The Theoretical Brothers, or the Second Grade of the Rosicrucians

...stimulated curiosity—sustained zeal
and activity, and thus people often became,
without even noticing it, virtuous—
and suddenly found themselves at
that point where they were intended to be. —
Another subject also constantly stimulated
human curiosity, namely the exploration
of the forces of nature. Primitive man
attributed them to invisible beings The original German "unsichtbaren Menschen" literally means "invisible humans," suggesting that early humans imagined natural forces as anthropomorphic spirits or deities.—
but there too, a genius awoke among them,
and tore away a part of the veil that
covers the works of nature, and drew with a bold
hand from the most hidden source—
unadulterated, deep wisdom. They combined
this knowledge—or conjectures—with
the higher purpose, and thus arose the so-called
Masons Maurer: referring here to Freemasons and Templars. *)

*) Dr. Danishmende A character name commonly used in 18th-century German philosophical fiction (notably by Christoph Martin Wieland) to represent an Eastern sage or an outsider's perspective. here speaks in very
general terms, although I am certain that
it did not escape him that every Masonic lodge
had associated several other
secondary purposes with the aforementioned goals—
according to the needs of the people among
whom they were established—or rather
and more generally—according to the
needs of the initiators Einweihenden: those who conduct the initiation into a secret society or mystery.