Pyrrho Clidensis Redivivus: A Consideration of the Rosicrucian Brotherhood

REDIVIVUS.

...still for the time being: Let no man belong to another, who can be his own original: Alterius non sit, qui suus esse POTEST; a famous motto attributed to the physician Paracelsus, emphasizing individual intellectual and spiritual independence. And they say: It pleases us to come in due time original: In tempore venire nobis placet, until namely the society—increased by people who are born to it and driven by God and Nature—sees the appointed time for the complete restoration of Magic original: terminus omninò relevandæ Magiæ; "Magic" here refers to the high Renaissance concept of understanding the hidden laws of God and Nature or the knowledge of divine, angelic, natural, and human things original: cognitionis divinarum, angelicarum, naturalium, & humanarum rerum draw near, etc.

But when good, sincere, and cautious people nevertheless consider that nothing of antiquity should be ignored original: quod antiquitatis nihil sit ignorandum, and that antiquity should always be usefully investigated and retained original: quod antiquitas semper utiliter investigetur, & retineatur: Likewise, that old things are to be preferred to new, and quiet things to turbulent ones original: antehabenda novis vetera, & quieta turbidis.

Likewise, just as in political matters original: Politicis all innovations of laws are dangerous original: novationes legum periculosæ seyn, because a change in law is followed by a change in customs, which is accompanied by a certain sudden novelty original: quia mutationem juris sequitur mutatio morum, quam comitatur novitas quædam subita. This, moreover, tends to unsettle and shatter the State original: Hęc autem solet movere, & conquassare Rempublicam; so too it easily happens in the Republic of Letters Respublica literaria: the international community of scholars and intellectuals who shared knowledge across borders during the Renaissance and Enlightenment, and everywhere. What disaster Judas and Zadok referring to Judas the Galilean and Zadok the Pharisee, who founded a radical Jewish sect; here they serve as a warning against the dangers of inciting sudden social or religious upheaval [caused] with the introduction of a new sect...