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Rosicrucian

ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to the Rosicrucians
NOUN
  1. a member of a secret 17th-century society of philosophers and scholars versed in mystical and metaphysical and alchemical lore
  2. a member of any of various organizations that subsequently derived from the 17th-century society

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  • Moravians, Mennonites, Amish, Schwenkfelders, Dunkers, and other German groups, including Rosicrucians, would flourish there.
  • Soon after 1750, however, as occult sciences were ascribed to the Templars, their system was readily adaptable to all kinds of Rosicrucian purposes and to such practices as alchemy, magic, cabbala, spiritism, and necromancy. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
  • 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
  • The modern spread of witchcraft in English-speaking nations, began during the sixteenth century, in the setting of imported cabalist and Rosicrucian cults built up around Oxford and Cambridge. Lyndon LaRouche on Satanism by Grand Magister Blackwood | Disinformation
  • Title: The title combines the Rosicrucian elements of Rose and Cross appropriate to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, an esoteric society that Yeats had joined in March of 1890 and that he induced Gonne to join in the autumn of 1891. Under The Moon
  • During the Stuart Restoration period, the pro-satanic Rosicrucian and cabalist cultism around the Stuart court seized upon the case of Robert Bruce to reorganize the cult in a new form. Lyndon LaRouche on Satanism by Grand Magister Blackwood | Disinformation
  • The art of poisoning was therefore known to the Rosicrucians, and, although there is no reason to suppose it was ever practised by the heads of the Fraternity, it is possible that the inspirers of the poisoners may have been perverted Rosicrucians, that is to say, students of those portions of the Cabala relating to magic both of the necromantic and venefic varieties, who turned the scientific knowledge which the Fraternity of the Rosy Cross used for healing to a precisely opposite and deadly purpose. Secret Societies And Subversive Movements
  • 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
  • Imagine this Hun coming down, sword in hand, upon Pope and his Rosicrucian light troops, levying _chout_ upon Sir Plume, and fluttering the dove-cot of the Note Book of an English Opium-Eater
  • Like idly looking up the cost of a hundred-mile run of suboceanic fibre-optic or a Rosicrucian mummy (one of the mummies in the San Jose Rosicrucian Museum came out of an old Neiman-Marcus Christmas Book). Boing Boing
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