ON THE ROSICRUCIANS.

X. We find in the Acta Eruditorum, A. 1698, April, p. 171, sqq., a review of the life and death of Ioh. Ludouicus Fabricius, initially of Heidelberg and later of Zurich, a Doctor and Professor of Theology famous for his many merits and writings, written by Io. Henr. Heideggerus. Among other things, he reports that Fabricius's father, Ioannes, was expelled from the Palatinate in 1630 not without great violence and injustice, and was most promptly received by the inhabitants of Schaffhausen, a primary canton of the Swiss. He was a man sufficiently cultivated in letters (I use the words found in the Acta Eruditorum, p. 172, c. 1.), and as our Fabricius related in familiar conversation, he also drew the weapon of his pen against the Fratres Roseae Crucis Brothers of the Rosy Cross. He confirmed, likewise from the mouth of the Heidelberg Secretary who was privy to that affair, that Iungius, a mathematician who taught at Hamburg, was the author of that sect and had forged the book entitled Fama Fratrum R. C.. Following him are not only the collectors of those same Acts (unless everything deceives me), but also Io. Dauid Caroli in der Würtembergischen Unschuld The Würtemberg Innocence, P. III, C. IX, and Andr. Caroli in Memorabilium Seculi XVII, L. X, p. 776, as well as another author in der aufrichtigen Vorstellung vieler von Herrn M. Arnold verübten fürstlichen Verfälschungen &c. The Sincere Presentation of Many Princely Falsifications Perpetrated by Mr. M. Arnold. These last two do not openly affirm this, but only persuade themselves that this opinion is far more probable (weit gläubiger far more believable) and likely than Arnold's. Yet, saving the authority of these celebrated men, for whom I otherwise feel great respect, I cannot persuade myself that Ioachimus Iungius is the author of this Fraternity. For the arguments produced here are of minor weight, as they rely on reports made in familiar conversation by Fabricius about his father, or the Heidelberg Secretary, as if Fabricius had drawn his pen against this author. Indeed, if Io. Fabricius had written against this author, I have no doubt that his son would have mentioned this refutation elsewhere, of which, however, we have no trace as far as I know. Thirdly,