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-pologetic writing original: "propugnational Schrifft" — a defensive or polemic text written to support a specific cause., printed in the year 1616, in which he principally deals in detail with the question: whether a Christian, with a good and pure conscience and without any violation of the honor of GOD, could safely enter into the Society of the Brethren original: "Societet der Fratrum" — the Rosicrucian Order.; a question he has handled at length and concluded affirmatively.

For as far as the highly praiseworthy Brotherhood original: "Fraternitet" itself is concerned, they are people, he says, who are not perhaps burdened with—or "pregnant" with A 17th-century metaphor meaning to harbor or be in the process of developing an idea.—any old or new heresy and sect in religion. Rather, by virtue of their above-mentioned Fame original: "Famæ" — referring to the Fama Fraternitatis, the first Rosicrucian manifesto which announced the order's existence to the world.