The Rosicrucian A Quarterly Record of the Society's Transactions, with Occasional Notes on Freemasonry and other kindred subjects No 1 July 1868

The Rosicrucian 

A Quarterly Record of the Society's Transactions, 

with Occasional Notes on Freemasonry and other kindred subjects

No 1 July 1868

Notable Rosicrucian books

THE first of the books relating to the Rosicrucian Society, that we intend glancing at, is a small work entitled " Τhe Fame and Confossion of the fraternity of R: C:, commonly of the Rosie Cross, with a preface annexed thereto, and a short declaration of their physical work. By Eugenius Philalethes. Veritas in profundo. London: printed by J. M., for Giles Calvert, at the Black Spread Eagle, at the west end of St. Pauls. 1659." 

It is believed to have been written by 'Thomas Vaughan, and we think correctly so, and is numbered 2435 in Dr. Kloss' admirable "Bibliographie der Freimaureri, A.D. 1844'' (in the list of Rosicrucian works from A.D. 1614, pages 174 to 197; in "Rosicrucian Bibliography," by Chariles Purton Cooper, Esq., in Freemasons' Magazine, vol. 18, page 327; it is catalogued as No. 3 (addenda). The latter gentleman mentions a work of three years earlier date, which we have not had the pleasure of seeing yet, but that loss is partly compensated by our possession of the "Fama Fraternitatis" itself. 

The little work now under review contains-( a) an address by ''the Publisher to the reader" of three pages, (b) an Epistle to the wise and understanding reader, of nine pages ; and a preface of fifty-three pages. Neither of the foregoing is regularly paged, and the latter concludes with Soli Deo Gloria. 

The "Fama Fraternitatis" consists of only 33 pages, and the "Confesio Fraternitatis" of 30 pages; so that one half of the book is an introduction to the other half; which, for a volume measuring only some six inches by four, is surely a lengthy enough explanatory notice for even the dullest of readers.-But we will let the Publisher introduce himself to our readers without delay.