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

It is therefore useless to search therein for the secrets of the lapis philosophorum philosopher's stone. For in truth, the Adepti Adepts resemble the saints of the Catholics, who are praised for having performed so many miracles. Ioh. Frid. Felleri Otium Hanoveranum Hanoverian Leisure, p. 222. In another letter from the 26th of March 1696, which Semler *) Collections on the History of the Rosicrucians, 4th Part, p. 54. published, he writes: I suspect that the Fratres roseae crucis Brothers of the Rosy Cross were fictitious **) One should look here at the same place for the Semlerian judgment of the contributions and additions to the newer history of the genuine Rosicrucians, from the German Spectator, Issue XVII; 4th Part, p. 111 et seq., which Helmontius also confirmed to me. For to know what happens in remote places, to make oneself invisible and invulnerable, are undoubtedly trifles or rather laughable things.

[See] the Wirtemberg Repertory of Literature, p. 274 — 385. His Latin biography was published in German in 1799 by Prof. Seybold in the second volume of Autobiographies of Famous Men. As early as 1793, Mr. Burk had the catalog of his writings printed in Tübingen.