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The selfadmitted author ofThe Chemical Marriage Johann Valentin Andre born in Wrttemberg in 1586 was twentyeight years of age when that work was first published It was presumably written about twelve years prior to its publicationor when the author was fifteen or sixteen years old The fact is almost incredible that one so young could produce a volume containing the wealth of symbolic thought and philosophy hidden between the lines ofThe Chemical Marriage This book makes the earliest known reference to Christian Rosencreutz and is generally regarded as the third of the series of original Rosicrucian manifestoes As a symbolic work the book itself is hopelessly irreconcilable with the statements made by Andre concerning it The story ofThe Chemical Marriagerelates in detail a series of incidents occurring to an aged man presumably the Father CRC of theFamaandConfessio If Father CRC was born in 1378 as stated in theConfessio and is identical with the Christian Rosencreutz ofThe Chemical Marriage he was elevated to the dignity of a Knight of the Golden Stone in the eightyfirst year of his life 1459 In the light of his own statements it is inconceivable that Andre could have been Father Rosy Cross