Rosicrucian

The Rosicrucian is a legendary and secretive order dating from the 15th or 17th century. It generally is associated with the symbol of the Rose Cross, which is also found in certain rituals beyond "Craft" or "Blue Lodge" Freemasonry. The Rosicrucian Order is viewed among earlier and many modern Rosicrucianists as an inner worlds Order, comprised of great "Adepts." When compared to human beings, the consciousness of these Adepts is like that of demi-gods. This "College of Invisibles" is regarded as the source permanently behind the development of the Rosicrucian movement.

Reference literature

• António de Macedo, Instruções Iniciáticas - Ensaios Espirituais, Hughin Editores, 2 ed., Lisbon, 2000 http://paginasesotericas.tripod.com/instrucoesiniciaticas.htm
• Jean Palou, A Franco-Maçonaria Simbólica e Iniciática, Pensamento, 9 ed., 1998
• Christopher McIntosh, The Rose Cross and the Age of Reason, Brill Academic Pub, 1997
• Jean-Pierre Bayard, Les Rose-Croix, M. A. Éditions, Paris, 1986
• Roland Edighoffer, Rose-Croix et Société Idéale selon Johann Valentin Andreae, Paris I-1982, II-1987
• Frances Yates, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment. London; New York: Routledge, 1972. ISBN 0-415-26769-2
• Bernard Gorceix, La Bible des Rose-Croix, Paris, 1970
• Manly Palmer Hall, Rosicrucian and Masonic Origins, 1929 http://the_mystic_light.tripod.com/rosicrucian_and_masonic.htm
• Manly Palmer Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, 1928 http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/sta/index.htm
• Rudolf Steiner, Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz, 1912 http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/EsoChristian/19121218p02.html
• Max Heindel, Christian Rosenkreuz and the Order of Rosicrucians, 1909, http://www.rosicrucian.com/rcc/rcceng19.htm
• William Wynn Westcott, Rosicrucian Thoughts on the Ever-Burning Lamps of the Ancients, 1903, http://www.levity.com/alchemy/westcott.html
• Hargrave Jennings, The Rosicrucians: Their Rites and Mysteries, 1870, advanced an eccentric solar-phallic interpretation of the brotherhood.

Fictional literature

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• Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game (1943), also known as "Magister Ludi" (Master of the Game).
• Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum (1988), Serendipities : Language and Lunacy (1998).