DISSERTATION ON THE ROSICRUCIANS.

the time in which Iungius lived and the time when the Fama of these Brothers became known do not match at all. For while, according to most authors as we saw above, the Fama was already known at the beginning of the previous century (to omit other arguments showing that this society is older), at that time Ioachimus had scarcely emerged from adolescence, being thirteen years old, as he was born in 1587. Fourthly, in the Iungian writings (recorded accurately enough in the history of his life and death, which Martinus Fogelius, Professor of Mathematics in Hamburg, published together with an elegy written in honor of Iungius by M. Kirsteinius), I notice that no mention of this Fama is made. For although I would not deny that Iungius had attempted to establish some philosophical society around 1619, to which some gave their names (whose laws of the society I have read in the aforementioned history), nevertheless, the time does not fit, since Iungius only thought about this society of his in 1619, while according to the most common report, the Fama of this Fraternity was published in Kassel in 1614. — It is so far from the truth that this is the society of the R. C. Brothers that it is marked by a completely different name, namely Ereunetica the art of searching/inquiry. Nor did I find any agreement between the laws of this society and that one, except perhaps this single one, that it also urges silence and prohibits the disclosure of the laws and institutions of the College. But not even a word is mentioned in them of universal reformation or theological matters, which are nonetheless repeated to the point of exhaustion in the Fama Fratrum R. C.. Finally, the purpose of Iungius was entirely different from that of the Rosicrucians, namely the discovery of an Analysis logical breakdown by whose guidance lost problems are restored and previously unsolved ones are solved, as Conringius testifies in his Epistola ad Froelingium, Academiae Iuliae Professorem Letter to Froeling, Professor of the Julian Academy, which is prefixed to Barthol. Viottus's Books on Demonstration. To say nothing of the fact that this Ereunetic society, according to Fogelius in the life of Iungius (p. 12), vanished with its very invention after a vain attempt, while on the contrary, the society of the Brothers lasted a long time and caused many troubles.