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PROGRESS OF ROS1CRUCIANISM IN GERMANY. 267
six hours. Apart from these two cures,
the second of
which is doubtless a miracle, but can boast only of their
own testimony, their whole medical history consists in
vague allegations and a few unimportant facts, as,
for in-
stance, that which Gabriel Naude cites in the following
terms :
"In the year 1615 a certain pilgrim suddenly appeared
in a German town, and assisted, as a doctor, at the prog-
nostication of the death of a woman whom he had helped
by some of his remedies ; he assumed to be proficient in
several languages, related what had occurred in the town
during his sojourn at this house; in a word, apart from
the doctrine in which he shone still more, he was in every
way similar to that Wandering Jew described by Cayot in
his " Histoire Septenaire "
moderate, reserved, carelessly
clad, never willingly remaining a long time in any one
place,
and still less desirous to be taken for what he never-
theless claimed to be, the third brother of the R.C., as he
testified to the doctor Moltherus, who could not be so
certainly persuaded to give credence to his statements, but
has presented us with this history, leaving our judgment
free to decide if it could establish a certain proof of the
existence of this Company." 1
According to Sprengel, a true Rosicrucian had only to
gaze fixedly on a person, and however dangerous
ease, he was instantaneously healed ;
his dis-
the Brethren claimed
to cure all diseases, without the help of drugs, by means
of imagination and faith. But the matter remains at this
day just where the claim originally left it, wholly unsup-
ported by fact.
1 "L'Alchimie et les Alchimistes, "
p. 301.