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

Naometria, seu nudam et primam Libri intus et foris scripti per clavum Davidis et calamum Virgae similem apertionem, etc. Naometria [Measuring of the Temple], or the bare and first opening of the Book written within and without by the key of David and the reed-like rod, etc. There are two parts in quarto, written tightly, and they contain 1790 pages, without the Prooemium preface, or the dedication to the Wirtemberg Duke Friederich, which is 205 pages long. The book is a dialogue between Nathanael and Kleophas, and the whole is a confused web of mystical calculations, with many symbols and figures. Genuine Rosicrucian wisdom. It deals with the crucifera militia Evangelica evangelical cross-bearing militia, the crucefignatis those marked with the cross, and the mysterio mystery of the same. The former, he writes on p. 1177, had already held an assembly at Lüneburg in the year 1586, which is, as it were, the foundation of the evangelical brotherhood, and what he writes on pages 1297 and 1298 about the renewal of the earth and the general reformation is entirely in the spirit of the Rosicrucians. These "Temple-measurers," or Naometrae, were a distinct sect, or a type of Rosicrucian. Tobias Hessus was considered one of them, hence his friend, Ioh. Valentin