There was an inner group, called the Militia Crucifera Evangelica, which existed even during the Essene days, although it was not an exoteric organization until 1586, according to Brother Grand Master Gary L. Stewart [1984], later Imperator Stewart.  It was a group of “soldiers” in a sense .  .  .  soldiers who were pledged to defend the cross against misuse or abuses.  During American colonial days, the members of the Order of the Militia were also the highest developed and most intimately secret Rosicrucian members.  The organization continues to exist even today [as written in 1984] in the same proactive, esoteric tradition of past centuries.

By any outer names of exoteric orders, religions and organizations, it would have been the network of the esoteric, spiritual Militia that would also have been behind the movement to bring the Rosicrucians and democracy to America in that political time of need.  As Shakespeare put it, or the literary debate goes on:  was it Francis Bacon and his Rosicrucian brethren, who said in effect,  that a rose is a rose by any name, and smells as sweet?

Democracy in America was the result of centuries of Karmic causes helped silently along by the various groups sponsored by the Great White Brotherhood, which is the inner, esoteric organization behind the Rosicrucians and other true universal spiritual Orders.  "White" refers to white hats and white clothing worn by very early eastern initiatic, master teachers, who from the ancients  centuries before the time of Christ, passed on their knowledge to those who, in the universal tradition, passed certain tests of wisdom.  Through centuries they continued to influence the western esoteric tradition that was nurtured in a form suitable for fulfilling different needs in the western culture.  There was the Order of Unknown  Philosophers, The Royal Society, The Brotherhood of the Quest, The University of the Six Days Work, The College of the Holy Ghost, The Order of the Mustard Seed, The Woman in the Wilderness, The House of the Rosy Cross, the Martinists—many, by additional uncounted symbolic names, and many others which were actually—esoterically—one and the same Order.  "Out of Many, One"—E Pluribus Unum.  It is a universal principle that is written on American currency, a principle based in the reality of human diversity that America came to represent in the spirit of Bacon's foretelling Rosicrucian objectives of the New Atlantis.