-
Articles/Ads
Article BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES ← Page 7 of 13 →
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Biographical Sketches
In his " Tun-is Babel" ( Strasb . 1619 ) , p . 69 , is introduced Fama , speaking as follows : — "Satis suporque hominibus illusum est . Eheu , mortales ! nihil est quod Fraternitatis expeetetis : fabula peracta est . Fama astruxit : fama destruxit . Fama aiebat : fama negat , " & c * In his autobiographspeaking of his youthful labourslie
y , , says : —¦ " Secuta sunt' Veneris Detestatio et Lacrymai' tribus dialogis satis prolixis , qua ; modo me perierunt . Superfuerunt e contra 'Nuptias Chymica >' cum monsfcrorum fcecundo fcetu , ludibrium quod mircris a nonnullis aistimatum et subtili indagine explicatum , plane futile et quod inanitatem curiosorum prodat . Atque hcoo scriptionum pradudia fuere quibus illam variaj lectionis ingurgitatem exoneraA'i . " +
, We will not heap up further quotations to the same purpose . Those who use them to support their opinion of the entire illusionary nature of the society , were no doubt much influenced by their wishes to absolve so excellent a character as they found in Andre * from what must be admitted to be the later and spurious hallucinations to which his idea hacl iven rise ; and
g there are expressions in the above Avords Avhich signify his Avish not to be confounded Avith theirs . To what singular ancl supernatural poiver the Adepts laid claim even in Andre * ' s life , we Avill adduce a couple of curious examples .
" John Hayden , Gent . < pi \ 6 vo [ xog , a Servant of God and a Secretary of Nature . Lond . 12 mo . 1662 , " gives us , p . 3 , some idea of their tenets at a period of their greatest celebrity : — " Now there are a kind of men , as they themselves report , named Rosie Crucians , —a divine Fraternity that inhabflite the suburbs of heaven ; and these men are the officers of the Generalissimo of the Worldthat aro as
, the eyes and ears of the Great King , seeing and hearing all things . They say these Sosie Crucians are seraphically illuminated , as Moses was , according to this order of the elements : earth refined to water , water to air , air to fire . So of a man , to be one of the heroes ; of a hero , a demon or a good genius ; of a genius , a partaker of divine things , and a companion of the holy company of embodied souls and immortal angels ; and ,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Biographical Sketches
In his " Tun-is Babel" ( Strasb . 1619 ) , p . 69 , is introduced Fama , speaking as follows : — "Satis suporque hominibus illusum est . Eheu , mortales ! nihil est quod Fraternitatis expeetetis : fabula peracta est . Fama astruxit : fama destruxit . Fama aiebat : fama negat , " & c * In his autobiographspeaking of his youthful labourslie
y , , says : —¦ " Secuta sunt' Veneris Detestatio et Lacrymai' tribus dialogis satis prolixis , qua ; modo me perierunt . Superfuerunt e contra 'Nuptias Chymica >' cum monsfcrorum fcecundo fcetu , ludibrium quod mircris a nonnullis aistimatum et subtili indagine explicatum , plane futile et quod inanitatem curiosorum prodat . Atque hcoo scriptionum pradudia fuere quibus illam variaj lectionis ingurgitatem exoneraA'i . " +
, We will not heap up further quotations to the same purpose . Those who use them to support their opinion of the entire illusionary nature of the society , were no doubt much influenced by their wishes to absolve so excellent a character as they found in Andre * from what must be admitted to be the later and spurious hallucinations to which his idea hacl iven rise ; and
g there are expressions in the above Avords Avhich signify his Avish not to be confounded Avith theirs . To what singular ancl supernatural poiver the Adepts laid claim even in Andre * ' s life , we Avill adduce a couple of curious examples .
" John Hayden , Gent . < pi \ 6 vo [ xog , a Servant of God and a Secretary of Nature . Lond . 12 mo . 1662 , " gives us , p . 3 , some idea of their tenets at a period of their greatest celebrity : — " Now there are a kind of men , as they themselves report , named Rosie Crucians , —a divine Fraternity that inhabflite the suburbs of heaven ; and these men are the officers of the Generalissimo of the Worldthat aro as
, the eyes and ears of the Great King , seeing and hearing all things . They say these Sosie Crucians are seraphically illuminated , as Moses was , according to this order of the elements : earth refined to water , water to air , air to fire . So of a man , to be one of the heroes ; of a hero , a demon or a good genius ; of a genius , a partaker of divine things , and a companion of the holy company of embodied souls and immortal angels ; and ,