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HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS.
receive in most approved authors under a shaddow,
for a
wise man reads one thinge and understands another.
Art thou imperfect 1 Aspire after a due perfection. Art
thou foul and unclean 1 Purge thyself with teares, sublime
thyselfe with good manners and virtues, adorn and beautify
Make thy soule sublime
thyselfe with sacramentall graces !
and subtile for ye contemplation of heavenly thinges, and
conformable to angelicall spirits, that it may vivify thy
vile ashes and vulgar body, and make it white, and render
it altogether incorruptible and impassible by ye resurrec-
tion of our Lord Jesus Christ. Doe these thinges, and
thou wilt confess that no man hath wrote more plainly
then I. These thinges the Lady Virtue hath commended
should be told to thee, from (or by) whom, accordinge to
thy deserts, thou shalt hereafter be more largely taught,
these read, if thou wilt, as the apostle willeth, keepe that
which is committed to thy trust. Farewell.
By his talents and intellectual ability,
F. T. F., in Light and C.
Eobert Fludd is a
character so important in English Rosicrucian literature,
that I propose to give a short sketch or syllabus of his sin-
gular cosmical philosophy.
The substance will be taken from
the " Mosaicall Philosophy," and the folio volume entitled
Tmdatus Varii, and it will be rendered as far as possible
in the philosopher's own words.
The author distinguishes in several places between the
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