The Chymical Wedding Of Christian Rosenkreutz - Softcover

Rosenkreutz, Christian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1503083527 ISBN 13: 9781503083523

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

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Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. On an evening before Easter Day, I sat at a table, and having (as my custom was) in my humble prayer sufficiently conversed with my Creator, and considered many great mysteries (whereof the Father of Lights his Majesty had shown me not a few) and being now ready to prepare in my heart, together with my dear Paschal Lamb, a small, unleavened, undefiled cake; all of a sudden arose so horrible a tempest, that I imagined no other but that through its mighty force, the hill on which my little house was founded would fly into pieces. But inasmuch as this, and the like from the Devil (who had done me many a spite) was no new thing to me, I took courage, and persisted in my meditation, till somebody in an unusual manner touched me on the back; whereupon I was so hugely terrified, that I dared hardly look about me; yet I showed myself as cheerful as (in such occurrences) human frailty would permit. Now the same thing still twitching me several times by the coat, I looked back, and behold it was a fair and glorious lady, whose garments were all sky-coloured, and curiously (like Heaven) bespangled with golden stars; in her right hand she bore a trumpet of beaten gold, on which a Name was engraved which I could well read but am as yet forbidden to reveal it.

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About the Author:

Johann Valentin Andreae (1586-1654), a German theologian, claimed to be the author of the Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz, anno 1459 (1616) one of the three founding works of Rosicrucianism. Andreae was born at Herrenberg, Württemberg, the son of Johannes Andreae, and studied theology and natural sciences as a young man. He became a deacon in Vaihingen an der Enz, and in 1620 a priest in Calw, where he reformed the school and social institutions and established institutions for charity and other aids. Consequently, he initiated the Christliche Gottliebende Gesellschaft ("Christian God-loving Society"). As a preacher in Stuttgart, he he advocated a fundamental church reform. In his later works, alchemy became the object of ridicule, compared to music, art, theater, and astrology as a less serious science.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1503083527
• ISBN 13: 9781503083523
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 140