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of the court who attended maintenance, very old lady of atours vêtue of gray, capped with<br />

a trimmed black hat of pearls and red silk, wrapped in a coat embroidered with Turkish,<br />

advanced towards our hero and affirmed being to him the mother of the naked Virgin,<br />

entreating it to elect it for her wife " I will give you, added it, to clean her clothing a fusible salt,<br />

a fireproof oil and a priceless treasure ". Solomon thus gave him this Virgin, according to her<br />

request; there was then a tumult in the continuation of the king and the thoughtful one slept<br />

until the morning. While awaking, it saw nothing any more on its bed but soiled clothing of its<br />

been engaged; it carefully preserved them during five years, in spite of the bad smell which<br />

they released. At the end of this time, not knowing with which use they could be useful, it<br />

thought of being demolished some. <strong>The</strong>n appeared to him the old lady of atours which<br />

reproached him its incurie bitterly; under this clothing, indeed, that it neither had washed nor<br />

arranged, are hidden treasures. It explained to him then why the dislike that it had<br />

expressed, at the time of its marriage, for the clothing soiled with its been engaged, had<br />

irritated Saturn, the grandfather of this one, which had given it in the state where it was<br />

before being born. <strong>The</strong>n it revealed the means to him of cleaning these ornaments and of<br />

returning their primitive glare to them. Thus the thoughtful one found the treasure universal.<br />

*** SECRET SIGNS OF A FOLLOWER 1. <strong>The</strong> Rosicrucian brotherhood is patient. 2.<br />

Good. 3. It does not know the desire. 4. It does not hasten. 5. II is not useless. 6. It is not<br />

disordered. 7. It is not ambitious. 8. It is not irritable. 9. It does not think badly of the others.<br />

10. It likes justice. 11. It likes the truth. 12. It knows how to be quiet. 13. It believes so that it<br />

knows. 14. Its hope is firm. 15. It cannot be goes have > 16. II will remain always member<br />

of his Company. This was revealed with a pilgrim by an angel which removed the heart to<br />

him and put at its place a burning coal. (Madathanus). *** CURRENCY OF THE<br />

ROSICRUCIANS Ex Deo nascimur. In Jesu morimur. Per Spiritum Sanctum<br />

reviviscimus(12). *** RULES ROSICRUCIENNES 1. Love God over all. 2. Devote your<br />

time to the spiritual development. 3. Be entirely altruistic. 4. Moderated, modest, energetic<br />

and quiet. 5. Learn how to know the origin of metals in you. 6. Keep yourself claims. 7. Live<br />

in a constant worship of the supreme good. 8. Learn the theory before the practice. 9. Exert<br />

charity towards all the beings. 10. Read the old books of wisdom. 11. Seek to<br />

include/understand their secret direction. 12. Mystery reserved for the Rosicrucian<br />

brotherhood. II is purely interior. (Madathanus). (1) Gründlicher Bericht (56) contains the<br />

same allegory, in a hardly different form - <strong>The</strong>re are three directions with this allegory. (2)<br />

<strong>The</strong>se statutes and the rules which follow are translated of Madathanus. (3) Letter of F G<br />

Menapius, July 15 1617. (4) Clypeum veritatis. (5) VILLIERS OF LISLE-ADAM: Axël.<br />

(6) BULWER LYTTON: Zanoni. (7) Zanoni. (8) Zanoni. (9) RUYSBROECK the<br />

ADMIRABLE one and VILLIERS <strong>Of</strong> the ISLE-ADAM: <strong>The</strong> Indicator board. (10) Book<br />

Viii. (11) the Vulgate translates this term by the word Mandragores. (12) cf p. 51.<br />

CHAPTER IX THEOLOGY<br />

<strong>The</strong>ology rosicrucian is based on the ternary one. <strong>The</strong> Rosicrucian brotherhood recognize, in<br />

the absolute center of the divine plan, the eternal and incréée Nature which is distributed in<br />

the following way: - the Spirit, eternal Quintessence; - God, eternal Substance; - the Verb,<br />

Gasoline of the three divine people, triple and one; - divine Humanity, life of fire, light and<br />

spirit. This sphere of the divine sun radiates the Light of the Grace, whose FIAT produces<br />

Time and Space. In it are contained all the conceivable possibilities; they are the water<br />

described in cosmogonies, on which planes the breath of Elohim and which generates the<br />

Light of the Nature, which is the first thing created containing four qualities the cold, the heat,<br />

dryness and the wet one. Here are placed the operations of the natural Sun, at the same<br />

time fire, light, spirit and life. Hylé primitive, center of the Light of Nature, is the principle of<br />

the spiritual higher world, the inexpressible palate of celestial Nature zodiacale, tank of the<br />

seeds celestial, animal, vegetable and mineral. <strong>The</strong> body of the Light of Nature is the world<br />

lower, body, composed of form and matter, the four elements and the three principles: salt,<br />

sulphur and mercury. <strong>The</strong>se two worlds, the superior and the inferior, are similar; one finds

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