Through A Glass Darkly

Through A Glass Darkly

The Dark Side of Rosicrucianism, “Sacred” Sacrifices & ‘The Reformation of the Whole Wide World by Order of Apollo’

Towards a New Jerusalem Part VII

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Dec 08, 2025
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Robert Fludd’s Summum Bonum (1629), meaning the Highest Good, has the above image as his title page with the phrase “The Rose Gives The Bees Honey,”

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The Pegasus of the Firmament: A Pansophic Manifesto

Central to the Rosicrucian call for a world reform was the teachings of Pansophism, or Pansophy, which was a concept in the educational system of “universal knowledge” proposed by John Amos Comenius (1592–1670). Thus, just as there would be a call for what was ultimately a universal religion, so too, would the Rosicrucians call for a system of “universal knowledge.” Recall Comenius was a member of the Bohemian Brethren and was the spiritual father of Zinzendorf’s Moravians. Comenius would work closely with Johannes Valentinus Andreae (1586-1654), author of the Chemical Wedding, in furthering this Rosicrucian reform in education.

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