Re: PSI FI AND FANTASY
Posted: Wed May 31, 2023 3:16 pm
President Barack Obama visited the construction site two months later and wrote, on a steel beam that would be hoisted to the top of the tower, the sentence "We remember, we rebuild, we come back stronger!"
One of the mysterious Rosicrucian Manifestos was the 1618 Speculum Sophicum Rhodostauroticum, "The Mirror of the Wisdom of the Rosy Cross.” Thought to have been written by the German alchemist Daniel Mögling, it revealed the existence of the so-called Invisible College, a secret Rosicrucian society of scholars whose purpose was to transform the mystical notions such as alchemy and astronomy into the disciplines of experimental chemistry and observational astronomy. A cryptic illustration in the text depicts the college as a building on wheels, symbolizing that the institution had no fixed abode – it was a meeting of minds, rather than an actual university – and above it, to the left, shines the new star of 1604 and the representation of Ophiuchus (the constellation of the serpent-bearer in which it appeared), the celestial sign that inspired the organization’s founding.
The psychological influence of the new star of 1604 seems to have been considerable. Those inspired by the Rosicrucian Manifestos laid the foundations of experimental science, biology, chemistry, and the modern understanding of the universe which led ultimately to the development of today’s technology. It’s even possible that the French Revolution, the modern Dutch monarchy, and even the creation of the United States may have been very different, or may not have happened at all, had Kepler's Supernova not occurred.
The Mirror of Wisdom and the Invisible College
One of the mysterious Rosicrucian Manifestos was the 1618 Speculum Sophicum Rhodostauroticum, "The Mirror of the Wisdom of the Rosy Cross.” Thought to have been written by the German alchemist Daniel Mögling, it revealed the existence of the so-called Invisible College, a secret Rosicrucian society of scholars whose purpose was to transform the mystical notions such as alchemy and astronomy into the disciplines of experimental chemistry and observational astronomy. A cryptic illustration in the text depicts the college as a building on wheels, symbolizing that the institution had no fixed abode – it was a meeting of minds, rather than an actual university – and above it, to the left, shines the new star of 1604 and the representation of Ophiuchus (the constellation of the serpent-bearer in which it appeared), the celestial sign that inspired the organization’s founding.
The Building of our Modern World
The psychological influence of the new star of 1604 seems to have been considerable. Those inspired by the Rosicrucian Manifestos laid the foundations of experimental science, biology, chemistry, and the modern understanding of the universe which led ultimately to the development of today’s technology. It’s even possible that the French Revolution, the modern Dutch monarchy, and even the creation of the United States may have been very different, or may not have happened at all, had Kepler's Supernova not occurred.