Gabriel Bethlen, Transilvania și mitul rozicrucian

Gabriel Bethlen, Transylvania and the Rosicrucian Myth

Sălăgean, Tudor

2018-09-13T11:27:26Z

2018-09-13T11:27:26Z

2014

2014

Bethlen Gábor

történelem

rozicrucianism

Martin Opitz

Alstedius

Albert Szenczi Molnár

The remarkable and erudite synthesis of the British historian, Dame Frances Yeates, demonstrated in a convincing manner that the Rosicrucian movement was inspired in a high degree by the hermetical projects of John Dee, which, transferred into the reformed circles in Germany, gave birth to a political and spiritual anti-Catholic movement, confi dent in the strength of the human spirit. Frances Yeates managed also to substantiate the links between this movement and the creation of the anti-Habsburg coalition that succeeded in 1619, after the death of Emperor Mathias, to install on the throne of Bohemia the “Winter King”, Frederick V. What was not noticed by Frances Yeates, and by many other Western authors whose perspective on the European area was altered by the distorted perception on the European space inspired by the geopolitical realities of the Cold War era, was the exceptional role played in the political and military aspects of the anti-Catholic coalition by Gabriel Bethlen, the Prince of Transylvania (1613–1629). There are a number of clues, presented in this paper, which suggests that it wouldn’t be impossible to count, among the inspirers of the Rosicrucian manifestoes, some of the professors of the Academic College of Alba Iulia, founded by Gabriel Bethlen in 1622. Was this academic institution, whose appearance has no precedent in Transylvania, an attempt of Prince Bethlen to make the connection with the representatives of the most famous and discussed society in the Europe of those years? Were able Martin Opitz, Alstedius, Albert Szenczi Molnár, Bisterfeld, along with others scholars connected with the College of Alba Iulia, to transfer in Transylvania a part of the Rosicrucian ideas? These are questions whose answer could be given only by future research. However, it must be said that the Rosicrucian myth hasn’t remained one without other traces in Transylvania. He was not limited to the time of Bethlen, and did not go into oblivion after his death. The importance of this myth seems to be related to its very persistence throughout the century that followed. Let us mention here only that the founder of the North American Rosicrucianism was the Transylvanian Johannes Kelpius (1673–1708), member of the Rosicrucian chapter in Netherlands, who crossed the ocean in 1694, convinced of the imminent fulfi lment of the prophecy of Alstedius on this year. Let’s remember also that, according to the testimony of Karl of Hesse-Kassel, the notorious Count of Saint Germain, one of the most famous alleged Rosicrucians in history, had also Transylvanian origins. In any case, it is certain that Transylvania was seen in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as part of the universal chain of the hermetic tradition and of the transmission of the light of knowledge.

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