{"product_id":"book-h34k","title":"The Chemical Marriage","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe self-admitted author of \u003cem\u003eThe Chemical Marriage\u003c\/em\u003e, Johann Valentin Andreæ, born in Württemberg in 1586, was twenty-eight years of age when that work was first published. It was presumably written about twelve years prior to its publication--or when the author was fifteen or sixteen years old. The fact is almost incredible that one so young could produce a volume containing the wealth of symbolic thought and philosophy hidden between the lines of \u003cem\u003eThe Chemical Marriage\u003c\/em\u003e. This book makes the earliest known reference to Christian Rosencreutz, and is generally regarded as the third of the series of original Rosicrucian manifestoes. As a symbolic work, the book itself is hopelessly irreconcilable with the statements made by Andreæ concerning it. The story of \u003cem\u003eThe Chemical Marriage\u003c\/em\u003e relates in detail a series of incidents occurring to an aged man, presumably the Father C.R.C. of the \u003cem\u003eFama\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eConfessio\u003c\/em\u003e. If Father C.R.C. was born in 1378, as stated in the \u003cem\u003eConfessio\u003c\/em\u003e, and is identical with the Christian Rosencreutz of \u003cem\u003eThe Chemical Marriage\u003c\/em\u003e, he was elevated to the dignity of a Knight of the Golden Stone in the eighty-first year of his life (1459). In the light of his own statements, it is inconceivable that Andreæ could have been Father Rosy Cross.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49414761087280,"sku":"BDh34k","price":3.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/h34k-Square-cover.jpg?v=1773525693","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-h34k","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}