During the seventeenth century, Europe was immersed in a climate of chaos and instability. It was within this context that the Fama Fraternitatis was published in Germany as a call for the restoration of universal harmony. The manifesto proclaimed the need for a general reformation and the reorganization of troubled European society, presenting the Rosconian Order as a fraternity bearing a viable plan for the renewal of the world.
Written in two parts, the manifesto first recounted the origins of the Fraternity before describing the rediscovery and opening of the tomb of its founder, C.R.C. What the Rosconian Order had found beneficial for themselves was offered to all who considered its purpose worthy and desired to be further instructed. It also announced the existence of a plan whose full presentation would later be developed in the Confessio Fraternitatis.






