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The Rose Cross (also called Rose Croix and Rosy Cross) is a symbol largely associated with the legendary Christian Rosenkreuz, a Christian Kabbalist and alchemist said to have been the founder of the Rosicrucian Order. [1] [2] The Rose Cross is a cross with a rose at its centre, which is usually red, golden, or white.
[2] [7] Many magical orders also use a particular lamen design to show membership and align energies of individual members with the group dynamic. [1] [2] [7] Rose Cross Lamen as used by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Various magical orders use lamens in one or more of these ways, including Ordo Templi Orientis [8] and Hermetic Order of ...
"Les courants ésotériques et le rapport. Les exemples de Nouvelle Acropole et de la Rose-Croix d'Or (Lectorium Rosicrucianum)" (PDF). Pour en finir avec les sectes – Le débat sur la commission parlementaire (in French). CESNUR, Di Giovanni. pp. 246– 52. ISBN 88-85237-11-8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 March 2012
The Rosicrucian Philosopher, an image in Manly P. Hall's book The Secret Teachings of All Ages, illustrated by John Augustus Knapp. According to the narrative in the Fama Fraternitatis, Christian Rosenkreuz was a medieval German aristocrat, orphaned at the age of four and raised in a monastery, where he studied for twelve years.
The Fama tells the story of the "Father C.R." (later referred to in the text as "C.R.C.") and his ill-fated pilgrimage to Jerusalem; his subsequent tutelage by the secret sages of the East, the wise men of Damcar [citation needed] in Arabia, from whom he learned the ancient esoteric knowledge which included the study of physics, mathematics, magic and kabbalah; his return through Egypt and Fes ...
Rosicrucianism is symbolized by the Rose Cross or Rosy Cross. There have been several Rosicrucian (or Rosicrucian-inspired) organizations since the initial movement was founded, including the Order of the Golden and Rosy Cross (1750s–1790s), the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (1865–present), and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (1887 ...
The occult is a category of supernatural beliefs and practices, encompassing such phenomena as those involving mysticism, spirituality, and magic in terms of any otherworldly agency.
Speculum Sophicum Rhodostauroticum ("The Mirror of the Wisdom of the Rosy Cross") is an early text of Rosicrucianism, published in 1618 by the pseudonymous "Theophilus Schweighardt Constantiens", believed to be Daniel Mögling (1596–1635), an alchemist, physician and astronomer.