Solemn Historical Dissertation on the Rosicrucians

...the Magi of Fes in Mauritania are declared. From them, he also drew Magic and Kabbalah, all the secrets of secrets, Physics and Chemistry, and indeed the perfection of all philosophy, both divine and human sciences. Imbued with this, he returned to Germany—having previously tried in vain the learned men of the Spanish and other nations, by whom he was mocked (see Fam. p. 14)—with the intention of introducing a general reformation of human and divine affairs, restoring all lost sciences, and rendering new light to others (p. 16). To this end, he built the house of the Holy Spirit, where he cultivated his studies and gathered his meditations, until he trusted in himself and, having taken companions from the monastery, raised up a society of Brethren named after himself. Finally, he died in the year 1484, more than a century old. Moreover, it is said about him that the brothers remained in ignorance of his death and his very sepulcher for a long time, until his deceased body was found by one of them, with an epitaph, various emblems, characters, and inscriptions, as shown in the Fama Fraternitatis, p. 27, and which Arnold also exhibits to us from that work. They report that a book was found with this Epitaph, written on parchment in golden letters, in which the laws and institutes of the society were contained. However, as is usually the case—that men, especially those in whose minds the seeds of perverse opinion are rooted, seek a Patron for the parties they desire to follow, and look up to the inventor as if he were a certain God—so also do these Brethren act with their concocted founder. For they not only boast about him, saying he was wiser than Solomon and saw more than Luther, but these Brethren also extol the Confessio...

The following lines are quoted from Hoornbeek, Sum. Cont. p. 402: "the utopian meditations of their father Christian Rosencreuz, which he held to be so outstanding and excellent over all that had ever been invented, thought out, produced, amended, or propagated by men from the beginning of the world, whether through divine revelation or the ministry of angels, or by the sharpness of wit, long observation, practice, or experience, that, if all books were to perish and, by the dispensation of God, the destruction of all authors and the entire literary matter were to occur (O the boasting and the bombastic, O the sesquipedalian—meaning foot-and-a-half-long—words!), yet posterity could still lay a new foundation from these alone and erect a new confirmation of truth, etc." This is on page 60.

You will find the same conceits, which some of their admirers nevertheless sell as things placed beyond the reach of doubt, among all the writers mentioned by me below, to be unfolded in the history of the Rosicrucians.