Threefold ArcanaThe word "Arcana" refers to deep secrets or hidden mysteries, often of a spiritual or alchemical nature.

To the Highly Enlightened and Art-Skilled Masters

of the Philosophical

FRATERNITY

Of the Rose CrossThe Rosicrucians (Rose Cross) were a secret society of doctors, alchemists, and philosophers who claimed to possess ancient wisdom and sought a "universal reformation" of humanity.

In which Your Noble and Honorable Fraternity is asked for a favorable instruction.

Composed

By a special lover of Divine and

Natural Secrets, and of praiseworthy arts.

Sirach

Dear child, let yourself be trained by wisdom from your youth; so shall you become a wise man. original: "Liebes Kind laß dich die Weißheit ziehen von Jugend auff / so wird ein weiser Mann auß dir." A paraphrase of Sirach 6:18.

Psalm 25

The secret of the LORD is among those
who fear Him.

Threefold Arcana to the Rosicrucian Fraternity

Threefold ArcanaThe word "Arcana" refers to deep secrets or hidden mysteries, often of a spiritual or alchemical nature.

FRATERNITY

Of the Rose CrossThe Rosicrucians (Rose Cross) were a secret society of doctors, alchemists, and philosophers who claimed to possess ancient wisdom and sought a "universal reformation" of humanity.

In which Your Noble and Honorable Fraternity is asked for a favorable instruction.

Printed in the year 1619.