1614 pamphlet announcing the Rose Cross brotherhood and the discovery of Christian Rosenkreutz's tomb.
1615 companion text, more theologically pointed, reiterating the invitation to respond to the brotherhood.
The 1616 alchemical romance narrated by Rosenkreutz, describing a seven-day allegorical wedding.
Johann Valentin Andreae's later term for the manifestos: a literary jest or game he claimed had been taken too seriously.
The combined emblem of a rose (secrecy, unfolding spirit) laid over a cross (matter, the body, redemption).
Latin, "under the rose" — a pre-existing phrase for confidentiality that fed into the rose's symbolic meaning.
Alchemical stages of purification (white) and completion (red/gold), echoed in Rosicrucian color symbolism.
A Renaissance-revived philosophical tradition holding that the cosmos is unified by correspondence and that ancient sages once possessed complete wisdom.
An 18th-century German initiatory order, among the first actual organizations to adopt the Rosicrucian name and grade structure.
Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia, an 1866 Masonic-adjacent society whose members went on to found the Golden Dawn.
Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, founded 1915 in the U.S.; the largest modern Rosicrucian organization, known for claiming ancient Egyptian lineage.
The geometrically symbolic tomb described in the Fama, evoking the seven classical planets.