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

1. No one will easily be able to disparage rumors of this
kind entirely as far as their existence is concerned, if
they were to see the gathering of unknown men
at Frankfurt original: Françof., an abbreviation for Frankfurt at B. likely referring to a specific meeting place or person, such as the publisher Johann Bringer who brought letters and
called people away: they even brought money at times,
and what might seem a wonder, at that time and
for that purpose, where otherwise money would
not have been needed: a consideration which
will be explained below. This at least can be
proven from this fact: it is not that there are "none,"
or it cannot be denied that there are those
who sent such coins and were willing to lose
them, especially in the today's state of affairs.

2. That common proverb plays a part,
where the Germans say, “It would be nothing / unless
it came from something / ” original: Es sey nichts / es komme von etwas her /. This is a German equivalent to the English idiom "There is no smoke without fire." implying that
rumors, even if they are not true in every part,
are nevertheless not entirely false.

3. The reasons brought forward above under
numbers three, four, and five can also be
brought for confirmation. For insofar as they
change or transpose their names, insofar as they
deny their years, and insofar as unknowns arrive
by their own confession, to that extent no
Logician original: Logicorum will be there to deny that they exist
in the nature of things, since the argument follows from
the "is" of the third adjunct to the "is" of the second. In formal logic, this refers to the principle that if a property is attributed to a subject (e.g., "The man is a traveler"), it necessarily follows that the subject exists ("The man is").