DURING THE MIDDLE AGE. roj' 



.:t really had an exigence, or \vhcthcr Europe 

 was made the fport of one or a few individuals, 

 it will not be foreign to our purpofe to infert. 

 here a (lory made by fonie in the name of this 

 fociety. A nobleman of Germany travelling, 

 in- the year 1378, into Arabia, was faluted in iiif> 

 proper name by the wife men of that country, 

 though they had never feen him before, and 

 they related every thing that had happened to 

 him, during all his life. He was initiated by 

 them m their myflcries. On his return to Ger- 

 many, he inflrurlccl fcvcral difcipJcs, until the 

 year 148.4 ; when, at the i^c of 150, he volun- 

 tarily choie to depart this life. Some one or Im 

 uicccfibrs, 1604, difcovcred his tomb, in which, 

 bcfidcs various remarkable infcriptions, was it 

 book engraved in golden letters. J)ut here we 

 ran learn nothing further. Their own confei 

 fion has furnifhed u^ with the above circum- 

 flancc-b. They had for their general conduct. 

 J;x fundamental rules: Ky thefnft they were to 

 heal the iic.k \vherever rlu-y met them; the fc- 

 rond dirccled them to atTume the cloathing of 

 the country in which they happened to be; the 

 third obliged theia to attend the annual jjene- 

 r..'i meeting, unlcfs they could allign fomc law- 

 nil -raufc of abfence; tlie fourth enjoined every 

 hrolhcr, a r > loon as he chofe tu die, to nominate 

 .t v;orthy fucccifor; the fifth ordained the rofy 

 crofs to be their fyml>ol ; the fixth dirct^eJ 

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