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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER FIRSTINTRODUCTORY.
CHAPTER SECOND.
one
CHAPTER THIRD.
Studies . ..
CHAPTER FOURTH.
x CONTENTS.
CHAPTER FIFTH.
Opinions...
CHAPTER SIXTH.
CHAPTER SEVENTH.
CHAPTER EIGHTH.
CHAPTER NINTH.
CONTENTS.
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CHAPTER TENTH.
-Mermai(lsGeometryFiguresMilitary ArtFortications
Dia.llingCosmographyMapsGeomencyHistory of this
CHAPTER ELEVENTH.
CHAPTER TWELFTH.
62
78
86
CONTENTS. 2111
CHAPTER THIRTEENTH.
CHAPTER F OURTEENTH.
CHAPTER FIFTEENTH.
QQNTWS-
CHAPTER SIXTEENTH.
MOYSAICA.
Gordon . .
CHAPTER SEVENTEENTH.
.145
. 154
CONTENTS. xv
SalveConclusion 168
CHAPTER EIGHTEENTH.
Fludds 198
CHAPTER NINETEENTH.
PRACTICAL.
XV].
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER TWENTIETH.
APPENDICES.
I. Bibliography 243
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
MACRO- m MICROCOSMOS . . . . . . . . 64
MICROCOSMUS . . . . . . . . . . 89
MONOCHORDUM . . . . . 153
CHAPTER I.INTRODUCTORY.
Eternal Rest.
1 Hunt, Pantheism, 1893, p. 136. See also Miss Gardners John the
Scot. This writer concludes that Erigena was born and educated in
Ireland. >
cast away all and become free from all.4 So does the
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CHAPTER II.
whom all hangs, to whom all aspire, from whom all hold
so strong that, until the year 1583, both the French and
century.
Let him look on the vessels of the monastery and all its
altar.3
us, too, a hint that at that time the study of mysticism and
The men who brought Agrippa into trouble during his life
have lived in vain. His hopes were gone, his home deserted
Dog. 4 a .
things.2 7
unable to abase his soul below the level to which God had
raised it. 3
heim was born near the city of Zurich in the year 1493.
a Morley, 312.
cultivated and brought into practical use. His love for the
there in 1541, after a short sickness, the event not free from
truth from you, but will reveal his works to you, credibly,
eternal life, and therefore the spiritual. elements, and all the
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
Salisbury Plain.
and deep country silence bet that spot, where one of the
the Countie of Shropshire, and being bu [t a younger br] other, was in his
being both of them garrison t [owns]. He was by the Queene Elizabeth her
voluntary election made R [ecei] vour of Kent, Surrey, and Sussex, and
afterwards was chosen treasurer of that English Army which was sent by
her Majestic in the ayde of Henry IV., Kinge of France, under the
order of k [ni] ghthood, and after his returne into [England was m] ade
Treasurer of all her Majesties forces in the Lowe [count] ries, and for his
Peace in the c [oun] ty wherein he lived. Also he was [in the g0] 0d
0 iuion not 0 [n1] y of the inhabitants thereof, but also of her [Majestic].
na. [m] ely, [six] sons [th] at lived, Edw [a] rd, Thomas, \Villiam, John,
Robert, and Philipp ; whereo [f] Edward was married unto a daughter of
Sr. Michael Sands of Thr [o] wly, in Kent, Knight ; and Thomas tooke to
which lived he had [two, Cathe] rine and Sarah, whereof the rst was
married unto Sr. [Nicho] las Gilburne of Charing, Knight; and the
beloved of both of the ri [oh and p] core for honest dealing and good
do [pa] rte this lif the[ th], and his lat [e wife] doe lye interred in
this [church].
[ . . . ] which gave him life, and tell them that his choice desire
life. She changed this mortal life for an immortal the 25th
Robert Fludd.
And now I will express the cause, why I put the Esquier
verily, for mine oune part,_I had rather bee without any
for sh, . . had a Reed runne into the calf of his leg. 3
Old cellars also belonged to the older days, and there still
stood the statue of the holy Bernard over the door. 1 The
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pot.3
LEngland.
CHAPTER V.
with Rosicrucian Society, and his Devotion and Religious Life and
Opinions.
some of whom he taught, and for their use made the rst
b. 1589, d. 1614_
5 Art., Fludd, R., xiv. 418. 4 Art., Fludd, R., vol. xix. 348.
continuing quiet (in his bed), after the ceasing of the sound
into an oval form, which after, by little and little, did seem
The Bishop who had given the operator the blood, did
newly come from Fess in Barbary, who told him the story
he had got his red headed mistres with child, and nourish-
ing her with all the delightful dainties that might be, till
her, armes and all, unto the paps, and so let loose unto her
dugs ; and when the Todes were full, that milk became, he
the former story goeth), the woman was taken up, and after
her back was broken, was hanged, her legs upwards, against
the man who, more than any other at this time, exercisedl
curious, and cost him no less than 1200 gold crowns, but
became acquainted.
wimble, and afterward put into the hole the pared nailes
and skin, and with a peg made of the same wood, you must
Permissorum.
but he always took care that his servant should carry for
plative as experimentall. 3
my.
74')
sanctity.
CHAPTER VI.
Fama. '
sciences. 2
Cross.
Collected. .
mitted) brother, P. A. L.
he should direct and instruct them in, to the end that those
sick gratis.
of absence.
successor.
character.
hundred years.1
106 years. The society, the F ama tells us, had lasted (in
that form) 120 years. But recently the burial vaults of the
myself while yet living. Round the margin was the motto,
reality, and one which might not even be the true history
1 Waite, 65-84.
J EHOVA. 1
deep, hidden, and set down over dark in the Fama. This
will of God, shall sooner lose his life in seeking us, than
have been put into his hands for publication. I see nothing
its angles. [But then the arms of Luther were very similarI]
all be so, and yet Andreas may have been only the medium
be intense.1 A
CHAPTER VII.
cants for Rosy Cross Order treated with silence Universal Re-
visited our country more than once. Some have said that
order.3
3 Waite, 269-273.
the society and to wipe off the spots of shame smeared over
can read it. Yet the will of God can be pointed out by
royal wise men, who, by the leading of the new star in the
its wings and hissing, which spits out of its jaws re and
CHAPTER VIII.
such a. length that, though she crept circle-wise about the rest of it, yet her
tail still remained in one of the eyeholes until her head entered again at
begins with the natural hypothesis that God, the Word and
of Death.
' man; hence the mixture of truth with falsehood ; hence the
perpetual war of the just mind with the body, and the
often govern the weak and little ame of the soul. The
the crystalline river and the tree of life ornament and offer
ments. The nature and condition of life and spirit improves '
of man.
the mud or dust of the earth. The earth was really then
God has given unto us eternal life, and that life is in his
union with the Father and the word. Blessed indeed, then,
was Adam, who had breathed into him eternal life. Thus
for the body of Adam, the very bones of which are as pure
gold, the walls of pure jasper, the very heart of the tree of
life, and the veins and arteries lled with the water of life.1
drudgery. But the trees of life and of good and evil, non
fall, F ludd holds that Adam was but a few hours free from
higher and better light and joy. In the second hour Eve
named; in the fourth hour Eve was tempted and took the
hour the Divine voice was heard. They ed and hid them-
the bright and morning star, the Lamb of God that taketh
away the sin of the world, rose again the third day. Not
of the Devil bind men in ignorance and sin; yet still is the
saying true that the Divine work goes on, that God is still
the fount of life, and that in His light men shall see light.
God, and the light which shall still shine amid the darkness
and re are illusions and lies of the Devil. But the Divine
although 100,000 people had very near seen and beheld the
the pride of life, and the desire of the eyes, the evil one
the lilies of the eld, far more glorious than Solomon. Seek
rst the kingdom Of God and His righteousness, and all will
comb with the honey, to drink wine with milk. All are
welcome; the Spirit and the bride say come. The section
ends with the devout wish that, with humble hearts, minds,
Filled with the spirit of God which had been breathed into
Eve, the more cold and humid, the darker and more imper-
For all that is in the world, the lust of the esh, and the
lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but
being closed by his sin, the bodily eyes pierced his naked-
was not for carnal lust, but for a companion in the life of
put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy
seed and her seed, &c. The part which sinned is punished
tion, 8m. The seed of Cain was the result. That seed
still continues, and this was the cause of the new covenant
by his purity and grace, did sanctify that part which was
the true way, most are rushing along the way of death;
1 See here also S. Augustine, City of God, book xiv., chap. 22, 23,
8:0. ; Origen Contra Celsum, book iv., chapter xxxix. The remarks of
more perfect ; naked in sim licity and guileless life, and removed
from all cover and pretence, or such it became the original man to
be. Adam gave wan to the suggestion of the woman, who, being
taken out of the si e of the man, typies the lower and impulsive
the woman hem deceived, was in the trans ression (1 Tim. ii. 4).
clinations of the sensual appetite were before the fall, as Thorndike and
Taylor agree, but the disorder of them by it. See in Forlongs Rivers
not an apple, which caused the fall of ve. A basket of gs was one of
the most sacred objects in the possession of Bacchus, whose symbol was
always made of the wood of the cus. In the East, eating forbidden
act necessary for the perpetuation of the human race, an act which in its
origin was thought to be the service of all evil (Forlong, i. 142). See also
the end, the Creator of all things, and is that Word who
rose again from the dead, is Lord of all, and wages now
perpetual war against the Devil, the beast, and the false
and patience, not only pacied the great Creator, but became
of our minds being raised now and our bodies in the future.
who is a Spirit, whose majesty and essence our eyes are not
precious than the sun and the stars. When this light'
the sun cause the wheat, apparently dead, to show new life.
assume a perfect form and to rise above the earth. It, too,
times.1
The magi Were led to the cradle of the infant Christ by the light of a star.
These sages of the East knew that truth alone could make man like God,
was the want of the oil to make the light in the lamps which caused the
exclusion of the foolish virgins from the great marriage feast of heavenl
they strove, above all earthly knowledge, after the divine, and sought the
divine light and re, through which all men can acquire the true wisdom,
they were called the Fire Philosophers (philosophi per ignem). The most
Religions, p. 138). And the city had no need of the sun, neither of
the moon to shine in it - for the glory of God did lighten it, and the
bright, and His face shone in the sun, and His raiment
drawn to Him, and so remain with Him for ever. The life
not death, then, in the error of your ways, and pull not
in his time. The Devil was truly then prince of this world,
and men led captive through sin and greed. Those who
were really sons of God were the light in the Word. Chief
advent will be shortly before the time when the stone cut
feet, which were of iron and clay, and brake them in pieces.
when the Spirit came from the four winds upon the dead
and the tabernacle of God shall be with man, and all tears,
their heads with joy and gladness. The sun has arisen in
the east, the Lion has come, the splendid carbuncle has
and hath now expelled from the earth all impurity and
knowledge! Tibi sit laus, tibi sit gloria innita, tibi sit
CHAPTER IX.
THE year 1617 saw also the publication of the rst part
Galleri Anno 1617." Fludd tells us1 the reason Why his
walking upon the clouds, draws the rope with/ both hands;
we nd the outer part, with the sun and moon, 850., enclos-
that its widespread existence has been shown, by Prof. Max Muller and
Iousness and potency. The swastika has been found in nearly every
the solar wheel, with spokes in it, the tyre and the movement being
grace and honour from him, and received from that time
sun and moon on her breasts. From the sun, which covers
male side, man, the lion, the serpent, the dolphin, grapes,
side, we have woman, the eagle, the snail, the shes, wheat,
is the sea, in which are seen shes and huge eels, or perhaps
then gives his own opinion that the rst material which
I am the light of the world, the true light, and the father
all substance, life, and action. The ideas here given are
each separate being came into existence. All things and all
Zodiacal signs.
neither very gross nor very subtile. The third and lower
then formed and drawn forth was most subtile, simple, and
ceeding from the Father and the Word, the ery love.
and there went out the holy lights, and the elements were
book closes.
Musica mundana.
man as a dream of, and the sorrow for, the lost paradise."
Comets and meteors mar the true music; clouds, snow, hail,
tionem.
1 Jennings, 197-8.
orders.
The whole nine orders are described and the names of their
remember.1
the world has a soul, Fludd tells us, was the opinion of all
in all, and above all, and that in Him are all things, and
These are spirit, light, stars, and planets. The third chapter
lights which doth decypher out the starry heaven, and has
all life, all heat proceeds from it, and there has God placed >
essential divinity, and took its origin when the light, which
was expansed over all the heavens in place of the sun, was
of the sun, all the herbs and plants do feel and confess that
distance of the xed stars, and that the earth was but a
applause.1
Tractatus Primus.
CHAPTER X.
family.
attained. '
The notes are iron teeth on the different bars Of the frame.
pictures of the human eye, face, and of the foot are given.
explained.
a harp.
year, the month, the day, form the subject Of the rst
third book.
loved, return his love from the very depths of her soul ?"
lad were opened, and those who knew the girl quite ap-
spoken of. The Jesuits got wind of it. The whole affair
defended the art from his own experience, and said that
thunderings heard. 1
lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof isJ
CHAPTER XI.
down the earth and meditate by the sea shore, Where the
the sun, the fountains, the rivers, the rain, the hail, the
son of man that Thou regardest him ?" Yet the divine
who has made heaven and earth, the world and men, may
ventre residens.2
Cross. Thus man bears in his own body the picture of the
the two rst spring as emanations, and with which the rst
are preserved. The Monad, the Diad, and the Triad are
be seen, but the voice in the midst of the thunder was that
saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high, and lifted up,
and his train lled the temple. The temple here really
value and power are also illustrated from the cases of Cain,
and the Father with the Son, and the Spirit with both.
mencing with God and ending at the Sun, are the three
fall of Adam. Hence, bad is taken for good, hence the love
LCreator.
that also did man receive. Heaven and earth have their
divine music upon the soul and spirit. From seraphim, the
receptaculum omnium.
before given, that, as the earth was the centre of the great
good and bad. And the relation which man bears to God,
then drawn out between the different parts and sides of the
than exact.
the edge of the rst, are the eight planets; and, in interior
the edge of which are set the signs of the Zodiac, and the
ribs, the breasts, the liver, and the spleen. Leo, again,
reigns over the heart, the stomach, the sides, and the
rules the head, the eyes, ears, and teeth. Of the planetsj
the sun rules the right half of the brain, the heart, the
right eye; the moon, the left half of the brain, the left
eye; and so on. The next two diagrams are square, and "J
it.1 The lion, he tells us, was the rst animal created.
aetherial, and is connected both with the true mind and the
harmony there can exist between the soul and the body.
1 p. 22.
compared with Deut. xviii. 22, will show, there may be also
the milky way in the heavens. Under the same head come
God are thus sent (Numb. xii. 6). Fludd does not omit
on tries, when her mother cried out, I wish the devil and
his legions would now enter into you. She was immediately
mens may not actually suffer ; for, in the same way, comets
and ying dragons may appear, and other prodigies, yet the
multitudine ad unitatem.
men as a cube. But God, the Word, and the Spirit are
tion; the desire of the body has gone, and it is under the
for He created all things that they might have their being.
Righteousness is immortal."2
reaches from the head to the thigh, and in the one form
the Son, the Divine speech, mind, intellect, reason, and will,
double circle, the via solis, extends from the heart to the
tion ; the point in the centre from which the master mason J
works.
Jehovah, that God may be the writers help, and that from
wicked.
CHAPTER XII.
certain persons, who then spoke and acted from his impulses,
a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that
was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it
came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they
was seen that the Philistian Dagon could not stand upright
the evil spirits enter into men also, and, by the power of
angel who delivered me from all evil, bless the lad. Fludd
metals and stones have also power. So they said that, from
Mobili.
Son of man, eat that thou ndest; eat this roll, and go
represented as blind.
dream sleep are noted. The devil has power to cast into a
number of others.
represents the tower of Babel, Toby with the sh, the angel
in ten chapters.
Seen, also the moon and the stars. The rst chapter treats
Two tables are given, and the usual rules for setting up
success or happiness.
that spirit sent before the face of the Baptist; again, the
the mind virtuous, infuses the divine light into the soul.
beings have their origin and essence from the divine. The
solaris.
Jacob (Gen. xxiv. 7) ; Ps. xci. ll, He shall give his angels
charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They also
the voice of his word (Ps. ciii. 20). The fact is more con-
the prayers of the saints, and which go in and out before the
angel went forth to meet him, and said unto him, Run,
down the soul, and if it were not for angelic and heavenly
aid infused into the soul and acting in the body, the earthly
Large ears signify good memory, long life, but many and
The face and forehead come next, and then the nose. A
cholica.
noted. Seven rules are given. The right hand in men, the
the thumb. The next line is the hepatic, across the hand;
ngers denote that the woman will have sons rather than
great exactness and very plainly. Any one can read his
the way in which rays of light issue from the sun. These
This form is most sacred from the earliest ages, and is that
ten pages.
CHAPTER XIII.
the eye.
undergraduate at S. Johns.
_ 3 Mathers Kabbalah, p. 5.
the vesica and the double cube were the rule of all struc-
what a very early date, if not from the very beginning, this
sacrice on the Cross was the great act of all time, so that
the Divine name, the living and ery symbols of the sacred
that shield, and will be the very means by which they who
nature, and they have not realised that the One, most holyI
His word and wisdom to men of just life and true piety.
shall be in the latter days. Then also did the magi and
is small, and the Whole style poorer than What precedes it.
There are very few illustrations, and those given are poorly
done.
clouds.
is perfect in knowledge ?
the still small voice. The last letter indicates the elemen-
tary region.
The rays of the sun are not divided from it, so these
for God was in that place," where the ladder was set up
the ame in the bush, and was told to put off his shoes, the
upon the face of the deep, and the spirit of God moved
upon the face of the waters, and God said, let there be
then waters, the spirit rising from the bright aleph. The
power, and there went out the holy light, and the elements
The rst light of the spirit showed the abyss and revealed
earth. The third day has arrived; the voice of God calls
regions are the founts of frigidity, where the snow and hail
The father is the sun, and the mother truly is the moon."
the sea, and all that is in them, praise the Lord. The
into waters, the stars are born from and return into water.
spirit, and the bloodand these three are one. There are
Lord talked with you face to face in the mount, out of the
human eyes, but with the spirit with which God has
the sun, which is the light of the visible world, gives life to
1 Heb. xi.
Thummim.
Son and image of God, who lls all, and so not an inept
the angels, and crowned him with glory and honour. Man
Kepler, p. 40.
The root is above, and the leaves issuing from the lesser He
which was the life, the beginning and the end, properly, in
over death, hell, and the devil. The names of Adam and
CHAPTER XIV.
that order July 17, 1611. He was the chief literary friend
and Iamblicus, whereof the rst did hold that a man might
points layd by him unto his charge, that hee could not be
Lwere his chief friends, and King James his constant patron.
motto is the 20th and 21st verses of Isaiah, chap. v., Woe
unto them that call evil good, 850. ; woe unto them that
are wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight.
He shows that his opinions are neither new, and far from
Magiee
Cabalaa Vera: -
adopted.1
which are known through secret arts, the use of which does
spake by parables.
they bear the same name and are the same in signicance
as S. Peter. _
Catholic Church.
of the apostle are true The letter killeth, but the Spirit
giveth life.
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the gold of the vulgar, but the living gold, the very gold of
God. For, cries the Psalmist, the words of the Lord are
seven times. The true gold is that re, that life given
very life and food from God, that Elias in the desert, and
the burning coal which touched the prophets lips, the book
men are the stones. They will attain the very perfection
life or in another.
its dwelling, and those who are its votaries. Since the
temple of wisdom; for the most men prefer the broad road
the Paradise of God, the hidden manna, the White stone, the
doubt that the Sophize and the Suinrnum are from the
brethren are true, stand out before God, then they deserve
Mersenne.
1 p. 39.
are they that walk in the ways of the Lord. It is, indeed,
a house not made with hands, but has its eternity from
the stone, and so called it; the house of bread "of the
who were once not a people, but are now the people of God.
These are they that have put off the mortal clothing and
now are they crowned and receive palms (2 Esdras ii. 45).
Jacob, and walk in the light of the Lord. They are called
God. They are the wise men, the holy nation, true
and labour till the impure be made pure, and the perfect
is the divine and sacred alchemy, and the full rose on the
CHAPTER XV.
Roseae, who know all things, are able for all things, and
Bonum," the bees and rose, with the motto, Dat Rosa Mel
is the division of the pure and true from the impure and
false, clear light from darkness, sin and vice from goodness
and virtue. Thus are the true gold and silver separated
spirit. The effect of the sun and the force of the winds in
soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow. The waters
and this, S. Peter says, was done by the word of God. The
forth His wind and melteth them, and the waters ow.
the vulgar herd, or such silver, nor the common re, are
precor.
the Eternal, and that all things exist now as they then
Christ, was the true Philosophers Stone, and had its effect
in one of the foci, and the areas swept over by a line drawn
Heraclitus. 1
stars, together with that above us, are the nine muses, and
itself but the outer voice of the eternal hymn sung before
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CHAPTER XVI.
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cities of the plain, the deluge, a ship being driven, re, rain,
across the space. The angels of the four winds occupy the
right hand over his breast, the left resting upon a book
I. Ludovicus, Gotofridus. A.
Basilien: fecit. _\
Britannus.
left for plates, apparently not lled up. Perhaps the most
arum in mundo.
the earth. The evil angels are also fully described in their
science.
rose, and the crowned harp. The Latin edition has also an
in double columns.
sophy, it may not be out of place to set down here the gist
works.
Divine Father. These are Light and Darkness,or form or idea, and
extends four-square, according to the points of the celestial compass, with the
divine creative eiuence in the centre. The worlds spiritual and temporal,
being rendered subject to the operation of the ori 'nal Type or Idea,
regions or spheres ; which, as they lie near to, or dilate the farthest from,
the Ethereaum, and the Elementary Region, each lled and determinate
and forceful with less and less of the First Celestial Fire. These regions
of the cabalistic Sephiroth, becomes the blac ness, sediment, or ashes, which
is the second ery, real world. This power, or vigour, unitin with the
the only means of the earthly intelligence, or man, knowing it. It is the
Gnostic Sophia, the Word made esh of St. John. The Emp raeum is
atent Fire. It is penetrated with miracle and holy magic. The Rosi-
benecent Angels (the purer portion of the First Fire, or Light) divided
into nine orders. These threefold angelic hierarchies are the Teraphim, the
Seraphim, and the Cherubim. This religion, which is the religion of the
Parsees, teaches that, on the Dark Side, there are also three counterbalanc-
angels, who boast still the relics of their lost, or eclipsed, or changed,
light. 'The elementary world, or lowest world, in which man and his
belongings, and the lower creatures, are produced, is the ux, subsidence,
The connection is intimate between the higher and the lower, because all
above, and by contact with that immediately below, from the very lowest
to the very highest. So true is it that God loves to retire into His
into His Truths but the poor in spirit. The Rosicrucians contended
that these so poor in spirit ' meant themselves, and implied their submis-
The Rosicrucians held that, all things visible and invisible having
been produced by the contention of light with darkness, the earth has
contain less and less of the original divine light as they thicken and
solidify the grosser and heavier in matter. They taught, nevertheless, that
every object, however stied or delayed in its operation, and darkened and
thickened in the solid blackness at the base, yet contains a certain possible
may take ages to evolve, as light will tend at last by its own native, irre-
dead matter will yield this spirit in a space more or less expeditious by the
eager re, shut and conned, as in a prison, in the body, or in all sensible
solid objects, which have more or less of spiritually sensitive life as they
obstruction. Thus all minerals, in this spark of light, have the rudimentary
possibility of plants and growing organisms; thus all plants have rudi-
mentary sensitives, which might (in the ages) enable them to perfect and
nobler or meaner in their functions ; thus all plants and all vegetation
light to expand and thrill with higher and more vivid force, and to urge
inuence, directed by the unseen spirits (or workers) of the Great Original
Architect, building His microcosmos of a world from the plans and powers
tude and magnicence, are as changeable shadows cast off from the
I Central Immortal First Light, whose rays dart from the centre to the
thickness, all visible nature yielding to his furnaces, whose scattering heat
(without its sparks) breaks all doors of this worlds kind. It is with
and error, and conquers the false knowledge and the deceiving senses
which bind the human soul as in its prison. On this side of his powers, on
this dark side (to the world) of his character, the alchemist (rather now
lays the bridge (as the Pontifex, or Bridge-Maker) between the world
ossible and the world impossible ; and across this bridge, in his Immortal
fieroism and Newness, he leads the votary out of his dream of life into his
powers of the senses; which worlds blindness is the only true and
veritable life, the envelope of esh falling metaphorically off the now
p. 188-191.)
Mr A. E. Waite says :
revealed to mankind, and the wisdom which is derived from the invention
namely, Jesus Christ, who is the essential substance and foundation of the
true science.
essence, without name, all-wise, all-clement, the Father, the \Vord, and
the ine'able, Holy Spirit, the highest and only good, the indivisible
Trinity, the most splendid and indescribable light. This Wisdom is the
vapor virtutis Dei, and the stainless mirror of the majesty and benecence
of God. All things, of what nature and condition soever, were made in,
by, and through this Divine \Vord or emanation, which is God Himself, as
it is the Divine Act, whose root is the Logos, that is, Christ. This Eternal
all mysterious and miraculous discoveries are effected and brought to light.
Elohim, effected in the six days of creation, the heavens and earth were
nothing to the hearer, but when uttered, that which existed complicitly in
existed eternally in God. If God had not produced all thin essentially
out of Himself, they could not be ri htly referred to Him. The primeval
teneb'romm and Aleph lucidum. Void of form and life, it is still a material
developing from potentiality into the actual, and was informed by the
Maker of the world with a universal essence, which is the Light of Moses,
and was rst evolved in the empyrean heaven, the highest and supernatural
region of the world, the habitaculum fontis lucidi, the region not of matter
rst, of which it is the base ; this is the medial heaven, called the sphwra
light through the three celestial spaces was accomplished during the rst
three days of creation. Christ the Wisdom and Word of God, by His
apparition out of darkness, that is, by the mutation of the rst principle
profound bosom of the a yss, and animated them by the emanation Of the
spirit of eternal re, and then by his admirable activity distinguished and
separated the darkness from the light, the obscure and gross waters from
the subtle and pure waters, disposing the heavens and s heres, as above
stated, and dividin the grosser waters into sublunary e ements. These
material darkness and the refuse of the heavens ; Water is the more gross
spirit of the darkness of the inferior heaven, nearly devoid of light ; Air is
t e spirit Of the second heaven; Fire, the spirit of the darkness of the
Empyrean heaven.
manner :
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f.
l we things are
universal fabric of
the Macrocosm,
which exist
therein.
Natura,
the cause,
or
which is
either
pm'ncipium, '
DE MACROCOSMI PRINCIPIIS.
k is either
r Uncreated,
- Creator
"IZIei'Ingcfz-i Fabricator
- Ens entium
all things.
diverse materials.
Sperm in animals.
Seed in vegetables.
minerals.
nearest, which is
891
The Macrocosmos _
DE MACROCOSMI FABRICA.
(...
which two WI
things must be I
Constitution, to
spirit.
Eight parts, to .
Ethereal, of 5'
tion of Earth.
into the
others.
which two
things must be
noted, to wit,
L its
Constitution,
wherein two
Three parts,
things concur,
1791
ideality, and was framed out of unity in a threefold manner. The Eternal
Monad or Unity, without any egression from his own central profundity,
unity for it square, which being again multiplied in itself, brings forth a
cube which is one with root and square. Thus we have three branches
differing in formal progression, yet one unity in which all things remain
potentially, and that after a most abstruse manner. The archetypal world
was made by the egression of one out of one, and by the regression of that
type and exemplar of the Divine Pattern ; for out of unity in his abstract
existence, viz., as it was hidden in the dark chaos, or potential mass, the
bright ame of all formal being did shine forth, and the Spirit of Wisdom,
proceeding from them both, conjoined the formal emanation with the
potential matter, so that by the union of the divine emanation of light and
the substantial darkness, which was water, the heavens were made of old,
unity which includes and comprehends all multiplicity, and which before
without end or limit, all things which are now explicitly apparent were
and he teaches the doctrine of the pre-existence of human souls, which are
derived from the vivifying emanation dwelling in the Anima Mandi, the
worlds spiritual vehicle, the catholic soul, which itself is inacted and
preserved by the Catholic and Eternal Spirit, sent out from the fountain of
writings of Robert Fludd, side by side with the crudest physical theories,
revolution of the earth, and considers the light of all the stars to be
derived from the one heavenly candle of the sun. Rejecting the
clouds, snow, &c. The last is described as a meteor which God draweth
out of the air by the cold breath of the Divine Spirit to perform his will on
Deity in all the phenomena of Nature, and denounces more rational views
Many persons who did not form distinct sects. Among these we may
upon a long argument to prove that the Bible explains the philosophy of
(t posterior-i. They meet nally, and bear to each other a. mutual testi-
mony. But without the Scriptures, which are inspired by God, and are
to us, so to speak, the nger of God, we should never penetrate into the
centre and essence of being. The old poetical image found in Plato is
received as probably true, that nature is a chain, the highest and last link
lowest is xed on earth. If such is the labyrinth of being, how could we,
because God has revealed Himself that we can explain the mysteries of the
There is but one universe, and with this universe God is one; but
we must speak of God and the world, for they are yet distinct, and
thou h but one world or universe, we must speak of the world which is
aeria and which is temporal. The rst has neither beginning nor end.
The last has both a beginning and an end. But the aerial or angelical,
which is the dwelling of the angels or blessed spirits, had a beginning, but
will have no end. The angelical world is the intermediary between the
earth and heaven. From this eternal ladder angels pass to the temporal.
Then these worlds, being one universe, are, as it were, a wheel within a
places and at different times. God, or Christ, who is the wisdom of God,
is said to ll all. This has been explained by some as lling all virtually,
prophet to come from the four winds, and vivify the dead bones. It is
the breath which makes frost and snow; as it is said in Job, when God
bloweth from the north the ice is made. It is God that thundereth, that
rolleth the thick clouds, and maketh the cedars of Libanus to bend. The
Eleathen. By Ethnic philosophy Fludd means the doctrine that God only
works in the world by second causes, which at last he declares to have been
the doctrine of Aristotle and his followers, but not of Plato, Empedocles,
Gordon), it is stated :
Fludd takes the position that all natural science is rooted in revela-
the earth. Holding with the eoplatonists that all things were com-
the most impartial of his biographers and critics have also arrived.
CHAPTER. XVII.
ladder for saints and angels. Its steps and degrees form the
church. internal
at the least.
whereas the true wisdom tells that God created all things.
the very spirit in the eshly Christ and His apostles which
that giveth life and health to every creature. She is the tree
By the Divine Spirit, not only the earth had his geo-
and wisdom, and can take away the speech, sentences, and
eloquent.
knowledge.
Author of all life and motion, and that the earth and
of Moses. V
rst the earth was without form and voida rude, indi-
Ruach did act the part of birth-giving, and gave the rude
mass act and form. The ery virtue of the Spirit per-
lin the sun. The sun is placed in the centre of the heavens.
Spirit. By the sun God doth vivify all things. Its near'
and stone.
nearer Scripture.
are given; the last runs thus :- The winds are the angels
and listen unto His voice and His aming ministers which
the opposite is true. The sun dispels vapours, but does not
giveth laws unto the rain, and assigneth a way unto the
snow.
When again this abstruse unity sends forth its benign and '
reason of; the cross variety of the starry inuence, all those
,/
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called father. The Hyle or chaos had not yet been acted
Tabernacle of rest.
bring forth, make and create nothing which was not eter-
on itself, will bring forth a cube, which is all one with the
one begat one, and reected the order and virtue of His
W Some pobm
was placed upon the throne. Plato and others held that
whereof the one is contrary unto the other, and yet there is
Whithemfommimtterihem
'contraries, is perhapsmnadiheprofoundest-secretaoL-tho
ing ame, issuing from the eternal emanation of life, and the
Before the humid spirit moved and lived, all was vile and
the worlds life, by which it moveth and bath its being, and
did move and operate, and by the organ of the created air.
of wisdome which God sent out from His Throne " to reduce
of angelsthe root.
the name Adam, the intellect, the soul of the body in man
The ancient philosophers say all things are full of gods, but
the world hath, for his internall act, the bright emanation
over all.
world, and the variety of species upon the earth did proceed
is the action by which man (and animals) suck into the life
shape or kind was allotted at the rst. The sperm and the
body. There are two vessels the one spiritual, the other
divine tree may be compared unto the stars, and the leaves
But the other names given do. These express God accord-
to the earth.
the reecting beams dart forth. Fear and terror are bound
world.
tention, anger.
heal and destroy, wound and cure. All Gods works are
these elements.
unto the Imperiall Angels, and from them unto the Olym-
Volunty."
are diverse. The variety of the aspect also varies the effect
preserve his life upon earth, and that by the divine will
faculties that the soul in the little world has. This proceeds
one mine may affect the iron of another; the reason being
thereof.
nearest and likest unto his own nature, the which nature
doth draw the body of iron unto it, and, after an occult
that this spirit can pass like that celestiall one in man,
. mmaaislissnwithmlivelywawmg-ssmam_,
us, the stars do the same. The reason why the loadstone
the cock and the fox. It is well knoWn that all snakes and
that vivieth all things. Hermes well says that all the
[i
devil sometimes uses the wind and the air for his bad
and animals? God made them all for mans use. The
livered, did bury her, arms and all, unto the paps, and
they are subject unto the inuence of the Sun, and their
are added.
the piece of wood with which Cain killed Abel was in the
ing of blood from a mole whose nose is cut off will cure the
falling sickness.
will draw all things unto Him, and all things shall be one
esh applied for gout will draw out the gouty matter and
boils.
and hope I will sing the truth under the shadow of thy
Amen.
CHAPTER XVIII.
1 Wood, Athenae Oxon., ii. 573. Die. of Nat. Biog., xx. 64. Informa-
in mans body is not truly and properly his life. Mans life
London, stands toothe and nayle for it, and in his large
is as follows :
ment, and with all these (as is said) the Blood is mingled,
WWWchinus is also
pot till the Patient be cured, and that the wound be kept
the soul after her hidden manner. This causeth the blood
there were any heat in the blood sucked from the witch,
such means, can hinder the creatures ; and that, when the
another.
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but his having set up in the night time two of the frontis-
men.
Head or Degree.
ascribed the whole glorie unto that sole and only Spirit,
distinguished the Good from the Evil, that men might the
better beware of, and refuse, the one and make choice of
he prescribeth . . . is magicall.
spring time, the Spirits of the earth, which the cold winter
associates any effect which the salve may have. The Jews
sucked up."
are diversities of gifts, but the same spirit; and the same
ever more."
and Universall Spirit of life of the world, and doe thy oice
life did effect. The blood, though voided out of the wound,
yet, though castles, hills, water, and gross air are between
ground in which the bloudy graine doth lye and rise again ;
tone.
very good and learned divines, who saw all the ingre-
own hand.
him to wash his wound with his own urine, which he did.
pain all night, but said that now he was at ease. The next
downe upon the axe, the hilt whereof strucke the oyntment
how hee did ? and had answer that he had been exceeding
then sent againe unto him, and heard that hee was then at
and laid it aside. Not long after there came one to demand
divers of his friends, sent for the fellow into the dining
him that the dangerous wound did heale apace after hee
had sent his Sithe unto him, and was thorouly cured
their pouches.
(albeit hee were farre and remote from the party) if he had
some of the blood of the party sent unto him. So, Master
our being.
Fludd hits hard there, and answers his opponent. The case
mystery.
CHAPTER XIX.
Plate.
before the Lord thy God, in the place which the Lord thy
that {gist_;~efer@Tbe'tefspmse"Infintlnetmy
name, its composition, its place, and its use. The copper-
forms of the skull, and of the nerves in the head. Next, the
eye and its diseases. The whole of the book, to the 196th
._.i.
Harum
man is extolled, the soul being heaven, the body earth, and
the spirit the chain which binds both together. The body,
being made but a little lower than the angels, all things are
how the world was made and the operation of the elements;
sendest forth thy spirit, they are created, and thou renewest
spirits, earth spirits from the north, and watery spirits and
is the son of the world, and that the world is born of God,
elementsnmmiiQMQWmnB-niihe
the liver, the semen, the heart, and the brain. And so,
the air, and by the inuence and through the effect of the
has the same opinion, and Empedoeles says truly that the
blood proceed.
the four winds are really the powers of four angels. The
acts of men.
doom.
milk.1
thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear
give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy
ways. Ps. xci. 10, 11. The angels of the four winds hold
1 Die. Nat. Biog., in voce. See notice of his portrait, Evelyns Diary,
sima to his patron and friend, Sir William Paddy, then President of
Eternal Son. All exist in Him, all power is His, and the
the thunder, and the winds are the very messengers of God
power exerted through rain, snow, wind, and the like, all
God. Man is but a little lower than the angels. His glory
example.
the book of Tobit, when Tobias and Sara pray for preserva4
De Medicina Catholica.
&c., &c.
and density.
Of the winds upon mens health and spirits. Yet there are
given1 :
Oedema.
Anasarca.
Leucophlegmatia.
Scirrhus a phlegmate.
Occidentalis sunt
Hydrops
1 i., p. 220.
affects the liver, the stomach, the vital spirits, the left arm,
the blood, the lungs, the belly, the left ear, &c. A useful
different times, and each and all have different medical mean-
the discussion.
the end (p. 93), completum est istud opus, 1629. Octob.
'- p. 324.
divine tune and harmony with which God has clothed the
and Hippocrates.
instance1 :
Epilepsia, Apoplexia.
from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and
1 p. 86.
M.DG.XXX. It is entitled :
.- l I
Hoe est
Tomua Secundus.
CHAPTER XX.CONCLUSION.
chancel at the north side. On the slab let into the stone
Phisicke, who changed this transitory life for an imortall, the viii. day of
September, A0. Dni. mncxxxvn., being LXIII yeares of age, whose Monu-
The head is bald. The eyes and cheeks are sunken. But
but these have been broken off with the exception of two,
Sacrum Memoriae.
immerito electus vitam morte placide commutaxit viii die mensis vii bris
of that most brilliant and most learned man, Robert Fludd, alias De
which he had happily undertaken into regions beyond the sea for gaining
the culture of genius, at length was restored to his country, and was, not
Physicians of London. He calmly exchanged life for death on the 8th day
of the month of September, An. Dom. 1637, in the 63rd year of his age.
Esquire, erected to the most happy memory of his very dear uncle, on the
disappeared.
into it. The site is the same. Gore Court, the house of
ilgate Chantry, W1
in
Window
was gone.
who might hand on his opinions, and carry out his sugges-
cumbrous volumes.
sort them into Arts; among which the Magia and Cabala
Tree of Wisdom, in all Reall Arts and Sciences, and the true
only longs that Love will cover all the Ends of the Earth,
and the God of Love will give us His blessing of Peace all
the world over, and then the King of Glory will dwell
His. Who would not desire such a thing with me, The
perished by re.
APPENDIX I.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
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APPENDIX II.
thought; for example, that the union of re, light, and air,
Hebrew."
of water, and the chaos of airy bodies in the Airs, and tis
Bible met with many supporters far more learned and able
APPENDICES. 255
in, would have choked the Kentish sage. In fact, the only
further demonstration.
APPENDIX III.
that at the end, a fruit of the same kind, ripe, and shedding
its seed.
eleven chapters.
chapters.
APPENDICES. 257
of all.1
APPENDIX IV.
Hamlet,
and enquirers into the high secrets of Nature will not read
1 p. 144.
went from one false lodge into another. But does it follow
does not take away from its right use. Mistakes do not
the world, though they have never been received into these
such, but because he acts so. And if one cannot rise to the
path, does not thank him who shows the right way 2 We
makes real good less, and scatters the seeds of error which
APPENDIX V.
PORTRAITS or FLUDD.
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the head, which stands out freely and boldly. We are told
him. The face is fuller in the under part, and more pleasing
APPENDIX VI.
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