The Rosicrucian Enlightenment

Frances Yates0415267692, 9780415267694

about.‘Rosicrucian’ in this purely historical sense represents a phase in thehistory of European culture which is intermediate between the Renaissanceand the so-called scientific revolution of the seventeenth century.It is a phase in which the Renaissance Hermetic-Cabalist tradition hasreceived the influx of another Hermetic tradition, that of alchemy. The‘Rosicrucian manifestos’ are an expression of this phase, representing,as they do, the combination of ‘Magia, Cabala, and Alchymia’ as theinfluence making for the new enlightenment.

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Table of contents :
Book Cover……Page 1
Title……Page 4
Contents……Page 5
LIST OF ILLUSTRATION……Page 8
PREFACE……Page 12
A Royal Wedding: The Marriage of Princess Elizabeth with the Elector Palatine……Page 18
The Bohemian Tragedy……Page 41
John Dee and the Rise of ‘Christian Rosencreutz’……Page 59
The Rosicrucian Manifestos……Page 75
The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosencreutz……Page 99
The Palatinate Publisher: Johann Theodore De Bry and the Publication of the Works of Robert Fludd and Michael Maier……Page 114
The Rosicrucian Furore in Germany……Page 143
The Rosicrucian Scare in France……Page 156
Francis Bacon ‘Under the Shadow of Jehova’s Wings’……Page 173
Italian Liberals and Rosicrucian Manifestos……Page 187
The R.C. Fraternity and the Christian Unions……Page 198
Comenius and the Rosicrucian Rumour in Bohemia……Page 217
From the Invisible College to the Royal Society……Page 237
Elias Ashmole and the Dee Tradition: Isaac Newton and Rosicrucian Alchemy……Page 264
Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry……Page 279
The Rosicrucian Enlightenment……Page 295
APPENDIX……Page 311
INDEX……Page 340