Rosicrucianism

American  

[roh-zi-kroo-shuh-niz-uhm, roz-i-] / ˌroʊ zɪˈkru ʃəˌnɪz əm, ˌrɒz ɪ- /

noun

1. the practices or principles of Rosicrucians.

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Etymology

Origin of Rosicrucianism

1730–40; Rosicrucian ( def. ) + -ism

Example Sentences

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

Mr. George Soane in his “New Curiosities of Literature,” says of the Freemasons, that he can shew their society sprang out of decayed Rosicrucianism just as the beetle is engendered from a muck-heap.

From Mysteries of the Rosie Cross Or, the History of that Curious Sect of the Middle Ages, Known as the Rosicrucians; with Examples of their Pretensions and Claims as Set Forth in the Writings of Their Leaders and Disciples by Anonymous