So long also as she fixed the scene of her history in a comparatively remote place, and among men now dead, she was partially protected from exposure, but when she transfers her revelations to England she is treading on dangerous ground, and she has in fact fallen into the pit.

She has had the temerity to meddle with the modern history of Rosicrucian societies, and has undertaken to inform her readers after what manner she has come into possession of the rituals of the revived Rosicrucian Order, and her account is specifically untrue.

She is undoubtedly acquainted with the grades of the order, but she could have obtained these from more than one published source--as, for example, the late Kenneth McKenzie's "Cyclopaedia of Freemasonry," or from my own "Real History of the Rosicrucians." But even if she possess the rituals, she has not come by them in the manner she describes.

Her account is as follows:--"The Fraternity of the Rose-Cross comprises nine degrees of initiation--1.
Zelator; 2.

Theoricus; 3.