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

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I was just about to send this manuscript to the press when I read an excerpt in the seventh and eighth issues of the Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen Göttingen Learned Gazettes of this year from Mr. Professor Buhle’s treatise: de vera origine adhuc latente Ordinis Fratrum de rofea cruce, inprimis vero Ordinis Francomurariorum on the true and still hidden origin of the Order of the Brethren of the Rosy Cross, and especially of the Order of Freemasons. I found that Mr. Buhle strongly agrees with the results I gathered long ago, which I present here.

I had already stated in the new edition of my Merkwürdigkeiten Nürnbergs Curiosities of Nuremberg, p. 618, that the true origin of Freemasonry belongs to the times of Cromwell, and I will show below that it followed Rosicrucianism.

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