| It was at this time, that the Catholic Church began to share religious power with the Crown of England & Ireland. King Henry’s son, King Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) was the King of England and Ireland. The greatest expansion of the Church of England and it’s recognition as a Protestant organization occurred under Edward’s reign. This Anglican Church would be a slightly more compassionate version of the Catholic Church and the mushroom would now become an occult symbol in the magical arts and sciences of the high level Freemasons and Rosicrucians, the new heirs of the royal prerogatives. The Anglican Church would go on to recapture the land of Jerusalem and finish the crusades which Knights Templars had started, by the founding of the State of Israel in 1948. The Anglican Church today operates closely with a global movement called British Israel, another name for Zionism. Rosicrucian Enlightenment Frances Yates is best known for her work on the occult secret society of the Rosicrucians from the era of the Renaissance Enlightenment. The first part of the book, the Rosicrucian Enlightenment (1972), is dedicated to the wedding of Elizabeth to Frederick V, uniting Catholic England and Protestant Germany by marriage. Following this episode is the introduction of the Rosicrucian Order. Concerning the establishment of the Order Yates writes: “The word ‘Rosicrucian’ is derived from the name Christian Rosencreutz’ or ‘Rose Cross.’ The so-called ‘Rosicrucian manifestos,’ are two short pamphlets or tracts, first published at Cassel in 1614 and 1615, the long titles of which can be abbreviated as the Fama and the Confessio. The hero of the manifestos is a certain ‘Father C.R.C.’ or ‘Christian Rosencreutz’ who is said to have been the founder of an Order or Fraternity, now revived, and which the manifestos invite others to join. These manifestos aroused immense excitement, and a third publication in 1616, increased the mystery. This was a strange alchemical romance, the German title of which translates as The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosencreutz. The hero of the Chemical Wedding seems also connected with some Order which uses a red cross and red roses as symbols. The author of the Chemical Wedding was certainly Johann Valentin Andreae. The manifestos are undoubtedly related to the Chemical Wedding, though they are probably not by Andreae but by some other person or persons unknown.” (14) The marriage of Elizabeth to Frederick V appears to have something to do with the publication of these tracts. The two were wedded on February 14, 1613 and the first Rosicrucian publications appear the following year. Johanne Valentin Andreae was born in 1586 in Wurttemberg, the Lutheran state which closely adjoined the Palatinate. Yates writes that his grandfather was “a distinguished Lutheran theologian sometimes called the ‘Luther of Württemberg.’ |
Andreae, who also became a Lutheran pastor like his father, took a keen interest in Calvinism.” Yates continues: “The reigning Duke of Württemberg at the time, Frederick I, was an alchemist, occultist and enthusiastic Anglophile, the ruling passion of whose life had been to establish an alliance with Queen Elizabeth and to obtain the Order of the Garter.” (15) Yates goes on to describe the inner workings of the royal families who were setting up an opposition to the Catholic Church called the “Militia Evangelica” and the introduction of the “Rose” as symbolism: “According to the author of Naometria, there was a meeting at Luneburg on July 17, 1586, between ‘some evangelical Princes and Electors’ and representatives of the King of Navarre, the King of Denmark, and the Queen of England. The object of this meeting is said to have been to form an ‘evangelical’ league of defense against the Catholic League (then working up in France to prevent the accession of Henry of Navarre to the throne of France). The league was called a ‘Confederatio Militiae Evengelicae.’ “Now, according to some early students of the Rosicrucian mystery, Simon Studion’s Naometria and the ‘Militia Evangelica’ which it describes, is a basic source for the Rosicrucian movement. A.E. Waite, who had examined the manuscript, believed that a crudely shaped rose design, with a cross in its center, contained in the Naometria, is the first example of Rosicrucian rose and cross symbolism. I cannot say that I am altogether convinced of the importance of this so-called rose, but the idea that the Rosicrucian movement was rooted in some kind of alliance of Protestant sympathizers, formed to counteract the Catholic League, is one which would accord well with the interpretations to be advanced in this book. The date 1586 for the formation of this ‘Militia Evengelica’ would take one back to the reign of Queen Elizabeth, to the year of Leicester’s intervention in the Netherlands, to the year of Philip Sidney’s death, to the idea of the formation of a Protestant League which was so dear to Sidney and to John Casimir of the Palatinate.” (16) Yates has brought a tremendous amount of insightful knowledge to the surface, but she seems to have overlooked the importance of the “rose,” which was secretly, a symbol for the mushroom. (14) Frances Yates, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment, 1972, p. 30 (15) ibid, p. 31 (16) ibid, p. 34-35 |