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Rosicrucian

noun

A member of any of various organizations that subsequently derived from the 17th-century society.

A member of a secret 17th-century society of philosophers and scholars versed in mystical and metaphysical and alchemical lore.

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"Rosicrucian" Quotes from Famous Books

... had been made fashionable by the Abbe de Villars who was assassinated in 1675. His Comte de Gabalis was a popular little book in the Spectators time. I suppose I need not inform my readers that there never was a Rosicrucius or a Rosicrucian sect. The Rosicrucian pamphlets which appeared in Germany at the beginning of the 17th century, dating from the Discovery of the Brotherhood of the Honourable Order of the Rosy Cross, a pamphlet published in 1610, by a Lutheran ...

— The Spectator, Volume 2. • Addison and Steele

... communications of angels connected with it, are chiefly in Hebrew, they have names from that language. It would have been better perhaps not to have called the persons of the third canto "gnomes," as at this word one is reminded of all the varieties of the Rosicrucian system, of which Pope has so well availed himself in the Rape of the Lock, which sprightly production has been said to be derived, though remotely, from Jewish legends of fallen angels. Tahathyam can be called gnome only on account of the retreat to which his erring father ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 • Various

Words linked to "Rosicrucian" : member, fellow member