Echo of the God-Enlightened Fraternity of the Order of the Rosy Cross

...species original Latin: "speciem" and specific idea original Latin: "ideam specificam".

And since this natural ability—which arises from a certain arrangement original Latin: "disposition" of the instruments original Latin: "Instrumenten"; here referring to the physical senses and organs of the brain., without which the human soul can perform no work as long as it is united with the body—is a good thing (which the Germans call having a "good head" and the Latins call ingenium original Latin: "ingenium"; refers to a person's innate talent, wit, or natural mental capacity.), he proceeds. He holds these specific ideas original Latin: "ideas specificas" against one another, setting aside those that coincide with each other, and thus creates a new unity original Latin: "unitet" and generic idea original Latin: "ideam genericam" or subordinate species original Latin: "specificam subalternatam".

And when he has many of these, he climbs higher still, and out of these same ideas original Latin: "ideis" and subordinate species original Latin: "specibus subordinatis", he creates a unity and genus original Latin: "genus"; a general category or class in logic., until he reaches the most general genus original Latin: "genus generalissimum" and the highest unity, the one of all unities (as Hermes Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary figure associated with ancient wisdom and the "Hermetic" tradition central to Rosicrucian thought. says) which is the root original Latin: "unam unitatum omnium quæ sunt radicem". Toward this goal, all things—including the human understanding—silently aim; but very few give off a reflection original Latin: "reflexion" of these sunbeams, such that they know they aim there, and know the true end of their knowledge and understanding...