On the True Origin of the Rosicrucians and the Order of Freemasons

I was just intending to send this manuscript to the press when I read an excerpt in the seventh and eighth issues of the Göttingen Learned Advertiser original: "Göttingiſchen gelehrten Anzeigen" of this year from the treatise by Professor Buhle: de vera origine adhuc latente Ordinis Fratrum de roſea cruce, inprimis vero Ordinis Francomurariorum On the true origin, still latent, of the Order of the Brothers of the Rosy Cross, and especially of the Order of Freemasons. I found that Mr. Buhle very much agrees with my long-collected results, which I present here.

I had already remarked in the new edition of my Curiosities of Nuremberg original: "Merkwürdigkeiten Nürnbergs", page 618, that the true origin of Freemasonry belongs to the times of Cromwell, and I will show below that it followed Rosicrucianism.

Mr. Semler has spared us much reading in his valuable impartial collections...