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The Rosicrucian In 1995, the New York Open Center (in association with Gnosis Magazine and Oibibio in Amsterdam) invited students of Rosicrucianism and the Western Mystery traditions to Cesky Krumlow in the Czech Republic to discuss the historical backgrounds of Rosicrucianism. This gathering celebrated the role of Central Europe in the spiritual history of the West as well as the work of the Renaissance Hermetic scholar Dame Frances Yates. |
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Two years later a second meeting was held in Prague to celebrate the Hermetic world of Rudolf II. This book is the result. John Matthews addresses the relationship between the Grail and the Rose; Christopher Bamford speaks of the prehistory of the Rosicrucian reformation in the late Middle Ages—among women mystics, alchemists, Cathars, Franciscan spirituals, as well as in Luther and the great Paracelsus; Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke tells the wild tale of John Dee's mission to central Europe; Joscelyn Godwin unfolds the paradigmatic Rosicrucian life of Michael Maier; Claire Goodrick-Clarke recounts influence of Comenius; Paul Bembridge speaks of Rosicrucian Resurgence at the Court of Cromwell; Rafal Prinke tells the story of the Polish alchemist, Sendivogius; Robert Powell brings together Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, and Rudolf II during the Prague Renaissance; and Christopher McIntosh speaks of the Rosicrucian Legacy. Also included are the texts of the two Rosicrucian Manifestos, the "Fama" and the "Confessio." Includes illustrations. The Rosicrucian Enlightenment Revisited, by John Matthews, Paul Bembridge, Joscelyn Godwin, Goodrick-Clarke, Christopher Bamford, Rafal Prinke, Robert Powell, Christopher McIntosh (Lindisfarne Books) ISBN: 0940262843 |
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