…fall of 1619 this is a historical episode that has become known as the incident of the winter King and queen, Frederick the elector palatine of bohemia and his queen Elizabeth, ruled for nearly a year from Prague and brought with them the alchemists of…

…Heidelberg. Personalities such as Michael Mayer, Johannes andré and Henry Cunrath graced their court. But the alchemical fantasies of Frederick the elector palatine of bohemia and his queen were destined to fail, for by the early spring of 1620, a local…

…great believer in propaganda, obviously I mean my whole life is about propaganda. So to take an incident like the career of Frederick the elector palatine of Heidelberg and his bride, and make of it a kind of exemplar, a parable, a myth if you will, the…

…fall of 1619 this is a historical episode that has become known as the incident of the winter King and queen Frederick the elector palatine of bohemia and his queen Elizabeth ruled for nearly a year from Prague and brought with them the alchemists of…

…Heidelberg. Personalities such as Michael Mayer, Johannes Andrei and Heinrich Kuhnrath graced their court, but the alchemical fantasies of Frederick the elector palatine of bohemia and his queen were destined to fail, for by the early spring of 1620, a local…

…it was protected. And when we talk later about the alchemical aspirations of the rosicrucians and John Dee and Frederick the elector palatine of bohemia we'll see that this impulse toward an alchemical kingdom returns again and again. In a way, utopianism…

…the attention of Michael Meyer and Johann Andrei and a number of these alchemists became the young Frederick He's called Frederick the elector palatine. He was a prince of the northern league in Germany. He ruled in Heidelberg, and Heidelberg, as you know…

…very, very skillfully and they were able to engineer the election of Frederick to emperor of the empire and he became Frederick the elector palatine of bohemia. And this set the stage for an episode called the episode of the winter King and queen, one of…

…believer in propaganda, obviously I mean my whole life is about propaganda. So to take an incident like the career of Frederick the elector palatine of Heidelberg and his bride, and make of it a kind of exemplar, a parable, a myth, if you will, the…

…inside there were all these alchemical books and with a quasi political overtone definitely favoring the bohemian Court of Frederick the elector palatine, and that all this should be disseminated as gospel. It was a kind of alchemical Protestant Revival. But…

…Elizabeth after her grandmother had managed to gain control of the empire, had been elected in fact he was called Frederick the elector palatine and this Habsburg Army was sent to destroy this Protestant Alchemical reformation. And it did so, laid siege to…

…implicated in the rosicrucian enlightenment and so forth and so on and there were a group of people around Frederick the elector palatine of bohemia, who wanted to establish a Protestant Alchemical kingdom in Europe in the early 17th century around 1619,…

…the early 17th century around 1619, and Maier was part of this group. Well they contrived to get this guy, Frederick the elector palatine of bohemia, named emperor, because at that time the princes of the hanseatic league chose the emperor and they were…