"A few years later, I came upon that name in the unsuspected pages of De Quincey ( Writings, Volume XIII) and learned that it belonged to a German theologian who, in the early seventeenth century, described the imaginary community of Rosae Crucis - a community that others founded later, in imitation of what he had prefigured. Fludd it was, or whosoever was the author of the Summum Bonum, 1629, that must be considered as the immediate father of Free-masonry, as Andrea was its remote father."-" Historico-critical Inquiry into the Origin of the Rosicrucians and the Freemasons" (1824) by Thomas De Quincey Praestat dies unus in DEI atrijs quám alibi mil-le: malim in DEI mei domo ad limen esse quam in impiorum tabernaculis habitare. Título original: REIPUBLICAE CHRISTIANOPOLITANAE DESCRIPTIO. Johannes Valentinus Andreae (17 August 1586 27 June 1654), a.k.a. At the beginning of the seventeenth century many learned heads in England were occupied with Theosophy, Cabbalism, and Alchemy: amongst the proofs of this above all of Robert Fludd. Johann Valentin Andreae Reipublicae Christianopolitanae Descriptio (1619) Maqueta: RAG. "I affirm, as the main thesis of my concluding labours, that Freemasonry is neither more nor less than Rosicrucianism as modified by those who transplanted it into England.
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