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
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Rosicrucians
What think you, loving people, and how seem you affected, seeing that you
now understand and know, that we acknowledge ourselves truly and sincerely
to profess Christ, condemn the Pope, addict ourselves to the true
Philosophy, lead a Christian life, and dayly call, intreat, and invite
many more unto our Fraternity, unto whom the same Light of God likewise
appeareth. Consider you not at length how you might begin with us, not
only by pondering the Gifts which are in you, and by experience which you
have in the Word of God beside the careful Consideration of the
Imperfection of all Arts, and many other unfitting things, to seek for an
amendment therein; to appease God, and to accommodate you for the time
wherein you live. Certainly if you will perform the same, this profit will
follow, that all the Goods which Nature hath in all parts of the World
wonderfully dispersed, shall at one time altogether be given unto you, and
shall easily disburden you of all that which obscureth the understanding
of Man, and hindereth the working thereof, like unto the vain Epicides,
and Excentrick Astronomical Circles.
But those Pragmatical and busieheaded men, who either are blinded with
the glistering of Gold, or (to say more truly) who are now honest, but by
thinking such great Riches should never fail, might easily be corrupted,
and brought to Idleness, and to riotous proud living; those we do desire
that they would not trouble us with their idle and vain crying. But let
them think, that although there be a Medicine to be had which might fully
cure all Diseases, nevertheless those whom God hath destinated to plague
with diseases, and to keep them under the Rod of Correction, such shall
never obtain any such Medicine.
Even in such manner, although we might enrich the whole World, and endue
them with Learning, and might release it from innumerable miseries, yet
shall we never be manifested and made known unto any man, without the
especial pleasure of God; yea, it shall be so far from him whosoever
thinks to get the benefit, and be Partaker of our Riches and Knowledge,
without and against the Will of God, that he shall sooner lose his life in
seeking and searching for us, than to find us, and attain to come to the
wished Happiness of the Fraternity of the Rosie Cross.
CHAPTER V.
_John Heydon and the Rosicrucians._
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