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The World of the Rosicrucian Enlightenment: Alchemy in Renaissance Bohemia |
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Ralph White
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.
Tonight’s illustrated talk brings alive this largely forgotten spiritual history of the West, and paints portraits of enigmatic alchemists and of the Winter King and Queen of Bohemia, final representatives of an epoch of enduring philosophical and artistic beauty.
AN EVENING LECTURE
Monday, June 23, 8–10pm
08SSW39P
Members: $18 / Nonmembers: $20
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Ralph White is co-founder of the New York Open Center and lectures frequently on the wisdom streams of Western spirituality. He introduced and edited The Rosicrucian Enlightenment Revisited, and has organized for the last 13 years a series of international conferences on the Western Esoteric Tradition |
