Rose cross over the Baltic : : the spread of rosicrucianism in Northern Europe / / by Susanna Akerman.

• Superior document: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume 87
• VerfasserIn: Akerman, Susanna,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] ;, Koln, [Germany] : : Brill,, 1998.; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; Volume 87.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (270 pages).

This volume is a study of Rosicrucianism in the early period of the seventeenth century with emphasis both on the local reception of the Rosicrucian pamphlets in the Baltic area and on the original group of Rosicrucian authors in Tübingen. In the first part of the book the Runic theosophy of the Swedish Rosicrucian Johannes Bureus is studied in its millenarian context, beginning with his Adulruna Rediviva of 1616. The Paracelsian prophecy of the Lion of the North is also shown to be a Rosicrucian theme. The general millenarian background to the Rosicrucian publications is then explored and implications are drawn from the Rosicrucian doctrine of the great conjunctions, from the emergence of new stars, and from their comet research.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE: \'ADULRUNA REDIVIVA\' -JOHANNES BUREUS' ROSY CROSS -- CHAPTER TWO: AT THE ORIGINS OF THE ROSICRUCIANS -- CHAPTER THREE: THE ROSICRUCIAN CONTEXT OF THE LION OF THE NORTH -- CHAPTER FOUR: QUATERNIONS AND DEW: POSTEL AND THE ROSICRUCIANS -- CHAPTER FIVE: ROSICRUCIAN SCIENCE: ASTRONOMY, ROSES, AND OPTICAL DESIGN -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX III: THE ROSICRUCIAN SIGNIFICANCE OF LAMPERTUS' LIBER FLORIDUS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.