Rosicrucians: 13 Facts about This Obscure Christian Cult
File this under controversial. Conspiratorial. Bizarre. Trivial.
Wherever you file it, know this: This is serious stuff some people lock-in on.
In the last two weeks I’ve showcased the Adventists and Unitarians. Two relatively close cousins to orthodox Christianity.
This Sunday I thought I’d go out to the far branches of her family tree and snoop in on a sect that nurses secret knowledge.
So, without anymore pussyfooting, let me introduce you to the Rosicrucians.
1. Historically, Rosicrucians consider Christian Rosenkreuz–a man who learned esoteric wisdom from Sufi or Zoroastrian teachers during a pilgrimage to the Middle East during the early 15th Century–to be their founder.
2. Rosenkreuz nurtured 8 disciples who were doctors and sworn bachelors. They promised to heal the sick for free, maintain secret fellowship and find replacements when they died.
3. Rosenkreuz’s legend emerged in three manifestos published in early 17th Century, the first being the Fama Fraternitatis.
4. This legend inspired a college of invisibles who existed to advance inspired arts and sciences, including a spiritual and symbolic alchemy.
5. In the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, some Christian groups styled themselves Rosicrucians, including Esoteric Christian Rosicrucians who professed Christ.
6. While in Germany in the fall of 1907, Max Heindel understood his mission to prepare mankind for a new phase in religion after a visit from a highly evolved entity identified as an Elder Brother of the Rosicrucian Order.
7. Around 1910 Heindel founded the Rosicrucian Fellowship on Mount Ecclesia in Oceanside, California, teaching the mysteries Jesus spoke about in Matthew 13:11 and Luke 8:10.
8. RFs teach that man is spirit and body, but the body is improving through a series of existences as the power of God are opened to his life.
9. Man is also unfolding latent spiritual powers through multiple rebirths.
10. Consequently, death is viewed as rebirth into a larger sphere. And life as a school that prepares the man for this birth.
11. Important to the RFs is the doctrine of the astral body, which evolves through multiple births.
12. Tucked into this philosophy is the idea of two Christs: One within and one without. The Savior Christ and the Cosmic Christ. The Cosmic helps the Savior emerge in our spirits.
13. Invisible Helpers–students of the Western Wisdom Teachings– continue Heindel’s work, namely preaching the gospel and healing the sick.
I had a lot of fun doing this because in a previous life I was a huge fan of Thomas Pynchon and his book The Crying of Lot 49. I’m serious. Tell me what you think. 
**Part of the Quick Facts on Christian Cults series.**
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7 Comments to Rosicrucians: 13 Facts about This Obscure Christian Cult
[...] 13 facts about an obscure Christian cult, the Rosicrucians Demian Farnworth [...]
TrelAugust 5, 2009
I read somewhere that Martin Luther was a Rosecusian. Any comment?
Demian FarnworthAugust 5, 2009
Never heard that Trel. Might be worth some investigating.
KristSeptember 12, 2009
i read that to!
MarkJanuary 30, 2010
As a member of the Rosicrucian Order AMORC, it is interesting to see the order discussed and not bashed. There is a tendency to think that mystic orders are somehow anti-Christian, and in this case, totally untrue. A lot of teachings are almost essenic, some studies predate Christianity. The bottom line is that Rosicruciamism allows one to find their own deep meaning and no one is forced to accept anything – it merely allows investigation.
AdamJune 15, 2010
ok maybe u should read the whole bible and not just one book, it explains everything there is no putting your own meaning the bible warns purfusley against that
HameedJuly 7, 2010
And then came Islam and revealed the Quran; the only (R) only unadultered word of God for the last 1400 years. It has all the answers………..
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