Pyrrho Clidensis Redivivus: A Consideration of the Rosicrucian Brotherhood

PYRRHO CLIDENSIS

REDIVIVUS.

...prepared / as Josephus testifies in the 18th book of his Antiquities Referring to Flavius Josephus, the 1st-century Jewish historian; Book 18 discusses various religious sects and the dangers of political innovation.

That novelty always nurtures discord, and as Cornelius Gallus An ancient Roman poet and statesman says:

A new thing always brings varied outcomes: original: Eventus varios res nova semper habet

Therefore, such good, sincere, and cautious people speak, and not without reason, citing Macrobius A late Roman philosopher and author: Whoever does not wish to change the current state of the city is both a citizen and a good man. original: Quisquis præsentem statum civitatis commutare non volet, & civis, & vir bonus est And what is cited from Ulpian A prominent Roman jurist in the Digests A fundamental collection of Roman legal writings: In establishing new things, there must be an evident utility to justify receding from that law which has long seemed fair. original: In rebus novis constituendis evidens esse utilitas debet, ut recedatur ab eo jure, quod diu æquum visum est Because, especially until now, the Rosicrucians A secret brotherhood that claimed hidden spiritual and scientific knowledge have presented their special illumination only with words, but have proven it with no effects or anything else. They also complain, citing Titus Calpurnius Titus Calpurnius Siculus, a Roman pastoral poet:

Cheap to us are all things we have seen in previous years,
And whatever we looked upon long ago seems filthy.
original: Vilia sunt nobis, quæcunq; prioribus annis / Vidimus, et sordet quicquid spectavimus olim

Therefore, this is not to be blamed on such pure souls original: Candidis animis, because what Catullus A Roman lyric poet said there can well be said of them: