Brethren of the Rosy Cross

The earliest written reference to the Brethren of the Rosy Cross, or Rosicmcians, is a 1638 poem that associates them with speculative Freemasonry ... 

For what we pressage is not in grosse, for we be brethren of the Rosie Cross, we have the Mason s Word and second sight, things to come we can foretell aright. 

These masons of the hidden valley survived and established a philosophical athenaeum called the Masons of the Orient or Brethren of the Rosy Cross of the Orient They held their first Chapter of the Scottish Rite degree in a castle of the Knights of the Rose Croix in Edinburgh. The Superior Sovereign Grand Chapter traditionally met there until a schism in 1322. ... 

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