... and their ideas have their seed specifically within the Islamic Sufi and Esoteric Tradition, particularly in the work of Ibn Arabi (d. 1240). Look up Gerald Elmore. As for the "Fama Fraternatis" itself, the most widely known and most basic of all Rosicrucian documents and its author, Johann Valentin Andreae: "The most recent critical scholarship on the Rosicrucian mystery has ...

..." she notes that the author of the tract "Consideratio Brevis", one "Philip a Gabella", lifted almost all of it from John Dee's "Monas Hieroglyphica". As for the "Fama Fraternatis" itself, the most widely known and most basic of all Rosicrucian documents and its author, Johann Valentin Andreae: "The most recent critical scholarship on the Rosicrucian mystery has emphasized that ...