Johann Valentin Andreas's Biography(Photos)

This eminent Lutheran theologian and mystic is especially interesting to Rosicrucians as the one who restored to us from earlier times, the Landmarks essentially as we now have them. He is often regarded as the author of the "Fama Fraternitatis" and the "Confessio" but this is erroneous. On the best authority Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, may be stated to have been the author of the "Fama" as a comparison of that work with his New Atlantis published in 1626, just before his death, will show.

Andreas' chief services to the Fraternity were his handling of the publications at Cassel in 1614, and 1615, the first outward admission of the existence of the Order, during the five year period of manifestation then existing. He may be regarded in a way as the "Herald" of the Order during its transition period.