Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz

The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz (German: Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz anno 1459) was first printed by Lazare Zetzner in Strasbourg in 1616, after having been in circulation for some time as a manuscript. Written between 1603 and 1605, it describes in the form of an alchemical novel the initiatory experiences of Christian Rosenkreutz, which ultimately led to the founding of the Rosicrucian initation. The very lively, colourful descriptions of the Chymical Wedding remarkably do not paint the picture of a rapt, lofty, unworldly stoic sage, but rather show us a full-bodied, humorous, sometimes also frightened and depressed human being who cries and laughs and to whom the whole range of human emotions in their ups and downs is by no means alien. Only arrogance, vanity and megalomania are completely far from him.

Literature

• John Dee: Monas Hieroglyphica, Mathematicè, Magicè, Cabalisticè, Anagogicique explicata ad Sapientissimum Romanorum Bohemiae et Hungariae regem, Maximilianum, Antwerpen 1564
• John Dee: Die Monas-Hieroglyphe von John Dee aus London mit Einführung und Anmerkungen von Agnes Klein., Interlaken, Ansata 1982
• Johann Valentin Andreae: Die Chymische Hochzeit des Christian Rosencreutz, gedeutet und kommentiert von Bastiaan Baan, Verlag Urachhaus, Stuttgart 2001
• Johann Valentin Andreae,‎ Walter Weber (Übers.): Die chymische Hochzeit des Christian Rosenkreuz anno 1459: Mit einem Aufsatz von Rudolf Steiner, 5. Auflage, Zbinden Verlag 2004, ISBN 978-3859891937
• Gerhard Wehr: Die Bruderschaft der Rosenkreuzer: Die Originaltexte, Edition Pleroma 2014, ISBN 978-3939647225; eBook ASIN B00NFFGXIK
• Rudolf Steiner: Philosophie und Anthroposophie, GA 35 (1984) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Bausteine zu einer Erkenntnis des Mysteriums von Golgatha, GA 175 (1996) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Mysteriengestaltungen, GA 232 (1998) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner, Marie Steiner Briefwechsel und Dokumente 1901–1925, 2., völlig überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage, GA 262 (2002) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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