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1. Older Rosicrucians Shortly before the Thirty Years’ War (1618–48), among Tübingen student friends of J. V. Andreae (1586–1654), who later became general superintendent and court preacher, there appeared two anonymous Rosicrucian manifestoes— Fama Fraternitas (Account of the brotherhood, 1614) and Confessio Fraternitatis (Confession of the fraternity, 1615)—followed by Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz (The chemical wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz, 1616), now known to have been written by Andreae. These are the first traces of the repo…