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ROSICRUCIAN APOLOGISTS: MICHAEL MAIER.vji
been equally enraged.
He expostulates with them, saying
Non omnis ad omnia omnibus horispamtus est, but his arguments
as a whole can hardly be deemed satisfactory. Locorum
absentia, personarum distantia, &c., could scarcely prove ob-
stacles to men who were bound by no considerations of space
and time, and readers of the inmost heart would have dis-
covered some who were worthy among the host of applicants.
" A much larger work, Symbola Aurese Mensae,"
published in the same year as the " Silentium Post
Clamores " also contains some references to the " College
of German Philosophers of E. C." The story of the founder
is reprinted, and Apollo with the twin muses are repre-
sented as contributing various vexatious metrical enigmas
for the benefit of those enquirers who desired to be directed
to the local habitation of the Order. Neither of these
works represents their author as personally connected with
the Rosicrucians, nor do they convey any information
respecting them. The same must be said of " Themis
Aurea, hoc est, De Legibus Fraternitatis R. C. Tractatus,"
which Maier published at Francfurt in 1618. It main-
tains that the laws in question are good, dilates upon
the pre-eminent dignity of the healing art, declares that
all vices are intolerable in physicians, and that the Rosi-
crucians are free from all. The most curious and important
point in the whole " is Apologia" that Maier declares the
" "
Universal Reformation to have no connection with the
manifestoes of the Society, but to be a tract translated from
the Italian, and simply bound up with the "Fama."
Moreover, he earnestly endeavours to free the Order from
the imputation that it desired to reform the world.
Reformatio omnium hercesum potius ad Deum, quam hominem
spectat, nee a Fratribus affectatur. But whether the Com-