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

Rosicrucians, *) Ibid., Part I, p. 40. of whom Benedictus Figulus was one of the foremost. In this year appeared his Pandora magnalium naturalium aurea et benedicta The Golden and Blessed Pandora of Natural Wonders, German, Strasbourg, 8vo, (a little book which Semler did not know) just as the description by the fantastic Heinrich Khunrath of the flame-fire of the ancient Magorum Magi appeared there as well. Disquisitio de Helia Artista, in qua de metallorum transformatione adversus Hagellii et Berrerii Iesuitarum opiniones evidenter et solide disseritur, etc. Disquisition on Elias the Artist, in which the transformation of metals is evidently and solidly discussed against the opinions of the Jesuits Hagellius and Berrerius, etc. Marburg 1608, 8vo.

That the name of the actual Rosicrucians had not been known before this year was stated long ago by several, and as late as 1786 by the author of the Preliminary Presentation of Today's Jesuitism, Rosicrucianism, Proselytizing, and Religious Union, which appeared in Berlin at Unger, under the place of publication "Germany," p. 67.