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ROSICRUCIANISM IN FRANCE. 397
and not into the lands of the heretic and the infidel, who
without the pale of the Church, saith the zealous chronicler,
are already in the claws of hell. The six who were de-
spatched to France reached Paris on July 14th, each
lodged separately to avoid suspicion, and met daily where
the first wish carried them, sometimes on Parnassus, on
the columns of Montfaucon, in the quarries of Montmatre,
&c. Recognising the difficulties of evangelising Paris, they
spent much time in deliberation; their hotel expenses
increased, and the devil already failed in his promise that
their purses should always be well supplied. They sold
their horses in order to buy furniture and hire lodgings,
where they would have more liberty to go in quest of
pupils. After the sale, however, they changed their mind,
and took two furnished rooms in the Marais du Temple,
which is actually mentioned in the " Apologia " of Robert
Fludd, as the abode of a Rosicrucian, and it was at this
period that the manuscript placard was affixed by them to
the walls of Paris.
The " Examination of the unknown and novel Caballa
of the Brethren of the Rose-Cross" agrees with the " Fright-
ful Compacts," in asserting that the chief of this " execrable
college " is Satan, that its first rule is the denial of God,
blasphemy against the most simple and undivided Trinity,
trampling on the mysteries of the redemption, spitting in the
face of the mother of God and at all the saints. The second
is the abhorrence of the name Christian, renunciation of
baptism, the intercession of the Church, and the sacraments.
By the third they offer sacrifice to the devil, make
compacts with him, commit adultery with him,
offer inno-
cent children to him, &c. By the fourth they frequent the
Sabbaths, cherish toads, make poisonous powders, dance