John Heydon ( Eng. John Heydon , September 10, 1629 , London - c. 1667 ) - English thinker - Neoplatonist , occultist , Rosicrucian .
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- 1 Biography
- 2 Views
- 3 Works
- 4 notes
- 5 Literature
Biography
With the beginning of the English Revolution, he was forced to interrupt his studies - the study of ancient languages and law, he served in the royalist army. In 1651, undertook traveled to Spain, North Africa, the Middle East. Returning to his homeland, he practiced as a lawyer, compiled horoscopes . In 1656 he married the widow of a famous doctor, botanist and pharmacist Nicholas Culpeper . In recent years, the English Republic was imprisoned as a royalist, was released in 1660 (however, he was in short-term imprisonment in 1663 , 1664 and 1667 , in the latter case as a participant in the conspiratorial activities of his patron Duke of Buckingham ).
Views
He was influenced by the treatises of Thomas Brown and Thomas Vaughn , “New Atlantis” by Francis Bacon , borrowed a lot from these authors. He was fond of alchemy and geomancy .
Compositions
- Eugenius Theodidactus, the Prophetical Trumpeter ... ( 1655 )
- A New Method of Rosie Crucian Physick ... ( 1658 )
- The Rosie Crucian Infallible Axiomata; or, generall rules to know all things past, present, and to come ( 1660 )
- The Idea of the Law, charactered from Moses to King Charles: whereunto is added, The idea of government and tyranny (1660)
- Harmony of the World / The Harmony of the World ... ( 1662 )
- Priest / The English Physitians Guide: or a Holy Guide] (1662)
- Theomagia, or the temple of wisdom in three parts, spiritual, celestial, and elemental: containing the occult powers of the angels of astromancy in the telesmatical sculpture of the Persians and Ægyptians: the mysterious vertues of the characters of the stars ... the knowledge of the Rosie Crucian physick, and the miraculous secrets of nature ... (3 hours, 1662-1664)
- Psonthonpanchia ... (1664)
- Crown of the Sage / The wise-mans crown, or, The glory of the rosie-cross (1664)
- Elhavarevna; or, the English Physitian's Tutor in the Astrobolismes of Metals Rosie Crucian ( 1665 )
Notes
Literature
- Yates F. The Rosicrucian Enlightenment. M .: Aletheia; Enigma, 1999, p. 234-236.
- Waite AE The Real History of the Rosicrucians. London: George Redway, 1887, p. 315–386 ( [1] ).