The Rosicrucian Enlightenment  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Related e

Wikipedia Wiktionary Shop Featured: Rhombicuboctahedron by Leonardo da Vinci

The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (1972) is a book on Rosicrucianism by Frances Yates.

Blurb

ROSICRUCIANISM is a phase in European culture intermediate between the Renaissance and the scientific revolution. In the history of thought, it represents a stage in which the Hermetic-Cabalist tradition received the influx of another Hermetic tradition, that of alchemy. This book is the definitive work on the origins of Rosicrucian thought and its influence on politics and great thinkers in seventeenth-century Europe.

The Rosicrucian Manifestos are mysterious documents published in Germany early in the seventeenth century. Dr. Yates connects them with the movements stirred up by John Dee in Bohemia during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and with events in Germany that culminated in the short-lived reign of the "Winter” King and Queen of Bohemia — Frederick, Elector Palatinate, and his wife, the daughter of James I. The reconstruction of this phase of European history takes Rosicrucianism beyond occult studies and makes it a concern for serious historical enquiry.

Among the many other personages and themes discussed by Dr. Yates are John Dee and Robert Fludd, Comenius and Hartlib, Boyle’s Invisible College, and the rise of the Royal Society and of Freemasonry. The intellectual giants of this era, including Francis Bacon, Descartes, and Newton, are seen here in new contexts.

Full text[1]

INDEX

Abbott, George, Archbishop of Can¬ terbury, 4, 19

Academies, French, 113,191 n.3 Actors, English, 13, 23, 27, 31-3, 66, 141-3, 150, 231

Adam, 48, 57, 97, 119, 120, 129, 213 Adami, Tobias, 137-8, 149, 154 Agrippa, Henry Cornelius, 76,96,109, 119, 184, 186, 220 Albertus Magnus, 76 Alchemy, xii, 17, 22, 27, 31, 36 ff., 44 53. 57. 60 ff., 70, 73, 80 ff,

90 ff, 120, 122, 124, 147, 193-5, 200 ff, 215,218 ff; Rosicrucian, 193, 198, 201-2 Algebra, 76, 96 Allegory, 60 ff, 84, 125, 133 Altingius, Johannes Henricius, 156-7 ‘Alverda (Alvarda), Hugo*, 162, 165 Anderson, James, 213-15 Andreae, Johann Valentin, 27, 30-3, 35 , 39 . 50, 54 . 59 -< 5 o, 84, 86-7, 9 i- 3 . 97 - 8 ,137-8. 141-7. 150, 156-7. 161, 169-70, 178-81, 199, 207-8, 223, 231; and Christian Unions, 151-5; and Rosicrucian movement, 50, 59-69. 91-2, 140-55; Chemical Wed- ding (Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz), 30-3, 50, 59-69, 86-7, 89-91, 142, 146-7. 150, 199. 203, 231; Christian Mythology (Mytho- logiae Christianae libri tres), 137, 141- 142; Christianopolis, 144-50, 169 Angels, 48, 76-7, 94-5, 127, 129, 147- 150, I5S>-6o, 168-9, 181, i 8j, 192,

223.233 mk

Anglicanism, 4, 27, 82, 98, 131, 138 Anhalt, Christian of, 16, iS, 23, 27-8, 36-7, 40, 51. 53 - 4 . 56, 74 , 81-2, 88, 90, 96, 98, 132, 136, 171, 222 Anthony, Francis, 80, 84 Antichrist, 35, 47.145,152,158, 229 ‘Antilia’, 155, 175-6, 180, 185 Andquarianism, 193-4, 198-9, 200 Apocalypse, 33, 48, 57, 205, 233 Apollo, 12, 95, 133, 205 Archimedes, 96

Architecture, ii, 13, 39, 76, 80, 96, 147-9, 153. 205, 209, 212-15, 219; and mathematical arts, ii, 39,73 n.5, 76,80, 96-7, 149, 184; see also Vitruvius Archytas, 76

Aristotle, 43, 51, 53, 95-6, 148, 186, 224

Arithmetic, 76, 96 Arndt, John, 145

Arnold, Paul, xiv, 50, 66-7, 100, 143, 207

Artisans, 147, 149

Arundel, Thomas Howard, Earl of, 8, 10, 12

Ashmole, Elias, 32, 37-8, 122 n.2,193- 205, 209-10; and Rosicrucian mani¬ festos, 194-5; Garter, 32, 198-9; Theatrum Chemicum, 195-9 Astraea, i

Astrology, 17, 76, 97,107, 120,148 Astronomy, 97, 148 August, Prince, of Bnmswick, 152 Augustus Caesar, 213, 214

261

INDEX

Bacon, Francis, i, 6, 13-14; 49 » 77t 86, 97, 118-51, 153, 179. 187. 189; Baconianism, 175,179-80, 184,186- 187, 190-3, 200, 219-20; Advance¬ ment of Learnings 118-19, 121; New Atlantis, 125-9, 145, 150, 172, 181, 183, 189

Bacon, Roger, 76, no

Baif, Jean-Antoine de, 113

Baillct, Adrien, 113, 115-17

Basson, Godfrey, 75

Basson, Thomas, 75

Bavaria, Duke of, see Maximilian

Beaumont, Francis, 6

Beller, E. A., 55, 57

Bethlen Gabor, 54 n.i

B^ze, Theodore de, 10

Bibliotheca palatina, 6 n.5, 27-8, 71, 82,

87

Boccalini, Traiano, 42, 47, 132, 134-9 Boehme, Jacob, 99, 186, 225, 232 Bohemia, alchemical movement in, 89 ff, 194, 232; Bohemian Brethren, II, 156-7, 176, 190; see also Comc- nius; Frederick V Boswell, William, 175 Bouillon, Due de, 16, 19 Boyle, Robert, 182-3, 185, 193 Brandeis, Bohemia, 157-8 Browne, Robert, 23 Bruno, Giordano, 17, 73, 75, 82, 85, 88,90,107-8,122-3,135-7. 216 ,229 Brunswick, Christian of, 56 Buhle, J. G., 34 n.2, 208, 218 Bunyan, John, 69

Cabala, xi, xii, 17, 22, 28, 36, 38-9, 43, 73 . 76, 79 . 94-6. 108, 114, 129. I 49 . 169, 194, 198, 205, 226-9, 240; see also Hermetic-Cabalist tradition Calvinism, 4, 10,15, 23, 25, 27, 31, 36, 75. 78.98,147.156.172, 226, 227 Campanella, Tommaso, 137-8, 149, 161

Candale, Francois de, 107

Casaubon, Isaac, 83-4

Casaubon, Meric, in, 188, 193, 215

Casimir, John, Count Palatine, 15-16, 33

Cassel (Hesse), 30, 42, 59, 81 Catholic League, 16, 34, 35 Cave (vault), Rosicrucian, 38, 44, 49- 50, 64-5, 76, 120-1, 124, 128, 184, 245 ff-

Cellius, E., 32, 199 Charles, Elector Palatine, 199 Charles I, King, 7, 173-4, ^ 95 . 214, 218 n.i

Charles II, King, 173, 188-9, 192, 198, 210, 214, 218

Charles Louis, Elector Palatine, 117,

174, 176, 177 n.i, 178, 182-3, 199. 228

Chivalry, 6, 10, 15, 60, 62, 64-8, 86, 90, 198-9, 212, 215-17, 221, 231; see also Garter; Golden Fleece Christian Unions, 140-55, 168, 170,

175, 180-1, 223, 207 Christina, Queen of Sweden, 117 Comenius Qohann Amos Komensky),

155-70. 175-80, 190-1, 218-33; on the Rosicrucian furore, 156-70; Labyrinth of the World, 158, 161 ff.,; Way of Light, 178-90, 233 Condell, Henry, 2

Confederatio Militiae Evangelicae, 34-5 Confessio, see Rosicrucian manifestos Conjuring, 197, 123, 213, 215 Copernicus, 96, 122-3 Council of Trent, 131, 134, 227-9 Counter Reformation, 20, loi, 139, III, 229

Croll, Oswald, 28, 36, 52^-3, 222 Cromwell, Oliver, 174, 188 Cygnus, constellation, 48, 94, 256

Daniel, prophet, 63 Dante, 18, 65

De Bry, Johann Israel, 74 n.i De Bry, Johann Theodore, 9, ii, 59- 60, 71-90

De Bry, Theodore, 70-1, 84 De Bry, family, 216 De Caus, Salomon, 11-13, 28, 59, 67, 80, 86, 90, no n.2

262

INDEX

De Dominis, Archbishop of Spalato,

131

De Quincey, Thomas, 34 n.2, 208-9 Dec, John, xi, xii, 17, 30 ff., 50-3, 58, 61, 65, 69. 73, 76 ff., 90, 92, 95, 97, 99, 107 ff, 122-4, 149 ff-, 160, 165, 169, 181, 184, 186 ff., 197-8, 200-5, 214-15, 217, 220-31; influence on Rosicrucian movement, 30-40, 47, 50-8, 61, 65, 76-7, 83, 85, 197-8. 203-4, 220-4; Aphorisms^ 38, 109- iio; Monas hieroglyphica, see ‘Monas*; Preface to Euclid^ 76-80, 97, 109, 149, 181, 184, 186-7, 202, 214- 215

Democritus, 62 Denmark, King of, 34, 37 Descartes, Rcn^, 111-17, 183, 224 Diana, 86, 106 Dicson, Alexander, 75 Diderot, xi Diodorus Siculus, 212 Donne, John, 8, 19, 48 n.i, 138-9, 231 Drabik, Nicolas, 158 n.3 Dudley, Robert, Earl of Leicester, 8, 15.35. 75

Diirer, Albrecht, 96

Dury, John, 155, 170, 176-9, 180

Edinburgh, lodge at, 210-11 Education, reform of, 57, 148, 180, 190. 233

Egidius of Viterbo, Cardinal, 226 ‘Egyptian* (Hermetic) religion, 75, 79, 83-5. 87-8, 95. 123, 136, 212, 216, 230

Elizabeth, Princess (daughter of Queen of Bohemia), 117

Elizabeth I, Queen, i, 3-4, 7-8, 15, 20,

31-2, 34-5. 38. 124-5.155. 171.197.

213, 215, 226-7; Elizabethan age, xii, 27, 125, 175, 215, 221, 226, 231; type of monarchy, 174, 175 Elizabeth Stuart, Electress Palatine, Queen of Bohemia: marriage, xiii, 1-14; as Queen of Bohemia, 19 ff.; as widow, court at The Hague, 171 ff., 180, 217-18; see also 54^6, 59,

67, 70 ff., 87, 98, 116 ff., 139, 156, 215 ff., 231-2

Emblems, alchemical, 65, 67, 70, 82-3, 89-90, 102, 201, 231; political, 59, 71-2, 102

England, influences from, in Germany,

8 ff., 32 ff., 45 ff., 97,221; alchemical tradition in, 195, 198; see also Dec; Garter; Freemasonry Enlightenment, xi, 25, 28, 41, 97, 107,

117, 120, 169, 173, 179, 207, 219, 220 ff., 232-3

Euclid, 109, 133, 212; see also Dee Evans, Maurice, xv Evans, Robert, xiii, 37 n.2 Evelyn, John, 173-4, 192

Fall, the, 99, 119, 129, 177, 207, 213: see also Adam

Foma, see Rosicrucian manifestos Fame, allegory of, 61, 65 Family of Love, 72-3, 216 Faulhaber, Johann, 114-15 Ferdinand II, of Styria, Emperor, 17- 18, 20, 55-6

Ficino, Marsilio, xii, 79, 96 Fitzer, William, 71 ‘Florentinus de Valentia*, 93, 97 Fludd, Robert, 9, 70-90, 95, 98,101-2, 111-13,116,120,149,165,184,186- 187, 209, 216, 222-3, 230; and Rosi¬ crucian movement, 70-90, 95, iio- 1 I2\ Apologia, 74-5; Clavis philoso- phiae, 101-2; Tractatus, 75-7; Utrius- que Cosmi Historia, 74, 78-80, 149, 165, 184

Fomerus, Fredcricus, loo-i Foxcroft, Ezcchiel, 60 n.i, 61 n.2,203- 204

France, Rosicrucian scare in, 103 ff.; French Protestants (Huguenots), ii, 16, 18; see also Henri IV Francois, Due d*Anjou, 7, 8 Frankfurt, 9, ii, 13, 20, 51, 52; pub¬ lications at, 71 ff., 84 ff., 96,102,138, 192

Frederick I, Duke of Wurttemberg,

27. 31-5. 199

263

INDEX

Frederick V, Eleaor Palatine, King of Bohemia, 72, 84, iii ff., 121-5, 130 ff., 155 ff., 171 ff.. 182, 194 fF., 204- 205, 215 ff., 222, 232; marriage, i- 14, 89-90; acceptance of Bohemian crown and failure, 13-29 con- neaion with Rosicnician move¬ ment, xiii, 31, 36-7, 35H40. 5 i- 7 . 59-60, 67-8. 70, 87-90, 92 ff.; caricatures of, 54-8, loi; lion re¬ presents, 20, 55-6, 60, I 59 -< 5 o, 172 ‘Frederick Rose’, 218 n.i Freemasonry, 89-127; and Rosicru- cianism, 206-19 French, Peter, xii, xv, 16, 37 Frizius, Joachim, 102 Furore, Rosicrucian, 91-102, 143, 145, 161-5,176,180,207, 224-5, 230,232

‘Gabella, Philip ^*, Brevis consideratiot 39 . 45-7

Galen, 43, 51. 53 Galileo, 27, 107, 133, 138 Garasse, Francois, 103-4, 107, J12 Garter, Order of the, 3-4, 8-10,23,27, 31-5, 40, 54, 66-9, 87, 198-9, 204; see also Ashmole Geomancy, 77, 189 Geometry, 76, 96, 147, 212-13 George I, King, 173 Gerard, John, 145

Germany, Rosicrucian movement in, 30 ff., 41 ff., 59 ff., 70 ff., 91 ff.; German Protestant princes. Union of, see Protestantism Gilbert, William, 122-3 ‘Giordanisti*, 85, 136, 216 Giorgi, Francesco, 96, 107 Goethe, 109, 143, 231 Golden Age, i, 57

Golden Fleece, Order of, 10, 62, 68, 87 Golden Stone, knights of, 64, 68 Gold-making, 162 Gorlitz, Lusatia, 99

Green Ribboned Cabal (Whig Club), 211, 217

Grcville, Fulke, 15 Gruter, Janus, 27, 71, 92

Guilds of masons, 209, 212 Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden,

172, 175

Haak, Theodore, 177-8, 182-3, i9i Hague, The, 7-8, 19, 117, 158; court of Queen of Bohemia at, 171-5,180, 217-18

Hall, John, 151

Hapsburgs, power of, 1-2, 7, ii, 16- 18, 20, 22, 24, 36, 58, 73, 100, 112, 131, 134, 158, 171-2, 229; eagle, 55- 56, 159

Hariot, Thomas, 124 Harrington, Lord and Lady, 10, 173 Hartlib, George, 157 Hartlib, Samuel, 151, 155, 157, 170, 175-81, 183,199 Harvey, William, 71 n.

Haselmayer, Adam, reply to Fama, 41-2, 54, 98 n.3, 162 n.i, 230 Heidelberg, 8-12, 15, 19-20, 24, 27-8, 31, 40, 54, 55H6o, 67-9, 71, 79-80, 86-7, 90-2, 100, 121, 156-8, 171,

173, 184, 199 Heminges, John, 2

Henri III, King of France, 135,171, 229 Henri IV, King of France (Henry of Navarre), 2, 15-16, 33-6, 134-6 Henry, Prince of Wales, 2, ii, 13, 36,

131

Hentisbury, John, 108 Herbert, George, 6, 225 Herbert, William, Earl of Pembroke, 24

Hermes Trismegistus, 52, 63, 75, 78-9, 83-4, 95, 212, 219, 230 Hermetica, 75, 79 ,84 Hermetic-Cabalist tradition, xi, xii, 28, 40. 49, 51, 68, 78-9, 83, 85. 87-8, 90, 95 , 107-8, III, II5H20, 122, 136-7,139,149,168,172,186,193-4* 214, 216-17, 220, 226-7, 230, 232 Hero of Alexandria, ii, 12 Hesse-Cassel, see Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse

Heydon,John,128,189 Hiram, King of Tyre, 87, 213

264

INDEX

m

Hiram Abif, 213

Hollar, Wcnccslas, 192

Honthorst, Gerard, 171, 173

Hooke, Robert, 188

Hortus Palatinus, 11-12, 60, 71-2, 80,

86-7

Huss, John, 17, 20-1, 156, 226 Hydraulics, ii

lamblichus, 109

Illuminati, 35, 75, 119-20, 189-90, 195,

232-3

Invisibility of Rosicnicians, 49, 74, 77, 99, 103-6, 112, 114-18, 124, 126-7, 129, 143 n.i, 176, 161, 211, 217; Invisible Colleges, 94, 100, 103-6, 127, 176-7, 182-3, 190 ‘Irenaeus Agnostus*, 93, 97 Italy, Italian liberals and Rosicrucian manifestos, 130 ff.; see abo Boccalini; Bnmo; Campanella; Sarpi

Leicester, see Dudley, Robert, Earl of Leicester Leiden, 75, 117

Libavius, Andreas, 51-6, 75, 77, 83, 93, 97 - 8 ,ic8

Lichtenberg, Johann, 35 Li^ge, 71 Loew, Rabbi, 228 Louise Julianc of Nassau, 10, 19, 24 Ludibrium (word used of the Rosicru¬ cian movement), 31, 50, 84, 95,104, 120,125,129,140-4,154,161,167-8, 177. 183, 184, 200 Lull, Ramon, 107, 109, 203 Luneburg, 34 Luria, Isaac, 228

Lutherans, 10, 27, 30-1, 65, 73, 75, 78, 82, 85, 87-8, 95,98-9,105,136,145, 156, 216, 226, 229, 232 Lutzen, Battle of, 172 Lux in tenebris, 158-60

James I, King, 1-14, 16, 18 ff., 24, 27, 31-6, 71, 78, 81, 84, 121-5, 130-2, 157,172-4,196-7. 213, 223, 227, 231 Jason, 10

jehova’s v^rings, 55, 94, 100, 118, 192;

Rosicrucian emblem, 94-5, 97, 126 Jennis, Luca, 84-5, 87-9, loi Jesuits, 17-18, 42, 54, 77-8, 98, loo-i, 104-5,112,114,131,142,222,229 ff. Jews, 17,129, 228 Joachim, Abbot, 35 Jones, Inigo, i, 5, 7-8, 10-13, 214 Jonson, Ben, 143 Josten, C. H., 61 ‘Julianus dc Campis*, 94, 96 Jungius, Joachim, 91, 92

Kelley, Edward, 17, 37, 197, 201, 221 Kepler, Johannes, 17, 48 n.i, 222-3 Khunrath, Heinrich, 38-9, 49, 83. 205 Kirchcr, Athanasius, 230 Knorr von Rosenroth, Christian, 229 Komensky, see Comenius Kotter, Christopher, 158-60, 166 Koyr^, A., 224-5

Leibniz, 91, 154-5

‘Macaria*, 155, 180 McGuire, J. E., 52, 204-5 Macrocosm-microcosm, 38, 52,70,74, 79 ff.. 93 ff-, 113. 120, 147, 157. 165, 168, 186, 223 Maestlin, Michael, 154 Magic, 13, 51, 76-8, 93, 98, 107, 109- iio, 120, 123-4, 187. 193. 197-8. 218, 221, 223, 226, 233; see abo Mathematics; Mechanics Mahomet, 35, 54 n.i., 133 Maier, Michael, xiii, 65, 70-91,95,98, 102, 104, 106, 122, 136-7, 160, 193 n.3,194 ff, 200-5,215-16, 222, 231; and alchemy, 65, 80-90,194-7, 200- 205; links with England and Bohe¬ mia, 81-2, 87-9; on Rosicrucian manifestos, 84-7, 91, 1^6-7; Arcana arcanbsima, 80, 122; Atalanta fugiens, 70, 81, %7S; Jocus severus, 84; Lusus serius, 84; Septimana philosophica, 87; Silentium post clamores, 74, 85-6; Symbola aurea, 84-5, 197 n., 200; Themis aurea, 85-7, 200, 202-3; Tripus aureus, 89 n.3, 193 n.4; Viatorum, 81-2

265

INDEX

Malu, knights of, 87 Mansfcldt, Ernst von, 115 Manuel, Frank E., 201 Manuscripts: Bodleian Library, (Ash- mole 1459) i94.(Ashmole 1478) 195; British Museum, (Harley 6485) 202- 203, (Harley 6486) 202-3, (Harley 6848) 204; Wiirttemberg Landes- bibliothek, Stuttgart (Cod. theol. 4° 23. 34). 33-5 Manwaring, Henry, 210 Marburg, 88

Mary, Queen of Scots, 59 Massacre of St Bartholomew, 73 Mathematics, xii, ii, 13, 76, 78-88, 83, 88,91-2, 97,108, no, 114,120,122, 148, 152-3, 181, 186, 197, 219; and alchemy, 222-3; association with magic, 76, 98, loSHio, 123-4, 184-5, 223; see also Architecture Matthias, Emperor, 17 Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse, 27, 54,

81, 84, 87, 96

Maurice of Nassau, 3, 7, 114 Maximilian, Duke of Bavaria, 23, 114-

115

Maximilian II, Emperor, 15, 38, no n.i

Mechanics, n-13, 17, 59. 80, 96, 109, 113, 147, 184; association with magic, 76, 80, 84, 113 Medicine, 44, 51, 84, 97, 107, 147, 193 Melanchthon, 10 Memnon, statue of, 12, 184 Memory, art of, 38, 68, 75, 149 n.2, 161

‘Menapius’, 93, 96-7

Merian, Matthieu, 9, 14, 59, 68, 72, 80,

82, 192

Mersenne, Marin, ni-13, 116 Meung, Jean dc, 65 Micanzio, Fulgenzio, 131 n.i Millenium, 35, 48, 57, 120, 177 Milton, John, 178 Moller, Matthew, 145 ‘Monas* (Dec’s Monas hieroglyphica), xii, xiii, 38, 39. 46-7. 50. 52. 58. 61, 65, 69, 73, 76, 83, 92, 107-8, 122,

124-5, 150, 165, 197-8, 201, 204-5, 221-2, 224, 227 n.i, 230 Moravia, 115, 156 Moray, Robert, 185, 210 More, Henry, 185, 203 n.i More, Thomas, 145 Mosanus, Jacob, 84 Moses, 95, 219 Munster, Peace of, 174 Music, n, 12, 28, 62, 96, 108, 113, 148 Mylius, Johann Daniel, 88 n.2, 89 Mythology, theories of, 82, 106, 108, 122, 204, 205 n.i

Naometria, see Studion Naud6, Gabriel, 103, 106-9, in-13 Navigation, 96, 181 Neoplatonism, Renaissance, 52, 109, 219

Netherlands, i, 2, 7-8, 16, 18, 27, 114, 117, 134, 216; see also Hague, The Neuhusius, Henricus, 98 n.2 Newton, Isaac, 193, 200-2, 204-5, 220 Northumberland, Henry Percy, Earl of, 124

Norton, Thomas, 195-7 Nuremberg, 154

Oppenheim, Palatinate, 9,24, 56,70-3, 78, 81-2, 84, 149, 184, 216 Optics, 76 Organs, 12, 28, 59 Orpheus, 5, 109 Oxford, 89, 108, 184-5, 191

Paddy, William, 50 Palatinate, the, xiii, 9 ff., 24, 28-30, 70-90, 92, 100, 105-6, 124-5, 132, 136, 171 ff., 182, 216, 227, 231; see also Frederick V

Palatine, Elector, see Frederick V Palladio, 214

Pansophia, 77, 93, 95-6, 98, 157, 168, 176, 179, 191

Paracelsus, 28, 35-6, 43-4, 51-4, 73, 79-80, 87-8, 91. 93. 95. 99. 107. 109, 120,186-8,193-4,202 n.2, 222, 229; see also Physicians

266

INDEX

Paradise, 97, 129, 177, 207, 228 Paraeus, Da\dd, 156 Parliament, 24-5, 155, 174, 177, 178, 180, 191, 227, 233; and Queen of Bohemia, 174-5, 218 Parnassus fountain, 12, 86, 133 Patrizzi, Francesco, 168 Pegasus, 86, 87, 95, 96 Pell, John, 181

Perspective, ii, 39, 83, 114 n,4, 147 Perth, Scotland, 211 Petty, William, 181, 185 Pcuckert, Will-Erich, xiv ‘Philadelphus, Christianus’, 96 ‘Philalethes*, 143

Thilalethes, Eugcnius\ see Vaughan, Thomas

Philip II, King of Spain, 17 Phoenix, 20, 231

Physicians, Paracelsist, 28, 52-3, 73, 80-4, 87, 222

Pico della Mirandola, xii, 52, 79, 109, 133. 228

Pistorius, Johannes Niddanus, 17

Placards, 103-7, 118

Plantin, Christopher, 72, 216

Plato, 62

Plotinus, 109

Poland, 176-7

Politiques, no

Poniatova, Christiana, 158 n.3 Pope, the, 35, 75, 87. 109 Porphyry, 109 Postcl, Guillaume, 35 Prague, xiii, 14, 17-18, 20, 22-3, 27-8, 37.41.48, 53. 57,68, 72-3, 80-2, 84, 88-90, 99-101, III, 115-16, 121, 132, 157, 226, 228

Printers, 67, 70 ff., loi, 216; see also De Bry; Jennis

Prisca theologia^ 75, 95, 204, 212, 219 Prophecy, 33-5, 48. 77, 93, 107. 159. 172,205, 233

Protestantism, crisis of, 7-8, 15-16, 18, 23-4. 32, 36,53,105,171-2,174,177, 205; Protestant Union, or League, i, 15-16, 19, 34-6. 172 Pseudo-Dionysius, 169

Puritans, 4, 186, 227 Pythagoras, 109; Pythagorean Y. 56, 58, 109, 160

Rabelais, Francois, 108 Raleigh, Walter, 121, 124 Rattansi, P. M., 204-5 Reformation, world, promised; in Rosicrucian movement, 42,44, 57-8, 85, 90, loi, 130, 134-5, 139, 140, 155, 160, 162, 167, 176-8, 190, 233; by Giordano Bruno, 136, 216 Restoration (Charles II), 188-9, 218,

233

Reuchlin, Johann, 95-6, 222 Revolution, French, 231 Ripley, George, 197 Roe, Thomas, 175-6 Rome, 28, 131, 213

Ros (dew), ffMJc, as meaning of ‘Rosi¬ crucian’, 47, 69, 221 Rose, symbolism of, 9, 30, 35, 02, 65, 93-4, IOI-2, 104, 134, 160, 217, 221 Rose Cross Brothen, as Order or Fraternity, 30,42, 44, 74ff., 81, 86fr., 91 ff., 103 ff., 114, 127, 195, 183 ff., 207, 218, 229, 242 ff.

‘Rosencreutz, Christian*, 30-1, 43-5, 49-50, 59 ff., 91 ff.. 120, 125-9. 135, 143.146,161 ff.. 199, 218 n.i, 206-7. 224-5, 239 ff.; origin of name, 47, 65-7. 69. 221

Rosicrucian manifestos, xi, 29 ff., 39- 58, 60, 70, 74, 76. 80 ff., 91 ff., 104. 106, 124-9, 130-40, 145, 178, 184, 193 ff., 203 ff., 210, 218, 221-3, 235- 260; Haselmayer’s reply to, see Flascl- mayer; manuscripts of English trans¬ lations of, 185, 195. 237; Confessio, 39, 41 ff.. 70. 75. 60. 85. 91, 94-5. 165,251-60; Brevis consideratio print¬ ed with, see ‘Gabella*; Fama, 41-5,60, 70. 75-6. 85-6, 91, 94-9, 105-6, 109. 119, 126-30, 133-9. 152, 160-2, 179, 185, 189, 192, 194, 196. 200 ff.. 219, 228, 238-51 Rossi, Paolo, 49, 119 Rostock, 80, 88

267

INDEX

Royal Society, 155, 171. 181-5, 187- 193* 198, 200, 204, 208, 210, 219 Rozmberk (Rosenberg), Peter Wok, 28, 3 <^ 7 , 53 Roimberk, Villem, 37 Rudd, Thomas, 202-3 Rudolph II, Emperor, xiii, 15-17, 22, 27. 37 . 42, 53 . < 58 , 73 - 4 . 80-2, 172, 228, 231

Rumphius, Christian, 84 Rupert, Prince, 23, 175

Safed, Palestine, 228

St Andrew, 65

St Brigid, 35

St George, 4, 60, 221

Sarpi, Paolo, 25, 27, 130-4, 138-9. 229

Saturn, 56-7, 86

Scholem, G., xiv

Schweighardt, Theophilus, 93-5, 143

n. I

Scientific revolution, 129,215H20,222- 224, 232

Scopenius, Bartholomacus, 156-7 Scultetus, Abraham, 23, 156-7 Secret, Francois, 227 Secret societies, 99, 105, iii, 127; see also Family of Love; Freemasonry Scmler, J. S., 100

Serpentarius, constellation, 48, 94, 148, 159-60, 256

Severinus the Dane (Petrus Severinus), 120

Shakespeare, William, i, 2, 3, 19, 32, 141. 147

Sheba, Queen of, 87 Sidney, Philip, 15, 35, 37-8, 73, 90, 215-16, 221 Silesia, 115, 229 Smart, Peter, 203 Smith, William, 80 Socinians, 98 Socrates, 109

Solomon, 87,128-9,134.189; Temple of, 33, 209, 213, 215 n.2 Solon, 134

Sophia of Brunswick, Electress of Hanover, 173

Spain, Spanish-Hapsburg domination of Europe, 2, 7, 22, 24, 43, 132, 134,

138.157

Spencer, John, 13 n.2

Spenser, Edmund, 2, 32, 66-7

Spenser, Robert, 32

Sperber, Julius, 96

Spinola, Ambrogio, 24, 71-2

Sprat, Thomas, 182, 184, 191-2

Stars, new, 48, 94, 139, 159, 172, 256;

see also Cygnus; Serpentarius ‘Stella hieroglyphica*, 46 ‘Stellatus, Joseph*, 95 Stolcius (Stolck), Daniel, 88-9, loi, 160, 194, 232 Strasburg, 149

Studion, Simon, Naometria, 33-5 Stuttgart, 32-3, 35, 60,68, 74,117, 145 Sweden, 117, 172, 180 Swineshead, Richard, 108

Temple, see Solomon Theatre, world *as, 140-1, 148, 157, 178; theatrical metaphors used of Rosicrucian movement, 50, 60, 63, 68, 140-4, 150; see also Acton; Ludibrium

Theosophy, 96, 98, 148 Thirty Years War, 14,16-18, 22-4, 28, 81-2, 90, 100, 102, 106, 117, 130, 155, 161, 167, 172, 174, 180, 196, 208, 231

Thomas k Kempis, 93, 95, 225 Thoth-Hermes, see Hermes Trismegis- tus

Toleration, religious, 98, 133, 227 Trebona, Bohemia, 37-8, 197 Trevor-Roper, H., xiv, 25, 175 Trithemius, 107-8, 188 Tubingen, 31, 33, 138, 154 Turkey, 54. 105 Tyard, Pontus de, 107-8, 113 Tycho Brahe, 107, 115

Union, see Protestantism Urban VIII, Pope, 229 Uriel, 147

268

INDEX

Utopia, 94, io8, 125, 141, 144-50, 161, 169, 174, 176-7, 181; see also Andrcae, Christianopolis; Bacon, New Atlantis

Van Hcimont, Francis Mercury, 154, 203 n.i, 228-9 Van Hcimont, J. B., 228 Vaughan, Henry, 185 Vaughan, Thomas, 185, 195, 200 Venice, 7, 27, 133, 135; and move¬ ments in Palatinate, 130 ff. Vitruvius, ii, 13, 73 n.5, 76-7, 80, 147, 213-14 Voltaire, xi

Von Dohna, Christian, 132

Waite, A. E., xiv, 34-5, loo-i, 143,

2X8

Walker, D. P., xiv Wallis, John, 182, 185 Walsingham, Francis, 15 Walter, Balthasar, 99 Ward, Seth, 187 Warrington, Lancashire, 210 Webster, Charles, 50 Webster, John, 185-7 Wcchcl, Johannes, 73 Wedgwood, C. V., 19

Wense, Wilhelm, 137-8, 149, 154 Wesscl, Wilhelm, 42 Westphalia, Treaty of, 117 White Mountain, Battle of the, 23-4, 56, 100, III, 115, 157 Wilkins, John, Bishop of Chester, 182-3,185,187,198 William, Landgrave of Hesse, 15 William of Orange (William the Silent), I, 7, 10, 19

Williams, John, Bishop of Lincoln, 178 Wilson, D. H., 123 Winthrop, John, 227 n.i Witchcraft scares, 14, 102-6, 109, 112, 117. 123-5, 187-9. 197, 224 Wotton, Henry, 25, 130-2, 138-9, 231 Wren, Christopher, 185, 214 Wiirttemberg, Duchy of, 27, 30-1, 54, 66; see also Frederick I, Duke of Wyclif, John, 21

Y, Pythagorean, see Pythagoras

Zerotin, Charles, Count, 157 Zetzner, Lazarus, 145 Zinegreff, Julius Gugliclmus, 59-60, 71-2, 102 Zodiac, 64, 83 Zoroaster, 109

A

THEOLOGY UBIWRY CLAREMONT, CALIF.

BF

1623

R7

\Rlt

Yates, Frances Amelia.

The Rosicrucian enlightenment / Frances A, Yates. — Boulder : Shambhala, 1978, cl972.

XV, 269p. : ill., facsims., map, ports, ; 23cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.^

wy

1 . Rosicrucians—History. I. Title.

A __.

. ■ rnmmm ii i ■ - - —T

CCSC/miut