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

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Samuel Gentersberger's Speculum utriusque luminis Gratiae et Naturae Mirror of Both Lights of Grace and Nature, that is, Mirror of both lights, natural and supernatural, in which through the help of Chymiä Chemistry, besides the explanation of the nature and properties of the seven metals, etc., the undoubted doctrine of the Christian religion is depicted from the light of nature. Darmstadt 1611, 8vo. Who does not recognize the Rosicrucian nonsense here?

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The Morgenröthe im Aufgang Dawn Rising in the East, or Aurora, by the fanatical cobbler Jacob Böhme († Nov. 1624) appeared, and in that same year it was taken away from the author by the magistrate of Görlitz. The copies lay for 27 years in the Görlitz town hall. In 1639, Mayor Paul Scipio presented a copy to the Elector of Saxony's High Chamberlain, Georg von Pflug, who sent the miserable book to Holland, not only translated it into Dutch himself, but also provided the second German edition in Amsterdam in 1641. Böhme's writings were also almost