The presence in the German text of The Chemical Marriage of some words in English indicates its author to have been conversant also with that language. The alchemical wedding may prove to be the key to the riddle of Baconian Rosicrucianism. Many figures found in the various books on symbolism published in the early part of the seventeenth century bear a striking resemblance to the characters and episodes in The Chemical Marriage. In the light of his own statements, it is inconceivable that Andreæ could have been Father Rosy Cross. was born in 1378, as stated in the Confessio, and is identical with the Christian Rosencreutz of The Chemical Marriage, he was elevated to the dignity of a Knight of the Golden Stone in the eighty-first year of his life (1459). The story of The Chemical Marriage relates in detail a series of incidents occurring to an aged man, presumably the Father C.R.C. As a symbolic work, the book itself is hopelessly irreconcilable with the statements made by Andreæ concerning it. This book makes the earliest known reference to Christian Rosencreutz, and is generally regarded as the third of the series of original Rosicrucian manifestoes. The fact is almost incredible that one so young could produce a volume containing the wealth of symbolic thought and philosophy hidden between the lines of The Chemical Marriage. It was presumably written about twelve years prior to its publication-or when the author was fifteen or sixteen years old. THE self-admitted author of The Chemical Marriage, Johann Valentin Andreæ, born in Württemberg in 1586, was twenty-eight years of age when that work was first published. Sacred Texts Esoteric Index Previous Next Secret Teachings of All Ages: The Chemical Marriage
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