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THE CASE OF JOHANN VALENTIN ANDREAS. 227
edition of the "Confessio Fraternitatis," and seemingly
also of the "Fama," 1 do not describe the society as that of
the Rosie Cross, the edition of 1615, printed at Francfurt,
calls it the Bruderschafft des Rosen-Creutzes and it is,
therefore, argued that the three works must have origin-
ated from a single source.
II. .
passage :
The
" Chymical Marriage " contains the following
"
Hereupon I prepared myself for the way, put
with a blood-red
on my white linnen coat, girded my loyns,
ribbon bound cross-ways over my shoulder : In my
hat I
stuck four roses." Elsewhere, he describes himself as a
"
brother of the Red-Rosie Cross," and a "Knight of the
Golden Stone "
eques aurei lapidis.
Now, the armorial bearings of the family
of Andreas
contain a St Andrew's Cross with four roses, one in each of
angles, which interesting piece of internal evidence indi-
cates the authorship of this romance independently of the
autobiographical statement, and points irresistibly, it is said,
to the conclusion that the founder of the Rose-Cross Society
was the man whose heraldic device was also the Rose and
Cross.
III. The identity of the principles contained in the ac-
knowledged work of Andreas, and in the pamphlets which
it is sought to attribute to him,
are considered too obvious
to need enumeration, and it is sufficient to point
out that
all are equally directed against the charlatanic professors of
the magnum opus, thriving in countless numbers upon the
credulity and infatuation of the age.
IV. Arnold, in his "History
of the Church and of
1 The title of one of the earliest editions is quoted by Arnold as
follows :
" Fama Fraternitatis, or Discovery of the Brotherhood of
the Worshipful Order of the R, C."