Rosicrucianism
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Rosicrucianism
1730–40; Rosicrucian ( def. ) + -ism
Example Sentences
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And as Rollins aged, he would remain a voracious seeker, with interests that expanded into Zen Buddhism, martial arts, Kabbalah, the esoteric 17th-century tradition of Rosicrucianism, reincarnation and Egyptology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
Rollins was practicing yoga and reading spiritual texts—books about Buddhism, Sufism, and especially Rosicrucianism, a complicated belief system based on esoteric manifestos devised by a secret brotherhood of alchemists and sages.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 5, 2017
The Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, founded in 1909 by H. Spencer Lewis, calls itself the “the most prominent modern representative” of Rosicrucianism.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 26, 2016
He has spent five years researching "Theosophy, Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, the Bavarian Illuminati and Western Occultism".
From The Guardian ● Jul. 1, 2010
So much in deference to Pope,—whose only object, however, was to make Mrs. Fermor acquainted with so much of Rosicrucianism as was necessary to the comprehension of the machinery of his poem.
From Notes and Queries, Number 196, July 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George
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