DISSERTATION ON THE ROSICRUCIANS.

Incomparable men have accomplished this: Schelhammerus in Der Postill Weigelii The Postil of Weigel, Rostius in Helden-Buche vom Rosen-Garten Book of Heroes of the Rose Garden, Hoornbeckius in Summa Contr., Grismannus in getreuen Eckart The Faithful Eckart, Nicol. Hunnius in Betrachtung der neuen und Paracelsischen Theologie Contemplation of the New and Paracelsian Theology, and many others to whom I refer the reader. I add only this: not even Morhof—who usually feels more kindly toward him and his followers, as he is a man who loves and excuses the Chymicorum alchemical writers of this flour as being more mystical—could, in his Tom. III, L. V, § 36, p. 69, hide the fact that the Fratres R. C. Brothers of the Rosy Cross are related to Weigelius and other Enthusiasts. Kromaierus, in his Scrutinio Religionis, p. 142, also names them quite cleverly, and not without emphasis, Weigelii Gemellos Weigel's Twins.

IX. That some people think Tauler, others Thomas de Kempis, and others the author of the Theologia Teutonica German Theology are the founders of this Fraternity is undoubtedly for two reasons: 1) Because the followers and defenders of the Rosicrucians not only praise the writings of this triumvirate but recommend them as the only things to be read after the Holy Scriptures. see Grismann. c. l. p. 116; Hoornbeckius, Summ. Contr. p. 459. 2) Because they hold many dogmas in common with them, as the Ministerium Tripolitanum Tripolitan Ministry shows in der abgenöthigten Lehr und Schutz-Schrifft wider den Gutmannischen Offenbahrungs-Patron The Compelled Doctrine and Defense against the Gutmannic Patron of Revelation, p. 202, that Tauler and Kempis are suspected of Enthusiasmus Enthusiasm/Fanaticism, just as the Rosicrucians themselves are. Specifically concerning Tauler, see Nicol. Hunnius, c. l. p. 16, sqq.; concerning Kempis, p. 13; and concerning both, Philipp. Naudaeus, Professor of Mathematics in Berlin, in his very learned book der gründlichen Untersuchung der Mystischen Theologie The Thorough Investigation of Mystical Theology. Therefore, having enumerated all those whom even Arnold considers to be wrongly taken as authors of this cohort, one remains to whom the institution of the Society is usually ascribed. For the things boasted by the members about a certain member C. R.—who traveled long among foreigners, most wise (if it pleases the Homeric gods), and most lively—are rotten inventions, as noted above. The theologians in Belgium, asked for their opinion by the magistrates, did not hide this either in their Iudicio de Secta Fratrum R. C. Judgment on the Sect of the Brothers of the R. C., annexed to Hoornbeckii S. C.