Enjoyed the first book from this schedule. Probably most the simple piety of the narrator as he moves through this dense thicket of symbolism. Crowley seems right in mentioning Kafka several times in notes. I have zero idea how Logo_Daedalus will approach this book. https://twitter.com/Logo_Daedalus/status/1342930475376136193
I'd read about the Rosicrucians previously in several contexts, JMG gives a standard account of The Chemical Wedding, the third published of the three Rosicrucian documents.
Andreae refered to The Chemical Wedding as a "ludibrium", a joke...

Interesting comparison, JMG wrote one of his books as a "lusus serius", a serious game, as if it were the papers of Celtic-Hermetic order formed around the work W.B.Yeats...
I'm always looking for connections between various renaissance subjects and Shakespeare, such as Bruno's years in London...

Andreae seemed to think of The Chemical Wedding as a comic play...

Someone at the time, I can't remember who, thought of it as being like Shakespeare...
The Chemical Wedding reminds me a lot of another book I picked up recently, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili... both seem to be the wanderings of a simple character through an ornate hermetic dreamlike landscape... the translator of this also translated the Rosicrucian trilogy...
Josephin Peladan pulled together a brief & strange reiteratation of Rosicrucianism in 1890s Paris, with his Salon de la Rose + Croix... Erik Satie was a member who composed music for these... JMG often promotes Peladan's unorthodox guide to becoming a mage...
Paul Foster Case wrote an unusual book on Rosicrucianism, but pretty pretty much dismisses The Chemical Wedding and focuses on the first two manifestos...
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