The Fame of the Brotherhood

parents) in the fifth year of his age, was placed in a monastery / and thus having learned both languages / Greek and Latin quite well / he was assigned to a Brother P. A. L. who had undertaken a journey to the Holy Sepulchre The tomb of Jesus in Jerusalem, the most significant pilgrimage site in Christendom. / (at his own diligent pleading and begging) while still in the flower of his youth : But although this Brother died in Cyprus / and thus never saw Jerusalem / our Brother C. R. Referring to Christian Rosenkreuz, though here abbreviated. did not turn back / but finished the sea voyage / and headed toward Damascus / intending / to visit Jerusalem from there / but as he remained there because of physical ailments / and because of his medical skill original: "Artzeneyens." In this period, medicine was closely tied to alchemy and the study of nature's hidden properties. (in which he was not without instruction) he gained the favor of the Turks / he happened to hear of the Sages of Damascus original: "Damasco." While the text says Damascus, Rosicrucian tradition often identifies this location as the legendary city of "Damcar" in Arabia. in Arabia / what wonders they performed / and how all of Nature was revealed to them / through this the high and noble genius original: "Ingenium"; refers to his natural talent, intellect, and spiritual disposition. of Brother C. R. C. Christian Rosenkreuz, the symbolic founder of the Rosicrucians. was awakened / so that Jerusalem was no longer as highly esteemed by him / as