Mysteries of the Rosie Cross: Or, the History of that Curious Sect of the Middle Ages, Known as the Rosicrucians; with Examples of their Pretensions and Claims as Set Forth in the Writings of Their Leaders and DisciplesAnonymous
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Mysteries of the Rosie Cross: Or, the History of that Curious Sect of the Middle Ages, Known as the Rosicrucians; with Examples of their Pretensions and Claims as Set Forth in the Writings of Their Leaders and Disciples
Anonymous
Rosicrucians
If there be somebody now which on the other side will complain of our
discretion, that we offer our Treasures so freely, and without any
difference to all men, and do not rather regard and respect more the
godly, learned, wise, or princely persons than the common people; those we
do not contradict, seeing it is not a slight and easie matter; but without
we signify so much, that our Arcana or Secrets will no ways be common,
and generally made known. Although the Fama be set forth in five
languages, and is manifested to every one, yet we do partly very well know
that, the unlearned and gross wits will not receive nor regard the same;
as also the worthiness of those who shall be accepted into our Fraternity
are not esteemed and known of us by Man's carefulness, but by the Rule of
our Revelation and Manifestation. Wherefore if the unworthy cry and call a
thousand times, or if they offer and present themselves to us a thousand
times, yet God hath commanded our ears, that they should hear none of
them: yea, God hath so compassed us about with his Clouds, that unto us
his servants, no violence or force can be done or committed; wherefore we
neither can be seen or known by any body, except he had the eyes of an
Eagle. It hath been necessary the Fama should be set forth in every ones
Mother Tongue, because those should not be defrauded of the knowledge
thereof, whom (although they be unlearned) God hath not excluded from the
happiness of this Fraternity, the which shall be divided and parted with
certain degrees; as those which dwell in the city Damcar in Arabia, who
have a far different politick order from the other Arabians. For there
they do govern only wise men, who by the King's permission make particular
Laws; according unto which example, also the Government shall be
instituted in Europe (whereof we have a description set down by our
Christianly Father) when first is done and come to pass that which is to
precede. And thenceforth our Trumpet shall publiquely sound with a loud
sound, and great noise, when namely the same (which at this present is
showed by few, and is secretly, as a thing to come, declared in Figures
and Pictures) shall be free and publiquely proclaimed, and the whole world
be filled withall. Even in such manner as heretofore, many godly people
have secretly and altogether desperately pusht at the Pope's Tyranny,
which afterwards, with great earnest, and especial zeal in Germany, was
thrown from his seat and trodden under foot, whose final fall is delayed,
and kept for our times, when he also shall be scratched in pieces with
nails, and an end be made of his Asses cry, by a new voyce: the which we
know is already reasurably manifest and known to many learned men in
Germany, as their writings and secret congratulations do sufficiently
witness the same.
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