CHAPTER I.

I'AGR

Bacon axd the Rosicrucians ...... 271

Dc Quincey's statements misleading — Rosicrucians not gold-
seekers — Rosicrucians reveal Baconian ends — Their Book of
Nature reflected in Bacon's "Sylva Sylvarum" — Maier \'isits
England — On his retui'n to Germany seeks to found a Society — •
Bacon was enlisting the services of learned men beyond the seas
for some secret purpose unknown to us — History of the Royal
Society mixed up with the history of the Rosicrucian Campanella
— Testimony of Des Cartes, Liebnitz, Helmont, showing the Rosi-
crucian Society did not exist abroad — Parallels between Bacon's
writings and Fludd's — Allusions to Solomon, Persian Magic, and
the Star in the East, both by Fludd and Bacon in identical
language — Bacon adopted the Rosicrucian emblem or type of
Architecture and Agi-iculture.

CHAPTER n.
Notes on PiOSicrucian Literature ..... 299

Strange correspondence between Rosicrucian literature and
the date of Shakespeare's death, 1616 — The controversy is at its
height in 1617, when the Englishman Robert Fludd defends the
Order against the attacks of foreigners — Bacon's term Instaura-
TION also used by the Rosicrucians in the sense of RESTORATION
of ^xis, and Sciences — Burton's evidence in his "Anatomy of
Melancholy," 1621 — Statement that the founder of the Rosi-
crucian Order was then living — "Omnium artiinii ct sctcniiannn
instauratm' " — In England only Rosicrucianism took root, show-
ing its origin — Fludd receives money from abroad, and publishes
at Frankfort — Receives letters^from foreigners — His own words
prove originality — Parallels.