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the only Book of Life ". Florentinus of Valentia take then the first nobody; it says: " We listen<br />

to the Word in spirit in a quiet Sabbath " the book which contains all the others is in you, and<br />

in all the men " It is him which leads to the wisdom, which guides the wise ones, which made<br />

known of all to me, of creation, of times, stars, the animals, the thoughts, the men, the plants<br />

" the kingdom of God is in you (Luc XVII, 21). " the Word is the wisdom of God, his image,<br />

his spirit, its law, Christ in the man " Just as the small finger put in front of the eye prevents<br />

from seeing a whole city, in the same way a small defect prevents from seeing the treasure<br />

of Regeneration... " Adam does not have chu that by his own will. " I want nothing to be and<br />

ouïr all, to give up itself with God like a child, to adapt my will to his, to seek it above all, to<br />

let act its kingdom in me " (36). *** Irenaeus Agnostus appears to be the pseudonym of<br />

Gotthardus Arthusius, of Dantzig, which was a vice-rector of the Gymnasium of Francfort-surle-Main<br />

and which Semler believes to have been a chancellor of Westphalia. II sign one of<br />

its books (24) " makes indignant it notary of Fraternity for Germanie ". In Fons Gratiae (37) it<br />

takes again the lesson of Fama: " To fight against the defects and the defects, to live in<br />

humility, justice, the truth, chastity, like the first brothers. After the preparation, which will be<br />

able to last five years, the man, having carried the cross, will know the pink ". This " peaceful<br />

Inconnu " is a character enigmatic. <strong>The</strong> works published under its name are apologies for the<br />

Rosicrucian brotherhood (3). However, one of the opuscules signed of him (4) is caught<br />

some violently with the work also published under its name which is mentioned here (note<br />

3). Certain authors, Buhle, Waite, assimilated, but without evidence, Irenaeus Agnostus<br />

with one of the adversaries of the Rosicrucian brotherhood, like F.-G. Menapius. ***<br />

Another anonymity signs Rhodophilus Staurophorus (the friend of the pink carrying the<br />

cross). A. Peeters-Baertsoen identifies it without evidence with Irenaeus Agnostus.<br />

Rhodophilus Staurophorus is the author of a booklet of 15 pages, written in August 1618:<br />

<strong>The</strong> philosophical Abduction (38). It signs " makes indignant it servant of the Fraternity of the<br />

Rosicrucian brotherhood ". *** still Let us quote Julianus de Campis, author of the Letter<br />

dated from Belbosco April 24 1615 (39) which was published with Fama in the edition of<br />

1616 and in that from 1617. Kazauer (8) claims that it is about Julius Sperber, adviser of<br />

Anhalt-Dessau, author of the Echo of Fraternity Rosicrucian brotherhood (40). *** One of<br />

most erudite among the writers rosicrucians is the author of the restored Golden age (41),<br />

Henri Madathanus (Adrian Mynsicht). Originating in Brunswick, it is entitled Frère of the Gold<br />

Cross. He was a doctor and surgeon of the duke Adolphe Frederic de Mecklembourg. He<br />

worked with his famulus, Hermann Datich, to link the work of Boehme and that of the<br />

hermetists (5). *** the French philosopher Michel Potier, who lived in Germany, was filled<br />

with enthusiasm for the Rosicrucian brotherhood. II dedicated to the Brothers his New<br />

Treaty of the philosopher Pierre (42) and his Philosophy pure (43), informant that, in front of<br />

them, it is ignorant. II invites them to preach their doctrines in his country *** Into 1622, one<br />

found placarded with the walls of the principal crossroads of Paris a poster thus made out: "<br />

Us, Deputez of the principal College of the Brothers of the Roze-Cross, let us make<br />

visible and invisible stay in ceste city, by the grace Very High to which turns the heart of<br />

right. We will monstrons and teach without lashings ny marks with speaking all kinds of<br />

languages about the païs where want estre, to draw the men our similar from error and of<br />

dead " A few days later a new poster was affixed. One read there: **time-out** " If it take<br />

enuie with somebody to we see by curiosity only, it communicate never auec we but, if the<br />

will it carry really and in fact to himself register on the register of nostre confraternité, we,<br />

which judge the thought, luy make see the verité of our promise, so much that we put not<br />

the place of nostre remain, since the thought, iointes with will reelle of reader, be able to we<br />

make cognoistre with luy and luy with we " Buhle, which take these poster for a pasquinade,<br />

suspect not how much they reveal the true nature and the capacity of follower. <strong>The</strong> invisible<br />

presence, interior teaching, the gift of the languages, the ability to make perceive the light<br />

with the right intelligences are the privileges of a very high initiation *** Gabriel Naudé,<br />

publicity agent, intimate secretary of the Mazarin cardinal, wrote an Instruction in France on<br />

the truth of the history of the Brothers of Roze <strong>Croix</strong>, Paris, 1623, where it claims to tell what<br />

it could know about the origins of " Fraternity "; it exposes the legend of Christian

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