Andreae's romance makes some references to John Dee. (A decayed Freemasonical form of the Chymical Wedding topos motors the plot of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 1791 opera, Der Zauberflöte ). (1586-1654) German theologian and author, whose name has also appeared as Andreä, and who was long credited with the authorship of all three early seventeenth-century texts describing the purported ancient group or Pariah Elite known as the Rosicrucians he is now credited only with the third of them, the conspicuously fictional Chymische Hochzeit Christians Rosenkreutz ( 1616 trans E Foxcroft as The Hermetick Romance, or the Chymical Wedding 1690 vt with much revised trans John Crowley as The Chemical Wedding by Christian Rosencreutz: A Romance in Eight Days 2016), a tale narrated by the mystic Christian Rosenkreutz, describing a seven-day journey, 150 years earlier, through an allegorical landscape, and his serving at the Chymical Wedding of an emblematic king and queen, though he does not understand the ordeals involved in this ritual, and is not transformed by them.
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