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ROSICRUCIANISM IN FRANCE. 389
and we will transform them from visible beings into in-
visible, and from invisible into visible, and they shall be
transported into every foreign country
to which their
desire may lead them. But, to arrive at the knowledge of
these marvels, we warn the reader that we can divine his
thoughts, that if mere curiosity should prompt the wish to
see us, he will never communicate with us, but if an earnest
determination to inscribe himself on the register of our
confraternity should actuate him, we will make manifest to
such an one the truth of our promises, so that we by no
means expose the place of our abode, since simple thought,
joined to the determined will of the reader,
will be suffi-
cient to make us known to him, and reveal him to us."
To this proclamation, in his " Histoire de la Magie,"
Eliphas Levi adds :
"
Public opinion concerned itself about
this mysterions manifestation, and if any demanded openly
who were the Rose-Cross brethren, an unknown personage
frequently took the inquirer apart, and said to him
gravely :
" Predestined to the reformation which must soon be
accomplished in the whole universe,
the Rosicrucians are
the depositaries of supernatural wisdom, and undisturbed
possessors of all Nature's gifts, they can dispense
them at
pleasure.
" In whatsoever place they may be, they know all things
which are going on in the rest of the world better than if
they were present ; they are not subject to hunger or thirst,
and have neither age nor disease to fear.
" They can command the most powerful spirits and genii.
" God has covered them with a cloud to defend them
from their enemies, and they cannot be beheld except by
their own consent, had any one eyes more piercing than are
the eagle's.