GALLERY OF THE ANCIENT ROSICRUCIAN MASTERS

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AKHENATON

(1388 - 1350 b.c.)
Egyptian pharaoh, who founded the first monotheistic religion we know.  He was who organized something that later was transformed in the different initiated orders, among of which we find our order.  Akhenaton was the nick name that this Master adopted and means "to the Glory of Aton".  His true name was Amenhotep IV

ELIPHAS LEVI
(1810 - 1875)
His real name was Alphonse Louis Constant.  He was a Clergyman who abandoned his mission  to dedicate his life to the study and the investigation of the Transcendental Magic.  His work summit is "Dogma and Ritual of the the High Magic". Nowadays it is considered  he was the best western magician  of the worldrn magician  of the world

ARTHUR E. WAITE

(1857 - 1940)

 He was a Doctor in literature that in 1889 entered in the “Rosae Rubeae et Aureae Crucis Ordo”, a division today of the Golden Dawn. He was conceived to be more mystical than magician, since he founded the Order of the Golden Dawn Rectified in 1904. The rituals were modified  by accentuating more the contemplative and and meditative aspects of them.

CAGLIOSTRO

(1743 - 1795) 
His real name was Giuseppe Balsamo, who was presented in the Egyptian freemasonry and the Rosacrucismo by the Count of Saint Germain. Later he came to be the Great Master of the Rosicrucian Order.  The alchemy and the magic were his passion in life.  It is said that in a determined moment he managed to physically transmute the leads into gold and since he declared the fact worldwide, the public discredit and the persecution accompaigned him until the tomb

SIR FRANCIS BACON

 (1561 - 1626)

Occultist, politician, philosopher and English essayist.  He was known as a freemason and besides a recognized Rosicrucian Master. He is remembered fundamentally as the father of the inductive scientific reasoning, that was the negation of the medieval scholastic method

JOHN DEE

(1527 - 1608)
Rosicrucian, astrologer, mathematical, alchemist and hermetic, strongly linked to the English royalty.  He became to be the "head astrologer " of Queen Isabel when she was nominated as the Queen upon dying her father Enrique VIII.  At the end of his  brilliant studies, he obtains in 1546 the title of Bachelor of Arts in the Trinity College of Cambridge. Working with Edward Kelly he decifrated certain angelic keys, managing to clear what today is known in Rosicrucian circles as "enoquiano language", an angelic language used during some  magic  rituals

FRANZ HARTMANN

(1838 - 1912)
German doctor, writer, occultist.  He possessed notable psychic faculties since he was a child, especially the clairvoyance and clariaudience.  Member of the "Fraternitas Rosae Crucis",  he lived in the United States and Germany.  He wrote many books, among others,  "The Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucian" in 1888, in 1894 "The Life of Phillippus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim, known like Paracelso and the essence of its teachings".  The work "An Adventure in the Mansion of the Rosicrucian followers", reveals in between lines many secret keys of our order.

HARVEY S. LEWIS

(1883 - 1939)

Philosopher, writer, mystical and investigator of the spiritual world.  Member of the most important secret company of his time, he founded the AMORC in 1915, one of the so many contemporary Rosicrucian Orders, that  last still.  Some of his notable works:  "Rosicrucian Principles  for the home and the business", "Mental Poisoning", "Rosicrucian Manual ", "The Control of the Destiny with the Cycles of the Life" etc., as well as a great number of very practical articles for the magazine "The Rosicrucian".

DION FORTUNE

(1881 - 1946)Her real
Her name was Violet Mary Firth.  This British soror formed part of the Golden Dawn  Order (Rosicrucian organization ).  Her esoteric name  was that of Deo Odd Fortune, from this, the reason of her  pseudonym.  In 1924 she founded the Fraternity of the Interior Light, a Rosicrucian order that taught the contact with the elementary forces.  Some of her most noticeable books:  "Mystical intrigue", "Psychic Self-defense" and "Moon Magic".  Our Order considers it a referring one, a Master that has bequeathed us his to know and he continues us inspiring in ours to travel toward the Greater Light. 

 

FRANCIS ISRAEL

REGARDIE

(1907 - 1985)

Medical doctor and  occultist, who was the author of the following books "My Rosicrucian Adventure", The Pilar of the Middle, The Tree of the Life, The Art of the True Healing -among others-.  In his books we easily discover the lines of  great a master.  He was a member of theRosicrucian Order of the Golden Dawn. 

LOUIS CLAUDE DE SAINT MARTIN
(1743 - 1803)
S.L. Mac GREGOR
MATHERS(1854 -
(1854 - 1918)

He was a French philosopher.  He studied as a lawer, he was initiated in the military career, and entered the freemasonry (1768) and since 1791 he dedicated his life to the philosophy.  He is the author, among others works, of "Of the errors and of the truth" (1775), "natural Picture of the relations that there is among the nature, the man and God" (1782) and "The man of will" (1790), work which was strongly influenced by Swedenborg and by Böhme

He was Rosicrucian, freemason and Scottish schemer.  He Was one of the founders of the Aurora Golden (Golden Dawn) in London, in 1888.  He wrote many works and translated strange manuscripts as "The Sacred Magic of Abramelín, the Magician", work that he discovered in the library of the Arsenal, in Paris, as well as the "Qabalah Alert" of the German gentleman Knorr Von Rosenroth -among others works-

MICHEL DE

NOSTRADAMUS

(1503 - 1566)

GERARD ENCAUSE
"PAPUS"

(1865 - 1916)

He was a Prophet and a French medical doctor.  He was an exceptional clairvoyant that carried out more than one thousand prophecies that will arrive to the year 3797.  According to the investigators the vast majority of his prophecies have already been accomplished, so far.  In 1534 Nostradamus was established in Agen, where he knew the philosopher and astrologer July Caesar Escalígero. This last, was supposed to be who have been facilitated to Nostradamus his admision to the Rosicrucian Order.

Medical, occultist and French mystic.  He Belonged to the  Rosicrucian Kabalistic Order, to the freemasonry of the Egyptian rite of Memphis Misraim and to the Martinism. His continuous support to the occultist movement has been really formidable. All of his works show the dedication he always have put to the service of the Order.

PARACELSO

(1493 - 1541)

RUDOLF STEINER

(1861 - 1925)

Medical and wise man.  One of the greatest alchemists and modern philosophers.  His complete name was Philipus Aureolus Teofrastus Bombast von Hohenheim.  He was known as Theofrastus until he got his graduation at the  university. At this moment he changed his name to "Paracelsus".  The Rosicrucian Order recognizes him as a great visionary master, although we are not completely sure if he had ever belonged to our order. There are  documents which indicates that he would have belonged to a  Rosicrucian group of his epoch.

He was a Philosopher, artist, scientific and educator.  Besides he was a member of the Rosicrucian Order, and also belonged to the theosophy, the esoteric psychology and the philosophy.  Upon all of these movements he founded his own doctrine which was called the "Antroposofía". 

COMTE of
SAINT GERMAIN

(1710 - 1786)

WILLIAM Robert

WOODMAN

(1828 - 1891)

He was a Wise, polyglot, alchemist and a visionary man.  He was also a Rosicrucian Master and illustrious freemason.  We have heard innumerable legends about him that are really amazing. His fame still lasts, and there are people that affirm that they have seen him at these present times.

English medical doctor who belonged to the Societas Rocicrucian in Anglia (SRIA), a Rosicrucian order exclusively constituted for Freemasons Masters.  In 1888 he participated with Maters and Wescott in the foundation of the Order of the Golden Dawn, in London
WILLIAM WYNN WESTCOTT
(1848 - 1925)

PAUL FOSTER CASE

(1884 - 1954)

He was a Freemason, member of a London lodge, medical doctor and scholar of the kabala and the metaphysics.  Was member of the S. R. I. A. and participated next to Woodman and Mathers in the foundation of the Golden Dawn.
He was a Rosicrucian member that integrated the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. He founded in the United States the "Builders of the Adytum", an organization whose purpose was to diffuse the Tarot and the Holy Kabala.

ARNOLD KRUMM HELLER
 (1876 - 1949)

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

(1865 - 1939)
International Commander of the Antiqua Rosicrucian Brotherhood. He wrote some very important writings about the occultism and the Rosicrucian . He was the one who inspirated many esoteric contemporary authors. His book "The Tattwometer" represents a formidable work referring to the cycles of the tattwics vibrations, very important when studying the energy rhythms of the cosmos.

He was a Poet and an Irish essayist, member of the Golden Dawn. In 1923 he received the Nobel Prize of literature. Some of his works reflect his occultist and mystical profile. We appreciate his sensibility throught the excellent works that left behind after his death.

MAX HEINDEL

(1865 - 1919)

    
His real name was Carli Louis Von Crasshof who was of Danish origin. During 1909 he founded in Seattle, Washignon the Rosicrucian Fellowship. In 1911 he was transferred to Oceanside, California. In his book "Rosicrucian Concept of the Cosmos", he comments that Dr. Von Brandis gave him the possibility to get in touch with the Rosicrucian concepts for the first time . Among many other books, we remark "Rosicrucian Christianity ", "The Freemasonry and the Catholicism", "Hidden Principles of the Health and the Healing" and "Astrodiagnosis".

CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUTZ

 (1378 - 1484)
This was the symbolic name of the founder of the Rosicrucian Order. It has not been verified his existence since that this name does not correspond with any personage that have existed. Christian Rosenkreutz means in German "Christian Rosicrucian". Some investigators agree that this was a personage created in the mind of Johann Valentín Andreae (1586 - 1654), shepherd and German Lutheran reformist, who wrote perhaps the three manifest in Kassel, Germany, between 1640 and 1615 "Famma Fraternitatis" (News of the Fraternity) and "Confessio Fraternitatis" (Confessions of the Fraternity), and in 1616 "Chimische Hochzeit" (The Chemical Wedding) that completed the saga of these three legendary manifests. Therefore this is the beginning of the Rosicrucian Order in his public phase. The most trusted Rosicrucian investigators believe that this personage (Christian Rosenkreutz) was an indispensable and mythical personage, in the same way that it is Hiram Abiff for the freemasonry. The myth tells us that Christian Rosenkreutz lived 106 years and his body was founded uncorrupted inside a crypt (with very symbolic dimensions). At the front door of that tomb there was a writing saying "I will be opened each 120 years". The majority of the Rosicrucian members believe that this writing announces the rebirthing of a new Rosicrucian Brotherhood each 120 years, that would be the natural cycle of life of a "Rosicrucian Organization" (C.R.C.).
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