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ROSICRUCIANISM IN FRANCE. 401
individuals in their bed chambers, who suddenly became
invisible, though still palpable, when the alarm was raised.
Such was the consternation in Paris, that every man who
could not give a satisfactory account of himself was in
danger of being pelted to death ; and quiet citizens slept
with loaded muskets at their bedsides, to take vengeance
upon any Rosicrucian who might violate the sanctity of
their chambers."
In two years the excitement died away; no further
manifestoes were attempted, and the mysterious Order of
the Invisibles of the Kose- Cross, if it had in reality ever
visited Paris, migrated to more tolerant climes, and its
very existence was shortly afterwards forgotten
interests of the next ephemeral novelty.
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