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THE CASE OF JOHANN VALENTIN ANDREAS. 243
the avowed, exoteric emblem, because in a professedly
authoritative work on the secret figuren of the Order
" Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer ans dem 16 ten und
17 ten Jahrhundert" I find the following remarkable
elaboration of the Lutheran seal, which practically decides
the question.
Taking into consideration that the " Naometria " of Simon
Studion and the original draft of the " Nuptise Chymicse "
both belong to nearly the same period, and that Andreas
was undoubtedly acquainted with the work of the mystical
teacher of Marbach, as a passage in the " Turris Babel"
makes evident, it is not an impossible supposition
that the
young student of Tubingen came into personal communi-
cation with Studion, who was only some fifty miles distant
in the cheapest days of travelling, and having a natural in-
clination to secret societies, became associated with the
Militia Crucifera Evangelica. Out of this connection the
" "
Nuptise Chymicse might naturally spring, and the subse-
quent Rosicrucian society was the Militia transfigured after
the death of Studion, 1 and after the travels and experience
1 There is one fact which is too remarkable to be a mere coinci-
dence, and which seems to have been unnoticed Jay previous investi-
gators, namely, that Sigmund Richter, who claims to speak