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The Rose Line “This article is a written timeline about the events/individuals leading up to the emergence of Rosicrucianism in the 17th century and the events/individuals that followed; I will also include individuals and will place a particular emphasis on Masonic Rosicrucianism. A timeline is a display of a list of events and helps us understand history by looking at them in a sequential or chronological format. This timescale of a timeline is dependent on the events in the timeline. For example, looking at a timeline of evolution can be over millions of years, whereas a timeline for the September 11th attacks can take place over minutes. This timeline will go from the 14th century to the present day. 1378 AD According to the Rosicrucian Manifestos, Christian Rosenkreutz was born in 1378 AD in the Germanic states. 1394 AD At the age of 16, Rosenkreutz begins his pilgrimage which takes him through the Middle East and North Africa. It is on this journey that Rosenkreutz meetings wise men from the regions and learns their ancient knowledge. It is from this journey that some groups such as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn that dates the Rosicrucian philosophy back to 46 AD and to a man named Ormus, an Alexandrian Gnostic Christian. 1402 AD Rosenkreutz is believed to have returned to Germany from his travels. 1450 AD The burial chamber of Christian Rosenkreutz is believed to have been built. 1483 AD Martin Luther is born on November 10th in Eisleben, Saxony (Germany). 1484 AD Christian Rosenkreutz dies. 1517 AD Martin Luther publishes his 95 Theses on October 31st in Wittenberg, Saxony, which sparked the Protestant Reformation. 1520-1600s AD There were many wars fought that are immediately connected with the Reformation: Knights' Revolt (1522–1523) German Peasants' War (1524–1526) Wars of Kappel (1529–1531) Münster rebellion (1534–1535) Anabaptist riot (1535) Schmalkaldic War (1546–1547) Princes' Revolt (1552–1555) French Wars of Religion (1562–1598) Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) Cologne War (1583–1588) Strasbourg Bishops' War (1592–1604) 1521 AD Luther appears at the Diet before Charles V, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, to answer charges of heresy. By refusing to recant, he was declared a heretic and formally excommunicated by the Catholic Church by Pope Leo X. 1526 AD Diet of Speyers which declared that the religion of a nation would be based upon the religion of the ruler. This Diet was repudiated in the 1529 Diet of Speyer. 1527 AD John Dee is born in London. He became a well-known mathematician, astrologer, occultist, Rosicrucian, and adviser to Queen Elizabeth I of England. 1529 AD The Second Diet of Speyers resulted in the protection of Catholics in Lutheran lands, but didn’t extend protection to Lutherans in Catholic lands 1546 AD. Martin Luther dies in Eisleben. 1552 AD Rudolf II was born on July 18th in Vienna. He would go on to serve as King of Hungary and Croatia, King of Bohemia, Archduke of Austria, and Holy Roman Emperor from 1576 to 1612. Relevant to this article, his reign was marked by tolerance to Protestantism, alchemy, and Hermeticism. 1555 AD The Peace of Augsburg is signed which grants toleration to Lutherans within the Holy Roman Empire using the principle of "cuius regio, eius religio" or "Whose region, his religion". 1561 AD Francis Bacon is born on January 22, 1561. Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, would become a Rosicrucian, philosopher, scientist, author, Attorney General, and Lord Chancellor of England. 1568 AD Michael Maier, a German physicist, Rosicrucian, and alchemist, is born in Rendsburg, Germany. 1574 AD Robert Fludd, the English philosopher, physician, and mystic, is born on January 17, 1574, in Kent, England. 1586 AD Johann Valentin Andreae is born on August 17th in the Duchy of Württemberg. He is thought to be the author behind the Rosicrucian Manifestos. 1596 AD Elizabeth Stuart is born in Scotland. Elizabeth was the daughter of King James I and wife to Frederick V of the Palatinate. Frederick V of the Palatinate is born in the Upper Palatinate (Germany). [continues in comments] https://www.travelingtemplar.com/2019/11/the-rose-line.html?m=1

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