Ebook: The Rosicrucian Enlightenment

about.‘Rosicrucian’ in this purely historical sense represents a phase in thehistory of European culture which is intermediate between the Renaissanceand the so-called scientific revolution of the seventeenth century.It is a phase in which the Renaissance Hermetic-Cabalist tradition hasreceived the influx of another Hermetic tradition, that of alchemy. The‘Rosicrucian manifestos’ are an expression of this phase, representing,as they do, the combination of ‘Magia, Cabala, and Alchymia’ as theinfluence making for the new enlightenment.