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The Rosicrucian Order, AMORC
Who needs fantasy, when reality provides so much more? This is a magical organization that will transcend any 'guild' or school. The mages of this order will have access to different, almost clerical spells, in addition to the standard spells available to most.
Who needs fantasy when reality provides so much more....
I present, The Rosicrucian Order, AMORC
If you need to adapt this a bit more, replace Egypt with Aviontix or suitable ancient culture that has been mostly lost to your modern world. The basic concept of the order can easily be adapted, plus there is a plethora of information availablem, some of which from their own website. http://www.rosicrucian.org
This is a magical organization that will transcend any 'guild' or school. The mages of this order will have access to different, almost clerical spells, in addition to the standard spells available to most.
Overview
The Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, is known internationally by its traditional and authentic title, the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis. Rosae Crucis from the Latin means 'of the Rosy Cross'. There is no religious connotation associated with this symbol; the Rosy Cross symbol predates Christianity. The cross symbolically represents the human body and the rose represents the individual's unfolding consciousness.
The Famous 'Fama'
The lineage of the Rosicrucian movement can be traced from its beginnings in the mystery schools of ancient Egypt founded by Pharaoh Thutmose III (1500 to 1477 B.C.), and more particularly from his grandson Pharaoh Amenhotep IV (also known as Akhnaton) - through to the Greek philosophers such as Thales and Pythagoras, the Roman philosopher Plotinus, and others, who journeyed to Egypt and were initiated into the mystery schools - through to the symbolism hidden in the love songs of Troubadours, the formularies of Alchemists, the symbolical system known as the Qabala, and the rituals of Orders of Knighthood during the dark and dangerous times of medieval Europe.
Fraternitatis
In 17th century Germany, a mysterious publication called the 'Fama Fraternitatis' written by 'Christian Rosenkreuz' was printed. This heralded a renewed interest in Rosicrucianism throughout Europe. As part of this great renewal, the renowned Sir Francis Bacon (1561 to 1626) English philosopher, essayist, and statesman, directed the Rosicrucian Order activities both in England and Europe. Rosicrucian history states that Sir Francis Bacon was actually the author of the Fama Fraternitatis and other works that brought about the revival of the Order in Germany.
Throughout history a number of prominent persons in the fields of science and the arts have been associated with the Rosicrucian movement, such as Leonardo da Vinci (1452 to 1519), Cornelius Heinrich Agrippa (1486 to 1535), Paracelsus (1493 to 1541), Francoiz Rabelais (1494 to 1553), Theresa of Avila (1515 to 1582), John of the Cross (1542 to 1591), Francis Bacon (1561 to 1626), Jacob Boehme (1575 to 1624), Rene Descartes (1596 to 1650), Blaise Pascal (1623 to 1662), Baruch Spinoza (1632 to 1677), Isaac Newton (1642 to 1727), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz (1646 to 1716), Benjamin Franklin (1706 to 1790), Thomas Jefferson (1743 to 1826), Michael Faraday (1791 to 1867), Marie Corelli (1855 to 1924), Claude Debussy (1862 to 1918), Erik Satie (1866 to 1925) and Edith Piaf (1915 to 1963). Insert historical figures and mages of note of your own world
Crossing the Atlantic
The Order crossed the Atlantic in the late 17th century when a Rosicrucian colony was established in Philadelphia. Later such eminent Americans as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine were intimately connected with the Rosicrucian community.
Throughout history there have been periods of greater and lesser activity of Rosicrucianism around the world. While inactive in the Americas during the 19th century, the Order was very active in France, Germany, Switzerland, Russia, Spain, and other lands during this time.
While Rosicrucianism is primarily a western phenomenon it is also eclectic and uniquely draws on the diverse mystical traditions of ancient Greece, China, India and Persia. Naturally enough, it also embraces the great explosion of human scientific and philosophical knowledge of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Reality and Fantasy collide violently. Yet some of this is so strange that it might be very applicable to a fantasy game. The dates and names will need to be changed, but you need to do that with any of these pieces. It is all required to make it fit into you world.
Thanks for the BUMP BH, I might not have seen this otherwise. I do so love history! especially WEIRD history :D
Oh and BH, feel free to PM Murometz on AMORC if you ever join!!
One note on sub: A lot of these so-called 'affiliations', have been shown/proven(?) to be a bunch of Mularkey over the years! Common sense tell us so, as well. DaVinci, for one, apparently had time to be a memeber of evey shadowy cult, organization, and cabal since the beginning of time! :D
Rabelais a Rosicrucian? Never, Never I say! Oh and AMORC never actually acquired a foothold in Russia, unless you count drunken tsarists discussing the concept over several bottles of vodka :D
However, that doesn't make all the speculation any less fun!
If you had read a bit closer, you would have realized that Muro was being sarcastic, and proving a point. The point being: if we were to believe all the tales about Leonardo, he had the time to be a member in every secret whatever since the beginning of time. Which is quite obviously false if you apply just a little bit of common sense to it.
I read this a while ago but this just popped back up. While the idea is interesting to bring real life to fantasy, we all have done this, I really fail to see what is special about the information here. I am voting on the concept of pulling this informaiton in, not of the entire submission itelf.
I know I could do a search on these guysmyself, but that defeats the purpose of detailing a submission on the site. It should give me enough information to want to go and do research on them because I want to learn more, not because I want to learn about what was submitted.
Now if any of the AMORC would add to the submission or provide us with more information...
This is creepy. Maybe you should change the name of the sub Moon?
Yes it is slightly. Of course we say the same thing about the torture submissions, and we haven't purged those either.
It does prove that there are a lot of people who don't read what is gonig on, or think about the what and why. That is why we leave their email in here to be harvested by spider bots.
However, it is a perfectly valid submission with good content. If any of our friends would ADD anything to the discussion, it would be perfect.
Reading through this, I'm honestly not sure what you were doing except giving us a starting point, Moon. I'm seeing a brief history, and a listing of people who were associated with it. Nothing about society goals, nor explanations about the magical abilities of members. What spell domains do they cover? Illusions? Combat magics? Divinations? How powerful are their spells? How pervasive are they supposed to be within a world, and how far does their influence reach? Are they a hidden order, or merely one that avoids garnering public attention?
It just seems to me that this is more of a, "Oh look, here's a group of people from the real world that you can use, you should go research them." instead of, "Here's a fully fleshed out society of mages and aristocrats with such and such goals. They accomplish those goals from the shadows, yadda yadda." Submissions drawing on the real world should still be fully fleshed out in the same way that others are. Would you truly have accepted this of a purely-fantasy society writeup?
I don't mean to come across too harshly, but I just didn't get anything out of this aside from learning of the existence of a certain secret society that's still around today.
And thank you, Udoma from Nigeria.
But this is not the place to join. This is a site for role-palying ideas. Make-believe. We use interesting concepts from real life as inspirations for our games.
Love and Light!
Strolenite Murometz (8th Level Archmaster of Skillfull Ink Slinging)
This is a good read, especially when you take the comments into account. Slightly creepy, but a good read.
A lightning rod of odd barbarians. :)