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Responsibility against some

impetuous clamorers

and their defamatory speeches,

which they have poured out

against the Fraternity of the R.C. original: "Fraternität R. C." — the Rosicrucians.

The First Chapter.

Proof that nature is not

so exhausted that all

of its mysteries are revealed,

but rather that much more

remains hidden than is

manifest, namely, those things

which are true, and which serve as

testimony to their causes

and effects.

Nature, which spreads itself out and governs within the four elements and the orbibus spheres/orbits, that is, in the entire universe, has just as many remarkable,