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HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS.
" Lastly, we have circuits or visits of divers principal
cities of the kingdome, where we doe publish such news,
profitable inventions, as we think good,
and we doe also
declare natural divinations of diseases, plagues, swarms of
hurtfull creatures, scarcity, tempests, earthquakes, great
inundations, comets, temperature of the year, and divers
other things, and we give counsel thereupon for the preven-
tion and remedy of them."
When he had said this, he desired me to give him an
account of my life, that he might report it to the Brethren
of the Eosie Crosse, after which he stood up ; I kneeled
down, and he
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laid his right hand upon my head, saying, God
blesse thee, my son, and God blesse these relations which
we have made !
I give thee leave to publish them for the
good of other nations, for we are here in God's bosome, a
land unknown."
And so he left me, having assigned a value of about two
thousand pounds in gold for a bounty to me and my fellows,
for they give great largesses where they come upon all
occasions.