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The Alchemical wedding

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dimanche 02 avril 2006 [n° 1161]


The Alchemical Wedding
32″ x 25″
oil and egg tempera on panel
by Madeline von Foerster

Exhibition at Fuse Gallery, New York
March 25 through April 29th, 2006

Madeline von Foerster : “illustrator”

Your artwork is compelling and emotive – yet on your website you describe yourself specifically as an “illustrator,” not as an “artist” – why ?

Originally I sought to pursue illustration as a career. I appreciate its accessible and collaborative nature. But perhaps I’ve chosen the title in order to align myself with a long tradition of artists who probably considered themselves artisans and craftpersons foremost. The word “artist” today is laden with connotations that are not all desirable for me, partly in thanks to postmodernism and the Avant Garde of the first part of this century: people like Marcel Duchamp… I’m a huge fan of Duchamp, actually, and I appreciate his notion that it is the mind of the artist, and not the output, that is sacred — “Art as a state of mind,” so to speak. He was reacting, of course, to the Industrial Revolution and its interpolation that art was just another product and the artist simply a rendering machine. Duchamp was absolutely right: the world has changed so drastically in this century that it is impossible to look at art, and artists, as humans once did. But what is it throughout the entire history of “art” (of humanity, really) that speaks to us, all the way back to Lascaux? …The unconquerable human urge to render beauty as we see it, to put something beautiful and totemic into the world. In the end I don’t think the maker’s title matters. Her name doesn’t even matter.

interview with Madeline von Foerster, by Gilles de Montmorency

source : Madeline von Foerster official site

The Alchemical Wedding of Christian Rosycross

“The Order has three temples. A temple is a place of work, a place of service in which one works very hard indeed.

The first temple is the temple of faith: of insight and self-surrender.

The second temple is the temple of hope: of sanctification and re-creation.

The third temple is the temple of love: of fulfilment.

In the first temple the old person gives himself up to the Gnosis, to the sanctifying forces of Christ.

In the second temple he perishes through the enduristic life, while at the same time the new man, the other one, the immortal one, arises. In the third temple the work is completed and the feast of victory and the feast of entry are celebrated.

Every pupil has to pass through these three temples, these three places of work“.

The Alchemical Wedding of Christian Rosycross, Volume I – Jan van Rijckenborgh 1

L’auteur de Noces Chimiques


F.-S. : Selon vous, la Fama Fraternitatis peut-elle être réellement attribuée à Johann Valentin Andreæ ?

R. V. : L’opinion communément admise de nos jours est qu’Andreæ a bien créé lui-même le personnage de Christian Rose-Croix, tel que celui-ci est présenté dans les Noces Chymiques de Christian Rosenkreuz, ce texte constituant à mon sens une allégorie dont le sens politique paraît évident ainsi que je le montre, preuves à l’appui, dans L’Utopie Rose-Croix. La rédaction des Noces serait antérieure à celle de la Fama et de la Confessio rosicruciennes, le jeune Andreae s’étant ouvert de ses préoccupations politiques, quelques années après avoir créé ce “Chrétien Rose-Croix “, à ses amis Hesz et Hölzel, tous deux fortement influencés par l’œuvre prophétique de Simon Studion, d’où le projet dans la Fama de constituer sous l’égide du personnage charismatique de C.R.-C. déjà dessiné dans les Noces chymiques une confrérie chrétienne qui aurait pu préparer la voie à la nouvelle foi évangélique.

Entrevue avec Robert Vanloo auteur de l’ouvrage “L’Utopie Rose-Croix du XVIIe siècle à nos jours” (Dervy) – France Spiritualités

0rdre de la Rose-Croix A.M.O.R.C 2

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The Fraternity Rosae Crucis

“We, deputies of the principal College of the Brethren of the Rosy Cross, are staying visibly and invisibly in this town by the Grace of the Most High, to whom the heart of the just turns. We show and teach without books or masques how to speak the language of every country where we wish to be, to bring our fellow men out of the error of death.”

- Rosicrucian broadside 3

“Seven individuals composed the original “co-founders” of the newly formed Fraternity Rosae Crucis : Berigard of Pisa (France, 1567-1664) John Baptista van Helmont (Belguim, 1557-1644), Jean D’Aspagnet (France, 1566-1630), Michael Maier (Germany,1568-1622), Robert Fludd (England, 1574-1637), Henricus Madathanas (Germany, 1575-1639) and John Valentine Andrae (Germany, 1586-1654). Michael Maier became the first Supreme Grand Master of the newly formed Fraternity Rosae Crucis and maintained this position until his death. John Valentine Andrae, was chosen the “spokesman” for the newly formed Fraternity Rosae Crucis and thus edited and published the Fama Fraternitas et Confessio Fratrum Rosae Crucis in Germany, December, 1614. The Fama was subsequently republished in English in 1652 by Eugenius Philalethes titled “Discovery of the Fraternity of the Most Laudable Order of the Rosy Cross.” The Fraternity grew and flourished throughout Europe and other countries such as Russia.

The first American Great Council of the August Fraternity was held in Philadelphia in 1772. Many of the founding fathers of the American Revolution were members of the Fraternity Rosae Crucis as the ideal of freedom from tyranny in order to pursue one’s spiritual vocation was and is a paramount fundamental tenet of the Fraternity. In 1774, the great Council of Three (the Fraternity’s ultimate governing body) was composed of Benjamin Franklin, George Clymer and Thomas Paine. Thomas Paine was later succeeded by Lafayette, who, like Benjamin Franklin, was a member of the Paris Rosicrucian lodge “Humanidad.” In 1842, the Great Council of Three was revitalized by the novelist, George Lippard.”

History of the Fraternity Rosae Crucis


  1. Spiritual filiation or doctrinal conflicts in modern Rosicrucian movements Sylvain Imbs CESNUR 2005 International Conference June 2-5, 2005 – Palermo, Sicily [back]
  2. Rose-Croix, (non répertorié comme une secte) (organisation : Ancien et Mystique Ordre de la Rose-Croix (AMORC) – centre principal : Château d’Omonville – initiés : les Illuminatis) — www.prevensectes.com

    Sur l’École de la Rose-Croix d’Or, on peut lire dans l’enclyclopédie Wikipedia : “Dans “un Rapport parlementaire de l’Assemblée Nationale Française sur les Sectes réalisé en 1995, dans lequel l’École de la Rose-Croix d’or est explicitement qualifiée de secte. De même, dans un jugement rendu le 25 novembre 2004, le tribunal administratif de Poitiers a jugé à propos de l’École de la Rose-Croix d’Or que ses « activités à caractère initiatique et ésotérique ne peuvent en aucun cas être assimilés à l’exercice public d’un culte au sens de la loi de 1905 ».” [back]

  3. The Rosy Cross : “An examination of this most intriguing of secret organizations must begin with the Fama Fraternitatis, the earliest document that clearly and unambiguously mentions the brotherhood by name and purports to tell the story of its foundation. Written anonymously in German, the pamphlet was part of a larger Protestant treatise entitled in its first English translation The Universal and General Reformation of the Whole Wide World: together with the Fama Fraternitatis of the Laudable Fraternity of the Rosy Cross, Written to All the Learned and the Rulers of Europe. The German manuscript probably began circulating around 1610, and the work was subsequently published in several languages. The first printed edition appeared in 1614 in the town of Kassel in western Germany.” – Ancient Wisdom and Secret Sects [back]
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