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called "Fama Fraternitatis , " was published in 1614 ; this was followed , tAvo years later ( 1616 ) , * by a work Avith the German title , " Chemische Hochzeit , " Christiani Rosenkreuz ( "Chemical Marriage , " by Christian Rosenkreuz ) . These books are the first in which any notice is given of the Order of the Rosicrucians * . they are totally different in character from any of the
works of later Avriters on this subject , —such as Michael Mayer , Robert Fludd , ancl others ; ancl correspond so entirely AA'ith the acknoAvledged works of Andre * , that , from internal evidence , they have been unhesitatingly ascribed to his pen , not only by the impartial Arnold above cited , but by Nicolai , by Herder , who wrote prologues to his works and poetry { vide Collected
Works , vol . xxix . pp . 268—289 ) , and from Bulile , in his very learned treatise , quoted in the note at foot . The idea and the words of an accompanying reformation of the world are taken from the " Centuries" of Trajano Boccalini di Raguagli de Parnasso , of ivhich the first appeared in 1612 . For the authorship most writers concur in Andre * : their difference lies in attributing the work to him as a real relation in sober seriousness , or as a pure fiction , to gain attention to liis reformatory plans , and the mere eidolon of a society that never existed but in his
own brain . Those who assert the latter , adduce their proofs principally from his oivn and later writings . In his " Mythologia Christiana , " 1619 , he introduces the Alethea ( Truth ) , declaring : — "Planissime nihil cum hae Eraternitate commune habeo . Nam cum paulo ante lusum quendam ingeniosorum personatus aliquis in literario
foro agere vellet credidissem , hae imprimis a ; tate , quee ad insolita quoaque so arrigit , nihil mora dum . Libellis inter se conflictantibus , sed velut in sccna prodeuntes subinde alios histriones non sine voluptate spectavi . At nunc , cum tlieatrum omne variis opinionum jurgiis impleatiu * , et oonjecturis et suspicionibns maledieentia potissimum pugnetm * , subduxi ego me , ne imprudentms me ulli rei ineerta "; et lubricEC immiscerim . " t
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
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called "Fama Fraternitatis , " was published in 1614 ; this was followed , tAvo years later ( 1616 ) , * by a work Avith the German title , " Chemische Hochzeit , " Christiani Rosenkreuz ( "Chemical Marriage , " by Christian Rosenkreuz ) . These books are the first in which any notice is given of the Order of the Rosicrucians * . they are totally different in character from any of the
works of later Avriters on this subject , —such as Michael Mayer , Robert Fludd , ancl others ; ancl correspond so entirely AA'ith the acknoAvledged works of Andre * , that , from internal evidence , they have been unhesitatingly ascribed to his pen , not only by the impartial Arnold above cited , but by Nicolai , by Herder , who wrote prologues to his works and poetry { vide Collected
Works , vol . xxix . pp . 268—289 ) , and from Bulile , in his very learned treatise , quoted in the note at foot . The idea and the words of an accompanying reformation of the world are taken from the " Centuries" of Trajano Boccalini di Raguagli de Parnasso , of ivhich the first appeared in 1612 . For the authorship most writers concur in Andre * : their difference lies in attributing the work to him as a real relation in sober seriousness , or as a pure fiction , to gain attention to liis reformatory plans , and the mere eidolon of a society that never existed but in his
own brain . Those who assert the latter , adduce their proofs principally from his oivn and later writings . In his " Mythologia Christiana , " 1619 , he introduces the Alethea ( Truth ) , declaring : — "Planissime nihil cum hae Eraternitate commune habeo . Nam cum paulo ante lusum quendam ingeniosorum personatus aliquis in literario
foro agere vellet credidissem , hae imprimis a ; tate , quee ad insolita quoaque so arrigit , nihil mora dum . Libellis inter se conflictantibus , sed velut in sccna prodeuntes subinde alios histriones non sine voluptate spectavi . At nunc , cum tlieatrum omne variis opinionum jurgiis impleatiu * , et oonjecturis et suspicionibns maledieentia potissimum pugnetm * , subduxi ego me , ne imprudentms me ulli rei ineerta "; et lubricEC immiscerim . " t