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* The poet Fernando Pessoa-known defender of Masonic and Rosicrucian ideals and possible Rosicrucian Initiate, as he states " Initiated from Master to Disciple in the three minor degrees of the ( apparently extinct ) Portuguese Templar Order " ( Rosicrucians seem to have had a deep presence in Portugal, intermixed with Templar tradition, and with evidence in monuments and literature, from medieavel times into the 20th century )-wrote an hermetic poem titled " No Túmulo de Christian Rosenkreutz " the Tomb of C. R. C, which states in the final line / verse: " Our Father Rose-n-creuz knows and keeps silent.

", which may attribute the whole key to the understanding of the " Fama " to the enigmatic character described as " R. C.

" or " F. R. C ".