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

exaggerate The word fragment "gant" from the previous page completes the word exagerant, meaning to amplify or inflate a claim. their years, since they are found to
understand "lunar years" “

or months original: annos lunaticos seu menses; the author suggests the Rosicrucians' legendary long lives are a trick of counting months as years.: by which reason it can “

happen that someone might be 700 “

or 800 years old, who otherwise would not
have exceeded the limit prefixed for man;
even if he were a little older.

5. They could also seem not to exist because
they come as unknowns, and are thus
somewhat timid, whereas so great a
business as they boast to handle requires
magnanimous and very brave men. Since,
therefore, the plain contrary is found in
them, that first claim will be false, or
certainly they lack confidence in their
cause. And for this reason, if all those
things being said “ cannot be declared of
each individual, “ through those things
which are said “ below regarding religion
original: religione, “ at the very least they
can be declared “ of them in general.
Which point must be observed as a
certain caution in this warning
original: admonitione.

THE AFFIRMATIVE OPINION.

Notwithstanding these things, however, it
is truer that such persons do exist: which
very thing can be demonstrated and proven
by various reasons original: rationibus. For