A decorative woodcut headpiece displays symmetrical floral scrolls and botanical motifs.

Preface

To the favorable reader.

It is written, favorable
reader, that in former times
Thalus, who was appointed by the
pagan god Jupiter over the third part of the world,
Europe, had feet of bronze, and was of such swift
and rapid speed that he was said to be able to circle the island
of Crete three times in one day, and to have brought
the tablets of the law into every city, of which there were
a hundred in number. Likewise,
it is also believed by many
that it is the same with the Fraternitas R. C. Rosicrucian Fraternity.