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A85092	The fame and confession of the fraternity of R: C: Commonly, of the Rosie Cross. With a præface annexed thereto, and a short declaration of their physicall work. By Eugenius Philalethes.; Fama fraternitatis. English.	Vaughan, Thomas, 1622-1666.; Andreä, Johann Valentin, 1586-1654, attributed name.	1652 (1652)	Wing F350A; Thomason E1291_3; ESTC R200745	45,529	134

Ciprus and so never came to Jerusalem yet our Brother C. R. did not return but shipped himself over and went to Damasco minding from thence to go to Jerusalem but by reason of the feebleness of his body he remained still there and by his skill in Physick he obtained much favour with the Turks In the mean time he became by chance acquainted with the Wise men of Damasco in Arabia and beheld what great Wonders they wrought and how Nature was discovered unto them hereby was that high and noble Spirit of Brother C. R. so stired up that Jerusalem was not so much now in his mind as Damasco also he could not bridle his desires any longer but made a bargain with the Arabians that they should carry him for a certain sum of money to Damasco he was but of the age of sixteen years when he came thither yet of a strong Dutch constitution there the Wise received him as he himself witnesseth not as a stranger but as one whom they had long expected they called him by his name and shewed him other secrets out of his Cloyster whereat he could not but mightily wonder He learned there better the Arabian Tongue so that the year following he translated the Book M. into good Latin which he afterwards brought with him This is the place where he did learn his Physick and his Mathematicks whereof the World hath just cause to rejoyce if there were more Love and less Envy After three years he returned again with good consent shipped himself over Sinus Arabicus into Egypt where he remained not long but only took better notice there of the Plants and Creatures he sailed over the whole Mediterranean Sea for to come unto Fez where the Arabians had directed him And it is a great shame unto us that wise men so far remote th'one from th' other should not only be of one opinion hating all contentious Writings but also be so willing and ready under the seal of secrecy to impart their secrets to others Every year the Arabians and Affricans do send one to another inquiring one of another out of their Arts if happily they had found out some better things or if Experience had weakened their Reasons Yearly there came something to light whereby the Mathematica Physic and Magic for in those are they of Fez most skilful were amended as there is now adays in Germany no want of learned Men Magicians Cabalists Physicians and Philosophers were there but more love and kindness among them or that the most part of them would not keep their secrets close only to themselves At Fez he did get acquaintance with those which are commonly called the Elementary Inhabitants who revealed unto him many of their secrets As we Germans likewise might gather together many things if there were the like unity and desire of searching out of secrets amongst us Of these of Fez he often did confess that their Magia was not altogether pure and also that their Cabala was defiled with their Religion but notwithstanding he knew how to make good use of the same and found still more better grounds of his Faith altogether agreeable with the Harmony of the whole World and wonderfully impressed in all Periods of times and thence proceedeth that fair Concord that as in every several kernel is contained a whole good tree or fruit so likewise is included in the little body of Man the whole great World whose Religion policy health members nature language words and works are agreeing sympathizing and in equal tune and melody with God Heaven and Earth and that which is dis-agreeing with them is error falshood and of the Devil who alone is the first middle and last cause of strife blindness and darkness in the World Also might one examine all and several persons upon the Earth he should find that which is good and right is always agreeing with it self but all the rest is spotted with a thousand erroneous conceits After two years Brother C. R. departed the City Fez and sailed with many costly things into Spain hoping well he himself had so well and so profitably spent his time in his travel that the learned in Europe would highly rejoyce with him and begin to rule and order all their Studies according to those sound and sure Foundations He therefore conferred with the Learned in Spain shewing unto them the Errors of our Arts and how they might be corrected and from whence they should gather the true Inditia of the Times to come and wherein they ought to agree with those things that are past also how the faults of the Church and the whole Philosopia Moralis was to be amended He shewed them new Growths new Fruits and Beasts which did concord with old Philosophy and prescribed them new Axiomata whereby all things might fully be restored But it was to them a laughing matter and being a new thing unto them they feared that their great Name should be lessened if they should now again begin to learn and acknowledg their many years Errors to which they were accustomed and wherewith they had gained them enough Who so loveth unquietness let him be reformed The same Song was also sang to him by other Nations the which moved him the more because it happened to him contrary to his expectation being then ready bountifully to impart all his Arts and Secrets to the Learned if they would have but undertaken to write the true and infallible Axiomata out of all Faculties Sciences and Arts and whole Nature as that which he knew would direct them like a Globe or Circle to the onely middle Point and Centrum and as it is usual among the Arabians it should onely serve to the wise and learned for a Rule that also there might be a Society in Europe which might have Gold Silver and precious Stones sufficient for to bestow them on Kings for their necessary uses and lawful purposes with which such as be Governors might be brought up for to learn all that which God hath suffered Man to know and thereby to be enabled in all times of need to give their counsel unto those that seek it like the Heathen Oracles Verily we must confess that the world in those days was already big with those great Commotions laboring to be delivered of them and did bring forth painful worthy men who brake with all force through Darkness and Barbarism and left us who succeeded to follow them and assuredly they have been the uppermost point in Trygono igneo whose flame now should be more and more brighter and shall undoubtedly give to the World the last Light Such a one likewise hath Theophrast us been in Vocation and Callings although he was none of our Fraternity yet nevertheless hath he diligently read over the Book M whereby his sharp ingenium was exalted but this man was also hindered in his course by the multitude of the learned and wise-seeming men that he was never able peaceably to confer with others of

his Knowledg and Understanding he had of Nature And therefore in his writing he rather mocked these busie bodies and doth not shew them altogether what he was yet nevertheless there is found with him well grounded the aforenamed Harmonia which without doubt he had imparted to the Learned if he had not found them rather worthy of subtil vexation then to be instructed in greater Arts and Sciences he then with a free and careless life lost his time and left unto the World their foolish pleasures But that we do not forget our loving Father Brother C. R. he after many painful Travels and his fruitless true Instructions returned again into Germany the which he by reason of the alterations which were shortly to come and of the strange and dangerous contentions heartily loved There although he could have bragged with his Art but specially of the transmutations of Metals yet did he esteem more Heaven and the Citizens thereof Man then all vain glory and pomp Nevertheless he builded a fitting and neat habitation in the which he ruminaated his Voyage and Philosophy and reduced them together in a true Memorial In this house he spent a great time in the Mathematicks and made many fine Instruments ex omnibus hujus art is partibus whereof there is but little remaining to us as hereafter you shall understand After five years came again into his mind the wished for Reformation and in regard he doubted of the ayd and help of others although he himself was painful lusty and unwearisom he undertook with some few adjoyned with him to attempt the same wherefore he desired to that end to have out of his first Cloyster to the which he bare a great affection three of his Brethren Brother G. V. Brother J. A. and Brother J. O. who besides that they had some more knowledg in the Arts then at that time many others had he did binde those three unto himself to be faithful diligent and secret as also to commit carefully to writing all that which he should direct and instruct them in to the end that those which were to come and through especial Revelation should be received into this Fraternity might not be deceived of the least sillable and word After this manner began the Fraternity of the Rosie Cross first by four persons onely and by them was made the Magical Language and writing with a large Dictionary which we yet dayly use to Gods praise and glory and do finde great wisdom therein they made also the first part of the Book M but in respect that that labor was too heavy and the unspeakable concourse of the sick hindred them and also whilst his new building called Sancti spiritus was now finished they concluded to draw and receive yet others more into their Fraternity to this end was chosen brother R. C. his deceased fathers brothers son brother B. a skilful Painter G. and P. D. their Secretary all Germains except J. A. so in all they were eight in number all batchelors and of vowed virginity by those was collected a book or volumn of all that which man can desire wish or hope for Although we do now freely confess that the World is much amended within an hundred years yet we are assured that our Axiomata shall unmovably remain unto the Worlds End and also the world in her highest last Age shall not attain to see any thing else for our Rota takes her beginning from that day when God spake Fiat and shall end when he shall speak Pereat yet Gods Clock striketh every minute where ours scarce striketh perfect hours We also stedfastly beleeve that if our Brethren and Fathers had lived in this our present and clear light they would more roughly have handled the Pope Mahomet Scribes Artists and Sophisters and had shewed themselves more helpful not simply with sighs and wishing of their end and consummation When now these eight Brethren had disposed and ordered all things in such manner as there was not now need of any great labour and also that every one was sufficiently instructed and able perfectly to discourse of secret and manifest Philosophy they would not remain any longer together but as in the beginning they had agreed they separated themselves into several Countries because that not only their Axiomata might in secret be more profoundly examined by the learned but that they themselves if in some Country or other they observed any thing or perceived some Error they might inform one another of it Their Agreement was this First That none of them should profess any other thing then to cure the sick and that gratis 2. None of the Posterity should be constrained to wear one certain kind of habit but therein to follow the custom of the Country 3. That every year upon the day C. they should meet together at the house S. Spiritus or write the cause of his absence 4. Every Brother should look about for a worthy person who after his discease might succeed him 5. The word C. R. should be their Seal Mark and Character 6. The Fraternity should remain secret one hundred years These six Articles they bound themselves one to another to keep and five of the Brethren departed only the Brethren B. and D. remained with the Father Fra R. C. a whole year when these likewise departed then remained by him his Cousen and Brother J. O. so that he hath all the days of his life with him two of his Brethren And although that as yet the Church was not cleansed nevertheless we know that they did think of her and what with longing desire they looked for Every year they assembled together with joy and made a full resolution of that which they had done there must certainly have been great pleasure to hear truly and without invention related and rehearsed all the Wonders which God hath poured out here and there through the World Every one may hold it out for certain that such persons as were sent and joyned together by God and the Heavens and chosen out of the wisest of men as have lived in many Ages did live together above all others in highest Unity greatest Secrecy and most kindness one towards another After such a most laudable sort they did spend their lives and although they were free from all diseases and pain yet notwithstanding they could not live and pass their time appointed of God The first of this Fraternity which dyed and that in England was J. O. as Brother C. long before had foretold him he was very expert and well learned in Cabala as his Book called H. witnesseth In England he is much spoken of and chiefly because he cured a young Earl of Norfolk of the Leprosie They had concluded that as much as possibly could be their burial place should be kept secret as at this day it is not known unto us what is become of some of them yet every ones place was supplyed with a fit successor but this we

relation for the most part is taken In another chest were looking-glasses of divers virtues as also in other places were little bells burning lamps chiefly wonderful artificial Songs generally al done to that end that if it should happen after many hundred years the Order or Fraternity should come to nothing they might by this onely Vault be restored again Now as yet we had not seen the dead body of our careful and wise father we therfore removed the Altar aside there we lifted up a strong plate of brass and found a fair and worthy body whole and unconsumed as the same is here lively counterfeited with all the Ornaments and Attires in his hand he held a parchment book called I. the which next unto the Bible is our greatest treasure which ought to be delivered to the censure of the world At the end of this book standeth this following Elogium Granum pectori Jesu insitum C. Ros. C. ex nobili atque splendida Germaniae R. C. familia oriundus vir sui seculi divinis revelationibus subtilissimis imaginationibus indefessis laboribus ad coelestia atque humana mysteria arcanavè admissus postquam suam quam Arabico Africano itineribus Collegerat plusquam regiam atque imperatoriam Gazam suo seculo nondum convenientem posteritati eruendam custo divisset jam suarum Artium ut nominis fides acconjunctissimos herides instituisset mundum minutum omnibus motibus magno illi respondentem fabricasset hocque tandem preteritarum praesentium futurarum rerum compendio extracto contenario major non morbo quem ipse nunquam corpore expertus erat nunquam alios infestare sinebat ullo pellente sed spiritu Dei evocante illuminatam animam inter Fratrum amplexus ultima oscula fidelissimo creatori Deo reddidisset Pater dilectissimus Fra suavissimus praeceptor fidelissimus amicus integerimus a suis ad 120 annos hic absconditus est Underneath they had subscribed themseves 1 Fra I. A. Fr. C. H. electione Fraternitatis caput 2 Fr G. V. M. P. C. 3 Fra R. C. Iunior haeres S. spiritus 4 Fra B. M. P. A. Pictor Architectus 5 Fr G. G. M. P. I. Cabalista Secundi Circuli 1 Fra P. A. Successor Fr I. O. Mathematicus 2 Fra A. Successor Fra. P. D. 3 Fra R. Successor patris C. R. C. cum Christo triumphant At the end was written Ex Deo nascimur in Jesu morimur per spiritum sanctum reviviscimus At that time was already dead Brother I. O. and Fra D. but their burial place where is it to be found we doubt not but our Fra Senior hath the same and some especial thing layd in Earth and perhaps likewise hidden we also hope that this our Example will stir up others more deligently to enquire after their names whom we have therefore published and to search for the place of their burial for the most part of them by reason of their practice and physick are yet known and praised among very old folks so might perhaps our Gaza be enlarged or at least be better cleared Concerning Minutum Mundum we found it kept in another little Altar truly more finer then can be imagined by any understanding man but we will leave him undescribed untill we shal truly be answered upon this our true hearted Famam and so we have covered it again with the plates and set the altar thereon shut the door and made it sure with all our seals besides by instruction and command of our Rota there are come to sight some books among which is contained M. which were made in stead of houshold care by the praise-worthy M. P. Finally we departed the one from the other and left the natural heirs in possession of our Jewels And so we do expect the answer and judgment of the learned or unlearned Howbeit we know after a time there wil now be a general reformation both of divine and humane things according to our desire and the expectation of others for it 's fitting that before the rising of the Sun there should appear and break forth Aurora or some clearness or divine light in the sky and so in the mean time some few which shall give their names may joyn together thereby to increase the number and respect of our Fraternity and make a happy and wished for beginning of our Philosophical Canons prescribed to us by our brother R. C. and be partakers with us of our treasures which never can fail or be wasted in all humility and love to be eased of this worlds labor and not walk so blindly in the knowledge of the wonderful works of God But that also every Christian may know of what Religion and belief we are we confess to have the knowledge of Jesus Christ as the same now in these last days and chiefly in Germany most clear and pure is professed and is now adays cleansed and voyd of all swerving people Hereticks and false Prophets in certain and noted Countries maintained defended and propagated Also we use two Sacraments as they are instituted with all Formes and Ceremonies of the first renewed Church In Politia we acknowledge the Roman Empire and Quartam Monarchiam for our Christian head albeit we know what alterations be at hand and would fain impart the same with all our hearts to other godly learned men notwithstanding our hand-writing which is in our hands no man except God alone can make it common nor any unworthy person is able to bereave us of it But we shall help with secret aid this so good a cause as God shal permit or hinder us For our God is not blinde as the Heathens Fortuna but is the Churches Ornament and the honor of the Temple Our Philosophy also is not a new Invention but as Adam after his fall hath received it and as Moses and Solomon used it also she ought not much to be doubted of or contradicted by other opinions or meanings but seeing the truth is peaceable brief and always like her self in all things and especially accorded by with Jesus in omni parte and all members And as he is the true Image of the Father so is she his Image It shal not be said this is true according to Philosophy but true according to Theologie And wherein Plato Aristotle Pythagoras and others did hit the mark and wherein Enoch Abraham Moses Solomon did excel but especially wherewith that wonderful book the Bible agreeth All that same concurreth together and make a Sphere or Globe whose total parts are equidistant from the Center as hereof more at large and more plain shal be spoken of in Christianly Conference But now concerning and chiefly in this our age the ungodly and accursed Gold-making which hath gotten so much the upper hand whereby under colour of it many runagates and roguish people do use great villanies and cozen and abuse the credit which is given them yea now adays men of discretion do