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Rosicrucianism is a mystical belief system and ideology that pursues spiritual and alchemical goals largely through Occult and Christian Gnostic paths. However, throughout history its endeavors have largely been to gain material power on the material plane, and the deep Gnostic teachings have become twisted.

The Rosicrucian Order is a legendary esoteric order with its roots in the Western mystery tradition. This Hermetic Order is viewed among earlier and many modern Rosicrucianists as a "College of Invisibles" from the inner worlds, composed of great Adepts, aiming to give assistance in humanity's spiritual development.[1] The "Brethren of the Rose Cross" is perceived by students of metaphysics as an important part or even the source of the hermetic-Christian tradition of the Western alchemy treatises in the period subsequent to the publication of Dante's The Divine Comedy in the early 14th century. However, modern researchers of history and sociology have placed its origin in a group of German Protestants between 1607 and 1616, when three anonymous documents first surfaced in Europe: Fama Fraternitatis Rosae Crucis, Confessio Fraternitatis, and Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz anno 1459.