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The Real History of the 

 Rosicrucians. 



FOUNDED ON THEIR OWN MANIFESTOES, AND ON FACTS 

 AND DOCUMENTS COLLECTED FROM THE WRIT- 

 INGS OF INITIATED BRETHREN. 



BY ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE. 

 WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. 



CONTENTS: Mystical Philosophy in Germany The Universal Reformation Fama 

 Fraternitatis Confession of Rosicrucian Fraternity Marriage of Christian Rosencreutz 

 Rosicrucianism, Alchemy, and Magic The Case of Johann Valentin Andreas Progress of 

 Rosicrucianism in Germany Rosicrucian Apologists: Michael Maier, Robert Fludd, 

 Thomas Vaughan, John Heydon Rosicrucianism in France Rosicrucians and Freemasons 

 Modern Rosicrucian Societies, &c. 



"We desire to speak of Mr Waite's work with the greatest respect on the 

 points of honesty, impartiality, and sound scholarship. Mr Waite has given, 

 for the first time, the documents with which Rosicrucianism has been con- 

 nected inextenso" Literary World. 



" There is something mysterious and fascinating about the history of the 

 Virgin Fraternity of the Rose." Saturday Review. 



"A curious and interesting story of the doings of a mysterious association 

 in times when people were more ready to believe in supernatural phenomena 

 than the highly-educated, matter-of-fact people of to-day." Morning Post. 



"... The work not only of a refined scholar, but of A MAN WHO KNOWS 

 WHAT HE is WRITING ABOUT, and that is a great deal more than can be 

 said for other books on the same topic. . . . Much that he has to tell us 

 has the double merit of being not only true, but new." John Bull. 



" Mr Waite's book on ' Rosicrucianism ' is a perfect contrast to the one 

 which we noticed a month or two back. The latter is a farrago of ill-digested 

 learning and groundless fancies, while the former is, at all events, an honest 

 attempt to discover the truth about the Society of the Rosy Cross. . . . The 

 study of ' Occultism ' is so popular just now that all books bearing on such 

 topics are eagerly read ; and it is a comfort to find one writer who is not 

 ashamed to confess his ignorance after telling us all he can discover." West- 

 minster Review. 



"Mr Waite is A GREAT AUTHORITY on esoteric science and its literature. 

 Those who have read his extremely interesting work upon the writings of 

 Eliphas Levi, the modern magician, will expect in his ' History of the 

 Rosicrucians ' a treatise of more than ephemeral importance, and they will 

 not be disappointed. . . ." Morning Post. 



" Some of the most interesting chapters in the book are devoted to an 

 account of the four great apologists for Rosicrucianism : Robert Fludd, 

 Michael Maier, Thomas Vaughan, and John Heydon. Each of these 



