Pyrrho Clidensis Redivivus: A Consideration of the Rosicrucian Brotherhood

...infinite [wisdom] which God has in Himself and embraces: but the temperate man acquires it in a great and ample measure. He asked for only as much of this gold as a temperate man alone is strong enough to carry. This, I believe, is indeed that refined gold original: "aurum ignitum"; literally "gold tried in the fire" from Revelation 3:18 which John commands us to buy in the Apocalypse The Book of Revelation. Thus far Ficino Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), the influential Renaissance philosopher who sought to harmonize Platonic philosophy with Christian theology.

Another and Christian person could say, and rely upon, what Christ—in whom all things are One—taught: seek first the Kingdom of God, etc., and then hope for what the Truth of God has promised. In this "One" original: "In uno", there is enclosed at the beginning as an archetype original: "exemplariter" everything in all the arts that is to be enclosed; and if one looks at it correctly, there appears within it, by impression original: "impressivè", a third—or a perfected trinity—which cannot displease God. But ultimately, it converges into a single point original: "punctum", such that one remains one. This is, to be sure, spoken as a digression original: "excursivè".

His—the Father’s—associates original: "socii"; likely referring to the "brethren" of a secret spiritual society, a common theme in Rosicrucian literature have the command to use the clothing and manners original: "Habit" of every nation and station in whatever place original: "in loco" they may be. They have their certain tokens original: "tessaram"; a secret password or sign of recognition and characters. He who sees his end approaching concerns himself with a

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