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MODERN ROSICRUCIAN SOCIETIES. 409
Comte de Chazal accomplished the magnum opus in that
place at the close of the last century, and that he initiated
another artist into the mysteries of the Eosicrucian Frater-
nity.
The Comte de Chazal was possessed of vision at a
distance, and witnessed the horrors of the French Eevolu-
tion from a vast distance, with amazing perspicuity, by
means of the mind's eye. The following curious document
will be read with no ordinary interest :
Copy of the Admission of Dr Bacstrom into the Society of the
Rosa Croix by Le Comte de Chazal at the Island of Mauri-
tius, with the Seal of the Society.
ISLE or MAURITIUS, DISTRICT OF PAMPELAVUSO,
12th Sept. 1794.
In the name of arnta rnrv the True and only God Mani-
fested in Trinity.
I, Sigismund Bacstrom, do hereby promise, in the most
sincere and solemn manner, faithfully to observe the follow-
ing articles, during the whole course of my natural life, to
the best of my knowledge and ability;
which articles I
hereby confirm by oath and by my proper signature hereunto
annexed.
One of the worthy members of the august, most ancient,
and most learned Society, the Investigators of Divine,
Spiritual, and Natural Truth (which society more than two
centuries and a half ago (i.e., in 1490) did separate them-
selves from the Free-Masons, but were again united in one
spirit among themselves under the denomination of Fratres
Rosce Crucis, Brethren of the Eosy Cross, i.e. the Brethren
who believe in the Grand Atonement made by Jesus Christ
on the Eosy Cross, stained and marked with His blood, for