about.
‘Rosicrucian’ in this purely historical sense represents a phase in the
history of European culture which is intermediate between the Renaissance
and the so-called scientific revolution of the seventeenth century.
It is a phase in which the Renaissance Hermetic-Cabalist tradition has
received the influx of another Hermetic tradition, that of alchemy. The
‘Rosicrucian manifestos’ are an expression of this phase, representing,
as they do, the combination of ‘Magia, Cabala, and Alchymia’ as the
influence making for the new enlightenment.