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The Rosicrucians are a legendary secret order, that would be born in the fifteenth century, knowledge of which was widespread in seventeenth century, associated with the symbols of the rose and cross.
According to legend, the order was founded in 1407, on his return to Germany, a German pilgrim named Christian Rosenkreuz (1378 - 1484) who lived in Damascus and in the Holy Land, where he studied the occult. It seems that the order was limited to only eight members and that he had paid off immediately after the his death, only to be reborn in the seventeenth century.
Legend least known and working in a Masonic order was instead created in the year 46 AD, when the Alexandrian Gnostic sage Ormus and his six followers were converted to Christianity by St. Mark, blending Christian doctrine with the mysteries of Egyptian Christian Rosenkreuz was initiated into this order, becoming the grand master, instead of having founded.
In reality what was known in the early seventeenth century as the "Society of the Rosy Cross" was probably a small number of isolated individuals who share some points of view, seemingly their only link. There is no trace of a company that held meetings or assign positions. According to numerous works that speak, the Rosicrucians were probably the religious and moral reformers, who used the means, for the time claims to be scientific, including alchemy, as a means to make known their views. Their writings are imbued with mysticism or occultism and suggest hidden meanings that could be understood only by initiates.
Umberto Eco writes in the preface to the book of P. Arnold History of the Rosicrucians ... the Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross appears on the historical scene as it is described by posters of the Rosy Cross (Fama, 1614, Confessio, 1615 ). The author or authors of the posters are officially unknown, partly because those who which are attributed to deny paternity. The posters spark a chain of actions by people who support and affirm the existence of the Brotherhood or to belong or to want to belong ardently. Everyone recognizes that the group is secret, and for some people to stop being a Rosicrucian (as there is no fundamental constraint to re servatezza that binds followers) is not ... . It is a fact documented the existence of the posters of the Rosicrucians, and is a matter of inference and their award is that they spoke of a brotherhood that really exists. "
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