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

Brotherhood of the R. C.

...a single unity original Latin: "solum." Completing the phrase from the previous page: "the one of all unities... a single one.". However, it happens all too often that, in such a progression of reason and the operations of the senses, errors slip in. For on account of the unsuitability of the instruments and the inequality of the medium original Latin: "propter ineptitudinem instrumentorum & inæqualitatē medij"—or the unevenness of the means through which objects original Latin: "objecta" and things encountered move the senses and act as their appropriate stimuli before they even reach each instrument The "instruments" refer to the physical sense organs like the eyes or ears. of the senses—a blue mist often comes before one’s eyes, so that one mistakes a cobweb for a crocodile.

And when such a thing happens frequently, or when many people err with their senses at once and imagine something false, then reason also draws a false conclusion and creates a crooked rule. And the higher it then imagines itself to be climbing, the further it wanders from the truth, so that the saying taught in the schools from Aristotle The ancient Greek philosopher whose systems of logic were the foundation of university education in the 17th century. rings true:

original Latin: "Error in principio minimus in fine fit maximus."

For the physicians original German: "Medici" and naturalists original German: "Naturkündiger" say: A defec- The word is cut off and likely continues as "vitiated" or "defective" on the following page.

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