Cooper / Tier 2 — Mystery Babylon: The Mystery Schools and Their Lineage / secret-society
Ancient Order of the Rose and Cross
Where each worldview places it
One of the two major secret societies of the Reformation period. Its Grand Masters supported the reformers, it styled itself "wolves", and it drew Puritan America from Rosicrucian principles[1]. It is among those that "have turned against us"[2].
- Aliases
- Controls / directs
- It funded the Protestant Reformation, influenced the Puritans, and opposes the Roman Catholic Church and the United States Government[3]
- Answers to / controlled by
- fronts for the Mystery Schools[4]
- Lineage
- influenced by the Hermetic tradition[1]
- Dates
- public in the 16th–17th centuries[1]
- Key events
- 16th century: supports Luther's Reformation[1]
- Members / notable people
- Author's claims
- It shares the age-old dream of utopia[5].