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OE THE LIVES OF PEESONS AVHO HAVE MADE THEMSELVES REMARK ABLE IN TUB ESTABLISHMENT OE CONDUCT OE SEOEET SOCIETIES . " Qujsqms de Kosea dubitas Crucis ordine fratrum Hoc lego : perlecto carmine oertus eris . "
HAYDEN ' MOTTO . I . ANMB * ( Johann Valentin ) , by many supposed to have been the first founder of the Rosa Crucian Order , was a German writer and teacher of the seventeenth
century , AVIIO , both for , the independence of his mental powers , as well as for his noble exertions to forward the highest interests of humanity , deserves to be placed side by side Avith the most distinguished men of his times . He was born the 17 th August , 1586 , at Herrenberg a small market-town of the kingdom of
now Wiirtemberg , in Avhich place Ins father ( a son of the more famous theologian Jacob Andre *) exercised clerical functions somewhat analogous to those of our archdeacons . After he had visited the best schools ot his native province , he travpilWl Hn ™^« , „ - ; + ™ ., i „„ ,-i
,, Italy , France , ancl the Austrian territories , and on his return in 1614 was appointed deacon at Vaihingen , Avhich town suffered from two dreadful fires , in 1617 , October 30 th , for ten hours and again , somewhat less dreadful , October 9 th , in 1618 , both of which Avere described by Andreae in two small treatises— " IneU 11 i ngensiS prioris et P osterioris BrevisRecitatio 12
r . " mo i ^ n ? i Was P romoted to the superintendence at Kalw 1639 , he became court chaplain , spiritual privy councillor ; and 16 o 4 , was made Protestant prelate of the abbey of Bebenhausen Augustus , Duke of Brunswick , appointed him a spiritual councillor for his duchy ; ancl a long correspondence was preserved m the university of Helmstadt , which Andreae had kept wnh this patronancl removed with
up , the library , on the formation of the kingdom of Westphalia , to G 6 tting 4 n , where it still may be studied . This active and influential course of life was put a stop to by the inexorable hand of death , the 27 th June 1654 , at the ripe age of 68 years . ' Andreae was a man of great learning and of a comprehensive mind and raised above the spirit of his age by a clear and undisturbed perception of the moral wants of our nature an
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OE THE LIVES OF PEESONS AVHO HAVE MADE THEMSELVES REMARK ABLE IN TUB ESTABLISHMENT OE CONDUCT OE SEOEET SOCIETIES . " Qujsqms de Kosea dubitas Crucis ordine fratrum Hoc lego : perlecto carmine oertus eris . "
HAYDEN ' MOTTO . I . ANMB * ( Johann Valentin ) , by many supposed to have been the first founder of the Rosa Crucian Order , was a German writer and teacher of the seventeenth
century , AVIIO , both for , the independence of his mental powers , as well as for his noble exertions to forward the highest interests of humanity , deserves to be placed side by side Avith the most distinguished men of his times . He was born the 17 th August , 1586 , at Herrenberg a small market-town of the kingdom of
now Wiirtemberg , in Avhich place Ins father ( a son of the more famous theologian Jacob Andre *) exercised clerical functions somewhat analogous to those of our archdeacons . After he had visited the best schools ot his native province , he travpilWl Hn ™^« , „ - ; + ™ ., i „„ ,-i
,, Italy , France , ancl the Austrian territories , and on his return in 1614 was appointed deacon at Vaihingen , Avhich town suffered from two dreadful fires , in 1617 , October 30 th , for ten hours and again , somewhat less dreadful , October 9 th , in 1618 , both of which Avere described by Andreae in two small treatises— " IneU 11 i ngensiS prioris et P osterioris BrevisRecitatio 12
r . " mo i ^ n ? i Was P romoted to the superintendence at Kalw 1639 , he became court chaplain , spiritual privy councillor ; and 16 o 4 , was made Protestant prelate of the abbey of Bebenhausen Augustus , Duke of Brunswick , appointed him a spiritual councillor for his duchy ; ancl a long correspondence was preserved m the university of Helmstadt , which Andreae had kept wnh this patronancl removed with
up , the library , on the formation of the kingdom of Westphalia , to G 6 tting 4 n , where it still may be studied . This active and influential course of life was put a stop to by the inexorable hand of death , the 27 th June 1654 , at the ripe age of 68 years . ' Andreae was a man of great learning and of a comprehensive mind and raised above the spirit of his age by a clear and undisturbed perception of the moral wants of our nature an