On the True Origin of the Rosicrucians and the Order of Freemasons

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. 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, the end goal of which was the ridiculous cooking of gold, did indeed produce some connection through correspondence; however, one could not yet think of a closed society or of a gathering, as Johann Schaubert, a chemist in Nordhausen, calls it in his pamphlet printed in Magdeburg in 1600 in 8vo: Short Report on the Foundation of the High Art etc., to which one already wanted to entice him in 1590.

Semler wishes to conclude from (Coll. I. Part p. 115) a passage of the one mentioned below under the year 1622