Christian Rosencreutz
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Categories: The Gnostic Saints | Alchemy
Christian Rosencreutz is the legendary alchemist and founder of the Rosicrucians. His name first appears in The Chemical Marriage, by Johann Valentin Andrea (a Gnostic Saint of EGC).
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Summation of The Chemical Marriage
- Day 1—Invitation to a royal wedding by an angel, followed by a symbolic dream where he is delivered from a dank dungeon by grasping a rope descended by God.
- Day 2—The approach and entrance to the King’s Palace. C.R.C. has to pass through three gates in exchange for water, salt, and his coat. He is admitted to the dining hall. He meets the beautiful Virgo Lucifera.
- Day 3—Virgo Lucifera has C.R.C. and other guests weigh themselves on scales to measure their virtue. Although he had originally denied being worthy to even be weighed, he proves to be the most virtuous among all the guests. One of his rewards was a glimpse of the Royal Sepulcher, where he learned "more than is extant in all books."
- Day 4—C.R.C. and the other guests climbed to the throne room, led by Virgo Lucifera, and were presented to the King and Queen. The guests enjoy watching a happy play in seven acts. The guests then signed a pledge of fealty to the King and drank from the Draught of Silence. Six of the royal personages, including the King and Queen, were each beheaded by an executioner (who was himself beheaded).
- Day 5—Virgo Lucifera had the guests board boats to sail to the Tower of Olympus in order that they might get the medicine that would restore life to the royal persons. They were put to work in the Tower Laboratory preparing the medicine all day.
- Day 6—Through a complex procedure using their medicine, the bodies of the royal persons are dissoved into liquid and placed into a golden globe. Through more processes, the liquid of royal persons is transformed into a beautiful white egg, which hatches into an ugly bird. Over time, the bird becomes more beautiful. It is finally decapitated and burned to ashes. C.R.C. and three of the guests are chosen to help perform the final process. They work the ashes into homunculi (small human forms)—one male and one female. These are grown to full size and injected with the light of the sun, which brings the young King and Queen back to life.
- Day 7—In the morning Virgo Lucifera announced that each of the wedding guests had become a "Knight of the Golden Stone,” and they return to the palace. The newly created Knights of the Golden Stone are obliged to subscribe to five articles drawn up by His Royal Highness:
- That they would ascribe their Order only to God and His handmaid, Nature.
- That they should abominate all uncleanness and vice.
- That they should always be ready to assist the worthy and needy.
- That they should not use their knowledge and power for the attainment of worldly dignity.
- That they should not desire to live longer than God had decreed.
Quotes
In Abiegnus the Sacred Mountain of the Rosicrucians the Postulant finds but a coffin in the central shrine; yet that coffin contains Christian Rosencreutz who is dead and is alive for evermore and hath the keys of Hell and of Death. —Crowley, "The Soldier and the Hunchback"
Links of interest
The Chemical Marriage (http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/sta/sta40.htm#page_161)
References
- Sacred-Texts.com. The Chemical Marriage (http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/sta/sta40.htm#page_161). Retreived on Sept. 23, 2004.
- Sabazius. (1995). Christian Rosencreutz (http://www.hermetic.com/sabazius/rosencreutz.htm). Retreived on Sept. 23, 2004.
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