Farmer fraternitatis of the meritorious order of the rosy cross addressed to the learned in general and the governors of Europe to the wise and understanding reader wisdom saith Solomon is to a man an infinite treasure for she is the breath of the power of God and a pure influence
That floweth from the glory of the Almighty she is the brightness of eternal light and an undefiled mirror of the Majesty of God and an image of his goodness she teaches us soberness and Prudence righteousness and strength she understands the subtlety of words and the solution of dark sentences she forek
Knoweth signs and wonders and what shall happen in time to come with this treasure was our first father Adam fully endued hence it doth appear that after God had brought before him all the creatures of the field and the fowls under Heaven he gave to every one
Of them their proper names according to their nature although now through the sorrowful fall into sin this excellent dual wisdom hath been lost and mere darkness and ignorance has come into the world yet notwithstanding at the Lord God sometimes hitherto bestowed and made manifest the same to some of his friends
For the wise King Solomon doth testifies of himself that he upon Earnest prayer and desire did get and obtain such wisdom of God that thereby he knew how the world was created thereby he understood the nature of the elements also the time beginning middle and end the increase and decrease the change of
Times through the whole year the revolution of the year and ordinance of the Stars he understood also the properties of tame and wild beasts the cause of the reigning of the Winds and minds and intents of men all sorts and Natures of plants virtues of roots and others was not unknown to him
Now I do not think that there can be found anyone who would not wish and Desire with all his heart to be a partaker of this Noble treasure but seeing the same Felicity Can Happen To None except God himself give wisdom and send his holy spirit from above we have
Therefore set forth in print this little Treatise to Whitman and confession of the laudable fraternity of the rosy cross to be read by everyone because in them is clearly shown and discovered what concerning it the world has to expect although these things may seem somewhat
Strange and many May esteem it to be but a philosophical shoe and no true history which is published and spoken of the fraternity of the rosy cross it shall hear sufficiently appear by our confession that there is more in recessive than maybe imagined and it shall be easily understood and observed
By everyone if he is not altogether void of understanding what nowadays and at these times is meant thereby those who are true Disciples of wisdom and true followers of the spherical art will consider better of these things and have them in Greater estimation as also judge far otherwise of them as hath been
Done by some principal persons but especially of Adam hazelmeyer notarious publicus to the Archduke Maximilian who likewise hath made an extract X scriptis theologetus theophrasti and written A Treatise under the title of jesuiter wherein he willeth that every Christian should be a true Jesuit that is to walk
Live be and remain in Jesus he was but ill rewarded of the Jesuits because in his answer written upon the farmam he did name those of the fraternity of the rosy cross the highly illuminated men and undeceiving Jesuit were they not able to Brook this laid
Hands on him and put him into the galley for which they likewise have to expect their reward blessed Aurora will now henceforth begin to appear who after the passing away of The Dark Knight of Saturn with her brightness altogether extinguisher The Shining of the moon or the small Sparks of heavenly wisdom
Which yet remaineth with men and is a forerunner of pleasant Phoebus who with his clear and fiery glistering beams brings forth that blessed day long wished for of many true hearted by which daylight then shall truly be known and shall be seen all Heavenly Treasures of
Godly wisdom as also the secrets of all hidden and invisible things in the world according to the doctrine of our forefathers and ancient wise men this will be the right King Ruby and most excellent shining carbuncle of the which it is said that he doth shine and give
Light in the darkness and to be a perfect Medicine of all imperfect bodies and to change them into the best gold and to cure all diseases of men easing them of all pains and miseries be therefore gentle reader admonished that with me you do earnestly pray to
God that it pleases him to open the hearts and ears of all ill-hearing people and to Grant unto them his Blessing that they may be able to know him in his omnipotency with admiring contemplation of nature to his honor and praise and to the love help comfort and
Strengthening of our neighbors and to the restoring of all the disease farmer fraternitatis or a discovery of the fraternity of the most laudable order of the rosy cross seeing the only wise and merciful god in these latter days hath poured out so richly his mercy and goodness to Mankind
Whereby we do attain more and more to the perfect knowledge of his son Jesus Christ and of nature that justly we may boast of the Happy Time wherein there is not only discovered unto us the half part of the world which was hitherto unknown and hidden but he hath also made
Manifest unto us many wonderful and never here to foreseen works and creatures of Nature and moreover hath raised men endued with great wisdom which might partly renew and reduce all arts in this our spotted and imperfect age to Perfection so that man might thereby understand his own nobleness and
Work and why he is called microcosmos and how far his knowledge extendeth in nature although the rude world herewith will be but little pleased but rather smile and scoff thereafter also the pride and covetousness of the Learned is so great it will not suffer them to agree
Together but were they United they might out of all those things which in our age God doth so richly bestow on us collect nibram nature or a perfect method of all Arts but such is their opposition that they still keep and are loathed to leave the old course the steaming porphry
Aristotle and Galen yea and that which hath but a mere show of learning more than the clear and manifested light and Truth those if they were now living with much joy would leave their erroneous doctrines but here is too much weakness for such a great work and although in theology medicine and
Mathematics the truth doth oppose itself nevertheless the old Enemy by his subtlety and craft doth show himself in hindering every good Purpose By His instruments and contentious wavering people to such an intention of a general Reformation the most Godly and highly illuminated father our brother CRC a
German the chief and original of our fraternity hath much long time labored who by reason of his poverty although descended of noble parents in the fifth year of his age was placed in a Cloister where he had learned indifferently the Greek and Latin tongues and upon his own
Earnest desire and request being yet in his growing years was Associated to a brother Powell who were determined to go to the Holy Land although this brother died in Cyprus and so never came to Jerusalem yet our brother CRC did not return but shipped himself over and went to Damascus
Minding from thence to go to Jerusalem but by reason of the feebleness of his body he remained still there and by his skill in medicine he obtained much favor with the Turks and in the meantime he became acquainted with the wise men of damkar in Arabia and beheld the great
Wonders they wrought and how nature was discovered unto them hereby was that high and Noble Spirit of brother CRC so stirred up that Jerusalem was not so much now in his mind as dankar also he could not Bridle his desires any longer but made a bargain with the Arabians
That they should carry him for a certain sum of money to damkar he was but of the age of 16 years when he came to the yet of strong Dutch Constitution there the wise men received him not as a stranger as he himself witnesseth but as one whom
They had long expected they called him by his name and showed him other Secrets out of his Cloister where at he could not but mightily wonder he learned there better the Arabian tongue so that the year following he translated the book M libermundi into good Latin which he
Afterwards brought with him this is the place where he did learn his medicine and his mathematics where at the world hath much cause to Rejoice if there were more love and less Envy after three years he returned again with good consent and shipped himself over sinus arabicus into Egypt where he remained
Not long but only took better notice there of the plants and creatures he sailed over the whole Mediterranean Sea to come unto Fez where the Arabians had directed him it is a great shame unto us that wise men so far remote the one from the other should not only be of
One opinion hating all contentious writings but also be so willing and ready under the Seal of secrecy to impart their secrets to others every year the Arabians and Africans do send to one another inquiring of one another out of their Arts if happily they had found out some better things or
If experience had weakened their reasons yearly there came something to light whereby the mathematics medicine and magic for in those are they of Fez most skillful were amended there is nowadays no want of learned men in Germany magicians kabbalists Physicians and philosophers were there but more love
And kindness among them or that the most part of them would not keep their secrets close only to themselves at Fez he did get acquainted with those which are commonly called the elementary inhabitants who revealed unto him many of their secrets as we Germans likewise might gather together many things if
There were the like unity and desire of searching out Secrets amongst us of those at Fez he often did confess that their magic was not altogether pure and also that their Kabbalah was defiled with their religion but notwithstanding he knew how to make good use of the same
And found still more better grounds for this Faith altogether agreeable with the harmony of the whole world and wonderfully impressed in all periods of time thence proceeded that fair Concord that as in every several Colonels has contained a whole good tree and fruit so likewise is included in the little body
Of man the whole great world whose religion policy Health members nature language words and works are agreeing sympathizing and in equal tune and Melody with God Heaven and Earth and that which is disagreeing with them is error falsehood and of the devil who alone is the first middle and last cause
Of strife blindness and darkness in the world also might one examine all and several persons upon the Earth you should find that which is good and right is always agreeing within itself but all the rest is spotted with a thousand erroneous conceits after two years brother RC Departed the
City fairs and sailed with many costly things into Spain hoping well as he himself had so well and profitably spent his time in his travel that the Learned of Europe would highly Rejoice with him and begin to rule and order all their studies according to these sure and sound foundations he therefore conferred
With the learned in Spain showing unto them the errors of our arts and how they might be corrected and from whence they should gather the true indicia of the times to come and wherein they ought to agree with those things that are past also how the faults of the church and
The whole philosophia Morales were to be amended he showed them new growths new fruits and beasts which did Concord with old philosophy and prescribed them new axiomata whereby all things might be fully restored but it was to them a laughing matter and being a new thing unto them they feared
That their great name would be lessened if they should now again begin to learn and acknowledge their many years errors to which they were accustomed and wherewith they had gained them enough Uso loveth unquietness let him be reformed they said the same song was also sung to him by
Other nations which moved him the more because it happened to him contrary to his expectation being then readied bountifully to impart all his arts and secrets to the Learned if they would have but undertaken to write the true and infallible axiomapher out of all the faculties sciences and arts and whole
Nature as that which he knew would direct them like a globe or circle to the only Middle Point and Centrum and as it is usual among the Arabians it should only serve to the wise and learn it for a rule that also there might be a society in Europe which might have gold
Silver and precious stones sufficient for to bestow them on Kings for their necessary uses and lawful purposes with which societies such as B Governors might be brought up for to learn all that which God hath suffered men to know and thereby be enabled in all times of
Need to give their counsel unto those that seek it like the Heathen oracles verily we must confess that the World in those days was already big with those great commotions laboring to be delivered of them and it bring forth painful worthy men who break with all Force Through darkness and barbarism and
Left us who succeeded to follow them assuredly they have been the uppermost point in trigono igneo whose flame should now be more and more brighter and shall undoubtedly give to the world the last Light such a one likewise have theophrast has been in vocation and callings although
He was none of our fraternity yet nevertheless hath he diligently read over the book M whereby his sharp ingenium was exalted but this man was also hindered in his course by the multitude of the learned and wise seeming men that he was never able peaceably to confer with others of the
Knowledge and understanding he had of Nature and therefore in his writings he rather mocked these busy bodies and doth not altogether show them what he was yet nevertheless there is found in him well grounded the aforementioned harmonia which without doubt he had imparted to the Learned if he had not
Found them rather worthy of subtle vexation than to be instructed in Greater Arts and Sciences he thus with a free and careless life lost his time and left unto the world their foolish pleasures but that we do not forget our loving father brother RC he after many painful travels and his fruitless true
Instructions returned again into Germany which he heartly loved by reason of the alterations which were shortly to come and of the strange and dangerous contentions there though he could have bragged with his art but especially of the transmutations of metals yet did he esteem more heaven and mend the citizens
Thereof than all vainglory and pomp nevertheless he built a fitting and neat habitation in the which he ruminated his voyage and philosophy and reduced them together in a true Memorial in this house he spent a great time in the mathematics and made many fine instruments ex Omnibus hujus artist
Partibus whereof there is but little remaining to us as Hereafter you shall understand after five years came again into his mind the wished for reformation and in regard to it he doubted of the aid and help of others although he himself was painful Lusty and unwherism howsoever he
Undertook with some fewer joined with him to attempt the same wherefore he desired to that end to have out of his first Cloister to which he bear a great affection three of his Brethren brother GV brother I a and brother IO who had some more knowledge
Of the Arts than at that time many others had he did bind those three unto himself to be faithful diligent and secret as also to commit carefully to writing all that which he should direct and instruct them in to the end that those which were to come and through special Revelation
Should be received into this fraternity might not be deceived in the least syllable and word after this manner began the fraternity of the rosy cross first by four persons only and by them was made the magical language and writing with a large dictionary which we yet daily use to
God’s praise and glory and to find great wisdom therein they made also the first part of the book M but in respect that that labor was too heavy and the Unspeakable Concourse of the sick hindered them and also while his new building called sanctity spiritus was now finished They concluded to draw and
Receive yet others more into their fraternity to this end was chosen brother RC his deceased father’s brother’s son brother b a skillful painter Gigi and PD their secretary all Germans except IA so in all they were eight in number all bachelors and devoured virginity by whom was collected
A book or volume of all that which man can desire wish or hope for although we do now freely confess that the world is much amended within a hundred years yet we are assured that 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 rotor takes her beginning from that day when God spake Pete and shall end when he shall speak period yet God’s clock striketh every minute where our scarce striketh perfect hours we also steadfastly believe that if our
Brethren and fathers had lived in this our present and clear light they would more roughly have handled the pope Muhammad scribes artists and sophisters and showed themselves more helpful not simply with size and wishing of their end and consummation when now these eight Brethren had disposed and ordered all things in such
Manner as there was not now any need of any great Labor and also that everyone was sufficiently instructed and able perfectly to discourse of secret and manifest philosophy they would not remain any longer together but as in the beginning they had agreed they separated themselves into several countries
Because that not only their axiomata might in secret be more profoundly examined by the Learned but that they themselves if in some country or other they observed anything or perceived some error they might inform one another of it that agreement was this first that none of them should profess
Any other thing than to cure the sick and that for free second none of the posterity should be constrained to where one certain kind of habit but therein to follow the custom of the country third that every year upon the day see they should meet together at the house sancti spiritus or
Write the cause of his absence fourth every brother should look about for a worthy person who after his deceased might succeed him fifth the word RC should be their seal Mark and character sixth the fraternity should remain secret for 100 years these six articles they bound themselves
One to another to keep five of the Brethren departed and only the Brethren B and D remained with the father brother RC for a whole year when these likewise departed then remained by him his cousin and brother IO so he hath all the days of his life with him two of his brethren
And although as yet the church was not cleansed nevertheless we know that they did think of her and what with longing desire they looked for every year they assemble together with joy and made a full resolution of that which they had done there must certainly have been a great
Pleasure to hear truly and without invention related and rehearsed all the Wonders which God hath poured out here and there throughout the world everyone May hold it out for certain that such persons as were sent and joined together by God in the heavens and chosen out of the wisest of men as
Have lived in many ages did live together above all others in the highest Unity greatest secrecy and most kindness won towards another after such a most laudable sort they did spend their lives but although they were free from all diseases and pain yet notwithstanding they could not live and
Pass their time appointed by God the first of this fraternity which died and that in England was I oh as brother C long before had foretold him he was very expert and well learned in Kabbalah as his book H Witnesses in England he is much spoken of and
Chiefly because he cured a young Earl of Norfolk of the leprosy they had concluded that as much as possibly could be their burial place should be kept secret as at this day it is not known unto us what has become of some of them yet everyone’s place was supplied with a
Fit successor but this we will confess publicly by these presents to the honor of God that what Secrets however we have learned out of the book M although before our eyes we behold the image and pattern of all the world yet are there not shown unto us our misfortunes nor
The hour of death the which is known only to God himself who thereby would have us keep in continual readiness but hereof more in our confession where we do set down 37 reasons wherefore we now do make known our fraternity and profit such high Mysteries freely without constraint or reward also we do
Promise more gold than both the Indians can bring to the king of Spain or Europe is with child and shall bring forth a strong child who shall stand in need of a great Godfather’s gift after the death of IO brother RC rested not but as soon as he could called the
Rest together and then as we suppose his grave was made although hitherto we who were the latest did not know when our loving father RC died and had no more but the bare names of the beginners and all their successes to us yet they came into our memory a secret
Which through dark and hidden words and speeches of the Hundred Years brother a the successor of D who was of the last and second row of succession and had lived amongst many of us did impart unto us of the third row in succession otherwise we must confess that after the
Death of the said a none of us had in any manner known anything of brother CR and of his first fellow Brethren than that which was extant of them in our philosophical bibliothica amongst which our axiomata was held for the chiefest Rota Mundi for the most artificial and protheus but the most profitable
Likewise we do not certainly know if these of the second row have been of like wisdom as the first and if they were admitted to all things it shall be declared Hereafter to the gentle reader not only what we have heard of the burial of brother RC but also it shall
Be made manifest publicly by the foresight sufferance and commandment of God whom we most Faithfully obey that if we shall be answered discreetly and christian-like we will not be ashamed to set forth publicly and print our names and surnames are meetings or anything else that may be required at our hands
Now the true and fundamental relation of the finding out of the high illuminated man of God prata CRC is this after that a in Galia nabanensi was deceased there succeeded in his place our loving brother n n this man after he had repaired unto us to take the solemn oath
Of fidelity and secrecy informed us bona fide that a had comforted him in telling him the this fraternity should air long not remain so hidden but should be to the whole German Nation helpful needful and commendable of the witch he was not any wise in his estate ashamed
The year following after he had performed his school right and was minded now to travel being for that purpose sufficiently provided with Fortune artist’s purse he thought he being a good architect to alter something of his building and to make it more fit in such renewing he lighted
Upon the memorial table which was cast of brass and containeth all the names of the Brethren with some few other things this he would transfer into a more fitting Vault beware or when our brother RC died or in what country he was buried was by our predecessors concealed and unknown to us
In this table stuck a great nail somewhat strong so that when it was with Force drawn out it took with it and indifferent Big Stone out of the thin wall or Plastering of the hidden door and so unlooked for uncovered the door where at we did with joy and longing
Throw down the rest of the wall and cleared the door upon which was written in great letters post c e x anos partebo with the year of the Lord under it therefore we gave God thanks and let it rest that same night because first we would Overlook our rotor but we refer
Ourselves again to the confession for what we hear publish is done for the help of those that are worthy but to the Unworthy God willing it will be a small prophet for like as our door was after so many years wonderfully discovered also there shall be opened a door to
Europe when the wall is removed which doth already begin to appear and with great desire is expected of many in the morning following we opened the door and there appeared to our sight a vault of seven sides and Seven Corners every side five feet Broad and the
Height of eight feet although the Sun never shined in this Vault nevertheless it was enlightened with another son which had learned this from the Sun and was situated in the upper part in the center of the ceiling in the midst instead of a tombstone was a round altar
Covered with a plate of brass and thereon this engraved acrc Hawk University compendium unius Mii sepulkrum pechi round about the first Circle or brim stood Jesus mihi Omnia in the middle were four figures enclosed in circles whose circumscription was vacuumed to ligis jugum III libertas evangeli 4 Di Gloria intactor this is
All clear and bright as well as the seventh side and the two heptagons so we kneeled down altogether and gave thanks to the soul-wise soul Mighty and sole Eternal God who hath taught us more than all men’s wits could have found out praised be His holy name
This volt we divided into three parts the upper part or ceiling the wall or side and the ground or floor of the upper part you shall understand no more at this time but that it was divided according to the seven sides in the triangle which was in the bright
Center but what they’re in is contained you that are desirous of our society shall God willing behold the same with your own eyes every side or wall is parted into ten squares everyone with their several figures and sentences as they are truly shown and set forth concentrated here in our book
The bottom again is parted in the Triangle but because therein is described the power and Rule of the inferior Governors we leave to manifest the same for fear of the abuse by the evil and ungodly world but those that are provided and stored with the Heavenly antidote do without fear or
Hurt tread on and Bruise the head of the old and evil serpent which this our age is well fitted for every side or wall had a door for a chest wherein there laid diverse things especially all our books which otherwise we had besides the vocabulary of theophrastus paracelsus of hohenheim and
These which daily unfalsified we do participate herein also we found his itinerarium inviter whence this relation for the most part is taken in another chest were looking glasses of diverse virtues as also in other places were little bells burning lamps and chiefly wonderful artificial songs generally all was done to that end that
If it should happen after many hundred years the fraternity should come to nothing they might by this only Vault be restored again now as yet we had not seen the dead body of our careful and wise father we therefore removed the altar aside then we lifted up a strong
Plate of brass and found a fair and worthy body whole and unconsumed as the same is here Lively counterfeited with all the ornaments and attires in his hand he held a parchment called tea the witch next unto the Bible is our greatest treasure which ought not to be
Delivered to the center of the world at the end of this book standeth our holy elodium underneath they had subscribed themselves see Rose C descended from a noble and illustrious RC Family of Germany a man admitted by the unweared labors of his lifetime to the Heavenly and human Mysteries or Secrets by Divine
Revelations in subtlest mental images after he had preserved his which he had collected on the Arabian and African Journeys more than Royal and Imperial treasure not yet appropriate to his time to be saved for the future and moreover had trained heirs most United to the
Beliefs of his Arts as also his name had built a small world corresponding to that large one in all movements and this extracted in the end from a compendium of things past present and future older by a Centenary not by banishing any disease which he never himself had
Experienced against in body he was never allowing it to infest others but by summoning the spirit of God a most esteemed father most Pleasant brother most faithful teacher most pure friend he returned to God the most faithful Creator and illuminated Soul amidst the Embraces and last kisses of the brothers
He has been concealed by his own friends for 120 years at the end was written ex Deo nasimur in jisoo morimur a spirit from sanctum revisimus at that time brother I O and brother PD were already dead but their burial place where is it to be found we
Doubt not but our first senior had the same and some special thing laid in Earth and perhaps hidden like our father see we also hope that this our example will stir up others more diligently to inquire after their names which we have therefore published and to search for
The place of their burial the most part of them by reason of their practice and Medicine are yet known and praised among very old folks so might perhaps our Gaza be enlarged or at least be better cleared we found it kept in another little altar truly more finer than Can Be Imagined by
Any understanding man but we will leave him undescribed until we shall be truly answered upon this our true hearted farmer so we have covered it again with the plates and set the altar thereon shut the door and made it sure with all our seals moreover by instruction and
Command of our rotor there are come to cite some books among which is contained M which were made instead of household Care by the praiseworthy MP finally we departed one from the other and left the natural heirs in possession of our Jewel and so we do expect the answer and
Judgment of the learned and unlearned albeit we know after a time there will now be a general Reformation both of divine and human things according to our desire and the expectation of others for it is fitting that before the rising of the sun there should appear and Break
Forth Aurora or some clearness or Divine Light in the sky and so in the meantime some few which shall give their names may join together thereby to increase the number and respect of our fraternity and make a happy and wish for the beginning of our philosophical canons
Prescribed to us by our brother RC and be partakers with us of our Treasures which never can fail or be wasted in all humility and love to be eased of this world’s labors and not walk so blindly in the knowledge of the wonderful works of God but that also every Christian may know
Of what religion and belief we are we confess to have the knowledge of Jesus Christ as the same now in these last days and chiefly in Germany most clear and pure is professed and is nowadays cleansed and void of all swerving people Heretics and false prophets in certain and noted countries maintained defended
And propagated also we use two sacraments as they are instituted with all forms and ceremonies of the first and renewed Church in palitia we acknowledge the Roman Empire and quarter monarchism for our Christian head albeit we know what alterations be at hand and would feign
In part the same with all our hearts to other Godly learned men notwithstanding our handwriting which is in our hands no man except God Alone can make it common nor any unworthy person is able to bereave us of it but we shall help with secret Aid this so good A Cause as God
Shall permit or hinder us for our God is not blind as the heathens Fortuna but is the church’s ornament and the honor of the Temple our philosophy also is not a new invention but as Adam after his fall hath received it and as Moses and Solomon used it also it ought not much
To be doubted of or contradicted by other opinions or meanings but seeing the truth is Peaceable brief and always like herself in all things and especially accorded with by Jesus in omnipate and all members and as he is the true image of the father so is she
His Image so it shall not be said this is true according to philosophy but true according to Theology and wherein Plato Aristotle Pythagoras and others did hit the mark and wherein Enoch Abraham Moses Solomon did Excel but especially wherewith that wonderful book The Bible agrees all that same concureth together and
Maketh a sphere or Globe whose total parts are equidistant from the center as here are of more at large and more planes will be spoken in christianly conference but now concerning and chiefly in this our age the ungodly and accursed gold-making which hath gotten so much
The upper hand whereby under color of it many Renegades and roguish people do use great villainies and cousin and abuse the credit which is given them nowadays men of discretion do hold the transmutation of metals to be the highest point and fastidium in philosophy this is all their intent and
Desire and that God would be more esteemed by them and honored which could make great store of gold the witch with unpremeditated prayers they hope to obtain of the all-knowing god and Searcher of all hearts but we by these presents publicly testify that the true philosophers are
Far of another mind esteeming little the making of gold which is but a parable for besides that they have a thousand better things we say with our loving father CRC by aurum nisi Quantum aurum For unto him the whole nature is detected he does not rejoice that he can make
Gold and that as saith Christ the devils are obedient unto him but he’s glad that he seeth the heavens open the angels of God ascending and descending and his name written in the Book of Life in Den book it is level also we testify that under the name of
Chimea many books and pictures are set forth in contumelium Gloria Dei as we will name them in their due season and will give to the pure-hearted a catalog or register of them we pray all learned men to take heed of this kind of books for the enemy never
Resteth but soweth his weeds till a stronger one to throot them out so according to the will and meaning of frass CRC we his Brethren request again all the learned in Europe who shall read sent forth in five languages this our farmer and confessio that it would please them with good deliberation to
Ponder this our offer and to examine most nearly and sharply their arts and behold the present time with all diligence and to declare their mind either communication or singulatin by print and although at this time we make no mention either of our names or meetings yet nevertheless everyone’s opinion
Shall surely come to our hands in what language so ever it be nor anybody shall fail who so gives but his name to speak with some of us either by word of mouth or else if there be some let in writing and this we say for a truth that
Whosoever shall earnestly and from his heart bear affection unto us it shall be beneficial to him in Goods Body and Soul but he that is false-hearted or only greedy of riches the same first of all shall not be able in any manner of wise to hurt us but bring himself to utter
Ruin and destruction also our building although one hundred thousand people had very near seen and beheld the same shall forever remain untouched undestroyed and hidden from the Wicked World
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