Rose Cross
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Sep 29, 2026
William CooperHOST
They were, in fact, practitioners of the ancient mystery religions.
William CooperHOST
On the Templar-Rosicrucian connection, not long after the suppression of the Templars as an order, some Templars who survived or escaped the persecution formed a society called the Elder Brothers of the Rose Cross.
William CooperHOST
Templar grand masters and advanced members of the order would be categorized as higher initiates.
William CooperHOST
They were distinct from other servants of the order, like builders, artisans, men-at-arms, and ancillaries.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
He did this for the next 12 years or so, and at 32 years old, in 1956, he went all in on spiritualism.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
He joined the French chapter of the AMORC, the Ancient Mystical Order of the Rosy Cross.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
Specifically, he joined a branch of the sect known as the Rosicrucians, which dates back to the early 17th century and emphasizes alternative interpretations of Christian theology.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
This was an independent order, like the Freemasons, whose teachings were influenced by esoteric Christianity, which takes a mystical approach to spirituality.
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Vanessa RichardsonHOST
These documents, which were titled The Testaments, claimed that Luke, Joseph, and the other members had just begun their so-called transit.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
They were ascending to a new level of being.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
The Testaments say, in part, quote, "...we the servants of the rosy cross forcefully reaffirm that we are not of this world and we know perfectly well the coordinates of our origins and our future." The documents also explain that the number of victims was spiritually significant.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
Joseph had wanted 54 men, women, and children to die that day.
Wayne McRoyHOST
And the cross will section the Roush, which means head, into four quarters.
Wayne McRoyHOST
And so, we have the Roush cross, or rosy cross, meaning headquarters, The Rose Cross, ladies and gentlemen.
Wayne McRoyHOST
These headquarters, therefore, are the prima casa, the beginning, or rosy cross, where the archetypes of all living things are being guarded by the Rosicrucians, who are the eternal guardians of these archetypes, or mysteries of creation.
Wayne McRoyHOST
Gonna pause for a moment, folks.
Wayne McRoyHOST
The claim is made that these are the true Rosicrucians who will never reveal themselves or describe themselves as being such.
Wayne McRoyHOST
So anybody who claims to be a Rosicrucian most assuredly is not.
Wayne McRoyHOST
And many of these organizations that call themselves the Rose Cross or the Rosy Cross or the Rosicrucian Brotherhoods, they're not the real deal.
Wayne McRoyHOST
They're a cheap knockoff.
Tony WalkerHOST
Also because of its unfolding of petals, I think it, it's kind of equivalent to the Eastern lotus.
Tony WalkerHOST
So it is a char-- and think of the Rosicrucians, the Rosy Cross, you know, that, um, occult society, uh, have the sc- the cross and the rose as their symbol.
Tony WalkerHOST
So the, the rose is, is, is, is a supernatural symbol in lots of ways.
Tony WalkerHOST
It's a charged symbol.
Gabrielle BirchakHOST
On the very first page, he decodes four letters, GFRC.
Gabrielle BirchakHOST
This stands for Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, the Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross, or the Rosicrucians.
Gabrielle BirchakHOST
This was a secret underground society of mystics and scientists who believed that mathematical harmony held the key to divine magic and cosmic order.
Gabrielle BirchakHOST
But Leibniz keeps reading.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
He started small.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
He recruited three trusted friends from his old monastery, and together they formed a secret society they called the Fraternity of the Rose Cross.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
Eventually, a few more people joined, bringing the total membership to eight.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
At that point, they built a headquarters which they named the House of the Holy Spirit, and they created a strict code of conduct.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
Meet once a year at the House of the Holy Spirit to compare your work.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
Before you die, find and train your own replacement so the knowledge never dies with you.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
Sign everything with the same two letters, RC for Rose Cross.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
And above all, keep the brotherhood secret for 100 years.
JonathanHOST
I think so.
JonathanHOST
It says, how do you come up with an angel sigil? It says a standard method of creating the sigils is used, uh, is to use the Rose cross, which is, you know, the whole Rosicrucian kind of stuff that we got into, um, with, uh, what was the name of that book? Um, uh, teachings for all ages, mainly P Hall.
JonathanHOST
Yeah.
JonathanHOST
Yeah.
JonathanHOST
It says in this method, the names of spirits are converted to numbers, then placed on the Rose cross.
JonathanHOST
So this is the idea of the Rose cross.
JonathanHOST
It would just be, it almost looks like the, uh, the Mayan calendar in a sense, um, sectioned off.
SeanHOST
Right.
Kirk ZieglerNARRATOR
He also thought he saw an inscription, which bade him despair not, but try.
Kirk ZieglerNARRATOR
And at the same time there flowed into his mind this sentence, which subsequently became the watchword of the mystic fraternity which, for some centuries, has been known as that of the Rosy Cross.
Kirk ZieglerNARRATOR
There is no difficulty to him who truly wills.
Kirk ZieglerNARRATOR
Along with this there came a solution of the king's riddle, which he remembered when he awoke, and instantly proclaimed his readiness to attempt that which had cost so many adventurers their lives.
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Kirk ZieglerNARRATOR
And on a fleecy vapor I was sustained in mid-air by the potent arm of a strange-looking old man, the veritable and precise image of him who, ten days before, had occasioned us such a fright by his mysterious conversations and evanishment.
Kirk ZieglerNARRATOR
He told me not to fear, but to repose implicit confidence in myself and him, that he would not injure me, but do me good, that his name was Etelivar, that his years were ages long, that he was the companion of those who die, who die and live again, and of those who never taste of death.
Kirk ZieglerNARRATOR
All this and more he told me, and he said that his design was to serve both himself and me, that he was familiar with certain mighty secrets that had been claimed to be possessed through many ages by the wise and learned of earth, the Nericel Gable, the Hermetists, the Pythagoreans, the three temples of the Rosy Cross, the medieval and modern Rosicrucians, and the scattering delvers after mystery in all ages, times, and places.
Kirk ZieglerNARRATOR
He said that among the things that I might learn from him were the priceless secret of compounding the elixir of life, the drinking of which by mortals would confer perpetual youth and surprising beauty.
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