Silence After the Clamors

understanding—is contaminated and declines from integrity toward frauds, or from truth toward Sophistry. To go against this evil and to resist the rolling centuries, God, the Best and Greatest, out of His admirable kindness, stirs up restorers and critics of the arts who, like docimastæ assayers, clean and separate perfect metals from imperfect ones through the ash-cupel original: "cineritium cupellæ" so that they may discern the true from the false by the balance of Experience and Reason consenting with it, lest the good be rejected with the evil, or the evil be brought into use with the good and disturb judgment. Such men have shone forth in every age in the arts and in all faculties, just as the age of the fathers did in Theology and Medicine, and our own has exhibited in Astronomy and many other sciences. Among whom, those who are said to have instituted the order of German blood, the R. C. original: "R. C." for Rosicrucians, claim for themselves a most eminent place. For they testify that they have discovered from nature itself the certain axioms of the sciences which they have known, according to which the precepts must be directed to the end of any of them, so that thus the Harmony of all and singular arts and sciences may not only be found but also...