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HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS.
"That they acknowledge the fourth monarchy
and the
Emperor of the Komans as their Lord, and as the head of
all Christendom.
" That they will furnish him with more gold and silver
than the Spanish King derives from both the Indies, the
more so as their treasures are inexhaustible.
" That their college, which they name the College of the
Holy Ghost, can suffer no injury ; even should a hundred
thousand persons behold and remark it.
" That they possess several mysterious volumes in their
library, one of which, that, namely, which they prize next
to the Bible,
is that which the revered and illuminated
father E. C. held in his right hand after death.
" Finally, that they are convinced and certain that the
truth of their maxims will abide to the very end of the
world."
No voice appears to have been raised in France in defence
of the persecuted Order. "It is known upon the contem-
porary authority of the Mercure de France" says a writer in
" "
Chambers' Journal," "that a popular panic the natural
result of these atrocious calumnies
"
was excited by the fear
of this mysterious sect, none of whose members had ever been
seen The most absurd stories about them were daily
reported, and found listeners. An innkeeper asserted that
a mysterious stranger entered his inn, regaled himself on his
best, and suddenly vanished in a cloud when the bill was
presented. Another had been served as scurvy a trick by
a similar stranger, who lived upon the choicest fare, and
drunk the best wines of his house for a week, and paid him
with a handful of new gold coins, which turned into slates
on the following morning. It was also said that several
persons on awakening in the middle of the night found