CHAPTER V. Some Famous Sorcerers and Magicians

SOME FAMOUS SORCERERS AND MAGICIANS

The Divine Comedy of Dante and its Kabalistic analysis—The Romance of the Rose—Luther and anarchical theology—His disputes with the devil—His sacrilegious marriage—Sorcerers during the reign Of Henry III—-Visions of Jacques Clément—Mystic symbolism of the rose—Union of the rose and the cross—The Rosicrucians—Henry Khunrath—His Amphitheatrum Sapientiæ Æternæ—It’s pantacles—Oswaldus Crollius—Alchemists of the early seventeenth century—A Rosicrucian manifesto 345