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

reissued in 1752 in Vienna Life of Johann Valentin Andreä in the second part of Petersen's Wirtem-. Andreä had as his end goal the spread of true Christianity, the return of all things to it, the expulsion of false scholarship, the overthrow of double tyranny, and the spread of true fear of God. There is no thought of a serious founding of the Rosicrucians.

Leibnitz was already of this established opinion and wrote to a friend: It seems to me that everything that has been said of the Brothers of the Rose Cross is a pure invention of some ingenious person. I have seen a German treatise entitled Les Noces chymiques (chymische Hochzeit Chemical Wedding), which began to appear at that time, in which the author seems at first glance to have said marvelous things, but which in the end are nothing but a novel in which one mocks the secrets of the chemists. I have myself deciphered an enigma in it, which is truly the problem of algebra, of which the word was only this: Alchymia Alchemy.