. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Dial-pillar at Wimborne Minster,Dorsetshire. 2 B 370 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday lucidly explain and define the Rosicrucian teachingsand philosophy. I doubt if the teachers desired lucidity. They believed in adistinct harmony of theprocess of nature andthe doctrines of religion,and so used chemicalterms to express religioustruths ; they talked ofthe signatures of things,of the influence of thestars, of magic, of theorders of friendly the Rosicr
. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Dial-pillar at Wimborne Minster,Dorsetshire. 2 B 370 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday lucidly explain and define the Rosicrucian teachingsand philosophy. I doubt if the teachers desired lucidity. They believed in adistinct harmony of theprocess of nature andthe doctrines of religion,and so used chemicalterms to express religioustruths ; they talked ofthe signatures of things,of the influence of thestars, of magic, of theorders of friendly the Rosicru-cians were all alchemists,or whether the alchemistswere a physical branchof the Rosicrucians, mat-ters Httle. The art andmystery of alchemyformed an important partof this as of all the mys-tic religions. Whenscoffers say in triumphthat the Rosicrucianscould never have turnedbase metal into gold,else they would have transformed the world withtheir wealth, the true grooms answer that whenthey had acquired the power of transmutation intogold, these adepts had ceased to desire South Dial at Wimborne Minster,Dorsetshire. The Rosicrucians 371 One alchemist, Sir Edward Kelley, turned a brasswarming-pan into silver, and gave away gold wirerings to the value of four thousand pounds at themarriage of a maid-servant, so readily could hemake gold. Sir George Ripley gave a hundredthousand pounds to the Knights of Malta for main-taining the war against the Turks—gave it, so itwas asserted, because he had found the philosophersstone in 1470, His works were published by Ash-mole. Robert the Searcher, another great mathe-matician, could make gold as easily as he couldmake salt from sea-waten Out of all the absurdity and nonsense, the confu-sion and superstition, of the reports of the Rosicru-cians which I have read, there stands out therefromsomething which attracts me. I am inclined to sus-pect that the charm comes largely from the beautyand significance of the Rosicrucian emblem.
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