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

Naometria, seu nudam et primam Libri intus et foris scripti per clavum Davidis et calamum Virgae similem apertionem, etc. Naometria, or the naked and first opening of the Book written within and without by the key of David and the reed similar to a rod, etc. There are two parts in 4to, closely written, and they contain 1790 pages, without the Prooemium preface, or the dedication to the Wirtemberg Duke Frederick, which is 205 pages long. The book is a dialogue between Nathanael and Kleophas, and the whole is a confused tissue of mystical calculations, with many symbols and figures. Genuine Rosicrucian wisdom. It deals with the crucifera militia Evangelica Evangelical cross-bearing militia, the crucifignatis those signed with the cross, and the mysterio mystery of the same. The former had already held an assembly in Lüneburg in the year 1586 (he writes on p. 1177), which is, as it were, the foundation of the Evangelical brotherhood, and what he writes on pp. 1297 and 1298 regarding the renewal of the earth and the general reformation is entirely in the spirit of the Rosicrucians. These "new-measurers," or Naometrae, were a specific sect or a type of Rosicrucian. Tobias Hessus was considered one of them, which is why his friend, Ioh. Valentin