Julius Sparhawk

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Julius Sperber , pseudonym Julianus de Campis (* around 1540 in Seebergen ; † 1616 in Dessau , Anhalt ) was the princely councilor of Prince Christian von Anhalt zu Dessau, a mystical writer, Kabbalist and alchemist . He is considered to be a co-founder of the Rosicrucian order. According to Zedler's lexicon, he was a doctor, some refer to him as the Prince's personal physician.

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His most famous work is the echo of the God-enlightened Fraternitet des Lobl. Order RC , published in Danzig in 1615 (and 1620), one of the most important and influential early Rosicrucian writings. In it he writes that the Rosicrucian Order is not a new foundation, but a keeper of very old knowledge, the first bearer of which was the forefather Adam , and was passed on from generation to generation by the Chaldeans and Egyptians , and then to the Christians via Saint John and Saint Bernard handed down. He also mentions Guillaume Postel , Pico della Mirandola , Johannes Reuchlin and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim as initiated experts . (See also the entry Philosophia perennis ).

Sparrowhawk, apparently a follower of Paracelsus , is one of the earliest Rosicrucian authors. In his works he speaks of an active community of Rosicrucians, but it is still controversial at what point in time the order was actually formed (some believe that this did not take place until 1616, others date the foundation to the appearance of the Fama Fraternitas of Christian Rosencreutz in 1614) .

After the work The Book of Rosicruciæ (Clymer 1946, I, xxiii – xxvi), the Rosicrucians were founded by John Valentine Andreæ , John Baptista van Helmont , Henry Khunrath , Julius Sperber, Berigard von Pisa, Jean D'Aspagnet and Henricus Madathanas. Michael Maier became the first Supreme Grand Master of the order.

In alchemical compilation Deutsches Theatrum Chemicum writes Sperber: "... The God initially created earth (= synonymous with Adam) was perfect and perfectly and the philosophical stone (= also nature and virtue Philosopher's Stone ) was the same. When man fell, God was angry and cursed the "red earth" (= allegorical name for Adam as perfectly created man), he destroyed its innate proportions, turned homogeneity into heterogeneity and changed it by shifting the elements (and so also the Planet waves, which the elements first generate, and their resonance to the Charkas) in a foul confluence of matter: From this corruption and death ensue. "

In his book of miracles from around 1600 he writes of his dream that a new age (the third age, the age of New Jerusalem, an age of equality of men after the epoch of the princes) would be prophesied and now dawn - a reference to Joachim von Fiore and its millenarianism .

Julius Sperber dealt with Kabbalah and alchemy as well as “divine magic ”. He distinguishes between a divine, a human and a superstitious (or diabolical) magic. The magia naturalis was mostly considered to be allowed, compared to the magia innaturalis, diabolica, prohibita or illicita. This is often referred to in common parlance with the derogatory term of sorcery.

The Rosicrucian tradition sees Sparrowhawk as a “philosophical initiate” who belonged to the first harmonious, secret community of initiates of the worldwide Rosicrucian order.

The new edition of his writings in the USA 1770–1777 in Philadelphia was of importance for the further development of the Rosicrucians in the 18th century . In 1772 the first American Great Council of the August Fraternity took place in Philadelphia. The founding fathers of the Fraternity Rosae Crucis like Benjamin Franklin later played an important role in the American Revolution.

His writings have kept mystical writers busy up to the modern age. Julius Sperber is mentioned in the Masonic literature, as well as in writings from the New Age (he is also read as one of the sources for the correct handling of magic ) and in the latest writings on the so-called " Prieuré de Sion ".

family

Julius Sperber was the seventh son of the Thuringian evangelical superintendent Valentinus Sperber in Seebergen , who had been a Catholic clergyman in the past and had been married to the nun Euphroyne von Borsdorf from Borna by Philipp Melanchthon during the Reformation . His oldest brother was the East Prussian militant theologian Erhard Sperber in Wehlau (at times also Danzig ). He had at least five other brothers who became pastors. Their grandfather is said to have been the Catholic clergyman Johannes Sperber, who lived with his concubine and fathered children despite being celibate. He came from the important Reutlingen bourgeois family Sperber (former Sperber von Sperberseck from one of the oldest families in Swabia, which was related to Saint Ulrich of Augsburg ).

Works

  • From dreyerley Seculis or Hauptzeiten, Consoling Prophecey and Divination. From the approaching golden time as the third and last time and the whole of the same, manuscript 1597 (Mss. In Wolfenbüttel, 772 Helmst., Ff. 173–287, and in the Heimatmuseum Köthen), printed in Amsterdam: Benedicto Bahnsen 1660 (Ein Secret Tractatus Iulii Sperberi From the three Seculis or main times, from the beginning bit to the end of the world ...).
  • Julius Sperber: Kabalisticae Precationes, siue [sive] Selectiores Sacrosancti Nominis Divini Glorificationes: E Sacrorum Bibliorum fontibus, & praesertim ex medulla Psalmorum Dauidis haustae… Magdeburg: Francus 1600 (in the University and State Library Jena).
  • Julius Sperber (pseudonym "Julianus de Campis"): Send letter or report to all who read something from the Newen Brothers of the Order of the Rosen-Creutz, or heard something from others per modum discursus of the nature of things. There are many who run in the cupboard, but some only win the small item. I therefore exhort Iulianus de Campis. 1615 (autobiographical defense writing, one of the few writings published during his lifetime, Sparhawk died in 1616. "According to this writing, no assembly of Rosicrucians was formed at that time" [Wolfstieg]).
  • Julius Sperber: Echo The Fraternitet enlightened by God, the praiseworthy order RC That is: Exemplary evidence, That not only that which is now forbidden in the Fama and Confession of the Fraternitet RC, possibly and was esy, but already for nine toes and more years such Magnalia Dei, dreadful God-fearing people, and deprecated by your private writings. How a splendidly Magical Scriptum and Tractätlein, the highly praiseworthy Fraternitet RC, is dedicated and evulgated in the press. By the German Abecess Laut. First printed in Dantzig, by Andreae Hünefeldts, Anno 1616 (2nd print, first edition published in Danzig in 1615, here he drafts a theosophical system that, according to the preface, has existed in the manuscript since 1597. “For the first time contains laws for the Rosicrucians” ( Wolfstieg)).
  • Andreä, Johann Valentin: Fama Fraternitatis: Or discovery of the brotherhood of the laudable order of the Rosen-Creutzes / Andreä, Johann Valentin; Rosicrucians. In addition to the Confession, or acquaintance with the same Fraternity, written to all scholars and heads in Europe. - Now from several guesses ... disposed of ... and to the other *. - Franckfurt am Mayn: to be found at Joh. Bringern and Johann Bernern, 1617. - 108 p .; (German) Traditional authors: Johann Valentin Andreä. - “Confessio fraternitatis” is from d. Lat. trans. - Ent. also: Letter from Juliani de Campis Sendbrieff or report to all ... / Julius Sperber. Georgii Moltheri… relation of a diß Orde.
  • Arnoldus Kernerus with Julianus de Campis (= Julius Sperber): Tetras chymiatrica, proponens praestantiam et in medicina efficaciam, auri, mercurii, antimonii… et medicamentorum ex illis paratorum: Opposita misochymis eadem sat frivolèckneriantibus…, Erphordiae, 16: Birphordiae, 16:.
  • Ara Foederis Theraphici FXR The Assertion Fraternitatis RC consecirt to the reader. Quisquis de Roseae dubitas Crucis ordine Fratrum… Newenstadt: Johan Knuber 1618. Author: Johannes Bureus or Raphael Eglinus, translated into German by ISNP (Iulius Sperber).
  • Mysterium Magnum, This is the greatest secret bnvs 1 From God, From 2 His Son And From 3 The Soul Of The Man, Amsterdam, Before Benedictus Bahnsen, 1660.
  • A fine Tractatus Iulii Sperberi, of many wonderful, sometimes previously unheard of / or also unusual and strange things / dealings and things: So not only before the end and after the beginning of each new main period / but also primarily these hundred years hero / of Anno 1500 bit on Anno 1600 ran and carried. Sampt a summary and brief announcement of a future / as the last and golden time / and the same occasion in common, Amsterdam: Paskovius, 1662.
  • Isagoge in veram Triunius Dei et naturae cognitionem… in qua multa quoque praeclara de materia lapidis philosophici, ejusque usu mirabilissimo continentur, Hamburg 1674 (Ferguson British Lib.), New edition: Isagoge (in veram Triunius Felßecker et naturae cognitionem), Nuremberg: (Facsimile 1976).
  • Kabalisticae precationes [German]: That is: Extra-reading beautiful prayer,… Franckfurt - Amsterdam: Henricus Betkius 1675
  • Michael Ritthalerus (with Julius Sperber): Michaelis Ritthaleri,… hermathena philosophico-theologica, Julii Sperberi Isagogae posthumae, in veram Dei naturaeque cognitionem, per fluvios Paradisi anagogicos se adducere, ac multa de secretis naturae utiliter monere sibi visae, oppositae , 1684 (reprinted by Huxarii: Heitmüller, 1685)
  • Ivlii Sperberi, C. Kabalisticae precationes, that is: Exquisite beautiful prayers, compiled from the holy scriptures and the noblest psalms of the royal prophet David. The same is also added at the end of these prayers, Ivlii Sperberi, Isagoge, that is the introduction to the true knowledge of the Triune God and nature ..., Philadelphia, 1770 (also included: Ivlii Sperberi, Isagoge, that is: Introduction to the true knowledge of the Triune God and Nature: Which also contains many excellent things from the Materia of the Philosophical Stone; translated from the Latin copy into German and promoted for printing).
  • Isagoge, that is: introduction to the true knowledge of the triune God and nature; Wherein there are also many excellent things of the materia of the philosophical stone; Translated into German from the Latin copy and sent to print, Philadelphia 1777.

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References and comments

  1. ↑ rose-croix.org: Histoire du Rosicrucianisme: La rose fleurissant ( Memento of the original dated August 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rose-croix.org
  2. ^ Carl Edwin Lindgren: The Rose Cross - A Historical and Philosophical View ( Memento of November 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ Ulrich Arndt: Connected with the pulse of the stars, The forces of the planets influence all life on earth . In: Paracelsus magazine , January 2005 issue, pages 12-17.
  4. ^ The History of the Fraternitas Rosæ Crucis. In: soul.org. The Beverly Hall Corporation, accessed on August 23, 2017 (English): “Philosophical Initiates who were interested in the consolidation of the Initiates of all the Arcane Schools into one supreme unit became members of the“ World Council ”of the Confederation of Initiates. Initiates of all schools in all countries belonged to this loosely joined Confederation and included such names as Aegidius Gutmann , Valentin Weigel , Simon Studion , Jean Braccesco , Dennis Zachaire , Thomac Charnock , John Fountaine, Alexander von Suchten , Nicholas Bernaud , Julius Sperber, and Henry Khunrath "
  5. ^ Bernhard Möller: Thuringian Pastors' Book , Volume 1; Duchy of Gotha
  6. ↑ levity.com: Ara Foederis Theraphici
  7. ↑ "JULIUS SPERBER (17th century) distinguishes a divine magic - MAGIA DIVINA (Magia coelestis) -" that is heavenly or divine wisdom ", a human magic" which is so mixed up with ceremonies and all kinds of abuses, and thereby darkened that they lost their previous name ", and a SUPERFITICAL or DEVILIARY MAGIC"
personal data
SURNAME Sparrowhawk, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Campis, Julianus de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German alchemist and Rosicrucian
DATE OF BIRTH around 1540
PLACE OF BIRTH Seamounts
DATE OF DEATH 1616
Place of death Dessau , Anhalt