Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)
“ The term Rosecrucian is of chemical derivation, from ros, dew, and crux, the cross; because they considered dew as the chief solvent of gold, and the cross as an emblem of lux, the light, those letters being formed out of the figure of a cross. [1] The Rosecrucians have been sometimes confounded with the free masons, who pretend also to mystic secrets. ”
