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ROSICRUCIAN APOLOGISTS : JOHN HE YDON. 333
antiquity is gratuitously
bestowed on them. The author
denies that he is a member of the Fraternity, but he inter-
prets all its secrets, and expounds all its doctrines, in an
authoritative manner, and he claims personal acquaintance
with various members of the Society, as will appear from
the following :
Apologue for an Epilogue.
I shall here tell you what Rosie Crucians are, and that
Moses was their Father, and he was Qsou ircuc, ; some say
they were of the order of Elias, some say the Disciples
of Ezekiel ; others define them to be the Officers of the
Generalissimo of the World, that are as the eyes and ears of
the Great King, 1
seeing and hearing all things : they
are sera-
phically illuminated, as Moses was, according to this order of
the Elements, Earth refined to Water, Water to Air, Air to
Fire, so of a man to be one of the Heroes, of a Hero a Daemon,
or good Genius, of a Genius a partaker of Divine things, and
a companion of the holy company of unbodied Soules and
immortal Angels, and according to their vehicles, a versatile,
life, turning themselves, Proteus-like, into any shape.
But there are yet arguments to procure Mr Wal-
foord, and T. Williams, Eosie Crucians by election, and
that is the miracles that were done by them in my sight ;
for it should seem Rosie Crucians were not only initiated
into the Mosaical Theory, but have arrived also to the
power of working miracles, as Moses, Elias, Ezekiel, and
the succeeding Prophets did, being transported where they
please, and one of these went from me to a friend of mine
in Devonshire, and came and brought me an answer to
1 This is stolen from a treatise on the Immortality of the Soul by
Henry More, the Platonist, who applies it to the beneficent genii.