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HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS.
NUMBER IV. (p. 169).
The symbolical representation of the tetrad under the
figure of a four-square garden, enclosure, house, or city is
very common among mystical writers. A familiar instance
is found in the Apocalypse, .where the New Jerusalem is
represented as a perfect square descending
Compare the " Eoman de la Rose "
' ' Haut fiit li mur et tons quarres
Si en fu bien clos et bar-re's,
En leu de haies, uns vergiers,
On one n'avoit entr6 bergiers."
out of heaven.
This passage is rendered by Chaucer in the following
manner :
" Square was the wall, and high somedele
Enclosed, and ybarred wele,
In stead of hedge, was that gardin,
Come never shepherde therein."
NUMBER V. (p. 223).
The appendix to a series of epistles, entitled " Selenia
Augustalia," and written by Johann Valentin Andreas,
contains an account, thus arranged, of the offspring of this
marriage :
JOH. VALENTINI ANDREW.
Propago.
Johann Valentin Andrese, natus 1586, 17 Aug., et Agnes
Elisabeth Griiningeren, n. 1592, 29 Mart. ; nuptias habent
1614, 2 Augusti.
Unde liberi.
I. Maria, nat. 1616, 26 Mart; nubit Petro Waltero,
1636, 20 Jun., Unde.