THE REFORMATION: ROSICRUCIAN CONNECTIONS 3

 ". . .if you would like to know what I am doing . . . I am singing the prince of peace, the son of Heaven, and the blessed ages promised in the sacred books. . . . For the true poet is sacred to the gods, he is a priest of the gods; and his inmost soul and his lips breathe out Jove."  —John Milton (1608-1674), Sixth Elegy

"Paradise Lost, in its stated purpose, "to justify the ways of God to men," is an elucidation of the Sixth Elegy's general purpose statement.  Taken together, the "hints" from his title pages and Milton's own purpose statements in Paradise Lost and the Sixth Elegy, can mark him with the 17th Century Rosicrucian movement, even aside from other such examples. However, even if the specifically Rosicrucian identification could only be a coincidence, Milton's work is certainly marked by the same profound Rosicrucian themes of his Hermetic and natural imagery that are largely pantheistic, and consistent with the classic Western esoteric tradition.  ("God is everywhere, in all things, is all-knowing, all-loving.")

"Besides the use of subtle allusions to non-biblical themes, John Milton also marked his work with a number of grammatical oddities, some which were, no doubt, peculiar to17th Century English usage.  However, where spelling was not yet standardized, or the use of capitalization or punctuation, by reviewing his work for it's own layered structure and consistency, it can be suggested that, we should pay very close attention to the simple use and non-use of capitalization for words usually understood to be proper nouns, as well as other consistent patterns of his work.

Milton Jailed Politically 

    "Even though his work succeeded in avoiding the critical eye of the Church authorities, through his admitted "artfulness," Milton did not escape political danger altogether.  While writing Paradise Lost, he was actually best known during his lifetime for his many pamphlets denouncing the repression of various liberties, and elucidating on the right to dissent and the freedom of the press, the right to hold different personal religious beliefs, as well as the attributes of divorce, free love and the ideal of Platonic love with the opposite gender other than a spouse.  In June 1660, when he was 52 years old, the English Parliament ordered Milton's arrest and his political publications burned.  After being in hiding for several months, he was indeed arrested and held for nearly six months. . ." (Questions on the Esoteric Content of Paradise Lost)

Milton received angelic dictation for his works.

"Milton states very plainly and directly in Paradise Lost, Book IX, that he has a specific muse, or mediumistic resource, a spiritual being who communicated to him while he slept. So it was also in dream, that he was given the information from which to also create a dream story line, complete with 'fantasy' and, therefore, an acceptable 'reality' for Church authorities....

 

20. "If answerable style I can obtain 

21. Of my Celestial Patroness, who deigns 

22. Her nightly visitation unimplor'd, 

23. And dictates to me slumbering; or inspires 

24. Easy my unpremeditated verse:..." (Paradise Lost)

THE NEW REFORMATION

Phillip Schaff, who collaborated with Westcott and Hort and chaired the 1901 ASV committee, called for a "new reformation."

"We stand in need of a new reformation on the foundation of the old, and especially on the foundation of the Bible, which is eternally new and from which many treasures are yet to be drawn." 208:42

 

"On the strong pinions of hope we pass far beyond sea and land, mountain and valley, yea beyond all space and time, and sin and death into the land of true liberty endlessly manifold and yet one, the realm of the blessed where there shall be no Europe, no America, no Catholicism and no Protestantism, but an undivided kingdom of God:  No old and no new world, but the one glorious church of the redeemed, resplendent in immortal youth." 246:14-15

The Merovingians also envision a "radically reformed Church."

    "The Protocols contain other even more flagrant anomalies. The text speaks repeatedly, for example, of the advent of a 'Masonic kingdom,' and of a 'King of the blood of Sion' who will preside over this 'Masonic kingdom.' It asserts that the future king will be of 'the dynastic roots of King David.' It affirms that 'the King of the Jews will be the real Pope' and 'the patriarch of an international church.' And it concludes in a most cryptic fashion, 'Certain members of the seed of David will prepare the Kings and their heirs... Only the King and the three who stood to sponsor for him will know what is coming...'

    ". . .Both Radclyffe's Masonry and the Masonry (Jean-Luc) Chaumeil describes would have been acceptable, despite papal condemnation, to devout Catholics; they also seem, on the basis of available evidence, to have received a major and exhilarating transfusion of faith--a transfusion that enabled them to see themselves as, if anything, more truly Christian than the papacy.

    "The institution in question was called the Hieron du Val d'Or which. . .proved relevant by virtue of its formulation of. . .an esoteric geo-political and an ethnarchichal world order.  Translated into more mundane terms this entailed, in effect, the establishment of a new Holy Roman Empire in nineteenth-century Europe---a revitalized and reconstituted Holy Roman Empire, a secular state that unified all peoples and rested ultimately on spiritual, rather than social, political, or economic foundations.  Unlike its predecessor, this new Holy Roman Empire would have been genuinely 'holy', genuinely 'Roman,' and genuinely 'imperial'---although the specific meaning of these terms would have differed crucially from the meaning accepted by tradition and convention.  Such a state would have realized the centuries-old dream of a 'heavenly kingdom' on earth, a terrestrial replica or mirror image of the order, harmony, and hierarchy of the cosmos.  It would have actualized the ancient Hermetic premise, 'As above, so below.' . .

    "During the nineteenth century the Prieure de Sion, working through Freemasonry and the Hieron du Val d'Or, attempted to establish a revived and 'updated' Holy Roman Empire---a kind of theocratic United States of Europe, ruled simultaneously by the Hapsburgs and by a radically reformed Church.  This enterprise was thwarted by the First World War and the fall of Europe's reigning dynasties.  But it is not unreasonable to suppose that Sion's present objectives are basically similar--at least in their general outlines--to those of the Hieron de Val d'Or." (Holy Blood, Holy Grail) 31:193,197-98,410-11

 

See: Death of the Phoenix: New Reformation

The New Reformation will completely destroy the Roman Catholic Church, and with it the doctrines of the deity of Jesus Christ and the Trinity.

"The greatest part of these predictions were contained in a book entitled, The Everlasting Gospel, and which was also called, The Book of Joachim; which...foretold the destruction of the church of Rome...and the promulgation of a new and more perfect gospel in the age of the Holy Ghost." - 456:46

 

"When the time comes, finally, to destroy the papal court the finger of an invisible hand will point the nations towards this court. When, however, the nations fling themselves upon it, we shall come forward in the guise of its defenders as if to save excessive bloodshed. By this diversion we shall penetrate to its very bowels and be sure we shall never come out again until we have gnawed through the entire strength of this place. The King of the Jews will be the real Pope of the Universe, the patriarch of an international church." (Protocols of the Learned Elders of Sion , #15)

 

"And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled." (Rev. 17:16-17)

 

"And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies." (Rev. 18:2-3)

 

See: Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Laws: Mystery Babylon Judged

WAS THE ROSICRUCIAN MANIFESTO “CHRISTIAN ROSENCREUTZ” AN ALLEGORY OF THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION?

1209-1244

Albigensian Crusade

“Also is the record of a boy born to a Cathar couple of the nobel house of Germel in western Germany, who later journeyed to Arabia for formal tutorship in the esoteric tradition. He started a spiritual movement then in Germany that could very well have fed into the Lutheran strain of Pietists.” (Heretic Behind the Throne)

1305-1378

Papal curia was at Avignon and the cardinals were nearly all Frenchmen / Merovingians

1307-1314

Execution of Knights Templar ordered by King Philippe IV of France and Pope Clement V

1309

Babylonian Captivity of Papacy: The French forced the popes to relocate from Rome to Avignon in South France

7 French popes reign for 60 years: Papal abuses at Avignon were so egregious that the Church never recovered its reputation

The French (Prieure de Sion) set the stage for the Reformation.

1378

CHRISTIAN ROSENCREUTZ BORN AT WARTBURG CASTLE (Confessio)

Wycliffe stood trial before Catholic bishops but was acquitted due to intervention of Queen Mother. (March 1378)

Avignon Papacy ended: Great Schism began on September 20, 1378 (Wikipedia)

1378-1418

Two popes, one at Rome and one at Avignon

Spectacle of rival popes excommunicating each other during the Great Schism sowed seeds of discontent and called into question the pope's political authority and infallibility. (The Avignon Papacy)

1483-1484 

CHRISTIAN ROSENCREUTZ DIED (Confessio) 106 years after Great Schism began on September 20, 1378.

Martin Luther born on November 10, 1483.

"The learned Landino drew a horoscope for religion and argued from the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn that on November 24, 1484, a rebirth of Christianity would commence." - (The Millennium Myth)

Pope commissioned Inquisition to hunt heretics and witches in Germany

1517 Luther nailed 95 Theses to door of Wittenburg Chapel. "a great naile" (Fama)

1521-1522 Luther resided at Wartburg Castle after excommunication by Pope Leo X following German Diet of Worms

1604

TOMB OF CHRISTIAN ROSENCREUTZ REDISCOVERED

King James I enacted Witchcraft Act and commissioned Authorised Version at Hampton Court Conference

“I would suggest that the religious significance of the date 1604 (the date of the new stars and of the discovery of the tomb of C.R.C. may be connected with some formation of the ‘Militia Evangelica’ in that year.” (Frances Yates) – 46:256

June – James’ Witchcraft Act; James rejected John Dee

January 17 – Hampton Court Conference

New supernovae, Cygnus & Serpentarius

1605 Constitution of the Society of the Rosy Cross published in "The Restoration of the Decayed Temple of Pallas"

1611 General Baptist Church founded by Thomas Helwys in London; Authorised Version published

1614 Publication of Fama Fraternitatis of the Meritorious Order of the Rosy Cross; Johann Valentin Andrea became a Lutheran pastor

1615 Publication of Confession of the Rosicrucian Fraternity

1616 Publication of The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosencreutz by Johann Valentin Andrea

1617 Publication of Invitatio Fraternitatis Christi ad sacri amoris candidatos