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ROSICRUCIAN APOLOGISTS : JOHN HEYDON. 385
' We
have also novices and apprentices, that the succes-
sion of the former employed men of our fraternity of the
Rosie Crosse do not faile ; also great numbers of servants
and attendants, men and women. We have consultations
which of the inventions and experiences shall be published
and which not. We take all an oath of secrecy for the con-
cealing f those which we think fit to keep secret, though
some of those we doe reveale sometimes to the State. (Read
our l
Temple of Wisdom.')
" For our ordinances and rites we have two very long and
faire galleries in the Temple of the Rosie Crosse. In one
of these we place patterns and samples of all manner of the
more rare and excellent inventions ;
in the other we place
the statues of all principal inventours. There we have the
statues of the discoverer of the West Indies, also the invention
of ships, and the monk that was the inventour of ordinance
and gunpowder; the inventours of musick, letters, printing;
observations of astronomy, astromancy, and geomancy ;
the
invention of works in mettal, of glasse, of silke of the worme;
of wine, corn, and bread ;
the inventour of sugars, and all
these by more certain tradition than you have. Then have
we divers inventours of our own. Upon every invention
of value we erect a statue to the inventour, and give him a
liberal and honourable reward. These statues are some of
brasse, some of marble and touchstone, some of cedar and
other speciall woods gilt and adorned, some of iron, some
of silver, some of gold, telesmatically made.
"We have certain hymnes and services, which we say daily,
of laud and thanks to God for His marvellous works ;
also
formes of prayers imploring His ayde and blessing for the
illumination of our labours, and the turning of them into
good and holy uses.
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