In 1600, Prague was the center of esoteric life in Europe. The Emperor Rudolf II supported alchemists and Kabbalist, and the whole of Bohemia was alive with the last brilliant, spiritual flourish of the Renaissance. The years 1613 and 1614 saw the publication of the Rosicrucian Manifestos, mysterious documents that proclaimed a general reform of the world and amazed a continent. Few people imagined that the nightmare of the Thirty Years War was about to begin instead.
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