By Donald R Dickson

It is a research of the Protestant utopian move that begun in Germany, encouraged in huge degree by way of the writings of Johann Valentin Andreae and got here to England in the course of the efforts of the emigre Samuel Hartlib. the 1st chapters learn Andreae's utopian writings, together with the Rosicrucian manifestos, as a part of his lifelong dedication to came upon a Societas Christiana, a religious elite that might increase non secular and highbrow existence. His writings sparked a transnational circulate in early smooth Europe. the main major of the German discovered societies are mentioned: The Societas Ereunetica, Unio Christiana and Antilia. The latter chapters think of Hartlib's English circles and numerous utopian and discovered societies within the 1650s. The textual content seeks to give a contribution to the certainty of the position that "secret" societies and epistolary networks had within the republic of letters.

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13-14 [Selbstbiographie, p. 22]. 15 Based on their examination of the minutes of the university senate at Tübingen, both Brecht and Edighoffer conclude that Andreae was involved in posting a scandalous pasquill that alluded to a premarital relationship with a bride-to-be whose wedding was to take place at the home of the ducal chancellor, Matthäus Enzlin, who arranged for the investigation and the strong punishments. During the hearings that followed, Andreae admitted complicity in the scandal, but his authorship was never proved; in fact, no one ever claimed authorship and the squib does not survive.

44 Sperber (d. 1615) wrote Der geheime Tractatus von den dreyen Seculis and Mystenum magnum, a theosophy of divine revelation. His Echo der von Gott hocherleuchteten Fraternitet deß löblichen Ordens R. C. was published as an answer to the Fama in 1615. Likening himself to another Ezra, the Swabian theosophist-Paracelsist Gutmann (1490-1584) wrote about the expected end of the Roman church in Offenbarung göttlicher Majestät (written in 1575, published in 1619) and hoped for a return to Adamic wisdom where Scripture and the book of Nature were one.

Not only do we now have the blueprint for this practical society but its very existence sheds light on the Utopian movement and Andreae's life-long efforts to implement it in the republic of letters. Most of what we previously knew derived from Andreae's 27 June 1642 letter to Duke August, reporting on his past attempts to found this society for the spiritual and educational improvement of society Since he specifically mentioned the Rosicrucians in this letter and listed the members of the society, we need to examine this key document carefully.

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