Talk:Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz

What is an "iniciatic ritual"?

My hunch is he means inititation ritual. ThePeg    AxelBoldt 23:54, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

CHYMICAL WEDDINGS
Once you've read the Chymical Wedding its very interesting going back to world literature and seeing how often the images of the Chymical Wedding recur, along with other alchemical images such as the Rose. The idea of the Hieros Gamos clearly reccurs again and again in the Western mind. Check out the chapter Cana In Galilee in Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov; the Wedding Guest in The Rhyme Of The Ancient Mariner (he never gets into the Wedding he has been invited to because of the Mariner's story of horror and discord. The Brides' face is red like a rose etc.); the Rose Garden in The Four Quartets with its 'necesarrie conjunction' and so on and so on. For probably the most amazing expression of the idea of the Chymical Wedding as a cosmic force read The Man Who Died by D H Lawrence ,one of his last works, in which the Resurrected Christ achieves a mystical union with a Priestess of Isis. The prototype of all these allegories of the Rose and the transformation of the individual is the great medieval poem The Romance Of The Rose which unites the Mysticism of Christianity & Alchemy with the most sublime imagery of the Lover in search of the Rose of his Mistress.ThePeg 23:36, 30 September 2006 (UTC)


 * The Wikipedia article on Romance of the Rose is to be found, bizarrely, under its French title Roman de la Rose.
 * Nuttyskin (talk) 03:16, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
 * There is, additionally, an English translation available on Wikisource.
 * https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Romance_of_the_Rose_(Ellis)
 * Nuttyskin (talk) 03:29, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

The Bruce Dickinson album The Chemical Wedding is named after this work. Marlinspike 12:45, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

So is the book by Lindsay Clark, I think. ThePeg 00:06, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Attributed
The article says that the Chymical Wedding is attributed to Andreae. In fact he declared himself the author in his autobiography. Should this be referenced? ThePeg 19:14, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Language
I have no idea what "English translated from German" is supposed to mean for "language". Typically when one refers to "language" one means the original language which appears to be German, so I've changed it.Ekwos (talk) 01:14, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay, looking closer I see the blurb is referring to some recent English translation of the original. This doesn't make sense the article should refer to the original.  I've made other changes.Ekwos (talk) 01:22, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

CRC
There is no clear explanation of who or what CRC is, which is greatly decreasing the readability of this article.--Slowlikemolasses (talk) 05:22, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Christian Rosencreutz as in the German title. I inserted a clarification "henceforth CRC" before the first use of the initialism. 68.44.132.25 (talk) 19:45, 7 January 2013 (UTC)w

New edition
-- Auric    talk  16:17, 29 May 2016 (UTC)