SECTION II — SLIDES AND RESEARCH ON EPHRATA
by Linda S. Schrigner, et al
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For example, in the group were a pharmacist,
astronomer, a theologian, bookbinder, clock maker, divinator. They
were teachers, preachers, healers, translators, and even business managers.
Conrad Weiser [1696-1760], who came later to America from Germany, first lived with his parents in New York. In the 1730's he moved to Philadelphia, where he came into contact with the remaining followers of Kelpius. He had been known as Indian Missionary and lexicographer, and in later years was a judge and a politician. He also was a friend of the second leader of Ephrata, Peter Miller, and later became a prominent member of the Ephrata Cloister. Those who, like Kelpius, were true mystics were a minority, even
if everyone who followed him to the New World had attained to a certain
understnding and direct experience of Rosicrucian principles and Universal1
spiritual laws. As Rosicrucians, they continued to participate in
personal religious practice and public pursuits that was a natural part
of life in America. Therefore, there is no record of just exactly
what activities by the Kelpius group were designated as Rosicrucian in
the modern sense of the word.
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