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Rosicrucian Alchemy Museum

Name: Rosicrucian Alchemy Museum
Address: 1664 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95126, US
Telephone: +14089473636
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Alchemy Exhibit in the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum Open Now!

The first Alchemy Museum in the United States will open in 2017, at Rosicrucian Park in San Jose, California. It will have its own dedicated building on the beautiful campus across from the world famous Egyptian Museum. It will also have a separate building for a fully equipped Alchemy Laboratory for classes in practical alchemy that begin in July 2013. Dennis William Hauck has been chosen to desi

gn the two projects and will be working with the architect and suppliers over the next year. The Museum is looking for old or new lab equipment and glassware, and any donations are fully tax deductible.

01/20/2025

Saturn as ruler of the two signs of the zodiac, Aquarius and Capricorn. "The ancient pagans saw Saturn not only as time, but also as the Prima Materia of all metal things, under whose natural-alchymistic rule lay the truly golden age." (Heinrich Khunrath, Von hylealischen Chaos, Frankfurt edition, 1708).

01/13/2025

'The Green Lion Devouring the Sun', from D. Stolcius von Stolcenberg, Viridarium chymicum, Frankfurt, 1624

01/06/2025

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was familiar with the ideas of Florentine Neoplatonism, particularly the Corpus Hermeticum in Marsilio Ficino's translation. Study of proportions after Vitruvius.

12/30/2024

Christ-Apollo at the center of the zodiac. The outer circles contain the four seasons. Christ in the Zodiac, Northern Italy, 11th century

12/09/2024

The Mystery religion Sol Invictus (the Invincible Sun) treated the Sun as a symbol of the true essence of self, the shining light of consciousness which was to be resurrected out of the darkness of the flesh into the light of spirit by the process of initiation.
Rosicrucian Digest: Alchemy Vol 91, No 1, 2013

12/02/2024

The arrival of Venus in the sky brings sensual pleasure; a magnificent play of colors called the "peacock's tail" appears. Basil Valentine said that this phenomenon, like a rainbow, indicates "that in future the matter will come from the moist to the dry". (Philosophischer Hauptschliissel, Leipzig, 1718) S.Trismosin, Splendor solis, London, 16th century

11/25/2024

The female figures: Faith, Hope and Charity. The columns: Strength (S), Wisdom (W) and Beauty (B). The board shows that the apprentice level is still caught up in antinomian thinking. Bowring. First Degree Board, 1819

11/18/2024

"I came to an underground house and on its roof I saw pictures of nine eagles", writes the Arabic alchemist Senior Zadith. The eagles refer to the nine processes of sublimation. The bow and arrow represent the subsequent phases of fixation. The depiction is closely linked to Arab legends of the discovery of the Emerald Tablets of Hermes Trismegistus, which the old man is holding on his lap. Aurora consurgens, early 16th century.

11/11/2024

With his description of the floating island of Laputa, driven by a group of scientists with a time-wheel magnetism, Jonathan Swift, in his 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels parodied the Royal Society. This oldest British academy for the sponsorship of science was founded in 1660 on the Rosicrucian idea of an "invisible college" encouraging the highest educational ideals.
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Leipzig edition, c. 1910

11/09/2024

GODDESS NEITH
Although missing her arms, this is one of the finest representations of the goddess. As she was the Lady of Sais, the Saite dynasty venerated Neith, who began her existence as a war goddess and whose fe**sh was a shield with crossed arrows.

11/04/2024

Noah's dove with the olive branch, a messenger pigeon and above them the dove of the Holy Ghost "with twenty· four Pentecostal flames or fiery tongues of the spirits of the letter. Three doves, then, indicating the threefold spirit 1) of God 2) of nature 3) of art". (G. Gichtel) J. Bohme, Theosophische Wercke, Amsterdam, 1682

10/28/2024

It seems not to be generally known that sound produces form as well as color, and that every piece of music leaves behind it an impression of this nature, which persists for some considerable time, and is clearly visible and intelligible to those who have eyes to see. Here we see the music of Mendelssohn, which emerges from the organ in the form of a balloon through the roof of a church. (C.W. Leadbeater, Annie Besant, Thought Forms, New York, 1905)

10/27/2024

Bronze Dagger
Fine leaf-shaped knives were specific to the Persian time period (bronze; from the Sabonovic/1 Collection).

10/21/2024

From Theophilus Schweighardt’s Mirror of the Rosicrucian Wisdom

10/16/2024

FISH HOOK
The life of a fisherman was often satirized by the scribes of ancient Egypt, but no occupation provided more protein to the populace of this desert land. Cattle were a luxury food for the rich and for holidays, but fish was always available to all (Roman; bronze).

10/14/2024

The name and emblem of the Rosicrucian brotherhood refer to Martin Luther's coat of arms. The "General Reformation" that it had proclaimed at the beginning of the 17th century was a revival of Protestantism which had sunk into orthodoxy through the spirit of Paracelsian nature mysticism. Van der Heyden, detail, from: Sigillum Lutheri, Strasbourg, 1617

10/08/2024

ANKH JAR
The ankh, the sign for life, was very popular in the Amarna Period. Here it is flanked by blue lotuses which open their petals with the morning light.

09/30/2024

For Blake, the image of Jacob's Ladder as a gate to heaven was closely allied to the anatomy of the ear, whose passages he calls "the endlessly twisting spiral ascents to the Heaven of Heavens." According to Swedenborg, with whose writings Blake was familiar, the "opening of the inner ear" is the precondition for making contact with the higher worlds. W. Blake, Jacob's Ladder, c. 1800

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1664 Park Avenue
San Jose, CA
95126

Opening Hours

Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm
Saturday	10am - 6pm
Sunday	10am - 6pm

Telephone

+14089473636

Website

http://www.alchemymuseum.org/

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Videos

The New Alchemy Museum at Rosicrucian Park

Grand Master Julie Scott presents the plans for the new Alchemy Museum at Rosicrucian Park, as well as some of the fascinating history of Rosicrucian Park.

The Spiritual Process of Alchemy with Dennis William Hauck

Beautiful introduction to alchemy and the Alchemy Exhibit currently on display at the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum at Rosicrucian Park by the Curator of the Exhibit, Dennis William Hauck.