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HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS.
embroidered on it in rose-coloured silk, as shown in the
engraving below, which is as nearly as possible one-third of
the actual size of the jewel.
Jewel of the Fraternity.
The lozenge-shaped jewel of the Rosie Cross, as above,
without the mitre, suspended by a green ribbon an inch in
width,
and without the embroidered cross.
This information is transcribed from a secret record of
the association, entitled " The Rosicrucian," which was iirst
published in 1868, appearing as an infinitesimal quarterly
of twelve small pages, and subsequently continued as a
monthly magazine, which subsisted till the year 1879, when
it accomplished another transformation, whose history I have
failed to trace. There is much curious material contained
in the two series. An early number announces the objects
of the society which it represents. It is "calculated to
meet the requirements of those worthy Masons who wish to
study the science and antiquities of the Craft, and trace it,
through its successive developments, to the present time ;
also to cull information from all the records extant, of
those mysterious societies which had their existence in the
dark ages of the world when might meant right, when every