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CHAPTEE XII.
KOSICRUCIAN APOLOGISTS :
THOMAS VATJGHAN.
EUGENIUS PHILALETHES, the author of the renowned
"Introitus apertus ad occlusum Regis Palatium," the "En-
trance opened to the Closed Palace of the King," is so far
connected with the Rosicrucians that he published a
translation, as we have seen, of the "Fama" and "Con-
fessio Fraternitatis," and his philosophical doctrines are
very similar to those of the mysterious Brotherhood, of
which he has been erroneously, and despite his express
and repeated denials, represented as a member. Like them,
he expected the advent of the artist Elias who was fore-
told by Paracelsus, represents his most important alchemi-
cal work as his precursor, and declares that problematical
personage to be already born into the world. The entire
universe is to be transmuted and transfigured by the
science of this artist into the pure mystical gold of the Spirit-
ual City of God, when all currencies have been destroyed.
" A few brief years," he cries in his prophetic mood,
" and I trust that money will be despised as completely as
dross,
and that we shall behold the destruction of this vile
invention, so opposed to the spirit
of Jesus Christ. The
world is bewitched by it, and the infatuated nations adore
this vain and gross metal as a divinity. Is it this which
will help towards our coming redemption and our lofty
future hopes 1 By
this shall we enter that New Jerusalem