Adulruna Rediviva: Written by Johannes Bureus, a "secret manual" for Kingship distributed to regal Sweden in the seventeenth century, including theosophic notions of regeneration in the Rosicrucian tradition.
Rosicrucian: Rose cross
Alruna: Northern Sibyl born in 432 BC
Hermes Trismegistos: "Hermes Thrice-Blessed" inventor of language and progenitor of alchemy in Egyptian mytho-history
Orpheus: Legendary poet, musician, and prophet of Greek religion and myth, often shown playing a lyre
Zarathustra: Transliteration of the original name of Zoroaster, founder of Zoroastrianism, a Middle Eastern religious philosophy
Pythagoras: Mystical Greek philosopher who began the phrase "music of the spheres," propagated the Tetractys as the emanations and manifestation of God's creation, etc.
Leo: (Latin) lion
"Drink the sacred nectar from the rose": Rediviva is a genus of bee, and the Rosicrucian devotee is often symbolized by a bee taking honey from a rose.
Brief Glossary generated by yours truly:
Adulruna Rediviva: Written by Johannes Bureus, a "secret manual" for Kingship distributed to regal Sweden in the seventeenth century, including theosophic notions of regeneration in the Rosicrucian tradition.
Rosicrucian: Rose cross
Alruna: Northern Sibyl born in 432 BC
Hermes Trismegistos: "Hermes Thrice-Blessed" inventor of language and progenitor of alchemy in Egyptian mytho-history
Orpheus: Legendary poet, musician, and prophet of Greek religion and myth, often shown playing a lyre
Zarathustra: Transliteration of the original name of Zoroaster, founder of Zoroastrianism, a Middle Eastern religious philosophy
Pythagoras: Mystical Greek philosopher who began the phrase "music of the spheres," propagated the Tetractys as the emanations and manifestation of God's creation, etc.
Leo: (Latin) lion
"Drink the sacred nectar from the rose": Rediviva is a genus of bee, and the Rosicrucian devotee is often symbolized by a bee taking honey from a rose.