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The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz
How this book fits
- Traditions
- Rosicrucianism Alchemy
- Role in the tradition
- Primary source Written from inside the tradition: scripture, revelation, a grimoire, a manifesto or a practical treatise.
- Public attention
- Major Wikipedia has an article about it in 14 languages.
Read it
- in French, as Les Noces chimiques ↗ gutenberg.org checked September 11, 2026
From Wikipedia
The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz is a German book edited in 1616 in Strasbourg. Its anonymous authorship is attributed to Johann Valentin Andreae. The Chymical Wedding is often described as the third of the original manifestos of the mysterious "Fraternity of the Rose Cross" (Rosicrucians), although it is markedly different from the Fama Fraternitatis and Confessio Fraternitatis in style and in subject matter.
From the Wikipedia article Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz, revision 1320467155, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata Q2456034: “book by Johann Valentin Andreae”.
In this study
In the chronology, among the works with no securely known author.
A bizarre, symbolically dense initiatory-alchemical romance involving a royal wedding, trials, death and regeneration.