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From the 1915 German Masonic magazine, "Die Bauhütte", " Without the German Reformation no Freemasonry, without 1517, no 1717!
Therefore we Masons may erect a memorial for him (Luther) as first ancestor of Freemasonry."
Most scholars believe that a Lutheran named Johannes Valentinus Andreae (1586-1654) authored the Rosicrucian Manifestos. He also admitted to have done so.
Martin Luther was a correspondent of Johann Reuchlin who wrote a work called de arte kabbalistica. He recommended the study of alchemy in his table talks and calls justification by faith the "tue caballa". This idea of salvation by faith alone and Luther saying that reason is a whore and that you can commit sins fornicate and commit murder because God does not create salvation for ficticious sinners lines up with the idea that Reason and Faith are separate just as Acquinas affirmed. So anyways (as most know) he wanted to take out the Epistle of James and came up with a dialectic between St. Paul and St. James that led to antinomianism and libertinism, and also he signed his correspondence with a rosicrucian seal which is in the faustian face of modern science article sourced in two different works.
In a 1530 letter to Lazarus Spengler, Luther wrote:
Such a heart should stand in the middle of a white rose, to show that faith gives joy, comfort, and peace. In other words, it places the believer into a white, joyous rose, for this faith does not give peace and joy like the world gives (John 14:27). That is why the rose should be white and not red, for white is the color of the spirits and the angels (cf. Matthew 28:3; John 20:12).
The Rose on the Cross represents the Sephirot of Tiphareth on the Kabbalah, which represents Jesus hanging on the cross (made up of the middle pillar and the path connecting Geburah and Chesed). The five petaled rose is associated with the Hebrew letters Yod, Heh, Shin, Vav, Heh, which is the Pentagrammaton (Yahshuah) and Hebrew spelling of Jesus by adding a Shin (Holy Spirit) to the Tetragrammaton (Name of God). The Hebrew Letters in the petals on the Rose Cross of the Golden Dawn pictured above) represents the three divisions of Hebrew letters listed in the Sefer Yetzirah, which is the first document in Kabbalistic literature. The three symbols on each arm of that cross are the alchemical symbols of Sulfur, Mercury, and Salt, representing Soul, Spirit, and Body, and are core concepts in Alchemy. The INRI stands for Jesus of Nazareth the King of the Jews, which is what Pontius Pilate wrote on the cross Jesus was crucified on.
“The Twenty-two petals of the Rose refer to the twenty-two Paths. It is the Cross in Tiphareth, the receptacle and centre of the Forces of the Sephiroth and the Paths (The Golden Dawn Volume 3, 1939 Israel Regardie)”
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"The science of alchemy I like well, and, indeed, `tis the philosophy of the ancients. I like it not only for the profits it brings in melting metals, in decocting preparing, extracting, and distilling herbs, roots; I like it also for the sake of the allegory and secret signification, which is exceedingly fine, touching the resurrection of the dead at the last day. For, as in a furnace the fire extracts and separates from a substance the other portions, and carries upward the spirit, the life, the sap, the strength, while the unclean matter, the dregs, remain at the bottom, like a dead and worthless carcass; even so God, at the day of judgment, will separate all things through fire, the righteous from the ungodly. The Christians and righteous shall ascend upward into heaven, and there live everlastingly, but the wicked and the ungodly, as the dross and filth, shall remain in hell, and there be damned." - Martin Luther
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“Luther had taken out of Christianity the idea of struggle and left it something very weak which does not satisfy either the mind or the heart, something which could be totally dry and rational on the one hand, or totally sentimental on the other hand.”
– St. Seraphim Rose
in light of Luther's sola fide doctrine, it is interesting to see how over time it developed into a kind of Kabbalistic ritual magic among modern evangelicals to make a mere profession of faith and be saved; as if the words themselves contain an inherent mystical power to regenerate the individual by simply speaking them.
“The Devils" have been taken possession of Russia gradually and everywhere, in politics and in culture. The ideology of "paradise on earth" of atheists and a catastrophic evolutionism of nihilists were naturally bound with the "lyricism" of destruction of the self-sufficient art. The Godlessness of some tried to replace "individuality by a herd instinct" (F. Dostoevsky), and the spiritual damage of others entailed an indiscriminate passion for everything esoteric, if not bluntly occult.
Unhealthy exaltation, mysticism blended with the premonition of a catastrophe ("We stand on the brink of history" -- V.A. Ternavtsev) fused into a kind of venomous atmosphere, which poisoned more than one generation of Russian intelligentsia. All these countless adepts of Nietzsche, Steiner, anthroposophists, occultists, Rosicrucians, Satanists, destroyers of all kinds were tirelessly sowing the "seeds of the mysterious rose", these "flowers of evil", which are still bringing their monstrous fruit.
The atmosphere of the cultural elite of that time was permeated with occult moods and searchings. As N. Berdyaev remembers: "There was a great deal of unconscious falsehood and self-deception in the air, and little love of the truth. Many desired to be deceived and seduced. None could stand criticism. All wanted to be true Rosicrucians, as it was in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries when Freemasonry held sway over the minds and hearts of Russian people. But there was more naivete then. People have an ineradicable need to play a role in life, to be part of something most important, to the center determining human destinies". Aesthetization of evil, revelry of blasphemous false wisdom and demonism amounting to elemental impulse to cosmic destruction, all this combined with a purely Russian maximalism brought Russia to the catastrophic collapse of 1917.
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