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

a tenth on a half-sheet, where an owl with spectacles is between two burning candles. In the first 60 pages between pp. 18 and 19, one finds an entire sheet with the inscription: Summa Amphith. Sap. aeternae, solius, verae, Christiano-Cabbal. Divino-Magici etc. Summary of the Amphitheater of Eternal, Sole, and True Wisdom, Christian-Kabbalistic, Divinely-Magical etc. Finally, in the second part of the 222 pages, there is again an entire sheet that belongs to p. 151, where the space is marked with two **.

This theosophical-magical and astrological madness, whose ultimate goal was the ridiculous cooking of gold, did indeed produce some connections through correspondence; but there was no thought of a closed society, or of a conspiratorial gathering, as Iohann Schaubert, a chemist at Nordhausen, calls it in his writing printed at Magdeburg in 1600 in 8vo: Short Report on the Foundation of the High Art etc., to which they already wanted to entice him in 1590.

Semler wishes to conclude from (Collection I, p. 115) a passage by the Ludw. Konr. Montans or von Bergen mentioned below under the year 1622,