Quid opinamini, homines amantes, et quomodo affici videmini, quia nunc intellegitis et cognitum habetis, nos agnoscere Christum vere et sincere profiteri, papam damnare, nos ad philosophiam veram addicere, vitam Christianam agere, multosque alios in nostrum fraternitatem quotidie invocare, precari, invitare, quibus eadem luxDei similiter apparet?[4][5]
↑Albertus Pike (1872), Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, XXX: Knight Kadosh. p. 822. "Commentaries and studies have been multiplied upon the Divine Comedy, the work of DANTE, and yet no one, so far as we know, has pointed out its especial character. . . . His Hell is but a negative Purgatory. His Heaven is composed of a series of Kabalistic circles, divided by a cross, like the Pantacle of Ezekiel. In the centre of this cross blooms a rose, and we see the symbol of the Adepts of the Rose-Croix for the first time publicly expounded and almost categorically explained." Vide Dantis AlagheriiParadiso, Canto XXXI (circa 1308–1321): "In fashion then as of a snow-white rose / Displayed itself to me the saintly host, / Whom Christ in his own blood had made his bride,"
↑Haec appellatio a Vicipaediano e lingua indigena in sermonem Latinum conversa est. Extra Vicipaediam huius locutionis testificatio vix inveniri potest.
↑Anglice "prepare a new phase of the Christian religion to be used during the coming age now at hand, for as the world and man evolve so also must religion change" ("The Rosicrucian Interpretation of Christianity," The Rosicrucian Fellowship).