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TOO HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUC1ANS.
The Chymical Marriage of Christian Bosencreutz. Anno 1459.
Arcana publicata vilescunt, et gratiam prophanata amittunt.
Ergo : ne Margaritas objice porcis,
THE FIRST BOOK.
The First Day.
sen Asino substernere rosas.
On an evening before Easter-day, I sate at a table, and
having in my humble prayer conversed with my Creator and
considered many great mysteries (whereof the Father of
Lights had shewn me not a few), and being now ready to
prepare in my heart, together with my dear Paschal Lamb,
a small, unleavened, undefiled cake, all on a sudden ariseth so
horrible a tempest, that I imagined no other but that, through
its mighty force, the hill whereon my little house was
founded would fly all in pieces. But inasmuch as this, and
the like, from the devil (who had done me many a spight)
was no new thing to me, I took courage, and persisted in
my meditation till somebody touched me on the back,
whereupon I was so hugely terrified that I durst hardly look
about me, yet I shewed myself as cheerful as humane frailty
would permit. Now the same thing still twitching me
several times by the coat, I glanced back and behold it was
Praeconissa a fair and glorious lady, whose garments were all skye-
colour, and curiously bespangled with golden stars. In her
right hand she bare a trumpet of beaten gold, whereon a
Name was ingraven which I could well read but am forbidden
as yet to reveal. In her left hand she had a great bundle of
letters in all languages, which she (as I afterwards under-
stood) was to carry into all countries. She had also large
and beautiful wings, full of eyes throughout, wherewith she