Rosicrucian Circular of October 4, 1782

Circulars
of the Rosicrucians
received 9 November 1782

There is a word available, the name of which cannot be written here; that which can now attain the light of the souls, it will come, without it being named! But to you, dear Brother, among whom some wish to walk in shadow, but nevertheless stumble in darkness like the majority of the Freemasons, the following is communicated out of true love.

Before I go any further, I will contribute a few things regarding the current state of Freemasonry in Germany, which may not be known to each and every brother! Everyone should observe—what it is, that Freemasonry in the end is discovered by our highest Represented by the symbol of the Sun above, that it is supposed to provide spectacles, in which many are prepared and drawn in, in order to arrive from there into the true Represented by the symbol of the Sun Son/Sun. Freemasonry is the forecourt of the Temple, whose hidden entrance is only discovered and opened to the worthy Freemason, and the hieroglyphs of the same only receive their true interpretation and essence inside, in our hopeful Represented by the symbol of the Sun, and remain outside and apart from the same as shadow-pictures, without quality, and has neither beginning, target, nor extent. Germany has been flooded for 40 years with Freemasonry in such a form that a whole book has already been printed, which fills the index of these Represented by the symbol of the Lodge.

These are divided, as is known, into two main branches, of which one has hitherto given itself the name of the Strict Observance, and has elected the worthy Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick as its head. The other names itself after its founder, a certain Zinnendorf, a physician in Berlin, who is a member cast out by many enemies of the Strict Observance in the local Represented by the symbol of the Lodge of the Three Globes. Yet a third Planium presumably a reference to a specific organizational branch branch stems from the Represented by the symbol of the Lodge Royal York de l'amitié in Berlin, which owes its existence to the aforementioned Represented by the symbol of the Lodge of the Three Globes, but has torn itself away from the same and had itself patented from London.