CHAPTER V

SOME FAMOUS SORCERERS AND MAGICIANS

_The Divine Comedy_ of Dante and its Kabalistic analysis—_The Romance of the Rose_—Luther and anarchical theology—His disputes with the devil—His sacrilegious marriage—Sorcerers during the reign Of Henry III—-Visions of Jacques Clément—Mystic symbolism of the rose—Union of the rose and the cross—The Rosicrucians—Henry Khunrath—His _Amphitheatrum Sapientiæ Æternæ_—It’s pantacles—Oswaldus Crollius—Alchemists of the early seventeenth century—A Rosicrucian manifesto 345