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

The so-called Revelation of John, a book that had previously made so many people into fools, gave the fanatics cause to postulate a thousand-year kingdom and the absurdity of the belief in a general improvement of the human race in the first quarter of the 17th century.

In this year, a man appeared who was an ornament of his times. I mean the meritorious Johann Valentin Andreä Born 1586, died June 27, 1654. Our Johann Saubertus was his favorite, and the learned Georg Philipp Harsdörfer was one of his most valued correspondents.. Already in his sixteenth year, he drafted the satirical novel: Christian Rosencreutz chymische Hochzeit Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosencreutz. This work, in which gold-makers and secret-mongering fools are made ridiculous, only appeared in print in 1616 in Strasbourg, twice in octavo, and was