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the only Book of Life ". Florentinus of Valentia take then the first nobody; it says: " We listen to the Word in spirit in a quiet Sabbath " the book which contains all the others is in you, and in all the men " It is him which leads to the wisdom, which guides the wise ones, which made known of all to me, of creation, of times, stars, the animals, the thoughts, the men, the plants " the kingdom of God is in you (Luc XVII, 21). " the Word is the wisdom of God, his image, his spirit, its law, Christ in the man " Just as the small finger put in front of the eye prevents from seeing a whole city, in the same way a small defect prevents from seeing the treasure of Regeneration... " Adam does not have chu that by his own will. " I want nothing to be and ouïr all, to give up itself with God like a child, to adapt my will to his, to seek it above all, to let act its kingdom in me " (36). *** Irenaeus Agnostus appears to be the pseudonym of Gotthardus Arthusius, of Dantzig, which was a vice-rector of the Gymnasium of Francfort-surle-Main and which Semler believes to have been a chancellor of Westphalia. II sign one of its books (24) " makes indignant it notary of Fraternity for Germanie ". In Fons Gratiae (37) it takes again the lesson of Fama: " To fight against the defects and the defects, to live in humility, justice, the truth, chastity, like the first brothers. After the preparation, which will be able to last five years, the man, having carried the cross, will know the pink ". This " peaceful Inconnu " is a character enigmatic. The works published under its name are apologies for the Rosicrucian brotherhood (3). However, one of the opuscules signed of him (4) is caught some violently with the work also published under its name which is mentioned here (note 3). Certain authors, Buhle, Waite, assimilated, but without evidence, Irenaeus Agnostus with one of the adversaries of the Rosicrucian brotherhood, like F.-G. Menapius. *** Another anonymity signs Rhodophilus Staurophorus (the friend of the pink carrying the cross). A. Peeters-Baertsoen identifies it without evidence with Irenaeus Agnostus. Rhodophilus Staurophorus is the author of a booklet of 15 pages, written in August 1618: The philosophical Abduction (38). It signs " makes indignant it servant of the Fraternity of the Rosicrucian brotherhood ". *** still Let us quote Julianus de Campis, author of the Letter dated from Belbosco April 24 1615 (39) which was published with Fama in the edition of 1616 and in that from 1617. Kazauer (8) claims that it is about Julius Sperber, adviser of Anhalt-Dessau, author of the Echo of Fraternity Rosicrucian brotherhood (40). *** One of most erudite among the writers rosicrucians is the author of the restored Golden age (41), Henri Madathanus (Adrian Mynsicht). Originating in Brunswick, it is entitled Frère of the Gold Cross. He was a doctor and surgeon of the duke Adolphe Frederic de Mecklembourg. He worked with his famulus, Hermann Datich, to link the work of Boehme and that of the hermetists (5). *** the French philosopher Michel Potier, who lived in Germany, was filled with enthusiasm for the Rosicrucian brotherhood. II dedicated to the Brothers his New Treaty of the philosopher Pierre (42) and his Philosophy pure (43), informant that, in front of them, it is ignorant. II invites them to preach their doctrines in his country *** Into 1622, one found placarded with the walls of the principal crossroads of Paris a poster thus made out: " Us, Deputez of the principal College of the Brothers of the Roze-Cross, let us make visible and invisible stay in ceste city, by the grace Very High to which turns the heart of right. We will monstrons and teach without lashings ny marks with speaking all kinds of languages about the païs where want estre, to draw the men our similar from error and of dead " A few days later a new poster was affixed. One read there: **time-out** " If it take enuie with somebody to we see by curiosity only, it communicate never auec we but, if the will it carry really and in fact to himself register on the register of nostre confraternité, we, which judge the thought, luy make see the verité of our promise, so much that we put not the place of nostre remain, since the thought, iointes with will reelle of reader, be able to we make cognoistre with luy and luy with we " Buhle, which take these poster for a pasquinade, suspect not how much they reveal the true nature and the capacity of follower. The invisible presence, interior teaching, the gift of the languages, the ability to make perceive the light with the right intelligences are the privileges of a very high initiation *** Gabriel Naudé, publicity agent, intimate secretary of the Mazarin cardinal, wrote an Instruction in France on the truth of the history of the Brothers of Roze Croix, Paris, 1623, where it claims to tell what it could know about the origins of " Fraternity "; it exposes the legend of Christian
Rosencreutz and it is ironical about the claim of the Brothers of the Rosicrucian brotherhood to reform the world *** At the same time a coarse lampoon: Appalling pactions made between the Devil and alleged Invisibles (1623) still increases on calumnies of Naudé. Under pretext of inform his readers about the " Invisible ones ", the anonymous author charges to the Brothers of the Rosicrucian brotherhood of the stories of assassinations, evocation of the devil, infernal oaths, the scenes of Sabbath with the presence of Astaroth, etc... *** the P. Jacques Gaultier, of the Company of Jesus, devoted to the Rosicrucian brotherhood a chapter of his Table chronographic book of Estat of Christianity since the birth from Christ, Lyon, 1633. He declares that the Rosicrucian brotherhood is " a kid of the Lutheranism, mixed by Satan of empiricism and of magic ". As for the P. François Garasse: The doctrines of the beautiful spirits of this Time or alleged such, Paris, 1624, it go until requiring for them the wheel and the gibet. *** Descartes was useful during some time in Germany in the army of prince Maurice de Nassau. It intended towards 1619 to speak about the Rosicrucian brotherhood and sought to enter in connection with them; but it did not find any. What did not prevent that on its return in France, 1623, it was intended to reproach for having enrôlé itself in said the company. It did not want however not to condemn them without being better indicated on their subject. Leibniz never regarded the Rosicrucian brotherhood but as one fiction. For him, the Chymiques Weddings are a novel where it deciphered a enigma whose word was: Alchimia. *** Let us mention Thomas Vaughan, whose pseudonym was Eugenius Philalethes. It had been born into 1622. It was supposed originating in Scotland. It studied in Oxford and had a great reputation of chemist and alchemist. It attempted to penetrate the secrecies of nature. It was called " philosopher of nature "; it was given for disciple of Henri Corneille Clutched and was prided on hostility at the place of Aristote and Descartes. Into 1652 it translated into English Fama and Confessio. Here how it is expressed in the introduction of this book: " I am able to affirm the existence and the reality of this admired dream, the Fraternity of the Rosicrucian brotherhood... " and, in the foreword: " I do not have, for my part, any relation with those people... The attention that I give them was initially waked up by their books, because I recognized them there for philosophical truths... Their principles agree entirely with the antique and primitive wisdom; they are even in conformity with our own religion and confirm some all the points... Wisdom and the light came from the East; C is with this alive source that the Brothers of the Rosicrucian brotherhood drew their salutary water ". Inter alia works it wrote the open Gate of the closed Palate of the King (44) One should not confuse Eugenius Philalethes with its disciple George Starkey, whose pseudonym was Irenoeus Philalethes. *** As for Jean-Valentine Andreae, disappointed by the attitude of its fellowcitizens, made indignant by the abuses that the enthusiastic ones made its principles, by the polemic raised around the Rosicrucian brotherhood, the persecution also of which itself was the object on behalf of the leaders of the Church Lutheran (6), it solved to withdraw Rosicrucian brotherhood movement. It went even until declaring, in Menippus (46), in Mythologia christiana (47), that Fraternity is a joke, well more, that the Rosicrucian brotherhood never existed. But, in Turris Babel (48), it specifies its attitude: " I leave Fraternity now, but I will never leave the true Christian fraternity which under the cross feels the pinks and avoids the stains of the world ". And, in another place: " I want to be only one brother of Christ and Christian truths, to respect the institutions of Christ, to like Christian wisdom and to taste the pinks of Christ; I want to carry the cross of the Christians and to live their life; I want to live and die as a Christian ". With the remainder, in its Autobiography (31), it expressed its repentance to have laughed at the expense of the Brothers of the Rosicrucian brotherhood. In 1617 and 1618 it published an Invitation with the Fraternity of Christ (49); then, in 1619, under the title Description of the Republic of Christianopolis (50), the program of a Christian Union where it took again the theses of Fama and Confessio: the reform of the world by the establishment of a really Christian company. II exhorta his/her friends to be linked by a true brotherly love and to prepare the reign of the Holy Spirit by the imitation of Jesus-Christ in the life of each one. But this Company was born never *** We will finish this chapter by some anecdotes. Voltaire, in his article Alchemist of the
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