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

Andreä see his Vita MS. sub anno 1614, which Prof. Seybold published in German in 1799 in the Autobiographies, did not dare to praise him publicly.

John Heidon's Infallible axioms of the brethren of R. C. to know the passed, the present and the future, which came out around this time, are of the same stamp. Morhof cites them under a Latin title. Polyhist. L. I. c. 13. pag. 131.

To track down the founder or author of this sect would likely be a futile effort. It is to be sought in the mindset of the last quarter of the 16th century. It was very absurd that some even wanted to make the enlightened Hamburg mathematician Joachim Jung the founder of the sect and the author of the Fama Fraternitatis Report of the Brotherhood.

In this period, one must primarily place the publication of the writings of the so-called Basilius Valentinus, whose author was reliably a German.