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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: accused of wanting to support and advance the Catholic religion--one
would think the accusation was very unnecessary, seeing that their
actual dealings were with the philosopher's stone, and the exorcism
of spirits: and that the first apostle of the new golden
Rosicrucian order, one Schropfer, getting into debt, and fearing
exposure, finished his life in an altogether un-catholic manner at
Leipsic in 1774, by shooting himself;--of Keller and his Urim and
Thummim;--of Wollner (who caught the Crown Prince Frederick William)
with his three names of Chrysophiron, Heliconus, and Ophiron, and
his fourth name of Ormesus Magnus, under which all the brethren were
to offer up for him solemn prayers and intercessions;--of Baron
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