The Quest for the Phoenix: Spiritual Alchemy and Rosicrucianism in the Work of Count Michael Maier (1569-1622)Walter de Gruyter, 2003 - 322 pages The author presents with this intellectual biography of the Lutheran alchemist Count Michael Maier an academic study of western esotericism in general and to the study of alchemy and rosicrucianism in particular. The author charts the development of Maier's Hermetic worldview in the context of his service at the courts of Emperor Rudolf II and Moritz of Hessen-Kassel. The problem of the nature of early Rosicrucianism is addressed in detail with reference to Maier's role in the promotion of this "serious jest" in the years immediately prior to the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War. The work is set in the context of ongoing debates concerning the nature of early modern alchemy and its role in the history of Western esotericism. |
Table des matières
Foreword | 1 |
The arguments of Principe and Newman | 9 |
The origins of Jungs alchemy and the work of Richard Noll | 18 |
Spiritual alchemy Rosicrucianism and the work of Count Michael | 30 |
Maiers childhood and parentage | 38 |
The influence of Governor Heinrich Rantzau | 45 |
Maiers peregrinatio academica | 54 |
Contact with the arcana | 61 |
An invitation to Rosicrucians wherever they may lie hidden | 139 |
Uncovering the true Brethren | 150 |
Silentium post Clamores and | 160 |
Maiers entrance into the Order | 173 |
The Completion of the Work | 181 |
Maier and the Calvinist court of Moritz of HessenKassel | 189 |
The Civitas Corporis Humani procuring a medicine of piety | 202 |
Ulysses and the death of Maier | 208 |
Bohemia and England | 69 |
The reversal of fortune | 77 |
A Rosicrucian mission to England? | 87 |
A journey to England | 99 |
Truth is concealed under the cover | 107 |
The Rosicrucian Imposture | 113 |
Johann Valentin Andreae and the nature of the Order | 127 |
The phoenix and the return of the longabsent traveller | 215 |
Maier and the Historiography of Alchemy | 233 |
Alchemy and the reemergence of Rosicrucianism | 249 |
Bibliography | 257 |
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