Restoration to the Fraternity of the Rosy Cross

But you can choose neither one thing nor nothing / neither this nor another / since the useless and false children of the world original: Welt Kinder; a term for those preoccupied with material and mundane affairs rather than spiritual truth cannot and should not be able to adapt or guide themselves into this—even against their will—but instead must only thresh empty straw original: lehr Stro dreschen; a German idiom for performing useless, unproductive work or engaging in hollow, repetitive talk, embellishing it and making it verbose.

For many, as Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BCE), the Roman orator and philosopher famous for his writings on ethics and rhetoric says, say many things; but few, as Jerome Saint Jerome (c. 347–420 CE), the Church Father best known for translating the Bible into Latin (the Vulgate) remarks, are able to fortify their words with proof original Latin: Multi enim, ut ait Cicero, multa dicunt, sed pauca, ut Hieronymus inquit, probatione valent communire.

In the meantime, therefore, everyone, according to a legal maxim original Latin: sententiâ juris, should rightly be presumed good, and in doubtful matters the more favorable interpretation should always be preferred, until the contrary is proven original Latin: Intereà igitur quilibet, ut est in sententiâ juris, meritò bonus præsumi, & in dubiis semper benigniora præferri debent, donec probetur contrarium.

For truly the Brothers original: Frattes, likely a misspelling of the Latin Fratres (Brothers), referring to the Rosicrucian Fraternity, as if they were not able or did not wish—