A Pious and Useful Admonition Concerning the Brothers of the Rosy Cross

...seen letters written to them, the matter
nevertheless remains and continues to be
doubtful; since they will not be able to
testify concerning the persons themselves,
their status, condition, and quality, nor
any other circumstances that might
come to be considered. What then?
They will be witnesses "according to a
certain respect" original: secundum quid; a logical term used to describe a statement that is true only in a limited sense or under specific conditions, rather than being absolutely or universally true.. Not to mention
that there have been few learned and
well-known men until now who have
dared to write anything about this
society original: societate.

2. They could seem not to exist because
no certain place is established where
they might dwell or reside. Now, if
they are men, it is necessary that they
exist in some physical location.

3. They could seem not to exist, not
only because almost to this very day
there has been no one who has openly
and publicly declared their name in
this discipline original: disciplina; here referring to the secret system of learning or way of life associated with the order. (if indeed it should be
called that): but rather they change
their names and “invent new ones for
themselves, or at least “they place the
surname before the given name “and
thus transpose them: so that in this
way they may cast a certain doubt
original: scrupulum; literally a small sharp stone in one's shoe, used here to mean a nagging uncertainty or moral hesitation. into the minds of simpler folk.

4. They could seem not to exist, because
they neither—