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Christian Europeans who came into contact with the Saracens and learned some Sufi truths and practices started the Rosicrucian movement. The rose was a Sufi metaphor for the mystic exercise (meditation in some form). The Cross was added by these Europeans.

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 5 : Comments On Specific Religions > # 138