The Chemical Wedding

Few short books have exercised an influence out of proportion to their length quite like the work known in English as The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz. First printed in German at Strasbourg in 1616 under the title Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz Anno 1459, it is a strange, dense, and beautiful narrative that has been read as a fairy tale, an alchemical treatise, a Christian