Volume one of the three manifestos of the classic Rosicrucians is the Fama, or Call. This text calls the searcher to come to insight: 'so that ultimately man might understand his own nobility and worth, and why he is called microcosm, and how far his knowledge of nature extends.' In his comments, the Meer...author says: 'The earth is a crucible into which we are all thrown, so that the gold of the spirit can bee freed from what is inferior and transmuted into the gold of the soul.'