The Rosicrucian Path
Three enigmatic books and the fraternities that followed.
The Rosicrucian manifestos are short, allusive and easy to misread. This path begins with history, reads the three founding texts in order, and then follows the Rosicrucian idea into the orders of the eighteenth to twentieth centuries.
Who This Path Is For
Readers who want the manifestos in context, and a clear line between the seventeenth-century texts and later Rosicrucian movements.
The Syllabus
Introductory text
Waite reprints the manifestos and weighs the evidence. Facts before legends.
Foundational text
The Fama (1614) and Confessio (1615): the brotherhood announced.
Major development
Andreae’s seven-day alchemical romance, the richest of the three.
The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz
Johann Valentin Andreae
Later tradition
Hargrave Jennings and others show how the legend grew in the nineteenth century.
Advanced and interpretive
The modern orders: Heindel’s Fellowship and Hartmann’s theosophical Rosicrucianism.
With the Adepts: An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians
Franz Hartmann
