Maier,
(was) a devout Lutheran Christian (Fludd was a devout Anglican). . . Whatever else they may represent, Fludd and Maier
are most certainly Hermetic philosophers, representing a kind of Hermetic
Renaissance at a time when the original Hermetic impulses of the earlier
Renaissance were waning in some quarters.”
“Maier
may have been influenced by a (Giordano) Bruno tradition as well as by the Dee
tradition. We know that Bruno claimed to have founded a sect of
‘Giordanisti’ among the Lutherans. (See Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic
Tradition, pp. 312-13) Maier was a Lutheran; his intensively
Hermetic religious movement might therefore have included some Bruno
influence, might be an attempt at the Hermetic reform of religion, the
infusion of greater life into religion through the Hermetic influences,
such as Bruno had so passionately advocated. On the other hand the
strongly alchemical aspect of Maier’s movement points to Dee as the major
influence. Perhaps in the Palatinate type of Hermetic reform, currents
descending from the Dee type of Hermetic tradition mingle with a Bruno type.”
This
new philosophy is about to be revealed to the world and will bring about a
general reformation. The mythical agents of its spread are the R. C.
Brothers. These are said to be reformed German Christians, devoutly
evangelical. Their religious faith
seems closely connected with their alchemical philosophy, which has nothing to
do with ‘ungodly and accursed gold making’, for the riches which Father
Rosencreutz offers are spiritual; ‘he doth not rejoice that he can make gold
but is glad that he seeth the Heavens open, and the angels of God ascending and
descending, and his name written in the Book of Life.’” ((trust in christ alone , spirit led ))),
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