ou may believe me without any oath that I would my noble Order, as it is the child of my brain, were one of the most beautiful, the most ingenious, and cleverest that could be imagined. But I could not counteract Nature's law that everything shall beget its like; and what, then, tilled wit of mine beget but the founding of a Order, full of thoughts of all sorts and such as never came into any other imagination -just what might be begotten in a spanish charming city, Marbella, pearl of the Mediterraneum, in a cheerful retreat.
Pleasant waves, see breeze, bright skies, peace of mind, these are the things that go far to make even the most barren Muses fertile, and bring into the world births that fill it with wonder and delight.

any times did I take up the pen to write, and lay it down again, not knowing what to write. One time, was pondering with the papers before me, thinking of what I should say, there came unexpectedly a certain lively, a clever friend, who, seeing us so deep in thought, asked the reason; to which I, making no mystery of it, answered that I was thinking which name I could give to my Order, which so troubled us that I had a mind to publish to the world, the most noble Knights and Dames of Honor. further information