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Article THE TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. ← Page 2 of 2 Article SOME ACCOUNT OF THE ROSICRUCIANS. Page 1 of 2 →
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The Translator's Preface.
The present Revival of it , was occasioned by the Rape of the Lock ; in the Dedication of which Poem Mr . Pope has given us his Opinion , That the best Account he kneAV of the Rosicrucian System , is in this Tract : Which we doubt not will" be a sufficient
Recommendation of it to the Public . The following , is a new Translation from the Paris Edition , which is now very difficult to be met with ; and there are some Notes interspersed , the better to illustrate several Passages and Authors referred to .
Some Account Of The Rosicrucians.
SOME ACCOUNT OF THE ROSICRUCIANS .
THIS Sect is of German Extraction , and was originally stiled Rose-Croix , or Rosicrucians , called also the Inlightened , Immortal , and Invisible . This Fame was given to a certain Fraternity , or Cabal , which appeared in Germany in the beginning of the XVIIth Age . Those that are admitted thereunto , called the Brethren , or Rosicrucians ,
swear Fidelity , promise Secrecy , write Enigmatically , or in Characters , and oblige themselves to observe the Laws of that Society , which hath for its End the re-establishing of all Disiciplines and Sciences , and especially Physick , which according to their Notion , is not understood , and but ill practised : They boast they have excellent Secrets , whereof the Philosopher ' s Stone is the least ; and they hold , that the
Ancient Philosophers of Egypt , the Chaldeans , Magi of Persia , and Gymnosophists of the Indies , have taught nothing but what they themselves teach . They affirm , That in 1378 , a Gentleman of Germany , whose Name is not known , but by these two Letters A . C . being put into a Monastery , had learned the Greek and Latin Tongue ; and
that some after going into Palestine , he fell sick at Damascus , where having heard speak of the Sages of Arabia , he consulted them at Damns , where they had a University . It ' s added , That these wise Arabians saluted him by his Name , taught him their Secrets ; and that the German , after he had travelled a long Time , returned into his own Country : where associating with some Companions , he made them Heirs of his Knowledge , and died in 1484 .
These Brothers had their Successors till 1604 . when one of the Cabal found the Tomb of the first of them , with divers Devices , Characters , and Inscriptions thereon ; the principal of which contained these four Letters in Gold , A . C . R . E . and a Parchment-Book written in Golden Letters , with the Encomium of that pretended Founder .
" * A certain Person having occasion to dig somewhat deep in the Ground where this Philosopher lay interred , met with a small Door , having a Avail on each Side of it . His Curiosity and the Hopes of
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The Translator's Preface.
The present Revival of it , was occasioned by the Rape of the Lock ; in the Dedication of which Poem Mr . Pope has given us his Opinion , That the best Account he kneAV of the Rosicrucian System , is in this Tract : Which we doubt not will" be a sufficient
Recommendation of it to the Public . The following , is a new Translation from the Paris Edition , which is now very difficult to be met with ; and there are some Notes interspersed , the better to illustrate several Passages and Authors referred to .
Some Account Of The Rosicrucians.
SOME ACCOUNT OF THE ROSICRUCIANS .
THIS Sect is of German Extraction , and was originally stiled Rose-Croix , or Rosicrucians , called also the Inlightened , Immortal , and Invisible . This Fame was given to a certain Fraternity , or Cabal , which appeared in Germany in the beginning of the XVIIth Age . Those that are admitted thereunto , called the Brethren , or Rosicrucians ,
swear Fidelity , promise Secrecy , write Enigmatically , or in Characters , and oblige themselves to observe the Laws of that Society , which hath for its End the re-establishing of all Disiciplines and Sciences , and especially Physick , which according to their Notion , is not understood , and but ill practised : They boast they have excellent Secrets , whereof the Philosopher ' s Stone is the least ; and they hold , that the
Ancient Philosophers of Egypt , the Chaldeans , Magi of Persia , and Gymnosophists of the Indies , have taught nothing but what they themselves teach . They affirm , That in 1378 , a Gentleman of Germany , whose Name is not known , but by these two Letters A . C . being put into a Monastery , had learned the Greek and Latin Tongue ; and
that some after going into Palestine , he fell sick at Damascus , where having heard speak of the Sages of Arabia , he consulted them at Damns , where they had a University . It ' s added , That these wise Arabians saluted him by his Name , taught him their Secrets ; and that the German , after he had travelled a long Time , returned into his own Country : where associating with some Companions , he made them Heirs of his Knowledge , and died in 1484 .
These Brothers had their Successors till 1604 . when one of the Cabal found the Tomb of the first of them , with divers Devices , Characters , and Inscriptions thereon ; the principal of which contained these four Letters in Gold , A . C . R . E . and a Parchment-Book written in Golden Letters , with the Encomium of that pretended Founder .
" * A certain Person having occasion to dig somewhat deep in the Ground where this Philosopher lay interred , met with a small Door , having a Avail on each Side of it . His Curiosity and the Hopes of