It is no less credible that the patriarch of this supreme science has given this to his children, and those have been delivered unto us through reproduction between the sexes (Inheritance), and will remain even to the end of the world with the chosen children of men as the sons of wisdom, and will never be extinguished. It means, however, Initium sapientiae timor domini (The Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom). From this it is easy to conclude, that while many are called, yet few are ever chosen, because very few people have the true fear and knowledge of God and nature, to take interest in such: therefore has the true wisdom of the world ever been looked upon as folly and its supposedly witless followers despised, and scorned. Since we know that Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isäac, Moses, Aaron, Josue, David, Solomon, and Hiram Apif and Hermes Trismegistes, yes, even down to our own time, an almost incalculable number of others have been, and still are extremely enlightened men of God; as can be observed from our master plan no. 1, thus our hopeful desire for knowledge never tires, but we grow ever stronger, wiser, and more perfect day by day.
- The High Holy Order of Gold- and Rosicrucians, 1788
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