Confessio Fraternitatis: Övgüye Değer Gül Haç Kardeşliği'nin İtirafı

Confessio Fraternitatis, Or Confession of the praiseworthy Brotherhood of the highly honored Rose Cross, written to the learned of Europe. The 1st Chapter. What has come to the ears of many and been made public through the previously issued Fama regarding our Fraternity or brotherhood, no one should consider ill-considered, audacious, or fabricated, much less take it as having flowed and originated from our own opinion. It is the LORD Jehovah who, after the world has now almost reached the evening and, after the completed period or cycle, hastens back to the beginning, turns the course of nature, and now brings to light that which was previously sought with great effort and unceasing labor, to those who do not esteem it, or perhaps do not even desire it, at one time to open it, and to others who desire it, freely offer it, and to those who do not desire it, almost force it upon them, so that for the pious all the miseries of human life may be alleviated and the turbulence of inconstant fortune removed, but for the wicked, their malice and the punishments belonging thereto may be increased and heaped up. Although we cannot be suspected by anyone of heresy or any evil undertaking or intent against secular government, we who condemn the blasphemies of the Orient as well as of the Occident (meaning those of Mahomet and the Pope) against our LORD Jesus Christ, nevertheless, we have deemed it advisable and good, for the sake of the learned, to add something more and to explain it better, in case anything in the Fama was hidden too deeply or set forth too obscurely.