Ralph Lewis served as Imperator of the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC from 1939 to 1987. In the reading of this article from the Rosicrucian Digest October 1956, he extols the courage and convictions of two great defenders of the Rosicrucians of the early 1600s—Robert Fludd of England and Michael Maier of Germany and explores Francis Bacon’s connection with the Rosicrucians of that time.