Johannes Valentinus Andreae
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"I affirm, as the main thesis of my concluding labours, that Freemasonry is neither more nor less than Rosicrucianism as modified by those who transplanted it into England. At the beginning of the seventeenth century many learned heads in England were occupied with Theosophy, Cabbalism, and Alchemy: amongst the proofs of this [...] above all [the work] of Robert Fludd. Fludd it was, or whosoever was the author of the Summum Bonum, 1629, that must be considered as the immediate father of Free-masonry, as Andrea was its remote father."--"Historico-critical Inquiry into the Origin of the Rosicrucians and the Freemasons" (1824) by Thomas De Quincey "A few years later, I came upon that name in the unsuspected pages of De Quincey (Writings, Volume XIII) and learned that it belonged to a German theologian who, in the early seventeenth century, described the imaginary community of Rosae Crucis - a community that others founded later, in imitation of what he had prefigured." --"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" (1940) by Borges |
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Johannes Valentinus Andreae (August 17, 1586 – June 27, 1654), a.k.a. Johannes Valentinus Andreä or Johann Valentin Andreae, was a German theologian, who claimed to be the author of the Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz anno 1459 (1616, Strasbourg, the Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz), one of the three founding works of Rosicrucianism.
See also
- Esoteric Christianity
- Kabbalah
- Lectorium Rosicrucianum – Antonin Gadal – Catharose de Petri – Jan van Rijckenborgh
- Rosicrucianism
- Rosicrucian Fellowship – Max Heindel
- Rosicrucian Manifestos – Fama Fraternitatis – Confessio Fraternitatis – The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz – Parabola Allegory
- Andrea
Bibliography
- Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz Anno 1459, published anonymously (1616)
- The chymical Wedding of Christian Rosencreutz Anno 1459
- Menippus (1617)
- Invitatio Fraternitatis Christi (1617–1618)
- Peregrini in patria errores (1618)
- Reipublicae Christianopolitanae descriptio (Beschreibung des Staates Christenstadt) (1619)
- Description of the Republic of Christianopolis (1619)
- Turris Babel (1619)
- De curiositatis pernicie syntagma (1620)