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      "GA 232: Mystery Centres — Chymical Wedding lecture (1923-12-09)",
      "GA 130: Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz",
      "GA 264: From the Contents of the Esoteric School"
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      "blurb": "The first Manifesto (Kassel, 1614) — narrates the life and burial of Christian Rosenkreutz and announces the Brotherhood's call to scholars across Europe.",
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      "blurb": "The second Manifesto (1615) — a doctrinal expansion of the *Fama*, defending the Brotherhood's claims and elaborating their reformatory programme.",
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      "name": "The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz",
      "author": "Johann Valentin Andreae (Steiner: not \"as such\")",
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      "translator": "Ezechiel Foxcroft, 1690 (Waite 1887 edition)",
      "form": "alchemical allegory",
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      "blurb": "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.",
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      "name": "The Real History of the Rosicrucians (Waite's commentary)",
      "author": "Arthur Edward Waite",
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      "blurb": "Waite's 1887 historical-critical commentary on the Rosicrucian phenomenon — chapters on Paracelsus, Andreae's biography, Rosicrucian apologists (Maier, Fludd, Vaughan), and the survival of Rosicrucianism into France and England.",
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