As for Rosy cross Philosophers Whom you will have to be but sorcerers, What they pretend to is no more Than Trismegistus did before Pythagoras old Zoroastra, And Apollonius their master Butler: Hudibras, Pt II, III The mysterious sect known as the Rosicrucians may be a 3,000-year-old organization which holds the philosophical secrets of the Ancient Egyptian pharaohs, which begat the Freemasons, which was the humanistic force behind the Renaissance, which sponsored Sirhan Sirhan to assassinate Robert F. Kennedy, and which currently runs the New World Order.
Of course, the Rosicrucians might also be a gigantic con trick.
The Rosicrucians first announced their presence in 1614 with the publication of a tract entitled Fama Fraternitatis Rosae Crucis, which claimed that their fraternity was established in 1407 by Christian Rosencreutz (translated as “Rosy Cross”), a German nobleman-cum-monk who had travelled to the Holy Land, Egypt and Spain gathering esoteric knowledge, and who had erected a House of the Holy Spirit on his return. Two other tracts quickly followed, the Confessio Fraternitatis Rosae Crucis Addressed to the Learned of Europe (1615) and The Chymical Marriage of Christian Rosencreutz (1616). The tracts showed the Rosicrucians as consummately skilled in the Hermetic arts—able to transmute metals and to render people invisible. The name “Rosicrucian”, it is sometimes suggested, derives not from “Rosy Cross” or “Rosencreutz” but from “ros crux”, meaning “dew cross”. In alchemy the cross is the symbol of light or knowledge, while the “dew” is the medium for turning base metal to gold. Some Freemasons have also claimed that “ros crux” refers to the bloodstained cross of Christ, and that the Rosicrucians were actually the banned Knights Templar under a new label. The Catholic Church concurred, finding the symbolic references to the Knights Templar in The Chymical Marriage so frequent and objectionable that they condemned it.
The Catholic Church might have seen the Rosicrucians as heretics and Satanists, but the intelligentsia of Europe were madly attracted to the promise in the tracts of a “universal reformation of mankind”. Strangely, though, the tracts gave no indication as to how “students of nature” might contact the Rosicrucians. This led some critics to dismiss the Rosicrucian tracts as a “ludibrium” or hoax. Here the plot congeals: among those who characterized the tracts thus was Johann Valentin Andreae, a German Lutheran cleric known to have authored The Chymical Marriage and suspected of having penned the other early papers. It can be guessed that Andreae intended the tracts to catalyse opposition to the Catholic Church, and, in order to make them more substantial, pretended they were the work of a fraternity, the “Rosicrucians”.
Andreae caught the Zeitgeist like few before or after him. Such was the phenomenal impact of the tracts that the historian Frances Yates was minded to label the early 17th century “the Rosicrucian enlightenment”. Groups of liberal-minded scholars began setting up Rosicrucian societies. Life imitated art. The first real Rosicrucian order appeared in Holland in the 1620s and was followed by the establishment of an order in London, which managed to recruit Elias Ashmole (founder of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford) and the architect Christopher Wren. The first American group, the Chapter of Perfection, was set up in Pennsylvania in the 1690s. Needless to say a secret society required arcane rules and rituals; these were codified in the Perfect and True Preparation of the Philosophical Stone, According to the Secret of the Brotherhoods of the Golden and Rosy Cross (1710) and Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1785–88). In an admirable piece of recycling, the Freemasons of the 18th century borrowed terminology and practices from the Rosicrucians, including, it is alleged, the Rectified Scottish Rite and the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite (in which the 18th degree is called the Knight of the Rose Croix). According to the Masonic author J. M. Ragon, so interconnected did the Rosicrucians and Freemasons become in the 18th century that they eventually merged.
Today at least 20 Rosicrucian societies exist, most claiming a direct line back to Christian Rosencreutz, even to Pharaoh Thutmose III. Broadly, the contemporary Rosicrucians are either esoteric—Christian or para-Masonic, and never the twain shall meet. The Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Cruces (AMORC), the largest of the extant groups, offers open days which are “gentle and informal occasions where people can drop in and meet members of the local Affiliated Bodies. There will usually be a short presentation, called ‘A Gentle Flame’, followed by refreshments.”
A cheese and wine party including mystical mumbo-jumbo from a guy with a beard and sandals. Is that any way to recruit for a secret society to implement the New World Order?
The Rosicrucians are an ancient esoteric order intent on global take-over: ALERT LEVEL 1 Further Reading Frances Yates, Rosicrucian Enlightenment, 1971
What did happen at Roswell, New Mexico, 60 years ago?
The world’s most enduring UFO mystery began on 3 July 1947 when sheep farmer Mac Brazel was riding out over the isolated Foster ranch near Corona, New Mexico, and found some strange “metallic, foil-like debris” scattered around. A week later Brazel ventured into Corona, where he heard for the first time about the spate of “flying saucer” sightings in the US. Thinking the wreckage on his ranch might be associated, he informed Sheriff Wilcox, who in turn informed the Army Air Force base at Roswell, 75 miles (120km) to the south. Major Jesse Marcel, the base intelligence officer, duly travelled to Brazel’s ranch to inspect the wreckage, and took much of it away. On the same day a civil engineer called Grady L. “Barney” Barnett found a “disc-shaped object” in the Socorro region some 150 miles (240km) west of the Foster spread, inside which were a number of small hairless humanoids. Before Barnett could investigate further, an army jeep rushed up and the occupants ordered him away.
Meanwhile, the base commander at Roswell authorized a press statement announcing the discovery of a flying disc in the locality. The headline in the Roswell Daily Record of 8 July blared: “RAAF [Roswell Army Air Field] Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell Region.” In the afternoon of 8 July, the army suddenly changed its story: the wreckage discovered in the Roswell region was from a high-altitude weather balloon, not an alien craft. The Army’s steady insistence on its new line quenched public interest in the Roswell incident for 30 years.
In 1980 that interest was reignited by the publication of The Roswell Incident by Charles Berlitz and William Moore, with additional unaccredited material by Stanton Friedman. The Roswell Incident maintained categorically that an alien craft had crashed west of Roswell in July 1947, and that alien bodies had been recovered from the wreckage; the debris (like “nothing made on this earth”, Marcel recalled) at Brazel’s farm was break-up from this craft and that the Army’s weather-balloon story was a cover-up to prevent hysteria over an alien invasion. Since The Roswell Incident, other UFO researchers have suggested that the US has back-engineered alien technology from the Roswell craft at Area 51, and many think—a la Nick Redfern in Body Snatchers in the Desert (2005)—that the Roswell craft was on a mission to experiment on human beings.
The Roswell Incident garnered an impressive array of new evidence. Among those interviewed by Friedman and Moore was a teletype operator called Lydia Sleppy, who in 1947 was typing out
