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COSMOLOGY

Cabala.

Universal Science.

Alchemy.

CONTAINING

THE MYSTERIES OF THE

UNIVERSE,

REGARDING

GOD

NATURE

MAN,

THE

Macrocosm and Microcosm

ETERNITY and TIME

EXPLAINED ACCORDING TO

THE RELIGION OF CHRIST

BY MEANS OF

THE SECRET SYMBOLS

OF THE

ROSICRUCIANS

OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES .

COPIED AND TRANSLATED FROM AN OLD GERMAN MANUSCRIPT, AND PROVIDED

WITH A DICTIONARY OF OCCULT TERMS

F RANZ H ARTMANN , M.D.

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BOSTON

OCCULT PUBLISHING COMPANY

130 T REMONT S TREET

1888

The bulk of this book is a translation of a German work published at Altona in two parts

in 1785 and 1788 ( Die Lehren der Rosenkreuzer and Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer ).

The 25 plates of symbolic figures with accompanying text are taken from this, as are the

alchemical texts making up the first half of Part II (they have been somewhat re-arranged

from the original edition). The introduction and ÑVocabulary of Occult TermsÒ are by

Hartmann, as are the annotations to the alchemical and allegorical texts.

Text pieces OCRed and proofed by Frater T.S. from scans of photocopies of the 1888

edition. Further proofreading may be necessary.

By an editorial error, a section of the ÓGlossaryÔ (from a note to ÑMacrocosm and

MicrocosmÒ through to ÑMateria PrimaÒ) was placed out of sequence in the print edition;

this has been corrected.

The alchemical and allegorical texts in Part II were translated by Hartmann, and

somewhat re-arranged and hacked around, from the Aureum Seculum Redivivum (Golden

Age Restored) and Tractatus Aureus (Golden Tractate), two German alchemical tracts of

the early 17 th century, which prior to their appearance in the Geheime Figuren had been

translated into Latin and published in the Hermetic Museum Restored and Enlarged .

HartmannÔs footnotes may have been intended to mislead and can probably be safely

ignored.

A more complete English translation of the Geheime Figuren was issued at some point in

the first half of the twentieth century by the American ÑRosicrucianÒ society AMORC

and has seen a number of reprints; it includes 11 plates of symbolic figures and two short

alchemical writings omitted in the present edition.

This work is in the public domain.

The present e-text consists of excerpts only.

Release 0.3 Ï 19.02.2004

Comprising: title pages, introductory essay, glossary, introductory section of Part II, ÑParabolaÒ

and ÑAllegory.Ò

Currently omitted: all plates.

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PART I.

AUREUM SECULUM REDIVIVUM

The Ancient Golden Age,

which has disappeared from the Earth, but will reappear;

whose germ is beginning to sprout, and will bear blossom and fruit,

HENCRICUS MADATHANUS THEOSOPHUS,

Medicus & tandem, Dei gratia, aure½ crucis frater.

Translated from the German.

ÑIf there is one among You who is deficient in wisdom, let him pray to the spirit of truth,

who comes to the simple-minded, but does not obtrude upon any one,

and he will surely obtain it.ÒÐ Jacob. Epist. v. 5.

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S YMBOLUM A UTHORIS :

Centrum Mundi: Granum Fundi.

THE SECRET SYMBOLS OF THE ROSICRUCIANS.

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INTRODUCTION

(B Y THE T RANSLATOR ).

FEW centuries ago the name ÑRosicrucianÒ produced a great stir in the world. It suddenly and

mysteriously appeared on the mental horizon, and as mysteriously disappeared again. The Rosicru--

cians were said to be a secret society of men possessing superhumanÐif not supernaturalÐpowers; they

were said to be able to prophesy future events, to penetrate into the deepest mysteries of nature, to transform

Iron, Copper, Lead, or Mercury into Gold, to prepare an Elixir of Life or Universal Panacea , by the use of

which they could preserve their youth and manhood; and moreover it was believed that they could' command

the Elemental Spirits of Nature and knew the secret of the PhilosopherÔs Stone , a substance which rendered him

who possessed it all-powerful, immortal; and supremely wise.

Many historical facts seem to confirm the truth of such statements, and certain still-existing legal

documents go to prove that gold on certain occasions has been indeed produced by artificial means, but the

Rosicrudans always insisted that this art was only one of the most insigni¢cant parts of their divine science, and

that they possessed far more important secrets. Some of those people believed to be Rosicrucians coul.d heal

the sick by the mere touch of their hands, or by means of some wonderful medicines, and they performed

same extraordinary feats which equalled those recorded in the Christian Bib1e and in other sacred books and

histories of ancient religions. Some were believed to have attained an age of several hundred years; some are

believed to be still living upon this earth. The Rosicrucians themselves did not contradict such stories; on

the contrary, they asserted that there were many occult laws and mysterious powers; of which mankind on

the whole knew very little at those times, and which would for many centuries to come remain unknown to

ÑscienceÒ; because all science is based upon the observation of facts, and facts must be perceived before they

can be observed; but the spiritual powers of perception are not yet sufficiently among mankind as a whole to

enable them to perceive spiritual things. They say that if our spiritual powers of perception were fully

developed, we should see this universe peopled with other beings than ourselves, and of whose existence we

know nothing at present. They say that we should then see this universe filled with things of 1ife, whose

beauty and sublimity surpass the most exalted imagination of man, and we should learn mysteries in com-

parison with which the art of making gold sinks into insignificance and becomes comparatively worthless.

They speak of the inhabitants of the four kingdoms of nature, of Nymphs, Undines. Gnomes, Sylphs.

Salamanders, and Fairies,Ðas if they were people with whom they were most intimately acquainted, and as if

they did not belong to the realm of the fable, but were living beings of an ethereal organization. too subtle to

be perceived by our gross material senses; but living, conscious, and knowing, ready to serve and instruct

man and to be instructed by him. They speak of Planetary Spirits who were formerly men. but who are now

as far above human beings as the latter are above animals, and they seriously assert that if men knew the

divine powers, which are dormant in their constitution, and were to pay attention to their development,

instead of wasting all their life and energies upon the comparatively insignificant and trifling affairs of their

short and transient extemal existence upon this earth. they might in time become like those planetary spirits

or gods.

We are not in a position to demonstrate to what extent such assertions made by ancient and, modem

Rosicrucians. are true, or whether those accounts have been exaggerated or misunderstood, nor would we

expect to be believed if we were to put forward our testimony to strengthen a doctrine rejected by modern

scientific authorities who have never seen anything but what can be seen by means of the external senses.

We do not desire to dispute with those who are incapable of seeing in man more than an intellectual animal,

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