Some time in the latter half of the eighteenth century the Rosicrucian movement was revived in Germany. There is disagreement about exactly when it took place – some say 1757, some 1777, others give a different date entirely. By the late eighteenth century, however, the Rosicrucians were anything but reformers. The new incarnation of the Rosicrucian brotherhood, christened the “Gold and Rosy-Cross” (Gold- und Rosenkreuzer) was a conservative organization, dedicated to combating the influence of the liberal Freemasons and Illuminati [Klaus Epstein, Genesis of German Conservatism (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1966), 105; Heinrich Schneider, Quest for Mysteries: The Mystical Background for Literature in Eighteenth Century Germany (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1947), 76-77].
– Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition (2001), p. 249