The Rosicrucians, past and present, at home and abroad

"I deem it an indispensable condition of any investigation into the origin of the Rosicrucians and Free-masons that both orders should be surveyed comprehensively and in the whole compass of their relations and characteristic marks,-not with reference to this or that mythos, symbol, usage, or form; and to the neglect of this condition, I believe, we must impute the unsuccessful issue which has hitherto attended the essays on this subject."