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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

know that Thing which I may call Impossible I am sure there are in Nature powers of all sorts and answerable to all Desires and even those very powers are subject to Us Behold I will declare unto thee their Generation and their secret Descents even to this Earth It is most certain that God works by the Idea's of his own minde and the Idea's dispence their Seals and communicate them dayly to the Matter Now the Anima Mundi hath in the fixed starrs her particular Forms or Seminal Conceptions answerable to the Idea's of the Divine minde and here doth she first receive those spiritual Powers and Influences which originally proceed from God From this place they are conveyed to the Planets especially to the Sun and Moon and these two great Lights impart them to the Air and from the Air they pass down to the Belly or Matrix of the Earth in prolific spirited Winds and Waters Seeing then that the Visible Heavens receive the Brightness of the Spiritual World and this Earth the Brightness of the Visible Heavens why may not we find something on Earth which takes in this Brightness and comprehends in it self the Powers of the two superior Worlds Now if there be such a Subject to be found I suppose it will not be denyed but the Powers of the Angelical and Celestial Worlds are very strange Powers and what that is which they cannot do is hard to determine The Subject then is the Salt I have spoken of formerly it is the Body of the Universal Spirit {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} It is the Sperm of Nature which she prepares for her own Light as if we should prepare Oyl for a Lamp A strange Substance it is but very common and of some Philosophers most properly called Salina virens Mirabilis And here it will not be amiss to speak something of the Cabalists Linea viridis or green Line a Mystery not rightly apprehended even by some of the Mekkubalim but certainly the Modern Rabbins know it not at all It is the last Midah or Propriety of the Sephiroths for it receives and includes all the Influences of the Sphirstical Order It compasseth the Heavens and in them the Earth like a green Rain-bow or one vast Sphere of Viridity and from this Viridity the divine Influences are showr'd down like Rain through the Aether into the Globes of the fixed Stars for what the Air is to the Globe of the Earth such is the Aether to the Globes of the Stars and here lies a Secret of the Mekkubalim for they tell us there is a double Venus in duplici Aere But of this enough I will now speak of the Philosophers Secret and blessed Viridity which is to be seen and felt here below It is the Proteus of the old Poets for if the Spirit of this green Gold be at Liberty which will not be till the Body is bound then will he discover all the Essences of the Universal Center Tum variae illudent species atque ora Ferarum Fiet enim subito sus horridus atraque Tigris Squamosusque Draco falvâ cervice Leaena Aut acrem flammis sonitum dabit atque ita Vinclis Excidet aut in Aquas tenues dilapsus abibit Omnia transformat sese in miracula Rerum Ignemque Horribilemque ferā Fluviumque liquentē But this is Poetry let us now hear the same Scene described by a most excellent and withall a severe Professor of Philosophy Ubi vero spiritus saith he excessit è fragilibus per quos sparsus erat meatibus estque ab omni prorsum Colluvie purgatus in infinitas sese attollit formas modo in Herbam modo in Lapidem aut in Insolitum quoddam Animal Interdum in Aequor aut Unionem aut Gemmam aut Metallum dulceque rubentibus jam Flammis emicans in multas statim colorum Myriadas transit vivitque portentorum semper Effector ac Magus isto nequaquam fatiscens labore sed vigore ac viribus indies adoloscens Thus he And now Reader I must tell thee that all these Miracles grow out of a certain Earth a soft red Clay which is to be found every where It may be thou art much troubled at these Appearances which I have mentioned but what wilt thou say to Jamblichus who tells us seriously that this Earth will attract Angels I mean good Spirits for so did he But let us hear this Auditor of Anebo for thus he writes from Aegypt to Porphyrius Omnium prima saith he Antiquissima Entia in Ultimis quoque subrutilant Immaterialiaque principia materialibus adsunt Nemo itaque miretur si quam materiam esse dicimus puram atque Divinam Nam ipsa quoque materia quum ab Opifice Patreque Omnium facta sit merito perfectionem sui quandam acquisivit aptam ad Deos suscipiendos Quinetiam quum nihil prohibet superiora Lumen suum ad Inferiora diffundere neque igitur materiam permittunt expertem fore Superiorum Quapropter quantumcunque materiae perfectum purum est atque deiforme ad Deorum susceptionem non est ineptum Nam quum oportuerit etiam Terrena nullo modo Divinae Communionis expertia fore ipsa quoque TERRA divinam quandam portionem suscepit ad capiendos Deos sufficientem Non ergo fas est omnem Materiam detestari sed solam quae Diis fuerit aliena Propriam vero ad illos decet eligere utpote quae consentire possit Neque enim aliter Terrenis locis hominibus hic habitantibus possessio portiove ulla ex Divinis contingere potest nisi TALE quiddam prius factum fuerit FUNDAMENTUM Arcanis itaque Sermonibus credendum est Testantibus a DEIS per Beata Spectacula Traidtam fuisse MATERIAM QUANDAM Haec ergo illis ipsis Tradentibus cognata est Talis ergo Materia Deos excitat ut se demonstrent c. These are the words of Jamblichus in that profound Discourse of his where he gives Porphyrius an Accompt of the Aegyptian Caldean and Assyrian Mysteries I know the Philosophical Earth discovers not those Forms I have spoken of in the common ordinary Process which if any man knows I shall not therefore call him a Philosopher There are several ways to use this Mystery both first and last and some of them may be communicated but some not To conclude I say that this clarified Earth is the Stage of all Forms for here they are manifested like Images in a Glass and when the Time of their Manifestation is finished they retreat into that Center out of which at first they came Hence came all Vegetables all Minerals and all the Animals in the World even Man himself with all his Tumult and Principality This Soft Clay is the Mother of them all and what the Divine Virgil sometimes said of Italy may be very properly applyed to this our Saturnine and Soveraign Earth Haec dedit Argenti Rivos Aerisque Metalla

THE FAME AND CONFESSION OF THE FRATERNITY OF R C Commonly of the Rosie Cross WITH A Praeface annexed thereto and a short Declaration of their Physicall Work By EUGENIUS PHILALETHES Jarch apud Philostrat {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Veritas in Profundo London Printed by J. M. for Giles Calvert at the black spread Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1652. THE Publisher to the Reader IT is the Observation of such as skill Dreams That to travel in our sleep a long way and all alone is a sign of Death This it seems the Poet knew for when the Queen of Carthage was to dye for Love he fits her with this Melancholy Vision Longam Incomitata videtur Ire Viam Now the use I make of it is this I would be so wise as to prognosticate I do therefore promise my present Work not only Life but Acceptance for in this my Dream and I know you will call it so I travel not without Company There were some Gentlemen besides my self who affected this Fame and thought it no Disparagement to their own but it was their pleasure it should receive light at my hands and this made them defer their own Copies which otherwise had past the Press I have Reader but little more to say unless I tell thee of my Justice and now thou shalt see how distributive it is The Translation of the Fama belongs to an unknown hand but the Abilities of the Translator I question not He hath indeed mistaken Damascus for Damcar in Arabia and this I would not alter for I am no Pedant to correct another mans Labours The Copy was communicated to me by a Gentleman more learned then my self and I should name him here but that he expects not either thy thanks or mine As for the Preface it is my own and I wish thee the full Benefit of it which certainly thou canst not miss if thou com'st to it with clear eyes and a purged spirit Consider that Prejudice obstructs thy Judgment for if thy Affections are engag'd though to an Ignis fatuus thou dost think it a Guide because thou dost follow it It is not Opinion makes Things False or True for men have deny'd a great part of the World which now they inhabit and America as well as the Philosophers Stone was sometimes in the Predicament of Impossibilities There is nothing more absurd then to be of the same mind with the Generality of Men for they have entertain'd many gross Errors which Time and Experience have confuted It is indeed our Sluggishness and Incredulity that hinder all Discoveries for men contribute nothing towards them but their Contempt or which is worst their Malice I have known all this my self and therefore I tell it thee but what use thou wilt make of it I know not To make thee what Man should be is not in my power but it is much in thy own if thou know'st thy Duty to thy self Think of it and Farewell E. P. TO THE Wise and Understanding READER WIsdom saith Solomon is to a man an infinite Treasure for she is the Breath of the Power of God and a pure Influence that floweth from the Glory of the Almighty she is the Brightness of Eternal Light and an undefiled Mirror of the Majesty of God and an Image of his Goodness she teacheth us Soberness and Prudence Righteousness and Strength she understands the Subtilty of words and Solution of dark sentences she foreknoweth Signs and Wonders and what shall happen in time to come with this Treasure was our first Father Adam fully endued Hence it doth appear that after God had brought before him all the Creatures of the Field and the Fowls under Heaven he gave to every one of them their proper names according to their nature Although now through the sorrowful fall into sin this excellent Jewel Wisdom hath been lost and meer Darkness and Ignorance is come into the World yet notwithstanding hath the Lord God sometimes hitherto bestowed and made manifest the same to some of his Friends For the wise King Solomon doth testifie of himself that he upon earnest prayer and desire did get and obtain such Wisdom of God that thereby he knew how the World was created thereby he understood the Nature of the Elements also the time beginning middle and end the increase and decrease the change of times through the whole Year the Revolution of the Year and Ordinance of the Stars he understood also the properties of tame and wilde Beasts the cause of the raigning of the Winds and minds and intents of men all sorts and natures of Plants vertues of Roots and others was not unknown to him Now I do not think that there can be found any one who would not wish and desire with all his heart to be Partaker of this noble Treasure but seeing the same Felicity can happen to none except God himself give Wisdom and send his holy Spirit from above we have therefore set forth in print this little Treatise to wit Famam Confessionem of the Laudable Fraternity of the Rosie Cross to be read by every one because in them is clearly shewn and discovered what concerning it the World hath to expect Although these things may seem somewhat strange and many may esteem it to be but a Philsophical shew and no true History which is published and spoken of the Fraternity of the Rosie Cross it shall here sufficiently appear by our Confession that there is more in recessu then may be imagined and it shall be easily understood and observed by every one if he be not altogether voyd of understanding what now adays and at these times is meant thereby Those who are true Disciples of Wisdom and true Followers of the Spherical Art will consider better of these things and have them in greater estimation as also judg far otherwise of them as hath been done by some principal Persons but especially of Adam Haselmeyer Notarius Publicus to the Arch Duke Maximilian who likewise hath made an Extract ex scriptis Theologicis Theophrasti and written a Treatise under the Title of Jesuiter wherein he willeth that every Christian should be a true Jesuit that is to walk live be and remain in Jesus He was but ill rewarded of the Jesuits because in his Answer written upon the Famam he did name those of the Fraternity of the Rosie Cross The highly illuminated men and undeceiving Jesuits for they not able to brook this layd hands on him and put him into the Calleis for which they likewise have to expect their reward Blessed Aurora will now henceforth begin to appear who after the passing away of the dark Night of Saturn with her Brightness altogether extinguisheth the shining of the Moon or the small Sparks of Heavenly Wisdom which yet remaineth with men and is a Forerunner of pleasant Phebus who with his clear and fiery glistering Beams brings forth that blessed Day long wished for of many

{non-Roman} {non-Roman} not the familiar friend but the familiar spirit of Apollonius it was he indeed that wrought all these Wonders for Apollonius himself never wrought any Now for the Learning of this Tyaneus since it is the pleasure of some men to think him learned I must confess for my part I cannot find it The Philosophy that he pretended to was that of Pythagoras for thus he rants it to Vardanes the Babylonian {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} c. I am a Master saith he of the Wisdom of Pythagoras the Samian he taught me the true form of worshipping the gods and who of them are visible who invisible and how I may come to speak with them How true this is we may easily know if we look back on his Education His Tutor in the Pythagorean Principles was one Euxenus a not able Sot and a meer Ignorant as Philostratus tells us He was saith our Author an Epicure in his course of life and for his Learning he could only repeat some sentences of Pythagoras but did not understand them and therefore he compares him to certain Mimic Birds who are taught their {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and their {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} but know not what the words signifie Now what Instructions he was like to receive from this man let any indifferent Reader judg But we have something more to say for if Apollonius when he was at Babylon could converse with the gods why did he afterwards desire to be taught of men For when he comes to India he requests the Brachmans to teach him the Art of Divination Certainly had he been familiar with Angels and Spirits he had not troubled them with such a Question These indeed are the slips of Philostratus who had the Art of Lying but wanted the Art of Memory In another place he tells us that Apollonius understood {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} all the Languages that men did speak and which is more miraculous even their secret Cogitations This is much indeed but shortly afterwards he forgets these strange perfections for when he brings him to Phraotes that serious Eastern Prince there doth he use an Interpreter for Tyaneus who formerly understood all languages could not understand the language of the Prince and so far was he from knowing his secret thoughts that he did not know in how many languages he could express those thoughts for when the Prince was pleased to express himself in the Greek Tongue Tyaneus was quite dejected and did much wonder how he came to be a Master of that Dialect Now if any man will say that the Brachmans did impart their Mysteries to him it is apparent enough they did not This is it which even Damis tells us for Apollonius saith he requested nothing of the Brachmans but certain Divinatory Tricks by which he might foretell things to come And here Jarchas takes occasion to discourse with him about Revelations for he speaks not of any Prognosticating Knacks which this Greek did look after He tells him then that he judg'd him a most happy man who could obtain any Fore-knowledg at the hands of God and preach that to the Ignorant which he did already foresee As for Rules to divine by he prescribes not any for it was too gross an Error for such a Philosopher as Himself He only tells him That he should lead a pure life and keep himself spotless from the Flesh One passage indeed there is which I cannot omit Jarchas informs Apollonius that of all Gifts imparted to Man by Revelation {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} The chiefest said he is the Gift of Healing or Medicine But this Heavenly and most Beneficial Truth Apollonius was not sensible of for he was so great a stranger to the Secrets of Nature that he did not know what to ask for For my own part if I durst think him a Philosopher I should seat him with the Stoics for he was a great Master of Moral Severities and this is all the Character I can give him As for Philostratus if we were not even with him I should think he had much abused us for when he pen'd his History he allow'd us no Discretion who were to come after him I could be sorry for some Absurdities he hath fastened on Jarchas did not the Principles of that glorious Brachman refute them What they are I shall not tell you for I am confin'd to a Preface and cannot proportion my Discourse to the deserts of my Subject And here some Critic may drop his Discipline and bid me face about for I am wide of my Text the Society of R. C. I have indeed exceeded in my service to the Brachmans but in all that there was no Impertinency I did it to shew the Conformity of the old and new Professors and this is so far from Digression I can think it near a Demonstration For when we have Evidence that Magicians have been it is proof also that they may be since it cannot be denyed but Presidents exclude Impossibility I hold it then worth our observation that even those Magi who came to Christ himself came from the East but as we cannot prove they were Brachmans so neither can we prove they were not Now if any man will be so cross as to contend for the Negative he shall have my thanks for the advantage he allows me for then it must follow that the East afforded more Magical Societies then one But this point I need not insist on for the learned will not deny but Wisdom and Light were first manifested in the same parts namely in the East where the first Man planted and hence did the World receive not only their Religion but their Philosophy for Custom hath distinguished those Two From this Fountain also this living Oriental One did the Brothers of R. C. draw their wholesom Waters for their Founder received his Principles at Damcar in Arabia as their Fama will instruct you at large It was not amiss then if I spent my hour in that bright Region and payd a weak Gratitude to those Primitive Benefactors for 't is a Law with me Qui aquam hauris puteum corona But that I may come at last to the Subject intended I shall confess for my part I have no acquaintance with this Fraternity as to their Persons but their Doctrine I am not so much a stranger to And here for the Readers satisfaction I shall speak something of it not that I would discover or point at any particulars for that 's a kindness as they themselves profess which they have not for any man nisi absumpto Salis Modio till they first eat a Bushel of Salt with him They tell us then that the Fire and Spirit of God did work upon the Earth and the Water and out of them did the Spirit extract a pure clear Substance which they call the Terrestrial Heaven in this Heaven the Spirit say they seated himself

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