So, the fundamental monument of the European Christian-Rosicrucian tradition, which has long become almost a legend, which some consider a talented hoax, others - an operational guide to the secret alchemical Great Work, and still others - the secret catechism of the Rosicrucians, in symbolic form reflecting the stages of the order's initiation, has found finally its Russian-language equivalent! Over the course of three centuries, from the 18th to the 20th, repeated attempts were made in Russia to translate this work, shrouded in a mystical aura, but each time the work of the publishers, by a strange coincidence, encountered unexpected obstacles and was frustrated... This volume is a complete literary and scientific translation of “The Chemical Wedding” ” from Middle High German and fully preserves the features of the first Strasbourg edition of 1616. We are primarily talking about marginalia that are missing in later editions; These original notes in the margins not only help one navigate the complex and tangled labyrinth of the text, but sometimes in some paradoxical way highlight the dark places of the whimsically meandering plot, and sometimes they openly oppose the main idea of the story, introducing into it a strange, completely unexpected meaning. The book also includes "Fama Fraternitatis, or Revelations of the Fraternity of the Most Venerable Order of the R.C." and “Confessio Fraternitatis, or Confession of the venerable Fraternity of the Most Venerable Rosy Cross, compiled for the notice of all learned men of Europe.” Like any Hermetic text, “The Chemical Wedding” presupposes several levels of perception, and the comments accompanying the publication are further confirmation of this: articles by the Christian mystic and spiritual seer Rudolf Steiner, researcher of the Hermetic tradition E. Golovin and famous historian D. Kharitonovich allow you to look at certain episodes from different, sometimes complementary, and sometimes contradictory points of view.