Francis Bacon and his secret society - Grand Lodge of Colorado

AND HIS SECRET SOCIETY. 33?
These words are also the key-note to Rosicruciauisin.
Fama Fratemitatis we read
In the
" Our axiomata shall immovably remain unto the world's end,
and also the world in her highest and last age shall not attain to
see anything else; for our ROTA takes her beginning from that
speak
day when God spake FIAT, and shall end when he shall
TEREAT."
Another Rosicrucian work thus expresses the same ideas: " In
respect that God Almighty is the only immediate agent which
actuates the matter (of the world), it will not be amiss to speak
something of Him, that we may know the cause by His creatures,
and the creatures by their cause." Then follow some verses in
which the poet compares his soul to a mole, " imprisoned in black
entrenchments, . . . heaving the earth to take in air, " and
" mewed from the light of day." He prays
" Lord, guide her out of this sad night,
And say once more, Let there be light."
The same writer says, in another place
" We read that darknesse was upon the face of the deep, and the
Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Here you are
to observe that, notwithstanding this processe of the Third Person,
yet there was no light, but darknesse on the face of the
deepe, illumination being the office of the Second (Person).
Wherefore God also, when the matter was prepared by love for
light, gives out his FIAT LUX, which was no creation, as most
think, but an Emanation ofthe Word, in whom was life, and that life
is the light of men. This is the light whereof St. John speaks,
that it shines in the darknesse, and the darknesse comprehendeth it
not. »
That he " may not be singular on this point, " the author
quotes Pimandrus, who, in the Book of the Creation, informs
Trismegistus : "I am that Light, the Pure Intelligence, thy
God." In another work the same Eugenius argues that, "to
come to the point, these invisible, central artists are lights,
1 Anthroposophia Theomagica. "Eugenius Philalethes." Published later as
the work of Thomas Yaughan. See "Vaughan's Magical Writings," reprinted
and edited by E. JK Waite, 1888. Redway (Kegan, Paul, Trubner & Co.)