Barnaud traveled widely around the turn of the seventeenth century. This has led to suggestions that he was setting up some sort of hermetic network, on the fabled lines of the Rosicrucians.This idea was put about by Johann Salomon Semler in the late eighteenth century. Arthur Edward Waite, The Pictorial Symbols of Alchemy (PDF), would have it that Barnaud was looking for Rosicrucians.
