So there’s these sorcerers, magic art followers, alchemists, in the times of the witch trials, in Scotland, Ireland and England in the early 1600s, and they think of a new magic art. Essentially it would be magic art X. It must, they decided, exist, in theory at least. An invisible magic art just for their time of increased knowledge and learning of the ‘Enlightenment’, known only, initially anyway, to a few. Esoteric. Those few would be members of an invisible society. Freemasons naturally. They would be sorcerers, alchemists, who would form a new invisible society so the new magic art could appear among them. When they eventually organised themselves into starting that society, it started as the invisible college and later became in 1660 the Royal Society, and Modern Science was born. Who were they? They were members of a masonic magic art circle who used a rose upon a cross as their symbol. The Rose Cross. So they were called Rosicrucians. I think the group may still exist today. Their invisible college does anyway, the Royal Society. They legitimised it, hiding its sorcery origins, by making large donations to Christian causes and promising it would provide the knowledge that would convince people to believe in God: A promise never kept.
It is all very reminiscent of the account from Acts of the Apostles (ch 13):
“When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they came upon a certain magician, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus. He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of intelligence, who summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God. But Elymas the magician (for that is the meaning of his name) opposed them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith. But Saul, who was also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him and said, “You son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord? And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind and unable to see the sun for a time.” Immediately mist and darkness fell upon him, and he went about seeking people to lead him by the hand. Then the proconsul believed, when he saw what had occurred, for he was astonished at the teaching of the Lord.”
