SYMBOLS - ROSICRUCIAN CROSS The Rosicrucian cross designed by Stanislas de Guaita in 1888, and reproduced by Oswald Wirth in Le Tarot des Imagiers du Moyen Age, 1927. The four letters of the Tetragrammaton, making up the Hebrew name of God, mark the arms of the cross. The five letters in the triangles of the pentagram make up the name Jehousha, or Jesus, the 'Man-God'. The central aleph, or Hebrew letter A, is symbolic of Adam, the first Man, who fell, and who was redeemed by Christ. The word Rosicrucian is believed to be a combination of the Latin Ros (which means both Rose and Dew) and

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SYMBOLS - ROSICRUCIAN CROSS The Rosicrucian cross designed by Stanislas de Guaita in 1888, and reproduced by Oswald Wirth in Le Tarot des Imagiers du Moyen Age, 1927. The four letters of the Tetragrammaton, making up the Hebrew name of God, mark the arms of the cross. The five letters in the triangles of the pentagram make up the name Jehousha, or Jesus, the 'Man-God'. The central aleph, or Hebrew letter A, is symbolic of Adam, the first Man, who fell, and who was redeemed by Christ. The word Rosicrucian is believed to be a combination of the Latin Ros (which means both Rose and Dew) and the Latin Crucis, the generative of the Latin name for Cross. The symbol is that of the Rosy-Cross, and it was a symbolic masterstroke of de Guaita to arrange four roses in such a way as to form an ancillary cross. There are 10 Hebrew letters in the design, and 10 is marked in the Roman system by the Cross [X].

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