Cosmology or Universal Science - The Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians by Franz Hartmann - First Published 1888 (2009).pdf - Franz Hartmann - morefaya2006

COSMOLOGY

Universal Science.

Cabala.

Alchemy.

CONTAINING

THE MYSTERIES OF THE

UNIVERSE,

REGARDING

GOD

NATURE

MAN,

THE

Macrocosm and Microcosm

ETERNITY and TIME

EXPLAINED ACCORDING TO

THE RELIGION OF CHRIST

BY MEANS OF

THE SECRET SYMBOLS

OF THE

ROSICRUCIANS

OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES .

COPIED AND TRANSLATED FROM AN OLD GERMAN MANUSCRIPT, AND PROVIDED

WITH A DICTIONARY OF OCCULT TERMS

F RANZ H ARTMANN , M.D.

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BOSTON

OCCULT PUBLISHING COMPANY

130 T REMONT S TREET

1888

The bulk of this book is translated from a German work published at Altona in two parts in 1785 and 1788

( Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer aus dem 16ten und 17ten Jahrhundert ). The 25 plates of symbolic figures

with accompanying text are taken from this (much text has been omitted, and eleven plates from the

original work left out altogether), as are the texts making up the first half of Part II. The introduction

(which says practically nothing about the work to which it is prefaced) and “Vocabulary of Occult Terms”

are by Hartmann, as are the annotations to the alchemical and allegorical texts.

Texts OCRed and proofed, and figures re-set by Frater T.S. from scans of photocopies of the 1888

edition. Further proofreading may be necessary. Colours on the plates are in many cases conjectural or

random, although the original scheme of elemental colours has been retained (according to information in

Waite, Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross ).

By an editorial error, a section of the ‘Glossary’ (from a note to “Macrocosm and Microcosm” through

to “Materia Prima”) was placed out of sequence in the print edition; this has been corrected. With this

exception, pagination and layout of the text sections has been retained.

The alchemical and allegorical texts in Part II were translated by Hartmann, and somewhat re-

arranged and hacked around, from the Aureum Seculum Redivivum (Golden Age Restored) and Tractatus

Aureus (Golden Tractate), two German alchemical tracts of the early 17 th century, which prior to their

appearance in the Geheime Figuren had been translated into Latin and published in the Hermetic Museum

(1625, “restored and enlarged” edition 1678). The Aureum Seculum Redivivum appears pretty much in its

entirity (under the titles “Preface” and “Allegory”), although mixed up with extracts from the Tractatus

Aureus and with its title page put at the start of Part I for no clear reason. The main part of the Tractatus

Aureus , a technical-alchemical treatise bulked out by citations of authorities (about 16 pages at the same

page and type size used here) is replaced by a garbled two-page synopsis mis-titled “Introduction.” The

untitled foreword “to the Disciple who desires to learn the Hermetic Art” and the “Parable” in Part II are

from the Tractatus Aureus . The emblems heading the texts are taken from entirely unrelated works and

their descriptions are by Hartmann. Given that German was (as far as I am aware) Hartmann’s first

language I have no idea why he made such a mess of the translation; but there are various facts (docu-

mented by Manly P. Hall in Codex Rosæ Crucis: D.O.M.A. —which volume incidentally contains a

reproduction and English translation of a MS. copy of a German alchemical-Rosicrucian text which was a

major source for the Geheime Figuren ) suggesting dishonesty rather than—or in addition to—incompetence

on Dirty Franz’s part in connection with this publication (for starters, the statement on the title page that it

was translated from a manuscript is a lie).

A more or less complete English translation (by George Engelke, according to Hall) of the Geheime

Figuren was issued in 1935 by the American “Rosicrucian” society AMORC and has seen a number of

reprints; it includes much material omitted in the present edition. To be brutal about it, the main reason I

prepared the present e-text at all is that Engelke translation is still in copyright and I don’t want to pick a

fight with AMORC; whereas the present work is in the public domain.

(On further investigation, it turns out that the substantial omission at least is explicable. Some copies

of the Altona printing were bound in three parts rather than two, and the omitted plates and texts corres-

pond to the undated “drittes und letzes Heft,” which in other copies, such as those from which Engelke and

Hall were working, formed the first half of the “erstes Heft.”)

Release 1.01 – 24.08.2009 (fixed a problem on one plate; added remark re omission)

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PART I.

AUREUM SECULUM REDIVIVUM

The Ancient Golden Age,

which has disappeared from the Earth, but will reappear;

whose germ is beginning to sprout, and will bear blossom and fruit,

HENRICUS MADATHANUS THEOSOPHUS,

Medicus & tandem, Dei gratia, aureæ crucis frater.

Translated from the German.

“If there is one among You who is deficient in wisdom, let him pray to the spirit of truth,

who comes to the simple-minded, but does not obtrude upon any one,

and he will surely obtain it.”— Jacob. Epist. v. 5.

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S YMBOLUM A UTHORIS :

Centrum Mundi: Granum Fundi.

THE SECRET SYMBOLS OF THE ROSICRUCIANS.

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INTRODUCTION

(B Y THE T RANSLATOR ).

FEW centuries ago the name “Rosicrucian” produced a great stir in the world. It suddenly and

mysteriously appeared on the mental horizon, and as mysteriously disappeared again. The Rosicru--

cians were said to be a secret society of men possessing superhuman—if not supernatural—powers; they

were said to be able to prophesy future events, to penetrate into the deepest mysteries of nature, to transform

Iron, Copper, Lead, or Mercury into Gold, to prepare an Elixir of Life or Universal Panacea , by the use of

which they could preserve their youth and manhood; and moreover it was believed that they could' command

the Elemental Spirits of Nature and knew the secret of the Philosopher’s Stone , a substance which rendered him

who possessed it all-powerful, immortal; and supremely wise.

Many historical facts seem to confirm the truth of such statements, and certain still-existing legal

documents go to prove that gold on certain occasions has been indeed produced by artificial means, but the

Rosicrudans always insisted that this art was only one of the most insigni£cant parts of their divine science, and

that they possessed far more important secrets. Some of those people believed to be Rosicrucians coul.d heal

the sick by the mere touch of their hands, or by means of some wonderful medicines, and they performed

same extraordinary feats which equalled those recorded in the Christian Bib1e and in other sacred books and

histories of ancient religions. Some were believed to have attained an age of several hundred years; some are

believed to be still living upon this earth. The Rosicrucians themselves did not contradict such stories; on

the contrary, they asserted that there were many occult laws and mysterious powers; of which mankind on

the whole knew very little at those times, and which would for many centuries to come remain unknown to

“science”; because all science is based upon the observation of facts, and facts must be perceived before they

can be observed; but the spiritual powers of perception are not yet sufficiently among mankind as a whole to

enable them to perceive spiritual things. They say that if our spiritual powers of perception were fully

developed, we should see this universe peopled with other beings than ourselves, and of whose existence we

know nothing at present. They say that we should then see this universe filled with things of 1ife, whose

beauty and sublimity surpass the most exalted imagination of man, and we should learn mysteries in com-

parison with which the art of making gold sinks into insignificance and becomes comparatively worthless.

They speak of the inhabitants of the four kingdoms of nature, of Nymphs, Undines. Gnomes, Sylphs.

Salamanders, and Fairies,—as if they were people with whom they were most intimately acquainted, and as if

they did not belong to the realm of the fable, but were living beings of an ethereal organization. too subtle to

be perceived by our gross material senses; but living, conscious, and knowing, ready to serve and instruct

man and to be instructed by him. They speak of Planetary Spirits who were formerly men. but who are now

as far above human beings as the latter are above animals, and they seriously assert that if men knew the

divine powers, which are dormant in their constitution, and were to pay attention to their development,

instead of wasting all their life and energies upon the comparatively insignificant and trifling affairs of their

short and transient extemal existence upon this earth. they might in time become like those planetary spirits

or gods.

We are not in a position to demonstrate to what extent such assertions made by ancient and, modem

Rosicrucians. are true, or whether those accounts have been exaggerated or misunderstood, nor would we

expect to be believed if we were to put forward our testimony to strengthen a doctrine rejected by modern

scientific authorities who have never seen anything but what can be seen by means of the external senses.

We do not desire to dispute with those who are incapable of seeing in man more than an intellectual animal,

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