Rodolfo II

 

Rudolf II and John Dee

Victor. A. Cabello. Reyes

Through the Spanish ambassador to the court of Rudolf II, Don Guglielmo de Sancto Clemente=Don Guillén de San Clemente it was expected that the master Dr. John Dee would meet with Rudolf II.

Saint Clement was a powerful intermediary at the court of Rudolph and was recognized as a descendant of the Catalan sage Ramon Llull. 

'In Prague, Don Guillén de San Clemente, the Spanish ambassador, acted as an intermediary between Dee and Rudolf II'. 

(Deborah E. Harkness, John Dee Conversations with Angels, p.53)

Dee goes to Prague to see Rudolf II—he had an interest in alchemy and esotericism—and alert him to 'Imperial mysticism' and his 'mission to reform the Christian world'. ''The emperor did not enthusiastically support Dee,'... 

(Yates, The Occult Philosophy, p.104) 

'Rudolf respond mildly, because he deeply believed in his messianic destiny to destroy de Ottoman Empire, and because he was accustomed to hearing universalist prophecies'. 

(Glyn Parry, The Arch-Conjuror of England John Dee, p.182)

Already for the publication of Monas hierogliphica (1564) the work is dedicated to Emperor Maximilian II. One full moon night the Master Florid Rudolf II approaches with patience and attention his favorite painting of the Chamber of Secret of Art = Kunstkammer-, and favorite place of the Emperor and son of Maximilian II and Maria of Austria, the daughter of Charles V the 'world'. 

Born in Vienna in 1552. Educated with care and dedication, his culture was broad and encompassing in all fields of hermetic, alchemical, occult and scientific knowledge of the time. 

King of Hungary in 1572 and King of Bohemia in 1575. 

The hermetic and alchemical city of Prague was the center of a large group of sages, alchemists, scientists and flowery Masters who gathered among the beautiful rituals of the örder of Light in the Castle of Hradçany, in the upper part of the city. 

'Prague became a Mecca for those interested in esoteric and scientific studies from all Europe. Hither came John Dee and Edward Kelley, Giordano Bruno and Johannes Kepler'. 

(Frances Yates, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment, 1972, London, p.26)

His most advanced online thinking of Spiritual and Initiatory Tradition is crystallized in the Court of the Flowering Masters in Prague. 

There meet Knights and Alchemists of the Order of the Golden Fleece. 

These Masters and "Sons of Jason" seek, through the spiritual and physical Opus Magnum, to achieve the Spiritual Degree of Being able to incarnate in a dignified way the Aureum Vellus-Tusón de Oro and to obtain the desired Golden Fleece. 

Alchemical-Argonautic spiritual feat. Master Florid Paracelsus commented on the body of light = ''corpus lucens'' that in Heaven is SOLAR substance = puntum Soli and Astral Corpus. Here below is Astro in Corpore or microcosm and resides as Balsam in the Heart. 

( Carl. G.Jung, Paracelsica, 1983, p.93) 

The Order of the Golden Fleece = Golden Fleece follows the astrological course of the sky and pays special tribute and admiration to the Sacred Work of the painter Florido Albrecht Durer-Albrecht Dürer, The Feast of The Rosary (1505) or The Feast of the Roses. 

Erwin Panofsky, illustrates and clarifies certain doubts about the realization and motive of the painting. 

His private exhibition was only originally admired by educated and flowery members of 'La Flor de Lis' in ceremony between the Duce and some fine and polite Venetian Patriarchs. Currently the work can be arranged in the Prague Museum. 

The Order of the Rose and the Rosary is part of Tradition of Monasteries builder of the Dominicans, assimilated by means not common within the medieval late Christianity of "beads of white and red roses" and creation of Santo Domingo; according to the scholarly researcher Panofsky. 

( Erwin Panofsky, The Life and Art of Albrecht Durer, Oxford, pp.107-113)

Rudolf II knew a lot about art and all the sciences of his time. Refined polyglot and constant seeker of the 'tongue of angels' and The Celestial ROSE and Mother of the Fleur de Lis = Mary. 

The Lady of the Roses represented for many the Florida tradition of the Order of the Rose poetic, spiritual and hermetic-alchemical of the Florid Garden of Masters of the Golden Stone. 

Rudolf II was not the fool that ignoramuses and "scientists" today wish to try to stigmatize. He was a Sage and a deeply mystical and spiritual being. Pure melancholy and cunning. 

Let us recall his careful relationship with Master John Dee and Sir Edward Kelley. Lover of Arcane Wisdom and Initiated into the Order of St. George and the Dragon. 

What was Saturnal and Mercurial his Melancholic Temperament. It's true. But, for Flowering Masters saturnal melancholy is essence and principle of non-vulgar gold and metallurgical stone. 

(Melancholy, A. Durer) 

Without Saturn there is no Alchemy. 

'Founded in 1429 by Philip The Good, Duke of Burgundy, the Order of The Golden Fleece was a chivalric Order of Knights dedicated to the defense of the Church'.

(Peter Marshall, The Magic Circle of Rudolf II, New York, 2006, 50,51,) 

Master astrologers and alchemists such as the flowery Dr. John Dee, who in 1583, is in Prague with the medium and seer alchemist-astrologer Edward Kelley and Dr. Michael Maier.

Who was a physician, astrologer and personal secretary of the esoteric-hermetic Emperor. 

On the other hand, Frances Yates, clarifies: 'Whilst Michael Maier, also a Paracelsist physician, represented the atmosphere of the court of Rudolph II at Prague'. 

( Yeats, 101)

The painting reflects Florida Tradition of enormous transcendence and honor. 

It is the Prisca Theologia of the Floral Renaissance assimilated by spiritual orders of Knights and Mystics of the Golden Fleece. 

'The Fleece represents the liquid, astral gold, extracted from the nature of higher realities and from the elements; as a soul and seed, as a SOLAR Substance flowing out of God's bounty, it gives to Things, sustain them, and is able to Penetrate the Most dense and solid bodies'. 

( Antoine Faivre, The Golden Fleece and Alchemy, 1993, 41)

We will visualize a beautiful complex and rich work between various hermetic and alchemical-floral symbols.

With The Divine Virgin and Mother of La ROSA as the Beginning of Everything=Thoison D'or. 

Rudolf II and John Dee

Victor. A. Cabello. Reyes