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PROGRESS OF ROSICRUCIANISM IN GERMANY. 251
of Paracelsus 1
Arian, Anabaptist, Lutheran, or disciple
Make unto yourselves also a new God, with a new heaven,
and beware lest you are plunged into the old perdition !
On our part, we will cling to the antiquity of the canonical
Scriptures." And then in regard to the new physics, " If
it be after the fashion of Parcelsus, chew the cud of your
own reflections in silence, and slumber placidly in your
absurdity. ... If ye come with the cabalistic calculations
concerning the fifty gates of understanding, scrutinising
the mysteriarcham Dei, take care that ye are not consumed
by the fire which is therein,
for those who will become
searchers of majesty shall be overwhelmed with glory."
The " Analysis Confessionis Fraternitatis de Eosea Cruce
pro admonitione et Instructione eorum, qui, quia judicandum
sit de ista nova factione scire cupiant," extracts, after
the author's own fashion, the thirty-seven " reasons of our
purpose and intention " which are to be found hidden in that
Rosicrucian manifesto, and criticises the Vice accedendi,
or methods of approaching the Order, which are I. By a
written petition. II. By the study of the Scriptures and
their interpretation in the cabilistico-magical manner of the
Paracelsists. III. By the writings and precepts of Para-
celsus. IV. By the symbolical characters inscribed on the
Macrocosmos.
These two Latin treatises were supplemented by a less
tedious German pamphlet, which appeared at Francfurt in
1616 under the title of "Well-wishing objections concerning
the Fame and Confession of the Brotherhood of the R. C.,
and their universal reformation of the whole world before
the day of Judgment, and transformation thereof into an
Earthly Paradise, such as was inhabited by Adam before
the fall, and the restitution of all arts and wisdom as