The Alchemical Wedding of
Christian Rosenkreutz
Dear friends,
The
above
book
is
a
comprehensive
study
of
The
Alchemical
Wedding
of
Christian
Rosenkreutz,
written
by
Valentin
Andrea
in
the
year
1604,
and
published
in
1616
in
Kassel
Germany.
The
story
is
one
of
the
three
manifests
published
in
the
beginning
of
the
seventeenth
century,
calling
for
a
complete
and
new
reformation
of
the
art
and
sciences,
by
renewing
the
way
man
relates
himself
to
God
and
nature.
The
Alchemical
Wedding
describes
in
great
detail
how
such
a
renewal
can
come
about
and
brings
man
in
line
with
Gods
plan
for
creation
as
expressed
by
his
son
Jesus
Christ.
In
our
world
such
a
relation
is
often
lost
and
it
seems
Nietsche
is
right
when
he
said
God
is
dead
and
we
have
killed
him
.
But
anybody
who
has
an
open
mind
will
agree
that
the
old
concept
of
the
Divinity
no
longer
works
for
us
and
that
the
rules
and
dogma’s
of
the
Church
have
outlived
themselves.
Many
people
experience
a
kind
of
divine
central
feeling,
a
voice
in
our
heart
that
tells
us
what
is
the
right
thing
to
do.
To
help
us
strengthen
the
consciousness
of
the
heart
we
are
given
the
Alchemical
wedding
in
which we can identify ourselves with the hero of the story.
The
story
is
a
vision
that
expresses
eternal
truths
in
a
clear
symbolic
way.
By
making
use
of
symbols,
the
story
is
lifted
out
of
the
context
of
the
time
it
was
written
in
and
becomes
applicable
to
our
time,
our
situation.
Therefore
it
has
lost
nothing
of
its
remarkable
value
for
us
as
it
is
not
dealing
with
the
political
situation
of
1616
that
of
course
was
very
different
from
ours.
The
story
tells
about
the
journey
Christian
Rosenkreutz
is
invited
to
by
an
Angel
that
hands
him
an
invitation
to
come
to
the
wedding
of
a
King
and
a
Queen.
In
the
end
it
turns
out
that
the
invitation
is
very
much
about
the
union
of
the
Human
Soul,
the
Spirit
being
and
the
physical
body
of
the
human
being.
The
process
to
find
this
triple
union
is
a
difficult
journey
that
only
can
succeed
when
certain
conditions are meticulously fulfilled.
The
story
therefore
is
about
rising
up
to
a
higher
form
of
consciousness
without
all
kind
of
meditation
or
yoga
training
or
the
eating
of
mushrooms
or
consuming
drugs.
The
story
is
divided
in
seven
days,
each
of
which
I
give the original text which I then study in great detail relating it to our present situation.
The
Story
of
the
Alchemical
Wedding
has
been
studied
by
different
authors
from
the
viewpoint
of
the
different
arithmetic
riddles
that
are
concealed
in
it.
My
point
of
departure
is
very
much
that
of
Sacred
Geometry
that
also
is concealed in the story and which I discus to some detail in the appendix.
After
Christian
Rosenkreutz
has
read
the
letter
of
invitation,
he
prepares
himself
in
his
soul
for
the
great
event
that
is
to
befall
on
him.
He
realizes
that
he
is
chosen
and
that
this
is
not
by
special
virtue,
because
he
knows
he
is
far
from
perfect,
but
out
of
divine
grace.
The
next
day
he
takes
to
the
road
to
find
the
castle
of
the
King
and
Queen,
but
before
that
he
goes
to
sleep
and
during
this
sleep
his
Angel
sends
him
a
dream
that
clarifies
his
situation and as such our present situation as well. Here is what this episode is about:
Excerpt of THE FIRST DAY
The
Alchemical
Wedding
is
divided
into
seven
sections
that
allegorically
describe
the
Seven
Days
surrounding
the
initiation
of
Christian
Rosenkreutz.
In
order
to
get
the
most
value
from
the
writing
we
will
need
to
dissect
each
day
examining
in
detail
the
various
symbols,
archetypes,
and
the
overall
allegory.
Each
Day
will
start
with
a
brief
section
of
the
text,
which
will
be
followed
by
the
interpretation
of
that
section.
The
text
is
written
in
Early
Modern
English
(1590
–
1714
Shakespeare
&
King
James
Bible).
As
such,
it
contains
terminology
of
that
time.
Although,
understanding
the
text
is
not
as
important
as
extracting
the
deeper
message,
I
still
recommend
reading
the
text
to
absorb
the
atmosphere
of
the
allegory
and
see
the
connection
to
the
teachings
of
the
Ancient
Mysteries
and
the
Rosicrucian
brotherhood.
In
reading
the
text,
which
is
taken
from
hermetica.com
,
it
will
help
to
remember
that
all
the
great
Teachers
taught
the
general
population
the
Mysteries
in
the
form
of
allegories,
metaphors,
and
parables
filled
with
symbols;
recall
the
New
Testament
recording
that
Jesus
taught
the
people
in
parables.
This
is
because
the
meanings
of
the
symbols
in
stories
reach
us
at
the
deepest
level
-
in
our
subconscious,
which
transcends
time
and
they
are
as
relevant
today
as
they
ever
were.
It
is
also
worth
keeping
in
mind
that
the
time
the
Alchemical
Wedding
was
written,
the
Inquisition
was
at
its
height
and
the
writer
took
a
considerable
risk
in
revealing
the
Mysteries,
even
in
such
a
veiled
and
obscured
form.
My
goal
in
this
book
is
to
extract
the
transformative message these brave individuals left for the benefit of us all.
Visitors
Valentin Andrea