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Cover to the Edizioni Mediterranee edition of The Rosicrucian Manifesto aka The Fraternity of the Rose Cross Trilogy—collecting Fama Fraternitatis (originally published in 1614 by unknown), Confessio Fraternitatis (originally published in 1615 by unknown), and Johannes Valentinus Andreae’s Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz (originally published in 1616 by Andreae) (artist/designer unknown, 2016).
(via Abe Books)
Cover to Harvey Spencer Lewis’ Rosicrucian Manual, Martino Fine Books Edition—originally published in 1938 (artist/designer unknown, 2015).
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Random designs/sketches and specific designs/sketches of the Salomon de Caus-designed Hortus Palatinus at Heidelberg Castle and frontispiece from de Caus’ Hortus Palatinus (Salomon de Caus, early 17th century).
Collage art, featuring a photograph of Louise Roze (the godmother of René Char) for Char's Tomb of the Secrets (Paul Eluard & André Breton, 1930).
Title pages and frontispieces to WFC Wigston’s Francis Bacon, Poet, Prophet, Philosopher Versus Phantom Captain Shakespeare: The Rosicrucian Mask and WFC Wigston’s Bacon, Shakespeare, and The Rosicrucians (unknown artists and page designers, 1891-1889).
Illustration of Origen of Alexandria castrating himself from Guillaume de Lorris’ Roman de la Rose (unknown artist, 15th century).
(via Wikipedia)
Photographs of stone marker erected by Grand Lodge Rosicrucians in honor of the 16th-17th century mystic Johannes Kelpius at the site of his meditation cave in Philadelphia, 1961 (Mr. Devotor & unknown photographer, early 21st century).
(via Mapio & Charismatic Planet)
Covers to the occult journal Le Voile d’Isis (published by Paul Chacornac’s Bibliothèque Chacornac, founded by Papus, artist/designers unknown, 1920s).
Frontispiece to Jules Verne’s Robur the Conqueror (Léon Benett, 1886).
(via Wikipedia)
Pages from Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer aus dem 16ten und 17ten Jahrhundert: Erstes Heft (Secret figures of the Rosicrucians from the 16th and 17th centuries: From an old manuscript) (unknown author and illustrator, 1785).
Rosicrucian VITRIOL seal of the Tabula Smaragdina Hermetis—besides the acronym, VITRIOL contains a magickal interpretation, referring to the principal alchemical elements of sulphur, salt, and mercury (17th century, artist unknown).
(via LOLWOT)
Frontispieces and illustrations from Tommaso Garzoni’s La Piazza Universale (unknown artists, 1585-1695 CE).
(via Wikimedia Commons, Live Auctioneers, & The Saleroom)
Cover to Christopher McIntosh’s The Rosy Cross Unveiled: The History, Mythology, and Rituals of an Occult Order (artist/designer unknown, 1980).
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Pages from the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosæ Crucis’ Rosicrucian Manual (originally by Harvey Spencer Lewis, early 20th century—reprinted by unknown artist, 1974).
Rosicrucian concept of the Tree of Pansophia (artist unknown, 17th century).
(via Wikipedia)
