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HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS.
tain ^purple,'animated, divine salt, and cureth all manner of
venereal distempers, consumptions, and diseases of the mind.
We give another medecine, which is an azure or skie-
coloured water, the tincture of it is light and bright, it re-
flects a most beautiful rainbow, and two drops of this water
keeps a man healthy. In it lies a blood-red earth of great
vertue.
In the pages that immediately follow, I shall reprint
the stories, and allegories which are to be found in the
works of John Heydon, and which have reference to the
Eosicrucian Order. They may be permitted to speak for
themselves. It is obvious that they are devoid of historical
value, but they are all excessively curious, and the piece
which I have entitled, " Voyage to the Land of the Eosi-
crucians," and which forms the general preface to " The Holy
Guide," is an interesting romantic fiction.
A very true Narrative of a Gentleman R. G., who hath the
continual society of a Guardian Genius. 1
Oblation of itself was such a sacrifice to God, that a good
and holy man could offer no greater, as appears by the
acceptance of a gentleman by descent from the lynes of the
Plantaginets, who was in Egypt, Italy, and Arabia, and
there frequented the society of the inspired Christians, with
whom he became acquainted after this manner. In England,
being at a tavern in Cheap-side more to hear and better
his judgment of the reputed wise than to drink wine, their
discourse being of the nature and dignity of Angels, which
was interrupted by a gentleman, for so he appeared, that
said to another in the company
"
Sir, you are not far
1 This story is another theft from the works of Henry More, who does
not state that the subject of the narrative was "a gentleman R. C.'>