fraternity, by the foresaid Fama, let no man esteem lightly of it, nor hold it as an idle or invented thing,» — [REPORTA] la advertencia del manifiesto a sus lectores: que nadie tome a la ligera lo publicado sobre la fraternidad ni lo tenga por invención.
«we do condemn the East and the West (meaning the Pope and Mahomet) blasphemers against our Lord Jesus Christ,» — [REPORTA] a quiénes condena el manifiesto en un mismo gesto, con la glosa dentro del propio texto: el papa y Mahoma.
«No other Philosophy we have, than that which is the head and sum, the foundations and contents of all faculties, sciences, and arts,» — [REPORTA] cómo define el manifiesto su propia filosofía: cabeza y suma, fundamento y contenido de todas las facultades, ciencias y artes.
«but withal we signify so much, that our Arcana or secrets will no ways be common, and generally made known.» — [REPORTA] la restricción que el propio manifiesto pone a su llamado público: sus arcanos no se volverán comunes ni de conocimiento general.
«government, which hath been from time to time altered and renewed, the same is already (although as yet unknown to himself) ours.» — [REPORTA] la pretensión política del manifiesto sobre el imperio, que declara ya suyo aunque su titular todavía no lo sepa.
«Although that great book of nature stands open to all men, yet there are but few that can read» — [REPORTA] la imagen del libro de la naturaleza en el manifiesto: está abierto a todos y son pocos los que saben leerlo.
«borrowed our magic writing, and have found out, and made, a new language for ourselves, in the which withall is expressed and declared the nature of all things.» — [REPORTA] la pretensión lingüística del manifiesto: haber hecho una lengua nueva que expresa la naturaleza de todas las cosas.
«But we must also let you understand that there are yet some Eagles’ Feathers in our way, the which do hinder our purpose.» — [REPORTA] el obstáculo que el manifiesto declara en clave: unas plumas de águila que todavía estorban su propósito.
«But whatsoever hath been said in the Fama concerning the deceivers against the transmutation of metals,19 and the highest medicine in the world, the same is thus to be understood, that this so great gift of God we do in no manner set at naught,» — [REPORTA] la aclaración con que el manifiesto matiza su propio ataque a los transmutadores: no desprecia por eso el don de Dios.
«The manifestoes originated in the “Learned and Christian Society” established by > Johann Valentin Andreae in Tiibingen in 1610. This small group of bosom friends of Andreae’s, notably Christoph Besold and Tobias Hess (his amici secretissimi), together conceived of and constructed the Rosicrucian myth.» — la adjudicación del mito y su lugar: los manifiestos se originaron en la Sociedad Docta y Cristiana establecida por Johann Valentin Andreae en Tubinga en 1610, y ese pequeño grupo de amigos íntimos —Christoph Besold y Tobias Hess, sus amici secretissimi— concibió y construyó juntos el mito rosacruz
«The Confessio Fraternitatis similarly situates itself at the end of the ‘age of the rose’ and evokes the privilege granted to the Rosicrucian Brotherhood to light the ‘sixth candlestick’, thus inaugurating an era of happiness, health, and prosperity.» — la Confessio se sitúa al final de la «edad de la rosa» y evoca el privilegio concedido a la Hermandad de encender el sexto candelero, inaugurando una era de felicidad, salud y prosperidad
«The Rosicrucian romance of the Chemical Wedding, to whose authorship Johann Valentin Andreae eventually admitted, describes the coming of a ‘perfectly pure’ man, putissimus homo, who appears on the earth in postremis temporibus (in the last times).» — la autoría de las Bodas Químicas, admitida por su propio autor: Andreae acabó admitiéndola, y la novela describe la venida de un hombre perfectamente puro, putissimus homo, que aparece en la tierra in postremis temporibus
«Although he invited his readers to join the Society, it is practically proven now that in his era, a Society of the Golden and Rosy Cross did not in fact exist.» — aunque invitaba a sus lectores a unirse a la Sociedad, está prácticamente probado ahora que en su época una Sociedad de la Rosa Cruz de Oro no existía de hecho
«Starting from about 1750, a “Rosicrucian tradition” henceforth came to be opposed to the rationalism that, notably in the case of Helvetius, led to a materialistic atheism.» — desde alrededor de 1750 una tradición rosacruz pasó a oponerse al racionalismo que, notablemente en el caso de Helvétius, llevaba a un ateísmo materialista
«The legend thus strongly emphasized the precedence of the Rosicrucians with respect to the Freemasons, who were considered no more than spiritual descendants of the former, and who possessed merely a reflection of the true Light of the ancient Rosicrucian tradition.» — la leyenda enfatizaba con fuerza la precedencia de los rosacruces respecto de los masones, tenidos por no más que descendientes espirituales de los primeros y poseedores de un mero reflejo de la verdadera Luz de la tradición rosacruz antigua
«No Rosicrucian Orders in the r9th and zoth century could rightly claim a direct connection to 17th century counterparts.» — el veredicto que abre la entrada: ninguna orden rosacruz de los siglos XIX y XX podía reclamar con derecho una conexión directa con sus contrapartes del siglo XVII
«Important references in understanding the Lectorium’s ideas are Gnosticism and > Catharism, as well as its efforts to reconcile its teachings with those of 17th century Rosicrucianism (which, unlike the former, was not dualistic).» — las referencias importantes para entender las ideas del Lectorium son el gnosticismo y el catarismo, junto a sus esfuerzos por reconciliar sus enseñanzas con las del rosacrucismo del siglo XVII, que a diferencia de aquellos no era dualista
«Rather, they were supernal, evolved beings, some human and some never human, who cloaked their activities and presence on earth under the name of Rosicrucians while playing a larger role among the celestial hierarchies — a role that the neophyte Rosicrucian was invited to undertake as well.» — no eran una organización terrena sino seres supernos y evolucionados, algunos humanos y otros nunca humanos, que encubrían sus actividades bajo el nombre de rosacruces mientras jugaban un papel mayor entre las jerarquías celestes
«Maier’s involvement with the early Rosicrucian phenomenon has been the subject of a great deal of unfounded speculation through the centuries. Contrary to the thesis of Frances Yates (The Rosicrucian Enlightenment, 1972) Maier’s first encounter with the Rosicrucian manifestos was at the autumnal Frankfurt Book Fair of 1616; thus Maier played no role in the construction of a “Rosicrucian” Anglo-Bohemian axis whilst in England. Nor was he on good terms with the English Rosicrucian apologist > Robert Fludd, with whom he has erroneously been linked as the progenitor of a lineage leading from Rosicrucianism to English > Freemasonry. Perhaps the most prevalent myth involving Maier concerns his “Leipzig manuscript”, which — far from providing evidence for 16th century origins of the Gold- und Rosenkreuz — is in fact a rough draft for the author’s Arcana Arcanissima» — Tilton nombra a quien corrige y qué corrige, en tres puntos: la implicación de Maier con el fenómeno rosacruz temprano ha sido objeto de una gran cantidad de especulación infundada; contra la tesis de Frances Yates (The Rosicrucian Enlightenment, 1972), el primer encuentro de Maier con los manifiestos fue en la feria del libro de Fráncfort del otoño de 1616, de modo que no tuvo papel alguno en la construcción de un eje anglo-bohemio rosacruz durante su estancia en Inglaterra; tampoco estuvo en buenos términos con Fludd, con quien se lo ha vinculado erróneamente como origen de un linaje que iría del rosacrucismo a la masonería inglesa; y el manuscrito de Leipzig, lejos de probar orígenes de la Gold- und Rosenkreuz en el XVI, es un borrador de la Arcana Arcanissima, firmada por Hereward Tilton
«Vaughan dedicated his first published work to the Brothers of the Rosy Cross [> Rosicrucianism], and he republished two Rosicrucian tracts with a substantial preface.» — La afiliación rosacruz de Vaughan la fija Rudrum con dos hechos editoriales: dedicó su primera obra publicada a los Hermanos de la Rosa Cruz y reeditó dos tratados rosacruces con prefacio propio de peso
«the "Rosicrucian" movement (ca. 1610-1620). Henceforth the word will be used often, e.g., by Johann Georg Gichtel and Gottfried Arnold.» — la datación del movimiento rosacruz y los usuarios que siguen: Johann Georg Gichtel y Gottfried Arnold
«The first known printed texts dealing with the Rosy-Cross appeared at the beginning of the seventeenth century. It all began in 1614 at Cassel with a small, anonymous, 38-page manifesto in German, the Fama Fraternitatis "of the praiseworthy order of the Rose Cross," addressed "to all the learned of Europe.» — cómo data el primer texto rosacruz impreso: en 1614 en Cassel, un manifiesto anónimo de treinta y ocho páginas en alemán, la Fama Fraternitatis, dirigida a todos los doctos de Europa
«The third proto-Rosicrucian writing (Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz Anno 1459, 1616), also anonymous, was an initiatory novel whose hero, Christian Rosencreutz, undertook a journey expressing in alchemical metaphors the holy and mystical marriage of Christ with His Church, of God with His creation.» — qué es el tercer escrito protorrosacruz según él: una novela iniciática anónima cuyo héroe emprende un viaje que expresa en metáforas alquímicas las bodas místicas de Cristo con su Iglesia
«Andreae left a considerable body of work at his death. During his lifetime he was exposed to recurring troubles with the Protestant authorities who rightly suspected him of being at the root of this Rosicrucian myth, which, from the moment publication of the two original manifestoes, experienced an immediate and lasting success.» — lo que dice de Andreae y del éxito del mito: tuvo problemas recurrentes con las autoridades protestantes, que con razón lo sospechaban en la raíz del mito rosacruz, de éxito inmediato y duradero
«Numerous publications both for and against the Rosicrucian texts appeared in several countries (more than 200 between 1614 and 1620, and about 900 up to the beginning of the nineteenth century!).» — las cifras que da de esa polémica: más de doscientas publicaciones a favor y en contra entre 1614 y 1620, y unas novecientas hasta comienzos del siglo XIX
«In fact, the ideas sown by Comenius took shape in 1660 with the founding of the Royal Society of London. (The English, too, showed themselves more receptive to the introduction of Rosicrucian ideas than the French.)» — adónde llegaron las ideas de Comenius según él: tomaron forma en 1660 con la fundación de la Royal Society de Londres, y los ingleses fueron más receptivos que los franceses
«Second, the belief that a Rosicrucian society actually did lie behind these manifestoes caused real societies to spring up. The explosion of initiatory societies in the Western world from the seventeenth century onward was a direct result of this.» — y la segunda: creer que detrás de los manifiestos había una sociedad real hizo surgir sociedades reales, de donde la explosión de sociedades iniciáticas en Occidente
«In its place we find a form of theosophy whose original stem was Paracelsism, and whose main offshoots were such intellectual currents as Boehmenism or Rosicrucianism.» — y qué hubo en su lugar: una teosofía cuyo tronco original fue el paracelsismo y cuyas ramas principales fueron el boehmenismo y el rosacrucismo
«The Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia with a clearly Christian orientation and grafted on regular Masonry included high degrees inspired by those of the eighteenth-century Gold- und Rosenkreuz. Founded in London in 1867, this order was created by scholarly esotericists and occultists: Robert W. Little (1840-1918) and Kenneth R.H. Mackenzie (1833-1886).» — cómo presenta la Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia: de orientación claramente cristiana e injertada en la masonería regular, con altos grados inspirados en los de la Rosacruz de Oro dieciochesca y creada en Londres en 1867 por Robert W. Little y Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie
«The Lectorium Rosicrucianum (or Golden Rosy Cross) founded at Haarlem, in the Netherlands in 1924 by Jean Leene (alias Jan Van Rijckenborgh, 1896-1968) with an important center at Ussat-les-Bains, France is quite different. This order does much less proselytizing than AMORC.» — la orden que contrapone a la anterior: el Lectorium Rosicrucianum fundado en Haarlem por Jan Van Rijckenborgh, que hace mucho menos proselitismo
«Its teaching is of a type both gnostic (in the sense of ancient gnosticism) and Cathar, rather difficult to blend with traditional Rosicrucianism of the seventeenth century, which is a pansophic current. That is, however, precisely what the thinkers of the Lectorium are trying to do.» — qué enseña y qué tensión le señala: una enseñanza gnóstica en el sentido del gnosticismo antiguo y cátara, difícil de mezclar con el rosacrucismo del siglo XVII, que es corriente pansófica, y eso es justamente lo que intentan sus pensadores
«A French pamphlet of 1623 related that in Germany (which was where Rosicrucianism began) inn-keepers hung roses in their taverns as a reminder to customers that by convention what was heard there was secret.» — la práctica alemana que documenta ese sentido de la rosa.
«Invisibility and secrecy were to be identified as hallmarks of the supposed Rosicrucian controversy, and surely the rosy cross symbolises this Christian secrecy above all else.» — su lectura del emblema, dicha con el adverbio que la marca como convicción y no como prueba.
«The Rosicrucian movement emerged from previous obscurity in a work known as the Fama which was published in Germany in 1614. It had been circulating in Germany at least since 1610, and evidently originated in the work of Lutheran esoteric mystics at the end of the sixteenth century.» — la datación del origen del rosacrucismo, anterior a la impresión.
«Publication transferred the Fama from the underground realm of secretive mystics to the full glare of public scrutiny, and it was quickly followed by publication of the other key document for the study of Rosicrucianism, the Confessio, in 1615.» — los dos textos fundacionales y el efecto que tuvo imprimirlos.
«The fact that Rosicrucianism was largely based on Hermeticism is obvious.» — la filiación que da por sentada antes de marcar las diferencias.
«These changes reflect the other main influence which shaped the Rosicrucian literature, Lutheranism.» — su explicación de las dos ausencias.
«he Rosicrucian movement began in Germany in the early seventeenth century with the publication of the now famous Rosicrucian manifestos, the Fama, Confessio, and Chymical Wedding. With undeniable Kabbalistic and alchemical leanings, Rosicrucianism was directly influenced by German mysticism, Paracelsian philosophy, and especially the works of the "Teutonic Philosopher," Jakob Böhme, and Elizabethan adviser, Dr. John Dee. In fact, not only is the year provided as the discovery of C.R.'s tomb in the manifestos, 1604, the same year of the Elizabethan magus' death, but Dee's symbol of the Hieroglyphic Monad, published in his Monas Hieroglyphica, also appears on the very wedding invitation mentioned in the third Rosicrucian manifesto, Johannes Valentinus Andreae's Chymical Wedding. As we have already seen, both Dee and the Böhmist theosophers were preoccupied with red, alchemical powders and tinctures.» — el marco con que abre el capítulo nueve: el rosacrucismo alemán del siglo XVII, con la coincidencia que Newman subraya —1604 como año de la tumba de C. R. y de la muerte de Dee— y la mónada jeroglífica de Dee en la invitación de bodas de las *Bodas químicas*; la capitular deja la T suelta
«Beginning with the appearance of Herman Fichtuld's Orden des Gold und Rosenkreuzer nearly a century after the initial publication of the Rosicrucian manifestos, a number of groups have surfaced styling themselves 'Rosicrucian, perhaps the most interesting of which for our purposes is Societas Rosicruciana In Anglia (S.R.I.A.), the group which birthed the famous magical society, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.» — el hilo que Newman sigue hasta el siglo XIX: de la orden de Fichtuld a la Societas Rosicruciana In Anglia, de la que nació la Golden Dawn
«more advanced adepti. See the following ritual, which comes from an alchemical manuscript titled Thesaurorum Thesaurus (1580), a document written by Paracelsus and in use by Hermann Fichtuld's Orden des Gold und Rosenkreuzer, the first order styling itself 'Rosicrucian' to surface following the initial publication of the Rosicrucian manifestos. For regeneration,» — la fuente del ritual de regeneración que Newman transcribe: un manuscrito alquímico de 1580 titulado *Thesaurorum Thesaurus*, dado a Paracelso y en uso por la Orden del Oro y Rosacruz de Hermann Fichtuld
«One other objection has been raised,5 namely that the Rosicrucians only came into existence about the time of Dee's death.» — la objeción cronológica de fondo, que Garstin enuncia para desactivarla: los rosacruces solo habrían aparecido hacia la época de la muerte de Dee.
«What diseases every planet signifies and the disease that are under the twelve signs, with the parts of the body every planet rules, the cure of those diseases by Rosie Crucian physic, by the seven metalic preparations, shall in his proper place be handled at large.» — el programa que la obra se fija: repartir enfermedades y partes del cuerpo entre planetas y signos, y curarlas por las siete preparaciones metálicas de la física rosacruz.
«Now the Rosie Crucians141, who without controversy were the wisest of people, when they discourse of the generation of metals tell us it is performed in this manner.» — el punto en que la obra adjudica su doctrina de la generación de los metales a los rosacruces, a los que llama sin discusión los más sabios de los pueblos.
«The Rosie Crucians describe unto us the Mount of God and his Mystical, philosophical Geomancy, which is nothing else but the highest and purest part of the earth; for from Tetragrammaton He shines upon the Orders and they carry His power to the planets, so you see the superior, secret portion of this element is holy ground; it is the seed plot of the eternal nature.» — la Geomancia mística de los rosacruces, que la obra glosa como la parte más alta y pura de la tierra, por donde Tetragrammaton alumbra a las Órdenes.
«It makes an old man young, as our Rosie Crucian Aurum Potabile will do; it preserveth health, strengtheneth nature and expelleth all sickness of the body.» — la promesa del Aurum Potabile rosacruz: rejuvenecer al viejo, preservar la salud y expulsar toda enfermedad del cuerpo.
«But however it be, it is taken two manner of ways among the later Magicians [and] Rosie Crucians, and that is to say, that which is made naturally and [that which is made] artificially.» — la distinción que atribuye a los magos y rosacruces posteriores: electrum natural y electrum artificial.
«They then laid down the results of their science in books, which are said to be still in existence, and in the hands of some Rosicrucians.» — [CITA en boca de Regardie] los libros en que aquella primera sociedad depositó su ciencia, que el relato dice aún existentes y en manos de algunos rosacruces.
«Below the altar was found the body of Rosenkreutz, intact, and without any signs of putrefaction. In his hand was a book of parchment, with golden letters marked on the cover with a T, and at the end was written, Ex Deo nascimur. In Jesus morimur. Per Spiritum Sanctum reviviscimus.» — [CITA en boca de Regardie] el cuerpo de Rosenkreutz hallado intacto y sin señales de putrefacción, y el libro de pergamino con la fórmula de nacer en Dios, morir en Jesús y revivir por el Espíritu Santo.
«They received indeed and have handed down to us their doctrine and system of Theosophy and Hermetic Science and the higher Alchemy from a long series of practised investigators whose origin is traced to the Fratres Roseae Crucis of Germany, which association was founded by one Christian Rosenkreutz about the year 1398 A. D.» — [DOCUMENTO — la History Lecture] la línea de transmisión que el documento se adjudica: teosofía, ciencia hermética y alquimia superior venidas de los Fratres Roseae Crucis de Alemania, asociación que funda Christian Rosenkreutz hacia 1398.
«The Rosicrucian revival of Mysticism was but a new development of the vastly older wisdom of the Qabalistic Rabbis and of that very ancient secret knowledge, the Magic of the Egyptians, in which the Hebrew Pentateuch tells you that Moses the founder of the Jewish system was ‘learned’, that is, in which he had been initiated.» — [DOCUMENTO — la History Lecture] el rosacrucismo presentado no como origen sino como desarrollo nuevo de una sabiduría más vieja, la de los rabinos cabalistas y la magia de los egipcios en que el documento dice iniciado a Moisés.
«Escorted into the Vault, the Aspirant is shown the lid of the Tomb of Osiris, the Pastos, wherein is buried our Father, Christian Rosenkreutz, and on that lid is a painting which brings fulfilment as it were to the narrative of the preceding diagrams.» — [REGARDIE 1937] qué se muestra al aspirante en la bóveda: la tapa del Pastos, tumba de Osiris donde está sepultado Christian Rosenkreutz, con una pintura que completa el relato de las láminas anteriores.
«To this extent, the Golden Dawn had severed its traditional ties with the parent Rosicrucian bodies of Germany and Central Europe which were patently alchemical.» — Regardie sostiene una ruptura entre la orden inglesa y los cuerpos rosacruces continentales, a los que atribuye carácter alquímico.
«So, to close this Introduction, I must use the ancient Rosicrucian greeting, and the close of a Golden Dawn ritual» — Regardie declara que lo que sigue es a la vez saludo rosacruz antiguo y cierre de ritual de la Golden Dawn.
«contradictions, due to a lack of understanding. Exemplary in its precision and profundity are the seven points dealing with Rosicrucian concepts as given during an extra curricular lecture to students of The Rose Croix University by the late eminent Sovereign Grand Master of that Order, Thor Kiimaletho» — la continuación en la plana siguiente, con la fuente que pone como ejemplo de precisión: los siete puntos rosacruces de una conferencia extracurricular de Thor Kiimaletho, Soberano Gran Maestro de la Rose Croix University, en la grafía del troceo
«The following is quoted from his lecture, “The Basic Rosicrucian Concepts”:» — el rótulo con que introduce la cita: la conferencia se titula así
«1. The Origin of the Universe is Divine. The Universe is a manifestation of, and an emanation from, the One Absolute Cosmic Being. All manifestations of life are centers of consciousness and expressions of the One Life within the framework of its material limitations. There is but One Life in the Universe—the Universal Life. It saturates and fills all forms, shapes, and manifestations of life.» — el primero de los siete puntos que cita de Thor Kiimaletho: origen divino del universo, emanación del Ser Cósmico Absoluto y una sola Vida Universal que satura todas las formas. La voz es de Kiimaletho
«2. The soul is a spark of the divine consciousness in the Universe. As a drop of water is a part of the ocean and all water, so is the soul manifesting in material expression, a part of the One Soul in the Universe. In the human being it develops the personality and the individual expression.» — el segundo punto de Kiimaletho: el alma como chispa de la consciencia divina, gota de un océano, que en el ser humano desarrolla la personalidad
«3. The soul-force possesses potentially the powers of the divine principle at work in the universe. The function of life on earth is to afford the opportunity of developing these potentialities in the personality. Since one incarnation on earth cannot possibly be sufficient, the personality must return again and again in order to achieve the maximum development.» — el tercer punto de Kiimaletho, que trae la reencarnación: una sola vida en la tierra no bastaría para desarrollar esas potencias
«5. Life has a purpose. Life is not meaningless. Happiness is a very real thing and is a by-product of knowledge, action, and living.» — el quinto punto de Kiimaletho: la vida tiene propósito y la felicidad es subproducto del saber, del obrar y del vivir
«6. Man has free choice. He has tremendous powers of both good and evil, depending upon his conscious realizations.» — el sexto punto de Kiimaletho: libre albedrío, con poderes de bien y de mal según las realizaciones conscientes
«7. Since the individual soul is part of the universal soul, man has access to powers he does not know, but which time and knowledge and experience will gradually reveal to him.» — el séptimo punto de Kiimaletho: por ser parte del alma universal, el hombre tendría acceso a poderes que aún ignora
«Alchemists, and especially the Rosicrucian fraters, have used these sacred symbols amongst themselves in order to prevent alchemical, mystical, or occult secrets from falling into the hands of those who would misuse them.» — quiénes los habrían usado y para qué: alquimistas y en especial los fratres rosacruces, para que los secretos no cayeran en malas manos
«Rosicrucian adepts were known to have secret powers and methods to accomplish what seemed miraculous to others, as has been recorded for centuries.» — lo que adjudica a los adeptos rosacruces: poderes y métodos secretos que a otros parecían milagrosos, con registro de siglos
«Members of the age-old fraternity of Rosicrucians are still very actively engaged in alchemy as part of their occult and mystical work.» — lo que sostiene de la fraternidad rosacruz: sigue muy activa en alquimia como parte de su trabajo oculto y místico
«However, one must discriminate between pseudo-Rosicrucians who may outwardly belong to one of several organizations making use of that name, and real adepts who comprise the inner core of the circle of the Order, which still exists throughout the Occident and the Orient.» — el deslinde que hace dentro de esa fraternidad: pseudorrosacruces que usan el nombre por fuera, y adeptos reales del núcleo interior, que existiría en Occidente y Oriente
«The following alchemical material was obtained from a rare manuscript handwritten in Latin and German script and Rosicrucian ciphers. The four sections of the original document are arranged as follows: A - Introduction; I - First Degree; II - Second Degree; III - Third Degree.» — de dónde declara haber sacado el capítulo séptimo: un manuscrito raro en latín, letra alemana y cifras rosacruces, con introducción y tres grados
«One of these tables, Number 4, is extremely valuable from an alchemical point of view, as it contains all of the symbols used by the Rosicrucians of all ages in their alchemical work.» — lo que destaca de la tabla número 4: contendría todos los símbolos usados por los rosacruces de todas las épocas
«It is our intention to offer, in this way, several, little known texts having their origin in the Rosicrucian societies which were functioning before the French Revolution.» — la lección 30 declara el propósito de dar a conocer textos poco difundidos de origen rosacruz.
«These texts decode the alchemical and gabalistic meanings of the legends of the Rosenkreuz or of the Alchemical Wedding.» — la lección 30 adjudica a esos textos la clave alquímica y cabalística de las leyendas de Rosenkreuz y de las Bodas Químicas; el impreso trae *gabalistic*.
«The enclosed original text is from the Bacstrom Rosicrucian Society.» — la lección 30 adjudica el texto que reproduce a la sociedad rosacruz de Bacstrom.
«After the ill success of books, I became a member of groups of Rosicrucian or Martinist spirit. I did not find really useful elements there. Their habit of illegitimate secrecy led me far from these groups.» — Dubuis, citado por los editores, dice haber pasado por grupos de espíritu rosacruz y martinista sin hallar elementos útiles, y atribuye su alejamiento a lo que llama el hábito de secreto ilegítimo.
«We shall then tackle a synthesis of a text which the alchemist Von Bernus considers to be the Rosicrucian testament prior to the Rosicrucians withdrawal from the public eye.» — anuncia el texto que sintetizará y adjudica a Von Bernus la opinión de que es el testamento rosacruz anterior al retiro público de la orden.
«In an ancient Rosicrucian document, it is said that the Brother Alchemists must be economical in their work and operate with a minimum of expenses.» — funda la economía del laboratorio en un documento rosacruz antiguo que no nombra, y del que solo da la máxima.
«Both Fludd and Vaughan were influenced by the movement known as Rosicrucian, which came into prominence in the early part of the seventeenth century.» — [Library Committee] adjudica a los dos la influencia del movimiento rosacruz y lo fecha a principios del siglo XVII.
«Thomas Vaughan the Silurist denies specifically his connection with any Rosicrucian Brotherhood ;» — [Waite] recuerda que el propio Vaughan niega su pertenencia a hermandad rosacruz alguna.
«But if, as I believe, he regarded the body of adeptship as a state that could be attained in this life, he would have held that it is implied in the Rosicrucian counsel which he quotes : " Be ye transmuted from dead stones into living philosophical stones.» — [Waite] enuncia como creencia propia lo que atribuye a Vaughan, y apoya la atribución en un consejo rosacruz que Vaughan cita: transmutarse de piedras muertas en piedras filosóficas vivas.