The Rose Cross is, as its name suggests, a cross with a whiterose at its centre.[3 ]
The Rosy Cross is also a Rosicrucian symbol found in some
Masonic Christian bodies[4 ] and employed
by individuals and groups formed during the last centuries for the study of Rosicrucianism and allied
subjects,[5 ] but derived
from the adoption of a red rose.
^Albert Pike,
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, XXX: Knight Kadosh,
p. 822, 1872 [1]:
"Commentaries and studies have been multiplied upon the Divine Comedy, the work of DANTE, and
yet no one, so far as we know, has pointed out its especial character. (...) His Hell is but a negative
Purgatory. His Heaven is composed of a series of Kabalistic circles, divided by a cross, like the
Pantacle of Ezekiel. In the centre of this cross blooms a rose, and we see the symbol of the Adepts of
the Rose-Croix for the first time publicly expounded and almost categorically explained."