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the deeds of its founder, the enigmatic German knight Christian Rosenkreutz, who lived in

the fifteenth century. After 120 years of his death, his body was found in an eptagonal crypt,

perfectly preserved with a book adorned with gold, the Mutus Liber. In the novel The

Chymical Wedding of C. Rosenkreutz (Germany, 1616 by J. Valentin Andreae), a spiritual
adventure is told that began after a premonitory dream and after an Angel's visit. Let's

follow the track. On the evening of Easter, the knight, absorbed in his prayers to the Father

of Light, suddenly heard a voice calling him to tossing and turning. Meanwhile, a storm

blows on the mountain where his house stood. Pervaded by alternating feelings of fear and

peace, the man in turn turned in front of him a

winged woman with a dazzling beauty. His robes

were set with golden stars, clutching in one hand a

golden trumpet on which was engraved a

forbidden name to reveal while on the other he
carried letters written in various languages. On

the letter addressed to him, Rosenkreutz glimpsed

a seal with a patent cross and the inscription In

hoc signo vinces and recognized in that sign

something that did not originate from diabolic

forces. Later the master undertook an initiatory

journey towards knowledge, interior renewal. An allegorical pilgrimage during which
evidence had to be overcome using bread, a vase of water and salt. Well, in one of the

revelations made by the housekeeper Marie Dénarnaud to a priest of Carcassonne, it is said

that she and Abbot Saunière used a motto: Bread, Salt and Vase. In my opinion it was an

implicit way to say that behind the secrets of Rennes le Château there are the secrets of the

most famous of the occult orders, the Rosicrucians: bread represents the body of Jesus in

the Eucharist: the Christ bread of life, the seed of immortality, but in the doctrines of the

Cathars the Panis Supersubstanzialis was the word, that is: the revelation of the secrets of

the Messiah himself.

The vase could symbolize the Holy Grail,
also seen as the womb of the woman, it is also the emblem of the heart of the initiate

(intelligence, intuition) and the supra-sensible nourishment, that is the drink of immortality.

Water symbolizes creation, the source of life, purity, the divine, protection from danger and

evil. The salt of the alchemists is the basis of everything that takes shape. In the crystal

shape becomes the substance of the stone of the wise (Philosopher's Stone) and the wise men

consecrated it to the

Celestial Virgin, that is, to
the one who fertilized the

spirit, that is wisdom: the

medium that represents the

connection between the

divine and the man. It is

also the emblem of physical,

moral and spiritual

transmutations. Perhaps

Saunière, through his
research, came to the

revelation of an occult

wisdom on immortality.