<b>The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz by Johann Valentin Andreae</b>&nbsp;The&nbsp;<i><b>Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz</b></i>&nbsp;(German:&nbsp;<i>Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz anno 1459</i>) is a German book edited in 1616 in&nbsp;Strasbourg. Its anonymous authorship is attributed to&nbsp;Johann Valentin Andreae.<br /><br />The&nbsp;<i>Chymical Wedding</i>&nbsp;is often described as the third of the original&nbsp;manifestos&nbsp;of the mysterious &quot;Fraternity of the Rose Cross&quot; (Rosicrucians), although it is markedly different from the&nbsp;<i>Fama Fraternitatis</i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<i>Confessio Fraternitatis</i>&nbsp;in style and in subject matter.<br /><br />It is an allegoric romance (story) divided into Seven Days, or Seven Journeys, like&nbsp;Genesis, and recounts how&nbsp;Christian Rosenkreuz&nbsp;was invited to go to a wonderful castle full of miracles, in order to assist the Chymical Wedding of the king and the queen, that is, the&nbsp;<i>husband</i>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<i>bride</i>.<br /><br />This manifesto has been a source of inspiration for poets,&nbsp;alchemists&nbsp;(the word &quot;chymical&quot; is an old form of &quot;chemical&quot; and refers to alchemy&mdash;for which the &#39;Sacred Marriage&#39; was the goal) and dreamers, through the force of its initiation ritual with processions of tests, purifications, death, resurrection, and ascension and also by its symbolism found since the beginning with the invitation to Rosenkreutz to assist this Royal Wedding.