Christoph Gottlieb von Murr on the True Origin of the Rosicrucians and the Order of Freemasons: Together with an Appendix on the History of the Knights Templar

on the History of the Rosicrucians (Leipzig 1786, 8vo, four volumes). The learned man (whose student I had the luck to be in Altdorf in 1751) only failed in that: 1) he believed in secret order connections even in the times of Lullius and Paracelsus; 2) he fell into such errors as to believe in alchemy original: "Goldmachen", literally gold-making and to recommend the Hirschian air-salt-water,*) which is merely Glauber's salt bragging with urine magma.**) Must one not smile when one reads the good doctor's biography, Vol. I, pp. 324—327?

*) On genuine hermetic medicine. To Mr. Leopold Baron Hirsch in Dresden. Against false Masons and Rosicrucians, and for the defense of the air-salt-water. Leipzig 1786, 8vo. 3 volumes.

**) See Berlinische Monatsschrift Berlin Monthly Magazine, January 1787, p. 42 and following.