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being a charitable cure for the distractions of Alazonomastix
(i.e., Henry More). London, 1651. 8vo.
The Fame and Confession of the Fraternity of R. C.,
with a Preface annexed thereto, and a short declaration of
their physicall work. London,
1652. 8vo.
Euphrates ; or The Waters of the East ; being a
short discourse of that great fountain whose water flows
from Fire, and carries in it the beams of the Sun and Moon.
London, 1655. 8vo.
A Brief Natural History, intermixed with variety of
Philosophical Discourses and Observations of the Burnings
of Mount Etna, &c. London, 1669. 8vo.
Introitus Apertus ad Occlusum Regis Palatium. Phila-
lethae Tractatus Tres. I. Metallorum Metamorphosis. II.
Brevis Manductio ad Rubrium Coelestem. III. Fons Chy-
micse Veritatis. 1678. 4to.
It is only in the introduction to the " Fame and Confes-
sion " that Philalethes makes any important reference to the
Rosierucian Society. There his opinions are expressed in
the following manner :
" I am in the humour to affirm the
essence and existence of that admired chimera,
the Frater-
nitie of R, C. And now, gentlemen, I thank you, I have
methinks you sneak and steal from
aire and room enough ;
me, as if the plague and this Red Cross were inseparable.
Take my Lord have mercy along with you, for I pitty your
sickly braines, and certainly as to your present state the
inscription is not unseasonable. But in lieu of this, some
of you may advise me to an assertion of the Capreols of del
Phsebo, or a review of the library of that discreet gentleman
of La Mancha, for in your opinion those knights and these
brothers are equally invisible. This is hard measure, but I
shall not insist to disprove you. If there be any amongst