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In what time is the actual origin of the Rosicrucians to be placed?

After the death of Paracelsus*) frequent writings on magic, theosophy, and alchemy spread, arising from the misinterpretation of individual passages in his works. Thurneisser in particular marked an epoch.

*) One finds the appreciation of this "Luther of Chemistry" in his biography in the second part of my new Literaturjournal Literature Journal, where I sought to portray the man as he was on pp. 177—285: he who laughed at alchemy, and whom many a minor doctor likes to disparage, who often barely knows how antihecticum Poterii a specific medicinal powder invented by Pierre Potier came into being. One must attribute much to the taste of his times, and had not a villainous priest driven him out of Basel, his writings would look quite different.