Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians (Cosmology)

Part 1

Cabala. Universal Science. Aien CONTAINING

THE MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE,

THE Macrocosm an Microcosm

OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES.

COPIED AND TRANSLATED FROM AN OLD GERMAN MANUSCRIPT, AND PROVIDED WITH A DICTIONARY OF OCCULT TERMS

BOSTON OCCULT PUBLISHING COMPANY 130 TREMONT STREET 1888

which has disappeared from the Earth, but will reappear;

whose germ is beginning to sprout, and will bear blossom and fruit, by HENCRICUS MADATHANUS THEOSOPHUS,

Medicus & tandem, Dei gratia, aureze crucis frater.

Translated from the German.

“If there is one among You who is deficient in wisdom, let him pray to the spirit of truth, who comes to the simple-minded, but does not obtrude upon any one,

and he will surely obtain it.”—Jacob. Epist. v. 5.

Centrum Mundi: Granum Fundi.

THE SECRET SYMBOLS OF THE ROSICRUCIANS.

N FEW centuries ago the name “Rosicrucian” produced a great stir in the world. It suddenly and AIA mysteriously appeared on the mental horizon, and as mysteriously disappeared again. The Rosicru-- cians were said to be a secret society of men possessing superhuman—if not supernatural—powers; they were said to be able to prophesy future events, to penetrate into the deepest mysteries of nature, to transform Iron, Copper, Lead, or Mercury into Gold, to prepare an Elixir of Life or Universal Panacea, by the use of which they could preserve their youth and manhood; and moreover it was believed that they could' command the Elemental Spirits of Nature and knew the secret of the Philosopher’s Stone, a substance which rendered him who possessed it all-powerful, immortal; and supremely wise.