By Frances Yates
Elimination Rosicrucianism from the world of occultist reports, the writer discusses the Rosicrucian Enlightenment as a level in eu tradition intermediate among the Renaissance and the 17th-century clinical revolution--a part during which the Hermetic-Cabalist culture was once encouraged through the culture of alchemy. Dr. Yates's booklet examines the mysterious Rosicrucian manifestos, records released in Germany within the early seventeenth century. She ties those manifestos into activities stirred up by way of John Dee in Bohemia and with activities in Germany culminating with the short-lived reign of the "Winter" King and Queen. different issues and personalities mentioned comprise Johann Valentin Andreae, Robert Fludd, Boyle's "Invisible College," and the increase of the Royal Society and of Freemasonry. mixing the histories of faith and philosophy, this booklet perspectives Rosicrucianism as an try and meld non secular illumination with highbrow and medical development.
A historical past of the function that the occult has performed within the formation of contemporary technology and drugs, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment has had an incredible impression on our realizing of the western esoteric culture. fantastically illustrated, it continues to be a type of infrequent works of scholarship which the final reader easily can't have enough money to disregard.
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In those years ahead, very much would depend on the person of the Emperor of Germany, and on whether the Hapsburgs could retain control of the imperial office. In the tense atmosphere of Europe between the wars (between the sixteenth-century wars of religion and the Thirty Years War) the death of the Emperor Rudolph II in 1612 had marked a moment of crisis. 4 He moved the imperial court from Vienna to Prague, which became a centre for alchemical, astrological, magicoscientific studies of all kinds.
347 ff. 5 See the introduction by H. C. Hart to The Merry Wives of Windsor, Arden edition, 1904, pp. xli–xlvi. 6 The processions in which the English Garter officials, bearing the insignia of the Order, took solemn part with the German dignitaries, made a brilliant impression. 8 The interesting point of this remark is that they had heard of Spenser, and perhaps of his Faerie Queene, at Stuttgart. Thus magnificently clad, the Duke entered the church where, to the sound of solemn music, he was invested with the Order.
While readers of history are fairly familiar with this aspect of the Bohemian tragedy it would seem that not much, if any, enquiry has been made into what may have been the effect in Europe of the hopes raised by the supposed alliance of the King of England with the Elector Palatine. In those years of uneasy peace between the wars of religion the Elector Palatine had stood for something more than the traditional Calvinism of his house. He had transported the splendours of the Jacobean Renaissance into Germany through his marriage, and that great Renaissance movement had met and mingled with other powerful movements going on in the area to form a rich new culture which, although of such short duration, was, I believe, a very important element in the movement from Renaissance to Enlightenment.