Greetings,
Unfortunately plumbtruth there are no co-masonic lodges close to me. I have already checked it out. I decide that when I graduate either before or after graduate school I will look more into joining the eastern order or waiting. But for now I am fine with just asking questions.
One things that attracted me to freemasonry is history. History is my major and I was only curious thats all.
As you are interested in history, I thought I'd re-post something that I put on here a few weeks ago:
To save time I have put a number of emails together for you.
The first version of the Fama was printed in Cassel here in Germany in 1614. I believe a version of the Fama and the Confessio Fraternitatis was also published together in 1615 (in Frankfurt?). I think this was the version in Latin that was later translated into English. Like a number of other examples from the English version, the word ‘Aurora’ is not in the original version, and was probably put in there by some followers of Jacob Bohme. Perhaps someday we will have a better translation in English (Carlos Gilly?).
Anyway, the book by Boccalini is a work of satire or a ‘parabolic political fable’. The old German is quite difficult to read. On the first page it stated that it was written by order of the God Apollo and written out and published of the 7 Wise ones from Greece and other highly educated people. Kaiser Justinianus and the 2 books Digesta & Codex containing Roman Law & statutes.
The Fama Fraternitatis (1614) was placed at the back of a work of satire that was written by Triano Boccalini/Boccolini. It starts on page 91 (triangulation of 13 i.e., 13°°° = 91) and interestingly has 37 pages (37 ‘causes’ of the R+C Brotherhood).
I was actually able to find the complete work of “Advertisements from Parnassus” by Triano Boccalini in English.
books.google.de/books?id=khYrAAAA....page&q=&f=falseIn the left hand margine of your pdf file you will find the text on page 145. It actually starts on page 119 in the original work, in English, and is titled LXXVII Advertisement i.e., the 77th Advertisement.
The book is in 2 parts with 2 x 100 years which are numbered e.g., Advert 77 is in the first 100 years part of the complete work. Some of the Adverts/Advertisements are quite short, while others are very long like 77 that was translated into German.
The tragic murder of Henry IV King of France is mentioned in Advert 3, on page 5 at the beginning of the book. He is described by Apollo as Father of Learning.
The German word I mentioned was not translated in the English version.
SRIA: Probably one of the best research books on the subject of the Fama & the Confessio in its time was written by someone called F.M. Pryse, and published for its members in 1923.
Pryse, F. N., ed. The Fame and Confession of the Fraternity of R:C: Commonly of the Rosie Cross … by Eugenius Philalethes … now reprinted in facsimile together with an Introduction, Notes and a Translation of the letter of Adam Haselmeyer. Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia, 1923.
www.answers.com/topic/rosicruciansI do not have the information at hand, but a researcher friend of mine believed that they were the initials of important people within the landscape of the RC. He believed that the initials RC were for Robert of Chester
The 3 books mentioned in the Fama ie., Book M = Moses Maimonides , T = Testamentum=Holy Bible, & book H = book of HERMES Trismegistus.
M.T.H. could also be MILITIAE TEMPLI HIEROSOLYMITANI.
As mentioned before, the word SALVE meaning ‘Be well’ as a greeting, instead of greetings on all points of the triangle, the greeting may have the answer. Using Studion’s index/alphabet SALVE = 52 which when triangulated = 1378 the birth of Christian Rosenkreuz. 3 x SALVE = 156 which is the number of the total of the 4 corner stones of the Temple. The 12 base stones also equal 156 and when the 12 numbers are triangulated you also have the year of the birth of CR. The only person I know who was ‘greeted’ 3 times was HERMES Trismegistus. Could Christian Rosenkreuz represent the arrival of HERMES Trismegistus in Europe?
I also found the name of Hermes Trismegistus mentioned in an old diary of *Michael Maestlin who was a professor of Mathematics at the university of Tubingen, that stated that he (Hermes) was an iatromathematician (Origin: Gr. Physician + E. Mathematician) . This could mean that he was a ‘Dr.’ of mathematics or a Dr. who healed with numbers.
*Michael Maestlin:
de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Michael_Maestlin.jpg&filetimestamp=20070102123522adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002AcHA...17..122Swww-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Golden_ratio.htmlTo continue,
Here is a quote from the Themis Aurea by Michael Maier:
Themis Aurea. The Laws of the Fraternity of the Rosie Crosse. Written in Latin by Count Michael Maierus, And now in English for the Information of those who seek after the knowledge of that Honourable and mysterious Society of wise and renowned Philosophers... London, Printed for N. Brooke at the Angel in Cornhill: 1656.
www.levity.com/alchemy/maier_la.html“It is not necessary that any should know their place of meeting, but they whom it properly concerns. We are sure that it is not in Utopia, or amongst the Tartars, but by chance in the middle of Germany; for Europe seems to resemble a virgin, and Germany to be her belly; it is not decent that a virgin should discover herself, lest she rather be accounted a strumpet than a Virgin: let it suffice that we know her not to be barren; to have conceived, yea and brought forth this happy Fraternity: although hers is a virgin womb, yet she have teemed with many rare and unknown arts and sciences. We mean Germany which at present flourishes and abounds with roses and lilies, growing in philosophical gardens where no rude hand can crop or spoil them.”
From the Fama Fraternitatis:
“But hereof more in our Confession, where we do set down thiry-seven reasons wherefore we now do make known our Fraternity, and proffer such high mysteries freely, without constraint and reward. Also we do promise more gold than both the Indies bring to the King of Spain; for Europe is with child and will bring forth a strong child, who shall stand in need of a great godfather's gift.”
www.crcsite.org/printfama.htmFrom the Chymical Wedding text:
"It goes well there," replyed the seventh, "where a man hath his choice, but with me the case is otherwise; in my youth I loved a fair and vertuous Virgin from the bottom of my Heart, and she me in like manner: howbeit because of her Friends denyal we could not come together in wedlock: Whereupon she was married to another, yet an honest and discreet Person, who maintained her honourably and with affection, until she came into the paines of Child-birth, which went so hard with her that all thought she had been dead, so with much state, and great mourning she was interred. Now I thought with my self, during her Life thou couldst have no part in this Woman, but yet now dead as she is thou mayst embrace and Kiss her sufficiently; whereupon I took my Servant with me, who dug her up by Night; Now having opened the Coffin and locked her in my Arms, and feeling about her Heart, I found still some little motion in it, which increased more and more from my warmth, till at last I perceived that she was indeed still alive; wherefore I quietly bare her home, and after I had warmed her chilled Body with a costly Bath of Herbs, I committed her to my Mother until she brought forth a fair Son, whom (as the Mother) I caused faithfully to be nursed. After two days (she being then in a mighty amazement) I discovered to her all the forepassed affair, requesting her that for the time to come she would live with me as a Wife, against which she thus excepted, in case it should be grievous to her Husband who had well and honourably maintained her. But if it could otherwise be, she was the present obliged in love to one as well as the other. Now after two Months (being then to make a Journey elsewhere) I invited her Husband as a Guest, and amongst other things demanded of him, whether if his deceased Wife should come home again, he could be content to receive her, and he affirming it with Tears and Lamentations, at length I brought him his Wife together with his Son, and an account of all the forepassed business, intreating him to ratifie with his consent my fore-purposed espousals. After a long dispute he could not beat me from my right, but was fain to leave me the Wife. But still the contest was about the Son." Here the Virgin interrupted him, and said, "It makes me wonder how you could double the afflicted Mans grief." "How," answered he, "was I not then concerned?" Upon this there arose a dispute amongst us, yet the most part affirmed that he had done but right. "Nay," said he, "I freely returned him both his Wife and Son. Now tell me (my Lords) was my honesty, or this Man's joy the greater?" These words had so mightily cheared the Virgin that (as if it had been for the sake of these two) she caused a health to go round.”
www.crcsite.org/printwedding.htmprophecy, pregnancy, eschatology, 1260
A period of a 42 week pregnancy each of 30 days = 1260 days and a prophetic day back then was equal to one year so we have a total of 1260 years.
Back to the 14 months x 30 = 420:
I asked a friend about the German word ‘verschienen’ and we believe it is an old spelling of the word meaning the light that shone has passed i.e., the 14 months after the Delphischen Pallatio shine no longer i.e., shone and not ‘scheiden’ meaning to separate or to leave behind. Anyway, I was thinking that the light that shone = sun & moon = 12 hours of the day & 12 hours of the night = 24 hours = clock of God.
(The German word I mentioned was not translated in the English version.)
24 (hours) x 30 (days) x 14(months) = 10080 divided by 24 = 420
From the book of satire by Traiano Boccolini which is called : The action taken for the General Reformation of the whole wide world is from Greece, and according to the Pallatio in Delphi and the 14 months past.
14 x 30 days will give us 420 which is another example that brings us back to the 'clock of God' drawing in the Naometria. The numbers are at the position of the scroll that God is holding in his hand i.e., it looks as if the numbers are written on the scroll.
420
840
1260
420 (Age of the Father)= 1 x 420
840 (Age of the Son)= 2 x 420
1260 (Age of the Holy Ghost) = 3 x 420
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2520 or 24 x 105 (?)
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At the bottom of the drawing are 7 seals or weights each of 70. A bit like building something using triangles/numbers 7/70 etc.
Remember the 7 half circle rooms mentioned in the Chemical Wedding that circle the rotund i.e., 7 x 180 (°) = 1260
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See also: "Reports from Parnassus" by Traiano Boccolini/Boccalini
or google: Traiano Boccalini Reports from Parnassus
Born in Loreto, Boccalini (1556-1613) embarked on a political career and actually served briefly as governor of Benevento. He railed against the domination of Italy by Spain, France and Austria. In 1605 he began to publish his barbed "dispatches" (ragguagli), which numbered more than 300 by the time of his sudden death (poison?) in 1613. The author imagined Parnassus as a city in continuous vacation, where poets and politicians meet. He pretends to send reports from this city on a large variety of themes, but mainly on politics. The anti-Spanish satire becomes truly ferocious.