The Rosicrucian Confessio Fraternitatis: The Secret Letters, the Fall of the Pope, and the Dawn of the New Age
The Second Rosicrucian Manifesto In 1615, only one year after the publication of the Fama Fraternitatis , the anonymous circle of Lutheran reformers at the University of Tübingen published the second major Rosicrucian manifesto in Kassel. Titled Confessio Fraternitatis ("The Confession of the Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross"), this text was written in Latin rather than German, addressing the wider, international community of European scholars, theologians, and natural philosophers. If the Fama had introduced the legendary biography of Father Christian Rosenkreutz and the discovery of his heptagonal tomb, the Confessio was a more formal, theoretical declaration of the order's beliefs, values, and political-spiritual mission. The Confessio appeared at a moment of profound crisis in Western history. The Protestant Reformation had shattered the unity of the church, yet the emerging Protestant states were caught in their own sectarian disputes, while the scientific discov...