Event Description

The Phoenix and the Turtledove

AMORC members only.

Toronto Lodge invites you to join with us as we explore “The Phoenix and the Turtledove,” a mystical poem for Rosicrucians by William Shakespeare (1601).  This is an allegory based on The Chymical Wedding and will be presented by Frater Christopher Eriksson.

Points of Interest:

Christian Rosenkreutz tells us in the New Chymical Wedding Manifesto (1616 -2016) how the Phoenix saved him and how he feels a oneness with the Phoenix before joining with the Sun.

However, we are to beware and take heed. If we are not clean enough, the wedding can work ill (Rosicrucian Digest, 2016).

Things to remember: Thoughts are things and thoughts have wings.

C.S. Lewis clarifies Shakespeare’s use of allegory: 

“Allegory, in some sense, belongs not to medieval man but to man, or even to mind, in general. It is of the very nature of thought and language to represent what is immaterial in picturable terms. What is good or happy has always been high like the heavens and bright like the sun. Evil and misery were deep and dark from the first. Pain is black in Homer, and goodness is a middle point for Alfred no less than for Aristotle.”

Shakespeare tells us: “We have an obligation to possess the virtue of trust.”

Please join us.

Thursday, October 12, 2023 | 8:00pm - 9:30pm (EDT)

Access at 7:45pm (EDT) Event starts at 8:00pm (EDT)

Program

* Arrivals and Pleasantries

* Welcome & Announcements

* Introduction of the presenter Frater Christopher Eriksson

* Mystical Discussion

* Closing