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- noun A
theology of a secret society ofmystics , allegedly formed in late medieval Germany, and using rose cross as their symbol.
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Examples
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The Rosicrucian Fellowship at Oceanside, California, however, openly profess what they call Rosicrucianism and at the same time claim superior knowledge on the subject of Masonry.
Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918
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In The Chymical Marriage of Christian Rosencreutz, that extraordinary document of what is called "Rosicrucianism" -- a symbolic romance of considerable ability, whoever its author was,147 -- an attempt is made to weld the two sets of symbols -- the one of marriage, the other of death and resurrection unto glory -- into one allegorical narrative; and it is to this fusion of seemingly disparate concepts that much of its fantasticality is due.
Bygone Beliefs 1969
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"Rosicrucianism" is used to cover a number of associations differing in their aims and doctrines.
Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918
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It's extraordinary to think that whereas Albarn has been bringing himself up to speed with concepts of hermeticism, Euclidian geometry and Rosicrucianism, his erstwhile Britpop rival Liam Gallagher has formed Beady Eye.
Dr Dee, Palace Theatre, Manchester | First night review 2011
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Recovery from near-blindness when she was a small child—a miracle, she was told—instilled in her a deep faith that embraced both Catholicism and Rosicrucianism, and she liked to compare herself to Mary Magdalene.
The Sound of France Mark Polizzotti 2011
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It's extraordinary to think that whereas Albarn has been bringing himself up to speed with concepts of hermeticism, Euclidian geometry and Rosicrucianism, his erstwhile Britpop rival Liam Gallagher has formed Beady Eye.
Dr Dee, Palace Theatre, Manchester | First night review 2011
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This encyclopedia esoterica stands up remarkably well - its passages on Pythagorean mathematics, alchemical symbolism, and the competing histories of Rosicrucianism are especially sturdy.
Boing Boing 2009
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He has spent five years researching "Theosophy, Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, the Bavarian Illuminati and Western Occultism".
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In 1629, Joachim Frizius published Summum bonum, a defense of Rosicrucianism, which was prefaced by the motto "Dat Rosa Mel Apibus" (The rose gives the bees honey).
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Subsequently, septenary figures preoccupied Pico della Mirandola (Heptaplus), Giulio Camillo, John Dee, and Joachim Frizius, who wrote an influential treatise on Rosicrucianism in 1626.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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