The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz, by Johann Valentin Andreae

THE CHYMICAL WEDDING OF CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUTZ

by Johann Valentin Andreae
First published at Strasbourg in 1616. Written in High Dutch by "Christian Rosencreutz." Translated by E. Foxcroft, late Fellow of King's Colledge in Cambridge. Licensed and entered according to Order. Printed by A. Sowie, at the Crooked Billet in Holloway-Lane, Shoreditch; and Sold at the Three-Keys in Nags-Head-Court, Grace-church-street. "Compressed by the omission of all irrelevant matter and dispensable prolixities" by A. E. Waite

"Ah, how hardly am I grieved for the poor men in the dungeon! I would to God I durst release them all." [said the Antient Matron] Whereunto her son replied -- "Mother, it is thus ordained by God, against Whom we may not contend. In case we all of us were lords, and were seated at table, who would there be to bring up the service!" At this his mother held her peace.

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Now the parents kind and good
By intreaties are subdued;
Long enough in hold was she mew’d;
So in honour increase
Till Thousands arise
And spring from your own proper blood.

-- The Chymical Marriage of Christian Rosencreutz

Be Here Now, by Ram Dass
The Divine Pymander: The Hermetica of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus, translation by John Everard
Theologia Germanica, by Anonymous (Meister Eckhart)

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