{ "meta": { "schema_version": "1.2", "endpoint": "/api/sources/rosicrucian-manifestos/chymical-wedding/index.json" }, "work": { "slug": "chymical-wedding", "name": "The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz", "stream": "western-european", "epoch_reflected": "current", "epoch_written": "current", "form": "alchemical allegory", "tradition": "Rosicrucian", "author": "Johann Valentin Andreae (Steiner: not \"as such\")", "year_approx": 1616, "note": "The third Manifesto (Strasbourg, 1616) — a seven-day allegorical narrative of Christian Rosenkreutz's alchemical initiation. Steiner (GA 232, 1923-12-09) treats it as inspired material written down through Andreae rather than authored by him.", "books_slug": "waite--the-real-history-of-the-rosicrucians", "books_slugs": null, "has_project_translation": false, "steiner_loci": [] }, "parents": [ { "slug": "rosicrucian-manifestos", "name": "Rosicrucian Manifestos", "url": "/sources/rosicrucian-manifestos/" } ], "translation": { "title": null, "author": null, "source": null }, "chapters": [ { "num": 1, "slug": "05-chemical-wedding-of-christian-rosencreutz", "title": "Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosencreutz", "words": 209, "url": "/sources/rosicrucian-manifestos/chymical-wedding/05-chemical-wedding-of-christian-rosencreutz/", "api": "/api/sources/rosicrucian-manifestos/chymical-wedding/05-chemical-wedding-of-christian-rosencreutz.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz — the third Manifesto", "blurb": "The third and last of the Rosicrucian Manifestos (1616) attributed to Johann Valentin Andreae. Allegorical romance of Christian Rosenkreutz's seven-day journey to a royal wedding-castle and the alchemical mysteries enacted there. The literary masterpiece of the Manifesto-cycle and one of the foundational texts of Rosicrucian-Hermetic Christianity." }, { "num": 2, "slug": "12-the-first-day", "title": "The First Day", "words": 2527, "url": "/sources/rosicrucian-manifestos/chymical-wedding/12-the-first-day/", "api": "/api/sources/rosicrucian-manifestos/chymical-wedding/12-the-first-day.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The First Day — the invitation", "blurb": "Christian Rosenkreutz, an old man at his Easter meditations, receives a wondrous invitation by an angelic messenger to attend a royal wedding. The preparation; the dream of being trapped in a deep pit; the deliverance up the rope. The motifs that will recur throughout the seven days established at the opening." }, { "num": 3, "slug": "13-the-second-day", "title": "The Second Day", "words": 4401, "url": "/sources/rosicrucian-manifestos/chymical-wedding/13-the-second-day/", "api": "/api/sources/rosicrucian-manifestos/chymical-wedding/13-the-second-day.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The Second Day — the journey to the castle", "blurb": "Christian sets out on the journey. Four ways open before him; he chooses by chance. Adventures along the way — the encounter with the lion, the ravens, the white dove. He reaches the castle of the wedding and is admitted; receives his attire and his place in the order of the guests." }, { "num": 4, "slug": "14-the-third-day", "title": "The Third Day", "words": 7723, "url": "/sources/rosicrucian-manifestos/chymical-wedding/14-the-third-day/", "api": "/api/sources/rosicrucian-manifestos/chymical-wedding/14-the-third-day.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The Third Day — the weighing", "blurb": "The arriving guests are weighed against virtues and most are found wanting; many are dismissed, branded, or expelled. Christian himself is among the few who pass. The remaining guests are taken to view the strange treasures and instruments of the castle; the first hints of the alchemical work to come." }, { "num": 5, "slug": "15-the-fourth-day", "title": "The Fourth Day", "words": 5167, "url": "/sources/rosicrucian-manifestos/chymical-wedding/15-the-fourth-day/", "api": "/api/sources/rosicrucian-manifestos/chymical-wedding/15-the-fourth-day.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The Fourth Day — the beheading", "blurb": "The terrible central day. The royal personages — Bridegroom, Bride, and their court — are ceremonially beheaded by the Moor; their blood collected; their bodies prepared. The day on which the alchemical *putrefactio* is enacted. Christian and the others, as silent witnesses, are bound to the labour of the resurrection." }, { "num": 6, "slug": "16-the-fifth-day", "title": "The Fifth Day", "words": 2755, "url": "/sources/rosicrucian-manifestos/chymical-wedding/16-the-fifth-day/", "api": "/api/sources/rosicrucian-manifestos/chymical-wedding/16-the-fifth-day.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The Fifth Day — the descent and the workshop", "blurb": "Descent to the underground workshop where the bodies of the slain are prepared. The labour of the days now commences: distillations, washings, the gathering of the dew and the ash. The signs and procedures of the laboratory-alchemy enacted in allegorical form." }, { "num": 7, "slug": "17-the-sixth-day", "title": "The Sixth Day", "words": 5136, "url": "/sources/rosicrucian-manifestos/chymical-wedding/17-the-sixth-day/", "api": "/api/sources/rosicrucian-manifestos/chymical-wedding/17-the-sixth-day.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The Sixth Day — the resurrection of the King and Queen", "blurb": "The climactic day. Through the labour of the previous days, the slain royal personages are now reconstituted in a higher form. The resurrection of the King and Queen; the great alchemical Conjunction. Christian himself witnesses what only the chosen may witness; the work succeeds." }, { "num": 8, "slug": "18-the-seventh-day", "title": "The Seventh Day", "words": 3205, "url": "/sources/rosicrucian-manifestos/chymical-wedding/18-the-seventh-day/", "api": "/api/sources/rosicrucian-manifestos/chymical-wedding/18-the-seventh-day.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The Seventh Day — Knight of the Golden Stone", "blurb": "The day of the rewards. Christian is made a Knight of the Golden Stone; he and his companions take the oaths of the Order; they are dispatched as messengers of the work. Christian's return home — *and here the author misses about two leaves*, the famous unfinished close. The mystery preserved by the very lacuna." } ] }